Arc 7The Immortal Slaughter Tribulation

As Jinling and Guiling opened human acupoints and sought Guiling’s opportunity in the Underworld, Yang Jian’s fight over Yaoji drew Haotian into conflict with the Sages. Hongjun then announced the Immortal Slaughter Tribulation and the Investiture of the Gods, leaving Ao Changsheng intent on confronting Yuanshi.

  • Dizang vowed not to become a Buddha until Hell was empty, reached Daluo, and used Diting to guide sincerely repentant ghosts to the Yellow Springs Road while taking their remaining sins upon himself.
  • Jinling and Guiling devised a way to use Round Light Mirrors to channel star power into human cities, unsealed acupoints across the Nine Provinces, and gained Fuxi’s support for an alliance between the Human Race and the stars.
  • Ao Changsheng chose to continue his seclusion, forced open the Seclusion System’s passage to the River of Space and Time, and received the dangerous Great Dao Battle Physique method.
  • Ao Changsheng sent Guiling, Jinling, and the Three Xiaos through a passage into the Netherworld, where they crossed the White Lotus Bridge and followed the Yellow Springs Road toward Hell.
  • Yang Jian entered the Underworld demanding Yaoji’s soul, fought a Ghost Emperor, and was eventually suppressed by Guiling and handed to Houtu.
  • Pingxin reunited Yaoji and Yang Jian, and Yaoji refused the Heavenly Eye so that it could return to her son, and afterward, Haotian confronted Yang Jian and went to Hongjun for support.
  • Hongjun summoned the Sages and announced that the Immortal Slaughter Tribulation would end when the Investiture of the Gods filled 365 Orthodox God positions, but he rejected Zhunti’s proposed names and the Sages struggled to nominate disciples.
  • Yuanshi refused to sign the Investiture of the Gods, while Laozi and Nüwa added Taishang Laojun and Lingzhuzi, and Hongjun declared the tribulation would begin, and Ao Changsheng sent an incarnation toward Yuanshi, saying Yuanshi needed a beating.
Chapters 151–176 Vol. 2 Read

Ch. 151Hell Is Not Empty, I Vow Not to Become a Buddha

Dizang turned from the Six Paths of Reincarnation to Hell, vowed to deliver its suffering beings, and began guiding genuinely repentant ghosts toward reincarnation while bearing their remaining sins. Pingxin and Ao Changsheng discussed his work for the Underworld, and Ao Changsheng returned to cultivation as Zhunti received word from Dizang.

  • Dizang questioned Hell’s punishments, and Pingxin challenged him to try repentance and atonement.
  • Dizang recited stories from his life, then vowed not to become a Buddha until Hell was empty; his cultivation reached Daluo, and Diting appeared to discern which ghosts sincerely repented.
  • Dizang offered to bear the sins of repentant beings, and Diting guided the few sincere ghosts onto the Yellow Springs Road while their remaining sins passed to Dizang.
  • Pingxin told Ao Changsheng that Dizang was working for the Underworld, and Ao Changsheng warned her to be cautious of the Western Sect.
  • Ao Changsheng returned to his cultivation ground and resumed secluded cultivation, while Zhunti received word from Dizang in the Netherworld.

Ch. 152The Heart! Buddhahood? Turmoil in the Nine Provinces

Jieyin reassured Zhunti that Dizang could still attain Buddhahood despite his vow to remain in Hell, and confirmed that the Western Sect had gained a foothold in reincarnation through him. In the Nine Provinces, Xuandu arrived to spread the Golden Elixir Dao while Jinling and Guiling continued unsealing human acupoints, with Guiling warning that their method was too slow.

  • Jieyin explained that Dizang could perfect his heart and become a Buddha without fulfilling his great vow, while Zhunti accepted that Dizang’s path depended on his own understanding.
  • Jieyin told Zhunti that Dizang’s White Lotus Bridge and position in Hell had already connected the Western Sect to reincarnation, easing Zhunti’s concern about the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
  • Grand Mage Xuandu entered the Nine Provinces, found that the people in the city below had not had their acupoints unsealed, and set off to find a place where he could spread the Dao.
  • Jinling drew on the ancient stars to unseal the acupoints of the people in Danshan City and several other cities while Guiling accompanied her.
  • Guiling told Jinling that unsealing the entire Human Race city by city would take hundreds of thousands of years and that repeating the same spells was dull.

Ch. 153Turmoil in the Nine Provinces! The Human Race Shaken

Jinling and Guiling devised a way to unseal the Acupoints of humans across hundreds of thousands of cities at once, greatly speeding up their work. The sudden change alarmed Zhuanxu and the human Daluo, who began investigating its source.

  • Guiling suggested that humans with unsealed Acupoints could pass them on to their descendants, but Jinling noted that traveling between cities took more time than unsealing each one.
  • Jinling and Guiling spent a thousand years refining a method that used Round Light Mirrors to channel star power into hundreds of thousands of human cities at once.
  • Jinling and Guiling unsealed the Acupoints of more than eighty percent of the humans in the cities reached by their method.
  • Zhuanxu summoned the human Daluo after Acupoints appeared throughout the Human Race and ordered them to investigate who had caused the change.

Ch. 154Xuandu's Extraordinary Encounter! The Human Race's Fire Cloud Cave

Xuandu discovered that the Human Race’s acupoints had been opened across the Nine Provinces and prepared to spread Laozi’s Great Dao of the Golden Elixir. Meanwhile, Jinling and Guiling arrived at Fire Cloud Cave to open the acupoints of the humans there, where two Perfection Daluos awaited them.

  • Xuandu found that the acupoints of humans across the Nine Provinces had been opened within ten years and wondered how Jinling had accomplished it.
  • Xuandu recalled that his own acupoints had opened six months earlier without his noticing anyone nearby, then gave up searching for Jinling and Guiling.
  • Xuandu took out the item Laozi had given him and considered how to pass down the Great Dao of the Golden Elixir.
  • Jinling and Guiling left the Nine Provinces to reach the humans outside the barrier, especially those living at Fire Cloud Cave.
  • Jinling explained that Fire Cloud Cave was the Human Race’s sacred land and that Fuxi lived there.
  • Jirong-shi and Qingsang-shi welcomed Jinling and Guiling outside Fire Cloud Cave and addressed them respectfully as Ladies.

Ch. 155Fire Cloud Cave's Human Race Foundations! Kindred Spirits-

Jinling and Guiling arrived at Fire Cloud Cave, where Fuxi and the Human Race’s elders welcomed them to discuss the unsealed acupoints and the Human Race’s future. The chapter ended with Fuxi recognizing Guiling’s insight into Fire Cloud Cave and telling Jinling that the Human Race would support her.

  • Jirong-shi and Qingsang-shi led Jinling and Guiling toward Fire Cloud Cave, explaining that Fuxi, Shennong, Xuanyuan, and the Human Race’s elders were waiting for them.
  • Jinling and Guiling entered Fire Cloud Cave and greeted Fuxi and the gathered elders, and Fuxi thanked Jinling for unsealing the Human Race’s acupoints.
  • Fuxi explained that the acupoints would let traits gained by variant humans become Human Race bloodlines and Divine Abilities, returning fortune to the Human Race.
  • Guiling recognized that Fire Cloud Cave was a Great Thousand World opened by their Master because it had the same smell as the worlds he created.
  • Fuxi told Jinling to proceed with her plans and promised that he and the Human Race would support her.

Ch. 156The Alliance Between the Human Race and the Star Spirits! Fate--

Jinling and Fuxi settled an alliance between the Human Race and the stars, and Jinling helped activate the elders’ Acupoints before she and Guiling left Fire Cloud Cave. The two set out north to seek Guiling’s prepared opportunity, but realized their first destination would be the Human Race’s Nine Provinces, whose barrier troubled Jinling.

  • Jinling and Fuxi agreed on an alliance and mutual assistance between the Human Race and the stars.
  • Jinling activated the Acupoints of the Human Race’s elders and Perfection Daluo cultivators, earning the elders’ approval.
  • After several days of hospitality, Jinling and Guiling left Fire Cloud Cave, where Jinling had gained substantial Law Power and Guiling had enjoyed her master’s spirit fruit.
  • Jinling chose to travel north with Guiling to search for the opportunity Guiling’s master had prepared for her.
  • Guiling realized they would first have to cross the Nine Provinces Barrier, and Jinling reluctantly accepted that their journey would begin in the Human Race’s Nine Provinces.

Ch. 157The Current State of the Primordial World's Major Powers

Ao Changsheng surveyed the Primordial World's major powers, recognizing the Human Race's rapid rise and the Heavenly Court's overwhelming strength. His inspection of the Western lands overturned his belief that they were truly poor, revealing their immense mineral wealth.

  • Ao Changsheng harvested the fruit from his Innate Spirit Roots after learning that Guiling planned to empty his herb garden, then recorded the occasion in the void.
  • Ao Changsheng examined the Human Race's Great Dao of the Golden Elixir and judged that its cultivation path could lead talented practitioners toward Quasi-Sagehood.
  • Ao Changsheng surveyed the Heavenly Court, noting its strength and sensing that Haotian had advanced beyond Yaochi on a path that could lead to Sagehood.
  • Ao Changsheng observed the Dao lineages of Nüwa and Laozi, then turned his attention to the Western Sect and its lands.
  • Ao Changsheng discovered vast deposits of precious spirit-material ores beneath the Western lands and realized that, despite damaged Spirit Veins and sparse vegetation, the region was rich rather than poor.

Ch. 158The System's Secret! The Past? The Future?

After ten billion years of seclusion, Ao Changsheng chose another hundred billion years and used his power to investigate the Seclusion System. He traced its arrival to the River of Space and Time, received the dangerous Great Dao Battle Physique method, and summoned his Great Dao of Thunder Dao body to help cultivate it.

  • The Seclusion System offered Ao Changsheng a choice between ending his seclusion and continuing for one hundred billion years, and he chose to continue.
  • Ao Changsheng used the Great Thousand World within his body to examine the seclusion ground and prepare to investigate the Seclusion System itself.
  • As the system delivered his reward, Ao Changsheng detected its fluctuation, forced open its passage, and discovered that it led to the Primordial World's River of Space and Time.
  • Ao Changsheng received the Great Dao Battle Physique method, which could strengthen a Dao body but was so difficult and dangerous that failure could cost him dearly.
  • Ao Changsheng summoned his Great Dao of Thunder Dao body, who complained about being used before transforming into lightning and fleeing.

Ch. 159Guiling Returns! Personally Sent to Hell

Guiling returned to Ao Changsheng after nearly three hundred million years, bringing Holy Mother Jinling and the Three Xiaos to visit his cultivation ground. Ao Changsheng sent Guiling and her companions directly to Hell to claim her prepared fortuitous opportunity, leaving them screaming in the passage as he closed it.

  • Ao Changsheng wondered whether the Dao Body Sacred Method was flawed and considered having his Dao bodies cultivate the Great Dao Battle Physique together.
  • Guiling arrived with Jinling, Yunxiao, Bixiao, and Qiongxiao, struck an invisible barrier, and entered the cultivation ground after bumping her head.
  • Jinling and the Three Xiaos entered and were stunned by the cultivation ground's abundant Innate Spiritual Qi, Spirit Roots, and treasures.
  • Guiling pleaded with Ao Changsheng to remove her bump and proudly told him she had reached the Middle Thousand World realm, but he urged her to aim for a Great Thousand World.
  • Ao Changsheng told Guiling he would personally send her to her fortuitous opportunity, then pushed her into a passage leading to Hell and sent Jinling and the Three Xiaos after her.
  • Ao Changsheng closed the passage as the five women screamed, then returned to picking spirit fruits in his orchard.

Ch. 160Fortuitous opportunity! The Netherworld Blood Sea

Guiling, Holy Mother Jinling, and the Three Xiaos gained a major cultivation boost in a purgatorial passage before emerging deep beneath the Netherworld Blood Sea. Guiling recognized a vast mire of soul remnants below them, and the group spotted a bridge made of hundreds of millions of white lotuses.

  • Guiling stopped screaming and urged the Three Xiaos to sense the fortuitous opportunity around them.
  • Yunxiao, Bixiao, and Qiongxiao followed the mysterious sensation and rapidly advanced their cultivation, while Guiling and Holy Mother Jinling also made progress.
  • The group emerged from the passage with their powers restored, and Yunxiao, Bixiao, and Qiongxiao thanked Guiling for the opportunity.
  • Holy Mother Jinling recognized their location as deep within the Netherworld Blood Sea and explained the place to Bixiao.
  • Guiling investigated the black mire beneath them and sensed remnants of countless souls.
  • Holy Mother Jinling pointed out a bridge formed from hundreds of millions of white lotuses.

Ch. 161Entering the Underworld! Zhunti-

Guiling, Jinling, and the Three Xiaos followed a White Lotus Bridge through the Netherworld Blood Sea to Ghost Gate Pass and entered the Underworld. Zhunti sensed Guiling and Jinling crossing the bridge, recognized their ties to Tongtian and Ao Changsheng, and resumed his meditation after Jieyin calmed him.

  • Guiling and Jinling recognized the White Lotus Bridge as a Western Sect method and suspected that a Western Sage had created it.
  • Guiling and Jinling brought the Three Xiaos along the bridge to Ghost Gate Pass, where they discovered it led into the Netherworld Underworld.
  • The five women failed to open Ghost Gate Pass, so Guiling and Jinling took the Three Xiaos into their keeping and crossed through on the White Lotus Bridge.
  • Zhunti sensed Jinling and Guiling entering the Underworld and identified Jinling as Tongtian's disciple and Guiling as Ao Changsheng's disciple.
  • Zhunti's anger at Guiling's connection to Ao Changsheng rose, but Jieyin calmed him, and Zhunti stopped observing the women once they left the bridge.

Ch. 163Setting Out! The Yellow Springs Road

Ao Changsheng watched Guiling and Jinling enter the Underworld, having tested Zhunti’s restraint and changed their destination to avoid violating Pingxin’s restrictions. Guiling and her companions set out along the Ancient Yellow Springs Road, unaware of what fortuitous opportunity awaited them.

  • Ao Changsheng kept watch over Guiling and Jinling, ready to strike Zhunti if he tried to harm his disciple.
  • Ao Changsheng noticed Pingxin’s restrictions on Sage access to the Underworld and sent Guiling and her companions to a place outside it instead of directly to Hell.
  • Guiling and Jinling struggled to leave Zhunti’s White Lotus Bridge and stepped onto the Ancient Yellow Springs Road with the Three Xiaos.
  • Jinling and Guiling speculated that the Underworld might offer Guiling a chance to comprehend the Dao, while the Three Xiaos wondered about her cultivation path.
  • Guiling suggested they get on the road, then led the group forward along the Yellow Springs Road.

Ch. 164The Shrewd Ghost Messengers! The Ghost God Backs Down

Guiling, Jinling, and the Three Xiaos traveled deeper into the Underworld, where their presence startled ghosts and ghost messengers alike. When a towering ghost god tried to bar their way, he sensed their overwhelming strength and quickly changed his tone to welcome them.

  • Guiling, Jinling, and the Three Xiaos passed crowds of ghosts on the Yellow Springs Roads without answering their pleas to be returned to the Primordial World.
  • Ghost messengers whipped ghosts who cursed the five women, then discussed their arrival and told stories about Dizang.
  • A hidden figure recorded the names of ghost messengers who spoke about Dizang, delighted that it had filled its quota for the next hundred thousand years.
  • Yunxiao noticed that the White Lotus Bridge remained intact as the women entered the desolate Ancient Yellow Springs Road.
  • A ten-thousand-zhang ghost god appeared and ordered the living women to leave, but Jinling and Guiling’s presences made him falter and offer to guide them instead.

Ch. 165The Underworld's taboo! Destination... Hell

Guiling, Jinling, and the Three Xiaos followed Big Ghost along the Yellow Springs Road and used the White Lotus Bridge to peer into the Underworld’s deepest reaches. There, they met Dizang, who explained that Hell’s punishments washed away the sinful karma of the dead.

  • Big Ghost led Guiling, Jinling, Bixiao, Yunxiao, and Qiongxiao along the Yellow Springs Road, while the Underworld’s guardians were ordered not to interfere.
  • Big Ghost cautiously explained that a Daoist had left the White Lotus Bridge behind and had taken the same road they were traveling.
  • At a sharp turn in the bridge, Guiling and Jinling stepped onto it and shared their view with the Three Xiaos through a special Technique Method.
  • The five women used the White Lotus Bridge’s Divine Ability to see into the Underworld’s Hell and witnessed ghosts enduring countless punishments.
  • Dizang approached and greeted Guiling and Jinling, then explained that Hell’s punishments washed away the sinful karma of the dead.

Ch. 166The Shattered Ghost Gate Pass! Erlang Yang Jian-

Jinling and Guiling learned that Hell lay at the end of Yellow Springs Road, and Guiling chose it as her goal in the Underworld. Elsewhere, Yang Jian smashed through a Ghost Gate Pass while pursuing the soul-claiming messenger who had taken his mother Yaoji, and he attacked a Ghost Emperor after being told the Underworld had not claimed her soul.

  • Dizang told Guiling that she could reach Hell by following Yellow Springs Road, then left the White Lotus Bridge.
  • Jinling learned from Big Ghost that Dizang had left the White Lotus Bridge, while Guiling settled on seeking Hell as her goal.
  • Yang Jian burst through a Ghost Gate Pass and demanded that the Underworld return his mother Yaoji's soul.
  • A Ghost Emperor told Yang Jian the Underworld had no right to claim Yaoji's soul and insisted it had not done so.
  • Yang Jian lost his temper and sent a three-headed Jiaolong formed from his spear to attack the Ghost Emperor.

Ch. 167Fierce Battle in the Underworld

Yang Jian fought the Underworld Ghost Emperor after forcing his way into the Underworld, then unleashed Heaven and Earth Manifestation and clashed with him across the Netherworld. Pingxin ordered the Underworld’s Quasi-Sages not to interfere, while Big Ghost and the Three Xiaos watched the battle and wondered who Yang Jian was.

  • Yang Jian attacked the Underworld Ghost Emperor, blocked his rapid ghost-claw strikes, and was caught in the Ghost Emperor’s giant hand.
  • Yang Jian used Heaven and Earth Manifestation to grow enormous and crushed the Ghost Emperor’s true form with a single stomp.
  • The Ghost Emperor absorbed the Netherworld Ghost Qi and fought Yang Jian’s giant spear, sending shockwaves and void rifts across the Underworld.
  • A sinister Quasi-Sage prepared to capture Yang Jian, but Pingxin told him not to interfere.
  • Big Ghost and the Three Xiaos watched the battle from the Yellow Springs Road, and Bixiao wondered which Sage’s disciple would dare trespass in the Underworld.

Ch. 168Houtu, Sovereign Earth Goddess Who Upholds Heaven and Follows Its Laws

Houtu appeared before Guiling and Jinling after Sage Pingxin’s presence left them overwhelmed, then relayed Pingxin’s offer of a shortcut to Guiling’s Underworld opportunity if she captured the person behind Yang Jian. Guiling refused out of respect for her master Changsheng’s arrangements, only to learn that the supposed trials were merely the journey through the Underworld; Houtu then left through a rift to meet Chan Sect Daoists.

  • Guiling and Jinling recognized Yang Jian’s Chan Sect powers and debated whether to intervene, but Sage Pingxin’s gaze stopped them.
  • Houtu introduced herself as the Heavenly Court’s Underworld administrator and explained that Pingxin’s appearance had driven their Primordial Spirits to their limits.
  • Houtu told Guiling that Pingxin would send her directly to Changsheng’s opportunity if she captured the person behind Yang Jian.
  • Guiling refused to skip the trials Changsheng had supposedly arranged, while Jinling admired the trust between Guiling and her master.
  • Houtu clarified that Changsheng had set no trials; the trials were simply the dangers of traveling through the Underworld, and Guiling asked if she could change her answer.
  • Houtu departed through a rift to meet True Person Taiyi, Yuding True Person, and Huanglong True Person, whom Jinling recognized as Chan Sect Daoists.

Ch. 169Yuding! Taiyi! Huanglong! The Underworld's Authority

Yuding True Person, Huanglong True Person, and True Person Taiyi discovered that Yang Jian had stormed into the Underworld and decided to enter after him despite the danger. As Yang Jian struggled against the Underworld Ghost Emperor, the Ghost Emperor invoked the Underworld’s authority and overwhelmed him with its power.

  • Yuding True Person, Huanglong True Person, and True Person Taiyi found Ghost Gate Pass shattered and learned Yang Jian was fighting a Daluo Ghost Emperor in the Underworld.
  • Yuding True Person recalled teaching Yang Jian that the Jade Void Palace could afford to offend anyone, and regretted encouraging his disciple to fear nothing.
  • True Person Taiyi and Huanglong True Person agreed to enter the Underworld to save Yang Jian, and Yuding True Person offered to bear the consequences alone.
  • The Daluo Ghost Emperor acknowledged Yang Jian’s exceptional talent but invoked the Underworld’s authority to empower himself.
  • The Underworld Ghost Emperor’s pressure nearly collapsed Yang Jian’s manifested form, leaving him unable to break free.

Ch. 170The Heavenly Eye's Divine Might! Guiling Takes Action

Yuding True Person, True Person Taiyi, and Huanglong True Person prepared to rescue Yang Jian, but Houtu restrained them while Yang Jian broke free of the Underworld Ghost Emperor’s authority with the Heavenly Eye and grievously wounded him. Guiling stopped Yang Jian’s stray beam from hitting the Three Xiaos, then subdued him beneath a Small Thousand World.

  • Yuding True Person, True Person Taiyi, and Huanglong True Person drew their Innate Spirit Treasures to intervene, but Houtu appeared and stopped them.
  • Huanglong True Person recognized Houtu as Pingxin and persuaded his junior brothers to put away their swords and watch quietly.
  • The Underworld Ghost Emperor promised to investigate Yang Jian’s mother, and Yang Jian broke free of the Underworld’s authority when he heard the word “mother.”
  • Yang Jian’s Heavenly Eye opened and struck the Underworld Ghost Emperor, dissolving more than half his body.
  • Guiling blocked Yang Jian’s stray divine light before it could hit the Three Xiaos, then placed a Small Thousand World on Yang Jian to suppress him.

Ch. 171Sending Yang Jian Away! Pingxin's Gift

Guiling suppressed Yang Jian after his Heavenly Eye broke through the Underworld’s authority, then handed him over to Houtu. Houtu shared a story about Ao Changsheng’s ancient battle and gave Guiling coordinates to a place outside the Underworld before departing with the three Chan Sect Daluo.

  • Yang Jian unleashed his Heavenly Eye, but Guiling emerged from the void and suppressed him inside a Small Thousand World.
  • Guiling handed the imprisoned Yang Jian to Houtu, while Yuding True Person, True Person Taiyi, and Huanglong True Person reacted with astonishment.
  • Houtu told Guiling that Ao Changsheng had once defeated Dijun and Taiyi’s Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation and spared the Demon Race from destruction.
  • Huanglong True Person wondered whether a legend about a powerful Dragon Race patriarch referred to Ao Changsheng.
  • Houtu sent Yang Jian’s Small Thousand World through a spatial rift and gave Guiling coordinates to a place outside the Underworld.
  • Houtu left with Yuding True Person, True Person Taiyi, and Huanglong True Person, telling Guiling she would understand the coordinates when she reached Hell.

Ch. 172Yaoji's Soul! The Whole Story-

Pingxin removed Yang Jian’s Heavenly Eye and revealed that Haotian wanted it returned to Yaoji, who had given it to her son. Yaoji refused to reclaim it and chose Yang Jian’s future over her own cultivation, so Pingxin enveloped mother and son in the power of reincarnation while Haotian watched.

  • Haotian met Pingxin and asked her to grant his request; Pingxin released Yang Jian, subdued him, and removed his Heavenly Eye.
  • Haotian presented Yaoji’s soul, and Pingxin awakened her before she could proceed with Haotian’s request.
  • Yaoji saw Yang Jian’s empty brow and begged Haotian to spare her son, while Haotian argued that Yang Jian had threatened him.
  • Pingxin warned Haotian not to dictate her actions, then explained that Yaoji could use the Heavenly Eye to advance to Daluo Golden Immortal in her next life.
  • Yaoji refused the Heavenly Eye and asked Pingxin to return it to Yang Jian, saying she was content with her cultivation and wanted her son to keep the gift.
  • Pingxin enveloped Yaoji and Yang Jian in the power of reincarnation as Haotian watched helplessly.

Ch. 173Yang Jian's Regret! Haotian's Tearful Plea Before the Purple Firmament Palace

Yang Jian woke in the void with his Heavenly Eye newly opened, but Haotian revealed that it had been Yaoji’s only hope of reaching Daluo, leaving Yang Jian crushed by guilt. Haotian then went to the Purple Firmament Palace to plead with Hongjun, who summoned all the saints as Haotian departed.

  • Yang Jian woke in the void and discovered that his Heavenly Eye had opened, while Haotian appeared behind him unnoticed.
  • Yang Jian attacked Haotian, but Haotian immobilized him and repeatedly struck his Heavenly Eye.
  • Haotian told Yang Jian that Yaoji had given him the Heavenly Eye, her only chance to improve her cultivation, and Yang Jian turned his hatred toward himself.
  • Haotian left Yang Jian and the Netherworld, concluded that the Demon Race, Chan Sect, and Western Sect were involved in a plot against him and Yaoji, and traveled to the Purple Firmament Palace.
  • Haotian knelt before Hongjun and begged him to stand up for his attendant; Hongjun accepted his plea, warned him to carry himself as Heavenly Emperor, and sent him away.
  • After Haotian left, Hongjun summoned all the saints to the Purple Firmament Palace.

Ch. 174A Sage's Schemes! The whole story

Haotian killed the Divine Monkey Pilgrim for plotting against Yaoji, then severed the past lives and karma within Yang Tianyou’s soul, unknowingly thwarting Zhunti’s scheme. Celestial Venerable Yuanshi revealed that he had targeted Yaoji to stop Haotian from becoming a Sage, but Hongjun summoned all Sages to the Purple Firmament Palace.

  • Haotian erased the golden light and past-life karma in Yang Tianyou’s soul before sending him into reincarnation, while Pingxin praised Haotian’s growing power.
  • Haotian confronted the Divine Monkey Pilgrim on Mount West of the Tree and killed him after the demon refused to reveal who had ordered him to scheme against Yaoji.
  • Haotian left for Heaven Beyond Heaven, determined not to let unseen foes treat him as a punching bag.
  • Zhunti realized that Yang Tianyou’s severed ties to Golden Child’s past lives meant Golden Child could not be restored.
  • Celestial Venerable Yuanshi admitted that he had targeted Yaoji to obstruct Haotian’s path to Sagehood, then received Hongjun’s summons for all Sages to come to the Purple Firmament Palace.

Ch. 175The Sages Discuss the Investiture of the Gods at the Purple Firmament Palace

Hongjun summoned the Sages to the Purple Firmament Palace and revealed that scheming against Haotian had triggered an Immortal Slaughter Tribulation targeting their disciples. He presented the Investiture of the Gods as a way to end it, leaving the Sages to decide who would fill its positions.

  • Hongjun told the Sages that the Heavenly Dao had sent down an Immortal Slaughter Tribulation after Yuanshi and Zhunti schemed against Haotian, and said it would mainly affect their disciples.
  • Hongjun explained that the tribulation would end once the three hundred and sixty-five positions on the Investiture of the Gods were filled, with those listed becoming Orthodox Gods under the Heavenly Court's command.
  • Laozi and Nüwa said they had no disciples to nominate, while Zhunti began writing the names of dozens of Western Sect disciples on the Investiture of the Gods.
  • Hongjun stopped Zhunti and erased the names, declaring that disciples with weak foundations and meager blessings could not be appointed as Orthodox Gods.
  • Zhunti claimed that his Western Sect disciples were unworthy of the list, and Jieyin privately wondered whether his junior brother might one day attain the Dao through shamelessness.

Ch. 176The Unavoidable Tribulation! Ao Changsheng Makes His Move-

The Sages argued over who would supply names for the Investiture of the Gods, and Laozi and Nüwa each offered one while Jieyin’s candidates were rejected. Hongjun began the Immortal Slaughter Tribulation without waiting for Yuanshi and Tongtian to agree, and Ao Changsheng sent an incarnation toward Yuanshi, muttering that he needed a beating.

  • Yuanshi refused to sign the Investiture of the Gods and tried to push the burden onto Tongtian’s Jie Sect, provoking Tongtian to threaten a fight.
  • Laozi placed his benevolent corpse, Taishang Laojun, on the Investiture of the Gods, and Nüwa added Lingzhuzi, the spirit of an Innate Spirit Treasure.
  • Jieyin tried to write down Western Sect disciples, but every name vanished from the Investiture of the Gods, leaving him unable to fill any positions.
  • Hongjun declared that the Immortal Slaughter Tribulation would begin as planned and that the Investiture of the Gods would claim the true spirits of those who died until all 365 Orthodox God positions were filled.
  • The Sages left Chaos, while Ao Changsheng sent an incarnation toward Yuanshi and said Yuanshi needed a beating.
Arc 7 of 56
Arc 7 of 56