Chapter Summaries

Tang Wu exposed secrets about Great Vehicle Buddhism before dying, prompting the Heavenly Demon Hall and the other holy lands to investigate a threat in the Bodhi Treasure Tree Forest. As the holy lords gathered, Li Canghai began explaining how Tang Wu uncovered the danger, while Lin Fan stayed behind to avoid revealing his role.

• Tang Wu revealed that Gatling Bodhisattva had slain seven Buddhist Sect Peak Experts at Little Western Heaven, then declared the Buddhist Sect had become a world-destroying enemy before sacrificing himself to break the formation.
• A fleeing fiend sent the secret to Elder Chu of the Heavenly Demon Hall, whose forces arrived too late to save him and battled the Buddhist pursuers; the Buddhist figures self-destructed rather than be captured.
• Hall Master Li Canghai summoned the other holy lands to the Heavenly Demon Hall, and Lin Fan declined Gu Xinglian's invitation to join their gathering.
• At the gathering, Gu Xinglian reported that the Sky Gazing Mirror could not see into a sinister region of the Bodhi Treasure Tree Forest, while Li Canghai connected it to Tang Wu's conflict with the Buddhist Sect.
• Li Canghai told the holy lords that Tang Wu had learned a secret concerning the Buddhist Sect and the safety of the Immortal Martial Continent, and the gathered leaders began ordering investigations.

The eleven Holy Lands decided to investigate the Buddhist Sect after Tang Wu revealed its plan, and their simultaneous wartime mobilization threw the Immortal Martial Continent into panic. The Black Lotus ordered the Black Buddhas to begin a massacre, while Lin Fan’s Moon Embracing Sect prepared for the crisis and welcomed Huo Ling’er as a disciple.

• Li Canghai and the other leaders agreed to demand answers from the Buddhist Sect, inspect the core of Bodhi Treasure Tree Forest, and prepare their forces for war.
• The eleven Holy Lands declared a state of war, and Great Vehicle Buddhism sealed itself behind its fully activated protective formation, alarming cultivators across the continent.
• The Black Lotus told the Black Buddhas to feed it blood and despair by killing people, and they chose to target everyone surnamed Tang first.
• Lin Fan’s sect meeting agreed to reinforce Moon Embracing Sect, recall disciples and affiliated forces, and make arrangements with friendly powers.
• Xiao Ling’er asked about seeking opportunities amid the crisis, and Lin Fan said she might visit Great Vehicle Buddhism when the time was right.
• Shi Hao brought Huo Ling’er to Moon Embracing Sect, where Lin Fan accepted her as a disciple and told Shi Hao to look after her.

Lin Fan discovered that Great Vehicle Buddhism was behind the slaughter of Tang-surnamed forces and other enemies, and feared its killings were supporting the World-Destroying Black Lotus. He sent Yaya, Dianna, and He Anxia to disrupt the killings’ purpose by devouring or cultivating the blood and flesh left behind, and the Black Lotus soon noticed its sources of essence disappearing.

• Qin Yu reported that more than a hundred Tang-surnamed forces had been exterminated, and Lin Fan and his disciples suspected the Buddhist Sect was responsible.
• Gu Xinglian confirmed that Great Vehicle Buddhism had attacked the Tang Families, while the eleven Holy Lands gave the Buddhist Sect three days to explain itself.
• Lin Fan ordered the Imperial Guard to investigate and sent He Anxia, Dianna, and Yaya to interfere with the Buddhist Sect’s slaughter operations.
• He Anxia began cultivating microorganisms at a destroyed site, while Dianna used the Sea of Blood Undying Body to absorb blood from a newly massacred force.
• The Black Lotus discovered that the blood and origin essence it had been absorbing had vanished from multiple locations.

Lin Fan and his allies harvested the Buddhist Sect’s massacres for power, then fought off a Buddhist force that attacked the Moon Embracing Sect. After Lu Ming’s sword ambush and Chen An’s battle with a Black Buddha, Lin Fan inferred that the Buddhist Sect’s plan might include its own members dying because something had promised to restore them.

• Yaya, Dianna, and He Anxia secretly gathered flesh, blood, and Origin Power from the Buddhist Sect’s slaughter sites, angering Black Lotus and prompting several Black Buddhas to hunt them.
• Lin Fan directed Yaya toward an approaching group of monks and prepared the Moon Embracing Sect as a Buddhist force headed for the sect.
• Chen An broke the lead monk’s Buddha Kingdom in Palm, battled him, and faced him again after he transformed into a Black Buddha; Lin Fan had the zombies and corpse puppets absorb the monk’s black qi.
• Lu Ming used the first sword of the Nine Swords of Immortal Slaying to kill the other attacking monks, while Chen An kept the Black Buddha occupied.
• Lin Fan questioned the Black Buddha’s lack of grief or fear and guessed that the Buddhist Sect’s plan included its members dying because a force behind them could restore them to eternal life.

Lin Fan’s group killed Black Buddha, reunited with Yaya, and set out for the Western Region as the Eleven Holy Lands marched on Great Vehicle Buddhism. At the sect gates, the Holy Lands found the Buddhist leaders silent and hidden, then Li Canghai killed the intervening Dongchen Jun with one blow.

• Lin Fan deduced that the Buddhist Sect was sacrificing cultivators to strengthen the World-Destroying Black Lotus, and Xiao Ling'er and the others killed Black Buddha in a coordinated attack.
• Lin Fan warned the Great Demon God and his disciples against raising farewell flags, then departed with his group after Xiao Ling'er handed out pills to the sect’s senior allies.
• Yaya told Lin Fan that her mission had gone smoothly after devouring the monks’ origins, and Lin Fan’s group headed to collect He Anxia and Dianna before traveling to the Western Region.
• The Eleven Holy Lands entered the Western Region with more than eleven hundred Ninth Realm experts, prompting cultivators to flee and powerful forces to rush toward the conflict in hopes of gaining from Great Vehicle Buddhism’s fall.
• The Holy Lands reached Great Vehicle Buddhism, found its protective formation active and its leaders unresponsive, and learned that a hidden obstruction now covered the entire sect.
• Dongchen Jun demanded an explanation on behalf of the world, but Li Canghai attacked and instantly killed him.

Li Canghai killed Dongchen Jun and cowed the cultivators who had tried to defend Great Vehicle Buddhism, while Gu Xinglian exposed Dongchen Jun’s hidden crimes. As the Eleven Sacred Lands attacked Great Vehicle Buddhism, Yaya began devouring its black qi, and Lin Fan secured permission for his disciples to kill Kong Wu themselves.

• Li Canghai used the Heavenly Demon Hall to kill Dongchen Jun and threatened anyone who would avenge him, silencing the watching cultivators.
• Gu Xinglian revealed that Dongchen Jun had enslaved and abused his sworn brother’s wife and daughter, and the cultivators accepted her account.
• Lin Fan warned his disciples against being constrained by moral blackmail, while Li Canghai and the other Holy Masters destroyed Great Vehicle Buddhism’s layered protective formations.
• Great Vehicle Buddhism’s Black Buddhas emerged amid spreading black qi, and the Eleven Sacred Lands declared war as the watching cultivators realized the sect threatened the continent.
• Lin Fan asked the Holy Masters to let his disciples kill Kong Wu, and they agreed while Duanmu suggested arranging help for them.
• Yaya formed hundreds of avatars and began devouring Great Vehicle Buddhism’s black qi with the Heaven Devouring Demonic Art.

Lin Fan and the Moon Embracing Sect disciples lured Kong Wu away from the battlefield and fought the late Ninth Realm Black Buddha with their unusual techniques. After Kong Wu broke free of Wang Teng’s unstable Black Hole Fist, he targeted He Anxia and Qiu Yongqin, who were waiting for a chance to fight.

• The eleven sacred lands attacked Great Vehicle Buddhism while Yaya absorbed the black qi, forcing the Black Buddhas to abandon their defenses and charge into battle.
• Kong Wu emerged and overwhelmed Lin Fan, Long Aojiao, and the disciples, but Lin Fan persuaded him that the disciples’ destiny was more valuable than their flesh and souls.
• Lin Fan and the others fled from the battlefield, tricked Kong Wu into apologizing, then stopped and prepared to fight him away from the watching cultivators.
• Wang Teng, Shi Hao, Xiao Ling'er, and Long Aojiao attacked Kong Wu in succession, and Xiao Ling'er injured him with Divine Might Fire Lotus.
• Wang Teng’s unstable Black Hole Fist trapped Kong Wu briefly, but Kong Wu broke free and recovered before the other disciples could press their attack.
• Kong Wu decided to target He Anxia and Qiu Yongqin, while both disciples eagerly prepared to face him.

Lin Fan’s disciples coordinated their abilities to surround and kill Kong Wu, a late Ninth Realm Buddhist powerhouse, with He Anxia’s cultivated virus tipping the battle in their favor. After praising the exhausted disciples and ordering He Anxia to swear an oath to control his microorganisms, Lin Fan watched over them as they healed and observed the ongoing battle between the Twelve Holy Lands and Great Vehicle Buddhism.

• Kong Wu mistook Qiu Yongqin and He Anxia for weak links, but Qiu Yongqin released millions of malicious ghosts with his Human Emperor Banner and the disciples attacked whenever Kong Wu switched between his enlightened and Black Buddha states.
• The disciples’ combined attacks destroyed Kong Wu’s Buddha Kingdom in Palm and blasted apart his right hand, while He Anxia’s microorganisms silently infected him and caused his lungs to disappear.
• Kong Wu risked his life and raised his cultivation to the ninth level of the Ninth Realm, but Yaya’s Self-Transformation into Freedom Method struck him through the River of Time and left him badly wounded.
• The disciples overwhelmed Kong Wu, and Yaya absorbed and refined him with the Great Dao Treasure Bottle after he realized He Anxia had been behind his illness.
• Lin Fan praised the disciples, required He Anxia to swear a Heavenly Dao Oath to destroy any microorganisms he could no longer control, and stood guard while they healed.

Lin Fan urged Gu Xinglian to summon the Southwest Region’s forces as the battle against Great Vehicle Buddhism and its defecting allies turned into a world war. As reinforcements mobilized, Lin Fan headed to the battlefield while his disciples set out to recruit the betrayed Lin Dong for Moon Embracing Sect.

• Lin Fan discovered that Cloud Top Heavenly Palace and Zuowang Dao had joined Great Vehicle Buddhism, while their sealed ancient experts helped turn the battle into a stalemate.
• The Lord of Cloud Top Heavenly Palace attacked his disciple Lin Dong and declared he intended to sacrifice Lin Dong to his lord; the Jietian Sect Master and the Demoness rescued Lin Dong.
• Lin Dong resolved to build a force of his own if he survived, while the Holy Sons and Saintesses withdrew from the battlefield and Gu Xinglian’s forces struggled against arriving Buddhist reinforcements.
• Lin Fan persuaded Gu Xinglian to call on the Southwest Region’s first-rate and super first-rate sects, then agreed to join the battle himself rather than let Moon Embracing Sect be promoted.
• After Lin Fan left, Xiao Ling’er and the other disciples decided to seek out Lin Dong and bring him to Moon Embracing Sect, while Long Aojiao warned them not to trust Zuowang Dao.
• Gu Xinglian ordered the Southwest Region’s Eighth Realm and above cultivators to join the fight, and the Myriad Flowers Holy Land’s bells alerted the region as sects began mobilizing for war.

Xiao Ling'er’s group captured the injured Lin Dong and, after Shi Hao also brought back the Jietian Sect Demoness, headed for the Moon Embracing Sect. Meanwhile, the battlefield escalated as Lin Fan secretly absorbed the battle’s essence and Great Vehicle Buddhism revealed nine powerful Self-Sacrificing Buddhas, whom Lin Fan recognized as loose immortals.

• Wang Teng used the Eightfold Magnification Technique to locate Lin Dong and the Demoness, and Xiao Ling’er’s group approached them disguised as weak cultivators.
• Xiao Ling’er offered Lin Dong healing pills and invited him to the Moon Embracing Sect, but he refused, so the group surrounded him and Long Aojiao knocked him unconscious.
• Shi Hao returned carrying the unconscious Demoness, explaining that he had caught her spying while he was relieving himself, and the group decided to take both captives back.
• Reinforcements from the Southwest Region joined the battle, prompting the other holy lands to summon more forces as the Nine Great Holy Lands regained ground.
• Lin Fan sent his incarnations underground to absorb blood essence and Origin Power before the World-Destroying Black Lotus could claim it.
• As the Buddhist Sect’s forces neared defeat, Kongzhi summoned Great Vehicle Buddhism’s final reserves, and nine Self-Sacrificing Buddhas emerged from the black mist; Lin Fan recognized them as loose immortals stronger than Hongwu.

Lin Fan realized the Nine Great Holy Lands had terrifying Loose Immortal foundations, then used a subtle illusion to disrupt the corrupted Buddhist forces until reinforcements arrived. As the battle turned into a slaughter and the World-Destroying Black Lotus began devouring people and attacking Lin Fan’s avatars, he learned that its strength had reached at least the Eight-Tribulation level and it erupted in fury after gaining almost nothing from killing his clones.

• Lin Fan recognized the nine Self-Sacrificing Buddhas as powerful Loose Immortals, while Duanmu and the other Holy Lords summoned their hidden foundations.
• Lin Fan used Zuo Yu’s illusion technique to subtly distort the corrupted attackers’ aim, allowing Rao Zhirou’s group to escape and disrupting Kongzhi and the others.
• Gu Xinglian’s avatar questioned Lin Fan about his Virtual Reality Technique, while the corrupted fighters eventually identified and broke the illusion.
• Reinforcements and more than fifty Loose Immortals from the Nine Great Holy Lands arrived, overwhelming the Self-Sacrificing Buddhas as both sides suffered heavy casualties.
• Lin Fan learned that Buddhist monks were bleeding themselves to feed the Black Lotus, whose roots attacked and destroyed his avatars.
• Lin Fan judged the Black Lotus stronger than any Eight-Tribulation Loose Immortal, and its fury shook the land after it gained almost nothing from his avatars.

Lin Fan and the Nine Great Holy Lands battled the World-Destroying Black Lotus after it emerged beneath Great Vehicle Buddhism and devoured the Buddhist Sect and other cultivators. The Grand Formation of the Myriad Stars summoned a Star God to fight the enormous lotus, leaving the outcome uncertain as their colossal battle began.

• Black Lotus roots erupted beneath Great Vehicle Buddhism, drained cultivators of their Origin Power, and drew the Buddhist Sect members into a willing sacrifice to their lord.
• Lin Fan entered one of the roots, resisted its suction with stacked secret arts, and used the Great Dao Treasure Bottle and Heaven Devouring Demonic Art to steal Origin Power from the Black Lotus.
• Gu Xinglian, Li Canghai, Yi Xing, Duanmu, and other powerful cultivators joined Lin Fan’s struggle by using their own devouring techniques, forcing the Black Lotus to sever and explode the root.
• Yaya’s incarnations devoured the remaining black qi, revealing a gigantic World-Destroying Black Lotus where the Bodhi Treasure Tree Forest had stood.
• The Desolate Heaven Sword Venerable and Sword Palace experts attacked with the Tai Xuan Ancient Sword, but the Black Lotus countered with a sword-like root and badly injured them.
• Duanmu led the Nine Great Holy Lands in forming the Grand Formation of the Myriad Stars, which summoned a colossal Star God; the Star God and Black Lotus began a fierce battle.

Lin Fan secretly used Love Massage, illusion arts, and He Anxia’s microorganisms to make the World-Destroying Black Lotus experience a vision of victory, leaving it vulnerable to the Star God. The Black Lotus was defeated, and Lin Fan left the survivors to eradicate its remaining roots while keeping his role and Yaya’s strength secret.

• Lin Fan dismissed Gu Xinglian’s call to pray and secretly approached a root of the World-Destroying Black Lotus, preparing Love Massage and an illusion with his manifested past self.
• After the World-Destroying Black Lotus badly wounded the Star God and destroyed the Heaven-Opening Axe, Lin Fan and his avatar attacked its root with Love Massage and an illusion of its triumph over the Immortal Martial Continent.
• The World-Destroying Black Lotus experienced the illusion as real, became distracted by its imagined victory, and failed to resist when the Star God struck off its head and Yaya devoured its scattered remains.
• Lin Fan admitted to Gu Xinglian that he had caused the opening, and she agreed to keep his role secret while advising him to conceal Yaya’s power and fake the destruction of a treasure bottle.
• Lin Fan left the battlefield and watched from afar as the Star God disintegrated after the remaining World-Destroying Black Lotus was uprooted, while the survivors counted their losses and celebrated their victory.

After the World-Destroying Black Lotus was defeated, the surviving powers divided their duties and prepared to rebuild the Western Region while the Immortal Martial Continent turned against the Buddhist Sect. Lin Fan returned to Moon Embracing Sect, and Lin Dong learned that Cloud Top Heavenly Palace had been destroyed before agreeing to stay and consider joining Xiao Ling'er’s sect.

• Gu Xinglian explained the Black Lotus’s sudden stupor as a cultivation deviation, then exposed Duanmu’s attempt to hide the value of the Great Vehicle Buddhism treasury; the holy masters agreed to divide its wealth among their factions and the people.
• The holy masters split into four groups to aid survivors, investigate Cloud Top Heavenly Palace and Zuowang Dao, and handle their respective forces, while crews began repairing the ruined Western Region.
• Lin Fan revealed that he had taken Lesser Vehicle Buddhism’s treasures and secret arts, planned to preserve Buddhist cultivation at Moon Embracing Sect, and watched news of the battle spark a continent-wide campaign against Buddhist cultivators and other suspect forces.
• Lin Fan returned to Moon Embracing Sect, gave Gou Sheng the Buddhist secret arts for the Scripture Repository, and handled the sect’s reports before resting with Funingna.
• Lin Dong demanded that Xiao Ling'er release his sealed cultivation and said he wanted to return to Cloud Top Heavenly Palace, but Huo Yun'er told him the sect had been destroyed and its younger generation killed.
• Xiao Ling'er invited Lin Dong to join Moon Embracing Sect and offered to help him establish a Cloud Top lineage there; Lin Dong agreed to stay after realizing he could not return home.

Lin Dong explored Moon Embracing Sect to decide whether to join, while Shi Hao tormented the Demoness with food and tricks until she traded secret techniques for an Eight Treasures Chicken drumstick. Lin Dong began to suspect the sect’s friendly atmosphere was staged and sought to question a servant disciple.

• Xiao Ling'er gave Lin Dong an Inner Sect Disciple token and let him explore Moon Embracing Sect freely, while she reported Shi Hao’s treatment of the Demoness to Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan warned Shi Hao not to force the Demoness or provoke Jietian Sect, and Shi Hao persuaded her to write down secret techniques other than the Jietian Art in exchange for food.
• Shi Hao took the Demoness around the sect as a guest, where she encountered Lin Dong and mistakenly assumed he had suffered as badly as she had.
• Lin Dong spent three days exploring Moon Embracing Sect as an outsider, then put on Inner Sect robes and tried to experience the sect as one of its members.
• Lin Dong saw disciples of every rank greet one another warmly, suspected they were pretending, and stopped a servant disciple to ask him about it.

Lin Dong secretly investigated the Moon Embracing Sect, hoping to uncover mistreatment and prove the sect was not as harmonious as it appeared, but each person he questioned instead praised its generous benefits and supportive rules. He entered the Spirit Beast Garden to investigate its strange howls, where Zhu Rourong found him peering into a building and explained what he was watching.

• Lin Dong questioned a Servant Disciple about bullying and discovered that disciples received generous allowances, resolved roommate disputes through compromise, and had manageable work with rewards.
• Lin Dong asked an Inner Sect Senior Sister about sect taboos, and she warned him about strange howls from the Spirit Beast Garden.
• Lin Dong entered the Spirit Beast Garden and found vast areas filled with chickens, ducks, pigs, cows, and sheep before meeting Chen Chen, who insisted he wanted to join the Moon Embracing Sect.
• Lin Dong mistook a Fire Kirin’s protected life in the sect for imprisonment and offered to remove its master-servant mark, angering the Kirin.
• Lin Dong spotted a man with pig-headed women and then climbed to a window to investigate the source of the Garden’s howls.
• Zhu Rourong appeared beside Lin Dong and explained that the strange creatures inside were mating, leaving Lin Dong horrified.

Lin Dong realized that he had mistaken Moon Embracing Sect’s good treatment of its guests for coercion, and he joined the sect as a registered disciple. He chose to establish a Martial Dao Lineage rather than revive Cloud Top Heavenly Palace, while Chen Chen and Gao Guang returned to Beast Taming Sect and Lin Fan began developing martial arts techniques.

• Lin Dong accused Moon Embracing Sect of mistreating its disciples and forcing Chen Chen and Gao Guang to stay, then agreed to join the sect if his suspicions proved wrong.
• Chen Chen and Gao Guang admitted they had stayed partly for Moon Embracing Sect’s generous benefits, swore they had never been coerced, and decided to return to Beast Taming Sect.
• Lin Dong apologized and swore he would never betray Moon Embracing Sect unless it betrayed or wronged him first; Lin Fan accepted him as a registered disciple.
• Lin Dong declined to name his new lineage after Cloud Top Heavenly Palace, and Lin Fan assigned him to lead Moon Embracing Sect’s Martial Dao Lineage.
• Lin Fan shared Lin Dong’s martial dao True Origin and techniques, then prepared to create martial arts techniques of his own.
• Three days later, Moon Embracing Sect established its Martial Dao Lineage as the continent’s upheaval began to subside.

Lin Fan established the Moon Embracing Sect’s Martial Dao Lineage, then broke through to the Ninth Realm as the sect’s disciples and allies watched. Meanwhile, Chen Chen and Gao Guang returned to the Beast Taming Sect with plans to copy Moon Embracing Sect’s methods, but Qu Shi Fei and the elders concluded they could not afford its lavish treatment.

• Lin Dong recognized that Lin Fan’s manuals contained unfamiliar top-tier martial arts, and Lin Fan claimed he had created them himself in three days.
• Old Medicine Liang Danxia and Xiao Ling'er privately concluded Lin Fan was an Immortal Emperor reborn, while the others publicly supported his claim and Lin Dong accepted responsibility for the Martial Dao Lineage.
• Lin Fan cultivated the modified Moon Swallowing Immortal Art and broke through to the Ninth Realm amid a vast vortex that drew in spiritual energy, moonlight, and starlight.
• Chen Chen and Gao Guang told Qu Shi Fei that they had studied Moon Embracing Sect’s systems and urged the Beast Taming Sect to match its policies and pill allowances.
• Chen Chen and Gao Guang described Moon Embracing Sect’s generous disciple and elder benefits, but Qu Shi Fei and the elders argued the Beast Taming Sect lacked the resources to copy them.
• Qu Shi Fei asked the elders how they would reform the sect, and Chen Chen and Gao Guang backed away from their proposal, saying the Beast Taming Sect should not join the Moon Embracing Sect.

The Beast Taming Sect elders unanimously voted to merge with the Moon Embracing Sect, and Chen Chen and Gao Guang went to ask Lin Fan to accept them. After Lin Fan completed his breakthrough to the fourth layer of the Ninth Realm, he received the two elders, who began making their request.

• Qu Shi Fei forced the Beast Taming Sect elders to cast an anonymous vote on joining the Moon Embracing Sect, and every elder voted in favor.
• Chen Chen persuaded the elders to report the result as a narrow victory for joining, so Qu Shi Fei would not know that they had all agreed.
• The elders sent Chen Chen and Gao Guang to negotiate with Lin Fan, and the two left the Beast Taming Sect for the Moon Embracing Sect.
• Chen Chen and Gao Guang waited more than ten days outside Moon Embracing Palace while Lin Fan cultivated in seclusion.
• Lin Fan emerged at the fourth layer of the Ninth Realm, welcomed Chen Chen and Gao Guang, and heard them begin their request to merge the Beast Taming Sect into the Moon Embracing Sect.

Lin Fan considered the Beast Taming Sect’s request to merge into the Moon Embracing Sect and set out the challenges of resources, territory, and status. Chen Chen promised to resolve them and took He Anxia back to the sect to provoke its younger generation, where the Holy Son and Saintess arrived to confront him.

• Chen Chen and Gao Guang begged Lin Fan to absorb the Beast Taming Sect, and Lin Fan listed the practical problems a merger would create.
• Chen Chen offered the Beast Taming Sect’s resources, territory, elders, and disciples as solutions, and Lin Fan agreed to consider the merger if those promises held.
• Lin Fan sent He Anxia back with Chen Chen and Gao Guang, and Chen Chen coached him to act like a domineering Crooked-Mouthed Dragon King.
• He Anxia insulted and challenged the Beast Taming Sect’s disciples, prompting them to summon their strongest fighters.
• The Holy Son and Saintess arrived and led the disciples to confront He Anxia.