Chapter Summaries

While Fang Chen slept for three years, a mysterious space appeared in the Green Grass Great Array and rapidly drained the Lifespan of anyone who entered it. Fang Chen awoke as the space vanished, learned what had happened, and summoned his Manifestations as he tried to discover whether he had caused it.

• Yun Qianxue and the Black Flame Saint checked the people affected by the Mysterious Space and found that even brief exposure had cost them years of Lifespan.
• The myna bird entered the Mysterious Space, lost at least a hundred years of Lifespan, and warned the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm about its dangerous power.
• After chasing a golden light for three years in the Dream Realm, Fang Chen became a bamboo shoot in a dream, woke when he was about to be fried, and caused the Mysterious Space to vanish.
• The Black Flame Saint told Fang Chen that the space had appeared while he slept and drained the Lifespan of those inside it.
• Fang Chen wondered whether he had created the space and summoned his Six Manifestations, whose energy twisted the surrounding space and spread Great Dao Veins through it.

After three years of seclusion, Fang Chen discovered that the strange space created by his Manifestation was his Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth, a special domain. Black Flame Saint told him about the Ye Family’s new leadership, and Fang Chen left the chapter explaining the domain to Myna bird.

• Fang Chen withdrew his Manifestation and asked Black Flame Saint what had happened during his three-year seclusion.
• Black Flame Saint told Fang Chen that Ye Kong had killed Ye Chen and Ye Mian, and that Ye Hong had later died when the Xuanhuang Pearl backlashed as he sought to become Family Head.
• Black Flame Saint explained that Ye Xing had fused with the Xuanhuang Pearl, become the new Family Head, and abolished the distinction between direct and collateral branches.
• Fang Chen approved of Ye Xing’s reforms and said he hoped the Ye Family would not become an enemy of the Glazed Sword Sect.
• Myna bird asked Fang Chen about the strange space, and Fang Chen identified it as his Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth, or a special domain.

Fang Chen tested his newly comprehended Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth and tried to combine it with his Darkness Devouring God Domain. The domain collapsed, so Myna bird advised him to seek Yue Canglan’s guidance.

• Fang Chen told Uncle-Master Black Flame that the Green Grass Great Array had recovered, and Uncle-Master Black Flame reopened it for Tribulation Transcendence.
• Uncle-Master Black Flame and Yun Qianxue prepared to invite people from other factions to undergo Tribulation Transcendence at the Glazed Sword Sect.
• Fang Chen tested his Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth on a Nine-Tribulation Saint Flood Dragon, but the beast escaped quickly.
• Fang Chen activated his Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth inside the Darkness Devouring God Domain, but the domain collapsed.
• Myna bird suggested Fang Chen ask Yue Canglan, whose Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth had reached its second form, for advice, and Fang Chen agreed to go.

Fang Chen sought Yue Canglan's advice about his unusual Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth. After examining it, Yue Canglan judged it powerful despite its first form and began showing Fang Chen his own.

• Fang Chen visited Yue Canglan and recounted how Ye Kong had turned the tide inside the Xuanhuang Pagoda.
• Fang Chen asked Yue Canglan for advice after revealing that his Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth seemed incomplete and drained Lifespan.
• Fang Chen unleashed his Dharma Image in a Forbidden Ground, and Yue Canglan felt his Lifespan rapidly drain.
• Yue Canglan escaped the Dharma Image and told Fang Chen that it was a powerful, unusual form that could harm enemies by draining their Lifespan.
• Yue Canglan said Fang Chen's Dharma Image might be even more powerful than his own and unleashed it for comparison.

Yue Canglan discovered that Fang Chen’s Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth could instantly collapse his own, then brought Fang Chen to the Chaos Holy Land’s Library Pavilion to study ways of using such powers. Fang Chen, Myna bird, and the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm began studying the manuals, while Yue Canglan went to help Yue Fan comprehend a Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth.

• Yue Canglan asked Fang Chen to unleash his Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth, and Fang Chen’s presence collapsed Yue Canglan’s Chaos Green Lotus.
• Yue Canglan explained that Fang Chen’s Dharma Image could break an opponent’s and said it might gain more abilities as Fang Chen’s Cultivation rose.
• Yue Canglan led Fang Chen into the Chaos Holy Land’s Library Pavilion, where bubbles contained cultivation insights from Quasi-Emperor and Great Emperor experts.
• Fang Chen invited Myna bird and the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm to study the manuals with him, though neither had comprehended a Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth.
• Yue Canglan left for a Secret Realm to help his disciple Yue Fan comprehend a Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth.

Yue Canglan explained to Yue Fan why he had given Fang Chen access to the Chaos Holy Land’s Library Pavilion: the true Great Calamity was still approaching, and Fang Chen might be able to unite the Human Race. He urged Yue Fan to look beyond immediate gains, leaving him to consider the need for unity.

• Yue Canglan told Yue Fan that Fang Chen had comprehended a powerful Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth that could drain Lifespan, and that it had overwhelmed Yue Canglan’s own second-form Dharma Image.
• Yue Fan questioned why Yue Canglan had allowed Fang Chen and his companions into the Library Pavilion, which had previously been reserved for Quasi-Emperors.
• Yue Canglan said the true Great Calamity had not yet arrived and warned that the divided Human Race could be destroyed if it failed to unite.
• Yue Canglan argued that Fang Chen could unite the Barbaric Continent, citing his victories over the Buddhist Kingdom and Ye Family and the Glazed Sword Sect’s Green Grass Great Array.
• Yue Canglan urged Yue Fan to set his sights farther ahead, while reflecting on how the Glazed Sword Sect’s generosity had earned support from other factions and helped them gain Saints.

Fang Chen and his companions finished studying the Glazed Sword Sect’s ancient manuals and sought further guidance on cultivating the Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth. The Realm Master told them the Ninth Secret Realm had no such manuals, leaving them without the additional guidance they had hoped to find.

• Yue Canglan reflected on Fang Chen’s generosity and worried that Yue Fan resented Fang Chen’s growing prominence.
• The Glazed Sword Sect announced that outsiders could pay to use the Green Grass Great Array, drawing excitement from cultivators facing Heavenly Tribulations.
• After three months, Fang Chen, the myna bird, and the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm finished studying the ancient manuals and gained new insights into the Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth.
• Fang Chen and his companions returned to the Glazed Sword Sect, then entered the Ninth Secret Realm to ask the Realm Master for cultivation manuals.
• The Realm Master denied that the Ninth Secret Realm contained any manuals on the Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth, even when the myna bird suggested he might have forgotten them.

Fang Chen left the Ninth Secret Realm with Myna Bird and entered the Chaos Space to cultivate and test how far he could advance. As the two pressed toward the Eleventh-Layer Chaos Barrier, Myna Bird discovered that the growing pressure could break the seal inside her.

• Fang Chen learned from the Realm Master that the Ninth Secret Realm held no Secret Methods for cultivating the Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth, then left with Myna Bird.
• Myna Bird said she planned to cultivate in the Chaos Space with Chi You, and Fang Chen joined her along with the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm and the Chaos Demonic Star Vine.
• Fang Chen and Myna Bird traveled deeper into the Tenth-Layer Chaos Space, while the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm stopped because the pressure had reached its limit.
• Fang Chen and Myna Bird continued toward the Eleventh Layer, hoping to test whether they could reach its Chaos Barrier.
• After three hours, Myna Bird excitedly told Fang Chen that the pressure could break the seal inside her.

Fang Chen and the Myna bird reached the Eleventh Layer of Chaos Space, where the Myna bird’s Seals began to break and Fang Chen tried to cultivate by attacking its Spatial Barrier. Fang Chen deployed his Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth to absorb energy from Chaos Matter and attempted to merge it with the Floating Immortal Sword, but he could not control its size.

• The Myna bird’s Seals began breaking under the pressure, releasing powerful aura and unfamiliar memories as Fang Chen encouraged him to continue.
• Fang Chen and the Myna bird reached the Eleventh-Layer Spatial Barrier, and Fang Chen repeatedly struck it with the Floating Immortal Sword without damaging it.
• Fang Chen told the Myna bird he intended to fuse his Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth with his swordsmanship to create strikes that consumed an enemy’s Lifespan.
• Fang Chen released his Manifestations and formed his Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth, which Chaos Matter suppressed but which absorbed energy and let him extend his Spiritual Sense.
• Fang Chen tried to shrink his Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth and merge it with the Floating Immortal Sword, but he could not control its size.

Fang Chen discovered that practicing swordsmanship with the Floating Immortal Sword inside his Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth strengthened it and restored his Manifestations. After reaching a bottleneck, he continued cultivating until his Soul Perception broke through a limit and revealed countless Dao Patterns.

• Fang Chen’s Floating Immortal Sword absorbed mysterious Dao Patterns as he practiced within his Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth, causing it to grow.
• The Chaos Giant Manifestation appeared when the Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth reached twenty zhang, and the Sun Chasing Giant Manifestation appeared at fifty zhang.
• As the Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth expanded, the Old Farmer Brewing Medicine Phenomenon, Heaven Mending Goddess Manifestation, Sun Shooting Man Manifestation, and Eight Trigrams Array Diagram appeared.
• Fang Chen continued practicing after his Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth stopped growing, aiming to break through its bottleneck.
• A year later, Fang Chen’s Soul Perception broke through a limit, allowing him to see countless Dao Patterns within his Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth.

Fang Chen discovered that the Floating Immortal Sword could absorb mysterious Dao Patterns within his Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth, returning energy that strengthened the sword but could not be absorbed by his body. After a year of sword practice, the energy in his dantian reached its limit, and he sensed a powerful surge from the Chaos Space behind him.

• Fang Chen used the Floating Immortal Sword to draw in snowflake-shaped Dao Patterns, but the energy they returned gathered in his dantian and could not enter his Wheel Sea.
• Fang Chen channeled the mysterious energy into the Floating Immortal Sword and cut a gash in the Chaos Space barrier, which the sword could not break through completely.
• Fang Chen confirmed that the Dao Patterns appeared only inside his Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth and continued practicing swordsmanship to gather their energy.
• After a year, Fang Chen's gray-white energy vortex reached the limit his dantian could hold.
• Fang Chen sensed a powerful surge from the Chaos Space behind him, but Chaos Matter obscured what lay beyond.

Fang Chen demonstrated that his Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth and Swordsmanship had fused, allowing him to cut into the Eleventh Layer of Chaos Space’s barrier. Myna bird revealed that he had recovered his long-lost memory of Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth, while Fang Chen kept the Floating Immortal Sword’s secret hidden.

• Fang Chen found Myna bird surrounded by a hazy space and learned that Myna bird had recovered memories of Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth sealed within him.
• Myna bird explained that striking the Chaos Space barrier over the past two years had broken down his Seal and restored his memories.
• Fang Chen showed Myna bird that he could cut a deep gash into the Eleventh Layer barrier, which quickly healed after the Floating Immortal Sword absorbed the fallen Dao Patterns.
• Myna bird suggested that Fang Chen had fused his Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth with his Swordsmanship, and Fang Chen realized the mysterious energy had enabled his rapid improvement.
• Fang Chen showed Myna bird the gray-white energy but concealed that the Floating Immortal Sword had absorbed the mysterious Dao Patterns to create it.

Fang Chen tested his mysterious power on Huahua and discovered that his sword strike drained Lifespan, confirming that he had fused his Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth with his Swordsmanship. He named the image Twilight of the Gods and the energy within him Twilight Power.

• Fang Chen explained to Huahua that the mysterious Dao Patterns were not Immortal Spirit Power, then offered to test his sword against the Seal inside Huahua.
• Fang Chen struck Huahua with the Floating Immortal Sword, and Huahua was sent flying and lost at least a hundred years of Lifespan.
• Fang Chen realized that the mysterious energy in his dantian let his sword drain his opponents' Lifespan, and he celebrated having fused his Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth with his Swordsmanship.
• Huahua asked Fang Chen to name his Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth, and Fang Chen named it Twilight of the Gods.
• Fang Chen named the mysterious power inside him Twilight Power.

Fang Chen tested the myna bird’s Black Sky White Ground Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth, then countered it with his own. They were interrupted by the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm’s return to its true form, where it revealed its own Dharma Image.

• The myna bird showed Fang Chen how Black Sky White Ground crushed, corroded, and twisted anything trapped inside it.
• Fang Chen unleashed his Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth, instantly collapsing the myna bird’s image, though the myna bird escaped easily.
• The myna bird explained that Fang Chen’s Dharma Image hurt attackers and destroyed other Dharma Images, easing Fang Chen’s disappointment.
• Fang Chen and the myna bird sensed a powerful energy fluctuation and rushed toward its source.
• They found the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm in its true form, surrounded by red threads across a vast space that Fang Chen recognized as its Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth.

The Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm consolidated his newly comprehended Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth and demonstrated its suppressive power and razor-sharp, devouring threads to Fang Chen and the myna bird. Fang Chen praised its ability to trap most Quasi-Emperors, and the myna bird asked whether Chi You had named it.

• The Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm completed a month of consolidating his Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth, returned to human form, and greeted Fang Chen as his master.
• The Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm explained that his Dharma Image could suppress and devour, while its sharp, resilient threads sliced through anything that moved inside.
• The Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm opened his Dharma Image around Fang Chen and the myna bird, and its threads cut Fang Chen's finger and severed one of the myna bird's feathers.
• Fang Chen used the Glazed Battle Runes to withstand a thread, then snapped one with his strength, while the myna bird's Black Flame-covered wing struck another without breaking it.
• Fang Chen said the Dharma Image could trap most Quasi-Emperors and might grow stronger with cultivation, and the myna bird asked whether Chi You had named it.

Fang Chen continued cultivating in the Chaos Space, growing stronger while trying to approach the Great Emperor Realm. After a year, the Black Flame Saint contacted him with news that something terrible had happened.

• The Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm named his Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth Threads of Heaven and continued cultivating in the Tenth-Layer Chaos Space.
• Fang Chen and the myna bird attacked the barrier to the Eleventh Layer while Fang Chen strengthened his Soul Perception and absorbed the Meteorite’s energy.
• Fang Chen absorbed the Source Power of Emperors from three Beads, but he still did not reach the threshold of the Great Emperor Realm.
• Fang Chen spent another year cultivating and striking the Chaos Space barrier before the Black Flame Saint contacted him through the Spirit Sword Talisman with an urgent warning.

Fang Chen returned from the Tenth Layer Chaos Space after learning that powerful, unkillable lifeforms were ravaging the Buddhist Land. He arrived in Heavenly Buddha City with Ye Kong and Ye Qingci, where a surge of Faith Power transformed him and left Ye Qingci wondering if he truly was the Reincarnated Buddha.

• Fang Chen woke Little Crane, stopped Huahua from battering the Chaos Space barriers, and gathered the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm and Chaos Demonic Star Vine to leave.
• Uncle-Master Black Flame told Fang Chen that the Three Burials Buddha Emperor had reported unkillable lifeforms sweeping through the Buddhist Land after the Boundless Buddhist Sea receded.
• Fang Chen and the myna bird suspected the lifeforms might belong to the Undying Race, and Fang Chen learned the sect's Teleportation Array could take them to Heavenly Buddha City.
• Fang Chen, Ye Kong, and Ye Qingci traveled through the array to Heavenly Buddha City, where Faith Power flooded into Fang Chen and caused his body and soul to undergo a rapid Metamorphosis.
• Ye Qingci asked Fang Chen whether he was really the Reincarnated Buddha after golden light and Righteous Vital Energy poured from him.

Fang Chen and the Three Burials Buddha Emperor investigated evil creatures that had emerged from a meteorite crater in the Cloud Barren Sand Sea. Fang Chen discovered the creatures feared Buddha Light, but their origin remained uncertain.

• The Three Burials Buddha Emperor told Fang Chen that the Heavenly Buddha Mirror was suppressing creatures in the Cloud Barren Sand Sea, though its power was running low.
• Fang Chen learned the creatures had emerged from an old meteorite crater and traveled with the Three Burials Buddha Emperor to investigate.
• Fang Chen left Ye Kong and Ye Qingci outside the Heavenly Buddha Mirror's Golden Light and entered the Cloud Barren Sand Sea with the Three Burials Buddha Emperor and his companions.
• Fang Chen saw gray-misted lizardlike creatures that feared the Buddha Light surrounding the mirror.
• Fang Chen recited the Myriad Buddhas War Scripture, and the Evil Creatures recoiled in pain from his brighter Buddha Light.

Fang Chen and his companions pushed deeper into the Cloud Barren Sand Sea, where he discovered that a mysterious force escaped his Darkness Devouring God Domain and might explain the Evil Creatures’ endless revivals. At the Meteorite crater, Fang Chen sent the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm underground to investigate and asked Myna bird to capture an Evil Creature for questioning.

• The Three Burials Buddha Emperor chanted the Myriad Buddhas War Scripture with Fang Chen as they advanced through the Cloud Barren Sand Sea.
• Fang Chen used his Darkness Devouring God Domain to drain the attacking Evil Creatures, but sensed a mysterious force escape as their bodies turned to ash.
• Fang Chen concluded that the escaping force might let the Evil Creatures revive and hurried deeper into the Cloud Barren Sand Sea despite their increasingly strong attacks.
• Fang Chen's group reached the Meteorite crater, where Saint Realm Evil Creatures and dense gray mist obscured the area.
• Fang Chen sent the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm underground to investigate and told Myna bird to catch an Evil Creature for questioning.

Fang Chen and the myna bird discovered that the Evil Creatures could revive after being killed, but each revival weakened them. After Chi You found a Barrier beneath the Sand Sea, Fang Chen went down to investigate it with the myna bird and the Three Burials Buddha Emperor.

• The myna bird tried to capture and search the souls of the Evil Creatures, but they repeatedly exploded, even after a Drunken Immortal Pill knocked one unconscious.
• Several Evil Creatures emerged from the sand where one had died, but Fang Chen's Buddha Light burned them into gray mist.
• Fang Chen concluded that the Evil Creatures' revivals likely depended on a Formation or treasure, and that repeated deaths weakened them.
• Fang Chen and the myna bird waited for Chi You to report back while the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm gnawed through the rock beneath the Sand Sea.
• Chi You reached a powerful Barrier that he could not break through and summoned Fang Chen.
• Fang Chen took the myna bird and the Three Burials Buddha Emperor down the tunnel to inspect the Barrier.