Recaps

The Four Seas Dragon Kings answered Ao Guang’s Blood Signal and trapped Nezha in the Four Seas Cage, but Nezha turned the formation’s power against them and began devouring its water veins. As the dragon kings called upon their ancestor, an ancient presence awakened in the East Sea Eye.

• Ao Qin, Ao Run, and Ao Shun answered Ao Guang’s Blood Signal and arrived at the East Sea Dragon Palace.
• The Four Seas Dragon Kings formed the Four Seas Cage, suppressing Nezha with their water veins and disrupting his Self-Transformation into Freedom.
• Nezha charged into the formation’s core and used his demonic body to refine the Qiankun Ruler, Randeng’s primordial spirit Dao fire, and the Four Seas’ power.
• Nezha’s self-transforming Dao seed devoured the formation’s water veins and the dragon kings’ blood origin, leaving the Four Seas Cage beyond their control.
• Ao Guang called for the dragon ancestor, and an ancient presence opened its eyes in the East Sea Eye.

Yang Jian shattered Guangchengzi’s phantom Heaven-Flipping Seal with three punches at the Jade Void Palace’s mountain gate. As Guangchengzi raised the Jade Void Glazed Lamp against him, Yuanshi, the Heavenly Venerable, intervened and summoned Yang Jian inside.

• Guangchengzi ordered Yang Jian to kneel and brought down the phantom Heaven-Flipping Seal while Yang Jian shielded Yao Ji and Yang Chan.
• Yang Jian cracked the seal with his first punch and spread fractures across it with his second, injuring Guangchengzi through the backlash.
• Yang Jian destroyed the phantom with his third punch and demanded the right to enter the Jade Void Palace to discuss cause and effect.
• Guangchengzi summoned the true Jade Void Glazed Lamp and prepared to attack Yang Jian, while Yang Jian protected Yao Ji and Yang Chan.
• Yuanshi, the Heavenly Venerable, halted the confrontation and told Yang Jian to come inside.

Nezha reversed the Four Seas Cage’s refining power, reforged his demonic body, and seized control of the Four Seas’ water veins. After reporting his success to his Master, he faced the ancient dragon emerging from the East Sea Eye.

• Nezha endured the Four Seas Dragon Kings’ array and drew its power, Randeng’s Dao fire, and the Qiankun Ruler’s Dao patterns into his Self-Manifestation Dao seed.
• The Four Seas Dragon Kings failed to stabilize or recall the cage as Nezha reversed its power and shattered its chains and formation.
• Nezha reshaped his body and forged a new spear from the Qiankun Ruler’s remnant, Randeng’s fire, and the Four Seas’ water origins.
• Nezha took control of the Four Seas’ water veins, left the Dragon Kings alive, and reported to his Master that he had fulfilled his mission.
• An ancient dragon claw emerged from the East Sea Eye and accused Nezha of stealing the waterways, and Nezha challenged it to become his nourishment.

Yang Jian entered the Jade Void Palace and asked Yuanshi Tianzun to shelter Yao Ji and Yang Chan, settle his Chan Sect karma without making him a disciple, and test his Dao. After Yang Jian shattered the fate shown by the Heavenly Dao Stone, Yuanshi granted his requests and hinted that he knew of Yang Jian’s master.

• Yang Jian entered the Jade Void Palace after asking Yao Ji and Yang Chan to wait outside.
• Yang Jian asked Yuanshi Tianzun for sanctuary for his family, a settlement of his Chan Sect karma without becoming a disciple, and a test of his Dao.
• Yuanshi Tianzun tested Yang Jian with the Heavenly Dao Stone, which showed him a fate as Yu Ding’s disciple and the Judicial Heavenly God.
• Yang Jian resisted the fate trajectory and shattered its projection with a punch, cracking the Heavenly Dao Stone.
• Yuanshi Tianzun granted Yang Jian’s requests, sheltered Yao Ji and Yang Chan in the Purple Cloud Palace, and lent Yang Jian Yuqing providence.
• Yuanshi Tianzun sent Yang Jian back to his family and told him to give his master his regards.

Yang Jian passed Yuanshi Tianzun’s trial and secured protection for Yao Ji and Yang Chan, while Nezha subdued the Four Seas Dragon Kings. Their deeds brought Gu Changqing immense rewards, advancing him to perfected Daluo Golden Immortal and setting new quests in motion around Xiaotian Dog, Chaoge, Yin Jiao, and Yin Hong.

• Yang Jian left the Jade Void Palace with Yuanshi Tianzun’s recognition and arranged for Yu Ding Zhenren to protect Yao Ji and Yang Chan in the Purple Cloud Palace.
• Yang Jian ended his dispute with Guangchengzi and departed Kunlun, leaving the Chan Sect unable to control his path.
• Nezha defeated the Four Seas Dragon Kings and forced Ao Guang to submit, then reported that he had fulfilled his mission to Gu Changqing.
• Gu Changqing received rewards for his disciples’ deeds, broke through to perfected Daluo Golden Immortal, and obtained the Hongmeng Measuring Heaven Ruler.
• The system gave Gu Changqing new quests to find Xiaotian Dog, place a piece in Chaoge, and intervene in the fates of Yin Jiao and Yin Hong.

Gu Changqing secretly visited Chaoge and gave Bi Gan a jade pendant to protect his soul when his destined heart was removed. He then turned his attention to Guanjiangkou, where Xiaotian was being pursued by mountain demons.

• Gu Changqing surveyed Chaoge and saw demonic energy draining Great Shang's Fortune while its people suffered under fear and war.
• He rejected the obvious figures caught in the tribulation and chose Bi Gan, who was preparing to remonstrate with Di Xin.
• Gu Changqing passed Bi Gan a jade pendant and told him that living could affirm his Dao, giving him a chance to survive the removal of his Seven-Orifice Exquisite Heart.
• Gu Changqing returned his attention to Guanjiangkou, where Xiaotian fled mountain demons while carrying a bloodstained Divine Bone.
• Gu Changqing declared that it was Xiaotian's turn to enter the game.

Gu Changqing found the starving Heavenly Mandate Hound at Guanjiangkou and subdued it with a Fortune Blood Seal, naming it Xiaotian and activating the Divine Pet Return module. When a half-step Golden Immortal Spirit-Devouring Demon King emerged from the ruins, Gu Changqing decided to let Xiaotian fight it to awaken its God-Devouring Fangs.

• Gu Changqing watched the hound resist food and continue tracking the trace of divine blood through the ruins while three mountain demons attacked it.
• Gu Changqing offered Xiaotian his Fortune Blood Seal, and the hound surrendered its life flame and accepted the seal.
• The seal transformed the hound, which killed two mountain demons and exposed the third demon’s earth-vein seal with its emerging Eye of Illusory Truth-Piercing.
• Gu Changqing named the hound Xiaotian, and the Divine Pet Return module activated with its hundred-thousandfold return rules.
• Xiaotian sensed a half-step Golden Immortal Spirit-Devouring Demon King beneath the ruins, and Gu Changqing agreed to use the Demon King to hone Xiaotian’s God-Devouring Fangs.

Gu Changqing sent Xiaotian to fight a Thousand-Foot Centipede Demon King beneath the ruins of Guanjiangkou, where the dog awakened his God-Devouring Fangs and devoured the Golden Immortal-level demon. Xiaotian’s Ancient Celestial Dog inheritance began to awaken, and Gu Changqing looked toward the Northern Kuru Continent for more prey.

• Gu Changqing and Xiaotian entered the Centipede Demon King’s cave beneath Guanjiangkou, and Gu Changqing sent Xiaotian to attack.
• Xiaotian dodged the demon king’s poisonous attacks, tore off one of its legs, and was wounded by its immortal-corroding poison.
• Gu Changqing sent primordial violet light into Xiaotian’s brow, awakening his God-Devouring Fangs and ancient bloodline memory.
• Xiaotian broke through the demon king’s defenses, devoured its demon soul and flesh, and advanced to perfected Heavenly Immortal.
• Gu Changqing received cultivation and rewards from the System, while Xiaotian’s Ancient Celestial Dog inheritance began to activate.
• Gu Changqing identified the Northern Kuru Continent as a hunting ground where Xiaotian could devour more ancient demon bloodlines or Demon Court fortune.

Gu Changqing sensed calamity gathering as Nuwa sealed her palace and the Demon Clan entered the game. In Chaoge, Daji turned Di Xin against Queen Jiang and her sons, forcing Yin Jiao and Yin Hong to flee while Guangchengzi and Chijingzi set out to recruit them.

• Gu Changqing sensed calamity rising over the mortal realm, while Nuwa declared that the Demon Clan would enter the game and sealed Nuwa Palace.
• Daji accused Queen Jiang of persecuting her, and Di Xin ordered Jiang stripped of her title and imprisoned.
• Yin Jiao and Yin Hong pleaded for their mother, but Di Xin ordered them and Jiang's supporters executed; a loyal general helped the princes escape at the cost of his life.
• Di Xin offered a ten-thousand-household marquisship for the princes' heads and ordered Chaoge sealed as Yin Jiao and Yin Hong fled through its alleys.
• Guangchengzi and Chijingzi decided to take the princes as disciples to claim Yin and Shang's remaining fortune, then headed for Chaoge.

Yin Jiao and Yin Hong fled through Chaoge as demons and Shen Gongbao’s disciples hunted them, until their mother’s jade talisman led them to a ruined temple. As their pursuers broke down the doors, a mysterious figure behind the divine statue awakened and challenged them.

• Yin Jiao and Yin Hong escaped the Wolf Monster and other demons as their guards were killed and their routes through Chaoge were cut off.
• At the sealed city gate, Shen Gongbao’s disciples and soldiers cornered the brothers and ordered them killed.
• Yin Jiao’s jade talisman warmed and pointed toward a mass graveyard, so he led Yin Hong there and into a ruined temple.
• Yin Jiao and Yin Hong barricaded the temple doors while the demons and sorcerers tried to break in.
• A mysterious figure rose from behind the divine statue and demanded to know why the intruders were making a racket.

Xiaotian saved Yin Jiao and Yin Hong from three demons and claimed the princes as his underlings. Yang Jian arrived and offered to take them away to survive and seek justice for Queen Jiang, while primordial violet light appeared in the incense burner.

• The Wolf Monster, Pig Monster, and Snake Monster attacked Yin Jiao and Yin Hong inside the Ruined Temple.
• Xiaotian emerged from behind the statue and devoured the demon souls of all three monsters, driving the State Preceptor's sorcerers and Demon Soldiers to flee.
• Xiaotian said he would protect Yin Jiao and Yin Hong and demanded they serve as his underlings, but Yin Jiao refused to kneel.
• Yang Jian arrived and chastised Xiaotian for frightening the princes, then offered to take Yin Jiao and Yin Hong with him to survive and seek justice for Queen Jiang.
• Yang Jian identified himself as acting on his master's command, and primordial violet light appeared in the incense burner.

Yin Jiao and Yin Hong sought Gu Changqing’s aid, offering their Human King bloodline, Yin Shang’s fortune, and their lives’ karma to become his disciples. Gu Changqing accepted them, drawing them into the struggle over Humanity’s Dao and warning them that the Demon Consort, Heavenly Court, and Chan Sect would oppose them.

• Yang Jian entered the Ruined Temple and reprimanded Xiaotian Dog for intimidating Yin Jiao and Yin Hong.
• Yin Jiao and Yin Hong knelt before Gu Changqing’s statue, asking for help to avenge their mother, rescue her, and cleanse Chaoge, while offering their bloodline and karma.
• Their vow power was intercepted by Gu Changqing’s incense anchor and sent to Guanjiangkou, where Gu Changqing recognized it as a key to Humanity’s Dao struggle.
• Gu Changqing accepted Yin Jiao and Yin Hong as disciples and intervened through the statue, restoring the brothers’ fading royal fortunes.
• Gu Changqing warned the brothers that the Demon Consort, Heavenly Court, and Chan Sect would come after them, and Yin Jiao and Yin Hong affirmed their willingness to become his disciples.

Gu Changqing used a divine projection to make Yin Jiao and Yin Hong his disciples, granting them arts that awakened their destinies and triggered enormous system rewards. Guangchengzi and Chijingzi arrived to reclaim them, but Yang Jian blocked their power and declared that they were already Gu Changqing’s disciples.

• Gu Changqing’s projection appeared in the Ruined Temple and revived Yin Jiao’s royal fortune and Yin Hong’s fading destiny.
• Gu Changqing bestowed the Human Emperor Heaven-Sealing Art on Yin Jiao and the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art on Yin Hong, with a Primordial Purple Seal restraining Yin Hong’s hunger.
• Yin Jiao and Yin Hong accepted Gu Changqing as their master, severing their destined ties to Guangchengzi and Chijingzi.
• Gu Changqing received a billion years of pure cultivation, Yin Shang humanity fortune, both complete arts, and a concealed primordial violet qi remnant thread.
• Guangchengzi and Chijingzi arrived at the Ruined Temple and demanded that Yin Jiao and Yin Hong return to Kunlun.
• Yang Jian blocked their oppressive power at the temple threshold and told them the brothers had already become Gu Changqing’s disciples.

Guangchengzi and Chijingzi arrived at the Ruined Temple to claim Yin Jiao and Yin Hong for the Chan Sect, but the princes resisted with the Dao foundations bestowed by their new master. As Guangchengzi attacked Yang Jian, Xiaotian Dog prepared to test its God-Devouring Fangs, and the primordial violet light in the Incense Burner pulsed violently.

• Guangchengzi and Chijingzi tried to enter the Ruined Temple, but its primordial violet radiance blocked their Jade Purity Immortal Light.
• Chijingzi discovered that Yin Hong's master-disciple karma with him had been severed, while Yin Jiao and Yin Hong displayed their newly formed Dao foundations.
• Chijingzi attacked Yin Hong with the Yin-Yang Mirror, but the Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Art swallowed part of its light and damaged the mirror.
• Guangchengzi tried to force Yin Jiao to return to Kunlun, but the Human Emperor Heaven-Sealing Art repelled his pressure, and Yin Jiao challenged the Chan Sect's claim to his fate.
• Guangchengzi pressed the Heaven-Flipping Seal toward the temple, but Yang Jian held it back with primordial violet qi.
• Xiaotian Dog confronted Guangchengzi and Chijingzi with its God-Devouring Fangs as the primordial violet light in the Incense Burner pulsed violently.

Xiaotian Dog used the Black Emperor Heaven-Devouring Art to wound Guangchengzi and devour his Great Luo origin, breaking through to Golden Immortal. Chijingzi fled with Guangchengzi, while Yuanshi Tianzun noticed the injury from Jade Void Palace.

• Yang Jian allowed Xiaotian Dog to attack Guangchengzi outside the Ruined Temple in Chaoge.
• Xiaotian Dog used his Illusory-Breaking Divine Light and Black Emperor Heaven-Devouring Art to bite through Guangchengzi’s Yuqing defenses and wound his Dao foundation.
• Xiaotian Dog swallowed Guangchengzi’s Great Luo origin, broke through to Golden Immortal, and triggered a hundred-thousandfold return that granted Gu Changqing cultivation and other rewards.
• Chijingzi’s Yin-Yang Mirror failed to stop Xiaotian Dog, so he fled toward Kunlun with Guangchengzi after Yang Jian stopped Xiaotian Dog from pursuing them.
• Yang Jian told Yin Jiao and Yin Hong that they had broken free of Jade Void control, while the brothers looked upon their master’s statue with reverence.
• Yuanshi Tianzun sensed Guangchengzi’s wounded Dao foundation from Jade Void Palace and asked what had happened.

After Guangchengzi and Chijingzi fled, Yang Jian directed Yin Jiao and Yin Hong to return to Chaoge and fight for Yin Shang Orthodoxy through complementary roles. As the brothers headed for the city, Yang Jian sensed a Saint's gaze from beyond the East Sea, where Tongtian opened his eyes.

• Guangchengzi and Chijingzi retreated after Xiaotian Dog injured Guangchengzi, and Yin Jiao and Yin Hong felt their new powers stir.
• Yin Jiao resolved to return to Chaoge to seek justice for their mother, while Yin Hong agreed to go with him despite fearing their pursuers.
• Yang Jian assigned Yin Jiao to rally loyal ministers and humanity's Dao wishfire, and Yin Hong to hunt demons in Chaoge's shadows.
• Yang Jian told the brothers to find Bi Gan and said they would protect him from threats beyond their ability to handle.
• Yin Jiao and Yin Hong swore to follow their master's teachings, then set out toward Chaoge as Yang Jian and Xiaotian Dog remained at the Ruined Temple.
• Yang Jian sensed a Saint's gaze from beyond the East Sea, and Tongtian opened his eyes at Biyou Palace.

After Guangchengzi returned to Jade Void Palace with his Dao foundation damaged and Chijingzi's Yin-Yang Mirror cracked, Yuanshi Tianzun recognized that an unknown figure had disrupted his plans in Chaoge. Sect Master Tongtian sensed the same disturbance, grew curious about the hidden figure, and set out for Chaoge while ordering his disciples to stay out of the killing game.

• Guangchengzi returned to Jade Void Palace spitting golden blood, and Chijingzi and the other Golden Immortals discovered that a black dog's bite had damaged Guangchengzi's Dao foundation and cracked Chijingzi's Yin-Yang Mirror.
• Taiyi Zhenren and Juliusun demanded action, but Yuanshi Tianzun revealed that he could not see through the figure concealing the Chaoge temple and called him a wild card in the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation.
• Yuanshi Tianzun suppressed the devouring power in Guangchengzi's Dao foundation, ordered him to heal and Chijingzi to restore his treasure, and told them not to spare Yin Jiao and Yin Hong if they met them on the battlefield.
• Sect Master Tongtian examined the disturbance in Yuqing fortune and inferred that Yang Jian and the Yin Shang Twins had escaped Jade Void's plans, while Guangchengzi and Chijingzi had been injured.
• Sect Master Tongtian ordered the Seven Attendant Immortals to keep watch over Biyou Palace and forbade his disciples from entering Chaoge's killing game without permission, then departed to investigate.

Sect Master Tongtian entered the Ruined Temple and found that its Divine Statue was protected by Dao resonance beyond the reach of a Saint’s divination. Gu Changqing activated the Divine Realm’s defenses and manifested Primordial Purple Patterns, leaving Tongtian face-to-face with the temple’s hidden master.

• Tongtian entered the Mass Burial Grounds and recognized the Black Dog’s traces among the demon corpses in the Ruined Temple.
• Tongtian found that the Divine Statue’s purplish-gray Dao resonance blocked his saintly sense and concealed its karma.
• Tongtian tried to probe the purple strand in the incense ash, triggering the Divine Realm’s warning that a Saint had arrived.
• Gu Changqing transferred his true-body karma to the Divine Realm’s deep layer and sent his divine sense through the Incense Anchor to the temple.
• Gu Changqing’s Primordial Purple Patterns transformed the ruined temple into a Daoist Sanctuary, and Tongtian confronted the Divine Statue, asking its master to reveal himself.

Gu Changqing met Sect Master Tongtian through the Divine Statue in the ruined temple, where Tongtian probed his stance on the Investiture of the Gods. Gu Changqing rejected the idea of finding a solution within the game, and Tongtian asked whether the cage meant the Heavenly Dao or the Purple Heaven Palace.

• A Heavenly Dao Sage entered the Chaoge Branch Temple, and Gu Changqing silenced the system alarms before descending his will to the Ruined Temple.
• Sect Master Tongtian sensed Gu Changqing's hidden will and failed to trace its origins through the Primordial Purple Patterns.
• Tongtian greeted the Divine Statue as an equal and asked whether there was a solution to the Investiture of the Gods.
• Gu Changqing said that every path within the chessboard led to death because the board itself was inside a cage.
• Tongtian's Immortal Slaying Sword intent shuddered, and he asked whether Gu Changqing meant the Heavenly Dao or the Purple Heaven Palace by the cage.

Gu Changqing told Sect Master Tongtian that the Investiture of the Gods was a cage beyond the Heavenly Dao and a deadly game designed to destroy the Interception Sect. Tongtian pressed him for his origins but was left with the warning that the calamity had no solution.

• Sect Master Tongtian challenged the Divine Statue’s claim that the Investiture of the Gods was merely a game within a cage.
• The Divine Statue questioned whether Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s decree represented the will of heaven and called him a prisoner within the Heavenly Dao’s cage.
• Tongtian sensed that the Ruined Temple was isolated from the Heavenly Dao and asked the Divine Statue where it came from.
• Gu Changqing ignored the system warnings and decided that drawing Tongtian into the game mattered more than explaining his origins.
• The Divine Statue told Tongtian that the game had no solution because it had been designed from the start to destroy the Interception Sect.

Gu Changqing showed Tongtian how the other powers planned to use the great tribulation to sacrifice the Interception Sect and exposed the fates awaiting its leaders. Tongtian accepted that the sect was already marked for destruction, entered the game, and asked where he should strike first to change its fate.

• Tongtian challenged Gu Changqing’s claim that the Investiture of the Gods Register concealed a scheme against the Interception Sect, but Gu Changqing showed how the Western Religion could help trap Tongtian in the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.
• Gu Changqing revealed that Randeng, Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal, and Shen Gongbao would each contribute to the Interception Sect’s downfall and showed Tongtian the threatened fates of Daoist Duobao, Golden Spirit Holy Mother, Turtle Spirit Holy Mother, and Wudang Holy Mother.
• Gu Changqing showed Tongtian that the tribulation would destroy the Interception Sect’s fortune and leave Tongtian exiled from the Three Realms, while the Chan Sect, Western Religion, and Heavenly Court benefited.
• Tongtian wept a tear of the Dao, then accepted that the Interception Sect had entered the game and asked Gu Changqing where the first blade should fall.

Tongtian confronted the divine statue after seeing the Interception Sect’s future destruction and learned that its pursuit of a path for all beings threatened the Heavenly Dao’s fixed order. He offered three sticks of mortal incense and asked the statue how the Interception Sect could escape its death trap and attain transcendence.

• Tongtian manifested the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, but its sword intent dissolved before the divine statue.
• Gu Changqing sensed Tongtian’s shock at the futures he had revealed, including the betrayal and deaths awaiting the Ten Thousand Immortals.
• Tongtian questioned why his teachings and the Interception Sect’s Dao had brought about the sect’s downfall.
• Gu Changqing explained that the Heavenly Dao demanded fixed destinies and that the Interception Sect’s chance for all beings to change their fates opposed its order.
• Tongtian realized the tribulation was meant to sever the Interception Sect’s Dao and that his two elder brothers would help bring it about.
• Tongtian lit three sticks of mortal incense, apologized to the statue, and asked how the Interception Sect could find a true path to transcendence.

Gu Changqing received a vast reward after Sect Master Tongtian offered Saint-tier Dao-seeking incense, including the first volume of the Mythic Great Luo Technique. He bestowed the scripture on Tongtian, who recognized it as a path beyond the Heavenly Dao and a possible way to save the Interception Sect.

• Sect Master Tongtian bowed before the Divine Statue and offered incense while seeking a way out of the Heavenly Dao's deadly scheme.
• Gu Changqing received ten billion years of cultivation, Tongtian's Saint-level Dao insights, the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords' slaughter essence, primordial violet qi, an epic quest, and volume one of the Mythic Great Luo Technique.
• The Divine Statue told Tongtian that transcendence was possible and bestowed the Mythic Great Luo Technique's Foundations Volume.
• Tongtian absorbed the scripture and saw a realm of mythic great Luo beings beyond the Primordial World.
• Tongtian prostrated himself before the Divine Statue, believing it offered the Interception Sect its only path beyond the Heavenly Dao's cage.

Gu Changqing absorbed ten billion years of cultivation, Tongtian’s Saint Dao insights, and primordial violet qi, expanding the Primordial Divine Realm and strengthening his power. He taught Tongtian how the Interception Sect could forge mythic status and survive the tribulation, and Tongtian returned to Golden Turtle Island resolved to reform the sect.

• Gu Changqing opened ten more godfiend acupores, absorbed Tongtian’s Dao insights, and expanded the Primordial Divine Realm to three thousand li.
• Tongtian received Volume One of the Mythic Great Luo Technique and asked how his disciples could follow the path to transcendence.
• Gu Changqing explained how the Three Xiao, Zhao Gongming, Duobao, Jin Ling, Wudang, and Gui Ling could forge mythic status from their deeds and legends.
• Gu Changqing urged Tongtian to investigate karmic ties, revise the Interception Sect’s precepts, and select disciples to inherit the foundations of myth.
• Tongtian vowed to reform the sect and left the ruined temple, declaring himself first and foremost the Jie Sect Leader.
• Golden Turtle Island’s fortune trembled as ten thousand immortals looked up, while a wisp of Western Religion’s golden light quivered in Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal’s sleeve.

Tongtian returned to Golden Turtle Island and declared that the Interception Sect would forge its own myth rather than accept the Investiture of the Gods as its fate. After ordering the sect sealed and its ranks disciplined, he summoned Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal, whose hidden Western Religion talisman had stirred.

• Tongtian returned to Biyou Palace and resolved to guide the Interception Sect toward a mythic rank independent of Heavenly Dao investiture.
• Tongtian ordered the disciples to resist becoming sacrifices in the killing tribulation and to build the sect's renown through battle and conviction.
• Tongtian sealed Golden Turtle Island for three days and assigned Duobao, Jin Ling, Wudang, Gui Ling, and the Three Xiaos to inspect the sect and restrict outside contact.
• Tongtian established four precepts for the Interception Sect and warned that traitors would be destroyed beneath the Immortal Slaying Sword.
• Tongtian summoned the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords skyward as the Ten Thousand Immortals vowed to forge the sect's legend, drawing the attention of Yuanshi Tianzun, Taishang Laojun, Zhunti, and Jieyin.
• Tongtian called out Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal after the Western Religion talisman concealed in his sleeve quivered.