Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan asked Gatling Bodhisattva for a Bodhi Fruit, and Gatling proposed robbing Little Western Heaven’s treasury to obtain one and expose corruption within Buddhist factions. Lin Fan agreed, then disguised himself as Tang Wu and followed Gatling to recruit another helper.

• Gatling Bodhisattva told Lin Fan that Great Vehicle Buddhism had no Bodhi Fruits left, but Little Western Heaven still possessed one gifted at its founding.
• Gatling Bodhisattva proposed robbing Little Western Heaven’s treasury, explaining that he wanted to expose corruption before leaving Great Vehicle Buddhism; Lin Fan agreed despite the danger.
• Lin Fan told Xiao Ling'er to stay behind, and she trusted his decision while Old Medicine worried that the plan could bring disaster upon the Moon Embracing Sect.
• Lin Fan and Gatling Bodhisattva left together, disguised themselves as Tang Wu, and set out to recruit another helper.
• On the way, Gatling Bodhisattva told Lin Fan that he had once called the police on a pirated-disc seller because the supposedly pornographic disc was not dirty.

Lin Fan traveled with Gatling Bodhisattva, who recruited San Dian and Jie Se for a campaign against Little Western Heaven. After revealing the corruption within Buddhism, Gatling Bodhisattva set out with his allies to confront it, leaving Lin Fan alongside them.

• Gatling Bodhisattva told Lin Fan stories from his former life and led him to San Dian's hidden residence.
• Gatling Bodhisattva forced San Dian to share his three-headed dragon hound hotpot, then asked him to join a fight against Little Western Heaven.
• San Dian agreed after Gatling Bodhisattva threatened him, and they decided to recruit Jie Se before attacking.
• San Dian and Gatling Bodhisattva found Jie Se at a temple brothel, where Gatling blasted him into submission.
• Jie Se pledged to join the assault on Little Western Heaven and claimed he had inside information about it.

Gatling Bodhisattva freed Duoyu from Fa Wang Temple’s restrictions and recruited her to join his westward campaign with San Dian and Jie Se. Disguised as Tang Sanzang, the group began destroying corrupt temples, and their actions brought them into direct confrontation with a Ninth Realm Buddha outside Jade Pool Temple.

• Jie Se explained that Fa Wang Temple’s powerful Fish Demon was bound by restrictions, and Gatling Bodhisattva went to free her.
• Gatling Bodhisattva destroyed Duoyu’s restrictions, and she agreed to join his campaign after devouring Fa Wang Temple and its monks.
• Gatling Bodhisattva proposed a Journey to the West cover story, then sent Lin Fan toward Little Western Heaven to act separately while the others traveled west.
• The group posed as Tang Sanzang and his disciples, destroyed Banyan Tree Temple, and continued their campaign against temples they considered corrupt.
• After dozens of temples fell, Buddhist leaders gathered at Jade Pool Temple and prepared to fight the approaching group.
• A Ninth Realm Buddha confronted Gatling Bodhisattva outside Jade Pool Temple, accused him of betraying Buddhism, and demanded a fight.

Gatling Bodhisattva led San Dian, Jie Se, and Duoyu in destroying temples on their way to Little Western Heaven, where he rejected Great Vehicle Buddhism’s attempt to placate him and fought its assembled experts. As the battle raged, Lin Fan infiltrated the treasure vault and secured the Bodhi Fruit, then began taking the rest of its treasures.

• San Dian defeated the Buddha of Jade Pool Temple, and Gatling Bodhisattva ordered the temple destroyed and dispersed the Buddha’s remnant soul.
• Gatling Bodhisattva led San Dian, Jie Se, and Duoyu through temples toward Little Western Heaven while Great Vehicle Buddhism failed to reach him and Kongwen set out to stop him.
• Kongwen and the other Buddhas confronted Gatling Bodhisattva, but he entered Little Western Heaven and rejected their offer to smooth over his actions with treasures and an excuse about inner demons.
• Gatling Bodhisattva attacked the assembled Buddhas, triggering a battle in which San Dian, Jie Se, and Duoyu fought alongside him against Little Western Heaven’s experts.
• Lin Fan used Gatling Bodhisattva’s secret art to infiltrate Little Western Heaven’s treasure vault, took the Bodhi Fruit, and began sweeping up its other treasures.

Lin Fan emptied Little Western Heaven’s treasury while Gatling Bodhisattva fought ten Peak Experts, then helped Gatling unleash a devastating barrage of nuclear-fission bullets. As the battle turned into a fight to the death, Lin Fan saw black qi and mist appear amid the explosions.

• Lin Fan and his Scarecrows looted every treasure in Little Western Heaven while Gatling Bodhisattva and his allies were being suppressed.
• After Lin Fan escaped and confirmed the treasury was empty, Gatling Bodhisattva overclocked his Gatling, destroyed Little Western Heaven, and killed several opponents.
• Lin Fan transmitted the Artificial Sun Fist to Gatling Bodhisattva, who used nuclear-fission bullets to overwhelm his ten remaining enemies and drive San Dian, Jie Se, and Duoyu away to create chaos.
• Kongwen and the other Peak Experts joined forces and launched their strongest attacks, but Gatling Bodhisattva kept firing until the Purple Gold Alms Bowl could no longer contain his barrage.
• Lin Fan watched the battle’s shockwaves engulf the fighters and noticed black qi and mist appearing where Buddhist light should have been.

Lin Fan watched Gatling Bodhisattva fight the Buddhist Peak Experts at Little Western Heaven, where the Black Buddha’s power revealed a hidden corruption within Buddhism. Gatling Bodhisattva ascended after nearly dying, while Lin Fan helped San Dian, Jie Se, and Duoyu plan their escape and Kongwen prepared a cover story for the battle’s devastating losses.

• Lin Fan saw Venerable Monk Kongjian summon the Black Buddha after losing his body, and Gatling Bodhisattva continued fighting the Buddhist Peak Experts as Kongjian and the others attacked him.
• Uncle Lian told Lin Fan that the Bright Moon Sect had gone to the Western Region to hunt Tang Wu, so Lin Fan ordered the Imperial Guard to search for him while he continued observing the battle.
• After three days of fighting, Gatling Bodhisattva killed several Peak Experts, but he was gravely wounded; the Immortal Ascension Path appeared, and an upper-realm Buddha guided his remnant soul and Gatling into the upper realm.
• Lin Fan warned San Dian, Jie Se, and Duoyu that Gatling Bodhisattva had ascended and urged them to escape to Central Continent, which they chose as their hiding place.
• Kongwen and the two surviving Little Western Heaven Peak Experts decided to conceal their losses by claiming Gatling Bodhisattva had been corrupted and defeated, then used Kongwen’s secret techniques to make ten Peak Experts appear together.

Kongwen discovered that Tang Wu had robbed Little Western Heaven’s treasure vault and sent the Buddhist sects to hunt him, while Lin Fan arranged a trap for Tang Wu using a Heavenly Secrets Tower prediction. Tang Wu killed the disguised Lin Fan and took his Storage Bag, then found it was full of Buddha bones.

• Kongwen used the Purple Gold Alms Bowl to replay images of the battle and identified Tang Wu as the thief who emptied the treasure vault.
• Kongwen drove Taishi Qing and the other onlookers away, then ordered the Buddhist sects to find Tang Wu.
• Lin Fan learned that the Heavenly Secrets Tower could calculate Tang Wu’s whereabouts and sent a disguised Scarecrow to meet him at the predicted location.
• Tang Wu blamed the Ice Emperor for his bad luck and approached the severely wounded stranger, ignoring the Ice Emperor’s warning that it might be a trap.
• Tang Wu killed the stranger with his soul skills, took the Storage Bag, and discovered it was packed with golden Buddha bones.

Tang Wu was ambushed by a Great Monk after flaunting the Buddha bones he had stolen, but escaped with the Ice Emperor’s help and then refined the sleeping Ice Emperor into a soul ring. Lin Fan returned to Xiao Ling’er with the Bodhi Fruit, and they planned to seek the Crystal Flame while learning how powerful factions could turn Ninth Realm corpses into Humanoid Emperor Weapons.

• Tang Wu celebrated finding a Storage Bag full of Buddha bones, while Lin Fan revealed that he had baited him with ownerless bones and a wounded Scarecrow avatar.
• A Great Monk recognized the Buddha bones as stolen from Little Western Heaven, seized the Storage Bag, and pursued Tang Wu, who escaped through the Ice Emperor’s control and a Random Teleportation Talisman.
• The Buddhist sect learned that Tang Wu had stolen the bones and mobilized to hunt him, while the exhausted Ice Emperor fell asleep.
• Tang Wu, furious over his injuries and convinced the Ice Emperor had cursed him, refined the sleeping Ice Emperor into a soul ring and began healing.
• Lin Fan reunited with Xiao Ling’er and Old Medicine, bringing the Bodhi Fruit, and they decided to search for the Crystal Flame.
• Old Medicine explained that factions refined Ninth Realm corpses and nurtured new artifact spirits in them, turning the corpses into Humanoid Emperor Weapons.

Lin Fan, Xiao Ling'er, and Old Medicine traveled to the Northeast Region to seek the Crystal Flame, which the Hai Family had kept for generations without using. While investigating, Lin Fan reunited with Liu Xun and prepared to discuss how to approach the Hai Family.

• Old Medicine explained that the Crystal Flame was held by the Hai Family, whose history of perfectly timed Ninth Realm breakthroughs made Lin Fan suspect Xiao Ling'er might resolve a hidden problem for them.
• Lin Fan, Xiao Ling'er, and Old Medicine left the Western Region, passed the Buddhist Sect's identity-checking formation, and headed toward the Hai Family while Tang Wu continued fleeing pursuing monks.
• After three days of fruitless inquiries, Lin Fan decided to openly investigate the Hai Family's secrets to draw their attention.
• Lin Fan encountered Liu Xun managing a Liu Family shop in the Northeast Region and learned the family had expanded its business there while growing stronger through its partnership with the Moon Embracing Sect.
• Lin Fan told Liu Xun about the Crystal Flame and suggested they have drinks before discussing his plan.

Lin Fan and Xiao Ling'er gained an audience with the Hai Family by offering Hai Shaofeng rare pills, then Lin Fan revealed they wanted to meet Hai Dongpo because they knew he was in trouble. His knowledge convinced the Hai Family that their secret had been exposed, while Xiao Ling'er and Old Medicine concluded that Lin Fan might be a reborn person who knew the future.

• Lin Fan learned from Liu Xun that Hai Dongpo was known as the Ice Emperor, and he recognized the connection to Elder Hai's role in Flame Emperor.
• Hai Shaofeng investigated Lin Fan and Xiao Ling'er, and Hai Tianren ordered him to meet them despite their suspicious behavior.
• Lin Fan and Xiao Ling'er met Hai Shaofeng and gave him nine Eighth Grade Break Void Pills, prompting him to welcome them warmly and serve them rare tea.
• Lin Fan said they wanted to meet Hai Dongpo because they had clues about his trouble, leaving Xiao Ling'er and Old Medicine stunned by his apparent foreknowledge.
• Xiao Ling'er and Old Medicine speculated that Lin Fan was reborn with memories of the future, and Xiao Ling'er vowed to protect him if Old Medicine exposed his secret.
• Hai Shaofeng realized Lin Fan knew a closely guarded secret about Hai Dongpo, then left to consult the family head while Xiao Qi watched the visitors.

The Hai Family agreed to let Lin Fan and Xiao Ling'er meet Hai Dongpo, who revealed that his periodic rejuvenation was a side effect of the clan’s inheritance secret art. Lin Fan proposed improving the art and cultivating a Ninth Realm expert, then asked for the Crystal Flame; Hai Dongpo was left weighing a deal that required the Hai Family to give up its flame and secret art before receiving any help.

• Hai Danping persuaded Hai Tianren and the elders to let Lin Fan and Xiao Ling'er meet Hai Dongpo rather than risk antagonizing them.
• Lin Fan admitted privately that he had bluffed about knowing Hai Dongpo’s problem, then met the ancestor with Xiao Ling'er and Hai Danping.
• Hai Dongpo explained that every ten thousand years he reverted to infancy because the Hai Family’s inheritance secret art granted a Ninth Realm inheritance mark to a descendant.
• Lin Fan proposed improving the secret art and helping the Hai Family cultivate a Ninth Realm expert, then offered to exchange Emperor Scriptures and provide pills through Xiao Ling'er, the successor of Pill Emperor Liang Danxia.
• Lin Fan asked Hai Dongpo to give Xiao Ling'er the Crystal Flame, promising that she would return it when the Hai Family needed it and that he would remove the secret art’s flaws within ten years.
• Hai Dongpo recognized that the proposal required the Hai Family to hand over the Crystal Flame and secret art before receiving help, and silently weighed whether to accept.

Lin Fan and Xiao Ling'er negotiated with the Hai Family for the Crystal Flame, pills, and help with the clan’s inherited secret art. Xiao Ling'er subdued and refined the Crystal Flame, then returned stronger than before, leaving Hai Dongpo astonished by her success.

• Xiao Ling'er offered the Hai Family hundreds of high-grade pills and future pill-refining help in exchange for the Crystal Flame, while Lin Fan negotiated Emperor Scripture and secret-art terms; both sides swore Dao Heart Oaths.
• Hai Dongpo and the Hai Family elders approved the agreement, promised to keep Xiao Ling'er’s acquisition of the Crystal Flame secret, and brought Lin Fan and Xiao Ling'er to the clan’s forbidden grounds.
• Lin Fan, Xiao Ling'er, and Old Medicine entered the pool’s hidden crystal world and discovered that the many apparent Crystal Flames were manifestations of one intelligent being.
• Xiao Ling'er let the Crystal Flame pierce her with nine roots so she could use the Immortal Devouring Flame and Burning Flame Art to devour it from within, eventually overcoming it and sealing it in her body.
• After three days of refining the Crystal Flame, Xiao Ling'er recovered, surged to the Peak Sixth Realm, and chose to delay her next breakthrough while seeking the extreme realm.
• Xiao Ling'er and Lin Fan escaped as the crystal world collapsed, and Hai Dongpo praised Xiao Ling'er after she confirmed that she had refined the Crystal Flame.

After returning to the Moon Embracing Sect, Lin Fan inspected its growing resources and prepared for the approaching ten-year calamity while Xiao Ling'er began preparing to revive her teacher. The chapter also followed Lu Ming as he studied the Heavenly Master's Degree and ended with the Spirit Sword Sect watching its Sword Son advance through the First Sword Tower.

• Xiao Ling'er promised Hai Dongpo that she would refine Ninth-grade pills and help eliminate flaws in the Hai Family's secret techniques, while Lin Fan asked the Hai Family to watch over the Liu Family members in its immortal cities.
• Lin Fan and Xiao Ling'er returned safely to the Moon Embracing Sect, where Xiao Ling'er planned to master the Crystal Flame before attempting to revive her teacher.
• Lin Fan inspected the sect's progress, learned that Song Yunxiao had cleared the Nine Cauldrons Secret Realm, and taught Little Stone the Xingzi Secret.
• Zhu Rourong reported that Spirit Beast Garden breeding had advanced, including the successful artificial hatching of Eight Treasures Chickens with Fire Kirin's help.
• Lin Fan considered the sect's many enemies and the approaching ten-year calamity, while Lu Ming began cultivating the Heavenly Master's Degree to understand its drawback.
• At the Spirit Sword Sect, the Sword Son cleared the First Sword Tower's eighty-first floor, surpassing the previous generation's record as the disciples watched.

Wen Jian cleared the First Sword Tower, but Three Leaves surpassed him by conquering it in minutes. At Beast Taming Sect, Qu Shi Fei learned that Chaos Heavenly Pig had been enjoying a lavish life at Moon Embracing Sect and sent Gao Guang to bring it back, where Gao Guang found it unwilling to leave.

• Wen Jian defeated the First Sword Tower's patriarch phantoms, including Li Bai, and learned that Li Bai had ascended to the upper realm.
• Three Leaves entered the First Sword Tower and cleared all its floors at astonishing speed, leaving the Spirit Sword Sect stunned.
• Qu Shi Fei learned that Chaos Heavenly Pig had been spending long periods at Moon Embracing Sect and ordered Gao Guang to retrieve it and arrange a harem of sows.
• Gao Guang traveled to Moon Embracing Sect and was greeted by Zhu Rourong after Lin Fan avoided meeting him.
• Gao Guang found Chaos Heavenly Pig enjoying food, drink, massages, and dancing pig-headed beauties, while it complained about its former life at Beast Taming Sect.

Gao Guang found an excuse to stay at Moon Embracing Sect after discovering its flocks of Eight Treasures Chickens and Ducks. Meanwhile, Lin Fan had Su Yan sell treasures through his chat group, where a dispute with Leng Guangming revealed a dangerous thousand-year group dungeon; the chapter ended with I, Saintess Knight offering two Saintesses in exchange for a sword.

• Gao Guang ate Chaos Heavenly Pig’s pig feed, then decided to remain at Moon Embracing Sect after Zhu Rourong showed him its Eight Treasures Chickens and Ducks.
• Lin Fan asked Su Yan to sell a trove of illicit treasures through the chat group, and Su Yan offered them to the group members.
• Leng Guangming threatened Su Yan and the others over the treasures, but Xin Youdao revealed that Leng Guangming was only at the Tribulation Stage.
• Xin Youdao explained that the group dungeon opened once every thousand years and could force members from the same plane to fight one another.
• Song Ru said he had two Emperor Weapons, and the group resumed trading before I, Saintess Knight offered Su Yan two Saintesses for a sword.

Su Yan sold treasures from the chat group, and Lin Fan used the proceeds to buy a Sky Mending Pill ingredient set, a Great Teleportation Array, and Immortal Gold. Meanwhile, Xiao Ling'er successfully resurrected Old Medicine in a newly refined body, and Old Medicine began cultivating again while considering an extreme-realm breakthrough.

• Saintess Knight sent Su Yan the Light Saintess, Dark Saintess, and Wood Elf Princess Lilith, while Little Mage began planning to trade beauties for a Five Elements Spirit Crystal.
• Su Yan sold the chat group's remaining treasures, reported the billion-plus points to Lin Fan, and accepted tens of millions of points as his fee.
• Lin Fan bought Sky Mending Pill ingredients, a Great Teleportation Array, and four types of Immortal Gold, then accepted the three women as servants and assigned Lilith to help Xiao Ling'er cultivate spirit herbs.
• Lilith demonstrated that she could rapidly grow plants, so Xiao Ling'er welcomed her into the Pill Refining Pavilion and arranged for Huo Yun'er to teach her cultivation.
• Xiao Ling'er and Old Medicine refined a Masterless Body and completed the final soul-fusion step, resurrecting Old Medicine after seven times seven days of Crystal Flame's pain.
• Old Medicine began cultivating in her new Eighth Realm body, opened nine Profound Gates, and chose to pursue an extreme-realm breakthrough instead of advancing to the Second Realm.

Old Medicine broke through her personal extreme realm, and Xiao Ling'er refined a Sky Mending Pill that healed Wu Xingyun’s Dao Wounds and awakened her Radiant Night Saint Body. Wu Xingyun reached the Seventh Realm, while a woman at the Mysterious Fire Pill Tower recognized a Know Fate Pill and suspected that her old enemy still had a living successor.

• Old Medicine formed a tenth Mystic Gate from her nine existing gates, broke through into the Second Core Condensation Realm, and visited Lin Fan for guidance on extreme realms.
• Xiao Ling'er failed her first attempt to refine the Sky Mending Pill, so Old Medicine gave her the Hundred Refinements Divine Fire; Xiao Ling'er refined it, broke through to the Second Layer of the Seventh Realm, and successfully made four pills.
• Xiao Ling'er gave a Sky Mending Pill to Wu Xingyun, who healed her Dao Wounds, awakened her Radiant Night Saint Body, and broke through into the Seventh Realm.
• Wu Xingyun used her Radiant Night Domain to defeat Little Dragon Girl in a spar, surprising the disciples and elders who watched.
• Lin Fan celebrated Moon Embracing Sect’s growing strength and wondered what the coming great crisis would bring.
• At the Mysterious Fire Pill Tower, a woman recognized a Know Fate Pill and wondered whether her old enemy still had a living successor.

Han Feng traced the Liu Family’s high-quality pills to Xiao Ling’er and realized she possessed the Burning Flame Art, then plotted to destroy the Moon Embracing Sect by recruiting its enemies. She lured the Bright Moon Sect’s Ji Haoyue and the Hidden Soul Hall’s Vice Hall Master to a secret meeting, while Lu Ming accompanied Ji Haoyue to the Mysterious Fire Pill Tower.

• Han Feng investigated the source of the Liu Family’s pills, learned of its alliance with the Moon Embracing Sect, and identified Xiao Ling’er as the successor to her former master’s inheritance.
• Han Feng decided to seize the Burning Flame Art and destroy the Moon Embracing Sect, ordering her elders to recruit hostile factions and monitor the Liu Family’s pill shop.
• Yaya crafted a Ghost Face Mask from fragments of Emperor Weapons, resolved to grow stronger for her brother, and returned to serve Lin Fan, where she found Yun’er’s maids guarding Moon Embracing Palace.
• Han Feng summoned the Bright Moon Sect and Hidden Soul Hall to discuss a plot against the Moon Embracing Sect; Ji Haoyue brought Lu Ming along to the Mysterious Fire Pill Tower.
• A Hidden Soul Hall Vice Hall Master traveled to the Northeast Region, and Han Feng, Ji Haoyue, and the Vice Hall Master met in secret.

Lu Ming entered the Mysterious Fire Pill Tower with Ji Haoyue and impressed its elders by refining three Seventh Grade Sky Mending Pills, then secretly watched Han Feng negotiate an alliance against the Moon Embracing Sect. Han Feng secured Vice Hall Master Luo’s help, but Ji Haoyue refused to join and left, while Lu Ming remained unaware of the discussion’s details.

• Ji Haoyue introduced Lu Ming to Han Feng, who praised Lu Ming’s destruction of the Ximen Family before asking him to leave the secret talks.
• Lu Ming agreed to leave for the scripture repository, but persuaded Ji Haoyue to stay; the Pill Tower’s elders challenged his alchemy and supplied ingredients for a Sky Mending Pill.
• Lu Ming refined three Seventh Grade Sky Mending Pills with ease, silencing the elders and earning access to the scripture repository.
• Lu Ming used the Eightfold Magnification Technique to watch Han Feng, Ji Haoyue, and Vice Hall Master Luo discuss the Moon Embracing Sect, though he could not hear them.
• Han Feng proposed destroying the Moon Embracing Sect and killing Xiao Ling'er; Vice Hall Master Luo agreed to help while claiming the decision was unrelated to his hall’s grudge.
• Ji Haoyue mocked their attempt to enlist him, refused Bright Moon Sect’s participation, and left Han Feng and Vice Hall Master Luo staring after him.

Lu Ming learned that Han Feng’s Mysterious Fire Pill Tower and the Hidden Soul Hall were preparing to attack the Moon Embracing Sect, and he and Lin Fan began planning a preemptive strike. After gathering allies and preparing, Lin Fan’s group reached the Mysterious Fire Pill Tower, where Old Medicine led them toward a surviving secret passage.

• Lu Ming learned from Ji Haoyue that Han Feng had proposed joining forces against the Moon Embracing Sect, and he realized the Ten-Year Tribulation involved the Mysterious Fire Pill Tower and the Hidden Soul Hall.
• Lin Fan discussed the threat with Xiao Ling'er, Old Medicine, and Yaya; Old Medicine identified Han Feng as her former disciple, and Lin Fan agreed they should face the threat together.
• Old Medicine proposed a plan, Xiao Ling'er taught her the Art of a Thousand Transformations, and Lin Fan sent Yaya to tell Little Stone he could leave the mountain to gain experience.
• Liu Wanli told Lin Fan that the Mysterious Fire Pill Tower was targeting the Liu Family, and he resolved to resume cultivating after handing the family leadership to his son.
• Long Aojiao emerged from seclusion, met Xiao Ling'er and Old Medicine, and agreed to help with their plan.
• Lin Fan, Xiao Ling'er, Yaya, Old Medicine, and Long Aojiao disguised themselves as an Inner Sect Disciple and entered the Mysterious Fire Pill Tower’s territory, where Old Medicine led them toward an old secret passage.