Recaps

Chi You and Xuanyuan ended their war after recognizing each other as senior and junior brothers, and Xuanyuan united the Human Race and Witch-Humans before ascending as Human Emperor. As Hongjun and Yaochi set plans in motion at the Heavenly Court, Tongtian summoned Qingyuan, whose sermon led to his appointment as Vice Sect Master.

• Chi You broke Li Ju’s formation, killed him, and declared himself the Witch Clan’s new lord before turning the Witch-Humans toward integration with humanity.
• Xuanyuan defeated the Qi and Kong forces, expanded his kingdom, and eventually captured Jiang He, while Chi You strengthened his southern tribe without seeking war.
• Xuanyuan mobilized against Chi You, but after Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden promoted a curse against the Witch-Humans, Xing Tian attacked Haotian and was beheaded before learning he had been misled.
• Chi You and Xuanyuan met at Zhuolu, recognized each other as senior and junior brothers, and agreed to lead the Human Race and Witch-Humans together.
• Xuanyuan united the peoples, attained the Dao, and was proclaimed Human Emperor, while Hongjun gathered the Saints and began arranging Heavenly Edicts and a future attack on the Great Love Heavenly Venerate.
• Haotian accepted Hongjun’s order to establish Heavenly Edicts, while Tongtian summoned the Jie Sect disciples to Tianlang Cliff.
• Qingyuan preached the Dao for two thousand years, drawing a vast audience and earning the Jie Sect disciples’ respect.
• Tongtian appointed Qingyuan Vice Sect Master, ordered the disciples to honor him, and presented him with a sword.

Qingyuan’s growing Human Dao prompted the Saints to move against his position as Human Lord while the Heavenly Court dealt with Yaoji’s forbidden marriage. In the East Sea, Huanglong’s attempt to exploit the Dragon Clan sparked a clash with the Chan Sect, which ended with Venerable Yuanshi’s consciousness arriving.

• Tongtian appointed Qingyuan Vice Sect Master and pressed the Qingping Sword on him, while Qingyuan rejected the demand to relinquish the Human Lord seat.
• Qingyuan reorganized the Human Dao, accelerating its growth and restoring the Primordial Wilderness, prompting Laozi, Yuanshi, and Nuwa to send envoys to meet him.
• Haotian found Yaoji living with Yang Tianyou and their children, but Taibai Golden Star secretly spared the family and Haotian arranged Yaoji’s imprisonment at Peach Mountain to protect her.
• Daoist Randeng took Yang Jiao, Yang Jian, and Yang Chan as disciples, and Venerable Yuanshi promised the brothers a divine weapon if they reached the Grand Unity Golden Immortal Realm.
• Qingyuan fused with the Chaos Dao Body, causing upheaval across Chaos as the Three Thousand Great Dao Laws submitted to a vast phantom.
• While Guangchengzi and the other Chan Sect immortals waited to see Qingyuan, Huanglong provoked Ao Guang and was bound to the Dragon Clan by signing the True Dragon Register.
• Ao Guang defeated Huanglong, who escaped toward Golden Ao Island, and Guangchengzi attacked Ao Guang and threatened the Dragon Clan before Yun Zhongzi intervened.
• Ao Guang showed footage of Huanglong’s actions, but Guangchengzi’s offer of three Nine Revolutions Golden Elixirs failed to settle the dispute, and the Golden-Winged Great Peng fought the Chan Sect immortals until Venerable Yuanshi’s consciousness arrived.

After Yaoji died to protect her children, Haotian blamed Yuanshi and Hongjun, then accepted Qingyuan as his master and seized control of the Heavenly Court. He established new tribulations and Heavenly Punishment, provoking a gathering of powerful factions who demanded that he withdraw his decree.

• Yuanshi attacked the Golden-Winged Great Peng, prompting Tongtian to trap Yuanshi in the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation before Taiqing intervened and the Saints withdrew.
• Yang Jian split Peach Mountain during a livestream, exposing Yaoji’s comfortable confinement, and Yaoji later self-destructed to atone and protect her children.
• Haotian learned of Yaoji’s death, accused Yuanshi and Hongjun of plotting against them, and sought Qingyuan’s help as he lay gravely ill.
• Qingyuan accepted Haotian as his disciple, healed his Dao Injuries, and taught him to establish Heavenly Punishment using the Heavenly Court’s Fortune Aura.
• Haotian killed Yaochi Golden Mother and her Evil Corpse, destroyed Jade Pool Fairyland, and proclaimed the Eye of Heavenly Punishment and new tribulations for immortals.
• Haotian’s Heavenly Punishment killed cultivators who insulted him, while Duobao and other powers challenged his decree and gathered at the Heavenly Court.
• Duobao, Kunpeng, the Dragon Clan, Zhenyuan, and representatives of several sects demanded that Haotian revoke his rules, but Haotian threatened to suppress them and send them to the Heavenly Prison.

Haotian enforced Heavenly authority and defied Venerable Yuanshi, while Qingyuan and the Saints prepared for a confrontation with Great Immortal Yang Mei. Qingyuan survived the ambush and seized the Pangu Banner, but the Saints finally trapped him with the Six Souls Banner.

• Haotian imprisoned sect disciples and challenged Venerable Yuanshi, then used the Thunder Seal to repel Yuanshi’s attacks and make the Saints witness Heavenly Punishment.
• Qingyuan received treasures from Haotian’s benefactor and helped establish new Heavenly Court offices and proclamations.
• Hongjun gathered the Heavenly Dao Saints and Qingyuan to ambush Great Immortal Yang Mei in his sealed Cosmic Spacetime.
• Yang Mei’s formations separated Qingyuan from the Saints, but Qingyuan resisted the spatial attacks and endured the Saints’ assaults.
• Qingyuan fought the Saints directly, seized their treasures, and withstood Tongtian’s Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.
• Qingyuan refined the Pangu Banner, split the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, and took the Six Souls Banner before Yang Mei returned it to Venerable Yuanshi.
• Venerable Yuanshi used the Six Souls Banner against Qingyuan as the Saints attacked, and Yang Mei disrupted Qingyuan’s regeneration so bloody chains could bind and pierce him.