Chapter Summaries

After the fall of the Xia Hou Clan at Mingtiao, the mortal Human Dao backlash shook the Three Realms, disrupted heavenly secrets and reincarnation, and frightened the great powers. The Saints sealed the battlefield to contain the spreading resentment and karmic force, while Quasi-Sages and other powerful beings worked to suppress the aftershocks.

• Lu Yuan, Primordial Heavenly Venerate, and other great powers recognized that mortal will had overthrown the Xia Hou Clan and could challenge the established order.
• Empress Nuwa mourned the slaughter, while Sect Master Tongtian praised the mortals' resistance and Daoist Zhunti saw an opening to spread Western teachings.
• The Mingtiao backlash scrambled karmic threads, obscured heavenly secrets, disturbed the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and scorched Ancestor Minghe's Karmic Fire Red Lotus.
• The upheaval shook immortal realms and Dao fields across the Primordial World, prompting the Saints to agree that its source had to be contained.
• The Saints joined their powers to seal the Mingtiao battlefield, and Quasi-Sages and other great powers suppressed the aftershocks spreading beyond the seal.

Lu Yuan quelled the Mingtiao aftershocks threatening the Circumference Heavenly Star Sea and the Thirty-Three Heavens as Shang Tang founded the Cheng Shang Dao Lineage. After Shang Tang’s death and the Flying Swallow Royal Army’s rapid decline, Cheng Shang fell into nine generations of chaos, with the Interception Sect’s support keeping the dynasty from collapsing before a capable ruler could emerge.

• Lu Yuan used his Karma Dao Fruit to restore order in the Circumference Heavenly Star Sea, then stabilized the Thirty-Three Heavens at Immortal Elder Nanji’s request.
• Shang Tang offered sacrifices at Mount Tai, received the Mandate of Heaven for Cheng Shang, and joined Yi Yin in establishing the Xu and the Flying Swallow Royal Army.
• Lu Yuan, Tongtian, Primordial Heavenly Venerate, Jieyin, and Zhunti assessed Cheng Shang’s rise and the Interception Sect’s growing influence.
• After ruling for forty-three thousand years, Shang Tang died and opened a Ghost Court Dharma Realm in the Netherworld, becoming Netherworld Ghost Emperor Tang.
• Following Shang Tang’s departure, the Royal Army lost its Destiny and collapsed within three thousand years, while Cheng Shang endured succession struggles, rebellions, disasters, and demonic interference.
• Interception Sect disciples repeatedly aided Cheng Shang, and the world watched the dynasty and Biyou Palace as the lineage teetered on the brink of collapse.

Pan Geng revived the Cheng Shang Dao Lineage by moving its capital, purging fiends, and establishing the Shang Dynasty as an Imperial Dynasty with the Seed of Jianmu. Meanwhile, Primordial Heavenly Venerate interrupted Haotian’s final reincarnation tribulations with a Saint’s Edict, forcing him and Yaochi Golden Mother to return to the Heavenly Court before Haotian could complete his Dao Fruit.

• Pan Geng was born amid auspicious signs, bringing new vitality to Cheng Shang’s fading destiny.
• Pan Geng moved the capital first from Yan and later to Yin, then restored the people, reorganized the army, and purged corrupt officials.
• Pan Geng led the royal army and Interception Sect Immortals against the Four Fiends and drove evil from Shang territory.
• Pan Geng performed the Fengshan Ceremony on Mount Tai, received the Seed of Jianmu, and established the Shang Dynasty as an Imperial Dynasty.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate sent a Saint’s Edict into reincarnation, interrupting Haotian’s tribulations when only three hundred remained and damaging his Dao Fruit.
• Haotian suppressed his resentment, accepted the edict, and told Yaochi Golden Mother to return with him to their positions.

Haotian returned to Heaven's Court with an incomplete Dao Fruit and concealed his hatred for Primordial Heavenly Venerate. As he reclaimed the throne, Lu Yuan urged him to restore order without committing to a faction, and Haotian vowed to make part of Yuanshi's Heaven collapse.

• Primordial Heavenly Venerate forced Haotian to leave reincarnation before completing his Dao Fruit, while Saints and other powers considered the consequences of his return.
• Jieyin worried that Haotian's resentment and Heaven's Court's factional struggle would intensify the coming tribulation, while Zhunti saw a chance for the Western Teachings to gain influence.
• The Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors foresaw greater danger for the Human Race but remained unable to intervene directly.
• Haotian returned to Lingxiao Treasure Hall, accepted the imperial seal from Immortal Elder Nanji, and dismissed him from managing Heaven's Court.
• Lu Yuan congratulated Haotian and encouraged him to restore order, but avoided choosing sides when Haotian tried to enlist his support.
• Alone with Yaochi, Haotian revealed his hatred for Yuanshi and vowed to make part of Yuanshi's Heaven collapse.

Lu Yuan discovered that the Innate Five-Colored Lotus he needed to advance toward the Hunyuan Saintly Dao lay in Jiutou Shi’s newly opened Nine Heavens Secret Realm. As rival factions gathered to seize its treasures and block one another, Lu Yuan arrived and stepped toward the entrance, triggering a battle.

• Wuding’s Fengshan sacrifice unlocked the Nine Heavens Secret Realm, and Lu Yuan sensed the Innate Five-Colored Lotus within it.
• The Jade Emperor Daoist ordered the Heavenly Court to enforce order, while the Sages and powerful beings across the Primordial World prepared to pursue the secret realm’s treasures.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate sent a talisman to support Guangchengzi and the Chan Sect, while Sect Master Tongtian ordered Duobao and other Interception Sect disciples to protect Lu Yuan.
• Old Ancestor Kunpeng, Ancestor Minghe, Guangchengzi and the Interception Sect’s direct disciples gathered before the secret realm’s entrance, each intent on claiming its opportunities or obstructing rivals.
• Lu Yuan arrived before the nine-colored gate and stepped toward the Innate Five-Colored Lotus, prompting the gathered factions to move and setting off the battle for the secret realm.

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.