Chapter Summaries

Lu Jun and Tai Yi discussed Minghe’s fear of letting his Blood God Sons grow independently and the missed opportunities that had brought him to a crisis. Tai Yi proposed a safer Three Bodies Unite approach, while Lu Jun recognized his own similar caution in arranging pathfinders for dangerous Dao paths.

• Tai Yi reflected that Minghe’s cautious indecision had cost him opportunities and left him facing a deadly predicament.
• Lu Jun regretted that Minghe would not serve as a forerunner for his All Selves United path, then examined his own use of Ren Jing and Tai Yi to test dangerous paths.
• Tai Yi suggested Minghe select three Blood God Sons, send them to separate worlds to develop, and later reunite their experiences as a compromise path.
• Tai Yi concluded that Minghe feared the returning Blood God Sons would undermine his understanding of his true self, and Lu Jun acknowledged that he had also merged with and accepted his other selves.

Lu Jun and Tai Yi discussed Minghe’s choices and the risks of evolving an avatar, while Minghe decided to send an avatar to investigate Jieyin and Zhunti. The Blood God Son reached Mount Sumeru, where Jieyin and Zhunti prepared to use the offer of becoming an Asura Dharma Protector to draw Minghe in.

• Lu Jun set aside immediate concerns about Minghe and weighed whether to evolve a special avatar to accelerate the starry world’s evolution.
• Tai Yi returned to the Sun Star to discuss his Nirvana and Dharma Protector arrangements with Di Jun.
• Minghe struggled with Lu Jun’s warning and Tai Yi’s criticism, then resolved to send an avatar to probe Jieyin and Zhunti.
• Minghe’s Blood God Son avatar passed through Mount Sumeru’s Buddhist restrictions and arrived outside Jieyin and Zhunti’s meditation chamber.
• Jieyin and Zhunti recognized the visitor as an avatar and discussed using the promise of becoming an Asura Dharma Protector to influence Minghe.

Jieyin and Zhunti planned to use Buddhist doctrine and gradual entanglement to draw Minghe and the Asura Clan toward the Buddhist Sect. Minghe’s cautious incarnation entered their meditation chamber, where he challenged them to explain their offer and accused them of seeking Asura warriors as guards and fighters.

• Jieyin and Zhunti agreed to win Minghe’s trust gradually and eventually reclaim the Red Lotus through their growing connection with him.
• Jieyin invited Minghe’s Blood God Son incarnation into the Buddhist Sect’s meditation chamber to discuss a path beyond the Asura Clan’s baleful aura.
• Minghe’s incarnation entered as wary blood-red mist and reluctantly took a seat after inspecting the Buddhist-light Pouf.
• Zhunti praised the Asura Clan’s strength and proposed that its members had an affinity with the Buddhist Sect’s future Dharma Protectors.
• Minghe rejected the pleasantries and demanded to know how the proposed path would work, suspecting the Buddhists wanted Asura warriors to serve as guards and vanguard fighters.

Jieyin and Zhunti tried to persuade Minghe that the Asura Clan’s violent origins and ill-timed creation threatened its fortune and could invite Heavenly Dao suppression. Their argument stirred Minghe’s unease as he recalled how Nuwa’s creation of humans had shifted the balance of the Witch-Demon Great Tribulation.

• Jieyin framed the Asura Clan’s origins as a hidden danger to its destiny and Minghe’s own standing.
• Jieyin contrasted Nuwa’s pure materials for creating humans with the Blood Sea’s turbid essence, arguing that the Asura Clan’s violence conflicted with the Heavenly Dao’s direction.
• Zhunti warned that the Asura Clan’s birth during the Witch-Demon Great Tribulation could worsen calamity and Karma, burdening its fortune and Minghe’s duties.
• Zhunti suggested that forces seeking order might target the Asura Clan for correction or restriction, stirring Minghe’s existing worries about its limited prospects and rejection by orthodox factions.
• Minghe recalled that Nuwa’s creation and sainthood had broken the balance between the Witch Race and Demon Race, potentially ushering in further slaughter and Karma.

Minghe realized that creating the Asura Clan from the Blood Sea’s filth had defied the world’s greater trend, preventing him from earning the merit needed for sainthood. Jieyin and Zhunti saw his doubts as an opening to persuade him to cooperate with the Buddhist Sect, and planned to explain how its teachings could guide the Asura Clan.

• Minghe recognized that the Asura Clan’s origins and nature made it unlikely to gain broad recognition or merit, and that destroying it would risk devastating karmic backlash.
• Minghe asked Jieyin and Zhunti whether Buddhist teachings could correct the Asura Clan’s innate flaws and transform its violent nature.
• Jieyin and Zhunti realized Minghe’s resistance had softened and discussed using the clan’s predicament to draw him toward Buddhist cooperation.
• Jieyin instructed Zhunti to present Buddhist doctrine as a coherent way to calm anger, transform evil karma, and guide the Asura Clan, while emphasizing the rewards of becoming a Dharma Protector.
• Jieyin and Zhunti decided not to mention the crimson lotus, instead using Sea of Blood purification and karmic transformation as openings for future contact.

Jieyin and Zhunti offered Minghe a Buddhist alliance, claiming their teachings could guide the Asura Clan’s ferocity into Dharma protection and help transform the Blood Sea’s karma. They promised that studying karma and balance together might also address Minghe’s cultivation needs, unknowingly striking at the imbalance of his Good and Evil Two Corpses.

• Jieyin explained how Buddhist teachings could redirect the Asura Clan’s anger and killing intent into vows to protect the Dharma.
• Zhunti promised the Asura Clan Buddhist methods, merit, and the opportunity to turn its innate traits into an advantage.
• Jieyin shifted the offer to Minghe, proposing that Buddhist insights into karma and wish power could help him govern the Blood Sea and advance his Dao.
• Jieyin suggested that transforming Blood Sea karma might temper treasures, hone the Dao heart, and balance extreme aspects of Minghe’s Great Dao.
• Jieyin and Zhunti believed their offer could bring them closer to the Twelve-Petaled Karma Fire Red Lotus, unaware that Minghe urgently needed help balancing his Good and Evil Two Corpses.

Minghe decided to turn Jieyin and Zhunti’s scheme into a way to study Buddhist methods and balance his Good and Evil Corpses while protecting his path to Three Corpses Unite. He considered offering the Asura Clan to the Buddhist Sect as cover and began answering the two saints as though their arguments had persuaded him.

• Minghe realized Jieyin and Zhunti’s proposals could give him access to Buddhist techniques for transforming karma and nurturing his Good and Evil Corpses.
• Minghe planned to send loyal Asura generals to serve as Dharma Protectors while secretly studying and monitoring the Buddhist Sect.
• Minghe resolved to use Buddhist methods to balance his two corpses, briefly unite his Blood God Sons, and sever his Self Corpse before attempting Three Corpses Unite.
• Minghe considered giving the Asura Clan to the Buddhist Sect and creating a new race to purify the world if the Asuras were converted.
• Minghe told Jieyin and Zhunti that their words had enlightened him and acknowledged that the Asura Clan’s baleful aura and slaughter karma might be his responsibility.

Minghe negotiated a guarded alliance with Jieyin and Zhunti, pretending to resist Buddhist influence while seeking their methods for transforming karma and balancing his Good and Evil Two Corpses. Jieyin gave him an abridged scripture, beginning their exchange of teachings.

• Minghe praised Buddhist teachings and said they might offer the Asura Clan a path beyond its innate predicament.
• Minghe proposed three conditions: Asuras would volunteer in small batches, retain their identity and independence with a right of recall, and exchange teachings with the Buddhist Sect through regular discussions of the Dao.
• Minghe also called for rules governing the merit earned by Asura Dharma Protectors.
• Zhunti and Jieyin accepted the terms and said their sect would not force conversion or assimilate the Asuras.
• Jieyin presented Minghe with an abridged commentary on the Vajrasattva Purification of Karma Fundamental Mantra.

Minghe accepted a cautious cooperation agreement with Jieyin and Zhunti after receiving a Buddhist scripture on purifying and transforming Karmic Force, intending to use its teachings to strengthen his Dao foundation. After he departed, Jieyin and Zhunti discussed his safeguards and remained confident that his desire for their methods would draw him deeper into their plans for the Red Lotus.

• Jieyin gave Minghe a Scripture Scroll containing methods for confronting and transforming Karmic Force, and Minghe found it useful for dealing with the Evil Corpse's chaotic power.
• Minghe agreed to send three thousand Asura Clan Dharma Protectors to the Blood Sea–Western Lands border in three hundred years and proposed future Dao discussions at Blood Reef Cliff.
• Jieyin and Zhunti accepted the terms, while Minghe secretly planned to use their teachings to balance his Good and Evil Two Corpses and advance toward Three Corpses Unite.
• Minghe withdrew his crimson mist from the meditation chamber after warning that he would wait and see.
• Zhunti raised concealment barriers and told Jieyin that Minghe's conditions and hidden incarnation showed he remained deeply wary of them.
• Jieyin agreed that Minghe was cautious but believed his desire for Buddhist methods would draw him further into their plans for the Red Lotus.

Jieyin and Zhunti planned to use Buddhist teachings and the coming Asura Dharma Protectors to deepen Minghe’s reliance on the Buddhist Sect while concealing their true aims. They decided to keep You Wen out of the schemes for now and wondered what path Lu Jun had prepared for him.

• Jieyin proposed spending the next three hundred years preparing Buddhist teachers, scriptures, and rituals to subtly influence the Asura Dharma Protectors.
• Zhunti suggested using the Asuras’ merit, Buddhist ceremonies, and carefully chosen role models to encourage their gradual affinity for the Dharma.
• Jieyin planned to give Minghe selected teachings on Karma, Wish Power, and Heart Demons that would make Buddhist methods seem essential to his Blood Sea Great Dao.
• Zhunti asked whether You Wen should join the plans, but Jieyin said to keep him focused on cultivation and disclose only the partnership with the Blood Sea.
• Jieyin and Zhunti speculated about the unusual Buddhist and Dao cultivation path Lu Jun had arranged for You Wen, including possible spiritual treasures for severing a corpse.

Jieyin and Zhunti considered how You Wen’s future corpse-severing treasure might reveal Lu Jun’s plans, while You Wen reflected on Lu Jun’s advice to cultivate the Primordial Golden Immortal path before severing the Three Corpses. The chapter left You Wen resolved to build an exceptionally solid foundation by advancing both paths.

• Jieyin told Zhunti that You Wen’s future Innate Spiritual Treasure for severing a corpse could reveal Lu Jun’s plans for the Buddhist Sect and the wider Prehistoric World.
• Jieyin and Zhunti agreed to nurture You Wen and deepen their karmic bond with him while continuing to pursue Minghe’s Red Lotus.
• You Wen sensed Minghe’s Blood God Son incarnation visiting Mount Sumeru and concluded that Minghe’s negotiations with Jieyin and Zhunti had ended without open conflict.
• You Wen recalled Lu Jun’s instruction not to rush into severing the Three Corpses or be confined to the Mystic Gate’s traditional path.
• You Wen reaffirmed his plan to strengthen his Golden Crow origin, body, mana, and will through the Primordial Golden Immortal path before pursuing corpse-severing.

You Wen focused on cultivating his Golden Crow origin and Buddhist authority while pondering a path to Primordial Grand Unity. Meanwhile, the Three Pure Ones prepared to help Yuanshi Slay the Three Corpses, beginning with the Pangu Banner.

• You Wen considered whether reaching the peak of the Primordial Golden Immortal realm before Slaying the Three Corpses could forge a new path to Primordial Grand Unity, then set those thoughts aside to cultivate.
• You Wen meditated on absorbing Buddhism’s blessings and merit, tempering his Golden Crow Bloodline, and refining his True Sun Fire.
• The Great Desolation entered a superficial calm after Buddhism’s establishment, while factions used the lull to strengthen their positions and pursue opportunities.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian gathered in Kunlun Mountain with the Taiji Diagram, the Chaos Bell, and two strands of Primordial Violet Qi.
• Tongtian urged Yuanshi to begin, and Yuanshi agreed to start with the Pangu Banner.

Yuanshi used Heaven-Opening Merit to form a Merit Incarnation and Primordial Violet Qi as a bridge to transfer the Pangu Banner’s Dao Patterns and karma away from his Three Corpses Incarnations. The transfer proceeded smoothly, and the Purple Qi began flowing into the Merit Incarnation, where it merged with Mysterious Yellow light.

• Laozi explained that Yuanshi should use Heaven-Opening Merit to form a Merit Incarnation and Primordial Violet Qi to bridge the transfer from the Pangu Banner.
• Yuanshi gathered Heaven-Opening Merit and formed a stable Mysterious Yellow Merit Incarnation beside himself.
• Yuanshi joined the Pangu Banner’s Three Corpses Incarnations to the Merit Incarnation with a bridge of Primordial Violet Qi while Laozi stabilized the void with the Taiji Diagram.
• The Pangu Banner’s Dao Patterns and karmic threads passed smoothly through the Purple Qi, weakening the Three Corpses Incarnations without causing them to collapse.
• The Purple Qi absorbed the final True Talisman of Destruction and Opening, then flowed back into the Merit Incarnation and began merging with its Mysterious Yellow light.

Yuanshi successfully replaced the Pangu Banner as the foundation of one corpse incarnation with Primordial Violet Qi and handed the banner to Laozi. He then began replacing the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi, but its deep bond with his origin made the process more painful and unstable.

• Yuanshi formed a new Purple Qi Incarnation using Primordial Violet Qi and the Mysterious Yellow Merit Incarnation, then let it settle into his Celebration Cloud.
• Yuanshi gave the Pangu Banner to Laozi, who felt its Dao Rhythms resonate with the Taiji Diagram and Chaos Bell.
• Yuanshi refused to rest and began replacing the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi, while Tongtian guarded the secret realm.
• Yuanshi used Heaven-Opening Merit and Primordial Violet Qi to extract the Jade Ruyi's Dao talismans, but the transfer met stronger resistance than the Pangu Banner's replacement.
• The extraction strained Yuanshi and shook the Three Corpses Incarnation as the Great Dao lamented the disturbance to their bond.

Yuanshi replaced the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi as a bearer for his Three Corpses with Primordial Violet Qi, completing two replacements but suffering severe exhaustion. Tongtian then prepared to replace the Walking Stick, while Laozi stabilized the secret realm and warned him about the danger of grafting a mismatched Dao.

• Yuanshi used Primordial Violet Qi to deconstruct and absorb the Dao Patterns of the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi, then formed a new incarnation bearing its meaning of exposition.
• Yuanshi collapsed from exhaustion, and Tongtian supported him while Laozi watched with relief.
• Tongtian helped Yuanshi stabilize his foundation and announced that he would replace the bearer of his own Three Corpses next.
• Laozi warned Tongtian that the Walking Stick’s Taiqing Dao Rhythm might conflict with his sword Dao and make the replacement dangerous.
• Tongtian prepared to begin the replacement as Laozi used the Taiji Diagram to stabilize the secret realm.

Tongtian forcibly severed his Three Corpses Incarnation from the Zhu Xian formation diagram and replaced its sustenance with Laozi’s Walking Stick, enduring a violent backlash as Laozi and Yuanshi helped stabilize him. The Walking Stick became the Three Corpses’ new sustenance, but the chapter ended as it erupted with unprecedented radiance.

• Laozi prepared the secret realm to stabilize Tongtian’s dangerous replacement, while Tongtian summoned his Merit Incarnation and the Walking Stick.
• Tongtian severed the Self Corpse Incarnation’s connection to the Zhu Xian formation diagram, triggering a violent clash of Sword Qi and Dao rhythms.
• Laozi contained the rampaging Sword Qi with the Taiji Diagram, and Yuanshi stabilized Tongtian’s primordial spirit.
• Tongtian restrained the Three Corpses’ origin Spiritual Light and merged it with his Golden Body of Merit.
• The Golden Body seized and refined the Walking Stick, making it the Three Corpses’ new sustenance as it erupted with unprecedented radiance.

Tongtian completed the replacement of the Spiritual Treasure bearing his Three Corpses, while Laozi prepared to refine the Pangu Banner and sever his third corpse. As Laozi drew on the Dao Rhythms of the three Heaven-Opening treasures, Yuanshi recovered and studied his new Primordial Violet Qi-based Three Corpses, and Tongtian guarded the secret realm.

• Tongtian transformed his walking stick to bear his Three Corpses origin and completed his Spiritual Treasure replacement.
• Laozi ordered Yuanshi to recover and stabilize his Purple Qi incarnations while he and Tongtian refined their Spiritual Treasures.
• Laozi began refining the Pangu Banner, drawing the Dao Rhythms of the Taiji Diagram, Chaos Bell, and Pangu Banner into resonance with his Dao of Taishang Forgets Emotion.
• Yuanshi nourished his two Purple Qi incarnations with Heaven-Opening Merit and Jade Purity immortal arts, gradually understanding their new connection to the Great Dao.
• Tongtian guarded the secret realm and monitored the growing resonance around Laozi for disturbances.

Laozi used the Dao Rhythms of the Taiji Diagram, Chaos Bell, and Pangu Banner to comprehend the Dao of Creation of Heaven and realized that his inheritance from Pangu demanded deliberate creation, not merely inaction. He resolved to make the Pangu Banner the foundation of his Severing the Corpse, with the other treasures supporting and protecting his creation.

• Tongtian watched Laozi comprehend the three treasures’ Dao Rhythms while devouring innate qi and Heaven Opening Dao Rhyme to recover his strength.
• Laozi found that the Chaos Bell resisted change and the Taiji Diagram could moderate conflict, while the Pangu Banner’s destructive Dao Rhythm contained the strongest impulse toward creation.
• Laozi envisioned Pangu creating Heaven through a decisive sacrifice and questioned whether his own doctrine of forgetting emotion and inaction had caused him to evade his inherited responsibility.
• Laozi embraced his identity as Pangu’s orthodox inheritor and resolved to carve out a Great Dao of creation for the Three Pure Ones.
• Laozi decided that the Pangu Banner would anchor his Severing the Corpse, while the Taiji Diagram maintained balance and the Chaos Bell guarded time and space.

Laozi severed his Self Corpse by using the Pangu Banner as its core and the Taiji Diagram and Chaos Bell to stabilize it, completing his Three Corpses and clarifying his Dao path. He planned to contact Di Jun when the time was right and discuss breaking through together.

• Laozi organized the Dao Rhythms of the Pangu Banner, Taiji Diagram, and Chaos Bell to form the Self Corpse’s embryo.
• Laozi severed his Self Corpse, creating a powerful incarnation that inherited his aspiration to emulate Pangu and create anew.
• The Self Corpse’s birth stirred Laozi’s stagnant cultivation and caused his aura to change.
• Yuanshi and Tongtian congratulated Laozi, who thanked them for their support and brotherly unity.
• Laozi said his Three Corpses’ framework was complete and planned to contact Di Jun to discuss breaking through together.

Laozi's coming Three Corpses Unite threatened to draw Heavenly Dao Authority back to the Heavenly Dao, so the Twelve Ancestral Witches hurried to secure the remaining fragments within the Earthly Dao. They reported their progress, though key authorities remained beyond their grasp.

• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian recognized that Laozi's completion of the Three Corpses was crucial to their shared plan and future breakthroughs.
• Di Jiang warned the Twelve Ancestral Witches that Laozi had severed his third corpse and that his next breakthrough could cause Heavenly Dao Authority to converge.
• Zhu Jiuyin foresaw a pillar of light rising from Kunlun Mountain and the remaining authority returning to a Heavenly Dao Saint.
• Houtu ordered the Ancestral Witches to anchor the final fragments of authority within the Earthly Dao and asked them to report their progress.
• Qiang Liang, Xuanming, She Bishi, Tian Wu, Xi Zi, and Yan Zi described the authorities they had transferred or influenced, while noting the core powers they could not yet seize.