Chapter Summaries

Buddha Mother Zhunti endured the cost of using karma to learn Upper Pure Master Tongtian’s End Great Dao, then passed its insights to Shakyamuni Tathagata. The final great wheel gained the End Great Dao’s aura, and Zhou Qingqing warned that the end was beginning to descend.

• Upper Pure Master Tongtian let Buddha Mother Zhunti study his End Great Dao and proposed teaching Daoism sword arts to sever karma.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti used a strand of sword qi to seize insights, suffering pain and losing much of his karma in the process.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti sent his new insights to Shakyamuni Tathagata through their bloodline’s karmic connection.
• The final great wheel acquired the aura of the End Great Dao, alarming the Three Sovereigns of the Immortal Sword World.
• Nuwa assessed the changed wheel, and Zhou Qingqing said its hymns marked the beginning of the end.

Shakyamuni Tathagata’s final wheel made Ying Zheng and Ancestor Dragon relive the despair of a failed Calamity, but Zhou Qingqing and the Three Pure Ones believed they could overcome it. As the battle continued, Ying Zheng’s Heart and Ancestor Dragon’s Heart fused into what Zhou Qingqing called the Ancestor-Emperor Heart.

• Shakyamuni Tathagata’s final wheel evoked the End Great Dao and made cultivators feel the sorrow of the Dragon Clan’s and Human Race’s past calamities.
• Yang Jiao told Azure Dragon that he sensed both the Dragon Clan’s sorrow and the Human Race’s suffering during the Witch-Demon Calamity.
• Nuwa explained to the Three Sovereigns that Ying Zheng was enduring the pressure of a failed Calamity and could be killed by Shakyamuni Tathagata’s divine ability.
• Zhou Qingqing reassured Nuwa and the Three Sovereigns that Shakyamuni Tathagata had only imperfectly borrowed the End Great Dao and that Ying Zheng could withstand the attack.
• The Three Pure Ones heard Zhou Qingqing reveal that Ying Zheng’s Heart and Ancestor Dragon’s Heart had fused into the Ancestor-Emperor Heart.

Ying Zheng reclaimed the power of the Epang Palace, Great Wall, and Ancestor Dragon, becoming Zu Zheng and awakening the majesty of an emperor. The emperors recognized his resolve as he prepared to face Shakyamuni Tathagata’s final divine ability, with the outcome still uncertain.

• Ying Zheng absorbed the Epang Palace and Great Wall’s power and reunited with the Ancestor Dragon, transforming into Zu Zheng.
• Shakyamuni Tathagata acknowledged Zu Zheng’s new name, while Upper Pure Master Tongtian warned that the finality of his divine ability remained dangerous.
• Zhou Qingqing reflected that Zu Zheng’s resolve and rule over a unified realm could earn recognition from the emperors of the Primordial World.
• Emperors and cultivators sensed Saint-level majesty in Zu Zheng, and Heavenly Sovereign Fuxi explained how he had surpassed the limits of his mind.
• Zu Zheng declared that he had seen Shakyamuni Tathagata’s abilities and invited him to witness his own, as the observing emperors resonated with his words.

Zu Zheng endured Shakyamuni Tathagata’s End Great Dao for eighteen breaths, astonishing the Primordial World’s observers but leaving him badly injured. As Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin considered intervening, Zhou Qingqing anticipated that Zu Zheng would find an unexpected way to survive.

• Shakyamuni Tathagata dismissed Zu Zheng’s resistance, while the emperors of the Primordial World admired his ability to hold back the End Great Dao.
• Zu Zheng remained standing after the first breath, but after nine breaths he staggered and his enormous body shrank to normal size.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti believed Zu Zheng was about to fall, while Zu Zheng struggled under visions of the Dragon Clan and Human Race being devastated.
• After eighteen breaths, Dijiang proposed that he and Zhu Jiuyin use the Wheel of Time and Space to help Zu Zheng, and they agreed to wait nine more breaths before acting.
• Houtu expected a new change to save Zu Zheng, while Zhou Qingqing urged him to uncover his hidden power; the Heavenly Venerates realized she was referring to the character “First” before his emperor title.

As Zu Zheng endured Shakyamuni Tathagata’s end divine ability, the Three Pure Ones and Zhou Qingqing recognized that he needed to find the origin of his identity as the First Emperor. He rose during the final breath, leaving the watching factions surprised and unsure how he had turned the fight around.

• In the Three Pure Ones Hall, Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate insisted that Zu Zheng’s identity as the First Emperor connected him to the power of beginning, while the Three Pure Ones believed Qingqing’s influence had given him a chance to find the answer.
• As Zu Zheng approached defeat, Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin prepared to alter space-time during the final breath to give him a chance to defend himself.
• Zu Zheng stood up during the final breath, surprising Dijiang, Zhu Jiuyin, the watching emperors, the Dragon Clan, Nuwa, and the Three Sovereigns.
• Zhou Qingqing said Zu Zheng had found the correct answer and could now truly claim the title of First Emperor.
• Nuwa and Fuxi understood that Zu Zheng could resonate with the Great Daos created by Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Supreme Purity Dao Virtue Heavenly Venerate, while Buddha Mother Zhunti stared in shock.

Zu Zheng rose from near defeat as emperors across time and space lifted him to the summit, where he resonated with the new Great Daos and became the First Emperor. Shakyamuni Tathagata burned his blood essence for one final attack, but Zu Zheng shattered the Wheel of the End and won their battle.

• Emperors across time and space praised Zu Zheng and paved his way to the highest position, prompting Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin to recognize that they were helping him rise.
• Zu Zheng reached the summit and resonated with the new Great Daos created by Supreme Purity Dao Virtue Heavenly Venerate and Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti gave Shakyamuni Tathagata his insights into karma and destiny and ordered him to stake everything on destroying Zu Zheng.
• Shakyamuni Tathagata acknowledged Zu Zheng as the First Emperor, then burned his blood essence to strengthen his final attack.
• Zu Zheng met Shakyamuni Tathagata's attack with all his power, shattered the Wheel of the End, and won the battle.

Zu Zheng survived Shakyamuni Tathagata’s final attack, received Nuwa’s gifts, and became a Human Dao Saint. In Nuwa Palace, he learned who had helped him and was told to consider the future path of the human world, sensing that he was nearing the truth of the Primordial World.

• Buddha Mother Zhunti sensed Shakyamuni Tathagata’s death and saw Nuwa grant Zu Zheng Creation Sacred Water and Primordial Purple Qi.
• Zu Zheng used the Creation Sacred Water to recover, refined the Primordial Purple Qi, and acknowledged Shakyamuni Tathagata’s final struggle.
• Zu Zheng attained sainthood as the First Emperor and declared himself a Human Dao Saint.
• Zhou Qingqing left the Immortal Sword World with the Dream-Eating Tapir while Nuwa and the Three Sovereigns prepared to speak with Zu Zheng.
• Nuwa told Zu Zheng that the Three Heavenly Venerates and Dao Venerable Zhou Qingqing had helped him, then urged him to consider the future path of the human world.
• Zu Zheng recalled Shakyamuni Tathagata’s puzzling words and sensed that he was about to learn the truth of the Primordial World.

Qin Shi Huang received Qingqing’s cryptic request to “V her 50,” and the Human Dao Saints at Nuwa Palace interpreted it as a call to pursue the escaping one and create a human-led variable in the Great Dao. The chapter left Qin Shi Huang inspired by the possibility of humanity forging a bright path ahead.

• Qingqing asked Qin Shi Huang to “V her 50 to prove your strength” and hoped he would appoint her Great General.
• Qin Shi Huang told Nuwa and the Human Dao Saints about Qingqing’s message, leaving them to puzzle over its meaning.
• Cangjie and Fuxi interpreted “Fifty” as the Great Dao Fifty and “V” as “give,” but Nuwa judged that Qingqing meant something deeper.
• Nuwa proposed that Qin Shi Huang lead humanity in evolving the escaping one, creating a variable toward completion of the Great Dao.
• Fuxi urged the Human Dao Saints to join in deducing the escaping one and show Qingqing humanity’s resolve.
• Qin Shi Huang realized that humanity could create countless variables and felt the road ahead was bright.

Zhou Qingqing received a human-centered power of “one” from Zu Zheng and realized it could awaken the humanity she had been losing as her cultivation advanced. The insight sparked a flash of inspiration, and she appeared close to another breakthrough.

• Zhou Qingqing wondered whether Zu Zheng would answer her thoughts about fifty bucks, then realized he had sent her the Human Race’s evolved power of “one.”
• Zhou Qingqing learned that Zu Zheng, Lady Nuwa, and the Human Dao Saints had jointly developed the power around humanity, and she compared it to the Human Instrumentality Project.
• Bai Ze tried to leave Miro Palace but sensed an ominous chill from the Three Pure Ones and hurried back inside.
• Zhou Qingqing recognized that she belonged to the Human Race and that the power of “one” could awaken the escaped humanity within her.
• Zhou Qingqing felt her insight trigger a flash of inspiration and believed her cultivation was about to break through again.

After learning that humanity carried the possibility of “the One that escaped,” Zhou Qingqing regained her human heart and broke through to the ninth layer of Primordial Chaos. She offered the Human Dao Saints a chance to study her Great Dao of Creation and agreed to grant Qin Shi Huang’s wish to have Shakyamuni Tathagata reborn as a human, free of his ties to Buddha Mother Zhunti.

• Zhou Qingqing realized that humanity’s survival through past Calamities meant it carried the possibility of “the One that escaped,” and Upper Pure Master Tongtian agreed with her insight.
• Zhou Qingqing regained her human heart, which expanded her possibilities and let her reach the ninth layer of Primordial Chaos.
• Zhou Qingqing decided to repay the First Emperor and Human Dao for sharing their insights.
• Nuwa announced that Zhou Qingqing would let a lotus containing the supreme Great Dao of Creation bloom in Nuwa Palace for the Human Dao Saints to study.
• Nuwa told Qin Shi Huang that Zhou Qingqing would grant him one small wish, and he asked her to let Shakyamuni Tathagata be reborn as a human without any karmic ties to Buddha Mother Zhunti.

Zhou Qingqing revived Shakyamuni Tathagata at Zu Zheng’s request and prepared to sever his bloodline karma with Buddha Mother Zhunti so he could be reborn among humanity. Buddha Mother Zhunti sensed the revival but failed to call Shakyamuni Tathagata back when the karma was cut again.

• Zhou Qingqing transformed into Celestial Master Zi and began using Reincarnation to revive Shakyamuni Tathagata.
• Houtu and King Pan observed as Shakyamuni Tathagata awoke in the thirty-sixth-grade Reincarnation Purple Lotus.
• Celestial Master Zi told Shakyamuni Tathagata that Zu Zheng had wished for him to reincarnate as a human and fight alongside him.
• Shakyamuni Tathagata accepted the idea but warned that his bloodline karma with Buddha Mother Zhunti had reconnected.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti sensed Shakyamuni Tathagata’s revival and tried to summon him through their karma.
• Celestial Master Zi severed the bloodline karma again, leaving Buddha Mother Zhunti unable to call Shakyamuni Tathagata back.

Zhou Qingqing revived Shakyamuni Tathagata, severed his connection to Buddha Mother Zhunti, and helped him become the Awakened One and a follower of Qin Shi Huang. She then summoned Patriarch Bodhi to Reincarnation Space and revealed that she intended to release him from the Investiture of the Gods List.

• Houtu told King Pan that Zhou Qingqing had reached the ninth level of Primordial Chaos and severed Shakyamuni Tathagata's karma with Buddha Mother Zhunti.
• Shakyamuni Tathagata returned with green hair, thanked Qin Shi Huang, renamed himself the Awakened One, and chose to become his follower.
• The Awakened One entered the Human Path to be reincarnated as a citizen of Great Qin, while Nuwa and the Human Dao saints resumed discussing the Dao.
• Zhou Qingqing considered freeing Patriarch Bodhi, Buddha Mother Zhunti's good corpse, after his time as a stablemaster.
• Zhou Qingqing summoned Patriarch Bodhi to Reincarnation Space, revealed that she had known his identity from the moment he entered Blue Planet, and said she intended to release him.

Zhou Qingqing offered to free Patriarch Bodhi from the Investiture of the Gods List and showed him memories of his past lives as Sun Wukong’s master. Patriarch Bodhi began to understand her reasons, and she prepared to sever his ties to Buddha Mother Zhunti and help him become a true Daoist.

• Patriarch Bodhi doubted that Zhou Qingqing could release him, but she told him the Investiture of the Gods List had originally belonged to her.
• Zhou Qingqing said she wanted Patriarch Bodhi to sever his ties with Buddha Mother Zhunti and become a true Daoist, partly in repayment for training her disciple.
• Zhou Qingqing showed Patriarch Bodhi memories of teaching Sun Wukong in other Primordial Worlds, including naming him and passing on his skills.
• Patriarch Bodhi asked what happened after Sun Wukong left his school, and Zhou Qingqing told him that Sun Wukong never revealed his master’s identity despite his hardships.
• Zhou Qingqing explained that Patriarch Bodhi need not fear being unable to cultivate after Shakyamuni Tathagata entered Reincarnation, citing the Earth Sovereign’s success as a good corpse incarnation.

Zhou Qingqing persuaded Patriarch Bodhi to accept release from the Investiture of the Gods List and reincarnation, then severed his connection to Buddha Mother Zhunti. She obtained another sphere of light as Patriarch Bodhi entered reincarnation, while Zhunti stayed away rather than confront her.

• Zhou Qingqing, speaking as Celestial Master Zi, warned Patriarch Bodhi to accept her offer or return to the Investiture of the Gods List, and he agreed to leave.
• Zhou Qingqing touched the Investiture of the Gods List and instantly freed Patriarch Bodhi from its binding force.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti sensed that Patriarch Bodhi had been severed from him, considered confronting Zhou Qingqing, but lacked the courage to go to Three Pure Ones Heaven.
• Zhou Qingqing sent Patriarch Bodhi to reincarnate on Blue Planet, and he entered the divine light of Reincarnation.
• Zhou Qingqing reappeared holding a sphere of light like the one she had obtained from Shakyamuni Tathagata, and Houtu recognized that she had gotten what she wanted.

Inside the Chaos Pearl, Zhou Qingqing used the fates of Shakyamuni Tathagata and Patriarch Bodhi to create a vessel for replacing Buddha Mother Zhunti’s life. With the Chaos Pearl’s Supreme Fate Dao repairing the vessel, she appeared close to completing the substitution.

• Zhou Qingqing prepared to replace Buddha Mother Zhunti’s life after using the Great Destiny Technique to sever Shakyamuni Tathagata and Patriarch Bodhi’s fates from her.
• Zhou Qingqing switched forms and manifested as Zhou Jinjing inside the Chaos Pearl.
• Zhou Jinjing measured the merit in the two spheres of light and used the Great Destiny, Great Karma, and Great Reincarnation Techniques to form them into a golden Buddha statue.
• The statue cracked as Zhou Jinjing attempted the difficult life substitution for someone at the Dao Integration level.
• Zhou Jinjing summoned the Chaos Pearl’s Supreme Fate, which infused the golden rain with Chaos qi and began healing the statue’s cracks.

Buddha Mother Zhunti worried about Zhou Qingqing's attack and hoped his senior brother would secure an opportunity for him to achieve Dao Creation. Zhou Qingqing transferred Zhunti's fate to a Buddhist statue and used her Great Puppet Art to control it, discovering Amitabha Buddha was arranging an opportunity for Zhunti to achieve Dao Creation.

• Buddha Mother Zhunti fretted that Zhou Qingqing was targeting him and wished his senior brother would return with a Dao Creation opportunity.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti's stirred fate shifted onto a Buddhist statue inside the Chaos Pearl as Zhou Qingqing's fate swap succeeded.
• Zhou Qingqing completed her Great Puppet Art, controlling the Buddhist statue as a puppet that temporarily bore Buddha Mother Zhunti's fate.
• Zhou Qingqing pressed her palms together and chanted, "Homage to Buddha Mother Zhunti."
• Zhou Qingqing sensed Amitabha Buddha seeking an opportunity amid the greater trend for Buddha Mother Zhunti to achieve Dao Creation.

Amitabha Buddha gathered true nature across Buddha Mother Zhunti’s past, present, and future to prepare him to create the Great Dao of Truth. Just as Zhunti began receiving it, the true nature vanished, leaving Amitabha confused about what had happened to his junior brother.

• The Heavenly Venerates in Three Pure Ones Hall laughed at Zhou Qingqing calling Amitabha Buddha the best senior brother in the Primordial World as he worked to help Buddha Mother Zhunti reach Dao Creation.
• Amitabha Buddha concluded that Buddha Mother Zhunti must create the Great Dao of Truth and gathered true nature from his past, present, and future reincarnations.
• Amitabha Buddha told Buddha Mother Zhunti to receive the true nature he had gathered, and Zhunti eagerly prepared to absorb it.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti began receiving the true nature, but it vanished from his Buddha body as Suchness descended upon him.
• Amitabha Buddha watched the prepared true nature disappear and wondered what had happened to Buddha Mother Zhunti.

Zhou Qingqing used Buddha Mother Zhunti’s lost suchness to control a Buddhist statue and peer into Amitabha Buddha’s memories. She discovered scenes of Chaos treasures and considered searching them for the remaining pieces of the Chaos Pearl.

• Buddha Mother Zhunti traced the loss of his suchness to Zhou Qingqing’s scheme involving Shakyamuni Tathagata and Patriarch Bodhi.
• Amitabha Buddha reassured Buddha Mother Zhunti that the Three Pure Ones Heavenly Venerates would likely prevent Zhou Qingqing from creating the Great Dao of Truth.
• Zhou Qingqing used her Puppet Great Dao and ninth-level Primordial Chaos mana to make the Buddhist statue wield Buddha Mother Zhunti’s suchness.
• Zhou Qingqing used the statue to examine Amitabha Buddha’s memories and saw scenes featuring Chaos treasures and Pangu opening Heaven and Earth.
• Zhou Qingqing realized she might use the memories to search for the remaining parts of the Chaos Pearl.

Zhou Qingqing used Buddha Mother Zhunti’s power to search other Primordial World reincarnations for Chaos Pearls, while the Three Pure Ones realized Amitabha Buddha was pursuing a new Chaos supreme treasure. She discovered that Amitabha Buddha was preparing an Earth-Splitting Chisel and new trials for Sun Wukong in the Dream World.

• Zhou Qingqing activated the Great Destiny Technique and the Chaos Pearl to search other Primordial World reincarnations, finding that they held different Chaos Pearls.
• The Three Pure Ones reasoned that Amitabha Buddha was searching for a Primordial World where Fate had replaced the Chaos Pearl’s supreme Great Dao, potentially giving rise to a new Chaos supreme treasure.
• Zhou Qingqing estimated that merging the newly found pearls would restore about seventy-five percent of her Chaos Pearl’s power.
• Zhou Qingqing saw a memory in which Pangu used an Earth-Splitting Chisel alongside the Pangu Axe to open the Primordial World.
• Zhou Qingqing discovered that Amitabha Buddha had brought the bodies of slain Chaos Demon Gods into the Dream World and was forming eighty-one new tribulations for Sun Wukong.

Amitabha Buddha restored Buddha Mother Zhunti’s fate and sent him to the Dream World to retrieve his true nature, then took control of Buddhism’s Calamity himself. As Zhou Qingqing prepared for a new Journey to the West, Amitabha Buddha began his Reverse Karmic Cultivation Method to awaken the original Buddha Path protagonist’s ferocity.

• Amitabha Buddha identified Zhou Qingqing’s fate-swapping ability and used the Earth-Splitting Chisel to restore Buddha Mother Zhunti’s fate.
• Amitabha Buddha told Buddha Mother Zhunti to search for his stolen true nature in the Dream World, and Buddha Mother Zhunti departed.
• Zhou Qingqing decided to fuse her twenty-five percent of the beads into her Chaos Pearl and prepare for a new Journey to the West.
• Amitabha Buddha resolved to intervene in the Calamity and awaken the original protagonist of the Buddha Path before he completed his journey through Reincarnation.
• Amitabha Buddha reversed the golden Swastika Symbol and announced that he would use his Reverse Karmic Cultivation Method.