Chapter Summaries

Xu Yunfan escaped while Crimson Yang and Tongxuan fought the three Main Gods under the Heavenly Dao’s suppression, then reached Zhang Ziyang’s flourishing daoist nation in the Savage Western Wilderness. Zhang Ziyang realized Xu Yunfan’s Thunder Authority divine spark marked him as a local deity, turning the pursuit into a possible opportunity.

• Crimson Yang and Tongxuan battled the three Main Gods, but the Heavenly Dao’s misfortunes steadily wore them down.
• Xu Yunfan watched the battle from a distance, then silently fled toward the Savage Western Wilderness.
• Xu Yunfan saw that Zhang Ziyang had transformed the wilderness into a prosperous region centered on temples devoted to the Heavenly Venerate of Great Unity Who Saves from Suffering and Rescues from Calamity.
• Xu Yunfan met Zhang Ziyang, who had reached the Foundation Establishment Paragon realm and welcomed him after sensing his Golden Core achievement.
• Xu Yunfan told Zhang Ziyang that Crimson Yang and Tongxuan had pursued him into the Attila Realm.
• Zhang Ziyang deduced that Xu Yunfan’s Thunder Authority divine spark made him a deity recognized by the realm’s Heavenly Dao.

Zhang Ziyang and Xu Yunfan planned to exploit the Heavenly Dao’s favor for native deities and strike at Crimson Yang and Tongxuan while the three Main Gods weakened them. As the True Monarchs launched desperate attacks against their enemies, Xu Yunfan waited for Cave Bright to reveal herself and for a chance to seize Crimson Yang’s Dao Fruit.

• Zhang Ziyang explained that the Heavenly Dao suppressed Crimson Yang and Tongxuan while empowering the three Main Gods, creating an opportunity for Xu Yunfan to intervene.
• Xu Yunfan agreed to target Crimson Yang and said Cave Bright True Monarch was likely hiding nearby, waiting for a chance to claim the Dark Main God’s Dao Fruit.
• Crimson Yang was struck by Orion’s ancient vine, while Tongxuan suffered a freezing wound from Ymir and struggled under the Heavenly Dao’s misfortune.
• Crimson Yang burned the origin of his Dao Fruit and unleashed a molten sword strike at the Light Main God.
• Tongxuan poured his Dao Fruit’s power into his cracked sword souls and sent a storm of Mystic Ice swords against Orion, the Lord of Nature.
• Crimson Yang’s strike shattered the Light Main God’s holy light shield, while Tongxuan’s sword storm clashed with Orion’s forest of vines.

Xu Yunfan used Attila’s heavenly power to kill True Monarch Chiyang and seize his Dao Fruit. True Monarch Tongxuan watched in horror as the battle turned against him.

• Ymir attacked True Monarch Chiyang while the Lord of Nature Orion kept True Monarch Tongxuan entangled.
• Xu Yunfan summoned Attila’s thunder and struck Ymir’s claw aside with a Purple-Gold Thunder Sword.
• Xu Yunfan pierced Chiyang’s defenses, killed him, and shattered the Fensui Sword.
• Xu Yunfan seized Chiyang’s Li Guangran Yan Chi Yang Dao Fruit and stripped away wisps of its Dao aura.
• True Monarch Tongxuan cried out over Chiyang’s death and feared his own fate.

Xu Yunfan exposed Cave Bright True Monarch's ambush and forced her to help stop True Monarch Tongxuan's escape. As Tongxuan broke through her karmic cage, Xu Yunfan refused to intervene until Cave Bright proved her sincerity, leaving her to fight him alone.

• True Monarch Tongxuan burned his Dao Fruit's origin and used Heavenly Pearl Voidbreaker to flee toward the realm barrier.
• Xu Yunfan called on Cave Bright True Monarch, who appeared and trapped Tongxuan in a karmic spatial loop with Nine Hells Cave Bright, Karma Reversal.
• Xu Yunfan revealed that Cave Bright wanted the Crimson Sun Dao Fruit to balance her Nine Hells Profound Fiend and potentially advance her cultivation.
• Tongxuan tore open Cave Bright's karmic cage with his sword intent, wounded her, and forced her to defend herself with a Dark Nether Bone Hand.
• Xu Yunfan refused to help until Cave Bright showed sincerity, so she unleashed her fiendish mist against Tongxuan while he fought back with Tongxuan Sword Intent.

True Monarch Tongxuan sacrificed a spirit treasure to escape into the Realm Sea, while Xu Yunfan and Cave Bright True Monarch turned to claim the remaining Dao Fruits. The chapter ended with Xu Yunfan using the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Array to refine the authorities of the two injured Main Gods.

• True Monarch Tongxuan detonated an ancient jade pendant, shattered Cave Bright True Monarch’s Dark Nether Bone Hand, and escaped through a spatial rift into the Realm Sea.
• Cave Bright True Monarch lamented that Tongxuan had escaped, and Xu Yunfan said the battle was still worthwhile because Crimson Yang had fallen.
• Xu Yunfan awarded the Eternal Night Sinking Dao Fruit to Cave Bright True Monarch, who began extracting it from Ymir.
• Xu Yunfan trapped the Light Main God Orion and Lord of Nature Orion in the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Array.
• Xu Yunfan drew on Attila’s Heavenly Dao and began refining the two Main Gods’ Great Brightness Immeasurable and All Things Life Dao Fruits.

Xu Yunfan and Cave Bright True Monarch surveyed the aftermath of their victory over the three Main Gods, then discussed Dao Fruits, reincarnation, and the path to the Mid Golden Core realm. Their conversation was interrupted by a mysterious voice asking Xu Yunfan to trade away the Great Yin Profound Mirror Dao Fruit.

• The Star Spirit Banner absorbed the Light Main God Orion and the Lord of Nature Orion, while Cave Bright True Monarch sealed the Dark Main God Ymir's Eternal Night Sinking Dao Fruit in a Bone Jade Treasure Box.
• Attila's weakened heavenly Dao punished Xu Yunfan for betraying the realm, but retreated when its attacks failed to harm him.
• Xu Yunfan and Cave Bright True Monarch reflected on True Monarch Tongxuan's escape and weighed their gains and growing wariness of each other.
• Cave Bright True Monarch recounted her five Foundation Establishment lives, her pursuit of the Nine Abyss Profound Fiend Dao Fruit, and the dangers of reincarnation and seeking true longevity.
• Xu Yunfan asked why Cave Bright True Monarch would not refine the Eternal Night Dao Fruit, but a mysterious voice asked him to trade the Great Yin Profound Mirror Dao Fruit for one of his newly acquired Dao Fruits.

Xu Yunfan offered Pudu True Monarch the All Things Life Dao Fruit and was ordered to command the Primal Beginning Sect’s campaign in the realm. After rejecting a Dao companion pact with Cave Bright True Monarch, he restrained her and used his lightning and fire to help stabilize her newly acquired Eternal Night Dao Fruit.

• Cave Bright True Monarch explained that she had revealed the realm’s coordinates to Pudu True Monarch when seeking aid after Crimson Yang Tongxuan ambushed her.
• Xu Yunfan offered Pudu True Monarch the All Things Life Dao Fruit, and Pudu appointed him to command the Primal Beginning Sect’s affairs and seize the realm’s resources.
• Pudu True Monarch proposed a Dao companion pact for Xu Yunfan and Cave Bright True Monarch, but Xu Yunfan rejected it and called their relationship a cultivation partnership.
• Cave Bright True Monarch angrily vowed not to let Xu Yunfan touch her again, and Xu Yunfan provoked her by insisting their Daos were naturally complementary.
• After Pudu True Monarch departed, Xu Yunfan pulled Cave Bright True Monarch into his embrace and sent his lightning and Crimson Sun Dao Fruit power into her to stabilize her Eternal Night Dao Fruit.

After attaining True Monarchhood, Xu Yunfan organized a major expedition to the Attila Realm to seize its resources and advance his cultivation. He opened a passage through the Realm Sea and revealed the realm’s desolate Western Wilds, where his vanguard would establish a stronghold.

• Xu Yunfan and Cave Bright True Monarch used True Dharma Mutual Aid, calming their cultivation and helping Xu Yunfan refine the Crimson Sun Dao Fruit’s power.
• Xu Yunfan ordered a Realm Conquest, mobilizing the Primal Beginning Sect’s forces, supplies, and teleportation formations for an expedition to the Attila Realm.
• Xu Yunfan appointed Lu Chuan to lead the vanguard into the Western Wilds, where he would meet Zhang Ziyang and prepare a welcoming formation for the main army.
• Xu Yunfan considered refining the Crimson Sun Dao Fruit and using the Attila Realm’s world origin to advance to Mid Golden Core.
• At the World-Breaking Platform, Xu Yunfan’s ninety-nine thunder dragons carved a stable passage through the Realm Sea and exposed the ruined Western Wilds of the Attila Realm.

Xu Yunfan sent Lu Chuan and three thousand vanguard cultivators into the Attila Realm, then held back its dying Heavenly Dao while warning that True Monarchs could not safely enter. Heavenly Light True Monarch confronted him over the Crimson Sun Dao Fruit, and Xu Yunfan taunted him as their forces clashed.

• Xu Yunfan opened a passage through the Realm Sea, and Lu Chuan led thirty Void Crossing Boats carrying three thousand vanguard cultivators into the Attila Realm.
• Great Awakening Bodhisattva sensed Xu Yunfan's power from the Bodhi Zen Pure Land, while Lu Chunyang recognized the Myriad Chariots Sword Incantation in Xu Yunfan's thunder technique.
• Xu Yunfan used his Dharma manifestation and Star Spirit Banner to resist Attila's dying Heavenly Dao, then warned Lu Chuan to build a receiving formation because True Monarchs could not enter safely.
• Heavenly Light True Monarch arrived and clashed with Xu Yunfan over the Crimson Sun Dao Fruit, threatening to carve open his Golden Core during the coming great calamity.
• Xu Yunfan taunted Heavenly Light True Monarch by offering to let him hear the Crimson Sun Dao Fruit's roar more clearly.

Xu Yunfan let Heavenly Light True Monarch withdraw while cultivators from both sects entered Attila to pursue its remaining origin. He then returned to Divine Firmament Mountain, where he spent ten years tempering himself and suppressing the restless Crimson Sun Dao Fruit.

• Heavenly Light True Monarch held back from fighting Xu Yunfan, allowing Myriad Chariots Sword Sect cultivators to charge into Attila through the barrier crack.
• Xu Yunfan subtly distorted perceptions in Attila as Lu Chuan led Primal Beginning Sect cultivators in establishing a Heavenly Cycle Teleportation Formation amid battles with divine creatures and Nature Spirits.
• Zhang Ziyang watched the fighting from his divine kingdom, hoping to gain Incense Wish Power, while Cave Bright True Monarch secretly refined the Eternal Night Sinking Dao Fruit and plotted to claim Attila's origin.
• Heavenly Light True Monarch withdrew after his disciples entered Attila, and Xu Yunfan left a Dharma Image phantom behind before departing with the World-Breaking Platform.
• Xu Yunfan secluded himself at Divine Firmament Mountain for ten years, tempering himself with lava and thunderbolts while his Three Heads Six Arms worked to restrain the Crimson Sun Dao Fruit.

Xu Yunfan completed refining the Li Guangran Yan Chi Yang Dao Fruit, but the Taihua Spiritual Void Realm rejected him for draining its origin without giving back. He realized that sacrificing the Attila Realm could earn the merit needed to clear the mark, and Zhang Ziyang reported that preparations there were nearly complete.

• Xu Yunfan spent ten years refining the Dao Fruit while Lu Chuan’s Primal Beginning Sect fought the Myriad Chariots Sword Sect in Attila.
• Ling Jue used his Eternal Steadfast Sword Domain to slow his opponents and kill several Foundation Establishment True Persons before Zhang Ziyang disrupted the domain with Attila’s Heavenly Dao laws.
• Xu Yunfan finished refining the Dao Fruit, raising his Dao cultivation value to 2000.
• The Taihua Spiritual Void Realm rejected Xu Yunfan as a parasite, and he realized he needed heavenly merit to avoid punishment.
• Xu Yunfan saw sacrificing Attila as a way to earn merit, while Zhang Ziyang reported that the realm’s remaining Deities had been purged or suppressed and his Incense Wish Power network had spread across the western wilderness and thirty percent of the shattered divine kingdoms.

Xu Yunfan tried to bind and pull the devastated Attila Great Realm toward the Taihua Spiritual Void Realm to claim its merit, drawing the Heavenly Light True Monarch into a tense negotiation. Subtle Truth Bodhisattva then intervened in the name of saving the realm's survivors, and Xu Yunfan challenged his claim of compassion.

• Xu Yunfan manifested his powerful Dharma Image at the edge of the Attila Great Realm and used the Myriad Stars Array to bind the realm with starlight chains.
• Xu Yunfan began dragging the Attila Great Realm toward the Taihua Spiritual Void Realm, while the Heavenly Light True Monarch tried to stop him.
• Xu Yunfan proposed that the Heavenly Light True Monarch help pull the realm and share its merit according to their contributions.
• Subtle Truth Bodhisattva arrived and urged Xu Yunfan to stop, arguing that devouring the realm would doom its surviving inhabitants.
• Xu Yunfan asked Subtle Truth Bodhisattva where his compassion had been when the Attila Realm's Heaven Realm and its dependent worlds were destroyed.

Xu Yunfan persuaded Heavenly Light True Monarch to join him in guiding the dying Attila Realm, then they defeated Subtle Truth Bodhisattva when she tried to stop them. Heavenly Light agreed to help secure the realm’s merger, with both cultivators claiming a share of the merit.

• Xu Yunfan accused Subtle Truth Bodhisattva of hypocrisy and warned Heavenly Light True Monarch that his sect would lose its gains unless he helped guide the Attila Realm.
• Xu Yunfan secretly offered Heavenly Light forty percent of the merit and control of two valuable resources, and Heavenly Light agreed to join him.
• Heavenly Light froze the Realm Sea with his Eternal Calamity Light Sword while Xu Yunfan attacked Subtle Truth Bodhisattva with his thunder and star array.
• Subtle Truth Bodhisattva broke free by destroying part of her pagoda and fled into the Realm Sea, vowing revenge.
• Heavenly Light agreed to help Xu Yunfan guide the realm, and the two claimed they would share its merit.

Xu Yunfan and Heavenly Light True Monarch consumed the Attila Great Realm and received merit, but Xu Yunfan discovered that Taihua’s Heavenly Dao still marked him as a threat. Cave Bright True Monarch helped him understand that the Heavenly Dao resented Golden Core True Monarchs because their pursuit of Dao Fruits depleted the realm’s limited resources.

• Xu Yunfan and Heavenly Light True Monarch dragged Attila Realm to Taihua’s laws, then Xu Yunfan sent Lu Chuan and the cultivators back through the World-Breaking Platform.
• Zhang Ziyang secretly joined the returning group with the statue of Taiyi, Savior of Suffering Heavenly Venerable, and connected to Attila’s remaining incense network.
• The Taihua Spiritual Void Realm swallowed the Attila Great Realm, and mysterious yellow merit flowed sixty percent to Xu Yunfan and forty percent to Heavenly Light True Monarch.
• Xu Yunfan sensed that merit had faded but not erased the Heavenly Dao’s hostile mark against him.
• Cave Bright True Monarch told Xu Yunfan that the Heavenly Dao’s resentment stemmed from Golden Core True Monarchs consuming scarce Dao Fruits to advance their cultivation.

Cave Bright True Monarch warned Xu Yunfan about the risks of devouring incompatible Dao Fruits and admitted she hoped his rapid rise would eventually leave him vulnerable to her. After she departed, Xu Yunfan entered the Earth Meridian Fire Eye Thunder Pool to consolidate his cultivation and began refining the Crimson Sun Dao Fruit with his Divine Vault thunder.

• Cave Bright True Monarch explained that incompatible Dao Fruits could damage Xu Yunfan’s foundation or kill him, and warned him that he needed to consider elemental balance.
• Cave Bright True Monarch revealed that she was waiting for Xu Yunfan to falter so she could seize his treasures and Dao Fruits, while Xu Yunfan calmly accepted her threat.
• Cave Bright True Monarch proposed dual cultivation, but Xu Yunfan refused, citing the danger of drawing the attention of a great deity from an unknown dimension.
• Xu Yunfan recognized that his rapid advancement had attracted dangerous attention and entered the Earth Meridian Fire Eye Thunder Pool to consolidate his cultivation.
• Xu Yunfan used his Divine Vault thunder to hammer the sealed Crimson Sun Dao Fruit, beginning to refine and fuse its origin with his own thunder power.

Xu Yunfan spent fifty years refining the Crimson Yang Dao Fruit with Divine Vault Thunder, gaining control of it and strengthening his cultivation. After leaving seclusion, he began planning to enter the Sea of Suffering of Reincarnation to seize the Great Yin Nether Dragon Dao Fruit.

• Xu Yunfan used the Star Spirit Banner and the Lin Word Seal to stabilize and precisely control the thunder-fire refinement within the Earth Meridian Fire Eye.
• Over forty-seven years, Divine Vault Thunder erased the Crimson Yang sphere’s former imprints until it melted into golden-red liquid, which Xu Yunfan fused with his thunder Dao Fruit.
• In the fiftieth year, Xu Yunfan completed the refinement and made the Li Guangran Yan Chi Yang Dao Fruit his own, while using up the Great Light Immeasurable Dao Fruit as fuel.
• Xu Yunfan saw that his Dao cultivation had reached 2600 and realized he still had room to advance toward the peak of early Golden Core.
• Xu Yunfan returned to Divine Firmament Palace, and several days later he planned to venture into the Sea of Suffering of Reincarnation for the Great Yin Nether Dragon Dao Fruit.

Chu Chengnan returned to Divine Firmament Mountain after years of hardship and asked Xu Yunfan to take him in. Xu Yunfan accepted him as an outer sect steward and told him to report when he was ready to pursue the Dao Fruit of the Immovable Profound Mountain.

• A mountain guard disciple reported that Chu Chengnan had come to see Xu Yunfan.
• Chu Chengnan paid his respects to Xu Yunfan and thanked him for helping him recover his Dao path.
• Chu Chengnan asked to return to Divine Firmament Peak, and Xu Yunfan accepted him because he remembered Chu Chengnan’s past assistance.
• Xu Yunfan assigned Chu Chengnan to help the outer sect steward elders with Divine Firmament Mountain’s affairs.
• Chu Chengnan said he had refined Immortal Golden Nature, and Xu Yunfan told him to report when he was ready to seek the Dao Fruit of the Immovable Profound Mountain.

Xu Yunfan considered entering the Sea of Suffering of Reincarnation to obtain the Great Yin Nether Dragon Dao Fruit and balance his yang-heavy power so he could advance to the Mid Golden Core realm. He summoned Lu Chuan and Chu Chengnan to learn what they knew about the perilous realm, and they began to answer.

• Xu Yunfan surveyed the flourishing Divine Firmament Mountain and reflected on how disciples practicing his True Scripture of the Unyielding Nine Heavens strengthened his understanding of lightning arts.
• Xu Yunfan concluded that the Great Yin Nether Dragon Dao Fruit was necessary to balance his power, form the Lesser Heavenly Cycle, and advance his cultivation.
• Xu Yunfan reviewed the fragmentary, frightening accounts of the Sea of Suffering of Reincarnation and decided not to seek Pudu True Monarch's help for the time being.
• Xu Yunfan summoned Lu Chuan and Chu Chengnan and asked them about the Sea of Suffering, since both had undergone Five Life Reincarnations.
• Lu Chuan and Chu Chengnan arrived, exchanged envious glances at Xu Yunfan's single-lifetime Golden Core achievement, and Lu Chuan began to respond.

Xu Yunfan learned that reaching the Sea of Suffering required a soul to pass through the Nether Gate, a dangerous undertaking for a Golden Core True Monarch. To keep his true body safe, he began refining a clone from rare spiritual materials, leaving its humanoid form taking shape within the Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi.

• Lu Chuan told Xu Yunfan that the Great Yin Nether Dragon Dao Fruit hung above the Eye of Return to the Ruins in the Sea of Suffering and that the Netherworld Record described how to find it.
• Chu Chengnan explained that he had seen the Nether Gate in each of his five lives and that damage to the gate forced souls to endure temporal-spatial currents to enter the Netherworld.
• Xu Yunfan realized that separating his soul from his Golden Core body would put both himself and his Dao Fruits at risk, while moving his true body would invite danger from his enemies.
• Xu Yunfan brought out his accumulated spiritual materials and used the Eight Sceneries of Xuan Capital Cloud Canon to refine them into a humanoid clone embryo.

Xu Yunfan completed a Cloud Scroll Clone modeled on Wukong and drew Wukong’s surviving true spirit from the Zhou Tian Star Spirit Banner. After suppressing Wukong’s attack, Xu Yunfan proposed sending him to the Netherworld and said he would refine a protective treasure to help him enter its cycle of reincarnation.

• Xu Yunfan perfected the Cloud Scroll Incarnation Technique and forged a golden monkey Dharma body suited to Wukong.
• The completed clone awakened with an independent consciousness and addressed Xu Yunfan as a fellow cultivator.
• Xu Yunfan used the Zhou Tian Star Spirit Banner to draw out Wukong’s remaining true spirit.
• Wukong attacked Xu Yunfan, but the Attribute Panel’s control imprint froze him and dispersed his staff shadow.
• Xu Yunfan told Wukong that he could seek rebirth in the Netherworld and offered to refine a protective treasure for the journey.