Chapter Summaries

Wen Zhong refused Yun Zhongzi’s attempt to take the child nurtured by Nine Heavens Divine Thunder and brought the infant to Chaoge. Di Xin rewarded the successful choice mission with a Saint-level Thunder Dao method and named the child Lei Zhenzi.

• Yun Zhongzi offered Wen Zhong ten Postnatal Middle Grade Spiritual Treasures for the child, but Wen Zhong refused and warned him not to act rashly because Holy Mother Jin Ling was his teacher.
• Yun Zhongzi erased the Xi Qi Caravan’s memories of Yan Mountain, but Wen Zhong still refused to trade the child, so Yun Zhongzi left empty-handed.
• Wen Zhong told Ji Chang to continue on to Chaoge, then carried the child toward the capital on his Ink Kirin.
• Di Xin received a system notification awarding him the Nine Heavens Thunderclap Puhua True Scripture after Wen Zhong secured the child.
• Wen Zhong presented the infant to Di Xin and asked him to bestow a name, and Di Xin named the child Lei Zhenzi.

Di Xin bestowed the Nine Heavens Thunderclap Puhua True Scripture on Wen Zhong and told him to teach Lei Zhenzi. When the feudal lords gathered at the palace to see the Great King, Fei Zhong and You Hun demanded bribes before allowing them in, but Su Hu refused to pay and challenged them to stop him.

• Di Xin gave Wen Zhong the Nine Heavens Thunderclap Puhua True Scripture and instructed him to cultivate it and teach Lei Zhenzi.
• The feudal lords gathered outside the Royal Palace in Chaoge to pay court to the Great King.
• Fei Zhong and You Hun claimed the Great King was occupied with state affairs and used the delay to solicit bribes from the feudal lords.
• Xi Qi paid Fei Zhong and You Hun One Hundred Million Zhu Coins, and the four great marquises each paid the same amount.
• Fei Zhong told Jiang Hengchu that Queen Mother had already authorized him to enter, but Jiang Hengchu still handed over his bribe.
• Su Hu refused to pay Fei Zhong and You Hun and declared that he would enter the palace anyway.

Fei Zhong and You Hun tried to provoke Su Hu into rebelling against Great Shang, then proposed that Su Daji be offered to Di Xin as a consort. At the royal banquet, they urged Di Xin to take more consorts and secure the dynasty’s succession.

• Su Hu cursed Fei Zhong and You Hun for demanding a bribe, then entered the palace without paying them.
• Fei Zhong and You Hun plotted to anger Su Hu further by proposing that he offer his beloved daughter Su Daji to Di Xin.
• The chapter revealed that Di Xin intended to seize Jizhou by provoking Su Hu into rebelling and giving Great Shang a pretext to attack.
• At Xianqing Hall, Di Xin received the feudal lords’ tribute and hosted a banquet attended by nobles and officials.
• Fei Zhong and You Hun praised Di Xin, then asked him to take more consorts and father additional heirs.

Fei Zhong and You Hun proposed that Di Xin take more consorts, then targeted Su Hu’s daughter as a candidate. Su Hu unexpectedly agreed to send her to the palace, leaving Di Xin stunned as the system began offering him a choice.

• Wen Zhong and the ministers supported Fei Zhong and You Hun’s proposal that Di Xin take consorts and continue his bloodline.
• Di Xin asked whose daughter should enter the palace, and Fei Zhong recommended Su Hu’s sixteen-year-old daughter.
• Su Hu protested that Fei Zhong and You Hun were dragging his daughter into their private grudge, while You Hun accused him of disrespecting the Human Sovereign.
• Su Hu claimed his daughter was frail and unlucky, but Di Xin offered to have palace Shamanic Doctors—or the Earthly Emperor—treat her.
• Moved by Di Xin’s offer, Su Hu knelt to thank the King and promised to prepare his daughter’s dowry and escort her to the palace.
• Di Xin was baffled by Su Hu’s unexpected agreement, and the system appeared with a new set of choices.

Di Xin accepted Su Hu’s offer to marry Su Daji and then had Chong Houhu accuse Ji Chang of aiding Yuan Futong’s rebellion. Yuan Futong presented letters linking Xi Qi to the rebels, and Di Xin ordered Ji Chang imprisoned in Youli while he investigated.

• Di Xin chose to accept Su Hu’s offer and arranged to await Su Daji’s arrival, leaving Fei Zhong and You Hun dismayed that their plan had failed.
• Di Xin signaled Chong Houhu, who accused Ji Chang of supplying weapons to Yuan Futong and called for his arrest.
• Ji Chang denied the accusation as the Western lords and some others pleaded for him, while Ji Chang privately feared their support would worsen his position.
• Yuan Futong appeared alive, explained that Di Xin had pardoned him, and presented Bamboo Slips containing letters about Xi Qi’s aid to his rebellion.
• Ji Chang denied exchanging letters with Yuan Futong and suggested someone under his rule had acted for profit, so Di Xin ordered him sent to Youli pending an investigation.

After Ji Chang was imprisoned in Youli, Di Xin used an elderly feudal lord’s family succession worries to announce the Tui En Ling, which would divide vassal territories among their sons and bring new marquises under the central court. The feudal lords were shaken by the decree, and Marquis of Liang became the first to pledge obedience.

• Royal Palace guards took Ji Chang to Youli and placed him under strict guard, leaving San Yisheng, Nangong Shi, and the other ministers anxious at the banquet.
• The eighty-year-old Marquis of Liang knelt before Di Xin and asked for his sons to receive portions of his state as marquisates.
• Wen Zhong endorsed the proposal, and Di Xin announced the Tui En Ling, granting fiefs to every son of a feudal lord while requiring the eldest son to share half the territory with his brothers.
• The feudal lords protested, but Wen Zhong silenced them, and Di Xin threatened to strip any lord who defied the decree of his title and fief.
• Attendants distributed Bamboo Slips detailing the decree, and Marquis of Liang knelt again and volunteered to implement it first.

After the Tui En Ling divided the feudal lords’ lands among their children, the new policy won support from their younger sons while causing conflict in some states. In Jizhou, Su Hu prepared to send Su Daji to marry Di Xin, and Daji learned that she would become the Sacred Lord’s consort.

• After the ancestral rites ended, the Human Sovereign Edict announcing the Tui En Ling reached the feudal states.
• In Xi Qi, Bo Yikao accepted his appointment as Marquis of the West and the division of Xi Qi’s territory among Ji Chang’s sons.
• Across the feudal states, some eldest sons murdered their younger brothers to prevent their lands from being divided.
• Su Hu told Su Quanzhong that he intended to marry Su Daji to Di Xin and planned to make her appear ill before she went to Chaoge.
• Su Daji’s attendant told her that Su Hu truly intended to marry her to the Sacred Lord, and Daji thought about her coming marriage.

Su Daji learned that she would marry Di Xin and eagerly accepted the plan to feign illness before going to Chaoge. In the royal palace, Jiang Zitong approved Huang Feiyan’s marriage to Di Xin alongside Su Daji, leaving Di Xin and Jiang Zitong together after Huang Feihu departed.

• Xiao Hong told Su Daji that the Marquis planned to send her to Chaoge as Di Xin’s bride, but she would need to appear mildly ill to preserve the Marquis’s earlier claim that she was frail.
• Su Daji welcomed the prospect of marrying Di Xin, defended Queen Jiang against Xiao Hong’s worries, and blushed as she imagined meeting the Great King.
• Huang Feihu begged Di Xin to take his younger sister Huang Feiyan as a consort, explaining that she admired the Great King and had urged him to make the request.
• Jiang Zitong arrived at the Government Affairs Hall and announced that Huang Feiyan and the daughter of the Marquis of Jizhou would marry Di Xin together as Princess Consorts.
• After Huang Feihu left to tell his sister, Di Xin asked Jiang Zitong why she had arranged the marriages, and she said she wanted to ease his burdens.

The Nine-tailed Celestial Fox and her two companions ambushed Su Daji’s bridal convoy and possessed her so they could enter Chaoge unnoticed. They left Su Daji’s soul intact as the Nine-tailed Celestial Fox took control of her body and began to enjoy its allure.

• After learning that Su Daji would marry Di Xin, the Nine-tailed Celestial Fox decided to possess her and hide the demons’ aura with the Su family’s fortune.
• Su Hu led Su Daji’s bridal convoy out of Jizhou toward Chaoge, with Su Quanzhong serving as Deputy Commander.
• The three demons entered the Post Station under cover of mist and approached Su Daji while she slept.
• The Nine-tailed Celestial Fox and her companions possessed Su Daji, leaving her soul alive in the Mud Ball Palace.
• The Nine-tailed Celestial Fox took control of Su Daji’s body, admired its beauty, and reacted when someone called out, “Who is there?!”

The Three Demons of Xuanyuan's Tomb continued their plan to bring Su Daji to Chaoge, despite a warning from Master Cangwu, one of Cangyuan's World Incarnations. Su Hu's wedding procession arrived in Chaoge, where the demons feared the city's Demon Detection Restriction.

• Su Daji sensed that someone had watched the three demons, but she could not detect Master Cangwu and feared the observer was far stronger than them.
• Master Cangwu watched over the demons and left them alive, while his warning kept the Nine-tailed Celestial Fox on edge through the night.
• The Nine-tailed Celestial Fox let the real Su Daji control her body so she could explain her alluring appearance to Su Hu and Su Quanzhong.
• After ten days of travel, Su Hu's procession reached Chaoge, where Wen Zhong and Shang Rong welcomed him and the city celebrated the arrival.
• Inside the carriage, the three demons worried aloud about whether they could pass Chaoge's Demon Detection Restriction.

Di Xin exposed the Three Demons hiding in Su Daji and brought them to Jiang Zitong, who persuaded him to spare them. He bound them to protect the Queen Mother, while secretly revealing that he had targeted the Nine-tailed Celestial Fox for her bloodline.

• The Three Demons entered Chaoge undetected, unaware that someone had secretly helped them evade the Demon Detection Restriction.
• Di Xin's divine might forced the Nine-tailed Celestial Fox, Nine-headed Pheasant Spirit, and Jade Pipa Spirit out of Su Daji, and he carried them to Jiang Zitong as a pet, an ornament, and soup.
• The Nine-tailed Celestial Fox transformed and begged Di Xin to spare her sister, and the other two demons also revealed their Innate Dao Bodies.
• Jiang Zitong asked Di Xin to spare the Three Demons, and he decreed that they must stay by her side and protect her.
• As he left Phoenix Palace, Di Xin revealed that he had staged the encounter to bring the Nine-tailed Celestial Fox under his control because her bloodline could become that of a Ten-tailed Celestial Fox.

The Tui En Ling weakened the feudal lords and expanded Great Shang, while Guangchengzi and Chijingzi worried that Yin Jiao and Yin Hong would not become their disciples. They devised a plan to deceive the princes with visions of Wu Geng’s future and secretly entered the Human Territory to carry it out.

• The Tui En Ling expanded Great Shang from several hundred feudal lords to seven or eight thousand, and the central court took control of their fiefs’ administration.
• Guangchengzi and Chijingzi realized Yin Jiao and Yin Hong would not cultivate before turning one hundred because they hoped to inherit the Human Sovereign’s position or become feudal lords.
• Guangchengzi proposed showing the princes visions of Wu Geng succeeding to the throne and of Yin Hong dying at Wu Geng’s hands, so they would seek the Chan Sect to change their futures.
• Guangchengzi and Chijingzi decided to ask their Master for help and sneak into the Human Territory.
• Shielded by the Heavenly Dao’s radiance, Guangchengzi and Chijingzi bypassed the Human Race Entry Hall and entered Great Shang on a moonless night.

Yin Jiao and Yin Hong fled to Kunlun Mountain after sharing a dream that Wu Geng would take the throne and kill them, while Di Xin chose not to save them and named Wu Geng Crown Prince. The chapter leaves Li Jing praying that his pregnant wife will give birth to a daughter.

• Yin Jiao and Yin Hong compared their shared dreams and decided to leave Great Shang for Kunlun Mountain to cultivate.
• Guangchengzi and Chijingzi welcomed the brothers as disciples, while Di Xin learned of their departure and chose not to rescue them.
• Di Xin named Wu Geng Crown Prince after explaining that Yin Jiao and Yin Hong had given up their inheritance rights by entering immortal cultivation.
• Wen Zhong accepted Di Xin's order to become Wu Geng's teacher, and the ministers recognized Wu Geng as Crown Prince.
• In the tenth year of Di Xin, Li Jing prayed at Chentang Pass for his pregnant wife to give birth to a daughter.

Zhao Gongming and Li Jing returned to Chentang Pass after discussing Li Jing’s unborn child, while Primordial Lord of Heaven ordered Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao to descend from Kunlun and assist a future ruler. Jiang Ziya accepted the Investiture of the Gods in exchange for the promise of eternal life, and the two left to find the Heroic Lord in Phoenix Cry Land.

• Zhao Gongming told Li Jing that daughters were more lovable than sons, then asked whether Li Jing would cry when a daughter married; the two returned to Chentang Pass.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven saw that the Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir had raised Jiang Ziya’s cultivation only to the middle stage of Returning to Void and Merging with Dao, far below Shen Gongbao’s Profound Immortal realm.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven ordered Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao to descend the mountain and help a Heroic Lord overthrow a decayed dynasty and establish a new one.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven promised Jiang Ziya eternal life through godhood and gave him the Investiture of the Gods to take down the mountain and use to build the Canonization Platform.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven told Jiang Ziya that the Heroic Lord was in Phoenix Cry Land, then sent Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao away from Jade Void Palace.
• Immortal Weng of the South Pole complained about Jiang Ziya’s poor aptitude, while Guangchengzi noted that Jiang Ziya learned military affairs and governance quickly.

Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao returned to Great Shang and found the countryside prosperous, contrary to what Jiang Ziya had been told. Jiang Ziya reunited with Song Yiren, who insisted on arranging a marriage for him, while Shen Gongbao was also drawn into the matchmaking plans.

• Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao traveled back to Great Shang in two and a half days with the aid of Heavenly Dao's power.
• Jiang Ziya questioned the claim that Great Shang was decaying after seeing content villagers working in the fields, and Shen Gongbao urged him to judge matters for himself.
• Jiang Ziya reunited with Song Yiren, who insisted that Jiang Ziya marry and have children rather than refuse the match.
• Song Yiren planned to arrange a marriage between Jiang Ziya and a woman from Ma Village, prompting Jiang Ziya to privately object that she was too old.
• Song Yiren offered to arrange a match for Shen Gongbao as well, then scolded him for wanting a young girl at four hundred and twenty years old.

Song Yiren arranged a marriage between Jiang Ziya and Ma Zhaodi, whose youthful appearance delighted Jiang Ziya and distracted him from his mission. After Jiang Ziya and Ma Zhaodi left on their honeymoon, a mysterious man in black approached Shen Gongbao and summoned him to meet his director.

• Song Yiren and a matchmaker proposed that Jiang Ziya marry Ma Zhaodi, and Ma's family quickly agreed.
• Ten days later, Jiang Ziya married Ma Zhaodi and discovered she looked young because she had eaten a flower that preserved her appearance.
• Jiang Ziya spent half a month enjoying married life and agreed to take Ma Zhaodi traveling, forgetting his mission and Shen Gongbao.
• Shen Gongbao watched Jiang Ziya and Ma Zhaodi depart and criticized Jiang Ziya for neglecting his mission.
• A mysterious man in black appeared beside Shen Gongbao and ordered him to meet his director, and Shen Gongbao agreed to follow.

Feng Yuan recruited Shen Gongbao into Great Shang’s Heaven Monitoring Department by promising him status and compensating him with a store of spiritual treasures, then ordered him to lie low. Years passed as Shen Gongbao waited and Jiang Ziya traveled with his wife, until Primordial Lord of Heaven asked about the two Tribulation Children’s progress.

• Feng Yuan revealed that he knew of Shen Gongbao’s mistreatment on Kunlun Mountain and offered him a place in the Heaven Monitoring Department.
• Shen Gongbao inspected the Qiankun Bracelet’s plentiful spiritual fruits and Three Lights Divine Water, accepted Feng Yuan as his lord, and agreed to follow orders.
• Feng Yuan secretly made arrangements on Shen Gongbao before releasing him to continue moving between Song Family Village and Chaoge while lying low.
• In the eleventh and twelfth years of Di Xin, Shen Gongbao waited while Jiang Ziya traveled with Ma Zhaodi and Nezha remained in Yin Shiniang’s womb.
• In the thirteenth year of Di Xin, Primordial Lord of Heaven asked Immortal Weng of the South Pole about Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao, and learned that Jiang Ziya had married and was traveling with Ma Shi.

Primordial Lord of Heaven praised Shen Gongbao’s diligence and sent Immortal Weng of the South Pole to reprimand Jiang Ziya for neglecting his mission. Meanwhile, Taiyi Zhenren gathered the Twelve Golden Immortals to seek Nezha, and Cangyuan learned of a flawed mirror treasure before Jiang Ziya was returned to Great Shang.

• Primordial Lord of Heaven ordered Immortal Weng of the South Pole to encourage Shen Gongbao and remind Jiang Ziya to pursue the Canonization of Gods.
• Taiyi Zhenren sensed that his destined disciple had appeared among the Human Race, then summoned the Twelve Golden Immortals to accompany him.
• Cangyuan and Queen Mother of the West watched the Twelve Golden Immortals depart and discussed a flawed mirror containing forty strands of Innate Restrictions.
• Cangyuan guessed that Queen Mother of the West’s mirror was the Kunlun Mirror and agreed to go see whether his teacher could restore it.
• Immortal Weng of the South Pole confronted Jiang Ziya, who had seen that Great Shang’s people prospered under Di Xin, then sent Jiang Ziya and Ma Zhaodi back to Great Shang.

Jiang Ziya struggled to choose between serving Great Shang and helping the Chan Sect, while Shen Gongbao remained loyal to Great Shang’s Heaven Monitoring Department. At Chentang Pass, Yin Shiniang gave birth to a bouncing ball of flesh that split open to reveal a beautiful infant.

• Jiang Ziya wrestled with the choice between rescuing Marquis Ji Chang of the West and remaining loyal to Great Shang, whose people still prospered.
• Immortal Weng of the South Pole gave Shen Gongbao a Qiankun Bag of Acquired Spiritual Fruits, and Shen Gongbao dismissed the Chan Sect in favor of the Heaven Monitoring Department.
• Li Jing prayed for a daughter as Yin Shiniang went into labor, while Zhao Gongming suspected the child would be a boy because of his Master-Disciple Affinity with him.
• Yin Shiniang gave birth to a bouncing ball of flesh, and Li Jing drew his sword before Zhao Gongming stopped him and persuaded him to spare their child.
• Yin Shiniang held the Little Flesh Ball lovingly, and it split apart in a burst of golden light to reveal a delicate infant.

Yin Shiniang gave birth to Nezha, whose unusual origins and rapidly rising cultivation drew the Li family and Zhao Gongming into his upbringing. Meanwhile, Di Xin advanced to Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal Third Heaven, and the Chan Teach Twelve Golden Immortals finally entered Human territory only to learn Zhao Gongming was at Chentang Pass, where Taiyi feared for his disciple.

• The Little Flesh Ball split open, and Li Jing mistook the newborn Nezha for a daughter until Yin Shiniang revealed he was a boy.
• Nezha's cultivation rose to Immortal Golden Immortal, Yin Shiniang named him Nezha, and Zhao Gongming accepted him as his disciple.
• Nezha spat Crimson Spirit Flame at Li Jing after his parents suggested dressing him as a girl, while Di Xin received a quest reward and broke through to Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal Third Heaven.
• Di Xin examined a Chaos Pearl fragment and considered using it as Nezha's Dao Body.
• The Chan Teach Twelve Golden Immortals were delayed at the Entry Hall because its attendant resented their sect, and they beat Daoist Tianzun while waiting for their permits.
• The Twelve Golden Immortals discovered Zhao Gongming was at Chentang Pass, and Taiyi Zhenren cried out in alarm for his disciple.