Chapter Summaries

Qing Chan and Tai Cang secured permission to travel, while the Saints and their disciples gathered at Heavenly Court to divide its honored positions. The Six Emperors' seats were postponed until after the Investiture of the Gods, and the Five Elders' positions remained contested as the chapter ended.

• Qing Chan asked East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West to let her and Tai Cang travel, and East King Duke persuaded Queen Mother of the West to agree while protecting the children with strands of Yin-Yang Law.
• The Saints brought their disciples to Heavenly Court, where the Mystic Gate disciples glared at Duobao and the Buddhist Gate, but Zhao Gongming stopped Bixiao from confronting them.
• Haotian greeted the gathered Saints, who took keen interest in Jun Tian Dao Venerable and his cultivation.
• Primordial proposed that the Human, Chan, and Jie Sects each receive one of the remaining Six Emperors' seats, but Zhunti demanded a Buddhist seat and argued with Primordial.
• East King Duke and Jun Tian Dao Venerable proposed postponing the Six Emperors' seats until after the Investiture of the Gods and establishing the Five Elders first.
• Jieyin and Zhunti claimed one Five Elders' position for the Buddhist Gate, and Taiqing Laozi claimed one for each of the Human, Chan, and Jie Sects before another speaker unexpectedly spoke up.

The Saints selected and established the Five Elders of Heavenly Court, assigning each a direction and element. Just as they prepared to leave, Tai Zhen requested another position, surprising the Saints and East King Duke.

• Nuwa recommended Lu Ya for a Five Elders position, and Laozi, Primordial Heavenly Lord, Tongtian, Jieyin, and Zhunti named Tongxuan, Jade Cauldron True Person, Saint Mother Jin Ling, and Cihang Guanyin Bodhisattva.
• Haotian invoked the Heavenly Dao and appointed Tongxuan, Saint Mother Jin Ling, Lu Ya, Cihang, and Jade Cauldron True Person as the Five Elemental Heavenly Lords.
• The five Heavenly Lords received Heavenly Court's fortune, gained greater power, and paid their respects to the Saints and their superiors.
• Haotian felt fortune return to him as the Five Elders' positions strengthened Heavenly Court.
• Tai Zhen asked the Saints and Haotian to grant a position to someone, surprising East King Duke and the other Saints.

Queen Mother of the West secured the Taiyin Star Lord position for Chang Xi, who reclaimed her star and advanced to Quasi-Saint Peak. When Haotian sought a ruler for the Four Seas’ water clans, Yellow Dragon True Person nominated himself, only for his master to rebuke and dismiss him.

• Queen Mother of the West recommended Chang Xi as Taiyin Star Lord, and the Saints supported her appointment.
• East King Duke brought Chang Xi before the Saints, and Haotian conferred the title of Star Lord Chang Xi upon her.
• Chang Xi regained the power of Taiyin, overcame the grief that had stalled her cultivation, and reached Quasi-Saint Peak.
• Haotian asked the Saints to recommend someone to govern the Four Seas’ water clans.
• Yellow Dragon True Person put himself forward for the position, but his master scolded him and ordered him to leave.

Yellow Dragon True Person defied Primordial Heavenly Lord after being denied the Heavenly Court position and was expelled from the Chan Sect. With East King Duke and several other powers supporting him, Haotian appointed him Water Official Emperor, and Heavenly Court’s Fortune restored his power and advanced his cultivation.

• Yellow Dragon True Person pleaded with Primordial Heavenly Lord for the position overseeing the aquatic clans, but Primordial Heavenly Lord dismissed and insulted him.
• Yellow Dragon True Person renounced the Chan Sect, and Primordial Heavenly Lord attacked him with Saintly Might until East King Duke intervened.
• Primordial Heavenly Lord severed Yellow Dragon True Person’s disciple bond and took back his Jade Purity Immortal Law and power.
• East King Duke recommended Yellow Dragon True Person for the aquatic clans’ position, and Jun Tian Dao Venerable, Nuwa, Pingxin, Zhenyuanzi, the Queen Mother, and Tongtian supported him.
• Haotian appointed Yellow Dragon True Person Water Official Emperor, titled Yellow Dragon Profound Heaven Sea Emperor, and Heavenly Court’s Fortune restored his power and raised his cultivation.

Yellow Dragon became the Heavenly Court’s Water Official Emperor and sought to join East King Duke’s Yin-Yang Lineage. After Ancestor Dragon encouraged him, East King Duke accepted him as his fifth Direct Disciple.

• Yin-Yang Dao Venerable recommended Yellow Dragon for the Water Official Emperor position, and Yellow Dragon asked to join his lineage.
• East King Duke told Yellow Dragon to consult his clan elders before coming to the Three Immortal Islands.
• Haotian explained to Yaochi that completing the Heavenly Court’s order would benefit their path to the Dao.
• Yellow Dragon visited Ancestor Dragon, who approved of his departure from the Heavenly Origin Sect and urged him to become East King Duke’s disciple.
• East King Duke accepted Yellow Dragon as his fifth Direct Disciple, and Yellow Dragon greeted his new Senior Brothers and Senior Sister.

East King Duke removed Yellow Dragon True Person’s karmic sin, gave him powerful inheritances and treasures, and guided him to the Zenith Heaven Realm. Yellow Dragon then brought the Four Seas under Heavenly Court, established Dragon God positions for the Dragon Clan, and summoned the appointees to receive them.

• East King Duke praised his disciples’ achievements, cleared Yellow Dragon’s karmic sin with Xuanhuang Merit, and bestowed the Chaos Yin-Yang True Scripture, Chaos Yin-Yang Battle Body, and two spiritual treasures upon him.
• After East King Duke preached the Dao for a hundred years, Yellow Dragon bloomed his Human Flower and reached the Zenith Heaven Realm.
• East King Duke directed Yellow Dragon to place the Four Seas under Heavenly Court rather than under the Yin-Yang Lineage, so Yellow Dragon secured the Dragon Clan’s authority over the seas and went to meet Haotian.
• Haotian approved Yellow Dragon’s candidates, and Yellow Dragon proclaimed Yinglong the Heavenly Dragon God and Ao Guang, Ao Qin, Ao Run, and Ao Shun the Four Sea Dragon Gods.
• The proclamation astonished the Primordial World and angered Primordial Heavenly Lord, while the appointed Dragon Gods traveled to Heavenly Court to receive their positions.

Yang Jian investigated the Dark Cult near Chaoge and discovered that its followers worshiped Satan and sacrificed young boys and girls. After questioning two Fallen Messengers, he killed them and learned that a Fallen Angel was stationed at the nearby Wushan Church.

• Haotian formally appointed Yinglong and Ao Guang, Ao Qin, Ao Run, and Ao Shun as the Heavenly Dragon God and Four Sea Dragon Gods, and they sensed that Heavenly Court fortune could lessen their karmic sin.
• The chapter recounted how the Holy Sects had changed, with the Buddhist Gate gaining disciples from the Chan and Jie Sects while the Heavenly Court and Earth Immortal Lineage expanded their influence.
• Yang Jian and Howling Celestial Dog traveled toward Chaoge to investigate the Dark Cult after hearing that it was spreading among the Human Race.
• Two Dark Cult Fallen Messengers tried to seize Howling Celestial Dog for a sacrifice and admitted they had offered up a hundred pairs of young boys and girls.
• Howling Celestial Dog defeated the two messengers, and Yang Jian questioned them about the Dark Cult, Satan, and the Wushan Church before killing them.

Yang Jian decided to investigate the Dark Cult at Wushan, while Yellow Dragon True Person and the Dragon Gods restored order across the four seas. In the North Nether Sea, Old Ancestor Kunpeng considered accepting an outsider’s offer to help the Noah World rule the Primordial World and reached for an object.

• Yang Jian told Howling Celestial Dog that the Dark Cult might be connected to the ancient Demon Clan, and they headed for Wushan to investigate.
• Yellow Dragon True Person brought Yinglong, Ao Guang, and the other dragons to meet East King Duke, who supported their new divine positions.
• The Dragon Gods reorganized the four seas, helping restore the Dragon Clan’s influence and strengthen the Heavenly Court.
• Old Ancestor Kunpeng lamented his stalled cultivation and lack of a place among the Primordial World’s rising powers.
• Kunpeng recalled an archangel who had offered him greater cultivation in exchange for helping the Noah World rule the Primordial World, and he reached for an object as his resolve hardened.

Kunpeng chose to risk contacting the Light Sect, while Great Emperor Fengdu expanded the Netherworld’s bureaucracy by establishing four Judge Departments. The Assistant Judge positions remained vacant, awaiting those with fate and virtue.

• Kunpeng activated the black staff left by the supposed archangel, entered the spatial formation it created, and vanished from his Dao Palace.
• King Qin Guang reported to Great Emperor Fengdu that the Underworld lacked enough officials to manage its growing affairs.
• Fengdu announced the creation of four Judge Departments beneath the Ten Halls of Yama: Reward Goodness, Punish Evil, Investigation, and Underworld Law.
• Fengdu issued a decree establishing the departments, assigned the Ten Halls of Yama to oversee them, and left the four Assistant Judge positions open.

After the Four Courts of Judgment were established, Great Emperor Fengdu reached the moment to attain the Dao and became an Earthly Dao Saint. The story leaves him recognized as the embodiment of the Underworld, with Saints and living beings across the Primordial World offering congratulations and reverence.

• Great Emperor Fengdu established the Four Courts of Judgment, whose vacant Assistant Judge positions drew interest from the Saint-sects.
• The Ten Halls of Yama accepted authority over the Courts of Judgment and stationed Netherworld troops there.
• Great Emperor Fengdu left the Place of Reincarnation and meditated beside the Sea of Blood, drawing on the Human Book and the rising fortune of the Earthly Dao.
• East King Duke, Saint Pingxin, and Zhenyuanzi arrived as Fengdu's aura merged with the Dao of Reincarnation and signs of his impending attainment spread throughout the Primordial World.
• Great Emperor Fengdu vowed to become the Underworld's embodiment, attained the Earthly Dao Saint Position, and received congratulations from East King Duke, Pingxin, and Zhenyuan.

Fengdu attained Sainthood and refused the gathered Saints’ attempts to claim the Netherworld’s judge positions, saying the posts were destined for members of the Human Race. In Wushan, Yang Jian and Howling Celestial Dog encountered a winged figure and a three-headed hound amid the Dark Cult’s demonic influence.

• Fengdu welcomed East King Duke, Pingxin, and Zhenyuanzi after proving the Dao and attaining the Earthly Dao Saint Position.
• The other Saints congratulated Fengdu, while Jieyin proposed that Buddhist disciples fill the Netherworld’s vacant assistant judge posts and Primordial objected.
• Fengdu declared that the assistant judges were destined to come from the Human Race, and Pingxin confirmed that the Saints should not force the matter.
• Yang Jian and Howling Celestial Dog’s investigation revealed that Wushan had become a Dark Cult stronghold where followers practiced demonic arts and devoured their kin.
• Yang Jian and Howling Celestial Dog sensed demonic aura in the mountains and saw a black-robed, three-winged figure riding a scarlet three-headed hound.

Yang Jian confronted Hom, a three-winged Fallen Angel leading the Wushan Church of the Dark Cult, and defeated him in battle. He then helped Howling Celestial Dog kill the three-headed vicious hound.

• Hom identified himself as a three-winged Fallen Angel of the Wushan Church and claimed his lord would take over the Primordial Great World.
• Hom and his three-headed hound attacked Yang Jian and Howling Celestial Dog.
• Yang Jian repelled Hom’s demonic flames and gained the upper hand with his Yin-Yang magical power and Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade.
• Howling Celestial Dog was wounded by the vicious hound and transformed into his hundred-zhang true form to hold it off.
• Yang Jian used his Chaos Yin-Yang Battle Body to defeat Hom and cut off his head.
• Yang Jian shattered two of the vicious hound’s heads, and Howling Celestial Dog swallowed it whole.

Yang Jian and Howling Celestial Dog defeated Hom and the three-headed monstrous hound, then decided to investigate the Wushan Church before reporting to the Dao Venerable. Meanwhile, Xuluo received a mysterious scripture that revealed his circumstances to Empress Nuwa, who descended before him.

• Yang Jian dispersed the demonic energy left by Hom and the three-headed monstrous hound, and Howling Celestial Dog recovered from its wounds.
• Yang Jian chose to investigate the Wushan Church before reporting the Dark Cult to the Dao Venerable.
• The chapter described how Xuluo, an immortal of the Xu clan, had advanced through cultivation alone but stalled at the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Xuluo received and mastered the Primordial Heaven Evolution Scripture, a technique for deduction.
• When Xuluo used the scripture to investigate his circumstances, Empress Nuwa appeared before him.

Nuwa reunited with her reincarnated brother Fuxi, who had been living as the Human Race cultivator Xuluo. Fuxi chose to remain among the Human Race to protect them, and Nuwa helped him reach the Great Luo realm.

• Nuwa recognized Xuluo as her brother and used her saintly power to restore his memories of being Fuxi, Xi Huang of the Demon Race.
• Fuxi and Nuwa reunited and discussed the Witch-Demon War and the calamities that followed it.
• Fuxi acknowledged his past wrongs against the Human Race and refused Nuwa's offer to return with her to the Empress Wa Realm.
• Nuwa stayed with Fuxi and helped him break through to Great Luo Golden Immortal in less than a hundred years.