Chapter Summaries

The Esteemed Sage Academy received an imperial seal from Sage Feng and withdrew from the world as Great Pan collapsed. Kong Huai seized the chance to build an army, conquer much of the former Great Shao territory, and proclaim himself King Zhou, while Jia Yi and the Fengdu Daoist reached the Storm Forbidden Sea.

• The aged Confucius of the Esteemed Sage Academy received an imperial seal from Sage Feng, then closed the academy and dismissed its disciples.
• After learning that the emperor had died and the fortune dragons had chosen their own masters, Kong Huai gathered his allies and prepared to take control of the southern counties.
• Kong Huai’s officials reported that the Dragon God Temple network and the God Capital Army were ready to support him, while Jia Yi and the Fengdu Daoist had left East Continent.
• Kong Huai used the God Capital Army to defeat rival forces, annexed the Song and Teng territories, and overcame the army of Shao South.
• Kong Huai proclaimed himself King Zhou as rival true dragons emerged across the world.
• Jia Yi and the Fengdu Daoist crossed the sea and approached the Storm Forbidden Sea.

Fengdu Daoist and Jia Yi True Lord crossed the forbidden sea aboard Liang Feng’s boat and learned how the Buddhist Arhat came to guide ships toward Western Continent. After reaching the continent, they gave Liang Feng gifts and departed.

• Fengdu Daoist and Jia Yi True Lord passed a Western Continent Treasure Ship and discussed the Buddhist kingdom’s growth and the Blood Sea’s threat to the continent.
• Liang Feng invited the two onto his boat, revealing himself as a Buddhist Arhat who guided ships through the forbidden sea.
• Liang Feng explained that Hong Yuan had defeated him and promised Buddhist teachings if he guided ten thousand ships, and that he had received a scripture after guiding a thousand.
• Fengdu Daoist gave Liang Feng an incomplete technique, while Jia Yi True Lord left him a spirit pearl containing a trace of Dao intent.
• Fengdu Daoist and Jia Yi True Lord reached Western Continent and departed as Liang Feng accepted their gifts and rowed back into the forbidden sea.

Hong Yuan Monk’s breakthrough at Thunder Sound Temple drew an invasion from the Blood Sea, but the awakened Great Sun Tathagata Golden Body repelled the attackers and moved the temple to suppress the Blood Sea Demon Cave. Two powerful Taoists then arrived in the Buddhist Land of Western Continent.

• Thunder Sound Temple prepared to defend Hong Yuan Monk as he attempted to establish a Golden Body Buddhist Kingdom.
• Rakshasa Ghost Mother attacked Spirit Mountain with the Blood Sea, shattered its grand formation, and unleashed her forces against the Buddhist defenders.
• Mo Yun tried to destroy the Great Sun Tathagata Golden Body, but it awakened and drove him and the Blood Sea army away.
• The Great Sun Tathagata Golden Body used Palm-Sized Buddhist Kingdom to carry Spirit Mountain and Thunder Sound Temple to the Buddhist Land Demon Kingdom.
• Spirit Mountain settled atop the Blood Sea Demon Cave, and Hong Yuan Monk later fought in its depths before returning gravely wounded.
• Two powerful Taoists crossed the sea and entered the Buddhist Land of Western Continent.

Fengdu Daoist and Jia Yi True Lord visited Monk Hong Yuan at Thunder Sound Temple and learned that he planned to guide a Blood Sea Creature toward liberation. Hong Yuan revealed that he had chosen Mo Yun, whom Fang Xiu recognized as the reincarnation of Old Daoist Qing Yun.

• Fengdu Daoist and Jia Yi True Lord entered the ruined Demon Kingdom and saw Thunder Sound Temple suppressing the Blood Sea Demon Cave.
• Monk Hong Yuan welcomed the two Daoists at Thunder Sound Temple and explained his realization that everyone could become Buddha.
• Fengdu Daoist asked Hong Yuan how Buddhism could overcome the Blood Sea, and Hong Yuan said the two were bound to one another as opposing forces.
• Hong Yuan revealed that he intended to help a Blood Sea Creature attain the Great Dao and escape the Blood Sea's suffering.
• Hong Yuan named Mo Yun as his chosen disciple, and Fang Xiu recognized him as Old Daoist Qing Yun's reincarnation.

Fang Xiu and three Tier-5 cultivators discussed the path to Tier-6 before a celestial anomaly revealed the Fusang Divine Tree in the eastern sky. Monk Hong Yuan set out east to complete his Great Sun Tathagata cultivation, while Fengdu Daoist and Perfected Lord Jia Yi traveled across the seas and eventually parted ways.

• Fang Xiu envisioned Tier-6 tribulations as a way to imprint the great Dao’s rules upon cultivators and advance them toward immortality.
• The sun and stars cycled rapidly across the sky, revealing the immense Fusang Divine Tree in the east as the Great Sun merged with it.
• Monk Hong Yuan recognized the meaning of the celestial phenomenon and traveled east, leaving his Great Sun Tathagata Golden Body to guard the Demon Cave Blood Sea.
• Fengdu Daoist and Perfected Lord Jia Yi rode a newborn Kun to the Northern Continent, then continued through the Southern Sea and visited the Mermen Sea Market.
• Fengdu Daoist returned to the Nether Capital Immortal Island, while Perfected Lord Jia Yi returned to Spirit Pivot Mountain.

Monk Hong Yuan manifested the Great Sun Tathagata Dharma body in the Nether Sea, transforming the golden body at Thunder Sound Temple. Meanwhile, King Zhou Kong Huai conquered the rival kingdoms and pacified the former territory of Great Pan, leaving the world unified under his rule.

• After months watching the Great Sun rise and set over the Nether Sea, Monk Hong Yuan invoked the Great Sun Tathagata and manifested a white Buddha Dharma body.
• The golden body at Thunder Sound Temple changed to match Monk Hong Yuan’s white Great Sun Tathagata form.
• As Great Pan collapsed, its imperial clansmen and regional warlords fought for the throne while Kong Huai unified Shao and Song territories and became King Zhou.
• Gongsun Shen unified the northern regions but recalled his troops to repel the northern Barbarians, while Yi tribesmen and demons attacked the southwest.
• King Zhou Kong Huai crossed the Great River, defeated the Royal Domain’s forces, captured Pan King Sun and Bingfeng, and secured the surrender of King Gao Yang and King Gao.
• In the fourth spring after Great Pan’s fall, King Zhou Kong Huai defeated the allied forces of King Shen and the southwestern feudal kings, pacifying the world.

Kong Huai signed a binding Netherworld contract that committed Great Zhou and the mortal world to protect and govern together. At Great Zhou’s formal enthronement ceremony, he received the Nine Dragons Imperial Seal and watched the dynasty’s national fortune rise.

• Lu Wu brought Kong Huai a Netherworld Law Division contract requiring Great Zhou’s imperial clan to uphold its terms across generations.
• Kong Huai questioned the agreement, then signed it with his true name and stamped it with the imperial seal.
• The completed contract transformed into Netherworld characters and departed through a black opening in the ground.
• At the end of the year, Gu Hong presented Kong Huai with the Nine Dragons Imperial Seal during Great Zhou’s enthronement ceremony.
• Kong Huai received the seal as nine divine dragons gathered into a golden dragon and a pillar of national fortune rose above the imperial city.

Fang Xiu returned to Nether Capital and intervened as the Lord of Nether Capital punished the Bai Clan for Bai Mei’s escape. After the court assembly, East Sea Dragon King Ao Hong received help to restore his cultivation, and Fang Xiu returned to the present world.

• Fang Xiu arrived at Nether Capital Immortal Island, where the Demon Clerks escorted him to the city and told him the Lord of Nether Capital was furious over Bai Mei and the Bai Clan’s attempted flight.
• The Lord of Nether Capital ordered Bai Mei imprisoned in Nine Netherworld Cave and decreed that the Bai Clan lose their Heavenly Demon Root Bones and be expelled from the island.
• Fang Xiu stopped the sentence and persuaded the Lord of Nether Capital to abolish the Bai Clan’s cultivation and exile them to North Continent instead.
• East Sea Dragon King Ao Hong presented the Lord of Nether Capital with a celestial robe, and the Lord rewarded him with access to the Heavenly Demon Pool and Dragon Scale Fruits to restore his cultivation.
• Fang Xiu left the palace and returned to the present world through the Three Realms Abyss.

Sea God Bolrendena contacted Fang Xiu to arrange for herself and seven True Gods to enter the Mountain Sea World and help complete it as a true world. Fang Xiu accepted her terms, and the gray fog over White Harbor City vanished as she departed.

• Gray fog spread across White Harbor City, triggering alarms, evacuations, and an emergency meeting as officials suspected a power beyond the fourth order.
• Fang Xiu discovered that Sea God Bolrendena had manifested in his library as an eighth-order True God, while Chen Jin and Wind Crow Roster struggled under her aura.
• Bolrendena told Fang Xiu that she and seven other True Gods, including the Seven Gods of the Giant Plane, would enter the Mountain Sea World and bring the Giant Plane's origin to help complete its Primary Rules.
• Bolrendena asked for a Demiplane, a promise that she could ascend to the eighth order, and the freedom to remain in or leave Fang Xiu's world; Fang Xiu agreed.
• Bolrendena's avatar dissolved into stardust, and the gray fog over White Harbor City disappeared.

Fang Xiu learned that the Giant Plane was doomed and arranged to gather its remaining treasures while helping otherworldly people find a way to escape. In the warehouse, he encountered Black Fiend and found the Fairy Egg and other rare dragon treasures he had sought.

• Fang Xiu asked Chen Jin to identify the remaining True Gods and ordered her to issue a trade mission as the Giant Plane neared destruction.
• Fang Xiu urged otherworldly people fused with the Coordinate Eye to evacuate, and Chen Jin reported that some had already fled to Demiplanes.
• Chen Jin told Fang Xiu that a mythical dragon had traded its hoard for a Witchcraft Garden, bringing in a Fairy Egg, an Ancient Dragon’s bones, advancement data, and Sky Fortress blueprints.
• Fang Xiu went to the warehouse and found Black Fiend lounging on the dragon’s Golden Mountain, then learned that the Black Fiend in the Nether Capital had been a clone.
• Fang Xiu found the withering Fairy Egg, books and scrolls, and a dragon skeleton sealed in crystal, then collected them into the Jun Heaven Pot.

Zhang Yusu visited Fang Xiu at White Harbor City’s seventh level and reported that the Netherworld had discovered a Celestial God Artifact and a Heavenly Realm Stone. She revealed that the discovery also included an inheritance explaining how to become a Celestial God, leaving Fang Xiu to consider the Celestial Master’s intentions.

• White Harbor City residents watched the artificial day turn to night and discussed the city’s levels, its rulers, and new laws for extraordinary practitioners.
• Zhang Yusu arrived at the Central Energy Tower and rode its restricted elevator to the seventh level to meet her martial uncle, Fang Xiu.
• Fang Xiu studied Mythical Lifeforms and the rules behind their power as he considered how to establish an immortal system.
• Zhang Yusu told Fang Xiu that she had inherited leadership of the Celestial Master Sect after her brother died and had delegated the reorganization of Great Zhou’s divine order.
• Zhang Yusu reported that the Netherworld had found a Celestial God Artifact and a Heavenly Realm Stone, along with an inheritance about how to become a Celestial God.

After news spread of the Yearly Grand Duke Star Lord’s ruins in the Netherworld, Hua Nation and organizations worldwide mobilized to claim the celestial god’s inheritance and treasures. John Vogel also set out for the ruins, intent on obtaining the Heavenly Realm Stone to build a City in the Sky.

• Reports of the Yearly Grand Duke Star Lord’s inheritance reached governments and extraordinary organizations, drawing experts toward White Harbor and the Gate of Gods and Demons.
• Zhou Yang canceled the Investigation Bureau’s celebration and convened a combat meeting, where officials discussed the celestial god’s inheritance and the need to secure its treasures.
• The Hall of the Gods reviewed blurry footage of the Yearly Duty Grand Duke Palace and debated how to enter the Netherworld and return alive.
• A member of the Hall of the Gods suggested seeking John Vogel’s help, but others said he had broken free of their control and was no longer trustworthy.
• John Vogel left his alchemist tower and headed to a house by a forest lake, seeking the Heavenly Realm Stone and preparing to approach Fengdu Daoist despite their past conflict.

John Vogel visited Fang Xiu to seek help obtaining the Heavenly Realm Stone from the Heavenly God Ruins. Fang Xiu offered to introduce him to allies who wanted the divine artifacts and inheritance, leaving John hopeful of claiming the stone without competing for them.

• John Vogel arrived at Fang Xiu’s secluded palace on a magic carpet and discovered that Fang Xiu’s soul vessel was a spatial magic treasure.
• Fang Xiu failed again to refine his longevity elixir while John admired his alchemy puppets and revealed that he had advanced to Tier 5 using his Alchemy Tower as his soul vessel.
• Fang Xiu cautioned John that the Alchemy Tower might be too weak to help him reach the Gods and Devils rank, but John insisted it was the most suitable vessel because he had built it himself.
• John told Fang Xiu he wanted the Heavenly Realm Stone from the Heavenly God Ruins, not the divine artifact or Celestial God Inheritance.
• Fang Xiu offered to introduce John to powerful figures competing for the other treasures, since no one should contest him for the Heavenly Realm Stone alone.

Soul Hooking Division Judge Chang De left Netherworld Son of Heaven City with an army of ghosts and gods to confront the forces gathered around a strange fissure in the Netherworld. After hostile powers tried to drive him away, Chang De attacked and shattered their formation.

• Soul Hooking Division Judge Chang De sentenced Xuan Yuan Chi to Purgatory and decreed that she would never be reincarnated.
• After receiving a secret letter, Chang De left Zheng Jian in charge of the Impermanence Hall and summoned an army of one hundred thousand ghosts and gods.
• Chang De’s forces reached the fissure at the edge of the South Sea, where Netherworld powers from across the continents had gathered.
• Several groups warned Chang De to withdraw, and Southern Continent Nether Gods revealed their hostility toward him.
• Chang De transformed into a colossal impermanence god-ghost, struck down the hostile Nether Gods, and led his army in smashing their formation.

Chang De defeated the Nether Gods of the Southern Continent near the Heavenly God Ruins, then witnessed the ruins come into view and reveal a Grotto-heaven Star Palace. The rival forces gathered to claim the Heavenly God’s legacy as the ruins began to open.

• Chang De and his hundred thousand ghosts and gods fought the Southern Continent’s Nether Gods, routed their forces, and forced them to withdraw with two gods severely wounded.
• Chang De camped his Netherworld Soldiers and Ghost Generals beside the Heavenly God Ruins and waited for them to open.
• Cracks spread across the sky, revealing the ruins and a floating Immortal Mountain Divine Palace supported by Heavenly Realm Stone.
• Chang De recognized the ruins as a Small World and a Grotto-heaven Star Palace belonging to the Yearly Duty Grand Duke.
• Chong Bai and Pan Xi declared that claiming the ruins would grant a Heavenly God’s legacy and reveal secrets of the Ancient Heavenly Court.
• The four sages of the literary path gathered before the Former Sage Palace as its bell rang.

Sage Feng approved the academy sages’ plan to send the Dao Transmission Jade Slip into the firmament, while the Heavenly God Ruins drew powerful beings from both worlds toward the Netherworld. As the Gate of Gods and Demons opened, Jonah Vogel arrived in a Tier-5 Alchemy Tower and entered the Gods and Demons World.

• Sage Feng agreed to let Zhuang Li, Yi Yan, and the other academy sages mobilize the Dao Transmission Jade Slip, warning them not to force their plan if it failed.
• Xun Capital Academy and the Dao Transmission Jade Slip rose into the Netherworld’s firmament, releasing a blazing force that startled ghosts and gods.
• Earthly deities, cultivators, sects, and clans rushed into the Netherworld to pursue the Heavenly God Ruins despite the law barring them from leaving.
• The Si Qiong Mountain Mountain God broke free of his earth-vein prison, opened the underworld gates, and rushed toward the earth.
• Ma Ji prepared his disciple Zhong Wen to enter the Netherworld with five God Corpses to protect him.
• Jonah Vogel descended in a seven-story Alchemy Tower, requested entry at the Gate of Gods and Demons, and plunged into the Gods and Demons World.

Jia Yi met Celestial Master Zhang Heming at Spirit Pivot Mountain, gave him the East Dragon Cauldron, and asked him to kill the Si Qiong Mountain Mountain God, Bai, in vengeance for Zhu Liu. Zhang Heming joined Judge Chang De’s camp as the Heavenly God Ruins drew powerful factions together, and the ruins’ entrance finally collapsed, revealing the Grand Duke Star Lord’s legacy and Divine Palace.

• Jia Yi reunited with Zhang Heming at Spirit Pivot Mountain and gave him the East Dragon Cauldron, which held Jia Yi’s Five Elements Mountain and River Seal.
• Jia Yi recounted how Bai’s awakening had killed Zhu Liu during the destruction of Xuanyuan Country, then asked Zhang Heming to kill Bai, and Zhang Heming agreed.
• Zhang Heming arrived in the Netherworld with more than a hundred thousand Ghost Generals and Netherworld Soldiers and joined Judge Chang De instead of Changyue Emperor Lord’s army.
• The Xun Capital Academy arrived above Chang De’s camp, and the assembled powers formed rival factions around the Heavenly God Ruins.
• The entrance to the Heavenly God Ruins collapsed, exposing the Grand Duke Star Lord’s legacy and Divine Palace to everyone.

The ruins opened, revealing the vast Grotto-heaven Star Palace, and the armies and powers of the Netherworld surged inside. After seeing its fertile mountains and plains, they rushed toward a divine palace floating in the distance.

• The ruins’ entrance opened, and the white giant ape, Chong Bai, Emperor Pan Xi, Chang De, and the forces of Xun Capital Academy led their armies toward it.
• Ghosts, gods, demons, and cultivators poured through the entrance into the Grotto-heaven Star Palace, where they discovered a vast world beneath blue skies and white clouds.
• The white giant ape, Celestial Master Zhang Heming, and a Ksitigarbha Golden Body marveled at the newly revealed world.
• The incoming armies and powerful beings fought amid rising baleful aura, then raced across the Grotto-heaven toward a divine immortal palace floating above a sea of clouds.

Tens of thousands of cultivators battled over the stele and newly revealed ancient remains outside the Grand Duke God Palace, while powerful factions gathered around the Immortal Mountain Divine Palace to compete for its inheritance. After the barrier collapsed and exposed the Heavenly Realm Stone, the Demon Ape launched the first attack on it.

• Liang Ren and Jiang Yuan fought over the divine stele, while other powerful beings including Ao Hong and the Blood God Child joined the battle.
• Fighters discovered a gigantic ancient god-or-demon leg bone beneath a collapsed mountain, and a firebird attacked those gathered around it.
• The arriving cultivators saw that a sword strike had split the Immortal Mountain Divine Palace and scarred the Grotto-heaven World, prompting Zhang Heming and others to speculate about its origin.
• The barrier around the Immortal Mountain Divine Palace collapsed, exposing the Heavenly Realm Stone as the major factions assembled around it.
• The Demon Ape reached through the broken barrier and attacked the exposed Heavenly Realm Stone.

The Demon Ape’s attempt to seize the Heavenly Realm Stone ignited a massive battle among the gods, demons, ghosts, and cultivators around the Immortal Mountain Divine Palace. As the palace barrier collapsed, the plaque above it broke in two and revealed the name “Blessing and Disaster Palace.”

• The Demon Ape struck at the palace barrier, lost both arms to the Si Qiong Mountain Mountain God’s Taiyin God Slaying Hook, and quickly regrew them.
• Chong Bai attacked the Si Qiong Mountain Mountain God while Pan Xi fought Chang De and Zhang Heming; their forces clashed across the sea of clouds.
• The Sage Statues and Dao Transmission Jade Slip fought Nether Gods at Xun Capital Academy as Monk Di Ku battled Eastern Continent cultivators and the wider battlefield descended into slaughter.
• A golden giant palm destroyed a Netherworld ghost god and thousands of Evil Ghosts while attacks from all sides battered the Immortal Mountain Divine Palace’s barrier.
• The palace barrier burst apart in golden light, and the divine plaque above the palace broke to reveal the words “Blessing and Disaster Palace.”