Recaps

Xian Junyu tried to persuade Tongtian to accept his proposal to revise the Interception Sect’s rules, but Tongtian rejected him because it would cut off many disciples’ paths. Xian Junyu returned to his cave abode dejectedly, while Chang'er Dingguang Xian and Jin Guang heard rumors that he had been released from punishment.

• Xian Junyu finished revising the Sect Rules and went to Tongtian’s Daoist Sanctuary to present them.
• When the Water-Fire Daoist Children barred him from entering, Xian Junyu sat at the entrance and refused to leave until Tongtian brought him inside.
• Tongtian rejected Xian Junyu’s proposal, explaining that it would oppose the sect’s teachings and prevent many disciples from surviving or pursuing cultivation freely.
• Xian Junyu left dejectedly and stayed inside his cave abode without cultivating or going out.
• Chang'er Dingguang Xian and Jin Guang discussed rumors that Xian Junyu had been released early, and Chang'er Dingguang Xian complained that he could not find his informant.

Chang Er and Jin Guang visited Xian Junyu to urge Senior Disciple Brother to act, not realizing the sweeper they had encountered was Xian Junyu himself. After Chang Er insulted him and demanded that Senior Disciple Brother intervene, Xian Junyu revealed his identity and cultivation, leaving Chang Er terrified and begging for mercy.

• Chang Er Dingguang and Jin Guang arrived at Senior Disciple Brother's cave dwelling and entered after Xian Junyu invited them in.
• Chang Er recognized Xian Junyu as the sweeper and arrogantly demanded an explanation, so Xian Junyu rebuked him for disrespecting his Senior Disciple Brother.
• Xian Junyu unleashed his Grand Unity Golden Immortal Spiritual Pressure, and Jin Guang realized that the sweeper was Senior Disciple Brother.
• Chang Er asked Senior Disciple Brother to punish Xian Junyu, but Jin Guang told him that the sweeper was Senior Disciple Brother himself.
• Jin Guang admitted his mistake, while Xian Junyu mocked Chang Er until he dropped to his knees and begged for mercy.
• Xian Junyu ordered Chang Er to stand, and Chang Er sprang to his feet when Xian Junyu threatened him.

Xian Junyu scolded Chang Er for relying on others after being beaten and urged him to improve his cultivation, then confronted Jin Guang for enabling Chang Er’s misconduct. Jin Guang tried to escape blame by claiming Chang Er had forced him to join in, leaving Xian Junyu to judge his excuse.

• Xian Junyu told Chang Er that he deserved to be beaten and should rely on his own strength rather than ask others for revenge.
• Chang Er accepted Xian Junyu’s advice, promised to cause less trouble and focus on cultivation, then hurriedly left.
• Xian Junyu stopped Jin Guang from leaving and accused him of supporting Chang Er and currying favor with powerful disciples.
• Jin Guang claimed Chang Er had dragged him into trouble and insisted that he himself had done nothing wrong.

Xian Junyu spent ten years enforcing the Sect Rules within the Interception Sect before Gonggong's destruction of Mount Buzhou plunged the Primordial World into chaos. Tongtian ordered his disciples to remain on the mountain, while Xian Junyu considered taking action on another matter.

• Xian Junyu warned Jin Guang not to harass Chang Er and sent him away.
• Xian Junyu spent ten years patrolling Mount Kunlun, catching two Inner Sect Disciples committing Blood Sacrifice and engraving the Sect Rules into them.
• The heavens and earth shook, and the Interception Sect's bell rang nine times to summon its disciples.
• Tongtian announced that Gonggong had rammed into Mount Buzhou after defeating Zhurong, collapsing the Heavenly Pillar and tearing open the sky.
• Tongtian ordered the disciples to stay on the mountain until the Sages stabilized the heavens and earth, while Xian Junyu silently planned to act on another matter.

Xian Junyu led the Jie Sect Disciples down Mount Kunlun to rescue the Human Race from the Heavenly River Reversal. The disciples spread out on ships to save people as the other teachings and Saints also worked to protect the world.

• Xian Junyu announced that he would leave the mountain to rescue the Human Race despite Master Tongtian's order.
• Jin Ling decided to follow Xian Junyu, and Duobao, the Seven Attendant Immortals, and most of the Jie Sect Disciples joined them.
• Xian Junyu used the Great Myriad Manifestations Technique to create dozens of Sky-Covering Great Ships, and the Jie Sect Disciples set out in all directions.
• The Chan Sect Disciples and Xuandu also descended the mountain to save people while Nuwa and the other Saints worked to repair the heavens and support the world.
• Xian Junyu and his clones rescued people from the flood and carried them aboard the Immortal Ships.

Xian Junyu rescued Human Race survivors during the Primordial disaster and destroyed a colossal wave near the Heaven Pillar, despite having defied Tongtian’s orders. After returning the survivors to shore, he refused their thanks and left for Mount Kunlun, while the Human Race remembered him as their savior.

• Xian Junyu flew the Immortal Ship toward the Heaven Pillar, delegated rescues to Luo Xuan, and ordered the Jie Sect Disciples to stabilize the ship as a thousand-meter wave approached.
• With only a fraction of his spiritual power available, Xian Junyu attacked the wave with the Immortal Slaying Sword, and Tongtian scolded him for disobeying orders before restoring his spiritual power.
• Xian Junyu used the Upper Clarity Sword Art to destroy the wave, then ordered the ship away from the Heaven Pillar as the Saints repaired the heavens.
• Xian Junyu and the Jie Sect Disciples delivered the rescued Human Race survivors to the shores around the seas, where hundreds of thousands thanked him.
• Xian Junyu refused the Human Race’s attempts to honor him and returned to Mount Kunlun without revealing his name, while the survivors later erected a statue of him as the Immortal Saint Ancestor.

After the Interception Sect’s disciples earned merit by rescuing living beings, Tongtian spared them but punished Xian Junyu for leading them out against orders. Xian Junyu accepted forty thousand strikes of the Thunderfire Whip and seclusion until the year 2690.

• Tongtian and the Interception Sect’s disciples received merit for repairing Heaven and rescuing living beings, and the sect’s Fortune increased.
• Tongtian excused the disciples for disobeying his orders but ordered Xian Junyu to remain behind.
• Jin Ling, Duobao, and the other disciples pleaded for Xian Junyu, but he scolded them and sent them away.
• Xian Junyu accepted responsibility and asked Tongtian not to blame his junior brothers and sisters.
• Tongtian sentenced Xian Junyu to twenty thousand strikes of the Thunderfire Whip and seclusion until his Second Martial Uncle’s lecture in the year 2690.

After Xian Junyu completed his 2,690-year confinement, Tongtian tried to teach him the Upper Clarity Sword Art, but Xian Junyu pretended he could not learn it despite secretly mastering it. Xian Junyu then led the Jie Sect Disciples to Yuanshi’s sermon, hoping their breakthroughs would help him reach the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.

• Xian Junyu accepted his punishment of Forty Thousand Whips and spent over two thousand years confined, refining Spiritual Treasures as his cultivation advanced to Perfected Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
• After Tongtian released him, Tongtian taught Xian Junyu the Upper Clarity Sword Art for a hundred years, while Xian Junyu feigned disinterest and made no apparent progress.
• Tongtian recognized that Xian Junyu was pretending, stopped forcing him to study swordsmanship, and sent him back to face the wall.
• After another 590 years, Xian Junyu completed his confinement as Yuanshi’s sermon approached.
• Xian Junyu led the Jie Sect Disciples to Yuanshi’s Daoist Sanctuary, expecting their cultivation breakthroughs to help him reach the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.

Xian Junyu reunited with the Jie Sect disciples and attended Yuanshi’s three-hundred-year Dao lecture, where he continued suppressing his imminent breakthrough. The lecture ended with many disciples advancing in cultivation, while Yuanshi departed without speaking with him.

• Duobao, Jin Ling, and the other Jie Sect disciples asked Xian Junyu about his two-thousand-year confinement, and he said he had been fine despite the Thunderfire Whip punishment.
• Xian Junyu led the Jie Sect disciples to Yuanshi’s Daoist Sanctuary, where he greeted Nan Ji, Xuandu, Yun Zhongzi, and the Twelve Immortals of Kunlun.
• Xuandu thanked Xian Junyu for risking punishment to save the Human Race, and Xian Junyu said he considered the lives saved worth the cost.
• Yuanshi arrived and expounded the Dao for three hundred years as the gathered disciples entered enlightenment.
• After the lecture, Yuanshi scattered the disciples’ tribulation clouds, allowing many to complete their breakthroughs, while Xian Junyu kept his own imminent breakthrough suppressed.
• Yuanshi ordered everyone to leave and departed without speaking with Xian Junyu, though he had noticed that Xian Junyu was close to a breakthrough.

Xian Junyu returned to Tongtian’s Daoist Sanctuary to break through to Great Luo Golden Immortal, with the Jie Sect disciples and the Three Pure Ones gathering to watch and guard him. As tribulation clouds formed over Mount Kunlun, Laozi praised Xian Junyu while Tongtian and Yuanshi bickered over whose guidance deserved credit.

• Xian Junyu bid farewell to Nan Ji and Xuandu after their breakthroughs and led the Jie Sect disciples back to Tongtian’s Daoist Sanctuary.
• Gui Ling wondered why Xian Junyu was hurrying back, and Jin Ling explained that he was about to break through to Great Luo Golden Immortal.
• Xian Junyu sat down to begin his breakthrough, and Tongtian came out to stand guard as the disciples watched.
• Tribulation clouds gathered over Mount Kunlun, drawing Taiqing Laozi and Yuqing Yuanshi to Tongtian’s side.
• Laozi praised Xian Junyu’s rapid progress, while Tongtian bragged about his disciple and Yuanshi claimed Xian Junyu would have done even better under his guidance.

Xian Junyu endured the Nine Heavens Thunder Tribulation and broke through to Great Luo Golden Immortal, blooming a Ninth-Grade Primordial Spirit Lotus. He left the breakthrough celebrated by the Jie Sect Disciples, while Tongtian concealed his pride behind a stern farewell.

• Laozi, Tongtian, and Yuanshi predicted how many grades Xian Junyu’s Primordial Spirit Lotus would bloom during his breakthrough.
• Xian Junyu endured all nine Heavenly Thunders, and his Primordial Spirit Lotus bloomed to the Ninth Grade as he reached Great Luo Golden Immortal.
• The Jie Sect Disciples congratulated Xian Junyu, and he paid his respects to Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian.
• Laozi and Yuanshi advised Xian Junyu to keep cultivating, then departed.
• Xian Junyu thanked Tongtian for protecting him, and Tongtian rebuked him before leaving with hidden satisfaction.

After proving the Great Luo Dao, Xian Junyu worried that the Jie Sect might soon have to leave Mount Kunlun, then used cultivation returned by the system and studied alchemy in Tongtian’s Scripture Pavilion. His repeated attempts to refine Eight Grades pills wrecked Tongtian’s Alchemy Chamber, and Tongtian revealed that ordinary flames could not refine pills above Eight Grades.

• Xian Junyu dismissed the congratulating Jie Sect disciples and went into Tongtian’s Daoist Sanctuary, worried about the strained relationship between Tongtian and Yuanshi.
• Xian Junyu claimed the system’s returned cultivation, reaching the Initial Stage Seventh Layer Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm as the Four Personal Disciples advanced into the Taiyi Realm.
• Xian Junyu searched Tongtian’s Scripture Pavilion for alchemy Jade Slips and spent three hundred years mastering the basic theory.
• Xian Junyu began refining pills, succeeding with grades below Eight Grades but repeatedly exploding his furnace when he attempted Eight Grades pills.
• Tongtian entered the smoke-filled Alchemy Chamber and explained that pills above Eight Grades required flames stronger than ordinary ones.
• Xian Junyu checked his Jade Slip and insisted it did not mention that requirement.

Tongtian taught Xian Junyu alchemy for ten years, until Xian Junyu could refine Fourth-turn Golden Cores. Tongtian sent him to learn from Laozi, and Xuandu eagerly welcomed the company.

• Tongtian pointed out that the Jade Slip warned against using ordinary flames for pills above Eight Grades, then agreed to teach Xian Junyu alchemy.
• Over ten years, Xian Junyu learned to use the Six Ding Divine Fire and advanced from refining Seven Grades pills to Fourth-turn Golden Cores.
• Tongtian said he could teach Xian Junyu no further and directed him to study with his First Senior Uncle, Laozi.
• Xian Junyu prepared an Alchemy Furnace and Spiritual Materials, then traveled to Laozi's Daoist Sanctuary.
• Xuandu welcomed Xian Junyu's plan to learn alchemy and eagerly offered to take him to meet Laozi.

Xian Junyu asked Laozi to teach him alchemy and proved his skill by refining a Fourth-grade Tianyuan Golden Elixir. Laozi agreed to teach him, then recognized something familiar in his techniques and asked to inspect the Jade Slips Xian Junyu had used to learn the basics.

• Xian Junyu asked Laozi to teach him alchemy, explaining that he could already refine Fourth-grade Golden Elixirs.
• Laozi asked Xian Junyu to demonstrate by refining a Fourth-grade Tianyuan Golden Elixir, while Xuandu watched in disbelief.
• Xian Junyu used the Six Ding Divine Fire and completed a mid-grade Fourth-grade Tianyuan Golden Elixir after a day of refining.
• Laozi praised Xian Junyu's talent and agreed to teach him alchemy, while Xuandu welcomed the chance to learn alongside him.
• Laozi asked where Xian Junyu had learned his familiar alchemy techniques, and Xian Junyu explained that he had studied Jade Slips before learning from Tongtian.
• Laozi asked to see the Jade Slips, and Xian Junyu took them out.

After studying Laozi’s alchemy Jade Slips, Xian Junyu became Laozi’s disciple and spent centuries advancing his alchemy. When Xuandu told him the Chan and Jie Sects were fighting, Xian Junyu rushed to intervene and found Duobao battling Chi Jingzi and Taiyi.

• Laozi recognized the Jade Slips as his own, accepted Xian Junyu as his student, and had him study alongside Xuandu.
• Over the following centuries, Xian Junyu advanced from refining Fourth-grade Golden Elixirs to ninth-grade alchemy, while Xuandu fell behind and withdrew.
• Xuandu warned Xian Junyu that Chan Sect and Jie Sect disciples had clashed and that Duobao had joined the fighting.
• Xian Junyu hurried to the battlefield, where he found Duobao fighting Chi Jingzi and Taiyi while Jin Ling and other Jie Sect disciples faced members of the Twelve Golden Immortals.
• Xian Junyu ordered the three combatants to come down, but they remained in the air, still wary of one another.

Xian Junyu stopped a fight between the Jie Sect and Chan Sect disciples on Mount Kunlun and took charge of settling the dispute. He punished two Jie Sect disciples while warning the Chan Sect to stop meddling, then sent everyone back to cultivate.

• Xian Junyu rebuked Duobao, Chi Jingzi, Taiyi, and the gathered disciples for fighting at the Saints’ dojo.
• Nan Ji declined to decide the dispute and left its resolution to Xian Junyu.
• Two Jie Sect disciples demanded that Chi Jingzi and Taiyi be punished, and Nan Ji said he would report Chi Jingzi’s insult to Yuanshi.
• Xian Junyu struck the two Jie Sect disciples unconscious for provoking a conflict, while saying he could not discipline Chan Sect disciples.
• Xian Junyu warned the Chan Sect to manage its own affairs, defended the Jie Sect disciples, and ordered everyone to return to cultivation.

Xian Junyu explained that he had disciplined the Jie Sect disciples to preserve the friendship among the Three Pure Ones, not because he feared the Chan Sect. After his disciples understood his reasoning, he gave the two injured disciples supreme Eight-Revolutions Soul-Nourishing Golden Elixirs to heal.

• After Xian Junyu left, Nan Ji rebuked Chi Jingzi for insulting and attacking Jie Sect disciples, then warned him that Xian Junyu had once been offered the Chan Sect's Vice Sect Master position.
• Duobao and Jin Ling questioned why Xian Junyu had punished their own disciples after the Chan Sect provoked them.
• Xian Junyu told Duobao and the others that he had acted to preserve the friendship between Tongtian and Yuanshi, and they apologized for misunderstanding him.
• At Tongtian's Daoist Sanctuary, Xian Junyu gave the two injured disciples supreme Eight-Revolutions Soul-Nourishing Golden Elixirs to heal.

Xian Junyu restrained the Jie Sect disciples after their clash with the Chan Sect and continued trying to preserve the bond between the Three Pure Ones. Laozi admitted that he wished to remain neutral between Tongtian and Yuanshi but said that Heavenly Dao Saints could not always act as they pleased.

• Xian Junyu gave Duobao and the other Jie Sect disciples pills, told them to avoid further conflict for now, and promised to support them if the Chan Sect provoked them again.
• Xian Junyu ignored Tongtian's summons and returned to Laozi's Daoist Sanctuary, while Tongtian let him go despite wanting to advise him about the sect conflict.
• Xian Junyu resumed studying alchemy with Laozi and urged Xuandu to focus on cultivation rather than the dispute.
• When Laozi asked about the clash, Xian Junyu said the Chan and Jie Sects' differing beliefs made conflict inevitable and asked what stance Laozi would take.
• Laozi said he did not favor either sect or either younger brother, but explained that the Three Pure Ones could not always act freely as Heavenly Dao Saints.

Xian Junyu finished learning alchemy from Laozi, received a gourd of golden elixirs, and returned to Jie Sect. He settled in for a year of sleep, but Water Child woke him after only ten days.

• Laozi and Xian Junyu discussed the future of the Three Teachings and agreed to let the Three Pure Ones follow their own paths.
• Xian Junyu completed the Nine-Revolving Golden Elixir and thanked Laozi for a thousand years of instruction.
• Laozi gave Xian Junyu a gourd of top-grade Nine-Revolving Golden Elixirs, and Xian Junyu said farewell to Xuandu.
• Xian Junyu returned to Jie Sect, rested in his cave dwelling, and decided to sleep for a year.
• After ten days, Water Child repeatedly called and knocked until Xian Junyu woke up in irritation.

Xian Junyu learned that Haotian had sent Taibai Jinxing to invite the Three Pure Ones to a Peach Banquet and saw an opportunity to advance his plans for the Heavenly Court. He went to meet Master Tongtian, where Taibai Jinxing was still waiting anxiously for an answer.

• Water Child told Xian Junyu that Master Tongtian had summoned him and explained that Taibai Jinxing had come to invite the Saints to Haotian's Peach Banquet.
• Xian Junyu gave Water Child a top-grade Nine-Turn Water-Derived Golden Elixir for the information and headed with him to Tongtian's Daoist Sanctuary.
• Taibai Jinxing worried that Saint Taiqing and Saint Yuqing had refused to meet him, leaving only Saint Shangqing's response uncertain.
• Water Child told Taibai Jinxing that Tongtian had summoned Xian Junyu, not the envoy, and Xian Junyu politely apologized for making Taibai wait.
• Taibai Jinxing was impressed by Xian Junyu's courteous attitude toward him.

Xian Junyu explained to Tongtian that his courteous treatment of Taibai Jinxing was part of a plan to benefit the Interception Sect. He left Tongtian understanding that Xian Junyu wanted to claim part of the Heavenly Court's Fortune for their sect.

• Xian Junyu ordered Water Child to welcome Taibai Jinxing and serve him tea, despite Water Child's contempt for the visitor.
• Xian Junyu went to answer Tongtian's summons, leaving Water Child to attend to Taibai Jinxing.
• Tongtian questioned Xian Junyu about his servile conduct toward Haotian's envoy and warned that he would discipline him without a good explanation.
• Xian Junyu described how the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation failed to prevent the Interception Sect's Fortune from draining away and recalled his rejected proposal to impose Sect Rules.
• Xian Junyu admitted that he treated Taibai courteously to pursue a share of the Heavenly Court's Fortune, and Tongtian recognized his plan.

Xian Junyu persuaded Tongtian to pursue a share of the Heavenly Court’s Merit and Fortune by approaching Haotian and potentially cooperating with the other Saints. Tongtian agreed to let Xian Junyu represent him, while Xian Junyu argued that they should bring gifts to show goodwill.

• Xian Junyu told Tongtian that Haotian lacked the strength to keep the Heavenly Court’s Fortune from the Saints and would have to share it under pressure.
• Tongtian questioned whether the other Saints would join forces, and Xian Junyu predicted that Yuanshi, Zhunti, and Jieyin would be interested in the Heavenly Court’s Fortune.
• Tongtian hesitated because cooperating would cost him dignity and might bring little gain, but Xian Junyu insisted that they would still get something.
• Tongtian agreed to accept Haotian’s invitation and sent Xian Junyu and several disciples to handle the matter on his behalf.
• Tongtian refused to send Haotian gifts, but Xian Junyu argued that bringing gifts would show respect to both Haotian and Hongjun.

Xian Junyu secured Tongtian's approval to send an item to Haotian and prepared to meet Haotian's envoy, Taibai. The chapter ended with Fire Child summoning Taibai to appear before Tongtian.

• Tongtian agreed to let Xian Junyu deliver the item to Haotian once, then ordered Fire Child to keep their discussion secret and summon Haotian's envoy.
• Xian Junyu left, and Fire Child caught up with him to explain that Tongtian had asked him to bring the envoy in for an audience.
• Xian Junyu warned Fire Child not to reveal the secret and gave him a Nine-Revolving Golden Elixir in exchange for his silence.
• Xian Junyu and Fire Child went to the guest quarters, where Xian Junyu greeted Taibai and checked that Water Child had treated him well.
• Fire Child told Taibai that Tongtian requested his presence.

Xian Junyu told Taibai Jinxing that Tongtian would not attend the Peach Banquet but would send his First Disciple in his place. He recruited Duobao to help choose disciples to accompany him to the Heavenly Court ten years later.

• Xian Junyu told Taibai Jinxing that Tongtian would enter seclusion and that he would lead disciples to the Heavenly Court instead.
• Taibai Jinxing met Tongtian, who refused the invitation on the grounds of seclusion and confirmed that Xian Junyu could lead disciples to the banquet.
• Xian Junyu visited Duobao and asked him to accompany him to the Heavenly Court.
• Duobao questioned why Tongtian would accept Haotian's invitation, and Xian Junyu said he had persuaded their Master.
• Xian Junyu instructed Duobao to find reliable junior disciples for the trip and said he would handle everything else.

Xian Junyu prepared for a trip to the Heavenly Court to seek its Merit and Fortune, but Master Tongtian sent only a few shabby gifts, forcing Xian Junyu to supplement them himself. Duobao arrived with nearly all of the Interception Sect’s core members, and the Seven Attendant Immortals remained confused about why the trip had turned into an ordeal.

• Duobao asked Xian Junyu why they were going to the Heavenly Court, but Xian Junyu told him to ask the Water-Fire Daoist Children and left to refine gifts.
• Over ten years, Xian Junyu used a mountain of materials to make a set of five top-grade Houtian Spiritual Treasures for Haotian.
• The Water-Fire Daoist Children delivered three low-grade Houtian Spiritual Treasures from Tongtian, which Xian Junyu recognized as his own discarded creations.
• Xian Junyu boxed Tongtian’s gifts and added ten Nine-Revolving Golden Elixirs, then waited for Duobao.
• Duobao arrived with Jin Ling, Wu Dang, Gui Ling, and the Seven Attendant Immortals, prompting Xian Junyu to question why so many had come.
• Jin Ling and the other disciples insisted on joining, while Chang Er and the other attendant immortals asked why a trip for feasting had become one of humiliation.