Chapter Summaries

Kasyapa Buddha tried to gather Naga Xi and Chan Qiuxian under his control, but Naga Xi escaped the Western Heavens and joined Li Qingyun’s Qingyun lineage as Li Quanlei. As the Great Calamity intensified and more saints fell, the Primordial Era grew increasingly perilous.

• Kasyapa Buddha rose to the Five-Ring Realm and invited Naga Xi and Chan Qiuxian to follow him, but both refused; Shi Ji Buddha prevented Yuboti from leaving with them.
• Naga Xi revealed his plan to abandon the Buddha and enter the Dao, but Chan Qiuxian refused to follow, and he continued alone toward the Immortal Slaying Great Formation.
• Naga Xi met Li Xuanji outside the formation, and A'li welcomed them into Qingya; Naga Xi joined Li Qingyun’s lineage and became Li Quanlei, while Li Xuanji took the Daoist title Daoist Xuanji.
• Shi Ji Buddha demanded that Li Qingyun hand over Akshobhya and Quan Lei, then fought Li Qingyun outside the formation and left after gaining only a slight upper hand.
• Outer void figures devoured several exposed Land of the Universe realms, and half a year later saints from the Abyss and Stone Spirit clans fell amid the Great Calamity.

Li Qingyun approached completion of his ninth Primordial Mark as his Dao trajectory began moving toward the Netherworld's center. The Denguāng Joyful Buddha blocked his advance, leaving Li Qingyun to wait for his final mark before challenging him again.

• Li Quanlei and Daoist Xuanji cultivated on the green cliff and reached the eighth ring as the Heavenly Serpent Incense neared its end.
• Li Qingyun perceived the Dao forest of saints and saw his giant-tree Dao trajectory move toward the Netherworld's center as his ninth Primordial Mark neared completion.
• The Denguāng Joyful Buddha shifted his Dao trajectory to block Li Qingyun and questioned his right to approach the center.
• Li Qingyun's Dao trajectory collided with the Denguāng Joyful Buddha's, and both suffered fractures in the contest.
• The Denguāng Joyful Buddha taunted Li Qingyun into stopping, while Li Qingyun resolved to wait for his ninth mark to manifest before striking back.

Li Qingyun completed his ninth Primordial Great Dao Mark and briefly entered the Void Saint realm, but the ruins’ rule prevented him from becoming a true Saint. He shattered Denguāng Joyful Buddha’s Dao Peak and then faced two greater obstacles in the Netherworld Dao Forest: Pure Vajra and Jade Virtue Guanyin.

• Li Qingyun’s ninth Primordial Great Dao Mark manifested, raising his Daoist achievement above the Nine Rings, but the ruins suppressed his attempt to ascend beyond the void.
• Li Qingyun used his strengthened Great Dao Tree to crush Denguāng Joyful Buddha’s Long Ear Peak, shattering his Dao and driving him from the Netherworld.
• Li Qingyun accelerated toward the center of the Dao Forest as the stronger trajectories of Pure Vajra and Jade Virtue Guanyin appeared before him.
• Pure Vajra demanded that Li Qingyun retreat, while Li Qingyun refused to back down and prepared to fight both Saints.

Li Qingyun forced his way through the Netherworld by threatening to destroy his Great Dao alongside the two saints blocking him, then reached the central region and claimed an empty place among the Netherworld’s greatest Dao trajectories. His arrival restored the damage to his Dao tree and drew the attention of the powers behind the other trajectories.

• Li Qingyun rejected the Jade Bottle peak Saint’s Shadow’s justification and drove his Great Tree trajectory into the diamond giant mountain and Jade Bottle peak trajectories.
• The collision fractured all three Dao trajectories, and Li Qingyun charged again, forcing the two obstructors to move aside rather than risk mutual destruction.
• Li Qingyun rode the Netherworld’s gravitational pull past the obstruction and crossed into a region that ordinary entities could not enter.
• Li Qingyun saw five prominent Dao trajectories around the central chaos and steered his Great Tree into an empty place among them.
• The Netherworld’s central power repaired the cracks in Li Qingyun’s trajectory, while Saint’s Shadows appeared above three neighboring peaks and questioned his right to stand beside them.

Li Qingyun established his Mortal Dao in the Netherworld Void and realized that transcending its hidden layer might lead to the Eternal Land. His disciples gathered on the green cliff to celebrate his breakthrough and began arranging Dao discussions, with A'li and Li Xuanji preparing to spar.

• Li Qingyun dismissed the five Outside Void Saints, withdrew from the central Netherworld Void, and left his Mortal Dao refining itself there.
• Li Qingyun concluded that the Primordial Beginning had a visible layer and a Netherworld Void layer, and that surpassing the latter might lead to the Eternal Land.
• Li Xuanji, Li Quanlei, and the other Qingyun lineage disciples climbed the green cliff to congratulate Li Qingyun.
• Cheng Tangyin suggested holding a Void Saint Banquet, and Li Qingyun promised a reward to whoever excelled in the Dao discussions.
• Li Zuo challenged A'li, but she chose to spar with Li Xuanji instead, and the two rose into the void as Li Zuo retreated disappointed.

Li Qingyun watched the disciples debate their Dao while reflecting on his growing detachment from human emotions. When the Treasure Distribution Cliff Field opened in the ruins, he left the others to guard their formation and went to investigate.

• Li Xuanji and A'li compared their Dao attainments, ending their clash in a draw.
• Zhu Yuyan challenged Cheng Tangyin to a discussion of Dao, and the two clashed over Zhu Yuyan's Cloud Moon Dao.
• Li Qingyun watched their exchange with detached calm, reflecting that his ascent had nearly erased his human warmth.
• A thunderous blast shook the ruins, and Li Qingyun calculated that someone had opened the Treasure Distribution Cliff Field.
• Li Qingyun told A'li, Houtu, and the others to hold the formation, then left to investigate the newly opened field.

Li Qingyun arrived as Lu Ya and the others opened the dangerous Treasure Distribution Cliff Field, revealing that he had reached Nine Marks and the Void Saint Realm. He entered the field first, leaving the five overlords stunned and wary.

• Li Qingyun recognized Treasure Distribution Cliff as a rare, dangerous field and realized Jia Yuxu’s invitation had been to help open it.
• Lu Ya, Shi Ji Buddha, Kasyapa Buddha, Jia Zhou, and Jia Yuxu opened the Treasure Distribution Cliff Field and debated who should enter first.
• Lu Ya prepared to cross the barrier, but Li Qingyun appeared and asked why they had not told him about the opportunity.
• The five overlords sensed Li Qingyun’s Saintly Brilliance and learned that he had attained Nine Marks and the Void Saint Realm.
• Li Qingyun greeted Lu Ya and Jia Yuxu, then entered the Treasure Distribution Cliff Field ahead of the others.

Li Qingyun entered the Treasure Distribution Cliff and claimed priority over the other powerful visitors as they chose separate routes through its chaotic expanse. He found the former treasure-conceiving site of the Four Immortal Slaying Swords and began suppressing its vicious sword light to strengthen his Dao vessels.

• Li Qingyun sensed numerous dangerous treasure-conceiving sites in the Treasure Distribution Cliff and set out to explore the former sites of the Four Immortal Slaying Swords and the Chaos Banner.
• Lu Ya, Shi Ji Buddha, Kasyapa Buddha, Jia Yuxu, and Jia Zhou entered the cliff, and Li Qingyun told them he would take his chosen route and expected them not to follow.
• Lu Ya chose another route, while Shi Ji Buddha and Kasyapa Buddha took separate sites; Jia Yuxu also departed, and Jia Zhou secretly headed toward an ancient palace.
• Li Qingyun reached the former site of the Four Immortal Slaying Swords and recognized its four-colored sword light as a potential source of power for his newly refined swords.
• Li Qingyun entered the sealed site, endured the sword light's attack on his Dao protection and divine soul, and unleashed his cyan-jade Dao essence to suppress it.

Li Qingyun suppressed and refined the Treasure-Conceiving Eye, discovering that it contained Eternal Spiritual Energy, then went to seize another Eye from Kasyapa Buddha. Kasyapa summoned the power of the past to raise his strength toward the Void Saint tier as Li Qingyun confronted him.

• Li Qingyun trapped the Treasure-Conceiving Eye’s four-colored sword lights in a spacetime seal and refined the black Qi from them.
• Li Qingyun refined the blessed land itself, uncovered Eternal Spiritual Energy, and absorbed it into his Great Dao Universe.
• Li Qingyun decided to claim the other Treasure-Conceiving Eyes and flew toward Kasyapa Buddha rather than the site of the suspected Chaos Banner Eye.
• Kasyapa Buddha was drawing the Green Lotus Treasure Color Banner’s residual Qi to himself when he sensed Li Qingyun approaching and struck at him with ancient Buddha arms.
• Li Qingyun collapsed Kasyapa Buddha’s summoned arms and suppressed the blessed land’s Buddhist light, prompting Kasyapa Buddha to summon an ancient Buddha from his Nine-Ring Grey Moon.

Li Qingyun overwhelmed Kasyapa Buddha at the Treasure Distribution Cliff Field and pursued his remnant will beyond it. After an Outer Void Saint intervened to save Kasyapa, Li Qingyun destroyed the remnant and repelled the Western Heaven’s retaliatory attack.

• Li Qingyun shattered Kasyapa Buddha’s ancient Buddha phantom and repeatedly battered him with Dao might, demanding that he leave the Treasure Distribution Cliff Field.
• Shi Ji Buddha threatened Li Qingyun with war, while Li Qingyun called on Lu Ya to help sweep away the Western Heaven and Holy Palace; Lu Ya engaged Shi Ji Buddha in battle.
• Li Qingyun crushed Kasyapa Buddha’s physical shell, but Kasyapa’s remnant will escaped, and Li Qingyun pursued it beyond the Treasure Distribution Cliff Field.
• An Outer Void Saint’s light briefly protected Kasyapa’s remnant, but Li Qingyun struck again and destroyed it, ending the fifth Buddha of the past.
• An Outer Void Buddha-light attack descended on Li Qingyun, but he countered it with the power of the residual ruins and shattered it.

Li Qingyun returned to Treasure Distribution Cliff after driving off the Western Heaven Saint and found Jia Zhou in an ancient temple. He defeated Jia Zhou, took the Jade Disk of Creation, and let him leave, while Jia Zhou vowed revenge.

• The Western Heaven Saint withdrew after Li Qingyun shattered His punishment, and Li Qingyun returned to the Treasure Distribution Cliff Field to deal with Shi Ji Buddha.
• Li Qingyun noticed Jia Zhou was missing from the Treasure-Conceiving Eye and found him inside an ancient temple that felt quietly formidable.
• Li Qingyun attacked Jia Zhou, grievously injuring him and preparing to kill him.
• Jia Zhou offered Li Qingyun a cool-rippling jade disc, which Li Qingyun recognized as the Jade Disk of Creation and accepted.
• Li Qingyun let Jia Zhou go, and Jia Zhou fled the Treasure Distribution Cliff Field while swearing to repay Li Qingyun for taking his chance at Supreme Being.

Li Qingyun gathered control of the Treasure Distribution Cliff, allowed Jia Yuxu to take one wisp of eternal spiritual energy, and then went to confront Shi Ji Buddha. Jia Yuxu broke with Jia Zhou, while the battle between Shi Ji Buddha and Lu Ya continued as Li Qingyun arrived.

• Li Qingyun searched the Daoist temple again, found no other gains, and left to seek the remaining Treasure-Conceiving Eyes.
• Li Qingyun let Jia Yuxu absorb a wisp of eternal spiritual energy, then ordered her to leave the Treasure Distribution Cliff.
• Jia Yuxu refused Jia Zhou’s demand for her spiritual energy, declared she owed him and the clan nothing, and left him behind.
• Jia Zhou threatened Jia Yuxu and privately vowed revenge after she departed.
• Lu Ya urged Shi Ji Buddha to withdraw, warning that Li Qingyun was coming, but Shi Ji Buddha attacked with black corpse insects.
• Li Qingyun reached the battlefield and recognized the dark red gourd behind Lu Ya as the Immortal Slaying Flying Knife.

Li Qingyun and Lu Ya joined forces to drive Shi Ji Buddha from Treasure Distribution Cliff after Li Qingyun exposed the corpse worms hidden in Lu Ya’s Great Dao field. Shi Ji Buddha escaped in his black-corpse form, leaving the two to collect the treasures while vowing revenge against the Qingyun lineage.

• Li Qingyun tore open Lu Ya’s Great Dao field and destroyed the corpse worms Shi Ji Buddha had planted there.
• Lu Ya increased his strength and agreed with Li Qingyun to pursue Shi Ji Buddha rather than collect treasures while he remained nearby.
• Li Qingyun and Lu Ya fought Shi Ji Buddha for several days, repeatedly catching him as he tried to flee.
• Shi Ji Buddha transformed into a black corpse and escaped the Treasure Distribution Cliff Field after Li Qingyun and Lu Ya forced him to withdraw.
• Li Qingyun and Lu Ya returned to collect and refine treasures, while Shi Ji Buddha swore to devour members of the Qingyun lineage.

Li Qingyun refined two Treasure-Conceiving Eyes, gained Eternal Spiritual Energy, and began transforming his skull into Eternal Bone as he raced Daoist Lu Ya for more. Outside the Immortal Slaying Great Formation, Shi Ji Buddha ambushed Zhen Hui Daoist and tore apart half his body.

• Li Qingyun refined the Treasure-Conceiving Eye of the Chaos Banner and absorbed a thread of Eternal Spiritual Energy, but still could not sense the limits of the Supreme Being Foundation.
• At the Treasure-Conceiving Eye of the Propitiation Vajra, Li Qingyun subdued its treasure essence and saw an ancient image of Daoist Zhunti warning of a variable in the primordial beginning.
• Li Qingyun collapsed the Treasure-Conceiving Eye and absorbed its Eternal Spiritual Energy, triggering a transformation that formed the beginnings of Eternal Bone in his skull.
• Li Qingyun hurried toward the next Treasure-Conceiving Eye, while Daoist Lu Ya sensed the race and accelerated as well.
• Zhen Hui Daoist entered the Immortal Slaying Great Formation, where Shi Ji Buddha ambushed him and tore apart half his body after Zhen Hui narrowly avoided a strike at his head.

Shi Ji Buddha attacked Zhen Hui Daoist outside the Immortal Slaying Great Formation, but Li Xuanji and the Qingyun lineage intervened and surrounded him. As the battle turned against the Demon Buddha, Li Quanlei caught his claws and held him fast.

• Shi Ji Buddha devoured a corpse and attacked Zhen Hui Daoist, drawing the Qingyun lineage out of the formation.
• Li Xuanji blocked Shi Ji Buddha’s attack and identified himself as Daoist Xuanji, then the Qingyun lineage formed a two-layer formation around the Demon Buddha.
• Cheng Tangyin restored Zhen Hui Daoist’s torn-away half, while Li Quanlei, A'shubhya Daoist, and Li Xuanji led the assault on Shi Ji Buddha.
• Shi Ji Buddha used a Buddha sound to briefly daze Li Xuanji and A'shubhya Daoist, but Li Quanlei broke the attack and exposed his corpse insects.
• Shi Ji Buddha charged Li Quanlei and tried to seize his heart, but Li Quanlei grabbed both claws with his eight hands and trapped him.

Shi Ji Buddha escaped after the Qingyun lineage overwhelmed him, while Li Qingyun and Daoist Lu Ya finished gathering Eternal Spiritual Energy. The Ruined Realm then began collapsing on a vast scale, exposing nearly a hundred universes to the Outside Void Existences and igniting a bloody struggle.

• Li Quanlei and the others broke Shi Ji Buddha’s assault and drove him into a retreat, but Li Quanlei stopped them from pursuing him.
• Li Qingyun praised the Qingyun lineage’s victory, which left Shi Ji Buddha as the only Ruined Realm-level survivor of the Three Western Heavens Clans.
• Li Qingyun and Daoist Lu Ya collected the last Eternal Spiritual Energy as Treasure Distribution Cliff Field dispersed, then discussed how eternity could help them contend for the Supreme Being Realm and survive the Great Calamity.
• The Ruined Realm’s northern border collapsed, exposing nearly a hundred Lands of the Universe to the Outside Void Existences.
• The Outside Void Existences attacked the exposed universes and fought over them, shaking the Ruined Realm as at least three Void Saints or Saints fell.

After witnessing Saints seize nearly a hundred Lands of the Universe, Li Qingyun hunted down the wounded Shi Ji Buddha and tried to suppress him. A Saint from the western heavens intervened, but Li Qingyun pursued Shi Ji Buddha beyond the broken seal.

• Li Qingyun watched the Saints beyond the void seize nearly a hundred Lands of the Universe and agreed with Daoist Lu Ya to cooperate over hidden Eternal opportunities.
• After Daoist Lu Ya left, Li Qingyun tracked Shi Ji Buddha to a grotto-heaven where he was devouring Pan Clan Quasi-Saint corpses to regain his vitality.
• Li Qingyun sealed the grotto-heaven and attacked Shi Ji Buddha, whose black corpse insects were destroyed by Li Qingyun's Eternal Profound Secret Meaning.
• Shi Ji Buddha called for help, and a Saint's Buddhist light from beyond the void tore apart Li Qingyun's seal, allowing Shi Ji Buddha to escape.
• Li Qingyun pursued Shi Ji Buddha, declaring that he would suppress the Demon Buddha despite the western heavens' intervention.

Li Qingyun pursued the wounded Shi Ji Buddha to the Bronze Grotto-heaven, where the Guǐ Daoist Danzhu Gong agreed to help the fleeing demon. Li Qingyun fought off Danzhu Gong’s intervention with the Human Dao Lamp and continued to hold Shi Ji Buddha back.

• Li Qingyun chased Shi Ji Buddha from Luotian Rock, driving the black corpse to flee while its source essence dwindled.
• Shi Ji Buddha reached the Bronze Grotto-heaven and called on Danzhu Gong for help, offering him three or five two-legged sheep.
• Shi Ji Buddha revealed Danzhu Gong’s former identity, stirring ancient memories and strengthening the Guǐ Daoist.
• Danzhu Gong refused Li Qingyun’s request not to interfere and opened its domain to shelter Shi Ji Buddha.
• Li Qingyun sealed the domain with the Human Dao Lamp and pushed Shi Ji Buddha away, then burned away Danzhu Gong’s last Guǐ hand as it tried to seize the demon.

Li Qingyun suppressed and destroyed Shi Ji Buddha, despite the black corpse’s strange mist escaping into the Nether Void. Afterward, he identified Maitreya Buddha as the Future Buddha the Western Heavens were preparing and resolved to find and kill him.

• Li Qingyun sealed Shi Ji Buddha’s escape, overcame the Guǐ Daoist’s interference, and crushed the Demon Buddha beneath his Great Dao and Human Dao Lamp Fire.
• Shi Ji Buddha scattered into black mist in the Nether Void after cursing Li Qingyun and threatening revenge through a new Buddha.
• Li Qingyun defied the furious Western Heavens saints and declared that he would ascend beyond the void and slay Buddhas.
• Danzhu Gong resented Li Qingyun for destroying the black corpse, while Daoist Lu Ya and a hidden figure in the Muddy Field reacted to Shi Ji Buddha’s fall.
• Li Qingyun calculated that the Future Buddha was Maitreya Buddha, likely being raised by the Western Heavens, and turned his attention toward the Cosmos level to find him.

Li Qingyun searched the Western Heaven, Jade Cicada, and Vajra clans for the hidden Future Buddha by probing the memories of suspicious disciples. He found the same smiling figure in several memories and concluded that the Future Buddha had secretly manipulated their fate, though the figure’s identity and whereabouts remained unresolved.

• Li Qingyun invaded Brahma’s divine soul in the Western Heaven Clan and found memories of Abu, a smiling disciple who had saved Brahma before vanishing.
• Li Qingyun searched other Western Heaven disciples but found no clear trace of the Future Buddha.
• Li Qingyun probed Yu Fan Shen in the Jade Cicada Clan and discovered a smiling female monk in her memories who had saved her and resembled Abu.
• Li Qingyun searched the Vajra Clan and found a similar smiling figure in Veda Heaven’s memories.
• Li Qingyun concluded that the smiling figure was almost certainly the Future Buddha, who seemed to be taking the fortune and fate of those they saved.