Recaps

Ji Fengming became Great Master Xuandu’s Personal Disciple, mastered the cultivation teachings he received, and presented Saint Taiqing with a copy of the Tao Te Ching. After transforming Qing Province into an industrialized powerhouse, he was named Governor of the Nine Provinces and began expanding industrialization across Great Xia.

• Great Master Xuandu held a grand ceremony to accept Ji Fengming as his Personal Disciple, with major figures from across the Primordial Wilderness attending.
• Xuandu gave Ji Fengming three Innate Spiritual Treasures and taught him cultivation for a thousand years within a dream, while Ji Fengming rapidly mastered Laws and Divine Abilities.
• Ji Fengming presented Saint Taiqing with a copy of the Tao Te Ching, and Taiqing rewarded him with treasures, pills, and medicines.
• Ji Fengming returned to Qing Province and spent a century reforming it into an industrialized province that supported more than half of the Human Race’s Fortune Aura.
• Emperor Yu appointed Ji Fengming Governor of the Nine Provinces, and Ji Fengming immediately began spreading industrialization throughout them.

After three centuries of reforms under Ji Fengming, Great Xia prospered and the Human Race’s National Fortune surged. Ji Fengming then ordered cultivators and temples registered and regulated, provoking widespread anger and setting the stage for a deadly calamity.

• Ji Fengming’s ruthless reforms transformed the Nine Provinces, bringing industrial growth, safer communities, and rising prosperity to the Human Race.
• The Human Race’s expanding strength and Human Dao Origin unsettled the Heavenly Dao Saints, though the Human Sect benefited greatly from Ji Fengming’s influence.
• Ji Fengming proposed registering every cultivator and placing temples and their Incense Power under Great Xia’s control, with refusing temples to be demolished.
• Ji Fengming led elite warriors in a campaign to push down mountains and demolish temples, enraging immortals and independent temple owners.
• Factions across the Nine Provinces began organizing resistance, while a deadly calamity loomed over Great Xia at the height of its prosperity.

The Heavenly Court learned that Ji Fengming and Great Xia had destroyed immortal shrines and demanded that immortals in the Nine Provinces register, pay taxes, and submit to human rule. The Heavenly Emperor sent a five-hundred-thousand-strong army to the lower realm, leaving the conflict with Great Xia about to begin.

• Day Patrol God reported that Ji Fengming had urged mortals to destroy immortal shrines and placed immortals in the Nine Provinces under Great Xia's jurisdiction.
• The Heavenly Emperor and the immortals condemned Great Xia's actions and called for the Human Race to be punished.
• The Heavenly Emperor declared that he would use Heavenly Punishment and a Heavenly Dao Stone to offset Great Xia's National Fortune.
• The Heavenly Emperor appointed Yang Jiao grand marshal and ordered him, Wang Lingguan, Juling Shen, and other forces to quell the rebellion.
• Yang Jiao led five hundred thousand heavenly soldiers and generals toward the lower realm as factions across the Primordial Wilderness watched.

Emperor Yu faced Yang Jiao and a million Immortals who demanded Great Xia repeal Ji Fengming’s policies and surrender the King of the Nine Provinces. When Yang Jiao attacked the capital, Great Xia’s National Fortune moved to crush him, but Emperor Yu’s confidence gave way to shock.

• Attendants reported that Immortals had gathered outside the palace and demanded the King of the Nine Provinces.
• Emperor Yu led his officials to the square and learned that Yang Jiao commanded a million Immortals seeking to put down Great Xia’s alleged disorder.
• Yang Jiao demanded that Emperor Yu repeal the new policies against Immortals, restore their temples, and apologize, but Emperor Yu refused.
• Yang Jiao charged the capital with the full power of a Daluo Golden Immortal, and Great Xia’s National Fortune reached out to crush him.
• Emperor Yu’s smile froze when the National Fortune’s attack did not unfold as he expected.

Yang Jiao invaded Great Xia’s capital, where the National Destiny Golden Dragon failed to suppress him and he overwhelmed the city’s defenders. The chapter ended with Emperor Yu’s attempt to attack Yang Jiao with Great Xia’s national fortune failing as Yang Jiao charged to capture him.

• Yang Jiao’s aura immobilized Great Xia’s soldiers, immortals, and officials, while the National Destiny Golden Dragon showed no reaction to him.
• Yang Jiao killed and scattered the immortals who attacked him as he advanced through the capital toward Emperor Yu.
• Emperor Yu drew Great Xia’s national fortune into himself and sent the National Destiny Golden Dragon against Yang Jiao, but it could not detect or harm him.
• Yang Jiao declared he would capture Emperor Yu himself and charged toward the Human Emperor.

Yang Jiao attacked Great Xia over its assault on Heavenly Court temples and immortals, clashing with Emperor Yu’s forces and accusing the Human Race of overstepping its authority. He defeated Ji Fengming and held the King of the Nine Provinces at spearpoint, leaving his fate unresolved.

• Yang Jiao charged Emperor Yu’s forces, evaded the National Destiny Golden Dragon, and killed officials who tried to stop him.
• Yang Jiao challenged Emperor Yu over Great Xia’s attacks on Heavenly Court immortals and temples, arguing that immortals were not obliged to aid the Human Race.
• The King of the Nine Provinces arrived and attacked Yang Jiao, while Ji Fengming accused him of betraying the Chan Sect.
• Yang Jiao and Ji Fengming fought; Yang Jiao endured Ji Fengming’s magical treasures, regenerated after the Vajra Bracelet shattered his head, and pierced Ji Fengming’s heart.
• Yang Jiao pinned Ji Fengming beneath his foot and threatened to destroy his Primordial Spirit, blaming the Human Race’s ambition for the conflict.

Yang Jiao confronted Ji Fengming and accused Great Xia of using its National Fortune to challenge the Heavenly Court while neglecting cultivation for technology. He threatened to destroy Great Xia, and Ji Fengming realized Yang Jiao might truly kill him.

• Yang Jiao explained that he believed Great Xia's campaign to regulate the Nine Provinces' Immortals was a test of the Heavenly Court's authority.
• Ji Fengming invoked his status as a disciple of Great Master Xuandu, but Yang Jiao dismissed his appeal and pinned him beneath his foot.
• Yang Jiao threatened to send a million Heavenly Soldiers and Generals against Great Xia unless the Human Emperor surrendered.
• Yang Jiao criticized the Human Race for pursuing technology and pleasure instead of cultivation, leaving Ji Fengming speechless.
• Yang Jiao's spearpoint moved toward Ji Fengming's brow, and Ji Fengming cried out in shock.

Yang Jiao forced Emperor Yu to relinquish his position and Ji Fengming to return to the Human Sect, ending the Heavenly Court’s confrontation with Great Xia. As Yang Jiao departed, Great Xia’s National Destiny Golden Dragon struck him, revealing that the Heavenly Court had deceived everyone about the price it paid.

• Yang Jiao rejected Ji Fengming’s claims and demanded that Emperor Yu go to Huoyun Cave and Ji Fengming return to the Human Sect.
• Emperor Yu agreed, dispersed his Fortune Aura as Human Race Co-Lord, and left for Huoyun Cave, leaving the Human Emperor’s position vacant.
• Yang Jiao made Ji Fengming swear to return to the Human Sect and promised that the Heavenly Court would not deliberately slaughter or punish the Human Race.
• Yang Jiao told Great Xia’s leaders that Emperor Yu’s descendants could succeed him, then remarked that there could not be a crown prince for thousands of years.
• As Yang Jiao flew away, the National Destiny Golden Dragon struck him and left him unconscious; Emperor Yu and Ji Fengming realized the Heavenly Court had deceived them about its cost.

After the Heavenly Court’s scheme left Yang Jiao gravely wounded, Emperor Yu and Ji Fengming realized their retreat had helped bring disaster upon the Human Race. Saint Taiqing explained how Ji Fengming’s past actions gave Haotian a way to bypass Great Xia’s National Fortune, and Ji Fengming withdrew from the world as the Nine Provinces began to reunite.

• Emperor Yu and Ji Fengming watched the Human Race, aided by the National Destiny Golden Dragon, slaughter the Heavenly Court’s assembled Loose Immortals and several Primordial Unity Golden Immortals.
• Emperor Yu entered Huoyun Cave, where Fuxi and the other sages comforted him instead of blaming him.
• Ji Fengming returned to Shouyang Mountain and asked Saint Taiqing why Yang Jiao had escaped suppression by Great Xia’s National Fortune.
• Saint Taiqing explained that Ji Fengming’s attacks on the immortals’ temples had created Karma that Haotian used to counter Great Xia’s Fortune.
• Saint Taiqing warned Ji Fengming that he could not undo the age’s course, and Ji Fengming stayed on Shouyang Mountain to cultivate as the Nine Provinces moved toward unity.

The Human Race fractured after Emperor Yu and Ji Fengming vanished, and Great Xia declined until Great Shang rose against it. When the Heavenly Saints ignored Haotian’s summons, he asked the Dao Ancestor to intervene, and the Saints gathered at Zixiao Palace to face his accusation.

• After Emperor Yu and Ji Fengming vanished, the Nine Provinces splintered into warring kingdoms, and Qi later united much of the realm and outlawed technology.
• Qi became Human Race Co-Lord, but years of war and weak rule left Great Xia impoverished and in decline.
• A Black Bird descended upon Shang, and Great Shang rose to lead a coalition against Xia.
• When the ten-thousand-year deadline arrived, the Saints ignored Haotian’s summons and refused the Heavenly Court’s invitations.
• Haotian went to Zixiao Palace and asked the Dao Ancestor to intervene, prompting him to summon the Saints for deliberations.
• The Dao Ancestor rebuked the Saints for refusing to help fill the Heavenly Court’s vacant posts, and Daoist Zhunti began explaining their difficulties.

Haotian pressed Hongjun and the Saints to address the Heavenly Court’s shortage of divine officials, while Taishang Laojun agreed to enter the court on behalf of the Human Sect. Haotian then turned on Venerable Yuanshi, accusing him of defying the greater trend and demanding that Hongjun judge the matter.

• Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin said the Western Lands Teachings lacked the three million immortals Haotian demanded, and the other Saints also claimed they had too few disciples to help.
• Saint Taiqing offered to send a manifestation into the Heavenly Court, and Hongjun approved; Taishang Laojun then left Zixiao Palace and opened a world in the Heavenly Realm.
• Haotian told Hongjun that he would resolve the shortage himself if the Dao Ancestor gave him justice, but otherwise the Chan Sect would be held responsible for the missing officials.
• Venerable Yuanshi threatened Haotian, who mocked his strength, and Hongjun rebuked Yuanshi for acting wildly before him.
• Haotian asked whether Venerable Yuanshi was meant to follow the greater trend, then accused him of openly defying it.

Haotian publicly accused Venerable Yuanshi of shielding the Twelve Golden Immortals after their repeated slaughter of the Human Race and demanded that they pay for their Red Dust Tribulation. Hongjun ended the confrontation by giving Yuanshi control of the Investiture List and authority to fill Heaven’s vacant divine posts.

• Haotian condemned Yuanshi for protecting the Twelve Golden Immortals and recounted their attacks on the Human Race.
• Haotian demanded that the Twelve Golden Immortals die or be placed on the Investiture List to serve in Heaven until their Red Dust Tribulation was cleansed.
• Taiqing stayed silent when Haotian suggested that Human Sect disciples take the vacant places on the Investiture List.
• Yuanshi raised the Pangu Banner, but Hongjun forced him and Haotian back into their seats.
• Hongjun proposed that Yuanshi control the Investiture List and fill the Heavenly Court’s vacant divine posts.

Hongjun reduced Haotian’s demand for Heavenly Court personnel from three million immortals to one million and appointed Venerable Yuanshi to oversee the Investiture of the Gods. Yuanshi began discussing how the sects would supply the quota, leaving the Human Sect exempt from providing more people.

• The Saints’ debate over the Investiture List devolved into a quarrel between the Witch-Demon Two Clans, which Venerable Yuanshi stopped.
• Venerable Yuanshi told Hongjun he doubted he could fill Haotian’s demand for three million immortals, and Haotian mocked him.
• Hongjun persuaded Haotian to accept one million immortals, while Haotian angrily rebuked the Demon Race Saints for suggesting an even smaller quota.
• Hongjun ordered the Saints to gather one million immortals and appointed Venerable Yuanshi to oversee the Investiture of the Gods.
• Haotian offered to take charge of the Investiture List, but Venerable Yuanshi refused to hand it over.
• Venerable Yuanshi proposed that the sects provide people according to their size and declared that the Human Sect, whose Good Corpse Taishang Laojun was already in the Heavenly Realm, owed no further contribution.

Venerable Yuanshi and the other Saints signed the Investiture List, each contributing disciples or followers according to their circumstances. The Western Sages refused to help, drawing a sharp rebuke from the Heavenly Emperor.

• Venerable Yuanshi filled the list with thousands of Chan Sect Outer Disciples and defended his decision to spare the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Heavenly Origin Sect.
• Sect Master Tongtian added tens of thousands of Interception Sect disciples, including a Daluo Golden Immortal.
• Saint Nuwa listed several hundred elderly, weak, sick, or disabled members of the Demon Race Remnants, while the Demon Saints each added several hundred to a thousand names.
• Chi You and Xing Tian objected that the Witch Clan had no True Spirits to ascend to Heaven, and Candle Dragon instead listed thousands of Flood Dragons and other clan dependents.
• Pingxin declined to contribute, saying the Underworld Bureau also needed people, while the Two Sages of the West claimed the Western Teachings had no one to spare.
• The Heavenly Emperor mocked the Western Sages for claiming the East was no concern of theirs despite often coming east to take advantage of it.

Haotian demanded that the Saints provide a million names for the Investiture List, while the Western Sages tried to evade their share. After Yuanshi forced them and the other Saints to contribute, Zhunti hinted at a plan that could fill the list but would make a powerful enemy.

• Zhunti and Jieyin claimed the Western Teachings were too poor and understaffed to help Haotian.
• Haotian threatened the Saints with the Dao Ancestor’s order and offered to count Zhunti and Jieyin themselves toward the list’s quota.
• Yuanshi confronted the Western Sages, who first submitted hundreds of names and then reluctantly added tens of thousands of followers.
• The other Saints pleaded that they could not spare enough people, leaving the list far short of a million.
• Zhunti repeatedly hinted at a way to fill the list despite the risk of offending someone, then began to reveal it after Yuanshi demanded he speak.

Daoist Zhunti urged Sect Master Tongtian to contribute Interception Sect disciples and branches to fill the Investiture List, but Tongtian ignored him until Venerable Yuanshi threatened him with the Pangu Banner. Tongtian then stated he would contribute only the disciples he had already offered, unless Yuanshi put the Twelve Golden Immortals on the list, in which case Tongtian would cover every remaining place.

• Daoist Zhunti proposed that Tongtian give up many Outer Disciples and Interception Sect branches to fill the Heavenly Court and the Investiture List.
• Tongtian ignored Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin, then continued to ignore Yuanshi when he backed their proposal.
• Yuanshi threatened to write Jie Sect Disciples onto the Investiture List and raised the Pangu Banner against Tongtian.
• Saint Taiqing stopped Yuanshi from attacking and asked Tongtian to state his position.
• Tongtian said he would contribute only the disciples already offered, unless Yuanshi listed the Twelve Golden Immortals, after which Tongtian would fill every remaining place himself.

Sect Master Tongtian fiercely challenged Venerable Yuanshi at Zixiao Palace over the Investiture List and their disciples, and the Saints failed to reach an agreement. Back at Kunlun Mountains, Yuanshi told the Chan Sect's Core Disciples what had happened, prompting them to erupt in anger at Haotian.

• Venerable Yuanshi insulted Tongtian's disciples and argued that they should be placed on the Investiture List, but Tongtian defended them and condemned Yuanshi's disciples for their past actions.
• Tongtian accused Yuanshi of disrespecting him and questioned his disciples' conduct, while Saint Taiqing tried unsuccessfully to reconcile the brothers.
• The Saints left Zixiao Palace without signing the Investiture List, and Venerable Yuanshi returned to the Kunlun Mountains.
• Yuanshi summoned the Chan Sect's Core Disciples and explained that the dispute over the Investiture List had ended without agreement.
• The Twelve Golden Immortals grew furious that Haotian still wanted Chan Sect disciples added to the list, despite the many Outer Disciples already named.

Venerable Yuanshi calmed his disciples’ resentment toward Guangchengzi and warned them to avoid the Nine Provinces as the Red Dust Tribulation spread. At Biyou Palace, Tongtian assembled the Interception Sect’s disciples and asked whether they dared to fight.

• Chan Sect immortals blamed Tongtian for refusing to sacrifice Outer Sect Disciples to fill the Investiture of the Gods roster, while Guangchengzi warned that Haotian would not let the issue rest.
• Chan Sect immortals mocked Guangchengzi, but Venerable Yuanshi defended him and ordered his disciples to seek disciples fated to them and avoid the Nine Provinces.
• Guangchengzi returned to his dojo, fearing that a clash between the Saints and the Interception Sect could trigger a war as devastating as the Witch-Demon Tribulation.
• Hundreds of thousands of Interception Sect disciples gathered at Biyou Palace, including powerful Golden Immortals, Grand Unity Golden Immortals, and Quasi-Saints.
• Tongtian addressed the assembled disciples and asked, “Do you dare fight?!”

Sect Master Tongtian let the Interception Sect disciples leave the East Sea and act freely, while warning them against harming innocents or committing serious evil. In Zixiao Palace, the Saints resumed discussing the Investiture of the Gods, with Yuanshi complaining that Tongtian would not offer up his disciples.

• The Interception Sect disciples eagerly agreed to fight, and Tongtian gave them permission to travel and act freely within his restrictions.
• Tongtian asked his Personal Disciples what he had intended, but they failed to understand the coming Tribulation of Calamity.
• Qingyuan said he would follow Tongtian’s orders and trusted that the Interception Sect would never fall while his Master remained.
• The Saints returned to Zixiao Palace at the Dao Ancestor’s summons to discuss the Investiture of the Gods.
• Venerable Yuanshi complained that Tongtian would not use his disciples to fill the list, which required a million gods for the Heavenly Court.

Hongjun warned the Hunyuan Saints that the coming Investiture of the Gods tribulation could kill even them and ordered them to help a new dynasty overthrow Shang, drawing the Interception Sect into the conflict. Back at the Witch Clan’s home, Chi You attacked a mysterious black-robed figure, but the stranger stopped his blade with two fingers.

• Hongjun told the Hunyuan Saints that they could die in the coming tribulation and have their True Spirits bound to the Investiture List.
• Hongjun ordered the Saints to advance the Investiture of the Gods by helping a new dynasty overthrow Shang and letting the Interception Sect become involved.
• The Saints agreed to Hongjun’s plan, and he sent them back to their dojos, forbidding them from visiting Zixiao Palace unless summoned.
• Chi You and Xing Tian returned to the Witch Clan’s ancient city troubled by the dangers awaiting them and their people.
• Chi You attacked a mysterious black-robed person who appeared in the Pangu Temple, but the stranger caught his blade between two fingers.

The black-robed expert refined Chi You’s weapon and instructed Xing Tian about the Dao Ancestor’s plans and his cultivation. He gave Xing Tian a blood token that could summon his aid three times near Pangu Temple, then urged him to go wherever he wished.

• Chi You attacked the black-robed expert, who caught his blade between two fingers; Xing Tian recognized the expert as his teacher and pleaded for Chi You.
• The expert refined Chi You’s Space-Rending Blade, greatly increasing its power, and Chi You thanked him.
• The expert asked about Xing Tian’s cultivation and Hongjun’s summons, and Xing Tian revealed that the Dao Ancestor planned to move against the Interception Sect.
• The expert gave Xing Tian a method to strengthen his body and told him he could start a war to advance his Dao of Slaughter.
• The expert gave Xing Tian a blood token allowing him to summon help three times near Pangu Temple, then told him not to avoid any territory, including the Interception Sect’s.

Chi You changed from suspicion to trust in the black-robed figure after seeing the whisk he brought, and declared that the Witch Clan would march to war. In the West, the Two Sages planned to exploit the Interception Sect’s collapse before Zhunti seized on the Witch Clan’s actions as a pretext to move against them.

• Chi You demanded that Xing Tian explain how he met the black-robed figure, but Xing Tian said the figure had helped him and other Hunyuan Saints attain sainthood.
• The black-robed figure returned and gave Chi You a whisk; after examining it, Chi You agreed with Xing Tian and declared that the Witch Clan would march to war.
• The Two Sages of the West discussed taking advantage of the Interception Sect’s collapse and trying to bring Qingyuan into the Western Teachings.
• After receiving news about the Witch Clan, Zhunti called their actions brazen and said he would use them as an excuse to convert some of them into strongmen for the Western Teachings.
• Zhunti vanished to act against the Witch Clan after Jieyin left the matter to him.

Zhunti let the Witch Clan attack the Western Land’s Buddhist Kingdoms, hoping to profit from the destruction and gather faith before intervening. He restrained the Witch forces and demanded an explanation, as Xing Tian approached.

• Zhunti watched the Witch Clan raid Buddhist Kingdoms and planned to use the losses to free resources, extort the Witch Clan, and gain faith.
• Zhunti learned that the Witch Clan had marched into the Western Land after Buddhist Kingdoms and his disciples repeatedly swindled them.
• Zhunti arrived at the border amid cries for justice, then feigned grief while delaying his intervention to gather Incense Power and Wish Power.
• Zhunti suppressed the Witch Clan forces with Buddhist light and demanded an explanation and the presence of their Witch Saint.
• A mountain-like figure strode toward Zhunti and the gathered forces.

Xing Tian confronted Daoist Zhunti over the Western Teachings’ unpaid debt and mistreatment of the Witch Clan, but Zhunti overwhelmed him and trapped him. The chapter ended with Xing Tian pinned in Zhunti’s golden body as onlookers watched, expecting no help from the distant Empress Pingxin.

• Xing Tian arrived in the Western Land carrying the Pangu Blood Pool, and Daoist Zhunti eyed the treasure while pretending to offer him mercy.
• Daoist Zhunti attacked Xing Tian with the Bitter Bamboo and used the Causal and Void Laws to bind him.
• Xing Tian fought back with his axe, but the Pure Six-Root Bamboo numbed his body and suppressed his Battle Great Dao Law.
• Xing Tian accused the Western Teachings of cheating the Witch Clan out of seventy-five billion Immortal Crystals and refusing to repay the debt.
• Cultivators across the Primordial Wilderness watched as Xing Tian demanded justice, while they doubted anyone could help him.
• Daoist Zhunti summoned his Eighteen-Hand Twenty-Four-Head Golden Body and trapped Xing Tian in its hands.

Daoist Zhunti tried to bind Xing Tian with the Pure Six-Root Bamboo and force him into the Western Teachings, but Xing Tian shattered Zhunti’s Golden Body with a single axe blow. As the onlookers reconsidered the Witch Clan’s hidden strength, Zhunti recognized the Pangu Temple as the source of Xing Tian’s power.

• Daoist Zhunti bound Xing Tian and used Buddhist chants to try to recruit him into the Western Teachings’ Brahma God Division.
• The Witch Clan and cultivators across the Primordial Wilderness watched in despair as Xing Tian appeared close to being subdued.
• Xing Tian burst free, shattered Zhunti’s eighteen hands, and split the Zhunti Golden Body with an axe.
• Xing Tian destroyed the Golden Body, frightening the Western Land and shocking the watching Saints.
• Daoist Zhunti emerged from the void and noticed blood-colored tendrils from the Pangu Temple burrowing into Xing Tian’s left arm.