Chapter Summaries

Wang Ye learned that the Fourth Awakening of Eternal Night would bring Wang's complete return, then turned the little girl's attempted ambush around and stole her storage pouch. He left her tied up with her treasures in hand and considered whether the bargain was worth what she had taken from him.

• Wang Ye saw his poisoned leg fuse with an arm, whose energy reached the Buddha Realm before it tore through the void.
• The little girl explained that the Third Awakening of Eternal Night could not withstand Wang's energy and said Wang would return completely during the Fourth Awakening.
• Wang Ye asked to unseal more of Wang's body parts, but the little girl decided to lure him close and kill him with a crystal dagger.
• Wang Ye blocked the dagger, took it, tied up the little girl, and seized her storage pouch full of treasures.
• Wang Ye tallied his spoils and recalled the little girl's use of his dragon scale, while the little girl feared he might kill her.

Wang Ye captured the little girl from the Heavenly Court and headed back toward Shangjing City, while Qingfeng Village survivors escaped Mount Spirit with sacks full of stones and weeds. Wang Ye spotted the seven survivors and secretly followed them, wondering whether he could rob them too.

• Wang Ye debated whether to kill the little girl, then tied her up and carried her toward Shangjing City.
• The Qingfeng Village middle-aged man realized Mount Spirit was dangerous, ordered his group to retreat, and discovered that even its stones and weeds were valuable.
• Seven surviving Qingfeng Village members fled Mount Spirit with their sacks full of loot.
• Wang Ye struggled with the little girl as she fought and bit him, then stuffed cloth into her mouth when he spotted the Qingfeng Village group.
• The Qingfeng Village middle-aged man cautioned his companions against greed and urged them to count their loot and return home, unaware Wang Ye was following them.

Wang Ye defeated a group of Qingfeng Village bandits and found a note that led him to suspect Zhang Ziliang had arranged their movements. He then headed for the Heavenly Court with its panicked little guardian, arriving beneath the treasure-filled stronghold and demanding its hidden riches.

• Wang Ye surprised Qingfeng Village bandits, who recognized him and attacked despite knowing they were outmatched, and he knocked them down and took their belongings.
• Wang Ye found a note on the bandits and wondered whether Zhang Ziliang had arranged their encounter, then decided to head for the Heavenly Court.
• Zhang Ziliang's Heaven Group investigators waited for the Qingfeng Village bandits to appear, unaware that Wang Ye had already dealt with them.
• The little girl tried to turn Wang Ye away from the Heavenly Court by offering the locations of its Treasure Pavilions and sleeping Great Immortals.
• Wang Ye carried the little girl to the Heavenly Court and asked her to reveal where its treasures were hidden in exchange for her life.

Wang Ye forced the little girl to reveal how to enter Heaven Court and used the golden token to pass through its barrier. Inside, he found the vast, luxurious buildings and began dismantling the security room for its valuables.

• Wang Ye threatened to shave the little girl bald until she corrected her lie and identified the third pavilion as the Armory Pavilion.
• Wang Ye made the little girl reveal that a golden token would let him pass through Heaven Court’s energy barrier.
• Wang Ye used the token to enter Heaven Court and ordered the little girl to stay silent.
• Wang Ye surveyed Heaven Court’s luxurious interior and learned that the first pavilion was a security room.
• Wang Ye changed into demolition-worker mode and carefully began dismantling the security room with his hammer.

Wang Ye demolished the Heavenly Court’s security rooms to salvage their energy-rich jade, killing a sleeping Heavenly Soldier and disguising himself in the soldier’s armor. He then headed for the Treasure Pavilion, eager to claim its riches.

• Wang Ye tore down the first security room and collected its intact jade blocks while the little girl protested from his back.
• The little girl told Wang Ye that the next building was another security room, and he began demolishing it.
• A Heavenly Soldier awakened and attacked Wang Ye, who killed him, took his armor, and accused the little girl of hiding the danger.
• Wang Ye confirmed the security room was empty, finished demolishing it, and stayed wary of the little girl.
• Wang Ye arrived at the Treasure Pavilion and prepared to bring its treasures home.

Wang Ye entered the Treasure Pavilion and silently killed the Heavenly King guarding its second floor. He left the little girl tied to his back, where she accidentally swallowed the Stink Bomb and screamed, but no one came from the third floor.

• Wang Ye slipped into the Treasure Pavilion after sensing no activity inside and found shelves stocked with weapons and armor for the Heaven Group.
• Wang Ye heard faint breathing on the second floor and forced the little girl to keep quiet by putting a Stink Bomb in her mouth.
• Wang Ye crawled across the ceiling and stabbed the Heavenly King in the neck before he could raise an alarm.
• The little girl swallowed the Stink Bomb during the attack and screamed, while the dying Heavenly King gestured for Wang Ye to kill her.
• Wang Ye waited for anyone on the third floor to respond, then relaxed when the pavilion remained silent.

After finding the nearby Treasure Pavilion empty of valuable goods, Wang Ye scavenged Heaven’s outer buildings and then risked sneaking into its center for better treasure. He escaped with a seven-colored flower and a basin of liquid energy while a Six Imperials member pursued him.

• Wang Ye searched the nearby Treasure Pavilion, found little of value, and learned from the little girl that the best treasures were where Wang’s head slept.
• Wang Ye stripped the pavilion of its armor, spears, shelves, and bricks, while the little girl secretly tried to relieve herself before the stinky egg made her stink.
• Wang Ye scavenged buildings around Heaven’s outer perimeter until his storage space filled, then decided to sneak toward the center for greater treasures.
• Wang Ye burst from the ruins carrying a seven-colored flower, scooped liquid energy into his alms bowl, and fled as a Six Imperials member chased him.

Wang Ye stole a seven-colored flower from the pavilion of the Great Emperor of the North Pole and fled as the enraged Six Imperial pursued him. The little girl used Wang Ye’s name to make the Great Emperor hesitate, giving Wang Ye more time to escape.

• Wang Ye entered the pavilion, uprooted the seven-colored flower, and crushed it as he escaped, awakening the Great Emperor of the North Pole.
• The Great Emperor of the North Pole pursued Wang Ye and demanded that he leave the flower and the little girl behind.
• Wang Ye taunted the Great Emperor and used energy liquid to accelerate as the little girl panicked on his back.
• The little girl warned the Great Emperor that harming her would bring Wang Ye’s wrath, making him hesitate and allowing Wang Ye to gain distance.
• The little girl claimed she could represent Wang Ye and scolded the Great Emperor for failing to serve him diligently.

Wang Ye fled Great Emperor of the North Pole with the little girl on his back, using threats to make her delay their pursuer. At the Heavenly Court’s border, Great Emperor of the North Pole offered Wang Ye a deal to kill her, and Wang Ye began negotiating.

• Great Emperor of the North Pole chased Wang Ye, who blamed the little girl for provoking him and threatened to shave off her eyebrows if she spoke again.
• As Great Emperor of the North Pole caught up, Wang Ye urged the little girl to stop him for three seconds and threatened to draw turtles on her face.
• The little girl claimed she was a pawn arranged by Wang and warned Great Emperor of the North Pole that killing Wang Ye would kill her too, making him stop at the Heavenly Court’s border.
• Great Emperor of the North Pole offered to forgive Wang Ye and give him benefits if Wang Ye killed the little girl.
• Wang Ye asked Great Emperor of the North Pole to name his price while sensing the little girl’s growing anger.

Wang Ye tried to extort Great Emperor of the North Pole, rejecting his offers of Dragon Blood Grass and a Buddha Realm relic before asking for a way to revive the dead. Great Emperor of the North Pole left after threatening to return in three years, but Wang Ye called him back to try once more for the relics.

• Great Emperor of the North Pole offered Wang Ye Dragon Blood Grass to help him break through, but Wang Ye turned to leave without accepting.
• Great Emperor of the North Pole offered a Buddha Realm relic, but Wang Ye showed off the relics he already wore and kept walking.
• Wang Ye asked for medicine that could revive the dead in exchange for killing anyone Great Emperor of the North Pole named, but Great Emperor of the North Pole had none.
• Wang Ye warned the captive little girl that Great Emperor of the North Pole had betrayed his fellow Heavenly Court member, and Great Emperor of the North Pole threatened to find Wang Ye when the Heavenly Court returned in three years.
• Great Emperor of the North Pole left, and Wang Ye called after him, asking him to stay.

Wang Ye failed to make the Great Emperor of the North Pole pay for the little girl, then decided to return to the Heavenly Court for more loot. Meanwhile, Maitreya learned that the old monk was dying from poison and set off with him toward a sleeping Buddha, while Wang Ye brought stolen Heavenly Court bricks back to Shangjing City.

• The Great Emperor of the North Pole refused Wang Ye's attempt to blackmail him and left, prompting Wang Ye to decide the little girl was not worth much.
• Wang Ye resolved to make another trip to the Heavenly Court for supplies and raced across the Wasteland with the little girl as his three-hour deadline approached.
• The old monk told Maitreya that poison in his body was destroying him and that he needed to change bodies, leaving him weak for two days.
• Maitreya took the old monk toward the sleeping place of a Buddha, and the pair smashed through ghosts as they traveled.
• Wang Ye dumped bags of bricks from the Heavenly Court onto the streets of Shangjing City and asked Zhao Hai to store them before rushing off for another trip.

Xiao Wu and Xiao Er sacrificed themselves to forge the Path of Reincarnation anew, while the Underworld mourned their loss. Du Ziren issued an edict to reopen the path, and the Underworld began restoring its workings.

• Zhong Kui blamed himself as Xiao Wu explained that he was willing to sacrifice himself to create a new Path of Reincarnation.
• Xiao Er shattered, sending his veins into the void to form the road, and Xiao Wu gave his body to make it solid.
• Xiao Wu burned away after bidding farewell to his companions, leaving the completed road behind.
• Lu Qing rebuked the stunned Underworld members, and Du Ziren ordered the Path of Reincarnation reopened.
• Meng Po and Zhong Kui restored their respective functions as buildings rose from the ruins and the Underworld returned.

Du Ziren reopened the path of reincarnation at the cost of his cultivation, and Lu Qing reflected on the Underworld's need for passion as its people began rebuilding. Elsewhere, Wang Ye mourned Xiao Wu, Xiao Si silently encountered the gravekeeper, and Maitreya and the old monk began their plan using a Buddha's corpse.

• Du Ziren used the Ghost Seal to summon souls and reopen the path of reincarnation, then collapsed from the strain.
• Du Ziren defended his impulsive choice to honor Ksitigarbha, and Lu Qing joined the Underworld's residents as they rebuilt.
• Wang Ye felt Xiao Wu's death, lamented being alone, and coldly drove Long Ear back into his relic.
• Xiao Si waited outside the Qin Residence, silently watched the gravekeeper leave, then disappeared into the Wasteland with blood still on her hands.
• Maitreya asked the old monk to begin their plan, and the old monk's ritual left a Buddha's corpse opening its eyes.

Maitreya and the old monk raced to recover their strength so they could carry out their plan to devour the Buddha’s flesh and energy. After returning from another dangerous raid on Heaven, Wang Ye discussed Maitreya’s suspiciously weak involvement with Zhao Hai, who still could not understand his motives.

• Maitreya warned the old monk to recover within two days, and the old monk estimated he needed a day and a half to absorb the energy at full force.
• Maitreya and the old monk began healing, determined not to lose their chance before the Third Awakening of Eternal Night ended.
• Wang Ye returned to Shangjing with stolen bricks, weeds, and energy liquid after the Great Emperor of the North Pole caught and injured him during his repeated raids on Heaven.
• Zhao Hai took Wang Ye aside and said Lingshan’s weak presence suggested something was wrong with Maitreya.
• Wang Ye agreed that Lingshan’s lack of resistance was suspicious, and Zhao Hai admitted he could not explain why Maitreya had let Lingshan’s forces die.

Zhao Hai and Wang Ye suspected Maitreya planned to kill the Buddha and gain his power, and Wang Ye decided to search for him. Wang Ye found the gravekeeper and confirmed his connection to the figure from Xiao An Temple, then asked for help locating Maitreya.

• Zhao Hai reasoned that Maitreya would not betray Spirit Mountain or eliminate rivals, leading him and Wang Ye to suspect Maitreya intended to kill the Buddha.
• Wang Ye decided he wanted a share of whatever power Maitreya might gain and said he would try to find him despite the Wasteland’s vastness.
• Wang Ye went to the Suburban Cemetery seeking the gravekeeper, found the wooden house empty, and then encountered the gravekeeper returning with a Candle Lamp.
• Wang Ye asked whether the gravekeeper was connected to the figure from Xiao An Temple, and the gravekeeper nodded.
• Wang Ye asked the gravekeeper to sense the figure’s aura and offered to split the gains ninety-ten, but the gravekeeper hesitated as Wang Ye urged him to provide only a direction.

Wang Ye followed the gravekeeper’s directions to a temple in the Wasteland, where he found a poisoned corpse but no sign of Maitreya. After using the corpse’s flesh to help a Ghost General sense a trail, Wang Ye chose to pursue it despite suspecting Maitreya had laid a psychological trap.

• The gravekeeper told Wang Ye that his target was three hundred kilometers northeast, and Wang Ye hurried out of Shangjing City.
• Maitreya and the old monk sensed danger, abandoned their hidden base, and relocated.
• Wang Ye reached the temple and found the poisoned corpse of the man from Xiao An Temple, but Maitreya was gone.
• Wang Ye fed a piece of the corpse to a Ghost General, which sensed that the old monk was alive and pointed toward a direction.
• Wang Ye weighed the chance that Maitreya had deliberately misled him, then pursued the direction the Ghost General indicated.

Wang Ye followed the old monk and Maitreya across the Wasteland, hoping to take advantage of their venture. Meanwhile, Old Zhang returned to Zhou Han with Lu Dongbin after claiming to defeat five Heavenly Court Star Lords, but the Daoists could not agree on how to summon their sacred mountain and began fighting over a pill recipe.

• Wang Ye caught sight of the old monk and Maitreya and secretly followed them as they crept through the Wasteland.
• Maitreya told the old monk their chance of success had fallen from fifty percent to thirty percent, but the two decided to press on anyway.
• Old Zhang returned to Zhou Han and Lu Dongbin, boasting that he had cut down five Heavenly Court Star Lords, while his Silencing Technique kept Lu Dongbin from speaking.
• Zhou Han asked Old Zhang how to summon the Daoist Sect's sacred mountain, and Old Zhang admitted that he did not know.
• The two elderly Daoists argued over the ingredients for a Dragon Tiger Pill and started wrestling until Zhou Han shouted at them to stop.

Maitreya and the old monk used relic powder to open a passage into the hidden space containing Leiyin Temple, with Wang Ye slipping in behind them. At the temple gates, Maitreya revealed that Three Honored Buddhas guarded the man's body there, while the suspicious allies continued to conceal their secrets from each other.

• Lu Dongbin set a three-hour deadline for the two old Taoists to finish their work, and Zhou Han realized that threatening them made them work harder.
• Maitreya used powder from a relic to reveal a passage inside a mountain, and the old monk followed him into it.
• Wang Ye rushed through the closing passage and disguised himself as the Great Emperor of the North Pole before hiding near Leiyin Temple.
• Maitreya told the old monk that Three Honored Buddhas guarded the man's body inside the temple and claimed their souls had been corrupted.
• The old monk questioned Maitreya's source of information and kept his distance, while Maitreya refused to explain and challenged him to leave.

Wang Ye hid near Leiyin Temple as Maitreya and the old monk tested the temple gates and found a way inside using Buddha relic powder. Once inside, Maitreya exposed the hall’s supposed statues as Bodhisattvas disguised by an old Lingshan trick.

• Maitreya demanded that the old monk hold back two Buddhas if they were attacked, and the old monk reluctantly agreed.
• Wang Ye stayed motionless behind a stone pillar as the old monk was blasted away from Leiyin Temple’s gates.
• Maitreya discovered the gate restriction activated when pushed and used Buddha relic powder to make the gates open.
• The old monk entered with Maitreya and revealed that he had repaired his Candle Lamp, which Maitreya recognized as one of his trump cards.
• Maitreya identified the eight figures in the hall as real Bodhisattvas disguised as statues using a trick devised by Long-Eared Buddha.

Maitreya and Ran Deng fought their way through the Buddha’s forbidden grounds, killing eight bodhisattva statues and then battling the Three Honored Buddhas, who had been turned into puppets. Wang Ye secretly followed and looted the bodhisattva sariras, but after Maitreya and Ran Deng claimed the Buddhas’ sariras, he decided he had to take them back.

• Maitreya and Ran Deng killed the eight bodhisattva statues guarding the hall and continued deeper into the forbidden grounds.
• Wang Ye slipped into the hall after them and collected the bodhisattva sariras from the corpses.
• The Three Honored Buddhas attacked Maitreya and Ran Deng as they entered the courtyard, and Maitreya forced Ran Deng to stop pretending to be badly injured and join the fight.
• Maitreya and Ran Deng defeated the Buddha puppets after a long battle, though both suffered serious wounds.
• Maitreya and Ran Deng took the puppets’ sariras, prompting Wang Ye to resolve to reclaim them.