Recaps

Lin Xuan told Daoist Duobao and the Three Sisters of Sanxiao that he would venture into the Chaos to prove the Dao and become a Sage, leaving them to watch over the disciples on Golden Ao Island. After he departed, Yunxiao felt unsure what to do with the treasures she had recovered for him.

• Lin Xuan sensed the Interception Sect's destiny had changed and decided to prove the Dao in the Chaos.
• He summoned Daoist Duobao and the Three Sisters of Sanxiao to Biyou Palace and said he would entrust them with a task.
• Lin Xuan announced he would leave to become a Sage and asked them to keep the other disciples safe while he was away.
• Yunxiao suggested sealing Golden Ao Island, but Lin Xuan told them to carry on as usual and wait for his return.
• Lin Xuan departed for the Outer Chaos before Yunxiao could give him the Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls and Heaven-Measuring Ruler she had recovered from Daoist Randeng.

Lin Xuan cultivated his Chaos Demon God's true form in the outer Chaos, then used Pangu's Marrow to push it beyond its former perfection. Recognizing that he was ready to prove the Dao, he summoned the Great Dao Law and prepared to become a Primordial Unity Saint.

• Lin Xuan revealed his Chaos Demon God's true form in the outer Chaos and absorbed Chaos Qi while cultivating the Nine Revolutions of Chaos Undying Heavenly Art.
• His true form grew beyond measure, and Lin Xuan reached consummate perfection in both body and primordial spirit, but suppressed his urge to prove the Dao so he could pursue greater potential.
• Lin Xuan swallowed Pangu's Marrow, whose power his true form devoured and used to break past its former perfection.
• His true form shrank to ordinary human size as his physical strength neared the Primordial Unity level.
• Lin Xuan decided the time to prove the Dao had arrived and drew down the Great Dao Law to begin.

Lin Xuan entered the River of Time and Space to undergo the trial of attaining the Primordial Great Dao, devouring its Great Dao Law fragments as he advanced to its origin. After becoming a Great Dao Saint and fully absorbing Pangu's Marrow, he chose to comprehend Pangu's Law of Strength and found himself in an even more ancient chaos.

• Lin Xuan entered the River of Time and Space and endured its waves and Great Dao laws, which his Chaos Demon God true body devoured.
• Lin Xuan reached the river's deepest origin and attained the position of Great Dao Saint as Pangu's Marrow was fully absorbed.
• Lin Xuan discovered that Pangu's Marrow had left behind an aura of the Law of Strength Great Dao and chose to accept it.
• Lin Xuan touched the Law of Strength aura and found himself in a vast, ancient stretch of chaos.

Lin Xuan was drawn into a vision of Pangu fighting the Three Thousand Chaos Demon Gods and realized he was witnessing Pangu’s inheritance. After Pangu beckoned Lin Xuan into his true body, Lin Xuan finally understood the essence of the Great Dao of Strength.

• Lin Xuan realized that an aura of law from Pangu's Marrow had carried him into a scene from the past.
• Lin Xuan recognized that he was witnessing Pangu slay the Three Thousand Chaos Demon Gods and saw Pangu acknowledge him.
• Pangu charged into battle with the Pangu Axe and defeated the demon gods despite their formidable Great Dao abilities.
• Lin Xuan wondered how he could comprehend the Great Dao of Strength when Pangu did not seem to use it.
• Pangu beckoned Lin Xuan's primordial spirit into his true body, and Lin Xuan understood the essence of the Great Dao of Strength.

Lin Xuan comprehended the true nature of the Great Dao of Strength, became a Great Dao Saint, and discovered its power to amplify other Great Daos. He returned to the present determined to refine the laws he had witnessed into Seeds of the Three Thousand Great Daos.

• Lin Xuan realized that the Great Dao of Strength underlay the Three Thousand Great Daos and formed a Seed of Great Dao within his Saint primordial spirit.
• Lin Xuan entrusted his primordial spirit to the Law of Strength Great Dao and became an imperishable Great Dao Saint.
• Lin Xuan learned that the Great Dao of Strength could amplify other Great Daos, though he was still only at the Hunyuan First Heaven realm.
• Lin Xuan considered the strength of the other Saints, especially the deeply hidden Grand Supreme Elder Laozi, but remained confident in his ability to fight across realms.
• Lin Xuan set aside his doubts about whether Pangu had truly summoned him to the creation tribulation and prepared to refine the laws he had witnessed into Seeds of the Three Thousand Great Daos.

After receiving the Chaos Green Lotus Dao Embryo, Lin Xuan learned that it could be restored into a Chaos Supreme Treasure by reuniting the treasures descended from the original Chaos Green Lotus. He used it to stabilize the Interception Sect’s fate and left the Outer Chaos, free to act without fearing its fate would dissipate.

• Lin Xuan received the Chaos Green Lotus Dao Embryo as a reward for cultivating in seclusion within the Chaos.
• The lotus seed revealed that it had originated from the Chaos Green Lotus and could become a Chaos Supreme Treasure if Lin Xuan reunited the treasures derived from it.
• Lin Xuan decided to use the Dao Embryo to suppress the Interception Sect’s fate and prevent the sect’s destruction from repeating.
• Lin Xuan summoned the Chaos Green Lotus Dao Embryo into the sea of fate, where it appeared above the Interception Sect’s fate divine dragon.
• The fate divine dragon became more solid and affectionately approached Lin Xuan, who then vanished from the Outer Chaos.

Zhunti and Jieyin noticed the Interception Sect’s fortune recovering and went to meet Yuanshi and Taishang, fearing Lin Xuan would disrupt their plans again. Back on Golden Ao Island, Lin Xuan summoned the disciples to Biyou Palace to preach the Dao and strengthen the sect with the spoils he had seized from the four Great Saints.

• Zhunti and Jieyin saw the Interception Sect’s Fortune Divine Dragon recover and decided to consult Yuanshi and Taishang about finding Lin Xuan and the Interception Sect disciples.
• Zhunti and Jieyin left External Incarnations to guard Mount Sumeru before traveling to the Jade Void Palace, wary after Lin Xuan’s raids.
• Yuanshi lamented the Interception Sect’s rising fortune and the weak, unstable cultivation of his twelve direct disciples, regretting that he had not taken Lin Xuan as his disciple.
• Lin Xuan returned to Golden Ao Island and summoned the Interception Sect disciples to Biyou Palace to hear him preach the Dao.
• Lin Xuan planned to improve his junior brothers’ and sisters’ cultivation and put the spoils taken from the four Great Saints to use.

Lin Xuan returned to Golden Ao Island and summoned the Interception Sect disciples to Biyou Palace to expound the Dao. When he appeared on Tongtian’s Dao platform and suppressed space-time, the disciples realized he had attained sainthood.

• Daoist Duobao heard Lin Xuan’s transmission and hurried to Biyou Palace, relieved that his senior brother had returned.
• Yunxiao regretted the distance between her cultivation and Lin Xuan’s, but Qiongxiao and Bixiao pulled her along to Biyou Palace.
• The Interception Sect disciples gathered in Biyou Palace and waited for Lin Xuan, while Tongtian’s seat remained empty.
• Lin Xuan appeared on the Dao platform, and his presence suppressed space-time throughout Biyou Palace.
• The disciples recognized the omen as proof that Lin Xuan had become a Saint.

After attaining sainthood, Lin Xuan accepted Yunxiao’s twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls and opened Biyou Palace to all who wished to hear the Dao. As his lecture began, he used the insights of his listeners to deepen his understanding of the Three Thousand Great Daos and accelerated time across Golden Ao Island to one day equaling a hundred years.

• Yunxiao congratulated Lin Xuan on attaining sainthood and offered him Zhao Gongming’s twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.
• The Interception Sect disciples celebrated Lin Xuan’s sainthood, and he accepted Yunxiao’s treasure.
• Lin Xuan withdrew Biyou Palace’s formations and restrictions so the gathered living beings could hear his Dao lecture.
• Lin Xuan began lecturing, and auspicious signs appeared as disciples and living beings gained varying insights.
• Lin Xuan received feedback from his listeners’ insights and combined his Law of Strength with his Law of Time to accelerate time on Golden Ao Island to one day equaling a hundred years.

After a thousand years of listening to Lin Xuan preach, Yunxiao broke through to Quasi-Sainthood, and Lin Xuan rewarded her and other Interception Sect disciples with spiritual treasures. He finished distributing the spoils he had taken from the Four Saints, leaving the sect’s disciples armed with treasures once owned by their future enemies.

• Qiongxiao and Bixiao advanced to the middle stage of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal, while Yunxiao broke through to the Early Stage Quasi-Saint as Lin Xuan’s sermon concluded.
• Lin Xuan congratulated Yunxiao and gave her the Sheep Fat Jade Pure Bottle, which suited her Great Dao of Water and Great Dao of Creation.
• Lin Xuan awarded Daoist Duobao the Treasure-Dropping Golden Coin, which resonated with Duobao’s Great Dao.
• Lin Xuan gave Turtle Spirit Holy Mother the Sky-Flipping Seal, a treasure he had taken from the Jade Void Palace.
• Lin Xuan distributed the treasures plundered from the Four Saints among the Interception Sect disciples.

After the Interception Sect disciples left with their rewards, Lin Xuan examined the twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls and joined them with the twelve he already owned. The completed thirty-six pearls stirred his cracked Chaos Bead, which appeared to want to devour them.

• Lin Xuan concluded his treasure-bestowing assembly, gave the disciples spiritual treasures and pills, and sent them back to cultivate.
• Lin Xuan gave Fairy Yunxiao time to return to cultivation, leaving him alone in Biyou Palace.
• Lin Xuan brought out the twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls he had obtained from Randeng and summoned the twelve pearls he had previously received from the system.
• The thirty-six pearls formed the Heavenly Cycle and revealed their potential to become an Innate Supreme Treasure capable of representing thirty-six great chiliocosms.
• Lin Xuan sensed that the completed pearls had stirred his Chaos Bead, summoned it, and watched the pearls shine more brightly in response.

After the thirty-six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls repaired the Chaos Bead, Lin Xuan discovered that it contained a Primordial World and realized he might be able to open a world inside it. He considered helping Interception Sect disciples prove the Dao there, but knew he would have to hide the plan from the Primordial Heavenly Dao and Hongjun.

• The thirty-six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls merged into the Chaos Bead and gradually repaired its cracks.
• Lin Xuan learned that the Chaos Bead was one of four Chaos Supreme Treasures and that the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls had formed from its scattered origin.
• Lin Xuan sent his Saint's primordial spirit into the Chaos Bead and discovered that it contained no Great Dao restrictions, only an endless Primordial World.
• Lin Xuan realized he could refine the Chaos Bead, open a world within it, and potentially let Interception Sect disciples prove the Dao there.
• Lin Xuan decided the plan was premature and that he must keep it hidden from the Primordial Heavenly Dao and Hongjun.

Lin Xuan surveyed Golden Ao Island and urged Qiongxiao to cultivate instead of lounging and relying on pills. As he admired the island’s diligent cultivators and imagined Kui Niu transforming into a man, a strange whim arose in his heart.

• Lin Xuan recalled the Primordial Bead and used his divine soul to inspect the cultivators on Golden Ao Island.
• Lin Xuan found Qiongxiao lounging on a cloud bed, eating pills and playing with the Wind Fire Banana Fan, so he flicked her forehead with primordial energy.
• Lin Xuan warned Qiongxiao to cultivate properly, and she sat down to meditate after recognizing his voice.
• Lin Xuan observed that the sect members, spirit beasts, and auspicious beasts were diligently cultivating, including Kui Niu, who seemed close to transforming into human form.
• Lin Xuan imagined his master’s reaction to Kui Niu’s transformation, then felt a strange sensation and recognized it as a whim.

Lin Xuan followed a spiritual warning to the ruined Ancient Demon Court of the Heavenly Realm, where he learned Haotian and Yaochi had only managed to establish a weak foothold. He reached the battlefield’s dangerous depths and sensed that the opportunity was calling to him from there.

• Lin Xuan calculated that his sudden spiritual warning signaled an opportunity, then traced it to the Ancient Demon Court of the Heavenly Realm.
• Lin Xuan arrived at the ruins and saw Golden Immortal and Heavenly Immortal cultivators patrolling, though they could not detect him.
• Lin Xuan discovered that Haotian and Yaochi had recruited wandering cultivators but lacked the power to control the former demon stronghold.
• Lin Xuan walked into the depths of the ruins, where spatial rifts, battle energy, and lingering demon souls made the area deadly to lesser cultivators.
• Lin Xuan sensed that the opportunity was in the deepest part of the battlefield and that an object there was calling to him.

Lin Xuan followed a summons into the Chaos and found the Chaos Bell, the supreme treasure that had vanished after Eastern Emperor Taiyi’s death. When he touched it, the bell rang across the Primordial World, drawing the attention of Daoist Lu Ya, Saintess Nuwa, the Saints, and others.

• Lin Xuan entered the Chaos through the void left by Demon Emperor Dijun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi’s self-detonations.
• Lin Xuan followed the strengthening summons through the Chaos and reached a region where time and space were warped and frozen.
• Lin Xuan discovered the Chaos Bell, which had been hidden in the Chaos since Eastern Emperor Taiyi’s death.
• Lin Xuan touched the Chaos Bell, and its chime shook the Primordial World.
• Daoist Lu Ya abandoned his work on the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife and flew toward the bell, while Saintess Nuwa and the Saints reacted to its appearance.
• The Saints sent their personal disciples toward the source of the bell chime with Saint’s Tokens.

Lin Xuan refined the Chaos Bell and discovered Pangu’s insight into creating the heavens and earth, which he began to comprehend. Meanwhile, powerful figures gathered at the Ancient Demon Court ruins, where Haotian’s authority was challenged and the dangers of the battlefield slowed their search.

• Lin Xuan learned that the Chaos Bell had recognized him as its destined master because of his connection to Pangu.
• The Chaos Bell opened its innate restrictions, allowing Lin Xuan to refine it completely in an instant.
• Lin Xuan found Pangu’s fragment of divine consciousness inside the bell and began comprehending Pangu’s insights into creating the world.
• Daoist Lu Ya arrived at the Ancient Demon Court ruins and used Solar True Fire to destroy much of Haotian’s makeshift Heavenly Court.
• The Twelve Golden Immortals, Maitreya Golden Cicada, and other Western Sect disciples ignored Haotian and entered the ruins.
• The gathered figures reached the old battlefield, where lingering attacks injured several of them and made them hesitate before a hollow radiating Chaos Qi.

Lu Ya and the Saints’ disciples entered the Chaos to find the Chaos Bell, while Lin Xuan comprehended the Great Dao of Strength and used the bell’s chimes to temper his Chaos Demon God body. The searchers struggled through the Chaos but followed the chimes toward Lin Xuan.

• Lu Ya entered the Chaos with Nuwa’s Saint’s Token, and the Twelve Golden Immortals of Chan Sect and the Western Sect disciples followed with their own tokens.
• Lin Xuan learned that the Great Dao of Strength could absorb and suppress the power of other Great Daos, established his Dao heart, and raised his mastery of Strength from ten percent to thirty percent.
• The Chaos Bell flew from Lin Xuan’s spiritual consciousness and rang, dispersing and recombining his true body nine times until it was three times stronger.
• Lu Ya and the other searchers, injured and nearly lost in the Chaos, followed the bell’s chimes toward their source; Lu Ya had lost an arm and their Saint’s Tokens had dimmed.

The Sages argued over which disciples were destined to obtain the Chaos Bell while watching them search for it. Lin Xuan emerged from enlightenment with stronger cultivation and reflected on why the Western Sages’ unstable foundations left them weaker than their peers.

• Daoist Zhunti claimed Maitreya and Golden Cicada had a destined connection to the Chaos Bell, and Primordial Heavenly Venerate argued that it belonged with his Twelve Golden Immortals.
• Daoist Zhunti and Primordial Heavenly Venerate fell silent as the four Sages watched their disciples search through the chaos, ready to claim the Chaos Bell.
• Lin Xuan emerged from enlightenment with new insight into the Great Dao of Strength and advanced from the Hunyuan First Heaven to the Hunyuan Third Heaven.
• Lin Xuan chose to strengthen his foundation before attempting another breakthrough and considered how Zhunti and Jieyin had become Saints through merit and the Forty-Eight Great Vows.
• Lin Xuan assessed the Sages’ cultivation and concluded that his comprehension of the Great Dao of Strength and his supreme treasures could let him contend with Grand Supreme Elder Laozi.

Lin Xuan planned to restore the Chaos Green Lotus and reconstruct Pangu's Sky-Opening Divine Axe by gathering its scattered treasures. When the Five Sages arrived at the Chaos Bell's last toll, they found only an empty chaotic void and wondered whether the bell had escaped again.

• Lin Xuan decided to seek the Pangu Banner and other treasures to restore the Chaos Green Lotus and reconstruct the Sky-Opening Divine Axe.
• Lin Xuan withdrew the Chaos Bell and left, causing the chaotic currents to form a destructive vortex.
• Daoist Lu Ya, the Twelve Golden Immortals of Chan Sect, and the Western Sect disciples reached the vortex but could not cross it.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate, Grand Supreme Elder Laozi, Jieyin, Zhunti, and Empress Nuwa manifested and jointly erased the vortex.
• The disciples and Five Sages found nothing in the chaotic void and wondered whether someone had claimed the Chaos Bell or it had concealed itself and escaped.

The four saints discussed the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation but could not find a way to locate Lin Xuan and the Interception Sect. Lin Xuan then went to the Sea of Blood, where he set his sights on Ancestor Minghe.

• Empress Nuwa left the Chaos with Daoist Lu Ya, and the four saints returned their disciples to Kunlun Mountain before gathering in Jade Void Palace.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate warned that the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation could engulf the saints and their disciples.
• Daoist Zhunti said Lin Xuan had hidden the Interception Sect on Golden Ao Island behind a formation that obscured Heavenly Secrets.
• Daoist Jieyin suggested asking Hongjun to locate Golden Ao Island, but Yuanshi and Taishang rejected the idea and the saints remained at an impasse.
• Lin Xuan traveled to the Sea of Blood and targeted Ancestor Minghe, whose past attempts to gain a saintly position and merit had all failed.

Lin Xuan entered the Blood Sea intending to take Ancestor Minghe’s Twelve-Grade Karma Fire Red Lotus and Xuan Yuan Water Control Banner. Ancestor Minghe confronted him and erupted in anger when Lin Xuan asked to borrow the treasures.

• Lin Xuan arrived at the Blood Sea, where his presence forced the Asura Clan to stand aside.
• Ancestor Minghe sensed Lin Xuan’s arrival but held back until Lin Xuan neared the depths of the Blood Sea.
• Ancestor Minghe asked Lin Xuan why he had come, and Lin Xuan said he wanted his help.
• Lin Xuan asked Ancestor Minghe to lend him the Twelve-Grade Karma Fire Red Lotus and the Xuan Yuan Water Control Banner.
• Ancestor Minghe shouted that Lin Xuan was asking to die.

Lin Xuan confronted Ancestor Minghe in the sea of blood, where Minghe attacked him and discovered he was completely outmatched. Lin Xuan trapped Minghe and began refining the sea of blood, leaving Minghe begging to surrender his treasures as his undying foundation was destroyed.

• Ancestor Minghe summoned the Yuantu Abi Twin Swords and stood on the Twelve-Grade Karma Fire Red Lotus, threatening Lin Xuan.
• Minghe dismissed Lin Xuan as a junior and attacked, believing the sea of blood would make him undying.
• Lin Xuan shattered Minghe's strike and used Sleeve Universe to shrink the sea of blood and Minghe into a tiny sphere.
• Lin Xuan suppressed Minghe beneath the sea of blood and used Samadhi True Fire to refine it.
• Minghe begged Lin Xuan to release him in exchange for his treasures, but Lin Xuan said it was too late.

Lin Xuan killed Ancestor Minghe and used the Immortal Slaying Sword to destroy his Blood God Son incarnations throughout the Primordial World, preventing his resurrection. After Lin Xuan left the lifeless Blood Sea, the news reached Empress Pingxin, who connected the disaster to the Father God's bloodline aura she had sensed earlier.

• Lin Xuan suppressed Ancestor Minghe with the Boundless Blood Sea and burned his Blood God Sons, while Minghe's fear of death overwhelmed him.
• Lin Xuan saw through Ancestor Minghe's apparent acceptance of death and killed him with the Immortal Slaying Sword.
• The Immortal Slaying Sword destroyed the Blood God Sons in the Blood Sea and struck down their karmically linked incarnations across the Primordial World.
• Lin Xuan collected Ancestor Minghe's four Innate Spiritual Treasures, restored the Blood Sea, withdrew the Chaos Bead, and departed.
• Two ghosts from the Six Paths of Reincarnation found the slaughtered Asuras and reported the scene through the underworld.
• Empress Pingxin received the report and recalled the aura of Father God's bloodline she had sensed earlier.

Empress Pingxin ordered Yu Lei and Shen Tu to claim the Blood Sea, then sent her Meng Po incarnation into the Primordial World to find the bearer of Pangu's bloodline. The Saints and other powerful beings learned of Ancestor Minghe's death but could not discover the killer, and they blamed one another instead of Lin Xuan.

• Empress Pingxin felt grateful that an unknown figure had killed Ancestor Minghe and wiped out the Asura Clan, then ordered Yu Lei and Shen Tu to seize the Blood Sea.
• Empress Pingxin sent her merit-born Meng Po incarnation into the Primordial World to search for the being carrying Pangu's bloodline.
• Zhunti and Jieyin realized Ancestor Minghe and the Asura Clan had been destroyed, ruining their plans for the future Buddhist Sect.
• Yuanshi Tianzun and the other Saints failed to deduce who had killed Ancestor Minghe, and none considered Lin Xuan responsible.
• Kun Peng, Zhen Yuanzi, and other veteran quasi-saints suspected the Saints, leaving the Saints to take the blame for Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan went to the Heavenly Court to see Haotian and reflect on the hidden causes behind the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation. At the South Heaven Gate, he was challenged by a heavenly general, whose rude behavior ended in his death from terror after Lin Xuan entered.

• Lin Xuan considered whether Haotian's complaint to Dao Ancestor Hongjun had truly caused the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation and concluded that the causes behind tribulations were far more complicated.
• Lin Xuan arrived at the South Heaven Gate and criticized Haotian for using remnants of the ancient demon race to decorate the Heavenly Court.
• A heavenly general mistook Lin Xuan for a rogue immortal and ordered him to leave.
• Lin Xuan released a thread of pressure that immobilized the guards, then walked into the Heavenly Court.
• After Lin Xuan left, the guards recovered and discovered that the rude heavenly general, Old Qian, had died of fright.