Chapter Summaries

As the Samsara Demon tried to destroy the Jingshen Realm, Su Qing gathered the realm’s people and divine weapon Puppets to create the Human Dao Imperial Court and stabilize the world. He then summoned the will of the True Martial Emperor Lord, and Gao Erqiang and the All Heavens True Monarchs began forming a divine body to receive it.

• The Samsara Demon unleashed its world-destroying power, forcing Su Qing and the All Heavens True Monarchs to confront the threat.
• Su Qing drew on the Jingshen Realm’s people and connected divine weapon Puppets to manifest the Human Dao Imperial Court, which stabilized the realm and dissolved the demon’s tentacles.
• The Samsara Demon abandoned the Six Paths of Samsara Disk and tried to flee, but Su Qing refused to let it escape and summoned the will of the True Martial Emperor Lord.
• Su Qing commanded Gao Erqiang and his Guardian Deities to gather Divine Power and form the True Martial Dharma Body.
• Gao Erqiang formed the head, while the All Heavens True Monarchs transformed into divine light to assemble the rest of the body, including one Guardian Deity who claimed the tail.

Su Qing and the True Martial Emperor Lord joined forces with the Human Dao Imperial Court and Emperor Lord Dongyue to destroy the Samsara Demon and reclaim the Samsara Dao Pattern. Jingshen Realm joined the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom, and Su Qing received major rewards for his merits.

• The True Martial Emperor Lord, empowered by the Heavenly Emperor's Great Void Sun and Moon Dao Pattern, attacked the Samsara Demon while Su Qing summoned Emperor Lord Dongyue and used the Three Paths of Heaven, Earth, and Man to restrain it.
• The Samsara Demon was destroyed, its evil qi and resentful qi were consumed, and its Samsara Evil Pattern became a Samsara Dao Pattern that Su Qing declined to accept.
• Su Qing consulted the Six Paths of Samsara Disk and let Jingshen Realm's inhabitants choose their future; they chose to join the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom.
• Su Qing used the Samsara Divine Chains to bring Jingshen Realm into Celestial Origin Realm and place it in the far north of the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom.
• Heaven and earth rewarded Su Qing with the Six Paths of Samsara Disk, boundless merit qi, and authority over two additional Grotto-Heavens, while Gao Erqiang, Li Hai Lang, Wei De Bao, and the other contributors received benefits.

After returning with the Jingshen Realm, Su Qing found that his three decisive Tier 7 Puppets had collapsed, though he realized the Human Dao Imperial Court could be assembled again in a future crisis. He returned the borrowed Samsara Five Puppets, secured new puppet business, and discovered that his body and primordial spirit had grown stronger while his Punching Dolls and Meditating Dolls kept working in his absence.

• The sects and people of the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom celebrated Su Qing’s victory and the arrival of the Jingshen Realm, now part of the kingdom.
• Su Qing saw the Emperor Lord Dongyue, True Martial Emperor Lord, and Human Dao Imperial Court collapse, then concluded the Imperial Court could be rebuilt when people’s conviction united in a crisis.
• The Celestial Origin Realm began forming the rudiments of an underworld using the Samsara Dao Pattern and places that had sheltered dead spirits.
• Su Qing removed his permissions from the Samsara Five Puppets and returned them to the True Monarchs, who praised him and brought him further business.
• True Monarch Qing Feng commissioned a Samsara Puppet from Su Qing, and Su Qing delegated other inquiries to Qing He and Hongshang.
• Back in his cultivation chamber, Su Qing sensed that his fleshly body and primordial spirit had advanced through merit and the unseen work of his Punching Dolls and Meditating Dolls.

After returning from the Abyssal Secret Realm, Su Qing discovered that his Punching Dolls had cultivated for four hundred years, advancing his body and Grotto-Heaven toward Tier 6. As he prepared to be certified as a Tier 6 Body Cultivator and establish Jingshen District, his breakthrough summoned an Ancestral Dragon Phantom, leading the Azure Dragon King to mistake him for the dragon race’s new hope.

• Su Qing released his Punching Dolls and found that more than six hundred Tier 4 dolls had cultivated for him during his four-hundred-year absence.
• Su Qing discovered that his Grotto-Heaven had developed into a living Lesser Thousand Worlds, but its inhabitants were idle little people whose creation drained away more than half his gains.
• Su Qing decided to complete his Tier 6 Body Cultivator certification before bringing Jingshen Realm under the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom as Jingshen District.
• Su Qing unleashed his breakthrough aura, and an Ancestral Dragon Phantom appeared above the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom, shaking Dragonkin across the realms.
• The Azure Dragon King flew from Dragon Fall Sea, saw Su Qing beneath the phantom, and wondered whether he carried dragon blood and could restore the dragon race’s glory.

Su Qing advanced to Tier 6 Body Cultivator, revealing Ancestral Dragon Tendon and Ancestral Witch Bone and stirring the Myriad Worlds. After completing his breakthrough, he turned his attention to his waiting dharma cultivation and the Void Refining realm.

• Su Qing's Tier 6 breakthrough manifested Ancestral Dragon Tendon and an Ancestral Witch phantom, prompting Dragons, Witch Persons, and Cultivators across the Myriad Worlds to react.
• Yao Fei and Witch Persons across Heavenly Origin paid respects to Su Qing as their Sacred Master, while the Azure Dragon King speculated about Su Qing's mixed heritage.
• Shao Delong worried Su Qing's Dragon and Witch traits could complicate his bid for Human Emperor, but Liang Hai Shun argued that both groups could join the Human race.
• Su Qing manifested his Internal Grotto-Heaven and spread his Fearless Dao Fruit's will, but kept its inhabitants hidden as he completed his advancement.
• Su Qing kept the vitality gained from creation within his Inner World and prepared to advance his primordial spirit to Void Refining, supported by thousands of years of Dao Cultivation accumulated by his Meditating Dolls.

After advancing to Tier 6 Body Cultivator, Su Qing broke through to Void Refinement and manifested an Azure Dragon Dharma Image and a Golden Crow Great Sun Dharma Image. His twin images strengthened his claim to the Human Emperor’s and Heavenly Emperor’s thrones, prompting rival factions and ambitious beings across the Myriad Worlds to emerge.

• Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom and the Jingshen Clansmen celebrated Su Qing’s return and his advancement to Tier 6 Body Cultivator.
• Su Qing manifested an enormous Azure Dragon Dharma Image, and cultivators realized he had broken through to Void Refinement.
• Shao Delong celebrated Su Qing’s Azure Dragon Dharma Image as proof that he could compete for the Human Emperor’s throne, while demons in the Ten Thousand Monster Country grew uneasy about supporting a human for Heavenly Emperor.
• Su Qing’s Golden Crow Great Sun Dharma Image delighted the demons of the Ten Thousand Monster Country and drew the attention of Heavenly Emperor candidates across the Myriad Worlds.
• The Xian Qin Wu Guo and Xuanyuan factions manifested rival Human Emperor symbols, while the ancient Kunpeng, the Three-legged Golden Crow, the Void Empress, and others pursued the Heavenly Emperor’s throne.

After six months of calm, Su Qing emerged with Tong Chang and Gao Erqiang to judge the powers responsible for the defeat at Lingxiao Palace. Su Qing announced punishments for the leading figures and sects, leaving the Myriad Worlds facing the consequences of his judgment.

• Su Qing, Tong Chang, and Gao Erqiang gathered above the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom as the Three Heroes of Yunshan and declared themselves the Judgment Triumvirate.
• Su Qing invoked his authority as Heavenly Emperor's Emissary and announced that he and Tong Chang would reward merit and punish wrongdoing in the Lingxiao Palace affair.
• Su Qing explained that the expedition had failed after the Demonic Buddha seized the Heavenly Emperor's Dharma Body, the Ancient Great Gods' divine bodies, and Lingxiao Palace.
• Su Qing barred Heavenly Venerable Bai Shang and Dragon Elephant Heavenly Venerable from entering Tianyuan or receiving fortune from World's Revival for their roles in the defeat.
• Su Qing ordered the confiscation of Merit and Creation from cultivators of several sects and permanently barred them from entering the Heavenly Court system.

Su Qing’s proclamation over Lingxiao Palace’s defeat turned cultivators across the Myriad Worlds against the Major Sects of the Heavens, while the sects’ leaders dismissed his promised judgment. Tong Chang invoked the awakened Will of Celestial Origin Realm to punish Heavenly Venerable Bai Shang, leaving the other sects alarmed by the judgment’s force.

• Su Qing’s account of the battle at Lingxiao Palace fueled anger among lower- and middle-tier cultivators toward the Major Sects of the Heavens.
• Disciples of the Major Sects defended their leaders, but Shao Delong, Dragon Subduing, Tiger Subduing, and Shi Li Jing argued that the sects should surrender their privileges if they could not bear their responsibilities.
• The great powers dismissed Su Qing’s authority to judge them and resolved to defy him, so Heavenly Venerable Bai Shang sent his Dao phantom toward Celestial Origin Realm.
• Tong Chang invoked the Current World Heavenly Master’s authority and called on the Will of Celestial Origin Realm to strip Bai Shang of one million years of cultivation and impose heavenly punishment.
• The awakened Will imposed a Heavenly Punishment Ring on Bai Shang, who relinquished his positions, severed ties with the Primordial Beginning Sect, and fled to the Land of Dao Fall.

Su Qing and Tong Chang used Celestial Origin Realm’s World Consciousness to punish the major sects, then sent Gao Erqiang to carry out judgments and collect fines. Su Qing attended Xian Qin Wu Guo’s Second Anti-Demon Alliance Assembly, where the gathered powers included the controversial Void Empress and Sky-Splitting Void Kun.

• Su Qing and Tong Chang invoked Celestial Origin Realm’s World Consciousness to punish Heavenly Venerable Bai Shang and two Tier 7 Dao Masters of the Spirit Treasure Sect, frightening the major sects into accepting their judgment.
• Su Qing assigned Gao Erqiang to carry out the judgments and build his judicial authority, while warning him not to misuse the office or keep confiscated goods.
• Gao Erqiang began collecting benefits and fines from the major sects and Tianyuan powers, a process expected to take decades.
• True Lord Guangxian invited Su Qing to the Second Anti-Demon Alliance Assembly in Xian Qin Wu Guo, which showcased its army, Confucians, and allied sects before opening the gathering.
• Representatives from across the Myriad Worlds attended, including the Void Empress for the Void Race and Sky-Splitting Void Kun for Kunpeng Realm, drawing hostility over their bids to share in Celestial Origin Realm’s fortune.

Sky-Splitting Void Kun tried to secure support for the Kunpeng clan at the Anti-Demon Conference, but the Three-legged Golden Crow publicly denounced his people. When Su Qing arrived, he rebuffed Sky-Splitting Void Kun at first, then reconsidered after learning of the Kunpeng clan’s wealth and turned his attention to recruiting the Void Empress and her race.

• Sky-Splitting Void Kun bowed to the arriving representatives of the Three Daoist Sects and offered gifts in hopes of gaining their favor for the Kunpeng clan.
• The Three-legged Golden Crow accused Sky-Splitting Void Kun and his clan of betraying their allies, and the assembled cultivators joined in condemning them.
• Su Qing arrived to a crowd of admirers, and Sky-Splitting Void Kun pushed forward to pledge his service to him.
• After learning Sky-Splitting Void Kun belonged to the Kunpeng clan, Su Qing ordered Bear Two and Li Hai Lang to shove him and warned that the clan would face a reckoning.
• Bear Two signaled that 300 million spirit stones had been credited, prompting Su Qing to conceal his interest in the Kunpeng clan’s resources and acknowledge Sky-Splitting Void Kun.
• Su Qing studied the Void Empress and considered how to bring the Void Race into the Anti-Demon Cause.

Su Qing learned why the Void Race had joined the living beings against the demons and assessed the Void Empress as a potential ally. At the Anti-Demon Conference, the leaders failed to locate the hidden Demonic Buddha and began discussing how to handle Great Sage Who Covers the Seas.

• The Void Empress dismissed Su Qing as weak and explained that her race had joined the living beings because the demons could not be trusted and the Void Race needed a future food supply.
• Su Qing asked whether the living beings would attack the Void Race after defeating the demons, and the Void Empress said she expected them to but believed the living beings would eventually fight among themselves.
• True Lord Guangxian opened the conference’s discussion of the Demonic Buddha, while Su Qing and Tong Chang reported that they could not locate him despite searching through time and the Celestial Origin Realm.
• The conference found no trace of the Demonic Buddha in the demon realms or through the Primordial Beginning Sect’s Jade Void Yin-Yang Mirror, and the first agenda item ended without an answer.
• The delegates began discussing Great Sage Who Covers the Seas, whose demonic past, Great Sage Wukong’s Demonic Thought, and the physical opportunities of the four Chaos Demon Apes gave him the potential to reach Tier 8.

At the Anti-Demon Assembly, the cultivators selected Heavenly Lord Yang Li to negotiate with Great Sage Who Covers the Seas after Su Qing declined the task. Su Qing then won support for opening markets and sharing Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom’s resources and techniques, before introducing a dispute over how the Myriad Worlds should share Celestial Origin Realm’s revived fortune.

• Human and demon cultivators debated Great Sage Who Covers the Seas’ past actions and whether it should join the Anti-Demon United Front.
• Su Qing refused to negotiate with Great Sage Who Covers the Seas because of their past conflicts, then helped the assembly choose Heavenly Lord Yang Li instead.
• Su Qing and True Lord Guangxian threatened to isolate Chongshan Sect if it continued avoiding responsibility, prompting Heavenly Lord Yang Li to pledge its support to Su Qing and the Myriad Worlds.
• Su Qing proposed opening markets across the Myriad Worlds and establishing anti-dumping and anti-monopoly measures to improve trade and development.
• Su Qing offered to open Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom’s puppet blueprints, rune techniques, resources, and martial arts facilities, securing broad support for the proposal.
• Su Qing raised the next agenda item: how the Myriad Worlds would share Celestial Origin Realm’s revived fortune and limited blessed lands.

Su Qing attended a gathering where the major powers settled claims to Tianyuan’s returning sacred lands and debated how to divide the remaining Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands. As the dispute continued, he remembered that Qing He had been sent to seek the Great Deity of the Three Altars Sea Assembly’s fortune in the Sea Cave Hole, where she had been trapped for four or five hundred years.

• True Lord Guangxian announced that the major sects would retain their ancient sacred mountains, while the Witch Clan, Dragon Clan, Phoenix Clan, and Winged Tiger Clan would receive designated shares of other returning lands and fortunes.
• Cultivators from Xian Qin Wu Guo, the demonic path, the demon race, Xuanyuan Immortal Kingdom, and Execution Heavenly Kingdom argued over claims to the remaining Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands.
• Su Qing’s associate Li Hai Lang told the Void Empress that Su Qing was wealthy enough to feed the Void Race, and the empress became more receptive to him.
• Bear Two invoked his Buddhist status to demand a share for the Buddhist Sect, and Su Qing sent Jade Lotus to help it argue its case.
• Su Qing recalled that he had tasked Qing He with rescuing Feng Bo'e and seeking the Great Deity of the Three Altars Sea Assembly’s fortune in the Sea Cave Hole, and realized she had likely been there for four or five hundred years.

Su Qing and Gao Erqiang went to the Sea Cave Hole to check whether Qing He would inherit the Great Deity of the Three Altars Sea Assembly’s legacy. After the deity’s temple drove them back, Su Qing sent in Puppets and the Taiyi Sect’s Ancestor’s Portrait, while cultivators from across the heavens gathered outside to compete for the fortune.

• Su Qing took Gao Erqiang to the Sea Cave Hole and explained why he believed the Great Deity’s inheritance should go to Qing He or another worthy successor.
• Su Qing and Gao Erqiang discovered several factions trespassing in Execution Heavenly Kingdom’s waters, and Gao Erqiang forced them to leave.
• Fire Dragon Divine Spears blasted Su Qing and Gao Erqiang away when they tried to enter the divine temple.
• Su Qing sent Puppets, the Ancestor’s Portrait of the Taiyi Sect, and the Yin-Yang Carving Knife into the temple, then waited outside with Gao Erqiang.
• News of the fortune spread to the Anti-Demon Alliance assembly, prompting its attendees to abandon their debate and gather over the Sea Cave Hole.
• Su Qing told True Lord Guangxian and the assembled cultivators that the Great Deity of the Three Altars Sea Assembly was choosing an inheritor.

Su Qing faced competing claims from the Primordial Beginning Sect and Taiyi Sect over the Great Deity of the Three Altars Sea Assembly’s inheritance, and named Qing He as Taiyi Sect’s candidate. He then considered how the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom’s factions were competing for two unopened Grotto-Heavens, rejecting Liang Hai Shun’s request for one as a divine residence.

• True Lord Guangxian claimed that the Primordial Beginning Sect should receive Nezha’s inheritance, while Taiyi Sect elders insisted Nezha belonged to their sect.
• A Taiyi Sect elder asked Su Qing to select a Taiyi Sect disciple, and Su Qing named Qing He as the chief senior disciple he had arranged to enter.
• Taiyi Sect elders challenged Qing He’s qualifications and record, but Su Qing defended her and said he had considered having her oversee a Grotto-Heaven.
• Su Qing reflected on the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom’s competing districts and industries, which were vying for two Grotto-Heavens he had yet to open.
• Liang Hai Shun asked Su Qing to give the gods a Grotto-Heaven as their residence, and Su Qing rejected his proposal.

Su Qing decided to open one Grotto-Heaven for the Commercial District and reserve the other for the Cultivation District’s allied sects, while judging that the Temple District, Central District, and Jingshen District did not need one. He immediately opened Baosheng Grotto-Heaven for the Hundred Arts Industry, leaving the Cultivation District disappointed that it had received nothing yet.

• Su Qing compared how Gao Erqiang, Old Liang, and Ying Jue Shen had fared as deities and concluded that the Temple District should not receive a Grotto-Heaven.
• Su Qing decided that the Commercial District needed a Grotto-Heaven to help its industries compete with those of the Myriad Worlds, while the Central District could rely on the Azure Dragon Grotto-Heaven and the Jingshen District should first adapt to the world.
• Su Qing chose the Cultivation District’s allied sects as the intended recipients of the remaining Grotto-Heaven, hoping to ease resentment among the Taiyi Sect and Empress Wa Sect.
• The Taiyi Sect elders enthusiastically supported Qing He becoming their Chief Disciple after Su Qing promised a Grotto-Heaven, then urged him to open it immediately.
• Su Qing used his ancestral shaman dharma form and the Blood Execution Axe to open Baosheng Grotto-Heaven in the Commercial District, filling it with resources for the Hundred Arts of Cultivation and placing its administration under industry leaders.
• Merchants celebrated Baosheng Grotto-Heaven, while people in the other districts reacted according to their interests and the Cultivation District complained that Su Qing had overlooked them.

Su Qing opened the Yin-Yang Creation Grotto-Heaven for Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom, prompting envy across the Myriad Worlds. At the West Sea temple, the factions accepted that they could not force their way in and waited as four people emerged, signaling that the contest for the Great Deity of the Three Altars Sea Assembly’s fortune had ended.

• Su Qing opened the Yin-Yang Creation Grotto-Heaven and appointed True Monarch Xiao Xia and Qing He to govern it with him.
• The factions of the Myriad Worlds envied Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom’s five Grotto-Heavens but accepted that Su Qing had earned them through his achievements.
• True Lord Guangxian sought permission to enter the temple, but Su Qing said a Primordial Beginning Sect disciple was already inside and might obtain the inheritance.
• Li Sanyang and Heavenly Lord Gu Le declined to challenge Su Qing, leaving the other factions to watch the contest.
• Heavenly Lord Fu Hu worried that Li De could not overcome the powerful rivals backed by Su Qing and Liu Gandang.
• Ten thousand zhang of azure waves rose from the West Sea, and four people emerged as the temple contest’s results were settled.

The four factions learned what their contestants had gained from the Great Deity of the Three Altars Sea Assembly’s inheritance, while Gao Erqiang lost the Exquisite Pagoda and Su Qing revealed that Mount Buzhou would soon produce the Innate Gourd Vine. Qing He emerged with the greatest fortune, and Su Qing defended her against accusations of cheating.

• Li De told Heavenly Lord Fu Hu that he had received the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King’s inheritance and divine office, along with the Exquisite Pagoda.
• Gao Erqiang demanded the Exquisite Pagoda back, but the other cultivators disputed his ownership and he retreated without it.
• Su Qing offered to take Gao Erqiang to Mount Buzhou to compete for the seven Innate Treasure Gourds, and Gao Erqiang agreed to protect him and Tong Chang.
• The factions revealed that Xiang Lanze had received the Nine Dragon Divine Fire Cover, Liu Feng had received the Great Deity’s divine office, and Qing He had obtained his Immortal Dao inheritance and magical treasures.
• Several contestants accused Qing He of using a portrait, a carving knife, and Puppets to claim the treasures, but Su Qing dismissed their accusations and threatened to unleash Erqiang if they pressed further.

Su Qing challenged the High-Level Cultivators of All Heavens to claim the Xuanyuan Bow by drawing it, rather than fighting over it. As the bow’s three-day trial began, a cultivator from the God Invocation Sect rushed forward to try first.

• Liu Gandang and Heavenly Lord Fu Hu urged True Lord Guangxian to oppose Su Qing, but True Lord Guangxian refused to start a fight.
• Qing He revealed the Xuanyuan Bow, stirring the human factions to demand that Su Qing give everyone a chance to compete for the Human Dao treasure.
• Su Qing announced that anyone from any race could try to draw the bow within three days, and released it into the air.
• A cultivator from the God Invocation Sect stepped forward to draw the bow, while the others watched without objecting to his use of the sect’s divine-possession technique.

The God Invocation Sect and Beast Taming Sect failed to draw the Xuanyuan Bow, and a Great Confucian of Xian Qin Wu Guo concluded that it required human power and Human Dao Fortune. When the Guardian Divine General’s fortune only made the bow glow, the Great Confucian accused Su Qing of tricking them into replenishing it.

• The God Invocation Sect True Monarch invoked the Giant Spirit God, but neither of them could draw the Xuanyuan Bow.
• A Beast Taming Sect disciple sent one hundred thousand spirit beasts to pull the bow, but they failed and suffered injuries, prompting Heavenly Lord Tianpeng to threaten sanctions.
• A Great Confucian examined the bow and declared that it required human strength, so the Guardian Divine General of Xian Qin Wu Guo tried drawing it while channeling Human Dao Fortune.
• The Guardian Divine General poured his Human Dao Fortune into the bow, which shone brightly but remained undrawn.
• The Great Confucian noticed Su Qing smiling and accused him of having the bow’s artifact spirit’s recognition and luring everyone into supplying it with Human Dao Fortune.