Chapter Summaries

Xiao Tian secretly taught Nezha to cultivate before his birth, then traveled back in time and reincarnated as Yang Tianyou to meet Yaoji. After recovering his memories on their wedding night, he realized Yang Jian’s birth had been engineered as part of an ancient scheme tied to the Investiture of the Gods.

• Xiao Tian used Dream Transference to teach unborn Nezha cultivation and put him through a dream trial, telling him to keep the lessons secret.
• Xiao Tian used the Azure Heaven Fragment to travel back in time and reincarnated as Yang Tianyou, sealing his memories until his wedding night with Yaoji.
• Xiao Tian learned that Marshal Tianpeng’s encounter with the spirit of Weak Water had led him to Yaoji’s Desire Realm, where his desire awakened the Three-Headed Flood Dragon.
• Yaoji prepared a bridal chamber with Yang Tianyou, and Xiao Tian’s memory seal broke as he absorbed his life experiences.
• Xiao Tian concluded that Yaoji’s marriage and Yang Jian’s birth had been arranged as part of a long-running scheme that benefited ChanJiao and other sects.

Xiao Tian lived as Yang Tianyou, married Yaoji, and secretly trained their three children while preparing them for the coming Investiture of the Gods. When Yaoji went after the three-headed flood dragon, Xiao Tian gathered the children and confronted Yang Jiao about his reckless focus on fighting.

• Xiao Tian rescued Yaoji as Yang Tianyou, married her, and asked her to teach him cultivation while concealing that his memories and power had returned.
• Over fifteen years, Xiao Tian secretly trained Yang Jiao, Yang Jian, and Yang Chan in dreams, and Yang Jian and Yang Chan reached entry-level Golden Immortal cultivation.
• Xiao Tian sealed his children's power so they could blend into the coming Investiture of the Gods storyline, while worrying that Yang Jiao was too reckless to survive the Primordial World.
• After Yaoji went to pursue the three-headed flood dragon, Yang Jiao boasted to Xiao Tian that he could lift five hundred jin and challenged Yang Jian and Yang Chan to fight.
• Xiao Tian told Yang Jiao to stop focusing on fighting and cultivate, warning him that his younger siblings had already surpassed him.

Xiao Tian prepared his family for the Heavenly Court’s coming attack, assigning his children opponents and giving them powerful treasures. Yaoji remained away hunting the Three-Headed Flood Dragon, while Xiao Tian’s family awaited the heavenly forces.

• Yang Jiao learned that Yang Jian and Yang Chan had already broken through, and Xiao Tian warned the family that the Jade Emperor would send fifty thousand heavenly soldiers to seize Yaoji and kill them.
• Xiao Tian ordered Yang Jiao to handle the heavenly soldiers and Yang Jian and Yang Chan to fight Giant Spirit God together.
• Yaoji continued pursuing the Three-Headed Flood Dragon and had reached minor attainment as a Taiyi Golden Immortal, making her stronger than the dragon.
• Xiao Tian gave Yang Chan a Demon-Suppressing Sword, Yang Jian a protective garment, and Yang Jiao a Supreme Ultimate and Eight Trigrams jade pendant.
• Xiao Tian reflected on Patriarch Bodhi’s origins and his creation of the Seventy-Two Earthly Transformations and Thirty-Six Heavenly Transformations.

After Yaoji returned from pursuing the Three-Headed Flood Dragon, the Jade Emperor ordered her arrest for marrying a mortal and bearing his children. As heavenly soldiers approached, Xiao Tian revealed that he had reached the perfection of the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm.

• Yaoji told Xiao Tian that a mighty figure had suppressed the Three-Headed Flood Dragon near Mount Kunlun.
• At Lingxiao Palace, the Queen Mother of the West defended Yaoji, but the Jade Emperor insisted that she had violated heavenly law.
• The Jade Emperor ordered Marshal Tianpeng, General Juanlian, and Giant Spirit God to take fifty thousand heavenly soldiers to arrest Yaoji and kill anyone unrelated.
• Xiao Tian sensed that the immortals were coming to arrest Yaoji and warned her as they shared a final moment together.
• Xiao Tian told Yaoji that he was no ordinary mortal, and she discovered his cultivation had reached the perfection of the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm.

Xiao Tian and Yaoji intercepted the heavenly army above the sea of clouds, where Marshal Tianpeng and General Juanlian confronted them under the Jade Emperor’s orders. As the confrontation began, Xiao Tian assessed the generals’ hidden origins and reflected on the Jade Emperor’s alleged scheme against Marshal Tianpeng.

• Xiao Tian and Yaoji left their home with their three children and flew above the sea of clouds to intercept the heavenly soldiers.
• Marshal Tianpeng recognized Yaoji, while General Juanlian demanded that she return to Lingxiao Palace under the Jade Emperor’s orders.
• Xiao Tian recognized General Juanlian as the fierce Primordial beast Tian Wu and suspected Marshal Tianpeng had a mysterious connection to Patriarch Bodhi.
• Xiao Tian reasoned that the Jade Emperor had framed Marshal Tianpeng to punish him for Yaoji’s marriage and take control of his Heavenly River naval troops.
• Xiao Tian concluded that Marshal Tianpeng’s alleged harassment of Immortal Maiden Heng'e was impossible and that the Jade Emperor had used it as a pretext to banish him.

The Jade Emperor sent Marshal Tianpeng, General Juanlian, and heavenly troops to arrest Yaoji and her family after her forbidden relationship was exposed. Xiao Tian refused to surrender, and the battle began with Yang Jiao fighting the advancing soldiers.

• The Jade Emperor decided to seize Yaoji and have her mortal husband and children executed, while Xiao Tian resolved to resist rather than follow the expected course of events.
• Xiao Tian's three children entered the sea of clouds, and Marshal Tianpeng ordered the troops to arrest the Yang family and Yaoji.
• The Giant Spirit God charged, then turned toward Yang Jian and Yang Chan after sensing Xiao Tian's Taiyi Golden Immortal aura.
• Yang Jiao attacked the heavenly soldiers with his innate strength and size-changing abilities, evading their attempt to form ranks and scattering their first attackers.
• Five early-stage Golden Immortals joined together in a Five Elements Mutual Generation Formation to face Yang Jiao.

Xiao Tian and Yaoji’s family fought the Heavenly Court’s forces, with Xiao Tian overpowering Marshal Tianpeng while Yang Jiao, Yang Jian, and Yang Chan held off the other attackers. The battle ended with Marshal Tianpeng badly wounded and retreating alongside General Juanlian, leaving the Jade Emperor’s attempt to capture Yaoji in disarray.

• Yang Jiao used All Beings Equal to weaken the five Golden Immortals’ formation and struck them into the heavenly army.
• Yang Jian and Yang Chan kept the Giant Spirit God occupied while Yang Jiao routed the heavenly soldiers and generals.
• Yaoji fought General Juanlian to a stalemate, while Xiao Tian confronted Marshal Tianpeng and warned him that he would share responsibility for Yaoji’s punishment.
• Xiao Tian demonstrated his Three Talents Sword Art, and Yaoji’s Slay Demons Sword awakened and grew stronger as she watched.
• Marshal Tianpeng was distracted by Xiao Tian’s warning, lost an arm to a sword ray, and was blasted away after threatening Yaoji’s family.
• General Juanlian shattered the sword shadows around himself and chased after the wounded Marshal Tianpeng.

Xiao Tian and his family returned home after repelling the Heavenly Court’s forces, where Yaoji revealed her identity as the Jade Emperor’s sister and they discussed the consequences of their defiance. Xiao Tian proposed that Yang Jian become Perfected Jade Cauldron’s disciple as a way to break the deadlock, while the Jade Emperor waited for news in Lingxiao Palace.

• Xiao Tian kicked the Giant Spirit God through the World Barrier and sent him back to the First Heaven, while the other heavenly soldiers and generals fled.
• Xiao Tian praised Yang Jiao, Yang Jian, and Yang Chan for helping protect their family, then carried the sulking Yaoji into the house.
• Yaoji revealed that she was the Jade Emperor’s younger sister and explained how she and Xiao Tian had met and fallen in love.
• Xiao Tian and Yaoji explained that the Jade Emperor’s arrest attempt had been meant to uphold Heavenly Court law, but their defeat of his forces had left him facing a loss of face.
• Xiao Tian proposed that Yang Jian become Perfected Jade Cauldron’s disciple to help resolve the family’s conflict with the Heavenly Court.
• The Jade Emperor waited for news in Lingxiao Palace, while Xiao Tian reflected on the powerful figures and factions of the Three Realms.

Xiao Tian faked the deaths of Yang Tianyou and Yang Jiao, hid Yaoji, and set his family on paths that would bring them into the coming Investiture of the Gods Calamity. Ten years later, Yang Jian and Yang Chan had found their masters, Xiao Tian had become Jiang Shang, and the birth of Nezha marked the start of his new plans as the calamity gathered force.

• Xiao Tian confined Yang Jiao in his Great Dream Universe and told Yang Chan to seek the world and possibly become Perfected Person Jade Cauldron's disciple.
• Xiao Tian staged the Yang residence's destruction, planted false memories of the Heavenly Court's victory, and took Yaoji away under new identities.
• The Jade Emperor accepted Yaoji's incarnation and continued the pretense that she had been captured, while Yang Jian and Yang Chan set out toward their separate destinies.
• Over the next ten years, Yang Jian became Perfected Person Jade Cauldron's disciple and reached Taiyi Golden Immortal, while Yang Chan became Nuwa's disciple and received the Lotus Lantern.
• Yang Jian split Peach Mountain, found it empty, recovered his memories, and headed for Southern Jambudvipa; meanwhile, Xiao Tian lived as Jiang Shang and Nezha was born with Golden Immortal cultivation.
• Xiao Tian observed Jiejiao's violence and the calamity's growing devastation, confident that his plans placed him on the righteous side of the coming conflict.

Nezha was born with Xiao Tian’s teachings and protections already shaping his fate, and Perfected Person Taiyi arrived to claim him as a disciple. His parents asked to keep him at home, so Taiyi agreed to return in seven years, while Xiao Tian planned to prevent the disaster that had once awaited Nezha.

• Nezha emerged from his birth furnace, and his cultivation had already raised Yin Shiniang to the peak of the Heavenly Immortal realm.
• Xiao Tian had sealed Nezha’s Heaven and Earth Ring and Hun Tian Silk inside his body and trained him in dreams while changing his outlook.
• Perfected Person Taiyi arrived at the Li residence and announced that he had come to take Nezha as his disciple.
• Li Jing and Yin Shiniang recognized Nezha as their son and asked Taiyi to wait until the boy was older.
• Perfected Person Taiyi agreed to let Nezha stay home for seven years and urged his parents to teach him propriety.
• Xiao Tian resolved to keep Nezha away from the Eastern Sea and prevent the fate that had once led to his lotus-root body.

Xiao Tian took the newborn Lei Zhenzi and educated him for thirty years in a dream, warning him not to eat Immortal Apricots before reaching the Golden Immortal realm. When Yun Zhongzi arrived to take Lei Zhenzi as his disciple, Xiao Tian introduced himself as Jiang Ziya and claimed the boy as his son.

• Xiao Tian seized the newborn Lei Zhenzi before Ji Chang could adopt him and took him away.
• After Bo Yikao died and Su Daji escaped the palace, Xiao Tian brought Su Daji into the Double-Yolk Universe to cultivate.
• Xiao Tian taught Lei Zhenzi for thirty years through Dream Transference, raised his cultivation to the peak of the Heavenly Immortal realm, and sealed it from detection.
• Xiao Tian warned Lei Zhenzi not to eat an Immortal Apricot until he reached the Golden Immortal realm, then told him to cultivate under Yun Zhongzi.
• Yun Zhongzi arrived and asked about Lei Zhenzi, while Ji Chang came searching for Jiang Ziya.
• Xiao Tian introduced himself to Yun Zhongzi as Jiang Shang, courtesy name Ziya, and said Lei Zhenzi was his son.

Xiao Tian met Yun Zhongzi, who recognized him as Primordial Heavenly Venerable’s new disciple and took Lei Zhenzi as his own. After Ji Chang left, Xiao Tian continued cultivating and began training Wu Ji through dreams, while planning to keep Zhao Gongming out of the coming calamity.

• Yun Zhongzi greeted Xiao Tian as his junior brother and introduced himself as Third Senior Brother.
• Xiao Tian agreed to let Yun Zhongzi take Lei Zhenzi as his disciple, and Yun Zhongzi departed with the boy.
• Ji Chang arrived and introduced himself as the Earl of the West, but Xiao Tian declined to reveal his identity or join him yet.
• Ji Chang left after exchanging pleasantries, remembering where Xiao Tian lived in seclusion.
• Xiao Tian continued cultivating and spent thirty years teaching Wu Ji in his dreams, bringing the woodcutter to entry-level Earth Immortal cultivation.
• Xiao Tian resolved to keep Zhao Gongming from joining the Investiture of the Gods Calamity, or at least find a way to save his life.

Xiao Tian cured Xiqi’s army, helped Ji Fa defeat Chong Houhu, and entered seclusion to strengthen himself for the Investiture of the Gods Calamity. His breakthrough let him capture imprints of Ancestral Dragon, Primordial Phoenix, and Primordial Qilin, revealing their ancient war and the calamity that followed.

• Xiao Tian sent Yaoji to cure Xiqi’s soldiers with Antidote Pills, while Ji Chang and Ji Fa farmed and chopped firewood after she sealed their cultivation.
• Xiao Tian summoned the Giant Spirit God to drive off Shen Gongbao, and Wu Ji slew Chong Houhu before Ji Fa’s army destroyed the enemy forces.
• Xiao Tian entered seclusion with Yaoji guarding him and the Essence Gourd Vine overseeing the situation, then broke through to the great Luo golden immortal initial realm.
• Xiao Tian captured imprints of Ancestral Dragon, Primordial Phoenix, and Primordial Qilin, gaining the ability to manifest versions of the three with quasi-saint strength.
• Xiao Tian witnessed the three ancient rulers wage a long war that devastated the Primordial Wilderness, after which their races’ fortune ran out and calamity’s backlash descended upon them.

After emerging from half a year of secluded cultivation, Xiao Tian learned that Yang Jian and Yang Chan had joined Xiqi and watched as the battle against the Four Generals of the Mo Family began. Yang Jian and Nezha protected their allies from the generals’ powerful treasures, while Xiao Tian remained away with Yaoji, and his children still did not know where he had taken her and Yang Jiao.

• Xiao Tian awakened after comprehending the Dao for another half year and used Thousand-Mile Eyes to learn that Yang Jian and Yang Chan had joined Xiqi, while Jiang Ziya’s forces had endured a six-month siege.
• Xiao Tian reunited with Yaoji and told her their children were at the battlefield, then took her into his cave abode while he continued monitoring the fighting.
• Yellow Heaven Hua nearly died fighting Mo Liqing, but Nezha rescued him and shattered Mo Liqing’s White Jade Diamond Bracelet with the Heaven and Earth Ring.
• Mo Liqing attacked Nezha with the Qingyun Sword, but Nezha’s Heaven and Earth Ring drove it back before Mo Lihong captured the ring with the Primordial Chaos Pearl Umbrella.
• Yang Jian used the Secret of the Soldier to disrupt Mo Lihong’s umbrella and save Nezha, then challenged Mo Lihong with his Three-Pointed, Double-Edged Saber.

Yang Chan’s Lotus Lantern protected Xiqi’s forces while Yellow Heaven Hua returned with the Heart-Piercing Nail and helped defeat the Four Generals of the Mo Family and Tu Xingsun. With Shang’s army routed, King Zhou ordered Deng Jiugong to suppress Xiqi’s rebellion, and Xiao Tian considered a possible match between Deng Chanyu and one of his unmarried companions.

• Yang Chan used the Lotus Lantern to shield Xiqi’s army and force the Four Generals of the Mo Family to withdraw.
• Yellow Heaven Hua returned with the Heart-Piercing Nail, and the Four Generals of the Mo Family attacked again alongside Tu Xingsun, who tried to capture Yang Chan with the Immortal-Binding Rope.
• Yellow Heaven Hua killed Mo Lishou and his Flower Fox Mink, then killed Mo Lihai, Mo Liqing, and Mo Lihong with the Heart-Piercing Nail.
• Yang Jian turned the earth to steel and stopped Tu Xingsun’s escape, allowing Yellow Heaven Hua to kill him and send his true spirit and Immortal-Binding Rope into the Investiture of the Gods.
• Xiqi’s army routed the Shang forces, and King Zhou ordered Deng Jiugong to march from Three Mountain Pass to suppress the rebellion.
• Xiao Tian learned that Deng Jiugong’s daughter Deng Chanyu possessed Five-Colored Light Stones and considered whether she could marry Yang Jian, Nezha, or Lei Zhenzi.

After Deng Chanyu was captured, Xiao Tian arranged her marriage to Yang Jian, while Xiqi’s army advanced toward Sishui Pass and defeated Crown Prince Yin Jiao. Lü Yue then tried to plague Xiqi’s forces, but Xiao Tian redirected the sickness to Zhaoge’s army and sent Nezha to summon Daoist Cihang to counter the next attack.

• Lei Zhenzi joined Xiqi’s forces, and after Zhaoge’s army was defeated, Deng Chanyu and her father were captured; Xiao Tian arranged a contest, which Yang Jian won, and Yang Jiao and Daji were also prepared to marry.
• King Zhou appointed Kong Xuan grand marshal of the western expedition, while Shen Gongbao recruited Lü Yue to join the Shang forces.
• At Sishui Pass, Yin Jiao challenged Jiang Ziya, but Yang Jian seized his Soul-Seizing Bell, Xiao Tian secretly took his Heaven-Flipping Seal, and Nezha killed him with the Heaven and Earth Ring.
• Lei Zhenzi killed Wen Liang, and Yang Chan used the Lotus Lantern to suppress Ma Shan and make him its wick.
• Lü Yue’s plague ritual sickened Zhaoge’s soldiers after Xiao Tian redirected the plague, and Lü Yue vowed to call more allies to destroy Xiqi.
• Xiao Tian sent Nezha to Luojia Grotto on Mount Putuo to invite Daoist Cihang to deal with Lü Yue’s plague magic.

Xiao Tian prepared to counter Lü Yue’s plague magic, then the conflict at Golden Rooster Ridge escalated as Luo Xuan and Liu Huan joined the opposing side. The chapter ended with Xiao Tian fighting Luo Xuan, who unleashed his fire treasures and a swarm of powerful Fire Crows.

• Xiao Tian sent Yang Chan to obtain antidote medicine from the Three Sovereigns, and Daoist Cihang arrived to help.
• Yang Chan’s medicine was distributed to the people, and Daoist Cihang killed Lü Yue when he returned to cast the Plague Curse.
• The Zhou Army defeated a hundred thousand Xiqi troops and advanced to Golden Rooster Ridge, where Shen Gongbao brought Luo Xuan to assist Kong Xuan.
• Gao Jineneng unleashed his Poison Centipede Wasps, but Chong Heihu’s Iron-Beaked Divine Eagle countered them, and Yellow Heaven Hua killed Gao Jineneng with a surprise attack.
• Luo Xuan and Liu Huan challenged Xiqi, and Xiao Tian fought Luo Xuan with the God-Striking Whip.
• Luo Xuan manifested Three Heads and Six Arms and attacked Xiao Tian with his fire treasures and Fire Crows.

Long Ji helped Xiao Tian's forces defeat Liu Huan and Luo Xuan, but Xiao Tian withdrew rather than attack Kong Xuan at Golden Rooster Ridge. That night, Xiao Tian entered Kong Xuan's dream, proved his power by countering the Five-Colored Divine Light, and persuaded Kong Xuan to go with him.

• Long Ji captured Luo Xuan's magic treasures, killed Liu Huan with the Heaven-and-Earth Needle, and slew Luo Xuan with her three flying swords after Xiao Tian secretly immobilized him.
• Xiao Tian ordered his troops to withdraw from Golden Rooster Ridge, then told Yaoji that Kong Xuan was among the strongest beings beneath the Saints.
• Xiao Tian left his incarnation and entered Kong Xuan's dream, where he urged Kong Xuan to leave the Zhaoge Army and warned him that the Saints would seek to claim him.
• Kong Xuan challenged Xiao Tian to block the Five-Colored Divine Light, and Xiao Tian countered it with the Twelve-Colored Creation Origin Light, the Primordial Qilin's power, and the Ancestral Dragon's power.
• Convinced by Xiao Tian's strength, Kong Xuan chose to take a female form and agreed to go with him; Xiao Tian drew him into his Brow-Center Universe to hide him.

Xiao Tian and Kong Xuan traveled to Emei Mountain to capture Zhao Gongming alive and keep him from joining King Zhou’s forces. After knocking him unconscious and sealing him inside a gourd, they left a notice at his cave and departed.

• Yaoji arranged Long Ji’s marriage to Nezha, and Jiang Shang officiated at their wedding.
• Xiao Tian and Kong Xuan visited Zhao Gongming at Luofu Cave and asked him to stay out of the conflict.
• When Zhao Gongming rose to protest, Xiao Tian struck him from behind, while Kong Xuan took his twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls and Xiao Tian seized his Dragon-Binding Rope.
• Xiao Tian knocked Zhao Gongming unconscious again, captured him in his Purple Calabash, and sealed his power down to the Golden Immortal level.
• Kong Xuan laughed at Xiao Tian’s method, and Xiao Tian put up a notice at Zhao Gongming’s cave saying he was away traveling.

Xiao Tian captured Hong Jin and arranged for Lei Zhenzi to marry Fire Spirit Holy Mother, while Xiqi's army continued its advance through Jiameng Pass. The chapter left Nezha and Princess Longji facing Qiu Yin and the Hum and Ha Generals at Azure Dragon Pass.

• Xiao Tian ordered Nezha to execute captured Hong Jin, and Xiqi's forces took Sishui Pass.
• Lei Zhenzi captured Hu Lei alive, and Shen Gongbao brought Fire Spirit Holy Mother to confront the Xiqi army.
• Yang Jian, Nezha, and Lei Zhenzi fought Fire Spirit Holy Mother for half a month, broke through to higher cultivation realms, and captured her alive.
• Xiao Tian witnessed Lei Zhenzi and Fire Spirit Holy Mother's marriage, and Hu Lei survived.
• Xiqi's army reached Azure Dragon Pass, where Xiao Tian sent Nezha and Princess Longji to challenge Qiu Yin and the Hum and Ha Generals.