Chapter Summaries

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.

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.