Chapter Summaries

After six peaceful years, Lin Fan completed the theory for the Ninth Seal of the Demon Sealing Art and learned that a purge was sweeping eighty-one continents, including the Moon Embracing Sect’s territory. He recognized it as the Ten-Year Tribulation and accepted that the sect would have to face it rather than flee.

• Sun Wuxia remained pinned beneath Five Finger Mountain while the Supreme Master ended the Immortal Hall gathering and ordered its losses reimbursed.
• He Qiang quietly broke through to the Eleventh Realm, Liu Jianmin developed a divine-soul version of Long-distance Love Massage, and Huo Yun'er prepared to absorb her ninth strange flame.
• After six years in seclusion, Lin Fan used the Thirty-two times magnification technique to see Sun Wuxia beneath Five Finger Mountain, then continued preparing for the Ten-Year Tribulation.
• Jiang Liu'er gained renown for his Buddha-nature, and the Emperor of Great Tang became sworn brothers with him despite objections.
• Fifth Zhuge warned Lin Fan that a mysterious force was purging eighty-one continents as a Vast Net took shape, with the Moon Embracing Sect likely to be targeted.
• Lin Fan concluded that the purge was the Ten-Year Tribulation and told Fifth Zhuge that the sect could only prepare to endure it.

Lin Fan and Moon Embracing Sect faced the Great Peng King, an Immortal King who attacked during the Ten-Year Tribulation. Duan Cangqiong burned his remaining blood essence to wound the Great Peng King, and Lin Fan caught the exhausted elder and gave him a Life-Seizing Pill.

• The Great Peng King arrived over Moon Embracing Sect, and Chaos Heavenly Pig attacked him but was swiftly knocked down.
• Duan Cangqiong identified the Great Peng King and fought to protect the sect while Lin Fan withheld his plan and watched the battle.
• Duan Cangqiong burned his blood essence and fought the Great Peng King at his peak, gaining the upper hand despite his Dao Wound.
• Duan Cangqiong's final saber strike tore off the Great Peng King's right wing, but the Great Peng King survived by using a Buddhist sarira.
• Lin Fan caught the nearly spent Duan Cangqiong and fed him a Life-Seizing Pill, while his blood-red clones refined the scattered Immortal King's blood.

Lin Fan used the Ninth Seal of the Demon Sealing Art to seal the Great Peng King and the surrounding region, though the technique left him severely weakened. Grateful for Duan Cangqiong’s sacrifice, Lin Fan offered to care for him and help him recover, and Duan Cangqiong accepted the Moon Embracing Sect’s kindness.

• The Great Peng King attacked Lin Fan after noticing him refining its blood, but Lin Fan blocked the strike with the Karma Seal and drew power from the blood to strengthen himself.
• Lin Fan unleashed the Ninth Seal of the Demon Sealing Art, sealing the Great Peng King and a vast region of heaven and earth beyond the Heavenly Dao’s perception.
• The Moon Embracing Sect’s disciples celebrated the victory as Xiao Ling'er supported the exhausted Lin Fan, who explained that the seal had badly injured his origin and would leave him weak for years.
• Duan Cangqiong praised Lin Fan’s achievement and said he regretted nothing about risking his life to protect the sect.
• Lin Fan and Xiao Ling'er thanked Duan Cangqiong, and Lin Fan offered to care for him and help restore his strength; Duan Cangqiong accepted.

After the Moon Embracing Sect sealed the Great Peng King, Lin Fan and Duan Cangqiong warned that the Buddhist Sect would retaliate, while Xiao Ling'er alerted the disciples away from home. The Buddha ordered three Immortal Kings to prepare for the Willow Deity and sent the Heavenly Dragon Eight Divisions and three Buddhas toward the sect, leaving a major Buddhist assault imminent.

• Duan Cangqiong joined the Moon Embracing Sect, warned that the Buddhist Sect would retaliate for the Great Peng King's sealing, and urged Lin Fan to seek the Willow Deity's help if needed.
• Lin Fan returned to the sect to recover, while Xiao Ling'er decided the absent disciples had a right to know and contacted them, including Long Aojiao.
• An arhat reported the Great Peng King's disappearance to the Buddha, who ordered three Immortal Kings to confront the Willow Deity if she intervened and dispatched the arhat to deal with the Moon Embracing Sect.
• The arhat ordered the Heavenly Dragon Eight Divisions to send ten thousand fighters each, led by eight Fifteenth Realm experts, to the Moon Embracing Sect.
• The arhat summoned three Buddhas from the Ten Thousand Buddha Forest, including a renowned former martial monk known for his formidable combat power.

Lin Fan prepared Moon Embracing Sect for the Buddhist Sect’s retaliation after Great Peng King was sealed, while asking Heavenly Secrets Tower and the Great Qin Immortal Dynasty to decide whether to stand with him. Fifth Zhuge and Emperor Qin chose to support the sect, and Lin Fan assigned Fan Jianqiang to protect and evacuate its disciples if the battle became hopeless.

• Wrathful-Eyed Buddha, Xuan Jue, and Ci reached Moon Embracing Sect ahead of the Eight Divisions but waited, judging that Duan Cangqiong’s injuries had left the sect vulnerable.
• Lin Fan contacted Fifth Zhuge and Emperor Qin about the coming Buddhist Sect attack without directly asking them for aid.
• Fifth Zhuge’s attempt to divine Moon Embracing Sect’s future nearly killed him, but the Chief Tower Master agreed to support Lin Fan based on his earlier divination.
• Emperor Qin chose to mobilize the Great Qin Immortal Dynasty’s army rather than abandon its alliance with Moon Embracing Sect.
• Lin Fan planned to use the Mouse Army to hold off the first attacks and ordered Fan Jianqiang to coordinate the response and evacuate Xiao Ling'er and the younger disciples if necessary.

Lin Fan prepared the Moon Embracing Sect to face the Buddhist Sect’s Eight Divisions, insisting Fan Jianqiang take the others to safety if the battle became hopeless. As the Kinnara Division charged, Lin Fan unleashed a vast sniper army, and its opening barrage began to reach the enemy formation.

• Lin Fan made Fan Jianqiang promise to evacuate the sect’s disciples by force if necessary, and Fan Jianqiang agreed.
• The Buddhist Sect’s Eight Divisions arrived at the Moon Embracing Sect, and Lin Fan faced their Arhat while accusing the Buddhist Sect of hypocrisy and defending the sect’s actions as just.
• The Arhat ordered the Kinnara Division to attack, and its ten thousand members charged toward the Moon Embracing Sect.
• Lin Fan told his disciples to hold back and ordered more than one hundred thousand rat clones and Immortal Flower Avatars to fire on the advancing Kinnara Division.
• The Kinnara Division blocked some of the strongest shells and energy beams, while more than one hundred thousand bullets flew toward its formation.

Lin Fan’s forces devastated the Kinnara Division with spatially jumping bullets and the Chaos Yin-Yang Array, but the Buddhist Sect’s remaining seven divisions prepared to attack Moon Embracing Sect. The Great Qin Immortal Dynasty arrived with ten million troops, joined by the Heavenly Secrets Tower, and the Emperor Qin openly challenged the Buddhist Sect.

• Lin Fan’s clones fired bullets that bypassed the Kinnara Division’s formation, killing most of its members before the Chaos Yin-Yang Array weakened the survivors’ defenses and a second volley inflicted over ninety percent casualties.
• The Arhat ordered the Buddhist Sect’s other seven divisions to attack Moon Embracing Sect, while Xuan Jue and the three Buddhas watched without intervening.
• Lin Fan’s disciples prepared to fight as the seven divisions launched a devastating barrage, but Lin Fan waited for the reinforcements he expected.
• The Great Qin Immortal Dynasty’s ten million troops arrived and their arrows collided with the Buddhist Sect’s attack, tearing away a stretch of void.
• The Emperor Qin declared Great Qin’s support for Lin Fan, and Fifth Zhuge arrived with several hundred Heavenly Secrets Tower figures to join the defense.
• The Arhat condemned the allied forces, and the Emperor Qin declared that Great Qin alone was ready to fight the Buddhist Sect.

The Buddhist Sect accused Moon Embracing Sect of being Mechanical Race spies and spread the charge to rally forces against them. As cultivators converged on the sect, Lin Fan remained confident and the Emperor Qin refused to withdraw his army, leaving Lin Fan’s next move unrevealed.

• Emperor Qin arrived with ten million soldiers, forcing the Buddhist Sect’s Arhat to halt his assault while Lin Fan thanked the Great Qin Immortal Dynasty and Heavenly Secrets Tower for their support.
• A Kinnara identified Moon Embracing Sect’s cannons as Mechanical Race weapons, and the Arhat ordered the Buddhist Sect to spread the accusation and contact hostile factions.
• The Jietian Sect seized on the accusation as a chance to attack Moon Embracing Sect, while other cultivators also rushed toward the Western Ox Continent.
• Fifth Zhuge warned Lin Fan that Duan Cangqiong’s testimony could not stop determined enemies, and reported that the Jietian Sect had mobilized.
• Lin Fan said he had a way to resolve the spy accusation, and Emperor Qin rejected Lin Fan’s suggestion that he return to defend the Great Qin Immortal Dynasty.

Duan Cangqiong challenged the Buddhist Sect’s accusations, but the Jietian Sect and other forces soon attacked, igniting a battle across the surrounding forces. As the Moon Embracing Sect’s protective formation began to fail, He Anxia offered to unleash a dangerous microorganism he had discovered.

• Duan Cangqiong publicly defended the Moon Embracing Sect, recounting how the Buddhist Sect had attacked after the Great Peng King failed to seize its mountain gate.
• The Jietian Sect Leader arrived, killed a Fourteenth Realm cultivator with a glance, and attacked the Emperor Qin, who used Great Qin’s military formation to fight him at Immortal King strength.
• The Jietian Sect, Great Qin’s enemies, the Heavenly Secrets Tower’s competitors, and numerous independent cultivators joined the battle against the Moon Embracing Sect and its allies.
• As attacks battered the Sect Protecting Grand Formation, Xiao Ling'er, Wang Teng, Lin Dong, and He Qiang asked Lin Fan to let them fight.
• He Anxia told Lin Fan that he had discovered a microorganism difficult to control and suggested that it might be useful in the desperate situation.

Long Aojiao arrived with reinforcements and overwhelmed the enemies attacking the Moon Embracing Sect with the Overlord Divine Halberd. After noticing Lin Fan’s unusually weak aura, she realized he was injured and flew into a rage, demanding to know who had harmed him.

• He Anxia proposed unleashing runaway microorganisms, but Lin Fan stopped him and said he had other preparations.
• Long Aojiao arrived from the Winter Long Wall with dozens of young followers and urged Lin Fan to beg her for help.
• Long Aojiao killed a Thirteenth Realm attacker with the Overlord Divine Halberd and later drove a Fourteenth Realm expert into desperate flight.
• Xuan Jue and Ci recognized the Overlord Divine Halberd as a dangerous inheritance and decided not to seize it.
• Fifth Zhuge explained that Long Aojiao had built a fearsome reputation at the Winter Long Wall and fought with a powerful Ten Directions Demon-Suppressing Formation.
• Long Aojiao sensed Lin Fan’s weakened aura, concluded he was injured, and demanded to know who had hurt him.

Long Aojiao demanded to know who had injured Lin Fan as returning Moon Embracing Sect disciples joined the battle and revealed extraordinary abilities. Their arrivals astonished the onlookers, while the Buddhas decided the risks of interfering were too great and the three leaders prepared to send the Eight Divisions into action.

• Long Aojiao flew into a rage over Lin Fan’s injury and challenged his attacker to appear.
• Qin Yu, Xu Fenglai, and a golden eagle returned to the battlefield, bowed to Lin Fan, and charged to defend the Moon Embracing Sect.
• Xu Fenglai used Sword Twenty-Three and Sword Opens Heavenly Gate to kill more than twenty stronger opponents, while Qin Yu’s Heaven-Breaking Sword Art cut down his attackers and revealed his Spiritual Treasure.
• A Fourteenth Realm Grand Unity True Immortal attacked Qin Yu for his treasure, but Chen Bei arrived, struck the attacker, bowed to Lin Fan, and fought him head-on.
• The Buddhas discussed Yuan Yang’s legacy and chose not to risk provoking him, while Lin Fan told Duan Cangqiong and the beautiful middle-aged woman that the Moon Embracing Sect knew a little bit of everything.
• Furious Eye and Ci concluded that the battle was becoming too risky and decided to send the Eight Divisions into action.

Moon Embracing Sect’s disciples joined Lin Fan in defending their sect, turning back the besieging forces with their combined abilities. As the Buddhist Sect’s Eight Divisions launched a renewed attack, Xiao Ling’er organized the disciples while Lin Fan, He Anxia, and Liu Jianmin helped weaken the enemy, leaving the Arhat to lead the charge himself.

• Lin Fan allowed Xiao Ling’er and the other disciples to fight after Fan Jianqiang confirmed he could evacuate them if needed.
• Xiao Ling’er split into three bodies, refining pills with one while her true body and another avatar joined Lin Dong, Wang Teng, and the other disciples in battle.
• Liu Jianmin and He Anxia weakened the attackers from within the sect’s formation, helping the disciples cut down most enemies below the Fourteenth Realm.
• Duan Cangqiong recognized that Liu Jianmin and He Anxia’s methods had crippled the enemy, while the beautiful middle-aged woman chose not to pull her little princess from the fight.
• The Buddhist Sect’s Eight Divisions charged with more than seventy thousand members, and Xiao Ling’er formed the disciples into the Reverse Attack Grand Formation as Lin Fan strengthened them with True Word Art.
• He Anxia detonated the microorganisms hidden inside the Eight Divisions while Liu Jianmin sent his Love Massage through their ranks, killing every Eleventh and Twelfth Realm member before the Arhat charged Xiao Ling’er and the others.

Xiao Ling'er, Wang Teng, and the Moon Embracing Sect disciples fought off the Eight Divisions with powerful attacks, but Three Leaves, Yaya, and Shi Hao had to join the battle as the sect neared defeat. The chapter ended with Shi Hao unleashing the Kun Peng Method and a mysterious horned figure merging with the Kunpeng phantom to charge the Eight Divisions.

• Xiao Ling'er unleashed her Destruction Fire Lotus and formed a domain of nine mutated different fires, while Wang Teng and Xu Fenglai led the formation’s counterattacks.
• Three Leaves returned to the battlefield gravely wounded after cutting itself thirteen times to leave the Sword Qi Great Wall, then used A Sword Separating Worlds and its All Things Return to Void sword to repel the Eight Divisions.
• Wang Teng, the Heavenly Maiden, and Qin Yu used three black holes to absorb attacks, but the Eight Divisions regrouped and charged the weakened Moon Embracing Sect disciples.
• Yaya and Shi Hao arrived and attacked with the Self-Transformation into Freedom Method, disrupting the Eight Divisions with an Empress manifestation and Shi Hao’s demon god.
• Shi Hao combined his Supreme Techniques, the Willow Deity Method, and the Kun Peng Fist, while a mysterious figure merged with the Kunpeng phantom and charged into the Eight Divisions.

Luo Feng’s Golden Horned Beast avatar and Long Aojiao turned the tide against the Eight Divisions, while Duan Cangqiong summoned help from the Endless Long Wall. The Eight Divisions fell into greater disarray as Long Aojiao revealed the Overlord Divine Halberd, and Lin Fan prepared to act.

• The Eight Divisions mistook Luo Feng’s Golden Horned Beast avatar for a Kunpeng, while Lin Fan recognized it as the beast using the Kun Peng Method.
• Xuan Jue persuaded Furious Eye and Ci to let the Eight Divisions keep fighting so the Moon Embracing Sect could draw out its other disciples.
• Duan Cangqiong asked the Endless Long Wall for help, and its leaders ordered an immediate departure for the Moon Embracing Sect.
• Luo Feng’s Golden Horned Beast pierced the Arhat’s palm and drove him into the Eight Divisions, disrupting their formation.
• Long Aojiao defeated her opponent and charged into the Eight Divisions, then revealed the Overlord Divine Halberd as she attacked their weaker fighters.
• Lin Fan rolled up his sleeves to join the fight, prompting Fan Jianqiang to ask him what he was doing.

Lin Fan and his disciples fought the Eight Divisions despite their dwindling strength, until Fan Jianqiang used the Human King Bow and Fuxi Arrow to kill three Daluo Golden Immortals. The surviving Fifteenth Realm enemies seized the moment and broke the disciples’ formation, leaving Lin Fan and the others in grave danger.

• Lin Fan joined the battle as a Body Cultivator, and his disciples formed up around him to attack the Eight Divisions.
• Lin Fan, Long Aojiao, Yaya, and Shi Hao endured attacks from the Fifteenth Realm experts while Xiao Ling'er supplied pills, but the Eight Divisions’ remaining experts eventually overwhelmed them.
• Fan Jianqiang fired the Human King Bow and Fuxi Arrow, piercing three Daluo Golden Immortals and turning them into mortals before they exploded and died.
• Fan Jianqiang explained that the bow and arrow were formed from the will of countless human forebears and had been his greatest one-use trump card.
• The Arhat and the other Fifteenth Realm cultivators broke the Reverse Attack Grand Formation and attacked, while Lin Fan and Yaya struggled to survive.

Shi Hao summoned the Willow Deity when the Buddhist Sect’s Fifteenth Realm forces nearly overwhelmed the Moon Embracing Sect. Her incarnation defeated three Buddhist Immortal Kings and killed them, then slew Furious Eye while the Jietian Sect Master escaped from her.

• Shi Hao called on the Willow Deity as Arhat and the other Fifteenth Realm attackers launched another assault, and she froze their attacks and destroyed them.
• The Willow Deity fought Furious Eye, Xuan Jue, and Ci, drawing strength from her Divine Kingdoms and suppressing all three Immortal Kings.
• The Willow Deity killed Xuan Jue and Ci, destroying their incarnations and Dao fruits, while the Moon Embracing Sect celebrated.
• The Jietian Sect Master severed his karma with the Jietian Art and escaped when the Willow Deity moved to attack him.
• The Willow Deity formed another incarnation, intercepted the fleeing Furious Eye, and killed him.

The Willow Deity reached Western Heaven and demanded that the Buddhist Sect answer for attacking Moon Embracing Sect, while Buddha prepared to confront her and learn the secret of her faith-based power. As Lin Fan's battered disciples regrouped after their victory, the Willow Deity launched an attack on the assembled Buddhist forces.

• Buddha considered the Willow Deity's power and planned to suppress her and uncover how she wielded faith without a Divine Kingdom.
• Cultivators across the Three Thousand Continents and Immortal Hall watched the Willow Deity head toward Western Heaven, while the Supreme Master remained silent.
• Lin Fan stopped his disciples from pursuing the fleeing enemies, thanked them for returning to defend Moon Embracing Sect, and ordered them to heal and clean up the battlefield.
• Lin Fan used the Thirty-Six Times Mirror Technique to observe the Willow Deity as she arrived outside Western Heaven and faced Buddha, several other Buddhas, and an army of Arhats and Bodhisattvas.
• The Willow Deity rejected Buddha's accusations, demanded an explanation for the Buddhist Sect's attack on Moon Embracing Sect, and struck at the assembled forces.

Willow Deity fought five Buddhas at the Western Heaven while Buddha plotted to force her to surrender her secret technique by accusing the Moon Embracing Sect of harboring Mechanical Race spies. Immortal King Qing Ping intervened, revealed the sect’s name was on the Endless Long Wall’s Merit Tablet, and called for its Saintess as the chapter ended.

• Willow Deity suppressed a Buddha, then fought five opponents at once as their battle battered the Western Heaven’s protective formation.
• Buddha planned to frame the Moon Embracing Sect as Mechanical Race spies and pressure Willow Deity into destroying the sect or handing over her secret technique.
• An unseen speaker mocked Buddha’s accusations, then Immortal King Qing Ping arrived and challenged the Buddhist Sect’s claim that the Moon Embracing Sect harbored spies.
• Immortal King Qing Ping revealed that the Moon Embracing Sect was recorded on the Endless Long Wall’s Merit Tablet, but the watching Immortal Kings stayed silent.
• Immortal King Qing Ping asked whether the Endless Long Wall’s Saintess would be believed and announced her arrival.

Funingna arrived at Western Heaven as the Endless Long Wall’s Saintess and confronted the Buddhist Sect over its attacks on the Moon Embracing Sect. She accused the Buddhist Sect of targeting the Wall’s meritorious servants and left its leaders unable to answer as Immortal Kings watched.

• Immortal King Qing Ping announced the Endless Long Wall’s Saintess, and three Immortal Kings opened a grand spatial gateway to escort Funingna to Western Heaven.
• The Endless Long Wall’s soldiers gathered to send Funingna off, while observers and the Moon Embracing Sect were stunned to learn she was the Saintess.
• Buddha tried to change the subject, but Funingna said she had come to bear witness for the Moon Embracing Sect and demand an explanation for the Wall’s meritorious servants.
• Funingna condemned the Buddhist Sect for attacking the Moon Embracing Sect despite Duan Cangqiong’s warning, then accused it of behaving like a spy of the Mechanical Race.
• Buddha and the Buddhist monks could not refute Funingna as she appealed to the watching Immortal Kings, leaving the Buddhist Sect bewildered by her accusations.

Funingna confronted the Buddhist Sect over its attack on the Moon Embracing Sect, accusing it of serving the Mechanical Race and exposing contradictions in its teachings on cause and effect. The Buddhist Sect’s lower-ranking monks began doubting their leaders as Funingna’s accusations stirred unrest within Western Heaven.

• The Buddha denied that the Buddhist Sect was connected to the Mechanical Race and objected to Funingna’s accusations, while Immortal King Qing Ping and the other Endless Long Wall Immortal Kings backed her.
• Funingna rejected the Buddha’s attempt to negotiate and challenged the Buddhist Sect’s claim that evildoers could become Buddhas by laying down their butcher’s knives.
• Funingna used the Wrathful-Eyed Buddha and Great Peng King to argue that the Buddhist Sect applied its doctrine of cause and effect selectively for its own benefit.
• Funingna accused the Buddhist leadership of demanding obedience and bitter cultivation from ordinary monks while excusing its own wrongdoing.
• The Buddhist Sect’s lower-ranking monks began questioning their leaders and concluded that the doctrines of cause and effect and cultivation for the next life might be excuses for the powerful to rule them.