Recaps

Sect Master Tongtian used Lüzhu’s pipa performance to form a lethal musical array that overwhelmed Wanhua Lou’s drumbeats. After the performance ended, his avatar captured Xue Tao, brought her into his Small World, and created an identical replica.

• Sect Master Tongtian imposed his killing-array melody on Lüzhu through Telepathic Connection, and she played it against the middle-aged beauty’s expectations.
• Lüzhu’s pipa notes formed an array spanning a hundred li, while the increasingly frantic drumbeats from Wanhua Lou lost their power after the drumhead broke and the drummer was injured.
• The drums, singing, dancing, and pipa music stopped, and Sect Master Tongtian’s applause brought the spectators back to their senses.
• Sect Master Tongtian’s avatar entered the waterside pavilion, seized Xue Tao while she was distracted, and placed her in his Small World.
• Sect Master Tongtian completed a copy of Xue Tao as her primordial spirit resisted his control.

Sect Master Tongtian discovered that he had captured a replica of Xue Tao instead of the true target, and the real Xue Tao struck him with a powerful attack. Big Teapot’s pills helped Tongtian recover in time to repel a second sneak attack, though the attacker’s muffled groan revealed they had been hit.

• Xue Tao sensed that someone had tampered with her and failed to identify them through divination.
• Sect Master Tongtian explained that Xue Tao owed the Blood Flood Dragon a debt across lifetimes, and that he had taken control of her true self while leaving a replica behind.
• Tongtian’s divination showed that Shida could not complete the mission, so he searched Wanhua Lou and spotted another Xue Tao—the true target.
• The real Xue Tao looked at Tongtian with a strange smile, causing him to suffer a sudden attack and spit blood.
• Big Teapot fed Tongtian a bottle of Minor Golden Pills, restoring him just before a sinister aura struck from behind.
• Tongtian crushed and devoured the second attack, and a pained groan came from the waterside pavilion.

Sect Master Tongtian accepted Bai Qi as his registered disciple and gave him a Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir to raise his cultivation. At Wanhua Lou, he exposed and subdued the Xue Tao who had faked her injuries, while another Xue Tao continued singing.

• Sect Master Tongtian accepted Big Teapot, who introduced himself as Bai Qi, as his registered disciple.
• Sect Master Tongtian gave Bai Qi a Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir and helped him begin cultivating.
• Sect Master Tongtian noticed the drum-beating Xue Tao using an Eight Trigrams Diagram to draw energy and sent an avatar to confront her.
• The drum-beating Xue Tao revealed that she had faked her injuries and tried to flee, but Sect Master Tongtian's avatars subdued her and erased her consciousness.
• Sect Master Tongtian divined that he had found the right person, while the singing Xue Tao continued her performance.

Sect Master Tongtian explained the Xue Tao doubles to Nezha and prepared to finish the Blood Flood Dragon’s second step. Meanwhile, Bai Qi’s rapid breakthrough triggered a powerful Heavenly Dao Tribulation as he appeared to attain sainthood through his body.

• Sect Master Tongtian explained the two Xue Taos to Nezha, who regretted getting drunk and promised not to drink again.
• Sect Master Tongtian told Nezha to stay in his Small World until they could complete the Blood Flood Dragon’s second step calmly.
• Bai Qi advanced from establishing his foundation to Grand Unity Golden Immortal and appeared to be attaining sainthood through his body.
• A massive Heavenly Dao Tribulation formed above the Nine Heavens, and the Eye of the Heavenly Dao appeared in the vortex.
• Seven-colored auspicious clouds formed a God of Slaughter above the unconscious Bai Qi, growing to three zhang tall and frightening those nearby.

Bai Qi attained sainthood through the Annihilation Dao, overpowering the Heavenly Dao and establishing a new order before thanking Sect Master Tongtian as his master. Tongtian returned to Biyou Palace, where Nezha released the Blood Flood Dragon’s soul to resume their search for its enemy.

• Sect Master Tongtian taught Bai Qi the true words that let him forge his body through annihilation, and Bai Qi’s Dharma Manifestation devoured Heavenly Dao Tribulation Lightning.
• Bai Qi seized the Eye of Heavenly Punishment, swallowed its attacks, and erased the Heavenly Dao’s blood-red pillar of light.
• Bai Qi declared that the Heavenly Dao had died and the Annihilation Dao had risen, then spread its Heaven and Earth Net across the world.
• Bai Qi bowed to Sect Master Tongtian and thanked him as his master, revealing his name and master to everyone in the Small World.
• Sect Master Tongtian returned to Biyou Palace and released Nezha, the two Xue Taos, and the Blood Flood Dragon’s soul.
• The Blood Flood Dragon identified the person he wanted Nezha to kill, and Nezha accused him of leaving a loose end to obstruct their task.

Sect Master Tongtian exposed the Blood Flood Dragon's scheme, then had the two Xue Taos remove the Karma from its true soul so it could be destroyed without retribution. With the danger cleared, the Blood Flood Dragon offered Sect Master Tongtian an unusual treasure in exchange for being sent into reincarnation, but Sect Master Tongtian refused to swear an oath and left the choice to him.

• Sect Master Tongtian exposed the Blood Flood Dragon's sinister intentions and pulled the true souls of the two Xue Taos from their bodies.
• The two Xue Taos offered to remove the Blood Flood Dragon's Karma, and Sect Master Tongtian agreed to let them perform their divine ability under his and Nezha's protection.
• The two Xue Taos fused and separated the Karmic Force from the Blood Flood Dragon's true soul in two days and three nights, and Sect Master Tongtian destroyed it.
• The Blood Flood Dragon begged Great Sage Equal to Heaven Sun Wukong for mercy and offered a treasure in exchange for being spared.
• Sect Master Tongtian agreed to send the Blood Flood Dragon's true spirit into reincarnation if it helped him find the treasure, but refused to swear an oath and threatened to destroy it if it declined.

Sect Master Tongtian and Nezha traveled to the West Sea to retrieve the Blood Flood Dragon’s hidden trove, which contained a strange compass and other objects. After killing the Blood Flood Dragon, Sect Master Tongtian heard Xue Tao offer information about a passage to a world rich in precious minerals.

• The Blood Flood Dragon revealed the location of his hidden treasure after conceding that he could not bargain with Sect Master Tongtian.
• Sect Master Tongtian and Nezha found the underground palace on an island in the West Sea and examined the trove, including a rune-covered compass.
• Sect Master Tongtian said the objects were valuable and killed the Blood Flood Dragon’s divine soul.
• Xue Tao offered a generous reward and claimed she knew of a passage from the Small World to a world filled with precious minerals.

Sect Master Tongtian, Nezha, and Xue Tao investigated a Spacetime Rift beneath the ruins of a prince’s estate in Longevity City. They found a vast world of rapidly growing crystal minerals, while Sect Master Tongtian began to suspect the place was connected to his forgotten past.

• Sect Master Tongtian promised Xue Tao a Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir if her information proved true, and she led him and Nezha to Longevity City.
• Xue Tao identified the ruins as the former residence of Prince Yuan Zhen, and Sect Master Tongtian guessed the prince’s name correctly.
• Xue Tao showed them a dry well where a formation concealed the Spacetime Rift, and Sect Master Tongtian recognized the formation as his own work.
• Sect Master Tongtian, Nezha, and Xue Tao passed through a tunnel and entered a world filled with enormous crystal minerals.
• Xue Tao said she had last visited ten years earlier, when the ores were only as tall as a person, and Sect Master Tongtian was shocked by their growth.

Sect Master Tongtian gave Xue Tao a Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir, claimed the ore-filled world for himself, and sealed its entrance before exploring its depths with Nezha. They discovered a bottomless hole that led to the Forest of Ten Thousand Realms beside the Heavenly River, where the chapter left them beside the Spacetime Rift.

• Sect Master Tongtian gave Xue Tao the promised Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir and warned her not to return to the ore-filled world, and Xue Tao swore to keep its location secret.
• Sect Master Tongtian sealed the entrance with a complex formation and continued exploring with Nezha as the ore grew taller and the forest darker.
• Nezha reflected that real feelings gave existence meaning, and Sect Master Tongtian teased him about the phrase “fight for three hundred rounds.”
• Sect Master Tongtian’s avatars discovered a gigantic, bottomless hole, and he jumped into it after asking Nezha whether he wanted to explore what lay beyond.
• Nezha jumped in after Sect Master Tongtian, and they emerged in the Forest of Ten Thousand Realms beside the Heavenly River’s Spacetime Rift.

After sealing the Spacetime Rift, Sect Master Tongtian arranged for Bai Liansheng to live at Tushita Palace and take charge of it. Nezha visited her, and when Heavenly Palace elites arrived to meet the new master, he declared that Bai Liansheng had agreed to become his Dao Companion.

• Nezha wondered whether the Spacetime Rift contained branching paths, and Sect Master Tongtian sealed its entrance with additional formations.
• Sect Master Tongtian and Nezha checked on Marshal Tian Peng, then discussed where Nezha’s beloved could safely stay.
• Sect Master Tongtian brought Bai Liansheng to Tushita Palace, where her beauty and pill-refining skill impressed the female disciples, and he handed her control of the palace.
• Nezha visited Bai Liansheng and recited the explanation Sect Master Tongtian had prepared for his presence; Bai Liansheng warmly encouraged him to visit often.
• Erlang Shen Yang Jian and other Heavenly Palace elites arrived to meet Bai Liansheng, and Nezha told them she had agreed to become his Dao Companion.

Nezha publicly declared Bai Liansheng his Dao Companion and took her home to confirm her identity. In the Human Realm, Sect Master Tongtian observed Ying Zheng’s interest in Afang, clashed views between Xu Fu and Li Si, and discovered that the realm’s timeline had gone wrong.

• Nezha announced that Bai Liansheng would be recognized as the Crown Princess and took her home to meet her family.
• Sect Master Tongtian saw Ying Zheng watching Afang at a workshop outside Xianyang City.
• Xu Fu offered to help Ying Zheng win Afang’s heart, while Li Si objected to diverting attention from governing.
• Xu Fu praised Ying Zheng and said he should live forever, but Ying Zheng dismissed his flattery.
• Ying Zheng questioned Xu Fu’s unknown lineage, and Sect Master Tongtian divined that the Human Realm’s spacetime had developed a problem.

Sect Master Tongtian investigated the Time-Space Disorder and its strange effects on his memories, then went to Nirvana Mountain to meet Sakyamuni Buddha. He was greeted as a revered master, though several young disciples did not know who he was.

• Sect Master Tongtian recalled how the Western Teachings split into Mahayana and Theravada Buddhism and how the disorder had changed Qin history and other events.
• Sect Master Tongtian considered possible causes of the formation he had apparently laid near the Spacetime Rift, including a future self, an escaped incarnation, or an impostor.
• Sect Master Tongtian arrived at Nirvana Mountain, where the vajra gatekeeper greeted him and told curious young disciples that he was the founder of the Interception Sect and Saint Tianhai's father.
• Sect Master Tongtian entered Formless Palace while Sakyamuni Buddha discussed matters with Mahayana leaders.
• Sakyamuni Buddha stepped down from his lotus throne and bowed to Sect Master Tongtian as his master, and Tongtian stopped the assembled leaders from continuing their bows.

Sect Master Tongtian reunited with Sakyamuni Buddha and the others, gave them valuable gifts, and learned they were investigating Time-Space Disorder in the Human Realm. After discovering that they had all been prevented from noticing it, he proposed restoring order and correcting the disorder first.

• Sect Master Tongtian greeted Sakyamuni Buddha, and the new-generation powerhouses were stunned by Sakyamuni Buddha's familiar, affectionate manner toward his Master.
• Sect Master Tongtian gave everyone Minor Golden Pills and Nine Revolutions Golden Elixirs, then told Sakyamuni Buddha about a place suited to growing medicinal herbs.
• Sakyamuni Buddha explained that the gathering was discussing Time-Space Disorder in the Infinite Primordial World and introduced Nine Tripod Bodhisattva, formerly the Qin Emperor Ying Zheng.
• Nine Tripod Bodhisattva and the others said they had witnessed abnormalities in the Human Realm but had only recently realized they were caused by Time-Space Disorder.
• Sect Master Tongtian said he had experienced the same loss of awareness and urged everyone to resist the unseen mastermind by restoring order in the Human Realm.

Sect Master Tongtian investigated the Human Realm’s time-space disorder and learned that Di Xin, possessing Ying Zheng, believed Afang was its cause. He gave Ying Zheng a small gourd to capture Afang’s primordial spirit, leaving Ying Zheng wondering whether it was the Qiankun Axe.

• Sect Master Tongtian gathered information at Nirvana Mountain, spoke secretly with Saint Venerable Tian Feng, and then went to Xianyang City.
• Ying Zheng watched Afang at her weaving workshop and ordered Xu Fu to build a false tomb for him.
• Sect Master Tongtian appeared beside Ying Zheng, recognized Di Xin within him, and learned that Di Xin had possessed Ying Zheng to investigate the time-space disorder.
• Ying Zheng told Sect Master Tongtian that he had met Afang twenty years earlier while she was injured after a failed assassination, then encountered her again three years ago by a river.
• Ying Zheng said he wanted to discover Afang’s motives, and Sect Master Tongtian gave him a small gourd to capture her primordial spirit.
• Ying Zheng looked at the gourd in shock and asked whether it was the Qiankun Axe.

Ying Zheng tried to use the Qiankun Axe on Afang, but she resisted and trapped him until Sect Master Tongtian intervened. Tongtian captured Afang in his Small World, where she revealed that she was Cloud Mother and told him secrets about the Primordial World, including Yuanshi’s ancient origins.

• Ying Zheng summoned Afang to the workshop and tried to capture her with the Qiankun Axe.
• Afang resisted the axe and trapped Ying Zheng with purple light from the eye between her brows.
• Sect Master Tongtian freed Ying Zheng and received a system mission to capture Afang and investigate the Time-Space Disorder.
• Tongtian chose the mission, gained the Eyes of Myriad Domains and Power of Myriad Domains, and moved Afang into his Small World.
• Afang revealed that she was Cloud Mother, a primordial lifeform, and said Yuanshi existed before Pangu and Hongjun and had concealed the truth about the Three Pure Ones.

Cloudmother told Sect Master Tongtian how Yuanshi betrayed the five Primordial Beings and how she later plotted to reset the world to the Primordial Era. Tongtian realized he could not decipher Cloudmother’s unusual primordial spirit, and she suddenly emerged from Afang’s Violet Palace, growing infinitely huge.

• Cloudmother explained that Yuanshi crippled the other four Primordial Beings and cast their primordial spirits into the vortex after entering the light.
• Cloudmother described how she waited in the future, then manipulated crises and infiltrated Elder Wei’s team through her incarnation, Afang, to bring the world toward collapse.
• Sect Master Tongtian reflected that Dao Ancestor Hongjun, Lord of the Beginning, and Cloudmother had outmatched his expectations with their schemes.
• Tongtian asked why he could not see Cloudmother’s memories, and she explained that her primordial spirit followed rules beyond his knowledge.
• Cloudmother leaped out of Afang’s Violet Palace and became infinitely huge.

Sect Master Tongtian restored Ying Zheng after a black mist consumed his primordial spirit and offered him a choice: take a new body or withdraw from the world. Ying Zheng chose seclusion, while Sect Master Tongtian prepared to erase Xianyang City, accepting the Karma that would follow.

• Sect Master Tongtian's head exploded, and Ying Zheng's primordial spirit was drawn into a black mist until his consciousness vanished.
• Ying Zheng awoke in his bedchamber to find Sect Master Tongtian playing the zither and learned that he could either take a Saintly Sovereign's body or live in seclusion.
• Ying Zheng chose to withdraw from the world and disappeared into the darkness of the bedchamber.
• Cloud Mother questioned Sect Master Tongtian's willingness to incur Karma for humanity, and he explained that humans could sacrifice everything for others.
• Sect Master Tongtian cast a spell from Star-Picking Tower, enveloped Xianyang City in a shining net, and sent the city into a gigantic black hole.

Sect Master Tongtian eliminated the Time-Space Disorder’s redundant objects, but the Primordial Tribulation Realm’s power bound him and destroyed his Saint body. After the power vanished, he learned he had to undergo the eighty-one tribulations himself and returned to the Heavenly Court, where he met Marshal Tian Peng after his breakthrough.

• Sect Master Tongtian swallowed the redundant cities and mountains with a vortex, clearing away the Time-Space Disorder by dawn.
• A strange power restrained Sect Master Tongtian, destroyed his Saint body, and vanished after the sun rose; he reassembled his body but could not remove the repulsive force between its specks of light.
• A streak of light entered Sun Wukong’s Violet Palace, and Sun Wukong realized he had to undergo the eighty-one tribulations to preserve his True Self Saint Venerable body.
• Sect Master Tongtian returned to the Heavenly Court, knowing his true body would have to undertake the Journey to the West and face its dangers.
• Marshal Tian Peng told Sect Master Tongtian he had broken through to the Saint Venerable Realm, and Sect Master Tongtian congratulated him and warned him against getting drunk.

Sect Master Tongtian returned to the Heavenly Court with Marshal Tian Peng and learned that Niangniang Shen Jiang was preparing the Peach Banquet. At Tushita Palace, he found Nezha being disciplined by Bai Liansheng as he learned alchemy, then affirmed his support for their relationship.

• Sect Master Tongtian warned Marshal Tian Peng to study his abilities, but Tian Peng remained unconcerned about changing his fate.
• Marshal Tian Peng told Sect Master Tongtian that Niangniang Shen Jiang was about to hold the Peach Banquet and explained that guests received different levels of treatment.
• Sect Master Tongtian and Marshal Tian Peng went to Tushita Palace, where Bai Liansheng corrected Nezha's alchemy with a vine whip as the others laughed.
• Bai Liansheng greeted Sect Master Tongtian and showed him the Heaven and Earth Furnace, which she was using to refine the Qiankun Limitless Pill.
• Sect Master Tongtian praised Bai Liansheng and told King Li and Madam Yin that he supported her marriage to Nezha and would protect her from mistreatment.

Sect Master Tongtian arranged Nezha and Bai Liansheng’s betrothal, bringing their families together to settle the marriage. After the proposal and gifts went smoothly, Tongtian worried that the Peach Banquet would soon end his freedom and leave him trapped beneath a Buddha’s Five Finger Mountain.

• Madam Yin and Li Jing agreed to have Sect Master Tongtian act as matchmaker and arrange the proposal and betrothal gifts for Nezha and Bai Liansheng.
• Tongtian told the Li family that the White Lotus Sect was in turmoil, then revealed that he had already resolved the problem and that Sect Master Bai had arrived.
• Sect Master Bai praised the Li family’s sincerity, and he and Li Jing bonded over a banquet before he took the family to the White Lotus Sect.
• Madam Yin handled the betrothal, Nezha and Bai Liansheng’s marriage was settled, and their wedding was set for the first auspicious day after the Peach Banquet.
• Tongtian spent the night thinking that the Peach Banquet would mark a turning point and that he might soon be crushed beneath Five Finger Mountain.

At the Peach Banquet, Great Sage Sun found himself assigned a seat in the corner of the fifth row despite his stature as the Heavenly Court’s chief alchemist. The other guests suspected the seating was deliberate, leaving them to wonder what Niangniang Shen Jiang intended.

• Sect Master Tongtian, Nezha, and Bai Liansheng questioned the seating, but Sect Master Tongtian told them to attend and accept their places.
• Sect Master Tongtian took the seat marked with his name in the fifth row while Grand White Golden Star noticed him and asked why he was sitting there.
• Marshal Tian Peng saw Great Sage Sun behind him and grew alarmed, then asked Nezha about the arrangement.
• The White Lotus Sect’s master sat beside Li Jing in the first row, where Grand White Golden Star pointed out Great Sage Sun’s seat.
• Li Jing recognized Great Sage Sun in the fifth row and concluded that, if Niangniang Shen Jiang had arranged it, the placement might have been deliberate humiliation.

At the Peach Banquet, rumors spread that Sun Wukong had angered Niangniang Shen Jiang by matching Nezha with Bai Liansheng, and his place in the fifth row drew widespread attention. Sun Wukong urged his allies not to intervene as the Jade Emperor and Niangniang Shen Jiang arrived, leaving the banquet poised for confrontation.

• Guests noticed Sun Wukong seated in the fifth row and speculated that Niangniang Shen Jiang had snubbed him over Nezha's match with Bai Liansheng.
• Madam Yin confirmed that Shen Jiang's niece had been intended for Nezha, and urged Li Jing to sit beside Sun Wukong in support.
• Sun Wukong told Li Jing, Madam Yin, Sect Master Bai, and Grand White Golden Star not to turn his personal affair into a conflict within the Heavenly Court.
• Nezha and Bai Liansheng suspected that Sect Master Tongtian had planned the apparent dispute, while rumors about Sun Wukong spread among the banquet guests.
• The Jade Emperor Jiang Ziya and Niangniang Shen Jiang arrived and took their seats, and the Jade Emperor looked toward Sun Wukong.

At the Peach Banquet, Shen Jiang’s ambition to build her own faction became obvious as she acted as though the Jade Pool were hers to command. Dao Ancestor Hongjun arrived to confront Great Sage Equal to Heaven Sun Wukong, leaving the assembled powers braced for conflict.

• Shen Jiang explained to the Jade Emperor that she had used the banquet to advance his plans, while Jiang Ziya recognized her growing ambitions and interest in winning Li Jing’s faction over.
• Shen Jiang welcomed the guests to the Jade Pool rather than the Heavenly Court, prompting the assembled immortals and saints to mock her presumption.
• The guests discussed Sect Master Tongtian’s absence and criticized Shen Jiang for seating Great Sage Equal to Heaven Sun Wukong in the fifth row.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun appeared at the banquet and announced that he had come to find Great Sage Equal to Heaven Sun Wukong.
• Old Ancestor Bodhi questioned Hongjun’s reason for confronting Wukong, and Shen Jiang tried to lecture Bodhi about showing Hongjun respect.

At the Peach Banquet, Shen Jiang tried to command Li Jing, but he refused and upheld the Jade Emperor’s authority. After Sect Master Tongtian killed Shen Shan, Shen Jiang revealed her Fire Phoenix bloodline and attacked Sun Wukong, only for Tongtian to smash her head with his staff.

• Old Ancestor Bodhi called Shen Jiang a village woman, and Sect Master Tongtian mocked her as well.
• Shen Jiang ordered Li Jing to seize the others, but Li Jing refused, saying he obeyed only the Jade Emperor and Emperor Ziwei.
• Shen Shan challenged Li Jing, and Sect Master Tongtian killed him with a dining knife.
• Shen Jiang transformed into a Fire Phoenix and unleashed Nirvana Fire at Sun Wukong.
• Sect Master Tongtian struck Shen Jiang's head with his great staff, and the Nirvana Fire vanished from it.

At the Peach Banquet, Sun Wukong struck the Fire Phoenix, but Dao Ancestor Hongjun overpowered and incapacitated Sect Master Tongtian. Tongtian awoke beneath Five Finger Mountain as his tribulation began, then used visualization to regain a measure of power.

• Sun Wukong smashed the Fire Phoenix's head, and the phoenix regenerated before transforming into a Female War God and attacking him.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun caught Sun Wukong's staff and immobilized Sect Master Tongtian, then struck him unconscious.
• Sect Master Tongtian awoke beneath Five Finger Mountain with a python around his neck and realized he had begun his tribulation.
• Sect Master Tongtian devoured the python and discovered his body was weak and unable to circulate energy.
• Sect Master Tongtian visualized the clouds for seven days and formed a cloud, then created a longbow and arrow three months later.