Chapter Summaries

Xu Yunfan battled Sanzang, whose powerful Buddhist Dharma Image resisted his sword techniques and manifested Dao Foundation. Their escalating attacks devastated the battlefield, and the clash continued as a Magic Battle in the Place of Unmanifested.

• Xu Yunfan struck Sanzang with Demon Punishing Evil Dispelling, but Sanzang's golden light blocked the sword.
• Xu Yunfan used Karmic Severance to attack the karma binding Sanzang to the world, making his golden shield tremble.
• Sanzang manifested the Golden Body Protecting the World of the Eight Divisions, halting Xu Yunfan's strike with its immense power.
• Xu Yunfan manifested his True Martial Dao Foundation as a three-headed, six-armed Divine Demon Phantom and attacked Sanzang's Golden Body.
• Sanzang and Xu Yunfan exchanged powerful techniques, reducing the surrounding hills, streams, and battlefield to ruin.
• The narration explained that Foundation Establishment cultivators entered the Place of Unmanifested to fight while avoiding mundane karma.

Xu Yunfan fought Sanzang’s stronger Golden Body Dharma Image until he unleashed the Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi, which began refining and breaking down the Buddhist power. Sanzang was badly wounded and left in terror as the golden body started to collapse.

• Xu Yunfan used his True Martial foundation and divine abilities to hold off Sanzang’s Golden Body Dharma Image, though its deeper reserves gradually wore him down.
• Sanzang struck Xu Yunfan’s Dharma Image with a palm that nearly made it collapse, then tried to bind him with golden Sanskrit chains.
• Xu Yunfan dispersed his Dharma Image into eight streams of cloud qi and wrapped them around Sanzang’s golden palm.
• The Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi refined the Buddhist power, shattered the palm, and spread up the golden body, extinguishing its radiance.
• Sanzang spat Golden Blood as his Golden Body Dharma Image faltered, and he stared at Xu Yunfan in shock and terror.

Xu Yunfan destroyed Sanzang’s Great Bodhisattva Dharma Image golden body, but Sanzang’s calm recovery summoned an Amitabha Buddha Manifestation. Xu Yunfan’s Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi could not affect the apparition, and the chapter ended as his True Martial foundation began to return.

• Xu Yunfan used the Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi to shatter Sanzang’s golden body and leave him gravely wounded.
• Sanzang’s fury and fear gave way to an unnerving calm as pure glazed light emerged around him.
• Amitabha Buddha’s phantom manifested behind Sanzang and restored calm to the ravaged battlefield.
• Xu Yunfan recognized the apparition as a projection of a higher existence and judged its power to be at the limit of Foundation Establishment.
• Xu Yunfan’s Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi failed to touch the phantom as his temporarily withdrawn True Martial foundation began to return.

Sanzang’s Buddha manifestation suppressed Xu Yunfan and declared that he was destined to become Buddhism’s Dharma Protector Wisdom King. Xu Yunfan rejected that fate and fled toward the Myriad Chariots Sword Sect, while Sanzang warned that the sect would treat him as a demon.

• Sanzang’s Buddha manifestation forced Xu Yunfan’s Divine Martial Dao Foundation back into his body and declared his Buddhist destiny unavoidable.
• Xu Yunfan resisted the despair of Sanzang’s words and burned his mana to flee toward the Myriad Chariots Sword Sect.
• Sanzang warned Xu Yunfan that the sect would join the Pure Land to slay him, but Xu Yunfan ignored the warning and used every means to accelerate.
• Xu Yunfan drew near the sect’s sword peak and saw its disciples gathered below as Sanzang watched his flight with aloof indifference.

As Sanzang pursued Xu Yunfan to the Myriad Chariots Sword Sect, Xu Yunfan used the Pure Yang Three Forms and called for his ancestor to save him. Just as Sanzang’s Buddha Palm was about to seize him, a supreme sword aura erupted from the sect’s main peak.

• Xu Yunfan drew the True Martial Sword and unleashed the Pure Yang Three Forms while fleeing toward the Myriad Chariots Sword Sect.
• Xu Yunfan shouted, "Ancestor, save me!" as Sanzang reacted with disbelief and anger.
• Sanzang formed a powerful Glazed Buddha Palm and reached for Xu Yunfan inside the sect’s Mountain Protection Array.
• Xu Yunfan closed his eyes, prepared to sever karma and destroy his main body if the palm struck him.
• A radiant, supreme sword aura burst from the summit of the Myriad Chariots Sword Sect’s main peak and illuminated the surrounding skies.

Pure Yang True Monarch intervened from the Myriad Chariots Sword Peak and cut down Sanzang’s Glazed Buddha Palm and manifestation, saving Xu Yunfan. Sanzang’s projection retreated, leaving him gravely wounded and afraid to challenge the sword sect further.

• Pure Yang True Monarch’s sword light cleaved the Glazed Buddha Palm apart and sent Xu Yunfan falling toward the plaza unconscious.
• The sword curtain trapped Sanzang’s phantom and severed its connection to the Bodhi Pure Land, leaving its call to World Honored One Tathagata unanswered.
• Sanzang realized the sword strike came from Pure Yang True Monarch and that the Myriad Chariots Sword Sect would not permit Buddhism to act recklessly there.
• Sanzang’s cracked manifestation collapsed into fading Buddhist light and vanished toward the west.
• Sanzang staggered back after vomiting golden blood, then withdrew without making threats or calling on World Honored One Tathagata again.

Xu Yunfan vanished just before hitting the Myriad Chariots Sword Sect’s plaza, leaving no trace for its disciples or Clear Source True Monarch to find. Clear Source True Monarch and the hidden mastermind realized that the disappearance had disrupted their plans for Xu Yunfan and the Primordial Dao Seed.

• Xu Yunfan disappeared in midair above the Myriad Chariots Sword Sect’s plaza, bewildering the disciples and deacons below.
• Clear Source True Monarch sensed an unexpected disturbance and failed to trace Xu Yunfan’s fate or locate him through his divinations.
• Clear Source True Monarch worried that Pure Yang True Monarch might discover Xu Yunfan’s origins and jeopardize his plan for the Primordial Dao Seed.
• The hidden mastermind regretted losing Xu Yunfan as a potential vessel and suspected that Pure Yang True Monarch’s sword gang had destroyed the trigger planted in him.

Xu Yunfan awakened inside Lu Chunyang’s Pure Yang Cave Heaven after the Sword Sect True Monarch brought him there, and he assessed the sword domain surrounding him. Lu Chunyang began investigating Xu Yunfan’s origins, leaving Xu Yunfan alert to the danger of being examined.

• A concealed presence judged that it could only lie low and seek another opportunity because the Myriad Chariots Sword Sect was Lu Chunyang’s territory.
• Lu Chunyang examined the unconscious Xu Yunfan inside the Pure Yang Cave Heaven and prepared to deduce his origins through sword-intent stars.
• Xu Yunfan woke before Lu Chunyang’s methods could expose everything about him.
• Xu Yunfan surveyed the Dao Birth Sword Domain and realized that only a dozen or so of its countless sword-intent stars were truly shining.

Xu Yunfan recognized Lu Chunyang, the Dao Sect’s Pure Yang Ancestor, and appealed to their shared lineage for help. Lu Chunyang asked about the Dao Sect, and Xu Yunfan explained that it had taken control of the Divine Martial Realm and that he had brought its elders into the Primal Beginning Sect.

• Xu Yunfan recognized Lu Chunyang and kowtowed, identifying himself as a nineteenth-generation Dao Sect disciple.
• Xu Yunfan dropped his concealment techniques and revealed the Dao Sect cultivation aura that proved his origins.
• Lu Chunyang lifted Xu Yunfan to his feet, helped stabilize his injuries, and asked how the Dao Sect was doing.
• Xu Yunfan told Lu Chunyang that the Dao Sect ruled the Divine Martial Realm and that he had brought his master and martial uncles into the Primal Beginning Sect to establish True Martial Peak.
• Lu Chunyang expressed relief and understanding that joining the Primal Beginning Sect was the only way forward for the Divine Martial Realm’s living beings.

Lu Chunyang explained his history as an outsider in the Myriad Chariots Sword Sect and guided Xu Yunfan in cultivation before revealing that the Bodhi Zen Pure Land had bound Xu Yunfan to a grand plan. He said Xu Yunfan would have to travel to the Eastern Wasteland, where the roots of his True Martial Subduing Demon Scripture lay in Buddhist teachings.

• Lu Chunyang recounted how the Myriad Chariots Sword Sect’s ancient factions had rejected him despite his rise to True Monarch and his exceptional Sword Dao strength.
• Lu Chunyang praised the Primal Beginning Sect’s creed and admitted he might have joined it if his Golden Core fruition had not tied him to the Myriad Chariots Sword Sect.
• Xu Yunfan discussed cultivation with Lu Chunyang and gained insight and proficiency in several scriptures and arts from his guidance.
• Lu Chunyang explained that the Dao Master’s creation of sword intent had suppressed the paths of all other weapon intents in the Taihua Spiritual Void Realm.
• Lu Chunyang warned Xu Yunfan that the Buddha Lamp of Guidance had bound him to the Bodhi Zen Pure Land’s plans and that he would have to go to the Eastern Wasteland.
• Lu Chunyang said the True Martial Subduing Demon Scripture’s deeper origins could be traced to the Buddhist foundations of the Bodhi Zen Pure Land.

Lu Chunyang explained that Bodhi Zen Pure Land had drawn Xu Yunfan into a vast plan to bring down the supreme Buddhist fruit position, the Great Compassion, Great Mercy, Lotus Light, Victorious King of Freedom Buddha. Xu Yunfan feared he could not escape the scheme, and Lu Chunyang began considering how he might survive it.

• Lu Chunyang told Xu Yunfan that his mastery of the True Martial Subduing Demon Scripture made him a suitable replacement for the reincarnating Dragon Subduing Arhat.
• Lu Chunyang revealed that Bodhi Zen Pure Land planned to use an immense ritual across the Eastern Wasteland to draw down the Great Compassion, Great Mercy, Lotus Light, Victorious King of Freedom Buddha fruit position.
• Xu Yunfan realized that his involvement was part of a Dao Master’s far-reaching plan and asked whether he had any way to resist.
• Lu Chunyang warned that World Honored One Tathagata might personally force Xu Yunfan to play his part if he did not comply with the plan.
• Lu Chunyang advised Xu Yunfan that directly resisting Bodhi Zen Pure Land would be disastrous and admitted that his own position in the Myriad Chariots Sword Sect limited how much he could help.

Lu Chunyang devised a way for Xu Yunfan to transfer his Buddhist affinity and karma onto a powerful clone, protecting his true body while potentially gaining benefits from Bodhi Zen Pure Land’s eastward spread of Buddhism. He revealed that Xu Yunfan’s Profound Capital Eight Sceneries Heaven-Refining Creation Cloud Scroll could eventually let him sever a nearly indistinguishable True Body Dao to serve as that vessel.

• Lu Chunyang decided to help Xu Yunfan and used his sword intents to deduce a strategy for resolving his predicament.
• Lu Chunyang proposed transferring Xu Yunfan’s Buddhist affinity and karma onto a clone that would travel to the Eastern Wasteland in his place.
• Xu Yunfan realized that he could use the Profound Capital Eight Sceneries Heaven-Refining Creation Cloud Scroll to refine a clone, but doubted it could bear the karma.
• Lu Chunyang recognized the Cloud Scroll and explained that, when cultivated to Great Perfection, it could help Xu Yunfan sever a powerful True Body Dao bearing the imprint of his origin Great Dao.

Lu Chunyang gave Xu Yunfan an Xuanhuang Embryo Stone and helped him use it to create a True Body Dao, severing his Buddhist karmic ties and transferring his True Martial Subduing Demon Scripture. The new body awakened with an independent spirituality, leaving its relationship with Xu Yunfan uncertain.

• Lu Chunyang recognized that Xu Yunfan could not reach perfection in the Cloud Scripture in time to sever a True Body Dao on his own.
• Lu Chunyang gave Xu Yunfan the Xuanhuang Embryo Stone, which dissolved into Xuanhuang Mother Qi and entered his body.
• Xu Yunfan used the Cloud Scripture to split off a portion of his divine soul and form a True Body Dao from the Mother Qi.
• Lu Chunyang used Sword Three: No Return to sever the karmic connection between Xu Yunfan and the new body, pulling away the Buddhist chains anchored in the Eastern Wasteland.
• The martial true intent of the True Martial Subduing Demon Scripture left Xu Yunfan and entered the True Body Dao, freeing him from his Buddhist shackles.
• The True Body Dao awakened with dark-gold Buddhist light, Black Water Mysterious Turtle Dao resonance, and a newly forming independent spirituality.

Lu Chunyang transformed Xu Yunfan’s True Body Dao into a stone fetus and sent it to the Eastern Wasteland, while Xu Yunfan secretly gained absolute control of it through his Attribute Panel. Sanzang and Subtle Truth Bodhisattva discovered that the Buddhist karma had shifted to the fetus and debated the limits of Lu Chunyang’s power.

• Lu Chunyang used Life-Death Sword Intent to turn Xu Yunfan’s True Body Dao into a stone fetus, sealing its Buddhist karma and Dao resonance within it.
• Lu Chunyang warned Xu Yunfan that the incarnation might develop an independent will and urged him to treat it as dead, and Xu Yunfan pretended to agree.
• Xu Yunfan’s Attribute Panel announced that his Cloud Scroll Clone had succeeded and granted Enhanced Control ×2, giving him complete command of the stone fetus.
• Lu Chunyang carried the stone fetus and the remaining Xuanhuang Mother Qi to the Eastern Wasteland and left them on an unnamed mountain.
• Sanzang sensed that the pull of Buddhist affinity had shifted to the Eastern Wasteland, and Subtle Truth Bodhisattva identified Lu Chunyang’s role in creating the fetus.
• Sanzang wondered whether Lu Chunyang had reached late Golden Core, but Subtle Truth Bodhisattva said the Sword Dao fruit positions were already locked down.

Sanzang awakened Buddhist nature in the Chaos stone embryo and named it Wukong, then began a ritual across the Eastern Wasteland that drained his cultivation. Lu Chunyang gave Xu Yunfan three protective Golden Core sword intents and began revealing a celestial chart.

• Subtle Truth Bodhisattva and Sanzang agreed that the stone embryo would serve as the missing element in their ritual to establish a bond with the Eastern Wasteland.
• Sanzang infused the stone embryo with Buddhist power, awakened its Buddhist nature, and named it his first true disciple, Wukong.
• Sanzang began a ritual spanning the Eastern Wasteland, spreading Buddhist light as his cultivation rapidly faded until he became an ordinary mortal.
• Lu Chunyang told Xu Yunfan that his foundation remained intact despite losing the True Martial Subduing Demon Scripture and that he could recover by changing techniques.
• Lu Chunyang gave Xu Yunfan three Golden Core sword intents—Illusion Breaker, Calamity Annihilation, and No Return—to protect him from mortal dangers.
• Lu Chunyang began forming a vast chart of golden seal script that traced the stars across the heavens.

Lu Chunyang gave Xu Yunfan the True Scripture of the Unyielding Nine Heavens and explained the difficult ritual needed to restore its dormant divine position. Elsewhere, Sanzang reached the Innate Stone Fetus after a bloody climb, but an Old Ape touched it first.

• Lu Chunyang revealed the True Scripture of the Unyielding Nine Heavens to Xu Yunfan and said it could forge an exceptionally powerful body.
• Lu Chunyang told Xu Yunfan he had taken the scripture from the slain Nine Heavens Divine Vault True Monarch and explained that its divine position could only be restored through arduous rituals.
• Xu Yunfan left the Myriad Chariots Sword Sect, eager to return to Cold Crow Pass and study the scripture after losing his True Martial Subduing Demon Scripture.
• Sanzang climbed the unnamed Eastern Wasteland mountain, using his blood to activate a ritual as he approached the Innate Stone Fetus.
• An Old Ape and its troop of Red-Eyed Demon Apes reached the summit, and the Old Ape struck the glowing stone fetus before Sanzang could touch it.

Sanzang watched the Xuanhuang boulder burst open and welcomed the crimson monkey born from it as his destined disciple. He named the monkey Wukong, gave him powerful treasures, and prepared to teach him the Great Might King Battle Sutra.

• Sanzang recognized the Eastern Wasteland's demonic unrest as the cause of the stone embryo's destined birth.
• The Xuanhuang boulder exploded, and a crimson divine monkey emerged and met Sanzang.
• Sanzang invited the monkey to become his disciple, and it kowtowed three times in acceptance.
• Sanzang named the monkey Wukong, who spoke and thanked his master.
• Sanzang gave Wukong the Sea-Bearer staff and Linked Armor, which resonated with his innate powers.
• Sanzang announced that he would teach Wukong the Great Might King Battle Sutra.

Sanzang imparted a combat scripture to Wukong and asked him to join the journey to cleanse the Eastern Wasteland of demons, and Wukong eagerly agreed. Meanwhile, the Myriad Chariots Sword Sect’s powerful figures debated Lu Chunyang’s meeting with Xu Yunfan, leaving Qixia True Monarch angry but afraid to confront him.

• Sanzang transmitted the True Martial Subduing Demon Scripture’s teachings to Wukong, clarifying how his Buddhist martial powers could serve his cultivation.
• Sanzang declared his vow to travel through the Eastern Wasteland, subdue demons, and establish a Buddha Kingdom, then asked Wukong to guard him.
• Wukong pledged to accompany Sanzang, battle demons, and protect the true scripture.
• Qixia True Monarch accused Lu Chunyang of meeting Xu Yunfan and giving him three Golden Core sword intents, while True Monarch Tongxuan and North Pole True Monarch defended Lu Chunyang’s conduct.
• Jade Balance Peak’s voice urged Qixia True Monarch to question Lu Chunyang directly, but Lu Chunyang’s presence and reputation made Qixia back down.

Xu Yunfan watched Sanzang arm Wukong with Buddhist treasures and a battle scripture meant to make him a vessel for the Bodhi Zen Pure Land’s expansion. Confident that the Attribute Panel still gave him control of Wukong, Xu Yunfan checked on Han Shi and discovered his sword cultivation had advanced rapidly.

• After the Twelve Sword Peaks fell silent, Lu Chunyang considered his next breakthrough and looked toward where Xu Yunfan had gone.
• In his fortified cave at Cold Crow Pass, Xu Yunfan watched Wukong’s perspective as Sanzang bestowed the Purple Gold Staff, Six-Character Golden Chainmail Armor, and Great Might King Battle Sutra.
• Sanzang vowed to establish a pure land across the Eastern Wasteland, and Wukong pledged to accompany him and battle demons.
• Xu Yunfan concluded that the battle scripture was designed to make Wukong a vessel for the Great Compassionate Lotus-Born King of Freedom Buddha Amidst Light, but trusted the Attribute Panel’s forced control over his clone.
• Xu Yunfan ended the shared vision and saw that Han Shi had reached complete late Qi Refinement and begun gestating a Sword Embryo.

Xu Yunfan discovered that Han Shi’s exceptional progress in sword cultivation reflected his own hidden potential, then used the Lin Character Secret to comprehend the True Scripture of the Unyielding Nine Heavens. He completed his comprehension and checked the scripture’s cultivation method, but had not yet begun cultivating it.

• Xu Yunfan sensed Han Shi’s perfected Sword Embryo and realized that his clone’s sword talent came from his own potential.
• Xu Yunfan withdrew his attention from Han Shi and began studying the True Scripture of the Unyielding Nine Heavens.
• Xu Yunfan entered the Lin Stance to overcome his difficulty comprehending the scripture, while recognizing that prolonged use could strip away his humanity.
• After three days of study and half a day of recovery, Xu Yunfan received confirmation that he had comprehended the scripture.
• Xu Yunfan repeatedly checked the scripture’s cultivation method with the Attribute Panel before beginning its cultivation.