Recaps

Tongtian gathered the Jie Sect at Luoyi to defend its place in the coming tribulation, while the Chan Sect secured help from Laozi, Nüwa, and the Western Religion. As the Saints attacked the Zhuxian Sword Formation and the allied forces entered the Ten Thousand Immortals Array, Ling Yan and Duobao prepared to settle their own conflict.

• Guang Chengzi returned the Golden Cloud Crown to Tongtian, then struck Saint Mother Guiling with Fan Tian Yin and escaped into Biyou Palace as Tongtian declared a contest with Yuanshi at Luoyi.
• Tongtian asked Beiming to remain neutral, while Yuanshi gathered Laozi, Nüwa, and Jieyin to help break the Jie Sect’s formations.
• On the Changping battlefield, Yun Biao defeated Zhao Gongming and Qiongxiao before Suyao intervened, exposed Lu Ya’s curse, and took Zhao Gongming and the Sanxiao away to discuss the Dao.
• Bai Qi defeated Zhao Kuo at Changping, and the Jie Sect assembled the Ten Thousand Immortals Array at Luoyi as Qin advanced to claim the Nine Cauldrons.
• Ling Yan arrived at Luoyi with the Literary Sect and Kong Xuan, while Zhunti offered Western Religion’s support under Ling Yan’s direction.
• Tongtian deployed the Zhuxian Sword Formation, but he severed his ties with Laozi and Yuanshi before the Four Saints entered the formation and trapped him on the Bagua Platform.
• At Ling Yan’s command, the allies entered the Ten Thousand Immortals Array and divided up attacks on its core formations and the Twenty-Eight Mansions.
• Ling Yan faced Duobao, who asked her to spare Jin Chanzi before concealing his disciple and readying the Duo Bao Pagoda and Hun Yuan Sword.

The Ten Thousand Immortals Array fell, ending the Investiture killing tribulation and leaving Tongtian to rebuild the Jie Sect while Beiming negotiated a new westward journey. Jieyin and Zhunti then founded the Buddhist Sect, drawing captured Jie Sect disciples and Mystic Gate fortune into the new order.

• Ling Yan, Kong Xuan, Guang Chengzi, Wukong, Xue Ling, and other allies broke the Ten Thousand Immortals Array, while many Jie Sect leaders fell and Saint Mother Wudang escaped.
• Ling Yan captured Duobao, Immortal Wuyun, and the Seven Mansions, while the surviving Jie Sect disciples scattered and Jin Ling’s True Spirit became Great Emperor Gouchen.
• Beiming intervened when the Saints confronted Tongtian, brought them away from Luoyi to negotiate, and helped end the Investiture killing tribulation as Jiang Ziya held the Investiture Grand Ceremony.
• Beiming proposed a westward journey to spread the Dao, and the Saints agreed on a team that would include Sun Wukong and Jin Chanzi, with Laozi and Jieyin competing over the remaining roles.
• Tongtian accepted Beiming’s help in rebuilding the Jie Sect, then traded the Qingping Sword for Duobao and the other captives’ freedom and returned with them to Golden Turtle Island.
• Jieyin and Zhunti prepared to establish the Buddhist Sect, while Randeng and Juliusun joined them and more than a thousand captured Jie Sect disciples awaited conversion.
• Jieyin and Zhunti proclaimed the Buddhist Sect, converted the captives, and drew Mystic Gate fortune into the new sect, while Beiming and Nüwa saw an opening for the Demon Sect.

As the Mystic Gate sects and the Human Race prepared for the Journey to the West, Wutian’s Demon Sect seized the Heavenly Court and ignited a calamity across the Primordial Wilderness. The allied forces drove the demons west, while Ling Yan pursued a breakthrough and Wukong confronted the fleeing Six Eared Macaque.

• Yuanshi Tianzun attacked Jieyin over Juliusun, but agreed to spare him after Jieyin offered the Saint karma he owed.
• Tongtian rallied the surviving Jie Sect disciples, ordered Jin Chanzi to undergo ten lifetimes of reincarnation, and sent his followers to prepare for the Journey to the West.
• Demon Spirit Saint corrupted Haotian and seized the Heavenly Court, prompting Yaochi and the Four Emperors to rally the defenders beneath the Zhou Tian Star Array.
• Wutian re-established the Demon Sect and unleashed its followers across the Primordial Wilderness, beginning a new killing tribulation.
• Nüwa and the Three Sovereigns mobilized humanity against the demons, and Fuxi directed the allied campaign while Liu Bang supplied the war effort from the rear.
• Demon Spirit Saint forced Haotian to flee toward Mount Sumeru, but Bei Ming defeated the demon and imprisoned the Soul Demon God's Split Soul.
• Bei Ming obtained Hongjun’s consent to use Heavenly Dao power in the Six Souls Banner, agreeing to erase the Devil Realm after the invaders and internal chaos were defeated.
• Ling Yan joined Ming He and Fuxi’s forces at Asura City, then the allied army routed the Demon Sect across the Eastern Continent as Wukong blocked Six Eared Macaque’s escape westward.

The Primordial Wilderness’s forces united to repel Wutian, the Demon Sect, and invading Chaos Gods, while Ling Yan and Bei Ming helped end the crisis and restore the West. The arc ended with new Saints emerging and Bei Ming entrusting the Literary Sect to Ling Yan before setting out for Hundun.

• Sun Wukong defeated the Six Eared Macaque, sealed him in the Eight Desolations Domain Suppression Tower, and later refined his origin to reach the Golden Immortal of the Origin realm.
• Fuxi led the ten thousand clans’ alliance west, but the invasion of Chaos creatures forced the Five Saints and Bei Ming to confront three Chaos Gods as the western battlefield erupted.
• Bei Ming killed the Soul Demon God, broke through to the late stage of the Origin Daluo Golden Immortal, and defeated the Sword Demon God while the allied forces fought Wutian and the Demon Sect.
• Ling Yan and Xuantian trapped Wutian in the Innate Five Elements Great Formation, and Ling Yan became a Saint, destroyed Wutian and the invading forces, and healed the Primordial Wilderness.
• Bei Ming erased the Devil Realm and Luo Hou with Final Destruction, then used the Soul Demon God’s origin and Ming He’s Blood Sea to restore the West’s spiritual veins.
• The Heavenly Dao rewarded the defenders with merit and Hongmeng Purple Qi, allowing Pingxin to break free of her restraints and Ming He to become a Saint.
• Bei Ming appointed Ling Yan as the Literary Sect’s sect master and entrusted her with its treasures before leaving for Hundun with Mystic Turtle.