Chapter Summaries

Tongtian attacked Mount Sumeru after the newly established Buddhist Sect drew on Mystic Sect fortune and threatened the Interception Sect's share. He split off one-third of the Buddhist Sect's merit and fortune, while Taiyi saw Tongtian's sword mastery as a sign that he might soon attain the Grand Luo Golden Immortal Zenith.

• Tongtian accused Amitabha Buddha and Buddha Zhunti of taking Interception Sect fortune and sent a sword strike toward Mount Sumeru.
• Amitabha Buddha and Buddha Zhunti argued that the Buddhist Sect's growth had naturally drawn on Mystic Sect fortune, then used Heavenly Dao Merit and Buddhist treasures to resist Tongtian's attack.
• Tongtian's sword overwhelmed the two Buddha Sages and carved away roughly one-third of the Buddhist Sect's merit and fortune.
• Taiyi watched from the Sun Star and concluded that Tongtian might soon prove the Primordial Chaos Sword Dao and attain the Grand Luo Golden Immortal Zenith.
• Amitabha Buddha and Buddha Zhunti watched Tongtian depart with the seized fortune and lamented the West's hardships.

Amitabha Buddha and Buddha-Mother Zhunti established the Great Dao of Buddhism on Mount Sumeru, drawing countless Primordial Beings to the Western Continent with their teachings. Buddhism flourished across the Primordial World, while Taiqing Laozi and Yuanshi Tianzun lamented the Destiny they had lost and another possible calamity loomed.

• Amitabha Buddha and Buddha-Mother Zhunti expounded Buddhist teachings, revealing the Great Dao of Buddhism to the Primordial World.
• Countless Primordial Beings flocked to the Western Continent, worshiped the two Sage Buddhas, and sought Buddhist liberation.
• Amitabha Buddha and Buddha-Mother Zhunti formally established Buddhism and declared that anyone could attain Buddhahood through diligent practice.
• The two Sage Buddhas spread Buddhist scriptures, accepted converts, and chose gifted cultivators as personal disciples, while Buddhist Dao qi replaced the Mystic Sect immortal qi in converts.
• Taiqing Laozi and Yuanshi Tianzun lamented that Buddhism's flourishing Destiny had once been theirs, and the chapter warned that its rise might bring another great calamity.

Taiyi chose to let the Asura Race and the remnants of the Demon Clan join Buddhism, receiving Slaughter Dao Source and beginning to comprehend it alongside Buddha Dao Source. As Buddhism spread eastward, the other Sages watched its growth, while Tongtian and the Interception Sect remained wary of rising tensions with Buddhist disciples.

• Taiyi ignored the system's request to stop the Asura Race and Demon Clan remnants from defecting to Buddhism and received Slaughter Dao Source.
• Taiyi reasoned that the Slaughter Great Dao meant carrying out Heaven's punishments and began refining the source with Buddha Dao Source.
• Taiyi let Dijun cultivate in the Little Chaos Pearl Heavenly Dao World, where Dijun held most of its authority after Taiyi.
• Buddhism continued spreading east, while private conflicts between Buddhist disciples and the Interception Sect's disciples became more frequent.
• Tongtian Jiaozhu refused to intervene in Buddhism's rise, and Houtu secluded herself to pursue a breakthrough through the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

Taiyi ignored the Western Sages’ plan to recruit Red Cloud as the Buddhist Sect’s lord and received the Cloud Great Dao Source. At Longevity Mountain, Red Cloud was persuaded by Zhunti and Amitabha, while Zhenyuanzi urged him to weigh the benefits against the price, leaving Red Cloud undecided.

• Taiyi chose to ignore the recruitment effort and received a portion of Cloud Great Dao Source, which he swallowed and began refining.
• Buddha-Mother Zhunti and Amitabha Buddha visited Zhenyuanzi at Longevity Mountain to ask Red Cloud to become the Buddhist Sect’s lord.
• Zhunti praised the Buddhist Sect’s offer, while Amitabha supported her at key moments, and Red Cloud began to waver.
• Zhenyuanzi privately encouraged Red Cloud to accept if he was interested, noting that the Buddhist Sect’s prosperity could benefit him.
• Red Cloud asked Zhenyuanzi how much of the Western Sages’ claims was true, and Zhenyuanzi judged them mostly true but warned that the position would carry a price.

Red Cloud Hermit accepted leadership of Western Buddhism and became its Present Buddha, while Lu Ya joined as its Future Buddha and Amitabha Buddha took the title of Past Buddha. Their establishment of the Three Buddhas Across the Three Ages drew Heavenly Dao merit and expanded Buddhist destiny, while Taiyi recognized that Red Cloud Hermit had been made the fall guy again.

• Buddha Zhunti and Amitabha Buddha persuaded Red Cloud Hermit to become the leader of Western Buddhism, transferring its karmic burden and much of its destiny to him.
• Red Cloud Hermit became Red Cloud Buddha, the Present Buddha, and began sweeping reforms of Western Buddhism.
• Buddha Zhunti and Amitabha Buddha brought Daoist Lu Ya to Red Cloud Buddha, and Lu Ya became the Future Buddha, Great Sun Tathagata Light Buddha.
• Amitabha Buddha named himself the Past Buddha, completing the Three Buddhas Across the Three Ages and perfecting Buddhist teachings.
• Heavenly Dao merit descended and was divided among Buddha Zhunti, Amitabha Buddha, Red Cloud Buddha, Lu Ya Buddha, Spirit Mountain, and Buddhist disciples.
• The Sages and great powers noticed the change, while Taiyi concluded that Red Cloud Hermit had been made the fall guy again.

Taiyi chose to ignore King Di Xin’s plan to spread martial arts among the Human Race and refined the Great Dao of Sacrifice Source. In Chaoge, Di Xin completed the Humanity Martial Scripture, earning a pillar of human merit as he pursued an age when everyone could become like dragons.

• Taiyi refined several portions of Great Dao Source, comprehended dozens of Great Daos, and began merging his treasures into the Great Dao Gate.
• The system asked Taiyi to stop Di Xin from spreading martial arts or let him strengthen the Human Race, and Taiyi chose to leave Di Xin alone and received the Great Dao of Sacrifice Source.
• After centuries of stable rule, Di Xin finished compiling the Humanity Martial Scripture, hoping it would help the Human Race develop its potential and eventually let every person master their own life.
• Haotian saw a golden pillar of Path of Humanity Luck merit rise over the Human Race and realized Di Xin’s martial arts method had earned merit for humanity.

Haotian lamented his lack of control over the Heavenly Court and resolved to rely on his own strength, while Di Xin completed the first draft of the Humanity Martial Scripture. Taiyi reviewed and annotated the scripture before returning to refining the Great Dao of Sacrifice Origin.

• Haotian regretted the Heavenly Court's divided loyalties and devoted himself to cultivation rather than struggling over authority.
• Di Xin completed the Humanity Martial Scripture, which could let humans advance toward the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm, and began testing it with warriors from various tribes.
• Taiyi examined the scripture and concluded that its spread would help Di Xin prove Dao and become a Sage.
• Taiyi added his insights to the scripture, and Di Xin noticed the golden annotations and thanked him.
• Taiyi resumed refining the Great Dao of Sacrifice Origin, drawing its mysteries into his primordial spirit.

Taiyi considered using the Great Dao of Sacrifice to let Primordial Beings gain power through offerings, then chose to keep cultivating rather than interfere with the Western Buddhist Sect’s expedition against Rahu. As he refined a portion of pure Devil Dao Source, the Sun Star turned black, alarming the Primordial Beings and the departing Buddhist experts.

• Taiyi planned to spread the Great Dao of Sacrifice across the Primordial Wilderness, letting beings offer sacrifices in exchange for his power and knowledge.
• The system offered Taiyi a choice between stopping the Western Buddhist Sect’s attack on Rahu for Formless Heavenly Devil Dao Source or ignoring it for Devil Dao Source.
• Taiyi chose to ignore the expedition and continued cultivating, reasoning that the era no longer had a place for Rahu.
• Taiyi swallowed and refined the pure Devil Dao Source, and Demonic Qi transformed the Sun Star into a black sun.
• Buddha Zhunti, Amitabha Buddha, Zhenyuanzi, and the other Buddhist experts sensed the phenomenon and reassured their followers that Taiyi’s cultivation would not affect their journey.

Taiyi refined the demonic path on the Sun Star while Zhunti, Amitabha Buddha, and Zhenyuanzi attacked Rahu in the Chaotic Heavenly Devil Realm. The three Saints destroyed Rahu’s realm and defeated him, and Taiyi ignored Rahu’s distress signal.

• As Taiyi refined the demonic path, he drew the spreading Demonic Qi into the Great Dao Gate, strengthening it and adding demonic power to its control.
• Zhunti and Amitabha Buddha used the Causal Entanglement Technique to find the Heavenly Devil Realm and entered it with Zhenyuanzi and Buddhist Sect experts.
• Zhunti and Amitabha Buddha offered to convert Rahu, but Rahu refused, and the Saint Buddhas and Zhenyuanzi launched their attack.
• Rahu fought back with the Heavenly Devil Tower and Godslaying Spear, but the three Saints overwhelmed him and shattered the Heavenly Devil Realm.
• Buddhist Sect experts purified, killed, drove off, or converted the Extraterrestrial Demons, and Rahu was defeated and scattered.
• Taiyi watched from the Sun Star and ignored the distress signal he received from Rahu through his Heartless Demon Ancestor incarnation.

After the Buddhist Sages destroyed Rahu and the Heavenly Devil Realm, Buddhism gained merit and influence across the Primordial World. Tens of thousands of years later, Taiyi received a system prompt about Zhu Long, Progenitor Dragon’s brother, being on the verge of proving the Dao.

• Nüwa, Taiqing Laozi, Yuanshi Tianzun, and Houtu watched Rahu’s fall and reflected on his defeat.
• Zhunti, Amitabha Buddha, and Zhen Yuanzi destroyed the Heavenly Devil Realm, ending the demonic path’s disturbances in the Primordial World.
• Zhunti and Amitabha converted the Extraterrestrial Demons and brought them to the Western Paradise, then returned with the Buddhist Sect and received Heavenly Dao Merit.
• Cultivators and other beings welcomed the Buddhist Sect, which gained influence as Buddhism rose and demonhood declined.
• Taiyi returned to cultivation, and tens of thousands of years later his system alerted him that Zhu Long was about to prove the Dao.
• Taiyi considered the system’s choices and realized that Zhu Long was Progenitor Dragon’s previously unknown younger brother.

Taiyi chose a reward and absorbed the Source of the Great Dao of Order, while Zhu Long emerged from his long slumber in the East Sea and began to Prove Dao. His proclamation shook the Primordial World, and its inhabitants recognized that another Dragon Clan Sage was rising.

• Taiyi reasoned that Zhu Long might have gained the foundation to advance after the Primordial World's restoration and chose the system's second option.
• Taiyi received the Source of the Great Dao of Order, reflected on Hongjun Daozu, and absorbed it to comprehend the Great Dao.
• Zhu Long awoke on the East Sea seabed, rose into the heavens, and declared that he would Prove Dao and become a Sage.
• Master Tongtian sensed Zhu Long's rising aura from Golden Turtle Island and remarked that the Primordial World was about to become lively.
• Zhu Long's dragon roar spread across the Primordial World, made its non-Sage inhabitants bow, and revealed that a Dragon Clan Sage was emerging.

Zhu Long attained the Dao and became a Grand Luo Golden Immortal Zenith, prompting the Sages to wonder whether Taiyi or Heavenly Dao had helped him. Heavenly Dao offered Zhu Long the role of Chief Sovereign of the Ocean in exchange for clearing the Dragon Clan’s sins, leaving the Sages watching its recruitment attempt.

• Zhu Long attained the Dao above the East Sea, and the Primordial World filled with auspicious signs.
• Goddess Houtu, Great Immortal Zhen Yuanzi, Taiqing Laozi, and Yuanshi Tianzun suspected Taiyi the Supreme had enabled Zhu Long’s breakthrough, while Goddess Nüwa considered treating the Human Race better.
• Taiyi denied helping Zhu Long attain the Dao and said he could guide others but could not make them attain it; the Sages then considered and ruled out Heavenly Dao’s involvement.
• Heavenly Dao appeared before Zhu Long, offered him Primordial Violet Qi, and invited him to become Chief Sovereign of the Ocean, promising to erase the Dragon Clan’s sins and restore its former glory.
• Great Immortal Zhen Yuanzi wanted to disrupt Heavenly Dao’s offer but was restrained by the Heavenly Dao Oath.

Zhu Long accepted Heavenly Dao’s appointment as Chief Sovereign of the Ocean and became the eighth Heavenly Dao Sage, freeing the Dragon Clan from its karmic burden. Taiyi discovered that Zhu Long had attained the Dao through his bloodline, but his unstable foundation left him far weaker than other newly ascended Grand Luo Golden Immortal Zeniths.

• Zhu Long accepted Heavenly Dao’s offer, received the Primordial Violet Qi, and became the Chief Sovereign of the Ocean and the eighth Heavenly Dao Sage.
• The Dragon Clan shed its karmic burden and began to prosper under Zhu Long’s leadership as its members broke through to Grand Luo Golden Immortals.
• Taiyi and other Heavenly Sages sent incarnations to the East Sea to investigate how Zhu Long had attained the Dao.
• Taiyi’s Heart Demon Incarnation infiltrated the Dragon Sea Crystal Palace and learned that Zhu Long had used Bloodline Dao Proving.
• Taiyi sensed that Zhu Long’s foundation was unstable and judged him far weaker than himself or Great Immortal Zhen Yuanzi.

Taiyi’s Heart Demon Incarnation discovered World Tree aura at the Primordial Sea Eye and deduced that Zhu Long’s Bloodline Dao Proving had been aided by a powerful being from another universe. He feared the unknown ruler’s intentions and realized that even Heavenly Dao had failed to notice the outsider’s intervention.

• Buddha-Mother Zhunti and Amitabha Buddha rejoiced that Zhu Long’s strength meant the Western Two Sages no longer ranked last among the Sages.
• Taiyi continued investigating Zhu Long’s origins through his Heart Demon Incarnation, which found World Tree aura at the Primordial Sea Eye.
• Taiyi reasoned that the aura came from a World Tree in another high-level universe within chaos, not from the Primordial World.
• Taiyi suspected that the World Tree’s ruler had used a branch to help Zhu Long attain the Dao as part of a hidden plan.
• Taiyi feared the outsider might be infiltrating the Primordial World, and concluded that Heavenly Dao had missed the World Tree aura.

Taiyi discovered that the World Tree Universe was using Zhu Long to gain power over the Primordial World, and sent a Heart Demon Incarnation through the Eastern Sea Eye to investigate. After losing contact with it, he sent three more incarnations to inspect the other regions and gauge the extent of the world’s infiltration.

• Taiyi realized the World Tree Universe threatened the Primordial World and saw its World Source as a chance to strengthen himself against the Heavenly Dao.
• He concluded that Zhu Long’s Chaos Demon God foundation could let him challenge the Primordial World’s major powers and help the World Tree ruler seize authority.
• Taiyi sent a concealed Heart Demon Incarnation through the Eastern Sea Eye into an unfamiliar spacetime, but their connection gradually faded.
• After the incarnation lost contact, Taiyi suspected the World Tree had infiltrated all four sea eyes and sent three more incarnations to investigate.
• Taiyi considered how the four sea eyes discharged refined Chaos Energy that the Primordial World could not digest directly.

Taiyi sent Heart Demon Incarnations into the Primordial Wilderness sea eyes to investigate the World Tree universe ruler’s infiltration, while Zhu Long returned to the Eastern Sea Eye after becoming a Sage. Finding signs that an unknown being had visited, Zhu Long waited there in hopes of gaining another opportunity.

• Taiyi sent his Heart Demon Incarnations into the South Sea, North Sea, and West Sea sea eyes, using the Chaos Pearl to hide their actions from Heavenly Dao.
• Taiyi’s incarnation carefully searched a sea eye for traces of the World Tree universe ruler while enduring its chaotic spacetime.
• Zhu Long received Heavenly Dao’s investiture as Chief Sovereign of the Ocean and returned to the Eastern Sea Crystal Palace, where he sensed that someone had visited.
• Zhu Long suspected that another Sage, perhaps Tongtian Jiaozhu, had been watching him, but he had no evidence and feared confronting Tongtian Jiaozhu.
• Zhu Long went to the Eastern Sea Eye and waited for another opportunity, unaware that Taiyi’s earlier guess was correct: a Branch of the World Tree had once drifted out of the sea eye and helped Zhu Long find his path to Sagehood.

Taiyi’s Heart Demon Incarnation entered a world passage and discovered that it led to the Land of Return to Emptiness, a graveyard where all laws and things were devoured. He concluded that only a Grand Primordial Luo Golden Immortal could cross it and wondered whether Great Immortal Yang Mei had used such a passage to leave the Primordial World.

• Zhu Long swallowed a small World Tree branch, refined its surging life force with his dragon blood, and raised his bloodline foundation to the level of Chaos Demon Gods.
• Taiyi’s Heart Demon Incarnation entered another world through the Primordial Sea Eye and found only darkness, silence, and ruins.
• Taiyi recognized the world as the Land of Return to Emptiness, where all Daos reached their end.
• Taiyi realized that world passages could connect high-level universes, but crossing the Land of Return to Emptiness required the cultivation of a Grand Primordial Luo Golden Immortal.
• Taiyi wondered whether Great Immortal Yang Mei had left the Primordial World through a world passage.

Taiyi discovered that his Heart Demon Incarnation had been trapped in the Land of Return to Emptiness, where it began comprehending the Great Dao of Ruin and shared its insights with his main body. After preparing for several hundred thousand years, Taiyi secretly entered the Land of Return to Emptiness and traveled through its ruins, seeking the World Tree Universe beyond it.

• Taiyi's Heart Demon Incarnation realized Heavenly Dao had exiled it to the Land of Return to Emptiness and began comprehending the Great Dao of Ruin.
• Taiyi's main body received the incarnation's insights, learned that it was trapped, and decided to enter the Land of Return to Emptiness himself.
• Taiyi spent several hundred thousand years refining Great Dao Sources, then used a diversion and the Little Chaos Pearl Heavenly Dao World to evade Heavenly Dao and reach the Eastern Sea Eye.
• Taiyi entered the Land of Return to Emptiness and saw the remains of countless stars, worlds, and celestial bodies being reduced to nothingness.
• Taiyi spotted a remnant Heaven Splitting Axe Light from the era when Pangu Creates the World, avoided it, and continued onward through the realms of the Primordial Universe.

Taiyi endured the Land of Return to Emptiness while studying its Great Dao of Ruin, refining a strand of its origin power as the Way of Emptiness. He sent Heart Demon Incarnations into worlds being consumed by the Land and discovered one whose origin had died, leaving its universe desolate.

• Taiyi resisted the Great Dao of Ruin with his Hunyuan Innate Undying Spiritual Light and spent hundreds of thousands of years comprehending its power of nothingness.
• Taiyi refined a strand of the Great Dao of Ruin's origin and named it the Way of Emptiness, while sending Heart Demon Incarnations to investigate the fallen worlds.
• A Heart Demon Incarnation entered a Great Thousand World through its dried-up sea eye and found a barren, collapsing universe.
• Taiyi determined that the world's origin core had been extinguished, causing its laws and celestial bodies to fail until its inhabitants perished.
• Taiyi reflected that worlds, like living beings, followed cycles of birth and death and the waxing and waning of yin and yang.

Taiyi chose to intervene in the Journey to the West Calamity after the system offered him Primordial Great Dao Origin for subduing the Lingming Stone Monkey and taking him as a disciple. After receiving the reward, he wondered whether calamities were connected to the Land of Return to Emptiness.

• The system told Taiyi that the Lingming Stone Monkey was about to appear and offered rewards for either intervening or leaving his destiny unchanged.
• Taiyi rejected the Supreme Bodhi Heart reward and chose to subdue the Lingming Stone Monkey, take him as a disciple, and oppose Buddhism’s rise.
• Taiyi received and refined the Primordial Great Dao Origin, which contained portions of the Primordial Golden Immortal, Grand Primordial Luo Golden Immortal, and Primordial Chaos Limitless Great Dao paths.
• Taiyi resolved to make Western Buddhism suffer and reasoned that his actions could count as answering the Journey to the West Calamity as it arose.
• Taiyi sensed a fleeting insight and wondered whether calamities were connected to the Land of Return to Emptiness.