Recaps

Tongtian chose to learn Earthly Path Sublimation and traveled to the Netherworld Palace to propose an alliance with Houtu. He promised to free her from the Heavenly Dao’s restraints, and began demonstrating his method inside the Palace of Pingxin.

• Tongtian chose the option that granted him Earthly Path Sublimation instead of the treasures offered by continued seclusion.
• Tongtian realized the divine ability could raise the Netherworld Palace’s Heaven and Earth Karma Position beyond the Heavenly Dao’s control.
• Tongtian traveled through a spatial gate to the Netherworld Palace and met Houtu in the Palace of Pingxin.
• Tongtian proposed an alliance, but Houtu initially refused because the great tribulation would not threaten the Netherworld Palace.
• Tongtian promised to free Houtu from the Heavenly Dao’s oppression, then sealed the Palace of Pingxin from other saints’ divination as he prepared to demonstrate.

Tongtian gave Houtu the Earthly Path Sublimation method in exchange for her help, and she quickly learned it so she could reclaim her freedom from the Heavenly Dao. Tongtian revealed that he shared her grudge against the Mystic Gate, then left the Netherworld and reflected on Hongjun’s betrayal of the Interception Sect before noticing a battle ahead.

• Tongtian offered Houtu a fragmentary projection of Earthly Path Sublimation, and she agreed to help him in exchange for learning it.
• Houtu cultivated the method and realized she could use it to escape the Heavenly Dao’s suppression.
• Houtu asked whether Tongtian feared she would act against the Mystic Gate, and he said he also held a grudge against it before leaving the Netherworld.
• Tongtian recalled how Hongjun had sided with Yuanshi and the Chan Sect against the Interception Sect during the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation.
• Tongtian noticed a battle taking place ahead as he traveled through the great wilderness.

Tongtian chose to subdue Lu Ya and used his Saintly power to reveal that Zhunti had lured the ten Golden Crows into the prehistoric world, causing the Witch-Demon conflict. Lu Ya learned the truth and asked Tongtian to accept him so he could fight the Western Teachings.

• Tongtian chose the option to subdue Lu Ya and received Pangu’s Nine Forms of Heaven-Opening.
• Lu Ya killed the great demon, and Tongtian emerged and restrained him with Saintly might.
• Tongtian recognized Lu Ya as a Golden Crow and explained that Zhunti had lured the ten Golden Crows into the prehistoric world.
• Tongtian showed Lu Ya the past, and Lu Ya learned that the Western Teachings had helped spark the Witch-Demon war to gain power.
• Lu Ya asked Tongtian to accept him and vowed to fight the Western Teachings.

Tongtian appointed Lu Ya as the Interception Sect’s Seventh Immortal, then mastered the Nine Forms of Heaven-Opening in the Chaos. After receiving a system option to explore the Chaos for a treasure-finding compass or return for a low-grade Innate Spiritual Root, Tongtian chose to explore.

• Tongtian accepted Lu Ya as the Interception Sect’s Seventh Immortal, gaining a powerful ally who bore a grudge against the Western Teachings.
• Tongtian received the Nine Forms of Heaven-Opening and brought Lu Ya back to Golden Ao Island, where Duobao took charge of settling him in.
• Tongtian traveled to the Chaos and cultivated until he mastered the Nine Forms of Heaven-Opening, though he could currently use only the first four moves.
• The system offered Tongtian a Spiritual Essence Sensing Compass for exploring the Chaos or an Enlightenment Fruit for returning to the primordial land.
• Tongtian chose to explore the Chaos, and the compass appeared in his Violet Palace.

Tongtian followed the Spiritual Essence Sensing Compass to a giant chaos beast and obtained a Primordial Dao Comprehension Stone and Great Dao Divine Marrow, which raised his cultivation to the peak of the third stage of the Great Dao Saint realm. On his way back to Golden Ao Island, he encountered Daoist Yang Mei and asked whether he was exploring the chaos.

• Tongtian followed the compass to a giant Quasi-Saint peak beast and killed it with the God-Slaying Spear.
• Tongtian found a Primordial Dao Comprehension Stone and a pool of Great Dao Divine Marrow where the beast had shattered.
• Tongtian refined both treasures in a sealed cave and reached the peak of the third stage of the Great Dao Saint realm.
• Tongtian set off for Golden Ao Island and encountered a mysterious Daoist who revealed himself to be Yang Mei.
• Yang Mei recognized Tongtian as a Great Dao Saint and praised him for destroying his Heaven's Way Sage Dao fruit.
• Tongtian asked Yang Mei whether he planned to venture through the endless chaos.

Houtu used Earthly Path Sublimation to make the Earthly Path rise against the Heavenly Path, shaking the Primordial Land and provoking the Heavenly Path to manifest. The Heavenly Path struck the Underworld with black lightning, but Houtu dismissed the attack.

• Daoist Yang Mei told Tongtian that he was waiting for an impending tribulation, then departed without explaining further.
• Houtu unleashed Earthly Path Sublimation in the Underworld, causing tremors that spread throughout the Primordial Land.
• Jieyin, Zhunti, Yuanshi, Nuwa, Taishang, and Hongjun sensed the disturbance, while Hongjun saw Houtu's actions through the Heavenly Path.
• The Heavenly Path manifested as Houtu completed the final step of Earthly Path Sublimation, raising the Earthly Path to contend with it.
• Tongtian returned to the Primordial Land and watched as the enraged Heavenly Path sent black lightning toward the Underworld.
• Houtu treated the black lightning with disdain as it struck the Underworld.

Houtu continued strengthening the Earthly Dao in the Underworld and resisted the Heavenly Dao’s punishment. After Taishang failed to stop her, Hongjun confronted Houtu, who was powerful enough to face him with the Earthly Dao’s strength.

• Houtu used the Earthly Dao to withstand the Heavenly Dao’s Zixiao Divine Thunder while continuing to strengthen it.
• Hongjun ordered Taishang to stop Houtu, and Taishang attacked her with the Taiji Diagram.
• Houtu repelled Taishang’s attacks and sent him flying 108,000 li despite his using the Linglong Pagoda and Taiji Diagram together.
• Hongjun arrived at the Underworld and confronted Houtu, who prepared to fight him with more than sixty percent of the Earthly Dao’s power.
• The Saints were shocked that Hongjun had intervened, but none dared approach.

Tongtian chose to provoke a battle at Yuxu Palace and disguised his attack on the Netherworld as Yuanshi’s work. Houtu destroyed Kunlun Mountain, then gravely wounded Yuanshi in battle before Hongjun rescued him.

• Tongtian chose the hidden option to incite a battle at Yuxu Palace and went to the Chan Sect.
• Tongtian imitated Yuanshi’s aura and attacked the Netherworld, destroying countless souls while Houtu fought Hongjun.
• Houtu flattened Kunlun Mountain, and Yuanshi mistakenly blamed her for attacking it and rushed to the Netherworld.
• Yuanshi joined Hongjun against Houtu, but Houtu’s Netherworld Dao power overwhelmed his attacks and defenses.
• Houtu shattered Yuanshi’s protective treasure and gravely wounded him with a palm strike.
• Hongjun carried the wounded Yuanshi a thousand miles away as Houtu pursued him.

Houtu completed the Earthly Dao’s enhancement and gained enough power to break free from the Heavenly Dao’s suppression, leaving her in a stalemate with Hongjun. Meanwhile, Tongtian possessed a Chan Sect disciple and used him to slaughter Witch Clan members at Buzhou Mountain before fleeing.

• Hongjun tried to persuade Houtu to stop enhancing the Earthly Dao, but she refused and fought him with its power.
• Hongjun attacked Houtu with the Heavenly Dao’s support, but neither could overcome the other as the Earthly Dao’s enhancement neared completion.
• The Earthly Dao’s power poured into Houtu, completing its enhancement and making her stronger than Hongjun.
• Tongtian possessed an obscure Chan Sect disciple, traveled to Buzhou Mountain, and killed more than a hundred members of the Witch Clan before fleeing.
• Hongjun acknowledged that the Heavenly Dao could no longer suppress the Earthly Dao.

Houtu and the Earthly Dao forced Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao to accept that they stood on equal footing, then Houtu retaliated against a Chan Sect Daoist who had slaughtered Witch Clan members. Yuanshi returned to Kunlun Mountain humiliated and vowing revenge, while Tongtian resumed secluded cultivation with the treasures he had acquired.

• Hongjun sued for peace as the Heavenly Dao and Earthly Dao reached a stalemate, and the Earthly Dao showed Houtu an image of Chan Sect members slaughtering the Witch Clan.
• Houtu found and killed the Daoist, searched his spirit, and confirmed he belonged to the Chan Sect when his spiritual light entered the Investiture of the Gods.
• Yuanshi confronted Houtu over the Daoist's death, but Houtu struck him down and warned him to keep the Chan Sect from attacking the Witch Clan.
• Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao withdrew, and Yuanshi returned to Kunlun Mountain, restored it, and vowed to fight Houtu to the death.
• Tongtian returned to Golden Ao Island and Biyou Palace to resume secluded cultivation, keeping his alliance with Houtu secret and examining the Primordial Creation Spring.

Tongtian cultivated the Pangu True Body and used the Primordial Creation Spring to advance to the fifth realm of the Great Dao Saint stage. As the great tribulation approached, Hongjun worried that the Earthly Dao’s escape from Heavenly Dao control meant the tribulation would be more mysterious and dangerous than he had expected.

• Tongtian studied the Pangu True Body scroll and cultivated until the true body fully manifested, amplifying his strength enough to break through to the fourth realm of the Great Dao Saint stage.
• Tongtian refined the seven drops of Primordial Creation Spring and advanced to the fifth realm, then withdrew his overwhelming pressure before it could damage Golden Ao Island.
• Tongtian declared that he now had the strength to face the great tribulation and looked toward the sky as it approached.
• In Zixiao Palace, Hongjun pacified part of the Heavenly Dao’s will and worried that the Earthly Dao’s escape from its control would make the great tribulation unpredictable.

Yuanshi discovered that Tongtian had plotted against the Chan Sect and considered how to retaliate. When the Saints gathered at Zixiao Palace to discuss the approaching great calamity, Tongtian revealed his fifth-level cultivation and seriously wounded Yuanshi.

• Yuanshi traced the attacks on the Chan Sect to Tongtian and vowed to return the favor, but decided he could not challenge him directly or rely on Taishang.
• After ten years of secluded cultivation, Tongtian stabilized his cultivation at the fifth level as the great calamity drew near.
• Hongjun summoned the Saints to Zixiao Palace, where Tongtian arrived and waited silently with the others.
• Yuanshi accused Tongtian of arranging Houtu's attack, and Tongtian admitted it and mocked Yuanshi.
• Tongtian's aura forced Yuanshi back, then Tongtian struck him with the God-Slaying Spear and seriously injured him.

At Zixiao Palace, the Saints were shocked to learn that Tongtian had reached the fifth realm, and he humiliated Yuanshi and the Two Western Saints before Hongjun intervened. Hongjun then announced that the great tribulation had arrived and produced the Investiture of the Gods.

• The Saints reacted with shock and fear when they realized Tongtian had reached the fifth realm of the Great Dao Saint level.
• Tongtian mocked Yuanshi for losing and complaining, then attacked Jieyin and Zhunti when they criticized him; the three hid behind Hongjun.
• Tongtian stopped his attack and mocked Yuanshi, Jieyin, and Zhunti, while Taishang and Hongjun called for order.
• Yuanshi, Jieyin, and Zhunti secretly considered targeting the Interception Sect's disciples instead of fighting Tongtian directly.
• Hongjun announced that the great tribulation had arrived and brought out the Investiture of the Gods.

Hongjun presented the Investiture of the Gods, prompting Taishang, Yuanshi, Zhunti, and Jieyin to compete for it while Tongtian stayed out of the dispute. Hongjun revealed that the Investiture belonged to the Great Calamity’s Responder, whose identity would be announced by celestial phenomena.

• Hongjun brought out the Investiture of the Gods and said one of the Saints had to safeguard it.
• Taishang and Yuanshi argued that the Investiture should be entrusted to them, while Tongtian made no effort to claim it.
• Zhunti and Jieyin asked Hongjun to give the Investiture to the Western Teachings, claiming their sect was too weak to survive the Great Calamity without it.
• Hongjun said the Investiture belonged to the Great Calamity’s Responder, and that celestial phenomena would mark the person’s appearance.
• The Saints realized they could not identify the Responder yet, since the heavenly secrets were obscured.

After Hongjun announced that the Tribulation Responder’s appearance would signal the great tribulation, the major sects dispatched their disciples to search for him. Tongtian instead planned to exploit Shen Gongbao and chose a reward for secretly arranging his entry into the Chan Sect.

• Tongtian kept Hongjun’s Flying Bear Enters Dream secret while the saints left Zixiao Palace to seek the Tribulation Responder.
• Taishang sent Xuandu into the prehistoric world to train and search for the Tribulation Responder.
• Yuanshi dispatched the twelve Golden Immortals, led by Guangchengzi, to find the Tribulation Responder and recruit him into the Chan Sect.
• Zhunti and Jieyin ordered the Western Teachings’ great demons to search across the prehistoric world.
• Tongtian considered using Shen Gongbao to further his plans, recalled that Jiang Ziya might appear in Chaoge City, and prepared to set out.
• Tongtian chose to secretly arrange for Shen Gongbao to become a Chan Sect disciple in exchange for a Formation Dao treasure and the Eye of Chaos.

After Tongtian tracked down Shen Gongbao, a newly transformed black leopard accompanied by an unusual phenomenon, four other Saints followed and tried to recruit him. Tongtian then pretended the phenomenon proved Shen Gongbao was tied to the Tribulation Responder and the Investiture of the Gods, leaving the Saints convinced he was a prize worth fighting over.

• Tongtian left to find the person about to appear, and Yuanshi, Jieyin, and Zhunti secretly followed him.
• Shen Gongbao transformed from a black leopard into a man, and Tongtian noticed an unusual phenomenon around him.
• Yuanshi, Jieyin, Zhunti, Taishang, and Tongtian each tried to recruit Shen Gongbao into their sect.
• Tongtian released his Saintly aura and insisted Shen Gongbao belonged to the Interception Sect because he had found him first.
• Tongtian hinted that Shen Gongbao's phenomenon was connected to the Tribulation Responder, leading the four other Saints to believe he could control the Investiture of the Gods.

The Saints fought over Shen Gongbao, each wanting to recruit him into their sect. Yuanshi took Shen Gongbao back to the Chan Sect, while Tongtian secretly celebrated and began planning how to use the situation to his advantage.

• The Two Western Saints and Yuanshi clashed over which teaching was fated to have Shen Gongbao, while Shen Gongbao waited without choosing a side.
• Yuanshi used the Pangu Banner to shield Shen Gongbao and joined Tongtian in pushing the other Saints to exclude the Interception Sect.
• Tongtian pretended to withdraw from the contest and vanished, leaving Yuanshi, Taishang, Jieyin, and Zhunti to dispute Shen Gongbao.
• Yuanshi fought off the Two Western Saints, faced down Taishang, and carried Shen Gongbao away to the Chan Sect.
• Tongtian watched Yuanshi return with Shen Gongbao and pondered how to scheme around the new talent.

Tongtian cultivated the Eye of Chaos and completed the Myriad Immortals Great Formation, giving him confidence that the Interception Sect could withstand an attack from the other sects. On Kunlun Mountain, Shen Gongbao received a magic treasure and cultivation technique from Yuanshi, then sought answers from his reluctant senior brothers about why Yuanshi had accepted him.

• Tongtian cultivated the Eye of Chaos and learned that it could reveal the true form of anything and grow stronger with him.
• Tongtian used a Formation Dao treasure to complete the Myriad Immortals Great Formation, which combined the Taiji Formation, Four Symbols Formation, and Two Principles Formation.
• Tongtian believed the completed formation could stop the Saints and disciples of the Chan Sect, Human Sect, and Western Teachings from attacking the Interception Sect.
• Yuanshi gave Shen Gongbao a magic treasure and cultivation technique after accepting him as a personal disciple of the Chan Sect.
• Shen Gongbao visited his senior brothers to ask why Yuanshi valued him, and Guangchengzi asked what had brought him there while the four brothers remained unwelcoming.

Yuanshi allied with the Western Saints and sought support from Taishang and Nuwa to oppose Tongtian, while Tongtian remained confident in his strength. As the Shang Dynasty prepared for Di Xin’s reign, Tongtian considered taking him as a disciple and received a choice between two rewards.

• Shen Gongbao asked Taiyi Zhenren why Yuanshi had accepted him as a direct disciple, and Yunzhong Xian and Yu Ding Zhenren mocked the idea that he had great destiny.
• Yuanshi went to the Western Teachings, and the two Western Saints agreed to join him against Tongtian.
• Yuanshi asked Taishang to join their alliance, but Taishang said he needed more time to think; Nuwa chose to send her disciple to help while staying out of the conflict herself.
• Tongtian learned of Yuanshi’s actions but was undeterred, believing his strength could overcome the other saints.
• Di Yi entrusted the young Di Xin to Grand Preceptor Wen Zhong before dying, and Wen Zhong managed the Shang Dynasty until Di Xin became emperor at sixteen.
• Tongtian considered accepting Di Xin as his disciple to link the Interception Sect’s fate with the Shang Dynasty, and a hidden option offered him rewards for accepting or declining.

Tongtian chose to bind the Interception Sect’s destiny to the Shang Dynasty and sent Holy Mother Wudang to secretly recruit Di Xin. After Di Xin joined, Tongtian absorbed the system’s rewards, strengthening his Sword Dao and breaking through to the sixth stage.

• Tongtian chose the system’s option to link the Interception Sect’s destiny with the Shang Dynasty and decided to recruit Di Xin in secret.
• Tongtian summoned Holy Mother Wudang and ordered her to initiate Di Xin into the Interception Sect, then observe Chaoge for anything amiss.
• Di Xin dreamed of an immortal inviting him into the Interception Sect, agreed to join, and received spells and a magical treasure from Holy Mother Wudang.
• Tongtian absorbed a Sword Dao Origin shard, raising his Sword Dao’s power to fourteenfold.
• Tongtian refined the bucket-sized Blood Jade Marrow, absorbed its spiritual power, and broke through to the sixth stage.

Tongtian used an accomplishment reward to strengthen his foundation and reach the peak of the sixth level of the Great Dao Saint realm. Meanwhile, Yuanshi plotted against the growing Shang Dynasty, but his attempt to influence Di Xin at Nuwa Temple was blocked by a protective treasure.

• Tongtian received a vat of origin-grade essence blood for achieving the Second-Strongest Saint accomplishment and refined it to comprehend all three thousand laws.
• Yuanshi sent a disciple to the North Sea to incite the Seventy-two Route Vassals to rebel against the Shang Dynasty.
• Wen Zhong departed with the army to suppress the rebels after Di Xin gave him the military tally.
• Yuanshi summoned Jieyin and Zhunti after noticing Di Xin go to worship at Nuwa Temple.
• Di Xin resisted the Saints’ attempt to confuse him by using the Interception Sect’s cultivation arts, but Jieyin sent another force of temptation toward him.
• Wudang’s protective magical treasure shielded Di Xin, foiling the Saints’ scheme and angering Yuanshi and Zhunti.

Yuanshi recruited three demons to corrupt Di Xin and weaken the Shang Dynasty, while the Nine-Tailed Fox took over Daji and helped bring the court into chaos. After Empress Jiang was tortured to death, Wudang reported the crisis to Tongtian, who sent her back to warn Di Xin and began considering how to use Yuanshi’s scheme against him.

• Yuanshi borrowed Nuwa’s Monster Summoning Banner and summoned the Jade Pipa Spirit, Nine-Tailed Fox Spirit, and Nine-Headed Pheasant Spirit, ordering them to seduce Di Xin and ravage Shang cities.
• After Su Hu submitted, the Nine-Tailed Fox possessed Daji and entered Di Xin’s palace, where she distracted him from state affairs.
• Daji turned Di Xin against officials who tried to advise him, and he had them executed as she and her allies You Hun and Fei Zhong eliminated loyal ministers.
• Daji tortured Empress Jiang to death, prompting Wudang to report the court’s crisis to Tongtian.
• Tongtian told Wudang to return and warn Di Xin that the Chan Sect was undermining the Shang Dynasty, then considered how to turn Yuanshi’s actions against him.

Tongtian used Yun Zhongzi to expose Daji as a Nine-tailed Fox and arranged for Yun Zhongzi to kill her with an Exotic Treasure sword. Yuanshi learned that Daji’s death had ruined his plans against the Shang Dynasty and angrily summoned Yun Zhongzi, while Tongtian celebrated.

• Tongtian chose to tell Yun Zhongzi about the monster in the imperial court and received the Heavenly Dao Origin and the Black Thunder Wood Sword, then secretly replaced Yun Zhongzi’s sword with it.
• Yun Zhongzi sensed demonic energy among the Human Race, entered Di Xin’s palace, and warned him that a monster was hiding there.
• Yun Zhongzi gave Di Xin the sword, and Daji was struck down when she entered the palace, revealing herself as a Nine-tailed Fox.
• Yun Zhongzi left with his original wooden sword after Tongtian took back the Exotic Treasure, and Yuanshi sensed that Daji had been killed.
• Yuanshi berated Yun Zhongzi for ruining his plans against Di Xin, while Tongtian laughed over the Chan Sect’s failure.

Tongtian sent San Xiao to bring Yin Hong and Yin Jiao to Biyou Palace, while Taishang sent Guangchengzi and Chijingzi to recruit the princes and turn them against Di Xin. The two groups clashed outside Chaoge, where Yunxiao used the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors against Guangchengzi as he retaliated with Fan Tian Yin.

• Tongtian summoned San Xiao and ordered them to bring Yin Hong and Yin Jiao to Biyou Palace.
• Taishang sent Guangchengzi and Chijingzi to rescue the princes, teach them cultivation, and turn them against Di Xin.
• Guangchengzi and Chijingzi freed Yin Hong and Yin Jiao from their prison cart and invited them to become disciples.
• San Xiao arrived and declared the princes disciples of the Interception Sect, then fought Guangchengzi and Chijingzi.
• Yunxiao struck Chijingzi with a treasure, and Guangchengzi injured Bixiao and Qiongxiao before Yunxiao drove him back with the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors.
• Guangchengzi summoned Fan Tian Yin and sent the mountain-shaped seal down toward Yunxiao.

Yunxiao used the Primordial Chaos Golden Dou and Golden Flood Dragon Scissors to defeat Guangchengzi, but Yuanshi arrived and attacked the three sisters of San Xiao. Tongtian’s clone intervened, protected them, and destroyed Yuanshi’s Evil Corpse, leaving Guangchengzi and the others stunned.

• Yunxiao sealed Guangchengzi’s magic treasure with the Primordial Chaos Golden Dou and blasted him away with the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors.
• Yuanshi sent his Evil Corpse to force Yunxiao back, then attacked the three sisters of San Xiao while accusing them of striking their fellow disciples.
• Tongtian’s clone appeared and shattered Yuanshi’s attack with a sword strike that destroyed forty percent of the Evil Corpse’s primordial spirit.
• Yuanshi charged Tongtian’s clone, and the two fought evenly while the clone steadily suppressed the Evil Corpse.
• Tongtian’s clone unleashed the Dao-Slaying Heavenly Sword, completely erasing Yuanshi’s Evil Corpse and leaving Guangchengzi and the others trembling.