Chapter Summaries

The Peacock Great Emperor revealed a Five-Element Magnetic Divine Mountain that blocked Nine Mountains Sect’s detection and Sun-Shooting Divine Bow, forcing Xie Qingxue to halt her advance. Meanwhile, Nine Mountains Sect completed seventy-two stars for the Grand Array of Heavenly Stars, and Zheng Fa watched the first nine arrive in Chaos.

• Han Qi warned Xie Qingxue that the Peacock Great Emperor’s disappearance was suspicious, and the Divine Firmament Fleet began to withdraw from Fallen Phoenix Ridge.
• The Peacock Great Emperor emerged from concealment with the Five-Element Magnetic Divine Mountain, which obscured Fallen Phoenix Ridge and prevented the Sun-Shooting Divine Bow from locking onto targets.
• Xie Qingxue halted her campaign and arranged to transport the Peacock Demon Kingdom’s resources back to the sect while Strife-Free City’s leaders chose to wait and see which side would prevail.
• Senior Sister Zhang and Water Mother learned that the magnetic mountain blocked their investigation, while Madam Xuanhua explained that the sect had refined seventy-two stars for the Grand Array of Heavenly Stars.
• Zheng Fa watched the first nine stars arrive in Chaos, and Evil Water Mother cried out in alarm at how quickly Nine Mountains Sect had refined them.

Zheng Fa and the Nine Mountains Sect completed the Grand Array of Heavenly Stars, opening the Heavenly Palace and drawing Zheng Fa onto its Emperor’s throne. While exploring the palace’s ability to monitor worlds, Zheng Fa heard a voice from a Pure Land fragment and fell under its influence, but a figure emerged from his Jade Pendant as Evil Water Mother recognized it as the Dao Venerable.

• Zheng Fa joined the newly refined stars to the Grand Array of Heavenly Stars, bringing it to 108 stars and opening the Heavenly Palace.
• The palace’s power pulled Zheng Fa onto the golden throne, which trapped him while Evil Water Mother cursed and struggled toward it.
• Zheng Fa discovered that the silver road displayed the Xuanwei Realm and more than twenty other Golden Immortal Worlds, then used it to inspect Thunderclap Temple and the Pure Land remnants.
• A fragment of the Pure Land spoke of a Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal and called for help and return, causing Zheng Fa to rise from the throne in a dazed state as Evil Water Mother began to break free.
• A Jade Pendant emerged from Zheng Fa’s forehead and formed a hazy figure, whom Evil Water Mother identified as the Dao Venerable.

The Dao Venerable rescued Zheng Fa from the Emperor’s influence and revealed that the Emperor had once united the Three Powers before trying to rule over the Sages. He explained that the Emperor’s three corpses were sealed in the God-Sealing List, the Pure Land, and the Xuanwei Realm, leaving Zheng Fa to declare that he would oppose the Emperor.

• The Dao Venerable used the Yin-Yang Fish Jade Pendant to form a Taiji Diagram that suppressed the throne’s influence for three days.
• The Dao Venerable explained that the Six Sages were recovering from injuries sustained when they killed the Emperor, who had tried to rule them through his absolute Imperial Way.
• The Dao Venerable revealed that the Emperor severed the Six Sages’ lineages and used the Severing Corpses Method to overcome the Divine Way Method’s danger and reach the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
• The Dao Venerable identified the God-Sealing List as the vessel of the Emperor’s Heavenly Sovereign Corpse and the Pure Land as the place containing his Earth Sovereign Corpse.
• Zheng Fa guessed that the Xuanwei Realm was the Emperor’s Human Sovereign Corpse, and the Dao Venerable confirmed it had been transformed into a world where candidates for a new Human Sage were born.
• Zheng Fa declared that, because he owed the Six Sages a great debt, he would stand against the Emperor.

Zheng Fa learned that the Emperor’s corpses threatened Xuanwei, then used the Grand Array of Heavenly Stars to destroy Evil Water Mother, who survived inside Nine Mountains Sect. He planned to use the array while it remained available, as Peacock Great Emperor gathered the Three Reclusive Immortals to demonstrate his newly refined Five-Element Magnetic Divine Mountain and challenge Nine Mountains Sect.

• Dao Venerable told Zheng Fa that the Emperor’s Earth Emperor Corpse and Human Sovereign Corpse were stirring, and that he had isolated Southern Continent to prevent the latter from reviving.
• Dao Venerable warned Zheng Fa that the Grand Array of Heavenly Stars could make its user a vessel for the Emperor, while his protection would last only three days.
• Zheng Fa used the array to refine Evil Water Mother, then revealed to Lunar Fairy and the others that Water Mother was alive and had joined Nine Mountains Sect as his disciple.
• Zheng Fa declined to return to Nine Mountains Sect immediately and decided to use the array against another target.
• Daoist Guhong, Archaic Lord, and Venerable Linglong accepted Peacock Great Emperor’s invitation and arrived at Fallen Phoenix Ridge for his banquet.
• Peacock Great Emperor announced that Lu Mo would soon enter seclusion to advance, then claimed he had refined the Five-Element Magnetic Divine Mountain and invited the Three Reclusive Immortals to witness him break Nine Mountains Sect’s formation.

Peacock Great Emperor tried to win Daoist Guhong and Venerable Linglong over by revealing that Lu Mo’s rise might strip the Nine Nether Emperor of his Grand Unity position, then attacked the Nine Mountains Sect with the Five-Element Magnetic Divine Mountain. Just as he seemed about to crush Xie Qingxue’s retreating fleet, a mysterious figure descended from the Ninth Heaven and knocked the mountain down, crushing Peacock Great Emperor beneath it.

• Archaic Lord sided with Peacock Great Emperor, while Daoist Guhong and Venerable Linglong learned that Lu Mo’s breakthrough might cause the Nine Nether Emperor to lose his Grand Unity status.
• Peacock Great Emperor enlarged the Five-Element Magnetic Divine Mountain, uprooted the Nine Mountains Sect’s black peaks, and pursued Xie Taishang’s retreating disciples.
• Archaic Lord urged Daoist Guhong and Venerable Linglong to join the Peacock Demon Kingdom, and Daoist Guhong admitted he was reluctant to abandon the Nine Mountains Sect.
• Peacock Great Emperor caught up with Xie Qingxue’s Divine Firmament Fleet and sent the Five-Element Magnetic Divine Mountain crashing down on it.
• A figure descended from the Ninth Heaven amid starlight, knocked the Five-Element Magnetic Divine Mountain down, and crushed Peacock Great Emperor beneath it.

Zheng Fa subdued the Peacock Great Emperor, learned that Lu Mo seemed to have become someone else, and secured the Three Reclusive Immortals’ allegiance for the Nine Mountains Sect. As the sect prepared a victory ceremony celebrating its expansion into Northern Continent, the first Divine Firmament Warships arrived in Eastern Continent, and Han Qi recalled meeting Zheng Fa years earlier.

• Zheng Fa used the Grand Array of Heavenly Stars to defeat the Peacock Great Emperor, who agreed to submit after declaring Zheng Fa the Demon Emperor because he possessed the Demon Emperor Dao Fruit.
• The Peacock Great Emperor warned that Lu Mo had changed and seemed to have become another person, while Zheng Fa called on Daoist Guhong and the other Three Reclusive Immortals to join the Nine Mountains Sect.
• Archaic Lord agreed that the Three Reclusive Immortals would become the wings of Nine Mountains, and Zheng Fa declared Northern Continent territory the sect was determined to take.
• Old Yuan organized a triumph ceremony to celebrate the victory, and Little Bird Yuan prepared a live broadcast along the procession route.
• Gu Chang, Mu Qingyan, Water Mother, and Gu Chang’s mother watched the ceremony’s broadcast as ordinary people gathered to welcome the returning fleet.
• Little Bird Yuan introduced the Nine Mountains Department Store disciples aboard the first Divine Firmament Warships, and Han Qi recalled first meeting Zheng Fa aboard a ship.

Zheng Fa returned in triumph with the captured Demon Race, then warned the Grand Elders that integrating the Northern Continent’s six Golden Immortals posed the Immortal Court’s greatest danger. He proposed granting Golden Immortal Worlds internal autonomy while unifying their military affairs, diplomacy, commerce, and currency, and ended by giving the six Golden Immortals self-governance treaties.

• Xie Qingxue and the Divine Firmament Fleet appeared in the victory broadcast, and Zheng Fa returned to Vast Sun City atop the Peacock Great Emperor with captured Demon Race members.
• Zheng Fa reunited silently with Senior Sister Zhang before telling the Grand Elders that governing the newly submitted Northern Continent and its six Golden Immortals threatened the Immortal Court from within.
• Zheng Fa proposed allowing Golden Immortals to govern their own worlds internally while the Immortal Court controlled military affairs and diplomacy and encouraged free movement, commerce, and unified currency.
• Zheng Fa described the Golden Immortal Worlds as places to test alternative systems and said the Immortal Court should learn from them rather than impose control for its own sake.
• Zheng Fa presented the six Golden Immortals with documents titled "Golden Immortal World Self-Governance Treaty."

Zheng Fa won over five Golden Immortals with a charter offering access to Stellar Power, while Peacock Great Emperor agreed to repay his campaign debt by selling demon resources and intelligence. Peacock then revealed that Lu Mo had changed after discovering a great opportunity in the Pure Land, and Zheng Fa asked why the Western Continent had fallen into chaos.

• Daoist Guhong and the other Golden Immortals reviewed the self-governance charter, including its requirements for currency, travel, military service, and taxes.
• Zheng Fa demonstrated that the Grand Array of Heavenly Stars could supply Stellar Power, prompting Daoist Guhong and four others to sign; Peacock Great Emperor remained excluded as a captive.
• Zheng Fa offered Peacock Great Emperor equal treatment if he repaid the campaign expenses, so Peacock agreed to sell his feathers, his subordinates' spirit materials, and intelligence.
• Peacock Great Emperor told Zheng Fa that Lu Mo became excited after learning of an opportunity in the Pure Land, then seemed increasingly unlike himself after emerging from seclusion.
• Zheng Fa and the others learned that Peacock had been forced to leave the Western Continent, and Daoist Guhong asked him to explain the chaos there.

Peacock Great Emperor revealed that Thunderclap Temple had fractured into four factions after a decree promised the Future Buddha a chance to attain Primordial Unity Golden Immortalhood. Zheng Fa and the Nine Mountains Sect concluded that the Earth Emperor Corpse was manipulating the conflict to restore his power and destroy the Pure Land, and they began planning to oppose him.

• Peacock Great Emperor explained that the Four Direction Buddhas had divided Western Continent while competing to become the Future Buddha, and that he had fled after they targeted him.
• Daoist Guhong confronted Peacock Great Emperor for misleading the Three Reclusive Immortals, and Peacock admitted he had used Lu Mo’s gift and story to win their help.
• At the Grand Elders' Council, Water Mother and Nine Nether Emperor agreed with Zheng Fa that the Earth Emperor Corpse likely controlled Thunderclap Buddha Ancestor and was orchestrating the struggle.
• Zheng Fa proposed that the Earth Emperor Corpse needed three Primordial Unity Golden Immortals and intended to use them as three-lifetime bodies while breaking the Pure Land’s suppression.
• Zheng Fa said the Nine Mountains Sect could resist with the Grand Array of Heavenly Stars and establish an intelligence channel in Western Continent through Hundred Flowers.
• Zheng Fa proposed saving the Buddhist School and restoring the Pure Land to obstruct the Earth Emperor Corpse’s plan.

Zheng Fa prepared to send his third incarnation into the Western Continent to help save the Jade Pool and agreed to let Azure Maiden accompany it. He returned to the Modern World and reunited with Tang Lingwu after six hundred years.

• Zheng Fa decided to send his newly condensed third incarnation, Maitreya Body, into the Western Continent to gather intelligence and help the Jade Pool.
• Water Mother explained that Azure Maiden’s help could make subduing Hundred Flowers possible, and Azure Maiden volunteered to accompany Zheng Fa despite the danger.
• Lunar Fairy stayed behind to assist Water Mother’s reincarnation, while Zheng Fa learned that Azure Maiden’s sacrifice also reflected the Jade Pool branch’s desire to integrate with the Nine Mountains Sect.
• Senior Sister Zhang urged Zheng Fa to visit Tang Lingwu, who had waited six hundred years in the Modern World.
• Zheng Fa traveled to Rainbow Mountain and reunited with Tang Lingwu, who quietly welcomed him back.

After returning to the Modern World, Zheng Fa reunited with Tang Lingwu and learned how greatly the Federation had advanced during his absence. Concerned that Emperor could sense the Primordial Purple Qi and threaten their refuge, Zheng Fa heard the Federation’s proposal to control the Grand Array of Heavenly Stars with a supercomputer rather than a cultivator.

• Zheng Fa reunited with Tang Lingwu on Rainbow Mountain, learned that Senior Sister Zhang had guided her to become a Loose Immortal, and embraced her.
• Zheng Fa returned with Tang Lingwu to the Nursing Home and learned that she had led the Federation to cultivate twelve Mahayana cultivators and hundreds more at lower realms.
• Tang Lingwu explained that the Modern World had grown strong through six hundred years of development and Nine Mountains Sect’s trade, while Zheng Fa acknowledged that Nine Mountains Sect had borne its external crises.
• Zheng Fa warned Tang Lingwu and the others to keep the Federation secluded because Emperor might sense the Primordial Purple Qi and the Modern World could become their last refuge.
• Tang Lingwu and Old Man Bai presented a proposal to control the Grand Array of Heavenly Stars without a cultivator, using the Heluo Supercomputer instead.

Maitreya Body and Azure Maiden traveled to the Western Continent with the Pure Tranquility Bamboo to investigate the Earth Emperor Corpse, seek the Blissful Heavenly Maiden, and repair the Pure Land. Azure Maiden returned to Jade Pool expecting to show Maitreya Body its wonders, but found the Elixir Sea barren and demanded to know what Hundred Flowers had done.

• Senior Sister Zhang gave Maitreya Body the Pure Tranquility Bamboo and instructed him and Azure Maiden to investigate the Western Continent, seek the Blissful Heavenly Maiden, and try to repair the Pure Land.
• Heavenly Emperor Body used the Grand Array of Heavenly Stars to send Maitreya Body and Azure Maiden to the Western Continent beside Jianmu.
• Azure Maiden guided Maitreya Body through Jianmu and described Jade Pool's Three Mountains and its vast Elixir Sea.
• Azure Maiden and Maitreya Body arrived above the Elixir Sea and found it reduced to barren yellow earth.
• Azure Maiden's excitement turned to anger, and she demanded to know what Hundred Flowers had done.

Maitreya Body and Azure Maiden learned from Han Yu that Blissful Heavenly Maiden had kept Jade Pool safe by supplying the Four Direction Buddhas with Blissful Incense. After Blissful Heavenly Maiden returned from Thunderclap Temple with the Four Direction Buddhas, she ordered temples to prepare altars and hold a sacrificial ceremony, leaving Maitreya Body uneasy.

• Azure Maiden brought Maitreya Body to Jade Snow Mountain and told Han Yu that Jade Snow Mountain’s loyal disciples were to obey him as they would her.
• Han Yu reported that Jade Pool was controlled by Blissful Heavenly Maiden’s Jile faction and that the Four Direction Buddhas had once threatened to attack it.
• Han Yu explained that Blissful Heavenly Maiden had supplied the Four Direction Buddhas with Blissful Incense made from newly planted elixirs, persuading them to leave Jade Pool alone.
• Han Yu told Maitreya Body and Azure Maiden that Blissful Heavenly Maiden and the Four Direction Buddhas had been summoned to Thunderclap Temple for an unknown major event.
• Blissful Heavenly Maiden returned with bodhisattvas and ordered altars established at temples for a sacrificial ceremony, prompting Maitreya Body to fear what was coming.

Maitreya Body investigated the Western Continent’s preparations for a ritual and discovered that Thunderclap Temple’s use of Blissful Incense had devastated the mortal population. He left Flowing Wave City realizing that the people he hoped to rally had been reduced to a vast, suffering crowd dependent on the very system he wanted to oppose.

• Maitreya Body and Azure Maiden concluded they could not sabotage the ritual by force, so Maitreya Body left Jade Snow Mountain to investigate while Azure Maiden stayed behind to watch Hundred Flowers.
• Maitreya Body arrived in Flowing Wave City, where he found shuttered shops, starving people, and corpses, and helped Abbot Tianyun bury several of the dead.
• Tianyun explained that rumors about Zheng Fa and the coming Wheel-Turning Sage King had spread across the Western Continent as the Final Calamity approached.
• Maitreya Body and Tianyun saw mortals gathered at Thunderclap Temple’s branch, receiving food and then entering a hall where Blissful Incense drove them into various states of intoxication and devotion.
• Tianyun told Maitreya Body that Blissful Incense had destroyed the family he had sworn to protect, and that Thunderclap Temple used the people’s growing misery to increase the Incense Power they supplied.
• Maitreya Body realized that Blissful Incense had made mortals provide far more Incense Power, leaving him feeling powerless to rally them against Thunderclap Temple.

The Maitreya Body learned that Abbot Tianyun was recruiting cultivators against the Four Direction Buddhas, then witnessed a ritual involving the Earth Emperor Corpse, Lu Mo, and Thunderclap Buddha Ancestor. The ritual summoned the Primordial Purple Qi—and transported the entire Modern World into the Western Continent.

• Abbot Tianyun told the Maitreya Body that he and other cultivators sought to escape the Western Continent and find the true Wheel-Turning Sage King, then gave him a prayer bead to exchange information.
• Zheng Fa and the Grand Elders' Council discussed the dangers of Blissful Incense and decided the Maitreya Body should observe events rather than act rashly.
• The Maitreya Body and the Azure Maiden watched a ritual at the Jade Pool as the Blissful Heavenly Maiden and the Four Direction Buddhas gathered power through three pagodas.
• The ritual revealed Lu Mo, Thunderclap Buddha Ancestor, and the Earth Emperor Corpse, who called out in the language of the ancient Primordial Wilderness.
• Zheng Fa realized the Primordial Purple Qi had been summoned to the Western Continent and that it had carried the entire Modern World there.

The Earth Emperor Corpse dragged the Modern World into the Western Continent while trying to seize the Primordial Purple Qi, but the Pure Land suppressed him again. With the Modern World trapped there, Tang Lingwu proposed sending the Federation’s cultivators out to establish a foothold and support Maitreya Body.

• The Pure Land suppressed the Earth Emperor Corpse, injuring Lu Mo and Thunderclap Buddha Ancestor, while the Modern World became trapped inside the Great Vajra Dharma Realm.
• Zheng Fa told the Nine Mountains Immortal Court’s Grand Elders about the Modern World, and they agreed to help rescue it and prevent the Earth Emperor Corpse from emerging.
• Maitreya Body and Azure Maiden reached the Modern World and confirmed that it was safe, then Maitreya Body explained the threat posed by the Earth Emperor Corpse and the difficulty of preaching in the Western Continent.
• Tang Lingwu proposed sending the Federation’s cultivators to establish a force in the Western Continent, spread Buddhist faith, prepare an escape route, and gain resources; Maitreya Body relayed her plan to the Nine Mountains Sect.
• Zheng Fa and Senior Sister Zhang approved the plan and offered technical support, after which Tang Lingwu announced the colonization operation and Federation cultivators crowded to register.

The Maitreya Body and Tang Lingwu led the Federation’s first colonization team to the Western Continent, choosing a remote site to establish a new settlement while concealing their ties to the Jade Pool. Six months later, Azure Maiden was stunned by how quickly their modern agricultural tools had produced flourishing Spirit Plants.

• Tang Lingwu and the Maitreya Body limited the first colonization group and contacted Tianyun presiding monk for intelligence and a map of the Western Continent.
• The Maitreya Body addressed three hundred cultivators at the Federation’s first colonization oath-taking assembly, promising to share their dangers and labor as they established a colony.
• The Maitreya Body and Tang Lingwu departed with Old Man Bai and Azure Maiden, leaving Tang Mudao and Professor Tian to maintain stability in the Federation.
• The group settled in a remote valley surrounded by seven mountains and began restoring its Spirit Vein and reclaiming fields with modern agricultural Dharma Tools.
• Azure Maiden watched the settlers use Spirit Field Control Rods to regulate growing conditions and realized they planned to supply the Western Continent’s shortage of Spirit Plants.
• Six months later, Azure Maiden saw Spirit Plants blooming across half the valley and bitterly asked the Maitreya Body why he had not been born a few epochs earlier.

Maitreya Body showed Azure Maiden the valley’s new Spirit Plant fields and its Bodhi and Great Compassion Institutes, then reviewed the nearby region’s conditions and refugees with Tang Lingwu. The settlers planned to aid refugees while seeking a legitimate identity through Presiding Master Tianyun, and Azure Maiden became convinced Maitreya Body was the prophesied Future Buddha.

• Maitreya Body explained how selected medicinal-plant varieties and cultivation methods had helped the colony’s fields flourish, then showed Azure Maiden the open-access Bodhi Institute.
• Old Man Bai showed them the Bodhi Institute’s floors, while Tang Lingwu managed administration at the Great Compassion Institute and prioritized breeding rice for higher yields.
• Maitreya Body read a report describing nearby cities and villages, refugee settlements, and Thunderclap Temple’s internal conflict between the Four Direction Buddhas’ factions.
• Tang Lingwu and Maitreya Body agreed the settlers needed to expand beyond the valley, but Maitreya Body said they first needed a legitimate identity and proposed approaching Presiding Master Tianyun.
• Tang Lingwu sent cultivators to provide refugees with food and medicine and help them find places to farm and establish livelihoods.
• Azure Maiden told Maitreya Body she believed Thunderclap Buddha Ancestor’s prophecy that the Future Buddha would be born.

Maitreya Body explained his sect’s ideals to Azure Maiden, then welcomed Abbot Tianyun and a concealed Loose Immortal into the valley. As Maitreya Body described the sect’s origins and principles, the Loose Immortal recognized the words as something he had heard before.

• Azure Maiden told Maitreya Body that Thunderclap Temple’s early cultivation principles were to cultivate wisdom and practice benevolence, and said his sect matched those original ideals.
• Abbot Tianyun learned that his lord wanted to gather cultivators both to obtain Incense Power and to search for the true Future Buddha, who would be chosen for his ability to rebuild a Buddhist School rather than his cultivation alone.
• Abbot Tianyun and the concealed Loose Immortal visited Maitreya Body’s valley, where they were astonished by its Spirit Herb fields, pill-making facilities, and hundreds of cultivators.
• Maitreya Body claimed his sect was a secluded branch of Thunderclap Temple whose founder disagreed with the temple’s ideology, then showed the visitors the Great Compassion Institute and Bodhi Institute.
• The concealed Loose Immortal recognized Maitreya Body’s description of cultivating compassion and wisdom, while Azure Maiden also realized she had heard those words before.

Maitreya Body deceived a monk-robed man about Universal Salvation Temple’s origins, but the man invited the colony to join the Dharma King Society and gave them a Dragon Flower Tree Seed. The Four Direction Buddhas then began a continent-wide war, while Abbot Tianyun explained that the Future Buddha’s rise depended on spreading true Dharma and cultivating a genuine pure land.

• Maitreya Body claimed Universal Salvation Temple descended from a Thunderclap Temple monk named Bodhi, and the monk-robed man accepted that they were independent of the Four Direction Buddhas and Jade Pool.
• After the monk-robed man left, Abbot Tianyun invited Maitreya Body to join the Dharma King Society and offered him a jade casket.
• The Four Direction Buddhas appeared in the divided sky and began fighting, while their disciples attacked temples and tried to sever one another’s faith.
• Abbot Tianyun gave Maitreya Body a Dragon Flower Tree Seed and explained that it would mature in a genuine Maitreya Pure Land, growing faster as Buddhist teachings spread and believers became more devout.