Chapter Summaries

Pituo learned of trouble in the Linghua Realm and, after consulting the Mystic Lord, led a vast demonic host there to seize its Dao beacon. Meanwhile, Jiang Sheng repaired the Southern Frontier and voiced his unease about Pituo’s plans as the Linghua Realm’s defenses stood ready.

• Pituo left the Hanging Void Realm to report the trouble in the Linghua Realm to the Mystic Lord, who revealed that Pituo’s intervention would draw the Daoist sects toward the Mountain Sea Realm and the Seven-Marvel Ink Lotus.
• After leaving the Mystic Lord, Pituo divined the Linghua Realm’s prospects, then returned to Duliang Temple and summoned his demonic followers for an expedition.
• Pituo led demonic soldiers, ghostly monsters, and Void Refinement Stage followers toward the Linghua Realm aboard Dharma Boats and living vessels.
• Jiang Sheng put away the Qingping Sword and the four Zhu-Lu-Xian-Jue swords, then restored the Southern Frontier’s damaged earth veins and mountains.
• True Lord Yinyue asked Jiang Sheng what troubled him, and he questioned why Pituo had vanished and why no other Heavenly Demons had come for the Linghua Realm’s Dao beacon.

Jiang Sheng met the Linghua Realm’s seven True Lords at Huaqing Mountain, where they prepared to face the heavenly demon Pituo. After Pituo’s vast army surrounded the realm, Jiang Sheng and the True Lords confronted him as he struck at the world barrier.

• True Lord Yinyue brought Jiang Sheng to Huaqing Mountain, where he met Zhengyang True Lord, Lingxu True Lord, Tianyu, Taixiang, Mingxiang, and Wanfa.
• Jiang Sheng walked up Huaqing Mountain, reflected on his past travels, and joined the True Lords for a three-day banquet.
• Pituo led hundreds of millions of demonic soldiers, dozens of Void Refinement demons, and four Integration Realm demons toward the Linghua Realm while coveting the Seven-Marvel Ink Lotus.
• Pituo’s army surrounded the Linghua Realm, and his demons nearly corrupted its inhabitants until a warning roused them.
• Jiang Sheng and the seven True Lords emerged to confront Pituo, who dismissed their resistance and attacked the realm’s barrier with a vast demonic palm.

Pituo broke through the Linghua Realm’s barrier, but Huaguang Immortal Monarch’s hidden formation severed his hands and let the demons enter while keeping him out. Jiang Sheng and the seven True Lords fought to defend the realm as his Dharma body arrived at the Three Realms, where a heavenly god challenged him.

• Pituo struck the Linghua Realm’s barrier three times, then tore open a breach in its sky and tried to force his way inside.
• Huaguang Immortal Monarch’s hidden wards activated when Pituo used his Heavenly Demon power, severing his hands and trapping him outside the realm.
• Pituo sent his demons through the golden net, and Jiang Sheng attacked the first to enter before urging everyone to defend the Dao.
• The seven True Lords joined Jiang Sheng at the breach, pledging to fight alongside him as demons poured into the Linghua Realm.
• Jiang Sheng’s Dharma body guided the Radiant Dew Bottle toward the Three Realms, where a heavenly god demanded to know who they were.
• Jiang Sheng’s Dharma body identified the Three Realms as his world and said that was its current name.

Jiang Sheng brought the Artifact Spirit, Lin Xiao, and Su Yutong into the Three Realms and sought aid from Penglai’s ancestor Jingxuan for the Linghua Realm. Jingxuan agreed to save it on the condition that it join the Three Realms, then authorized a massive East Heaven expedition that set out into the Chaos Void.

• Red Thunder escorted Jiang Sheng and his companions through the Southern Realm Heavenly Palace and into South Heaven Gate, where they witnessed the Three Realms’ immense power.
• Jiang Sheng led the group through the Ninefold Heaven Palace to Imperial Void Palace, where Ancestor Jingxuan received him and summoned the Artifact Spirit.
• Jingxuan identified Pituo as a fallen Buddhist cultivator serving a hidden instigator, marked the Radiant Dew Bottle with a talisman to counter him, and agreed to save the Linghua Realm if it joined the Three Realms.
• Jingxuan gave Jiang Sheng a decree to mobilize East Heaven’s True Lords, Star Lords, and a million heavenly soldiers to eradicate demons and defend the Dao.
• Jiang Sheng gathered the Eastern Dipper forces, and ten enormous Dharma Boats carrying the assembled army departed through the Southern Realm Heavenly Palace into the Chaos Void.

Shenxiao Emperor delivered Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor’s appointment of Great Sage Tonghai as Northern Pole Black Tortoise Venerable, while Jiang Sheng’s allies traveled to Linghua Realm to confront Pituo. After Pituo’s influence over the battle was exposed and reinforcements arrived, Jiang Sheng declared that Pituo’s death had come.

• Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor sent Shenxiao Emperor to congratulate Great Sage Tonghai and appoint him Northern Pole Black Tortoise Venerable.
• Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor considered the divine statuses forming within the laws of the Three Realms, including a hidden status he had previously erased.
• Jiang Sheng traveled toward Linghua Realm with True Lord Yuming, True Lord Shihua, and reinforcements while they discussed the Three Realms’ expansion and the search for Mountain Sea Realm.
• Jiang Sheng and seven allies fought Pituo’s endlessly reviving demons for seven days and nights, while Pituo tried to wear them down and recruit Jiang Sheng.
• Pituo realized that someone had tampered with his consciousness, then saw Three Realms war Dharma Boats arrive with five Integration Realm cultivators and forty-eight Void Refinement cultivators.
• Jiang Sheng appeared aboard a war Dharma Boat and told Pituo that his time to die had arrived.

The Three Realms' East Heaven reinforcements arrived outside the Linghua Realm and fought Pituo's demons while Pituo revealed his full Heavenly Demon form. Ancestor Jingxuan suppressed Pituo with a single Dao character, and Jiang Sheng decided to seek Huaguang Immortal Monarch in the Dead Silence Star River.

• True Lord Yuming and the East Heaven Star Lords arrived with ten Dharma Boats and deployed a hundred Heavenly Nets around the demons outside the Linghua Realm.
• Pituo shed his gold lacquer, revealed his terrifying Heavenly Demon body, and ordered his disciples to attack the Star Lords.
• True Lord Shihua struck down an Integration great demon with one spear attack as the Star Lords and Pituo's demons fought within the Heavenly Nets.
• Pituo attacked the Dharma Boats with a Reversed Buddha Palm, but True Lord Yuming invoked Ancestor Jingxuan through the Radiant Dew Bottle.
• Ancestor Jingxuan's Dao character crumbled Pituo's attack and suppressed him, ending the demonic qi and cutting the demons off from their source.
• Jiang Sheng told True Lord Yuming that he would go to the Dead Silence Star River to find Huaguang Immortal Monarch.

Jiang Sheng and the Radiant Dew Bottle crossed a dead starfield and found Huaguang Immortal Monarch imprisoned in a vast array between the Sun Star and Taiyin Star. After Huaguang asked for help escaping, Jiang Sheng entered the stilled Star River to examine the array.

• The Artifact Spirit explained how stars could nurture life and eventually die, then shared stories about Huaguang Immortal Monarch.
• After about a month of travel, Jiang Sheng and the Radiant Dew Bottle reached a motionless river of dead stars surrounding the Sun Star and Taiyin Star.
• Jiang Sheng saw Huaguang Immortal Monarch bound by iron chains and sealed within an array that blocked Spiritual Resonance.
• Huaguang told Jiang Sheng that the array had begun weakening, possibly because something had happened to Pituo, and asked for help escaping.
• Jiang Sheng introduced himself as Lingyuan and entered the Star River to inspect the array.

Jiang Sheng crossed the dead star river, destroyed Pituo’s Spirit-Severing Demon Steles, and freed a path to Huaguang Immortal Monarch. On the dead Sun Star, he discovered a withered fire tree that still held a spark of life and recognized it as an Unlit Seed.

• Jiang Sheng found a fist-sized piece of sinking star sand and collected several more as he traveled through the star river.
• Huaguang Immortal Monarch explained that Pituo had trapped him with a formation anchored by 136 Heavenly Stars, each containing a Spirit-Severing Demon Stele.
• Jiang Sheng destroyed the steles one by one, sharpening his sword skills as he crossed the star river in less than a year.
• Jiang Sheng reached Huaguang Immortal Monarch, who explained that chains had drained his magical power into the dead Sun Star and Moon Star for a thousand years.
• Jiang Sheng inspected the Sun Star and discovered a spark of life on a withered fire tree, identifying it as an Unlit Seed.

Jiang Sheng collected the last living branches of the dead Sun and Taiyin Stars, then shattered the Taiyin Star to break the formation imprisoning Huaguang Immortal Monarch. After Huaguang Immortal Monarch freed himself, he learned that the artifact spirit had promised to incorporate the Linghua Realm into another realm.

• Jiang Sheng sealed and collected the fire tree’s surviving branch and the moon osmanthus’s unfrozen branch, intending to nurture them in his Little Penglai Immortal Realm.
• Jiang Sheng drew the Qingping Sword and shattered the Taiyin Star with a powerful strike, breaking Pituo’s formation and restoring Huaguang Immortal Monarch’s strength.
• After three months, Huaguang Immortal Monarch pulled the chains from his body and healed his wounds.
• Huaguang Immortal Monarch shrank and took the dead Sun Star, then offered Jiang Sheng the sinking star sand.
• The artifact spirit told Huaguang Immortal Monarch that it had promised to incorporate the Linghua Realm into another realm, leaving him stunned.

Huaguang Immortal Monarch returned to the Linghua Realm and accepted that it would merge into the Three Realms, while Jiang Sheng hosted him at Huaqing Mountain. Huaguang Immortal Monarch reaffirmed his promise to remove the marker leading to the Mountain Sea Realm after the merger and presented Jiang Sheng with a jade box containing Sun Soul Marrow.

• Huaguang Immortal Monarch brought Jiang Sheng back to the Linghua Realm and learned that East Heaven would protect it after its merger into the Three Realms.
• Huaguang Immortal Monarch thanked the visiting True Lords with Sinking Star Sand, then hosted them before True Lord Yuming and the others departed for the Three Realms.
• Jiang Sheng gave True Lord Yuming a storage pouch to distribute among the visiting True Lords.
• Huaguang Immortal Monarch visited Jiang Sheng at Lightmelting Grotto with Lin Xiao and spoke with him over Silver Star Lush Jade tea.
• Huaguang Immortal Monarch promised to remove the Mountain Sea Realm marker safely after the merger and showed Jiang Sheng the Sun Soul Marrow in a jade box.

Jiang Sheng realized that Binmou had escaped the Linghua Realm and suspected that someone had tampered with his memories. Meanwhile, the Mystic Lord gave Binmou the Seven Emotions demon seeds, and Jiang Sheng offered Su Yutong a place in his tutelage before preparing to return to the Three Realms.

• Jiang Sheng remembered Binmou’s escape and wondered how he had slipped past the realm-protecting formation and heavenly forces.
• The Mystic Lord explained that Pituo had died through his own ambition and revealed that he had saved Binmou because Binmou was useful.
• The Mystic Lord gave Binmou the demon seeds of Burial Joy, Dread Desire, Vengeful Evil, Resplendent Wrath, Sorrow Thorn, Rising Fear, and Waning Love, then left him amid the shattered stars.
• Huaguang Immortal Monarch invited Jiang Sheng to hear his final sermon for the Linghua Realm in a month before departing with Lin Xiao.
• Jiang Sheng offered Su Yutong choices of a Daoist official’s post, Penglai membership, or a place in Little Penglai, and Su Yutong chose to follow Jiang Sheng.
• Jiang Sheng told Su Yutong to look after the cavern and said he would make further arrangements after returning to the Three Realms.

Huaguang Immortal Monarch delivered his final lecture, teaching the Seven Refinements, Nine Returns and sharing his cultivation insights with all living beings across the Linghua Realm. After seven days, the lecture ended, leaving the listeners immersed in his words.

• Jiang Sheng and Su Yutong climbed Huaqing Mountain to attend Huaguang Immortal Monarch's lecture, while Jiang Sheng explained that privileged disciples were troubled by the coming incorporation of the Linghua Realm into another realm.
• Huaguang Immortal Monarch announced that the lecture would be his first since returning to Spirit Radiance Continent and his last, then used the Linghua Realm's will of heaven to broadcast it across all five continents.
• Huaguang Immortal Monarch taught about techniques, methods, Divine Abilities, nature, heaven and earth, and the cosmos, while Jiang Sheng recognized flaws in his own cultivation methods and learned from the Immortal Monarch's principles.
• Huaguang Immortal Monarch expounded the True Scripture of Seven Refinements, Nine Returns for seven days, and countless beings across the Linghua Realm listened.
• Huaguang Immortal Monarch ended the lecture as the listeners remained absorbed in his words.

Jingxuan Daoist Lord brought the Linghua Realm into the Three Realms, where it became East Linghua Continent, and Qingyan Heavenly Venerable invested Huaguang and the seven True Lords with titles and authority. In West Heaven, Jinjue Buddha identified the Mystic Lord as Amokeqi and warned the Buddhist assembly to prepare to confront him.

• Jingxuan Daoist Lord drew the Linghua Realm through the Chaos Void while the Mystic Lord and Ananda watched from the shadows.
• Jingxuan Daoist Lord brought the Linghua Realm to the Three Realms, where it merged and became East Linghua Continent over ten years.
• Jiang Sheng led Huaguang Immortal Monarch and the seven True Lords through East Heaven to pay their respects to Qingyan Heavenly Venerable.
• Qingyan Heavenly Venerable named Huaguang Emperor Puzhao Huaguang of Eastern Heaven Spirit Continent and appointed the seven True Lords as the Seven Mystic Lords of Wondrous Dharma.
• Jinjue Buddha told Mingxian Bodhisattva and the assembled Buddhist figures that the Mystic Lord was Amokeqi and ordered them to remain vigilant and strike if they encountered him.

Jiang Sheng began reorganizing Little Penglai into a protected cultivation ground and sent his disciples to gather rare formation materials. After returning with gifts from the Heavenly Court, Jiang Sheng created two islands to plant the Unlit Seed.

• Jiang Sheng ordered Green Ox, Golden Lion, Treasure Elephant, and Green Peng to warn the inhabitants of the One Hundred and Eight Islands before he rearranged them.
• Tian Ming'an encouraged Su Yutong to join him and Qiu Buyu when Jiang Sheng summoned them to Azure Profound Hall.
• Jiang Sheng revealed his plan for a Heavenly Spirits and Earthly Fiends Formation based on the Eight Trigrams and Five Elements, then sent Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu to request materials from Ye Wenshu and True Person Lingwei.
• Ye Wenshu supplied precious treasures, Yan Xiao and others provided additional gifts, and Tian Ming'an and Qiu Buyu returned to Little Penglai with the materials.
• Jiang Sheng formed two new islands north and south of Little Penglai Island and decided they were suitable for planting the Unlit Seed.

Jiang Sheng prepared yin and yang islands, rearranged the Little Penglai Immortal Realm, and built a vast formation across its islands. When two suns and three moons appeared together, he activated the formation and drew Little Penglai Island and its neighboring water and fire islands into a space between reality and illusion.

• Jiang Sheng planted an Unlit Seed on the southern island and a moon osmanthus branch on the northern island, establishing the realm’s hot and cold islands.
• Jiang Sheng used his Dharma body to relocate the inner and outer islands, arranged them into stellar, Northern Dipper, eight-trigram, and nine-palace patterns, and reorganized their earth and spiritual veins.
• Jiang Sheng refined formation anchors and Tracking Array Disks while Tian Ming'an, Qiu Buyu, Green Ox, and the island residents prepared formations and built mystic towers.
• After calculating for more than half a month, Jiang Sheng told Tian Ming'an to activate the formations when two suns and three moons shared the sky.
• Jiang Sheng drew solar and lunar power into the water and fire islands, then used his fly whisk to activate the grand formation and send Little Penglai Island and its neighboring islands into a space between reality and illusion.

After True Person Many-Treasure returned from more than two hundred years of traveling, he urged Jiang Sheng to hold the Void Refinement ceremony he had postponed. Jiang Sheng agreed to invite old friends and acquaintances, and Many-Treasure hinted at news about someone he had encountered beyond Three Realms.

• Jiang Sheng admired Little Penglai Island and reviewed the plans he had made to sustain it.
• Tian Ming'an informed Jiang Sheng that True Person Many-Treasure had returned, and Many-Treasure soon arrived to greet him.
• Many-Treasure asked whether he had missed Jiang Sheng’s Void Refinement ceremony, and Jiang Sheng explained that he had not held it yet.
• Many-Treasure reminded Jiang Sheng that his old friends might not live much longer, prompting Jiang Sheng to decide to hold the ceremony and invite them.
• Jiang Sheng gave Tian Ming'an a roster of invitees, then complained to Many-Treasure about the expense of the ceremony.
• Many-Treasure invited Jiang Sheng to drink and promised to tell him whom he had seen beyond Three Realms.

Many-Treasure told Jiang Sheng about meeting Bai He and Wind Moon while traveling, including news that the Shaoguang World might merge into the Three Realms. After learning Wind Moon had repaired her foundation and reached Heaven's Dao Nascent Soul, Jiang Sheng decided to visit her and repay the favor he felt he owed.

• Many-Treasure recounted how he and Bai He met, fought, and eventually became friends while seeking opportunities to advance their cultivation.
• Bai He told Many-Treasure that the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor had sent envoys to discuss Shaoguang World's merger into the Three Realms, where it could remain independent of the South Sea.
• Many-Treasure said Wind Moon had repaired her foundation in another Medium Thousand World and attained Heaven's Dao Nascent Soul.
• Jiang Sheng reflected on Wind Moon's past help and felt glad for her progress, while remembering that he owed her a favor.
• When Many-Treasure teased him about inviting Wind Moon to his Void Refinement ceremony, Jiang Sheng asked where she was and said he should visit her.

Jiang Sheng traveled to the Pingxiang World while reflecting on his views about romantic love and the world’s history. On Beiyan Continent, Wind Moon built the Hanging Jade Pavilion, but Zhong Yunfeng of the Nine Aspects Sect targeted both her organization and Wind Moon herself.

• Jiang Sheng left the Three Realms for the Pingxiang World, carrying Qingyan Patriarch’s No-Taboo Talisman and recalling Many-Treasure’s warning about Fairy Fengyue.
• The chapter described the Pingxiang World’s three continents and Beiyan Continent’s mix of humans, demons, and unorthodox sects, including the powerful Nine Aspects Sect.
• Wind Moon settled on Beiyan Continent and built the Hanging Jade Pavilion into a network for intelligence, consignments, and missions across nearby cities.
• Wind Moon shared profits and settled disputes with local clans, but she could not prevent the Nine Aspects Sect from targeting her pavilion.
• Zhong Yunfeng sought control of the Hanging Jade Pavilion to expand the Zhong Clan’s influence, then decided he wanted Wind Moon as well.

Zhong Yunfeng revealed to Zhong Yunyue that he intended to seize Fengyue’s secret opportunity to perfect his physique and claim power in the Nine Aspects Sect. After sending Zhong Yunyue to act on his behalf, Zhong Yunfeng privately admitted he planned to sacrifice him and keep the opportunity for himself.

• Zhong Yunfeng rewarded a servant for reporting on Fengyue and Xuanyu Pavilion, then explained that he had waited to move because he feared Daoist Duobao.
• Zhong Yunfeng told Zhong Yunyue that Fengyue’s rise from a middle-grade golden core to a Heavenly Dao nascent soul suggested she possessed a great secret opportunity.
• Zhong Yunfeng claimed that Fengyue’s sworn sisters resented her progress and revealed that he had bought off people close to her.
• Zhong Yunfeng persuaded Zhong Yunyue to use his token to mobilize the sect and lineage against Fengyue, promising they would share her opportunity and rise together.
• After Zhong Yunyue left, Zhong Yunfeng admitted to an unseen woman that he would use his cousin as a scapegoat if Daoist Duobao returned, or silence him otherwise.
• Zhong Yunfeng planned to use Fengyue’s opportunity and his accumulated resources to cultivate the Nine Aspects Sect’s Yin-Yang Formless Secret Treasury and take control of both the sect and the Zhong Clan.

As Hanging Jade Pavilion faced a takeover by the Zhong Clan, Yuan Xinmei urged Wind Moon to surrender its properties and withdraw its people. Wind Moon realized that Yuan Xinmei and others had exposed her secret, then wondered how Jiang Sheng would handle the crisis.

• Yuan Xinmei told Wind Moon that the Zhong Clan was forcing Hanging Jade Pavilion out of its territories and would let its people leave only without their goods or wealth.
• Wind Moon agreed to withdraw the pavilion’s people and consider what to do next.
• After Yuan Xinmei left, Wind Moon reflected that her allies had revealed her secret because they coveted her fortuitous opportunity.
• Wind Moon thought of Jiang Sheng’s rise to Void Refinement and wondered how he would respond to a crisis like hers.