Chapter Summaries

After waiting eight hundred years for a system, Lin Tian received the Great Dao Diary System, which promised rewards for daily entries. His first diary criticized the Interception Sect’s coming downfall and Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal’s betrayal, and the diary sent his words toward Biyou Palace as he received his first reward.

• Lin Tian lamented that his cultivation had remained at Earth Immortal for eight hundred years, then the Great Dao Diary System activated.
• The system gave Lin Tian a Great Dao Diary and writing brush, explaining that daily diary entries could earn rewards.
• Lin Tian wrote about the Interception Sect’s impending ruin and condemned Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal for betraying it.
• The diary sent a strand of Great Dao Qi toward Biyou Palace, and the system announced Lin Tian’s first reward.

Tongtian tried to control the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords so they could suppress the Interception Sect's fortune before the Investiture of the Gods Calamity, but their baleful Qi resisted him. A mysterious Great Dao Diary appeared, subdued a sword, and left Tongtian eager to read it.

• Tongtian summoned the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords and struggled to suppress their powerful baleful Qi.
• Tongtian worried that he could not use the swords to protect the Interception Sect's fortune as the Investiture of the Gods Calamity approached.
• A rift opened above Biyou Palace, and an ancient book fell onto one of the swords, instantly erasing its baleful Qi and silencing it.
• Tongtian sensed immense Great Dao power from the book and identified it as the Great Dao Diary.
• Tongtian found that the diary could be opened and prepared to read its first page.

Tongtian read the Great Dao Diary and learned that Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal would betray the Interception Sect during the Myriad Immortals Formation. Though he struggled to believe it, Tongtian secretly began watching Dingguang Xian for signs of betrayal.

• Tongtian opened the Great Dao Diary and read its complaints about chopping firewood, then searched the area around the Interception Sect but found no trace of its author.
• Tongtian spotted the diary's warning that the Interception Sect would fall because of a traitor and read the rest of the page.
• The diary named Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal as the traitor who would betray the sect during the Myriad Immortals Formation and later become the Joyful Buddha of the West.
• Tongtian doubted the revelation but recognized that the diary knew secret details about his unfinished formation.
• Tongtian used his divine sense to monitor Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal and resolved to prepare if signs of trouble appeared.

Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal secretly cultivated Western Buddhist teachings and planned to abandon the Interception Sect for the Western Teachings. Tongtian confronted him and killed him for betraying the sect.

• Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal cultivated with a Buddhist bead gifted by the Two Sages of the West and concealed its Buddhist power from Tongtian.
• He decided to leave the Interception Sect and join the Western Teachings before the Investiture of the Gods Calamity.
• Tongtian appeared in his cultivation ground and used Sage pressure to force Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal to his knees.
• Tongtian condemned Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal for betrayal and destroyed his body and primordial spirit.

Lin Tian claimed the system’s rewards, mastered the Primordial Grand Dao True Scripture, and saw his cultivation advance rapidly while his bamboo house gained Grand Dao attributes. He was arranging the other rewards when Tongtian summoned all Jie Sect Disciples, leaving Lin Tian wondering what had happened.

• Lin Tian claimed the Primordial Grand Dao True Scripture and immediately mastered it as spiritual Qi surged into his body.
• Lin Tian’s cultivation rose from the early Earth Immortal stage toward its threshold, and he praised the scripture’s cultivation speed.
• Lin Tian claimed the house improvement and household rewards, noticing that the bamboo house’s air and spiritual Qi had changed.
• Lin Tian dismissed the wooden qin, Go set, study tools, tea set, and mineral water as unimpressive, then used the qin as a step by his doorway.
• Tongtian’s voice summoned all Jie Sect Disciples to Jin'ao Island, and Lin Tian wondered why Tongtian had emerged from secluded cultivation.

After Tongtian exposed and killed Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal, Jieyin and Zhunti discussed how their plan to turn him to the Western Teachings had failed. They chose Duobao as their next target and planned to approach him while he was away from the Interception Sect.

• Jieyin detected traces of blood Qi and Buddhist intent near Jin'ao Island and told Zhunti that Tongtian had killed Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal and destroyed the Buddhist beads.
• Zhunti and Jieyin wondered how their carefully concealed plan had been discovered and decided to find another pawn among the Interception Sect Disciples.
• Jieyin dismissed the other potential candidates, noting that Duobao had strong Buddhist roots, a profound origin, and the strength of a Quasi-Saint.
• Zhunti proposed sending incarnations to guide Duobao toward Buddhism while he traveled outside the Interception Sect, and Jieyin agreed.

Lin Tian used the Primordial Grand Dao True Scripture to rise from the Earth Immortal realm to the Middle Heavenly Immortal Stage in one day, then wrote a new diary entry and received mastery of several arts. He left disappointed by the reward and still wary of drawing the Interception Sect into the Investiture of the Gods Calamity.

• Lin Tian worried that Tongtian's urgent summons signaled a change in the Investiture of the Gods Calamity and began cultivating with the Primordial Grand Dao True Scripture.
• Lin Tian advanced through the Peak Earth Immortal Stage and reached the Middle Heavenly Immortal Stage after a day of cultivation.
• Lin Tian considered pursuing Golden Immortal strength but stopped cultivating to avoid attracting Tongtian's attention and being drawn into the Interception Sect's conflict.
• Lin Tian wrote a new entry in the Great Dao Diary and received a system reward.
• Lin Tian gained level 99999 mastery of tea ceremony, the Dao of chess, the Dao of the zither, and calligraphy, then wondered how the reward could help him survive the calamity.

Zhao Gongming returned to the Interception Sect after failing to find a breakthrough, but a mysterious Dao resonance drew him to Lin Tian’s seemingly ordinary mountain dwelling. He was about to leave after dismissing Lin Tian as an ordinary recluse when a wind-blown wooden zither stirred his primordial spirit, and he turned back to investigate.

• Zhao Gongming returned to Jin'ao Island after hundreds of years searching unsuccessfully for a chance to break through to Quasi-Saint, and wondered why his master had urgently summoned him.
• Zhao Gongming sensed a powerful, pure Dao resonance near a small mountain peak, but his spiritual sense found nothing unusual there.
• Zhao Gongming spotted Lin Tian, concealed his presence, and watched him do ordinary chores before stretching out on a bamboo net and falling asleep.
• Zhao Gongming decided the mysterious presence had been a hallucination and turned to leave.
• A sudden gale made the wooden zither beneath Lin Tian's house vibrate, and its sound shook Zhao Gongming's primordial spirit, making him turn back in alarm.

Zhao Gongming secretly investigated Lin Tian and mistook him for a Quasi-Saint after Lin Tian’s thought power destroyed his divine sense. He entered Lin Tian’s home to shelter from the storm, where Lin Tian repeatedly used the mysterious wooden qin as a step and called it a broken instrument.

• Zhao Gongming hid nearby and tried to probe the wooden qin, but Lin Tian’s thought power destroyed his divine sense.
• Zhao Gongming saw Lin Tian repeatedly step on the wooden qin and concluded that Lin Tian was a powerful Quasi-Saint.
• Zhao Gongming disguised himself as Ming Gong and asked Lin Tian for shelter from the storm.
• Lin Tian invited Zhao Gongming into the courtyard, where Zhao Gongming sensed something strange but could not identify it.
• Zhao Gongming asked why Lin Tian left the wooden qin by the threshold, and Lin Tian said it was a useless broken qin he used as a step.

Lin Tian served Zhao Gongming tea that strengthened his primordial spirit and cultivation, and Zhao Gongming mistook Lin Tian’s casual advice to savor it for profound guidance. After Zhao Gongming offered his six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls and received tea leaves in return, he began to suspect Lin Tian was a reclusive Sage.

• Lin Tian brewed tea for Zhao Gongming, whose sip strengthened his primordial spirit and cultivation.
• Lin Tian told Zhao Gongming to savor the tea slowly, and Zhao Gongming believed the advice revealed that he should stop rushing his cultivation.
• Zhao Gongming thanked Lin Tian for his supposed guidance and offered him six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.
• Lin Tian accepted the pearls and gave Zhao Gongming tea leaves, while Zhao Gongming mistook the gift for a rare treasure.
• Zhao Gongming watched Lin Tian use a wooden zither as a stepping stone and wondered whether Lin Tian was a legendary reclusive Sage.

Zhao Gongming left Lin Tian’s mountain with spiritual tea leaves and believed the meeting had set his future Dao on the right path. From afar, he watched Lin Tian toss the six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls into his pond and wondered whether the pond could suppress an Innate Spiritual Treasure.

• Lin Tian gave Zhao Gongming a packet of spiritual tea leaves and told him he could return for more.
• Zhao Gongming thanked Lin Tian, left the mountain, and planned to bring him the remaining eighteen Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.
• Zhao Gongming watched Lin Tian toss the six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls into the courtyard pond.
• Zhao Gongming was shocked when the pearls made no splash and suspected the pond could suppress an Innate Spiritual Treasure.

Zhao Gongming met Yunxiao, Bixiao, and Qiongxiao, who were troubled by their long stagnation at the peak of the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm. He offered to take them to meet an expert who might guide their breakthrough, and they headed back to the Interception Sect before deciding whether to believe him.

• Zhao Gongming encountered Yunxiao, Bixiao, and Qiongxiao as they traveled toward the Interception Sect.
• Yunxiao and Bixiao told Zhao Gongming they had been stuck at the peak of the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm for hundreds of thousands of years and feared they could not help their sect.
• Zhao Gongming encouraged the Three Xiaos and realized he could take them to meet Senior for guidance.
• Zhao Gongming offered to introduce the Three Xiaos to an expert, but they doubted anyone could offer insight when Tongtian could not.
• Zhao Gongming flew toward the sect, and the Three Xiaos followed to see Tongtian.

Daoist Duobao encountered the Western Teachings’ Buddhist Dharma in a temple conjured by Jieyin and Zhunti, and took a prayer bead that would gradually influence him. After his master summoned the Interception Sect disciples, Duobao left, while the Two Sages of the West revealed their scheme to turn him toward Buddhism.

• Daoist Duobao meditated in a hidden Western temple and felt increasingly drawn to the Buddhist Dharma despite his loyalty to the Interception Sect.
• A transparent prayer bead infused with Buddhist intent appeared before Duobao, and he took it, hoping it might help him break through his cultivation bottleneck.
• Duobao sensed his master summoning all Jie Sect Disciples and hurried back, wondering whether the Interception Sect faced a crisis.
• Jieyin and Zhunti emerged after Duobao left, and Zhunti dismissed the temple and its illusions.
• Jieyin praised Zhunti’s plan, and Zhunti explained that the prayer bead would plant a Buddhist seed in Duobao and eventually draw him to the Western Wondrous Dharma.

The Interception Sect disciples gathered at Jin'ao Island after Master Tongtian summoned them, but they grew uneasy when Duobao was nowhere to be seen. Tongtian then unleashed a Sage's fury from Biyou Palace, leaving the disciples shocked and wondering what had provoked him.

• Zhao Gongming, the Three Xiaos, the Three Holy Mothers, and other Interception Sect disciples waited before Biyou Palace for Master Tongtian to appear.
• Qiongxiao, Yunxiao, and Zhao Gongming wondered why Tongtian had summoned them and why he had not yet come out.
• Zhao Gongming noticed that Eldest Senior Brother Duobao was missing and grew concerned about his absence.
• Explosions sounded from Biyou Palace as Tongtian's overwhelming Sage's might swept across Jin'ao Island.
• The disciples reacted in fear and speculated about the cause of Tongtian's anger as his furious shout rang out from the palace.

Tongtian used the Great Dao Diary to suppress the baleful Qi of the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords, then discovered new writing on its second page. What he read left him furious at the claim that the Interception Sect would fall into a sorry state.

• Tongtian concluded that the diary's owner was likely a Great Dao Sage because the diary had predicted Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal's secret cultivation and could suppress the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords.
• Tongtian placed the Great Dao Diary atop the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords, suppressing their baleful Qi so he could try to refine them.
• A golden light from the diary entered Tongtian's brow, and he realized it signaled new content.
• Tongtian read the diary's second page and grew angry at its account of the Interception Sect's dire future.

Tongtian read the diary’s prediction that the Six Attendant Immortals would betray the Interception Sect and become mounts, and that Duobao might betray it too. He left Biyou Palace to handle sect affairs, troubled by the warning and the diary’s forgotten details.

• Tongtian grew angry when the diary accused Interception Sect disciples of becoming traitors.
• He read that six of the Seven Attendant Immortals would join the Western Teachings and become mounts, and suspected they might already harbor thoughts of rebellion.
• Tongtian considered testing the Six Attendant Immortals and cutting off the threat before it grew.
• He saw the diary mention Duobao as another possible traitor, but the writer forgot who else was involved.
• Tongtian received a call from Zhao Gongming, put away the diary, and left Biyou Palace to arrange the sect’s affairs.

Lin Tian tossed Zhao Gongming’s Sea-Calming Divine Pearls into his pond as decorations, unaware that they were supreme-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures. After the little goldfish swallowed one and was transformed, it awoke with a dragon horn and wondered where it was.

• Lin Tian put the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls in the pond and joked that Little Gold would make good fish soup if goldfish were edible.
• The Sea-Calming Divine Pearl gathered the courtyard’s Spiritual Qi and began absorbing it at the bottom of the pond.
• Little Gold swam to the glowing pearls and swallowed one whole.
• The pearl’s power overwhelmed Little Gold, who burst out of the pond as the water exploded.
• Little Gold regained its senses with a tiny dragon horn and wondered where it was, thinking it had been in the Dragon Clan.

Yazi, the Ancestral Dragon's second son, awoke in Lin Tian's courtyard in the form of a little goldfish and began recovering through the courtyard's spiritual Qi. Lin Tian mistook him for a troublesome fish and put him in a bucket, while Yazi's attempt to escape brought him into contact with a mysterious power that left him immobilized.

• Yazi woke in Lin Tian's courtyard, wondered how he had reached the mortal realm, and felt its pure spiritual Qi restoring his injured primordial spirit.
• Lin Tian found that Yazi had jumped out of the pond and drained much of its water, then picked him up and said he would cook him.
• Lin Tian put Yazi in a wooden bucket, and Yazi realized he was too weak to escape in his damaged fish form.
• Yazi sensed two objects on a stone platform, but their Great Dao power extinguished his divine sense and immobilized him.
• Yazi felt the overwhelming power and questioned whether Lin Tian was really an ordinary mortal.

Tongtian summoned the Interception Sect disciples, announced that Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal had betrayed the sect and been killed, and ordered everyone to stay near the sect as the Investiture of the Gods Calamity approached. Suspecting the other six attendant immortals might also betray him, he brought them into Biyou Palace, while Zhao Gongming offered to take Yunxiao and her sisters to meet Lin Tian.

• Tongtian revealed himself above Biyou Palace, declared that he had killed Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal for betraying the sect, and warned the disciples against disobeying him.
• Tongtian ordered the Interception Sect disciples to remain within a hundred thousand li of the training grounds and prepare for the approaching Investiture of the Gods Calamity.
• Tongtian noticed Duobao was still on his way and summoned Qiu Shou Xian and the other five attendant immortals into Biyou Palace, suspecting they might become hidden dangers.
• Qiongxiao suggested Duobao might also be targeted by the Western Sages, and Yunxiao scolded her for speaking carelessly.
• Yunxiao and Bixiao lamented their lack of chances to improve, so Zhao Gongming offered to take them to meet an expert near the sect, and Yunxiao agreed to go.

Zhao Gongming brought Yunxiao, Bixiao, and Qiongxiao to Lin Tian’s secluded home, where they initially mistook him for an ordinary Heavenly Immortal. Yunxiao recognized the Dragon Clan aura coming from the goldfish in Lin Tian’s jar and realized it was Yazi, leaving the Three Xiaos stunned as Lin Tian made a surprising move.

• Zhao Gongming led the Three Xiaos to a remote mountain and warned them to conceal their identities and cultivation before meeting the secluded senior.
• Yunxiao, Bixiao, and Qiongxiao saw Lin Tian emerge from his simple home carrying an earthenware jar and judged him to be only a Heavenly Immortal.
• Yunxiao sensed a faint but powerful Dragon Clan presence coming from Lin Tian’s direction.
• Yunxiao spotted horns on the goldfish in Lin Tian’s jar and recognized it as Yazi, the Dragon Clan’s crown prince.
• Lin Tian’s actions suddenly made Yunxiao, Bixiao, and Qiongxiao freeze.