Chapter Summaries

Bo Huang defeated Ancestor Bodhi and Immeasurable Light in succession, forcing the Western Teachings to give him Merit Golden Lotus and Bodhi Leaves. Immeasurable Light admitted defeat and agreed to fetch the payment.

• Bo Huang shattered Ancestor Bodhi’s golden barrier with the Chaos Bell, injuring him and sending him flying.
• Immeasurable Light arrived and offered to spar with Bo Huang over the Merit Golden Lotus, so Bo Huang drew the Blazing Profound Sun Halberd.
• Bo Huang and Immeasurable Light clashed with their treasures and divine abilities, tearing open Space Rifts near Chentang Pass.
• Bo Huang shattered Immeasurable Light’s phantom Merit Golden Lotus and struck him with the Chaos Bell, nearly dispersing his origin.
• Bo Huang demanded three catties of Merit Golden Lotus and five catties of Bodhi Leaves, and Immeasurable Light admitted defeat and agreed to bring them.

Bo Huang forced Immeasurable Light and Ancestor Bodhi to pay him with Merit Golden Lotus roots and Bodhi Leaves, then planned to make avatars for his brothers. Meanwhile, the Celestial Venerable ordered Jiang Ziya to descend Mount Kunlun and invest the gods, and Jiang Ziya set out for Chaoge.

• Immeasurable Light returned to Mount Sumeru and complained to Jieyin and Zhunti that Bo Huang had defeated them in their bargain.
• Bo Huang inspected the Merit Golden Lotus roots and Bodhi Leaves, made Ancestor Bodhi replace the broken leaves with strands of his hair, and accepted the goods.
• Bo Huang told Nezha that he would refine the lotus roots into avatars so his brothers could use them as suns while they took time off.
• The Celestial Venerable summoned Jiang Ziya and ordered him to descend Mount Kunlun to invest the gods and assist the rising House of Zhou.
• Jiang Ziya reluctantly accepted the decree, bade farewell to the Celestial Venerable and Immortal Nanjixian, and left Jade Void Palace.
• Jiang Ziya remembered his friend Song Yiren in Chaoge and used an escape technique to head there.

Jiang Ziya reunited with Song Yiren after forty years, and Song Yiren offered him a place to stay and planned to arrange a marriage for him. Meanwhile, Yun Ting received a mission to prank Jiang Ziya and decided to reactivate Broom Star’s bad luck, leaving Jiang Ziya unaware of the trouble ahead.

• Jiang Ziya arrived at Song Family Village and reunited with Song Yiren, explaining that he had spent forty years cultivating on Mount Kunlun.
• Song Yiren invited Jiang Ziya to stay at his home and proposed arranging a marriage so Jiang Ziya could continue his family line.
• Yun Ting received a system mission to confuse Jiang Ziya in exchange for a bottle of Nine-Revolutions Golden Elixir.
• Yun Ting decided to use the Law of Fate to reactivate Broom Star’s bad luck threefold when she married Jiang Ziya.
• Song Yiren asked Jiang Ziya about his training, and Jiang Ziya listed mountain chores and elixir refining among the skills he had learned.

Yun Ting watched as Song Yiren arranged a marriage between Jiang Ziya and Master Ma’s sixty-eight-year-old daughter. He foresaw that Miss Ma’s overwhelming misfortune would cause Jiang Shang trouble once he stirred it with the Law of Fate.

• Yun Ting told Yuan Hong that Immortal Nanjixian’s captured victims had deep Karma and predicted that Jiang Ziya would soon face trouble from the wife Song Yiren found for him.
• Song Yiren visited Master Ma and proposed marrying his daughter to Jiang Shang, offering four ingots of silver as the betrothal gift.
• Master Ma accepted the proposal happily and hosted Song Yiren at a feast.
• Song Yiren returned to Jiang Ziya and announced that he had arranged a marriage with Master Ma’s sixty-eight-year-old daughter.
• Yun Ting observed that Miss Ma was surrounded by immense misfortune and planned to stir it with the Law of Fate, leaving Jiang Shang to deal with the consequences.

Jiang Ziya tried to earn money by selling bamboo strainers after Madam Ma urged him to make a living, but Yun Ting burned them with lightning as part of a prank. The prank did not earn Yun Ting a reward, and A Certain Lady told him to wait until Madam Ma’s bad luck made Jiang Ziya look foolish.

• Madam Ma urged Jiang Ziya to start a business, so he wove bamboo strainers and carried them to Chaoge City to sell.
• Jiang Ziya failed to sell any strainers and struggled home, while Yun Ting decided to interfere because he thought Jiang Ziya was disgracing the Mystic Gate.
• Yun Ting struck Jiang Ziya’s strainers and carrying pole with lightning, reducing them to ashes.
• Jiang Ziya told Madam Ma that he had sold nothing and nearly died in the lightning strike, and she could not bring herself to scold him.
• Yun Ting asked A Certain Lady whether the prank counted as a success, but she said he would need to use Madam Ma’s bad luck to make a fool of Jiang Ziya.

Yun Ting used the laws of destiny to add misfortune to Jiang Ziya’s attempt to sell flour in Chaoge. Jiang Ziya made no sales until one customer bought a coin’s worth, and the chapter ended as his load fell and chaos erupted in the city.

• Madam Ma argued with Jiang Ziya about their failed attempt to sell strainers, and Song Yiren offered them flour to sell instead.
• Yun Ting stirred up Madam Ma’s bad luck and predicted that a fast horse would knock over Jiang Ziya’s flour.
• Jiang Ziya carried flour around Chaoge without finding a buyer, then rested by the south gate.
• A man asked for one coin’s worth of flour, and Jiang Ziya struggled to scoop it properly.
• Jiang Ziya’s shoulder pole fell and its ropes came loose just as chaos erupted in Chaoge.

Yun Ting’s prank caused Jiang Ziya to lose his flour and be humiliated, while Dunyi altered his fortune and planned further punishment. After Jiang Ziya fought with Madam Ma, Yuanshi learned he had cursed Yun Ting and ordered White Crane to make him climb Mount Kunlun three extra times.

• A runaway horse spilled Jiang Ziya’s flour, and Yun Ting used astral wind to shape it into a dancing figure that covered Jiang Ziya in flour.
• Jiang Ziya cursed the person behind the prank, angering Yun Ting, who decided Jiang Ziya would eventually be sent to Xuanming’s hall.
• Dunyi chose to reduce Jiang Ziya’s fortune by thirty percent and planned to preserve his life before sending him to the eighteen levels of hell.
• Jiang Ziya returned home with empty baskets, argued with Madam Ma over the lost flour, and grappled with her.
• Yuanshi discovered Jiang Ziya had cursed someone related to him by blood and ordered White Crane to make Jiang Ziya climb Mount Kunlun three extra times.

Song Yiren found Jiang Ziya a tavern to run, and Yun Ting secretly made it prosper until Yuanshi broke his spell. Jiang Ziya lost the business and was confronted by Yuanshi for cursing his master.

• Song Yiren comforted Jiang Ziya after his noodle-business dispute and arranged for him to run a tavern near Chaoge’s South Gate.
• Yun Ting decided to make Jiang Ziya’s tavern thrive, using Scattering Beans to Create Soldiers and money taken from Grand Tutor Wen’s residence.
• Jiang Ziya’s tavern prospered for more than half a month, prompting Yuanshi to notice that he had become absorbed in shopkeeping.
• Yuanshi broke Yun Ting’s spell, causing Jiang Ziya’s business to collapse and leaving him broke again.
• Jiang Ziya cursed whoever had ruined his business, and Yuanshi rebuked him for cursing his master and neglecting his mission.

Jiang Ziya promised Song Yiren that a tower would bring good fortune and that he could suppress the evil aura behind its repeated fires, but Yun Ting secretly strengthened five ghosts to challenge him. After the ghosts beat Jiang Ziya, Lord of the Beginning intervened through a primordial spirit avatar and helped him subdue the Five Road Gods.

• Jiang Ziya advised Song Yiren to build a five-room tower and promised to suppress the evil aura that had caused previous towers to burn.
• Yun Ting planned to strengthen the five ghosts with an imitation of Five-Colored Divine Light so they could beat Jiang Ziya.
• Yuanshi and White Crane discussed Jiang Ziya's poor cultivation, while Yuanshi agreed that it reflected badly on the Jade Void Palace.
• The five ghosts appeared and badly beat Jiang Ziya as Song Yiren watched.
• Lord of the Beginning sent a primordial spirit avatar into Jiang Ziya, whose Yuqing Divine Thunder scattered Yun Ting's arrangements and subdued the Five Road Gods.
• Yuan Hong asked how Jiang Ziya had become strong enough to defeat the ghosts, and Yun Ting said the incident had only been for fun.

After opening a fortune-telling shop in Chaoge, Jiang Ziya was challenged by You Wen, who concealed his Golden Crow identity and provoked Jiang Ziya into threatening him with Samadhi True Fire. Meanwhile, Lord of the Beginning decided to give his disciples another lecture on the Dao as the Investiture of the Gods war approached.

• Madam Ma asked Jiang Ziya if he knew how to tell fortunes, and Song Yiren arranged a shop for him near Chaoge’s South Gate.
• Yun Ting sent You Wen to Chaoge to have Jiang Ziya tell his fortune and cause trouble.
• You Wen disguised himself as a handsome boy, while Jiang Ziya sensed demonic aura and threatened to test him with Samadhi True Fire.
• Yun Ting laughed at You Wen’s prank, while Yuan Hong and Jingwei noted that Jiang Ziya would not know he was facing a Golden Crow.
• Lord of the Beginning criticized Yun Ting and You Wen for fooling Jiang Ziya, then ordered Guang Chengzi to summon the disciples for another lecture on the Dao.

Yuanshi summoned his disciples for a lecture while Jiang Ziya struggled to establish himself as a fortune-teller in Chaoge City. The chapter ended with woodcutter Liu Gan challenging Jiang Ziya to prove his divination was accurate.

• Yuanshi told Guang Chengzi to summon the disciples for a lecture, saying Jiang Ziya could learn from his encounter with You Wen.
• You Wen revealed his three-legged Golden Crow form, and the townspeople beat Jiang Ziya for mistaking the Solar True Lord for a monster.
• Days later, Liu Gan entered Jiang Ziya’s fortune-telling shop and questioned his claims of knowing the past and future and possessing immortality.
• Yun Ting, Yuan Hong, and Jingwei watched Jiang Ziya and Liu Gan’s exchange from Yingzhou Island, and Yun Ting explained why Jiang Ziya was aging.
• Liu Gan demanded a reading and threatened to punch Jiang Ziya and shut his shop if it was inaccurate, so Jiang Ziya decided to try to make a name for himself.

Jiang Ziya’s fortune-telling prediction came true for Liu Gan, who praised him and helped make his shop famous. Yun Ting tried to spoil the prediction but failed to make Liu Gan doubt Jiang Ziya, and the system told Yun Ting that his pranks needed to be more serious to count.

• Jiang Ziya wrote a prediction for Liu Gan, describing an old man who would pay him for firewood and offer him pastries and wine.
• Liu Gan sold his firewood to the old man, swept the floor, and received the predicted food and payment, including twenty extra coins as wedding luck money.
• Yun Ting visited the old man and persuaded him to give everyone another fifteen coins, expecting the change to make Jiang Ziya’s prediction fail.
• Liu Gan returned to Jiang Ziya’s shop, paid him for the reading, and spread word of his supposed immortal abilities, drawing customers from across Chaoge.
• Yun Ting complained that Liu Gan had not turned against Jiang Ziya, and the system told him his pranks were too minor to count.

Yun Ting watched Jiang Ziya confront the Jade Pipa Demon in Chaoge and planned to livestream her execution to Xuanyuan. Jiang Ziya sealed the demon’s demonic light, but the crowd mistook his actions for harassment and turned against him.

• Yun Ting decided to livestream Jiang Ziya burning the Jade Pipa Demon for Xuanyuan, while Yuan Hong flattered Yun Ting and Jingwei urged him to discipline the monkey.
• The Jade Pipa Demon returned from visiting Daji after eating palace maids and stopped at Jiang Ziya’s fortune-telling stall in disguise.
• Jiang Ziya recognized the Jade Pipa Demon and seized her wrist, using his Heavenly Eye to seal her demonic light.
• The Jade Pipa Demon protested that Jiang Ziya was holding her hand, and the crowd accused him of taking advantage of her instead of believing his claim that she was a demon.
• Yuan Hong suggested that Yun Ting conceal the Jade Pipa Demon to cause trouble for Jiang Ziya, but Yun Ting chose to keep watching.

Xuanyuan watched as Jiang Ziya caught and struck the Jade Pipa Demon, while the crowd accused him of murder and Bi Gan arrived to investigate. Yun Ting concealed the demon’s aura, leaving Jiang Ziya’s claim that she was a demon harder to prove.

• Shen Nong asked Xuanyuan about the Jade Pipa Demon, and Fuxi explained how he used major matters as excuses to leave Huo Yun Cave.
• Hongjun ordered Shen Nong to remain in Huo Yun Cave, while Laozi urged Xuandu to cultivate diligently.
• In Chaoge, Jiang Ziya struck the Jade Pipa Demon unconscious with an inkstone and held her wrist so she could not escape.
• The crowd accused Jiang Ziya of killing a woman, and Bi Gan questioned him as Jiang Ziya claimed she was a demon.
• Yun Ting concealed the Jade Pipa Demon’s demonic aura, prompting Yuan Hong to warn that Jiang Ziya’s evidence would disappear.

Jiang Ziya tried to prove that the woman he killed was a demon, but her body burned to ashes before revealing its true form. The Lord of the Beginning sent Jiang Ziya to flee to the Wei River in Xiqi and await his destined lord.

• Bi Gan reported the dispute over Jiang Ziya killing a woman whom he claimed was a demon, and Daji urged Dixin to let her inspect the case.
• Dixin summoned Jiang Ziya beneath Star Picking Tower, where Jiang explained his demon-hunting skills and proposed burning the corpse to reveal its true form.
• Jiang Ziya burned the woman's body, which turned to ash; Daji realized it was only a substituted corpse.
• Yun Ting revealed that he had sent the Jade Pipa Demon to Huo Yun Cave to meet Xuanyuan, leaving Jiang Ziya bewildered.
• The Lord of the Beginning sensed the Chan Sect's fortune tremble, sent Jiang Ziya home, and told him to flee to the Wei River in Xiqi.

Daji persuaded Dixin to create a Scorpion Pit and use it to punish Empress Jiang’s palace women, while the snake tribute stirred resentment among the people. The seventy-two women were brought to the pit’s edge, where they faced the snakes below.

• Daji accused Empress Jiang’s palace attendants of harboring resentment, and Dixin ordered them imprisoned in the Cold Palace.
• Daji proposed a Scorpion Pit filled with snakes, and Dixin ordered every household in the capital to submit four snakes.
• The people struggled to find enough snakes, while Jiao Ge and other officials sought to learn why the court needed them.
• After the snakes were gathered, Daji ordered the seventy-two palace women stripped, bound, and thrown into the pit.
• The Imperial Attendant brought the terrified women to the edge of the pit, where venomous snakes writhed below.

Jiao Ge remonstrated with Dixin over the Scorpion Pit and the realm’s worsening unrest, but Dixin ordered him thrown among the snakes. Jiao Ge leapt from Star Picking Tower to avoid the punishment and died, while Yun Ting lamented the loss of another loyal minister.

• Jiao Ge learned that Dixin had ordered seventy-two palace servants into the Scorpion Pit and hurried to Star Picking Tower to confront him.
• Yun Ting and Jingwei discussed whether to intervene, while Yun Ting sealed Yuan Hong’s six senses to stop him from rescuing the servants.
• Jiao Ge presented a memorial condemning Dixin’s cruelty and warned that the feudal lords and people were turning against him.
• Dixin rejected Jiao Ge’s remonstrance and ordered the guards to throw him into the Scorpion Pit.
• Jiao Ge denounced Dixin, leapt from Star Picking Tower, and died on the ground below.
• Yun Ting mourned Jiao Ge and the loyal ministers who had died amid the calamity.

Daji persuaded Dixin to build Deer Terrace, and Yang Ren warned that the project and the ruler’s choices threatened the realm, urging him to stop construction. The chapter left Yang Ren awaiting Dixin’s response while Yun Ting predicted he would suffer, revealing that Yuan Hong’s sealed senses concealed a chance to cultivate a divine ability.

• Daji presented Dixin with a plan for Deer Terrace, and Dixin ordered Chong Houhu to oversee its construction.
• An attendant told Yang Ren about the decree, and Yang Ren delayed it so he could remonstrate with Dixin.
• Yang Ren warned Dixin about three military crises, criticized his reliance on Daji and his lavish construction plans, and urged him to halt Deer Terrace.
• Yun Ting told Jingwei that Yang Ren would suffer for his remonstrance and revealed that Yuan Hong was cultivating a divine ability while his senses appeared sealed.

After Dixin ordered Yang Ren's eyes gouged out, True Lord Qingxu Daode rescued him, restored him with eyes in his palms, and accepted him as a disciple. Meanwhile, Chong Houhu began building Deer Terrace at great cost to the people, and Yun Ting said he would act once it was finished.

• Dixin ordered Yang Ren's eyes gouged out, but Yang Ren endured the punishment without fear.
• True Lord Qingxu Daode sent Golden Warrior to retrieve Yang Ren's remains and had White Cloud Child place Immortal Pills in his empty eye sockets.
• True Lord Daode revived Yang Ren with eyes growing in his palms and accepted him as a disciple of the Chan Sect.
• Yun Ting declined to recruit Yang Ren, saying his unusual appearance made him unsuitable for the Interception Sect.
• Chong Houhu began constructing Deer Terrace, conscripting laborers and causing widespread deaths and suffering.
• Yun Ting told Jingwei that he would act soon after Deer Terrace was completed.

As the North Sea truce expired and Western Teachings experts arrived, Yun Ting sent Ao Lie to face them, with Kong Xuan as backup if needed. Ao Lie fought the Arhats and challenged all eighteen, while Yun Ting judged that his training and abilities should let him handle them.

• Ao Lie informed Yun Ting that the North Sea truce had ended and Western Teachings experts had arrived, so Yun Ting decided to have Golden Peng summon Kong Xuan and intervene only if necessary.
• Golden Peng sent Ao Lie to fight, and Ao Lie challenged the Western Teachings camp.
• Dragon Subduing Arhat fought Ao Lie but was forced to one knee before Arhat Fuhu came to his aid.
• Arhat Fuhu and Dragon Subduing Arhat attacked Ao Lie together, but Ao Lie transformed into his six-clawed Silver Dragon form and knocked Fuhu back.
• Ao Lie challenged all eighteen Arhats to fight him, while Yun Ting told Jingwei that Ao Lie's training and abilities should let him win.