Recaps

Nine Phoenix and Ghost Chariot joined forces, defeated Daoist Zhunti, and took the Queen from Chaoge to Ghost Earl’s camp. Zhunti dismissed their victory as a minor setback and vowed to press on.

• Bai Ze recognized Ghost Chariot, while Zhou Qingqing’s thoughts led the Three Pure Ones to question what she meant by “Witch-Demon King.”
• Supreme Pure Laozi explained that he had paired Nine Phoenix and Ghost Chariot because their similar paths could help Nine Phoenix break through.
• Di Jun welcomed the former Demon Marshal’s participation in the calamity, and Nine Phoenix and Ghost Chariot found their Great Daos compatible when they met.
• Nine Phoenix and Ghost Chariot joined forces, defeated Daoist Zhunti, and took the Queen away to Ghost Earl’s camp.
• Bai Ze recorded the alliance in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, while Daoist Zhunti called the loss an insignificant setback.

Zhou Qingqing waited for the Shang Dynasty’s downfall and continued merging with the Dao across the stars. On Wenchang Star, she praised Wenshu for discovering his own Dao of the Heavenly Venerate through copying scriptures, then began drawing Wenchang Star’s talismans to herself.

• Zhou Qingqing told Bai Ze to wait, explaining that Zhunti’s Buddha Kingdom would coincide with the Shang Dynasty’s decline and the lords’ rise.
• Zhou Qingqing traveled to the next starfield and continued merging with the Dao while the Three Pure Ones watched from the Nine Nether Realm.
• At Wenchang Star, Wenshu showed Zhou Qingqing the Dao Scriptures he had copied and revealed that the practice had helped him comprehend his own Dao of the Heavenly Venerate.
• Zhou Qingqing praised Wenshu, sat down before him, and drew countless talismans from Wenchang Star toward herself.

Zhou Qingqing fused the Great Dao laws of Wenchang Star into her Fate Palace and reached the fifth layer of Primordial Chaos. After gaining the ability to see the trajectories of Fate, she prepared to test her new strength while the Three Pure Ones resolved to study Fate themselves.

• Bai Ze told Wenshu that Zhou Qingqing was fusing Wenchang Star's Great Dao laws to advance to the fifth layer of Primordial Chaos.
• Zhou Qingqing completed the fusion, uniting the stars under her control into one region and forming the Ziwei Palace.
• The Thirty-Six-Grade Chaos Azure Lotus concealed Zhou Qingqing as astral signs manifested around her, then she opened her eyes after reaching the fifth layer of Primordial Chaos.
• Zhou Qingqing used her divine sense to inspect the Primordial World and Blue Planet and saw the trajectories of Fate for most cultivators.
• The Three Pure Ones decided to deduce the Great Dao laws of Fate using Zhou Qingqing's displayed insights as a foundation.

Zhou Qingqing heard Bai Ze’s report on the changing Blue Planet and watched Daoist Zhunti complete the Deer Terrace in Zhaoge. Though it briefly lifted the Shang Dynasty’s Fortune, it soon plunged lower than before, while forces across the realm prepared to clash.

• Bai Ze reported that Daoist Zhunti had supported Di Xin, spread Western Sect disciples through the Shang Dynasty, and built the Deer Terrace to gather Fortune.
• Maitreya brought Daoist Zhunti the power of faith and other materials, and Zhunti used Buddhist arts to finish the Deer Terrace.
• The Deer Terrace briefly stabilized and raised the Shang Dynasty’s Fortune, but it quickly fell below its previous level, leaving Daoist Zhunti unable to halt the Calamity’s decline.
• Bai Ze reported that Wen Zhong and Yu Yuan had entered the Calamity, Nezha and Yang Jian had joined Western Qi, and Ji Chang had begun studying the Book of Changes.
• Bai Ze reported that the Northern Earl had backed the Ziwei Star Lord as his successor, while Bi Gan, Nine Phoenix, Ghost Chariot, and Xiangliu strengthened other territories.

Daoist Jieyin sensed danger in the Western Sect’s involvement in the calamity and discovered a possible last-resort tactic called Nirvana Entry. Fairy Qingqing and Bai Ze learned of his plan, and the Three Pure Ones realized that both Jieyin’s Myriad Buddhas Nirvana Formation and Tongtian’s Myriad Immortals Formation could become trump cards in the conflict.

• Daoist Jieyin returned to the fourth level of the Primordial Zenith realm, sensed danger in the Western Sect’s role in the calamity, and decided he could not withdraw while his junior brother remained in peril.
• Daoist Jieyin discovered the phrase “Nirvana Entry,” concluded it offered a way to turn defeat into victory at the final moment, and vanished from the Western Pure Land to gather materials.
• Fairy Qingqing told Bai Ze that Six Ears had overheard Daoist Jieyin’s words and departure, and Bai Ze considered warning Six Ears to stop spying on him.
• Bai Ze wondered whether Daoist Jieyin was preparing a formation, and the Three Pure Ones concluded that a Myriad Buddhas Nirvana Formation could become a Shang Dynasty trump card.
• Supreme Pure Laozi asked Upper Pure Master Tongtian about his Myriad Immortals Formation, and Tongtian assured him and Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate that he had prepared it.

Daoist Jieyin confronted Primal Phoenix at Undying Fire Mountain, demanding that she join the Western Sect and then threatening to seize her Nirvana Great Dao. As Jieyin revealed that he had reached Primordial Chaos Stage Four, Qingqing decided to attack him from afar with a newly fused Stellar Dao without exposing Primal Phoenix’s Lotus Faction identity.

• Primal Phoenix sensed danger and discovered Daoist Jieyin outside Undying Fire Mountain, where he found that she had attained Primordial Chaos Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal.
• Daoist Jieyin invited Primal Phoenix to join the Western Sect and claimed Kong Xuan and Golden Roc entered the calamity because she had secretly interfered.
• Primal Phoenix refused, and Daoist Jieyin declared he would take her Nirvana Great Dao by force, boasting that he had reached Primordial Chaos Stage Four.
• Qingqing learned of the confrontation and chose not to reveal Primal Phoenix’s Lotus Faction ties or fight Jieyin in person.
• Qingqing decided to bombard Daoist Jieyin from afar using the Stellar Dao that had just finished fusing within Celestial Discipline Star.

Zhou Qingqing used the Great Edict Art from the Celestial Discipline Star to break Daoist Jieyin’s attack on Primal Phoenix and force him to flee. She revealed that she had reached the fifth level of Primordial and then asked Primal Phoenix to gather the others to evolve the Four Symbols Balance Great Dao in the Starry Sky Heavenly Realm.

• Zhou Qingqing fused the Celestial Discipline Star’s Great Dao laws and used the Great Edict Art from afar to shatter Daoist Jieyin’s Golden Summit Buddhist Lamp.
• Zhou Qingqing’s edict commanded Daoist Jieyin to retreat, and its power made him flee the Southern Undying Fire Mountain.
• Primal Phoenix learned that Zhou Qingqing had acted and thanked her, while Zhou Qingqing revealed that she had reached the fifth level of Primordial.
• Zhou Qingqing asked Primal Phoenix to gather the others and evolve the Four Symbols Balance Great Dao in the Starry Sky Heavenly Realm.

Zhou Qingqing continued merging with the Dao in the Tianshi Enclosure while sensing that the calamity on Blue Planet had fully erupted. As the feudal lords gathered to challenge the Shang Dynasty, she decided to cultivate while watching the Investiture of the Gods unfold.

• Zhou Qingqing suppressed Daoist Jieyin’s threat through her superior realm, while Jieyin chose to leave rather than provoke fate.
• Zhou Qingqing stepped onto a star in the Right Wall of Tianshi and told Bai Ze that it would later be called Zhou.
• Zhou Qingqing noticed many new names appearing on the Investiture of the Gods List and realized the calamity had fully begun.
• Bai Ze detected that the four great feudal lords and other lords were converging on Zhaoge to contend for the throne.
• Zhou Qingqing decided to cultivate while watching the Investiture of the Gods, and the Three Pure Ones resolved to watch along with her.

Zhou Qingqing used the Investiture of the Gods List to observe the four feudal lords and helped Ji Chang establish Zhou by sending him a marked stellar fragment. Ji Chang declared the fragment a mandate from Heaven, named the star and his dynasty Zhou, and the Three Pure Ones watched Qingqing’s intervention unfold.

• Zhou Qingqing used the Heaven Leaf to form four mirrors and reveal the movements of the four great feudal lords.
• Zhou Qingqing and Bai Ze observed Ji Chang’s Western Qi forces, while the Three Pure Ones reflected on Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao’s absence from the campaign.
• Zhou Qingqing decided to create an auspicious sign by writing “Great Zhou shall rise, Ji Chang shall be king” on a stellar fragment and sending it to Western Qi.
• Ji Chang picked up the fragment, called it an auspicious omen, and declared that the star and his dynasty would be named Zhou.
• Bai Ze recorded the origin of Zhou’s name in the Classic of Mountains and Seas as Zhou Qingqing worried about future transmigrators discovering the story.

Zhou Qingqing told Lu Ya to go all out while carefully tempering the Zhou Dynasty cultivators without killing them. Lu Ya agreed after learning Zhou Qingqing was watching, and sent his Buddhist Three Corpses incarnations to fight first.

• Zhou Qingqing instructed Bai Ze to tell Lu Ya to challenge the Zhou Dynasty army in earnest while keeping its cultivators alive.
• Bai Ze relayed the order to Lu Ya and warned him that Zhou Qingqing was watching through a divine ability.
• Lu Ya refrained from confronting the army himself and decided to send his Three Corpses incarnations one at a time.
• Bai Ze identified Mahavairocana and Zen Master Crow Nest as Lu Ya's first two incarnations and asked whether Lu Ya had belonged to Buddhism in other Primordial World Reincarnations.
• Zhou Qingqing confirmed Lu Ya had joined Buddhism in those other worlds, and Bai Ze concluded that Lu Ya had compromised in this world because his imperial father was present.

Zhou Qingqing and the Three Pure Ones prepared Daoism’s disciples to face Mahavairocana as Ji Chang’s army marched on Zhaoge. Mahavairocana displayed his Great Sun Dharma, and Zhou Qingqing confirmed to Bai Ze that Xihe and Changxi had fallen in other Primordial Worlds.

• Zhou Qingqing decided Lu Ya would still have to train Daoism’s third-generation disciples despite having turned back from the brink.
• The Three Pure Ones learned that Mahavairocana had arrived before Ji Chang’s army and agreed that Blue Planet’s restrictions would limit his power.
• Ji Chang led the Zhou army toward Zhaoge, with Daoism’s third-generation disciples eager to fight after hearing Lu Ya would not obstruct them.
• Mahavairocana appeared before the army and used Tathagata Sunlight Pervading the Dharma Realm to manifest a radiant Great Sun.
• Zhou Qingqing explained Mahavairocana’s Great Sun Dharma to Bai Ze, who asked whether Xihe had fallen in other Primordial Worlds.
• Zhou Qingqing confirmed that both Xihe and Changxi had fallen in other Primordial Worlds.

Zhou Qingqing watched the third-generation disciples face Lu Ya’s Mahavairocana incarnation and observed Bi Gan use his Seven-Aperture Exquisite Heart to defeat Xiao Sheng and Cao Bao. The battle against Lu Ya continued as Zhou Qingqing turned her attention to the other front, where Bi Gan had secured a victory for Southern Earl’s camp.

• Bai Ze recognized that the Investiture of the Gods Calamity had become a test for Daoism’s third-generation disciples, while Lu Ya’s Mahavairocana incarnation warned the Zhou army of the danger ahead.
• Wen Zhong ordered Nezha, Yang Jian, Fire Spirit Holy Mother, and the other disciples to form ranks against Mahavairocana.
• Lu Ya unleashed the Great Sun’s power across the Zhou army, and Zhou Qingqing watched the battle as a trial for the disciples.
• Zhou Qingqing shifted her attention to Southern Earl’s camp, where Bi Gan confronted Burning Lamp’s allies Xiao Sheng and Cao Bao.
• Bi Gan invoked the power of his Seven-Aperture Exquisite Heart to dispel their illusions and defeat them, sending Xiao Sheng and Cao Bao onto the Investiture of the Gods List.

Zhou Qingqing watched the Zhou Dynasty army defeat Mahavairocana through the Sky-Howling Hound, then advanced to the Primordial Chaos Fifth Layer by integrating the Tianshi Enclosure. Supreme Pure Laozi sent Du'e True Person to join her as she entered the Taiwei Enclosure, where she chose Mind Platform Star as her base and prepared to integrate its Dao.

• Zhou Qingqing stopped watching the Investiture of the Gods until Bai Ze summoned her to see the Sky-Howling Hound swallow Mahavairocana and end his trial.
• Zhou Qingqing reached perfection at the Primordial Chaos Fifth Layer by integrating the Tianshi Enclosure into her Dao.
• Supreme Pure Laozi sent Du'e True Person toward the Starry Sky Heavenly Realm after deciding his disciples should train alongside Zhou Qingqing.
• Zhou Qingqing brought Du'e True Person to Mind Platform Star, where he realized she had attained Primordial Chaos.
• Zhou Qingqing told Du'e True Person she would integrate the Dao of Mind Platform and reach the Primordial Chaos Sixth Layer, while deciding she could use the star as a quiet base to observe the whole Taiwei Enclosure.

Du'e True Person watched Zhou Qingqing and Bai Ze observe the Investiture of the Gods Calamity, then joined their livestream after she used the Twelve-Grade World-Destroying Black Lotus to nurture his divided thoughts. He recognized the lotus’s aura and realized Zhou Qingqing had been the black-robed woman who brought him to Mount Shouyang.

• Du'e True Person saw Nezha, Yang Jian, and the Zhou Dynasty army struggling against Zen Master Crow Nest, and Bai Ze told him Crow Nest was on their side.
• Du'e True Person decided to watch the livestream, and Zhou Qingqing lent him the Twelve-Grade World-Destroying Black Lotus to nurture his thoughts.
• The black lotus multiplied Du'e True Person’s thoughts, allowing him to watch the livestream more easily.
• Du'e True Person recognized the black lotus’s aura and realized Zhou Qingqing had been the black-robed woman who had brought him to Mount Shouyang.
• Du'e True Person thanked Zhou Qingqing, unaware that she did not know he had uncovered her identity.

Du'e True Person watched Zhou Qingqing’s livestream and saw Wen Zhong coordinate the army’s power while Yu Yuan, Fire Spirit Holy Mother, Nezha, and Yang Jian attacked Zen Master Crow Nest’s domain. After witnessing Nezha and Yang Jian’s blackened transformations, Qingqing realized Du'e might recognize her as the one who had knocked him out.

• Du'e True Person watched Wen Zhong gather the Zhou Dynasty army’s magical power through military Dao and strengthen its commanders.
• Yu Yuan attacked with the Golden Light File, while Fire Spirit Holy Mother wielded her Primordial Chaos Hammer and Bai Ze recalled that she had struck Guangchengzi on Zhou Qingqing’s orders.
• Nezha and Yang Jian drew on black qi and surged in power, revealing that Qingqing’s influence had helped them grow stronger.
• Zhou Qingqing realized Du'e True Person could see the changes through the Twelve-Grade World-Destroying Black Lotus and might identify her as the person who had knocked him unconscious.

Zhou Qingqing fused the Stellar Dao in Mind Platform Star and began Heart Ape Subjugation, confronting her former Human Race self and the Heart of Creation. When she nearly forgot the Primordial World and returned to an ordinary life in her original era, the Three Pure Ones reached her through their thought-listening connection and restored her memories.

• Zhou Qingqing began fusing with the Stellar Dao and ordered her former self to merge with the Chaos Azure Lotus.
• Zhou Qingqing's consciousness returned to her Dharma-ending age, where she forgot the Primordial World and resumed an ordinary life.
• The Three Pure Ones realized Qingqing was drifting away from the Primordial World and joined forces to send a message through their connection to her thoughts.
• The Three Pure Ones transmitted the words “Three Pure Ones” and “Primordial World,” prompting Qingqing to remember her masters, her transmigration, and her purpose in performing Heart Ape Subjugation.

Zhou Qingqing traced her transmigration to the Chaos Azure Lotus’s treasure spirit, fused her human and lotus selves, and broke through to the Primordial Chaos Sixth Layer. After resolving her doubts, she used her new mind-based ability to make Bai Ze and Du'e True Person face heart demons.

• Zhou Qingqing repeated her five-star review and discovered that its emoticons and exclamation marks became Lotus Patterns that branded her glabella.
• The patterns showed Zhou Qingqing scenes of repeated Primordial World cycles, and she found the cycle in which the Chaos Azure Lotus birthed a treasure spirit that later merged with Blue Planet and became her.
• Zhou Qingqing understood that she had been the Chaos Azure Lotus’s treasure spirit and had arranged her own transmigration, then fused her human and lotus selves and reached the Primordial Chaos Sixth Layer.
• Zhou Qingqing sent mind power into Bai Ze and Du'e True Person, making each confront a heart demon within their Primordial Spirits.
• When Bai Ze and Du'e True Person asked what she was looking forward to, Zhou Qingqing said she wanted to see her martial nephews perform better.

Zhou Qingqing and the Three Pure Ones watched Ziwei Star Lord claim the title of Ziwei Emperor and prepare to face Maitreya, while considering how the Heavenly Dao had entered the calamity. The Three Pure Ones concluded that Amitabha had altered the Journey to the West Calamity to raise Buddhism’s power and resolved to uncover his other plans before the Investiture of the Gods was ruined.

• Zhou Qingqing directed Bai Ze and Du'e True Person to observe the new Ziwei Emperor in the Northern Earl's camp.
• Ziwei Star Lord declared that he was no longer the Northern Earl but Ziwei Emperor, and his followers hailed him as the Destiny Emperor Star.
• Ziwei Emperor led his army toward Maitreya, while Zhou Qingqing recognized Yellow-Brow Acolyte and the golden cymbals from the future Journey to the West.
• Supreme Pure Laozi told Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Upper Pure Master Tongtian that Amitabha had likely used the Journey to the West Calamity to grant many Buddha fruit statuses.
• The Three Pure Ones agreed to deduce Amitabha's other trump card and prevent him from ruining the Investiture of the Gods.

Ziwei Emperor confronted Maitreya and used the Great Dao of Stars to break the Human Seed Bag, freeing the cultivators it had captured. Haotian and Yaochi watched the battle and gained confidence in Ziwei Emperor as the Heavenly Court’s champion in the struggle for Fortune on Blue Planet.

• Ziwei Emperor rejected Maitreya’s attempt to negotiate, and Maitreya challenged him to break the Human Seed Bag.
• Bai Ze explained to Du'e True Person that Ziwei Emperor was not defending against the bag because he intended to contest Maitreya directly with the Great Dao of Stars.
• Ziwei Emperor summoned starlight from the nine heavens and sent it into the Human Seed Bag, forcing it open and releasing the captured cultivators.
• Haotian and Yaochi observed the battle through the Haotian Mirror and praised Ziwei Emperor for breaking Maitreya’s spirit treasure.

Maitreya broke his Human Seed Bag and made twelve great vows during his battle with Ziwei Emperor, becoming Maitreya Venerable Buddha. Ziwei Emperor drew on the Constellation Calamity to defeat him and send his true spirit to the Investiture of the Gods List, then ordered his forces to rest.

• Maitreya chanted the Buddha Mantra and fought Ziwei Emperor with divine abilities after his Human Seed Bag was broken.
• Maitreya made twelve great vows, severed his future corpse, and became Maitreya Venerable Buddha.
• Zhou Qingqing predicted Ziwei Emperor would win because his starlight carried the power of the Future Constellation Calamity.
• Ziwei Emperor struck Maitreya with condensed starlight, broke his golden body, and defeated him.
• Zhou Qingqing sent Maitreya's true spirit to the Investiture of the Gods List as Ziwei Emperor's forces celebrated their victory.
• Ziwei Emperor ordered his army to set up camp and rest while awaiting the other fronts.

Zhou Qingqing placed Maitreya and Medicine Master on the Investiture of the Gods List as Three Corpses Star Lords after Xiangliu broke through to Ancestral Witch status and defeated Medicine Master. The two Western disciples realized Burning Lamp might be the final member of their assigned trio.

• Maitreya's primordial spirit arrived in the Starry Sky Heavenly Realm, where Zhou Qingqing appointed him a Three Corpses Star Lord.
• Bai Ze inferred that Zhou Qingqing was keeping Maitreya there to await Medicine Master and Daoist Burning Lamp, and Maitreya was made to watch the Water Mirrors.
• Nine Phoenix and Ghost Chariot joined their powers to manifest a ten-headed Ghost Bird, helping Xiangliu achieve an Ancestral Witch breakthrough.
• Xiangliu struck down Medicine Master, and Zhou Qingqing drew Medicine Master's primordial spirit onto the Investiture of the Gods List.
• Zhou Qingqing assigned Medicine Master to the Three Corpses Star, and Maitreya told him that Burning Lamp might receive its last position.

Kong Xuan and Golden Roc reached Daoist Burning Lamp’s checkpoint, where Golden Roc challenged him and revealed the power of his Yin-Yang abilities. The fight left Maitreya and Medicine Master astonished as Golden Roc’s attacks overwhelmed Burning Lamp’s Buddhist doctrine.

• Maitreya and Medicine Master hoped their southern allies would encounter Burning Lamp so they could stop entertaining Zhou Qingqing’s livestream.
• Kong Xuan and Golden Roc arrived at Daoist Burning Lamp’s checkpoint after news reached him that the northeastern and eastern directions had fallen and Maitreya and Medicine Master had joined the Investiture of the Gods List.
• Golden Roc challenged Burning Lamp, who answered with boundless Buddhist dharma.
• Golden Roc formed a treasure vase from yin and yang qi and absorbed and dissolved Burning Lamp’s Buddhist doctrine.
• Golden Roc launched a storm of golden feathers infused with Great Dao laws, astonishing Maitreya and Medicine Master with his strength.

Golden Roc used the Heavenly Peng Dragon-Fighting Art to strike down Daoist Burning Lamp, who returned to the past after losing one life and was soon to emerge as the Buddha of the Past. Kong Xuan caught his brother and praised him, while Zhou Qingqing planned to have Kong Xuan deal with Burning Lamp when he returned.

• Daoist Burning Lamp struck Golden Roc with Buddhist light, badly weakening him, then moved to finish him off.
• Golden Roc used the Heavenly Peng Dragon-Fighting Art to cut down Burning Lamp, exhausting his magic power in the attack.
• Kong Xuan caught the falling Golden Roc and praised him for his victory.
• Maitreya and Medicine Master mistook Burning Lamp’s disappearance for his death, but Du'e True Person noted that the Investiture of the Gods List had not reacted.
• Zhou Qingqing explained that Burning Lamp had lost one life and returned to the past to emerge as the Buddha of the Past.
• Zhou Qingqing decided that Kong Xuan would help deal with Burning Lamp when he returned.

Kong Xuan confronted Daoist Burning Lamp after he returned from the past, and Zhou Qingqing expected Kong Xuan to finish him this time. Kong Xuan used his enhanced Five-Colored Divine Light to make Burning Lamp disappear again, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Zhou Qingqing said Burning Lamp would not escape this time, while Maitreya and Medicine Master learned that he had survived the Golden-Winged Great Peng's attack.
• Daoist Burning Lamp returned from the past and prepared to attack Kong Xuan and Golden Roc.
• Golden Roc admitted he could no longer defeat Burning Lamp and left the fight to Kong Xuan.
• Bai Ze explained that Zhou Qingqing had given Kong Xuan and Golden Roc Demon God essence blood, which strengthened Kong Xuan and helped Golden Roc recover.
• Kong Xuan unleashed the Great Five-Colored Divine Light and made Daoist Burning Lamp vanish.

Kong Xuan defeated Daoist Burning Lamp, who was placed on the Investiture of the Gods List as a Three Corpses Star Lord alongside Maitreya and Medicine Master. Zhou Qingqing revealed that Lu Ya would not be put on the list, leaving the three Buddhist figures alarmed that he might rebel.

• Kong Xuan defeated Daoist Burning Lamp with the Great Five-Colored Divine Light, and Zhou Qingqing used the Investiture of the Gods List to claim him.
• Kong Xuan and Golden Roc departed after completing half their mission by opening the southern passage.
• Daoist Zhunti learned that three of the four guarded directions had fallen, but took comfort that Lu Ya still held the remaining one.
• Zhou Qingqing assigned Daoist Burning Lamp to join Maitreya and Medicine Master as a Three Corpses Star Lord, and he accepted his fate.
• Maitreya and Medicine Master asked about Lu Ya’s fate, and Zhou Qingqing said he had no name on the Investiture of the Gods List and would not be placed on it.