Chapter Summaries

Su Miao committed to facing the disaster at Buzhou Mountain, and the Heavenly Dao gave her a Chaos Dao Seal and promised to cover for her if things went wrong. She led three thousand Farm Teachings disciples toward the collapsing mountain as rogue cultivators watched and raised their cups to them.

• The Heavenly Dao warned Su Miao about the karma she would bear if her plan failed, but she insisted she could not stand by while the sky collapsed.
• The Heavenly Dao gave Su Miao a Chaos-colored Dao Seal and promised to cover for her if the worst came to pass.
• Su Miao ordered the three thousand disciples to fly toward Buzhou Mountain, and none of them looked back as the mountain continued to collapse.
• The bald old rogue cultivator toasted the departing disciples, and the rogue cultivators in the teahouse raised their cups after him.

Su Miao used the Five Innate Flags to suppress the chaos around Buzhou Mountain and create a safe passage to its main peak. The passage reached the mountain’s foot, where she called for her Disciples to enter.

• The Disciples encountered deadly chaotic currents thousands of li from Buzhou Mountain, and Su Miao ordered them to retreat.
• Su Miao entered the dangerous region alone and summoned the Five Innate Flags to calm the spiritual energies and repair space.
• Su Miao combined the five banners’ powers into a defensive passage that extended toward Buzhou Mountain’s main peak.
• The Great Dao Merit Golden Wheel appeared behind Su Miao and helped stabilize the shield and ease the pressure on her.
• Su Miao extended the passage to the foot of the mountain and told her stunned Disciples to enter.

Su Miao used the Five Innate Flags to stabilize a safe passage through the spatial turbulence and lead the disciples toward the main peak. As other factions marveled at her power, Tongtian praised her while Yuanshi and Laozi worried over the strain she was enduring.

• Su Miao filtered the violent Spiritual Qi with the Five Innate Flags, allowing the disciples to enter the barrier passage safely.
• Dapeng praised Su Miao, while Kong Xuan told him to finish his homework; Zhao Gongming and San Xiao vowed to work hard for her sake.
• Su Miao suppressed the final spatial turbulence, opened the route to the main peak, and led the disciples through the five-colored aerial passage.
• The Tiger Demon Saint and Snake Demon Saint recognized that Su Miao possessed all Five Innate Flags and were stunned by her strength and fortune.
• Tongtian praised Su Miao's artifact-control skills, while Yuanshi worried about her exhaustion and Laozi insisted she knew her limits.

Su Miao expanded the Five Innate Flags’ Formation to protect the entire main peak of Buzhou Mountain, enduring severe pressure and internal injuries to stabilize it. She succeeded, and observers watching through water screens were left astonished by her resolve.

• Su Miao raised the five flags and expanded the Formation across Buzhou Mountain’s main peak while the disciples watched the surrounding Chaos currents batter the barrier.
• The strain injured Su Miao and drained her Spiritual Power, but the Great Dao Merit Golden Wheel and Alchemical Pills helped her keep the Formation stable.
• Su Miao completed the barrier, suppressing violent Spiritual Qi and closing spatial rifts, though the mountain’s cracks and threat of collapse remained.
• Xuan and the other disciples hurried to support Su Miao, but she waved them off and wiped the blood from her mouth.
• The Tiger Demon Saint, Snake Demon Saint, and rogue cultivators watching through water screens reacted with shock to Su Miao’s injuries and her decision to keep going.

Su Miao discovered that Buzhou Mountain’s broken Earth Veins meant the Five Directions Flags could preserve it for only three years, so Farm Teachings mobilized disciples to reinforce and study the mountain. She brought out the Jianmu Tree to see whether it could support the heavens, leaving its success uncertain.

• Su Miao assessed Buzhou Mountain’s damage and told Xuan and the disciples that it could last at most three years under the Five Directions Flags.
• Su Miao gave Qing Luan a Teleportation Child Disk, and Qing Luan established three arrays connecting the mountain to Mount Tai as disciples arrived to assist.
• Su Miao and the disciples surveyed the mountain’s widening cracks and saw Earth Fire erupt from broken Earth Veins.
• Su Miao realized the Celestial Vault’s pressure remained beyond the Five Directions Flags’ power and considered using the Jianmu Tree to help support the sky.
• Su Miao brought the Jianmu Tree out of the Chaos Bead, astonishing the disciples and rogue cultivators watching through the water screen.

Su Miao tried to use Jianmu Tree to support the collapsing sky, but the still-immature tree was badly injured before she pulled it back into the Chaos Bead. With the celestial vault still failing, she sent all thirty-six Sea Calming Beads toward it to try another solution.

• Jianmu Tree grew toward the celestial vault and tried to hold it up, but the immense weight bent its trunk and broke its branches and roots.
• Su Miao recalled the injured Jianmu Tree into the Chaos Bead, tended its wounds with Three Lights Divine Water, and promised to hold up the sky herself.
• A female Plant Spirit disciple offered Su Miao a thirty-thousand-year-cultivated Spring Returning Vine seed, which Su Miao planted beside Jianmu Tree to speed its recovery.
• Su Miao saw that the chaotic currents were battering the Five-Colored Formation more violently and realized the barrier could not hold much longer.
• Su Miao activated all thirty-six Sea Calming Beads and sent them toward the celestial vault, hoping they could stabilize the heavens.

Su Miao used the thirty-six Sea Calming Beads to support the collapsing Celestial Vault above Buzhou Mountain, easing the strain but failing to stop the mountain from tilting. As she searched the Chaos Bead for something to brace the mountain from below, her disciples continued working while Yuanshi watched with worry.

• Su Miao sent spiritual power into the thirty-six Sea Calming Beads, which formed a vast blue canopy and held up the Celestial Vault.
• One Sea Calming Bead chased Dapeng and grazed him before Su Miao returned it to its place.
• The beads took on at least half the pressure weighing on Buzhou Mountain, slowing its trembling and the spread of its cracks.
• Su Miao pushed herself to keep the beads supplied with spiritual power, and blood seeped from the corner of her mouth as her disciples resumed their work.
• Yuanshi watched Su Miao through a water screen and quietly urged Miao Heng to call for him if she could not hold on.
• Su Miao realized Buzhou Mountain was still tilting from its momentum and searched the Chaos Bead for a treasure that could support it from below.

Su Miao used the Four Seas Four Divine Irons to reinforce Buzhou Mountain, and their support stopped the mountain’s cracks from spreading. The rods began drawing energy from the Earth Veins, leaving Su Miao confident they could keep supporting the mountain as long as those veins remained.

• Su Miao searched her treasure mountain and found the four rod-shaped Innate Spiritual Treasures called the Four Seas Four Divine Irons.
• Su Miao refined the four rods, enlarged them into immense pillars, and drove them into support points on the southern side of Buzhou Mountain’s main peak.
• Buzhou Mountain shook as the pillars settled, but the Five Directions Flags, Sea Calming Bead, and Four Divine Irons together stopped its cracks from spreading.
• The Four Divine Irons absorbed earth energy from the Earth Veins and formed glowing rings of light around themselves.
• Su Miao promised to coat the golden rod with Merit Gold, then assured the other three rods that they would receive some too.

Su Miao reviewed Buzhou Mountain’s defenses and learned that Zhen Yuanzi was bringing the Earth Book to help stabilize its earth veins. Before she could rest, she discovered the injured Jianmu Tree rapidly healing and growing as it absorbed Chaotic Qi inside the Chaos Bead.

• Su Miao sent the disciples back to work and checked Buzhou Mountain’s temporary defenses, wondering how they would withstand the crisis in the long term.
• Zhen Yuanzi told Su Miao through a Message Jade Talisman that he was bringing the Earth Book and would arrive shortly.
• Su Miao headed toward the camp to rest but sensed an unusual disturbance inside the Chaos Bead.
• Su Miao found the Jianmu Tree drawing in Chaotic Qi and rapidly healing, regrowing its severed roots and fallen branches, and growing to twice its former size.
• Su Miao realized that the Jianmu Tree needed true Chaotic Qi, not the spiritual nourishment she had been giving it.

Jianmu Tree recalled how Su Miao had rescued and nurtured it after it nearly died, and regretted failing when she asked it to support the heavens. After Su Miao returned it to the Chaos Bead, a surge of Chaotic Qi gave Jianmu Tree unprecedented strength and began its growth stage.

• Jianmu Tree remembered that it had nearly died in the ruins before Su Miao found it and planted it in the Chaos Bead.
• Su Miao nourished Jianmu Tree with spiritual liquid and divine water until it revived, and Jianmu Tree resolved to stay by her side.
• Jianmu Tree grew safely among its kin in the Chaos Bead, choosing not to rush its growth so it could remain with Su Miao longer.
• Jianmu Tree failed to support the heavens, then felt ashamed when Su Miao returned it to the Chaos Bead and apologized.
• Chaotic Qi surged into the great formation and gave Jianmu Tree enough strength to enter its growth stage.

Su Miao gave Jianmu Tree a wisp of Primordial Violet Qi, triggering a more powerful growth spurt that nourished the Chaos Bead and its land. After awakening to find her disciples guarding her, she returned to her tent, hoping to keep Jianmu Tree as a trump card while seeking a solution with the Farm Teachings disciples.

• Jianmu Tree halted its growth and returned overflowing Vitality to the Chaos Bead, causing its cracks to fade and strengthening the land within it.
• Su Miao gave Jianmu Tree a wisp of Primordial Violet Qi, and the tree resumed growing while sending even more Vitality into the Chaos Bead.
• Jianmu Tree conveyed that it would stay with Su Miao, then its Vitality boosted the Spirit Plants and Spiritual Qi around Mount Fangzhang.
• Su Miao opened her eyes and found Xuan, Kong Xuan, Zhao Gongming, San Xiao, and others guarding her inside layers of defensive formations.
• Su Miao told Xuan she had gained an insight, dismissed the gathering, and went to rest while keeping Jianmu Tree's potential in mind.

Su Miao reviewed the disciples’ proposals for Mending the Heavens, accepting Xue Rong’s plan to plant Rock Root Grass in Buzhou Mountain’s cracks while treating even impractical ideas as learning opportunities. She told Xuan that she wanted the disciples to learn how to face and solve problems, then ordered the proposals compiled, with feasible plans tested and the rest kept as cautionary examples.

• Wen Shou Zhuo brought Su Miao more than 3,700 selected proposals for Mending the Heavens and reported that over 813,000 had been submitted in total.
• Su Miao read proposals ranging from detailed engineering and cultivation plans to implausible suggestions, and assigned Honey Sugar to spend a month helping in the Dining Hall.
• Xue Rong presented her detailed Rock Root Grass proposal, and Su Miao approved a test planting with resources from the Spiritual Plant Hall.
• Su Miao gave Xuan a Jade Pot to refresh his mind, then explained that the disciples’ proposals were meant to inspire ideas and teach them to solve problems independently.
• Su Miao ordered Xuan to compile the proposals, test feasible plans, and preserve infeasible ones as cautionary examples.

Su Miao reviewed proposals for Farm Teachings and encouraged the disciples to test promising ideas, promising to cover the cost of failures. Zhen Yuanzi arrived at camp carrying the Earth Book, and Su Miao went to greet him.

• Wen Shou Zhuo brought Su Miao more than three thousand proposals, and she doubled the Contribution Points for the deacons who sorted them and established a Golden Idea Award.
• Su Miao told Iron Abacus that the many disciples working on proposals represented the future of Farm Teachings.
• Su Miao ordered that proposals with at least a fifty-percent chance of success could be tried, with her covering failures and the Merit going to those whose plans succeeded.
• A messenger disciple announced that Immortal Zhen Yuanzi had arrived, and Su Miao hurried out to greet him.
• Zhen Yuanzi arrived carrying the glowing Earth Book and smiled when he saw Su Miao.

Zhen Yuanzi used the Earth Book to calm the Earth Veins around Buzhou Mountain and strengthen its temporary defenses. When the Earth Book’s light reached the main peak, he found that the tangled Earth Veins beneath it were supporting Pangu’s Spine, leaving the crisis unresolved.

• Zhen Yuanzi arrived at Buzhou Mountain and praised Su Miao’s temporary measures to stabilize it.
• Zhen Yuanzi unfurled the Earth Book and used its light to calm the surrounding Earth Veins and slow the mountain’s cracking.
• The Iron Abacus asked Zhen Yuanzi to lend the Earth Book to the Farm Teachings for copying, but Zhen Yuanzi explained it was his Companion Spiritual Treasure.
• Zhen Yuanzi’s Earth Book stabilized the mountain further, but he stopped when he found the Earth Veins beneath the main peak were intertwined around the root of the Heavenly Pillar.
• Zhen Yuanzi called Su Miao over to examine the Earth Veins beneath the main peak.

Su Miao learned that the Earth Veins beneath Buzhou Mountain’s main peak were too entangled and connected to the Heavenly Pillar for Zhen Yuanzi to repair safely, so she sent Xuan’s team to survey the Sky Crack. After a ten-year climb, Xuan and the Disciples discovered the ruins of the Heavenly Court, and Yan Hao urged them to search it for treasures to help pay for Mending the Heavens.

• Zhen Yuanzi stabilized Buzhou Mountain’s branch veins but warned Su Miao that touching the Earth Veins beneath the main peak could hasten the collapse.
• Su Miao ordered Xuan to lead a Survey Team up the mountain and record the Sky Crack’s condition.
• Xuan and the Disciples climbed for ten years through dangerous pressure and chaotic currents before reaching a point near the Celestial Vault.
• The team found the ruins of the Heavenly Court, and Yan Hao recognized them as the Demon Clan’s former stronghold.
• Yan Hao argued that Farm Teachings should claim the Heavenly Court’s treasures to help mend the heavens, and Xuan decided to contact Elder Tie before scouting further.

Iron Abacus learned that Xuan had found the abandoned Heavenly Court Ruins and asked Su Miao for permission to loot them to help cover the sect’s losses. Su Miao left the expedition to him, and Iron Abacus set out with an assembled team while Su Miao continued planning with Zhen Yuanzi.

• Iron Abacus told Xuan to keep watch over the Heavenly Court Ruins while he reported the discovery to Su Miao.
• Iron Abacus rushed to Su Miao and proposed sending teams to recover useful materials from the ruins.
• Su Miao told Iron Abacus to handle the expedition himself, and he took that as permission to organize it.
• Su Miao and Zhen Yuanzi drank tea and discussed the Ginseng Seed she had grown from the pit she saved as a child.
• Iron Abacus reported that Xuan had confirmed the ruins were empty, then left with his assembled personnel after Su Miao warned him not to get too greedy.

Iron Abacus assembled a force of more than ten thousand Farm Teachings Disciples, including hundreds of hidden Grand Unity Golden Immortals, for a welfare mission to the Heavenly Court. He declared that Di Jun and Tai Yi’s former stronghold belonged to no one and instructed the Disciples to collect its treasures by following the rules—or finding a way around them.

• Iron Abacus reviewed mission records and summoned qualified Disciples from across the Prehistoric World.
• More than ten thousand Disciples gathered at camp, where the hidden Grand Unity Golden Immortals astonished the other attendees.
• Iron Abacus revealed that the mission was to go to the Heavenly Court and collect its Spirit Stones, Dharma Treasures, pills, and rare materials.
• The Disciples eagerly agreed to go, and Iron Abacus told them to take what they could and find a way to take what they could not.

Iron Abacus led Xuan and the Farm Teachings Disciples into the abandoned Heavenly Court Ruins to loot its intact treasure vault, medicine garden, and halls. The group began hauling away everything they could find, while Zhao Gongming set his sights on the Alchemy Hall's enormous furnace before someone questioned him.

• Iron Abacus arrived with the Farm Teachings team and ordered the Disciples to enter the Heavenly Court Ruins according to plan.
• Iron Abacus found the intact treasure vault and ordered everyone to take everything that could be moved.
• The Disciples swept Spirit Stones, Dharma Treasures, Alchemical Pills, and even furnishings into their Storage Magic Treasures.
• Xuan led a team through the treasure vault, where they began taking piles of Top-grade Spirit Stones, Dharma Treasures, and pills.
• Zhao Gongming and San Xiao entered the Alchemy Hall and started collecting its pills.
• Zhao Gongming prepared to store the enormous Alchemy Furnace, but a voice behind him asked what he was doing.

Zhao Gongming and the disciples dismantled the Heavenly Court’s treasures, scriptures, and medicinal plants to take back with them. The Alchemy Furnace remained too heavy to move, so Zhao Gongming left it for last.

• Zhao Gongming failed to move the Alchemy Furnace and decided to deal with it after moving other things.
• True Person Yu Ding led the Artifact Forging Hall disciples in taking its equipment, materials, and copied Formation patterns.
• Yun Zhongzi and the disciples packed away the Scripture Repository’s Jade Slips, including its precious ancient texts.
• Disciples dismantled Yaochi’s Ten Thousand Year Warm Jade railings and floor tiles.
• Qing He directed the Spiritual Plant Hall disciples to dig up the Medicine Garden’s plants, and one disciple carefully unearthed an intact Purple Gold Ginseng.

The Farm Teachings disciples stripped the abandoned Heavenly Court of its valuables while Xuan checked with Su Miao and received permission to continue. The Heavenly Dao Youth watched them dismantle the palace, decided not to interfere, and left.

• The disciples failed to remove the Star Essence Gold pillars at Lingxiao Main Hall, so they copied their patterns instead.
• Yan Hao led the disciples in looting Xihe's Bedchamber, taking its jewelry, furnishings, clothes, and bedding.
• Xuan warned a disciple that a Heavenly Dao Restriction protected the South Heaven Gate plaque from being touched.
• Iron Abacus appraised and collected treasures in Lingxiao Palace, while other disciples carried away Yaochi's Ten Thousand Year Warm Jade railings.
• Xuan messaged Su Miao, who told him to stop bothering her, and he ordered the disciples to finish dismantling the Heavenly Court within three days.
• The disciples found a secret passage as the Heavenly Dao Youth watched them strip the Heavenly Court and left without stopping them.