Chapter Summaries

Qi WuHuo confronted Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole and exposed how his promised universal longevity depended on controlling and sacrificing all living beings. Changsheng rejected Qi WuHuo’s alternative and challenged him to settle their opposing paths through battle.

• Great Emperor Changsheng invited Qi WuHuo into his pavilion and questioned him about whether a reincarnated being remained the same self.
• Qi WuHuo argued that Changsheng’s plan turned living beings into puppets and denied them the freedom to choose their own goals.
• Qi WuHuo revealed that Changsheng’s repeated cycles of cultivation and reincarnation were designed to strengthen the concept of longevity so Changsheng alone could survive the final tribulation.
• Qi WuHuo said he had left cultivation texts and the Hundred Schools of Thought in the Mortal World, allowing people to choose their own paths without interference.
• Changsheng dismissed Qi WuHuo’s challenge and declared that their disagreement could only be settled in battle, summoning a lightning spear as a sword cry rose from True Martial Manor.

True Martial Great Emperor and Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole fought a battle whose shockwaves threatened the Six Realms. Zhang Xiaoyu reclaimed control of the Haotian cultivation body and used the Haotian Mirror to shield the common people, leaving the duel to continue without restraint.

• True Martial Great Emperor deflected Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole's lightning and severed his wrist with Tribulation Sword, but Changsheng quickly healed and continued attacking.
• Their battle shook the Four Seas and Six Realms, while Yin Virtue Ding Xiu True Lord ordered Black Impermanence and White Impermanence to ask Di Ting about the fight.
• Zhang Xiaoyu reclaimed the Haotian cultivation body's power, explaining that he wanted to protect the common people and trusted WuHuo more than himself.
• Zhang Xiaoyu cast the Haotian Mirror over the duel and bore its shockwaves himself, allowing True Martial Great Emperor and Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole to fight without harming the realms.
• True Martial Great Emperor trapped Changsheng with Heaven Strikes with Five Thunders and unleashed the mastered One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones from four directions.

Qi WuHuo fought Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole through a prolonged battle inside the Haotian Mirror, using his incarnations and divine abilities to wear him down. He finally pierced Changsheng with a thousand-year-nurtured sword that severed his Great Dao, and declared him defeated.

• Qi WuHuo used One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones and other incarnations to attack Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole, who countered with lightning and myriad transformations.
• Qi WuHuo and Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole fought at close range until their weapons and incarnations were shattered and both were forced into a contest of bodily strength and qi.
• Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole revealed that a human’s jealousy had sparked the calamities surrounding Empress Nuwa, but Qi WuHuo remained calm as their battle threatened to break the Haotian Mirror.
• Qi WuHuo trapped Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole nearby and summoned a sword of purple qi that True Martial Great Emperor had nurtured for a thousand years.
• The sword pierced Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole and severed the upper limit of his Dao Fruit, breaking his seemingly inexhaustible vitality.
• The Haotian Mirror shattered, Zhang Xiaoyu regained consciousness, and True Martial Great Emperor held the purple sword to Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole’s brow and declared his defeat.

True Martial Demon Queller defeated the Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole, but Changsheng destroyed his own Dao foundation and brought the Final Tribulation down twenty thousand years early to prove his Dao. The chapter ended with the calamity erupting across the Six Realms as Qi WuHuo tried to sever its lingering passages.

• Qi WuHuo defeated the Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole and tried to bind him for judgment by the Jade Emperor and the other Imperial Lords.
• The Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole shattered his restraints by collapsing his vitality inward and destroying his own Dao foundation.
• Changsheng broke Qi WuHuo's purple-qi sword and declared that he would prove his Dao through the Final Tribulation.
• Changsheng opened passages to the Final Tribulation, unleashing the Heat Death Tribulation, the Cold Silence Tribulation, and the Three Thousand Gods and Devils Tribulation across the Six Realms.
• Changsheng vanished after sacrificing himself to sustain the passages, while Qi WuHuo tried to sever them and the Final Tribulation erupted in full.

The Final Tribulation erupted across the Six Realms, unleashing Heat Death, Cold Silence, and god-demons that resurrected and grew stronger whenever they were killed. Fuxi and the other prepared allies arrived to reinforce the defenders, and Great Emperor Zhenwu and Great Emperor Ziwei stood ready to strike at the rift and end the calamity.

• Yang Jian, the celestial gods, and the other realms fought the invading god-demons as the Human Dao Destiny Grand Formation and other defenses held back the tribulations.
• Yang Jian discovered that the god-demons repeatedly resurrected, adapted to their attackers, and could not be destroyed while their source remained.
• Fuxi arrived and used the Jianmu Tree to trap the god-demons and drain their vitality, while he and the arriving allies bolstered the Six Realms.
• Qi WuHuo, Great Emperor Ziwei of the North Pole, Empress Nuwa, and Houtu Empress Earthly Deity joined the fight as the defenders rallied.
• Great Emperor Ziwei and Great Emperor Zhenwu stood together before the rift and raised their swords to bring the Final Tribulation to an end.

Qi WuHuo and the Great Emperor Ziwei of the North Pole reopened the rift to Heaven beyond Heaven, allowing more Gods and Devils and the destructive forces of Heat Death and Cold Silence to threaten the Six Realms. As the battle worsened, Zhang Xiaoyu returned with the Sky-Covering Banner and threw it to Qi WuHuo.

• Qi WuHuo and the Great Emperor Ziwei of the North Pole advanced toward the rift, but a God or Devil warned that the final tribulation would come twenty thousand years later and began closing it.
• The Supreme and the other Three Pure Dao Ancestors confronted the immense God or Devil who governed the creation of Heaven and Earth, and he argued that the tribulation was part of the natural order.
• The Great Emperor Ziwei of the North Pole reopened the rift, while Zhenwu fought the Gods and Devils pouring through it.
• Heat Death and Cold Silence collided and destroyed Penglai Island, while their effects spread across the Six Realms.
• Great Unity Salvation Heavenly Venerate brought back Zhang Xiaoyu, who used the Sky-Covering Banner to suppress the tribulations and hurled it toward Qi WuHuo.

Qi WuHuo and Ziwei Great Emperor opened a passage to Outer Heaven, while the Six Realms joined forces to hold back the demons and gods. Qi WuHuo entered alone and reached the Three Pure Dao Ancestors, where he challenged the vast demon and god behind them.

• Jade Emperor sent the Sky-Covering Banner to Qi WuHuo, who used it to shield the Six Realms and open a passage into Outer Heaven as Ziwei Great Emperor guarded him.
• When the unstable passage could admit only Qi WuHuo, Ziwei Great Emperor gave him the Ziwei Sword, and Qi WuHuo charged through with it and True Martial Sword.
• Fuxi called on the Six Realms to clear Qi WuHuo's path, and Li Zhai, Ao WuLie, Huang Yao, Ao Cang, and others held back the attacking demons and gods.
• As the Heat Death Tribulation intensified and multiple suns appeared, Yun Qin fought beside the defenders and refused to leave while she waited for Qi WuHuo.
• In Outer Heaven, Qi WuHuo cut through the demons and gods surrounding the Three Pure Dao Ancestors and confronted the enormous demon and god, declaring that he had come to discuss the Great Dao.

Qi WuHuo joined the Three Dao Ancestors in battle against the Final Tribulation’s ancient God, while the era’s renewal began to devastate the Six Realms. He used his Taiyi Cultivation Body to forge a final sword and wound the God, but the sword shattered before it could finish the cut.

• Qi WuHuo told the ancient God that he had come seeking a way for all beings to live, then joined Supreme Pure Spirit Treasure Celestial Venerable in attacking it.
• The Three Dao Ancestors appeared beside Qi WuHuo, and the ancient God’s power accelerated the tribulations until fragments of the breaking world fell into the Six Realms.
• Ao Zang transformed into his true dragon form to strike a falling world fragment, but it broke his horns and formed an unnamed island mountain above the East Sea Dragon Palace.
• Qi WuHuo fought the ancient God with the True Martial Sword and Ziwei Sword, but the Heaven-Opening Axe shattered the Ziwei Sword before Taiqing intervened.
• Taiqing, the Emperor End-Tribulation Celestial Venerable, Supreme Xuanwei True Person, Primordial Heavenly King, and Great Dao Lord Yuchen helped Qi WuHuo overcome the ancient God’s defenses and approach its brow.
• Qi WuHuo transformed his Taiyi Cultivation Body into a sword and thrust it into the ancient God’s brow, but the blade shattered before completing the cut.

After the Taiyi Sword shattered, Qi WuHuo and the people of the Six Realms kept fighting, and he realized how to overcome the ancient God. Qi WuHuo used the True Martial Sword to drag the God into the present world, and the Gods and Devils began to lose their immortality as the True Martial Great Emperor started to crumble.

• The ancient God declared victory after the Taiyi Sword shattered, and despair spread among the people of the Six Realms.
• An old scholar awakened Human Dao Destiny, and the humans, Zhang Xiaoyu, the Heavenly Realm, and the Buddhist Kingdom renewed their assault on the Gods and Devils.
• Qi WuHuo realized that the people of this era had to drag the ancient God down from his future rank, then used a feint to reach him and struck with Sword Qi.
• The Great Dao rippled across the Six Realms, halting Heat Death and Cold Death and causing the Gods and Devils to lose their undying bodies.
• The True Martial Great Emperor looked back at the others as his sleeves began to crumble.

Qi WuHuo appeared to perish after closing the rift and ending the final tribulation, leaving Yun Qin gravely stricken and the Six Realms mourning him. Three months later, the tribulation’s lingering effects remained, a strange stone began absorbing the scattered Innate Spirits and Demons’ Qi, and Qi WuHuo was revealed to remain locked in a confrontation with the ancient god in the Outer Heaven.

• Qi WuHuo closed the rift between the Six Realms and the world beyond, then vanished with the Gods and Devils of the final tribulation.
• Old Yellow Ox rushed to Yun Qin, who touched the True Martial Sword and asked why Qi WuHuo had not returned before collapsing and fading the sword.
• Three months later, the Jade Emperor summoned the Six Realms to address the surviving Innate Spirits and Demons, while Ao Cang decided to visit True Martial Manor and pay his respects.
• A huge stone beneath a newly formed mountain in the Eastern Sea absorbed the scattered Qi of the Innate Spirits and Demons, and life began to emerge within it.
• The Six Realms struggled with the lingering effects of the tribulation and memorialized Qi WuHuo, while his black-robed form remained seated opposite the ancient god in the Outer Heaven.

Qi WuHuo bound himself to the ancient god of the Final Tribulation, trapping them together in Outer Heaven while the Three Pure Dao Ancestors departed with his messages for his family and allies. Believing the Six Realms could defeat the remaining gods, demons, Heat Death, and Cold Death, he challenged the ancient god to a game that would decide their futures.

• Qi WuHuo explained that he and the ancient god were bound in a balance, preventing either from escaping without restarting the Final Tribulation.
• Qi WuHuo gave the Three Pure Dao Ancestors letters and messages for Yun Qin, Xiao Yu, and others, and asked them to guide a student he had left at Square Inch Mountain.
• The Three Pure Dao Ancestors accepted Qi WuHuo's requests and departed, leaving him alone with the ancient god in Outer Heaven.
• The ancient god warned that Heat Death and Cold Death would continue toward the Void Collapse Tribulation, but Qi WuHuo argued that the Six Realms could eliminate the remaining traces of the Final Tribulation.
• Qi WuHuo drew a chessboard from starlight and invited the ancient god to wager the Six Realms' fate in a game lasting a thousand autumns.

After Qi WuHuo died in battle, Yun Qin awoke from a coma with her soul injury triggered and her grief transforming her black hair white. Though she told her family she was all right, she emerged from the quiet chamber still hollow-eyed, clutching True Martial Sword.

• Wang E and Old Green Ox worried that the nine growing suns threatened the mortal world while the Six Realms remained divided.
• The Heavenly Medicine Great Sage told Yun Zhiyi and Weaver Girl that Yun Qin’s triggered soul injury was not serious and that she needed quiet recovery.
• Yun Zhiyi and Weaver Girl found Yun Qin’s hair had turned white, her cultivation had fallen to the Earth Immortal level, and tribulation aura surrounded her.
• Yun Qin reassured her mother and the elders, while Empress Nuwa and Empress Houtu offered her places to stay and encouraged her to visit the mortal world.
• After sitting alone for several days, Yun Qin dressed, tied back her white hair, and emerged from True Martial Hall to tell her parents and Uncle Niu that she was all right.

Yun Qin left Heaven and returned to Qi WuHuo’s childhood home, where she met Su Qiaomei, a descendant of the family that had guarded his plum tree for a thousand years. As Su Qiaomei told her the story behind the family’s duty, Yun Qin sat beneath the blossoming tree and asked to hear about Qi WuHuo’s youth.

• Yun Qin told Yun Zhiyi and Weaver Girl that she wanted to visit the Human World alone, then left True Martial Manor to ease their worries.
• Yun Qin encountered a drought-stricken town near Square Inch Mountain, summoned rain, and realized she had reached the place where Qi WuHuo had lived as a youth.
• Yun Qin entered the preserved courtyard, touched the plum tree, and made it bloom as rain cooled the town.
• Su Qiaomei arrived to check the tree and explained that the Lingnan Su Family had guarded it for generations because of Old Ancestor Shengyuan’s bond with Qi WuHuo.
• Su Qiaomei described how Shengyuan had wanted to leave Qi WuHuo a reminder of his era, and Yun Qin asked her to tell a story about Qi WuHuo before he entered the Dao.

Su Qiaomei remembered meeting the white-haired Yun Qin, who had sought stories of Qi WuHuo, and carried their secret for centuries. Yun Qin traveled across the realms following Qi WuHuo’s traces and vowed to remain on Mount Tai, but Lingbao suggested that Qi WuHuo might not be dead.

• Su Qiaomei told Yun Qin what she knew about Qi WuHuo, and Yun Qin described his unknown year before leaving her a plum-blossom mark and asking her to keep their meeting secret.
• Centuries later, Su Qiaomei told children about Yun Qin, while Yun Qin arrived in Zhongzhou and heard Chao Feng and Jiao Tu recall Qi WuHuo’s youth.
• Yun Qin crossed Jinzhou and the Land of Ten Thousand Spirits, where Su You recounted Qi WuHuo’s adventures in the Demon Kingdom.
• Yun Qin visited places throughout the Human World that remembered Qi WuHuo, then climbed Mount Tai and told Di Ting she would stay to watch over his stories and the lands he had walked.
• Lingbao arrived on Mount Tai and told Yun Qin that Qi WuHuo might not be dead, leaving her stunned.

Yun Qin learned from the Shangqing Spirit Treasure Celestial Venerable that Qi WuHuo was alive but could return only after attaining transcendence or after the Final Tribulation’s remnants were eliminated. Meanwhile, the Jade Emperor punished Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole’s faction, and Fu Lu Shou found a mountain whose earth veins could anchor the Three Islands of Penglai.

• The Shangqing Spirit Treasure Celestial Venerable gave Yun Qin Qi WuHuo’s letter and explained that he was safe but could not return yet.
• Yuqing Primordial Celestial Venerable told Zhang Xiaoyu and the assembled Immortals and Gods that Qi WuHuo could come and go freely after attaining transcendence, while the Final Tribulation’s remaining forces could also be defeated over time.
• Zhang Xiaoyu stripped Great Emperor Changsheng of the South Pole of his authority and reassigned the Thunder Division’s command to Heavenly Marshal Tian Peng, while Wang E received a new Celestial Venerable title.
• Fu Lu Shou traveled to the Eastern Sea to rebuild the Three Islands of Penglai, but their islands drifted until Shouxing found a mountain formed around a fallen Fragment of Heaven.
• Fu Lu Shou drew three earth veins from the mountain to anchor the islands, making it the Ancestral Vein of the Ten Prefectures and the Dragon Vein of the Three Islands.

The Three Immortals of Penglai rebuilt the Three Islands of Penglai and settled on the Nameless Immortal Mountain, which they named Flower Fruit Mountain Blessed Land, Water Curtain Cave Grotto-Heaven. After Ao Guang and Taibai Jinxing persuaded them to leave, a strange stone was cast onto the mountain, where it absorbed the essence of heaven and earth.

• The Three Immortals of Penglai gathered supplies to rebuild Penglai, while Niu Jinnniu secretly substituted a troublesome Crimson-buttocked Monkey for one of Southern Pole Immortal's spirit beasts.
• The Crimson-buttocked Monkey escaped from Southern Pole Immortal's pouch and scattered much of its contents across the Nameless Immortal Mountain; the Three Immortals chose to let the fallen plants grow there.
• The Three Immortals carved out a cave behind a waterfall and named it Flower Fruit Mountain Blessed Land, Water Curtain Cave Grotto-Heaven, where they lived for a hundred years as the mountain flourished.
• Ao Guang warned Southern Pole Immortal that the Three Immortals were too close to the East Sea Dragon Palace, and Taibai Jinxing revealed that the Dragon King had been credited with clearing the East Sea of demonic aura.
• A huge stone was hurled by the waves onto the immortal mountain, where it settled in the place richest in spiritual energy and absorbed the Primordial Qi of heaven and earth and the essence of the sun and moon.

Bodhi, Qi WuHuo’s disciple, traveled from Square Inch Mountain to the East Sea to obtain an object for controlling the floods, then rescued a monk and his young disciple from a demon. He recognized the old monk as Golden Cicada Master and sensed a familiar connection with the Young Monk, leaving him stunned by the possibility that he had met someone from his past.

• Bodhi continued cultivating and helping people, then received a mission to seek an object that could help tame the floods.
• At the East Sea Dragon Palace, Ao Guang led Bodhi to Ao Zang, who entrusted him with the object; Ao Zang praised Bodhi’s foundations and heard that Bodhi planned to visit his Teacher’s wife and her unborn child.
• While traveling through the Human World, Bodhi heard an old monk and the Young Monk fleeing a spider-like demon and killed it with Kill the Bandits.
• Bodhi recognized the old monk as Golden Cicada Master, while the monk remained puzzled about why Bodhi knew him.
• Bodhi sensed a familiar connection with the Young Monk, looked at him in shock, and said, “It was you...”

Bodhi met the old monk and his young disciple Wu Ming, then accompanied them toward a city while learning about the old monk’s past and compassion. After seeing them safely enter the city, Bodhi watched them depart, and the chapter ended by revealing their later identities as Shakyamuni and Candana Merit.

• Bodhi introduced himself to Wu Ming and offered to accompany the old monk and his disciple to the city.
• Wu Ming told Bodhi that demons had destroyed his village, and the old monk had helped him see his parents in the Netherworld before taking him as a disciple.
• The old monk described how a traveling monk had guided him to help others and find peace after his parents died.
• The old monk explained that people could carry one another across the sea of suffering, while Bodhi admitted that he missed his teacher.
• Wu Ming discovered that the old monk had mended his clothes and prayed for his teacher’s health before the old monk carried him into the city.
• Bodhi watched the monks disappear into the mortal world, and the chapter revealed that Wu Ming later became Shakyamuni and the old monk later became Candana Merit.

Bodhi visited Laojun to arrange for the Sea-Calming Iron to be reforged, then went to True Martial Manor as Yun Qin gave birth to a daughter. The immortals celebrated and named the child Bixia, while the Three Dao Ancestors’ good humor vanished when a fortune teller asked which of them she would honor as her teacher.

• Laojun told Bodhi that reforging the Sea-Calming Iron would take at least fifty-six years because the Purple Gold Eight Trigrams Furnace was damaged.
• Bodhi arrived at True Martial Manor, where the Jade Emperor and other powerful immortals guarded Yun Qin during her delivery.
• Fuxi told Bodhi he was going to have a little sister and urged him to protect her.
• Yun Qin gave birth to a girl, whom the immortals named Mount Tai Jade Maiden, Jade Maiden Yuanjun of Bixia, while her true name awaited Qi WuHuo’s return.
• The Three Dao Ancestors arrived to celebrate the birth and joined the banquet in disguised forms.
• A gray-robed fortune teller asked which Dao Ancestor the child would honor first, and the Three Dao Ancestors’ smiles froze.

After Bi Xia was born, the Three Pure Dao Ancestors and other immortals doted on her, but she chose Empress Houtu as her guide and grew up training at Mount Tai. Nearly two thousand years later, she still missed her absent father, while Yang Jian and Yang Chan comforted her; in Outer Heaven, Qi WuHuo told the demon that his return was near.

• The Three Pure Dao Ancestors argued over who should receive Bi Xia’s respects, but she chose Empress Houtu, who took her into the ranks of the Earthly Deities.
• Bi Xia grew up surrounded by powerful protectors and treasures, then began cultivating under Empress Houtu at Ruizhu Palace using Mount Tai as her spiritual vein.
• More than a thousand years later, Yang Chan visited Bi Xia on Jade Emperor Peak and comforted her when she remembered her father.
• Yang Jian arrived at Mount Tai, explained that the Innate Spirits and Demons were growing more unruly, and reassured Bi Xia that her father must be thinking of her.
• In Outer Heaven, Qi WuHuo told the demon that their parting would end when he returned, and said that moment was coming.