Chapter Summaries

Rahu reunited with his Earth Soul and began ascending toward pure yang, while Jiang Sheng and Xiangyu Immortal Monarch could only protect their allies and await a chance to intervene. As Rahu prepared to draw in his Heaven Soul, Li Yang attacked from above with a colossal crimson Heavenly Star.

• Rahu transformed the Netherworld with foul thoughts, and Jiang Sheng sheltered the Jinhua Mountain beings beneath a clear Heavenly Star.
• Xiangyu Immortal Monarch joined Jiang Sheng and learned that Rahu’s Earth Soul could not be stopped, so they focused on intercepting his Heaven Soul.
• Rahu’s divine corpse reunited with his true body, and his polluted Earth Soul entered him as scriptures and false visions spread across the Netherworld and human world.
• Rahu’s power rose beyond what Xiangyu Immortal Monarch could obstruct, while Jiang Sheng watched his ascent protected by the No-Taboo Talisman.
• Li Yang roared at Rahu and sent a colossal crimson Heavenly Star crashing toward him.

Rahu tried to draw down his celestial soul and attain the Dao, but Li Yang struck him down and revealed that he, too, was preparing to reach pure yang. As they clashed as half-step pure yang beings, Jiang Sheng wondered what Binmou intended and reminded Xiangyu Immortal Monarch of the flaw in Shen Yao’s true spirit.

• Xiangyu Immortal Monarch explained how tribulations, karma, and the Great Dao affected attempts to attain pure yang, while Jiang Sheng considered whether he could interfere with Rahu’s breakthrough.
• Li Yang’s crimson Heavenly Star struck Rahu, destroyed the Nine Nether Sinking Wood coffin, and knocked Rahu’s fate soul and true spirit back into the Netherworld.
• Li Yang entered the Netherworld and attacked Rahu with the Mountain Sea Heavenly Dao’s power, revealing that his earthly soul had been drawn forth within his former imperial body beneath the East Sea.
• Rahu and Li Yang fought across the Mountain-Sea Three Realms, preventing Rahu from focusing on drawing down his celestial soul, while Jiang Sheng and Xiangyu Immortal Monarch escorted Shen Yao and the others to Jinhua Mountain.
• Xiangyu Immortal Monarch judged Rahu and Li Yang to be half-step pure yang, and Jiang Sheng questioned Binmou’s purpose and recalled Shen Yao’s flaw, prompting Xiangyu Immortal Monarch to recognize what he had overlooked.

Beneath the Sunken Palace, Binmou learned that the black shadow was the Seven-Marvel Ink Lotus, also called the Chaos Green Lotus, and that it had shaped the Mountain Sea Realm’s calamity through the choices it offered Shen Shun, Rahu, and Li Yang. The Lotus revealed that its final petal was inside Shen Yao and intended to use Shen Yao’s fate to attain pure yang, leaving Binmou horrified by its plan.

• As Rahu and Li Yang fought above, the black shadow told Binmou that Shen Shun had sacrificed himself to extend the Mountain Sea Realm’s life by one cosmic cycle, leaving only a spark of his spiritual essence to reincarnate as Shen Yao.
• The black shadow explained that its methods for Shen Shun, Rahu, and Li Yang were genuine, but each carried a price that they had chosen to accept.
• Binmou realized the shadow was neither Rahu nor Li Yang nor Shen Shun, and the shadow revealed itself as the Seven-Marvel Ink Lotus, also known as the Chaos Green Lotus.
• The Seven-Marvel Ink Lotus said it had spent six petals to help Shen Shun, Rahu, and Li Yang, then left its final petal with Shen Shun’s spirit as it reincarnated into Shen Yao.
• The Seven-Marvel Ink Lotus declared that Shen Yao would win the calamity and attain pure yang, while Binmou understood that it intended to use Shen Yao’s identity to claim that achievement for itself.

Li Yang and Rahu battled with their half-step Pure Yang Dao Fruits, but Rahu shattered the Heaven and Earth Embryonic Membrane to unleash the Chaos Void Cavern and trap Li Yang. Li Yang linked their Dao Fruits together to keep Rahu from escaping, while Black Shadow prepared to act from the East Sea.

• Li Yang and Rahu's clashing Dao Fruits stirred the Mountain Sea Realm's Laws, and Li Yang's Solar Crimsonflame Dao Fruit pushed back Rahu's Nether Tide.
• Rahu revealed that his Taiyin arts had reached completion and attacked Li Yang with Xuanming tides as both sought to draw in the Heavenly Soul.
• Rahu broke the Heaven and Earth Embryonic Membrane, exposing the Chaos Void Cavern, whose pull began draining Li Yang's power and cultivation.
• Rahu tried to escape and ascend above the nine layers of cloud, but Li Yang bound their Dao Fruits together with Laws and Karmic Cause and Effect.
• Black Shadow sensed the battle from the bottom of the East Sea, declared that the time had come, and prepared to act.

Beneath the Sunken Palace, the Seven-Marvel Ink Lotus revealed its role in Shen Shun’s sacrifice and Rahu and Li Yang’s pursuit of pure yang. It intended to use Shen Yao’s identity and the Mountain Sea Realm calamity to claim pure yang for itself.

• The shadow told Binmou that Shen Shun had died after sacrificing his Dao fruit, cultivation, and true spirit to extend the Mountain Sea Realm’s existence by one cosmic cycle.
• The shadow explained that its methods for Shen Shun, Rahu, and Li Yang were genuine, though each came with a heavy price.
• Binmou recognized the shadow as the Seven-Marvel Ink Lotus, which also called itself the Chaos Green Lotus.
• The Seven-Marvel Ink Lotus said it had used six of its seven petals to help Shen Shun, Rahu, and Li Yang, and that its final petal had reincarnated inside Shen Yao.
• The Seven-Marvel Ink Lotus predicted Shen Yao would defeat Rahu and Li Yang and attain pure yang, while Binmou realized it planned to exploit Shen Yao’s identity and claim that achievement itself.

The Black Shadow consumed Rahu and Li Yang’s Dao Fruits and rapidly advanced to Pure Yang by claiming their cultivation and karmic ties as his own. As he broke through, Jiang Sheng used the Talisman of No Taboos to bring them both to the River of Time.

• The Black Shadow showed Jiang Sheng Rahu and Li Yang frozen together after they had fallen into the Chaos Void Cavern.
• The Black Shadow plucked out Rahu and Li Yang’s Dao Fruits and consumed them.
• The Black Shadow advanced through the Three Calamities and Five Tribulations until he reached the peak of Integration.
• The Black Shadow fused the two Dao Fruits, broke his karmic shackles, and reached Pure Yang.
• Jiang Sheng activated the Talisman of No Taboos and transported himself and the Black Shadow to the River of Time.

Jiang Sheng followed Black Shadow into the River of Time, where Black Shadow pursued Jiang Sheng’s karmic ties into the past to erase him. Protected by the Talisman of No Taboos, Jiang Sheng traced Black Shadow’s history through the Mountain Sea Realm and reached an Azure Lotus in the early part of the previous cosmic cycle.

• Black Shadow plunged into the Mountain Sea Realm’s tributary to trace Jiang Sheng’s existence back to his birth, while Jiang Sheng followed Black Shadow’s past.
• Jiang Sheng witnessed Heavenly Emperor Shen Shun help create a new heaven and earth embryonic membrane, then planted a tiny Azure Lotus in Shen Shun’s dormant True Spirit in the Netherworld.
• Jiang Sheng met Shen Shun later in the previous cosmic cycle and learned that the embryonic membrane would last only one cosmic cycle, and that another Taiyi Golden Immortal would need to sacrifice himself to avert the Mountain Sea Realm’s fate.
• Jiang Sheng questioned Rahu and Li Yang about the method of mending the heavens, but an unseen karmic force prevented them from naming its source.
• Jiang Sheng followed the karmic ties into the early previous cosmic cycle and found a graceful Azure Lotus in the Abyssal Ruins.

Jiang Sheng fought Black Shadow across the Mountain Sea Realm’s past while Black Shadow tried to kill him as an infant, but a hemp-robed old man intervened and shattered the flaw in Black Shadow’s Dao Fruit. Jiang Sheng then prepared to strike Black Shadow’s cracked Dao Fruit, while the old man expounded the Dao in Penglai and smiled as he watched events unfold.

• Jiang Sheng recognized the Chaos Green Lotus in the Abyssal Ruins and attacked it with the Heaven-Cutting Sword, Severing Karma, but it transformed into the Seven-Marvel Ink Lotus and Black Shadow emerged.
• Jiang Sheng and Black Shadow appeared across the previous epoch’s River of Time, and Black Shadow followed Jiang Sheng’s karmic threads to the moment he had been found as an infant beside the Tuo River.
• Black Shadow killed the old man who had found infant Jiang Sheng, but became confused by a jade pendant engraved with “Penglai” and could not recall what Penglai meant.
• A hemp-robed old man fished Black Shadow out of the River of Time and split his flawed yin-yang Dao Fruit into incomplete supreme yin and supreme yang Dao Fruits.
• Jiang Sheng gained the upper hand against Black Shadow, who threatened Shen Yao’s life, and Jiang Sheng revealed that Black Shadow was no longer truly pure yang before striking at his cracked Dao Fruit.
• In Penglai’s Qingyan Heavenly Palace, the hemp-robed old man expounded the Dao to Immortal Deities and smiled as he looked into the distance.

Jiang Sheng defeated the Black Shadow, separated it from Shen Yao’s true spirit, and learned that it had plotted across two eras to attain Pure Yang. He and Xiangyu Immortal Monarch planned to use the Black Shadow and Rahu and Li Yang’s Dao Fruits to help the Mountain Sea Realm escape the Chaos Void Cavern.

• Qingyan Heavenly Venerable’s power split the Black Shadow’s Pure Yang Dao Fruit, and Jiang Sheng subdued the weakened Black Shadow.
• Jiang Sheng activated his contingency to cleanse Shen Yao’s true spirit of the Black Shadow, then imprisoned the Black Shadow in his palm.
• The Black Shadow recognized that Jiang Sheng, too, might be someone else’s chess piece before Jiang Sheng removed it from Shen Yao.
• Jiang Sheng summoned Xiangyu Immortal Monarch and explained how the Black Shadow had manipulated events across time to attain Pure Yang.
• Jiang Sheng and Xiangyu Immortal Monarch concluded that destroying Rahu and Li Yang’s Dao Fruits and drawing on their power could free the Mountain Sea Realm from the Chaos Void Cavern.

Jiang Sheng and Xiangyu Immortal Monarch discovered that the damaged Heaven and Earth Embryonic Membrane was draining the Mountain Sea Realm, and their proposed formations could not repair it. After Black Shadow urged them to sacrifice Shen Yao and offered the promise of Pure Yang power, Jiang Sheng rejected the scheme and chose to return to Jinhua Mountain to make a plan.

• Jiang Sheng and Xiangyu Immortal Monarch saw that the hole in the Heaven and Earth Embryonic Membrane was letting the Mountain Sea Realm's vital energy and spiritual energy pour into the Chaos Void Cavern.
• Jiang Sheng proposed using two nested formations to plug the gap, but Xiangyu Immortal Monarch explained that they could not withstand the cavern or spare the realm's strength.
• Black Shadow offered to mend the membrane by sacrificing Shen Yao and using the Heaven-and-Earth Embryonic Treasury Reincarnation Formation to draw on the realm's fortune.
• Black Shadow tempted Xiangyu Immortal Monarch with the two Dao Fruits and a scripture promising a path to Pure Yang, but Jiang Sheng reminded him that Shen Yao was the child of destiny.
• Xiangyu Immortal Monarch rejected Black Shadow's temptation and agreed to follow Jiang Sheng's lead, and Jiang Sheng decided they would return to Jinhua Mountain so he could instruct his disciples and plan their next move.

Jiang Sheng revealed that the breached heaven and earth embryonic membrane threatened the Mountain Sea Realm with another Great Calamity, then announced his plan to repair it. He passed leadership of Jinhua Mountain to Shen Yao and entered the breach with Black Shadow, heading for the Chaos Void Cavern.

• Jiang Sheng told Jinhua Mountain’s disciples that the Great Calamity had passed, then warned his senior followers that the leaking primal essence would eventually destroy the Mountain Sea Realm.
• Xiangyu Immortal Monarch explained that he and Jiang Sheng had planned to use the mastermind to fill the Chaos Void Cavern, but the breach had disrupted their plan.
• Shen Yao offered to sacrifice himself to mend the heaven and earth embryonic membrane, but Jiang Sheng refused and appointed him the next mountain master of Jinhua Mountain.
• Jiang Sheng told Xiangyu Immortal Monarch that he would use Black Shadow to repair the breach and enter the Chaos Void Cavern himself.
• Ten days later, Jiang Sheng handed Jinhua Mountain over to Shen Yao, then plunged through the breach with the two Dao Fruits as Black Shadow struggled and warned him.

Jiang Sheng reappeared inside the Chaos Void Cavern after an unseen intervention interrupted the spiritual tide, while Heavenly Venerable Qingyan’s Samadhi Divine Wind swept through the surrounding chaos. He revealed the Black Shadow’s true form as a seven-petaled Black Lotus and began refining it to mend the Heaven and Earth Embryonic Membrane.

• Jiang Sheng and the Black Shadow froze and sank through the Chaos Void Cavern’s spiritual tide until an invisible force made them vanish for an instant.
• A vast twisted figure opened a fissure in the chaos, and Heavenly Venerable Qingyan unleashed Samadhi Divine Wind before the figure disappeared and the wind turned pure as it touched the Mountain Sea Realm.
• Jiang Sheng reappeared in the Chaos Void Cavern, and the Black Shadow asked what had happened.
• Jiang Sheng transformed the Black Shadow into its true form, a seven-petaled Black Lotus, and explained that he needed it to patch the Heaven and Earth Embryonic Membrane.
• Jiang Sheng invoked the Source Lotus Transmutation method and used tribulation fire and his mana to refine the Black Lotus, while the Black Shadow struggled helplessly.

While refining the Black Lotus in the Chaos Void Cavern, Jiang Sheng comprehended the Three Calamities as transformations that brought both destruction and new life. His Void Refinement wind calamity descended, followed by yin fire, as both ravaged his body and true spirit.

• Jiang Sheng contemplated the final calamity and came to understand the three origins as void, image, and form, with the Three Calamities embodying their transformations.
• Black Shadow repeatedly recited the Golden Scripture of the Jade Chapter of Three Origins, while Jiang Sheng erased the last of Black Shadow’s true spirit from the Black Lotus.
• Jiang Sheng’s true spirit rose as he circulated the Yin-Yang Calamity Three-Transformation Five-Element Method and glimpsed the wind of chaos.
• The wind calamity descended and began dissolving Jiang Sheng’s true spirit and body, even though he lacked the Immortal Source usually needed to advance.
• Jiang Sheng’s magical power and accumulated Immortal Source worked to protect his body and Dao Fruit, but yin fire then ignited within him and burned through his organs and true spirit.

Jiang Sheng endured Bixi Wind and Yin Fire, comprehended their principles, and formed the golden and lead heavenly flowers as he advanced through two stages of Void Refinement. Black Lotus then reappeared in his sea of consciousness, corrupted his azure lotus pool, and reignited the tribulation with lightning looming above him.

• Bixi Wind and Yin Fire ravaged Jiang Sheng's body, true spirit, and cultivation while he observed the Chaos Void Cavern and contemplated the principles of yin and yang.
• Jiang Sheng comprehended the art of Taiyi, absorbed Bixi Wind, restored his body and cultivation, and formed a golden flower and a lead flower above his head.
• Jiang Sheng's true spirit and innermost self crossed two stages, solidifying his Dao Fruit into a wheel of light behind his head.
• Black Lotus appeared in Jiang Sheng's sea of consciousness, revealed that he had survived, and began corrupting the azure lotus pool that sustained Jiang Sheng's true spirit.
• Black Lotus recited the Three-Origins Jade-Chapter Golden Scripture and turned Jiang Sheng's method against him, reigniting Bixi Wind and Yin Fire and summoning the lightning calamity.

Jiang Sheng endured the Three Calamities of Void Refinement as the Black Lotus tried to seize his True Spirit, but he used his understanding of the calamities to turn them against it. He declared that after the tribulations passed, a new True Lord Yuchen Lingyuan would sit on the Lotus Throne.

• Black Tribulation Thunder struck Jiang Sheng while Bixi Wind and Yin Fire still ravaged him, shattering his body, soul, and Dao Fruit.
• The Black Lotus spread through Jiang Sheng’s sea of consciousness and enclosed his True Spirit, claiming it would sit on the Lotus Throne a thousand years later.
• Jiang Sheng revealed that his Yin-Yang Calamity Three-Transformation Five-Element Method embodied the Three Calamities and the final tribulation, and explained his understanding of their nature.
• Bixi Wind, Yin Fire, and Tribulation Thunder began destroying the Black Lotuses and attacking the Black Lotus that had tried to devour Jiang Sheng.
• Jiang Sheng told the Black Lotus that it had entered his sea of consciousness of its own accord and would endure the same calamities, then declared that a new True Lord Yuchen Lingyuan would sit on the Lotus Throne.

Lin Yuan reflected on the novel’s development, discussed his mother’s late-stage lung cancer and thanked readers for their support. He promised to continue Daoist Lord through its planned worlds and give the story a complete ending.

• Lin Yuan reviewed the novel’s 385 days of updates and 725 chapters, then described how he wished he had built Jiang Sheng’s story from a more modest beginning.
• Lin Yuan explained that he tried to give Jiang Sheng more independence in the Mountain Sea Realm arc, but still felt he had not written it well.
• Lin Yuan said his mother had late-stage lung cancer with bone metastases, and that he had been spending more time with her.
• Lin Yuan thanked readers for helping him afford his mother’s treatment and expressed gratitude for the country’s medical support.
• Lin Yuan promised to extend the novel to three, four, or even five million characters, explore its other worlds, and bring the story to a proper conclusion.

Tianhe Dao Sect’s Daoist Lord Yangji fought Tianxing Dao Lord before Dao Lord Tianxuan ambushed him with two Pure Yang supreme treasures. Yangji fell in the river of time, and his death caused the Great Dao to mourn across myriad worlds.

• Daoist Lord Yangji led the Tianhe Dao Sect’s western battlefield and confronted Tianxing Dao Lord in the Chaos Void.
• Yangji used the Star River Exquisite Umbrella to trap Tianxing Dao Lord and attack him with a Yin-Yang Millstone.
• Dao Lord Tianxuan ambushed Yangji with the Void-Breaking Black-Yellow Awl and a treasured gourd, joining Tianxing Dao Lord in the attack.
• The three Pure Yang cultivators fought above the river of time as the Tianhe Dao Sect’s disciples sensed a calamity.
• Daoist Lord Yangji fell in the river of time, and blood rained across myriad worlds as the Great Dao mourned.

Daoist Lord Yueheng planned to go to the Tianyuan World after the Tianhe Dao Sect lost contact with its Pure Yang Dao Lords, but Daoist Lords Dejing and Miaoyan persuaded him that Kaiyuan and Xuanjian were alive and that the sects would send reinforcements. The Shanhe Daoist Sect prepared to contest the Tianyuan World through its younger cultivators, while Lingyuan was to be sent there from the Mountain Sea Realm.

• Daoist Lord Yueheng learned that the Tianhe Dao Sect had begun withdrawing its forces from the Tianyuan World and still could not contact Kaiyuan or Xuanjian.
• Daoist Lord Yueheng declared that he would go to the Tianyuan World himself, but Daoist Lords Dejing and Miaoyan arrived and told him that divinations showed Kaiyuan and Xuanjian were alive but trapped.
• Daoist Lords Dejing and Miaoyan explained that other forces were obstructing the Shanhe World's Xuanmen sects and that their Heavenly Venerables had agreed to send Upper Three Realms cultivators to help take the Tianyuan World.
• Daoist Lord Yueheng agreed to follow the plan and leave the contest to the juniors unless another Pure Yang cultivator intervened.
• Daoist Lord Dejing said he would send Lingyuan from the Mountain Sea Realm to the Tianyuan World to join the fighting.

Jiang Sheng awakened in the Chaos Void Cavern as the Seven-Marvel Ink Lotus’s refinement of him was interrupted, and he faced the three calamities again. By using Xuan Shui and the Zhu-Lu-Xian-Jue swords to unite the calamities with the final tribulation, he restored himself and reached the three flowers gathering at the crown.

• Qingyan Heavenly Venerable told Daoist Lord Dejing that Tianhe Dao Sect’s tribulation could help Daoist Lord Kaiyuan reach Dao-Ruling True Yang, and arranged for Penglai cultivators to go to the Tianyuan World.
• Jiang Sheng awoke in the Chaos Void Cavern, badly weakened after the Seven-Marvel Ink Lotus’s true spirit and nature had been nearly extinguished.
• The Seven-Marvel Ink Lotus revived the three calamities and tried to kill Jiang Sheng, who called on Xuan Shui to endure them.
• Jiang Sheng used the Yin-Yang Calamity Three-Transformation Five-Element Method and the four Zhu-Lu-Xian-Jue swords to unite wind, thunder, fire, and water, rebuilding his body and restoring his cultivation.
• Jiang Sheng merged his essence, qi, and spirit with the swords’ radiances, and the three flowers gathered at his crown as azure and ink lotuses began growing in his sea of consciousness.

Jiang Sheng survived the Three Calamities, used the Seven-Marvel Ink Lotus to mend the Mountain Sea Realm’s breach, and returned to Jinhua Mountain. After entrusting the realm’s future to Shen Yao and Xiangyu Immortal Monarch, he ascended and arrived at the Three Realms Great Thousand World, where a celestial god escorted him toward the Penglai Xuming Heavenly Realm.

• Jiang Sheng survived the Three Calamities and reached late Void Refinement, but found his immortal source severely depleted.
• Jiang Sheng rode the Seven-Marvel Ink Lotus out of the Chaos Void Cavern and used it to plug the breach in the Mountain Sea Realm’s heaven and earth embryonic membrane.
• Jiang Sheng told Xiangyu Immortal Monarch that the Seven-Marvel Ink Lotus could restore the Mountain Sea Realm’s source qi, then returned with him to Jinhua Mountain.
• Jiang Sheng refused Shen Yao’s offer to return the mountain lordship and said he would leave for his sect after seven days, while Xiangyu Immortal Monarch remained to protect the realm.
• Jiang Sheng departed Jinhua Mountain amid the farewell of its disciples and cultivators, then arrived at the Three Realms Great Thousand World.
• A celestial god met Jiang Sheng outside the Eastern Heaven Reception Divine Palace and escorted him toward the Penglai Xuming Heavenly Realm by decree of the Heavenly Venerable.