Recaps

Gu Changqing stopped Yuanshi Tianzun’s advance with a sword strike that severed karma and nearly threatened his Sage Dao Fruit. Yuanshi remained frozen above Guanjiangkou as Gu Changqing returned to the ruined temple, while Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao hurried toward the scene.

• Gu Changqing’s sword cleaved apart the Pangu Banner’s axe phantom and left a karmic crack in the banner.
• The sword cut through Yuanshi Tianzun’s karmic bonds, damaged the Nine Dragon Agarwood Carriage, and severed a lock of his hair without striking his Sage Dao Fruit.
• Gu Changqing warned Yuanshi Tianzun that he would die if he took another half step, and Yuanshi stopped advancing.
• Gu Changqing returned to the ruined temple with Xiaotian Dog, and the temple doors closed behind them.
• Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao rushed toward Guanjiangkou as Yuanshi Tianzun remained suspended above the ground.

Gu Changqing’s sword strike left Yuanshi Tianzun unable to cross the final three feet to Guanjiangkou’s Ruined Temple, and Yuanshi ultimately retreated. His departure left the Twelve Golden Immortals abandoned at Jiepai Pass, while Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao realized the Dao Venerable had forced a Sage to withdraw.

• Yuanshi Tianzun stopped three feet from the Ruined Temple, unable to see its fate or overcome the warning that another step would bring his death.
• Tongtian, Jieyin, Zhunti, and Nuwa witnessed the standoff and recognized the danger of challenging Guanjiangkou.
• Yuanshi turned the Nine Dragon Agarwood Carriage around and left without advancing or making a threat.
• At Jiepai Pass, the Twelve Golden Immortals remained trapped in the Yellow River Turbid Locks as Yuanshi’s protection faded.
• Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao sensed Yuanshi’s retreat and understood that Gu Changqing had forced a Sage to withdraw.
• Beings across the Primordial World turned their attention to Guanjiangkou, which became known as forbidden ground where even a Sage had to halt.

After Yuanshi Tianzun retreated from Guanjiangkou, Xiqi lost faith in its Heavenly Mandate and Great Shang launched a counterattack at Jiepai Pass. Jiang Ziya ordered a retreat toward Golden Rooster Ridge as Yin Jiao’s army overran Xiqi’s camp.

• Yuanshi Tianzun found a fissure in his Karma Thread and damage to the Pangu Banner, then sent edicts ordering Randeng to guard Xiqi and Jiang Ziya to hold the camp and seek another route.
• Jiang Ziya and the Xiqi soldiers saw Yuanshi Tianzun retreat while the Twelve Golden Immortals remained kneeling at the camp gate, leaving Xiqi’s morale shattered.
• Yin Jiao led Great Shang’s army out of Jiepai Pass and attacked Xiqi’s camp, while Wen Zhong, Zhao Gongming, and the Three Xiao supported the assault.
• Yin Jiao broke through Xiqi’s defenses and drove toward Jiang Ziya as Xiqi’s soldiers panicked and fled.
• Jiang Ziya ordered the army to retreat toward Golden Rooster Ridge, and Great Shang’s soldiers trampled Xiqi’s campaign banner into the mud.

After Xiqi’s army fled to Golden Rooster Ridge, Kong Xuan blocked its path and swept away three of its generals with his Five-Colored Divine Light. Just as he was about to take Jiang Ziya’s God-Beating Whip, Zhunti intervened and invited Kong Xuan to join the Western Religion.

• Jiang Ziya led Xiqi’s shattered army toward Golden Rooster Ridge, where Kong Xuan announced that the road was closed in the name of Great Shang.
• Lei Zhenzi attacked Kong Xuan, but Kong Xuan swept him away with the azure divine light.
• Huang Tianhua and Wei Hu attacked in turn, and Kong Xuan swept away both men and their treasures.
• Jiang Ziya recognized Kong Xuan as the first peacock between heaven and earth, but Kong Xuan’s yellow divine light nearly took the God-Beating Whip.
• Zhunti used his Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree to rescue Jiang Ziya and his whip, then invited Kong Xuan to join the Western Religion.

Kong Xuan resisted Zhunti’s attempt to recruit and subdue him, but Zhunti’s Three Thousand Great Dreams briefly disrupted his Dao Heart and wounded him. Zhunti withdrew after failing to capture Kong Xuan, leaving Jiang Ziya’s army to face the still-defended Golden Rooster Ridge.

• Kong Xuan rejected Zhunti’s offer to join the Western Religion and dismissed the Sage’s incarnation as unworthy.
• Zhunti attacked with the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree, but Kong Xuan’s Five-Colored Divine Light swept away the treasure light and forced Zhunti’s incarnation back.
• Zhunti manifested a Dharma body and fought Kong Xuan with eighteen magical treasures, which Kong Xuan’s Five Elements Dao Disc repelled.
• Zhunti used Three Thousand Great Dreams to overwhelm Kong Xuan with mortal lifetimes, briefly making his Five-Colored Divine Light falter.
• Kong Xuan escaped the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree by attacking the karma anchoring Zhunti’s incarnation, but he was wounded and Zhunti withdrew.
• Zhunti told Jiang Ziya that Kong Xuan would not leave the pass for a while, while Jiang Ziya remained uncertain how Xiqi could pass Golden Rooster Ridge.

After Zhunti's dream art weakened Kong Xuan and threatened Great Shang's defenses, Yin Jiao took him to Guanjiangkou to seek help from the Dao Venerable. In the Ruined Temple, Kong Xuan saw Zhunti's Dream Thread suppressed alongside a strand of Yuqing Saint's hair and a fragment of an Ancient Mirror.

• Kong Xuan admitted that Zhunti's Great Dream Heart Sutra had weakened his Five-Colored Divine Light and left him unable to leave Golden Rooster Ridge safely.
• Hu Li urged Kong Xuan to seek the Dao Venerable of Guanjiangkou, citing the figure's past aid to Yin Jiao, Zhao Gongming, and the Three Maidens of Sanxiao.
• Yin Jiao arrived with news that Xiqi's forces were moving against Great Shang's eastern and northern fronts and offered to take Kong Xuan to Guanjiangkou.
• Kong Xuan left Hu Li in command and sealed Golden Rooster Ridge behind a Five-Colored Divine Light Formation before traveling with Yin Jiao by night.
• At Barren Mountain, Kong Xuan's Five-Colored Divine Light could not affect the black dog guarding the Ruined Temple, so he followed Yin Jiao inside.
• Kong Xuan saw Yuqing Saint's hair and a cracked Ancient Mirror beside Zhunti's Dream Thread, which the Purple-Gray Incense held suppressed.

At the Ruined Temple, Gu Changqing refused to remove Zhunti’s Dream Thread from Kong Xuan, insisting he overcome his own Dao Heart flaw, but declared Golden Rooster Ridge under his protection. He sent Yang Jian with a Purple-Gray Dao Seal to confront Zhunti on his behalf and forbid the Western Religion from taking Kong Xuan.

• Yin Jiao brought the wounded Kong Xuan to the Ruined Temple, where Kong Xuan sensed its suppressed relics and saw that Zhunti’s Dream Art was restrained.
• Gu Changqing identified Kong Xuan’s hidden lineage and foretold that he would become the Great Bright King Peacock, but refused to remove the Dream Thread for him.
• Gu Changqing declared Kong Xuan under his protection and condensed Zhunti’s Dream Thread into a Purple-Gray Dao Seal.
• Gu Changqing sent Yang Jian to Golden Rooster Ridge to tell Zhunti that Kong Xuan would remain there and the Western Religion could not take him.
• Yang Jian accepted the mission and departed with Xiaotian Dog, while Gu Changqing assured Yin Jiao that Yang Jian alone was enough.

Yang Jian arrived at Xiqi Camp on his master's decree and challenged Saint Zhunti to leave Kong Xuan at Golden Rooster Ridge. When Zhunti attacked with the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree, Yang Jian opened the Hell Furnace and swallowed its seven-colored treasure light.

• Yang Jian arrived at Xiqi Camp, carrying a purple-gray Dao pattern and waiting for Zhunti.
• Yang Jian told Zhunti that Kong Xuan must remain at Golden Rooster Ridge and warned the Western Religion not to take him.
• Zhunti refused to withdraw and swept the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree's treasure light toward Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian opened the Hell Furnace and dragged the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree's light inside.
• The furnace extinguished the treasure light, leaving the Xiqi Camp stunned and Zhunti's smile frozen.

Yang Jian used the Hell Furnace and God-Demon Sealing to defeat Zhunti’s avatar at Golden Rooster Ridge. Zhunti withdrew, while Yang Jian reaffirmed Guanjiangkou’s edict that Kong Xuan would remain and the Western Religion could not take him.

• Zhunti poured his avatar’s sage Dao resonance into the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree, but Yang Jian’s Hell Furnace swallowed the resulting river of treasure light.
• Zhunti summoned his twenty-four-headed, eighteen-armed Golden Dharma Body and ordered Yang Jian to kneel.
• Yang Jian summoned a god-demon phantom with God-Demon Sealing, which pinned Zhunti’s projected might and forced his Dharma Body back.
• The sealing force cracked Zhunti’s Dharma Body and Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree phantom, and Zhunti spat golden blood as his avatar fell into a crater.
• Yang Jian told Zhunti that his master’s edict kept Kong Xuan at Golden Rooster Ridge and forbade the Western Religion from taking him.

After Yang Jian used the power of his master's edict to force Zhunti's incarnation to retreat from Golden Rooster Ridge, Kong Xuan realized his own path had reached a bottleneck. He decided to travel to Guanjiangkou, offer incense at the Ruined Temple, and seek the Dao Venerable's teachings.

• Kong Xuan watched Yang Jian suppress Zhunti's incarnation and realized that the Dao Venerable's power surpassed the limits of the Heavenly Dao.
• Yang Jian ordered Zhunti to withdraw the karma laid on Kong Xuan and leave Golden Rooster Ridge, warning that another intervention would sever the incarnation's return to Mount Sumeru.
• Zhunti withdrew after sweeping Jiang Ziya and several Xiqi commanders back to their camp, and Kong Xuan helped the exhausted Yang Jian stand.
• Yang Jian explained that his master’s arts were only borrowed power and said that cultivators could forge their own paths rather than kneel beneath the Heavenly Dao.
• Kong Xuan decided to go to Guanjiangkou to offer incense and seek the Dao, then flew toward the Ruined Temple after Yang Jian warned him to put away his Five-Colored Divine Light there.

Kong Xuan passed the Seeking the Dao Incense test and became Gu Changqing’s fourth direct disciple after letting go of his immediate desire for protection and a way to defeat Zhunti. Gu Changqing gave him Zhunti’s Dream Thread as a seed to refine, while the system prepared to authorize Kong Xuan’s exclusive art.

• Kong Xuan came alone to the Ruined Temple and asked Gu Changqing to accept him as a disciple and show him a path beyond the Heavenly Dao’s old game.
• Kong Xuan’s Seeking the Dao Incense stalled just short of six inches until he cast aside his worries about Zhunti and Golden Rooster Ridge, after which it burned all nine inches.
• Gu Changqing bestowed the Dao Venerable Seal on Kong Xuan and named him his fourth direct disciple after Yang Jian, Yin Jiao, and Yunxiao.
• Gu Changqing gave Kong Xuan Zhunti’s Dream Thread as a seed and told him to refine it before returning in three days to receive his first direct-disciple art.
• Kong Xuan departed for Golden Rooster Ridge, and the system triggered authorization for his exclusive art, Five-Colored Divine Light · Reverse Refinement of the Heavens.

After receiving complete mastery of the Five Elements Law, Gu Changqing taught Kong Xuan that his Five-Colored Divine Light was limited to cycling through the Five Elements and showed him how to create and return them to nothingness. Kong Xuan’s divine ability was transformed, leaving him able to create a world or erase the Dream Seed.

• Gu Changqing received complete mastery of the Five Elements Law after Kong Xuan’s incense offering established incense karma.
• Kong Xuan struggled to refine Zhunti’s Dream Seed, and Gu Changqing summoned him to the Ruined Temple when three days had passed.
• Gu Changqing explained that Kong Xuan’s Five-Colored Divine Light could cycle through the Five Elements but could neither create them nor return them to Guixu.
• Gu Changqing demonstrated the Five Elements emerging from Chaos and returning to nothingness, then infused the insight into Kong Xuan’s damaged light wheel.
• Kong Xuan’s Five-Colored Divine Light transformed into Dao Sources capable of creating worlds or sweeping the Dream Seed back into primal energy.

After ten thousand years in seclusion, Tongtian emerged with the Mythic Great Luo Technique, transcending the Heavenly Dao and freeing himself from the Sage seat. He saw the plot by the Chan Sect, Western Teachings, and Heavenly Mandate to destroy the Interception Sect, then summoned all his disciples to Biyou Palace.

• The Myriad Immortals Formation shook, the Qingping Sword rang, and Golden Turtle Island’s disciples lost their connection to the Heavenly Dao.
• Tongtian emerged from Biyou Palace with an aura that forced the Heavenly Dao to retreat, and Duobao and the other disciples welcomed him back.
• Tongtian declared that he could no longer be imprisoned by Hongjun’s Dao and had attained minor mastery of the Mythic Great Luo Technique.
• Tongtian saw that Yuanshi Tianzun, Jieyin, and Zhunti were conspiring to swallow the Interception Sect’s fortune and destroy its remaining support.
• Tongtian ordered every Interception Sect disciple to assemble before Biyou Palace.

Tongtian revealed that the Heavenly Dao and the Chan Sect and Western Religion had conspired to destroy the Interception Sect, and he shattered the River of Destiny’s display of their doomed future. With his disciples pledging to follow him, Tongtian declared that the Interception Sect would reject Heaven and the Dao and honor only his teachings.

• Tongtian showed the assembled immortals how Chan Sect and Western Religion had joined forces, with Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao approving a plan to destroy the Interception Sect.
• Tongtian revealed the Interception Sect’s destined destruction and the deaths and betrayals awaiting its disciples.
• Tongtian shattered the River of Destiny’s display, breaking its Karma Threads and causing the Interception Sect’s fortune to surge.
• Tongtian challenged his disciples to trust him, and Zhao Gongming, Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, Bixiao, the four personal disciples, and all ten thousand immortals pledged to follow him.
• Tongtian announced new rules: the Interception Sect would neither revere Heaven nor pay homage to the Dao, honoring only his teachings.

Sect Master Tongtian rallied the Interception Sect to rebel against the unjust Heavenly Dao and abolished its rules except the ban on killing fellow disciples. He then ordered Duobao to bring the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords and Myriad Immortals Formation Diagram so they could go to Jiepai Pass.

• Sect Master Tongtian cited the deaths and persecution of Shi Ji, Zhao Gongming, and the Three Xiao as proof that Heaven and the Dao had failed the Interception Sect.
• Sect Master Tongtian called on his disciples to rebel, and the Ten Thousand Immortals joined their voices and gathered their fortune into a colossal sword aimed at Purple Heaven Palace.
• Sect Master Tongtian abolished the sect's restrictive rules, forbade disciples from killing one another, and promised to bear responsibility for their actions against outsiders.
• Sect Master Tongtian ordered Duobao to fetch the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords and the Myriad Immortals Formation Diagram and accompany him to Jiepai Pass.

Daoist Duobao obeyed Sect Master Tongtian’s command and carried the four immortal swords from Biyou Palace. The Immortal Slaying Sword Formation sealed Jiepai Pass, leaving the Primordial Three Realms poised for a great battle.

• Sect Master Tongtian ordered Daoist Duobao to bring out the four immortal swords and the formation diagram.
• Daoist Duobao retrieved the swords and diagram from the ancient stone platform in Biyou Palace.
• Sect Master Tongtian sent the four swords flying toward Jiepai Pass as ten thousand immortals watched.
• The four swords formed gates around Jiepai Pass, and the Immortal Slaying Formation Diagram enclosed the pass and its surroundings in Chaos Sword Qi.
• The Immortal Slaying Sword Formation was established, and the Heavenly Powers turned their attention to Tongtian’s challenge.

As Tongtian’s Immortal Slaying Sword Formation rose over Jiepai Pass, the Sages reacted to the coming conflict. Taishang Laojun, Yuanshi Tianzun, Daoist Jieyin, and Daoist Zhunti set out for Jiepai Pass, while Nuwa chose not to intervene.

• Taishang Laojun sensed Tongtian’s formation and left Eight Views Palace to settle the conflict and prevent the Mystic Gate from splitting.
• Yuanshi Tianzun decided Tongtian’s formation gave him grounds to destroy the Interception Sect and rode toward Jiepai Pass.
• Daoist Zhunti persuaded Daoist Jieyin to use the crisis to gain influence and recruit Interception Sect disciples for the Western Religion.
• Daoist Jieyin agreed, and the two Western Sages departed Mount Sumeru for Jiepai Pass.
• Nuwa sealed Wa Huang Palace against outside probing and chose not to become involved.
• The four Sages converged on Jiepai Pass as the Primordial World braced for a battle that could change its course.

Taishang Laojun, Yuanshi Tianzun, Jieyin, and Zhunti surrounded Tongtian’s Immortal Slaying Formation and demanded that he surrender. Tongtian appeared with a mysterious Mythic Great Luo Dao Resonance and prepared to face all four Saints alone, declaring that he would do more than defeat them.

• Taishang Laojun, Yuanshi Tianzun, Jieyin, and Zhunti arrived together and encircled the Immortal Slaying Formation with their sage might.
• Yuanshi Tianzun called for Tongtian to answer for laying down the formation, while Zhunti urged him to withdraw it and seek forgiveness.
• Tongtian appeared at the formation’s gate holding the Qingping Sword, and the Four Saints sensed that his Dao resonance had changed.
• Taishang Laojun recognized Tongtian’s power as Mythic Great Luo Dao Resonance.
• Tongtian raised the Qingping Sword and declared that he would not merely defeat the Four Saints.

Sect Master Tongtian confronted the Four Saints in the Immortal Slaying Formation and denounced Hongjun’s Heavenly Dao as a cage designed to control the Sages. He declared that he would reenact earth, water, fire, and wind to destroy the false Heavenly Dao and create a new heaven and earth, bringing the great battle to the brink.

• Sect Master Tongtian told the Four Saints he intended to do more than defeat them, and Yuanshi Tianzun, Daoist Zhunti, and Taishang Laojun urged him to stop and submit.
• Sect Master Tongtian challenged Taishang Laojun and defended his teaching of all beings and his protection of his disciples.
• Sect Master Tongtian accused Hongjun of using the Heavenly Dao to control the Sages and manipulate the Primordial World.
• Sect Master Tongtian raised the Qingping Sword and declared he would reenact earth, water, fire, and wind to tear apart the world and shatter the false Heavenly Dao.
• Yuanshi Tianzun roared in fury as the Four Saints recoiled, and Sect Master Tongtian proclaimed he would become the creator of a new heaven and earth.

Before the battle at Jiepai Pass, Sect Master Tongtian bowed toward Gu Changqing’s ruined temple in Southern Jambudvipa, revealing to the Four Saints that his path and power were tied to an existence beyond their understanding. Gu Changqing watched from the temple and declared the show was about to begin.

• As the Four Saints prepared to attack, Sect Master Tongtian turned his back on them and solemnly straightened his robes.
• Tongtian bowed toward the ruined temple in Southern Jambudvipa and said he would open heaven for the Interception Sect, all living beings, and the Great Dao taught by his master.
• The Four Saints followed the vast Karma Thread from Tongtian but found only a purple-gray nothingness that blocked their divine senses.
• Yuanshi Tianzun and Daoist Zhunti recognized the hidden source behind powers they had encountered before, while the Four Saints realized Tongtian had another existence behind him.
• At the temple, Gu Changqing watched Tongtian’s bow in a water mirror and said the players had arrived and the show could begin.

Taishang Laojun, Yuanshi Tianzun, Daoist Jieyin, and Daoist Zhunti gathered at Jiepai Pass to confront Tongtian and his Immortal Slaying Sword Formation. The Four Saints prepared to break the formation, convinced that Tongtian had already lost.

• Taishang Laojun arrived at Jiepai Pass on a green ox, followed by Yuanshi Tianzun in the Nine Dragon Agarwood Carriage.
• Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti arrived from the west, bringing the number of Saints outside the formation to four.
• Yuanshi accused Tongtian of defying Heaven, while Zhunti urged him to surrender and warned that his disciples would perish if the formation fell.
• Taishang told Tongtian that four Saints could break the formation and declared that Heaven's decree and fixed fate had already defeated him.
• The Four Saints joined their powers and raised their treasures, preparing to crush the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.

Tongtian revealed that he had severed his Heavenly Dao Sage standing and cultivated the Mythic Great Luo Technique, which placed his power beyond the Heavenly Dao’s jurisdiction. He faced the Four Saints in the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation and declared that the Primordial World would have no more Heavenly Dao Sages, only Mythic Great Luo Tongtian.

• The Four Saints combined their powers to crush the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation and force Tongtian to submit.
• Tongtian laughed and unleashed a primordial purple-gray Dao resonance that stripped away the Four Saints’ authority within the formation.
• Yuanshi Tianzun, Taishang Laojun, Jieyin, and Zhunti recognized that Tongtian’s power operated independently of the Heavenly Dao.
• Taishang Laojun identified Tongtian’s path as the Mythic Great Luo Technique, built by severing Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao.
• Tongtian raised the Qingping Sword and declared that the Primordial World would have no more Heavenly Dao Sages, only Mythic Great Luo Tongtian.

Tongtian used a single sword stroke to sever Taishang Laojun’s Three Pure Ones avatars and their connection to his origin, gravely wounding him. The Four Saints faced Tongtian in stunned silence, unable to comprehend his Dao.

• Taishang Laojun summoned three origin-qi avatars with One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones and surrounded Tongtian.
• The avatars attacked Tongtian with the Taiji Diagram, Pangu Banner, and Qingping Sword manifestations.
• Tongtian called the Three Pure Ones false and swung his Qingping Sword, freezing the formation’s phenomena with a faint purple-gray mark.
• Tongtian’s sword mark erased the attacks and severed all three avatars, cutting off their origin connection to Taishang Laojun.
• Taishang Laojun lost a third of his origin and was wounded, while the Four Saints stared at Tongtian in shock.

Tongtian effortlessly wounded Taishang Laojun and erased Yuanshi Tianzun’s full-powered Pangu Banner strike, declaring the treasure scrap iron. Terrified, Jieyin and Zhunti fled toward the rear of the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation to escape.

• Tongtian’s sword strike severed Taishang Laojun’s connection to his Avatars and left him gravely wounded.
• Yuanshi Tianzun unleashed the Pangu Banner’s Chaos Sword Qi, but Tongtian’s three-foot domain erased it.
• Tongtian called the Pangu Banner a piece of scrap iron, enraging Yuanshi Tianzun.
• Jieyin and Zhunti exchanged a glance and fled toward the rear of the formation, intending to break through and escape.

Jieyin and Zhunti tried to flee the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, but Tongtian used the formation diagram to draw them into its core space. Trapped and wounded by the four sword phantoms, they faced a collapsing prison as Tongtian ordered them to stay.

• Jieyin and Zhunti fled toward a weak point in the formation, hoping to escape back to the Primordial World.
• Tongtian unfurled the formation diagram and swept the two Sages into its core space, where the four sword phantoms surrounded them.
• Jieyin raised the Twelve-Grade Golden Lotus of Merit while Zhunti used the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree, but crimson sword qi split the lotus barrier and wounded Jieyin.
• The four sword phantoms attacked their bodies, Primordial Spirits, Dao Hearts, and vitality, damaging both treasures and trapping the Sages.
• Yuanshi Tianzun and Taishang Laojun realized that Tongtian's formation had become a deathtrap with no way out.
• As the core space began collapsing inward, Tongtian's voice reached Jieyin and Zhunti and told them to stay in the formation.