Recaps

Lu Yuan endured attacks from the Western Teachings, the Chan Sect, and four ancient powerhouses to claim the Innate Five-Colored Lotus and complete the foundation of his Five Elements Dao Seed. As other treasures from the Nine Heavens Secret Realm were seized, he remained focused on preparing to refine the lotus in seclusion.

• The Jie Sect's Myriad Immortals Formation blocked Maitreya, Pharmacist, and Great Strength while Guangchengzi and the Chan Sect disciples secretly disrupted the formation.
• Ancestor Minghe, Daoist Kunpeng, Old Lord Huang, and Calamity Dao Lord attacked Lu Yuan to prevent him from obtaining the lotus.
• Lu Yuan used the Profound Yellow Gate, Myriad Tribulation Chessboard, and his Dao Fruit incarnations to withstand their attacks, then severed their karmic connections to their treasures.
• Lu Yuan drew the Innate Five-Colored Lotus into his Auspicious Cloud Dao Fruit, allowing his Five Elements Dao Seed to become solid and complete.
• As treasures burst from the secret realm, Guangchengzi claimed the Human Emperor Sword, Fuxi Daoist took the Great Accomplishment Supreme Sage Diagram, Jade Emperor Daoist seized the Human Emperor Nine Dragon Cauldron, and Daoist Duobao obtained the Human Emperor Origin Dao Book.

Lu Yuan witnessed the Great Divine Ability Users receive insights from Jiutou Shi’s inheritance before Heaven sealed the Nine Heavens Secret Realm. After thirty thousand years of cultivation, his Five Elements Dao Seed reached perfection, and he began severing an incarnation to pursue the Hunyuan realm.

• A three-thousand-tier platform appeared, and eight top Great Divine Ability Users climbed to its summit to comprehend Jiutou Shi’s inheritance.
• The Saints watched the inheritance unfold, while Lu Yuan sensed their pressure and resolved to prepare for the coming tribulations.
• After forty-nine years, the Great Divine Ability Users finished comprehending the inheritance, but Heaven sealed the Nine Heavens Secret Realm and made it vanish.
• Lu Yuan returned to Ziwei Imperial Palace, where Daoist Duobao promised that Biyou Palace would stand behind him despite the Saints’ attention and Haotian’s grudge.
• After thirty thousand years, the Innate Five-Colored Lotus transformed into the five sources of the Five Elements, perfecting Lu Yuan’s Five Elements Dao Seed.
• Lu Yuan invoked the power of the stars and the Heavenly Court’s fortune, then cried out to sever an incarnation.

Lu Yuan severed the Five Elements Dao Fruit, then comprehended the Way of Destiny and cut away his own destiny and merit to become a Dao Achiever. His breakthrough stirred the Primordial World, while the great powers recognized that Qingxuanzi had attained the Dao.

• Lu Yuan split the Five Elements Dao Seed, manifested the Five Elements Daoist, and merged the incarnation into his Auspicious Cloud Dao Fruit.
• Lu Yuan studied the Way of Destiny in the River of Heavenly Dao and realized that he had to sever his destiny and merit to transcend its restraints.
• Lu Yuan used his Dao Heart to cut away his destiny and Profound Yellow Merit, gaining freedom from Heaven and Earth’s constraints.
• Lu Yuan formed his own Dao Realm Universe and became a Dao Achiever, triggering auspicious signs across the Primordial World.
• Sage Taiqing Laozi and Sect Master Tongtian praised Lu Yuan’s achievement, while Primordial Heavenly Venerate, Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti reacted with shock and concern.

Lu Yuan achieved the Dao, perfected the Profound Yellow Great Dao, and formed his own Dao-Realm Universe, prompting celebrations across the Primordial World and the myriad heavens. Ancient powers, including the Great Freedom Heavenly Demon, Candle Dragon, Old Ancestor Cangqiong, and Hongjun, reacted to his rise as the final tribulation drew near.

• Lu Yuan severed the shackles of destiny, perfected the Profound Yellow Great Dao with the insights of all three thousand Laws, and ascended to the realm of a Dao Achiever.
• The Heavenly Dao spread Lu Yuan’s Profound Yellow Dao throughout the heavens, filling worlds with Daoic sounds and auspicious signs as his Dao-Realm Universe took shape.
• Haotian, Zhenyuanzi, Minghe, Kunpeng, East King Duke, and Queen Mother of the West were stunned to learn that Lu Yuan had achieved the Dao.
• The Great Freedom Heavenly Demon watched Lu Yuan from the Demon Realm and hoped the coming Dao tribulations would test his Dao Heart.
• Candle Dragon examined Lu Yuan’s path and foundations while the Three Sovereigns stirred briefly within their hall, and Old Ancestor Cangqiong sensed the rising destiny of the Immortal Dao and began struggling against his restraints.
• Hongjun assessed Lu Yuan’s Dao-Realm Universe and potential, then turned his attention to the growing source of calamity qi from the Immeasurable Tribulation.

After becoming a Half-Saint Dao Achiever, Lu Yuan witnessed Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s scheme to use Yao Xi’s love for Yang Tianyou to damage Jade Emperor Daoist’s fortune. Yao Xi was sealed beneath Peach Mountain, and her son Yang Jiao was captured by Blood Gu Daoist before Daoist Yangming arrived to save him.

• Lu Yuan perceived a karmic thread from Yuxu Palace manipulating Yao Xi’s relationship with Yang Tianyou and weakening Jade Emperor Daoist’s fortune.
• Jade Emperor Daoist ordered heavenly soldiers to seize Yao Xi, and the soldiers captured her while Yang Tianyou fled with Yang Jian and Yang Chan.
• Jade Emperor Daoist sealed Yao Xi beneath Peach Mountain despite her pleas to spare her family.
• Blood Gu Daoist bound Yang Jiao in his cave and began draining him to refine a God-Devouring Gu King.
• Daoist Yangming appeared in the cave, broke Yang Jiao’s restraints, and calmed the blood pool.

Daoist Yangming rescued Yang Jiao and accepted him as a disciple, while Yang Jian trained under True Person Yuding to gain the power to rescue his mother. Yang Jian split Peach Mountain with the Emperor Yu Mountain Splitting Axe, but the broken seal triggered a catastrophic backlash that left Goddess Yunhua near death.

• Daoist Yangming purified Blood Gu Daoist's attack, freed and healed Yang Jiao, and accepted him as a disciple.
• True Person Yuding taught Yang Jian the Eight-Nine Arcane Art, and Yang Jian trained until he mastered its first level and manifested Heaven and Earth.
• Lu Yuan recognized the karmic consequences of Yang Jiao's discipleship and saw that the plan to have Yang Jian split Peach Mountain served the Chan Sect's designs.
• True Person Yuding gave Yang Jian the Emperor Yu Mountain Splitting Axe, and Yang Jian used it to break Peach Mountain's seal and rush to his mother.
• The broken seal destabilized the chains linking Goddess Yunhua to Peach Mountain's origin, and the backlash severely injured her as Yang Jian watched in horror.

After Yang Jian’s attempt to free Goddess Yunhua left her grievously wounded, Jade Emperor Daoist was stopped from retaliating by a decree from Primordial Heavenly Venerate. Humiliated and enraged, Haotian went to the Purple Heavens Palace to complain to Dao Ancestor Hongjun, who finally addressed him.

• Yang Jian watched the collapsing Peach Mountain swallow Goddess Yunhua after he broke its seal, leaving her origin gravely wounded.
• Jade Emperor Daoist sensed his sister’s injury and prepared to attack Yang Jian, but Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s Yuxu Talisman ordered him to accept Heaven’s mandate and stand down.
• Lu Yuan realized that Yuxu Palace had arranged the calamity and foresaw that Haotian’s grievance would help bring about the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation.
• Haotian, consumed by humiliation and hatred, left Heavenly Court and traveled beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens to the Purple Heavens Palace.
• Haotian knelt before Dao Ancestor Hongjun and accused the Mysterious Gate Sages and Yuxu Palace of undermining his authority and harming his sister.
• The will of the Dao Ancestor finally spoke Haotian’s name.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun announced the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation, which would restore order to the Heavenly Court by placing 365 principal gods under Haotian’s command. The Saints learned that the three Mysterious Gate sects and other beings would face the calamity, and Hongjun ordered the three sects to sign the Investiture of the Gods Scroll and decide who would take responsibility for the gods.

• Hongjun told Haotian that a tribulation would cleanse the Primordial World and fill the Heavenly Court’s vacant divine offices with disciples of the three Mysterious Gate sects.
• Hongjun revealed the Investiture of the Gods Scroll and God-Beating Whip, and Haotian left Zixiao Palace determined to restore the Heavenly Court’s authority.
• Hongjun summoned the six Saints and explained that the tribulation would begin in ten thousand years with the decline of the Yin Shang Imperial Dynasty and the killing tribulation of the Immortal Dao.
• Hongjun said that Mysterious Gate disciples who had not Severed the Three Corpses would face the tribulation, while disciples of Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti could avoid it unless they were otherwise drawn in.
• Hongjun said the destined tribulation bearer would carry the Sign of the Flying Bear, and the sect that accepted that person would wield the Scroll and Whip.
• Tongtian asked about the fate of those placed on the Scroll, and Hongjun explained that their divine path would be restricted until the Immeasurable Tribulation passed before ordering the three sects to sign and assign responsibility for the 365 principal gods.

The Three Pure Ones debated who should be named on the Investiture of the Gods Scroll, and Sage Taiqing delayed the decision for thirty thousand years after Sect Master Tongtian defended his disciples’ merits. The other Saints prepared for the looming tribulation, while Lu Yuan sensed its rising baleful energy from the Northern Pole Ziwei Imperial Palace.

• Dao Ancestor Hongjun gave Sage Taiqing the Investiture of the Gods Scroll and ordered the Three Pure Ones to decide its names and numbers fairly.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate proposed placing all three hundred and sixty-five Interception Sect disciples on the list, but Sect Master Tongtian cited Qingxuanzi’s and other disciples’ merits and cultivation to oppose him.
• Sage Taiqing proposed that the Three Pure Ones reconvene in thirty thousand years to sign the list, and Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Sect Master Tongtian reluctantly agreed.
• Nuwa worried that the tribulation would devastate the Yao, while Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti planned to protect their Western Teachings and seek the Flying Bear.
• The Saints left the Purple Heaven Palace, and Lu Yuan opened his eyes at the Northern Pole Ziwei Imperial Palace as the tribulation’s baleful energy appeared in his gaze.

As the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation began, Lu Yuan brought his seven Great Luo disciples to Biyou Palace, where Sect Master Tongtian gathered the Interception Sect's immortals and taught them lethal arts to prepare for the coming battle. Tongtian then revealed that Dao Ancestor Hongjun had declared a new Heaven and Earth Calamity, leaving the disciples terrified and furious that the Interception Sect would be caught up in a conflict they blamed on the Chan Sect.

• Lu Yuan received Tongtian's edict and took Daoist Honglu, Beiyuan, Yuanchu, Xuanhua, Gudao, Qingxiao, and Wanmu to Biyou Palace.
• Interception Sect immortals gathered at Golden Ao Island, where Tongtian gave a three-thousand-year sermon on deadly divine abilities, formations, and artifact-refining methods.
• Lu Yuan, Duobao, and Jin Ling recognized that Tongtian was preparing his disciples to survive the coming Tribulation.
• Tongtian announced that Hongjun had declared another Heaven and Earth Calamity, and the gathered immortals reacted with fear.
• Qiongxiao and Zhao Gongming protested that the Interception Sect was being dragged into the Tribulation because of the Chan Sect's conduct in the Human World.

Sect Master Tongtian explained the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation and its danger to Biyou Palace, while Lu Yuan warned that other Sages might use it to destroy the Interception Sect and seize its destiny. Lu Yuan urged Tongtian to place vulnerable disciples on the Investiture of the Gods Scroll to preserve their true spirits, but Tongtian refused and vowed to fight for every disciple’s chance at the immortal path.

• Sect Master Tongtian explained the tribulation’s three possible fates and outlined ways to avoid or survive it, leaving many disciples frightened but defiant.
• Lu Yuan warned Sect Master Tongtian that Yuanshi Tianzun and the other Sages could exploit the tribulation to destroy Biyou Palace and claim the Shang Dynasty’s destiny and a chance at transcendence.
• Lu Yuan urged Tongtian to sign vulnerable disciples onto the Investiture of the Gods Scroll so their true spirits might survive, but Tongtian rejected sacrificing any disciple’s path.
• Sect Master Tongtian declared that all his disciples must choose and fight for their own destinies, then challenged those seeking to destroy the Interception Sect to settle matters in battle.
• Lu Yuan bowed to Tongtian and left Biyou Palace as the approaching tribulation threatened the disciples across Golden Ao Island.

Primordial Heavenly Venerate told the Yuxu Palace disciples that the Investiture of the Gods Calamity threatened their Dao paths, then approved schemes to shift its burden onto the Interception Sect and other victims. As Yuxu Palace planned and sharpened its blades, Biyou Palace remained unprepared, training and trusting in Tongtian’s protection.

• Primordial Heavenly Venerate announced that the Investiture of the Gods Calamity had begun and explained who would be at risk of death, divine service, or reincarnation.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate said Yuxu disciples were among the Calamity’s chief protagonists and urged them to settle their karma through slaughter and sacrifices.
• Guangchengzi and Chijingzi led the disciples to interpret the advice as a plan to target the Interception Sect, while Taiyi and Manjushri argued its members deserved to bear the Calamity.
• Qingxu proposed taking new disciples and transferring karma to them, and Taiyi suggested drawing rogue cultivators into conflict with the Interception Sect.
• Yuxu disciples developed schemes to use Interception Sect immortals and other outsiders as substitutes, while Primordial Heavenly Venerate silently listened and approved.
• Biyou Palace’s disciples continued training, unaware that Yuxu Palace was preparing to target them as the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation approached.

Lu Yuan summoned the Qingxuan lineage and revealed Yuxu Palace’s plan to make the Interception Sect bear the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation. He calmed the Tribulation’s power with his Profound Yellow Dao Fruit and ordered his disciples to prepare the Qingxuan lineage to lead the fight.

• Lu Yuan gathered Qingxuan’s Dao lineages at Ziwei Imperial Palace and announced that the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation had begun.
• Lu Yuan used a luminous mirror to expose how Guangchengzi, Daoist Randeng, True Person Taiyi, and True Lord Qingxu Daode plotted to sacrifice the Interception Sect and use Rogue Cultivators as pawns.
• Daoist Honglu, Daoist Beiyuan, Star River Daoist, and others erupted in anger, while Boyangzi worried that the Human Race Immortal Master lineage was too weak to face the fighting.
• Lu Yuan explained that the Tribulation was a struggle over Dao lineage and destiny, then manifested his Profound Yellow Dao Fruit and brought a portion of the raging Tribulation clouds into order.
• Lu Yuan declared that Qingxuan would lead the Interception Sect’s resistance, then ordered its lineages and armies to prepare formations, weapons, medicines, and defenses for battle.

After Lu Yuan exposed Yuxu Palace’s plan to use Jie Sect disciples as scapegoats in the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation, Primordial Heavenly Venerate attacked him, but Sect Master Tongtian intervened and blocked the Saint’s true body. Lu Yuan fought Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s two Three Corpses Incarnations to a stalemate, while other Saints and the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors reacted to the spreading crisis.

• Lu Yuan revealed Yuxu Palace’s scheme through the River of Heavenly Dao, and Primordial Heavenly Venerate sealed the exposed secret before sending his Saintly pressure toward Ziwei Imperial Palace.
• Sect Master Tongtian confronted Primordial Heavenly Venerate and stopped him with the Qingping Sword, forcing their clash into Chaos.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate sent Jade Pure Daoist and Primordial Heavenly Demon to suppress Lu Yuan, who used the Profound Yellow Gate, Calamity Fortune Gourd, Stars Daoist incarnation, and Reincarnation Dao Light to fight back.
• Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti welcomed the conflict between Yuanshi and Tongtian as an opportunity for Western Teachings to expand eastward, while Empress Nuwa warned her followers to retreat into their caves.
• Fuxi, Shennong, and Xuanyuan saw the Tribulation threatening the Human Race, and the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors sent the Human Dao’s destiny toward the Human World.

The Blood Sea and Demon Realm stirred as the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation began, while Taiqing intervened to stop Tongtian and Yuanshi from escalating their battle. After the Saints withdrew, Yuanshi visited Taiqing and urged him to help destroy the Interception Sect, promising a share of its destiny and a chance at transcendence.

• Ancestor Minghe sent the Blood Sea’s Asuras toward the Primordial World, while Zhenyuanzi sealed Wuzhuang Temple and the Great Freedom Heavenly Demon watched Lu Yuan’s battle with envy.
• Tongtian and Primordial Heavenly Venerate fought beyond Chaos until Sage Taiqing intervened, rebuked Yuanshi, and ordered both Saints to return to their abodes and await discussion in the Purple Heavens Palace.
• Yuanshi’s avatars withdrew from their fight with Lu Yuan, who returned to Ziwei Imperial Palace resolved to take control of the game unfolding around him.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate visited Sage Taiqing at Eight Sceneries Palace and argued that the Interception Sect’s strength and alliance with the Shang dynasty threatened the Chan Sect’s survival.
• Yuanshi urged Taiqing to help bring down the Interception Sect and divide its destiny between the Human and Chan Sects, promising that they could pursue the Hunyuan Limitless Dao Fruit together.

Taiqing silently agreed to Yuanshi’s plan to oppose Tongtian, while Lu Yuan reflected on his recent battle and saw the Investiture of the Gods Calamity as a chance to prove the Hunyuan Dao Fruit. As the mortal conflict between Shang and Zhou intensified, the three Saints gathered for their final discussion of the Investiture of the Gods, where Yuanshi again demanded that Interception Sect disciples fill its divine posts.

• Taiqing let the last trace of protectiveness toward Tongtian fade and tacitly approved Yuanshi’s plan, warning him to restrain his disciples and wait for the right moment.
• Lu Yuan reviewed how he had withstood the attacks of Jade Pure Daoist and Primordial Heavenly Demon, then resolved to seize the calamity as an opportunity for transcendence.
• Wen Ding summoned Ji Li to Chaoge, imprisoned him, and arranged for his death; Ji Chang suppressed Xi Qi’s outrage while secretly nurturing revenge.
• Hongjun convened Taiqing, Yuanshi, and Tongtian for the final discussion of the Investiture of the Gods and declared that the matter had to be settled.
• Yuanshi argued that Chan Sect disciples such as Guangchengzi and Chijingzi should be spared, while Interception Sect disciples should fill the Scroll’s divine positions.

Sect Master Tongtian rejected Yuanshi’s plan to fill the Investiture of the Gods Scroll with Jie Sect disciples after Sage Taiqing supported signing it. Taishang Laojun entered the scroll himself, but Tongtian still left Purple Sky Palace determined to let the disciples fight for their own fates in the coming tribulation; Dao Ancestor Hongjun approved delaying the signing.

• Sect Master Tongtian defended the Jie Sect’s achievements and condemned Yuanshi’s proposal to sacrifice its disciples for the Investiture of the Gods Scroll.
• Sage Taiqing declared that the scroll must be signed, convincing Tongtian that his elder brothers had sided against him.
• Taishang Laojun entered his own name on the scroll as a divine official, disrupting Yuanshi’s effort to force Tongtian’s agreement.
• Sect Master Tongtian refused to sign and declared that the Jie Sect would fight through the tribulation rather than surrender its disciples’ fates to others.
• Tongtian left Purple Sky Palace, while Primordial Heavenly Venerate denounced him and Sage Taiqing worried that his resolve would bring the Jie Sect to ruin.
• Sage Taiqing asked Dao Ancestor Hongjun to postpone the signing, and Hongjun approved letting the tribulation determine who would receive divine positions.

After the Purple Palace gathering set the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation for three thousand years later, Taiqing ordered Xuandu to avoid the conflict, while Primordial Heavenly Venerate planned to use slaughter and wandering immortals to protect the Chan Sect. Tongtian prepared the Interception Sect for war, and Lu Yuan resolved to defend his Dao Lineages and use the Tribulation to pursue transcendence.

• Sage Taiqing Laozi warned Grand Master Xuandu that disciples of the Chan Sect and Interception Sect would perish in the Tribulation, then ordered him to remain apart from its mortal and immortal conflicts.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate declared that the Interception Sect should fill the Investiture of the Gods Scroll, and his disciples proposed killing Interception Sect immortals and drawing wandering immortals into the conflict.
• Sect Master Tongtian told his disciples to fight for their own survival and taught them savage divine abilities as protection for the coming Tribulation.
• Lu Yuan learned from Sect Master Tongtian's talisman decree that the Interception Sect faced destruction and resolved to defend his Dao Lineages and temper his Dao Fruit through the Tribulation.

Lu Yuan tried to recruit Jiang Ziya for the Interception Sect, but learned that Jiang had already reached Kunlun and been welcomed by the Chan Sect. As the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation began, Lu Yuan resolved to defy Heaven’s Will and fight for his sect’s survival and rise.

• Lu Yuan descended in an avatar to Song Family Village, where Song Yiren told him Jiang Ziya had left for Kunlun thirty years earlier.
• Jiang Ziya reached Kunlun, and White Crane Boy welcomed him under the Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s decree and carried him toward Yuxu Palace.
• The Primordial Heavenly Venerate judged Jiang Ziya’s roots poor but planned to use his Heaven-backed destiny to defeat the Interception Sect and suppress Lu Yuan.
• Lu Yuan received his avatar’s memories, accepted that Jiang Ziya had fallen into the Chan Sect’s hands, and vowed to use the Tribulation to forge a path for the Interception Sect.

Shen Gongbao abandoned his attempt to join the Chan Sect and headed for Biyou Palace, becoming a new variable in the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation. Three thousand years later, Zhunti eyed the intertwined fortunes of Yin Shang and the Interception Sect as a prize for the West.

• Shen Gongbao sensed that his Xia Hou bloodline warned him away from Yuxu Palace, tore up his invitation, and redirected his journey toward the East Sea.
• Lu Yuan recognized Shen Gongbao as the Sign of the Flying Bear and realized his choice had shifted his destiny toward the Interception Sect.
• Sect Master Tongtian decided to accept Shen Gongbao, conceal the change from Primordial Heavenly Venerate, and use him to challenge the destiny arranged against the Interception Sect.
• Three thousand years later, Zhunti observed that the Interception Sect's fortune had become intertwined with Yin Shang's Dragon Qi and lamented that the West could not claim it.
• Zhunti considered Di Xin's potential and resolved that Yin Shang's Human Dragon Qi should nourish the Great Prosperity of the West.

Zhunti manipulated Shang Rong into persuading Di Xin to visit Wa Huang Temple, then used the ceremony and a bewitched vision of Nuwa to overwhelm the Human Emperor. Di Xin’s reason collapsed before the sacred image, leaving his actions poised to bring the plot against him to fruition.

• Zhunti saw the North Sea rebellion and sent Nirvana Buddha Light to bewitch Shang Rong into believing that Nuwa’s anger had caused the crisis.
• Shang Rong, convinced that Di Xin had to beg Nuwa’s forgiveness, urged him and the court to arrange a visit to Wa Huang Temple.
• Di Xin resisted the petition at first but agreed after his ministers argued that honoring Nuwa would show filial piety and strengthen his reputation.
• Di Xin traveled to Wa Huang Temple and prepared to offer incense before Nuwa’s veiled image.
• A sinister wind tore away the Divine Curtain, and Zhunti’s Mind-Bewitching Curse struck Di Xin as he looked upon the revealed statue.
• Di Xin’s perception of Nuwa became a bewitching vision, and his reason, restraint, and reverence were overwhelmed.

Di Xin wrote a sacrilegious poem in Wa Huang Palace under Zhunti’s spell, while Lu Yuan exposed Zhunti’s scheme before the Sages concealed the truth. Nuwa sent three demons to bring down the Shang Dynasty, Zhunti secretly removed her restriction against harming innocents, and Shang Rong died after leaving warnings about the dynasty’s fate as the demons set out for Zhaoge.

• Di Xin wrote a poem praising Nuwa and ignored Shang Rong’s pleas to erase it and apologize.
• Lu Yuan traced Zhunti’s role in manipulating Di Xin and Shang Rong, but Yuanshi, Taiqing, Minghe, and other powers helped bury the revelation in the heavenly secrets.
• Nuwa ordered the Nine-headed Pheasant Spirit and Jade Pipa Spirit to join the Nine-tailed Fox in the palace and help bring down the Shang Dynasty, while Zhunti secretly removed her order forbidding harm to the people.
• Shang Rong recovered his true memories, wrote a blood warning, and killed himself before Cheng Tang’s ancestral tablet.
• The three demons accepted Nuwa’s decree and left Xuanyuan Tomb, while Lu Yuan watched the Shang Dynasty’s destiny dim and tribulation energy spread.

After the Saints erased the truth Lu Yuan exposed about Zhunti, he recognized that the Interception Sect faced a coordinated threat and resolved to prove the Dao of Hunyuan to protect its legacy. In a ruined temple, the Nine-tailed Fox, Nine-headed Pheasant Spirit, and Jade Pipa Spirit devised a plan to possess noble maidens and infiltrate Di Xin’s palace.

• Lu Yuan realized Primordial Heavenly Venerate, Sage Taiqing, and the Western Teachings intended to weaken and divide the Interception Sect.
• Lu Yuan concluded that only becoming a Hunyuan Saint could help him and Sect Master Tongtian preserve the sect’s foundation.
• The Nine-tailed Fox and Nine-headed Pheasant Spirit warned that Chaoge’s Human Dao Destiny would expose and destroy demons who approached Di Xin in their true forms.
• The Jade Pipa Spirit proposed possessing noble maidens selected for the palace so the three demons could enter as humans.
• The Jade Pipa Spirit explained how their three soul arts could transfer the maidens’ bodies, remove their souls, and conceal the demons’ traces.

The Nine-tailed Fox possessed Su Daji to enter Di Xin’s palace, while a beam of starlight secretly saved the last fragment of Daji’s true spirit and sent it into reincarnation. The fox set out for Zhaoge in Daji’s body, unaware that Daji’s spirit had escaped her grasp.

• The Nine-tailed Fox and the other demons agreed to use the blood of one hundred children in a formation to evade Heaven’s scrutiny.
• Fei Zhong and You Hun persuaded Di Xin to summon Daji to Zhaoge, and Su Hu rebelled by writing a poem denouncing Shang.
• Fei Zhong advised Di Xin to order Ji Chang to attack Jizhou, but Ji Chang surrounded the city without fighting and secretly sent San Yi Sheng to negotiate with Su Hu.
• Ji Chang convinced Su Hu to feign defeat and send Daji to Zhaoge, and Di Xin pardoned Jizhou after Su Hu and Ji Chang sent letters of repentance.
• At Pingqiao Post, the Nine-tailed Fox possessed Su Daji, but starlight rescued Daji’s remaining true spirit and sent it into reincarnation.
• The Nine-tailed Fox claimed Daji’s identity and prepared to enter Di Xin’s palace, while Su Hu slept unaware that his daughter’s spirit had departed.

Lu Yuan discovered that Su Daji’s True Spirit had been marked by the Reincarnation Great Dao as an “uncertainty,” and he and Sect Master Tongtian planned to use her to disrupt the Saints’ schemes against the Interception Sect. Tongtian urged Lu Yuan to attain the Primordial Dao Fruit as the sect’s only hope, and Lu Yuan set out to strengthen reincarnation in the Hungry Ghost Path.

• Lu Yuan traced Su Daji’s True Spirit in reincarnation and discovered that the Reincarnation Great Dao had marked her as an “uncertainty.”
• Lu Yuan concluded that the Saints planned to destroy the Interception Sect and resolved to attain the Primordial Dao Fruit to protect its lineage.
• Lu Yuan met Sect Master Tongtian at Biyou Palace, where Tongtian raged against the Saints’ plots.
• Lu Yuan showed Tongtian Su Daji’s mark, and Tongtian agreed to conceal and protect her when she returned to the mortal world.
• Tongtian told Lu Yuan that attaining the Primordial Dao Fruit could secure the Interception Sect’s survival, and Lu Yuan vowed to prove the Dao of Hunyuan.
• Lu Yuan announced that he would go to the Hungry Ghost Path to strengthen reincarnation and prepare another safeguard for his path to Hunyuan.