Chapter Summaries

A Golden Armored Divine General arrived at King Garuda’s palace to summon Vaideha for an investigation, but Xinluo attacked him. Martial Maniac appeared and overwhelmed Xinluo with one punch, prompting Vaideha to emerge and charge at him.

• The crowd speculated that the vanished divine hall might have been the War God Temple before the scene shifted to Vajra Wheel Mountain.
• A Golden Armored Divine General demanded that Vaideha come with him to assist in an investigation into an alleged violation of the Academy’s laws.
• Xinluo attacked the newcomer with Ten Thousand Paths of Golden Light, but the man vanished from sight.
• Martial Maniac appeared outside the Golden Palace Divine Hall, and Xinluo struck him with Pure Azure Glazed Fire.
• Martial Maniac shattered Xinluo’s attack with one punch and sent him crashing into the Golden Palace.
• Vaideha emerged in a blaze of golden-yellow glazed fire and charged at Martial Maniac.

Xu Yang battled King Garuda Vaideha, first overpowering him through martial skill and then using the Shattering War God Mecha to inflict grave wounds. As Xu Yang prepared another attack, Vaideha called on Supreme Lord Vishnu for help.

• Vaideha revealed his Golden Winged Great Peng form and attacked Xu Yang with the Garuda Clan’s dragon-grappling technique, but Xu Yang transformed into a true dragon and wounded him after seven exchanges.
• Vaideha recovered with his nirvana power and unleashed Pure Azure Glazed Fire, forcing the surrounding Garuda to flee into the golden palace.
• Xu Yang summoned the Shattering War God Mecha and used a heavenly stele to swallow Vaideha’s flames and smash him through the void.
• Gravely wounded and facing another stele strike, Vaideha activated the Ruyi Jewel and cried out for Supreme Lord Vishnu to save him.

The Martial Artist defeated Vaideha, shattered Vishnu’s divine-power manifestation, and captured the Garuda King. At Fulong Mountain, the Daoist made Vaideha the Nine Dragon Earth Fire Furnace’s new fire source, while the battle’s outcome stirred fears of retaliation from the Brahma Sect and other powers.

• The Martial Artist struck Vaideha before he could unleash Vishnu’s divine power, then destroyed the Golden Palace Divine Hall and defeated him.
• The Martial Artist returned to Fulong Mountain with the Daoist and placed Vaideha inside the Nine Dragon Earth Fire Furnace.
• The Daoist told Vaideha to serve as the furnace’s fire source until his karmic debt was repaid, and Vaideha accepted in hopes of being freed later.
• The Daoist set formation flags around the furnace to restrain Vaideha’s Pure Azure Glazed Fire, then left with the Martial Artist.
• The livestream ended as viewers debated the Brahma Sect’s likely retaliation and the growing power of the three figures.

Xu Yang assessed the captives, resources, and growing strength he had gained from the Garuda Secret Realm, while concluding that he needed merit to reach the Calamity Realm before the immortal factions returned. In the Garuda Clan, Da Man and Auspicious Wish chose caution over confronting the Myriad Dao Academy, leaving Great Body to face its ultimatum without their help.

• Xu Yang planned to use Mighty Virtue and the other Garuda captives for alchemy and artifact crafting, and to put the Garuda Secret Realm’s materials and treasures toward strengthening the Myriad Dao Academy.
• Xu Yang recognized that he could repel Nine Tribulation True Immortals but could not kill them, and planned to use merit to advance toward the Calamity Realm.
• Da Man condemned Mighty Virtue for being captured and heard that Auspicious Wish had warned him not to act rashly against the Profound Gate Immortals.
• Da Man accepted Auspicious Wish’s warning, ordered Great Body to adapt to circumstances, and withdrew to cultivate rather than confront the Myriad Dao Academy.
• Great Body remained at a perilous pass after receiving the academy’s ultimatum, while the Garuda Kings and the three Supreme Lords offered him no aid.

Yuzhao studied Myriad Dao Academy’s new merit-point offerings and realized they were designed to drain the Cave Heavens’ resources while baiting their inhabitants into giving the academy an excuse to attack. The list refreshed with a new cultivation method, Heavenly Craftsmanship Creation Method.

• Yuzhao analyzed how the Cave Heavens might respond to the Garuda Clan’s defeat and concluded that only a True Immortal’s descent could break the balance.
• The Gan Tian Mirror announced new merit-point exchanges, including furnace access, Garuda treasures, and the Great Peng Dragon Subduing Technique.
• Myriad Dao Academy made cultivation method jade slips available without a Great Oath of Inner Demon, but raised their prices and continued to forbid private teaching and transmission.
• Yuzhao realized the academy was using the jade slips to profit from the Cave Heavens and create grounds to punish them if they violated its rules outside their domains.
• The merit-point list refreshed again and introduced the Heavenly Craftsmanship Creation Method.

Yuzhao recognized the Heavenly Craftsmanship Creation Method as a genuine, world-changing technique that Myriad Dao Academy was using to pressure the Cave Heavens into spending resources. As Garuda and dragon leaders secretly moved to acquire the method, the academy’s livestream showed the Roaring Firmament Dao Master forging a banner and assigning its mass production to Chaoyun.

• Yuzhao read the Heavenly Craftsmanship Creation Method’s ranks and prices, concluded it was genuine, and suspected Myriad Dao Academy meant to provoke an arms race among the Cave Heavens.
• Da Man ordered a Garuda General to awaken Suli and have him obtain Invert Yin Yang and the fifth-rank Heavenly Craftsmanship Method despite Wishful King’s warning.
• The Dragon Lord angrily objected to acquiring Myriad Dao Academy’s methods, but a dragon prince persuaded him to pursue them to prepare for tribulation and prevent the academy from growing unchecked.
• The livestream resumed as the Roaring Firmament Dao Master refined spiritual materials in the Nine Dragon Earth Fire Furnace while Myriad Dao Academy’s disciples watched and learned.
• After forty-nine days, the Roaring Firmament Dao Master completed the Xuandu Blazing Fire Banner and tasked Chaoyun and the East Courtyard with producing its twelve main banners, three thousand auxiliary banners, and thirty thousand small banners within a hundred years.

Xu Yang completed the Five Elements Immortal Banners and assigned the five courtyards to produce vast numbers of banners and components for White Jade Capital’s newest Immortal Spirit Mecha. He then began refining its High-Grade Immortal Artifact core, the Li Di Yan Guang Banner, using the heartwood of Weide’s Garuda Tree.

• Xu Yang refined the Earth Element Profound Water Banner and assigned Ao Zhou and the West Courtyard to make its main, auxiliary, and small banners.
• Xu Yang refined the White Sun Banner, Azure Lotus Creation Banner, and Universe Suppressing Star Banner for the North, Central, and South Courtyards, completing the Five Elements set.
• Xu Yang revealed that the banners and billions of other components would form the newest White Jade Capital, funded by resources he had drawn from Cave Heaven Secret Realms and Calamity Realm Immortals and Gods.
• Xu Yang assigned each of the five courtyards a hundred-year artifact-refining task and supplied them with seventh-rank furnaces made from Garuda Generals.
• Xu Yang began refining the Li Di Yan Guang Banner and fed the Garuda Tree’s heartwood into the furnace, enraging Weide as he fueled the flames with Pure Azure Glazed Fire.

A century after artifact refinement spread through the academies, the Red Moon returned with demonic contamination far more powerful than before. Fang Yuan and Yuzhao resisted its influence with Academy-provided protections, while Yuzhao realized the Demon Realm had intensified its assault and the world still lacked Heavenly Immortal defenders; elsewhere, a Daoist prepared to open a furnace.

• Fang Yuan refined a spirit artifact-grade Little Blazing Fire Banner and regretted not choosing artifact refinement earlier.
• The Red Moon alarm triggered wartime controls, and Fang Yuan sealed his cave abode and waited under the protection of a Supreme Clarity God-Protecting Pill.
• Red light invaded Fang Yuan's sealed abode and filled his mind with demonic visions, but the pill and the Supreme Clarity Great Grotto True Scripture helped him resist.
• Yuzhao saw the blood moon and, after the Mirror of the Sky warned her, entered her cave abode to use the Alliance Heaven Dao Method and recite the Great Grotto True Scripture.
• Yuzhao concluded that the Demon Realm had escalated its attacks because the world's major immortal, Buddhist, divine, and sacred domains remained closed.
• A Daoist watched the furnace fire reach silver-white, declared that the time had come, and ordered the furnace opened.

Xu Yang completed the Li Di Yan Guang Banner, whose power drove back the blood moon and withstood the Heavenly Tribulation. He received merit and broke through from seventh-rank to eighth-rank artifact refinement, while the banner’s full capabilities remained to be explored.

• Xu Yang and Mighty Virtue finished refining the Immortal Banner, and its emergence shifted the balance of power so the rising sun swallowed the blood moon and ended the demonic calamity.
• Xu Yang faced the artifact’s Heavenly Tribulation and used the banner’s Yin Yang and Five Elements powers to dissolve the lightning and withstand the Eye of Heavenly Dao.
• The Li Di Yan Guang Banner revealed its dark crimson form, and Golden Light of Merit fell upon Xu Yang and the banner.
• Xu Yang experienced an epiphany and advanced his artifact refinement from the seventh rank to the eighth rank.
• Xu Yang regarded the Li Di Yan Guang Banner as the tangible result of his breakthrough and recognized that he had gained more than improved artifact-refining skill.

After Xu Yang completed the Li Di Yan Guang Banner, its rank and Heavenly Dao merit alarmed the Calamity Realm Immortals and Gods, who feared the growing power of the Myriad Dao Academy. Xu Yang returned to Fulong Mountain, rewarded Mighty Virtue with a hundred-year release from service in the furnace, and turned to the changes brought by Red Moon’s return.

• The Calamity Realm Immortals and Gods recognized that the Myriad Dao Academy’s Eighth-rank Immortal Master and new Top-Grade Immortal Artifact could threaten them, and they worried about who the academy might target.
• Xu Yang was pleased that the Li Di Yan Guang Banner had become a Merit Treasure, giving it greater power and the potential to advance into an Immortal Treasure.
• Xu Yang put away the Earth-Leaving Flame Light and descended into Fulong Mountain as livestream viewers celebrated the completed artifact.
• Xu Yang lifted the furnace’s restrictions and told Mighty Virtue that the Nine Dragon Earth Fire Furnace would be sealed for a hundred years before he could return to serve.
• Mighty Virtue stayed inside the furnace to avoid facing the other deities, while Xu Yang departed to deal with changes following Red Moon’s return.

After the Red Moon calamity, the Myriad Dao Academy broadcast records of law enforcement forces hunting Demonic Cultivators who had fallen to resentment and the Demonic Dao. Calamity Realm Immortals and Gods watched anxiously, fearing they might be chosen as sacrifices to consecrate a banner, as they waited for the broadcast to resume.

• Three days after the Red Moon's return, Disha transformed into a demonic Golden-winged Peng and escaped four fifth-realm law enforcement cultivators, but two sixth-realm cultivators trapped and killed him with All-Heavens Blazing Fire Banners.
• The Myriad Dao Live Broadcast Room aired the record of Disha's capture as a warning, then showed law enforcement cultivators confronting Jiang Ming at Sword Worship Mountain.
• Jiang Ming blamed the Myriad Dao Academy for his master's, mistress's, and junior sister's deaths, but an Academy cultivator condemned his selfishness and the law enforcement team killed him.
• Viewers debated the origins of the Demonic Cultivators and whether resentment alone explained their fall into the Demonic Dao.
• Calamity Realm Immortals and Gods watched the broadcast, shut their mountain gates, restrained their disciples, and feared being chosen to consecrate the banner.

Bei Ming Dragon Abyss entered the world and survived a devastating Worldly Tribulation, revealing a powerful true dragon body and reaching the threshold of the eighth calamity. As he emerged from the Dragon Abyss, a Daoist used the Seven Arrows of the Nail-Head Plow-Head to curse him and blocked his path, declaring his lifespan had ended.

• Bei Ming Dragon Abyss opened his Cave Heaven, and nearly a thousand members of the Bei Ming Dragon Clan faced the Worldly Tribulation, with only about one in five surviving.
• Bei Ming Dragon Abyss entered the final stage of the tribulation and revealed a ten-thousand-zhang demonic true dragon body.
• Bei Ming Dragon Abyss endured the heavenly punishment lightning, devoured its power, and emerged triumphant as the livestream viewers reacted in shock.
• At Roaring Firmament Temple, a Daoist wrote a blood curse on two talismans and invoked the Seven Arrows of the Nail-Head Plow-Head.
• A dragon prince warned Bei Ming Dragon Abyss that the Daoist had attacked him, and Bei Ming Dragon Abyss rushed from his palace.
• The Daoist descended before Long Yuan, blocked Bei Ming Dragon Abyss, and declared that his destined lifespan had ended.

Xu Yang, using Nine Ceremonies Heavenly Venerate and the Li Di Yan Guang Banner, overwhelmed Bei Ming Dragon Abyss’s attacks and withstood his tribulation lightning. Bei Ming Dragon Abyss resorted to wearing him down, unaware that he was effectively facing a Myriad Dao True Immortal.

• Bei Ming Dragon Abyss attacked the Roaring Firmament Temple Master, but the Daoist kicked him away and struck him again with Whip Mountains and Move Stones.
• Bei Ming Dragon Abyss spat out the Destroying Yuan Pearl, but Xu Yang blocked its destruction with the Li Di Yan Guang Banner’s Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Bei Ming Dragon Abyss manifested his ten-thousand-zhang demonic dragon body and unleashed Heavenly Punishment tribulation lightning, which the banner dissolved.
• Bei Ming Dragon Abyss tried to wear Xu Yang down with repeated lightning attacks, while the Nine Ceremonies Xuanyuan Sword inside Nine Ceremonies Heavenly Venerate replenished Xu Yang’s power.

Xu Yang completed the Yin Yang Five Elements Grand Array, cutting off Bei Ming Dragon Abyss’s ability to command heavenly punishment and leaving the Seven Calamities Demon Lord trapped. Xu Yang offered to spare Bei Ming Dragon Abyss if he could break through the array and escape.

• Bei Ming Dragon Abyss’s lightning failed to break through Xu Yang’s Earth-Leaving Flame Light Banner, while the repeated attacks depleted his strength.
• Xu Yang deployed the White Sun Banners and Azure Lotus Creation Banners, sealing Long Yuan’s western and eastern gates.
• Xu Yang added the All-Heavens Blazing Fire Banner and Earth Element Profound Water Banner to occupy the southern and northern gates.
• Bei Ming Dragon Abyss unleashed Heavenly Punishment Divine Lightning, but Xu Yang placed the Universe Suppressing Star Banner in the central palace and completed the Yin Yang Five Elements Grand Array.
• The formation suppressed Bei Ming Dragon Abyss’s access to the Heavenly Dao’s authority, and he could no longer summon the punishment lightning.
• Xu Yang told Bei Ming Dragon Abyss that he would spare his life if he could break through the gates and escape the array.

Xu Yang trapped Bei Ming Dragon Abyss in the Five Elements Array and refined him despite his attempts to escape and the arrival of demonic reinforcements. After forty-nine days, Bei Ming Dragon Abyss was refined to death.

• Bei Ming Dragon Abyss refused to flee through the array’s gates and defended his camp with the Coiled Dragon Grand Array.
• Xu Yang used the Earth-Leaving Flame Light and the Five Elements Array to burn down Bei Ming Dragon Abyss’s defenses over three days.
• When the Coiled Dragon Array broke, Bei Ming Dragon Abyss and more than a hundred flood dragons scattered toward the gates, but the eastern, western, and northern palaces blocked his escape.
• Bei Ming Dragon Abyss tried to break out through the sky, but the Universe Suppressing Star smashed him into a heavenly abyss, where Xu Yang’s flames continued refining him.
• Three Calamity Realm Demon Lords arrived as reinforcements but retreated after seeing the array, while Bei Ming Dragon Abyss cursed and threatened Xu Yang from within it.
• After forty-nine days, Bei Ming Dragon Abyss, the Seven Calamities Demon Lord, was refined to death.

Xu Yang killed Bei Ming Dragon Abyss despite the demon lord’s life-substitution secret art, captured the Bei Ming Dragon Clan, and claimed the Dragon Abyss’s treasures. He planned to study the shattered Destroying Yuan Pearl for insight into destruction and to advance his cultivation, while the other immortals feared Myriad Dao Academy’s growing power.

• After Xu Yang revealed Bei Ming Dragon Abyss’s corpse, the Dragon Abyss cultivators knelt and begged him to spare their lives.
• Xu Yang used the Exalted Eye of Heaven to find Bei Ming Dragon Abyss’s surviving Primordial Spirit, then the Nail Head Seven Arrows Curse burned it away despite its life-substitution technique.
• Xu Yang captured the flood dragons and ended the livestream, leaving the Cave Heaven cultivators and Calamity Realm Immortals and Gods frightened by his power.
• Xu Yang stored Bei Ming Dragon Abyss’s corpse and assessed the dragon materials, treasury, Dragon Abyss territory, and captives as gains for Myriad Dao Academy.
• Xu Yang examined the shattered Destroying Yuan Pearl and planned to use its Demonic Path insights into destruction to support his cultivation and future breakthrough.

After the Xuantian Sword Sect entered the world, its Sword Master Ren Baimei stayed secluded instead of challenging Myriad Dao Academy. A century later, Ren Baimei faced the Nine Heavenly Tribulations and successfully became a True Immortal, leaving the watching Calamity Realm Immortals and Gods shaken.

• Shen Xiao livestreamed the Xuantian Sword Sect entering the world, and its cultivators endured a deadly tribulation until a sword strike from the Xuantian Sword Master dispersed the clouds.
• The Xuantian Sword Sect remained inactive for a hundred years, frustrating the Calamity Realm Immortals and Gods who had hoped it would challenge Myriad Dao Academy.
• Shen Xiao resumed streaming as the Nine Heavenly Tribulations gathered over the Xuantian Sword Sect, and Ren Baimei appeared to face them.
• Ren Baimei survived the Eye of Heavenly Punishment, formed the Three Flowers on the Crown and Five Qi in the Chest, and achieved the true immortal fruit.

After Ren Baimei achieved True Immortal status, Xu Yang prepared to enter the Calamity Realm by drawing on his accumulated merit. Shen Xiao delivered the Xuantian Sword Sect’s challenge to Myriad Dao Academy, but a sudden upheaval interrupted the exchange.

• Ren Baimei passed the nine tribulations and returned to the mountains as a True Immortal, while observers wondered whether he would reclaim his sword from Myriad Dao Academy.
• Xu Yang welcomed the prospect of facing Ren Baimei and resolved to enter the Calamity Realm using merit to strengthen his foundation.
• Xu Yang reviewed how Myriad Dao Academy’s governance, demon-slaying, and opening of Blessed Lands and Cave Heavens had earned him abundant merit.
• Shen Xiao arrived at Myriad Dao Academy on behalf of the Xuantian Sword Sect and demanded to see Li Xuanyuan, but Demoness Mei'er received him instead.
• Shen Xiao challenged Myriad Dao Academy to an Emei Sword Fight a hundred years later, and Demoness Mei'er said the Sword Master would decide whether to accept.
• Tribulation clouds gathered over Myriad Dao Academy, stopping Shen Xiao as Demoness Mei'er remarked that everyone was busy.

Xu Yang successfully entered the Calamity Realm and received the cultivation achievement of an immortal, though his immortal fruition remained only a phantom until he passed the Nine Calamity Gate. He accepted the Xuantian Sword Master’s challenge and agreed to a sword duel at Emei Golden Summit a hundred years later, setting the stage for a world-shaking contest.

• Shen Xiao realized Xu Yang had entered the Calamity Realm, suspected he had relied on merit, and left the academy.
• Xu Yang completed his tribulation, received Golden Light of Merit, and attained the phantom cultivation achievement of Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown, Five Qi Chaoyuan, and Dao Body Immortal Embryo.
• Xu Yang’s disciple brought him a sword challenge card from the Xuantian Sword Sect, proposing a duel at Emei Golden Summit in a hundred years.
• Xu Yang wrote a reply and sent his own challenge card to the Xuantian Sword Sect.
• The sword-fight agreement spread through the world, where observers debated Xu Yang’s breakthrough, the duel’s stakes, and the future of Myriad Dao Academy.

Cultivators gathered at Emei to await the duel between Ren Baimei and Li Xuanyuan, while a blue-robed youth challenged those hoping the Xuantian Sword Sect would oppose Myriad Dao Academy. After the Xuantian Sword Sect expelled him, the onlookers turned toward the Golden Summit to await the duel.

• Cultivators from across the world arrived at Emei for the hundred-year battle pact between Ren Baimei and Li Xuanyuan, and Duan Daoist opened a betting table.
• A Void Returning cultivator wagered heavily on the Xuantian Sword Master, but a blue-robed youth bet that he would lose and accused the Cave Heaven sects of avoiding responsibility while opposing the Academy.
• The youth argued that Myriad Dao Academy had protected the world from External Demons and condemned the Xuantian Sword Sect for its past actions and the battle pact.
• Two Xuantian Sword Sect disciples confronted the youth, who defended the Academy and drew his sword, but neither side dared to attack.
• An unseen Xuantian authority carried the youth away and ordered him to leave Emei, ending the confrontation.
• The onlookers discussed how the duel could shift the balance between the Academy and the sects, then headed to the Golden Summit to await Ren Baimei and Li Xuanyuan.