Chapter Summaries

Dao Ancestor Hongjun summoned the saints to announce that a great tribulation had begun and that the Heavenly Court’s vacant divine posts would be filled through the Investiture of the Gods. The chapter ended with the saints learning that even Hongjun did not know who would hold the scroll and enfeoff the gods.

• Nuwa, the Two Sages of the West, and the Three Pure Saints gathered outside Purple Firmament Palace before entering to meet Dao Ancestor Hongjun.
• Hongjun told the saints that the immortals’ misconduct had brought down Heaven’s killing intent and that Haotian demanded their disciples submit to the Heavenly Court.
• Hongjun announced that the Divine Immortal Tribulation would fill the Heavenly Court’s vacant posts, prompting the saints to recognize the conflict’s connection to Haotian and the sects.
• Hongjun revealed the Investiture of the Gods Scroll and God-Beating Whip, explaining that those lacking deep immortal fortune would enter the Divine Dao.
• Hongjun said that someone would emerge from the tribulation to hold the scroll and enfeoff gods, but told Primordial Heavenly Venerate that he did not know who that person was.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun explained the rules of the Investiture of the Gods tribulation and entrusted the scroll and whip to Saint Taiqing until the destined mortal joined a sect. The Saints began considering which disciples would face calamity, and the chapter ended with Sect Leader Tongtian assessing his Interception Sect.

• Dao Ancestor Hongjun said the destined mortal bore the Appearance of a Flying Bear and that the scroll and whip would go to the sect he joined.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun entrusted the Investiture of the Gods Scroll and God-Beating Whip to Saint Taiqing and warned the Saints to settle the matter within several hundred years.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun explained that immortals below the Quasi-Saint realm who entered the Mortal World would become tainted by the killing tribulation’s karma.
• After Dao Ancestor Hongjun left, Saint Taiqing passed the scroll and whip to Primordial Heavenly Venerate, who argued that his Chan Sect disciples should not be listed.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate passed the scroll and whip to Sect Leader Tongtian, who considered how many Interception Sect disciples might be destined for calamity.

The Saints left the Investiture of the Gods Scroll unsigned after agreeing to return to the Purple Cloud Palace within four hundred years. Gu Changsheng went to Jade Void Palace after its Golden Bell summoned the Chan Sect disciples, and the chapter ended as Primordial Heavenly Venerate appeared before them.

• Sect Leader Tongtian wrote several Jie Sect disciples' names on the Investiture of the Gods Scroll, but Saint Nuwa and Daoist Jieyin refused to list their disciples.
• Saint Taiqing warned the Saints not to delay the tribulation, and they agreed to return later; Dao Ancestor Hongjun ordered them to sign the scroll within four hundred years.
• Golden bells rang at Mount Meru and Kunlun Mountain, drawing disciples of the Western Teachings, Interception Sect, and Chan Sect to their respective gatherings.
• Gu Changsheng heard Jade Void Palace's bell and traveled to Kunlun Mountain, where he met Immortal Nanjixian and awaited the Chan Sect disciples.
• Guang Chengzi, Chijingzi, Grand Unity True Person, Daoist Cihang, Juliusun, True Person Puxian, and other Chan Sect disciples gathered before Gu Changsheng and discussed their teachings and conflicts with the Interception Sect.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate appeared above Jade Void Palace, and Gu Changsheng and the Chan Sect disciples bowed to him.

Primordial Heavenly Venerate warned the Chan Sect that the Investiture of the Gods tribulation was approaching and ordered its disciples to recruit followers as substitutes. Several hundred years later, the Six Sages gathered outside Purple Cloud Palace to sign the Investiture of the Gods Scroll.

• Primordial Heavenly Venerate told the Chan Sect disciples that those below the quasi-sage realm faced the calamity and urged them to take disciples to shield themselves.
• Gu Changsheng considered how the tribulation could weaken the Dao School and resolved to raise Yang Jian and Yang Jiao to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Sect Leader Tongtian summoned the Interception Sect disciples and forbade them from leaving their abodes.
• Several hundred years passed, and Zhunti, Jieyin, Saint Nuwa, and the Three Pure Ones arrived outside Purple Cloud Palace to sign the Investiture of the Gods Scroll.

The sages signed the Investiture of the Gods Scroll, agreeing that each would recruit disciples and let fate decide who entered the list. As the slaughter tribulation drew near, Gu Changsheng watched the growing aura from Purple Mansion Continent and welcomed Yang Jiao and Yang Jian, whose cultivation had reached the peak Golden Immortal realm.

• Dao Ancestor Hongjun ordered the sages to sign the Investiture of the Gods Scroll with only two hundred years remaining before the tribulation.
• Saint Taiqing, Primordial Heavenly Venerate, and Sect Leader Tongtian added names to the scroll, arguing over which sect’s disciples should be listed.
• Saint Taiqing proposed that the sages recruit disciples and leave entry onto the list to fate, and the sages agreed.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun accepted their arrangement and sent the sages out of Purple Cloud Palace.
• The spreading tribulation aura alarmed the Primordial Great Experts, who prepared defenses and rarely left their homes.
• Gu Changsheng watched the gathering storms from Purple Mansion Continent as Yang Jiao and Yang Jian arrived at the peak Golden Immortal realm.

Gu Changsheng warned Yang Jiao and Yang Jian that the Divine Immortal Tribulation would arrive in two hundred years and gave them laws to help them advance to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm. Meanwhile, Grand Unity True Person encountered a blood-red pearl and a powerful three-headed, six-armed demon in the western region, and attacked it with his Nine Dragon Divine Fire Hood.

• Gu Changsheng told Yang Jiao and Yang Jian that the coming Divine Immortal Tribulation would involve them and urged them to cultivate diligently.
• Gu Changsheng gave Yang Jiao and Yang Jian two laws to comprehend so they could break through to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Terrifying tribulation clouds and auras gathered across the Primordial Heaven and Earth as Grand Unity True Person traveled through the western region.
• Grand Unity True Person found a blood-red pearl rising from an abyss and watched it form a three-headed, six-armed demon.
• Grand Unity True Person summoned his Nine Dragon Divine Fire Hood, sending nine fire dragons to attack the demon as it tried to swallow them.

Grand Unity True Person’s Nine Dragon Divine Fire Hood failed to stop the fiend, forcing him to summon Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s incarnation. Primordial Heavenly Venerate revealed the fiend was a remnant of Demon Ancestor Luohu’s demonic intent and ordered Grand Unity True Person to guide it after reincarnation.

• The fiend devoured Grand Unity True Person’s Samadhi True Fire and overwhelmed the Nine Dragon Divine Fire Hood.
• Grand Unity True Person fled from the fiend’s fireball and summoned Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s incarnation with a spirit talisman.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate revealed that the fiend had originated as a wisp of Demon Ancestor Luohu’s demonic intent and had developed intelligence over tens of thousands of yuanhui.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate decided to send the demonic pearl into the mortal world to be reborn and ordered Grand Unity True Person to reform it.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate erased the demonic pearl’s intelligence and warned that he would destroy it if it failed to change after reincarnation.

Grand Unity True Person arrived at Li Jing’s residence to guide the Demon Orb, which had been in Lady Li’s womb for three years. As the Demon Orb’s birth began amid a terrifying storm, Li Jing worried about his wife.

• Grand Unity True Person visited Li Jing and revealed that he had come to take the child in Lady Li’s womb as his disciple.
• Li Jing learned that the child was the Demon Orb but accepted responsibility for raising him, and Grand Unity True Person explained that reincarnation had erased the Orb’s past memories.
• Grand Unity True Person set up a formation at Li Jing’s residence to contain the disturbance from the Demon Orb’s birth.
• On the day before the expected birth, Li Jing cleared the residence of everyone except himself, Lady Li, Grand Unity True Person, and a midwife.
• Dark clouds and thunder engulfed Chentang Pass as Lady Li began giving birth, and Li Jing anxiously asked whether a lightning tribulation would fall.
• Grand Unity True Person assured Li Jing that his formation would prevent the tribulation from descending, just as Lady Li cried out from the delivery room.

After Nezha was born as the reincarnated demonic pearl, he escaped the birthing room and attacked Grand Unity True Person with Samadhi True Fire. Grand Unity True Person trapped him in a formation and sent a jade slip to his Eldest Disciple, Changsheng Heavenly Venerate, asking for help.

• Li Jing worried that the demonic pearl would harm his wife while Grand Unity True Person reassured him and waited outside the birthing room.
• The demonic pearl burst from the birthing room, and Grand Unity True Person chased him as he smashed through the formation and unleashed Samadhi True Fire.
• The demonic pearl transformed into a fiery-haired three-year-old child, and Grand Unity True Person struggled to suppress his power and demonic nature.
• Grand Unity True Person decided to summon his Eldest Disciple, Changsheng Heavenly Venerate, from Kunlun Mountain and sent him a jade slip message.
• Grand Unity True Person trapped the demonic pearl in a formation and ordered Li Jing to seal off the area while the child repeatedly rammed the barrier.

Gu Changsheng received Grand Unity True Person’s request for help with the violent Demon Pearl and crossed space to reach Chentang Pass. Li Jing and Lady Li asked him to decide the Demon Pearl’s fate, leaving the decision in his hands.

• Grand Unity True Person sent Gu Changsheng a jade slip explaining the Demon Pearl’s origins and asked him to come to Chentang Pass.
• Gu Changsheng learned that the Demon Pearl was dangerous and used the Law of Space to travel there.
• Li Jing and Lady Li waited anxiously while Grand Unity True Person kept the Demon Pearl trapped in his formation.
• Gu Changsheng emerged from a spatial fissure, startling Li Jing and Lady Li with how quickly he had arrived.
• Lady Li begged Gu Changsheng to spare the Demon Pearl, while Li Jing asked him to make the decision.

Gu Changsheng suppressed Nezha’s demonic qi with Chaos Qi and agreed to take him as his disciple after Grand Unity True Person asked for help. When Nezha’s demonic qi briefly resurfaced, Lady Li’s embrace calmed him, leading Gu Changsheng to realize that her motherly love could help transform him.

• Grand Unity True Person told Gu Changsheng that he could not suppress the demonic pearl’s heavy baleful aura, and Gu Changsheng approached it.
• The demonic pearl awoke and attacked Gu Changsheng with Samadhi True Fire, but Gu Changsheng used Chaos Qi to suppress its demonic qi and calm it into baby Nezha.
• Lady Li embraced Nezha, while Grand Unity True Person asked Gu Changsheng to take him as a disciple; Gu Changsheng agreed.
• Nezha’s demonic qi briefly broke through the Chaos Qi, but Lady Li comforted him and her embrace suppressed it again.
• Gu Changsheng realized that Lady Li’s motherly love could transform Nezha and understood why Primordial Heavenly Venerate had allowed the demonic pearl to reincarnate.

Gu Changsheng searched for a way to suppress Nezha’s unstable demonic aura and used the Primordial System to devise a method involving Chaos Law. After months of worsening demonic outbreaks and Grand Unity True Person repeatedly restraining Nezha, Gu Changsheng emerged from seclusion, and Li Jing, Lady Li, and Grand Unity True Person waited to hear his solution.

• Gu Changsheng left Grand Unity True Person to suppress the Demon Pearl while he considered how to control its demonic aura.
• The Primordial System proposed using Chaos Law to restrain Nezha’s demonic aura and guide him toward mastering it.
• Over several months, Nezha’s demonic corruption grew more frequent, forcing Grand Unity True Person to suppress him repeatedly with Chaos Qi.
• After Nezha’s latest outburst left the residence in ruins, Gu Changsheng emerged from seclusion.
• Lady Li asked Gu Changsheng whether he had found a solution, while Li Jing and Grand Unity True Person looked on expectantly.

Gu Changsheng forged the Qiankun Circle to suppress Nezha’s demonic qi, then guided him through years of cultivation. Nezha reached the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm after loosening the Circle’s restrictions, and Gu Changsheng warned him not to do so carelessly.

• Gu Changsheng presented the Qiankun Circle, which restrained Nezha’s demonic qi and restored him to normal.
• Gu Changsheng had Li Jing tell Chentang Pass that Nezha was the Immortal Master’s disciple, quieting rumors that he was a demon reincarnation.
• Over more than ten years, Gu Changsheng taught Nezha and trained him to temper his violent nature.
• Nezha climbed to Gu Changsheng’s mountain and reported that he had reached the peak of the Heavenly Immortal realm in the Jade Purity Immortal Art and the third revolution of the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique.
• Nezha told Gu Changsheng that loosening the Qiankun Circle’s restrictions had helped him break through to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Gu Changsheng praised Nezha’s perseverance and warned him not to loosen the Qiankun Circle carelessly.

Nezha learned that he needed to reach the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm to control the demonic qi within him, while its release awakened Candle Dragon in the Dragon Clan territory. Candle Dragon identified the qi as Demon Ancestor Luohu’s aura and sent the Four Dragon Kings to investigate.

• Gu Changsheng told Nezha that he needed to reach the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm to completely control the demonic qi, and Nezha began cultivating.
• Candle Dragon awakened after sensing the demonic qi and summoned the Four Dragon Kings.
• The East Sea Dragon King and the other Dragon Kings arrived at the palace, where Candle Dragon said the qi carried Demon Ancestor Luohu’s aura.
• Candle Dragon vowed to destroy whoever bore the demonic qi and threw the Four Dragon Kings into a rift to investigate.

Candle Dragon ordered the Four Dragon Kings to use Haotian’s decree against the demonic pearl Nezha, while claiming he would handle Changsheng Heavenly Venerate. The Dragon Clan chose to send rain over Chentang Pass first, and dark clouds gathered as its people remained unaware.

• The Four Dragon Kings reported that Nezha was a demonic pearl nurtured by Luohu’s aura and was Changsheng Heavenly Venerate’s disciple.
• Candle Dragon told the Four Dragon Kings to seek Haotian’s decree to exterminate demons and said he would deal with Changsheng Heavenly Venerate.
• The Four Dragon Kings persuaded Haotian that the demonic pearl threatened the world, and Haotian ordered them to capture the demons.
• The East Sea Dragon King prepared the Water Tribe to march on Chentang Pass, but Turtle Prime Minister advised sending rain there first.
• The East Sea Dragon King ordered the Dragon Clan to bring rain, and dark clouds gathered over Chentang Pass as drizzle began.

After a month of relentless rain flooded Chentang Pass, Gu Changsheng sensed the Dragon race's involvement. The Four Dragon Kings arrived to capture Nezha, who flew up to confront them as Li Jing and Lady Li feared for his safety.

• Gu Changsheng sensed magical fluctuations in the rain and suspected the Dragon race was involved.
• The Four Dragon Kings appeared over Chentang Pass and demanded that Li Jing hand over Nezha by order of His Majesty Haotian.
• Li Jing urged Lady Li to take Nezha to find Changsheng Heavenly Venerate while he held off the Dragon Kings.
• Nezha emerged, mocked the Dragon Kings, and refused to surrender when they threatened to flood Chentang Pass.
• Nezha mounted the Wind Fire Wheels and flew toward the Four Dragon Kings, alarming Lady Li.

Nezha confronted the Four Dragon Kings, who called him the Demon Pearl and threatened to take him to the Heavenly Court or the Demon-Slaying Platform. Enraged, Nezha armed himself with Gu Changsheng's spiritual treasures and attacked, while the South Sea Dragon King answered his flames with Profound Water.

• Li Jing left Chentang Pass to seek the immortal master, while Lady Li worried that Nezha could not withstand the Four Dragon Kings.
• The East Sea Dragon King called Nezha a fiend and threatened to take him to the Heavenly Court or the Demon-Slaying Platform.
• Nezha erupted with Samadhi True Fire and summoned the Huntian Ling, Fire-Tipped Spear, Qiankun Circle, and Wind Fire Wheels.
• Nezha vowed to tear out the Dragon Kings' tendons and scales, then launched his flaming spear at them as thunder shook Chentang Pass.
• The South Sea Dragon King dismissed Nezha's flames and spewed Profound Water into the sky.

Nezha broke free from the South Sea Dragon King’s Profound Water after entering a terrifying demonic state and struck back with enough strength to injure the Dragon King. The Four Dragon Kings joined forces to attack him with the powers of wind, rain, thunder, and lightning, while Nezha faced them without fear.

• The South Sea Dragon King trapped Nezha in Profound Water and sent it rushing toward Chentang Pass, but Nezha shouted “Release” and vaporized it with his Samadhi True Fire.
• Nezha transformed into a demonic, Three-headed, Six-armed form and revealed Grand Unity Golden Immortal cultivation, then attacked the Four Dragon Kings with his Fire-Tipped Spear and flames.
• Nezha pierced the South Sea Dragon King’s dragon claw, drawing blood and enraging the other Dragon Kings.
• Lady Li watched from Chentang Pass, delighted by Nezha’s strength but worried that the Four Dragon Kings would attack together.
• The Four Dragon Kings charged Nezha and unleashed the Laws of Thunder, Wind, Rain, and Lightning as he stared them down without fear.

Nezha unleashed his demonic power against the Four Dragon Kings, then charged into the West Sea Dragon King's lightning. As the lightning threatened Chentang Pass, it began shrinking, and Gu Changsheng remained confident that Nezha would devour it.

• The West Sea Dragon King attacked Nezha with overwhelming lightning, leaving him trapped and struggling to hold on.
• Gu Changsheng spoke to Nezha and urged him to remove the Qiankun Circle, reassuring him that he was there.
• Nezha released his demonic power, grew to several thousand zhang, and surged to the Peak Taiyi Golden Immortal realm.
• Nezha charged into the lightning, which swallowed him before continuing toward Chentang Pass and its civilians.
• The lightning halted above Chentang Pass and began shrinking, while Gu Changsheng told Li Jing that Nezha would be fine because he could devour it.

Nezha turned the Four Dragon Kings’ lightning against them, then killed Ao Guang in battle. As the remaining Dragon Kings tried to avenge him, Candle Dragon arrived and suppressed Nezha with the power of a quasi-saint.

• Nezha devoured the Four Dragon Kings’ lightning and hurled it back at them, then attacked with his Fire-Tipped Spear.
• Nezha pierced Ao Guang and tore off the East Sea Dragon King’s head.
• The West Sea Dragon King, South Sea Dragon King, and North Sea Dragon King charged at Nezha to avenge Ao Guang.
• Candle Dragon ordered the three Dragon Kings to stand down and descended from the Sky Dome.
• Candle Dragon formed a giant hand that suppressed Nezha beneath his quasi-saint might.