Chapter Summaries

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.

Xing Tian drew on Pangu Temple’s power to kill Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin in succession, shocking the Hunyuan and Heavenly Dao Saints. He then turned his axe on Venerable Yuanshi after accusing the Heavenly Dao Saints of ignoring the Two Shakya’s oppression of the Witch Clan.

• Xing Tian shattered Daoist Zhunti’s Golden Body and killed him with a single axe swing.
• Daoist Jieyin attacked Xing Tian, but Xing Tian cut through his treasures and killed him with Gan Qi.
• Blood Thunder and Blood Rain spread across the Primordial Wilderness as living beings mourned the two fallen Saints.
• Venerable Yuanshi confronted Xing Tian in the Western Land and demanded to know why he had brought his warriors there.
• Xing Tian condemned the Heavenly Dao Saints for failing to stop the Two Shakya and swung his axe at Venerable Yuanshi.

Xing Tian fought Venerable Yuanshi across the Western Lands, using the Pangu Temple’s blood to empower himself, while Venerable Yuanshi answered with his spiritual treasures. As the battle devastated the region, the Two Shakya begged Hongjun to intervene, and he rebuked them instead of promising to stop the fight.

• Xing Tian attacked Venerable Yuanshi, and their first clash cracked the heavens and damaged Venerable Yuanshi’s Immortal Slaying God Punishing Treasure Blade.
• Venerable Yuanshi unleashed Yuqing Divine Thunder and the Pangu Banner, but Xing Tian used the Pangu Temple’s blood to armor himself and regrow his head.
• Xing Tian broke through Venerable Yuanshi’s lightning and cracked his Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud defense, forcing Venerable Yuanshi to strike back with the Pangu Banner.
• Xing Tian and Venerable Yuanshi continued fighting as the Western Lands were devastated and its living beings pleaded for them to stop.
• The Two Shakya begged Hongjun outside Zixiao Palace to end the war, and Hongjun opened the gates and admonished them about the consequences of their conduct and Heterodox Paths.

Zhunti and Jieyin pleaded with Hongjun after Xing Tian and Yuanshi’s battle devastated the Western Land, but Hongjun reminded them of their Great Vow and sent them back. Hongjun restrained Xing Tian and used his blood to restore part of the land, then pressed him to end the fight with Yuanshi.

• Zhunti and Jieyin begged Hongjun to intervene, but he reminded them that mending the Western Land was part of their Great Vow and sent them back to it.
• Zhunti and Jieyin tried to stop Xing Tian and Yuanshi, but the fighters sent them flying and continued their battle while the pair gathered Buddhist Kingdoms and shielded the land.
• Hongjun arrived after more than seventy percent of the Western Land had been damaged, and Yuanshi withdrew while Xing Tian continued chasing him.
• Hongjun bound Xing Tian with Heavenly Dao chains and turned his blood into rain that restored thirty percent of the Western Land’s vitality.
• Zhunti asked Hongjun to draw more blood from Xing Tian, but Hongjun ignored him and asked Xing Tian to let the matter with Yuanshi rest.
• Xing Tian agreed to stop fighting because Hongjun had spoken.

Jieyin publicly accepted responsibility for the Western Teachings’ wrongdoing and vowed to withdraw from eastern affairs, then dramatically severed ties with Zhunti. The other Saints suspected the Two Sages of the West were using the crisis to evade the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation, while Yuanshi warned Jieyin not to break his promise.

• Zhunti raged at Hongjun’s punishment, but Jieyin thanked their teacher and admitted the Western Teachings had brought the disaster upon themselves.
• Jieyin apologized to the Primordial Wilderness and vowed that the Western Teachings would withdraw from eastern affairs, while Zhunti protested and the Western Buddha Mother wept.
• Jieyin struck Zhunti and declared that he was severing all ties with him, moving many living beings while the other Saints suspected a ploy to avoid the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation.
• Jieyin told Yuanshi that the Western Teachings would close themselves off after their losses, and Yuanshi warned that he would split open the Western Pure Land if Jieyin broke his word.

After the Western Teachings withdrew from the east, the Two Sages of the West gained public praise, prompting Heavenly Emperor Haotian to send Tianpeng to turn public opinion against them. Venerable Yuanshi then demanded Haotian protect his Chan Sect disciples from the Tribulation of Calamity, but Haotian refused and insisted they all be placed on the Investiture of the Gods list.

• The Western Teachings recalled their branches to the Western Land, and their reputation rose as people defended the Two Sages of the West.
• Haotian summoned Tianpeng and ordered him to use the water army to expose the Western Teachings' past deeds.
• Tianpeng warned that the Two Sages of the West might harm or convert his contacts, but Haotian said he would deal with them if they broke their promise to stay in the Western Land.
• Venerable Yuanshi repeatedly tried to enter the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, and Haotian shattered his summoned figure each time before allowing him to speak.
• Venerable Yuanshi demanded that Haotian protect his disciples from the Tribulation of Calamity and offered future support in return.
• Haotian rejected the offer and declared that he wanted every Chan Sect disciple placed on the list.

Haotian rejected Venerable Yuanshi’s demand to keep the Chan Sect Immortals off the Investiture of the Gods, and Yuanshi returned to Kunlun to gather his disciples. At the Jade Void Palace, Shen Gongbao stood among the respected Outer Disciples while Jiang Shang remained an outcast because of his poor cultivation.

• Haotian accused Venerable Yuanshi of causing his sister’s death and warned that he would retaliate against the Twelve Golden Immortals if Yuanshi interfered with his plans.
• Venerable Yuanshi threatened to strip Haotian of power through the Investiture of the Gods, but Haotian said the Heavenly Court already had more than a million immortals and dismissed him.
• Venerable Yuanshi returned to the Jade Void Palace, where the Chan Sect Immortals mocked Haotian and the Investiture of the Gods.
• Venerable Yuanshi ordered that all Chan Sect Outer Disciples be summoned to hear him expound the Great Dao.
• Shen Gongbao, now a respected Mystic Immortal, stood among the Outer Disciples beside Jiang Shang, who remained weak and scorned by the others.

Shen Gongbao took Jiang Shang under his wing during a sermon at the Jade Void Palace, while Yun Yi apologized to Jiang Shang after Shen challenged his judgment by appearances. Venerable Yuanshi then welcomed Ling Zhuzi, who boldly asked whom he should hack down.

• Shen Gongbao invited Jiang Shang to sit nearer the front and defended him when Yun Yi warned that he looked untrustworthy.
• Shen Gongbao challenged Yun Yi not to judge people by their faces, prompting Yun Yi to apologize to Jiang Shang and invite him to his Cave Abode.
• True Person Huanglong rebuked Shen Gongbao and the others for talking, while Venerable Yuanshi remained silent until most Outer Disciples had arrived.
• Venerable Yuanshi told White Crane Boy to open the doors and welcome a guest.
• Jin Ning brought Ling Zhuzi to the Jade Void Palace on Her Ladyship's orders, and Ling Zhuzi asked Venerable Yuanshi whom he should hack down.

Ling Zhuzi insulted the Chan Sect immortals and challenged Venerable Yuanshi, who revealed he had arranged Ling Zhuzi’s fate and erased his awareness. Yuanshi then lectured the disciples on the Great Dao, ending by rebuking Jiang Shang for fidgeting.

• Ling Zhuzi provoked the Twelve Golden Immortals and pointed his Fire-Tipped Spear at True Person Taiyi.
• Ling Zhuzi told Venerable Yuanshi that it was a pity Haotian held him down and urged him to kill Haotian.
• Venerable Yuanshi revealed that Ling Zhuzi had originated as a Primordial Spiritual Object in Kunlun and that he had sent him to Empress Nuwa.
• Venerable Yuanshi refined Ling Zhuzi, a late-stage Daluo Golden Immortal, into a bead and erased his awareness.
• Venerable Yuanshi began lecturing the Chan Sect disciples on the Great Dao and rebuked Jiang Shang for fidgeting.

Venerable Yuanshi explained that Jiang Shang was tied to the coming Tribulation of Calamity and that Ling Zhuzi would help the Chan Sect face it. As Venerable Yuanshi watched, Haotian confronted the Two Sages of the West, and Daoist Zhunti challenged him over his demands.

• Jiang Shang pleaded with Venerable Yuanshi after interrupting his sermon, and Venerable Yuanshi dismissed the Outer Disciples while keeping the Chan Sect's Core Disciples behind.
• Venerable Yuanshi told the Core Disciples that Ling Zhuzi would bear Slaughter Tribulations and that Jiang Shang had been accepted because he was tied to the coming calamity.
• Venerable Yuanshi instructed the Core Disciples to seek disciples in the Human Realm, said Jiang Shang would not become an immortal, and ordered True Person Taiyi to keep Ling Zhuzi until the time came to take him to Li Jing's home.
• Venerable Yuanshi projected the commotion outside the Jade Void Palace, where Haotian confronted the Two Sages of the West.
• Daoist Zhunti accused Haotian of being overbearing, and Haotian challenged the Western Sages to stop him.

Haotian confronted Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin over their attack on his juniors, then endured their combined assault and revealed that he had secretly become a Hunyuan Saint. Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti fled to Zixiao Palace for help, but Haotian arrived just after them.

• Haotian accused the Two Shakyas of violating their promise to stay out of the East and challenged Daoist Zhunti to attack him.
• Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin unleashed their divine abilities and treasures against Haotian, who met their assault with his own strength and was badly wounded.
• The watching Saints and Primordial Great Powers realized Haotian had secretly become a Hunyuan Saint, while Daoist Jieyin concluded Haotian had only been testing his strength.
• Daoist Jieyin warned Daoist Zhunti that Haotian might use his Trump Card and dragged him to Zixiao Palace to beg their teacher for help.
• Haotian arrived at Zixiao Palace as the Two Shakyas pleaded for help.