Recaps

After burying Netherworld Patriarch Minghe, Great Immortal Zhen Yuanzi, and Saint Jieyin for several days, Zhang Yifan let them out and declared they could fight the Jade Emperor without restraint. The three accepted the challenge, and the Jade Emperor faced them confidently.

• Netherworld Patriarch Minghe, Great Immortal Zhen Yuanzi, and Saint Jieyin remained buried while Buddha Burning Lamp took comfort in sharing their humiliation.
• Zhang Yifan spotted the Great Dao oath chains binding Netherworld Patriarch Minghe and Great Immortal Zhen Yuanzi, then released all three from the soil.
• Zhang Yifan told the Jade Emperor that the three Saints were whetstones meant to help him forge his own path to becoming the supreme sovereign of all heavens.
• Netherworld Patriarch Minghe, Saint Jieyin, and Great Immortal Zhen Yuanzi admitted they had not accepted the Jade Emperor as their superior and said they might have defeated him without Zhang Yifan's backing.
• Zhang Yifan promised not to interfere if the three fought the Heavenly Court and tried to kill the Jade Emperor, and the three immediately challenged him.
• The Jade Emperor declared that he had nothing to fear from mere whetstones as the three Saints stepped forward to fight.

Zhang Yifan let Netherworld Patriarch Minghe and Great Immortal Zhen Yuanzi leave to fight the Jade Emperor, explaining that they had to be won over through battle rather than handed power. Saint Jieyin reclaimed Randeng and gave him the unused Primordial Violet Qi, and Randeng became a Saint, setting up a war with the Heavenly Court.

• Netherworld Patriarch Minghe and Great Immortal Zhen Yuanzi accepted Zhang Yifan’s challenge and left to begin their contest.
• Saint Jieyin asked Zhang Yifan to release Randeng, and Zhang Yifan freed Buddha Burning Lamp without demanding the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.
• Zhang Yifan explained that the Jade Emperor had to rise through his own victories, while Suirenshi said Minghe and Zhen Yuanzi needed to be fought into submission.
• The Jade Emperor left to prepare for war, and Ksitigarbha was later left hanging from the tree at Zhang Yifan’s residence.
• Saint Jieyin returned Randeng to Spirit Mountain and gave him the Primordial Violet Qi, urging him to become a Saint before the war against the Heavenly Court.
• Randeng absorbed the Primordial Violet Qi and became a Saint, declaring his advancement across the Three Realms.

Yang Jian proved the Dao of Hunyuan through Strength by defeating and swallowing his tribulation cloud, becoming the Heavenly Court’s first Primordial Chaos Grand Unity Golden Immortal. Months later, Grand Master Xuandu and Zhuangzi also attained Hunyuan, ushering the Primordial Continent into a new era as the Jade Emperor looked forward to subduing more powerful beings.

• The Jade Emperor urged Yang Jian to attain the Dao, and Yang Jian announced he would prove it through Strength.
• Yang Jian charged into his tribulation, shattered its lightning and cloud, and swallowed the cloud to transform his power.
• Yang Jian declared that he had proven the Dao of Hunyuan, drawing congratulations from the Heavenly Court gods and Yang Chan.
• Months later, Grand Master Xuandu announced that he had proven the Dao of Hunyuan.
• Zhuangzi of the Human Teachings attained Hunyuan, and his butterflies healed people and strengthened plants across the Three Realms.
• The Jade Emperor declared that the Primordial Continent had entered the Hunyuan Grand Unity Era and resolved to subdue its powerful new immortals.

Western Teachings devised plans to undermine the Jade Emperor by targeting the Tang Dynasty and rallying the Primordial Continent against him. Saint Jieyin recruited Wu Meiniang, forced her to swear loyalty, and approved her ambition to rule as Wu Zhao of the Wu Zhou dynasty.

• Saint Jieyin, Netherworld Patriarch Minghe, Zhen Yuanzi, and Buddha Burning Lamp agreed to contest the Human and Earthly Paths without directly fighting the Jade Emperor.
• Saint Jieyin proposed weakening the Li family and Tang by infiltrating its court and neighboring kingdoms, while Minghe planned to brand the Jade Emperor a traitor to the Primordial Continent.
• Saint Jieyin traveled to Tang and confronted Wu Meiniang, who had secretly been working toward becoming emperor while entangled with Li Zhi.
• Saint Jieyin threatened to kill Wu Meiniang unless she swore loyalty to Western Teachings, and she repeated the oath as demanded.
• Wu Meiniang declared that she would be called Wu Zhao, and Saint Jieyin named her dynasty Wu Zhou before departing.

The Jade Emperor prepared for the Western Teachings’ schemes against the Eastern Tang Dynasty by choosing Wenzhong to reincarnate as a hidden protector. Wenzhong was born as Di Renjie, Yuan Hong followed him into reincarnation, and another child, Li Yuanfang, was born in Liangzhou.

• The Jade Emperor told the assembled gods that a struggle over human fortune in the Eastern Tang Dynasty was likely and ordered further preparations against Jieyin, Minghe, and Zhen Yuanzi.
• Taibai Jinxing volunteered to reincarnate, but the Jade Emperor declined and chose Wenzhong, promising him a future position as a Human Dao Saint.
• Wenzhong reincarnated into Madam Di’s womb in Taiyuan, and Di Zhixun named his newborn son Di Renjie, with the courtesy name Huaiying.
• Yuan Hong revealed that he and the other protectors had blocked an attack on Wenzhong, then reincarnated to accompany him in the mortal world.
• Several years later, a baby boy named Li Yuanfang was born into a Li family in Liangzhou, Hebei.

Saint Houtu read the saints’ inflammatory proclamation accusing the Jade Emperor of betraying the Primordial Continent and calling for a campaign against the Heavenly Court. She found herself unexpectedly stirred by its message.

• Jieyin, Minghe, Zhen Yuanzi, and the others issued a proclamation denouncing the Jade Emperor and urging the Primordial Three Realms to rise against the Heavenly Court.
• Jieyin’s disciples spread the proclamation, while the Asura Clan distributed it throughout the Netherworld Underworld.
• Meng Xiaojiu and King Qin Guang brought a copy to Saint Houtu, warning her that the Western Teachings, Minghe, and Zhen Yuanzi had declared war on the Heavenly Court.
• Saint Houtu read the proclamation’s accusations that the Jade Emperor had allied with Zhang Yifan and that Zhang Yifan had humiliated and attacked the Saints.
• After finishing the proclamation, Saint Houtu admitted that she felt a little fired up.

A manifesto accusing the Jade Emperor of betraying the Primordial Three Realms sparked widespread unrest, while Li Shimin struggled to contain the backlash in the Eastern Tang Dynasty. The Jade Emperor calmly let the uproar unfold and sent Yang Jian to urge Zhen Yuanzi to build his bridge and road to Heaven.

• Cultivators across the Primordial Continent destroyed Heavenly Emperor Palaces after the Saints accused the Jade Emperor and Zhang Yifan of plotting to enslave the Three Realms.
• Western Teachings stirred unrest in the Eastern Tang Dynasty, where public faith in the Heavenly Emperor wavered and bribed officials joined the opposition.
• Li Shimin asked Wei Zheng and Fang Xuanling why the Heavenly Emperor had not clarified the manifesto, and learned Yuan Tiangang had disappeared.
• Yuan Tiangang reported the mortal realm's turmoil to the Jade Emperor, who brushed aside his concerns and ordered the music and dancing to continue.
• The Jade Emperor told Yang Jian to visit Zhen Yuanzi and urge him to build his bridge and pave his road so living beings could ascend to Heaven.

As the Primordial Continent erupted over the call to attack the Heavenly Court, a crowd gathered at Wuzhuang Temple demanding that Zhen Yuanzi lead them. Qingfeng’s attempt to send them away turned into a riot, leaving him battered by the crowd.

• Golden Mouse and Great White Snake discussed Zhang Yifan’s Fragments of Great Dao Laws and decided to wait and watch the battle between the saints and the Heavenly Court.
• Millions of mortals and little demons surrounded Wuzhuang Temple and called on Zhen Yuanzi to lead an attack on the Heavenly Court.
• Zhen Yuanzi told Qingfeng to claim he was away fighting Heavenly Court experts, and Qingfeng relayed the message to the crowd.
• Jiao Mo Wang and Yu Rong Wang stirred up the crowd by accusing Qingfeng of looking down on them, and Qingfeng angered them further by calling them too weak to fight.
• Qingfeng released his Grand Unity Golden Immortal aura, killing several people and provoking the crowd to throw rotten eggs and bricks at him.

Yang Jian provoked Zhen Yuanzi and stirred up a crowd of mortals until they raided and burned Wuzhuang Temple. The chapter ended with Primordial Era Mighty Beings realizing that Heavenly Court agents had led the attack.

• Qingfeng was pelted by the crowd outside Wuzhuang Temple until Zhen Yuanzi sent the attackers thousands of miles away.
• Zhen Yuanzi urged the mortals to oppose the Heavenly Court in the mortal realm, but Yang Jian challenged him to build bridges and pave roads as promised.
• Yang Jian rallied the crowd against Zhen Yuanzi, while Jiao Mo Wang and Yu Rong Wang joined in and spread the chants.
• Yang Jian opened a mana conveyor belt to Wuzhuang Temple and kept Zhen Yuanzi from intervening as millions of people charged in.
• The crowd tore apart Wuzhuang Temple, looted its valuables, and burned it down while Qingfeng and Mingyue were held back.
• Primordial Era Mighty Beings realized that Heavenly Court agents had helped incite the attack against the Heavenly Court's enemy.

Yang Jian stopped Great Immortal Zhen Yuanzi from returning to his burning Wuzhuang Temple and provoked him with increasingly outrageous insults. Zhen Yuanzi spat blood twice, and Yang Jian left him facing the demand to marry Hei Batian, the Big Black Dog he had just named his sworn sister.

• Millions of people looted and burned Wuzhuang Temple, enraging Great Immortal Zhen Yuanzi as he tried to return home.
• Yang Jian blocked Zhen Yuanzi and mocked him, daring him to attack despite Zhen Yuanzi's fury.
• Yang Jian called over a Big Black Dog and told Zhen Yuanzi that she was his little sister and that Zhen Yuanzi wanted to be with her, prompting laughter across the Three Realms and making Zhen Yuanzi spit blood.
• Yang Jian said he had named the dog Hei Batian and claimed Zhen Yuanzi's words made her his Dao Companion.
• Yang Jian demanded that Zhen Yuanzi marry Hei Batian, and Zhen Yuanzi spat blood again and nearly fell from the clouds.

Yang Jian humiliated Great Immortal Zhen Yuanzi by declaring that Hei Batian was his destined Dao Companion, and Heavenly Dao merit unexpectedly reinforced the claim. After Yang Jian vanished, Hei Batian transformed into a beautiful woman and called Zhen Yuanzi her husband, driving him into a panicked flight.

• Yang Jian mocked Zhen Yuanzi by insisting that Hei Batian was his Dao Companion, while cultivators across the Primordial Continent marveled at his sharp tongue.
• Heavenly Dao merit descended upon Yang Jian, and he used it to claim that the marriage had Heavenly Dao approval.
• Yang Jian disappeared after warning Zhen Yuanzi that he would kill him if he mistreated Hei Batian.
• Hei Batian transformed into a beautiful woman, called Zhen Yuanzi her husband, and approached him; Zhen Yuanzi vomited blood and pushed her away.
• When Hei Batian called after him again, Zhen Yuanzi fell from his cloud, broke down, and ran away as she chased him.

Zhen Yuanzi’s reputation collapsed after the Jade Emperor manipulated the stranded crowds into cursing him, while Zhen Yuanzi remained unaware during years of cultivation. Suirenshi arrived at Wuzhuang Temple claiming to congratulate him on becoming Dao Companions with Hei Batian, provoking Zhen Yuanzi to attack.

• Jiao Mo Wang and Yu Rong Wang stirred the starving crowds against Zhen Yuanzi and led them away from Wuzhuang Temple toward the Western Teachings.
• The Jade Emperor spread magical recordings that turned the Primordial Continent’s living beings against Zhen Yuanzi and destroyed more than two-thirds of Wuzhuang Temple’s fortune.
• Zhen Yuanzi went into seclusion for several years, unaware of the public’s changed opinion, while Hei Batian continued calling for him from inside the formation.
• Suirenshi appeared at Wuzhuang Temple and congratulated Zhen Yuanzi on his supposed marriage to Yang Jian’s younger sister, Hei Batian.
• Zhen Yuanzi took Suirenshi’s words as another humiliation and reached out to seize him.

Suirenshi persuaded Zhen Yuanzi that becoming Dao Companions with Hei Batian would make him family to Zhang Yifan and bring him a Great Dao opportunity, so Zhen Yuanzi married her. The Jade Emperor then prepared Heavenly Court’s campaign against the Western Teachings and planned to expose Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s Heaven Sealing Plan.

• Zhen Yuanzi attacked Suirenshi, but Suirenshi’s bamboo hat blocked his power, and Suirenshi threatened to leave with a supposed Great Dao opportunity.
• Suirenshi told Zhen Yuanzi that marrying Hei Batian would make him Yang Jian’s brother-in-law and Zhang Yifan’s grandson-in-law, convincing Zhen Yuanzi to welcome the match.
• Zhen Yuanzi brought Hei Batian into Wuzhuang Temple and, a few days later, held a grand ceremony to become Dao Companions with her.
• The Jade Emperor, Taibai Jinxing, and Yang Jian laughed at the marriage, then the Jade Emperor ordered the campaign against the Western Teachings to advance toward Mount Spirit.
• The Jade Emperor ordered Matchmaker Emperor Xin to join the campaign and said he would reveal Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s Heaven Sealing Plan after Heavenly Court’s counterattack.

Zhen Yuanzi staged a grand wedding to Hei Batian, then attacked the Heavenly Court and fought Yang Jian in a Chaos formation. Zhang Yifan explained that Zhen Yuanzi was obeying his Great Dao oath to Hongjun while secretly building goodwill, and would turn against Hongjun once free of the oath.

• Zhen Yuanzi's wedding to Hei Batian bewildered the Three Realms, while Jieyin, Buddha Burning Lamp, and Minghe tried to guess his motives.
• Zhen Yuanzi attacked the Heavenly Court, destroying hundreds of palaces without causing casualties, and Yang Jian confronted him.
• Zhen Yuanzi entered the Chaos and trapped Yang Jian in a killing formation, but Yang Jian countered its attacks with the Law of Strength and his Heaven and Earth Dharma Idol.
• Ao Bing asked Zhang Yifan why Zhen Yuanzi and Yang Jian were fighting after Zhen Yuanzi had married Hei Batian.
• Zhang Yifan explained that Zhen Yuanzi was demonstrating loyalty to Hongjun while laying groundwork for the future, and would attack Hongjun once he broke free of the Great Dao oath.

After Yang Jian defeated Zhen Yuanzi, Saint Jieyin discovered that hundreds of millions of beings were marching toward Spiritual Mountain, apparently to join the Western Teachings. The Jade Emperor’s livestream exposed the procession across the Three Realms, and Jieyin panicked when his formation failed to stop it.

• Yang Jian defeated Zhen Yuanzi, who fled to Wuzhuang Temple, leaving Saint Jieyin and Buddha Burning Lamp concerned about Yang Jian’s strength.
• Samantabhadra Bodhisattva reported that hundreds of millions of beings were approaching Spiritual Mountain, and Saint Jieyin activated an illusion formation to stop them.
• Saint Jieyin scolded Samantabhadra Bodhisattva, who resented the treatment and left.
• The Nine Great Golden Crows livestreamed the procession across the Three Realms, where observers expected the Western Teachings to lead the march against the Heavenly Court.
• Saint Jieyin failed to block the livestream or stop the procession as someone interfered with the formation, and Buddha Burning Lamp proposed sending the beings to the Heavenly Court to make the Jade Emperor appear cruel.

Buddha Burning Lamp urged Saint Jieyin to send the hundreds of millions of mortals gathered outside Lingshan to attack the Heavenly Court, hoping to bolster the Western Teachings’ reputation. With the Three Realms watching the crowd demand a heavenly ladder, Lingshan’s disciples pressured Jieyin to act, leaving him convinced the Jade Emperor had engineered a trap.

• Buddha Burning Lamp proposed transporting the mortal crowd to the Heavenly Court, and the Great Buddhas and Bodhisattvas backed his plan.
• Saint Jieyin hesitated as the hundreds of millions reached the outskirts of Lingshan, where Arhats and Bodhisattvas halted them before the sky-screen audience.
• A leader rallied the crowd to demand that the Saints build a heavenly ladder so they could overthrow the Heavenly Court and kill the Jade Emperor.
• The Great Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Arhats urged Jieyin to decide, then knelt and demanded permission to build the ladder themselves.
• Saint Jieyin recognized that the Jade Emperor had used the gathering and the broadcast to pressure the Western Teachings into rebellion.

Saint Jieyin faced pressure to support the mortals demanding a march on the Heavenly Court, while the Jade Emperor watched his plans to undermine the Western Teachings succeed. After Jieyin tried to discourage the crowd by warning of the dangers, Yang Jian appeared and demanded that he build a heavenly ladder.

• Mortals mocked the Western Teachings for delaying, and the Jade Emperor and his allies laughed as they watched from Lingxiao Palace.
• Saint Jieyin appeared before the gathered beings, praised their courage, then warned that immortals and gods could kill them with ease.
• Earth Fiend Star Zhang Kui admitted he had once served the Heavenly Court but claimed he had defected, and the crowd praised him despite Jieyin recognizing him as a provocateur.
• The crowd insisted it feared no death and demanded a heavenly ladder, and Yang Jian appeared to repeat their demand, leaving Saint Jieyin and Buddha Burning Lamp alarmed.

Yang Jian provoked Saint Jieyin at Mount Lingshan, then followed him into Chaos to fight as Buddha Burning Lamp and Netherworld Patriarch Minghe joined the conflict. At Zhang Yifan’s courtyard, Zhang Yifan questioned whether the mortals would truly fight the Heavenly Court, leaving his companions confused.

• Yang Jian announced his identity at Mount Lingshan, mocked Saint Jieyin, and challenged him to build the heavenly ladder despite the crowd’s calls to kill him.
• Saint Jieyin took Yang Jian into Chaos to fight, while Buddha Burning Lamp left an avatar behind and secretly went to join them with Netherworld Patriarch Minghe.
• Buddha Burning Lamp calmed the frightened crowd, which renewed its demands to charge into the Heavenly Court.
• Ao Bing asked Zhang Yifan whether the Western Teachings would send the mortals to the Heavenly Realm, and Zhang Yifan said she would lose if she built the ladder and let them charge in.
• Zhang Yifan asked whether the mortals would necessarily clash with the Heavenly Court, leaving Ao Bing, Suirenshi, Sun Wukong, Kong Xuan, and the others puzzled.

Zhang Yifan explained how the Jade Emperor had trapped the Western Teachings with the Heavenly Ladder: building it risked turning mortals into Heavenly Court admirers, while refusing would damage the Western Teachings’ reputation. Buddha Burning Lamp chose to build the ladder, and the Three Realms watched in excitement as it rose toward the heavenly gates.

• Zhang Yifan told Suirenshi, Kong Xuan, Ao Bing, Sun Wukong, and the others that many mortals might seek a carefree life in the Heavenly Realm rather than attack the Heavenly Court.
• Zhang Yifan explained that the Heavenly Court could welcome the mortals and broadcast its splendor, drawing more people toward the Heavenly Realm and putting the Western Teachings in a bind.
• Four Unlike and the others realized the Jade Emperor had arranged a trap: the Western Teachings would lose prestige whether they built the Heavenly Ladder or refused.
• Buddha Burning Lamp yielded to the crowd’s demands and ordered the Heavenly Ladder built so they could attack the Heavenly Court.
• Buddha Burning Lamp and the Western Teachings’ Great Buddhas and bodhisattvas opened the heavenly gates and raised a vast ladder toward them as beings across the Three Realms watched eagerly.

Buddha Burning Lamp raised the Western Teachings' prestige by completing the heavenly ladder, while Zhang Yifan revealed that the real plan was to kill a Saint. In the chaos, Yang Jian fought Saint Jieyin, Buddha Burning Lamp, and Netherworld Patriarch Minghe, but the chapter ended with the three pressing their attack as Yang Jian was badly wounded.

• Buddha Burning Lamp completed the heavenly ladder, and hundreds of millions of living beings cheered and began climbing toward the Heavenly Realm.
• Zhang Yifan told Ao Bing, Suirenshi, and the others that the Western Teachings had taken the bait and that a Saint would die that day.
• Saint Jieyin challenged Yang Jian, then joined Buddha Burning Lamp and Netherworld Patriarch Minghe in surrounding him.
• Yang Jian fought the three Saints with his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Halberd and unleashed the First Form of Sky Splitting.
• Yang Jian was blasted backward and badly wounded, while Saint Jieyin declared that the next year would be his death anniversary.

Yang Jian’s trap brought the Nine Great Golden Crows into the fight against Netherworld Patriarch Minghe, Saint Jieyin, and Buddha Burning Lamp. After crushing Buddha Burning Lamp’s body and driving Zhuangzi and Grand Master Xuandu away, Yang Jian turned his attention back to Jieyin.

• Yang Jian revealed the Nine Great Golden Crows, whose overwhelming power trapped Minghe, Jieyin, and Buddha Burning Lamp in a battle they could not win.
• Yang Jian struck Buddha Burning Lamp with the Dog Beating Stick, and the Golden Crows severely wounded him with their combined attack.
• Zhuangzi arrived and used his Butterfly Great Dao to obstruct Yang Jian while Grand Master Xuandu intervened to help Buddha Burning Lamp escape.
• Yang Jian broke Xuandu’s carrying pole and smashed Buddha Burning Lamp’s true body, but Xuandu escaped with his primordial spirit using the Taiji Diagram.
• Yang Jian pulverized Zhuangzi’s form, but Zhuangzi escaped as butterflies and reappeared on the Primordial Continent gravely wounded.
• Yang Jian charged at Saint Jieyin again, determined to stop the remaining Saints from escaping.

Yang Jian and the Nine Great Golden Crows captured Saint Jieyin and Netherworld Patriarch Minghe, and the Jade Emperor rewarded them before ordering Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s crimes and Heaven Sealing Plan exposed. The Jade Emperor then ordered the two captured Saints publicly executed, while Jieyin cursed him and the Heavenly Court prepared to spread the decree across the Three Realms.

• Yang Jian and the Nine Great Golden Crows defeated Saint Jieyin and Netherworld Patriarch Minghe, destroyed their treasures, sealed their cultivation, and escorted them to the Heavenly Court.
• The Jade Emperor appointed Yang Jian Judicial Great Emperor over the Western Niuhe Continent and named the Nine Great Golden Crows Heavenly Court Guardian Generals.
• The Jade Emperor ordered Taibai Jinxing to reveal Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s Heaven Sealing Plan and crimes throughout the Three Realms, then announced that Jieyin and Minghe would be publicly executed.
• Saint Jieyin cursed the Jade Emperor by swearing to the Great Dao, but the Jade Emperor dismissed the threat and ordered Taibai Jinxing and the Nine Great Golden Crows to begin the public announcement.

Taibai Jinxing announced that the Heavenly Court would reveal the Heaven Sealing Plan, a secret involving Dao Ancestor Hongjun and Demon Ancestor Luohu. As Taibai described Hongjun’s role in provoking the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans during the Dragon-Han Initial Tribulation, the Primordial Continent’s inhabitants erupted in shock and fury.

• Buddha Burning Lamp fled into hiding after Yang Jian destroyed his true body, then celebrated the possibility of taking control of the Western Teachings if Saint Jieyin had died.
• Taibai Jinxing appeared on the Three Realms Sky Screen and announced that the Heavenly Court would expose the Heaven Sealing Plan, concerning Dao Ancestor Hongjun and Demon Ancestor Luohu.
• Taibai introduced the Dragon-Han Initial Tribulation and framed the revelation as a secret between Hongjun and Luohu, drawing the attention of cultivators and ancient clans.
• Taibai recounted that Hongjun and Luohu had cooperated to incite conflict among the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans, with Hongjun disguising himself as clan members to commit atrocities and provoke retaliation.
• The Dragon Clan roared in anger, the Phoenix Clan’s surviving members raged at Bustling Volcano, and listeners across the Primordial Continent stopped to hear Taibai’s revelations.

Taibai Jinxing revealed more of Hongjun and Luohu’s past and exposed the hidden dangers of preaching at Zixiao Palace and the Slaying Three Corpses method. The revelations left the Primordial Continent’s ancient cultivators furious, with Old Ancestor Kunpeng cursing Hongjun as thunder boomed.

• Taiqing, Primeval Lord of Heaven, Sect Master Tongtian, and Nuwa kept Hongjun from leaving Zixiao Palace, even as he sensed Saints calling for help on the Primordial Continent.
• Taibai Jinxing recounted Hongjun’s and Luohu’s deeds to the Three Realms, shocking the beings who heard how they had manipulated events and stirred conflict.
• Taibai Jinxing identified preaching at Zixiao Palace as the Primordial Continent’s greatest calamity and explained its hidden dangers as part of the Heaven Sealing Plan.
• Taibai Jinxing revealed that the Slaying Three Corpses method was a dead end and that Hongjun had admitted its drawbacks in Zixiao Palace.
• Old Ancestor Kunpeng realized Hongjun had ruined his chance to prove the Dao, cursed Hongjun, and heard thunder boom across the sky.

Taibai Jinxing revealed that Hongjun’s Slaying Three Corpses path was a dead end, then accused him of using the Witch-Demon Calamity to destroy Pangu’s chance to return. His account turned the Three Realms against Hongjun, and a vast wave of rage surged toward the Heavenly Dao.

• Taibai Jinxing exposed Hongjun’s plan to suppress all cultivation schools except Xuanmen, and the Three Thousand Red Dust Guests cursed Hongjun for misleading them with the Slaying Three Corpses path.
• Taibai Jinxing wept as he began recounting the Witch-Demon Calamity, then claimed Hongjun had plotted to murder Pangu.
• Taibai Jinxing explained that the Witch Tribe and the Three Pure Ones held Pangu’s chance to return, and that Hongjun used the Demon Race to target the Witch Tribe and destroy that hope.
• Taibai Jinxing said the Twelve Ancestral Witches were nearly wiped out and Houtu became the Six Paths of Reincarnation, leaving Pangu unable to return in physical form.
• Thunder God and Lightning Mother amplified Taibai Jinxing’s accusation with thunder and lightning as living beings shouted, “Execute Hongjun! Avenge Pangu!”
• The gathered rage and killing intent of countless living beings surged toward the Heavenly Dao, and the Jade Emperor smiled, believing Hongjun was finished.