Chapter Summaries

Sect Master Tongtian used the Wordless Dao Canon to kill Buddha Juliusun, whose death triggered signs of a saint’s fall across the Primordial World. Grand Supreme Elder Lord and Lord of the Beginning reacted to the news, while the identity of Juliusun’s killer remained unclear to those unable to divine it.

• Sect Master Tongtian swallowed the Wordless Dao Canons and used their blood-red characters to destroy Juliusun’s defenses and annihilate his body, primordial spirit, and true spirit.
• Heaven and Earth mourned Juliusun’s death with funeral bells and scarlet rain, prompting speculation throughout the Primordial World about which saint had fallen.
• True Person Xuandu and True Person Du'e divined that Juliusun had died, and Grand Supreme Elder Lord failed to identify the killer, suspecting that powerful figures had concealed the heavenly secrets.
• Grand Supreme Elder Lord lamented that the five hundred years of peace had ended and considered withdrawing from the world.
• Lord of the Beginning watched the blood rain at Yuxu Palace and reflected that many of the Chan Sect’s core disciples, including Juliusun, had joined the Western Teachings.

After Juliusun’s death, Amitabha Buddha sought to identify and punish his killer, while Sakyamuni Buddha revealed that Juliusun had provoked the conflict by pursuing Tianqiong into the Human Realm. The chapter ended with Amitabha Buddha attacking Sakyamuni in Sumeru Palace.

• Lord of the Beginning accepted Juliusun’s death as karmic retribution, and the Chan Sect’s core disciples left Yuxu Palace.
• Amitabha Buddha learned that Juliusun had fallen and resolved to find and punish the killer, while Guanyin Bodhisattva and the others failed to identify the culprit.
• Amitabha Buddha named Ji Man as Juliusun’s killer and linked him to the Human Emperor Di Xin and the Chan Sect.
• Sakyamuni Buddha arrived with the Nineteen Heavens and revealed Juliusun’s past conflict with Tianqiong, warning that the Western Teachings should not risk war against Di Xin, Sect Master Tongtian, and Niangniang Nuwa.
• Amitabha Buddha accused Sakyamuni Buddha of siding with the Interception Sect, and Sakyamuni answered with a taunt about Bodhi before Amitabha struck at him with a massive palm seal.

In Zixiao Palace, Dao Ancestor Hongjun revealed to Haotian that he was Father God Pangu and explained how he had been reborn as a Sage. Hongjun also disclosed that he had found Pangu’s head, which held Haotian’s lost memories, profound arts, and Origin Power, while Amitabha Buddha and Sakyamuni Buddha clashed at Spirit Mountain.

• Dao Ancestor Hongjun told the White-Clad True Man and the Black-Clad True Man that Ji Man had killed Juliusun and identified Ji Man as Sect Master Tongtian’s incarnation.
• The two True Men vowed to eliminate Sect Master Tongtian, and Dao Ancestor Hongjun let them leave while explaining to Haotian that they underestimated the Primordial World.
• Haotian thanked Dao Ancestor Hongjun for restoring him, and Hongjun revealed that Haotian was Father God Pangu while Hongjun had originated from outside the Great Dao Domain.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun explained that Pangu had sacrificed himself to shield Hongjun and that Hongjun had reconstructed Haotian, then revealed he had found Pangu’s head containing Haotian’s memories, profound arts, and Origin Power.
• At Spirit Mountain, Amitabha Buddha attacked Sakyamuni Buddha, who dispelled the hand seal and warned Amitabha Buddha before Amitabha prepared to attack again.

Randeng the Ancient Buddha stopped Amitabha Buddha from escalating the Western Teachings’ conflict over Juliusun’s death. Tongtian took Xiao Zan as his personal disciple, then confronted Manjushri, whose attack on the soldiers prompted Tongtian to unleash the Wordless Dao Canon.

• Randeng the Ancient Buddha calmed Amitabha Buddha, and Sakyamuni Buddha condemned Amitabha’s actions for endangering the Western Teachings.
• Tongtian found that Xiao Zan had protected the Eastern Palace Guard and accepted Xiao Zan as his personal disciple.
• Tongtian warned Xiao Zan that discipleship was dangerous, and Xiao Zan vowed loyalty to Ji Man and the Interception Sect.
• Manjushri Dharma Heavenly Lord appeared in Tongtian’s tent and tried to crush Xiao Zan with his Sage pressure, but Tongtian’s Magic Incantation protected him.
• Manjushri targeted the eight thousand Eastern Palace Guards and foreign warriors, so Tongtian activated the Wordless Dao Canon and attacked him.

Ji Man killed Manjushri with a single strike, and the Primordial World believed the Western Teachings had renewed their conflict with Sect Master Tongtian. Lord of the Beginning and Amitabha Buddha wondered about Ji Man’s power and its mysterious magic treasure as the story left Amitabha preparing to face the threat.

• Ji Man beheaded Manjushri, killing him before he could escape, and blood rain and funeral bells marked the Sage’s death.
• Cultivators across the Primordial World blamed the Western Teachings’ losses on a renewed conflict with Sect Master Tongtian and debated whether his faction had truly declined.
• Lord of the Beginning watched Ji Man and discussed with Naji Xianweng the absence of tribulation lightning when Naji entered the Heavenly Dao Realm; both admitted they could not understand Tongtian’s plans.
• Grand Supreme Elder Lord and his disciples suspected Ji Man had used a powerful magic treasure, which Grand Supreme Elder Lord compared to the lost Wordless Dao Canon.
• Amitabha Buddha told Guanyin Bodhisattva that Ji Man’s weapon was a magic treasure he could not identify, then resolved that his new status as Buddha Lord meant he need not fear Tongtian.

Tongtian used the Wordless Dao Canon and his true self’s power to kill Guanyin Bodhisattva, Amitabha Buddha, and the Western Teachings’ forces attacking the grassland. The purple hand merged into His Highness the Crown Prince, raising his cultivation to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, and he absorbed the fallen enemies’ corpses into the Wordless Dao Canon.

• Guanyin Bodhisattva’s pressure crushed the mortals until Tongtian used the Wordless Dao Canon to protect them and strike her down.
• Amitabha Buddha attacked Tongtian, prompting Tongtian to summon his true self, whose purple hand destroyed Amitabha Buddha’s Dharma Manifestation and countless incarnations.
• Tongtian’s purple hand killed Puxian Bodhisattva, the arhats, and the ascetics, then destroyed Amitabha Buddha as he tried to unleash supreme Buddhist flame.
• The purple hand merged into His Highness the Crown Prince, raising his cultivation from the immortal realm to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• His Highness the Crown Prince opened the Wordless Dao Canon and used a blood-red rainbow to swallow the headless corpses.

His Highness the Crown Prince traded the Western Teachings' true spirits back to Sakyamuni Buddha for ninety-nine Bodhi Fruits, then continued his journey to the Northern Wilderness. He arrived at his vast fief with the Eastern Palace Guard and let Xiao Zan choose a place to settle.

• His Highness the Crown Prince devoured the corpses and primordial spirits of the Western Teachings' fallen saints, Dao Lord, Arhats, and practitioners.
• Sakyamuni Buddha offered ninety-nine Bodhi Fruits in exchange for the Western Teachings' true spirits, and His Highness the Crown Prince accepted the trade.
• His Highness the Crown Prince returned the true spirits to Sakyamuni Buddha and stored the Bodhi Fruits in his Violet Palace.
• His Highness the Crown Prince led the Eastern Palace Guard through dozens of battles over half a month and reached the Northern Wilderness.
• His Highness the Crown Prince told Xiao Zan to choose any place in the Northern Wilderness he wanted.

Over nearly seven years, Ji Man trained Xiao Zan and the Eastern Palace Guards while they built Northern Nether City from the bones of abyssal beasts. Xiao Zan crossed his tribulation and attained the Great Perfection Dao Fruit after Tongtian stopped the Heavenly Dao’s attack, while observers across the Primordial World mistakenly thought Ji Man had become a Saint.

• Ji Man granted Xiao Zan a hereditary fiefdom in the northern wilderness, where Xiao Zan named the fortress city Northern Nether City.
• Ji Man trained Xiao Zan and the seven thousand Eastern Palace Guards for nearly seven years as they fought ferocious creatures from the Bottomless Abyss.
• Xiao Zan began his tribulation atop the White Bone Tower, and the Eye of the Heavenly Dao turned into the Eye of Heavenly Punishment and attacked him.
• Xiao Zan absorbed 108 bolts of tribulation lightning, but the Heavenly Dao continued its attack, so Tongtian protected him with formations and flicked away the punishment vortex with a purple hand.
• Xiao Zan attained the Great Perfection Dao Fruit, while people across the Primordial World mistakenly identified Ji Man as the person who had crossed the tribulation.
• Grand Supreme Elder Lord watched the signs of Xiao Zan’s Sainthood at Eight Views Palace, where True Person Xuandu and True Person Du'e remained away at Guixu.

After Xiao Zan attained sainthood, he chose to travel to Guixu to seek a way out of the Primordial World as major figures from several sects prepared to explore it. Tongtian entered the Bottomless Abyss, and seven years later Xiao Zan and the other Guixu expedition members had not returned because the entrance had closed.

• Lord of the Beginning realized that the Primordial World's shrinking resources and living space, rather than Tongtian, were the true threat, as Chan Sect members departed for Guixu.
• Sakyamuni Buddha led the lords of the Nineteen Heavens to Guixu, while Amitabha Buddha and the others remained to oversee the Western Teachings.
• Zhen Yuan harvested 108 ripe Ginseng Fruits and left Wuzhuang Temple for Guixu in the Eastern Sea.
• Xiao Zan thanked Tongtian for helping him attain sainthood, then set out for Guixu to seek a way out for everyone.
• Tongtian led seven thousand Eastern Palace Guards into the Bottomless Abyss and emerged seven years later.
• Xiao Zan and all the others who had entered Guixu remained missing after its entrance closed, leaving everyone to wait for it to reopen.

After returning to Haojing, Tongtian rescued Queen Mother Fang and Sheng Ji from a palace rebellion and punished the rebels. He then began his Saint tribulation, devouring the Heavenly Dao’s attacks before the Eye of Heavenly Punishment unleashed Great Dao Tribulation Lightning.

• Tongtian’s seven thousand Eastern Palace Guards reached the Quasi-Saint level while stationed in the Bottomless Abyss, and he stayed away from Haojing for seven years.
• Rebels led by several illegitimate princes attacked Queen Mother Fang and Sheng Ji, while the female guards tried to protect them.
• Tongtian returned, rescued Queen Mother Fang and Sheng Ji, killed the rebels, and had their nine clans implicated in the punishment.
• Seven days later, Tongtian began his Saint tribulation outside Haojing, cutting through the blood-red tribulation bolts with a black longsword.
• Tongtian devoured the tribulation lightning and Light of Heavenly Punishment until the Eye of Heavenly Punishment fired a bolt of Great Dao Tribulation Lightning.

Ji Man overcame the Great Dao tribulation, established the Slaughter Dao, and attained a Great Perfection Dao Fruit. Tongtian later saved his dying father, King Zhou Zhao, helped him defeat the Quanrong, and returned to Haojing to cultivate in seclusion.

• Ji Man destroyed the Great Dao's eye, endured the tribulation lightning, and became the master of the Slaughter Dao with the strength of a Seventh Layer Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
• Yun Zhongzi handed control of Chan Sect affairs to Yang Jian and Lei Zhenzi while the sect leaders remained trapped in Guixu.
• Amitabha Buddha rejected an immediate attack on other sects, but allowed Juliusun and Guanyin to continue their schemes.
• Tongtian gave King Zhou Zhao a spirit pill that restored him and taught him cultivation techniques and Arcane Arts.
• Tongtian led the troops against the Quanrong and destroyed their forces in less than seven days, after which King Zhou Zhao continued campaigning.
• Tongtian returned to Haojing with Queen Mother Fang and Sheng Ji and entered secluded cultivation after finding no way into Guixu.

After King Zhou Zhao died with his primordial spirit missing, Tongtian took command of the Great Zhou army and conquered the Jingchu region, then chose to march on Western Kunlun. He reached Kunlun City with a strengthened army and met its ruler, Queen Mother Wan Jin.

• Tongtian returned to Haojing after sensing something was wrong and learned that King Zhou Zhao had died with his primordial spirit missing.
• Queen Mother Fang arranged for the Crown Prince to inherit the throne as King Zhou Mu, also called Mu Tianzi.
• Tongtian trained the Great Zhou army, defeated the enemy in Jingchu, and entered the Killing Dao Realm after passing his tribulation.
• Tongtian chose the system's Western Kunlun mission and set out with his army, which grew to two hundred thousand as it swept westward.
• Three years later, Tongtian reached Kunlun City, where Ji Man introduced himself and asked whether the woman before him was Queen Mother Wan Jin.

Sect Master Tongtian, disguised as King Mu, gave Queen Mother of the West a thousand spirit elixirs in exchange for access to the Jade Pool, seeking traces of King Zhou Zhao’s missing primordial spirit. After Queen Mother of the West taught him the pool’s secret art, Tongtian used King Zhou Zhao’s hair to reveal scenes from the past.

• Sect Master Tongtian told Queen Mother of the West that King Zhou Zhao had vanished on the Jingchu battlefield and offered a thousand spirit elixirs to use the Jade Pool.
• Queen Mother of the West accepted the elixirs and offered ten thousand jin of Ancient Profound Ice, which Tongtian agreed to leave in Western Kunlun for up to a thousand years.
• Tongtian left his army camp outside Kunlun City and went with Queen Mother of the West to the Jade Pool.
• Tongtian entered the intact protective array without difficulty, shocking Queen Mother of the West with his power.
• Queen Mother of the West taught Tongtian the Jade Pool’s secret art, and he used King Zhou Zhao’s hair to summon scenes from the past.

Sect Master Tongtian used the Jade Pool to witness Demon Ancestor Luohu seize King Zhou Zhao’s primordial spirit, but the images ended before revealing Luohu’s purpose. Tongtian warned the Queen Mother of the West that the Primordial World faced destruction and explained that his true self had sought another path for its living beings.

• Sect Master Tongtian watched the Jade Pool replay the night King Zhou Zhao met with disaster and learned that the black-clad visitor was Demon Ancestor Luohu.
• Demon Ancestor Luohu pulled King Zhou Zhao’s primordial spirit from his body, ending the Jade Pool’s vision before Tongtian could see what happened next.
• The Queen Mother of the West questioned why Luohu had taken King Zhou Zhao’s primordial spirit, and Tongtian said Luohu would likely reveal his purpose himself.
• Tongtian erased his memories of how to use the Jade Pool and thanked the Queen Mother of the West for lending it to him.
• Tongtian told the Queen Mother of the West that the Primordial World faced destruction and that his true self had gone to Guixu to search for another path.
• Tongtian explained that outside-domain forces had been scheming to control the Primordial World and, through it, the Great Dao Domain.

Tongtian told Queen Mother of the West that the Primordial World was nearing collapse and that his forces had seized a resource-rich star domain in the Infinite World. He revealed a possible way to reverse time and save the Primordial World, but agreed that moving its inhabitants to the captured star domain might be easier.

• Tongtian explained that the Primordial World was close to collapse and that his forces had infiltrated the Infinite World and captured a resource-rich star domain.
• The Infinite World's powerhouses pursued Tongtian's forces into Guixu, where the Primordial World's leaders sealed the exit and trapped them.
• Queen Mother of the West asked when the Interception Sect would leave the Primordial World, but Tongtian said his priority was to avert its collapse.
• Tongtian told Queen Mother of the West that a formation could reverse time and restore the Primordial World to before Dao Ancestor Hongjun spread the sacred fruits, but it required enormous Origin Power.
• Queen Mother of the West suggested moving the Primordial World's inhabitants to the captured star domain, and Tongtian agreed that this might be easier than repairing their world.

Sect Master Tongtian comforted Sheng Ji and asked her to leave the Human Realm with him. That night, the Auspicious Ruyi vanished from Kunlun City, threatening Western Kunlun’s spiritual veins and destiny.

• Sect Master Tongtian returned to camp and listened as Sheng Ji played a sorrowful tune.
• Sheng Ji urged Sect Master Tongtian to take more consorts for the Great Zhou Dynasty’s succession, and he told her he valued her above the other consorts.
• Sect Master Tongtian asked Sheng Ji to leave the Human Realm with him, and she eagerly accepted.
• The Auspicious Ruyi disappeared from Kunlun City’s forbidden grounds overnight, despite being guarded by an ancient formation.
• Sect Master Tongtian met Queen Mother of the West the next morning and asked what would happen if the Auspicious Ruyi could not be found; she said Western Kunlun’s spiritual veins and destiny might collapse.

Queen Mother of the West became Sect Master Tongtian’s Dao Companion, then underwent tribulation and became a Heavenly Dao Saint with a Great Perfection Dao Fruit. Across the Primordial World, Tianqiong and Chang'e witnessed her astonishing breakthrough while trying to deduce events in Guixu.

• Sect Master Tongtian comforted Queen Mother of the West, swept her into his arms, and entered her sleeping palace; seven years passed before they emerged.
• The Great Zhou army built Yaochi City outside Western Kunlun, and it became the Western Continent of Hezhou’s largest commercial hub.
• Queen Mother of the West emerged on Yao Terrace and underwent tribulation, receiving a Great Perfection Dao Fruit and reaching the ninth level of the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Tianqiong and Chang'e used their mutual-sensing ability to deduce the situation in Guixu, but the tribulation’s bells and falling flowers drew their attention.
• Tianqiong wondered who had become a Saint with a Great Perfection Dao Fruit and reached the peak of the ninth level.

Chang'e learned that King Zhou Mu, Ji Man, was the Queen Mother of the West’s Dao Companion, and Tianqiong encouraged her to pursue him. Meanwhile, the Queen Mother of the West’s rise as a powerful saint alarmed rival sects, while Amitabha Buddha remained calm as Western Teachings’ influence came under threat.

• Chang'e discovered that King Zhou Mu, Ji Man, was the Queen Mother of the West’s Dao Companion, and Tianqiong urged her to take the initiative with him.
• Niangniang Shi Ji reassured Tianqiong that Ji Man was an incarnation and suggested that having a child with him would win his Father’s support.
• At Shouyang Mountain, Nezha and the Human Sect’s leaders discussed the Queen Mother of the West’s rise, Yaochi City’s prosperity, and the Primordial World’s uncertain future.
• At Kunlun Mountain, Yang Jian and Lei Zhenzi recognized that the Queen Mother of the West’s power and Yaochi City had undermined the Chan Sect’s plans, so Yang Jian proposed activating their second plan.
• At Spirit Mountain, Juliusun warned Amitabha Buddha that Western Teachings’ position in the Western Ox Continent was under serious threat, but Amitabha Buddha remained calm.

Tongtian learned that Demon Ancestor Luohu had taken King Zhou Zhao’s soul because of an unfinished karmic connection and agreed to meet him at Buzhou Mountain after the Guixu crisis. Tongtian returned to Haojing with Queen Mother of the West remaining in Western Kunlun, and Queen Mother Fang regained hope when she heard her husband’s soul was alive.

• Guanyin, Manjushri, and Samantabhadra urged the Western Teachings to prepare, while Amitabha Buddha postponed planning until the Guixu crisis was resolved.
• Tongtian discussed Queen Mother of the West’s breakthrough and met Demon Ancestor Luohu, who said he needed King Mu’s help with a formation linking past and future through space-time.
• Tongtian asked to see King Zhou Zhao’s soul, and Demon Ancestor Luohu showed it to him before arranging a meeting at Buzhou Mountain after Guixu was settled.
• Tongtian and Queen Mother of the West agreed to part ways, with her staying in Western Kunlun until the Guixu matter ended.
• Tongtian returned to Haojing with two-thirds of his troops, while the rest remained to protect Yaochi City and Western Kunlun.
• Tongtian told Queen Mother Fang that King Zhou Zhao’s soul was alive, and she immediately brightened with renewed hope.

Tongtian encouraged Queen Mother Fang to cultivate, then went to the East Sea to investigate the sealed Guixu and confronted two hostile Wastelanders. As he waited by the entrance and cooked seafood, Chang'e arrived and asked to share his meal.

• Queen Mother Fang agreed to cultivate, and Sheng Ji began teaching her while remaining in the royal palace of Haojing.
• Tongtian found the Gate of Guixu still sealed and defeated two Wastelanders who attacked him, leaving their primordial spirits alive.
• Tongtian learned the attackers were said to be Wastelanders from the Ancient Wilderness and decided to stay by Guixu in search of a chance to enter.
• Tongtian caught seafood and cooked beside Guixu, drawing the attention of nearby cultivators with its aroma.
• Chang'e appeared before Tongtian and asked if she could mooch a meal.