Recaps

Li Boyang and Changxi discussed why Jinhong could survive the destruction of the Six Paths of Reincarnation, while Li Boyang suspected Xiluo had taught him more forbidden techniques. Jinhong then revealed his trump card against Changxi: Nailhead Seven Arrows.

• Changxi explained that Jinhong’s Supreme Yin Body Refinement let him restore his body or Primordial Spirit as long as either survived, and the Six Paths of Reincarnation further adapted him to past attacks.
• Li Boyang questioned Xiluo about what else she had taught Jinhong, and her silence made him suspect she had passed on a heaven-defying technique.
• Jinhong summoned the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, revealing that its vicious ghost kings were only sacrifices for his real attack.
• Jinhong formed an altar, a paper effigy resembling Changxi, and a mulberry-branch bow with seven peach-branch arrows as the Vermilion Bird identified Nailhead Seven Arrows.
• Jinhong aimed at the effigy as a vast talismanic sacrificial formation capable of overturning cause and effect took shape.

Jinhong used Nailhead Seven Arrows to curse Changxi, forcing Changxi to abandon his scrambled spacetime and summon versions of himself from across time to face Jinhong. As the conflict around Kunlun stalled, Zhenwu and the future Purple Tenuity Emperor discussed the star god’s identity and the Purple Tenuity Star’s place in the present era.

• Jinhong’s first arrow pierced the straw effigy’s left eye, causing Changxi unbearable pain, and Vermilion Bird explained how Nailhead Seven Arrows could kill even a Dao Proving One.
• Jinhong prepared to fire a second arrow while Changxi decided to recall the jade shuttle, restore normal chronology, and summon past versions of himself.
• The forces of Great Golden Crow and Heng'e slowed their fighting after a beam of light rose from Kunlun, and an unseen force prevented everyone from approaching the Heavenly Emperor’s Capital.
• On Tianshu Star, Zhenwu identified himself as Star Lord Tanlang, foremost of the Big Dipper Star Lords, after the future Purple Tenuity Emperor questioned who he was.
• The Purple Tenuity Emperor said the Purple Tenuity Star had existed since ancient times and asked whether it could shine in this era.

The Purple Tenuity Emperor discussed trying to claim authority over the Heavenly Emperor with Star Lord Tanlang, who refused to support his plans. Elsewhere, Houtu confronted the Netherworld Lord about his return and his possible claim to the title of August Heaven.

• The Purple Tenuity Emperor suggested the Purple Tenuity Star could shine in this era and sought to bring the Heavenly Emperor under its authority.
• Star Lord Tanlang called the plan mad, warned that Wu Jun might still be alive, and threatened to ask Lady Houtu to stop the Purple Tenuity Emperor.
• At Kunlun, Houtu confronted the Netherworld Lord and explained that Jinhong's supposed theft of his power had helped him revive.
• Houtu questioned whether the Netherworld Lord intended to return as the Yin Son of Heaven or become this era's August Heaven.
• The Netherworld Lord said Wu Jun's presence ruled out any claim to August Heaven and explained that Houtu's throne was bound to her across spacetimes, while he had only happened to become August Heaven in her era.

Houtu and the Netherworld Lord discussed whether the Zhoutian Star God System could descend into the era and whether Hao Jun and Wu Jun were dead. As the Ten Golden Crows and other forces descended to confront Heng'e, Wangshu and Jinjiao suspected Wu Jun remained alive and the turmoil was nearing its end.

• Houtu told the Netherworld Lord that the era was ready for the Zhoutian Star God System, and he questioned whether Hao Jun and Wu Jun were dead and whether Wangshu could bring it here.
• Houtu said she had nothing else to do and might as well try, revealing that she was Wu Yao from a distant future branch who had become the undying Houtu.
• The Great Golden Crow and Heng'e's counterattack sent stars and ten Golden Crows plunging toward the earth, while the Celestial Star Gods could not descend in their true bodies.
• Yinjiao, Jinjiao, and Wangshu stopped fighting and watched from the moon's shadow as the starry sky grew quiet.
• Wangshu asked where her Teacher was, and Jinjiao said he could appear anywhere and suggested Wu Jun and the others might soon appear.
• Wangshu insisted Wu Jun could not have died quietly, and Jinjiao remarked that the eight hundred years of turmoil seemed close to ending.

The Netherworld Lord redirected the Long Stairway of Divine Ascension to the Netherworld, prompting the Great Golden Crow, Heng'e, and their allies to attack its reflection at Kunlun. At the Palace of Vast Cold, Chang'e explained to Lingxi why the gods could not leave the Great Yin Star, while the Netherworld Lord’s purpose remained unclear.

• The Great Golden Crow reached Mount Kunlun and attacked the Netherworld’s reflection after discovering that the Long Stairway of Divine Ascension no longer led to the Heavenly Emperor's Capital.
• Shentu and Yulü blocked the Great Golden Crow’s True Solar Fire, and the Great Golden Crow accused the Netherworld Lord of controlling events.
• Heng'e arrived and used the power of Great Yin to drive Netherworld Qi back and erode the Netherworld.
• The remaining nine Golden Crows, the Heavenly Emperor's subjects, and some Dao Proving Ones joined the assault on the Netherworld’s reflection.
• At the Palace of Vast Cold, Chang'e told Lingxi that the Netherworld Lord’s pressure prevented most gods from going to Kunlun, while Bai Ze had gone with Heng'e anyway.
• Lingxi asked what the Netherworld Lord intended as she watched the Netherworld’s reflection replace the Heavenly Emperor's Capital above Kunlun.

Divine Lord Meng Zhang and Ink Qilin questioned why the Netherworld Lord had issued a sweeping warning that cut the Heavenly Emperor’s Capital off from the outside world. Li Boyang used the Kunlun Mirror to contact Wu Jun beyond the two realms and revealed that he had held the key to finding him all along.

• Divine Lord Meng Zhang wondered why the Netherworld Lord had acted first and threatened even neutral Dao Proving Ones.
• Ink Qilin suggested that the Netherworld Lord must have had a reason he could not avoid acting.
• Xiluo asked Li Boyang why the Netherworld Lord had severed the Heavenly Emperor’s Capital from reality, and Li Boyang activated the Kunlun Mirror.
• Wu Jun appeared in the mirror, and Xiluo recognized him as Hao Jun.
• Li Boyang told Wu Jun that the Lord had searched for him but had never realized Li Boyang possessed the key to his location.

Li Boyang explained that Wu Jun had engineered centuries of turmoil to draw powerful Dao Proving Ones into his era and seize their Daos. Wu Jun admitted that, with no future of his own, he intended to plunder those Daos and become the Creator.

• Li Boyang and Wu Jun explained that the Kunlun Mirror could reach other worlds and spacetime beyond the known past, present, and future.
• Li Boyang described his own path of uniting all Daos and contrasted it with Wu Jun's more extreme ambition.
• Li Boyang revealed that Wu Jun had deliberately caused eight hundred years of turmoil to lure Dao Proving Ones from across time into his era.
• Li Boyang said Wu Jun had arranged the conflict between the Great Golden Crow and Heng'e to intensify spacetime upheaval and attract stronger Dao Proving Ones.
• Wu Jun acknowledged that he intended to plunder their Daos and become the Creator who stood above all things.

Wu Jun explained that he had orchestrated conflict across time and space to gather Dao Paths and complete his Dao of Creation, while Li Boyang deduced that Wu Jun intended to turn the Heavenly Emperor's Capital into a mature world by consuming the Dao Proving Ones. The Lord had intervened to stop that plan, leaving Wu Jun one step from Dao Proving.

• Wu Jun told Xiluo that he pursued becoming a Creator despite the costs to his family and friends, and explained that his chosen succession contenders had been Jun'er and Lu'er.
• Li Boyang deduced that Wu Jun had meant for his sons to shoulder historical duties and harvest Dao Paths, but the Lord's interference caused Lu'er, rather than the future Heavenly Emperor Lu Ya, to return with inherited memories.
• Wu Jun said that the Lord's intervention triggered further changes, but the resulting deaths of Dao Proving Ones and the Celestial Star Gods' Dao Paths had brought his Dao of Creation close to completion.
• Xiluo realized that the Lord had acted to prevent more Dao Proving Ones from entering the battle, and Li Boyang explained that the Lord sought to surpass him rather than merely imitate him.
• Li Boyang concluded that Wu Jun planned to devour the Dao Proving Ones' power and Dao Paths to mature the Heavenly Emperor's Capital into a world, which would let him seize their Dao Paths across time and space.
• Li Boyang suspected that the Netherworld Lord had also indirectly influenced the Great Golden Crow and Heng'e to close the Long Stairway of Divine Ascension eight hundred years earlier.

Wu Jun opened a new world outside the present world and the Netherworld, intending to prove an eternal Dao there. His newborn realm formed heaven and earth but remained lifeless and motionless, leaving his plan in doubt.

• Xiluo realized that Wu Jun was splitting heaven and earth in primordial chaos to create a world independent of the present world and the Netherworld.
• Xiluo deduced that the new world had no Long River of Time, allowing Wu Jun to prove an eternal Dao that would endure when time eventually began.
• Wu Jun explained that he had prepared this backup plan after the Lord severed the connection to the Heavenly Emperor's Capital and blocked his original path to Dao Proving.
• Wu Jun said the Lord's intervention had forced him to take a riskier but more rewarding route, where he could reshape time and become an Ancient One.
• Xiluo pointed out that Wu Jun's new world was motionless and lifeless, while chaotic natural disasters formed within its rigid order.

Jinhong’s seventh Nailhead Seven Arrows strike destroyed Changxi’s body and straw effigy, but Wu Jun intervened with a sigh that shattered Jinhong’s ritual and burned away his undying body. Jinhong realized the immense gap between his power and Wu Jun’s, then saw the formless chaos beyond the two realms reflected above the Netherworld.

• Jinhong’s sixth arrow destroyed Changxi’s body, leaving only her undying soul as the seventh arrow struck the straw effigy.
• Wu Jun’s sigh preserved Changxi’s soul and shattered Jinhong’s altar and Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Wu Jun’s radiance swept away the outsiders and burned away Jinhong’s undying body.
• Jinhong revived in the Netherworld and realized Wu Jun could erase his remaining undying soul.
• Jinhong saw spacetime rifts above the Netherworld reveal the formless chaos beyond the two realms.

A deathly silent embryonic world appeared across the living world, the Netherworld, and the River of Time, revealing that Wu Jun had opened a new world in pursuit of Dao Proving. The Netherworld Lord explained that Wu Jun’s impatience and slaughter had disrupted the future, and Wu Jun was now paying the price.

• A reflection of an embryonic world appeared throughout the living world and Netherworld, startling Heng'e, Lu Ya, and the smallest Golden Crow.
• The Great Golden Crow said that Father God had probably failed at Dao Proving.
• A speck of light spread through the embryonic world and illuminated all three overlapping worlds as sunlight.
• Wu Jun appeared at the sun’s core, immense enough to hold up the new world’s heaven and earth.
• Houtu recognized that Wu Jun had forcibly opened an imperfect world to prove his Dao.
• The Netherworld Lord said Wu Jun had slaughtered Dao Proving Ones and plundered their Dao Paths to complete the new world, and declared that Wu Jun was paying for his actions.

As Wu Jun’s actions caused the mortal world, Netherworld, and new world to overlap, Chaos Devil Gods emerged and began corrupting the starry sky. Heng'e and Lu Ya broke from their battles to defend the moons, while Lu Ya faced a second Devil God that spawned twisted creatures.

• The Dao Proving Ones realized the Lord had kept them from entering Kunlun to prevent them from becoming concepts in the new world, as the three worlds’ boundaries began to collapse.
• Star Lord Tanlang and the Purple Tenuity Emperor recognized the approaching disasters as Chaos Devil Gods, and the first one appeared with a twisted moon face.
• Heng'e left her fight with the Nether God and raced toward the starry sky as the moon-faced Devil God attacked the Great Yin Star and corrupted the twelve moons.
• The Great Golden Crow called to Lu Ya, who severed the Devil God’s tentacles with True Solar Fire while Shentu engaged another Golden Crow.
• A second Chaos Devil God appeared near Lu Ya, and a twisted head grew from his neck before he cut it off and turned to confront the creature’s cloudlike true body.
• Lu Ya unleashed intense heat across the surrounding area to stop the second Devil God from infecting more creatures.

Heng'e used the Twelve Yuanchen Grand Formation to weaken the Chaos Devil God born from the Dao of Great Yin, but a far stronger devil god formed from the Dao of the Sun descended and defeated her. As her sisters were scattered across the starry sky and she faced death, Heng'e remembered Dayi.

• Heng'e activated the Twelve Yuanchen Grand Formation to protect her younger sisters and confront the distorted moon face.
• The Great Yin Star Lord weakened the Chaos Devil God of Great Yin and restored the Dao of Great Yin to order.
• The Sun Star manifested a distorted face, and Dao Proving Ones joined the fight to stop the world's order from collapsing while cursing Wu Jun.
• The Chaos Devil God of the Sun defeated Heng'e, then blasted the eleven moon goddesses into the starry sky with a solar storm.
• Heng'e protected her sisters from the worst of the attack and, as she faced death, remembered Dayi.

Li Xuandu rescued Heng'e from the solar storm and explained why Dayi had not come to face her. Meanwhile, Wu Jun struggled to keep his newborn world from collapsing, realizing it could not survive without the Three Thousand Great Daos.

• Li Xuandu shielded Heng'e from the solar storm with nine golden dragons and a white lotus, then revealed himself as the Houyi she knew.
• Li Xuandu told Heng'e that Dayi did not know how to face her after she disguised herself as Chang'e, and refused to carry messages between them.
• Wu Jun strained to hold his newborn world together as chaos vortices spread through it and threatened to destroy it.
• Wu Jun wondered whether the world could survive without the Three Thousand Great Daos, which formed the foundations of a flourishing world.

As Wu Jun struggled to create a world without mastering all three thousand Great Daos, Changxi used the Jade Disc of Creation to merge with the Heavenly Dao and set the newborn world in motion. The world became a universe, while Changxi’s will began to disappear.

• Wu Jun refused Changxi’s offer to buy him time, knowing her soul was already damaged, and protested when she insisted on helping him.
• Changxi recognized that the jade shuttle Wu Jun had given her contained the Jade Disc of Creation, and revealed that Vermilion Bird had helped her understand its nature.
• Changxi rose past Wu Jun’s attempt to stop her and merged with the Heavenly Dao, becoming a great moon opposite the sun that Wu Jun had become.
• The moon’s appearance set time flowing, ended the world’s disasters, and filled the once-empty realm with activity.
• Changxi used the Jade Disc of Creation’s power to give the world space and time, forming the universe as her own will faded.

After Changxi sacrificed herself to help Li Boyang reach the newborn universe, Wu Jun recovered his resolve and prepared to continue his work. Xiluo used her treasures to stabilize and shape the world, while Changxi’s new moon began shining over it.

• Li Boyang appeared in the newborn universe with the Kunlun Mirror, and Xiluo followed him while reflecting on Changxi’s sacrifice.
• Wu Jun explained that Changxi had hidden a fragment of the Jade Disc of Creation and vowed not to waste the choice she had made for him.
• Xiluo took her Ominous Deity form and used the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the Land, the Jade Pool Heavenly Book, and the Taiji Diagram to establish Yuan Qi and stabilize the world.
• Xiluo brought out dozens of Law Treasures, including the Heaven-Overturning Seal, and repeatedly struck the ground to flatten and compact it.
• Changxi’s moon suddenly shone like a jade plate across the realm, though a faint gap remained in its surface.

Wu Jun began proving her Dao before the Long River of Time enveloped the world, but Li Boyang redirected her from trying to master all three thousand Great Daos toward the Dao of Great Unity. Using Wu Jun as the sun, they established the world’s first Dao Paths and accelerated its evolution by tens of millions of years.

• Li Boyang warned Wu Jun that she had to prove her Dao before the Long River of Time finished enveloping the world, and Wu Jun began her attempt to unfold all three thousand Great Daos.
• Li Boyang rebuked Wu Jun’s ambition to become the Creator and told her to focus on a single Dao.
• Li Boyang expounded the Dao of Great Unity and advised Wu Jun to use her identity as the sun to give rise to this world’s own three thousand Great Daos.
• Wu Jun accepted Li Boyang’s guidance, and the primordial ocean and atmosphere emerged as the world’s first Dao Paths, completing its earth, fire, water, and wind.
• Li Boyang manifested the Black and Yellow Tower to accelerate the world’s evolution, and the Jade Disc of Creation responded by advancing its timeline tens of millions of years.

Li Boyang used the [Heaven and Earth Black and Yellow Exquisite Pagoda] to accelerate and stabilize the newborn world, while Houtu and the Netherworld Lord confronted the chaos threatening the Three Realms. As the battles continued, a goddess from the distant future descended into the past without being hindered by karma or paradoxes.

• Houtu explained that Li Boyang could use the [Jade Disc of Creation] and the [Heaven and Earth Black and Yellow Exquisite Pagoda] to wield the Dao of Time without becoming its master.
• The Netherworld Lord abandoned his own designs on the [Jade Disc of Creation] and asked Houtu how they would stabilize the Three Realms amid the Chaos Devil Gods’ destruction.
• Houtu took responsibility for the mortal world while the Netherworld Lord returned to the Netherworld.
• The Netherworld Lord’s return caused the nether gods and Yin Deities to break away, closing the passage between the mortal world and the Netherworld.
• The mortal world’s gods and Dao Proving Ones fought the Chaos Devil Gods as the Dao Proving Ones worked to stabilize the era.
• A goddess from hundreds of millions of years in the future descended through the Long River of Time, unaffected by karma or paradoxes.

Houtu crossed from the future into the past and helped the earth summon the Zhoutian Star Dou Grand Formation to fight the Chaos Devil Gods. In the collapsing Three Realms, the Netherworld Lord explained Houtu’s nature to Jinhong and reminded him that they first had to survive the Great Kalpa.

• Houtu entered the past and molded the land, causing the earth to reject the Chaos Devil Gods and the heavens’ stars to blaze.
• Wangshu arrived as Primordial Sovereign Doumu with Jinjiao and Yinjiao, then used her star chart to summon the Zhoutian Star Dou Grand Formation.
• Jinhong saw Xiluo stabilize a new world and watched Houtu intervene in the present, leaving him astonished by their power.
• The Netherworld Lord told Jinhong that Houtu united countless future possibilities and could interfere with the past.
• Jinhong asked whether the Netherworld Lord had arranged his life, and the Netherworld Lord acknowledged his revenge while insisting they must first survive the Great Kalpa.
• Jinhong accepted that the collapsing Three Realms were the Netherworld Lord’s world too and reflected on the burden of being one of the people expected to hold up the sky.

Li Boyang slowed the Long River of Time’s assimilation of Wu Jun’s new world so Wu Jun could perfect his Dao of Great Unity and prove it permanently. After understanding how simple rules could drive the evolution of all things, Wu Jun declared himself Great Unity.

• Li Boyang used the Heaven and Earth Black and Yellow Exquisite Pagoda to slow the Long River of Time’s assimilation of Wu Jun’s world.
• Li Boyang told Xiluo that Wu Jun had to perfect his Dao of Great Unity and Prove Once, Prove Forever before the world was assimilated.
• Wu Jun studied Li Boyang’s explanation that a first driving force and simple rules could produce complex systems through continuous evolution.
• Wu Jun saw the new things arising from earth, fire, water, and wind and understood that the Dao of Great Unity required a sufficiently large framework.
• Wu Jun became the world’s first and most primordial concept and declared, “I... am Great Unity!”

Wu Jun completed his Dao of Great Unity, reshaping the Three Realms and rewriting history as the Great Heavenly Deity Di Jun. Jinhong learned that his mother had been resurrected in the new timeline, but Moon God Changxi had been erased as the price of Wu Jun's Dao Proving.

• Wu Jun became Great Unity, and his sun illuminated the Three Realms as their new order formed.
• The Great Golden Crow transformed into a star, drawing in matter and forming a solar nebula before Houtu embedded his transformation into history as Di Jun.
• The Long River of Time settled, and history changed so that Di Jun inherited Hao Jun's achievements and became the world's remembered Heavenly Emperor.
• Jinhong received new memories of a peaceful life in which his mother had survived, and the Netherworld Lord explained that Di Jun had resurrected her.
• Jinhong discovered that Changxi had never existed in the rewritten history, and the Netherworld Lord said her sacrifice had enabled Wu Jun's Dao Proving.
• The Netherworld Lord warned that Wu Jun's ambition to prove once and prove forever would bring another tremendous crisis.

Twenty thousand years after the great battle, Wu Yao awoke in the Netherworld with memories of another life and realized history had changed. The Heaven-Eroding Lord, whose own life had been rewritten without giving him new memories, wondered whether Wu Yao could explain why he had become master of the Nine Splendors Jade Palace.

• Wu Yao woke from a vivid dream of Houtu and remembered Wu Jun attaining the Dao of Great Unity and ruling the Heavenly Realm.
• Wu Yao asked Little Black for the date and learned that it was the forty-seventh year of the Heavenly Dao era, with Ghost Gate Pass open and ghosts crossing into the Yang World.
• Little Black told Wu Yao that Ye Ming could not be serving at Mount Tai because it belonged to the Imperial Lord of the Eastern Peak, Jinhong, the Netherworld Lord's reincarnation from twenty thousand years earlier.
• Wu Yao's added memories revealed that the great battle had changed history and that Houtu had caused the Five Sacred Peaks to rise.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord observed the reshaped timeline and wondered whether Wu Yao was Houtu.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord found himself made temple master of the Nine Splendors Jade Palace and considered asking Wu Yao what had happened to him.

Gouchen grew up as a gifted mountain dweller and became a prominent young cultivator, while learning about the artificial star that shared his name. He discovered that Gouchen Heavenly Palace served the mountain dwellers in several ways, and its still-developing Star God Network was its most astonishing function.

• Gouchen was born on the day the mountain dwellers launched Gouchen Heavenly Palace, an artificial star staffed by Heavenly Deities and linked to the Mystic Garden Barrier.
• Gouchen spent thirty years studying and rapidly advanced through cultivation, mastering Life Primordial Qi, Body-Protecting Gang Qi, the Five Elements Escape Technique, and his Primordial Spirit.
• Gouchen imprisoned a thunder god that was causing storms; after making it his shikigami, he developed the Five Elements Escape Technique into a distinctive Five Elements Thunder Method.
• Gouchen published his Thunder Method insights in the Prophet Daily and circulated the Gouchen Joint School Newspaper, connecting with gifted people from many races.
• Gouchen learned that Gouchen Heavenly Palace extended the Mystic Garden Barrier’s warning range and served as a signal relay station, then became intrigued by its research-stage Star God Network.

Xiluo examined a token connected to the Cloudtop Heavenly Palace project, and Li Boyang explained its powers and limits. He hoped the mountain folk would discover the Star God Network’s full potential, beyond using it for cultivation and spells.

• Xiluo inspected the token and learned that the Cloudtop Heavenly Palace project linked artificial heavenly palaces and Circumstellar Constructs to the Mystic Garden Barrier.
• Xiluo confronted Li Boyang over ignoring her, then slapped a living book that bit her hand.
• Xiluo exposed how Li Boyang had obtained the True Records of Communion with the Netherworld from a book immortal using the Kunlun Mirror.
• Li Boyang explained that the token could draw on the Gouchen Heavenly Palace’s power and supply Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi and stellar power to users of the God-Control Law.
• Xiluo pointed out that future tokens would likely have restricted authorization tiers, while Li Boyang said he hoped the mountain folk would fully explore the Star God Network.

Nüshi brought Gouchen into the Star God Network closed beta, giving him Bio-Armor made from Flat Peach Cells and the authorization to connect with Gouchen Heavenly Palace. The system confirmed his identity and displayed his abilities, cultivation, and advancement paths.

• Nüshi explained that she had recommended Gouchen as a tester because she wanted them to spend time together, while acknowledging that he was not ready to be bound.
• Nüshi urged Gouchen to try the Bio-Armor, and he swallowed the Flat Peach Cells, which grew into a protective, self-healing layer of skin.
• Nüshi explained that the Bio-Armor was designed for Mountain Folk and could devour outsiders through abnormal cell growth.
• Nüshi gave Gouchen a Talisman Seal Script Edict that activated the Bio-Armor and authorized communication with Gouchen Heavenly Palace.
• The Star God Network verified Gouchen, registered him as Tester 007 under his real name, granted level-two authorization, and displayed his cultivation status and advancement paths.