Recaps

Hongjun and Great Immortal Yang Mei tried to contain the destruction caused when Dao Lord Lu Ya tore Mount Buzhou from its foundations and hurled it through the worlds. As the Three Realms fused, Lu Ya attacked Xuanhuang’s hidden world, where Xuanhuang confronted him and sent him the Essence of Creation.

• Hongjun visited Great Immortal Yang Mei on Penglai and learned that Lu Ya had used a Space Crystal and the Power of Time to create a world of limited potential.
• After a thousand years, Hongjun sensed Lu Ya’s actions at Mount Buzhou and hurried there with Yang Mei.
• Lu Ya spun Mount Buzhou into a drill and drove it through the barrier into the Mortal Realm, causing devastation across the Mortal Realm and the Asura Demon Realm.
• Hongjun repaired the barrier while Yang Mei stabilized the worlds, and Hongjun, Luo Hou, and Yang Mei joined the three realms into one.
• Lu Ya found Xuanhuang’s hidden galaxy, forced Mount Buzhou against its protective barrier, and descended into the evolving world within it.
• Xuanhuang confronted Lu Ya and sent the Essence of Creation toward him.

Dao Lord Lu Ya attacked Xuanhuang’s carefully created world, seeking to seize its Origin Power and become its Heavenly Dao. Xuanhuang destroyed Lu Ya’s Great Thousand World and trapped him in a coffin of Xuanhuang Qi while the Primordial Violet Qi escaped.

• Dao Lord Lu Ya killed creatures and unleashed ice, fire, wind, and a net of power against Xuanhuang’s world, while Xuanhuang repelled his attacks with its rules.
• Lu Ya struck with power from another world, and Xuanhuang redirected him through a ceremonial archway into a desolate region of chaos.
• Xuanhuang used Destructive Power to destroy Lu Ya’s Great Thousand World after Lu Ya tried to refine the world’s Origin Power.
• Lu Ya summoned the Wheel of Time-Space, but Xuanhuang’s lotus-root-shaped palace swallowed it and sank into the depths of the world.
• Xuanhuang became Xuanhuang Qi and sent the Primordial Violet Qi away, then wrapped Lu Ya in a strange coffin to prevent him from pursuing it.

Old Ancestor Xuanbing broke through the barrier between the Immortal and Demon Realms, while Hongjun arranged for Ancestral Dragon to guard the widening passages. The Three Realms continued toward an inevitable merging, as the Three Pure Ones discussed the tribulation and the need to restore balance to heaven and earth.

• Old Ancestor Xuanbing fought Ancestral Dragon in the North Sea Eye, freezing its waters and using ice to evade him.
• Old Ancestor Xuanbing formed an ice drill and pierced the barrier, falling through into the Asura Demon Realm.
• The Sea Eyes balanced the chaotic energy between the realms, and Hongjun told Ancestral Dragon to guard the Demon Realm and warned him not to absorb too much power.
• Hongjun's Dharma Body opened passages at several places, including the Netherworld Blood Sea, through which Minghe and Kun Peng entered the Asura Demon Realm.
• Lingbao Tianzun, Dao De Tianzun, and Primordial Heavenly Venerate discussed why Hongjun allowed the worlds to merge and how the Investiture of the Gods served heaven and earth's balance.

Immortal and Demon Realm powers searched the Mortal Realm for the sentient Primordial Violet Qi while clashing with one another. Minghe continued his search after Heavenly Ghost fled a battle, then confronted him when he returned injured by Yunxiao’s magic treasure.

• A Demonic Cloud crushed Demon Realm cultivators while searching for Primordial Violet Qi, but the Qi devoured the remains and escaped.
• True Person Ziyang defeated a zombie guarding a false trace and swallowed a tiny violet speck, suspecting the Primordial Violet Qi had fooled him.
• Minghe and Heavenly Ghost joined forces to search for the elusive Primordial Violet Qi as Western Golden Body power and a fierce sword battle shook the starry sky.
• Zhao Gongming defeated a sword cultivator with the Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Pearls, and Heavenly Ghost left after sensing someone was trying to steal his nephew’s treasure.
• Minghe sent Blood God Sons against an intruder, but Heavenly Ghost devoured them and returned injured, blaming Yunxiao and her Hunyuan Golden Dou.

True Person Ziyang and Big Head lured cultivators seeking Primordial Violet Qi into a trap, defeated a bald man who attacked their planet, and collected more fragments. True Person Ziyang gained no hidden information from the fragments, but they repaired his origin and deepened his understanding of violet qi.

• Lu Ya attacked Kun Peng over the deaths of his family and demanded his father's treasure, Hetu Luoshu, while Kong Xuan intervened to protect the planet.
• Kun Peng said Hetu Luoshu had flown away and offered Lu Ya a fragment of Primordial Violet Qi to settle their Karma.
• True Person Ziyang and Big Head discussed using their violet planet as bait to collect Primordial Violet Qi fragments from searching cultivators.
• A bald man arrived, used Heaven in the Palm to crush the planet, and collected a fragment of Primordial Violet Qi.
• True Person Ziyang trapped the bald man in the Ultimate Sky Fire Array, destroyed his Supreme Golden Body, and swallowed three fragments of Primordial Violet Qi.
• Big Head absorbed the golden body's metal essence, while True Person Ziyang explained that the fragments had repaired his origin and helped him understand the properties of violet qi.

True Person Ziyang refined Mount Buzhou into divine essence, Pangu's Marrow, and a black iron rod while Big Head fought the approaching Yun Zhongzi. After Yun Zhongzi explained artifact-refining, Ziyang gave him some of the mountain's divine liquid and was left with the three treasures.

• True Person Ziyang used Purple Fire to refine Mount Buzhou, carefully extracting its divine essence without destroying the Pangu's Marrow within it.
• Big Head intercepted Yun Zhongzi, and the two exchanged attacks until Yun Zhongzi's bell trapped part of Big Head's golden liquid.
• True Person Ziyang stopped Big Head and learned that Yun Zhongzi had come seeking Mount Buzhou as refining material.
• Yun Zhongzi shared his artifact-refining insights with True Person Ziyang and Big Head, then received some of Mount Buzhou's divine liquid from Ziyang.
• After Yun Zhongzi departed, True Person Ziyang examined the divine mountain liquid, a few drops of Pangu's Marrow, and a pitch-black iron rod.

Hongjun, Luo Hou, and Great Immortal Yang Mei fused the Immortal, Mortal, and Demon Realms into an imperfect yin-yang arrangement on the Creation Jade Disk. Hongjun then summoned the Sages and rulers to announce the Calamity of Investiture and the creation of 365 Heavenly Court gods, leaving Zhunti with permission to shoulder the karmic debt of those who joined his Western religion.

• Great Immortal Yang Mei and Hongjun discussed the collapsing three realms and proposed using the Creation Jade Disk, Hongjun, and Luo Hou to establish a balance of yin and yang.
• Hongjun, Luo Hou, and Great Immortal Yang Mei placed the three realms on the Creation Jade Disk, but the vast Mortal Realm and differences between the Immortal and Demon Realms left the arrangement unbalanced.
• Hongjun resolved to proceed with the Calamity of Investiture and entered seclusion, leaving a manifestation of Pure Qi in the Zixiao Palace to meet the Sages.
• The Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, the Western Sages, Haotian, the Three Sovereigns, and an illusory figure identified by Shennong as Youchao Shi arrived at the Zixiao Palace.
• Hongjun announced that the coming calamity would send some beings into reincarnation and elevate others to the Divine or Immortal Dao, then ordered the Sages to nominate 365 gods for the Heavenly Court.
• Zhunti asked whether those who joined the Western religion could have their cause and effect and karmic debt shouldered by him, and Hongjun nodded.

A newly conscious spirit of Primordial Violet Qi devoured True Person Ziyang’s primordial spirit and took control of his body, then used its new ability to locate more Primordial Violet Qi. True Person Ziyang and Big Head found a planet containing Xuanhuang Qi, and Big Head proposed storing its memories in Great God Pangu’s marrow at Mount Buzhou.

• A monster formed from corpses and Primordial Violet Qi survived the destruction of its planet and developed into a zombie in the starry sky.
• True Person Ziyang’s purple qi attacked the zombie, and the purple corpse core entered his sea of consciousness as a conscious orb of Primordial Violet Qi.
• The purple orb overpowered True Person Ziyang, devoured his primordial spirit, and took control of his body despite his threats and resistance.
• Big Head traveled with the controlled True Person Ziyang as he sensed and gathered Primordial Violet Qi from remote planets.
• True Person Ziyang refined an ocher planet containing Xuanhuang Qi into a spirit stone, but worried that powerful cultivators could detect its stored memories.
• Big Head suggested using Great God Pangu’s marrow at Mount Buzhou to hold the memories, reminding True Person Ziyang that he had previously told him about the marrow.

True Person Ziyang and Big Head traveled through the Mortal Realm, planting Primordial Violet Qi and intervening in conflicts as they sought to accumulate merit. Their journey ended with True Person Ziyang trapped inside Ao Cang’s Darkness Sky Curtain, facing a monster that threatened to devour him.

• Big Head accidentally threw the Chaos Iron Rod into the void, where it vanished as the Three Realms were being merged.
• True Person Ziyang planted a wisp of Primordial Violet Qi in a planet and had Big Head help two Immortals manage its vegetation.
• True Person Ziyang and Big Head continued clearing planets before confronting Ao Cang, who had wrapped a Black Dragon around more than a dozen planets.
• Big Head’s golden weapons shattered the Black Dragon, and Ao Cang attacked True Person Ziyang after claiming he had only wanted to spar.
• Ao Cang trapped True Person Ziyang in the Darkness Sky Curtain, where a darkness monster swallowed his attacks and dragged him toward a black hole.

After barely surviving Ao Cang’s Darkness Power, True Person Ziyang chose reincarnation and traveled with Big Head to the Mortal Realm. At Mount Tai’s consecration, humanity gained recognition from the Mortal Realm’s Heaven and Earth, and Ziyang dissolved his purple Qi into its laws before the Daoist Scripture carried his true spirit toward the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

• Ao Cang fled when the Daoist Scripture stirred in True Person Ziyang’s sea of consciousness, and Ziyang decided to abandon his damaged body and reincarnate.
• Big Head took Ziyang to Earth, where human tribes rose and fell as they struggled for dominance and faith.
• The Yellow Emperor and gathered cultivators consecrated Mount Tai, merging their Dao Marks and divine powers into the Mortal Realm so its Heaven and Earth would recognize humanity.
• Big Head gave Ziyang a drop of his bodily essence, which the Daoist Scripture devoured as Ziyang transformed into purple Qi.
• Ziyang dispersed his purple Qi into the Mortal Realm, strengthening its laws, and the Daoist Scripture carried his true spirit toward the Six Paths of Reincarnation as Big Head called after him.

Fierce God and Old Ancestor Xuanbing searched a planet covered in Purple Gold Ants for Primordial Violet Qi and uncovered the secret behind a mutated ant’s power. The ant revealed a stone that transformed into the Daoist Scripture, one of the supreme treasures they had sought.

• Fierce God and Old Ancestor Xuanbing battled their way through the Purple Gold Ants, whose gathered Purple Fire formed a giant that attacked them.
• A terrifying pressure emerged from a mutated Purple Gold Ant, and Killing God destroyed its purple palm before pulling the ant from the planet.
• Fierce God learned that the mutated ant had been imprisoned by a purple figure who feared it would surpass him, and that a strange stone had fused with the ant.
• Fierce God offered to spare either the mutated ant or the purple figure and its descendants; the ant chose to save them, and the purple figure fled with the swarm.
• The mutated Purple Gold Fire Ant spat out the stone, which expanded into a glowing scroll, and Fierce God and Old Ancestor Xuanbing recognized it as the Daoist Scripture.

Fierce God and Old Ancestor Xuanbing fought over the Daoist Scripture, which saved the mutated Purple Gold Ant’s true spirit before escaping. Xuanbing froze Fierce God, but the Three-headed Dog survived, and Xuanbing crossed Hangu Pass into the Earth Immortal Realm in pursuit of the scripture.

• Fierce God killed the purple figure despite the mutated Purple Gold Ant’s protest, then crushed the ant while reaching for the Daoist Scripture.
• The Daoist Scripture shielded the ant’s true spirit and vanished, allowing Old Ancestor Xuanbing to freeze Fierce God and reveal his deception.
• Evil Fiend and Fiend God revived Fierce God as the Three-headed Dog, and the brothers vowed revenge against Xuanbing.
• Old Ancestor Xuanbing traveled toward Earth and defeated Ying Zhao at Hangu Pass, forcing him to open the passage to the Earth Immortal Realm.
• Old Ancestor Xuanbing crossed the unstable passage and emerged in the Earth Immortal Realm, where the Heavenly Dao’s pressure limited his power.

Old Ancestor Xuanbing sought a way to restore his power, then searched the Netherworld for the reincarnated Purple Gold Ant while the Daoist scripture’s appearance plunged the Mortal Realm’s cultivators into turmoil. Meanwhile, humanity’s dynasties advanced from Qi’s founding of the Great Xia to the decline of Xia under Jie.

• Old Ancestor Xuanbing stole Xuanbing Jade Marrow and Xuanbing Cold Qi from the Ice Dragon, unaware that a Dragon Pearl escaped from the shattered iceberg.
• Old Ancestor Xuanbing pressured King Yama to help find a peculiar life form, but Hongjun sealed his magic power and warned him to behave.
• Old Ancestor Xuanbing learned that the Purple Gold Ant had reincarnated in the Mortal Realm, but a purple cloud concealed its identity in the Book of Life and Death.
• The Daoist scripture’s appearance stirred the Mortal Realm as powerful cultivators and Asura figures searched for it and bloodshed spread.
• Qi defeated the Youhu Clan, established the Great Xia Dynasty, and ended the abdication system in favor of hereditary rule.
• After generations of Xia rulers, the dynasty weakened, and Jie oppressed the people while indulging in luxury and attacking neighboring states.

Big Head and the Purple Condor Ziyang fought their way through a Demon Realm spirit-stone mine, destroying a Blood Demon Beast and Ghosts inside. After defeating a Ghost that transformed into a Blood Corpse, Big Head sealed its remains while Ziyang continued attacking the Ghosts deeper in the tunnel.

• Big Head sent Ziyang to fight a Blood Demon Beast in the blood mist, and Ziyang burned it to ashes with Purple Fire.
• Big Head discovered a quasi-sage’s restriction over a Yin Energy spirit-stone mine and watched Ziyang break open its entrance.
• Ziyang entered the Black Mist and attacked the Ghosts with purple lightning, but Big Head had to cut apart a Ghost’s hand and draw the surrounding Ghosts into his Black Jade Bottle.
• The Ghosts combined into a monster that turned Ghost Qi into Killing Qi and then into a Blood Corpse, but Big Head destroyed it with the Eighteen Weapons.
• Big Head sealed the Blood Corpse’s Ghost Qi in a jade bottle and told Ziyang to finish off the remaining Ghosts in the mine.

Big Head fought the Heavenly Ghost after it attacked him with a curse that devoured his Spiritual Sense. The Purple Condor unleashed its fire-phoenix form to save him, and the Heavenly Ghost answered with its Underworld Ghost Realm.

• Big Head absorbed the divine essence of a Netherworld Stone cliff, then shattered the Heavenly Ghost’s claw and arm with his golden staff.
• The Heavenly Ghost cast a curse that sent Ghost Heads into Big Head, weakening his Spiritual Sense and spiritual energy as he fought off its attacks.
• The Purple Condor charged the Heavenly Ghost, but Ghost Spirits swarmed it and invaded its Spiritual Sense.
• The Purple Condor summoned its essential spirit fire and transformed into a colossal fire phoenix, releasing a vast purple cloud of flames.
• The Heavenly Ghost unleashed its Underworld Ghost Realm, swallowing the fire phoenix’s sea of flames.

Big Head tried to break Heavenly Ghost's Minor World to save Purple Condor, but Heavenly Ghost defeated him and took his remains and staff. The chapter then recounted battles among powerful cultivators and the rise of the Shang Dynasty, ending with Wu Ding's campaigns to expand its territory.

• Big Head sacrificed half his body and used his Origin Power to create a golden domain, but his staff broke against Heavenly Ghost's Ghost Realm as Purple Condor's body was destroyed.
• Purple Condor's true spirit escaped inside a stone bead, and Big Head shattered the Ghost Realm and struck Heavenly Ghost before Heavenly Ghost crushed his head and collected his remains and staff.
• The Daoist Canon briefly appeared, while Kun Peng, Heavenly Fox Venerable, the Blood Demon, the Asura King, and the Corpse Emperor were defeated or driven away by powerful cultivators.
• Minghe and Ao Cang fought Kong Xuan, Zhao Gongming, and Yunxiao in battles that ended in a draw, and Minghe and Ao Cang returned to the Demon Realm.
• Tang defeated Xia Jie, established the Shang Dynasty at Bo, and later rulers moved the capital to Yin, where the dynasty flourished.
• Wu Ding pursued good governance and led campaigns against neighboring states, expanding Shang territory.

Fortune-teller Hua Dou treated Ji Chang’s strange illness by separating the mass in his abdomen from his flesh and Essence Blood. Ji Chang recovered after three rabbits emerged from his mouth, while Hua Dou pursued one of them westward.

• Hua Dou met the exhausted Ji Chang on the road to Xiqi, gave him medicine, and said his troubles were nearly over.
• After Ji Chang returned to Xiqi, he fell gravely ill with a living mass in his abdomen, and Hua Dou arrived to treat him.
• Hua Dou used spiritual energy, silver needles, and a magical Eight Trigrams Disk to clear Ji Chang’s meridians and separate the mass.
• Ji Chang saw Bo Yikao in a vision and then spat out three lumps of flesh that became rabbits and ran westward.
• Ji Chang recovered and mourned Bo Yikao, while Hua Dou followed a rabbit formed partly from a fragment of his soul.

Hua Dou saved Wu Da from Purple-Eyed Toad poison, then went to confront the beast and fought it with his spiritual power and Eight Trigrams Disk. After the exhausted Hua Dou faced a Demonic Wolf, hidden purple energy destroyed it, revealing power he had not known he possessed.

• Hua Dou revived Wu Da with silver needles, spiritual energy, and medicine, and learned that a Purple-Eyed Toad had killed Wu Da’s brother while guarding a Thousand-Year Vermilion Fruit.
• Hua Dou crossed White Cloud Stream and attacked the Purple-Eyed Toad with powders and a talisman to counter its poison.
• Hua Dou used his Eight Trigrams Disk and spiritual talismans to pierce the toad, which fled into the mountain stream as its Demonic Core entered Hua Dou’s body.
• A Demonic Wolf attacked the exhausted Hua Dou, but purple energy surged from him and crushed the beast to pieces.
• Hua Dou awoke after meditating, unaware that his hidden power had killed the Demonic Wolf, while the white rabbit stared at him in alarm.

The Sages gathered at Zixiao Palace to sign the Investiture of the Gods, but their dispute over whose disciples would be listed stalled the discussion. Empress Houtu explained that the calamity was meant to restore balance among the Three Realms, and the Sages agreed to leave the Western Teachings out of the dispute between the Chan and Jie Teachings.

• Laozi brought out the Investiture of the Gods, and Supreme Clarity Sage explained that its Zhou Tian Star Dou artifacts would help the Heavenly Court govern Heaven and Earth.
• Nuwa described how she had set the calamity in motion through the Three Demons of Xuanyuan, while Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Zhunti traded accusations over their disciples.
• Jieyin, Primordial Heavenly Venerate, and Sect Master Tongtian each wrote names on the Investiture of the Gods.
• Houtu arrived and explained that the calamity would restore balance to the Three Realms by bringing the Mortal Realm under the Heavenly Court's jurisdiction.
• The Sages acknowledged Houtu's explanation, and Tongtian said the Chan and Jie Teachings would settle their dispute without involving the Western Sages.
• Jieyin took Zhunti away from the discussion, while Nuwa invited Houtu to accompany her from Zixiao Palace.

After seven years of cultivation on Cloud Break Mountain, Hua Dou broke through to a new realm and recovered fragments of memories from a previous life. He rescued refugees from a demonic tiger, then learned that King Shang’s forces were marching against Xiqi.

• Hua Dou absorbed the purple qi surging through his body, broke through his cultivation barrier, and formed a nebula of purple true qi in his dantian.
• Hua Dou reflected on the memories he had recovered and the white rabbit Medicine King's healing abilities before hearing people cry out nearby.
• Hua Dou drove off a demonic tiger that had killed three people and injured the survivors, then examined the refugees and discovered the rabbit's herbs had healed their minor wounds.
• A survivor told Hua Dou that Ji Fa had declared himself King Wu and that King Shang had sent Zhang Guifang and Feng Lin to attack Xiqi.
• Hua Dou learned that Zhang Guifang and Feng Lin had defeated Xiqi's forces, leaving the city afraid to accept challenges.

Hua Dou watched the conflict between Xiqi and Zhang Guifang’s forces before Nezha joined the battle against Feng Lin. Nezha shattered Feng Lin’s weapon and countered his spells, leaving Feng Lin fleeing with a badly injured shoulder.

• Hua Dou settled the people he rescued at Wu Da’s home, left them methods for guiding and refining qi, and concealed himself near the battlefield.
• Zhang Guifang ordered Feng Lin to challenge Xiqi after learning that Jiang Ziya had removed the challenge-exemption tablet.
• Nezha emerged from Xiqi to fight Feng Lin, and their weapons clashed fiercely enough to injure soldiers caught nearby.
• Nezha used the Universe Ring to destroy Feng Lin’s Wolf-Tooth Club, then pursued him on the Wind Fire Wheels.
• Feng Lin attacked Nezha with black smoke and a Demon Bead, but Nezha’s Yuqing Immortal Qi and World Cleansing White Lotus purified the smoke.
• Feng Lin swallowed the Demon Bead and transformed, but Nezha struck him with the Universe Ring, smashing his left shoulder and forcing him to flee.

Nezha defeated Zhang Guifang in battle, while Hua Dou followed a cultivator of demonic arts through a Spatial Rift to a bone-covered planet and fought its inhabitants. The battle continued as Hua Dou’s mysterious inner energy swallowed the Evil Ghosts attacking his consciousness.

• Nezha resisted Zhang Guifang’s soul-targeting shouts, overwhelmed him in combat, and shattered his left arm with the Universe Ring, forcing him to flee into camp.
• Hua Dou watched a mysterious figure collect battlefield souls with a black banner, then pursued him through a Spatial Rift to a desolate planet of bones.
• Seven or eight figures attacked Hua Dou on the bone-covered planet, and he cut off one attacker’s hand before killing him with his Dao Sword.
• The remaining attackers sent soul-pulling black rings at Hua Dou, but a chanting voice stopped the rings and Hua Dou shattered them with his sword.
• Evil Ghosts and vengeful souls rushed into Hua Dou’s sea of consciousness, where a mysterious energy inside him swallowed them.

Hua Dou fought the demonic cultivators, broke their Ghost Spirit Formation with Righteous Qi, and killed several of them. A Demon Venerable appeared to confront him, leaving Hua Dou facing the remnant soul and the two surviving cultivators.

• Hua Dou evaded the demonic cultivators’ combined attack and killed one with a sword strike.
• A cultivator trapped Hua Dou in a formation of nine banners, where he broke free of the Ghost King’s illusion and discovered that Righteous Qi repelled the ghosts.
• Hua Dou infused his sword with Righteous Qi, shattered the formation, and overwhelmed the cultivator who had set it up.
• Hua Dou pierced another cultivator’s White Bone Shield and killed him, then struck down two more with his movement technique.
• A Demon Venerable appeared and the two remaining cultivators begged him to save them.
• Hua Dou accused the Demon Venerable of corrupting people and refining living souls, and the demon challenged him to fight.

Hua Dou defeated the demon formed from Yin Energy and found the Purple Flame Demon Lord sealed in a cavern. When the Demon Lord’s purple flame entered Hua Dou, his purple nebula absorbed it, raising his cultivation and giving him a destructive new flame.

• The Yin Energy transformed one demonic cultivator into a demon, while the other burst apart.
• Hua Dou evaded the demon’s attacks, injured it with his Purple Spirit Divine Palm and Purple Sword, then crushed it with the Green Jade Ruler.
• The Green Jade Ruler absorbed the demon’s flesh and blood and joined the stone Eight Trigrams Disk in Hua Dou’s sea of consciousness, where Hua Dou murmured, “Big Head.”
• Hua Dou reached a cavern containing a stone pagoda, purple flames, and the sealed Purple Flame Demon Lord, who tried to recruit him.
• The purple flame entered Hua Dou’s body, but his purple nebula absorbed it and devoured the Demon Lord’s invading soul consciousness.
• Hua Dou absorbed all the purple flames, replenished his energy, raised his cultivation without a tribulation, and gained a flame that could dissolve anything.

Hua Dou awakened Tian Lingzi through the Heavenly Spirit Tower, absorbed Penglai immortal spiritual essence, and learned that he might be the reborn True Monarch Ziyang. As Tian Lingzi showed him the unfolding war and explained the calamity’s purpose, Hua Dou remained determined to save innocent people.

• Hua Dou activated the Heavenly Spirit Tower, which freed Tian Lingzi and filled his dantian with immortal spiritual essence that strengthened his nebula.
• Tian Lingzi told Hua Dou that he had been trapped after fighting the Purple Flame Demon Lord, then suspected Hua Dou was True Monarch Ziyang when Hua Dou remembered Penglai and Big Head.
• Hua Dou described the coming slaughter of gods and immortals and said he wanted to save innocent people instead of avoiding the calamity by returning to Penglai.
• Tian Lingzi refined the planet’s Yin Energy into three Yin Lightning spheres for Hua Dou and used the cave’s ceiling to show events across Earth.
• The visions showed the Four Saints of Nine Dragon Island joining Wen Zhong’s campaign, Jiang Ziya defeating them with help from Kunlun treasures and allies, and Lu Xiong’s army being devastated by Jiang Ziya’s blizzard.
• Tian Lingzi explained that the calamity reduced cultivators burdened by Karma and restored spiritual energy, while Hua Dou mourned the innocent lives lost.