Recaps

Chan, Mo Di, Yuan, Zhuang Zhou, and Wang Xu established Legalist, Mohist, Agricultural, Zhuangzi, and Zongheng Dao lineages, each reaching the realm of a Great Divine Ability User. The Hundred Schools began competing across the states for influence and Human Dao Destiny as powerful figures and heavenly lineages backed different sides, bringing the Era of Great Strife to its height.

• Chan established the Legalist Dao in Qin, formed his Dao Fruit, and received support from Primordial Heavenly Venerate.
• Mo Di established Mohism in Song through Universal Love and Non-Aggression, and Sect Master Tongtian strengthened his Dao lineage.
• Yuan established the Agricultural School's Dao in Chen, while Lu Yuan protected its foundations of farming and sericulture.
• Zhuang Zhou opened the Great Dream Realm and established the Zhuangzi lineage of the Taoist School.
• Wang Xu established the School of Zongheng in Chu, and Zhenyuanzi strengthened his Dao Fruit with the Great Earth's Dao-rhyme.
• The Hundred Schools' disciples spread through the states and contested for Dao Lineage, while powerful figures backed rival schools and the Era of Great Strife reached its boiling point.

The Jin State fell as Han, Zhao, and Wei received investiture and divided its territory, while the Tian Clan overthrew the Jiang Clan in Qi with the Human Sect’s support. Lu Yuan saw that Zhou’s remaining Mandate of Heaven was close to extinction.

• King Zhuang of Chu failed to seize the Nine Tripods after Zhou’s Yuqing Talisman triggered a backlash, and Chu’s supremacy later weakened.
• The Jin State’s noble clans rose against the ducal house, and Han, Zhao, and Wei forced Zhou Son of Heaven Ji Wu to invest them as marquises and divide Jin.
• After Jin’s sacrifices ended, Ji Wu suffered the Five Decays of Heaven and Man and was annihilated by the accumulated sins of the Jin ducal house.
• Tian He, backed by Grand Master Xuandu, captured Duke Kang Jiang Dai, forced him to abdicate, and established the Tian Clan’s rule over Qi.
• The Jiang Clan’s ancestral temple and former Qi rulers were consumed by accumulated Human Dao sins, while Sage Taiqing accepted the Tian Clan’s rise as the will of Heaven and the people.
• Lu Yuan divined that Zhou’s remaining Mandate of Heaven was flickering on the verge of extinction.

After King Nan’s death, the Chengzhou Dao Lineage collapsed and its accumulated karma and sin erupted across the human realm. Saints and great powers began competing to shape the new Human Dao Lineage, while Lu Yuan recognized the upheaval as an opportunity to advance his Profound Yellow Tribulation Fortune Dao Fruit.

• The Zhou Son of Heaven died, and the court posthumously titled him Nan, triggering the end of the Chengzhou Dao Lineage.
• The Pillar of Destiny collapsed as Primordial Heavenly Venerate withdrew his attempt to intervene, and the released karma and sin ravaged Luoyi and places tied to Zhou rule.
• The Human Dao’s backlash pursued beings connected to Chengzhou, while Tongtian, Jieyin, Zhunti, Taiqing, Nuwa, Minghe, Haotian, and Zhenyuanzi considered their responses to the emerging power vacuum.
• Haotian summoned his subordinates to plan for a Heavenly Court-aligned human Dao Lineage, while Zhenyuanzi resolved to protect the earth’s veins and his spiritual root.
• Lu Yuan concluded that the contest for the new Human Dao Lineage was also a struggle for destiny and transcendence, and saw it as an opportunity to perfect his Profound Yellow Tribulation Fortune Dao Fruit.

Primordial Heavenly Venerate burned away most of the Chan Sect’s karmic ties to the failing Chengzhou Dao Lineage, then revealed a plan to control the Human Dao and ripen his Dao Fruit. He prepared to use Heavenly Dao pressure to force the Human Dao into choosing between two paths, and turned his attention to the Human Sect’s Elder Brother.

• Primordial Heavenly Venerate used the Yuxu Glazed Tile Lamp to burn away most of the Chan Sect’s karma with Chengzhou, while protecting a few strands as the foundation of its Dao Lineage.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate told his disciples that Chengzhou’s fall was unavoidable and that the Chan Sect had gained valuable experience and advantages from its mortal-world experiments.
• Guangchengzi and the other Yuxu immortals praised Primordial Heavenly Venerate, while privately fearing that he might discard them as he had Jiang Shang, the Duke of Zhou, and Duke Zhao.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate taught his disciples an Order Blueprint based on weakening the people, dividing society into ranks, restricting knowledge, centering farming and warfare, strengthening royal authority, and imposing laws.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate revealed that the Order Blueprint was a temporary cage and that he planned to use Heavenly Dao pressure to make the Human Dao choose between oppression and a more appealing form of control.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate looked toward Great Scarlet Heaven and wondered what the Human Sect’s Elder Brother would choose.

Primordial Heavenly Venerate arranged for Bo Yikao to relinquish his divine post and reincarnate, using him to test Sage Taiqing's response and settle the Zhou Dao Lineage's lingering cause and effect. As Bo Yikao entered the cycle of reincarnation, he secretly sent a trace of Tianfu Star's radiance toward Laojun's palace.

• Yuanshi ordered White Crane Boy to send Bo Yikao into reincarnation and described him as a touchstone for testing the Sages.
• White Crane Boy delivered Yuanshi's decree, ordering Bo Yikao to surrender his post as Star Lord Tianfu and enter the mortal world.
• Bo Yikao accepted the decree despite recognizing that Yuanshi intended to use him to contain the resentment left by the fallen Zhou Dao Lineage.
• Bo Yikao asked who would watch over the evil sha and stars of Dou Mansion, while White Crane Boy said Yuanshi had not chosen a replacement.
• As White Crane Boy stripped away Bo Yikao's divine authority, Bo Yikao secretly sent a trace of Tianfu Star's radiance toward Laojun's palace.
• Bo Yikao's true spirit left Dou Mansion in the Immortal Light of Reception and plunged into mortal reincarnation.

Taiqing Laozi mourned Bo Yikao’s fall and offered him a possible path to survival, while Randeng realized Yuanshi Heavenly Venerate had engineered Chengzhou’s rise and collapse as an experiment and a means to refine his Dao Fruit. As Tongtian and Lu Yuan expounded the Dao, they discussed Bo Yikao’s reincarnation as Yuanshi’s new piece in the struggle between Dao lineages.

• Taiqing Laozi watched Bo Yikao’s true spirit depart and invited him to seek help in Luoyang if he retained his awareness after reincarnation.
• Randeng reviewed Chengzhou’s history and concluded that Yuanshi Heavenly Venerate had orchestrated its prosperity, decline, and fall to test the Order Heavenly Dao and mature his Dao Fruit.
• Randeng recognized that he had been one of Yuanshi’s pieces and resolved to remain wary after escaping the chessboard of the Saints.
• Tongtian and Lu Yuan manifested their Dao Fruits in Profound Yellow Heaven while Biyou Palace’s immortals observed and gained insight.
• Tongtian and Lu Yuan discussed Yuanshi’s stripping Bo Yikao of his divine office and sending him into reincarnation as a test of the Human Sect and a spark for new tribulations.

Lu Yuan and Sect Master Tongtian devised a strategy for the Interception Sect to spread its teachings among the Hundred Schools and resist Yuanshi’s plans for the Human Dao. Meanwhile, Wei Si’s Legalist reforms made Wei hegemon of Central Xia, and the other states pledged to follow its example, advancing Yuanshi’s Order Dao Lineage.

• Lu Yuan warned Sect Master Tongtian that Yuanshi intended to use Bo Yikao to provoke conflict between the Interception Sect and the Human Sect, and urged Biyou Palace to spread its teachings through the Hundred Schools.
• Sect Master Tongtian issued a decree allowing Biyou Palace disciples to enter the mortal world and teach self-improvement, renewal, universal instruction, and the breaking of shackles.
• Bo Yikao was reborn as Wei Si, who became Marquis Wen of Wei and adopted Li Kui’s Book of Laws while Zi Xia established the Confucian Xihe School.
• Wei Si’s reforms and Wu Qi’s training of the Wei Wu Battalion transformed Wei into a military power that defeated rival states and dominated Central Xia.
• The rulers of Han, Zhao, Chu, Qi, and other states asked Wei Si to guide their own Legalist reforms, and he offered to help establish a Legalist order under the Primordial Heavenly Dao Order.

Yuanshi summoned Jieyin and Zhunti to join him and Taiqing in breaking Tongtian’s Zhu Xian Sword Formation, and the four Saints arrived at Jiepai Pass to discuss the Dao. As their teachings began influencing the assembled disciples, Tongtian recognized their attempt to weaken his followers and probe the formation, and vowed that the Interception Sect would not yield.

• Yuanshi condemned Tongtian and the Zhu Xian Sword Formation, then announced that Jieyin and Zhunti would come from the West to help break it.
• Jieyin and Zhunti agreed to intervene, weighing the risks of the calamity against the Western Teachings’ opportunity to spread east.
• Jieyin and Zhunti arrived at Jiepai Pass, where Yuanshi asked them to join him and Taiqing in breaking the formation.
• Yuanshi ordered the disciples to wait while the four Saints sat above the pass and expounded their respective Dao principles.
• The Saints’ discussion stirred the Yuxu and Western disciples, while Tongtian sensed their Dao intent eroding the formation and influencing his followers.
• Tongtian accused Yuanshi, Taiqing, Jieyin, and Zhunti of using the discussion to undermine the Interception Sect, and declared that his followers would keep fighting.

Primordial Heavenly Venerate used Wei Si and the states’ Legalist reforms to spread harsh rule and accumulate Sinful Power, while Lu Yuan and Sect Master Tongtian prepared to resist. After the State of Wei collapsed and Wei Si died, Primordial Heavenly Venerate turned to the Primordial Chaos Ruins and offered Zu Long’s remnant soul rebirth in exchange for serving the Chan Sect as humanity’s Sage King.

• Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s Legalist reforms spread across the states, draining the people and the State of Wei’s fortune as Wei Si reveled in his apparent hegemony.
• Lu Yuan ordered Mohism and Agricultural School disciples to undermine Legalist rule and aid the displaced, while Sect Master Tongtian warned that the Human Dao would eventually resist.
• Wei Si executed Li Kui and Wu Qi, whose Primordial Spirits Primordial Heavenly Venerate absorbed into his Order Dao Fruit.
• The State of Wei fell into turmoil after Wei Si’s death, and it later lost its hegemony after defeat at the Battle of Maling.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate entered the Primordial Chaos Ruins, awakened Zu Long’s remnant soul, and offered it rebirth if it followed the Chan Sect and became humanity’s Sage King.

Primordial Heavenly Venerate arranged for Zu Long’s remnant soul to reincarnate as Ying Quliang of Qin, intending to use the future Sage King to bind the dragon race to humanity and monopolize the Human Dao. The six Sages united against his scheme and formed an alliance of the six states, but its first campaign against Qin failed at Hangu Pass.

• Primordial Heavenly Venerate sent Zu Long’s remnant soul into reincarnation after revealing that he had diverted the dragon race’s merit to forge its karmic ties to humanity.
• Lu Yuan realized that Zu Long had reincarnated as Ying Quliang in Qin, and he warned the other five Sages that Primordial Heavenly Venerate planned to use Qin to seize the Human Dao.
• The six Sages agreed to oppose Primordial Heavenly Venerate by restraining Qin, and they helped Qi, Chu, Yan, Zhao, Han, and Wei form a vertical alliance under Su Qin.
• The six states sent a coalition army against Qin, while Duke Xiao and Wei Yang pressed ahead with Qin’s reforms.
• The coalition’s divided commanders failed to act together, and the Qin Army raided their camp and defeated them beneath Hangu Pass.

The Six Sages watched Qin unify the realm while Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s control over the Human Dao grew, until Ying Zheng’s birth triggered the Heavenly Dao and Human Dao’s backlash. With the Sages’ help, Ying Zheng merged with Zu Long’s remnant soul, broke the contract, and destroyed Primordial Heavenly Venerate; Ying Zheng then purged his remaining influence by burning books and burying scholars.

• The six states’ alliances repeatedly failed, and Qin expanded under the successive reigns of Zu Long’s reincarnations until it conquered the realm.
• King Zhuangxiang of Qin died, and Zu Long’s remnant soul reincarnated as Ying Zheng while the Heavenly Dao and Human Dao backlash arose against Primordial Heavenly Venerate.
• Lu Yuan saw that Ying Zheng carried a second, native soul, and the Six Sages blocked Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s attack on Xianyang Palace.
• The Six Sages helped Ying Zheng and Zu Long merge, shattering the Heavenly Dao contract and empowering Ying Zheng to destroy Primordial Heavenly Venerate and his Order Dao Fruit.
• After unifying the realm, Ying Zheng ordered books burned and scholars buried to eliminate Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s remaining followers and influence.

Ying Zheng burned the classics and purged the fangshi and Confucian scholars, while the Saints chose not to interfere. Primordial Heavenly Venerate manipulated Haotian into forming an alliance against Qin, and Haotian ordered the Heavenly Court to march on Xianyang in three days, unaware that Primordial Heavenly Venerate also intended to weaken the Jie Sect.

• Ying Zheng burned the classics and buried the fangshi and Confucian scholars, claiming they had served the Chan Sect and threatened Qin’s order.
• Lu Yuan worried that Ying Zheng’s purge could harm innocents and damage mortal civilization, while the Saints accepted the purge without intervening.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate, weakened by backlash and unable to face the other Saints, sent a Saintly Thought to persuade Haotian to attack Ying Zheng.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate offered to place the Chan Sect immortals in the Heavenly Court under Haotian’s command, and Haotian accepted the alliance and ordered troops to march on Xianyang in three days.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate revealed that he intended the campaign to weaken Ying Zheng and the Jie Sect forces serving in the Heavenly Court, leaving him positioned to benefit from their losses.

Haotian ordered the Heavenly Court to invade Qin and placed the Jie Sect’s Thunder and Star Departments in the vanguard. Tongtian instructed them to feign compliance, and as they staged ineffective attacks on Xianyang, Haotian’s rage was checked by the threatening auras of the Qingping Sword and the Profound Yellow Gate.

• Haotian appointed Li Jing and Immortal Elder Nanji to lead the Qin campaign, assigned Wen Zhong and the Star Department to the vanguard, and ordered the Heavenly River Navy to surround Xianyang.
• Wen Zhong and the Star Department secretly reported Haotian’s plan to weaken the Jie Sect, prompting Tongtian to tell them to fight through their incense-and-faith divine bodies and preserve their true spirits.
• The Heavenly Court army surrounded Xianyang, while the Thunder and Star Departments directed their attacks away from the city and its Twelve Golden Men.
• Li Jing accused Wen Zhong of making a feeble assault, and Wen Zhong defended the cautious attacks as a way to avoid the Dragon Qi’s backlash and preserve Heaven’s forces.
• Haotian watched the ineffective attacks through the Haotian Mirror and grew furious, but the Qingping Sword’s killing intent and the aura of the Profound Yellow Gate appeared and made him hesitate.

Haotian sent Li Jing and the Heavenly Origin Sect’s immortals to lead the assault on Xianyang, where Ying Zheng’s defenses devastated the Heavenly Court army. Haotian confronted Ying Zheng directly, and their rival powers clashed as Primordial Heavenly Venerate watched from Yuxu Palace.

• Haotian ordered Li Jing and the Heavenly Origin Sect’s immortals to take the vanguard while the Thunder Department and Star Department held the perimeter.
• The Twelve Golden Men activated Xianyang’s Human Dao Forbidden Domain, suppressing the Heavenly Court’s power and striking down its soldiers and generals.
• Bai Qi and Wang Jian led yin soldiers and war souls from Xianyang, whose battle formation overwhelmed the Heavenly Court’s main force.
• Guangchengzi’s Fan Tian Seal failed to break the Golden Men, and Haotian left the Lingxiao Treasure Hall to confront Ying Zheng himself.
• Haotian attacked Xianyang with the Haotian Mirror, but Ying Zheng answered with the Human Emperor Imperial Seal, and their powers collided.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate suffered Heavenly Dao backlash in Yuxu Palace while watching Ying Zheng and Haotian battle.

Ying Zheng used the Human Dao’s power to repel Haotian’s campaign, then established the Immortal Qin Sage Dynasty and transformed the Twelve Golden Men into Innate Supreme Treasures. As the Heavenly Court and Chan Sect prepared to unite against Immortal Qin, Lu Yuan sensed a disturbance in the heavenly secrets.

• Ying Zheng summoned the fire of the Human Dao, broke Haotian’s assault, and forced the Heavenly Court’s forces to retreat from Xianyang.
• Ying Zheng issued reforms to strengthen the human realm and announced a winter-solstice ceremony to establish the Immortal Qin Sage Dynasty.
• Ying Zheng proclaimed the Sage Dynasty at the Heavenly Altar, and Human Dao Destiny transformed the Twelve Golden Men into Innate Supreme Treasures.
• The Heavenly Dao recognized Immortal Qin, while immortals and rulers across the Three Realms watched the dynasty’s rise with awe and apprehension.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Haotian set aside their grievances and agreed to suppress Immortal Qin and kill Ying Zheng.
• Lu Yuan sensed a change in the heavenly secrets as the two powers stirred the destiny of the Three Realms.

Ying Zheng and Immortal Qin faced Haotian and Yuanshi’s allied Heavenly Court and Chan Sect forces in a devastating battle, while the sages watched without intervening. With both sides near collapse, Ying Zheng gathered the Human Dao Destiny for one final assault on Heaven.

• Sage Taiqing, Sect Master Tongtian, Empress Nuwa, and Empress Houtu chose to watch the battle, while Lu Yuan saw that none of the sages intended to intervene.
• Haotian and Immortal Elder Nanji led the assembled Heavenly Court and Chan Sect forces against Xianyang as Ying Zheng activated the Twelve Golden Men, opened the Human Dao Forbidden Domain, and assumed his Human Emperor true form.
• Haotian and the Great Formation of the Stars attacked Xianyang, while Yuanshi ordered Guangchengzi and True Person Taiyi to unleash Yuqing sword light against Ying Zheng.
• Ying Zheng destroyed Guangchengzi and True Person Taiyi, defeated the attacking Chan Sect Golden Immortals, broke Immortal Elder Nanji’s Myriad Longevity Formation, and fought Haotian until both were gravely wounded.
• As the Twelve Golden Men and Qin Army ghost soldiers neared destruction, Ying Zheng summoned the Human Dao Torrent and called on his forces to strike at Heaven.

Ying Zheng led the Qin Army in an assault on the Heavenly Court, destroyed the Primordial Heavenly Demon, and died as the Human Dao’s power faded. His true spirit vanished into the Land of Eternal Tribulation, while Yuanshi Tianzun suffered backlash and raged over the destruction of his Evil Corpse and the ruin of the Chan Sect.

• Ying Zheng and the million Qin Army spirits stormed the South Heaven Gate, killing Heavenly Court forces and turning the court into a battlefield.
• Ying Zheng shattered Haotian’s Haotian Mirror and annihilated the Primordial Heavenly Demon with the Sword of Tai'e, while Haotian was left gravely wounded.
• Ying Zheng found the Qin Army’s leaders and Immortal Qin’s great powers dead or gravely wounded, then began to disintegrate before Lingxiao Palace.
• Ying Zheng’s true spirit plunged into the Land of Eternal Tribulation, and the Immortal Qin lineage’s pillar of Human Dao Destiny collapsed.
• Lu Yuan declared that Ying Zheng would return as long as the Human Dao’s spark endured.
• Yuanshi Tianzun suffered Human Dao backlash from the Evil Corpse’s destruction and discovered that nearly all of the Chan Sect’s disciples had perished.

Primordial Heavenly Venerate erased the Immortal Qin Dao Lineage and nearly unleashed further destruction, but Lu Yuan intervened through the Profound Yellow Gate and forced him to stop. Lu Yuan reflected on how the fall of the Xia Hou Clan’s Sage Dynasty had changed Yuanshi, while Ying Zheng remained destined to return from the Land of Eternal Tribulation.

• Primordial Heavenly Venerate used the Pangu Banner to erase Xianyang and every existence bound by karma to the Immortal Qin Dao Lineage.
• Lu Yuan witnessed the destruction and realized Ying Zheng’s eventual return would bring another reckoning with Yuanshi and the Chan Sect.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s rage grew as he surveyed the Chan Sect’s losses and raised the Pangu Banner against the mortal realm.
• Lu Yuan manifested the Profound Yellow Gate in Yuxu Palace and warned Yuanshi that further attacks would violate the Heavenly Dao and human Dao.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate sensed the other saints watching and restrained the Pangu Banner, while Lu Yuan withdrew his power.
• Lu Yuan considered how the fall of the Xia Hou Clan’s Sage Dynasty and the return of the Nine Tripods had led Yuanshi to despise those he considered improperly born and shallow-rooted.

After the Immortal Qin Dao Lineage collapsed, Saints and powerful cultivators backed rival leaders as a new struggle for the Human Dao began. Lu Yuan stayed out of the contest to pursue the Other Shore Universe, while Primordial Heavenly Venerate turned his attention to taking control of the Heavenly Court; the chapter ended with only Immortal Lord Qing Li retaining hope of attaining the Dao among Lu Yuan’s three disciples.

• Primordial Heavenly Venerate held back from confronting the other Saints as the fall of Immortal Qin left the Human Dao Destiny unclaimed.
• Sage Taiqing empowered Liu Bang, Jieyin and Zhunti laid Buddhist karma upon Xiang Yu, and Tongtian strengthened Chen Sheng’s rebellion with Shangqing sword intent.
• Nuwa healed the devastated human world, while Houtu stabilized reincarnation in the Netherworld.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate chose to exploit Haotian’s injuries and the Saints’ focus on the Human Dao to erode the Heavenly Court for the Chan Sect.
• Lu Yuan declined to enter the Human Dao struggle and focused instead on the opportunity in the Other Shore Universe.
• The chapter revealed that Qing Shuang had died pursuing Dao Lord attainment and reincarnated, Qing Yang was hindered by an inner demon, and only Qing Li still had hope of attaining the Dao.

Lu Yuan preached the Great Dao to strengthen Dao Xuan Heaven and secretly identify infiltrators, while continuing to delay his Hunyuan breakthrough until the right moment. His sermon eased the Fate Faction’s suspicions, and Great Dao Lord Taishi also began to lower his guard.

• Lu Yuan watched over Qing Li, Qing Yang, and the reincarnated Qing Shuang, then sent protection to Qing Li and A Shuang as he considered his disciples’ paths.
• Lu Yuan summoned Dao Xuan Heaven’s disciples to the Profound Abyss Dao Platform and preached the Great Dao of Tribulation Fortune.
• During the sermon, Lu Yuan detected hidden agents from the Fate Faction and the Innate Dao Lord, and decided to mark them so he could track their schemes.
• The disciples gained insight from the hundred-year sermon, while Lu Yuan’s cultivation grew steadier and the barrier to Hunyuan Master grew thinner; he chose not to break through yet.
• Primordial Great Dao Lord judged Lu Yuan to lack Hunyuan potential and ordered the agents to keep monitoring him rather than attack.
• Great Dao Lord Taishi listened to the sermon and gradually lost some of his wariness toward Lu Yuan.

Eastern Emperor Taiyi and Devil Ancestor Rahula saw through Lu Yuan’s disguise as an Innate Dao Lord and visited him at the Profound Abyss Heavenly Palace. Rahula proposed that they join forces to break the Fate Rule Net and return to the Primordial Wilderness, while Taiyi argued that they should first build their strength and pursue opportunities in the Other Shore.

• Great Dao Lord Taishi and Tianxu Dao Lord judged that Lu Yuan’s Dao of Tribulation Fortune lacked the foundation to reach Hunyuan and ordered continued monitoring.
• Dao Lord Moyan and Star Vault Dao Lord likewise dismissed Lu Yuan as a potential Hunyuan figure, but Eastern Emperor Taiyi recognized that he was concealing his true strength.
• Taiyi sent a Saintly Thought to Dao Xuan Heaven, and Rahula followed with one of his own after learning of Moyan’s judgment.
• Taiyi and Rahula appeared before Lu Yuan in the Profound Abyss Heavenly Palace and revealed that they knew he was a Hunyuan Sage hiding as an Innate Dao Lord.
• Lu Yuan explained that he intended to use the Other Shore’s Fate Rule Net and its tribulations to break through, while Rahula urged them to join forces and return to the Primordial Wilderness.
• Taiyi objected that returning too soon would cost them the Other Shore’s opportunities and their chance at the Hunyuan Limitless Dao Fruit.

Primordial Heavenly Venerate persuaded Sage Taiqing to join him in confronting Tongtian at Jiepai Pass, where Tongtian had raised the Zhu Xian Sword Formation against the other teachings. After Taiqing’s choice convinced Tongtian that his senior brother had betrayed him, the three Saints’ forces clashed, and Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Taiqing entered the formation to seek its Formation Eye.

• Primordial Heavenly Venerate told Sage Taiqing that Tongtian had formed the Zhu Xian Sword Formation and urged him to claim the Intercepting Sect’s destiny for their Dao paths.
• Sage Taiqing agreed to go to Jiepai Pass and sent the Taiji Diagram’s power toward Tongtian’s formation as the two Saints traveled there.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Sage Taiqing arrived with the Chan Sect and Western Teachings as Tongtian emerged from the formation with the Jie Sect’s disciples.
• The three Saints’ opposing auras tore open a vast rift in the sky, injuring disciples from all three teachings.
• Tongtian rejected Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s demand to withdraw the formation and, believing Taiqing had sided against him, returned inside as the Jie Sect disciples strengthened its four sword gates.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Sage Taiqing entered the Zhu Xian Sword Formation together to search for its Formation Eye.

Lu Yuan killed the three Fate Faction Dao Lords attacking Dao Xuan Heaven, purged their spies, and began hunting every cultivator who controlled the laws of Tribulation Fortune. After defeating many Dao Lords, he confronted Constellation Dao Lord, whose domain he crushed with his own.

• Lu Yuan slew Tianxu, Heavenly Seal, and Heavenly Suppression, then destroyed the remaining army trapped in the Tribulation Fortune Dao Domain.
• Lu Yuan used the Tribulation Fortune Karma Art to find and kill spies in Dao Xuan Heaven, then sent Qing Li and Qing Yang to clear agents among affiliated forces.
• Lu Yuan traced the hidden agents to Fate Heavenly Palace and wiped out the Fate Faction’s spies throughout Taisu Heaven.
• Lu Yuan traveled across the Other Shore Universe, killing Dao Lords of Tribulation Fortune and refining the laws they controlled, including those of Black Wind Dao Lord.
• Lu Yuan confronted Constellation Dao Lord in Constellation Sea and crushed his disorderly Tribulation Fortune domain with his own before swinging the Nine Calamity Sword.

Lu Yuan defeated Constellation Dao Lord, unified the Great Dao of Tribulation Fortune, and made Dao Xuan Heaven its sacred origin. After resisting Daoist Tian Yuan’s Hunyuan will, Lu Yuan broke through to the Great Dao Lord realm, leaving the Other Shore Universe to sense his new power.

• Lu Yuan killed Constellation Dao Lord and refined the Tribulation Fortune Dao Laws, uniting the Great Dao of Tribulation Fortune under the Dao Xuan lineage.
• Lu Yuan returned to Dao Xuan Heaven, which became the sacred origin ground of the Great Dao of Tribulation Fortune, while the Primordial Great Dao Lord and the Fate Faction feared his growing strength.
• Daoist Tian Yuan sent a thread of Hunyuan will to attack Dao Xuan Heaven, and Lu Yuan used the Profound Yellow Gate, the Nine Calamity Sword, and his Dao Domain to shatter it.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi and demon ancestor Rahula watched the battle from afar and chose not to intervene, expecting the trial to aid Lu Yuan’s breakthrough.
• Lu Yuan used the pressure of the Hunyuan will to fuse his Dao Laws and break through into the Great Dao Lord realm, releasing his power across the Other Shore Universe.

After Lu Yuan broke through to the Great Dao Lord realm, Qing Yang overcame his Inner Demon long enough to attain the Golden Immortal realm and defend Dao Xuan Heaven through years of war. When grief and desperation later drove him to force another breakthrough, Lu Yuan intervened and helped him recognize that his Dao lay in protecting others, not obsessing over power.

• Lu Yuan entered the Great Dao Lord realm, while Rahula and Eastern Emperor Taiyi blocked Daoist Tian Yuan from attacking him.
• Inspired by Lu Yuan, Qing Yang suppressed his Inner Demon and, with Lu Yuan's protection, condensed a Golden Immortal Dao Fruit.
• Qing Yang and Qing Li fought the Fate Faction's armies as Dao Xuan Heaven endured years of war, and Qing Yang rose to the peak of the Golden Immortal realm.
• During a surprise attack, Qing Li was gravely wounded, and Qing Yang's desperation to protect his fellow disciples caused his Inner Demon to resurface as he tried to force a breakthrough to the Dao Lord realm.
• Lu Yuan stopped Qing Yang's collapsing breakthrough, suppressed his Inner Demon, and taught him that his path lay in protecting his Dao lineage and Dao heart rather than pursuing power for its own sake.