Chapter Summaries

Xu Yang escaped the South Sea after testing himself against a Four Tribulation True Dragon, though the strike badly damaged White Jade Capital. Three months later, he abducted Star Lord Yuling and his Azure Luan, whose tearful reunion with Xu Yang revealed that the bird knew him.

• Xu Yang explained that his incarnations had helped him master Heavenly Dipper Supernatural Abilities, while White Jade Capital had let him fight the South Sea dragons before a Four Tribulation True Dragon shattered much of the mecha and injured him.
• Xu Yang concluded that his test had given him a measure of a Tribulation Immortal's power and left the South Sea to continue his plan.
• In Eastern Victory Divine Continent, Star Lord Yuling departed a sect on his Azure Luan as cultivators praised his mount and saw him off.
• A black light swept Star Lord Yuling and the Azure Luan away in front of the sect, prompting the cultivators to report that a Great Vehicle demon had abducted him.
• Xu Yang brought Yuling and the Azure Luan to Kirin Palace, where the bird knelt before him in tears and Xu Yang apologized for arriving too late.

Xu Yang reunited with Fairy Qingluan, defeated Star Lord Yuling, and freed her from his beast-taming method. After apologizing for arriving late, Xu Yang assured her that he could hide their actions from the Heavenly Court and asked how she wanted Yuling dealt with.

• A youth recognized Xu Yang as Li Liuxian, the Myriad Dao Palace Lord, and recoiled in disbelief at his cultivation.
• Xu Yang learned from Xiao Qingyun’s memories that True Lord Changrong had died after being conscripted by the Heavenly Court, then confronted Star Lord Yuling over Qingluan’s treatment.
• Xu Yang subdued Yuling and searched his soul, breaking the restrictions in his Primordial Spirit despite Yuling’s pleas and threats about their blood pact.
• Xu Yang asked Qingluan whether she would abandon her cultivated Phoenix Bloodline, and she agreed; he used Five-Colored Divine Light to restore her human form and speech.
• Qingluan thanked Xu Yang for rescuing her, warned that the Heavenly Court’s Thousand-Mile Eye and Wind-Following Ear might discover what happened, and Xu Yang promised to conceal them before asking how Yuling should be dealt with.

Xu Yang returned from the Earth Immortal Realm with Fairy Qingluan and resources for the Myriad Dao Academy, while leaving the imprisoned Academy cultivators in the Heavenly Court for a later rescue. At Golden Turtle Island, he used the Ancient Iron Mountain and the offerings of hundreds of millions of Xuanyuan replicas to advance the Xuanyuan Divine Sword, which transformed into the Nine Ceremonies Heavenly Venerate.

• Xu Yang agreed to restrict Star Lord Yuling and make him a slave, while Fairy Qingluan yielded the decision to him.
• Xu Yang told Fairy Qingluan that he would return to the Myriad Dao Academy, but said the Academy cultivators imprisoned in the Heavenly Court could not yet be rescued.
• Xu Yang crossed the Chaos Void to the Daoist Magic World and sent the White Jade Capital and its resources into the world while he waited outside.
• Xu Yang released the Ancient Iron Mountain and used its Refined Gold Divine Iron to advance the Xuanyuan Divine Sword at the Myriad Dao Palace.
• More than a hundred million Xuanyuan replicas rose from across the Academy's territory and merged into the divine sword.
• The Xuanyuan Divine Sword transformed into a ten-thousand-zhang humanlike figure, which onlookers identified as the Nine Ceremonies Heavenly Venerate.

Xu Yang and Myriad Dao Academy completed the seventh-rank Heavenly Craftsmanship Creation Method and built Nine Ceremonies Heavenly Venerate, a mecha with power comparable to a Tribulation Immortal. Xu Yang set the Academy’s ascension for three thousand years later, then took White Jade Capital II to the Earth Immortal Realm to gather resources for the coming struggle.

• Xu Yang realized that Xuan Yuan’s advance to Nine Ceremonies had provided the key to fusing all arts, allowing Myriad Dao Academy to complete the seventh-rank Heavenly Craftsmanship Creation Method.
• Xu Yang and Myriad Dao Academy constructed Nine Ceremonies Heavenly Venerate, a High-Grade Immortal Spirit Mecha powered by the Nine Ceremonies Xuanyuan Sword and over a hundred million magic-treasure-grade Xuanyuan Swords.
• Xu Yang declared that the Academy would ascend in three thousand years, and Fengming and the others agreed that preparations were nearly complete.
• Xu Yang arranged for White Jade Capital II to return to the Earth Immortal Realm with his Yang God clone, since Nine Ceremonies Heavenly Venerate still needed further refinement.
• Xu Yang set out for the Earth Immortal Realm and resolved to spend his remaining three hundred years there gathering resources for Myriad Dao Academy.

Xu Yang returned to Longevity Mountain and gathered his friends, assuring them he would handle the Southern Sea Dragon Palace himself. He announced plans to sweep away the demonic and heretical forces in Southern Jambudvipa, and his allies agreed to join him.

• Xu Yang returned to Wuzhuang Temple and learned that True Person Ziyang, Sword Lord Chun Jun, Empress Peony, and Second Master Peng had left letters for him.
• After reading the letters, Xu Yang summoned his friends to Longevity Mountain and reflected that the Southern Sea Dragon Palace was unlikely to retaliate before the Heavenly Court acted.
• True Person Ziyang and the other guests worried that the Southern Sea Dragon Palace would seek revenge, and they offered to stand with Xu Yang against it.
• Xu Yang declined their offer to bear the Southern Sea dispute with him and instead revealed his plan to purge the demons and heretical paths of Southern Jambudvipa.
• Great Peng King, Fairy Peony, Sword Lord Chun Jun, and the other cultivators pledged to accompany Xu Yang, who raised a cup to their campaign.

After two hundred years of Zhenyuanzi’s campaign against Southern Jambudvipa’s demonic cultivators, three survivors begged Yin Tian Jun to stop him. Unable to abandon the foundation he needed to face his tribulation, Yin Tian Jun invoked the Book of Life and Death to curse Zhenyuanzi.

• Three Mahayana cultivators came to Ghostly Soul Ridge and pleaded with Yin Tian Jun to defend the demonic path from Zhenyuanzi.
• The cultivators described how Zhenyuanzi had devastated their sects, defeated powerful opponents, and driven most of Southern Jambudvipa’s demonic cultivators from their homes.
• Yin Tian Jun learned that the Heavenly Court and Buddhist Sect had not intervened, and that even powerful Tribulation Immortals feared the consequences of confronting Zhenyuanzi.
• Yin Tian Jun refused to leave White Bone Mountain, whose foundation he needed to survive his future immortal tribulation.
• Yin Tian Jun opened the Book of Life and Death, inscribed Zhenyuanzi’s name, and began casting a curse.

Xu Yang and the Orthodox Alliance gathered at Wuzhuang Temple to recover before their next campaign, targeting Ghostly Soul Ridge and Heavenly Lord Yin. When Xu Yang detected Heavenly Lord Yin’s hidden curse, True Person Ziyang warned that Yin might also wield an imitation Book of Life and Death, leaving the alliance facing a grave threat.

• Xu Yang reflected on the Orthodox Alliance’s growth and the resources it had gained by purging demons and devils across Southern Jambudvipa.
• True Person Ziyang warned the banquet that Heavenly Lord Yin was a formidable enemy who might have perfected the Nail Head Seven Arrows manifestation.
• Xu Yang sensed a plot against him and used his Exalted Eye of Heaven to locate Ghostly Soul Ridge and White Bone Cave, but Yin’s array blocked his investigation.
• Heavenly Lord Yin realized Xu Yang might have detected his curse and wondered whether a supreme treasure protected him.
• Xu Yang identified Yin’s Nail Head Seven Arrows curse but said it could not kill him, while suspecting Yin had another reliance.
• True Person Ziyang suggested Yin possessed an imitation Book of Life and Death, then hinted at Yin’s connection to the underworld.

True Person Ziyang explained how Heavenly Lord Yin’s replica Book of Life and Death could threaten Xu Yang and outlined three ways to counter it. Xu Yang rejected seeking Heavenly Court investiture or waiting for the Tongtian Secret Realm and set out alone to attack Ghostly Soul Ridge and White Bone Mountain, leaving his allies behind.

• True Person Ziyang recounted the ancient history of the Tongtian Secret Realm and explained that Heavenly Lord Yin had stolen a subsidiary Book of Life and Death from the Underworld.
• True Person Ziyang described three ways Xu Yang could counter the Book of Life and Death: obtain Heavenly Court investiture, seek the Earth Book in the Tongtian Secret Realm, or kill Heavenly Lord Yin and destroy the book.
• The Great Peng King urged the alliance to attack Ghostly Soul Ridge and White Bone Mountain, while True Person Ziyang and Sword Lord Chun Jun warned that Heavenly Lord Yin was a powerful formation master with a complete seventh-rank grand formation.
• Xu Yang announced that he would go alone because Heavenly Lord Yin might flee to the Underworld and endanger the others.
• Xu Yang reassured the gathering that he could enter the Underworld and escape, then summoned auspicious clouds and flew into the high heavens.

Xu Yang destroyed Heavenly Lord Yin’s Netherworld Grand Array with relentless Five Thunders, forcing the wounded Eleventh Prince to flee into the Southern Jambudvipa Netherworld. Xu Yang pursued him there, and ghost soldiers reported his arrival at Ghost Gate Pass as Heavenly Lord Yin sought refuge with the underworld’s Yanluo.

• Heavenly Lord Yin worried that Zhenyuanzi and the Righteous Path Alliance would attack before his seven-day curse could take effect, but Xu Yang arrived alone at White Bone Mountain.
• Xu Yang unleashed the perfected Heavenly Stems Five Thunders, battering Heavenly Lord Yin’s Netherworld Grand Array while White Jade Capital’s spirit stones sustained his attack.
• After three days of thunder, Xu Yang shattered the array and gravely injured Heavenly Lord Yin, who escaped into the yin world as Xu Yang pursued him with Traverse the Netherworld.
• Heavenly Lord Yin entered the Southern Jambudvipa Netherworld and rushed to the Hall of Judgment to seek his Brother, the local Yanluo.
• Ghost soldiers reported that Xu Yang had arrived outside Ghost Gate Pass and demanded entry to search for the demon who had fled into the city.

Xu Yang stormed the Southern Jambudvipa Underworld and fought through its Underworld Lords to pursue Heavenly Lord Yin. King Taishan intervened, but Xu Yang killed Heavenly Lord Yin, seized the Book of Life and Death, and escaped, leaving King Taishan swearing revenge.

• Heavenly Lord Yin recognized Xu Yang as Zhenyuanzi and fled through the Hall of Judgment while the Underworld Lords tried to hold Xu Yang back.
• Xu Yang broke through the Underworld Lords with Heaven's Heart Five Thunders and chased Heavenly Lord Yin to King Taishan's Palace.
• Xu Yang battered Heavenly Lord Yin and pierced his chest with the Seven-Star Sword before King Taishan appeared and suppressed Xu Yang's attack.
• King Taishan fought Xu Yang with the power of life and death, but Xu Yang's thunder destroyed Heavenly Lord Yin.
• Xu Yang transformed with Five Elements Great Escape and vanished with the Book of Life and Death as King Taishan vowed revenge.

Xu Yang returned to Wuzhuang Temple after killing Heavenly Lord Yin and taking the Book of Life and Death, then chose to face the coming retaliation with four allies as he prepared Myriad Dao Academy to establish itself in Southern Jambudvipa. A century later, at the Heavenly Court’s Grand Court Assembly, the South Sea Dragon Palace and the underworld separately petitioned the Jade Emperor to punish Zhenyuanzi.

• Xu Yang told the Wuzhuang Temple assembly that he had killed Heavenly Lord Yin, broken the Nail Head Seven Arrows, and seized the Book of Life and Death.
• Xu Yang announced that Wuzhuang Temple would close its gates, and the other cultivators departed after acknowledging that he would bear the consequences of their campaign.
• The Great Peng King, Fairy Peony, True Person Ziyang, and Sword Lord Chun Jun chose to remain with Xu Yang.
• Xu Yang decided to preserve Zhenyuanzi and Wuzhuang Temple as Myriad Dao Academy’s foothold in Southern Jambudvipa, then prepared to forge a High-Grade Immortal Spirit Mecha.
• At the Grand Court Assembly, Ao Qin accused Zhenyuanzi of causing havoc in the South Sea and asked the Jade Emperor to send troops against him.
• Dong He petitioned the Jade Emperor to punish Zhenyuanzi for invading the underworld, killing ghost messengers, and taking the Book of Life and Death.

The Jade Emperor rejected Zhenyuanzi’s refusal to answer Heaven’s summons and ordered a force to seize him. As the Heavenly Court prepared to descend on the Southern Continent, Xu Yang’s allies faced an approaching great battle.

• The Star of Longevity Palace Master defended Zhenyuanzi before the Jade Emperor, while the Southern Sea Dragon Lord and Underworld Lord accused him of taking the Ancient Iron Mountain, killing their agents, and seizing the Book of Life and Death.
• The Jade Emperor ordered the Star of Longevity Palace Master to summon Zhenyuanzi to Heaven, but Xu Yang was away and left a letter refusing to change his mind.
• Fengming survived her heavenly tribulation at Golden Crow Mountain and advanced to Mahayana; Xu Yang praised her and warned that a great battle was near.
• The Star of Longevity Palace Master brought Xu Yang’s letter to the Jade Emperor, who read its lines about Heaven and Earth’s righteousness and justice in people’s hearts.
• The Jade Emperor declared Zhenyuanzi rebellious and ordered Wugu Star Palace to send a hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers to seize him, directing the Star of Longevity Palace Master to accompany them and explain the court’s cause to the Southern Continent.

Heavenly Court sent Woqu Star and one hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers to force Zhenyuanzi to answer for his alleged crimes, but Xu Yang defeated them with an enhanced Universe in Sleeve. After sending the bystanders away, Xu Yang set out for the Ninth Heavens, ready to take the conflict to Heavenly Court.

• Woqu Star accepted the Jade Emperor's edict and led his troops to Wuzhuang Temple to seize Zhenyuanzi.
• The Star of Longevity Palace Master tried to explain Heavenly Court's actions, but the gathered cultivators condemned the order as unjust.
• Woqu Star's forces deployed the Heavenly Net and Earthly Net around Longevity Mountain and demanded Zhenyuanzi surrender.
• Xu Yang emerged and used Universe in Sleeve to shatter the nets and trap Woqu Star and his troops in chaos, then struck Woqu Star away when he escaped.
• Xu Yang sent the gathered cultivators to Clear Wind Mountain and explained that his skill trait had empowered his supernatural art beyond its limits.
• Xu Yang left Wuzhuang Temple and headed for the Ninth Heavens to confront Heavenly Court.

After Woqu Star reported that Zhenyuanzi had defeated him and captured a hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers, the Jade Emperor faced a dilemma over whether to continue the war. Great Compassion Bodhisattva offered to mediate by sending the Eighteen Arhats to invite Zhenyuanzi to Heaven, while an illusory beam shot into the White Tiger Star Palace.

• Woqu Star returned to Lingxiao Hall and reported that Zhenyuanzi had defeated him, captured his hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers, and thrown him a hundred thousand li away.
• The Jade Emperor and the immortals debated Zhenyuanzi's mysterious strength and the danger of continuing or ending the conflict.
• Great Compassion Bodhisattva arrived with the Eighteen Arhats and explained that Zhenyuanzi had slain his escaped Golden-Maned Hou mount a thousand years earlier.
• Great Compassion offered to mediate and proposed that the Eighteen Arhats invite Zhenyuanzi to Heaven to explain himself.
• The Jade Emperor accepted the proposal, and Great Compassion sent the Eighteen Arhats toward Wuzhuang Temple.
• An illusory beam of light shot into the White Tiger Star Palace at the Imperial Lord's Auxiliary Court.

Xu Yang infiltrated the Heavenly Court during the Grand Court Assembly, rescued imprisoned Myriad Dao Academy cultivators, and plundered its workshops and treasuries. His raid reached White Tiger Palace, where he clashed with the White Tiger Star Lord and drew the Jade Emperor’s attention.

• A white-robed elder failed to create sixth-tier battle armor and ordered a billion magical artifacts prepared within three months.
• Xu Yang appeared in an artifact workshop, reunited with Lin Jing and other Academy cultivators, and swept them and the workshop’s contents away.
• Xu Yang covertly searched the Heavenly Court, rescuing Academy cultivators and collecting resources while most officials attended court.
• Xu Yang entered White Tiger Palace and began breaking its treasury’s restrictions to take its weapons, armor, and treasures.
• The White Tiger Star Lord attacked Xu Yang, and their clash shook the Heavenly Court as the Jade Emperor demanded the Dipper Division’s Star Officials respond.

Xu Yang wielded the Nine Ceremonies Heavenly Venerate Sword to defeat the White Tiger Seven Mansions and repel the Heavenly Court reinforcements. He escaped through the West Heavenly Gate after breaking through the Circulating Stars Grand Array and a mysterious jade hand’s suppression.

• Xu Yang’s sword overpowered White Tiger Star’s Heavenly Injury Sword, forcing the six other White Tiger Seven Mansions to intervene.
• Xu Yang revealed the Nine Ceremonies Heavenly Venerate Sword and shattered the Seven Mansions’ formation.
• He repelled the arriving Heavenly Court Immortal Lords with the Xuanyuan Divine Sword Art.
• Xu Yang rode Xuanyuan toward the West Heavenly Gate while the Jade Emperor activated the Circulating Stars Grand Array.
• A mysterious jade hand tried to suppress Xu Yang, but he broke its restraints and escaped through the heavenly gate.

After plundering the Heavenly Court’s four Auxiliary Courts, Xu Yang escaped and assessed his strength against the realm’s immortals. As he reached the Southern Continent, the Buddhist Sect’s Eighteen Arhats arrived at Longevity Mountain to invite Zhenyuan to Heaven and resolve the conflict.

• The Jade Emperor heard reports that Xu Yang had looted the four Auxiliary Courts, stolen treasures and abducted cultivators, then left the response to the Four Auxiliary Emperors.
• Xu Yang tallied his gains and concluded that Nine Ceremonies Heavenly Venerate made him a match for anyone below the Nine Tribulations, though a True Immortal could still force him to flee.
• Xu Yang judged that the Heavenly Court was unlikely to deploy its True Immortals and believed he could protect Myriad Dao Academy if it did.
• The Buddhist Sect’s Eighteen Arhats entered the Southern Continent as cultivators gathered near Longevity Mountain and speculated about the coming confrontation.
• Venerables Dragon Subduing and Tiger Taming delivered the Bodhisattva’s decree, inviting Zhenyuan to Heaven to settle the military calamity.

Xu Yang faced the Eighteen Arhats at Longevity Mountain and defeated their Arhat Grand Formation with his thunder arts and seven-star sword. The wounded Arhats admitted defeat and left, while Xu Yang returned to the mountain.

• Dragon-Subduing Arhat urged Xu Yang to ascend to Heaven and settle the dispute, but Xu Yang insisted that right and wrong could not be obscured.
• Tiger-Taming Arhat challenged Xu Yang to a contest, and Xu Yang proposed facing the Eighteen Arhats' formation.
• The Eighteen Arhats formed their grand array, and Xu Yang entered it and shattered Sitting Deer's meditation seat with Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Xu Yang broke Long-Brow Arhat's reincarnation attack with thunder, then summoned a powerful thunder Dharma body and wielded a seven-star sword against the six leading Venerables.
• Xu Yang shattered the formation and severely wounded all eighteen Arhats; Dragon-Subduing admitted defeat and promised they would not interfere again.
• Xu Yang let the Arhats depart and returned to the mountain.

After Zhenyuanzi defeated the Eighteen Arhats, the Heavenly Court realized his power could not be explained by his apparent cultivation. Taibai Star Lord connected the upheavals to Li Liuxian of the lower realm and concluded that he had entered the Earth Immortal Realm as Zhenyuanzi.

• The Eighteen Arhats fled Five Villages after Zhenyuanzi broke their formation and defeated them.
• Cultivators on Clear Wind Mountain watched the Arhats retreat and wondered what Zhenyuanzi was planning.
• The defeated Arhats reported to Great Compassion Bodhisattva and the Jade Emperor that Zhenyuanzi possessed unfathomable cultivation and supreme lightning arts.
• Taibai Star Lord told the Heavenly Court that Li Liuxian, master of Myriad Dao Academy in a lower realm, might be behind the recent upheavals.
• Taibai Star Lord linked Li Liuxian to Zhenyuanzi of Longevity Mountain and Wuzhuang Temple.

The Jade Emperor accepted the Heavenly Court ministers’ call to punish Li Liuxian, identified as Zhenyuanzi, and dispatched a vast army to Longevity Mountain. As the Lightning Department prepared to attack Wuzhuang Temple, Myriad Dao Academy revealed a massive force of its own, leaving the two armies facing one another.

• Grand White Star Lord accused Zhenyuanzi of being Li Liuxian and urged the Jade Emperor to mobilize the Heavenly Court against him.
• White Tiger Star demanded permission to lead a campaign, and Grand White Star Lord proposed sending the White Tiger Seven Mansions and the four military departments with a million Heavenly Soldiers.
• The Jade Emperor ordered the Heavenly Court forces to descend on the Southern Continent Realm and sent a jade decree to the Northern Extreme Auxiliary Court.
• The Heavenly Court army arrived at Longevity Mountain, where the Lightning Department prepared to bombard Wuzhuang Temple with Heavenly Thunder Earth Fire.
• A White Jade Immortal City appeared above the battlefield, revealing Myriad Dao Academy’s million cultivators, hundreds of warships, and towering divine generals.