Chapter Summaries

Immortals brought lavish birthday gifts to King Zhou, while Xiao Tian secretly claimed the treasures for himself. Nüwa manifested over Zhaoge, and the arrival of Purple Child Xiao Li and Water Child Lingzhuzi left the birthday gathering poised to welcome the Human Clan’s Saint Teacher’s envoys.

• Daoist Duobao presented King Zhou with numerous treasures, prompting Guangchengzi and the other four immortals to offer their own gifts, including the Ancestral Dragon Twin Swords.
• Guangchengzi revealed the birthday gifts entrusted by Yuanshi Heavenly Venerable, and Duobao added some of his own treasures to keep his master’s offering ahead.
• Xiao Tian sensed the gifts through his incarnation and ordered King Zhou to keep them for him, while Xuandu delivered pills from Laozi.
• Sage Nüwa manifested over Zhaoge during the banquet, and her blessings healed many people and strengthened their support for King Zhou.
• Purple Child Xiao Li and Water Child Lingzhuzi arrived as envoys of the Human Clan’s Saint Teacher, and King Zhou confirmed their identities to the Barefoot Great Immortal.

King Zhou discovered that Deng Chanyu had been secretly brought into his bedchamber as part of a Western Zhou frame-up, while Fuxi confirmed the scheme through divination. At Three Mountains Pass, Deng Jiugong rejected Daoist Jin Shi’s attempt to recruit him to Western Zhou, then learned that Inspector Liu’s army had surrounded his residence and accused him of treason.

• Earth Traveler secretly delivered the unconscious Deng Chanyu to King Zhou’s bedchamber, and King Zhou sensed that a powerful being had entered the palace.
• King Zhou and the gathered immortals questioned Deng Chanyu, who recalled bathing and going to sleep but could not explain how she had arrived in the palace.
• Xiao Tian asked Fuxi to divine the incident, and Fuxi determined that Western Qi had launched a frame-up against the Shang Dynasty.
• King Zhou arranged to contact Deng Chanyu’s father and escort her home, while Deng Chanyu and Xiao Li argued over whether King Zhou might want her as a consort.
• Daoist Jin Shi urged Deng Jiugong to defect to Western Zhou, but Deng Jiugong refused and declared that he would defend Great Shang.
• A maid brought news that Inspector Liu’s army had surrounded Deng Jiugong’s residence and accused him of harboring a traitor and plotting rebellion.

King Zhou Di Xin rescued Deng Jiugong from a Western Qi scheme and restored his loyalty to Great Shang. As the group prepared to turn against Western Qi, Li Jing’s wife gave birth to a mysterious black ball, alarming the Sages and Dao Ancestor Hongjun.

• Patrol Inspector Liu arrested Deng Jiugong after finding a defaced portrait of King Zhou in his residence, while Daoist Jin Shi later tried to free him and recruit him for Ji Fa.
• King Zhou Di Xin and Grand Preceptor Wen exposed Daoist Jin Shi, and Deng Chanyu explained that Western Qi had framed her father by making her wake in King Zhou’s bedchamber.
• King Zhou pardoned Deng Jiugong, who swore renewed loyalty to Great Shang, and had Grand Preceptor Wen deal with Patrol Inspector Liu.
• Daoist Jin Shi confessed to Ji Fa’s schemes and was killed by King Zhou, while Deng Jiugong returned toward Three Mountains Pass with Grand Preceptor Wen.
• Zhunti arranged with Xiao Tian to let Spirit Mountain’s guardian children contend with Xiao Li and Lingzhuzi, and Xiao Tian agreed not to interfere in their fights.
• Li Jing’s wife gave birth to a black ball after a three-year pregnancy, and Dao Ancestor Hongjun wondered what was happening.

Taiyi Zhenren accepted Nezha as his disciple after Xiao Tian arranged for him to be born from a black ball, but withheld most of the treasures and planned a method to ruin him. Three years later, Nezha had become powerful under Xiao Li and Lingzhuzi’s instruction, and Taiyi arrived just as he was beating the West Sea Dragon King.

• Taiyi Zhenren arrived at Li Jing’s manor and used his Heavenly Eye to help the black ball split open, revealing a newborn child.
• Xiao Tian revealed that Dugu Baitian had created Li Jing’s third son to keep Lingzhuzi from dying, and tricked the Primordial Heavenly Dao into granting him an achievement point.
• Madam Yin proposed naming the child Yinzha, but Li Jing and Taiyi settled on Nezha; Taiyi gave him the Universe Ring and Fire God Spear while withholding other treasures.
• Three years passed as Nezha excelled in learning and martial arts, with Xiao Li and Lingzhuzi secretly teaching him.
• Nezha attacked the West Sea Dragon King after the Dragon King flooded Chentang Pass, using Three Lights Divine Water to withstand his waves and striking him with the Universe Ring.
• Taiyi arrived and learned that Xiao Li and Lingzhuzi had taught Nezha to fight, then resolved to teach his disciple himself.

Taiyi Zhenren confronted Nezha after the boy attacked the East Sea Dragon King, then agreed to share his training with Xiao Li and Lingzhuzi. At the Heavenly Court, Xiao Tian promised to revive the East Sea Third Prince in exchange for a thousand years of service guarding the Human Clan Saint Teacher Hall.

• Nezha battered Ao Bing with the Universe Ring and Lingzhuzi's Primordial Golden Shears until Taiyi Zhenren restrained him and rescued the Dragon King.
• Xiao Li and Lingzhuzi explained that Nezha had killed the sea-patrolling yaksha and the East Sea Third Prince after the sea folk threatened Lingzhuzi, and that they had barbecued the prince's limbs.
• Taiyi Zhenren accepted that the East Sea sea folk deserved a lesson, agreed to handle the Dragon King's grievance, and arranged to teach Nezha on some days while Xiao Li and Lingzhuzi taught him on others.
• Ao Bing went to the Heavenly Court to seek justice, but Taiyi Zhenren warned him to report truthfully about the East Sea tribute.
• Xiao Tian told Haotian that he would take responsibility for his attendant's role in the Third Prince's death and offered to revive the prince if he guarded the Human Clan Saint Teacher Hall for a thousand years.
• Ao Bing recognized Xiao Tian as a Sage and gratefully accepted the arrangement, while Haotian declared the matter settled.

Ao Guang waited outside the Human Clan Holy City for Xiao Tian to return, and Xiao Tian revived Ao Bing with the essence of the tides of Chaos. Ao Bing began guarding the Saint Teacher Hall, while Great Shang and Western Zhou resumed their war against a formidable opponent wielding Five-Colored Divine Light.

• Ao Guang escorted Ao Bing's body to the Human Clan Holy City, but Thousand-Mile Eyes refused to admit him, so Ao Guang remained kneeling outside the gates.
• Zhunti's incarnation urged Daoist Randeng to leave the Chan Sect, and Randeng began considering the Western Sect's offer.
• After three years, Xiao Tian returned and brought Ao Guang and Ao Bing's body into the Saint Teacher Hall.
• Xiao Tian seized the essence of the tides of Chaos and used it to restore Ao Bing's body and life, then assigned him to guard the hall for a thousand years.
• Ao Bing struggled to control the unruly children in the city, who threatened to summon Xiao Li against him.
• At Fairy Maiden Mountain, a Western Zhou fighter used Five-Colored Divine Light to strip Zhao Gongming and Perfected Yuding of their magical treasures.

Xiao Tian explained how he coerced Kong Xuan into aiding Western Zhou and chose a reward that increased the Primordial Heavenly Dao’s backlash. After Kong Xuan defeated Daoist Duobao’s treasure assault, King Zhou Di Xin confronted him using First Phoenix’s Southern Brightness Li Fire, leaving Kong Xuan enraged at the sight of his father’s power.

• Xiao Tian suppressed Kong Xuan, branded him with a Space Lock, and persuaded him to help Western Zhou by promising that King Zhou’s defeat would free First Phoenix.
• Xiao Tian chose the reward that advanced the Primordial Heavenly Dao’s fall, while the Investiture of the Gods Calamity continued to send powerful figures onto its list.
• Kong Xuan used his Five-Colored Divine Light to take Daoist Duobao’s many treasures, prompting Great Shang’s forces to seek a stronger opponent.
• King Zhou Di Xin arrived at the battlefield with the Innate God-Slaying Spear and led the recovered mighty figures to challenge Kong Xuan.
• King Zhou released First Phoenix’s Southern Brightness Li Fire, and Kong Xuan recognized his father’s presence and angrily accused King Zhou of using it against him.

King Zhou fought Kong Xuan, countering his flames, Five-Colored Divine Light, and magical treasures before trapping him and beating him. Kong Xuan learned from First Phoenix that he had been beguiled into aiding Western Zhou, while Sage Zhunti watched the battle and pinned his hopes on a future plan.

• Kong Xuan attacked King Zhou with his Phoenix Flame, but King Zhou's Southern Brightness Li Fire Domain overwhelmed it.
• First Phoenix spoke with Kong Xuan inside the fire and urged him to find a successor for the Feng Huang Clan's legacy; afterward, King Zhou said Kong Xuan had considered switching to Great Zhou if he could be conquered.
• Kong Xuan's Five-Colored Divine Light failed to take the God-Slaying Spear, and King Zhou struck him with the Imperial Dao Divine Fist.
• Kong Xuan used the Heaven-Flipping Seal and other magical treasures, but King Zhou broke through them with the God-Slaying Spear.
• King Zhou trapped Kong Xuan with the Heaven-Confounding Sash and beat him with repeated punches, crushing Western Zhou's morale.
• Sage Zhunti watched from Western Zhou's camp and resolved to trust his plans and Dao Ancestor Hongjun's support for the West.

King Zhou defeated Kong Xuan, but a mysterious power rescued him and the Sages moved to seize the God-Slaying Spear. Xiao Tian intervened, and King Zhou ended the chapter by bringing charges against Zhunti and the other Sages for trying to steal his treasure.

• King Zhou captured Kong Xuan after First Phoenix pleaded with him to stop, but a mysterious crescent moon broke the Heaven-Confounding Sash and a powerful hand carried Kong Xuan away.
• King Zhou’s attack was stopped by a Sage, and he accused Zhunti of rescuing Kong Xuan; Zhunti then tried to seize the God-Slaying Spear as several other Sages intervened.
• Zhunti attacked Wutong, but Xiao Tian nullified his strike and defended her, while Zhunti agreed not to trouble her again.
• King Zhou called on Xiao Tian to save the Human Clan and declared that he was bringing charges against Zhunti and the other Sages for coveting his treasure.
• Ji Fa watched the confrontation and felt defeated and insignificant before the Sages and gods.

King Zhou accused six Sages of coveting the God-Slaying Spear, and Xiao Tian arranged for the dispute to be judged under the Deva Path before agreeing to settle it in Chaos. The chapter left Xiao Tian facing all six Sages at once as their battle began.

• King Zhou accused the Three Pure Ones, Jieyin, Zhunti, and Hongyun of coveting his God-Slaying Spear, and they admitted their interest while arguing it should be suppressed or investigated.
• King Zhou and a million Great Shang soldiers called on Xiao Tian to uphold justice, while the Human Clan’s petitions stirred its fortune and drew the Eye of Deva Path’s judgment upon the Sages.
• Xiao Tian proposed four ways to resolve the dispute, and the Sages chose his fourth proposal: to gather in Chaos and let him seek justice for the Human Clan.
• Xiao Tian and the six Sages traveled to Chaos, where Zhunti proposed that they attack together and the others agreed.
• The six Sages unleashed their attacks on Xiao Tian as the mighty beings gathered in Chaos watched to see the outcome.

Xiao Tian endured the six Sages’ assault inside Tongtian’s Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation, then escaped the encirclement by striking them with a blow that shattered the formation and left them severely injured. After the battle, he demanded compensation and claimed the God-Slaying Spear, ending by striking Hongyun when he objected.

• Yuanshi brought out the Heavenly Celebration Cloud and Pangu Banner, while Tongtian trapped Xiao Tian and the other Sages inside the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation.
• The six Sages attacked Xiao Tian together for years, gradually exhausting the Chaos Bell’s radiance as the formation cut them off from Chaos Qi.
• Xiao Tian withdrew the Chaos Bell and used his remaining magical power to strike the Sages, escaping into the river of time as his attack severely injured them and destroyed the formation.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun blocked the explosion’s aftershocks, and five years later the recovering Sages gathered with Xiao Tian in Purple Cloud Palace.
• Xiao Tian demanded compensation and claimed the God-Slaying Spear; when Hongyun advised sealing it, Xiao Tian struck him and asked who agreed and who objected.

Xiao Tian forced the Sages to accept his decision about the God-Slaying Spear, then learned that an outsider from Chaos had entered the Primordial world. As the outsider tempted Hongyun and the Great Tribulation continued, Yuanshi and Tongtian fell into open conflict over the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation, while Xiao Tian suspected Hongjun had engineered the discord.

• Xiao Tian struck Hongyun twice in the Purple Cloud Palace and secured the Sages’ agreement to let King Zhou keep the God-Slaying Spear under supervision.
• Hongjun warned the Sages that an outsider from Chaos had entered the Primordial world, and Xiao Tian accepted responsibility for hunting it down.
• King Zhou reclaimed the God-Slaying Spear, drove Western Zhou back, and gave Ji Fa’s forces a month to surrender.
• The outsider approached Hongyun in his cave and offered him power, while Xiao Tian tightened controls around the Human Clan Holy City and planned to exploit the threat to the Heavenly Dao.
• Yuanshi worried that Tongtian’s Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation could not be broken without four Sages and considered filling the Investiture of the Gods with Tongtian’s disciples.
• Tongtian confronted Yuanshi after Laozi turned him away, warned that harming his disciples would end the bond of the Three Pure Ones, and Xiao Tian suspected Hongjun had arranged their rift.

King Zhou exploited the feud between Chan Sect and Jiejiao to attack Western Zhou, aided by Nüwa’s combat figurines, but Daoist Cihang destroyed them before King Zhou killed him. Yuanshi Heavenly Venerable and Sect Leader Tongtian stopped the sect battle, while Hongyun realized the Investiture of the Gods was already full.

• King Zhou provoked Guangchengzi and Daoist Duobao into leading their sects into battle, then ordered Grand Preceptor Wen to launch a surprise attack on Western Zhou.
• Lingzhuzi delivered Nüwa’s figurines to King Zhou, who planned to deploy them against Western Zhou’s army.
• A group of Daoists arrived in Ji Fa’s camp, and Western Zhou ended its retreat and marched out to fight Great Shang.
• Daoist Cihang destroyed ten thousand figurines with the Jade Purity Vase, but King Zhou pierced him with the God-Slaying Spear despite Daoist Randeng’s intervention.
• Yuanshi Heavenly Venerable and Sect Leader Tongtian halted the fighting between their disciples, and Yuanshi Heavenly Venerable ordered Guangchengzi back to Jade Void Palace.
• Hongyun discovered that every divine position on the Investiture of the Gods had been filled.

After the Investiture of the Gods ended, Hongjun ordered a new selection for the Heavenly Court, while Xiao Tian and the other Sages pressed Haotian for positions. Xiao Tian secured an incarnation’s appointment as Peach Garden earth god, leaving Haotian to deal with the new races and the Sages’ demands.

• Xiao Tian celebrated the end of the Great Tribulation by healing living beings across the Primordial World and credited Zhunti with helping bring it to a close.
• Hongjun warned that a Chaos anomaly remained and questioned Nüwa about sending her new races to aid Great Shang; he then announced a new selection of Heavenly Court personnel and said the Four Sovereigns would be chosen by destiny.
• Xiao Tian and the Three Pure Ones, Jieyin, and Zhunti went to Haotian, who learned that the Heavenly Court’s posts would be selected anew and asked how Nüwa’s new races should be assigned.
• Xiao Tian summoned Yaochi to the imperial garden and asked her to let his incarnation serve as the Peach Garden’s earth god.
• The figurine beings called Xiao Tian their Great Father God, prompting Xiao Tian to deny that they were his offspring while the others looked unconvinced.

Xiao Tian secured the Peach Garden for his avatar and strengthened his Deva Path abilities after the Primordial Heavenly Dao cleared its suspicions of him. At Empress Wa Palace, his vow to protect Nüwa created a Chaos Matrimonial Stone, and he later discovered that Hongyun’s gift concealed a devouring Chaos Otherkind.

• Xiao Tian persuaded Yaochi to let his avatar guard the Peach Garden, where nearly five thousand Golden Immortal figurine creatures were stationed as guardian gods.
• After leaving the Heavenly Court, Xiao Tian spent achievement points to comprehend the Deva Path, increasing his capabilities and advancing the Time Hourglass into a Chaos Spirit Treasure.
• Xiao Tian promised Nüwa he would protect her, and the Deva Path responded by creating a Chaos Matrimonial Stone that rewarded sincere vows and judged broken ones.
• Xiao Tian and Nüwa visited the Chaos Matrimonial Stone, where the Three Pure Ones, Jieyin, Zhunti, and Hongyun arrived with gifts.
• Xiao Tian found two wisps of devouring Evil Qi hidden in Hongyun’s immortal clouds; they consumed peaches and mimicked them before the Deva Path took the samples away.

Xiao Tian confronted Hongyun about his secret dealings with the Chaos Otherkind, then trapped him in a mysterious void and prepared to replace his thoughts with those of a new, compliant Hongyun. Hongyun released the evil Qi inside him and begged Xiao Tian to spare him.

• The Primordial Heavenly Dao rewarded Xiao Tian with achievement points but revealed that it had failed to find the Chaos Otherkind, so Xiao Tian asked Nüwa to have her figurine creatures investigate.
• Xiao Tian visited the Heavenly Court's Peach Garden, gathered nine-thousand-year peaches, and then went to Hongyun's cave abode.
• Xiao Tian pretended that he and Hongyun were teammates allied with the Chaos Otherkind, making Hongyun panic and deny any connection under oath.
• Xiao Tian froze the space around Hongyun, opened a tunnel into a mysterious void, and overpowered him despite their shared Sagehood.
• Xiao Tian said he would erase Hongyun's thoughts and replace him with a version who was one of them, prompting Hongyun to release his evil Qi and plead for mercy.

Xiao Tian exposed Hongyun as a traitor allied with the Chaos aberrant, then learned Hongyun had sought revenge against him and fought off the aberrant’s attempt to possess him. Xiao Tian killed Hongyun, and the fall of a Sage shocked the Primordial World’s other Sages and Dao Ancestor Hongjun.

• Xiao Tian trapped Hongyun with the Chaos Bell and demanded that he reveal what he knew about the Chaos aberrant.
• Hongyun confessed that the aberrant had promised him power and that he had joined it to gain revenge on Xiao Tian.
• Xiao Tian used Rinnegan Tsukuyomi to uncover Hongyun’s hatred, but the Chaos aberrant urged Hongyun to attack and began transforming him.
• Hongyun’s mutated tentacles and Corpse-Dissolving Soul-Scattering Sand challenged Xiao Tian, who struck him with the Adamantine Staff and killed him.
• Blood-colored rain marked Hongyun’s death, and the other Sages and Dao Ancestor Hongjun reacted with shock and fear.

After Hongyun’s death exposed that Deva Path Sages could fall, Hongjun and the other Sages built the Pilgrimage Tower to counter the Chaos aberration, while Xiao Tian and Nüwa guarded it. Seven hundred years later, the Great Tribulation began, and Xiao Tian watched a spirit stone on Flower-Fruit Mountain start to glow.

• A Chaos aberration tried to tempt Hongjun, who resisted and summoned the Sages to discuss the aberration and the coming Great Tribulation.
• Hongjun revealed that Xiao Tian had killed Hongyun after Hongyun abandoned his Deva Path protections by practicing the aberration’s methods.
• The Sages agreed to build the Pilgrimage Tower, and Xiao Tian and Nüwa took responsibility for guarding it.
• The Pilgrimage Tower’s holy light began purging infected beings, while the Chaos aberration failed to destroy it and continued seeking followers.
• After seven hundred years, Hongjun announced the Great Tribulation as heavenly secrets became chaotic.
• At Flower-Fruit Mountain, Xiao Tian sat on a spirit stone and ate and drank; the stone began to shine.

Xiao Tian met the newly born Sun Wukong and arranged for the East Sea Dragon King to let the monkey take the Sea-Calming Divine Needle. After Ao Bing returned as a Great Luo Golden Immortal and defeated the Eight-Headed Serpent Demon, Xiao Tian checked on Stone Monkey, who had reached Mount Fangcun seeking immortality.

• The spirit stone shattered on Flower-Fruit Mountain, and the golden-furred Intelligent Stone Monkey emerged as Xiao Tian watched.
• Xiao Tian vanished after giving Stone Monkey a bottle of heavenly nectar, which strengthened the monkey and sharpened its senses.
• Stone Monkey entered Water Curtain Cave through the waterfall and became the monkey king of the troop.
• Xiao Tian asked Ao Guang to stage resistance when Stone Monkey later came for the Sea-Calming Divine Needle and gave him a Water-Calming Divine Pearl in exchange.
• Ao Bing returned to the East Sea as a Great Luo Golden Immortal, captured the Eight-Headed Serpent Demon, and gave Ao Guang hope for the Dragon Clan.
• Stone Monkey arrived at Mount Fangcun's Slanting Moon and Three Stars Cave and pleaded with an immortal to teach it the way of immortality.

After three years of waiting, Sun Wukong became Patriarch Bodhi’s disciple and received a mysterious inheritance linked to the Great Sage Equaling Heaven. Meanwhile, the Western Sect and the Heavenly Court arranged the journey west and banished little peach immortal 9527 to the mortal world, prompting Xiao Tian and Nüwa to realize they were being drawn into a scheme.

• Patriarch Bodhi accepted the stone monkey as his disciple, named him Sun Wukong, and gave him a golden thread containing a method to enter the Dao.
• Sun Wukong encountered a vision of the Great Sage Equaling Heaven in his consciousness and gained memories of the Heaven-Equaling Divine Ability, Ruyi Divine Ability, and Deva Path Undying Body.
• Zhunti told Jieyin that he had chosen a candidate for the journey west, and Patriarch Bodhi agreed to send Sun Wukong down the mountain when the time came.
• After receiving a decree from the Dao Ancestor, Haotian ordered little peach immortal 9527 banished to the mortal world for breaking a glass cup whose shards caused harm there.
• Xiao Tian and Nüwa learned that the banishment was part of a scheme to make 9527 an escort on the journey west, while 9527’s tears flooded the Quicksand River region and disrupted its crossings.