Chapter Summaries

Yan Se took Wei Guangming from Chang'an to an unnamed mountain, where the two senior brothers prepared to face each other in a battle. Wei Guangming believed that neither of them might have to die, hinting that Yan Se had surpassed the Five Realms through his mastery of talismans.

• Yan Se met Wei Guangming at Old Brush Studio and confirmed that Sang Sang would inherit the position of Great Divine Priest of Light.
• Yan Se invited Wei Guangming to leave Chang'an with him and travel to an unnamed mountain.
• Yan Se and Wei Guangming arrived at the mountain as wind and snow gathered around them.
• Yan Se said he would depart alongside Wei Guangming, but Wei Guangming suggested that Yan Se's mastery of talismans might let them both survive.

Yan Se broke through to the Sixth Realm of the talisman path, but Wei Guangming’s borrowed power from Haotian threatened to destroy him and the Well Rune. Li Mu intervened, recruited Yan Se as a Carefree Island guest elder, and brought him to meet Red Dust for guidance.

• Yan Se used his Well Rune against Wei Guangming, who summoned a pillar of Haotian’s light to overpower the talisman.
• Li Mu appeared on the nameless hill and stopped the duel, then forced Wei Guangming to leave Chang'an without Sang Sang.
• Li Mu congratulated Yan Se on reaching the Sixth Realm and offered him a Carefree Island guest elder token, which Yan Se accepted.
• Xiling returned with news that Chang'an had two powerful guardians, shaking tianxia with the revelation of Great Tang’s strength.
• Three days later, Li Mu took Yan Se to meet Red Dust, who praised his talent and explained how Ke Haoran and Fuzi had mastered talismans.

Ning Que returned to Chang'an with Li Manman, Mo Shanshan, and students from Ink Pond Garden, while Fuzi explained Carefree Island’s formidable history. Ning Que reunited with Sang Sang, who grew uneasy upon noticing Mo Shanshan beside him.

• Red Dust gave Yan Se her insights into the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Realms of Talisman Dao, and Yan Se gratefully accepted her as his teacher.
• Fuzi told Jun Mo and Li Manman that Carefree Island had deep foundations and several living cultivators in the Sixth Realm.
• Ning Que returned to Chang'an after a week of practical cultivation with Wei Guangming, and Ye Su and Ye Hongyu also came to the city.
• Ning Que and Li Manman welcomed the Ink Pond Garden students from the Great River Kingdom as they entered Chang'an.
• Ning Que split from the procession with Li Manman and Mo Shanshan and went to the shop where Sang Sang and Chen Pipi were eating noodles.
• Sang Sang joyfully greeted Ning Que, then became self-conscious when she noticed Mo Shanshan beside him and hurried off to make tea.

Chen Pipi welcomed Eldest Senior Brother back to Back Mountain, while Mo Shanshan learned about Chang'an’s God-Shocking Formation from Li Manman. Li Manman warned that the darkness in the north was growing, and Red Dust’s appearance left the chapter with a question about whether the final hour had truly come.

• Chen Pipi embraced Eldest Senior Brother and complained that Second Senior Brother had been tyrannizing Back Mountain in their teacher’s absence.
• Chen Pipi met Mo Shanshan, the Calligraphy Fanatic, after Ning Que introduced her.
• Sang Sang told Ning Que about Wei Guangming, Master Yan Se, and the Mysterious Powerful Being who had intervened.
• Li Manman showed Mo Shanshan Zhuque and explained that it activated the God-Shocking Formation, which covered all of Chang'an.
• Li Manman told Mo Shanshan that Ning Que would one day guard the formation and asked her to help him if needed.
• Red Dust met Li Manman and Mo Shanshan, praised the younger generation’s talents, and Li Manman asked whether the final hour had truly come.

Mo Shanshan became Red Dust’s disciple while Ning Que defeated Xia Hou with Sang Sang’s help, leaving Sang Sang gravely ill. Fuzi sent Ning Que to seek Qishan’s aid, and Red Dust emerged from secluded cultivation having reached the Ninth Realm, the Heaven-Earth Realm.

• Red Dust offered to teach Mo Shanshan, and Fuzi encouraged her to accept; Mo Shanshan became Red Dust’s eighth disciple and later studied talismans with Yan Se.
• After a month in which Fuzi confined Ning Que in the cave, Ning Que understood his feelings for Sang Sang, rejected Mo Shanshan, and prepared to propose to Sang Sang.
• At Wild Goose Cry Lake, Jun Mo faced Xu Shi while Ning Que fought Xia Hou and ultimately defeated him with Sang Sang’s help.
• Sang Sang’s cold illness worsened after she used her Haotian Divine Radiance, so Ning Que carried her to Fuzi, who temporarily suppressed the illness and sent Ning Que to seek Qishan at Lanke Temple.
• Fuzi and Red Dust told the Academy disciples they had prepared for a thousand years to avert eternal night, and Red Dust revealed that she had reached the Ninth Realm, which she named the Heaven-Earth Realm.

Ning Que and Sang Sang reached Lanke Temple, where Sang Sang played Buddha’s Chessboard and Master Qishan confirmed she was the Daughter of the Underworld King. During the Ullambana Festival, the monks’ ritual exposed Sang Sang’s identity and began harming her, until Lin Feng of Carefree Island arrived and challenged the temple.

• Red Dust told Yu Lian to focus on completing her current realm and described her new Heaven-Earth Realm to Fuzi.
• Ning Que and Sang Sang reached Lanke Temple and passed the first two chess trials with Sang Sang’s Heavenly Calculation.
• Sang Sang played the third game of Buddha’s Chessboard, and she and Ning Que broke free of its restrictions.
• Master Qishan confirmed that Sang Sang was the Daughter of the Underworld King and said her illness could be suppressed but not cured.
• At the Ullambana Festival, Baoshu rang a bronze bell, and the monks’ formation exposed Sang Sang’s identity and injured her with Buddhist light.
• Lin Feng, lord of Carefree Island, appeared and scattered the Buddhist light as the chief scripture lecturer challenged his decision to protect Sang Sang.

Li Qiang and Li Manman helped Lin Feng rescue Ning Que and Sang Sang, but Sang Sang awakened as Haotian and challenged Fuzi and Red Dust. As they prepared to battle in the heavens, hostile Dao Sect survivors emerged, believing Fuzi and Red Dust would no longer protect the Academy.

• Li Qiang arrived at Lanke Temple with Li Manman, and the bells summoned a vast Buddha formed from the power of faith.
• Li Qiang and Lin Feng cut down the Buddha, then took Ning Que and Sang Sang from Lanke Temple; Ning Que and Sang Sang married at the Academy.
• Sang Sang awakened as Haotian and explained to Fuzi that she had returned to enforce the Heavenly Dao, while Ning Que struggled to accept her transformation.
• Red Dust appeared beside Fuzi, and Haotian invited both men to manifest their divinity and fight in the heavens.
• The Headmaster, the Scripture Lecturer, Liu Bai, and the Abbey Master reacted to the coming battle, while crippled Dao Sect experts emerged near Zhishou Abbey and threatened the Academy and Carefree Island.

As Sang Sang fought Fuzi in the heavens, Red Dust tried to seal Haotian’s return with a full moon. Haotian ordered her followers to invade Tang, but Tang’s allies and great cultivators met the attackers across the kingdom, leaving the war’s outcome undecided.

• Li Mu appeared at Zhishou Abbey and killed the Green Mountain cultivators who had been boasting.
• Red Dust formed a full moon to block Haotian’s return, while Sang Sang drew power from the Divine Kingdom and struck Fuzi, who found himself outmatched.
• Haotian ordered the Xiling Divine Palace and Buddhist forces to attack Tang, and Xiong Chumo, Ye Su, Wei Guangming, the Scripture Lecturer, and Qi Nian set out against it.
• Li Zhongyi mobilized Tang’s troops as Li Qiang, Li Mu, Li Jing, and the Academy’s disciples joined the kingdom’s defenses.
• Jun Mo confronted Ye Su at Tang’s border, Li Qiang drove Wei Guangming back, Yu Lian fought Xiong Chumo, Li Manman stopped the Scripture Lecturer, and Chen Tian faced Qi Nian.
• Xu Shi severely wounded Xiling’s Judgment Divine Seat, while Tang’s remaining generals and Carefree Island cultivators helped repel the invading forces.

Sang Sang and Fuzi fought fiercely as Red Dust used the Heavenly Books to solidify a moon, while battles raged across the world. Fuzi ultimately established a moon above Boundless Heaven, leaving its future changed as the struggle with Haotian continued.

• Sang Sang unleashed a powerful sun attack on Fuzi, while Red Dust summoned the six Heavenly Books and Li Manman released the Bright Scroll to speed the moon’s formation.
• Fuzi split the heavens with his wooden staff and clashed with Sang Sang’s sun, seriously wounding both fighters and revealing the starry sky beyond the realm.
• Xu Shi killed the Divine Judgement Priest, and Yu Lian defeated and killed Xiong Chumo.
• Wei Guangming told Yan Se that he now hoped mankind would win, while Liu Bai told Li Qiang that he believed Fuzi and the others would not lose.
• Fuzi invoked the sun and moon’s endless cycle, and a bright moon rose above Boundless Heaven as Heaven’s Gate closed.

Red Dust, Fuzi, Buddha, and Li Mu defeated Haotian and created a moon, then began reshaping the world’s order. As Haotian’s return remained a threat, Ning Que set out to find Sang Sang, while the world’s spiritual energy and balance changed.

• Red Dust, Fuzi, Buddha, and Li Mu overwhelmed the weakened Haotian and sent her crashing into the far north.
• Yan Se and Wei Guangming recognized that the battle was over, while Liu Bai withdrew from Green Gorge and the Abbey Master was relieved he had not intervened.
• Red Dust and Fuzi stabilized the full moon, released the seven Heavenly Books, and ordered the Xiling Divine Palace and the Unknowable Lands to enter the world.
• The leaders of Zhishou Abbey, Xuankong Temple, and the Academy accepted Red Dust’s commands, despite anger among their followers.
• Fuzi and Red Dust warned that Haotian might return, and Ning Que left the Academy the next day to find Sang Sang.
• The new moon made the world more stable, shortened the distance Sixth Realm experts could travel with Distance-Free, and increased the world’s primal energy.

After Blue Star returned to the universe, Red Dust helped protect it from incoming asteroids and meteorites, while cultivators explored the newly opened starry sky. Red Dust gained ancient memories and reflected on the limits of mortal perspective as people chose whether to leave or remain.

• Half a year after the world entered a cultivation craze, Red Dust, Buddha, and Fuzi shattered the Divine Kingdom, allowing Blue Star to return to the universe.
• Meteorites and asteroids rushed toward Blue Star, and Red Dust used the moon to block their impacts.
• Cultivators began flying into outer space to explore the new world, while Fuzi and Buddha admired the starry sky.
• Ning Que's efforts and the power of humanity moved Haotian to remain in the human world.
• Red Dust received a flood of ancient memories and spoke about how mortals could not grasp the vastness of time and the universe.
• The Academy brothers and sisters set off in pairs to explore the stars, while Ning Que and Sang Sang stayed behind.

Red Dust began her tenth life as Xuan Yi, a Shushan disciple guarding the Demon-Locking Tower, after completing nine lives as an emperor. When Chonglou broke into the tower to seize the Demon-Suppressing Sword, Xuan Yi confronted him, and the chapter ended with them facing off in the void.

• Red Dust recovered her memories as Xuan Yi, a Shushan disciple who had reached the pinnacle of Dao Entry and volunteered to guard the Demon-Locking Tower.
• Xuan Yi recalled defeating the Heavenly Demon Emperor and establishing the ninth floor as forbidden ground for the tower’s demons and monsters.
• Chonglou attacked Shushan, incapacitated the disciples guarding the tower, and demanded the Demon-Suppressing Sword.
• Xuan Yi stopped Chonglou from taking the sword and led him outside to keep the tower from being damaged.
• Chonglou smashed through the tower’s roof and broke its seal, releasing demons as Qingwei and the elders worked to contain the evil aura.
• Qingwei helped the elders stabilize the tower, then the group saw Xuan Yi and Chonglou confronting each other in the void.

Red Dust, whose true name was Xuan Yi, fought Chonglou to a standstill before he left to seek another battle. As Shushan dealt with the escaped demons, Chonglou found Jing Tian and mistook him for Fei Peng, leaving Xu Changqing gravely injured while rescuing him.

• Red Dust trapped Chonglou in a sword formation, and the two exchanged powerful blows before Chonglou learned her name and departed.
• Qingwei assigned Elder Yuan Shen to capture the escaped demons, ordered Chang Yin to gather intelligence, and sent Xu Changqing to find Jing Tian.
• Red Dust recognized the box containing the independent evil thoughts produced by Shushan's Ultimate Purity Art and resolved to try improving the technique.
• At dusk, Chonglou challenged Jing Tian, insisting he was Fei Peng, but Jing Tian denied it and could not fight him off.
• Xu Changqing rescued Jing Tian and tried to escape with him, but Chonglou struck Changqing down; Jing Tian carried the unconscious, seriously injured Changqing toward Shushan.

Red Dust led Jing Tian and Xu Changqing into the God Realm, where the Heavenly Emperor confirmed Jing Tian’s past as General Fei Peng and began explaining his history with Xiyao and Chonglou. The Heavenly Emperor then sent a celestial maiden to bring Tang Xuejian to the God Realm.

• Red Dust crushed the evil thoughts that had taken a man’s form and escorted Tang Xuejian away from the Land of Eternal Calamity.
• Red Dust fought Chonglou in the Demon Palace until their battle ended in a draw.
• Red Dust led Xu Changqing and Jing Tian through a space passage into the God Realm, where the heavenly soldiers recognized Jing Tian as General Fei Peng.
• The Heavenly Emperor explained that Jing Tian had once been the God Realm’s foremost divine general before being banished for breaking heavenly law.
• The Heavenly Emperor told Jing Tian that Xiyao was his confidante, distinct from Tang Xuejian, and recounted Fei Peng’s past with Chonglou.
• The Heavenly Emperor dispatched a celestial maiden to bring Tang Xuejian to the God Realm.

Red Dust explored the Netherworld while the newly born Evil Sword Immortal spread chaos across the Six Realms. After inspecting the Three Lives Stone, she found it blank and of no use to her.

• Red Dust left the God Realm after trading with the Heavenly Emperor for ten-thousand-year meteorite iron.
• Jing Tian defeated Chonglou, obtained the Water Spirit Pearl, and discovered that Xu Changqing had opened the box containing the evil thoughts of his five masters.
• Xu Changqing learned the truth from Jing Tian, erupted in fury, and fled as his rage helped the evil miasma become the Evil Sword Immortal.
• The Evil Sword Immortal escaped Jing Tian, absorbed evil thoughts in the Demon Realm, and fled when Chonglou appeared; Xu Changqing was wounded by Chonglou after finding him with Zixuan.
• Jing Tian and Xuejian obtained the Wind Spirit Pearl and left the God Realm, while Red Dust entered the Netherworld and learned that the Evil Sword Immortal was battling Yin Tian Zi.
• Red Dust crossed the Bridge of Helplessness and found the Three Lives Stone blank.

Red Dust rescued Xu Changqing and Zixuan as the Evil Sword Immortal seized control of the Netherworld and spread chaos through the mortal world. She helped forge the God-Demon Sword at Shushan, then joined Chonglou and Jing Tian to face the Evil Sword Immortal, who merged with the corpse of Qiongqi.

• Red Dust explored a vortex at the entrance to the Eighteen Levels of Hell, then heard that the Evil Sword Immortal had killed Yin Tianzi and captured several powerful figures.
• Red Dust rescued Xu Changqing and Zixuan from a mob trying to burn them, then drove off the Evil Sword Immortal with a single palm strike.
• Red Dust returned to Shushan, freed the Five Elders and Chonglou, and helped the group kill the Heavenly Demon Emperor and Fire Ghost King.
• Red Dust gave the Five Elements Spirit Pearls to the Shushan group, and they forged the God-Demon Sword by combining it with the Divine Sword and Demon Sword.
• Two years later, Red Dust, Chonglou, and Jing Tian confronted the Evil Sword Immortal at Shushan, but he merged with the corpse of Qiongqi and grew stronger.

Red Dust and Jingtian defeated Evil Sword Immortal, after which their companions’ lives took different paths. Years later, Red Dust returned to Shushan, advised its leaders to judge individuals rather than entire races, and then left to continue her journey.

• Red Dust restrained Evil Sword Immortal with gravity, allowing Jingtian to kill him with the God-Demon Sword.
• Jingtian returned to running Yongan Pawnshop, Zixuan separated from Xu Changqing, and Xu Changqing became Shushan’s sect leader after the elders died.
• Red Dust conquered the Netherworld and became the Underworld Emperor, then appointed the Ten Kings of Yan and masters for the eighteen levels of hell.
• After years of seeking a breakthrough, Red Dust returned to the mortal world and visited Shushan, where she met Jiang Juezhi and Jiang Ming.
• Red Dust told Jiang Juezhi that no race was inherently good or evil and urged Shushan to judge carefully before eliminating anyone.
• Red Dust left Shushan and rode her divine sword through the void.

Red Dust traveled through Nanzhao and watched the lives and upheavals of Shushan unfold without interfering. When the Demon-Locking Tower collapsed, she rescued those inside, gave Mo Yixi a protective talisman, entrusted Shushan with her divine sword, and returned to meditate beside the Three Lives Stone.

• Red Dust met Bai Yue in the Nanzhao palace, then encountered Qing'er and the Holy Aunt outside the capital and was welcomed into the city as Shushan's Great-Grandmaster.
• Red Dust heard that Jiang Ming had entered the Demon-Locking Tower and that Yin Ruozhuo had succeeded Jiang Juezhi as Shushan's sect leader, but she did not intervene.
• Yin Ruozhuo met Lin Qing'er and entered the Dao through love, while Red Dust continued watching the passage of fate without interfering.
• When the Demon-Locking Tower collapsed, Red Dust rescued Li Xiaoyao, Zhao Ling'er, and Lin Yueru, and gave Mo Yixi a talisman to protect him from his coming death tribulation.
• Red Dust gave Shushan the divine sword Red Dust for its successive sect leaders and then returned to meditate beside the Three Lives Stone.

Red Dust’s eleventh life split her into three beings: the demonic holy maiden Mo Tian, the amnesiac mortal-world assassin Red Dust, and the God Realm’s Chief God Shanggu. A thousand years later, Mo Tian had reached the demigod realm, Red Dust had become a renowned Immortal Lord, and Shanggu still refused to cultivate.

• Red Dust survived the destruction of her world, used the Three Lives Stone to create a controlled evil thought, and began another life after falling beneath the extraterritorial demons’ siege.
• Shanggu was born on the Qiankun Platform, and Zhiyang, Bai Jue, and Tianqi announced her as the new Chief God.
• Red Dust’s evil thought appeared before Xuan Yi in Jiuyou, where Xuan Yi named her Mo Tian and assigned Moyu to teach her.
• An amnesiac girl appeared outside Fan City with the sword Red Dust, became a selective assassin, then cultivated and rose to become the Hengyang Sect leader and a renowned Immortal Lord.
• Moyu reported that Mo Tian had reached the demigod realm in a thousand years and was seeking to break through to High God; Xuan Yi welcomed her ambition to restore the Demon Clan.
• Zhiyang reprimanded the unwilling-to-cultivate Shanggu, warning that she would not earn the respect of others as Chief God.

After High God Red Dust broke past the limits of the High God realm, the God Realm appointed her Protector War God as the Chaos Tribulation drew near. Meanwhile, Bai Jue began training Shanggu, and their growing affection was tested when Shanggu’s visit to Jiuyou brought her into conflict with Xuan Yi and Mo Tian.

• Red Dust returned to her former cultivation level, became a High God, and fought the Jiuyou Holy Maiden to a draw.
• Seven thousand years later, Red Dust advanced beyond the High God realm, and Zhiyang invited her to serve as the God Realm’s Protector War God.
• Zhiyang arranged for Bai Jue to train Shanggu, and the Ancestor God warned that the Chaos Tribulation would arrive in a thousand years.
• Bai Jue and Shanggu gradually grew fond of each other as he taught and supervised her cultivation.
• Shanggu visited Jiuyou, where Xuan Yi fought Bai Jue, taunted him about his feelings, and tried to persuade Shanggu to stay.
• Mo Tian mocked Shanggu’s weakness before Zhiyang and Tianqi arrived in Jiuyou.