Chapter Summaries

Li Changshou’s group attacked the Western Teachings and nearly seized the Reincarnation Pagoda, but Saint Jieyin arrived and stopped the battle. Li Changshou gave Zhao Gongming a Chaos Green Lotus leaf to replace the Sea-Calming Divine Pearl Jieyin had taken.

• Li Changshou and the Dao Sect experts attacked the Western Teachings disciples guarding the Reincarnation Pagoda, while Kong Xuan was trapped in an array.
• Zhao Gongming used the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls to suppress the pagoda as Li Changshou sealed the Green Lotus Treasure Banner and blocked the Western Teachings’ attacks.
• Li Changshou’s Balance of All Things feint let him reach the pagoda, while Taiyi’s insult enraged the Western Teachings disciples and sent them chasing him.
• Jieyin appeared, seized one Sea-Calming Divine Pearl, and ended the fighting with a command to stop.
• Li Changshou greeted Jieyin and gave Zhao Gongming a Chaos Green Lotus leaf after Jieyin kept the pearl.

Li Changshou confronted Saint Jieyin and Ksitigarbha over the Western Teachings’ Reincarnation Pagoda and the souls displaced into the Blood Sea, forcing the sect to admit wrongdoing and negotiate with the Heavenly Court. After the Saints departed, a Western Teachings Daoist tried to destroy the pagoda, triggering a sudden disaster.

• Saint Jieyin arrived at the Reincarnation Pagoda as Kong Xuan escaped and the Daoist Sect and Western Teachings faced off over their dead and the damaged pagoda.
• Venerable Celestial of Primordial Beginning appeared, supported Li Changshou, and told him to answer Jieyin’s questions.
• Li Changshou challenged Ksitigarbha over the wandering souls and produced evidence linking them to Western Teachings’ Incense God Kingdoms; Ksitigarbha admitted the sect had caused the tragedy and promised an investigation.
• Jieyin returned Zhao Gongming’s Sea-Calming Divine Pearl and agreed to let the Heavenly Court take over the pagoda in exchange for compensation and help for six slain Western Teachings disciples.
• After Jieyin and Venerable Celestial of Primordial Beginning departed, Holy Mother Jinling attacked the pagoda, and a resentful Western Teachings Daoist struck its base, causing a pearl atop the pagoda to shatter as Ashes Qi appeared on his brow.

Li Changshou organized a massive effort to save the souls trapped above the Blood Sea, building the River of Three Crossings while Ksitigarbha repaired the Reincarnation Pagoda at great personal cost. The souls were rescued, and Ksitigarbha remained as the pagoda’s guardian with Truth Listener at his side.

• Li Changshou gathered the immortals to devise ways to preserve the fragile souls, and he brought Emperor Da Yu from Huoyun Cave to help increase reincarnation capacity.
• Li Changshou directed the construction of the River of Three Crossings, while Heavenly Soldiers, Netherworld officials, and other allies dug channels and prepared Living Spirit Water.
• The first souls passed through the river, and Li Changshou adjusted its flow after some souls shattered; the completed system was expected to save a quarter of those in danger.
• Ksitigarbha arrived, swore that the Reincarnation Pagoda would answer only to Empress Houtu, and sacrificed himself to restore it and merge it into reincarnation.
• Five days later, the River of Three Crossings was complete, and Ksitigarbha watched over the pagoda as Truth Listener returned to keep him company.

After the Netherworld crisis, Li Changshou hosted the experts who had helped him and explained how he had maneuvered Ksitigarbha’s rivals into provoking the Reincarnation Pagoda’s destruction. The Jade Emperor arranged to promote Li Changshou to a second-rank position, but a bolt of heavenly lightning struck just as Li Changshou swore an oath to Fairy Yunxiao, leaving him to suspect his promotion had triggered it.

• Li Changshou received no merit for resolving the Netherworld crisis and was struck by lightning, while True Lord Taiyi was also punished after mocking Heavenly Dao.
• Li Changshou explained to the gathered experts that Ksitigarbha had sacrificed himself to protect living beings, and described how he had deliberately isolated Ksitigarbha within the Western Teachings.
• Li Changshou warned that the Western Teachings would use the crisis to promote their benevolent image and planned to form an Anti-Western Immortal Dao Alliance in ten years.
• The Jade Emperor asked Wood Duke to recommend a second-rank position for Li Changshou, and Wood Duke proposed elevating the stellar deity position Venus for him to hold concurrently.
• Li Changshou swore to Fairy Yunxiao that he had not experienced a Love Tribulation, but heavenly lightning struck the temple as the Jade Emperor’s promotion took effect.

Li Changshou consulted Grand Master Xuandu about his withheld merit and learned that a Merit Golden Body could subject him to the Heavenly Dao’s influence. He then took Xuandu to meet Houtu about the Seven Emotions Incarnation’s reincarnation, while Tong Tian visited Ling'e and invited her to cultivate at Biyou Palace.

• Yunxiao persuaded the gathered immortals to release Li Changshou after they teased him, and he escorted her to Three Immortal Island before returning toward the Netherworld.
• Li Changshou decided to ask Houtu about the Seven Emotions Incarnation’s reincarnation and encountered Grand Master Xuandu, who had secretly returned from Xuandu City.
• Grand Master Xuandu warned Li Changshou that the Grandmaster was likely suppressing his merit because a Merit Golden Body could make his Dao subject to the Heavenly Dao.
• Li Changshou gave Xuandu two bronze mirrors and invited him into the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk to help arrange the Seven Emotions Incarnation’s reincarnation.
• Tong Tian bypassed Lesser Qiong Peak’s defenses, left Ling'e a vermilion box, and invited her to cultivate at Biyou Palace.

Li Changshou and Grand Master Xuandu sought Ksitigarbha’s help to reincarnate Houtu’s Seven Emotions Incarnations, while the Jade Emperor promoted Li Changshou to Taibai Star Lord. The chapter ended with Ksitigarbha agreeing to assist and Li Changshou beginning a cordial conversation with him as a colleague.

• Houtu gave Li Changshou the Grass Ring, and he explained his plan to ask the Holy Mother to create Dao bodies for the Seven Emotions Incarnations before reincarnating them.
• Li Changshou and Grand Master Xuandu visited Qi Yuan’s soul in the Reincarnation Disk, then discussed the Heavenly Dao and the risks of serving the Jade Emperor.
• The Jade Emperor’s court debated Li Changshou’s promotion, and the Jade Emperor decreed that he would become Taibai Star Lord, a second-rank Orthodox God with broad authority over Heavenly Court officials.
• Li Changshou and Grand Master Xuandu asked Ksitigarbha to open the Reincarnation Pagoda for the Seven Emotions Incarnations, and Li Changshou used his new rank to command him.
• Ksitigarbha accepted the command, and Li Changshou praised him, apologized for pressuring him, and began talking with him as a fellow servant of Heavenly Dao.

Li Changshou and Grand Master Xuandu completed the arrangements for Houtu’s Seven Emotions Incarnation, and Nuwa created an Innate Placenta so the Seven Emotions could be born as mortals. After settling the Mother Body in the Shang Tribe, Li Changshou returned to Anshui City with Grand Master Xuandu and Kong Xuan, who unexpectedly joined them.

• Li Changshou and Grand Master Xuandu left the Reincarnation Pagoda with the first embryonic living soul, while Ksitigarbha reflected on Li Changshou and the blue-furred hound laughed at him.
• Daoist Wen Jing questioned the Asura Race experts about the lost Reincarnation Pagoda, learned they wanted the final seed of the Twelve-Petal Karma Fire Red Lotus, and reported the intelligence to Li Changshou.
• Li Changshou let Daoist Wen Jing’s blood mosquito hide as a tabby cat near the Sea God Temple and promised to arrange a meeting with Grand Master Xuandu.
• Nuwa shaped an Innate Placenta for the Seven Emotions Incarnation and explained to Li Changshou how to place the Seven Emotions inside it.
• Li Changshou and Grand Master Xuandu arranged for a healthy woman in the Shang Tribe to bear the Reincarnated body, and Li Changshou protected her with rewards, Paper Daoists, and the Power of Heavenly Dao.
• Grand Master Xuandu returned to Anshui City through the Heaven and Earth Gap, and Kong Xuan followed him there, leaving Li Changshou to hurry after them.

The Great Mage brought Kong Xuan to the Sea God Temple, where Kong Xuan and Daoist Wen Jing competed for his attention while Li Changshou tried to stay out of their dispute. At Lesser Qiong Peak, Ling'e told Li Changshou that Lord Tongtian had delivered Yunxiao’s dowry, while an unknown black-robed figure sent a flaming lotus seed through the void near the Blood Sea.

• Li Changshou stopped Daoist Wen Jing, possessing a tabby cat, from pouncing on Kong Xuan and ushered the guests into the Back Hall.
• The Great Mage and Kong Xuan discussed the Shang Tribe and the Phoenix Clan, while Kong Xuan changed his hairstyle and promised to protect Li Changshou.
• Daoist Wen Jing and Kong Xuan traded barbs over her place in the Human Teaching and their relationships with Li Changshou, and the Great Mage defended Kong Xuan.
• Li Changshou asked the Taiji Diagram’s treasures about the Great Mage’s romantic prospects, then brought food while Kong Xuan and Daoist Wen Jing sat close beside the Great Mage.
• Li Changshou used a Paper Daoist to visit Ling'e, who said Lord Tongtian had delivered Yunxiao’s dowry.
• A black-robed figure appeared near the Blood Sea and sent a lotus seed wrapped in red-black flames through a vortex.

Li Changshou returned the borrowed treasures, studied the Heart-Piercing Lock, and rejected a Heavenly Dao vision hinting at Ancestor Minghe’s revival. He helped oversee the Seven Emotions Incarnation’s birth and continued trying to arrange a match between Kong Xuan and Grand Master Xuandu, while the Blood Lotus survived a strike of Purple Firmament Divine Thunder.

• The Great Mage fled to Xuandu City after asking Li Changshou to help him deal with Kong Xuan and Daoist Wen Jing, and Li Changshou returned the Taiji Diagram and other treasures to Taiqing Lord.
• Li Changshou began refining the Heart-Piercing Lock, then dreamed of a Blood Lotus and decided not to trust the Heavenly Dao’s hint that Ancestor Minghe might return.
• Qin Tianzhu told Li Changshou that the Queen Mother was pregnant, and Li Changshou celebrated with the Jade Emperor at the Hall of Exalted Peace.
• Ten months later, Li Changshou and Kong Xuan watched over the birth of the Seven Emotions Incarnation, and Li Changshou warned the awakened incarnations not to meddle with mortals.
• Li Changshou offered to seek Primordial Profound Yin Qi on the Taiyin Star to help Kong Xuan settle the balance of yin and yang, and promised to help him become Senior Brother Xuandu’s Dao companion.
• Purple Firmament Divine Thunder struck the Blood Lotus, which survived as the old Daoist behind it disappeared and a pale flame rose from the lotus.

Li Changshou brought Lingzhu Zi to Guanghan Palace to seek Profound Yin Qi for Kong Xuan and assess his nephew’s growing interest in combat. The visit ended with Lingzhu Zi killing a giant python, while Li Changshou remained worried that the young man had little interest in romance.

• Li Changshou took Lingzhu Zi to Guanghan Palace to obtain Profound Yin Qi, after Wu Gang said Heng'e had some.
• Wu Gang warned Li Changshou that the conflict over the Incense God Kingdom could cause suffering across the Three Thousand Worlds and urged him to help immortals remember their human roots.
• At Guanghan Palace, Lingzhu Zi showed no interest in the Jade Rabbit girl or Heng'e, instead wondering whether the Jade Rabbit would cough blood if he punched her.
• Heng'e gave Li Changshou a box of cosmetics containing Profound Yin Qi and explained its beauty benefits.
• The Jade Rabbit screamed when a giant python appeared, and Lingzhu Zi roared “Great Mighty Heavenly Dragon!” before flattening its skull with one punch.

Li Changshou left Guanghan Palace amid rumors that he and Fairy Heng'e were involved, then prepared for a confrontation with Western Teachings and traveled to Jade Void Palace to invite Chan Teaching experts to the Immortal Alliance Conference. The chapter ended with True Lord Taiyi misunderstanding Lingzhu Zi’s silence about fairy maidens and charging at Li Changshou with a golden brick.

• Li Changshou invited Fairy Heng'e and the Jade Rabbit girl to visit the Water God's Mansion, prompting rumors across Heavenly Court that he and Fairy Heng'e were in love.
• Bian Zhuang mourned his imagined lost chance with Fairy Heng'e until Ao Yi mentioned a possible appointment, then threw him into the Celestial River; Ao Yi sent the rumors to Li Changshou.
• Li Changshou delivered cosmetics to Kong Xuan, who announced her thirty-six-year cultivation and warned him that her third younger brother, the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird, might attack him.
• Li Changshou and Ling'e discussed the threat from Western Teachings and the coming Immortal Alliance Conference, while Li Changshou planned for the gathering and prepared to travel to Kunlun.
• Nine years later, Li Changshou brought Lingzhu Zi to Jade Void Palace to invite Chan Teaching experts and let True Lord Taiyi see his disciple’s progress; the Chan Teaching disciples welcomed them warmly.
• True Lord Taiyi teased Lingzhu Zi about whether he had fallen for a fairy maiden, and Lingzhu Zi stayed silent as instructed, leading Taiyi to suspect he liked a Heavenly General and charge into the hall to attack Li Changshou.

Li Changshou persuaded the Chan Teaching immortals to help oppose the Western Teachings’ Incense God Kingdoms and revealed that he was forming an Immortal Alliance. The chapter ended with Daoist Randeng accepting the role of Alliance Leader, while Li Changshou appointed himself Heavenly Court Special Envoy.

• Li Changshou calmed True Lord Taiyi after Lingzhu Zi’s dispute and helped them clear up the misunderstanding about Lingzhu Zi seeking a Dao companion.
• Li Changshou warned Guang Chengzi and the Chan Teaching immortals that the Western Teachings’ Incense God Kingdoms threatened the Heavenly Court and the Daoist Sect, persuading them to act against them.
• Li Changshou explained that he was organizing an Immortal Alliance across the Three Thousand Worlds and asked a Chan Teaching expert to lead it.
• Li Changshou proposed Vice Sect Master Randeng as Alliance Leader, prompting True Lord Taiyi to mock Randeng and warn against working with him.
• Daoist Randeng arrived and accepted the position, while Li Changshou said the alliance would have twelve Vice Alliance Leaders and named himself Heavenly Court Special Envoy.

Li Changshou explained why he made Randeng the Immortal Alliance Leader, then learned that the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird planned to challenge him by charging through the Heavenly Court to Guanghan Palace. As the Jade Emperor and Laojun prepared to respond, the bird remained confident at Spirit Mountain, unaware that Li Changshou was already planning around him.

• At Qianyuan Mountain, Li Changshou explained to True Person Huang Long, True Lord Yu Ding, and True Lord Taiyi that Randeng’s leadership would give the Western Teachings another option and help break the stalemate.
• Three months later, news that Randeng had become Immortal Alliance Leader spread, while Truth Listener warned Li Changshou that the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird intended to target him.
• Ao Yi reported that the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird planned to enter the Heavenly Court through the South Heaven Gate and reach Guanghan Palace, so Li Changshou arranged for a challenge to spread through the realms.
• The Jade Emperor, Wood Duke, and Azure Ox prepared to defend the Heavenly Court, while Li Changshou considered how to stop the bird without revealing his true body.
• At Spirit Mountain, the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird boasted that he would enter the Heavenly Court at will, as Daoist Wen Jing and the silver-haired girl watched.

The Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird charged into the Heavenly Court, convinced that he could outwit the Water God’s traps and reach Guanghan Palace. He instead blundered into a hidden passage and was captured by a powerful fairy, leaving the Heavenly Court’s spectators watching in stunned silence.

• The Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird tried to break through the South Heaven Gate, but Li Changshou and Qin Tianzhu used the Taiji Diagram and the Demon-Slaying Sword to trap and wound him.
• After the three divine swords were removed, the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird charged through the gate, while Li Changshou tracked him with his Paper Daoists.
• Azure Ox directed the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird toward Guanghan Palace, and the bird destroyed a misleading sign before crashing into the Heavenly Court’s outer barrier.
• The Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird followed the sign toward Taiyin Star, circled to its far side, and entered a secret passage that led him to a garden near Guanghan Palace.
• When Lingzhu Zi spotted the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird, a fairy used the Nine-Character Seal to bind and suppress him, and a burly man prepared to make him into soup.
• The immortals and gods in the Hall of Exalted Peace watched the capture through a bronze mirror and fell silent.

Li Changshou began a plan to wear down and recruit the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird into Heavenly Court service, with Kong Xuan’s consent. The Golden-Winged Great Peng charged at Li Changshou’s phantom and was trapped in the Chain Array, where Li Changshou calmly prepared to continue the ordeal.

• After the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird awoke to find his wings roasted, Li Changshou decided to subdue him rather than kill him.
• Li Changshou gained Kong Xuan’s permission to recruit her younger brother and recorded her phantom for his plan.
• Li Changshou organized Heavenly Court Immortals and built the Chain Array across the Fourth Heaven.
• Azure Ox hung the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird upside down and read him rules for Human Teachings mounts, while Li Changshou explained his plan to make him fear becoming a mount before offering him a place in the Heavenly Court.
• Li Changshou’s phantom freed the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird, who immediately attacked it and entered the Chain Array, where Yin and Yang Aura trapped him.

Li Changshou trapped the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird in a repeating array until he recognized how pride and flattery had led him astray and agreed to serve the Heavenly Court for the Phoenix Clan. The Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird accepted his appointment and a bracelet anklet, while Li Changshou looked ahead to the Immortal Alliance Conference.

• The Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird searched through Li Changshou’s chain array, repeatedly encountered the same crooked-necked tree and Lost? sign, and grew increasingly disoriented.
• After many circuits and days of chanting, the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird realized that he had lost his way by chasing praise and trying to prove himself superior to Kong Xuan.
• The Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird admitted his mistakes to Li Changshou and slowly traversed the array again, finding lessons about the world and his place within it.
• The Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird learned through an illusion that Kong Xuan had asked Li Changshou to help the Phoenix Clan, then agreed to serve the Heavenly Court and accepted a Golden Bracelet.
• Li Changshou gave the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird an oath template and explained that the bracelet was an anklet refined by Taishang Laojun; the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird asked to keep the Lost? sign as a reminder.
• The Jade Emperor proposed keeping the array as a punishment that encouraged goodness, while Li Changshou anticipated the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird’s appearance at the Immortal Alliance Conference.

Li Changshou secured the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird as a Heavenly Court general and traveled with Zhao Gongming and Holy Mother Jinling to prepare for the Immortal Alliance Conference. After inspecting and disrupting several Western Teachings Incense God Kingdoms along the way, they reached the conference venue, where Li Changshou considered how to welcome Randeng.

• Li Changshou kept the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird's surrender secret, appointed him Heavenly Court Marshal Golden Roc, and later received an assignment to oversee the Immortal Alliance Conference.
• Li Changshou met Zhao Gongming and Holy Mother Jinling at the Sea God Temple and explained that the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird had become his disciple.
• Randeng sent word that he would arrive later with Daoist Cihang and requested a Vice Alliance Leader position for Daoist Cihang, so Li Changshou set out with Zhao Gongming and Holy Mother Jinling on Golden Roc's back.
• The group visited eighteen Incense God Kingdoms, where Holy Mother Jinling destroyed several Western Teachings sites and Li Changshou recorded evidence while discussing ways to replace their influence.
• Li Changshou and his companions arrived at the prepared conference venue, where Lü Yue greeted them and Li Changshou considered setting up banners to welcome Randeng.

Li Changshou and Zhao Gongming staged a grand welcome for Randeng to make him the face of the Immortal Alliance and draw the Western Teachings into the conflict over the Incense God Kingdoms. When the conference opened, Li Changshou arrived as a Heavenly Court observer and established his influence without taking a seat in the Alliance.

• Li Changshou, Zhao Gongming, and Lü Yue decorated the conference venue with portraits and banners proclaiming Randeng the Western Teachings' nemesis, while discussing how his appointment could pressure the Western Teachings.
• Bai Ze and Jiu Wu arrived at the conference venue disguised as wandering immortals, and Bai Ze assessed the gathering for danger.
• Randeng arrived and invited the waiting immortals to enter; Zhao Gongming observed who followed him and directed them to seats on the west side.
• Li Changshou arrived with three Heavenly Court generals, explained that the Heavenly Court would supervise rather than run the Alliance, and said the immortals would choose twelve vice leaders.
• Li Changshou took a seat on a cloud platform above Randeng and urged the attendees to avoid the west side; most of Randeng's supporters left their seats and moved elsewhere.

The Immortal Alliance gathered to oppose the Incense God Kingdoms, and Randeng presided as Alliance Leader while its leaders were selected. At the alliance’s founding, Xu Bodhi appeared and argued that the Heavenly Court intended to use the alliance to control the Three Thousand Worlds, just as Li Changshou prepared to answer him.

• Bing Qingyue introduced Randeng and the Jie Teaching leaders, and Daoist Cihang joined as the fourth Vice Alliance Leader.
• Over three days and nights, the immortals selected twelve Vice Alliance Leaders, including Old Madam Bian.
• As Randeng announced the alliance’s establishment, Xu Bodhi revealed himself as a Western Teachings spy; Li Changshou struck his incarnation, but Randeng let him speak.
• Xu Bodhi called for peace and urged the immortals to unite against the Heavenly Court, claiming it would threaten their freedom and factions.
• Li Changshou challenged Xu Bodhi’s account by bringing up Ksitigarbha and asked the gathered immortals to hear his response.

Li Changshou turned Xu Bodhi’s challenge into support for the Heavenly Court, secured the Immortal Alliance, and branded Xu Bodhi an enemy wanted by the Three Realms. After the conference ended, Daoist Cihang approached Li Changshou privately, prompting his companions to worry about the conversation.

• Li Changshou argued that the Heavenly Court protected all living beings, not only mortals, and promised the Immortal Alliance members recognition if they stopped harming the weak and innocent.
• The gathered Immortal Dao Forces pledged to follow the Heavenly Court and oppose the Incense God Kingdoms, while Li Changshou declared Xu Bodhi a wanted enemy and invoked cataclysm karma against him.
• Marshal Golden Roc reported that he had killed 1,362 Western Teachings Qi Refiners preparing to attack the conference, and Li Changshou praised him before Xu Bodhi departed.
• Li Changshou returned to the clouds and entered enlightenment as the conference concluded; Randeng left quickly, while Daoist Cihang stayed behind to ask Li Changshou for a private conversation.
• Zhao Gongming and Holy Mother Jinling tried to shield Li Changshou from Daoist Cihang, but he agreed to speak with her, and Lü Yue gave him Sit Without Disorder Pills.