Recaps

Qin Mu’s divine sense drove Jieyin and Zhunti to flee the Western Heavenly Court, and his True Body arrived after they escaped. He healed Haotian and said he had come to discuss another matter, leaving Haotian ready to obey his instructions.

• Jieyin urged the badly injured Zhunti to retreat before Qin Mu’s True Body arrived.
• Zhunti burned his Dark Saint Power to break free, and Jieyin opened a space-time rift with the Jieyin Divine Banner and his Quintessential Blood.
• Haotian tried to strike the fleeing Jieyin and Zhunti with the Haotian Sword, but they escaped beyond the Western Lands.
• Qin Mu’s True Body arrived at the ruined Lingxiao Treasure Hall, and his divine sense incarnation returned to him.
• Haotian and the immortals saluted Qin Mu, who healed Haotian with Three Lights Divine Water.
• Qin Mu told Haotian he had come to discuss another matter, and Haotian pledged to obey his instructions.

Qin Mu ordered Haotian to relocate the Western Heavenly Court to the east and merge it with the Eastern Heavenly Court. Haotian agreed and led the court’s halls and three hundred thousand troops toward the Eastern Heavenly Realm, while cultivators across the Great Desolation realized the two courts were uniting under Emperor Venerate.

• Qin Mu told Haotian that the Western Teachings had lost their hold on the west and ordered him to merge the Western Heavenly Court with the Eastern Heavenly Court.
• Haotian agreed, recognizing that joining Emperor Venerate’s court would secure his position and protect him from threats in the west.
• Qin Mu promised Haotian he could retain his office and govern the western reaches after the merger, then left for Jin'ao Island.
• Haotian ordered the Western Heavenly Court’s halls, treasures, and three hundred thousand heavenly soldiers to set out for the east.
• The Western Heavenly Court crossed the skies in a vast migration, prompting cultivators to recognize that it was submitting to the Eastern Heavenly Court and the Sect of Interception.

Haotian surrendered the Western Heavenly Court and part of its Fortune to Emperor Venerate, unifying the Heavenly Courts and strengthening Qin Mu’s control over the Primordial Wilderness. As the Western Lands collapsed into desolation, Jieyin and Zhunti suffered setbacks and lamented that their teachings’ foundation had been destroyed.

• Haotian brought the Western Heavenly Court’s officials, generals, and thirty percent of the Western Lands’ Fortune to the Eastern Heavenly Court and submitted to Emperor Venerate.
• Emperor Venerate appointed Haotian the Western Gouchen Supreme Palace Great Emperor and placed him first among the Four Imperials.
• The Western Fortune merged with the Eastern Heavenly Court’s Fortune, forming a vast ancestral dragon and raising Emperor Venerate’s cultivation to the Second Heaven.
• The unified Heavenly Court’s Fortune flowed to Qin Mu, who consolidated his dominion over the Heavenly Court, Human Realm, and Underworld.
• The Western Lands lost their remaining Fortune and withered as their spirit veins and springs collapsed.
• Jieyin and Zhunti spat blood, and Zhunti’s cultivation cracked as they realized Haotian’s migration had severed the foundation of Western Teachings.

After Qin Mu and Haotian destroyed the Western Teachings’ power, Jieyin and Zhunti prepared to flee Mount Sumeru and seek the Dark Night Monarch’s help. They discovered an ancient Buddhist power beneath the mountain and plunged underground to investigate the hidden legacy.

• Jieyin and Zhunti mourned the loss of their Fortune and the destruction of the Western Teachings, while Jieyin said Qin Mu’s power left them unable to fight him.
• Jieyin decided that he and Zhunti would seek refuge with the Dark Night Monarch in Western Qi and help claim the Immortal Seed.
• A tremor beneath Mount Sumeru released pure, ancient Buddhist light that revived the glow of several dead bodhi trees.
• Jieyin and Zhunti sensed a powerful barrier and realized a legacy from the Previous Era might lie beneath the mountain.
• Jieyin and Zhunti raced down through the fissure to uncover the hidden Buddhist power.

Jieyin and Zhunti discovered an ancient stone gate beneath Mount Sumeru that hinted at a supreme Buddha Epoch and powerful inheritance. Zhunti’s attempt to force it open failed, and when Jieyin touched it, the gate began draining his Saintly blood.

• Jieyin and Zhunti descended beneath Mount Sumeru and found an enormous Ancient Stone Gate bearing the words “Beginning of All Buddhas.”
• Zhunti and Jieyin recognized the gate as a remnant of a supreme Buddha Epoch and sensed powerful Buddhist origins beyond it.
• Zhunti struck the gate with his full strength, but it remained unharmed and its rebounding force broke his arm.
• Jieyin determined that brute force could not open the gate and cautiously touched it with his Buddhist Dharma.
• The gate formed a black vortex that trapped Jieyin’s hand and began sucking the Saint Blood from his wound.

Jieyin and Zhunti opened an ancient Buddhist treasury beneath Mount Sumeru after the gate drained most of Jieyin’s saint blood. They discovered an Epoch Buddha Embryo and eight powerful Dharma artifacts, then rushed toward the treasures.

• Zhunti tried to sever Jieyin’s wrist from the stone gate, but the Central Ancient Buddha manifestation knocked away the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree.
• After the gate absorbed enough of Jieyin’s saint blood, it released him and opened, while its golden rosy clouds rapidly healed his withered arm.
• Jieyin and Zhunti entered a vast golden starry world and found the remains of a supreme ancient Buddha seated on a lotus platform.
• Jieyin recognized the thirty-six-colored embryo at the Buddha’s chest as an Epoch Buddha Embryo, and Zhunti spotted eight ancient Dharma artifacts beneath the platform.
• Zhunti charged toward the lotus platform, and Jieyin followed, both reaching for the Epoch Buddha Embryo.

Jieyin and Zhunti sacrificed their saintly blood to awaken the ancient Buddha, hoping to claim his body as an inheritance. Instead, the Chaos Ancient Buddha opened his eyes, revealed he was alive, and declared his return.

• Zhunti was pinned to the lotus platform by the Buddha's blood-red Dao Patterns, and the ancient Buddha began draining his saintly blood.
• Jieyin tried to free Zhunti but was also caught by the devouring force, so the two Saints released their remaining origins and poured their blood into the Buddha.
• The devouring force stopped after the Buddha had drained them to the brink of Primordial Chaos, and Zhunti urged Jieyin to refine the ancient Buddha's body.
• The ancient Buddha unleashed a supreme aura, shattered the independent world beneath Mount Sumeru, and opened his eyes.
• Jieyin and Zhunti tried to flee, but the ancient Buddha identified himself as the Chaos Ancient Buddha and hurled them away with his proclamation.

The Chaos Ancient Buddha awakened at Mount Sumeru and revealed a power beyond the Heavenly Dao, then set out across the Primordial Wilderness with Jieyin and Zhunti bound behind him. His emergence stirred Primordial Heavenly Demon at Kunlun, who recognized the ancient enemy and prepared for what might come.

• The Chaos Ancient Buddha absorbed the Era Buddha Embryo and restored Mount Sumeru’s collapsing ley lines after awakening.
• Jieyin and Zhunti begged the ancient Buddha to spare them and asked him to help the Western Teachings against Qin Mu, but he silenced and imprisoned them.
• The Chaos Ancient Buddha sensed the Immortal Seed’s emergence and warned that the era would become a blood sea before departing Mount Sumeru with the two Saints in chains.
• The ancient Buddha’s aura disrupted the laws of the Great Desolation World, shook the Thirty-Three Heavens, and spread across the Three Realms.
• Primordial Heavenly Demon sensed the Chaos Ancient Buddha’s arrival from Kunlun and recognized him as an old enemy who had emerged from the Epoch Graveyard.

Primordial Heavenly Demon, Dao Ancestor Hongjun, and Great Immortal Yang Mei reacted to Chaos Ancient Buddha’s return and the gathering struggle over the Immortal Seed. As ancient powers stirred across the Primordial World, Yang Mei watched Qin Mu as a possible force in the conflict.

• Primordial Heavenly Demon sensed Chaos Ancient Buddha’s revival and formed a Demonized Fragment of Pangu Banner, anticipating the chaos would let him devour demonic thoughts.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun felt Chaos Ancient Buddha’s Buddhist Dao tear through the Heavenly Dao Celestial Net and worried that the awakening ancient powers would overwhelm the Primordial Wilderness.
• Great Immortal Yang Mei observed the Primordial Land from the Void Death Land and identified the ambitions of Dark Night Monarch, Primordial Heavenly Demon, and Chaos Ancient Buddha.
• Great Immortal Yang Mei watched Qin Mu in Biyou Palace and wondered which power would prevail in the struggle spanning three thousand eras.

Jieyin and Zhunti awakened Chaos Ancient Buddha beneath Mount Sumeru, but he forced Zhunti to reveal the state of the Primordial Wilderness and rebuked the Western Saints for their defeat by Qin Mu. The chapter left the ancient titan refusing to attack Qin Mu, while Zhunti questioned why he feared the junior.

• Jieyin and Zhunti bowed before Chaos Ancient Buddha and told him they had unsealed him with Primordial Chaos Saint Blood.
• Chaos Ancient Buddha asked who bore the Mandate of Heaven, then seized Zhunti and forcibly searched his memories when the Saints could not answer.
• Chaos Ancient Buddha learned that the Primordial Heavenly Demon and Dark Night Monarch had also entered the great age of contention and that Qin Mu had risen to immense power.
• Chaos Ancient Buddha rebuked Jieyin and Zhunti for letting Qin Mu strip them of their authority and reduce them to serving Dark Night Monarch.
• Jieyin and Zhunti begged Chaos Ancient Buddha to kill Qin Mu, but he refused, prompting Zhunti to ask why Qin Mu could threaten him.

The Chaos Ancient Buddha explained why former-era giants could not freely fight Qin Mu and made Jieyin and Zhunti his agents in the current age. He gave each Saint a drop of Primordial Ancestral Buddha Quintessential Blood, and they swallowed it to begin restoring their strength.

• The Chaos Ancient Buddha told Jieyin and Zhunti that the current Heavenly Dao suppressed outsiders from previous eras, making it dangerous for him and the Primordial Heavenly Demon to confront Qin Mu directly.
• Jieyin and Zhunti learned that the Dark Night Monarch and the Primordial Heavenly Demon also feared the era laws, leaving the two Saints without the powerful allies they had expected.
• The Chaos Ancient Buddha declared Jieyin and Zhunti native Saints protected by Heavenly Dao karma and ordered them to serve as his agents against Qin Mu.
• Jieyin and Zhunti complained that their weakened cultivation left them unable to fight Qin Mu or his forces, so the Chaos Ancient Buddha offered them his Primordial Ancestral Buddha Quintessential Blood.
• Jieyin and Zhunti swallowed the divine blood, and its immense ancient Buddhist power surged through their bodies.

Jieyin and Zhunti consumed the ancient Progenitor Buddha’s Quintessential Blood and rose to the peak of Primordial Unity Grand Unity Golden Immortal Ninth Heaven. The weakened Progenitor Buddha sent them to the Western Qi battlefield to aid the Dark Night Monarch and collect spiritual blood and souls to restore his strength.

• The Progenitor Buddha’s Quintessential Blood propelled Jieyin and Zhunti to the peak of Primordial Unity Grand Unity Golden Immortal Ninth Heaven.
• Zhunti celebrated their new power and vowed revenge against Qin Mu for his past attacks on the Western Teachings.
• The Chaos Ancient Buddha revealed that giving them two drops of Quintessential Blood had drained much of his vital essence and threatened to return him to slumber.
• The Progenitor Buddha ordered Jieyin and Zhunti to go to the Western Qi battlefield and help the Dark Night Monarch fight the Sect of Interception.
• The Progenitor Buddha commanded them to extract the origins and soul essence of every battlefield casualty and send them beneath Mount Sumeru to heal him.

Jieyin and Zhunti agreed to gather Quintessential Blood for the Chaos Ancient Buddha, then sacrificed the hundred thousand surviving disciples of the Western Teachings to feed him. Afterward, the brothers headed to Western Qi, where their terrifying arrival stunned the Dark Night Monarch.

• The Chaos Ancient Buddha threatened Jieyin and Zhunti, demanding Quintessential Blood and warning that he would reclaim their Dao Fruits if they delayed.
• Jieyin and Zhunti decided the Western Qi battlefield would not provide blood quickly enough, so they chose to sacrifice the Western Teachings’ surviving disciples.
• Jieyin and Zhunti killed the hundred thousand disciples on Mount Sumeru and sent their Quintessential Blood underground to the Chaos Ancient Buddha.
• Jieyin opened a spatial passage, and he and Zhunti set out for Western Qi to join the Dark Night Monarch and confront the Sect of Interception and Qin Mu’s Clones.
• Jieyin and Zhunti descended over the Zhou Camp, forcing its million soldiers to kneel and leaving the Dark Night Monarch frozen in shock.

Jieyin and Zhunti returned to the Western Qi Camp with their injuries healed and their cultivation raised to Primordial Unity Grand Unity Golden Immortal Ninth Heaven, shocking Dark Night Monarch and the camp's leaders. Jieyin attributed their sudden power to a Buddhist inheritance beneath Mount Sumeru, concealing the Chaos Ancient Buddha's existence.

• Dark Night Monarch sensed Jieyin and Zhunti's immense new power and failed to probe them through their ancient Buddhist light.
• Guangchengzi, Daoist Randeng, Ji Fa, and the Nine-Tailed Fox rushed out of the command tent and were stunned by the two Saints' cultivation.
• Zhunti reveled in the fear and respect of the Western Qi leaders while Jieyin greeted Dark Night Monarch.
• Dark Night Monarch questioned how the two had recovered and advanced so dramatically in less than half a day.
• Jieyin claimed they had accidentally undone a seal beneath Mount Sumeru and obtained a Buddhist inheritance, while Zhunti insisted their new strength benefited Western Qi.

Dark Night Monarch ordered Western Qi to attack Sishui Pass in three days, while Jieyin and Zhunti secretly plotted to harvest the battlefield’s Quintessential Blood. At Sishui Pass, Di Xin and the defenders learned that the two Saints had reached Supreme Polarity Ninth Heaven, leaving them to face an overwhelming enemy force.

• Dark Night Monarch ordered Western Qi’s army to prepare for battle and personally vowed to flatten Sishui Pass in three days.
• Jieyin and Zhunti secretly planned to use the Buddhist Heaven-Swallowing Formation to drain the dead, especially targeting Daoist Duobao and Zhao Gongming.
• A scout reported to Di Xin, Daoist Duobao, and the defenders that Jieyin and Zhunti had returned at Supreme Polarity Ninth Heaven and that Western Qi would attack in three days.
• Huang Feihu and Wen Zhong reacted with alarm as they realized Sishui Pass faced three Supreme Polarity experts and several newly advanced Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortals.

Daoist Duobao learned that three Ninth Heaven Supreme Polarity experts and their allies threatened Sishui Pass, while Qin Mu could not leave seclusion without risking a wider catastrophe. He ordered the defenders to hold the pass and traveled to the Underworld to report the crisis and seek Qin Mu’s decree.

• Daoist Duobao confirmed that Jieyin and Zhunti had reached the Ninth Heaven and that Dark Night Monarch’s formation left Sishui Pass unable to withstand the enemy’s full attack.
• Xuanyuan, Kong Xuan, and Di Xin vowed to defend Great Shang, but Daoist Duobao warned that their forces could not overcome three Supreme Polarity experts.
• Daoist Duobao refused to summon Qin Mu from seclusion and explained that his departure could let ancient enemies trigger the Chaos Calamity early.
• Daoist Duobao ordered Xuanyuan, Kong Xuan, and Di Xin to defend Sishui Pass for three days, then left for the Underworld to seek Qin Mu’s decree.
• Daoist Duobao reached Ghost Gate Pass, where Ox-Head, Horse-Face, and the ghost kings recognized him and knelt.

Daoist Duobao rushed to the Underworld to find Qin Mu and warn him that Western Qi’s forces threatened Sishui Pass, but found only Yin Tianzi, Qin Mu’s Clone. Yin Tianzi gave Duobao the Sacred Spirit Pearl and ordered him to return to Sishui Pass, promising that Qin Mu would handle any consequences.

• Daoist Duobao searched the Underworld for Qin Mu but discovered that his true body was absent.
• Black Impermanence led Daoist Duobao to Yanluo Heavenly Hall, where Yin Tianzi received him.
• Daoist Duobao warned Yin Tianzi that Jieyin, Zhunti, and Dark Night Monarch threatened Sishui Pass with their powerful forces.
• Yin Tianzi revealed that Qin Mu had left the Sacred Spirit Pearl in the Underworld and gave it to Daoist Duobao.
• Yin Tianzi ordered Daoist Duobao to return to Sishui Pass, prepare any battle formations he wished, and strike Western Qi without restraint.

Daoist Duobao returned to Sishui Pass with Qin Mu’s Sacred Spirit Pearl, rallying its defenders against Western Qi’s impending attack. Meanwhile, Qin Mu met with Tongtian on Jin'ao Island, where Tongtian reflected on how far his disciple had surpassed him.

• A scout reported that Western Qi’s vanguard had camped thirty miles from Sishui Pass and that Guangchengzi and Daoist Randeng were raising the Nine Heavens Immortal-Extermination Formation.
• Daoist Duobao returned from the Underworld and told the gathered leaders that Qin Mu’s true body was elsewhere, arranging a grand scheme.
• Daoist Duobao revealed Qin Mu’s Sacred Spirit Pearl, which strengthened Sishui Pass’s barrier, and said Qin Mu would descend personally if needed.
• Daoist Duobao assigned Xuanyuan to bolster the city, Kong Xuan to guard the wings, and himself to confront the Western forces as Great Shang’s soldiers prepared for battle.
• On Jin'ao Island, Tongtian praised Qin Mu’s rise beyond the Heavenly Dao and admitted that he had become someone his master had to look up to.