Recaps

Kunpeng revealed his True Body and used the Demon Master Palace and Demon Master Bow to overwhelm the Lord of Stars. As the Lord of Stars was sent flying, the spectators expected the Western Heavenly Court to win the third match, while Emperor Venerate remained calm.

• Kunpeng blocked the Lord of Stars' Star Blade with the Demon Master Palace and broke it.
• Kunpeng repeatedly drove the Demon Master Palace at the Lord of Stars, who dodged its attacks.
• Kunpeng summoned the Demon Master Bow and struck the Lord of Stars with a returning Light Feather Arrow that devoured his magic power.
• The Lord of Stars formed a starlight barrier, but Kunpeng's Palace and arrow shattered it and sent him flying.
• Haotian expected Kunpeng to win the match, while the Eastern Heavenly Court's people looked gloomy and Emperor Venerate stayed calm.

Lord of Stars unleashed his Natal Star against Kunpeng’s repeated assault, destroying Demon Master Palace and the Light Feather Arrow before defeating Kunpeng. The onlookers were stunned as Kunpeng fell and Lord of Stars remained standing.

• Kunpeng warned the injured Lord of Stars to surrender, then sent Demon Master Palace and another Light Feather Arrow at him.
• Lord of Stars formed his Natal Star from the Power of Stars and hurled it at Kunpeng’s weapons.
• The Natal Star shattered Demon Master Palace, erased the Light Feather Arrow, and continued toward Kunpeng.
• Kunpeng used Beiming Guixu to trap the Natal Star in a black vortex, while Lord of Stars sustained it with seals.
• Lord of Stars made the Natal Star explode inside the vortex, shattering Kunpeng’s True Body and sending him flying, while Lord of Stars stayed upright.
• The crowd watched in stunned silence as Kunpeng rose, wiped away his blood, and looked at Lord of Stars with a complex expression.

After Lord of Stars defeated Kunpeng, Emperor Venerate mocked Haotian and led the Eastern Heavenly Court away. The Western Heavenly Court’s failed contests prompted the Saints and guests to leave, leaving Haotian with the Two Saints of the Western Teachings and Venerable Yuanshi.

• Kunpeng admitted defeat to Lord of Stars, who returned to Emperor Venerate and reported that he had fulfilled his duty.
• Emperor Venerate mocked Haotian over the Western Heavenly Court’s strength and led the Eastern Heavenly Court away.
• Jieyin and Zhunti blamed Haotian’s eagerness for the Western Heavenly Court’s defeat, while Venerable Yuanshi complained that Haotian had provoked the contest.
• Sect Master Tongtian left with the Interception Sect disciples, and Zhenyuanzi, Taishang Saint, and Nuwa Saint also departed.
• The Free Cultivators and powerful figures left the banquet, and Haotian dismissed Kunpeng and the other Western Heavenly Court members.
• Haotian remained at the venue with Jieyin, Zhunti, and Venerable Yuanshi.

Haotian asked Venerable Yuanshi, Jieyin, and Zhunti how to strengthen the struggling Western Heavenly Court, but they could offer no solution. They urged him to seek Dao Ancestor Hongjun at Zixiao Palace, where Hongjun received him and asked why he had come.

• Venerable Yuanshi, Jieyin, and Zhunti reproached Haotian for challenging the Eastern Heavenly Court before the Western Heavenly Court was ready.
• Haotian asked the Three Saints how to find capable supporters after the Western Heavenly Court lost all three contests.
• Venerable Yuanshi suggested that Haotian visit Zixiao Palace and ask Dao Ancestor Hongjun for guidance.
• Haotian traveled to Zixiao Palace, knelt at the gates, and requested an audience with Hongjun.
• Hongjun let Haotian enter and asked what had brought him there.

Haotian asked Hongjun to help staff the Western Heavenly Court, and Hongjun summoned the Saints to Zixiao Palace to discuss the request. As the Saints began responding to the summons, Venerable Yuanshi suspected the meeting concerned Haotian’s failed celebration and the Western Heavenly Court.

• Haotian knelt before Hongjun and asked him to persuade the Saints to send disciples to the Western Heavenly Court.
• Hongjun agreed to summon the Saints to Zixiao Palace, and Haotian celebrated, believing the Saints would have to comply.
• Taishang Saint received Hongjun’s summons and left Eight Sceneries Palace for Zixiao Palace.
• Nuwa Saint received the summons and hurried to Zixiao Palace, wondering whether a new Tribulation of Calamity was beginning.
• Tongtian decided to attend despite having severed his Saint position and set off for Zixiao Palace.
• Venerable Yuanshi received the summons while refining demonic energy and wondered whether it was about Haotian’s Western Heavenly Court.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun summoned the Saints to Zixiao Palace, and several of them suspected the meeting concerned the Western Heavenly Court. Qin Mu and his allies believed the summons might be about the coming Investiture of the Gods Calamity, which could unfold differently now that Qin Mu had taken Di Xin as his disciple.

• Jieyin and Zhunti connected Hongjun’s summons to Haotian’s earlier visit to Zixiao Palace and traveled there to learn what was happening.
• Zhenyuanzi received Hongjun’s decree while discussing the Dao with Huang Tian and the Human Race leaders, then left for Zixiao Palace.
• Huang Tian suspected the Investiture of the Gods Calamity was beginning and wondered how Qin Mu’s involvement would change its course.
• Emperor Venerate received the summons in the Heavenly Court and headed for Zixiao Palace, while Qin Mu and Ancestor Minghe did the same from Fengdu City.
• The Saints gathered before Hongjun in Zixiao Palace and noticed Haotian beside him, reinforcing their suspicion that the meeting concerned the Western Heavenly Court.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun summoned the Saints to Zixiao Palace and announced that the Investiture of the Gods Calamity was approaching. He revealed the Investiture of the Gods and its power to resurrect listed deities, leaving the Saints intrigued and wary.

• Haotian arrived at Zixiao Palace, and the Saints wondered why he had been allowed to hear their discussion.
• Taishang Saint asked Dao Ancestor Hongjun why he had summoned them, and Hongjun announced that the Tribulation of Calamity was nigh.
• Hongjun named the coming calamity the Investiture of the Gods Calamity and produced a golden scroll.
• Hongjun explained that anyone named on the Investiture of the Gods would have their True Spirit protected and could be resurrected after death.
• The Saints were astonished by the list’s promise of immortality, while Qin Mu and Emperor Venerate stayed calm because they knew its benefits came with complications.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun entrusted the Investiture of the Gods to Haotian and declared that those named on it would serve the Western Heavenly Court. The Saints disputed whose disciples should fill the list, and the argument remained unresolved as they waited for Hongjun to decide.

• Dao Ancestor Hongjun gave Haotian charge of the Investiture of the Gods, prompting the Saints to worry about losing their disciples to the Western Heavenly Court.
• Venerable Yuanshi proposed filling the list with disciples from Sect Master Tongtian’s Interception Sect because it had so many followers.
• Sect Master Tongtian challenged Venerable Yuanshi and argued that the Western Teachings had many qualified followers who could be listed instead.
• Jieyin and Zhunti defended the Western Teachings, while Venerable Yuanshi continued to argue that the Interception Sect was the better choice.
• Qin Mu supported Tongtian and challenged Venerable Yuanshi to offer his own elite disciples; Ancestor Minghe, Zhenyuanzi, and Emperor Venerate backed Qin Mu.
• Venerable Yuanshi grew furious, while Taishang Saint and Nuwa Saint stayed silent as the Saints awaited Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s decision.

At Zixiao Palace, the Saints debated who should be placed on the Investiture of the Gods until Dao Ancestor Hongjun established a rule based on who died during the coming calamity. He entrusted the list to Haotian, who worried that he might also end up on it if he failed to attain Sagehood.

• Saint Jieyin proposed putting Wild Gods on the Investiture of the Gods, but the Saints argued over whose disciples should fill the list.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun ruled that no names would be added in advance and that the True Spirits of those who died in the calamity would enter the list automatically until it was full.
• Taishang Saint, Venerable Yuanshi, Sect Master Tongtian, the Two Saints of the West, and the other Saints agreed to Hongjun's proposal.
• Hongjun gave the Investiture of the Gods to Haotian and declared that all Immortals and Gods who died in the calamity, along with all beings below the Saint level, would be placed on it.
• Haotian accepted the list and resolved to strengthen the Western Heavenly Court and pursue Sagehood before the calamity began.

Qin Mu persuaded Tongtian and Emperor Venerate to unite the Interception Sect and Eastern Heavenly Court against the Western Teachings, Chan Teachings, and Western Heavenly Court in the coming Tribulation of Calamity. Emperor Venerate summoned the Eastern Heavenly Court’s immortals and announced that the calamity was about to begin.

• Tongtian worried that the Investiture of the Gods would put the Interception Sect at a disadvantage because its many disciples had varying strengths.
• Qin Mu warned Tongtian that the Western Teachings, Western Heavenly Court, and Chan Teachings would target the Interception Sect and Eastern Heavenly Court.
• Qin Mu proposed that the Interception Sect and Eastern Heavenly Court send every disciple and supporter of their enemies onto the Investiture of the Gods, and Tongtian agreed.
• Qin Mu went to the Eastern Heavenly Court, where Emperor Venerate agreed to join forces with the Interception Sect.
• Emperor Venerate summoned the Eastern Heavenly Court’s immortals and generals and announced that a Tribulation of Calamity was approaching.

Emperor Venerate informed the Eastern Heavenly Court that the Investiture of the Gods Calamity would threaten them all, with the dead bound to obey the list’s master. He revealed that he had allied with the Interception Sect, leaving him confident the Western Heavenly Court and its allies could be overcome.

• Emperor Dong Hua asked Emperor Venerate whether the coming Tribulation of Calamity threatened the Heavenly Court.
• Emperor Venerate explained that the Dao Ancestor had entrusted the Investiture of the Gods to Haotian and that those who died beneath the Saints would be bound to its master.
• The Immortals and Gods feared losing their freedom and worried that Haotian and his allies would target the Eastern Heavenly Court.
• Emperor Venerate revealed that he had reached an agreement with the Interception Sect to join forces and put their enemies on the Investiture of the Gods.
• The Immortals and Gods left to prepare, while Emperor Venerate declared that their combined strength would defeat any schemes.

Haotian plotted with the Western Saints and Venerable Yuanshi to use the Investiture of the Gods to weaken the Eastern Heavenly Court and strengthen the Western Heavenly Court. Wary of Qin Mu and the Interception Sect, they agreed to recruit more forces, while Venerable Yuanshi secretly prepared to use his alliance with Demon Ancestor Luohu for revenge.

• Haotian proposed killing Eastern Heavenly Court immortals so their True Spirits would enter the Investiture of the Gods and bolster the Western Heavenly Court.
• Jieyin and Zhunti endorsed Haotian's plan, but Venerable Yuanshi warned that Qin Mu and the Interception Sect could support the Eastern Heavenly Court.
• Haotian and the Two Saints of the West recognized Qin Mu and Tongtian as major threats, including Tongtian's Immortal-Slaying Formation.
• Venerable Yuanshi urged them to recruit sects and Free Cultivators caught up in the calamity, and said he would seek the support of other Saints.
• Venerable Yuanshi revealed that Demon Ancestor Luohu had agreed to work with him and provided a spatial passageway to the Demon Realm.

Haotian persuaded Jieyin and Zhunti to have Western Teachings win over the next Human Emperor, then traveled to recruit other sects for the Tribulation of Calamity. He warned the Great Void Sword Master that everyone below the Saint realm in the Primordial Wilderness would be entered on the Investiture of the Gods, even those living in seclusion.

• Haotian proposed that Jieyin and Zhunti convert the next Human Emperor to gain a share of Human Race Fortune and place a strategic piece for the coming calamity.
• Jieyin agreed that Western Teachings would pursue the Human Emperor, while Zhunti tasked Haotian with recruiting other sects.
• Haotian resolved to gather Fortune for the Western Heavenly Court and left to recruit sects across the Primordial World.
• Haotian arrived at the Great Void Sword Sect and asked the Great Void Sword Master to join the Western Heavenly Court for the coming calamity.
• The Great Void Sword Master questioned why his secluded sect would be involved, and Haotian warned that all beings below the Saint realm in the Primordial Wilderness would be listed in the Investiture of the Gods.

Haotian recruited the Great Void Sword Sect and the Five Elements Sect into the Western Heavenly Court by warning them about the coming Tribulation of Calamity. Meanwhile, Di Xin inherited the Shang throne after Emperor Yi died, and a black-robed stranger released a fearsome aura outside Chaoge City.

• Haotian convinced the Great Void Sword Master to join the Western Heavenly Court by promising protection for the Great Void Sword Sect during the Tribulation of Calamity.
• Haotian visited Five Elements Mountain and persuaded the Five Elements Patriarch to join the Western Heavenly Court.
• Emperor Yi told Di Xin to inherit the Shang Dynasty and reassured him that an emperor could follow the Great Dao by governing and protecting the people.
• Emperor Yi passed away, and Di Xin ascended the Shang throne.
• A black-robed man arrived outside Chaoge City and unleashed an aura that shrouded the city.

Jingchen, a Daluo Golden Immortal of the Western Teachings, arrived at Chaoge expecting the Human Emperor to welcome and honor him. Di Xin refused to come out until Jingchen flew to the palace, where Di Xin rejected his demand to kneel and pay respects.

• Di Xin sensed a Daluo Golden Immortal waiting outside Chaoge and chose to leave him waiting despite his ministers urging him to offer a welcome.
• Jingchen grew angry when no one came to receive him, released a powerful pressure, and flew toward the imperial palace.
• Great experts across the Primordial Wilderness sensed Jingchen's anger, while Qin Mu recognized him as a Western Teachings disciple and recalled that Di Xin was his own disciple.
• Jingchen reached the palace and demanded that Di Xin come out and pay homage to him.
• Di Xin appeared and declared that neither Jingchen nor even the Two Saints of the Western Teachings could make the Human Emperor kneel.

Jingchen offered Di Xin a chance to join the Western Heavenly Court, but Di Xin refused and revealed the difference between them by killing Jingchen with one palm. The court officials were left stunned by the Human Emperor’s strength.

• Jingchen told Di Xin that joining the Western Heavenly Court would let him cultivate and gain longevity, but Di Xin declined, saying he had no interest.
• Jingchen warned Di Xin that he would remain mortal without the Western Heavenly Court and threatened him when he refused again.
• Jingchen released his oppressive aura over Di Xin and the ministers, but Di Xin remained standing unaffected.
• Di Xin struck Jingchen with a single palm, killing him and destroying his Primordial Spirit.
• The ministers stared in shock as they realized Di Xin had killed a Daluo Golden Immortal with one blow.

After Di Xin killed the Western Teachings’ daoist Jingchen with one palm, the Primordial Wilderness’s factions wondered who had secretly empowered him. Qin Mu and the Human Race’s leaders reacted to the killing, while Jieyin stopped Zhunti from retaliating against Di Xin for now.

• Di Xin killed the Daluo Golden Immortal daoist Jingchen with one palm, then ended court and dismissed the frightened officials.
• News of Di Xin’s strength spread through the Primordial Wilderness, and its great factions speculated that a Saint was backing him.
• In the Nether Underworld, Qin Mu praised Di Xin’s decisiveness and suspected the Western Teachings were targeting the Human Race’s Fortune ahead of the Investiture of the Gods Calamity.
• In the Human Emperor Realm, Cangjie and the others questioned Huang Tian about Di Xin’s power, and Huang Tian said the truth would be revealed in time.
• Zhunti wanted to teach Di Xin a lesson, but Jieyin urged him to wait because the Human Race remained protected by the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.

Haotian learned that Di Xin had killed the Western Teachings’ envoy and concluded that someone powerful stood behind the Human Emperor. In Xuanyuan Tomb, the Nine-Tailed Saint Emperor awakened in a fox demon’s body, gathered the local demons under her command, and began breaking through her bottleneck.

• Jieyin persuaded Zhunti not to provoke the Human Race, and Zhunti suppressed his fury and agreed.
• Haotian heard that Di Xin had slapped Jingchen to death, then resolved to remember the Human Race’s refusal to submit.
• The Nine-Tailed Saint Emperor awakened in the body of a nine-tailed fox demon in Xuanyuan Tomb and learned about the current era from its memories.
• The Nine-Tailed Saint Emperor discovered that Qin Mu had killed Venerable Yuanshi nine times, but decided to leave him alone unless he obstructed her.
• The Nine-Tailed Saint Emperor awakened the sleeping demons in Xuanyuan Tomb, claimed them as her followers, and released her aura to break through her bottleneck.

After awakening at the peak of Quasi-Saint, the Nine-Tailed Saint Emperor reunited with the Nine-Headed Pheasant Spirit and the Jade Stone Pipa Spirit and brought them to Green Hills. She began her arrival by slaughtering a Tushan Clan patrol, leaving her sisters wondering if she intended to unify the fox clan’s territory.

• The Nine-Tailed Saint Emperor broke through to the peak of Quasi-Saint, and the Nine-Headed Pheasant Spirit and the Jade Stone Pipa Spirit arrived to congratulate her.
• The Nine-Tailed Saint Emperor promised to make her younger sisters kings of the era and told them to follow her.
• The Nine-Tailed Saint Emperor took the Nine-Headed Pheasant Spirit and the Jade Stone Pipa Spirit to Green Hills, the fox clan’s stronghold.
• A Tushan Clan patrol confronted the newcomers, and the Nine-Tailed Saint Emperor killed the leading fox demon and wiped out the rest with one palm strike.
• The Jade Stone Pipa Spirit asked the Nine-Tailed Saint Emperor if she planned to unify Green Hills.

The Nine-Tailed Saint Emperor conquered Green Hill Land, absorbed its accumulated Fortune, and broke through to the Sub-Saint realm before declaring herself the Nine-Tailed Empress. Her rise alarmed the Saints and other great experts, who could neither explain her sudden power nor calculate her origins.

• The Nine-Tailed Saint Emperor declared herself ruler of Green Hill Land and ordered every fox clan to submit within three days.
• The Nine-Tailed Saint Emperor slaughtered the foxes who challenged her, and three days later the fox clans bowed and pledged submission.
• The Nine-Tailed Saint Emperor absorbed Green Hill's Fortune, advanced to the Sub-Saint realm, and announced that she would be known as the Nine-Tailed Empress.
• Great experts across the Primordial Wilderness sensed the Nine-Tailed Empress's rise and questioned how she had gained such power.
• Taishang Saint, Venerable Yuanshi, and Sect Master Tongtian tried to understand the change but could not explain or calculate it.
• Jieyin judged that the Nine-Tailed Empress lay outside the Heavenly Dao, while Nuwa Saint also recognized her rise as an anomaly in the coming calamity.

Qin Mu learned that the Nine-Tailed Empress had risen early and could not divine her fate, suspecting that she came from an earlier era. In Green Hill, the Nine-Tailed Saint Emperor reunited with the Dragon Emperor, who recounted his defeat and escape from Qin Mu; she asked why he had really come.

• Zhenyuanzi and Huang Tian discussed the Nine-Tailed Empress’s rise and agreed that something was amiss.
• Qin Mu reflected on how the Nine-Tailed Empress and other events had departed from their expected course, then failed to divine her fate.
• Qin Mu suspected the Nine-Tailed Empress was a reincarnated expert from an earlier era and resolved to grow stronger amid the coming upheavals.
• The Dragon Emperor visited the Nine-Tailed Saint Emperor in Green Hill and told her how Qin Mu had defeated Venerable Yuanshi and driven him from the Western Sea.
• The Nine-Tailed Saint Emperor acknowledged the Dragon Emperor’s good fortune in surviving Qin Mu and asked what he had come to discuss.

The Dragon Emperor and the Nine-Tailed Saint Emperor agreed to join forces and seek immortality, while the Western Heavenly Court tried to recruit the Nine-Tailed Empress. The Nine-Tailed Empress rejected the envoy’s presumptuous approach with contempt.

• The Dragon Emperor proposed an alliance with the Nine-Tailed Saint Emperor, and she agreed to join forces with him to pursue the Immortal Seed.
• Emperor Venerate dismissed his officials’ proposal to recruit the Nine-Tailed Empress, suspecting powerful figures from past eras stood behind her rise.
• Haotian ordered an envoy to recruit the Nine-Tailed Empress into the Western Heavenly Court.
• The Nine-Tailed Empress received the envoy from Green Hills and reacted angrily to his arrogant manner.
• The envoy announced Haotian’s order to recruit Green Hills, and the Nine-Tailed Empress coldly called the proposal ridiculous.

The Nine-Tailed Saint Emperor rejected the Western Heavenly Court’s offer to absorb Green Hills and slapped its envoy away. The Dragon Emperor advised her that joining temporarily could conceal their plans until they regained their strength, leaving her to consider the proposal.

• The Western Heavenly Court's Da Luo envoy urged the Nine-Tailed Saint Emperor to join, promising protection from the coming Tribulation of Calamity through the support of Haotian, the Two Saints of the West, and Venerable Yuanshi.
• The Nine-Tailed Saint Emperor dismissed the Western Heavenly Court as unworthy and struck the envoy, sending him flying out of Green Hills.
• The enraged envoy vowed retaliation and hurried back to the Western Heavenly Court.
• The Dragon Emperor warned the Nine-Tailed Saint Emperor that the Western Heavenly Court might send another envoy and reminded her that he had to keep his whereabouts hidden from Qin Mu.
• The Dragon Emperor proposed that Green Hills join the Western Heavenly Court as a temporary smokescreen until they recovered their cultivation, while the Nine-Tailed Saint Emperor remained reluctant.

The Nine-Tailed Empress agreed to listen to someone but first resolved to make Haotian suffer. After Haotian learned she had rejected his recruitment and insulted him, he sought help from Jieyin and Zhunti, who sent him to consult Venerable Yuanshi.

• The Nine-Tailed Empress agreed to listen, but said she would first give Haotian a taste of his own medicine.
• Haotian's battered messenger reported that the Nine-Tailed Empress had refused to join the Western Heavenly Court and called Haotian an ant.
• Haotian dismissed the messenger and vowed to settle the matter with Green Hills himself.
• Haotian went to Mount Sumeru and told Jieyin and Zhunti that the Nine-Tailed Empress had insulted them and Venerable Yuanshi as well.
• Jieyin told Haotian to inform Venerable Yuanshi, so Haotian left for Kunlun Mountain.

Haotian sought Venerable Yuanshi’s help in subduing the Nine-Tailed Empress, prompting Yuanshi and the Western Saints Jieyin and Zhunti to head for Green Hill Land with him. The other saints sensed their move, while Huang Tian kept Qin Mu’s plans secret and Nuwa chose not to intervene.

• Jieyin agreed with Zhunti that they should proceed cautiously regarding the Nine-Tailed Empress.
• Haotian visited Venerable Yuanshi and asked him to help subdue the Nine-Tailed Empress of Green Hill Land.
• Venerable Yuanshi agreed to accompany Haotian, then brought him to Mount Sumeru and asked Jieyin and Zhunti to join their journey to Green Hill Land.
• Taishang Saint and Sect Master Tongtian sensed the group’s departure, and Tongtian worried about the Nine-Tailed Empress’s role in the coming calamity before deciding to trust Qin Mu’s judgment.
• Saint Zhenyuanzi questioned Huang Tian about the Western Heavenly Court’s growing strength, and Huang Tian said Qin Mu had his own plans.
• Nuwa Saint sensed the saints’ movements and decided to let them fight.