Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen and Lu Xiao launched a campaign of fabricated scandals against Buddha Tathagata, spreading lurid stories and staged images throughout Western Ox Continent. As mortals believed the allegations, faith in Buddha Tathagata faltered and the incense-offering power became corrupted.

• Lu Chen wrote scandalous stories and illustrations accusing Buddha Tathagata of breaking precepts, pursuing Guanyin, and exploiting believers, while Lu Xiao prepared Recorded Image Stones.
• Lu Xiao ordered Tai Cang to distribute copies across Western Ox Continent, and Lu Chen used the system to flood the mortal realm with the rumors.
• Mortals across thousands of cities read the stories, repeated them in teahouses, and turned them into a popular stage play.
• Lu Xiao's people projected staged scenes of Buddha Tathagata eating pig trotters and professing love to Guanyin into city skies.
• Mortals questioned their worship and demanded their offerings back, causing Buddha Tathagata's incense power to turn chaotic with doubt and anger.

A flood of mortal mockery and shattered faith battered the Tathagata’s Buddhist heart, driving him to order an investigation and leaving his true body gravely shaken. In the Yin Primordial World, his Yin Body devoured the resulting Inner Demon Torrent and rapidly grew stronger.

• A filthy wave of rumors, insults, and images struck Lingshan and disrupted the Tathagata as he preached at Great Thunderclap Temple.
• The Tathagata bled golden blood and ordered Guanyin Bodhisattva and the others to investigate the blasphemy against Buddhism.
• A second, stronger flood and projected images hit the Tathagata, cracking his Nine-Rank Golden Lotus and shrouding him in demonic qi.
• The Tathagata’s true body suffered a backlash from the collapse of believers’ faith and cursed the demon responsible.
• In the Yin Primordial World, the Tathagata’s Yin Body absorbed the Inner Demon Torrent from his true body and rapidly increased its demonic power.

Tathagata's Yin Body used the torrent of primal inner demons to break through toward Quasi-Sage, while Lu Chen and Lu Xiao launched a campaign to undermine Tathagata's faith by promoting Maitreya. In Golden Pool City, believers began abandoning Lushan's temples to worship Maitreya, leaving Tathagata's influence under threat.

• Tathagata's Yin Body absorbed the primal Inner Demon Torrent as a Quasi-Sage thunder tribulation began brewing over the Great Leiyin Demonic Cave.
• Lu Chen saw the effects of the attack on Tathagata and ordered Lu Xiao to intensify the assault on his faith and influence.
• Lu Chen chose to promote Maitreya as a rival Buddha, and Lu Xiao went to spread prophecies and distribute the Maitreya Gospel in Western Ox Continent.
• In Golden Pool City, disguised Taoists announced that Maitreya would descend early, while the Gospel praised Maitreya and criticized Tathagata's luxury and greed.
• Believers flocked to Golden Pool City to await Maitreya, and the Golden Pool Treasure Temple's incense dwindled as worshippers turned to Maitreya's portraits.

Believers in Golden Pool City turned against Buddha Tathagata, whose rage and grievance fed the inner demons empowering his Yin Body. As the Yin Body fought through tribulation lightning to reach the Quasi-Sage bottleneck, he was badly wounded and called on his true body for more hatred and anger.

• Golden Pool City believers mocked the Golden Pool Treasure Temple and proclaimed Maitreya Buddha Ancestor the true Buddha, leaving the temple with less than a tenth of its incense.
• A report of the rumors and defections enraged Tathagata, whose Buddha heart cracked and whose rage produced a surge of inner demon power.
• Tathagata's Yin Body endured a bolt of Destruction Demonic Lightning, absorbing the inner demons from his true body and using them to fuel his breakthrough.
• Tathagata's Yin Body faced another tribulation bolt, which broke one arm of his Demonic Buddha Dharma Form and tore open his chest.
• Tathagata's Yin Body sensed he could not survive the next strike and demanded that his true body generate more hatred and anger.

Lu Chen ordered Lu Xiao to launch a three-pronged scheme to turn Spirit Mountain against Tathagata while Tathagata’s Yin Body faced a deadly tribulation. Lu Xiao recruited Dragon Subduing Arhat and planted forged financial records before Manjushri Bodhisattva, leaving Spirit Mountain’s internal tensions poised to grow.

• Lu Chen ordered Lu Xiao to activate the Buddha Rebellion Plan against Dragon Subduing Arhat, Manjushri Bodhisattva, and Joyful Buddha.
• Lu Xiao stoked Dragon Subduing Arhat’s resentment over his low status and gave him a Reversal Token to contact Lu Chen’s side.
• Dragon Subduing Arhat drank the liquor Lu Xiao left behind, smashed the jar, and vowed to rebel against Tathagata.
• Lu Xiao used a controlled novice monk to deliver forged Spirit Mountain financial records to Manjushri Bodhisattva.
• Manjushri Bodhisattva read the records alleging that Tathagata and his allies had diverted incense offerings and shortchanged other Bodhisattvas and Arhats.

Lu Xiao recruited Joyful Buddha to join the Sovereign by offering him wealth, territory, and two bodyguards, while Manjushri’s faith in Lingshan collapsed after hearing of its corruption. Lu Chen broadcast Dragon Subduing Arhat’s public rebellion across the Yang Primordial World’s incense temples.

• Manjushri learned of Lingshan’s greed and suppression of dissent and became disillusioned with Buddha Tathagata.
• Lu Xiao visited Joyful Buddha with an Insectoid Empress and a Desire Angel, then promised him riches, freedom, and territory if he defected.
• Joyful Buddha accepted Lu Xiao’s offer, took the Reversal Token, and declared his loyalty to the Sovereign.
• Lu Chen activated a three-realm projection above the incense temples across the Four Great Continents.
• Dragon Subduing Arhat denounced Tathagata and Lingshan on the broadcast, declaring that he had rebelled.

Dragon Subduing Arhat, Manjushri Bodhisattva, and Joyful Buddha publicly turned against Lingshan, exposing corruption and provoking believers to revolt. Their betrayal drove Buddha Tathagata into a devastating collapse, while a torrent of his despair and hatred surged toward his Yin Body during its tribulation.

• Manjushri Bodhisattva denounced Lingshan's corruption and declared that he was severing ties with it.
• Joyful Buddha boasted about his lavish life under a new boss and urged Lingshan's followers to abandon Buddha Tathagata.
• Believers across the Yang Primordial World rioted, looted temples, and attacked Lingshan's Buddhist light barrier.
• Buddha Tathagata erupted with demonic blood and flame, and his Nine-Rank Golden Lotus shattered as he collapsed in agony.
• As the eighth heart-demon tribulation lightning descended on Buddha Tathagata's Yin Body, a tremendous torrent of his true self's despair and resentment struck it.

Tathagata's Yin Body crushed the eighth tribulation lightning and reached the quasi-saint realm, then received Lu Chen's order to confront Tathagata's True Self. He crossed into the Yang Primordial World and arrived at Vulture Peak, where he taunted the demonic cocoon consuming his true self.

• Tathagata's Yin Body crushed the eighth tribulation lightning and absorbed its remnants as the ninth tribulation formed.
• Lu Chen received the completed mission reward, then was assigned a new mission to send Tathagata's Yin Body to fight Tathagata's True Self without losing.
• Lu Chen ordered Tathagata's Yin Body to go to Vulture Peak and expose Tathagata's condition to the Primordial World.
• Tathagata's Yin Body tore through the Yin-Yang Barrier and crossed into the Yang Primordial World, darkening the skies over the Western Ox Continent.
• Tathagata's Yin Body reached the ruins of Great Thunderclap Temple and mocked Tathagata's True Self, who was trapped in a demonic cocoon.

Tathagata’s Yin Body exposed the Buddha’s secret sins, driving him into a demonic frenzy and forcing the two Buddhas into a Quasi-Sage-level clash that devastated Mount Meru and the surrounding lands. The Jade Emperor watched in horror as the battle unfolded, with its outcome still unknown.

• Tathagata’s Yin Body publicly revealed Tathagata’s hidden pig-trotter feasts and golden toilets, then accused him of lust and staged an illusion of him pursuing Cihang.
• Tathagata’s demonic cocoon burst, revealing his grotesque transformation, and he charged at Tathagata’s Yin Body in a rage.
• Tathagata’s Yin Body met Tathagata’s attack, and their collision unleashed a destructive shockwave across the Western Ox Continent.
• The shockwave shattered much of Mount Meru, injured its Buddhist inhabitants, and devastated cities, rivers, forests, and other lands.
• The Jade Emperor watched the clash in the Haotian Mirror and reacted with horror and disbelief.

As the demonized Main Body Tathagata and Yin Body Tathagata fought over Spirit Mountain, their battle exposed Buddhism’s corruption and shattered mortal faith. The resulting flood of negative emotions empowered the Yin Primordial World, while the two Tathagatas launched another devastating clash.

• Primeval Lord of Heaven, Taishang Laojun, Tongtian, and Old Ancestor Minghe watched the battle and reacted to its fallout, with Tongtian and Minghe hoping it would worsen.
• Survivors in a Western Ox Continent city cursed Buddhism as the exposed scandals destroyed their faith and filled the heavens with negative emotions.
• Negative emotions poured through the rift into the Yin Primordial World, strengthening its demons and ghosts and raising the world’s power.
• The demonized Main Body Tathagata attacked Yin Body Tathagata with a corrupted swastika seal, and Yin Body Tathagata countered with curses, demonic light, and a devouring vortex.
• The two Tathagatas’ attacks collided with enough force to threaten a Daluo Golden Immortal.

Tathagata's Yin Body and Main Body Tathagata fought to a devastating tie, leaving Lingshan in ruins and the Yang world's Buddhists disgraced. Lu Chen completed the Reversal Mission, and the Yin Primordial World gained strength, while Buddhist fortune disintegrated.

• Tathagata's Yin Body and Main Body Tathagata unleashed a cataclysmic clash that destroyed Lingshan and devastated the Primordial World.
• Both Tathagatas survived badly injured, and Tathagata's Yin Body mocked his opponent before returning through the underworld rift.
• The Jade Emperor, Primeval Lord of Heaven, Sect Master Tongtian, Old Ancestor Minghe, and countless living beings witnessed the ruined Lingshan and the collapse of Tathagata's reputation.
• Lu Chen watched from Tai Cang Cave as the system confirmed he had completed the Reversal Mission and elevated the Yin Primordial World's status.
• The Yin Primordial World's origin strengthened by 35%, its demons grew stronger, its barrier gained the power to withstand a mid-stage Quasi-Sage, and its fortune surged as Buddhist fortune disintegrated.

After Buddha Tathagata was defeated and Spirit Mountain was destroyed, Daoist Jieyin and Zhunti Daoist used their Saintly Might to restore the mountain, its inhabitants, and Tathagata. The people’s faith in Buddhism began to recover, while Lu Chen watched the saints’ intervention from Tai Cang Cave.

• Buddha Tathagata lay defeated amid Spirit Mountain’s ruins as the collapse of faith battered his Primordial Spirit.
• Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin decided to intervene, then unleashed their Saintly Might across the primordial world.
• The Two Sages of the West rebuilt Spirit Mountain, repaired the surrounding devastation, revived its followers, and purified Buddha Tathagata’s demonic body.
• The Jade Emperor, Primeval Lord of Heaven, Taishang Laojun, Sect Master Tongtian, and Old Ancestor Minghe reacted to the saints’ display of power.
• People across the Western Ox Continent hailed the event as a miracle and began restoring their faith in Buddhism.
• Lu Chen silently watched the Two Sages’ intervention through a water mirror in Tai Cang Cave.

Lu Chen crushed the Chaos Saint Experience Card and became a being whose power shook the Primordial World. As Jieyin and Zhunti's true bodies descended to kill him, Lu Chen faced the two Saints with the card's temporary power.

• Lu Chen received the Chaos Saint Experience Card and a Reversal Mission to fight Jieyin and Zhunti for ten million System Points.
• Lu Chen crushed the card, unleashing a Chaos Sea, Primordial Violet Qi, and the Bell of the Great Dao throughout the Primordial World.
• Haotian, Primeval Lord of Heaven, Taishang Laojun, Tongtian, and Old Ancestor Minghe sensed Lu Chen's transformation and reacted with shock or excitement.
• Buddha Tathagata's restored faith shattered again when he felt the Chaos Purple Qi and heard the Bell of the Great Dao.
• Jieyin and Zhunti recognized Lu Chen as a threat, resolved to erase him, and descended in their true bodies above Mount Spirit.

Lu Chen confronted Jieyin and Zhunti after they threatened his people, unleashing Chaos treasures and five supreme laws against the Two Sages of the West. The sages fought back with their artifacts and Buddhist powers as Lu Chen’s attacks continued to press them.

• Lu Chen rose in the Chaos Sea and challenged Jieyin and Zhunti for daring to harm his people.
• Lu Chen attacked Jieyin with the Chaos Lantern and Zhunti with the Eternal Gui Xu Sword, while invoking the laws of life, destruction, reincarnation, time, and space.
• Zhunti used the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree against the sword, but its light shattered and Gui Xu power began eroding the treasure tree.
• Jieyin relied on the Twelve-Grade Merit Golden Lotus to withstand the Chaos Lantern, while Zhunti countered the reincarnation wheel with the Blessing Divine Pestle.
• Lu Chen summoned the Eternal Gui Xu Seal against Zhunti, and Jieyin answered with Annihilation Buddha Thunder aimed at Lu Chen’s black hole, green lotus, and seal.

Lu Chen burned through the Chaos Saint Experience Card to resist the Two Sages of the West after they drew on their origins and the Heavenly Dao. Their ultimate clash left Lu Chen gravely wounded and the Sages battered, with the fight’s outcome unresolved.

• Jieyin and Zhunti invoked their origins and the Heavenly Dao, summoning Heavenly Dao chains and a Sword of Wisdom to kill Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen ignited the Experience Card’s remaining power and used the Chaos Lantern, Gui Xu treasures, and Five Great Supreme Laws to fight back.
• The forces collided above Lingshan, shattering laws and sending Lu Chen flying into the Chaos Sea with his body, treasures, and aura badly damaged.
• Jieyin suffered backlash and blood loss, while Zhunti’s Sword of Wisdom cracked under the Gui Xu rift’s annihilating power.

Lu Chen fought Jieyin and Zhunti to a near-fatal draw, shocking the Primordial World before the two Saints withdrew to recover. The System awarded him 10,000,000 points and placed him in emergency hibernation, while he remained gravely wounded in the Chaos Sea.

• Lu Chen’s Chaos weapons clashed with Jieyin and Zhunti’s combined attack, injuring both Saints and ending the battle in a draw.
• The demons and Buddha Tathagata watched in shock as Lu Chen’s survival and injuries to the Saints shattered their expectations.
• Jieyin accused Lu Chen of being an Outer Realm Demon, declared that the Saints would consult the Heavenly Dao, and withdrew with Zhunti, Tathagata, and the surviving Buddhist disciples.
• Lu Chen received 10,000,000 System Points for completing the Reversal Mission, then lost consciousness as the System began emergency life support and hibernation.
• Tai Cang Cave became an independent Cave-heaven Paradise, where the Chaos Lantern struggled to sustain Lu Chen as the System reported repair progress at 0.03%.

As Lu Chen neared death, the Chaos Green Lotus, Eternal Gui Xu Seal, Chaos Lantern, and Gui Xu Eye combined their powers to revive and transform him. His strength surged toward the Daluo Golden Immortal realm, provoking a vast Heavenly Dao tribulation over the Yang Primordial World.

• The Chaos Green Lotus restored Lu Chen’s vitality while the Eternal Gui Xu Seal erased the lingering damage in his body.
• The Chaos Lantern harmonized life and destruction, and the Gui Xu Eye opened a narrow slit to reveal the disordered Great Dao Law Threads within Lu Chen and the surrounding Chaos Sea.
• The four Chaos Supreme Treasures formed a cycle that nourished Lu Chen’s rebirth and unleashed power beyond the Golden Immortal limit.
• Lu Chen’s wounds healed as his cultivation rose from mid-stage Golden Immortal to peak Golden Immortal and surged toward the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
• Heavenly Dao tribulation clouds covered the Yang Primordial World, and their pressure rapidly suppressed the Chaos Sea around Lu Chen.

Lu Chen faced the Primordial World Heavenly Dao’s annihilating tribulation as he neared the Daluo Golden Immortal realm. When the first golden bolt threatened to kill him, Lu Xiao activated the Destiny Locking Chain and intercepted it, leaving their fate unclear in the ensuing blast.

• The Heavenly Court, Primeval Lord of Heaven, Sect Master Tongtian, Old Ancestor Minghe, and Buddha Tathagata witnessed the terrifying tribulation clouds and recognized Lu Chen as an anomaly the Heavenly Dao sought to erase.
• Lu Chen regained consciousness and saw both his embryonic Daluo law Dao Fruit and the Heavenly Dao’s Will of Eradication gathering above him.
• The first golden Heavenly Dao Evil-Slaying Divine Thunder struck, and Lu Chen’s Four Supreme Treasures failed to defend him in time.
• Lu Xiao rushed between Lu Chen and the lightning, and the Destined Villain System unsealed his Destiny Locking Chain through the Origin Burning Protocol.
• Nine pitch-black Chains of Defiance collided with the golden thunder, unleashing a destructive shock wave that swept through the Chaos Sea.

Lu Xiao held back the World-Ending Golden Lightning while Lu Chen broke through the Great Luo Immortal Barrier, triggering the Heavenly Dao’s full assault. The Yin Primordial World sent its collective power to protect Lu Chen, and its World-Ending Black Lotus collided with the lightning tide in a catastrophic clash.

• Lu Xiao used the nine Chains of Defiance and his burning origin to hold the golden lightning in place while shielding Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen awakened, poured the Chaos Green Lotus’s life-origin power into Lu Xiao, and broke through the Great Luo Immortal Barrier.
• The Heavenly Dao unleashed a tide of multiple divine lightnings against Lu Chen and Lu Xiao, overwhelming the chains and threatening both brothers.
• Yin Buddha Tathagata, Jade Emperor Yin, and the beings of the Yin Primordial World joined their power to form a World-Ending Black Lotus and protect Lu Chen.
• The black lotus collided with the Heavenly Dao’s lightning tide, unleashing a destructive storm that shattered space, disrupted time, and damaged the Primordial World.

Lu Chen broke through to the Daluo Golden Immortal Realm after the Yin Primordial World’s beings helped withstand the Heavenly Dao’s annihilation Lightning Tide. The Primordial World then rejected him as an outsider, and he summoned the Yin Primordial World Overlord’s authority to resist.

• Lu Xiao, Yin Buddha Tathagata, Jade Emperor Yin, and the Yin Realm’s living beings helped Lu Chen withstand the Heavenly Dao’s Lightning Tide, though Lu Xiao was left gravely injured.
• Lu Chen completed his breakthrough to Daluo Golden Immortal and formed the Chaos Dao Crown.
• The Primordial World’s Heavenly Dao began forcibly rejecting Lu Chen, and Jade Emperor Yin and Yin Buddha Tathagata warned that it would dismantle him unless he left.
• Lu Chen refused to flee and told Lu Xiao to hold on as he summoned the World Black Lotus imprint.
• A black pillar of light carrying the Yin Primordial World’s annihilating aura descended and enveloped Lu Chen.