Recaps

Sect Master Tongtian sent Nuwa, Houtu, and four other powerful women beyond the Primordial Tribulation Realm to establish their own forces, then returned to Sun Wukong’s body in the Heavenly Realm. There, he taught Peng Keng to open a furnace of Minor Golden Pills and later visited Marshal Tian Peng, who failed to notice his arrival.

• Sect Master Tongtian explained the Primordial Tribulation Realm and sent Nuwa, Houtu, Tianqiong, Chang'e, Queen Mother of the West, and Sheng Ji beyond its boundaries to establish their own forces.
• After making arrangements in Vast Earth, the Pillar of Heaven World, and Golden Ao Island, Sect Master Tongtian returned to Sun Wukong’s body in Tushita Palace.
• Sect Master Tongtian taught Peng Keng how to open a furnace of Minor Golden Pills, and Peng Keng successfully produced ninety-nine high-quality pills.
• Sect Master Tongtian assigned Peng Keng to the largest and most challenging row of Alchemy Furnaces, encouraging him to seize the opportunity.
• Sect Master Tongtian visited Marshal Tian Peng at his residence in the Forest of Ten Thousand Realms and found him pruning plants without noticing his arrival.

Sect Master Tongtian discovered that the Blood Flood Dragon Nezha captured was a Sin Spirit whose execution could bring Nezha a terrifying tribulation. After his system offered him a choice, Sect Master Tongtian chose to help Nezha avoid the calamity, but warned that its consequences could also affect Nezha’s family.

• Sect Master Tongtian visited Marshal Tian Peng in his Small World, and they shared wine and food while discussing Tian Peng’s inability to leave the Heavenly Realm freely.
• Nezha joined them and showed off the Blood Flood Dragon he had captured in the North Sea.
• Sect Master Tongtian noticed hidden runes on the Blood Flood Dragon, and Marshal Tian Peng identified it as a Sin Spirit.
• Sect Master Tongtian explained that executing the Sin Spirit could burden Nezha with greater Karma and a terrifying future tribulation.
• Sect Master Tongtian chose the system option to help Nezha escape the Sin Spirit calamity and received the Power of Ten Thousand Sins and the Tribulation Realm Nebula.
• Nezha accepted that duty might bring him Karma, while Sect Master Tongtian warned that the calamity could also affect Nezha’s family.

Nezha and Sect Master Tongtian planned how to erase the Blood Flood Dragon’s true spirit and prevent its future sins from becoming Nezha’s Karma. Their conversation turned to Nezha’s rumored marriage and Niangniang Shen Jiang’s Peach Banquet, before Nezha left for duty and Tongtian encouraged Marshal Tian Peng to rely on him.

• Sect Master Tongtian told Nezha not to release the Blood Flood Dragon and explained that they would find its victims, gather their resentment and blood, and use a formation to erase its true spirit.
• Marshal Tian Peng teased Nezha about Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Li Jing finding him a marriage prospect, and Tongtian and Tian Peng discussed family and bloodline inheritance.
• Nezha brought up Niangniang Shen Jiang’s Peach Banquet, and Tongtian reflected that Great Sage Sun would likely be invited, unlike in the original course of events.
• Marshal Tian Peng said Nezha’s marriage prospect might attend the banquet, then Tongtian noted that the gathering would also divide the Infinite Primordial World’s interests.
• Nezha’s bell rang, and he left to handle business; afterward, Tongtian comforted Tian Peng and urged him to consider his own concerns.

Sect Master Tongtian discovered a mysterious little girl waiting beyond the sealed Spacetime Rift and resolved to kill her if he saw her again. He then learned that Grand White Golden Star planned to arrange a marriage between Marshal Tian Peng and Mount Taiyue’s Third Miss, Taiyue Youxiong.

• Sect Master Tongtian sensed a powerful aura inside the sealed Spacetime Rift and saw a little girl in a red dress waiting to enter the Infinite Primordial World.
• Sect Master Tongtian felt an overwhelming urge to take the girl away, then considered killing her; she ran off before he could decide.
• Sect Master Tongtian told Grand White Golden Star he had been checking the seal and asked about the Human Realm, learning that Ying Zheng was preparing to unify the Six States.
• Grand White Golden Star said he wanted to arrange a marriage between Marshal Tian Peng and Taiyue Youxiong, Mount Taiyue’s Third Miss.
• Sect Master Tongtian doubted that Taiyue Youxiong would choose Tian Peng, given her status and the strength of Mount Taiyue.

Sect Master Tongtian learned that Taiyue Youxiong wanted to meet Tian Peng, who reacted with resentment, then discovered that the Heavenly Horses had each gained a second primordial spirit. Tian Peng agreed to learn alchemy from Tongtian, who began teaching him the refining methods for a thousand pills.

• Grand White Golden Star told Tian Peng that Taiyue Youxiong wanted to meet him at the Peach Banquet, and Tian Peng reacted with obvious resentment.
• Sect Master Tongtian examined the Heavenly Horses at Red Sand Beach and found that each had two primordial spirits, one belonging to a monster.
• Tian Peng suggested reporting the anomaly to the higher-ups, but Tongtian decided he would handle it himself.
• Tian Peng admitted he wanted to learn alchemy, and Tongtian agreed to teach him the refining processes for a thousand pills.
• Sect Master Tongtian transmitted the pill-refining methods and shared experience into Tian Peng's Violet Palace.

Marshal Tian Peng received pill-refining knowledge from Sect Master Tongtian, who then investigated the Dark World souls invading the Heavenly Horses. He discovered the horses were incubating evolving souls and halted their growth, while Nezha finished dealing with the Blood Flood Dragon.

• Sect Master Tongtian imprinted pill-refining techniques and experience into Marshal Tian Peng's Violet Palace and invited him to ask questions.
• Marshal Tian Peng returned to his Small World to study the techniques and improve his strength.
• Sect Master Tongtian transformed into a Heavenly Horse and discovered that an invading soul entered directly into his Violet Palace.
• Sect Master Tongtian cultivated the Heavenly Horse into a human over forty-nine days and learned that the Dark World souls were evolving inside the horses.
• Sect Master Tongtian tampered with the souls over three months, stopping their growth after they had completed their evolution and awaited activation.
• Nezha finished dealing with the Blood Flood Dragon.

Sect Master Tongtian and Nezha traveled to the Human Realm to investigate the Blood Flood Dragon’s past, where they encountered Afang trying to attract Qin Shi Huang Ying Zheng’s attention. The chapter ended with Ying Zheng ordering Afang’s execution after she pleaded for silkworm farmers, while two reluctant soldiers approached her.

• Sect Master Tongtian arranged matters with Marshal Tian Peng and at Tushita Palace before leaving the Heavenly Realm with Nezha.
• Sect Master Tongtian and Nezha disguised themselves as ordinary middle-aged men and arrived near Xianyang during Qin Shi Huang’s campaign to unify the six kingdoms.
• Nezha noticed the beautiful Afang washing silk by a river, and Sect Master Tongtian recognized that she had come to enter Ying Zheng’s notice.
• Afang explained to Ying Zheng that she was washing silk to draw attention to silkworm farmers who had lost their livelihoods.
• Ying Zheng suspected Afang of plotting and ordered his men to behead her, but the soldiers hesitated because of her beauty.

After King Qin Ying Zheng had Afang escorted to the palace, Sect Master Tongtian and Nezha searched a village for the person Tongtian had deduced was there. They found no target in more than seventy homes, and Tongtian returned to the first house, leaving Nezha wondering why.

• King Qin Ying Zheng questioned Afang, then had soldiers escort her to the palace.
• Sect Master Tongtian teased Nezha about liking Afang and said his deduction placed their target in a nearby village.
• Nezha froze the occupants of the first house, where Tongtian discovered five beautiful women were members of an alien race and extracted a bead of dense mist from them.
• Tongtian and Nezha searched the remaining houses but found no sign of the person they sought.
• After they searched the entire village a second time, Sect Master Tongtian returned to the first house, and Nezha wondered what he intended to do.

Sect Master Tongtian investigated the sleeping woman connected to Blood Flood Dragon’s Karma and discovered that her body had hosted seven foreign primordial spirits from the Brahma World, followed by an eighth. With her own primordial spirit missing and the women’s memories offering no clue, he decided to summon her soul.

• Sect Master Tongtian found a woman sleeping in an underground cavern and discovered a foreign primordial spirit in her Violet Palace.
• He searched the woman’s body and found seven remnant souls, each belonging to a different person, while her own primordial spirit was absent.
• Sect Master Tongtian deciphered the remnant souls and learned that seven women from the Brahma World had entered the woman’s body as experimental subjects before leaving.
• He concluded that the woman’s foreign primordial spirit was likely the result of an eighth experiment, but could not decipher it or locate the woman’s original primordial spirit.
• Sect Master Tongtian resolved to use a difficult divine ability to summon the woman’s soul and search for the answer.

Sect Master Tongtian spent days preparing a vast formation to summon the beautiful woman's soul, then traced its reaction to an ancient well. His clone broke through eighty-one identical doors beneath the well, revealing that the passage continued deeper.

• Sect Master Tongtian told Nezha that summoning the soul would take seven days and seven nights, and Nezha agreed to guard him.
• Sect Master Tongtian treated the unconscious woman in a barrel for three days, then spent four days arranging an Interlocking Great Formation inside her body.
• On the morning of the eighth day, the formation spread across the Infinite Primordial World as a Heaven and Earth Net Soul Summoning Great Formation.
• After waiting three days and three nights, Sect Master Tongtian detected a reaction in an abandoned garden's ancient well in the northwest.
• Sect Master Tongtian sent a clone into the well, where it broke through eighty-one rune-covered doors and reached a wider area.

Sect Master Tongtian’s true body rescued Diao Chan’s primordial spirit from a sealed underground palace and learned she was the princess of the Women's Country. When she recognized the Blood Flood Dragon, he compelled her to explain their connection, and she began recounting a childhood voyage at sea.

• Sect Master Tongtian’s clone found Diao Chan’s primordial spirit behind a barrier, but an explosion severed his connection to the clone.
• Sect Master Tongtian’s true body entered the underground palace, destroyed the crimson owl-like creature, rescued Diao Chan’s primordial spirit, and punched away a black hole that tried to swallow him.
• Sect Master Tongtian restored Diao Chan’s primordial spirit and learned from her memories that she was the future queen of the Women's Country.
• Diao Chan thanked Sect Master Tongtian, then reacted with fear when he showed her the Blood Flood Dragon.
• Sect Master Tongtian compelled Diao Chan to tell him her history with the Blood Flood Dragon, and she began with a childhood trip out to sea when a violent storm arose.

The Princess of the Women's Country recalled how she had betrayed the Blood Flood Dragon after promising it a place to cultivate, then chose to abandon her attempt to resolve their karma. When she returned home with Sect Master Tongtian and Nezha, she found the former Imperial Preceptor had seized the throne, and Sect Master Tongtian exposed the new ruler as an invader from the Brahma World.

• The Princess recounted how the Blood Flood Dragon had saved her twice, how she promised it a sea territory, and how she later joined the King and Imperial Preceptor in a fatal attack that made them enemies.
• The Princess said she no longer wanted to fulfill her promise or remain entangled with the Blood Flood Dragon.
• The Princess, Sect Master Tongtian, and Nezha returned to the Women's Country and discovered that the former Imperial Preceptor had taken the throne.
• The Princess rallied the empire's forces and took control of the country outside the imperial palace within three days.
• The Imperial Preceptor attacked with a black funnel, but Sect Master Tongtian placed the treasure in his Small World and subdued her.
• Sect Master Tongtian recognized the Imperial Preceptor's treasure and unusual primordial spirit as evidence that she came from, or was possessed by someone from, the Brahma World.

After resolving the Blood Flood Dragon’s Karma, Sect Master Tongtian took Nezha to his hidden Biyou Palace in the North Sea and planned the next stage of Nezha’s Seeking Destiny. They waited for the right moment to travel into the Northern Continent of Ju Lu and find someone whose identity Tongtian kept secret.

• Her Royal Highness the Princess ascended the throne of Women's Country and granted the Blood Flood Dragon the promised inner sea, settling his Karma and advancing his Seeking Destiny to its second stage.
• Sect Master Tongtian declined the queen’s invitation to stay and left Nanzhan Continent with Nezha for the Northern Continent of Ju Lu.
• Tongtian brought Nezha to his long-unused Biyou Palace beneath the North Sea and explained that they would wait there before seeking someone in the Northern Continent of Ju Lu.
• Tongtian said finding that person would complete the second step of Nezha’s Seeking Destiny, but warned that acting too soon could bring unpredictable consequences.
• Nezha praised Tongtian for treating his disciples well, and Tongtian replied that they deserved his care.

Nezha visited Sect Master Tongtian, learned from his attentive leadership, and watched four female disciples perform the Heavenly Demon Dance. After the performance, Tongtian revealed that Bai Liansheng, the White Lotus Sect’s saintess, was interested in becoming Nezha’s Dao Companion, leaving Nezha to consider her proposal.

• Nezha watched Sect Master Tongtian speak warmly with four female disciples and reflected on how little he knew about his own subordinates.
• The four female disciples changed into long dresses and performed the Heavenly Demon Dance while four male disciples played music that affected Nezha.
• Sect Master Tongtian explained his approach to valuing and respecting his disciples, even when he had different degrees of closeness with them.
• Sect Master Tongtian revealed that Bai Liansheng was the White Lotus Sect’s saintess and asked Nezha whether he wanted her as his Dao Companion.
• Bai Liansheng gazed at Nezha expectantly, and Tongtian told him he could decide later if he was not ready to answer.

Bai Liansheng and Nezha agreed to become Dao Companions, and Sect Master Tongtian helped arrange their union. Afterward, Bai Liansheng’s father asked Tongtian for help dealing with a dangerous monster threatening the White Lotus Sect.

• Sect Master Tongtian urged Nezha and Bai Liansheng to give a straightforward answer about becoming Dao Companions, and Nezha agreed.
• Bai Liansheng happily accepted Nezha’s agreement, and Sect Master Tongtian arranged for them to rest together.
• Sect Master Tongtian held a feast for his disciples, then met Bai Liansheng’s father at Zizhi Cliff.
• Bai Liansheng’s father thanked Tongtian for arranging the relationship and asked for Seven Star Grass to deal with a powerful monster threatening the White Lotus Sect.
• Tongtian questioned whether Bai Liansheng’s father knew how to use the poisonous herb, and he admitted he had hoped Tongtian would help him.

Sect Master Tongtian investigated the White Lotus Sect’s abyss and discovered a powerful black frog emerging from its churning auras. The frog completed a mysterious formation, and all its black beads vanished, leaving its purpose unknown.

• Sect Master Tongtian picked a Seven Star Grass from Zizhi Cliff and accompanied the White Lotus Sect Master to the White Lotus Sect in Nanzhan Continent.
• At the abyss, Sect Master Tongtian found no living creatures and watched an illusion showing a black monster flee toward the Pagoda Forest.
• The White Lotus Sect Master hurried to the Pagoda Forest to stop the monster from eating Buddha Bone, while Sect Master Tongtian stayed above the abyss to investigate its source.
• After waiting, Sect Master Tongtian saw a pair of eyes appear in the abyss and vanish before a giant black three-legged frog emerged.
• The black frog formed a ghostly formation from black beads, which suddenly disappeared, and it roared furiously.

Sect Master Tongtian uncovered more information about Brahma World's invasion, then helped the White Lotus Sect Master by restoring Madam Bai's primordial spirit. Madam Bai identified those responsible for her coma, and Sect Master Tongtian confronted them, killing one who challenged him.

• Sect Master Tongtian destroyed a black three-legged toad, claimed its two pearls, and discovered they contained information from Brahma World.
• At the Pagoda Forest, Sect Master Tongtian killed the monster fighting the White Lotus Sect Master and was asked to help Madam Bai.
• Sect Master Tongtian used the Supreme Art of Creation and the Great Art of Soul Shifting to restore Madam Bai's primordial spirit, and she awakened.
• Madam Bai named several people responsible for what happened to her, and the White Lotus Sect Master had them brought to the Lotus Treasure Hall.
• When a middle-aged man challenged Sect Master Tongtian, Tongtian slapped out and destroyed his primordial spirit, terrifying the others.

Sect Master Tongtian took Nezha to the Unknowable Land north of the North Sea to pursue their target, who had entered the forbidden region. After an invisible barrier stopped them, Tongtian helped Nezha cross it by sealing his cultivation, and they continued into the mist.

• The White Lotus Sect Master took the traitors away, and Sect Master Tongtian returned to Biyou Palace before setting out with Nezha.
• Sect Master Tongtian told Nezha their target had entered the Unknowable Land north of the North Sea, so they went there to follow his trail.
• Nezha and Sect Master Tongtian reached the misty shore and detected a strong smell of blood, which Tongtian said suggested at least ten thousand deaths.
• An invisible barrier blocked Nezha, so Sect Master Tongtian sealed his cultivation and pushed him through it before restoring his power.
• Sect Master Tongtian guessed the barrier blocked cultivators, with greater cultivation making it harder to cross.

Sect Master Tongtian and Nezha entered a Small World beyond a rune-covered door and explored its bustling city. After a hairpin seller and armed men attacked them, Tongtian defeated the threats and glimpsed the Small World’s long history.

• Sect Master Tongtian recognized the door’s runes from the Brahma World, opened it using information from the white beads, and entered a Small World with Nezha.
• Tongtian examined a jade hairpin at a stall and offered the seller one hundred Spirit Crystals instead of the demanded ten thousand.
• The seller’s burly son grabbed Tongtian, and the old man stabbed him with a sword; Tongtian crushed the son’s wrist and repelled the sword, leaving the old man gravely injured.
• A group of men in black attacked Tongtian and Nezha with a sickle battle formation, but Tongtian captured the weapons and stored them in his Small World.
• Tongtian gave the attackers a chance to flee, but a dark streak erased them; he then saw images revealing that the Small World had endured longer than the Infinite Primordial World.

Sect Master Tongtian explained his earlier display to Nezha, who trusted him completely, but Nezha soon drank himself unconscious and was taken into Sect Master Tongtian’s Small World. Continuing alone, Sect Master Tongtian entered a courtyard that recreated his childhood home and found his parents inside, realizing he had walked into a deliberate trap.

• Sect Master Tongtian told Nezha that his earlier actions had a purpose, and Nezha said he trusted him and would follow his lead.
• Nezha drank an entire bottle of wine, became too drunk to walk, and Sect Master Tongtian took him into his Small World.
• Sect Master Tongtian continued east alone, reflecting on how lonely it was to stand at the top.
• Sect Master Tongtian followed a dim light through a half-closed gate and discovered a courtyard identical to his childhood home.
• Sect Master Tongtian realized the courtyard was a trap, then saw his mother cooking and his father tending the stove inside the middle room.

Sect Master Tongtian was lured into a vision of returning home to his family, but he embraced the memory instead of rejecting it. After a hidden attack revealed the wilderness and an army of black-sickle wielders, he effortlessly stopped them and returned to the main street, where he entered a brothel.

• Sect Master Tongtian recognized his younger brother as real and held him, then reunited with his parents in a cherished memory of coming home from technical school.
• An unseen attacker severed Sect Master Tongtian’s head, but it returned to his body as he unleashed dazzling light and exposed the wilderness surrounding him.
• Sect Master Tongtian erased the black sickles and froze the advancing figures with a snap of his fingers.
• Sect Master Tongtian returned to the busy main street and entered a brothel, where Big Teapot greeted him.

Sect Master Tongtian went to Hongxiu Zhao to find the target of his mission and arranged to meet the renowned courtesan Miss Lüzhu. After rewarding and helping Big Teapot, he waited for Miss Lüzhu in a quiet room on the top floor.

• Sect Master Tongtian asked Big Teapot to arrange a meeting with Miss Lüzhu, Hongxiu Zhao’s most famous courtesan who had not yet received a guest.
• As Big Teapot led him through Hongxiu Zhao, Sect Master Tongtian gave him a Sumeru Ring filled with valuable items.
• Big Teapot swore loyalty to Sect Master Tongtian, who improved his cultivation and senses by helping him establish his foundation.
• Sect Master Tongtian praised Big Teapot’s arrangements and waited alone for Miss Lüzhu in a quiet room on the building’s top floor.

Sect Master Tongtian tracked his target to a black ship docked by Wanhua Lou while visiting Hongxiu Zhao, where Lüzhu performed a dance he recognized as the Heavenly Demon Dance. When a beautiful singer began performing aboard the ship, Lüzhu reacted with fury and abruptly left Tongtian.

• Sect Master Tongtian found the black ship with divination and sent an avatar to follow it as it docked beside Wanhua Lou.
• Lüzhu and four young women arrived to entertain Sect Master Tongtian, and Lüzhu performed the Heavenly Demon Dance.
• Sect Master Tongtian recognized the dance as one he had taught only to Bai Liansheng and the others, then used his method to read Lüzhu's memories.
• A beautiful voice came from the black ship, and Lüzhu called its singer a shameless wretch before telling Sect Master Tongtian to visit Wanhua Lou and leaving with her attendants.

Sect Master Tongtian identified the singer Xue Tao as the target he had been searching for, while Lüzhu performed at Hongxiu Zhao and hinted that she wanted to know whether he had learned the whereabouts of someone she sought. The chapter ended with Xue Tao appearing behind curtains in a riverside pavilion, apparently naked, as the crowd grew excited.

• Sect Master Tongtian told Lüzhu that he might know the whereabouts of the person she was looking for, and her reaction confirmed that the subject mattered to her.
• The owner of Hongxiu Zhao asked Lüzhu to perform against Wanhua Lou's singer, Xue Tao, and Lüzhu agreed to sing from the room's platform.
• Lüzhu performed for the crowd while Sect Master Tongtian watched the black ship, seeking to identify Xue Tao.
• After Lüzhu finished, Sect Master Tongtian assessed the middle-aged beauty as a powerful Saint Sovereign and wondered about her deference to Lüzhu.
• The black ship transformed into a waterside pavilion, and Sect Master Tongtian confirmed that the woman behind its curtains was Xue Tao, his target.
• The crowd noticed that Xue Tao appeared to be standing naked behind the curtains and grew increasingly excited.

Sect Master Tongtian discovered that Xue Tao’s drum performance was controlling listeners across the river, while people from Hongxiu Zhao remained unaffected. Lüzhu used her pipa to counter the drums, freeing the crowd and stirring them with a new melody.

• Xue Tao danced as drumbeats from Wanhua Lou entranced listeners within a hundred miles.
• Sect Master Tongtian noticed that Lüzhu, the middle-aged beauty, and their companions had resisted the drums, and he questioned the middle-aged beauty about it.
• The middle-aged beauty warned Lüzhu that Xue Tao was dangerous, and Lüzhu realized the drumbeats could seize souls and spirits.
• Lüzhu played her pipa, and its sound waves canceled the drumbeats and restored the listeners’ awareness.
• Lüzhu’s pipa melody grew into a stirring tune that made the crowd eager to dance, while Sect Master Tongtian listened with an amused smile.