Recaps

Qi Yuan defeated a Titled Martial Lord, then learned from Yu Mengxian that the realm faced destruction and that Jin Li was in Moon God Palace. He left to continue comprehending the ten thousand Daos, while considering how to contact Jin Li across realms.

• Qi Yuan knocked down the white-haired old man in one punch and returned to the stands, where Meow Meow cheered for him.
• Yu Mengxian descended to the Heavenly Origin Sect and warned the sect master and the Tight-fitting Suit Woman that the realm's impending destruction might also endanger the Fire Spirit Realm.
• Qi Yuan told Yu Mengxian he would not let the world shatter before becoming the Myriad Paths Martial God, and permitted her to take people to the Upper Realm if she wished.
• Yu Mengxian told Qi Yuan that Jin Li was the Moon Girl of Moon God Palace and had fought in the Demon Abyss for centuries; she explained that he could move his star near Jin Li's to signal her.
• Qi Yuan learned that contacting Jin Li by letter would take years, asked about Ruan Yixi, and then left with Xie Xin Su to continue comprehending the ten thousand Daos.

Qi Yuan halted the Mountains and Seas Scroll’s world fusion, rejecting the Eastern Alliance’s plan to revive East Monarch’s Dao companion and claiming he would face the great calamity himself. The chapter ended with Divine Thunder Old Geezer believing Qi Yuan could solve a problem even an omniscient god could not.

• Qi Yuan worried that only three years remained to comprehend the myriad paths, while Robot Ling Yi wondered whether everything was about to end.
• The Eastern Alliance’s Titled Martial Lords agreed to fuse the worlds, revive the Lord of the Ancestor Demons, and sacrifice Rebooters, despite concerns that the Celestial Venerable might oppose them.
• Yang Spirits in the Upper Realm discussed Qi Yuan’s arrival in the strange land and warned that the Holy Light Clan’s Words of Holy Light made the Moon God Palace’s Yang Spirit scheme perilous.
• Qi Yuan told Zhong Niao that her nightmares involved parallel-world versions of herself and said he would prevent the worlds from merging until he became the Myriad Paths Martial God.
• Qi Yuan used the word “Condense” to halt the world fusion, then appeared before the Eastern Alliance and declared he would confront the great calamity himself.
• Qi Yuan asked Divine Thunder Old Geezer whether he would believe Qi Yuan could solve what an omniscient god could not, and Divine Thunder Old Geezer said he believed him.

Qi Yuan received the Myriad Paths from Zero One and discovered that East Monarch had prepared them to make him believe he was East Monarch’s Dao companion. He severed the false memories, became the Myriad Paths Martial God, and set out to meet East Monarch, unsure whether he would return.

• Qi Yuan rejected the Eastern Alliance Martial Lords’ faith in East Monarch and declared that he would protect the world and prevent its merging until he became the Myriad Paths Martial God.
• Mu Yan’s ancestor urged him to trust East Monarch, explaining that East Monarch’s followers considered everything he said correct and had killed those who resisted him.
• Qi Yuan received Marriage Certificates from Ling Yi, tried to comprehend the Dao, and joined Ling Yi and Xie Xin Su for a group photo illuminated by a sudden beam of moonlight.
• Zero One revealed that she had gathered the Myriad Paths as data and transferred them to Qi Yuan, who saw memories suggesting he was East Monarch’s Dao companion.
• Qi Yuan recognized East Monarch’s manipulation, severed the Myriad Paths with his own Dao, and entered the realm of the Myriad Paths Martial God.
• Qi Yuan told Zero One he was going to meet East Monarch and asked her to handle any parking or phone bills if he did not return.

Qi Yuan went to meet East Monarch while the Martial Lords revealed their plan to sacrifice most Mountains and Seas Scrolls to resurrect East Monarch’s Dao companion. As they attacked the scroll worlds, Ning Tao appeared and killed a Titled Martial Lord who threatened Lu Zhu and Wang Yuanyu.

• Qi Yuan accepted the Martial Lords’ invitation to meet East Monarch in the Land of Calamity and brought his powerful followers along.
• After Qi Yuan left, Black Deer Martial Lord and the others explained their plan to make one Dao-companion clone devour the others, while Mu Yan objected and was imprisoned with the other dissenters.
• The Martial Lords entered the Black Sea and began invading the Mountains and Seas Scrolls to capture the clones and slaughter their inhabitants.
• A Titled Martial Lord attacked Lu Zhu and Wang Yuanyu; Lu Zhu used the Blood Butcher Staff to resist, but could not stop him.
• Ning Tao appeared, said the Titled Martial Lord had dirtied her husband’s staff, and killed him by making him age to death.

Ning Tao rescued Canary by killing nearly ten thousand Martial Lords who had attacked her. Meanwhile, Qi Yuan met East Monarch Sheng Kongming, who claimed they were lovers, but Qi Yuan rejected him and severed his arm.

• Ning Tao revealed that she was Qi Yuan's wife, told Lu Zhu to prepare for the worlds' convergence without causing slaughter, and left to deal with enemies threatening Qi Yuan's peace.
• Canary called for Ning Tao while nearly ten thousand Martial Lords besieged her in the Black Sea, and Ning Tao arrived to kill them with her power over time.
• Canary and Ning Tao discussed Ning Tao's strength and her wish to keep Qi Yuan by her side forever.
• Qi Yuan entered the land of the Great Tribulation Transformation and encountered Sheng Kongming, who claimed Qi Yuan was his long-awaited husband, A Qiao.
• Sheng Kongming tried to persuade Qi Yuan to accept his love, but Qi Yuan angrily rejected him and cut off his left arm.

Qi Yuan killed Sheng Kongming, the East Monarch, with the combined power of his four thousand divine infants, then entered the sea of Root Demons and met the woman behind the game. She departed to seek her way home, leaving Qi Yuan with the Mountains and Rivers Divine Brush and promising to wait for him beyond Supreme Truth.

• Sheng Kongming tried to recruit Qi Yuan after his Words of Holy Light failed to control him, but Qi Yuan attacked him for plagiarizing the Shinguang Sect's name.
• Qi Yuan combined the power of the Three Pure Ones and his four thousand divine infants into a punch that killed Sheng Kongming and shattered his schemes.
• Qi Yuan entered the sea of Root Demons, which treated him as one of their own, and encountered Wang Yuanyu, the featherless bird from the beginning of the game.
• Wang Yuanyu explained that Sheng Kongming had been one part of her tribulation and said she would seek her way home alone, promising to wait for Qi Yuan beyond Supreme Truth.
• The Root Demon sea vanished, and a game notification confirmed Qi Yuan had obtained one Mountains and Rivers Divine Brush.
• Years later, a slender robot entered ruins carrying a Marriage Certificate and said, "Master, the myriad Daos are zero and one..."

After returning from the game, Qi Yuan discovered he had entered the Purple Mansion Realm but had no Purple Mansion, and he planned to create one with the Mountains and Rivers Divine Brush. Reunited with Jiang Lingsu, he learned about the eleven suns and enlisted her help finding an artist while preparing a plan to confront the Great Calamity.

• Qi Yuan returned to Seven Colors Peak after the game, complained that Wu Shi had taken one of his Divine Infants, and found that most of his game cultivation had carried over.
• Qi Yuan realized he had reached the Purple Mansion Realm without a Purple Mansion and decided he needed land, a design, and an artist to paint his underworld with the Mountains and Rivers Divine Brush.
• Jiang Lingsu welcomed Qi Yuan after his two-and-a-half-year seclusion and told him that eleven suns now shone over Azure Wave.
• Qi Yuan joked with Jiang Lingsu about the suns, then asked her to help him find an artist to paint his underworld.
• Jiang Lingsu named an unusual artist living in the Bamboo Forest Sea of Helan Continent, and Qi Yuan said they would visit her while he devised a plan for the Great Calamity.

Qi Yuan discovered a mark on Jiang Lingsu’s true spirit that made cultivators into resources for the Great Calamity, and he planned to investigate the marks while traveling with her to Helan Continent. After announcing his breakthrough to the Purple Mansion Realm, he learned that reclusive clans wanted to warn him about the danger of spreading his divine technique, but he insisted they meet him in Helan Continent.

• Qi Yuan named his plan to defeat the Great Calamity “Qi Yuan Eliminates the Great Calamity” and announced that he had become Shinguang Sect’s first Purple Mansion cultivator.
• Qi Yuan examined Jiang Lingsu and found a mark placed on cultivators by the Grand Brilliance Palace Master, which could control their lives and deaths.
• Qi Yuan and Jiang Lingsu agreed to travel to Helan Continent to meet the painter and investigate the marks.
• Members of the God Flower Society speculated about Qi Yuan’s identity, and the Disciplinary Committee warned them for spreading rumors.
• Qi Yuan told Rogue Immortal Venerable and Great Sun Flame Emperor that he had obtained primordial purple qi and asked about the Origin God Sharing Society’s collected cultivation techniques.
• Great Sun Flame Emperor reported that reclusive clans wanted to discuss the Great Calamity and warned that widespread use of the divine technique could kill every cultivator; Qi Yuan told them to meet him in Helan Continent in five days.

After reaching Purple Mansion, Qi Yuan fled Jiang Ruhua and continued investigating the poisonous marks across Helan Continent with Jiang Lingsu. They accepted Qiong Yunting’s invitation to a Divine Infant Banquet, where she promised to help them borrow Spirit Stones and suggested that powerful guests might help the Jiang Family’s struggling business.

• Qi Yuan returned to Shinguang Sect as a celebrated figure, corrected disciples’ rumors about him, and learned that Jiang Ruhua had come looking for him.
• Qi Yuan fled Seven Colors Peak with Jiang Lingsu to avoid an awkward meeting with her father, Jiang Ruhua.
• In Helan Continent, Qi Yuan said he had examined every cultivator above Foundation Establishment and described two risky ideas for dealing with their poisonous marks.
• Jiang Lingsu complained about Qiong Yunting, whose fiancé had entered the Divine Infant Realm, and traded barbed compliments with her when she arrived.
• Qiong Yunting invited Qi Yuan and Jiang Lingsu to her husband’s Divine Infant Banquet, offered to arrange a loan, and pointed out that influential guests might help the Jiang Family’s business.

Qi Yuan saved Jiang Xi from Feng Ruohan, then accompanied Jiang Lingsu to the Divine Infant Banquet, where he bluntly asked Qiong Yunting and Wang Yunteng for 1.05 billion Spirit Stones. His demand stunned the banquet guests and left the gathering on the brink of confrontation.

• Jiang Lingsu offered Qi Yuan her savings, and he persuaded her to invest them in his plan to build the underworld.
• Jiang Xi told Jiang Lingsu that the Strange Painter would return the next day and worried about the Jiang Family’s business difficulties.
• Feng Ruohan tried to coerce Jiang Xi into drugging Jiang Lingsu, but Qi Yuan killed him and said he had also wiped out a clan.
• Qi Yuan and Jiang Lingsu went to the Divine Infant Banquet, where Qiong Yunting introduced Jiang Lingsu and mocked Qi Yuan’s humble origins.
• Qi Yuan asked Qiong Yunting and Wang Yunteng to lend him 1.05 billion Spirit Stones, shocking the banquet guests.

Qi Yuan attended Wang Yunteng’s Divine Infant Banquet with Jiang Lingsu, mocked Qiong Yunting, and claimed the Blood Robe Alliance stood behind him when he demanded 1.05 billion Spirit Stones. After Wine Master threatened him and the guests learned Qi Yuan had destroyed the Feng Family, they realized he was the Blood Robe Sword God, and Qi Yuan prepared to confront Wine Master.

• Qi Yuan repeatedly mocked Qiong Yunting for supposedly failing to clean her ears, then told Wang Yunteng he wanted 1.05 billion Spirit Stones and cited the Wang and Qiong families’ wealth.
• Wang Yunteng challenged Qi Yuan’s authority, so Qi Yuan claimed the Blood Robe Alliance backed him; Wang Yunteng replied that the Blood Robe Sword God was about to accept him as a disciple.
• Wine Master appeared, said he had arranged Wang Yunteng’s discipleship, and threatened Qi Yuan unless he put on his boot.
• Qi Yuan revealed that he had just exterminated the Feng Family, and Wine Master confirmed the family’s destruction after probing Qi Yuan with his divine soul.
• Messages spread that the Blood Robe Sword God had destroyed the Feng Family, and the banquet guests recognized Qi Yuan and bowed to him.
• Wine Master still demanded that Qi Yuan put on his boot, and Qi Yuan declared that the Azure Wave World could not tolerate anyone more awesome than him.

Qi Yuan killed Wine Master with a single finger, collected on the debt, and followed Strange Painter through a painted door with Jiang Lingsu. Strange Painter warned that the great calamity cultivated gifted Yin Spirits as resources, then explained that she and Wine Master had escaped harvesting by becoming alternative Mythicals through an art taught by Jade Maiden.

• Qi Yuan shattered Wine Master's God Domain and killed him, ignoring his warning about powerful allies.
• Qi Yuan demanded 1.05 billion Spirit Stones from Wang Yunteng and Qiong Yunting, who bound themselves together and promised to pay.
• Strange Painter arrived and warned Qi Yuan that killing Wine Master had invited disaster, then opened a painted door to her residence.
• Qi Yuan and Jiang Lingsu followed Strange Painter into a vast white space filled with paper and rivers of paint.
• Strange Painter explained that the great calamity raised gifted Yin Spirits to become Mythical Realm resources, while she and others had escaped by using Jade Maiden's art to become alternative Mythicals.

Qi Yuan learned that a Supreme Treasure might be able to sever the marks connecting every cultivator to the Great Calamity, and he recruited the Strange Painter to paint his planned Underworld. Great Wisdom True Lord then identified Qi Yuan’s wooden door as the legendary Door of Supreme Truth, which might break those marks, leaving Qi Yuan wondering if he himself had reached the Supreme Truth Realm.

• The Strange Painter told Qi Yuan that the Great Calamity had defeated countless worlds and that a mark on every cultivator could kill them all at its master’s command.
• Qi Yuan learned from the Strange Painter that a Supreme Treasure might offer a way to resist the marks, then brought out the Mountains and Rivers Divine Brush and asked her to paint the Underworld.
• Qi Yuan summoned the Underworld’s powerful administrators, who bowed to him, and Qi Qi agreed to explain the Underworld to Jiang Lingsu and help the Strange Painter depict it.
• Qi Yuan asked the Strange Painter to gather what she knew about the Great Calamity, Supreme Treasures, and the Grand Brilliance Palace, and she resolved to warn Wine Master’s organization not to oppose him.
• Great Wisdom True Lord arrived and proposed that Qi Yuan’s wooden door was the Door of Supreme Truth, which could sever marks and karma; Qi Yuan recalled leaving a mark on the Myriad Paths Gate and wondered if he was a Supreme Truth expert.

Qi Yuan realized the Door of Supreme Truth was the Myriad Paths Gate he had once used in the Flowing Wind World, and planned to make it the Netherworld Gate of his household. As he began Reflecting Heavens with Canary and Ning Tao, the Grand Brilliance Palace gathered allies to exploit an injury to the Moon God Palace’s powerful being, but a mythic powerhouse spotted something alarming in the sky.

• Qi Yuan told Great Wisdom True Lord that he had seen the Door of Supreme Truth in a game and argued that the Myriad Paths Gate could serve as his household’s Netherworld Gate.
• Qi Yuan found that the Flowing Wind World game icon had turned gray, then decided to Reflect Heavens and look for the world and Jin Li’s star.
• Canary joined Qi Yuan and said that she and Ning Tao would help him search from atop the Golden Core.
• At a Grand Brilliance Gathering, a golden-robed mythic powerhouse announced that a powerful being from the Moon God Palace had been injured and urged the gathered factions to help attack its territory.
• A mythic powerhouse noticed that the Grand Brilliance Palace had grown unusually hot and looked up at the Azure Sky in shock.

Qi Yuan raised ten Grand Sun honored seats in the Star Realm and declared war on the master of Grand Brilliance Palace, disrupting the conflict between Grand Brilliance Palace and Moon God Palace. As his suns moved toward Moon God Palace’s region, a young Moon Girl saw their light and remembered Qi Yuan, while he continued on without approaching her.

• Yang Spirit Heavenly Venerates and Mythos saw one Grand Sun after another appear until Qi Yuan’s ten suns challenged Grand Brilliance Palace’s honored seat.
• Mythos fled Grand Brilliance Palace, while the golden-robed man raged over losing his merit as the Ten Suns became visible across the worlds.
• Qi Yuan declared himself the true sun and ordered Ning Tao to move the Star Golden Cores toward a dim star, then sent the ten suns onward ahead of his planned ascent.
• A Moon God Palace Heavenly Venerate welcomed the challenge as relief for the pressured faction, but worried that a new Grand Sun would become its enemy.
• A young Moon Girl told her senior sister she was gathering merit to ask Moon God Yuanjun to help her meet Qi Yuan, then saw his ten suns pass near her star.
• The Moon Girl recalled Qi Yuan’s message, “As If Seeing You,” while Qi Yuan continued onward, saying she could not yet be close to him.

Qi Yuan continued searching for Flowing Wind World while Jade Maiden suspected that the Ten Suns Celestial Venerable was a prodigy who had descended to find his Dao companion. Great Wisdom True Lord asked Qi Yuan to protect his Dao companion’s Golden Core in the planned Netherworld, while Jade Maiden arrived in Azure Wave World and rejected the hidden organization’s demand that she kill the Blood Robe Sword God.

• Qi Yuan told Reflecting Heavens to search for Flowing Wind World, and Jade Maiden wondered whether the Ten Suns Celestial Venerable was the prodigy who had descended to find his Dao companion.
• Great Wisdom True Lord asked Qi Yuan to place his Dao companion’s Golden Core in the Netherworld, and Qi Yuan promised to keep it safe.
• Members of the hidden organization argued over whether to retaliate against the Blood Robe Sword God for killing Wine Master, while others defended his stand against the Great Calamity.
• Jade Maiden descended before the hidden organization, learned that the Blood Robe Sword God had defied the Great Calamity, and mocked the members who urged her to kill him.

Jade Maiden killed eight Great Venerables who wanted Qi Yuan dead, then offered him Upper Realm cultivation techniques while warning him about the Great Calamity. As Qi Yuan set out for the newly found Flowing Wind World, Lightless Buddha targeted Ling Yayi, a surviving disciple of the Blood Master, hoping to learn about the Blood Master's Reincarnation Power.

• Jade Maiden crushed eight Great Venerables and urged the remaining cultivators to pay respects to Qi Yuan, whom she believed could resist the Great Calamity.
• Daoist Kunxia realized the Ten Suns Celestial Venerable was connected to the Azure Wave World, hid what he knew, and fled the Upper Realm for the lower realms.
• Jade Maiden met Qi Yuan, gave him a jade slip containing seven divine techniques, and warned him that the Heavenly Venerable could kill everyone marked by the Great Calamity.
• Canary announced that the Flowing Wind World had been found, and Qi Yuan prepared to return there in search of the Myriad Paths Gate.
• In a Flowing Wind World tavern, Lightless Buddha recognized storyteller Ling Yayi as a disciple of the Blood Master and ordered him to come along so he could investigate the Blood Master's Reincarnation Power.

Qi Yuan entered the Flowing Wind World with Canary and Ning Tao, limiting his immortal power while searching for the Myriad Paths Gate. He found no trace of it yet, but planned to stay and accompany them through the memories he had missed; meanwhile, Lightless Buddha pressed Ling Yayi to prepare for the Ten Thousand Buddhas Assembly.

• Qi Yuan restrained his immortal power and entered the Flowing Wind World with Canary, where Ning Tao reunited with them at the place she had first heard his voice.
• Ning Tao told Qi Yuan she could not help him search because her cultivation was restricted, then went with Canary to the stone pool while Qi Yuan scanned the world for the Myriad Paths Gate.
• Qi Yuan found no trace of the Myriad Paths Gate, but trusted that his Great Forgetfulness Sutra and Star Golden Core would eventually locate it, and decided to treat the stay as a vacation.
• Canary and Ning Tao teased Qi Yuan about the stone pool and invited him to walk with them along the roads he had missed; he joined them in the water.
• Lightless Buddha tormented Ling Yayi to cleanse his desires and ordered him to represent Tan Ke Holy Land at the Ten Thousand Buddhas Assembly and compete for first place.
• Lightless Buddha explained that Ling Yayi and the other heirs with Reincarnation Power were unlikely to face much danger, though he warned that anything could happen in the Buddha Country's struggle for orthodoxy.

Qi Yuan traveled through the Flowing Wind World with Ning Tao and Canary, where he challenged a Half Buddha after a rescued woman credited Buddha instead of him. After forcing the Half Buddha to admit he had not guided the rescue, Qi Yuan collected his divine arts and asked him to find Bai Ze and others, learning Bai Ze was connected to Great Sun Light Buddha.

• Ning Tao recalled hiding in the mountains as a child and noted that the Flowing Wind World now revered Buddhism, while Qi Yuan wondered whether the Myriad Paths Gate would appear at the upcoming Ten Thousand Buddhas Assembly.
• Qi Yuan rescued an old woman hanging from a cliff, but she thanked Buddha for arranging her rescue instead of thanking him.
• Qi Yuan summoned the Half Buddha from the pagoda and dragged him down, forcing him to admit that he had not guided Qi Yuan to save the woman.
• Ning Tao sent the old woman back over the cliff, where she cried for help without receiving Buddha's intervention.
• The Half Buddha offered Qi Yuan his divine arts, then said two thousand Half Buddhas had descended to the lower realm.
• Qi Yuan asked the Half Buddha to find Bai Ze, Foolish Daoist, and Ling Yayi, and learned that Bai Ze might be Great Sun Light Buddha's disciple.

Qi Yuan revealed himself as Blood Master, discussed making Bai Ze or his friends the Buddhist Kingdom’s Holy Buddha or Buddha Ancestor, and planned to attend the Ten Thousand Buddhas Assembly. As old allies and enemies learned he was alive and headed there, Ling Yayi decided to enter the Buddhist sect and pursue the Holy Buddha position to save him.

• Bai Baixiang recognized Qi Yuan as Blood Master and claimed her master, White Crane, was his goddaughter, but Qi Yuan rejected the title.
• Cantuo Half Buddha told Qi Yuan that the Ten Thousand Buddhas Assembly would select a Holy Buddha, and explained that Bai Ze needed to recover the Great Sun Golden Lotus to have a chance.
• Qi Yuan asked Cantuo Half Buddha to recommend several of his friends as Buddha Ancestor candidates, and Cantuo reluctantly agreed to inquire.
• Chen Huan learned that Blood Master would attend the Assembly and set off with Daoist Kunxia, who secretly planned to take over the Blood Palace by turning Qi Yuan into a puppet.
• Lightless Buddha told Ling Yayi that the Great Sun Golden Lotus was inside Blood Master and that Qi Yuan had reappeared; Ling Yayi asked to become Holy Buddha so he could save his master.

Qi Yuan arrived at the Ten Thousand Buddhas Assembly and confronted the Buddha Country’s Quasi Buddhas, offering to provide them with a Buddha Ancestor. He summoned several Buddhas who stunned the True Buddhas, and the Creation Treasure Buddhist Kingdom descended into his hand.

• Ning Tao restored Nine Bend Mountain to its past springtime appearance, and she and Canary led Qi Yuan away to spend a rainy day together.
• Three months later, Lightless Buddha and the other participants gathered in Guiqi City for the Ten Thousand Buddhas Assembly, while the Buddha Country’s Quasi Buddhas and True Buddhas searched for Blood Master.
• Qi Yuan appeared beside Chen Huan, ignored his warning to flee, and flew into the sky to address the Quasi Buddhas.
• When a Quasi Buddha attacked, Qi Yuan suppressed the assembly with his power and demanded to speak with someone who could make decisions.
• Qi Yuan summoned the Victorious Fighting Buddha and No Heaven Buddha Ancestor, causing the Creation Treasure Buddhist Kingdom to tremble and the True Buddhas to descend.
• Qi Yuan summoned Burning Lamp Buddha, Sakyamuni Buddha, Namo Great Saint Relic Honored King Buddha, and Maitreya Buddha; the Creation Treasure Buddhist Kingdom descended into his hand as he asked whether his friends qualified as Buddha Ancestors.

Qi Yuan secured the Buddha Country, helped its True Buddhas become Buddha Ancestors, and received their divine techniques while asking them about the Upper Realm and the Grand Brilliance Palace. Meanwhile, Foolish Daoist won the Holy Buddha position and learned that Qi Yuan had been named the Buddha Nation’s Supreme Buddha.

• Taihang True Buddha and the other True Buddhas bowed to Qi Yuan’s six Buddhas of the Three Times, and Qi Yuan handed the Buddha Country to Wutian for safekeeping.
• Taihang True Buddha sealed the Flowing Wind World from the Upper Realm and erased or altered memories about the Future Buddha; Qi Yuan absorbed Daoist Kunxia’s memories and explained how the Future Buddha had attained Buddhahood.
• The True Buddhas gave Qi Yuan nearly ten thousand divine techniques, and Taihang True Buddha explained the Grand Brilliance Palace’s power before declining Qi Yuan’s request to infiltrate the Moon God Palace.
• Foolish Daoist won the Holy Buddha position with Bai Ze’s help and Ling Yayi’s support, then asked the Quasi Buddha to spare Qi Yuan’s life and cultivation.
• The Quasi Buddha told Foolish Daoist, Ling Yayi, and Lightless Buddha that No Heaven Buddha had declared Qi Yuan the Buddha Nation’s Supreme Buddha.

Qi Yuan seized the Myriad Paths Gate and began turning its chaotic interior into a Netherworld, ordering his Five Mountains Great Emperors to move familiar lands and waters inside. Meanwhile, Buddha Country announced Present Buddha Sakyamuni Buddha’s return and declared war on the Moro Clan, while Strange Painter began shaping Qi Yuan’s new realm.

• At Buddha Country, Ling Yayi learned of No Heaven Buddha and the other Buddha Ancestors, then demanded to know where his master, Supreme Buddha, was.
• At the Ends of the Earth, Qi Yuan grabbed the Myriad Paths Gate with the Myriad Paths Key and claimed it as his Netherworld Gate.
• Qi Yuan ordered the Five Mountains Great Emperors to move No Return City, Nine Bend Mountain, the forbidden areas, and the Ends of the Earth’s waters into the gate, and sent Divine Thunder Old Geezer to retrieve the Ancient Clan’s ancestral land.
• Buddha Country announced that Present Buddha Sakyamuni Buddha had returned, then declared war on the Moro Clan; Moro Celestial Venerable vowed to kill him in return.
• Qi Yuan gathered Strange Painter and the moved lands inside the Myriad Paths Gate, and Strange Painter began painting its chaotic terrain into a new world.

Qi Yuan completed the Netherworld and refined it into his Purple Mansion, awakening a strange ability that let him speak with beings through murmured voices. The Netherworld remained too limited to receive unmarked dead souls, and Qi Yuan prepared to head to the Upper Realm to confront its deteriorating cultivation world.

• Strange Painter painted the Ghost Gate and the Netherworld while Qi Yuan heard unseen beings trying to communicate with him.
• The beings gathered into the Tablet of the Dead, which Qi Yuan recognized as another object that had escaped his household.
• Qi Yuan established the Netherworld’s mountains, rivers, officials, Five Ghost Emperors, Ten Kings of Hell, and reincarnation under Qi Qi’s command.
• Qi Yuan transformed the Myriad Paths Gate into the Netherworld Gate, swallowed the Netherworld, and condensed his Purple Mansion with purple qi.
• Qi Yuan realized his small Netherworld could not receive unmarked souls, including the Five Elements Five Ancestors, Zhang Sheng, and Chen Jiao.
• Qi Yuan awakened an ability that let him speak to beings whose murmurs he heard, then tested it by asking an unseen listener to lend him money.

Qi Yuan tested his power to influence fortune, then fled Cloud Heaven City with Jiang Lingsu as her father pursued them. At a gathering of Azure Wave World's major powers, he announced that he would face the Great Calamity alone in three days.

• Qi Yuan used his words to grant a homebody cultivator a bizarre cup as a Dao companion and discovered that his speech and hearing had grown clearer.
• Qi Yuan overheard Jiang Ruhua threatening to break his legs, warned Jiang Lingsu, and took her away from Cloud Heaven City before her father could catch them.
• White Fish Great Venerable and other powerful cultivators gathered at the Origin God Sharing Society to discuss the Great Calamity, while Great Venerable Hun Qiong refused to join them and taunted the others.
• Qi Yuan arrived, silenced the arguing cultivators, and announced that he would personally travel to the Central Heavenly Domain in three days to slay the Great Calamity.