Chapter Summaries

Yuanshi opened a secret realm on Kunlun Mountain and ordered the Three Teachings’ disciples to prepare for the Investiture of the Gods by killing the Interception Sect’s disciples. Meanwhile, Qiongxiao arrived just as Tongtian’s strike threatened Jinguang Xian, who called out to her for help.

• Yuanshi announced that the Four Saints had signed the Investiture of the Gods List and opened the Dao Ancestor’s secret realm for the Three Teachings’ disciples to cultivate.
• Yuanshi ordered the disciples to enter the secret realm and later kill every Interception Sect disciple for the list.
• Jinguang Xian fought Tongtian while boasting about his invincibility, and Tongtian grew impatient with his arrogance.
• Nuwa watched the fight and noticed Qiongxiao approaching after reaching the Quasi-Sage realm.
• Tongtian unleashed a strike beyond the Daluo Golden Immortal realm, and Qiongxiao arrived to defend the Interception Sect’s disciples as Jinguang Xian shouted for her help.

Qiongxiao arrived to save Jinguang Xian from Tongtian and challenged the disguised quasi-sage to fight her instead. Their battle began, and Qiongxiao summoned a Ghost-Face Mask that further increased her power.

• Jinguang Xian cried out for help, and Qiongxiao stopped Tongtian from striking him.
• Qiongxiao recognized Tongtian's concealed quasi-sage cultivation and challenged him to fight her.
• Tongtian attacked with sword light, but Qiongxiao used her devouring law to absorb it before her vortex burst apart.
• Qiongxiao advanced with hundreds of immortal lotuses that became devouring vortices around Tongtian.
• Tongtian summoned a twelve-tier Azure Lotus of sword qi to disperse the vortices, but they re-formed into a Ghost-Face Mask beside Qiongxiao, strengthening her aura.

Qiongxiao trapped Tongtian in a powerful vortex and forced him to break through to the Saint Realm to escape, though she and the others began suspecting his identity. Tongtian left behind a healing herb and wondered whether all his Interception Sect disciples had become schemers and troublemakers.

• The Tiger Monster and Jinguang Xian watched as Qiongxiao lured Tongtian into a vortex trap strengthened by her Ghost-Face Mask and Devouring Law.
• Tongtian raised his cultivation to great perfection Quasi-Sage, then broke into the Saint Realm and shattered Qiongxiao's trap.
• Tongtian suppressed his strength and fled after Jinguang Xian sensed Master's aura, while Qiongxiao caught the healing herb he left behind.
• The Tiger Monster and Jinguang Xian questioned whether Qiongxiao had just fought Master, and Tongtian wondered if Nuwa had known what would happen.
• Tongtian reflected on the Tiger Monster, Jinguang Xian, and Qiongxiao, then worried that all his Interception Sect disciples had turned out this way.

Tongtian returned toward Golden Ao Island after testing his disciples while disguised, unaware they had nearly identified him. Qiongxiao, Jinguang Xian, and the Tiger Monster concluded he was probably their master and decided to ask their senior brother to confirm.

• Tongtian decided he had tested enough, resolved to return to Golden Ao Island, and planned to train his disciples with the spirit herbs he had gathered.
• After Tongtian left, Qiongxiao told Jinguang Xian and the Tiger Monster he was gone, and the Tiger Monster pieced together that the powerful stranger was probably Tongtian.
• Jinguang Xian and the Tiger Monster realized the stranger had held back and spared them, then bickered until Qiongxiao struck the Tiger Monster for suggesting they tell their senior brother so he could laugh at Tongtian.
• Qiongxiao, Jinguang Xian, and the Tiger Monster set off for the Interception Sect to ask their senior brother to identify the stranger.
• Nuwa reflected on Qiongxiao's formidable techniques and realized that Lu Feng seemed to have taught powerful methods to her, Jinguang Xian, and the Tiger Monster.

Lu Feng casually flustered Nuwa’s avatar, whose feelings began to affect her true body, then prepared defenses for Tongtian’s return and the possibility that Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi would come after the Jade Void Palace’s destruction. Nuwa helped him choose materials as he began building formations powerful enough to deter a Saint.

• Lu Feng touched Nuwa’s forehead and pressed his face against hers to check whether she was ill, leaving her blushing and emotionally unsettled.
• Nuwa changed the subject by asking when Tongtian would return, and Lu Feng realized the Investiture of the Gods had ended and Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi might come seeking trouble.
• Lu Feng decided to set up formations capable of resisting Saints rather than fight Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi himself.
• Lu Feng used materials from the Jade Void Palace to begin laying out trapping, illusion, and killing formations, while Nuwa sorted materials and urged him to make the defenses powerful.

Lu Feng prepared formations at Golden Ao Island while Nuwa tricked Tongtian into returning disguised as Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi. Tongtian mistook Lu Feng’s setup for a Chan Sect attack and charged into the formations, while Haotian wrongly suspected that a second Interception Sect disciple had become a Saint.

• Lu Feng laid eighteen powerful killing formations and a deceptive formation displaying the Jade Void Palace plaque, then went to sleep.
• Nuwa urged Tongtian to disguise himself as Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi and test his disciples, while she delayed Qiongxiao and the others from returning.
• Tongtian arrived at Golden Ao Island, saw the ruined terrain and Jade Void Palace plaque, and assumed the Chan Sect had attacked his disciples.
• Tongtian unleashed his Saintly power and kicked through the plaque-holding formation, entering Lu Feng’s array.
• Zhen Yuanzi sensed Tongtian’s brief aura and resumed cultivating, while Haotian mistakenly wondered if a second Interception Sect Saint had emerged.

Houtu used the Witch Clan’s final formation flag to glimpse the Heavenly Secrets and learned that her future was connected to the Interception Sect, so she decided to seek an opportunity there. Meanwhile, Tongtian entered Lu Feng’s formations disguised as Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi, and Lu Feng began to suspect the intruder’s identity.

• Haotian decided to build good relations with the Interception Sect, hoping its backing would help him through the investiture of the gods.
• Houtu activated the Witch Clan’s final formation flag, sacrificing the spiritual remnants of the Ancestral Witches and the rest of the clan to glimpse the Heavenly Secrets.
• The backlash injured Houtu and destroyed her palace, but she learned that the Interception Sect was connected to her future and resolved to seek an opportunity there later.
• Tongtian became trapped in an illusion formation, then used his swordsmanship to shatter an anchor point and found materials belonging to the Jade Void Palace, convincing him that Yuanshi was behind the trap.
• Lu Feng noticed that someone had damaged his formation and saw a figure resembling Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi in a mirror.
• Lu Feng realized that the intruder’s swordsmanship and familiar aura did not fit Yuanshi, and suspected they suited his master better.

Lu Feng recognized that the supposed Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi was his master, Sect Master Tongtian, but played along with Nuwa’s deception and tested his formations on him. Tongtian fought through escalating sword attacks, only for Lu Feng to unleash the formations’ full power and leave him facing ten thousand giant swords.

• Lu Feng realized that the intruder disguised as Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi was Sect Master Tongtian and suspected Nuwa had helped arrange the deception.
• Nuwa arrived and pretended to be surprised by Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi’s appearance, while Lu Feng concealed that he had recognized Tongtian.
• Lu Feng activated all five sword killing formations and challenged the intruder while continuing to act as though he believed the disguise.
• Tongtian shattered the formations’ giant swords as they appeared in increasing numbers, but the relentless attacks eventually made him uneasy.
• Lu Feng saw Tongtian withstand the formations and activated their full power, bringing ten thousand giant swords before him.

Tongtian struggled against Lu Feng’s relentlessly renewed sword formations, which were joined by soul-burning void flames. Cornered, he united with the Qingping Sword and unleashed his strongest strike, leaving its outcome unresolved.

• Tongtian’s weapon shattered under the renewed sword attacks, so he drew the Qingping Sword while Nuwa worried that its appearance would expose the truth.
• Lu Feng pretended to believe the Qingping Sword was a disguise and secretly increased the formation’s power, adding three formations containing void flame.
• Tongtian recognized the soul-targeting flames and cursed Taishang and Yuanshi, who sneezed on Kunlun Mountain and blamed Tongtian for cursing them.
• Tongtian grew exhausted as he dodged the flames and sword attacks, then gathered his Saintly might and poured his understanding of swordsmanship into one final strike.
• Tongtian and the Qingping Sword became one as he swung his most powerful sword stroke.

Lu Feng tested his Eighteen Slaying Formations against Tongtian, who had disguised himself as Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi, and the formations trapped and overwhelmed the Saint. Nuwa warned Lu Feng to stop, and the chapter ended with him realizing Tongtian’s identity.

• Tongtian struck the formation with his sword, cracked its barrier, and Lu Feng activated all eighteen formations.
• Tongtian broke through the sword formation only to enter another formation filled with void flame, while Nuwa panicked at his worsening predicament.
• Nuwa pointed out Tongtian’s Swordsmanship Dao Principles and Qingping Sword, urging Lu Feng to recognize his master.
• Lu Feng judged that the formations had demonstrated their power and finally exclaimed that the figure on the Bright Mirror was his master.

Lu Feng and Nuwa discovered that Tongtian was trapped in Lu Feng’s formations, but Tongtian unleashed the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation before Lu Feng could dismantle them. After the formations shattered, Tongtian blamed Yuanshi and Taishang until Big Black Dog pointed out that the materials belonged to Lu Feng.

• Lu Feng admitted that he had recognized Tongtian all along and had deliberately played along with Nuwa.
• Tongtian drew the Immortal Slaying Sword and formed the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation before Lu Feng could take down the formations.
• The Immortal Slaying Sword Formation shattered Lu Feng’s eighteen formations and shook Golden Ao Island.
• Qiongxiao arrived and asked Tongtian why he had used the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, and he blamed Yuanshi and Taishang for setting the formations.
• Big Black Dog and Jinguang Xian arrived, and Big Black Dog recognized the scattered materials as belonging to Lu Feng.
• Tongtian’s expression froze when Big Black Dog told him that the materials had been in Lu Feng’s hands.

Tongtian learned that the formation that had trapped him was probably set up by Lu Feng, leaving him mortified after he had used the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation to break it. On Golden Ao Island, Lu Feng and Nuwa waited for Tongtian to return, with Nuwa blaming Lu Feng for the situation.

• Nuwa asked Lu Feng what to do after Tongtian unleashed the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, and Lu Feng said they should wait for his return.
• Lu Feng and Nuwa argued over who had caused the trouble, while Lu Feng privately decided Tongtian would blame Nuwa instead of him.
• The Tiger Monster suggested that Lu Feng might have set up the formation, and Tongtian realized he might have been trapped by his own disciple.
• Jinguang Xian defended the idea that another Saint had made the formation, but the Tiger Monster showed him materials bearing his tooth marks.
• The Tiger Monster explained that he and the others had dismantled the Jade Void Palace and repeated Lu Feng's questions about stripping it clean and raiding the Treasure Vault, while Tongtian's expression grew stranger.

Tongtian returned to Biyou Palace with his disciples, where Lu Feng arrived with Nuwa and Qiongxiao immediately attacked her. Lu Feng calmed Qiongxiao with affection, and after Nuwa left and Qiongxiao ran off blushing, Tongtian dismissed the others and told Lu Feng to stay.

• Tongtian accepted that Lu Feng's array barred him from his own doorstep and led the others into Biyou Palace.
• Lu Feng arrived with Nuwa, and Qiongxiao attacked Nuwa with a terrifying devouring force.
• Lu Feng stroked Qiongxiao's head and teased Nuwa by calling her an old woman, prompting Nuwa to leave in a huff.
• Qiongxiao smiled and blushed at Jinguang Xian's praise of her and Lu Feng, then ran away while Tiger Monster gaped in disbelief.
• Tongtian dismissed Jinguang Xian and Tiger Monster, then ordered Lu Feng to stay.

Lu Feng and Tongtian discussed Nuwa’s departure, the Investiture of the Gods, and Tongtian’s plans for his disciples. Lu Feng then led Tongtian to his cave, where Tongtian was stunned by an enormous mass of spirit herbs.

• Lu Feng refused to pursue Nuwa and teased Tongtian about sending his master after her instead.
• Tongtian asked about the island’s formations, and Lu Feng said Nuwa had set them up to keep Tongtian out.
• Tongtian told Lu Feng that dissolving the Interception Sect had prevented further trouble, then mourned his brothers’ betrayal.
• Tongtian decided to summon his disciples and improve their cultivation with preaching, guidance, and spirit herbs.
• Lu Feng led Tongtian to his cave, where Tongtian saw a huge mass of spirit herbs and stood dumbstruck.

Tongtian visited Lu Feng's cave abode and was stunned by its abundant spirit herbs and mature innate spiritual roots. After Lu Feng revealed he had another innate spiritual root to plant, Tongtian asked him to tell the truth about how he had obtained them.

• Lu Feng led Tongtian to his cave abode, where Tongtian gaped at a large patch of spirit herbs and spiritual roots.
• Lu Feng showed Tongtian a second patch, including a mature Flat Peach Tree, and confirmed he had cultivated them while Tongtian was away.
• Tongtian asked whether Lu Feng had grown all the plants within the thousand years he was gone, and Lu Feng said he had done what he could.
• Lu Feng revealed another innate spiritual root, a yellow middle plum, and said he planned to plant it.
• Tongtian stared at Lu Feng and asked him to tell his master the truth.

Tongtian returned and questioned Lu Feng about his extraordinary cultivation, then decided to guide his disciples. He summoned them to Biyou Palace, where Zhao Gongming arrived displaying late Quasi-Sage cultivation just as Tongtian began his lesson.

• Tongtian asked Lu Feng whether he had another master, and Lu Feng said he had learned everything himself.
• Tongtian compared the spirit herbs he had gathered with Lu Feng's and agreed to throw them away when they proved inferior.
• Tongtian decided to check the disciples' cultivation and summoned Zhao Gongming, who had just broken through to late Quasi-Sage.
• Tongtian insisted that every disciple on Golden Ao Island attend his cultivation guidance session, and Lu Feng gathered them at Biyou Palace.
• Tongtian announced he would explain how to break through to Quasi-Sage using early quasi-sage power, then Zhao Gongming appeared with late Quasi-Sage cultivation and left Tongtian stunned.

The Four Saints delayed the Investiture of the Gods while they waited to find the heaven-ordained person and for their disciples to finish cultivating. In Xiqi, young Ji Fa opened a mysterious book called Sigh of the Saint, advancing Lu Feng’s scheme toward its second stage.

• Jieyin asked Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi whether he had found the heaven-ordained person, but Yuanshi said he had only a few clues and could not yet locate him.
• Taishang urged the Saints to wait until their disciples finished cultivating in the Secret Realm, and the others agreed to postpone the Investiture of the Gods.
• On Ji Fa’s birthday, Ji Chang discovered a glowing book whose contents he could not see or open, while Ji Fa recognized its title and could read it.
• An elderly minister called the book Ji Fa’s destined opportunity, and Ji Chang gave it to him; when Ji Fa opened it, a beam of white light enveloped him.
• Ji Chang ordered his people to keep the incident secret, while Lu Feng received a system notification that a disciple was reading Sigh of the Saint and that his scheme had entered its second stage.

Lu Feng watched the disciples gather as Tongtian prepared to test Zhao Gongming’s strength, while Tiger Monster and Jinguang Xian ran a betting pool. Zhao Gongming unleashed a powerful strike that sent Tongtian flying, leaving the disciples stunned.

• Tiger Monster and Jinguang Xian started taking bets on whether Tongtian or Zhao Gongming would win, and Tongtian wagered an Acquired Supreme Treasure on himself.
• Lu Feng and Qiongxiao each bet an Acquired Supreme Treasure on Zhao Gongming, alarming the organizers and frustrating Tongtian.
• Tongtian challenged Zhao Gongming to show his full strength, and Zhao Gongming revealed that he had reached the late Quasi-Sage stage.
• Zhao Gongming invoked the reincarnation Dao principles and shouted “Reverse!” before striking Tongtian with overwhelming force.
• Tongtian was sent flying by Zhao Gongming’s single strike, and Tiger Monster exclaimed that Zhao Gongming was so strong Tongtian could not withstand him.

Zhao Gongming defeated Tongtian with one move during their sparring session, leaving the Jie Sect disciples stunned and Tongtian too embarrassed to appear. Lu Feng led Zhao Gongming and the disciples to go see Tongtian after hearing he had canceled their guidance.

• Tongtian was sent flying by Zhao Gongming’s single strike, though the disciples initially assumed their Master had won.
• Tiger Monster and Jinguang Xian realized the figure in flight was Tongtian, while Qiongxiao and Nuwa also recognized Zhao Gongming’s victory with disbelief.
• Zhao Gongming came down from the air and asked Lu Feng how he had done; Lu Feng praised him as Tiger Monster and Jinguang Xian lamented their own loss.
• A disciple reported that Tongtian felt unwell and had postponed guiding the disciples, prompting Lu Feng to laugh at his retreat.
• Lu Feng told Zhao Gongming they would take the disciples to see Tongtian.

Lu Feng teased Tongtian after Zhao Gongming sent him flying, then discussed recruiting the person destined to carry out the Investiture of the Gods. He planned to use Ji Fa to bring that man into the Interception Sect without alerting the Chan Sect.

• Lu Feng brought Zhao Gongming, Qiongxiao, Tiger Monster, and Jinguang Xian to Biyou Palace, where Tongtian planned to hide in seclusion after being knocked away by Zhao Gongming.
• Zhao Gongming asked if Tongtian was all right, and Lu Feng mocked Tongtian by telling him that Nuwa also knew his disciple had defeated him in one strike.
• Tiger Monster praised Lu Feng's conversational skill, then pretended to faint to avoid paying Jinguang Xian before jumping up when Lu Feng threatened to make him cover the loss.
• Lu Feng asked Tongtian about the Investiture of the Gods List, the God-Beating Whip, and the person chosen by destiny, then hinted that the destined man was a fisherman on the Wei River.
• Lu Feng told Tongtian he would arrange to bring the destined man into the Interception Sect and planned to use Ji Fa, who was in Xiqi and already counted as a Jie Sect Disciple.