Recaps

Yuan Hong broke through Taiyi Zhenren’s protective barrier and hurled him into Xiqi’s camp, while Xiaotian Dog continued damaging the Nine Dragon Divine Fire Cover. Xiqi’s troops lost their morale as Yun Zhongzi’s Demon-Suppressing Thunder Talisman suddenly erupted in purple lightning.

• Yuan Hong used his Prison-Suppressing Demon Wings and As-You-Will Iron Rod to shatter Taiyi Zhenren’s Yuqing Protective Immortal Barrier and knock him into the ground.
• Taiyi Zhenren crashed through Xiqi’s Commander's Tent, shocking Jiang Ziya, Huang Tianhua, Lei Zhenzi, Jin Zha, Mu Zha, and Yun Zhongzi.
• Yuan Hong taunted Taiyi Zhenren as a hundred thousand Demon Soldiers raised their weapons and proclaimed the Meishan Demon King invincible.
• Xiqi’s three hundred thousand troops faltered and began retreating as their morale collapsed.
• Taiyi Zhenren tried to activate the Nine Dragon Divine Fire Cover, but Xiaotian Dog announced that he had bitten it.
• Yun Zhongzi’s Demon-Suppressing Thunder Talisman erupted, sending purple lightning across Xiqi Camp.

Taiyi Zhenren fought Yuan Hong with his Yin-Yang Swords, but Xiaotian Dog seized an opening and tore off Taiyi’s right arm, shattering the sword formation. As the Ruined Temple forces pressed Xiqi back, Yun Zhongzi unleashed the Demon-Suppressing Thunder Prison against Nezha, Yuan Hong, and Xiaotian Dog.

• Taiyi Zhenren summoned his Yin-Yang Swords and locked Yuan Hong in a fierce clash above the battlefield.
• Xiaotian Dog slipped past the fighting and attacked Taiyi while his attention was fixed on Yuan Hong.
• Yuan Hong held Taiyi’s swords in place as Xiaotian Dog tore off Taiyi’s right arm, breaking the sword formation.
• Xiaotian Dog mocked Taiyi, while Yuan Hong and the Meishan Demon Soldiers rallied the Ruined Temple forces and drove Xiqi’s army back.
• Yun Zhongzi activated the Demon-Suppressing Thunder Prison, targeting Nezha, Yuan Hong, and Xiaotian Dog.

Taiyi Zhenren fled to Kunlun after Yuan Hong, Nezha, and Xiaotian Dog defeated him, and the Xiqi army routed from Three Mountains Pass. The Ruined Temple forces returned victorious while Jiang Ziya and Yun Zhongzi gathered the scattered survivors.

• Taiyi Zhenren used Blood Escape Great Art and a Yuqing Escape Talisman to flee toward Kunlun, but Yang Jian ordered Yuan Hong to stop pursuing him.
• With Taiyi Zhenren gone, the Xiqi vanguard broke into a rout, and Yun Zhongzi used the Apricot Yellow Banner to protect Jiang Ziya and the retreating center army.
• Yuan Hong ordered the demon soldiers not to slaughter mortal troops, while Nezha warned Jiang Ziya not to cross the line again.
• Xiaotian Dog took the Yin-Yang Swords as spoils, and Yuan Hong led Nezha and the Ruined Temple forces back to Three Mountains Pass.
• Deng Jiugong and the Shang soldiers welcomed the returning victors, while Xiqi retreated three hundred li and later regrouped with fewer than one hundred thousand troops.

After Great Shang’s victory at Three Mountains Pass, Chaoge celebrated as the Nine-Clawed Golden Dragon grew stronger, while Gu Changqing gained powerful rewards from the battle. Gu Changqing sent the Stars of the Zhoutian Remnant Formation to Yuan Hong and the Meishan demon soldiers, preparing them for greater battles.

• Yin Jiao rewarded Deng Jiugong and the defenders of Three Mountains Pass, and Humanity’s Dao Wishfire surged as Chaoge celebrated the victory.
• At the victory banquet, Xiaotian Dog kept Taiyi Zhenren’s severed arm and jokingly declared it would cultivate into an “Arm Spirit.”
• Gu Changqing received ten billion years of cultivation, new Dao insights, Demon Dao law fragments, and the Stars of the Zhoutian Formation remnant after the ruined temple’s forces defeated Taiyi Zhenren.
• Gu Changqing used the rewards to strengthen his cultivation, bringing the fiftieth godfiend acupore closer to awakening.
• Gu Changqing sent the Stars of the Zhoutian Remnant Formation to Yuan Hong and the Meishan demon soldiers as a reward for their victory.

Gu Changqing bestowed the incomplete Stars of the Zhoutian Formation chart and demon-army refining methods on Yuan Hong and the Six Monsters of Mount Mei, setting them on the path to forge the Meishan Demon Soldiers into a formidable army. The victory at Three Mountains Pass shook the realm and strengthened Great Shang’s fortune, while Taiyi Zhenren returned to Kunlun maimed and Yuanshi Tianzun suppressed the lingering demon mark on his wound.

• Gu Changqing sent a stellar formation chart and seven inheritance streams to Yuan Hong and the Six Monsters of Mount Mei, whose demon souls struggled to absorb them until his Dao resonance protected them.
• Xiaotian Dog claimed Taiyi Zhenren’s severed arm after Gu Changqing told it to refine the Yuqing origin and fire Dao within it.
• The Six Monsters recovered and discovered artifact-refining methods suited to their origins, while Yuan Hong received command of the formation and knelt with them to thank Gu Changqing.
• The hundred thousand Meishan Demon Soldiers felt their bloodlines stir as a new demon-path military force began to take shape at Three Mountains Pass.
• News of the victory and Taiyi Zhenren’s defeat spread across the realm, causing wavering lords to turn back toward Chaoge and strengthening Great Shang’s fortune.
• Taiyi Zhenren returned to Kunlun missing an arm, and Yuanshi Tianzun suppressed the Black Sun Demon Mark on his wound without fully erasing it.

After the Chan Sect’s defeat at Three Mountains Pass, the Jade Emperor allied with the Western Religion to destroy Guanjiangkou’s Ruined Temple and seize its disciples and Fortune. Maitreya set out with the acquired Human Seed Bag as the Heavenly Punishment Army prepared to attack.

• The Jade Emperor rejected Taibai Jinxing’s advice to wait and secretly ordered the Heavenly Punishment Army to mobilize.
• The Jade Emperor visited Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti on Mount Sumeru and proposed that the Western Religion help destroy the Ruined Temple.
• Daoist Jieyin agreed, and the Jade Emperor planned to lead a surprise attack using a projection created by the Haotian Mirror.
• Daoist Zhunti gave Maitreya the acquired Human Seed Bag and ordered him to join the Jade Emperor, recruit the Ruined Temple’s disciples, and capture those who refused.
• The Heavenly Punishment Army emerged from a concealed gate beneath the Lingxiao Treasure Hall and marched out.

The Jade Emperor sent a secret force to destroy the Ruined Temple at Guanjiangkou, deploying the Heavenly Court’s elite army alongside Daoist Maitreya and the Western Teachings’ Human Seed Bag. The strike force reached Southern Jambudvipa undetected, and the Jade Emperor believed the temple’s destruction would restore his control over the Investiture of the Gods.

• The Jade Emperor summoned the Haotian Mirror Emperor Shadow and ordered it to lead the Heavenly Punishment Army on a surprise attack against the Ruined Temple.
• The Haotian Mirror Emperor Shadow explained that the army would conceal its aura, surround the temple with the Heavenly Punishment Grand Array, and prevent anyone from sending a warning.
• Daoist Maitreya joined the expedition with the Human Seed Bag, intending for the Western Teachings to claim the temple’s people, treasures, arts, and Incense Anchors after the attack.
• The Haotian Mirror Emperor Shadow departed with Daoist Maitreya and the hundred thousand soldiers, using the Haotian Mirror and the Tribulation’s chaos to slip into Southern Jambudvipa unnoticed.
• The Jade Emperor tracked the force’s journey through the Haotian Mirror and returned to his throne, confident that the Ruined Temple would be destroyed and his authority restored.

The Haotian Mirror Emperor Shadow and Daoist Maitreya led the Heavenly Punishment Army to ambush Guanjiangkou and seize the ruined temple’s people and methods. The temple’s unattended Dao-Protecting Killing Array trapped them, suppressed their powers, and damaged the Haotian Mirror, leaving the attackers with no clear path of retreat.

• The Haotian Mirror Emperor Shadow and Daoist Maitreya advanced on Guanjiangkou with one hundred thousand Heavenly Punishment Army soldiers, intending to break into the ruined temple and capture its people and heritage.
• The Haotian Mirror Emperor Shadow used the Haotian Mirror to pierce the temple’s concealed barrier and brought the Generals' Platform down above the barren mountain.
• Daoist Maitreya sensed that the temple’s Daoist Sanctuary weakened his connection to the Great Dao, but he and the Haotian Mirror Emperor Shadow pressed ahead with their surprise attack.
• The temple’s Residual Incense ignited and spread purple-gray Dao patterns across the area, activating an unattended Dao-Protecting Killing Array that sealed the heavens, earth, void, and karma.
• The array suppressed the Heavenly Punishment Army’s penal thunder, shattered their thunder spears, and caused the incense ash to erode the space inside Daoist Maitreya’s Human Seed Bag.
• The array pressed down on the Haotian Mirror, cracked its surface, and left the Haotian Mirror Emperor Shadow unable to find a path of retreat.

The ruined temple's Primordial Divine Realm trapped the Haotian Mirror's imperial phantom, Daoist Maitreya, and the Heavenly Punishment Army. A wisp of Chaos Sword Qi erased the hundred thousand soldiers and left the two invaders facing it.

• The Haotian Mirror's imperial phantom failed to break the Divine Realm, and Daoist Maitreya realized the ruined temple had trapped them in its Daoist sanctuary.
• A wisp of Chaos Sword Qi rose from beneath the temple roof and sealed the imperial phantom's connection to Haotian's true self while Daoist Maitreya's Human Seed Bag was overwhelmed by incense runes.
• The Haotian Mirror's imperial phantom ordered the hundred thousand Heavenly Punishment soldiers to combine their formation into a Thunder Prison.
• The Chaos Sword Qi severed the formation, the Generals' Platform's restrictions, and the soldiers' punishment essence, erasing all hundred thousand Heavenly Punishment soldiers.
• The Haotian Mirror's imperial phantom and Daoist Maitreya remained frozen before the Chaos Sword Qi.

At Guanjiangkou, the ruined temple’s Chaos Sword Qi annihilated the Heavenly Punishment Army and the Haotian Mirror’s Emperor Shadow, then took the Haotian Mirror. Daoist Maitreya survived with a mark inside his Houtian Human Seed Bag and a shattered Dao heart, left to report the temple’s power to the Heavenly Court and Western Religion.

• The Chaos Sword Qi erased the hundred thousand Heavenly Punishment Army soldiers and split the Haotian Mirror’s Emperor Shadow with a crack across his chest.
• The Emperor Shadow failed to send word to the Heavenly Court, and the Chaos Sword Qi stopped his attempt to detonate himself before destroying him.
• The Chaos Sword Qi dragged the damaged Haotian Mirror into the ruined temple as the Generals' Platform crumbled to ash.
• Daoist Maitreya discovered that incense ash had marked and begun eroding the Houtian Human Seed Bag’s Western restrictions.
• Daoist Maitreya realized he had been spared to carry news of the temple’s power back to the Heavenly Court and Western Religion, then spat out golden Dao blood as his Dao heart was cleaved.

Daoist Maitreya was crushed by the Ruined Temple master's power after the Heavenly Punishment Army and Haotian Mirror Emperor Shadow were destroyed at Guanjiangkou. The master crippled the Houtian Human Seed Bag and wounded Daoist Maitreya while leaving him alive to carry a warning back to Mount Sumeru.

• Daoist Maitreya saw that the Haotian Mirror Emperor Shadow and the hundred thousand Heavenly Punishment Dao Soldiers had been destroyed, and resolved to flee to Mount Sumeru.
• The Ruined Temple master's presence forced Daoist Maitreya to his knees and exposed his schemes to seize the temple's legacy and incense root.
• Daoist Maitreya begged for his life and offered the Houtian Human Seed Bag, but the master questioned his plan to use it against the temple.
• The master's purple-gray light pierced and crippled the Houtian Human Seed Bag, then pierced Daoist Maitreya's hand, arm, shoulder, and chest.
• Daoist Maitreya realized the master had deliberately spared him and branded a purple-gray mark into the bag.

Gu Changqing punished Daoist Maitreya for invading Guanjiangkou, stripping away half his essence while sparing his life. Maitreya fled west with a warning for the Jade Emperor and Zhunti.

• Daoist Maitreya’s cultivation regressed as a purple-gray mark drained his essence and sealed his Dao fruit.
• Gu Changqing watched from the Ruined Temple and revealed that the invaders’ presence had triggered the Primordial Divine Realm’s defenses.
• Gu Changqing stopped the punishment after severing half of Maitreya’s essence, leaving him at mid Daluo Golden Immortal.
• Gu Changqing ordered Maitreya to return and warn the Jade Emperor and Zhunti that the attack was only a warning.
• The Primordial Divine Realm blasted Maitreya out of Guanjiangkou, and he fled west without looking back.

Maitreya was hurled back to Mount Sumeru by a purple-gray will, where his impact destroyed the Western Ancestral Court’s main hall and damaged the Twelve-Grade Golden Lotus of Merit’s defenses. The will left a warning in the ruins as Jieyin and Zhunti faced the aftermath and Maitreya regained consciousness.

• After the Haotian Mirror Emperor Shadow collapsed, Zhunti sensed the Human Seed Bag’s origin imprint had been damaged and realized Maitreya was in trouble.
• Maitreya crashed into Mount Sumeru, and Jieyin and Zhunti tried to stop the purple-gray lock mark with the Twelve-Grade Golden Lotus of Merit and the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree.
• The purple-gray will pierced the mountain’s defenses and sent Maitreya into the Ancestral Court’s main hall, destroying it and injuring both Jieyin and Zhunti.
• Jieyin stopped Zhunti from removing the lock mark, and the lingering will formed the words “Warning” from Incense Ash.
• Maitreya struggled awake in the ruins and saw Jieyin, Zhunti, and the destruction around him.

The Ruined Temple at Guanjiangkou crushed the Jade Emperor’s Emperor Shadow and Heavenly Punishment Army, seized the Haotian Mirror, and left Maitreya gravely weakened after destroying the Western Ancestral Court’s hall. The Heavenly Court and Western Teachings withdrew from the conflict, while the temple became a taboo across the Three Realms and a crack appeared in Purple Heaven Palace’s Investiture of the Gods Heavenly Secrets Diagram.

• The Jade Emperor learned that the Emperor Shadow and the hundred thousand Heavenly Punishment Army soldiers had been erased and the Haotian Mirror seized, then erupted in fury and fear.
• Zhunti found Maitreya’s cultivation crippled and the Houtian Human Seed Bag nearly ruined, and his attempt to erase the temple’s lingering will wounded him.
• The will warned Zhunti and the Jade Emperor that the attack was only a warning, and Zhunti accepted Jieyin’s counsel not to confront the temple directly.
• Zhunti ordered Mount Sumeru sealed and barred Western Teachings disciples and agents from approaching Guanjiangkou, while the Jade Emperor sealed Lingxiao’s inner hall and forbade mention of Guanjiangkou.
• The Three Realms recognized the Ruined Temple as a Sage-level taboo, and a crack appeared in the Investiture of the Gods Heavenly Secrets Diagram inside Purple Heaven Palace.

After the Ruined Temple repelled the Heavenly Court and Western Religion, Yuanshi Tianzun and Tongtian shifted their strategies for the Investiture of the Gods. Gu Changqing received a mythic return that brought him closer to breaking through, as the conflict spread across the battlefield.

• Yuanshi Tianzun ordered the Chan Sect to stop directly testing the Ruined Temple and intensify Xiqi’s campaign to draw Yin Shang and its allies into the tribulation.
• Tongtian ordered Interception Sect disciples to follow strict rules, report threats, and avoid entering the slaughter tribulation alone.
• Tongtian declared that the Interception Sect would use the tribulation to forge its Mythic Path and resist being sacrificed to the Investiture of the Gods List.
• Gu Changqing absorbed the Haotian Mirror’s origins and received fifty billion years of cultivation, an incomplete Haotian Mirror, Dao insights, and a Suppression concept fragment.
• Gu Changqing saw the competing plans converge on the Investiture of the Gods battlefield and anticipated that the growing chaos would help him recruit disciples and advance his cultivation.

Imprisoned in Chaoge’s dungeon, Daji realized Nuwa had abandoned her and sacrificed three fox tails and her heart’s blood to summon the unknown power she had sensed through Yin Jiao. As her consciousness began to fade, her plea reached the Incense Burner in Guanjiangkou, and Gu Changqing opened his eyes.

• Daji concluded that Nuwa had left her to die in the dungeon and refused to accept her fate.
• Daji remembered the purple-gray dao resonance connected to Yin Jiao and traced its incense aura to Guanjiangkou.
• Daji used a Nine-Tailed Fox sacrifice, burning three of her tails with her heart’s blood to send a plea for survival toward Guanjiangkou.
• The sacrifice smoke passed through Chaoge’s restrictions and reached the incense anchor in the Ruined Temple.
• Humanity’s Dao Runes dimmed as the Incense Burner released scarlet fox smoke, and Gu Changqing opened his eyes.

Daji begged for survival in Chaoge’s dungeon, and Gu Changqing answered by giving her the Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Jar art under three binding prohibitions. Daji began forging herself into the jar and discovered she could devour the runes suppressing her.

• Daji offered her Demon Core, Fox Soul, and remaining life in exchange for a chance to survive as the Fox Tail Incense burned out.
• Gu Changqing accepted Daji’s incense and taught her the Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Jar art, binding her to three prohibitions against harming innocent humans, betraying the incense karma, or defying the Temple Master.
• Daji accepted the art and its forbidden seals, while Humanity’s Dao judgment continued to press down on her.
• Daji used her bones, blood, and Fox Soul to begin forging the demonic jar within her body.
• The forming jar consumed a demon-suppressing rune from the Black Iron Chains, and Daji realized she could devour them.

Daji forged the Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Jar by consuming the power that tormented her, then used its shadow body to devour Western Teachings agents in the Star-Picking Tower. She left a sealed pledge for Yin Hong and the Temple Master as her true body’s chains began to crack further.

• Daji reforged her bones into the Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Jar and discovered a trace of Western Religion’s golden light in the dungeon.
• Blood Bat Daoist and other Western Teachings agents plotted to exploit Di Xin’s lingering aura and Chaoge’s Humanity’s Dao.
• Daji’s Fox Smoke Shadow Body appeared in the Star-Picking Tower and isolated the mortals from the battle.
• Daji devoured the Snake Monster, the Scorpion Monster, and Blood Bat Daoist, absorbing their power and the Western Religion’s talisman.
• Daji sealed the remaining golden light and demon blood as a pledge for Yin Hong and the Temple Master, while her true body’s chains cracked further.

Daji used the Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Jar to devour Nuwa’s Golden Edict and survive, breaking most of her old karmic bond with Wa Huang Palace. She pledged allegiance to Yin Hong, while Nuwa turned her attention toward Guanjiangkou.

• Nuwa sent a Golden Edict to erase Daji after seeing her cultivate a strange demonic art in Chaoge.
• Daji summoned the Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Jar and fought the edict, using the demonic essences she had devoured to strengthen it.
• Daji’s three seals from Gu Changqing stabilized the jar, and the Ruined Temple’s Incense Dao Resonance helped it devour Nuwa’s divine thought within the edict.
• The edict shattered, and Daji survived with a cracked Demonic Jar Embryo bearing a faint golden mark.
• Yin Hong arrived and Daji offered him the remnant soul auras of the Western Religion undercover agents as a pledge of allegiance.
• Nuwa recognized the Ruined Temple’s involvement and rose in Wa Huang Palace, calling out Guanjiangkou.

Daji pledged herself to Yin Jiao and hunted sect agents in Chaoge, helping Great Shang restore its fortune. When Nuwa prepared to descend and kill her, a death-tribulation warning from Guanjiangkou made Nuwa retreat, leaving the Ruined Temple established as a threat to the Sages.

• Yin Jiao offered Daji a conditional path to live if she purged Chaoge of infiltrators and spared innocent people, and Daji accepted his command.
• Over seven nights, Daji devoured demons, sect agents, hidden altars, and Fortune-Disrupting Nails while Yin Jiao, Bi Gan, Shang Rong, and Yin Hong led a wider purge.
• Chaoge's fortune rose, alarming Jiang Ziya and Yuanshi Tianzun, while Nuwa realized Daji was helping Yin Shang instead of bringing it to ruin.
• Nuwa set out to descend on Chaoge, but a Death Tribulation Imprint from Guanjiangkou showed her being crushed by a purple-gray hand if she left Wa Huang Palace.
• Nuwa withdrew into Wa Huang Palace, and Yin Jiao recognized that Great Shang had gained ground as the Ruined Temple became a threat hanging over the Sages.

Gu Changqing gained Creation and Destruction law fragments and upgraded his teaching authority to Primordial-tier after Nuwa retreated and Daji altered her fate. He sent Yin Jiao the Human Emperor World-Suppressing Codex, beginning the emperor’s transformation into a bearer of Humanity’s Dao.

• Nuwa retreated to Wa Huang Palace, and the Primordial Divine Realm severed the Sage karma over Chaoge.
• Gu Changqing received a hundred billion years of cultivation, incomplete Creation and Destruction law fragments, and an upgrade to his system authority.
• Gu Changqing suppressed the new cultivation in his forty-nine Godfiend Acupores and watched the fiftieth acupore’s barrier crack without forcing it open.
• The system upgraded Gu Changqing’s teaching authority, allowing him to impart Primordial-tier techniques.
• Gu Changqing selected the Human Emperor World-Suppressing Codex for Yin Jiao and sent it through the Incense River.
• The Cheng Tang Ancestral Tablets trembled, the Nine-Clawed Fortune Golden Dragon opened its eyes, and Yin Jiao received Gu Changqing’s call as Chaoge’s Humanity’s Dao Wishfire surged skyward.

At Jade Void Palace, Randeng proposed using the Twenty-Four-Faced Blood-Transforming Fiend Banner to slaughter Great Shang’s mortal soldiers and provoke the Interception Sect into joining the war. Yuanshi Tianzun approved the scheme, and Randeng left to set it in motion.

• Yuanshi Tianzun granted permission to act against Guanjiangkou indirectly, sealing the Heavenly Secrets in Jade Void Palace.
• Yu Ding Zhenren warned that Great Shang’s rising fortune and intact military spirit threatened Xiqi’s campaign.
• Randeng presented the Twenty-Four-Faced Blood-Transforming Fiend Banner and explained how its formation would kill mortal soldiers and corrupt Great Shang’s wishfire.
• Randeng revealed that he intended to use the massacre to draw Zhao Gongming and the Interception Sect into the Tribulation.
• Yuanshi Tianzun approved Randeng’s plan, and Randeng departed with the banner.

Zhao Gongming saw Randeng’s Blood-Transforming Great Array slaughtering the Great Shang army and destroying the soldiers’ souls, so he defied Tongtian’s decree and rode out to save them. Randeng awaited him at the array, while a purple speck of incense ash lit inside the Ruined Temple of Guanjiangkou.

• Zhao Gongming and Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao watched the array consume the Shang soldiers and heard that Wen Zhong’s frontier army was at risk.
• Bixiao urged Zhao Gongming to act, and he chose to disobey Tongtian’s decree rather than let the soldiers be destroyed.
• Zhao Gongming told Yunxiao to keep Qiongxiao and Bixiao behind and report his choice to Tongtian if he did not return.
• Zhao Gongming rode the Black Tiger out from Luofu Cave with his Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls, splitting the cyan Sword Talisman’s restraint as he departed.
• Daoist Randeng sensed Zhao Gongming approaching the Xiqi frontier and welcomed his arrival, while a speck of purple Incense Ash lit in the Ruined Temple of Guanjiangkou.

Zhao Gongming arrived at the Shang army’s trapped remnants and confronted Randeng and the Chan Sect Golden Immortals, who had laid a trap to kill him. He drove back their attacks with the Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls, but the formation’s resentful souls turned toward him as he vowed to make Randeng answer for the army’s blood debt.

• Jiang Ziya and the Chan Sect watched as the Blood-Transforming Soul-Destroying Grand Formation consumed the Shang soldiers’ souls and weakened their military spirit.
• Zhao Gongming arrived on a black tiger and used the Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls to shield the surviving troops from the formation’s black fog.
• Randeng revealed that he and the Jade Void Golden Immortals had been waiting to ambush Zhao Gongming and declared that he would send him onto the Investiture of the Gods List.
• Guangchengzi, Chijingzi, Taiyi Zhenren, and the other Golden Immortals attacked together, but Zhao Gongming’s Five-Colored Radiance repelled their treasures and scattered their formation.
• Zhao Gongming struck True Person Huang Long and Taiyi Zhenren with Sea-Calming Divine Pearls, then drove the remaining Golden Immortals back and reignited the trapped army’s military spirit.
• Zhao Gongming pressed the formation’s black fog back and demanded that Randeng repay the Shang army’s blood debt, as the fierce banners turned toward him and their resentful souls opened their eyes.

Zhao Gongming was ambushed by Randeng and the Wuyi Mountain immortals, who stole his Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls and gravely wounded him. After his black tiger Ahu died protecting him, Zhao Gongming escaped by blood evasion while a gaze from the Ruined Temple stopped Randeng from pursuing him.

• Randeng used Xiao Sheng and Cao Bao's Treasure-Dropping Golden Coin to sever Zhao Gongming's bond with the Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls, then took the pearls for himself.
• Xiao Sheng used the Treasure-Gathering Basin to bring down Zhao Gongming and his black tiger, and Cao Bao struck Zhao Gongming with his gold ingot.
• Randeng demanded the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls' control formula, but Zhao Gongming refused and condemned Randeng for refining soldiers' souls.
• Ahu broke through the Spirit Coffin Lamp's flames to protect Zhao Gongming, and Randeng struck the black tiger dead.
• Zhao Gongming burned his remaining essence and escaped the Blood-Transforming Grand Array by blood evasion, while the Ruined Temple's gaze made Randeng stop pursuing him.