Recaps

Jieyin tried to use Di Xin and the Human Territory to take revenge on Gu Changqing, but Gu Changqing helped expose his scheme and Nuwa pursued him to Kunlun. Gu Changqing shattered the Chan Sect’s protective array and devastated Kunlun Mountain before Hongjun ended the confrontation, then the Sages gathered at Biyou Palace as Ancestor Minghe revealed Sage-level power.

• Gu Changqing led the Interception Sect to establish its own sword Dao, drawing fortune to Golden Ao Island and admiration from Tongtian, Nuwa, and Houtu.
• Jieyin planned to provoke Di Xin into ruining Great Shang and entangling the Interception Sect in calamity, but Gu Changqing went to Chaoge and secretly warned Di Xin through wine.
• At Nuwa Palace, Di Xin exposed Jieyin’s attempt to influence him and denounced him before the Primordial World, while Human Dao Fortune shielded the ministers from Jieyin’s Sage’s Might.
• Nuwa confronted Jieyin, and he fled toward Kunlun Mountain to escape her, and Laozi and Yuanshi prepared to protect him from her pursuit.
• At Nuwa’s request, Gu Changqing summoned the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe and shattered Kunlun Mountain’s protective array, devastating the Chan Sect and gravely injuring Yuanshi and Laozi.
• Hongjun arrived and declared the affair over, then took the surviving Chan Sect members and Sages away and rebuked Jieyin for provoking Gu Changqing through the human race.
• Hongjun taught Laozi, Yuanshi, and Jieyin about the Saint-Slaying Method and led them through a sermon on the Dao, while Nuwa, Gu Changqing, Tongtian, Houtu, and Ancestor Minghe later gathered at Biyou Palace.
• Tongtian sensed that Ancestor Minghe’s aura had reached the level of a Sage.

Minghe and Hong Yun reached new heights through Gu Changqing’s help, while Hongjun and the Elder of Chaos strengthened the Heavenly Dao by devouring the Three Thousand Demon Gods’ origins. Gu Changqing summoned the Demon Gods’ remnant wills against them, then evaded their attack as Hongjun challenged him to fight.

• Minghe became an Earth Dao Sage and thanked Gu Changqing for guiding him, while Gu Changqing asked Hong Yun for some of his innate indestructible spiritual light.
• Hong Yun gave Gu Changqing the spiritual light, then drank his wine and used its Great Dao power to heal his foundation and become a Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal.
• Tongtian warned Gu Changqing that Hong Yun’s breakthrough opened a path to Hunyuan beyond the Heavenly Dao, while Hongjun and the Elder of Chaos plotted to absorb the Three Thousand Demon Gods’ laws.
• Hongjun and the Elder of Chaos reforged the Heavenly Dao with the Demon Gods’ origins, suppressing cultivation across the Primordial World as Nuwa and Houtu opposed their new order.
• Gu Changqing exposed Hongjun and the Elder of Chaos’s theft of the Demon Gods’ origins, then used the Heaven-Shaking Coffin to summon the Demon Gods’ remnant wills against the Heavenly Dao.
• A Demon God phantom shattered Zixiao Palace’s gates, and the wounded Elder of Chaos joined Hongjun in attacking Gu Changqing.
• Gu Changqing evaded Hongjun and the Elder of Chaos’s combined assault, then called to them from afar as Hongjun challenged him to fight.

Gu Changqing defeated the Elder of Chaos and won the Chaos Bead, while Hongjun responded by offering Sagehood to powerful cultivators to rebuild the Profound Gate’s influence. After Randeng became a Sage and tried to assert his authority, Gu Changqing humiliated him, but the Interception Sect recognized the growing threat and Gu Changqing admitted the scheme would be difficult to handle.

• Gu Changqing baited Hongjun and the Elder of Chaos into wagering the Chaos Bead, then used Pangu’s Cleave Chaos to shatter the Elder’s phantom Chaos World and win the wager.
• Houtu took the Chaos Bead from the Elder of Chaos and gave it to Gu Changqing, who told her to keep it and refine it for him.
• Hongjun and the Elder of Chaos discussed how to counter Gu Changqing, and Hongjun resolved to create new Sages to divide his allies and restore the Profound Gate’s influence.
• Hongjun summoned Randeng to Zixiao Palace and offered him a Sage Position, then announced that qualified cultivators could attain Hunyuan and become Sages.
• Hongjun infused Randeng with Heavenly Dao laws until a Dao Fruit formed, while Gu Changqing judged that the new Sagehood had made Randeng bound to Hongjun.
• Randeng tried to discipline Gu Changqing for not bowing, but Gu Changqing’s power frightened him, and the gathered experts laughed at his failed display of authority.
• Hongjun ordered Randeng back to the Chan Sect to govern alongside Yuanshi, and Randeng fled toward the Jade Void Palace in disgrace.
• Tongtian warned the Interception Sect that Hongjun’s offer could draw followers away, while Gu Changqing admitted that the Profound Gate’s creation of Sages was difficult to handle.

Laozi and Yuanshi tried to seize humanity’s fortune, but Gu Changqing destroyed the Human Sect Stele and helped Ji Ren become a Sage. As Laozi and Yuanshi sought Hongjun’s aid, Tongtian offered Gu Changqing leadership of the Interception Sect, and Gu Changqing refused.

• Gu Changqing decided that the Primordial World needed to ascend so more beings could become Sages, while Yuanshi welcomed countless recruits into the Chan Sect and planned to restore the Human Sect through the Human Sect Stele.
• Laozi and Yuanshi used the stele to draw humanity’s fortune, but Nuwa confronted them and Ji Ren declared the Human Sect abolished, severing its karmic bond with humanity.
• Laozi attacked Ji Ren, but Gu Changqing arrived and destroyed the Human Sect Stele, then vanished before Laozi and Yuanshi could strike him.
• At Gu Changqing’s direction, Ji Ren gathered humanity’s fortune and used it to attain Sagehood, while Laozi failed to stop him.
• Laozi and Yuanshi went to Zixiao Palace to complain to Hongjun, where the Elder of Chaos promised that his newly obtained supreme dharma would soon let him kill Gu Changqing.
• Ji Ren knelt before Gu Changqing on Golden Ao Island, and Tongtian celebrated the Interception Sect’s new Sage.
• Tongtian passed the leadership of the Interception Sect to Gu Changqing, but Gu Changqing called the offer a joke and said he only knew how to drink.