Chapter Summaries

After a shattered cup nearly triggered a confrontation among the Eastern Heaven Daoist Sect, the Heavenly Court, and the Western Heaven Buddhist Sect, the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor punished those responsible and restored order with rewards. Jiang Sheng was then granted entry to Peixiang Palace's inner hall, where his presence drew the attention of the realm's most powerful figures.

• The Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor ordered the two Curtain-Rolling Heavenly Generals and the wine-serving heavenly maiden severely punished for the shattered cup, easing the standoff in Peixiang Palace.
• The Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor resumed the banquet, bestowed heavenly flowers and Golden Cores, and negotiated concessions with Kaiyuan Heavenly Venerable and Jinjue Buddha.
• Jiang Sheng lamented that his century of preparation for a duel had been wasted when the banquet nearly became a chaotic battle instead.
• Ye Wenshu delivered the Heavenly Emperor's decree allowing Jiang Sheng to enter Peixiang Palace's inner hall despite his Three Calamities cultivation.
• Jiang Sheng entered the inner hall and took a modest seat, drawing the scrutiny of the assembled immortals, Buddhas, gods, and sacred beings.

Jiang Sheng discussed his ambition and the risks facing his bid for the Judicial Heavenly Monarch fruit position as the Peixiang Palace Dharma feast ended early. Later, Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor severed the gestating Pure Yang Judicial Great God fruit position and changed it into a Great Vehicle Judicial Heavenly Monarch position.

• Jiang Sheng told Yuanyi True Lord that his drive came from wanting to surpass his past self and advance toward the Great Dao, not from worldly fame or rivalry with others.
• Yuanyi True Lord warned Jiang Sheng that the Heavenly Emperor might obstruct the Eastern Heaven Daoist Sect's contenders for fruit positions, including Jiang Sheng's bid for the Judicial Heavenly Monarch position.
• The Peixiang Palace Dharma feast ended after three months, and Cangwu, Kunlun, Xiaoyun, Shaoguang, and Futu Worlds merged into the Three Realms in different regions.
• Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor asked Southern Pole Shenxiao Emperor about his service overseeing criminal law, then told him he could contend for the Judicial Great God fruit position.
• Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor used the Blade of Time to sever the Pure Yang Judicial Great God fruit position and announced that it would instead be a Great Vehicle Judicial Heavenly Monarch position.

The Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor announced a contest for the Judicial Heavenly Monarch fruit position, drawing contenders and observers from across All Heavens and Myriad Worlds. The Eastern Heaven Daoist Sect’s three Heavenly Venerables discussed helping Penglai Lingyuan claim the position and possibly raise it back to Pure Yang.

• The Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor severed a Judicial Heavenly Monarch fruit position and ordered the Southern Pole Shenxiao Emperor to contend for it.
• The Heavenly Court proclaimed an open examination, prompting the heavenly demon of Kuocang World, the Crested Ibis Demon Monarch, and the Golden Flame Suanni to consider traveling to the Three Realms.
• The Three Truths Goddess recruited contenders from Sanzhen World, while the Canglang Ancestor sent Four Seas True Lord and others to test the competition without winning the position.
• True Monarch Guanghan declined to leave Jiuyou World, and the red-skirted female immortal lamented that she might miss meeting someone again.
• Qingyan Heavenly Venerable, Mingyang Heavenly Venerable, and Kaiyuan Heavenly Venerable discussed how Penglai Lingyuan could contend for the weakened fruit position and how they might restore it to Pure Yang.

Kaiyuan Heavenly Venerable explained why Jiang Sheng was expected to attain Pure Yang, while Jiang Sheng prepared for a contest over the Judicial Heavenly Monarch fruition a hundred years later. The chapter left Jiang Sheng reflecting on the Heavenly Emperor’s hidden plans and the freedom he believed only Pure Yang could bring.

• Kaiyuan Heavenly Venerable told his young attendant that Jiang Sheng stood out because he combined ability, diligence, cultivation, and deep fortune, and would certainly achieve Pure Yang.
• Jiang Sheng showed Ling Qiu and Lin Fan the spirit beasts on Little Penglai, and explained how he could train the Golden Lions, Green Pengs, Green Oxen, and White Elephants as Daoist Soldiers.
• Lin Fan warned Jiang Sheng that powers from across All Heavens and Myriad Worlds would contend for the Judicial Heavenly Monarch fruition at the South Heaven Gate in a hundred years, and Jiang Sheng vowed to claim it with his sword.
• Lin Fan left Little Penglai with treasures and spirit beasts, while Jiang Sheng told Zhang Xiaojiu to travel to Penglai with Li Jianchun and Huang Ping'an and take the Golden Lion, White Elephant, and Green Peng along.
• Jiang Sheng reasoned that the Heavenly Emperor’s fruition contest would draw talent and attention to the Three Realms, then wondered whether the Heavenly Emperor’s actions concealed a deeper agreement with the Heavenly Venerables.
• Jiang Sheng concluded that he remained a piece in others’ plans until he attained Pure Yang, and resolved that only Pure Yang could give him freedom and transcendence.

Ye Wenshu recognized that the Shenxiao Emperor had entered seclusion to let chaos spread, so the Heavenly Emperor summoned Emperor Liuyuan of Southern Scarlet World to the Three Realms. Liuyuan arrived at Southern Heaven Divine Palace, received the Heavenly Emperor’s decree, and was escorted toward the Ninefold Heaven Palace, while a celestial demon in the queue took notice of him.

• Ye Wenshu learned that the Shenxiao Emperor had stopped issuing documents and concluded he was trying to demonstrate his importance before competing for the Judicial Heavenly Monarch's Fruition Rank.
• The Heavenly Emperor ordered Ye Wenshu to meet a deity ascending from Southern Scarlet World and bring him to the Ninefold Heaven Palace.
• Emperor Liuyuan left Southern Scarlet World with a goddess, seeking a greater realm and hoping to compete for the Judicial Heavenly Monarch's Fruition Rank.
• Emperor Liuyuan traveled through the Primordial Chaos Cosmos and reached Southern Heaven Divine Palace, where Ye Wenshu revealed the Heavenly Emperor's decree summoning him.
• Emperor Liuyuan bowed and accepted the decree, while a celestial demon waiting in the queue listened to the news and took interest in him.

At the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor’s command, the Heavenly Court’s ministers devised nine trials to choose a Judicial Heavenly Monarch, beginning with a realm created by four Pure Yang cultivators. The first trial began as the gathered prodigies were pulled into the secret realm, where their powers were suppressed.

• The Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor asked his ministers how to select a candidate for the Judicial Heavenly Monarch’s fruit-position, and Shenxiao Emperor and True Lord Yuanyi argued over the qualifications required.
• Daoist Lord Qiongyun proposed that the ministers devise a series of trials representing the paths of the Three Realms, and the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor appointed him chief examiner.
• Daoist Lord Qiongyun proposed nine trials, with Jingxuan Daoist Lord, Zhenque Bodhisattva, Great Sage Shenfeng, and Great Emperor Shanghuang creating the first realm.
• The four Pure Yang cultivators formed realms of immortals, Buddhas, demons, and gods, and Daoist Lord Qiongyun joined them into a single secret realm.
• Daoist Lord Qiongyun announced the first trial, and its vortex suppressed the prodigies’ powers and pulled them inside.

The prodigies entered the first trials of Four Sages Pass, while Yingtian Demon Monarch watched their rivals and tested the misty mountain realm. Jiang Sheng advanced through the Yellow-Wind Domain with secret guidance, and Shenxiao Emperor questioned his progress before East Heaven’s Immortal Monarchs challenged him; the chapter revealed that powerful figures had arranged preferential help for Jiang Sheng.

• Yingtian Demon Monarch dismissed a proposal to cooperate, then followed Crested Ibis Demon Monarch after she entered a vortex gate with Penglai Lingyuan.
• Golden Lion Demon Lord teased Yingtian about Crested Ibis Demon Monarch, then entered the Yellow-Wind Domain with White Armor Demon Lord.
• Yingtian entered the Cloud-Wreathed Misty Thousand-Mountain Realm and began searching its labyrinth for a way forward.
• Golden Lion and White Armor struggled to withstand the Yellow-Wind Domain’s sandstorm, while Jiang Sheng walked through it unhindered.
• Shenxiao Emperor questioned why Jiang Sheng was moving so quickly, and East Heaven’s Immortal Monarchs rebuked him for challenging their True Lord.
• The chapter revealed that Great Sage Shenfeng, Jingxuan Daoist Lord, and Daoist Lord Qiongyun had secretly helped Jiang Sheng, while Shenxiao Emperor had been excused from the first six passes.

Jiang Sheng passed the first trial and received a Vast-Sea Scarlet-Gold Jujube, while Yingtian Demon Monarch and others enjoyed rewards from the other secret realms. After three days, the trial eliminated three thousand contestants, and the seven thousand survivors were swept into the second trial, the West Sea Surging-Waves Guanyin Tower.

• Jiang Sheng crossed the desert, reached an oasis, and received a Vast-Sea Scarlet-Gold Jujube from Great Sage Shenfeng’s tree.
• Golden Lion Demon Lord and White Armor Demon Lord emerged from the desert, ate jujubes, and spoke cordially with Jiang Sheng.
• Yingtian Demon Monarch reached the mountaintop, found Crested Ibis Demon Monarch there, and drank Penglai Dao-Seeking Tea.
• The first trial ended with seven thousand of ten thousand contestants remaining, while only the first ten in each secret realm received rewards.
• Daoist Lord Qiongyun announced that only half the survivors would pass the second trial, then the West Sea Surging-Waves Guanyin Tower vortex pulled them away.

Jiang Sheng and the other trial participants were swept into a storm-torn West Sea, where they had to find the Guanyin Watchtower before the waves overwhelmed them. Several early arrivals reached its outer perimeter, but the inner hall remained blocked, while most participants were still fleeing toward it.

• Jiang Sheng recognized the trial’s setting as the West Sea and fled from colossal waves, concluding that the Guanyin Watchtower was the key to survival.
• The storm drove participants across the sea, killing some through the trial’s eliminations, while fortunate competitors found the Watchtower’s outer perimeter.
• Golden Lion and White Armor fled the waves, and Yingtian Demon Monarch suddenly appeared nearby after his attempt to control the storm backfired and triggered a random teleportation.
• Golden Lion accepted Yingtian’s proposal to join forces, and the three heavenly demons continued searching for the Watchtower as other participants gathered around them.
• At the Lotus Terrace Waterside Pavilion, Zhen Guang Fairy worried about those still at sea, while Monk Putai urged the early arrivals to recover and predicted which competitors might reach the Watchtower.
• Monk Putai declined to name likely competitors from the Three Realms and ended the discussion with a Buddhist invocation.

Venerable Pushe discovered that the lotus pool and waterside pavilion before Guanyin Watchtower concealed a star-sea trial requiring cultivators to cooperate against a golden-scaled beast. As more factions gathered, Jiang Sheng and Fahui arrived after clashing through the storm, and Fahui wondered how much of the Eastern Heaven Daoist Sect’s fortune rested on Jiang Sheng.

• Venerable Pushe broke the illusion around Guanyin Watchtower and found that a golden-scaled beast guarded the passage across the star sea.
• Venerable Pushe concluded that the beast weakened when more people joined the trial, while his hidden trembling hand showed he had gained no advantage against it.
• Fuyun Immortal Monarch and Venerables Miyin and Mijian arrived, followed by a Demon Monarch and other cultivators; a group that tested the beast alone was badly injured.
• Jiang Sheng crossed the million-mile storm with his sword, and the onlookers recognized him as True Lord Lingyuan of the Eastern Heaven Daoist Sect.
• Fahui pursued Jiang Sheng and exchanged blows with him until both reached Guanyin Watchtower, where Jiang Sheng appeared to have gained the upper hand.
• Fahui reflected that Jiang Sheng’s Three Calamities cultivation already matched his own Five Calamities strength and wondered how formidable Jiang Sheng would become.

Jiang Sheng and Fahui raced through the second trial of the Fruition Dharma Banquet, which connected three worlds and tested their ability to understand Jinglian Guanyin Great Bodhisattva’s hidden rules. Jiang Sheng reached the inner hall first with Leaping Carp’s help, and its seven-colored reward astonished Fahui.

• Fahui challenged Jiang Sheng to see who could pass the Lotus Pond Pavilion first, and Jiang Sheng accepted by lighting an incense stick as their time limit.
• Jiang Sheng and Fahui entered the pavilion and faced a colossal golden-scaled beast in a sea of stars.
• Jiang Sheng recognized the beast as the dead-eyed Leaping Carp from Buzhou World and learned that the trial required finding the inner hall or feeding Leaping Carp a lotus flower.
• Leaping Carp remembered Jiang Sheng and swallowed him, carrying him to the inner hall; Fahui inferred the route and crossed the sea of stars to follow.
• Jiang Sheng reached the inner hall before Fahui, and Fahui opened its doors to reveal a seven-colored Hua Guang that left him astonished.

At the second trial’s inner hall, Jiang Sheng warned Fahui about his reliance on a Great Vehicle sarira as the contestants gathered to claim Seven-Aperture Glazed Fruits. After receiving the top-ranked fruit, Jiang Sheng focused on Leaping Carp’s warning that Mingguang Guanshi Great Bodhisattva had borrowed something for the third trial, and wondered what it was.

• Fahui tried to seize a Seven-Aperture Glazed Fruit before the appointed time and was scorched by the hall’s Wisdom-Vision Golden Thunder.
• Jiang Sheng pointed out the warning engraved at the entrance and cautioned Fahui that his unstable foundation and borrowed power could undermine his cultivation.
• Fahui reflected on the Bright King Sarira that had raised his strength to Five Calamities, suppressed his doubts, and resolved to keep competing until the struggle for the fruit position ended.
• Golden Lion Demon Lord used a white lotus to ride Leaping Carp across the starry sea, while Venerable Puhua and White Armor Demon Lord took advantage of the opening to cross.
• Contestants gathered at the inner hall, and Jiang Sheng received the finest Seven-Aperture Glazed Fruit as the first-place finisher in the second trial.
• Jiang Sheng considered Leaping Carp’s warning that Mingguang Guanshi Great Bodhisattva had borrowed something from Jinglian Guanyin Great Bodhisattva for the third trial.

Jiang Sheng defeated Mingguang Guanshi Great Bodhisattva’s Golden-Haired Hou in the third trial, helping other contestants seize their chance to pass and taking first place. The fourth and fifth trials followed, and the sixth began at Kunlun Sacred Land’s Yaochi, where Yaochi Queen Mother Emperor would examine them.

• Jiang Sheng used his four Zhu-Lu-Xian-Jue swords, tempered with providence and merit, to overpower the Golden-Haired Hou and break the third trial.
• Fahui, Ying Tian, White Armor, Emperor Liuyuan, and other contestants exploited the Golden-Haired Hou’s distraction to pass, and Daoist Lord Qiongyun announced Jiang Sheng as the first-place finisher.
• An independent immortal from a middle thousand world found Maitreya Buddha Great Bodhisattva’s hidden dharma body first by patiently searching the melon field, passing the fourth trial.
• Demon Venerable Qingyu used her divine consciousness to lure a golden-scaled fish onto her hook and won the fifth trial.
• The sixth trial began at Yaochi in Kunlun Sacred Land, with Yaochi Queen Mother Emperor as the examiner.

At the sixth Fruition Dharma Banquet trial, the prodigies learned that they had to surrender valuable immortal fruits to the Green Bird Envoy to cross Magpie Platform. Yingtian Demon Monarch paid the toll and entered the next trial, while the others remained behind weighing the cost.

• The 219 remaining prodigies gathered at Yaochi, and Golden Mother Primordial Lord explained that they would need to reach the Immortal Panrong Tree and claim one of its 108 fruits.
• Golden Mother Primordial Lord revealed that the trial tested the contestants’ Dao Hearts, and the prodigies found the Green Bird Envoy guarding the only route onward.
• The Green Bird Envoy demanded at least a third of each contestant’s wealth in immortal fruits, and Venerable Napushe refused after learning the toll could include his rare treasures.
• Yingtian Demon Monarch agreed to pay the Emerald Jade Melon Fruit and Penglai Dao-Seeking Tea, and the Green Bird Envoy sent him through the formation.
• The Green Bird Envoy warned Yingtian Demon Monarch that the next trial would involve a real fight, while the remaining prodigies hesitated to pay.

The contestants faced a costly choice at Magpie Platform, and many paid their immortal fruits to enter Panrong Garden. There, Daoist Lord Qiongyun revealed that the contestants had to fight for the 108 Panrong Fruits, while Jiang Sheng set his sights on Fahui.

• Venerable Napushe paid the crossing fee and entered the teleportation passage, refusing the Green Bird Envoy's offer of information.
• Daoist Duo Ming spent his last Emerald Jade Melon Fruit to cross, and the Green Bird warned him never to strive to be first; he arrived at Panrong Garden and waited before acting.
• Golden Lion Demon Lord, White Armor Demon Lord, and many others chose to cross, while Jiang Sheng and Demon Venerable Qingyu handed over their immortal fruits and entered Panrong Garden.
• The Green Bird Envoy refused Heavenly Fortune Divine Lord's offer of all his fruits and sent him across, then transformed into a little girl and sorted the fruits she had collected.
• Daoist Lord Qiongyun announced that contestants had to obtain one of the 108 Panrong Fruits to advance, and Mayfly Adept and Pelican Lord began fighting over the tree.
• Jiang Sheng recognized the Panrong Undying Tree as a Pure Yang ancestral tree and focused on Fahui, intending to eliminate him from the trial.

The prodigies of the All Heavens and Myriad Worlds fought for Panrong Fruits on the Immortal Tree, while the Queen Mother explained the trial and revealed that one or two fruits might be Pure Yang treasures from the ancestral tree. After the Star Fruits were contested, the Moon Fruits became available, drawing powerful contenders as the Great Vehicle experts waited for the Sun Fruits.

• Golden Mother Primordial Lord explained that the three ranks of Panrong Fruits tested both combat ability and Dao Heart, and said the tree would protect defeated contestants.
• Golden Mother Primordial Lord revealed that the tree held seventy-two Star Fruits, twenty-four Moon Fruits, and twelve Sun Fruits, though the ancestral tree might have hidden one or two Pure Yang Fruits among them.
• Kuifang chased Withered Years Elder for a Star Fruit, shrugged off his withering mystic light, and captured him in a crushing grip.
• Yingtian Demon Monarch, Golden Lion Demon Lord, White Armor Demon Lord, Divine Lord Chunqiu, True Lord Hundred Flowers, Emperor Tianyun, Zhen Guang Fairy, and other prodigies claimed Star Fruits.
• The protective radiance around the Moon Fruits vanished, and Baiming Demon Monarch, Miyin, and Mijian rushed to compete for them.
• Venerables Putai and Puhua set out to claim two Moon Fruits for Shaoguang World while Venerable Napushe and other powerful figures watched for the Sun Fruits.

As the Sun Fruit contest began, Fahui asked Venerable Zhenhe to hold Jiang Sheng back, but Zhenhe chose to confront him himself. Jiang Sheng drew the Qingping Sword, and Zhenhe recognized it as a treasure of providence and merit as the two prepared to clash.

• Fahui told Venerable Zhenhe that Jiang Sheng would attack him and admitted he could not suppress Jiang Sheng, so he asked Zhenhe to stop him.
• The twelve Sun Fruit emerged, and Napushe Venerable drove the other contestants away while the Great Vehicle cultivators claimed fruit.
• Fahui claimed a Sun Fruit, while Venerable Zhenhe blocked Jiang Sheng's path and challenged him.
• Kui Fang crushed a Star Lord who mocked Jiang Sheng and collected the Star Fruit he left behind.
• Jiang Sheng confronted Venerable Zhenhe, unleashed his aura, and drew the Qingping Sword, which Zhenhe recognized as a treasure of providence and merit.

Jiang Sheng fought Venerable Zhenhe in Panrong Garden while Jingxuan Daoist Lord and Bodhisattva Zhenque wagered their treasures on the outcome. After Zhenhe’s Buddha Kingdom in the Palm trapped Jiang Sheng beneath a mountain-sized hand, Jiang Sheng’s four swords emerged to hold it aloft.

• Jingxuan Daoist Lord wagered twelve Penglai Dao-Seeking Tea trees against Bodhisattva Zhenque’s pond of Seven-Treasure Glazed-Gold Lotus on whether Jiang Sheng or Zhenhe would win.
• Venerable Zhenhe attacked Jiang Sheng with twenty-four Buddha Beads that struck through different times and spaces.
• Jiang Sheng used Severing Time to break Zhenhe’s attack, then wounded him with a chaotic wheel formed from the Three Calamities and Final Tribulation.
• Jiang Sheng and Zhenhe traded powerful attacks, and Zhenhe summoned a Glazed Pure Land before unleashing Buddha Kingdom in the Palm.
• As Zhenhe’s Buddhist palm became a mountain and trapped Jiang Sheng, Jiang Sheng called forth four Dharma swords that stopped its descent.
• Jiang Sheng invoked Heaven-Cutting: Evolution of Creation while the four swords supported the Buddhist palm mountain.

Jiang Sheng defeated Venerable Zhenhe and Fahui, then claimed the Sun Fruit and entered a separate world, where an ancestral spirit offered him a Pure-Yang Undying Fruit. The chapter left Jiang Sheng facing the Panrong Undying Tree’s mysterious benefactor.

• Jiang Sheng used Heaven-Cutting: Evolution of Creation to shatter Venerable Zhenhe’s defenses and send him flying, then wounded him with the Zhu-Lu-Xian-Jue swords.
• Jiang Sheng declared that Venerable Zhenhe had lost, and the injured monk was taken away as the gathered cultivators reacted to Jiang Sheng’s strength.
• Xingyue Venerable and Wisdom King Wangsheng restrained Fahui while Jiang Sheng challenged him to withstand a sword strike.
• Jiang Sheng struck Fahui with Evolution of Creation, making him vanish, then plucked the Sun Fruit.
• The Sun Fruit transported Jiang Sheng to another world, where an ancestral spirit offered him a Pure-Yang Undying Fruit containing the laws of life, death, reincarnation, and Yin-Yang creation.

Jiang Sheng met the true Panrong Undying Tree and received a Pure-Yang Undying Fruit, then advanced to the seventh trial, where his powers were sealed in a ruined village. He planned to refine the immortal fruits that remained in his sleeve to regain some strength.

• Jiang Sheng recognized the Panrong Undying Tree in its own world as the true ancestral Pure Yang spiritual root, and the tree explained that the Panrong Undying Tree in Yaochi was only its avatar.
• The Panrong Undying Tree gave Jiang Sheng a Pure-Yang Undying Fruit, and Jiang Sheng carefully stored it before returning to Panrong Garden.
• The sixth trial ended with the participants collecting their rewards, and Jiang Sheng learned that the fruits he had given away had been returned to those who passed the trial.
• The Southern Shenxiao Emperor appeared among the contestants for the seventh trial, prompting Jiang Sheng to suspect that the emperor had come for him.
• Daoist Lord Qiongyun announced Great Emperor Huangtian's seventh trial, Boundless Divine Path, Refining True Gold, and sent the contestants into a new world.
• Jiang Sheng found himself in a ruined village with his cultivation and divine abilities sealed, but the immortal fruits in his sleeve remained untouched, so he decided to refine them first.