Chapter Summaries

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.

Hua Dou had built a peaceful home for humanity on Hua Dou Star while the War of the Investiture of the Gods ravaged Earth. Shen Gongbao arrived seeking help for the Interception Sect, and Hua Dou grew uneasy when he learned that Zhao Gongming was his intended ally.

• Hua Dou helped restore Hua Dou Star’s ecosystem, and Wu Da led the people in raising statues of Hua Dou and the White Rabbit Medicine King.
• The Mo family’s four generals devastated Xiqi before Yang Jian devised a plan that eliminated them, prompting the Interception Sect’s outer disciples to mobilize.
• Shen Gongbao crossed a spatial rift to Hua Dou Star and explained that he wanted to save the Interception Sect’s disciples from the calamity.
• Shen Gongbao described how the Chan Teaching broke the Ten Ultimate Formations and sacrificed disciples to do so.
• Hua Dou argued that the rise of Zhou followed Heaven’s will, but Shen Gongbao insisted that the Chan Teaching had acted unjustly and said he was going to invite Zhao Gongming to help Wen Zhong.
• Hua Dou felt a sudden unease at Zhao Gongming’s name as Shen Gongbao departed.

Hua Dou arrived in the Earth Immortal Realm and sought a route through the East Sea Dragon Palace to reach the heavens and Mount Emei. After the Dragon Palace attacked him, he defeated its forces and captured the crown prince in his Eight Trigrams Disk, drawing the attention of powerful beings across the world.

• Hua Dou learned from a sea-patrolling Yaksha that Mount Emei lay beyond the Earth Immortal Realm and that the Dragon Palace had a path to the heavens.
• Hua Dou asked to borrow the Dragon Palace’s passage, but the crown prince accused him of defying the Heavenly Court and ordered the guards to seize him.
• Hua Dou absorbed the whale shark’s water attack into a newly formed blue star in his nebula, then bound the whale shark with his Purple Spirit Binding.
• Hua Dou destroyed the attacking soldiers’ weapons with purple sparks and trapped the crown prince’s golden dragon form inside the Eight Trigrams Disk.
• Several strands of Spiritual Sense from across the world converged on the East Sea.

Ao Guang rallied the East Sea Dragon Clan after Hua Dou captured Mo Ang, but Lingbao Tianzun intervened and Hua Dou was brought to Biyou Palace. After gaining a new insight into his cultivation, Hua Dou discussed Zhao Gongming and the Investiture of the Gods with Tongtian, who agreed that his disciples had brought their fates upon themselves.

• Ao Guang learned that Hua Dou had taken Mo Ang and prepared to confront him with the Dragon Clan's palace treasure.
• Ao Guang demanded Mo Ang's release from Hua Dou, but Hua Dou could not explain how to free the dragon.
• Lingbao Tianzun appeared, lifted Hua Dou with golden light, and sent Ao Guang a message that Mo Ang had a destined opportunity.
• Hua Dou followed an attendant to Biyou Palace, where Tongtian's vision of creation drew him into enlightenment and transformed his dantian.
• Hua Dou told Tongtian that he wanted to save Zhao Gongming from becoming a Yin Spirit, and Tongtian said the greater trend could not be changed.
• Hua Dou argued that Tongtian's disciples had earned their fates through disobedience and failure to understand Heaven and the Human Dao, and Tongtian agreed.

Sect Master Tongtian explained how the divine and immortal killing tribulation would reshape the Three Teachings and asked Hua Dou to help preserve Zhao Gongming and others. As Tongtian revealed the compass’s mysterious power, they watched Zhao Gongming battle the Chan Teaching disciples, and Tongtian resolved to fight alongside his followers.

• Hua Dou learned that the great tribulation could not be stopped and that Saints could bear its Karmic Debt for others.
• Hua Dou agreed to bear Zhao Gongming’s Karmic Debt, while Tongtian explained that Zhao could only be saved for reincarnation and gave Hua Dou responsibilities concerning Yunxiao, Kong Xuan, and Duobao.
• Tongtian explained the difficult fates of Yunxiao, Kong Xuan, Duobao, and Turtle Spirit Mother, then described the compass as a treasure with power that might surpass this world.
• Tongtian showed Hua Dou Zhao Gongming defeating Jiang Ziya and fighting the Chan Teaching disciples with his Sea-Calming Pearls and other magic.
• Tongtian recalled Zhao Gongming’s origins as the reincarnation of the sun’s essence and decided he would fight alongside his disciples.

Zhao Gongming confronted Randeng over the Chan Teaching’s killings, and their battle ended with Randeng escaping using Yin Fire and Xiao Sheng and Cao Bao intervening. Xiao Sheng’s Treasure Dropping Golden Coin took Zhao Gongming’s treasures, but Zhao killed Xiao Sheng, and Randeng struck Zhao with the Universe Ruler, forcing him to flee.

• Zhao Gongming challenged Randeng, and the two fought with the Universe Ruler and the Sea Calming Pearls, whose power overwhelmed Randeng’s spatial attacks.
• Randeng used a bronze lamp’s Yin Fire to disrupt Zhao Gongming’s primordial spirit and escaped, but Zhao pursued him on his Black Tiger.
• Xiao Sheng and Cao Bao confronted Zhao Gongming, and Xiao Sheng’s Treasure Dropping Golden Coin took Zhao’s Dragon Binding Rope and Sea-Calming Pearls.
• Zhao Gongming killed Xiao Sheng with his divine whip, which the golden coin could not take, and Cao Bao sought revenge.
• Randeng secretly struck Zhao Gongming with the Universe Ruler, and Zhao fled south on his Black Tiger.