Recaps

Yang Mei and Han Xi returned to Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion after failing to stop Heavenly Prison City’s forces, and the pavilion resumed gathering Chaos Dao Realm coordinates. King Pan then sent Yang Jian to the Mortal Realm to save his mother, advising him to seek Empress Nuwa’s help to persuade the Heavenly Court.

• Yang Mei stopped Han Xi from pursuing Karma and Destiny, and the two returned safely to Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion.
• Yang Mei told Jin Shui to continue gathering Chaos Dao Realm coordinates, and the pavilion’s business grew as Heavenly Prison City fell silent.
• Yang Jian watched the Mortal Realm from the North Sea, and King Pan told him his Golden Immortal breakthrough qualified him to attempt to save his mother.
• King Pan explained that Yang Jian should use Empress Nuwa’s influence to pressure the Heavenly Court rather than challenge its rules by force.
• King Pan opened a path to the Mortal Realm and sent Yang Jian away to begin his trial and rescue his mother.

Yang Jian reunited with Yang Jiao and Yang Chan, and the three set out together to rescue Yao Ji from Peach Mountain. The chapter ended with the Grand White Gold Star showing Yao Ji her children racing to save her.

• Yang Jiao and Yang Chan received Nuwa's order to join Yang Jian and rescue their mother.
• Yang Jiao and Yang Chan returned to their childhood home at Guanjiang Estuary and reunited with Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian told his siblings that his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear had been forged from the Three-Headed Dragon that had grievously wounded Yao Ji.
• Yang Jian refused to destroy the spear, vowing to keep it and make it endure the suffering of imprisonment and refinement.
• The three siblings restored Yang Mansion and rode together toward Peach Mountain.
• The Grand White Gold Star showed the imprisoned Yao Ji her children approaching to rescue her.

Yang Jian, Yang Jiao, and Yang Chan fought their way to Peach Mountain to see their imprisoned mother, Yao Ji, but Haotian’s restrictions repelled them. They withdrew after Yao Ji threatened to take her own life, and Yang Jian decided they would seek a way to break the restrictions before returning.

• Yao Ji begged Grand White Gold Star to stop her children from approaching Peach Mountain, but he said he could not interfere and left the cave.
• Yang Jian, Yang Jiao, and Yang Chan defeated the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals guarding Peach Mountain, while the Mountain Guarding Immortal Official pretended to be injured and yielded the path.
• The Three Siblings reached Yao Ji, but Haotian’s Law Chains struck them away when they tried to approach her and repel their attacks.
• Yao Ji threatened to kill herself unless her children left, so Yang Jian pulled Yang Jiao and Yang Chan out of the cave.
• Yang Jian told his siblings to withdraw and plan carefully, recognizing that they could not break the restrictions with their current strength.

Yang Jian, Yang Jiao, and Yang Chan sought help from the Twelve Human Cities to break the seal restraining their mother, Yao Ji. The Human Race welcomed them and brought them before the living Human Emperor Da Yu, who greeted them warmly.

• Yang Jian realized that a treasure could break the Heavenly Emperor’s restriction and led his siblings to seek help from the Twelve Human Cities.
• The three arrived at the city, where Human Race elders recognized their lineage and allowed them inside.
• An Old Man told Yang Jian, Yang Jiao, and Yang Chan that the Human Race would defend Yao Ji’s family against the Heavenly Court, following the will of the Dao Venerable and Empress Nuwa.
• The siblings followed the Old Man to a Great Hall and discovered that the living Human Emperor Da Yu had come to meet them.
• Da Yu put the three at ease by telling them they did not need to follow formal immortal and divine courtesies among fellow humans.

Yang Jian and his siblings sought Da Yu’s help to free their mother from Peach Mountain, and Yang Jian gained the right to wield the Mountain Splitting Axe. The three returned to the mortal world as Haotian sat in the Heavenly Court, brooding over their defiance.

• Da Yu warned Yang Jian, Yang Jiao, and Yang Chan that breaking the restriction would set them against Haotian, but all three chose their mother over their uncle-nephew ties.
• Da Yu revealed the Mountain Splitting Axe and let the siblings test whether it would accept them.
• The axe rejected Yang Jiao and pointed him toward the Xuanyuan Human Emperor, while Yang Chan could hold it but could not lift it.
• Yang Jian lifted the axe and earned its recognition, though he realized he could unleash only one strike with it for now.
• Da Yu praised Yang Jian and sent the siblings on their way, and the three returned to the mortal world with the axe.
• Haotian sat amid the silent gods in the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, wrestling with anger, shock, doubt, worry, and hatred.

Haotian dismissed the immortals after Taibai argued that Yang Jian and his siblings had acted out of filial devotion. Alone with Holy Mother Yaochi, Haotian admitted he could not openly break the Heavenly Rules to rescue Yao Ji, but his gaze toward the Twelve Human Cities suggested he had found some measure of hope.

• Taibai defended Yang Jian and his siblings, saying their attempt to save Yao Ji was only human nature.
• Haotian dismissed the gathered immortals, then learned from Taibai that Yao Ji was physically unharmed but worried about her children.
• Haotian explained that rescuing Yao Ji by breaking the Heavenly Rules would undermine the Heavenly Court's authority and the order of the Three Realms.
• Taibai suggested that a reclusive great power could rescue Yao Ji without making Haotian appear to favor his family, but Haotian said even Saints would not disrupt the rules for personal reasons.
• Taibai warned that Yang Jian and his siblings might be punished and suppressed, while Haotian looked toward the Twelve Human Cities and appeared reassured.
• Haotian ordered Taibai to keep their conversation secret and withdraw, and Holy Mother Yaochi also dismissed him.

Yang Jian returned to Peach Mountain with Yang Chan and Yang Jiao, determined to use the Mountain Splitting Divine Axe to free their mother, Yao Ji. After the siblings were ambushed by a hidden Heavenly army led by True Lord Lingxu, they fought back against the assault.

• Yang Jian vowed to split Peach Mountain and bring Yao Ji home while Yang Chan and Yang Jiao stood beside him.
• Yao Ji heard Yang Jian's call from inside the mountain and pleaded for her children to turn back, but the restrictions kept her voice from reaching them.
• The siblings advanced through the strangely empty mountain until a golden barrier blasted them into the rocks and countless Heavenly Soldiers and Generals appeared.
• True Lord Lingxu confronted the siblings and ordered the Heavenly army to seize them, reigniting their hatred over his role in their family's ruin.
• Yang Jian and Yang Jiao charged into the army with their spears while Yang Chan used the Precious Lotus Lantern to sweep away soldiers and break their Magic Treasures.

Yang Jian, Yang Jiao, and Yang Chan were overwhelmed by True Lord Lingxu’s attack at Peach Mountain. Just as Heavenly soldiers moved to capture them, Human Ancestor Cangjie descended and subdued Lingxu and the army.

• Yang Jian, Yang Jiao, and Yang Chan fought the endless Heavenly forces until True Lord Lingxu struck them with a devastating palm and left them badly wounded.
• True Lord Lingxu ordered the Heavenly soldiers to bind the three siblings.
• Cangjie’s primordial pressure descended on Peach Mountain, immobilizing the Heavenly soldiers and forcing Lingxu to crash to the ground.
• Cangjie rebuked the Heavenly Court for mistreating the Human Race and appeared before the injured siblings.
• Lingxu recognized Cangjie as the Human Ancestor, and Yang Jian, Yang Jiao, and Yang Chan realized that the legendary Literary Ancestor had returned.

Cangjie confronted the Heavenly Court, Yuanshi, and Zhunti over their treatment of the Human Race, then dragged Zhunti and Jieyin into the Outer Heavens to settle old grievances in battle. After Cangjie departed, Yang Jian and his siblings defied Haotian and refused to submit over their mother, Yao Ji.

• Cangjie condemned the Heavenly Court's oppression of the Human Race and accused the Chan Sect and Buddhism of scheming over Yao Ji.
• Yuanshi took Lingxu and left Peach Mountain, while Cangjie challenged Zhunti and forcibly brought Zhunti and Jieyin into the Outer Heavens.
• Cangjie attacked the Western Two Saints with the Human Dao Ancient Scroll, beginning a fierce battle in Chaos.
• Grand White Gold Star asked Yang Jian and his siblings to admit their guilt for trespassing at Peach Mountain, while secretly urging them to yield.
• Yang Jian declared that Yao Ji had committed no crime and that the siblings would never submit, as Yang Jiao and Yang Chan prepared to fight beside him.

Da Yu intervened when Haotian ordered Yang Jian and his siblings arrested, giving Yang Jian the chance to split Peach Mountain and free Yao Ji. After Yang Jian collapsed from exhaustion, Da Yu declared that Yao Ji now belonged to the Human Race, not the Heavenly Court.

• Haotian ordered the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals to arrest Yang Jian, Yang Jiao, and Yang Chan, but Da Yu appeared and blocked their attacks.
• Da Yu held off Haotian, Yaochi, and Nine Heavens Xuan Nü while Yang Jian and his siblings went to Peach Mountain’s summit.
• Yang Jian used a divine axe to split Peach Mountain and break the restrictions that had imprisoned Yao Ji.
• Yang Jiao and Yang Chan freed Yao Ji and helped her reach Yang Jian, who fainted from exhaustion.
• Da Yu stood between Yao Ji and the Heavenly Court, declaring that Yao Ji was now part of the Human Race.

Da Yu claimed Yao Ji for the Human Race, while Empress Nuwa arrived and proposed replacing the Heavenly Court’s rigid rules with new laws. The immortals accepted her proposal, but Haotian unexpectedly objected.

• Da Yu declared that Yao Ji belonged to the Human Race and warned Haotian that the Human Emperors would support her.
• Yaochi tried to end the confrontation, but the Heavenly Court’s immortals pressured Haotian to punish Yao Ji’s family.
• Nuwa appeared, and Yang Chan revealed that Nuwa was her master, silencing the immortals.
• Nuwa restored Peach Mountain and announced that she would amend the Heavenly Law, which the immortals accepted.
• Haotian respectfully objected to changing the rules so hastily, stunning everyone present.

Nuwa amended the Heavenly Rules to permit love while imposing severe punishment on immortal gods who abused their authority. After Haotian reunited with Yao Ji's family, Nuwa privately told Da Yu that the coming Investiture of the Gods would begin among the Mortal Realm's Human Race and that his people should not interfere.

• Haotian argued that allowing immortal gods to love without restrictions could undermine the order of the Three Realms.
• Nuwa used the Kongtong Seal to amend the Heavenly Rules, permitting love but stripping and exiling anyone who used it to bend the law.
• Haotian thanked Nuwa, gave Yang Jiao, Yang Chan, and the unconscious Yang Jian spiritual treasures, and accepted that the children were not ready to forgive him.
• Nuwa dismissed the gathered immortals, and Haotian led the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals back to the Immortal Realm.
• Nuwa praised Da Yu and privately instructed him that the Investiture of the Gods would begin among the Mortal Realm's Human Race, whose Immortal Realm counterpart should stay out of its disputes.
• Da Yu agreed to Nuwa's instruction and accepted that the Human Race should not oppose the Heavenly Dao's coming God Conferment.

After the Split Mountain affair, Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao crossed into the Immortal Realm together. They awoke at the foot of a magnificent mountain that Shen Gongbao suspected was Kunlun, and Jiang Ziya began hoping to become a Saint’s disciple.

• Yang Jian's Family settled again at Peach Mountain while Yang Jian, Yang Jiao, and Yang Chan returned to their masters’ Dao Fields to cultivate.
• Several thousand years later, Jiang Ziya hesitated at the Immortal-Mortal Passage until Shen Gongbao approached and introduced himself.
• Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao entered the passage side by side, then fainted as white light swept around them.
• Jiang Ziya woke first and asked Shen Gongbao about the Immortal Realm, and Shen Gongbao described its four continents and the powerful beings who lived there.
• Shen Gongbao examined the mountain where they had arrived and exclaimed that it might be Kunlun Mountain.
• Jiang Ziya recognized Kunlun as a place where Saints held Dao Fields and began imagining the benefits of entering a Saint’s tutelage.

Primordial Heavenly Venerate recognized Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao as the two Flying Bear inheritors destined for the Investiture of the Gods and ordered White Crane Boy to bring them to Kunlun Mountain. The pair arrived at Jade Void Palace, each hoping to earn a place in the Immortal Realm.

• Primordial Heavenly Venerate spotted Flying Bear manifestations behind Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao and realized they were tied to the Great Tribulation of Investiture of the Gods.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate ordered White Crane Boy to bring the two seekers up the mountain.
• White Crane Boy met Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao at Kunlun Mountain's foot and provided Immortal Cranes to carry them to the summit.
• Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao rode the cranes through Kunlun Mountain's immortal scenery, both determined to seize their chance to remain there.
• The Immortal Cranes landed Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao before Jade Void Palace.

Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao became the final disciples of Primordial Heavenly Venerate, strengthening the Chan Sect’s auspicious fortune ahead of the Great Tribulation of Investiture of the Gods. After their new senior martial brothers and sisters openly shunned them, the two looked to White Crane Boy for help settling on Kunlun Mountain.

• White Crane Boy admitted Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao to the Jade Void Palace, where they respectfully met Primordial Heavenly Venerate.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate invited both to become his disciples, and Shen Gongbao and Jiang Ziya completed their respective kowtows and bows.
• The discipleship bond tied their auspicious qi to the Chan Sect, and Primordial Heavenly Venerate realized they were destined for the Great Tribulation of Investiture of the Gods.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate gave Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao the Yuqing Golden Scripture and introduced them to Guang Chengzi, Chi Jingzi, Master Huang Long, and the other disciples as their new junior martial brothers.
• The senior disciples showed disdain toward Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao, then left without helping Jiang Ziya when he tried to ask about Kunlun Mountain.
• Shen Gongbao stopped Jiang Ziya from criticizing the senior disciples near the hall, and the two turned to White Crane Boy to find a place to settle.

White Crane Boy explained the Chan Sect’s rules to Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao, then assigned them a remote, unimpressive cave residence. As Jiang Ziya struggled with the sect’s cold treatment, Shen Gongbao told him that the Prehistoric Era was governed by the strong devouring the weak.

• White Crane Boy outlined the Chan Sect’s rules and warned Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao to put the sect’s honor first.
• Shen Gongbao privately dismissed the rules as hypocritical restraints while considering how to gain benefits within Jade Void Palace.
• White Crane Boy led Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao to a remote cave residence with little spiritual energy.
• Jiang Ziya nearly questioned the poor lodging, but Shen Gongbao stopped him, and White Crane Boy rebuked them before leaving.
• Jiang Ziya voiced his disillusionment with the sect, and Shen Gongbao argued that the Prehistoric Era had never been ruled by naturally virtuous gentlemen.

After thirty years on Kunlun Mountain, Jiang Ziya’s cultivation had barely advanced while Shen Gongbao had reached the Earth Immortal realm. Shen Gongbao brought Jiang Ziya to Jade Void Palace to ask Primordial Heavenly Venerate why Jiang Ziya’s Magic Power was draining away, and the chapter ended as the immortals in the hall turned to look at them.

• Shen Gongbao told Jiang Ziya that immortals and gods followed the law of the strong, and Jiang Ziya reluctantly accepted his junior martial brother’s view.
• Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao settled in a remote cave dwelling and cultivated the Yuqing Immortal Arts for thirty years.
• Shen Gongbao advanced to the Earth Immortal realm, while Jiang Ziya remained unable to enter the Immortal Dao and found his Magic Power slowly draining away.
• Shen Gongbao examined Jiang Ziya with his Divine Sense but found no cause, then insisted they seek help from Primordial Heavenly Venerate.
• Shen Gongbao and Jiang Ziya entered Jade Void Palace despite White Crane Boy’s warning that their master was cultivating in seclusion.
• Shen Gongbao explained Jiang Ziya’s lack of progress to Primordial Heavenly Venerate, and the immortals in the hall turned their attention to Jiang Ziya.

Primordial Heavenly Venerate told Jiang Ziya that his destiny belonged to the Mortal World, not the immortal path, and gave him the choice to leave Kunlun or risk ruin. Jiang Ziya chose to persist for twenty years, but when that time passed, Shen Gongbao had advanced to late Earth Immortal while Jiang Ziya had barely reached the threshold of Human Immortal.

• Primordial Heavenly Venerate explained that Jiang Ziya’s mortal destiny made the immortal path incompatible with his Origin and warned that remaining in Kunlun could destroy his Dao Foundation.
• Shen Gongbao pleaded for Jiang Ziya to be shown a way forward, and Primordial Heavenly Venerate said Jiang Ziya could return to the Mortal World or continue at great risk.
• Jiang Ziya asked to persist for another twenty years, promising to descend the mountain if he still could not advance.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate sent Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao back to their cave, where Shen Gongbao saw that Jiang Ziya had become a frail, white-haired old man after thirty years of cultivation.
• Jiang Ziya accepted that his path was tied to the Human Race, while Shen Gongbao offered him comfort before he withdrew to rest.
• Twenty years later, Shen Gongbao advanced from early to late Earth Immortal, while Jiang Ziya had only barely touched the threshold of Human Immortal.

Primordial Heavenly Venerate gave Jiang Ziya the Investiture of the Gods and the God-Beating Whip, explaining that his destiny lay in God Conferment rather than mountain cultivation. After Jiang Ziya left Kunlun, Shen Gongbao’s jealousy turned to resentment, and he secretly set a trap for the Immortal Cranes.

• Primordial Heavenly Venerate summoned Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao to Jade Void Palace and gave Jiang Ziya the Investiture of the Gods and the God-Beating Whip.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate explained that Jiang Ziya’s cultivation had stalled because he was destined to follow the path of God Conferment.
• Shen Gongbao grew jealous and resentful after learning the treasures were Innate Supreme Treasures, while hiding his feelings from Primordial Heavenly Venerate.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate sent Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao out of Jade Void Palace, and Jiang Ziya returned to the mortal world through a spatial whirlpool.
• After Jiang Ziya departed, Shen Gongbao planted Psychedelic Immortal Herbs beside a stream where Immortal Cranes drank, then concealed himself with the Qi of Calamity and Luck.

Shen Gongbao drugged and killed the Immortal Cranes, then used calamity Qi to make White Crane Boy eat their roasted meat and carry some away. Fearing discovery, Shen Gongbao fled Kunlun Mountain and vowed never to return to the Chan Sect.

• Shen Gongbao lured the Immortal Cranes to Psychedelic Immortal Herbs, knocked them unconscious, and killed them.
• Shen Gongbao collected the cranes' Spiritual Cores and Immortal Marrow, then roasted their meat by the stream.
• White Crane Boy arrived, and a wisp of Shen Gongbao's Qi of Calamity and Luck made him crave the roasted crane meat.
• Shen Gongbao gave White Crane Boy meat to take to the other senior brothers, and White Crane Boy left with it.
• Shen Gongbao packed his belongings and crane cores, escaped Kunlun Mountain, and vowed never to return to the Chan Sect.

White Crane Boy shared roasted Kunlun Immortal Cranes with Guang Chengzi and the Chan Sect disciples, unaware that Shen Gongbao's Calamity Qi had concealed what they were eating. Primordial Heavenly Venerate uncovered the truth, and the disciples discovered Shen Gongbao had fled Kunlun Mountain.

• White Crane Boy brought Spiritual Wine and roasted cranes to Guang Chengzi, who summoned the other Chan Sect disciples to feast with them.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate remembered the disciples were meant to descend the mountain for the Investiture of the Gods tribulation and angrily confronted them at the feast.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate revealed that White Crane Boy had slaughtered Kunlun's Immortal Cranes, and his Saintly pressure cleared the disciples' clouded minds.
• White Crane Boy said Shen Gongbao had given him the birds as Spiritual Beast meat and had bewitched him so he could not see their true forms.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate searched for Shen Gongbao, but Guang Chengzi and the others found that he had vanished from Kunlun Mountain.

Primordial Heavenly Venerate let Shen Gongbao flee as part of his scheme for the Great Tribulation of Investiture of the Gods, while sending the Chan Sect disciples toward the mortal world. After mysterious figures brought Shen Gongbao to the East Sea, he awoke near Golden Ao Island and rejoiced at reaching Master Tongtian’s Dao Field.

• Primordial Heavenly Venerate refused to let Guang Chengzi pursue Shen Gongbao and ordered the Chan Sect disciples to begin their move for the coming tribulation.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate gave True Man Taiyi the Universe Ring, Heaven-Mixing Silk, and Wind-Fire Wheels for a future disciple.
• Shen Gongbao fled toward the East Sea, exhausted his Immortal Essence, and fainted after crashing into an ancient tree.
• Tianyu and Fellow Daoist Chong Shan identified Shen Gongbao as the bearer of the Flying Bear mark and brought him to Golden Ao Island.
• Shen Gongbao woke on an island near Golden Ao Island and celebrated his unexpected arrival at Master Tongtian’s Dao Field.

Shen Gongbao reached Golden Ao Island seeking to become Tongtian’s disciple and met Yunxiao after Shi Ji guided him to her. Yunxiao examined his Primordial Spirit and discovered a vision of a Flying Bear behind it.

• Shen Gongbao bribed two Jie Sect Outer Sect Disciples with a roasted Immortal Crane, and they directed him toward the Cultivation Plaza and Yunxiao.
• Shen Gongbao noticed the disciples at the plaza were composed and disciplined, unlike the Jie Sect members described in rumors.
• Shi Ji agreed to summon Yunxiao after Shen Gongbao asked to meet her and explained that he sought Tongtian as his master.
• Yunxiao inspected Shen Gongbao’s Primordial Spirit, saw violent Calamity Qi coiled around it, and discovered the image of a Flying Bear behind it.

Yunxiao brought Shen Gongbao, whose overwhelming Calamity Qi marked him as destined for the Investiture of the Gods, to Master Tongtian. Tongtian recognized the tribulation’s design against the Jie Sect and accepted Shen Gongbao as an Outer Sect Deacon, then stripped away his Chan Sect cultivation.

• Yunxiao bound Shen Gongbao and brought him to Biyou Palace, where Kui Niu recognized him as someone born to answer the calamity of God Conferment.
• Master Tongtian shattered the Calamity Qi that attacked him and realized the Great Tribulation had been aimed at the Jie Sect; he planned to send disciples’ false bodies onto the list while their True Spirits escaped.
• Shen Gongbao begged Tongtian to accept him, while Yunxiao discerned that he had cultivated Chan Sect methods and recommended keeping him only as an Outer Sect Deacon.
• Tongtian accepted Shen Gongbao into the Jie Sect, and Shen Gongbao pledged loyalty to Tongtian and Yunxiao.
• Tongtian used spiritual light to destroy Shen Gongbao’s Yuqing Immortal Arts and reduce his cultivation from Earth Immortal to a mortal body.

Tongtian remade Shen Gongbao as a Jie Sect disciple, and Yunxiao proposed using him to turn Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s scheme to their advantage. Later, King Zhou visited Nuwa Palace for her birthday and became captivated by her statue as Zhunti secretly acted from above.

• Tongtian restored Shen Gongbao’s cultivation as tyrannical Shangqing Magic Power and raised him to the Heavenly Immortal realm.
• Yunxiao suggested that Primordial Heavenly Venerate had another person with the Flying Bear physiognomy and had sent Shen Gongbao into the Jie Sect as a pawn.
• Tongtian entrusted Yunxiao with control of the Investiture Chessboard, and she promised to carry out her plan.
• King Zhou visited Nuwa Palace and completed the birthday rites before becoming unable to look away from Nuwa’s statue.
• Zhunti watched from the clouds with Jieyin, then flicked a finger toward Nuwa Palace.