Chapter Summaries

Yuanshi Tianzun and Taishang warned the Primordial Wilderness’s powerful figures that breaking through to the Chaotic Origin Realm there could cause a Great Calamity, though Zhunti and Jieyin continued studying the breakthrough in secret. Dao Ancestor Hongjun summoned Lin Zhu and explained that Lin Zhu’s teachings had set a dangerous karmic chain in motion.

• Yuanshi Tianzun visited Mount Sumeru and warned Zhunti and Jieyin that a breakthrough within Chaos could leave the Primordial Wilderness unable to support their power, but they promised not to break through there.
• Taishang the Saint warned Tongtian and Haotian of the danger, and Tongtian and Haotian agreed not to break through inside the Primordial World.
• After Yuanshi left, Zhunti and Jieyin doubted his motives but decided to keep comprehending the Hunyuan Profound Pass.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun summoned Lin Zhu to Purple Cloud Palace and told him that his teachings on the Chaotic Origin Dao had helped set a Great Calamity in motion.
• Hongjun explained that the Primordial World could accommodate only two Chaotic Origin Experts, and Lin Zhu realized his well-intentioned teachings might endanger it.

Lin Zhu and Hongjun devised a plan to send the Saints and other powerhouses to cultivate in Chaos so they would not endanger the Primordial World by breaking through too soon. After years of debate over who would govern the realms in their absence, Lin Zhu proposed placing divine officials under Haotian’s Heavenly Court, but the Western Sect immediately objected.

• Hongjun explained that the Primordial World could support only two Chaotic Origin Experts and proposed that the powerhouses cultivate in Chaos before helping strengthen the All Stars Convergence Great Array.
• Hongjun summoned the six Saints, Haotian God, and Grand Master Xuan Du to the Purple Cloud Palace and told them they must not break through inside the Primordial World.
• Taishang Laojun warned that leaving the Primordial World and its sects without their leaders could cause disorder, and the gathered powerhouses debated solutions for several years without reaching agreement.
• Lin Zhu proposed ranking the powerhouses, assigning them divine offices, and having Haotian’s Heavenly Court govern the Primordial Three Realms.
• Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin objected that the proposal would undermine the Western Sect’s efforts to restore its spiritual veins and revive the West.

Lin Zhu received the Investiture of the Gods List and responsibility for overseeing God-Sealing, which would rank experts through a contest among the sects. After the major sects prepared their disciples, Guang Chengzi and Xuan Du sought Lin Zhu’s plans, but he said he had not decided how to proceed and would remain impartial.

• Lin Zhu reassured the gathered experts that Divine Positions would not weaken their sects, and Dao Ancestor Hongjun presented the Investiture of the Gods List as the means to confer them.
• The experts agreed that sects and other Primordial Wilderness experts would compete for ranks during God-Sealing, with those who died eligible for revival through the list.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun entrusted the Investiture of the Gods List and God Beating Whip to Lin Zhu and appointed him to oversee the tribulation fairly.
• Haotian invited Lin Zhu to the Heavenly Court, where they discussed the future of its administration and Lin Zhu answered Haotian’s questions about the Chaotic Origin Realm.
• Yuanshi Tianzun summoned the Chan Sect disciples and ordered them to recruit disciples and compete for Divine Positions, while the other Saints also prepared their sects.
• Guang Chengzi and Xuan Du asked Lin Zhu about his plans for God-Sealing, and Lin Zhu said he had yet to decide and would act impartially.

Lin Zhu traveled through the Primordial Wilderness seeking an opportunity to understand the Investiture of the Gods War and visited Kong Xuan at South Sea of Fire Mountain. Kong Xuan gave him the Fire Spirit Pearl, and Lin Zhu offered to share information that would help Kong Xuan prepare.

• Lin Zhu deduced the changed purpose of the God-Sealing Calamity, then left Golden Cicada Child in charge of Azure Sky Palace while he traveled through the Primordial Wilderness.
• Lin Zhu rode the Iron-Eating Beast to South Sea of Fire Mountain and met Kong Xuan, who welcomed him into Phoenix Dwelling Palace.
• Lin Zhu told Kong Xuan that the Dapeng Golden Winged Bird was guarding Zhaoyao Mountain and had improved through his Dao Lectures.
• Kong Xuan answered Lin Zhu's questions about the Fire Spirit Pearl and gave it to him when Lin Zhu explained he was gathering the Five Elements Spirit Pearls.
• Lin Zhu accepted the Fire Spirit Pearl and offered Kong Xuan important information in return, prompting Kong Xuan to ask what it was.

Lin Zhu found Ji Ku in the Underworld and obtained the Wood Spirit Pearl, completing his collection of the Five Elements Spirit Pearls. When the five pearls merged, they transformed into a Daoist child with a Five Elements Spiritual Body and Golden Immortal cultivation, whom Lin Zhu accepted as his disciple.

• Lin Zhu told Kong Xuan about the God-Sealing and encouraged him to take part, then left South Sea of Fire Mountain.
• Lin Zhu deduced that Ji Ku possessed the Wood Spirit Pearl and traveled to the Underworld to find him.
• Hou Tu led Lin Zhu to Peach Mountain, where Ji Ku welcomed him as his former teacher.
• Ji Ku gave Lin Zhu the Wood Spirit Pearl, and Lin Zhu answered Ji Ku's questions before returning to the Primordial World.
• Lin Zhu brought out all five Spirit Pearls, which merged and transformed into a Daoist child who bowed to him as his master.

Lin Zhu rescued Guan Longfeng's soul and took him to the Great Xia capital so he could counsel King Jie in a dream. After witnessing the people's suffering, Guan Longfeng warned Jie that his tyranny would bring war, but Jie dismissed him and insisted Great Xia was flourishing.

• Lin Zhu made the Five Elements Child his disciple and sent him to Zhaoyao Mountain to learn from Golden Cicada Child.
• Lin Zhu stopped Black and White Impermanence from taking Guan Longfeng's soul and arranged to return him to the mortal world.
• Guan Longfeng explained that he wanted to persuade Xia Jie to change his rule, and Lin Zhu agreed to take him to the Great Xia capital.
• Lin Zhu saw the famine and forced labor afflicting Great Xia, then used a spell to send Guan Longfeng into Jie's dream.
• Guan Longfeng urged Jie to govern benevolently, but Jie angrily rejected his warning and claimed Great Xia had no signs of decline.

Lin Zhu appointed Guan Longfeng as a temple keeper after Xia Jie rejected his counsel, then traveled with Guang Chengzi and encountered a Yellow Bear who had died saving humans from a flood. Lin Zhu recognized the bear as Jiang Ziya’s past life, the future presider over God-Sealing, but said karmic bonds prevented him from simply reviving the bear.

• Xia Jie mocked Guan Longfeng’s counsel and attacked him in their dream meeting, so Lin Zhu pulled Guan Longfeng free.
• Guan Longfeng accepted Lin Zhu’s offer to become temple keeper of the Azure Sky Great Emperor Temples, and Lin Zhu taught him Divine Powers and spells.
• Lin Zhu met Kong Xuan, who said he was going to investigate the Shang Tribe, then continued traveling until Guang Chengzi joined him.
• Lin Zhu and Guang Chengzi found a mountain flood threatening a Human Tribe, and Lin Zhu diverted the waters and restored the damaged Earth Vein.
• Guang Chengzi explained that a Yellow Bear had died holding back the flood to protect the humans and asked Lin Zhu to revive him.
• Lin Zhu deduced that the Yellow Bear was Jiang Ziya’s past life and said karmic bonds prevented him from saving the bear.

Lin Zhu rescued Yellow Bear’s soul for reincarnation and continued his travels, where he stopped Ling Zhuzi from forcibly taking Daoist Chang Geng’s Gold Spirit Stone. Recognizing Chang Geng as the future Venus Deity, Lin Zhu recommended him for a Heavenly Court position and summoned Zi Wei Daoist, whose arrival left Lin Zhu considering his value to God-Sealing.

• Lin Zhu sent Yellow Bear’s soul into reincarnation and allowed Guang Chengzi to accept him into the Chan Sect on their master’s behalf.
• After Guang Chengzi left to cultivate, Lin Zhu sensed a disturbance in the Endless Star River and found Ling Zhuzi fighting Daoist Chang Geng over a Gold Spirit Stone.
• Lin Zhu separated the two and rebuked Ling Zhuzi for trying to seize Chang Geng’s possession, then ordered him to return to Nüwa Palace.
• Lin Zhu identified Chang Geng as the future Venus Deity and recommended him for a Divine Position in the Heavenly Court.
• At Chang Geng’s request, Lin Zhu summoned Zi Wei Daoist, who arrived before them.

Lin Zhu recruited Zi Wei Daoist to be reborn into the Human Race for the coming God-Sealing Enterprise, then intervened after Ling Zhuzi tried to seize another's belongings. Nüwa spared Ling Zhuzi expulsion and placed him under Lin Zhu's guidance, leaving Ling Zhuzi convinced and ready to assist him.

• Lin Zhu sent Zi Wei Daoist into reincarnation to prepare him for a future role in the God-Sealing Enterprise.
• Lin Zhu visited Nüwa and reported that Ling Zhuzi had tried to seize another's belongings.
• Nüwa prepared to expel Ling Zhuzi, but Lin Zhu persuaded her to spare him and let him atone by assisting with God-Sealing.
• Lin Zhu promised to help Ling Zhuzi obtain a treasure ring, and Ling Zhuzi admitted that he wanted a Universe Ring but lacked a Gold Spirit Stone.
• Lin Zhu spent several decades refining Ling Zhuzi a powerful ring, and Ling Zhuzi accepted it gratefully.
• Lin Zhu asked Ling Zhuzi to assist him with a task, and Ling Zhuzi agreed without hesitation.

Lin Zhu discovered Wen Zhong kneeling outside an Azure Sky Great Emperor Temple and decided to guide him toward cultivation. He sent Jin Chan to accept Wen Zhong as a disciple, setting the future God-Sealing figure on his path.

• Lin Zhu sent Ling Zhuzi into Reincarnation to help advance God-Sealing.
• Lin Zhu sensed a person connected to God-Sealing and found Wen Zhong praying to enter his tutelage.
• Wen Zhong explained that he wanted immortal arts so he could protect and serve the people, and Lin Zhu approved of his character.
• Lin Zhu issued a Dharma Decree ordering Jin Chan to find Wen Zhong and accept him as a disciple.
• Jin Chan reached Qing Province, asked temple keeper Guan Longfeng where Wen Zhong was, and flew off to find him.

Jin Chan accepted Wen Zhong as his disciple and took him to Zhaoyao Palace to begin his cultivation. Meanwhile, Lin Zhu discovered Yang Tianyou’s scheme against Yao Ji and watched as it began to unfold, leaving Yao Ji facing two demons after Yang Tianyou was knocked unconscious.

• Jin Chan told Wen Zhong that Lin Zhu had chosen him as Azure Sky Palace’s second disciple, then took him to Zhaoyao Palace.
• Lin Zhu traveled through Da Shang and overheard Yang Tianyou directing a Wild Bull Demon and a toad demon in a plot against Yao Ji.
• Lin Zhu learned that Yang Tianyou was the reincarnated Zuo Jin Tong, who had ties to the Western Sect and held a grudge against Haotian and Yaochi.
• The two demons ambushed Yao Ji, and Yang Tianyou rushed in pretending to rescue her.
• A demon knocked Yang Tianyou unconscious, and Yao Ji drew her sword to attack the demons.

Lin Zhu rescued Yao Ji from a plot involving Yang Tianyou, then returned to Zhaoyao Mountain and gave his disciples a Dao Lecture. He personally guided Five Elements Child and Wen Zhong, promising to improve Wen Zhong’s constitution and teach him the Thunder Control Technique.

• Yang Tianyou rushed to defend Yao Ji, but a demon knocked him unconscious, and Yao Ji drove the demons away.
• Lin Zhu arrived with the captured demons, who revealed that Yang Tianyou had conspired against Yao Ji, and Yang Tianyou fled.
• Yao Ji thanked Lin Zhu and returned to the Heavenly Court, while Lin Zhu continued his travels before returning to Zhaoyao Mountain.
• Lin Zhu welcomed his disciples, discussed the God-Sealing Calamity, and lectured on the Dao for a hundred years.
• Lin Zhu kept Five Elements Child and Wen Zhong behind, teaching Five Elements Child spells and escape arts and promising Wen Zhong Nine Revolutions Golden Pills and the Thunder Control Technique.

Lin Zhu trained Five Elements Child and Wen Zhong, then returned from Shouyang Mountain with pills from Xuan Du to distribute among his disciples. He began giving each disciple specialized teachings, and the chapter leaves him preparing to teach Mo Xie Merit cultivation and Sword Dao Divine Power.

• Lin Zhu taught Five Elements Child Five Elements techniques and Wen Zhong thunder methods, and their cultivation advanced rapidly in Azure Sky Palace.
• Lin Zhu visited Xuan Du at Shouyang Mountain, where Xuan Du gave him a thousand pills and thirty Nine Revolutions Golden Pills.
• Lin Zhu distributed pills to his disciples, warned them to use pills carefully and protect the Primordial Wilderness, and promised to guide them and refine Dharma treasures for them.
• Lin Zhu taught Jin Chan an improved body-refining method and Pangu Axe's Nine Styles of Creation, then sent him into seclusion.
• Lin Zhu taught Princess Long Ji formations and the Heavenly Court Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Array, then sent her into seclusion to study.
• Lin Zhu summoned Mo Xie and offered to teach him Merit cultivation and Sword Dao Divine Power to temper the evil nature of the Witch Slaughtering Sword.

Lin Zhu borrowed Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s Universe Cauldron to refine innate spiritual treasures for his disciples and learned that a dynastic change in Da Shang would provide an opportunity to begin the God-Sealing Enterprise. After nearly a thousand years of refining, he summoned his disciples and bestowed treasures on them, ending as he prepared to give Wen Zhong his thunder hammer.

• Lin Zhu visited Purple Cloud Palace and borrowed Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s Universe Cauldron to refine treasures for his disciples.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun told Lin Zhu that a coming dynastic change in Da Shang could launch the God-Sealing Enterprise, and Lin Zhu agreed to forbid participants from attacking mortals.
• Lin Zhu spent nearly a thousand years refining treasures and noted that Five Elements Child, Wen Zhong, Princess Long Ji, and Mo Xie had advanced their cultivation.
• Lin Zhu bestowed the Universe Stabilizer axe on Jin Chan, five formation flags on Princess Long Ji, a sword named Mo Xie on Mo Xie, and a cauldron on Five Elements Child.
• Lin Zhu presented Wen Zhong with a Wind Thunder Hammer infused with Great Void Chaos Divine Lightning.

Lin Zhu assessed his disciples’ combat skills before Venus Deity summoned him to the Heavenly Court, where Haotian asked the disciples to suppress demons and devils in the Four Seas. Jin Chan and the other disciples reached the East Sea Dragon Palace and began their mission by asking the East Sea Dragon King where the demons were.

• Lin Zhu tested Jin Chan, Princess Long Ji, Mo Xie, Wen Zhong, and Five Elements Child, correcting their combat and array techniques before sending them into secluded cultivation.
• Venus Deity invited Lin Zhu to the Heavenly Court, where Haotian explained that demons and devils still occupied the Four Seas despite the Dragon Clan’s submission.
• Lin Zhu, Guang Chengzi, and Xuan Du agreed to send disciples to help the Heavenly Court suppress the demons.
• Haotian gathered the disciples, assigned them to pacify the Four Seas, and sent Jin Chan and Tian Peng to lead the mission.
• Jin Chan and more than twenty Azure Sky Palace disciples arrived at the East Sea Dragon Palace, where Jin Chan asked the East Sea Dragon King to locate the demons and devils.

After the Four Seas were pacified, Lin Zhu learned that Yang Jian had been born and sent Princess Long Ji to Guanjiang Estuary to assess whether she could take him as a disciple. Yaoshi exposed Princess Yunhua’s marriage to Haotian God, who ordered Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman to capture her, while Yaoshi secretly followed the expedition.

• Golden Cicada Child and the Heavenly Court’s experts subdued the demons throughout the Four Seas, and Haotian God placed the Dragon Clan under Heavenly Court jurisdiction.
• Lin Zhu discovered that Princess Yunhua had secretly joined with Yang Tianyou and borne two sons and a daughter, including Yang Jian.
• Lin Zhu sent Princess Long Ji to Guanjiang Estuary to see whether she could accept Yunhua’s son as a disciple, promising to speak to Haotian God on Yunhua’s behalf.
• Yaoshi informed Haotian God that Yunhua had married a mortal, and Haotian God ordered Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman to capture her without harming the mortals.
• Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman led five hundred Heavenly Soldiers toward Guanjiang Estuary, and Yaoshi followed them in secret.

Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman confronted Princess Yunhua at the Guanjiang Estuary while Heavenly forces tried to seize her children. Yaoshi abducted Yang Jiao, and Guang Chengzi arrived as Princess Long Ji protected Yang Jian and Yang Chan, then considered taking Yang Jian as his disciple.

• Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman sent Heavenly Soldiers to seize Princess Yunhua’s three children and blocked Yunhua while Yang Tianyou pursued them.
• Princess Yunhua fought Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman with the Precious Lotus Lamp, while Yaoshi suppressed the Heavenly Generals attacking Yang Tianyou.
• Princess Long Ji stopped the soldiers carrying the children, but Yaoshi killed them and attacked her before taking Yang Jiao and fleeing.
• Guang Chengzi arrived, heard Princess Long Ji explain what had happened, and learned that the two remaining children were Yang Jian and Yang Chan.
• Impressed by Yang Jian’s composure, Guang Chengzi considered taking him as his disciple.

Guang Chengzi took Yang Jian as his disciple after promising to help save Yang Jian’s mother, while Long Ji brought Yang Chan to Azure Sky Palace to study under her. Lin Zhu then went to the Heavenly Court with Guang Chengzi to ask Haotian to spare Yunhua, and Haotian defended punishing her according to the heavenly laws.

• Guang Chengzi drove Yaoshi away, then took Yang Jian as his disciple after promising to plead with Haotian for Yunhua’s release.
• Long Ji took Yang Chan to Azure Sky Palace, where Lin Zhu welcomed her and gave Long Ji a Nine Revolutions Golden Pill for her future cultivation.
• Guang Chengzi visited Lin Zhu and asked him to help persuade Haotian to forgive Yunhua after Haotian refused his own appeal.
• Lin Zhu met Haotian in Lingxiao Treasure Hall, where Haotian insisted that Yunhua had to be punished under the heavenly laws.
• Lin Zhu asked Haotian whether he would disregard family ties despite having discretion in how the laws were applied.

Lin Zhu spared Princess Yunhua after revealing that the Western Sect had schemed against her, then sent Wen Zhong to investigate trouble brewing in the mortal world. On his first journey down the mountain, Wen Zhong intervened when a demon tried to seize an Ink Qilin’s cave, but the Qilin warned that the demon might return.

• Lin Zhu convinced Haotian God that Yaoshi and the Western Sect had manipulated Yunhua’s situation, and Haotian agreed to confine her instead of punishing her.
• Lin Zhu explained the scheme to Yunhua, including that Yang Jiao had been taken by Yaoshi, while Yang Jian and Yang Chan had entered the tutelage of Lin Zhu’s associates.
• After sensing that war linked to the Demon Race was approaching, Lin Zhu tested Wen Zhong’s cultivation, gave him guidance, and ordered him to investigate the Human Race’s troubles.
• Wen Zhong descended from Zhaoyao Mountain, traveled through the Primordial Wilderness, and came upon a flood-dragon-like demon fighting an Ink Qilin over a cave mansion.
• Wen Zhong stopped the fight and rebuked Daoist Jiao for trying to seize the cave, but the demon departed only after discovering Wen Zhong was stronger.
• The Ink Qilin warned Wen Zhong that Daoist Jiao was cunning and might return once Wen Zhong left.

Wen Zhong traveled through the mortal realm, discovered that Northern Barbarian forces were devastating Da Shang’s northern lands, and agreed to lead an army against them. King Wu Ding appointed him Great General and gave him thirty thousand elite soldiers, whom Wen Zhong led north.

• Wen Zhong defeated the Jiao Demon after it broke its word and returned to fight Black Qilin, then took the Yin Yang Twin Whips as spoils.
• Black Qilin, also called Ink Qilin, offered to serve as Wen Zhong’s mount, and Wen Zhong accepted.
• Wen Zhong visited Guan Longfeng at the Azure Sky Great Emperor Temple and learned that Da Shang was losing the war in the north and refugees were fleeing south.
• Wen Zhong saw Northern Barbarian Soldiers slaughtering a town’s people and killed them with heavenly lightning.
• Wen Zhong asked King Wu Ding for troops to pacify the north, and Wu Ding appointed him Great General and granted him thirty thousand elite soldiers.
• Wen Zhong gathered the thirty thousand soldiers and led them north.