Chapter Summaries

Zhao Gongming crashed into Guanjiangkou while fleeing the Chan Sect, and Xiaotian Dog found him before Guangchengzi and the others could kill him. Xiaotian Dog dragged him toward the Ruined Temple as the temple’s Divine Realm trapped his pursuers and the Divine Statue opened its eyes.

• Zhao Gongming exhausted his strength and fell into a valley, where he lost consciousness with his Primordial Spirit close to dissipating.
• Xiaotian Dog smelled Zhao Gongming’s blood and Jade Void immortal light, found him, and recognized him as Zhao Gongming of the Interception Sect.
• Guangchengzi, Chijingzi, Yu Ding Zhenren, Taiyi Zhenren, and the others arrived and attacked Zhao Gongming, but Xiaotian Dog grabbed his collar and ran.
• Guangchengzi’s Heaven-Flipping Seal struck an invisible barrier, revealing that the group had entered Guanjiangkou’s Divine Realm and been cut off from escape.
• Xiaotian Dog dragged Zhao Gongming toward the Ruined Temple while the Jade Void Golden Immortals’ attacks were suppressed by the purple-gray Dao Patterns.
• The Divine Statue opened its eyes as Xiaotian Dog approached the Temple with Zhao Gongming.

Zhao Gongming awoke in the ruined temple at Guanjiangkou after Xiaotian Dog carried him there, and Gu Changqing stabilized his injuries. Zhao Gongming asked for a way to regain his strength and avenge his blood feud, and Gu Changqing offered him a new path to reclaim the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.

• A strand of purple-gray incense smoke saved Zhao Gongming from death and brought him to the ruined temple, where he sensed profound Dao laws and recognized Guanjiangkou.
• Xiaotian Dog lay at the temple entrance, and Zhao Gongming thanked it for carrying him to safety.
• Gu Changqing revealed that he had stabilized Zhao Gongming and restrained the rage threatening to worsen his injuries.
• Zhao Gongming vowed to avenge the Black Tiger and the Shang Army soldiers, then asked Gu Changqing for a way to regain his strength.
• Gu Changqing told Zhao Gongming his old Mystic Gate cultivation was shattered and asked whether he wanted to take a new path and personally reclaim his Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.

Gu Changqing taught Zhao Gongming the Shrouding the Heavens method, a cultivation path rooted in the body rather than borrowed Heavenly Dao power. Zhao Gongming survived with twenty-four embryonic Wheels of Life and prepared to cultivate anew before seeking revenge on Randeng.

• Gu Changqing explained that Zhao Gongming’s Great Luo foundation was hollow because his power depended on the Heavenly Dao and the stolen Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.
• Gu Changqing showed Zhao Gongming the Shrouding the Heavens method and promised him a way to rebuild his strength within his own body.
• Gu Changqing used the twenty-four breaches left by the stolen pearls to plant twenty-four Sea of Bitterness seeds in Zhao Gongming’s ruined body.
• Guangchengzi and Taiyi Zhenren sensed an unfamiliar aura rising from the Ruined Temple while their magical treasures remained pinned beneath purple-gray dao patterns.
• Zhao Gongming regained a faint vitality, thanked Gu Changqing and Xiaotian Dog, and resolved to cultivate until he could confront Randeng.

After his Immortal Foundation was destroyed, Zhao Gongming awakened the Shrouding the Heavens Method and formed twenty-four embryonic worlds within his body. He reached the trapped Jade Void Golden Immortals and prepared to collect the first installment of his debt.

• Zhao Gongming awakened twenty-four Seas of Bitterness and tested the concentrated power of his new method within the Guanjiangkou Divine Realm.
• He used his memories of refining the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls to shape twenty-four embryonic worlds inside himself.
• The Divine Realm opened a path for Zhao Gongming, and he headed toward the Chan Sect Immortals.
• Guangchengzi, Chijingzi, Yu Ding Zhenren, Taiyi Zhenren, and the other Jade Void Golden Immortals remained trapped as their magical treasures were suppressed.
• Zhao Gongming appeared before the immortals, whose Immortal Dao laws froze under the pressure of his twenty-four worlds.
• Zhao Gongming told the Jade Void Golden Immortals that he would collect the first installment of his debt from them.

Zhao Gongming used his newly forged path to overpower the Jade Void immortals, then returned to Yin Shang's border to confront Randeng and reclaim the Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls. He destroyed Xiao Sheng and Cao Bao and seized Randeng by the throat, leaving Randeng trapped beneath his power.

• Zhao Gongming suppressed Guangchengzi and the other Jade Void immortals, shattered Chijingzi with one punch, and pinned Taiyi Zhenren before Gu Changqing sent him to reclaim his karma.
• Zhao Gongming appeared at Yin Shang's border as Randeng prepared to refine the Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.
• Zhao Gongming destroyed Xiao Sheng and Cao Bao in body and soul after they admitted using the Treasure-Dropping Golden Coin against him.
• Zhao Gongming resisted Randeng's Qiankun Ruler and seized Randeng by the throat as the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls struck back at Randeng's Primordial Spirit.

Zhao Gongming reclaimed the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls from Randeng and used their source essence to establish twenty-four worlds within himself, though Randeng escaped by detonating the Qiankun Ruler. Zhao Gongming then swore to protect the ruined temple and its Dao, while Gu Changqing received a system notification that the Interception Sect quest had advanced and a mythic-grade reward was being calculated.

• Zhao Gongming forced Randeng to return the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls and absorbed their source essence into his twenty-four Seas of Bitterness.
• Randeng detonated the Qiankun Ruler and sacrificed half his Dao body to escape toward Kunlun, leaving Zhao Gongming injured but alive.
• Zhao Gongming returned to the ruined temple and kowtowed before the divine statue, pledging to protect the Dao Venerable's teachings and the Interception Sect's disciples.
• Gu Changqing bound Zhao Gongming's Dao-protecting incense, and the system announced major quest progress and began calculating a mythic-grade reward.

Zhao Gongming reunited with the Three Xiao after surviving by forming twenty-four inner worlds, and they prepared to strike back at the Chan Sect with the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation. He stopped them from acting rashly and invited them into the ruined temple to meet the Dao Venerable who had given him a new path and might change the Interception Sect's fate.

• The Three Xiao sensed Zhao Gongming's blood fiend aura and rushed from the Three Immortal Islands to find him.
• The Three Xiao found Zhao Gongming alive near Guanjiangkou, but discovered that his former immortal foundation and great Luo dao fruit had shattered.
• Yunxiao summoned the Primordial Golden Dou and formed the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation as Bixiao and Qiongxiao prepared to attack the Chan Sect.
• Zhao Gongming halted their plans and revealed that the Dao Venerable in the ruined temple had saved him and granted him a new path of twenty-four inner worlds.
• Zhao Gongming bowed to the temple and led the Three Xiao inside to meet the Dao Venerable.

Zhao Gongming stopped the Three Xiao from using the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation, arguing that it would give Yuanshi a pretext to deepen the Interception Sect’s calamity. He led them to the Ruined Temple to seek a new way to defeat the Chan Sect, where a grain of purple-gray incense lit as they arrived.

• Zhao Gongming restrained the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation and urged Bixiao, Qiongxiao, and Yunxiao to avoid dragging the Interception Sect into more karma.
• Zhao Gongming told the Three Xiao that the Ruined Temple at Guanjiangkou could offer a new path to break the deadlock without falling into the Investiture of the Gods’ trap.
• Yunxiao withdrew the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation, and the Three Xiao agreed to visit the temple with Zhao Gongming.
• Zhao Gongming led the Three Xiao through the void using the force of his physical body and the twenty-four worlds within him.
• The Three Xiao reached the dilapidated Ruined Temple, where Yunxiao’s divine sense could not penetrate, and a grain of purple-gray incense silently lit in its burner.

Yunxiao recognized that the Ruined Temple concealed a Dao beyond the Primordial World's Heavenly Dao, and the Three Xiao offered incense to its Dao Venerable. The Divine Statue opened its eyes, while the sisters' magical treasures bowed before the temple's Dao resonance.

• Zhao Gongming told Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao that they would stay at the Ruined Temple.
• Yunxiao sensed ages and a force beyond the Heavenly Dao in the temple's incense ash, spider silk, and mountain wind.
• Yunxiao bowed to the Dao Venerable, and Qiongxiao and Bixiao followed her example.
• Zhao Gongming gave Yunxiao three sticks of residual incense, and the Three Xiao each planted one in the Incense Burner.
• Purple-gray Dao resonance rose from the incense, resonated with Zhao Gongming's twenty-four seas of bitterness, and caused the Three Xiao's magical treasures to submit.
• The Divine Statue slowly opened its eyes.

The Three Xiao offered incense at the Ruined Temple, where Gu Changqing recognized Yunxiao's restraint and granted her a phantom of the Beginningless Bell, a treasure that could affect time. The sisters learned their struggle reached beyond the Chan Sect and the Twelve Golden Immortals, and Gu Changqing turned his attention to Qiongxiao and Bixiao.

• The Divine Statue opened its eyes, and Gu Changqing assessed the Three Xiao's temperaments before Yunxiao apologized for disturbing him.
• The Three Xiao offered incense, triggering rewards that included a Beginningless Bell phantom for Yunxiao.
• Gu Changqing warned Yunxiao that the threat to the Interception Sect extended beyond the Jade Void Palace and the Twelve Golden Immortals.
• Yunxiao accepted the bell phantom, which entered her Sea of Consciousness and let her sense time's flow.
• Gu Changqing shifted his gaze from Yunxiao to Qiongxiao and then Bixiao.

Gu Changqing bestowed the Flying Immortal Art on Qiongxiao and the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Art on Bixiao, giving the Three Xiao new ways to fight the Jade Void Golden Immortals. Zhao Gongming decided they would begin by dealing with the Golden Immortals trapped outside the temple and make the Jade Void Palace witness their changed fortunes.

• Gu Changqing identified Qiongxiao's lack of a decisive killing art and bestowed the Flying Immortal Art, which let her strike through gaps in time.
• Gu Changqing praised Bixiao's pure killing intent and gave her the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Art, a devastating last-resort move that could cost her lifespan and Dao Foundation.
• Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao accepted their new arts, while Zhao Gongming thanked Gu Changqing and heard his warning that the Interception Sect had to learn to fight differently.
• Bixiao asked Zhao Gongming whom they should target first, and he chose the Jade Void Golden Immortals trapped outside the temple, declaring that they would begin with them.

Outside Jiepai Pass, Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao faced the Twelve Golden Immortals, who had come to break the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation and restore Jade Void's prestige. As Bixiao gripped her sword after Guangchengzi insulted her elder brother and the Dao Venerable at Guanjiangkou, the Golden Immortals sensed the danger of her coming strike.

• The Twelve Golden Immortals arrived outside Jiepai Pass, and Guangchengzi led them in demanding that Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao surrender.
• Zhao Gongming, Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao emerged from the formation to confront the Jade Void disciples.
• Guangchengzi attacked Bixiao with the Heaven-Flipping Seal, but Yunxiao slowed it while Qiongxiao bound Taiyi Zhenren and Zhao Gongming suppressed his Nine Dragon Divine Fire Cover.
• The Twelve Golden Immortals unleashed their treasures, but Yunxiao said the formation was only a witness and stripping their Three Flowers would be too merciful.
• After Guangchengzi insulted Zhao Gongming, the Interception Sect, and the Dao Venerable at Guanjiangkou, Bixiao gripped her sword and told him to take a strike.

Bixiao used a single sword strike to shatter Guangchengzi’s three flowers and five qi, reducing his cultivation to True Immortal before the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation suppressed him. Though the strike’s backlash weakened her, she challenged the eleven remaining Golden Immortals of Jade Void to face her next.

• Guangchengzi attacked Bixiao with the Heaven-Flipping Seal as the other Chan Sect Immortals prepared to support him.
• Yunxiao’s Beginningless Bell Mark and the others’ powers slowed the battlefield for half a breath, giving Bixiao time to draw her sword and unleash Heaven-Slaying.
• Bixiao’s sword light bypassed Guangchengzi’s defenses and shattered his three Dao flowers and five qi, dropping his cultivation from Great Luo to True Immortal.
• The yellow mist caught Guangchengzi and suppressed him inside the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation as the Xiqi soldiers and Chan Sect Immortals watched in shock.
• Bixiao endured the strike’s backlash, accused the Golden Immortals of insulting her elder brother and the Dao Venerable of Guanjiangkou, and asked who would face her next.

The Three Xiao used their distinct powers to overwhelm the Jade Void Golden Immortals at Jiepai Pass, capturing Juliusun and crippling or injuring several others. Yunxiao then halted the yellow mist and prepared to close the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation around the remaining immortals.

• Bixiao stood against the Jade Void Golden Immortals after her sword strike shattered Guangchengzi’s Three Flowers and reduced his cultivation to True Immortal.
• Yunxiao slowed time with the Beginningless Bell as Zhao Gongming suppressed the void and Qiongxiao used Flying Immortal to capture Juliusun and bind his Primordial Spirit.
• Qiongxiao struck Manjushri Guangfa Tianzun, Perfected Puxian, True Person Huang Long, and Daoxing Tianzun, leaving them badly wounded.
• Yu Ding Zhenren sensed a trace of Guanjiangkou’s aura in Qiongxiao’s art, but she did not pursue him.
• Yunxiao stopped the yellow mist, raised the Primordial Golden Dou, and told the remaining Jade Void Golden Immortals that she would draw in the net.

Yunxiao used a time-stopping bell, Zhao Gongming’s power, and the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation to trap and capture the eleven Jade Void Golden Immortals outside Jiepai Pass, reuniting them with Guangchengzi inside. The formation began stripping the Twelve Golden Immortals of their three flowers, five energies, and Yuqing Dao fruits, leaving the Chan and Interception Sects with no room for reconciliation.

• Yunxiao revealed an ancient bell phantom and stopped time across the battlefield while Zhao Gongming and the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation sealed the area.
• Bixiao and Qiongxiao taunted the immobilized Taiyi Zhenren and Chijingzi as Yunxiao brought forth the Primordial Golden Dou.
• Yunxiao rang the bell again and used the golden dou to draw eleven Jade Void Golden Immortals into the formation, where Guangchengzi was already trapped.
• The Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation overwhelmed the twelve captives, corroding their Yuqing Dao fruits and causing their three flowers and five energies to collapse.
• Qiongxiao recognized that the attack had ended any chance of reconciliation between the Chan Sect and the Interception Sect.

Yunxiao, Zhao Gongming, and the Three Xiao used the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation to strip the Twelve Golden Immortals of Jade Void of their cultivation and treasures, shattering much of the Chan Sect's fortune and Xiqi's Heavenly Mandate. Yuanshi Tianzun held back from intervening when forces tied to Guanjiangkou, Humanity, and Tongtian checked his edict, and Zhao Gongming ordered the captured immortals taken to Xiqi's camp as proof of their crimes against mortal soldiers.

• The Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation overwhelmed the Twelve Golden Immortals, stripped away their Jade Void treasures, and reduced their cultivation.
• As the Golden Immortals fell, the purple-gold auspicious clouds over Xiqi cracked and its Heavenly Mandate weakened.
• Yuanshi Tianzun prepared to send a Jade Purity Edict against the formation, but a Dao resonance from Guanjiangkou and other opposing forces made him withdraw it.
• Fuxi, Shennong, and Xuanyuan recognized that Xiqi's Heavenly Mandate and the Sages' Investiture of the Gods plan had been disrupted.
• The Three Xiao and Zhao Gongming emerged with the Jade Void Golden Immortals captured, and Zhao Gongming ordered their magical power sealed and their crimes announced at Xiqi's camp.

Zhao Gongming defeated the Twelve Golden Immortals and ordered them displayed in chains before Xiqi Camp, while Daoist Randeng reported the defeat to Yuanshi Tianzun. Enraged by the humiliation of his disciples, Yuanshi took up the Pangu Banner and set out to retrieve them.

• Zhao Gongming sealed the Twelve Golden Immortals' remaining power and ordered them to kneel outside Xiqi Camp for three days as the soldiers' faith in the Heavenly Mandate faltered.
• Daoist Randeng reached Kunlun gravely wounded and told the Antarctic Immortal that the Three Xiao and Zhao Gongming had defeated the Twelve Golden Immortals using the New Method from Guanjiangkou.
• Yuanshi Tianzun saw his disciples kneeling before Xiqi Camp and cracked the chaos-jade table in anger.
• Yuanshi Tianzun declared that he would retrieve his disciples and settle the Karma, then took up the Pangu Banner and stepped out of the Jade Void Palace.

Yuanshi Tianzun entered the Investiture of the Gods conflict in his true Sage form, carrying the Pangu Banner to Jiepai Pass. He confronted Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao before the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation and threatened to test whether Guanjiangkou could protect them.

• Yuanshi Tianzun's decision to intervene in his true form shook the Primordial World, alarmed Nuwa, Jieyin, Zhunti, Fuxi, Shennong, and Xuanyuan, and drew a warning from Tongtian.
• Yuanshi Tianzun mounted the Nine Dragon Agarwood Carriage, took up the Pangu Banner, and set out for Jiepai Pass.
• Yunxiao sensed Yuanshi Tianzun's arrival as Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao felt his Sage aura pressure their dao foundations.
• Yuanshi Tianzun appeared above Jiepai Pass, where the Twelve Jade Void Golden Immortals knelt with Yellow River Turbid Locks piercing their shoulders.
• Yuanshi Tianzun raised the Pangu Banner, locked down Jiepai Pass with his killing intent, and challenged Zhao Gongming to prove Guanjiangkou could protect them.

Yuanshi Tianzun arrived at Jiepai Pass and used his Sage’s pressure to suppress the battlefield, forcing Xiqi’s soldiers to kneel while Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao resisted. He began breaking the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation and threatened to sever Zhao Gongming’s cultivation beyond the tribulation, leaving the Interception Sect on the brink of defeat.

• Yuanshi Tianzun’s Sage pressure forced the soldiers of Xiqi and the Twelve Golden Immortals to kneel, while Zhao Gongming stood firm and refused to bow.
• Yunxiao used the Beginningless Bell’s power to shield Qiongxiao and Bixiao from the pressure, but Yuanshi Tianzun’s strike battered the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation.
• Zhao Gongming shielded the Three Xiao with his twenty-four seas of bitterness and taunted Yuanshi Tianzun for entering the battle himself.
• Yuanshi Tianzun shattered the formation’s outer patterns with the Pangu Banner, and Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao were injured as the Primordial Golden Dou dimmed.
• Taiyi Zhenren begged Yuanshi Tianzun to kill the Three Xiao and Zhao Gongming, but Zhao Gongming tightened the Yellow River chains around him.
• Yuanshi Tianzun raised the Pangu Banner and prepared to break the formation and sever Zhao Gongming’s foundation as the Three Xiao and Zhao Gongming faced the collapsing battlefield.

Yuanshi Tianzun attacked the Three Xiao with the Pangu Banner after condemning them for defying heaven, while Tongtian was blocked from intervening. As Yunxiao prepared to sacrifice her primordial spirit to save her siblings and Zhao Gongming, a speck of incense ash halted the Chaos Sword Qi just before it struck.

• Yuanshi Tianzun invoked the heavenly decree and unleashed Yuqing Divine Thunder against the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation, while Zhao Gongming challenged his account of the Jade Void School’s actions.
• Yuanshi Tianzun attacked the Three Xiao and the formation with the Pangu Banner’s Chaos Sword Qi.
• Tongtian tried to leave Biyou Palace to protect his disciples, but a restriction from Purple Heaven Palace blocked him; Nuwa watched from Wa Huang Palace without intervening.
• Yunxiao decided to detonate the Beginningless Bell Illusion with her primordial spirit to give Qiongxiao, Bixiao, and Zhao Gongming time to escape.
• As Yunxiao prepared to sacrifice herself, a speck of incense ash appeared above Jiepai Pass and stopped the Chaos Sword Qi half an inch from its target.