Chapter Summaries

Niu Ben showed Haotian that the Western Teachings had secretly cursed Yaoji, steering her into a mortal romance and setting off the tragedy of Yang Jian’s family. Haotian realized he had been manipulated into becoming a weapon against his own sister, and he ended the chapter consumed by fury at Jieyin and Zhunti.

• Niu Ben mocked Haotian for believing Yang Jian’s rebellion justified the Heavenly Court’s pursuit and offered to reveal what had really happened.
• Niu Ben showed Haotian a vision of Yaoji leaving Heaven, where Haotian noticed Buddha Light from the Western Teachings.
• Haotian saw the Western Teachings’ Mortal Realm Tribulation Curse enter Yaoji when she met Yang Tianyou, causing her to fall in love with him.
• The vision showed Yang Tianyou and Yang Jiao killed by Heavenly Soldiers, Yaoji captured, and her unborn child Yang Jian sent away.
• Niu Ben explained that the Western Teachings had plotted against Yaoji and stoked conflict between Haotian and Yang Jian to destabilize Heavenly Court’s fortune.
• Haotian understood that he had helped bring about his sister’s family’s destruction and burned with anger at Jieyin and Zhunti.

Niu Ben revealed that Haotian’s family tragedy had been orchestrated by the Western Teachings and tolerated or encouraged by the Heavenly Dao, leaving Haotian to confront his role as a pawn. Haotian ended the chapter shattered, questioning everything he had trusted.

• Haotian raged after seeing the truth about the conspiracy that destroyed his family, and Niu Ben’s Formation restrained his power.
• Niu Ben explained that Haotian would never have believed him without being forced to face the evidence, and Haotian collapsed under the realization.
• Haotian asked why the Heavenly Dao had not warned him, and Niu Ben said it treated even Saints and the Heavenly Court as expendable pieces.
• Haotian rejected Niu Ben’s claim that the Heavenly Dao had enabled the plot, but Niu Ben distinguished Hongjun from the Heavenly Dao and condemned Haotian for entrusting his fate to it.
• Haotian sat in the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, overwhelmed by grief, betrayal, and the collapse of his understanding of his life as Heavenly Emperor.

Haotian begged Niu Ben to avenge Yaoji’s family, and Niu Ben agreed because Yang Jian was his disciple and Haotian’s nephew. Niu Ben instructed Haotian to stage repeated, half-hearted attempts to capture Yang Jian, then appeal to the Western Saints at Spirit Mountain, setting his scheme against the Western Teachings in motion.

• Haotian admitted his regret over failing Yaoji and pleaded with Niu Ben to help him take revenge, offering his life, the Heavenly Emperor position, and the Heavenly Court.
• Niu Ben agreed to help, explaining that Yang Jian was his disciple, and told Haotian to follow his instructions.
• Niu Ben ordered Haotian to keep sending troops after Yang Jian in a public show, while letting Yang Jian escape and win battles to build his reputation.
• Niu Ben told Haotian to later visit Spirit Mountain and complain to the Western Saints that Yang Jian had grown too powerful for the Heavenly Court to handle.

Niu Ben persuaded Haotian to invite the Western Teachings into the Peach Mountain conflict as part of a trap, and Haotian vowed to follow his plan and reclaim his power. The chapter ended with Yang Jian meeting seven demons at Mount Mei.

• Niu Ben explained that Haotian should ask the Western Teachings to intervene at Peach Mountain so he could draw Jieyin and Zhunti into the conflict.
• Haotian embraced the plan and vowed to make the Western Teachings pay, agreeing to follow Niu Ben's commands.
• Niu Ben left the Lingxiao Treasure Hall after warning Haotian that the success of the plan depended on how he performed his role.
• Haotian resolved to reclaim his authority and take revenge on those who had manipulated him.
• At Mount Mei, Yuan Hong, Jin Dasheng, Dai Li, Zhu Zizhen, Wu Long, Chang Hao, and Yang Xian knelt before Yang Jian and paid their respects.

Yang Jian gave the Seven Monsters of Mount Mei the first seven revolutions of the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique, securing their heartfelt loyalty. A treasure’s radiance then appeared at Black Wind Pool, where Yuan Hong revealed that a powerful Heaven-Swallowing Toad lived and bullied the demons.

• Yang Jian gave Yuan Hong and the other six demons the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique, enough to cultivate to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
• Yuan Hong recognized the technique and led the Seven Monsters of Mount Mei in swearing loyalty to Yang Jian.
• A dazzling beam of Seven-Colored Radiance and a surge of Innate Spiritual Qi erupted from deep within Mount Mei.
• Yuan Hong told Yang Jian the radiance came from Black Wind Pool, where a half-step Daluo Golden Immortal Heaven-Swallowing Toad lay dormant and forced the seven demons to bring it tribute.

Yang Jian and the Seven Monsters of Mount Mei arrived at Black Wind Pool, where Black Wind Ancestor’s Grand Luo Dao Fruit had just ripened. Yang Jian ignored the furious toad and approached the fruit, prompting Black Wind Ancestor to attack him with a piercing cry.

• Yang Jian learned that Black Wind Ancestor was a half-step Daluo Golden Immortal and flew to Black Wind Pool with Yuan Hong and the others.
• Black Wind Ancestor watched his Grand Luo Dao Fruit ripen after thirty thousand years of cultivation.
• Black Wind Ancestor sensed the intruders, abandoned his attempt to seize the fruit, and guarded it as Yang Jian and the Seven Monsters arrived.
• Black Wind Ancestor threatened Yuan Hong and the others, but Yang Jian ignored him and recognized the fruit’s value to Yuan Hong.
• Yang Jian walked toward the fruit and called Black Wind Ancestor a noisy toad.
• Black Wind Ancestor erupted in rage and unleashed a piercing cry at Yang Jian.

Yang Jian effortlessly destroyed Black Wind Ancestor’s poison tongue and stopped his attempted self-destruction with a single strike. Black Wind Ancestor lay crushed and begged for mercy as Yang Jian stood over him.

• Black Wind Ancestor attacked Yang Jian from behind with his Heaven-Swallowing Poison Tongue, alarming Yuan Hong and the other six.
• Yang Jian opened his Heavenly Eye and burned away Black Wind Ancestor’s poisonous tongue with golden Divine Radiance.
• Black Wind Ancestor recoiled in pain, then began absorbing the miasma of Black Wind Pool to self-destruct.
• Yang Jian pressed down with one hand, crushing Black Wind Ancestor into a vast palm-shaped pit and shattering his body and divine soul.
• Black Wind Ancestor pleaded for his life, and Yang Jian told him he did not need to know his identity.

Yang Jian forced Black Wind Ancestor to submit by revealing that he was Niu Ben’s disciple, then took the Grand Luo Dao Fruit from the pool. He gave the fruit to Yuan Hong and left his new subordinate Golden Toad under a soul restriction.

• Black Wind Ancestor learned Yang Jian served Niu Ben and begged for his life, offering his treasures and knowledge of secret realms.
• Yang Jian made Black Wind Ancestor stay by his side as a servant and placed a restriction in his soul; the demon renamed himself Golden Toad.
• Yang Jian took the Grand Luo Dao Fruit from above the lotus while Yuan Hong’s Seven Freaks and Golden Toad watched eagerly.
• Yang Jian handed the Grand Luo Dao Fruit to Yuan Hong, who protested that Yang Jian should use it himself.
• Yang Jian insisted Yuan Hong accept the fruit because he needed a Daluo Golden Immortal to hold down the place after he left.

Yang Jian gave Yuan Hong the Grand Luo Dao Fruit and ordered him to use it to break through, while promising Golden Toad even greater rewards for loyal service. Yuan Hong swallowed the fruit and began to experience its power as Yang Jian stood guard.

• Yuan Hong tried to refuse the Grand Luo Dao Fruit, but Yang Jian ordered him to accept it.
• Yuan Hong swore an oath of lifelong loyalty to Yang Jian and thanked him for bestowing the Dao.
• Yang Jian assured Golden Toad that he would reward loyal service with something better than a Grand Luo Dao Fruit, and Golden Toad eagerly pledged himself to his master.
• Yang Jian told Yuan Hong to break through while he stood guard.
• Yuan Hong swallowed the Grand Luo Dao Fruit, and its power surged through him as a vast infusion of Dao.

Yuan Hong awakened his Vast-arm Ape Monkey bloodline and broke through to Daluo Golden Immortal after receiving Yang Jian’s Dao Fruit. Yang Jian appointed him lord of Mount Mei and prepared to leave for Peach Mountain, but Yuan Hong offered to accompany him.

• Yuan Hong absorbed the Dao Fruit’s Qi of Creation, awakened his bloodline, and advanced through Primordial Unity Golden Immortal to Daluo Golden Immortal.
• Yuan Hong knelt before Yang Jian and called him Master, pledging his loyalty in gratitude for being remade.
• Yang Jian named Yuan Hong lord of Mount Mei and ordered him, Golden Toad, and the other monsters to consolidate their forces and cultivate the techniques he had taught them.
• Yang Jian decided to leave Mount Mei to attend to matters involving Peach Mountain, his mother, his uncle, and two Buddhist figures.
• Yuan Hong asked whether Yang Jian was leaving and offered to accompany him to help ease his burdens.

Yang Jian left Mount Mei in Yuan Hong and the Golden Toad’s charge, then traveled toward Buzhou Mountain to temper his body and seek something that could help him split Peach Mountain. On the way, he stopped at Emei Mountain to visit Zhao Gongming, a senior figure in the Jie Teachings.

• Yang Jian ordered Yuan Hong and the Golden Toad to turn Mount Mei into a stronghold and train an elite force.
• Yuan Hong and the Golden Toad pledged to carry out Yang Jian’s command and prepare to reform Mount Mei.
• Yang Jian set out for Buzhou Mountain, intending to temper his body and find something that could help him split Peach Mountain.
• Yang Jian considered how to cooperate with Niu Ben’s plan to draw the Western Teachings into a trap involving Haotian.
• Yang Jian recognized Emei Mountain as Zhao Gongming’s Dao Field, descended, and respectfully stopped outside its gate.

Yang Jian visited Zhao Gongming at Luofu Cave, where Zhao welcomed him warmly because he was Niu Ben’s disciple. Seeing that Yang Jian was close to a breakthrough, Zhao gave him a Ginseng Fruit to help him reach the Daluo Golden Immortal realm, and Yang Jian accepted it with gratitude.

• Yang Jian introduced himself at Luofu Cave as a disciple of Niu Ben and paid his respects to Zhao Gongming.
• Zhao Gongming recognized Niu Ben’s name, hurried to greet Yang Jian, and welcomed him into the cave.
• Yang Jian explained that Niu Ben had sent him to cultivate in the mortal world and that he had stopped by while passing Emei Mountain.
• Zhao Gongming noticed Yang Jian was near a breakthrough and offered him a Ginseng Fruit he had received from Great Immortal Zhen Yuanzi.
• Yang Jian accepted the fruit and thanked Zhao Gongming, resolving to remember his kindness.

After Yang Jian reached the Daluo Golden Immortal realm, Zhao Gongming told him that Xing Tian’s War God's Axe was sealed beneath Buzhou Mountain and could help him break Peach Mountain’s restrictions to save his mother. As Yang Jian headed there, the Heavenly Court intercepted him, but a general’s secret signal suggested the confrontation was part of a plan involving Haotian.

• Zhao Gongming congratulated Yang Jian on his breakthrough and warned him that Buzhou Mountain was a deadly place filled with Pangu's Pressure and Killing Intent.
• Yang Jian told Zhao Gongming that he planned to find a weapon to break Peach Mountain’s seal and rescue his mother, Yaoji.
• Zhao Gongming revealed that Xing Tian’s War God's Axe was sealed with Xing Tian’s body beneath Buzhou Mountain and could break formations and restrictions.
• Yang Jian thanked Zhao Gongming and flew toward Buzhou Mountain, but a force of a hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers blocked his path.
• A Daluo Golden Immortal commander accused Yang Jian of defying the Heavenly Court and ordered the soldiers to trap him with the Heavenly Net Formation.
• Yang Jian noticed the commander secretly signaling him to play along and recalled Niu Ben’s explanation that Haotian needed a blade to stir up a storm across the Three Realms.

Yang Jian defeated the Heavenly Court’s army and its marshal, Li Tianjun, in a staged confrontation that made him famous across the Three Realms. Haotian condemned him publicly and asked his ministers to capture him, but no one volunteered.

• Yang Jian realized the Heavenly Court’s forces were helping his master’s plan to build his reputation, so he charged at their commander and shattered their net with a single clash.
• Yang Jian opened his Heavenly Eye and blasted Li Tianjun into a mountain, then threatened Haotian and continued toward Buzhou Mountain to rescue his mother.
• Li Tianjun recovered from his staged defeat, complained that Yang Jian had hit too hard, and ordered the army to withdraw and report back to the Heavenly Court.
• News of Yang Jian’s victory spread throughout the Three Realms, establishing him as a powerful rebel who had reached the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm.
• Haotian praised Li Tianjun’s performance inwardly but feigned fury before the ministers, condemned Yang Jian, and asked who would arrest him.

Haotian ordered Venus Star Lord to seek help from the Western Saints against Yang Jian, while Yang Jian reached Buzhou Mountain and searched for Xing Tian and the War God's Axe. After finding Xing Tian's sealed valley, Yang Jian identified a weak point in the ancient formation and struck at it.

• Haotian silenced the Heavenly Court's objections and sent Venus Star Lord to ask Jieyin and Zhunti for aid against Yang Jian.
• Jieyin and Zhunti agreed to intervene, recognizing that Haotian's request could give Western Teachings a chance to influence the Eastern Lands.
• Yang Jian entered Buzhou Mountain, where its ancient Killing Intent and Pangu's Pressure strengthened his Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique.
• Yang Jian sensed the battle intent of Xing Tian's sealed land and found the valley hidden by a formation laid by Demon Emperor Di Jun.
• Yang Jian used his Heavenly Eye to deduce the formation's vulnerable southeast node and thrust his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Halberd at it.

Yang Jian broke the formation sealing the valley in Buzhou Mountains and confronted three ancient Demon Race guards. After defeating them with his Daluo Golden Immortal pressure, he told them that the Demon Heavenly Court had fallen and left them facing the truth of the changed Three Realms.

• Yang Jian shattered the Great Formation of the Stars of the Heavens and entered the valley where Xing Tian's head was sealed.
• The Prison-Suppressing Lion King, Moon-Devouring Wolf King, and Space-Rending Eagle King confronted Yang Jian and revealed they had guarded the forbidden ground since Di Jun's orders.
• Yang Jian confirmed that the three Demon Kings had remained isolated in the valley and told them the Demon Race had long perished.
• The three Demon Kings attacked Yang Jian with their Three Talents God-Slaying Formation, but his Daluo Golden Immortal pressure shattered their assault and knocked them down.
• Yang Jian told the three Demon Kings that Di Jun and Emperor Taiyi had died, the Demon Heavenly Court had fallen, and Haotian now ruled the Heavenly Court.

Yang Jian reached Xing Tian’s sealed head and endured its overwhelming battle intent, which strengthened his body and stabilized his cultivation. After Xing Tian awakened and recognized the aura of Yang Jian’s master, Yang Jian asked to borrow the War God’s Axe to break Peach Mountain and save his mother, leaving Xing Tian’s answer pending.

• Yang Jian killed the three Demon Kings guarding Xing Tian’s head and flew deeper into the valley.
• Yang Jian found Xing Tian’s enormous head bound to a black altar and let its battle intent temper his body.
• Xing Tian opened his eyes, questioned Yang Jian, and recognized the name Niu Ben as the Senior Disciple under Saint Taishang.
• Yang Jian explained that Haotian had sealed his mother beneath Peach Mountain and asked to borrow Xing Tian’s War God’s Axe to break the restrictions.
• Xing Tian repeated Yang Jian’s request to borrow the axe but had not yet agreed.

Yang Jian earned Xing Tian’s War God’s Axe by swearing to find his sealed body and help restore him, then refined Xing Tian’s Origin Essence Blood and advanced to the Late Grand Luo Golden Immortal stage. Armed with the axe and three powerful axe techniques, Yang Jian raced toward Peach Mountain to save his mother, but detected two Grand Luo Golden Immortals fighting ahead.

• Yang Jian convinced Xing Tian that his resolve to save his mother made him worthy of borrowing the War God’s Axe.
• Xing Tian agreed to lend Yang Jian the axe on the condition that he find Xing Tian’s sealed body and help him return to the Primordial Wilderness.
• Yang Jian swore an oath to fulfill Xing Tian’s condition, and Xing Tian gave him a drop of Origin Essence Blood to strengthen his body and cultivation.
• Yang Jian refined the blood, advanced from Early to Late Grand Luo Golden Immortal, and gained knowledge of the three axe moves Split the Heavens, Rend the Earth, and Slay the Gods.
• Yang Jian took the War God’s Axe and flew from Buzhou Mountain toward Peach Mountain, determined to rescue his mother.
• Yang Jian sensed two Grand Luo Golden Immortals fighting several thousand miles ahead and slowed down to investigate.

Yang Jian discovered Bixiao fighting a Northern Darkness Palace cultivator over an Innate Spiritual Root and intervened when she was about to be killed. He revealed that he was Niu Ben’s disciple and Bixiao’s martial nephew, leaving the enemy terrified by his master’s identity.

• Yang Jian secretly approached the battle and recognized Bixiao as his martial aunt, so he decided he could not stand aside while she was attacked.
• Bixiao refused to yield the Innate Spiritual Root to the black-robed cultivator, who unleashed his black-water powers and swallowed her Golden Flood Dragon Scissors with the Kunpeng Devouring Art.
• The black-robed cultivator prepared to kill the weakened Bixiao, but Yang Jian appeared and stopped his attack.
• Yang Jian greeted Bixiao as Martial Aunt and explained that his master was Niu Ben.
• The black-robed cultivator turned pale and trembled when he learned Yang Jian was Niu Ben’s disciple.

Yang Jian slew the Nether Sea Mystic Roc, shared its Chaos Dao Fruits with Bixiao, and accepted her invitation to Three Immortal Island. Bixiao praised Niu Ben’s legendary deeds during their journey, and she introduced Yang Jian to Yunxiao and Qiongxiao upon their arrival.

• Yang Jian killed the Nether Sea Mystic Roc with Xing Tian’s axe technique and claimed the Innate Spiritual Root, offering Bixiao its three fruits.
• Bixiao accepted one Chaos Dao Fruit and invited Yang Jian to Three Immortal Island to settle his mind and meet her sisters.
• Yang Jian told Bixiao that he intended to rescue his mother from beneath Peach Mountain, and he agreed to visit Three Immortal Island before acting.
• Bixiao told Yang Jian that Niu Ben was a legend among Jie Teachings disciples and urged him to invoke his master’s name if anyone threatened him.
• Bixiao brought Yang Jian to Three Immortal Island and introduced him to Yunxiao and Qiongxiao as Niu Ben’s personal disciple.