Chapter Summaries

Qin Mu entered Jieyin and Zhunti’s Buddha Kingdom World and advanced through it with the Destruction Divine Spear, destroying the armies they sent against him. The two Saints’ desperate defenses failed, and Qin Mu continued deeper into their realm.

• Jieyin and Zhunti unleashed their Buddha Kingdom World as a killing formation against Qin Mu.
• Qin Mu walked into the Buddha Kingdom and saw through its golden appearance to the darkness beneath.
• More than ten thousand Arhats attacked Qin Mu, but the Destruction Divine Spear’s ripples erased them.
• Qin Mu advanced with a black lotus forming beneath each step as Zhunti ordered the Buddha Kingdom’s forces to stop him.
• Three thousand Bodhisattvas formed a colossal golden palm, but Qin Mu split it with one spear slash and annihilated them.

Qin Mu overwhelmed Jieyin and Zhunti inside their Buddha Kingdom and killed Zhunti with the Destruction Divine Spear. Zhunti’s death brought blood rain across the Primordial World once more, while Jieyin remained beside the battlefield.

• Qin Mu advanced through the Buddha Kingdom, killing its defenders until he faced the Dharma true bodies of Jieyin and Zhunti at Spirit Mountain.
• Zhunti transformed into a million-zhang Buddhist True Body and attacked Qin Mu with eighteen magic treasures.
• Qin Mu thrust the Destruction Divine Spear through Zhunti’s brow, destroying his Saint True Body and grinding away his Dao Fruit.
• Jieyin tried to save Zhunti by attacking with his Dharma true body and the Buddha Kingdom’s golden chains, but he failed to stop Qin Mu.
• Zhunti’s death caused blood clouds to cover the Primordial World as torrential blood rain fell again.

After Zhunti fell, Jieyin blamed Qin Mu for destroying the Western Teachings and began compressing his Saint power and Buddha Kingdom into a catastrophic self-destruction. Qin Mu remained unafraid as the energy continued to gather.

• The Primordial Wilderness reacted with terror to the fall of two Saints, while Tongtian, Emperor Venerate's Clone, Huang Tian's Clone, the Primordial Heavenly Demon, and Hongjun Dao Ancestor each responded to the upheaval.
• Zhunti's fall destabilized the Buddha Kingdom, and Jieyin grieved for his Junior Brother and the ruined Western Teachings.
• Jieyin vowed revenge on Qin Mu, rejected the chance to flee, and began turning his Saint Origin, laws, Buddha Kingdom, and dark Epoch Anchor power into a massive bomb.
• Qin Mu watched the energy singularity form and showed no fear, though he frowned at Jieyin's reckless attack.

Qin Mu used the Sacred Spirit Pearl to suppress Jieyin’s attempt to self-destruct, leaving the Saint battered and helpless. He then rejected Jieyin’s threats and attacked his Sacred Core, determined to kill him.

• Qin Mu summoned the Sacred Spirit Pearl and used its Great Thousand World power to suppress Jieyin’s self-destruction.
• The pearl’s Five Elements Laws extinguished Jieyin’s destructive power, and the backlash left him gravely weakened.
• Qin Mu approached Jieyin and declared that the Western Teachings had already made their conflict with the Sect of Interception a fight to the death.
• Jieyin warned Qin Mu that killing a Heavenly Dao Saint would bring calamity upon the Sect of Interception, but Qin Mu dismissed his threats.
• Qin Mu thrust the Destruction Divine Spear toward the Sacred Core between Jieyin’s brows.

Qin Mu nearly killed Jieyin, but Dark Night Monarch intervened from beyond the epochs and rescued him. After taunting the Monarch and allowing him to retreat with Jieyin, Qin Mu stood over the ruined Blood Sea as a dignified woman appeared beside him.

• Qin Mu drove the Destruction Divine Spear toward Jieyin, but Dark Night Monarch tore open the sky and seized Jieyin with a giant black hand.
• Jieyin recovered on the hand and mocked Qin Mu, boasting that Dark Night Monarch would protect him and threatening vengeance for Zhunti.
• Qin Mu analyzed the hand’s cross-realm power and chose not to reveal his strongest abilities or start a war with the Epoch Monarchs.
• Qin Mu insulted Dark Night Monarch and declared that he would eventually destroy the old epoch powers, while the Monarch threatened to claim his divine core.
• Dark Night Monarch withdrew with Jieyin, the rift closed, and Qin Mu put away the Destruction Divine Spear and Sacred Spirit Pearl before a dignified woman appeared beside him.

Houtu arrived at the Blood Sea and learned from Qin Mu that Minghe could return because his True Spirit was tied to the Underworld. Minghe re-formed from the Blood Sea, but his cultivation fell from the Seventh Heaven to the Sixth Heaven of the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal.

• Houtu rushed to the Blood Sea and checked that Qin Mu was unharmed.
• Qin Mu told Houtu that the Dark Night Monarch had saved Jieyin, while Zhunti had been destroyed.
• Houtu lamented Minghe’s death, but Qin Mu explained that the Underworld and a remnant of Blood Sea origin could restore him.
• Minghe re-formed his body from the Blood Sea with help from Netherworld merit and vowed revenge on Jieyin and Zhunti.
• Minghe’s cultivation plummeted to the Sixth Heaven of the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal as the cost of his return.

Qin Mu arrived after Minghe’s battle with the Western Teachings, revealed that he had killed Zhunti and crippled Jieyin, and restored Minghe’s damaged Dao foundation. With the Dark Night Monarch now intervening personally, Qin Mu ordered the Blood Sea and Underworld defenses reinforced before heading to Zixiao Palace to consult Hongjun.

• Minghe complained to Qin Mu about the Western monks’ ambush, and Qin Mu told him that Zhunti was dead while Jieyin had escaped with a badly damaged Dao foundation.
• Qin Mu gave Minghe Chaos origin essence mixed with three lights divine water, stabilizing his Saint Dao foundation despite his lost cultivation.
• Qin Mu collected the Epoch Anchor fragment and received an Epoch-Dispelling Divine Crystal from the system.
• Qin Mu ordered Minghe to rebuild the Blood Sea Formation and told Pingxin to put the Underworld on high alert and seal its passages to the mortal realm.
• Qin Mu set out for Zixiao Palace to ask Hongjun about the Dark Night Monarch.

After Qin Mu killed Zhunti, the Heavenly Dao resurrected him with much of his cultivation lost. Jieyin offered him a Netherworld Dao Abyss Fruit from the Dark Night Monarch to restore his strength, and Zhunti swallowed it.

• The Heavenly Dao resurrected Zhunti, but he discovered the Destruction Divine Spear had severed his Saint Dao Fruit and reduced him to the Fifth Heaven.
• Jieyin met Zhunti on Mount Sumeru and heard him lament their defeat, their failed attack on the Blood Sea, and the Western Teachings’ lost fortune.
• Jieyin revealed the Netherworld Dao Abyss Fruit, saying the Dark Night Monarch had given it to him as compensation and that it could restore Zhunti’s lost cultivation.
• Jieyin warned Zhunti that they could not withstand Qin Mu without greater strength, and Zhunti seized the fruit and swallowed it.

After Zhunti regained his strength, Jieyin persuaded him that the Western Teachings had no way back and that they had to join the Dark Night Monarch at Western Qi. As the two Saints headed there, Qin Mu set out for Zixiao Palace to ask Dao Ancestor Hongjun about the Dark Night Monarch.

• Zhunti absorbed the great dao origin, restored his cultivation to the peak of Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal Seventh Heaven, and strengthened his saintly body.
• Jieyin warned Zhunti that Qin Mu would not spare them and that they could not rely on Dao Ancestor Hongjun, so they had to follow the Dark Night Monarch.
• Zhunti agreed to join the forces gathering at Western Qi, and he and Jieyin took their remaining supreme treasures and flew toward the camp.
• Qin Mu noticed the Two Saints of the West heading to Western Qi but chose not to stop them, reasoning that he could deal with the forces there together.
• Qin Mu traveled through Chaos toward Zixiao Palace, intending to ask Dao Ancestor Hongjun about the Dark Night Monarch, and saw an ancient Daoist temple ahead.

Qin Mu visited Dao Ancestor Hongjun to learn about the Dark Night Monarch, who had intervened to save Jieyin. Hongjun revealed that the Dark Night Monarch was an Epoch Monarch from the first fifty epochs, and explained how he survived the destruction of his era.

• Qin Mu met Hongjun at Zixiao Palace and showed him the Epoch Anchor fragment linked to the Dark Night Monarch.
• Qin Mu asked about the Dark Night Monarch's origins and described how he had projected power into the Blood Sea and rescued Jieyin.
• Hongjun explained that the Primordial Wilderness was the three-thousandth epoch and that a few powerful beings had survived earlier epoch-ending calamities.
• Hongjun identified the Primordial Heavenly Demon as a survivor from the latter five hundred epochs and the Dark Night Monarch as a ruler from the first fifty.
• Hongjun said the Dark Night Monarch had forged an Eternal Night Divine Body from his epoch's Night Source and survived the calamity, though his cultivation had declined.

Hongjun explained that the fifty Epoch Monarchs planned to invade the Primordial Wilderness when the Immortal Seed appeared, and that he would not interfere with the calamity. Qin Mu left Zixiao Palace determined to protect the Human Race and face the ancient monarchs himself.

• Qin Mu asked why the Epoch Monarchs did not invade in their True Bodies, and Hongjun explained that the Primordial Heavenly Dao would annihilate them.
• Hongjun warned Qin Mu that the calamity would weaken the world's barriers, allowing the Dark Night Monarch and other ancient monarchs to invade for the Immortal Seed.
• Hongjun revealed that the Primordial Heavenly Demon and the Dark Night Monarch had joined forces in Western Qi to exploit the Human Race's changing Fortune and open a rift to the outside world.
• Qin Mu vowed to defend the Human Race and challenged Hongjun for allowing the calamity to unfold; Hongjun said the contest was necessary and that he would stop neither side.
• Qin Mu left Zixiao Palace and headed for the Primordial Wilderness, promising to defeat the ancient monarchs and return to invite Hongjun for tea.

Jieyin and Zhunti turned back from their flight to Western Qi to seize the Western Heavenly Court’s fortune from Haotian. Haotian celebrated Qin Mu’s victory, but the two Saints attacked the court, leaving its officials and generals crushed beneath their Saintly Might.

• Zhunti complained to Jieyin that retreating to Western Qi would make the ancient beings look down on them.
• Jieyin reminded Zhunti that they had helped Haotian establish the Western Heavenly Court, and the brothers decided to reclaim its fortune.
• Jieyin and Zhunti changed course and charged toward the Western Heavenly Court to attack Haotian.
• Haotian watched Qin Mu defeat Zhunti through the Haotian Mirror and praised Qin Mu while drinking wine.
• Jieyin and Zhunti shattered the Heavenly Court’s protective formation, and their pressure made the officials and generals collapse and spit blood.

Jieyin and the revived Zhunti confronted Haotian in Lingxiao Treasure Hall and demanded that he surrender the Western Heavenly Court’s Fortune. Haotian mocked Zhunti’s death and refused, drawing his sword as the two Saints threatened him.

• Jieyin and Zhunti entered Lingxiao Treasure Hall and Zhunti demanded that Haotian kneel before him.
• Haotian mocked Zhunti for being killed by Qin Mu and quickly revived by Heavenly Dao.
• Jieyin demanded that Haotian surrender the Western Heavenly Court’s Fortune and sever his connection to the Western Lands’ earth veins.
• Haotian rejected their demand, saying the Fortune belonged to him by Heavenly Dao’s decree.
• Haotian drew the Haotian Sword and challenged the two Saints to take the Fortune by force.

Haotian fought Zhunti and Jieyin to defend the Western Heavenly Court, but the two Saints overwhelmed his array and prepared to kill him. Qin Mu intervened through Haotian’s jade talisman, freezing their attacks and terrifying Zhunti.

• Haotian activated the Western Heavenly Court Array and used the Haotian Mirror to block Zhunti’s strike, though the backlash injured him.
• Zhunti and Jieyin realized Qin Mu had greatly strengthened Haotian and decided to attack together to seize the Western Lands’ Fortune.
• Jieyin unleashed the Jieyin Divine Banner while Zhunti summoned his Black-Gold Demon Ape Dharma Form, crushing Haotian’s defenses.
• As Haotian prepared to burn his Heavenly Emperor Origin, the jade talisman on his chest trembled and Qin Mu’s voice rang through the hall.
• Qin Mu’s power shattered Jieyin’s deathly silence net and immobilized both Saints’ attacks, leaving Zhunti terrified.

Qin Mu’s Divine Sense Dharma Body appeared to protect Haotian from Jieyin and Zhunti in the Western Heavenly Court. It defeated both Saints with a single sword strike, leaving Jieyin badly wounded and Zhunti kneeling helplessly before Haotian’s throne.

• Qin Mu’s Divine Sense Dharma Body emerged from Haotian’s Protective Jade Talisman and confronted Jieyin and Zhunti for attacking Haotian and stealing his Fortune.
• Zhunti recognized that Qin Mu had sent only a Divine Sense Dharma Body and persuaded Jieyin to attack it.
• Jieyin and Zhunti unleashed their treasures against Qin Mu’s Dharma Body, but he calmly raised a hand and used the Grass Character Sword Art, Heaven-Opening Sword.
• Qin Mu’s sword split Jieyin’s demonic Buddha and shattered the Jieyin Divine Banner, sending Jieyin flying through the Heavenly Court palaces.
• Qin Mu’s sword destroyed Zhunti’s Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree and crippled his Dharma Form, forcing him to kneel before Haotian’s throne.

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.