Chapter Summaries

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.

Kong Xuan used the Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Force to meet Saint Zhunti’s Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree strike head-on. He emerged unscathed, leaving Randeng and Zhunti stunned by his defense.

• Saint Zhunti unleashed the Seven-Colored Divine Light from the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree against Kong Xuan’s Five Elements Cage.
• Kong Xuan refused to retreat and awakened the Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Force, revealing power that astonished Zhunti.
• Kong Xuan formed the God-Demon Sealing barrier by combining divine elephant power with his Five Elements Great Dao.
• The Seven-Colored Divine Light struck the barrier, but its laws were diverted and ground away.
• Kong Xuan withstood Zhunti’s full-power strike without injury, leaving Randeng terrified and Zhunti in disbelief.

Kong Xuan blocked Saint Zhunti’s attack, then struck back with his Five-Colored Divine Fist, cracking Zhunti’s Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree and sending the Sage flying while he spat blood. Randeng watched in shock as Kong Xuan stood victorious in the void.

• Saint Zhunti was astonished when Kong Xuan’s barrier blocked the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree without breaking.
• Kong Xuan dismissed the barrier and concentrated his Divine Elephant power and Five Elements Dao into his fist.
• Kong Xuan’s Five-Colored Divine Fist clashed with Zhunti’s Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree and cracked it.
• The force of Kong Xuan’s punch shattered Zhunti’s chest bones, injured his sagely Origin, and sent him flying through spacetime as he vomited blood.
• Randeng stared in disbelief at Kong Xuan and his wounded teacher, Zhunti.

After Kong Xuan wounded Zhunti, Nezha and Yang Jian rushed to the western frontier to aid their fellow disciple. The three Ruined Temple disciples surrounded Zhunti’s Sage Dharma Form, leaving the watching mighty figures stunned.

• Kong Xuan struck Zhunti with a punch, wounding him and shaking the Three Realms.
• Nezha and Yang Jian sensed the battle and headed to the western frontier to help Kong Xuan.
• Zhunti summoned a towering Sage Dharma Form and prepared to unleash his full power.
• Nezha attacked Zhunti with his Fire-Tipped Spear, and Yang Jian followed with a slash from his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade.
• Kong Xuan, Nezha, and Yang Jian joined forces to assault Zhunti’s Dharma Form from three directions.

Kong Xuan, Yang Jian, and Nezha overwhelmed Zhunti through coordinated attacks in Chaos. Yang Jian’s Nether God Spear pierced Zhunti’s Dharma Form, and Nezha tore away part of his golden body and Sage Origin, leaving Zhunti’s form collapsing.

• Kong Xuan, Yang Jian, and Nezha coordinated their attacks and forced Zhunti’s golden Dharma Form onto the defensive.
• Yang Jian drew the Spear of the Nether God and hurled it into Zhunti’s left side, grievously wounding his Sage Origin.
• Nezha transformed into his Demon Venerable Dharma Form and seized the embedded spear.
• Nezha tore away part of Zhunti’s golden body and Sage Origin, causing his Dharma Form to collapse.

Jieyin arrived to rescue Zhunti, and the two Western Sages joined forces against Kong Xuan, Yang Jian, and Nezha. The trio exploited gaps in the Sages’ defenses with coordinated feints and harassment, leaving the battle at a stalemate and the Sages humiliated.

• Jieyin descended on the battlefield and sheltered the wounded Zhunti in the Twelve-Grade Golden Lotus of Merit.
• Nezha accused the Western Teachings of meddling in the Eastern Land and mocked Jieyin for complaining after Zhunti had tried to kill their senior brother.
• Jieyin and Zhunti joined forces, using the Golden Lotus’s defenses and the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree’s attacks against Kong Xuan, Yang Jian, and Nezha.
• Yang Jian struck a weakness in the Golden Lotus barrier, letting Kong Xuan punch Zhunti while Nezha harassed Jieyin with Demonic Fire.
• Zhunti and Jieyin realized the trio’s slippery tactics were exhausting them and humiliating them before the watching Three Realms.