Chapter Summaries

Yang Guo reunited with Guo Fu, while Golden Wheel Dharma King returned to guide Daerba in immortal cultivation. Ji Shu entered the Fengyun Baxian Tianxia World, where Tathagata Buddha attacked him across time and space.

• Yang Guo reunited with Guo Fu and began guiding her toward immortality, while Big Wu and Little Wu rode away separately to search for Ji Shu.
• Yang Guo told Guo Fu stories about Ji Shu, and the two brothers resolved to seek immortality so they could surpass Yang Guo.
• Golden Wheel Dharma King revealed himself to Daerba, urged him to avoid Huo Du and the others, and taught him the Vajra King Art.
• Ji Shu accepted Golden Wheel Dharma King as a Heavenly Soldier and then entered the Fengyun Baxian Tianxia World, seeing its realms and powerful inhabitants with his Heavenly Eye.
• Tathagata Buddha spotted Ji Shu and struck at him with a palm that crossed the River of Time, darkening the world.

Ji Shu killed Great Sun Tathagata Buddha, won the Heavenly Dao’s favor by transforming the Six Realms, and began studying its laws while Bai Suzhen, God of Immortality, and the others kept people from disturbing him. Xu Fu then sought a way to approach Ji Shu indirectly, ordering Nie Feng and Bu Jingyun to investigate him.

• Ji Shu’s mysterious light pierced Great Sun Tathagata Buddha’s final palm and killed him, then carried his Primordial Spirit into the Painted World.
• Ji Shu caused rain and vegetation to spread throughout the Six Realms, earning the Heavenly Dao’s goodwill and permission to observe its laws.
• Nuwa, Bai Suzhen, God of Immortality, and the Asura Queen recognized that Ji Shu had become the Heavenly Dao’s favored one and ordered their followers not to disturb him.
• God of Immortality and Bai Suzhen stopped Xu Fu from approaching Ji Shu, and God of Immortality warned Xu Fu that they would sacrifice him if he provoked Ji Shu.
• Xu Fu decided to approach Ji Shu through others and ordered his subordinates to find Nie Feng and Bu Jingyun to investigate him.

Ji Shu perfected his Ice Law while Bu Jingyun and Nie Feng learned how dangerous it would be to approach him. After they joined Di Shitian’s plan to slay the Divine Dragon, the group set out for Sea God’s Island, with Di Shitian wary of Ji Shu’s power.

• Ji Shu comprehended the laws of the world and raised his Ice Law progress to 100%, imagining how the Great Freezing Art might complement it.
• Luo Xian brought Bu Jingyun and Nie Feng near Ji Shu, but Bu Dao stopped Bu Jingyun and warned them not to disturb the powerful Outer Realm expert; Bu Dao also gave him a manual of his lifelong knowledge.
• Nie Feng and Bu Jingyun concluded that God Lord and Devil Master feared Ji Shu, then left after deciding they were too weak to approach him.
• Second Dream told Nie Feng that Di Shitian planned to slay the Divine Dragon on the Day of Auspicious Omen and invited the Mortal Realm’s experts to claim Dragon Yuan.
• Luo Xian led Nie Feng and Bu Jingyun to Di Shitian, who gathered Huai Kong, Huang Ying, Po Jun, Duan Lang, Jian Chen, Huai Mie, Ice Emperor, Divine General, Wu De, and others to travel toward Sea God’s Island.
• Di Shitian reflected on how close he had come to provoking Ji Shu and resolved to act quickly before his dragon-slaying plan attracted trouble.

Di Shitian’s defeat heightened his desire for power, while Xiong Ba, Wuming, and other martial artists gathered outside Unrivaled City to observe Ji Shu. After witnessing Ji Shu’s overwhelming cultivation, they revered him as a true god and waited for him to awaken.

• Di Shitian reflected on the gods of other realms and resolved to become stronger after his defeat by the Devil Master and God Lord.
• Xiong Ba came to Unrivaled City and worshipped Ji Shu from a hidden spot, hoping to become his disciple.
• Bu Dao stopped Wuming from approaching Ji Shu, and Wuming chose to watch from nearby instead.
• Wuming saw the phenomena surrounding Ji Shu and concluded that he was vastly beyond mortal reach, then joined Bu Dao in barring others from approaching him.
• Second Blade Emperor, Third Pig Emperor, First Evil Emperor, and Dugu Meng arrived, watched Ji Shu, and joined Wuming in waiting for him to awaken.
• More masters from across the Six Realms and pocket worlds gathered outside Unrivaled City, including Xiao Sanshao.

Xiao Sanshao and the Great Demon God recognized Ji Shu’s overwhelming power and began building temples in hopes of becoming his followers. After returning from slaying the Divine Dragon, Di Shitian watched Ji Shu’s phenomena, gave Luo Xian the Dragon Yuan, and tried to recruit powerful allies for a plan to kill the god, but the God of Immortality refused.

• Xiao Sanshao warned Xiao Jingtian that neither their combined forces nor even Xiao Sanshao himself could defeat Ji Shu, then ordered him to build temples and pray for the chance to serve the god.
• Xiao Jingtian oversaw a temple’s construction, and martial artists across the region followed suit; Xiong Ba witnessed the Great Demon God’s power and fled.
• Di Shitian returned from slaying the Divine Dragon, learned about Xiao Sanshao and Xiao Jingtian, watched Ji Shu’s phenomena, and resolved to seek his teachings while considering whether a god could be slain for a Divine Source.
• Di Shitian gave Luo Xian the Dragon Yuan, then visited Xiao Sanshao and Xiao Jingtian to propose gathering the Six Realms’ strength for a surprise attack on Ji Shu.
• Xiao Sanshao balked at the danger, so Di Shitian sought the God of Immortality, who rejected the plan because he feared Ji Shu after witnessing him kill Tathagata Buddha with one finger.

Di Shitian gathered experts from the Six Realms and launched a surprise attack on Ji Shu, hoping to slay a god and seize his Divine Source. Ji Shu emerged unharmed, and Di Shitian and his followers fled as Huai Kong, Huai Mie, Nie Feng, and Bu Jingyun watched; a vast hand of heaven then reached out to capture them.

• Di Shitian failed to recruit God of Immortality and the other major powers, but persuaded several subordinates to join his plan to slay Ji Shu.
• Di Shitian learned that Nie Feng, Bu Jingyun, Huai Kong, and Huai Mie had taken Dragon Yuan and gone into hiding, then resolved to proceed with his army of experts.
• Nie Feng, Bu Jingyun, Huai Kong, and Huai Mie watched from a mountain near Unrivaled City and chose not to warn Ji Shu or join Di Shitian's attack.
• Di Shitian and thousands of experts unleashed a combined strike at Ji Shu, devastating Unrivaled City and injuring observers including Wuming and Xiong Ba.
• Ji Shu remained unharmed as the combined attack vanished against him, prompting Di Shitian, Duan Lang, and the others to flee in panic.
• Huai Kong predicted Heaven's Gate would fall, and a vast heavenly hand reached out to capture Di Shitian and the fleeing experts.

Ji Shu crushed Di Shitian and the gathered experts, then continued cultivating the laws of the Fengyun World while Nie Feng, Bu Jingyun, and the others knelt to seek his forgiveness and follow him. As Ji Shu’s mastery of the world’s laws advanced, his manifestations of reincarnation awed the witnesses, who remained determined to serve him.

• Ji Shu seized Di Shitian, Duan Lang, Luo Xian, Ice Emperor, and more than ten thousand experts in a vast hand and crushed them.
• God Lord, Devil Master, Nie Feng, Bu Jingyun, Huai Kong, and Huai Mie knelt before Ji Shu, blamed Di Shitian, and pleaded to serve him.
• Ji Shu sent the souls and Primordial Spirits of Di Shitian and the other experts into the Painted World, then resumed comprehending the Fengyun World’s laws.
• As Ji Shu cultivated, manifestations of the Six Paths of Reincarnation appeared behind him, frightening and astonishing Nie Feng, Bu Jingyun, and the others.
• Ji Shu resolved to keep exploring lesser worlds and strengthening his laws before returning to the Primordial Great World, wary of disturbing its greater trend.
• Nie Feng, Bu Jingyun, Huai Kong, and Huai Mie continued kneeling outside Unrivaled City, while Xiong Ba’s devotion to Ji Shu grew even more fervent.

Ji Shu mastered the remaining Dao laws in the Wind and Cloud world, recruited people who wished to follow him as Heavenly Soldiers, and traveled through time to gather treasures and rare beings. He left the Phoenix’s remains incubating as an egg and continued upstream through history, where changing fates carried increasingly heavy karmic consequences.

• Xiong Ba and Second Dream eagerly sought to follow Ji Shu, while Second Blade Emperor, First Evil Emperor, Third Pig Emperor, Dugu Meng, and others did not dare ask.
• After mastering every Heavenly Dao Law except those of time and space, Ji Shu summoned Nie Feng, Bu Jingyun, Xiong Ba, Second Dream, Wuming, and others, then invited them to become Heavenly Soldiers in his world.
• Ji Shu traveled through time and met You Ruo, then rescued Nie Renwang from the Fire Qilin and brought both the subdued Fire Qilin and Nie Renwang into the Painted World.
• Ji Shu learned the Sacred Dao Laws in the dragon vein and the Human Dao Laws within the Xuanyuan Sword, then imbued a stone pillar with Sacred Dao Laws.
• Ji Shu collected the Phoenix’s remains after Xu Fu extracted its blood, revived them into an egg with his blood essence and Nirvana Fire, and placed the egg in the Mystic Fire Mirror.
• As Ji Shu traveled farther upstream through history, he found that altering people’s fates brought increasingly severe karmic consequences.

Ji Shu traveled through the Wind and Cloud World’s past, resurrected Qin Shi Huang, and recruited the pure-blooded Dragon Turtle into the Painted World. After learning that divine beasts had been sent there during the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity, he took more beasts and revived the Divine Dragon, while advancing his cultivation of time and space laws.

• Ji Shu resurrected Qin Shi Huang and recruited him as a Heavenly Soldier, where he met another Ying Zheng in the Painted World.
• Ji Shu examined Fusu, Huhai, and Meng Tian, then traveled to the Shang Dynasty era and took the Dragon Turtle after learning it was a pure-blooded descendant of the Xuanwu clan.
• Ji Shu promised to nurture the Dragon Turtle into a true Xuanwu and sent it into the Painted World, where it discovered the abundant Innate Qi and treasures.
• Ji Shu witnessed a Fire Qilin leave her egg in Lingyun Cave and realized that divine beasts had been sent to the Wind and Cloud World to survive the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity.
• Ji Shu concluded that the divine beasts’ consumption of the world’s Innate Qi had caused the Heavenly Dao to curse them, while his own changes to the world earned its favor.
• After completing his study of the laws of time and space, Ji Shu went to Sea God's Island, took the Divine Dragon’s corpse, and used Nirvana Fire to turn it into an egg.

Ji Shu revived the Divine Dragon and departed with Second Dream and the others for another world, while those left behind regretted missing their chance to follow him. In the Painted World, Di Shitian and Duan Lang became Heavenly Soldiers, and Di Shitian learned that Qin Shi Huang had also been resurrected and might one day command him.

• Ji Shu placed the revived dragon egg in the Mystic Fire Mirror to incubate and returned to the present spacetime.
• Second Dream, Nie Feng, Bu Jingyun, and the others followed Ji Shu out of Unrivaled City, leaving First Evil Emperor, Dugu Meng, and the others to regret not joining them.
• The Bull Devil King and Zhu Bajie berated Duan Lang, Di Shitian, and the other defeated fighters after they became Heavenly Soldiers in the Painted World.
• Jade Rabbit told Duan Lang and Di Shitian how powerful Ji Shu was, and Duan Lang blamed Di Shitian for organizing the failed assassination before Di Shitian promised not to betray the Lord again.
• Di Shitian recognized the Fire Qilin and learned that Qin Shi Huang had been resurrected and could become a captain over him.

Nie Feng reunited with his father after Ji Shu brought him into the Painted World, while the new arrivals learned more about Ji Shu and their worlds. Ji Shu then entered a Blood Lotus-corrupted Great World and discovered it was the world of "White Snake: Origin," where Asura City linked the Underworld, mortal realm, and River of Time.

• Jade Rabbit told Di Shitian, Duan Lang, and the others more stories of Ji Shu and gave them Ghost God cultivation techniques to practice.
• Nie Feng, Bu Jingyun, Xiong Ba, and the others arrived unharmed after kneeling and praying outside Unrivaled City for Ji Shu's permission; Di Shitian and Duan Lang regretted their earlier choices, then fought with their companions and were punished by Jade Rabbit.
• Nie Feng recognized Nie Renwang as his father, recounted their past, and resolved to serve Ji Shu after they reunited.
• Golden Wheel Dharma King, Huang Yaoshi, Gao Yao, and others questioned Nie Feng's group about their world and praised Ji Shu's role in saving the Myriad Worlds.
• Ji Shu left Fengyun World and entered the world of "White Snake: Origin," where he saw Asura City connecting the Underworld, mortal realm, and River of Time, and detected damage caused by the Blood Lotus.

As the Blood Lotus’s devastation left the world dying, Xiao Bai, Xiao Qing, and the Heavenly Court’s gods despaired of finding a way to survive. A mysterious god brought rain, Spiritual Qi, and spirit plants back to the land, and the chapter ended with gods and mortals kneeling to learn his name.

• The Mysterious Lady of the Nine Heavens and other gods admitted that they could not restore the Blood Lotus-ravaged world and might soon have to leave it.
• Xiao Qing told Xiao Bai she suspected their master was draining disciples to cultivate, and the sisters vowed to rely on each other and seek a way to survive.
• Xiao Qing and Xiao Bai saw a mysterious being summon thunder and rain, then discovered that fruit trees and spirit plants had sprung up across the desert.
• Xiao Bai and Xiao Qing hurried toward the god, passing Chang Pan on the way and finding that he, too, was heading to the spectacle.
• He Taishang, Xiao Bai, Xiao Qing, and the assembled gods and Buddhas knelt before the god, thanked him for restoring the world, and asked him to reveal his name.

The gods and mortals worshipped Ji Shu as he transformed the world and manifested immense powers while cultivating. After raising his laws to 42%, Ji Shu gathered the Mysterious Lady of the Nine Heavens, Xiao Qing, Xiao Bai, Bao Qing Fang Zhu, Xu Xuan, Du Dou, and other deities, and offered them a place as heavenly soldiers in his world.

• The Mysterious Lady of the Nine Heavens, the Twenty-Eight Mansions, and other gods knelt before Ji Shu, followed by Snake Mother, He Taishang, Xiao Qing, Xiao Bai, and the others.
• Over several days, Ji Shu's cultivation manifested a Sea of Thunder, world-spanning winds, and a colossal sword, leaving the witnesses increasingly awed.
• Xu Xuan, Du Dou, and Bao Qing Fang Zhu knelt and discussed whether Ji Shu was cultivating as more phenomena—including the Five Elements Rainbow Aura and Six Paths of Reincarnation—appeared behind him.
• Ji Shu awakened after perceiving the Heavenly Dao's laws and raising his various law progress to 42%.
• Ji Shu seized the gathered gods and mortals, then asked whether they would go to his world and serve as heavenly soldiers.
• Xiao Qing, Xiao Bai, Xu Xuan, and Du Dou eagerly agreed, and Bao Qing Fang Zhu quickly raised her hand as well.

Ji Shu selected Xiao Qing, Xiao Bai, Du Dou, Bao Qing Fang Zhu, and several others as heavenly soldiers, while Snake Mother and He Taishang tried to seize their places and failed. Ji Shu then traveled into the future, where he saw an aged Fahai and Xiao Qing struggling upstream.

• Ji Shu chose Xiao Qing, Xiao Bai, Du Dou, Bao Qing Fang Zhu, and other decisive gods to become heavenly soldiers, then left them a day to prepare.
• Snake Mother tried to make Xiao Qing give up her position, but Xiao Qing and Xiao Bai refused, and the Mysterious Lady of the Nine Heavens warned Snake Mother to leave them alone.
• He Taishang offered Xu Xuan and Du Dou his wealth and authority for their positions, then tried again after feeding them, but both refused and he abandoned them in a dangerous district.
• Snake Mother left after failing to obtain Xiao Qing and Xiao Bai's support, then resolved to ask them to speak for her the next day.
• Ji Shu traveled to the future through the River of Time and saw modern buildings and technology, an aged Fahai, and Xiao Qing struggling upstream.

Ji Shu witnessed the collapse of Asura City and learned how Xiao Bai’s infant self had been orphaned, so he traveled back in time and saved her mother, Bai Yue, and the Nine-Headed Serpent. He brought them under his control in his Lesser World and promised to bring them to the grown Xiao Bai.

• Ji Shu killed the Bullhead Gang leader with a single finger, then Asura City collapsed and Xiao Qing and Xiao Bai were transported to the present with their memories intact.
• Ji Shu found infant Xiao Bai beside Bai Yue as the Nine-Headed Serpent demanded that Bai Yue kill her daughter, and Bai Yue perished with the serpent in a desperate attack.
• Ji Shu returned to the moment before their deaths and trapped Bai Yue and the Nine-Headed Serpent inside his Great Sun World.
• Bai Yue and the Nine-Headed Serpent offered their true spirits and merged them into Ji Shu’s Lesser World, becoming bound to him.
• Ji Shu told Bai Yue he would bring her grown daughter to her, then sent Bai Yue and the Nine-Headed Serpent into his Painted World.

Bai Yue and Nine-Headed Serpent learned about Ji Shu and the Painted World while Ji Shu explored the River of Time, studied its laws, and gathered more people into his world. After leaving the Heavenly Court’s rulers behind, Ji Shu arrived in Huang Feihong’s world and used his power to protect and transform Nine Provinces, where the people hailed him as a god.

• Fairy Chang'e told Bai Yue and Nine-Headed Serpent about Ji Shu, and they grew to admire him as they witnessed the Painted World's inhabitants worship him.
• Ji Shu saw Xiao Qing's mother sacrifice her essence to save her daughter, then revived the serpent's body with Nirvana Fire as he traveled through the River of Time and watched Tathagata Buddha attain enlightenment.
• Ji Shu returned with Mysterious Lady of the Nine Heavens, Xiao Qing, Xiao Bai, Bao Qing Fang Zhu, Xu Xuan, and the others, then departed while National Preceptor He Taishang and Snake Mother begged to join him.
• The Jade Emperor and Queen Mother of the West regretted hesitating to follow Ji Shu and resolved to seek a path to the Primordial Great World.
• In Huang Feihong's world, Ji Shu erased invading armies and corrupt rulers, brought food to the people of Nine Provinces, and inspired them to celebrate his descent and worship him.

Ji Shu descended into Chen Zhen’s world, where invasions had devastated Nine Provinces, and annihilated a Neon Country army with a finger flick. After removing the invading powers and comprehending the world’s laws, Ji Shu vanished without recruiting Chen Zhen.

• Ji Shu appeared in Chen Zhen’s world, where the people gathered in Luoyang City to pray for his protection against foreign invaders.
• Chen Zhen and Huo Ting'en watched as a Neon Country army of more than ten thousand soldiers arrived, slaughtering civilians and demanding the god’s protection for their plans to seize Nine Provinces.
• Ji Shu flicked a finger and erased the Neon Country army, leaving blood-colored glass flowers behind.
• Chen Zhen and Huo Ting'en spread news of the god’s intervention, and later generations commemorated the event as God's Day of Wrath and God's Finger-Flick Day.
• Ji Shu erased the other invading powers, comprehended the laws of Chen Zhen’s world, and departed without taking Chen Zhen as a disciple.

Ji Shu restored the Dragon Gate Inn World, revealed himself as a god, and chose Zhao Huaian, Ling Yanqiu, and Yu Huatian to become Heavenly Soldiers in the Painted World. As the three began training under the gods, the Emperor and others left behind envied their selection and prayed that Ji Shu would take them too.

• Ji Shu arrived in the Dragon Gate Inn World, healed its devastation, and studied its laws while the people of Chang'an learned that a god had descended.
• Zhao Huaian, Ling Yanqiu, and Yu Huatian witnessed Ji Shu's divine power and knelt with the crowd as faith gathered around him.
• Ji Shu invited the three to become Heavenly Soldiers and sent them into the Painted World, where the Black Bear Spirit guided them among its inhabitants.
• Fairy Chang'e told the newcomers that Ji Shu was the master of all Gods and Buddhas, and they learned of his deeds from the Painted World's residents.
• Zhao Huaian, Ling Yanqiu, and Yu Huatian trained diligently for years, while the people of their world watched them ascend and disappear with Ji Shu.
• Ma Jinliang and the Emperor lamented that Ji Shu had chosen the three instead of them, and the Emperor cried out that he was also a fervent believer.

Ji Shu descended into The Deer and the Cauldron World, ended the famine by bringing rain and fruit, and observed its laws while people across the capital worshipped him. He chose Aobai, Mu Jianping, and Su Quan as Heavenly Soldiers and sent them to the Painted World, leaving Kangxi jealous and bewildered.

• Ji Shu arrived above the capital, summoned rain, and caused water and fruit to spread across the devastated world.
• Wei Xiaobao and Shuang'er worshipped Ji Shu, while Kangxi, Aobai, Hai Dafu, and others prayed for a chance to serve him.
• The new abundance ended the starvation and dispersed the forces preparing to besiege the capital.
• Ji Shu selected Aobai, Mu Jianping, and Su Quan as Heavenly Soldiers and sent them into the Painted World.
• Kangxi learned who had been chosen and bitterly questioned why Ji Shu had passed him over.

Decades after Aobai, Mu Jianping, and Su Quan were chosen by the god, they returned to the mortal world as immortals, leaving Kangxi consumed with envy and determined to cultivate the Martial Dao Scripture. Meanwhile, Ji Shu traveled to the ruined A Step into the Past World after raising many laws to about 98%.

• Wei Xiaobao mourned that the god had not chosen him, then attended court with Duolong, where Kangxi and the ministers ordered shrines built and the god's deeds recorded.
• Several decades passed, and three streams of light descended while Kangxi traveled incognito; he recognized Aobai, Mu Jianping, and Su Quan returning from the Immortal Realm.
• Aobai visited his family and acquaintances, left a Martial Dao secret manual, and told Kangxi that the god had sent them back to settle their mortal ties before they parted forever.
• Aobai departed without introducing Kangxi to the god, and Kangxi began worshipping the deities and cultivating the Martial Dao Scripture after learning that Mu Jianping and Su Quan had also returned.
• Ji Shu arrived in the ruined A Step into the Past World after traveling across many worlds and bringing numerous laws to roughly 98% progress.