Chapter Summaries

Wu Tian accepted a wager with Taiqing and Yuanshi over the Investiture of the Gods, putting the Taiji Diagram and Pangu Banner at stake. After the Heaven, Earth, and Human Dao bound them to the agreement, Wu Tian rejected signing the Investiture and left Zixiao Palace with Nüwa and Tongtian following him.

• Taiqing staked the Taiji Diagram after Yuanshi put up the Pangu Banner, and Dao Ancestor Hongjun considered the danger of Wu Tian acquiring both treasures.
• Wu Tian accepted the wager, intending to use the agreement as a legitimate way to claim the Taiji Diagram and Pangu Banner if he won.
• Empress Pingxin joined the Human Dao and Earthly Dao auras, and Dao Ancestor Hongjun used Heavenly Dao Power to make the wager binding on Taiqing, Yuanshi, and Wu Tian.
• Tongtian refused to let Intercepting Sect disciples fill the Investiture of the Gods, and Wu Tian proposed abandoning the list and letting everyone determine their own fate.
• Wu Tian left Zixiao Palace, followed by Nüwa and Tongtian, while Yuanshi complained about Tongtian and asked Taiqing why he had staked the Taiji Diagram.

After leaving Zixiao Palace, Wu Tian warned Tongtian that the Intercepting Sect would be drawn into the Investiture of the Gods and urged him to protect his disciples. Wu Tian and Nüwa then entered the Origin Realm, where Nüwa asked what he planned to do next and whether she could help.

• Empress Pingxin told Wu Tian that Taiqing had deliberately staked the Taiji Diagram against Hongjun, and Wu Tian confirmed that Tongtian knew Taiqing had once promised to act for him.
• Tongtian caught up with Wu Tian and Nüwa, apologized for drawing Wu Tian into the wager, and Wu Tian reassured him that he had entered the game to obtain the Taiji Diagram and Pangu Banner.
• Wu Tian warned Tongtian that the Immortal Killing Tribulation would involve the Expounding and Intercepting Sects and urged him to restrain his personal disciples.
• Tongtian thanked Wu Tian, then returned to Golden Turtle Island intending to warn his disciples about the tribulation.
• Nüwa asked Wu Tian why he had warned Tongtian instead of letting the sects clash, and Wu Tian explained that Tongtian's later regret could make him trust Wu Tian more.
• Nüwa asked Wu Tian what he planned next and whether she could help.

Wu Tian declined Nüwa’s offer to join the conflict over the Investiture of the Gods and borrowed her Creation Cauldron. Meanwhile, Queen Mother of the West watched Yunhua Fairy fall in love with Yang Tianyou, only to discover that Yang Tianyou was Wu Tian’s reincarnated body.

• Wu Tian explained that he wanted Nüwa to wait rather than take part in the early schemes, then borrowed her Creation Cauldron to study its laws.
• Yuanshi returned to Jade Void Palace, calculated the whereabouts of the person meant for the Investiture of the Gods, and summoned Nánjí.
• Queen Mother of the West watched Yunhua Fairy and Yang Tianyou fall in love and prepare to marry.
• Sage Zhunti sent golden light into Yang Tianyou, but purple power left by Empress Pingxin drove it away and forced Zhunti to flee.
• Queen Mother of the West investigated Yang Tianyou and recognized Wu Tian’s aura, realizing that he was Wu Tian’s reincarnated body.

Queen Mother of the West learned that Yang Tianyou was Wu Tian’s blood-essence clone and chose to send her own clone into reincarnation through Empress Pingxin. Empress Pingxin then urged Hou Tu to reincarnate too, while Wu Tian remained unaware as he cultivated with Nüwa.

• Empress Pingxin told Queen Mother of the West that Yang Tianyou was Wu Tian’s clone and that she had sent a divine sense to watch over him and Yunhua Fairy.
• Queen Mother of the West investigated Wu Tian in the Primal World, saw him cultivating with Nüwa, and decided to reincarnate a blood-essence clone of her own.
• Queen Mother of the West gave Empress Pingxin the azure pearl containing her clone and stopped watching Yang Tianyou and Yunhua Fairy in the Kunlun Mirror.
• Queen Mother of the West privately rejoiced that her clone would share a lifetime with Wu Tian and believed that put her ahead of Nüwa.
• Empress Pingxin sent Queen Mother of the West’s clone into reincarnation and asked Hou Tu to do the same, but Hou Tu refused.
• Empress Pingxin looked toward Peach Mountain and said she had worried herself sick over Wu Tian.

Wu Tian discovered that his reincarnation was Yang Tianyou, Yunhua Fairy’s husband and the father of Yang Jiao, with Yang Jian and Yang Chan still to come. As the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation approached, he asked Empress Pingxin to send his incarnation through reincarnation again so it could become the Human Emperor of Great Shang.

• Wu Tian sensed Yang Jiao’s birth and followed the bloodline resonance to Peach Mountain, where he realized he had reincarnated as Yang Tianyou.
• Wu Tian visited Empress Pingxin, who admitted she had arranged his marriage to Yunhua Fairy and said she had protected Yang Tianyou from Zhunti’s attempt to seize Yunhua’s origin.
• Wu Tian and Empress Pingxin discussed Yuanshi’s two possible Investiture of the Gods candidates, Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao, and Tongtian’s warning to his disciples to avoid the tribulation.
• Wu Tian decided to let Yang Tianyou face his destined death tribulation and asked Empress Pingxin to arrange for his next reincarnation to become the Human Emperor of Great Shang.

Wu Tian arranged for Yang Jiao to be saved from Haotian and reincarnated, while Empress Pingxin and Zhen Yuanzi planned for him to become Zhen Yuanzi’s disciple and a future Fengdu Emperor. Zhen Yuanzi also insisted that Wu Tian count him in when the Investiture of the Gods reached its end.

• Wu Tian asked Empress Pingxin to let Yang Tianyou reincarnate as the Human Emperor and to protect Yang Jiao and Yang Jian.
• Empress Pingxin promised to bring Yang Jiao to the Underworld and proposed that he succeed Zhen Yuanzi as Fengdu Emperor.
• Empress Pingxin summoned Zhen Yuanzi, who offered to accept Yang Jiao as his first disciple.
• Wu Tian agreed to Zhen Yuanzi’s plan and reflected that Yang Jian would still train under Perfected Being Yuding and receive the Nine Revolutions Mystical Skill from him.
• Zhen Yuanzi objected that Wu Tian had not told him about the Investiture of the Gods discussion at Zixiao Palace and vowed to join him if action was needed.

Wu Tian sent a divine thought into his Yang Tianyou incarnation at Peach Mountain and secretly began teaching Yang Jiao the Nine Revolutions Mystical Art. He returned home to Yunhua Fairy, who sensed that her husband seemed different, and ended the night asking him what was wrong.

• Wu Tian refused Zhen Yuanzi's offer to visit Peach Mountain and instead chose to pass the Nine Revolutions Mystical Art to Yang Jiao through a divine thought.
• Wu Tian's divine thought merged with Yang Tianyou's memories and found Yunhua Fairy weaving at home.
• Wu Tian took the young Yang Jiao to the back mountain, secretly taught him to cultivate, and asked him to keep it between them.
• Wu Tian returned home with Yang Jiao, shared a simple dinner with Yunhua Fairy, and reflected on the pleasures of ordinary family life.
• Yunhua Fairy noticed that Wu Tian seemed lost in thought and asked, "Husband, what's wrong?"

Wu Tian lived as Yang Tianyou with Yunhua Fairy and secretly trained Yang Jiao and Yang Jian in the Nine Revolutions Primordial Skill. After Yang Chan was born, Wu Tian sensed that Yunhua had also realized Haotian was coming.

• Wu Tian sealed his powers, lived as a mortal with Yunhua Fairy, and found that mortal life helped clarify his Dao heart.
• Yunhua Fairy told Wu Tian she was expecting another child, and he realized Yang Jian was about to be born.
• When Yang Jian was two or three, Wu Tian secretly taught him and Yang Jiao the Nine Revolutions Primordial Skill and secretly strengthened their bodies with primal energy.
• Yunhua Fairy noticed the brothers' unusual strength and questioned them, but they kept Wu Tian's training secret.
• Yang Chan was born when Yang Jian was seven or eight, and Wu Tian sensed that Yunhua Fairy was worried because she had sensed Haotian's approach.

Yuanshi sent Perfected Being Yuding to Peach Mountain to save Yunhua Fairy’s children and take Yang Jian as his disciple, while Haotian led the heavenly forces to arrest his sister. Wu Tian faced Haotian with Yang Jiao, and Haotian recognized something familiar about him.

• Yuanshi told Perfected Being Yuding that Yang Jian was destined to become his disciple and ordered him to teach the boy the Eight Nine Mysterious Technique.
• Perfected Being Yuding hurried to Peach Mountain, intending to save all three of Yunhua Fairy’s children if he could.
• Haotian ordered Taibai to muster the heavenly soldiers and generals and accompanied them to arrest Yunhua Fairy and punish her family.
• Yunhua Fairy confessed her identity to Wu Tian and offered to take the blame so he could raise their children.
• Wu Tian took Yang Jiao outside to confront Haotian, despite Yunhua Fairy’s pleas, and called Haotian his brother-in-law.
• Haotian decided to kill Yang Tianyou, then found the man strangely familiar when he saw him.

Haotian attacked Yunhua Fairy’s family, while Wu Tian used the chaos surrounding the strike to let his incarnation die and escape. Haotian realized Yang Tianyou might have been Wu Tian and worried he had fled, as Perfected Being Yuding invoked Sage Yuanshi to explain his rescue of Yang Jian and Yang Chan.

• Haotian and Taibai noticed that Yang Tianyou resembled Wu Tian, but Taibai explained it as a resemblance shared by the Human Clan’s bloodline.
• Yunhua Fairy pleaded with Haotian to punish her and spare Yang Tianyou and their three children, while Yang Tianyou challenged Haotian’s authority.
• Haotian used the Haotian Mirror to suppress Yunhua Fairy and struck Yang Tianyou and Yang Jiao with a palm; Perfected Being Yuding arrived and saved Yang Jian and Yang Chan, but the other two appeared to be killed.
• Haotian sensed familiar spatial fluctuations and suspected that Yang Tianyou was Wu Tian, then realized Wu Tian might have used the attack to escape.
• Perfected Being Yuding explained that Sage Yuanshi had ordered him to save Yang Jian, and Haotian’s expression darkened as he turned toward him.

Haotian spared Yang Jian and Yang Chan, but punished Yunhua Fairy by sealing her beneath Peach Mountain for five hundred years. As Yang Jian stood grieving, a voice told him that his father was still alive.

• Haotian agreed to spare Yang Jian and Yang Chan, and Perfected Being Yuding accepted Yang Jian as his disciple.
• Yang Jian pleaded for Perfected Being Yuding to save Yunhua Fairy, but Haotian refused because Yuanshi had not ordered it.
• Haotian declared Yunhua guilty and sealed her beneath Peach Mountain for five hundred years.
• Yang Jian tried to rush after his mother, but Perfected Being Yuding and Yunhua stopped him.
• Haotian left with the heavenly soldiers, and a voice told Yang Jian that his father was not dead.

Wu Tian secretly explained Yunhua Fairy’s situation, Haotian’s motives, and the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation to Yang Jian while arranging for Yang Jiao to study under Zhen Yuanzi. The chapter left Yang Jian pretending to know nothing and publicly declaring his determination to rescue his mother.

• Wu Tian took Yang Jiao through the Origin Realm to the Underworld, where Zhen Yuanzi and Empress Pingxin welcomed them.
• Wu Tian showed Yang Jiao a view of Peach Mountain, and Yang Jiao saw Yunhua Fairy trapped beneath it.
• Wu Tian explained the circumstances surrounding Yunhua Fairy, Haotian, and Perfected Being Yuding, then told Yang Jian to keep the explanation secret as a test.
• Wu Tian asked Yang Jiao to look after Yang Chan, then left Yang Jiao with Zhen Yuanzi to learn more.
• Yang Jian concealed that he had heard Wu Tian’s explanation and shouted that he would rescue his mother and split Peach Mountain if necessary.

Wu Tian went to Peach Mountain to free Yunhua Fairy and reveal his true identity as the Martial Ancestor. Yunhua learned that Jiao'er and Yang Jian were safe, while Wu Tian blamed Empress Pingxin for his deception as he tried to reconcile with his wife.

• Perfected Being Yuding took Yang Jian to Jade Spring Mountain to train so he could someday rescue Yunhua Fairy.
• Wu Tian asked Empress Pingxin to send his Yang Tianyou avatar’s blood essence into the Six Paths of Reincarnation, then traveled to Peach Mountain.
• Wu Tian passed through Haotian’s formation and told Yunhua Fairy that he was alive, Jiao'er was Zhen Yuanzi’s disciple, and he had secretly guided Yang Jian.
• Yunhua Fairy questioned Wu Tian’s identity, and he revealed that he was Wu Tian, the Martial Ancestor.
• Wu Tian explained his reincarnation and blamed Empress Pingxin for the deception while Pingxin watched and teased him from the Underworld.

Wu Tian revealed his identity to Yunhua Fairy, who accepted him but refused to leave Peach Mountain until he persuaded her to care for Yang Chan in the Origin Realm. After Wu Tian left a magical double in her place, Haotian sought the Queen Mother of the West to pass a message to Wu Tian.

• Yunhua Fairy laughed and cried after realizing that Yang Tianyou was Wu Tian, then accepted that he had cared for her family and agreed to remain his wife.
• Yunhua Fairy refused Wu Tian's offer to leave Peach Mountain because she felt she had wronged Haotian and was content with her sons' safety.
• Wu Tian persuaded Yunhua Fairy to go to the Origin Realm by reminding her that Yang Chan needed a mother's care, and she agreed to return to Peach Mountain after Yang Chan grew up.
• Wu Tian created a double of Yunhua Fairy to maintain the appearance that she remained imprisoned, then left with her for the Origin Realm.
• Haotian grew restless over Wu Tian's deception and went to the Queen Mother of the West, asking her to invite Wu Tian to the Heavenly Court.

Wu Tian brought Yunhua Fairy to meet Wangshu, who welcomed her as family alongside Goddess Nüwa. After Yunhua recounted how she met Yang Tianyou, Nüwa offered to retrieve Yang Chan so Wu Tian would not draw attention to the secret of the Expounding Sect.

• The Queen Mother of the West angrily sent Haotian away, and Haotian secretly headed toward Peach Mountain.
• Wu Tian told Yunhua Fairy that Wangshu was his Dao companion and brought her to Wangshu's divine palace.
• Wangshu welcomed Yunhua as her younger sister and suggested bringing Yang Chan to live with them.
• Goddess Nüwa greeted Yunhua as another elder sister, and Yunhua recounted meeting Yang Tianyou to Wangshu and Nüwa.
• Nüwa offered to retrieve Yang Chan to avoid drawing attention to the Expounding Sect's secret, and Wu Tian agreed.

Wu Tian told Nüwa where to find Yang Chan, then left Wangshu and Yunhua Fairy to prepare the Taiyin Shrine for her while he headed toward the Underworld. When he sensed Haotian had triggered his restriction at Peach Mountain, he went to confront him, and Haotian tried to laugh off Wu Tian’s accusation over his incarnation’s death.

• Wu Tian told Nüwa that Yang Chan was at Golden Haze Cave with Perfected Being Yuding and Yang Jian, and Nüwa agreed to retrieve her.
• Wangshu teased Wu Tian about staying with her and Nüwa, but he said he planned to cultivate in Six Paths Reincarnation Hall.
• Wangshu stopped Yunhua Fairy from objecting and asked her to help make the Taiyin Shrine more welcoming for Yang Chan.
• As Wu Tian headed toward the Underworld, he sensed Haotian had triggered the restriction at Peach Mountain and changed course to meet him.
• Haotian demanded to know where Wu Tian had taken Yunhua Fairy and challenged him over marrying her through an incarnation.
• Wu Tian raised the question of Haotian killing his incarnation, and Haotian abruptly called it a joke.

Wu Tian persuaded Haotian to keep his marriage to Yunhua secret and let Yang Jian split Peach Mountain to gain fame while resolving the matter. He left Haotian questioning whether the Investiture of the Gods would truly give him control over the gods.

• Haotian tried to use Yunhua's marriage to Wu Tian to restore his dignity and improve his standing, but Wu Tian stopped him from revealing Yang Tianyou's identity.
• Wu Tian warned Haotian that publicizing the relationship could bring trouble from Hongjun, Yuanshi, and the Expounding Sect, as well as endanger Yang Jian.
• Wu Tian suggested Haotian pretend not to know about his relationship with Yunhua and let Yang Jian split Peach Mountain, with the Expounding Sect taking the blame.
• Wu Tian questioned whether Haotian could truly control the Investiture of the Gods or command the saints' disciples listed on it.
• Wu Tian departed, leaving Haotian alone in the grand formation with doubts about his plans.

Wu Tian entered seclusion in Pangu Hall’s Blood Pool to cultivate toward the half-step Heavenly Dao Realm while Empress Pingxin promised to oversee the Investiture of the Gods. Goddess Nüwa took Yang Chan to Empress Wa Palace to raise her, leaving Yang Jian curious about whether Nüwa might help save Yunhua Fairy.

• Wu Tian left Haotian and went to Empress Pingxin, who agreed to watch over the Investiture of the Gods while he cultivated.
• Empress Pingxin sent Wu Tian into the Blood Pool, where he merged with Pangu Hall and the Origin Realm’s laws.
• Goddess Nüwa visited Perfected Being Yuding at Golden Haze Cave and found Yang Jian struggling to calm the crying Yang Chan.
• Goddess Nüwa declared Yang Chan fated with her and took her to Empress Wa Palace after Yang Jian agreed.
• Yang Jian asked Perfected Being Yuding whether Nüwa could intervene to save Yunhua Fairy, but Yuding doubted she would help.

Yang Jian began learning the Eight Nine Mysterious Technique from Perfected Being Yuding and discovered that it overlapped with his secret Nine Revolutions Mystical Skill. He found a way to cultivate both without exposing his secret, while his astonishing progress delighted his master.

• Jade Cauldron brought Yang Jian to Golden Haze Cave and gave him a jade slip containing the Eight Nine Mysterious Technique.
• Yang Jian absorbed the technique and realized its cultivation method overlapped with part of the Nine Revolutions Mystical Skill he had learned from Wu Tian.
• Perfected Being Yuding taught Yang Jian how to circulate blood qi using the Eight Nine Mystical Art.
• Yang Jian discovered he could draw in spiritual energy by cultivating the Eight Nine Mystical Art, and decided to practice it before his master and the Nine Revolutions Mystical Skill alone.
• Yang Jian's cultivation created a massive spiritual-energy vortex, and Perfected Being Yuding gathered even more energy to help him.

Yang Jian advanced rapidly under Perfected Being Yuding and prepared to split Peach Mountain to free Yunhua Fairy. His first strike failed against Haotian’s protective formation, while Haotian reluctantly decided to let his nephew put on a show.

• Yang Jian reached the fifth turn of the Eight Nine Mystical Art and attained the Mystic Immortal realm, astonishing Perfected Being Yuding with his rapid progress.
• Yang Chan grew up in the Origin Realm under the care of Nüwa and other goddesses, while Yang Jiao studied under Zhenyuanzi and visited Yunhua Fairy.
• Nüwa showed Yunhua Fairy Yang Jian standing before Peach Mountain and reassured her that his trial was part of his rise.
• Yang Jian transformed into a thousand-zhang giant and struck Peach Mountain with his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear, but Haotian’s formation neutralized the attack.
• Haotian sensed the disturbance from the Hall of High Heavens and reluctantly decided to let Yang Jian put on a show.