Chapter Summaries

After Dao Ancestor Hongjun beat Li Changshou and placed the Investiture of the Gods Scroll and God-Beating Whip in his hands, Li Changshou arranged for the Jade Emperor to hold the scroll while he guided its use. The Saints clashed over the coming tribulation and the allocation of deaths and Heavenly Court positions, and Venerable Celestial of Primordial Beginning left without settling the matter.

• Dao Ancestor Hongjun struck Li Changshou, then bestowed the Investiture of the Gods Scroll and God-Beating Whip upon him before leaving Purple Heaven Palace.
• Li Changshou persuaded his teacher, Taiqing, to let the Jade Emperor formally manage the scroll, and the Jade Emperor accepted it.
• The Jade Emperor explained the scroll’s three hundred and sixty-five divine positions and the deaths expected in the tribulation, prompting the Saints to dispute how the burdens should be divided.
• Li Changshou and the Jade Emperor excluded the Western Teachings from the Heavenly Court positions, and Li Changshou confronted Zhunti and Jieyin over their past actions.
• Li Changshou invited Nuwa to remain as a witness, while the Western Saints stayed; Venerable Celestial of Primordial Beginning then ended the discussion and departed with Guang Chengzi.

After the Saints left the Purple Cloud Palace, Dao Ancestor Hongjun privately explained the Foul Spring, the Heavenly Dao, and Li Changshou’s role in an approaching crisis. He sent Li Changshou away with a cultivation method and a charge to judge whether a future being formed from Pangu God’s lingering regret should be protected or erased; Li Changshou returned to Lesser Qiong Peak three months later, still unsure how much of Hongjun’s account to trust.

• The Jade Emperor secured the Investiture of the Gods Scroll and God-Beating Whip, while the Saints agreed to restrain their followers from wantonly harming mortals in the Southern Continent.
• After the Jade Emperor departed, Dao Ancestor Hongjun isolated the Purple Cloud Palace and told Li Changshou that he had once intervened in Li Changshou’s fate and had prevented the Heavenly Dao from targeting him.
• Hongjun explained that the Foul Spring accumulated karmic hindrances and that Great Cataclysms delayed its eventual eruption, then described how he had merged with the Heavenly Dao to stop Senior Lang from destroying the Primordial Wilderness.
• Hongjun revealed that a fragment of Pangu God’s lingering regret might emerge from the Heavenly Dao and tasked Li Changshou with deciding whether to protect or completely erase it.
• Hongjun gave Li Changshou a stone tablet containing a Cultivation Method, and Li Changshou returned to the Eastern Sea before quietly going back to Lesser Qiong Peak three months later.

After analyzing the Dao Ancestor’s assignment, Li Changshou secretly contacted Teacher Taiqing and received assurance that his teacher would watch over him. As he began teaching Ling’e, the Three Teachings’ disciples discussed his role in the coming cataclysm, and Daoist Duobao urged Yunxiao to visit him in the Chaos Sea.

• Li Changshou decided to follow Teacher Taiqing’s guidance, used Pagoda Grandpa to send him a message, and received the reply that his teacher would be there when he obeyed the Dao Ancestor’s command.
• Li Changshou entered enlightenment, then found Ling’e and began teaching her the Dao of Golden Immortals while taking charge of the Immortal Alliance matters.
• At True Lord Yu Ding’s cave, Guang Chengzi asked True Lord Taiyi, True Lord Yu Ding, and True Person Huang Long to sound out Li Changshou about Chan Teaching’s support against the Western Teachings.
• On Three Immortal Island, Daoist Duobao recounted the Dao Ancestor’s beating of Li Changshou as proof that he favored him and had appointed him to preside over the Investiture of the Gods cataclysm.
• Daoist Duobao gave Yunxiao a jade talisman and Xianxian Sword, urging her to use a Chaos Sea treasure mission as a chance to see Li Changshou; Yunxiao accepted them while hesitating.

Li Changshou discussed the Great Cataclysm with immortals from Chan Teaching and Jie Teaching, then agreed to travel to the Chaos Sea with Yunxiao. He prepared an escort and an arsenal of protections, leaving Yunxiao to discover that their journey would include Jin Peng and Bai Ze.

• Zhao Gongming and Yunxiao met True Lord Taiyi, Yuding, Huang Long, and Li Changshou at the Sea God Temple, where they discussed the Great Cataclysm and the blank Investiture of the Gods Scroll.
• Li Changshou explained that the Great Cataclysm could not be prevented, warned that the deeper Foul Spring calamity threatened all living beings, and said the Jade Emperor had stopped the Western Teachings from signing the scroll.
• After the others left, Li Changshou and Yunxiao walked together, evaded Duobao and the other Jie Teaching immortals who had followed them, and agreed to meet in half a month for a trip to the Chaos Sea.
• Li Changshou prepared for the journey by requesting leave from the Jade Emperor, gathering pills and protective treasures, and arranging for Ling'e to be protected by the Earth-Leaving Flame Light Banner.
• Yunxiao arrived early at their meeting place, but watched as Li Changshou appeared with Jin Peng and Bai Ze, whom he had recruited to escort them through the Chaos Sea.

Li Changshou and Yunxiao traveled into the Chaos Sea to search for a hidden treasure site, where they confessed their feelings and shared their first kiss. Their moment was interrupted by the arrival of the wounded Demon Master Kunpeng, and Li Changshou prepared to face him with Yunxiao and their companions.

• Yunxiao arrived to travel with Li Changshou, and they set out on Jin Peng's back using Tongtian's Xianxian Sword to guide them.
• Li Changshou and Yunxiao discussed the Investiture of the Gods and the Heavenly Court's role in limiting the cataclysm as they crossed into the Chaos Sea.
• The group reached an ancient sanctuary, where Li Changshou found Innate Earth Element Essence and Yunxiao told him she did not want to leave her feelings unspoken.
• Li Changshou and Yunxiao held hands and leaned toward a kiss, but Kunpeng's enormous head burst through the mountain wall and knocked Bai Ze and Jin Peng away.
• Yunxiao kissed Li Changshou on the cheek, and he stepped forward to face Kunpeng with his protective treasures activated.

Li Changshou and his allies pursued the injured Kunpeng through the Chaos Sea and overcame his speed and strength with coordinated attacks and the Great Dao of Balance. After trapping him and disarming his destructive sphere, they captured him, while Lord Tongtian reconsidered his plans involving Chang Geng and Junior Sister.

• Kunpeng fled through the Chaos Sea after Li Changshou, Yunxiao, Jin Peng, and Bai Ze confronted him at his cave abode.
• Li Changshou used the Great Dao of Balance to match Jin Peng’s speed to Kunpeng’s and helped the group catch up with him.
• Li Changshou, Yunxiao, Jin Peng, and Bai Ze attacked Kunpeng as he tried to escape, wounding him and forcing him to transform into human form.
• Kunpeng threatened to perish together with them using a dangerous sphere, but Li Changshou distracted him by revealing his identity and feigning a request for Lord Tongtian’s help.
• Li Changshou and his allies disarmed Kunpeng, sealed his Primordial Spirit, and captured him.
• Lord Tongtian and Daoist Duobao watched the capture, and Duobao suggested postponing Chang Geng’s matter with Junior Sister.

Li Changshou and his companions killed the wounded Kunpeng, but his suspicions led him to conclude that the slain Demon Master might have been an abandoned shell while the real Kunpeng escaped into the Chaos Sea. Deep in the Chaos Sea, another Kunpeng opened his eyes as the shell’s Primordial Spirit was destroyed.

• Li Changshou questioned Kunpeng while Bai Ze reminisced with him, and the group learned that Kunpeng had once been First Phoenix’s adopted son and had stolen Yuan Feng’s origin power.
• Kunpeng accused Dao Ancestor Hongjun of controlling the Demon Court and manipulating the Primordial Wilderness before Li Changshou ended the conversation.
• Jin Peng killed Kunpeng with the Lesser God-Slaying Spear, and Li Changshou, Yunxiao, and the others erased and refined his body.
• Li Changshou noticed that Kunpeng’s treasures were drained and that the group had found no trace of Yuan Feng’s origin, then reasoned that Kunpeng might have split himself and left a shell behind to die.
• Li Changshou found cryptic notes suggesting the shell had sensed flaws in its Primordial Spirit, while the real Kunpeng opened his eyes atop a mountain deep in the Chaos Sea.

Li Changshou returned from the Chaos Sea after warning Bai Ze and the others to keep Kunpeng’s possible survival secret, and he read part of Senior Lang’s notebook without learning why its final entries called Hongjun wrong. After reconnecting with Yunxiao and returning to the Du Xian Sect, he learned that Ao Yi was about to undergo the Golden Immortal Tribulation.

• Li Changshou explained to Yunxiao why he had frightened Bai Ze, then spent the remaining journey playing the guqin and painting with her.
• Li Changshou and Bai Ze sealed Kunpeng’s Jade Thumb Ring inside a Paper Daoist and sent it into the Chaos Sea, while Li Changshou told Bai Ze and Jin Peng not to spread news of the journey and asked Yunxiao to report it to Tongtian.
• Li Changshou opened Senior Lang’s notebook and read its records of ancient events, card games, and romantic entanglements before reaching entries that said Hongjun was wrong; the notebook’s final page was torn, leaving the cause unclear.
• Li Changshou and Yunxiao parted in the Eastern Sea, and he returned to the Du Xian Sect while Jin Peng went back to Heavenly Court and wondered how to repay his teacher.
• Ling'e emerged from enlightenment and noticed Yunxiao’s scent on Li Changshou, then playfully made him copy the Steady Character Scripture with her.
• Urgent bells summoned the Du Xian Sect disciples to Du Xian Hall, and Ao Yi told Li Changshou that he was about to undergo the Golden Immortal Tribulation.

Ao Yi overcame the Golden Immortal Tribulation and transformed into a silver dragon, while Li Changshou investigated new threats stirring across the Primordial Wilderness. The chapter ended with a message arriving at the Du Xian Sect as danger also emerged in the Southern Continent.

• Li Changshou hosted Ao Yi's Golden Immortal Tribulation before Heavenly Court, and Ao Yi endured the final strike, overcame his heart demon, and transformed into a silver dragon.
• Li Changshou reflected on the Dragon Clan's bloodline hierarchy and hid his true body in an underground chamber while Ao Yi's success was celebrated.
• Li Changshou learned that attackers had killed two Du Xian Sect Outer sect Stewards and injured six, prompting Ji Wuyou to seal the mountain.
• Taiyi and Yuding told Li Changshou that evil cultivators had been hired to gather in the Southern Sea region and kill mortal emperors in the Southern Continent; Yuding agreed to keep watch there.
• A jade talisman flew toward the Du Xian Sect's Mountain Protecting Grand Formation, where someone caught it and wondered why their Master had sent a message.

Ji Wuyou visited Lesser Qiong Peak to tell Li Changshou that Du Xian Sect would send reinforcements to the Carefree Immortal Sect, and Li Changshou armed him with Paper Daoist Incarnations and pills. After learning that Maitreya planned to disrupt the Heavenly Court’s protection of the Shang Tribe, Li Changshou prepared to defend it and awaited Wen Jing’s report.

• Ji Wuyou considered his weakened Primordial Spirit and traveled to Lesser Qiong Peak to discuss his mission to support the Carefree Immortal Sect.
• Li Changshou gave Ji Wuyou Paper Daoist Incarnations and pills, urging him to stay in contact in case danger arose.
• Truth Listener warned Li Changshou that Maitreya planned to use evil cultivators to attack the Shang Tribe and undermine the Heavenly Court’s arrangements.
• Li Changshou suspected Maitreya might be setting a trap and decided to seek the Taiji Diagram, deploy Jin Peng, and coordinate with Kong Xuan.
• Li Changshou sensed Wen Jing arriving and wondered whether her intelligence differed from the reports he had already received.

Li Changshou prepared to stop the Western Teachings’ plot against the Shang Tribe, but Maitreya used the attack to expose Truth Listener’s knowledge of Changshou’s hiding place. As Li Changshou fought Maitreya’s forces elsewhere, black-clad attackers broke into Du Xian Sect, beginning its tribulation.

• Li Changshou pieced together the Western Teachings’ plan, gathered allies, and arranged safeguards for the Shang Tribe and its rulers.
• Wei Shenmo joined Li Changshou in the Southern Jambu Continent and sent Youqin Xuanya with disguised heavenly soldiers to the Shang Tribe.
• Li Changshou and Kong Xuan waited for the evil cultivators; Kong Xuan and Jin Peng defeated them, while Daoist Wen Jing killed the survivors at a teleportation array before Li Changshou confronted her.
• Maitreya accused Truth Listener of helping the Water God and pressured it until it revealed that Li Changshou was hiding in Du Xian Sect.
• Maitreya sent black-clad Golden Immortals to attack Du Xian Sect while fierce beasts trapped Li Changshou elsewhere; the attackers disabled his Paper Daoists and shattered the sect’s Mountain Protecting Grand Formation.

Du Xian Sect was devastated by an assault meant to expose Li Changshou’s identity and turn him against the Jie Teaching. Ling'e and Ji Wuyou helped defend the sect, but Ji Wuyou died after exhausting his Primordial Spirit; Li Changshou preserved his remnant soul and ordered Jin Peng to demand an explanation from Golden Ao Island.

• Li Changshou recognized the attack on Du Xian Sect as a scheme to provoke a rift between him and the Jie Teaching, then fought his way through the attackers.
• After the Mountain Protecting Grand Formation fell, Ling'e revealed the Earth-Leaving Flame Light Banner, protected disciples, and used Lesser Qiong Peak’s formations to strike at the invaders.
• Ji Wuyou and Elder Qi Ling battled the Golden Immortals while the sect’s elders and disciples tried to evacuate; Ji Wuyou burned his Primordial Spirit to hold off the attackers.
• Li Jing defended younger disciples until an unfamiliar young Daoist saved him, while Li Changshou and Jin Peng arrived and turned the battle against the attackers.
• Ji Wuyou died after asking Li Changshou to arrange his reincarnation so he could study his master’s divine ability again; Li Changshou preserved his remnant soul and sent Jin Peng to Golden Ao Island to demand an explanation.

After Du Xian Sect was attacked, Li Changshou protected the sect, investigated the plot, and moved Lesser Qiong Peak to the Heavenly Court. Concluding that Maitreya had orchestrated the attack, he went to Spirit Mountain with the Jade Emperor’s support and smashed its gate.

• Li Changshou reassured Ling'e that she was not to blame for Du Xian Sect’s losses, then summoned five thousand Heavenly Soldiers to guard the sect.
• Holy Mother Jinling, Zhao Gongming, and other Jie Teaching immortals arrived; Li Changshou explained that the attackers’ Primordial Spirits had been tampered with and asked Jie Teaching to investigate the Blood Transformation Divine Blade.
• Li Changshou ordered Lesser Qiong Peak moved to the Heavenly Court, restored Ji Wuyou’s remnant soul, and confronted Truth Listener and Ksitigarbha about Maitreya’s role in the attack.
• Ksitigarbha confirmed that Maitreya had acted to unsettle Li Changshou and signal his willingness to escalate, while Li Changshou declared that Saints could not die.
• Wei Shenmo joined Li Changshou on the way to Spirit Mountain, where the Jade Emperor, the Qingping Sword, and the Taiji Diagram deterred the Saints’ appearance; Li Changshou then smashed Spirit Mountain’s golden gate with the God-Slaying Spear.

True Lord Du'e learned that Ji Wuyou had died defending Du Xian Sect and, following Li Changshou’s plan, publicly accused Spirit Mountain and drew attention to Western Teachings. Li Changshou began a broad campaign to weaken Western Teachings while strengthening his defenses, then received an invitation to bring Ling'e to see Laojun.

• True Lord Du'e rushed to Du Xian Sect, learned Ji Wuyou had died protecting the sect, and agreed to help Li Changshou seek justice and support its survivors.
• True Lord Du'e appointed a temporary sect master, accepted Li Jing as a Formal Disciple, and returned to Kunlun Mountains to build public outrage against Western Teachings.
• True Lord Du'e went to Spirit Mountain, mourned Ji Wuyou before its gate, and displayed a coffin and tablets accusing Western Teachings while invoking Teacher Taiqing’s watch.
• Li Changshou reinforced his Paper Daoist restrictions and began a three-stage plan to undermine Western Teachings through the Immortal Alliance, Heavenly Court, and Dragon Clan.
• Li Changshou went to Lesser Qiong Peak and told Ling'e that the Jade Emperor and Queen Mother had invited them to a banquet at Jade Lake.
• Xiao Yin arrived at Taibai Palace and told Li Changshou that Laojun wanted him to bring Ling'e for a visit.

Li Changshou brought Ling'e to meet Taishang Laojun and attend the Immortal Peach Banquet, where her nervousness led to two embarrassing blunders. Meanwhile, Du Xian Sect survivors debated retaliation for the Western Teachings’ attack, and Elder Wan Linjun’s revenge helped Li Changshou decide to unleash a full war across the Three Thousand Worlds.

• Li Changshou took Ling'e through the Heavenly Court to Tushita Palace, where she nervously greeted Laojun as “Do Not Be Rude” and received a trove of treasures and pills.
• At the Jade Lake’s Immortal Peach Banquet, Ling'e burped when the Queen Mother asked whether she liked the food, and Li Changshou covered for her.
• Venerable Wangqing, Jiu Wu, Jiu Yiyi, Jiu Jiu, Jiang Lin'er, and Bai Ze discussed the Western Teachings’ attack and decided Lin Tian Hall could not risk exposing its ties to Du Xian Sect by retaliating openly.
• Elder Wan Linjun chose not to return to Du Xian Sect or involve Lü Yue, and instead sought a meeting with Old Madam Bian of the Immortal Alliance.
• Three months later, Li Changshou learned that Elder Wan Linjun had poisoned several thousand Western Teachings immortals guarding Incense God Kingdoms, including Celestial Immortals and Golden Immortals.
• Li Changshou decided to use the Immortal Alliance’s full strength to escalate the retaliation, and war erupted beyond the Five Continents.

After the Immortal Alliance’s campaign against the Western Teachings stalled, Li Changshou monitored the Black Panther as he set out for Golden Ao Island and encountered a disguised Outer Realm Demon named Du Shuren. Du Shuren’s mission was to infiltrate an immortal sect, but Li Changshou approached him before he could continue.

• Li Changshou ordered the Immortal Alliance to shift to defense after heavy losses, while Elder Wan Linjun, Holy Mother Jinling, Zhao Gongming, and Daoist Wen Jing helped weaken the Western Teachings’ forces.
• Li Changshou improved Lesser Qiong Peak’s formations and received Laojun’s Bear Battle Armor for Xiong Lingli, who chose a pair of bronze hammers as her future weapons.
• Li Changshou sensed that the Black Panther had emerged from seclusion and watched as he flew toward Golden Ao Island before changing course near the Southern Jambu Continent.
• The Black Panther stopped a middle-aged Daoist, who was actually the disguised Outer Realm Demon Du Shuren, then let him go after deciding he had mistaken him for someone else.
• Du Shuren recalled that he had been sent to find a Heavenly Immortal Qi Refiner and attach himself to an immortal sect in Eastern Continent of Sheng.
• Li Changshou appeared beside Du Shuren, swayed a Jade Flute, and invited him to climb a mountain together.

Li Changshou captured Du Shuren, an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon, and tortured information about its staged infiltration mission from him. When the final mission revealed that Du Shuren was supposed to approach Grand White Gold Star and ask him a question, Li Changshou destroyed his Paper Daoists and the Heavenly Demon, leaving the reason for the planned meeting unresolved.

• Li Changshou forced Du Shuren to climb a mountain at swordpoint, then exposed and captured the Heavenly Demon hiding inside his Dao body.
• Li Changshou tortured Du Shuren into revealing that the Heavenly Demons received their mission instructions in stages and were meant to infiltrate Qi Refiners.
• Li Changshou tested Du Shuren on an old Daoist and several Great Demons, discovering that the next mission was to infiltrate the Du Xian Sect and take control of one of its members.
• Li Changshou learned that the Heavenly Demons planned to invade the Primordial Spirit of a Du Xian Sect elder and suspected their scheme targeted him.
• Li Changshou heard that Du Shuren's final mission was to meet Grand White Gold Star and ask him a question, then destroyed Du Shuren and burned his other Paper Daoists to ash.

Li Changshou investigated Kunpeng’s message and questioned Empress Nuwa about Kunpeng’s ties to Senior Lang and the Heavenly Dao. He left with a plan to publicly oppose Kunpeng, while a new idea for dealing with him began to take shape.

• Li Changshou and Bai Ze discussed Kunpeng’s attempt to contact him through a Heavenly Demon, and Li Changshou ordered memorials condemning Kunpeng and calling for investigations into Outer Realm Demons.
• On his way to meet Empress Nuwa, Li Changshou reasoned that the Heavenly Dao might have helped Black Panther deliver Kunpeng’s message and wondered what that implied about its motives.
• Empress Nuwa told Li Changshou that Kunpeng and Senior Lang had exploited one another, and that Senior Lang had rushed his plan to become a Saint before the Dao Ancestor and the Heavenly Dao suppressed him.
• Li Changshou outlined plans to brand Kunpeng a fugitive, sweep Outer Realm Demons from the Three Thousand Worlds, and keep a low profile while preparing for the Investiture of the Gods.
• Li Changshou rejected becoming a Saint as too risky and began developing an idea involving Maitreya and Kunpeng while drawing for Empress Nuwa.

Grand Master Xuandu fought off the Outer Realm Demons besieging Xuandu City and discovered that they wanted revenge on Li Changshou. Meanwhile, Li Changshou’s plots against Maitreya spread through the Three Realms, and he set out for Three Immortal Island as chaos grew across the worlds.

• Grand Master Xuandu fought for several months, defeated the Outer Realm Demon army, and discovered its members were calling for revenge on Li Changshou.
• Grand Master Xuandu examined a demon’s memories and learned that the recovered Heavenly Demon Venerable was directing the Outer Realm Demons against Grand White Gold Star.
• Truth Listener and Jin Peng helped the Heavenly Court purge Outer Realm Demons from the edge of the Three Thousand Worlds, while Jin Peng used Li Changshou’s Thirty-Six Forms of Demon Extermination.
• Li Changshou reflected on Longji’s unusually gentle Golden Immortal Tribulation and the Heavenly Court’s efforts to spread rumors linking Maitreya to Kunpeng.
• Li Changshou used a Paper Daoist disguise to leave Lesser Qiong Peak and traveled toward Three Immortal Island, considering the spreading conflicts and the weapon Laojun had sent to Yang Jian.

Li Changshou visited Yunxiao, warned the Eastern Sea Dragon King about corrupt Dragon Clan officials, and confronted Maitreya with his suspicion that he was Kunpeng’s Second Nascent Soul. Maitreya’s incarnation left unsettled by Li Changshou’s questions about his identity.

• Li Changshou and Yunxiao spent time together on Three Immortal Island, discussed Zhao Gongming and Jin Ling, and promised to revisit Li Changshou’s description of their ideal life together in a thousand years.
• Li Changshou reviewed the Dragon Clan’s water-god reports, exposed dragons who mistreated mortals, and urged the Eastern Sea Dragon King to discipline them and uphold Heavenly Court law.
• The Eastern Sea Dragon King ordered his men to capture the offenders, while Li Changshou left the Crystal Palace and continued toward the Eastern Heavenly Gate.
• Maitreya approached Li Changshou in the guise of an immortal maiden and accused him of persecuting the Western Teachings and falsely linking him to Kunpeng.
• Li Changshou showed Maitreya evidence from his battle with Kunpeng and challenged him to prove he was not Kunpeng’s Second Nascent Soul, then left him questioning whether he had chosen the name Maitreya or the name had chosen him.