Recaps

As Da Yu brought the floods under control, Yuanfeng and two other powers attained the Dao, and Li Fan reshaped the Underworld and established the Three Realms. The investiture of Da Yu and Emperor Ku as Human Dao Saints left the question of Da Yu’s successor unresolved.

• Yao abdicated in Pingyang and passed the Human Emperor Seal to Shun, who ordered the people to dredge rivers and canals against the Water Essence Tribulation.
• Shun failed to stop the floods in time, and Nuwa sent him Nine Heavens Breathing Soil, which he kneaded for a hundred thousand years as humanity used it to build barriers.
• Yuanfeng defied the Heavenly Dao, crossed the River of Fate, and attained Hunyuan, helping the Four Seas recede from the land.
• Da Yu took over flood control, confronted Wu Zhiqi and the Dragon Clan over the waterways, and used a mountain-splitting axe to help create a sea-suppressing Divine Needle.
• After Da Yu finished controlling the floods, Xihe and Baili attained Earthly Dao sainthood, and Li Fan and Houtu established the City God system and appointed officials to govern the Underworld.
• Li Fan raised the Three Realms, divided the lands into Nine Provinces and Twelve Domains, and began the Heavenly Court calendar as the Divine Kingdoms formed and competed for territory.
• Da Yu established the Xia Kingdom and cultivated with the Nine Provinces and Nine Cauldrons, then broke through to the Quasi-Saint realm before the Five Emperors’ investiture.
• Li Fan invested Da Yu as Water Official Great Emperor, and Nuwa appointed Da Yu and Emperor Ku Human Dao Saints, while Zhuanxu, Yao, and Shun were passed over and Da Yu’s successor remained undecided.

Yuanshi attained the Hunyuan Grand Unity Dao, and Li Fan and the Hunyuan faction sealed the River of Fate as the world entered a new age. As Haotian reclaimed the Jade Emperor’s throne and Yao Ji’s family suffered a tragic separation, Li Fan helped Luohu prove the Dao, defeated him, and began repairing the World-Destroying Black Lotus.

• Da Yu named Qi his successor, while Li Fan foresaw that Yuanshi’s attainment would provoke the Fate Demon God and Pangu.
• Yuanshi endured Heavenly Dao’s thunder, confronted the Fate Demon God across the River of Fate, and attained the Hunyuan Grand Unity Dao as the Primordial Great Heavenly Lord.
• Li Fan, Hongjun, and the Hunyuan faction severed and concealed the River of Fate, ending the Innate Era and the Middle Ancient Era.
• Li Fan and his allies established the Zhou Tian Star Array and a Chaos Great Thousand World to replenish the Five Heavenly Realms with Innate Spiritual Qi.
• Yaochi appointed Chiguo Tian as Jade Emperor beneath her authority, and Haotian returned from reincarnation to reclaim the Jade Emperor’s talisman.
• Yao Ji became entangled in Luohu’s schemes, and her relationship with Yang Tianyou led to Yang Tianyou’s death, Yao Ji’s imprisonment, and Yang Jiao’s departure with Yu Ding Zhenren.
• Li Fan helped Luohu prove the Dao of Slaughter in the Outer Chaos, then defeated him and damaged the World-Destroying Black Lotus.
• Li Fan, Nuwa, Taiyuan, and Xihe repaired the World-Destroying Black Lotus, breaking Luohu’s connection to it and alarming Jieyin and Zhunti.

The rise and fall of Shang, new Heavenly Laws, and the growing World Calamity drew the Three Realms toward conflict. As Heavenly Dao destroyed the Golden Immortals’ foundations, Luohu began using Di Xin’s remnant soul to advance his plans.

• Yuanfeng secured approval for the Black Bird plan, and Haotian proclaimed strict Heavenly Laws that the Four Heavenly Kings enforced throughout the Heavenly Realm.
• Shang Tang founded the Shang Dynasty, became a Ghost God Human Emperor through sacrifice, and was eventually killed by Minghe, who established the Asura Sect and became a Saint.
• Li Fan introduced Heavenly Tribulations to temper cultivators and punish wrongdoing, while Yang Jian and Yang Chan earned merit to free their mother, Yao Ji, from Peach Mountain.
• Wu Yi challenged Heavenly Dao’s authority over lightning and was struck dead by a Purple Firmament tribulation, while Li Fan and Hongjun set plans in motion to place the Three Sects’ disciples in divine positions.
• Ancestor Dragon and Yuanfeng attacked Yuanshi and Tongtian, but the Heavenly Emperor halted the battles and repaired the damage across the Primordial World.
• Di Xin took the Shang throne, and Nuwa sent the Spirit Pearl into reincarnation as the future Nezha.
• Heavenly Dao severed the Golden Immortals’ foundations and ended the Ancient Immortal Path, while Luohu plotted to use Di Xin’s remnant soul to break the Demon Realm’s seal and reclaim the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.

Li Fan established the Investiture of the Gods as the calamity drew the Three Teachings, the Dragon Clan, and the human powers into conflict. After the war stalled for generations, he proposed reopening the Pangu Era, while the sect war resumed with the destruction of Tongtian’s Ten Thousand Immortals Array.

• Li Fan and Goddess Taiyuan established the Investiture of the Gods, assigned divine positions, and began the calamity that drew the Three Teachings into conflict.
• Yuanshi sent the Twelve Golden Immortals among the Human Race, while Nezha was born, died defending Chentang Pass, and received a new lotus body through Nuwa.
• Ancestor Dragon attacked humanity at Chentang Pass, but Li Fan struck him into the East Sea and confined the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors to Huoyun Cave.
• Di Xin and Daji used Chaoge’s dragon fortune and a prison array to refine captured cultivators, while Jiang Ziya went to Xi Qi and the Shang-Zhou conflict escalated.
• The calamity stalled for three generations as Ji Fa aged and the Chan Teachings and Interception Sect continued fighting, until Li Fan told the Three Pure Ones he would reopen the Pangu Era.
• Wen Zhong’s Ten Heavenly Lords established the Ten Absolute Arrays outside Xi Qi, and the Chan Teachings suffered losses while seeking powerful treasures to counter them.
• Tongtian formed the Ten Thousand Immortals Array, but Taishang and Primordial Lord of Heaven weakened and shattered it, forcing Tongtian and his core disciples to retreat to Golden Ao Island.