Chapter Summaries

Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi forged the Three Lives Nirvana Lotus, establishing Buddhism’s foundation and drawing its Fortune into Hong Yun. Zhunti prepared to attack, but a deadly presence stopped him from leaving Mount Meru.

• Hong Yun used the Seven-Leaf Bodhi Tree’s Nirvana Origin Power to transform the Lotus Platforms, and Zhen Yuanzi added the Ginseng Fruit Tree’s origin.
• After Ninety-Nine Nirvana Divine Thunders struck, the lotus became the Twelve-grade Three Lives Nirvana Lotus, a Supreme Innate Spiritual Treasure.
• The Three Lives Nirvana Lotus entered Hong Yun’s body, and his Buddha Dao Fruit appeared as a black-gold Sarira while Spiritual Mountain’s eighty-one Spiritual Veins trembled.
• A black-gold reverse swastika spread toward Mount Meru, and Western Teachings followers regained themselves and fled.
• Zhunti raised the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree to attack Hong Yun, but a presence warning of death stopped him at Mount Meru’s boundary.

Styx used Equality to threaten Zhunti and Jieyin, forcing the Two Saints of the West to stand down as Western Teachings disciples fled Mount Meru. He ordered the brothers to seal the mountain gates for a hundred eons, and they reluctantly obeyed.

• Zhunti sensed Styx's killing intent and realized stepping beyond Mount Meru could mean certain death, especially after recalling Hongjun's disappearance and the Heavenly Dao's reorganization.
• Styx watched Zhunti from the Blood God Palace and prepared to kill him if he attacked Hong Yun or interfered with the Blood Sea's plans.
• Jieyin sensed Styx's threat too, and he and Zhunti stood frozen atop Mount Meru.
• Mount Meru's Formation was torn open, allowing the awakened Western Teachings disciples to flee toward Spiritual Mountain and reducing the sect's Fortune.
• Styx ordered Jieyin and Zhunti to seal Mount Meru for a hundred eons, and the brothers bowed toward the Blood Sea and accepted his decree.

After Styx forced the Two Saints of the West to retreat, Hong Yun welcomed the fleeing followers onto Spiritual Mountain and removed the indoctrination power controlling them. With Styx giving him a hundred eons to decide the Western Teachings’ fate, Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi began organizing the newly founded Buddhism.

• Jieyin and Zhunti admitted they were no match for Styx and resolved to improve their cultivation during the next hundred eons.
• Hong Yun welcomed the fleeing followers to Spiritual Mountain and used the Three Lives Nirvana Lotus to remove the indoctrination power from them.
• Hong Yun thanked Styx, who told him he could decide whether the Western Teachings lived or perished after a hundred eons.
• Hong Yun told Zhen Yuanzi that the refugees needed rules and that he would bring people from Wuzhuang Temple to help establish them.
• Zhen Yuanzi agreed to transfer a group from Wuzhuang Temple to Spiritual Mountain.

Hong Yun preached the Nirvana Sutra to the beings gathered at Spiritual Mountain, who accepted him as their Buddha and began cultivating Buddhism. After the sermon, he and Zhen Yuanzi watched a Golden Cicada reach the threshold of Form Transformation, and Hong Yun saw it as a promising disciple.

• Hong Yun told the beings at Spiritual Mountain to join Buddhism or leave, and none chose to go.
• Hong Yun promised not to use Jieyin and Zhunti's Conversion Technique and preached the Nirvana Sutra for ten thousand years.
• The Western beings lost their wariness during the sermon, gained Buddhist Light, and became Buddhism followers.
• The Golden Cicada absorbed Buddhist aura and listened to Hong Yun's sermon, reaching the threshold of Form Transformation.
• Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi watched the Golden Cicada, and Hong Yun anticipated its future as his disciple.

A Golden Cicada endured its Form Transformation Heavenly Tribulation by devouring the Karma Cleansing Divine Thunder, puzzling Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun because of its apparent Karma. The Seven-Leaf Bodhi Tree revealed a vision of the Golden Cicada’s past in the unshattered Western Continent, leaving Zhen Yuanzi curious about how it had once been a powerful Golden Immortal of the Origin Realm.

• The Golden Cicada faced the Karma Cleansing Divine Thunder and snipped it apart with its mouthparts before devouring it.
• As thunder and Karmic Fire filled the sky, the Golden Cicada used its wings and mouthparts to break apart and consume the bolts, growing stronger.
• Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun wondered why the newly born Golden Cicada had enough Karma to draw Karma Cleansing Divine Thunder.
• A leaf of the Seven-Leaf Bodhi Tree projected a vision of a wingless Golden Cicada flying through the flourishing Western Continent.
• Zhen Yuanzi identified the vision as the Western Continent before it shattered and said the Golden Cicada’s aura suggested it had once been a powerful Golden Immortal of the Origin Realm.

Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi watched the Six-Winged Golden Cicada find the Western Ancestral Vein and devour its Gengjin Qi to recover, but Rahu’s detonation destroyed the vein and carried the cicada away. Styx concluded that the golden chrysalis and severed root linked the cicada to the Seven-Leaf Bodhi Tree and the Blood Sea Lineage, making it right for the cicada to become Hong Yun’s disciple.

• The Six-Winged Golden Cicada plunged into the earth, found the Primordial World Ancestral Vein, and devoured its Gengjin Qi as six golden wings regrew.
• The cicada sensed danger, wrapped itself in its wings, and vanished when the Ancestral Vein exploded, leaving a golden chrysalis and a severed tree root.
• Hong Yun connected the explosion to the end of the Dao-Demon Conflict and Rahu’s detonation of the Earth veins.
• Styx watched the Projection at the Blood God Palace and identified the chrysalis as a shedding-shell transformation and the root as a predecessor of the Seven-Leaf Bodhi Tree.
• Styx reasoned that the cicada had formed karma with the Blood Sea Lineage and that becoming Hong Yun’s disciple was fitting.

The projection showed how the Seven-Leaf Bodhi Tree and Six-Winged Golden Cicada had formed and how the cicada gained enlightenment from Hong Yun. At Zhou Mountain, the assembled forces witnessed the Blood Sea’s strength, leaving several factions shaken and Jieyin and Zhunti resigned to obeying Styx’s order for a hundred eons.

• The projection revealed that the Ancestral Vein’s fragments formed Spiritual Mountain’s eighty-one Spiritual Veins, while its remaining aura nourished the Seven-Leaf Bodhi Tree and the reborn Six-Winged Golden Cicada.
• Hong Yun preached the Nirvana Sutra, and the Six-Winged Golden Cicada gained enlightenment and triggered its Form Transformation Heavenly Tribulation.
• Styx ended the projection and looked toward Zhou Mountain, where the armies of the Heavenly Court, Underworld, Spirit Race, Human Race, Witch Clan, and Asura Race had gathered.
• The assembled forces and watching Saints saw the Blood Sea’s strength, while Tongtian left an Incarnation at Maoshan and headed to Zhou Mountain with Incarnations of Taiqing and Yuanshi.
• Jieyin and Zhunti withdrew from watching Zhou Mountain, sealed Mount Meru, and entered seclusion after accepting Styx’s order for a hundred eons.

Dijiang led the gathered experts through portals to the Primordial Chaos Ruins, while Fuxi remained behind to guard the passage. At Mount Tai, Ming completed the ceremony establishing the Great Xia Fortune Dynasty and declared it would rule the Great Wilderness.

• Dijiang opened portals beneath Zhou Mountain and led the Witch Clan, Tongtian, and the saints’ incarnations toward the Primordial Chaos Ruins.
• Fuxi stayed behind to guard the teleportation gate while Dijiang prepared to stabilize a passage from the other side.
• The Human Race tribes unified the East Sea Coast, Mount Shouyang, Origin City, and Mount Tai, then gathered for the dynasty-establishment ceremony.
• Ming ascended the Nine-Layer Altar and declared the nation’s name to be Xia, proclaiming himself its first emperor.
• Ming raised the Imperial Seal and Human Way Investiture of the Gods, summoning a Destiny Golden Dragon and nine Xuanhuang Earth Dragons to consolidate Xia’s Fortune.
• Ming declared that Xia would rule the Great Wilderness, and the gathered crowd proclaimed “Humanity Eternal.”

At Mount Tai, Ming used the Human Way Investiture of the Gods to appoint Xia Dynasty officials and establish the dynasty’s governing policy. Styx considered how the Fortune Dynasty might help the Human Dao change and lead the Great Wilderness toward ascension.

• Ming invoked the Human Dao to confer titles on Styx, Nuwa, Fuxi, Kunpeng, Xi He, Changxi, Suiren Shi, Zi Yi Clan, and other officials.
• Ming stamped the Human Way Investiture of the Gods and declared the appointed gods righteous gods of the Human Dao, protected by the Fortune Dynasty’s destiny.
• The Investiture unfurled over the Human Territory, and members of the Human Race and subordinate races felt the dynasty’s destiny empower them.
• Styx watched from the Blood God Palace and reasoned that the Human Dao’s capacity for change could help the Great Wilderness ascend.
• Styx considered that the Fortune Dynasty could control Human Way Destiny and, together with Nuwa, drive changes in the Human Dao.

Ming established Mount Tai City as Great Xia’s capital and began organizing the new Fortune Dynasty. After setting policies for its officials, he learned that disciples of the Sanqing Saints had arrived and summoned them to the palace.

• Ming named the capital Mount Tai City and took his seat in its palace beneath the Jade Void Glazed Lamp.
• Suiren Shi proposed sending envoys to proclaim Great Xia’s power, and Ming approved the mission.
• Six-Eared Macaque requested a military campaign against stubborn forces, but Ming ordered him to offer them a chance to surrender first.
• Zhao Gongming asked to centralize the tribes’ resources, and Ming approved the plan and tasked him with organizing the Ministry of Revenue.
• Ming considered Great Xia’s future and the need to recreate the achievements of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.
• A guard reported that White Brow, Duobao, Guangchengzi, and other Sanqing disciples had arrived, and Ming ordered them summoned.

The Sanqing disciples arrived at Mount Tai to assist Great Xia, and Ming assigned them roles in the new Fortune Dynasty. He left them and his ministers tasked with building its institutions and strengthening its Destiny.

• The Sanqing disciples entered the great hall and humbly offered their service to Ming.
• Ming appointed Guangchengzi to lead the Chan School and the Zhi Ge Clan in establishing the Heavenly Soldier Pavilion and forging weapons and armor.
• Ming appointed White Brow and Suiren Shi to lead the Human Teaching disciples in establishing the Heavenly Elixir Department and producing medicinal pills.
• Ming ordered Duobao and the Sect of Interception disciples to train an elite army under Six-Eared Macaque using battle formations.
• Ming assigned Gui Ling to oversee the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, where disciples skilled in divination would gather intelligence and divine Heaven's secrets.
• Ming reminded the Three Sects' disciples to obey Great Xia's laws, and they agreed.

After concluding the council, Ming planned to use the Fortune Dynasty to strengthen his avatar before venturing into Chaos to confront the Chaos Demon Gods. In the Styx Realm, Minghe began raising the Demon God worlds to gain power, while curbing thoughts of eventually challenging Pangu.

• Ming ended the court session and ordered officials to inspect the Heavenly Soldier Pavilion, Heavenly Elixir Department, and military formations in a thousand years, while investigating problems across the Fortune Dynasty.
• Ming planned to stabilize the dynasty's Fortune so his avatar could reach the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Realm, completing his arrangements in the Heavenly Dao, Earth Dao, and Human Dao before entering Chaos.
• Minghe resolved to refine the Three Thousand Chaos Demon God Bloodlines, then imitate Pangu by slaying the Chaos Demon Gods and using them to nourish the Styx Realm.
• Minghe chose ten Demon God Avatar worlds linked to complete laws in the Heavenly Dao Dharma Wheel and began helping them perfect their laws and ascend.
• Minghe anticipated that the worlds' feedback and the refined bloodlines could help him break through, but he stopped himself from imagining contending with Pangu and entered the Styx Realm to work.

Ming inspected the Heavenly Soldier Pavilion’s completed million sets of interconnected Supreme-grade weapons and armor, which could combine the soldiers’ strength into a unified formation. Guangchengzi also presented a pavilion-shaped Spiritual Treasure that repaired damaged equipment, and Ming praised the results.

• Guangchengzi reported that the Heavenly Soldier Pavilion had forged a million sets of weapons and armor for Ming’s army.
• Six-Eared Macaque activated the soldiers’ equipment, linking their Qi and Blood, mana, and souls into a protective barrier.
• Guangchengzi explained that the equipment improved individual combat strength and let commanders deploy formations and issue orders instantly.
• Guangchengzi demonstrated a pavilion-shaped Spiritual Treasure that restored damaged weapons and armor in less than a month.
• Ming inspected the pavilion and praised Guangchengzi and the weapon refiners’ work.

Ming reforged the Heavenly Soldier Pavilion into a powerful Spiritual Treasure, then used his new creation to avoid naming it himself. His actions impressed the disciples of the Three Sects and left them eager to serve the Human Race.

• Ming modestly credited the Zhi Ge Clan member and his fellow Daoists for the Heavenly Soldier Pavilion's design.
• When Guangchengzi asked Ming to name the pavilion, Ming worried that his poor naming ability would embarrass him.
• Ming melted Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures into the pavilion, refined it with Mortal Flame, and added new restrictions.
• The pavilion rose to Top-grade Acquired Spiritual Treasure, and Ming infused it with Fortune from the Destiny Golden Dragon and Merit Power.
• The disciples of the Three Sects were impressed by Ming's generosity and grew more eager to help the Human Race.
• Ming beckoned the completed treasure into his hand and examined it with satisfaction.

Ming completed the Myriad Phenomena Heavenly Craft Pavilion and entrusted it to Guangchengzi as the Heavenly Soldier Pavilion’s guardian treasure. White Brow then presented the Heavenly Elixir Department’s pill production, and Ming approved the supplies for Great Xia’s army.

• Ming named the refined treasure the Myriad Phenomena Heavenly Craft Pavilion and made it responsible for suppressing the Heavenly Soldier Pavilion’s Fortune.
• Ming gave Guangchengzi the pavilion to safeguard and ordered each department to refine a treasure that would strengthen Great Xia’s Fortune.
• White Brow presented ten million batches of pills produced by the Heavenly Elixir Department over a thousand years, including Blood Battle Pills, Heaven Returning Pills, and Obstacle Breaking Pills.
• White Brow explained the pills’ effects, and Ming praised the supplies for their potential to increase the army’s strength.

Ming bestowed the Chaos Elixir Gourd upon the Heavenly Elixir Department, then watched Duobao and Six-Eared Macaque demonstrate battle formations developed for the imperial army. The chapter left Ming impressed by the army’s new strength and the cooperation among the Three Sects.

• Ming refined the Chaos Elixir Gourd and gave it to White Brow to suppress the Heavenly Elixir Department’s fortune.
• Duobao explained that he and Six-Eared Macaque had adapted the Myriad Immortals Array for the imperial army.
• Six-Eared Macaque led the Million Strong Army in forming an array that opened a battle space capable of contending with a Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal.
• Duobao introduced the Myriad Calamities Undying Array, which connected the army’s essence, energy, and spirit and allowed its soldiers to recover rapidly.
• Six-Eared Macaque combined both arrays and drew the army’s power into himself, attaining strength comparable to an ordinary Late-stage Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal.

Ming equipped Great Xia’s army with Iron Blood Battle Banners that could protect fallen soldiers’ souls and ordered an expedition to unify the Great Wilderness. The army prepared to march west in one month, with the disciples of the Three Sects serving as vanguard and Six-Eared Macaque commanding the forces.

• Ming refined one hundred and one Iron Blood Battle Banners, which could support formations and preserve soldiers’ Nascent Souls or True Spirits.
• Ming ordered the million soldiers to prepare to pacify the Great Wilderness to the west in one month.
• Ming granted the disciples of the Three Sects guest minister status and Destiny Empowerment, helping Duobao, White Brow, and Guangchengzi advance their cultivation.
• Ming appointed Six-Eared Macaque to command the army, assisted by Suiren Shi and the Zhi Ge Clan, while the disciples of the Three Sects accompanied the expedition.
• Ming ordered the disciples of the Three Sects to serve as vanguard and persuade the Great Wilderness races to submit, while allowing the army to kill those who resisted.

Ming addressed problems in the Fortune Dynasty and ordered officials to improve marriage customs and address the Human Race’s growing food shortage. He tasked Yunxiao’s Ministry of People with overseeing livestock raising and crop cultivation, leaving the dynasty with a plan to secure its food supply.

• Zi Yi Clan reported that tribesmen still ignored proper marriage customs, and Ming tasked him with establishing a Ministry of Rites and teaching etiquette.
• Other officials raised problems within the Fortune Dynasty, and Ming heard their concerns and offered solutions.
• Yunxiao reported that population growth and food demands were making food scarce among the Human Race.
• Ming ordered the tribes to capture young wild animals and raise livestock to increase the meat supply.
• Ming instructed the tribes to cultivate common, high-yielding plants, and assigned Yunxiao’s Ministry of People to oversee the work.

Ming sent Yunxiao, Bixiao, and Qiongxiao to the Spirit Realm to search for the Five Grains Spiritual Root so the Human Race could secure its food supply. After entering the realm, the Three Sisters received directions from Spring Orchid and set off to search.

• Ming showed Yunxiao images of rice, millet, broomcorn millet, wheat, and soybeans, then ordered her to search for them in the Spirit Realm with Bixiao and Qiongxiao.
• Yunxiao told her sisters about the mission, and the Three Sisters arranged the affairs of the Ministry of People before departing.
• The Three Sisters traveled to Zhou Mountain, where the Chaos Gourd Vine shielded them from some of the mountain's pressure as they reached the Spirit Realm.
• Bixiao, Yunxiao, and Qiongxiao arrived in the Spirit Realm and marveled at its dense spiritual energy, Spiritual Roots, Spirit Plants, and Elves.
• Spring Orchid appeared, recognized the Three Sisters' purpose, and pointed them toward an area where they might find the Five Grains Spiritual Root.

The Three Sisters found the Five Grains Spiritual Root, which could help solve the Human Race’s food shortage, but discovered that it belonged to an Elf named Little Green. Qiongxiao offered a Mid-grade Spiritual Root Peach Tree in exchange for its five fruits, and Little Green had yet to answer.

• The Three Sisters followed Spring Orchid’s directions and played with the Spirit Realm’s Elves along the way.
• Yunxiao sensed Human Race Luck stirring, and Bixiao found a Spiritual Root bearing five fruits shaped like the Five Grains.
• Yunxiao and Qiongxiao identified it as the Five Grains Spiritual Root they had been sent to find.
• A green-haired Elf named Little Green appeared and said the Spiritual Root belonged to her under the Spirit Realm’s rules.
• Yunxiao asked Little Green to exchange the Spiritual Root, but Little Green hesitated because she had cared for it for a long time.
• Qiongxiao offered her Mid-grade Spiritual Root Peach Tree in exchange for the five fruits.