Chapter Summaries

Nezha was about to be destroyed by Zhunti’s manifestation when Gu Changqing struck from afar and shattered the Saint’s attack. Zhunti withdrew with Randeng, but Haotian’s forces and another Saint’s aura still threatened Peach Mountain as Gu Changqing awaited the system’s reward.

• Zhunti’s manifestation subdued Peach Mountain and attacked Nezha as Randeng urged him on.
• Nezha called for Gu Changqing, who used the Heavenly Emperor Divine Position Fragment and ten Dao resonances to strike from Guanjiangkou.
• Gu Changqing’s Primordial Violet Finger shattered Zhunti’s sacred light and freed Nezha, prompting Yang Jian and Nezha to recognize their master’s intervention.
• Nezha kept the Qiankun Ruler while Zhunti withdrew with Randeng after sensing a gaze from the direction of the Purple Heaven Palace.
• Haotian’s imperial carriage continued toward Peach Mountain, a Saint’s aura awakened near the Jade Void Palace, and Hongjun opened his eyes as Gu Changqing received notice of an upcoming tribulation-tier return.

Gu Changqing forced Saint Zhunti’s manifested form to retreat from Peach Mountain, disrupting the plans of the Western Religion, the Chan Sect, and the Heavenly Court. Dao Ancestor Hongjun noticed the mysterious power and investigated Guanjiangkou, while Gu Changqing received a ten-thousandfold return settlement for changing the Tribulation’s course.

• Yu Ding Zhenren reported to Yuanshi that Yang Jian had refused the Chan Sect and taken the Eight-Nine Arcane Art, while Nezha had seized the Qiankun Ruler.
• Yuanshi recognized the mysterious force that had driven Zhunti back and suspected that an ancient chaos demon god’s will had awakened.
• Zhunti wanted revenge, but Jieyin urged him to wait and pursue the Western Religion’s opportunity in the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation.
• Haotian ordered the Thunder, Dipper, Fire, and Plague Departments to assemble and seal off Guanjiangkou despite the setback at Peach Mountain.
• Hongjun sensed the Heavenly Dao Origin yielding to the Primordial Violet Finger, failed to divine the hidden figure’s identity, and turned his attention toward Guanjiangkou.
• Gu Changqing sensed Hongjun’s gaze from the ruined Mountain God Temple, and his system began settling a tribulation-tier ten-thousandfold return.

Gu Changqing strengthened his cultivation after protecting Nezha from Zhunti, then sent Nezha to subdue the Four Seas Dragon Clan and Yang Jian to bring his family to Kunlun. Yang Jian set out for Jade Void Palace, where Yuanshi Tianzun anticipated his arrival.

• Gu Changqing absorbed the rewards for deflecting Zhunti's intervention and reached the threshold of Great Luo while expanding his Divine Realm.
• Zhunti withdrew with Randeng, but Nezha tore away a wisp of Randeng's primordial spirit Dao fire and retained the Qiankun Ruler.
• Gu Changqing ordered Nezha to consolidate the Four Seas Water Veins and make the Dragon Clan submit, so Nezha headed for the East Sea.
• Yang Jian completed his first God-Demon acupoint, and Gu Changqing instructed him to take Yao Ji and Yang Chan to Kunlun and claim his Chan Sect fortune.
• Yang Jian set out for Jade Void Palace, and Yuanshi Tianzun announced that Yang Jian was coming.

Nezha invaded the East Sea Dragon Palace to settle his old grievance with Ao Guang and impose his master's new rules on the Four Seas. After Nezha broke the Sea-Locking Water Array and defeated Ao Guang, Ao Guang summoned the other seas and awakened an ancient power beneath the East Sea Eye.

• Nezha smashed through the Sea-Suppressing Water Curtain and confronted Ao Guang over the Dragon Clan's role in forcing him to die at Chentang Pass.
• Nezha broke the Sea-Locking Water Array with the Qiankun Ruler and extracted most of the Array-Commanding Dragon Prince's cultivation with demonic flames.
• Nezha struck Ao Guang down and demanded that the Dragon Clan submit to his master's new rules or face a new ruler of the Four Seas.
• Ao Guang sent blood-borne messages to the South Sea, West Sea, and North Sea, summoning their forces to the East Sea.
• Three ancient dragon roars answered, and a pair of golden eyes opened beneath the East Sea Eye.

Yang Jian reached Kunlun with Yao Ji and Yang Chan, resisting the Jade Void Palace’s pressure as he demanded recognition of his karmic bond with Yu Ding Zhenren. Guangchengzi rejected him and moved to imprison him, then struck with a phantom of the Heaven-Flipping Seal as Yang Jian stepped forward to meet it.

• Yang Jian shielded Yao Ji and Yang Chan with primordial violet qi and climbed Kunlun’s White Jade Steps, resisting the Jade Purity Immortal Light.
• At the Jade Void Palace’s Mountain Gate, Yang Jian told Guangchengzi that his bond with Yu Ding Zhenren and possession of the Eight-Nine Arcane Art gave him a karmic claim to Jade Void.
• Yang Jian declared he would defy any Heavenly Mandate that sought to destroy his family, angering Guangchengzi.
• Guangchengzi ordered Yang Jian imprisoned at Qilin Cliff and sealed the Mountain Gate with Yuqing Chains.
• Guangchengzi summoned a phantom of the Heaven-Flipping Seal and sent it crashing down as Yang Jian stepped forward to face it.

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.