Chapter Summaries

Xu Yang hosted a million cultivators at Wuzhuang Temple’s Pill Origin Gathering and revealed that his alchemy had advanced enough to produce eighth-rank Grass Returning Pills. As the guests took the pills, the gathering displayed the Myriad Dao Academy’s growing resources and standing, while Xu Yang privately acknowledged that his success still depended partly on luck.

• Xu Yang’s successful pill refinement filled Wuzhuang Temple with spiritual light and fragrance, and the assembled cultivators recognized the signs of a top-grade Immortal Pill.
• Xu Yang arrived, welcomed the guests, and explained that he had gathered fruits from thousands of plants to refine Grass Returning Pills for everyone at the gathering.
• Xu Yang distributed pills to the million attendees and gave the Calamity Realm Immortals and Gods eighth-rank pills, drawing praise from the Yaochi Palace Master and Great Compassion Bodhisattva.
• Xu Yang and the guests swallowed their pills, and he activated the Eternal Evergreen Grand Array to help them absorb the medicinal essence.
• Xu Yang reflected that his eighth-rank alchemy was newly achieved and that luck had helped him refine the pills, though perfected skill might eventually let him make ninth-rank Immortal Pills.

Xu Yang preached the Dao at Wuzhuang Temple, first teaching Yin Yang and Five Elements before revealing the Nine Heavens Profound Scripture as a Taiqing transmission. After decades of teaching, True Person Ziyang broke through toward the Calamity Realm.

• Cultivators refined Xu Yang's pills, and many lower-tier cultivators advanced or underwent tribulation before returning to Wuzhuang Temple.
• Xu Yang preached Yin Yang and Five Elements for ten years, then explained the Dao Law World in greater depth for over thirty years, helping many cultivators break through.
• Xu Yang began teaching the Nine Heavens Profound Scripture, astonishing the Calamity Realm immortals with its rare, complete path to becoming a Heavenly Immortal.
• Xu Yang used the gathering to spread his refined Dao Scripture, intending to draw on his listeners' cultivation and improve his own mastery of the profound methods.
• After several more decades of preaching, True Person Ziyang soared into the sky as Calamity Clouds gathered for his tribulation.

At the Grand Pill Origin Gathering, True Person Ziyang crossed into the Calamity Realm, and Xu Yang’s teachings prompted the immortals to share their own methods. The Sanxiao Cloud Fairies revealed their incomplete Nine Bends Yellow River Array, and Xu Yang offered to help repair it, leading the sisters to pledge themselves to him.

• True Person Ziyang completed his tribulation and entered the Calamity Realm, and Xu Yang and the gathered cultivators congratulated him.
• True Person Ziyang explained his pill cauldron methods, and Great Compassion Bodhisattva preached the Lotus Sutra before other immortals shared their teachings.
• Yaochi Palace Master Yao Ji presented a chapter of the Taiyuan Sword Manual, and the Sanxiao Cloud Fairies later offered to demonstrate the Nine Bends Yellow River Array.
• Yunqing Fairy explained that the array was incomplete, while the gathered cultivators discussed the threat of a Six Calamities Old Demon seeking revenge on the sisters.
• Xu Yang offered to use the Nine Heavens Profound Scripture to help repair the array, and Yunqing, Yun Ming, and Yun Yan pledged to follow him as their elder brother.

Xu Yang’s Pill Origin Gathering ended after decades of exchanging Tongtian Secret Realm techniques, and he announced his intention to enter the perilous realm. Afterward, he entrusted the Heavenly Craftsmanship Creation Method to Yao Ji for the Heavenly Venerate and asked the Heavenly Court to protect the Academy during his absence.

• Xu Yang accepted Yun Qing, Yun Ming, and Yun Yan as sworn sisters, and the Three Immortals returned to their seats.
• Ao Qin presented the Two Forms Four Symbols Array, prompting the gathering to focus on Tongtian Secret Realm arrays and restrictions.
• After more than two hundred years, Xu Yang ended the Pill Origin Gathering, leaving guests to worry about the Academy and Southern Continent during his planned absence.
• Yao Ji told Xu Yang that the Heavenly Venerate had rejected a motion to reclaim his authority and that the Western Extreme Emperor Lord had returned to the Heavenly Court.
• Xu Yang gave Yao Ji a jade slip containing the Heavenly Craftsmanship Creation Method and asked the Heavenly Venerate to protect the Academy while he was in the secret realm.
• On the journey back to Eastern Continent, Yao Ji learned that Xu Yang’s former Dao Companion had been a fox spirit who died after reaching the end of her lifespan.

Great Compassion admitted that the Buddhist Sect had arranged the Golden-Maned Hou’s descent and warned Xu Yang that the Tongtian Secret Realm threatened the Earth Immortal Realm. Xu Yang refused to join the Buddhist Sect but agreed to let Buddhist teachings spread south if the sect protected the Southern Continent, then assessed the Pill Origin Gathering’s gains and began refining artifacts.

• Great Compassion knelt before Xu Yang, apologized for the Golden-Maned Hou’s havoc, and confessed that the Buddhist Sect had arranged the beast’s descent to advance its plans for Buddhist teachings spreading south.
• Great Compassion warned Xu Yang that the Tongtian Secret Realm was tied to a looming calamity and that even Taihuang’s long seclusion might be connected to it.
• Great Compassion asked Xu Yang to join the Buddhist Sect as its third founding patriarch, but Xu Yang refused and offered instead to allow Buddhist teachings to spread south if the sect protected the Southern Continent while he entered the Tongtian Secret Realm.
• Xu Yang gave Great Compassion a High-Grade Immortal Spirit Technique for the two Buddha Venerables, and she left after promising to serve beneath him if she survived the calamity.
• Xu Yang weighed the Heavenly Court’s and Buddhist Sect’s motives, decided to let the Buddhist Sect help govern the Southern Continent in exchange for its protection, and accepted the bargain as an exchange of interests.
• Xu Yang reviewed the Pill Origin Gathering’s profits, selected high-grade spirit items from the treasury, and began refining artifacts.

Xu Yang attended the Heavenly Court’s Peach Banquet after spending six hundred years forging the Five Directions Immortal Banners for a powerful Five Elements Immortal Venerable. At the banquet, he considered the powers’ plans for the Tongtian Secret Realm and the Buddhist Sect’s plan to keep both Buddha Venerables behind, while a question about peaches and Bodhi fruits interrupted his thoughts.

• Xu Yang used Doushuai True Fire to prepare artifacts and planned to build a Five Elements Immortal Venerable from the Five Directions Immortal Banners and five hundred million treasures.
• Six hundred years passed as Xu Yang worked on the banners, and the Heavenly Court held its Yaochi Peach Banquet.
• Great Compassion Bodhisattva, the Southern and Northern Emperor Lords, and Xu Yang arrived at the banquet and greeted the Jade Emperor and other guests.
• Xu Yang presented Myriad Spirits Grass Returning Pills, and the Jade Emperor opened the banquet.
• Xu Yang reflected that the Heavenly Court had left two Emperor Lords outside the Tongtian Secret Realm, while the Buddhist Sect planned to forgo the opportunity and keep both Buddha Venerables behind to aid Great Wisdom Great Sage.
• An attendee asked Xu Yang how the High-Grade Immortal Peach tasted compared with the Nine-Eyed Bodhi.

At the Yaochi gathering, Xu Yang witnessed the Jade Emperor use the Investiture of the Gods to subdue Star Lord Canshui and later entered the Tongtian Secret Realm with Three Yun. As he set out for the Five Elements Immortal Array, demons invaded Southern Jambudvipa and descended on Five Villages, where a Buddhist invocation answered their attack.

• Star Lord Canshui provoked Xu Yang by comparing High-Grade Immortal Peaches with Nine-Eyed Bodhi, and the Jade Emperor subdued him with the Investiture of the Gods.
• Two hundred years later, Xu Yang and the Southern and Northern Emperor Lords departed for the Tongtian Secret Realm with their followers.
• Xu Yang and Three Yun crossed into the Thirty-Three Heavens and entered the decaying realm, which Xu Yang recognized as an Immortal Tomb.
• Yun Ming told Xu Yang that the Innate Five Directions Banners lay within five arrays, and he led Three Yun toward the Five Elements Immortal Array.
• A hundred years later, demons invaded Southern Jambudvipa and charged toward Five Villages while cultivators fled for Longevity Mountain.
• A Buddhist invocation rang out as Golden Lotus bloomed over the battlefield.

Great Sun Tathagata drove Rakshasa’s demonic army from the Southern Continent, though Rakshasa’s retreat turned the rescue into a contest for public favor. In the Tongtian Secret Realm, Xu Yang protected Three Yun from a leaking immortal array, where the seven-calamity Crimson Flame Old Demon attacked them over the Li Di Yan Guang Banner.

• Great Sun Tathagata confronted Rakshasa and led the Buddhist Sect against the demonic invasion, forcing Rakshasa to withdraw beneath the Heaven-Shading Sun-Covering Umbrella.
• Rakshasa exposed the Buddhist Sect’s ambitions to Spread Buddhist Magic Southward, stirring resentment toward the Buddhist Sect and Heavenly Court while boosting Myriad Dao Academy’s standing.
• Xu Yang brought Three Yun to observe the Southern Li Earth Flame Array and used an imitative Li Di Yan Guang Banner to protect them when the array leaked.
• Crimson Flame Old Demon recognized Xu Yang’s banner and approached the group, while Fairy Yun Ming warned that he was a dangerous seven-calamity cultivator seeking the banner.
• Yun Yan challenged Crimson Flame Old Demon, who claimed they were fated to be together and then attacked them with crimson flames.

Xu Yang defeated the Crimson Flame Old Demon after the demon attacked him for the Li Di Yan Guang Banner, taking the Lingxi Divine Sword and capturing him. Six Yang Grandmaster departed after warning that demons and devils might retaliate, while Xu Yang stayed with Three Yun to assess their gains and inspect the captured sword.

• The Crimson Flame Old Demon attacked Xu Yang with his Lingxi Divine Sword, but Xu Yang broke its assault with Five-Colored Divine Light and took the sword.
• The Crimson Flame Old Demon split into nine streams of flame to escape, but Xu Yang sealed them and imprisoned him.
• The Southern Separation Immortal Array settled, and Six Yang Grandmaster emerged, thanked Xu Yang for capturing his longtime enemy, and accepted that the demon would be executed in ten thousand years.
• Six Yang Grandmaster warned Xu Yang that demons and devils might come to the secret realm, then left with the others after Xu Yang urged him to protect himself.
• Xu Yang remained with Three Yun, counted the captured Seven Calamities demonic cultivator as a future resource for the Immortal Execution Platform, and examined the Lingxi Divine Sword.

Xu Yang cleansed the Lingxi Divine Sword and learned that Crimson Flame Old Demon’s demonic repairs had ruined its chance of becoming an Immortal Treasure. As Xu Yang considered his ten-thousand-year plans, Golden Winged Great Peng and Tanfen Hanba arrived with an army to besiege him, and Tanfen Hanba raised the Heaven Slaying Blade.

• Xu Yang purified the Lingxi Divine Sword, restoring its original appearance, while Three Yun explained its history and deadly powers.
• Xu Yang concluded that the Lingxi Divine Sword could be restored only to an Immortal Artifact, not an Immortal Treasure, and outlined his plans to study it alongside the Innate Five Directions Banners and the Three Books of Heaven, Earth, and Man.
• Golden Winged Great Peng and Tanfen Hanba arrived with Calamity Realm demons and devils, surrounding the Southern Separation Immortal Array.
• Xu Yang sent Three Yun into the city and faced the attackers as Golden Winged Great Peng demanded the Nine Ceremonies Heavenly Venerate Sword and vowed revenge.
• Tanfen Hanba drew the damaged ninth-rank Heaven Slaying Blade and called for Xu Yang to be killed.

Xu Yang used the Innate Five Directions Banners to fight Tanfen Hanba, the Great Peng Heavenly King, and their demon army, then formed a Five Elements array that trapped and slaughtered many of them. As the surviving demons struggled inside the array, a streak of purple light arrived to attack.

• Tanfen Hanba and the Great Peng Heavenly King attacked Xu Yang with the Heaven Slaying Blade and Gan Jiang Mo Ye, while Xu Yang used the Azure Lotus Precious Color Banner, True Martial Black Eagle Banner, and Wu Earth Apricot Yellow Banner to withstand them.
• Tanfen Hanba and the Great Peng Heavenly King switched to a war of attrition, and Calamity Realm demons joined the assault as observers recognized Xu Yang as the Myriad Dao Emperor Lord.
• Xu Yang deployed all Five Banners and formed a Five Elements array, prompting Tanfen Hanba and the Great Peng Heavenly King to break through and flee.
• Five-Colored Divine Light swept through the array, killing trapped demons and leaving the survivors calling for rescue.
• A streak of purple light shattered the void and descended to slay gods.

Xu Yang's Five Elements array forced the demons to retreat despite the Nine Nether Demon Lord's God-Slaying Spear breaking through it, and he prepared to explore the Tongtian Secret Realm. The story then shifted to a demonic invasion of the Myriad Dao Heavens and, after more than three thousand years, the Huiming Realm, where the academy prepared to defend itself as demons broke into the realm.

• The Nine Nether Demon Lord used the God-Slaying Spear to open a breach in Xu Yang's Five Elements array, allowing the trapped Calamity Realm Demons to escape.
• The Nine Nether Demon Lord ordered a retreat, and the Great Peng Heavenly King withdrew with his forces after assessing that they could not break the array safely.
• The Southern Extreme Longevity Emperor Lord praised Xu Yang's formation, agreed to support him against further attacks, and then departed.
• Xu Yang assessed his captured demons and the cost and limitations of his array before turning to explore the Southern Separation Immortal Array and the Tongtian Secret Realm.
• Demonic armies attacked the Myriad Dao Heavens, while their leaders reasoned that they could target the Myriad Dao Academy's other realms to force out the Heavenly Craftsmanship Creation Method.
• More than three thousand years after the Huiming turmoil, Ling'er spoke with a youth at Myriad Dao Palace before demons shattered the realm's boundaries; he ordered her to wake Grandmother and the others.

Myriad Dao Academy’s formations held back the invading demons and devils, who sought its Heavenly Craftsmanship Creation Method but struggled against its arrays and mecha pilots. The Phoenix Lord broke through Huiming Realm’s defenses and attacked Fengming, but the Nine Ceremonies Heavenly Venerate’s sacred sword struck the phoenix shadow and made it bleed.

• Myriad Dao Academy activated ten interlocking arrays, and the demons and devils split their forces to attack them.
• Academy cultivators and mecha pilots fought back as array masters repaired the formations, while demons and devils suffered heavy losses and failed to capture the Heavenly Craftsmanship Creation Method.
• The Phoenix Lord used the Phoenix Dance Heavenly Phoenix Slash to damage Huiming Realm’s boundary, allowing Calamity Realm demons to enter.
• The Phoenix Lord swallowed Fengming’s White Jade Immortal City as the demons and devils charged toward their targets.
• The Nine Ceremonies Heavenly Venerate’s sacred sword descended into Huiming Realm and struck the Phoenix Lord’s shadow, causing the phoenix to bleed.

Li Liuxian wielded the Nine Ceremonies Heavenly Venerate Sword with the Huiming Heavenly Dao, forcing the Phoenix Lord to flee and destroying the trapped demon and devil forces. The Myriad Dao Academy won the battle at great cost, while Xu Yang weighed the gains, the exposure of his Daoist Magic Main Body, and the demons’ possible next move.

• Li Liuxian’s sacred sword restored Huiming’s laws, defeated the Phoenix Lord, and forced him to escape.
• The realm’s restored laws trapped the demons and devils, and the Nine Ceremonies Heavenly Venerate Sword slaughtered the forces unable to flee.
• The Great Sun Tathagata blocked the Great Sun Golden Crow in the Chaos Void, then demanded that he withdraw after the battle ended.
• Xu Yang surveyed the Academy’s immense casualties and judged that fighting had been necessary to prevent its destruction.
• Xu Yang considered the spoils of victory and the risks of revealing Li Liuxian’s strength, and prepared to face either renewed war or the demons’ retreat.

After more than three thousand years studying the Earth Book, Xu Yang comprehended its geography mysteries and completed the Earth Deity Method. He planned to study the Nine Bends Yellow River Array for the remaining thousand years of the secret realm, then turn his attention to upheaval in the present world.

• Xu Yang studied the Earth Book inside the Myriad Mother Earth Element Array while Three Yun discussed the difficulty of comprehending its principles.
• The array shook as Xu Yang gained insight, then its pressure subsided; he announced that he had gained something and led Three Yun toward the Nine Bends Yellow River Array.
• In the present world, Xu Yang told Meng Fanyin that his Dao fruition had succeeded and celebrated with her.
• Xu Yang merged the Earth Book’s principles with the Earth Deity Method, completing the method and increasing its potential to improve Myriad Dao Academy’s productivity.
• Xu Yang considered forging an Earth Book imitation and planned to continue studying Tongtian Secret Treasures before returning his attention to the Northern Region Cultivation World.

The Spirit Treasure Convention opened with the Myriad Dao Academy showcasing the Purple Green Twin Swords, while rumors confirmed that Li Xuanyuan had entered the Calamity Realm. A bidding contest between two powerful guests exposed the Great Sacred Lands’ fear of the Academy, and the auction remained underway.

• Cultivators from across the regions gathered on Spirit Treasure Island for the hundred-year Spirit Treasure Convention, now a major trading event dominated by the Myriad Dao Academy.
• Feng Qingqing introduced the Purple Green Twin Swords as High-Grade Immortal Artifacts that could help Heavenly Sword cultivators and weaken lightning tribulations, and set a starting bid of one Ninth-rank spiritual item.
• An old man in black offered Fusang Black Gold Wood, but a veiled bidder countered with Ancient Star Iron, which Feng Qingqing valued as two Ninth-rank spiritual items.
• The old man in black made a pointed remark toward the veiled bidder, and Feng Qingqing warned him that the Academy would punish anyone who disrupted the auction or bullied other guests.
• The old man in black backed down, then offered three sections of Fusang Black Gold Wood as the crowd speculated that he feared Li Xuanyuan and the Academy.

At the Spirit Treasure Convention, Feng Qingqing auctioned the Purple Green Twin Swords, Revival Pills, and the Nine Heavens Dao Xuan Zhen Scripture, drawing fierce bids from cultivators and alarming the Great Sacred Lands. The chapter ended as the Sacred Lands watched heterodox cultivators compete for the scripture, fearing Myriad Dao Academy would reshape the Northern Region.

• The black-robed old man won the Purple Green Twin Swords with four sections of Fusang Black Gold Wood and a Great Sun Flame Spirit Fruit after the bamboo-hatted bidder raised the price with Ancient Star Iron.
• Feng Qingqing offered three Revival Pills, and the Ice Extreme Palace ancestor and other bidders competed for them with rare spiritual items.
• The Old Woman won the first Revival Pill with a Dragon Blood Phoenix Marrow Flower, while the Five Elements Immortal Sect secured the second and Guest Number Twenty-Seven won the third.
• Feng Qingqing introduced the Nine Heavens Dao Xuan Zhen Scripture, which could strengthen heterodox cultivators and required purchasers to swear a Great Oath of Inner Demon.
• The Great Sacred Lands feared the scripture would empower heterodox lineages and extend Myriad Dao Academy’s influence, but they continued bidding as the auction proceeded.

The Wuji Apricot-Yellow Banner failed to sell at the Spirit Treasure Convention, while Xu Yang counted Myriad Dao Academy’s growing profits. Years later, Qi Zhengming survived the Nine Heavenly Tribulations and led the Nine Heavens Sword Pavilion toward the South Sea to attack Myriad Dao Academy.

• Feng Qingqing declared the Wuji Apricot-Yellow Banner unsold after no one dared bid on a Tenth-rank Immortal Item.
• Heterodox cultivators rented cave dwellings on Spirit Treasure Island, while the Great Sacred Lands worried about Myriad Dao Academy’s growing power.
• Xu Yang celebrated the convention’s profits and watched Myriad Dao Academy continue to accumulate wealth and strength.
• Qi Zhengming endured the Nine Heavenly Tribulations and became a Nine Tribulation True Immortal.
• Qi Zhengming demanded that Junior Brother Xiao acknowledge his mistake over the South Sea matter, then led the Nine Heavens Thirteen Swords toward the South Sea to eliminate demons.

The Ten Great Holy Lands sent reinforcements to the South Sea as Qi Zhengming led Nine Heavens Sword Pavilion into Xu Yang’s array. Xu Yang reversed the Nine Ceremonies Three Talents Sword Array, turning heaven and earth’s rejection against the intruders and stripping Qi Zhengming of his newly attained True Immortal power.

• Great Profound Dao Mountain and the other Northern Region Holy Lands agreed to send aid to Nine Heavens Sword Pavilion against Li Xuanyuan.
• Qi Zhengming led the Nine Heavens Sword Pavilion cultivators into the South Sea array and tested it with his sword, then unleashed the Immortal Treasure Xiao Huang.
• Xu Yang appeared before Qi Zhengming’s force, while Xiao Buping confronted him over the Xiao Family’s losses.
• Qi Zhengming attacked Xu Yang with Xiao Huang, but Xu Yang activated the reversed Nine Ceremonies Three Talents Sword Array and swallowed the attack.
• The array magnified heaven and earth’s rejection, stirred the cultivators’ Calamity Gates, and forced Qi Zhengming’s secret art to fail.
• Qi Zhengming tried to strike again, but the array disrupted his Dao Fruit, extinguishing his Three Flowers and scattering his Five Qi.

Xu Yang used the Inverted Nine Ceremonies Grand Array and the Northern Region’s rejection of True Immortals to strip Qi Zhengming of his cultivation and kill him. After capturing the remaining Nine Heavens Sword Pavilion cultivators and claiming Qi Zhengming’s Skyglow Sword, Xu Yang flew toward the Central Plains, leaving the South Sea sects to realize the Sword Pavilion had lost.

• The array erased Qi Zhengming’s Three Flowers and Five Qi, causing him to age rapidly and crumble into ash as Xiao Buping and the other Sword Pavilion cultivators tried to escape.
• Xiao Buping detonated his sword and fled through the array, but the array blocked his escape, and his blood-colored sword light vanished into the dark currents.
• Xu Yang retrieved Qi Zhengming’s remains and explained how the Inverted Nine Ceremonies Grand Array used Heaven and Earth’s rejection of Nine Tribulation True Immortals to suppress him and trigger his lifespan limit.
• Xu Yang claimed Qi Zhengming’s Skyglow Sword, captured the other Sword Pavilion cultivators where possible, and intensified the array to subdue them.
• Xu Yang withdrew the array and flew toward the Central Plains, while the South Sea sects concluded that the Sword Master Xuanyuan had defeated the Nine Heavens Sword Pavilion.