Chapter Summaries

Sect Master Tongtian severed his Saint position and fell to the peak of the Quasi-Sage realm, following the cultivation path Su Yang had described. The Western Sages moved to seize his treasures, while the other powers anticipated a conflict at the inn in Qingshan City.

• Grand Pure Laozi sensed Tongtian's severed aura and realized he had abandoned his Saint position to cultivate anew.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven recognized that Su Yang had prepared defenses at the inn in Qingshan City and chose not to intervene immediately.
• Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin sent orders to the Buddhist faction, then headed toward the inn to target Tongtian's treasures.
• Great Sun Tathagata ordered Maitreya Buddha, Ancient Buddha Dipamkara, Guanyin Bodhisattva, and the Eighteen Arhats to go to Qingshan City and seize the Four Swords of Zhu Xian.
• The Jade Emperor and the immortals in Lingxiao Treasure Hall recognized that Tongtian's fall from Sainthood had destabilized the Three Realms and could soon lead to war.

The Jade Emperor considered exploiting Sect Master Tongtian’s weakened cultivation to seize his treasures, while Su Yang’s allies prepared for another battle in Qingshan City. The chapter ended with the forces around Su Yang holding their positions, awaiting the next clash.

• The Jade Emperor heard his followers urge him to take Sect Master Tongtian’s Primordial Violet Qi, Four Swords of Zhu Xian, and other treasures.
• The Jade Emperor weighed the power of Tongtian’s treasures and secretly considered how to bring them under Heavenly Court control.
• In Qingshan City, Su Yang sat calmly at an inn as Empress Houtu and Empress Nuwa watched the western horizon.
• Corpse Immortal Emperor and Footprint Emperor fought Quasi-Sage Peak opponents, while Willow Deity and Xiao Jiu joined forces against a weaker Quasi-Sage foe.
• Su Yang’s forces held their positions on all sides and waited for the next battle to begin.

Su Yang and his allies prepared to protect Sect Master Tongtian as powerful enemies gathered to seize the Primordial Violet Qi he had released. Mosquito Daoist appeared and challenged the defenders, while Zhenyuanzi stood ready to face the coming assault.

• Su Yang judged his forces strong but worried that other top-tier factions would join the attack, and several terrifying auras soon approached.
• Footprint Emperor, Corpse Immortal Emperor, Willow Deity, and Xiao Jiu prepared for battle as Zhenyuanzi revealed the Earth Book and joined the defense of Sect Master Tongtian.
• Mosquito Daoist appeared as a newly advanced Quasi-Sage, and the gathered cultivators learned that he had stolen the Twelve-grade World-Ending Black Lotus's essence from Ancestor Minghe.
• Mosquito Daoist declared his intent to seize the Primordial Violet Qi and argued that other enemies would keep Zhenyuanzi occupied.
• Zhenyuanzi calmly raised his Quasi-Sage Peak aura and waited for the attackers to approach the inn.

After Tongtian severed his cultivation, Daoist Jieyin arrived in Qingshan City, while he and hidden Daoist Zhunti schemed to seize Tongtian’s Primordial Violet Qi. The violet qi escaped into the sky, and Zhunti reached for it as countless cultivators rushed to claim it.

• Daoist Jieyin arrived on his Twelve-grade Golden Lotus of Merit, and the gathered cultivators suspected he had come for Tongtian’s treasures.
• Su Yang confronted Jieyin and inferred that Zhunti was hidden nearby, preparing to take advantage of Tongtian’s weakened state.
• Jieyin secretly considered the violet qi that might escape Tongtian and hoped to obtain it for the Western World.
• Tongtian meditated in the inn as Primordial Violet Qi broke free from his sea of consciousness and shot into the sky.
• Zhunti formed a gigantic hand and grabbed for the violet qi, prompting countless cultivators to surge toward it.

Daoist Zhunti tried to seize the Primordial Violet Qi, prompting the Jade Emperor to seek help and Su Yang to send Houtu to stop him. Houtu overwhelmed Jieyin’s defenses, and Jieyin questioned why she had intervened as the conflict threatened to escalate.

• Daoist Zhunti bound the Primordial Violet Qi and declared that the West’s prosperity was beginning, while the other powers held back from challenging him.
• The Jade Emperor ordered a messenger to Tushita Palace to ask the Old Lord to contact Grand Pure Laozi, then vanished to intervene himself.
• Su Yang decided the Qi could not be allowed to fall to the West, and Houtu charged at Zhunti.
• Jieyin blocked Houtu with the Twelve-grade Golden Lotus of Merit, but her punch broke through its protection and forced him to summon the Green Lotus Precious Banner.
• Houtu’s attack and Jieyin’s counter shook the Earthly Immortal Realm, and Jieyin recognized that her strength surpassed that of the Heavenly Dao Sages.
• Jieyin demanded to know why Houtu had entered the battle and cautiously probed whether the West could bargain for the Primordial Violet Qi.

Houtu and Nuwa drove Jieyin and Zhunti into the Chaos Void to battle, while Su Yang challenged the gathered Quasi-Saints and Grand Unity Golden Immortals. After revealing that Tongtian had entrusted him with powerful treasures, Su Yang killed the first attacker with a single sword strike.

• Houtu used Jieyin to test her newly mastered power, and onlookers compared her aura to Heavenly Emperor Ye's.
• Zhunti joined Jieyin, but Nuwa intervened against him, and the two Empresses forced the Western Sages to move their battle into the Chaos Void.
• Nuwa demanded that Zhunti hand over the Primordial Violet Qi, while Houtu confronted Jieyin over his past schemes against the Witch Clan.
• Su Yang challenged the gathered Quasi-Saints and revealed that Tongtian had entrusted him with the Four Swords of Zhu Xian, other treasures, and the Zhu Xian Sword Formation.
• A Grand Unity Golden Immortal attacked Su Yang, but Su Yang split his bronze cauldron and killed him with the Nine-Leaf Sword.

Su Yang fought Daoist Si Yun and Mosquito Daoist, revealing overwhelming strength as he used the Nine Secrets and destroyed Mosquito Daoist’s weapon. The battle left the watching experts stunned, and Xiao Jiu took control of the Nine-Leaf Sword.

• Su Yang drove Daoist Si Yun back with the Grass Extinguishing Sword Art and the Desolate Sword Art, then prepared to end the fight when the Quasi-Saint could no longer challenge him.
• Daoist Si Yun summoned his Innate spear, and Su Yang recognized it as a powerful treasure he wanted to seize.
• Daoist Si Yun called for Mosquito Daoist, who appeared and attacked Su Yang while coveting the Nine-Leaf Sword.
• Su Yang unleashed the Nine Secrets, greatly increased his battle power, and snapped Mosquito Daoist’s weapon with his bare hand.
• Zhenyuanzi and the other onlookers watched in shock as Su Yang suppressed both Quasi-Saints, and Xiao Jiu took control of the Nine-Leaf Sword.

Su Yang stopped short of killing Mosquito Daoist when Ancestor Minghe arrived to claim him, then challenged Minghe to defeat Footprint Emperor for the right to decide Mosquito Daoist’s fate. Their battle revealed Footprint Emperor’s Quasi-Sage Peak strength, and it ended when the Jade Emperor arrived, leaving the gathered powers to consider Sect Master Tongtian’s lost Primordial Violet Qi.

• Ancestor Minghe arrived as Su Yang was about to kill Mosquito Daoist and asked him to spare the member of the Blood Sea lineage.
• Su Yang said he still intended to kill Mosquito Daoist and offered Minghe a contest against Footprint Emperor to decide his fate.
• Corpse Immortal Emperor blocked Mosquito Daoist’s escape, nullified his attack, and sealed his Dao power.
• Footprint Emperor fought Minghe, who realized his opponent’s strength reached Quasi-Sage Peak.
• The Jade Emperor arrived, and Minghe and Footprint Emperor halted their battle.
• Minghe recognized that Tongtian’s self-inflicted strike had released his Primordial Violet Qi, which had drawn the gathered powers to the area.

Ancestor Minghe and the Jade Emperor confronted each other over the opportunity and treasures connected to Sect Master Tongtian. Their clash began in the heavens, and Minghe summoned a vast river of Blood Sea essence blood as the battle escalated.

• Ancestor Minghe accused the Jade Emperor of coveting Sect Master Tongtian's opportunity, and the two traded insults over Haotian's past.
• Haotian released his Quasi-Sage Peak aura, and Ancestor Minghe answered by summoning Yuantu, Abi, and the Twelve-grade World-Ending Black Lotus.
• Ancestor Minghe attacked Haotian, whose Haotian Mirror blocked and reflected the sword qi.
• Ancestor Minghe's Blood Mist gathered into a scarlet river of essence blood filled with Heavenly Sha Qi and ancient powerhouse bloodlines.

Ancestor Minghe fought the Jade Emperor while Quasi-Sages moved to seize Su Yang’s treasures. The Footprint Emperor and Corpse Immortal Emperor blocked them, leaving the assembled powerhouses wary of the forces protecting Su Yang.

• Ancestor Minghe attacked the Jade Emperor with Yuantu and Abi, and the Jade Emperor used the Haotian Mirror to counter him and deflect a sword strike into the assembled immortals.
• The Jade Emperor and Ancestor Minghe fought, leaving the other powerhouses an opening to attack Su Yang and claim Sect Master Tongtian’s treasures.
• The Footprint Emperor struck to halt the approaching Quasi-Sages and warned them they would have to face his fists to reach Su Yang.
• The Corpse Immortal Emperor emerged behind Su Yang, revealing an aura that frightened the assembled powerhouses.
• The Footprint Emperor warned the attackers that Heavenly Emperor Ye and the Desolate Heavenly Emperor also stood behind him.

Greedy experts attacked Su Yang to seize Tongtian’s treasures, forcing Corpse Immortal Emperor and Footprint Emperor to stand between him and the attackers. As hundreds of Grand Unity Golden Immortals and more than twenty Quasi-Saints prepared to join forces, the chapter ended with the revelation that the Primordial World held an immense number of Quasi-Saints.

• Five early-stage Quasi-Saints surrounded Footprint Emperor while other experts rushed Su Yang for his treasures.
• Su Yang summoned Corpse Immortal Emperor, who blocked the attackers and injured more than ten Grand Unity Golden Immortals with his strange power.
• Footprint Emperor unleashed his strength, blasted away the surrounding experts, and charged toward Su Yang.
• The attackers realized they had to defeat Footprint Emperor and Corpse Immortal Emperor before reaching Su Yang, and hundreds of Grand Unity Golden Immortals and more than twenty Quasi-Saints gathered against them.
• The narration explained that the Primordial World had far more Quasi-Saints than other worlds and that their numbers had continued to grow after the Witch-Demon Calamity.

Footprint Emperor and Corpse Immortal Emperor faced a vast coalition while Ancestor Minghe attacked Footprint Emperor. Beyond the heavens, Empress Nuwa and Empress Houtu battled the Two Sages of the West, leaving Daoist Jieyin overwhelmed and his Golden Lotus reduced to eight grades as Daoist Zhunti sought to end his fight with Nuwa.

• More than twenty quasi-Saints and hundreds of Grand Unity Golden Immortals attacked Footprint Emperor and Corpse Immortal Emperor, who remained untroubled.
• Ancestor Minghe charged at Footprint Emperor, while the Jade Emperor watched the battlefield and wondered about the fight beyond the heavens.
• Empress Houtu battered Daoist Jieyin, whose Green Lotus Precious Banner cracked and whose Golden Lotus of Merit lost another grade, becoming an Eight-grade Golden Lotus of Merit.
• Empress Nuwa rejected Daoist Zhunti’s claim that Su Yang had promised her benefits and continued fighting him.
• Daoist Zhunti asked Empress Nuwa to stop fighting, worried that Houtu’s growing power would let her defeat both Western sages.

Daoist Zhunti realized that Empress Houtu’s growing power and the changes brought by Su Yang might signal a path beyond the Heavenly Dao Sages. He gave up Tongtian’s Primordial Violet Qi and rushed toward the battle between Houtu and Daoist Jieyin as Nuwa went to help.

• Daoist Zhunti suspected that Sect Master Tongtian had abandoned his Heavenly Dao Sage status to pursue a new path of cultivation beyond the old limits.
• Empress Nuwa struck Daoist Zhunti with the Red Embroidered Ball, and he blocked it with the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree Branch.
• Daoist Zhunti gave Nuwa the Primordial Violet Qi and asked her to return it to Sect Master Tongtian with his apology.
• Daoist Zhunti vanished toward Daoist Jieyin’s battle with Empress Houtu, while Nuwa headed there to support Houtu.
• Nuwa and Zhunti sensed a trembling pressure sweeping toward them before they reached the battlefield.

Empress Houtu overwhelmed Daoist Jieyin as he fought alone, while Zhunti chose not to intervene so the West could settle its debt to the Netherworld. Houtu shattered Jieyin’s Golden Lotus of Merit, and Jieyin reflected on the Heavenly Dao’s suppression of lotus treasures before Houtu asked whether he still wished to fight.

• Zhunti hesitated to join Jieyin against Houtu and decided to let Houtu vent her anger so the West could settle its cause and effect with the Netherworld.
• Houtu’s power grew as she fought, forcing Jieyin to retreat and struggle to defend himself with the Green Lotus Precious Banner.
• Houtu’s attacks cracked Jieyin’s Green Lotus Precious Banner and shattered the Golden Lotus of Merit beneath him.
• Jieyin explained that the Heavenly Dao had suppressed the Golden Lotus and reflected that only the World-Ending Black Lotus beneath Minghe remained.
• Houtu asked Jieyin whether he still wanted to fight.

Houtu defeated Jieyin and Zhunti, while Ancestor Yang Mei appeared beyond the Primordial World and revealed to Hongjun that Pangu's fading Will was the Heavenly Dao itself. The chapter ends with the great powers focused on Su Yang, who remained invincible within the inn's covered area as they attacked.

• Houtu defeated Jieyin and Zhunti, who admitted defeat and left, while Nuwa returned toward the Earthly Immortal Realm worried about Su Yang.
• Ancestor Yang Mei appeared outside the Primordial World, and Hongjun confronted him after sensing his presence.
• Yang Mei warned Hongjun that Pangu's Will was fading and that sleeping existences would soon awaken, then identified the Heavenly Dao as Pangu's remnant consciousness.
• Hongjun realized he was only a puppet chosen by Pangu's Will and returned to Zixiao Palace, while Yang Mei vanished through shattered space.
• Jieyin, Zhunti, Nuwa, and Houtu arrived near Su Yang as countless Grand Unity Golden Immortals attacked, but Su Yang remained protected by the inn's area.

Su Yang reflected on the inn’s growing domain-like power as the gathered immortals realized Nuwa and Houtu had defeated the Two Sages of the West. Nuwa returned the Primordial Violet Qi to Su Yang, who dismissed it as merely a key to Heavenly Dao authority.

• Su Yang considered how the inn’s defenses grew with his cultivation and wondered whether they could someday withstand a Mythical Grand Unity.
• Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin returned from the battle, and the crowd inferred from Jieyin’s battered state that Nuwa and Houtu had won.
• The gathered beings questioned Houtu’s mysterious power and grew wary of attacking Su Yang, suspecting he had powerful backing.
• Nuwa approached Su Yang and returned the Primordial Violet Qi that Zhunti had taken from Sect Master Tongtian.
• Su Yang accepted the Primordial Violet Qi and judged it to be nothing more than a key to Heavenly Dao authority.

Su Yang stored the Primordial Violet Qi while the assembled powerhouses coveted it and Tongtian's treasures. Their greed sparked a battle in which Ancestor Minghe ambushed Footprint Emperor, who survived and struck back before dozens of quasi-Saints and hundreds of Grand Unity Golden Immortals surrounded him.

• Su Yang stored the Primordial Violet Qi, while the gathered powerhouses coveted it and Tongtian's treasures.
• Ancestor Minghe attacked Footprint Emperor from behind with Yuantu and Abi, but Footprint Emperor caught the swords in his hands.
• The surrounding Grand Unity Golden Immortals and quasi-Saints joined the assault, and Footprint Emperor repelled Minghe's Blood God Sons with the Original True Explanation.
• Footprint Emperor unleashed a gigantic palm that shattered Minghe's Sword Light and sent him flying hundreds of thousands of miles.
• Dozens of quasi-Saints and hundreds of Grand Unity Golden Immortals formed a cage around Footprint Emperor, while Willow Deity praised his mastery of the Original True Explanation and Su Yang said he had created it himself.

Su Yang revealed the Corpse Immortal Emperor’s terrifying power, while Dao Ancestor Hongjun reflected on the truth that Pangu’s Will had become the Heavenly Dao. As mighty figures gathered at Qingshan City to seize Tongtian’s treasures, Great Sun Tathagata confronted the Corpse Immortal Emperor and clashed with Ancestor Minghe over his title.

• At Su Yang’s urging, the Corpse Immortal Emperor unleashed his refined deathly power and attacked Footprint Emperor with an imperial sword.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun sensed the Corpse Immortal Emperor’s strength but chose not to interfere, then understood that the Heavenly Dao Power continued Pangu’s Will.
• Mighty figures rushed to Qingshan City, hoping to claim the treasures Sect Master Tongtian had entrusted to Su Yang.
• Great Sun Tathagata attacked the Corpse Immortal Emperor, who destroyed his Buddha projection and sent sword qi toward him.
• Great Sun Tathagata revealed himself and stopped the sword qi, then Ancestor Minghe mocked him for taking the title Great Sun.

Great Sun Tathagata tried to recruit Corpse Immortal Emperor, then attacked Footprint Emperor when he was rebuffed. After Footprint Emperor blocked him, Daoist Zhunti abruptly called off the West’s planned intervention and withdrew, leaving Su Yang with the returned Primordial Violet Qi and everyone wondering why the Saints had retreated.

• Great Sun Tathagata urged Corpse Immortal Emperor to take refuge in the Buddhist Pure Land, but Footprint Emperor rejected his attempt to claim his lord’s strength.
• Great Sun Tathagata attacked Footprint Emperor with a Buddha-light palm, and Footprint Emperor blocked it with his fist.
• Footprint Emperor countered with Sword Light, but Daoist Zhunti appeared and erased the sword energy, announcing that the West would withdraw.
• Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin departed, while Great Sun Tathagata and Su Yang were left puzzled by their decision.
• The Primordial Violet Qi returned to Su Yang, who stood surrounded by supreme treasures and converging fortune.

Ruthless Great Emperor emerged from the inn after breaking through to the Realm of Sacrificing the Dao and confronted the Buddhist forces that had gathered before Su Yang. Great Sun Tathagata tried to claim the Buddhists meant no harm, but Ruthless Great Emperor rejected his assurances.

• Great Sun Tathagata asked what choice they would make with the World Honored One before them, and Footprint Emperor and Corpse Immortal Emperor unleashed their pressure.
• A powerful aura erupted from the inn, and Ruthless Great Emperor stepped out with strength comparable to the highest Sages.
• Footprint Emperor, Willow Deity, and Xiao Jiu bowed to Ruthless Great Emperor, who warned Great Sun Tathagata not to touch her husband, Su Yang.
• Great Sun Tathagata's Buddhist forces revealed eight Quasi-Sages, six Bodhisattvas, the Eighteen Arhats, and nine more hidden Quasi-Sages.
• Ruthless Great Emperor challenged the assembled Buddhists, pointed out Ancient Buddha Dipamkara's resentment over the loss of his treasure, and dismissed Great Sun Tathagata's assurances of peace.