Recaps

Chen Shi used the Curse Dao to kill Zhong Wanfang and Monk Pan, while Qingxu Daode Tianzun protected Immortal Lord Xin and True Man Mei with a life-swapping technique and fled with them to seek help from Chan Master Wu Chao. After Chen Shi’s forces conquered Wu Yue Star Mansion, Great Emperor Gouchen warned that the Shangqing Sect Master was coming to kill him, leaving Chen Shi to rely on the Great Heavenly Venerate’s watchfulness as his only hope.

• Fairy Zhong rescued Monk Pan and reached Ziyang Cave Heaven with Immortal Lord Xin and True Man Mei, where Qingxu Daode Tianzun welcomed them and offered a green lotus seed to heal their injuries.
• Chen Shi used the Heavenly Mechanism Scroll and an altar to curse Zhong Wanfang and Monk Pan to death, while Qingxu Daode Tianzun’s attempt to save them failed.
• Qingxu Daode Tianzun transferred Immortal Lord Xin and True Man Mei’s fates onto two golden dragons, then took them toward the Western Heaven to seek help from Chan Master Wu Chao.
• Chen Shi’s forces captured Zhu Tiannan and overran Wu Yue Star Mansion, killing or capturing Star Lord Wu Yue’s forces and many Three Pure Ones and Western Heaven disciples.
• Great Emperor Gouchen warned Chen Shi that the Shangqing Sect Master would come to kill him, and Chen Shi later cursed Zhu Tiannan to death before he could reveal Chen Shi’s Heavenly Dao Magic Treasure.

Chen Shi tried to steer Emperor Gouchen away from choosing between the Heavenly Court and the Immortal Court, arguing that he should remain in the Heavenly Market Enclosure and follow his conscience. Yun Zhongzi arrived and revealed that he had engineered the crisis to make Gouchen defect, but Chen Shi’s intervention had thwarted his plan.

• Emperor Gouchen asked Chen Shi whether he supported the Heavenly Court or the Immortal Court, and Chen Shi warned him that either answer could be used against him.
• Chen Shi described Western Penglai’s shared ownership of its resources, prompting Gouchen to compare its system with the Heavenly Court’s and consider the struggle over power and sacred grounds.
• Chen Shi explained how the deaths and possible removal of the Four Sovereigns could consolidate power under the Great Heavenly Venerate, leaving Gouchen wary of both sides.
• Chen Shi urged Gouchen to remain in the Heavenly Market Enclosure and act according to his conscience rather than serve either faction, and Gouchen admitted that he was caught in a dilemma.
• Yun Zhongzi arrived, and Gouchen recounted how his former master had urged him to become Gouchen Heavenly Emperor and how the recent violence had seemed designed to force him into rebellion.
• Yun Zhongzi admitted that he had disrupted the Heavenly Market Enclosure to make Gouchen defect to the Immortal Court, then blamed Chen Shi’s unexpected intervention for ruining his plan.

Yun Zhongzi confronted Great Emperor Gouchen, demanding back the red apricots and Wind and Thunder Staff to sever their bond and demonstrate the Shangqing Realm’s stance. Gouchen returned them, then seized the staff back and fought Yun Zhongzi, leaving their conflict unresolved.

• Yun Zhongzi explained that he had come to show the Immortal Court and other powers the Shangqing Realm would not tolerate Gouchen’s defection, while Gouchen recognized that Yun Zhongzi also meant to test the Great Heavenly Venerate and eliminate him and Chen Shi.
• Gouchen refined the two red apricots from his body and returned them to Yun Zhongzi, then offered him the Wind and Thunder Staff despite Chen Shi’s warning that Yun Zhongzi intended to kill them.
• Yun Zhongzi took the staff and praised its immense power, while Gouchen asked whether he owed his former master anything else.
• Gouchen suddenly empowered the staff and attacked Yun Zhongzi, who tried to seal it as Chen Shi called Emperor Changchun, Yuanjun Niangpo, Hermit Yangshuo, and Layman Shantang to help contain the clash.
• Gouchen snatched the Wind and Thunder Staff back from Yun Zhongzi, shattered his seals, and declared that returning the treasure meant he no longer owed it to him.

Chen Shi watched Great Emperor Gouchen and Yun Zhongzi battle, using a newly opened Dao Eye to understand their Great Dao techniques and discovering that Yun Zhongzi’s Method of Mending the Heavens relied heavily on Outer Dao. Yun Zhongzi drove Gouchen to the brink of defeat before the Ziwei Great Emperor arrived, and Chen Shi was left troubled by the Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerate’s unseen influence.

• Emperor Changchun, Yuanjun Niangpo, Yangshuo Hermit, Shantang Layman, and old man Tianye protected Chen Shi while he watched Great Emperor Gouchen fight Yun Zhongzi.
• Great Emperor Gouchen used the Wind and Thunder Staff and overwhelming Dao power to break through Yun Zhongzi’s defenses, but Yun Zhongzi countered with a peach branch and drove him back.
• Yangshuo Hermit and old man Tianye guided Chen Shi in opening his Gezhi Dao Eye, through which he saw Yun Zhongzi’s twenty-four layered Dao Realm and understood his Method of Mending the Heavens.
• Chen Shi observed that Yun Zhongzi’s Outer Dao achievements surpassed Gouchen’s and suspected that Yun Zhongzi had developed his method before teaching Gouchen.
• Yun Zhongzi injured Gouchen repeatedly and nearly defeated him, then withdrew when the Ziwei Great Emperor arrived in an imperial carriage.
• The Ziwei Great Emperor, Boyikao, appeared as Gouchen’s elder brother, and Chen Shi feared the Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerate’s unspoken intervention.

Chen Shi recognized how thoroughly the Great Heavenly Venerate had controlled the campaign as Ziwei Great Emperor arrived and reconciled with Great Emperor Gouchen. After Chen Shi confessed his and his grandfather’s role in developing and spreading the meta-sigil, Ziwei and Gouchen gave him their Divine Way Dao patterns to transform, arranging to meet again in two months at Golden Ao Island.

• Ziwei Great Emperor arrived after Yun Zhongzi withdrew, and he assured Great Emperor Gouchen that he would not defect to the Immortal Court.
• Ziwei Great Emperor questioned Chen Shi about Fengdu, and Chen Shi confessed that he and his grandfather had helped refine the meta-sigil and had aided the Northern Emperor’s assassination plan.
• Chen Shi revealed that he had given Houtu Huangdiqi the meta-sigil, allowing her to replace her Divine Way Dao patterns and defeat her attackers.
• Ziwei Great Emperor proposed giving Chen Shi his Northern Pole Dao patterns, and he and Gouchen discussed how the meta-sigil could blur the distinction between gods and immortals without ending their struggle for power.
• Ziwei Great Emperor showed Chen Shi his seven Dao patterns, and Chen Shi said he could transform them into meta-sigils in two months; Gouchen offered his nine patterns as well.
• Ziwei Great Emperor and Great Emperor Gouchen agreed to meet Chen Shi at Golden Ao Island in two months.

Chen Shi and Created Being Xiao Wu deciphered the Dao patterns of Great Emperor Gouchen and Ziwei Great Emperor, but Chen Shi used their work to tamper with proto-sigils and seize control. The chapter ended as Xiao Wu realized Chen Shi had become a threat and summoned his Dao Realm and cloth dolls to oppose him.

• Chen Shi agreed to decipher Gouchen and Ziwei’s Dao patterns within their deadline, then learned that Hidden Dragon and seventeen clever people had been gathered to crack the same patterns for the Celestial Court.
• Chen Shi convinced Created Being Xiao Wu to possess Cui Zhenzhen and help him decipher the patterns, while Fulou Village spiritual pills heightened Chen Shi’s wisdom and Xiao Wu sealed away his humanity.
• Chen Shi and Xiao Wu refined Gouchen’s patterns into three proto-sigils and Ziwei’s into four, then Chen Shi deduced Gouchen’s immortal Dao patterns and sent improved proto-sigils to Houtu Huangdiqi.
• Chen Shi modified Xiao Wu’s proto-sigils and revealed that he had also embedded backdoors in the proto-sigils for Gouchen, Ziwei, and Houtu, intending to control them and unify the divine and immortal paths.
• Xiao Wu recognized that Chen Shi had been overtaken by his demonic nature, summoned his Dao Realm and the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace, and sent countless cloth dolls flying out to confront him.

Created Being Xiao Wu unleashed his rag-doll backups to seize Chen Shi and the disciples of Golden Ao Island, but Chen Shi defeated him and sealed away his own human nature. Chen Shi then gave Gouchen and Ziwei the proto-talismans and went to decipher more Daoist magic with Xiao Wu, while Chen Yindu learned the Immortal Court planned to eliminate the two Great Emperors.

• Created Being Xiao Wu used the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace's rag-doll backups to attack Chen Shi and control the immortals of Golden Ao Island and Western Penglai.
• Chen Shi sealed Xiao Wu's avatars and the human nature they returned to him, then took control of Xiao Wu and restored the disciples to themselves.
• Chen Shi announced that he would teach the proto-talismans, then welcomed Great Emperor Gouchen and Ziwei Great Emperor and gave them their proto-talismans.
• After Gouchen and Ziwei left, Chen Shi summoned the Dao Ruins Dao Realm and took Xiao Wu to help decipher the Daoist magic of Emperor Changchun, Yuanjun Niangpo, and others.
• At Heart-Refining Valley, Chen Yindu told the rag dolls that the Immortal Court had deciphered Gouchen and Ziwei's Daoist magic and was planning to eliminate them, when he was interrupted by news of a major event.

Chen Yindu learned that Chen Shi planned to spread primordial talismans with hidden loopholes and prepared to stop him, but Chen Shi anticipated the group and trapped them in his Well Demon Domain. Chen Shi defeated Du Yiran and Sha Qiutong and sealed Chen Yindu’s cultivation, leaving him helpless in Biyou Palace.

• Chen Yindu argued that Chen Shi’s talismans might be preferable to the existing immortal and divine paths, though he worried about Chen Shi’s demonic nature, and planned to join forces with the ragdoll to stop him.
• Chen Shi inversely summoned the ragdoll, and Chen Yindu used the Heavenly Dao Smart Brain to find a loophole in its primordial talismans.
• Chen Yindu recruited Sha Qiutong and Du Yiran, and the three traveled to Western Penglai through Du Yiran’s portals.
• Chen Yindu, Sha Qiutong, and Du Yiran entered Biyou Palace, where Chen Shi revealed that he had been waiting for them and trapped them in his Well Demon Domain.
• Chen Jiuyou used the Demon Blood Treasure Tree to bind Sha Qiutong and Du Yiran, while Chen Yindu escaped back into the study and fought Chen Shi.
• Chen Shi struck Chen Yindu between the eyebrows with his brush, sealing his cultivation and leaving him unable to move.

Chen Shi took control of the Heavenly Dao Smart Brain and, three days later, taught primordial talismans to the Daluo Golden Immortals and his disciples. As he began spreading the Dao across the realms, Chen Yindu remained unsure whether Chen Shi had truly been demonized.

• Chen Shi bound Chen Yindu, took his Heavenly Dao Smart Brain, and connected it to his own consciousness.
• Chen Yindu, Sha Qiutong, and Du Yiran tried to recruit Fairy Xiaoduan to help expose Chen Shi, but she refused to oppose her husband.
• Chen Shi taught primordial talismans to the Daluo Golden Immortals, who praised his generosity after learning he intended to spread them widely.
• Fairy Xiaoduan suppressed Sha Qiutong and Du Yiran when they tried to reveal their suspicions about Chen Shi.
• Chen Shi began a public transmission of the Dao to twenty thousand Golden Ao Island disciples, sharing principles from the immortal, divine, demonic, and evil paths.

Chen Shi openly transmitted refined primordial talismans across Golden Ao Island, drawing new disciples and prompting other immortals to establish their own schools in western Penglai. As the Immortal Court and other powers assessed the talismans’ impact, they expected the Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerate to move against Chen Shi soon.

• Chen Shi let his disciples study the primordial talismans and had his defilement-body and Dao-body answer their questions, while he personally received the most talented students at Biyou Palace.
• Emperor Changchun and Yuanjun Niangpo gained Chen Shi’s approval to establish schools in western Penglai, took disciples, and chose sacred grounds; Yangshuo Hermit and Shantang Layman then sought similar arrangements.
• Sha Qiutong and Du Yiran worried that their ten-day absence would endanger Hu Xiaoliang in the Immortal Court, while Chen Yindu said they still needed to find a way to escape Chen Shi.
• Ancestor Hidden Dragon examined a highly refined primordial talisman, realized Chen Shi had advanced it far beyond his own work, and ordered Zuo Gongming to protect Hu Xiaoliang after learning Chen Yindu and his companions had fled.
• At the Immortal Court, Hidden Dragon and the officials discussed how Chen Shi’s transmission could reshape the conflict between immortals and gods; Hidden Dragon advised waiting for news of Chen Shi’s death before avenging him and attacking the Heavenly Court.
• Yun Zhongzi and Tathagata Buddha praised the primordial talisman’s refinement but believed Chen Shi would soon be killed by the Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerate.

As Chen Shi spread the primal talisman, the Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerate chose to spare him and planned to bind Golden Ao Island to the Heavenly Court. Chen Shi suppressed the Dao god’s residual thoughts and returned to himself, while Chen Yindu and the others left to rescue Uncle Hu and secretly checked whether Chen Shi had hidden control loopholes in the talisman.

• Dipankara Buddha, the Three Pure Realms, and Heavenly Court divinities obtained Chen Shi’s primal talisman and recognized its power, while Ziwei Great Emperor and Great Emperor Gouchen prepared to protect Chen Shi from the Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerate.
• Chen Shi offered incense to the halberd in Biyou Palace three times, and the Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerate accepted it instead of striking him.
• The Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerate ordered Heavenly King Li to confer on Chen Shi the titles of Supreme Sage Teacher and Dao Ancestor of Dharma Transmission, hoping to ally with Golden Ao Island against the Three Pure Realms and the Immortal Court.
• Residual thoughts of the Dao god surged from the Heavenly Dao Smart Brain into Chen Shi, but Chen Shi suppressed them; Created Being Xiao Wu then returned his human nature to his Sea of Consciousness, stopping him from killing her and the others.
• Chen Yindu, Sha Qiutong, Du Yiran, and Created Being Xiao Wu departed to rescue Uncle Hu, while Chen Yindu later verified that Chen Shi’s primal talisman contained no control loopholes.

Chen Shi accepted the Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerate’s titles and learned that his many Dao paths would have to merge for him to consummate the Dao, while he also sought guidance on Divine Way cultivation. As Chen Shi prepared to visit Houtu Huangdiqi with Fairy Xiaoduan, three Western Heaven figures arrived to request an audience.

• Fairy Xiaoduan questioned Chen Shi about differences in the meta-talismans, and Chen Shi reassured her that his newer versions had no loopholes.
• Chen Shi sensed Great Dao qi converging from his three Dao realms and realized it was beginning to unite within him.
• Heavenly King Li delivered the Jade Emperor’s decree naming Chen Shi Supreme Sage Teacher and Dao Ancestor of Dharma Transmission, then explained that Chen Shi must bring his conflicting Dao paths into unity to consummate the Dao.
• Heavenly King Li gave Chen Shi the Tongtian Baozhao Sutra and advised him to seek Divine Way instruction from Houtu Huangdiqi and other gods.
• Chen Shi asked Fairy Xiaoduan to accompany him to the Xuanhuang Sea, but Mahasthamaprapta, Samantabhadra, and Doushuai Tuotian Fahua Forest successively requested audiences with him.

Three Western Heaven bodhisattvas tried to persuade Chen Shi to seek refuge with their respective factions, but he refused and prepared to travel to the Xuanhuang Sea. After the bodhisattvas parted, Fahuālin pursued Chen Shi’s carriage while the others made separate plans to reach him.

• Mahasthamaprapta, Samantabhadra, and Fahuālin arrived at Biyou Palace and each invited Chen Shi to the Western Heaven; Chen Shi declined and said he would seek refuge at Houde Palace if necessary.
• Chen Shi reassured Elder Yun Cheng that Zhong Wuwang was safe, then asked Emperor Changchun, Yuanjun Niangpo, and the others to guard Golden Ao Island and Western Penglai while he traveled with Xiaoduan.
• Chen Shi and Xiaoduan departed in the Emerald Cloud Glazed Chariot, whose many magical treasures had been built to monitor and track them; Chen Shi had used the outer dao to refine the devices he found.
• After leaving Western Penglai, Samantabhadra and Mahasthamaprapta each went their separate ways, while Fahuālin pursued Chen Shi’s carriage; Samantabhadra headed for the ancestral realm but found Hangu Pass destroyed.
• Samantabhadra encountered two dog-daoists escaping Wenshi’s soldiers near the Dark Sea, while Mahasthamaprapta reported Chen Shi’s refusal to Dipankara Buddha.
• Dipankara Buddha sent the Great Sun Tathagata to persuade Chen Shi to take refuge in the Western Heaven.

Chen Shi and Xiaoduan traveled toward Empress Houtu while debating whether the Primordial Talisman could prevent kalpa catastrophes, and the Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerate arranged rewards and a title for them. Their journey through lands scarred by war ended when they discovered that the peaceful Buddhist realm in the Eastern Heaven was a Great Luo Heaven transformed by a Buddhist expert, whose Bodhisattva attendant invited Chen Shi to visit.

• Chen Shi voiced doubts that outer Daos in the Primordial Talisman would protect its practitioners from kalpa catastrophes, while Xiaoduan complained about the Great Heavenly Venerate's lack of rewards and titles for them.
• The Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerate and Empress Dowager Wang discussed Chen Shi's achievements, issued rewards for Chen Shi, and conferred the title Consort Yuanjun Duan on Xiaoduan.
• Empress Dowager Wang warned that the approaching primordial kalpa could overwhelm the Three Pure Realms and Western Heaven, while the Great Heavenly Venerate hoped the Primordial Talisman would weaken their influence and strengthen his control.
• Chen Shi and Xiaoduan traveled through war-ravaged territories, where Chen Shi questioned why the leaders had not stopped fighting despite learning about the Primordial Talisman.
• The Glazed Chariot entered a peaceful Buddhist realm in the Eastern Heaven, and Chen Shi recognized it as a Great Luo Heaven transformed by a Buddhist expert.
• A Bodhisattva revealed the Great Luo Heaven in his palm and invited Chen Shi to Doushuai Tuotian as a guest on behalf of his Buddha.

Chen Shi and Fairy Xiaoduan fought Bodhisattva Fahuālin after he tried to escort them to the Western Heaven, and they overwhelmed him by combining Xiaoduan’s dao-fire and attacks with Chen Shi’s Demon Blood Treasure Tree. They left Fahuālin trapped and corrupted inside his Treasure Bottle Heaven, while Chen Shi reflected that adopting proto-talismans would put Fahuālin’s life beyond his own control.

• Chen Shi refused Bodhisattva Fahuālin’s demand to travel to the Western Heaven, so Fahuālin raised the Treasure Bottle Heaven to capture him and Xiaoduan.
• Fairy Xiaoduan unleashed dao-fire that burned the Treasure Bottle Heaven, but Fahuālin used its reincarnation power to restore its inhabitants and temples.
• Xiaoduan shattered the Treasure Bottle Heaven with her transformed attacks as Chen Shi summoned the Demon Blood Treasure Tree, whose outer dao corrupted Fahuālin’s world.
• Fahuālin fought Xiaoduan and tried to reach Chen Shi, but the outer dao invaded his body, distorted his golden body, and rooted him to the ground beneath the tree.
• Chen Shi and Xiaoduan departed in the glazed chariot, leaving Fahuālin self-sealed inside the spreading outer-dao jungle.

The Great Sun Tathagata studied Bodhisattva Fahuālin’s memories to prepare to capture Chen Shi and Fairy Xiaoduan, while Chen Shi received Houtu Huangdiqi’s warning that his growing influence made him a target. Though she urged him to abandon Western Penglai and hide, Chen Shi discovered that countless immortals revered him through their study of his meta-talismans and chose to stay and build his power.

• The Great Sun Tathagata entered the polluted Treasure Bottle Heaven, found the helpless Bodhisattva Fahuālin, and examined his memories and the Demon Blood Treasure Tree’s meta-talismans.
• The Great Sun Tathagata left Fahuālin behind and set out for the Eastern Heaven, intending to invite Chen Shi to the Western Heaven and confident he could keep Chen Shi and Fairy Xiaoduan there.
• Houtu Huangdiqi welcomed Chen Shi and Fairy Xiaoduan, discussed having descendants, and received Chen Shi’s revised Xuanhuang meta-talisman.
• Houtu Huangdiqi gave Chen Shi her Xuanhuang Dao Collection and warned him that powerful factions would target him, advising him to abandon Western Penglai and hide until he reached the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
• Chen Shi initially struggled to study the technique, then discovered that low-ranking immortals across many Dao realms had come to revere him while learning his meta-talismans.
• Chen Shi decided to remain in Western Penglai, declaring that he would stand firm and rise beyond the Golden Immortal realm.