Chapter Summaries

Yin-Yang was killed and erased so completely that nearly everyone forgot he had ever existed, while the surviving Half-Step Rulers suspected the Witch Race or the Human Ancestral Land. Xuantian sent an incarnation into a powerful Hunyuan-level universe, where he witnessed a fight and assessed the world’s cultivation system.

• Yin-Yang’s Great Dao imprint shattered, erasing his memories, records, Causes and Effects, Fate River reflection, and place in the rankings.
• The Half-Step Rulers mourned Yin-Yang’s fall and considered whether the Witch Race or the Human Ancestral Land was responsible.
• Xuantian decided not to interfere in Hong Huang’s affairs and sent a Da Luo-level incarnation into a Hunyuan-level universe.
• Xuantian’s incarnation arrived in a sacred-looking world and saw a burly man attack a young monk with a saber.
• Xuantian examined the world’s cultivation realms, from Foundation Establishment through Half-Step Dao Fruit.

Xuantian and the others were drawn into the Reincarnation World, where they were assigned a mission to deliver a list of Shaolin traitors within three days. Zhang Yuanshan led his group toward Shaolin, and they prepared to travel by horse.

• Zhen Ding explained the Reincarnation World, its Good Karma system, and the cost of a Da Luo Golden Talisman to leave permanently.
• The newcomers saw the exchange list of peerless divine techniques and heard the Lord of Six Paths of Reincarnation's rules.
• Xuantian arrived in a deserted alley with Zhang Yuanshan, Jiang Zhiwei, Wang Jin, and Ke Bijun, while Zhen Ding and the others were separated into another group.
• Zhang Yuanshan explained their mission to deliver the list of Shaolin traitors bribed by Duercha to Shaolin within three days, and led the group out of Guanhe.
• Jiang Zhiwei proposed buying horses, and Zhang Yuanshan used his silver to obtain three horses for the journey.

Zhang Yuanshan, Jiang Zhiwei, Wang Jin, Ke Bijun, and Xuantian fought off an ambush on the way to Shaolin and delivered the list of traitors to the abbot. They received a new mission to defend Shaolin until the final moment, and heard voices from an inn as they approached it.

• Guan Haoran ambushed the group with arrows and soldiers, and Zhang Yuanshan confronted him while Jiang Zhiwei led the others into the forest.
• Jiang Zhiwei cut down the armored soldiers, while Xuantian shattered another soldier and stunned Wang Jin with his overwhelming strength.
• Zhang Yuanshan returned after killing Guan Haoran, and the group continued toward Shaolin after their horses fled.
• Monk Deguang recognized Zhang Yuanshan and escorted the group to Shaolin's Hall of Great Strength, where Zhang Yuanshan handed the abbot the list of traitors.
• The group completed Main Quest One and received fifty Virtuous Deeds each, then received Main Quest Two to defend Shaolin until the final moment.
• The group arrived at an inn and heard voices inside before entering.

Xuantian and his companions returned to Shaolin, where the disguised Hundred-Transforming Scholar attempted to assassinate Abbot Xinji. Xuantian killed him, and the group was assigned to guard Shaolin’s Back Mountain as the temple prepared for General Duercha’s attack.

• At the inn, Xuantian told Meng Qi that his group had been lucky to reach Mount Shaohua, then they cleaned up before Abbot Xinji summoned them back to Shaolin.
• During Xinji’s questioning, Xiang Hui revealed himself as the Hundred-Transforming Scholar and attacked the abbot, but Xinji, Zhang Yuanshan, and Jiang Zhiwei were ready for him.
• The Hundred-Transforming Scholar tried to use Xuantian as a human shield, but Xuantian struck him down with a single palm.
• Shaolin’s quest notice rewarded Xuantian, Zhang Yuanshan, and Jiang Zhiwei for killing the Hundred-Transforming Scholar and activated a quest to kill General Duercha.
• Xinji sent the group to guard the Back Mountain, and he explained that their strength and Xuantian’s hidden power convinced him they were not spies.
• At the Back Mountain, Meng Qi and Jiang Zhiwei remarked that this Shaolin resembled the Shaolin in their own world despite being located on Mount Shaohua.

After Gu Xiaosang revealed herself as the Luo Sect’s Holy Maiden and departed, Duercha’s Iron Wolf Soldiers attacked Shaolin. The defenders split up to protect the temple and seek a chance to kill Duercha, while Abbot Xinji remained behind as the slaughter reached the sanctuary.

• Xuantian revealed that he had suspected Xiao Zi was Gu Xiaosang, and Meng Qi recognized the name she had cried out in her sleep.
• Jiang Zhiwei and Zhang Yuanshan identified Gu Xiaosang as the Luo Sect’s Holy Maiden, but she spared Meng Qi and left.
• Duercha arrived at Mount Shaohua with his Iron Wolf Soldiers, routed the martial artists, and ordered his troops to kill everyone in the inns while he led the rest toward Shaolin.
• Zhang Yuanshan sent Jiang Zhiwei and Xuantian to support Abbot Xinji and look for a chance to kill Duercha, while he and the others guarded the Back Mountain.
• Abbot Xinji stayed alone in the Mahavira Hall as Duercha’s soldiers slaughtered people throughout Shaolin.

Xuantian killed General Duercha with purple lightning, completing the mission and triggering the Samsara travelers’ return. The survivors arrived at the white jade plaza, where free treatment began, while Wang Jin and Ke Bijun were still missing.

• Abbot Xinji and Jiang Zhiwei fought Duercha, and Xinji shattered his One-Legged Copper Man with the Great Strength Vajra Palm.
• Duercha wounded Xinji and struck Jiang Zhiwei, tearing off her right arm, but Jiang Zhiwei’s sword pierced his left eye.
• Xuantian blocked Duercha and blasted him with purple lightning, killing him and completing the side and main missions.
• The Samsara travelers returned to the white jade plaza, where the Lord of Six Paths of Reincarnation began free treatment.
• Xuantian saw that Wang Jin and Ke Bijun had not returned, while Meng Qi and the others showed signs of battle.

After returning from their mission, Meng Qi and his companions received their evaluations and spent their merit points on martial arts and supplies. Xuantian considered redeeming the Eight-Nine Profound Technique, leaving the others astonished by his choice.

• Meng Qi explained that Tang Shun and Borhan had ambushed the group, and Jiang Zhiwei described their desperate fight against Duercha, who had nearly killed her and Abbot Xinji.
• The Lord of Six Paths of Reincarnation rated Zhang Yuanshan, Jiang Zhiwei, and Qi Zhengyan 'Average,' while Xuantian and Zhen Ding received 'Good' evaluations and chances to draw lots.
• Xuantian drew Arhat Fist, while Meng Qi received Lingzhi Qi-Replenishing Pills.
• Jiang Zhiwei redeemed a replacement White Rainbow Piercing the Sun Sword and Sword One through Sword Eighteen; Zhang Yuanshan strengthened his foundational training, and Meng Qi completed Ananda's Precept-Breaking Saber Technique and upgraded his movement skill.
• Qi Zhengyan redeemed the first two levels of the Heavenly Chaos Codex, and Xuantian said he was considering the Eight-Nine Profound Technique.

Xuantian entered the Jianghu and quickly rose to the top of the Human Ranking after defeating and killing several young masters. The chapter ended with Monk Xuanxin telling the menial monks about Xuantian’s emergence, while the rankings also reported He Jiu’s breakthrough to the Exterior Landscape.

• Xuantian left the Samsara world, followed recent carriage tracks through a forest, and learned how the Great Jin rankings classified martial artists.
• Jianghu patrons discussed Qing Yu killing Yuan Bei and earning the title Five Directions Emperor Blade.
• Xuantian defeated several Human Ranking prodigies, and the new rankings placed him first as the Return to Simplicity, Thunder-Piercing Palm.
• The new rankings placed Wang Siyuan second and revealed that He Jiu had broken through to the Exterior Landscape after surviving the Golden Wind Tribulation.
• At Shaolin, Monk Xuanxin recounted Xuantian’s rise to the menial monks, beginning with his defeat of Wang Ji in a single move.

After Xuantian’s rise to fame shook the martial world, Six Paths sent him on a solo mission to obtain the Imperial Spirit Strategy. He arrived in a new world, where his intervention in a fight triggered the mission and led him to question Ouyang Yi about the martial realm.

• Xuanxin told the Shaolin monks that Xuantian had defeated the Jiangdong Tiger and beaten He Jiu in three moves, leaving Meng Qi and others stunned when he revealed Xuantian’s identity.
• Over the following months, Xuantian amused himself in the city until Six Paths announced that his second Samsara would be a solo mission.
• Xuantian appeared near an ancient manor and watched Fang Yuan fight Ouyang Yi over clues to the Imperial Spirit Strategy.
• When Fang Yuan and Ouyang Yi clashed, Six Paths assigned Xuantian a mission to obtain the Imperial Spirit Strategy within fifteen days for three hundred karmic points.
• Xuantian’s aura injured both fighters, and he demanded information about the divine art and the strongest martial artists in tianxia.
• Ouyang Yi described the Imperial Spirit Strategy, the God of Martial Arts, and the four Grandmasters, and Xuantian asked what powers and cultivation stages those titles entailed.

Xuantian took the Imperial Spirit Strategy clues from Fang Yuan and left, after which Ouyang Yi killed Fang Yuan. Back in the Samsara Square, Xuantian reunited with his teammates, who welcomed newcomer Fu Zhenzhen and compared their mission rewards.

• Xuantian took the animal-hide clues to the Imperial Spirit Strategy from Fang Yuan and learned that Ouyang Yi served the imperial court.
• After Xuantian departed, Ouyang Yi struck Fang Yuan with a palm and killed him.
• Xuantian returned to the Samsara Square, where Meng Qi and Jiang Zhiwei teased him about becoming number one on the Human Ranking.
• Qi Zhengyan and Zhang Yuanshan returned from their missions, and Zhang Yuanshan introduced newcomer Fu Zhenzhen to the group.
• The group compared their good karma earnings, including the rewards Xuantian had gained by collecting martial arts manuals.
• The Lord of Six Paths of Reincarnation rated Zhen Ding and Jiang Zhiwei as Average and awarded them thirty good karma each; the others received Ordinary evaluations.

Xuantian watched Xuanbei repel Crying Elder’s attack, then returned to the Samsara Plaza, where he lent karma points to his teammates. A new joint mission brought Luo Shengyi and the siblings Xia Chulin and Xia Dandan to the group.

• Xuantian watched Crying Elder unleash the Eighteen Wraith Strikes on Xuanbei, who used the Maha Demon-Subduing Fist to calm the wraiths and revive the people and animals.
• Meng Qi abandoned his escape plan when he saw An Guoxie waiting for him, while Xuantian left Quicksand Market and learned that the third Samsara had begun.
• At the Samsara Plaza, Meng Qi described how An Guoxie had captured and crippled him, and Xuantian lent Qi Zhengyan and the others karma points.
• Luo Shengyi arrived with Xia Chulin and Xia Dandan, and explained that they had been brought together for a joint mission because it was exceptionally difficult or involved a faction confrontation.

Meng Qi and the other reincarnators joined the four-sect faction and traveled to Wind and Cloud Manor to prepare to seal the Demon Mound, while a rival team joined the Demonic Cult. At the alliance assembly, Yuan Xingyun challenged Meng Qi to a sparring match.

• The Lord of Six Paths assigned the two factions opposing missions, and Zhang Yuanshan's team learned they would face Demonic Cult reincarnators, including a First-Class Expert.
• The Demonic Cult's team arrived at Sacred Fire Mountain, where Gu Xiaosang was among them and the Human Envoy led them to meet the Cult Leader.
• Xuantian's team adopted the name Power Gang, learned about the four great sects and their divine weapons, and traveled to Wind and Cloud Manor.
• The Power Gang was turned away from lodging at the manor, then attended the next day's alliance assembly alongside the four great sects.
• The sect leaders swore to seal the Demon Mound, and Yuan Xingyun, leader of the Great Void Gang, challenged Meng Qi to a sparring match.

Meng Qi defeated Yuan Xingyun in a martial contest with a saber technique that ensnared the audience in visions of their desires. As Xuantian prepared to face an Exterior Realm foe outside Sacred Fire Mountain, the Nine Heavens Thunder God attacked the alliance, and a crimson saber beam met his strike.

• Meng Qi used Ananda's Precept-Breaking Saber Technique to overwhelm Yuan Xingyun, who conceded defeat.
• Gu Kongshan declared Zhen Ding the victor, while the assembled martial artists reacted with astonishment at Meng Qi's Profound Connection strength.
• Xuantian told Meng Qi and the others to enter Sacred Fire Mountain while he drew out an Exterior Realm expert to fight outside.
• A figure identified as the Nine Heavens Thunder God arrived in purple lightning and devastated the alliance with five saber strikes, inflicting heavy casualties among the four great sects.
• A deep-crimson saber beam severed the lightning and slashed toward the Nine Heavens Thunder God.

Xuantian used Heavenly Emperor Treads Through Time to defeat and kill Nine Heavens Thunder God, then struck down five more Demonic Cult travelers across the battlefield. As the surviving Samsara travelers headed for the Demon Mound, Xuantian warned them not to lower their guard inside it.

• Xuantian sent Meng Qi, Gu Kongshan, and the others to seal the Demon Mound while he confronted Nine Heavens Thunder God.
• Xuantian froze Nine Heavens Thunder God and the battlefield with Heavenly Emperor Treads Through Time, then burned the Thunder God’s body after a treasure saved him from the first fatal attack.
• The Lord of Six Paths of Reincarnation announced Nine Heavens Thunder God’s death, and Gu Xiaosang retreated toward the Demonic Cult’s main altar.
• Xuantian killed five more Demonic Cult travelers from afar, while Jiang Zhiwei and Meng Qi witnessed the strikes and found his warning not to lower their guard within the Demon Mound.
• Xuantian looked toward the Demon Mound at Sacred Fire Mountain as the mission to seal it remained ahead.

The Demon Mound erupted, killing the disciples at Sacred Fire Mountain and forcing the four sealing artifacts to suppress its demonic qi while the sect leaders fought the Demonic Cult Leader. Within the Demon Lord’s legacy, Qi Zhengyan accepted the inheritance, and the Demon Mound then erupted with renewed force, killing Gu Kongshan and the others and scattering the artifacts.

• The Demon Mound burst open and drained the life from the disciples gathered at its summit, while the four sealing artifacts awakened and forced the demonic qi back.
• The Myriad Swords Sect Master, Old Man Shouque, Gu Kongshan, and Tower Master Luo attacked the Demonic Cult Leader, who stalled them while the destined inheritor advanced.
• Xuantian descended and reflected on the deaths of the disciples who had reached the summit.
• Qi Zhengyan reached the Demon Lord’s legacy site, accepted the Demon Lord’s inheritance, and was overwhelmed by its knowledge and memories.
• The Demon Mound shook apart within the legacy realm as the dark-red blood moon fell toward the ground.
• The demonic qi surged through the Demon Mound, killed Gu Kongshan and the other leaders, and sent the four sealing artifacts flying away.

After the Demon Tomb mission, the group returned to Samsara Square, where Qi Zhengyan revealed he had inherited the Demon Emperor Canon and received warnings about its dangers. The team exchanged rewards and prepared for their next steps, while Meng Qi and Qi Zhengyan stayed behind to cultivate with their Samsara Talismans.

• The Lord of the Six Paths of Reincarnation awarded the group karma points for destroying the Demon Tomb and winning the confrontation mission, and Xuantian sold several treasures for more points.
• Meng Qi wondered what had happened to Luo Shengyi and the others, and Zhang Yuanshan said he had seen Xia Dandan before the Demon Tomb collapsed.
• Qi Zhengyan revealed that he had received the Demon Lord's inheritance, including the complete Demon Emperor Canon, and asked Xuantian to kill him if he ever lost control to demonic influence.
• The Lord of the Six Paths of Reincarnation gave Xuantian, Qi Zhengyan, and Zhen Ding excellent evaluations, karma points, Samsara Talismans, and chances to draw martial arts; Xuantian drew Iron Sand Palm.
• Qi Zhengyan secretly transferred twenty thousand karma points to Xuantian, who returned half and advised him to consider secret treasures that could help him defeat Exterior experts.
• Zhang Yuanshan and Jiang Zhiwei decided to prepare human-skin masks, while Meng Qi and Qi Zhengyan stayed in Samsara Square to cultivate; before leaving, Xuantian lent Meng Qi the Five-Colored Stone.

Xuantian returned to the martial world, bought weapons with the wealth he had seized, and spent a year traveling before reuniting with his companions for a mission in the Western Ox Continent. As Daode Heavenly Venerable noticed their arrival, he reversed time across a dying universe.

• Meng Qi had the Five-Light Stone identified as a replica secret treasure worth 5,100 merit points, then the group returned to their chosen worlds.
• Xuantian visited the Hundred Treasures Pavilion in Ying City and bought several bladed weapons with the Hanhai Horse Bandits’ wealth.
• Xuantian spent a year traveling through Great Jin and Northern Zhou, sampling local food and killing the demonic experts who ambushed him.
• The group reunited in Reincarnation Space for a mission to survive until the eighth day in a world set eight hundred years after Journey to the West.
• Golden Horn Boy alerted Daode Heavenly Venerable to anomalous auras in the Western Ox Continent, but Daode let them be and sent power into a dying universe.
• Time flowed backward through the universe, restoring the dead and returning civilizations, stars, and planets toward their beginnings.

Xuantian and his companions escaped pursuing demons and reached Spirit Mountain, where he encountered the Bodhi Branch and gained a profound increase in wisdom. As the branch awakened visions of the Buddha and the Dharma, Xuantian recognized his own true self and began manifesting the Buddha’s seals.

• Daode Heavenly Venerable sealed the universe’s past, present, and future into the Eight Trigrams Furnace, then altered the River of Time with a speck of golden light.
• Xuantian and his companions fought demons at a ruined temple, suffered injuries, and found a Void Teleportation array after several days.
• Xuantian arrived at Spirit Mountain and saw the Golden Cudgel, Five-Finger Mountain, and a seven-colored Bodhi Branch beside a Tathagata-like figure.
• Xuantian touched the Bodhi Branch and gained a lasting increase in wisdom as visions of a monk preaching the Dharma unfolded around him.
• Xuantian rejected the vision’s suggestion that he was a Buddha and affirmed that he was himself, then manifested the Buddha’s Dharma-Preaching, Wish-Granting, Fearlessness, Meditation, and Demon-Subduing Seals.

Xuantian learned Shakyamuni's Five Seals in the Reincarnation Space, then broke through to the Dharma Body realm and reached the peak of the Legendary realm. He considered the greater powers of the Other Shore while choosing to hold back his advancement.

• Xuantian comprehended Shakyamuni's Five Seals and summoned visions of the five Bright Kings and a Buddhist Pure Land.
• On settlement day in the Reincarnation Space, Xuantian and the others survived, and Xuantian left with a windfall.
• Xuantian began breaking through from the Half-step Dharma Body realm as his body, Primordial Spirit, and Dharma Form underwent transformation.
• Xuantian cut through the Heavenly Tribulation and appeared in the void after forming his Dharma Body.
• Observers recognized the hallmarks of the Legendary realm, and Xuantian's name rose to first place on the Heavenly Ranking.
• Xuantian realized he had reached the peak of the Legendary realm and reflected on how someone on the Other Shore experienced all points in time as the present.

Xuantian intervened when a Jiuyou fissure opened above the Jin River in Jiangdong Maoling, revealing that he had attained Dharmakaya. After the danger passed, he sensed Lu Da calling to him from the city and went to meet him.

• As tokens formed the Gate of the Inner Mansion, a Jiuyou fissure opened and a black sun began descending toward the world.
• A warm voice eased the martial artists’ despair, and Xuantian struck the fissure with a saber, shrinking it while the Jiuyou fiend threatened him.
• Xuantian revealed himself as a Dharmakaya and ordered the Nine Demonic Paths members to leave.
• Meng Qi congratulated Xuantian, and Jiang Zhiwei greeted him as the others recognized his new stature.
• Xuantian sensed Lu Da’s aura in the city, recognized the Single-Minded Sword, and vanished to meet him.