Chapter Summaries

Sect Master Tongtian, disguised as Sun Wukong, killed Great Sun Tathagata and left Spirit Mountain too intimidated to retaliate. After Amitabha Buddha began the Ghost Festival performances, Tongtian challenged the Hinayana Sect’s claims about strict precepts and defended the difference between Hinayana and Mahayana teachings.

• Amitabha Buddha and the three Rakshasa powerhouses watched in disbelief as Sect Master Tongtian revealed his overwhelming strength by killing Great Sun Tathagata.
• When Amitabha Buddha demanded to know who he was, Sect Master Tongtian answered with a cryptic joke that left the gathering silent.
• Amitabha Buddha accused Sun Wukong of plotting against the Hinayana Sect, but neither he nor the bodhisattvas dared act, and the Rakshasa powerhouses remained still.
• Amitabha Buddha changed the subject and began the Ghost Festival’s artistic performances as Saint Tianhai quietly joined the Interception Sect’s VIP section.
• Sect Master Tongtian mocked the Hinayana Sect’s supposed strict precepts, and Guanyin Bodhisattva of the South Sea countered by invoking Mahayana teachings.
• Sect Master Tongtian explained that the Hinayana Sect emphasized precepts and ascetic cultivation while the Mahayana Sect emphasized cultivating the mind and sudden enlightenment.

Sect Master Tongtian mocked Spirit Mountain during the Ghost Festival before Nirvana Mountain excelled in the battle-of-techniques segment and won two of the top three places. In the final sect battle, Nirvana Mountain lost after Spirit Mountain won three matches in a row.

• Sect Master Tongtian silenced Amitabha Buddha and Guanyin Bodhisattva by challenging the distinction between the Hinayana and Mahayana Sects.
• Kasyapa Buddha Ancestor agreed to let Nirvana Mountain compete in the battle-of-techniques segment for Spirit Mountain's valuable rewards.
• Nirvana Mountain's disciples performed exceptionally well and claimed two of the top three places, while the Interception Sect took the remaining spot.
• Sect Master Tongtian refined the two winning disciples' treasures and returned them to the disciples.
• The final battle began with the two sides tied at two wins apiece, but Nirvana Mountain then lost three matches in a row.
• Amitabha Buddha celebrated Spirit Mountain's victory as Nirvana Mountain's members looked grim.

Spirit Mountain claimed Nirvana Mountain as an appendage after winning the contest, but Sect Master Tongtian agreed to host its overseer and made its disciples wary. One of Spirit Mountain’s powerful rakshasas challenged Tongtian and seemingly ground him to dust, leaving Kasyapa and Amitabha uncertain whether Sun Wukong had truly been killed.

• Amitabha demanded that Nirvana Mountain become an appendage of Spirit Mountain, with Spirit Mountain sending people to oversee it.
• Sect Master Tongtian agreed to host Spirit Mountain’s overseer, while Spirit Mountain’s disciples realized Sun Wukong’s presence made their victory hollow.
• A powerful rakshasa challenged Tongtian to test his abilities, and Tongtian accepted the duel.
• The rakshasa’s vortex ground Tongtian’s body to dust as the venue watched in shock.
• The rakshasa mocked Tongtian, while Kasyapa suspected his Ancestor Master could not have died so easily and Amitabha asked Kasyapa whether he had anything to say.

Kasyapa Buddha Ancestor challenged Spirit Mountain, and Marshal Tian Peng killed Guanyin Bodhisattva of the South Sea in a surprise attack. As Amitabha Buddha retaliated, Tian Peng swallowed his golden handprint and grew stronger.

• Kasyapa Buddha Ancestor rejected Guanyin Bodhisattva of the South Sea and Manjushri Bodhisattva's threats and offered to settle their dispute in battle.
• Marshal Tian Peng stepped forward to fight Guanyin despite Nine Cauldrons Buddha Ancestor's warning.
• Guanyin blasted Tian Peng's Dharma Manifestation of Heaven and Earth, but Tian Peng's hidden shadow struck off her head and swallowed her fleeing primordial spirit.
• A funeral bell rang and scarlet rain fell, confirming Guanyin's death and shocking Spirit Mountain while Nirvana Mountain celebrated Tian Peng's strength.
• Amitabha Buddha attacked Tian Peng with a golden handprint, but Tian Peng swallowed it and absorbed its power.

Marshal Tian Peng destroyed Amitabha Buddha and two Rakshasa experts, turning the battle decisively against Spirit Mountain. The final Rakshasa expert remained as Manjushri Bodhisattva and Puxian Bodhisattva faced the collapse of Spirit Mountain’s hopes.

• Amitabha Buddha trapped Marshal Tian Peng in a magic-treasure formation, but Tian Peng self-destructed and destroyed Amitabha Buddha before appearing unharmed in the void.
• Marshal Tian Peng transformed his Dharma Manifestation into a Buddha body, while Nirvana Mountain celebrated and Spirit Mountain’s forces despaired.
• A Rakshasa expert struck Marshal Tian Peng, but Tian Peng’s ten-thousand-character seal killed the expert as his primordial spirit escaped.
• Manjushri Bodhisattva and Puxian Bodhisattva avoided challenging Marshal Tian Peng, while Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva remained outside the conflict.
• Marshal Tian Peng fought another Rakshasa expert and killed him, leaving only one Rakshasa expert as Manjushri Bodhisattva and Puxian Bodhisattva looked toward him.

Great Sage Equal to Heaven Sun Wukong revealed himself as the disguised Marshal Tian Peng and fought the final Rakshasa powerhouse to a draw before Nirvana Mountain departed. Back at Spirit Mountain, Amitabha Buddha gathered Great Sun Tathagata and the Four Great Bodhisattvas to share news of a strange world discovered in another Tribulation Realm.

• The last Rakshasa powerhouse recognized Marshal Tian Peng as Great Sage Equal to Heaven Sun Wukong, who revealed his true form and explained that the earlier fights had been an act controlled by Sect Master Tongtian.
• Sun Wukong struck the Rakshasa powerhouse, and they fought to a standstill before agreeing to end the battle.
• The Rakshasa powerhouse vanished after warning Sun Wukong, who cautioned Nirvana Mountain against going too far before leaving with Kasyapa Buddha Ancestor and the disciples.
• At Spirit Mountain, Manjushri Bodhisattva, Puxian Bodhisattva, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, and Guanyin of the South Sea discussed why Sun Wukong had spared Buddha Ancestor and Guanyin.
• Amitabha Buddha called Great Sun Tathagata and the Four Great Bodhisattvas together and told them that their people had discovered a strange world in another Tribulation Realm.

Amitabha Buddha discovered that Spirit Mountain had found a vast, spiritually rich Primordial Chaos World, prompting Sect Master Tongtian to organize forces from across the Infinite Primordial World to explore it. After noticing that the new world mirrored his private domain across the Infinite Primordial World, Tongtian chose the system task to complete Create Heaven and Earth rather than kill the world’s inhabitants.

• Amitabha Buddha recognized the newly discovered Primordial Chaos World as vast and rich in spiritual energy, and Spirit Mountain prepared to send its leaders there.
• Sect Master Tongtian confirmed the new world was not his hidden private domain and enlisted Kasyapa to notify the Interception Sect, the Pillar of Heaven World, and other major powers.
• Kasyapa contacted Western Kunlun, the Heavenly Court, Human Emperor Di Xin, the Human Sect, and the Chan Sect, while major factions mobilized for the Great Dao Domain.
• Sect Master Tongtian used the completed star map to discover that the new Primordial Chaos World and his private domain occupied symmetrical positions across the Infinite Primordial World.
• Sect Master Tongtian rejected the system’s option to kill all inhabitants and seal the world, choosing instead to complete Create Heaven and Earth and find the Calamity Responder.

Sect Master Tongtian received a Primordial Chaos Lotus Seed and a jade slip containing a Supreme Secret he could not yet inspect, then began preparing to create Heaven and Earth in the boundless Primordial Chaos World. He realized he lacked the treasures needed for the task and decided to refine a Heaven-Opening Axe himself.

• Sect Master Tongtian chose the first option and received a Primordial Chaos Lotus Seed and a jade slip, but he could not examine the Supreme Secret before completing the mission.
• Sect Master Tongtian activated his Primordial Chaos Spirit Seed, which sprouted a tender green shoot, then stored it safely in his Small World.
• Sect Master Tongtian explored the boundless Primordial Chaos World and resolved to develop it by separating its qi, creating Heaven and Earth, and establishing rules for life and the Dao.
• Sect Master Tongtian found that he lacked suitable treasures for creating Heaven and Earth because he had given the Heaven-Opening Axe to Nuwa and the others.
• Sect Master Tongtian decided to refine a Heaven-Opening Axe himself.

Sect Master Tongtian prepared to create Heaven and Earth by refining a powerful treasure, setting up a floating platform, and making pills and tools with help from his followers. Before he began, Haotian Saint Venerable created Heaven and Earth and established the Heavenly Dao, while other faction leaders soon followed.

• Sect Master Tongtian summoned the Saint Lord and experts from the Pillar of Heaven World, then prepared a platform and moved his pill and artifact workshops onto it.
• Sect Master Tongtian refined pills and auxiliary tools, handling most of the work himself while his disciples and followers assisted.
• Haotian Saint Venerable created Heaven and Earth, established the Heavenly Dao, and received merit that partly flowed to Sect Master Tongtian.
• Sect Master Tongtian finished preparing his tools as cultivators from the major factions created Heaven and Earth, established their Dao, and began giving birth to all things.

Sect Master Tongtian and his one hundred thousand disciples created the Myriad Dao Domain, populated it with living beings, and granted them wisdom and cultivation arts. One of those beings survived a tribulation and became a saint through the body, drawing astonished attention from powerful figures in the chaos.

• Sect Master Tongtian and his one hundred thousand disciples formed a formation and sealed a vast region of chaos to create Heaven and Earth.
• Sect Master Tongtian separated the five types of qi and transformed them into the heavens, earth, and other features of the Myriad Dao Domain.
• Sect Master Tongtian manifested countless living beings and infused them with wisdom and cultivation arts, prompting them to begin cultivating.
• A Seven-Colored Mantis survived tribulation lightning, transformed into a young woman, and absorbed golden lightning through the Seven-Colored Eye on her forehead.
• A white-haired Daoist, a golden-haired man, and a blue-haired young woman discussed the young woman's attainment of sainthood through the body and called the world the Supreme Primordial World.

Tang Nishang attained sainthood through the flesh with the Great Perfection Saint Fruit and became Sect Master Tongtian’s twelfth personal disciple. After warning her about the karma and dangers she faced, Sect Master Tongtian urged her to establish her own Dao and orthodoxy.

• Ninety-nine bell chimes and flowers across the Chaos World announced that an unnamed cultivator had attained sainthood with the Great Perfection Saint Fruit.
• Tang Nishang knelt before Sect Master Tongtian, received her name, swore an oath, and offered him tea as his disciple.
• Sect Master Tongtian gave Tang Nishang a ring filled with precious gifts and encouraged her to surpass his eleven earlier personal disciples.
• Sect Master Tongtian warned Tang Nishang that being the first saint in the Primordial Chaos World brought great opportunity as well as tremendous Karma.
• Sect Master Tongtian advised Tang Nishang to establish her own Dao and orthodoxy, citing powerful figures whose factions had struggled without one.

A meteor pierced the Myriad Dao World’s protective barrier, and Tang Nishang received it from Sect Master Tongtian before using a fiery bead from within it to guide Lüzhu to sainthood. At a Primordial World conference, Haotian Saint Venerable questioned Lüzhu’s achievement, and True Person Jiulong proposed that she compete with Changsun Wugou.

• A fiery meteor crashed into the Myriad Dao World, and Sect Master Tongtian gave it to Tang Nishang after she said it was fated to be with her.
• Sect Master Tongtian assigned Tang Nishang the task of Enlighten All Beings, completed a system mission, and reinforced the world’s barriers and formations.
• Changsun Wugou attained Dao and became a Saint in Haotian Saint Venerable’s Heavenly Dao World, while Lüzhu became a Great Perfection Saint in the Myriad Dao Domain after Tang Nishang guided her.
• At the first Primordial World conference, Haotian Saint Venerable publicly cast doubt on Lüzhu’s sainthood and praised the New Primordial Alliance he was forming.
• True Person Jiulong suggested that Changsun Wugou and Lüzhu compete against each other.

True Person Jiulong attended Haotian Saint Venerable’s assembly to watch for schemes against Sect Master Tongtian, while Lüzhu accepted Haotian’s challenge to fight Changsun Wugou. Tang Nishang brought Lüzhu to the Heaven Heavenly Dao Domain, where Lüzhu’s sharp retort left Haotian unable to answer.

• True Person Jiulong decided to attend the Primordial Chaos Assembly so he could warn Sect Master Tongtian if Haotian Saint Venerable plotted against him.
• Haotian Saint Venerable proposed that Lüzhu and Changsun Wugou settle their dispute in a fight, and Lüzhu agreed to meet her.
• Sect Master Tongtian let Tang Nishang and Lüzhu handle the challenge while he went elsewhere to create a second domain heaven and earth.
• Tang Nishang introduced herself and Lüzhu at the Heaven Heavenly Dao Domain, where Haotian accused them of barging in without permission.
• Lüzhu reminded Haotian that he had summoned her to fight Changsun Wugou and mocked him for denying it, leaving him speechless.

Haotian Saint Venerable deflected Lüzhu’s verbal challenge before Changsun Wugou attacked her with Nine Netherworld Water in the arena. As Nine Dragon Saint Venerable tried to intervene, Tang Nishang stopped Haotian’s force and reassured him that Lüzhu would be fine.

• Haotian Saint Venerable praised Lüzhu’s sharpness while warning Changsun Wugou not to underestimate her, defusing the public challenge.
• Tang Nishang warned that Sect Master Tongtian’s disciples were cautious around Haotian Saint Venerable, and Haotian cut off further discussion by summoning a floating arena.
• Changsun Wugou attacked Lüzhu with Nine Netherworld Water, piercing her body and making the spectators believe she had been defeated.
• Nine Dragon Saint Venerable rushed to help Lüzhu, but Haotian Saint Venerable immobilized him with his aura.
• Tang Nishang dispelled Haotian’s attack on Nine Dragon Saint Venerable and told him Lüzhu would be fine.

Lüzhu revealed that Changsun Wugou’s attacks had failed, then burned her opponent in her own beast form. When Haotian Saint Venerable trapped Lüzhu and claimed she practiced demonic heresy, Tang Nishang intervened and killed him, leaving his primordial spirit fleeing into the void.

• Lüzhu counterattacked Changsun Wugou, pierced her chest, and followed her transformation into a Primordial Chaos beast into its maw.
• Lüzhu unleashed flames that burned Changsun Wugou and forced her to reveal her wounded white-snake form.
• Haotian Saint Venerable seized the arena and trapped Lüzhu, while Tang Nishang and Nine Dragon Saint Venerable demanded that he release her.
• Haotian Saint Venerable branded Lüzhu’s method an evil heresy, and Tang Nishang warned him she would act if he did not let her disciple go.
• After Tang Nishang counted down to one, Haotian Saint Venerable was beheaded and his primordial spirit fled into the void.

Tang Nishang killed Haotian Saint Venerable, the first Saint to fall in the Primordial Chaos World, but his primordial spirit escaped and restored his body. When Haotian returned to the assembly hall, Tang Nishang split his Saint body apart again, leaving him to flee once more as the domains erupted in shock.

• The fall of Haotian Saint Venerable caused funeral bells and blood rain to appear throughout the Primordial Chaos World.
• Jiang Wanxiang and Jiang Wanqiong witnessed Tang Nishang kill Haotian and marveled at her victory over a peak True Self Saint Venerable.
• Haotian restored his body and returned to the assembly hall, where his pressure overwhelmed many people while Changsun Wugou remained restrained.
• Tang Nishang mocked Haotian, transformed into her Seven-Colored Mantis form, and split his Saint body into eight pieces.
• Haotian's primordial spirit and true spirit fled again, while Tang Nishang and Lüzhu watched calmly and the crowd erupted into an uproar.

Tang Nishang defeated Haotian Saint Venerable twice, then declined his offer to lead the New Primordial Alliance so he could draw attention away from her side. Back in the Myriad Dao Domain, she tasked Lüzhu with developing forces beyond the domain as a trial, and Lüzhu set out across the Primordial Chaos World.

• Tang Nishang killed Haotian Saint Venerable a second time, and he returned and praised her strength instead of seeking revenge.
• Haotian Saint Venerable suggested Tang Nishang lead the New Primordial Alliance, but she declined and left with Lüzhu.
• Haotian Saint Venerable comforted Changsun Wugou, then urged the attendees to strengthen the New Primordial Alliance against Sect Master Tongtian's ambitions.
• Lüzhu asked Tang Nishang why she had refused the alliance leadership, and Tang Nishang explained that Haotian Saint Venerable could draw some of the opposition's attention.
• Tang Nishang tested Lüzhu's plans for cultivating forces outside the domain, then assigned her to lead the effort as a trial.
• Lüzhu accepted the task and left the Myriad Dao Domain to travel through the other regions of the Primordial Chaos World.

Sect Master Tongtian’s teachings helped the Blood Turtle become Hong Yan, a Dao Lord, and he entrusted her with the Longevity Domain before creating more domains. At the edge of the Primordial Chaos World, Tongtian encountered Haotian Saint Venerable, Amitabha Buddha, and their allies, where Young Master Mo attacked him.

• After seven days and nights of teaching, Sect Master Tongtian watched the Blood Turtle withstand 108 bolts of tribulation lightning and become a Dao Lord.
• The Blood Turtle transformed into a woman, asked Sect Master Tongtian for a name, and was named Hong Yan.
• Sect Master Tongtian gave Hong Yan a gift and appointed her to govern the domain, which he named the Longevity Domain.
• Sect Master Tongtian continued creating domains until he reached an impassable barrier at the edge of the Primordial Chaos World.
• Sect Master Tongtian met Haotian Saint Venerable, Amitabha Buddha, and several unfamiliar allies, including Young Master Mo, who mocked him over Saint Tianhai.
• Young Master Mo fired a black beam that swallowed Sect Master Tongtian’s head, while Haotian Saint Venerable warned him that Tongtian was not so easily killed.

Sect Master Tongtian reappeared and killed Young Master Mo after Young Master Mo dismissed him as a defeated “Monkey Head.” As Tongtian faced the others, the fat man revealed a hidden power and attacked him with a streak of cold light.

• Young Master Bai questioned why Sect Master Tongtian had repeatedly spared Haotian Saint Venerable and Amitabha Buddha, and the two realized Tongtian might have deliberately left them a way to survive.
• Young Master Mo mocked Tongtian, but Tongtian suddenly reached through his chest and pulled out his beating heart.
• Young Master Mo transformed into his Dharma Manifestation and attacked Tongtian with the Death God Scythe, but Tongtian seized the blade with one hand.
• Tongtian punched Young Master Mo, scattered his primordial spirit, and swallowed it, leaving his body lifeless.
• The fat man attacked Tongtian with a streak of cold light, revealing a killing intent and power that made Tongtian suspect he was the strongest among them.

Sect Master Tongtian destroyed the fat man who had trapped him, then learned that Haotian Saint Venerable and Amitabha Buddha wanted to bet their domains against his Myriad Phenomena Domain. He accepted after objecting to the lopsided stakes, while suspecting they coveted his domain’s location.

• The fat man’s cage seemingly crushed Sect Master Tongtian, but Sect Master Tongtian reappeared and destroyed the fat man and his primordial spirit.
• Haotian Saint Venerable and Amitabha Buddha proposed a bet, claiming they had found the core of the Primordial Chaos World and reached its eighty-first formation layer.
• Haotian Saint Venerable offered the Heaven Heavenly Dao Domain, Amitabha Buddha offered the Spirit Mountain Domain, and the others offered their domains if Sect Master Tongtian reached a deeper layer.
• Haotian Saint Venerable demanded the Myriad Phenomena Domain if Sect Master Tongtian lost, and Sect Master Tongtian objected that the wager favored them.
• Sect Master Tongtian accepted the bet, realizing Haotian Saint Venerable and Amitabha Buddha wanted the location of his Myriad Phenomena Domain.