Chapter Summaries

Gui Ying told Jue Cang that Yang Mei and Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion’s new allies came from the Primordial World Dao Domain, and Karma’s group had agreed to oppose them because of their grudge with Xuan Qing. Heavenly Prison City secretly moved against Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion, but Yang Mei and the others anticipated the interference and kept their plan to gather Origin auras on track.

• Gui Ying told Jue Cang that Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion’s new experts came from the Primordial World Dao Domain and that Karma’s group would help deal with Yang Mei and the others.
• Jue Cang agreed with Karma’s group on a plan, and Heavenly Prison City’s forces secretly began moving against Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion.
• Yang Mei collected Origin auras from dozens of Chaos Dao Realms as Venerable Jin Shui warned that someone was sabotaging their operations.
• Venerable Jin Shui identified Heavenly Prison City as the likely culprit and ordered the plan to continue despite the threat.
• Yang Mei and the others ambushed Heavenly Prison City’s lackeys, killing them without delaying the plan.

Yang Mei confronted Karma and Destiny at Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion after they attacked its people and revealed that he had abandoned his former Dao for a new Great Dao. He drew the two into the Chaos Void to fight, where they sensed how profoundly his Dao had changed.

• Karma and Destiny arrived at Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion and pressured Yang Mei and his companions with their auras.
• Han Xi mocked Karma for his past defeat, while Karma and Destiny challenged the group and claimed times had changed.
• Destiny tried to provoke Yang Mei by pointing out that he was also a Chaos Demon God, but Yang Mei said he had left his former path and pursued a new Great Dao.
• Jin Shui and Yue Ying learned that Yang Mei and his opponents were Chaos Demon Gods and realized Xuan Qing had defeated many of them in the past.
• Yang Mei summoned the Myriad Heavens Wheel and drew Karma and Destiny into the Chaos Void to fight.
• Karma and Destiny sensed that Yang Mei's Dao had changed, and Yang Mei called on them to settle the matter through combat.

Yang Mei and Han Xi fought Karma and Destiny to a standstill, while Gui Ying led an attack on the Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion. After discovering that its defenders were stronger than expected, Gui Ying abruptly retreated toward Heavenly Prison City.

• Yang Mei attacked Karma and Destiny, and Han Xi joined the fight by striking them from behind before agreeing to duel one opponent each with Yang Mei.
• Jue Cang sent Gui Ying, Yuan Cang, and a group of Primordial Taiji Golden Immortals to attack the Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion.
• Jin Shui and Yue Ying confronted Gui Ying, while Wang Shu and Han Li blocked the other attackers.
• Gui Ying realized the Pavilion’s defenders could overpower his group, so he grabbed Yuan Cang and retreated with most of his forces, leaving two behind.

Wang Shu killed the two Taiji Golden Immortals who had been abandoned at the Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion, while Gui Ying fled to Heavenly Domain City and was sent toward the ongoing battle. When he entered the battlefield, he was caught between Yang Mei and Destiny and badly wounded.

• Gui Ying abandoned the two Taiji Golden Immortals, and Wang Shu used her Chaos Spiritual Treasure to erase them despite their pleas for mercy.
• Wang Shu's display of power drove the watching Sin Domain City magnates to withdraw their divine senses.
• Gui Ying returned to Heavenly Domain City, where Jue Cang discussed recalling Karma and Destiny and concluded that brute-force attacks would not work.
• Gui Ying entered the Chaos to approach the battle, but the Laws of Space dragged him into the fighting and Destiny pulled him to his side.
• Yang Mei unleashed his Laws of Space against Destiny and Gui Ying, striking Gui Ying in the waist and leaving him desperate to escape.

Yang Mei and Han Xi overwhelmed Destiny, Karma, and Gui Ying, forcing the three to flee to Heavenly Prison City. Jue Cang stabilized Gui Ying and promised to seek him a place in the city’s secret realm, while Karma and Destiny explained why they had lost.

• Yang Mei hurled the badly wounded Gui Ying into Han Xi and Karma’s battle, where Han Xi attacked him with Yin Yang Taiji Diagrams.
• Karma rescued Gui Ying from Han Xi’s assault, then ordered him away; Gui Ying warned Karma and Destiny that the Great Commander had ordered a retreat.
• Han Xi unleashed a vast Yin Yang Diagram as Destiny opened a path through the River of Destiny and fled with Karma and Gui Ying.
• Han Xi’s attack struck the three as they escaped, sending them out of the river and back toward Heavenly Prison City.
• Jue Cang stabilized Gui Ying’s life force and promised to request a secret-realm cultivation spot for him after he recovered.
• Karma and Destiny told Jue Cang that Yang Mei’s strength had grown and that Han Xi was Xuan Qing’s younger sister.

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.