Chapter Summaries

Qi WuHuo learned that Human Dao Destiny could help him reach Wa Huang and planned to return with the Human Emperor Seal after recovering. In the Underworld, he discovered that the Human Emperor had died by suicide and, after reading a dossier linking the death to Wa Huang, asked to become King Yama for one day.

• Yuqing Primordial Celestial Venerable and the old man concluded that Human Dao Destiny had let Qi WuHuo touch Wa Huang, and advised him to use the Human Emperor Seal to stabilize her condition.
• Yuqing Primordial Celestial Venerable stopped Qi WuHuo from returning to Wa Huang while exhausted, and Qi WuHuo agreed to rest for seven days.
• Di Ting summoned Qi WuHuo to the Underworld, where Black and White Impermanence and Yin Virtue Ding Xiu True Lord were astonished that he had become an immortal.
• Qi WuHuo declined to spend his accumulated yin virtue, and Yin Virtue Ding Xiu True Lord told him that the Human Emperor had killed himself.
• Qi WuHuo read a dossier containing a poem about Empress Nuwa's Temple, erupted with killing intent, and asked to become King Yama for one day so he could face the Human Emperor's soul.

Crown Prince Li Hui’s scheme to take the throne without bloodshed was upended when the Human Emperor died and was judged in the underworld. After Qi WuHuo sent the emperor to suffer punishment for his crimes, Di Ting revealed that the reincarnation of Medicine Master Lapis Lazuli Light Tathagata had been born near the Capital City of the Nine Provinces.

• Crown Prince Li Hui tended the powerless Human Emperor while planning to use public opinion to claim the throne and eliminate Prince Qin as a rival.
• The Human Emperor poisoned himself after arranging for his death to implicate Li Hui and spark unrest, then awoke in the underworld before Qi WuHuo.
• Black and White Impermanence subdued the Human Emperor, and Yin Virtue Ding Xiu True Lord sentenced him to the Eighteen levels of hell.
• Meng Po forced her specially prepared soup on the Human Emperor, and the spirits of disaster victims and dead soldiers began exacting vengeance on him.
• Di Ting told Qi WuHuo that the reincarnation of Medicine Master Lapis Lazuli Light Tathagata had been born outside the Capital City of the Nine Provinces.

Qi WuHuo learned where Medicine Master Lapis Lazuli Light Tathagata would be reincarnated and traveled to Chen Family Village. After rescuing the newborn from a mountain spirit’s plot, he recognized the smiling child as his old friend reborn.

• Di Ting told Qi WuHuo that Medicine Master Lapis Lazuli Light Tathagata’s rebirth would draw the Buddha into conflicts among Buddhist branches, and Qi WuHuo decided to visit him without guiding him into the Dao.
• Qi WuHuo followed the Buddhist beads to Chen Family Village, where Chen explained that a black wind had struck and his newborn son had vanished.
• A monk accused Chen of lacking faith, but Qi WuHuo summoned the Earth God and asked him to retrieve the child from the mountain.
• The Earth God returned with the baby and captured the spirits and demons who had been lured by a rumor that eating the child would grant them immortality.
• The newborn smiled at Qi WuHuo and grasped his finger, and Qi WuHuo greeted Medicine Master Lapis Lazuli Light Tathagata as his old friend.

Qi WuHuo protected the Chen couple’s infant, concealed the child’s Buddha nature, and built a hidden sword array to guard the village from future threats. After recovering and helping Meng Po with her request, he prepared to visit Empress Wa again at the end of his first month of lessons.

• Qi WuHuo declined to take the Chen couple’s child as his disciple, returned the Buddhist beads to him, and left a mark to warn him of danger.
• The Earth God brought Qi WuHuo the mountain spirits who had tried to abduct the child, and Qi WuHuo traced their scheme to a Buddhist monk’s brainwashing spell.
• Qi WuHuo struck the monk with Tribulation Sword, dispelled the spirits’ enchantment, and set a protective barrier around the village.
• Qi WuHuo formed a hidden Shangqing sword array from the Blood River Sword to protect the village and its surroundings from future threats.
• Meng Po told Qi WuHuo she had replaced the Human Emperor’s criminal record and asked him to seek a stronger Meng Po Soup from Great Master Xuan Du.
• After restoring himself through cultivation, Qi WuHuo reached the end of his first month of lessons from the Jade Pure Great Dao Lord and prepared to see Empress Wa.

Qi WuHuo entered the shifting domain beyond the Six Realms to give Empress Nuwa the Human Emperor Seal and a painting of the mortal world, but the Dao’s manifestation of [One] stood in his way. With help from Fuxi’s corrupting Dao resonance, he reached Empress Nuwa and left her the gifts, then returned with another treasure she had given him.

• The Three Pure Ones and Empress Houtu lent Qi WuHuo their power as he entered the chaotic domain to find Empress Nuwa.
• Qi WuHuo found the place where he had met Empress Nuwa empty, lost contact with his Teachers, and sensed a presence pulling him deeper into the domain.
• The manifestation of [One] appeared and told Qi WuHuo that Empress Nuwa was no longer within the Six Realms, then suppressed his Taiyi Cultivation Body.
• Qi WuHuo shattered his Taiyi Cultivation Body and rushed toward Empress Nuwa as a human, but [One] began drawing him back into its Dao.
• Fuxi’s Dao resonance praising Empress Nuwa spread through [One], causing its manifestation to disintegrate and clearing Qi WuHuo’s path.
• Qi WuHuo gave Empress Nuwa the Human Emperor Seal and his painting of the mortal world, told her the human race had not forgotten her, and returned carrying a gift from her.

Qi WuHuo received the Map of Mountains and Rivers, an ancient Human Dao treasure once treasured by Empress Wa, and learned how to use its powerful inner world. After Di Ting reported that Buddhist forces had rescued the emperor from the Underworld’s punishment, Qi WuHuo prepared a message for Great Master Xuan Du about Empress Wa and the emperor’s crimes.

• Empress Houtu identified Qi WuHuo’s scroll as the Map of Mountains and Rivers and explained its origins, destiny, and abilities.
• A spirit artifact resembling Fuxi returned, prompting Shangqing Great Dao Lord to draw his sword before Qi WuHuo sent the artifact crashing into a wall when it asked to see the painting.
• Qi WuHuo studied the Map of Mountains and Rivers, discovered that his courtyard had appeared inside it, and sensed the treasure grow stronger with Human Dao Destiny.
• Di Ting told Qi WuHuo that Bodhisattvas had healed the emperor and stopped the Underworld from continuing to punish him, while nine-tenths of the victims still awaited revenge.
• Qi WuHuo wrote to Great Master Xuan Du about Empress Wa’s condition and the emperor’s crimes, and the spirit artifact volunteered to deliver the message.

The Human Emperor accepted Namo Boundless Guanyin Bodhisattva’s plan to convert the people of several regions to Buddhism, while Qi WuHuo resisted the Bodhisattva’s attack. In the Heavenly Court, Judicial Great Celestial Venerable proposed making the emperor a Hidden Star, and Great Master Xuan Du returned to his temple to find a familiar young man in blue waiting there.

• The Human Emperor regained his body with Buddhist power but could not wield Human Dao Destiny, and he persuaded Namo Boundless Guanyin Bodhisattva to deal with Qi WuHuo.
• Namo Boundless Guanyin Bodhisattva attacked Qi WuHuo with a Buddhist hand seal, but Qi WuHuo absorbed its power into his Taiyi Cultivation Body.
• Namo Boundless Guanyin Bodhisattva asked the Human Emperor to arrange a Buddhist ceremony for millions of people and build 108 pagodas, and the emperor agreed after being offered the status of a Star Lord.
• Judicial Great Celestial Venerable proposed appointing the Human Emperor as Luohu Star Lord, prompting an argument with Primordial Lady Taiyin while the Jade Emperor wondered about the proposal.
• Great Master Xuan Du left the Heavenly Court and returned to Xuan Du Temple, where a young man in blue with a zither greeted him as Xuan Du.

Great Master Xuan Du learned that Empress Nuwa might be restored through flourishing Human Dao Destiny, then discovered the Human Emperor had planned to destroy her temple. He stormed the imperial palace, killed the seven Bodhisattvas defending the emperor, and executed the Human Emperor while declaring that the Immortal Dao cherished life.

• Great Master Xuan Du read Xuan Wei's letter revealing that Empress Nuwa's existence could be stabilized by Human Dao Destiny and that she might return.
• Great Master Xuan Du learned that the Human Emperor intended to tear down Empress Nuwa's temple and flew toward the imperial palace with the Purple Gold Eight Trigrams Furnace.
• Great Master Xuan Du broke through the palace's Human Dao Destiny formation and the Buddhist lotus formation, then ordered the seven Bodhisattvas to move aside or die.
• The seven Bodhisattvas attacked Great Master Xuan Du, but he killed them all with one strike of the Purple Gold Eight Trigrams Furnace.
• Great Master Xuan Du identified himself as Empress Nuwa's son and killed the Human Emperor, then said, "The Immortal Dao cherishes life."

The green-shirted artifact spirit learned that the Empress had returned and asked for Corpse Dissolving Divine Water, while Great Master Xuan Du met Qi WuHuo and confirmed his rescue of her. Xuan Du gave Qi WuHuo his blood to help him form a second Dharma body, as the conflict with Buddhism threatened to escalate.

• The green-shirted artifact spirit mocked Great Master Xuan Du for descending to the mortal realm, then froze after reading the poem about the Empress and requested a bucket of Corpse Dissolving Divine Water.
• Qi WuHuo showed Great Master Xuan Du the Map of Mountains and Rivers, confirming that he had met the Empress, and Xuan Du gave him the scroll.
• Great Master Xuan Du admitted that he had killed the Buddhist monks obstructing the Human Emperor and warned Qi WuHuo that the Buddhist sect might retaliate.
• Qi WuHuo vowed to ruin the Human Emperor's ambitions before killing him, while Xuan Du asked for the Human Emperor's soul afterward and warned Qi WuHuo about Longevity Buddha and the Judicial Official.
• After learning Qi WuHuo had obtained One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, Great Master Xuan Du gave him his blood, which merged with the Empress's qi and might help Qi WuHuo form a second Dharma body.

Qi WuHuo awakened the traits of the Innate Human Race as Great Master Xuan Du recounted the ancient persecution of humanity and prepared to face Buddhism. Six Dapin Buddhas arrived to capture Xuan Du, but a green-shirted man blocked their Buddha light at the boundary of the human world.

• Great Master Xuan Du used his blood and Empress Nuwa's qi to awaken Qi WuHuo's sensitivity to qi and other Innate Human Race traits.
• Great Master Xuan Du told Qi WuHuo about the destruction of the first humans, Fuxi's grief, and how Fuxi used the Black Tortoise's limbs to support the sky.
• Great Master Xuan Du discovered that a green-clad artifact spirit had taken a child attendant away, then returned to Xuan Du Temple to prepare for trouble from Buddhism and the Heavenly Court.
• Amitabha Buddha and the other Buddhas gathered their forces and traveled to the Capital City to confront Great Master Xuan Du over the deaths of their bodhisattvas.
• Six Dapin Buddhas arrived at the Capital City with their followers and attempted to advance, but a green-shirted man stopped their Buddha light at the edge of the human world.

The zither spirit impersonated Great Emperor Fuxi and confronted the Buddhas over their plan to replace Wa Huang Temple, forcing Lower Sanskrit Sound Buddha to take his own life. After the Buddhas departed, the spirit admitted the performance had terrified him and went inside with the Daoist boy.

• The zither spirit appeared as Fuxi, and Vairocana Buddha recognized him and departed after Fuxi told him to turn back.
• Amitabha Buddha asked whether Fuxi had come to avenge Xuandu, but Fuxi denied it and said he had killed seven Bodhisattvas over the plan to turn Wa Huang Temple into a Buddhist temple.
• Lower Sanskrit Sound Buddha admitted he had proposed the plan, and Fuxi ordered him to take his own life while allowing Buddhism to remain if it left A'Wa undisturbed.
• Lower Sanskrit Sound Buddha struck himself between the brows, and Fuxi gathered most of his scattered Sariras before dismissing the other Buddhas.
• The zither spirit confessed to the Daoist boy that he had been pretending to be Fuxi, then asked the boy to help him inside and mentioned a bucket of Corpse Dissolving Divine Water.

The blue-robed young man dissolved the Human Emperor while leaving his head recognizable, then wandered the Mortal World with the Young Daoist Attendant and left Buddha’s Sariras at temples. At Nuwa Temple, he subtly changed the shrine and its attendants, healed the temple keepers, and prepared the Mortal World’s rising conflicts to draw the Three Pure Ones into action.

• The blue-robed young man showed the Young Daoist Attendant the palace’s panic after dissolving the Human Emperor’s body but leaving his head intact.
• The blue-robed young man took the Young Daoist Attendant through the Mortal World, bought him treats and toys, and tossed more than twenty Buddha’s Sariras into temple incense pools.
• Great Master Xuan Du found the Young Daoist Attendant, examined him, and scolded him after learning the blue-robed young man had said a Buddha had died.
• At Nuwa Temple, the blue-robed young man left toys, pastries, grain, and money before Empress Nuwa’s statue, then infused the shrine with a streak of light.
• The shrine’s attendants changed, the temple keepers recovered their health, and the blue-robed young man left after wishing Nuwa a happy birthday.

The Buddhist sect accused Great Master Xuan Du of killing seven Bodhisattvas, but the Jade Emperor exposed Fuxi as the true culprit and ordered the Six Realms to hunt him. After clearing Xuan Du, Zhang Xiaoyu sought a way to curb the Judicial Heavenly Venerable and found the Earth-Leaving Flame Light Banner to lend to Qi WuHuo.

• Upper Name Famous Buddha accused Great Master Xuan Du of killing seven Bodhisattvas, and the Heavenly Court examined Buddha light showing Xuan Du attacking them after they disrespected Empress Wa.
• Great Emperor Zhuling defended Xuan Du, while Upper Name Famous Buddha demanded that the Human Emperor’s soul-memory be summoned as evidence.
• The soul-memory revealed a green-shirted man who identified himself as Fuxi, and the Heavenly Generals shattered the magical treasure before he could affect the court.
• Zhang Xiaoyu ordered the Heavenly Court and Buddhist sect to hunt Fuxi, cleared Xuan Du of breaking the heavenly prohibition, and granted him rewards.
• The Judicial Heavenly Venerable proposed elevating the Human Emperor to Luohu Star Lord, and Zhang Xiaoyu allowed the proposal to proceed if the Bureau of Astrology did not object within three days.
• Zhang Xiaoyu decided to use Qi WuHuo as a temporary Great Emperor Fire Luminary and retrieved the Earth-Leaving Flame Light Banner from the Haotian Secret Treasury.

Amitabha Buddha visited the Three Pure Dao Ancestors to reveal Buddhism’s plans for a great assembly in two months and ask them to confront its radical lineages. Yuqing Primordial Celestial Venerable chose Qi WuHuo to represent the Dao Ancestors, named him one of the Twelve Holy True Ones, and granted him the right to choose a great transmission.

• Amitabha Buddha told Dao Ancestor Tai Shang and Yuqing Primordial Celestial Venerable that Buddhism would hold a Gathering of the Bodhisattvas in two months to unite Buddhist and Human Dao Destiny and establish the Buddha Ancestor’s reincarnation.
• Amitabha Buddha warned that Fuxi might appear at the gathering, then left the mountain after asking the Dao Ancestors to stop Buddhism’s radical lineages.
• The spirit in the green shirt admitted that he had intervened to protect Great Master Xuan Du, and Great Dao Lord Shangqing confronted him with a sword, suspecting he was Fuxi.
• Yuqing Primordial Celestial Venerable told Qi WuHuo that he would not attend the gathering and that Qi WuHuo would fight in the Dao Ancestors’ stead.
• Yuqing Primordial Celestial Venerable named Qi WuHuo one of the Twelve Holy True Ones, and his title, Yu Zhen True Lord Tai Xuan, appeared on the Jade Book.
• Yuqing Primordial Celestial Venerable told Qi WuHuo that he could choose one of the twelve great transmissions to learn.

Qi WuHuo chose to cultivate Yuqing Primordial Celestial Venerable's [From Nothingness to Existence] and experienced the birth of Heaven and Earth in a simulated primordial void. He formed an unprecedented talisman that Yuqing identified as the first true talisman he had ever created, the [True Talisman of Controlling Heaven's Creation].

• Qi WuHuo asked about the Twelve True Inheritances and chose [From Nothingness to Existence].
• Yuqing Primordial Celestial Venerable took Qi WuHuo into a simulated state before Heaven and Earth formed and sealed away his Taiyi Cultivation Body's power.
• Qi WuHuo experienced the opening of Heaven and the birth of all things, and saw Taiyi meet Yuanshi in the vision.
• After returning to the mountain, Qi WuHuo formed a radiant talisman from his comprehension, while Yuqing Primordial Celestial Venerable and Shangqing Dao Ancestor suppressed the surrounding qi.
• Yuqing Primordial Celestial Venerable declared that Qi WuHuo's talisman was not one of his Twelve True Inheritances, but his first true talisman: the [True Talisman of Controlling Heaven's Creation].

Qi WuHuo comprehended the True Talisman of Controlling Heaven's Creation and demonstrated its immense, dangerous power to Yuqing Primordial Celestial Venerable. After the Dao Ancestors discussed teaching him another inheritance, Zhang Xiaoyu arrived to see him.

• The Dao Ancestors realized Qi WuHuo had independently comprehended the True Talisman of Controlling Heaven's Creation, then joined forces to draw it into his body.
• Qi WuHuo manifested the talisman and unleashed a slash that threatened to sever all things, but Yuqing Primordial Celestial Venerable stopped it before it drained his foundation.
• Yuqing warned Qi WuHuo about the talisman's cost and told him to restore his qi, while Shangqing Great Dao Lord and Supreme discovered that the slash had severed strands from Yuqing's Karma Horsetail Whisk.
• Yuqing decided to teach Qi WuHuo Brahma Qi Filling the Void, arguing that doing so would not break his promise to teach only one of the Twelve True Inheritances.
• After recovering his qi, Qi WuHuo opened the door and greeted Zhang Xiaoyu, who had come to visit him.

Qi WuHuo met Zhang Xiaoyu, who warned him about Fuxi and explained the Heavenly Court’s plans involving the Human Emperor and the Judicial Great Celestial Venerable. Zhang Xiaoyu asked Qi WuHuo to use Zhu Rong’s Earth-Leaving Flame Light Banner against those schemes, and the chapter ended with Qi WuHuo awakening its power and manifesting its spear form.

• Zhang Xiaoyu warned Qi WuHuo that Great Emperor Fuxi had appeared near the Capital City of the Nine Provinces and urged him to stay on guard.
• Zhang Xiaoyu told Qi WuHuo that the Judicial Great Celestial Venerable planned to raise the Human Emperor to Heaven and make him the Luohu Star Lord.
• Zhang Xiaoyu complained about the Great Emperor Fire Official of the Fire Star, unaware that Qi WuHuo was the very emperor he was criticizing.
• Zhang Xiaoyu asked Qi WuHuo to use the Earth-Leaving Flame Light Banner to help thwart the Judicial Great Celestial Venerable’s schemes and offered him the sealed weapon.
• Qi WuHuo touched the banner and encountered Zhu Rong’s remnant will, which recognized him as Taiyi and accepted him as worthy to wield the weapon.
• Qi WuHuo awakened the banner’s power, transformed it into a spear, and asked Zhang Xiaoyu whether what he had done was enough.

Qi WuHuo agreed to help Zhang Xiaoyu confront the Tian Shu Institute and Judicial Great Celestial Venerable, while preparing to impersonate Great Emperor Fire Luminary. Before his trip to the Heavenly Court, Yuqing Primordial Celestial Venerable gave him the Eight Treasures Ruyi Glazed Bottle and promised he could become an Earth Immortal within three months if he brought back Three Lights Divine Water.

• Zhang Xiaoyu planned to let the Tian Shu Institute grow overconfident before Qi WuHuo appeared at the Dipper Department on the final day and disgraced its allies.
• Zhang Xiaoyu gave Qi WuHuo a waist token, a map of the Heavenly Realm, and a set of Great Emperor-grade Fire Luminary armor and robes.
• Qi WuHuo told Yuqing Primordial Celestial Venerable that he had agreed to go to the Heavenly Court and discussed the Judicial Great Celestial Venerable's interference in Human Dao Destiny.
• Yuqing Primordial Celestial Venerable explained that Qi WuHuo could form an Inner Scenery World within his Taiyi Cultivation Body by gathering the Five Qi and using the True Talisman of Controlling Heaven's Creation.
• Yuqing Primordial Celestial Venerable gave Qi WuHuo the Eight Treasures Ruyi Glazed Bottle and instructed him to collect sunlight, moonlight, and starlight in the Heavenly Realm to make Three Lights Divine Water.
• Yuqing Primordial Celestial Venerable promised Qi WuHuo could attain the Dao Fruit of an Earth Immortal within three months if he returned with the Three Lights Divine Water.

Qi WuHuo entered the Heavenly Realm, tested the Eight Treasures Ruyi Glazed Bottle, and uncovered a plot to provoke Fire Luminary and weaken the Dipper Department. As he walked into the Fire Luminary Palace, its flames and spirits welcomed him as their sovereign, and the captured conspirators recognized him as Great Emperor Dongyang.

• Qi WuHuo received a jade slip from the Supreme Pure Spirit Treasure Celestial Venerable to deliver to Yun Qin and wrote to her about his plans and the winter scenery.
• Qi WuHuo used Zhang Xiaoyu's token to enter the Heavenly Realm and rode the Blood River Boat to the Dipper Department, where he swallowed part of the Heavenly River with the Eight Treasures Ruyi Glazed Bottle before fleeing from approaching Star Lords.
• Water Virtue Star Lord and Grand Duke of the Year discussed the Tian Shu Institute's pressure on Primordial Lady Taiyin and worried over the Dipper Department's declining power.
• A Dipper Department immortal and the Heavenly River Navy Marshal revealed their plan to flood the Fire Luminary Palace and trigger Fire Luminary's rampage in exchange for joining the Tian Shu Institute.
• Qi WuHuo stopped the Heavenly River with the bottle, bound the conspirators with his horsetail whisk, and walked toward the Fire Luminary Palace as its flames, spirits, and nine dragons opened a path for him.
• The captured immortal and marshal recognized Qi WuHuo as Great Emperor Dongyang.

Qi WuHuo returned to the Dipper Division as the Great Emperor Fire Luminary and stopped the Tian Shu Institute from imposing its decree. He left the Judicial Heavenly Venerable’s institute burning after striking it with a Red Dragon of flame.

• The Judicial True Lord confronted Primordial Lady Taiyin and the Dipper Division, demanding that they accept the decree appointing a new Luohu Star Lord.
• Qi WuHuo entered the Fire Luminary Palace and donned its armor, taking on the identity of the Great Emperor Fire Luminary.
• A golden-flame spear pinned the decree to the ground and melted the Judicial Heavenly Venerable’s seal, prompting the Dipper Division to welcome the returning Great Emperor Dongyang.
• The Judicial True Lord tried to reclaim the decree, but Great Emperor Dongyang kept it and unleashed a Red Dragon of flame at the Tian Shu Institute.
• The Red Dragon shattered the institute’s formation and burned its pavilions to ash as Great Emperor Dongyang said, “Granted.”