Recaps

Ao Lin sought entry into Jin Chentao’s lineage at Jin Feng Cave, hoping his acceptance would open the way for other dragon scions to join the Wuyi Mountain Dao Lineage. Jin Chentao accepted Ao Lin as a disciple after receiving the dragon clan’s generous customary gift.

• Ao Lin and his group arrived at Jin Feng Cave, where the Golden Robe Boy agreed to bring Ao Lin before the Cave Master.
• The Golden Robe Boy explained that Jin Chentao was seeking rare gifts for the newly established Black Emperor Water Palace, encouraging Ao Lin to expect a costly exchange.
• Ao Lin entered the main hall alone and paid his respects before the portrait of the Celestial Venerable.
• Jin Chentao asked whether Ao Lin truly wished to enter his gate and understood his rules.
• Ao Lin presented a Sky-blue Law Bracelet as his customary gift, and Jin Chentao accepted him as a disciple.

Ao Lin exchanged the Western Sea Dragon Clan’s cultivation resources for entry as a true inheritor of Jin Feng Cave under Jin Chentao. After receiving a tailored scripture and divine ability, Ao Lin began cultivating while Jin Chentao used the dragon clan’s support to pursue the Dao Lord realm and secure his lineage’s standing.

• Jin Chentao offered Ao Lin a true-inheritor position in exchange for the dragon clan providing cultivation sustenance every thousand years until Jin Chentao attained the Dao Fruit and became a Dao Lord.
• Jin Chentao explained the hierarchy of Dao lineages, Dharma lineages, sects, schools, and Dao academies, and Ao Lin accepted the opportunity and bowed to become his disciple.
• Ao Lin and Jin Chentao worshiped the patriarch, and the Dao scripture recorded Ao Lin as a true inheritor of Jin Feng Cave and bestowed tailored cultivation techniques and divine abilities upon him.
• Jin Chentao warned Ao Lin that the Karmic Mirror Platform and the patriarch’s Dao scripture would have destroyed him if he had harbored improper intentions, then explained the privileges of true transmission.
• After Ao Lin left to cultivate, Jin Chentao revealed that an elder of the Western Sea Dragon Clan had privately arranged the exchange and reflected on the clan’s divided loyalties.
• Jin Chentao cultivated the Myriad Treasures Long River, seeking to complete it and attain the Metal Element Dao Fruit so he could become a Dao Lord and retain his place among the seventy-two Dharma lineages.

Zhou Yuan prepared to reopen the Water Palace as the Black Emperor, welcoming guests while Zhen Yuanzi and Meng Po discussed the risks posed by the demon and witch races. The ceremony began with the Four Seas Dragon Clan seated above the other water lineages, but an uninvited guest interrupted Zhou Yuan before he could finish speaking.

• Jin Chentao saw the Void Divine Whale Mountain appear above the grotto-heaven, and Zhou Yuan invited qualified cultivators to practice there.
• Zhou Yuan thanked Zhen Yuanzi and Meng Po for bringing back the archaic divine whale, and Zhen Yuanzi confirmed that Red Cloud was safe in the Netherworld.
• Zhen Yuanzi warned Zhou Yuan that the demon and witch races might oppose his reopening of the Water Palace, but Zhou Yuan said others would uphold justice for him.
• At the ceremony, Ao Lin explained that the Four Seas Dragon Clan would sit above the water lineages as a reward and a way to keep the powers distinct and competitive.
• Zhou Yuan appeared before the gathered immortals and began announcing the reopening of the Black Emperor's water palace, but a great sun appeared and an uninvited voice demanded to know why he had not been invited.

Di Jun and the Twelve Ancestor Witches confronted Zhou Yuan at Wuyi Mountain over the Four Seas, the Black Emperor's Position, and Pangu True Blood. As the assembled powers prepared for battle, the Three Pure Heavenly Venerates arrived from Kunlun Mountain.

• Di Jun and Tai Yi accused Zhou Yuan of claiming the Four Seas unjustly, while Zhen Yuanzi and Ao Guang defended the Wuyi Mountain Dao Lineage and the Dragon Clan's allegiance to the Black Emperor.
• Di Jun attacked Zhen Yuanzi, but Zhen Yuanzi blocked the Sun Golden Crow with the Book of Earth and condemned the demon sovereigns' motives.
• The Twelve Ancestor Witches arrived, and Gong Gong challenged Zhou Yuan's claim to the Water Element; Zhou Yuan suppressed Gong Gong's water powers and trapped him with the Northern Profound Origin Water Control Banner until the other witches intervened.
• Di Jiang and Di Jun demanded that Zhou Yuan produce Pangu True Blood and answer for allegedly provoking war between the shaman and demon races; Zhou Yuan refused and prepared to fight alongside Zhen Yuanzi and Meng Po.
• The Three Pure Heavenly Venerates arrived from Kunlun Mountain on a golden bridge, bringing the gathered powers to a standstill.

The Three Pure Heavenly Venerates came to Wuyi Mountain to defend Zhou Yuan, and Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Tai Yi’s dispute with them erupted into battle. Zhou Yuan, Daoist of Spiritual Treasure Heavenly Venerate, and Meng Po faced the witch race as the fighting spread across the void, leaving the confrontation still underway.

• Daoist of Beginning Heavenly Venerate rejected Di Jun’s claim to authority over the Ancestral Court of Mystic Gate and insulted him, prompting Eastern Emperor Tai Yi to attack.
• Daoist of Beginning Heavenly Venerate fought Eastern Emperor Tai Yi with the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi and Pangu Banner, while Daoist of Morality Heavenly Venerate drew Di Jun into illusory time and space with the Taiji Diagram.
• Zhen Yuanzi challenged Old Ancestor Kunpeng over Hongyun’s death, and Kunpeng transformed into a Great Peng to fight him.
• Zhou Yuan used the Northern Profound Origin Water Control Banner, World-Destroying Black Lotus, and Karma Red Lotus to battle Di Jiang, Gong Gong, and Xuanming, injuring Gong Gong and disrupting Xuanming.
• Daoist of Spiritual Treasure Heavenly Venerate unleashed the Four Swords of Zhu Xian against four Ancestor Witches, while Meng Po grew enormous and moved to suppress Houtu.

The witch and demon races challenged the Ancestral Court of Mystic Gate as their forces clashed across the great void, while allies joined or blocked the battle. The fighting left Di Jun wounded and at a disadvantage against Grand Pure Daoist.

• Zhu Jiuyin and the Ancestor Witches attacked, but Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin intervened with the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree and their other treasures.
• Empress Nuwa and Fuxi prepared to aid the demon race, but Daoist Mother Yuan Jun stopped them and challenged them to a game of Go.
• Xi He and Chang Xi attacked Zhen Yuanzi with the Sun Essence Wheel and Moon Essence Wheel, but Zi Wei Heavenly Venerate and Gou Chen Heavenly Venerate blocked them.
• Gou Chen revealed his Primordial Golden Immortal cultivation and joined Zi Wei in fighting Xi He and Chang Xi, while the Star God Lineage withdrew from the demon race's reach.
• Grand Pure Daoist exploited Di Jun's lapse in focus, struck him with a verdant carrying pole, and left him bloodied and close to defeat.

After the Mystic Gate Ancestral Court demanded that Di Jun return the Golden Book and condemned the Witch Tribe, the Witch and Demon Tribes rejected its authority and prepared to fight. The Three Pure Daoists merged into a Pangu manifestation and summoned an illusory axe, while Eastern Emperor Tai Yi fought to keep the Eastern Emperor Bell from joining it.

• Grand Pure Daoist demanded the Golden Book from Di Jun and declared that the Witch Tribe had lost its status as Pangu's True Lineage.
• Di Jun and Di Jiang rejected the Mystic Gate's claims, and Witch and Demon forces rallied behind their right to rule Heaven and earth.
• Di Jun and Di Jiang revealed the Witch-Demon alliance and activated the Zhou Tian Star Dou Grand Formation and Twelve Capital Celestial Demon Grand Formation against the Immortal Path.
• The Three Pure Daoists merged into a Pangu manifestation and called forth an illusory axe from the Taiji Diagram and Pangu Banner.
• Eastern Emperor Tai Yi sensed the Eastern Emperor Bell trying to join the axe and used his essence blood to suppress it.

The Wu and Demon races forced the Ancestral Court of Mystic Gate toward defeat until Daoist Hongjun intervened, then issued restrictions that favored the two races. After the clans withdrew, Zhou Yuan hosted the Mystic Gate powers at Wuyi Mountain, where they considered how to counter the growing threat.

• The Three Pure Daoists, Daoist Jieyin, Daoist Zhunti, Zhou Yuan, and the Mystic Gate powers attacked the Wu and Demon formations, but Di Jun and Di Jiang strengthened them until Zhou Yuan was wounded and the Mystic Gate side faced defeat.
• Daoist Hongjun ordered both sides to stop, but Di Jun and Di Jiang refused, arguing that ending the battle would undermine their clans’ standing.
• Daoist Hongjun forbade Mystic Gate ancestors above the Quasi-Saint level from attacking the Wu and Demon races for twelve yuanhui and confined all Mystic Gate ancestors to their Dao fields for one yuanhui.
• Di Jun and Di Jiang accepted the decree and withdrew their clans, while Zhou Yuan thanked the Mystic Gate powers and led them into Wuyi Mountain.
• In the Palace of Hearing the Dao, the Three Pure Daoists and Daoist Jieyin discussed the Wu and Demon races’ growing strength, and Daoist Jieyin asked Zhou Yuan whether the dragon clan still possessed the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation.

At the Ancestral Court of Mystic Gate, Zhou Yuan proposed creating a new race to contend with the Witch and Demon Clans for the fortune of the Human Dao and preserve the immortal Dao. The gathered Daoists agreed that Nuwa should create the race, and Grand Pure Daoist volunteered to persuade her.

• Zhou Yuan warned that even the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation would struggle against the Witch and Demon Clans as their strength and Human Dao momentum grew.
• Grand Pure Daoist proposed supporting a clan, stirring the Primordial Violet Qi within the Three Pure Daoists, Daoist Jieyin, and Daoist Zhunti.
• Daoists considered the Longbo Giant Clan, the Spirit Clan, the Ghost Clan, and other possibilities, but found none suitable to oppose the Witch and Demon Clans.
• Zhou Yuan proposed creating a new race, closing the immortal Dao lineages to other disciples, and later using the race to inherit their fortune and wield the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation.
• The Daoists discussed giving the new race Dao bodies and dividing it into yin and yang so it could cultivate, reproduce, and gather great fortune.
• Zhou Yuan proposed that Nuwa create the race so it could shelter under the demon race while secretly receiving support from the immortal Dao, and Grand Pure Daoist agreed to persuade her.

After the Dao Ancestor’s decree, Zhou Yuan arranged for the Human Race to be created and ordered the Mystic Gate lineages to retreat into their grotto-heavens for twelve epochs. Di Jun then authorized the demons to seize immortal resources, and demons began slaughtering Dao lineages across the Primordial Continent.

• The Daoists agreed to name Empress Wa’s future creation the Human Race and entrusted Zhou Yuan with presiding over its creation.
• Zhou Yuan ordered the Wuyi Mountain lineages to withdraw into their grotto-heavens, while water spirits and the Dragon Kings were tasked with protecting the waterways and received promises of resources and Dao lectures.
• Di Jun sensed that the immortals were plotting against him, then decreed that demons would rule the heavens and witches the earth, allowing both clans to seize immortal and Mystic Gate resources.
• After a demon killed a Dao lineage’s Great True Lord without retaliation from the Mystic Gate, demons grew bolder and attacked Dao academies and lineages.
• A three-thousand-zhang celestial hound devoured the disciples on a divine mountain and flew off to raid another, as demons ravaged the Primordial Continent.

Great True Lord Hesha was killed after the Three-Headed Flood Dragon attacked Quicksand Continent, and the dragon used the victory to attain the Great Luo Dao Fruit. Dao Lord Jingyuan was forbidden from intervening, while Old Ancestor Kunpeng confirmed that the Mystic Gate Immortal Path had withdrawn as the Witch and Demon clans rose to rule the primordial world.

• The Three-Headed Flood Dragon attacked Great True Lord Hesha’s sect on Quicksand Continent after Hesha remained outside Kunlun to finish nurturing his treasure.
• Hesha unleashed the [Primordial Magnetic Divine Sand Gourd], but the Three-Headed Flood Dragon risked its life, destroyed the sect, and swallowed Quicksand Continent.
• The Three-Headed Flood Dragon gained the Demon race’s heavenly fortune and attained the Great Luo Dao Fruit, while Dao Lord Jingyuan’s attempt to avenge Hesha was stopped by White Crane Attendant under the three masters’ decree.
• Old Ancestor Kunpeng concluded that the Mystic Gate Immortal Path had truly withdrawn and reported the result to Di Jun.
• Over nearly twelve epochs, the Witch and Demon clans destroyed Immortal Path lineages, rewrote histories, and gathered the primordial world’s destiny.

Liu Xuan and Wu Zhiqi killed the Qingyang Divine Lord for violating the Wuyi Mountain Dao Lineage’s decree, then entered a mysterious overseas immortal island. As Zhou Yuan prepared for the coming creation of the Human Race, he used Three Lights Divine Water to nurture a wisp of his primordial spirit.

• Liu Xuan and Wu Zhiqi confronted Qingyang Divine Lord, who admitted to blood-sacrificing a sect and seeking to defect to the Demon Clan Heavenly Court.
• Wu Zhiqi killed Qingyang Divine Lord with the Primordial Chaos One Qi Staff, and Liu Xuan concealed the traces of the battle.
• Liu Xuan and Wu Zhiqi discovered a spatial rift leading to an overseas immortal island and entered it; the island vanished from sight.
• Taiyi Demon Kings found no trace of the island, threatened a dragon prince, and accepted tribute from a nearby dragon turtle, who then offered to take the prince to cultivate under His Highness Ao Lin.
• Zhou Yuan determined that Liu Xuan and Wu Zhiqi faced danger but would gain a great opportunity, then began preparing for the Human Race’s creation.
• Zhou Yuan placed a wisp of his primordial spirit in Three Lights Divine Water to nurture it.

Liu Xuan and Wu Zhiqi explored Yingzhou Island, collected its treasures, and discovered that a visitor from beyond the heavens had arrived through the Main God Temple. They watched the stranger from hiding while Dao Ancestor Hongjun sensed the disturbance and reflected on the approaching calamity.

• Liu Xuan and Wu Zhiqi found the [Jade Mountain] and [Jade Spring Wine], and Wu Zhiqi used [Universe in a Sleeve] to collect them.
• The brothers broke through the island's Innate Magic Array, found the [Purifying World White Lotus], and collected the lotuses to present to their master.
• A young man connected to the [Main God Temple] appeared on Yingzhou Island after severing his connection to the temple, and the brothers hid from him in the great void.
• Liu Xuan and Wu Zhiqi decided to observe the stranger, seal his five senses and Six Consciousnesses, and take him to Wuyi Mountain for their master's judgment.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun sensed the arrival as a possible probe or accident, concluded that the universe's time to reveal itself had not come, and refrained from interfering.

Daoist Lord Fu Li proposed that Di Jun marry Xi He and Chang Xi, with Empress Nuwa presiding over the heavenly marriage. Nuwa recognized Di Jun’s attempt to unite the Sun and Taiyin’s fortunes, but revealed that Fu Li’s patron Canghao had once received her jade pendant, leaving the purpose of her consent unresolved.

• Daoist Lord Fu Li urged Di Jun to take Xi He as Empress and Chang Xi as an Imperial Consort, then suggested inviting Empress Nuwa to witness the marriage with the Red Embroidered Ball.
• Di Jun approved Fu Li’s plan, rewarded him, and sent him to Phoenix Perch Mountain to invite Nuwa.
• Nuwa agreed to help if Xi He and Chang Xi were willing, then considered how Di Jun sought to unite the Sun’s and Taiyin’s fortunes.
• Fuxi condemned Di Jun’s plan and urged Nuwa to ignore him and join Mystic Gate, but Nuwa told him not to rush.
• Nuwa revealed that she had given Canghao a Clear Heart Jade Pendant long ago and that Canghao had led Fu Li into the Dao; Fu Li still wore the pendant.

Nuwa and Fuxi accepted Di Jun’s decree while suspecting Grand Pure Daoist had arranged events to weaken Di Jun’s momentum. After Wu Zhiqi and Liu Xuan reported their discoveries on Yingzhou Island, Zhou Yuan learned of the Main God Temple and confronted its reincarnator, Zhao Wushang, who began to be erased by a force connected to the Main God.

• Nuwa and Fuxi reasoned that Grand Pure Daoist had likely influenced Di Jun’s plans, and Nuwa set out for the Sun Star after accepting Di Jun’s decree.
• Zhou Yuan noticed Wu Zhiqi and Liu Xuan returning from the Eastern Sea and summoned them to the Palace of Hearing the Dao.
• Wu Zhiqi and Liu Xuan offered Zhou Yuan the Purifying White Lotus and reported encountering a reincarnator from the Main God Temple on Yingzhou Island.
• Zhou Yuan learned that Wu Zhiqi had captured Zhao Wushang with the Northern Profound Origin Water Control Banner and considered the threat posed by the Main God.
• Zhou Yuan summoned Zhao Wushang, but the Main God Temple’s escape attempt failed and an unseen force began erasing the reincarnator’s existence.

Zhou Yuan rescued Zhao Wushang from the Main God Temple’s extermination mechanism, then used his memories to plan an avatar’s infiltration of the temple through the Nine Splendors Realm. Zhao Wushang returned to his world and schemed to exploit an impending struggle for the dragon throne, while in the Primordial World Di Jun’s heavenly marriage brought his fortune to its peak and the Three Pure Daoists prepared to act.

• Zhou Yuan used the [Myriad Dao Book] to erase Zhao Wushang’s traces and stop the Main God Temple’s extermination mechanism, then read his memories and planned to send an avatar into the temple.
• Zhao Wushang returned to the Nine Splendors Realm, read the signs of an approaching struggle for the dragon throne, and divined that a phoenix-destined woman would cross the Azure Jade River in three days.
• Zhao Wushang ordered his officials not to disturb the woman, then watched as the Prefectural Assistant secretly went toward White Tiger Ridge, expecting the aging tiger there to covet her Heaven-Mending Pills.
• Empress Nuwa presided over Di Jun’s marriage to Xi He and Chang Xi, and the resulting Heavenly Dao Merit caused their fortune to gather rapidly toward Di Jun.
• Daoist of Spiritual Treasure Heavenly Venerate declared that Di Jun’s fortune had peaked, Daoist of Beginning Heavenly Venerate asked Grand Pure Daoist of Morality Heavenly Venerate to act, and Grand Pure unfurled a Yin-and-Yang scroll.

The Three Pure Heavenly Venerates used Pangu’s fortune to pry at the Sun and Moon’s authority and disrupt Di Jun’s attempt to complete his Heavenly Emperor position. The backlash weakened Di Jun and the demon court, while the court’s Great Luo sacred demons spent their own fortune to protect him.

• The Three Pure Heavenly Venerates agreed to use Pangu’s True Lineage fortune to stir the Sun and Moon’s authority, accepting that the act would end their affinity with them.
• Di Jun celebrated his heavenly marriage with Chang Xi and Xi He as he absorbed the Sun and Moon’s authority and moved toward perfecting his Heavenly Emperor position.
• Heaven erupted with thunder and chaos, and Xi He, Di Jun, and Chang Xi discovered that their connection to the Sun and Moon was fading.
• The Eastern Emperor Bell and Di Jun’s Golden Crow manifestation failed to suppress the Sun and Moon’s backlash, which struck the demon court and weakened Di Jun’s authority.
• The demon court’s Great Luo sacred demons manifested their Dao and sacrificed their fortune to divert the Sun and Moon’s radiance, giving Di Jun a brief chance to recover.

Dao Lord Xuanwei and the Mystic Gate strengthened the Sun and Taiyin, disrupting Di Jun’s plan to claim their authority. Di Jun transferred that authority to the ten Golden Crows and twelve moons, while Daoist Zhunti sent Kinnara and other Western Demonic Cult followers to sow discord among the witches and demons and began planning the Human Race’s rise.

• Dao Lord Xuanwei secretly enhanced the Sun and Taiyin, prompting Mystic Gate Dao Lords to pour Immortal Dao fortune into them and shatter the Demon Clan’s control.
• Zhu Rong considered whether he could prove the Dao of Pure Yang, while Di Jiang chose to watch the conflict rather than aid the Demon Clan or attack it.
• Di Jun accepted that he could not claim the Sun and Taiyin’s authority and transferred his solar authority to the ten Golden Crows and Chang Xi’s Taiyin authority to the twelve moons.
• Ten thousand years later, Daoist Zhunti ordered Kinnara and the Western Demonic Cult followers to descend from Mount Sumeru and use their methods to disrupt the witches and demons.
• Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti discussed preparing to create the Human Race, and Daoist Zhunti proposed that several great suns could provoke a clash between the Demon Clan and the Wu Clan.

Old Demon Wenjin lured the demon clans around Hidden Fog Mountain into eating the flesh of a witch tribe he had slaughtered, binding them to the crime. After revealing his Heavenly Immortal strength, he claimed that eating more blood and flesh had enabled his breakthrough, leaving the demons trapped in his scheme.

• Old Demon Wenjin summoned the nearby demons and promised them a great opportunity, then led them to a hidden residence for a lavish feast.
• The demons ate spiritual delicacies and bloody organs, unaware that Wenjin had taken them from a witch clan tribe he wiped out.
• When Big Yellow guessed that Wenjin had robbed a witch tribe, Wenjin confirmed it, and the demons panicked over the consequences.
• Wenjin revealed that the organs they had eaten belonged to descendants of Pangu, prompting the tiger demon to attack him.
• Wenjin swallowed the tiger demon with his tongue, revealed that he had reached the Heavenly Immortal realm, and said eating blood and flesh had helped him advance.

Kinnara provoked the demons of Hidden Mist Mountain into attacking the Zhen Du Tribe, then secretly turned the battle against the Wu Clan to further the calamity. Meanwhile, Zhao Wushang reached third-rank divine status, drawing the attention of powerful figures across Jiangbei Dao.

• The old toad demon used Wu Clan flesh and black qi to incite the demons of Hidden Mist Mountain into a frenzy and lead them toward the Zhen Du Tribe.
• The Zhen Du Tribe fought the demons, but Kinnara secretly struck the Wu Clan leader with black divine light and overturned the battle before departing for Mount Sumeru.
• Zhao Wushang opened his eyes in the Azure Jade River Water Manor after reaching third-rank divine status through the legacy of the Ninefold Peaks River Dragon God.
• An elder at Jiujiang Academy, a monk at Vajra Temple, and the City God of Jiangbei Dao noticed Zhao Wushang's advancement, and the City God sent officials to congratulate him.

After learning that the Buddhist Path planned to subdue the Jade Green River God, Chen Xuance sent Zhou Hong to protect him. Zhao Wushang recognized the danger behind his new divine rank and prepared to use the Dragon Lord of Nine Peaks River’s legacy to advance while hiding his true nature.

• Wu Zhao told Chen Xuance that the Jade Green River God had once saved her, and Chen Xuance explained that the Dragon Lord of Nine Peaks River had been a Buddhist karmic fruit whose death had entangled the Divine and Buddhist Paths.
• Chen Xuance revealed that Treasure Elephant Arhat planned to subdue or kill the Jade Green River God to claim the Buddhist fortune left by the Brahma Sound Dragon-Subduing Bodhisattva.
• Chen Xuance summoned Zhou Hong and ordered him to protect the Jade Green River God and preserve his life and divine position; Zhou Hong flew toward the Azure Jade River.
• At the Water Manor, Zhao Wushang realized that attaining the third-rank divine office had exposed him to Buddhist schemes, and he considered using the Dragon Lord’s lineage to advance while remaining cautious of the world’s patriarchs.
• Zhao Wushang put on the Nine-Dragon Water-Expounding Crown, took out a drop of True Dragon Blood, and prepared to use the divine ability Magpie Occupies Nest.

The Elephant Arhat came to the Qingyu River to claim the Nine Dragons Waterborne Crown, but Zhao Wushang refused and fought him. Zhao’s Innate Weak Water forced the Arhat to reveal a powerful transformation, and the chapter ended as the Arhat brought down a karma-locking vajra strike.

• The Elephant Arhat arrived at the Qingyu River and tried to convert its spirits before calling for the Qingyu River Water God to return the Nine Dragons Waterborne Crown.
• Zhao Wushang appeared and challenged the Elephant Arhat to prove the crown belonged to the Buddhist sect, then attacked when the monk could not summon it.
• Zhao Wushang’s water needles failed to pierce the Elephant Arhat’s Arhat Golden Body, but his three drops of Innate Weak Water burned through the monk’s golden palm.
• The Elephant Arhat sent the white jade demon elephant forward as a shield, then swallowed a golden mountain of Buddhist light and transformed into a sixteen-foot golden form.
• The Elephant Arhat shattered Zhao Wushang’s Weak Water defenses with his empowered divine vajra, forced him back, and raised the weapon for a karma-locking strike.

Zhao Wushang revealed himself as the ancient Dragon Lord of the Nine Wei River, defeated Precious Elephant Arhat, and rose to the second rank of the Divine Path. Water Moon Precious Blossom Bodhisattva descended to confront him on the Jiuwéi River.

• Water Moon Precious Blossom Bodhisattva defended her empowerment of Precious Elephant Arhat while the Mountain God of Liuyang tried to intervene in the fight against Zhao Wushang.
• Zhao Wushang revealed his true dragon form and broke Precious Elephant Arhat’s golden body, then pursued him upstream while declaring that he would punish Vajra Temple without harming ordinary people.
• As Zhao Wushang traveled the Nine Wei River, his divine authority rapidly increased, alarming Water Moon Precious Blossom Bodhisattva and the Mountain God of Liuyang.
• Zhao Wushang caught Precious Elephant Arhat near Mount Liuyang, killed him, and advanced to the second rank of the Divine Path.
• Water Moon Precious Blossom Bodhisattva challenged Zhao Wushang, while the Mountain God of Liuyang refused to take her side; she then descended onto the Jiuwéi River.

Zhao Wushang fought Bodhisattva [Water Moon Precious Blossom], who used a borrowed Buddhist Land to try to capture him, and turned the battle with the [Nine Dragons Water-Expanding Crown]. After he destroyed her golden body and began wrecking the Buddhist Pure Land, the Buddhist Path pleaded for a settlement, and Zhao Wushang questioned whether they could offer one.

• Bodhisattva [Water Moon Precious Blossom] attacked Zhao Wushang with Buddhist [Mind Reading] and invited him into her Buddhist Land of Pure Bliss, but he fought back and injured her.
• Bodhisattva [Water Moon Precious Blossom] borrowed the power of the Buddhist Land to take on a Buddha-like form and overwhelm Zhao Wushang with Buddhist light.
• Zhao Wushang revealed the [Nine Dragons Water-Generating Crown], placed it on his head, and summoned nine dragons formed from Innate True Water.
• The Innate True Water destroyed the Buddhist Land's temples and monks and tore apart Bodhisattva [Water Moon Precious Blossom]'s golden body, while Zhao Wushang shattered the souls contained in her Buddha blood.
• The Buddhist Path asked Zhao Wushang to end the conflict and spare the Bodhisattva's Buddhist fruit and life, and he asked whether they had the authority to make that decision.

After defeating Bodhisattva [Water Moon Precious Bloom], Zhao Wushang made peace with the Buddha and traveled to Six Yang Mountain to discuss the state of the Jiuhua World with Wang Liuyang. He declared that he intended to support the Dragon Court and claim a share of the Human Dao’s fortune, leaving the Mountain God stunned by his ambition.

• The Buddha withdrew the Buddhist kingdom and Pure Land, took Bodhisattva [Water Moon Precious Bloom]’s hidden true spirit, and departed after speaking with Zhao Wushang.
• Wang Liuyang, Mountain God of Six Yang Mountain, greeted Zhao Wushang and invited him to share spiritual tea at Six Yang Mountain.
• Zhao Wushang claimed the white jade demon elephant as his mount, while observers along the Ninefold Wei River spread news of his victory and speculated about its consequences.
• At the tea gathering, Zhao Wushang told Wang Liuyang that he would leave the Two Rivers’ Divine Dao under his authority but expected its cooperation when needed.
• After learning about the Jiuhua World’s six great Dao traditions, Zhao Wushang announced that he wanted to support the Dragon Court and share in the Human Dao’s fortune, leaving Wang Liuyang troubled by the request.