Chapter Summaries

Lü Yue offered to resolve the plague at Chuanyun Pass in exchange for Wen Zhong’s Myriad Poisons Pearl, and he argued that seeking help from Huoyun Cave could bring greater risks. Wen Zhong accepted Lü Yue’s offer and handed over the pearl.

• Wen Zhong asked Lü Yue for help, but Lü Yue demanded the Myriad Poisons Pearl as payment.
• Wen Zhong hesitated because his teacher had given him the pearl for protection and had warned him not to involve Interception Sect members in Yin Shang’s Karma.
• Wen Zhong proposed seeking the elder Earth Emperor Shen Nong at Huoyun Cave instead.
• Lü Yue warned that the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors could not safely leave Huoyun Cave and argued that he could cure the plague and eliminate the poison user.
• Lü Yue proposed going to Chuanyun Pass on his own and accepting the pearl as Wen Zhong’s voluntary gift.
• Wen Zhong agreed to trouble Lü Yue with the journey and respectfully gave him the Myriad Poisons Pearl.

Lü Yue cured the poisoned people of Chuanyun Pass and helped Wen Zhong spring a devastating ambush on the Zhou Army. During the victory banquet, Lü Yue sensed Poison Dwarf Dragon casting another spell and prepared to confront him.

• Lü Yue refined 108 antidote pills, and Wen Zhong used them to cure the people of Chuanyun Pass.
• Wen Zhong’s forces feigned weakness, then ambushed Jiang Ziya’s attacking Zhou Army and inflicted heavy losses.
• Jiang Ziya and the West Qi leaders blamed Poison Dwarf Dragon for the failed assault, and he insisted he could poison Chuanyun Pass again if they protected him from karmic consequences.
• Poison Dwarf Dragon used a scroll depicting Chuanyun Pass and began casting a spell while Wen Zhong, Xu Fang, and Lü Yue held a victory banquet.
• Lü Yue sensed Poison Dwarf Dragon’s attack, recognized it as a chance to draw him out, and vowed to destroy him.

Lü Yue emerged from seclusion to protect Chuanyun Pass and clashed with Poison Dwarf Dragon, who gained the strength of a Three-Corpse-Severed Quasi-Saint. Poison Dwarf Dragon trapped the pass in a lethal formation, and Lü Yue called for Wen Zhong to throw him the Myriad Poisons Pearl.

• Lü Yue revealed his Plague Dao power and raised the Plague Umbrella to shield Chuanyun Pass from Poison Dwarf Dragon’s crushing, poison-filled bone palm.
• Lü Yue destroyed Poison Dwarf Dragon’s treasure diagram with the Brain-Shattering Hairpin, prompting Poison Dwarf Dragon to attack with a poison cauldron that also shattered.
• Poison Dwarf Dragon demanded Jiang Ziya’s blank appointment decree, and Jiang Ziya appointed him a top-grade human official, raising him to the strength of a Three-Corpse-Severed Quasi-Saint.
• Poison Dwarf Dragon used his robe to attack the Plague Umbrella, and Lü Yue countered by cutting the robe into fragments with the Drowsiness Sword.
• Poison Dwarf Dragon turned the robe fragments into the Myriad Saints Refining-Killing Poison Demon Formation, flooding Chuanyun Pass with corrosive poison, and Lü Yue called for Wen Zhong to throw him the Myriad Poisons Pearl.

Lü Yue broke Poison Dwarf Dragon’s formation and retaliated against West Qi’s camp, then confronted the dwarf as the two began fighting. The battle started with Poison Dwarf Dragon’s boosted cultivation still weakened by the formation’s backlash, while Lü Yue wielded the Myriad Poisons Pearl.

• Wen Zhong gave Lü Yue the Myriad Poisons Pearl and arranged for a Bagua Platform while Lü Yue fought the poison beasts and attacked the formation’s eyes.
• Lü Yue destroyed more than half the formation’s eyes, broke the Myriad Saints Refining-Killing Poison Demon Formation, and fired plague arrows into West Qi’s camp, poisoning tens of thousands of soldiers.
• Nangong Shi accused Poison Dwarf Dragon of causing West Qi’s army to collapse, while Poison Dwarf Dragon blamed Lü Yue’s formidable skills and warned the others of the danger.
• Lü Yue appeared above West Qi’s camp and taunted Poison Dwarf Dragon, who challenged him and attacked.
• Lü Yue and Poison Dwarf Dragon began fighting as Lü Yue’s strength rose with the Myriad Poisons Pearl and Poison Dwarf Dragon remained weakened by the formation’s backlash.

Lü Yue unleashed the Plague Formation, defeated and killed Poison Dwarf Dragon, then refused a celebration and hurried back toward the East Sea. Just as he reached it, a cold voice called for him to stop.

• Lü Yue deployed the Plague Formation over the West Qi camp, incapacitating its soldiers and Immortals as he fought Poison Dwarf Dragon.
• Lü Yue struck Poison Dwarf Dragon with the Myriad Poisons Pearl, destroying his Primordial Spirit and True Spirit.
• Lü Yue withdrew the plague qi and returned to Chuanyun Pass, where Wen Zhong, Xu Fang, and the others praised him for the victory.
• Lü Yue declined Wen Zhong’s invitation to a celebration and insisted on returning to the East Sea because he sensed trouble.
• As Lü Yue reached the East Sea, an unseen speaker called, “Fellow Daoist Lü Yue, please stay your steps!”

Lü Yue tried to flee to the East Sea, but Yuding, Huanglong, and a group of Quasi-Saints blocked him and demanded that he betray Chuanyun Pass or die. Lü Yue attacked Huanglong and trapped the group inside his hidden formation, where he began crushing their forces.

• Lü Yue tried to use Earth Escape to reach the East Sea, but True Person Yuding’s Finger to Steel stopped him and injured his forehead.
• True Person Huanglong and True Person Yuding insulted Lü Yue and confronted him over what he had done at the East Sea Coast.
• True Person Huanglong offered Lü Yue a choice: infiltrate Chuanyun Pass and open its gates to the West Qi army, or die; Lü Yue suddenly struck Huanglong with the Plague Sword.
• Lü Yue revealed that he had secretly prepared a formation and pulled the Quasi-Saints into a Great Thousand Worlds filled with Plague Dao and other laws.
• The Quasi-Saints joined forces against Lü Yue, but his 365 Plague Umbrellas condensed over a hundred laws into a crushing attack that pulverized one Quasi-Saint and shattered his treasures.

Lü Yue killed the Quasi-Saints brought by Daoist Huanglong and True Person Yuding, then focused on seizing Yuding’s Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud. Guangchengzi arrived, killed Lü Yue, and sent Daoist Huanglong to return his corpse to the Interception Sect.

• Lü Yue separated the Quasi-Saints, Huanglong, and Yuding, then killed the Quasi-Saints with the Nine-Kill Plague Formation.
• Lü Yue crushed Daoist Huanglong’s body and bombarded True Person Yuding’s Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud, hoping to claim the treasure.
• Guangchengzi led several dozen Quasi-Saints into the Plague Formation and shattered its foundations, forcing Lü Yue to flee toward the East Sea.
• Guangchengzi trapped Lü Yue in an Innate Spiritual Treasure and had the Quasi-Saints beat him to death.
• Guangchengzi gave Daoist Huanglong a Pill to restore his body and ordered him to take Lü Yue’s corpse back to the Interception Sect.

Guangchengzi forced True Person Huanglong to carry Lü Yue’s mangled remains to Golden Ao Island, despite Huanglong’s protests that the errand would put his life at risk. When Huanglong finally presented the remains to the Interception Sect, the disciples recognized his aura on them and angrily accused him of making fools of them.

• Guangchengzi insisted that True Person Huanglong repay the restoration of his physical body by returning Lü Yue’s corpse to the Interception Sect.
• True Person Huanglong argued that Lü Yue’s remains were too shattered to deliver and begged Guangchengzi for defensive magic treasures, but Guangchengzi refused and ordered him to go.
• Guangchengzi kicked True Person Huanglong into the East Sea, and Huanglong reluctantly headed for Golden Ao Island.
• Jie Sect Disciples captured and tortured True Person Huanglong, but he stayed silent until he reached Golden Ao Island.
• Daoist Duobao, Golden Spirit Holy Mother, and other Interception Sect disciples gathered as True Person Huanglong presented Lü Yue’s remains and explained his errand.
• Qiushou Xian seized True Person Huanglong by the collar and accused him of making fools of the Interception Sect because his aura remained on the remains.

After the Interception Sect discovered that Lü Yue had been killed by Chan Sect disciples, they executed True Person Huanglong, who had brought back his corpse, and carried his head to West Qi. The chapter ended with Guangchengzi confronting Qiushou Xian’s group over Huanglong’s death.

• Qiushou Xian and the other Interception Sect disciples accused True Person Huanglong of helping kill Lü Yue and bringing his corpse back to flaunt it.
• True Person Huanglong blamed Guangchengzi and begged for his life, but the Interception Sect disciples killed him and severed his head.
• Daoist Duobao approved the disciples’ plan to take Huanglong’s head to West Qi and said he would later lead the Interception Sect against Guangchengzi.
• Qiushou Xian led dozens of Grand Unity Golden Immortals to West Qi while displaying Huanglong’s head.
• Guangchengzi and the Chan Sect disciples gathered at West Qi after the city’s bell rang, and Guangchengzi asked whether they had killed his Junior Brother Huanglong.

Qiushou Xian brought True Person Huanglong’s severed head to West Qi, and the Chan Sect and Interception Sect clashed over the deaths of Huanglong and Lü Yue. Guangchengzi ordered Qiushou Xian and his followers killed, then declared a Dao War against the Interception Sect, leaving factions across the Primordial Wilderness stunned.

• Qiushou Xian taunted the Chan Sect disciples with True Person Huanglong’s head and mocked them over his death.
• Guangchengzi and Qiushou Xian accused each other’s sects of killing Huanglong and Lü Yue, and Guangchengzi defended the Chan Sect’s account of Lü Yue’s death.
• An arrow blinded Qiushou Xian, who pulled it out and prepared to leave with his followers.
• Guangchengzi trapped Qiushou Xian and ordered the Chan Sect immortals to kill him and his followers; the Interception Sect group was wiped out.
• Guangchengzi announced a Dao War against the Interception Sect, and factions across the Primordial Wilderness learned of it and questioned why the two Mystic Gate traditions had turned against each other.

As West Qi closed in on Chaoge, the Interception Sect and Great Shang suffered repeated defeats, leaving Di Xin furious and desperate. With his capital under attack, Di Xin demanded that Ji Chang face him in a one-on-one fight, and West Qi’s ministers laughed at the challenge.

• The Chan Sect breached Chuanyun Pass, killed its Yin Shang defenders and Interception Sect allies, including Wen Zhong, and prompted Golden Spirit Holy Mother to rush to Tong Pass.
• Golden Spirit Holy Mother and the Three Xiāo established the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation at Tong Pass, while Daoist Duobao brought Interception Sect reinforcements into a devastating war against the Chan Sect.
• The Chan Sect gained support from factions angered by the Interception Sect, and Great Shang officials and lords defected to West Qi as Di Xin’s armies suffered repeated defeats.
• The Interception Sect retreated to Chaoge, where West Qi’s forces attacked the city and fierce fighting engulfed its walls.
• Di Xin ordered his military equipment brought to him and challenged Ji Chang to fight one-on-one, but King Wen and the West Qi ministers laughed at him.

Ji Chang accepted Di Xin’s challenge after Guangchengzi urged him to capture the Shang king alive, and he led Western Zhou troops to Chaoge the next day. Outside the city, Ji Chang taunted Di Xin and demanded his surrender while Chaoge’s defenders cursed him from the walls.

• The ministers and Chan Sect disciples mocked Di Xin’s proposed duel, and Guangchengzi told Ji Chang to accept the challenge.
• Guangchengzi instructed Ji Chang to capture Di Xin alive so the other rebellious lords would be deterred from rebellion.
• Ji Chang pretended to ask Guangchengzi to remain with Great Zhou, but Guangchengzi exposed his hypocrisy and rebuked him.
• The next day, Ji Chang led several hundred thousand Western Zhou troops to Chaoge while Guangchengzi and the other Immortals watched.
• Ji Chang called on Di Xin to come out, surrender, and accept a lesser title, then mocked the past court rituals and continued provoking Chaoge’s defenders.

Di Xin faced Ji Chang outside Chaoge and killed him with a single spear thrust, then unleashed overwhelming power against the West Qi forces trying to rescue him. The battle ended with the rebels stunned by Di Xin’s strength as he revealed the power of a Three-Corpse-Severed Quasi-Saint.

• Di Xin rode out of Chaoge with Fei Lian, E Lai, and several thousand elite soldiers to confront Ji Chang.
• Ji Chang insulted Di Xin and challenged him to a one-on-one fight, then charged with his broadsword.
• Di Xin remained on horseback and thrust his spear through Ji Chang’s heart, lifting him into the air.
• Guangchengzi called for the West Qi forces to save Ji Chang, and Quasi-Saints and Daluo Golden Immortals rushed toward Di Xin.
• Di Xin invoked his authority as Human Emperor to slow the attackers, then swept them away with a powerful spear strike.
• The West Qi forces stared at Di Xin in disbelief as they realized he possessed the strength of a Three-Corpse-Severed Quasi-Saint.

Di Xin revealed that he was a Three-Corpse-Severed Quasi-Saint, killed Ji Chang, and led Yin Shang and the Jie Sect in a fierce assault on West Qi. As West Qi fell into chaos, Jiang Ziya betrayed and killed Bo Yikao, leaving both sides stunned.

• Di Xin struck down Ji Chang with his Human Emperor's Myriad Dao Fist, terrifying the Quasi-Saints and Grand Unity Golden Immortals who had attacked him.
• Di Xin urged the Jie Sect Disciples to join him in avenging their fallen comrades and charged into the West Qi camp with Yin Shang's remaining ministers and troops.
• The Jie Sect Disciples left Chaoge to attack the Chan Sect Disciples as West Qi's feudal lords fled amid the collapsing battle lines.
• Bo Yikao rallied the scattered forces and called on them to strike back against Yin Shang and kill Di Xin.
• Jiang Ziya stabbed Bo Yikao to death, condemned West Zhou's ruthless methods, and burned the body to prevent him from reviving.

Jiang Ziya killed Bo Yikao and turned against Great Zhou, helping Di Xin’s forces rout the rebels as the Great Zhou Divine List lost its power. Guangchengzi and the Chan Sect immortals fled, only to be trapped by the Three Xiāo in the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation.

• Jiang Ziya killed Bo Yikao, stripped the assembled lords of their authority with the Grand Marshal’s tally, and bowed to Di Xin.
• Di Xin’s forces and the Interception Sect Disciples overwhelmed Great Zhou’s disordered armies and the weakened loose immortals.
• The Great Zhou Divine List lost its bearer, and its Human Dao Origin dispersed, leaving the Chan Sect forces unable to withstand the Interception Sect Disciples.
• Guangchengzi and the Chan Sect Personal Disciples fled toward West Qi, but a vast river and formation blocked their path.
• True Person Yuding recognized a dangerous Killing Formation, and the Three Xiāo revealed the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation to the trapped Chan Sect immortals.

The Three Xiāo used the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation and the Hunyuan Golden Dou to strip Guangchengzi and the other Chan Sect Disciples of their cultivation. After recovering some strength, the Three Xiāo attacked them again, while Dao Ancestor Hongjun and the Saints watched from Zixiao Palace.

• Guangchengzi blamed Jiang Ziya for killing Ji Kao and causing the Great Zhou Divine List to lose its power, then ordered the immortals to attack the formation.
• Bi Xiao and Qiong Xiao urged Yun Xiao to kill the Chan Sect Disciples, and Yun Xiao unleashed the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation.
• The Hunyuan Golden Dou stripped everyone inside the formation of their Dao Fruits and cultivation, leaving them powerless.
• Guangchengzi told the Twelve Golden Immortals that Ji Chang and Ji Kao were dead, the Great Zhou Divine Dynasty had collapsed, and the Human Dao Seal had lost its power.
• After the Three Xiāo recovered some strength, they sent the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors toward Guangchengzi and his companions.

Venerable Yuanshi returned to the Primordial Wilderness and rescued Guangchengzi from the Three Xiāo’s attack in the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation. Yun Xiao stopped him from taking the Chan Sect disciples away and demanded an explanation for the Interception Sect’s dead.

• Venerable Yuanshi asked Hongjun to let him leave Zixiao Palace, and Hongjun dismissed the Saints until he had further instructions.
• Venerable Yuanshi returned to the Primordial Wilderness and released his Saint aura, prompting the trapped Chan Sect disciples to call for his help.
• The Three Xiāo ignored his warning and sent the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors at Guangchengzi, but Venerable Yuanshi froze the formation and appeared to protect him.
• Venerable Yuanshi tossed aside the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors and ordered the Three Xiāo to return to Kunlun Mountains with their disciples.
• Yun Xiao renewed the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation and demanded that Venerable Yuanshi explain why the Chan Sect disciples could kill Interception Sect members and leave without consequence.

The Three Xiāo confronted Venerable Yuanshi over the Chan Sect’s role in Zhao Gongming’s death and refused to let him take Guangchengzi’s group away. After Venerable Yuanshi destroyed their formation and killed all three, Interception Sect disciples challenged him over his treatment of their sect.

• The Three Xiāo accused Venerable Yuanshi and the Chan Sect of persecuting the Interception Sect and demanded that he leave Guangchengzi’s group behind.
• When Venerable Yuanshi tried to leave, the Three Xiāo activated the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation, but he froze and shattered it, leaving them badly injured.
• The Three Xiāo attacked Venerable Yuanshi, and he killed Qiong Xiao, Yun Xiao, and Bi Xiao.
• Daoist Duobao, Golden Spirit Holy Mother, and other Interception Sect disciples arrived and witnessed the Three Xiāo’s deaths.
• Interception Sect disciples confronted Venerable Yuanshi, accusing the Chan Sect of unfairly suppressing them.

Venerable Yuanshi killed thousands of Interception Sect disciples after they demanded justice for their losses and attacked the Chan Sect. Sect Master Tongtian returned and confronted Yuanshi, who challenged him over whether he would oppose the Heavenly Mandate for his disciples.

• Turtle Spirit Holy Mother challenged Venerable Yuanshi for intervening in the younger generation’s war and helping the Chan Sect.
• Interception Sect disciples demanded that Guangchengzi and the other Chan Sect disciples pay for their losses, then attacked them with magic treasures and spells.
• Venerable Yuanshi froze the attacks and their casters, killing several thousand Interception Sect disciples.
• Daoist Duobao questioned Yuanshi for killing his juniors, but Yuanshi said he had never acknowledged the disciples as juniors and mocked Duobao for possibly opposing him.
• Sect Master Tongtian returned as his disciples cried out for justice, and he rebuked Yuanshi for killing them.
• Yuanshi defended the Chan Sect’s actions by accusing the Interception Sect of aiding Zhou in defying the Heavenly Mandate, then asked Tongtian whether he would defy it too.

Venerable Yuanshi and Sect Master Tongtian argued over Yuanshi’s attack on Tongtian’s disciples, then escalated their dispute into a battle. Yuanshi trapped Tongtian in a powerful formation and promised to teach him regret, but Tongtian remained defiant.

• Venerable Yuanshi blamed Sect Master Tongtian for accepting and failing to discipline his disciples, while Tongtian accused Yuanshi of breaking rules and killing Interception Sect disciples.
• Tongtian mocked Yuanshi for attacking his juniors, and Yuanshi launched the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife at him.
• Tongtian summoned the Four Immortal Slaying Swords and destroyed Yuanshi’s flying knife with their sword laws.
• Venerable Yuanshi deployed over a hundred Innate Spiritual Treasures and tens of thousands of Houtian Spiritual Treasures to form the Nine-Turn Fiend-Refining, God-Demon-Sweeping Saint Formation.
• Yuanshi sent Tongtian into the formation and vowed to teach him regret, but Tongtian declared that he had never regretted anything.