Recaps

Guiling used the Authority of Reincarnation and a Great Thousand World to become a False Sage and fight Celestial Venerable Yuanshi. As their battle threatened to shatter the Middle Thousand World and endanger the Nine Provinces, Fuxi appeared and contained the world.

• Guiling connected a Great Thousand World to her inner world and used the power of reincarnation to pierce Celestial Venerable Yuanshi’s Auspicious Cloud, injuring him with her Turtle Roar Cannon.
• Guiling rose to the False Sub-Sage realm and borrowed the Great Thousand World’s power, becoming a False Sage capable of fighting Celestial Venerable Yuanshi.
• Guiling kicked Celestial Venerable Yuanshi through the Middle Thousand World, shocking him with the strength of her attack.
• Celestial Venerable Yuanshi and Guiling unleashed their full power as the Middle Thousand World began to fracture and threaten the Nine Provinces.
• Fuxi appeared, used his power to keep the Middle Thousand World from breaking apart, and remarked on Guiling’s growth.

Guiling fought Celestial Venerable Yuanshi to exhaustion, forcing him to win only after using the Pangu Banner and the Heavenly Dao’s power, while Fuxi revealed how Jinling and Guiling had outmaneuvered him. Ao Changsheng restored Guiling and realized Jinling’s actions had derailed the Chan Sect’s plans, leaving the future course of the Investiture of the Gods uncertain.

• Celestial Venerable Yuanshi defeated Guiling in their battle, and Fuxi appeared to take his unconscious junior sister away.
• Fuxi and Celestial Venerable Yuanshi exchanged words before leaving the shattered world, which then quietly collapsed.
• Ao Changsheng received Guiling, broke Fuxi’s restriction on her, and let her replenish her depleted inner world with spiritual energy.
• Ao Changsheng investigated the events and abandoned any plan to avenge Guiling after realizing Jinling and Guiling had already disrupted Yuanshi’s schemes.
• Ao Changsheng recognized that Jinling’s actions had changed True Person Taiyi’s future and weakened the Chan Sect’s influence in the Heavenly Court.

Nüwa reflected on Nezha’s altered fate and hoped he would endure trials before reclaiming his true body, while Supreme Laozi decided to help Tongtian pursue Sagehood. Ao Changsheng remained unaware of their plans and turned his attention back to a discovery his Dao body had made in Chaos.

• Heavenly Dao Hongjun dismissed the recent clashes as minor events and expected the Investiture of the Gods to drive Yuanshi and Tongtian into conflict.
• Nüwa traced the change in Nezha’s fate to Jinling and Guiling, and she accepted that Nezha’s hardships could strengthen his spirit.
• Nüwa looked forward to Lingzhuzi returning to Nüwa Palace to reclaim his true body and surpass the realms his aptitude could easily attain.
• Supreme Laozi concluded that only one of his junior brothers could become a true Sage during the Immortal Slaughter Tribulation, and he chose to help Tongtian rather than Yuanshi.
• Ao Changsheng left Guiling to recover her magic power and focused on his Dao body in Chaos after it discovered something extraordinary.

Ao Changsheng spotted Chaos City and sent an incarnation toward it while Yangmei traded Ao Changsheng’s presence to the Hellfire Mountain Master for a Dao-Dispelling Stone. Yangmei used the stone to break his Great Dao Oath and prepared to return to the Primordial World, leaving the Hellfire Mountain Master eager to hunt Ao Changsheng.

• Ao Changsheng saw Chaos City in the distance and sent an incarnation toward it.
• Yangmei told the Hellfire Mountain Master about a Hunyuan Daluo cultivator of the Great Dao of the World and asked for a Dao-Dispelling Stone.
• The Hellfire Mountain Master traded the Dao-Dispelling Stone for Ao Changsheng’s presence, then resolved to capture him.
• Yangmei fled far through Chaos, crushed the Dao-Dispelling Stone, and used its power to break his Great Dao Oath.
• Yangmei planned to return to the Primordial World with a clone and smiled at the trouble he had set in motion for Hongjun.

Ao Changsheng reached Chaos City, which was called Ten Thousand Stars City, and discovered that its powerful defenses and attendants revealed its formidable ruler. After entering, the city transported him directly to the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal district, leaving him wary of its domineering rules as he flew onward.

• Ao Changsheng caught up to the drifting Chaos City and passed through its chaotic barrier.
• A spatial fluctuation shifted Chaos City around him, and the gates opened to reveal a Half-Sage-level attendant puppet powered by the city.
• The attendant welcomed Ao Changsheng to Ten Thousand Stars City and gave him a Myriad Stars Token that could guide cultivators to the city.
• Ao Changsheng accepted the token, noted that its symbols differed from Innate Divine Script, and entered the city.
• Ten Thousand Stars City teleported Ao Changsheng directly to the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal district, and he interpreted the transfer as a warning that visitors had to obey the city's rules.

Ao Changsheng explored Ten Thousand Stars City, where he found very few Primordial Daluo Golden Immortals and began collecting its strange Legacy Script. Unbeknownst to him, the city’s hidden Primordial Daluo Golden Immortals chose Hellfire to claim him, and Hellfire Mountain Master recognized him as the target of his hunt.

• Ao Changsheng sensed only a handful of Primordial Daluo Golden Immortals in Ten Thousand Stars City and suspected that something was wrong with the city or its inhabitants.
• Ao Changsheng explored the city’s strange buildings, collected Legacy Script, and concluded that the Tongtian Starlight Tower might hold important answers.
• The hidden Primordial Daluo Golden Immortals watched Ao Changsheng and discussed dividing him among themselves.
• Hellfire asked Black Light for the chance to claim Ao Changsheng and agreed to give him fifty in return.
• Hellfire Mountain Master revealed his vast form, recognized Ao Changsheng in the image, and called his name with longing.

Ao Changsheng discovered that Ten Thousand Stars City’s tower named him as a candidate to become its city lord and deduced that the Hellfire Mountain Master and others had suppressed the city’s visiting Primordial Daluo Golden Immortals. The Hellfire Mountain Master seized Ao Changsheng’s avatar and carried it out of the city, where he revealed his immense true form.

• Ao Changsheng recognized his name on the Stars Tongtian Tower’s screen and inferred that a power beyond the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal realm had built Ten Thousand Stars City.
• Ao Changsheng concluded that the city’s hidden Primordial Daluo Golden Immortals had likely suppressed other visitors to monopolize its cultivation realms.
• The Hellfire Mountain Master appeared behind Ao Changsheng, and Ao Changsheng accused him and the others of hunting down the city’s Primordial Daluo Golden Immortals.
• The Hellfire Mountain Master corrected Ao Changsheng, saying the visitors had been suppressed because Primordial Daluo Golden Immortals were valuable treasures in Chaos.
• The Hellfire Mountain Master’s true body swept Ao Changsheng’s avatar out of Ten Thousand Stars City, while the awakened puppet guards withdrew without attacking.
• The Hellfire Mountain Master transformed into a colossal flame demon god and addressed Ao Changsheng, who identified him by matching his presence to the name on the tower’s ranking.

Ao Changsheng’s avatar revealed that he cultivated the Great Dao of the World, exciting the Hellfire Mountain Master, who believed it could guide his own cultivation. After tracing Ao Changsheng’s presence through a prepared formation, the Hellfire Mountain Master caught up with the Water Dragon Great Thousand World and sealed it inside his domain.

• The Hellfire Mountain Master recognized Ao Changsheng’s Great Dao of the World and explained that Primordial Daluo Golden Immortals were valuable guides for Chaos cultivators.
• The Hellfire Mountain Master revealed that he believed Ao Changsheng’s true body was nearby, but Ao Changsheng smiled and dispersed his avatar.
• The Hellfire Mountain Master used the presence Yangmei had traded him and a prepared formation to locate Ao Changsheng.
• Ao Changsheng traveled away from Ten Thousand Stars City inside the Water Dragon Great Thousand World, then sensed the Hellfire Mountain Master approaching.
• The Hellfire Mountain Master overtook the Water Dragon Great Thousand World, sealed it and the surrounding Chaos in a scarlet domain, and shouted that he had found the Great Dao of the World.

Ao Changsheng used the Water Dragon Great Thousand World to suppress Hellfire Mountain Master, who had intended to seize the Great Dao of the World for himself. Hellfire Mountain Master destroyed the world and pursued Ao Changsheng, who recognized his overwhelming strength and realized he could not defeat him alone.

• Ao Changsheng gathered the Water Dragon Great Thousand World's power and sent its divine dragon against Hellfire Mountain Master, who held back to study the Great Dao of the World.
• Ao Changsheng revealed that his Great Dao of the World had fused with the five elemental Great Daos, then trapped Hellfire Mountain Master inside the five-colored dragon and suppressed him.
• Enraged that Ao Changsheng had fused five Great Daos into the Great Dao of the World, Hellfire Mountain Master unleashed his full power and burned away the Water Dragon Great Thousand World.
• Ao Changsheng fled the spreading hellfire with a Divine Ability as Hellfire Mountain Master pursued him, revealing nine Great Daos, including eight powerful Great Daos fused into his innate Great Dao.
• Ao Changsheng concluded that he could not handle Hellfire Mountain Master alone, while several Chaos currents transformed into human figures and watched the distant sea of flames.

Ao Changsheng’s five Dao bodies joined forces against the Hellfire Mountain Master, who tried to trick him into revealing his secret method and then prepared to fight. The chapter ended as the Hellfire Mountain Master realized the five Ao Changshengs could challenge him, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Ao Changsheng’s Fire Dao body admired the Hellfire Mountain Master’s black flames while his Metal, Wood, and Earth Dao bodies charged into battle.
• The Hellfire Mountain Master saw five Ao Changshengs and demanded the secret method behind their true-body-like Dao bodies, offering an oath and protection in exchange.
• The Hellfire Mountain Master used a sincerity-based Divine Ability and planned to ambush Ao Changsheng, but it failed because the Dao bodies were not Ao Changsheng’s true body.
• The Hellfire Mountain Master chose to fight rather than let Ao Changsheng escape, but stopped taunting him when each Dao body produced a Great Thousand World.
• The five Ao Changshengs transformed into five powerful Great Thousand Divine Dragons, and the Hellfire Mountain Master realized they could contend with him for a time.

Ao Changsheng sent his Fire Dao body into the Hellfire Mountain Master's sea of black fire to locate his hidden true body, using Five-Colored World Fire to make worlds perish alongside wisps of Hellfire. The Hellfire Mountain Master adapted to the technique as Ao Changsheng's other four Dao bodies advanced, and two concealed figures watched the escalating clash from afar.

• Ao Changsheng sent his Fire Dao body into the Hellfire Mountain Master's sea of black fire, despite knowing Hellfire had destroyed his Water Great Thousand World.
• Ao Changsheng's Five-Colored World Fire created and destroyed countless Great Thousand Worlds, drawing wisps of Hellfire into their destruction and startling the Hellfire Mountain Master.
• The Hellfire Mountain Master used his crimson eyes to discern Ao Changsheng's technique and concentrated his Hellfire to hinder the worlds.
• Ao Changsheng's Metal, Water, Wood, and Earth Dao bodies charged toward the sea of fire, swallowing the incoming Hellfire in larger worlds before those worlds collapsed.
• Ao Changsheng's Dao bodies struggled to withstand the Hellfire Mountain Master's attacks as they crossed the short distance to the sea, while two concealed figures watched from afar.

Ao Changsheng fought the Hellfire Mountain Master with five Great Thousand World dragon bodies, revealing far more strength than his enemy had expected. He destroyed the Hellfire Mountain Master with a collapsing chaotic world and departed, realizing the enemy had carried a fragment of his presence.

• Ao Changsheng searched the sea of Hellfire with his five dragon bodies while the Hellfire Mountain Master abandoned his restraint and charged into battle.
• The Hellfire Mountain Master fought all five bodies to a stalemate, then pierced them with beams that forced Ao Changsheng to spend enormous Law Power healing them.
• The Hellfire Mountain Master sensed that Ao Changsheng had more than five true-body clones and had fused over ten Great Daos, including the Five Elements and Disorder.
• Ao Changsheng’s Five Elements and Disorder Dao bodies collapsed a small chaotic world into an infinitesimal point, crushing the Hellfire Mountain Master and a wisp of Ao Changsheng’s presence.
• Ao Changsheng realized the presence had made the Hellfire Mountain Master a hidden threat, then all seven of his Dao bodies vanished.

After defeating the Hellfire Mountain Master, Ao Changsheng regretted losing the enemy’s eight powerful Great Daos and his token to Ten Thousand Stars City. He watched the Investiture of the Gods conflict stall and considered how the Jie Sect’s doomed fate might affect Guiling, urging her to strive for Sagehood.

• Ao Changsheng mourned destroying the Hellfire Mountain Master’s eight powerful Great Daos, then reviewed the battle and absorbed what he had learned.
• Ao Changsheng realized his incarnation had lost the Ten Thousand Stars City token and failed to find the rapidly traveling city in Chaos.
• Ao Changsheng observed that nearly a thousand years after Chentang Pass, Xiqi had not rebelled and Ji Chang remained imprisoned in Chaoge, while Bo Yikao prepared to rescue him with Guiling and Jinling following.
• Ao Changsheng judged that the Immeasurable Tribulation concealed the Sage behind the conflict, but saw the war’s slow progress as useful for his plans in the three thousand worlds.
• Ao Changsheng concluded that the Jie Sect was doomed despite Jinling saving some disciples, and decided not to intervene because Guiling and Jinling were close.
• Ao Changsheng watched Guiling and urged her to recognize that only becoming a Sage would let her determine her own fate.

Bo Yikao resolved to enter Chaoge and offer ancestral treasures to save his imprisoned father, Ji Chang, while Guiling and Jinling prepared to strip him of his blessings of fortune. Their plans shifted when Jinling spotted Chan Sect immortals approaching Chaoge and decided to target True Person Taiyi.

• Bo Yikao rejected San Yisheng's pleas and set out for Chaoge to atone for Ji Chang, leaving Xiqi's fortune unsettled.
• The Wude Divine Phoenix sensed the change in Xiqi's fortune and informed Guiling, who recorded Bo Yikao's decision and alerted Jinling.
• Jinling and Guiling agreed to withdraw Bo Yikao's blessings of fortune after his convoy entered Chaoge.
• Jinling spotted True Person Taiyi and Yuding True Person approaching Chaoge and changed the plan, vowing to put Taiyi on the Investiture of the Gods.

Cult Master Tongtian approved Holy Mother Jinling’s plan to target the Chan Sect and watched over her as True Person Taiyi plotted to seize another person’s fortune. Jinling recognized his scheme and prepared to turn it against him, leaving Taiyi unaware that she had discovered his intentions.

• Cult Master Tongtian agreed to Jinling’s request, intending to intervene if Celestial Venerable Yuanshi tried to save a Chan Sect disciple from the Investiture of the Gods.
• True Person Taiyi told Yuding True Person he would find a disciple in Chaoge City, while Yuding worried that there was no time left to train one for the coming calamity.
• Yuding reflected on Taiyi’s failed scheme against Lingzhuzi and the two Innate Spirit Treasures Taiyi had lost.
• Taiyi watched a caravan entering Chaoge City and secretly resolved to seize the fortune of someone in it during the Immeasurable Tribulation.
• Jinling noticed Taiyi’s greed, inferred his target and purpose, and declared that he had found his own road to death.

At the Star-Picking Tower, Daji persuaded King Zhou to keep Bo Yikao in Chaoge after his qin performance, delaying his promised release. Meanwhile, True Person Taiyi planned to take Bo Yikao as a disciple after his destined death calamity, and Jinling watched his scheme from outside the city.

• Bo Yikao played the qin so beautifully that King Zhou praised him and the listeners were entranced.
• Daji persuaded King Zhou to make Bo Yikao stay and teach her the qin before he and his father could return to Xiqi, and Bo Yikao agreed while considering an escape.
• True Person Taiyi showed Yuding True Person Bo Yikao in a Round Light Mirror and explained that his death calamity would sever his claim to rule Xiqi.
• Yuding True Person agreed to help True Person Taiyi protect Bo Yikao from whoever would ambush him in Chaoge.
• Jinling watched from outside Chaoge City and resolved that True Person Taiyi's plans for Bo Yikao would fail.

Bo Yikao resisted Daji’s seduction in the Star-Picking Tower and hoped King Zhou would let him and the Marquis of the West return to Xiqi. True Person Taiyi decided to take Bo Yikao as his disciple for his hidden fortunes, while Jinling watched and blamed Xiqi for Bo Yikao’s foolishness.

• Daji tried to draw Bo Yikao into teaching her the zither while seated in his lap, but he refused and scolded her for betraying her station.
• Daji dismissed Bo Yikao, who regretted angering her and hoped his ancestral treasures would persuade King Zhou to release him and the Marquis of the West.
• Yuding True Person questioned whether Bo Yikao could survive the Great Investiture of the Gods Calamity, but True Person Taiyi resolved to take him as a disciple for the fortunes he carried.
• Jinling watched True Person Taiyi’s schemes and concluded that Xiqi had damaged Bo Yikao’s brain while raising him.

King Zhou framed Bo Yikao for an assassination attempt by secretly directing the white ape to attack him, then ordered Bo Yikao’s execution. As Bo Yikao was dragged away, he accused Daji in a final song, but King Zhou professed his trust in her.

• Daji told King Zhou that Bo Yikao had taken liberties with her, but King Zhou acted as though he believed Bo Yikao’s denial.
• Bo Yikao presented the Sobering Felt, the Seven-Fragrance Carriage, and the white ape, hoping to win permission for himself and Ji Chang to return to Xiqi.
• King Zhou asked to see the white ape perform, then secretly influenced it to attack him and Daji with poisoned daggers.
• King Zhou evaded the attack, killed the white ape, and accused Bo Yikao of plotting his assassination before ordering his execution.
• Bo Yikao suspected Daji had orchestrated the attack and sang an accusation against her as the soldiers dragged him away.
• King Zhou dismissed Bo Yikao’s accusation as a dying man’s ravings and reassured Daji that he believed her.

Bo Yikao was rescued from his execution by True Person Taiyi and Yuding True Person, but Yin Shang forces captured him again and blocked the immortals’ escape. As True Person Taiyi fought through the defenses to reach him, an unknown figure beheaded Bo Yikao on the execution ground.

• Bo Yikao condemned Daji and lamented the damage his death would bring to Ji Chang and Xiqi as soldiers dragged him toward execution.
• True Person Taiyi and Yuding True Person sent Yellow Turban Strongmen to carry Bo Yikao away, but Yin Shang soldiers intercepted them and captured him again.
• King Zhou empowered the Yin Shang battle formation, which destroyed the Yellow Turban Strongmen and sent the Dark Bird to attack True Person Taiyi and Yuding True Person.
• True Person Taiyi charged toward Bo Yikao with the Yin-Yang Twin Swords and Wind Fire Wheels while Yuding True Person held off the approaching Yin Shang forces.
• King Zhou raised dense formations around the execution ground, and an unknown figure struck Bo Yikao’s head from his body.

Bo Yikao was killed by Yin Shang’s executioners before True Person Taiyi could save his Primordial Spirit, and Jinling’s ominous starlight drove Taiyi into a furious frenzy. As Huang Feihu lured Taiyi away from the Star-Picking Tower, Jinling saw her plan might be unnecessary, while an illusory figure woke behind her.

• The Yin Shang executioner’s cultivator-slaying blade tore apart Bo Yikao’s body and Primordial Spirit as True Person Taiyi tried to retrieve him.
• Huang Feihu struck True Person Taiyi and prevented him from collecting Bo Yikao, whose soul scattered before them.
• True Person Taiyi erupted in rage and attacked Huang Feihu, while Yuding True Person suspected a Jie Sect Quasi-Sage had secretly influenced him.
• King Zhou agreed to Fei Zhong’s suggestion that Huang Feihu draw the battle away from the Star-Picking Tower, and Huang Feihu retreated while fighting Taiyi.
• Jinling watched from the clouds with ominous starlight in her hand, judged its effect on Taiyi unexpectedly strong, and saw an illusory figure wake behind her.

Jinling revived Bo Yikao’s Primordial Spirit and revealed that King Zhou had staged the white ape assassination attempt and had Bo Yikao killed after Daji’s alleged seduction. Bo Yikao accepted his death and worried about Xiqi, but Jinling said his punishment was not over as Chaoge’s army and protective formation surrounded True Person Taiyi and Yuding True Person.

• Bo Yikao awoke beside Jinling and learned that she had intervened in his death, though she denied saving him.
• Jinling told Bo Yikao that King Zhou had staged the assassination attempt and that she had severed Bo Yikao’s Karmic Luck, leaving him vulnerable to death.
• Bo Yikao realized King Zhou had framed him after Daji’s alleged seduction, despite Bo Yikao insisting that nothing had happened between them.
• Bo Yikao accepted that he was unfit to rule and hoped his younger brother Fafa would restore their family and lead Xiqi to prosper.
• Jinling told Bo Yikao that his punishment was not over as Yin Shang’s army surrounded True Person Taiyi and Yuding True Person and Chaoge’s vast formation appeared.

Yin Shang summoned its Dark Bird Totem Dharma Manifestation, empowered by Chaoge’s people and soldiers, to confront Yuding True Person and True Person Taiyi. King Zhou ordered it to attack Taiyi with all its strength.

• Chaoge’s residents and Yin Shang’s soldiers contributed their Karmic Luck and power to form the Dark Bird Totem Dharma Manifestation.
• The Dark Bird’s appearance suppressed Yuding True Person and True Person Taiyi, while Jinling’s influence caused Yuding to overlook the Investiture of the Gods.
• True Person Taiyi charged the Dark Bird and was hurled into the ground, but he rose and attacked again.
• King Zhou watched from the Star-Picking Tower and ordered the Dark Bird to kill True Person Taiyi.

Yuding True Person escaped Chaoge while the Human Race Daluo defeated and killed True Person Taiyi. As the Human Race Daluo tried to erase Taiyi from the River of Time, Celestial Venerable Yuanshi sensed the danger and reacted.

• A Human Race Daluo joined the Black Bird totem manifestation, strengthening it with the Daluo realm.
• Yuding True Person used Five Elements Great Evasion to flee, and the Human Race Daluo chose not to pursue him.
• Jinling let Yuding escape and focused on True Person Taiyi, who had lost his reason and charged at the Black Bird totem manifestation.
• The Human Race Daluo defeated and killed True Person Taiyi, dissolving his body and Primordial Spirit.
• The Human Race Daluo tried to erase True Person Taiyi from the River of Time, and Celestial Venerable Yuanshi opened his eyes in fury.

After learning that True Person Taiyi had died in a Human Race battle formation, Celestial Venerable Yuanshi uncovered Jinling’s schemes and set out for Yin Shang, but Cult Master Tongtian blocked him. The two Sages prepared to fight until Fuxi arrived and urged them to stop, warning that the Primordial World could not withstand their battle.

• Celestial Venerable Yuanshi sensed True Person Taiyi’s death and stopped his disciple’s traces from being erased, but Fuxi blocked his counterattack after Yuanshi identified the power as a Human Race battle formation.
• Celestial Venerable Yuanshi investigated the heavenly secrets and discovered Yuding True Person and True Person Taiyi’s plan, what had happened in Yin Shang, and Jinling’s manipulation.
• Celestial Venerable Yuanshi headed for Yin Shang to avenge Taiyi, but Cult Master Tongtian intercepted him and argued that the matter was a dispute between juniors.
• Celestial Venerable Yuanshi accused Jinling of secretly plotting against his disciples, and the two Sages drew their spirit treasures and confronted each other.
• Fuxi appeared before Yuanshi and Tongtian and urged them to stop, warning that the Primordial World could not withstand their battle.

Fuxi confronted Celestial Venerable Yuanshi and Cult Master Tongtian over their battle near the Human Race, suspecting they wanted to destroy the Nine Provinces Barrier and open the way for their sects to recruit disciples. After the two Sages fought in the Chaos, Yuanshi returned to Jade Void Palace and resolved to begin the Great Investiture of the Gods Calamity.

• Fuxi warned Yuanshi and Tongtian to move their fight away from the Human Race, and he recognized that they had chosen the battlefield to threaten the Nine Provinces Barrier.
• Yuanshi and Tongtian pretended to accept Fuxi's request, then entered the Chaos to fight while Fuxi left.
• The Sages across the Primordial World sensed the aftershocks of Yuanshi and Tongtian's battle in the Chaos.
• Yuanshi returned to Jade Void Palace and abandoned his plan to go to the Human Race's Nine Provinces, concluding that he could not avenge True Person Taiyi there.
• Yuanshi examined True Person Taiyi's name on the Investiture of the Gods and blamed Taiyi's fall on his own schemes and entanglement with the Immeasurable Tribulation Qi.
• Yuanshi took up the Investiture of the Gods and declared that it was time for the Great Investiture of the Gods Calamity to begin.