Chapter Summaries

Hongxuan returned to Biyou Palace after protecting both sides during the battle between Sages, while Laozi made killing him his foremost goal. Lord Tongtian mourned the Jie Sect’s losses, and Hongxuan urged him to strike back at the Chan Sect.

• Laozi took Xuandu back to Shouyang Mountain and resolved to kill Hongxuan before dealing with Lord Tongtian.
• The soldiers and people of Shang and Western Qi praised Hongxuan for protecting them, and they learned that he was Emperor Ziwei of the Heavenly Court.
• Hongxuan returned to Biyou Palace, where Lord Tongtian grieved over the Jie Sect immortals lost in the Investiture of the Gods.
• Lord Tongtian recognized that Hongxuan’s strength and potential had made him a threat to Laozi.
• Hongxuan told Lord Tongtian that the Chan Sect had acted with malice and that they must strike back.

After the Jie Sect suffered heavy losses in battle, Lord Tongtian ordered its disciples to prepare for a final confrontation with the Chan Sect and Human Sect in the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation. Hongxuan prepared to face Laozi’s schemes while hoping the battle would change the Jie Sect’s fate.

• Duobao called for revenge after the Chan Sect killed many Jie Sect disciples through joint assaults.
• Lord Tongtian noticed that Guiling’s death tribulation aura had nearly faded and suspected Hongxuan had helped her.
• Lord Tongtian ordered Duobao to summon the Jie Sect’s disciples for the final battle, except those who had already escaped their fatal tribulations.
• Lord Tongtian announced that he would establish the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation and settle matters with the Chan Sect and Human Sect.
• Hongxuan focused on guarding against Laozi and began plotting how to turn Laozi’s schemes against him.

The Shang-Zhou War grew more chaotic as cultivators fought and died to fill the Investiture of the Gods, while the Four Sects tried to keep their own disciples from being listed. The chapter left the battlefield steeped in tribulation aura powerful enough to cloud even Grand Luo Golden Immortals and affect Quasi-Sages.

• Duobao trusted that the Jie Sect could no longer be destroyed as it had in Destiny, though it might still suffer heavy losses.
• Cultivators and ambitious factions joined the expanding war, while deaths caused the Investiture of the Gods’ lower-ranking slots to fill.
• The chapter explained that the highest Heavenly Court positions were reserved for powerful figures, including reincarnated beings such as Bi Gan and Huang Feihu.
• The Four Sects sought to have rival disciples listed rather than their own, while ordinary cultivators entered the war hoping to gain a place in the Heavenly Court.
• Many would-be candidates died without qualifying for the Investiture and went to the Netherworld, sometimes facing animal reincarnation because of their accumulated karma.
• The battlefield’s blood-red tribulation aura intensified, clouding Grand Luo Golden Immortals and threatening even Quasi-Sages.

Yang Jiao rescued Yang Jian from Yuan Hong and the other attackers, then left to return to Mount Wuyi after completing his killing tribulation. As Western Qi advanced toward Chaoge, Deng Jiugong and his daughter were defeated and killed, while the Chan Sect’s forces and Jiang Ziya’s schemes remained in the way.

• Yang Jiao entered the battle to save Yang Jian, killing the enemies around him while leaving Yuan Hong for his younger brother to face.
• Yang Jian defeated and beheaded Yuan Hong, completing the fight despite Yuan Hong’s Earthly Fiend 72 Transformations.
• Yang Jiao warned Yang Jian to beware of the masters behind him and of Haotian, then said he would return to Mount Wuyi and later serve as the Guardian War God of the Ziwei Imperial Palace.
• Western Qi’s army advanced toward Chaoge after Deng Jiugong’s forces, which had obstructed its route, were overwhelmed.
• Deng Jiugong and his daughter died and were listed, while many cultivators in his army also died, entered reincarnation, or turned to ashes.
• The Chan Sect’s third-generation and lower-ranked disciples remained active, and Jiang Ziya continued to threaten the opposition with his schemes.

After Western Qi defeated successive Shang armies, its advance toward Chaoge halted as the Chan Sect and Jie Sect gathered for their final battle. Lord Tongtian’s disciples began preparing the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation, while Laozi secretly focused on eliminating Hongxuan.

• Deng Jiugong’s army was destroyed, and Deng Jiugong and Deng Chanyu were expected to enter the Investiture of the Gods.
• Kong Xuan slaughtered Western Qi’s forces until Zhunti subdued him and took him to the West.
• The growing casualties intensified the tribulation aura, and Western Qi’s army stopped advancing as both sides declared a truce.
• Chan Sect and Human Sect disciples gathered at Western Qi’s camp while Jie Sect immortals assembled with the Shang Dynasty’s army.
• Duobao, Wudang, Holy Mother Guiling, and the other Jie Sect leaders began setting up the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation.

As the final battle of the Investiture of the Gods War approached, Hongxuan concealed himself near the battlefield while the Sages arrived and the Three Xiao Sisters asked Houtu whether they should join the fight. Haotian and Yaochi watched from the Heavenly Court and discussed securing its authority while maintaining good relations with Hongxuan.

• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Lord Tongtian arrived as the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation’s aura spread across the battlefield, and Hongxuan secretly watched while planning to strike back at Laozi.
• The Three Xiao Sisters asked Houtu whether they should join the final battle, and she told them to remain in the Netherworld because they had escaped the tribulation and Yuanshi might target them.
• Houtu reassured the Three Xiao Sisters that Hongxuan was difficult for a Sage to kill and promised to intervene if he faced mortal danger.
• Haotian and Yaochi watched the Three Sects enter the battle and discussed how the Heavenly Court could use the coming influx of divine officials while strengthening their own power.
• Haotian and Yaochi agreed to maintain good relations with Hongxuan but remain cautious of the Jie Sect’s influence, and Haotian acknowledged the oppressive presence he felt whenever he met Hongxuan.

As the Three Sects faced off at the Shang-Zhou Battlefield, the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation was ready and Yuanshi ordered the Chan Sect to attack. Just as Lord Tongtian prepared to enter the formation, the Two Sages of the West arrived, leaving Laozi, Yuanshi, and Lord Tongtian wary and confused.

• Haotian resolved to reorganize his relationships with the Heavenly Court gods after the Investiture Great Tribulation.
• The powers of the Primordial Wilderness watched the battlefield and restrained their factions from joining the slaughter.
• Laozi urged Lord Tongtian to withdraw the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation and plead with Dao Ancestor Hongjun.
• Lord Tongtian rejected Laozi's appeal and challenged Yuanshi to settle the conflict between their sects.
• Yuanshi ordered Guang Chengzi and the Chan Sect disciples to attack the formation, and Guang Chengzi led them inside.
• Two nine-colored auspicious clouds carrying the Two Sages of the West appeared, making Laozi, Yuanshi, and Lord Tongtian suspicious.

Yuanshi, Lord Tongtian, Laozi, Jieyin, and Zhunti entered the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation amid deep distrust and competing schemes. Jieyin and Zhunti joined Laozi and Yuanshi to surround Lord Tongtian, while disciples from the Four Sects scattered through the formation to fight.

• Yuanshi suspected that Laozi and the Western Sages were plotting against him and Lord Tongtian, while resenting Cihang, Daoist Randeng, and Juliusun for joining the Western Sect.
• Zhunti said the Western Sect had come to complete its disciples’ killing tribulations and would choose its allies according to circumstances.
• Lord Tongtian and Yuanshi entered the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation, and Laozi followed after casting a strange glance at Jieyin and Zhunti.
• Jieyin and Zhunti agreed to help Laozi and Yuanshi besiege Lord Tongtian, then convert Jie Sect and Chan Sect disciples and settle their grievances with Yuanshi.
• Jieyin and Zhunti entered the formation and joined Laozi and Yuanshi in surrounding Lord Tongtian as disciples from the Four Sects sought opponents throughout the formation.

Duobao and Guang Chengzi fought to prove the superiority of their sects, while Holy Mother Guiling faced Mosquito Daoist in a fight to the death. Hongxuan was confronted by three unknown late-stage Quasi-Sages whose identities and origins resisted his deductions.

• Duobao and Guang Chengzi began a full-strength duel, each relying on his own Great Dao and spiritual treasures to defeat the other.
• Holy Mother Guiling attacked Mosquito Daoist, seeking to avenge Immortal Chang'er Dingguang and survive the foe she had identified as her fatal tribulation.
• Hongxuan waited in the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation for the trap he suspected Yuanshi or Laozi had prepared.
• Three unfamiliar late-stage Quasi-Sages surrounded Hongxuan in a Heaven, Earth, and Man triad formation.
• Hongxuan tried to use his arts to uncover the three figures' origins, but his calculations failed.

Hongxuan confronted three late-stage Quasi-Sages who despised his cultivation of the Law of Destiny and had been sent by Laozi to kill him. He defeated them with a single use of the Azure Lotus Sword Scripture, while his suspicions about their origins remained unresolved.

• The three Quasi-Sages revealed their hostility toward Hongxuan's Law of Destiny, but refused to explain their identities or why they wanted him dead.
• Hongxuan questioned whether they bore a grudge against him, Lord Tongtian, or the Jie Sect, and they said they simply disliked him.
• Hongxuan drew the Qingping Sword and attacked the three with the Azure Lotus Sword Scripture.
• The three formed the Three Talents Formation, raising their combined cultivation to Quasi-Sage perfection.
• Hongxuan's sword qi pierced the formation and struck all three, shattering their defenses and ravaging their bodies and primordial spirits.

Hongxuan killed three Quasi-Sages and discovered that Laozi’s good corpse incarnation, the Grand Supreme Elderly Lord, had come to fight him. They agreed to settle their karma in a battle of life and death, and Hongxuan prepared his treasures as their confrontation began.

• Hongxuan killed the three Quasi-Sages with sword qi, and their True Spirits flew toward the Investiture of the Gods.
• Hongxuan called out Laozi’s hidden good corpse incarnation, the Grand Supreme Elderly Lord, and recognized his sub-Sage strength.
• The Grand Supreme Elderly Lord said he had come to settle their karma through a contest that would also be a battle of life and death.
• Hongxuan and the Grand Supreme Elderly Lord agreed to fight, with the loser destined for the Investiture of the Gods.
• Hongxuan summoned the Twelfth-Grade White Lotus of Purification and the Karma Jade Tablet as the Grand Supreme Elderly Lord praised the treasure.

Hongxuan defeated Grand Supreme Elderly Lord, Laozi’s good-corpse incarnation, while Lord Tongtian fought four Sages using the combined Ten Thousand Immortals Formation, Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, and Chaos Bell. Jieyin and Zhunti prepared to exploit the battle by converting or killing disciples of the Three Sects, as Hongxuan resolved to kill Grand Supreme Elderly Lord.

• Lord Tongtian activated the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation within the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation and trapped Laozi, Yuanshi, Jieyin, and Zhunti inside it.
• Lord Tongtian combined the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation, the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, and the Chaos Bell, then attacked Jieyin and Zhunti with sword qi.
• Jieyin and Zhunti secretly planned to convert disciples of the Three Sects, kill those who resisted, and send their souls to the Investiture of the Gods.
• Hongxuan struck Grand Supreme Elderly Lord with enough force to make him spit blood and fly backward.
• Hongxuan explained that Grand Supreme Elderly Lord was no match for him and decided to kill him to prevent Laozi from using him against Jie Sect.

Hongxuan killed Grand Supreme Elderly Lord’s Three Corpses incarnation in the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation, and the incarnation entered the Investiture of the Gods. Haotian learned that Hongxuan had reached the Sub-Sage realm and looked forward to making the fallen incarnation serve the Heavenly Court.

• Hongxuan struck Grand Supreme Elderly Lord’s incarnation with the Karma Jade Tablet, destroying its body and primordial spirit.
• The incarnation was bound by the Investiture of the Gods and flew into it, while Laozi’s roar and strange phenomena spread across the Primordial Wilderness.
• Haotian and Yaochi realized that a Sage’s incarnation had fallen and entered the Investiture of the Gods.
• Haotian identified Hongxuan as the one who killed the incarnation and learned that Hongxuan had reached the Sub-Sage realm.
• Haotian anticipated that the incarnation would join the Heavenly Court and imagined it bowing beneath him.

After Hongxuan killed Laozi’s good corpse, Houtu and the Three Xiao Sisters prepared to protect him from the Sages’ retaliation. Inside the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation, Tongtian refused to open the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, while Holy Mother Guiling’s battle with Mosquito Daoist continued.

• Houtu and the Three Xiao Sisters watched Hongxuan and vowed to intervene if Laozi or Hongjun threatened him.
• Laozi sensed his good corpse’s death and erupted in fury, while Jieyin and Zhunti planned to send their Three Corpses incarnations into action.
• Tongtian refused Laozi’s demand to open the formation and challenged the four Sages to break the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation themselves.
• Holy Mother Guiling fought Mosquito Daoist in a formation space where the other beings had been killed or devoured.
• Guiling and Mosquito Daoist fought with lethal intent, but neither had gained the advantage before the chapter ended.

Holy Mother Guiling killed the Mosquito Daoist after a mysterious monk wounded him, but the monk’s attempt to reclaim the Three-Petal Golden Lotus of Merit was interrupted by Yuanshi’s incarnation. Their battle left Guiling trapped in the path of Chaos Sword Qi, facing certain death.

• A powerful monk appeared in Guiling and the Mosquito Daoist’s battle and shattered the Mosquito Daoist’s proboscis with his prayer beads.
• Guiling seized the chance to kill the wounded Mosquito Daoist, whose True Spirit carried the Three-Petal Golden Lotus of Merit toward the Investiture of the Gods.
• Jieyin’s incarnation tried to recover the lotus, but Yuanshi’s incarnation struck with the Pangu Banner and drove it out of his reach.
• Yuanshi’s incarnation attacked Jieyin’s incarnation with Chaos Sword Qi, and stray sword energy trapped Guiling as she faced death.

Holy Mother Guiling was rescued from the battlefield and returned to Golden Ao Island, where Hongxuan warned her not to reenter the tribulation. In the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation, Sage Receiving learned of his avatar’s fall and realized it had revealed a new path for the Western Sect.

• A golden barrier carried Holy Mother Guiling away from the Chaos Sword Qi and returned her to Golden Ao Island.
• Blood rain spread across the Primordial Wilderness, signaling that a Sage had fallen, and Hongxuan warned Guiling to stay out of the battle.
• Sage Receiving confronted Yuanshi after Yuanshi destroyed his good-corpse avatar, and the two turned their attacks on each other.
• Yuanshi revealed that he had used the Mosquito Daoist to lure Sage Receiving into an interception and killed the avatar with the Pangu Banner.
• Sage Receiving discovered a secret through the avatar’s fall, thanked Yuanshi, and declared that he had found a new path for the Western Sect.

Laozi escaped Lord Tongtian’s formations and attacked Hongxuan with the Taiji Diagram to avenge the Grand Supreme Elderly Lord. Hongxuan met the Sage’s assault with the Karma Jade Tablet, and the clash shook the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation as he realized Laozi’s attacks were weaker than expected.

• Jieyin dragged out his fight with Yuanshi while Zhunti withdrew to support him without joining the battle.
• Laozi’s incarnation, the Grand Supreme Elderly Lord, was slain by Hongxuan, and Laozi grew furious as he fought Lord Tongtian.
• Laozi seized a lapse in Lord Tongtian’s defenses, escaped the battle zone, and headed for Hongxuan with the Taiji Diagram.
• Hongxuan anticipated Laozi’s retaliation and calmly faced his attack with the Karma Jade Tablet.
• Their clash shattered parts of the formation space and shook the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation, while Hongxuan noticed Laozi’s attacks were weaker than he had expected.

Hongxuan stopped Jieyin and Zhunti from taking Duobao and Wudang while the Sages’ battle spiraled out of control. He escaped with the remaining Jie Sect disciples as the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation shattered and the Primordial Wilderness began to break apart.

• Hongxuan blocked Laozi’s attack, but Lord Tongtian arrived and struck Laozi with the Chaos Bell and Immortal-Slaying Four Swords.
• Jieyin and Zhunti swept up disciples from all Three Sects, including Guang Chengzi and Chijingzi, intending to convert them in the West.
• Hongxuan used the Karma Jade Tablet to stop Jieyin and Zhunti from taking Duobao and Wudang.
• Yuanshi recalled his Three Corpse incarnations and unleashed the Pangu Banner’s Chaos Sword Qi indiscriminately.
• Hongxuan withdrew with Duobao, Wudang, and the remaining Jie Sect disciples as the Sages’ attacks shattered the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation and split the earth.

The Sages’ battle devastated the Primordial Wilderness, and Dao Ancestor Hongjun arrived to stop the destruction and restore the world. He divided the realm into four continents and transformed its remaining land fragments into planets.

• The Three Purities and the Two Sages of the West unleashed attacks that destroyed countless beings and split apart the Primordial Wilderness.
• The Sages realized the devastation they had caused as Dao Ancestor Hongjun arrived and halted the destruction.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun restored the ruined lands and seas, then declared the Primordial Continent to be the Earth Immortal Realm.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun named the four continents Dongsheng Shenzhou, Nanzhan Buzhou, Xiniu Hezhou, and Beiju Luzhou.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun gathered the remaining land fragments and formed them into planets of varying sizes.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun established the Mortal Realm and barred Sages from the Earth Immortal Realm after the Shang-Zhou war ended, leaving the blue planet to develop without immortal interference. Yuanshi failed to reclaim key Chan Sect disciples from Jieyin and Zhunti, while Lord Tongtian blamed Yuanshi and Laozi for the Jie Sect’s losses.

• Hongjun formed the Mortal Realm from the scattered stars, forbade Celestial Immortals and above from entering it, and decreed that mortals who became immortals would ascend to the Earth Immortal Realm or Heavenly Court.
• King Zhou burned himself alive when Jiang Ziya’s army besieged his city, and his True Spirit entered the Investiture of the Gods as the Shang-Zhou war ended.
• Rules expelled beings above the Celestial Immortal realm from the planet, returned Jiang Ziya and others to the Earth Immortal Realm, and concealed the blue planet from the Sages.
• Hongjun ordered the Sages to finish the Investiture of the Gods and leave the Earth Immortal Realm within ten thousand years, warning that disobedience would bring heavenly punishment.
• Yuanshi demanded that Jieyin and Zhunti return Guang Chengzi and Chijingzi, but they refused and departed, saying the two would become Buddha Ancestors in the West.
• Lord Tongtian blamed Yuanshi and Laozi for the Jie Sect’s losses and judged that Yuanshi’s schemes had let the West take the greatest benefit.