Chapter Summaries

Ye Xuan visited Zhen Yuanzi at Wuzhuang Temple to ask him to help the Human Clan through the Investiture of the Gods tribulation, promising in return to help him become a Saint. Zhen Yuanzi was stunned by the offer and began to believe Ye Xuan might truly be able to fulfill it.

• Zhen Yuanzi welcomed Ye Xuan into Wuzhuang Temple and served him tea made from the tender shoots of the Ginseng Fruit Tree.
• Ye Xuan told Zhen Yuanzi he had come to explain the stakes of the Investiture of the Gods tribulation and seek his cooperation.
• Ye Xuan asked Zhen Yuanzi to leave his mountain and help the Human Clan through the calamity.
• Ye Xuan promised that the reward for Zhen Yuanzi's aid would be the chance to attain the Dao and become a Saint.
• Zhen Yuanzi was shocked by the offer and considered that Ye Xuan might have the power to make him a Saint.

Ye Xuan tried to persuade Great Immortal Zhenyuan to join Chaoge and face the tribulation, revealing that the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans had all pledged their support. Zhenyuan was left shaken by Chaoge’s hidden strength, while Ye Xuan’s attempt to win him over remained unresolved.

• Great Immortal Zhenyuan questioned whether Ye Xuan could truly help him break through to the Saint realm, and Ye Xuan urged him not to fear the tribulation.
• Ye Xuan said Ancestor Minghe was ready to enter the world and face the tribulation, challenging Zhenyuan to follow his example.
• Ye Xuan revealed that the Dragon Clan had submitted to Chaoge and would aid the Human Clan when war began.
• Ye Xuan told Zhenyuan that Kong Xuan had gathered more than twenty thousand Phoenix Clan survivors, who had also submitted to Chaoge.
• Ye Xuan revealed that a Five-Virtue Qilin had gathered more than twenty thousand qilin and pledged the Qilin Clan to Chaoge, shocking Zhenyuan with the strength assembled for the coming tribulation.

Ye Xuan revealed that the Demon Fox Lineage and Old Ghost Minghe were among his allies as he tried to persuade Zhen Yuanzi to support him. When Zhen Yuanzi doubted his promise of helping him reach the Saint realm, Ye Xuan claimed the Human Dao Saint could see his future and showed him a vision of a vast battlefield.

• Ye Xuan told Zhen Yuanzi that the Demon Fox Lineage served him as his eyes and ears.
• Ye Xuan suggested that Old Ghost Minghe and the Ashura Clan had also joined his cause, alarming Zhen Yuanzi with the scale of his hidden allies.
• Zhen Yuanzi asked whether Ye Xuan could truly help him enter the Saint realm if he joined the alliance and helped through the great tribulation.
• Ye Xuan claimed the Human Dao Saint knew Zhen Yuanzi's future and offered to show it to him.
• Ye Xuan conjured a mirror of the void, where Zhen Yuanzi saw Chaoge and Xiqi's armies locked in a vast, brutal battle.

Zhen Yuanzi watched visions of the Great Tribulation of the Investiture of the Gods, which devastated the Interception Sect, weakened the East, and strengthened Buddhism in the West. The visions then moved to the Journey to the West plan, revealing that many heavenly and Buddhist figures stood behind the scripture-seeking party.

• Zhen Yuanzi watched the Chan Sect and the Western Teachings destroy the Interception Sect, including the breaking of Tongtian's Immortal Slaying Sword Formation and Myriad Immortals Formation.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun reprimanded Tongtian, forced the Three Pure Ones to swallow Saint-Slaying Pills, and imprisoned Tongtian in the Purple Cloud Palace.
• Chaoge fell, Di Xin set himself ablaze, and Great Zhou replaced Yin Shang as its ruler, ending the Human Clan's status as Lord of the Primordial World.
• Taishang Laozi led surviving Eastern figures west, where they became Buddhist leaders, while the East and its Saints fell under severe restrictions.
• The visions shifted several hundred years ahead as Shakyamuni Buddha and True Person Cihang organized the Journey to the West, backed by Jin Chanzi, the Intelligent Stone Monkey, Grand Marshal Tianpeng, Great General Juanlian, and many hidden supporters.

Zhen Yuanzi watched a vision showing the Journey to the West party targeting powerful figures, including Ancestor Minghe and himself, and saw his Ginseng Fruit Tree destroyed. After the vision vanished, Ye Xuan pressed him to provide ten Ginseng Fruits, leaving Zhen Yuanzi shocked by the demand.

• Zhen Yuanzi realized the Journey to the West was a cleanup operation targeting powerful figures left after the Investiture of the Gods.
• Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva converted members of Ancestor Minghe’s Ashura Clan while evading Minghe with support from the Western Teachings.
• Zhen Yuanzi saw a vision of the scripture-seeking party reaching Wuzhuang Temple and destroying his Ginseng Fruit Tree, which True Person Cihang later revived with its roots severed.
• After the vision disappeared, Zhen Yuanzi ordered Qingfeng and Mingyue to fetch two Ginseng Fruits for Ye Xuan.
• Ye Xuan demanded exactly ten Ginseng Fruits to share with other powerful figures, and Zhen Yuanzi reacted with dismay.

Ye Xuan secured Zhen Yuanzi’s alliance by accepting ten Ginseng Fruits and giving him treasures in return. He then revealed that he had come to Mount Ten Thousand Beasts to seek Beast Emperor Shen Ni, leaving Zhen Yuanzi wondering whether Ye Xuan could resurrect him.

• Zhen Yuanzi had Qingfeng and Mingyue bring Ye Xuan two Ginseng Fruits, and Ye Xuan ate one, secretly keeping its pit.
• The fruit’s powerful energy erupted inside Ye Xuan, but his indestructible body absorbed it without harm.
• Zhen Yuanzi gave Ye Xuan ten jade boxes of Ginseng Fruits, and Ye Xuan presented him with treasures from the Jade Void Palace as a return gift.
• Zhen Yuanzi formally settled the alliance and promised to help the Human Clan when needed.
• Ye Xuan told Zhen Yuanzi that his second purpose was to seek Beast Emperor Shen Ni.
• Zhen Yuanzi asked whether Ye Xuan intended to resurrect Shen Ni, and Ye Xuan said he had only mentioned him to avoid startling Zhen Yuanzi when he made his move.

Ye Xuan raised Beast Emperor Shen Ni from beneath the Hundred Thousand Mountains and received the Seven Injuries Parting Hatred Saber as a reward. After leaving Great Immortal Zhenyuan, Ye Xuan entered the turbid lands beyond the gale winds, where he sensed a terrifying presence.

• Ye Xuan left Wuzhuang Temple and used the Hongmeng Purple Gold Bell to raise Beast Emperor Shen Ni from beneath the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
• Ye Xuan used the Chaos Creation Brush to transform the enormous beast into a beautiful youth, then imprisoned Beast Emperor Shen Ni in a coffin.
• The system rewarded Ye Xuan with the Innate Supreme Treasure Seven Injuries Parting Hatred Saber, which it described as an extraordinarily evil weapon.
• Ye Xuan took his leave of Great Immortal Zhenyuan and flew beyond the gale winds into a land filled with turbid Qi and lurking demons and monsters.
• As Ye Xuan prepared to leave the foul land, he sensed an incomparably terrifying presence appear.

Ye Xuan encountered a huge Chaos Ferocious Beast, a black thunder serpent that had entered the Primordial World, and fought it with his saber-like hand. The serpent’s venom clashed with Ye Xuan’s golden saber Qi in a massive explosion.

• Ye Xuan sensed a powerful presence and watched as an enormous thunder serpent emerged from afar.
• Ye Xuan recognized the serpent as a Chaos Ferocious Beast and decided to kill it despite its injuries.
• The serpent lunged to devour Ye Xuan, but he struck with golden saber Qi and blocked its thunder attacks by absorbing them.
• The serpent unleashed increasingly violent attacks, while Ye Xuan countered with repeated saber strikes.
• The serpent spat out its ultimate weapon, black venom, and Ye Xuan met it with golden saber Qi, causing a massive explosion.

Ye Xuan overpowered the Chaos Ferocious Beast, identified as the Nether Serpent, and turned aside its attempts to fight back. The Nether Serpent unleashed its power source against Ye Xuan’s saber strike, and the chapter ended as the two forces collided.

• The Nether Serpent attacked Ye Xuan with its immense tail, but Ye Xuan stopped it with one hand and sent it reeling.
• The Nether Serpent charged again, and Ye Xuan braced against its forehead before kicking it hard enough to cave in part of its head.
• Wounded and frightened, the Nether Serpent threatened revenge and tried to retreat, but Ye Xuan refused to let it leave.
• The Nether Serpent released a shock wave that injured and killed monsters and fiends below, then summoned a vast Chaos lightning sphere.
• Ye Xuan brought down a saber strike, and the Nether Serpent’s lightning sphere collided with the saber Qi.

Ye Xuan destroyed the Nether Serpent’s lightning origin, but the serpent summoned another Chaos Ferocious Beast: the Saint-level Three-Headed Wolf. Ye Xuan prepared to fight the newcomer and resolved to speed up the Investiture of the Gods to confront the dangers gathering in the Primordial World.

• The Nether Serpent’s lightning pearl cracked apart under Ye Xuan’s blade Qi, destroying its lightning origin and leaving it badly weakened.
• The Nether Serpent called for help, and a Three-Headed Wolf emerged from underground after Ye Xuan sensed tremors in the mountains.
• Ye Xuan recognized the wolf as another Chaos Ferocious Beast and worried that the Primordial World faced an approaching catastrophe.
• The Three-Headed Wolf scolded the Nether Serpent for revealing himself and exposing them, then ordered Ye Xuan to choose how he wanted to die.
• Ye Xuan welcomed the chance to fight a stronger opponent, while the Three-Headed Wolf grew annoyed at his lack of fear.

Ye Xuan met White Tiger, who had pursued the Nether Serpent into the Primordial World and confronted it and the Three-Headed Demon Wolf. White Tiger learned how the wolf had entered and heard its plea to be spared, leaving its fate unresolved.

• A strange roar and fearsome presence caused the Nether Serpent and Three-Headed Demon Wolf to stop confronting Ye Xuan and look toward the horizon.
• White Tiger arrived, and the Three-Headed Demon Wolf recognized him; Ye Xuan greeted the sacred beast and asked about the Chaos Ferocious Beasts.
• White Tiger explained that the Nether Serpent had slipped past his post using shed snakeskin, and he demanded to know how the Three-Headed Demon Wolf had entered.
• The Three-Headed Demon Wolf said it had broken through Black Tortoise's post, but Black Tortoise had intercepted its original body, leaving only a hidden fragment of its will to enter.
• The wolf claimed it had evolved anew in the Primordial World and harmed no one, then asked White Tiger to let it leave.

White Tiger manifested his enormous true form and relentlessly overwhelmed the three-headed demon wolf, while Ye Xuan watched the battle. The demon wolf’s attacks failed to hurt White Tiger, and he was left badly wounded and nearing collapse.

• White Tiger rejected the three-headed demon wolf’s plea for mercy and revealed his gigantic true form.
• The three-headed demon wolf tried to flee, but White Tiger repeatedly cut off his escape and forced him to fight.
• White Tiger and the demon wolf collided in midair, leaving the demon wolf badly wounded while White Tiger remained composed.
• The demon wolf fired three black energy projectiles, but White Tiger knocked them back with his tail and struck him again.
• The beasts fought through the air and across the ground as Ye Xuan watched, and White Tiger easily broke through the demon wolf’s increasingly desperate attacks.

White Tiger defeated and purified the Three-Headed Demon Wolf and the Nether Serpent, then told Ye Xuan that the Four Spirits had been protecting the Primordial World for countless years. Ye Xuan asked who else guarded the world and what role Dao Ancestor Hongjun played, leaving White Tiger to consider his answer.

• White Tiger struck down the Three-Headed Demon Wolf despite the wolf revealing that White Tiger was only a clone.
• White Tiger purified the Three-Headed Demon Wolf, then intercepted and purified the fleeing Nether Serpent.
• White Tiger returned to the form of a translucent scholar and praised Ye Xuan for reaching the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
• Ye Xuan asked whether the Four Spirits existed and had guarded the four poles of heaven and earth, and White Tiger confirmed they had protected the Primordial World for countless years.
• Ye Xuan asked who else protected the Primordial World and whether Dao Ancestor Hongjun knew of its hidden guardians, and White Tiger pondered how to reply.

White Tiger revealed that the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, founded by Dao Venerable Taichu, secretly protected the Primordial World and counted many incomprehensibly powerful figures among its members. After White Tiger left, Ye Xuan resolved to prepare for the coming Great Tribulation of the Investiture of the Gods by entering secluded cultivation.

• White Tiger told Ye Xuan that the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion existed outside the Primordial World and that Dao Ancestor Hongjun was not one of its members.
• White Tiger described the pavilion's founding, its powerful members, and the growing pressure from entities in Chaos invading the Primordial World.
• White Tiger invited Ye Xuan to seek him out if he wished to join the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, then vanished to return west.
• Ye Xuan considered the threats facing the Primordial World and decided he needed to prepare for the great tribulation through deep secluded cultivation.
• Ye Xuan vanished, while the Hehuan Sect in the western lands was shown to have lost its former prosperity.

Huanhuan had killed the Hehuan Sect’s disciples and prepared to leave after the Human Dao Saint’s influence changed her feelings and helped her become a Quasi-Saint. Ye Wudao questioned her about the Saint, and Huanhuan denied that she had won his favor.

• Huanhuan killed the Hehuan Sect’s male consorts and gathered her valuables before leaving the ruined sect.
• Ye Wudao arrived, learned Huanhuan had killed everyone, and teased her about changing her ways.
• Huanhuan told Ye Wudao that she felt dirty and had grown disgusted with her old life.
• Ye Wudao sensed Huanhuan’s Quasi-Saint power and warned her that the East’s powerful cultivators despised harvesting techniques.
• Huanhuan said she wanted to go east to be closer to the Human Dao Saint, whom she wanted to see again.
• Ye Wudao asked whether Huanhuan had fallen for the Saint and become his lover; Huanhuan said he had helped her break through, but she had not won his favor.

Bai Susu reunited with Huanhuan and Ye Wudao and told them about the Human Dao Saint’s plan to form the Twelve Zodiac Animals. The three western demons agreed to work on Bai Susu’s underground network and then travel with her to Chaoge.

• Bai Susu arrived at Huanhuan’s devastated home and asked whether she and Ye Wudao had fought.
• Ye Wudao and Huanhuan told Bai Susu they planned to go east to seek the Human Dao Saint.
• Bai Susu revealed that she had met the Human Dao Saint, served him, and was establishing an underground network in the west for his Twelve Zodiac Animals plan.
• Huanhuan and Ye Wudao realized Ye Wudao’s Night Devil Horse form might qualify her to join the Twelve Zodiac Animals.
• Bai Susu invited Huanhuan and Ye Wudao to help complete the western network before she took them to Chaoge, and they accepted.

Ye Xuan spent six years in seclusion while Yin Shang prospered under the officials and generals he had appointed. When Su Daji told him Marquis Ji Chang’s seven-year imprisonment was nearly over, Ye Xuan decided to release him so Xiqi would begin its rebellion and the Great Tribulation of the Investiture of the Gods could advance.

• Ye Xuan ordered his followers to strengthen Yin Shang’s preparations, then entered seclusion to raise his strength before beginning the Great Tribulation.
• Under Shang Rong, Bi Gan, Wen Zhong, Huang Feihu, and others, Yin Shang’s economy, military training, and security flourished while Ye Xuan remained out of sight.
• After more than six years, Su Daji informed Ye Xuan that Ji Chang had eaten nearly all the corpses in Youli City and that Bo Yikao had been dead for over three years.
• Ye Xuan decided to release Ji Chang, believing his return would prompt Xiqi to rebel and let him accelerate the Great Tribulation.
• Su Daji warned Ye Xuan that Xiqi had remained restrained while Ji Chang was imprisoned and might act quickly if he returned.

After seven years in Youli City, Ji Chang finished eating the corpses and was released by Ye Xuan. Xiqi’s experts rescued him and hurried him toward home, while Ji Chang vowed revenge against the Human Emperor.

• Ye Xuan told Su Daji that Ji Chang would be released after eating the corpses, saying he wanted Xiqi to act and the larger conflict to begin.
• Ji Chang ate the last of his son’s remains, then left Youli City after completing his seven-year imprisonment.
• Chaoge’s experts withdrew, and Xiqi’s experts took Ji Chang away before the guards could change their minds.
• After three days of traveling, Ji Chang ordered a brief rest near Sishui Pass and cursed the Human Emperor, swearing to return with an army and kill him.
• Liang Fan, who had spent years trying to rescue Ji Chang, worried about the Marquis of the West as his hatred and killing intent surged.

After rescuing Marquis Ji Chang of the West, General Liang and her group reached Mount Qi Pass and brought him safely back to Xiqi. While Ji Chang recovered in sleep, the Antarctic Immortal appeared and revealed that he had escorted Ji Chang toward Chaoge seven years earlier.

• General Liang and her group reached Mount Qi Pass late at night and persuaded the guards to open the gates.
• General Shen Yuan welcomed Ji Chang, who returned to Xiqi exhausted and soon fell asleep after drinking wine.
• Ji Chang awoke in a room filled with rosy light and recognized the Antarctic Immortal.
• The Antarctic Immortal asked Ji Chang about his suffering in Chaoge and said he had escorted him there seven years earlier but waited outside the city.

Marquis Ji Chang of the West described his imprisonment in Youli City and condemned the Human Emperor and Yin Shang, while the Antarctic Immortal urged him to launch a campaign against Shang. Ji Chang agreed to prepare for war and was told to seek help from the Antarctic Immortal’s junior brother by the Wei River.

• The Antarctic Immortal recalled Ji Chang’s seven years of hardship in Youli City and asked what he thought of the Human Emperor.
• Ji Chang recounted the Human Emperor’s intimidating methods and condemned Yin Shang’s court for its demons and supposed decline.
• The Antarctic Immortal agreed that Yin Shang was nearing its end and asked Ji Chang to lead a campaign against it.
• Ji Chang agreed to prepare for war, believing the Heavenly Dao and several Saints supported him against Chaoge.
• The Antarctic Immortal directed Ji Chang to meet his junior brother by the Wei River, who could help gather powerful allies for the campaign.