Chapter Summaries

Buddha Mother Zhunti sent Shakra and Great Brahma back to challenge Guangchengzi with a Wish-Granting Seal strengthened by their prayers. Guangchengzi faced the new attack with confidence in the seals taught by his master and senior sister, while the Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate believed he could withstand it.

• Buddha Mother Zhunti erased the effects of Guangchengzi's Overturning Heaven Seal from Shakra and Great Brahma, then offered to teach them another seal technique.
• Shakra and Great Brahma prayed to Buddha Mother Zhunti ten thousand times and gained the power of the Wish-Granting Seal combined with the Fearlessness Mudra.
• The Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate explained that the seal's power depended on wishes and karma, while his disciple secretly watched the events unfold.
• Guangchengzi sensed two Buddha images approaching from the west and recognized their Fearlessness Seal as a threat to his Dao seal.
• Guangchengzi declared that the seals taught by his senior sister and master could answer his wishes better than Great Zhunti, prompting the Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate to feel confident in his disciple.

Guangchengzi faced Shakra and Great Brahma’s renewed Buddhist seal assault and drew on what he had learned at Mount Zhou to deepen his understanding of the Seal Dao. By uniting the Overturning Heaven Seal with his brick seal, he comprehended the Dao.

• Shakra and Great Brahma cautiously surrounded Guangchengzi’s brick wall with Buddhist seals, putting him under pressure.
• Guangchengzi recognized that his opponents were trying to shake his Seal Dao insights and resolved to fight back with his senior sister’s and master’s support.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate, Supreme Pure Laozi, and Upper Pure Master Tongtian agreed to support Guangchengzi as he faced the Buddhist challenge.
• Remembering his training at Mount Zhou, Guangchengzi realized that his Overturning Heaven Seal and Seal Dao were two sides of one whole.
• Guangchengzi transformed the city wall back into a single brick and fused it with the spiritual radiance of his Overturning Heaven Seal.
• Guangchengzi saw a profound spirit condense between the two seals and comprehended the Dao.

Guangchengzi used his Overturning Heaven Seal to break free of the Buddha seal and faced Shakra and Great Brahma. He destroyed the Buddha statue with a single strike, then announced that he had proven the Primordial Chaos through the Dao of seals and become Guangcheng Heavenly Venerate.

• Guangchengzi rose from the heaven-pointing, earth-touching Buddha seal, surprising Buddha Mother Zhunti.
• Shakra and Great Brahma strengthened their Wish-Granting Seal and Fearless Seal with Buddhist arts as Guangchengzi advanced.
• Guangchengzi gathered all his power into the Overturning Heaven Seal and aimed it at the Buddha statue between Shakra and Great Brahma.
• Guangchengzi's Dharma form shattered the Buddha statue, while Shakra and Great Brahma's seals forced Guangchengzi himself back.
• Guangchengzi reclaimed the brick and Dharma form, then declared that he had proven the Primordial Chaos through the Dao of seals and become Guangcheng Heavenly Venerate.

Guangchengzi shattered the Buddha statue with the Overturning Heaven Seal and attained Primordial Chaos through the Seal Dao, becoming Guangcheng Heavenly Venerate. Buddha Mother Zhunti tried to send him back to the Three Pure Ones Hall, but Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Qingqing alerted him to the deception, leaving him awake to Zhunti’s influence.

• Guangchengzi became a Primordial Saint through the Seal Dao after breaking Shakra and Great Brahma’s Buddha form with the Overturning Heaven Seal.
• Shakra and Great Brahma returned to the Land of Ultimate Bliss, where Buddha Mother Zhunti restored them and congratulated Guangchengzi.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti used a divine ability to influence Guangchengzi’s perception and persuade him to leave for the Three Pure Ones Hall.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Qingqing sent voice transmissions that broke Zhunti’s influence and warned Guangchengzi not to be beguiled.
• Guangchengzi recognized that his master and senior sister had answered his prayers and suppressed his doubts about their timing.

Guangchengzi used his attainment of Primordial Chaos through the Dao of Seals to demand Buddhism’s seal techniques under the threat implied by his master and eldest senior sister’s “three orders and five declarations.” Amitabha Buddha supplied the techniques, while Shakra and Great Brahma were sent away before Guangchengzi could finish speaking.

• Guangchengzi pressed his palms together before Buddha Mother Zhunti and invoked the three orders and five declarations from Zhou Qingqing and Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti fell silent, realizing Guangchengzi’s words implied a threat and that Buddhism had little left to offer after giving Zhou Qingqing its treasures and fruits.
• Amitabha Buddha told Buddha Mother Zhunti to give Guangchengzi Buddhism’s hand seals, seal forms, and seal contracts.
• Guangchengzi absorbed Buddhism’s core seal techniques, including the Supreme Bodhi Seal, and considered demanding further punishment for Buddha Mother Zhunti.
• Amitabha Buddha returned Shakra and Great Brahma to the Twenty-Eight Heavens before they could hear Guangchengzi’s next words.

Guangchengzi attained sainthood through the Dao of Seals and struck Buddha Mother Zhunti 108 times, securing an agreement that Buddhist disciples would share faith power with him when forming seals. Back in the Three Pure Ones Hall, Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate punished Guangchengzi for stopping at 108 strikes and instructed him to help the sect’s Holy Mothers.

• Guangchengzi struck Buddha Mother Zhunti with the Overturning Heaven Seal 108 times, while Zhunti and Amitabha Buddha accepted the agreement to share faith power with him.
• Guangchengzi returned to the Three Pure Ones Hall, where Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate praised him for attaining sainthood and venting his anger in the West.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate took back Guangchengzi’s Five Mountains True Form Diagram and ordered him to lift the Overturning Heaven Seal 10,000 times beneath Mount Zhou without Dharma power.
• Guangchengzi told Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate that seal formulas seemed to manifest on Blue Planet, and his master explained that Guangchengzi had indirectly helped Senior Sister Wudang.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate told Guangchengzi to help every senior sister and junior niece in the sect who bore the title Holy Mother, and Guangchengzi committed the instruction to memory.

Buddha Mother Zhunti spoke with Amitabha Buddha about their setbacks and the Three Pure Ones Heavenly Venerates and Zhou Qingqing’s actions. Amitabha Buddha remained confident that reflecting the myriad worlds would help him reenter the Dao Creation Realm and safeguard the Buddha Path in the Calamity.

• Buddha Mother Zhunti apologized to Amitabha Buddha for disturbing him while he reflected the myriad worlds.
• Amitabha Buddha reassured Buddha Mother Zhunti that Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Zhou Qingqing were overlooking the erosion of their rear.
• Amitabha Buddha said he had concealed the Buddha Heart Seal’s aura again after Guangchengzi attained Primordial Chaos through the Seal Dao.
• Amitabha Buddha said reflecting the myriad worlds had brought him close to reentering the Dao Creation Realm.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti asked whether the Three Pure Ones Heavenly Venerates were also seeking a breakthrough, and Amitabha Buddha said they were likely doing so.

Zhou Qingqing watched Bodhidharma’s powers and the Golden Summit Royal Court’s eastward advance, while Buddha Mother Zhunti believed his Buddhist faction was poised to conquer the Central Plains. At the Yangtze River, four Primordial Chaos experts confronted the army, and Zhunti realized the Three Pure Ones had anticipated his plans all along.

• Zhou Qingqing concluded that Bodhidharma could no longer perfect the Buddha Heart Seal, though the reversed golden Swastika Symbol continued strengthening his abilities and the Seventy-Two Supreme Skills.
• Master Tongtian resolved to pursue the Dao Creation Realm as the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords circled him, while Laozi and Primordial Heavenly Venerate noted that he would need an opportunity to succeed.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti led the Golden Summit Royal Court east, confident its members’ training and unity would secure victory in the Calamity.
• Bodhidharma threw reeds onto the Yangtze River, allowing the Golden Summit Royal Court to cross into the Central Plains and declare its ambition to seize fortune from the western dynasties.
• Cihang Daoist, Wenshu Guangfa Heavenly Venerate, Puxian True Person, and Immaculate Holy Mother appeared before the army, and Zhunti realized the Three Pure Ones had foreseen his plan and that Guangchengzi’s attainment had been intended to stop Bodhidharma.

Immaculate Holy Mother and her three junior sisters confronted the Golden Summit Royal Court, intending to test whether the Four Saints could halt its advance. Bodhidharma rallied the court’s warriors and unleashed their martial arts, formations, and Buddhist power as the confrontation began.

• Buddha Mother Zhunti saw only four Daoist disciples facing the Golden Summit Royal Court and assumed they could not stop its army.
• Immaculate Holy Mother led the Four Saint Girl Group in carrying out Wudang’s plan to oppose the court.
• Immaculate Holy Mother declared that the eastern lands were forbidden to the west, while Zhunti and Bodhidharma dismissed the four women’s challenge.
• Bodhidharma ordered the Golden Summit Royal Court’s cultivators to attack, and they formed up using martial arts and coordinated formations.
• The court’s warriors revealed their Seventy-Two Supreme Skills and openly radiated Buddhist light as the confrontation began.

The Golden Summit Royal Court’s warriors attacked with formations empowered by the transformed Seventy-Two Supreme Skills, and Jade Void disciples Wenshu, Cihang, and Puxian entered the battle. Their masters watched as the disciples combined their own techniques with the Buddha Path and the Supreme Ultimate.

• Supreme Pure Laozi and Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate understood Qingqing’s joke about there being no Shi, then turned their attention to the martial arts Primordial World.
• The Golden Summit Royal Court sent its fist, palm, and finger formations forward while Bodhidharma watched from the rear.
• Wenshu Guangfa Heavenly Venerate struck the fist formation with a technique combining azure lotuses and the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi, knocking down many warriors before the formation’s Buddha Path power surged.
• Cihang Daoist entered the palm formation, and Buddha Mother Zhunti watched her fight with confidence in her strength.
• Puxian entered the finger formation using the Supreme Ultimate Talisman Seal, drawing approval from Supreme Pure Laozi.

Bodhidharma strengthened the Golden Summit Royal Court’s attacks, but Puxian, Wenshu, and Cihang countered the concentrated divine abilities with their treasures. Bodhidharma decided to enter the battle himself, opening the way for Wudang to act.

• Bodhidharma shifted the Golden Summit Royal Court’s formations to combine their strongest blade and staff divine abilities into concentrated attacks.
• Puxian used her Wu Hook Twin Swords to draw the warriors wielding the Precept-Breaking Blade Art into her formation.
• Wenshu deployed her Dragon-Subduing Stake to absorb the staff attacks, while Cihang used her Willow Pure Dew Vase and willow branch to redirect attacks and gather disciples into her formation.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti grew alarmed as she watched the three Daoism disciples hold off the Golden Summit Royal Court.
• Bodhidharma decided to join the battle personally and unleash the full power of his divine abilities.

Immaculate Holy Mother faced Bodhidharma in the Three Pure Ones Hall, where her Five Primordials Five Virtues Fist overwhelmed his opening attack. Bodhidharma shifted to movement and sword techniques, leaving the observers eager to see how she would answer his Bodhidharma Sword Art.

• Bodhidharma attacked Immaculate Holy Mother with the Chain Seven Star Hammer, but her Five Primordials Five Virtues Fist broke his technique and kept pressing forward.
• Bodhidharma used Golden Toad Playing the Waves to evade, but Immaculate Holy Mother vanished from his sight and her fist still bore down on him.
• Bodhidharma brought out the Seventy-Two Demon-Subduing Sword Art and Great Sumeru Seventeen Forms, prompting Supreme Pure Laozi and Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate to anticipate Immaculate Holy Mother's swordsmanship.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti watched as Bodhidharma tested Immaculate Holy Mother with his unpredictable Bodhidharma Sword Art.

Immaculate Holy Mother used the Heaven-Severing Sword Dao against Bodhidharma, but he underwent a powerful marrow cleansing that transformed him and strengthened the golden-crowned warriors. She answered by drawing on her Old Mother of Mount Li divine office and integrating Dao methods from all three lineages, leaving her ready to face his new strength.

• Immaculate Holy Mother struck Bodhidharma with Slay the Dao, See the Self, cutting through his Bodhidharma Sword Art and opening a sliver of life.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti recognized the Heaven-Severing Sword Dao’s superiority and urged Bodhidharma to undergo a complete rebirth.
• Bodhidharma’s Marrow Cleansing Scripture amplified by Buddhism’s rising momentum transformed his essence, qi, and spirit and strengthened the golden-crowned warriors.
• Immaculate Holy Mother drew on her Old Mother of Mount Li divine office and brought forth Jade Purity methods.
• Immaculate Holy Mother integrated Supreme Purity, Jade Purity, and Upper Clarity Dao methods into her Divine Body, preparing to fight the transformed Bodhidharma.

Immaculate Holy Mother faced Bodhidharma on Blue Planet and used her insight into the three Dao lineages to unleash a world-governing technique. Zhou Qingqing realized that the technique could connect Immaculate Holy Mother to the authority of Unborn Venerable Mother, leaving her to confront Bodhidharma with that power.

• Immaculate Holy Mother gathered the Dao rhythms of Supreme Purity, Jade Purity, and Upper Clarity as she prepared to fight Bodhidharma.
• Zhou Qingqing judged that Immaculate Holy Mother’s steady heart and aura showed her progress, though she still needed a method to wield the other lineages’ power.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti mistook Immaculate Holy Mother’s technique for an attempt to copy Zhou Qingqing’s Creation of the Three Pure Ones and expected her to fail.
• Zhou Qingqing recognized that Immaculate Holy Mother was using a lesser, world-governing technique rather than Creation of the Three Pure Ones.
• Zhou Qingqing connected Immaculate Holy Mother’s Great Dao of Primal Simplicity to Unborn Venerable Mother’s authority and speculated that Wudang had been involved in that role in an earlier timeline.

Immaculate Holy Mother used Three Pure Ones Govern the World to crush Bodhidharma, but the tide of fate let him comprehend Nirvana and return from death. Supreme Pure Laozi went to Primal Phoenix and asked her to reclaim the Dao of Nirvana, offering to help her.

• Immaculate Holy Mother unleashed Three Pure Ones Govern the World, shattering Bodhidharma’s darkness and crushing his body despite his attempt to withstand the attack.
• Bodhidharma used the tide of fate and the Marrow Cleansing Scripture to comprehend Nirvana, making his return from death possible.
• Supreme Pure Laozi left for Southern Undying Fire Mountain while Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate remained behind.
• Primal Phoenix cleared the Dragon-Han Calamity’s karmic burden from her primordial spirit with her Nirvana Fire and Red Lotus Karmic Fire.
• Supreme Pure Laozi told Primal Phoenix that Bodhidharma had gained Nirvana and urged her to reclaim control of its Dao, promising his assistance.

Supreme Pure Laozi advised Primal Phoenix to let the Red Lotus Karmic Fire burn her saintly body so she could deepen her Dao of Nirvana, and she began rebuilding herself through repeated rebirths. As Kong Xuan and Golden Feather watched under Laozi’s protection, Primal Phoenix’s ninth Nirvana began amid an ominous disturbance.

• Supreme Pure Laozi recognized that Primal Phoenix had avoided burning her saintly body and advised her to undergo true Nirvana with the Red Lotus Karmic Fire.
• Primal Phoenix accepted the advice and used the fire to destroy and reconstruct her body, repeatedly deepening her Dao and advancing her cultivation.
• Supreme Pure Laozi summoned Kong Xuan and Golden Feather to observe and shielded them with his Heaven-and-Earth Mystic Yellow Exquisite Treasure Pagoda.
• Kong Xuan and Golden Feather watched Primal Phoenix undergo eight Nirvanas and tried to comprehend the Great Dao revealed in the flames.
• Primal Phoenix began her ninth Nirvana, and Kong Xuan and Golden Feather sensed that ominous changes had arisen around her.

Supreme Pure Laozi interrupted Primal Phoenix’s Nirvana and exposed the Evil Phoenix hidden within the Divine Parasol Tree. He refined the power surrounding the Evil Phoenix into a pill, whose purpose remained unclear as it emerged from the furnace.

• Kong Xuan and Golden Feather sensed an invisible will halt Primal Phoenix’s attempt to transcend through Nirvana.
• Supreme Pure Laozi activated his Great Dao, causing the Divine Parasol Tree to manifest a female phoenix that he recognized as Primal Female Phoenix.
• Kong Xuan and Golden Feather identified the apparition as the Evil Phoenix, and the Divine Parasol Tree dissipated Primal Phoenix’s attack on it.
• Supreme Pure Laozi gathered the surrounding power into black-and-white radiance and cast it into a pill furnace.
• A pill emerged from the furnace with an aura and Dao rhythm identical to the radiance.

Supreme Pure Laozi refined the Evil Phoenix and the Nirvana Great Dao into a One Origin Pill, helping Primal Phoenix begin her ninth Nirvana and advance the Phoenix Clan’s revival. Meanwhile, Bodhidharma’s seemingly endless Nirvana reached its limit, interrupting Buddha Mother Zhunti’s attempt to study the Nirvana True Intent.

• Supreme Pure Laozi refined the Evil Phoenix and the Nirvana Great Dao into a One Origin Pill and gave it to Primal Phoenix.
• Primal Phoenix swallowed the pill and began a new Nirvana as Kong Xuan and Golden Feather witnessed her transformation.
• Supreme Pure Laozi anticipated that Primal Phoenix’s advancement would soon send feedback to Zhou Qingqing.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti observed Bodhidharma’s repeated Nirvanas and began comprehending the Nirvana True Intent.
• Bodhidharma’s Nirvana divine ability suddenly reached its limit, disappointing Buddha Mother Zhunti.

Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate sent Four Unlike into his Great Dao of Beginning to help revive the Qilin Clan, while Supreme Pure Laozi protected Primal Phoenix’s breakthrough from the Western sect leaders. The Heavenly Eye Insight vanished after Laozi declared, “The Dao is Fate.”

• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate placed Four Unlike inside his Great Dao of Beginning so it could grow strong enough to reclaim First Qilin’s title.
• Zhou Qingqing observed Primal Phoenix’s transformation and praised Supreme Pure Laozi for creating the One Origin Pill and uncovering filth in the parasol tree.
• Amitabha Buddha and Buddha Mother Zhunti joined forces to use Heavenly Eye Insight on Undying Fire Mountain in the south.
• Primal Phoenix showed Kong Xuan and Golden Feather the Heavenly Eye through her Fire Mirror Art, and Supreme Pure Laozi explained that the Western sect leaders believed Fate Demon God was there.
• Supreme Pure Laozi said, “The Dao is Fate,” and the illusory Heavenly Eye vanished.

Buddha Mother Zhunti and Amitabha Buddha tried to investigate Undying Fire Mountain, but Fate thwarted them and Supreme Pure Laozi attacked them with an imitation of the River of Fate. The western Land of Ultimate Bliss was left shattered, and Bai Ze recorded who had acted.

• Buddha Mother Zhunti and Amitabha Buddha failed to investigate Undying Fire Mountain because Fate pierced their Heavenly Eye Ability.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti sensed danger as the River of Fate appeared beneath the two sages in the Land of Ultimate Bliss.
• Supreme Pure Laozi attacked Buddhism's two leaders, while Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Qingqing recognized his motives and divine ability.
• The western Land of Ultimate Bliss shattered, leaving Amitabha Buddha and Buddha Mother Zhunti drenched and bedraggled.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate told Bai Ze that Supreme Pure Laozi had used the River of Fate, and Bai Ze recorded the event.