Chapter Summaries

Queen Mother of the West used the Kunlun Mirror and Vacuum Homeland to overpower Buddha Mother Zhunti, who had just emerged from the Heaven-Suppressing Coffin. When Amitabha Buddha arrived to intervene, Zhou Qingqing appeared, and he pretended to punish his junior brother while secretly preparing to revive him through the Buddha Path.

• Buddha Mother Zhunti threatened Queen Mother of the West after she refused to join Buddhism, and she mocked his claim of friendship from Purple Cloud Palace.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti attacked with the Empowerment Divine Pestle, but Queen Mother of the West invoked the Buddha Path and expanded her white lotus into the Vacuum Homeland.
• Queen Mother of the West used the Kunlun Mirror to trap Buddha Mother Zhunti and whip him around until Amitabha Buddha arrived to help his junior brother.
• Zhou Qingqing appeared, and Amitabha Buddha recognized that her realm was about equal to his before claiming he would punish Buddha Mother Zhunti for offending the White Lotus Sect.
• Amitabha Buddha used a Buddhist scripture and gathered divine light to sever Buddha Mother Zhunti, intending to revive him with the Buddha Path, while Zhou Qingqing saw through his plan.

Zhou Qingqing stopped Amitabha Buddha from using the Supernatural Power of Exhaustion of Outflows, and he negotiated Buddha Mother Zhunti’s release by yielding the western lands to Queen Mother of the West and allowing her to draw on the Buddha Path. After the sages departed, Amitabha Buddha and Buddha Mother Zhunti used the Buddha Path’s origin to evolve the Three Realms and Twenty-Eight Heavens, which Supreme Pure Laozi recognized as an exquisite cage.

• Zhou Qingqing blocked Amitabha Buddha’s divine ability, and he offered to stop recruiting in the western lands and let Queen Mother of the West draw on the Buddha Path in exchange for Buddha Mother Zhunti’s release.
• Queen Mother of the West accepted Amitabha Buddha’s terms, put away the Vacuum Homeland and Kunlun Mirror, and let the two Buddhist sages leave.
• Amitabha Buddha told Buddha Mother Zhunti that they had lost the initiative while sealed in the Heaven-Suppressing Coffin and that securing the Buddha Path’s foundation mattered more than finding disciples.
• Amitabha Buddha and Buddha Mother Zhunti activated the Buddha Path’s origin to evolve the Three Realms and Twenty-Eight Heavens above the Land of Ultimate Bliss.
• Zhou Qingqing explained the Buddhist sages’ undertaking to Queen Mother of the West, while Supreme Pure Laozi discerned that the Twenty-Eight Heavens resembled an exquisite cage.

Amitabha Buddha and Buddha Mother Zhunti established the Twenty-Eight Heavens, while Sun Wukong and the other three monkeys set out to challenge the Blue Planet’s Nine Heavens. Zhou Qingqing then decided to create four additional heavens with Queen Mother of the West, using the Kunlun Mirror and White Lotus.

• Amitabha Buddha and Buddha Mother Zhunti established the Twenty-Eight Heavens, leaving former Buddhist disciples who served the Heavenly Court longing to return to Buddhism.
• Haotian and Yaochi discussed Buddhism’s rise and prepared for Blue Planet cultivators to challenge Haotian’s position.
• Sun Wukong led the Six-Eared Macaque, Wuzhiqi, and Yuan Hong toward the Nine Heavens on his enlarged As-You-Will Gold-Banded Staff.
• Zhou Qingqing told Queen Mother of the West that Sun Wukong was entering an ultra-high-difficulty instance, then proposed creating four heavens together.
• Queen Mother of the West brought out the Kunlun Mirror as Zhou Qingqing began creating the Four Heavens, drawing the Three Pure Ones’ interest in her approach.

Bai Ze recorded the western saints’ construction of Buddhism’s Twenty-Eight Heavens and worried that Queen Mother of the West might struggle to restrain them. As the final two heavens remained unfinished, a gigantic White Lotus appeared and flooded heaven and earth with purifying light.

• The Three Pure Ones stopped listening as Qingqing prepared to teach Queen Mother of the West, and Supreme Pure Laozi returned to discussing the Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler.
• Bai Ze recorded the western saints’ rise from the Heaven-Suppressing Coffin and the construction of their Twenty-Eight Heavens.
• Bai Ze worried that newly sanctified Queen Mother of the West might not be able to restrain the two western saints.
• The western saints raised twenty-six heavens, drawing the attention of cultivators across the Primordial World.
• A tremendous boom sounded, and a gigantic White Lotus emerged, filling heaven and earth with purifying light.

The Queen Mother of the West and Zhou Qingqing created four heavens within the Vacuum Homeland, drawing widespread admiration and claiming a share of the Buddha Path’s power. The chapter leaves Amitabha Buddha and Buddha Mother Zhunti frustrated as their own Twenty-Eight Heavens lose ground to the women’s creation.

• The Queen Mother of the West manifested the Vacuum Homeland and Four Heavens in the west, and cultivators recognized the aura of a Saint.
• Supreme Pure Laozi said the Four Heavens embodied liberation rather than the imprisonment he saw in Buddhism’s Twenty-Eight Heavens.
• Bai Ze recorded that the Green Lotus Dao Venerable and the Queen Mother of the West had built the Four Heavens within the Vacuum Homeland, preceding Buddhism.
• Shennong, the Human Sovereign, and Fuxi praised the Four Heavens’ human feeling and credited Zhou Qingqing’s leadership.
• Amitabha Buddha and Buddha Mother Zhunti realized the Four Heavens had siphoned away some of the Buddha Path’s source power, but they could not confront the women.

The Queen Mother of the West completed the Esoteric Yidam Mandala Heaven Realm with Zhou Qingqing’s help, merging its Four Heavens into the Vacuum Homeland and claiming part of the Buddha Path’s origins. In the Land of Ultimate Bliss, Amitabha Buddha accepted the setback while Zhunti worried that Zhou Qingqing would draw cultivators away from Buddhism.

• The Queen Mother of the West completed her Heaven Realm through Supreme Yoga and integrated the remaining Four Heavens into the Vacuum Homeland.
• The Queen Mother of the West discovered that the Twenty-Eight Heavens were complete and that she had gained more Buddha Path origins.
• Zhou Qingqing explained her achievement with the words “Buddha Is Dao,” leaving the Queen Mother of the West astonished.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti complained that the Queen Mother of the West and the White Lotus Sect had taken Buddhism’s limelight, while Amitabha Buddha conceded the setback.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti worried that Zhou Qingqing would divert cultivators from Buddhism, and Amitabha Buddha turned his gaze toward Blue Planet.

Amitabha Buddha and Buddha Mother Zhunti planned to recruit disciples from the myriad worlds and the dream world, with Zhunti projecting into the myriad worlds to draw Zhou Qingqing’s attention. Zhou Qingqing sent former Buddhist disciples to hunt the projections, and Supreme Pure Laozi transported Daoist Duobao to join them.

• Amitabha Buddha told Buddha Mother Zhunti to recruit disciples from the myriad worlds while he sought followers through the dream world.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti projected golden Buddha light into the myriad worlds to recruit disciples and divert Zhou Qingqing and the Queen Mother of the West.
• Zhou Qingqing told the Queen Mother of the West that her junior brothers and junior sisters would confront Zhunti’s projections instead.
• The Heavenly Venerates prepared their disciples to enter the myriad worlds, while Supreme Pure Laozi sent Daoist Duobao to the western lands.
• Zhou Qingqing welcomed Daoist Duobao, and Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Upper Pure Master Tongtian lamented that Laozi had acted faster than they had.

Zhou Qingqing received a group of Daoist School disciples sent by the Three Pure Ones and assigned them to disrupt Buddha Mother Zhunti’s recruitment efforts across the Myriad Worlds. She left Daoist Duobao in command and planned to keep watch on Zhunti’s projections from the Dream World.

• Daoist Duobao and other Daoist School disciples arrived at the White Lotus Sect, where they greeted Zhou Qingqing as their eldest senior sister.
• Yun Zhongzi tried to leave Three Pure Ones Heaven but was summoned by the Three Pure Ones and ordered to cook for them.
• Zhou Qingqing told the disciples to hunt down or disrupt Buddha Mother Zhunti’s projections recruiting disciples in the Myriad Worlds.
• Zhou Qingqing placed Daoist Duobao in command of the mission, and the disciples went to follow his lead.
• Zhou Qingqing planned to watch Zhunti’s projections from the Dream World, where her Gourd Little King Kong was also present.

Yun Zhongzi learned that Daoism’s core disciples had been sent across the myriad worlds to confront Buddha Mother Zhunti’s projections, while Queen Mother of the West used the Buddha Path and Kunlun Mirror to search for them. The search located Cihang Daoist and a projection in the world of Legend of the White Snake, where Zhou Qingqing suspected Zhunti might recruit Fahai.

• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate told Yun Zhongzi that Duobao and several other core disciples had been sent into the myriad worlds to fight Buddha Mother Zhunti’s projections.
• Zhou Qingqing sensed that the Dream World’s gourd remained inactive and decided to check where her junior brothers and sisters had gone.
• Zhou Qingqing urged Queen Mother of the West to use her Buddha Path power to search for Buddha Mother Zhunti, and Queen Mother of the West revealed traces through the Kunlun Mirror.
• Amitabha Buddha sensed Queen Mother of the West’s search, then entered the Dream World, believing Zhou Qingqing and Queen Mother of the West were distracted.
• Queen Mother of the West found Buddha Mother Zhunti’s projection and Cihang Daoist in a world that Zhou Qingqing recognized as Legend of the White Snake.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate heard Zhou Qingqing imagine Cihang using Fahai’s famous incantation and concluded that the world was doomed.

Cihang Daoist descended into a world resembling Blue Planet and used her Willow Pure Dew Vase to search for a way to break its impasse. The willow leaves led her to Bai Suzhen before Xu Xian appeared, leaving her poised to meet the white snake.

• Cihang Daoist sensed that her cultivation was suppressed after descending into the world and believed clues to her task would be there.
• In Three Pure Ones Heaven, Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate claimed his words had strengthened Cihang's confidence, while Supreme Pure Laozi and Upper Pure Master Tongtian listened.
• Cihang Daoist prayed to her Eldest Senior Sister and used the Willow Pure Dew Vase, Three Lights Divine Water, and Willow Branch to divine the way forward.
• Cihang recognized that someone in the world possessed an item belonging to her Eldest Senior Sister and recalled a past Blue Planet event involving Junior Brother Yellow Dragon, Houtu's Flying Serpent, and Lady Nuwa.
• The Willow Branch pointed Cihang toward Bai Suzhen, and she found the white snake before Xu Xian appeared.

Cihang watched Bai Suzhen undergo heavenly punishment as she tried to transform, while the Three Pure Ones observed her choices. When Xu Xian appeared as a possible rescuer, Cihang decided to save Bai Suzhen herself.

• Cihang used Golden Light Escape to reach Bai Suzhen, whose accumulated fortune had drawn heavenly punishment as she neared transformation.
• Bai Suzhen met the lightning punishment head-on and was badly injured.
• The Three Pure Ones discussed Bai Suzhen’s fortune and the possibility that Xu Xian would save her, while Qingqing watched Cihang consider her choice.
• Cihang saw the cowherd approach and decided that a mortal could not save Bai Suzhen, so she would intervene herself.

Cihang healed Bai Suzhen with the Three Lights Divine Water and prepared to take her as a disciple, but a Jade Purity talismanic decree assigned Bai Suzhen to Wudang instead. Cihang then told Bai Suzhen that the cowherd boy Xu Xian had once shared immortal fate with her, but that their fate had been extinguished by Cihang’s intervention.

• Cihang used the Three Lights Divine Water to heal Bai Suzhen, who transformed into a woman and thanked her.
• The Jade Purity talismanic decree arrived and placed Bai Suzhen under Wudang, whose cultivation methods entered Bai Suzhen’s primordial spirit.
• Cihang told Bai Suzhen that Xu Xian shared a measure of immortal fate with her, but Cihang’s appearance had extinguished it.
• Cihang said Xu Xian could temper himself and begin anew with Bai Suzhen if their fate returned, then concealed them from the cowherd boy.

Buddha Mother Zhunti found Fahai and made him the founding master of Gold Mountain Temple, while Cihang trained Bai Suzhen to oppose him. The chapter ended as Bai Suzhen raised a vast flood over Gold Mountain Temple and prepared to fight Fahai.

• Buddha Mother Zhunti used reversed karma to summon a man, named him Fahai, and ordered him to establish Gold Mountain Temple.
• Cihang recognized Gold Mountain Temple as her target and decided to train Bai Suzhen and Green Snake to challenge Fahai.
• Zhou Qingqing noticed that Cihang was copying the methods she had used to teach her disciples.
• Bai Suzhen led a flood against Gold Mountain Temple, and Fahai emerged to confront her.
• Bai Suzhen formed a vast Heavenly Net of water over Gold Mountain Temple as Fahai invoked Buddhist techniques.

Bai Suzhen overwhelmed Fahai in their battle, then broke free of his Karmic Chains by growing large enough to encircle the entire minor world. Buddha Mother Zhunti recognized her immense ties to Nuwa, Houtu, and the Heavenly Dao, accepted defeat in the struggle of lineages, and abandoned Fahai.

• Fahai used his kasaya, Buddhist light, and the Mighty Heavenly Dragon to defend against Bai Suzhen’s summoned waves.
• Bai Suzhen’s flood submerged Gold Mountain Temple and shattered Fahai’s divine abilities, but Fahai bound her with Karmic Chains that formed a Leifeng Pagoda.
• Bai Suzhen reverted to her snake form, grew beyond the minor world, and coiled around it to break the chains’ suppression.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti sensed the powers of Nuwa, Houtu, and the Heavenly Dao in Bai Suzhen and realized he had lost to Cihang Daoist’s lineage.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti gave up on rescuing Fahai and accepted that Gold Mountain Temple would become ruins.

After Buddha Mother Zhunti attempted to convert Cihang Daoist to the fruition of Guanyin Bodhisattva, Cihang turned the interference into a transformation of her own power. She sent Bai Suzhen and Little Qing to Mount Li before pursuing Buddha Mother Zhunti through the myriad worlds.

• Buddha Mother Zhunti recited "Namo Guanyin Bodhisattva" as he departed, trying to reshape Cihang Daoist's understanding through the Buddha Path.
• Bai Suzhen recognized that the disorder in Cihang Daoist's thousand hands and eyes came from outside interference and warned Little Qing against intervening.
• Cihang Daoist severed her disordered hands and eyes, transformed them into a fish basket, and advanced her cultivation.
• Cihang Daoist sent Bai Suzhen and Little Qing to Mount Li and left to pursue Buddha Mother Zhunti through the myriad worlds.
• Bai Suzhen and Little Qing arrived at Mount Li, where a powerful female immortal appeared before them.

The Three Pure Ones Heavenly Venerates praised their disciples’ progress across the myriad worlds, especially Julu Sun’s attempt to detain Buddha Mother Zhunti’s projection and Duobao’s use of Lingbao to destroy it. Buddha Mother Zhunti continued sending projections into worlds, where Daoism disciples repeatedly hunted them down.

• The Three Pure Ones Heavenly Venerates observed that Cihang Daoist had completed Zhou Qingqing’s task smoothly and that the other disciples were making progress.
• Wenshu and Dragon-Head Immortal fought as comrades, while Puxian and Spiritual Tusk Immortal also became allies despite their past grudges.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate told Yun Zhongzi that Julu Sun was attempting to detain Buddha Mother Zhunti’s projection in a low-dimensional world.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti sent a new projection into another world, but a swarm of Lingbao destroyed it as soon as it arrived.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti recognized Duobao’s replicated Lingbao as an especially effective way to destroy his projections, while Upper Pure Master Tongtian and Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate took pride in their disciples.

Zhou Qingqing entered the dream world to check on the Vajra Gourd and discovered it had devoured the Vajra Division. She reclaimed the gourd and planned to help it consume Buddhism’s other divisions while Amitabha Buddha pursued his own business elsewhere.

• Zhou Qingqing asked Queen Mother of the West to watch over her junior brothers and sisters, then used the Sleep Immortal Art to enter the dream world.
• Zhou Qingqing followed the Vajra Gourd’s signal and found it in a corner of the dream world where the Vajra Division had become nothingness.
• Zhou Qingqing summoned the Vajra Gourd into her hand and sensed that devouring the Vajra Division had increased its spirituality.
• Amitabha Buddha discovered the Vajra Division was gone, but entered the Buddha Division without searching for the Vajra Gourd.
• Zhou Qingqing said she would try to help the Vajra Gourd devour Buddhism’s remaining divisions.

Zhou Qingqing reached the Buddha Division and found it guarded by the Five Directions Buddha Heart Mantra, while the Heavenly Venerates of Three Pure Ones Heaven explained Buddhism’s wisdoms, poisons, and elements to Yun Zhongzi. Qingqing began using her Five Primordials, Five Virtues, and Five Fortunes to counter the formation.

• Zhou Qingqing put away the Vajra Gourd and headed toward the Buddha Division, where she found Heart Mantras encircling it.
• The Heavenly Venerates of Three Pure Ones Heaven discussed how Bai Ze had mastered Buddhism’s Five Wisdoms, including the wisdom Amitabha Buddha had lost.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Upper Pure Master Tongtian explained Buddhism’s Five Poisons and Five Great Elements to Yun Zhongzi.
• Zhou Qingqing laughed at the element called Empty Great, and Upper Pure Master Tongtian struggled to continue while she joked about whiffing an ultimate.
• Zhou Qingqing drew on the innate five qi, Five Virtues, and Five Fortunes to face the Heart Mantra formation.

Zhou Qingqing entered the Buddha Division undetected and used the Vajra Gourd to absorb the Dream World’s divisions while Amitabha Buddha brought Shakra and other Buddhist followers into the Twenty-Eight Heavens. As the Vajra Realm vanished into the gourd, Amitabha Buddha realized Zhou Qingqing was nurturing a Lingbao’s spiritual consciousness.

• Zhou Qingqing passed through Amitabha Buddha’s Five Buddhas Heart Mantra and recognized that he was using Jieyin to bring Shakra into the Dream World.
• Zhou Qingqing appeared in the center of the Buddha Division while Amitabha Buddha continued his irreversible act of Jieyin.
• Zhou Qingqing enlarged the Vajra Gourd with Dao Venerable mana, causing it to absorb the Vajra Realm’s divisions as Amitabha Buddha refrained from intervening.
• Di Jun and Lu Ya sensed a change involving the gourd, and Di Jun recognized that its transformation was taking place in the west.
• The Vajra Gourd absorbed the Treasure Division and Karma Division, and Amitabha Buddha saw spiritual consciousness beginning to form within it.

Amitabha Buddha accelerated the arrival of Buddhist followers by chanting a scripture associated with the Vedic Age. Shakra manifested as ruler of the Twenty-Eight Heavens, but a gigantic gourd swallowed the place where he stood.

• Amitabha Buddha increased his efforts to bring Shakra and the other Buddhist followers into the Dream World by chanting a scripture.
• The Three Pure Ones recognized that the scripture described Amitabha Buddha as a Dao-founding powerhouse and listened as it imparted knowledge of the Vedic Age.
• Amitabha Buddha’s chanting sped up the arrival of Buddhist followers, and Shakra appeared wearing a jeweled crown and riding a six-tusked white elephant.
• Shakra arrived to rule the Twenty-Eight Heavens and felt honored to have been summoned by Amitabha Buddha.
• A gigantic gourd appeared and swallowed the place where Shakra and his attendants stood, filling the surroundings with sacred vajra intent.