Recaps

Lu Yuan watched successive dynasties rise and fall as mortal rebellions reshaped the Human Dao, while advancing his Karma Dao and helping Tongtian establish Shang’s lineage. Haotian returned to Heaven’s Court, and the arc ended as Lu Yuan entered the Nine Heavens Secret Realm amid a gathering struggle for its treasures.

• Lu Yuan restored order across the star domains, then studied the Chain of Karma as Great Yu controlled the flood, established the Nine Tripods, and founded a prosperous dynasty.
• After Xia Qi founded Great Xia, its rulers’ burdens and abuses weakened the dynasty, and Han Zhuo usurped the throne and unleashed massacres across the Nine Provinces.
• Shao Kang rallied the Xia loyalists, defeated Han Zhuo, and restored the Great Xia Dao Lineage, but later Human Emperors again oppressed the people and undermined their dynasty.
• Lu Yuan created the Karma Daoist and reached the Half-Saint Realm, while Tongtian planned a Human Dao lineage through Shang and warned that the struggle would bring a great tribulation.
• Cheng Tang established Shang’s Dao lineage with Tongtian’s support, and the people’s revolt at Mingtiao toppled the Xia Hou Clan and triggered a backlash that the Saints sealed.
• Shang Tang founded a Ghost Court in the Netherworld, and Pan Geng later revived Shang and raised it to an Imperial Dynasty as Haotian was forced to abandon his reincarnation and return to Heaven’s Court.
• After Wuding’s Fengshan sacrifice opened the Nine Heavens Secret Realm, Lu Yuan approached the Innate Five-Colored Lotus as rival factions gathered to fight for its opportunities.

Lu Yuan became a Dao Achiever as the Saints set the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation in motion and the Chan Sect and Western Teachings maneuvered against the Interception Sect. With Shen Gongbao joining Tongtian and the Shang Dynasty’s fate darkening, Lu Yuan and Tongtian resolved to seek a path to Hunyuan and protect the sect.

• Lu Yuan absorbed the Innate Five-Colored Lotus, completed his Five Elements Dao Seed, severed his destiny and merit, and formed his own Dao Realm Universe as a Dao Achiever.
• Jade Emperor Daoist captured Yao Xi and sealed her beneath Peach Mountain, while Yang Jian broke the mountain’s seal and gravely wounded his mother’s origin.
• Haotian appealed to Hongjun, who revealed the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation and charged the Three Pure Ones with assigning its divine positions.
• Tongtian rejected Yuanshi’s plan to put Interception Sect disciples on the Investiture scroll, while Lu Yuan exposed Yuxu Palace’s schemes and prepared Qingxuan’s forces for battle.
• Yuanshi and Taiqing aligned against Tongtian, and Lu Yuan resolved to use the tribulation to seek transcendence and defend his Dao lineages.
• Tongtian accepted Shen Gongbao as the Sign of the Flying Bear, while Zhunti manipulated Di Xin into offending Nuwa and helped set the fall of Shang in motion.
• The Nine-tailed Fox possessed Su Daji and entered the path toward Di Xin’s palace, while Lu Yuan discovered Daji’s true spirit had been marked as an uncertainty.
• Lu Yuan showed Tongtian the mark on Su Daji’s spirit, and they agreed to protect her as Lu Yuan set out for the Hungry Ghost Path to strengthen reincarnation and pursue Hunyuan.

Lu Yuan tried to preserve the Shang Dynasty as the Saints’ schemes drew the Shang and Zhou into open war. After the Interception Sect’s armies were shattered and Wen Zhong fell, Lu Yuan prepared to bring the variable into play.

• Lu Yuan warned Di Xin about Daji’s possession and the Saints’ plot, then gave him a pendant that helped him restore the Shang court and resist her influence.
• Nuwa sent Lingzhuzi to be reborn as Nezha, whose reckless deeds led him to kill himself and return in a lotus body before turning against Li Jing.
• Jiang Ziya joined Ji Chang, while Shen Gongbao became Di Xin’s national preceptor and urged the Shang to resist Zhou and the Saints.
• The Western Teachings and Yuxu Palace joined the North Sea battle, but Lu Yuan stopped their assault and forced their forces to withdraw.
• After Ji Chang and Bo Yikao died, Ji Fa founded the Zhou Daoist lineage, and Wen Zhong led the Shang army against Xi Qi.
• The Interception Sect and Western Teachings joined the battle at Xi Qi, where the Ten Absolute Arrays devastated the allied forces before a blood sacrifice broke them.
• Heavenly Dao’s power turned the battle against the Interception Sect, whose survivors fled east, while Wen Zhong was killed at Juelong Ridge.
• Di Xin appointed Huang Feihu to lead the western campaign, and Lu Yuan declared that the time had come for the variable to appear.

Lu Yuan attained the Hunyuan Saintly Dao and helped Tongtian resist the Four Saints, but the battle shattered the world and Hongjun remade it while exiling the Saints to Chaos. Zhou overthrew Shang and established its dynasty, while the new order set the stage for conflicts among the sects.

• Tongtian raised the Zhu Xian Sword Formation, and the Four Saints broke it after Lu Yuan absorbed power from one of its gates and attained the Hunyuan Saintly Dao.
• Lu Yuan joined Tongtian at Jiepai Pass, then helped him design the Myriad Immortals Formation to challenge the Yuxu and Western Teachings forces.
• At Tong Pass, Guangchengzi and Saint Mother Guiling died, while the battle between Tongtian, Primordial Heavenly Venerate, and Zhunti shattered the Primordial World.
• Hongjun stopped the fighting, remade the world, and sent Lu Yuan, Tongtian, and the other Saints into Chaos under a decree barring their true bodies from the Three Realms.
• Ji Fa defeated Di Xin at Muye, captured Chaoge, and established the Zhou dynasty as Di Xin burned himself alive and Shen Gongbao fled to preserve Shang’s royal bloodline.
• Jiang Ziya invested the fallen disciples as gods, and the Heavenly Dao bestowed creation that strengthened the surviving sects and the Heavenly Court.
• The exiled Saints created sanctuaries in Chaos, while Randeng and other former Yuxu disciples joined the Western Teachings and Cihang became Guanyin Bodhisattva.
• After Ji Fa died from Human Dao backlash, Guan Xian, Cai Du, and Huo Chu rebelled against Zhou, and Primordial Heavenly Venerate foresaw conflict between the Chan and Human Sects.