Chapter Summaries

Su Yang welcomed a gathering of Three Realms powerhouses, including Marshal Tianpeng, and considered whether he could change Tianpeng’s future. After promising to marry Ruthless Great Emperor once they no longer feared the Primordial World’s Heavenly Dao, Su Yang resumed his storytelling, while Ji Ziyue learned who Ruthless Great Emperor was.

• Marshal Tianpeng arrived in Qingshan City and was astonished to find many powerful figures gathered to hear Su Yang’s storytelling.
• Empress Houtu, San Xiao, Ruthless Great Emperor, and Nuwa entered the inn, while Sect Master Tongtian did not appear.
• Su Yang reassured Ruthless Great Emperor, promised to marry her when they no longer feared the Primordial World’s Heavenly Dao, and watched her return to her room.
• Su Yang resumed the story after the listeners teased him about his promise to marry Ruthless Great Emperor.
• Ji Ziyue asked Footprint Emperor about the woman who had gone upstairs and was shocked to learn that Ruthless Great Emperor was an Immortal Emperor and Su Yang’s companion.

Su Yang continued recounting Ye Fan’s encounter with Old Madman in the Ancient Desolate Forbidden Land, astonishing the inn’s listeners with the old man’s power. Ji Ziyue realized the story concerned her own world, while Ye Fan followed Old Madman away from the massacre.

• Ji Ziyue was shocked to learn that Ruthless Great Emperor was alive and had become an Immortal Emperor.
• Su Yang described the blood-soaked forest where strange beasts had killed the cultivators, while Ye Fan and Old Madman survived.
• The inn’s listeners debated Old Madman’s identity and strength as Ji Ziyue recognized the events as part of her world.
• Old Madman mourned before walking with Ye Fan to a mountain overlooking the Ancient Desolate Forbidden Land, where he watched through the night.
• At dawn, Old Madman said he would leave, then used shrinking-the-earth-into-inches steps and formed Dao Patterns beneath his feet.

Ye Fan learned that a Bronze Coffin had appeared deep within the Ancient Desolate Forbidden Land, drawing the attention of the Eastern Wasteland’s major powers. As the Yaoguang Holy Land prepared to send him inside to gather Sacred Medicine, he agreed while planning to use their support for his own advancement.

• News spread that a powerful demon cultivator might awaken in the Ancient Desolate Forbidden Land and that the demon race could gain another Demon Emperor.
• The Supreme Elder of the Yaoguang Holy Land and a Jiang Family elder entered the forbidden land, saw the Bronze Coffin above a ravine, and returned wounded.
• Strange beasts attacked the Bronze Coffin, but the beasts that entered it never returned, and the rest withdrew from the forbidden land.
• The Yaoguang Holy Land joined the Jiang Family and the Ji Family to plan another expedition, while Ye Fan prepared to enter with them.
• A Yaoguang Holy Land expert took Ye Fan to town and asked him to gather Sacred Medicine because he could resist the forbidden land’s curse; Ye Fan agreed and planned to use the Holy Land’s resources.

Su Yang described Ye Fan’s second journey into the Ancient Desolate Forbidden Land, where the expedition encountered a corpse that killed nearby experts and then saw countless skeletons crawling toward the nine Sacred Mountains. The chapter left everyone wondering what force animated the bones and drew them to the peaks.

• Demon experts mocked the humans for Yaoguang Holy Land’s earlier treatment of Ye Fan, and Su Yang silenced the dispute with the help of Footprint Emperor, Willow Deity, and Xiao Jiu.
• Su Yang recounted how Ye Fan returned to the Ancient Desolate Forbidden Land, where the Jiang Family, Ji Family, and Yaoguang Holy Land advanced together and planned to split up to collect Sacred Medicine.
• The expedition encountered a motionless corpse, and several experts who approached it withered into ash within moments, forcing the others to flee the area.
• After traveling more than a hundred miles into the Forbidden Zone of Life, the group saw nine Sacred Mountains and countless skeletons crawling out of an abyss toward them.
• The cultivators recognized the bones as likely belonging to an Immortal Sect that had perished in the forbidden land six thousand years earlier, and Ye Fan wondered why the remains could still move.

Ye Fan explained that the group needed to avoid the bone-covered Sacred Mountain and climb another, while Western Buddhist Teachings arrived with a hidden reincarnation scheme. Houtu rushed back to the Netherworld to investigate, and Sect Master Tongtian resolved to prevent the West from advancing its plans.

• Ye Fan told the cultivators to go around the Sacred Mountain where the Bronze Coffin had been placed and climb another mountain, leaving them anxious about crossing the bones and gathering Sacred Medicine.
• Western Buddhist monks arrived in Dongsheng Shenzhou, prompting cultivators to criticize their hypocrisy and question their purpose.
• Houtu sensed reincarnation power within the Buddha Light, suspected Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva was involved, and returned to the Netherworld to investigate.
• Sect Master Tongtian saw Tathagata send a wisp of divine soul into the Six Paths of Reincarnation and concluded that Western Teachings had begun acting ahead of schedule.
• Sect Master Tongtian decided to oppose the West's plans, while worrying that Primordial Lord of Heaven and Dao Ancestor Hongjun might support them.

Sect Master Tongtian learned that the journey west had begun and set out to stop the Western Sages from intervening, while Su Yang assured him the Earthly Immortal Realm was safe. Su Yang then resumed his story of Ye Fan, who was forced to seek the Sacred Medicine on the Sacred Mountain.

• Sect Master Tongtian left Shangqing Palace to wait for the Two Sages of the West, trusting Su Yang and his allies to guard the Earthly Immortal Realm.
• Saint Zhunti and Saint Jieyin arranged for Old Ancestor Bodhi to go to Mount Fangcun, where the Spiritual Stone Monkey was destined to be born.
• Sect Master Tongtian warned Su Yang that the journey west had begun and the Two Sages of the West had revealed their plans.
• After Houtu, Great Emperor Fengdu, and Lord of Mount Tai departed, Su Yang calmed the gathered listeners and continued his tale.
• A powerhouse from Yaoguang Holy Land ordered Ye Fan to climb the Sacred Mountain and obtain the Sacred Medicine, then attacked when Ye Fan refused.
• A Jiang Family powerhouse blocked the attack and told Ye Fan that his only way to live was to obtain the Sacred Medicine for them.

Su Yang narrated how Ye Fan, after the Jiang Family powerhouse trapped him and mocked his lack of cultivation, fought back and defeated him. Ye Fan left the Divine Bridge Realm cultivator broken and humiliated, while the listeners marveled at his strength.

• The Jiang Family powerhouse used a whistle to bring Ye Fan’s strange beast back and insisted that sacrificing a few people was acceptable for the greater good.
• After a Jiang Family youth insulted him, Ye Fan slapped a Divine Bridge Realm powerhouse and revealed that the forbidden land’s curse had not suppressed his power.
• The powerhouse charged at Ye Fan, but Ye Fan caught his attack and broke both his arms.
• Ye Fan kicked the man in the crotch and slapped him again, leaving him kneeling in agony before sending him flying.
• The inn’s listeners reacted with shock as Su Yang finished recounting Ye Fan’s brutal victory.

Ye Fan fought off the experts who tried to stop him from killing the Jiang Family man, using his Primordial Sacred Body and unsealed cultivation to overwhelm them in the cursed Ancient Desolate Forbidden Land. The Jiang Family elder then challenged him with superior physical strength, while Yaoguang Holy Land and Ji Family experts watched, leaving Ye Fan outnumbered.

• Ye Fan decided to kill the Jiang Family expert who had provoked him, but at least fifteen Divine Bridge Realm experts surrounded him.
• Ye Fan seized an enemy’s sword, broke his arm, and killed several attackers as the inn’s onlookers reacted to his strength.
• Ye Fan used his cultivation and powerful physique to defeat more attackers and pushed toward the Jiang Family expert.
• The Jiang Family elder stepped in and clashed swords with Ye Fan, revealing that his physical strength matched or exceeded Ye Fan’s.
• The onlookers condemned the crowd’s unfair attack and worried that Ye Fan would also have to face the Yaoguang Holy Land and Ji Family experts.

Ye Fan fought back against the Jiang Family elder and killed several powerhouses, but the elders of three forces surrounded him and demanded that he retrieve the Sacred Medicine. He negotiated a chance to climb the Sacred Mountain, while suspecting the others planned to kill him afterward.

• Ye Fan rejected the Jiang Family elder’s attempt to use him and fought him with a sword, then killed several powerhouses who tried to stop him.
• The elders of three transcendent forces surrounded Ye Fan and ordered him to climb the Sacred Mountain for them.
• The Jiang Family elder revealed a jade pendant that made Ye Fan sense lethal danger, but Ye Fan kept his trump card hidden.
• Ye Fan agreed to climb the mountain if the elders cleared away the bones, warning that he would destroy his body rather than let them exploit him.
• At the foot of the Sacred Mountain, Ye Fan saw the bones piled near its summit and suspected the others would kill him if he obtained the Sacred Medicine.

Ye Fan provoked the white bones on the Sacred Mountain, forcing the three great forces to reveal their powerful Forbidden Artifacts and push him to the front as they sought the Sacred Medicine. As the group climbed, the mountain’s deadly effects weakened the experts, and the Ji Family elder used one strike to clear a path before the Jiang Family elder moved to deal with the bones ahead.

• Ye Fan threw a stone at the white bones, triggering a surge of bones from the Sacred Mountain and forcing the elders to prepare for a fight.
• The Jiang Family elder, the Ji Family elder, and the Yaoguang Holy Land elder revealed their secret weapons and explained how many attacks they could unleash.
• The three elders made Ye Fan lead the group up the mountain while their Forbidden Artifacts protected them, and the experts behind him rapidly aged.
• The Ji Family elder unleashed a terrifying strike that destroyed the bones and obstacles ahead, then warned Ye Fan against causing trouble.
• The Jiang Family elder released a devastating aura to clear the path as the group continued through the bone-covered mountain.

Ye Fan reached the summit of the Sacred Mountain after the Jiang Family elder planted a puppet mark in him, which Ye Fan secretly erased. He found a mysterious, peerlessly beautiful woman at the peak, but Su Yang ended his storytelling before revealing her identity.

• The Jiang Family elder bound Ye Fan with a Forbidden Artifact and planted a puppet mark, planning to use him to reach the summit and retrieve the Sacred Medicine.
• Ye Fan erased the puppet mark, took a jade bottle meant to hold the Sacred Medicine, and pressed on as the Sacred Mountain’s strange power drained his vitality.
• Ye Fan reached the summit and saw a peerlessly beautiful woman standing at its highest point.
• Su Yang stopped his story just as the listeners awaited the woman’s identity, leaving them frustrated and demanding more.

After ending his story, Su Yang faced teasing over whether Nuwa or his wife was more beautiful, then reflected on Footprint Emperor’s tragic history. He asked Ji Ziyue when she had entered the Primordial World and whether she knew about the Demon Emperor’s Tomb and the Ancient Desolate Forbidden Land.

• Su Yang refused to continue his story until the next day, and the listeners discussed the beauty of his wife and the women around him.
• Nuwa asked Su Yang whether he thought she was less beautiful than his wife, and Su Yang later told Ruthless Great Emperor that she would always come first in his heart.
• Footprint Emperor teased Su Yang about his romantic luck, while Su Yang recalled Footprint Emperor’s lonely fight against the dark Celestial Court and his eventual death.
• Black Emperor invited Footprint Emperor to a lively place, and the two left the inn together.
• Ji Ziyue asked whether Su Yang’s story concerned her Ji Family, and Su Yang questioned her about when she had entered the world and what she knew of the Demon Emperor’s Tomb and the Ancient Desolate Forbidden Land.

Ji Ziyue revealed that she had only reached the early stage of the Fountain of Life before entering the Primordial World, while Su Yang tried to keep her and the other guests safe at the inn. The chapter then shifted to Houtu confronting Great Sun Tathagata over his unauthorized use of the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and their battle escalated above Mount Tai.

• Ji Ziyue told Su Yang that she had only reached the early stage of the Fountain of Life before entering the Primordial World, so he sent her with Xiao Jiu to cultivate.
• Ziwei and Dong Yong refused to leave Su Yang's inn, and Su Yang promised to protect them if the Heavenly Court came after them.
• The Earthly Immortal Realm shook, and powerful figures gathered at the inn as Black Emperor returned with a solemn expression.
• At Mount Tai, Houtu confronted Great Sun Tathagata for using the Six Paths of Reincarnation without her permission to send a Buddhist disciple into the mortal realm.
• Great Sun Tathagata defended his actions as following Heaven's will, but Houtu attacked him with the power of the earth-path.
• Houtu struck at Great Sun Tathagata with a fist after he used the Great Sun Tathagata True Scripture, intensifying their battle.

Houtu confronted Great Sun Tathagata at Mount Tai after learning that he had secretly used the Six Paths of Reincarnation to send a Buddhist figure into the mortal world. As their battle shook the Earthly Immortal Realm, Heaven and the great powers took notice, while the Jade Emperor wondered what the West was planning.

• Houtu and Great Sun Tathagata fought at Mount Tai, with Houtu drawing on the earthly dao and Tathagata countering with Buddhist powers and treasures.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun sensed the clash and observed that Houtu's earthly-dao power let her contend with Tathagata, who had blocked her with a spiritual treasure.
• Thousand-Mile Eye and Wind-Following Ear reported the battle and its cause to King Lingguan, who brought them to the Jade Emperor.
• The Jade Emperor learned that Tathagata had secretly used the Six Paths of Reincarnation and questioned why the West had acted without consulting him.
• Queen Mother of the Jade Pool suggested that the Jade Emperor use the upcoming Peach Banquet to make inquiries.
• Grand Pure Laozi sensed the upheaval and directed his divine sense toward Houtu and Tathagata fighting at Mount Tai.

Houtu battled Tathagata over the Underworld’s conflict with the West, but their fight escalated when Ksitigarbha and the Buddhist reinforcements joined. Both sides gathered their forces and faced off, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Houtu’s attacks pushed Tathagata toward defeat, while Laozi realized the fight was connected to the West’s journey to obtain the scriptures.
• In Qingshan City, Su Yang sensed Houtu’s battle nearing, and Nuwa declined to intervene because the conflict did not concern her and she could not casually use divine powers in the Earthly Immortal Realm.
• Houtu unleashed the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and Ksitigarbha joined Tathagata to block her attack before asking her to discuss the West’s plans.
• Houtu warned Ksitigarbha that siding with Tathagata would make him her enemy and declared that the Underworld would no longer have a place for him.
• Dipamkara, Maitreya, and the Eighteen Golden Arhats arrived to support Tathagata, while Great Emperor Fengdu, Lord of Mount Tai, and the Ten Kings of Hell gathered behind Houtu.
• The Buddhist and Underworld forces faced each other without retreating, as neither side dared to begin another attack.

Houtu confronted Buddhist Teachings over its unauthorized use of the Six Paths of Reincarnation. She unleashed the Earthly Dao’s power and fought the Three Generations of Buddhas, who joined forces to stop her as mighty beings across the Three Realms watched.

• Tathagata claimed Buddhist Teachings held the upper hand, and Houtu released her full Earthly Dao Sage aura.
• Houtu demanded that the Buddhas explain why they had secretly taken control of and used the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• When the Buddhas stayed silent, Houtu attacked them with her True Ancestral Witch Body.
• Dipamkara Buddha used the Twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls, Maitreya Buddha struck with a Buddha palm, and Tathagata deployed the Great Sun Tathagata True Scripture to counter Houtu’s fist.
• Houtu enlarged her body to one hundred thousand zhang and drew on the Earthly Dao’s power, while the Buddhas prepared their treasures and Maitreya manifested his three corpse incarnations.
• Tathagata urged Dipamkara and Maitreya to defeat Houtu quickly, and all three Buddhas launched a combined attack.

Su Yang learned that Buddhist Teachings had badly wounded Houtu and was now helping her against the Three Generations of Buddhas. As Houtu’s strength waned under their assault, Maitreya Buddha used the Six-Character Mantra to suppress her, while Su Yang’s allies headed for the battlefield.

• Su Yang realized Houtu had been unable to intervene when Monkey later wreaked havoc in the underworld because Buddhist Teachings had injured her.
• Su Yang sent a golden streak toward Houtu’s battlefield, and Ruthless Great Emperor, Footprint Emperor, and Willow Deity followed.
• Su Yang considered using his 730,000 system points for seven draws to summon a powerful figure from the God-Void world.
• Houtu struggled against Tathagata, Dipamkara Buddha, and Maitreya Buddha, whose Three Corpses added to the assault.
• Maitreya Buddha invoked the Six-Character Great Bright Mantra to suppress Houtu, who answered with “A Thought Blooms, Reign Over the World!”

Ruthless Great Emperor joined Houtu against the Three Generations of Buddhas, then a mysterious figure called the Azure Emperor appeared and overwhelmed Tathagata with his power. The Azure Emperor declared that those who defied his decree would die, and Ancient Buddha Dipamkara challenged him.

• Ruthless Great Emperor appeared and used the Grass Extinguishing Sword Art against the Three Generations of Buddhas, but Dipamkara Buddha easily neutralized her strike.
• Ruthless Great Emperor told Houtu that she had come because someone invited her and reminded her that Houtu had once shown them kindness; Houtu agreed to fight beside her.
• A mysterious figure descended, and Ruthless Great Emperor drove back the Three Generations of Buddhas when they attacked him.
• The figure revealed his immense physical strength by breaking Tathagata's attack and striking him with his own alms bowl.
• The man identified as the Azure Emperor declared that the Three Generations of Buddhas had defied the Emperor's decree and would be slain, prompting Ancient Buddha Dipamkara to challenge him.

Azure Emperor overwhelmed Ancient Buddha Dipamkara and rejected Great Sun Tathagata's warning about karma, while the Three Realms struggled to understand his origins. Ruthless Great Emperor sensed the darkness within Azure Emperor as the confrontation with Buddhist Teachings continued.

• Ancient Buddha Dipamkara attacked Azure Emperor with the Universe Ruler, but Azure Emperor blocked it with his palm and counterattacked, forcing Dipamkara to retreat behind the Twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls.
• Azure Emperor struck Dipamkara with a palm of Chaos Qi, which the Glazed Lamp stopped but which drained the treasure of its spiritual power.
• Azure Emperor demanded that Dipamkara submit to him, shocking the gods, while Su Yang worried that Footprint Emperor might soon arrive and clash with Azure Emperor.
• Jade Emperor watched through the Haotian Mirror and concluded that Azure Emperor had founded a Heavenly Court in another world.
• Great Sun Tathagata warned Azure Emperor and Ruthless Great Emperor that opposing the Heavenly Dao would bring karma, but Azure Emperor declared that he feared nothing and could shatter it himself.
• Ruthless Great Emperor sensed a familiar, chilling aura around Azure Emperor as he revealed his defiance of the Heavenly Dao.

Azure Emperor defied the Heavenly Dao and battled Ancient Buddha Dipamkara, sending Dipamkara’s seal and Zixiao Divine Thunder into Chaos before being badly injured. Ruthless Great Emperor drove Dipamkara back, and Azure Emperor vanished as Footprint Emperor, Willow Deity, and Xiao Jiu arrived to face the Buddhas.

• Azure Emperor challenged the Heavenly Dao, and Dipamkara used his 108 Prayer Beads to form a massive seal and attack alongside Zixiao Divine Thunder.
• Azure Emperor pushed the seal and divine thunder beyond the Thirty-three Heavens into Chaos, then punched into the resulting Chaos Storm.
• Azure Emperor’s arms were severed after he endured Dipamkara’s strike and struck the Chaos Storm.
• Ruthless Great Emperor swept Dipamkara away with a Sword Light as Azure Emperor’s allotted time ended and he vanished.
• Footprint Emperor, Willow Deity, and Xiao Jiu appeared beside Ruthless Great Emperor, leaving Tathagata, Dipamkara, and Maitreya Buddha facing the new arrivals.