Chapter Summaries

Su Yang explained the four stages of the Mythical Primordial World's Mortal Realm and their astonishing requirements, leaving the gathered cultivators and Heavenly Dao Sages stunned. After Primordial Lord of Heaven asked about Su Yang's connection to that world, Grand Pure Laozi and Primordial Lord of Heaven departed, shaken by what they had learned.

• Su Yang explained that Refining Essence into Qi required cleansing the body with Heavenly Dao energy, while Refining Qi into Spirit demanded tempering the Dao heart through mortal tribulations.
• Su Yang described Returning Spirit to Void as requiring Five Qi Facing Yuan, Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown, and comprehension of heaven-and-earth laws.
• Su Yang said Returning to Void and Merging with the Dao required gathering the myriad laws, creating one's own Dao, and letting the flower bloom and fruit appear.
• The gathered mighty figures realized the Mythical Mortal Realm could rival their sages, and Primordial Lord of Heaven asked whether Su Yang had a connection to the Mythical Primordial World.
• Su Yang declined to answer directly, and Grand Pure Laozi and Primordial Lord of Heaven bowed to him and left, shaken by the revelation.

Su Yang asked Daoist Zhunti to spar with him so he could master the power of his newly reached peak Mythical Mortal Realm, stunning the watching immortals. He reminded Zhunti that he and Daoist Jieyin had schemed against the Earthly Immortal Realm, the Netherworld, and the Interception Sect, and Zhunti faced his challenge as the gathering watched.

• Primordial Lord of Heaven and the other Great Divine Ability Users left, while Su Yang turned his attention to Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin.
• Su Yang asked Zhunti to fight him so he could familiarize himself with his strength, drawing the attention of Haotian, Ancestor Minghe, Demon Master Kunpeng, and the other onlookers.
• Haotian admired Su Yang as a powerhouse who had broken free of the Saints' and Heavenly Dao's control.
• Zhunti questioned why Su Yang was pressing him despite their lack of deep personal enmity.
• Su Yang reminded Zhunti that he and Jieyin had schemed against the Earthly Immortal Realm, the Netherworld, and the Interception Sect, which had irreconcilable grievances with them.

Su Yang fought Daoist Zhunti in the Chaos, wielding the Nine-Leaf Sword and Grass Extinguishing Sword Art with strength that challenged a Heavenly Dao Sage. As Daoist Zhunti searched for an opening, Ancestor Minghe reconsidered his plan to capture Su Yang and realized few could now subdue him.

• Su Yang declared that he would defend Sect Master Tongtian and Empress Houtu, then attacked Daoist Zhunti with the Grass Extinguishing Sword Art.
• Daoist Zhunti used the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree Branch to resist Su Yang, while Daoist Jieyin joined the clash.
• Su Yang’s Nine-Leaf Sword unleashed sword qi that drove Daoist Zhunti back and displayed both lethal force and unending vitality.
• Daoist Zhunti adapted to Su Yang’s attacks and searched for a flaw before thrusting a spear of magical power toward Su Yang’s heart.
• Su Yang swept his sword through the Chaos, tearing through space and time as Ancestor Minghe concluded that capturing him would be wishful thinking.

Su Yang fought Daoist Zhunti with overwhelming strength while the Primordial World's Quasi-Sage experts regretted their failed hopes of becoming Saints. When Zhunti tried to exploit a weakness in Su Yang's sword technique, Su Yang revealed a bronze bell that turned the attack back on him.

• The narration explained that Ancestor Minghe and other Quasi-Sage Peak figures could not become Saints because the path to Sainthood had been restricted by Dao Ancestor Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao.
• Demon Master Kunpeng, Kong Xuan, and the other powerful observers despaired of seizing Su Yang's Sacrificing Dao Method after witnessing his Saint-like strength.
• Daoist Zhunti adapted to Su Yang's Grass Extinguishing Sword Art and launched a counterattack with the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree Branch.
• Su Yang summoned a bronze bell phantom that withstood Zhunti's strike without taking damage.
• The bell rang three times, making Zhunti's Three Corpses churn and forcing him to raise a barrier against the reflected attack.
• The observers marveled at Su Yang's unknown bell treasure and predicted his name would resound throughout the Primordial World.

Su Yang deflected Daoist Zhunti’s attack with the Bell of Time, then challenged Zhunti to fight with his full strength and threatened to kill him. When Daoist Jieyin questioned his confidence, Su Yang challenged both Western Sages to face him.

• Su Yang’s Bell of Time withstood Zhunti’s attack, and Zhunti asked to end the battle.
• Su Yang accused Zhunti of holding back and threatened to cut him down if he would not fight at full strength.
• Ancestor Minghe and Demon Master Kunpeng debated whether Su Yang might have a hidden ability to kill a Sage.
• Daoist Jieyin challenged Su Yang to explain his confidence in killing Zhunti.
• Su Yang invited Zhunti and Jieyin to test him together, leaving the onlookers stunned.

Su Yang remained calm as Daoist Zhunti gathered his full strength to attack, while the spectators argued over whether Su Yang could withstand a Saint. Demon Master Kunpeng rebuked the Grand Unity Golden Immortals, who threatened to attack him, and he revealed his enormous true form.

• Daoist Zhunti poured his power into the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree Branch, while Daoist Jieyin chose not to join the fight.
• Grand Unity Golden Immortals predicted that Daoist Zhunti would defeat Su Yang, but Ancestor Minghe suspected Su Yang had a hidden trump card.
• Demon Master Kunpeng mocked the Grand Unity Golden Immortals for their ignorance.
• More than a hundred Grand Unity Golden Immortals threatened to join forces against Kunpeng, and he revealed his hundred-thousand-zhang true form.

Demon Master Kunpeng swallowed dozens of Grand Unity Golden Immortals who challenged him, silencing the rest. Su Yang then faced Daoist Zhunti’s attacks with the Desolate Sword Art, and their battle left the onlookers stunned as it continued.

• Demon Master Kunpeng swallowed more than twenty Grand Unity Golden Immortals and refused to retract his words.
• Ancestor Minghe warned the remaining immortals that strength ruled the Primordial World, and they fell silent.
• Su Yang let the Bell of Time vanish into his body, raised the Nine-Leaf Sword, and began gathering a different Sword Intent as Xiao Jiu left the sword.
• Daoist Zhunti attacked Su Yang with the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree Branch, shattering space and annihilating countless worlds.
• Su Yang unleashed the Desolate Sword Art, draining life force from the surroundings and meeting Daoist Zhunti’s attacks without showing his full strength.
• Daoist Jieyin worried that Daoist Zhunti might suffer severe injuries, while Sect Master Tongtian and the others watched in shock.

Su Yang's companions marveled at his strength and discussed how far he might rise in the Mythical Primordial World. Ruthless Great Emperor revealed Su Yang's account of the world's overwhelming scale, leaving Tongtian, Nuwa, and Houtu stunned by how even the mightiest beings of the Myriad Worlds would be only minor figures there.

• Sect Master Tongtian and Empress Houtu praised Su Yang's power and speculated about his strength if he reached the Mythical Human-Immortal Realm.
• Ruthless Great Emperor recalled Su Yang's explanation that true power in the Myriad Worlds required complete mastery of the Heavenly Dao or the Great Dao Laws.
• Ruthless Great Emperor said a Human-Immortal of the Mythical Primordial World could command nearly three thousand Great Dao Laws, shocking Tongtian, Houtu, and Nuwa.
• Ruthless Great Emperor explained that the Mythical Primordial World dwarfed all other worlds, which were like the scattered breath from a Mythical Grand Unity Golden Immortal's sneeze.
• Ruthless Great Emperor described Su Yang's ultimate standard for a supreme being and said that even this top-ranked figure would be merely a newly entered Grand Unity Golden Immortal in the Mythical Primordial World.

Ruthless Great Emperor revealed that Gu Chensha did not know about the Mythical Primordial World, while Su Yang’s battle with Daoist Zhunti reached its climax. Su Yang unleashed Sword-Holding Kill against Zhunti’s full-strength strike, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Ruthless Great Emperor told Empress Houtu, Empress Nuwa, and Sect Master Tongtian that Gu Chensha knew of a Primordial World but not the Mythical Primordial World.
• Empress Houtu, Empress Nuwa, and Sect Master Tongtian wondered whether they could reach the legendary human-immortal stage, and they reaffirmed their choice to follow Su Yang.
• Su Yang fought Daoist Zhunti in the chaos, and their clash disrupted space, time, destiny, and karma.
• Su Yang invoked Sword-Holding Kill, summoning a phantom baby that embraced the Nine-Leaf Sword.
• Daoist Zhunti gathered his full Saint’s magic power and Heavenly Dao authority into the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree Branch.
• Su Yang calmly released Sword-Holding Kill as Zhunti’s attack bore down, but the chapter ended before their powers collided.

Su Yang unleashed Sword-Holding Kill, overwhelming Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin despite their combined Sage powers and treasures. The Two Sages of the West were trapped and badly wounded, while Su Yang reflected on the strength his cultivation of the Supreme Jade Emperor Heart Seal Marvelous Scripture had granted him.

• Su Yang summoned a lifelike infant phantom whose sword aura shook the Chaos, then challenged Daoist Zhunti with Sword-Holding Kill.
• Su Yang's sword shattered Zhunti's attack, forcing him to form a defensive barrier as Jieyin rushed to his side with the Twelve-grade Golden Lotus of Merit.
• Zhunti and Jieyin combined their powers, but Su Yang's sword cleaved through the Golden Lotus and sealed space, leaving the Two Sages of the West unable to flee.
• Su Yang realized the scripture created by the true Jade Emperor had greatly enhanced his combat power, while distant mighty figures marveled at his strength and wondered why he had entered the Primordial World.
• Sword-Holding Kill overwhelmed Zhunti and Jieyin again, severely damaging the Twelve-grade Golden Lotus of Merit, the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree Branch, and the Green Lotus Precious Banner.

After defeating the Two Sages of the West, Su Yang drove off the watching cultivators and prepared to return to the Primordial World to cultivate with his newly acquired scripture techniques. Grand Pure Laozi pondered Su Yang’s mysterious powers, while Su Yang’s next goal was to break through the mortal realm.

• Su Yang forced Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin to flee the Deep Chaos, then put away the Nine-Leaf Sword and considered how his other supreme treasures suited his combat style.
• Su Yang challenged the remaining Quasi-Sages and Grand Unity Golden Immortals, who praised him, accepted his claim to the treasure, and departed for the Primordial World.
• Su Yang reflected that his battle had improved his control and foundation, and that Empress Mythical Nuwa’s favor had granted him techniques from the .
• Su Yang planned to enter the System Space after returning to the Primordial World and use his new techniques to advance into the Human Immortal Realm.
• Grand Pure Laozi watched the aftermath and wondered whether Su Yang’s sword arts came from another world before returning to his Dao contemplation.

Primordial Lord of Heaven recognized Su Yang’s strength and began seeking a way to break past the limits of a Heavenly Dao Sage. At Zixiao Palace, Dao Ancestor Hongjun welcomed Su Yang and his companions, then revealed that he had a matter to entrust to Su Yang.

• Primordial Lord of Heaven judged that his treasures might let him contend with Su Yang, but resolved to pursue a breakthrough after realizing Heavenly Dao Sages were not the peak of cultivation.
• Su Yang, Sect Master Tongtian, Empress Nuwa, Empress Houtu, Ruthless Great Emperor, and their companions arrived at Zixiao Palace in response to Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s invitation.
• Su Yang chose to keep training his own comprehension and foundation rather than instantly unravel the Primordial World’s laws.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun welcomed the group, provided meditation cushions and tea, and spoke with Su Yang about their return to Zixiao Palace.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun told Su Yang that he had invited him because he had a matter to entrust to him, leaving the group wondering what trouble even Hongjun could not resolve.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun warned Su Yang that a World-Ending Calamity would descend from the depths of Chaos within a thousand years and asked him to protect the Primordial World. Su Yang agreed to help, then returned to Qingshan City, where Sun Wukong had nearly finished his imprisonment beneath Five Finger Mountain and the westward journey was nearing its start.

• Dao Ancestor Hongjun showed Su Yang a blood-stained fragment of the Jade Plate of Fortune and revealed that the Primordial World faced a calamity even the Saints might not be able to stop.
• Hongjun said the calamity came from the depths of Chaos, but he could not discover its source, and the fragment predicted it would arrive within a thousand years, perhaps in only several hundred.
• Su Yang agreed to step forward if the Primordial World faced destruction, though his curiosity about the calamity and the world’s changing course drove his decision.
• Su Yang left Hongjun and returned to the inn in Qingshan City after a hundred years had passed in the Earthly Immortal Realm.
• Su Yang learned that Sun Wukong had been imprisoned beneath Five Finger Mountain for 497 years and that the scripture-seeking journey was close to beginning.

Su Yang used a purple reward to forge the God-Slaying Spear, Chaos Bell, and World-Destroying Millstone into the God-Slaying Sword. He found its power too dangerous to wield before reaching the Human Immortal Realm and reflected on how Sect Master Tongtian had controlled the Four Swords of Zhu Xian; the chapter ended as he began listing the treasures used by the Three Teachings’ saints.

• Su Yang spent one million points in the Blue Prize Pool and won a one-time Treasure Forging opportunity.
• The system explained that the purple-grade furnace could reforge spiritual treasures into artifacts no higher than the Heavenly Immortal level.
• Su Yang placed the God-Slaying Spear, Chaos Bell, and World-Destroying Millstone into the furnace.
• The furnace forged the three treasures into the black God-Slaying Sword, whose Killing Intent and baleful energy overwhelmed Su Yang when he tried to wield it.
• Su Yang sheathed the sword and concluded that he needed to reach the Human Immortal Realm before controlling it.
• Su Yang recalled how Sect Master Tongtian had controlled the Four Swords of Zhu Xian and began naming the treasures the Three Teachings’ saints used to suppress their fortunes.

Su Yang cultivated the Supreme Jade Emperor Heart Seal Marvelous Scripture in System Space while considering his path toward the Mythical Primordial World. In Chang'an, Tang Sanzang revealed overwhelming power and attacked Guanyin Bodhisattva and the Dragon Girl, who had disguised themselves as monks.

• Su Yang cultivated in System Space, drawing on its abundant energy and strengthening the imperial aura around him.
• Su Yang considered entering the Myriad Worlds to seek the Mythical Primordial World, where Nuwa Empress existed.
• At Spirit Mountain, the Great Sun Tathagata learned that Guanyin had gone to Chang'an and that Golden Cicada was expected to begin his journey to obtain the scriptures.
• Tang Sanzang preached in Chang'an before Li Shimin and a crowd of Buddhist disciples as Guanyin Bodhisattva and the Dragon Girl watched in disguise.
• Tang Sanzang sensed the disguised pair, unleashed power comparable to a Grand Unity Golden Immortal, and leaped into the sky to suppress them.

Tang Sanzang revealed that he had become a late-stage Grand Unity Golden Immortal and mistook Guanyin and the Dragon Girl for demons before recognizing Guanyin. After hearing her explain the need to seek Greater Vehicle scriptures in the West, he agreed to travel to Spirit Mountain on foot.

• Tang Sanzang attacked Guanyin and the Dragon Girl with the Great Power Heavenly Dragon, believing them to be demons, and Guanyin dispelled his attacks.
• Guanyin revealed her identity, and Tang Sanzang apologized after sensing her Quasi-Saint aura.
• Guanyin told Tang Sanzang that Eastern Buddhism needed the Greater Vehicle scriptures kept at Western Spirit Mountain and asked him to seek them.
• Tang Sanzang wanted to travel directly to the West, but Guanyin explained that he had to make the journey on foot to show sincerity.
• The temple abbot urged Tang Sanzang to undertake the scripture-seeking journey, and Tang Sanzang agreed.

Tang Sanzang received sacred treasures from Guanyin Bodhisattva, became sworn brothers with Emperor Tang Li Shimin, and set out west to retrieve the scriptures. Meanwhile, Su Yang completed his secluded cultivation and became a first-grade Human Immortal, though he realized the path to mastering the Three Thousand Great Daos remained far ahead.

• Guanyin Bodhisattva urged Tang Sanzang to avoid using his full strength on the journey and gave him the Nine-Ringed Monk's Staff and Brocade Monk's Robe.
• Tang Sanzang told the Buddhist disciples and believers that he would soon leave to travel west.
• Emperor Tang Li Shimin proposed sworn brotherhood with Tang Sanzang and offered him a Passage Document, and the two swore an oath to Heaven.
• Half a month later, Tang Sanzang set out west with the title Imperial Brother Sage Monk.
• Su Yang emerged from secluded cultivation as a first-grade Human Immortal and realized he was still far from mastering the Three Thousand Great Daos.

Su Yang completely controlled the God-Slaying Sword, then brought the revived Hongyun the Daoist out of the System Space and into Qingshan City. As Hongyun’s Grand Unity Golden Immortal tribulation gathered and drew the attention of powerful figures across the Primordial World, Su Yang reached toward the lightning to protect him.

• Su Yang mastered the God-Slaying Sword after 379 days of cultivation and stored it within his True Self Universe.
• Su Yang sensed Hongyun the Daoist reviving in the System Space and brought him to Qingshan City.
• Sect Master Tongtian and Zhenyuanzi reacted to Hongyun’s return, while Empress Houtu, Empress Nuwa, and Ruthless Great Emperor marveled at Su Yang’s cultivation.
• Hongyun’s Grand Unity Golden Immortal tribulation gathered over Qingshan City, drawing the attention of powerful beings across the Primordial World.
• A pillar of lightning struck toward the still-unconscious Hongyun, and Su Yang raised his hand toward the tribulation.

Su Yang effortlessly destroyed his Grand Unity Golden Immortal tribulation, and the dispersed cloud revealed the resurrected Hongyun the Daoist. Hong Yun recognized Su Yang as his savior but then summoned the Nine-Nine Red Cloud Soul Scattering Gourd, leaving the gathered immortals uncertain what he intended.

• Su Yang shattered the Calamity Cloud with a single palm and showed that his power far surpassed the tribulation.
• The remaining light in the cloud revealed Hongyun the Daoist, whom the mighty figures recognized as long dead.
• The onlookers recalled Hong Yun’s history: Kunpeng ambushed him, and Ancestor Minghe later killed him, leaving only a remnant soul tied to the Twelve-grade World-Ending Black Lotus.
• Zhenyuanzi watched Hong Yun return and felt relief after grieving his friend’s death for billions of years.
• Hong Yun awoke, asked Su Yang who he was, and realized Su Yang had brought him back to the Three Realms.
• Hong Yun summoned the Nine-Nine Red Cloud Soul Scattering Gourd, surprising Su Yang and drawing the attention of the gathered immortals.

Hongyun the Daoist recovered memories of his past and pledged himself to Su Yang, prompting the Primordial World’s powerhouses to speculate about Su Yang’s purpose. Inside the inn, Nuwa, Houtu, Tongtian, and the others pressed Su Yang to reveal his current cultivation realm.

• Su Yang returned lost memories to Hongyun the Daoist, who recovered his past and vowed to reclaim his original heart while serving him.
• Zhenyuanzi and Hongyun the Daoist reunited inside the inn and exchanged bows.
• Powerful beings in the Primordial World considered how many major experts had joined Su Yang and wondered why he had come to their world.
• Nuwa asked Su Yang whether his cultivation had advanced and why she could no longer sense his aura.
• Houtu, Sect Master Tongtian, and the others urged Su Yang to tell them what realm he had reached.