Chapter Summaries

Kong Xuan asked Guang Chengzi whether the Phoenix Clan could join the Myriad Witch Kingdom, hoping to secure a future for his people. Guang Chengzi said the Chan Sect would welcome Kong Xuan and the Phoenix Clan, leaving Kong Xuan surprised and honored by Meng Chen’s regard for him.

• Kong Xuan hosted Guang Chengzi with Phoenix Tree Immortal Wine and summoned phoenix maidens to dance when Guang Chengzi stopped drinking.
• Kong Xuan asked whether the Myriad Witch Kingdom included Dragon Clan members, and Guang Chengzi explained that the Chan Sect sought to enlighten all living beings.
• Kong Xuan tentatively asked what the Phoenix Clan would have to pay to join the Myriad Witch Kingdom.
• Guang Chengzi offered to accept Kong Xuan into the Chan Sect, saying the Phoenix Clan would then join the kingdom as well.
• Guang Chengzi assured Kong Xuan that the Phoenix Clan’s karmic burden would not prevent its acceptance, and Kong Xuan felt honored by Meng Chen’s high opinion of him.

Gu Changsheng traveled to the Eastern Sacred Mountain to learn about the Sky Ghost Race, where a divine brush revealed its connection to the Lord of Mount Tai. Azure Cloud Goddess welcomed him and gave him the Lord of Mount Tai’s Confucian Dao scriptures, leaving Gu Changsheng with an inheritance that could lead to the Nine Heavens Chaos Spirit Bell.

• Gu Changsheng arrived in the Eastern Sacred Mountain and met two Sky Ghost children debating whether the morning or midday sun appeared larger.
• The children merged into a divine brush, which absorbed Gu Changsheng’s righteous qi and transmitted the Lord of Mount Tai’s memories to him.
• Azure Cloud Goddess appeared and invited Gu Changsheng into the Eastern Peak Blessed Land, where he saw its vitality restore a ghost to flesh and blood.
• Azure Cloud Goddess gave Gu Changsheng the Lord of Mount Tai’s Confucian Dao scriptures and explained that proving the Dao of Great Luo through Confucian Dao could grant him the Nine Heavens Chaos Spirit Bell.

Chan Sect disciples gained opportunities across the Primordial Wilderness while Juliusun and Wu Liangzi suffered as captives in the Brahmin Realm. Haotian God returned to the Purple Cloud Palace with the Holy Mother of the Jade Pool, intending to take treasures from Ancestor Hongjun’s treasury for the Heavenly Court.

• Chijingzi, Yu Ding Zhenren, Taiyi Zhenren, and Yellow Dragon True Man each found treasures or opportunities, while Juliusun and Wu Liangzi were trapped and tortured in the Brahmin Realm.
• Haotian God worried about the Heavenly Court’s future and Yao Ji’s possible love tribulation, so he decided to visit Ancestor Hongjun and obtain the Undying Fruit.
• The Holy Mother of the Jade Pool agreed to accompany Haotian God and went to the Myriad Witch Kingdom to gather ingredients and treasury gifts for Ancestor Hongjun.
• Haotian God and the Holy Mother of the Jade Pool arrived at the Purple Cloud Palace, where the Holy Mother chatted with Ancestor Hongjun while Haotian God slipped away from the main hall.

Haotian God searched Ancestor Hongjun’s treasury in Purple Cloud Palace and took several treasures to trade for the Heavenly Court. After resisting the temptation to refine the Fate Demon God’s Heart, he continued deeper into the treasury while Ancestor Hongjun smiled at his choice.

• Haotian God reached Treasure Distribution Cliff and took the damaged Fierce Ape Divine Staff to trade for other treasures.
• Haotian God took the Sumeru Illusion, believing Meng Chen could use it against the Disciples of Intercepting Teaching.
• Haotian God found the Fate Demon God’s Heart and learned that refining it could grant him a Chaos Dao Body.
• Haotian God realized that refining the heart could turn him into a Chaos Creature and disqualify him from being Heavenly Emperor, so he put it away.
• Ancestor Hongjun smiled after learning that Haotian God had overcome the heart’s temptation, while the Holy Mother of the Jade Pool continued telling him stories about the Heavenly Court.

Haotian God collected treasures from Treasure Distribution Cliff, hoping to strengthen the Heavenly Court, but Ancestor Hongjun stopped him from taking the Qiankun Cauldron. He obtained a Fragment of the Chaos Pearl, while the Saint-level treasures proved impossible for him to claim.

• Haotian God tried to take the Qiankun Cauldron, but Ancestor Hongjun’s cough made him stop and claim he had only wanted to wipe away dust.
• Haotian God continued collecting treasures and found a Fragment of the Chaos Pearl, which he planned to trade with Meng Chen for Innate Spiritual Treasures.
• Haotian God considered taking Ancestor Hongjun’s Saint-level treasures but could not withstand the Hongyuan Spiritual Pill’s pressure.
• Haotian God tried to collect the seven Hongyuan Spiritual Talismans, but their Divine Light sent him flying.
• Haotian God gave up after none of the Saint-level treasures allowed him to take them.

Meng Chen explored the Brahmin Realm but refused to rescue Juliusun and Wu Liangzi, then abandoned his repairs of the Western Earth Veins because the West's superstitious faith irritated him. Back at the Chan Sect, he rewarded Zhen Yizi for advancing the Mystic Arts of Eight Nine and prepared him for a coming fight.

• Meng Chen sent an avatar into the Brahmin Realm, discovered Juliusun and Wu Liangzi were imprisoned there, and left without helping them.
• Meng Chen returned to repairing the Western Spirit Veins but departed the West after its inhabitants' superstitious prayers and faith power became unbearable.
• Sage Jieyin considered attacking the Saintess Great World to obtain Quasi-Sage experts for repairing the Western Earth Veins.
• Meng Chen learned that Zhen Yizi had advanced the Mystic Arts of Eight Nine to its fifth transformation and gave him the Chan Sect's magical-power-enhancing treasures.
• Meng Chen bestowed three Innate Spiritual Treasures on Zhen Yizi to prepare him to fight for the Chan Sect in Buzhou Grotto-Heaven.

Meng Chen asked Yuanshi Tianzun to prepare for the emergence of Buzhou Grotto-Heaven and received the newly created Jade Void Celestial Sovereign as the Chan Sect’s Enforcement Elder. Grand Master Xuandu then asked Meng Chen to intervene against demon attacks on the Human Race.

• Meng Chen found Yuanshi Tianzun and Great Immortal Zhen Yuan at Three Pure Ones Palace and warned them that Buzhou Grotto-Heaven would emerge in ninety thousand years, requiring a Saint to manage the competing factions.
• Yuanshi Tianzun agreed to discuss a plan with Sage Laozi, while Great Immortal Zhen Yuan considered how his disciple Qingfeng Zhenjun could stay safe.
• Yuanshi Tianzun refined the Chan Sect rules into a lightning deity, and Meng Chen named him the Jade Void Celestial Sovereign and appointed him Enforcement Elder.
• Grand Master Xuandu visited Meng Chen and asked him to deter the Great Luo Demon Gods who had repeatedly attacked the Human Race.

Meng Chen confronted Grand Master Xuandu over the Teaching of Humanity’s conflict with the Chenghuang Clan and refused to let the Chan Sect be drawn into it. When Patriarch Chenghuang offered the Pangu-linked Longevity Pagoda, Meng Chen declined it and affirmed the Chan Sect’s impartiality, leaving both visitors stunned.

• Meng Chen showed Grand Master Xuandu scenes revealing that human cultivators had hunted the Chenghuang Clan and that sage disciples had forced Patriarch Chenghuang to retreat.
• Meng Chen rejected Xuandu’s appeal, saying the Chan Sect would care for its own human subjects and had no reason to aid the Teaching of Humanity.
• Black Sun Child announced Patriarch Chenghuang’s arrival, and Meng Chen invited him into the Jade Void Palace despite Xuandu’s alarm.
• Patriarch Chenghuang offered the Longevity Pagoda, a High-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure that could trap even immortals within their longevity, to the Pangu Sect.
• Meng Chen returned the pagoda and promised that the Chan Sect would not interfere in the clans’ conflict, adding that Chenghuang could report any Chan Sect rule-breaking to Patriarch Hongjun.

The Chenghuang Clan presented Yun Zhongzi’s token and joined the Myriad Witch Kingdom after Meng Chen approved their admission. Grand Master Xuandu returned to the Eight Scenery Palace and learned that his attempt to use Meng Chen’s influence could be seen as a scheme against him, so he rushed to plead for his life.

• Patriarch Chenghuang revealed Yun Zhongzi’s token, and Yun Zhongzi appeared to confirm that the Chenghuang Clan qualified to join the Myriad Witch Kingdom.
• Grand Master Xuandu left after realizing Meng Chen would not support his request, while Meng Chen approved the Chenghuang Clan’s admission and reminded Yun Zhongzi about the Buzhou Grotto-Heaven.
• Yun Zhongzi vowed to prove himself in the Buzhou Grotto-Heaven, and Meng Chen warned him not to underestimate the other cultivators.
• Meng Chen welcomed Patriarch Chenghuang and told him to relocate the Chenghuang Clan to the Eleventh Heaven without Chan Sect interference.
• Perfected Person of Donghua told Grand Master Xuandu that he had schemed against Meng Chen and urged him to plead guilty before Second Martial Uncle.
• Grand Master Xuandu hurried to the main hall and begged Second Martial Uncle to save his life.

Sage Laozi and Yuanshi Tianzun discussed Grand Master Xuandu’s scheme against Meng Chen, but Yuanshi refused to intervene for fear of becoming Meng Chen’s enemy. Sage Laozi exiled Xuandu to the Grand Purity Heaven, replaced him with Donghua as chief disciple, and left Meng Chen’s response uncertain.

• Yuanshi Tianzun told Sage Laozi he could not help Grand Master Xuandu without risking his relationship with Meng Chen.
• Sage Laozi argued that Meng Chen was being too ruthless, but Yuanshi reminded him that Ancestor Hongjun favored Meng Chen and urged him to resolve the matter himself.
• Sage Laozi apologized to Yuanshi Tianzun, then ordered Grand Master Xuandu to remain in the Grand Purity Heaven and never return to the Primordial Wilderness.
• Sage Laozi named Donghua the new chief disciple of the Teaching of Humanity and handed him responsibility for the human race.
• Yuanshi Tianzun worried that Meng Chen might turn his anger against the entire Teaching of Humanity.

Kong Xuan joined Meng Chen’s Chan Sect and the Myriad Witch Kingdom, then sought guidance on his Innate Five-Colored Divine Light. Meng Chen sent him to study the Five Sacred Mountains, and Kong Xuan set off to deepen his understanding of the Five Elements laws.

• Meng Chen reassured Yuanshi Tianzun that Xuandu’s actions would not change the relationship between the Human and Illustrious Teachings.
• Kong Xuan arrived at Kunlun Mountain with Feng Jiuge, who stayed behind while Kong Xuan went to meet Meng Chen.
• Meng Chen asked whether Kong Xuan would purge Yu Yi Xian, now the Golden Winged Great Peng Demon, if they met on a future battlefield, and Kong Xuan vowed to kill him as a traitor.
• Meng Chen welcomed the Phoenix Clan into the Myriad Witch Kingdom and invited Kong Xuan to join the Chan Sect as an elder; Kong Xuan accepted and addressed him as Senior Brother.
• Meng Chen explained that Kong Xuan needed to develop his own understanding of the Five Elements laws and advised him to travel through the Five Sacred Mountains to study them.
• Kong Xuan bowed to Meng Chen and hurried into the Primordial Wilderness.

Meng Chen visited the Eastern Celestial Pole to recruit a guard for Jade Capital Mountain and agreed to eventually take over as its Heavenly Dao Spokesperson. He selected Ye Feiyu to join him and face trials in the Primordial Wilderness.

• Meng Chen returned to Jade Capital Mountain and decided to transfer Azure Dragon Clan experts there to help manage his daoist temple.
• Meng Chen spoke with God-Emperor Meng Zhang, who praised his cultivation and urged him to inherit responsibility for the Eastern Celestial Pole.
• Meng Chen agreed to become the Eastern Azure Thearch when the time came, and God-Emperor Meng Zhang resumed cultivating.
• Meng Chen arrived at Azure Dragon Hall and asked the six divine generals there to volunteer as a guard for Jade Capital Mountain.
• Meng Chen used Fate Power to assess the volunteers and chose Ye Feiyu, whose unusual fate required trials to attain Great Luo.

Meng Chen traveled to Western Extremity Heaven to cultivate in the White Tiger Clan’s Seven Killing Secret Realm and seek guidance from its elders. After entering the clan’s territory, he met Jian Zhen, who said Supervisor God-Monarch had sent him to welcome Meng Chen.

• Meng Chen ordered Ye Feiyu to recruit talented people from the Eastern Celestial Pole for training, then assigned Black Sun Child to guard Jade Capital Mountain.
• Meng Chen arrived at Western Extremity Heaven, where Bai Wushang welcomed him and urged him to temper himself in the Seven Killing Secret Realm.
• Meng Chen entered Western Extremity Heaven as an Azure Dragon, drawing the attention of White Tiger Clan figures who discussed his cultivation and the progress of Jian Zhen, Jin Chong, and Mu Yao.
• Meng Chen reached Profound Gold Mountain and asked Jian Zhen to take him to Supervisor God-Monarch.
• Jian Zhen told Meng Chen that Supervisor God-Monarch was present and had sent him to welcome him.

Meng Chen entered the White Tiger Clan’s Seven Killing Secret Realm to cultivate his Saint Dragon Myriad Tribulations Undying Body by enduring its ferocious attacks. He drew the realm’s imprisoned experts into a battle and remained unhurt as they surrounded him.

• Meng Chen gave Supervisor God-Monarch a Chaos Source Gold Vein and three peak Hunyuan Golden Immortal Chaos Creature corpses, and received a Jade Tome of the White Tiger Clan’s Killing Dao insights.
• Supervisor God-Monarch told Meng Chen that he must attend the Buzhou Grotto-Heaven’s opening in ninety thousand years.
• Jian Zhen led Meng Chen to the Seven Killing Secret Realm, where Meng Chen entered alone and let a Mantis Beast’s blades strike him.
• Meng Chen absorbed the Mantis Beast’s attacks as tribulations, then fought back with blade techniques that destroyed the beast.
• Nearby imprisoned experts gathered to kill Meng Chen, and he charged into them with a tornado of blade qi as they unleashed their divine abilities.

Meng Chen turned the attacks of imprisoned ancient powers into cultivation, then used the Chaos Bell and Myriad Dragon Whip to trap and overwhelm them. Elders of the Four Primordial Spirit Clans noticed his battle and gathered to watch.

• A giant ape and other imprisoned powers attacked Meng Chen, but he transformed into a River of Fate and absorbed their attacks as tribulations, more than doubling his power.
• The attackers realized Meng Chen was using them to cultivate and tried to retreat, but he sealed the arena with the Chaos Bell.
• Meng Chen struck the trapped powers with the Myriad Dragon Whip, forcing them to fight him together while he carefully avoided killing them.
• Late-stage Hunyuan Golden Immortal elders of the Four Primordial Spirit Clans noticed Meng Chen suppressing his opponents and abandoned their trials to watch.

Meng Chen grew stronger while battling Hunyuan Golden Immortals in Western Extremity Heaven, as Haotian God returned and Yuanshi Tianzun prepared an Immortal Dao Conference for the coming emergence of Buzhou Grotto-Heaven. The chapter ended with Yuanshi Tianzun entrusting Guang Chengzi with organizing the conference, backed by the Chan Sect’s treasury and the Myriad Witch Kingdom.

• Meng Chen used his enemies’ killing intent to wield the Dao of Calamity Fate, turning their attacks against them and further tempering his cultivation.
• Ancestor Hongjun taught Haotian God and the Holy Mother of Jade Pool how to govern the Three Realms and gave them heavenly laws that led them to abandon their budding feelings.
• Haotian God returned to the Primordial Wilderness, visited Yuanshi Tianzun, and avoided revealing where Treasure Distribution Cliff was.
• Yuanshi Tianzun announced Buzhou Grotto-Heaven’s imminent emergence and the Immortal Dao Conference, stirring factions across the Primordial World to select competitors.
• Yuanshi Tianzun assigned Guang Chengzi to organize the conference and offered the Chan Sect’s treasury and the Myriad Witch Kingdom’s experts as support.

Meng Chen spent eighty-five thousand years using the Great Dao of Fate to subdue the great powers and raise his cultivation to rival a Weak Quasi-Sage Late Stage, then withdrew the River of Fate and released them. At the Immortal Dao Conference on Mount Buzhou, Ji Bochang defeated Ao Guang, and Zhen Yizi began his match against Yunxiao.

• Meng Chen used the Chaos Bell, the Great Dao of Fate, and Hetu Luoshu to draw great powers into his River of Fate and seize control of their cultivation and destinies.
• After eighty-five thousand years, Meng Chen had submerged the great powers in the River of Fate, reached the strength of a Weak Quasi-Sage Late Stage, and then released them.
• The Immortal Dao Conference began at Mount Buzhou with the Queen Mother of the West judging the matches.
• Ji Bochang fought Ao Guang with the Kunwu Sword and defeated him by severing one of his dragon horns.
• Zhen Yizi and Yunxiao entered the arena for their match, and Yunxiao struck first with the Haotian Golden Pinnacle Exquisite Supreme Art.

Meng Chen returned to the Sages’ gathering after Zhen Yizi defeated Yunxiao, then warned that the Buzhou Grotto-Heaven would pose a greater challenge than the Azure Radiance Grotto-Heaven. He passed the Primordial Nine Seals to Zhen Yizi, whose mana surged as he prepared for the coming trials.

• Zhen Yizi used the Cosmos Yin-Yang Bow to destroy Yunxiao’s Golden Flood Dragon Scissors and defeat her with successive arrows.
• Meng Chen arrived at the gathering as a late-stage Quasi-Sage and took a seat with the Myriad Witch Kingdom.
• Meng Chen spoke with the Supreme Peace Master about cooperation between their powers and a possible visit to the Ten Continents Land.
• Zhen Yizi greeted Meng Chen, who praised his disciple’s performance but warned that the Buzhou Grotto-Heaven’s opponents could be stronger than those in the Azure Radiance Grotto-Heaven.
• Meng Chen transmitted the Primordial Nine Seals to Zhen Yizi through his Divine Emperor blood, causing Zhen Yizi’s mana to surge beyond sixty thousand times that of others at the same realm.

During the Buzhou Grotto-Heaven duels, Meng Chen recognized Feng Hao as the reincarnation of Fuxi, a Primordial Saint who had already reached the Grand Golden Immortal realm. Feng Hao defeated Chaotian True Man, and the chapter ended with the Sages realizing that Fuxi’s return would make the Human Race’s rise unstoppable.

• Old Ancestor Styx and Great Immortal Zhen Yuan refused their disciples’ requests to teach divine powers they could not simply impart.
• Sage Laozi congratulated Yuanshi Tianzun on the Chan Sect’s prospects in Buzhou Grotto-Heaven, while other Sages envied its advantage.
• Meng Chen watched Feng Hao enter the duel against Chaotian True Man and recognized him as the reincarnated Fuxi.
• Feng Hao used the Fuxi Zither to overwhelm Chaotian True Man, destroy his saber, and annihilate him.
• Queen Mother of the West resurrected Chaotian True Man, and the immortals identified Feng Hao as Fuxi’s reincarnation.
• Sage Laozi explained that Fuxi’s fate was not destined to end, and Yuanshi Tianzun and Sage Zhunti recognized the implications for the Human Race.

The Immortal Dao Conference continued as the Teaching of Humanity showcased its powerful disciples, but the Demon Realm’s five sages arrived to demand a place in the proceedings. Demon Saint Tongtian spotted Meng Chen’s late Quasi-Sage cultivation, leaving the story poised for a confrontation between the demon sages and the remaining Immortal Dao sages.

• Meng Chen comforted Chaotian True Man after his defeat and left the grand competition to continue.
• Immortal Zhongli fought Daoist Maitreya with her innate strength, but Daoist Maitreya defeated her and knocked her from the arena.
• A purple gateway opened in the sky, and Demon Saint Tongtian emerged with Demonic Path Practitioners, announcing that the Holy Sect had come to join the Immortal Dao Conference.
• Kong Xuan confronted Winged Demon, who rejected his ties to Yuan Feng and declared Demon Saint Tongtian his true parent.
• World-Ending Demon Saint, Great Dream Demon Saint, and Six Desires Demon Saint arrived, joining Great Freedom Demon Saint and Demon Saint Tongtian as the Demon Realm’s five sages faced Sage Laozi, Yuanshi Tianzun, Goddess Nüwa, and Sage Zhunti.
• Demon Saint Tongtian noticed that Meng Chen had reached the late Quasi-Sage realm and surpassed all his disciples.