Chapter Summaries

Great Sun Tathagata tried to settle the Buddhist Teachings’ conflict with Footprint Emperor and Ruthless Great Emperor by offering treasures, but Ruthless Great Emperor demanded Ancient Buddha Dipamkara’s Universe Ruler. She attacked Dipamkara when he refused, while Footprint Emperor faced the Eighteen Arhats as they prepared to fight together.

• Great Sun Tathagata offered two Postnatal Supreme Treasures to secure the others’ withdrawal, but Ruthless Great Emperor rejected them and demanded the Universe Ruler.
• Great Sun Tathagata warned that the Universe Ruler was Dipamkara’s treasure for Severing the Corpse, but Ruthless Great Emperor threatened to take it by force.
• Dipamkara refused to surrender the Universe Ruler and attacked, so Ruthless Great Emperor used A Thought Blooms, Reign Over the World against him.
• Footprint Emperor challenged the Three Generations of Buddhas, and Tiger-Subduing Arhat volunteered to fight him despite Great Sun Tathagata’s warning.
• Great Sun Tathagata sent the Eighteen Arhats to receive the visitors, and they manifested their golden bodies together as Footprint Emperor prepared to face them.

Footprint Emperor revealed his overwhelming power, defeated the Eighteen Arhats, and explained that he was a footprint left by his lord at the Sea of Worlds. He then fought Great Sun Tathagata, whose giant bowl descended to suppress him.

• Footprint Emperor used the Original True Explanation to shatter Dragon-Subduing Arhat’s seal and break through the Eighteen Arhats’ formation.
• Footprint Emperor unleashed a full-strength attack that tore open anomalous space and severely injured the Eighteen Arhats.
• Great Sun Tathagata asked Footprint Emperor who he was, and Footprint Emperor described himself as a footprint left at the Sea of Worlds and the lone fighter against the source of darkness.
• Great Sun Tathagata manifested his True Buddha form and attacked with the Scripture of Delivering People and a giant Buddhist palm, but Footprint Emperor’s sword strike split the palm.
• Great Sun Tathagata sent a gigantic bowl down over Footprint Emperor in an attempt to suppress him.

Footprint Emperor and Houtu kept the Buddhist forces occupied as Dragon-Subduing Arhat attacked Willow Deity and Xiao Jiu. Xiao Jiu drew Nine-Leaf Sword and wounded him, then joined Willow Deity to face the seventeen other Arhats.

• Footprint Emperor struck Great Sun Tathagata, while Ruthless Great Emperor kept Ancient Buddha Dipamkara from intervening and Houtu refused Maitreya Buddha's offer to end the battle.
• Dragon-Subduing Arhat attacked Willow Deity and Xiao Jiu with Arhat Sky-Overturning Seal, hoping to capture them as leverage.
• Xiao Jiu drew Nine-Leaf Sword and used Grass Extinguishing Sword Art to slash Dragon-Subduing Arhat, cutting through his Arhat Golden Body.
• Tiger-Subduing Arhat and the other seventeen Arhats moved to surround Xiao Jiu and Willow Deity, but dodged her streams of Sword Qi.
• Willow Deity offered to help, and Xiao Jiu accepted as Willow Deity prepared to face the Arhats alongside her.

Willow Deity and Xiao Jiu joined forces against the Golden Arhats while Footprint Emperor and Great Sun Tathagata continued fighting. As Dipamkara trapped Ruthless Great Emperor with the Sea-Calming Pearls, Houtu intervened, but Ruthless Great Emperor emerged unharmed.

• Willow Deity used a secret art to strengthen Xiao Jiu and cast the Original True Explanation, surprising Footprint Emperor.
• Xiao Jiu pierced Sitting-Meditating Arhat with the Nine-Leaf Sword while Willow Deity’s willow branches restrained several Golden Arhats.
• Dipamkara attacked Ruthless Great Emperor with the Twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls, surrounding her with a vast sea.
• Houtu challenged Dipamkara and blocked him with the Six Paths of Reincarnation, revealing that she had mastered part of the Power of Time.
• Ruthless Great Emperor cleaved through the sea, dispelling Dipamkara’s attack and standing unharmed.

Ruthless Great Emperor defeated the Buddhist forces, seized Ancient Buddha Dipamkara’s Twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls, and helped Houtu protect the Netherworld. After the Buddhist Sect withdrew, Houtu confronted Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva over his role in its attempt to control the Six Paths of Reincarnation Disk.

• Ruthless Great Emperor took the Twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls from Ancient Buddha Dipamkara and erased his imprint, causing his cultivation to fall.
• Old Ancestor Bodhi arrived, negotiated an end to the fighting, and secured the release of the four Golden Arhats in exchange for the Buddhists’ withdrawal.
• The Buddhist Sect departed after its plan failed, while Houtu thanked Ruthless Great Emperor for intervening.
• Houtu confronted Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva on Mount Tai, suspecting him of secretly fusing with netherworld earth energy and enabling the Buddhist Sect to activate the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk.

Houtu defeated Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva’s attempt to control her and imprisoned him in the Eighteen Levels of Hell, while agreeing to support Su Yang if the Buddhist Teachings intervened. In the Deep Chaos, Sect Master Tongtian continued to hold Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin in the Zhu Xian Sword Formation, then sensed something unusual as they prepared to escape.

• Houtu resisted Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva’s attacks and broke the Buddha Light he used to restrain Lord of Mount Tai and Great Emperor Fengdu.
• Houtu summoned the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk and ordered Great Emperor Fengdu to imprison Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva in the Eighteen Levels of Hell.
• Houtu agreed with Lord of Mount Tai that the underworld would support Su Yang if the Buddhist Teachings intervened.
• Sect Master Tongtian faced Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin in the Zhu Xian Sword Formation as they worried about the situation in the Earthly Immortal Realm.
• Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin prepared to use a divine ability to escape, but Sect Master Tongtian sensed something unusual.

Sect Master Tongtian exposed the Western Teachings’ plan to seize control of the Netherworld and fought Zhunti and Jieyin before escaping. The Western Saints persuaded Primordial Lord of Heaven to restrain Tongtian, then heard Tathagata begin explaining how their plan in the Netherworld had gone wrong.

• Sect Master Tongtian revealed that Zhunti and Jieyin had tried to exploit Houtu’s absence to take control of the Netherworld, then attacked them with the Zhu Xian Sword and escaped.
• Zhunti and Jieyin decided to seek Primordial Lord of Heaven’s help and went to Yuqing Palace.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven learned that Tongtian could contend with two Saints alone and agreed to restrain him in exchange for helping the Western Teachings flourish.
• Zhunti and Jieyin returned to their dojo, where Great Sun Tathagata arrived and reported that his plan with Dipamkara Buddha and Maitreya to exhaust Houtu had failed at a critical moment.

Zhunti and Jieyin learned that Ruthless Great Emperor had defeated Dipamkara and stolen his treasure, then arranged for Monkey to cause trouble at the Qingshan City inn to investigate the foreign visitors. Back at the inn, Su Yang reunited with his companions, while Nuwa sought information about his world and Footprint Emperor revealed his cultivation to Black Emperor.

• Tathagata reported that Ruthless Great Emperor had defeated Dipamkara and taken the Twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls, weakening the Western Teachings' powerful combatant.
• Zhunti told Jieyin and Tathagata to send Monkey to disturb the Qingshan City inn, and learned that the Jade Emperor had agreed in exchange for benefits to the Heavenly Court.
• Ruthless Great Emperor, Footprint Emperor, Willow Deity, and Xiao Jiu returned safely to the inn, where Su Yang asked Ruthless Great Emperor about the Primordial World's strength.
• Nuwa asked Su Yang where Azure Emperor had gone and offered to help restore his arms, but Su Yang declined and agreed to tell her more stories about his world.
• Footprint Emperor revealed to Black Emperor that he was a Quasi-Immortal Emperor, and Black Emperor took him outside to relax.
• Su Yang checked his system and saw that he had accumulated 730,000 points.

Su Yang spent points on ten Purple Prize Pool draws, receiving mostly items he considered useless and one valuable Sacred Medicine. With 720,000 points left, he prepared to make five Gold Prize Pool draws in search of treasures that could strengthen him or stand against Saints.

• Su Yang spent 10,000 points on ten Purple Prize Pool draws and received several minor rewards, including Monster Beast Essence Blood, an incomplete Empress Xi Scripture chapter, and Wang Teng's Shattered Dao Heart.
• Su Yang drew Ye Fan's Mercedes and learned from the system that items from the Trilogy, including objects from Blue Star, could appear in the prize pools.
• Su Yang received a Sacred Medicine as the final Purple Pool reward but considered it less useful than an Immortal Medicine.
• Su Yang decided to spend 500,000 of his remaining 720,000 points on five Gold Prize Pool draws to seek strength-boosting treasures and experts able to face Saints.

Su Yang spent three hundred thousand points on Gold Prize Pool rewards and gained several powerful treasures, including the Heart of the Demon Emperor and a Sacrifice Dao Heavenly Emperor Ye Summoning Card. After absorbing the Heart of the Demon Emperor, he awakened the Chaos Body and reached combat strength he judged to be at the Quasi-Emperor level.

• Su Yang drew Duan De from the Gold Prize Pool, and the system explained that Duan De had reached the Mortal World Immortal realm.
• Su Yang drew the Bell of Time and the Desolate Sword Art, which he could practice immediately and share with Ruthless Great Emperor, Footprint Emperor, and the others.
• Su Yang obtained the Heart of the Demon Emperor and a five-hour Sacrifice Dao Heavenly Emperor Ye Summoning Card.
• Su Yang absorbed the Heart of the Demon Emperor with the Heaven Devouring Demonic Art, transforming his physique and awakening the Chaos Body.
• Su Yang manifested the Chaos Seed Green Lotus, Immortal King Descends Upon Nine Heavens, and Stars Shine Upon Azure Sky, then sensed that his strength had reached the Quasi-Emperor level.

After absorbing the Heart of the Demon Emperor, Su Yang reached the Quasi-Emperor Realm, while Duan De searched for powerful figures’ graves to rob. A sudden tremor shook the Earthly Immortal Realm, and the Jade Emperor ordered an investigation that turned toward Dongsheng Shenzhou.

• Su Yang left his room and found Duan De and Black Emperor arguing like old friends.
• Duan De asked Footprint Emperor about tombs of Great Divine Ability Users, then admitted he wanted to rob them.
• Black Emperor noticed Su Yang had reached the Quasi-Emperor Realm.
• A violent tremor shook the Earthly Immortal Realm, and Ruthless Great Emperor and Footprint Emperor investigated its cause.
• The Jade Emperor ordered King Lingguan to investigate, and Thousand-Mile Eye scanned the continents before turning toward Dongsheng Shenzhou.

The stone monkey was born on Flower-Fruit Mountain, drawing the attention of Heaven and Buddhist leaders as they recognized that the upheaval could advance their plans. The Jade Emperor dismissed the event publicly, while Guanyin was ordered to observe Qingshan City and Dipamkara vowed to avenge the loss of his treasure.

• A stone monkey burst from a Five Colors stone on Flower-Fruit Mountain and joined the intelligent monkey troop.
• The Thousand-Mile Eye and Wind-Following Ear reported the birth and the monkeys’ intelligence to the Jade Emperor, who concealed his interest while considering how the event might serve his plan.
• At Spirit Mountain, the Great Sun Tathagata told Guanyin that upheaval was coming and ordered her to disguise herself, watch Qingshan City, and avoid the mysterious inn.
• The Great Sun Tathagata met Ancient Buddha Dipamkara, who confirmed the Western Saints had begun to act and said he would personally avenge the loss of his twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls.

Dipamkara Buddha awaited the recovery of the Twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls while Primordial Lord of Heaven and Old Ancestor Bodhi made plans around the newly born Spiritual Stone Monkey. In Qingshan City, Su Yang’s story of Ye Fan reached the moment a mysterious woman appeared on the mountaintop.

• The Great Sun Tathagata promised Dipamkara Buddha that a Saint would reclaim the Twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls for him.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven discovered the Spiritual Stone Monkey inside the Heaven-Replenishing Stone and planned to ask Grand Pure Heavenly Lord of Virtue to restrict the monkey’s innate talent.
• Old Ancestor Bodhi transformed Mount Fangcun into a hidden place of cultivation, instructed its demon clansmen to conceal his identity, and watched the Spiritual Stone Monkey from afar.
• Su Yang told the listeners that Ye Fan was astonished by a mysterious woman in the Ancient Desolate Forbidden Land, whose appearance showed no sign of age.
• The woman approached Ye Fan with a terrifying aura, and the elders of the Jiang Family and Ji Family realized she had appeared on the mountaintop without difficulty.

Su Yang revealed that the mysterious woman in the Ancient Desolate Forbidden Land was the Tianxuan Saintess, a famed figure from six thousand years ago who had become a Desolate Slave. As the elders feared they could not escape her, Ye Fan wondered whether the Old Madman had once been close to her.

• The Yaoguang Holy Land elder recognized the woman from a six-thousand-year-old portrait and identified her as the Tianxuan Saintess, once the Eastern Wasteland’s foremost Saintess.
• Su Yang explained that the Tianxuan Holy Land had been destroyed in the Ancient Desolate Forbidden Land and suggested the Saintess had become a Desolate Slave.
• The Ji Family elder said the Saintess’s approach was draining their life force, and the Yaoguang Holy Land elder warned that no one would escape.
• Ye Fan heard the elders’ discussion and connected the Saintess to the Old Madman’s past vigil toward the forbidden land’s depths.
• The onlookers speculated that the Old Madman might have followed or loved the Saintess, and reflected that six thousand years had made her body only a remnant of who she was.

Su Yang continued telling the story of Ye Fan’s desperate battle against the Tianxuan Saintess, whose power overwhelmed the elders and their Forbidden Artifacts. As the three forces faced death after their weapons shattered, the Jiang Family elder revealed another object.

• The Jiang Family elder attacked the Tianxuan Saintess with a Forbidden Artifact and supreme treasure, but her power drained him and left him vomiting blood.
• The Ji Family elder struck with his Forbidden Artifact and magical treasure, but the Tianxuan Saintess shattered the attack with a finger and knocked him down.
• Su Yang continued the story as the Yaoguang Holy Land elder unleashed the sealed power of a Supreme Elder, but the Tianxuan Saintess remained unharmed.
• The elders of the three forces joined forces and attacked with their Forbidden Artifacts, but the Saintess remained untouched and their artifacts shattered.
• The Ancient Desolate Forbidden Land’s curse weakened the three elders, and the Jiang Family elder took a brand-new object from his robe.

Su Yang recounted how the Jiang Family Elder’s imitation Desolate Pagoda failed to hold the Tianxuan Saintess, leaving Ye Fan alone on the Sacred Mountain as the curse killed the three elders. Ye Fan raced toward the Sacred Medicine and Divine Spring, but the Tianxuan Saintess blocked him and reached toward his Sea of Bitterness, leaving his fate uncertain.

• The Jiang Family Elder used an imitation Desolate Pagoda to seal the Tianxuan Saintess, but she shattered it and emerged with only a minor injury.
• The Ancient Desolate Forbidden Land’s curse aged and killed the three elders, leaving Ye Fan alone on the Sacred Mountain.
• Su Yang continued his story after listeners begged him not to stop, describing other experts and their savage beasts turning to ashes.
• As the curse drained Ye Fan’s strength, he rushed toward the Sacred Medicine and Divine Spring at the summit.
• The Tianxuan Saintess blocked Ye Fan, knocked the Golden Book leaf back into his body, and reached toward his Sea of Bitterness.

Ye Fan survived the Tianxuan Saintess’s attack when the Green Copper Piece repelled her, then escaped the Ancient Desolate Forbidden Land after drinking from the Divine Spring and taking a Sacred Medicine. After ending the tale, Su Yang turned the listeners’ attention to the Myriad Worlds and began explaining what they were.

• The Green Copper Piece inside Ye Fan sent the Tianxuan Saintess flying into an abyss, saving him from her attack.
• Su Yang said Ye Fan drank from the Divine Spring, took a Sacred Medicine, and found another way out of the Ancient Desolate Forbidden Land.
• Su Yang ended his story, leaving the listeners eager to hear about Ye Fan’s later adventures.
• A listener asked Su Yang to rank the Great Emperors, but Su Yang redirected the discussion to remarkable figures among the Myriad Worlds.
• Su Yang explained that countless worlds existed beyond the Primordial World, including Great Thousand Worlds as vast as the stars and some as powerful as the Primordial World.

Su Yang told the gathered immortals that the Myriad Worlds contained powers beyond the Saints of the Primordial World and questioned whether Primordial Violet Qi was truly necessary to prove the Dao. His claims unsettled the Saints, Hongjun, and the Jade Emperor, and the chapter ended with Yang Jian asking him to name those worlds and their powerful figures.

• Su Yang explained that the Myriad Worlds included worlds as powerful as the Primordial World, prompting Great Divine Ability Users to hope they could seek Sainthood elsewhere.
• When a Grand Unity Golden Immortal asked whether the Myriad Worlds offered a chance to become a Saint, Su Yang said Saints were not as exalted as legends claimed, and the Heavenly Dao responded with thunder and lightning.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven dismissed Su Yang's words, while Sect Master Tongtian, Laozi, and Hongjun reacted with curiosity and uncertainty about powers beyond Saints.
• The Jade Emperor considered Su Yang's suggestion that Hongjun had taken his path without Primordial Violet Qi, while Empress Nuwa, Changxi, and Xi He wondered about powers across the worlds.
• Yang Jian asked Su Yang to clarify which worlds held such powerful figures, and everyone in the inn and across the Three Realms waited for his answer.

Su Yang explained that the Grand Unity Golden Immortal he meant was not the Primordial World's familiar realm, but one beyond the Three Thousand Great Daos and beyond causality and reincarnation. After the Heavenly Dao sent a destructive thunderbolt against everyone who heard him, Su Yang erased the calamity with a wave of his sleeve.

• Su Yang introduced an ancient legend about a Grand Unity Golden Immortal, prompting Primordial Lord of Heaven, Sect Master Tongtian, Laozi, and Hongjun to react with doubt or concern.
• Su Yang clarified that his Grand Unity Golden Immortal was different from the realm known in the Primordial World and described the Great Luo Celestial Immortal as its starting point.
• The listeners realized Su Yang's account described a realm far beyond their understanding, while the Heavenly Dao trembled in response.
• The Heavenly Dao sent a devastating punishment toward the inn, targeting everyone who had heard Su Yang's words.
• Su Yang waved his sleeve and swallowed the Calamity Cloud, leaving the witnesses stunned.

Su Yang explained that the Mythical Grand Unity Golden Immortal was a realm beyond the Saints, distinct from the Primordial World's accepted cultivation path. His words reached powerful figures across the Primordial World, leaving Hongjun, Laozi, and Tongtian convinced that a higher path existed.

• Su Yang dispelled the Heavenly Dao's Lightning Punishment and asked what it meant to be a Saint.
• Nuwa described Sainthood and the Primordial World's Grand Unity Golden Immortal, but Su Yang said he meant the Mythical Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
• Hongjun failed to divine the meaning of the realm and focused his attention on Su Yang's words in the inn.
• Laozi realized that Sainthood was not the ultimate peak and sensed that his restraints were beginning to loosen.
• Tongtian embraced the idea of a realm beyond the Primordial World's laws and summoned the Four Swords of Zhu Xian.