Recaps

Li Yi hosted a celebration on Penglai Island after proving the Dao and revealed to the gathered cultivators that he had reached the Hunyuan Realm. His explanation unsettled the Sages, who left to reconsider their ties to Hongjun, while Li Yi told the remaining guests to comprehend a rule and survive the tribulation to prove the Dao of Hunyuan.

• Tongtian brought Duo Bao, San Xiao, Turtle Spirit Holy Mother, and his other disciples to Penglai Island for Li Yi’s celebration.
• Li Yi welcomed Tongtian personally and received the visiting Sages and other powerful figures, leaving Stone in Sword and the Ten Palace Yama Kings to greet the rest.
• After the celebration, Tongtian asked Li Yi what realm he had reached, and Li Yi revealed that he had entered the Hunyuan Realm.
• Li Yi explained that Sages were Hunyuan cultivators recognized by heaven and earth, and his remarks suggested that Hong Meng Purple Qi was not essential to proving the Dao.
• Lao Zi and the other Sages departed, while Li Yi advised the cultivators who remained to comprehend a rule and survive the tribulation.

After centuries of upheaval in the Human Race, Eastern Emperor Tai Yi awakened from tens of thousands of years in Space Turbulence, having survived the ancient war and greatly refined the Chaos Bell. He escaped into hiding after Li Yi sensed his presence, intent on secretly rebuilding the Demon Race and taking revenge on the Witch Clan.

• Da Yu departed for Huoyun Cave after remaining among the Human Race for over a century and passed the Co-Lord position to Bo Yi.
• Xia Qi killed Bo Yi and founded the Xia Dynasty, which Shang Tang later overthrew to establish the Shang Dynasty as independent powers spread across the Human Race's territory.
• Eastern Emperor Tai Yi awoke in Space Turbulence and revealed that he had survived, severed his third corpse, and refined eighty percent of the Chaos Bell.
• Tai Yi vowed to avenge Di Jun and destroy the Witch Clan, but chose to hide and secretly gather the Demon Race rather than confront the Sages directly.
• Li Yi sensed Tai Yi's aura in the Netherworld Underworld, but the aura vanished before he could identify its source.
• Tai Yi escaped through Space Turbulence using the Chaos Bell to conceal his presence.

Luo Hou returned to Chaoge, searched the sleeping city's possible futures, and identified King Zhou as the source of turmoil. He tricked King Zhou into drawing the Desire Demon Seed into his heart, then vanished while the Auspicious Golden Dragon could only watch.

• Luo Hou used the Dreams of All Living Beings to put everyone in Chaoge to sleep and search their dreams for the source of turmoil.
• Luo Hou found the unconscious King Zhou and created a Desire Demon Seed from countless temptations.
• The Auspicious Golden Dragon emerged from King Zhou and knocked the seed away, warning Luo Hou that forcing it into the Human Emperor could expose him to the power of Human Race destiny.
• Luo Hou summoned demonic visions to stir King Zhou's inner demonic nature, causing black vapor to pull the seed into his heart.
• Luo Hou left Chaoge after the seed entered King Zhou, while the Auspicious Golden Dragon cried out helplessly.

Haotian planned a grand Peach Banquet for Yaochi’s birthday, hoping to attract Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s attention and strengthen the Heavenly Court. Li Yi received an invitation, suspected the banquet signaled the coming Investiture of the Gods tribulation, and sent Candle Dragon to represent the Underworld while he pursued other matters.

• Haotian worried that the Heavenly Court had lost its standing and that he could not challenge the Witch Clan, the Underworld, or the Sages.
• Yaochi asked Haotian whether to celebrate her birthday, and he decided to host a grand Peach Banquet to draw Hongjun’s attention.
• Invitations went out across the Primordial World, including to the Witch Clan and the Underworld, and cultivators began traveling to the Heavenly Court.
• Li Yi suspected the Peach Banquet would precede the Investiture of the Gods tribulation and wondered what scheme Hongjun intended to advance.
• Li Yi told Candle Dragon to attend the Peach Banquet on the Underworld’s behalf while he handled other business.

At the Peach Banquet, Haotian deliberately invited the Sages and powerful cultivators to celebrate Yaochi’s birthday, then used their contempt for the occasion to seek Hongjun’s intervention. Hongjun sent Haotian back to the Heavenly Court and, seeking to recover his strength, began planning to disrupt Human Race fate and devour part of the Heavenly Dao.

• Haotian welcomed the Sages and cultivators to the Peach Banquet, then announced it was a celebration of Yaochi’s birthday.
• Yuanshi, Lao Zi, Tongtian, Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti left, followed by the other guests, while Haotian concealed his satisfaction.
• Haotian went to Purple Cloud Palace, wept to Hongjun about the Heavenly Court being ignored, and threatened to resign as Heavenly Emperor.
• Hongjun sent Haotian back to the Heavenly Court and reflected that his stolen fate and the damaged Jade Butterfly of Creation had weakened his fusion with the Heavenly Dao.
• Hongjun examined the Human Race’s fate and planned to throw it into turmoil so he could exploit the resulting disorder and devour part of the Heavenly Dao.

Li Yi traveled to his Main Body to investigate Hongjun and the Investiture of the Gods. After witnessing how conflict among the Human Race affected the Primordial World's fortune and glimpsing the Heaven's Dao, Li Yi decided to stop Hongjun and returned to put his plans in motion.

• Li Yi used his perfected Sword Light Flying Wings to reach the Witch God Plane and meet his Main Body.
• Li Yi and his Main Body watched Hongjun and the Three Pure Ones discuss the Investiture of the Gods in Purple Heaven Palace, alarming Hongjun and making the others uneasy.
• Li Yi's Main Body created an alternate dimension and transplanted the Human Race's fortune into it, where two factions fought and their golden dragons of fortune clashed.
• Li Yi's Main Body examined the Primordial World's web of rules and saw a mysterious cluster of light with Hongjun's Jade Butterfly beneath it.
• Li Yi suspected Hongjun was attempting something audacious, resolved to stop him, and returned to the Primordial World to act.

Tongtian divined a devastating future for the Interception Sect and used his Dao of Intercepting Heaven to investigate his own fate. As his art opened a tunnel through time, a vast sea of lightning gathered above Golden Ao Island and struck at the Immortal Slaying Formation Diagram.

• Tongtian returned from Purple Skies Palace furious at Yuanshi and divined a future in which Golden Ao Island lay abandoned and the Interception Sect had collapsed.
• Tongtian vowed to protect the Interception Sect, then summoned the Immortal Slaying Formation Diagram to conceal Golden Ao Island while he divined his own fate.
• Tongtian ordered the Interception Sect disciples to return to their caves and began using the Dao of Intercepting Heaven on himself.
• Tongtian transformed into 129,600 formations that opened a multicolored tunnel filled with fragments of the future and flowing time.
• A vast sea of lightning appeared over Golden Ao Island and crashed toward the Immortal Slaying Formation Diagram, alarming the disciples.

Tongtian endured a Heaven-sent Lightning Tribulation while reaching through a multicolored tunnel to seize a fragment of the future. After he obtained it, he unleashed the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation to shatter the tribulation, leaving Li Yi and the other Sages stunned by its power.

• A Crystal Palm formed through the multicolored passage, but Space-time Tides shattered a third of its Sword-shaped Eyes as Tongtian’s Lightning Tribulation engulfed Golden Ao Island.
• Tongtian poured Dao Patterns into the Immortal Slaying Formation Diagram and battled the lightning manifestations with a vast sea of sword energy.
• Lao Zi, Li Yi, Yuanshi, Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti arrived to observe, while Li Yi failed to see through Tongtian’s layered formations.
• As a giant Lightning Ball threatened to crush the formation, Tongtian offered more Essence Blood, restored the Crystal Palm, and seized a fragment from the tunnel before it collapsed.
• Tongtian joined the Four Immortal Slaying Swords to the formation and blasted the Lightning Ball apart, prompting Li Yi to reassess his strength.

Tongtian discovered Hongjun’s treachery and summoned Luo Hou’s remnant soul from the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation. He agreed to work with Luo Hou, who erased his imprint and restored the Four Immortal Slaying Swords to their full power.

• Original rebuked Tongtian, and Tongtian angrily challenged him before Lao Zi stopped their argument.
• Jieyin and Zhunti left, and Li Yi departed after noticing where the spacetime tunnel had collapsed.
• Three days later, Tongtian examined the fragments and accused Hongjun of plotting against him and hiding the truth about Luo Hou.
• Luo Hou emerged from the Immortal Slaying Formation Diagram and offered to cooperate, revealing that his other remnant souls had awakened and were making plans.
• Tongtian agreed to work with Luo Hou on the condition that he erase his spiritual imprint from the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.
• Luo Hou erased the imprint, restoring the Four Immortal Slaying Swords and their connection to the Slaughter Origin.

Li Yi sent Stone in Sword away from Penglai Immortal Island to gain experience in the coming tribulation. Meanwhile, the Main Body revived the Twelve Ancestral Witches in the Witch God Plane, restoring them to peak Quasi-Saint strength.

• Li Yi marked the Primordial World's northern region on a map and planned to have Zhujiuyin clear its poisonous fog after his revival.
• Li Yi visited Penglai Immortal Island, praised Stone in Sword's progress, and lifted the suppression on his cultivation so he could leave the island and gain experience.
• The Main Body gathered Spiritual Qi and faith power to cleanse and empower the Twelve Ancestral Witches' Essence Blood.
• Dijiang, Houtu, Zhurong, and the other Ancestral Witches were reborn at the peak of the Quasi-Saint realm and saluted the Main Body.

King Zhou ordered Wen Zhong to lead an army against Yuan Futong’s rebellion, then visited Nu Wa Palace for Nuwa’s birthday and fell under the influence of the Desire Demon Seed. He profaned Nuwa’s statue by writing a poem on the palace wall and returned to court despite Shang Rong’s warning.

• King Zhou raged over Yuan Futong and the seventy-two vassal lords’ rebellion, and Wen Zhong volunteered to lead troops to suppress them.
• King Zhou ordered Wen Zhong to take a hundred thousand elite soldiers to the North Sea and bring back the rebels’ heads.
• A month later, King Zhou visited Nu Wa Palace with court officials and guards to offer incense for Nuwa’s birthday.
• The Desire Demon Seed stirred within King Zhou, and he became captivated by Nuwa’s revealed Divine Statue.
• Shang Rong and the officials called King Zhou away from the statue, but King Zhou angrily accused them of plotting rebellion.
• King Zhou wrote a poem praising Nuwa’s beauty on the palace wall, dismissed Shang Rong’s warning, and returned to court.

Nuwa sent the Three Demons of Xuanyuan to ruin King Zhou after he insulted her, and Daji’s arrival helped drive the Shang Dynasty toward collapse. In the Netherworld, Li Yi summoned the reborn Twelve Ancestral Witches and assigned them a secret operation.

• Nuwa summoned the Yao Clan with the Monster Summoning Banner, dismissed all but the Three Demons of Xuanyuan, and ordered them to ensnare King Zhou and aid King Wu.
• King Zhou’s lust and the demonic seed led him to provoke Su Hu into rebellion, and Su Hu later sent Daji to the palace to make peace.
• The Fox Spirit entered the palace using Daji’s body and helped King Zhou grow cruel and neglectful, bringing the Shang Dynasty close to collapse.
• Li Yi summoned the Twelve Ancestral Witches to the Reincarnation Emperor Palace, astonishing the Ten Yama Kings, Candle Dragon, and Feng Xian.
• Li Yi gave the Twelve Ancestral Witches the Source Locking Great Array and ordered them to master it and keep their identities hidden during the operation.

Wen Zhong’s Yin Shang army repeatedly defeated Yuan Futong’s forces but could not break the Western Teachings’ barrier protecting the city. As pressure mounted in Chaoge, Stone in Sword arrived and offered to help, leaving Wen Zhong hopeful that the campaign could finally advance.

• Wen Zhong attacked Yuan Futong, but a Western Teachings barrier absorbed his lightning and allowed Yuan Futong to retreat safely into the city.
• Wen Zhong used Five Elements Spiritual Power to rout the enemy troops, then stopped his army outside the city because its barrier could withstand a prolonged assault.
• Stone in Sword sensed Western Teachings cultivators in the city and welcomed the chance to test himself against opponents of comparable strength.
• Worried by worsening news from Chaoge, Wen Zhong considered seeking help from the Interception Sect.
• A guard reported that Stone in Sword had come to offer assistance, and Wen Zhong welcomed him into the camp after learning he came from Penglai Island.

Wen Zhong led the Yin Shang army out to confront Yuan Futong, while Stone in Sword challenged Medicine Buddha to a duel between the armies. Stone in Sword turned Medicine Buddha’s Bodhi Tree to stone and claimed it as his own.

• Wen Zhong marched the Yin Shang army toward Yuan Futong’s forces, and both armies stopped to face each other.
• Stone in Sword flew between the armies and revealed his Grand Unity Golden Immortal aura, alarming Yuan Futong and his troops.
• Medicine Buddha emerged from the city to challenge Stone in Sword, and Stone in Sword ordered both armies to retreat.
• Stone in Sword and Medicine Buddha exchanged fierce attacks, shaking the earth and forcing both armies to withdraw farther.
• Medicine Buddha summoned a Bodhi Tree, but Stone in Sword’s Rock Sword Dao turned it to stone, and he drew it down to his feet.

Stone in Sword overwhelmed Medicine Buddha in their battle, despite Medicine Buddha unleashing his strongest techniques. As Stone in Sword seized the defeated Medicine Buddha, a verdant bamboo staff shot toward him from the horizon.

• Stone in Sword hurled the petrified Bodhi Tree at Medicine Buddha, who countered with a lotus formation and clashed with him.
• Stone in Sword petrified the ground and trapped Medicine Buddha among stone swords, but Medicine Buddha broke free with the Three Realms Seal.
• Stone in Sword transformed into a stone giant and destroyed Medicine Buddha’s three spatial worlds, then kicked him down from the sky.
• Medicine Buddha activated his Glazed Golden Body and fought Stone in Sword head-on, but Stone in Sword shattered his defenses and weakened him.
• Stone in Sword seized Medicine Buddha by the throat, but a verdant bamboo staff shot toward him from the horizon.

Stone in Sword’s fight with Medicine Buddha drew Zhunti’s intervention, and Li Yi challenged Zhunti and Jieyin to settle the dispute in the Chaos. Li Yi’s Path of Illusion and Annihilation initially overwhelmed the two Sages, but he reappeared exhausted, revealing limits to his technique.

• Zhunti tried to strike Stone in Sword with a bamboo stalk, but Li Yi appeared and stopped the attack.
• Li Yi proposed fighting Zhunti to settle their dispute, and Jieyin joined Zhunti against him.
• Lao Zi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, Nuwa, Zhen Yuanzi, River Styx, Kunpeng, and others headed to the Chaos to watch the fight.
• Li Yi transformed the Chaos currents into Heavenly Dragons, which Zhunti dispersed with his lotuses.
• Li Yi merged with the void and attacked Jieyin and Zhunti with repeated sword strikes, while they defended with their treasures and techniques.
• Li Yi reappeared panting, and Jieyin and Zhunti recognized that his void-merging technique had limits.

Li Yi fought Jieyin and Zhunti, revealing a Rule that dissolved Jieyin’s attack and a transformation into an imitation of the River of Destiny. Jieyin and Zhunti conceded and fled, while Luo Hou warned that Li Yi’s power remained far below the true River of Destiny.

• Jieyin summoned three thousand worlds against Li Yi, but Li Yi’s Golden Dreamlike Smoke dissolved them.
• Luo Hou explained that Li Yi had forged a unique Rule from his state of mind, though it remained imperfect and his constitution incomplete.
• Zhunti attacked Li Yi with his Thousand-Hand Buddha, but Li Yi turned a torn-off Chaos World into the Vast Azure Sky and shattered the Buddha, injuring Zhunti.
• Jieyin and Zhunti created a Vajra World woven with karma, prompting Li Yi to transform into the River of Destiny and vaporize it.
• Jieyin and Zhunti conceded and fled, and Luo Hou told Tongtian that Li Yi’s River of Destiny was only an imitation.

More than a decade after Li Yi’s battle with Zhunti and Jieyin, the Great Shang Dynasty continued to collapse as Western Qi rose and the Ten Heavenly Lords faced the Exposition Sect’s immortals. Meanwhile, Tongtian, the Witch Clan, the Primordial Fierce Beasts, and Eastern Emperor Tai Yi made plans amid a growing calamity, while Li Yi concluded that his strength could protect him even as the heavenly secrets fell into chaos.

• Wen Zhong welcomed the Ten Heavenly Lords and, three days later, they established the Ten Ultimate Formations to confront Western Qi, only to find the Twelve Golden Immortals and Ran Deng had arrived.
• Tongtian watched the Exposition Sect’s immortals slay his disciples through a Mystic Light Mirror and told Luo Hou that he could not act yet, while Luo Hou confirmed his clones were ready.
• Dijiang ordered Hou Yi, Xing Tian, Jiu Feng, and the priests to select 120 priests and secretly divide them into groups led by the Ancestral Witches.
• Ten Primordial Fierce Beasts awoke beneath the Thunder Marsh and set out to spread slaughter so the Emperor could awaken.
• Eastern Emperor Tai Yi left the Sun Star and flew toward Wa Huang Tian as signs of chaos emerged.
• Li Yi sensed the calamity spreading beyond the Human Race, but decided his strength and the arrival of his Main Body would keep him safe even if Hongjun recovered.

Tongtian sent his leading disciples away before seeking Li Yi’s help to oppose Hongjun in the coming final battle. Li Yi agreed after Tongtian promised to support him in his own future conflict with Hongjun, and then resolved to accelerate his plans with the Twelve Ancestral Witches.

• Tongtian ordered Duo Bao, Kong Xuan, Golden Spirit Holy Mother, Turtle Spirit Holy Mother, Yun Xiao, Qiong Xiao, and Bi Xiao to stay behind, but they pleaded to fight alongside him.
• Tongtian dismissed his disciples, and Kong Xuan kowtowed nine times before leaving in his peacock form.
• Tongtian resolved to risk everything against Hongjun and traveled to the Blood Sea to visit Li Yi.
• Tongtian asked Li Yi to join the final battle against Hongjun, and Li Yi agreed in exchange for Tongtian’s future support.
• After Tongtian departed, Li Yi decided to speed up his plans involving the Twelve Ancestral Witches.

As the Western Qi army routed Yin Shang, Luo Hou unleashed the Desire Demon Seed within King Zhou, transforming him into a Golden Immortal demon. King Zhou slaughtered Daji and the palace occupants, then destroyed the Yin Shang ancestral temple and seized the Nine Cauldrons of Destiny.

• The Western Qi army overwhelmed the Yin Shang forces and advanced to within a hundred miles of Jie Pai Guang.
• Sect Leader Tong Tian ordered Luo Hou to begin, and Luo Hou activated the Desire Demon Seed inside King Zhou.
• King Zhou transformed into a powerful demon and devoured Daji after she tried to flee.
• King Zhou killed the people in the royal palace and headed for the Yin Shang ancestral temple under Luo Hou's direction.
• King Zhou defeated the ancestral temple's guards, demolished the temple, and carried away the Nine Cauldrons of Destiny.

Luo Hou sacrificed King Zhou to awaken the Nine Cauldrons of Destiny, summoning an Auspicious Golden Dragon that devastated the Western Qi army. As Primordial ordered Jiang Ziya to continue the campaign, Tongtian appeared to block him.

• Luo Hou used demonic energy to make King Zhou sacrifice himself, imprinting his blood and soul onto the Nine Cauldrons of Destiny.
• The Nine Cauldrons summoned an Auspicious Golden Dragon, which attacked the Western Qi army and killed its one-hundred-thousand-soldier vanguard.
• The dragon’s images of Human Race history swept across the battlefield, destroying the Twelve Golden Immortals’ physical bodies while sparing their souls and leaving Jiang Ziya, King Wen of Zhou, and Ji Fa unharmed.
• A second Auspicious Golden Dragon emerged near Mount Qi, and the two dragons began fighting above the battlefield.
• Primordial arrived, gathered the Twelve Golden Immortals’ souls, and ordered Jiang Ziya to conquer the Yin Shang dynasty quickly.
• Tongtian appeared and challenged Primordial’s plan, telling him to get past him first.

Tongtian blocked Western Qi’s army and defeated Yuanshi with the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation. As Lao Zi, Jieyin, and Zhunti arrived to confront him, Li Yi prepared to enter the fray from the Netherworld Underworld.

• Tongtian sat in Western Qi’s army’s path, forcing Jiang Ziya to seek Yuanshi’s help.
• Yuanshi attacked Tongtian with the Pangu Banner after sending Western Qi’s army far away.
• Tongtian summoned the Four Immortal Slaying Swords and unleashed the formation, shattering Yuanshi’s attack and sending him flying.
• Yuanshi withdrew, unwilling to face the formation again, while Lao Zi, Jieyin, and Zhunti appeared and condemned Tongtian.
• Li Yi watched the confrontation through the Mystic Light Mirror and vanished from the Netherworld Underworld to make his appearance.

Li Yi joined Tongtian’s battle against Lao Zi, Yuanshi, Jieyin, and Zhunti, using the Power of Samsara and the Annihilation Rule to turn their opening attacks back on them. After the four Sages unleashed their full power and Yuanshi destroyed Tongtian’s sword assault, Li Yi recognized the true strength of a Sage.

• Li Yi arrived to help Tongtian and declared that he would take part in the battle despite the others’ warnings.
• Lao Zi, Yuanshi, Jieyin, and Zhunti attacked Li Yi with their Heavenly Dao Rules as Tongtian activated the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.
• Li Yi summoned a Reincarnation Gear and used the Power of Samsara and the Annihilation Rule to transform and return the four attacks against their creators.
• Tongtian trapped the four Sages in the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation and attacked them with a storm of murderous sword energy.
• Lao Zi, Yuanshi, Jieyin, and Zhunti joined their primordial spirits to the Heavenly Dao and greatly increased their power.
• Yuanshi annihilated Tongtian’s sword storm with a torrent of Rules, and Li Yi realized how powerful a Sage truly was.

Li Yi fought Lao Zi and Jieyin, who revealed hidden techniques and joined forces against him. Li Yi began turning imagined stars into reality, leaving Lao Zi and Jieyin fearful of the danger to come.

• Lao Zi assigned Yuanshi and Zhunti to fight Tongtian while he and Jieyin attacked Li Yi together.
• Lao Zi unleashed a torrent of rules and Jieyin tried to crush Li Yi, but Li Yi formed and detonated a vast sphere of sword aura.
• Li Yi emerged from the resulting black hole and struck Lao Zi and Jieyin with a combined ocean of sword arts, leaving both wounded.
• Lao Zi revealed three Sage-level clones, while Jieyin summoned three Buddha Lands and unleashed golden beams at Li Yi.
• Li Yi used the Path of Illusion and Annihilation to make imagined stars real, and Lao Zi and Jieyin sensed an immense crisis.

Li Yi overwhelmed Lao Zi and Jieyin with devastating attacks, then pierced them with a sword strike that existed beyond ordinary defenses. He shattered their Rule Bodies, and the Primordial World broke into countless fragments.

• Li Yi unleashed Star Big Bang, and Lao Zi and Jieyin survived by using a Three Pure Ones Clone and three merged Buddha Lands as protection.
• Li Yi found Lao Zi and Jieyin hiding beneath the ground and struck them, destroying another of Lao Zi’s Three Pure Ones Clones and cracking Jieyin’s three sariras.
• Lao Zi and Jieyin launched a furious counterattack with their treasures and rule powers, shaking the Primordial World as Li Yi fought them off.
• Li Yi fused his sword paths into a strike of existence and nothingness, sending translucent sword lights through Lao Zi and Jieyin’s defenses and into their chests.
• Li Yi followed with a lethal punch that shattered the Sages’ Rule Bodies, and the Primordial World broke into countless fragments.