Chapter Summaries

After Yuanji defeated the Hero King and challenged the Qianyuan Dao Sect, he swept the Heaven Ranking and returned to Qingshi Valley, where Chen Sheng helped him break through to the Inner Landscape realm. Chen Sheng completed his fused cultivation method, reached the world’s boundary, and prepared to enter the Martial World.

• Zhang Tiezui told the teahouse patrons that Yuanji had defeated Shen Chunqiu, the Hero King, in three exchanges and was heading to Mount Tianhuang.
• Yuanji challenged Daoist Shi Qiu at the Qianyuan Dao Sect, defeated him, and left after urging him to perfect his Heaven Sword.
• Yuanji spent half a year defeating every Grandmaster on the Heaven Ranking and returned to Qingshi Valley as the Saint Fist.
• Tiger Mom and Yuanba welcomed Yuanji back, and Chen Sheng helped him break through to the Inner Landscape realm.
• Chen Sheng’s three cultivation methods fused into the Panwu Sky-Opening Profound Technique, which reached level 108, and he decided to go to the Martial World.

After the True Martial Gate appeared across Tiannan, grandmasters and demons raced to reach it, but Chen Sheng revealed his overwhelming White Tiger form and crossed into the Martial World with his followers. The gate closed behind him, leaving the gathered powers stranded in Tiannan.

• Daoist Shi Qiu continued refining his Heaven Sword until the True Martial Gate appeared in the sky, and Zhang Tiezui explained its legendary connection to the Martial Saints and the True Martial Realm.
• Inner Landscape grandmasters and Demon Race Great Saints gathered before the gate and attacked its force field, but their combined strength could not break through.
• Chen Sheng summoned Golden Saint, Yuanji, Yuanba, Li Changkong, and Mi Youdao, then rode a seven-colored auspicious cloud toward the gate as his enormous winged White Tiger form emerged across Tiannan.
• Chen Sheng's passage through the gate erased its force field, and the gate opened to welcome him; the three Demon Race Great Saints bowed and joined his followers.
• Chen Sheng entered the Martial World with his companions, and the True Martial Gate closed and vanished, leaving the remaining grandmasters to return to their sects.

Chen Sheng ascended from a lower realm as a Divine Demon Realm White Tiger and fought the Human Dao Ancestral Court's Firmament Emperor. He killed Firmament Emperor despite Emperor Venerate's plea for mercy, then faced the eldest disciple of the Human Dao Saint.

• Martial Saints Li and Wang witnessed the True Martial Realm gate surge with primordial qi and summoned the Firmament Emperor when they realized a Divine Demon Realm cultivator was ascending.
• The Firmament Emperor arrived and attacked the emerging White Tiger, Chen Sheng, after discovering he belonged to the Demon Race.
• Chen Sheng countered the Firmament Emperor's attacks, shattered his Sky Divine Iron, and seized him by the head.
• Emperor Venerate descended and asked Chen Sheng to show mercy, but Chen Sheng crushed Firmament Emperor and destroyed his soul.
• Chen Sheng faced Emperor Venerate and declared that Firmament Emperor was only a Saint's disciple.

Chen Sheng fought Emperor Venerate and shattered the Human Dao torrent with his Life-and-Death Sword Dao, but Emperor Venerate unleashed the Saint’s Mountains and Rivers Diagram. The Myriad Monster Supreme intervened with the Demon Ancestor Bell, protected Chen Sheng, and named him Great Emperor Zhong Ji Qiong Tian.

• The Myriad Monster Supreme praised Chen Sheng for killing Great Emperor Cangqiong and headed to East State to support him, while World-Honored One Ksitigarbha also watched the battle.
• Emperor Venerate attacked Chen Sheng with a Human Dao torrent formed from the wills of billions of people, and Chen Sheng cut through it with his Life-and-Death Sword Dao.
• Chen Sheng’s Immeasurable Tribulation clashed with the Mountains and Rivers Diagram, and Emperor Venerate invoked his master to unleash the treasure’s full Saintly power.
• The Demon Ancestor Bell appeared above Chen Sheng and shielded him from the Mountains and Rivers Diagram’s attack as the Myriad Monster Supreme arrived.
• The Myriad Monster Supreme declared Chen Sheng Great Emperor Zhong Ji Qiong Tian and offered him the vacant Central Extreme Emperor position, which Chen Sheng accepted.

After the Myriad Monster Supreme intervened to stop Emperor Venerate Zhang Daoxing, Chen Sheng returned with him to the Myriad Monster Sacred Court and began studying its scripture collection. The Demon Ancestor recognized Chen Sheng as a fellow incarnation traveling to comprehend the Dao and ordered Lu Jun to offer him the Great Sun inheritance.

• The Myriad Monster Supreme drove Zhang Daoxing away, then escorted Chen Sheng to the Myriad Monster Sacred Court.
• Lu Jun introduced Chen Sheng to the Demon Race Divine Demons and arranged for Lu Li to guide him around the Sacred Court.
• Chen Sheng declined to change his residence and asked Lu Li to take him to the Myriad Monster Secret Codex Pavilion.
• Chen Sheng studied Demon Immortal and Divine Demon texts, incorporating their insights into his Panwu Sky-Opening Profound Technique.
• Lu Jun reported Chen Sheng's strength and suspected origins to the Demon Ancestor, who secretly examined him.
• The Demon Ancestor identified Chen Sheng as a fellow incarnation and gave Lu Jun the Thirty-Three Scrolls of the Great Sun to offer him as an apology.

Lu Jun apologized to Chen Sheng for spying and offered him the Thirty-Three Scrolls of the Great Sun, which Chen Sheng accepted. After agreeing to remain the Demon Race’s Great Emperor Zhong Ji Qiong Tian, Chen Sheng studied the scrolls and learned that the True Martial Realm was a Middle Thousand World under the Taiyi Realm.

• Lu Jun visited Chen Sheng in the Myriad Monster Secret Codex Pavilion and offered the Thirty-Three Scrolls of the Great Sun as an apology for his earlier probing.
• Chen Sheng accepted Lu Jun’s apology and agreed to keep his appointment as Great Emperor Zhong Ji Qiong Tian.
• Lu Jun left to prepare a grand ceremony, delighted that Chen Sheng would serve as the Myriad Monster Sacred Court’s backing.
• Chen Sheng reflected that he had simulated an Integrated Body incarnation to deter Lu Jun and avoid a direct clash that could disrupt his cultivation.
• Chen Sheng studied the Thirty-Three Scrolls of the Great Sun and found that its final scroll described the cultivation system of the Taiyi Realm.
• Chen Sheng concluded that the True Martial Realm was a Middle Thousand World under the Taiyi Realm, then integrated the scrolls’ insights into his cultivation.

Chen Sheng was invested as the Central Extreme Qiong Tian Great Emperor and took up residence in the Central Extreme Demon Domain. He brought his followers out of his inner world and arranged for them to settle in Qiongtian Imperial Palace, where they learned how powerful he was within the Myriad Monster Sacred Court.

• Myriad Monster Supreme Lu Jun invested Chen Sheng as the Central Extreme Qiong Tian Great Emperor and transferred authority to him before the Sacred Court’s assembled Gods and Devils.
• Chen Sheng arrived at Qiongtian Palace, met the Dragon, Lion, and Elephant Clan Emperor Lords, and ordered them to maintain the domain’s existing systems.
• Chen Sheng brought Tiger Mom, Yuanji, Yuanba, Li Changkong, Mi Youdao, Golden Eagle, Black Bear, Flood Dragon, and his other followers out of his inner world, warning the three demons to stop using the title Great Saint.
• Chen Sheng instructed the palace Chief Attendant to arrange residences for his followers, and they were startled by the attendant’s Demon Immortal cultivation and the strength of the palace staff.
• The Chief Attendant told Golden Eagle, Black Bear, Flood Dragon, Li Changkong, and Mi Youdao that Chen Sheng ranked among the strongest figures beneath the three Saints and that his presence would keep them safe.

Zhang Daoxing sent his disciple to deliver a blank jade token to World-Honored One Ksitigarbha, signaling a possible alliance against Chen Sheng. Meanwhile, Chen Sheng advanced his Panwu Sky-Opening Profound Technique and began gestating a Divine Demon Embryo that would complete his Dharma Seed and restore him to the Body Integration realm.

• Zhang Daoxing ordered his favored disciple to deliver a jade tablet to World-Honored One Ksitigarbha without explanation.
• Ksitigarbha understood Zhang Daoxing's warning about Chen Sheng's rise and gave no clear agreement or refusal before the tablet dispersed.
• Chen Sheng studied Demon Race secret scriptures and the Thirty-Three Scrolls of the Great Sun to refine his Panwu Sky-Opening Profound Technique.
• Chen Sheng's Chaos inner landscape transformed the White Tiger Dharma Aspect into a Divine Demon Embryo that began forming a physical body.
• Chen Sheng's origin light spread through Qiongtian Palace, strengthening the blood and loosening the cultivation bottlenecks of Tiger Mom, the guards, and others.

After five thousand years, Ao Qing and Empress Golden Saint tracked missing Flood Dragons to a Cave Mansion, where a Second Heaven Buddha attacked them. Chen Sheng killed the Buddha with a single palm from across the Central Extreme Demon Domain, while observers in other realms sensed his growing power.

• Ao Qing and Empress Golden Saint found the Cave Mansion where the pure-blooded Flood Dragons’ Origin Power had vanished and broke through its barrier.
• A Buddha emerged from the Cave Mansion and overwhelmed Ao Qing and Golden Saint despite their combined attacks and the Mysterious Water Treasure Pearl.
• Golden Saint called for help as the Buddha prepared to destroy their barrier, and Chen Sheng reached across the void and annihilated him with one palm.
• Ao Qing thanked the Great Emperor, while Chen Sheng returned to cultivating his nearly perfected Divine Demon Embryo in Qiongtian Palace.
• Zhang Daoxing and World-Honored One Ksitigarbha sensed Chen Sheng’s power, while the Myriad Monster Supreme recognized him as an incarnation of an Outer Realm Saint.

Zhang Daoxing led the human army in breaking through the Demon Race's border defenses, prompting the Myriad Monster Supreme to summon the demon leaders and suspect Buddhist involvement. At Spirit Mountain, World-Honored One Ksitigarbha completed a 333-year ritual and unleashed a karmic assault aimed at Chen Sheng.

• Zhang Daoxing ordered the human army to attack, and they breached the Boundary Suppressing Pass and killed the Demon Race's defenders.
• The Myriad Monster Supreme learned of the invasion, summoned the demon leaders to the Myriad Monster Palace, and suspected the Western Buddhist Kingdom was involved.
• World-Honored One Ksitigarbha oversaw thirty-six Buddhas, three hundred and sixty-five Bodhisattvas, and one hundred thousand Arhats bowing to a blood-colored figure resembling Chen Sheng.
• World-Honored One Ksitigarbha dismissed the Twenty-Four Heavens Star Formation and sent the accumulated karmic power and resentment toward Chen Sheng.

Chen Sheng completed the Panwu Law Seed and repelled a Buddhist karmic attack by turning it back against the Western Buddhist Kingdom. His heaven-opening bow destroyed Spirit Mountain’s defenders and erased World-Honored One Ksitigarbha, leaving the Buddhist Kingdom devastated.

• Chen Sheng completed level 120 of the Panwu Sky-Opening Profound Technique, and his Divine Demon Embryo became a sacred White Tiger.
• Chen Sheng sensed a karmic formation sent from the West State Buddhist Kingdom and recognized that it sought to suppress and kill him through the worship of monks.
• Chen Sheng accepted the karmic assault and crushed it with his will, then sent a heaven-opening bow along the karmic thread toward the Western Buddhist Kingdom.
• World-Honored One Ksitigarbha activated the Twenty-Four Heavens Star Formation as Chen Sheng’s bow shattered Spirit Mountain and obliterated the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Arhats.
• Chen Sheng’s will overcame Ksitigarbha’s protection and erased his Primordial Spirit and Buddha incarnations.

Chen Sheng arrived at the ruined Western Province Buddhist Kingdom and revealed power that shook the True Martial Realm, then confronted Great Sage Puguang over Dizang’s attack. After agreeing to end the matter, Chen Sheng discovered six beings in the far north who held portions of heaven and earth’s authority and realized they feared he would compete for the Heaven and Earth Fruit Position.

• Chen Sheng stepped out of the demon territory and his presence shook the True Martial Realm, drawing awe from Li Changkong, Mi Youdao, Yuanba, Yuanji, Golden Saint, and Ao Qing.
• The Myriad Monster Supreme told Zhang Daoxing that the Western Province Buddhist Kingdom had fallen, while Zhang Daoxing realized his master’s calculations about Chen Sheng had been wrong.
• Great Sage Puguang appeared above the ruins and denied ordering Dizang to attack Chen Sheng, blaming Dizang’s ambition for the Heaven and Earth Fruit Position.
• Chen Sheng accepted Puguang’s explanation and declared the matter ended, prompting hidden supreme beings to withdraw their attention.
• Chen Sheng sensed six powerful auras in the far north and concluded that their owners feared he would contend for the Heaven and Earth Fruit Position.

Chen Sheng killed Zhang Daoxing on the battlefield and erased his incarnations across the worlds, but Human Dao Saint Cang Yi intervened to protect Zhang’s last incarnation. Chen Sheng clashed wills with Cang Yi and agreed to spare Zhang after Cang Yi offered a Chaos Origin Crystal.

• Chen Sheng crushed Zhang Daoxing with a Chaos palm, destroying the Mountains and Rivers Diagram and scattering the human army’s fighting spirit.
• Chen Sheng used his will and the laws of karma to annihilate Zhang Daoxing’s incarnations throughout the realms.
• Cang Yi used a scroll from the Human Ancestor Palace to stop Chen Sheng from killing Zhang Daoxing’s final incarnation, then asked him to spare his disciple.
• Chen Sheng rejected Cang Yi’s offer of the Human Dao Time Scripture and exile for Zhang, insisting that Zhang had to die for his Dao Heart to be at peace.
• Cang Yi offered Chen Sheng a Chaos Origin Crystal, and Chen Sheng agreed to spare Zhang Daoxing.

Chen Sheng absorbed the Chaos Origin Crystal, left his realm, and began gathering power in the chaotic void to open heaven and earth. In the True Martial Realm, Lu Jun learned that the Demon Race had effectively won the Immeasurable Tribulation and that Chen Sheng had already departed.

• Chen Sheng absorbed the Chaos Origin Crystal into his inner world and broke through the boundary of his realm.
• Chen Sheng sensed the Taiyi Realm, traveled through the chaotic void, and gathered Chaos essence to prepare to open heaven and earth.
• Lu Jun entered the Myriad Monster Sacred Court after the Demon Race’s victories had nearly secured the Immeasurable Tribulation.
• Demon Ancestor Lu Yuan told Lu Jun that Dizang had fallen, Zhang Daoxing had been taken from the True Martial Realm, and the Fruit Position was effectively settled.
• Lu Jun asked where the Qiong Tian Great Emperor had gone, and Lu Yuan said Chen Sheng had left to open heaven and earth in the outer domains.
• Lu Yuan told Lu Jun to protect Chen Sheng’s blood relatives in the True Martial Realm, and Lu Jun agreed.

Three thousand years after Chen Sheng began opening a world within Chaos, his incarnation Pan Sheng cleaved Chaos apart and transformed his body into the foundations of a minor thousand world. The world stabilized under Chen Sheng’s will, which became its supreme law.

• Golden Saint heard reports from four Divine Demon Emperor Venerates and ordered them to increase resources for lower-ranked demons by thirty percent.
• Yuanji and Yuanba asked Golden Saint whether Chen Sheng’s work in the outer domains had gone smoothly, and she relayed Saint Lu’s confidence in his success.
• Pan Sheng awakened in Chaos, grew to immense size, and summoned the Panwu Law Seed into a giant axe to split Chaos and form heaven and earth.
• As heaven and earth expanded, Pan Sheng held them apart while Dao-rule runes recorded their evolution.
• Pan Sheng’s body collapsed and became the world’s sun, moon, mountains, rivers, land, stars, and other features, while the Panwu Law Seed became its core.
• Chen Sheng stabilized the newborn world with Chaos Origin Crystals and declared his will its supreme law, completing the minor thousand world.

Chen Sheng completed the opening of the Panwu Realm and fused his body with its laws, becoming the Supreme Chen Saint Heavenly King. He assessed his new Body Integration cultivation and its power, then reflected on the stages and lifespan of the realm.

• Chen Sheng named his newly formed world the Panwu Realm, established its laws, and saw the first native divinities begin to gestate.
• Chen Sheng joined his Primordial Spirit will with the Panwu Realm, transformed through numerous divine forms, and became the embryonic Heavenly Dao.
• Chen Sheng completed Body Integration as the Supreme Chen Saint Heavenly King, gaining command of the Panwu Realm’s Myriad Daos, vast vital energy, and thought-incarnations capable of rebuilding his true body.
• Chen Sheng reviewed the perfected Panwu Sky-Opening Profound Technique and concluded that the Myriad Lives Tome and Indestructible True Spirit would let him avoid the cycle of rebirth.
• Chen Sheng recalled that Body Integration progressed through formation, abiding, decay, and emptiness, granting up to five million years of lifespan before advancement to Calamity Crossing Dao Lord.

Lu Jun refined the Heaven and Earth Fruit Position while Lu Yuan warned him not to provoke Qiongtian Saint or the Qiongtian Imperial Palace. In the Panwu Realm, Chen Sheng perfected his Heavenly Heart Mark and set out for the True Martial Realm to take Golden Saint and the others away.

• Lu Jun asked Lu Yuan to arrange for Lu Chu to be born soon, and the Demon Ancestor Bell rang as the unborn Golden Crow responded.
• Lu Jun proposed clearing the Qiongtian Imperial Palace’s influence before he left, but Lu Yuan refused to risk offending Qiongtian Saint and said Lu Chu should handle the challenge himself.
• Lu Yuan reflected that Lu Jun had cultivated ties with the Qiongtian Imperial Palace for his own advantage, but he chose not to expose his intentions.
• Chen Sheng formed the Heavenly Heart Mark, bringing the Panwu Realm’s Heavenly Dao to perfection and moving him closer to the second step of Integrated Body.
• Chen Sheng decided to retrieve Golden Saint and the others from the True Martial Realm, then return to the Spirit Realm through the Taiyi Realm, and departed through the Chaos void.

Chen Sheng returned to the True Martial Realm, reunited with his followers, and invited them to leave for the Panwu Realm with him. After bringing them into his created world and granting them Sky Opening marks, he unleashed his full aura over the True Martial Realm as he departed, leaving Lu Jun wondering whether he could still become a Saint.

• Chen Sheng surveyed the True Martial Realm, greeted Lu Yuan, and discussed the Dao with him.
• Chen Sheng met Golden Saint, Yuanji, Yuanba, Li Changkong, and the others at the Qiongtian Imperial Palace and asked them to leave the realm with him.
• Golden Saint and the others agreed, and Chen Sheng transported them into the Panwu Realm he had created.
• Chen Sheng granted his followers Sky Opening marks to help them harmonize with the Panwu Realm’s Dao laws.
• Chen Sheng released his full aura over the True Martial Realm as he prepared to depart, astonishing its powerful beings.
• Lu Jun sensed Chen Sheng’s overwhelming presence and questioned whether he still had a chance to become a Saint.

Chen Sheng crossed from the Taiyi Realm into the Spirit Realm and returned to Cloud Province after nearly three hundred thousand years away. He learned that most of his old acquaintances had died and that Master Hong Jue still lived, so he set out with thoughts of visiting him.

• Chen Sheng arrived above Fulong Holy City, recalled his past defeat by Fulong Great Sage, and tore through the Great Thousand barrier to reach the Spirit Realm.
• Fulong Great Sage sensed the barrier breach and wondered which unfamiliar fellow Daoist had crossed into the Spirit Realm.
• Chen Sheng entered Cloud Province and recognized its ancient city and the Great Celestial Star-Dipper Radiant Light Immortal Formation.
• Chen Sheng visited Heaven's Will Tower and questioned its middle-stage Void Refining master about changes in the Three Extremes Domain.
• Chen Sheng learned that most of his old acquaintances had died and that Master Hong Jue remained alive as a Body Integration realm cultivator and master of Yunlu Dao Palace.

Chen Sheng, now known as Panwu Daoist, arrived at Yunlu Dao Palace after Master Hong Jue taught Qin Guan and Zhang Che the Way of Annihilation. Master Hong Jue welcomed his former disciple, and Chen Sheng recognized that his master had reached the second step of Integrated Body.

• Master Hong Jue taught Qin Guan and Zhang Che the mysteries of the Way of Annihilation in a vision of the star-filled cosmos.
• Panwu Daoist announced his visit to Yunlu Dao Palace, and his overwhelming will shook the palace and its Guardian Array.
• Chen Sheng remembered his past as Miesheng Daoist and entered through the Seven-Star Yaoguang Immortal-Slaying Array at Master Hong Jue's invitation.
• Qin Guan and Zhang Che bowed to Panwu Daoist, whose presence suppressed their Dao Charm; Chen Sheng sensed a distant bloodline kinship with Zhang Che.
• Chen Sheng recognized Master Hong Jue as his former master and realized that he had entered the second step of Integrated Body.