Recaps

After Luo Hou’s defeat, he established the Demon Realm while Hongjun restored the Primordial World and began teaching its powers. The Demon Race formed the Heavenly Court, the Wu Clan expanded, and the newly created Human Race grew under the guidance of Suiren Shi, Youchao Shi, Wu Peng, and Laozi.

• Luo Hou’s battle with Hongjun ended with Luo Hou destroying the Primordial World, but Hongjun and the survivors restored it, and Luo Hou later awakened, created the Demon Realm, and became its Heavenly Dao.
• Hongjun taught at Purple Cloud Palace, granted Primordial Violet Qi to six great powers, and saw Ancestral Dragon, Phoenix Emperor, and Kirin King sacrifice themselves to suppress the world’s calamities.
• Di Jun and Taiyi pursued allies and founded the Heavenly Court, while Nuwa created the Human Race and received merit that made her Saint Nuwa.
• Di Jun named Kun Peng Demon Master and distributed the Monster Summoning Banner, which required those seeking the Heavenly Court’s protection to leave a trace of their true spirit.
• Houyi led the Wu in establishing the Houtu Tribe, fought Demon King Yayu, and awakened the Earth Origin after defeating him, while the Ancestor Witches debated how to respond to the Demon Race’s growing power.
• Wu Peng and the Wu helped the dwindling Human Race settle on Shouyang Mountain, where Suiren Shi and Youchao Shi taught them practical skills and their numbers grew.
• Suiren Shi taught that kindness should be repaid, and centuries later Supreme Clarity Laozi gave him the Golden Core Great Dao and taught hundreds of thousands of humans to cultivate.

The Wu-Demon War devastated the world, after which the Heavenly Court was restored and the human race rose under successive leaders. Chi You revived the Wu and challenged Xuanyuan for the Human Emperor’s throne, leaving Xuanyuan victorious in battle and demanding Chi You’s surrender.

• Minghe’s schemes helped spark war between the Wu and Demon Races, while Houtu created reincarnation and Chang Xi was drawn into it.
• The ten Golden Crows killed Kua Fu, and Houyi shot down nine of them before the Wu and Demon Races fought their final battle at Mount Buzhou.
• Pangu’s apparition and the opposing formations brought ruin, the Ancestor Witches and Demon leaders died, and Gong Gong shattered Mount Buzhou before Nuwa repaired the sky.
• Hongjun restored order, appointed Haotian and Yaochi to rule Heaven, and the human race recovered under Fuxi, Shen Nong, and Xuanyuan.
• Wu Qi and the surviving Wu awakened Chi You, who forged the Tiger Soul Blade, rallied the Jiuli, and began defeating Xuanyuan’s forces.
• Xuanyuan united the Yanhuang tribes and received aid from Guang Chengzi and Nine Heavens Xuannü, while Xing Tian rescued Rain Master and was sealed by the Jade Emperor.
• Xuanyuan’s army escaped Chi You’s demonic fog, then Xuanyuan destroyed the Tiger Soul Blade and demanded Chi You’s surrender.

Lu Ya’s attempt to seize Primordial Violet Qi devastated the realms, prompting Hongjun and the Sages to set the Investiture of the Gods in motion. True Person Ziyang reincarnated as Hua Dou, who recovered his power, chose to protect the innocent, and learned how the calamity was unfolding on Earth.

• Lu Ya breached the barrier between realms with Mount Buzhou, but Xuanhuang defeated his attacks, destroyed his Great Thousand World, and sealed him in a strange coffin.
• Hongjun, Luo Hou, and Great Immortal Yang Mei tried to balance the merged realms, then Hongjun summoned the Sages and ordered them to nominate 365 gods for the Heavenly Court.
• True Person Ziyang dispersed his purple Qi through the Mortal Realm and sent his spirit into reincarnation, while the Daoist Scripture protected the Purple Gold Ant’s true spirit and later appeared in the starry sky.
• After Big Head fought the Heavenly Ghost and was apparently killed, Tang founded the Shang Dynasty, which later prospered under Wu Ding.
• Hua Dou treated Ji Chang and Wu Da, then discovered his own purple power as he helped refugees and learned that Zhang Guifang and Feng Lin had defeated Xiqi’s forces.
• Nezha defeated Feng Lin and drove Zhang Guifang from battle, while Hua Dou pursued demonic cultivators who collected battlefield souls and destroyed their formations and demons.
• Hua Dou absorbed the Purple Flame Demon Lord’s flames and freed Tian Lingzi, who recognized him as True Monarch Ziyang and showed him the calamity’s battles across Earth.
• Hua Dou chose to stay and save innocent people, while Tian Lingzi explained that the calamity would reduce cultivators’ Karma and restore spiritual energy.

Hua Dou tried to preserve the fates and spirits of key Interception Sect figures while the great tribulation unfolded, then spent his power helping create a new world and was sent toward reincarnation. In a later era, Hunyuan studied Law Altars and protected Lingbao Tianzun from Heaven’s punishment.

• Hua Dou visited Tongtian, agreed to bear Zhao Gongming’s Karmic Debt, and tried to alter the fates of Zhao Gongming, Yunxiao, Kong Xuan, and Duobao.
• Zhao Gongming died after Jiang Ziya used the Nail Head Seven Arrows Book, and Hua Dou preserved his remnant soul in the Eight Trigrams Compass while Yunxiao and her sisters fought the Chan Teaching.
• The Saints broke the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation and the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, while Qiongxiao and Bixiao died and the Interception Sect’s disciples scattered.
• Hua Dou restored Kun Peng, helped place primordial violet qi in Kong Xuan’s true spirit, and gathered the Lightning Beast and Turtle Spirit Mother into the Eight Trigrams Compass.
• Hongjun separated immortals from mortals and restricted the Saints’ interference, then the Sages opened and shaped a new world with Hua Dou transforming his nebula into its universe.
• Houtu sent Hua Dou’s true spirit toward reincarnation as the Investiture of the Gods established the Heavenly Court and later generations included Confucius and Shakyamuni Buddha.
• Daoist Hunyuan formed a Law Altar and taught the sages how to entrust their primordial spirits to Heaven’s law, while Dao De Tianzun used faith to support his altar.
• Lingbao Tianzun sent Hunyuan a cryptic message about his origin and the Heavenly Gate, then Heaven’s punishment struck and Hunyuan shielded him with the Eight Trigrams Compass.