Chapter Summaries

Chen Changsheng went to Eight Views Palace to meet Grand Supreme Elder Lao, presenting his Process Dao as a report rather than a defense. He answered Lao’s question about where Process belonged in the Dao’s sequence, declaring it the instruction manual for how the Heavenly Dao operates.

• Grand Supreme Elder Lao summoned Chen Changsheng to Eight Views Palace, startling Zhao Gongming and the Calamity Aversion Department.
• Chen Changsheng ordered Daoist Duobao to prepare Process Dao documents and instructed Zhao Gongming to stay as his project assistant.
• Chen Changsheng told Sect Leader Tongtian he would report his project’s results, then traveled alone to Eight Views Palace.
• Chen Changsheng entered Lao’s simple thatched cottage and stood firm under the pressure of Lao’s Dao.
• Grand Supreme Elder Lao asked what number Process was, and Chen Changsheng answered that Process lay in birth as the Heavenly Dao’s instruction manual.

Chen Changsheng used his Process Dao to create a standard operating procedure that enabled Grand Supreme Elder Lao to complete a batch of Nine-Turn Golden Elixirs. Impressed, Grand Supreme Elder Lao assigned Chen Changsheng a new project: writing a procedure for the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation.

• Grand Supreme Elder Lao tested whether Chen Changsheng’s Process Dao could complete the final step of refining the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir.
• Chen Changsheng questioned Grand Supreme Elder Lao about the project’s goals and stakeholders, then documented the final pill-refining steps on a Jade Slip.
• Grand Supreme Elder Lao approved the procedure, and nine golden elixirs emerged from the furnace, earning the Heavenly Dao’s merit.
• Grand Supreme Elder Lao praised Chen Changsheng’s process and asked him to write a Standard Operating Procedure for the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation.

Chen Changsheng persuaded Grand Supreme Elder Lao that the Investiture of the Gods contract was dangerously flawed and needed to be renegotiated at Purple Cloud Palace. The meeting was ordered, Chen Changsheng’s system evolved into a project-management system, and he set his sights on getting the Dao Ancestor to approve the revised project budget.

• Grand Supreme Elder Lao ordered Chen Changsheng to draft procedures for the Investiture of the Gods, and Chen Changsheng requested the original Heavenly Dao contract.
• Chen Changsheng identified unclear objectives, uncontrolled scope, inadequate risk controls, and a missing budget approval process in the contract.
• Chen Changsheng proposed convening all stakeholders at Purple Cloud Palace with the Dao Ancestor presiding, and Grand Supreme Elder Lao approved his application.
• Grand Supreme Elder Lao instructed Xuandu to send the application and a letter to Jade Void Palace and Mount Sumeru, warning that he would personally visit any junior brother who refused to attend.
• After leaving Eight Views Palace with Zhao Gongming, Chen Changsheng received a system update that unlocked the Heavenly Dao Project Management system and new permissions.

Chen Changsheng returned from Eight Views Palace with Grand Supreme Elder Lao’s approval to reconsider the Investiture of the Gods and a summons for a meeting at Purple Firmament Palace. He tasked the Interception Sect’s data center with modeling the tribulation’s risks, leaving the project team preparing for the Dao Ancestor’s final meeting.

• Chen Changsheng told Zhao Gongming that Grand Supreme Elder Lao had approved their meeting application and that they needed to prepare a Project Feasibility Report.
• Chen Changsheng reported the approval and Sage Decree to Sect Leader Tongtian, who celebrated the decision.
• Chen Changsheng collected Daoist Duobao’s prepared documents and went to the Data Modeling and Risk Actuarial Center.
• Chen Changsheng asked Holy Mother Jin Ling and Fairy Yunxiao to model the entire tribulation, including the costs of losing disciples, Zhao Gongming, or even a Sage.
• Holy Mother Jin Ling and Fairy Yunxiao agreed to launch the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation V1.0 sandbox model within three days.

Chen Changsheng established the Interception Sect’s Public Relations Department and explained how Process would turn risk analysis into a means of protecting lives and the Dao. Hongjun then issued a Purple Cloud Palace meeting notice naming Chen Changsheng as an observer, and Chen ordered the sect to prepare the Primordial World’s first KPI before the meeting in three days.

• Chen Changsheng explained to Daoist Duobao that quantifying the consequences of a Sage’s fall would make avoiding Sage-level risks an absolute rule, and Daoist Duobao accepted his reasoning.
• Chen Changsheng ordered Zhao Gongming to establish the Three Realms Strategic Cooperation and Public Relations Department and prepare a cross-sect communication manual within three days.
• Chen Changsheng’s system rewarded him for establishing the three core departments and granted a Heavenly Dao-level deduction permit, Great Dao Merit, and a new Heavenly Mandate Document function.
• Hongjun froze the Primordial World and sent a Purple Cloud Palace notice summoning the Sages to a meeting on the Investiture of the Gods tribulation, with Chen Changsheng as observer.
• Chen Changsheng ordered the Calamity Aversion Department to work at its highest level and produce a KPI document the meeting attendees could not refuse.

Chen Changsheng completed the Interception Sect’s proposal for the Investiture of the Gods, reframing the tribulation as a fair recruitment test based on job suitability. With the final Jade Scroll in hand, he left for Purple Sky Palace to present it before the Sages.

• Chen Changsheng and the Calamity Aversion Department accelerated their analysis of the Three Teachings’ candidates while Zhao Gongming revised the sect’s press release and Duobao crafted the proposal’s physical document.
• At the final review, Chen Changsheng rejected KPIs focused solely on the Interception Sect’s interests and argued that the assessment should serve the Dao Ancestor’s goal of filling Heavenly Court positions.
• Chen Changsheng proposed making Job Matchability the core KPI, treating the 365 god positions as jobs and the tribulation as an open competency test.
• Sect Leader Tongtian and the gathered Interception Sect leaders approved Chen Changsheng’s plan, which gave their disciples the choice to pursue positions or reduce their suitability for them.
• Chen Changsheng finalized the Purple-Gold Jade Scroll and crossed the Rainbow Bridge to Purple Sky Palace to present the proposal to the Sages.

Chen Changsheng presented a performance-based recruitment system to the Sages as a replacement for the flawed Investiture of the Gods process. Primordial Heavenly Venerate rejected the proposal as blasphemy, leaving the debate at a tense impasse.

• Chen Changsheng entered Purple Cloud Palace under the Dao Ancestor’s decree and took the seat Hongjun created for him.
• Hongjun said the Investiture of the Gods process contained an error and asked the Sages to reconsider it; Grand Supreme Elder Lao agreed it should be discarded.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate defended the existing tribulation and challenged Chen Changsheng’s right to speak, while Sect Leader Tongtian defended him as the Dao Ancestor’s appointed attendee.
• Hongjun asked Chen Changsheng how the process should be changed, and Chen Changsheng said its core objective was to fill the Heavenly Court’s 365 positions.
• Chen Changsheng proposed defining each position’s requirements and using candidates’ conduct during the tribulation to calculate job matchability scores, with the highest-scoring candidates receiving the posts.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate erupted in anger and denounced Chen Changsheng’s proposal as blasphemy against the Heavenly Dao.

Chen Changsheng defended his Job Matchability system before the Sages, arguing that divine appointments should be based on candidates’ actions and abilities rather than their origins. Hongjun approved his proposal to turn the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation into an evaluation supervised by the Heavenly Dao, then appointed Chen Changsheng Chief Examiner.

• Primordial Heavenly Venerate attacked Chen Changsheng’s proposal, but Sect Leader Tongtian shielded him until Hongjun stopped their clash.
• Chen Changsheng argued that candidates should be matched to divine positions by their conduct during the Tribulation, not by their origins or innate advantages.
• Chen Changsheng proposed making the positions voluntary and transparent, turning the Tribulation into a Civil Service Examination with published duties and benefits.
• Hongjun asked how the system would be supervised and assessed, and Chen Changsheng presented the Heavenly Mandate Document as an automated Heavenly Dao assessment system.
• Hongjun approved the proposal, renamed the Tribulation the Investiture of the Gods Evaluation, and appointed Chen Changsheng Chief Examiner to draft the first Job Description for the 365 Departmental Deities.

After Chen Changsheng helped turn the Killing Tribulation into an Investiture of the Gods Evaluation, he returned to Golden Ao Island and organized the work needed to publish the divine positions. His system then evolved into a Primordial World HR Management System and rewarded him for changing the Heavenly Dao’s course.

• Hongjun ordered the Job Descriptions for the 365 Departmental Deities to be announced in three days, and Primordial Heavenly Venerate left with a cold stare for Chen Changsheng.
• Sect Leader Tongtian and Grand Supreme Elder Lao praised Chen Changsheng, while Jieyin, Zhunti, and Nuwa departed.
• Back on Golden Ao Island, Sect Leader Tongtian announced that the Killing Tribulation had become an Evaluation and bowed to Chen Changsheng before telling the disciples that they no longer had to die to answer the tribulation.
• Chen Changsheng established the Investiture of the Gods Evaluation Project Office and assigned Duobao, Zhao Gongming, Jinling, and Yunxiao responsibilities for drafting, publicity, and job assessments.
• The Dao of Survival System upgraded to version 6.0, unlocked Heavenly Dao Recruitment and One-Click Automation, and rewarded Chen Changsheng with merit, cultivation, and the Investiture of the Gods Project Book.

Chen Changsheng established a standardized process for drafting the Heavenly Court’s 365 divine job descriptions, and the Interception Sect completed the first drafts. The chapter leaves off as Emperor Haotian arrives at Golden Ao Island to inspect their progress.

• Daoist Duobao and the other disciples struggled to define divine positions until Chen Changsheng presented a standardized job description template.
• Chen Changsheng demonstrated the template by drafting a lucrative and demanding position for Great Emperor Ziwei of the North Star, astonishing the gathered disciples.
• Chen Changsheng assigned the disciples to draft and organize the remaining positions, and they quickly turned the Project Office into an efficient workplace.
• After two and a half days, the disciples completed first drafts of all 365 job descriptions.
• Emperor Haotian arrived at Golden Ao Island, and Chen Changsheng called him the project's client.

Chen Changsheng turned Emperor Haotian’s confrontational visit into a project review, presenting a performance-based compensation plan for the Heavenly Court. Haotian accepted the proposal, requested a complete copy, and agreed to pay the project team’s consulting fee.

• Emperor Haotian arrived at Golden Ao Island and demanded to see the job description for the Heavenly Court’s divine positions.
• Chen Changsheng redirected Haotian to an internal progress review, where Daoist Duobao presented the job description for Great Emperor Ziwei of the North Star and its proposed salary.
• Chen Changsheng warned that paying all 365 deities the proposed salaries would bankrupt the Heavenly Court and unveiled a reform plan based on base salaries and performance commissions.
• Haotian praised the reform plan, accepted a prepared copy, and said he would await the final version in three days.
• Chen Changsheng asked Haotian to pay a consulting service fee, and Haotian reluctantly told him to name a price.

Chen Changsheng secured Emperor Haotian’s approval for Heavenly Court’s reform plan by demanding thirty percent of its future additional Merit income. With the contract sealed, Chen Changsheng’s team began a final sprint to prepare a recruitment announcement for the Three Realms.

• Chen Changsheng explained how his reform plan would avert financial collapse, improve Heavenly Court’s organization, and turn it into a profitable enterprise.
• Chen Changsheng presented a settlement list demanding thirty percent of Heavenly Court’s future additional Merit income as a project fee and operational fund.
• Emperor Haotian weighed the terms, approved them, and sealed the agreement with his true-name seal, making it a Heavenly Dao Contract.
• Emperor Haotian ordered the final proposal delivered to the Hall of Miraculous Mist in three days, then left the hall.
• Chen Changsheng told Daoist Duobao to display the new contract beside the Dragon King’s contract and ordered the team to prepare a recruitment announcement before dawn.

Chen Changsheng launched the Heavenly Dao’s public recruitment announcement for 365 Heavenly Court positions, offering merit-based salaries and selection by talent. Independent cultivators rushed toward Golden Ao Island, where Chen ordered an evaluation registration office to be established and opened the first recruitment fair.

• Chen Changsheng confirmed the announcement, and the Heavenly Dao broadcast the recruitment notice to living beings across the Three Realms and Six Paths.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven, Daoist Zhunti, Jieyin, and Saintess Nuwa reacted to the announcement.
• Independent cultivators across the Primordial World rushed toward Golden Ao Island to apply for Heavenly Court positions.
• Chen Changsheng ordered Zhao Gongming to establish the Investiture of the Gods Evaluation Registration Office and begin the recruitment fair.

Chen Changsheng organized the billions of cultivators arriving at Golden Ao Island into an orderly examination registration process. At Kunlun Mountain, the Chan Sect learned that Human Kingdom officials were seeking tutoring manuals for the Interception Sect’s Heavenly Court Civil Service Examination.

• Zhao Gongming saw billions of cultivators converge on Golden Ao Island and feared they would fight over registration.
• Chen Changsheng ordered the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation and Myriad Immortals Formation adapted into registration channels and waiting areas, with qualification checks, information offices, and a ten Low-grade Spirit Stones fee.
• Zhao Gongming and the other Interception Sect disciples carried out Chen Changsheng’s plan, and Daoist Duobao directed the cultivators into nine orderly channels.
• At Kunlun Mountain, the Twelve Golden Immortals and Daoist Randeng watched the registration scene in disbelief while Guangchengzi dismissed it as grandstanding.
• A Chan Sect disciple reported that Human Kingdom officials had come to request a Pre-examination Tutoring Manual, leaving the Chan Sect leaders stunned.

The Chan Sect learned that independent cultivators and Western Sect disciples were registering for the Interception Sect’s assessment, leaving the Chan Sect isolated. Guangchengzi proposed that the Chan Sect join the assessment and claim the highest divine offices, and Primordial Heavenly Venerate approved.

• The Twelve Golden Immortals watched the Interception Sect’s orderly registration channels and heard that independent cultivators were joining the assessment.
• True Master Yuding warned that the Dao Ancestor’s decree had legitimized the assessment and drawn the Primordial World’s independent cultivators to the Interception Sect.
• A disciple reported that Medicine Master, Maitreya, and other Western Sect disciples had registered, leaving the Chan Sect alone in rejecting the assessment.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate asked Guangchengzi how to break the situation, and Guangchengzi decided the Chan Sect should participate in the assessment.
• Guangchengzi rallied the Twelve Golden Immortals to compete for the most important divine offices, and Primordial Heavenly Venerate approved his plan.
• Guangchengzi ordered Immortal Weng of the South Pole to register the Chan Sect’s third-generation disciples and the Twelve Golden Immortals at Golden Ao Island.

Chen Changsheng welcomed Immortal Weng of the South Pole and the Chan Sect delegation with a VIP registration channel, then required them to complete a humiliating background-check form. The chapter ended with Immortal Weng furiously accusing the Interception Sect of seeking a fight, while Chen Changsheng insisted the form was mandatory.

• Daoist Duobao reported that over a million independent cultivators had sought registration and more than ten thousand had received Examination Permits.
• Immortal Weng of the South Pole arrived on Golden Ao Island, announcing that he had come under the Sect Leader Sage’s command to register Chan Sect disciples.
• Chen Changsheng opened an Urgent VIP Passage for the Chan Sect and handed Immortal Weng a cross-sect background-check and karmic declaration form.
• Immortal Weng read questions about Chan Sect conduct, racial discrimination, and unresolved karma, then grew livid at what he considered a targeted humiliation.
• Immortal Weng erupted with Quasi-Saint pressure and accused Chen Changsheng of seeking a fight to the death, but Chen Changsheng said the process could not proceed without the completed form.

Chen Changsheng forced Immortal Weng of the South Pole to complete the Chan Sect’s humiliating background check by invoking Heavenly Dao credit penalties. After Primordial Heavenly Venerate ordered the Chan Sect to comply, Chen Changsheng sent the exhausted Immortal Weng to the next step: a mandatory medical examination.

• Immortal Weng of the South Pole threatened Chen Changsheng, but held back when the Interception Sect prepared to act and Chen cited rules for the Heavenly Dao project.
• Chen Changsheng warned that refusing the form could damage the Chan Sect’s Heavenly Dao credit and permanently disqualify them from future projects.
• Immortal Weng sent a report to Primordial Heavenly Venerate, who ordered the Chan Sect to fill out the form.
• Immortal Weng completed the form, admitting that he had bullied the weak, caused karmic consequences for the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin races, and discriminated based on origin.
• Chen Changsheng accepted the completed form and directed Immortal Weng to the designated medical examination center for the next step.

Chen Changsheng forced Immortal Weng of the South Pole through an onboarding medical examination and announced that his background check and report would be made public. The report exposed damaging details across the Three Realms, leaving the Chan Sect immortals stunned as they prepared to investigate the evaluation process.

• Chen Changsheng directed Immortal Weng of the South Pole to a medical examination, where the report quantified his karma, Dao heart fractures, and suitability for divine positions.
• Immortal Weng signed the report and received an Examination Permit listing Ziwei the Great of the North Pole of the Central Heaven and Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole as his best matches.
• In Jade Void Palace, Guangchengzi agreed that the Chan Sect immortals had to attend the evaluation and urged them to learn its rules and find loopholes.
• Chen Changsheng told Immortal Weng that his background check and medical report would be publicly displayed, and Immortal Weng fled in an attempt to stop it.
• The Heavenly Dao Announcement published Immortal Weng's report, including allegations of bullying, lingering karma with the Three Clans, and discriminatory remarks, shocking the Chan Sect immortals.

After the Heavenly Dao publicly exposed Immortal Weng of the South Pole’s report, Guangchengzi led the Twelve Golden Immortals to Golden Ao Island to undergo Chen Changsheng’s evaluation and reclaim the Chan Sect’s reputation. Their reports were also publicly disclosed, leaving the Chan Sect collectively humiliated before the Three Realms.

• The Three Realms mocked the Chan Sect after the Heavenly Dao revealed Immortal Weng of the South Pole’s background check and medical report, while Ao Guang rejoiced and Daoist Zhunti celebrated the Chan Sect’s loss of influence.
• Guangchengzi persuaded the Twelve Golden Immortals to face Chen Changsheng’s evaluation together, insisting that they would prove their strength and restore the Chan Sect’s dignity.
• Guangchengzi and the other Golden Immortals arrived at Golden Ao Island, filled out the Chan Sect evaluation forms, and underwent medical examinations.
• The Twelve Golden Immortals received reports detailing their Dao Heart fractures, karmic entanglements, and personality flaws, then asked Chen Changsheng for their Examination Permits.
• Chen Changsheng submitted all twelve reports for disclosure, and the Heavenly Dao displayed them across the Three Realms.

After Chen Changsheng’s reports exposed Chan Sect’s misconduct, Guangchengzi reframed the evaluation as an opportunity to win divine positions by mastering its criteria. Chan Sect began mobilizing its disciples to study job descriptions, track their scores, and prepare an exam-cram course.

• The Twelve Golden Immortals watched the reports damage Chan Sect’s reputation, while Medicine Master and Maitreya recognized Chen Changsheng’s influence over the Primordial World’s standards of right and wrong.
• Guangchengzi interpreted the reports as a guide to the evaluation and urged the Golden Immortals to improve their records, temper their Dao Hearts, and match their actions to suitable divine positions.
• True Person Taiyi and Chi Jingzi rallied behind Guangchengzi, vowing to become ideal examinees and claim prestigious divine positions.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate approved as Guangchengzi ordered Chan Sect’s third-generation disciples to study the job descriptions and Taiyi to build treasures that tracked Merit, karma, and job relevance.
• Guangchengzi ordered Chi Jingzi to launch Chan Sect’s first Investiture of the Gods Evaluation Crash Course for human kings and nobles.