Chapter Summaries

Wu Tian arranged to use Kong Xuan and the Nine Heavens Profound Woman’s merit to strengthen the Phoenix Clan’s Fortune and help Primordial Phoenix escape her endless nirvana. The Phoenix Clan’s Fortune responded, and Nüwa offered to accompany Wu Tian to visit Primordial Phoenix, while Tongtian returned to Golden Turtle Island.

• Tongtian left for Golden Turtle Island after Wu Tian and Nüwa spoke with him, allowing his disciples to decide whether to remain among the Human Clan or return to their own cultivation sites.
• Wu Tian told Nüwa his plan to use Kong Xuan and the Nine Heavens Profound Woman’s merit to grant the Phoenix Clan the Fortune of a dynasty, and Nüwa readily agreed.
• Wu Tian asked the Nine Heavens Profound Woman to contribute her merit, and she agreed after Kong Xuan nodded his approval.
• Wu Tian drew out Kong Xuan’s accumulated merit, added a trace of aura from the Pangu Seal, and sent the resulting golden light into the Nine Heavens Profound Woman.
• The Nine Heavens Profound Woman transformed into a Dark Bird, and a golden egg formed within her as the Phoenix Clan’s Fortune stirred and vitality descended upon it.
• Nüwa offered to take Wu Tian to visit Primordial Phoenix at Undying Volcano, then left for the Origin Realm instead of returning to Empress Wa’s Heaven.

Wu Tian sent Profound Woman back to the Heavenly Court and Kong Xuan to the Origin Realm before consulting Empress Pingxin about stepping away from guiding the Five Emperors to focus on cultivation. Empress Pingxin supported his plan but suggested he send part of his blood essence and divine soul into reincarnation while his true body remained in the Origin Realm, leaving Wu Tian to consider the idea.

• Wu Tian told Profound Woman to return to the Heavenly Court and assured her that an opportunity would come for her.
• Wu Tian offered Kong Xuan a chance to visit Primordial Phoenix, but Kong Xuan chose to return to the Origin Realm and educate the Golden Crows.
• Wu Tian went to the Underworld and told Empress Pingxin that he planned to stop overseeing the Five Emperors and cultivate instead.
• Empress Pingxin agreed that Wu Tian should focus on strengthening himself and allow the Human Clan to grow independently.
• Empress Pingxin proposed that Wu Tian reincarnate part of his blood essence and divine soul while his true body continued cultivating in the Origin Realm, and Wu Tian pondered her suggestion.

Wu Tian decided to enter seclusion and entrusted Empress Pingxin with watching over the Five Emperors and the Phoenix Clan’s Fortune. After he returned to the Origin Realm to cultivate, Empress Pingxin prepared to use a Chaos Spirit Stone fragment to arrange a reincarnation that could tie Wu Tian to a pivotal child in the coming calamity.

• Wu Tian sealed a drop of his blood essence for his own reincarnation, but Empress Pingxin took it and promised to watch over the Five Emperors and the Phoenix Clan’s Fortune while he cultivated.
• Wu Tian spoke with Hou Tu, then visited Xuan Ming to explain his plans before leaving the Underworld.
• Wu Tian returned to the Origin Realm and merged into it to cultivate, while Wangshu and the others remained at the Taiyin Shrine.
• Empress Pingxin showed Hou Tu a pure-yang Chaos Spirit Stone fragment and said Wu Tian had asked her to reincarnate it as Haotian’s younger sister.
• Empress Pingxin proposed that Wu Tian should use blood ties to bind himself to the future half-human, half-god child who would play a pivotal role in the coming calamity.

Houtu and Empress Pingxin arranged for Wu Tian’s essence blood and a Chaos Spirit Stone fragment to enter reincarnation, while Haotian sought Empress Pingxin’s help to reincarnate and undergo tribulation. After she assured him that Wu Tian had offered him a useful idea, Haotian wondered whether he had misunderstood Wu Tian.

• Houtu admitted that she was eager to see Wu Tian discover he had gained a son, but urged Empress Pingxin not to disrupt his reincarnation.
• Empress Pingxin bound Wu Tian’s essence blood to a Chaos Spirit Stone fragment and sent them into the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Haotian decided to seek Empress Pingxin’s help with reincarnation and tribulation, and respectfully requested an audience.
• Haotian told Empress Pingxin that Wu Tian had offered him an idea after Xing Tian damaged his true body.
• Empress Pingxin promised to arrange Haotian’s reincarnation and tribulation, leading him to wonder whether he had misjudged Wu Tian.

Empress Pingxin arranged for Haotian to reincarnate through countless incarnations and experience mortal and other lives as he underwent his tribulations. After Haotian entered reincarnation, Wu Tian remained in seclusion in the Origin Realm as Zhuanxu appeared, poised to begin separating Heaven from Earth.

• Empress Pingxin proposed that Haotian reincarnate through countless incarnations while preserving the stability of his true spirit.
• Haotian agreed to begin reincarnating immediately and sent a decree to the Heavenly Court with instructions for his subordinates.
• Empress Pingxin opened the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and Haotian sent his incarnations into rebirth.
• Haotian asked about a fragment of his true body, and Empress Pingxin told him it had entered reincarnation and had its own opportunity.
• Empress Pingxin swept Haotian's true body into reincarnation and then turned her attention to Wu Tian, who remained immersed in the Origin Realm.
• The Human Clan continued to develop, and Zhuanxu appeared, ready to begin severing Heaven from Earth.

Zhuanxu severed Jianmu to separate humans from immortals and gods, destabilizing the Primordial World and tearing open the sky. Nüwa mended the sky with help from the Three Pure Ones and Queen Mother of the West, and the world was left changed and tilted southeast.

• Zhuanxu resolved to sever Jianmu and bear the karmic burden so the Human Clan could develop independently.
• When Zhuanxu struck Jianmu, it fled into the Origin Realm, causing the Primordial World to shake and the Heavenly River to pour through a growing tear in the sky.
• Nüwa rushed to the Primordial World and ordered the Three Pure Ones to stabilize the four poles while she prepared to mend the sky.
• The Three Pure Ones and Queen Mother of the West stabilized heaven and earth as Nüwa refined five-colored stones and repaired the tear.
• Nüwa received the greatest share of Heavenly Dao merit, and the Primordial Wilderness tilted toward the southeast after the upheaval.
• Queen Mother of the West invited Nüwa to return to the Origin Realm and play another thirty thousand rounds.

Nüwa and Queen Mother of the West left the Origin Realm as the Human Clan’s Five Emperors rose and the Xia Dynasty gave way to Great Shang, fulfilling Wu Tian’s arrangements for the Phoenix Clan. When Great Shang adopted the Dark Bird as its totem, the Phoenix Clan’s Fortune awakened Primordial Phoenix, and Kong Xuan left to reunite with his mother.

• Nüwa returned to Empress Wa’s Heaven, while Queen Mother of the West went back to the Heavenly Court to stabilize it.
• Zhuanxu and Diku attained the positions of Five Emperors and entered Fire Cloud Cave; Diku established the twenty-four solar terms, and Jiandi gave birth to Qi after swallowing a Dark Bird’s egg.
• Di Yao, Di Shun, and Emperor Yu succeeded them, with Emperor Yu controlling the floods, dividing the land into Nine Provinces, and forging the Nine Cauldrons before entering Fire Cloud Cave.
• After Emperor Yu’s son Qi seized power and founded the Xia Dynasty, Shang Tang overthrew Xia Jie and established Great Shang, which adopted the Dark Bird as its totem and caused the Phoenix Clan’s Fortune to surge.
• Kong Xuan told Wangshu he would visit Undying Volcano and guard the Phoenix Clan’s Fortune in Great Shang, then left the Origin Realm for his mother.
• Kong Xuan reunited with the awakened Primordial Phoenix, who thanked Wu Tian for helping the Phoenix Clan and said she wanted to meet him.

Kong Xuan told Yuan Feng he would go to Great Shang to safeguard its Fortune and seek a cultivation opportunity, while Haotian returned to the Heavenly Court and planned how to regain authority. Haotian sent Yunhua Fairy to Yaochi, then went to Zixiao Palace to complain to Dao Ancestor Hongjun about his tribulation.

• Kong Xuan told Yuan Feng that he would go to Great Shang despite the predetermined Dao of Fortune, hoping to gain an opportunity through mortal affairs.
• Yuan Feng praised Kong Xuan’s teacher and promised to protect him if anyone attacked him.
• Haotian returned to the Heavenly Court, accepted Yunhua Fairy as his sister, and decided to enforce heavenly laws to recover authority from the Queen Mother of the West.
• Haotian ordered Taibai Xingjun to take Yunhua Fairy to the Queen Mother of the West and arrange her immortal registry and residence.
• Haotian went to Zixiao Palace and tearfully told Dao Ancestor Hongjun that he had suffered terribly during his tribulation.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun brought forth the Investiture of the Gods and the God-Slaying Whip, setting the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation in motion to address Haotian’s plea for control over the Heavenly Court. After summoning the six Heavenly Dao Saints to Zixiao Palace, Hongjun began explaining Haotian’s complaint, while Haotian felt an unexplained premonition of unease.

• Haotian complained to Dao Ancestor Hongjun that the Heavenly Court lacked support and asked when Hongjun would help him.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun drew forth the Investiture of the Gods and the God-Slaying Whip from the Heavenly Dao’s origin and explained their power.
• Hongjun said the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation would follow the Immortal Killing Tribulation, and Haotian would control the treasures after the gods took their places.
• Haotian declined to attend the meeting with the Saints and returned to the Hall of High Heavens in high spirits.
• The Heavenly Dao Saints gathered at Zixiao Palace, where Nüwa confronted Jieyin about his past schemes and Zhunti explained her changed attitude.
• Hongjun told the gathered Saints that Haotian had complained about the Heavenly Court’s lack of people, while Haotian felt a sudden, unexplained unease.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun introduced the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation and presented the Investiture of the Gods and God-Slaying Whip, prompting the saints to debate whose disciples would be listed. Yuanshi tried to place the burden on Tongtian's Intercepting Sect, until Nüwa reminded everyone to ask Wu Tian.

• Dao Ancestor Hongjun said the Expounding Sect's accumulated Karma had triggered the coming Investiture of the Gods Tribulation and revealed the Investiture of the Gods and God-Slaying Whip.
• Sage Zhunti refused to sign the list, and Taiqing said his sole disciple Xuandu did not need to be listed.
• Tongtian considered listing Intercepting Sect disciples who lacked the fate for immortality, while Yuanshi insisted his Expounding Sect disciples should be spared and urged Tongtian to provide names.
• Tongtian challenged Yuanshi's proposal, but Yuanshi outargued him and left him furious.
• Nüwa interrupted the dispute and asked whether the saints had consulted Wu Tian.

The Heavenly Dao Saints realized that the Investiture of the Gods could not proceed without Wu Tian’s approval, so Taiqing decided to invite him to discuss it. Tongtian agreed to accompany Taiqing, despite Nüwa’s frustration with his indecision around his brothers.

• Yuanshi insisted that the Heavenly Dao’s trend did not require Wu Tian’s permission, and Nüwa pointedly challenged his stance.
• Taiqing asked Nüwa to invite Wu Tian, but she refused and reminded the Saints that Yuanshi had claimed Wu Tian could settle the matter with a word.
• Taiqing warned Yuanshi that Wu Tian’s opposition could derail the tribulation and urged him to stop making trouble.
• Taiqing decided to visit Wu Tian himself and examined the Investiture of the Gods, which made him look increasingly troubled.
• Tongtian set aside his resentment and agreed to accompany Taiqing, while Nüwa frowned at his decision.

After Nüwa warned Wu Tian that the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation was beginning, he agreed to cooperate if he received benefits and prepared to make Tongtian feel indebted to him. Wu Tian hid the Celestial Celebration Cloud in the Six Paths of Reincarnation and waited on Mount Buzhou for Tongtian’s visit.

• Dao Ancestor Hongjun left the Investiture of the Gods in Zixiao Palace and told the Saints to gather again in a hundred years.
• Nüwa secretly entered the Origin Realm and warned Wu Tian that the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation was due to begin.
• Wu Tian said he would agree to the tribulation if the Saints offered benefits, while Nüwa complained that Tongtian was helping Taiqing approach him.
• Nüwa left the Origin Realm, and Wu Tian hid the Celestial Celebration Cloud in the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Wu Tian went to Mount Buzhou to await Tongtian, planning to refuse at first and then accept for Tongtian’s sake.

Taiqing and Tongtian sought Wu Tian’s consent for the Investiture of the Gods, but Taiqing revealed that the tribulation also required seizing the Witch Clan’s laws. Tongtian was shocked and realized he could not make up for the damage this would cause.

• Taiqing invited Yuanshi to join him and Tongtian in asking Wu Tian about the Investiture of the Gods, but Yuanshi refused and left.
• Tongtian sent Wu Tian a message using the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler, then waited with Taiqing for his reply.
• Wu Tian received the message, notified Wangshu and the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and went to Mount Shouyang to meet Taiqing and Tongtian.
• Tongtian asked Wu Tian to consent to the Investiture of the Gods and promised that Golden Mother's authority would remain unaffected.
• Taiqing explained that the Investiture also required taking the Ancestral Witches’ Powers of Laws, leaving Tongtian shocked and at a loss.

Wu Tian confronted Taiqing and Tongtian over the Witch Clan’s Laws being sought for the Investiture of the Gods, then agreed to go to Zixiao Palace only if Taiqing promised to act for him once. Taiqing hesitated over the open-ended condition.

• Tongtian realized Wu Tian had exposed his earlier mistake and felt guilty, while Yuanshi remained dissatisfied with him.
• Wu Tian pretended to be outraged that the Witch Clan’s Laws were being taken and began to leave, but Taiqing persuaded him to hear them out.
• Wu Tian accused Taiqing of wanting him to bear Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s pressure and demanded that Taiqing show sincerity.
• Taiqing asked Wu Tian to name his price for going to Zixiao Palace.
• Wu Tian required Taiqing to act once on his behalf in the future, swearing by his Dao heart before Pangu, and Taiqing hesitated over the promise.

Wu Tian secured Taiqing's conditional agreement to act against Hongjun and reassured Tongtian about the Witch Clan's laws. He left Mount Shouyang to seek Empress Pingxin before going to Zixiao Palace, while Taiqing and Tongtian wondered whether Hongjun might detain him.

• Wu Tian privately persuaded Taiqing to consider joining him against Hongjun, and Taiqing agreed while reserving the right to choose later.
• Wu Tian told Tongtian that the Witch Clan would not surrender its laws without receiving a share of control over the Investiture of the Gods.
• Tongtian returned the Primordial Measuring Sky Ruler to Wu Tian out of guilt, but Wu Tian accepted it and said he did not blame him.
• Taiqing asked how Wu Tian would respond if Hongjun proceeded with the Investiture of the Gods, and Wu Tian said he would demand control in exchange for the Witch Clan's sacrifice.
• Wu Tian left to find Empress Pingxin before traveling to Zixiao Palace, and Taiqing and Tongtian wondered whether Hongjun would really keep him there.

Yuanshi scolded his disciples and began calculating how to protect them from the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation. Wu Tian proposed taking authority over the Investiture and filling the Heavenly Court with Human Clan members, but Hou Tu rejected the plan and urged him to resist the Heavenly Dao rather than fulfill its wishes.

• Yuanshi told the Expounding Sect disciples that they would face the killing tribulation and risk being listed as gods under Haotian, then considered shifting the danger to other cultivators or third-generation disciples.
• Yuanshi dismissed his disciples and used the Heavenly Dao to make calculations about the tribulation.
• Wu Tian visited Goddess Pingxin in the Six Paths Reincarnation Hall and proposed gaining part of the Investiture's authority and using the Human Clan to fill the Heavenly Court's righteous god positions.
• Hou Tu appeared and objected, explaining that the Ancestral Witches would see handing their laws' authority to the Heavenly Dao as a defeat, regardless of the benefits.
• Hou Tu told Wu Tian that the Witch Clan should refuse to fulfill the Heavenly Dao's wishes and declared that they would fight, even if it meant shattering the Primordial Wilderness.

Wu Tian gained a new resolve to influence the Heavenly Dao directly and received Empress Pingxin’s Twenty-Four Grade Reincarnation Purple Lotus before heading to Zixiao Palace. Meanwhile, Queen Mother of the West approved Haotian’s new heavenly laws, only to discover that Yunhua Fairy had already descended to the mortal realm.

• Hou Tu’s advice helped Wu Tian realize that he had been too restrained and could use his strength to influence the greater trend of the Heavenly Dao.
• Empress Pingxin gave Wu Tian the Twenty-Four Grade Reincarnation Purple Lotus so she could lend him power or appear if Hongjun intervened.
• After Wu Tian left for Zixiao Palace, Empress Pingxin and Hou Tu decided he needed more experience and watched Yunhua Fairy through a light screen.
• Queen Mother of the West reviewed Haotian’s heavenly laws, including a ban on marriages between immortals and mortals, and allowed him to announce them.
• Queen Mother of the West realized Yunhua Fairy had already slipped away from the Heavenly Court and descended to the mortal realm.

Wu Tian attended the Investiture of the Gods discussion in Zixiao Palace and agreed that the tribulation would unfold among the Human Clan. When Taiqing asked for the Ancestral Witches’ law authorities, Wu Tian refused outright, leaving the negotiations at an impasse.

• Queen Mother of the West used the Kunlun Mirror to watch Yunhua Fairy and wondered how Wu Tian would promote the Heavenly Rules.
• Wu Tian arrived at Zixiao Palace, where Zhunti explained that Jieyin had stayed behind to stabilize himself after returning from annihilation.
• Wu Tian sat beside Nüwa on the Twenty-Four Grade Reincarnation Purple Lotus, provoking Yuanshi, but Dao Ancestor Hongjun ignored the display and resumed the discussion.
• Taiqing said the Immortal Killing Tribulation would unfold within the Human Clan through a change of dynasties, and Wu Tian agreed to follow the Heavenly Dao’s greater trend.
• Taiqing asked Wu Tian to provide the Ancestral Witches’ law authorities for the Investiture of the Gods, but Wu Tian refused and said the Witch Clan would never agree.

Wu Tian rejected Yuanshi’s demand for the Witch Clan’s law authority and exposed Yuanshi’s attempt to shift the Investiture of the Gods calamity onto the Intercepting Sect. When Hongjun pressured Wu Tian, Empress Pingxin appeared and proposed that the Earthly and Human Daos could also confer gods, leaving Hongjun to consider his next move.

• Yuanshi accused Wu Tian of obstructing the Heavenly Dao, but Wu Tian argued the tribulation could proceed without the Witch Clan’s law authority and challenged Yuanshi to sacrifice his own disciples.
• Wu Tian recalled Yuanshi’s earlier attempt to make Intercepting Sect disciples take the calamity for Expounding Sect disciples, upsetting Tongtian and worsening the rift between the Three Pure Ones.
• Wu Tian refused to yield the Witch Clan’s authority, and Taiqing warned that unchecked tribulation qi could endanger the Primordial World.
• Hongjun exerted pressure on Wu Tian, but the twenty-fourth-grade Reincarnation Purple Lotus shielded him and Empress Pingxin appeared behind him.
• Pingxin proposed that the Earthly and Human Daos could also confer gods and help resolve tribulation qi, prompting Hongjun to reconsider his plan.

Yuanshi proposed using the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation to wager over the Human Emperor and the Ancestral Witches’ law authorities, hoping to draw Wu Tian into the conflict. Wu Tian refused, and the chapter ended with Taiqing adding the Taiji Diagram to Yuanshi’s Pangu Banner as stakes and asking whether that was enough.

• Yuanshi challenged Wu Tian to wager over the Tribulation, with victory deciding whether the Human Emperor would remain and whether the Heavenly Dao would obtain the Ancestral Witches’ law authorities.
• Wu Tian refused, suspecting Dao Ancestor Hongjun wanted the wager to secure the Ancestral Witches’ laws.
• Nüwa mocked Yuanshi for offering no worthwhile stakes and reminded him that Wu Tian had defeated him before.
• Yuanshi offered the Pangu Banner, but Wu Tian said it was not enough.
• Taiqing added the Taiji Diagram to the wager and asked Wu Tian whether the combined stakes would bring him into the game.