Chapter Summaries

Tongtian rejected Laozi’s proposal, severed his ties with Laozi and Yuanshi, and ended the bond of luck among the Three Pure Ones. As the Saints’ balance of power shifted, Bei Ming prepared to approach Tongtian when the Zhuxian Sword Formation fell and he was most vulnerable.

• Tongtian weighed the costs of withdrawing the Zhuxian Sword Formation against fighting the Four Saints and chose to preserve the Jie Sect’s unyielding spirit.
• Tongtian accused Laozi and Yuanshi of abandoning brotherly affection, then cut off his robe sleeve and declared that he severed all ties with them.
• The Three Pure Ones’ shared luck split into three portions, shocking Nüwa and stirring hidden joy in Jieyin.
• Bei Ming watched the rupture from the Great Void Palace and planned to aid Tongtian when the formation was broken and his Dao heart was vulnerable.

After Tongtian severed the Three Purities’ bond, Laozi and Yuanshi confronted the loss of their shared powers and plans. The four Saints agreed to attack the Zhuxian Sword Formation separately, and Laozi, Yuanshi, and Jieyin entered their assigned gates while Nüwa’s entry remained pending.

• Tongtian severed the Three Purities’ origins and ties, crippling their shared divine powers and shattering Laozi’s plans.
• Laozi angrily rebuked Tongtian, but Tongtian ignored him and entered the Zhuxian Sword Formation.
• Yuanshi proposed that the four Saints each enter one gate; Laozi chose the Dui Palace Xianxian Gate, Nüwa the Kan Land Juexian Gate, Jieyin the Li Palace Luxian Gate, and Yuanshi the Zhen Direction Zhuxian Gate.
• Yuanshi entered the Zhuxian Gate and used the All Heavens Celebrating Clouds to withstand Tongtian’s sword attack.
• Jieyin entered the Luxian Gate and used his Sarira beads and Merit Golden Lotus to resist Tongtian’s attack.
• Laozi rode the Green Ox into the Xianxian Gate, protected by the Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Exquisite Pagoda as Tongtian’s sword-intent assailed him.

The Four Saints entered the Zhuxian Sword Formation and joined forces to pin Tongtian in place while the Investiture of the Gods battle continued below. Ling Yan led the allied forces into the Ten Thousand Immortals Array, where Duobao Daoist confronted them from the array’s heart.

• Laozi, Nüwa, Yuanshi, and Jieyin passed through the four gates and gathered before Tongtian on the Bagua Platform.
• Tongtian attacked Jieyin, but the Four Saints countered together and trapped him between the four watchtowers.
• Yuanshi urged the others to hold Tongtian while the battle below proceeded, and the Saints kept him from supporting his disciples.
• At Ling Yan’s command, the Literary Sect disciples established the Gui Xu Submerged Abyss Array to isolate and stabilize the battlefield around the Ten Thousand Immortals Array.
• The allied forces entered the Ten Thousand Immortals Array and found themselves surrounded by its core and layered formations.
• Duobao Daoist greeted the intruders from a high platform as Ling Yan, Guang Chengzi, Zhunti, Kong Xuan, Lu Ya, and others began discussing how to break the array.

Ling Yan organized the allied Three Religions army to dismantle the Ten Thousand Immortals Array by attacking its key formations. As the forces moved into position, she confronted Duobao Daoist, who admitted that the Four Saints’ joint intervention had exceeded the Jie Sect’s expectations.

• Ling Yan explained that breaking the core formations and severing the Twenty-Eight Mansions would weaken the Ten Thousand Immortals Array and expose it to collapse.
• Guang Chengzi, Zhunti Daoist, Kong Xuan, and Lu Ya Daoist volunteered to attack the Taiji, Two Forms, Four Symbols, and Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirits Formations, while Ling Yan assigned the remaining targets and support duties.
• Zhunti and Guang Chengzi organized their disciples, and Nanji Xianweng divided the Chan Sect forces among the four directions to break the Twenty-Eight Mansions Formation.
• The allied forces set out to attack their assigned formations as Ling Yan appeared on the central platform before Duobao Daoist.
• Duobao Daoist told Ling Yan that the Four Saints’ arrival and their joint assault on Zhuxian had far surpassed what the Jie Sect had expected.

Duobao weighed the Jie Sect’s failing position and pleaded with Ling Yan to spare his remaining personal disciple, Jin Chanzi. Ling Yan revealed no promise, and Duobao prepared to fight her with the Ten Thousand Immortals Array’s support.

• Duobao reflected that Tongtian’s failed attempt to secure concessions from Yuanshi had led to the Saints attacking the Zhuxian Formation and the Ten Thousand Immortals Array.
• Ling Yan told Duobao they should exchange blows to settle their karma and offered him the first strike.
• Duobao admitted he could not match Ling Yan’s cultivation and asked her to spare Jin Chanzi, his last surviving personal disciple.
• Ling Yan declined to clarify her intentions, while Duobao suspected the Literary Sect meant to weaken rather than destroy the Jie Sect.
• Duobao concealed Jin Chanzi and challenged Ling Yan, raising the Duo Bao Pagoda and drawing on the Ten Thousand Immortals Array as he readied the Hun Yuan Sword.

Ling Yan defeated Duobao, captured the Ten Thousand Immortals Array’s core, and called Zhunti to join her there. Zhunti defeated Immortal Lingya, turned him into a White Elephant mount, and led the Western Religion through the formation before answering Ling Yan’s summons.

• Ling Yan took Duobao’s Duo Bao Pagoda with her Five Elements Divine Light and told him to strike with the Hun Yuan Sword.
• Duobao poured his understanding of severing into a full-power sword strike, but Ling Yan dissolved it with the Five Elements Mysterious Pivot Fan and trapped him in a strange world.
• Ling Yan captured the Ten Thousand Immortals Array’s core, disrupting the formation’s coordination.
• Zhunti entered the Two Forms Formation, broke Immortal Lingya’s attack, and transformed him into a White Elephant, which he accepted as his mount.
• Zhunti led the Western Religion’s disciples through the Ten Thousand Immortals Array, then headed to the formation eye after Ling Yan summoned him.

Ling Yan warned Zhunti against exploiting the Jie Sect’s collapse to convert disciples recklessly, and Zhunti agreed to guard a formation eye instead. Kong Xuan broke the Four Symbols Formation by defeating Immortal Jinguang, while Guang Chengzi and Chijingzi entered the remaining Taiji Formation to face Immortal Wuyun and Qiushou Immortal.

• Ling Yan cautioned Zhunti that mass conversion of Jie Sect disciples could provoke Tongtian and bring a dangerous backlash.
• Zhunti abandoned his plan to convert people on a large scale and chose to stay with Ling Yan to guard the formation eye.
• Kong Xuan entered the Four Symbols Formation and swept away Immortal Jinguang’s Spirit Treasures with his Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Kong Xuan used the Five Elements Pearl to freeze the formation, then killed Immortal Jinguang with a five-colored Claw Ray.
• The Five Elements Pearl destroyed the Four Symbols Formation, leaving the Taiji Formation as the last core formation.
• Guang Chengzi and Chijingzi entered the Taiji Formation, where Immortal Wuyun challenged Guang Chengzi and Qiushou Immortal took Chijingzi as his opponent.

Guang Chengzi revealed the Pangu Banner and used it to kill Qiushou Immortal and shatter the Taiji Formation. Immortal Wuyun escaped into the Ten Thousand Immortals Array, while Guang Chengzi and Chijingzi prepared to advance and attack the Jie Sect.

• Chijingzi protected himself and Guang Chengzi with the Wuji Bracelet as Immortal Wuyun challenged them inside the Taiji Formation.
• Guang Chengzi summoned the Pangu Banner, startling Immortal Wuyun and prompting Qiushou Immortal to charge at him.
• Guang Chengzi struck Qiushou Immortal with a Pangu Qi Blade, killing him and nearly destroying the Taiji Formation.
• Immortal Wuyun collapsed the formation and fled into the depths of the Ten Thousand Immortals Array.
• Guang Chengzi refused to pursue Immortal Wuyun and told Chijingzi to protect him while he fully activated the Pangu Banner.

Guang Chengzi used the Pangu Banner to devastate the Jie Sect disciples in the Ten Thousand Immortals Array, prompting Saint Mother Jin Ling to attack him. Moyuan intercepted her and drove her back with the Law of Force, then evaded her desperate counterattack with the Void Cloak.

• Guang Chengzi channeled Yuqing immortal light into the Pangu Banner and unleashed waves of Qi blades that killed or wounded Jie Sect disciples across the array.
• Saint Mother Jin Ling charged Guang Chengzi with the Four Symbols Pagoda, Flying Gold Sword, and Dragon Tiger Jade Ruyi.
• Moyuan blocked Jin Ling’s path and used the Bone Prison to shatter the dragon and White Tiger manifestations of the Dragon Tiger Jade Ruyi.
• Moyuan met Jin Ling’s Flying Gold Sword with the Heavenly Mang God Swords, using the Law of Force to break its sharp qi and send her flying.
• Moyuan pressed his attack, but Jin Ling unleashed Flying Gold Dawn Break in a life-for-life strike.
• Moyuan used the Void Cloak to become illusory, allowing Jin Ling’s sword intent to pass through him without harm.

Moyuan and Guang Chengzi killed Saint Mother Jin Ling and Saint Mother Guiling, while Wukong broke the Nine Luminaries Star Formation and defeated its star lords. With the formation’s leaders dead, Wukong was left to destroy its remaining structure.

• Moyuan struck down Saint Mother Jin Ling, and her True Spirit was taken by the Investiture of the Gods List.
• Guang Chengzi slew Saint Mother Guiling with the Pangu Banner, sending her True Spirit to the list.
• Wukong endured the Nine Luminaries Star Formation’s attacks and discerned its weak points through battle.
• Chong Yingbiao urged the Nine Luminaries to attack, and Wang Feng charged Wukong but was knocked back by his staff.
• Wukong restrained the Sun, Moon, Fire, and Water Luminaries with his treasures, disrupting the formation’s operation.
• Wukong attacked the formation’s exposed weak points and defeated all nine star lords, then prepared to destroy the formation’s structure.

Wukong destroyed the Nine Luminaries Star Formation, severing the Ten Thousand Immortals Array’s connection between its upper and lower formations. Xue Ling held off the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Formation while gathering strength, then began playing a melody that promised to freeze its disciples and their powers.

• Wukong unleashed Law of Heaven and Earth and smashed the Nine Luminaries Star Formation, breaking the hub that linked the Ten Thousand Immortals Array’s other formations.
• Xue Ling protected herself within the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Formation using the Nine Grade Holy Snow Lotus Platform, Lingbo Umbrella, and Snow Moon Still Heart Mirror.
• Huang Jingyuan urged the seventy-two Jie Sect disciples to join forces and use Earthly Fiend Soul-Devouring, but Chen Jizhen warned them to avoid a reckless attack.
• Xue Ling let the disciples debate while she gathered power for a single decisive strike.
• Xue Ling began playing the Ning Shuang Qin, releasing an intangible chill as her defensive treasures drew back to make way for the melody.

Xue Ling destroyed the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Formation with the Ning Shuang Qin, while Lu Ya attacked the Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirits Array with the Nine Yang Beads and revealed his Solar True Fire. Lu Ya’s assault began to melt the array’s defenses, leaving the Jie Sect formation in disarray.

• Xue Ling played the Ning Shuang Qin, freezing the seventy-two Jie Sect disciples and their formation in place.
• Xue Ling closed the Lingbo Umbrella, shattering the frozen formation and its disciples as their True Spirits were drawn into the Investiture of the Gods List.
• Lu Ya entered the Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirits Array and used the Nine Yang Beads to shield himself from its sword qi with Solar True Fire.
• The Jie Sect disciples recognized the Solar True Fire and began to suspect Lu Ya’s origins.
• Lu Ya expanded the Solar True Fire, melting parts of the array and damaging the disciples’ protective treasures until their formation became disordered.

Lu Ya destroyed the Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirits Formation, while Nanji Xianweng defeated the Qinglong Seven Mansions. In the White Tiger Seven Mansions, Randeng abandoned Dao Xing Tianzun and fled with Juliusun, leaving Dao Xing to be killed.

• Lu Ya ambushed the Jie Sect disciples in the broken Heavenly Spirit Array, killing more than twenty before the survivors fled.
• Lu Ya used the Solar Corona Divine Sword to burn away the Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirits Formation and its foundations.
• Nanji Xianweng entered the Qinglong Seven Mansions Array and burned its seven Jie Sect guards to death.
• Randeng, Juliusun, and Dao Xing Tianzun were besieged in the White Tiger Seven Mansions Array, where their Spirit Treasures failed to break through.
• Randeng fled with Juliusun, leaving Dao Xing Tianzun exposed to the seven Mansions, who killed him and sent his True Spirit to the Investiture of the Gods List.

Immortal Wuyun ambushed and killed Huanglong Zhenren in the Northern Xuanwu Seven Mansions Formation, then revealed Duobao’s secret order to preserve the Jie Sect’s survivors as its seed of revival. The chapter ended with the northern mansions weighing whether to withdraw, knowing their departure would leave the remaining disciples exposed.

• Nanji Xianweng arrived too late to save the White Tiger Seven Mansions and killed them in revenge for Dao Xing Tianzun.
• Immortal Wuyun entered the Northern Xuanwu Seven Mansions Formation and killed Huanglong Zhenren with a surprise strike, forcing Yuding Zhenren, Taiyi Zhenren, and Qingxu Moral True Monarch to flee.
• Immortal Wuyun recalled that Duobao had secretly ordered him and Saint Mother Wudang to retreat with reliable Jie Sect disciples if defeat became inevitable.
• Immortal Wuyun showed Doumuxie Duobao’s command token and ordered the northern mansions to withdraw toward Golden Turtle Island.
• Weiyueyan warned that leaving would expose the other Jie Sect disciples, while Xurishu argued that staying would only bring more deaths.

Immortal Wuyun led the Northern Xuanwu Seven Mansions in fleeing the collapsing Ten Thousand Immortals Array, but they were trapped by the Literary Sect’s Gui Xu Submerged Abyss Array. As the southern Vermilion Bird Seven Mansions also retreated, they too were caught in the array, leaving the remaining Jie Sect forces imprisoned outside the battlefield.

• Immortal Wuyun persuaded Doumuxie and the other Northern Xuanwu Seven Mansions to abandon their positions and escape north.
• Immortal Wuyun’s group entered the Gui Xu Submerged Abyss Array, where their attacks failed to break through and they were trapped.
• The eastern and western Seven Mansions fell to Nanji Xianweng, while the Northern Xuanwu Seven Mansions’ departure shattered another support of the Ten Thousand Immortals Array.
• Jingmuhan led the southern Vermilion Bird Seven Mansions in retreat as Lingbao Grandmaster and the Chan Sect Golden Immortals advanced.
• The southern Seven Mansions fled into the Gui Xu Submerged Abyss Array and became trapped like Immortal Wuyun’s group.

Yun Biao forced Saint Mother Wudang to flee, while Lei Li fought Immortal Jingu, Piluxian, and Immortal Chang'er Dingguang in the Ten Thousand Immortals Array. Dingguang abandoned his fellow disciples, leaving Lei Li poised to strike the broken formation.

• Saint Mother Wudang unleashed a freezing sword technique to cover her escape, then fled to a hidden node in the Ten Thousand Immortals Array.
• Yun Biao gave up pursuing Wudang and rushed toward another battlefield.
• Lei Li used the Lei Yin Breaking Calamity Drum to disrupt Immortal Jingu’s hoops and Immortal Chang'er Dingguang’s Dingguang Bead, then broke Piluxian’s Reed Leaf Sword Array.
• Immortal Chang'er Dingguang claimed he would seek reinforcements but immediately fled the fight, collapsing the Three Talents Battle Formation.
• Lei Li seized the opening and gathered wind and thunder at the tip of his spear for a killing blow against Immortal Jingu and Piluxian.

Lei Li killed Immortal Jingu and Piluxian as they fled the ruined Ten Thousand Immortals Array. Immortal Chang'er Dingguang surrendered to the Western Religion and agreed to be guarded by its members.

• Lei Li killed Immortal Jingu with a wind-and-thunder spear strike, and Jingu’s True Spirit entered the Investiture of the Gods List.
• The Lei Yin Breaking Calamity Drum disrupted Piluxian’s escape, allowing Lei Li to catch and kill him.
• Immortal Chang'er Dingguang fled through the ruined array and was intercepted by Yao Shi, Maitreya, and Mahasthamaprapta.
• Maitreya persuaded Immortal Chang'er Dingguang to defect to the Western Religion, and he eagerly accepted.
• Mahasthamaprapta said the Western Religion would guard the new defector, and Immortal Chang'er Dingguang agreed to their arrangements.

Ling Yan and Zhunti discussed the Western Religion’s ambitions as the Ten Thousand Immortals Array neared collapse. Ling Yan then destroyed the array’s remaining foundation with a Five Elements handprint, ending the battle of formations.

• Maitreya captured the cooperative Immortal Chang'er Dingguang inside his Golden Cymbals, while Yao Shi urged the others to clear the remaining array participants.
• Ling Yan sensed that the Ten Thousand Immortals Array had been reduced to a collapsing shell and told Zhunti the long conflict was nearing its end.
• Zhunti spoke of bringing order to the Primordial Wilderness, but Ling Yan recognized that the Western Religion ultimately sought the West’s supremacy and that its cooperation with the Literary Sect could someday fail.
• Ling Yan gathered the Five Elements into a vast handprint and struck the remaining structure of the Ten Thousand Immortals Array.
• The handprint dissolved the array’s last formations and components, leaving the devastated land exposed.

After the Ten Thousand Immortals Array fell, Duobao and Immortal Wuyun were captured by the Literary Sect, while Saint Mother Wudang escaped. The Jie Sect suffered devastating losses, but its surviving leaders and captured disciples left Tongtian a chance to preserve the sect’s foundation.

• The Five Elements Divine Light seized Duobao, Immortal Wuyun, and the Northern and Southern Seven Mansions, bringing them into the Five Elements Heaven and Earth.
• Immortal Wuyun reunited with Duobao and reported his failed attempt to break out of the Gui Xu Submerged Abyss Array; Duobao accepted that they were prisoners after the Ten Thousand Immortals Array’s defeat.
• As Suyao and the Literary Sect disciples withdrew the Gui Xu Submerged Abyss Array, Saint Mother Wudang fled toward the East Sea while surviving Jie Sect disciples scattered.
• The Literary Sect entered the battlefield to round up the remaining Jie Sect disciples, and the battle ended with more than a thousand disciples converted, several leaders dead or captured, and Wudang the only major figure to escape.
• Jin Ling’s entry onto the Investiture of the Gods List made her Great Emperor Gouchen, and the many Jie Sect disciples entering the list strengthened her faction in the Heavenly Court.

Tongtian Sect Master reflected on the Jie Sect’s losses and its chances of surviving the tribulation while the Four Saints continued to suppress him inside the Zhuxian Sword Formation. After the Ten Thousand Immortals Array fell, Yuanshi Tianzun called on Laozi, Nüwa, and Jieyin to take the four swords and break the formation.

• Tongtian Sect Master sensed the collapse of the Ten Thousand Immortals Array and concluded that the Jie Sect could recover as long as its roots and core disciples endured.
• Tongtian Sect Master mocked Yuanshi Tianzun because Daoxing and Huanglong had also been destined for the Divine Path, and Yuanshi defended their fate while condemning the Jie Sect’s casualties.
• Tongtian Sect Master drew on the formation’s killing aura and attacked Yuanshi Tianzun with the Qingping Sword.
• Yuanshi Tianzun proposed that he, Laozi, Nüwa, and Jieyin take the four immortal swords and dismantle the Zhuxian Sword Formation.
• The Four Saints joined their attacks to sever Tongtian Sect Master’s connection to the formation.