Chapter Summaries

Meng Qi learned that Han Guang and the Demon Race were involved in Kong Wen’s imprisonment, then arranged to rescue Kong Wen with Master Lu. He also refined three Eastern Extreme Longevity Pills and headed to Huamei Villa, while Qu Jiuniang uncovered Fish Sea as the core of the Twelve Links of Causality formation.

• Lingbao Tianzun told Meng Qi to find Master Lu to locate and rescue the imprisoned Kong Wen, and promised him an Eight-Nine Arcane Art Dharmakaya move after the matter was settled.
• Meng Qi exchanged several treasures for Merit Points, refined three Eastern Extreme Longevity Pills, and planned to sell two of them to aging Outer Scenery Experts.
• Meng Qi went to Huamei Villa and explained the situation to Ye Yuqi, who took him to Master Lu.
• Master Lu listened to Meng Qi and Ye Yuqi, then took up a longsword and said he would go with Meng Qi to Shaolin.
• Qu Jiuniang looted two Joyful Temple monks and discovered that Fish Sea was the formation's core for the Twelve Links of Causality.
• At Fish Sea, several monks in lama robes exchanged glances, and their leader ordered them to begin.

The factions converged on the Fish Sea as a Buddhist formation raised a golden vajra and threatened everyone caught within its reach. Meanwhile, Master Lu freed Kong Wen at Lotus Platform Mountain, and the coming battle over the Divine Palm’s general outline remained on the verge of erupting.

• Three Dharma Kings and six lamas activated a Buddha-light formation that drained the power of Outer Scenery Experts and formed a vajra, which split the Fish Sea with its Monastic Blade.
• Two Snow Mountain Sect Grandmasters awakened a white-haired figure from an ancient tomb and brought him to the Fish Sea to oppose the vajra.
• Rahula summoned a savage black monster from the Endless Abyss Sea, and it joined the Great Asura Meng Nan as the demon kings moved toward the Fish Sea.
• Tai Li sent the Demon Venerable ahead, then joined the white tiger and Kui Ox as the three demon kings converged on the Fish Sea, where Chong He, Cui Qinghe, He Qi, and Kong Wen prepared to face them.
• Master Lu took Meng Qi to Lotus Platform Mountain, cut through Han Guang’s formations, and freed Kong Wen, who thanked him.

After finding the Overlord’s traces on the summit, Master Lu, Meng Qi, and Kong Wen hurried back as Han Guang’s formation revealed the Divine Palm’s General Outline. Han Guang betrayed Chong He during the ensuing battle, but Chong He evaded the ambush and revealed the full power of his Way.

• Master Lu, Meng Qi, and Kong Wen found traces of the Overlord on the summit and learned that he had reached the realm of Legend.
• Master Lu urged Meng Qi and Kong Wen to return quickly because Han Guang might attack after sensing the formation’s destruction.
• Han Guang learned that the real Kong Wen had escaped and decided to strike Chong He before the other Dharmakaya masters discovered his identity.
• The Divine Palm’s General Outline appeared as the Kushana Bodhi, drawing the Demon Kings, human Dharmakaya masters, and other powerful figures into battle.
• Han Guang revealed himself and struck at Chong He in coordination with Tai Li, but Chong He evaded them and formed the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation with One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones.

Chong He’s Immortal Slaying Sword Formation trapped Han Guang and Tai Li while the other masters fought to stop the Demon Kings and their allies from overwhelming him. As Meng Qi traveled with Master Lu and Kong Wen to the Western Regions, he discovered Zhao Qian seated among nine Buddhist monks, and the thought of the Buddha Emperor came to mind.

• Chong He used One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones to trap Han Guang and Tai Li in the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, while Meng Nan attacked Kushana Bodhi.
• He Qi turned his full strength against the Kui Niu Demon King, and Shou Jing arrived with the Time Saber to drive back the White Tiger Demon King.
• Dharma King Dushi ambushed the monster reaching for Kushana Bodhi, but the monster broke free and grew a new head.
• Han Guang decided he had to escape the formation, while Tai Li’s Five-Colored Divine Palm and Han Guang’s Yama’s Hand failed to overcome Chong He’s Sword Qi.
• Master Lu and Kong Wen took Meng Qi to the Western Regions, where Meng Qi found nine Buddhist monks gathered around Zhao Qian and thought of the Buddha Emperor.

Meng Qi secretly watched Zhao Qian undergo a mysterious Buddhist rite as Han Guang and Tai Li escaped Chong He's sword formation at great cost. After the Dharmakayas fought over the Kushana Bodhi, Zhao Qian's declaration that everyone would become a Buddha caused it to shine and fly away, leaving its destination unknown.

• Meng Qi hid near nine Buddhist masters as they performed a rite around Zhao Qian and heard them recite an unfamiliar prophecy about a Buddha returning in the age of the Final Dharma.
• Han Guang used a divine saber, a replica of the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Pagoda, and a mirror to create an opening in Chong He's Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.
• Tai Li opened a passage, and Han Guang used his body to endure the pursuing Sword Qi as they escaped, leaving him gravely injured and depleted of nearly all his accumulated treasures.
• The White Tiger Demon King abandoned his palm to escape Shou Jing, while the badly wounded Kui Niu Demon King fled He Qi's attack.
• Chong He and the other Dharmakayas continued fighting over the Kushana Bodhi as Zhao Qian stood and declared that everyone would become a Buddha in the age of the Final Dharma.
• The Kushana Bodhi shone in response to Zhao Qian's words and shot away before Chong He or the other Dharmakayas could stop it.

Meng Qi transformed into a goshawk and stole the Kushana Bodhi while Former Crown Prince Zhao Qian and nine Buddhist masters prepared to claim it. After True Person Yunhe helped him escape, a mysterious Buddhist power disrupted their flight, and Meng Qi crashed down beside Zhenhui with the relic.

• Former Crown Prince Zhao Qian used the Buddhist formation and a grand vow to draw the Kushana Bodhi toward the nine eminent Buddhist monks.
• Meng Qi transformed into a goshawk, seized the Kushana Bodhi, and escaped with True Person Yunhe after Yunhe trapped their pursuers with the Gate of All Phenomena talisman.
• The Buddhist masters and Zhao Qian broke free of the formation and pursued Meng Qi, while several Dharmakayas rushed to the scene.
• A compassionate power turned the surroundings into a Buddhist Pure Land, cut Meng Qi off from the world's principles, and sent him plunging toward the ground.
• Meng Qi landed beside Zhenhui, who was stunned to see him arrive with the Kushana Bodhi.

Meng Qi and the Dharma Body masters reached Lanke Temple, where its mysterious Bodhisattva offered to settle the struggle over the Kushana Bodhi by letting everyone comprehend its true intent. Meng Qi accepted the arrangement and was chosen to go first, while the wicked masters fled.

• Meng Qi discovered that the Samsara Talisman could not be used in the area as Lanke Temple appeared around him and the others.
• True Person Yunhe recognized the surroundings as a fragment of the Eastern Glazed World, while Meng Qi wondered about its connection to Medicine Master Tathagata.
• The Dharma Body masters gathered outside the temple’s blue light and heard its Bodhisattva propose keeping the Kushana Bodhi there for all to comprehend.
• The Bodhisattva explained that the treasure could grant direct inheritance to only three people, and Meng Qi agreed to the comprehension arrangement.
• The Bodhisattva invited Meng Qi to comprehend the treasure first, and Dharma King Dushi, Meng Nan, and the other wicked masters withdrew.

Meng Qi contemplated the Kushana Bodhi at Lanke Temple, glimpsed the Buddha Palm form Only I Am Supreme, and gained a way to return to the temple by silently reciting Moon Manjusri Bodhisattva’s name. After arranging for his companions to contemplate and asking Kong Wen to let his master, Divine Monk Xuan Bei, use the Sarira Pagoda, Meng Qi left to search the flooded battlefield for treasures.

• Moon Manjusri Bodhisattva told Meng Qi that sincerely reciting her name three times would let him find Lanke Temple, giving him a way to hide there within this world.
• Meng Qi contemplated the Kushana Bodhi and glimpsed the Buddha Palm form Only I Am Supreme before his Primordial Spirit could endure any more.
• Chong He and the other visitors took turns contemplating the Kushana Bodhi, while Chong He explained Meng Qi’s appearance at Huamei Villa to Master Lu.
• Meng Qi invited Hong Neng and Zhenhui to contemplate; Zhenhui absorbed so much that he fell asleep and Kong Wen said he might sleep for a year or two.
• Meng Qi declined Kong Wen’s offer of a reward and asked only that Divine Monk Xuan Bei be allowed to contemplate in the upper level of the Sarira Pagoda.
• After Lanke Temple disappeared, Meng Qi and Yunhe searched the newly flooded area near Fish Sea for materials left behind by the Dharma Body masters.

Meng Qi and True Person Yunhe searched the New Fish Sea for treasures left by the battle between Dharmakayas, then parted ways after Yunhe returned to his grotto-heaven. Meng Qi went to Biyou Palace, where Lingbao Tianzun offered him a chance to choose an Eight-Nine Arcane Art Dharmakaya move and explained the first of the three moves.

• True Person Yunhe used blue light to reveal scattered treasures, and Meng Qi collected Peacock Feathers, eleven drops of Kui Niu Blood, and a White Tiger Palm.
• Meng Qi encountered Qu Jiuniang searching the lakebed, and they split up to gather the remaining spoils.
• True Person Yunhe selected the White Tiger Palm, merit, some Peacock Feathers, and some sinister blood, while Meng Qi kept all the Kui Niu Blood and five elemental Peacock Feathers.
• True Person Yunhe returned to his grotto-heaven, and Meng Qi put away the Gate of All Phenomena before traveling to Immortal Trace and entering Biyou Palace.
• Lingbao Tianzun told Meng Qi that Kong Wen planned to invite him back to Shaolin, then led him to choose an Eight-Nine Arcane Art move and explained Flesh and Blood Have Spirit.

Meng Qi chose the Dharmakaya secret art Flesh and Blood Have Spirit, then accepted a mission escorting an Imperial Envoy across Immortal's Sorrow while planning to cultivate in an affiliated world. After upgrading his weapons and robe, he entered Biyou Heaven's tenth entrance to begin the mission.

• Meng Qi chose Flesh and Blood Have Spirit and received its True Intent Inheritance from Lingbao Tianzun.
• Lingbao Tianzun offered Meng Qi a mission in an affiliated world, where he would escort a third Imperial Envoy through Immortal's Sorrow to the overseas prefectures.
• Lingbao Tianzun explained that the Lanke Temple figure's lineage practiced the Sambhogakaya, a long-lived path constrained by strict vows and principles.
• Meng Qi collected the mission at Immortal Traces Workshop and spent Merit Points upgrading Heaven's Wound with Kui Niu Blood and the Qingyuan Daoist Robe with the Peacock Demon King's feathers.
• Meng Qi changed the robe's color, put on his Yuanshi Tianzun mask, and stepped through Biyou Heaven's tenth entrance.

The emperor summoned an immortal from Biyou Palace to deal with Qiao Prefecture’s resistance, while a secret group plotted to sink the Imperial Envoy’s fleet in Immortal’s Sorrow. When the fleet was attacked, Yuanshi Tianzun intervened and killed the White-robed Swordsman, leaving the voyage’s dangers unresolved.

• The emperor summoned an immortal at the palace altar, and Yuanshi Tianzun descended from Biyou Palace.
• A secret group agreed to attack the Imperial Envoy’s fleet and enlist an ally to make it appear shipwrecked in Immortal’s Sorrow.
• Zhang Yuquan’s fleet encountered an icy Yin Wind, and a White-robed Swordsman appeared on a skiff ahead of them.
• Pure Yang energy exposed and destroyed invisible enemies lurking aboard the ships.
• Yuanshi Tianzun attacked the White-robed Swordsman with overwhelming force and killed him.

Meng Qi defeated the Swordsman and an invisible spirit-controller, whose remains transformed into strange creatures and escaped into the sea. After the conspirators learned of their deaths and devised a plan to delay the Imperial Envoy, Meng Qi urged Zhang Yuquan to take control of Qiaoxia Prefecture before Fang Butong could stall for time.

• Meng Qi killed the Swordsman and the spirit-controller with powerful strikes, but their remains transformed into strange creatures and escaped into the sea.
• Meng Qi ordered Zhang Yuquan to retrieve the Swordsman's sword so he could examine it for clues.
• In a secret chamber, the conspirators learned that both Soul Lamps had gone out and concluded that the Biyou Palace immortal was too powerful to confront directly.
• The conspirators planned to delay their return to the Capital City and secretly carry out their scheme, agreeing to lure and kill Meng Qi if he escorted them.
• Fang Butong accepted the Emperor's order to let Zhang Yuquan take over Qiaoxia Prefecture without resisting, making Zhang Yuquan suspect a trap.
• Meng Qi told Zhang Yuquan to stop indulging Fang Butong's pretense and seize control of the prefecture first.

Meng Qi and Zhang Yuquan set a trap for Governor Fang Butong, whom they suspected of helping destroy the fleets. The confrontation exposed Fang’s alliance with the Andong people and erupted into battle, leaving Meng Qi facing the Great Sun Divine Witch Chen Wendeng.

• Meng Qi persuaded Zhang Yuquan to strike at Fang Butong before the sea route was cut off, and Zhang invited Fang to discuss Qiao Prefecture’s affairs.
• Fang arrived with Chen Wendeng, an Outlander guard, and explained that he had recommended Chen to the Imperial Envoy.
• Meng Qi asked Fang what he had eaten, then attacked and sealed him after his Dharma Form recoiled from Meng Qi’s power.
• Chen Wendeng revealed a blood-veiled sun Dharma Form and injured Zhang Yuquan while Zhang tried to stop him.
• Zhang Yuquan recognized Chen as the Great Sun Divine Witch and realized Fang and the others were allied with the Andong people.
• Chen attacked Meng Qi with his Hundred Suns Melting Gold Fist as the restrained Fang muttered that he was the spirit of Kunlun.

Meng Qi defeated Chen Wendeng by reversing their yin and yang forces, then learned that the spirit inhabiting Fang Butong was a Kunlun medicine spirit tied to a sealed place beneath Qiao's five prefectures. After questioning the spirit and locating its body, Meng Qi decided to return with the Heavenly Venerable before exploring the seal.

• Meng Qi endured Chen Wendeng's Hundred Suns Melting Gold Fist and counterattacked with the Finger of the Beginning and Heaven and Earth Inverted.
• Meng Qi used the Yin-Yang Transformation to turn Chen Wendeng's flames into ice and his own cold attack into fire, then killed him with the Three Treasures Ruyi Fist.
• Meng Qi questioned the dying Fang Butong and discovered that a Kunlun medicine spirit had made a pact with him.
• The medicine spirit told Meng Qi that people had been seeking a sealed place and that Jade Void Palace's orthodox lineage could enter its core directly.
• Meng Qi learned the location of the seal, seized the medicine spirit's crimson-leaved branch, and decided to return with the Heavenly Venerable.

Meng Qi and Lingbao Tianzun investigated a hidden seal in the valley and found a sequence of ordinary-looking steles whose inscriptions appeared to dictate the rules of the realm. The final stele bore the name Yang Jian, Disciple of Jade Void, leaving Meng Qi stunned.

• Meng Qi left Biyou Heaven early and told Lingbao Tianzun about the hidden seal, prompting Lingbao to warn him that his unusually strong fortune might be arranged by someone.
• Meng Qi asked Lingbao Tianzun for karma-related techniques to help him sever his ties to Ananda and others, and Lingbao promised to look for them.
• Lingbao Tianzun forced a way into the valley with Meng Qi, and Meng Qi used the Eight-Nine Arcane Art to reveal a Golden Gate that only true inheritors could see.
• Inside the sealed area, Meng Qi and Lingbao Tianzun found steles declaring that no spirit herbs would grow, the realm's inhabitants could not cross the first step of the Heavenly Ladder, and the realm had other specific limits.
• After passing through more gates and finding a stele that restricted entry to certain inheritances or token holders, Meng Qi reached the final chamber and saw a blank stele signed Yang Jian, Disciple of Jade Void.

Meng Qi and Lingbao Tianzun discovered that Yang Jian’s nine stone tablets sealed and restricted the world, while a Jade Void Palace waist token lay nearby. Back in Biyou Heaven, the Great Green Root revealed that it remembered the Lord of Six Paths Samsara’s aura, so Lingbao Tianzun took it to investigate as Meng Qi returned to Jiangdong.

• Meng Qi found Yang Jian’s Jade Void Palace waist token behind the stone tablet and stored it after Lingbao Tianzun told him to keep it.
• Meng Qi and Lingbao Tianzun touched the tablet and perceived that nine stone tablets suppressed the world, but Lingbao Tianzun could not move them.
• Suspecting the Great Green Root was concealing information, Meng Qi and Lingbao Tianzun took it back to Biyou Heaven for appraisal.
• The Great Green Root resisted and said it remembered the Lord of Six Paths Samsara’s aura from a visit to the sealed area, prompting Lingbao Tianzun to question it under protective restrictions.
• Lingbao Tianzun agreed to investigate the Great Green Root and retrieve the other apothecary spirits, tokens, and records, while Meng Qi resumed his own affairs.
• Meng Qi exchanged three weapons for 4,100 Merit Points, selected three needed treasures, and headed for Immortal Trace’s passage to Jiangdong.

Yuan Yang and Weng Lingyu met in Guangling and listened to a storyteller recount the battle over the complete text of Buddha's Palm. They discovered he was Meng Qi, and the chapter ended with him preparing to beat Wang Siyuan in a sealed courtyard.

• Yuan Yang met Weng Lingyu in Guangling, where Weng Lingyu explained that she had left home to travel freely.
• Yuan Yang and Weng Lingyu entered the Peaceful Tower and heard a green-robed storyteller describe the battle involving Han Guang, Daoist Chong He, Tai Li, and Kong Wen.
• A Wang Clan steward invited the storyteller to meet Young Master Wang, and the crowd realized the storyteller was Mad Saber Su Meng.
• Meng Qi met Wang Siyuan in the courtyard, where Wang Siyuan had set up a formation to keep their conversation private.
• Meng Qi told Wang Siyuan he suddenly felt like beating him and began rolling up his sleeves.

Meng Qi fought Wang Siyuan, then asked him how to find the Sü Nü Immortal Realm and learned it had formed from part of the Nine Heavens. A letter revealed that Wang Siyuan had entered Shaolin's Back Mountain stone gate, while Yuan Yang and Weng Lingyu wondered whether their senior would come.

• Meng Qi surprised Wang Siyuan with a lightning palm-saber, then used Open Heaven and Earth and a crushing saber strike to force him to defend himself and injure his fingers.
• Wang Siyuan asked whether Kong Wen had been trapped by Han Guang in a Time-Space Shard, then said he already knew the answer.
• Meng Qi asked how to deal with the Suxian Dao and learned that the Sü Nü Immortal Realm had formed from part of the Nine Heavens and was difficult to locate.
• A child delivered Meng Qi a letter saying Wang Siyuan had entered the stone gate in Shaolin's Back Mountain, leaving Meng Qi with questions about his purpose and success.
• Yuan Yang and Weng Lingyu discussed the Mad Saber, and Weng Lingyu wondered whether their senior would come.

Yuan Yang, Weng Lingyu, Min Renlong, Wu Xiuxian, and Wu Xing reunited in Guangling, watched a Human Ranking duel, and reflected on how far the renowned fighters had risen beyond them. Meng Qi met them aboard a pleasure boat, warned them that Reincarnators could be recognized by their martial arts, and gave them guidance before leaving to seek help with the Eastern Extreme Longevity Pill.

• Yuan Yang, Weng Lingyu, Min Renlong, Wu Xiuxian, and Wu Xing gathered in Guangling and headed to Little South Lake after learning that Wang Ji and Song Quanlüe would duel.
• Song Quanlüe defeated Wang Ji by half a move, and the five watched the fight before hearing people compare today’s Human Ranking fighters with the famous experts who had become Outer Scenery Experts.
• Meng Qi appeared in the group’s boat cabin and advised them to conceal their identities by keeping separate martial arts for Reincarnation missions and the real world.
• Weng Lingyu demonstrated Goose Returns to Zhurong, and Meng Qi inferred the other four forms of the Five Divine Swords of Hengshan and left her a sword manual.
• Meng Qi gave Yuan Yang and the others martial guidance, vanished through the window, and then set out to find an expert in Jiangdong who could help with the Eastern Extreme Longevity Pill.

Meng Qi avoided involvement in the Wang Clan’s secrets and arranged an auction of life-prolonging pills, while invitations drew powerful, long-lived experts toward Wangchao Stone. The chapter ended with a mysterious black-robed figure arriving at the auction ship and discovering that Yan Wuwo was guarding it.

• Meng Qi decided not to pursue the letter about Wang Siyuan and traveled to recruit Yan Wuwo to keep order at his auction.
• Old Ancestor Zhang received an invitation to bid for the Eastern Extreme Longevity Pill and resolved to gather the requested treasures.
• Old Master Ruan sent Sanlang to the auction and forgave him for an old mistake, hoping he would make amends.
• A number of Outer Scenery Experts nearing the end of their lives set out for Wangchao Stone after receiving invitations.
• A dust-worn, black-robed figure arrived at the auction ship and learned from Yan Wuwo that he was only guarding it for someone else.