Chapter Summaries

Di Xin visited Li Jing’s household in Chen Tang Pass and recognized the newborn Nezha as his opportunity, arranging for him to come to Chaoge when he turned one. After Di Xin returned to Chaoge, a Daoist appeared before Li Jing and asked to take Nezha as his disciple.

• Di Xin rewarded Li Jing and learned that Li Jing’s wife had been pregnant for ten years.
• Li Jing’s wife gave birth to a glowing ball of flesh, which Li Jing split open with his sword to reveal Nezha.
• Di Xin sensed his opportunity in Nezha and arranged for him to come to Chaoge at one year old.
• Di Xin instructed Li Jing to send Jin Zha and Mu Zha to Chaoge after they finished their studies under their masters.
• After Di Xin returned to Chaoge, a Daoist appeared before Li Jing and asked to take Nezha as his disciple.

Real Person Taiyi learned that Di Xin had claimed Nezha’s future and failed to uncover the reason, while Yuanshi Tianzun blamed the Western Sages for the disrupted fate. Three hundred years later, Taiyi completed his refinement of the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and Lady Pingxin sensed his power.

• Real Person Taiyi visited Ling Jing and learned that King Di Xin planned to raise Nezha in Chaoge, then a holy radiance injured his primordial spirit as he tried to investigate.
• Real Person Taiyi fled to Jade Void Palace and told Yuanshi Tianzun that Di Xin had changed the Spirit Pearl Child’s fate.
• Yuanshi Tianzun failed to see through the fog surrounding Di Xin and Nezha, blamed Zhunti and Jieyin, and sent Real Person Taiyi back to wait for another opportunity.
• Taiyi continued refining the origin of the Six Paths of Reincarnation on the Sun Star and completed the final seal three hundred years later.
• Lady Pingxin sensed a familiar reincarnation aura and wondered what the Supreme of the Sun Star intended to do.

Taiyi chose to ignore Zhunti’s scheme to send the Three Demons of Xuanyuan Tomb into the mortal world and received the Great Dao Source of Emotions and Desire. As the demons infiltrated Di Xin’s palace, the king prepared to act on Taiyi’s instructions.

• Taiyi formed the Gate of Reincarnation from the Six Paths Reincarnation Origin and resolved to refine it toward greater power.
• Taiyi received the system prompt about Zhunti’s plan to send the Nine-tailed Fox Spirit, Nine-headed Pheasant Spirit, and Jade Pipa Spirit to undermine the Shang Dynasty.
• Taiyi chose to ignore the demons and received the Innate Great Dao Source of Emotions and Desire, which he began refining.
• Zhunti sent the Three Demons of Xuanyuan Tomb into the human realm to beguile Di Xin.
• Di Xin pretended not to know the demons had arrived, then prepared to strike when they approached him in the palace.

Di Xin killed the Three Demons of Xuanyuan Tomb, unsettling Zhunti and Yuanshi as the Shang Kingdom’s fortune continued to flourish. Meanwhile, Jiang Shang gained control of Xiqi’s military and government, and Taiyi received a system prompt about Xiqi’s future rebellion and the rewards for his choices.

• Di Xin trapped and killed the Three Demons of Xuanyuan Tomb, leaving only a fox, a chicken, and a jade pipa behind.
• Zhunti sensed the demons’ souls had been destroyed and decided to avoid involvement in the Investiture of the Gods Calamity.
• Yuanshi noticed Shang’s growing fortune and suspected a Saint was secretly helping Di Xin, but he had no proof.
• Jiang Shang persuaded Ji Chang that Xiqi was destined to rise, became its military adviser, and took charge of its military and political affairs.
• After Xiqi’s army and national strength grew, Taiyi received a system prompt predicting Xiqi’s rebellion in five years and offering him three choices.

Taiyi refined the Innate Emperor Origin as Xiqi launched an early rebellion against Di Xin, prompting Yuanshi to invest heavily in Ji Chang’s campaign. As the other saints assessed the conflict, Master Tongtian sent Zhao Gongming and the outer disciples to protect Di Xin while leaving the rest to unfold.

• Taiyi swallowed the Innate Emperor Origin, and the imperial auras of rulers across eras converged into him as he refined it.
• King Wen of Zhou Ji Chang raised troops against Shang before the usual course of events, while Jiang Ziya helped him prepare the Acquired Eight Trigrams.
• Taiyi inferred that Yuanshi was driving Xiqi’s early rebellion and noted the heavy expenditure of Merit and Destiny behind it.
• Yuanshi watched Xiqi’s army attack Yin Shang and hoped Jiang Ziya’s campaign would justify his investment.
• Taiqing Laozi judged Ji Chang’s small, poorly supported coalition unlikely to prevail but chose not to intervene.
• Master Tongtian ordered Zhao Gongming and the other chief outer disciples to protect Di Xin while letting the other events take their course.

Di Xin restored order across the Shang realm despite rebellions by Ji Chang and the northern lords, while Jiang Ziya and the Exposition Sect backed the Xiqi alliance’s advance. At Sishui Pass, Han Rong rejected Ji Chang’s appeal and steadied the defenders, so Jiang Ziya prepared to have an Exposition Sect disciple kill him.

• Ji Chang proclaimed Great Zhou and rebelled against Shang, and Yuan Futong led seventy-two northern lords in a second uprising.
• Di Xin organized Shang’s officials and armies, suppressing unrest while Wen Zhong and Bigan maintained order in the capital and Huang Feihu led campaigns.
• Jiang Ziya and the other Exposition Sect disciples learned that Shang remained stable, then used displays of magic to reassure the allied vassal rulers.
• The Xiqi alliance marched to Sishui Pass after Chong Houhu defected and helped Xiqi seize Chongcheng Pass.
• Ji Chang urged Han Rong to submit to Western Zhou, but Han Rong condemned him as a traitor and rallied the Shang defenders.
• Jiang Ziya signaled an Exposition Sect disciple to kill Han Rong and leave Sishui Pass without a commander.

Ji Chang died mysteriously before the war began, and Jiang Ziya installed Ji Fa as King Wu before leading Xiqi against Sishui Pass. As Jiang Ziya and Wang Mo used spells against each other's armies, the fighting continued and Jiang Ziya accumulated more karmic debt.

• An Exposition Sect disciple's arrow failed to harm Han Rong, and Ji Chang returned to camp after Jiang Ziya stopped further attacks.
• Ji Chang was found dead from apparent poisoning or a curse, so Jiang Ziya arranged his funeral and made Ji Fa king while Boyi Kao and the other princes were placed under guard.
• Ji Fa's Xiqi army began besieging Sishui Pass, and Han Rong mocked Western Zhou after learning Ji Chang had died.
• Jiang Ziya secretly conjured a snowstorm over Sishui Pass, killing or injuring hundreds of unprepared Great Shang soldiers.
• Han Rong asked Wang Mo to stop the storm, and Wang Mo dispelled it before sending Meteor Fire Rain into the Xiqi camp.
• As Xiqi and the Great Shang fought, Taiyi heard a wondrous immortal melody on the Sun Star.

Taiyi ignored the system’s prompt about Shen Gongbao and chose a random Innate Spiritual Treasure before returning to seclusion. At Sishui Pass, Yang Jian fought the Four Sages of Nine Dragon Island, killed Yang Sen and Gao Yougan, and faced the two remaining opponents.

• Taiyi chose to ignore Shen Gongbao’s affairs and received the Yin-Yang Flame Spear, which he put in his treasure vault before resuming his cultivation.
• Yang Jian arrived at the Xiqi camp and agreed to face the Four Sages of Nine Dragon Island at Sishui Pass.
• Yang Sen challenged Yang Jian and attacked him with the Heaven Opening Pearl, but Yang Jian defeated him in fewer than three exchanges and sent his soul to the Investiture of the Gods List.
• Gao Yougan charged Yang Jian with the Hunyuan Pearl, but Yang Jian wounded him with his spear and knocked him from his mount.
• Wang Mo and Li Xingba were horrified after seeing Yang Jian defeat two of their fellow practitioners.

Yang Jian killed Wang Mo and Ling Xingba, allowing Jiang Ziya to capture Sishui Pass, while Taiyi chose not to stop the Ten Heavenly Lords of Jin'ao Island from entering the conflict. The Ten Heavenly Lords set up the Ten Deadly Arrays at Tong Pass, where they defeated successive Exposition Sect disciples and forced the Twelve Golden Immortals to retreat.

• Yang Jian killed Ling Xingba with his heavenly eye and killed Wang Mo with his spear, then Jiang Ziya led a counterattack and captured Sishui Pass.
• Taiyi chose to ignore the Ten Heavenly Lords of Jin'ao Island, receiving a portion of Innate Calamity Origin from the system.
• Persuaded by Shen Gongbao, the Ten Heavenly Lords arrived at the Yin Shang camp and set up the Ten Deadly Arrays before Tong Pass.
• Exposition Sect disciples entered the arrays and died, prompting Jiang Ziya to seek help from the Twelve Golden Immortals.
• The Twelve Golden Immortals entered the arrays but withdrew after finding that breaking through would cost them their cultivation.

Daoist Randeng arrived at Xiqi with five additional cultivators and helped the Twelve Golden Immortals plan to break the Ten Deadly Arrays. Jiang Ziya sent the five into battle as expendable attackers, while Wen Zhong and Huang Feihu faced the Exposition Sect’s overwhelming force at Tong Pass.

• Daoist Randeng arrived at the Xiqi camp with Qiao Kun, Xiao Sheng, Cao Bao, Xiao Zhen, and Deng Hua, saying they had come to help against Shang.
• Guangchengzi and the other Twelve Golden Immortals recognized that Randeng meant to use the five newcomers as cannon fodder to break the arrays.
• Jiang Ziya discussed the plan with Randeng and the Twelve Golden Immortals, then sent the five to fight the next day.
• Xiao Sheng boasted that his Treasure Dropping Coin could defeat the Ten Deadly Arrays as Jiang Ziya led the army toward Tong Pass.
• A Golden Immortal challenged the Ten Heavenly Lords, and Wen Zhong hesitated over whether to fight or summon reinforcements after seeing the Exposition Sect’s forces.

The Twelve Golden Immortals entered the Ten Deadly Arrays with disciples and lone immortals, sacrificing ten companions to break the arrays and kill the Ten Heavenly Lords. Grand Tutor Wen Zhong and Martial King Huang Feihu retreated from Tong Pass, leaving the strategic city to the Xiqi army.

• Grand Tutor Wen Zhong asked the Ten Heavenly Lords to test the Twelve Golden Immortals and Daoist Randeng, and the Ten Heavenly Lords entered their arrays beneath Tong Pass.
• Daoist Randeng and Guangchengzi arranged for ten Golden Immortals to enter the arrays with disciples or lone immortals, while Guangchengzi and others remained outside.
• Real Person Yuding brought Yang Jian into an array, while Real Person Taiyi entered alone because he had no suitable disciple.
• Xiao Zhen, Deng Hua, Qiao Kun, Xiao Sheng, Cao Bao, and other nominal disciples and lone immortals died in the arrays, allowing the Twelve Golden Immortals to kill the Ten Heavenly Lords and break the arrays.
• Grand Tutor Wen Zhong and Martial King Huang Feihu watched the defeat from Tong Pass, then ordered the Great Shang soldiers to withdraw and yielded the city to Xiqi.

Taiyi chose to save the Three Xiao Sisters and received a portion of Innate Source of Clouds, intending for his Star Incarnation attached to Di Xin to intervene when they faced calamity. At Lintong Pass, Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao Sisters arrived to help Wen Zhong and prepared to challenge the Exposition Sect after learning of the Ten Heavenly Lords’ deaths.

• Taiyi chose the system’s option to save the Three Xiao Sisters, claimed the Innate Source of Clouds, and returned to seclusion.
• After the Ten Deadly Arrays fell, Wen Zhong’s forces withdrew to Lintong Pass, where he worried over how to stop the Xiqi coalition.
• Shen Gongbao brought Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao Sisters to Lintong Pass, and Wen Zhong greeted them as his senior granduncle and martial aunts.
• Yunxiao, Bixiao, and Qiongxiao gave Wen Zhong three low-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures.
• Huang Feihu recounted how the Twelve Golden Immortals and Burning Lamp Daoist had broken the Ten Deadly Arrays, enraging Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao Sisters.
• Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao Sisters vowed to challenge the Exposition Sect the next day, while Wen Zhong urged them to plan carefully.

Zhao Gongming answered the Xiqi camp’s insults by killing an Exposition Sect disciple and confronting the Twelve Golden Immortals alone. The chapter ended as Zhao attacked and the Golden Immortals brought out their spiritual treasures.

• Zhao Gongming struck down an Exposition Sect disciple with Supreme Clarity Divine Thunder after hearing him insult the Interception Sect.
• Burning Lamp Daoist rebuked Zhao, who defended Great Shang’s cause and accused the Exposition Sect of killing his fellow disciples.
• Zhao mounted his black tiger and challenged the Twelve Golden Immortals and Burning Lamp Daoist, despite Wen Zhong and Huang Feihu urging caution.
• The Twelve Golden Immortals condemned Zhao for opposing Xiqi’s Heavenly Mandate, and Zhao charged at them, unleashing Supreme Clarity Divine Thunder.
• Real Person Taiyi, Real Person Yuding, Cihang Daoist, Real Person Samantabhadra, Daoist Xing Tianzun, and the other Golden Immortals brought out their Innate Spiritual Treasures.

Zhao Gongming overwhelmed the Twelve Golden Immortals with his Samadhi Divine Wind and killed Celestial Worthy Manjusri with his divine whip. As the surviving Golden Immortals fled toward the Exposition Sect's camp, Zhao Gongming continued hunting them, closing in on Real Person Taiyi.

• Zhao Gongming unleashed his Samadhi Divine Wind, breaking the Twelve Golden Immortals' magical treasures and scattering them.
• Real Person Yellow Dragon and Grand Master Lingbao fell into the Zhou Camp, while the other Golden Immortals fled in different directions.
• Zhao Gongming caught up with Celestial Worthy Manjusri and killed him after smashing his Garan Golden Body with the divine whip.
• The surviving Golden Immortals fled toward the Exposition Sect's main camp and called for Daoist Randeng to save them.
• Zhao Gongming pursued Real Person Taiyi and raised his divine whip to strike.

Zhao Gongming pursued the fleeing Chan Sect Golden Immortals and killed Real Person Samantabhadra after trapping him with his two corpses. He then confronted Cihang Daoist and struck at him, leaving Cihang Daoist's fate unresolved.

• Real Person Taiyi used the Universe Ring to deflect Zhao Gongming's whip and escaped toward the Zhou Camp.
• Real Person Samantabhadra summoned his Three Heads, Six Arms Dharma Body, but Zhao Gongming's Good and Obsessive Corpses bound him and blocked his escape.
• Zhao Gongming rejected Real Person Samantabhadra's pleas and killed him with a whip strike, sending his true spirit toward the Investiture of the Gods List.
• Cihang Daoist begged Zhao Gongming to spare him, then brought out the Glass Jade Purifying Vase and summoned his Three Heads, Six Arms Dharma Body.
• Zhao Gongming dismissed Cihang Daoist's defenses and brought down his Golden Whip.

Zhao Gongming killed Cihang Daoist and Daoxing Tianzun despite their pleas, then continued pursuing the surviving Golden Immortals. Burning Lamp Daoist finally intervened to save Real Person Yuding and confronted Zhao Gongming, proposing that they settle the feud between their sects.

• Zhao Gongming smashed Cihang Daoist's Dharma body and struck him dead with the Golden Whip.
• Daoxing Tianzun begged Zhao Gongming for mercy, but Zhao bound him with the Dragon Binding Rope and killed him with a whip strike despite Jiang Ziya's protest.
• Jiang Ziya realized that four of the Twelve Golden Immortals had died and feared the consequences for himself.
• The fleeing Golden Immortals called on Burning Lamp Daoist for help, and he rose to intervene rather than risk Yuanshi Tianzun's displeasure.
• Burning Lamp Daoist stopped Zhao Gongming from killing Real Person Yuding and proposed that they end the grievances between their sects.

Burning Lamp Daoist challenged Zhao Gongming and unleashed several powerful treasures, but Zhao Gongming countered them with overwhelming strength. The Cosmos Ruler then appeared, stirring a deep sense of wariness in Zhao Gongming.

• Burning Lamp Daoist tried to persuade Zhao Gongming to stop, but Zhao Gongming challenged him to prove his strength.
• Burning Lamp Daoist attacked with the Golden Exquisite Treasure Pagoda, and Zhao Gongming merged with his two Good Execution corpses and struck it away with the Golden Whip.
• Burning Lamp Daoist used the Purplish-Gold Alms Bowl to capture Zhao Gongming, but Zhao Gongming bound the bowl with the Dragon Binding Rope and claimed it.
• Burning Lamp Daoist sent the Cosmos Ruler toward Zhao Gongming, who felt an unusual sense of danger when he saw it.

Zhao Gongming defeated Burning Lamp Daoist and killed two more of the Twelve Golden Immortals before returning to Lintong Pass. After the battle, he severed his Evil Corpse and reached the late Quasi-Sage stage, while Taiyi noticed his breakthrough but dismissed him as no threat.

• Zhao Gongming drove Burning Lamp Daoist away and killed Qingxu Daode Zhenjun and Real Person Yuding, leaving six of the Twelve Golden Immortals alive.
• Burning Lamp Daoist returned to the Zhou Camp, where Guangchengzi proposed reporting the losses to Master at Jade Void Palace.
• Huang Feihu and the Interception Sect disciples celebrated Zhao Gongming's victory, while the Three Xiao Sisters privately sensed that he was on the verge of a breakthrough.
• Zhao Gongming returned to his cave abode, severed his Evil Corpse, completed Three Corpses Severing, and reached the late Quasi-Sage stage.
• Taiyi sensed Zhao Gongming's breakthrough, wondered about his sudden strength, then decided it would not affect the Investiture of the Gods and resumed his seclusion.

After refining his Evil Corpse, Zhao Gongming reached the peak of the Quasi-Sage realm and understood that the conflict between the Exposition and Interception Sects would endanger his life, but resolved to face it without fear. As Yuanshi Tianzun prepared to intervene, Daoist Lu Ya arrived at the Zhou Camp to take on Zhao Gongming in his stead.

• Zhao Gongming completed refining his Evil Corpse, reached the peak of the Quasi-Sage realm, and decided to face the sect conflict without hesitation.
• Real Person Taiyi reported Zhao Gongming’s slaughter of the Exposition Sect’s disciples, and Yuanshi Tianzun raged after discovering his sect’s fortune had fallen by thirty percent.
• Yuanshi Tianzun sensed someone entering the fray, chose not to descend himself, and dismissed Real Person Taiyi without punishing him for leaving.
• Daoist Lu Ya arrived at the Zhou Camp, where Daoist Randeng and the Exposition Sect’s Golden Immortals greeted him.
• Daoist Lu Ya confirmed that he had come to help, then asked Jiang Ziya to prepare wine and food after his journey from the North Sea.

Taiyi chose to ignore Daoist Lu Ya’s arrival and received an upgraded Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife, which he began refining. Meanwhile, Lu Ya ignored warnings from the Zhou camp’s leaders and prepared to challenge Zhao Gongming.

• Taiyi used his inner demons to discover that Sage Zhunti had persuaded Lu Ya to secretly join the Western Sect and aid its schemes.
• Taiyi chose the system’s second option and received an upgraded Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife, a low-grade Chaos Spiritual Treasure capable of killing Heavenly Dao Sages.
• Taiyi began refining the upgraded flying knife and imagined lending it to his favored juniors to counter Lu Ya’s identical weapon.
• Lu Ya arrived at Zhou Camp and received lavish hospitality.
• The next day, Lu Ya ignored Burning Lamp Daoist, Guangchengzi, and the others’ advice to proceed cautiously, confident that his cultivation and treasures made him invincible beneath the heavens.