Chapter Summaries

After seven Yuanhuī of cultivation, Meng Chen anticipated reaching Great Luo and trusted Yuanshi Tianzun to handle Master Tongtian’s challenge. As the two saints prepared to fight in the Chaos World, Meng Chen wished his teacher victory.

• Azure Dragon Lord Cangwu praised Meng Chen for choosing Yuanshi Tianzun as his teacher, and Meng Chen teased him about his own teacher.
• The Chan Sect disciples discovered that the Meng Chen in the Netherworld was a Magic Treasure, while the real Meng Chen had returned to the Primordial Wilderness.
• After three thousand years passed, Master Tongtian received the praise of the Intercepting Teaching disciples, and Daoist Duobao presented him with a jade pendant carrying their blessings.
• Yuanshi Tianzun told Meng Chen that his cultivation had advanced and that no other saint could defeat him.
• Yuanshi Tianzun left Jade Void Palace and entered the Chaos World to battle Master Tongtian.

Master Tongtian revealed that he had entered the Demonic Path and challenged Yuanshi Tianzun in the chaotic void. Yuanshi Tianzun transformed into a sword-wielding Daoist and shattered Master Tongtian’s Green Lotus Sword, leaving their battle at its turning point.

• Master Tongtian summoned demonic energy and the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation within his body, shocking Yuanshi Tianzun and the watching sages.
• Sage Laozi and the other observers reacted with alarm, while Sage Jieyin secretly sent a strand of divine sense toward Golden Turtle Island.
• Master Tongtian declared that his demonic arts could save living beings and claimed to be the foremost saint of all heavens.
• Yuanshi Tianzun brought forth the Pangu Banner and condemned the conduct of the Disciples of Intercepting Teaching.
• Yuanshi Tianzun transformed into a Daoist wielding the Qingping Sword and struck directly at Master Tongtian’s true spirit.
• Master Tongtian tried to block the attack, but Yuanshi Tianzun’s Green Lotus Sword shattered his Green Lotus Sword.

Yuanshi Tianzun used the Intercepting Seven Swords to shatter Master Tongtian’s Qingping Sword and repeatedly destroy his Saintly Body, leaving the Heavenly Powers stunned. As their battle continued in the Chaos World, Sage Jieyin urged Daoist Duobao to consider protecting himself and the Intercepting Teaching, but Duobao resolved to stand by his teacher.

• Yuanshi Tianzun used the Intercepting Seven Swords to break the Qingping Sword and destroy Master Tongtian’s Saintly Body.
• Sage Laozi suspected Yuanshi Tianzun had cultivated the Pangu True Body and realized his younger brother might have surpassed him.
• Sage Jieyin warned Daoist Duobao that Meng Chen could threaten him without Master Tongtian’s protection and offered the West as refuge.
• Daoist Duobao first vowed to fight alongside Master Tongtian, despite Sage Jieyin’s offer to shelter him and his fellow disciples.
• Master Tongtian unleashed the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation, but Yuanshi Tianzun’s Dao Birth Dao Destruction trapped him and overcame his sword formation.
• Master Tongtian forcibly broke through the divine ability, and the Qingping Sword shredded his body and soul again.

Yuanshi Tianzun faced Master Tongtian’s transformed Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation and revealed that he had cultivated the Pangu True Body. He shattered the formation, leaving Tongtian defeated and the Primordial Wilderness’s great powers in shock.

• Divine Lord Lingguang and other great powers judged the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation and Master Tongtian harshly after Yuanshi Tianzun broke the formation again.
• Master Tongtian burned his will, made himself the array spirit, and unleashed a demonic Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation that threatened the Chaos World and the River of Fate.
• Yuanshi Tianzun endured Tongtian’s assault and announced that he would show him their family’s divine ability.
• Yuanshi Tianzun manifested the Pangu True Body, causing Tongtian’s sword qi to retreat and leaving the other great powers stunned.
• Yuanshi Tianzun swept his hand through the void and destroyed the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation, frightening Master Tongtian.

Yuanshi Tianzun and Sage Laozi tried to beat the demonic Dao abilities out of Master Tongtian, but his resentment and negative emotions intensified his demonic power. The Netherworld Heavenly Dao then descended upon Master Tongtian and broke the brothers’ restraints.

• Yuanshi Tianzun formed Pangu Divine Pillars Lightning into a whip and lashed Master Tongtian, making him spit out demonic Dao power.
• Sage Laozi trapped Master Tongtian beneath the Taiji Diagram and struck him with palm lightning to disperse his power.
• Sage Laozi and Yuanshi Tianzun continued beating Master Tongtian as the watching Heavenly Powers observed.
• Master Tongtian grew resentful and suspected Pangu had favored his brothers with greater inheritances.
• Master Tongtian’s demonic aura surged, shattered Sage Laozi’s Taiji Golden Bridge, and forced Yuanshi Tianzun back.
• Sage Laozi recognized the foreign force freeing Master Tongtian as the Netherworld Heavenly Dao.

Luo Hou tempted Master Tongtian with visions of how Ancestor Hongjun and his brothers had mistreated him, then revealed the struggle between the Eastern and Western Heavenly Daos. As Luo Hou occupied Master Tongtian, Sage Laozi and Yuanshi Tianzun summoned Ancestor Hongjun, who confronted Luo Hou.

• Luo Hou showed Master Tongtian visions of Sage Laozi, Yuanshi Tianzun, Goddess Nüwa, and others ridiculing and excluding him.
• Master Tongtian realized the Creation Jade Plate fragment was dangerous, but his attack failed against the Gate of the Heavenly Devil, where Luo Hou revealed himself.
• Luo Hou explained that the War of Dao and Demon had been a conflict between the Eastern Heavenly Dao and the Western Heavenly Dao, which later became the Netherworld Heavenly Dao and the Demon Realm.
• Sage Laozi and Yuanshi Tianzun summoned Ancestor Hongjun and offered their Merit and Calamity Fate to help him merge with the Dao in exchange for saving Master Tongtian.
• Ancestor Hongjun arrived and confronted Luo Hou, while Sage Laozi and Yuanshi Tianzun accused Luo Hou of tempting Master Tongtian into becoming a devil.
• Luo Hou challenged Ancestor Hongjun to strip Master Tongtian of his Sage Position and kill him, daring him to face Pangu's judgment.

Ancestor Hongjun freed Master Tongtian from Luo Hou and recognized that he had confirmed his Dao heart and chosen the demonic path. After saying farewell to his brothers and returning to Golden Turtle Island, Master Tongtian discovered that most of his disciples had left, and Daoist Duobao refused to join him.

• Ancestor Hongjun extracted Luo Hou's will from Master Tongtian and destroyed his demonic heart.
• Master Tongtian told Ancestor Hongjun that his Dao lay with the demonic path, and Ancestor Hongjun allowed him to leave the Primordial Wilderness with Intercepting Teaching.
• Master Tongtian apologized to Sage Laozi and Yuanshi Tianzun, and the three brothers reconciled before parting.
• Master Tongtian returned to Golden Turtle Island and discovered that Daoist Duobao and most of the Disciples of Intercepting Teaching were gone.
• Master Tongtian watched Daoist Duobao's projection apologize and declare that he would leave to seek his own future.

After the saints decided to let the remaining Intercepting Teaching disciples choose their own paths, Our Lady of Wudang visited Meng Chen before leaving for Jade Capital Mountain. Meng Chen helped her cast off her guilt over Master Tongtian and embrace a new identity as the Eternal Mother.

• Yuanshi Tianzun and Sage Laozi decided to send gifted Intercepting Teaching disciples to Jade Capital Mountain while leaving others to fend for themselves, then let the disciples decide whether to continue cultivating Upper Pure Daoist arts.
• Grand Master Xuandu delivered the saints’ decree, prompting Our Lady of Wudang and others to rejoice while Zhao Gongming, his siblings, and Yao Tianjun reacted with sorrow or resentment.
• Immortal Bixiao urged Yunxiao to stay with her siblings, but Yunxiao could not disobey the saints’ decree; Our Lady of Wudang asked to see Meng Chen before departing.
• Our Lady of Wudang told Meng Chen she felt like a living corpse who had betrayed her master, and Meng Chen argued that she had remained faithful to Xuanmen by rejecting the Demonic Saint Tongtian.
• Meng Chen offered to call her the Eternal Mother, and Our Lady of Wudang accepted the title.

Sage Jieyin made Daoist Duobao the Western Church’s Eldest Senior Brother despite Sage Zhunti’s objections, widening the rift between the two Saints. Resentful, Daoist Maitreya and the other original disciples secretly discussed how to oppose Duobao and his faction.

• Sage Jieyin insisted that Daoist Duobao should lead the Western Church, while Sage Zhunti warned that Duobao might betray them and refused to let Intercepting Teaching disciples enter his Bodhi Courtyard.
• Sage Zhunti told Sage Jieyin that he was a Saint with his own needs, making Sage Jieyin realize their relationship had grown strained.
• Sage Jieyin appointed Daoist Duobao as Eldest Senior Brother, and the former Intercepting Teaching disciples celebrated while the original Western Church disciples looked devastated.
• Sage Jieyin lectured Daoist Maitreya and the others to accept his decision, while they concealed their resentment toward him and Duobao.
• Daoist Maitreya and the others used Meng Chen’s secret code to discuss opposing Duobao, and one disciple suggested seeking Sage Zhunti’s help.

After thirty thousand years of cultivation, Meng Chen entered the River of Fate to gather his future selves and attain the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm. He absorbed his Alternate Selves, including one who had mastered the Law of Power, and emerged with the Da Luo Dao Fruit and an Innate Undying True Spirit.

• Yuanshi Tianzun, Supervisor God-Monarch, Divine Lord Lingguang, and Divine Lord Zhiming watched over Meng Chen as he began his breakthrough.
• Meng Chen entered the River of Fate and started reclaiming his future Alternate Selves.
• Meng Chen absorbed countless Alternate Selves, gaining knowledge of new laws and expertise in the Alchemy Dao and Culinary Dao.
• Meng Chen reclaimed an Alternate Self who had comprehended the Law of Power, triggering the simultaneous absorption of all his remaining Alternate Selves.
• Meng Chen transformed his Grand Golden Dao Fruit and true spirit, then descended from the River of Fate as heavenly signs announced his attainment of the Da Luo Dao Fruit.

Meng Chen reached the peak of the middle-stage Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm and received Hongjun Daozu’s decree granting him Jade Capital Mountain as his daoist temple. The grant delighted his allies and left Yuanshi Tianzun worried because he had already sent Intercepting Teaching disciples to the mountain.

• Meng Chen accepted that his cultivation had surged to the peak of middle-stage Great Luo and resolved to seek his own method of proving the Dao.
• The people of the Myriad Witch Kingdom celebrated Meng Chen’s breakthrough, while Di Xuan and the other Great Witches admired him.
• Haotian arrived with Hongjun Daozu’s decree, and Yuanshi Tianzun confirmed that he was genuine.
• Haotian announced that Hongjun Daozu had granted Jade Capital Mountain to Meng Chen as his daoist temple, and Meng Chen accepted the Mansion Token.
• The Azure Dragon Clan rejoiced at Hongjun Daozu’s support, while Yuanshi Tianzun worried that the grant would force him to break his promise about the Intercepting Teaching disciples he had sent to Jade Capital Mountain.

Yuanshi Tianzun used Ancestor Hongjun’s grant of Jade Capital Mountain to Meng Chen to force a decision about the remaining Disciples of Intercepting Teaching, then arranged for Haotian to teach them elsewhere. The chapter left Haotian accepting the assignment and a treasure from Yuanshi Tianzun.

• Yuanshi Tianzun reasoned that Ancestor Hongjun disliked the Disciples of Intercepting Teaching and proposed sending them to guard Hongjun’s temples.
• Ancestor Hongjun struck a pillar with Purple Firmament Divine Lightning and left the words “Forget it,” prompting Yuanshi Tianzun to find another place for the disciples.
• Yuanshi Tianzun chose a Blessed Land on Mount Qingcheng for the Disciples of Intercepting Teaching and summoned Haotian to Jade Void Palace.
• Yuanshi Tianzun pressured Haotian into agreeing to teach the disciples on Ancestor Hongjun’s behalf.
• Yuanshi Tianzun gave Haotian the Spirit Communication Mirror as a reward, and Haotian accepted it gratefully.

Meng Chen reassured the Wu Clan and Plant Spirit Race that they could remain at Kunlun Mountain, then discussed Jade Capital Mountain with Yuanshi Tianzun. They agreed to build a Little Purple Cloud Palace for Ancestor Hongjun and assign Qiongxiao and Bixiao to guard it.

• Yuanshi Tianzun reflected on Haotian’s rise and Master Tongtian’s new life in the Demon Realm.
• Meng Chen ordered the Wu Clan and Plant Spirit Race to remain at Kunlun Mountain and promised to arrange their protection.
• Meng Chen went to Jade Void Palace and learned that Yuanshi Tianzun had sent Haotian to handle the Intercepting Teaching disciples at Jade Capital Mountain.
• Meng Chen asked whether Ancestor Hongjun had another reason for granting him Jade Capital Mountain, and Yuanshi Tianzun assured him that Hongjun simply valued him.
• Meng Chen proposed building a Little Purple Cloud Palace for Ancestor Hongjun, and Yuanshi Tianzun suggested Qiongxiao and Bixiao as its guardians.

Daoist Duobao asked Sage Jieyin to help him surpass Meng Chen, but Jieyin told him the gap was impossible to overcome and refused. After Mahasthamaprapta provoked him and Sage Zhunti forced him to his knees, Duobao understood how trapped he was in the Western Church.

• Daoist Duobao pleaded with Sage Jieyin for help surpassing Meng Chen, but Jieyin explained that Meng Chen far outclassed him and told him to abandon the idea of making an enemy of Meng Chen.
• Sage Jieyin refused Duobao's request, leaving Duobao bitterly regretting his betrayal of Master Tongtian and longing to enter the Demon Realm.
• Mahasthamaprapta mocked Duobao for betraying Master Tongtian, and Duobao raised his palm to attack him.
• Sage Zhunti's aura forced Duobao to his knees and shattered his kneecaps, while Jieyin blocked the pressure and allowed him to recover.
• Duobao realized that, like Wu Liangzi, he had to bow his head because leaving a Sage's sect carried too great a price, and he agreed to Jieyin's warning not to harm fellow disciples.

After attaining the Great Luo, Meng Chen received congratulations from the Primordial Wilderness’s major powers and shared his River of Fate cultivation method with the younger heirs of the Four Divine Clans. He then learned why Yuanshi Tianzun could not kill Ancestor Kunpeng and discovered that Kunpeng’s grudge against him had already been settled.

• The elders of the Eastern Celestial Pole and representatives of the Four Divine Clans visited Meng Chen with gifts to congratulate him on attaining the Great Luo.
• Meng Chen explained his River of Fate cultivation method to Jian Zhen, Ling Long, and Zhi Yang, who thanked him and vowed to guard the four poles together.
• Qingfeng delivered two Ginseng Fruits from Zhenyuanzi, and Meng Chen gave him an Azure Emperor Enlightenment Pill.
• Meng Chen asked Yuanshi Tianzun why he had not killed Ancestor Kunpeng, and Yuanshi explained that Kunpeng was protected by the Eternal Calamity Land after becoming its gatekeeper.
• Yuanshi Tianzun revealed that Kunpeng had refined a Primordial Saint’s true spirit and sought revenge on Di Jun and Taiyi, but that Yuanshi had already settled his own karma with Kunpeng before becoming a Sage.

Meng Chen left Kunlun Mountain after securing Yuanshi Tianzun’s promise to preach to the Myriad Witch Kingdom, then entered Jade Capital Mountain with Azure Dragon Lord Cangwu. Jade Capital Mountain’s Dao charm triggered Meng Chen’s breakthrough to the Late Zenith Heaven realm, and he considered the difficult path toward the Chaotic Origin Dao.

• Meng Chen told Yuanshi Tianzun that he welcomed karma as a way to improve his cultivation and asked him to take responsibility for preaching to the Myriad Witch Kingdom after Meng Chen left Kunlun Mountain.
• Yuanshi Tianzun agreed to preach in the Myriad Witch Kingdom, while Meng Chen reminded its Twelve Great Witches to suppress any Chan Sect disciple who disrupted its order.
• Meng Chen and Azure Dragon Lord Cangwu traveled to Jade Capital Mountain, where Meng Chen used Ancestor Hongjun’s token to pass through its protective formation.
• Jade Capital Mountain’s Dao charm flooded into Meng Chen and catalyzed his breakthrough from the middle Great Luo realm to the Late Zenith Heaven realm.
• Meng Chen reflected that attaining the Chaotic Origin Dao would be difficult, but he could pursue the Path of Divinity if that path proved impassable.

Meng Chen established his palace on Jade Capital Mountain and helped his disciple Zhen Yizi take human form. After bringing Zhen Yizi to pay respects to Yuanshi Tianzun, Meng Chen began teaching him, but Yuanshi Tianzun judged his instruction inadequate and took Zhen Yizi to Kunlun Mountain.

• Meng Chen chose a peak on Jade Capital Mountain for his palace and asked Azure Dragon Lord Cangwu to release Zhen Yizi so he could take human form.
• Meng Chen gathered spiritual energy and Dao charm to help Zhen Yizi transform, and auspicious signs filled heaven and earth during the three-day process.
• Zhen Yizi took human form and suppressed his cultivation at the middle Grand Golden Immortal Realm before bowing to Meng Chen as his master.
• Meng Chen brought Zhen Yizi before Yuanshi Tianzun to pay respects and request permission to accept him into the sect.
• Yuanshi Tianzun secretly watched Meng Chen teach Zhen Yizi, saw that the lessons confused the disciple, and took Zhen Yizi to Kunlun Mountain to teach him himself.

Meng Chen returned to the Netherworld after sensing the Witch and Demon Clans were preparing to massacre the myriad races, and organized the Nether Court to receive the countless dead. As the slaughter overwhelmed the Gates of Hell, he guided the ghosts into the Netherworld and sought to preserve their chance at reincarnation.

• Yuanshi Tianzun took Zhen Yizi to Kunlun Mountain and taught him, then sensed the Tribulation Qi surging and summoned Meng Chen back to the Netherworld.
• Meng Chen recognized that the Witch and Demon Clans would massacre the myriad races before their decisive battle, so he opened a Gates of Hell and returned to the Netherworld.
• Meng Chen interrupted the Black Sun Emperor and Chijingzi's discussion about ghost cultivator sects and warned that a major event would affect the Netherworld.
• Meng Chen rang the Nine Dragons Burial Bell and gathered the Netherworld's divine officials to prepare for the Great Calamity.
• The massacre sent countless wounded and resentful ghosts from many races pouring through the Gates of Hell, and Meng Chen's orders set the Nether Court's officials to sorting and registering them.
• Meng Chen mobilized reincarnation to guide the incoming ghosts into the Netherworld before evil cultivators could capture and refine them.

As the Witch and Demon Clans slaughtered the Primordial Wilderness, Crown Prince Lu Ya agreed with Sage Jieyin to provoke their decisive war and destroy the Golden Crow Clan. Meanwhile, Da Yi obtained Ancestor Pan Wang’s Myriad Tribulations Passion Gu to ensnare Changxi, despite a warning that he could be afflicted by it himself.

• Ancestor Kunpeng and Old Ancestor Styx benefited from the slaughter, while Sage Jieyin took Lu Ya through the battlefield and taught him about compassion.
• Lu Ya questioned his father’s cruelty and proposed destroying the Golden Crow Clan to end the tribulations; Jieyin praised his resolve and advised provoking a final war between the Witch and Demon Clans.
• Da Yi met Ancestor Pan Wang in the Houtu Tribe and learned that Pan Wang had already refined a Myriad Tribulations Passion Gu for him.
• Pan Wang explained that the gu could make Changxi devoted to Da Yi and warned that Da Yi must not interact with her more than nine times or risk being afflicted himself.
• Da Yi accepted the gu and insisted that he would be fine.

After the Witch and Demon Clans’ slaughter flooded the Netherworld with ghosts, Meng Chen dealt with a human ghost riot and turned the protesting dead over to Daoist Maitreya for rescue. As humans cursed Goddess Nüwa, she withdrew her sage bloodline from those who rejected her, leaving them severed from her.

• The Witch and Demon Clans’ slaughter overwhelmed the Netherworld, and Meng Chen limited how many ghosts could enter each day.
• A human ghost incited a riot against the Sages, and the Western Church’s disciples suppressed the ghosts as Daoist Maitreya reported the disturbance to Meng Chen.
• Meng Chen ordered the eight hundred trillion rioting human ghosts banished, but after Daoist Maitreya pleaded for them, he assigned their fate to Maitreya instead.
• Humans cursed Goddess Nüwa and declared they were breaking ties with her, but she showed no anger at their accusations.
• Goddess Nüwa withdrew her sage bloodline from the humans who cursed and resented her.