Chapter Summaries

Xu Yang dismissed Lord Chushan and Duke Lutu’s warnings about the Buddhist Sect and refused to return the Purple Gold Bell or join the Heavenly Court. After their three-day banquet, he sealed Longevity Mountain and began cultivating to advance into the Great Vehicle Realm before the Buddhist Sect came to confront him.

• Xu Yang explained that he had knowingly targeted the Golden-Maned Hou despite its Buddhist Sect ties and intended to establish his authority as the Ancestor of Earth Immortals.
• Lord Chushan and Duke Lutu warned Xu Yang about the Buddhist Sect’s power and suggested returning the Purple Gold Bell, but they dropped the proposal when he showed no interest in yielding.
• Lord Chushan invited Xu Yang to take a post in the Heavenly Court, but Xu Yang refused and said he wished to remain free in the earthly realm.
• Xu Yang hosted Lord Chushan and Duke Lutu for three days of feasting and Dao discussion, then saw them off and prepared to cultivate.
• Xu Yang sealed the mountain gates and began condensing the Mechanism of Immortal Spirit to break through from Integrated Body Perfection into the Great Vehicle Realm.

Venerable Indragupta and Venerable Subhuti arrived at Longevity Mountain to reclaim the Purple Gold Bell, but True Person Ziyang urged them to wait outside while allies gathered to protect Zhenyuan. As Zhenyuan’s tribulation approached, the visitors made clear they would stand against anyone who interfered with his path.

• Venerable Indragupta and Venerable Subhuti traveled to Longevity Mountain under Great Compassion Bodhisattva’s decree to recover the Purple Gold Bell.
• True Person Ziyang met the Arhats and asked them to wait until Zhenyuan opened the mountain gate.
• True Lord Chun Jun arrived and asked whether the Arhats had come to attend Zhenyuan’s Pill Origin Gathering.
• A Black-Robed Youth of the Demon Race arrived, prompting the Arhats to question his connection to Zhenyuan.
• Fairy Peony arrived with the Grass and Wood Immortals and declared they had come to protect Zhenyuan as his tribulation approached.

Bags Arhat and Pagoda Arhat worried that Zhenyuanzi’s influence and ties across Southern Jambudvipa would make him a major obstacle to the Buddhist sect’s plans to spread south. A vast gathering of cultivators arrived at Longevity Mountain to protect his tribulation, which began as calamity clouds darkened the sky.

• Bags Arhat and Pagoda Arhat questioned why Fairy Peony and other Great Vehicle cultivators treated Zhenyuanzi as an equal and defended him.
• The two Arhats recognized that the Buddhist sect had little influence in Southern Jambudvipa and feared Zhenyuanzi would hinder its future expansion there.
• Cultivators from across the land arrived at Longevity Mountain, and Pagoda Arhat used Mind Reading Ability to hear their praise of Zhenyuanzi and accounts of how he had helped them.
• The gathering’s members discussed their reasons for providing Dao Protection, including the aid Zhenyuanzi had given True Person Ziyang, Sword Lord Chun Jun, Great Peng King, and Fairy Peony.
• Calamity clouds gathered over Longevity Mountain, and thunder announced the start of Zhenyuanzi’s heavenly tribulation.

Xu Yang used Wuzhuang Temple’s array to reach Great Vehicle and faced a Nine-Nine Heavenly Punishment Tribulation, surviving its Destruction Divine Lightning and heart-demon trial. He gained profound insights, emerged as a Great Vehicle Immortal True, and opened Wuzhuang Temple for a Grand Pill Origin Gathering and a public discussion of the Dao.

• Xu Yang refined his cultivation within the Boundless Longevity, Eternal Evergreen array and forged a strand of Immortal Spirit Mechanism, advancing to Great Vehicle.
• A Nine-Nine Heavenly Punishment Tribulation formed over Longevity Mountain, while onlookers and hidden rivals watched from afar.
• Xu Yang summoned a White Jade Immortal City to face the Destruction Divine Lightning and severed the heart demons with a sword of the heart.
• Xu Yang survived the tribulation, gained insights into his cultivation methods, and emerged with higher-level immortal power.
• Xu Yang announced that Wuzhuang Temple would open its gates for a Grand Pill Origin Gathering and that he would preach the scriptures and discuss the Dao.

After Zhenyuanzi survived his Mahayana tribulation, the Pill Origin Gathering began at Wuzhuang Temple, where the guests’ lavish gifts left Bags Arhat and Pagoda Arhat increasingly uncomfortable. Fairy Peony’s gift of a sixth-rank spiritual root stunned the crowd and stopped the two Buddhist Arhats in their tracks.

• The demons and wicked cultivators withdrew after Zhenyuanzi’s tribulation ended, and Qingfeng Mingyue invited the gathered guests into Wuzhuang Temple for the Pill Origin Gathering.
• Bags Arhat and Pagoda Arhat hesitated over whether to fight or leave, but True Person Ziyang offered them a way to save face by inviting them inside.
• True Person Ziyang presented Zhenyuanzi with a seventh-rank Golden Jade Coiling Dragon Ganoderma, and Sword Lord Chun Jun followed with a seventh-rank Flood Dragon Inner Core.
• The Great Peng King presented a seventh-rank Lightning Flood Dragon Inner Core, while Bags Arhat and Pagoda Arhat offered only a fifth-rank Bodhi Bead.
• Fairy Peony presented a sixth-rank Ageless Evergreen Tree, startling the crowd and halting Bags Arhat and Pagoda Arhat as they entered the temple.

At the Pill Origin Gathering, Xu Yang welcomed the Southern Continent’s powerful cultivators and revealed that he had refined three thousand pills from the Longevity Tree’s fruits. His generous distribution of pills that could improve spiritual roots won over the gathered cultivators, leaving Bags Arhat and Pagoda Arhat humiliated and their plans to spread Buddhist Magic Southward in jeopardy.

• Fairy Peony and other guests presented rare spiritual roots and spirit beasts as congratulatory gifts, making Bags Arhat and Pagoda Arhat regret their modest offering.
• Xu Yang arrived and welcomed the guests, then seated all seven Mahayana cultivators at the gathering.
• Xu Yang ordered a banquet and presented pills refined from the Longevity Tree’s fruits, explaining that they came in three grades and five elemental varieties.
• Xu Yang announced that the pills could extend life, increase magical power, advance Dao cultivation, and purify spiritual roots.
• Xu Yang assigned Greater Returning Pills to Body Integration Cultivators, Revival Pills to Return to Void Cultivators, and Lesser Returning Pills to Spirit Transformation Cultivators.
• The guests praised Xu Yang’s generosity, while Bags Arhat and Pagoda Arhat realized the gathering had turned public opinion against them and threatened their plans to spread Buddhist Magic Southward.

At the Pill Origin Gathering, Fairy Peony forced Bags Arhat and Pagoda Arhat to address the Buddhist sect’s responsibility for the Golden-Maned Hou’s crimes. Xu Yang refused to return the Purple Gold Bell without an apology from Great Compassion Bodhisattva and challenged the two arhats to a three-move contest, leaving them to accept.

• Fairy Peony publicly questioned Bags Arhat and Pagoda Arhat about their uninvited visit and exposed the Golden-Maned Hou’s history as Great Compassion Bodhisattva’s escaped mount.
• Bags Arhat denied that the Buddhist sect intended to hold Xu Yang accountable and praised him for eliminating the demon, while Fairy Peony toasted their answer.
• Bags Arhat asked Xu Yang to return the Purple Gold Bell, but Xu Yang demanded that Great Compassion Bodhisattva acknowledge responsibility and apologize before he would give it back.
• Lord Chushan stood and challenged the arhats over the Bodhisattva’s failure to prevent the Golden-Maned Hou’s atrocities.
• Xu Yang proposed a contest of three moves, promising to return the Purple Gold Bell if either arhat defeated him; Bags Arhat accepted on their behalf.

Xu Yang defeated Bags Arhat by using Five-Colored Divine Light to capture the Universe Pouch, then faced Pagoda Arhat, whose supernatural abilities could not uncover Xu Yang’s weakness. The two Arhats conceded and left the Purple Gold Bell at Wuzhuang Temple pending the Bodhisattva’s decision.

• Xu Yang and Bags Arhat began their Great Vehicle combat, and Bags Arhat unleashed his Universe Pouch to capture Xu Yang.
• Xu Yang used Five-Colored Divine Light to resist the pouch, then seized it and forced Bags Arhat to concede.
• Xu Yang returned the Universe Pouch, and Pagoda Arhat entered the field with his Seven Treasures Exquisite Pagoda still unused.
• Pagoda Arhat struck with the Great Sun Tathagata Seal and used his meditative abilities to search for Xu Yang’s weakness, but found nothing.
• Bags Arhat returned and conceded on behalf of himself and Pagoda Arhat, agreeing that the Purple Gold Bell would remain temporarily at Wuzhuang Temple.
• Xu Yang let the Arhats depart and returned to Wuzhuang Temple as the battle ended.

After defeating the Buddhist Venerables, Xu Yang hosted a pill gathering where the guests gained from his Revival Pills and his clear explanations of cultivation. As the gathering turned to protective arts, Sword Lord Chun Jun introduced a new Heavenly Court method: Spirit Treasure Battle Armor.

• Xu Yang returned to the banquet after defeating the two Buddhist Venerables and served supreme-grade Primordial Chaos Revival Pills to the guests.
• Xu Yang activated the Evergreen Grand Array to help the cultivators absorb the pills, and after three days many had improved their cultivation or broken through.
• Xu Yang invited the guests to discuss the Dao, then explained the Five Elements and clarified teachings from True Person Ziyang, Sword Lord Chun Jun, and Fairy Peony.
• After months of instruction and questions, Xu Yang proposed discussing protective arts and other techniques.
• Sword Lord Chun Jun described the Heavenly Court's Spirit Treasure Armor Technique and brought out a set he had purchased from Taibai Star Palace for the guests to examine.

Sword Lord Chun Jun demonstrated Heaven’s Heavenly Craftsmanship Creation Method, which combined a Spirit Treasure with vast numbers of cheap magic items to create battle armor capable of fighting across cultivation realms. The method’s spread among Heaven, the Buddhist Land, the Demon Kingdom, and the Demon Abyss threatened to reshape the Immortal Realm, but Xu Yang redirected the gathering to discussing Dao Law World.

• Sword Lord Chun Jun assembled one hundred thousand low-grade magic items around a Spirit Treasure to create a battle armor with the combat power of an ordinary Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• A Void Returning Stage cultivator tested the armor and confirmed that it could fight evenly while using spells and divine abilities, though its magic items were nearly destroyed.
• Sword Lord Chun Jun explained that stronger versions could challenge higher cultivation realms, prompting the crowd to fear the method’s effect on the Immortal Realm’s balance.
• Xu Yang reasoned that the method had not yet advanced to mid-grade or high-grade Immortal Spirit armor because fusing higher-rank techniques would be extraordinarily difficult.
• Sword Lord Chun Jun revealed that Heaven, the Buddhist Land, the Demon Kingdom, and the Demon Abyss had all acquired parts of the legacy, and that Heaven sought to strengthen itself against its rivals.
• Fairy Peony asked Xu Yang what he thought, but he set aside the broader conflict and resumed the gathering’s discussion of Dao Law World.

Xu Yang hosted the Pill Origin Gathering, where the Great Peng King presented the Body Transformation Divine Ability and Xu Yang helped him resolve the heart knot blocking his cultivation. The gathering continued for nearly a year as cultivators shared and studied their treasured methods, and a junior then offered the Nine Ceremonies Heavenly Venerate Sword for appraisal.

• Xu Yang explained why the Earth Immortal Realm's great powers could not quickly develop high-rank Heavenly Craftsmanship Creation Methods, and why Myriad Dao Academy still held an advantage.
• The Great Peng King presented the Body Transformation Divine Ability, one of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Gang Divine Abilities, for everyone to study.
• Xu Yang explained the method's principles and told the Great Peng King that his doubts over his half-demon form were obstructing his progress.
• The Great Peng King thanked Xu Yang as his heart knot loosened, and Xu Yang shared his insights into the supernatural ability with the gathering.
• Over the following months, cultivators including True Person Ziyang, Fairy Peony, and Xu Yang presented methods, while attendees of many cultivation stages exchanged knowledge.
• A junior presented the Nine Ceremonies Heavenly Venerate Sword and asked the seniors to appraise it.

Xu Yang learned that the Nine Ceremonies Heavenly Venerate Sword art had been presented and realized his Xuanyuan Sword was close to advancing into a Nine Ceremonies Sword. After the three-year Pill Origin Gathering ended, he sent the cultivators away and promised to hold another gathering in three hundred years.

• A cultivator presented the Nine Ceremonies Heavenly Venerate Sword art, and Sword Lord Chun Jun explained its origins and the Heavenly Court's failed attempt to forge it.
• The presenter explained that the complete sword was a Top-Grade Immortal Treasure refined through the Three Methods of Heaven, Earth, and Man, with twelve tiers across Xuanyuan, Nine Ceremonies, and Heavenly Venerate.
• Xu Yang recalled that the Heavenly Court had tried to seize the Myriad Dao Academy's foundations and his sword embryo, and realized his Xuanyuan Sword had reached the sixth rank through merit and human belief.
• Xu Yang concluded that he needed the sword art and more Earth's Essence to advance Xuanyuan to the seventh rank and make it a Nine Ceremonies Sword.
• After more than ten months passed and the gathering reached its third year, Xu Yang ended the Pill Origin Gathering and promised to reopen it in three hundred years.

Xu Yang ended the Pill Origin Gathering and used its profits, connections, and collected methods to strengthen Wuzhuang Temple before spending centuries in secluded cultivation. At the third convention, he gained the Pill Origin Gathering and Daoist Grandmaster traits, and prepared to bring Ascension Academy into the Earth Immortal Realm in three hundred years.

• Xu Yang announced that the Pill Origin Gathering would be held every three hundred years, then saw the guests depart while True Person Ziyang and the other Mahayana cultivators remained to discuss the Dao.
• Xu Yang tallied the gathering’s returns, including congratulatory gifts and cultivation methods, and resolved to cultivate in seclusion to strengthen his foundation and combat power.
• Six hundred years later, Xu Yang hosted the third Pill Origin Convention, which had become Southern Jambudvipa’s foremost gathering, attended by nearly ten thousand cultivators and more than twenty Mahayana Immortal Trues.
• Xu Yang discovered the new Teacher Skill trait Pill Origin Gathering and the advanced Daoist trait Daoist Grandmaster, which empowered Daoist magic and supernatural abilities.
• Xu Yang noted that only three hundred years remained in the Ascension Academy Plan and expected the academy’s arrival, combined with Wuzhuang Temple’s accumulated merit, to strengthen his position against Tribulation Crossing Immortals.

After refusing the Heavenly Court’s renewed invitation, Xu Yang learned that Great Compassion Bodhisattva might soon seek to reclaim the Purple Gold Bell, but he judged the threat manageable and set out to gather materials for a powerful armor. He arrived at the South Sea’s Vast Sea Gathering and asked the Dragon Prince for permission to enter the newly opened Vast Sea Realm.

• Xu Yang politely refused the Star of Longevity Palace Master’s offer of a Heavenly Court post, and the Star Lord warned him that Great Compassion Bodhisattva’s followers might come for the Purple Gold Bell after the Bodhisattva passed the eight-layered Buddha Tribulation.
• Xu Yang assessed his stabilized middle Mahayana cultivation and decided to seek Earth Essence, Profound Iron, and Fine Gold to forge Nine-Ceremony Xuanyuan and complete the Nine Ceremonies Heavenly Venerate armor.
• Xu Yang instructed Qingfeng Mingyue to guard Longevity Mountain and left on a distant journey.
• At the South Sea Dragon Palace’s Vast Sea Gathering, cultivators doubted the Dragon Palace’s claims that new opportunities had appeared in the Vast Sea Realm.
• Xu Yang arrived on a Five-Colored Auspicious Cloud and asked the South Sea Dragon Prince for permission to explore the Vast Sea Realm.

Xu Yang entered the Vast Sea Realm with Ao Jiang and began extracting the Refined Gold Divine Iron from an ancient Iron Mountain. After severing the mountain’s connection to the Sea Realm with a Five Elements Formation, he used the Whip Mountains and Move Stones divine art and Five Elements Divine Light to break its restraints, shaking the realm as Ao Jiang pleaded with him to stop.

• Xu Yang gave Ao Jiang a bottle of Revival Pills and asked to explore the Vast Sea Realm for Profound Iron and Fine Gold.
• Ao Jiang told Xu Yang about an immense Refined Gold Divine Iron embedded in an Iron Mountain that even the Southern Sea Dragon Ancestor had failed to move.
• Xu Yang recognized the Iron Mountain’s formation and revealed that he intended to cut it off from the Sea Realm before taking the ore.
• Xu Yang used an array to sever the mountain’s connection to the Sea Realm and forced Ao Jiang away from the work area.
• Xu Yang cast Whip Mountains and Move Stones to lift the Iron Mountain, then used Five Elements Divine Light to cut through the Five Elements Grand Array’s restraints.
• The Iron Mountain’s movement sent violent waves through the Sea Realm, and Ao Jiang shouted for Xu Yang to stop.

Xu Yang entered the Vast Sea Realm and used powerful supernatural abilities to uproot and claim the South Sea’s Ancient Iron Mountain, including its Refined Gold Divine Iron. After the Southern Sea Dragon Lord challenged him, Xu Yang invoked the Dragon Palace’s own promise that anyone could take treasures from the realm, leaving the Dragon Lord speechless as the gathered cultivators watched.

• At the Vast Sea Gathering, the Southern Sea Dragon Lord felt a disturbance and sent an attendant to ask the Southern Sea Dragon Mother about it.
• Ao Jiang reported that Xu Yang had entered the Vast Sea Realm and was using Whip Mountains and Move Stones to take the Ancient Iron Mountain.
• The Southern Sea Dragon Lord attacked Xu Yang but was injured by his five-colored divine light, and the Southern Sea Dragon Mother stopped him from rushing in again.
• Xu Yang severed the last Five Elements chain, shrank the mountain with Size as Desired, and collected it into his sleeve with Universe in Sleeve.
• The Southern Sea Dragon Lord demanded that Xu Yang return the treasure, but Xu Yang cited the Dragon Palace’s promise that anyone could claim treasures in the Vast Sea Realm.

Xu Yang left the Vast Sea Realm with the Southern Sea’s Refined Gold Divine Iron and Ancient Iron Mountain after the Dragon Mother prevented a fight. The Dragon Lord then agreed to impeach Xu Yang before the Heavenly Court and, if that failed, seek revenge during the future Immortal-God War.

• The Southern Sea Dragon Lord challenged Xu Yang to a deathmatch over the treasures, but the Dragon Mother stopped him and allowed Xu Yang to leave.
• The Dragon Mother explained to the guests that she had avoided a costly confrontation, and they discussed Xu Yang’s strength and the Dragon Palace’s loss of face.
• Back at the Crystal Palace, the Dragon Lord struck Ao Jiang and blamed him for leading Xu Yang to the Refined Gold Divine Iron.
• The Dragon Mother argued that the Dragon Lord could not safely defeat Xu Yang and proposed reporting him to the Heavenly Court.
• The Dragon Lord agreed to impeach Xu Yang at the Jade Emperor’s Court Assembly and have the Southern Sea Dragon Ancestor pursue him if the Heavenly Court did not act.

Xu Yang pursued the demonic dragon Mo Yunzi across the South Sea and drove him toward the Southern Sea Dragon Palace. He accused the Dragon Palace of sheltering Mo Yunzi, but left after the Southern Sea Dragon Lord refused to let him search.

• Xu Yang rescued a group of mermen from Mo Yunzi and attacked the demonic dragon with Five Elements Divine Lightning.
• Xu Yang recalled that Mo Yunzi had besieged Wuzhuang Temple and fled the Southern Continent Realm after Xu Yang grew stronger.
• Mo Yunzi plunged into the South Sea, and Xu Yang followed him toward the Southern Sea Dragon Palace.
• At the Crystal Palace, the Southern Sea Dragon Lord rushed out after hearing that Xu Yang had returned.
• Xu Yang asked to search the palace for Mo Yunzi, but the Southern Sea Dragon Lord threatened war and refused.
• Xu Yang warned the Dragon Lord against keeping company with evil demons, then departed.

Zhenyuanzi infiltrated the Southern Sea Dragon Palace and captured Mo Yunzi, then fought the Southern Sea Dragon Mother and the Southern Sea Dragon Lord. He sent the Dragon Lord flying with a kick as the assembled guests watched in shock.

• The Southern Sea Dragon Mother learned that Zhenyuanzi had driven Zhenyuanzi away, while Mo Yunzi revealed his plan to lure a demon god into killing Zhenyuanzi during the coming war.
• Zhenyuanzi appeared in the Eastern Palace, intercepted Mo Yunzi with the Five Elements Great Escape, and trapped him in a thunder net.
• The Southern Sea Dragon Mother activated the Vast Sea Grand Array and battled Zhenyuanzi while Mo Yunzi remained bound beneath his feet.
• The Southern Sea Dragon Lord learned of the fight and joined the battle, attacking Zhenyuanzi with the Battle Dragon Art.
• Zhenyuanzi broke through the Dragon Lord's attacks and kicked him more than a hundred zhang away, stunning the arriving guests.

Xu Yang fought the Southern Sea Dragon Palace’s Mahayana dragons and was wounded when the Tribulation Immortal Dragon King intervened. He escaped with Five Elements Great Escape, leaving the Dragon Palace stunned and the Dragon King’s strength in question.

• The Southern Sea Dragon Lord transformed into battle dragon form and joined forces with three Mahayana flood dragons against Xu Yang, while the Southern Sea Dragon Mother controlled the Grand Void Array.
• Xu Yang fought all six dragons’ forces at once, and onlookers speculated that his rapid cultivation and combat strength came from a hidden opportunity or supreme treasure.
• Mo Yunzi was pierced by five streams of Sword Qi and died as the Southern Sea Dragon Mother intensified the formation’s assault; Xu Yang defended himself with the Taiji Diagram and Five Elements Divine Light.
• The Southern Sea Dragon King intervened with a dark-gold claw, shattered Xu Yang’s defenses, and wounded him, but Xu Yang escaped using Five Elements Great Escape.
• The Dragon King withdrew without capturing Xu Yang, and the onlookers wondered whether the injured Four Tribulation True Dragon had held back.