Recaps

Hongjun ordered Taishang Laozi, Yuanshi, Zhunti, and Jieyin to reassemble the Interception Sect so it would face the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation while Tongtian's perception was blocked. As others reacted to Tongtian's victory, Lu Feng sensed movement in the Secret Realm.

• Hongjun told Taishang Laozi that the Interception Sect should face the tribulation and tasked him and Yuanshi with rebuilding it while Tongtian was distracted.
• Taishang Laozi agreed to Hongjun's plan, believing the Chan Sect would be spared the tribulation if the Interception Sect was restored.
• At Wuzhuang Temple, Zhen Yuanzi learned that Tongtian had defeated Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi and suspected the Interception Sect was pursuing a larger plan.
• At the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, Great Emperor Haotian viewed Tongtian's victory as expected and wondered whether the Interception Sect had long outmaneuvered the Chan Sect.
• On Golden Ao Island, Lu Feng worried that Hongjun and the other Saints might target the Jie Sect Disciples, resolved to grow stronger, and sensed movement in the Secret Realm.

Hongjun ordered the Interception Sect to be reunited and summoned Tongtian, while Taishang Laozi and Primordial Heavenly Venerable set out to carry out the task. Primordial Heavenly Venerable planned to rely on his Twelve Golden Immortals, and the chapter ended with Nuwa watching from outside Zixiao Palace.

• Hongjun told Taishang Laozi, Primordial Heavenly Venerable, Jieyin, and Zhunti that the Interception Sect would bear the tribulation and must be reunited.
• Hongjun suspected an unknown force had concealed the truth behind the Interception Sect's dissolution, then summoned Tongtian into Zixiao Palace.
• Jieyin and Zhunti declined to help, while Primordial Heavenly Venerable and Taishang Laozi agreed to handle the reunion themselves.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerable claimed his Twelve Golden Immortals could make Tongtian's disciples obey and planned to send their dharma bodies to inform the Chan Sect Disciples.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerable and Taishang Laozi reached the Primordial World, manifested avatars, and headed toward Kunlun Mountain as Nuwa watched from outside Zixiao Palace.

Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi and Taishang Laozi returned to Kunlun Mountain, where they discovered that the Jade Void Palace had been stolen. Randeng blamed the Interception Sect, and Yuanshi demanded to know why his disciples had failed to stop the thieves.

• Nuwa watched the Saints enter Zixiao Palace and chose not to concern herself with their plans.
• Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi invited Taishang Laozi to visit his Chan Sect, expecting the Interception Sect to bear the coming tribulation.
• Yuanshi and Taishang Laozi arrived at Kunlun Mountain and found the Jade Void Palace, its paving bricks, and its surrounding spirit herbs gone.
• Randeng and the Chan Sect disciples gathered as Yuanshi demanded to know who had stolen the palace.
• Randeng blamed the Interception Sect, and a disciple described the thieves as a donkey-faced leader accompanied by a Tiger Monster and a Snake Monster.
• Yuanshi questioned Randeng and the others for failing to stop the thieves.

Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi learned that the Chan Sect had suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of the Interception Sect, while Taishang Laozi investigated the cause. Their inquiry focused on Lu Feng, the Interception Sect’s reclusive Vice Leader, whose role remained unclear.

• Randeng explained that the Interception Sect had raided the Chan Sect’s cultivation grounds during their battle, and admitted that the Chan Sect had lost.
• Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi struck out at Randeng and the others for losing, while Taishang Laozi quietly considered the implications of their defeat.
• Taishang Laozi tried to divine how the Interception Sect had gained strength but found that its heavenly secrets had been concealed.
• Randeng told Taishang Laozi that the Interception Sect’s Senior Brother had dissolved the sect and led its disciples to fortuitous opportunities, some of which granted mastery over laws.
• Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi suspected Tongtian’s planning, but Taishang Laozi argued that Lu Feng might have played a part because Tongtian had been under their watch.

Lu Feng considered how to strengthen the Interception Sect's disciples and decided to forge artifacts for them. After Qiongxiao emerged from his Secret Realm, Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi attacked her while Taishang Laozi watched warily.

• Lu Feng received a million years of cultivation after Qiongxiao made a major breakthrough in the Secret Realm, but the reward barely advanced his Quasi-Sage cultivation.
• Lu Feng decided to forge powerful artifacts to improve the Interception Sect disciples' strength.
• Qiongxiao left the Secret Realm and reflected on how it had accelerated her cultivation and deepened her understanding of the laws.
• Taishang Laozi and Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi found Qiongxiao and decided to capture her to bring the Interception Sect's disciples together.
• Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi approached Qiongxiao in disguise, confirmed her identity, and struck at her with his palm.

Qiongxiao fought Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi’s incarnation with her devouring law and a supreme art, drawing attention from powerful figures across the Primordial World. Houtu suspected that Tongtian had been plotted against as multiple incarnations entered the Primordial World despite the approaching Investiture of the Gods Calamity.

• Qiongxiao absorbed Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi’s attack with her devouring law and countered him, surprising him by matching his strength.
• Qiongxiao unleashed a supreme art that spread azure lotuses and sealed the surrounding space in devouring law.
• Zhen Yuanzi sensed the deadly aura near Wuzhuang Temple and speculated that Lu Feng, the Interception Sect’s Vice Leader, was responsible.
• Haotian monitored the clash and wondered whether Lu Feng would dare oppose a Saint’s incarnation.
• Houtu recognized the attacker as an incarnation and concluded that more than one had entered the Primordial World, suspecting Tongtian had been plotted against.

Qiongxiao used her devouring law and a Green Ghost Mask to defeat and destroy Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi’s incarnation. Primordial Heavenly Venerable threatened to kill her when he returned, and Qiongxiao dismissed him as his consciousness faded.

• Houtu and Taishang Laozi wondered whether the Interception Sect’s Senior Brother had empowered its disciples, while Yuanshi struggled against Qiongxiao’s devouring law.
• Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi unleashed his saintly pressure, but Qiongxiao answered with the Green Ghost Mask and a surge of devouring law.
• Qiongxiao transformed her bracelet into an azure sword and struck Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi, dissolving his incarnation.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerable threatened to kill the Interception Sect disciples when he returned, and Qiongxiao replied, “As you please.”

Qiongxiao destroyed Yuanshi’s incarnation and drove Taishang Laozi away when he tried to question her power. The two Saints returned to Zixiao Palace and invited Jieyin and Zhunti to join their mission against the Interception Sect.

• Qiongxiao sensed Taishang Laozi hiding nearby and attacked when he asked about her power, but he escaped by vanishing.
• Yuanshi returned to his true body in Chaos and complained to Taishang Laozi that Tongtian had schemed against them.
• Taishang Laozi suggested that they recruit Jieyin and Zhunti because the two Saints might not be enough to handle the Interception Sect’s disciples.
• Yuanshi agreed, and he and Taishang Laozi returned to Zixiao Palace, where Taishang Laozi asked Jieyin and Zhunti to join their mission.

Jieyin and Zhunti agreed to join Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi and Taishang Laozi in the Primordial World, while Nuwa followed them after suspecting they were targeting the Interception Sect. At Zixiao Palace, Hongjun told Tongtian that unexpected variables had emerged in the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation.

• Jieyin and Zhunti agreed to send avatars to help Yuanshi and Taishang Laozi, but prepared powerful complete quasi-sage avatars before departing.
• Yuanshi created a late quasi-sage avatar after Zhunti questioned what had happened to his previous one, which Qiongxiao had destroyed.
• Nuwa inferred that the four Saints' avatars were likely heading for the Interception Sect and followed them with an avatar just one step short of the Saint Realm.
• Hongjun asked Tongtian what he thought of the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation, and Tongtian said whoever caused the calamity should end it.
• Hongjun told Tongtian that unexpected variables had emerged in the tribulation, stirring a vague premonition in him.

Hongjun questioned Tongtian about the Interception Sect’s disbandment and learned that Lu Feng had managed the sect in his absence, but Tongtian found nothing unusual about him. Hongjun sent Tongtian to investigate a Dragon-Han Calamity Secret Realm, while Lu Feng received a cultivation reward and Nuwa returned to the Primordial World, surprised that the Interception Sect had defeated the Chan Sect.

• Hongjun asked Tongtian whether he had disbanded the Interception Sect, and Tongtian denied knowing that it had disbanded.
• Tongtian told Hongjun that he had entrusted Lu Feng with managing the Interception Sect, and Hongjun wondered whether Lu Feng had caused the unforeseen change.
• Hongjun informed Tongtian of a Secret Realm from the Dragon-Han Calamity, and Tongtian agreed to explore it.
• Lu Feng received 200,000 years of cultivation after Qiongxiao slew a powerful enemy, then checked on his Flat Peach Tree and the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Jar he was forging for her.
• Nuwa returned from Chaos to the Primordial World and was surprised to learn that the Interception Sect had defeated the Chan Sect.

Nuwa discovered that Lu Feng’s Golden Ao Island was filled with powerful spiritual energy and precious spiritual treasures, while the Saints decided to capture him to gather the Interception Sect’s disciples. The chapter left Nuwa astonished that Lu Feng had left rare spiritual roots and divine soil unguarded beside his cave abode.

• Nuwa traced the Interception Sect disciples’ growing strength to resources Lu Feng had provided and went to Golden Ao Island.
• Jieyin and Zhunti urged Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi and Taishang Laozi to find the person directing the Interception Sect instead of capturing only outer disciples.
• Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi and Taishang Laozi identified Lu Feng as the sect’s Vice Leader, and the four Saints flew toward Golden Ao Island to capture him.
• Nuwa found that Golden Ao Island’s spiritual energy had increased and saw innate spiritual roots, a Flat Peach tree, and five-colored divine soil beside Lu Feng’s cave abode.
• Nuwa realized Lu Feng had placed no protective measures around the treasures and wondered why he left them exposed to thieves.

Nuwa confronted Lu Feng over his casual cultivation of a garden of innate spiritual roots, especially the Flat Peach tree. After spotting something inside his cave abode, she demanded to know why he had dragon crystal.

• Nuwa visited Lu Feng’s cave abode after seeing his Flat Peach tree growing unprotected outside.
• Nuwa scolded Lu Feng for treating innate spiritual roots carelessly, while Lu Feng defended his gardening and wondered how she had bypassed the island’s formations.
• Nuwa noticed something inside Lu Feng’s cave abode that he could not see.
• Nuwa stared at Lu Feng and asked why he had dragon crystal.

Nuwa visited Lu Feng on Golden Ao Island and discovered that he treated dragon crystal as worthless and that the Jie Sect Disciples had dismantled the Jade Void Palace. Lu Feng then set out to strengthen the island’s defenses, and Nuwa was stunned by the formation he began creating.

• Nuwa saw Lu Feng’s large pile of dragon crystal, and Lu Feng offered to let her inspect his materials.
• Lu Feng told Nuwa that the Jie Sect Disciples had dismantled the Jade Void Palace and brought its pieces back to Golden Ao Island.
• Lu Feng decided the island’s defenses were too weak and headed to reinforce its formation, with Nuwa following to watch.
• Lu Feng covered Golden Ao Island in streams of power of law and drove a complex formation beneath it, shocking Nuwa.
• Lu Feng raised his hand again, and the power of law he gathered made Nuwa’s expression change dramatically.

Lu Feng impressed Nuwa by laying down ten formations built from multiple laws, then created another formation to accelerate the ripening of his Flat Peaches. Meanwhile, four Saints headed toward Golden Ao Island, drawing the attention of Zhen Yuanzi, Haotian, and Houtu, while Lu Feng remained unaware of the approaching threat.

• Lu Feng laid down ten interlocking formations around Golden Ao Island, astonishing Nuwa with his mastery of several laws.
• Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi, Jieyin, and two others arrived near Golden Ao Island and planned to break through its protective formation.
• Zhen Yuanzi sensed the four approaching figures with the Earth Book and realized they were not Jie Sect Disciples, while Haotian and Houtu also noticed developments near the island.
• Lu Feng returned to his cave abode and, inspired by his formations, created a time-law formation to make his Flat Peaches ripen sooner.

Lu Feng planted spiritual roots around Golden Ao Island with the help of formations while Nuwa questioned his methods and his excuses for the Jie Sect’s raid on Jade Void Palace. Meanwhile, Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi and the other three arrived to capture Lu Feng, but Yuanshi entered a powerful formation and attacked it with the Pangu Banner.

• Lu Feng used a longsword to till the rocky ground and planted spiritual roots in five-colored divine soil, strengthening them with formations.
• Nuwa suspected Lu Feng might have deliberately arranged for the Interception Sect to disband, but his haphazard planting made her doubt his wisdom again.
• Lu Feng defended the Jie Sect disciples’ destruction of Jade Void Palace as collecting interest, while Nuwa accused him of coveting her spiritual roots.
• Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi, Taishang Laozi, Jieyin, and Zhunti arrived outside Golden Ao Island and decided to break through its formations to capture Lu Feng.
• Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi’s punch carried him into a formation infused with the law Qiongxiao had used against him, so he summoned the Pangu Banner and attacked its core.

Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi failed to break a formation with the Pangu Banner, then discovered it contained another formation as he attacked with the Heaven-Burning Jade Fan. Nuwa decided to help Tongtian, but learned that Tongtian believed the Interception Sect lacked spiritual roots, leaving her to suspect Lu Feng had been secretly using up the sect’s wealth.

• Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi attacked the formation with the Pangu Banner, but it absorbed his spiritual power without changing.
• Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi used the Heaven-Burning Jade Fan to spread flames through the formation, while Taishang Laozi realized it contained a formation within a formation.
• Nuwa decided to join the conflict and help Tongtian rather than side with Jieyin and Zhunti.
• Nuwa asked Tongtian where he was going, and Tongtian said he planned to search a Dragon-Han Era secret realm for spiritual roots and spirit treasures for his disciples.
• Tongtian said the Interception Sect did not grow innate spiritual roots, and Nuwa suspected Lu Feng had been secretly squandering the sect’s vast fortune.

Nuwa accompanied Tongtian to a Dragon-Han-era secret realm while her avatar stayed on Golden Ao Island with Lu Feng. There, she watched as Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi entered Lu Feng’s formation and fought its growing power.

• Nuwa agreed to accompany Tongtian to the secret realm after deciding not to tell him about Lu Feng’s treasures.
• Taishang Laozi, Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi, Jieyin, and Zhunti saw Nuwa leave with Tongtian and assumed she had joined their mission.
• Nuwa’s avatar sat with Lu Feng outside his cave abode and admired his thriving spiritual roots.
• Lu Feng sensed an intruder, conjured a water mirror, and showed Nuwa Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi amid flames inside the formation.
• Lu Feng increased the formation’s suppressive force, and Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi answered with the Heaven-Burning Jade Fan and his power of law.
• Jieyin and Zhunti saw the formation weaken under Yuanshi’s attack and believed he was about to break it.

Taishang Laozi realized Lu Feng’s formation contained at least seven layers and urged Jieyin and Zhunti to help rescue Yuanshi. After they entered, Lu Feng activated all ten formations against the four Saints’ avatars, leaving their fate uncertain.

• Taishang Laozi recognized that the formation held at least seven formations and warned Jieyin and Zhunti of its danger.
• Yuanshi struggled to withstand the formations, so Taishang Laozi persuaded Jieyin and Zhunti to enter and help break them.
• Nuwa asked Lu Feng why he had activated only four formations, and he explained that he wanted the others to enter first.
• Taishang Laozi, Jieyin, and Zhunti entered the formation and joined Yuanshi.
• Lu Feng activated all ten formations, trapping the four Saints’ avatars beneath their combined power.

Nuwa allied with Tongtian because of Lu Feng as they headed toward the Secret Realm. Meanwhile, Zhen Yuanzi and Haotian sensed an overwhelming force they could not investigate, and Haotian glimpsed four figures on Golden Ao Island, where a formation threatened to crush four Saints at once.

• Nuwa told Tongtian she wanted to ally with him and explained that Lu Feng was the reason she had chosen his side.
• Tongtian agreed to the alliance and traveled with Nuwa toward the Secret Realm.
• Zhen Yuanzi sensed a terrifying aura through the Earth Book but could learn nothing more about it.
• Haotian failed to observe the Primordial World with the Haotian Mirror, suffered its backlash, and glimpsed four figures on Golden Ao Island.
• Haotian realized the Interception Sect had set up a formation to confront four Saints.

Houtu watched as Lu Feng’s formation trapped the avatars of Taishang Laozi, Jieyin, Zhunti, and Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi, and decided to stay out of the conflict. The four Saints’ avatars gathered at the formation’s core and prepared to force their way out with their treasures.

• Houtu sensed the Saints’ avatars on Golden Ao Island and chose not to interfere when Lu Feng’s formation sprang into action.
• Three additional formations activated around Taishang Laozi, Jieyin, and Zhunti, bringing the total to ten and leaving the three struggling to withstand them.
• Jieyin and Zhunti blamed Taishang Laozi for leading them into the formation, while Taishang Laozi urged them to find Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi and escape together.
• The group found Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi crushed at the formation’s core, and he called out to Taishang Laozi for help.
• Taishang Laozi, Jieyin, Zhunti, and Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi agreed to force a path out and brought out their Innate Spiritual Treasures.

Taishang Laozi, Jieyin, Zhunti, and Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi tried to break free from Lu Feng’s ten formations, but he amplified their power and destroyed all four avatars. Their lost treasures and defeat sparked a feud between the Saints, while Zhen Yuanzi and Great Emperor Haotian reconsidered Lu Feng’s strength and what it might mean for them.

• Taishang Laozi led Jieyin, Zhunti, and Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi in attacking one formation node, briefly weakening the first layer.
• Lu Feng sensed the attack and strengthened the ten formations, crushing the four Saints’ avatars and leaving their magical treasures on Golden Ao Island.
• Jieyin and Zhunti blamed Taishang Laozi and Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi for deceiving them, and the two pairs of Saints turned against each other.
• Zhen Yuanzi witnessed the defeat through the Earth Book and suspected Lu Feng might have reached the peak Quasi-Sage or half-Saint realm.
• Great Emperor Haotian recovered from the Haotian Mirror’s backlash, saw that the four avatars had died, and began considering whether he too could rise beyond the Saints’ control.

Great Emperor Haotian and Houtu realized that all four Saints' avatars had been slain at Golden Ao Island, and both suspected Lu Feng was responsible. Lu Feng collected the Saints' treasures, while Jieyin and Zhunti confronted Taishang Laozi and Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi in Chaos, where a fight seemed imminent.

• Great Emperor Haotian found Golden Ao Island unharmed and concluded that the Interception Sect had slain all four Saints' avatars, likely through Lu Feng's power.
• Houtu sensed that the four Saints' auras had vanished and wondered how powerful Lu Feng had become.
• Lu Feng gathered the magical treasures left behind and sent them to the Divine Weapon Pavilion, while Nuwa questioned his casual attitude toward them.
• Lu Feng told Nuwa that he expected more visitors bearing treasures as long as the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation remained unfinished.
• Jieyin and Zhunti confronted Taishang Laozi and Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi in Chaos over their shared losses, and Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi prepared to fight.

After losing treasures in the Interception Sect’s formation, the four Saints set aside their dispute and returned to Zixiao Palace to report their failure to Hongjun. When Hongjun proposed following the original arrangements for the approaching Investiture of the Gods Tribulation, Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi asked him to handle the matter himself.

• Jieyin and Zhunti demanded compensation from Taishang Laozi for the treasures they lost in the formation, but Taishang Laozi persuaded them to wait for Tongtian and ask him to return the treasures.
• Taishang Laozi asked how they should handle the Interception Sect, and Jieyin suggested going to Hongjun for guidance.
• The four Saints went to Zixiao Palace and Taishang Laozi admitted that their attempt to deal with the Interception Sect had failed.
• Hongjun proposed proceeding with the original arrangements for the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation, and Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi asked Hongjun to handle it himself.

Tongtian and Nuwa gathered spiritual roots in an ancient Secret Realm, while Nuwa arranged for Lu Feng to help her later. In Zixiao Palace, Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi asked Hongjun to intervene against the Interception Sect because he could no longer control it himself.

• Tongtian marveled at the abundant spiritual roots in the Secret Realm, and Nuwa questioned his certainty that his disciples could not grow any.
• Tongtian began collecting the spiritual roots, and Nuwa helped him clear the area.
• Tongtian offered Nuwa a share of the harvest, but she asked him to have Lu Feng do her a favor instead.
• Tongtian agreed, privately deciding Nuwa seemed like a good match for Lu Feng, while Lu Feng sneezed without knowing his master had volunteered him.
• In Zixiao Palace, Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi asked Hongjun to act against the Interception Sect, believing its changes had put it beyond his control.

Hongjun questioned Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi and Jieyin about the Interception Sect’s changes, especially its hidden disciples and their unfamiliar powers of law. After learning that Qiongxiao had slain Yuanshi’s avatar, Hongjun grew intrigued by Lu Feng, while Yuanshi lost his composure as Jieyin and Zhunti mocked his defeat.

• Hongjun asked about the Interception Sect, and Jieyin described its Golden Ao Island formation and the treasures lost inside it.
• Hongjun sensed several kinds of law power and explained that the Heavenly Secrets concealed core disciples, especially Lu Feng, whom he could not divine.
• Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi told Hongjun that Qiongxiao had wielded an unfamiliar power of law and slain his avatar.
• Hongjun said the power likely carried potent slaughter, prompting Jieyin and Zhunti to confront Yuanshi for concealing his defeat.
• Jieyin and Zhunti mocked Yuanshi over his lost avatar and demolished Jade Void Palace, and Yuanshi angrily retorted but held back from fighting them in Zixiao Palace.