Chapter Summaries

The Saints of the Three Daos gathered at Southern Undying Fire Mountain to defend against the World-Destroying Mill, and Haotian led the Heavenly Dao Saints in joining the assault. Their combined strength could not defeat the mill’s phantom, leaving them facing overwhelming pressure.

• The Saints of the Three Daos arrived at Southern Undying Fire Mountain after sensing the World-Destroying Mill and the Karmic Fire Red Lotus connected to Qingqing.
• Haotian called on the Heavenly Court Great Emperors and Daoism disciples to lend him their strength, and they accepted.
• Haotian gathered their power into his Way of the Heavenly Venerate and attacked with the Haotian Sword.
• Fuxi led the Human Dao Saints in a joint attack, while Zhu Jiuyin led the Earth Dao Saints.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun judged that the united Saints were still no match for the World-Destroying Mill’s phantom.

Primal Phoenix and the other Saints joined forces against the World-Destroying Mill, but their attacks barely affected it. As the mill began grinding away their essence, energy, and spirit, a mysterious gate appeared beneath the southern Undying Fire Mountain.

• Kong Xuan brought out the Seven Treasures Wondrous Tree, while Golden Roc formed a precious vase from yin-yang energies to support Primal Phoenix.
• Primal Phoenix used her authority as sovereign of the skies to decree that the World-Destroying Mill could not fly, making it descend slightly.
• The Saints of the Three Daos and Primal Phoenix attacked together, but the mill only swayed before returning to its original height.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun watched the mill begin to turn and noted the Three Pure Ones' subtle reactions.
• The cultivators and Saints noticed a gate forming beneath the southern Undying Fire Mountain as the mill began grinding away the Saints' essence, energy, and spirit.

Zhou Qingqing used the World-Destroying Mill in the past Ferocious Beast Calamity to complete her fusion and break through to the ninth layer of Primordial Chaos, changing the present crisis at Undying Fire Mountain. She returned safely, the calamity’s history was revealed to the Primordial World, and Heavenly Dao Hongjun admitted defeat and promised to help the Three Pure Ones if they made it to the end.

• Zhou Qingqing placed her Primordial Spirit beneath the World-Destroying Mill and used its grinding force to complete her fusion and advance her cultivation.
• At Undying Fire Mountain, the World-Destroying Mill overwhelmed the Saints of the Three Daos and threatened Primal Phoenix, Kong Xuan, and Golden Roc while Heavenly Dao Hongjun prepared to intervene.
• The World-Destroying Mill vanished after Zhou Qingqing defeated it in the past Ferocious Beast Calamity and resealed the gateway to the Immeasurable Calamity.
• Primal Phoenix explained that Zhou Qingqing had altered the past, and the Saints realized she had caused the crisis to end.
• Zhou Qingqing appeared at the gateway at the ninth layer of Primordial Chaos as information about the Ferocious Beast Calamity spread to cultivators throughout the Primordial World.
• The Three Pure Ones told Heavenly Dao Hongjun that they had won, and he admitted defeat and promised to lend them a hand if they made it to the end.

Zhou Qingqing returned from the Ferocious Beast Calamity with the World-Destroying Mill’s location and restored the Great Dao, while the Three Pure Ones confronted Heavenly Dao Hongjun in Purple Cloud Palace. After Zhou Qingqing and Bai Ze arrived and witnessed the fight, the Three Pure Ones struck Hongjun hard enough to make him cough up blood, and Zhou Qingqing waited outside for them to finish.

• The Three Pure Ones challenged Heavenly Dao Hongjun over his scheme against Zhou Qingqing, and they began fighting in Purple Cloud Palace.
• Zhou Qingqing restored the Great Dao and healed the Saints at Southern Undying Fire Mountain, then told Bai Ze what had happened during the Ferocious Beast Calamity.
• Zhou Qingqing explained that she knew the World-Destroying Mill’s location but would wait for the Immeasurable Calamity before acting to claim it.
• Zhou Qingqing discovered that her masters were fighting Heavenly Dao Hongjun and brought Bai Ze to Purple Cloud Palace to watch.
• The Three Pure Ones combined their power and struck Hongjun until he coughed up blood, while Bai Ze recorded the scene in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
• After the palace gates closed, Bai Ze set out a table and stools, and Zhou Qingqing waited outside while cracking melon seeds.

Zhou Qingqing gathered Yun Zhongzi, Daoist Duobao, Great Master Xuandu, and Bai Ze outside Purple Cloud Palace while the Three Pure Ones fought Heavenly Dao Hongjun. After assigning Yun Zhongzi to cook, Duobao to replicate Lingbao for the myriad worlds, and Xuandu to play cards, she and the Three Pure Ones realized Xuandu’s cultivation of morality might help her deduce the End Fortune.

• Zhou Qingqing summoned Yun Zhongzi, Daoist Duobao, and Great Master Xuandu from the Primordial World to Chaos and asked Yun Zhongzi to cook with ingredients from the Ferocious Beast Calamity.
• Zhou Qingqing learned that Duobao had replicated the innate Lingbao and the Chaos Pearl, then tasked him with supplying replicated Lingbao to the myriad worlds.
• Zhou Qingqing invited Xuandu and Bai Ze to play Legends of the Three Kingdoms, while Duobao and Yun Zhongzi watched Xuandu struggle against them.
• The Three Pure Ones noticed Xuandu’s strong cultivation of morality and realized the End Fortune might complement it and help Zhou Qingqing deduce the World-Destroying Mill.

Zhou Qingqing transformed the mythological cards into an ordinary Three Kingdoms game and brought the World-Destroying Mill into the card game, demonstrating her version of the Dharma-Ending Age. The observers recognized the mill’s appearance, while Great Master Xuandu remained lost in thought.

• Bai Ze noticed that the game had stopped and returned his attention to studying the mythological cards.
• Bai Ze saw the cards change, and Daoist Duobao and Yun Zhongzi also sensed that something had happened.
• The Three Pure Ones realized Zhou Qingqing was turning Mythical Three Kingdoms Kill into ordinary Three Kingdoms Kill to enact the final fortune.
• A phantom of the World-Destroying Mill appeared in the game, startling the observers.
• Zhou Qingqing thought her simulated mill closely resembled the real one.

Qingqing’s words inspired Supreme Pure Laozi to see the Age of Dharma’s End as a call for the moral to save the world. As Heavenly Dao Hongjun attacked him, Laozi began using the battle to create his own Dao, potentially advancing to the Dao Creation Realm.

• Qingqing told Great Master Xuandu that in the Age of Dharma’s End, people of morality often saved the world, and the cards in his game lost their divine appearance.
• Supreme Pure Laozi heard Qingqing’s words and resolved that he should step forward to save living beings when the Age of Dharma’s End arrived.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun took advantage of Laozi’s distraction and prepared to attack him, but Laozi began reciting the Dao De Jing.
• Laozi told Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Upper Pure Master Tongtian not to intervene because he would treat Heavenly Dao Hongjun’s attack as the end times and enact his own path.
• Laozi faced Heavenly Dao Hongjun with the Taiji Diagram, Heavenly Emperor Mystic Yellow Exquisite Pagoda, and Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler as he began forging his own Dao.

Great Master Xuandu used the final fate of morality to transform his Xuandu Purple Mansion and attained Primordial Chaos. As Qingqing considered granting him the title Wondrous Joy Heavenly Venerate, Supreme Pure Laozi prepared to confront Heavenly Dao Hongjun.

• Great Master Xuandu recalled his past role in the Witch-Demon Calamity and recited passages from the Dao De Jing.
• Qingqing recognized that Xuandu was combining final fate with the qi of morality, and Supreme Pure Laozi realized his disciple’s breakthrough was going smoothly.
• Great Master Xuandu transformed his Purple Residence into Xuandu Cave, filled it with the laws of the Great Dao, and attained Primordial Chaos.
• Great Master Xuandu praised Eldest Sister in verse, and Bai Ze began recording his words in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
• Qingqing considered giving Xuandu his title, Wondrous Joy Heavenly Venerate, while Supreme Pure Laozi resolved to deal with Heavenly Dao Hongjun.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun frowned as Supreme Pure Laozi appeared ready to create his own path to Primordial Chaos.

Great Master Xuandu attained the Primordial Chaos and accepted the title Wondrous Joy Heavenly Venerate. His breakthrough encouraged Supreme Pure Laozi, who completed his own breakthrough inside Purple Cloud Palace.

• Great Master Xuandu accepted the honorific Wondrous Joy Heavenly Venerate from his eldest senior sister.
• Bai Ze realized Xuandu’s breakthrough had gone unnoticed and decided to spread the news to pressure Hongjun during his fight with the Three Pure Ones.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun sensed Xuandu’s attainment beyond Purple Cloud Palace and recognized that Xuandu had become a Saint without Primordial Purple Qi.
• Supreme Pure Laozi, spurred by Xuandu’s breakthrough, shortened the time needed to create his Dao and completed his breakthrough.

Supreme Pure Laozi created the Mystic Origin Great Dao and entered the Dao Creation Realm, then defeated Heavenly Dao Hongjun and left Purple Cloud Palace with the others. The group returned toward Three Pure Ones Heaven while Hongjun stayed behind to repair the palace.

• Great Master Xuandu displayed the majesty of Wondrous Joy Heavenly Venerate outside Purple Cloud Palace, then realized he had run out of words before announcing his venerable name.
• Purple Cloud Palace appeared beside Xuandu, Daoist Duobao, Yun Zhongzi, Bai Ze, and Zhou Qingqing, revealing that the Three Pure Ones were inside confronting Heavenly Dao Hongjun.
• Supreme Pure Laozi used One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones and the Great Dao of Pills to create the Mystic Origin Great Dao, entering the Dao Creation Realm.
• Supreme Pure Laozi manifested the transformations of creation and blasted Heavenly Dao Hongjun out of Purple Cloud Palace.
• Bai Ze recorded Supreme Pure Laozi’s achievement, and Supreme Pure Laozi led the others out of the palace toward Three Pure Ones Heaven.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun returned to Purple Cloud Palace and repaired it without speaking.

After Supreme Pure Laozi explained his newly created Great Dao of Origin, Zhou Qingqing and the other two Masters experienced its power firsthand. Qingqing then left Three Pure Ones Heaven for Blue Planet, while the Two Sages of the West remained trapped in the Heaven-Suppressing Coffin.

• The Three Pure Ones celebrated Supreme Pure Laozi’s Dao creation and Great Master Xuandu’s attainment of Sainthood, then Laozi explained the Dao Creation Realm to the gathered disciples.
• Laozi brought Qingqing, Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate, and Upper Pure Master Tongtian into his Dao Star to show them the Great Dao of Origin.
• Laozi struck the three with the power of his Great Dao, sending Qingqing flying onto her two Masters and giving them a firsthand sense of the Dao Creation Realm.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate asked Laozi to release the Two Sages of the West from the Heaven-Suppressing Coffin, but Laozi decided to keep them confined longer.
• Laozi sent Qingqing to Blue Planet to visit Sun Wukong, while he and his two younger brothers stayed behind to discuss the Dao.
• Bai Ze, Great Master Xuandu, Daoist Duobao, and Yun Zhongzi awoke from their insights and heard the undignified shouts of Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Upper Pure Master Tongtian.

Zhou Qingqing visited Six-Eared Macaque, Wuzhiqi, and Yuan Hong at Kan Source Mountain and warned them that Sun Wukong, now empowered by Shenni's power, would soon arrive. Sun Wukong came with his monkey horde, and the chapter ended as his Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils examined the three monkeys.

• Zhou Qingqing placed supreme-grade Flat Peaches outside Dirty Water Cave, drawing out Six-Eared Macaque, Wuzhiqi, and Yuan Hong.
• Zhou Qingqing told the three monkeys that Sun Wukong had mastered Shenni's power as the protagonist of the Ferocious Beast Calamity, then left to watch their encounter.
• Sun Wukong arrived at Kan Source Mountain with his monkey horde, drawn by the peaches' fragrance, and restrained the horde's excitement.
• Sun Wukong looked past the peaches, noticed Six-Eared Macaque, Wuzhiqi, and Yuan Hong, and used his Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils to examine them.

Zhou Qingqing arranged a confrontation between Sun Wukong and the other Four Monkeys of the World, then summoned Diting to identify the Intelligent Stone Monkey and test his thought-hearing ability. Diting heard the monkeys’ thoughts, revealed what he learned to Zhou Qingqing, and left with a gift meant to help him attain Dao and become a Saint.

• Sun Wukong used his Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils to discover that the three monkeys before him shared his origin, and the Six-Eared Macaque declared that the Four Monkeys of the World should fight when they met.
• The Six-Eared Macaque, Wuzhiqi, and Yuan Hong transformed into Sun Wukong and produced Golden-Hooped Staffs of their own, leaving Sun Wukong and his troop stunned.
• Zhou Qingqing summoned Diting from the Nine Nether Realm and asked him which of the four identical monkeys was the Intelligent Stone Monkey.
• Diting used his divine ability to hear the monkeys’ thoughts and learned that Zhou Qingqing had arranged the confrontation and that Sun Wukong was her disciple.
• Zhou Qingqing questioned Diting about what he had heard, then used Genesis to create a gift to help him improve his cultivation before sending him back through the Reincarnation passage.

Sun Wukong used the power of defiance and transformed to fight Six-Eared Macaque, Wuzhiqi, and Yuan Hong. After their combined attack failed to stop him, he unleashed his strongest strike, Ashes to Ashes, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Sun Wukong’s staff manifested black, purple, and red lotuses, revealing his power of defiance and making Six-Eared Macaque, Wuzhiqi, and Yuan Hong return to their original forms.
• Six-Eared Macaque blocked the black-lotus strike with the As-You-Wish Iron Staff, while Wuzhiqi and Yuan Hong countered the purple- and red-lotus strikes.
• Sun Wukong grew bored during the prolonged battle and fell asleep, but later awoke and began a true transformation modeled on Zhou Qingqing.
• Six-Eared Macaque, Wuzhiqi, and Yuan Hong joined their strength through Mischief School and manifested Demon King Muddles the World to attack Sun Wukong.
• Sun Wukong ignored their combined technique and struck with Ashes to Ashes, overwhelming them with force as his Golden Eyes returned.

Zhou Qingqing revealed Sun Wukong’s origins and the coming calamity, then arranged for Six-Eared Macaque, Wuzhiqi, and Yuan Hong to join his troop and pursue the path of Great Sages with him. She gave the four monkeys a new trial: to wreak havoc in the Heavenly Court and brave the Underworld without exposing her involvement.

• Sun Wukong discovered that the monkeys he had beaten were Six-Eared Macaque, Wuzhiqi, and Yuan Hong in disguise, and learned they were his martial uncles.
• Zhou Qingqing told Sun Wukong about his origins, Buddhism, the coming calamity, and the Great Sages; Sun Wukong resolved to pursue eternal existence by becoming a Great Sage.
• Zhou Qingqing invited Six-Eared Macaque, Wuzhiqi, and Yuan Hong to join Sun Wukong’s troop and become Great Sages alongside him, and Sun Wukong welcomed them.
• Zhou Qingqing gave the four monkeys Flat Peaches and assigned them a trial in the Heavenly Court and Underworld called Havoc in the Heavenly Court and Braving the Underworld.
• Sun Wukong declared that he would search the heavens and plunge into the Yellow Springs, while Zhou Qingqing told the three other monkeys to conceal their auras and not use her name.

Amitabha Buddha and Buddha Mother Zhunti emerged from the Heaven-Suppressing Coffin, learned how much the Primordial World had changed, and began planning to rebuild Buddhism. Zhunti traced the cause of the empty western lands to the White Lotus Sect and arrived intending to bring it into Buddhism.

• Amitabha Buddha carried the red-furred Buddha Mother Zhunti out of the Heaven-Suppressing Coffin and purified him until he awoke in the Land of Ultimate Bliss.
• Amitabha Buddha told Buddha Mother Zhunti that the Buddha Path would flourish in the coming calamity, while Zhunti discovered that Zhou Qingqing had become the Azure Lotus Dao Ancestor and Creation Dao Venerate.
• Zhou Qingqing left the Four Monkeys of the World to seek new entertainment, and Sun Wukong asked his three elder brothers about their master before Six-Eared Macaque began a long story.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti volunteered to find disciples and discovered that the western lands outside the Land of Ultimate Bliss were deserted.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti followed the merged karmic threads to the White Lotus Sect and decided that it could solve Buddhism’s lack of followers.

Buddha Mother Zhunti emerged from the Heaven-Suppressing Coffin and came to the White Lotus Sect, hoping to recruit its cultivators into Buddhism. After learning that the Queen Mother of the West led the sect, he set out to find her while she remained in seclusion.

• Buddha Mother Zhunti arrived at the White Lotus Sect and Fa Jie recognized him as the Saint who had been punished with the Heaven-Suppressing Coffin.
• The White Lotus Sect’s cultivators gathered, and Buddha Mother Zhunti discovered that many of them were fated with Buddhism, including Fa Jie and several Dragon Kings.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti asked for the sect’s name and leader, then relaxed slightly when the disciples named the Queen Mother of the West as their leader.
• Fa Jie told Buddha Mother Zhunti that the Queen Mother of the West was in seclusion and could not be reached.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti decided to find the Queen Mother of the West himself, and the Three Pure Ones let him proceed without intervening.

Buddha Mother Zhunti tried to reach the Queen Mother of the West through karma, but Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s Primordial Golden Chapter obstructed him. Inside the Kunlun Mirror, the Queen Mother of the West sensed karmic light arriving from the present.

• Buddha Mother Zhunti released his Karma Sarira to illuminate the White Lotus Sect and impress its disciples.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s Primordial Golden Chapter appeared and interfered with Zhunti’s attempt to trace karma to the Queen Mother of the West.
• Zhunti used essence blood to bypass the obstruction, while Zhou Qingqing laughed at his chanting and Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate was satisfied with his prank.
• The Queen Mother of the West reviewed scenes in the Kunlun Mirror and learned that Fairy Qingqing had altered the Ferocious Beast Calamity.
• The Queen Mother of the West sensed a ray of karmic light arriving from the present.

Buddha Mother Zhunti tried to recruit Queen Mother of the West and the White Lotus Sect into Buddhism, but she exposed his failure to recognize the sect’s ties to Zhou Qingqing. Zhunti remained determined to pursue cooperation, leaving Queen Mother of the West to answer his renewed offer.

• Queen Mother of the West left her mirror realm and confronted Buddha Mother Zhunti outside the White Lotus Sect.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti invited Queen Mother of the West to join Buddhism as a vice sect master and offered the White Lotus Sect a place in his teaching.
• Queen Mother of the West rejected the invitation, pointing out that Zhunti should have recognized the White Lotus Sect’s connection to her and Zhou Qingqing.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti realized he had deliberately overlooked that connection and searched unsuccessfully for Zhou Qingqing.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti proposed cooperating with Queen Mother of the West even if the White Lotus Sect was tied to Zhou Qingqing.

Queen Mother of the West rejected Buddha Mother Zhunti’s attempt to recruit her and defended the White Lotus Sect when he used a conversion ability on its followers. With their confrontation beginning, Zhou Qingqing noted that Zhunti had emerged from the Heaven-Suppressing Coffin before reforging his Seven Treasures Wondrous Tree, leaving him weakened.

• Queen Mother of the West refused to negotiate with Buddha Mother Zhunti, declaring that she had nothing to discuss with Buddhism.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti used his lotus-speaking divine ability in an attempt to forcibly convert the White Lotus Sect’s followers.
• Queen Mother of the West unleashed World-Purifying Light, restoring Fa Jie and the other followers to normal.
• Queen Mother of the West accused Buddha Mother Zhunti of using a Saint ability against her disciples and prepared to face him.
• Zhou Qingqing observed that Buddha Mother Zhunti was weakened because his Seven Treasures Wondrous Tree had not yet been reforged.