Chapter Summaries

Lu Ya used his Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger to drive Buddha Mother Zhunti from the battle. With Zhunti gone, Kong Xuan claimed the Seven Treasures Wondrous Tree, leaving Zhunti to realize he had suffered a double loss.

• Lu Ya formed and launched his winged flying dagger at Buddha Mother Zhunti, who used karma to defend himself.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti fled from Lu Ya, and Maitreya, Medicine Master, and Daoist Burning Lamp watched him leave.
• Bai Ze explained that Zhunti had fled to avoid being put on the list and predicted the remaining formation would be easy to break.
• The Myriad Immortals Formation broke the Myriad Buddhas Nirvana Formation, and Kong Xuan claimed the Seven Treasures Wondrous Tree.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti sensed that Kong Xuan had erased his imprint on the tree and regretted leaving it behind.

Di Jun faced the Corpse Liberation Immortal and summoned the Investiture of the Gods Calamity’s divine authority to strengthen himself. As the battle began, Houtu revealed to Eastern Emperor Taiyi that he and Di Jun had once been Heavenly King Yuanshi’s divine generals, while Taiyi placed his faith in his brother’s victory.

• Di Jun challenged the Corpse Liberation Immortal to a one-on-one fight after the other combatants disappeared.
• Di Jun summoned the fortune and authority of the Divine Path through the Investiture of the Gods Calamity.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi watched Di Jun and recognized the familiar aura of a powerful divine general.
• Houtu told Eastern Emperor Taiyi that he and Di Jun had once served Heavenly King Yuanshi and fallen during the Immeasurable Calamity.
• Houtu explained that Qingqing had worked to change the Primordial World’s fate and that the Immortal Path still held the advantage.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi believed Di Jun could break the deadlock and win.

Di Jun confronted the Corpse Liberation Immortal, who revealed the God-Striking Whip as a weapon to restrain Divine Path cultivators. Di Jun answered by affirming his identity as a true god and gathering the power of the human heart, leaving the confrontation poised to continue.

• The Corpse Liberation Immortal realized the Three Pure Ones had given Zhou Qingqing the Investiture of the Gods List to help Di Jun wield the Divine Path, but believed the God-Striking Whip would let him overcome Di Jun.
• The Corpse Liberation Immortal revealed the God-Striking Whip and claimed it could strip Di Jun of his ability to challenge him.
• Steward Bai Ze recognized the whip as the treasure Fairy Qingqing had warned could restrain the Divine Path, while Eastern Emperor Taiyi grew anxious for Di Jun.
• Di Jun summoned his sword, named it the Zenith Heaven Divine Sword, and declared that the God-Striking Whip could not restrain a true god like him.
• Di Jun called forth a Supreme Divine Heart by drawing on the power of Human Dao and the Human Race, strengthening his foundation as the Heavenly Venerates in Three Pure Ones Hall watched.

Corpse Liberation Immortal tested Di Jun’s claim to be a true god by striking him with the God-Striking Whip. Di Jun blocked the blow without being shaken, leaving the cultivators wondering whether he had truly become a god while Eastern Emperor Taiyi remained wary.

• Corpse Liberation Immortal challenged Di Jun’s claim and swung the God-Striking Whip at him.
• Di Jun met the whip with the Zenith Heaven Divine Sword, and their clash shook Blue Planet.
• Bai Ze told the onlookers that Di Jun would not be injured, while Qingqing privately wondered when she had said that.
• The smoke cleared to reveal Di Jun standing firm, his sword blocking the whip without shaking his Divine Body.
• The cultivators questioned whether Di Jun had become a true god, and Eastern Emperor Taiyi sensed danger despite his brother’s calm appearance.

Di Jun endured the God-Striking Whip and transformed the Zenith Heaven Divine Sword, proving that his Divine Path had made him a True God. The Corpse Liberation Immortal then unleashed an Immortal Path Killing Move across the Blue Planet, sending the transformed immortals rushing at Di Jun.

• Di Jun blocked the God-Striking Whip and declared that a Heavenly Emperor was a True God.
• Di Jun’s Zenith Heaven Divine Sword knocked the God-Striking Whip flying, prompting Amitabha Buddha to demand that the Corpse Liberation Immortal use an Immortal Path Killing Move.
• The Corpse Liberation Immortal spread an Immortal Domain across the Blue Planet, filled with countless beautiful immortal figures.
• Zhou Qingqing warned Bai Ze that the apparent immortals were corpse liberators who would transform and attack Di Jun.
• The figures shed their immortal appearance and surged toward Di Jun.

Zhou Qingqing and the Three Pure Ones recognized that the Corpse Liberation Immortals’ Five Decays of Heaven and Man could endanger Di Jun. Facing their overwhelming assault, Di Jun established a Divine Kingdom by joining Outer Heaven and its Demon Clan to his Divine Path.

• Zhou Qingqing speculated that the transformed Corpse Liberation Immortals reflected the Immeasurable Calamity and recognized the Five Decays of Heaven and Man in their power.
• The Three Pure Ones considered how the Corpse Liberation Immortals might drive Di Jun to his death, while Houtu reassured Eastern Emperor Taiyi about Zhou Qingqing’s knowledge and past actions.
• Di Jun found that the Five Decays were invading his divine power and decided to use his own killing move.
• Di Jun invoked the Kingdom of God, bringing Outer Heaven into his Divine Path as a towering Divine Kingdom.
• Fairy Qingqing explained that the Outer Heaven Demon Clan had joined Di Jun’s Divine Path because they recognized him, tying their fate to his survival.

As the Corpse Liberation Immortal’s enhanced immortals threatened to overwhelm Di Jun’s Divine Kingdom, Di Jun summoned the True Spirit Rank Diagram and placed the Three Pure Ones and Zhou Qingqing at its summit. Their figures merged into Heavenly King Yuanshi, who acknowledged Di Jun as the new master of the Divine Path and gave him the strength to turn the battle around.

• The Corpse Liberation Immortal made the immortals grow to 129,600 zhang tall, and their power began to overwhelm Di Jun’s Divine Kingdom.
• Di Jun recognized that his own Divine Path understanding was not enough and decided to use the insights shared by the Three Pure Ones Heavenly Venerates and Zhou Qingqing.
• Di Jun created the True Spirit Rank Diagram, placing the Three Pure Ones at the top and Zhou Qingqing as a lotus on their robes.
• The Three Pure Ones’ figures merged into Heavenly King Yuanshi, whose Divine Path power flowed into Di Jun and confirmed him as the new master of the Divine Path.
• The Three Pure Ones realized Heavenly King Yuanshi had willingly abandoned the Divine Path, while his appearance secured Di Jun’s victory.

Di Jun used the Heavenly King Yuanshi’s power to defeat and kill Corpse Liberation Immortal, turning the struggle between the Divine Path and Immortal Path in the Divine Path’s favor. As Lu Ya pursued Buddha Mother Zhunti and Amitabha Buddha prepared a costly defense, Zhou Qingqing completed her fusion with the Taiwei Enclosure and prepared to act as List Holder.

• The Three Pure Ones’ revelation of the Heavenly King Yuanshi allowed Di Jun to wield the merged primordial spirits’ power, split the Immortal Domain, and overwhelm Corpse Liberation Immortal.
• Corpse Liberation Immortal fell, and Nuwa assessed that the declining immortal civilization had lost to Di Jun’s resurgent Divine Path civilization.
• Lu Ya transformed into his Three-Legged Golden Crow true form and prepared to use Solar Furnace against the fleeing Buddha Mother Zhunti.
• Amitabha Buddha sacrificed the Buddha Path’s origin to form a protective barrier for Buddha Mother Zhunti, but the Three Pure Ones paused their intervention when Zhou Qingqing announced she had fused the stellar Dao of the Taiwei Enclosure.
• On Mind Platform Star, Maitreya, Medicine Master, Daoist Burning Lamp, Di Xin, and his father noticed that Zhou Qingqing and Bai Ze had fallen silent.

Bai Ze and Zhou Qingqing emerged from seclusion as Zhou Qingqing stopped Amitabha Buddha’s Golden Bell Shield with one finger, revealing that her origin was complete. She descended upon the Land of Ultimate Bliss and offered Amitabha Buddha a deal to let Buddha Mother Zhunti escape the calamity, leaving him to hear her demands.

• Bai Ze emerged from seclusion and demonstrated his Wheel of Wisdom of the Heavens before welcoming Zhou Qingqing out of seclusion.
• Zhou Qingqing absorbed stellar phenomena, then left Mind Platform Star as the Golden Bell Shield flew from the Land of Ultimate Bliss toward Blue Planet.
• Zhou Qingqing appeared in the west and stopped Amitabha Buddha’s Golden Bell Shield with one finger.
• Bai Ze confirmed that Zhou Qingqing’s origin was complete, leaving the cultivators to conclude that she had reached the Thirty-Sixth-Grade Chaos Azure Lotus.
• Zhou Qingqing arrived at the Land of Ultimate Bliss and told Amitabha Buddha she would consider letting Buddha Mother Zhunti escape the calamity in exchange for his agreement to her demands.

Zhou Qingqing bargained with Amitabha Buddha to spare Buddha Mother Zhunti from the calamity in exchange for the “Past Glorious Calamity” divine ability. Amitabha Buddha agreed and handed it over, while Zhou Qingqing left Buddha Mother Zhunti’s fate to him.

• Zhou Qingqing demanded that Amitabha Buddha and Buddha Mother Zhunti enter the Heaven-Suppressing Coffin as punishment for interfering with the Investiture of the Gods Calamity.
• Zhou Qingqing asked Amitabha Buddha to teach her the divine ability that absorbed calamity and converted it into tribulation power.
• As Lu Ya drove Buddha Mother Zhunti into crisis, Amitabha Buddha agreed to Zhou Qingqing’s terms.
• Amitabha Buddha gave Zhou Qingqing the “Past Glorious Calamity” but withheld the “Present Worthy Calamity” and “Future Constellation Calamity.”
• Amitabha Buddha asked Zhou Qingqing to let Buddha Mother Zhunti escape the calamity, and she said she would take him into the Heaven-Suppressing Coffin for punishment.

Zhou Qingqing announced that Buddha Mother Zhunti and Amitabha Buddha would be punished in the Heaven-Suppressing Coffin, while Di Jun and Lu Ya were released from the Calamity. Di Jun and Lu Ya brought Zhunti to the Land of Ultimate Bliss, where he recovered and noticed the Heaven-Suppressing Coffin.

• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate went to help Qingqing, but Supreme Pure Laozi and Master Tongtian insisted on accompanying him.
• Zhou Qingqing declared that the Two Sages of the West would be punished in the Heaven-Suppressing Coffin and released Di Jun and Lu Ya from the Calamity.
• Di Jun and Lu Ya carried the battered Buddha Mother Zhunti away from Blue Planet and flew him to the Land of Ultimate Bliss.
• Amitabha Buddha healed Zhunti enough to stop his public humiliation, and Zhunti glared at Di Jun and Lu Ya.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti sensed something unusual and fixed his gaze on the Heaven-Suppressing Coffin beside Primordial Heavenly Venerate.

Heavenly Dao Hongjun returned as Amitabha Buddha and Buddha Mother Zhunti entered the Heaven-Suppressing Coffin, and Primordial Beginning sealed them inside before Hongjun could intervene. Hongjun then summoned Eastern Emperor Taiyi and questioned him and Di Jun, prompting the Three Pure Ones and Zhou Qingqing to take responsibility, while Di Jun realized the confrontation was only beginning.

• Amitabha Buddha and Buddha Mother Zhunti entered the Heaven-Suppressing Coffin just as Heavenly Dao Hongjun returned, and Primordial Beginning shut the lid before they could seek Hongjun's help.
• Hongjun ordered Primordial Beginning to limit the Two Sages of the West's punishment, then summoned Eastern Emperor Taiyi from the Earth Dao.
• Hongjun questioned Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi for returning before their punishment was complete.
• The Three Pure Ones claimed they had brought Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi back, and Zhou Qingqing stepped forward to share the blame.
• Lu Ya thought the Golden Crow lineage would escape punishment, but Di Jun recognized that the Three Pure Ones were likely the real targets of Hongjun's next move.

Supreme Pure Laozi and his two brothers swallowed modified Saint-Falling Pills and rose to the ninth layer of Primordial Chaos. When Heavenly Dao Hongjun revealed that the calamity’s intended outcome was to restrain the Three Pure Ones, they claimed they had known his plan all along.

• Heavenly Dao Hongjun ordered Supreme Pure Laozi and his two junior brothers to swallow the Saint-Falling Pills as punishment.
• Supreme Pure Laozi produced pills he had transformed, and the Three Pure Ones swallowed them without hesitation.
• The modified pills raised the Three Pure Ones to the ninth layer of Primordial Chaos, astonishing Saints across the Primordial World.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun accused the Three Pure Ones of knowing that the calamity was meant to restrain them with the Saint-Falling Pills.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Upper Pure Master Tongtian joined Supreme Pure Laozi and told their teacher they knew his plan.

The Three Pure Ones revealed that they intended to separate Daoism from the Mystic Gate, and Heavenly Dao Hongjun agreed to confront them in Chaos. As the gathered saints watched, Hongjun declared that he would strike first and show no mercy, setting the stage for the final break between teacher and disciples.

• Upper Pure Master Tongtian told Hongjun that the Three Pure Ones intended for Daoism to leave the Mystic Gate, following Nuwa and Amitabha Buddha.
• Hongjun warned that the Three Pure Ones would have to pay a greater price than Amitabha Buddha, but Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate said they knew what they were doing.
• The Three Pure Ones asked Hongjun to meet them in Chaos, and other saints—including Nuwa, Houtu, and the Golden Crow lineage—followed to witness the confrontation.
• Hongjun told the gathered saints that their presence and altered destinies resulted from the Three Pure Ones’ actions, then announced he would personally fight them over their departure from the Mystic Gate.
• The Three Pure Ones bowed and invited Hongjun to strike first, while the watching saints looked to Zhou Qingqing for support.
• Hongjun said he would make the first move and would no longer show mercy or be called their teacher.

Heavenly Dao Hongjun summoned his Three-Corpse incarnations and empowered them with cultivators’ strength, transforming them into Three-Corpse Heavenly Dao. The Three Pure Ones began fighting them, and Tongtian destroyed Purple Cloud with a lightning formation, leaving the other two battles to come.

• Heavenly Dao Hongjun summoned Purple Cloud, Earthworm, and the Corpse Liberation Immortal as his Three-Corpse incarnations.
• Points of light from cultivators who practiced the Three-Corpses method flowed into the incarnations, elevating them into Three-Corpse Heavenly Dao.
• Tongtian chose Purple Cloud as his opponent, while Laozi took Earthworm and Primordial Heavenly Venerate took the Corpse Liberation Immortal.
• Tongtian infused Supreme Purity Divine Lightning into the Purple Lightning Hammer and formed a vast lightning array.
• Tongtian’s lightning array shattered Purple Cloud and stopped his heavenly punishment, impressing the watching Saints.

The Corpse Liberation Immortal began recovering his cultivation by drawing on the power of living beings, but Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate traced the cause of all effects and erased him with a palm. The others recognized that Jade Pure had replicated the power of Heavenly King Yuanshi.

• Di Jun said the Corpse Liberation Immortal had grown stronger after his experiences on Blue Planet and was approaching the Primordial World's Heavenly Dao.
• The Corpse Liberation Immortal shed the Five Decays of Heaven and Man and began restoring his strength as a true immortal.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate decided to use the Karma Great Dao to counter the Corpse Liberation Immortal.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate traced the cause of all effects and struck the transforming Corpse Liberation Immortal with an ordinary Jade Void Heaven-Opening Palm, making him vanish.
• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi recognized the resemblance between Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Heavenly King Yuanshi, while Zhou Qingqing admired her Second Master.

Supreme Pure Laozi faced Heavenly Dao Hongjun’s Earth Dragon Evil Corpse incarnation and destroyed it with a single glance. The three Corpse incarnations had all been defeated, leaving the observers astonished at how easily the Three Pure Ones prevailed.

• The saints and Earth Dao visitors sensed that the Evil Corpse incarnation was more threatening than the other two, and Houtu explained that it had evolved into an Earth Dragon tied to the Earth Dao.
• The Earthworm transformed into an enormous Earth Dragon and declared that it would succeed this time as it bore down on Supreme Pure Laozi.
• Supreme Pure Laozi stood still as the Earth Dragon attacked, prompting the Ancestral Witches to wonder why he did not act.
• Supreme Pure Laozi glanced at the Earth Dragon, and it broke apart segment by segment.
• Upper Pure Master Tongtian and Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate watched the rings fall away and marveled at their eldest brother’s decisive attack.

After Supreme Purity Dao Virtue Heavenly Venerate destroyed the Evil Corpse incarnation, Heavenly Dao Hongjun announced that he would personally take action against the Three Pure Ones and their allies. Hongjun’s two-word utterance halted the cultivators’ thoughts and drew the Great Dao laws into spirals around him.

• Supreme Purity Dao Virtue Heavenly Venerate destroyed the Evil Corpse incarnation, leaving Haotian and Yaochi wondering whether the Calamity had ended.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun declared that his consideration as their teacher was over and that the true Heavenly Dao would now act.
• The gathered Saints and cultivators braced themselves as Hongjun’s presence filled the past, present, and future.
• Hongjun spoke his own name, and the two words suppressed the minds and bodies of the Primordial Saints.
• Xihe, Changxi, Wangshu, and Lu Ya sensed the overwhelming depth of Hongjun’s power as the Great Dao laws spiraled toward him.

Heavenly Dao Hongjun’s Great Dao Spiral overwhelmed the Saints, prompting Nuwa, Houtu, and Zhou Qingqing to protect their respective groups. The Three Pure Ones then revealed their full strength and prepared to confront Hongjun.

• Heavenly Dao Hongjun’s Great Dao Spiral crushed the minds and bodies of the Saints, so Nuwa used the Primordial Sacred Sword and Houtu manifested the Six Paths of Reincarnation to ease the pressure on their allies.
• Zhou Qingqing sent out the Thirty-Six-Grade Chaos Azure Lotus to protect Xihe, Changxi, the Golden Crow lineage, Haotian, and Yaochi, who recovered and set aside some of their old conflicts.
• Upper Pure Master Tongtian summoned the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords and revealed his Heaven-Severing Sword Dao.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate raised the Pangu Banner and prepared to challenge the Heavenly Dao, while Supreme Pure Laozi used One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones and brought out three treasures.
• The Saints realized the Three Pure Ones were finally getting serious, and Zhou Qingqing inwardly urged them to defeat Hongjun.

The Three Pure Ones began their coordinated assault on Heavenly Dao Hongjun, with Tongtian opening countless possibilities through his sword and Primordial Heavenly Venerate wielding the Heavenly Dao’s power. Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s strike made Hongjun’s body sway, leaving the battle’s balance unsettled.

• Tongtian used Dao Extinction, Dao Birth with the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords, opening countless rifts and possibilities in space-time.
• Hongjun suppressed the rifts and began erasing the Great Dao from Tongtian’s swords, but Tongtian completed his role in the Three Pure Ones’ plan.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate raised the Pangu Banner and declared that his heart and will were Heaven’s, then struck down the Dao on Heaven’s behalf.
• Di Jun, Haotian, Yaochi, Xihe, and Changxi concluded that Hongjun might have followed the same path of replacing Heaven’s heart with his own.
• Hongjun blocked Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s strike, but the blow shattered space-time and made his Dao body sway.