Chapter Summaries

Nuwa sent Lingzhuzi to be reincarnated in Li Jing’s household, while Di Xin ascended the throne and moved to crush Yuan Futong’s rebellion. Lu Tian ordered the Western human race to answer the uprising by force, and war loomed as Wen Zhong and Ji Chang led the campaign toward the east.

• Nuwa sent Lingzhuzi to the Underworld to be reincarnated as Li Jing’s son, and Lu Tian approved the decree while deciding to wait before recruiting him into the Western Teachings.
• Di Yi died, and Shou Wang ascended the throne as Di Xin with Wen Zhong and Huang Feihu assisting him.
• Di Xin learned that Yuan Futong had rallied seventy-two feudal lords in rebellion and claimed allegiance to Jiang Chuheng.
• Lu Tian ordered Di Xin to send troops against the rebels and warned that any sect that interfered would be sent onto the Shepherd God List.
• Di Xin appointed Wen Zhong to lead the campaign with Ji Chang as his assistant, while Zhending, Feng Hou, Yang Jiao, and Yang Jian emerged from seclusion and Jiang Chuheng awaited the coming conflict.

Jiang Chuheng prepared to suppress the seventy-two rebel feudal lords, but they vanished before the Shang forces could find them. Meanwhile, Lu Tian deployed Western Teachings disciples in the East, perfected his Buddhist cultivation, and severed his Good Corpse as Kongzhu Tathagata.

• Dingguang Xian advised Jiang Chuheng to destroy the seventy-two feudal lords and present them to the Shang King, and Jiang Chuheng prepared to lead the army against them.
• Tongtian Jiaozhu sent Duobao and Shen Gongbao to investigate the scheme, while Lu Tian's true body headed toward Chentang Pass and his Evil Corpse carried the Shepherd God List away.
• Wen Zhong discovered that Yuan Futong's forces had disappeared, and Feng Hou could not divine their whereabouts; Lu Tian's Evil Corpse told the Western Teachings disciples to keep searching and sent Zhending to bring the Eight Divisions of Heavenly Dragons east.
• Lu Tian reached Chentang Pass, inspected his cultivation with the Spirit Clarity Mirror, and perfected the flaws in his Buddhist Dao through the dream world.
• Lu Tian severed his Buddhist cultivation into the Twelve-grade Merit Golden Lotus, advancing both his true body and Evil Corpse to the middle stage of the Quasi-Saint realm.
• Lu Tian named his newly formed Good Corpse Kongzhu Tathagata.

Lu Tian watched the rebellion divide the realm and the Killing Tribulation draw Nezha into slaughter, while Jieyin prepared the Western Teachings to advance east. After Nezha killed Biyun Boy and Caiyun Boy, Shi Ji confronted him at Li Jing’s residence, where Nezha attacked her first.

• Lu Tian severed his Good Corpse as Kongzhu Tathagata, entrusted him with the Clear Void Spirit Mirror, and told him to watch over Nezha.
• Yuan Futong allied with Li Jing, and Ji Chang joined Yuan Futong’s rebellion against Wen Zhong, splitting the realm and drawing the Phoenix Clan to support Ji Chang.
• Jieyin ordered the Western Teachings to prepare for an eastern campaign, while Lu Tian predicted that the Killing Tribulation would begin within days.
• Nezha took the Universe Bow and Sky-Shaking Arrow and killed Biyun Boy, then killed Caiyun Boy when he confronted him; Lu Tian used the Shepherd God List to capture both True Spirits.
• Shi Ji tracked Nezha to Li Jing’s residence and brought him before Li Jing, but Nezha attacked her with the Universe Ring, forcing her to defend herself.

Shi Ji pursued Nezha to Qianyuan Mountain, where Taiyi Zhenren killed her, but Lu Tian took her True Spirit from the Investiture of the Gods List and appointed her City God. Lu Tian then drove Taiyi into madness and fought Yuanshi Tianzun with the Underworld’s power; Jieyin and Zhunti appeared to shield Lu Tian as Yuanshi challenged their defense of him.

• Nezha fled from Shi Ji toward Qianyuan Mountain, where Taiyi Zhenren killed Shi Ji after she demanded that he answer for Nezha’s crimes.
• Lu Tian drew Shi Ji’s True Spirit from the Investiture of the Gods List and appointed her City God, shocking Taiyi.
• Lu Tian’s Evil Corpse triggered Taiyi’s inner demon and trapped him in illusions, while Yuanshi Tianzun saw the demonic qi and attacked from Kunlun Mountain.
• Lu Tian merged with the Twelve-Petaled World Destroying Black Lotus and drew power from the Underworld to meet Yuanshi’s destructive strike with the God Slaying Spear.
• Yuanshi moved to capture Lu Tian, but Jieyin and Zhunti arrived and shielded him, prompting Yuanshi to question their defense of him.

Lu Tian watched Jieyin and Yuanshi Tianzun fight in the chaos after Yuanshi attacked him, while Zhunti and other Sages intervened to prevent the conflict from spreading. As the Sages gathered, Taiyi Zhenren succumbed to his inner demon and agreed to join Western Teachings after the Investiture of the Gods.

• Yuanshi Tianzun attacked Lu Tian over Taiyi Zhenren, prompting Jieyin to pursue Yuanshi into the chaos and challenge him.
• Jieyin and Yuanshi exchanged powerful treasures in a prolonged battle, but neither gained the upper hand.
• The Supreme Pure Sage arrived, Zhunti blocked his path, and Tongtian Jiaozhu and Styx appeared as tensions between the Sages escalated.
• Lu Tian decided he needed to refine the Clear Void Spirit Mirror and ultimately attain Sainthood to protect himself from Sage-level threats.
• Taiyi Zhenren's Dao heart collapsed under his inner demon, and he submitted to Lu Tian, who promised to make him the Tathagata of Western Teachings after the great tribulation.

After learning that three Jie Teachings disciples’ True Spirits had vanished from the Investiture of the Gods List, Yuanshi Tianzun and the Grand Pure Saint received the Dao Ancestor’s order to proceed as usual. Yuanshi went to recruit Haotian to their side, but Lu Tian arrived before they could agree.

• After Lu Tian left, Yuanshi Tianzun learned that Taiyi had killed Shi Ji and Nezha had killed Caiyun and Biyun, but their True Spirits were missing from the Investiture of the Gods List.
• The Dao Ancestor sent a decree declaring the anomaly part of the tribulation’s evolution and ordering the Saints to continue as usual.
• Yuanshi Tianzun dismissed the possibility that Lu Tian had taken the True Spirits, then agreed with the Grand Pure Saint to seek Haotian’s help.
• Yuanshi showed Haotian the list and proposed joining forces to identify the person interfering with it.
• Lu Tian arrived at the Heavenly Court and announced himself as a humble monk, interrupting Yuanshi’s proposal.

Lu Tian visited Haotian and Yao Ji, using the missing True Spirits from the Investiture of the Gods List to cast suspicion on Yuanshi while arranging Western Teachings disciples within the Six Desire Heavens. He returned to Chentang Pass, where he found Nezha frightened amid the ruined Qianyuan Mountain range.

• Lu Tian entered Lingxiao Palace and told Haotian and Yuanshi that the True Spirits of Jie Teaching disciples were not returning to the Investiture of the Gods List.
• Lu Tian suggested that Yuanshi might have staged the disappearance, prompting Yuanshi to deny responsibility and leave to consult the other Sages.
• Lu Tian visited Yao Ji, confirmed that Yang Jiao and his siblings were well, and asked her to look after Western Teachings disciples in the Six Desire Heavens.
• Yao Ji agreed to keep the disciples close and give them important duties, allowing Lu Tian to monitor the Six Desire Heavens through them.
• Lu Tian returned to Chentang Pass, found the Qianyuan Mountain range in ruins, and sensed that Nezha was terrified and uneasy.

Nezha killed Ao Bing and returned to Chentang Pass with his Dragon Sinew, prompting the East Sea Dragon King to bring the Four Seas dragons to demand justice. As the dragons threatened to destroy the city, Li Jing offered Nezha to them, and Lady Yin mourned the catastrophe her son had brought upon the family.

• Nezha attacked the East Sea patrol, then bound and killed Ao Bing and took his Dragon Sinew.
• Lu Tian visited Yang Chan, told her that her mother was well, and raised her next assessment's difficulty by thirty percent.
• Nezha returned to Chentang Pass, where Lady Yin welcomed him and Li Jing ordered him to remain inside.
• Nezha showed Li Jing Ao Bing's sinew and boasted that he had killed a dragon, so Li Jing tried to take him to the Dragon Palace to beg forgiveness.
• The East Sea Dragon King arrived with three other dragons and threatened to drown Chentang Pass unless Li Jing answered for Ao Bing's death.
• Li Jing offered Nezha to the Dragon King, while Lady Yin wept and blamed him for endangering the family.

Lu Tian resurrected Nezha in a lotus body and later ended the conflict between Nezha and Li Jing by giving Li Jing an Exquisite Pagoda that could restrain his son. After arranging their reconciliation, Taiyi Zhenren went to meet Huang Long as he restored Qianyuan Mountain.

• Nezha returned his flesh and bones to his parents, but Lu Tian caught his soul and gave him a lotus body under the name Kongzhu Tathagata.
• Nezha trained for half a year, attained the Taiyi Dao Fruit, and attacked Li Jing at Chentang Pass before defeating Muzha.
• Taiyi Zhenren directed Li Jing to seek Kongzhu Tathagata, and Lu Tian summoned Li Jing and Nezha into his pure land.
• Lu Tian gave Li Jing an Exquisite Pagoda that made Nezha submit, and Nezha agreed to return home with his father.
• Taiyi Zhenren visited Huang Long while he was repairing Qianyuan Mountain and greeted him.

Taiyi won Huang Long’s favor with a set of high-grade Houtian Spiritual Treasures, while Lu Tian watched the eastern stalemate and helped the Western Teachings prepare a trap at Square Inch Mountain. The chapter ended with the Western Teachings readying an array that would imitate the appearance of an Innate Supreme Treasure to lure eastern cultivators.

• Taiyi thanked Huang Long for helping at Qianyuan Mountain and gave him a complete set of high-grade Houtian Spiritual Treasures, which Huang Long accepted.
• Taiyi and Huang Long grew close while repairing Qianyuan Mountain, as Ji Chang’s western forces, Di Xin, and Jiang Chuheng remained locked in a three-way stalemate.
• Lu Tian obtained an immortal sword and a swastika talisman seal at Nine Palace Mountain and Putuo Mountain, then learned that a spiritually rich mountain had appeared in the west.
• Jieyin and Zhunti proposed staging the appearance of a powerful treasure at Square Inch Mountain to draw in eastern powerhouses, and Lu Tian offered two high-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures for the scheme.
• Jieyin devised an array using Lu Tian’s treasures and eighty-one high-grade Houtian Spiritual Treasures to mimic an Innate Supreme Treasure’s appearance, while Styx and Lu Tian prepared to stop any Saints who intervened.

Lu Tian received the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe at Square Inch Mountain and used it to try to turn his dying Zero World into reality, but he lacked the power to complete the process. He then designed a more ambitious world called One World and returned to Square Inch Mountain, leaving its evolution to unfold inside the Chaos Bead.

• Lu Tian reached Square Inch Mountain, discovered its hidden spatial realm, and received the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe from the system.
• Lu Tian entered the Chaos Bead and used the axe to split the boundary between illusion and reality, causing the Zero World to appear within the chaotic realm.
• Lu Tian exhausted his strength trying to transform the Zero World into reality, and the world vanished when he failed to complete the second step of opening heaven.
• Lu Tian planned a new Nine Heavens and Ten Earths framework, drawing on his knowledge of the underworld and the laws of heaven, earth, and humanity.
• Lu Tian spent thirty thousand years refining One World, a realm with the potential to nurture Grand Unity Golden Immortals, then left it to evolve and returned to Square Inch Mountain.

Lu Tian’s formation on Square Inch Mountain appeared to reveal an unfinished Innate Supreme Treasure, drawing six Sages into a standoff and their disciples into a contest for it. As the disciples entered the mountain, Hongjun prepared to add powerful spiritual treasures to the conflict.

• Lu Tian used eighty-one High-grade Acquired Spiritual Treasures and two Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures to form a concealment-shrouded formation on Square Inch Mountain, causing a world-shaking display of treasure light.
• Yuanshi tried to seize the mountain, but Zhunti, Tongtian, and Ancestor Minghe intervened, bringing all six Sages into a standoff over the apparent Innate Supreme Treasure.
• Ancestor Minghe proposed that the Sages let their disciples compete, and the six Sages agreed as the teachings assembled at Square Inch Mountain.
• Taqing, Yuanshi, and Tongtian armed their disciples with powerful spiritual treasures, while the Western Teachings relied on Lu Tian, Black Tortoise, and their other Quasi-Saints.
• The disciples entered Square Inch Mountain as the Sages restrained one another, while Hongjun opened the Universe Cauldron and released several supreme treasures, including an immortal sword.

Hongjun secretly caused a genuine Innate Supreme Treasure, the Wisdom Sword, to emerge in Square Inch Mountain, sending Lu Tian and the sects searching for its scattered sword qi. Lu Tian followed a clue into a powerful stranger’s miniature world and agreed to compete in world creation for the right to take the sword qi.

• Hongjun secretly triggered the Wisdom Sword’s emergence in Square Inch Mountain, shocking Lu Tian, Jieyin, Zhunti, Styx, and the Three Pure Ones.
• The Wisdom Sword released nine streams of sword qi and vanished; Black Tortoise captured one stream in a spiritual sword and used it to determine the treasure’s direction.
• Lu Tian split from Pharmacist, Maitreya, Dizang, and Black Tortoise, then followed Black Tortoise’s turtle-shell divinations through the void to a mysterious small world.
• The old man who ruled the small world refused to surrender the sword qi and challenged Lu Tian to a contest in creating worlds.
• Lu Tian accepted the challenge, and the old man set a forty-nine-day limit for each of them to create a world inside a flower.

Lu Tian studied an old man's heaven-opening secret art, exchanged his newly created world for another demonstration, and obtained a second stream of sword qi. Following the remaining sword qi's trail, he entered a hidden space, where he recognized Randeng behind an array and found himself facing the flames of two sacred lamps.

• Lu Tian used the Virtual-Real World method to create a world in a flower and watched the old man demonstrate his heaven-opening art, recording the process in a dream.
• Lu Tian traded the world he created for another demonstration, then accepted the old man's spirit sword and left with two streams of sword qi.
• Hongjun appeared before the old man, promised to explain the truth about the vanished guests of Purple Firmament Palace in seven days, and departed with Lu Tian's flower.
• Lu Tian used Black Tortoise's tortoise shell to locate another stream of sword qi, broke the concealed array in a spatial crevice, and entered the space within.
• Lu Tian resisted the Yellow Springs Netherflame and Myriad Spirit Ancient Flame with divine waters and called out Randeng, who was hiding nearby.

Lu Tian defeated Randeng in their contest over sword qi, seized both of his spiritual lamps, and then overwhelmed Guangchengzi with the Human Emperor Seal. Randeng escaped the fight, while Guangchengzi remained under pressure and Randeng began coveting Lu Tian’s treasure.

• Lu Tian found and sealed the drifting sword qi, then tracked Randeng through his karmic traces and confronted him.
• Lu Tian fought Randeng, pursued him after he fled, and took the Spiritual Coffin Lamp and Jade Void Glazed Lamp.
• Guangchengzi arrived to challenge Lu Tian, and Lu Tian met him with the Human Emperor Seal and Moon Washing Blade.
• Lu Tian battered Guangchengzi’s Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud until Guangchengzi could barely defend himself.
• Randeng watched Lu Tian’s strength and began to desire the Human Emperor Seal.

Lu Tian overwhelmed Guangchengzi, took the Sky-Turning Seal, and pursued him until Xuandu arrived to intervene. Their clash was interrupted when Duobao trapped the Chan Teachings and Western Teachings elites in the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation; the allies broke the formation, and Lu Tian seized the Immortal-Slaying Sword.

• Lu Tian struck Guangchengzi with the Human Emperor Seal, and Guangchengzi fled after Lu Tian took the Sky-Turning Seal with Sleeve Universe.
• Xuandu arrived with the Taiji Diagram and gave Guangchengzi a golden pill, but a sudden sword formation drew Lu Tian, Xuandu, Guangchengzi, and Randeng away.
• The four found Duobao suppressing seven Chan Teachings and Western Teachings experts inside the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.
• Xuandu's Taiji Diagram failed to weaken the formation, so Lu Tian, Xuandu, Guangchengzi, and Randeng joined forces to shatter it.
• Duobao suffered a backlash as the formation collapsed, and Lu Tian captured the Immortal-Slaying Sword while Xuandu and Guangchengzi missed the other swords.

Lu Tian and his allies were trapped in the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation, whose yin winds eroded their foundations, and Black Tortoise found a way to resist it with the Formless Immeasurable Formation. As they began setting it up, Zhao Gongming attacked Lu Tian to stop them, while the Five Sages watched Tongtian and hesitated to intervene.

• The Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation trapped Lu Tian, his fellow disciples, and the members of the Chan Sect and Human Teachings, while its yin winds began eroding their foundations.
• Black Tortoise deduced that Lu Tian could use the Formless Immeasurable Formation to protect everyone temporarily, and Lu Tian persuaded Guangchengzi and Xuandu to join forces with them.
• Lu Tian directed the cultivators to take their positions and combine their mana, while Tongtian faced the Five Sages with calm resolve as they watched the battle.
• Yunxiao noticed the formation taking shape, and Zhao Gongming rushed to attack Lu Tian while the Three Xiao sisters continued treating Duobao.
• Lu Tian met Zhao Gongming with the Human Emperor Seal and Moon Washing Blade as Zhao Gongming counterattacked with his magical treasures.

Lu Tian led the Western Teachings in breaking the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation and claiming the Immortal-Slaying Sword after Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao retreated. When Xuandu and Guangchengzi challenged the Western Teachings for the treasure, Lu Tian defeated Guangchengzi and secured the sword, leaving the other sects wary of him.

• Zhao Gongming failed to move Lu Tian, who seized the Sea-Calming Divine Beads and Golden Flood Dragon Scissors before the Formless Immeasurable Formation was completed.
• Lu Tian gathered the formation’s power and battered the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation, prompting Tongtian Jiaozhu to order Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao to retreat with the injured Duobao.
• Lu Tian shattered the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation and seized the spiritual swords, which converged with the other swords to reveal the Innate Supreme Treasure.
• Tongtian Jiaozhu withdrew, but Xuandu attacked the Western Teachings with the Taiji Diagram as Lu Tian formed the formation again and broke its golden bridge.
• Taiyi Zhenren trapped the Human Emperor Seal in the Heaven Suppressing Coffin while Guangchengzi attacked, but Lu Tian recovered the seal, knocked Guangchengzi out of the fight, and claimed the Immortal-Slaying Sword.

Lu Tian defeated the rival teachings and brought the immortal sword back to the Western Teachings, while Yuanshi Tianzun planned to create an incarnation to restrain him. Lu Tian and the Western Saints uncovered clues about ancient, hidden arrangements tied to the Three Pure Ones and the Dao Ancestor, then chose to focus on the Investiture of the Gods tribulation.

• Lu Tian seized the immortal sword, forcing Xuandu and the Chan Teachings experts to retreat after their defeat.
• Yuanshi Tianzun resolved to sever his evil thoughts and create the Primordial Heavenly Demon to restrain Lu Tian, with the Supreme Pure Saint agreeing to help.
• Lu Tian returned to the Western Teachings, where Jieyin used Golden Light of Merit to heal the wounded and Lu Tian took back two Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures.
• Ancestor Minghe concealed the group from heavenly scrutiny, and Lu Tian recounted meeting a mysterious expert while tracing the sword aura.
• Minghe revealed that his memories of an old incarnation had been erased, and Jieyin connected the mystery to the long-absent Three Corpses of the Three Pure Ones.
• Jieyin urged the group to prioritize the Investiture of the Gods tribulation, and Lu Tian offered to enshrine the immortal sword in the Western Teachings.

Lu Tian maneuvered to influence the Investiture of the Gods by arranging for Bai Jian to guard Jiang Ziya’s Investiture Platform, while the conflict between Western Qi and Yin Shang escalated. Jiang Ziya recruited Bai Jian, and Shen Gongbao enlisted the Four Saints of Jiulong Island to oppose him.

• Lu Tian left the Immortal-Slaying Sword sealed in the Netherworld, then went to his western secret world to refine a world within the Sea-Calming Divine Beads.
• Ji Chang won the allegiance of two pairs of phoenixes on Mount Qi, unaware that their appearance was part of a hidden scheme.
• Taiyi Zhenren told Lu Tian that Jiang Ziya would build an Investiture Platform, so Lu Tian sent Bai Jian to guard it and gave him a secret method and Spiritual Treasure.
• Bai Jian retrieved a mirror-shaped Spiritual Treasure in the East Sea, then met Jiang Ziya and accepted his invitation to serve as guardian of the Investiture Platform.
• Shen Gongbao recruited the Four Saints of Jiulong Island to strengthen his forces against Jiang Ziya.