Chapter Summaries

Qingyuan transformed the Interception Sect with collective training, a points system, and a discipline department while preparing Heavenly Palace Immortal City for its grand opening. Five hundred peaceful years later, guests gathered for the opening, and Qingyuan welcomed Ao Guang before a blood-clouded visitor arrived whom he greeted as his big brother.

• Qingyuan made East Sea disciples memorize the Immortal Market regulations through group rewards and collective punishments, then assigned them work preparing Heavenly Palace Immortal City.
• Qingyuan established the Jie Sect Register, a merit and points system, and the Jie Sect Discipline and Justice Department, bringing order to Golden Ao Island.
• Yun Zhongzi and other disciples promoted Heavenly Palace Immortal City across the East Sea, and after five hundred peaceful years, one hundred thousand disciples welcomed guests to its opening.
• Ao Guang arrived with Dragon Palace subordinates, presented lavish gifts, and thanked Qingyuan for helping restore peace and his position as East Sea Dragon King.
• A blood-colored cloud carrying a violent aura approached, and Qingyuan laughed and welcomed the visitor as his big brother.

Qingyuan welcomed powerful guests to the opening of his Immortal Market, revealing his close ties with Patriarch Minghe and other Primordial great powers. As dignitaries from across the Primordial Wilderness arrived with extravagant gifts, the gathering left the guests increasingly aware of Qingyuan’s vast connections.

• Patriarch Minghe arrived with the Asura Kings, apologized to Yun Zhongzi for his past actions, and gifted Qingyuan treasures including the Blood Scripture.
• Zhen Yuanzi presented ninety-nine Ginseng Fruits and invited Yun Zhongzi to speak with him privately.
• Great Master Xuandu arrived with gifts of numerous precious elixirs and exchanged friendly greetings with Qingyuan.
• Daoist Randeng led the Chan Sect’s delegation, presented spiritual treasures, and privately asked Qingyuan to return the Immortal Gold Divine Materials he had previously given him.
• Nuwa’s attendants and mounts, the Western Teachings, the Three Ancestors of Humanity, and Queen Mother of the West arrived with gifts, while the Western Teachings’ meager offering angered Jie Sect Disciples.

Qingyuan welcomed the True Dragon, Qilin, Phoenix, Demon, and Witch Clans to the opening of his upgraded Immortal Market, impressing the gathered powers with the scale of their arrivals and gifts. The Witch Clan presented several powerful Fierce Beasts, including Chaos, one of the Four Ancient Fiends, as a congratulatory gift.

• Long Si led the True Dragons to the Immortal Market, and Qingyuan stopped him from killing guests who had gossiped about the Dragon Clan; Long Si later asked to speak with Qingyuan privately.
• The Qilin Old Ancestor arrived with the few remaining Qilin and presented gifts.
• Huang Qing led the Phoenixes to the Immortal Market, exchanged greetings with Qingyuan, and asked whether he had composed new music.
• Di Jun arrived with the Demon Race, introduced his ten sons to Qingyuan, and presented lavish gifts.
• Dijiang arrived with the Witch Clan and presented captured Fierce Beasts, including Chaos, one of the Four Ancient Fiends.

Qingyuan hosted the Primordial Wilderness powers at Heavenly Palace Immortal City’s opening before Long Si abducted him to a law-suppressing forbidden land in the Western Land. Long Si demanded that Qingyuan cooperate, leaving Qingyuan wondering what grievance justified the abduction.

• Qingyuan welcomed the Ancestral Witches, and Houtu thanked him for creating the Martial Path that had benefited the Witch-Humans.
• At the Immortal City banquet, Qingyuan screened Painted Skin, gave the guests high-end home theater equipment, and held an auction before the opening celebration ended several days later.
• Di Jun asked Qingyuan to teach his Ten Golden Crows, but Qingyuan refused, and Di Jun accepted his answer before leaving.
• Long Si summoned Qingyuan to a remote island and carried him to a forbidden land where the Dao Ancestor and Demon Ancestor had fought.
• Long Si told Qingyuan that the land isolated the Great Daos and demanded his obedience, claiming Qingyuan was at fault and that Saint Shangqing would not retaliate against him.

Long Si abducted Qingyuan to the Western Land and demanded treasures, believing Qingyuan had stolen an artifact carrying Ancestral Dragon’s aura. Qingyuan overwhelmed the two-corpse Quasi-Saint in battle, but Long Si abandoned his dragon body and fled with his Primordial Spirit.

• Long Si accused Qingyuan of stealing a Dragon Clan treasure and threatened to ruin Interception Sect unless Qingyuan surrendered wealth, spiritual treasures, a Chaos Fierce Beast, and access to the Blood Scripture.
• Qingyuan refused Long Si’s demands and scattered his attack with a slap, then struck him with Martial Path power.
• Long Si revealed his enormous true form and fought Qingyuan, who used his advanced Martial Path and more than ten Innate Spiritual Treasures to grievously injure him.
• Long Si begged Qingyuan to spare him, but Qingyuan continued attacking until Long Si abandoned his dragon body and escaped with his Primordial Spirit.

Qingyuan captured and devoured Long Si’s Primordial Spirit with the Human Lord Banner, then discovered and removed the True Dragon Blood Curses Long Si had planted on him. As Qingyuan left the Forbidden Land, Saint Zhunti intercepted him and drew him into a meeting.

• Long Si abandoned his dragon body and fled as a Primordial Spirit, but Qingyuan trapped him with the Human Lord Banner and devoured him.
• Qingyuan collected Long Si’s treasures, harvested his body, and sent the dragon meat to the Chaos Divine Beast’s egg.
• Qingyuan burned away the battlefield traces, then sensed something wrong and found a True Dragon Blood Curse hidden on his back.
• Qingyuan used Chaos Divine Thunder to purge more than a dozen Dragon Curses before cautiously leaving the Forbidden Land.
• Saint Zhunti intercepted Qingyuan in the Western Land and invited him to talk, so Qingyuan entered Zhunti’s Twelve-grade Merit Golden Lotus and greeted him.

Qingyuan was pressured by Saint Zhunti to join the Western Teachings and then asked to help the barren Western Lands prosper. After considering the problem, Qingyuan began suggesting that the Western Teachings expand by embracing every path, though Zhunti urged him to give a direct answer.

• Saint Zhunti warmly welcomed Qingyuan and rebuked his own disciples for failing to address him as Senior Brother Qingyuan.
• Zhunti offered Qingyuan the position of Vice Sect Leader of the Western Teachings and invited him to study the Dao as a fellow Daoist, but Qingyuan refused.
• Zhunti asked Qingyuan to help the Western Lands prosper, and Qingyuan agreed to think of a solution.
• While Qingyuan pondered, Zhunti warned his disciples through divine sense not to interfere with his plan.
• Qingyuan asked Zhunti about the Western Teachings' core doctrine, then praised it as a path that embraced all methods and suggested it could absorb the whole Primordial Wilderness.
• Zhunti stopped Qingyuan's flattery and asked him to explain directly how to expand the Western Teachings.

Qingyuan proposed that Zhunti build the Western Teachings around the idea that all beings could become Buddhas, using Mahayana Dharma and a system of Buddhist ranks to attract followers and repay the sect’s debts. Zhunti recognized the plan’s potential, rewarded Qingyuan with Bodhi tea leaves, and asked whether he knew of the Divine Path.

• Qingyuan urged Zhunti to promote the idea that all beings could become Buddhas and to use the power of all beings to fulfill the Forty-eight Great Vows.
• Zhunti experienced a vision of Buddhist auspicious signs as Qingyuan explained Mahayana Dharma, the Sea of Suffering, and the promise of ferrying all beings to the Other Shore.
• Qingyuan outlined Buddha and Bodhisattva ranks, and Zhunti’s disciples became inspired by the prospect of cultivating their own Fruit Positions.
• Zhunti accepted that the Western Teachings could support many Buddhist lineages, then asked Qingyuan how the barren Western Lands could provide the needed resources.
• Qingyuan negotiated for Bodhi tea leaves and accepted two hundred jin from Zhunti, who then asked whether Qingyuan had heard of the Divine Path.

Qingyuan gave Zhunti the Godhood Dharma and advised him on using it to spread Buddhism, prompting Zhunti to adopt the method and call Qingyuan his teacher. The system rewarded Qingyuan for accepting a Heavenly Dao Saint as a registered disciple, and he began assessing his new powers and treasures.

• Zhunti recognized the Godhood Dharma's potential to help the Western Teachings flourish and exchanged his Heart Sutra method with Qingyuan, who accepted it but sealed away the memory.
• Qingyuan urged Zhunti to adapt the Godhood Dharma for Buddhism and suggested spreading miraculous stories and recruiting followers to the Western Lands.
• Zhunti had his disciples photograph him with Qingyuan, and Qingyuan asked Zhunti to sincerely call him Teacher.
• Zhunti bowed and thanked Qingyuan as his teacher, secretly believing the resulting karma would let him take revenge later.
• The system rewarded Qingyuan with cultivation, treasures, and divine abilities, including the Primordial Rule Conceptual Divine Ability and the Hunyuan Mask.

Qingyuan repeatedly used his new rule-based ability to fleece Saint Zhunti, gaining treasures and strengthening his Fortune Aura before returning to the Forbidden Land to investigate the hidden trick in the Zhunti Heart Sutra. He lured Zhunti’s concealed presence into the Human Lord Banner and sprang a trap, ending with chains closing in on the Daoist.

• Qingyuan discovered that his new rule-based ability could strip others of blessings and Fortune Aura, then left after exchanging ideas with Zhunti.
• Zhunti explained to his disciples that Qingyuan had killed a powerful Two-Corpse Severing Quasi-Saint Old Dragon and warned them not to provoke him.
• Qingyuan repeatedly returned to Zhunti and called out his rule-triggering greeting, gaining treasures, cultivation, and stronger blessings until Zhunti fled with his disciples.
• Qingyuan equipped the Fragment of the Creation Jade Disk to conceal himself from divination, then prepared to remove the hidden problem in the Zhunti Heart Sutra.
• Qingyuan entered the Human Lord Banner, drew the concealed Zhunti out with the Karma Fire Red Lotus, and activated the banner to imprison him with chains.

Qingyuan trapped Daoist Zhunti’s Separate Thought in the Human Lord Banner and repeatedly used a strange divine ability to drain away its Saintly power. After the Separate Thought lost its Hunyuan Immortal True Intent, Qingyuan destroyed it, successfully slaying a Saint’s Separate Thought.

• Qingyuan explained that layers of isolation kept Daoist Zhunti from sensing the outside world, and Zhunti tried to recruit him into the Western Teachings as its Vice Sect Leader.
• Qingyuan repeatedly vanished and reappeared to shout, “Fellow Daoist, Please Stay Your Steps,” gaining rewards while weakening Zhunti’s blessings and Hunyuan Immortal True Intent.
• After more than twenty attempts, Qingyuan triggered a critical hit that stripped Zhunti’s Separate Thought of its Saintly might and left it unable to escape the rusted iron chains.
• Qingyuan told Zhunti he would spare him if he remained in the Human Lord Banner and taught him the Great Dream Divine Ability.
• As Zhunti questioned whether he was inside the Human Lord Banner, Qingyuan’s blood-red chains tightened and made the Separate Thought dissipate.

Qingyuan destroyed Zhunti’s Separate Thought and discovered that its Sarira had transformed the Human Lord Banner’s ghosts into a White Bone Buddha. After granting the Buddha Hunyuan Annihilation Dao Undying True Meaning, Qingyuan began cultivating in seclusion while Zhunti returned to the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss without seeking revenge.

• Qingyuan burned Zhunti’s Sarira with karmic fire, but it absorbed more than a million ghosts, three Grand Unity Golden Immortal ghosts, and Long Si’s Primordial Spirit.
• The Sarira transformed into a White Bone Buddha, and Qingyuan taught it White Bone Meditation, accelerating its cultivation and strengthening its body.
• Qingyuan gave the White Bone Buddha a wisp of Hunyuan Annihilation Dao Undying True Meaning, causing it to collapse and reform with a far more profound aura.
• The White Bone Buddha told Qingyuan that the new true intent made it nearly impossible for anyone beneath a Hunyuan Saint to erase it and could let it reach the Peak Quasi-Saint realm.
• Qingyuan and the White Bone Buddha entered secluded cultivation inside the Human Lord Banner, while Zhunti sensed his Separate Thought’s destruction and flew to Jieyin without pursuing Qingyuan.

Saint Zhunti told Saint Jieyin how Qingyuan had outmaneuvered his attempts to recruit and manipulate him, while still giving the Western Teachings a method for future prosperity. The two Saints accepted that Qingyuan’s plan carried risks they could not avoid, then studied the Godhood Dharma and discovered that it contained the Western Dao.

• Saint Zhunti recounted his dealings with Qingyuan, including how Qingyuan turned his schemes against him and nearly made him lose their contest.
• Saint Jieyin urged Zhunti to eliminate Qingyuan if he could not be recruited, but Zhunti described plans to tie Qingyuan to the future Buddhist system through a Buddha Patriarch image and the Zhunti Heart Sutra.
• Jieyin pointed out that Qingyuan’s plan could leave the Western Teachings unstable, and Zhunti admitted the danger but chose immediate prosperity over waiting for a safer path.
• Jieyin agreed that the Western Teachings could not give up Qingyuan’s method, and the two Saints examined the Godhood Dharma for a way to develop their own Dao.
• Jieyin discovered that the Western Dao was contained in the Godhood Dharma and manifested countless Amitabha Buddhas, each at the Seventh Realm of the Divine Path.

Jieyin created an illusory host of Buddhas and announced the Buddhahood Method to attract followers to the Western Land, while the Demon Race struggled to complete the Zhou Tian Star Dou Array. Zhunti proposed drawing the Witch and Demon Clans into Western Teachings, and a black banner began transforming in a forbidden land.

• Jieyin filled the Ultimate Bliss World with illusory Amitabhas, then entered seclusion with Zhunti to deduce the Buddhahood Method.
• Di Jun ordered the Demon Race to devote its resources to improving the Zhou Tian Star Dou Array so it could break through the Saints’ threshold.
• The Demon Saints and the Witch Clan mocked the Western Teachings’ apparent host of Buddhas, while Di Jun rebuked the demons for insulting Saints.
• Jieyin announced that those who came west could cultivate the Buddhahood Method, drawing a small number of struggling cultivators and races to the Western Land.
• Zhunti suggested that the Two Shakyas guide the Witch and Demon Clans into Western Teachings, but Jieyin questioned whether their senior brothers would agree.
• A black banner in a forbidden land of the Western Land began transforming into a blood-red banner made from bones.

Qingyuan tested his newly strengthened physical body by sparring with White Bone Buddha inside the Human Lord Banner, while Turtle Spirit Holy Mother watched and grappled with how far behind him she had fallen. Qingyuan ended the fight unharmed, having proved that White Bone Buddha could not overcome him with physical attacks alone.

• Turtle Spirit Holy Mother recalled seeing Qingyuan kill a wisp of Saint Zhunti’s Separate Thought and accepted that she could no longer hope to compete with him.
• Qingyuan challenged White Bone Buddha to a spar, and White Bone Buddha’s first attack failed to leave even a mark on him.
• After Qingyuan threatened to seal the Human Lord Banner’s senses and exile White Bone Buddha in an accelerated Minor World, White Bone Buddha attacked in earnest.
• Qingyuan endured White Bone Buddha’s increasingly powerful assaults without injury and used Nirvana Buddha Light to melt some of his bones.
• Qingyuan and White Bone Buddha fought using only their physical bodies until Qingyuan sent him flying and called a halt, leaving White Bone Buddha’s shattered bones to heal.

Qingyuan tested the limits of his body against White Bone Buddha, then rewarded him with a Nirvana sarira and spiritual treasures to support his cultivation. He also exposed Turtle Spirit Holy Mother’s act of pretending to be unaware, and she finally greeted him as her senior brother.

• Qingyuan asked White Bone Buddha to attack him with his strongest method, and the blow pierced his chest before he instantly healed.
• Qingyuan gave White Bone Buddha an Ancient Buddha Nirvana Sarira, a Thousand Day Square Golden Bow, and a Myriad Auspicious Light Cloud, warning him against using the treasures to sever corpses.
• White Bone Buddha left to refine his gains while Qingyuan considered how he might help Kinnara make the extermination of Buddhism real.
• Qingyuan called out Turtle Spirit Holy Mother, whom he had discovered hiding her awareness inside a dream realm.
• Turtle Spirit Holy Mother tried to maintain her act as a food courier, but she knelt and greeted Qingyuan as her senior brother.

Qingyuan confronted Turtle Spirit Holy Mother in the Lesser Thousand Dream Realm, exposed that she had been pretending to be foolish, and forced her to agree to keep the secret. After she recovered, the two headed back toward Interception Sect, where Qingyuan planned to have her act on his behalf, but a group of figures intercepted them.

• Qingyuan accused Turtle Spirit Holy Mother of deceiving him through her reincarnations and threatened to kill her, but she offered an oath or a thread of her True Spirit to prove her loyalty.
• Qingyuan warned Turtle Spirit Holy Mother not to reveal what happened, gave her a Seven-Turn Great Rejuvenation Pill, and let her recover before they left the Human Lord Banner.
• Qingyuan and Turtle Spirit Holy Mother destroyed their concealed treasures and traces in the Forbidden Art-Severing Land, then set off for Interception Sect.
• As they crossed the Western Land, Qingyuan saw that the Two Sages of the West were spreading Buddhist teachings and concluded that their growing Buddhist Dao ultimately strengthened his Divine Path.
• Qingyuan told Turtle Spirit Holy Mother he had a task for her after they returned to Golden Ao Island, but a group of figures surrounded them and ordered them not to leave until the matter was cleared up.

Qingyuan confronted Dragon Lei and the True Dragon Realm elders, who questioned him about Long Si’s disappearance and the Ancestral Dragon Pearl. When Dragon Lei demanded to inspect Qingyuan’s belongings, Qingyuan invited him closer and slapped him.

• Dragon Lei arrived with black-robed True Dragon Realm elders and attacked Turtle Spirit Holy Mother with his killing aura, but Qingyuan shielded her and sent her back to Golden Ao Island.
• Qingyuan ignored Dragon Lei’s demands as Turtle Spirit Holy Mother left, and Dragon Lei finally dissolved his prison after Qingyuan pointed out that he was the one Dragon Lei sought.
• Dragon Lei questioned Qingyuan about Long Si’s disappearance and the Ancestral Dragon Pearl, and Qingyuan explained that Daoist Huanglong had obtained the pearl from Ao Guang.
• A Dragon Clan member revealed that Long Si had intended to seize Qingyuan, and Qingyuan challenged Dragon Lei over secretly targeting a Saint’s disciple.
• Dragon Lei demanded to inspect Qingyuan’s Storage Artifacts and threatened him, so Qingyuan called him closer and slapped him across the face.

Qingyuan was trapped in the sealed True Dragon Realm after Dragon Lei attacked him, but he proved immune to Dragon Lei’s thunder and overwhelmed the Dragon Ancestors. The confrontation continued when Qingyuan slapped a female Dragon Ancestor after she blamed him for the crisis.

• Dragon Lei transported Qingyuan into the True Dragon Realm and sealed the realm with its grand array, claiming no one could escape for ten years.
• Qingyuan asked the Dragon Clan to release him and apologize, then shattered Dragon Lei’s head with a powerful slap.
• Dragon Lei transformed into a massive True Dragon and attacked Qingyuan with Kangjin Divine Thunder, but Qingyuan absorbed the lightning without harm.
• Several old dragons tried to stop Dragon Lei and warned him that Qingyuan was Sect Master Tongtian’s personal disciple.
• A female Dragon Ancestor blamed Qingyuan for Long Si’s disappearance and the realm’s crisis, and Qingyuan slapped her.

Qingyuan fought the True Dragon Clan after its elders tried to detain him in the sealed True Dragon Realm. He defeated their Old Ancestors and continued attacking the survivors, leaving the battle raging.

• Qingyuan shattered a female dragon Old Ancestor’s head with a slap, then caught Dragon Lei’s full-force tail strike with one hand.
• When the elders tried to end the conflict with mediation, Qingyuan revealed that the True Dragon Realm had been sealed for ten years and declared the dispute a fight to the death.
• Five dragon Old Ancestors attacked Qingyuan, but their blows failed to overcome his Glazed Golden Body, and he blasted the injured female dragon into a mass of flesh.
• Qingyuan sent the Human Lord Banner to devour the female dragon, while White Bone Buddha seized her fleeing Primordial Spirit and dragged it into the banner.
• Qingyuan knocked another Dragon Clan Old Ancestor away, invoked Manifestation of Heaven and Earth and Three Heads and Ten Arms, and charged the five remaining elders with his weapons.