Chapter Summaries

Qingqing created a golden Swastika Symbol with the Thirty-Six-Grade Merit Golden Lotus, then reversed it using the Godslaying Spear. She split the reversed symbol among the Four Saint Girl Group, making them protagonists of the Calamity as they sensed the sealed Calamity stirring within Blue Planet.

• Zhou Jinjing and the others saw Qingqing manifest the Thirty-Six-Grade Merit Golden Lotus and create a golden Swastika Symbol.
• Qingqing changed into her Zhou Heiya form and summoned the Godslaying Spear, surprising the Four Saint Girl Group.
• Qingqing used the spear to hook and reverse the golden Swastika Symbol without destroying it.
• Qingqing split the reversed symbol into four portions and sent one into each member of the Four Saint Girl Group.
• The Four Saint Girl Group felt the sealed Calamity stirring within Blue Planet and became its protagonists.

Zhou Qingqing sent the Four Saint Girl Group to Blue Planet and planned to study Amitabha Buddha’s power over the myriad worlds. Supreme Pure Laozi and Upper Pure Master Tongtian tried to divert her attention by sending Turtle Spirit Holy Mother to travel with her, but Qingqing’s plans changed their scheme, and they decided to leave Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate exposed instead.

• Zhou Qingqing sent the Four Saint Girl Group to Blue Planet to deal with a rapidly growing opponent, then set out to study Amitabha Buddha’s reflection of the myriad worlds.
• Supreme Pure Laozi and Upper Pure Master Tongtian arranged for Turtle Spirit Holy Mother to seek an opportunity with Zhou Qingqing, hoping to keep Qingqing from exploring the myriad worlds alone.
• Yun Zhongzi learned that Upper Pure Master Tongtian wanted him to help Turtle Spirit, while Qingqing decided that she and Turtle Spirit could spread martial arts through the myriad worlds.
• Upper Pure Master Tongtian told Turtle Spirit to cultivate steadily, but she interpreted his instructions as encouragement to attain sainthood quickly and went to find Zhou Qingqing.
• Supreme Pure Laozi and Upper Pure Master Tongtian chose to conceal themselves and leave Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate to bear the burden of Qingqing’s attention.

Qingqing divined that Turtle Spirit should seek out Mystic Heaven, unknowingly directing her toward Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s projection. Turtle Spirit found Mystic Heaven in the myriad worlds and saw that he looked like a small child, while Laozi and Tongtian realized his embarrassing past was about to be exposed.

• Qingqing considered how to help Turtle Spirit improve her divination and used the River Map and Luo Scroll to seek an opportunity.
• Qingqing’s divination pointed her toward Mystic Heaven, and Laozi and Tongtian realized that Mystic Heaven was connected to True Martial and Second Brother’s projection.
• Yun Zhongzi noticed his Master’s killing intent after Laozi and Tongtian’s remarks about Mystic Heaven and True Martial.
• Qingqing told Turtle Spirit to find Mystic Heaven and spar with him, and Turtle Spirit eagerly began searching.
• Turtle Spirit could not divine Mystic Heaven’s origin but sensed immense power, then crossed countless realms to locate him.
• Turtle Spirit found Mystic Heaven looking like a small child, prompting Laozi and Tongtian to fall silent.

Zhou Qingqing realized Mystic Heaven was Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s projection and learned that Upper Pure Master Tongtian’s projection was the Crown Prince of the Pure Joy Kingdom. She planned to help Turtle Spirit disguise herself as a demon and challenge Mystic Heaven, leaving the Three Pure Ones worried about what their projections might face.

• Supreme Pure Laozi and Upper Pure Master Tongtian realized Qingqing was considering visiting their projections in the myriad worlds, and their amusement turned to apprehension.
• Yun Zhongzi noticed Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s aura settle, while Qingqing decided to help Turtle Spirit spread her ambitions and quietly observe Mystic Heaven.
• Qingqing deduced that Mystic Heaven was the Pure Joy Kingdom’s former Crown Prince, who had abandoned the throne to cultivate the Dao and eliminate demons.
• Qingqing proposed disguising Turtle Spirit with the Black Serpent Sword and Divine Turtle Shield so she could fight Mystic Heaven without revealing her origins.
• Supreme Pure Laozi and Upper Pure Master Tongtian urged Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate to focus on his breakthrough, then asked Yun Zhongzi for frozen tofu.

Zhou Qingqing intensified her guidance of Turtle Spirit Holy Mother, while the Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate began transforming into the Primordial Heavenly Demon and using the Causal Demon Path to create a Dao. The chapter ended as his Primordial Beginning and demon aspects fused, unleashing torrents of Great Dao.

• Zhou Qingqing guided Turtle Spirit Holy Mother through her duel with Mystic Heaven, strengthening Turtle Spirit's Dao heart.
• The Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate stirred in seclusion and revealed the aura of the Primordial Heavenly Demon, alarming Yun Zhongzi.
• Yun Zhongzi watched his master turn the golden Swastika Symbol of the Causal Buddha Path black, forming the Causal Demon Path.
• The Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate used the Pangu Banner to reverse the black Swastika Symbol and invoked the Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Primordial Heavenly Demon aspects of Primordial Beginning.
• The two aspects fused, and torrents of Great Dao filled the Three Pure Ones Hall as the Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate began creating a Dao.

Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate demonstrated the Pangu Banner’s mysteries as he created the Great Dao of Beginning and entered the Dao Creation Realm. He ordered Yun Zhongzi to be silent, while Supreme Pure Laozi and Upper Pure Master Tongtian understood that he was eager to settle Mystic Heaven and Turtle Spirit’s entanglement.

• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate used the Pangu Banner to demonstrate opening-heaven techniques, and Yun Zhongzi gained insights from his words and displays.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate declared that he would create the Great Dao of Beginning, and the new Dao emerged beneath Supreme Pure Laozi’s Great Dao of Origin.
• Supreme Pure Laozi concealed the signs of the new Dao’s birth, while Upper Pure Master Tongtian resolved to follow his own Heaven-Severing Sword Dao without a reference.
• Yun Zhongzi congratulated Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate on creating his Dao, but his master ordered him to be silent.
• Supreme Pure Laozi and Upper Pure Master Tongtian recognized that Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate wanted to resolve Mystic Heaven and Turtle Spirit’s entanglement, and credited Qingqing’s urging for hastening his breakthrough.

Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate revealed his Dao Creation Realm to Zhou Qingqing and helped Turtle Spirit Holy Mother gain insights that would lead her to sainthood. After hearing Zhou Qingqing’s thoughts about the inverted Swastika Symbol, he abruptly returned to the Three Pure Ones Hall, leaving Yun Zhongzi to guard Turtle Spirit as she prepared to attain the Dao.

• With Zhou Qingqing’s guidance, Turtle Spirit Holy Mother unleashed a powerful attack on Mystic Heaven, but he easily stopped her weapons and revealed himself as Second Martial Uncle.
• Zhou Qingqing emerged from the River Map and Luo Scroll, and Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate explained that he had recognized Turtle Spirit through their karmic connection after entering the Dao Creation Realm.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate used his insights into the Great Dao of Beginning to unite Turtle Spirit’s True Martial and Mystic Heaven insights, giving her a path toward attaining the Primordial Chaos Dao.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate told Zhou Qingqing about his breakthrough and the inverted Swastika Symbol, then vanished with Turtle Spirit when her thoughts suggested questions he could not answer.
• Back in the Three Pure Ones Hall, Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate told Yun Zhongzi that his projection had helped Turtle Spirit and ordered him to guard her while she absorbed her insights and attained the Dao.

Zhou Qingqing created a Dream-Eating Tapir to carry her toward Amitabha Buddha’s Dream World, while the Three Pure Ones watched Bodhidharma begin his ascent to Spirit Mountain on Blue Planet. The chapter leaves Qingqing eager to study the Reversed Swastika Symbol through Bodhidharma’s rise, as Buddha Mother Zhunti welcomed his next move.

• Zhou Qingqing used the Nightmare Demon God’s Great Dao as a foundation and created the Dream-Eating Tapir, engraving its divine name into the Great Dao.
• Bai Ze captured the new name, recorded the Dream-Eating Tapir in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and credited its creation to Fairy Qingqing.
• Zhou Qingqing decorated the Dream-Eating Tapir and rode it toward Amitabha Buddha’s Dream World while planning to watch the events unfold.
• Zhou Qingqing learned that Bodhidharma had finished facing the wall and was setting foot on Spirit Mountain, and she planned to study the Reversed Swastika Symbol through his growth.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti sensed Bodhidharma’s arrival at Spirit Mountain and smiled, believing he still had a chance to surpass expectations.

Bodhidharma ascended Spirit Mountain and gathered immense Fortune as he declared himself supreme, while Qingqing and the Heavenly Venerates considered the Two Sages of the West’s strategy to disguise him as a non-Buddhist. Bodhidharma’s status as the Calamity’s protagonist began accelerating his strength and comprehension.

• Buddha Mother Zhunti invoked Buddha as Bodhidharma’s vital energy erupted on Spirit Mountain and gathered boundless Fortune.
• Bodhidharma appeared in a phantom and declared, “Above heaven and below earth, I alone am supreme!”
• The Heavenly Venerates in Three Pure Ones Hall heard Qingqing’s inner voice and considered whether Bodhidharma belonged to Buddhism.
• The Heavenly Venerates agreed that the Two Sages of the West had sent Bodhidharma to Spirit Mountain to make others believe he was not a Buddhist disciple.
• Bodhidharma’s Fortune began to increase his strength and comprehension as he became the Calamity’s protagonist.

Zhou Qingqing observed Bodhidharm’s rise and realized he had altered Daoist cultivation methods to conceal his identity while developing Buddhism on Blue Planet. The Three Pure Ones recognized that the reversed golden Swastika Symbol was influencing both Bodhidharm and the turbulent course of Blue Planet’s dynasties, and they continued watching from beyond it.

• Zhou Qingqing watched Bodhidharm develop Mahayana Buddhism and suspected he would reveal the Seventy-Two Supreme Skills and the Muscle Tendon Classic.
• The Three Pure Ones considered Bodhidharm’s methods and understood the significance of his karmic ties to Buddha Mother Zhunti.
• Bodhidharm revealed the Seventy-Two Supreme Skills and a magically altered Muscle Tendon Classic derived from Daoist cultivation methods.
• Zhou Qingqing realized the reversed golden Swastika Symbol had boosted Bodhidharm and influenced Blue Planet’s fortunes and dynastic development.
• The Three Pure Ones agreed that placing the Calamity on Blue Planet let them observe it from a broader perspective, then chose not to look directly at the planet.

Buddha Mother Zhunti decided to establish a Buddhist dynasty on Blue Planet and avoid repeating his mistakes from the Investiture of the Gods Calamity. Bodhidharma founded the Golden Summit Royal Court, setting a new source of turmoil in motion.

• Buddha Mother Zhunti praised Bodhidharma’s remade Muscle Tendon Classic and Seventy-Two Supreme Skills, then resolved to build a dynasty centered on Spirit Mountain.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti reconsidered the threat posed by Zhou Qingqing and planned to spread Buddhist teachings eastward after establishing his royal court.
• Bodhidharma descended from Spirit Mountain and used the Muscle Tendon Classic and Seventy-Two Supreme Skills to subdue the surrounding forces.
• Bodhidharma declared the new realm the Golden Summit Royal Court.
• The Heavenly Venerates in the Three Pure Ones Hall realized that Buddha Mother Zhunti had again fallen into a trap connected to his own disciple.

Buddha Mother Zhunti watched Bodhidharma establish the Golden Summit Royal Court, enabling the Buddha Heart Seal to spread through the Human Dao. Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate summoned Guangchengzi and ordered him to keep the Buddha Path’s protagonist from surpassing him in the Seal Dao.

• Bodhidharma established the Golden Summit Royal Court smoothly, and Buddha Mother Zhunti saw its dynastic power as a means to cultivate and spread the Buddha Heart Seal across Blue Planet.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate recognized that Bodhidharma’s Buddha Heart Seal relied on the Seal Dao and decided to intervene.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate summoned Guangchengzi from Mount Zhou to Three Pure Ones Hall.
• Guangchengzi demonstrated how he had infused the Overturning Heaven Seal with Mount Zhou’s ancient aura, earning his master’s praise.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate told Guangchengzi that a Buddha Path protagonist was cultivating the Buddha Heart Seal and that Guangchengzi must not let him surpass him in the Seal Dao.

Zhou Qingqing used hearts in perfect accord to develop a Primordial World Seal for Guangchengzi, prompting Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate to create a seal technique of his own. Qingqing finished her seal with surprising ease, while Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate also gained insight.

• Zhou Qingqing noticed Guangchengzi's Fate Star moving toward the Path of Seals and suspected Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate had acted.
• Zhou Qingqing decided to combine seal techniques she had learned from Second Master with hearts in perfect accord to create a Primordial World Seal for Guangchengzi.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate feared Qingqing's seal might surpass his own and began creating a more powerful seal technique.
• Supreme Pure Laozi and Upper Pure Master Tongtian sensed Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate's effort and reflected that Qingqing's talent had outshone her fellow disciples.
• Zhou Qingqing quickly deduced the Primordial World Seal using her Primordial Grand Seal, hearts in perfect accord, and the Fate Lotus.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate gained insight as well, and Supreme Pure Laozi and Upper Pure Master Tongtian sensed his success.

Zhou Qingqing and Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate sent Guangchengzi the Primordial World Seal and Primordial Beginning Heart Seal, and the Three Pure Ones Hall became the setting for the seals’ contest. Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate shielded the hall and explained the demonstration as a lesson, leaving the juniors to study the two seals’ principles.

• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate gave Guangchengzi the Primordial Beginning Heart Seal after praising his cultivation of the Primordial Grand Seal.
• Zhou Qingqing’s decree reached the Three Pure Ones Hall and formed the Primordial World Seal, which she had set to activate there.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate shielded the hall and told Yun Zhongzi, Guangchengzi, and Turtle Spirit Holy Mother to observe the seal’s mysteries.
• The Primordial World Seal erupted, and Guangchengzi recognized that it embodied the Primordial World of the current dimension.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate set his Primordial Beginning Heart Seal against it and explained that its principle was that his heart was the heart of Heaven.

The Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate demonstrated the Primordial Beginning Heart Seal against Qingqing's Primordial World Seal, secretly relying on the Pangu Banner when his seal fell short. The seals then helped Guangchengzi develop his own Dao Seal, which took the form of a brick.

• The Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate matched his cultivation to Qingqing's and clashed the Primordial Beginning Heart Seal against the Primordial World Seal.
• The Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate handed the Primordial World Seal to Guangchengzi and taught him to study both seals for his own Seal Dao.
• Supreme Pure Laozi and Upper Pure Master Tongtian realized the Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate had secretly used the Pangu Banner to strengthen his seal.
• The Primordial Beginning Heart Seal and Primordial World Seal merged with Guangchengzi's other seals, transforming his aura and advancing his Fate Star.
• Guangchengzi resolved to take the spirit of the Overturning Heaven Seal and forge his own seal in the shape of a brick.

Turtle Spirit Holy Mother found a way to use True Martial and Mystic Heaven to forge her own path to the Saint Dao, but the Northern Abyss began freezing and assimilating her. Master Tongtian prepared to guide her toward a better method as her breakthrough began.

• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate and the others considered how Guangchengzi’s brick-shaped Dao Seal had helped Turtle Spirit Holy Mother and earned him the imagined title Holy Mother Assistant.
• Turtle Spirit Holy Mother said that Guangchengzi had revealed the key to her breakthrough, and Yun Zhongzi realized she had gained insight from his fusion of the Primordial World Seal and the Primordial Beginning Heart Seal.
• Turtle Spirit Holy Mother chose to use True Martial and Mystic Heaven to forge her own path, and her Fate Star began to transform into a sea.
• The Northern Abyss’s freezing force threatened to assimilate Turtle Spirit Holy Mother, making her chances of attaining the Dao extremely low.
• Master Tongtian rejected lending Turtle Spirit Holy Mother the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords and reminded her of his Tongtian River.

Turtle Spirit Holy Mother used Tongtian’s Dao arts to break through the Northern abyss’s Arctic ice and successfully attained sainthood. Tongtian sent a drop of her Source of the Dao to Blue Planet, where it became the Tongtian River.

• Tongtian urged Turtle Spirit Holy Mother to use his Dao arts and seize a sliver of life from the pressure of the Northern abyss.
• Turtle Spirit Holy Mother turned the Tongtian River into a longsword and used it to break the Arctic ice.
• Turtle Spirit Holy Mother swept the sword in seven directions, vaporizing the ice and attaining the Dao as the Source of the Dao.
• Tongtian sent a drop of Turtle Spirit Holy Mother’s Source of the Dao to Blue Planet and named it the Tongtian River.
• Zhou Qingqing recognized Turtle Spirit Holy Mother’s successful breakthrough, and Tongtian noted that the saint-blessed river would be a blessed place for cultivation.

Turtle Spirit Holy Mother completed her task by casting a piece of turtle shell bearing the former North Sea Demon God's fate into the Heaven-Reaching River, while Zhou Qingqing anticipated Bodhidharma encountering Guangchengzi’s bricklike Dao Seal. Buddha Mother Zhunti then felt their karmic connection flare and learned that a golden brick had obstructed Bodhidharma’s improving Buddha Heart Seal.

• The eldest Heavenly Venerate guided Turtle Spirit Holy Mother to cast part of her shell into the Heaven-Reaching River, and she did so with the former North Sea Demon God's fate attached.
• Zhou Qingqing recognized that the shell could become the river’s missing Old Turtle, and the Heavenly Venerates praised the development.
• The Heavenly Venerates sent Yun Zhongzi and Turtle Spirit Holy Mother to their Dao grounds and told Turtle Spirit to have Bai Ze record the river and Old Turtle.
• Bai Ze recorded the Heavenly Venerates’ instructions and suspected Guangchengzi remained in Three Pure Ones Hall because he was needed for the conflict with the Buddha Path.
• Zhou Qingqing imagined Bodhidharma’s improving Buddha Heart Seal running into Guangchengzi’s bricklike Dao Seal, and Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate welcomed the prospect.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti sensed trouble through his karmic link with Bodhidharma and discovered that a golden brick had blocked the Buddha Heart Seal.

Buddha Mother Zhunti blamed Guangchengzi’s brick-shaped Dao Seal for obstructing Bodhidharma’s Buddha Heart Seal and sent Shakra and Great Brahma to challenge Guangchengzi under the pretext of practicing seal arts. As Shakra and Great Brahma prepared to act, Zhou Qingqing wondered whether Bodhidharma might become Shakyamuni in this trajectory.

• Buddha Mother Zhunti learned that Guangchengzi’s brick-shaped Dao Seal had disrupted Bodhidharma’s cultivation and decided not to intervene personally.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti summoned Shakra and Great Brahma and tasked them with using seal arts to affect Guangchengzi’s cultivation.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti taught Shakra and Great Brahma the Bodhi Seal and Supreme Bodhi Seal, warning them to make their challenge look like cultivation.
• The Three Pure Ones observed Buddha Mother Zhunti’s plan and expected Shakra and Great Brahma’s seal arts to temper Guangchengzi.
• Zhou Qingqing wondered whether Bodhidharma could become Shakyamuni, also known as Gautama, in this trajectory.

Buddha Mother Zhunti helped Shakra and Great Brahma master the Supreme Bodhi Seal, but their attack ran into Guangchengzi’s brick city wall and was completely countered. Shakra and Great Brahma were left battered, while Zhunti realized he had overlooked Guangchengzi’s Overturning Heaven Seal.

• Buddha Mother Zhunti used the Causal Buddha Path to guide Shakra and Great Brahma from the Bodhi Seal to the Supreme Bodhi Seal.
• Shakra and Great Brahma combined their powers to form a jeweled canopy and crystal longsword, summoning a phantom Buddha that declared, “I alone am honored.”
• The Supreme Bodhi Seal struck Guangchengzi’s bricks, which split apart and formed a city wall bearing the words “Overturning Heaven.”
• The Overturning Heaven Seal countered the Supreme Bodhi Seal, leaving cracks in Shakra and Great Brahma’s Primordial Spirits.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti saw Shakra and Great Brahma left physically and spiritually listless and realized Guangchengzi’s specialty had defeated them.