Chapter Summaries

The World-Ending Black Lotus appeared twice near Zixiao Palace, resisting Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s attack before vanishing into Chaos. Hongjun identified it as the World-Ending Millstone and canceled the Immortal Dao Assembly, sending everyone home.

• The cultivators and Saints questioned Dao Ancestor Hongjun about the black lotus, and he explained that it was the World-Ending Demon Lotus, also known as the World-Ending Millstone.
• The black lotus’s roots surrounded Zixiao Palace again as Hongjun attacked it with the Creation Jade Disk, but his strike had no effect and the lotus soon vanished.
• The gathered cultivators recognized the lotus as the World-Ending Millstone, while Qingyuan privately worried about his true body.
• Sect Master Tongtian asked whether the Immortal Dao Assembly would continue, and Hongjun canceled it and opened passages for everyone to return to the Primordial Wilderness.

After the Immortal Dao Assembly ended, Dao Ancestor Hongjun privately summoned a group of Saints and explained that the World-Ending Demon Lotus heralded an Immeasurable Calamity. He said the only way to prevent it was through a Slaughter Tribulation, leaving the assembled Saints to face an ominous path to survival.

• Sect Master Tongtian confronted Daoist Zhunti and Saint Jieyin, but Dao Ancestor Hongjun ordered them and the other Saints to leave Zixiao Palace.
• Hongjun summoned five Heavenly Dao Saints and numerous Hunyuan Saints, while Sect Master Tongtian and Empress Pingxin were absent.
• Hongjun explained that conflict among living beings and the changing world generated Tribulation Qi, and that the World-Ending Demon Lotus warned of an approaching Immeasurable Calamity.
• Hongjun told the Saints that Hunyuan Saints would not survive the calamity and that even Heavenly Dao Saints faced only a slim chance if the Primordial Wilderness was destroyed.
• Hongjun declared that only a Slaughter Tribulation could wear away Tribulation Qi and prevent the Immeasurable Calamity from descending.

Hongjun summoned the Saints to Zixiao Palace and declared that destroying the Interception Sect through a Slaughter Tribulation would help restrain the Immeasurable Calamity. After the Saints agreed to cooperate, Haotian and Yuanshi clashed over the coming conflict, while Chi You and Xing Tian returned to Buzhou Mountain Ruins wary of Hongjun’s plans.

• Xing Tian questioned Hongjun’s claim that slaughter could quell the Immeasurable Calamity, and Hongjun said the right targets had to be killed to stop the crisis.
• Chi You asked which side would face the Slaughter Tribulation, and Hongjun promised the Witch Clan a place to dwell if it avoided wrongdoing.
• Hongjun identified the Interception Sect as the target, shocking the Saints while the Witch Clan and Demon Race Saints considered the resources they could gain from its destruction.
• Hongjun promised Haotian an opportunity to become a Saint and retain his position as Heavenly Emperor, and Haotian agreed to obey his commands.
• Haotian and Yuanshi traded insults over the planned conflict before Hongjun ordered them to stop, then dismissed the Saints after explaining the plan.
• Chi You and Xing Tian returned to Buzhou Mountain Ruins and agreed that cooperating with Hongjun was both an opportunity for the Witch Clan and a dangerous necessity.

The Heavenly Emperor rejected the Dao Ancestor’s gift and ordered Yuanshi to send the Twelve Golden Immortals to the Heavenly Court, silencing ministers who challenged him. As Yang Jiao, Yang Jian, and Yang Chan arrived seeking positions, he sent Taibai Golden Star to deliver his decree to Kunlun.

• The Heavenly Emperor ordered the Dao Ancestor’s Innate Spiritual Treasure placed by the Imperial Horse Bureau stables, then rebuked the immortals who urged him to reconsider.
• The Heavenly Emperor ordered Literary Star Lord to draft a decree commanding Venerable Yuanshi to send the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Heavenly Origin Sect to the Heavenly Court.
• The Heavenly Emperor refused to admit Yang Jiao, Yang Jian, and Yang Chan, but allowed them to remain in the Heavenly Realm when they refused to leave.
• The Heavenly Emperor rejected Literary Star Lord’s weakly worded decree, ordered him cast into Reincarnation, and sent Taibai Golden Star to deliver a replacement to Kunlun.

Taibai Golden Star arrived at Jade Void Palace to deliver the Heavenly Emperor’s message and found the Twelve Golden Immortals gathered with Venerable Yuanshi. His refusal to kneel angered the Twelve Golden Immortals, who demanded his death.

• Taibai Golden Star looked over the Chan Sect’s Immortal Market and judged it an inferior imitation of the Interception Sect’s Heavenly Palace Immortal City.
• Taibai Golden Star walked to Jade Void Palace and requested an audience with Venerable Yuanshi on the Heavenly Emperor’s orders.
• Taibai Golden Star entered the inner hall, saw the Twelve Golden Immortals and other disciples, and noticed a black panther listening to Venerable Yuanshi’s teachings.
• Taibai Golden Star bowed to Venerable Yuanshi without kneeling, enraging the Twelve Golden Immortals.
• The Twelve Golden Immortals insulted Taibai Golden Star and urged Venerable Yuanshi to kill him.

Taibai Golden Star endured Venerable Yuanshi’s pressure to deliver Haotian’s decree ordering the Chan Sect disciples to perform labor in Heaven. Haotian appeared to protect him and gave Yuanshi five hundred years to comply, while the Heavenly Court’s ministers watched and began to see their power differently.

• Guangchengzi and the Chan Sect Immortals demanded that Venerable Yuanshi kill Taibai Golden Star for refusing to kneel.
• Taibai Golden Star declared that he represented the Heavenly Emperor’s dignity, endured Yuanshi’s Saintly pressure without kneeling, and presented the imperial decree.
• Taibai Golden Star read Haotian’s order for Yuanshi to send Chan Sect disciples to Heaven for penal labor, and Yuanshi attacked him in anger.
• Haotian appeared through the decree, mocked Yuanshi and his disciples, demanded the disciples be sent to Heaven, and set a five-hundred-year deadline before taking Taibai Golden Star away.
• Yuanshi dismissed the Chan Sect Immortals’ protests and resumed expounding the Dao, while Haotian’s ministers watched the events through the Haotian Mirror and were shaken by the Heavenly Court’s growing confidence.
• A report announced that Taibai Golden Star had returned to the Lingxiao Treasure Hall.

Haotian rewarded Taibai Golden Star for his mission to Kunlun and appointed Gao Heng to weaponize the Heavenly Court’s internet against the Chan Sect. On Golden Ao Island, Tongtian learned about the Saints’ schemes against the Interception Sect and declared that he would resist rather than accept his fate.

• Haotian welcomed the injured Taibai Golden Star, granted him a high rank and lavish rewards, and ordered Wang Lingguan to guard him as he recovered.
• Haotian condemned the Chan Sect for rejecting his offer and asked his ministers how to make them submit without attacking their Saint’s domain.
• Gao Heng proposed using the Heavenly Court’s internet to publicly disgrace the Chan Sect, and Haotian appointed him chief officer of the Water Corps Bureau to carry out the plan.
• After returning to Golden Ao Island, Tongtian questioned Qingyuan about the Black Lotus and heard how Qingyuan had used its power against the Two Shakya.
• Tongtian opened a Great Thousand World and challenged Qingyuan to spar so he could test the Black Lotus’s power and the Interception Sect’s strength.
• Tongtian declared that he would resist the Saints’ plans and decide his own fate rather than yield to Heaven.

Qingyuan learned that Sect Master Tongtian was ready to fight for the Interception Sect, then tested Qingyuan's strength and acknowledged his mastery of laws. After leaving Biyou Palace, Qingyuan reassured his disciples that the Interception Sect and Primordial Wilderness were safe and explained that the black lotus was the sect's savior.

• Qingyuan laughed with joy when Sect Master Tongtian resolved to gamble everything to protect the Interception Sect.
• Sect Master Tongtian tested Qingyuan in a Great Thousand Worlds and realized Qingyuan's grasp of Great Dao Law surpassed his own.
• Qingyuan urged Sect Master Tongtian to take responsibility for his disciples while warning them against disobeying his orders.
• Qingyuan returned to his dojo, where Yun Zhongzi asked whether the Interception Sect faced calamity and what the black lotus in Chaos was.
• Qingyuan assured the disciples that the Interception Sect and Primordial Wilderness would survive, and said the black lotus was the Interception Sect's savior.

Qingyuan warned his disciples that a Slaughter Tribulation would develop into a Tribulation of Calamity and began preparing them to pursue the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal path. As Tribulation Qi spread, Haotian arrived at Zixiao Palace to accuse Yuanshi Tianzun and demand that the Chan Sect immortals serve in the Heavenly Court.

• Qingyuan told his disciples that he would teach them the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal path and warned that the coming Tribulation of Calamity would endanger even Saints.
• Great Peng Bird encouraged the disciples to trust Qingyuan, but Qingyuan admitted he could not predict the tribulation and promised to protect them.
• Qingyuan ordered his disciples to settle their affairs and return to his dojo in ten years, then realized the Heavenly Secrets were becoming difficult to deduce as Tribulation Qi spread.
• Qingyuan saw Haotian traveling to Zixiao Palace and recognized that his complaint against Yuanshi Tianzun would set the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation in motion.
• Haotian accused Yuanshi Tianzun of sheltering disciples who had committed the Red Dust Tribulation and asked Hongjun to punish the Chan Sect.
• Haotian demanded permission to bring the Chan Sect immortals to the Heavenly Realm to serve, claiming this would cleanse them of the Red Dust Tribulation.

The Heavenly Emperor Haotian confronted Dao Ancestor Hongjun over the Chan Sect’s defiance and demanded authority to discipline the Mystic Gate. Venerable Yuanshi attacked Haotian, and the two prepared to clash again before Hongjun intervened, but Haotian still insisted on justice.

• Haotian told Hongjun that the Heavenly Court lacked personnel and accused the Chan Sect and Venerable Yuanshi of defying the Heavenly Rules.
• Haotian demanded that Hongjun control the Chan Sect and Yuanshi, declaring that he would manage the Mystic Gate if Hongjun could not.
• Yuanshi rushed into the Chaos and attacked Haotian with Yuqing immortal qi, but Haotian countered with the Thunder Seal and shattered his assault.
• Haotian mocked Yuanshi and demanded that the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Heavenly Origin Sect enter the Heavenly Realm to serve.
• Yuanshi swung the Pangu Banner at Haotian, but Hongjun rebuked them both and forced them apart.
• Haotian refused to back down, telling Hongjun that he had come to demand justice and would take it himself if the Mystic Gate would not provide it.

Haotian demanded that Hongjun judge Yuanshi for shielding disciples who committed the Red Dust Slaughter Tribulation, but Hongjun captured him with his fly whisk. A mysterious power then took over Haotian’s body, shattered the whisk, and intimidated Hongjun before Haotian returned to the Primordial Wilderness and Hongjun summoned the Saints to discuss the matter.

• Yuanshi mocked Haotian as a pawn, but Haotian retorted that he could challenge the Mystic Gate while its Saints and Hongjun could do nothing to stop him.
• Haotian demanded that Hongjun judge Yuanshi for shielding the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Heavenly Origin Sect, and Hongjun asked him to return while he considered the matter.
• Haotian refused to leave without an answer, so Hongjun trapped him in the strands of his fly whisk.
• A mysterious power took control of Haotian’s body, broke Hongjun’s fly whisk with Chaos Divine Thunder, and challenged Hongjun to meet it later.
• The power vanished and Haotian returned to himself; Hongjun retreated with Zixiao Palace, Yuanshi departed, and Haotian returned to the Primordial Wilderness.
• Hongjun summoned the Saints into Zixiao Palace to discuss the matter.

Hongjun summoned the Saints to Zixiao Palace to discuss the mysterious power behind Haotian and the Interception Sect, then invited Haotian to negotiate the Investiture of the Gods. Haotian accepted the plan, but Hongjun said it could begin only after the Five Emperors were decided and the Human Race prospered.

• Hongjun gathered the Saints, who discussed Haotian’s mysterious patron and the Interception Sect’s connection to the East Sea.
• Hongjun proposed eliminating the Interception Sect and putting its members on the Investiture of the Gods; the Saints agreed.
• Haotian realized his master might not be Qingyuan, the First Disciple of Interception Sect, and felt his confidence and reverence for his master grow.
• Hongjun invited Haotian to Zixiao Palace and offered the Investiture of the Gods as a way to supply the Heavenly Realm with officials under Haotian’s command.
• Haotian asserted his authority over the Heavenly Realm and the Primordial Wilderness, and Hongjun agreed that the Investiture of the Gods had to wait until after the Five Emperors were decided and the Human Race prospered.

In Zixiao Palace, the Heavenly Emperor forced Hongjun to set boundaries for the Witch-Demon Two Clans and watched the Dao Ancestor place the Queen Mother of the West under his authority. After the gathering ended, Chan Sect Immortals kicked the Little Black Leopard around at Qilin Cliff until True Person Huanglong intervened.

• Nuwa told Hongjun that the Three Sovereigns refused to leave Huoyun Cave, and Hongjun instructed the Saints to absorb their shares of the Human Dao Origin.
• Hongjun assigned the Queen Mother of the West and the female immortals of the Heavenly Realm to the Heavenly Emperor’s governance, while the Heavenly Emperor mocked his autocratic decision.
• The Heavenly Emperor demanded that the Witch-Demon Two Clans be restrained, and Hongjun confined each clan to its assigned territory; the Saints reluctantly agreed.
• Hongjun warned the Saints not to spread word of the meeting and said they would discuss the Investiture of the Gods after the Five Emperors matter was settled.
• At Qilin Cliff, Chan Sect Immortals chased and kicked the Little Black Leopard like a football until True Person Huanglong angrily challenged them.

True Person Huanglong vented his humiliation on Shen Gongbao, ordering Chan Sect Outer Disciples to kick and nearly kill the little leopard while they blamed him for their own misconduct. After the disciples left Shen Gongbao badly injured, he tried to heal himself but collapsed, then awoke near an elderly Daoist.

• True Person Huanglong rebuked the Outer Disciples to vent his frustration after Guangchengzi had refused to lend him the Heaven-Listening Bell for a dangerous trip into the Heaven Abyss.
• The Outer Disciples blamed Shen Gongbao for their commotion, and Shen Gongbao accepted responsibility to keep them from being punished.
• True Person Huanglong threatened to expel Shen Gongbao, then ordered the disciples to kick him until he was near death.
• Scarlet Spirit Immortal blamed Shen Gongbao for angering Huanglong, stomped on him, and left with the other disciples.
• Shen Gongbao tried to heal himself with the Yuqing Nine-Cavern Spirit-Origin Art but collapsed, and later awoke beside white clouds near an elderly Daoist.

After dying from abuse by Chan Sect disciples, Shen Gongbao met a mysterious old Daoist who offered him cultivation and spells. The old Daoist challenged Shen Gongbao’s loyalty to Venerable Yuanshi and left him reeling by calling him expendable material for filling the Sea Eye.

• Shen Gongbao awoke above the clouds without injuries and found a mysterious old Daoist waiting for him.
• The old Daoist asked whether Shen Gongbao wanted to keep living in the Chan Sect, and Shen Gongbao described enduring humiliation for his family’s sake.
• The old Daoist offered Shen Gongbao a cultivation method and spells, but Shen Gongbao hesitated out of fear of betraying the Chan Sect and endangering his family.
• The old Daoist revealed that Shen Gongbao had died and showed him his body beneath a tree at Qilin Cliff.
• Shen Gongbao refused to take another master because he believed he belonged to Venerable Yuanshi, but the old Daoist argued that the Chan Sect had never treated him as a true disciple and called him expendable material for filling the Sea Eye.

Shen Gongbao accepted Old Immortal’s Nine Revolutions Soul-Returning Pill and learned the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique, recovering from his injuries and rapidly growing stronger. After breaking through to the Late Earth Immortal Realm, he vowed to confront Scarlet Spirit Immortal, who came looking for him.

• Old Immortal persuaded Shen Gongbao to question his place in the Chan Sect and offered him a pill and the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique without demanding that he become a disciple.
• Shen Gongbao took the pill, returned to his body, and discovered that his injuries had healed and his strength had increased.
• Shen Gongbao explored the technique’s knowledge and began cultivating, delighted by its power and the prospect of supporting his family himself.
• After less than a month of secluded cultivation, Shen Gongbao broke through to the Late Earth Immortal Realm and resolved to deal with Scarlet Spirit Immortal for exploiting and bullying him.
• Scarlet Spirit Immortal called from outside Shen Gongbao’s Cave Abode, asking whether he was there.

Shen Gongbao refused Scarlet Spirit Immortal’s offer to join a dangerous opportunity-seeking trip and secretly cultivated until he reached the Peak Earth Immortal Realm. The chapter ended with a badly wounded True Person Huanglong passing over Kunlun Mountain, leaving Shen Gongbao shocked by what had happened.

• Scarlet Spirit Immortal and the Outer Sect disciples feared Shen Gongbao had died, collected Immortal Crystals to cover up his supposed death, and then discovered he was alive.
• Scarlet Spirit Immortal noticed Shen Gongbao had advanced to the Late Earth Immortal Realm and invited him to pursue an opportunity for Golden Immortal advancement.
• Shen Gongbao declined the invitation, suspecting Scarlet Spirit Immortal intended to use him as a pawn, and returned to cultivating in his Dojo.
• Scarlet Spirit Immortal took over a hundred Outer Sect disciples with True Person Huanglong, while Shen Gongbao later advanced to the Peak Earth Immortal Realm in Kunlun.
• Shen Gongbao saw True Person Huanglong emerge in a severely wounded true form, his scales stripped and blood falling around him.

After True Person Huanglong returned alone from the disastrous Heaven Abyss expedition, Shen Gongbao cultivated for a thousand years and earned a reputation among the Chan Sect Outer Disciples. During Venerable Yuanshi’s lecture, Shen Gongbao unexpectedly began comprehending the Saint’s Great Dao, shocking the gathered immortals.

• Shen Gongbao learned that True Person Huanglong’s Heaven Abyss expedition had been wiped out, and he returned to Qilin Cliff, relieved he had not joined it.
• Shen Gongbao spent a thousand years cultivating, advanced to the True Immortal Realm Early Stage, and gained renown by defeating cultivators of his realm.
• Shen Gongbao attended Venerable Yuanshi’s lecture at Jade Void Palace, where some Outer Disciples mocked him for being a beast and others defended him.
• Daoist Tianzun silenced the quarrel, and Shen Gongbao resolved to grow strong enough to command the same awe as the Twelve Golden Immortals.
• As Venerable Yuanshi expounded the Great Dao, Immortal Light radiated from Shen Gongbao, revealing that he was comprehending the Saint’s teachings.

Shen Gongbao entered Unity of Heaven and Man while listening to Venerable Yuanshi explain the Great Dao, provoking the jealousy of the Chan Sect disciples. Venerable Yuanshi recognized his comprehension, summoned him, and gave him a seat second only to the Twelve Golden Immortals.

• Shen Gongbao comprehended Venerable Yuanshi's teachings and cultivated in Unity of Heaven and Man as the disciples grew jealous and tried to disturb him.
• True Person Huanglong and Daoist Tianzun rebuked the noisy Outer Disciples, and Guangchengzi joined the other Golden Immortals in blaming them for disrupting the sermon.
• Venerable Yuanshi noticed a trace of power from a Hunyuan Saint nourishing Shen Gongbao and laughed, then called him over.
• Shen Gongbao nervously knelt before Venerable Yuanshi and asked forgiveness, fearing the Saint had discovered his Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique.
• Venerable Yuanshi praised Shen Gongbao's understanding and ordered White Crane Boy to give him a meditation cushion in a seat second only to the Twelve Golden Immortals.

Venerable Yuanshi rebuked the Chan Sect Immortals for attacking Shen Gongbao and ordered his seat moved beside Guangchengzi, then bestowed treasures and Golden Cores on him. After Venerable Yuanshi left, Shen Gongbao’s fellow disciples rejected and insulted him, leaving him isolated and bewildered.

• The Chan Sect Immortals, including Shen Gongbao’s former supporters, protested when Venerable Yuanshi gave him a seat near the Twelve Golden Immortals.
• Venerable Yuanshi silenced the assembly, ordered Shen Gongbao’s seat moved beside Guangchengzi, and warned the disciples not to bully him.
• When the Golden Immortals threatened Shen Gongbao, Venerable Yuanshi forced them to their knees and criticized the sect for envy and poor cultivation.
• Venerable Yuanshi reaffirmed Shen Gongbao’s seat, gave him High-grade Houtian Spiritual Treasures and Fourth-turn Golden Cores, then ended the gathering.
• After Venerable Yuanshi departed, the Twelve Golden Immortals and other disciples insulted Shen Gongbao, and even his close friends turned away from him.