The Myriad Immortals Formation collapsed, and blood flowed through Biyou Palace.
The Investiture of the Gods tribulation had ended. Sect Master Tongtian was locked away in the Zixiao Palace by Hongjun, and the Saints had sworn not to intervene personally.
Yet the Chan Sect and the Western Buddhist Sect continued to use the Heavenly Court's power to hunt down the remaining members of the Jie Sect and exterminate them to the last.
Lin Mo, an orphan of the Jie Sect who survived among a mountain of corpses from the Myriad Immortals, was fortunate enough to find the Tribulation-Fire Investiture Disk, secretly refined by Sect Master Tongtian before the war. The disk held the tribulation fire of the Myriad Immortals. It could distinguish friend from foe, refine fragments of lost techniques and treasures, and deduce the Jie Sect's Ten Ultimate Formations, Yellow River Formation, and other arrays. It could even reverse-calculate Heaven's mandate behind the Investiture of the Gods and uncover the murderous designs hidden in the list. The tribulation fire was especially effective against Yuxu immortal radiance and the Buddhist aura of golden lotuses. But every glimpse into Heaven's mandate would invite Heaven's resentment and bring calamity upon him.
There would be no secret guidance or backing from a Saint, and no innate treasures would simply fall into his lap. He would have to seek out resources with his own hands, cut down his enemies himself, and gather his fellow disciples one by one. He lay low in the wilderness, roamed the seas, traversed the mountains and rivers of the mortal realm, and ventured deep into the perilous lands of the spirit realm. He gathered the remnants of the Immortal Slaying Swords, rebuilt the ancient Immortal Slaying Formation, contacted old gods unwilling to be listed, and joined forces with allies from beyond the domains.
Heaven's mandate was set. Everyone said Zhou would prosper, Shang would fall, and the Jie Sect was doomed. Then he would use tribulation fire as fuel and formations as his blade to break the Investiture of the Gods game.
When the Immortal Slaying Formation opened once more, the immortal music of Biyou would ring through the Three Realms again.
