Recaps

Tongtian overpowered the Four Saints within the Immortal Slaying Formation, leaving Yuanshi Tianzun and Taishang Laojun shaken by his mythic Great Luo power and its possible connection to a mysterious man in cyan robes. Tongtian entered the formation diagram to kill the captured Jieyin and Zhunti first, intending to make the remaining Sages watch their fall.

• Yuanshi Tianzun failed to divine Tongtian's power and struggled to understand how it could defy the Primordial World's Heavenly Dao.
• Taishang Laojun suspected Tongtian had received a forbidden inheritance from the man in cyan robes at the Ruined Temple, and his Dao Heart fell into disarray.
• Tongtian declared that Heavenly Secrets, life, and death belonged to him within the formation, and condemned the false Heavenly Dao.
• Tongtian entered the Immortal Slaying Formation Diagram to deal with Jieyin and Zhunti before Yuanshi Tianzun and Taishang Laojun.

Sect Master Tongtian confronted Jieyin and Zhunti inside the Immortal Slaying Formation Diagram and killed Zhunti with a single Qingping Sword strike. Jieyin remained trapped in the formation as Tongtian began settling the debt for the Western Teachings’ schemes against Jie Sect.

• Jieyin and Zhunti struggled to withstand the four swords as their treasures broke and sword wounds gnawed at their sage origins.
• Sect Master Tongtian entered the formation’s core and told the two Western Sages he wanted them to taste despair before their deaths.
• Zhunti invoked Hongjun, but Tongtian declared that only battle strength—not Heaven’s Will—counted and accused the Western Teachings of sending Jie Sect disciples to their tribulations.
• Tongtian struck Zhunti with the Qingping Sword as Jieyin used the Twelve-Grade Golden Lotus of Merit to protect him.
• Zhunti’s golden body, Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree, and sage origin shattered, and Daoist Zhunti fell.

Tongtian killed Zhunti, crippled Jieyin, and drove Yuanshi Tianzun into a panicked flight. He left Jieyin alive in the formation as Yuanshi was kicked hundreds of thousands of miles into chaos, his fate unknown.

• Tongtian shattered Zhunti's Golden Body and extinguished his Dao before Jieyin's eyes.
• Jieyin poured his remaining Sage power into the Twelve-Grade Golden Lotus of Merit and launched a final attack on Tongtian.
• Tongtian destroyed the lotus platform's outer three grades, then pinned Jieyin to the formation barrier with sword energy.
• Tongtian returned from the Immortal Slaying Formation Diagram and tossed Zhunti's corpse beside Yuanshi Tianzun.
• Yuanshi Tianzun fled in fear, but Tongtian caught up and kicked him hundreds of thousands of miles into chaos.

Sect Master Tongtian defeated the Four Saints in the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation and stripped Taishang Laojun of his Sage standing. He spared his eldest brother and sent him back to Shouyang Mountain as he prepared to forge a new path for the Primordial World.

• Taishang Laojun acknowledged Tongtian’s decisive victory after Zhunti was annihilated, Jieyin was crippled, and Yuanshi Tianzun fled the formation.
• Taishang Laojun admitted that the Mystic Gate might have been wrong, and Tongtian declared that he would spare him but strip him of his Sage standing.
• Tongtian severed Taishang Laojun’s connection to the Heavenly Dao, reducing his cultivation to that of a mortal.
• Tongtian sent Taishang Laojun and Jieyin out of the formation, while Zhunti’s remaining Sage body was absorbed into the Immortal Slaying Formation Diagram.
• The Immortal Slaying Sword Formation subsided, leaving Tongtian standing alone as the Four Saints’ defeat marked a turning point in the Primordial World.

Haotian and the Chan Sect and Western Teachings forces watched Tongtian defeat the Four Saints, killing Zhunti and stripping Jieyin and Taishang of their Sage status. The Heavenly Court and allied army were left terrified and demoralized as Tongtian’s victory overturned the expected course of the Investiture of the Gods Great Tribulation.

• Haotian watched the water mirror show Tongtian overpowering Taishang Laojun, Yuanshi Tianzun, Zhunti, and Jieyin, then saw the mirror shatter.
• Haotian realized Heavenly Court’s plans to exploit the Interception Sect’s destruction had collapsed and feared Tongtian would soon confront him.
• Jiang Ziya and the Chan Sect Golden Immortals initially celebrated as they watched the Four Saints confront Tongtian.
• The Chan Sect and Western Teachings forces watched Tongtian kill Zhunti, strip Jieyin and Taishang of their Sage status, and drive Yuanshi into Chaos.
• Jiang Ziya dropped the God-Beating Whip as despair spread through the allied army and its morale crumbled.

After Tongtian defeated the Four Saints, Dao Ancestor Hongjun manifested before Jiepai Pass and demanded that Tongtian acknowledge his crime. Tongtian resisted the Heavenly Dao’s pressure and challenged Hongjun to name his offense.

• Tongtian’s victory left Taishang Laojun stripped of his Sage foundation and Daoist Jieyin weakened, while Zhunti’s Sage body had dissipated.
• The Heavenly Dao’s pressure spread across the Primordial World, forcing beings from the East Sea to the Heavenly Court to bow.
• The Purple Heaven Palace appeared beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens, and Dao Ancestor Hongjun manifested as an avatar of the Heavenly Dao Origin.
• Hongjun addressed Tongtian and demanded that he acknowledge his crime, bearing the Heavenly Dao’s pressure down on him alone.
• Tongtian held the pressure back with his Great Luo Dao resonance and asked Hongjun what crime he had committed.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun condemned Sect Master Tongtian for defying Heaven's Will and tried to imprison him with a Saint-Slaying Pill. Tongtian challenged the Heavenly Dao as the pill neared his lips.

• Hongjun accused Tongtian of obstructing the Investiture of the Gods, harming fellow disciples and Sages, and seeking a path outside the Heavenly Dao.
• Tongtian challenged Hongjun's charges, pointing to the burden placed on Jie Sect and the Four Saints' assault on his disciples.
• Hongjun declared Tongtian a variable threatening Heavenly Dao order and formed a Saint-Slaying Pill from Heavenly Dao origins.
• Hongjun bound Tongtian and moved to force the pill into his mouth, intending to imprison him in the Forbidden Abyss.
• Tongtian roared at Hongjun that the Heavenly Dao could not imprison him as the pill approached his lips.

At Jiepai Pass, Tongtian exposed Hongjun’s role in driving the Three Pure Ones apart and breaking the Three Teachings, then destroyed his own Heavenly Dao Sagehood to escape its control. His cultivation fell before his mythic great Luo power surged anew, leaving him free of the Heavenly Dao’s authority and confronting Hongjun.

• Tongtian accused Hongjun of manipulating the Three Pure Ones and orchestrating the Interception Sect’s downfall.
• Hongjun sent the Saint-Slaying Pill toward Tongtian, but Tongtian declared he would return everything the Heavenly Dao had bestowed on him.
• Tongtian shattered the Sagehood Mark within his primordial spirit, destroying his Heavenly Dao Sagehood and plummeting through several cultivation realms.
• Tongtian’s mythic great Luo Dao resonance surged through his body and the Immortal Slaying Formation, halting his decline and restoring his power through his own foundation.
• Tongtian faced Hongjun with the Qingping Sword and asked whether he still intended to imprison him.

Hongjun summoned the Heavenly Dao Wheel to erase Tongtian after Tongtian severed his Heavenly Dao Sagehood. As the wheel nearly crushed Tongtian, Gu Changqing flicked a finger from a ruined temple, halting the wheel and all the laws of the Primordial World.

• Tongtian destroyed his Heavenly Dao Sagehood, leaving Hongjun's Saint-Slaying Pill unable to lock onto him.
• Hongjun invoked the Heavenly Dao Wheel and ordered it to suppress Tongtian.
• The wheel overwhelmed the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, and Tongtian prepared to strike back with the Qingping Sword despite knowing he could not win.
• Gu Changqing watched Tongtian through a water mirror in a ruined temple and flicked his finger toward the void.
• Gu Changqing's ripple removed a Dao pattern from the Heavenly Dao Wheel, stopping it above Tongtian and halting every law in the Primordial World.

A jade talisman bestowed by the being in the Ruined Temple blocked and hurled back the Heavenly Dao Wheel as it descended on Tongtian. Hongjun’s attempt to trace its power exposed him to the Ruined Temple’s hidden master, leaving him wounded and afraid to strike again.

• The jade talisman appeared above Tongtian and stopped the Heavenly Dao Wheel from crushing him.
• The talisman rebounded the wheel tens of thousands of zhang, and Tongtian recognized it as protection from his master in the Ruined Temple.
• The backlash briefly severed Hongjun’s connection to the Heavenly Dao and left a lasting scar on his Primordial Spirit.
• Hongjun traced the talisman’s power toward Southern Jambudvipa, but his divine thought was swallowed by a lawless void and a distant gaze wounded his avatar.
• Hongjun realized that the Ruined Temple’s master stood beyond his calculations and feared that his own union with the Heavenly Dao had been permitted by that hidden being.

A voice from the Jade Talisman drove Dao Ancestor Hongjun from Jiepai Pass, where Tongtian had defeated the Four Saints. The Investiture of the Gods Tribulation fell beyond the Heavenly Dao’s control, and Tongtian bowed to his mysterious master before resolving to face what came next.

• The voice within Tongtian’s Jade Talisman condemned Hongjun and warned that Tongtian would tear open the false Heavenly Dao.
• Hongjun tried to find the voice’s source, but purple-gray mist concealed the Ruined Temple and its master.
• The Jade Talisman’s power threatened to erase Hongjun’s avatar, forcing him to retreat with Taishang Laojun and Daoist Jieyin.
• The Primordial World’s observers and the Interception Sect’s disciples witnessed Hongjun’s retreat, while the tribulation’s plans collapsed into chaos.
• Tongtian received the Jade Talisman, bowed toward Southern Jambudvipa to thank his master, and faced the destruction at Jiepai Pass with renewed resolve.

Sect Master Tongtian used the Mythic Great Luo Technique to forge a Heavenly Dao-independent primordial Daluo Dao fruit and surpassed his former Sage power. Celebrating his victory, Yin Jiao ordered a million-strong Great Shang army to march on Xiqi, where the decisive war was set to begin.

• Sect Master Tongtian cultivated the Mythic Great Luo Technique at Jiepai Pass and restored his power after severing his Sage status.
• Tongtian condensed his own Great Dao into a primordial Daluo Dao fruit, entering a realm beyond the old Sages.
• News of Tongtian's victory reached Chaoge, where the people and ministers celebrated Great Shang's reprieve.
• Yin Jiao ordered Deng Jiugong and Zhang Shan, Huang Feihu, Su Hu, and the central army to advance on Xiqi from multiple routes.
• Yin Jiao led a million-strong army out of Chaoge toward Xiqi, declaring that Great Shang would not return until the city fell.

Yin Jiao invoked the Human Emperor Heaven-Sealing Art, gathering the Nine Provinces’ people’s wishes to empower Great Shang’s army and shut out immortal interference. The soldiers broke through Xiqi’s defenses, while Yin Jiao knew the campaign was only beginning.

• Yin Jiao raised the Human Emperor Sword and called upon the fortune and wishes of the Nine Provinces.
• The people’s vows flowed into the sword, and Yin Jiao’s edict healed and strengthened Great Shang’s million soldiers.
• Yin Jiao sealed the battlefield beneath a golden canopy, cutting off the Chan Sect’s divine power and outside intervention.
• Yin Jiao ordered the army to break the formation, and Great Shang’s cavalry charged Xiqi’s defenses.
• Great Shang’s soldiers shattered the immortal formations and swept through Xiqi’s front ranks.

Great Shang’s armored cavalry routed Xiqi’s army, and Jiang Ziya tried to kill Yin Jiao with the God-Beating Whip. Zhao Gongming suppressed the whip with his Twenty-Four Sea of Bitterness universes, leaving Jiang Ziya alive at Yin Jiao’s request as Zhao went to confront the Chan Sect immortals.

• Great Shang’s armored cavalry shattered Xiqi’s formations, and Jiang Ziya failed to rally his fleeing troops.
• Jiang Ziya hurled the God-Beating Whip at Yin Jiao, but Zhao Gongming arrived on the Black Tiger and stopped it with a roar.
• Zhao Gongming used his Twenty-Four Sea of Bitterness universes to swallow the God-Beating Whip, breaking Jiang Ziya’s connection to the treasure and knocking him into the mud.
• Yin Jiao asked Zhao Gongming to spare Jiang Ziya so he could witness the Heavenly Mandate he believed in being defeated.
• Zhao Gongming headed toward the rear of the Xiqi Camp to confront the Chan Sect immortals, while Great Shang’s cavalry crushed Xiqi’s remaining resistance.

Nezha burned Xiqi’s supply camp on Yin Jiao’s orders, destroying its food and capturing the Chan Sect immortals guarding it. He returned to Yin Jiao with the captives as Xiqi’s retreating army saw its last hope disappear.

• Nezha arrived at Xiqi’s supply camp and declared he would cut off the army’s supplies and retreat.
• Nezha unleashed demonic Karmic Fire, which overcame the camp’s water barriers and killed one Chan Sect immortal.
• The remaining Chan Sect immortals fled, but Nezha used the Universe Ring to capture them.
• Nezha burned the grain, fodder, wagons, and fortifications, while the smoke shattered the retreating Xiqi soldiers’ remaining courage.
• Nezha carried the captives back to Yin Jiao and reported that the supply camp had been destroyed.
• Yin Jiao praised Nezha and watched the smoke rise, recognizing that Xiqi’s remaining fortune had fallen with its supplies.

After Xiqi’s army was routed, Ji Fa questioned the Heavenly Mandate and realized the Immortals and Gods had used Xiqi as a pawn. He spent his last strength in defiance as Great Shang’s forces reached the command tent.

• Ji Fa surveyed Xiqi’s ruined camp and learned that the army had scattered, Jiang Ziya had been captured, and Zhao Gongming had taken the God-Beating Whip.
• Ji Fa recalled how Yin Shang had overturned the campaign’s expected course and demanded to know why the Heavenly Mandate had favored Zhou.
• Ji Fa concluded that Xiqi had only been a pawn in the Immortals and Gods’ game, discarded after Tongtian overturned the board.
• Ji Fa declared the Heavenly Mandate useless, spat out a third mouthful of heart’s blood, and collapsed as a Black Banner bearing the Dark Phoenix Totem was planted atop the command tent.

After the Chan Sect’s defeat, Daoist Zhunti persuaded its surviving disciples to undermine Yin Shang’s Human Dao fortune by converting its people to the Western Teachings. He sent the Eight Hundred Arhats toward Chaoge, leaving Tongtian and Gu Changqing’s influence facing a new threat.

• Guangchengzi, Chijingzi, and the other surviving Chan Sect disciples mourned their defeat amid the ruins of Jade Void Palace.
• Daoist Zhunti arrived and proposed disrupting Yin Shang’s vow power by turning its people away from Yin Jiao and the god in the ruined temple.
• Guangchengzi agreed to Zhunti’s plan but explained that the Chan Sect disciples could not leave Xiqi because their names were on the Investiture of the Gods List.
• Zhunti summoned the Eight Hundred Arhats and concealed their auras, then ordered them to infiltrate Yin Shang and forcibly convert its people.
• The Eight Hundred Arhats set out for Chaoge as Zhunti vowed to claim Yin Shang’s Human Dao fortune for the Western Teachings.

Daji used the Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Jar to destroy eight hundred Buddhist arhats who were stealing Great Shang’s human fortune in Chaoge. Daoist Zhunti learned of their annihilation and raged on Spirit Mountain.

• Daji sensed hundreds of Buddhist auras entering Chaoge and stripping the citizens of their human vow power.
• Daji summoned the Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Jar and drew the eight hundred arhats into it.
• Daji shattered the arhats’ Vajra formation and absorbed their bodies, magic power, and merit into the jar.
• Daji absorbed the refined energy and wished for Zhunti and Jieyin to come to her in person.
• Daoist Zhunti felt the eight hundred arhats’ soul brands break, spat out Buddha blood, and roared in fury.

Great Shang's army breached Mount Qi City and captured Xiqi's capital after crushing its forces. Guangchengzi rescued Ji Fa and several leaders, but Yin Jiao's attack wounded him as they fled, while Yin Jiao ordered the arrest of Xiqi's royal family and core nobility.

• Yin Jiao's army reached Mount Qi City, where Ji Fa awoke and admitted Xiqi was finished.
• Ji Fa tried to kill himself, but Guangchengzi and Chijingzi stopped him, and Chijingzi immobilized him.
• Yin Jiao ordered the assault, and siege engines shattered the city walls so Great Shang's cavalry could enter.
• Guangchengzi fled with Ji Fa, Nangong Shi, and other commanders as Yin Jiao struck them with the Human Emperor Sword, wounding Guangchengzi.
• Yin Jiao ordered the arrest of Xiqi's royal family and core nobility while sparing those who surrendered.

After conquering Xiqi, Yin Jiao banished the Chan Sect immortals and Xiqi loyalists beyond the Nine Provinces Barrier. He declared Humanity independent of the gods and immortals, ushering in an era ruled by Humanity's Dao.

• Yin Jiao finished restoring Xiqi to Great Shang's control and led his forces to the Nine Provinces Barrier.
• Yin Jiao banished Guangchengzi, Chijingzi, Ji Fa, and the remaining Xiqi loyalists beyond the barrier, forbidding immortals and gods from entering human lands.
• Yin Jiao declared across the Nine Provinces that Humanity would no longer worship Heaven's gods or the immortals and Buddhas.
• Yin Jiao proclaimed that Humanity would revere its ancestors, martyrs, itself, and the Deity of the Ruined Temple.
• Humanity's Fortune Golden Dragon drove Guangchengzi and the others farther away before guarding the Nine Provinces Barrier.

Gu Changqing lounged in the Ruined Temple as the system credited him for helping Humanity defy heaven and proclaim its independent Dao. He spent much of his new Fate-Defying Value maxing out his techniques, then turned his attention to dinner.

• The system awarded Gu Changqing a vast amount of Fate-Defying Value for guiding Humanity, Yin Jiao's proclamation, and Gu Changqing's new status as Humanity's sole deity of worship.
• Gu Changqing credited Tongtian and Yin Jiao for carrying out his arrangements and opened the System Shop to spend his gains.
• Gu Changqing raised the Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Art, Immortal Heaven Technique, One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, Eight-Nine Arcane Art, and his other techniques to maximum level.
• Gu Changqing felt the techniques' power merge into the embryonic universe of the Mythic Great Luo Technique and noted that his strength had increased.
• Gu Changqing saw that the sun was setting and began thinking about what to have for dinner.

After Yin Jiao declared that Humanity would honor only itself and the deity of the Ruined Temple, Heavenly Court discovered that Humanity’s Dao Barrier had cut off its incense offerings and weakened its gods. The Haotian Jade Emperor dismissed the court, leaving Heavenly Court’s power and rule in decline.

• Zhao Gongming reported that Humanity’s incense offerings and vow power had been cut off from Heavenly Court.
• Wen Zhong reported that the gods’ divine positions were wavering and their mortal temples and statues were losing their divinity.
• Taibai Jinxing urged the Haotian Jade Emperor to send troops against Yin Shang, but the Jade Emperor rejected the idea, citing Heavenly Court’s weakness and its enemies’ strength.
• The Haotian Jade Emperor shattered his throne’s armrest in anger and dismissed the court.

As the Western Teachings’ survivors fled the Eastern Land, Kong Xuan trapped them in a vast Five Elements cage. Acting on his master’s Edict, he prepared to cleanse the Nine Provinces, leaving their fate sealed.

• After the fall of Xiqi, the surviving Western Teachings followers fled toward the Western Ox Continent, terrified by the defeat of their forces and Daji’s Demon Jar.
• Bodhisattva Randeng and the others spotted the boundary marker, but five rivers of color formed a cage that sealed the surrounding world.
• Randeng attacked the white canopy and failed to break through as its Geng Metal Law consumed his power.
• Kong Xuan appeared at the center of the cage, and Randeng recognized the Innate Being born of the Ancestral Phoenix.
• Kong Xuan declared that his master’s Edict had commanded him to cleanse the Nine Provinces and told the Western Teachings’ followers to be on their way.

Kong Xuan rejected Bodhisattva Randeng’s plea to withdraw and wiped out nearly all the Western Teachings disciples who had invaded the Nine Provinces. Randeng survived Kong Xuan’s strike but was gravely wounded and left terrified by the overwhelming gap between them.

• Bodhisattva Randeng realized Kong Xuan had a master connected to the Ruined Temple and begged him to spare the Western Teachings disciples.
• Kong Xuan refused, condemned the Western Teachings for coveting Humanity’s Dao Fortune, and vowed to kill anyone who meddled in the Nine Provinces.
• Kong Xuan swept the Five-Colored Divine Light through the Vajra Demon-Subduing Formation, destroying dozens of bodhisattvas and erasing their bodies, spirits, and treasures.
• Bodhisattva Randeng used the Glazed Lamp to withstand the strike partially, but the lamp was damaged and half his golden body shattered.
• Bodhisattva Randeng watched Kong Xuan stand untouched and understood that he had no hope of resisting him.

Saint Zhunti learned that Kong Xuan had destroyed dozens of Western Teachings Bodhisattvas and went to the eastern border to capture and forcibly convert him. He arrived outside Kong Xuan’s Five Elements Cage and launched an attack, while Randeng pleaded for rescue from within.

• Saint Zhunti sensed the destruction of the Bodhisattvas and spat out Sage Blood from the pain of losing so many followers.
• Zhunti decided to save Randeng and capture Kong Xuan, despite Saint Jieyin warning him about the mysterious master of the Ruined Temple.
• Zhunti tore open space and appeared outside Kong Xuan’s Five Elements Cage, his Sage pressure making the cage tremble.
• Randeng recognized Zhunti and begged his teacher to save him, while Kong Xuan faced the Sage without fear.
• Zhunti declared that he would convert Kong Xuan and raised the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree to shatter the cage.