Chapter Summaries

Li Changshou tried to help Yang Jian through a Dao Heart bottleneck by arranging for Lingzhu Zi to draw him out and for True Lord Taiyi to influence his mindscape. Their plan was interrupted when Xu Bodhi appeared in Yang Jian’s mind and asked whether he had reconsidered an earlier proposal.

• Li Changshou learned from a message that Outer Realm Demons had launched repeated attacks on Xuandu City, so he warned the Great Mage about their Saint and urged Jin Peng to eradicate the demons carefully.
• After Lingzhu Zi reported Yang Jian’s stalled cultivation, Li Changshou explained why Yang Jian’s resentment over his family’s deaths had fueled his progress and arranged for Lingzhu Zi to uncover the cause of his current confusion.
• Li Changshou, True Lord Yuding, and True Lord Taiyi arranged for Lingzhu Zi to take Yang Jian drinking, while Yuding protected Yang Jian’s Dao Heart and Taiyi prepared to influence it.
• Lingzhu Zi knocked out Yang Chan when she interrupted the outing, then took Yang Jian to a nearby mountain forest, where both disciples fell asleep after drinking drugged wine.
• As True Lord Taiyi began sending a phantom into Yang Jian’s mindscape, Xu Bodhi appeared beside Yang Jian’s Primordial Spirit and asked whether he had considered the matter Xu Bodhi had raised before.

Xu Bodhi tried to provoke Yang Jian into turning against the Heavenly Court, but Yang Jian resisted and decided to leave Jade Spring Mountain to grow stronger and seek a way to save his mother. Li Changshou then set out to find Xu Bodhi and eliminate the threat to his plans.

• Xu Bodhi entered Yang Jian's Spiritual Platform and tried to inflame his hatred, but Yang Jian resisted his provocation and broke through to the next Minor Realm of the Eight-Nine Profound Technique.
• Li Changshou showed True Lord Yu Ding and True Lord Taiyi that Fairy Yunhua was not being tortured, while Yang Jian returned to Jade Spring Mountain and resolved to train abroad.
• Yang Jian left a letter for Yang Chan, bid farewell to True Lord Yu Ding, and departed Jade Spring Mountain to seek dangerous battles in a Great Thousand World.
• Yang Chan woke, read Yang Jian's letter, and wept; True Lord Yu Ding decided to take her after Yang Jian, while Li Changshou prepared to support Yang Jian's training.
• Li Changshou returned to Taibai Hall and set out for the Ninth Heaven Palace to ask his teacher to locate and mark Xu Bodhi.

Li Changshou assembled Dao Sect experts and the Jade Emperor’s incarnation to capture Xu Bodhi, a Western Teachings disciple plotting against the Chan Teaching and Heavenly Court. Two concealed attackers seized Xu Bodhi and vanished through a Heaven and Earth Gap, while the Western Teachings’ two Saints found that the Heavenly Dao did not respond to their search.

• Daoist Duobao mistook Li Changshou’s summons for a plan to attack a Sage and imagined the assembled experts becoming Sage-slayers.
• Li Changshou arrived with General Quan Tong and explained a secret plan to capture Xu Bodhi without revealing the attackers’ identities or killing their target.
• Li Changshou revealed that Xu Bodhi was being watched in the Southern Sea because he was trying to turn the Chan Teaching against the Heavenly Court.
• Xu Bodhi reflected on the Western Teachings and his plans against Yang Jian before two concealed figures ambushed him, knocked him unconscious, and carried him through a Heaven and Earth Gap.
• The Western Teachings’ two Saints searched for Xu Bodhi, but the Heavenly Dao did not respond to their deductions.

Li Changshou used an Illusionary Realm to plant a heart demon in Xu Bodhi, hoping to turn him into a tool for provoking Yang Jian. At a gathering of Three Teachings immortals and the Jade Emperor's Incarnation, the group discussed the great calamity before Quan Tong discovered that Zhao Gongming's Sea-Calming Divine Pearls were fated with the Heavenly Court.

• Li Changshou entered Xu Bodhi's spiritual platform through Duobao's Illusionary Realm treasure and planted the first step of a heart demon.
• True Lord Taiyi explained that Li Changshou had captured Xu Bodhi because he had repeatedly targeted Yang Jian, whose resentment drove his rapid cultivation.
• Li Changshou hosted a banquet while the immortals discussed the great calamity, the Foul Spring, the Devil Ancestor, and the Heavenly Court's role in the coming tribulation.
• Li Changshou examined Zhao Gongming's Sea-Calming Divine Pearls and suggested that the set might be incomplete.
• Quan Tong examined one of the pearls with the Power of Heavenly Dao and declared that the treasure was fated with the Heavenly Court.

Li Changshou secured Xu Bodhi as a controlled pawn while Zhao Gongming began considering the Heavenly Court’s connection to the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls. He and the Jade Emperor watched Yang Jian’s trials unfold, and Quan Tong decided to search for a suitable mount for him.

• Li Changshou clarified that the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls might help complete the Heavenly Court, prompting Zhao Gongming to consider studying their purpose.
• Li Changshou imprisoned Xu Bodhi’s Ashes Qi in a bloodstone and released him at the edge of the Chaos Sea, leaving Xu Bodhi to suspect that Maitreya had planted demonic thoughts in him.
• The Dao Sect immortals swore to keep their operation secret, and Li Changshou asked Yunxiao and Qiongxiao to watch over Zhao Gongming.
• Quan Tong visited Li Changshou to ask about Yang Jian, and they watched Yang Jian defeat demons and survive the trials arranged by Bai Ze.
• After watching Yang Jian’s progress for decades, Quan Tong decided to seek a suitable mount for him.

Li Changshou’s plan to guide Yang Jian reaches its decisive stage when Xu Bodhi provokes Yang Jian into believing Heavenly Court will erase his mother. Yang Jian fights his way through Heavenly Court’s defenses and declares that his assault is his own choice, only for Li Changshou to appear and demand to know whether Yang Jian understands his sin.

• Li Changshou arranged for Princess Longji to give Yang Jian the Howling Celestial Dog and later began a plan to test Yang Jian’s resolve after his rapid breakthrough to Golden Immortal.
• Li Changshou set his arrangements in motion as Yang Jian arrived at a village where the demons were gone and, after hearing two orphaned children, struggled with memories of his family’s tragedy.
• Xu Bodhi told Yang Jian that Heavenly Court planned to kill Fairy Yunhua, and Yang Jian rushed toward the Five Continents despite True Lord Yu Ding’s presence and Lingzhu Zi’s attempt to stop him.
• Yang Jian fought through waves of Heavenly Court Dao Soldiers for more than ten days, reached the Eastern Heavenly Gate, and told Longji that he had chosen to come for his mother and demand justice.
• As Yang Jian faced the assembled Heavenly Soldiers and Generals, Li Changshou arrived in golden light and asked, “Yang Jian, do you know your sin?”

Yang Jian fought his way through the Heavenly Court’s trials to reach his mother, Fairy Yunhua, and learned that Grand White Gold Star had orchestrated much of his path while protecting him. After reuniting with her, Yang Jian chose Dijiang’s ancestral witch essence blood over a Nine-Turn Golden Elixir and flew toward Spirit Mountain to confront the Western Teachings.

• Li Changshou offered to release Fairy Yunhua if Yang Jian pledged his life to the Heavenly Court, but Yang Jian challenged him to a fight for her freedom.
• Li Changshou moved the immortal mountain to the Sixth Heavenly Layer and sent Yang Jian through trials against Xiong Lingli, Ao Yi, and the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird.
• Yang Jian was defeated by the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird but forced himself toward the mountain, where he saw visions revealing Li Changshou’s role in his past and his mother’s capture.
• Yang Jian reunited with Fairy Yunhua, then confronted Li Changshou about the arrangements surrounding his life.
• Li Changshou offered Yang Jian a Nine-Turn Golden Elixir and Dijiang’s ancestral witch essence blood, and Yang Jian chose the essence blood before heading for Spirit Mountain to confront the Western Teachings.

Yang Jian charged toward Spirit Mountain to avenge his father and brother, while Li Changshou and the Heavenly Court supported his path. After Yang Jian smashed Spirit Mountain’s gate, his third eye opened and revealed the Heavenly Dao’s power, leaving him ready to confront the Western Teachings.

• Yang Jian reunited with Fairy Yunhua in the Illusionary Realm, but rage over his family’s tragedy drove him to seek revenge.
• Li Changshou gave Yang Jian Dijiang Ancestral Witch Origin Essence Blood and a Nine-Turn Golden Elixir, then followed as Yang Jian flew toward Spirit Mountain.
• Quan Tong ordered Dong Mugong to mobilize one hundred thousand heavenly soldiers to pursue Yang Jian, while Li Changshou sent aid to heal him along the way.
• Yang Jian reached Spirit Mountain, where Human Race Primeval Demon Soldiers engaged the Western Teachings disciples and Li Changshou appeared in a Paper Daoist Incarnation.
• Yang Jian smashed Spirit Mountain’s gate, manifested the Heavenly Dao’s form, and opened a vertical eye as he demanded that his father and brother be returned and their killers pay.

Yang Jian attacked Spirit Mountain to avenge his family, while Li Changshou shielded and supported him. After the Western Teachings’ connection to the tragedy was exposed and Zhunti intervened, Yang Jian accepted the Heavenly Court’s title but declared he would obey its military orders, not the Heavenly Emperor’s decrees.

• Yang Jian advanced on Spirit Mountain, where Western Teachings Daoists restrained him while Li Changshou watched and the Heavenly Court forces approached.
• A Western Teachings Daoist swore that the sect had no direct connection to Yang Jian’s family’s deaths, was struck by heavenly punishment, and was killed by Yang Jian.
• Li Changshou’s Earth-Leaving Flame Light Banner protected Yang Jian as he battled the Daoists and wrecked Spirit Mountain until Zhunti’s power sent him flying.
• True Lord Taiyi told Yang Jian that his father might still be alive, and Li Changshou confirmed he had protected Yang Tianyou but could not save Yang Jiao.
• Dong Mugong arrived with a Heavenly Court decree, and Yang Jian accepted the title of True Lord Qingyuan Miaodao while declaring that he would heed military orders but not the Heavenly Emperor’s decrees.

Li Changshou helped Yang Jian reunite with his father in the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk and then spoke with him about the Heavenly Court and the great calamity. Yang Jian began to reconsider his hostility toward Li Changshou and accepted a sealed Brocade Pouch to safeguard for a future crisis.

• After Yang Jian accepted the Heavenly Court’s seal and reward, Dong Mugong gave him a treasure pouch and explained Li Changshou’s role in arranging his path.
• Yang Chan reunited with Yang Jian, while Li Changshou arranged for her to join Yunhua in the Heavenly Court and took Yang Jian to see his father.
• In the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk, Yang Jian met Yang Tianyou, who chose to have his reincarnation concealed from his family.
• Great Virtue Houtu told Li Changshou she accepted that Pangu God’s remnant will might need to be erased for the sake of living beings, and Li Changshou reassured her about Seven Emotions.
• Li Changshou entrusted Yang Jian with a sealed Brocade Pouch containing his words and plans, then discussed the Heavenly Court’s order and its duty to protect living beings.

Yang Jian reunited with Fairy Yunhua and gained a place in Heavenly Court’s growing circle of allies, while Li Changshou prepared for the Western Teachings’ retaliation. After months of relative calm, Li Changshou sensed a crisis at Xuandu City, where Grand Master Xuandu faced the Demon Master, Kunpeng.

• Yang Jian knelt before Fairy Yunhua, and Yang Chan joined him as their family reunited at the West Heavenly Gate.
• Lingzhu Zi told Bian Zhuang that Li Changshou was devising a cultivation technique for him called the Sunflower Profound Technique.
• Li Changshou warned the Jade Emperor that the Western Teachings would retaliate and might target Dong Mugong, so Heavenly Court strengthened its defenses and prepared responses.
• Li Changshou arranged for True Lord Du'e to publicize Yang Jian’s victory and later took time to rest, visit Three Immortal Island, and spend time with Ling'e.
• As Li Changshou prepared to leave Heavenly Court, the Taiqing Dao Charm revealed Grand Master Xuandu defending Xuandu City against the Demon Master, Kunpeng.

Li Changshou assembled Dao Sect reinforcements and secretly rushed to Xuandu City, where Grand Master Xuandu was holding off Kunpeng and a host of Outer Realm Demons. After the reinforcements joined the battle and Li Changshou gave the Great Mage the Universe Ruler and Xuanhuang Pagoda, Xuandu rose to confront the attackers.

• Wood Duke sought help from Li Changshou, but Ling'e fended him off with a stone bearing a message that Li Changshou was in closed-door cultivation.
• Li Changshou arranged a one-way teleportation route and summoned Zhao Gongming, Yunxiao, Holy Mother Jinling, Holy Mother Guiling, True Lord Taiyi, True Lord Yu Ding, True Person Huang Long, and other allies to reinforce Xuandu City.
• Li Changshou hid in Yunxiao's sleeve as the group traveled through the Heavenly Dao Barrier, leaving Bai Ze and Jin Peng behind to provide support.
• The reinforcements emerged beneath the Taiji Diagram and saw Grand Master Xuandu defending Xuandu City against Kunpeng, Primordial Gods and Demons, and countless Outer Realm Demons.
• Holy Mother Jinling led the reinforcements into battle, and Yunxiao passed the Universe Ruler and Xuanhuang Pagoda to Grand Master Xuandu.
• Grand Master Xuandu rose, told his junior brothers and sisters to hold the Taiji Diagram, and faced Kunpeng and the attackers.

The Dao Sect experts drove back the Outer Realm Demons and forced Kunpeng to flee, but he invited Li Changshou to seek him in the Chaos Sea and learn the truth of the Primordial Wilderness. Li Changshou weighed the risks of following the invitation while Kunpeng waited, hoping to use him to mock Hongjun.

• Holy Mother Jinling, Zhao Gongming, Holy Mother Guiling, Yunxiao, and other Dao Sect experts joined the battle and defeated the attacking Primordial Gods and Demons.
• Yunxiao wounded the Heavenly Demon Venerable with the Primordial Golden Dou, and the Outer Realm Demons fled as Grand Master Xuandu continued fighting Kunpeng.
• Kunpeng called Li Changshou an outsider, invited him to the Chaos Sea to learn the truth of the Primordial Wilderness, and escaped at supreme speed.
• Yunxiao concealed Li Changshou inside the Primordial Golden Dou, where he considered Kunpeng's motives and the risks of investigating Senior Lang's past.
• The Dao Sect immortals discussed whether Chang Geng had a connection to Kunpeng, while True Lord Yu Ding recalled an ancient being erased around the time Patriarch joined with the Dao.
• Kunpeng told the fleeing Primordial Gods and Demons that Li Changshou would come seeking him, and said he wanted to mock Hongjun.

Li Changshou avoided Kunpeng’s bait, helped fortify Xuandu City, and unintentionally inspired Yang Jian to become a wildly popular Heavenly Court live broadcaster. Two years later, Li Changshou discovered Yang Jian’s success and despaired, while Kunpeng continued waiting in the Chaos Sea for him to appear.

• Li Changshou decided not to return to the Chaos Sea, then enjoyed Yunxiao’s head massage while Dao Sect immortals began improving Xuandu City’s defenses.
• Yang Jian reflected on how Grand White Gold Star had shaped his life, discovered Heavenly Court bronze-mirror broadcasts, and obtained mirrors and a guidebook for making content.
• Yang Jian began live-streaming demon hunts, gained a huge following, formed brotherhood with the Six Friends of Plum Mountain, and broadcast himself challenging Howling Celestial Dog.
• After two years away, Li Changshou returned to the Heavenly Court and discovered that Yang Jian had become a celebrated broadcaster, even teaming up with Bian Zhuang to attack a Demon Race stronghold.
• A young girl in the Southern Continent watched Yang Jian’s broadcast, while Kunpeng waited in the Chaos Sea and vowed revenge against the person who had branded him.

Li Changshou tried to understand Heavenly Dao’s incompleteness while Bai Ze brought news of the Saintess of Lin Tian Hall. At the Eastern Sea, Jiu Jiu encountered the Saintess, whose Seven Emotions powers stirred Jiu Jiu’s feelings for Li Changshou and sent her fleeing in embarrassment.

• Li Changshou meditated at Xuandu City and observed fragments of Heavenly Dao’s evolution, but found no clue to One Escape.
• True Lord Taiyi, True Lord Yu Ding, Zhao Gongming, Holy Mother Jinling, and Fairy Yunxiao discussed Li Changshou and the mysterious meaning of Kunpeng calling him an outsider.
• Bai Ze arrived with supplies and news of the Saintess of Lin Tian Hall, but Grand Master Xuandu told him Li Changshou was in seclusion.
• Jiu Jiu visited the Du Xian Sect, then stopped by the Eastern Sea and brooded over her feelings for Li Changshou before finding a woman floating in the water.
• The woman awakened and unleashed the Power of Seven Emotions, making Jiu Jiu laugh, cry, and feel desire before angering her with thoughts of Li Changshou and a rival.
• The woman wondered aloud about Jiu Jiu’s martial aunt and martial nephew relationship, and Jiu Jiu fled toward the Eastern Sea in embarrassment.

Li Changshou explored the Heavenly Dao’s imprints and witnessed Pangu God’s creation of the Primordial World, learning how Senior Lang and Hongjun Daoist had been present at its beginning. The final imprint revealed Pangu God’s choice to disperse himself so later beings could freely follow their own paths, leaving Li Changshou overwhelmed with sorrow.

• Li Changshou discovered an imprint of Senior Lang speaking with Pangu God in the Chaos Sea and learned that Pangu was cultivating the Great Daos before creating Heaven and Earth.
• Li Changshou witnessed Pangu God form the Heaven-Opening Axe and battle the Chaos Gods and Demons, freeing true spirits as he advanced.
• Li Changshou saw Pangu God spare Hongjun and then begin creating Heaven and Earth, confirming that Senior Lang and Hongjun had witnessed the event.
• Li Changshou watched Pangu God explain to Senior Lang that he would disperse his consciousness so the new world’s beings could choose their own paths.
• Li Changshou witnessed Pangu God’s body transform into parts of the world and saw the Three Pure Ones emerge before the imprint ended.

After decades of secluded cultivation, Li Changshou returned from Xuandu City and shared part of his past with Yunxiao while Kunpeng plotted to lure him into the Chaos Sea. Back at Taibai Palace, Li Changshou prepared to oversee the Shang Tribe’s founding, while Ling'e misunderstood his mention of visiting his hometown as a sign of marriage plans.

• Li Changshou emerged from seventy or eighty years of cultivation in Xuandu City, thanked Yunxiao and the others for guarding him, and learned that the Three Realms had remained largely peaceful.
• Li Changshou refused the Universe Ruler, warned Great Mage not to engage with Kunpeng, and said he had an eighty percent chance of handling the danger tied to Kunpeng’s possessions.
• Li Changshou inspected the Three Realms on his journey back, then played Go with Yunxiao and told her that he had been a mortal in another life before joking that he would explain more after marriage.
• Kunpeng, frustrated that Li Changshou had not come to the Chaos Sea, prepared a scheme involving summoned female figures to exploit what he suspected was Li Changshou’s weakness.
• Three months later, Li Changshou watched Yang Jian’s battles at Taibai Palace and set out to oversee the Shang Tribe’s founding, while Ling'e imagined names for their future children after he mentioned visiting his hometown.

Li Changshou arranged Heavenly Court’s auspicious signs for the founding of Shang Kingdom and watched Tang Tian Yi receive the mandate of Heaven. As he prepared to greet Jiu Jiu, an inner demon approached her, but the Seven Emotions Girl pulled it out before he could intervene.

• Li Changshou sent a Heavenly General to summon Princess Longji and spoke with Dong Mugong about Western Teachings’ efforts against the Immortal Alliance and Heavenly Court.
• Princess Longji joined Quan Tong, Ao Yi, Bian Zhuang, and Li Changshou as the Heavenly Court procession departed to bless Shang Kingdom’s founding ceremony.
• Li Changshou and Kong Xuan created celestial signs as Tang Tian Yi completed the Heaven-worship ceremony and received a Human Emperor Seal from Longji.
• The founding ceremony brought Shang Kingdom under Heavenly Dao’s protection, strengthened Human Race Destiny, and established Heavenly Court’s influence over the mortal world.
• Outside the capital, Jiu Jiu lamented that she could not see Li Changshou, while the Seven Emotions Girl teased her about her feelings.
• An inner demon crept toward Jiu Jiu, but the Seven Emotions Girl noticed it and dragged the shadow out before Li Changshou could act.

Li Changshou captured Mei Wenhua, a Heavenly Demon sent by Kunpeng, and used an illusion shaped by Seven Emotions to make her doubt her nature. The experiment unexpectedly transformed Mei Wenhua into a radiant Spirit Body who vowed to save the other Heavenly Demons.

• Mei Wenhua recalled how she infiltrated the Primordial World to approach Grand White Gold Star before Li Changshou seized her.
• Li Changshou questioned Mei Wenhua inside a Seven Emotions Illusionary Realm, making her wonder whether she was truly a Heavenly Demon.
• Jiu Jiu waited outside the array as Ao Yi reprimanded Bian Zhuang for staring at her, while Quan Tong arrived to speak with Li Changshou.
• Mei Wenhua underwent a sudden transformation as white light purified the black aura around her and the Power of Heavenly Dao stabilized her new form.
• Mei Wenhua declared that she would save the other Heavenly Demons from deception, leaving Li Changshou and the gathered immortals stunned.

Li Changshou discovered that his persuasion had transformed the heavenly demon Mei Wenhua into a Heavenly Dao-protected spiritual being whose heart held compassion for the Outer Realm Demons. He arranged for Kong Xuan to assist the Great Mage at Xuandu City, then decided to take Mei Wenhua to Huoyun Cave to consult the Human Race's Ancient Sages.

• Li Changshou explained how Mei Wenhua's self-denial under the Power of Seven Emotions had caused the Primordial World to assimilate her, while Little Ai confirmed that the heavenly demon's heart held sincere Good Thoughts.
• Li Changshou and Quan Tong arranged for the Heavenly Court to guard Shang Kingdom so Kong Xuan could go to Xuandu City and help the Great Mage.
• Li Changshou asked Grand Pure Sage for permission to send Kong Xuan, and Grand Pure Sage sent her two Nine-Revolutions Spirit Pills.
• Li Changshou gave Kong Xuan a jade talisman containing He-Dream-Connect and several games to take to Xuandu City.
• Little Ai shattered Mei Wenhua's Dao heart, revealing her wish to free the Outer Realm Demons from the Heavenly Demon Venerable's control.
• Li Changshou decided to take Mei Wenhua to Huoyun Cave so the Human Race's Ancient Sages could consider how to resolve the Outer Realm Demons.