Chapter Summaries

Luo Hong gave Yan Jing the Demon Subduing Pestle in exchange for looking after the Myriad Sword Sect, then sent Qi Shanshan, Hou Jin, and Qin Li back with pills and promises of future rewards. Meanwhile, Yan Jing returned to Jade Heavens Sect and announced that the Buddha's Child from Southern Sky had arrived.

• Luo Hong reasoned that the Pure Land Sect was implicated in the attacks and offered Yan Jing the Demon Subduing Pestle to secure his protection for the Myriad Sword Sect.
• Qi Shanshan, Hou Jin, and Qin Li thanked Luo Hong for securing their release, and he told them to return to the sect after recovering and seek their promised rewards at Foundation Establishment.
• Luo Hong left the three disciples pills and flew with Ying Ming toward the Pure Land Sect's territory, explaining that he had prepared tailored rewards for the disciples' future cultivation breakthroughs.
• Yan Jing returned to Jade Heavens Sect's headquarters and asked to see the Living Buddha, but the Great Elder calmed him before asking what had made him so eager.
• Yan Jing told the Great Elder that the Buddha's Child from Southern Sky had arrived.

Luo Hong investigated a great city in Pure Land Sect territory and discovered that the sect secretly engineered suffering among mortals to harvest their wish power. Enraged by the revelation, he appeared above the central temple and challenged the monks.

• Luo Hong and Ying Ming reached a great mortal city, where Luo Hong suspected the Pure Land Sect controlled the population for its own benefit.
• Luo Hong concealed his aura and surveyed the city, witnessing monks treat injuries and illness, take in an orphan, and recruit young women.
• Luo Hong uncovered how the sect had caused the fire and plague, arranged a couple's murder, and used medicine as a pretext to take women away.
• Luo Hong concluded that the Pure Land Sect had been exploiting mortals and draining their wish power for generations, leaving him furious.
• Luo Hong released his late-stage Nascent Soul Spiritual Pressure, appeared above the temple, and announced that the monks would take a palm strike from him.

Luo Hong attacked the Pure Land Sect’s temple and broke its Six Doors Vajra Formation after gaining an insight into the demon bird’s claw. He left the surviving pale-faced monk trapped in the Teleportation Hall, declaring that he would eliminate evil after seeing the city’s suffering.

• Luo Hong struck the temple’s defensive formation with the Rakshasa Ghost Hand while using the Black Wind Banner to contain the battle’s destruction.
• The pale-faced monk strengthened the barrier with wish power, but Luo Hong gained an insight from the sealing chains and reshaped his attack into a claw that shattered the formation.
• The formation’s backlash fatally injured the ugly martial monk, who sent the pale-faced monk away before destroying his Nascent Soul in an attempt at rebirth.
• The pale-faced monk tried to escape through the Teleportation Hall, but a spatial restriction stopped the teleportation array and destroyed the countermeasure formation.
• Luo Hong appeared above the ruined platform and told the pale-faced monk that he intended to eliminate evil after witnessing the city’s suffering.

Luo Hong confronted the Pure Land Sect over its exploitation of mortals and the women kept in its Consort Ming Palace, then killed the Buddhist cultivators in the Teleportation Hall. He abandoned his quieter plan and declared his intention to destroy the Pure Land Sect, while Ying Ming offered to help the women.

• Luo Hong accused the Buddhist cultivators of abusing mortals and exposed the weakened women in the Consort Ming Palace.
• The Pale-faced Monk defended the Pure Land Sect’s practices and condemned Luo Hong for killing his Senior Brother.
• Luo Hong crushed the Core Formation Buddhist cultivators and left the Pale-faced Monk mortally wounded.
• Luo Hong told Ying Ming that he now intended to destroy the Pure Land Sect rather than merely make it retreat from the Myriad Sword Sect.
• Ying Ming offered to help the women, but Luo Hong did not accept her offer.

Luo Hong gained the Startling Thunder Immortal Body Technique during cultivation, while Yan Jing and a Deity Transformation-stage Buddhist expert tracked his departure and headed for the Pure Land Sect. The chapter left Luo Hong unaware of the danger as Ying Ming pressed him to reveal what else he had gained from his enlightenment.

• Luo Hong left Ying Ming and flew away after explaining that the Jade Heavens Sect would expand into the Pure Land Sect's territory.
• Yan Jing and a little monk used a dark yellow stone to replay the scene at the Immortal Welcome Pavilion and locate Luo Hong and Ying Ming's departure.
• The little monk and Yan Jing disappeared, setting out for the Pure Land Sect while Qi Shanshan and Hou Jin worried about what they had revealed.
• Luo Hong meditated in a stone cave and comprehended the Startling Thunder Immortal Body Technique, which boosted physical strength with Thunder Art and might build resistance to lightning tribulations.
• Ying Ming demanded to know what else Luo Hong had gained from enlightenment, and he reacted with surprise that she suspected there was more.

After comprehending a trace of the Law of Strength, Luo Hong realized he might use it to counter the Seed of the Heavenly Demon and save himself. He set aside the demonic cultivation contest and began planning how to destroy the Pure Land Sect, whose secret scheme involved collecting Wish Power through Mituo Bowls.

• Ying Ming envied Luo Hong after he confirmed that he had comprehended a trace of the Law of Strength.
• Luo Hong decided to cultivate the Law of Strength after reaching the Divine Transformation realm because it let him touch the Seed of the Heavenly Demon with his Nascent Soul.
• Luo Hong refused to rush into attacking the Pure Land Sect and examined nine Sarira and a Mituo Bowl filled with solidified Wish Power.
• Luo Hong deduced that the Pure Land Sect had used Mituo Bowls to conceal its large-scale collection of Wish Power and avoid detection by other Buddhist Sects.
• Luo Hong concluded that the Pure Land Sect's scheme was stalled between its second and third steps because gathering the hidden Mituo Bowls would risk exposing the sect.

The Pure Land Sect’s elders reacted to the destruction of the Luojin City branch temple and sent Bi Yuan to hunt Luo Hong. Luo Hong predicted their response and planned to ambush the pursuers to learn the sect’s final objective, wary that its promised enlightenment might conceal a trap.

• Bi Xiu learned that the Luojin City branch temple had been destroyed, its secret vault robbed, and the Mituo Bowl exposed, while the attacker was identified only as a Nascent Soul Late-stage cultivator named Luo.
• Bi Xiu and the elders realized Luo might be connected to the Myriad Sword Sect and feared that his attacks could draw the other Buddhist sects’ attention to their century-long plan.
• Bi Xiu ordered Bi Yuan to gather Nascent Soul Elders near Luojin City and suppress Luo, and another elder lent Bi Yuan a damaged Five-Colored Small Mountain treasure.
• Luo Hong explained to Ying Ming that the Pure Land Sect would send a senior figure who knew of its plan to oversee the pursuit, since its local monks might otherwise avoid confronting him.
• Luo Hong said he intended to ambush the pursuers to discover the plan’s final objective, because he suspected the promised enlightenment might be a Heavenly Dao trap.

Luo Hong headed west to uncover the Pure Land Sect’s hidden plans, while the Little Living Buddha and Yan Jing investigated his motives after finding Luojin City’s temple destroyed. Three days later, Luo Hong attacked the formation over Liujin City, drawing Bi Yuan and the Pure Land Sect Elders into action.

• Luo Hong suspected that his sudden enlightenment was tied to the Pure Land Sect’s secret plot or a trap laid by Heavenly Dao, then told Ying Ming they would head west.
• The Little Living Buddha and Yan Jing arrived in Luojin City, where Yan Jing suspected Luo Hong had destroyed the temple and killed Buddhist cultivators.
• The Little Living Buddha ordered Yan Jing to have the sect investigate Guangnan Prefecture instead of continuing the pursuit, curious to see how far Luo Hong would go.
• Bi Yuan struggled to make the Pure Land Sect Elders take the search for Luo Hong seriously until a report came that he was attacking Liujin City’s formation.
• Bi Yuan ordered the Nascent Soul Elders to gather at the Teleportation Hall, while Luo Hong smashed Liujin City’s barrier and inflicted heavy casualties on the temple’s disciples.

Luo Hong continued west through Pure Land Sect territory, destroying its branch temples to provoke the sect into confronting him. Bi Yuan realized Luo Hong was advancing toward the Holy Mountain, while Yan Jing and the little monk followed in secret, hoping to save him.

• Luo Hong and Ying Ming left the ruined Liujin City temple and continued west, while Bi Yuan and the other Pure Land Sect elders arrived to find the temple looted and destroyed.
• Bi Yuan learned that Suijin City was under attack and used a golden map to recognize Luo Hong’s route toward the Pure Land Sect’s Holy Mountain.
• Bi Yuan sent a warning to the Holy Mountain and ordered the elders to prepare to pursue Luo Hong through the Liujin City Teleportation Array.
• Yan Jing questioned the little monk about allowing Luo Hong to attack the Pure Land Sect, and the little monk declared that the sect should have been destroyed long ago.
• Yan Jing resolved to support Luo Hong, and the little monk agreed to follow him secretly and do everything possible to save his life.
• Luo Hong sensed that the feeling of being watched had suddenly disappeared as he flew west with Ying Ming.

Luo Hong let the Pure Land Sect’s Nascent Soul Elders trap him in the Twenty-Four Heavenly Dragon Great Formation, but he shattered their restrictions and remained untouched by its escalating flames. The chapter ended with Bi Yuan and the Elders pouring more magic power into the formation while Luo Hong’s aura showed no change.

• Ying Ming discussed the hidden Deity Transformation Cultivator watching Luo Hong, while Luo Hong continued westward toward the approaching ambush.
• Bi Yuan and the Pure Land Sect Elders used a beast-hide scroll to summon the Twenty-Four Heavenly Dragon Great Formation above Yuejin City.
• Luo Hong recognized the ancient formation’s limits but flew into it with the Foundation Establishment female cultivator beside him.
• The Elders trapped Luo Hong in a giant Three-legged Cauldron and imposed more than twenty Buddhist Restrictions on him.
• Luo Hong tore apart the restrictions with a layer of seven-colored light, and four Golden Dragon Heads unleashed flames inside the cauldron.
• Bi Yuan ordered the Elders to keep powering the formation as its flames intensified, but Luo Hong and the female cultivator’s auras remained unchanged.

Luo Hong endured the Pure Land Sect elders’ Heavenly Dragon True Flame formation and countered their final attack with the Black Crow True Flame. After the Black Crow swallowed the yellow dragon, nearly all the elders died, while Luo Hong spared Bi Yuan.

• Luo Hong revealed that he and Ying Ming were protected by the Black Crow True Flame as it began draining the formation’s power.
• Bi Yuan refused to withdraw the formation and ordered the elders to release their Nascent Souls, combining their divine sense and Wish Power into a yellow Heavenly Dragon.
• Luo Hong empowered the Black Crow True Flame with fire-element magic power and sent its three-legged form to fight the dragon.
• The Black Crow True Flame overwhelmed the yellow Heavenly Dragon, and two elders burned to ash as the formation weakened.
• The Black Crow swallowed the broken dragon, killing every Pure Land Sect elder except Bi Yuan, whom Luo Hong deliberately spared.

Luo Hong killed Bi Yuan after searching his memories and learned that someone had escaped. At the Pure Land Sect headquarters, Bi Xiu summoned Fellow Daoist Feng and warned her that Luo Hong was coming to attack their gates.

• Luo Hong rejected Bi Yuan’s attempt to justify the Pure Land Sect and searched his Nascent Soul, finding something that left him astonished.
• A fleeing disciple told a Core Formation Buddhist cultivator that Luo Hong had killed many Pure Land Sect disciples and that a blue escape light had headed west.
• Bi Xiu received news of the disaster and went to the forbidden valley to summon Fellow Daoist Feng.
• Bi Xiu told Fellow Daoist Feng that Luo Hong planned to attack the Pure Land Sect, and she challenged the sect’s ability to deal with him.

Bi Xiu secured Feng’s help to stop Luo Hong by offering the Pure Land Sect’s Deity Transformation Sarira, while the sect gathered its forces at the Holy Mountain. Luo Hong welcomed the gathering, planned to attack the next day, and examined his spoils as Little Gold consumed more Sarira.

• Bi Xiu warned Feng that Luo Hong had defeated Bi Yuan and asked her to stop him, offering the sect’s Deity Transformation Sarira in exchange.
• Feng accepted the Sarira and promised to leave Luo Hong at the Holy Mountain, while Bi Xiu rang the Pure Land Sacred Mountain’s bell eighty-one times to summon the sect’s forces.
• Luo Hong found the branch temples emptied of high-level Buddhist cultivators and told Ying Ming that their withdrawal suited his plan.
• Luo Hong and Ying Ming went to a pool to recover, where Little Gold asked for more Sarira and promptly refined the fresh ones he provided.
• Luo Hong inspected the Twenty-Four Heavenly Dragon Great Formation scroll and a damaged Five-Colored Small Mountain, valuing the scroll’s formation methods and the materials needed to repair the treasure.

Luo Hong identified the Five-Colored Small Mountain’s repair material as Pure World Divine Mud and planned to search the Pure Land Sect for enough to refine the Heavenly Wind Gourd. As Luo Hong and Ying Ming approached the sect, the Living Buddha and Yan Jing watched from hiding, and Luo Hong asked Ying Ming to keep them from interfering.

• Luo Hong recognized the Five-Colored Small Mountain’s repair material as Pure World Divine Mud and realized it could supply a main ingredient for his Heavenly Wind Gourd.
• Luo Hong decided to search the Pure Land Sect for Pure World Divine Mud after defeating it, then spent the night regulating his breath.
• The Living Buddha told Yan Jing that the Pure Land Sect’s Myriad Buddhas Paying Homage to Heaven Great Formation could not be broken in one strike and urged him to wait rather than reveal themselves.
• Luo Hong and Ying Ming arrived near the Pure Land Sacred Mountain, and the Living Buddha sensed Ying Ming’s concealed strength.
• The Living Buddha explained that the formation was only one part of the Pure Land Sect’s foundation, while Luo Hong identified the hidden observers and asked Ying Ming to stop them if they interfered.

Luo Hong discovered that the Pure Land Sect was using its formation to conceal a plan involving gathered Wish Power, then confronted the powerful Ice Phoenix. After he countered her attacks and escape technique, Ice Phoenix grew angry and launched another attack.

• Luo Hong sent Ying Ming to deal with two monks who might become enemies and flew above the Pure Land Sacred Mountain to inspect its formation.
• Luo Hong spotted golden Spirit Particles converging inside the Main Peak and suspected the monks were gathering Wish Power under cover of the formation.
• Ice Phoenix emerged from the mountain, and she and Luo Hong each assessed the other's strength before she attacked with a thousand ice swords.
• Luo Hong formed a sword formation to shatter the ice swords, then sent his Five-Colored Small Mountain crashing toward Ice Phoenix.
• Ice Phoenix split into clones and used her Void Escape Technique, but Luo Hong struck her with the Destruction Dharma Eye and forced her out of hiding.
• Ice Phoenix rejected Luo Hong's warning and sent a white hurricane toward the sword formation protecting him.

Luo Hong fought Ice Phoenix and overcame her spatial and ice-flame abilities with the Water-Fire Eight Trigrams Disc. He bound and captured her, leaving Ice Phoenix fearing for her life.

• Ice Phoenix revealed her true form and attacked Luo Hong with Fengli Ice Flame, while he sent out the Three-legged Black Crow to meet it.
• Ice Phoenix attacked Luo Hong from a Spatial Rift, but his Rakshasa Ghost Claw repelled her strike.
• Luo Hong activated the Water-Fire Eight Trigrams Disc and used its Universe Power to crush Ice Phoenix’s body and prevent her from teleporting away.
• Luo Hong formed the Universe Ring Lock around Ice Phoenix, binding her and sealing her magic power even after she reverted to the White Clad Woman.
• Ice Phoenix threatened Luo Hong and feared he would kill her for her core.

Luo Hong captured Ice Phoenix and prepared to attack the Pure Land Sect’s formation with the Three Tribulation Thundercloud Array. The Pure Land Sect’s cultivators recognized his method but believed the stored lightning would not be strong enough to break their defense.

• Luo Hong reassured Ice Phoenix that he would not kill her, while the Three-legged Black Crow absorbed the weakened Fengli Ice Flame and showed signs of increased intelligence.
• Ying Ming found Yan Jing and the Little Monk and urged them to attack Luo Hong, but they hesitated and questioned why he planned to face the formation alone.
• Luo Hong activated the Three Tribulation Thundercloud Array above the Pure Land Sacred Mountain, forming three enormous phantom formations across the sky.
• Bi Xiu and the Pure Land Sect’s cultivators felt an impending heavenly tribulation and used the Sky Patrol Mirror to inspect Luo Hong’s formation.
• A Buddhist Cultivator identified the array and explained that Luo Hong intended to release lightning stored from a demon beast’s tribulation, but the sect’s cultivators dismissed his chances of breaking their formation.

Luo Hong unleashed the Kunpeng True Thunder sealed within the Three Tribulation Thundercloud Array, breaking the Pure Land Sect’s great formation and devastating its sacred mountain. As the thunder dwindled, the Little Monk sensed a Spirit Transformation Late-stage presence inside the Main Peak, where Luo Hong watched solemnly.

• Bi Xiu ordered the Pure Land Sect to reinforce the Myriad Buddhas Paying Homage to Heaven Great Formation with the Buddha Bone Pagoda’s wish power.
• The Ice Phoenix sensed the azure thunder’s terrifying pressure and realized it suppressed her Heavenly Phoenix Bloodline.
• Luo Hong unsealed the Three Tribulation Thundercloud Array and sent three massive Kunpeng True Thunder bolts crashing into the Pure Land Sect’s barrier.
• The Kunpeng True Thunder shattered the formation and devastated the Pure Land Sect’s mountains, while Ying Ming and Yan Jing watched in amazement.
• The Little Monk sensed a Spirit Transformation Late-stage aura within the Main Peak, and Luo Hong stared solemnly at the revealed spiritual fluctuations.

Bi Xiu sacrificed the Pure Land Sect’s surviving elders to release a powerful Blood Asura, while Ice Phoenix learned the sect had hidden its true strength. Luo Hong prepared to face the Spirit Transformation Late-stage Asura, which emerged from the mountain and charged at him.

• Bi Xiu crushed a blood jade Buddha, causing the Pure Land Sect’s elders to turn into blood water that seeped into the ground.
• Ice Phoenix realized the Pure Land Sect had concealed that its Asura was likely at the Spirit Transformation Late-stage and warned Luo Hong of the danger.
• Luo Hong said he had a treasure that could restrain the Asura, then knocked the struggling Ice Phoenix unconscious.
• The Blood Asura broke out of the mountain, spotted Luo Hong, and charged at him.
• Luo Hong recognized the giant as a weakened Great Strength True Demon.

Luo Hong considered how the Great Strength True Demon’s body escaped the Void Sky Hall and what consciousness might now control the Blood Asura. As the Blood Asura attacked and disrupted teleportation, Luo Hong summoned the Jade Jue’s sealing power to suppress it.

• Luo Hong reviewed three possible explanations for the Great Strength True Demon’s escape: help from the other five demons, a surviving portion of its demonic soul, or a Ghost Cultivator seizing its body.
• Luo Hong faced the charging Blood Asura and questioned who controlled it, while Ice Phoenix recognized that its attacks had created Spatial Turbulence that made teleportation dangerous.
• Luo Hong dismissed the threat to his teleportation and activated the half of the Jade Jue that retained the Void Sky Hall’s restrictions.
• The Jade Jue formed a towering Azure Jade Altar above the Blood Asura and began pressing down on it.