Chapter Summaries

Chen Xiang was transported away from home and wandered into a dangerous marketplace, where an extravagant meal left him unable to pay. After the Lotus Lantern rescued him from the tavern, he reached a Human Race city and found a Confucian scholar who helped him obtain his first cultivation method so he could eventually enter the Saint Realm and search for his mother.

• Ao Guang advised his people to exploit opportunities from the Phoenix and Qilin Races without harming their alliance, but to kill Demon Race members whenever possible.
• Chen Xiang woke in an unfamiliar forest, found a marketplace, and gained the magical power of Qi Refinement and Spirit Transformation after eating costly spiritual dishes at Natural Tavern.
• Unable to pay the bill, Chen Xiang offered Yang Jian's rattle drum, but the tavern staff threatened to sell him to Cuiyun Tower, so he called on the Lotus Lantern to teleport him away.
• Liu Yanchang discovered Chen Xiang and the Lotus Lantern were missing and feared for Chen Xiang's safety.
• In a Human Race city, Chen Xiang asked a Confucian scholar how to reach Mount Hua and the Saint Realm, explaining that he wanted to find his mother.
• The scholar took Chen Xiang to the Scripture Depository, where Chen Xiang obtained the Qi Refining Formula as his first cultivation method.

Chen Xiang cultivated to Qi Refinement and Spirit Transformation, then set out for Mount Hua and was rescued from the river by Ao Chun, who claimed him as his nephew. After Xiaotian Dog tried to stop Chen Xiang from going to Mount Hua, the Lotus Lantern teleported him and his companions to the Netherworld, where Chen Xiang wondered whether he had died.

• Chen Xiang entered the Saint Realm, cultivated to Qi Refinement and Spirit Transformation, and began seeking another route to Mount Hua.
• A cavalry charge blew Chen Xiang into a river, where Ao Chun rescued him and introduced himself as Chen Xiang’s maternal uncle.
• Ao Chun met Chen Xiang at Mount Hua with Feng Wu and Lin Xun, who offered him a ride on their immortal crane.
• Xiaotian Dog intercepted the group and demanded that Chen Xiang return to Liu Family Village and abandon his plan to go to Mount Hua.
• When Xiaotian Dog attacked, the Lotus Lantern teleported Chen Xiang, Ao Chun, Feng Wu, Lin Xun, and the unconscious crane to the Netherworld.
• Chen Xiang learned they were in the Netherworld and asked whether he had died.

Ao Chun, Feng Wu, Lin Xun, and Chen Xiang became trapped in the Dead Spirit Plains, where a half-step Hunyuan Ghost King demanded that Chen Xiang form a ghost contract with one of his descendants. Yang Jiao agreed after Chi You warned that the Demon Clan was involved, while Houtu and Yellow Springs watched the threatened contract as a trial and opportunity for Chen Xiang.

• Lin Xun identified the Dead Spirit Plains, and Ao Chun, Feng Wu, and Lin Xun tried to escort Chen Xiang through the ghost-filled territory after the Lotus Lantern ran out of spiritual power.
• A soul riot swept across the plains, and a half-step Hunyuan Ghost King spared Ao Chun, Feng Wu, and Lin Xun but demanded that Chen Xiang stay behind.
• Yang Jiao arrived and confronted the Ghost King, who demanded both a ban on the Nine Li tribe training near the plains and a ghost contract between Chen Xiang and one of the Ghost King's descendants.
• After Chi You told Yang Jiao that the Demon Clan had made its move, Yang Jiao accepted the Ghost King's demands.
• Before the Six Paths of Reincarnation, Yellow Springs told Houtu that the ghost contract could let either Chen Xiang or the Ghost King's descendant devour the other.

Yang Jiao sent Chen Xiang to seek Sun Wukong as a teacher so he could grow strong enough to rescue his mother from Mount Hua. After Xiaotian Dog pursued the group to Mount Emei, Chen Xiang and his companions met Sun Wukong, and Chen Xiang reached True Immortal before asking to become his disciple.

• Yang Jiao told Chen Xiang that he could not leave the Netherworld to help rescue his mother and offered to send him to a powerful master instead.
• Chen Xiang accepted Yang Jiao's proposal, and Yang Jiao gave him a multicolored feather to guide him to the master's residence.
• Xiaotian Dog relentlessly pursued Chen Xiang and his companions as they traveled on the wounded Azure Heaven white crane toward Mount Emei.
• Chen Xiang and his companions entered the wooden house and received Dao resonance and spiritual energy; Chen Xiang advanced to True Immortal, while Ao Chun, Feng Wu, and Lin Xun reached Da Luo.
• Chen Xiang bowed before Sun Wukong and asked him to accept him as a disciple, and Sun Wukong questioned why Chen Xiang wanted him as a master.

Chen Xiang became Sun Wukong’s disciple and reached the late Quasi-Saint stage before setting out to rescue his mother from beneath Mount Hua. After Kang Anyu defeated him and sent him away, Chen Xiang trained across Hong Huang and continued his journey toward the strength needed to free Yang Chan.

• Chen Xiang pleaded with Sun Wukong to teach him, and Sun Wukong accepted him as his first disciple while allowing Ao Chun and the others to listen to his Dao lectures.
• With Sun Wukong’s guidance and support from powerful allies, Chen Xiang reached the late Quasi-Saint stage in a hundred years and left for Mount Hua without his friends.
• At Mount Hua, Chen Xiang identified himself to Kang Anyu as Liu Chenxiang, son of the Third Holy Mother, and attacked with the Lotus Lantern.
• Kang Anyu overpowered Chen Xiang with Mountain-Shaking and Earth-Shaking, then spared him and cast him out of Mount Hua.
• Chen Xiang spent ten years traveling and fighting in the Saint Realm, improving his combat skills before heading toward the Southern Lands to study the Fire Law at Flame Mountain.

Chen Xiang survived Flame Mountain with Zhu Bajie's help, then reunited with Liu Yanchang, who warned him that the Heavenly Regulations and Heavenly Court—not Yang Jian alone—were responsible for his mother's imprisonment. Chen Xiang refused to wait, and after Yang Jian hunted him for decades, he collapsed at Banana Leaf Cave, where the Bull Demon King and Shura Princess took him in.

• Chen Xiang fled Flame Mountain's eruption until Zhu Bajie rescued him and recognized him as the Third Holy Mother's son.
• After reaching the peak of the late Quasi-Saint realm, Chen Xiang met his aged father Liu Yanchang, who revealed that the Heavenly Regulations and Heavenly Court were his true enemies.
• Chen Xiang refused Liu Yanchang's plea to make long-term plans and disappeared, leaving his father unable to stop him.
• Yang Jian ordered the Meishan Brothers and twelve hundred Grass-Head Gods to capture Chen Xiang, then pursued him for more than fifty years while holding back.
• Chen Xiang collapsed near Banana Leaf Cave, where Yang Jian had arranged for the Bull Demon King and Shura Princess to take him in.

Chen Xiang was deceived into believing that the Heavenly Court had killed his father and punished his mother, so he attacked a fake heavenly official and lost his Golden Core and cultivation. Sun Wukong restored his body at Mount Emei and began teaching him about Hong Huang’s history, leaving Chen Xiang to confront the reason the Human Race became its greatest race.

• Chen Xiang broke free in the sealed hall, but a fake heavenly official told him that Liu Yanchang had died and that his mother faced eternal reincarnation, prompting Chen Xiang to kill the impostor.
• A giant palm seized Chen Xiang’s Golden Core, and Yang Jian revealed that the ordeal was meant to make him rebuild his cultivation from scratch before sending him to Mount Emei.
• Feng Wu brought the gravely weakened Chen Xiang to Sun Wukong, who healed his body but recognized that Chen Xiang’s Dao heart had been damaged.
• Sun Wukong roused Chen Xiang, offered him roasted meat, and began explaining Hong Huang’s history and the Human Race’s rise.

Sun Wukong taught Chen Xiang about the Human Race’s history and the perseverance of the legendary Huang, then trained him for a thousand years until he reached the peak of Taiyi. As Chen Xiang prepared to travel again and seek his own path to Da Luo, Xiao Lan learned of his birth and began watching over him.

• Sun Wukong recounted the Human Race’s history and told Chen Xiang how Huang rose from a ruined foundation to reach the summit of the Great Dao, inspiring Chen Xiang to ask for his guidance.
• Shi Nan, Shi Xuan, and Stone Venerable discussed their family’s cultivation, and Xiao Yao revealed that the senior ancestors were Dominators who were present as avatars.
• Xuantian sensed that Mu had found love and considered changing heaven’s laws, while a distant white-haired elder recognized Hong Huang as a tempting world.
• Xiao Lan received Shi Xuan’s message about Shi Mu’s new life and child, then examined Chen Xiang and Liu Yanchang through a mirror and sent an avatar to intervene.
• After a thousand years of training under Sun Wukong, Chen Xiang reached the peak of Taiyi and lost a spear-and-blade match to Ao Chun.
• Sun Wukong told Chen Xiang to leave and find his own path to Da Luo, sending Ao Chun and the others with him.

Sun Wukong gave Chen Xiang the Mountain-Splitting Yue, which Xiao Lan refined into an acquired Supreme Treasure. Meanwhile, Fuxi built up the Kiyad Tribe and watched its patriarch Sugai welcome a child whose birth stirred heaven and earth.

• Sun Wukong gave Chen Xiang the Mountain-Splitting Yue, and Xiao Lan infused it with five-element law origin to upgrade it into an acquired Supreme Treasure.
• Fuxi arrived among the Demon-Human Race and used his strength to win Borjigin Sugai's trust.
• Fuxi spent a thousand years developing the Kiyad Tribe, teaching cultivation and building its strength and city.
• Fuxi welcomed Zhunti to spread Buddhist teachings in Kiyad Tribe City and explained his hopes for the races to merge and advance.
• Sugai's child was born amid strange signs in the sky, and the Kiyad tribespeople celebrated the arrival of their patriarch's first Da Luo descendant.

Fuxi named Sukhai’s son Borjigin Temujin, while Zhunti bestowed a blessing amid miraculous signs. Fleeing Xiaotian Dog, Chen Xiang and his companions reached Lingyin Temple, where Daoji recognized Chen Xiang as the disciple of a Hunyuan Supreme and invited him into Jigong Hall alone.

• Fuxi named Sukhai’s child Borjigin Temujin and foretold that he would inherit Sukhai’s ambitions, while Zhunti bestowed a blessing that brought forth a grand celestial phenomenon.
• Xiaotian Dog continued hunting Chen Xiang and his companions, so they headed to Yangzhou to seek the monk Jidian, whom Chen Xiang had met years earlier.
• Ao Chun, Chen Xiang, Lin Xun, and Feng Wu arrived at Lingyin Temple and met the young monk Biqing, who first offered to take them to Master Guangliang.
• Bai Xue arrived with a message that Daoji wanted to see the visitors, then led them to Jigong Hall.
• Daoji invited Chen Xiang inside alone and revealed that he knew Chen Xiang was the disciple of a Hunyuan Supreme, while Ao Chun and the others went with Bai Xue to the guest rooms.

Chen Xiang settled at Lingyin Temple, cultivated to Great Perfection Quasi-Saint, and then stormed the Southern Heavenly Gate seeking revenge on the Jade Emperor and Yang Jian. As Chen Xiang fought his way into Heaven, Haotian ordered Nezha to lead one hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers against him.

• Chen Xiang persuaded Daoji to shelter him at Lingyin Temple by suggesting Xiaotian Dog had trespassed on a sacred Buddhist site, and Daoji agreed to take him in.
• The chapter explained that the Saints used the tribulation to challenge the Heavenly Dao with the support of representatives from the major races and sects.
• Chen Xiang spent more than five hundred years at Lingyin Temple, advanced to the middle stage of Da Luo, met Xiaoyu, and drew the curiosity of Ao Chun, Feng Wu, and Lin Xun.
• After settling at Lingyin Temple for thirty thousand years, Chen Xiang reached Great Perfection Quasi-Saint and arrived at the Southern Heavenly Gate to avenge his parents against the Jade Emperor and Yang Jian.
• The Four Heavenly Kings and the Heavenly Soldiers fought Chen Xiang while retreating through the Southern Heavenly Gate, and Heavenly King Li hurried to report the attack to Haotian.
• Haotian ordered Nezha to assemble one hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers and seize Chen Xiang.

Chen Xiang stormed the Heavenly Court, where Yang Jian fought him but secretly helped him escape with the Lotus Lantern. After Sun Wukong healed him, Xiao Lan revealed that Chen Xiang’s mother was bound by the heavenly laws and that rescuing her would require replacing those laws.

• Haotian sent Taibai Jinxing to summon Yang Jian, while Nezha confronted Chen Xiang and attacked after discovering his ghost contract with the Ghost King's son.
• Yang Jian stopped Nezha from killing Chen Xiang, fought him across Hong Huang, and allowed the Lotus Lantern to carry Chen Xiang away; Yang Jian then told Haotian that the intruder had escaped.
• Rumors spread across Hong Huang that Chen Xiang had overwhelmed the Heavenly Court's strongest gods, and people praised and worshiped him for his filial mission.
• The Lotus Lantern brought the badly injured Chen Xiang to Victorious Buddha Cave, where Sun Wukong healed his wounds and reprimanded him for attacking Heaven.
• Xiao Lan told Chen Xiang that his father was alive and explained that rescuing his mother required breaking the heavenly laws and establishing new rules; Chen Xiang doubted he could bear that responsibility.

Chen Xiang led an army through the Thirty-Three Heavens to demand new heavenly laws and rescue the Third Holy Mother, while Haotian revealed his overwhelming power and crushed four invading World Lords. Haotian then offered Chen Xiang a chance to summon and face the heavenly laws, and the chapter ended as Haotian and Yaochi prepared to make a sacrifice at the altar above the heavens.

• Chen Xiang and his allies stormed the Heavenly Court, while the Four Heavenly Kings abandoned the Southern Heavenly Gate and the rebels fought their way upward.
• The rulers of four subsidiary worlds joined Chen Xiang’s campaign, but Haotian sent heavenly forces to meet them in battle.
• Taibai Jinxing killed Bai Xi in the thirty-second heaven as Chen Xiang’s army pressed on toward Da Luo Heaven.
• Haotian unleashed his imperial Dao, killed all four World Lords, and decreed severe punishments for their worlds.
• Chen Xiang declared that he sought to abolish unjust heavenly laws as well as rescue his mother, and Haotian told him he must summon the laws and withstand their trial.
• Haotian and Yaochi stood with Chen Xiang before the altar above the Thirty-Three Heavens, where Haotian prepared to sacrifice the spiritual treasures gifted by Hongjun.

Chen Xiang shattered the old heavenly laws and freed his mother, while the Saints severed their Hongmeng Purple Qi and advanced. After Haotian gained power from the new laws, Chen Xiang reunited with Yang Chan and left the Heavenly Court with her.

• Haotian offered the new heavenly laws to Chen Xiang, who endured their trial and shattered the old laws, freeing Yaoji and Yang Chan from their prisons.
• Laozi, Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi, Tongtian, Jieyin, Zhunti, and Nuwa severed their Hongmeng Purple Qi and advanced to Half-Step Ruler stages.
• Chen Xiang awakened the Imperial Dao, received the greatest share of merit, and reached the peak of half-step Hunyuan as the man-made calamity ended.
• Haotian also received immense merit and rose to the late stage of Half-Step Ruler, while Chen Xiang promised his followers protection and prepared to leave.
• Yang Chan arrived at the Thirty-Three Heavens, reunited with Chen Xiang, and went home with him after he ordered his commanders to await his return near the Blood Sea.

After the calamity, Shi Mu returned to Mount Hua and brought Chen Xiang and Yang Chan to the Xuantian Realm to reunite with his family. Meanwhile, Wu Tian led an army out of the Dark Abyss and attacked the Buddhist lands, leaving his forces gathered above Spirit Mountain.

• Shi Mu revealed his identity and invited Yang Chan, Chen Xiang, and the Yang family to visit the Xuantian Realm.
• Shi Mu's family welcomed Chen Xiang and Yang Chan, gifted them treasures, and hosted Yang Jian and the others for tens of thousands of years.
• In the Dark Abyss, Wu Tian prepared an army of rescued prisoners and declared that he would establish a true Pure Land and rebuild the Buddhist Sect.
• Wu Tian broke the Dark Abyss barrier and released demonic qi across Mount Sumeru, disrupting its Buddhist disciples before fleeing.
• Laozi observed Wu Tian's emergence, while Zhunti and Jieyin regretted losing him and recognized the Demon Ancestor's influence.
• Wu Tian stationed his army above Spirit Mountain as demonic qi spread across the Western Lands.

Wu Tian defeated the Buddhist Sect’s leaders at Spirit Mountain, where its Buddhas entered nirvana and left him to become Buddha. He spread teachings that treated all living beings equally, while the Western Saints considered how to use his rise and Indra watched Wu Tian challenge a monk’s defense of social hierarchy.

• Wu Tian entered Spirit Mountain, destroyed the Tathagata’s divine abilities, and wounded him while demanding that Burning Lamp Buddha appear.
• Wu Tian struck Burning Lamp into the River of Time, then Maitreya, Burning Lamp, and the other Buddhist figures passed into nirvana to escape his reckoning.
• Wu Tian declared that all other Buddhas would pass into nirvana when he became Buddha, then spread his teachings across the Western Lands without harming ordinary beings.
• Jieyin and Zhunti admired Wu Tian’s practice of their Buddhist ideals and discussed giving him a chance to lead the Buddhist Sect’s revival.
• Zhunti showed Indra Wu Tian debating an elderly monk, and Wu Tian questioned why the monk taught social ranks when Buddhism said all living beings were equal.

Wu Tian defeated a Buddhist monk in debate and continued spreading his teachings, while Indra set out to kill him. On the northern grasslands, Temüjin inherited Sukhai’s ambition and led the Kiyad Tribe against the Heavenly Eagle Demon God, escaping its attacks with the power of Human Race destiny.

• Wu Tian argued that all beings were Buddhas and declared that Brahma City would have no caste distinctions, while Zhunti sent Indra to execute him.
• Sukhai died after entrusting Temüjin with the Sacred Clan’s future, and Fuxi promised to protect Sukhai’s true spirit and guide Temüjin.
• Fuxi advised Temüjin to unite the Northern Border and strengthen his territory before attacking the Central Plains, and Temüjin accepted his counsel.
• Hundreds of thousands of years later, Wu Tian brought his teachings and Demon Clan army into the northern grasslands, where Temüjin confronted him.
• The Heavenly Eagle Demon God attacked Temüjin’s cavalry, but Temüjin repeatedly retreated and used Human Race destiny to evade its strikes and injure it with golden arrows.
• Temüjin’s cavalry summoned a powerful phantom of Eternal Heaven, and the Azure Eagle Demon God faltered before its presence.

Temüjin defeated a black eagle Demon God and later met Wu Tian, who sought an alliance to establish Buddhism in Mongolia. Fuxi arranged for Buddhism to share the role of state religion with Shamanism, while Luohou foresaw dangers in Wu Tian’s egalitarian path.

• Temüjin and his cavalry wore down the black eagle Demon God over centuries until it died, then carried its body home.
• Temüjin met Wu Tian in the Northern Border, and Wu Tian considered the Khan a potential ally in his ambitions.
• Juntian Shi, Yu the Great, Xiao Yao, Xiao Yan, and the Xiao Clan elders reacted to shifting events, and Chen Xiang began traveling after discovering his aptitude for the path of emperors.
• Wu Tian arrived in Dadu with his disciples and asked Temüjin to make Buddhism Mongolia’s state religion in exchange for his aid.
• Fuxi appeared, permitted Buddhism to share the state religion with Shamanism, and advised Temüjin to let Mongolia grow strong before seeking independence.
• Luohou judged that Wu Tian’s egalitarian teachings could provoke conflict between mortals and immortals, though he acknowledged that the path might still succeed.

Demon Ancestor Luohou sent Demon Sunflower to aid Wu Tian as the conflict between east and west neared its breaking point. Shi Mu visited the Heavenly Emperor's Daoist Ground with Yang Chan, then intervened when Wu Tian tried to recruit Yang Jian and brought Yang Jian and Yang Jiao to cultivate in the Xuantian Realm's Origin Land.

• Luohou ordered Demon Sunflower to help Wu Tian prepare to attack the east.
• Chen Xiang founded the Evolving Immortal Dynasty, prompting Shi Mu to consult Xuantian about its karmic connection to Ruthless.
• Xuantian took Shi Mu and Yang Chan to the Heavenly Emperor's Daoist Ground, where Ruthless erased their karmic ties and gave them cultivation essences.
• Shi Fan defeated Shi Xiao in a game of chess that represented the powers maneuvering in Hong Huang.
• Wu Tian tried to persuade Yang Jian to join the Buddhist Sect, but Shi Mu arrived and shared his ancestor's advice about the imperial path.
• Shi Mu persuaded Yang Jian and Yang Jiao to leave for the Xuantian Realm's Origin Land and cultivate in seclusion.

Wu Tian launched a ten-year-prepared invasion of the east, and the Three Teachings met his army at the border as Luohou sent Hunyuan allies to support him. Temüjin also invaded Great Song, while the leaders of the Heavenly, Earthly, Human, and Demonic Daos watched their struggle unfold through Hong Huang.

• Wu Tian ordered Black Robe, Giant Scorpion, Yingyao, and Six Ears to prepare the Western Lands, recruit allies, and position the Black Demon Guard before marching east with his army.
• Temüjin rallied the Demon-Human Race by promising them the riches of Jiuzhou, while Wu Tian's enemies in Saha City agreed to summon a Hunyuan cultivator from the Sacred Lion Great World.
• Duobao, Guangchengzi, and Xuandu led the Three Teachings against Wu Tian at the eastern border, and Luohou sent seventeen Hunyuan experts to reinforce Wu Tian.
• Wu Tian battled Xuandu, Duobao, and Guangchengzi as hundreds of millions of soldiers fought across Hong Huang, while Temüjin defeated Great Song's army and ordered his troops to march on the Eastern Capital.
• Luohou and Hongjun discussed the war in the Purple Cloud Palace as Xiao Yao and Houtu sensed the Heavenly and Earthly Daos shifting with the conflict.