Chapter Summaries

Chu Xinghe reached Mount Sumeru and realized the Buddha Light Pagoda was an immensely powerful Ancient God's Arm that he could not safely absorb, forcing him to abandon his original plan and improvise. As he continued toward the Soulless Ghost prodigies, Luoyin Bodhi detected him and helped Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi trap him.

• Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi recalled how Buddha Mochuan assigned him the seemingly easy three-point mission to capture Chu Xinghe, and how Chu Xinghe defeated him before disappearing.
• Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi decided he needed help to complete the mission and secure his chance to become a venerable.
• Chu Xinghe reached Mount Sumeru, sensed that the Buddha Light Pagoda was an Ancient God's Arm, and rejected the Well of Prophecy's apparent offer to absorb it because its power would destroy him.
• Chu Xinghe resolved to prioritize rescuing the Soulless Ghost prodigies and closing the Star Gate by another means.
• Luoyin Bodhi sensed Chu Xinghe's unusual lack of three hun and seven po, revealed herself, and called Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi to capture him.
• Three enormous Dharma Aspects arrived and surrounded Chu Xinghe.

Chu Xinghe was captured by Luoyin Bodhi’s Heavenly Spirit Silver Threads while Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi and his companions watched. He effortlessly broke free, overcame Luoyin Bodhi’s defenses, and sent her aside to rest, leaving the other Bodhis stunned.

• Luoyin Bodhi bound Chu Xinghe with her Heavenly Spirit Silver Threads and mocked Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi for needing help to capture a Soulless Ghost.
• Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi, Duoluo Bodhi, and Wumeng Bodhi arrived, and Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi remained silent as Luoyin criticized him.
• Chu Xinghe tore apart the Heavenly Spirit Silver Threads despite Luoyin trying to strengthen them.
• Chu Xinghe walked through Luoyin Bodhi’s Buddha-light barrier and stopped her growing Buddha statue with one hand.
• Chu Xinghe pressed Luoyin Bodhi’s Buddha statue back into her body, patted her head, and told her to rest; she obediently went to the side.

Chu Xinghe faced four Bodhis from the Buddha Domain, who realized they could not match him and fled. He tried to explain that he had come to Mount Sumeru to talk about the Buddha Light Pagoda, but the Bodhis ran toward Mount Sumeru.

• Luoyin Bodhi recognized Chu Xinghe's overwhelming strength after he subdued her and decided the mission Wrathful-Eyed had taken was far more dangerous than its three-point rating suggested.
• Duoluo Bodhi trapped Chu Xinghe in his Myriad Heavens Buddha Realm while Wumeng Bodhi and Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi praised the technique.
• Chu Xinghe tore open the Myriad Heavens Buddha Realm with his bare hands and walked out.
• Duoluo Bodhi, Wumeng Bodhi, Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi, and Luoyin Bodhi fled toward Mount Sumeru.
• Chu Xinghe called after the fleeing Bodhis, explaining that he had come to discuss the Buddha Light Pagoda rather than cause trouble.

Chu Xinghe followed the four frightened Bodhis to Sumeru City, where Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi yielded his three-point task and challenged the gathered experts to capture him. When the crowd accepted and surrounded him, Chu Xinghe invited them all to attack together.

• Duoluo Bodhi and the other three fled toward Sumeru City with Chu Xinghe following behind them.
• The four Bodhis crashed into the Dao Field during Ruye Bodhi and Jianan Bodhi’s duel, startling the gathered experts.
• Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi yielded his three-point task to anyone willing to take it over, risking permanent disqualification from Venerable promotion.
• Jianan, Ruye, and many other Bodhi Realm experts accepted the task and turned their attention toward Chu Xinghe.
• Angered by the crowd treating him like prey, Chu Xinghe told everyone to attack him together.

At the venerable promotion training ground, Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi challenged the other Bodhi Realm cultivators to defeat Chu Xinghe and claim his three-point mission. Vanishing Shadow Bodhi attacked, but Chu Xinghe’s speed overwhelmed him, leaving the fight with Vanishing Shadow badly wounded and facing three afterimages.

• Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi angrily offered to give up his three-point mission if anyone could defeat Chu Xinghe, while the gathered Bodhi Realm cultivators closed in on Chu Xinghe.
• Vanishing Shadow Bodhi appeared behind Chu Xinghe and struck with his Flower-Plucking Finger, only to hit an afterimage.
• Vanishing Shadow Bodhi repeatedly attacked and found Chu Xinghe always behind him, while Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi laughed at his failure.
• Chu Xinghe warned Vanishing Shadow Bodhi before striking his shoulders and left arm faster than he could dodge.
• Chu Xinghe announced attacks on Vanishing Shadow Bodhi’s legs and belly, then appeared as three lifelike afterimages around him.

Chu Xinghe overwhelmed the Bodhis who challenged him, first breaking Vanishing Shadow Bodhi’s confidence with his speed and then defeating several fighters with precise control of his strength. As Luoyin Bodhi recognized his overwhelming superiority, the remaining Bodhis faced a seemingly invincible opponent.

• Chu Xinghe used his speed to surround Vanishing Shadow Bodhi with afterimages, causing Vanishing Shadow Bodhi to faint from shock.
• Chu Xinghe told Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi that he was better than Vanishing Shadow, and Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi felt vindicated after being accused of relying on connections.
• Iron Arm Bodhi attacked Chu Xinghe, who shattered his arm and armor with a single controlled punch and sent him flying.
• Crimson Yang Bodhi and Mystic Yin Bodhi attacked together, but Chu Xinghe twisted Crimson Yang’s halberd and turned Mystic Yin’s whip into a spear, sending both away.
• Luoyin Bodhi watched Chu Xinghe reverse the weapons’ properties and trembled, unable to imagine defeating him.

Chu Xinghe faced dozens of Bodhisattvas on Mount Sumeru’s training ground and remained unhurt as they escalated their attack. Dayin Bodhi and two allies trapped him in a Buddha Sound bell, but Chu Xinghe absorbed its reverberations, shattered it with a Lion’s Roar, and demanded to know why the ninth sound had not come.

• Dozens of Bodhisattvas summoned their Buddha statues, drawing a crowd to the training ground where Chu Xinghe stood surrounded.
• Dayin Bodhi and two allies amplified their Buddha Sound and trapped Chu Xinghe inside a great bell.
• The bell’s reverberations grew through eight increasingly powerful sounds, but Chu Xinghe remained standing and asked Dayin Bodhi to unleash the ninth.
• Chu Xinghe inhaled the Buddha Sound inside the bell and released a Lion’s Roar that shattered it and sent sound waves across the training ground.
• The roar injured everyone in the training ground, and Chu Xinghe asked where the ninth sound was.

Chu Xinghe shattered Dayin Bodhi’s great bell with a lion’s roar after enduring eight Buddha Sounds, leaving the Bodhis stunned by his strength. Jianan Bodhi then trapped him in the Buddha Heart Illusory Realm, but Chu Xinghe resisted its charm and prepared to show Jianan Bodhi a true Art of Charm.

• Chu Xinghe’s lion’s roar shattered Dayin Bodhi’s great bell and blasted Dayin Bodhi and his two helpers into a bloody mess.
• The Bodhis realized Chu Xinghe had endured eight Buddha Sounds without injury, and Duoluo Bodhi and Wumeng Bodhi stared at Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi for bringing them into the ambush.
• Jianan Bodhi enveloped Chu Xinghe in the Buddha Heart Illusory Realm, where succubi appeared and tried to charm him.
• Chu Xinghe remained unaffected because the succubi’s illusion was too weak to trigger Evil Repeller, while Jianan Bodhi continued trying to control him.
• Chu Xinghe decided to use Wan Lin’s methods to show Jianan Bodhi what a true Art of Charm was.

Chu Xinghe escaped Jianan Bodhi’s illusion and turned Jianan’s longing for a Clear Sight Pill into a charm he could not resist. The chapter left Jianan holding the pill, unsure whether to accept it despite knowing Chu Xinghe had deliberately appealed to his deepest desire.

• Jianan Bodhi trapped Chu Xinghe in an illusion filled with seductive succubi, and the spectators believed Jianan had won.
• Chu Xinghe reached Jianan and dispelled the succubi, revealing that the illusion had not even activated Evil Repeller.
• Chu Xinghe struck Jianan between the brows and made him experience a dizzying sensation before showing him a Clear Sight Pill.
• Jianan recognized the pill he had sought for years to restore his blind mother’s sight, and Chu Xinghe tossed it to him.
• Jianan wondered if the pill was an illusion, but Chu Xinghe explained that true charm worked by appealing to what someone most desired in their heart.

Chu Xinghe watched Wan Lin’s Art of Charm draw Jianan Bodhi into his deepest regret, then faced a wave of Bodhis challenging him for points. He overwhelmed them, seized their Buddhist treasures, and left them humiliated by defeating them at their own techniques.

• Chu Xinghe realized Wan Lin’s Art of Charm manipulated people through their deepest longings and regrets, and Jianan Bodhi accepted the Clear Sight Pill to fulfill his wish for his mother to witness his success.
• Jianan Bodhi dismissed the illusions and withdrew from the fight, while the other Bodhis mistakenly assumed he had defeated Chu Xinghe and accused him of betraying the Buddha Domain.
• A Bodhi attacked Chu Xinghe with illusionary duplicates, but Chu Xinghe saw through them with Phoenix Divine Fire and struck the attacker down, drawing protests that his technique was vicious.
• The Bodhis attacked with Buddhist treasures, and Chu Xinghe caught and stored them for Junior Brother Ouyang to study.
• Chu Xinghe defeated the Bodhis with superior speed, strength, charm, and Buddha Sound, leaving them humiliated.

Chu Xinghe defeated the Bodhi Realm experts at the training ground, convincing Jianan Bodhi that he was far stronger than they had believed and not a Soulless Ghost. Buddha Mochuan arrived, tested Chu Xinghe with a piercing golden needle, and prompted him to prepare for a fight against an apparent Mystic God.

• Chu Xinghe defeated the Bodhi Realm fighters without getting his clothes dirty, while Jianan Bodhi realized he had held back and that Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi had not earned his points through connections.
• Buddha Mochuan arrived and told Wrathful-Eyed Bodhi that the world held many stronger people than he had imagined.
• Buddha Mochuan pierced Chu Xinghe's chest with a golden needle, but Chu Xinghe's Phoenix Divine Fire rapidly healed the wound.
• Chu Xinghe sensed Buddha Mochuan was a Mystic God and covered himself in Phoenix Fire armor for the coming battle.

Chu Xinghe and Buddha Mochuan tested each other before unleashing their strongest powers in a battle that stunned the Bodhi Realm cultivators. The chapter ended with Mochuan’s vajra smashing Xinghe into the training ground, leaving everyone shocked that he had endured the blow.

• Buddha Mochuan’s arrival drew a crowd, and the Bodhi Realm cultivators watched as he activated his Mystic Light Golden Wheel against Chu Xinghe.
• Mochuan realized that Xinghe had deliberately taken the Taking Refuge Buddha Needle strike, then confiscated the needle, making their probe a draw at best.
• Xinghe surrounded himself with Phoenix Fire and transformed into a Phoenix war god, revealing power he had not used against the Bodhi Realm cultivators.
• Mochuan merged with his Buddha statue, formed a demon-subduing vajra from his Mystic Light Golden Wheel, and attacked Xinghe at tremendous speed, which Xinghe matched.
• Mochuan struck Xinghe’s crossed arms with the vajra and drove him into the ground, unleashing a shockwave that injured nearby Bodhis.

Chu Xinghe fought Buddha Mochuan, whose golden-body path gave him overwhelming close-combat strength, and endured repeated blows while looking for a way to counter him. He spread Phoenix Divine Fire onto Buddha Mochuan, but their battle continued as Mochuan switched to a faster weapon style and Chu Xinghe stopped a blade with his body.

• Buddha Mochuan repeatedly smashed Chu Xinghe into the training ground with his demon-subduing vajra, forcing the Bodhi Realm cultivators to flee.
• Chu Xinghe emerged with only a few scrapes, ignited Phoenix Divine Fire, and traded blows with Buddha Mochuan as Mochuan’s battle shield absorbed his punches.
• Chu Xinghe set Buddha Mochuan’s vajra, hand, and chest alight with Phoenix Divine Fire, which Buddha Mochuan could not extinguish.
• Buddha Mochuan transformed the vajra into two battle blades and attacked Chu Xinghe at greater speed from thousands of directions.
• Buddha Mochuan’s blade struck Chu Xinghe’s shoulder but failed to pierce his flesh, stunning the onlookers and Mochuan.

Chu Xinghe and Buddha Mochuan fought to a near-fatal standstill, but Chu Xinghe admitted defeat to preserve Mochuan’s reputation after secretly threatening him with the Phoenix Divine Fire. Their encounter ended when Little Buddha arrived, and Chu Xinghe realized that Little Buddha was also in the Bodhi Realm and seemed even stronger than he was.

• Buddha Mochuan’s conjured blades wounded Chu Xinghe repeatedly, while Chu Xinghe’s Phoenix Divine Fire burned Mochuan and eventually threatened his heart meridian.
• As Buddha Mochuan’s blades reached Chu Xinghe’s neck, Chu Xinghe admitted defeat, and the watching cultivators declared Mochuan the winner.
• Buddha Mochuan realized the Phoenix Divine Fire would have killed him if he had continued the attack, and he understood that Chu Xinghe had spared his reputation.
• Chu Xinghe explained to himself that he had come to save someone, not kill Buddha Mochuan, and that conceding was the sensible choice.
• Little Buddha entered the training ground, received bows from Mochuan and the assembled cultivators, and approached Chu Xinghe.
• Chu Xinghe sensed that Little Buddha was in the Bodhi Realm and seemed slightly stronger than himself.

Chu Xinghe met Little Buddha, a Bodhi Realm cultivator whose strength overwhelmed him, and learned that the Buddha Domain had been isolated from the Four Continents. Little Buddha brought him before the Buddha Lord and explained the Buddha Domain’s disputed tradition of passing a deceased Buddha Lord’s powers and memories to a chosen successor.

• Chu Xinghe realized Little Buddha could defeat him despite being only in the Bodhi Realm, and Little Buddha asked him to pay for the damage to the training ground.
• Little Buddha led Chu Xinghe and Buddha Mochuan into Mount Sumeru, saying Chu Xinghe’s arrival might let the isolated Buddha Domain see the outside world again.
• At the Buddha Domain’s central training ground, Chu Xinghe recognized the Buddha Lord as a true Main God, while the Buddha Lord and the other Buddhas saluted Little Buddha as an equal.
• Little Buddha explained that he had inherited some of the previous Buddha Lord’s memories and power, rejecting the claim that he was literally reincarnated.
• Chu Xinghe learned that Little Buddha’s blunt denial of reincarnation had left the Buddha Domain divided over whether its successor tradition was inheritance or reincarnation.

Chu Xinghe learned from the Great Buddha Lord that the Buddha Domain had spent generations containing the Star Ghost Clan, with its two Buddha Lords taking turns sacrificing themselves to keep the Star Sea Abyss sealed. The Little Buddha would eventually inherit that duty, leaving Chu Xinghe unsure whether his position was a blessing or a misfortune.

• Chu Xinghe realized the Little Buddha had inherited the memories, power, and Divinity of generations of Buddha Lords, giving him extraordinary combat experience despite his Bodhi Realm cultivation.
• The Great Buddha Lord welcomed Chu Xinghe and explained that the Star Sea Abyss lay beneath the Buddha Domain, where the Star Ghost Clan had found the Ancient God's Right Arm and used it to bring night.
• The Great Buddha Lord revealed that the Star Ghost Clan was trying to open a passage through the Land of Bewildered Spirits, and that starlight reaching the Star Sea Abyss could revive them.
• Chu Xinghe learned that the Buddha Domain had used the Ancient God's Left Arm to suppress the Star Ghosts and prevent them from reaching the outside world.
• The Great Buddha Lord explained that every thousand years one Buddha Lord entered the Star Sea Abyss and died suppressing the Star Ghosts, while the other raised a Little Buddha to take their place.
• Chu Xinghe understood that the Little Buddha would eventually become Great Buddha Lord and face the same sacrifice, and wondered whether the Little Buddha's role was a blessing or a misfortune.

Chu Xinghe learned that the Buddha Domain’s Main Gods sacrificed themselves to suppress the Star Sea Abyss and that the Great Buddha Lord had been preserving Soulless Ghosts while seeking help from the Four Continents. The Great Buddha Lord revealed that he had tested Chu Xinghe and concluded that Chu’s full power surpassed even the Little Buddha’s.

• The Great Buddha Lord and the Little Buddha explained how the Buddha Domain’s Main Gods repeatedly suppressed the Star Sea Abyss, and Chu Xinghe told them about Buddhism in the Four Continents.
• The Little Buddha questioned contradictions in Four Continents Buddhism, while Chu Xinghe admitted he could not answer.
• The Great Buddha Lord explained that Star Ghosts had turned outsiders into Soulless Ghosts, and he had ordered the Buddhas to suppress them rather than kill them so the captives might be revived and the Four Continents would not become enemies.
• Chu Xinghe realized the Great Buddha Lord wanted the Four Continents’ help against the Star Sea Abyss and thanked him for preserving the Soulless Ghosts’ bodies.
• The Great Buddha Lord recounted how he had tested Chu Xinghe through Wrathful-Eyed and Buddha Mochuan, then concluded that Chu’s full combat strength surpassed the Little Buddha’s.

Chu Xinghe rejected the Great Buddha Lord’s attempt to move the Star Sea Abyss war to the Four Continents, arguing that the Buddha Domain should bear responsibility for its own conflict. He agreed to discuss supplying the Buddha Domain, leaving the two sides to negotiate support without making the Four Continents the battlefield.

• The Great Buddha Lord recognized Chu Xinghe’s strength and explained that killing him would be extremely difficult because the Phoenix Divine Fire rapidly healed his injuries.
• The Great Buddha Lord asked the Four Continents to help suppress the Star Sea Abyss, whose Star Ghosts survived by devouring souls and star power.
• Chu Xinghe refused to let the Star Sea Abyss be released into the Four Continents, saying he had no right to make its people bear the costs and casualties of the war.
• The Great Buddha Lord realized Chu Xinghe had seen through his efforts to stir sympathy and lead him into agreeing to the plan.
• Little Buddha teased the Great Buddha Lord for failing to fool Chu Xinghe, and Chu Xinghe proposed discussing supplies for the Buddha Domain.

Chu Xinghe agreed to fund the Buddha Domain’s war effort but refused to commit the Four Continents, then learned that the soulless captives’ souls were likely trapped in the Star Sea Abyss. He agreed to enter the Abyss with Little Buddha when it opened in ten days, and the chapter ended with Little Buddha dragging him to a brothel under the pretense of saving the women there.

• Chu Xinghe offered to cover the Buddha Domain’s war costs while saying the Four Continents’ involvement would be decided later.
• Little Buddha showed Chu Xinghe the Soul Control Grand Array, where Guo Qizhen, Little Ji, Leader Bai, and other soulless captives wandered without their souls.
• Chu Xinghe learned that the captives’ souls were likely in the Star Sea Abyss and agreed to go there with Little Buddha when its entrance opened in ten days.
• Little Buddha explained that the Buddha Light Pagoda was one finger of the Ancient God’s Left Arm and that the Buddha Domain itself had formed around the fallen arm.
• Little Buddha took Chu Xinghe to a brothel and argued that helping its women counted as saving all living beings, then offered to help them on Chu Xinghe’s behalf.

Chu Xinghe learned about the Buddha Domain’s beliefs, scarcity of resources, and cultivation methods while Little Buddha showed him around Sumeru City. Their comparison of strength ended with Chu Xinghe revealing that, at full power, he could defeat Buddha Mochuan seven times in thirty seconds.

• Little Buddha emerged after a night of delivering salvation to all living beings and greeted several locals, while Chu Xinghe realized he had done this many times before.
• Little Buddha explained that Buddhists in the Buddha Domain believed in themselves, drew power from their convictions, and cultivated Mental Power despite the domain’s scarcity of pills and Buddhist treasures.
• Chu Xinghe showed Little Buddha a Nine-Colored Spirit Stone, which Little Buddha absorbed to strengthen his body before explaining the limits of that process.
• Little Buddha asked whether Chu Xinghe was a Body Cultivation practitioner, and Chu Xinghe said his other powers were sealed in the Buddha Domain and that his peak strength was around the Martial God Realm.
• Little Buddha estimated that he had a seventy percent chance of defeating Buddha Mochuan, and Chu Xinghe first claimed similar odds before saying he could beat Buddha Mochuan to death seven times in thirty seconds.