Chapter Summaries

Big Brother comforted a crying listener by recalling how he once threatened his drunken father with a knife to stop him from harassing his mother, an act he later regretted. He then explained his view that ghosts and gods were forms of Qi shaped by the heart, leaving the listener with his teaching that inner virtue and a settled mind governed them.

• Big Brother recalled that his father’s drinking and his mother’s mahjong had put him between them when he was young.
• When his drunken father harassed his mother, Big Brother put a knife in his father’s hands, pointed it at himself, and threatened to kill himself and the household if the scene continued.
• His father finally quieted down, and Big Brother later regretted using such an extreme method against him.
• Big Brother explained that resentment and alcohol could alter a person’s conduct, while fear and a weak Primordial Spirit could make someone vulnerable to surrounding energies.
• He taught that ghosts and gods were forms of Qi associated with qualities in a person’s heart, and that a clear, virtuous mind could command them rather than seek protection from them.

Big bro explained that learning Buddhism and cultivating the Dao meant learning compassion, wisdom, and changing the patterns of one’s heart and conduct. He ended by taking a break for water after explaining at length that these changes could untie inner suffering and bring freedom.

• Big bro explained that Guanyin and the other Bodhisattvas represented qualities such as compassion and wisdom, which people could cultivate within themselves.
• Big bro criticized worship focused on begging for blessings and said that learning Buddhism meant developing a Bodhisattva’s compassion, mercy, and wisdom.
• Big bro defined cultivating the Dao as changing the patterns of one’s heart, thoughts, speech, and conduct, and said that wisdom and compassion could dissolve resentment and suffering.
• Big bro connected a calm, unblocked heart with bodily ease and explained that cultivating Buddhism meant becoming like the Buddha or Bodhisattva one learned from.
• Big bro said that mastering the patterns of Heaven’s Dao could make a person free of worldly constraints, then stopped to drink water and rest because he had not eaten.

A senior Wuji Sword Sect brother explained to a girl how to approach worship, spiritual abilities, and life without fear or attachment. He urged her to keep her original heart and practice steadily, leaving her with the principle that mastering one basic sword form could encompass countless techniques.

• The girl asked whether people should follow the custom of sending money to their ancestors, and her Big Brother said it depended on their hearts and cultural traditions.
• The girl asked how Spirit Mediumship Disciples should correct themselves, and he urged them to reclaim their own spiritual power and use it to help others rather than bargain with gods.
• He told her to learn from whatever she chose, accept mistakes, and act freely without fear of others’ judgment.
• When the girl said she had nothing she wanted to do, love, say, or drink, he encouraged her to build herself through experience and keep her heart set on protecting all living beings.
• He taught her to keep taking the courageous first step and concluded that practicing one basic sword form could embody countless swords and the Great Dao.

Big Brother urged his disciples to build the Wuji Sword Sect, pursue their own paths, and preserve their original hearts. He promised to guide and support them through mistakes and hardships, leaving them with a vow that they would never abandon one another or forget why they started.

• Big Brother told his disciples that he had returned to awaken them and invited them to help build the Wuji Sword Sect and pass on their knowledge.
• He reminded them that he was the master they had long sought and promised to teach, protect, and support them regardless of their circumstances or flaws.
• He urged them not to fear mistakes or setbacks, promising to help them find their way home and take responsibility when he failed them.
• He asked his disciples to help him if he ever lost his way and vowed that they would never abandon one another or forget why they started.
• Big Brother promised to come to a disciple's aid even if they defied Heaven, declaring that he would overturn it for them.

Master encouraged his student by explaining how his unyielding heart and relentless effort could overcome fear and adversity. He shared that he had once been timid as a child and deliberately trained his courage by reading ghost stories.

• The student thanked Master and said his teaching had given her what she needed.
• Master vowed to protect his people and declared that confinement and hardship could only sharpen his Half-Step Collapsing Fist.
• Master taught the student the Heart of Immortality and the Power of Unyielding, urging her to face problems without surrendering her original heart.
• The student praised Master's fierce spirit, and Master told her to absorb and keep that resolve.
• Master explained that he had once been too afraid to go outside to pee, so he read ghost stories to train his courage.
• Master said extreme fear had once caused his thought-force magnetic field to fluctuate and make a drawer slam shut, while an ordinary person might have been frightened senseless.

The speaker explained how he turned fear, suffering, and every hardship into fuel for his growth, refusing to submit to the Heavenly Dao. He vowed to return, help his disciples and brothers overcome their own trials, and ultimately challenge the powers that had arranged their fates.

• The speaker said he had always grown by using what frightened or hurt him to strengthen his Primordial Spirit and learn what he lacked.
• He declared that he would study the Heavenly Dao's laws and methods until he could exploit its weaknesses and defeat it.
• He insisted that every member of the Wuji Sword Sect could cultivate their own Dao and that he would teach his people to transform pain into strength.
• The speaker vowed to return, unravel the trials arranged for his disciples and brothers, and overturn the powers above if they continued to torment the human world.
• He said he would meet every hardship without resentment, even thanking those who imposed it on him.

The Master explained how the Wuji Sword Sect could spread its teachings through endless fission, helping people while building a network of disciples and ethical businesses. He left the disciples with a model for using their skills and resources to serve others, warning that those who exploit people would face the consequences.

• The Master connected the Heavenly Dao and impermanence to the way teachings and influence multiplied from one person to many.
• The Master urged disciples to promote the book so readers could gain insight and pass its teachings on to others.
• The Master described a growing Wuji Sword Sect network where disciples could teach skills and sell carefully made goods while helping one another.
• The Master envisioned disciples pooling resources to uphold justice and aid people in need, using gathered wealth for the public good.
• The Master said disciples could become teachers to new generations, spreading love and helping bring about Great Unity under Heaven.
• The Master warned that anyone who made shady gains or sold harmful goods would eventually suffer the consequences.

Master Zen Mind taught his disciples to use the patterns of the Dao to become kind, healthy, powerful, and wealthy, while choosing for themselves how to live. He prepared them for the possibility of his departure, shared a secret way to find him, and reviewed their cultivation art before leaving their path in their hands.

• Master Zen Mind urged his disciples to learn the Dao’s patterns and use them to prosper without bullying others, explaining that they must choose what kind of people to become.
• A disciple shared a realization, and Master Zen Mind told the disciples that their insights and choices belonged to them while promising to wait if they strayed.
• Master Zen Mind gave a disciple a coded route to find him: seek Yao Qiliu’s cave, speak to the black-scaled snake Ling Wu, and look for Master Zen Mind.
• Master Zen Mind explained that he might leave but that his written words and Primordial Spirit would remain to guide and bless his disciples.
• Master Zen Mind recited the Esoteric and Exoteric Perfected Mystery Art, and his disciples promised to remember it.
• Master Zen Mind encouraged his disciples to control their thoughts, master impermanence, and remain steadfast as they cultivated the Dao.

Master explained that the girl had been practicing the passive Mind Contemplation Technique through the habits of noticing and cutting stray thoughts and shifting her heart and thoughts. He warned that actively cultivating awareness was dangerous without guidance and insisted that observing thoughts must be paired with learning to control them.

• The girl asked Master to teach her Internal Observation, and Master explained that he had already taught her its passive method without her realizing it.
• Master connected her use of Slay Thoughts with Sword and heart turning the realm to noticing thoughts and acting on that awareness.
• The girl realized she had been cultivating Internal Observation all along, and Master said the habits she had built would help her notice and manage thoughts.
• Master explained that active cultivation could cause Qi Deviation, detachment, and mental turmoil without sufficient preparation and supervision.
• Master said his books had gradually taught her to observe and control thoughts, then criticized teachers who advised students to watch thoughts without changing them.

The Master explained how inner observation and transforming one’s thoughts could calm emotions and help control bodily sensations. He ended by demonstrating the force of a single, focused thought, commanding the Ten Directions Divine Fiends to protect his disciple.

• The Master taught that noticing anger and changing one’s perspective could turn resentment into gratitude and restore a tranquil heart.
• The Master explained that spiritual awareness and physical sensations could reinforce each other, and advised redirecting attention rather than magnifying discomfort.
• The Master described fasting, reading, and focused work as examples of controlling sensations and gathering the mind into one.
• The Master declared that a sincere, single-minded thought could commune with spirits and wield spiritual power.
• The Master commanded the Ten Directions Divine Fiends to protect his disciple’s body and heart.

The Master explained how qi, thoughts, and habits formed karmic force, and how controlling one’s heart could alter karma. He left his student with a practical approach to cultivation and boasted that he had discovered the teachings on his own.

• The Master explained that gods, ghosts, and other beings left behind different kinds of qi that could influence people who became tainted by them.
• The Master taught that people could use righteous or evil thoughts as needed, so long as they controlled their own hearts rather than being controlled by those thoughts.
• The Master explained that repeated actions formed karmic force, but a person who noticed and controlled an impulse could choose whether to act on it.
• The student said she thought she understood how to change karma, and the Master encouraged her to persist in cultivation.
• The Master said he had learned these principles through hardship without a teacher, then praised his ability to explain them in simple terms.

Master explained to his disciple how inner communication, calming the mind, and controlling Yin and Yang Qi related to Dao Lord's Qi Body Source Flow. The disciple grasped the principles but remained unsure how to practice, so Master urged them to follow their original intention and persevere.

• Master explained that inner communication came from one's true heart and that he had united his inner and outer selves through Body Integration.
• Master taught that calming the breath and concentrating the mind cleared distracting thoughts and allowed spiritual insight.
• The disciple interpreted Qi Body Source Flow as controlling the circulation of Yin and Yang Qi and one's own fate, while Master elaborated on resisting outside and inner influences.
• Master told the disciple to learn righteous qi, redirect evil qi through righteous intentions, and return to his teachings whenever they went astray.
• Master urged the disciple to remember courage, perseverance, and fearlessness as they moved forward with a righteous heart.

The Master explained how enlightenment, spiritual insight, and control of Qi shaped one’s choices and understanding of good and evil. He left his disciple with lessons about trusting the body, not imposing beliefs on others, and using Qi’s influence responsibly.

• The Master described a dream from the time he attained enlightenment and said its meaning had become clear to him.
• The Master taught that everyone possessed a spark of spiritual light and recalled how Guanyin Bodhisattva had advised him, “Don't rush. Take it slowly.”
• The Master explained that people’s judgments of good and evil and their dietary needs depended on their hearts and bodies, not rigid beliefs.
• The Master declared that those who controlled Qi and laws could master themselves, while those controlled by them drifted with impermanence.
• The Master condemned people who imposed dietary and religious beliefs on others, and the disciple praised his righteous, domineering manner.
• The Master explained that he could release and withdraw good or evil Qi at will, changing how people and animals felt around him.

The Master explained how people influence one another like cells, how teachers and inherited traits shape growth, and how he learned from the Dao by enduring love, wealth, and injury trials. He described losing faith under three trials at once, leaving his disciple asking what happened next.

• The Master compared people to cells, saying their habits, emotions, and spirit could spread to those around them.
• The Master explained that genes, experience, and good teachers could shape a person's abilities and understanding.
• The Master said he learned the Dao by resisting impermanence, continuing to treat others well after being hurt, and accepting loss without clinging.
• The Master recalled making money quickly while livestreaming, losing his early drive, and learning that the trial of wealth required recovering and maintaining that drive.
• The Master recounted facing the trials of love and wealth before an injury left him physically maimed and utterly hopeless.
• The disciple asked the Master what happened afterward.

The master explained how stubborn endurance and sudden enlightenment led him to develop his cultivation path and the techniques he called twisting Heaven and Earth, reversing Yin-Yang. He said his experiences and decision to write for readers had been part of his heavenly mandate, and ended by describing his compassion for them.

• The master described resisting despair through repeated trials until his body recovered, then enduring further tests of the heart.
• After spending a year away from home, the master suddenly understood that his experiences had been arranged to help him comprehend the Heavenly Dao.
• The master explained how he patiently built foundations through swordsmanship and later cultivated the realm of mind turning circumstances.
• The master described comprehending techniques to alter his body by reversing natural laws, which he named twisting Heaven and Earth, reversing Yin-Yang techniques.
• The master said that after reaching Guan Zizai, he recognized readers’ suffering and decided to write a book to address their doubts.
• The master concluded that his choice to teach had been his heavenly mandate and said he had learned love and compassion in the human world.

Master explained to his disciple how he turned Dao cultivation into instinctive automation, borrowing laws from the Heavenly Dao and AI to make learning, awareness, and cultivation automatic. He urged her to learn his ability to accelerate learning and to cultivate whatever abilities she wanted within herself.

• Master described how he made his body and mind operate automatically by turning awareness, clearing, and cultivation into instinctive laws.
• Master told his disciple to imitate his method of cultivating any desired ability into automation rather than copying his exact abilities.
• Master explained that he had learned from AI by imitating its ability to mobilize, organize, and analyze knowledge, while retaining human emotions and creativity.
• Master said he learned strengths from people and all things, cultivating gratitude, compassion, and self-control while accepting that encounters depended on fate.

The Master explained that the wisdom eye was the ability to recognize how love, compassion, wisdom, and harmful emotions arose and changed within sentient beings. He left his disciples understanding that Buddha and Bodhisattva were states of these qualities in the heart, not particular forms.

• The Master told his disciples that Yin-Yang techniques helped them avoid being ruled by emotions and experiences acquired as they grew up.
• The Master joked that his power could force open everyone's wisdom eyes, then explained how Buddha and Bodhisattva manifested through love, compassion, and wisdom in ordinary beings.
• The Master described how unresolved thoughts and changing circumstances could make sentient beings act under resentment, hatred, rage, and other harmful emotions.
• The Master said that recognizing these currents of Qi within oneself and others opened the wisdom eye, and one disciple said she understood it as a heart that saw patterns through wisdom.
• The Master explained that sustaining righteous Qi through great love, compassion, and wisdom made one Buddha and Bodhisattva, and the disciples said they understood.

The Master taught his disciples to recognize harmful influences with wisdom and compassion, and to nurture Vast Righteous Qi against fear and darkness. He urged them to fight alongside him, leaving them resolved to protect others and sustain their righteous Qi.

• The Master told his disciple to look beyond appearances and use the heart and wisdom to recognize deception.
• The Master explained that he fought forces that filled people's hearts with fear, darkness, and despair, and declared all living beings' hearts his battlefield.
• The disciples promised to fight beside the Master, who urged them to arm themselves with wisdom, courage, compassion, kindness, love, and fearlessness.
• The Master taught that sustained Vast Righteous Qi made a person an immortal, while compassion and wisdom defined the states of Buddha and Bodhisattva.
• The Master instructed his disciples to calm their minds, see the world with their hearts, and avoid being misled by outward appearances.

Master encouraged his disciple to trust his teachings and approach saving the world as a joyful game, while cultivating righteous Qi. He rallied her to join him against evil and left her fired up with a poem, “The Flickering Heart of Immortality.”

• Master explained that his disciple needed confidence and trust to receive his methods and reach her goals.
• Master told his disciple to treat life and saving all living beings as play, without fixating on victory or defeat but still fighting to the end.
• Master urged his disciple to absorb righteous Qi while he shouldered the world's impermanence and led her into battle against evil.
• Master rallied his disciple and the determined to charge the forces of darkness and become a ray of light for others.
• Master wrote “The Flickering Heart of Immortality,” and his disciple praised the poem's power.

The master explained to his disciple that his Dao heart and abundant Jing Qi Shen let him recover naturally and remain unaffected by eating, sleeping, or fatigue. He left the disciple with a teaching to rely on inner strength and treat food and rest according to need rather than cling to them.

• The master warned that laughter could consume karmic force, then claimed his heart-force replenished itself so he never became tired.
• He told his disciple that he lived on Qi drawn from heaven and earth and that each moment’s self could be connected to, yet distinct from, earlier moments.
• When the disciple admitted he did not understand, the master explained that eating and sleeping were separate from the fullness of Jing Qi Shen and that brief rest could restore him.
• The master argued that flourishing Jing Qi Shen and blood and Qi were the essential means of recovering health, making external cultivation pursuits unnecessary.
• He described cultivation as turning spiritual force into instinctive natural law, and said people should eat and sleep when needed without becoming attached to either.
• The master declared that he controlled his body and mind and would fix any part of himself that caused trouble.