Recaps

Emperor Jun and Nüwa established the Four Symbols Heavenly Pillars, then Emperor Jun claimed control of the Heavenly Realm and trapped Zhun Ti after he schemed against the Demon Clan. Jie Yin secured Zhun Ti’s release by accepting Emperor Jun’s merit debt and surrendering Buddhism’s treasury, while the Wu Tribe prepared for a decisive battle with the Celestial Court.

• Emperor Jun and Nüwa used the Great Ao’s body to create the Four Symbols Heavenly Pillars, which merged with the Pangu Membrane and helped Mengzhang, Jianbing, Lingguang, and Zhiming reach the Quasi-Sage realm.
• Emperor Jun drew Pangu aura into his incarnation and took control of the Heavenly Realm’s Laws Golden Wheel, incurring a merit debt to the Heavenly Dao.
• Emperor Jun erased Haotian and Yaochi’s Heavenly Emperor Mandates, then drew scattered Heavenly Dao Laws into the Heavenly Realm to study them.
• Zhun Ti tried to lure Bo Huang into the conflict between the Celestial Court and the Wu Tribe, but Emperor Jun exposed the scheme and Taiyi confronted him.
• Taiyi trapped Zhun Ti inside the Grand Heavenly Star Formation, and Emperor Jun later showed the sealed Sage to Jie Yin.
• Jie Yin agreed that Buddhism would bear Emperor Jun’s merit debt and surrender its treasury, and Hongjun transferred the debt to the Western Sages before Zhun Ti was freed.
• Zhun Ti delivered Buddhism’s treasury to Emperor Jun, while Zhu Jiuyin told Dijiang that Wu Humans could cultivate both the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique and the Immortal Dao.
• Dijiang ordered preparations for a decisive battle with the Celestial Court and set out to meet the Wu Tribe’s Twelfth Ancestral Witch at Mount Buzhou.

The Wu Tribe and Celestial Court fought at Mount Buzhou, and Emperor Jun’s incarnation led the Ancestral Witches into a battle against Sage Taiqing that summoned Great God Pangu. After Pangu’s future consciousness vanished, the story followed Pangu’s creation of the Primordial World and returned to Emperor Jun studying the gift Pangu had left him.

• Lady Pingxin agreed to receive the Wu Tribe in the Netherworld, and Houtu later delivered the challenge for the Wu Tribe to fight the Celestial Court at Mount Buzhou in three thousand years.
• At Mount Buzhou, Emperor Jun’s incarnation revealed himself as the Twelfth Ancestral Witch and joined the eleven others to summon the Pangu phantom, which shattered the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation and destroyed the Celestial Court.
• Sage Taiqing confronted the Twelve Ancestral Witches in Chaos, where they sacrificed their bodies and souls to let Emperor Jun’s incarnation take sole control of the Pangu phantom.
• The Pangu figure shattered Taiqing’s attacks and Tongtian’s sword formation, then Great God Pangu’s consciousness emerged and recognized Lady Pingxin and Emperor Jun while withholding recognition from the Three Purities.
• The Great Dao discovered that Pangu was a consciousness from the past, and Pangu withdrew his future consciousness before the assembled Sages departed, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ souls remained with Lady Pingxin.
• Lady Pingxin ended her transaction with Emperor Jun because he had failed to preserve the Ancestral Witches’ souls, while Pangu prepared to open heaven and earth in the past.
• Pangu fought the Chaos Demon Gods and used their bodies and Laws to form the Primordial World, then held heaven and earth apart and received Heaven-Opening Merit.
• Back in the future, Emperor Jun studied Pangu’s gift and used his Mind Realm to deduce the stages of life’s transformation, though he could not complete the first leap in life level.

Emperor Jun’s incarnation became Great Emperor Fengdu and established the Ghost Path, becoming the Netherworld’s second Sage with Lady Pingxin’s support. After the Underworld secured a merit-sharing covenant with Buddhism, Emperor Jun guarded Eastern Emperor Taiyi as he began cultivating both the Solar Path and the path of time and space.

• Lady Pingxin restored the Six Paths of Reincarnation Disk, examined the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ souls, and helped Emperor Jun’s weakened incarnation awaken.
• Emperor Jun’s incarnation found his place in the Netherworld, named himself Fengdu, and cultivated the Ghost Path with Emperor Jun’s guidance.
• Great Emperor Fengdu preached the Ghost Path and declared its establishment, while Lady Pingxin gathered the Ancestral Witches’ souls as Sage Taiqing confronted him.
• Lady Pingxin, Sage Nüwa, and the Two Sages of the West opposed the Three Purities, and Dao Ancestor Hongjun appeared as merit descended upon Great Emperor Fengdu.
• Great Emperor Fengdu channeled the merit into the Netherworld and became its second Sage, while the other Sages recognized that they could not erase him without destroying the Underworld.
• Lady Pingxin and Great Emperor Fengdu negotiated with Sage Jie Yin and Sage Zhun Ti, establishing a covenant that gave the Underworld thirty percent of Buddhist disciples’ merit when they reincarnated.
• Great Emperor Fengdu organized Fengdu Ghost City and developed the Netherworld, while the Buddhist Sages began sending their disciples through reincarnation under the covenant.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi began severing his third corpse on the Sun Star, and, with Emperor Jun guarding him, chose to cultivate both the Solar Path and the path of time and space.

Eastern Emperor Taiyi completed his Three Corpses and began pursuing the Heavenly Realm’s Sage Fruit Position as Emperor Jun negotiated authority for the Heavenly Court. The Sages agreed to assess candidates for Celestial Emperor, and Emperor Jun drew seven of them into separate Mind Realms to begin the trial.

• Eastern Emperor Taiyi severed his Self Corpse and completed all Three Corpses, then Emperor Jun explained how he could pursue Sagehood by resonating with the Heavenly Realm’s laws.
• Emperor Jun brought Taiyi to the Heavenly Realm to comprehend its laws while the Three Purities planned to establish a new Celestial Court with Donghua as their candidate.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun summoned the Sages to discuss the Celestial Court, and Emperor Jun shifted the debate toward the Heavenly Court receiving authority to act on Heaven’s behalf and execute punishment.
• Hongjun granted Emperor Jun the authority of Heavenly Punishment, then the Sages disputed Grand Pure Laozi’s nomination of Donghua as Celestial Emperor and supported Emperor Jun’s proposal of Haotian.
• Emperor Jun proposed a Mind Realm assessment to choose the Celestial Emperor, and the Sages nominated Haotian, Donghua, Wutian, Bo Huang, Maitreya, Wu Xian, and Daoist Randeng.
• Emperor Jun drew the seven candidates’ consciousnesses into separate Mind Realms, then asked Hongjun to reveal the Primordial Continent’s Celestial Emperor Authority.