Chapter Summaries

Meng Qi attacked the Night Emperor but fled when Su Wuming warned that Xu Yue was approaching. Su Wuming then detected eight hostile Celestial Immortals from Golden Ao Island, prompting allies to gather at East Sea Sword Manor as Recoome and the others prepared a rear attack.

• Meng Qi ambushed the Night Emperor during his performance and overwhelmed him, but Su Wuming warned that Xu Yue had left the palace, so Meng Qi escaped.
• Su Wuming reported that eight Celestial Immortals from Golden Ao Island had arrived with hostile intent.
• Su Wuming alerted their allies, who used teleportation formations to converge on East Sea Sword Manor.
• The eight Celestial Immortals gathered above the manor's reinforced formation while Recoome and the others headed there to attack from behind.

Xu Yue and the Dharmakaya masters faced eight Heavenly Immortals, with Meng Qi arriving to help them divide their opponents. After the enemy’s attack destroyed East Sea Sword Manor’s grand formation, the defenders activated their own formations, while Yuan Hong prepared to overwhelm the two Earth Immortals left outside.

• Xu Yue and the others determined that their formations could handle only six Heavenly Immortals, so Xu Yue volunteered to hold off the remaining two.
• Meng Qi arrived as an Earth Immortal and offered to delay one opponent while the others targeted the isolated enemies.
• Xu Yue used an image of Daji to taunt the Heavenly Immortals, provoking Yuan Hong into attacking through his hair clone.
• The eight Heavenly Immortals shattered East Sea Sword Manor’s grand formation, and Moon Mani King Bodhisattva contained the devastating aftermath with the Pure Land of Lapis Lazuli.
• Shou Jing used the Time Blade to divide the battlefield, allowing the Zhu Xian Sword Array and Nine Bends Yellow River Formation to draw in six Heavenly Immortals.
• Yuan Hong recognized that the Time Blade wielder was not the Heavenly Emperor and prepared to unleash his hair clone’s full Heavenly Immortal power against the two Earth Immortals.

Yuan Hong sent two Heavenly Immortal hairs against Xu Yue and Meng Qi, but their Heaven Opening Seal attacks badly damaged the hairs and revealed their extraordinary inheritances. Recoome and his allies arrived to attack Xu Yue, only to face his One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones once more.

• Yuan Hong controlled two Heavenly Immortal hairs and attacked Xu Yue and Meng Qi, intending to punish the mortal emperor.
• Meng Qi used the Primordial Pangu Heaven Opening Form and the Overlord's Peerless Saber to shatter one hair's arm and force Yuan Hong to fight cautiously.
• Xu Yue struck the other hair with the Human Emperor Sword and heavily wounded it, leaving Yuan Hong astonished by his Heaven Opening Seal mastery.
• Recoome arrived with Han Guang, Mong Nan, Lamp Lighter, and the Blood Sea Rakshasa, who surrounded Xu Yue with formations.
• Xu Yue's opponent hair collapsed back into a hair, and Xu Yue used One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones to surround the arriving attackers.

Yuan Hong decided to attack Xu Yue after interpreting the Golden Emperor’s pawns as a sign that he could act safely. The Heavenly Emperor intervened through the Time Blade, severing Yuan Hong’s arm and sending everyone nearby back through time to the Middle Ages.

• Yuan Hong concluded that Xu Yue was a reincarnated Great Creation Power and decided the moment was right to strike.
• Xu Yue’s group prepared for Yuan Hong’s attack while the chapter revealed that several apparent allies and enemies were pawns of greater powers.
• Yuan Hong sent a giant palm down from infinite heights, then redirected its killing blow toward Xu Yue.
• Shou Jing intercepted the attack with the Time Blade, which Yuan Hong recognized as the Heavenly Emperor’s weapon.
• The Time Blade severed Yuan Hong’s arm and hurled everyone nearby upstream along the River of Time into the Middle Ages.
• A Daoist near Golden Ao Island stopped and stared toward the Time Blade’s strike, lost in thought.

Xu Yue and Meng Qi arrived in the Middle Ancient Period after the Heavenly Emperor concealed Xu Yue’s time reversal. Xu Yue began planning how to awaken Azure Emperor’s Buddhist body and leave without disrupting history, while Meng Qi cautiously investigated the era and worried about his missing Overlord’s Peerless Saber.

• Xu Yue determined that the Heavenly Emperor’s intervention had drawn attention away from his journey into the Middle Ancient Period.
• Xu Yue surveyed the era, analyzed its Dharma Principles, and headed toward the Human Emperor Remnants in Jiangdong to prepare a smokescreen and protect their lineage.
• Xu Yue planned to leave the past by awakening Medicine King Buddha or using the Time Blade buried on Jade Emperor Mountain, rather than risk exposure to the River of Time’s correction.
• Meng Qi confirmed he had reached the Middle Ancient Period and realized that the Overlord’s Peerless Saber was now with Xu Yue.
• Meng Qi chose to investigate the situation cautiously before approaching Moonlight Bodhisattva, while keeping watch for Recoome and the others.

Meng Qi met Ren Qiushui in Luocheng and learned about the Jiangdong Alliance Pact and the Middle Ancient struggle against Wu Daoming. After deciding to sign the pact, he discovered that Wu Daoming was in the middle of a vulnerable transformation and would become a Heavenly Immortal in eighteen days.

• Meng Qi sparred with Ren Qiushui using the Heaven Severing Seven Swords against the Jue Xian Sword Scripture, and she explained the Jiangdong Alliance Pact.
• Ren Qiushui told Meng Qi that the Benevolent Saint and other Righteous Path figures had gathered to confront Wu Daoming, who was rejuvenating under the Demon Emperor Nine Revolutions Technique.
• Ren Qiushui warned that Wu Daoming would become a Heavenly Immortal in eighteen days and might then be impossible to restrain.
• Meng Qi sensed the Jue Blade's dissatisfaction when Ren Qiushui judged it inferior to the Demon Emperor's Claw.
• Meng Qi gained a clearer understanding of the Hundred Schools Contending era and grew eager to take part.

Xu Yue used the Medicine King Buddha's sarira to reconnect the Azure Emperor's past and present, helping Him take a crucial step toward the Other Shore. He then corrupted the reborn Medicine King Buddha and Moonlight Bodhisattva with a drop of black blood, leaving the Azure Emperor's newly gained power concealed from the other Heavenly Wills.

• Xu Yue guided the Human Emperor Remnants away from the Demon Buddha Rebellion and left them the Human Emperor Golden Book.
• Xu Yue traveled toward Luocheng and called on Moonlight Bodhisattva to enter the Pure Land of Lapis Lazuli.
• Moonlight Bodhisattva showed Xu Yue the Medicine King Buddha's sarira, and Xu Yue awakened the Buddha shadows within it with the words, "Who am I? Who is me?"
• The Medicine King Buddha was reborn as Azure Emperor phantoms from across time merged into His body, connecting the Azure Emperor's path through past and present.
• Xu Yue struck the Medicine King Buddha with a drop of black blood infused with Tathagata's Reverse Palm and the Immortal Emperor's blood.
• The black blood corrupted Moonlight Bodhisattva and spread across the Medicine King Buddha and the Azure Emperor's returning incarnations, while the other Heavenly Wills remained unaware of the full change.

Xu Yue exploited Azure Emperor’s enlightenment and the chaos in the heavenly secrets to impersonate him, absorb the Demon Buddha’s imprints, and bind Medicine King Buddha in the shattered Pure Land of Lapis Lazuli. In Luocheng, Meng Qi defeated the Demon Sword Heavenly King and joined the Jiangdong Alliance, only to learn that rumors about his romantic entanglements had spread.

• Xu Yue absorbed the Demon Buddha’s imprints as Azure Emperor took a crucial step and sealed himself in darkness.
• Xu Yue shattered the Pure Land of Lapis Lazuli, while Medicine King Buddha bound himself with black Iron Chains and vanished.
• Xu Yue used the chaos surrounding Azure Emperor’s enlightenment to conceal his impersonation of Azure Emperor.
• Meng Qi drove back the Demon Sword Heavenly King in Luocheng after exploiting his opponent’s initial underestimation.
• Benevolent Saint, Heart Saint, and Qi Saint arrived, and Benevolent Saint offered Meng Qi the Jiangdong Alliance Pact.
• Qi Saint and Heart Saint told Meng Qi that a performer named Huo had been spreading stories about his tangled love affairs.

Night Emperor framed Meng Qi for attacking him, and Xu Yue’s alliance with the Human Emperor Remnants turned the gathered Dharmakayas against Meng Qi. As Meng Qi suppressed his anger, he considered how the demonic path might alter history and threaten the foundations of future sects.

• Night Emperor pretended Meng Qi had attacked him, prompting nearby Dharmakayas to intervene and accuse Meng Qi.
• Zhuo Chaosheng arrived and urged Meng Qi to restrain himself, while other Dharmakayas reinforced Night Emperor’s claims.
• Xu Yue appeared with the Human Emperor Remnants, and the gathered Dharmakayas prepared to seize Meng Qi after he was branded disrespectful toward them.
• Meng Qi calmed himself with the Origin Mind Seal and realized Xu Yue had gained the Human Emperor Remnants’ support through the Human Emperor Sword.
• Meng Qi considered how Recoome and the demonic path might alter history and endanger the True Martial Sect, Sword Washing Pavilion, Heavenly Court ruins, and Chunyangzi’s inheritance.

Xu Yue, Meng Qi, the Night Emperor, and He Qi investigated Wang’s Tofu Shop, where the Fifth Generation Mystic Maiden appeared to protect the Supreme Heavenly Demon’s concealment. Xu Yue revealed her secret connection to the Overlord, leaving the Night Emperor convinced that Meng Qi was the real lecher.

• Xu Yue defended Meng Qi from the Night Emperor’s accusations, and Meng Qi reluctantly joined them aboard the immortal vessel.
• He Qi reunited with Xu Yue, Meng Qi, and the Night Emperor and reported that Yun He had identified Wang’s Tofu Shop as a possible hiding place of the Supreme Heavenly Demon.
• Xu Yue argued that the Overlord might intervene if they disturbed the Supreme Heavenly Demon, so the group went to Wang’s Tofu Shop and ordered tofu pudding.
• The Fifth Generation Mystic Maiden appeared through an incarnation and flirted with Xu Yue, who exposed her romance with the Overlord.
• The Night Emperor teased Meng Qi, concluding that Xu Yue was no lecher and that Meng Qi had been taking the blame for him.

Xu Yue exposed the Supreme Heavenly Demon's corruption of the townspeople and killed Many-Eyed Heavenly Demon with one strike, while Overlord rescued the Supreme Heavenly Demon and chose Xu Yue as his future rival. The Saints left Xu Yue with the responsibility of cultivating quickly enough to contend with the Demon Emperor's Claw's inheritor.

• Xu Yue warned the Saints that the Supreme Heavenly Demon's flesh and blood had infected the townspeople, prompting Qi Saint to seal the city and purge the demonic flesh.
• The three Heavenly Demons attacked Xu Yue and his companions, but Xu Yue killed the already-wounded Many-Eyed Heavenly Demon with a single strike.
• The surviving Heavenly Demons fled, and Qi Saint extracted the demonic seeds from the Supreme Heavenly Demon, who reverted to a child holding the Demon Emperor's Claw.
• Overlord arrived, declared Xu Yue a worthy future opponent, and departed with the Supreme Heavenly Demon instead of fighting Xu Yue while he was still an Earth Immortal.
• The Saints recognized Xu Yue's exceptional strength and urged him to prioritize cultivation so he could eventually challenge the Supreme Heavenly Demon.

After the Battle of Luocheng, Xu Yue and Meng Qi completed a trade with Ren Qiushui for the full Zhu Xian and Jue Xian Sword Scriptures, while Xu Yue deduced a sword array tailored to himself. Xu Yue then met the Luo Cult Saintess, who revealed that Mother Wusheng wanted a private transaction with him as the Human Sovereign.

• Ren Qiushui exchanged the complete Zhu Xian and Jue Xian Sword Scriptures for the Dharmakaya chapters of the Four Swords and the Zhu Xian Formation Diagram.
• Meng Qi gained Lingbao's inheritance, and Xu Yue used the new scriptures and his other knowledge to create a personal continuation and modified Zhu Xian Sword Array.
• Xu Yue asked Meng Qi about meeting the current Luo Cult Saintess, prompting Meng Qi to suspect a connection to Mother Wusheng and the Heaven Punishing Axe.
• Meng Qi left to find Number Saint and seek the whereabouts of Recoome and the others.
• Xu Yue entered a courtyard and met Zhuo Biting, who said Mother Wusheng wanted to make a transaction with him alone, separate from the Demon Buddha.

Xu Yue traded information about Azure Emperor with Mother Wusheng for access to the remaining Sword Scriptures and the Zhu Xian Formation Diagram. Meanwhile, Number Saint examined Meng Qi’s fate and revealed that one possible future had him becoming Primal Heavenly Venerate.

• Golden Emperor suspected Xu Yue was an Other Shore being in disguise and sought cooperation with him over Azure Emperor and Demon Buddha.
• Xu Yue agreed to tell Mother Wusheng about Azure Emperor in exchange for glimpsing the remaining two Sword Scriptures and the Zhu Xian Formation Diagram.
• Zhuo Biting offered herself to Xu Yue so Mother Wusheng could learn Azure Emperor’s condition through direct experience.
• Meng Qi met Number Saint Wang Daolin, who examined his fate after Meng Qi restored his aura with the Primordial Nine Seals.
• Number Saint told Meng Qi that Gu Xiaosang still had a sliver of hope and accidentally revealed that one possible future had Meng Qi becoming Primal Heavenly Venerate.

Meng Qi and Wang Daolin reached Jade Emperor Mountain, where they met the Primordial Fairy and encountered Xu Yue, whose presence seemed to be replacing Ananda's imprint. Xu Yue led them into the Heavenly Court ruins, where they found Han Guang, now a Celestial, and Xu Yue hinted that Han Guang's schemes would take the blame for the Heavenly Emperor's contingency plan.

• Meng Qi asked Wang Daolin, the Number Saint, to accompany him to Jade Emperor Mountain, and Wang Daolin introduced himself as Meng Qi's peer.
• At Jade Emperor Mountain, the Primordial Fairy warned Meng Qi that four surviving hair Celestials were approaching together.
• Meng Qi saw Xu Yue overlap with and erase Ananda's imprint, while Wang Daolin and the Primordial Fairy reacted with shock to Xu Yue's presence.
• Xu Yue took Meng Qi, Wang Daolin, and the Primordial Fairy into the Heavenly Court ruins, where they encountered Han Guang posing as the Heavenly Emperor's obsession.
• Han Guang, who had become a Celestial, was stunned by Xu Yue and Meng Qi, and Xu Yue remarked that Han Guang's acting was excellent.

Xu Yue confronted Han Guang over his search for Ananda’s imprint, then used Touching Karma to make Number Saint understand his fate and leave. Han Guang surrendered the Time Blade and fled, while Recoome and his companions sought the Overlord and offered him information about One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones.

• Han Guang explained that he had been probing Ananda’s imprint and revealed Ananda’s betrayals to Xu Yue, Meng Qi, Primordial Fairy, and Number Saint.
• Xu Yue struck Number Saint with Touching Karma, leaving him alive in a superposed state and making him understand his destined death; Number Saint then departed.
• Han Guang praised Xu Yue, surrendered the Time Blade, and fled after Xu Yue ordered him to leave the Heavenly Court ruins alone.
• Xu Yue told Meng Qi that Recoome and the others might be seeking the Overlord, and Meng Qi worried about how Xu Yue would fare against him.
• Recoome, Lamp Lighter, Blood Sea Rakshasa, and Mong Nan met the Overlord, who mocked Recoome and dismissed him as unworthy of a fight.
• Recoome offered the Overlord information about One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, hoping to inspire him and disrupt the Pure Yang Sect’s rise.

Xu Yue and the Overlord entered the Zhu Xian Sword Array to fight, leaving Meng Qi and the injured Earth Immortals facing Recoome’s hidden allies. Wu Daoming and the Demon Sword Heavenly Demon arrived to attack them while the duel continued.

• Meng Qi, Xu Yue, and the Primordial Fairy reached the opened Pure Yangzi Mausoleum and found Lu Da, Chong He, and Su Wuming badly injured by the Overlord.
• Recoome warned the Overlord that Xu Yue wielded the Human Emperor Sword and possessed strength beyond that of an ordinary Earth Immortal.
• Xu Yue used One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones and drew the Overlord alone into the Zhu Xian Sword Array.
• After Xu Yue and the Overlord vanished, Recoome revealed that he had prepared another force to ambush Meng Qi and the others.
• Wu Daoming, now a Heavenly Immortal, and the Demon Sword Heavenly Demon entered the mausoleum, intending to kill the injured Earth Immortals and seize their chance.

Meng Qi and his companions were saved from the Supreme Heavenly Demon’s forces by Moonlight Bodhisattva, who then revealed how Meng Qi’s arrival helped close the loop around the Azure Emperor’s near-attainment of the Dao. Meanwhile, Xu Yue and the Overlord ended their duel and emerged from the Zhu Xian Sword Array, only to face attacks from the demons waiting outside.

• Meng Qi prepared to stall the demons while the others attempted to form the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation, but Recoome warned them about the formation and revealed the plan.
• Two more Heavenly Immortal auras appeared, and Moonlight Bodhisattva transported Meng Qi, Chong He, and the others away before the demons could attack.
• Medicine King Buddha explained that Xu Yue had awakened him and helped the Azure Emperor approach the Other Shore, while Meng Qi’s arrival helped complete a closed loop that supported the Azure Emperor’s restoration.
• Xu Yue and the Overlord fought fiercely until Xu Yue proposed dealing with the Supreme Heavenly Demon’s forces, and the Overlord agreed to resume their duel after Xu Yue reached the Heavenly Immortal level.
• Xu Yue and the Overlord emerged at the Pure Yangzi Mausoleum, where the Supreme Heavenly Demon’s group immediately attacked them.

Xu Yue and Overlord joined forces to defeat the assembled demons and divine-weapon wielders, then parted with a challenge about fate and destiny. Elsewhere, Moonlight Bodhisattva warned Meng Qi about the Other Shore’s use of causality, while a chained shadow in the Pure Land of Lapis Lazuli revealed its intent to unleash the Final Tribulation.

• Overlord used the Jue Blade to divide the coordinated assault, allowing him and Xu Yue to counterattack as a pair.
• Overlord and Xu Yue killed the Demon Sword Heavenly Demon and the other Heavenly Demons, while the Supreme Heavenly Demon escaped and Recoome hid inside the Heaven Punishing Axe.
• Lamp Lighter fled with Mong Nan and the Blood Sea Rakshasa through the True Vacuum Homeland.
• Overlord rejected Xu Yue’s claim that his death was fated and challenged him to fight again after reaching the Heavenly Immortal level.
• Moonlight Bodhisattva advised Meng Qi to judge the Other Shore’s intentions by the rewards it gave for actions that served its causes.
• A chained shadow in the Pure Land of Lapis Lazuli saw heaven’s will upon Meng Qi and vowed to unleash the Final Tribulation against Ananda.

Meng Qi relied on Moonlight Bodhisattva’s support as future travelers watched history unfold in the Middle Ancient Period. Xu Yue exposed his identity as the Demon Buddha, defeated the Overlord, and returned to the present by devouring Demon Buddha imprints, prompting the sealed Demon Buddha to recognize how hastily Xu Yue had acted.

• Meng Qi learned that Xu Yue and the Overlord had defeated Recoome and the Supreme Heavenly Demon and killed four celestial fiendish immortals, while Moonlight Bodhisattva agreed to support him without proactively harming anyone.
• Recoome rebuilt his body with Eternal Heaven’s incense-and-faith power and decided to seek other benefits in the Middle Ancient Period rather than risk changing history.
• Xu Yue abducted the Fifth-generation Mystic Maiden and besieged the Overlord after the Overlord reached the Legendary realm, revealing that Xu Yue was also the Demon Buddha.
• Xu Yue defeated the Overlord, who self-destructed, while the Fifth-generation Mystic Maiden killed herself after failing to save him; the visitors then returned to the present as history corrected itself.
• Moonlight Bodhisattva attained Creation, the Azure Emperor’s black-blood pieces remained dormant, and Xu Yue devoured Demon Buddha imprints all along his return through time.
• The sealed Demon Buddha suffered from Xu Yue’s devouring but believed the process would ultimately make Xu Yue’s Reduce and Seek Emptiness more complete and bring him closer under the Demon Buddha’s control.

Xu Yue reached Legend by spanning ancient and modern times and went to the Eastern Pure Land, where the Overlord had perfected his own Great Dao. Xu Yue planned to keep the corrupted Azure Emperor sealed until he could use him as a tool, while the Overlord waited for a safer moment to act.

• Xu Yue returned to the present after devouring the Demon Buddha imprints and forced his true spirit to meet the standard for Legend.
• Xu Yue traveled with Moonlight Bodhisattva to the Eastern Pure Land, where the Overlord emerged from hiding and revealed his perfected Creation realm.
• Xu Yue warned the Overlord that the returning great powers and Heavenly Will made it too dangerous to strike for Legend yet.
• The Overlord asked about Xu Yue's absent true body and worried that Xu Yue might release the corrupted Azure Emperor sealed within the Pure Land.
• Xu Yue admitted that the Azure Emperor would betray him if given the chance, but said he could use Him as a tool while keeping Him under control.
• The Overlord returned to sit beneath the Bodhi Tree and chose to wait rather than rush out to attack Ananda.