Recaps

Zhou Qingqing offered Di Jun a chance to return to the Primordial World, and he secured it by presenting the Innate Star Tree and promising to help her. After she accepted, Tongtian appeared in Outer Heaven to bring Di Jun down to the Primordial World.

• Zhou Qingqing told Di Jun that a symbolic offering would be enough for his revival match.
• Di Jun revealed the Innate Star Tree, whose fruits could help recreate the Cosmic Stellar Formation.
• Di Jun offered to help Zhou Qingqing after returning to the Primordial World, as long as it did not go against his heart.
• Zhou Qingqing accepted the deal and told Di Jun to explain his departure to Outer Heaven before coming down.
• Tongtian appeared before Di Jun, who realized the Three Pure Ones and Zhou Qingqing had arranged his return.

Zhou Qingqing used the Flying Lotus Dream Entry to let Di Jun sense Heavenly Dao Hongjun’s self corpse, which they identified as a Corpse Liberation Immortal linked to the Immortal Path. After recognizing the conflict between the saints, Di Jun offered to watch over the corpse and asked Qingqing to teach him the Divine Path.

• Di Jun arrived and asked Zhou Qingqing whether Heavenly Dao Hongjun had a self corpse.
• Zhou Qingqing manifested a thirty-sixth-grade green lotus, allowing Di Jun to sense the hidden self corpse through the Flying Lotus.
• Di Jun suspected the self corpse was connected to the Immortal Path, and Zhou Qingqing identified it as a Corpse Liberation Immortal.
• Bai Ze realized the Investiture of the Gods Calamity involved contests between saints and saw that Di Jun had become involved through Zhou Qingqing.
• Di Jun offered to watch over the Corpse Liberation Immortal and asked Zhou Qingqing to teach him the Divine Path.

Zhou Qingqing guided Di Jun in cultivating the Dao of Primal Beginning and transformed the Demon Emperor Sword into an innate Primal Beginning Formless Sword. Di Jun attained the Dao of Primordial Chaos, and Zhou Qingqing moved him into the Chaos Gourd to conceal the process.

• Zhou Qingqing explained the Dao of Primal Beginning to Di Jun as a bridge to the Divine Path.
• Di Jun cultivated Primal Beginning with the Demon Emperor Sword, strengthening his imperial aura.
• Zhou Qingqing used the Qiankun Cauldron and red and black flames to refine the Demon Emperor Sword into an innate Primal Beginning Formless Sword.
• Di Jun merged the sword with Primal Beginning, reclaimed the Demon Clan's fortune, and attained the Dao of Primordial Chaos.
• Zhou Qingqing tossed Di Jun into the Chaos Gourd so he could complete his attainment without drawing mana from the Primordial World.

Zhou Qingqing put Di Jun inside the Chaos Gourd, where he used his Three-Legged Golden Crow form and Ultimate Dao Emperor Qi to ascend to the Primordial Chaos Dao. Di Jun emerged as a Primordial Chaos Zenith Heaven Divine Venerate, opening a path for the Demon Clan to attain godhood.

• Zhou Qingqing tossed Di Jun into the Chaos Gourd, and he revealed his Three-Legged Golden Crow form to cultivate within it.
• Di Jun drew the gourd’s spiritual energy into Emperor’s Flowing Nectar and merged the Ultimate Dao Emperor Qi with his body.
• Di Jun transformed his Solar True Fire into Solar Divine Fire and used his Golden Crow form to step onto the Divine Path.
• Di Jun returned to human form, emerged from the Chaos Gourd, and declared himself the first demon to walk the Primordial Chaos path.
• Bai Ze recognized Di Jun as a Primordial Chaos Zenith Heaven Divine Venerate and anticipated that his ascension would open a path to godhood for the Demon Clan.

Di Jun agreed to mark the Corpse Liberation Immortal while Bai Ze became Zhou Qingqing’s full-time butler. After Di Jun hid himself as spiritual energy on Blue Planet, he discovered that Dao Ancestor Hongjun was apparently away from Purple Cloud Palace, leaving Zhou Qingqing and the others an opening to make larger moves.

• Di Jun offered to handle the Self Corpse, and Zhou Qingqing agreed to deal with the Corpse Liberation Immortal.
• Di Jun released Bai Ze from his Demon Clan mission and ordered him to bring out the Bai Ze Diagram.
• Di Jun imprinted himself and Taiyi onto the Bai Ze Diagram, while the Wisdom Lotus helped Bai Ze withstand its power.
• Di Jun transformed into Emperor's Flowing Nectar to cultivate and watch over the Corpse Liberation Immortal on Blue Planet.
• Zhou Qingqing helped Bai Ze stabilize his cultivation and then let him resume transforming Blue Planet.
• Di Jun reported that his reverse-inference suggested Dao Ancestor Hongjun was no longer in Purple Cloud Palace, prompting Zhou Qingqing to consider making larger moves.

Zhou Qingqing summoned Cangjie to Blue Planet to record the Three Pure Ones’ Creation and the planet’s evolution in writing for future projected cultivators. Studying the divine script advanced Cangjie to the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal realm, and Nuwa sent him Primordial Purple Qi, strengthening his prospects of becoming a Human Dao Saint before the Calamity.

• After learning Bai Ze had finished remodeling Blue Planet’s mountains and seas, Zhou Qingqing summoned Cangjie to create an account of its origins and the Three Pure Ones’ Creation.
• Zhou Qingqing gave Cangjie divine script to study and use in his records for cultivators who would enter Blue Planet.
• As Cangjie absorbed the divine script, he advanced from Zenith Heaven to the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal realm.
• Nuwa observed Cangjie’s evolving double pupils and sent him Primordial Purple Qi, hoping he would forge his path before the Calamity.
• Cangjie received Nuwa’s gift and resolved to complete Zhou Qingqing’s request well.

Zhou Qingqing guided Bai Ze and Cangjie in composing the Creation of the Three Pure Ones, a creation myth based on her own understanding of the Great Dao. Cangjie used the finished torrent of words to attain Human Dao sainthood as the Sage of Words, while the Two Sages of the West lamented that the Three Pure Ones had gained an advantage before the Calamity began.

• Bai Ze revealed the transformed Bai Ze Diagram and Classic of Mountains and Seas to Cangjie, who manifested countless forms of writing.
• Zhou Qingqing recounted the laws of creation and instructed Bai Ze and Cangjie to compose a creation myth through words.
• Cangjie concluded the myth with the line, "Though the three titles differ, they are originally one," and the torrent of words fully manifested on Blue Planet.
• Cangjie declared himself the Sage of Words, attained Human Dao sainthood, and received a vast descent of merit.
• The Two Sages of the West recognized the myth's advantage for the Three Pure Ones and complained that they could not replace it with a Western Sect creation myth.

After Cangjie became a saint through his work on Blue Planet, Haotian and Yaochi, along with Minghe and Nether Mosquito, decided to seek opportunities with Qingqing. Cangjie left to meet Nuwa as envoys from the Heavenly Court and Underworld arrived on Blue Planet.

• Haotian asked Yaochi to approach Qingqing about improving their cultivation, then decided to accompany her and put the Jade Emperor in charge of the Heavenly Court.
• Nether Mosquito urged Minghe to seek a chance to go to Blue Planet, and he agreed to ask Houtu for permission.
• Houtu welcomed Minghe and Nether Mosquito, sent them to Qingqing, and gave Minghe a strand of Primordial Purple Qi.
• Cangjie thanked Qingqing for helping him attain sainthood and offered to assist with her future expansion packs before preparing to visit Nuwa.
• Cangjie sensed people arriving from the Heavenly Court and Underworld, then left Blue Planet.

Haotian, Yaochi, Old Ancestor Minghe, and Nether Mosquito arrived on Blue Planet and met Zhou Qingqing, who tasked Minghe and his disciple with building the Six Paths of Reincarnation. Minghe interpreted her hint as an instruction to create a more imposing Asura race, while Nether Mosquito remained bewildered.

• Haotian and Yaochi met Old Ancestor Minghe and Nether Mosquito beyond Blue Planet, and the four entered together.
• Bai Ze welcomed the group, while Zhou Qingqing was surprised that Haotian had come in person.
• Zhou Qingqing reflected that Minghe had not created the Asura Clan or an Asura Sect and considered how the Asuras might be improved.
• Zhou Qingqing assigned Minghe and Nether Mosquito to build Blue Planet's Six Paths of Reincarnation and suggested they create beings such as martial-looking Asuras if they needed help.
• Minghe thanked Zhou Qingqing for her guidance, believing she had hinted that he should create a race, while Nether Mosquito wondered what he had understood.

Zhou Qingqing proposed ways for Haotian and Yaochi to advance their cultivation by establishing a Yellow Heaven and cultivating golden lotuses. The chapter left Yaochi preparing to build Yaochi Sacred Land and study the Twelve-Petaled Merit Golden Lotus, while Qingqing asked her to save peaches for her junior brothers.

• Zhou Qingqing decided to repay Haotian and Yaochi for supporting her during the Calamity.
• Zhou Qingqing told Haotian to establish the Heavenly Realm and declare that the Azure Heaven was dead and the Yellow Heaven would rise, so the Yellow Heaven could support his Evil Corpse.
• Yaochi expressed happiness that Haotian had received a new way to pursue his wish.
• Zhou Qingqing offered Yaochi the Twelve-Petaled Merit Golden Lotus to observe and asked her to cultivate a Nine-Petaled Golden Lotus in Yaochi Sacred Land.
• Zhou Qingqing told Yaochi to save peaches for her junior brothers, who loved eating them.

Haotian severed his Evil Corpse, Huangtian, while Yaochi completed her secret art and formed a nine-petaled Golden Lotus. Their breakthroughs were overshadowed when Old Ancestor Minghe created the Asura Clan and attained Earth Dao sainthood, revealing how much Blue Planet had changed.

• Bai Ze woke Zhou Qingqing and told her Haotian and Yaochi were nearing breakthroughs after ten yuanhui of work on the Nine Heavens Palace and Yaochi Sacred Land.
• Haotian used the Haotian Pagoda and the Nine Heavens to sever his Evil Corpse, which appeared as Huangtian.
• Yaochi formed a nine-petaled Golden Lotus and completed her secret art.
• Old Ancestor Minghe created the Asura Clan and Asura Sect, then became the Asura Slaughter Saint and an Earth Dao Saint.
• The Primordial World noticed Minghe's breakthrough and discovered that Blue Planet had gained the phantom of the Nine Heavens as well as Minghe's Reincarnation.

Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti decided the Western Sect should join the Qingqing Calamity and sent Daoist Burning Lamp to negotiate with Zhou Qingqing. Zhou Qingqing accepted the Primordial Plantain Tree as a gift and considered how to use its four leaves.

• Daoist Zhunti urged Daoist Jieyin to seek Zhou Qingqing's permission for the Western Sect to participate in the Calamity, and Daoist Jieyin agreed to offer her spiritual treasures.
• Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti sent Daoist Burning Lamp to Blue Planet with gifts, warning him that Zhou Qingqing held the key to joining the Calamity.
• Daoist Burning Lamp presented the Primordial Plantain Tree to Bai Ze, who relayed the news to Zhou Qingqing.
• Zhou Qingqing noticed the tree had four leaves and speculated that each contained one of the four elements.
• Zhou Qingqing decided to accept the Primordial Plantain Tree and considered giving its leaves to several Masters while keeping one for herself.

Zhou Qingqing accepted Daoist Burning Lamp’s Primordial Plantain Tree and let him establish a Western Sect projection site on Blue Planet. She rejected the Land of Ultimate Bliss and persuaded him to build Spirit Mountain modeled on Spirit Vulture Mountain, leaving Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti pleased that the Western Sect had been allowed to enter.

• Zhou Qingqing permitted Daoist Burning Lamp to meet her, and Bai Ze accepted the Primordial Plantain Tree he offered.
• Daoist Burning Lamp asked Zhou Qingqing for permission to establish the Land of Ultimate Bliss on Blue Planet.
• Zhou Qingqing said the Land of Ultimate Bliss could not be replicated there and suggested he establish Spirit Mountain modeled on Spirit Vulture Mountain.
• Daoist Burning Lamp accepted her proposal and eagerly went to the western region of Blue Planet to establish Spirit Mountain.
• Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti saw Burning Lamp had not returned and believed their plan to enter the Calamity was succeeding.

Daoist Burning Lamp completed Spirit Mountain on Blue Planet and severed his past self, while Zhou Qingqing and the Three Pure Ones watched. The Two Sages of the West accepted the costly, undersized mountain as a loss and decided that Zhunti would have to go to Blue Planet himself.

• Bai Ze reported that Daoist Burning Lamp had nearly completed Spirit Mountain, and Zhou Qingqing said he might sever his past self once it was finished.
• Daoist Burning Lamp completed Spirit Mountain, manifested a Sarira, and severed his past self into Lamp-Light Tathagata.
• Daoist Burning Lamp returned to the West, where Daoist Jieyin praised him for completing his task and sent him to cultivate.
• Daoist Zhunti lamented that the Western Sect had traded four banana leaves for a Spirit Mountain too small to support the sect.
• Daoist Jieyin said sending Medicine Master and Maitreya would not help and told Zhunti that he had to go to Blue Planet himself.

Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti sent Zhunti’s benevolent corpse incarnation, Subhuti, to Blue Planet to secretly establish Mind Platform Square-Inch Mountain and Slanting Moon Three-Star Cave. Zhou Qingqing recognized him and planned to put him on the Investiture of the Gods List, while Subhuti began building the hidden foothold.

• Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti sent Subhuti to Blue Planet under a concealed identity to create a secret foothold for the Western Sect.
• Zhou Qingqing told Bai Ze to watch a leaf falling in the west, and Bai Ze suspected it was connected to the Two Sages of the West.
• Zhou Qingqing identified the leaf as a Sumeru-Seed containing Patriarch Bodhi, Daoist Zhunti’s benevolent corpse incarnation, and ordered Bai Ze to report when he acted.
• Zhou Qingqing planned to expose Patriarch Bodhi and put him on the Investiture of the Gods List, but became sleepy after monitoring Blue Planet.
• Patriarch Bodhi began constructing Mind Platform Square-Inch Mountain and Slanting Moon Three-Star Cave as a hidden Western Sect foothold.

Bai Ze confronted Patriarch Bodhi after discovering him secretly establishing Square Inch Mountain on Blue Planet, then used the encounter to deepen his understanding of the Wisdom Great Dao. Zhou Qingqing arrived after Bai Ze feigned injury and announced that she intended to put Patriarch Bodhi on the Investiture of the Gods List, while he challenged her to defeat him first.

• Bai Ze found Patriarch Bodhi’s hidden mustard-seed space and told him Blue Planet’s rules forbade establishing an inner world before the Calamity began.
• Patriarch Bodhi refused to leave and attacked Bai Ze, whose Wisdom Great Dao let him glimpse the essence of Bodhi’s divine ability.
• Bai Ze pretended to be gravely injured and called for Zhou Qingqing, who appeared and healed him with Three Lights Divine Water.
• Zhou Qingqing confronted Patriarch Bodhi over breaking her rules, and he admitted that he had attacked Bai Ze.
• Zhou Qingqing declared that she would put Patriarch Bodhi on the Investiture of the Gods List, and he challenged her to defeat him first.

Zhou Qingqing fought Patriarch Bodhi and quickly proved her superior mastery of body-tempering and combat. Patriarch Bodhi was knocked down and admitted his mistake, while Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate began considering the Confucian Dao.

• Bai Ze watched Patriarch Bodhi attack Zhou Qingqing with a powerful punch and saw her effortlessly deflect it.
• Zhou Qingqing punched Patriarch Bodhi, who invoked the Grand Heavenly Immortal Art to defend himself.
• The Three Pure Ones recognized that Zhou Qingqing had described the art's unfinished ideal form as uniting Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate connected the Confucian Dao to his Celebratory Clouds of the Heavens and decided to study the possibility.
• Zhou Qingqing struck Patriarch Bodhi down, and he admitted his mistake.

Zhou Qingqing exposed Patriarch Bodhi’s attempt to contact Daoist Zhunti and decided to put him on the Investiture of the Gods List. With Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate disrupting his karmic connection, she killed Patriarch Bodhi’s good corpse with the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger and captured his primordial spirit on the List.

• Zhou Qingqing told Patriarch Bodhi that he would be put on the Investiture of the Gods List, and he secretly recited the Bodhi Heart Sutra to contact Daoist Zhunti through karma.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate detected Patriarch Bodhi’s use of the Karma Great Dao and altered the karma to prevent the Two Sages of the West from responding.
• Zhou Qingqing thanked Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate and prepared to act while Patriarch Bodhi waited in vain for Daoist Zhunti and Jieyin to appear.
• Patriarch Bodhi tried to reveal his origins, but Zhou Qingqing summoned the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger and ordered it to turn around.
• The flying dagger killed Patriarch Bodhi’s good corpse, and Zhou Qingqing drew his primordial spirit into the Investiture of the Gods List.

Zhou Qingqing’s Investiture of the Gods List placed Subhuti, Patriarch Bodhi and Daoist Zhunti’s good corpse, on its roster after Bai Ze revealed he had descended without permission. The Primordial World learned that the Quasi-Sage had been assigned the Horse Keeper position, while Zhunti silently endured the humiliation.

• The Investiture of the Gods List appeared, and Daoist Zhunti discovered that Subhuti’s name had been added to it.
• Daoist Zhunti failed to recall his good corpse incarnation, while beings across the Primordial World wondered who Subhuti was and whether the Calamity was beginning.
• Bai Ze announced that Subhuti had secretly descended without Fairy Qingqing’s permission and had refused to repent.
• The Investiture of the Gods List assigned Subhuti the Horse Keeper position, shocking the Primordial World.
• Daoist Zhunti deduced that his good corpse would be raising horses for Zhou Qingqing, but he concealed his anger as Western Sect disciples criticized Subhuti.

Zhou Qingqing announced that the Investiture of the Gods Calamity had officially begun, with Patriarch Bodhi’s listing as its trigger. She explained that factions would compete through rising and falling dynasties on Blue Planet, and Nuwa sent qualified members of the Human Race there to take part.

• Daoist Jieyin silenced the Western Sect disciples’ gossip and calmed Daoist Zhunti’s humiliation over Patriarch Bodhi’s fate.
• Zhou Qingqing announced that the Blue Planet framework was complete, Quasi-Sages could log in freely, and the Calamity had begun.
• Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti realized that Patriarch Bodhi’s placement on the list had triggered the Calamity, and they blamed Zhou Qingqing’s scheme rather than each other.
• Zhou Qingqing said the Calamity would center on the Human Race and that the dynasty left standing on Blue Planet would win.
• Nuwa used the Kongtong Seal and Primordial Sacred Sword to send qualified Human Race members to Blue Planet, where they began cultivating in the Primordial World.

The Three Daos’ sages assessed the Calamity and considered which feudal lords to support, while Zhou Qingqing reflected on how Daoism’s disciples might be assigned. After Lu Ya disappeared from the Ten Heavenly Stems, Zhou Qingqing dismissed the news as nothing serious.

• At Nuwa Palace, Fuxi and the other sages discussed the more than eight hundred feudal lords, and Nuwa decided they would watch the Calamity for now.
• In the Nine Nether Realm, Dijiang proposed that the Earth Dao sages support a valiant feudal lord, and Houtu let him choose suitable candidates.
• At the Land of Ultimate Bliss, Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti decided to free Lu Ya from the Heavenly Stems and send him to Blue Planet to stir up the Calamity.
• At Miro Palace, Zhou Qingqing wondered how the Three Pure Ones would arrange Daoism’s disciples among the competing factions, then left the matter to her Masters.
• Puxian reported that Lu Ya had disappeared, but Zhou Qingqing told him it was nothing serious and ordered him to return to basking in the sun.

Zhou Qingqing learned that the Western Sages had rescued Lu Ya and planned to use Di Jun to persuade him to join the Shang Dynasty camp. Lu Ya descended to Blue Planet to serve the Western Sect, only to hear his father call him son upon arriving at Spirit Mountain.

• Zhou Qingqing told Bai Ze that Lu Ya was the Fire Demon God and predicted the Western Sages would make him Spirit Mountain's master.
• Zhou Qingqing considered bringing Di Jun to persuade Lu Ya to switch sides, and the Three Pure Ones thought her plan could work.
• Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti helped Lu Ya sever two corpses and asked him to lead the Western Sect's fight for fortune on Blue Planet.
• Lu Ya agreed to descend to Blue Planet, hoping to secretly cause trouble for Zhou Qingqing.
• Lu Ya arrived at Spirit Mountain and heard Di Jun's familiar voice call him son.

Lu Ya tried to curse the figure he believed was an impostor, but Di Jun burned away the spell and revealed himself as Lu Ya’s real father emperor. After forcing Lu Ya to acknowledge him, Di Jun explained that Zhou Qingqing had told him Lu Ya’s origins, leaving Lu Ya to blame the Two Sages of the West for his exposure.

• Lu Ya used the Nailhead Seven Arrows Book to curse the figure he thought was an impostor Di Jun, while Zhou Qingqing explained the divine ability to Bai Ze through a Water Mirror.
• Di Jun burned away Lu Ya’s curse with a wisp of divine fire and revealed his Three-Legged Golden Crow form, convincing Lu Ya that he was truly his father emperor.
• Di Jun trampled Lu Ya and forced him to admit that he was his son and had once been the Fire Demon God.
• Lu Ya explained that his Fire Demon God origin had led to his reincarnation as a Three-Legged Golden Crow, and Di Jun said Zhou Qingqing had revealed the truth to him.
• Lu Ya realized Zhou Qingqing had tracked his escape and blamed the Two Sages of the West for failing to protect his secret.

Di Jun directed Lu Ya to join the Shang Dynasty faction and follow Zhou Qingqing’s plans, while the Western Sect decided to back Lu Ya with its own disciples. As cultivators across the Primordial World began choosing sides on Blue Planet, support spread among the other feudal lords, leaving the Marquis of the West’s territory identified as the Zhou Dynasty.

• Di Jun told Lu Ya to continue his mission, join the Shang Dynasty, and obey Zhou Qingqing, while warning him to address her respectfully.
• Bai Ze, Zhou Qingqing, and the Three Pure Ones recognized that Lu Ya’s involvement could draw the Western Sect into the Shang Dynasty as a target in the Calamity.
• Di Jun revealed the Water Mirror to Lu Ya, who learned that his conversation had been watched, and Zhou Qingqing instructed him to enter the Shang Dynasty.
• Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti learned that Lu Ya had secured a position in the Shang Dynasty and decided to send Western Sect disciples in their true bodies to support him.
• Dijiang directed his clansmen to support the Eastern Earl, Primal Phoenix sent Kong Xuan and Golden Roc to the Southern Earl, and Haotian and Yaochi assigned Heavenly Court cultivators to the Northern Earl.
• Nuwa noticed Daoism disciples entering the Marquis of the West’s territory and concluded that it was the Zhou Dynasty.

Zhou Qingqing went to attend Fairy Yunhua and Yang Tianyou’s wedding, where she uncovered a Buddhist Heavenly Eye hidden in Yang Tianyou and gave Yunhua a treasure lotus. The Three Pure Ones claimed the couple’s future children as disciples and began blessing Yang Tianyou to reshape the Heavenly Eye.

• Zhou Qingqing learned that Daji had arranged a Heavenly Court wedding for Fairy Yunhua and Yang Tianyou, and she set out with Bai Ze.
• The Three Pure Ones appeared and traded Zhou Qingqing three gourds for her fans, then each claimed one of Yunhua and Yang Tianyou’s future children as a disciple.
• Daji asked Zhou Qingqing to let the Red Embroidered Ball witness the wedding, and Zhou Qingqing agreed.
• Zhou Qingqing used her Merit Golden Lotus to discover a Buddhist Heavenly Eye hidden in Yang Tianyou and gave Fairy Yunhua a treasure lotus as a wedding gift.
• The Three Pure Ones summoned Yang Tianyou and began a blessing intended to transform the hidden eye into the golden floral ornament Zhou Qingqing imagined for Yang Jian.