Recaps

Gu Changqing saved Tongtian from the Sage-Transforming Furnace, helped him transcend the Heavenly Dao, and claimed the Heaven-Opening treasures. After defeating the Elder of Chaos and learning he had joined the Profound Gate, Gu Changqing went to the Underworld to seek a way to reforge the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe.

• Yuanshi and Laozi trapped Tongtian in the Sage-Transforming Furnace, but Gu Changqing arrived and brewed wine from the origins and power offered by Houtu, Nuwa, the Dragon Race, and Mount Shu’s disciples.
• Gu Changqing poured the wine into the furnace, allowing Tongtian to recover after his Dao Fruit shattered and awaken a hunyuan Dao Fruit, and Tongtian then broke free and became a Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal.
• Gu Changqing wounded Yuanshi and Laozi, kept the Heaven-Shaking Coffin from Hongjun, and gave it to Tongtian before leaving for the Outer Chaos Region.
• Gu Changqing found the Chaos Bead, cultivated inside its world until he reached the fifth heaven of Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal, and fought its master, the Elder of Chaos.
• Gu Changqing subdued the Elder of Chaos with the World-Destroying Mill Fragment and invited him to join the Interception Sect, but Hongjun offered him heavenly dao authority and brought him into the Profound Gate.
• The Elder of Chaos revealed that he had the Chaos Bell, but found it missing from the Chaos Bead, and Gu Changqing had secretly taken it and now possessed all three Heaven-Opening Supreme Treasures.
• Unable to find a way to fuse the treasures, Gu Changqing went to the Underworld to seek Pangu’s remnant soul, where Dijiang, the other Ancestral Witches, and Houtu discussed the threat of the Elder of Chaos and the Profound Gate.

Gu Changqing rallied the living beings of the Primordial World to reforge the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe, then wielded it against Hongjun and the Xuanmen Saints. The axe returned to the Interception Sect, where Gu Changqing learned that the Investiture of the Gods Measureless Calamity was approaching and prepared to face it.

• In the Pangu Sacred Hall, Gu Changqing summoned the Three Heaven-Opening Supreme Treasures, and Pangu’s Will suggested using the wishes of all living beings to reforge the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe.
• Gu Changqing asked Houtu, Nuwa, Tongtian, and the living beings of the Primordial World to help restore the axe, while Hongjun prepared to exploit the coming Investiture of the Gods Measureless Calamity.
• The living beings poured their aspiration power into the three treasures, but Hongjun attacked and tried to stop Gu Changqing’s reforging.
• Gu Changqing and his allies resisted Hongjun, the Elder of Chaos, and the Four Saints until the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe took shape and became fully materialized.
• When Hongjun and the Xuanmen Saints tried to seize the axe, Gu Changqing and his allies used the vow power of all living beings to awaken it, and the axe drove the attackers back.
• Hongjun withdrew with the Xuanmen Saints, and Gu Changqing returned to the Interception Sect with the axe as Tongtian welcomed the cultivators who had supported them.
• Gu Changqing discovered that the axe contained Pangu’s Three Heaven-Opening Axes, while Houtu and Nuwa warned that another Measureless Calamity was coming.
• Gu Changqing identified the approaching calamity as the Investiture of the Gods, sent Tongtian, Nuwa, and Houtu to prepare their followers, and resolved to lead the Interception Sect through it by force.

As Hongjun launched the Investiture of the Gods Measureless Calamity, Gu Changqing defied the Profound Gate’s plans and helped Shi Ji turn the first sacrifice into a victory over Taiyi Zhenren. The arc left Yuanshi seeking Hongjun’s help to kill Gu Changqing and keep the calamity on course.

• Gu Changqing used the Great World Art to study Pangu’s Three Heaven-Opening Axes, then unleashed a sword strike that tore through the Heavenly Court and alarmed Hongjun and the Xuanmen Saints.
• Hongjun began the Investiture of the Gods Measureless Calamity, ordering the Saints’ lineages into the world, but Tongtian, Nuwa, and Houtu rejected his demands while Gu Changqing’s name was erased from the list.
• Hongjun tied the Interception Sect, humanity, and the Netherworld to the calamity, then Gu Changqing visited Shi Ji and gave her wine to save for a crisis.
• Yuanshi secretly enabled Nezha to fire the Xuanyuan Bow, killing Shi Ji’s attendant Caiyun Boy, and Shi Ji confronted Nezha and Taiyi Zhenren at Chentang Pass.
• Shi Ji drank Gu Changqing’s wine, gained immense power, and defeated Taiyi Zhenren, but Yuanshi arrived to stop her from killing him.
• Gu Changqing challenged Yuanshi’s account of Caiyun Boy’s death and forced him to punish Taiyi, who lost ten thousand years of cultivation and was ordered to face the wall for ten thousand years.
• Gu Changqing told Tongtian he had used Yuanshi’s own methods to sow resentment between Yuanshi and Taiyi, while Yuanshi sought Hongjun’s help to kill Gu Changqing.

Gu Changqing forged the Saint-Slaying Method through his study of reincarnation, then used it to defeat four Sages trapped inside the Chaos Bead and annihilate Zhunti. After Jieyin attacked Golden Ao Island in grief, Hongjun intervened to save him from Gu Changqing’s sword.

• Gu Changqing studied the Saint-Slaying Method, traveled to the Underworld, and learned from Houtu before brewing Underworld origin into wine and forging a power that could threaten Sages.
• Yuanshi, Laozi, Jieyin, and Zhunti trapped Gu Changqing inside the Chaos Bead and attacked him, but his swordsmanship resisted their combined assaults and the bead’s power.
• The Four Saints burned their origins to refine Gu Changqing, but he stood unharmed as Tongtian, Nuwa, and Houtu realized he was in danger and suspected Hongjun.
• Gu Changqing gathered his Sword Dao into a colossal Chaos Sword, destroyed the Four Saints’ defenses, and annihilated Zhunti’s Dao Fruit, leaving Jieyin devastated.
• Laozi and Yuanshi restrained Jieyin from attacking Gu Changqing, then the three Sages escaped the collapsing Chaos Bead as Tongtian, Nuwa, and Houtu reunited with Gu Changqing.
• Gu Changqing confirmed to Tongtian, Nuwa, and Houtu that he had killed Zhunti, while Hongjun told Jieyin that Zhunti’s origin and Dao Fruit could not be restored.
• Jieyin attacked Golden Ao Island in grief, but Gu Changqing’s sword light dissolved his strike and pursued him until Hongjun invoked the Heavenly Dao to make Jieyin disappear and save him.