Chapter Summaries

Fahui escorted Ao Jin to the Penglai Estate in Eastern Victory Divine Continent, where Jiang Sheng tested Fahui with a sword strike that ended in a draw. Jiang Sheng welcomed them and heard how Ao Jin had been used as an impostor Bodhisattva at the Great Lingyin Temple, while Fahui revealed that the Azure Dragon Ancestor had also been there.

• Fahui brought Ao Jin to the Penglai Estate to meet its host before escorting her home.
• Jiang Sheng and Fahui exchanged a sword aura and a Buddhist palm, and their powers dissipated without either gaining the upper hand.
• Jiang Sheng welcomed Fahui and Ao Jin to Little Inquiry Immortal Peak and served them Mist-Suspended Empty Tea.
• Fahui explained that the Great Lingyin Temple had erased Ao Jin's memories, implanted a Buddhist fruition, and placed her on a lotus throne as the Chaste Dragon Bodhisattva.
• Jiang Sheng noted that East Heaven had been searching for the Azure Dragon Ancestor, and Fahui admitted that the ancestor had been at the Great Lingyin Temple.

Daoist Lord Xuanming let slip that Penglai’s elders were occupied with major tasks, leaving Jiang Sheng to wonder what Patriarch Weiyu was doing in Chaos. As the Six Sects Grand Competition approached, the sect representatives finalized its events and rules, and the sects began preparing their disciples.

• Daoist Lord Xuanming told Jiang Sheng that Penglai’s Pure Yang Realm elders were busy, then departed before Jiang Sheng could learn more about Patriarch Weiyu’s work in Chaos.
• Representatives of the Xuanmen Six Sects gathered at the Heavenly Court to arrange the upcoming competition, with True Lord Yuanlin representing Penglai and Fuyun Immortal Monarch representing the Zhenxiao Dao Sect.
• The representatives agreed to include pill refining, talisman crafting, artifact refining, formation demonstrations, and combat, with changing conditions and no fixed arena for some events.
• The overseers finalized the competition procedures and sent the rules to their sects, which assigned participants and began preparations.
• Fuyun Immortal Monarch told True Lord Xiaogong that every sect would rehearse despite the earlier promise to keep arrangements secret.

Penglai sent its hundred top disciples to the Six Sects Grand Competition with an elaborate farewell ceremony, while Lingwei and Lin Fan speculated about Jiang Sheng’s absence. On the journey across the East Sea, the disciples prepared for the contest, and Zhou Huo noticed a strange, colorful light approaching the Dharma Boat.

• Lingwei addressed Penglai’s hundred competitors as elders offered them wine, and the disciples drank before boarding the Dharma Boat with Ling Yu, Lingyan, Lingxuan, and the elders.
• Lingwei and Lin Fan watched the boat depart and wondered whether Jiang Sheng was helping organize the competition.
• Ling Yu steered the Dharma Boat toward the East Sea venue as the competitors rested, trained, and prepared their equipment.
• Zhou Huo questioned Qian Yun about his enormous stockpile of explosive talismans, and Qian Yun explained that he relied on them to strengthen his combat ability.
• Zhou Huo spotted a colorful radiant light outside the Dharma Boat and realized that it was drawing closer.

Zhou Huo and the disciples of Penglai, Qinghua, and Tianhe were ambushed at sea by devastating attacks that killed or scattered their True Lords and disciples. Zhou Huo survived the void turbulence but woke alone in a forest with little spiritual energy, no working communication talisman, and no identity token.

• Zhou Huo warned Ling Yu of an incoming attack, but the azure-blue rainbow shattered her Dharma Image, gravely wounded her, and destroyed the Penglai Dharma Boat.
• Penglai’s disciples used their treasures and abilities to survive the wreckage, but a silver-white light swept Lingyan into the void turbulence and the azure-blue rainbow pierced Lingxuan.
• The void turbulence swallowed Zhou Huo and the other Penglai disciples, while attacks also devastated the Qinghua and Tianhe expeditions and killed their True Lords.
• Meng Yi charged the crimson rainbow to protect the Qinghua disciples’ retreat, and the Tianhe disciples’ escape from a killing formation ended when void turbulence engulfed them.
• Zhou Huo woke in a mountain forest wearing his damaged Azure Lotus Cloudsea Dharma Robe and found his Communication Jade Talisman broken and his identity token missing.

Xuanji and the other leaders of the East Heaven sects were ambushed by Jiang Sheng and rescued, then learned that the Six Sects Grand Competition was a staged trial designed to test the disciples under battlefield-like danger. The chapter revealed that the patriarchs had secretly arranged the attacks to prepare East Heaven’s next generation for the coming Buddhist Calamity.

• Jiang Sheng attacked the three East Heaven parties, grievously wounded their leaders, and swept the disciples into the void storm.
• Xuanji recognized Jiang Sheng as the attacker before Jiang Sheng gathered all nine leaders and took them to the Nine-Heaven Origin Mechanism Pool to recover.
• Daoist Lord Junming and Daoist Lord Xuanming explained to Xuanji that the competition had begun when the parties left their sects and was meant to test the disciples’ conduct and resolve in danger.
• Daoist Lord Xuanming told Jiang Sheng that the Pure Yang cultivators had secretly designed the competition and given the sects a false itinerary.
• Daoist Lord Xuanming and Daoist Lord Dejing tasked Jiang Sheng with ambushing the sect parties, testing their vigilance and awakening them before calamity returned.

After an attack on the Six Sects Grand Competition delegation stranded its survivors in a strange world, scattered disciples from several sects struggled to regroup and find a way to contact home. The chapter ended as Xie Liuxin explored a mist-shrouded stone forest and an unseen attacker struck at two Yaochi Sacred Land disciples.

• Hu Yan and Sun He sheltered in a cave, injured and without supplies, and planned to repair their Communication Jade Talismans to contact the Chixiao Dao Sect.
• Xu Xiao and Xu Xiang traveled through the forest and chose a dead ancient tree as a temporary shelter after Xiao Qing reported the area was safe.
• Meng Yi awoke beside He Jinnian and Shang Qian'ge, learned they had survived the void turbulence, and sent them to search for the other disciples.
• Xie Liuxin cautiously explored the Misty Stone Forest, where the mist and terrain restricted his spiritual sense.
• Two Yaochi Sacred Land disciples searched the stone forest together, and a sword suddenly pierced the mist as an unseen voice called for an attack.

Xie Liuxin fought Bai Li and her junior sisters, Yang Yirong and Yaoxing, in the trial grounds before they recognized each other as cultivators from the Tianhe Dao Sect and Yaochi Sacred Land. The injured True Lords watched the Six Sects Grand Competition from the heavenly realm as Xie Liuxin began to suspect that cultivators from several sects had been attacked and brought there.

• Bai Li, Yang Yirong, and Yaoxing sprang their trap on an attacker, but Xie Liuxin's sword light overwhelmed their defenses.
• Xie Liuxin recognized the Yaochi Sacred Land's sword-wheel techniques, and Bai Li identified his sword arts as those of the Tianhe Dao Sect.
• Bai Li introduced herself and her junior sisters, and Xie Liuxin revealed his identity and praised their coordinated ambush.
• Bai Li told Xie Liuxin that they had arrived after being attacked and had encountered no other cultivators.
• Xie Liuxin reasoned that members of several sects might have been attacked and brought to the realm, while eighteen injured True Lords watched the competition from two Nine-Heaven Origin Mechanism Pools.

The Xuanmen Six Sects’ Grand Competition began in a sealed Trial World where six hundred disciples faced a lethal test against demons drawn from the Heavenly Abysses. As the seals weakened and the demons prepared to emerge, the watching elders explained that the trial was meant to prepare future True Disciples for their duty to guard the Three Realms.

• The six sects’ disciples were scattered across more than a hundred regions inside a hidden Trial World while their elders watched from outside.
• Xuanjing Immortal Monarch explained that the disciples had few supplies and would soon face demons as the seals beneath the world weakened.
• True Lord Nanyi and Fairy Xiao Yuan recognized the imprisoned demons as fiends born from the Abyssal Ruins’ accumulated corruption and desire.
• The elders explained that the Three Realms’ powers could not eradicate demons, so they periodically released and purged their hordes to prevent a greater calamity.
• The elders had deliberately brought demons into the Trial World to test the disciples in real combat and prepare them for their mandatory duty to guard a Heavenly Abyss.

Xuanjing Immortal Monarch and Yuzhen Immortal Monarch escalated a wager over whether Tianhe or Yaochi’s disciples would kill more fiends and suffer fewer deaths. They staked eight and five Medium Thousand Worlds respectively, leaving the assembled sect leaders stunned as the trial’s fiends had yet to emerge.

• Xuanjing Immortal Monarch challenged Yuzhen Immortal Monarch to wager on whether Xie Liuxin or Bai Li’s trio would kill more fiends.
• Yuzhen Immortal Monarch broadened the wager to compare the disciples of Tianhe and Yaochi across twenty-three regions, counting fiend kills and deaths.
• Fairy Ningzhi and Fairy Quedi staked Yaochi gilded sands and jade pool golden flowers, prompting True Lord Zhaoye and True Lord Zhaohong to stake Tianhe Renchen iron and Eight-Turn Golden Pills.
• Xuanjing Immortal Monarch accepted Yuzhen Immortal Monarch’s wager and staked eight Medium Thousand Worlds against her five.
• Fuyun Immortal Monarch lamented that he lacked the resources to open a betting pool while Younger Brother Lingyuan was absent.

Beside the Nine-Heaven Origin Mechanism Pool, Lin Fan told Ling Qiu about the enormous wager between Yuzhen Immortal Monarch and Xuanjing Immortal Monarch. He explained that their feud began a thousand years ago during the Xuanmen Great Calamity, when a clash between their disciples drew the two immortals into lasting conflict.

• Lin Fan received news from True Lord Yuming that Yuzhen Immortal Monarch and Xuanjing Immortal Monarch had wagered a fortune on the Six Sects' contest.
• Lin Fan showed the secret message to Ling Qiu and warned her not to tell anyone else.
• Ling Qiu asked why the two allied immortal monarchs had made such a large wager, and Lin Fan described their sects' alliances in the East Heaven.
• Lin Fan revealed that a thousand years earlier, during the Xuanmen Great Calamity, a conflict between the immortals' disciples had started their enduring feud.

Qin Yan, Hu Yan, and their companions defeated a Three-Eyed Black Crow, then faced an onslaught of unnatural insects. Elsewhere, Bai Li and Xie Liuxin fought a Monstrous Tiger and an endless horde of monsters before discovering demonic fiends emerging from the world's Abyssal Ruins.

• Qin Yan lured the Three-Eyed Black Crow into revealing itself, and Hu Yan killed it with his Red Fire Gilt Shuttle.
• Sun He raised a wall of fire against a swarm of unnatural black insects, and the group recognized that evil spirits were behind the attack.
• Bai Li sent Yang Yirong and Yaoxing back, then used her Sword Wheels to behead the giant Monstrous Tiger.
• Bai Li and Xie Liuxin battled waves of bloodless monsters, with Xie Liuxin's sword light saving Bai Li when she began to tire.
• Xie Liuxin razed the forest, but the earth split open and demonic fiends began crawling out of the Abyssal Ruins.

As Shanhe World began collapsing under a demonic invasion, Pei Jinglian agreed to Zhao Junhe's risky plan to search the Heavenly Abyss Rift for resources. Meanwhile, the Immortal Monarchs watched the trials, and Su Ci urged her companions to keep moving if they wanted to survive.

• Zhao Junhe proposed that his group enter the Heavenly Abyss Rift to find treasures or resources that could help them escape, despite their injuries and the dangers.
• Pei Jinglian agreed, explaining that they had to seize the initiative before the demons overwhelmed them, and Murong Jun and Ma Xingyuan joined the preparations.
• Junxiao Immortal Monarch praised Zhao Junhe, while Fuyun Immortal Monarch and Chiyun Immortal Monarch discussed Su Ci's status as Yaochi's top Spirit Transformation disciple and blood descendant of a powerful figure.
• Yuzhen Immortal Monarch watched Su Ci's trial region with confidence, while Chiyun Immortal Monarch and Fuyun Immortal Monarch chose not to warn Xuanjing Immortal Monarch about her origins.
• Su Ci told Sun Yue, Song Ti, and their companions that their resting place was only temporary and that they had to move forward to find a chance to live.

Meng Yi led Zhou Huo, Shang Qian'ge, and He Jinnian into the Heavenly Abyss to find a way to survive the dying world. Outside the Trial World, Qinghua's True Lords approved of Meng Yi as their next chief disciple, but Fuyun Immortal Monarch spotted a startling scene in another region.

• Zhou Huo told Meng Yi that the Trial World was dying and that its depleted source essence could no longer sustain life or produce spiritual treasures.
• Meng Yi and Zhou Huo recognized that they were all True Disciple Candidates whose identity tokens had been lost, and agreed to seek medicinal herbs or materials underground so they could heal and contact their sects.
• Meng Yi led Zhou Huo, Shang Qian'ge, and He Jinnian into the Heavenly Abyss, taking the vanguard despite her grave injuries.
• Observers outside the Trial World watched Xie Liuxin, Su Ci, Pei Jinglian, Zhao Junhe, and Meng Yi lead their groups against demons.
• Qinghua's True Lords praised Meng Yi's leadership and accepted her as the likely chief disciple of the next generation.
• Fuyun Immortal Monarch pointed out a disciple in another trial region, leaving Junxiao Immortal Monarch and Chiyun Immortal Monarch stunned.

Qian Yun and three fellow Golden Core disciples salvaged materials from their robes to repair Communication Spirit Talismans in the Trial World. Their success brought Zhu Yuzi and True Lord Xiaoming to retrieve them, where they found the four leaf-clad disciples emerging from a cave.

• Junxiao, Chiyun, and Fuyun Immortal Monarchs wondered who the four leaf-clad wildmen in the trial zone were.
• Qian Yun, Gao Kaiyuan, Zheng Gong, and Wang Lin concluded they were trapped in a collapsing world and used materials from their clothes to repair their Communication Spirit Talismans.
• The four disciples successfully contacted Zhu Yuzi of the Chixiao Dao Sect, astonishing the gathered True Lords with their early message.
• Lin Fan proposed retrieving the disciples, and Zhu Yuzi and True Lord Xiaoming piloted a Dharma Boat to the Trial World.
• Zhu Yuzi and True Lord Xiaoming found the four leaf-clad disciples, and Zhu Yuzi recognized Zheng Gong before laughing at the strange sight.