Chapter Summaries

Lin Tian advanced his Space Law, then visited the Human Race's Three Sovereigns to settle the karma over Shi Ji's death. As he left, the fortunes of the Chan Sect, Human Teaching, and Buddhist Sect began draining away, and Taishang could not stop the loss.

• Lin Tian raised his Space Law to twenty percent and his Power Law to thirty point five percent while the four Saints remained trapped in his formations.
• Lin Tian struck Human Sovereign Xuan Yuan at the Fire Cloud Cave, settling their karma over the Heaven and Earth Bow and Sky-Shaking Arrow that had destroyed Shi Ji's cave abode.
• Xuan Yuan, Fuxi, and Shen Nong understood Lin Tian's visit and bowed toward Golden Turtle Island in thanks.
• The fortunes of the Chan Sect, Human Teaching, and Buddhist Sect began draining away rapidly, alarming Yuanshi, Taishang, Jieyin, and Zhunti.
• Taishang brought out the Kongtong Hand Seal and suppressed its strange movements, but the Human Teaching's fortune continued to drain away.

The Spirit Vine Sect absorbed the fortune of the Human Teaching, Chan Sect, and Buddhist Sect as Lin Tian made the Primordial World's Three Thousand Great Dao Laws resonate. Taishang suppressed the resonance and alerted Daoist Hongjun, who feared Lin Tian would eventually come for him.

• The fortune of the Human Teaching, Chan Sect, and Buddhist Sect flowed into the Spirit Vine Sect, revealing its vast reserves to the Primordial World.
• Lin Tian's eyes shone with the Three Thousand Great Dao Laws, causing the Primordial World to shake and resonate.
• Taishang raised the White Jade Golden Bridge from his Taiji Diagram, suppressing the resonance around Golden Turtle Island.
• Taishang sent Daoist Hongjun a strand of spirit awareness carrying what he had witnessed and suspected Lin Tian might be Hongjun's original consciousness.
• Daoist Hongjun sensed the laws' resonance and feared Lin Tian would defeat the four Saints and come for him.

Lin Tian revealed that his apparent display of power on Golden Turtle Island had concealed his secret merger with the Primordial World’s Heavenly Dao, while Daoist Hongjun’s authority over it had weakened. When Lin Tian confronted him in the Purple Heaven Palace, Hongjun’s buried memories exposed the truth that this Lin Tian had replaced someone important in the Primordial World.

• Daoist Hongjun summoned the Good Fortune Jade Disc and his Heavenly Dao celebratory cloud, but the three thousand laws rejected his attempt to merge with the Heavenly Dao.
• Daoist Hongjun sensed Lin Tian’s overwhelming influence and considered fleeing into chaos, but Lin Tian appeared within his sea of consciousness.
• Lin Tian explained that his Golden Turtle Island display had been a feint while he secretly merged with the Heavenly Dao and diminished Hongjun’s control.
• Daoist Hongjun’s buried seed erupted with memories of Hongjuns across countless planes being killed by the Vine Dao Venerable.
• Daoist Hongjun recognized Lin Tian as the Vine Dao Venerable and concluded that he had replaced someone important in the Primordial World as the Heavenly Dao’s fortune and energy drained from him.

Lin Tian confronted Daoist Hongjun in the Purple Heaven Palace and discovered that the Hongjun before him was a clone, while the original hid beyond the reach of ordinary probing. Lin Tian expanded the Fate Cage across the palace’s sources of time, space, power, and karma, dragging Hongjun’s original self out of hiding.

• Lin Tian judged Daoist Hongjun unusually weak and suspected the figure in the Purple Heaven Palace was only a clone.
• Lin Tian summoned the Serpent of Fate, which absorbed the plane’s Three Thousand Laws and formed a Fate Cage around Daoist Hongjun.
• Lin Tian realized Hongjun’s original self had severed its connection to a clone made from his good, evil, and self corpses, leaving the clone as an empty shell.
• Daoist Hongjun claimed Lin Tian had captured only his clone and could not reach his hidden original self.
• Lin Tian enlarged the Serpent of Fate and extended the Fate Cage across the Purple Heaven Palace’s sources of time, space, power, and karma.
• The Serpent of Fate dragged Daoist Hongjun’s original self out of hiding, leaving him shocked and panicked.

Lin Tian used the Fate Little Snake to kill Daoist Hongjun across dimensions, then returned to Spirit Vine Ten Thousand Laws Heaven as the Investiture of the Gods Calamity approached. He recognized that the struggle over Great Dao lineages had already reached his own world, but kept its deepest secrets from his Little Partners.

• Lin Tian avoided answering Daoist Hongjun so Hongjun could not entangle him in karma, and used the Fate Little Snake to rewind time and end Hongjun’s questions at their origin.
• The Fate Little Snake devoured Daoist Hongjun’s essence and fortune, destroyed his fused body and Original Self, and Lin Tian’s purple light annihilated the four Saints near Golden Turtle Island.
• Lin Tian formed a Spirit Vine Formation around Tongtian and crossed the river of dimensions back to Spirit Vine Ten Thousand Laws Heaven with him.
• Lin Tian fused his true bodies into his Original Self and reflected that the Daoist School Lineage had already begun a war against the Spirit Vine School over Great Dao lineages and planes.
• Lin Tian withheld the central secret of the Great Dao Contest from his Little Partners, then heard resonant waves sound in his sea of consciousness.

Lin Tian answered Haotian's plea for help and entered the battle against Primordial Heavenly Venerable and the Two Western Saints after revealing his cultivation had reached the peak of the fifth heaven of Sainthood. He fought all three at once, drawing blood from them as the battle raged on.

• Haotian Child sent Lin Tian a plea for help, and Lin Tian traced it to Haotian in another Primordial World Plane.
• Lin Tian entered Haotian's body and took his place in the battle, revealing cultivation at the peak of the fifth heaven of Sainthood.
• Lin Tian struck Daoist Jieyin's Twelfth-Grade Merit Golden Lotus, sending it flying and cracking it again.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerable called on the Two Western Saints to fight without restraint, and all three attacked Lin Tian.
• Lin Tian used the Yin-Yang Emperor Art, the Heavenly Emperor's Fist, and the Combat Secret to overwhelm the three Saints and draw their blood.

Lin Tian defeated the Western Saints’ attempt to fight him and then stopped Primordial Heavenly Venerable from leaving without surrendering the All-Heavens Celebratory Cloud. Primordial Heavenly Venerable attacked him with the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi, and the battle continued.

• Lin Tian killed Daoist Jieyin and overwhelmed the three Saints with his attacks.
• Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin decided to retreat, and the Two Western Saints left after declaring the Investiture of the Gods List had sealed their disciples’ fate.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerable threatened Lin Tian and tried to depart, but Lin Tian attacked him and demanded the All-Heavens Celebratory Cloud.
• Lin Tian reached for the All-Heavens Celebratory Cloud, prompting Primordial Heavenly Venerable to summon the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi and unleash nine golden dragons at him.

Lin Tian shattered Primordial Heavenly Venerable’s Three Treasures Jade Ruyi and seized the All-Heavens Celebratory Cloud, claiming it as compensation for the Human Race. Heavenly Venerable Virtue persuaded Primordial Heavenly Venerable to stop the fight, and Lin Tian agreed to let the matter rest for now.

• Lin Tian struck the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi with one punch, cracking the supreme treasure and shocking Primordial Heavenly Venerable.
• Lin Tian used the Chaos Pearl to seize the All-Heavens Celebratory Cloud and severed Primordial Heavenly Venerable’s connection to it.
• Lin Tian refused Primordial Heavenly Venerable’s demand to return the treasure, declaring it compensation for the Human Race.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerable summoned the genuine Pan Gu Banner, alarming the creatures of the Primordial World and the Heavenly Dao Saints.
• Heavenly Venerable Virtue urged Primordial Heavenly Venerable to stand down, then acknowledged Lin Tian’s victory and asked to end the confrontation.
• Lin Tian accepted Heavenly Venerable Virtue’s proposal, while recognizing that he had yielded because of the circumstances and was nearing a breakthrough.

Lin Tian returned victorious from Azure Dragon Pass and ordered the Immortal Dynasty's armies to hunt beings tied to the Investiture of the Gods List. At Mount Mei, Yuan Hong persuaded the Seven Monsters to enter the Human Race's conflict, setting them on a collision course with Lin Tian's forces.

• Primordial Heavenly Venerable accepted Heavenly Venerable Virtue's advice and withdrew with Daoist Cihang and the surviving members of the Twelve Saints of the Chan Sect.
• Lin Tian returned to Azure Dragon Pass, where Nezha, the armies, and the Primordial World's myriad races welcomed him.
• Lin Tian ordered Yang Jin to attack Mount Mei, Yang Jiao to attack Mount Qi, and Nezha to attack Mount Li.
• Zhu Zizhen warned Dai Li against joining the Human Race's civil war, but the Seven Monsters of Mount Mei remained divided.
• Yuan Hong urged the Seven Monsters to take human form and exploit the Human Race's calamity for revenge and a breakthrough, and the others agreed.

Yang Jian led the Immortal Dynasty's army to Mount Mei on Lin Tian's order and killed the Seven Monsters of Mount Mei. After defeating Yuan Hong despite his ability to regenerate, Yang Jian slaughtered the remaining monsters, leaving nearby onlookers in awe of the Human Race's rising strength.

• Yang Jian arrived at Mount Mei with the Immortal Dynasty's army and announced that he had come by order of the Vine Dao Venerable to send the Seven Monsters of Mount Mei onto the Investiture of the Gods List.
• Yuan Hong protested that the monsters had never harmed the Human Race, but Yang Jian ordered his army to surround Mount Mei and attacked when the monsters charged him.
• Yang Jian killed Dai Li, Chang Hao, and several other monsters with a powerful sweep of his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade.
• Yuan Hong regenerated after Yang Jian beheaded him, but Yang Jian immobilized him with the divine light from his third eye and killed him with another strike.
• Yang Jian killed the remaining monsters, while nearby creatures praised his strength and speculated that the Human Race would flourish.

Lin Tian ended the Investiture of the Gods Calamity by backing Western Qi, prompting Yin Shang’s surrender and King Zhou’s death as Zhou rose to power. With the Human Race’s fortune surging and the final place on the Investiture of the Gods List filled, Lin Tian declared that the main event was next.

• After Yang Jian slew the Seven Monsters of Mount Mei, he received Heavenly Dao merit, while the Spirit Vine Sect’s armies sent beings named on the Investiture of the Gods List onto it.
• Lin Tian dissolved Jiang Shang’s Flying Bear Fate, rewarded him with worldly honor, and declared that Western Qi should rule the Human Race before departing with the Investiture of the Gods List.
• Yin Shang’s soldiers surrendered to Western Qi, but Ji Chang died during the march, and Jiang Ziya enthroned Ji Fa as king before they resumed the campaign.
• Western Qi’s army and the realm’s lords reached Chaoge, where King Zhou set fire to the Star-Picking Tower and died, ending the Yin Shang dynasty.
• Ji Fa founded the Great Zhou Dynasty and appointed Jiang Ziya Duke of Zhou as the Human Race’s fortune and power grew.
• Kong Xuan returned with his troops and filled the final vacant place on the Investiture of the Gods List, and Lin Tian announced that the calamity was over and the main event was next.

Lin Tian oversaw the completion of the Investiture of the Gods Altar and began appointing the Eight Departments of Orthodox Gods. As he started the investiture, the Primordial Heavenly Venerable watched for a chance to free his disciples from the list.

• Jiang Ziya completed the Investiture of the Gods Altar at Mount Qi and prayed for Lin Tian to inspect it.
• Lin Tian appeared, gave Jiang Ziya the Hundred-Spirit Banner to guide the souls, and summoned the Investiture of the Gods List above the altar.
• Lin Tian proclaimed the appointment of the Eight Departments of Orthodox Gods, drawing the attention of beings throughout the Three Realms.
• The Primordial Heavenly Venerable watched from the Jade Void Palace, intending to sever his disciples’ ties to the list during the investiture.
• Lin Tian sensed something amiss but continued the investiture without hesitation.

Lin Tian used Jiang Ziya and the Hundred-Spirit Banner to draw the True Spirits to the Investiture of the Gods Altar, but they rebelled until Dao Ancestor Hongjun intervened. Hongjun sent the God-Striking Whip to Lin Tian, who used its power to cow the True Spirits and left them unable to resist the investiture.

• Jiang Ziya waved the Hundred-Spirit Banner, pulling the True Spirits listed on the Investiture of the Gods List toward the altar.
• Guang Chengzi urged the True Spirits to kill Jiang Ziya, and they surged toward him until Dao Ancestor Hongjun threatened to annihilate anyone who disrupted the investiture.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun explained that the Primordial World could not withstand more upheaval before the Chaos Calamity and sent a mysterious yellow light toward the altar.
• The light revealed the God-Striking Whip, which Hongjun had sent to restrain the True Spirits.
• Lin Tian took the God-Striking Whip and warned the True Spirits not to disrupt the investiture, forcing them to retreat in fear.

Lin Tian completed the Investiture of the Gods while Primordial Heavenly Venerable watched his disciples accept their appointments. Heavenly Venerable Virtue broke through to the saint fifth heaven and then offered his three corpses to guard the Heavenly Court, with the Heavenly Dao approving the pledge.

• Lin Tian used Jiang Ziya and the Hundred-Spirit Banner to guide the named true spirits, including Guang Chengzi and other Chan Sect disciples, to accept their divine appointments.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerable accepted that he could not intervene under Dao Ancestor Hongjun's command, while Lin Tian anticipated that their conflict was not over.
• Heavenly Venerable Virtue emerged at the Eight Sceneries Palace and broke through to the saint fifth heaven, drawing the attention of the Saints and living beings across the Three Realms.
• Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin decided to launch their plan ahead of schedule, and Daoist Zhunti left Mount Sumeru.
• Heavenly Venerable Virtue offered his three corpses to serve the Heavenly Court, and Grand Supreme Elder Lord pledged to guard it for all eternity as the Heavenly Dao bore witness.

The Heavenly Venerable Virtue sent his Three Corpses avatar to claim a foothold in the Heavenly Court, but Lin Tian and the Jade Emperor calmly allowed him to enter while preparing their own plans. After a hundred years of peace, Jieyin and Zhunti shocked the Primordial World by renouncing their status as disciples of the Daoist School.

• The Heavenly Venerable Virtue, newly advanced to the Heavenly Dao Saint Fifth Heaven, sent his Three Corpses avatar to join the Heavenly Court and claim its fortune.
• Lin Tian remained untroubled and told the Heavenly Venerable Virtue he could rest easy with his avatar overseeing the Heavenly Court.
• The Grand Supreme Elder Lord entered Lingxiao Hall, and the Jade Emperor welcomed him and ordered the Giant Spirit God to build Tusita Palace for him in the Heaven of Separation from Hatred.
• The Jade Emperor recognized the Grand Supreme Elder Lord's scheme to share the Heavenly Court's fortune and resolved to use the situation for his own plans.
• A hundred years later, Jieyin and Zhunti publicly renounced their status as disciples of the Daoist School, shocking the Three Realms and the other Heavenly Dao Saints.

Jieyin and Zhunti established Buddhism by breaking away from the Daoist School, then revealed that they had won over several of the Chan Sect’s leading disciples. The chapter left the Heavenly Venerable Virtue wary that the Western Saints might have planted more followers among his own disciples.

• Heavenly Venerable Virtue and Primordial Heavenly Venerable denounced the Two Western Saints, while Cult Leader Tongtian readied the Green Apple Sword.
• Lin Tian recognized that the Two Western Saints had begun their long-planned break from the Daoist School, and the Purple Heaven Palace remained silent.
• Daoist Jieyin proclaimed the founding of Buddhism, and the Heavenly Dao bestowed abundant merit on the Western Lands.
• Daoist Ran Deng abandoned the Chan Sect to become Past Buddha, followed by Daoist Cihang, True Person Puxian, and Heavenly Venerable Wenshu Guangfa joining Buddhism.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerable raged at the defections, while Heavenly Venerable Virtue grew wary and began suspecting that the Western Lands had planted pawns among his disciples.

The Primordial Heavenly Venerable attacked Jieyin and Zhunti after they took many Chan Sect disciples into Buddhism, then threatened to destroy the Primordial World with the Pangu Banner. The Heavenly Venerable Virtue arrived and ordered him to stop, but the Primordial Heavenly Venerable insisted that his Chan Sect was already gone.

• The Primordial Heavenly Venerable erupted in anger over Jieyin and Zhunti taking more than half his disciples into Buddhism and attacked them with the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi.
• Jieyin and Zhunti fought back with the Demon-Subduing Pestle and Six-Sense-Purifying Bamboo as their powers shook the Primordial World.
• The Primordial Heavenly Venerable summoned the Pangu Banner and threatened to open heaven and earth anew, terrifying creatures throughout the Three Realms.
• The Two Western Saints urged him to stop, warning that destroying the world would bring boundless karmic force and erase Buddhism's new foundations.
• The Heavenly Venerable Virtue appeared and demanded that the Primordial Heavenly Venerable stop, but the latter bitterly declared that his Chan Sect was gone.

As Primordial Heavenly Venerable tore apart the Primordial World in revenge against the Two Western Saints, Lin Tian used the Hongmeng Emperor Cauldron and the Nine Divine Province Cauldrons to shelter the Human Race's Nine Provinces. Dao Ancestor Hongjun recognized Lin Tian's extraordinary method and suspected the Chaos Pearl was its crucial support.

• Primordial Heavenly Venerable refused Heavenly Venerable Virtue's counsel and vowed to make the Western Lands share the Chan Sect's destruction.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerable wielded the Pangu Banner to tear apart the Three Realms, unleashing chaos that threatened to destroy the Western Lands and the Primordial World.
• Lin Tian used the Hongmeng Emperor Cauldron, the Nine Divine Province Cauldrons, and the Human Race's fortune to anchor the Nine Provinces and protect their inhabitants.
• Countless creatures rushed toward the Nine Provinces for refuge, but many were destroyed by the raging earth, fire, wind, and water before they could reach safety.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun observed Lin Tian's feat, praised his talent, and identified the Chaos Pearl as a likely source of its power.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun halted the Primordial World's collapse and reforged it into the Earth Immortal Realm, then punished the Primordial Heavenly Venerable and the Two Western Saints for their conflict. He ordered all Heavenly Dao Saints to withdraw beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens and stop interfering in the Earth Immortal Realm.

• Dao Ancestor Hongjun halted the Primordial World's collapse and reshaped it into four continents separated by vast oceans, naming it the Earth Immortal Realm.
• The Two Western Saints asked Dao Ancestor Hongjun to punish the Primordial Heavenly Venerable, who tried to attack them before Hongjun ordered him to stand down and confiscated his Pangu Banner.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun rebuked the Primordial Heavenly Venerable and gave him and the Two Western Saints Saint-Falling Pills that could destroy even Heavenly Dao Saints.
• The Primordial Heavenly Venerable and the Two Western Saints swallowed the pills under Dao Ancestor Hongjun's command.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun ordered the Heavenly Dao Saints to withdraw into the chaos void beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens and cease interfering in the Earth Immortal Realm.

After Dao Ancestor Hongjun ordered the Heavenly Dao Saints to leave the Primordial World, Lin Tian moved Yingzhou Immortal Island into Chaos and discovered that the Chaos Pearl’s inner world had become a living world. He began investigating the origin of heaven and earth within it.

• Daoist Jieyin questioned whether the Saints should leave the Primordial World unguarded, but Dao Ancestor Hongjun ordered them to depart, and the Saints began moving their Dao Fields into Chaos.
• Cult Leader Tongtian appointed Duobao to oversee Jiejiao before taking Biyou Palace into Chaos.
• Lin Tian reassured Xihe that the Human Race could protect itself, then moved Yingzhou Immortal Island into Heaven Beyond Heaven and concealed it within Chaos.
• The island absorbed chaos energy, greatly increasing its spiritual energy, and Xihe entered seclusion to attempt a breakthrough to the Quasi-Saint peak realm.
• Lin Tian entered the Chaos Pearl and found that its inner world had absorbed the origin of heaven and earth and become alive.