Chapter Summaries

Li Longji slaughtered tens of millions of Asura soldiers with his killing intent, then provoked Shi Siming with insults and revealed that his harem consorts had infected him with diseases. Enraged, Shi Siming trapped Li Longji in a Netherworld Formation, where Li Longji drew a spear and charged at him.

• Li Longji unleashed a storm of frost blades that killed tens of millions of Asura soldiers and frightened the survivors.
• Shi Siming mocked Li Longji’s strength and claimed he had slept with the emperor’s consorts, prompting the Asura experts to laugh.
• Li Longji insulted Shi Siming and revealed that the consorts were diseased women planted to ensnare powerful officials.
• Shi Siming realized he had contracted syphilis, spat blood in rage, and launched the Netherworld Formation with more than a hundred Quasi-Saints.
• Li Longji drew a spear inside the formation and charged at Shi Siming.

An Lushan ordered his forces and the Western Teachings to attack Chang'an, and Samantabhadra Bodhisattva deployed the Myriad Buddhas Great Array. After the array produced nineteen Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal-level Great Buddha manifestations, the Jade Emperor saw a way to use it to strengthen the Heavenly Court, while Zhang Yifan and Old Ancestor Yang Mei watched from Fengxian County.

• An Lushan ordered the Asura Clan and Western Teachings' forces to attack Chang'an City's defensive array.
• Samantabhadra Bodhisattva sent a hundred thousand Buddhist experts to form the Myriad Buddhas Great Array.
• The Myriad Buddhas Great Array manifested nineteen Great Buddhas with Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal-level power, astonishing Howling Celestial Dog.
• The Jade Emperor eagerly recognized the array's potential and told Yang Jian to record its formation.
• Zhang Yifan and Old Ancestor Yang Mei watched the array, and Old Ancestor Yang Mei remarked that its methods differed from the Primordial World's usual approach.

As the Western Teachings unleashed the Myriad Buddhas Great Array against Chang'an, Houtu feared the battle would destroy the Primordial Continent, so Zhang Yifan sent Old Ancestor Yang Mei to protect its earth veins. Houtu then learned that Li Longji had awakened his past-life memories, but remained curious how he could face the array’s nineteen Primordial Daluo Golden Immortals.

• The Myriad Buddhas Great Array appeared outside Chang'an, and its nineteen Buddha manifestations shook the Primordial Continent.
• Houtu left the Netherworld for Fengxian County after worrying that the battle could shatter the continent, while the fight between Hongjun and the Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, and the Golden Robe Wearer continued in Zixiao Palace.
• Zhang Yifan asked Old Ancestor Yang Mei to protect the continent, and Yang Mei spread his roots throughout the Mortal Realm and into the Netherworld to shield its earth and spiritual veins.
• Houtu admired Yang Mei’s effort, and Zhang Yifan told her that Howling Celestial Dog was already in Chang'an but that Li Longji’s battle was Great Tang’s to fight.
• Zhang Yifan revealed that Li Longji had restored his soul and awakened his past-life memories, leaving Houtu eager to see how he would face the Western Teachings’ array.

Li Longji drew on Great Tang’s destiny and used the Hundredfold Waves spear technique to kill Shi Siming and destroy the Asura Quasi-Saints who sustained his formation. An Lushan remained confident that the Western Teachings’ forces would still destroy Great Tang after breaching Chang’an’s defenses.

• Old Ancestor Yang Mei protected the Primordial Continent and vowed to defend Zhang Yifan’s son, the Jade Emperor.
• Shi Siming trapped Li Longji in the Netherworld Formation and attacked him with the power of more than a hundred Asura Quasi-Saints.
• Li Longji summoned Great Tang’s destiny, reached the peak of the Quasi-Saint realm, and used his spear to shatter the formation’s attacks.
• Shi Siming burned the Quasi-Saints’ essence to reach the first heaven of the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal realm, but Li Longji reached the same realm with Great Tang’s help.
• Li Longji used successive Hundredfold Waves strikes to destroy Shi Siming’s Dharma Idol and kill him, then killed the formation’s remaining Asura Quasi-Saints with his seventh strike.
• An Lushan and his generals were stunned by Shi Siming’s death, but An Lushan insisted that the Western Teachings’ nineteen Great Buddhas and the fall of Chang’an would still doom Li Longji and Great Tang.

Li Longji killed Shi Siming and broke the Netherworld Formation before Samantabhadra trapped him in the Myriad Buddhas Great Array. Though badly injured, Li Longji unleashed a stronger attack against the formation and vowed that not even Tathagata could stop him from killing An Lushan.

• Li Longji slew Shi Siming and shattered the Netherworld Formation, killing over a hundred Quasi-Saints and terrifying the Asura Clan soldiers.
• Samantabhadra activated the Myriad Buddhas Great Array, whose nineteen Great Buddha manifestations grievously injured Li Longji and shattered Chang'an City's defensive formation.
• Li Longji restored the city's defensive formation as An Lushan taunted him and urged Samantabhadra to finish him off.
• Li Longji charged toward An Lushan, then unleashed six waves of attacks that shook the Myriad Buddhas Great Array and injured Buddhist experts maintaining it.
• Samantabhadra steadied the array and sent the nineteen Great Buddha manifestations against Li Longji again, while Li Longji declared that even Tathagata could not stop him from killing whom he chose.

Li Longji fought the Myriad Buddhas Great Array while Samantabhadra Bodhisattva taunted him and offered him a humiliating title. When his spear shattered and the nineteen Great Buddha manifestations launched a killing move, Li Longji summoned the Spear Dao Laws as a weapon and drove them back, leaving Samantabhadra Bodhisattva stunned.

• Li Longji repeatedly attacked the Myriad Buddhas Great Array but could not push his Hundredfold Waves beyond the fifth wave, while his wounded body weakened.
• Samantabhadra Bodhisattva offered Li Longji the title of Human Slave Heavenly King of the Eastern Land, and Li Longji vowed to kill him for insulting the Human Race.
• The nineteen Great Buddha manifestations shattered Li Longji's spear, and Samantabhadra Bodhisattva unleashed a powerful Buddhist light attack as the onlookers feared for Li Longji.
• Suirenshi refused to intervene because Li Longji needed to condense his Human Emperor Destiny through the battle.
• Li Longji manifested the Spear Dao Law Pillar, wielded it as a spear, and forced the nineteen Great Buddha manifestations back several steps.
• Samantabhadra Bodhisattva was left dumbstruck as Li Longji's aura continued to rise.

Samantabhadra Bodhisattva exposed Li Longji as the reincarnation of Lord of Fire Li Er, shattering Great Tang’s morale and weakening its destiny. As Li Longji’s power collapsed, Samantabhadra launched a deadly assault, leaving the emperor badly injured and back at Quasi-Saint Peak.

• Samantabhadra recognized Li Longji’s spear as the Pillar of Spear Dao Laws and revealed to the Primordial Continent that Li Longji was Lord of Fire Li Er’s reincarnation and a pawn of the Jade Emperor.
• Great Tang’s people and soldiers lost faith, causing its Sea of Destiny to shrink by a third and draining much of the power sustaining Li Longji.
• Li Yuanfang advised Di Renjie that Li Longji should openly acknowledge his identity rather than deny it, and Di Renjie praised the plan.
• Samantabhadra seized the moment to command the nineteen Great Buddha manifestations to attack Li Longji.
• Li Longji fought back with the laws spear but was overwhelmed, badly wounded, and knocked down to Quasi-Saint Peak.

Li Longji defended Great Tang’s loyalty by revealing its ties to the Jade Emperor and invoking Nuwa, who declared herself the Jade Emperor’s Second Mother. As Great Tang’s destiny began to recover, Li Longji announced that the Jade Emperor sought to make the Primordial Continent a high-tier Primordial Continent and become a Lord of the Great Dao, shocking powerful figures across the realm.

• Li Longji argued that the Jade Emperor’s aid to Great Tang made his own reincarnation irrelevant and reminded the people that Nuwa belonged to the Heavenly Court.
• Nuwa broke through Zixiao Palace with her divine sense, appeared over the Mortal Realm, and declared herself the Jade Emperor’s Second Mother.
• The Jade Emperor erupted in anger at Nuwa’s claim, while Houtu flew into a rage and Nuwa’s companions praised her maneuver.
• Li Longji used Nuwa’s declaration to argue that all humans were the Jade Emperor’s kin, and Li Yuanfang, Di Renjie, Guo Ziyi, soldiers, and commoners rallied behind him.
• Li Longji said the Jade Emperor had no interest in ruling the Human Dao because he aimed to advance the Primordial Continent and become a Lord of the Great Dao, leaving Hongjun, Tathagata, Zhen Yuanzi, and others stunned.

Li Longji revealed that the Jade Emperor aimed to become the Lord of the Great Dao, shocking the Primordial Continent and rallying Great Tang behind the Jade Emperor’s plan to advance the world. As Samantabhadra unleashed the merged power of the Nineteen Great Buddha Dharma Forms, Li Longji called on the people of Great Tang to lend him their strength.

• Fuxi, Shennong, and Xuanyuan realized they had misunderstood the Jade Emperor’s ambition, while Black Gold Tathagata explained to Tathagata Buddha the ranks of Great Dao beings and wondered which Great Dao the Jade Emperor sought to rule.
• An Lushan accepted that his Asura Clan could not match the Jade Emperor, firmed his resolve, and urged Samantabhadra to unleash his killing move.
• Samantabhadra changed the Myriad Buddhas Great Array and fused the Nineteen Great Buddha Dharma Forms, raising their power to the fifth heaven of the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal Realm.
• Li Longji told the people that the Jade Emperor wanted the Primordial Continent’s three Daos to flourish and urged them to support the world’s advancement; Great Tang’s commanders, soldiers, and common people answered his call.
• Samantabhadra mocked Li Longji and attacked with the merged Dharma Forms, so Li Longji raised his hand and asked the people of Great Tang to lend him their strength.

Li Longji borrowed the strength of Great Tang’s people through his jade seal and overwhelmed Samantabhadra Bodhisattva. After breaking the Myriad Buddhas Great Array, he prepared to kill Samantabhadra, who called to Tathagata Buddha for help.

• Di Renjie ordered Great Tang’s soldiers and generals to raise their right hands, and Li Longji drew their strength through his jade seal.
• Black Gold Tathagata recognized the technique as Imperial Dynasty Destiny Power, while Zhang Yifan explained that he had upgraded Li Longji’s jade seal.
• Li Longji’s strength surged to the seventh heaven of the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal realm, and he struck Samantabhadra’s Great Buddha flying.
• Li Longji battered the Great Buddha and smashed its head, breaking the Myriad Buddhas Great Array and killing nearly one hundred thousand Quasi-Saint experts.
• Li Longji pursued the fallen Samantabhadra and moved to deliver a final punch, while Samantabhadra shouted for Tathagata Buddha to save him.

Tathagata Buddha emerged from seclusion and overwhelmed Li Longji, mocking the Human Race's ancient rulers. Howling Celestial Dog and Yang Jian arrived to stop him from escaping, leaving Tathagata surrounded by two powerful opponents.

• Tathagata Buddha appeared just as Li Longji was about to kill Samantabhadra, then struck Li Longji away with a casual flick.
• Li Longji defied Tathagata's pressure and attacked him with his jade seal, but Tathagata sent him flying again and mocked his weakness.
• Tathagata insulted the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, angering Li Longji and the Human Race figures in Huoyun Cave.
• Howling Celestial Dog appeared above Chang'an, challenged Tathagata over his remark about slaughtering a dog, and charged at him.
• Yang Jian blocked Tathagata's escape and revealed that both his physical body and primordial spirit had reached the Heavenly Dao Realm.
• Howling Celestial Dog cut off Tathagata's other escape route and threatened to tear him apart or make him kill himself.

Yang Jian and Howling Celestial Dog fought Tathagata Buddha while Li Longji executed Samantabhadra for his crimes against the Great Tang. After Samantabhadra died, Li Longji turned his attention to An Lushan.

• Yang Jian confronted Tathagata Buddha under Heavenly Court law and attacked him with the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Halberd.
• Howling Celestial Dog joined Yang Jian, revealed he had reached the heavenly Dao realm, and helped block Tathagata Buddha from escaping.
• Yang Jian and Howling Celestial Dog battled Tathagata Buddha across the heavens, while Howling Celestial Dog captured Samantabhadra and sent him to Li Longji.
• Li Longji pinned Samantabhadra down and executed him by Lingchi over seven days, naming the crimes behind each cut.
• After Samantabhadra's soul and spirit were destroyed, Li Longji confronted An Lushan, who collapsed in fear.

After executing Samantabhadra, Li Longji turned the people’s outrage against An Lushan, but had to give up their borrowed strength when An Lushan ordered a full assault. As An Lushan’s Blood River Formation threatened the Human Race, Li Longji borrowed Human Emperor Power from the Human Dao and renewed the battle.

• Li Longji defended Samantabhadra’s execution by condemning the Asura Clan and Western Teachings, and the people of Great Tang rallied behind him.
• An Lushan ordered the Asura armies to attack, forcing Li Longji to disperse his borrowed power and leaving him weakened as Asura generals surrounded him.
• An Lushan unleashed 480 million Blood God Son clones and formed the Blood River Formation, gravely wounding Li Longji and the human army.
• Li Longji asked the Human Dao for Human Emperor Power, received the Human Emperor Throne Altar, and rose to the Third Heaven of the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal.
• Li Longji and An Lushan resumed their deadly battle as fighting spread across the Mortal Realm of the Primordial Continent.

As the Human Race fought the Asura Clan and Western Teachings, Old Bai and Old Jin, Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, the Bull Demon King, and many others sacrificed themselves to destroy the enemy. Moved by their courage, Houtu ordered Li Shimin to seal the Netherworld Blood Sea and exterminate the Asura Clan.

• Li Longji and An Lushan continued their fierce battle outside Chang'an, while Zhang Yifan told Houtu to let the Mortal Realm endure its own trials.
• Old Bai and Old Jin self-detonated inside an enemy formation, wiping out nearby Asura Clan and Western Teachings forces while sparing other living beings.
• Inspired by their sacrifice, Sun Wukong and the monkeys of Flower-Fruit Mountain self-detonated against the enemy.
• Zhu Bajie, the Bull Demon King, and the Yu Demon King, the Roc Demon King, and their forces also sacrificed themselves in attacks across the Mortal Realm.
• Houtu recognized the sacrifices as heroic spirit and ordered Li Shimin to lead the Yellow Springs Army to seal the Netherworld Blood Sea and kill the Asura Clan members who revived.

Great Immortal Zhen Yuanzi and Houtu struck back against the Asura Clan and Western Teachings as Du Fu discovered that writing carried the Human Dao and attained Sainthood. He arrived at the Blood River Formation to face An Lushan, and his first verse began to unleash an unexpected power.

• Great Immortal Zhen Yuanzi used the Book of Earth to destroy Asuras and Western Teachings followers near Wuzhuang Temple, then declared the area a refuge for humans.
• Houtu removed the Asura Clan from the Six Paths of Reincarnation and ordered the Yellow Springs Army to surround and destroy the Blood Sea, gravely wounding An Lushan through their connection.
• Grieving over the devastation, Du Fu met Zhang Yifan, who helped him realize that writing carried the Human Dao and that Confucianism could lead to Sainthood.
• Du Fu attained Sainthood and used his poetry to bring healing rain and life-giving spring winds to human forces across the Mortal Realm.
• Du Fu joined Li Longji in the Blood River Formation and challenged An Lushan, who attacked him with the Blood God Son clones as Du Fu recited a verse.

Du Fu used the power of his poetry to break An Lushan’s Blood River Formation, destroy his Blood God Son clones, and stop his attempt to detonate himself. After Du Fu killed An Lushan, the sages of the Human Race celebrated the rise of Human Dao.

• Du Fu recited poetry that turned falling leaves and Yangtze torrents into attacks, breaking the Blood River Formation and destroying most of An Lushan’s Blood God Son clones.
• As powerful figures across the Primordial Continent watched, An Lushan ordered his remaining clones to explode, but Du Fu froze and destroyed them with another line of poetry.
• Du Fu blasted An Lushan away with saint’s power, while onlookers marveled at the many kinds of law power his poetry commanded.
• An Lushan tried to self-detonate and take the Primordial Continent with him, but Du Fu summoned an army whose arrows pierced An Lushan’s body and primordial spirit, killing him.
• Du Fu declared An Lushan executed and called for surrender; in Huoyun Cave, Fuxi, Shennong, Xuanyuan, and the other Human Race sages celebrated Human Dao’s rise.

After Li Longji ordered a counterattack in the Mortal Realm, Suirenshi broke Tathagata Buddha’s formation and burned the Netherworld Blood Sea dry, preventing the Asura Clan from being reborn. The victory left Li Shimin and his commanders wondering how the Six Paths of Reincarnation could remain complete without the Asura path.

• Li Longji ordered Great Tang’s forces to exterminate the Asura Clan and Western Teachings, and the Human Race resistance forces launched a counterattack.
• Li Shimin’s Yellow Springs Army surrounded the Netherworld Blood Sea but could not break Tathagata Buddha’s formation, while the Asura Clan mocked them and insulted Houtu.
• Suirenshi arrived, revealed he had reached the second heaven of the Heavenly Dao Realm, and shattered Tathagata’s formation with the Human Race’s Primordial Fire.
• Li Shimin led his army into the Blood Sea and repeatedly killed the reborn Asuras, including the demonic general who had insulted Houtu.
• Suirenshi unleashed the origin flame of the Human Race’s Primordial Fire and burned the Netherworld Blood Sea dry, ending the Asura Clan’s ability to be reborn.
• Du Ruhui pointed out that the Asura Clan’s extinction left the Six Paths of Reincarnation without an Asura path, and Li Shimin and the others realized it might no longer be complete.

As the Six Paths of Reincarnation lost the Asura path, Houtu sought Zhang Yifan’s advice, but he told her to watch Yang Jian’s fight with Tathagata Buddha first. When Yang Jian and Howling Celestial Dog gained the upper hand, Black Gold Tathagata sacrificed his remaining Great Dao Soul to raise Tathagata Buddha to the half-step Great Dao Realm, leaving Yang Jian’s descending strike impossible to stop.

• Li Shimin ordered three hundred thousand Yellow Springs Army soldiers to guard the dried-up Netherworld Blood Sea and sent the rest back to the battlefronts against the Skeleton and Zombie Empires.
• Houtu asked Zhang Yifan what the Asura Clan’s extinction meant for the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and he told her to watch Yang Jian’s battle before worrying about it.
• Yang Jian and Howling Celestial Dog coordinated their attacks in the twenty-first heaven and began to suppress Tathagata Buddha.
• Black Gold Tathagata decided to burn his last wisp of Great Dao Soul, promising Tathagata Buddha a quarter-hour in the half-step Great Dao Realm.
• Yang Jian rushed in to strike Tathagata Buddha, but Tathagata’s cultivation abruptly surged, leaving Yang Jian unable to pull back his full-strength blow.

Tathagata Buddha revealed his half-step Great Dao Realm power and nearly killed Yang Jian and Howling Celestial Dog, but Yang Jian endured with the Dog Beating Stick. Zhang Yifan shielded the Primordial Continent from their clash, while Tathagata, limited by a quarter-hour, raced toward Lingxiao Palace with Yang Jian pursuing him.

• Tathagata Buddha unleashed half-step Great Dao Realm power, badly wounding Yang Jian and Howling Celestial Dog and destroying several heavens.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun escaped while Sect Master Tongtian and the others were distracted by Tathagata's power.
• Yang Jian blocked Tathagata's killing punch with the Dog Beating Stick, and their clash shattered more of the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• Zhang Yifan waved his palm-leaf fan and shielded the Primordial Continent from the fighters' destructive power.
• Yang Jian shattered Tathagata's fist with the Dog Beating Stick, but both fighters remained gravely wounded.
• Tathagata charged toward Lingxiao Palace before his quarter-hour of power ran out, and Yang Jian pursued him.

Tathagata Buddha attacked Lingxiao Palace, but Yang Jian, Howling Celestial Dog, and the arriving saints repeatedly stopped him. As time ran short, Tathagata sacrificed his source soul to gain first-rank Great Dao power, while the evil Buddha Randeng secretly stole the Heavenly Dao laws and absorbed Buddhist power.

• Yang Jian and Howling Celestial Dog each took a grievous injury while diverting Tathagata Buddha’s attacks away from Lingxiao Palace.
• Sect Master Tongtian, Primeval Lord of Heaven, and Saint Nuwa arrived and blocked Tathagata’s strike with a rice bowl.
• Sect Master Tongtian fought Tathagata with the Sword-Character Calligraphy Model and cut apart his Heaven and Earth Dharma Idol’s fist.
• As the quarter-hour deadline approached, Tathagata burned his source soul and gathered the Buddhist Way’s past, present, and future power to reach the first-rank Great Dao first heaven realm.
• The evil Buddha Randeng opened the Twenty-four Heavens and secretly stole the Primordial Continent’s Heavenly Dao laws while absorbing the Buddhist power released by Tathagata.