Chapter Summaries

Zhu Wushi borrowed Lin Jiu’s cultivation method and resources for reaching the Thirteenth Order Grand Unity Golden Immortal and entered secluded cultivation. In the Pendulum World, Zhao Li considered his own path and asked Lin Jiu for a loan.

• Lin Jiu offered Zhu Wushi three cultivation loan plans, and Zhu Wushi chose the plan for reaching the Thirteenth Order Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
• Lin Jiu sent Zhu Wushi the cultivation method and resources, and Zhu Wushi thanked him without asking about interest.
• Lin Jiu advised Zhu Wushi to begin qi refinement and study the Chat Group records once he gained Spiritual Sense.
• Zhu Wushi began secluded cultivation and stopped concerning himself with imperial power and the martial world.
• Zhao Li considered borrowing cultivation resources, doubted his Buddhist path, and decided he might switch to demonic cultivation.
• Zhao Li contacted Lin Jiu in the group and asked for a loan.

Zhao Li asked Lin Jiu for a loan because he no longer wanted to cultivate Buddhism and feared losing his unstable Arhat Fruit Status. He chose to pursue the demonic path instead, and Lin Jiu offered him Low-grade Saint Spirit Stones to buy techniques and resources from Chonglou's Demon Venerable Pavilion.

• Lin Jiu was surprised when Zhao Li asked to borrow cultivation resources, and the group discussed whether Zhao Li was better suited to Buddhism or the demonic path.
• Zhao Li explained that despite his exceptional Buddhist talent and recovered memories, he had no desire to cultivate Buddhism and his Arhat Fruit Status was becoming unstable.
• Zhao Li told Lin Jiu that he wanted to exchange for demonic path techniques rather than immortal path techniques.
• Zhao Li said the demonic path seemed freer and more in line with doing whatever he wanted, prompting Sect Master Baiyue to welcome his choice.
• Lin Jiu offered Zhao Li the corresponding amount of Low-grade Saint Spirit Stones so he could buy techniques and resources from Chonglou, the Demon Venerable.

Yan Cai reflected on her Dragon Clan inheritance and resolved to stand by her uncle, the East Sea Dragon King, despite knowing his future corruption and rebellion. Meanwhile, Zhao Li arrived in Myriad Worlds City to buy demonic cultivation techniques and resources, while Yan Cai prepared to return to the East Sea Dragon Palace.

• Yan Cai considered whether she needed a loan, then recalled that the East Sea Dragon King had given her access to the Dragon Clan’s finest cultivation techniques and resources.
• Zhao Li entered Myriad Worlds City, felt its warning pressure, and explored its bustling Mortal and Immortal Domains before remembering his shopping plans.
• Zhao Li chose to visit Demon Venerable Chonglou’s Demon Venerable Pavilion because the techniques at Limitless Pavilion were too expensive.
• Yan Cai left Rainbow Cloud Manor, abandoned her search for someone to play the short flute, and decided to return to the East Sea Dragon Palace to cultivate.
• Yan Cai recognized that the Black Dragon Pearl and Dragon Demon would corrupt her uncle, but she chose to support the Dragon Clan and saw nothing wrong with the East Sea Dragon King seeking to unify the Three Realms.

Yan Cai returned to the East Sea Dragon Palace and told the East Sea Dragon King about the Myriad Worlds Chat Group and Myriad Worlds City, hoping to bring the Four Seas dragon clan into the opportunity they offered. The East Sea Dragon King listened with growing seriousness as she explained.

• Yan Cai decided to stop searching for the person who could play her short flute and planned to involve the Four Seas dragon clan in Myriad Worlds City.
• Yan Cai refined her Myriad Worlds Token and decided to sell the Black Dragon Pearl, believing her uncle could still be persuaded despite its corruption.
• Yan Cai traveled to the East Sea and entered the Dragon Palace, where the dragon clan members welcomed her without inspection.
• The East Sea Dragon King asked whether Yan Cai had found the flute player, and she told him she had given up on the search.
• Yan Cai began explaining the Myriad Worlds Chat Group to the East Sea Dragon King, whose expression grew increasingly solemn as he listened.

Yan Cai told the East Sea Dragon King about the Myriad Worlds Chat Group and revealed his plans involving the Black Dragon Pearl, provoking the Dragon Demon within it to attack her. The East Sea Dragon King suppressed the demonic energy, leaving Yan Cai safe but unsure how deeply the pearl had corrupted her uncle.

• Yan Cai explained the Chat Group and described parts of the East Sea Dragon King's future, including his secret plans for the Black Dragon Pearl.
• The East Sea Dragon King believed Yan Cai because she knew details of his ambition that she could not have learned from ordinary records.
• Demonic energy surged from the East Sea Dragon King and rushed toward Yan Cai, who prepared to escape with her Myriad Worlds Token.
• The East Sea Dragon King unleashed his power of laws and suppressed the Dragon Demon's demonic energy before it could harm Yan Cai.
• The Dragon Demon had attacked to seize Yan Cai and gain access to the Chat Group, but the East Sea Dragon King proved stronger and forced it back into his body.

Yan Cai urged the East Sea Dragon King to discard the Black Dragon Pearl, but told him his ambition to unify the Three Realms was not wrong and that he had only failed because he lacked strength. Her exposure to the Myriad Worlds Chat Group had begun to reshape her values, though she remained innocent and inexperienced.

• The East Sea Dragon King suppressed Dragon Demon instead of capturing Yan Cai, and Yan Cai realized that he still recognized her as family.
• Yan Cai urged her uncle to discard the Black Dragon Pearl because it was making him violent and twisted.
• The East Sea Dragon King asked whether Yan Cai thought his ambition to unify the Three Realms was wrong, and she told him that he had only lacked the strength to succeed.
• Yan Cai reflected on the Chat Group members' world-plundering and their belief that strength allowed them to pursue freedom and power.
• Yan Cai's values were shown to be increasingly influenced by the Chat Group, whose members were described as a corrupting influence on her innocence.

Yan Cai confronted the East Sea Dragon King with the truth behind his ambition and revealed how the Myriad Worlds Chat Group had given her confidence. The East Sea Dragon King handed her the sealed Black Dragon Pearl, abandoned his demonic power, and pledged the Four Seas dragon clans as her support while continuing to lead them himself.

• Yan Cai's words made the East Sea Dragon King recognize that his weakness and hunger for power might have led him to betray her for the Myriad Worlds Chat Group.
• The East Sea Dragon King sealed the Black Dragon Pearl, gave it to Yan Cai, and dispersed the demonic energy within himself.
• The East Sea Dragon King entrusted the Four Seas dragon clans to Yan Cai, but she said she would support the clan without taking charge of its affairs.
• The East Sea Dragon King accepted Yan Cai's decision and declared that the Four Seas dragon clans would always be her strongest support.

Yan Cai and the East Sea Dragon King discussed how Myriad Worlds City could enrich and strengthen the dragon clan. Hua Long arrived hoping to see Yan Cai, but she remained uninterested, and his father sent him away.

• Yan Cai explained that opening a shop in Myriad Worlds City's core area could provide the dragon clan with resources to develop its members and increase their strength.
• Yan Cai left the long-term challenge of funding the entire dragon clan's cultivation to the East Sea Dragon King.
• Hua Long rushed into the hall and focused on Yan Cai, forgetting to greet his father.
• Yan Cai regarded Hua Long only as family and recalled that he would eventually find love with Lamp Immortal Xiao Xin.
• The East Sea Dragon King scolded Hua Long for ignoring him and ordered him to leave, and Hua Long reluctantly obeyed.

Yan Cai established Colorful Clouds Pavilion in Myriad Worlds City, sold the Black Dragon Pearl to Sect Master Baiyue, and brought the East Sea Dragon King into the city with a Myriad Worlds Token. Elsewhere, Zhao Li began cultivating the Great Heavenly Demon Enlightenment Scripture as he entered the demonic path.

• The East Sea Dragon King reassured Yan Cai about Hua Long’s feelings, and Yan Cai agreed to name her shop Colorful Clouds Pavilion.
• Yan Cai traveled to Myriad Worlds City, opened Colorful Clouds Pavilion beside Yaohua Pavilion, decorated its highest floor, and sold the Black Dragon Pearl to Sect Master Baiyue.
• Yan Cai gave the East Sea Dragon King a Myriad Worlds Token, and he refined it before she took him to Myriad Worlds City.
• Zhao Li cultivated the Great Heavenly Demon Enlightenment Scripture in a mountain cave as Heavenly Demonic Energy mingled with the Buddhist Light around him.

Zhao Li refined Heavenly Demon Origin Energy and began cultivating the Great Heavenly Demon Enlightenment Scripture, expecting to enter the demonic path. Instead, his Arhat Fruit Status transformed into a black, demonic Bodhisattva Fruit Status, leaving him bewildered as he reported the result to Chonglou and the Chat Group.

• Zhao Li used the Great Heavenly Demon Enlightenment Scripture and Chonglou's Heavenly Demon Pearl to refine Heavenly Demon Origin Energy.
• Heavenly Demonic Energy corroded Zhao Li's Arhat Fruit Status, but it stabilized instead of shattering.
• Zhao Li's Arhat Fruit Status transformed into a nine-grade black lotus throne and Bodhisattva Fruit Status.
• Zhao Li contacted Chonglou in the Chat Group and told him that refining Heavenly Demon Origin Energy had made him a Bodhisattva.
• Chonglou and the other Chat Group members reacted with confusion to Zhao Li's demonic Buddhist appearance.

Zhao Li's strange fusion of Buddhist and demonic powers baffled even Chonglou, who traveled to the Pendulum World to examine him. Chonglou identified Zhao Li as having a Buddha Heart Demonic Body caused by his soul, though the reason for the transformation remained unclear.

• Chonglou and Sect Master Baiyue admitted they did not understand Zhao Li's transformation, and Zhao Li agreed to Chonglou's visit while rejecting Baiyue's offer to study him.
• Zhao Li asked the group leader about Buddha Ancestor Wutian and whether he had undergone a similar transformation.
• Chonglou bought a Transmigration Order, received Zhao Li's approval, and traveled from the Demon Realm to the Pendulum World.
• Chonglou arrived in Zhao Li's cave and examined him as demonic energy and demonic Sanskrit surrounded the Ninth-grade Lotus Platform.
• Chonglou told Zhao Li that he had a Buddha Heart Demonic Body caused by his soul.

Chonglou explained that Zhao Li’s return from more than a thousand years without his soul had left him with a fused Buddha Heart Demonic Body, capable of cultivating both paths. Zhao Li tested his Buddhist abilities and saw their demonic effects, then learned how cultivation ranks and Origin Law worked in the Pendulum World.

• Chonglou explained that Zhao Li’s soul, changed body, dormant Buddhist heart, Buddha nature, and demonic cultivation had combined to make him both Buddha and demon.
• Chonglou said reshaping Zhao Li’s Buddhist heart would be easy, but removing his Buddha nature and Buddhist-infused soul would be difficult, and he advised leaving things as they were.
• Zhao Li questioned whether his Buddha Heart Demonic Body was a good thing, then chanted a Buddhist mantra to test his abilities.
• Zhao Li’s black Buddhist Light and demonic swastika seals obliterated a mountain and spread demonic qi across the surrounding land.
• Zhao Li accepted the power of his dual cultivation and reflected on Bodhisattva Fruit Status, cultivation orders, and why beings in the Pendulum World feared attracting the Ancient Gods by comprehending Origin Law.

Zhao Li recognized that Pendulum World was abnormally dominated by Ancient Gods and too scarce in powerful immortals to be a typical Middle Thousand World. Still burdened by debt, he disguised himself as his idol Wutian and flew to Space Temple to seek alms.

• Zhao Li realized that Pendulum World had far fewer powerful cultivators than Lotus Lantern World, while Ancient Gods were unusually numerous and influential.
• He learned that Ancient Gods could devour one another and seize their law authority, and that Shi Yaoyao had once suppressed the powerful Prefecture Lord Taishan.
• Zhao Li decided to ask demons and monsters for donations because he was still deeply in debt.
• He disguised himself as Wutian, whom he had chosen as his idol after reading about him in the Myriad Worlds Chat Group.
• Zhao Li transformed into a demonic cloud and flew toward Space Temple.

Zhao Li attacked the Space Temple’s Buddhist Domain to solicit alms, overpowering its monks with his Buddhist and demonic power. He confronted the temple’s sole remaining Arhat and introduced himself as Wutian, asking for donations.

• Zhao Li inspected the Space Temple’s hundred-li Buddhist Domain and concluded that its Bodhisattva who founded it had passed into nirvana.
• Zhao Li decided he could safely solicit alms because he believed no Bodhisattva remained, despite the temple possibly having an Arhat.
• Zhao Li struck the formation around the Buddhist Domain, shattering it and alarming worshippers and monks.
• The Space Temple’s sole remaining Arhat sensed Zhao Li’s terrifying demonic energy as Zhao Li entered the Buddhist Domain.
• Zhao Li suppressed the monks and appeared before the old Arhat, introducing himself as Wutian and asking for alms.

Zhao Li confronted Space Temple as a black-clad cultivator whose Bodhisattva Fruit Status and demonic energy left its old Arhat bewildered. After Zhao Li demanded alms, the old Arhat agreed to give him eighty percent of the temple’s resources, and Zhao Li took them from the temple’s storage beads.

• The old Arhat stared in shock at Zhao Li’s black Ninth-grade Lotus Platform, recognizing it as Bodhisattva Fruit Status despite its demonic energy.
• Zhao Li revealed that he was both Buddha and demon, nearly causing the old Arhat to fall to demonhood.
• The old Arhat put the other monks in the Buddhist Domain to sleep to protect them from Zhao Li’s Heavenly Demonic Energy.
• Zhao Li asked Space Temple for alms, first demanding ninety percent of its resources and then offering to accept eighty percent.
• The old Arhat agreed and handed Zhao Li the temple’s storage beads, which Zhao Li refined and used to take eighty percent of its resources.

Zhao Li took the Space Temple’s resources and set off to collect alms from other ancient temples, while Zhu Wushi emerged from seclusion at the Foundation Establishment Stage and summoned his three foster children. Zhu Wushi planned to consolidate power in his world and began by asking them whether immortals existed.

• Zhao Li returned the old monk’s prayer beads after taking the Space Temple’s resources, then told him that demonic cultivation might explain how he became both Buddha and demon.
• The old monk watched Zhao Li leave, unable to believe that demonic cultivation alone could create such a being.
• Zhao Li decided to seek alms from the ancient temples of Bashu and chose Stone Sutra Temple as his next stop.
• Zhu Wushi emerged from seclusion after reaching the Foundation Establishment Stage and summoned Shangguan Haitang, Guihai Yidao, and Duan Tianya.
• Zhu Wushi resolved to subdue his three foster children and prepare to establish an Immortal Dao faction, then asked them whether immortals existed in their world.

Zhu Wushi convinced Duan Tianya, Shangguan Haitang, and Guihai Yidao that immortals existed by manifesting a Golden Dragon. He asked them to cultivate the immortal path with him, and his show of fatherly affection strengthened their filial attachment to him.

• Shangguan Haitang, Guihai Yidao, and Duan Tianya worried that Zhu Wushi had become obsessed with seeking immortality and tried to dissuade him.
• Zhu Wushi told his adopted children that he believed immortals existed, but they shook their heads in disbelief.
• Zhu Wushi surrounded himself with a lifelike Golden Dragon that roared and tore through the hall's roof, forcing the three to accept that extraordinary powers existed.
• Zhu Wushi invited Duan Tianya, Shangguan Haitang, and Guihai Yidao to cultivate the immortal path with him and attain eternal life.
• Zhu Wushi used his affectionate words and the three's longing for fatherly love to deepen their filial attachment, satisfied that his plan had worked.

After revealing Myriad Worlds City and a cultivation method to his adopted children, Zhu Wushi went to the imperial palace to obtain the Heavenly Fragrance Cardamom needed to awaken Suxin. He confronted Cao Zhengchun at the Eastern Depot and demanded the one in his possession.

• Zhu Wushi told Duan Tianya and his other adopted children about the Chat Group and Myriad Worlds City, taught them a foundation-building method, and sent them into seclusion.
• Zhu Wushi set out to find two Heavenly Fragrance Cardamoms so Suxin could awaken and recover.
• Using a concealment Spirit Tool, Zhu Wushi entered the imperial palace and waited in Cao Zhengchun's room at the Eastern Depot.
• Cao Zhengchun returned, found Zhu Wushi drinking tea, and greeted him cautiously.
• Zhu Wushi demanded Cao Zhengchun's Heavenly Fragrance Cardamom, leaving Cao Zhengchun alarmed and thinking about the Grandmasters around the emperor.

Cao Zhengchun surrendered after discovering the Emperor had assembled powerful martial artists, then attacked Zhu Wushi and was instantly defeated. As Zhu Wushi demanded the Heavenly Fragrance Cardamom, Cao Zhengchun revealed that His Majesty had already taken it.

• Cao Zhengchun saw ten Grandmasters and three even stronger experts surrounding the Emperor and decided to pledge loyalty.
• Cao Zhengchun told Zhu Wushi that he possessed the Heavenly Fragrance Cardamom and had planned to use it against him.
• Cao Zhengchun attacked Zhu Wushi with his Heavenly Dipper Pure Boy Skill but was swiftly defeated and thrown into the courtyard.
• Zhu Wushi used an unfamiliar force to bring the injured Cao Zhengchun before him and demanded the Heavenly Fragrance Cardamom.
• Cao Zhengchun realized Zhu Wushi had hidden his strength and revealed that His Majesty had already taken the Heavenly Fragrance Cardamom.

After Cao Zhengchun revealed the Zhengde Emperor’s hidden strength, Zhu Wushi suspected his emperor nephew had been replaced by a transmigrator. He asked Shi Yaoyao to investigate with the Book of Destiny, while preparing to flee to Myriad Worlds City if the emperor’s power came from a dangerous system.

• Zhu Wushi questioned Cao Zhengchun about the Zhengde Emperor, and Cao described the emperor’s many powerful experts and sold out his secrets.
• Zhu Wushi suspected his emperor nephew had been replaced by a transmigrator, while Cao Zhengchun feared for his life.
• Zhu Wushi recruited Cao Zhengchun to work under him and told him to stay in the Eastern Depot.
• Zhu Wushi contacted the Chat Group and asked Shi Yaoyao to use the Book of Destiny to investigate the emperor without alerting him.
• Shi Yaoyao agreed to investigate, while Zhu Wushi considered abandoning World Under Heaven if the emperor had a dangerous system.