Chapter Summaries

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and Patriarch Styx fought Jieyin and Zhunti at Spirit Mountain, but both were overwhelmed by the veteran Saints. Huang Tian decided to intervene and agreed to release Kong Xuan to support them, giving him a chance to attain the Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm.

• Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva attacked Jieyin, while Patriarch Styx brought down a Blood Sea and challenged Zhunti.
• Nuwa judged that Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and Patriarch Styx could not defeat the stronger Saints, while Tongtian remained trapped in Purple Heaven Palace and the Grand Pure Heavenly Venerate and Primordial Beginning reacted to the fight.
• Jieyin drove Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva back and destroyed Yuzhen Temple, angering Golden Summit Immortal and drawing dismay from the Jade Emperor and the immortals.
• Zhunti beat Patriarch Styx back despite his Twelve-Grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus, while Huang Tian and Great Sage Sun discussed the danger to the Three Realms.
• Huang Tian agreed to release Kong Xuan to help Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and Patriarch Styx and seize the opportunity to attain a higher realm.

Huang Tian used the Purification Technique to strengthen Kong Xuan, who went to Spirit Mountain to help Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and Patriarch Styx fight Zhunti. Kong Xuan broke through to Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal Stage Two, and the chapter ended with Jieyin and the other Saints realizing he had become a rare Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal rather than a Saint.

• Huang Tian purified Kong Xuan’s body, bloodline, and Magic Power, awakening his Phoenix ability and preparing him to break through.
• Kong Xuan arrived at Spirit Mountain and attacked Zhunti with his Five-Colored Divine Light, giving Patriarch Styx relief from Zhunti’s assault.
• Kong Xuan’s aura surged past the Saint realm and reached Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal Stage Two.
• Kong Xuan clashed with Zhunti’s Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree and accused the Saints of interfering in the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation.
• Zhunti recognized that Kong Xuan was a Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal, and Jieyin and the other Saints were shocked by the revelation.

Kong Xuan revealed that Houtu’s fusion with the Dao had allowed Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortals to emerge, while Hongjun blamed Jieyin and Zhunti and awakened them to their danger. As the Western Saints turned the battle against their opponents, Sun Wukong broke through to Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal Stage Four and arrived with Huang Tian’s tower to protect Ksitigarbha.

• Kong Xuan explained that Houtu’s fusion with the Human Dao had completed the Three Realms and enabled Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortals to appear.
• Hongjun rebuked Jieyin and Zhunti, and their hesitation let Ksitigarbha strike Jieyin while Kong Xuan and Patriarch Styx hit Zhunti.
• Jieyin and Zhunti revealed their Ming King Dharma Forms and rose to Saint Stage Five, forcing Kong Xuan and Patriarch Styx to retreat and overwhelming Ksitigarbha.
• Huang Tian watched from Flower and Fruit Mountain and recognized that Hongjun had awakened.
• Sun Wukong reached Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal Stage Four, used Huang Tian’s tower to block Jieyin’s attack on Ksitigarbha, and challenged the Western Saints over their plot against him.

Bai Ze revealed that he had become a Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal and demanded that the Buddhist Sect return Lu Ya, the Demon Tribe’s Tenth Prince. As Bai Ze joined the battle at Spirit Mountain, he and three allies formed an alliance against Jieyin and Zhunti.

• Bai Ze announced his new strength and demanded that Jieyin and Zhunti return Lu Ya, prompting people across the Three Realms to recognize their connection to the Demon Tribe.
• Mahavairocana Tathagata realized Bai Ze was calling him back as Lu Ya, and the Jade Emperor urged him to wait until the battle at Spirit Mountain ended before returning.
• The Jade Emperor advised Lu Ya to walk from Spirit Mountain to the Northern Kuru Continent afterward to show his remorse and help the Demon Tribe accept him.
• Bai Ze arrived at Spirit Mountain and joined Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, Patriarch Styx, and Kong Xuan against Jieyin and Zhunti.
• Bai Ze, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, Patriarch Styx, and Kong Xuan agreed to form an alliance against the Buddhist Sect.

At Spirit Mountain, Bai Ze, Ksitigarbha, Kong Xuan, and Patriarch Styx battled Jieyin and Zhunti over Lu Ya, until the Western Saints called for aid. Bai Ze then recruited Kong Xuan into the Demon Tribe as its Peacock Demon Emperor, strengthening the alliance as the battle continued.

• Bai Ze, Ksitigarbha, Kong Xuan, and Patriarch Styx fought Jieyin and Zhunti at Spirit Mountain, reaching a stalemate.
• Huang Tian told Great Sage Sun that the other Heavenly Dao Saints might answer Jieyin and Zhunti’s appeal, and that Great Sage Sun could intercept one of them.
• Zhunti called on Taiqing and Yuanshi for help, and Grand Supreme Elder Lord went to the Hall of Divine Mists and took Mahavairocana Tathagata Buddha away.
• Bai Ze rejected Jieyin’s attempt to divide the allies and invited Kong Xuan to join the Demon Tribe as the Peacock Demon Emperor.
• Kong Xuan accepted, and the demons of the Northern Kuru Continent hailed him as their new emperor.

The Grand Supreme Elder Lord stopped the battle at Spirit Mountain and revealed that he was a Pseudo-Saint, a Three Corpse with Saint-level power who could still be killed. On Flower and Fruit Mountain, Huang Tian realized that Houtu’s Human Dao fusion was incomplete and considered telling her where the rest of the Human Book was.

• The Grand Supreme Elder Lord arrived with Mahavairocana Tathagata Buddha, and the opposing groups stopped fighting when they sensed his Saint Stage Two power.
• Bai Ze offered to end the conflict if the Grand Supreme Elder Lord handed over Lu Ya, and the Grand Supreme Elder Lord tossed Lu Ya to him and ordered everyone to disperse.
• Kong Xuan asked whether a Saint’s Three Corpses could become Saints, and the Grand Supreme Elder Lord explained that Pseudo-Saints had Saint-level strength but lacked the Heavenly Dao’s protection from death.
• Kong Xuan left Spirit Mountain with Bai Ze, Ksitigarbha, and Patriarch Styx after the six-Saint battle ended.
• Huang Tian considered the locations of the three Books of Heaven, Earth, and Human and realized that Houtu possessed only part of the Human Book.
• Huang Tian considered telling Houtu that Nuwa’s Three Corpse held the Red Thread of Fate and the Book of Marriage so Houtu could complete her Human Dao fusion.

Bai Ze brought Lu Ya back to the Demon Tribe and prepared a Dharma Assembly with Kong Xuan, while Lu Ya was put to work warming Northern Kuru Continent. Kong Xuan and Bai Ze planned to invite the Great Sage Equaling Heaven to join the Demon Tribe and strengthen it against the Buddhist Sect.

• Huang Tian ordered Great Sage Sun to attend Kong Xuan's Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal Dharma Assembly in the name of the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, and sent Zhao Wuji to check on the East Sea Dragon Palace.
• Bai Ze announced that Kong Xuan and he would hold a Dharma Assembly, prompting the demons to build guest palaces.
• Bai Ze told Lu Ya he could return to Spirit Mountain or rejoin the Demon Tribe, but would have to earn his place among them.
• Bai Ze ordered Lu Ya to become a great sun and warm Northern Kuru Continent, and Lu Ya transformed into a Three-Legged Golden Crow.
• Bai Ze and Kong Xuan agreed to invite the Great Sage Equaling Heaven to join the Demon Tribe and help oppose the Buddhist Sect.

Bai Ze and Kong Xuan held a Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal Dharma Assembly at the Demon God Palace, drawing powerful cultivators from across the Three Realms. Their teachings left Haotian, Yaochi, and Tathagata questioning whether the fortune of their factions could help them attain the realm.

• Bai Ze announced the Dharma Assembly, and Zhen Yuanzi, Haotian, Yaochi, and the Dragon Kings decided to attend.
• Cultivators from many factions gathered at the Northern Kuru Continent and saw Lu Ya serving as the sun overhead.
• Bai Ze began the assembly by sharing insights into attaining Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal.
• Kong Xuan expounded on the Five Elements Great Dao, prompting Haotian, Yaochi, and Tathagata to reconsider relying on factional fortune for advancement.
• Haotian and Yaochi realized that their Heavenly Court fortune was unlikely to help them attain Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal.

Zhen Yuanzi asked Bai Ze and Kong Xuan why he could not reach the Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal realm or become a saint, and Bai Ze brought him to Huang Tian for an answer. Huang Tian revealed that the secret involved Zhen Yuanzi’s Earth Book, which he learned was indestructible beneath the saint realm because its defense was tied to the Primordial Wilderness itself.

• After hearing Kong Xuan and Bai Ze’s discourse, Zhen Yuanzi asked them why he could not advance despite understanding many of the teachings.
• Kong Xuan could not explain Zhen Yuanzi’s problem, but Bai Ze said it involved a dangerous secret that Zhen Yuanzi might not survive learning.
• Bai Ze and Kong Xuan brought Zhen Yuanzi through the Chaos Pearl to meet Huang Tian in an orchard.
• Huang Tian asked Zhen Yuanzi to take out the Earth Book, then explained that its defensive power was connected to the Primordial Wilderness.
• Zhen Yuanzi realized that those beneath the saint realm could not break the Earth Book because they could not shatter the Primordial Wilderness.

Huang Tian revealed that Hongjun had prevented Zhen Yuanzi from finding the Earth Dao, and sent him to seek Houtu’s guidance so he could pursue sainthood. Huang Tian then refused Bai Ze and Kong Xuan’s requests to travel with him, leaving them to protect their people and strengthen themselves before he departed for other worlds.

• Huang Tian explained that Zhen Yuanzi was meant to become the Earth Dao’s saint, but Hongjun’s influence had obscured that path and left the Earth Book incomplete.
• Zhen Yuanzi realized Hongjun had deceived him, and Huang Tian urged him to meet Houtu in Avici Hell to learn about merging with the Dao.
• Zhen Yuanzi agreed to share his insights if he succeeded, and Huang Tian sent him near the Netherworld.
• Huang Tian told Kong Xuan that Zhen Yuanzi would need to help restore the fragmented Primordial Wilderness to strengthen the Earth Dao, then announced his intention to leave the world.
• Huang Tian rejected Bai Ze and Kong Xuan’s requests to accompany him and sent them to Northern Kuru Continent to protect their people and improve their strength.
• Bai Ze and Kong Xuan returned to their palaces and entered seclusion to comprehend the Great Dao.

Zhen Yuanzi learned from Meng Po why merging with the incomplete Earth Dao was dangerous and how to prevent others from seizing its authority. He sought answers from Huang Tian, who confirmed that the mysterious Human Race expert was his Saint guard and revealed that he commanded 14,320 Realm Master guards.

• Meng Po explained that the Earth Dao was incomplete and that the Heavenly Dao would resist Zhen Yuanzi’s attempt to claim the whole Primordial Wilderness.
• Meng Po advised Zhen Yuanzi to entrust the portion of Earth Dao authority he could not yet control to someone he trusted, then reclaim it after completing his Dao fusion.
• Zhen Yuanzi learned that Meng Po had regained her authority through a three-way transaction involving Heavenly Venerate Taiyi Rescuing from Suffering and a mysterious figure who supplied a cloud of red.
• Zhen Yuanzi left the Netherworld and went to Flower and Fruit Mountain to ask Huang Tian about the mysterious Human Race expert.
• Huang Tian confirmed the expert was his Saint guard and revealed that he had 14,320 guards of comparable strength, each a Realm Master who had created a Great Thousand World.

Zhen Yuanzi arranged Huang Tian and Zhao Wuji’s support for his plan to join with the Earth Dao. At Longevity Mountain Wuzhuang Temple, he began the process with the Earth Book and realized that becoming a Saint would let him reunite the shattered Primordial Wilderness and gain Earth Dao merit.

• Zhen Yuanzi offered Huang Tian a firsthand experience of joining with the Dao in exchange for help and protection, and Huang Tian agreed to support him.
• Huang Tian summoned Zhao Wuji, who asked whether Zhen Yuanzi would reunify the Primordial Wilderness before or after becoming a Saint; Zhen Yuanzi chose to become a Saint first.
• Zhen Yuanzi chose the Ginseng Fruit Tree at Longevity Mountain Wuzhuang Temple as the place to join with the Earth Dao, and Zhao Wuji concealed the heavenly secrets there.
• Zhen Yuanzi placed the Earth Book beside the Ginseng Fruit Tree and entered it to rebuild the Earth Dao and join with the Dao in body.
• Zhen Yuanzi moved a fragment of the Primordial Wilderness with the Earth Book but exhausted his Magic Power, realizing he needed to become a Saint to reunite the land and gain Earth Dao merit.

Zhen Yuanzi began marking every fragment of the Primordial Wilderness as he prepared to merge with the Earth Dao, while the Two Western Saints mobilized Buddhism to seize its authority. Tathagata Buddha gave up the Present Buddha position to Maitreya and joined Jieyin’s force heading for Mount Wanshou.

• Zhen Yuanzi realized he had to imprint his mark on every Primordial Wilderness fragment before he could merge with the Earth Dao, and began the lengthy process.
• Zhao Wuji worried that the tremors around Mount Wanshou would draw the Heavenly Dao Saints, but Huang Tian assured him that Guardian Elders would be sent when needed.
• Hongjun ordered Jieyin and Zhunti to stop Zhen Yuanzi or seize part of the Earth Dao’s authority, so the Two Western Saints gathered Spirit Mountain’s Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.
• Zhunti persuaded the Buddhist assembly that seizing Earth Dao authority could make them Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortals, and Tathagata Buddha and Maitreya Buddha both sought to lead the expedition.
• Tathagata Buddha relinquished the Present Buddha position to Maitreya, took the Past Buddha position, and joined Jieyin and Zhunti as they led the Buddhist host toward Mount Wanshou.

Zhen Yuanzi began merging with the Earth Dao, prompting the Jade Emperor and Buddhist Sect to mobilize toward Mount Wanshou as they considered seizing its authority. Nuwa and Houtu questioned the Dao Ancestor’s motives, while Houtu concluded that the Earth and Human Dao must unite to resist the Heavenly Dao.

• The Grand Supreme Elder Lord warned the Jade Emperor that Zhen Yuanzi was merging with the Earth Dao and asked whether the Heavenly Court should seize its authority.
• The Jade Emperor suspected that Hongjun had concealed Zhen Yuanzi’s role and realized that managing the Heavenly Court could not earn him sainthood without merit.
• The Haotian Mirror showed Duobao stepping down as Buddha Patriarch and Tathagata leading millions of Buddhas toward Mount Wanshou.
• The Jade Emperor ordered every division of the Heavenly Court to send soldiers and generals to Mount Wanshou.
• Nuwa questioned whether Hongjun was influencing the Heavenly Dao and chose not to intervene.
• Houtu told Meng Po that the Earth Dao and Human Dao had to unite so Zhen Yuanzi could resist the Heavenly Dao.

Houtu sent Meng Po to wait outside Mount Wanshou while Zhen Yuanzi attempted to merge with the Earth Dao, hoping he would trouble the Heavenly Dao Saints. When the Buddhist Sect and Heavenly Court intruded, Great Sage Sun attacked them, and Tang Hao revealed himself to protect the mountain.

• Houtu worried that the Human Dao lacked Saints strong enough to challenge the Heavenly Dao and told Meng Po to wait outside Mount Wanshou without intervening unless necessary.
• Duobao Tathagata led the Buddhas of Spirit Mountain to Mount Wanshou, while Li Jing brought Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals to summon Zhen Yuanzi.
• When the intruders entered the mountain, Great Sage Sun appeared and struck down nearly every Buddha and Bodhisattva who failed to escape.
• Saint Zhunti attacked Great Sage Sun, but a surge of Magic Power protected Mount Wanshou and stopped his palm.
• Tang Hao of Yanhuang Hall emerged, rejected Zhunti’s accusation that his group had detained Zhen Yuanzi, and said they had been invited to guard the mountain.

Tang Hao and Tang Xiao defended Yanhuang Hall’s allies against Jieyin and Zhunti while Great Sage Sun fought the Buddhist Sect. Great Sage Sun’s clone gained Saint-level strength and killed Buddha Ancestor Jieyin and Patriarch Bodhi.

• Zhunti attacked Tang Hao, while Jieyin struck Great Sage Sun and sent him flying, though the Huang Tian Tower protected him.
• Tang Xiao arrived, blasted Jieyin away with his lightning hammer, and joined the fight as Great Sage Sun created a clone to attack the Buddhist Sect.
• Great Sage Sun’s clone cracked the Nine-Rank Merit Golden Lotus, forcing Duobao Tathagata to flee, but Buddha Ancestor Jieyin and Patriarch Bodhi blocked the clone.
• The clone activated the Shared Secret Technique and suppressed the Saint pressure from its newfound strength.
• Great Sage Sun’s clone killed Buddha Ancestor Jieyin with one staff strike, then caught and killed Patriarch Bodhi as he fled.

Great Sage Sun and his allies killed Jieyin and Zhunti’s Three Corpses, then battled the two saints as they tried to stop Zhen Yuanzi from merging with the Earth Dao. The chapter ended with Jieyin and Zhunti attacking Mount Wanshou and Great Sage Sun’s barrier barely holding against them.

• Great Sage Sun’s clone killed Jieyin and Zhunti’s Three Corpses, while Maitreya Buddha and the Grand Supreme Elder Lord reacted to the losses and the clone’s power.
• Jieyin threatened to destroy Flower and Fruit Mountain, then proposed splitting the Earth Dao’s authority with Great Sage Sun, who refused and said his faction already cooperated with Zhen Yuanzi.
• Tang Xiao intensified his fight with Jieyin, while Zhunti unleashed his Ming King Dharma Form against Tang Hao, who overwhelmed him with his physical strength.
• After their trump cards failed to defeat Tang Xiao and Tang Hao, Jieyin and Zhunti decided to destroy Mount Wanshou to prevent anyone from obtaining the Earth Dao.
• Great Sage Sun rushed to Mount Wanshou and used the Huang Tian Tower to shield it, but the barrier nearly shattered under the saints’ attack.

As Zhen Yuanzi used the Earth Book to spread his aura across the Primordial Wilderness and fuse with the Earth Dao, Yuanshi Tianzun arrived and demanded that the conflict at Mount Wanshou be left to those beneath the Saint realm. Tang Chen and the defenders refused to let anyone enter, and Tang Hao revealed a vast force of Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortals as Yuanshi threatened them with the Grand Pure Heavenly Venerate of Virtue.

• The Earth Book released Zhen Yuanzi's aura across the Primordial Wilderness while Huang Tian comprehended its Dao resonance.
• Yuanshi Tianzun arrived with several disciples and proposed that those beneath the Saint realm settle the dispute at Mount Wanshou.
• Tang Hao rejected Yuanshi Tianzun's proposal, and Tang Chen appeared to reinforce the defenders and forbid anyone from entering until Zhen Yuanzi fused with the Dao.
• Yuanshi Tianzun threatened to have the Grand Pure Heavenly Venerate of Virtue capture and imprison the defenders.
• Tang Hao summoned fourteen thousand three hundred Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortals, astonishing the gathered observers.

Zhen Yuanzi gave Zhao Wuji control over parts of the shattered Primordial Wilderness that he could not occupy, and then merged with the Earth Dao using the Four Great Continents. The Primordial Wilderness awakened as Zhen Yuanzi became a fifth-level saint and Zhao Wuji advanced to the fourth level of the Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.

• Zhen Yuanzi explained that he wanted Zhao Wuji to occupy the regions of the Earth Book he could not control, preventing Hongjun from fully absorbing the three Daos.
• Zhao Wuji entered the Earth Book and marked the scattered fragments of the Primordial Wilderness with his authority, completing the division of the Earth Dao’s power.
• Zhen Yuanzi vowed to merge with the Earth Dao and reunite the land of the Primordial Wilderness, causing the world to tremble with new vitality.
• Jieyin, Zhunti, Yuanshi Tianzun, and Meng Po realized that Zhen Yuanzi had likely merged only with the Four Great Continents, limiting his strength but allowing him to ascend quickly.
• Zhen Yuanzi emerged from the Earth Book as a fifth-level saint, while Zhao Wuji emerged at the fourth level of the Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.

Zhen Yuanzi completed his fusion with the incomplete Earth Dao and revealed what he claimed was Hongjun’s scheme, prompting the Saints to leave Mount Wanshou. After thanking Zhao Wuji and Huang Tian for their help, Zhen Yuanzi entered seclusion to master his new strength and prepare to discuss reshaping the Primordial Wilderness world.

• Zhen Yuanzi declared that he had deliberately abandoned much of the Primordial Wilderness world, and Hongjun’s gaze and angry snort made the Saints believe his claim that the Earth Dao was incomplete.
• Meng Po wondered whether Hongjun was also scheming against the Human Dao, while Zhen Yuanzi accused Yuanshi Tianzun of having helped prevent him from discovering how to fuse with the Earth Dao.
• Yuanshi Tianzun admitted nothing and left with his disciples, and Jieyin Saint and Zhunti Saint departed with the surviving Buddhas after their plans failed.
• Tang Chen and the people of Yanhuang Hall left, while Huang Tian returned to the Huang Tian Realm to cultivate insights gained from the Earth Book.
• Zhen Yuanzi thanked Zhao Wuji for helping protect his successful fusion, and Zhao Wuji left to enter seclusion.
• Zhen Yuanzi concealed Mount Wanshou with the Earth Book and entered seclusion to digest his new strength, grateful to Huang Tian for making his ascension possible.