Chapter Summaries

Maitreya Body and Tang Lingwu showed Azure Maiden that Pure Tranquility Spirit Water could counter Blissful Incense and asked her to lead its large-scale production in the Modern World. There, Azure Maiden began organizing cultivation efforts with the Federation Agriculture Academy, whose researchers’ expertise left her scrambling to catch up.

• Maitreya Body told Azure Maiden that Blissful Heavenly Maiden’s strengthened Blissful Incense had cut off contact with Jade Snow Mountain, and Azure Maiden admitted she was tormented by her inability to protect its disciples.
• Tang Lingwu used Pure Tranquility Bamboo to administer Pure Tranquility Spirit Water to a victim of Blissful Incense, and Maitreya Body confirmed that the man had recovered.
• Maitreya Body asked Azure Maiden to oversee spirit-medicine cultivation in the Modern World, where fast time flow and established farming resources could support mass production while keeping her hidden from Blissful Heavenly Maiden.
• Azure Maiden arrived at the Modern World’s Agriculture Academy, and Professor Tian told her she could direct its resources, including millions of mu of spirit fields and hundreds of thousands of cultivators.
• Azure Maiden taught the academy’s directors Jade Pool’s cultivation methods for the eight medicines, but their questions and research findings revealed that they knew far more about spirit-plant cultivation than she had expected.
• Azure Maiden asked Professor Tian for the academy’s research so she could study it before the next meeting.

Azure Maiden celebrated the Agriculture Academy’s successful new strain of Bitterheart Lotus, while the Blissful Heavenly Maiden learned that Azure Maiden had returned and investigated the mysterious Dharma King Society. After hearing it might be tied to Ganan and Thunderclap Buddha Ancestor, the Blissful Heavenly Maiden declared that she would seize her own place rather than fear anyone’s plans.

• Azure Maiden celebrated the Agriculture Academy’s new Bitterheart Lotus strain, bred using the Jade Pool Method, then remembered the Jade Pool as she surveyed the spirit fields.
• Glazed Buddha Ancestor visited the Blissful Heavenly Maiden and saw eight Jade Pool cultivators suffering under Blissful Seeds.
• The Blissful Heavenly Maiden learned that Azure Maiden had returned with an unknown Buddhist True Immortal, while Glazed Buddha Ancestor linked the Dharma King Society to Ganan and possibly Thunderclap Buddha Ancestor.
• The Blissful Heavenly Maiden revealed that her true form was ordinary star grass and recounted how she had overcome her humble origins to attain the Golden Immortal Realm.
• The Blissful Heavenly Maiden said she would not fear Thunderclap Buddha Ancestor’s choice or hidden plans, and the eight Jade Pool cultivators bowed before her.

The Blissful Heavenly Maiden exposed and destroyed the Dharma King Society’s strongholds, repeatedly trapping Ganan in illusions and exhausting his escape methods. She and the Glazed Buddha Ancestor confronted Universal Salvation Temple, where Maitreya Body revealed that the Azure Maiden was absent and the Blissful Heavenly Maiden identified him as Nine Mountains Zheng Fa.

• Abbot Tianyun returned to Ganan with news that the Dharma King Society’s members had been exposed, but the Blissful Heavenly Maiden’s incense had already marked him.
• Ganan sought aid from the Dragon Flower Tree and believed he had become a Golden Immortal, but the Blissful Heavenly Maiden revealed that his apparent victory and escapes were illusions.
• The Blissful Heavenly Maiden destroyed Ganan’s strongholds and found his sixteen resurrection avatars, then followed his warning to Universal Salvation Temple.
• The Blissful Heavenly Maiden arrived at Universal Salvation Temple with Ganan and waited for the Glazed Buddha Ancestor before confronting Maitreya Body.
• Maitreya Body said the Azure Maiden was absent, and the Blissful Heavenly Maiden solemnly called him Nine Mountains Zheng Fa.

Maitreya Body confronted Blissful Heavenly Maiden and Glazed Buddha Ancestor, using the apparent summons of the Buddhist School’s Two Sages to create an opening and strike Glazed Buddha Ancestor. The two enemies then revealed their secret alliance, and Glazed Buddha Ancestor joined Maitreya in driving Blissful Heavenly Maiden into retreat.

• Blissful Heavenly Maiden deduced that Maitreya Body was Zheng Fa and searched for Azure Maiden, while Maitreya admitted she was absent.
• Maitreya Body conjured apparent figures of the Two Sages, frightening Blissful Heavenly Maiden and Glazed Buddha Ancestor before revealing that they were hollow shells.
• Maitreya Body vanished and struck Glazed Buddha Ancestor from behind with Pure Tranquility Bamboo, but Glazed Buddha Ancestor survived with his Glazed Dharma Aspect.
• Maitreya Body revealed his Formless Dharma Aspect, and Blissful Heavenly Maiden and Glazed Buddha Ancestor attacked him together.
• Glazed Buddha Ancestor turned on Blissful Heavenly Maiden, and Maitreya Body struck her as she reeled, revealing that the two men had secretly allied to free Glazed Buddha Ancestor from the Blissful Seed.

Maitreya Body and Glazed Buddha Ancestor failed to kill the injured Blissful Heavenly Maiden after she persuaded Glazed to join forces with her. Maitreya then offered Glazed a deal to resolve Blissful Incense and reclaim Thunderclap Temple, and Glazed agreed, breaking his alliance with the Blissful Heavenly Maiden.

• Glazed Buddha Ancestor used Truth Listener to locate the Blissful Heavenly Maiden among thousands of blossoms, while Maitreya Body caught up with her using the Rainbow Transformation Method.
• The Blissful Heavenly Maiden convinced Glazed Buddha Ancestor that they should cooperate against Maitreya, but Azure Maiden arrived and the two pursuers withdrew.
• At Jade Pool, Glazed Buddha Ancestor told Ganan that he would neither join Maitreya nor help the Blissful Heavenly Maiden, and that he wanted neither to become Future Buddha.
• Ganan offered Glazed Buddha Ancestor a deal from Maitreya: Universal Salvation Temple would sell him the antidote to Blissful Incense, giving him a chance to reclaim Thunderclap Temple and his believers.
• Maitreya Body explained that Glazed Buddha Ancestor could be won over with benefits, then received a spirit talisman confirming that Glazed had agreed to the deal.

Glazed Buddha Ancestor planned to seize the Western Continent’s faith and become the Future Buddha, while Maitreya Body used the threat of the Emperor and Lu Mo to justify a different strategy. With Ganan’s help and ten million modern cultivators, Maitreya Body began rebuilding the Dharma King Society as a practical force for relief and governance, naming it Great Thunderclap Temple.

• Glazed Buddha Ancestor rejected joining the Nine Mountains Sect or relying on Blissful Heavenly Maiden and ordered his disciples to move his statues into branch temples before he preached the Glazed World Great Dao.
• Medicine Master Bodhisattva and two senior brothers secretly doubted Glazed Buddha Ancestor’s chances, but chose to follow his orders for the time being.
• Maitreya Body explained that he sold Pure Tranquility Spirit Water to Glazed Buddha Ancestor to divide him from Blissful Heavenly Maiden and accelerate the struggle for the Future Buddha’s position while the Emperor and Lu Mo remained silent.
• Ganan agreed to help Maitreya Body use the Dharma King Society to compete for the Western Continent’s faith, and Maitreya Body offered him ten million cultivators to rebuild it.
• Maitreya Body, Ganan, and the modern cultivators agreed to replace the old society’s preaching-focused approach with practical relief, construction, and governance.
• Maitreya Body named the rebuilt organization Great Thunderclap Temple.

Medicine Master Bodhisattva confronted the devastation and the people’s lost faith in Medicine Master City as he tried to treat survivors and secure food. Cheng Yun and Maitreya’s cultivators arrived with supplies, took control of relief efforts, and built a rival temple, leaving Medicine Master Bodhisattva unable to stop them.

• Medicine Master Bodhisattva learned that Medicine Master City had dwindled to 250,000 people and ordered food searches and treatment for the sick.
• An old believer rejected Medicine Master Bodhisattva’s help, blamed Thunderclap Temple for his family’s suffering, and died after questioning the temple’s role in the Blissful Incense disaster.
• Medicine Master Bodhisattva discovered that the survivors’ faith was weak and driven largely by fear.
• Cheng Yun arrived with food, medicine, and seeds, declared that Maitreya’s followers would provide relief and spread their own teachings, and warned Medicine Master Bodhisattva not to obstruct them.
• Cheng Yun’s cultivators flattened several courtyards and built a temple bearing the plaque Great Thunderclap Temple, unsettling Medicine Master Bodhisattva.

Cheng Yun organized Great Thunderclap Temple’s food deliveries and helped Gu Liuniang and her daughter survive, while the temple worked to win Medicine Master City’s trust. After cautious residents began visiting the temple, Gu Liuniang received food and clothing coupons, land, and a school admission notice, leaving with new prospects for her family.

• Cheng Yun divided Medicine Master City into districts and told the cultivators to distribute food, identify residents needing medical care, and build trust with the people.
• Cheng Yun delivered rice and oil to Gu Liuniang and her starving daughter, Yan'er, cooked rice for them, and learned that Gu Liuniang’s family members had vanished after going to Thunderclap Temple.
• Cheng Yun told Gu Liuniang that Great Thunderclap Temple claimed to be Thunderclap Temple’s true orthodox inheritance, while Medicine Master Bodhisattva condemned the claim and recognized the temple’s effort to reshape public opinion.
• After receiving food and medical care over several days, Gu Liuniang brought her daughter to Great Thunderclap Temple and saw Cheng Yun patiently reassure newcomers.
• A temple disciple gave Gu Liuniang three months of supply coupons, a rent-free land lease, and a school admission notice for her daughter, then encouraged Gu Liuniang to study and learn a trade herself.

Cheng Yun visited Medicine Master Bodhisattva to recruit him into Great Thunderclap Temple and persuade him to lure out the Glazed Buddha Ancestor. After bringing him to a school, Cheng Yun showed him lessons that challenged Thunderclap Temple’s doctrines, leaving Medicine Master Bodhisattva alarmed and furious.

• Cheng Yun met Medicine Master Bodhisattva in Medicine Master Hall and asked him to submit to Great Thunderclap Temple and lure out the Glazed Buddha Ancestor.
• Medicine Master Bodhisattva hesitated, so Cheng Yun invited him to visit a Great Thunderclap Temple elementary school.
• Cheng Yun explained that Great Thunderclap Temple employed cultivators as teachers because early education helped cultivators develop.
• A teacher taught children Maitreya’s Three Great Principles, including that everyone possessed Buddha-nature and could become a Buddha regardless of their origins.
• The teacher explained that all beings were equal and that even Buddha Ancestor’s teachings were impermanent, prompting Medicine Master Bodhisattva to angrily confront Cheng Yun.

Cheng Yun showed Medicine Master Bodhisattva how Great Thunderclap Temple taught Maitreya’s principles and prepared him for a public trial of Medicine Master City residents who had committed crimes during the Blissful Incense disaster. The trial opened with Chen Wenting and Chen Weimo, and a young woman’s testimony exposed their abuse before she learned her fiancé had been killed.

• Cheng Yun explained that Great Thunderclap Temple’s principles treated even the Buddha Ancestor as subject to judgment, leaving Medicine Master Bodhisattva troubled by their challenge to Thunderclap Buddhist Law.
• After spending the day at the elementary school, Medicine Master Bodhisattva followed Cheng Yun to Thunderclap Temple’s public trial assembly, where residents gathered to hear open proceedings under the Nine Mountains Penal Code.
• A Great Thunderclap Temple disciple announced that defendants would face public prosecution, testimony, judgment, appeals decided by the people, and immediate sentencing.
• The disciple presented Chen Wenting and Chen Weimo, accusing the father and son of using Blissful Incense to murder thirty-six members of the Guan Family and commit further crimes.
• A young woman testified that Chen Weimo had used Thunderclap Temple to manipulate her parents, force her into becoming his concubine, and separate her from her fiancé.
• The woman learned that her fiancé had been found dead, and she broke down sobbing.

The Great Thunderclap Temple’s public trial exposed No-Mind’s crimes and the role he played in the killings enabled by Blissful Incense. As the mortals demanded his death, Cheng Yun challenged Medicine Master Bodhisattva to consider who else should take responsibility for their suffering.

• The Chen father and son were accused of using Blissful Incense to kill 272 people, and Chen Wenting testified that No-Mind had ordered the Guan Family’s murder and helped cover up later crimes.
• Great Thunderclap Temple disciples captured No-Mind, and Chen Weimo presented a Recording Talisman showing No-Mind’s involvement.
• No-Mind denied the accusations, but the Three Lives Stone revealed his collusion with the Chen Family and other forces, as well as his brutal treatment of women through dual cultivation.
• Mortals recognized their missing relatives in the Three Lives Stone’s visions and began shouting for No-Mind to be killed.
• Cheng Yun told Medicine Master Bodhisattva that mortals had made him a Bodhisattva through their belief and asked whether the Chen father and son and No-Mind were the only ones responsible for the Blissful Incense disaster.

Medicine Master Bodhisattva realized that Maitreya’s public trials had turned the Western Continent’s faith toward the Great Thunderclap Temple, while Glazed Buddha Ancestor sought help from the Earth Sovereign. The Earth Sovereign revealed Thunderclap Buddha Ancestor’s sacrifice to advance Maitreya and ordered Glazed to help Maitreya become the Future Buddha, leaving Glazed stunned.

• Cheng Yun made Medicine Master Bodhisattva listen to the people’s cries across the Western Continent, and the Bodhisattva realized the Great Thunderclap Temple’s trials had redirected public faith toward Maitreya.
• Maitreya cultivated beneath the Dragon Flower Tree as Incense Power poured into him, while Azure Maiden and Old Man Bai worried about Thunderclap Buddha Ancestor’s plans.
• Glazed Buddha Ancestor knelt before the Earth Sovereign’s stupa and entered the Pure Land, where he found Thunderclap Buddha Ancestor and the other Buddhist Dharma Aspects losing their cultivation.
• The Earth Sovereign explained that Thunderclap Buddha Ancestor was sacrificing his cultivation to deduce a realm for Maitreya, whom he had chosen to reestablish the Buddhist Way.
• Glazed Buddha Ancestor pledged loyalty to the Earth Sovereign, who ordered him to help Maitreya become the Future Buddha, leaving Glazed aghast.

Maitreya comprehended the Yellow Court Scripture with Thunderclap Buddha Ancestor’s help, while a future Grand Luo Zheng Fa appeared and revealed the scripture’s Grand Luo Chapter. As Blissful Heavenly Maiden attacked Maitreya’s advancement, Azure Maiden and Tang Lingwu moved to stop her, and Maitreya began to stir toward awakening.

• Thunderclap Buddha Ancestor used karmic deductions of future Zheng Fa to guide Maitreya through the Yellow Court Scripture, while Maitreya and Zheng Fa’s other bodies deepened their understanding of their Dao techniques.
• Azure Maiden explained that Taiji and Grand Luo were Great Dao Lords who wielded the Great Dao across the myriad realms.
• A Grand Luo Zheng Fa appeared beside Maitreya, showed him the Grand Luo Chapter, and looked at Old Man Bai and Tang Lingwu with chilling indifference.
• Old Man Bai learned Zheng Fa was in seclusion advancing, leaving the Immortal Court unable to send help, just as Blissful Heavenly Maiden arrived at Seven Star Valley.
• Blissful Heavenly Maiden tried to exploit Azure Maiden’s affection and reach Maitreya, but Tang Lingwu intervened, prompting Azure Maiden to fight Blissful and shield the advancement.
• Blissful Heavenly Maiden shattered Azure Maiden’s ice wall and sent flowers toward Maitreya, but Tang Lingwu stood in their path as Maitreya’s aura began to fluctuate.

The Glazed Buddha Ancestor protected Tang Lingwu and Maitreya from the Blissful Heavenly Maiden, allowing Maitreya to complete his advancement. Maitreya attained the Future Buddha’s Dao as the Thunderclap Buddha Ancestor entered nirvana.

• The Blissful Heavenly Maiden’s petals nearly struck Tang Lingwu, but the Glazed Buddha Ancestor intervened and shielded her and Maitreya.
• The Glazed Buddha Ancestor refused to let the injured Blissful Heavenly Maiden reach Maitreya, while Azure Maiden and the others stayed back.
• The Blissful Heavenly Maiden manifested her Blissful World and fought the Glazed Buddha Ancestor for months, but his Eastern Glazed Pure Land protected Maitreya.
• Maitreya opened his eyes beneath the Dragon Flower Tree, and the sacred mountain’s Dharma Aspects dissolved into golden fragments that helped him break through to Grand Luo.
• The Thunderclap Buddha Ancestor’s Dharma Aspect burned away and left a spark in Maitreya, entering nirvana as Maitreya attained the Future Buddha’s Dao.

Maitreya proved Grand Luo with Thunderclap Buddha Ancestor’s sacrifice, only to become a vessel for the Heavenly Sovereign Corpse as the Earth Sovereign revealed his scheme. Zheng Fa arrived to confront the Earth Sovereign, who disclosed that he had targeted Zheng Fa all along and that Lu Mo had gained control of the Fusang Wood.

• Thunderclap Buddha Ancestor’s sacrifice destroyed the Pure Land and empowered Maitreya, while Glazed Buddha Ancestor lost much of his cultivation.
• Maitreya restored the Western Continent and sided with the Earth Sovereign, who revealed that the Heavenly Sovereign Corpse had used the Great Luo Chapter to possess Maitreya.
• The Earth Sovereign explained that he had manipulated Thunderclap Buddha Ancestor to create a new Heavenly Sovereign Corpse and unite the Three Sovereigns so he could prove Hunyuan.
• Zheng Fa arrived, and the Earth Sovereign revealed that Lu Mo had come through a World Gate and taken control of the Fusang Wood.
• Zheng Fa realized the Earth Sovereign’s earlier move to bring the Modern World into the Western Continent had been aimed at him, not the Primordial Purple Qi.

Lu Mo revealed that he had taken control of the Fusang Wood and helped the Earth Sovereign seize Zheng Fa, while the Emperor’s faction gathered Xuanwei’s Incense Power and Primordial Purple Qi to restore the Primordial Three Sovereigns. The Emperor began attaining Hunyuan as Xuanwei transformed into a Grand Luo Heaven, leaving Maitreya, Lu Mo, and the Human Sovereign on the verge of merging into his newly formed body.

• Lu Mo used the Fusang Wood to restore the Heavenly Emperor Corpse’s control over Maitreya, and the Earth Sovereign transported Zheng Fa to Thunderclap Temple and sealed his immortal power.
• The Earth Sovereign reclaimed control of the Reincarnation Disc, stripping the Nine Nether Emperor of his power, while Lu Mo used the Fusang Wood to gather Incense Power from Xuanwei.
• The Earth Sovereign captured the Nine Nether Emperor in the Book of Life and Death and joined Lu Mo and the Human Sovereign at Thunderclap Temple.
• Maitreya channeled Xuanwei’s Incense Power through the three Sovereigns, who used the Primordial Purple Qi to begin restoring the Emperor.
• The Emperor’s manifestation declared his authority, transformed Xuanwei into a Grand Luo Heaven, and caused the Underworld to separate and connect to the other Golden Immortal Worlds.
• The Emperor’s physical body formed as Maitreya, Lu Mo, and the Human Sovereign began turning incorporeal and merging into him.

Zheng Fa realized the Emperor planned to control cultivators through the Yellow Court Scripture and mortals through Blissful Incense, while the Nine Mountains Immortal Court held an emergency assembly to resist him. The assembly stripped Zheng Fa of his leadership and the Heavenly Emperor Body of his posts, severing the Incense Power that the Emperor needed as he tried to merge with the Primordial Purple Qi.

• Zheng Fa deduced that the Emperor needed the Human Race's recognition to fuse with the Primordial Purple Qi, and suspected the Emperor had chosen the Blissful Heavenly Maiden to spread Blissful Incense.
• Senior Sister Zhang told the Nine Mountains assembly that Zheng Fa had proposed removing him as Sect Leader so the Immortal Court could oppose the Emperor, and the disciples approved the proposal.
• The assembly appointed Zhang Wuyi acting Sect Leader and elected Mu Qingyan as a Grand Elder.
• Zhang Wuyi stripped the Heavenly Emperor Body of his Divine Way Inspectorate posts and Divine Tally, while Longbrow Daoist announced the Founder would obey the Immortal Court's orders.
• As the Emperor neared fusion with the Primordial Purple Qi, the Incense Power from Xuanwei abruptly vanished, the purple qi began struggling, and the Emperor accused Zheng Fa.

Zheng Fa used the Nine Mountains Divine Way, the Grand Array of Heavenly Stars, and Thunderclap Buddha Ancestor’s Nirvana Golden Flame to defeat Emperor and absorb his cultivation, reaching the Hunyuan realm. Back in the modern world, he discussed the aftermath and the future of the heavens and myriad realms with Senior Sister Zhang and his companions.

• Zheng Fa explained that the Nine Mountains Divine Way was controlled by its General Assembly, and Emperor ordered Lu Mo and Blissful Heavenly Maiden to kill him while pursuing the Primordial Purple Qi.
• Dao Venerable arrived to rescue Zheng Fa, who escaped with the Twofold Dust-Particle Talisman; Dao Venerable was captured by Emperor until Zheng Fa united his Three Corpses and attained the Grand Unity realm.
• Zheng Fa used the Grand Array of Heavenly Stars to fight Emperor, while Tang Lingwu, Old Man Bai, and the modern cultivators took control of the array and struck Emperor down.
• Zheng Fa sensed Emperor had survived and used the Nirvana Golden Flame to make Emperor’s three bodies merge, then absorbed his cultivation and grasped the Primordial Purple Qi.
• Zheng Fa returned to the modern world, where Senior Sister Zhang reported the aftermath of the Jile Upheaval and discussed the Nine Mountains Immortal Court’s future leadership and the six Sages’ orthodox lineages with him.