Chapter Summaries

Lin Tian dismissed the Primordial Golden Dou as a treasure and explained that he had only provided a medium for the formation it revealed. After the Three Xiaos and Zhao Gongming left his courtyard, Zhao Gongming proposed robbing someone to find a worthy gift for Lin Tian.

• Lin Tian told the Three Xiaos and Zhao Gongming that he had done little to change the Primordial Golden Dou and had merely provided a medium.
• Yunxiao offered to find other treasures to thank Lin Tian, but he urged the Three Xiaos to stand and accepted their thanks.
• The Three Xiaos and Zhao Gongming left Lin Tian's courtyard, and Zhao Gongming reminded his junior sisters to repay Lin Tian's kindness.
• Qiongxiao and Bixiao lamented that the Primordial Golden Dou was their only remaining treasure and that they had nothing better to give Lin Tian.
• Zhao Gongming suggested that they rob someone to obtain a suitable treasure, leaving the Three Xiaos surprised.

Zhao Gongming reminded Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao that Daoist Qingxu and Guangchengzi had left treasures behind, but they discovered that Qingxu and his belongings had been refined inside the Primordial Golden Dou. The group left to recover Guangchengzi’s treasures and investigate a disciple’s identity, hoping to repay Lin Tian.

• Zhao Gongming proposed retrieving Qingxu and Guangchengzi’s treasures to give Lin Tian as a return gift.
• Bixiao recalled that Qingxu had been trapped in the Primordial Golden Dou, which they had given to Lin Tian, and worried that he and his treasures might be gone.
• Yunxiao searched the Primordial Golden Dou and found it empty of Qingxu and his treasures, though its spiritual Qi had grown many times stronger.
• Yunxiao and Zhao Gongming realized Lin Tian had likely helped strengthen the Primordial Golden Dou, leaving them indebted to him again.
• Zhao Gongming urged the group to return to the Interception Sect, identify the disciple, and retrieve Guangchengzi’s treasures.

Lin Tian suspected the warm five-colored stone Zhao Gongming gave him might contain Sun Wukong, but dismissed the idea and kept it as a hand toy. Meanwhile, impatient Chan Sect disciples defied Huang Long’s warning and headed to the Interception Sect to provoke a confrontation.

• Lin Tian examined Zhao Gongming’s rusty sword and five-colored stone, wondered if Sun Wukong was inside the stone, then decided he was overthinking it and kept the stone.
• At Kunlun Mountain, Chijingzi complained about waiting for the Chan Sect master, while Yun Zhongzi urged the disciples to obey the order to stay.
• The Antarctic Immortal proposed attacking the Interception Sect to claim destiny during the Investiture of the Gods, and Chijingzi and Grand Master Lingbao agreed to go.
• True Person Huang Long warned them that their master had postponed the plan, but Chijingzi dismissed him and left with the Antarctic Immortal, Yun Zhongzi, and Grand Master Lingbao for the Interception Sect.
• Huang Long grew angry as the group departed, worried that they would provoke the Interception Sect without their master’s approval.

Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiaos visited the Interception Sect’s formation, taunted the captive Guangchengzi, and took his Sumeru Bag. The arrival of four Chan Sect disciples left Guangchengzi hoping for rescue but fearing their arrogant demands would provoke his captors.

• Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiaos found Guangchengzi weakened inside the Interception Sect’s protective formation, and Zhao insisted he must accept his defeat.
• Zhao Gongming used a technique to retrieve Guangchengzi’s Sumeru Bag, and he and the Three Xiaos planned to divide its contents and give some to Senior Lin Tian.
• Yun Zhongzi, Antarctic Immortal, Grand Master Lingbao, and Chijingzi arrived above the Interception Sect.
• Chijingzi demanded that the Interception Sect’s second-generation disciples welcome them, while Antarctic Immortal insulted the sect’s disciples.
• Guangchengzi hoped the visitors had come to rescue him but worried their provocation would make Zhao Gongming kill him.

Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiaos faced four Chan Sect disciples who arrived at Jin'ao Island, while Zhao punished the captive Guangchengzi. The Three Xiaos challenged the newcomers, and the Antarctic Immortal ordered Yun Zhongzi, Chijingzi, and Grand Master Lingbao to fight them.

• Yunxiao, Bixiao, and Qiongxiao vowed to use the Primordial Golden Dou's formation against the arriving Chan Sect disciples.
• Guangchengzi taunted Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiaos, but Zhao struck him with lightning inside the formation and left him unconscious.
• The Antarctic Immortal, Yun Zhongzi, Chijingzi, and Grand Master Lingbao arrived at Jin'ao Island and alarmed the Interception Sect disciples.
• Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiaos appeared before the island's disciples, who cheered them as they answered the challenge.
• Yunxiao challenged the four Chan Sect disciples to a three-on-four contest, and the Antarctic Immortal assigned Yun Zhongzi, Chijingzi, and Grand Master Lingbao to face the Three Xiaos.

The Antarctic Immortal and the Chan Sect disciples insulted the Jie Sect, prompting Yunxiao and the Three Xiaos to challenge them. The Three Xiaos summoned the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation and invited their opponents inside.

• The Antarctic Immortal disparaged the Jie Sect disciples, and Yunxiao rebuked him for his vicious words.
• Chijingzi, Grand Master Lingbao, and Yun Zhongzi mocked the Jie Sect and declared the Three Xiaos could not defeat them.
• Yunxiao challenged the three men to fight and debate the Dao, and they agreed while warning the Three Xiaos not to beg for mercy.
• The Three Xiaos summoned the Primordial Golden Dou, then revealed they intended to use it to form the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation.
• The formation unleashed powerful phenomena that threatened the space above the Interception Sect, and Yunxiao invited the three men inside.

Hongjun summoned Tongtian to Purple Cloud Palace over his attack on Yuanshi and the Two Sages of the West. Tongtian challenged Hongjun over how he was supposed to use the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords Formation, leaving Hongjun stunned by his response.

• Hongjun sensed that fate around the Investiture of the Gods had become muddled and wondered who was interfering with the calamity.
• Haotian informed Hongjun that Tongtian had come to pay his respects, and Hongjun admitted him to Purple Cloud Palace.
• Hongjun questioned Tongtian for defying his decree and using the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords against Yuanshi and the Two Sages of the West.
• Tongtian asked Hongjun how he had intended his disciple to use the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords Formation, and Hongjun grew angry.
• Hongjun warned Tongtian that fighting Sages endangered the Primordial World and the Interception Sect, but Tongtian's next response left him stunned.

Tongtian challenged Hongjun’s reprimand, suspecting that the Dao Ancestor had given him the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords to provoke conflict and set a trap for the Interception Sect. He defended his attacks by accusing Yuanshi and the Two Sages of the West of targeting his sect, leaving Hongjun facing Tongtian’s open distrust.

• Tongtian rejected Hongjun’s reprimand and offered to return the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords, prompting Hongjun to fear that his plan had been exposed.
• Hongjun insisted that Tongtian keep the swords and warned him not to endanger the Primordial World.
• Tongtian argued that Yuanshi had threatened the Interception Sect’s disciples and questioned why Hongjun had summoned him instead of Yuanshi.
• Hongjun said Tongtian had been summoned for attacking the Two Sages of the West, citing his karmic debt to them and their weaker standing.
• Tongtian accused the Two Sages of the West of planting Buddha Roots in Interception Sect disciples to turn them against the sect and join the Western Teachings.
• Tongtian suspected that Hongjun knew of the Western Sages’ scheme and might have been allowing it.

Jieyin and Zhunti fled to the Purple Cloud Palace seeking Hongjun’s protection, but Yuanshi caught up with them before they could reach safety. Taishang confirmed that a mysterious courtyard existed, yet Yuanshi remained unconvinced, and his next words left Jieyin and Taishang stunned and Zhunti panicking.

• Jieyin and Zhunti reached the chaotic region beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens and decided to wait for Hongjun’s protection.
• Yuanshi appeared with the Pangu Banner, and the Two Sages of the West tried to flee before he blocked their path.
• Taishang arrived and told Yuanshi that he had seen Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiaos of the Interception Sect enter the hidden courtyard and vanish.
• Jieyin and Zhunti agreed that the courtyard was protected by a formation connected to the Interception Sect.
• Yuanshi rejected their explanation, and his next statement stunned Jieyin and Taishang while Zhunti panicked.

Yuanshi turned on Taishang and the Two Sages of the West, raising the Pangu Banner to kill the Western Sages. Taishang intervened with the Taiji Diagram, but before their treasures could clash, an earthy-yellow light made both vanish, and the four Sages realized the Dao Ancestor had appeared.

• Yuanshi accused Taishang of defending the Two Sages of the West and vowed to kill them, even threatening to sever his bond with Taishang.
• Taishang summoned the Taiji Diagram to block Yuanshi's Pangu Banner and warned him not to fight near the Dao Ancestor's cultivation ground.
• Yuanshi and Taishang confronted each other, with both preparing to fight over whether Taishang would protect the Two Sages of the West.
• An earthy-yellow light appeared between the treasures and made both the Taiji Diagram and Pangu Banner disappear.
• Taishang, Yuanshi, and the Two Sages of the West sensed the tremendous Heavenly Dao power and recognized the Dao Ancestor's intervention.

Hongjun learned that Tongtian and Yuanshi had discovered the Two Sages of the West’s covert recruitment of Mystic Gate disciples, though they did not know which disciples were involved. As Taishang, Yuanshi, and the Two Sages of the West gathered outside the Purple Cloud Palace, Hongjun prepared to intervene after sensing Taishang and Yuanshi had brought out the Pangu Banner and the Taiji Diagram.

• Tongtian questioned why Hongjun had allowed the Two Sages of the West to recruit Mystic Gate disciples, and Hongjun realized that was why Tongtian and Yuanshi had attacked them.
• Hongjun recalled that he had concealed the Western Sages’ recruitment scheme so he could later bring the defecting disciples under his control and limit the Western Teachings’ power.
• Hongjun divined whom Tongtian and Yuanshi had killed and concluded they did not know the identities of the planted disciples; Duobao and the other intended pieces remained safe.
• Hongjun sensed Taishang, Yuanshi, and the Two Sages of the West outside the Purple Cloud Palace, and Tongtian urged him to summon them for a confrontation.
• Hongjun decided to let the Western Sages face consequences, then sensed Taishang and Yuanshi had brought out the Pangu Banner and the Taiji Diagram.
• Hongjun sent a terrifying purple consciousness out of the Purple Cloud Palace as his stern shout rang beyond it.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun stopped Yuanshi and Taishang from clashing with the Two Sages of the West and condemned them for fighting near the Purple Cloud Palace. He summoned all four Sages into the palace to answer for their actions.

• Hongjun appeared and seized the Pangu Banner and Taiji Diagram before Yuanshi and Taishang could attack the Two Sages of the West.
• The Two Sages of the West knelt and begged Hongjun to save them, accusing Yuanshi of trying to kill them.
• Hongjun condemned all four Sages for defying his ban on fighting and pressured them with his power.
• Hongjun exposed the Two Sages of the West for provoking Tongtian and Yuanshi, then said he would deal with their transgressions and answer the Mystic Gate.
• Hongjun's Purple Cloud Palace appeared, and its open doors swallowed all four Sages.

Hongjun settled the dispute between the Sages and announced a new plan for the Investiture of the Gods. He made the Human Sect the battlefield and ordered the Chan and Interception Sects to begin the calamity by backing a wise ruler.

• Hongjun confined Jieyin and the other Western Sage, ordered them not to leave their sects before the calamity, and asked them to name the disciples they had turned.
• Jieyin denied placing agents in other sects, and Yuanshi and Tongtian accepted Hongjun’s judgment without objection.
• Hongjun explained that the Investiture of the Gods would assign beings to the divine Dao, allow some to resume immortal cultivation, and destroy those with weak aptitude and deep karmic ties.
• Hongjun declared that the Human Sect would be the battlefield and told the Chan and Interception Sects to support a wise ruler, beginning the Investiture of the Gods Calamity.

Hongjun ordered the Investiture of the Gods battlefield placed in the Human Clan’s lands, dismissing Tongtian’s objections about the mortal casualties. After the Sages left the Purple Cloud Palace, Yuanshi sensed that Chan Sect Disciples had attacked Jie Sect Disciples and hurried toward Jin'ao Island, where Tongtian blocked him.

• Hongjun ordered the Sages to prepare for the Investiture of the Gods to unfold in the Human Clan’s lands, and Tongtian protested that the plan would cause needless deaths.
• Hongjun refused to reconsider, told Tongtian that human deaths could bring them honor through ascension, and warned the Sages not to start another conflict.
• Tongtian silently resolved to study the Great Dao Diary’s advice about abandoning the Sage position before returning to the little courtyard near the Interception Sect’s Daoist grounds.
• After Hongjun vanished with the Purple Cloud Palace, Yuanshi mocked Tongtian, while Taishang urged Yuanshi to avoid further conflict with the Two Sages of the West.
• Yuanshi sensed that Chan Sect Disciples had attacked Jie Sect Disciples near Jin'ao Island and rushed to investigate, but Tongtian stopped him and defended his disciples.

Yunxiao, Bixiao, and Qiongxiao used the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation and the Primordial Golden Dou to defeat Yun Zhongzi, Chijingzi, and Grand Master Lingbao. As the three captives lost consciousness, Antarctic Immortal roared from outside the formation.

• Yunxiao challenged Yun Zhongzi, Chijingzi, and Grand Master Lingbao to enter the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation, while they mocked the Three Xiaos and their formation.
• Bixiao and Qiongxiao opened the formation, and Yun Zhongzi, Chijingzi, and Grand Master Lingbao charged inside with their treasures and weapons.
• The Three Xiaos unleashed the formation’s baleful power, and the Primordial Golden Dou stripped the three intruders of their three flowers and five Qi, destroyed their bodies, and gravely wounded their primordial spirits.
• Yunxiao dismissed the captives’ threat that Antarctic Immortal would retaliate and sealed their six senses, leaving them unconscious inside the Primordial Golden Dou.
• Antarctic Immortal roared for the Three Xiaos to stop from outside the formation.

The Antarctic Immortal tried to intervene after Yun Zhongzi, Chijingzi, and Grand Master Lingbao were trapped in the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation Art, but Zhao Gongming blocked him and proved stronger. After Yuanshi Tianzun ordered him to retreat, the Antarctic Immortal fled, leaving Zhao Gongming relieved that he had avoided a prolonged fight.

• The Antarctic Immortal sensed danger from the formation and heard Yun Zhongzi, Chijingzi, and Grand Master Lingbao cry out in panic from inside.
• The Antarctic Immortal unleashed his mid-stage Quasi-Sage power, but Zhao Gongming appeared and stopped him with an even stronger force.
• The Antarctic Immortal staggered backward and realized Zhao Gongming had surpassed him, while Zhao Gongming challenged him to consider the consequences of intervening.
• Yuanshi Tianzun rebuked the Antarctic Immortal, warned that he could not defeat Zhao Gongming, and ordered him back to the Chan Sect.
• The Antarctic Immortal threatened that the Chan Sect would come after Zhao Gongming, then fled, and Zhao Gongming was relieved to avoid a drawn-out battle.

Tongtian stopped Yuanshi from interfering in the battle between their disciples, then returned to plan for the Investiture of the Gods. After Tongtian left, Hongjun secretly planted divine sense in his primordial spirit to spy on him.

• Tongtian blocked Yuanshi and warned him not to interfere with the younger disciples, while Yuanshi threatened him over the Investiture of the Gods.
• Taishang calmed Yuanshi and urged both Sages not to fight near the Purple Cloud Palace.
• Yuanshi and Taishang left for Kunlun Mountain, and Tongtian decided to plan for the Investiture of the Gods and investigate the courtyard behind his disciples' breakthroughs.
• Hongjun emerged from warped space, suspected Tongtian knew something about his plans, and sent divine sense into Tongtian's primordial spirit to watch him.
• Hongjun decided to find a pretext to release the Two Sages of the West so his Investiture of the Gods plan would not lose their help.

The Three Xiaos defeated the Chan Sect cultivators with the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation, though using it injured their primordial spirits. When Tongtian returned to Biyou Palace, he summoned the Interception Sect’s second-generation disciples, leaving Zhao Gongming to help the Three Xiaos recover before they went to hear his announcement.

• The Three Xiaos emerged from the formation after the Antarctic Immortal fled and Yun Zhongzi, Chijingzi, and Grand Master Lingbao were trapped.
• Zhao Gongming moved the pale Three Xiaos to his cultivation ground and reproached them for risking their primordial spirits with a formation they had only just learned.
• Yunxiao and Bixiao explained that the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation could defeat many Peak Daluo Golden Immortals and even challenge an Early-Stage Quasi-Saint.
• Zhao Gongming decided to leave the trapped Chan Sect cultivators in the Primordial Golden Dou until their master returned and warned the Three Xiaos to stay within the Interception Sect.
• Tongtian returned to Biyou Palace and summoned all second-generation Interception Sect disciples to see him.
• Zhao Gongming sent magic power to help the Three Xiaos heal and told them to go to Biyou Palace once they finished cultivating.

Lin Tian broke through to the Profound Immortal realm, then learned that the system had still not fixed the bug letting others read his diary. He wrote an entry criticizing the Chan Sect over the Investiture of the Gods Calamity, and the system issued his rewards with an additional item for its mistake.

• Lin Tian consumed his final pill and absorbed the courtyard’s spiritual Qi and laws, breaking through to the Profound Immortal realm while Yazi cowered nearby.
• Lin Tian realized he had not written that day’s diary entry and asked the system whether others could still read it.
• The system admitted it had forgotten to fix the diary bug and said it was working on the problem, promising compensation.
• Lin Tian deliberately wrote about the Chan Sect’s responsibility for the Investiture of the Gods Calamity and the unfair treatment of the Jie Sect Disciples.
• The system announced that Lin Tian’s rewards had been issued, including an additional item because the bug remained unfixed.

Lin Tian claimed a Body-Suppressing Divine Pearl and an unexpected 100% Expert Demeanor reward, whose sudden change in presence startled Yazi. Meanwhile, Yuanshi Tianzun and Taishang hurried back to Kunlun Mountain to plan around the Investiture of the Gods, and Yuanshi sensed new information in the Great Dao Diary Scroll.

• Lin Tian claimed a Body-Suppressing Divine Pearl that protected his primordial spirit from hostile consciousness and concealed its details.
• The system granted Lin Tian 100% Expert Demeanor, and the reward transformed his presence into something Yazi mistook for a power greater than a Sage's.
• Lin Tian rested without noticing that the Five-Colored Stone was slowly absorbing the courtyard's spiritual Qi, growing, and developing a presence of life.
• Yuanshi Tianzun raged over Tongtian's treatment of the Chan Sect, while Taishang urged him to return to Kunlun Mountain and use the Investiture of the Gods against the Interception Sect.
• Yuanshi Tianzun sensed the Great Dao Diary Scroll tremble and hurried to return to the sect to attend to the new information.