Recaps

Fuxi confronted Xuan Du and calmly stopped him and two other Daoist disciples from attacking, while the three argued over who would claim WuHuo as their younger brother. Meanwhile, Guanyin set out to meet Medicine Master Lapis Lazuli Light Tathagata but encountered Qi WuHuo, who had seized the Golden Mane Roarer’s weapon.

• Xuan Du asked Fuxi whether he could bring Mother back, and Fuxi said he did not know.
• Great Unity Salvation Heavenly Venerate and Heavenly Marshal Tian Peng recognized Fuxi, and the three senior Daoist disciples prepared to attack him.
• Fuxi reversed their techniques, injured them slightly, and warned them not to fight during the human New Year.
• The three disciples argued over who would look after WuHuo, and Fuxi said he did not know where WuHuo was.
• Guanyin saved a child from drowning and changed their appearance before setting out to meet Medicine Master Lapis Lazuli Light Tathagata.
• The Golden Mane Roarer’s cudgel flew into Qi WuHuo’s sleeve, and Qi WuHuo introduced himself to Guanyin.

Qi WuHuo stopped Guanyin from taking Medicine Master by debating Buddhist teachings and questioning the motives behind the search, then drove off the Golden Mane Roarer. After Guanyin left, an Earth God told Qi WuHuo about an abandoned newborn, and a Phoenix cried out in the mountain forest.

• Qi WuHuo debated Guanyin about emptiness, the provisional, and the Middle, leading Guanyin to understand a new teaching and accept that he could not advance.
• Qi WuHuo questioned why the Buddhas sought Medicine Master and urged Guanyin to visit the Bodhi Tree before deciding what to do.
• The Golden Mane Roarer attacked Qi WuHuo, who swept him away to Lesser Sumeru Mountain with his sleeve.
• Guanyin and Bodhisattva Lingji discussed the teaching and named the scripture the Heart Sutra.
• An Earth God told Qi WuHuo that a newborn had been abandoned among wild beasts, and a Phoenix cried out nearby.

Qi WuHuo sensed the birth of an extraordinary figure as phoenixes appeared, then found the child whose Human Qi was restless. At the Bodhi Tree, Guanyin discovered the truth about the Buddha lineages, warned Medicine Master Buddha’s allies, and learned Qi WuHuo’s identity as Supreme Xuanwei.

• Qi WuHuo calmed the Earth God after two phoenixes appeared and took him toward the child whose birth had drawn the birds.
• Guanyin visited the Bodhi Tree, where its memories revealed that the Buddha lineages had taken the Buddha’s teachings and rewards without embracing his solitary practice.
• Guanyin left the Buddhist ancestral ground and warned Moonlight Illumination Bodhisattva and Sunlight Illumination Bodhisattva to protect Medicine Master Buddha’s reincarnation from the Buddha lineages.
• Moonlight Illumination Bodhisattva told Guanyin that Qi WuHuo had persuaded Medicine Master Buddha to enter nirvana and bore the Daoist title Supreme Xuanwei.
• Guanyin recognized Qi WuHuo as Supreme Xuanwei True Person, the Nine Heavens Patrol Envoy and True Martial, the Responsive One.
• Qi WuHuo reached the village with the Earth God and found the child whose Human Qi was restless.

Qi WuHuo rescued an abandoned infant protected by the mountain beasts and returned him to his mother, Yan Zheng, who named him Qiu. As shifting fortunes gathered around the child, Qi WuHuo promised to wait for him at the Capital City's Treasury Chamber for sixty years.

• Qi WuHuo found a newborn surrounded by beasts in a mountain cave, while the old Earth God watched in awe.
• Qi WuHuo fed the child Spiritual Liquid and waited for his destined encounter as the Earth God and Mountain God joined him.
• Yan Zheng struggled through the snow to find her child, and Qi WuHuo stopped the storm and returned the infant to her.
• Qi WuHuo gave Yan Zheng a talisman and relayed the mountain beasts' suggestions for the child's name.
• Yan Zheng chose the name Qiu and said she would return to her parents to raise him.
• Qi WuHuo pointed Yan Zheng toward the Capital City's Treasury Chamber and promised to wait there for Qiu for sixty years.

Qi WuHuo investigated Qiu’s birth family, intervened to protect the child, and realized that human fortune and tribulation were advancing his cultivation. He returned to Mount Jinzhou having reached True Lordhood, where he announced his breakthrough to his senior brothers.

• Qi WuHuo explained to the Earth God that he could not see the child’s future, then set out to find the child’s birth family.
• At Qiu’s family residence, Qi WuHuo overheard the elders plotting to eliminate the child and silence Yan, so he sent Prince Qin a proposal to exclude the family from the new emperor’s selection.
• After Qi WuHuo formed a causal connection with Prince Qin, his Inner Scenery World stabilized, and he understood that human fortune and tribulation were tempering his Taiyi Cultivation Body.
• Qi WuHuo’s presence stopped a brewing Buddhist-Daoist fight, and he recognized that the Six Realms were facing a great tribulation.
• Qi WuHuo traveled back to Mount Jinzhou, where his senior brothers sensed his powerful aura and witnessed his Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown and Five Qi Facing the Origin.
• Qi WuHuo greeted Tian Peng, Great Unity Salvation Heavenly Venerate, and Great Master Xuan Du, then declared that he had attained True Lordhood.

Qi WuHuo’s teachers explained the risks and promise of the cultivation he had gained by entering the tribulation, then charged him with saving the living, restoring order, and holding to his Dao. The Three Pure Dao Ancestors sent him down the mountain as the great tribulation approached.

• Great Master Xuan Du, Heavenly Marshal Tian Peng, and Great Unity Salvation Heavenly Venerate learned of Qi WuHuo’s extraordinary deeds and realized he may have completed several Great Grade rituals.
• Listening Truth struggled to hide his connection to Qi WuHuo from the three first disciples, who questioned him about the young Daoist.
• Supreme explained that Qi WuHuo’s Taiyi Cultivation Body had made him a True Lord, while warning that relying on it could cut off his path to a Great Dao of his own.
• Qi WuHuo told the Three Pure Dao Ancestors that he had entered the tribulation willingly because his ties to the mortal world and its suffering made retreat impossible.
• Dao Ancestor Tai Shang, Yuqing Primordial Celestial Venerable, and Shangqing Great Dao Lord each charged Qi WuHuo to face the coming calamity, restore order, and uphold his original heart; he promised to do so.
• The Three Pure Dao Ancestors gave Qi WuHuo a new Daoist robe and told him his cultivation was complete and he could descend the mountain.

Qi WuHuo delivered New Year greetings from the mortal world to Empress Nuwa, whose message persuaded Fuxi to abandon plans that would have caused widespread slaughter. As Guanyin arrived seeking Qi WuHuo, Fuxi secured her promise to help any Square Inch Mountain disciple who entered Buddhism return to Daoism, and she reported that Crown Prince Li Hui had ascended the throne with the Buddhas' aid.

• Qi WuHuo spent New Year's Eve with Shangqing Great Dao Lord and the other Dao Ancestors, painting the mortal world and carrying the painting and gifts to Empress Nuwa.
• Empress Nuwa told Qi WuHuo to warn Fuxi against his plan, and she sent Xuan Du comfort and asked Fuxi to care for the mortal world.
• Qi WuHuo relayed Nuwa's warning and her greeting to Fuxi, who accepted the message and let go of his plan to bring her back through massacres.
• Fuxi removed the measures he had placed in Qi WuHuo's Inner Scenery World and gave the little Medicine Spirit a New Year's couplet.
• Guanyin thanked Qi WuHuo, and Fuxi obtained her binding promise to help a Square Inch Mountain disciple return to Daoism if he joined Buddhism.
• Guanyin told Qi WuHuo that Crown Prince Li Hui had ascended the throne with the Buddhas' aid.

Li Hui took the throne and faced a Buddhist monk who urged him to claim supreme power by believing the people owed him for his past lives. As Buddhist monasteries spread and exploited new laws, Li Zhai marched on Capital City, destroyed temples, and began the ruthless campaign that earned him the title Wu Zong.

• Li Hui ascended the throne and told the Buddhist monk that temples could be built only under his realm’s laws.
• The monk argued that the previous Human Emperor had fallen because his power came from the people, then tempted Li Hui to believe his exalted position was repayment for past lives.
• Li Hui issued laws that exempted Buddhist monks from taxes and corvée labor, prompting monasteries to multiply and state revenues to collapse.
• An old monk sent his young disciple away with a robe of transmission, but other monks killed him while searching for it.
• Li Zhai turned his army toward Capital City, tore down temples, and ordered monks to return to lay life or be killed.
• Li Zhai destroyed a Buddha statue and burned a monastery, defying the monks’ threats of retribution as he began the campaign later remembered as Wu Zong’s rise.

Qi WuHuo watched Buddhism and Daoism draw the Mortal World toward a conflict over Human Dao Destiny while Li Zhai advanced on the capital and prepared to settle matters with Li Hui through a contest. When the Dharma debate approached and the people faced a turning point, Qi WuHuo finally descended the mountain on the Azure Bull.

• Guanyin Bodhisattva told Qi WuHuo that Buddhist leaders planned to use Human Dao Destiny to appoint gods, then left to try to stop them.
• Li Zhai marched toward the capital, purged corrupt temples, and rejected his deputy’s claim that he had betrayed his country and people.
• Buddhist experts attacked Li Zhai, but Lü Dongbin arrived, drove them off, and began protecting him.
• Li Hui proclaimed Li Zhai a traitor, and the two sides agreed to decide the struggle through a contest of destiny and a debate between Buddhism and Daoism.
• Li Hui yielded to Buddhist pressure to involve sixteen Bodhisattvas, while messengers raced to summon Qi WuHuo before the debate.
• Qi WuHuo stepped into the air, mounted the Azure Bull, and descended the mountain as Di Ting recognized him.

Qi WuHuo descended on a green ox as purple qi poured across the sky, while Lü Chunyang faced sixteen Buddhist challengers in the Capital City. After Lü Chunyang won three matches before a hidden attack left him wounded, Qi WuHuo’s arrival shattered the Buddhists’ forces and decided the contest before he reached the city.

• Di Ting watched the mountain’s courtyards disappear until only Qi WuHuo’s courtyard remained, then left for the City of Wrongful Deaths as the Three Dao Ancestors departed in different directions.
• Qi WuHuo rode his green ox down the mountain, gathered the sunrise’s purple qi into his sleeve, and sent it streaming across the sky toward the Capital City.
• Sixteen Buddhist monks and Bodhisattvas challenged Lü Chunyang to contests in their strongest disciplines while Li Hui and the assembled crowd watched.
• Lü Chunyang won three contests, but a scorpion sent by the old monk stung him repeatedly and disrupted his concentration; Li Zhai killed it as Lü Chunyang fell wounded.
• Qi WuHuo’s purple qi swept over the Capital City, shattered the Buddhists’ light and manifestations, and sent the Bodhisattvas, arhats, and other monks flying.
• Qi WuHuo arrived above the Capital City on his green ox, carrying the Eight Sceneries Palace Lantern, and met the old monk’s gaze.

Supreme Xuanwei True Person arrived to stop the Buddhist assault on the human world, revealing himself as the inheritor of Dao Ancestor Taiqing Moral Celestial Venerable. He overwhelmed Namo Emperor Treasure Banner Mani Victorious Light Buddha, and the chapter ended with the Daoist temples’ bells ringing as he declared that his Dao flourished day by day.

• Supreme Xuanwei True Person rode in on a green ox with purple qi, causing the old monk to retreat and revealing his fear of the Daoist’s overwhelming momentum.
• Lü Chunyang recognized his Teacher’s signs of inheritance and told Li Zhai that Supreme Xuanwei had received the mantle of Dao Ancestor Taiqing Moral Celestial Venerable.
• Supreme Xuanwei stabilized and increased his momentum with his Inner Scenery World, while four Bodhisattvas intervened and were struck down as their power strengthened him.
• The old monk revealed himself as Namo Emperor Treasure Banner Mani Victorious Light Buddha and urged Supreme Xuanwei to retreat, but the Daoist advanced and shattered his golden Buddha body with a sword-finger strike.
• As the city drums and Daoist temple bells sounded across the nine provinces, the Buddha light and purple qi faded, and Supreme Xuanwei declared, “My Dao flourishes day by day.”

Qi WuHuo defeated the Buddhist forces, killed Namo Emperor Treasure Banner Mani Victorious Light Buddha, and captured his Sarira as the Buddhist-D Dao conflict’s main crisis ended. As the empire faced an uncertain succession, Qi WuHuo rode with Old Green Ox to take up a quiet post in the Capital City and investigate the Map of Mountains and Rivers.

• Li Hui conceded after Li Zhai’s cavalry broke into the Star Picking Tower, and he asked them to spare the innocent.
• Qi WuHuo killed Po Hui'an, whose three incarnations as Namo Emperor Treasure Banner Mani Victorious Light Buddha were extinguished, then drew the Buddha light into his Inner Scenery World and claimed the Sarira.
• Qi WuHuo received invitations from Guanyin Bodhisattva, Maitreya Bodhisattva, Manjushri Bodhisattva, Puxian Bodhisattva, and Lü Chunyang, while the Map of Mountains and Rivers stirred in his spiritual platform.
• The immortals recognized Qi WuHuo’s feat and privately named him True Martial Demon Queller Great Emperor of the Central Pole of the North.
• Li Hui was removed from power, Li Zhai was placed under house arrest and called Duke Wen Shang, and the empire’s future succession became uncertain.
• Qi WuHuo rode Old Green Ox to the Treasury Chamber of a quiet government office, where he took up a post as Treasury Keeper.

After the Buddhist and Daoist clash, Li Zhai purged the court and remade the realm while Prince Qin Li Weifeng began quietly gathering the people’s support. Qi WuHuo returned to the Treasury Chamber, where Lü Chunyang announced that he had overcome the Eight Trials and was ready to ascend.

• Li Zhai imprisoned Li Hui, executed a leading scholar, and launched a bloody purge before forcing sweeping reforms across the realm.
• Prince Qin Li Weifeng told Su Shengyuan that he wanted the throne and hoped to advance by serving the common people.
• Su Yue'er and County Princess Qiong Yu listened to tavern tales of the Daoist who had exposed the Buddha’s flaw, while Qi WuHuo passed unnoticed outside.
• Qi WuHuo returned to the Treasury Chamber with the Map of Mountains and Rivers, whose transformation had stalled at ninety percent.
• Lü Chunyang visited Qi WuHuo, said he had finally seen through the Eight Trials, and declared that he was ascending.

Lü Chunyang warned Qi WuHuo that the Great Calamity would continue and that Buddhas would enter the Mortal World in sixty years; Qi WuHuo vowed to guard the realm while Lü Chunyang went on to complete his Dao. As Qi WuHuo began studying the Treasury Chamber’s ancient records, Great Emperor Ziwei’s court received a demand to reveal the identity of the Demon-Subduer.

• Lü Chunyang told Qi WuHuo that the Buddha’s other two bodies would recover and Buddhas would come from the West in sixty years, then offered to hold them back with his sword.
• Qi WuHuo pledged to guard the Mortal World for sixty years, and Lü Chunyang departed, having overcome his Dao Tribulation and completed his cultivation.
• Old Green Ox explained Lü Chunyang’s struggle with attachment to the Dao and recognized that Qi WuHuo’s work in the Treasury Chamber might lead him to found a religion.
• Qi WuHuo began studying the records accumulated over eight thousand years to understand Xuan Zhen’s path and complete the Human Emperor Destiny Scroll.
• Heavenly Marshal Tian Peng reported to Great Emperor Ziwei that the Demon-Subduer had defeated a Buddha and passed the Northern Pole Saints’ trial, then requested that his identity be announced throughout the Six Realms.

The Heavenly Court chose to honor Qi WuHuo as True Martial Demon Queller Great Emperor rather than invest him with the title, while he continued serving people in the Mortal World. Four Bodhisattvas came to seek his help reversing the Buddhist and Daoist tribulation, and Qi WuHuo welcomed them as if he had expected their arrival.

• The Immortals recalled Demon Queller’s execution of Emperor Lord Donghua and were stunned to learn that he had slain a Buddha.
• Heavenly Marshal Tian Peng urged the Central Pole Ziwei Great Emperor to grant Qi WuHuo the rank of Fourth Saint, but the Emperor ordered the North Pole Exorcism Institute to honor him as True Martial Demon Queller instead.
• Qi WuHuo repaired the Treasury Chamber by hand and told Old Green Ox that he was willing to grow old while serving the people of the Mortal World.
• Guanyin, Maitreya, Puxian Bodhisattva, and a fourth Bodhisattva arrived in the Capital City seeking Qi WuHuo’s help after the Buddha Lineages were shattered.
• Guanyin noticed a Dragon Maiden had stolen his disguised purse, and the four Bodhisattvas reached the Treasury Chamber to meet Qi WuHuo.
• Qi WuHuo opened the door before Maitreya could knock and welcomed the four Bodhisattvas, saying he had been waiting for them.

The four bodhisattvas asked Qi WuHuo to help stop Buddhist cultivators who had sealed a major temple and were preparing to attack the human world. Unable to leave the city because of his ties to human destiny, Qi WuHuo offered to send his powerful friend True Lord Shangqing Dongxuan in his place.

• A young Dragon Maiden discovered that the purse she had taken contained only lotus seeds, realized she had been tricked, and hurried back to find the person who had fooled her.
• Guanyin, Maitreya, Manjushri, and Samantabhadra met Qi WuHuo in the Treasury Chamber and explained that Buddhist cultivators had turned a major temple into a sealed Buddhist realm.
• Guanyin told Qi WuHuo that the four bodhisattvas planned to enter the Buddhist realm and sacrifice themselves to break the calamity, but their power alone would not be enough.
• Qi WuHuo foresaw that the Buddhist forces could strike the human world during King Wei Wu's unification campaign, but he refused to leave the city because of his connection to human destiny.
• Qi WuHuo offered to send his friend True Lord Shangqing Dongxuan, a disciple of the Upper Pure Dao Ancestor who carried two blood-red swords, to help the bodhisattvas.

Qi WuHuo confronted four Bodhisattvas with the possibility that the campaign against corrupt Buddhist monks might require killing them all, helping them resolve their doubts before they prepared to attack Lantuo Temple. As they went to seek Niu Jinnniu’s aid, they learned that the Northern Pole’s Fourth Saint, Demon-Slayer, was about to be officially announced.

• Qi WuHuo received Guanyin Bodhisattva’s map to Lantuo Temple and agreed to inform Shangqing Dongxuan about it.
• Qi WuHuo asked the four Bodhisattvas whether Shangqing Dongxuan should slay all the monks at Lantuo Temple, prompting them to affirm that the monks must be stopped and slain.
• The four Bodhisattvas bowed to Qi WuHuo, then left to gather magic treasures, elixirs, and talismans for their planned strike against Lantuo Temple.
• Qi WuHuo saw through the disguised little Dragon Maiden with his rudimentary Heavenly Eye Dharma Gate and let her remain outside while he returned to the Treasury Chamber.
• The four Bodhisattvas decided to seek Niu Jinnniu’s help and arrived at the Department of Combat, where an immortal told them the Northern Pole’s Fourth Saint, Demon-Slayer, was about to receive his official title.

The Jade Emperor destroyed the Exorcism Department’s dossier and used the Heavenly Book to attest Qi Wuhuo as the True Martial Demon Queller Great Emperor. The decree unfurled across the Heavenly Court, revealing his deeds to the Six Realms and leaving the Immortals and Gods stunned.

• Puxian Bodhisattva was shocked to learn that Demon Queller had killed Emperor Lord Donghua, while an immortal directed the four Bodhisattvas to Niu Jinnniu.
• Niu Jinnniu defended True Martial Lingying against claims that he was aggressive and difficult, then heard the Bodhisattvas explain their situation and promised to prepare their magic treasures.
• Jade Emperor Zhang Xiaoyu burned the North Pole Exorcism Institute’s dossier and wrote his own decree on the Heavenly Book’s secondary scroll, changing the title’s wording to “attest.”
• Thunder shook the Heavenly Court as a vast scroll unfurled across the Thirty-three Heavenly Gates, listing Qi Wuhuo’s age and his deeds, including killing a Buddha and Emperor Lord Donghua.
• The scroll proclaimed Qi Wuhuo as the True Martial Demon Queller Great Emperor, leaving the Immortals and Gods in silence.

Qi WuHuo visited Li Zhai and learned that the final node of the Buddhist formation was Li Hui himself, leaving Li Zhai torn over whether to kill his elder brother. As Li Zhai considered Qi WuHuo’s promise of another way to break the formation, a blood-robed Daoist arrived before the Buddhist temple.

• The revelation that Supreme Xuanwei True Person was the ruthless True Martial Demon Queller Great Emperor shocked Old Yellow Ox, the Yun Family Couple, and the Bodhisattvas, who hurried toward the Treasury Chamber after realizing his threat to slay them all had been serious.
• Qi WuHuo left the Treasury Chamber and noted the hidden Dragon Maiden’s karma before she decided to steal silver from him for her stay in the human world.
• Qi WuHuo visited Li Zhai’s residence to discuss his plans and discovered that Li Zhai had been unable to find the last node of the Buddhist formation.
• Li Zhai revealed that the formation’s final node was Li Hui’s body, forcing him to confront the prospect of killing the elder brother he loved.
• Qi WuHuo told Li Zhai that another way to break the formation might exist, then asked him to finish his tea and wait for events to turn.
• A dark-red-robed Daoist arrived at the river before the Buddha-lit temple as blood spread through the water.

Qi WuHuo infiltrated Lantuo Temple, discovered its monks were making artifacts and Physical Body Buddhas from victims, and found hundreds of captives protected by a dying monk. After leaving the survivors under his protection, he attacked the temple with a sea of blood and began cutting down its Bodhisattvas.

• Qi WuHuo used his Heavenly Eye to see crimson streams and hidden corruption beneath Lantuo Temple's pure Buddha light.
• Qi WuHuo sent a divine-thought insect into the temple, where he found tens of thousands of newly made ritual artifacts and Buddha statues containing murdered people.
• Qi WuHuo discovered hundreds of captives and learned that Buddhist monks had abducted them for a ritual, while the former Human Emperor had helped prepare the scheme.
• The old monk revealed that his disciples Jue Zhong and Jue Hui had tried to seek help, then died after protecting the captives; he died after asking Qi WuHuo to exorcise the evil.
• Qi WuHuo killed the monks who attacked the captives and left the survivors inside a protective golden circle.
• Qi WuHuo unleashed a sea of blood upon Lantuo Temple and used his sword to destroy the Bodhisattvas' lotus defenses and decapitate them.

Qi WuHuo unleashed the Blood Sea and destroyed Lantuo Temple, defeating its Buddhist defenders and freeing the survivors trapped inside. As the old bodhisattva called for help, the Buddha appeared from the west and pointed at Qi WuHuo.

• Qi WuHuo used the twin Tribulation Swords and the Blood Sea to break the monks’ ritual and engulf Lantuo Temple.
• The trapped survivors watched the temple walls collapse as the Blood Sea swept past them, leaving them unharmed beneath the open sky.
• Qi WuHuo’s Blood Sea killed several bodhisattvas and swallowed many other Buddhist cultivators as Lantuo Temple was destroyed.
• The old bodhisattva recognized Qi WuHuo as the ancient Blood Demon and called on the Buddha to destroy him.
• The Buddha appeared from the west and pointed directly at Qi WuHuo.

Qi WuHuo used Li Zhai’s destiny-fueled sword to force Namo Joyful Sound and Light Tathagata to retreat, then destroyed Lantuo Temple and its Buddhist lineage. As the temple burned, he discovered the imprisoned Lamp-Burning inside it.

• Namo Joyful Sound and Light Tathagata attacked Qi WuHuo’s blood-robed body while its power was waning.
• Qi WuHuo borrowed Li Zhai’s sword and sent it a hundred li to pierce the Buddha’s heart and halt his Divine Ability.
• Namo Joyful Sound and Light Tathagata retreated beyond the frontier, then fled another 108,000 li when Qi WuHuo pressed forward.
• Qi WuHuo burned Lantuo Temple and destroyed its scriptures and statues, killing the monks and Bodhisattvas who embraced the sinister Blood Sea Dharma.
• Qi WuHuo sensed a familiar aura in the collapsing temple and found Lamp-Burning chained inside a hollow behind a shattered Buddha statue.

Qi WuHuo rescued Burning Lamp and the captives from Lantuo Temple, then left a blood-written warning among the temple’s ruins. The survivors returned to the Capital City, while four bodhisattvas arrived too late and discovered the destruction attributed to Shangqing Dongxuan.

• Qi WuHuo freed Burning Lamp from the Garbhadhatu Mandala seal and evacuated several hundred captives from Lantuo Temple.
• Qi WuHuo calmed the survivors’ extreme emotions, escorted them toward the Capital City aboard a ship formed from the blood sea, and realized that the Law could be used for good or evil.
• The captives returned to their families, and Prince Qin Li Weifeng arranged their travel and support; decades later, their descendants honored the Blood Sea Dao Lord for saving them.
• Guanyin, Maitreya, Manjushri, and Samantabhadra arrived at Lantuo Temple and found its ruins and a cliff carved with Shangqing Dongxuan’s seven-kill warning.
• The chapter ended with Lantuo Temple destroyed, Namo Joyful Sound and Light Tathagata retreating 108,000 li, and True Lord Shangqing Dongxuan appearing before the Six Realms for the first time.

Qi WuHuo returned Li Zhai’s sword after the Blood Sea rescued the imprisoned people, while Li Weifeng organized their care. With the Buddhist array in the Capital City broken and Human Dao Destiny converging, Li Zhai prepared to face his brother Li Hui; Qi WuHuo sensed Buddhas arriving from the west.

• The Bodhisattvas left Lantuo Temple without praying for the dead, choosing to preserve the site as a warning after the monks’ slaughter.
• Namo Joyful Sound and Light Tathagata summoned Buddhas to discuss Supreme Xuanwei, but stayed 108,000 li from the Divine Martial Dynasty’s western border while the others went to seek an explanation.
• Qi WuHuo returned Li Zhai’s sword, and Li Weifeng arranged shelter, medical care, and help contacting relatives for the rescued people.
• Qi WuHuo revealed that the Buddhist Garbhadhatu Mandala array had been broken because his friend had destroyed Lantuo Temple, freeing the Capital City’s final node.
• Human Dao Destiny began to converge, Li Zhai resolved to meet Li Hui, and Qi WuHuo sensed Buddhas approaching from the west.

Qi WuHuo accompanied Li Zhai to Star Picking Tower, where Li Zhai confronted his imprisoned brother Li Hui and declared his ambition to unite the human world. As the brothers faced each other, Human Dao Destiny stabilized and blazed like fire.

• Qi WuHuo sensed the Buddhas approaching and sent Little Medicine Spirit to meet them while he accompanied Li Zhai to Star Picking Tower.
• Li Zhai entered the tower alone to face Li Hui, while Qi WuHuo remained outside and watched Human Qi begin to stabilize.
• Li Hui accused Li Zhai of killing loyal subjects and relatives, then drew his sword, but could not bring himself to strike his kneeling younger brother.
• Li Zhai condemned the aristocratic clans and declared that he would reform the realm, defeat Buddhism, unite the nations, and end war across the Four Seas.
• Li Zhai proclaimed that he would make all under Heaven one, and Human Dao blazed as its Destiny became completely stabilized.