Chapter Summaries

Jiang Sheng faced five Taiyi Primordial Spirit Realm cultivators and overwhelmed their combined attacks with his Heaven-Cutting Sword, proving himself the Shanhe World's greatest prodigy of his generation. He then launched his four swords at the assembled opponents, surrounding them with a chaotic void as the battle continued.

• Jiang Sheng intercepted Bai Wuxiang and Hei Youzhen, and Ye Wenshu joined them to attack him in the South Sea.
• Jiang Sheng used the Four Calamity swords to repel their attacks, then withstood Ye Wenshu's Sword of Lingxiao and the pair's combined yin-yang radiance.
• Li Shubai and Lin Renxian regrouped with Bai Wuxiang, Hei Youzhen, and Ye Wenshu, while Guanghe and Xuanyi joined Jiang Sheng.
• Jiang Sheng charged all five enemies alone and used Heaven-Cutting to break through their combined techniques, gaining the upper hand.
• Jiang Sheng sent his four swords flying and invoked Execution, Slaughter, Entrapment, and Annihilation, turning the battlefield into a chaotic void.

Jiang Sheng activated the End-Calamity Formation and unleashed its four swords against Ye Wenshu, Li Shubai, Lin Renxian, Bai Wuxiang, and Hei Youzhen. Ye Wenshu escaped, and the other four were forced to flee; Jiang Sheng returned to Little Penglai, saying their escape was little different from death.

• Jiang Sheng unfolded the End-Calamity Formation Diagram and completed the sword formation.
• Jiang Sheng's wind-calamity sword struck the five, and Ye Wenshu escaped by shattering a Pure Yang Heavenly Pearl.
• The lightning and fire swords battered Li Shubai, Lin Renxian, Bai Wuxiang, and Hei Youzhen as they tried to fight back.
• Jiang Sheng unleashed the final water sword, forcing the four remaining cultivators to escape.
• Guanghe asked whether the four had escaped, and Jiang Sheng confirmed it before returning to Little Penglai.

After Ao Ang shattered the Pure Yang Heavenly Pearl, a golden passage opened between Shanhe World and Panfeng World, and the six sacred lands’ Upper Three Realms cultivators charged through the completed Heavenly Gate. Star Dragon returned to the West Sea through the new passage, where a Pure Yang monk awaited him.

• Jiang Sheng’s victory over Panfeng World’s Taiyi Primordial Spirit Realm cultivators left the sacred lands pursuing the defeated forces, while their disciples feared his power.
• Ao Ang reached the West Sea Sea Eye and crushed the Pure Yang Heavenly Pearl, which consumed his body and Primordial Spirit before forming a golden Heaven Pillar into Panfeng World.
• Ao Run watched the Heaven Pillar form as a monk assured him that the West Sea would remain under the West Sea Dragon Clan.
• A second Pure Yang Heavenly Pearl shattered in the North Sea, while the completed Heavenly Gate let Shanhe World’s Upper Three Realms cultivators charge into battle against Panfeng World’s heavenly gods and star lords.
• Star Dragon left Panfeng World and returned to Shanhe World through the West Sea passage, where a Pure Yang monk appeared and said he had been waiting for him.

The Golden Cicada Bodhisattva subdued Star Dragon and carried him away, while Daoist Lord Dejing, Great Sage Kong Xuan, and Daoist Lord Miaoyan entered Panfeng World. Dejing and Kong Xuan broke through Panfeng’s formations and clashed with its Divine Emperors, leaving the battle escalating as they unleashed their supreme treasures.

• The Golden Cicada Bodhisattva offered Star Dragon a Bodhisattva rank, then captured him with World in the Palm when he refused to surrender.
• Daoist Lord Miaoyan and the North Sea Dark Dragon Ancestor watched the passage between worlds as Daoist Lord Dejing and Great Sage Kong Xuan entered Panfeng World.
• Daoist Lord Dejing and Great Sage Kong Xuan unleashed their Pure Yang powers, destroying Panfeng’s formations across the nine heavens.
• The Supreme Sovereign Heavenly Extremity Divine Emperor and the Nine Vaults Imperial Heaven Divine Emperor appeared and erased their attacks, drawing strength from Panfeng World.
• Daoist Lord Dejing attacked the Celestial Pole Divine Emperor with the Water-Fire Soul-Refining Scissors, while Great Sage Kong Xuan raised the Five-Element Heavenly Demon Blade to strike.

Daoist Lord Dejing and Great Sage Kong Xuan held off the Panfeng Divine Emperors as the Shanhe forces entered the world and launched attacks on the Netherworld and Nine Heavens. The Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor revealed power at Pure Yang’s pinnacle, and Daoist Lord Yueheng joined Daoist Lord Miaoyan against him.

• Daoist Lord Dejing turned back the Celestial Pole Divine Emperor’s time-severing sword, while Great Sage Kong Xuan matched the Nine Vaults Divine Emperor.
• Daoist Lord Miaoyan widened the passage between worlds, allowing Qinghua Dao Sect True Lords and Demon Emperor Palace demon lords to enter as Golden Cicada Bodhisattva and Xianglong Arhat led the Buddhist assault into the Netherworld.
• Golden Cicada Bodhisattva began transforming the Netherworld into a Buddhist Pure Land, but the Yinji Dark Mountain Great Emperor reversed his work and tried to kill him; Golden Cicada dissolved the death-binding hooks and chains.
• Xianglong Arhat summoned eighteen Kings Ming to form the Eighteen Kings Demon-Subduing Formation in the Northern Luo Yinfeng Underworld.
• Daoist Lord Miaoyan fought the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor in the Nine Heavens, where the emperor revealed his Xuanmen arts and Pure Yang pinnacle strength.
• As the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor struck with a lightning sword, Daoist Lord Yueheng appeared beside Daoist Lord Miaoyan and invoked Shaking Mountains, Rattling Earth.

Shanhe World sent its hidden Pure Yang cultivators into Panfeng World, where Mingyang Daoist Lord and Daoist Lord Qingyan led an assault on the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor. Panfeng World revealed its full forces and fought back across the Nine Heavens and Netherworld.

• Daoist Lord Yueheng joined Daoist Lord Miaoyan against the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor, but his greater mastery let him drive them back.
• The Celestial Pole Divine Emperor recalled how the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor had conquered Panfeng World and prepared it to merge with Shanhe World.
• Shanhe World sent thirteen Pure Yang cultivators and countless upper-three-realm cultivators through the Heavenly Gate into Panfeng World.
• Bodhisattva Baoguang and Laughing Lion Arhat entered the Netherworld as Mingyang Daoist Lord and Daoist Lord Qingyan appeared in the Nine Heavens.
• Mingyang Daoist Lord and Daoist Lord Qingyan attacked the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor while Daoist Lord Miaoyan and Daoist Lord Yueheng engaged the Celestial Pole Divine Emperor and Nine Vaults Divine Emperor.
• Panfeng World revealed its emperors, moon lords, and netherworld sovereigns, who fought Shanhe World's forces as the stars across the Nine Heavens dimmed.

Panfeng World activated the All-Heavens Star-Dipper Formation, trapping Shanhe World's Upper Three Realms cultivators and preventing them from breaking free. As the chapter ended, Daoist Lord Qingyan proposed that the Pure Yang cultivators join forces and set up the Dual Principles Dust-Mote Formation.

• Panfeng World's Star Lords and Divine Lords assembled their natal stars, and the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor called the sun and moon back into place.
• The Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor and four other Pure Yang cultivators entered Pan Palace and joined their power to the stars, creating the All-Heavens Star-Dipper Formation that sealed the Three Realms.
• Shanhe World's Pure Yang cultivators gathered but found they could neither break the formation nor discover an opening while it used only its trapping power.
• Mingyang Daoist Lord asked the Golden Cicada Bodhisattva to release the Star Dragon Ancestor, who insisted he knew nothing about Panfeng World's plans.
• Daoist Lord Qingyan concluded that Golden Palace intended to trap the cultivators while seizing Shanhe World and proposed that they lay the Dual Principles Dust-Mote Formation together.

Shanhe World's Pure Yang cultivators recognized that the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor had trapped them with the All-Heavens Star-Dipper Formation, but they countered by deploying the Five Directions Five Elements Formation. The five-colored barrier forced the enemy formation back into the Nine Heavens, separating Panfeng World's heavens from its lands.

• Daoist Lord Qingyan and Mingyang Daoist Lord recognized the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor's plan to trap Shanhe World's forces in Panfeng World and seize Shanhe World.
• Daoist Lord Qingyan proposed using the Dual Principles Dust-Mote Formation, but Golden Cicada Bodhisattva, Xianglong Arhat, and Great Sage Kong Xuan warned that it could destroy Panfeng World and endanger Shanhe World.
• Golden Cicada Bodhisattva proposed the Five Directions Five Elements Formation, and Mingyang Daoist Lord agreed to use eleven Pure Yang cultivators to deploy it.
• Great Sage Kong Xuan marked the formation's directions with the Five-Element Divine Light as Daoist Lord Dejing, Daoist Lord Miaoyan, Golden Cicada Bodhisattva, Xianglong Arhat, and Daoist Lord Yueheng took their positions.
• The eleven Pure Yang cultivators completed the Five Directions Five Elements Formation, resisted the All-Heavens Star-Dipper Formation, and drove its starlight back into the Nine Heavens.

Jiang Sheng remained at the South Heaven Gate while Lin Fan and the Penglai Dao Sect forces entered the Panfeng World, as the two worlds’ armies continued their struggle. The Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor revealed that he had sent the Azure Dragon Ancestor to summon aid from the Shaoguang World, while an unseen observer watched him cross the Chaos Void.

• Jiang Sheng entrusted Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu to Lin Fan and stayed behind at the South Heaven Gate, uneasy about the Shanhe World’s awakening will of heaven and earth.
• Lin Fan led the Penglai Dao Sect’s forces into the Panfeng World to seize the two eastern continents.
• The Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor revealed that he had hidden the Azure Dragon Ancestor’s existence and sent him to bring an outside force into the conflict.
• Golden Cicada Bodhisattva worried that the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor had another contingency, but Daoist Lord Qingyan argued that Shanhe World had accounted for likely reinforcements.
• The Azure Dragon Ancestor crossed the Chaos Void toward the Shaoguang World with a Dao beacon, unaware that another gaze was watching him and both worlds.

The Great Heavenly Demon Master secretly redirected Azure Dragon’s beacon, sending him to Hengsha World instead of Shaoguang World. After learning that Shanhe World was embroiled in a war with Panfeng World, Golden Enlightenment Buddha and his followers decided to use the opportunity to reclaim the Great Jinchan Temple and Great Heavenly Dragon Temple lineages.

• The Great Heavenly Demon Master changed the direction indicated by Azure Dragon’s beacon as Azure Dragon traveled through the Chaos.
• Golden Enlightenment Buddha paused his sermon and sent Mingxian Bodhisattva to guide a visitor seeking Buddhist aid into the Great Lingyin Temple.
• Mingxian met Azure Dragon outside Hengsha World and told him Golden Enlightenment Buddha had invited him to the Great Lingyin Temple.
• Azure Dragon realized the beacon had been tampered with and understood that he had arrived in Hengsha World rather than Shaoguang World.
• After hearing Azure Dragon’s account, Golden Enlightenment Buddha and his followers recalled their earlier losses in Shanhe World and resolved to reclaim the Buddhist lineages there while Shanhe World fought Panfeng World.

As Shanhe World’s forces advanced through Panfeng World, Lin Fan fought the resurrected Li Shubai until Jinjue Buddha appeared beyond the worlds. Jinjue Buddha tried to sever their connection, but Mingyang Daoist Lord and Daoist Lord Qingyan stopped his attack with the Dual Principles Dust-Mote Formation.

• Lin Fan led Penglai disciples in taking a mountain sanctuary in Yingzhou while the sect expanded across Panfeng World’s Ten Lands.
• Li Shubai, revived through the Divine Path and serving as a heavenly god in Ning Kingdom, confronted Lin Fan, and the two began fighting.
• A vast presence halted the battle as Jinjue Buddha appeared beyond Panfeng World, alarming the cultivators and deities across both worlds.
• Jinjue Buddha raised a world-crushing palm to divide Panfeng World and Shanhe World, but Mingyang Daoist Lord and Daoist Lord Qingyan deployed the Dual Principles Dust-Mote Formation to stop it.
• Mingyang Daoist Lord asked Jinjue Buddha why he had come, and Jinjue Buddha said he intended to end the war and deliver the living beings from suffering.

Jinjue Buddha and the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor demanded control over parts of the Shanhe World, forcing Daoist Lord Qingyan and Mingyang Daoist Lord to choose between them. The two Dao Lords revealed they had held back their ascension to Dao-Ruling, and an unknown Dao-Ruling figure appeared as they began breaking through.

• Jinjue Buddha arrived with the Hengsha World’s Buddhist forces and offered to repel the Panfeng World in exchange for spreading Mahayana Buddhism and taking two continents.
• The Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor demanded that the Shanhe World admit the Divine Court and promised to hold off the Hengsha World.
• Jinjue Buddha and the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor showed visions of the Shanhe World’s possible destruction, while the world’s factions watched for the Dao Lords’ decision.
• Daoist Lord Qingyan revealed he had a contingency, and Mingyang Daoist Lord declared he could have entered True Yang ten thousand years earlier.
• Daoist Lord Qingyan and Mingyang Daoist Lord began ascending to the Dao-Ruling realm, but another Dao-Ruling expert appeared before them.

Daoist Lord Shangyang returned to the Shanhe World and proposed a wager to end the costly conflict among three worlds. The Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor and Jinjue Buddha accepted, leaving the contest and the fate of the Hengsha World and Panfeng World unresolved.

• Daoist Lord Shangyang appeared during the battle, preventing the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor and Jinjue Buddha from attacking Daoist Lord Qingyan and Mingyang Daoist Lord as they broke through to True Yang.
• Daoist Lord Shangyang argued that the tribulation had caused enough casualties and proposed settling the conflict with a wager.
• Daoist Lord Shangyang offered to let the Divine Path and Mahayana Buddhist teachings establish themselves in the Shanhe World if the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor and Jinjue Buddha won.
• Daoist Lord Shangyang declared that if they lost, the Hengsha World and Panfeng World would merge into the Shanhe World.
• The Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor and Jinjue Buddha accepted the wager, and the three Dao-Ruling experts sealed their pact by striking palms three times.

Daoist Lord Shangyang explained that the Great Thousand Chaos came from a shattered original world and that the Three Realms must merge to restore it and enable new Dao-Mastering cultivators. He revealed that his presence was only an incarnation, while his true body had gone beyond chaos, and said he would depart again after the merger and Qingyan and Mingyang’s breakthroughs.

• Daoist Lord Shangyang told the gathered Pure Yang cultivators that the Great Thousand Chaos originated from a single Great Thousand World shattered a million years earlier.
• Daoist Lord Shangyang explained that Shanhe World was a major fragment and that the worlds would eventually merge, making Shanhe World the central axis of restoration.
• Daoist Lord Shangyang announced a contest in ten years: if Golden Palace and Jinjue won, the Divine Path would control Shanhe World and Jinjue would preach Mahayana Buddhism; if Shanhe World won, Panfeng World and Ganges World would merge into it.
• After the Buddhist and demon cultivators departed, Daoist Lord Shangyang told the three Daoist Pure Yang cultivators that merging the Three Realms was necessary to stabilize the Great Dao and allow Qingyan and Mingyang to reach True Yang.
• Daoist Lord Shangyang revealed that he had returned only as an incarnation and that his true body had gone beyond chaos; he would leave again after the Three Realms merged and Qingyan and Mingyang broke through.

The Daoist Lords assessed the coming battle among the Three Realms and prepared for a hundred-year contest over Panfeng World, which would help Shanhe World’s Daoist Lords pursue breakthroughs to True Yang. The Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor and Jinjue Buddha also readied their forces, and the contest was set to begin after ten years of preparation.

• Daoist Lord Dejing and the other Daoist Lords discussed Shanhe World’s prospects and agreed that the Three Realms’ battle would take place across the Ten Lands of Panfeng World.
• The Daoist Lords assessed Hengsha World’s strength and identified Shanhe World’s likely fighters, including Xuanyi, Lingwei, Lingyuan, and disciples from the Buddhist factions and Demon Emperor Palace.
• The Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor created a Purple Edict Mahayana Fruition Rank, the Nine Heavens Mysterious Lady, for Ye Wenshu and prepared her to command battle formations and weapons of war.
• Jinjue Buddha ordered Mingxian Bodhisattva to select Buddhist disciples and prepare them to enter Panfeng World in ten years to teach Mahayana Buddhism.
• The three great realms began preparing for the hundred-year wager, in which they would fight over Panfeng World and seek control of sixty percent of its territory.

Ten years before the contest between the Three Realms, Jiang Sheng remained in the South Heaven Gate while the Buddhist temples sought allies against the Hengsha World. After discussing the Divine Path with Lin Fan, Jiang Sheng decided to send his avatar into it and began considering how to combine the immortal and divine paths.

• Guanghe visited Jiang Sheng and warned that the Hengsha World would bring Mahayana Buddhism to the Shanhe World if it was not stopped.
• Lin Fan teased Jiang Sheng about the attention he had received from the sacred lands, and Jiang Sheng explained why the Buddhist Sect and Demon Emperor Palace were seeking support.
• Jiang Sheng asked Lin Fan whether he should enter the Divine Path before or after breaking through to Void Refinement.
• Lin Fan explained that the Divine Path served the world's stability and said he might enter it himself after studying under Heavenly Emperor Donghua.
• Jiang Sheng revealed that he planned to send his avatar into the Divine Path and reflected on his ties to it, the Netherworld, and the Buddhist Sect.

Lin Yuan apologized for poor updates, promised not to abandon the book or give it a rushed ending, and explained how reader support and revisions had shaped the story. Lin Yuan hoped to finish the current stretch and write more in July with readers’ suggestions.

• Lin Yuan admitted that June’s updates had been worse than May’s and promised not to abandon the book or botch its ending.
• Lin Yuan said the story could be revised and repaired, and pledged to continue writing until the ideas in their head had been put on the page.
• Lin Yuan credited readers’ votes, tips, comments, and subscriptions with helping the book grow to over forty thousand bookmarks and receive four promotional features.
• Lin Yuan explained that revisions and an overly broad world had made the current stretch difficult, and said they had sought advice from other authors.
• Lin Yuan described Journey to the West as a model for the book’s world of Immortals, Gods, Buddhas, demons, and monsters.
• Lin Yuan thanked readers, invited them to share feedback, and hoped to write the story better and post more chapters in July.

The Three Mystic Sects coordinated their war against the Hengsha World while the Shanhe World advanced across Panfeng World. After the Demon Emperor Palace requested help in Phoenix-Qilin Continent, Lingwei sent Lingyuan to investigate.

• A giant lion Dharma Image fought a Daoist wielding a red-gold saber at Thousand Spirits Mountain.
• Reports aboard the Three Mystic Sects' Dharma Boat described battles across Panfeng World and the advances of the Shanhe World and Hengsha World.
• Xuanyi and Lingwei discussed the Three Mystic Sects' position and the Demon Emperor Palace's request for aid.
• Lingwei asked Lingyuan to go to Phoenix-Qilin Continent and find out what difficulty the Demon Emperor Palace had encountered.

At Heavenly Demon Palace, Yu Yi assessed Hengsha World's expansion and argued that Panfeng World might side with it, while Jiang Sheng arrived and heard her request. The chapter left Jiang Sheng preparing to travel to Origin Continent to find Ye Wenshu and prevent her from joining Hengsha World, even at the risk of killing the wrong person.

• Jin Qiong returned to Heavenly Demon Palace after being challenged by Fakong in Flame Continent and warned that the monk's Buddhist cultivation countered her Heavenly Demon Transformation.
• Yu Yi proposed seeking an alliance with Panfeng World, but Jin Qiong argued that the Golden Palace Mysterious Lady would likely wait for the conflict to unfold before choosing a side.
• Jiang Sheng arrived at Heavenly Demon Palace and offered a different perspective on the relationship between immortals and deities.
• Yu Yi asked Jiang Sheng to travel to Hengsha World's territory in Origin Continent because Ye Wenshu might be there.
• Jiang Sheng agreed to stop Ye Wenshu from defecting to Hengsha World, even if that meant killing the wrong person.

Jiang Sheng agreed to investigate Origin Continent, where Hengsha World's Buddhism had spread across the land. At True Enlightenment Temple, Faxian invited Ye Wenshu to meet him and offered her a seventh-grade Bodhi seed if she helped Hengsha World.

• Yu Yi asked Jiang Sheng to investigate Origin Continent, and he agreed to scout it without disrupting Xuanyi and Lingwei's plans.
• Jiang Sheng learned that Origin Continent had become covered in Buddhist temples since Panfeng World and Shanhe World connected.
• Faxian welcomed Ye Wenshu to True Enlightenment Temple and offered her Bodhi tea, surprising her with his easygoing manner.
• Ye Wenshu pressed Faxian to explain his letter, and he warned that Hengsha World and Shanhe World were preparing for all-out war.
• Faxian proposed becoming Ye Wenshu's Dao companion, then offered her a seventh-grade Bodhi seed if she lent Hengsha World a hand.