Chapter Summaries

Chen Yan visited White Horse Temple to seek Patriarch Bodhidharma’s writings and learn from his martial path. Little Monk Tianyin revealed that Bodhidharma’s origins were unknown even to Master Sankong, then agreed to let Chen Yan inspect the sealed relics within the temple.

• Chen Yan was escorted through White Horse Temple’s secluded back mountain to meet Little Monk Tianyin.
• Chen Yan and Little Monk Tianyin exchanged greetings, and Tianyin said he did not need Earth Fiend Yin Veins to reach the Yin God realm.
• Chen Yan asked to inspect Patriarch Bodhidharma’s manuals or notes, and his aura overwhelmed the monks who tried to dissuade Tianyin.
• Little Monk Tianyin explained that Bodhidharma had come from another world and that even Master Sankong had failed to discover his origins.
• Little Monk Tianyin agreed to lend Chen Yan Bodhidharma’s sealed relics for inspection, on the condition that they stayed within White Horse Temple.

Chen Yan learned from Little Monk Tianyin that outsiders had entered the Netherworld Realm to seek a Dao Fruit left behind by Yellow Springs in the Inner World. Realizing that his own Dao Fruit: Nine Heavens might also be at risk, Chen Yan resolved to check on the Thunder Department Seal as White Horse Temple brought Bodhidharma's relics for him to inspect.

• Little Monk Tianyin agreed to let Chen Yan inspect Patriarch Bodhidharma's relics inside White Horse Temple and confirmed that he was Monk Zhengjue's reincarnation, though he had not yet regained his past-life memories.
• Little Monk Tianyin sent the other White Horse Temple monks away and explained that Yellow Springs had extracted the Netherworld Realm's world origin a thousand years earlier to nurture a Dao Fruit that remained in the Inner World.
• Chen Yan realized that the many powerful outsiders entering the Netherworld Realm were searching for the rumored Dao Fruit, and he remembered that Dao Fruit: Nine Heavens was kept in Thunder Cliff with the Thunder Department Seal.
• Chen Yan decided to check whether the Thunder Department Seal had recovered, then discussed the risks of pursuing the Dao Fruit with Little Monk Tianyin.
• A voice outside the hall announced that Patriarch Bodhidharma's relics had been brought.

After touching the Sarira sealed among Patriarch Bodhidharma’s relics, Chen Yan was transported to an unfamiliar world in the body of a martial monk. He found himself at Great Buddha Mountain, where an old monk recognized him as a senior brother.

• Hui Jue brought the sealed bamboo box of Patriarch Bodhidharma’s relics to Chen Yan and Little Monk Tianyin.
• Chen Yan opened the box and found a single pale-gold Sarira, which Little Monk Tianyin and Hui Jue recognized.
• When Chen Yan touched the Sarira, it unleashed a powerful suction that made him lose consciousness.
• Chen Yan awoke in a different body at Great Buddha Mountain and realized the Sarira had transported him to a seemingly real world connected to Bodhidharma.
• Chen Yan watched monks gather and chant on the mountain plaza, then an old monk approached and asked why he had not departed.

Chen Yan entered a world shaped by the Sarira, where he took on the identity of Shi Kong, a hot-tempered disciple of Bodhidharma. At the Sutra Repository, he found Bodhidharma’s treatise on Seeing God and gained a clear path toward breaking through to that martial realm.

• Chen Yan realized the three bell chimes had made him visible in the Sarira’s world, and learned from Shi Wen that Shi Kong was expected to attend the Zhujiang Dragon King’s birthday banquet.
• Chen Yan asked Shi Wen to lead him to the Sutra Repository, claiming he needed books to resolve doubts about his cultivation.
• An elderly monk confronted Chen Yan about bullying Shi Wen and revealed that Bodhidharma was Shi Kong’s master and had warned him to reach Seeing God before attempting the Indestructible Vajra Body.
• Chen Yan entered the Sutra Repository and found a treatise titled The Vision of Seeing God, signed by Bodhidharma.
• Chen Yan read that Seeing God meant seeing oneself and concluded the treatise gave him enough guidance to pursue his breakthrough.

Chen Yan broke through into Martial Arts Seeing God, manifesting a yang power within his Yin God. Bodhidharma appeared in his meditation chamber and began teaching him the Indestructible Vajra Body, leaving Chen Yan about to demonstrate what he had understood.

• Chen Yan studied The Vision of Seeing God through the night and used his soul’s power to strike his Yin God.
• During the painful breakthrough, golden yang light emerged from Chen Yan’s Yin God, and he successfully reached Martial Arts Seeing God.
• Bodhidharma appeared before Chen Yan despite evading his senses and recognized that he had broken through.
• Bodhidharma taught Chen Yan that the Indestructible Vajra Body depended on the vajra heart and an unmoved mind, not merely qi, gang, or physical strength.
• Bodhidharma assessed Chen Yan’s disposition and comprehension, then asked him to show what he had understood.

Chen Yan tested his martial arts against Patriarch Bodhidharma, learned that Dao Fruits were great divine abilities, and was promised instruction in Damo's Whale Toss after the Zhujiang Dragon King's birthday banquet. He set out from White Horse Temple with Shi Wen, while Patriarch Bodhidharma watched him leave.

• Chen Yan struck Patriarch Bodhidharma twice, but the old monk effortlessly absorbed both attacks and demonstrated Damo's Whale Toss by hurling a colossal creature into the sky.
• Patriarch Bodhidharma explained that great divine abilities were also called Dao Fruits and promised to teach Chen Yan Damo's Whale Toss after the Zhujiang Dragon King's birthday banquet.
• Chen Yan reflected on his breakthrough to Seeing God, his growing mastery of Indestructible Vajra, and the mystery of whether the world was a memory or a separate world.
• After a sleepless night, Chen Yan left White Horse Temple with Shi Wen, who had been sent to guide him to the birthday banquet.
• As Chen Yan descended Great Buddha Mountain, he sensed Patriarch Bodhidharma watching him; Bodhidharma then spoke approvingly of his way flourishing day by day.

Chen Yan and Shi Wen traveled to Binjiang City to attend the Zhujiang Dragon King's birthday banquet and prevent the flood dragon from drowning the city. When the Dragon King welcomed Master Shi Kong, the crowd saw Chen Yan arrive beside him and wondered who the young monk was.

• Chen Yan discovered that he and Shi Wen had no money, so he took two horses from an innkeeper after dealing with local thugs and rode toward Binjiang City.
• Shi Wen told Chen Yan that the Zhujiang Dragon King had threatened to flood Binjiang City after its son was caught by fishermen, and Chen Yan resolved to subdue the dragon by force.
• A white-robed young man and his junior watched the Dragon King's statue pass through Binjiang City and lamented that their small sect had not been invited to the birthday banquet.
• The Zhujiang Dragon King roared that Master Shi Kong had arrived, frightening the city and drawing everyone's attention to the river.
• Chen Yan and Shi Wen rode into view beside the gray-robed Shi Kong, prompting martial artists to speculate about Chen Yan's identity and a few to recognize Great Buddha Mountain.

Chen Yan and Shi Wen attended the Zhujiang Dragon King’s birthday banquet, where Chen Yan clashed with the dragon king’s servants before entering the Crystal Palace. The dragon king welcomed them and said other guests would arrive, as a large group of martial artists entered the hall.

• Eight men invited Chen Yan to board the Dragon King’s carriage, and Chen Yan used his strength to force them to their knees before they lifted it under the dragon king’s command.
• The bearers carried Chen Yan underwater to the Crystal Palace, while Shi Wen was left behind and then followed on another carriage.
• Chen Yan and Shi Wen entered the banquet hall and met the Zhujiang Dragon King, who welcomed them and said more guests were coming.
• A group of more than a hundred martial artists arrived, including the white-robed young man and his junior brother, who had been swept inside by a whirlpool.

At the Zhujiang Dragon King's birthday banquet, Chen Yan revealed the dragon's history and recognized that the wine had been poisoned. The chapter ended with his blood exposing a shrieking insect hidden in the wine, proving his accusation.

• The Old Dragon of Zhujiang welcomed the martial artists and showed them visions of his past, including his defeat and imprisonment by an old monk.
• The Zhujiang Dragon King opened the banquet, but Chen Yan remained seated while the guests raised their cups to toast him.
• When the Dragon King challenged Chen Yan's conduct, Chen Yan accused him of poisoning the wine.
• Chen Yan dropped blood into his cup, causing an insect hidden in the wine to emerge and shriek.

Chen Yan exposed Zhujiang Dragon King's scheme to poison the banquet wine with Dragon Puppet Corpse Eggs, prompting the dragon to reveal its contempt for the gathered martial artists. Zhujiang Dragon King offered Chen Yan power and riches to become its adopted son, but Chen Yan rejected it with an insult, leaving the hall stunned.

• Chen Yan identified the Dragon Puppet Corpse Eggs hidden in the wine and explained how they would turn their victims into Demonic Blood Dragon Puppets.
• Zhujiang Dragon King confirmed Chen Yan's accusation by asking when he had discovered the eggs, then killed a martial artist who challenged it and called the guests swine.
• Chen Yan told Zhujiang Dragon King to guess how he knew the eggs' name, and the dragon assumed Patriarch Bodhidharma had told him.
• Zhujiang Dragon King praised Chen Yan and offered him Dongyang Province, riches, and power if he became its adopted son.
• Chen Yan rejected the offer, declaring that Zhujiang Dragon King was not worthy to be his father and leaving everyone in the hall speechless.

Chen Yan defied the Zhujiang Dragon King as the poisoned wine transformed the guests into Dragon Persons and the banquet became a massacre. With the Dragon King ordering everyone killed, Chen Yan sent Shi Wen to help the martial artists and prepared to face the old dragon himself.

• Chen Yan insulted the Zhujiang Dragon King, which declared that everyone in the hall would die.
• A martial artist who had drunk the wine suffered horribly, transformed into a Dragon Person, and was identified by Shi Wen as a Demonic Blood Dragon Puppet.
• The poisoned guests begged Chen Yan for help, then attacked him when he did not intervene; they soon transformed into Dragon Persons as well.
• A Dragon Person killed a martial artist who tried to flee, and the Zhujiang Dragon King ordered the Dragon Persons to kill everyone.
• Chen Yan told Shi Wen to help the martial artists while he fought the Zhujiang Dragon King, and Shi Wen charged into the battle.

Chen Yan unleashed nineteen increasingly powerful punches against Old Dragon of Zhujiang, combining Indestructible Vajra with Damo's Whale Toss for a final attack that broke the Crystal Palace’s barrier. The palace flooded and collapsed, and the chapter left the battle’s outcome uncertain as a colossal, horned flood dragon emerged from the river.

• Chen Yan struck Old Dragon of Zhujiang, who withstood his first punch with only a reddened forehead and a patch of hair lost.
• Chen Yan battered the old dragon with eighteen consecutive punches, launching him through the Crystal Palace’s roof.
• Chen Yan invoked Indestructible Vajra and Damo's Whale Toss to unleash his nineteenth punch, breaking the old dragon’s blue-green defense.
• The broken barrier let the Yangtze River flood the Crystal Palace, forcing the martial artists to flee as the hall collapsed.
• The survivors watched a colossal, horned creature rise from the Zhujiang River, uncertain whether Chen Yan had defeated Old Dragon of Zhujiang.

Chen Yan used the power of Bodhidharma’s Damo’s Whale Toss Dao Fruit to kill the Zhujiang Dragon King, but Bodhidharma revealed the dragon’s Immortal Dao Fruit, Undying, had left hidden remnants. As Chen Yan began to leave this world, Bodhidharma arrived and declared the dragon was still not completely dead.

• Chen Yan tore into the Zhujiang Dragon King, seized its dragon pearl, and brought the seemingly lifeless dragon ashore.
• Chen Yan let the Dongyang Province martial artists gather the dragon blood while he questioned why the dragon had died so easily and began sensing that he was leaving the world.
• Patriarch Bodhidharma appeared, and the dragon’s spirit emerged from its corpse before vanishing.
• Bodhidharma drew another remnant of the dragon from the pearl and extinguished it, then destroyed further hidden remnants in the dragon blood.
• Bodhidharma explained that the dragon’s Immortal Dao Fruit was Undying and said it was not completely dead.

Chen Yan learned that the Zhujiang Dragon King’s Dao Fruit of Immortal could corrupt its wielder, and Patriarch Bodhidharma sent Shi Wen to calm Binjiang City while inviting two young martial artists to Great Buddha Mountain. As the memory ended, Bodhidharma revealed that Chen Yan had entered his past through his Sarira and asked him to find a safe new master for the Dao Fruit, offering Damo’s Whale Toss in return.

• Patriarch Bodhidharma explained that the Zhujiang Dragon King’s body and soul were dead but its Dao Fruit of Immortal remained fused with its consciousness and resisted being refined by sentient beings.
• Chen Yan realized that only an unborn fetus could refine the Dao Fruit without provoking its resistance, and Shi Wen condemned the old dragon’s plan to influence unborn children.
• Patriarch Bodhidharma put away the dragon pearl and sent Shi Wen to inform Binjiang City Lord Han Tong and pacify the people of Binjiang City.
• Patriarch Bodhidharma invited the white-robed young man and his junior brother to visit Great Buddha Mountain in three days, and they accepted before departing.
• Chen Yan’s surroundings shattered and vanished, leaving him alone with Patriarch Bodhidharma, who revealed that the events had truly happened in his own past and that he had entered nirvana.
• Patriarch Bodhidharma asked Chen Yan to find a new master for the Dao Fruit of Immortal, cleanse its demonic nature, and protect its growth, offering him the Dao Fruit Damo’s Whale Toss as payment.

Chen Yan received Patriarch Bodhidharma’s Dao Fruit, Damo's Whale Toss, and learned that the martial realm after Seeing God was Dharma Manifestation before returning to White Horse Temple. The Bodhidharma Sarira shattered, and Chen Yan offered White Horse Temple a divine ability in apology, but Little Monk Tianyin refused it.

• Patriarch Bodhidharma gave Chen Yan the Dao Fruit Damo's Whale Toss and explained that his Indestructible Vajra Body was derived from Chen Yan’s Dao Fruit, then named Dharma Manifestation as the realm after Seeing God.
• Chen Yan returned to White Horse Temple, where Little Monk Tianyin and Hui Jue told him that only two or three breaths had passed while he was away.
• Hui Jue noticed that the Bodhidharma Sarira had cracked, and it crumbled into fragments before the monks and Chen Yan.
• Chen Yan offered Little Monk Tianyin a jade slip containing the Indestructible Vajra Body as an apology, but Little Monk Tianyin refused to accept it.
• Chen Yan promised Little Monk Tianyin that he would help him with anything that did not violate Chen Yan’s bottom line.

Chen Yan left White Horse Temple after befriending Little Monk Tianyin, whose account of the shattered Bodhidharma Sarira alarmed Master San Kong. San Kong suspected Chen Yan possessed a Dao Fruit and concluded that Tianyin’s future chance to attain Arhatship might be connected to him, while Chen Yan returned to Mount Lao to inspect his personal panel.

• Chen Yan bid farewell to Little Monk Tianyin and used Abyssal Shrinking Ground to leave White Horse Temple.
• Hui Jue asked Little Monk Tianyin how to explain the shattered Bodhidharma Sarira to Master San Kong, and Tianyin promised to report what happened himself.
• Little Monk Tianyin contacted Master San Kong and recounted how Chen Yan had touched the Sarira before it crumbled into powder.
• Master San Kong suspected the Sarira had contained a Dao Fruit, but Little Monk Tianyin rebuked him for greed and reminded him that the relic had gone to Chen Yan by fate.
• Master San Kong learned that Little Monk Tianyin had sensed Chen Yan’s formidable power even before he touched the Sarira and suggested Tianyin’s chance to attain Arhatship might lie with Chen Yan.
• Chen Yan flew beyond Xizhou, returned to Mount Lao, and inspected his personal panel.

Chen Yan reviewed his gains from White Horse Temple, including his breakthrough to martial arts Seeing God and three high-grade Dao Fruits, then continued cultivating as Xiang Prefecture took in refugees. A message from Guo Tai revealed a successor of the Demon Refining Sect, giving Chen Yan a possible lead to the Red Copper Ore needed for Lu Da’s Super Thunder God Cannon.

• Chen Yan examined his personal panel and confirmed that Indestructible Vajra, Nine Heavens, and Damo's Whale Toss were all high-grade Dao Fruits.
• Chen Yan secluded himself on Mount Lao and estimated that he would reach Yin God Second Refinement within ten days or half a month.
• Chen Yan arranged for Li Taibai to receive refugees fleeing disorder in Zhongzhou and Pingzhou, helping Xiang Prefecture’s population surpass thirty million.
• Chen Yan received a sound-transmission talisman sword from Guo Tai and learned that Heavenly Secrets Pavilion had found a successor of the Demon Refining Sect.
• Chen Yan realized that finding the successor could lead him to the sect’s original site and its Red Copper Ore vein, which he needed to build Lu Da’s Super Thunder God Cannon.

Chen Yan learned that the Demon Refining Sect descendant Chang Mo had fled to the Inner World, while Deng Lin stole Chang Mo’s family heirloom in hopes of finding the sect’s secret treasury. Chang Mo recovered the heirloom and killed Deng Lin, then set sail for the Nine Provinces to reach the Inner World.

• Guo Tai verified that Chang Mo was a genuine descendant of the Demon Refining Sect and sent Chen Yan information about his likely whereabouts in the Inner World.
• Deng Lin used Yun Niang to trick Chang Mo into revealing the location of his family heirloom, then took the bronze mirror and planned to uncover the Demon Refining Sect’s secret treasury.
• Chang Mo arrived at Yihong Tower, killed Deng Lin’s guard Tie Hu, and severed Deng Lin’s arm and leg before killing him.
• Chang Mo spared Yun Niang despite his ancestor urging him to kill her, recovered the heirloom, and escaped through a window.
• Chang Mo’s ancestor told him to take the key to the Nine Provinces, and Chang Mo boarded a Spirit Ship bound for the spatial passage.

Chen Yan found Facai awake after years of sleep and agreed to bring it with him to the Inner World. Meanwhile, Chang Mo escaped into the Inner World's forests as Deng Guangkun learned about the Demon Refining Sect treasure and set out to pursue it.

• Chen Yan found Facai awake, sensed that its vitality seemed weak despite its healthy body, and suspected a problem with its soul.
• Facai refused to stay behind, so Chen Yan took it along to the Inner World and told it to remain within ten paces of him.
• Chang Mo fled through the Inner World's forests after the Deng Family tracked him down, while his ancestor blamed him for not killing Deng Lin's companion.
• Deng Guangkun learned that Chang Mo had killed Deng Lin and discovered Chang Mo's connection to the Demon Refining Sect and its Bronze Mirror.
• Deng Guangkun concluded that the Bronze Mirror could unlock the Demon Refining Sect's secret treasury and left Moliang Island to pursue Chang Mo.

Chang Mo bought a map in Lingxu Workshop so his ancestor could locate a secret realm, then killed a bandit who tried to rob him. Deng Guangkun revealed himself after a failed ambush, recognizing the Myriad Beasts Mirror and suspecting Chang Mo carried the key to the Demon Refining Sect Vault.

• Chang Mo entered Lingxu Workshop in disguise and bought the most complete map of the Inner World so his ancestor could find the secret realm.
• Chang Mo followed his ancestor’s directions out through the east gate and north, then confronted a gray-robed young man who had followed him to steal the map.
• Chang Mo revealed his middle Refining Essence into Qi cultivation and killed the gray-robed young man with his flying sword.
• Deng Guangkun’s Cloud Piercing Arrow nearly erased Chang Mo, but Chang Mo survived by summoning the Myriad Beasts Mirror and the Xuan Gui’s phantom.
• Deng Guangkun appeared and realized Chang Mo had survived, then suspected that Chang Mo possessed the key to the Demon Refining Sect Vault.