Recaps

Tai Cang began teaching martial arts among the human race and cultivated in their ancestral temple to gather humanity’s essence. He accepted Stone, renamed him Shi Hao, and gave him the Nine Revolutions Cang Skill, but Laozi suddenly summoned him back to Kunlun.

• Tai Cang agreed to test Stone’s temperament before accepting him as a disciple and arranged to cultivate in the human ancestral temple after teaching martial arts.
• Tai Cang taught the human race three beginner fist techniques, drawing humanity’s essence and nourishing his Human Flower.
• Stone awakened his Heavenly Supreme Physique, vowed to kneel only to Heaven, Earth, and his parents, and later mastered the technique Tai Cang had given him.
• Tai Cang accepted Stone as his eldest disciple, named him Shi Hao, and passed on the Nine Revolutions Cang Skill and martial arts.
• Shi Hao advanced to the early True Immortal realm, and Tai Cang realized the Supreme Bone in his chest was absorbing his spiritual energy.
• Laozi summoned Tai Cang back to Kunlun.

Tai Cang returned to Kunlun Mountains after entrusting Shi Hao with spreading the martial Dao among the human race. Laozi tasked Tai Cang and the other disciples with searching the Beast Realm, then discussed the human race’s fortune with him and revealed that he needed Tai Cang’s help with his Dao path.

• Tai Cang left Shi Hao in charge of teaching the martial Dao, and Shi Hao accepted the responsibility and began practicing.
• Tai Cang returned to Kunlun Mountains, where Laozi gave him and the Three Teachings disciples resonance jade talismans and ordered them to search the Beast Realm for resonant objects.
• Laozi offered a high-grade innate spirit treasure for each object they found and sent the others away, keeping Tai Cang behind.
• Laozi praised Tai Cang’s martial Dao and invited him to join the Human Teaching, but Tai Cang refused and offered to relinquish most of the human race’s fortune.
• Laozi assured Tai Cang that retaining a small portion of the fortune was permitted, then said he needed Tai Cang’s assistance to advance his Dao path.

Tai Cang accepted Laozi’s mission to retrieve the Jade Disc of Creation fragment from the Beast Realm in exchange for learning One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones. After reaching the Grand Unity realm, he was summoned to help the three teachings face the powerful arrivals at Kunlun Mountains, where the Beast Realm’s inheritance was about to draw many more rivals.

• Laozi told Tai Cang that the Jade Disc of Creation fragment was sought by the Western Teachings and Nuwa’s disciples, including Pharmacist, Maitreya, and Golden Phoenix, and promised to teach him One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones if he secured it.
• Cang Du and the Twelve Golden Immortals warned Tai Cang that the Jie Sect disciples were provoking the Chan Sect and that Duobao wielded the Soul Extinguishing Banner, which could attack the primordial spirit.
• Tai Cang absorbed human essence generated by Shi Hao’s spread of martial arts, perfected his Human Flower, and entered the Grand Unity realm.
• Golden Horn Boy summoned Tai Cang to the Primordial Clarity Palace because powerful cultivators and Grand Unity Golden Immortals had gathered at Kunlun Mountains and threatened the three teachings’ plans.
• Tai Cang saw the overwhelming crowd at the palace and learned from Xiao Xi that the inheritance could lead directly to the third realm of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal.

Tai Cang joined the Three Teachings as the Sages opened the Beast Realm, where cultivators sought Shen Ni’s inheritance. He left Cang Du and the others to explore while he headed toward the gathered Grand Unity Golden Immortals, and Cang Du split from the Jie Sect disciples to pursue his own route.

• Tai Cang and Xiao Xi declined Mu Cang’s invitation, and Tai Cang later revealed that he had reached the late stage of the True Grand Unity Immortal realm.
• Laozi warned the cultivators that Quasi-Sage-level beasts might appear in the Beast Realm, then opened its entrance after Minghe and the other great powers vowed to proceed.
• Zhao Gongming and four Jie Sect disciples refused to enter, so Tongtian expelled them as direct disciples and made Zhao Gongming a registered disciple.
• Tai Cang entered the Beast Realm, where the cultivators fought ferocious beasts while advancing toward Shen Ni’s stone stele.
• Tai Cang told Cang Du, Guangchengzi, and the others to explore without him as he went to Shen Ni’s inheritance site; he refused Duobao’s demand to borrow his subdued exotic beast.
• Cang Du left the Jie Sect group to search in another direction, while Tai Cang flew toward the area where the Grand Unity Golden Immortals had gathered.

Tai Cang reached Shen Ni’s blood-red stone stele, demonstrated his strength, and revealed that it could be opened with a blood sacrifice, triggering a slaughter among the gathered cultivators. As Mu Cang challenged Tai Cang’s right to lead Cang Gate, Tai Cang learned that defeating him could transfer Cang Gate’s fortune to the victor and questioned Xiao Xi’s intentions.

• Duobao was left alone after the other immortals, including San Xiao, departed, and he vowed to take revenge on Tai Cang.
• Tai Cang arrived at the stone stele, defeated an Asura with a single punch, and earned the gathered cultivators’ respect.
• Tai Cang explained that blood could crack the stele, and the cultivators began slaughtering one another to feed it.
• Tai Cang told Xiao Xi that he had meant for them to sacrifice ferocious beasts, while the watching Sages considered recruiting him.
• Mu Cang arrived with a red-haired young man and challenged Tai Cang over his position as Cang Gate’s leader.
• Mu Cang claimed that defeating Tai Cang could transfer Cang Gate’s fortune to him, prompting Tai Cang to ask whether Xiao Xi had shared that aim.

Tai Cang wagered Cang Gate’s providence and the Innate Yin Yang Sword against Mu Cang and defeated him by using the laws of space and time. After the stone monument was shattered, Shenni’s inheritance was revealed and the cultivators rushed into the canyon, where a battle erupted.

• Tai Cang offered the Innate Yin Yang Sword and Cang Gate’s providence as stakes, and Mu Cang accepted with the red-haired man’s backing and several spirit treasures.
• Tai Cang immobilized Mu Cang with the laws of space and time, severed his right arm, and took his low-grade innate spirit treasure.
• Tai Cang collected the red-haired man’s three spirit treasures and challenged the other cultivators, who backed down after witnessing his power.
• The Grand Unity Golden Immortals used the scattered remains to break the blood-red stone monument, revealing the canyon and Shenni’s inheritance trial.
• The cultivators surged into the canyon to claim the inheritance, and a chaotic battle broke out.

Tai Cang raced through the gorge and entered Shen Ni’s inheritance trials, passing them faster than the other cultivators. After defeating Shen Ni’s remnant soul in the final trial, Tai Cang received the inheritance as Mu Cang and the other Grand Unity Golden Immortals prepared to attack him.

• Tai Cang used his speed to reach Shen Ni’s altar ahead of the pursuing cultivators and began the nine trials.
• Tai Cang passed the first two trials, while the other cultivators struggled to advance and attacked the stairs’ protective barrier.
• Mu Cang persuaded the cultivators to form arrays and barriers around the area so they could restrain Tai Cang and force him to surrender the inheritance.
• Tai Cang advanced to the ninth trial and defeated Shen Ni’s remnant soul by freezing it with the laws of space and time.
• Shen Ni bestowed his inheritance on Tai Cang, including the Law of Destruction and the Law of Ruin, and revealed that Tai Cang’s contracted beast carried his bloodline.
• Mu Cang urged the assembled Grand Unity Golden Immortals to attack Tai Cang before he could leave with the inheritance.

Tai Cang obtained Shen Ni’s inheritance and the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal method, then destroyed the jade talismans to deny the gathered cultivators a chance to seize them. He defeated nearly all of his attackers and began a no-Lingbao duel with Mu Cang, leaving Mu Cang struck by his own wind and lightning powers.

• Tai Cang completed his task, learned the inheritance’s path to the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, and decided to seek Jade Disc of Creation fragments to comprehend more laws.
• When the Grand Unity Golden Immortals demanded the inheritance, Tai Cang crushed the three jade talismans, while Laozi told the watching powers that Tai Cang had memorized their contents and could trade them willingly.
• The furious cultivators attacked Tai Cang, but he used the True Martial Black Eagle Banner and his swordsmanship to defeat most of the hundreds who charged him.
• Luo Hao, Xiao Xi, and the other remaining cultivators conceded, leaving Tai Cang alone with Mu Cang.
• Tai Cang put away his Lingbao and challenged Mu Cang to fight to the death; Mu Cang attacked with wind and lightning, which Tai Cang’s Taotie technique swallowed and sent back at him.

Tai Cang killed Mu Cang, escaped a beast horde, and found a Jade Disc of Creation fragment that taught him the Law of Wind. He later reunited with Yunxiao, agreed to heal her injured sisters in exchange for borrowing her fragment, and gave her two Nine Revolutions Golden Pills.

• Tai Cang killed Mu Cang and received three uses of One-Click Max Level Privilege, then fled the canyon as a quasi-saint-level beast approached.
• Tai Cang found a Jade Disc of Creation fragment beneath Crescent Lake, escaped its guardian wyrm-python, and comprehended the Law of Wind.
• Tai Cang continued searching for fragments while powerful figures across the Primordial World ordered their sects to gather them.
• Tai Cang met Yunxiao and agreed to lend his healing skills in return for borrowing her Jade Disc of Creation fragment for a few days.
• Tai Cang found Bixiao and Qiongxiao gravely wounded in a cave and gave Yunxiao two Nine Revolutions Golden Pills to treat them.

Tai Cang healed Yunxiao and mastered the Laws of Life and Metal after finding Jade Disc of Creation fragments. The San Xiao told him that at least five more fragments lay in the beast realm’s central region, where all the sects were gathering.

• Yunxiao gave Tai Cang a Jade Disc of Creation fragment containing the Law of Life, then used Nine Revolutions Golden Pills to heal Bixiao and Qiongxiao, who broke through to the peak of the True Grand Unity Immortal realm.
• Tai Cang mastered the Law of Life and healed Yunxiao’s severe internal injuries; after she recovered, she returned the fragment and told him where she had sensed another one.
• Tai Cang found Maitreya and Pharmacist fighting a thunder leopard, killed the beast, and took its fragment containing the Law of Metal; Maitreya and Pharmacist left rather than challenge him.
• Tai Cang mastered the Law of Metal as the other sects raced toward the beast realm’s central region, then the San Xiao arrived and invited him to travel with them.
• Yunxiao told Tai Cang that at least five fragments were in the central region and that cultivators from every sect were gathering there to compete for them.

Tai Cang arrived at the Beast Realm’s central region, where cultivators were preparing to fight a powerful bull-serpent guarding five Jade Disc of Creation fragments. He traded the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal method for twelve fragments and then provoked the other cultivators into attacking the Western Teachings and Nuwa’s disciples, while he counted his gains.

• Tai Cang and the San Xiao reached the lake and joined the Three Teachings’ camp as cultivators watched the bull-serpent guarding five fragments.
• Yuding explained the bull-serpent’s five laws and warned Tai Cang that other factions would interfere if they attacked it.
• Luo Hao exchanged a Jade Disc of Creation fragment for the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal method and left to report to Sect Leader Minghe.
• Xiao Xi and ten other cultivators traded their fragments for the method after swearing not to reveal it beyond their masters.
• Tai Cang pointed out that the Western Teachings and Nuwa’s disciples had gained fragments, prompting cultivators to attack them and drive them away.
• Tai Cang began tallying the fragments he had collected.

Tai Cang comprehended the Jade Disc of Creation fragments, killed the ox-python, and traded more fragments for the Grand Unity cultivation method. After finishing his study and returning to Primordial Clarity Palace, he sensed danger in the great powers’ eager attention.

• Tai Cang studied the Jade Disc of Creation fragments while Minghe and other great powers left with the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal method.
• Tai Cang fought the ox-python, found five Jade Disc of Creation fragments inside it, and killed it with his Heaven-Opening Strike.
• Little Glutton devoured the ox-python’s corpse, and Tai Cang gave it ancient beast inheritances.
• Eight cultivators traded Jade Disc of Creation fragments to Tai Cang for the Grand Unity method, then fled when he questioned where the fragments came from.
• Tai Cang comprehended more fragments near the Beast Realm exit while Laozi rewarded Cang Du, Guangchengzi, and Yunxiao with innate spiritual treasures.
• Tai Cang returned to Primordial Clarity Palace and recognized the danger in the great powers’ eager gazes.

Laozi accepted Tai Cang’s Jade Disc of Creation fragment, rewarded him with spiritual treasures and the One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones method, then protected him by naming him an autonomous elder of the Human Sect. After the sages’ recruitment offers failed, cultivators asked Tai Cang to teach the method of becoming a Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal, and Laozi required them to offer worthy exchanges.

• Laozi exchanged three top-grade innate spiritual treasures and the One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones method for Tai Cang’s Jade Disc of Creation fragment.
• Jieyin, Zhunti, Heavenly Lord of Primordial Beginning, and Nuwa each offered Tai Cang a powerful position to join their sect or forces.
• Tongtian offered Tai Cang the Jie Sect vice sect master position and the Four Swords of Zhu Xian, but Tai Cang declined all the sages’ invitations.
• Laozi confirmed Tai Cang had joined the Human Sect as an independent elder under his protection.
• Zhen Yuanzi and the gathered cultivators asked Tai Cang to teach them the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal method, and Laozi said they must offer a sufficient exchange.
• Laozi left for Grand Clarity Palace with Tai Cang and Cang Du as the other immortals departed.

Tai Cang traded the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal method to primordial powers for divine abilities, then set out for the human race. The Witch Clan and Demon Race recruited him to help seal and defeat Pan Wang, whose gu poison had devastated both factions, and Tai Cang arrived at the Poison Mist Swamp as their forces struggled to break through.

• Primordial ordered the Twelve Golden Immortals to cultivate, while Tongtian put Yunxiao in charge of Jie Sect affairs and assigned Wudang to enforce its rules.
• Laozi told Tai Cang he could establish a branch of the Human Sect and instructed Cang Du to cultivate toward the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Zhen Yuanzi and other primordial powers traded over a hundred great divine abilities to Tai Cang in exchange for the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal method.
• Tai Cang told Laozi he planned to visit the human race, and Laozi warned him to keep it out of the Witch-Demon conflict and away from Buzhou Mountain.
• Great Witches asked Tai Cang to help Dijiang seal Pan Wang inside the Poison Mist Swamp, and Tai Cang agreed.
• Tai Cang reached the swamp, where the Witch Clan and Demon Race were battling Pan Wang's gu insects, and Di Yi explained that Pan Wang had killed one hundred thousand soldiers from each side and poisoned Chang Xi into unconsciousness.

Tai Cang joined the Witch-Demon alliance’s effort to seal the Poison Mist Swamp and destroy Pan Wang’s Gu insects, then used stellar power to strengthen his cultivation. Pan Wang’s body was destroyed, but his primordial spirit escaped toward Tai Cang, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Xing Tian brought Gan Qi to Tai Cang and revealed that Pan Wang could be reborn as long as any natal Gu insect survived.
• Tai Cang reached the core battlefield, where he and Dijiang sealed the region with spatial laws while Di Jun supplied stellar power through the Star Array of the Heavens.
• The allied forces destroyed Pan Wang’s mother insect and larvae, then surrounded and overwhelmed Pan Wang as Tai Cang’s cultivation rose.
• Pan Wang unleashed a quasi-saint explosion that wounded the Witch and Demon forces and shattered the spatial turbulence.
• Pan Wang’s primordial spirit fled toward Tai Cang, and Di Jun, Dijiang, and the others urgently called on Tai Cang to stop him.

Tai Cang destroyed Pan Wang’s primordial spirit, but the System revealed that Pan Wang’s remnant soul survived and assigned Tai Cang a mission to eliminate it. After learning of a possible Pangu inheritance and setting out for the human race, Tai Cang was approached by the injured Great Witch Hou Hao, who offered to make a trade.

• Pan Wang attacked Tai Cang, but Tai Cang used spacetime confinement, speed, and repeated strikes to wear him down and shatter his primordial spirit.
• Di Jun confirmed Pan Wang’s life soul had been extinguished, and Dijiang thanked Tai Cang for saving Houtu by ending the gu poison.
• Tai Cang returned the River Diagram and Luo Script, declined invitations to celebrate with the Demon Race and Witch Clan, and said he would visit his disciple among the human race.
• Dijiang invited Tai Cang to the Witch Clan for a matter requiring someone with Pangu bloodline, and the System issued missions to obtain Pangu inheritance and destroy Pan Wang’s remnant soul.
• Tai Cang decided to cultivate further before pursuing the inheritance and headed toward the human race, but Great Witch Hou Hao stopped him and offered him a round object as part of a trade.

Tai Cang returned to the East Sea Human Race, discovered the nine-star potential Shi Yi, and accepted him as his second disciple. He brought Shi Yi to Martial God Mountain to meet Shi Hao, who had reached Golden Immortal and completed his Supreme Bone.

• Tai Cang traded a strange pearl with Hou Hao for three Bloodline Pills, and Hou Hao hurried back to the Witch Clan hoping to obtain more.
• Tai Cang returned to the Human Race, learned that Shi Hao had become its guardian deity, and discovered that the abandoned child Shi Yi had nine-star potential and a Heaven and Earth Hegemon Body.
• After Shi Yi declared he would become an emperor, Tai Cang offered to take him as a disciple; Shi Yi accepted and became Tai Cang's second disciple.
• Tai Cang learned where Martial God Mountain was and took Shi Yi there, intending to meet Shi Hao and look for another potential disciple.
• At Martial God Mountain, Tai Cang saw that Shi Hao had reached Golden Immortal after training the Nine Revolutions Cang Skill to the fifth revolution, and he guided Shi Yi toward Martial God Hall.

Tai Cang returned to Martial God Mountain, assessed Shi Hao, and awakened Shi Yi’s Heaven and Earth Hegemon Body before searching for a third disciple among the human prodigies. He discovered Qing Tan’er, whose Chaos Sacred Body and nine-and-a-half-star potential surpassed even Shi Hao and Shi Yi.

• Tai Cang reunited with Shi Hao at Martial God Hall, announced that he would stay to undergo the Ten Calamities tribulation, and assigned Shi Hao to guide Shi Yi and gather gifted children.
• After twenty years of seclusion, Tai Cang awakened Shi Yi’s Heaven and Earth Hegemon Body and taught him the Nine Revolutions Cang Skill and martial arts.
• Shi Hao reported that nearly ten thousand gifted youths had gathered beneath Martial God Mountain, and Tai Cang searched among them for a new disciple.
• Tai Cang found many children with eight-star potential but no better candidate, then healed and strengthened a young tea-stall attendant before leaving town with Shi Hao.
• Tai Cang encountered a little girl named Qing Tan’er and discovered that her Chaos Sacred Body had nine-and-a-half-star potential.

Tai Cang found and accepted the gifted siblings Qing Tan'er and Qing Yang as his third and fourth disciples, then trained them alongside Shi Hao. Nearly a century later, he began facing the Ten Calamities, breaking through nine tribulations before the endless Immeasurable Tribulation descended.

• Tai Cang discovered Qing Tan'er had exceptional potential and followed her home, where he also found that her younger brother, Qing Yang, possessed nine-star potential.
• Tai Cang offered to take both siblings as disciples, and Qing Tan'er and Qing Yang accepted after he explained their extraordinary physiques and talents.
• Tai Cang imparted the Upper Clarity Tongtian Art to the siblings, brought them to Martial God Mountain, and introduced them to Shi Hao as his third and fourth junior disciples.
• Tai Cang trained Shi Hao, Qing Tan'er, and Qing Yang for nearly a hundred years, then left to undergo the Ten Calamities as the siblings watched and Shi Hao explained the tribulation.
• Tai Cang shattered the first nine tribulations with his sword, but the Immeasurable Tribulation descended and repeatedly recreated the earlier trials.

Tai Cang broke the Immeasurable Tribulation, attained the late stage of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, and was summoned to Shouyang Mountain. Laozi urged him to return to the Jie Sect and become its leader, while Cang Du revealed that the coming transformation of the Heavenly Dao would make sect leadership a chance to break through his shackles.

• Tai Cang perfected his sword Dao and Heaven-Opening sword arts, destroyed the Immeasurable Tribulation, and fused with the Grand Unity Dao Fruit.
• Golden Horn and Silver Horn brought Tai Cang to Shouyang Mountain, where Laozi asked him to return to the Jie Sect and preserve its foundation as its future leader.
• Laozi promised Tai Cang Tongtian's Pangu inheritance and explained that the Jie Sect's fortune was at risk; Bai Ze then delivered invitations to the Demon Court Crown Prince's coming-of-age banquet.
• After Laozi left, Cang Du urged Tai Cang to accept the request, but could not initially explain why the Jie Sect mattered so much.
• Laozi used the Taiji Diagram to seal Shouyang Mountain, and Cang Du told Tai Cang that the Heavenly Dao would soon transform, making sect leadership an opportunity to break through his limits.

Tai Cang traveled to Golden Ao Island to meet Tongtian after learning that the sect heirs might gain a chance to attain the Dao through the Heavenly Dao’s transformation. There, he witnessed a power struggle between Yunxiao and Duobao over the Jie Sect’s registered disciples, which escalated when Duobao accused Yunxiao of endangering them.

• Cang Du showed Tai Cang a jade talisman containing laws from a fragment of the Jade Disc of Creation and urged him to take up the Jie Sect’s inheritance, but Tai Cang decided to consult Tongtian first.
• After leaving Shouyang Mountain, Tai Cang met Yunxiao, accepted Tongtian’s invitation, and traveled with her to Golden Ao Island.
• Bixiao and Qiongxiao told Yunxiao that Duobao had secretly taught registered disciples and won their support, undermining the sect’s authority.
• Yunxiao went with Bixiao and Tai Cang to confront Duobao, who was teaching hundreds of disciples behind a barrier that Bixiao could not break.
• Duobao shielded the disciples and accused Yunxiao of attacking them with the Primordial Golden Dou, turning their suspicions toward her.

Duobao framed Yunxiao and turned the registered disciples against the San Xiao, while Tai Cang exposed the danger of his scheme and revealed his Grand Unity Golden Immortal strength. At Upper Clarity Palace, Tongtian summoned the disciples, confronted their failure to take responsibility, and asked Tai Cang how they should be dealt with.

• Duobao accused Yunxiao of controlling the Golden Dou and attacked her, but Bixiao and Qiongxiao joined Yunxiao and forced him onto the defensive.
• Tai Cang told Wudang that Duobao’s scheme aimed to win the outer disciples and weaken the sect’s punishments, then revealed his Grand Unity Golden Immortal cultivation to Wudang, Jinling, and Guiling.
• Water-Fire Boy relayed Tongtian’s order for everyone to go to Upper Clarity Palace, where Tai Cang spoke with Tongtian about his departure from the Jie Sect and the Three Pure Ones’ compromises.
• Duobao, the San Xiao, and Wudang arrived before Tongtian, who rebuked them for failing to admit their mistakes until he confronted them; Duobao and the others then knelt and pleaded for forgiveness.
• Tongtian asked Tai Cang to recommend how the kneeling disciples should be dealt with.

Tai Cang persuaded Tongtian to strip seven disciples of their direct disciple status and reopen the Jie Sect’s twelve positions, then accepted Tongtian’s offer to become Young Sect Master. Tongtian granted Tai Cang authority to reform the sect and lent him the Four Swords of Zhu Xian, leaving Duobao and the others disgraced and resentful.

• Tai Cang urged Tongtian to demote the Jie Sect’s direct disciples, and Tongtian stripped Duobao, Yunxiao, Bixiao, Qiongxiao, Wudang, Jinling, and Guiling of their status and reopened the twelve positions.
• Tongtian announced that disciples could advance through assessments, stirring ambition among the Jie Sect cultivators, including Kong Xuan and Great Peng.
• Tongtian told Duobao and the others they could regain direct disciple status by passing a new selection in five thousand years, then offered Tai Cang the position of Young Sect Master.
• Tai Cang accepted on the condition that he control Jie Sect affairs, establish regular assessments for disciples, and borrow the Four Swords of Zhu Xian for a thousand years.
• Tongtian agreed to Tai Cang’s conditions and handed him the Four Swords of Zhu Xian.

Tai Cang took control of the Jie Sect as its Young Sect Master and began reorganizing its disciples while pursuing system missions. After recruiting Deng Hua and Deng Qiu and ordering talented disciples to be summoned, he confronted Zhao Gongming, who had come to Upper Clarity Palace demanding a fight.

• Tongtian named Tai Cang Young Sect Master, imposed regular disciple assessments, and entrusted him with the Jie Sect before entering seclusion.
• Tai Cang ordered a search for Chang'er Dingguang Xian and recruited Deng Hua and Deng Qiu, giving them the Thirty-Six Transformations.
• Deng Qiu identified Sword Heart and several talented registered disciples, including Kong Xuan, whom Tai Cang ordered the Deng brothers to summon.
• Zhao Gongming appeared outside Upper Clarity Palace, cursed Tai Cang, and demanded that he come out and fight.
• Tai Cang strode from the palace to confront Zhao Gongming.

Tai Cang used the Four Swords of Zhu Xian to establish his authority over the Jie Sect, stripping Zhao Gongming of his rank and ordering him into one thousand years of reflection. After the San Xiao and other rivals submitted, Tai Cang demanded Zhao Gongming's Twenty-Four Dinghai Pearls, but Zhao tried to flee.

• Zhao Gongming denounced Tai Cang and claimed the Jie Sect rejected him, but the gathered disciples disavowed Zhao and condemned his actions.
• Tai Cang stripped Zhao of his senior disciple status and authority, then sentenced him to one thousand years of closed-door reflection, with expulsion if he failed the assessment.
• Tai Cang summoned the Four Swords of Zhu Xian, prompting the Jie Sect disciples to recognize him as their leader and pledge obedience to his rules.
• The San Xiao pleaded for Zhao, while Duobao and the other hidden rivals realized their plans had failed; Wudang, Jinling, and Guiling agreed to obey Tai Cang.
• Tai Cang demanded Zhao's Twenty-Four Dinghai Pearls, but Zhao refused and tried to escape, so Tai Cang sealed the area with the laws of space.