Chapter Summaries

True Person Yuding entered the Heavenly Prison with Yang Jian and Yang Chan to rescue Fairy Yaoji, but Haotian ordered the Queen Mother and the Heavenly Court’s forces to capture them. After Yuding shattered the Nine Heavens and was bound by Gao Tao, Primordial Lord rallied the Three Pure Ones’ disciples to his aid; the chapter ended as Gao Tao found he could not retrieve the cage restraining Yuding.

• Haotian imprisoned Fairy Yaoji and learned that True Person Yuding had rescued Yang Jian and Yang Chan from the Heavenly Court’s pursuit.
• Primordial Lord learned of Yuding’s intervention and urged him to stop acting cautiously and make the Heavenly Court tremble.
• Yuding brought Yang Jian and Yang Chan to the Heavenly Prison to rescue Yaoji, where Gao Tao confronted and attacked him.
• Yuding broke through the Nine Heavens, prompting the Queen Mother to mobilize her troops and Haotian to summon more forces.
• Gao Tao bound Yuding with his Chains and Cage divine ability, while Primordial Lord sent the other Chan Sect Golden Immortals to assist him and disciples of the Interception and Human Sects also set out for the Heavenly Court.
• Gao Tao discovered that he could not withdraw the cage around Yuding, and the sound of chains snapping echoed through the ninth level of the Heavenly Prison.

True Person Yuding was surrounded in the Heavenly Court, but the disciples of the Three Teachings arrived to support him, and Primordial Lord defeated and extorted the Two Sages of the West. After learning of a supreme treasure beneath Buzhou Mountain, Primordial Lord prepared a two-pronged raid on the Western Teachings, and the disciples set out when he declared the time had come.

• Haotian summoned the Two Sages of the West to help the Heavenly Court attack True Person Yuding, while Primordial Lord learned of their departure and of a supreme treasure beneath Buzhou Mountain.
• The Queen Mother led one hundred thousand heavenly soldiers against True Person Yuding, but Zhao Gongming, Xuandu, Guangchengzi, Taiyi Zhenren, Daoist Duobao, and the other disciples of the Three Teachings arrived to reinforce him.
• Jieyin and Zhunti attacked the disciples, and Nuwa intervened on their behalf before Primordial Lord arrived and beat the Two Sages into surrendering spiritual roots and treasures.
• Primordial Lord restored his disciples, gave them spiritual roots, and returned with them to Jade Void Palace, where Tongtian and Grand Supreme Elder Lord of Morality discovered his Thirty-Six-Petal Creation Green Lotus and heard of the treasure beneath Buzhou Mountain.
• Primordial Lord proposed that the Three Pure Ones retrieve the Buzhou Mountain treasure while their disciples looted the Western Teachings with the aid of the Heavenly Mystery Compass, and the Three Pure Ones assigned Guangchengzi to lead the operation.
• When Primordial Lord announced that the time had come, the disciples cheered and cried, “Blades in hand, follow me! Raid the West and seize the opportunities!”

A crimson supreme-grade Innate Spiritual Root emerged at Buzhou Mountain, where Zhunti and Jieyin tricked countless cultivators into sacrificing themselves before the Three Pure Ones drove them off. The Western Teachings were then stripped of their entire foundation, and Primordial Lord’s final divination warned that a calamity threatening the whole Great Wilderness was approaching.

• A powerful treasure omen appeared at Buzhou Mountain, drawing factions and cultivators from across the Great Wilderness while the Three Pure Ones secretly sent disciples to plunder the Western Teachings.
• Zhunti and Jieyin lured cultivators into the deadly white light, then tried to claim the crimson spiritual root it revealed.
• Primordial Lord, Tongtian, and Grand Supreme Elder Lord of Morality arrived and defeated Zhunti and Jieyin, forcing them to abandon the spiritual root.
• Zhunti and Jieyin returned to find the Three Pure Ones’ disciples had looted the Western Teachings, including its spirit veins, treasures, formations, medicines, and soil.
• After Primordial Lord used the Heavenly Mystery Compass to investigate, he told Tongtian and Grand Supreme Elder Lord of Morality that a calamity threatening the entire Great Wilderness was coming.

Primordial Lord warned the Three Pure Ones that an immeasurable tribulation would devastate the Great Wilderness, and Dao Ancestor Hongjun summoned the Saints to announce the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation. When the Western Sages tried to push the Interception Sect into the calamity, Hongjun gave the Investiture of the Gods List and God-Beating Whip to Zhunti and Jieyin, leaving Primordial Lord eyeing the pair and considering how to take the treasures from them.

• Primordial Lord told Tongtian and the Grand Supreme Elder Lord of Morality that the coming tribulation would threaten their teachings, humanity, and the Netherworld, then urged the brothers to stay united.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun summoned the Saints to the Purple Cloud Palace, where Zhunti and Jieyin complained that the Three Pure Ones had plundered the Western Teachings.
• Hongjun announced the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation and explained that disciples from every sect could be killed and entered on the list.
• Zhunti and Jieyin urged Tongtian to send Interception Sect disciples onto the list, while Primordial Lord, the Grand Supreme Elder Lord of Morality, Tongtian, and Nuwa pressured the Western Sages to offer their own disciples instead.
• Hongjun ended the dispute by saying the Saints could either agree on candidates or compete to fill the list, then entrusted the Investiture of the Gods List and God-Beating Whip to Zhunti and Jieyin.
• Primordial Lord noticed that the treasures had gone to the Western Sages instead of the Chan Sect and watched them closely as the Saints left the palace.

Primordial Lord plotted with Tongtian, Grand Supreme Elder Lord of Morality, and Nuwa to trick Zhunti and Jieyin into handing over the Investiture of the Gods List and God-Beating Whip. He then blockaded Western Heaven to pressure the Western Teachings to sign the list, leaving Zhunti and Jieyin humiliated and unable to retaliate.

• Primordial Lord rejected Tongtian's proposal to seize the treasures by force and devised a scheme to make the Two Sages of the West surrender them voluntarily.
• Tongtian pretended that Jieyin had injured him, and Grand Supreme Elder Lord of Morality and Primordial Lord confronted Zhunti and Jieyin while Nuwa acted as mediator.
• Jieyin handed the Investiture of the Gods List and God-Beating Whip to Primordial Lord, thwarting Hongjun's plan to punish the Three Pure Ones for stealing them.
• Primordial Lord demanded that the Western Teachings sign the list, then sent disciples of the Three Teachings to blockade Western Heaven when Zhunti and Jieyin refused.
• Zhunti attacked the disciples, but Primordial Lord's imprint kicked him back, and the disciples continued to besiege Western Heaven under Primordial Lord's protection.

Primordial Lord guided the Three Pure Ones to spread their teachings among humanity and help Nuwa establish the Human Dao as the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation approached. After Primordial Lord and Tongtian advanced their cultivation, Zhunti and Jieyin schemed to turn Nuwa against the Three Pure Ones by manipulating Di Xin, who desecrated Nuwa’s statue and declared he would replace it with one of Grand Supreme Elder Lord of Morality.

• Primordial Lord told Tongtian and Grand Supreme Elder Lord of Morality that the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation would erupt within the mortal dynasties, and urged them to have their disciples spread the Dao among humanity without accepting disciples.
• Tongtian and Grand Supreme Elder Lord of Morality sent disciples to teach humanity, while some disciples continued to harass the Western Heaven; over time, humanity’s destiny grew stronger and Di Xin took the throne of Shang.
• Nuwa prepared to establish the Human Dao as the approaching tribulation threatened humanity’s destiny, while Tongtian broke through to the Sixth Heaven of Sainthood and Primordial Lord reached the Ninth Heaven of Sainthood.
• Zhunti and Jieyin plotted to exploit Di Xin’s visit to Nuwa’s Palace and blame his actions on the Three Pure Ones, hoping to divide Nuwa from them.
• Di Xin wrote a poem expressing desire for Nuwa, dismissed Shang Rong’s warnings, toppled and smashed Nuwa’s statue, and announced that he would erect a statue of Grand Supreme Elder Lord of Morality instead.

Di Xin toppled Nuwa’s statue and declared that he would replace it with an altar to the Grand Supreme Elder Lord of Morality, provoking Nuwa and exposing the Western Sages’ scheme. Primordial Lord revealed the truth to Nuwa, then joined the Three Pure Ones in attacking the West, where he killed Zhunti and left Jieyin facing the remaining Saints.

• Di Xin smashed Nuwa’s statue and announced that he would worship the Grand Supreme Elder Lord of Morality, while Nuwa restrained herself from killing him because he was the Human Emperor.
• Nuwa went to the Three Pure Ones Realm seeking answers, but its formation repelled her until Primordial Lord emerged and showed her that Zhunti and Jieyin had magnified Di Xin’s hidden thoughts and caused him to topple the statue.
• Nuwa attacked Zhunti and Jieyin in Western Heaven, and Primordial Lord arrived with Grand Supreme Elder Lord of Morality and Tongtian to join the battle.
• Primordial Lord shattered Zhunti’s Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree, overwhelmed his defenses, and pursued him despite his attempts to escape.
• Primordial Lord struck Zhunti with the God-Slaying Spear, destroying his primordial spirit and causing the Heavenly Dao and Great Wilderness to tremble.

Primordial Lord killed Zhunti and Jieyin, destroying both Western Sages despite Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s intervention. After Hongjun invoked the Heavenly Dao against him, Primordial Lord stood firm and faced him head-on.

• Primordial Lord annihilated Zhunti’s primordial spirit, causing heaven and earth to mourn and shocking the Great Wilderness.
• Jieyin fled from Primordial Lord, but Primordial Lord pursued and gravely wounded him with the Pangu Banner and World Destroying Profound Light.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun appeared to protect Jieyin and ordered the Saints to return to their domains, while Nuwa, Tongtian, and Grand Supreme Elder Lord of Morality defended Primordial Lord.
• Primordial Lord chose to ignore Hongjun’s obstruction and struck Jieyin with the Chaos Heaven Intercepting Finger, annihilating his primordial spirit.
• Hongjun invoked the Heavenly Dao against Primordial Lord, who remained standing and faced him directly.

Primordial Lord survived Hongjun’s confrontation, advised Nuwa on the succession from Shang to Zhou, and prepared for the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation. Nuwa destroyed her Saint’s Dao Fruit and announced that she was leaving the Mystic Gate to establish the Human Dao, leaving the Great Wilderness stunned.

• The Grand Supreme Elder Lord of Morality, Tongtian, and Nuwa stood with Primordial Lord, and Hongjun ended his confrontation rather than risk further damage to the Heavenly Dao’s fortune.
• Primordial Lord advised Nuwa to choose Ji Chang as the next Human Emperor and establish the Human Dao; Nuwa then sent the three demons of Xuanyuan Tomb to carry out her decree and aid King Wu’s future attack on Zhou.
• Hongjun restored Zhunti and Jieyin, while Primordial Lord received the Yellow Middle Plum and Primordial Chaos Creation Dao and began cultivating the new divine ability.
• Primordial Lord sent Jiang Ziya down the mountain with the God-Beating Whip and prepared Tongtian and the Grand Supreme Elder Lord of Morality to assist Nuwa.
• On Shouyang Mountain, Nuwa stripped the Heavenly Dao’s power from her Saint’s Dao Fruit, destroyed it, and reclaimed her complete True Spirit.
• The Heavenly Dao announced Nuwa’s destruction of her Dao Fruit, and Nuwa declared that she was leaving the Mystic Gate and severing all karma with it.

Nuwa severed her ties with the Mystic Gate and endured the Heavenly Dao’s Purple Cloud Lightning Tribulation as the Three Pure Ones and the Two Sages of the West converged on Shouyang Mountain. Primordial Lord used a concealed plan to kill Jieyin and Zhunti, and Nuwa ended the chapter by proclaiming the Human Dao and its Divine Wheel.

• Nuwa left the Mystic Gate, severed her karma with it, and withstood the Purple Cloud Lightning Tribulation on Shouyang Mountain.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun ordered the Five Saints to suppress Nuwa, and Primordial Lord, Grand Supreme Elder Lord of Morality, and Tongtian entered the tribulation under cover of the Chaos Pearl.
• Primordial Lord and Nuwa feigned a falling-out, prompting Jieyin and Zhunti to enter the tribulation, where Primordial Lord’s Primordial Chaos Creation Dao destroyed them.
• The tribulation vanished, and Nuwa appeared to have defeated the Three Pure Ones, while Primordial Lord and the others pretended to be gravely wounded.
• Nuwa declared that she would manifest the Human Dao and establish the Human Dao Divine Wheel.

Nuwa established the Human Dao at Shouyang Mountain while Hongjun tried to stop her, and Primordial Lord secretly aided her throughout the battle. The Human Dao Divine Wheel took shape, forcing the Heavenly Dao to yield, while Hongjun retreated to Purple Cloud Palace suspicious of Primordial Lord.

• Nuwa gathered the human race’s fortune and will through the Human Dao Seal as the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors knelt in support of her.
• Hongjun appeared at Shouyang Mountain and attacked Nuwa with the Heavenly Dao’s power, but Primordial Lord concealed his aid by pretending to fight her.
• Primordial Lord weakened Hongjun’s attacks, struck him with the Primordial Chaos Measuring Heaven Ruler, and gave Nuwa the Thirty-Six-Petal Creation Green Lotus.
• The human race poured its faith into the Human Dao Divine Wheel, and Nuwa completed its formation and resisted the Heavenly Dao until it withdrew.
• Hongjun fled as Nuwa declared that the human race itself was Dao, while Primordial Lord, Tongtian, and the Grand Supreme Elder Lord of Morality returned to the Three Pure Ones Realm.
• Hongjun returned to Purple Cloud Palace, angry at Nuwa’s success and questioning whether Primordial Lord had been acting against him.

Primordial Lord recruited Ancestor Styx and Daoist Mosquito into the Chan Sect, offering Styx Primordial Violet Qi and arranging for the Asura race to join the underworld. He then asked Houtu to protect Three Pure Ones disciples from the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation and claimed he might revive Pangu's heart, leaving her stunned.

• Hongjun restored Zhunti and Jieyin, questioned them about Nuwa's attack, and told them to aid Shang during the coming Investiture of the Gods Tribulation.
• The Three Pure Ones discussed preparations for the tribulation, and Primordial Lord departed to negotiate with Houtu.
• Primordial Lord offered Ancestor Styx a strand of Primordial Violet Qi and a place for the Asura race in the underworld; Styx and Daoist Mosquito joined the Chan Sect.
• Zhunti and Jieyin learned that Styx had left the Asura race and hurried to claim it for the Western Teachings.
• Primordial Lord brought Styx, Daoist Mosquito, and the Asura race to the underworld and asked Houtu to keep Three Pure Ones disciples out of the Investiture of the Gods List and reincarnation.
• Primordial Lord offered to revive Pangu's heart, and Houtu rose in disbelief.

Primordial Lord persuaded Ksitigarbha to sever his ties with the Western Teachings and serve the Netherworld, then traveled with Fengdu to the Wu clan to seek entry to Pangu Temple. After urging the Wu clan not to abandon hope, Primordial Lord reached the temple and stepped onto its stone stairs, leaving his entry uncertain.

• Houtu agreed to let the Asura Clan join the Netherworld and asked Primordial Lord how to deal with Ksitigarbha, whom she had imprisoned in the Earthly Dao Space.
• Primordial Lord challenged Ksitigarbha to abandon his ties to the Western Teachings, and Ksitigarbha severed his karma with Jieyin and Zhunti to fulfill his vow in Hell.
• Houtu named Ksitigarbha master of the Hell Dao, and his cultivation rose to the Saint-to-be realm; Zhunti and Jieyin confronted Primordial Lord, apologized under threat, and left.
• Houtu sent Fengdu with Primordial Lord to the Wu clan so its members could guide him to Pangu Temple.
• Primordial Lord encouraged the dispirited Wu clan and learned from Jiu Feng and Xiangliu that even the clan could no longer enter Pangu Temple.
• Jiu Feng led Primordial Lord to Pangu Temple, where he stepped onto the stone stairs.

Primordial Lord entered Pangu Temple, awakened Pangu’s Heart with the Law of Strength, and gained Pangu’s True Body and inheritance. The Witch Clan named him its Thirteenth Ancestral Shaman, while the Great Wilderness’s powerful figures reacted with shock to the revival.

• Primordial Lord manifested Pangu’s mark to withstand the temple’s pressure, entered Pangu Temple, and discovered Pangu’s sleeping heart.
• Primordial Lord used the Heavenly Mystery Compass to deduce that the Law of Strength could awaken the heart, then drew on the Jade Disk of Creation to wield that law.
• Primordial Lord awakened Pangu’s Heart and received Pangu’s True Body, raising his physical strength to the Ninth Heaven of Hunyuan.
• Pangu’s heartbeat and a vast pillar of vital energy spread across the Great Wilderness, alerting Fengdu, Xiangliu, Jiu Feng, and powerful figures throughout the realms.
• Pangu’s phantom granted Primordial Lord an inheritance, and the Wu Clan hailed him as its Thirteenth Ancestral Shaman.

After becoming the Witch race’s thirteenth Ancestral Witch, Primordial Lord strengthened his alliance with Houtu and brought Ancestor Minghe and Daoist Mosquito into the Three Pure Ones Realm. As Hongjun sent Haotian to demand that the Chan Sect’s Twelve Golden Immortals submit to the Heavenly Court, the sect’s disciples prepared to confront him.

• The Witch race swore allegiance to Primordial Lord, who declared that anyone who humiliated them would also insult him and the Three Pure Ones.
• Primordial Lord studied Pangu’s Primordial Nine Revolutions Profound Art, then discussed the coming Investiture of the Gods Tribulation with Houtu and brought Ancestor Minghe and Daoist Mosquito back to the Three Pure Ones Realm.
• Primordial Lord gave Daoist Mosquito one hundred thousand Post-celestial Spiritual Roots to help her advance and began cultivating Pangu’s inheritance.
• Hongjun told Haotian that issuing an edict against the Chan Sect would give him a chance to attain sainthood, so Haotian carried the Heavenly Dao’s order to the Three Pure Ones Realm.
• Haotian demanded that the Twelve Golden Immortals enter the Investiture of the Gods and submit to the Heavenly Court, prompting the Twelve Golden Immortals and disciples from both the Chan Sect and Interception Sect to rise against him.

Haotian used the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation and Heavenly Dao Merit to become a Saint, then attacked the disciples of the Three Teachings and tried to send them onto the Investiture of the Gods List. Primordial Lord arrived to protect them and unleashed the Primordial Chaos Golden Saber of Fate Cutting against Haotian, leaving the strike poised to sever his Sainthood.

• Primordial Lord ordered the Twelve Golden Immortals to kill Haotian, but Haotian wielded the Heavenly Dao decree to repel them and the other disciples of the Three Teachings.
• Haotian vowed to protect the Heavenly Dao, entrusted his true spirit to the Heavenly Dao River, and became a Saint.
• Primordial Lord chose the system reward of the Primordial Chaos Golden Saber of Fate Cutting, which could sever a Saint's Primordial Violet Qi.
• Haotian defeated the disciples of the Three Teachings and tried to suppress Ancestor Minghe with the Haotian Pagoda, but Primordial Lord destroyed the pagoda with a punch.
• Primordial Lord sent the Primordial Chaos Golden Saber of Fate Cutting toward Haotian, threatening to sever his fate and Sainthood.

Primordial Lord killed Haotian, resisted Hongjun with the support of the Three Pure Ones, Houtu, and Nuwa, then helped the Three Pure Ones withdraw their true spirits from the Heavenly Dao. As the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation approached, he sent Taiyi Zhenren to claim Nezha as a disciple, setting the conflict in motion.

• Primordial Lord severed Haotian’s Primordial Violet Qi and then destroyed him with the World Destroying Profound Light, despite Hongjun’s order to stop.
• Grand Supreme Elder Lord of Morality and Tongtian joined Primordial Lord against Hongjun, while the Witch Clan, Houtu, and Nuwa lent their support until Hongjun withdrew.
• Primordial Lord proposed that the Three Pure Ones retrieve their true spirits from the Heavenly Dao, and the three renounced their Sage Dao Fruits as they broke free of its restraint.
• Primordial Lord healed the Three Teachings’ disciples and ordered Taiyi Zhenren to take Nezha as his disciple so the child would not end up on the Investiture of the Gods List.
• Taiyi Zhenren visited Li Jing after Nezha’s birth, named the child, and accepted him as his disciple.

Primordial Lord began maneuvering in the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation, sending Shen Gongbao to infiltrate Yin Shang and arranging for Minghe and Zhenyuanzi to receive Primordial Violet Qi. Meanwhile, Hongjun allied with Haotian and the Western Sages against Primordial Lord, and the chapter left Yin Shang having made the Western Teachings its state religion.

• Primordial Lord ordered Shen Gongbao to pose as a traitor, enter Yin Shang, and draw Western Teachings disciples into the tribulation while seeking to recruit Kong Xuan for the Chan Sect.
• Shen Gongbao publicly denounced the Chan Sect and left for Yin Shang, while Zhunti and Jieyin decided to recruit him and seek an alliance with Haotian.
• Primordial Lord gave Minghe and Zhenyuanzi strands of Primordial Violet Qi, and discovered that Daoist Mosquito had plundered the Heavenly Court.
• Hongjun restored Haotian’s path to Sagehood and ordered him to recruit Lu Ya, support Di Xin, and oppose Nuwa; Haotian then found the Heavenly Court devastated and allied with Zhunti and Jieyin against Primordial Lord.
• Zhunti and Jieyin persuaded Di Xin to make the Western Teachings Yin Shang’s state religion, and Di Xin asked Shen Gongbao to approve the decision.

Di Xin made the Western Teachings Yin Shang’s state religion, prompting the Three Pure Ones to turn their support toward Xi Qi. Primordial Lord recruited Kong Xuan into the Chan Sect, then sent disciples of all three Eastern sects to aid Xi Qi; the chapter ended as a Saintly Voice intervened against the Western Teachings’ assault on the city.

• Di Xin proclaimed the Western Teachings Yin Shang’s state religion, linking its fortune with Yin Shang and angering Nuwa and the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.
• Primordial Lord reached Three Mountain Pass before Zhunti and Jieyin, recruited Kong Xuan into the Chan Sect, and slapped the Two Sages of the West away when they tried to claim him.
• Primordial Lord ordered Daoist Randeng and Yunzhongzi to take Li Jing and Leizhenzi as disciples, then directed Chan Sect and Interception Sect disciples to assist Xi Qi.
• After recovering to the Ninth Heaven of Sainthood, Primordial Lord joined Grand Supreme Elder Lord of Morality and Tongtian in sending their disciples to Xi Qi to place Western Teachings disciples on the Investiture of the Gods List.
• Zhang Guifang’s army confronted Jiang Ziya outside Xi Qi, and Sunlight Bodhisattva, Moonlight Bodhisattva, and the Eight Vajras attacked the city’s forces.
• As the Western Teachings’ forces advanced on Jiang Ziya, Primordial Lord’s voice declared that they had no right to meddle in the Eastern Lands.

Primordial Lord intervened to save Xi Qi, where his disciples defeated the Western Teachings and the Yin-Shang army collapsed, prompting the Two Sages of the West to enlist Haotian and the Demon Race. As the rival forces gathered for a decisive assault on Xi Qi, Primordial Lord prepared to bring the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation to its climax.

• Primordial Lord arrived with Grand Supreme Elder Lord of Morality and Sovereign Lord of the Heavens, ordered the Three Sects' disciples to assist Xi Qi, and forbade the Two Sages of the West from interfering.
• The Twelve Golden Immortals killed or captured the Western Teachings' disciples, while Primordial Lord's words prompted many Yin-Shang soldiers to surrender; Zhang Guifang fought on and died by suicide after being surrounded.
• The Two Sages of the West withdrew to the Heaven Court, where Haotian promised them the Demon Race's support and recruited Lu Ya to restore the Demon Race's former glory.
• Shen Gongbao warned Primordial Lord that the Western Teachings, Heavenly Court, and Demon Race had assembled an army to attack Xi Qi, and Primordial Lord resolved to send them all onto the Investiture of the Gods List.
• The allied forces gathered outside Xi Qi City as Nuwa objected to the Demon Race's actions, while Primordial Lord emerged from Jade Void Palace and prepared to unleash the next stage of the battle.