Arc 9The Netherworld Takes Shape
Qingyuan thwarted the Western Sages’ schemes, helped Houtu become Pingxin and establish Reincarnation, then resisted Hongjun and the Saints’ claim to the Earthly Dao. He left the Netherworld strengthened and arranged for White Bone Buddha and disciples from other sects to help govern it.
- Long Zhang launched the Tianhai Phone at Cloud Mountain Myriad Treasures Pavilion, where Luo Qiong demonstrated its features and announced its price as Immortal Dingguang plotted to abduct her.
- Maitreya enlisted Chang'er Dingguang Xian to approach Daoist Duobao with the Wordless Scripture, while Jieyin and Zhunti conspired to infiltrate Qingyuan’s Dream Realm and distract Tongtian.
- Jieyin’s Separate Thought attacked Qingyuan in the Dream Realm, but Qingyuan defeated and repeatedly destroyed it before binding the incarnation to his control with a Saint-Slaying Pill.
- Jieyin and Zhunti attacked Qingyuan during a Dao discussion at Biyou Palace, prompting Tongtian to drive them off and later devastate the Western Pure Land, and Zhunti crippled Kinnara, who became Wutian under White Bone Buddha’s guidance.
- Qingyuan worked with Jieyin’s incarnation to develop the Virtual World, while Jieyin spread the Great Dream Heart Sutra until Hongjun stopped his coercive expansion.
- After the Witch and Demon Clans’ war was halted, Houtu created Reincarnation, became Pingxin, and gave Qingyuan Ancestral Witch Blood Essence to pass to the Witch Clan.
- Qingyuan strengthened the Netherworld and Earthly Dao, then stood with Pingxin against Hongjun and the Saints, and he withstood their attacks in the Chaos Great Dao Hall and negotiated support for the Netherworld.
- Qingyuan traded with the Saints for treasures and pills, sending White Bone Buddha to oversee the Western Teachings, and Zhunti sent Ksitigarbha to the Netherworld, and Yuanshi arranged for True Person Taiyi to go there.