Chapter Summaries

Zhou Jun defeated Mammon, Asmodeus, and Leviathan, then compelled them and the other demon lords to submit, securing control of Hell and sixty percent of the world's fortune. With Hell and the mortal realm settled, he turned his attention to Heaven, where the angels began discussing the Lord of the Three Realms.

• Mammon, Asmodeus, and Leviathan exhausted their magic while fighting Zhou Jun and realized he had only pretended to be weak.
• Zhou Jun presented the three demon lords with Master-Servant Contracts, and Mammon, Asmodeus, and Leviathan signed to save their lives.
• Samael, Beelzebub, and Belial secretly came to submit to Zhou Jun after realizing they could not change the situation.
• Zhou Jun completely ruled Hell, gained control over sixty percent of the world's fortune, and turned his attention toward Heaven.
• Michael asked the angels gathered in Heaven's Council Hall what they thought of the Lord of the Three Realms who had appeared in Hell.

Michael and the archangels mistook Cain’s conquest of the human world and Hell for God’s secret plan, so they decided Heaven should submit rather than resist. When Zhou Jun arrived with his armies, Heaven welcomed him, and its fortune gathered around him in an amount that exceeded his expectations.

• Michael concluded that God and Cain had worked together to make Cain the Lord of the Three Realms.
• The archangels chose to let Heaven’s angels decide whether to resist or surrender when Cain’s forces arrived.
• Zhou Jun led the human and Hell armies toward Heaven, expecting a battle and preparing plans to enter through the gates.
• Michael, Raphael, Uriel, Haniah, Shalliel, Gabriel, and Metatron welcomed Zhou Jun with an angelic honor guard and a banner naming him Lord of the Three Realms.
• Zhou Jun accepted the welcome, and nearly ninety percent of the world’s fortune gathered around him.

Zhou Jun brought the Hebrew World into the Space-Time Realm, defeated Yahweh’s attempt to destroy it, and assigned its realms to Michael, Lilith, and Zhou Nuo. Returning to the Space-Time Realm after countless years had passed, Zhou Jun discovered Earth and descended toward it as the people below witnessed a miraculous spectacle.

• Zhou Jun joined the Hebrew World to the Space-Time Realm, causing its Heavenly Dao to devour the Hebrew World’s Heavenly Dao and leaving Yahweh badly injured and weakened.
• Yahweh rushed toward the Space-Time Realm intending to destroy it, but Zhou Jun’s Demon God companions surrounded and beat him until he surrendered.
• Zhou Jun told Michael and Lilith who he was, then gave Michael authority over Heaven, Lilith over Hell, and Zhou Nuo over the human realm.
• Zhou Jun returned to the Space-Time Realm and discovered that countless years had passed and that Earth existed in a region without spiritual energy.
• Zhou Jun flew toward Earth, where an auspicious cloud, celestial music, falling flowers, and purple qi astonished people below.

Zhou Jun explored Earth and sensed two sources of spiritual energy on Mount Tai. He flew toward them, while Ye Fan’s encounter with him had awakened a desire to pursue cultivation.

• Zhou Jun recognized Ye Fan as the bearer of much of the Space-Time Realm’s fortune and secretly cast a tracking spell on him before disappearing.
• Ye Fan slipped away from the crowd, convinced that immortals existed and that he should pursue cultivation.
• Zhou Jun wandered through the modern city and reflected on its polluted air and lack of spiritual energy.
• Zhou Jun used his divine sense to search Earth and discovered two sources of spiritual energy on Mount Tai.
• Zhou Jun flew toward Mount Tai to investigate the spiritual energy.

Zhou Jun discovered that a Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin was approaching Earth and went to meet it. After humanity spotted him aboard the coffin, he replaced its cultivation scripture with one leading to the Great Luo realm and flew toward Mars to further alter Ye Fan’s path.

• Zhou Jun sensed the Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin traveling through the starfield toward Earth and went to intercept it.
• Earth’s probes and astronauts spotted nine dragon corpses towing a bronze coffin as it arrived near the space station.
• People on Earth recognized Zhou Jun sitting atop the coffin as the mysterious man who had appeared near Mount Tai.
• Zhou Jun realized Ye Fan had been chosen as a pawn in a scheme involving Shi Hao, the Empress, Wushi, and others.
• Zhou Jun erased the scripture on the coffin, replaced it with a technique leading to the Great Luo realm, and flew toward Mars.

After visiting the Space-Time Realm, Zhou Jun returned to the Primordial World as the Investiture of the Gods calamity began under King Zhou. The chapter ended with ministers urging King Zhou to worship Empress Nuwa, while he remained silent and displeased.

• Zhou Jun decided to visit the Primordial World after touring the Space-Time Realm.
• The Three Pure Ones, Zhunti, Jieyin, and the others regained sainthood after learning cultivation methods from the Space-Time Realm.
• The Primordial World followed its original course and reached the Shang Dynasty during King Zhou’s reign.
• A minister asked King Zhou to attend Nuwa Palace for Empress Nuwa’s birthday and pray for the people’s welfare.
• King Zhou ignored the minister, and the other ministers knelt to insist that he go worship Empress Nuwa.

King Zhou agreed to visit Nuwa Palace after the ministers knelt and pressured him, though he remained furious at their interference. The next day, he arrived with the ministers and attendants, and a Great Minister began explaining the palace to him.

• The ministers knelt before King Zhou and urged him to go to Nuwa Palace, and he reluctantly agreed to leave the next day.
• King Zhou returned to the inner palace in anger, and the Empress tried to soothe him and explain Empress Nuwa's importance.
• King Zhou vowed to punish the ministers who had challenged him and refused to forgive their behavior.
• The next day, King Zhou traveled with the ministers and attendants to Nuwa Palace and surveyed its spotless grounds.
• A Great Minister stepped forward to address King Zhou about the palace.

King Zhou became captivated by Empress Nuwa and carved a poem in her palace expressing his wish for her to serve him, despite the Great Minister's warning. Zhou Jun watched and teased Empress Nuwa, while King Zhou returned to the palace restless and was asked what had upset him.

• King Zhou admired Empress Nuwa during the visit and carved a poem asking her to enter his palace and serve him.
• The Great Minister warned King Zhou that his poem insulted an ancient immortal and urged him to remove it to avert disaster.
• Zhou Jun watched from the sky, mocked King Zhou's infatuation, and teased Empress Nuwa by suggesting she become his maid or King Zhou's.
• Empress Nuwa dismissed Zhou Jun's teasing and said she would continue serving him as his maid.
• King Zhou refused to erase the poem, returned to the palace restless, and was asked by someone what had happened.

King Zhou told the Empress that he had fallen for Empress Nuwa and wanted her as a consort, leaving the Empress distressed and unsure how to respond. The Empress later tried to comfort him and checked on the young princes, while King Zhou remained uneasy.

• King Zhou confessed to the Empress that he admired Empress Nuwa’s beauty and wished to make her one of his consorts.
• The Empress warned King Zhou that Empress Nuwa was an ancient immortal and urged him to rest and reconsider.
• The Empress returned burdened by King Zhou’s confession, and another woman asked her what had happened and offered to help.
• King Zhou withdrew to his palace, still troubled and keeping his feelings to himself.
• The Empress went outside and gently asked the young princes what was wrong.

The Prime Minister told the Empress that King Zhou had written a poem at Nuwa Palace, expressing a wish for Empress Nuwa to become his consort. The Empress agreed to speak with King Zhou, but feared he would dismiss her warnings as jealousy.

• The young Prince panicked when King Zhou approached and insisted that he had only been playing with his second brother.
• The Prime Minister arrived at the palace, and the Empress asked him why he and the Great Prince seemed troubled.
• The Prime Minister explained that King Zhou had seen Empress Nuwa’s beauty and written a poem asking her to descend and speak with him.
• The Empress said King Zhou had been restless since returning and feared he would mistake her warning for jealousy.
• The Empress promised to speak with King Zhou, while the Prime Minister remained distressed about the situation.

The Empress worried that the king’s desire for Empress Nuwa could destabilize the court and endanger the kingdom. Her husband tried to comfort her, but she remained distressed and asked whether they could succeed without provoking Nuwa.

• Xin walked away coldly as the situation grew more difficult to resolve.
• The Empress urged the others to unite, speak with the other palace women, and keep the king from continuing down a dangerous path.
• Bigan worried about the king and hoped they could help him escape the turmoil.
• The Empress's husband comforted her and advised her to discuss the matter with the other advisers.
• The Empress sat crying and asked whether their plan could succeed or whether Empress Nuwa might destroy their land if angered.

Bi Gan pleaded with the Empress to resolve the poem carved for Changsheng, warning that angering Empress Nuwa could bring disaster to the people. The Empress promised to speak with the Great King, while Bi Gan urged her to put the nation first and visit her ailing mother when she could.

• Bi Gan told the Empress that the poem carved for Changsheng could not be erased without the Great King's personal sword and begged her to handle the matter.
• The Empress reassured Bi Gan that she would discuss the poem with the Great King and sent him home to rest and care for her mother.
• The Empress worried that failing to persuade the Great King could lead to her being cast into the Cold Palace.
• Bi Gan reminded the Empress to serve the people and set a proper example, and urged her to visit her mother if she had the chance.

The Empress worried that King Zhou’s desire for Empress Nuwa would endanger the palace and the capital, and she urged him to abandon the impossible pursuit. King Zhou angrily threatened her for interfering, leaving her distressed and fearful for the nation’s peace.

• The Empress reflected on her lack of freedom and her mother’s failing health, while worrying that King Zhou’s interest in Empress Nuwa could bring disaster.
• After her father left, the Empress resolved to address the matter and waited silently in her palace.
• King Zhou arrived, and the Empress urged him to give up pursuing Empress Nuwa because she was an ancient immortal and the nation needed peace.
• King Zhou accused the Empress of arrogance and warned that she could lose her position if she spoke against his choices again.
• The Empress remained distressed, insisting that she did not object to his other consorts but feared the consequences of his pursuit of Empress Nuwa.

Empress Jiang urged Great King to stop pursuing the impossible idea of making Empress Nuwa his Empress, but he angrily threatened to depose her and left. A merchant named Fei Daqu then entered and offered Great King a painting, claiming he knew how to help him see Empress Nuwa.

• Empress Jiang told Great King that Empress Nuwa was an immortal who could not become his Empress and spoke of the people’s suffering.
• Great King rebuked Empress Jiang, ordered her to be silent, and threatened to depose her if she continued challenging him.
• Empress Jiang fell silent as Great King left, feeling miserable.
• Fei Daqu entered after Great King reluctantly agreed to see him and offered a painting, saying he knew Great King wanted to be with Empress Nuwa.

The Great King agreed to select more consorts after Fei Daqu encouraged him, and sent him to explain the plan to the officials. Outside, officials worried that the Great King’s behavior could harm the nation and anger an ancient immortal.

• Fei Daqu showed the Great King a painting and offered to settle the matter of choosing consorts.
• Fei Daqu urged the Great King to select beauties and fill the Three Palaces and Six Courtyards.
• The Great King approved the plan and ordered Fei Daqu to speak with the officials.
• Fei Daqu left to address the officials gathered outside.
• The officials worried that the Great King’s conduct could trouble the nation and provoke the ancient immortal.

Fei Daqu announced that the King would begin selecting beauties and defended the plan against Su Hu’s objections. The ministers remained alarmed, and Fei Daqu returned to find the King seated in a chair.

• Fei Daqu told the ministers that the King approved of his explanation and ordered them to prepare a beauty selection for the next day.
• Su Hu accused Fei Daqu of worsening the crisis by seeking women and money while the common people suffered.
• Fei Daqu argued that the King could take any woman he liked, including Empress Nuwa, and challenged the Prime Minister to consider his role.
• Fei Daqu threatened to report Su Hu unless he stopped speaking, leaving the ministers frightened and uncertain.
• Fei Daqu returned to the King's side and saw him sitting in a chair.

Mei Wei urged the Great King to punish Su Hu and proceed with selecting beauties, including Su Hu’s daughter, after Su Hu opposed the plan. The Great King took offense at being called a foolish ruler and demanded to know exactly what Su Hu and the other ministers had said.

• Mei Wei told the Great King that the ministers objected to his plans and urged him to assert his authority.
• Mei Wei recommended that the Great King visit Su Hu’s daughter and bring her into the royal palace.
• Mei Wei accused Su Hu of calling the Great King a foolish ruler and said the ministers’ opposition required a warning.
• The Great King recalled Su Hu’s bluntness but decided the insult was intolerable.
• The Great King coldly asked whether Su Hu had really called him a foolish ruler and whether the other ministers opposed his beauty selection.

Fei Daqu persuaded the Great King to punish Su Hu rather than imprison all the ministers, and the king ordered Su Hu sent to the Imperial Prison. Afterward, the Great King brooded alone while the remaining ministers grew anxious about what would happen next.

• Fei Daqu urged the Great King to imprison Su Hu alone, arguing that locking up all the ministers would cripple the country.
• The Great King ordered Fei Daqu to have Su Hu thrown into the Imperial Prison as a warning to the other ministers.
• Fei Daqu withdrew, and the Great King sat alone in his palace, agitated and thinking of Empress Nuwa.
• Su Hu was escorted into the Imperial Prison, while the other ministers gathered in anxiety and uncertainty.

Jiang Ziya and the Great Ministers went to see Great King Tai Yu to plead for Su Hu and urge the King to stop his tour, warning that the people were suffering. Tai Yu rejected their appeal and angrily challenged Jiang Ziya’s authority, leaving Jiang Ziya unsure how to respond.

• Jiang Ziya decided to take the Great Ministers to see the King and ask him to address Su Hu’s imprisonment and Physician Fei’s conduct.
• The Great Ministers agreed and went to the King’s palace, where they knelt before Great King Tai Yu.
• Jiang Ziya urged Tai Yu to stop his tour and consider the suffering of the people and the risk of ministerial rebellion.
• Tai Yu mocked Jiang Ziya’s appeal and demanded to know whether he or Jiang Ziya was the Great King.
• Jiang Ziya stared at Tai Yu, troubled and unable to find an answer.

The great king considered imprisoning Su Hu and holding a beauty selection, but his ministers urged him to reconsider and warned that the people were suffering. Taiyi viewed their united opposition as a challenge to his authority, leaving the dispute unresolved.

• A great minister pleaded with the great king not to imprison Su Hu, citing his loyalty and service to the people.
• Jiang Ziya confronted the king and urged him to abandon the beauty selection and consider the people's living conditions.
• Jiang Ziya praised Su Hu as an outstanding minister and warned that mistreating him would be wrong.
• Taiyi reacted coldly to the ministers' united warning and questioned whether they could forbid him from holding a beauty selection.