Chapter Summaries

Ji Fa joined the Interception Sect and established the Heavenly Machine Pavilion, while Tongtian prepared Human Emperor Di Xin to attain sainthood through a Fengshan Ceremony at Mount Tai. Ancestor Hongjun learned of the plan and the Saints were left shocked and uncertain.

• Ji Fa gave Tongtian a box of information and rare items, became an outer disciple of the Interception Sect, and was tasked with establishing the Heavenly Machine Pavilion.
• Tongtian told Human Emperor Di Xin that he could become a Saint through a Fengshan Ceremony and scheduled it for Mount Tai seven days later.
• Tongtian bestowed the Xuanyuan sword, Annihilation saber, and Heaven and Earth axe on Human Emperor Di Xin to support the Human Race and his rule.
• Tongtian stayed in the Human Realm to guard against Ancestor Hongjun interfering with the ceremony.
• Ancestor Hongjun learned that Human Emperor Di Xin might attain sainthood through the ceremony, and Taishang and the other Saints reacted with shock.

Haotian volunteered to sabotage Di Xin’s Mount Tai sealing, but Tongtian’s side anticipated the attack and captured him. Haotian was refined into a human pill, while a false Haotian appeared in Zixiao Palace and killed the four Saints before they revived.

• Yuanshi proposed crippling Di Xin, but Hongjun warned that Tongtian could kill Yuanshi and prevent his revival.
• Haotian volunteered for the mission, received magical treasures from Hongjun, and was told to seize Jiang Ziya’s true spirit if he encountered him.
• Jiang Ziya divined that an attacker would target him and Di Xin, and Tongtian ordered Di Xin to refine the attacker into a human pill.
• Haotian infiltrated the tent and shot at Di Xin and Jiang Ziya, but Jiang Ziya turned the attack against him and sealed his power.
• Jiang Ziya refined Haotian into a human pill and sealed him within the Kongtong Seal.
• A false Haotian appeared before Hongjun and the four Saints, killed them, and watched them revive; Hongjun admitted Tongtian’s power far surpassed theirs.

After Hongjun dismissed the Four Saints, Yuanshi ordered Shen Gongbao to kill Di Xin, driving him to leave the Chan Sect. Shen Gongbao reached Tongtian’s camp near Mount Tai and was invited to meet him.

• Hongjun dismissed the Four Saints without giving them treasures or pills, and Taishang and the Two Western Saints left Yuanshi behind.
• Yuanshi ordered Shen Gongbao to kill Di Xin and forbade him to return to Kunlun Mountain if he failed.
• Shen Gongbao decided to leave the Chan Sect and join the Interception Sect instead of accepting the suicide mission.
• Shen Gongbao killed five of Guangchengzi’s disciples who mocked him, then fled toward Mount Tai.
• At Tongtian’s camp, Shen Gongbao admired the Interception Sect’s respectful atmosphere, and a guard invited him to meet Tongtian.

Shen Gongbao joined Tongtian’s Interception Sect and was appointed to lead the Xuanji Pavilion, while Tongtian took Nuwa as his Dao Companion. The chapter ended with Houtu and Meng Po discussing Tongtian’s appeal.

• Tongtian welcomed Shen Gongbao, offered him a place in the Interception Sect, and bestowed treasures and medicines on him.
• Tongtian ordered Shen Gongbao to establish the Xuanji Pavilion and oversee assassination missions, excluding the Chan Sect.
• Tongtian visited Nuwa in Wa Huang Heaven and transformed her palace into a grand betrothal gift.
• Tongtian and Nuwa became Dao Companions as powerful figures across the Primordial World sent congratulations and gifts.
• Houtu and Meng Po watched the celebrations from the underworld and discussed how difficult it would be for a woman to resist Tongtian.

After Nuwa and Tongtian became Dao Companions, the Four Saints’ plan to form an alliance collapsed while Hongjun focused on stopping Di Xin from becoming a Saint. Di Xin was poisoned before the Mount Tai Fengshan Ceremony, and Jiang Ziya proposed turning the attack into a rallying cry for the Human Race.

• Taishang, Yuanshi, and the Western Teaching Saints lamented that Nuwa and Tongtian’s union had made the Five Saints Alliance impossible, while Hongjun prepared another attempt to stop Di Xin.
• Di Xin feasted with his fellow disciples at Mount Tai, drank wine offered by a young woman, and later returned to his tent to rest.
• The next day, Di Xin fell unconscious, and Jiang Ziya discovered that a strange poison was attacking his primordial spirit and true spirit.
• With the Fengshan Ceremony only seven days away and Tongtian and Nuwa unavailable, Duobao Daoist asked Jiang Ziya how they should respond.
• Jiang Ziya urged the immortals to protect the ceremony site and spread news that Di Xin had been ambushed, possibly by Hongjun, for the sake of the Human Race.

Jiang Ziya’s plan turned the Human Realm’s grief over Di Xin’s poisoning into prayers, merit, and resentment against Hongjun and the Saints. Di Xin’s primordial-spirit corruption stopped and his cultivation neared Sainthood, while Hongjun felt the resentment affect his Dao foundation and Tongtian and Nuwa’s union produced a Dao Seed.

• Jiang Ziya urged the immortals to reveal Di Xin’s poisoning and rally the Human Race to pray for his recovery.
• Rumors about Hongjun’s role in Di Xin’s poisoning and the Saints’ slaughter of the Great Shang army spread, and the Three Religions’ influence in the Human Realm was nearly uprooted.
• Countless people prayed for Di Xin, sending merit to Mount Tai that halted the poison’s corrosion, raised his cultivation to the Quasi-Saint peak, and increased Human destiny.
• The Human Realm’s resentment gathered outside Zixiao Palace and began affecting the Primordial Violet Qi connected to Hongjun’s Dao foundation.
• Hongjun calculated that Di Xin still could not become a Saint through the Fengshan Ceremony and regained his composure.
• Tongtian and Nuwa’s fused primordial spirits produced a Dao Seed, which was also the Dao Embryo Nuwa would give birth to.

Tongtian and Nuwa’s Dao Seed split into two Dao Embryos while the Fengshan Ceremony for the unconscious Di Xin began at Mount Tai. Dao Ancestor Hongjun warned the Heavenly Dao that Di Xin’s ascension could establish humanity’s Dao, and the Heavenly Dao attacked the ceremony as the gathered people’s prayers and killing intent began breaking the poison in Di Xin’s Violet Palace.

• Tongtian and Nuwa learned that their Dao Seed had split, meaning Nuwa would bear two Dao Embryos.
• Six days later, Jiang Ziya led more than one million people in prayers and proclamations at Mount Tai during Di Xin’s Fengshan Ceremony.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun warned the Heavenly Dao that Di Xin’s success could establish humanity’s Dao and threaten the Heavenly Dao’s existence.
• The Heavenly Dao redirected its lightning toward Mount Tai, while the people’s prayers and killing intent flowed into Di Xin and battered the poison in his Violet Palace.
• The Eye of the Heavenly Dao transformed into the Eye of Heavenly Punishment and attacked Mount Tai’s protective formation, while Jiang Ziya ordered the Interception Sect disciples to hold the Myriad Immortals Great Formation steady.

As the Heavenly Dao unleashed an unprecedented assault on Mount Tai, the Interception Sect’s Quasi-Saints began cursing it to divert the punishment from Human Emperor Di Xin. Their united response left the other cultivators shaken and exposed growing discord within the Chan Sect.

• The Eye of Heavenly Punishment and an endless lightning tribulation overwhelmed the defenses around Mount Tai, while Jiang Ziya and Daoist Kong Xuan accused the Heavenly Dao and Dao Ancestor Hongjun of unfairness.
• Holy Mother Wudang left the Myriad Immortals Great Formation and cursed the Heavenly Dao, drawing its attacks away from Di Xin; Duobao Daoist and the other disciples followed her.
• Great Immortal Wuyun, Daoist Lu Ya, Daoist Kong Xuan, Zhao Gongming, San Xiao, Ji Fa, and Shen Gongbao entered the fray in succession, with Ji Fa and Shen Gongbao revealing that they had reached the Quasi-Saint level.
• The mighty cultivators and four Innate Saints witnessed the Interception Sect’s solidarity, while Lord of the Beginning reacted to Ji Fa and Shen Gongbao joining the sect.
• Yun Zhongzi challenged Guangchengzi’s treatment of fellow disciples and left, prompting another disciple to warn that he might leave the Chan Sect too.

The other sects’ leaders reassessed their weaknesses after witnessing the Interception Sect’s unity, while Yuanshi punished Guangchengzi and handed Yun Zhongzi authority in the Chan Sect. At Mount Tai, the Interception Sect’s formation held against Heavenly Punishment as the human procession swelled beyond five million.

• Yuanshi revoked Guangchengzi’s authority, sent him to meditate for a hundred years, and appointed Yun Zhongzi to enforce the Chan Sect’s rules.
• Yuanshi entered seclusion, leaving Daoist Randeng and Naji Xianweng to manage the Chan Sect’s affairs.
• Taishang accepted True Person Du'e’s advice to learn from the Interception Sect and entered seclusion, entrusting him with the Human Sect’s affairs.
• Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin acknowledged that they had underestimated Tongtian and the Interception Sect.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun watched the Interception Sect’s Quasi-Saints risk their lives to help Human Emperor Di Xin and chose not to intervene.
• Jiang Ziya commanded the Myriad Immortals Great Formation as it blocked Heavenly Punishment, while the procession around Mount Tai grew from over two million people to more than five million.

The Human Realm’s prayers and proclamations against Heaven’s injustice gathered into a force that threatened to alert the Great Dao, alarming the primordial Heavenly Dao. It withdrew its attacks on everyone but Human Emperor Di Xin and struck him with its strongest attack, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Countless people of Great Shang prayed for Human Emperor Di Xin and recited proclamations condemning Dao Ancestor Hongjun and Heaven’s injustice.
• The people’s faith formed a crimson rainbow that pierced the heavens but was stopped by the Heavenly Dao’s barrier.
• The primordial Heavenly Dao weighed its options and chose to kill Human Emperor Di Xin rather than restore peace or exterminate the people.
• The Heavenly Dao withdrew its punishments against everyone except Human Emperor Di Xin and launched its strongest attack at him.
• The Myriad Immortals Great Formation shattered, and the Interception Sect disciples within it were injured and fell unconscious.

Jiang Ziya cursed the Heavenly Dao and swore not to become a Saint until the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation ended, prompting the Great Dao to destroy the Primordial Universe's Heavenly Dao. The Great Dao then established a new Heavenly Dao and helped Human Emperor Di Xin become a Saint, while the Human Realm was sealed off from cultivators for a hundred years.

• Jiang Ziya offered his blood, cursed the Heavenly Dao, and made a Great Vow never to become a Saint before the tribulation ended.
• The Great Dao sensed Jiang Ziya's blood and the Great Shang people's resentment, then shattered the Primordial Universe's Heavenly Dao.
• Daoist Hongjun suffered a grave injury from the Heavenly Dao's destruction, but the new Heavenly Dao raised his cultivation to the fourth heaven of the Heavenly Dao Grand Unity Golden Immortal Realm.
• The Great Dao empowered Human Emperor Di Xin, who became a Saint through the Fengshan ceremony and vowed to help his Interception Sect elders and fellow disciples.
• The new Heavenly Dao declared that the Human Dao stood alongside the Earth Dao and Heavenly Dao, then sealed the Human Realm as a forbidden land for cultivation.

Sect Master Tongtian confronted the newly born Primordial Heavenly Dao before presiding over Human Emperor Di Xin’s Fengshan Ceremony. Di Xin became a Saint of the Human Dao, which reached minor accomplishment, while a shadow’s attack was trapped by Tongtian’s Five Elements Array.

• The Primordial Heavenly Dao sealed the Human Realm within Southern Jambudvipa, and Tongtian’s disciples and the people’s greetings to him pierced its barrier.
• Tongtian and the Heavenly Dao agreed to let the Primordial Universe recuperate for one hundred years before Tongtian presided over Di Xin’s Fengshan Ceremony at Mount Tai.
• Tongtian warned Di Xin that neither his Saint position nor the Human Dao was stable, and Di Xin chose to complete the Human Dao.
• Tongtian chose the reward that granted him the Nine Lives Flower and Western Cloud Realm Plain Colored Banner, then used the Five Directions Banners to trap a shadow attacking Di Xin.
• Di Xin absorbed merit as a Nine-Clawed Divine Dragon transformed and merged with his Dharma Body, making him a Saint of the Human Dao independent of the Primordial Heavenly Dao.
• The Human Dao reached minor accomplishment, and Di Xin ordered the people to end their prayers and proclamations.

After Di Xin’s Human Dao teaching produced a new generation of disciples, Tongtian explained Jiang Ziya’s Congruent Dao and began preparing the realms needed for it. He went to the Netherworld to ask Houtu for help establishing the Asura Realm.

• Di Xin taught at Mount Tai for eighty-one days, then accepted more than a thousand Human Dao disciples and chose Zhang Tianhua, Earth Dragon Son, and Wang Piao as his personal disciples.
• Tongtian told Jiang Ziya that he would become a Saint through the Congruent Dao and described it as a balance among coexisting realms.
• Jiang Ziya accepted Tongtian’s explanation and began cultivating in seclusion on Golden Ao Island.
• Tongtian reasoned that the Heavenly Dao would obstruct Jiang Ziya, so he set out to establish the Asura Realm and Spirit Realm; Nuwa had already secured the Demon Race’s agreement to join the Spirit Realm.
• Tongtian arrived in the Netherworld and explained his plan to Houtu, who praised his idea of establishing another Congruent Dao.

Tongtian visited Houtu, learned the Asura Race had disappeared from the Sea of Blood, and discovered her feelings for him. He persuaded Old Ancestor of the Sea of Blood to leave for seclusion, then found a hidden underground world where the Asuras had been living all along.

• Houtu told Tongtian that the Asuras had vanished from the Sea of Blood, and offered to help him establish the Asura Realm.
• Houtu confessed she favored Tongtian as a Dao Companion, but he declined because he already had Nuwa as his Dao Companion.
• Tongtian met Old Ancestor of the Sea of Blood and offered to help him become a Saint if he left the Sea of Blood.
• Old Ancestor of the Sea of Blood accepted Tongtian's offer and went to Biyou Palace to enter seclusion.
• Tongtian searched beneath the Sea of Blood, found a hidden subterranean world, and discovered that the Asuras still lived there and that the Asura Realm already existed.

Tongtian learned of the Asuras’ brutal way of life and their hidden origins, then sought a safer, resource-rich home for them. He brought the Asura Race to the Star of Harmony and summoned Jiang Ziya to see them.

• Tongtian examined the memories of Asura core members and learned that their race endured scarce resources, savage competition, and powerful replication abilities.
• Tongtian decided the Asuras needed a vast new home, where they could live and reproduce without slaughtering one another, and where Jiang Ziya could educate them.
• Tongtian’s primordial spirit searched the stars and found the enormous, life-filled Star of Harmony in the Dead Silent Star Sea.
• Tongtian copied every Asura in the Asura Realm, concealed their presence, and moved them to the Star of Harmony, where his incarnation had prepared protective formations.
• Tongtian summoned Jiang Ziya, who saw the billions of Asuras gathered on the planet.

After forty-nine years of secluded cultivation, Tongtian absorbed the Nine Lives Flower’s power while humanity and the three religions expanded across the four continents. The chapter ended with Star of Harmony flourishing under Jiang Ziya’s guidance and Niangniang Nuwa nearing childbirth.

• Tongtian hid in a cavern near Star of Harmony, consumed the Nine Lives Flower, and spent forty-nine years cultivating until he integrated its power.
• Human Emperor Di Xin used his Saint’s blood to cure a plague in the Great Shang Dynasty, whose population grew twentyfold over the following decades.
• Xuandu Daoist, Yun Zhongzi, Daoist Cihang, and the Western Teachings spread their followings across the four continents, while Zhang Tianhua established the Human Sect throughout the Northern Continent of Ju Lu.
• The Interception Sect openly recruited gifted disciples and punished powerful groups that targeted the families of its chosen disciples.
• Jiang Ziya oversaw Star of Harmony as its Asura population grew two hundredfold and developed through five generations.
• Niangniang Nuwa became languid and remained inside the Star Picking Pavilion of Wa Huang Palace as her pregnancy progressed.

Forty-nine years after the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation began, the major sects and the Asura people had grown stronger, while no one had yet been named to a principal god position. Lord of the Beginning and Grand Supreme Elder Lord prepared to confront Sect Master Tongtian, but their disciples warned that the Interception Sect and Demon Race had also amassed formidable strength.

• The Asura people honored Jiang Ziya for educating them and saving their lives, while he accumulated merit and reached the peak of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Lord of the Beginning reached the eighth layer of the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm and planned to join Grand Supreme Elder Lord and the Western Saints in deposing Sect Master Tongtian and sending the Interception Sect into the Investiture of the Gods.
• Grand Supreme Elder Lord reached the peak of the eighth layer and praised Xuandu and True Person Du'e for rebuilding the Human Sect's influence.
• True Person Xuandu and True Person Du'e warned Grand Supreme Elder Lord that the Interception Sect and Demon Race had grown stronger through their alliance, joint training, and access to Sect Master Tongtian's treasury.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun gathered Grand Supreme Elder Lord, Lord of the Beginning, Daoist Jieyin, and Daoist Zhunti at Zixiao Palace to form the Four Sages Alliance against Sect Master Tongtian and the Interception Sect. With the Heavenly Dao on their side, the four saints prepared to use Hongjun's new treasures and Four Symbols Limitless Killing Array before the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation ended.

• Grand Supreme Elder Lord told True Person Xuandu and True Person Du'e that the Heavenly Dao would support the Four Sages Alliance, and they agreed to press ahead.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun summoned Grand Supreme Elder Lord to Zixiao Palace, where Lord of the Beginning, Daoist Jieyin, and Daoist Zhunti had already gathered.
• The four saints discussed their improved cultivation and whether Sect Master Tongtian could have reached the Heavenly Dao Realm, and Hongjun warned Lord of the Beginning not to underestimate him.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun said the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation had only three years remaining and ordered the saints to bring the Interception Sect into it.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun presented four treasures refined from foreign-domain objects and taught the four saints how to form the Four Symbols Limitless Killing Array.

The Four Sages launched a surprise attack on Golden Ao Island, but the Interception Sect’s strengthened defenses and Myriad Immortals Great Formation thwarted their assault and wounded them. Dao Ancestor Hongjun then struck at the formation with overwhelming force, leaving Duobao Daoist and the other Quasi-Saints to brace for impact.

• The Four Sages used Hongjun’s Four Symbols Limitless Killing Array to break through Golden Ao Island’s protective formation and lead their forces onto the island.
• Duobao Daoist ordered the Myriad Immortals Great Formation to attack, and its first clash with the Five Saints Alliance ended in a draw.
• The Four Sages tried to destroy the Myriad Immortals Great Formation with a black-hole attack, but Duobao redirected its light spheres to ambush and injure them.
• Hongjun’s giant hand struck the formation’s barrier, shattering it, before his amplified killing intent surged toward the formation.
• Duobao Daoist and the Interception Sect’s Quasi-Saints raised their magic treasures and prepared to block Hongjun’s attack at the cost of their lives.

Jiang Ziya shielded the Interception Sect from the Heavenly Dao’s pressure with his Congruent Dao, stunning the Four Sages Alliance and the onlookers. The Human Emperor Di Xin then appeared and challenged the hidden Dao Ancestor Hongjun.

• Jiang Ziya manifested a hundred-thousand-zhang Dharma Body and used a three-colored canopy to erase the Heavenly Dao’s pressure, saving the Interception Sect disciples.
• Lord of the Beginning, Grand Supreme Elder Lord, and the Two Western Saints were shocked by Jiang Ziya’s power and coveted the Dao behind his canopy.
• Xuandu and True Person Du'e told Grand Supreme Elder Lord that they were certain the Four Sages Alliance would suffer another defeat.
• Onlookers wondered why the Human Emperor Di Xin had not appeared, then reported that he had arrived above the sky of the Congruent Dao.
• The Human Emperor Di Xin confronted the concealed Dao Ancestor Hongjun and demanded that he reveal himself.