Chapter Summaries

Long Zixuan defeated the Otherworldly Daoist and found a faint sign that Kunpeng might return, while Wu Dade was left crawling under the weight of stone rings. Meanwhile, Ao Wushuang and Lu Cailing looted the Ding Star Realm as they continued searching for Ancestor Demon Stone Tokens.

• The big black dog told Wu Dade that the weakened Otherworldly Daoist was no match for Long Zixuan, who returned carrying its head.
• Long Zixuan placed the Otherworldly Daoist's head before Kunpeng's statue, which shattered to reveal a glowing, half-petrified feather-scale that he took as a sign Kunpeng could return.
• Long Zixuan revealed he had reached Divine Lord and nearly advanced to Divine Monarch, while the big black dog pinned Wu Dade under five heavy stone rings and left him to crawl back to the village.
• Ao Wushuang and Lu Cailing arrived in the Ding Star Realm, where Lu Cailing asked about his apparent ability to foresee events and then led him to the East Sea Flood Dragon Demon Race's Crystal Palace.
• Ao Wushuang stripped the Crystal Palace of its medicines, pills, coral floor, and throne while Lu Cailing retrieved an Ancestor Demon Stone Token and said they needed three more to move Five Elements Mountain and save him.
• Lu Cailing offered to take Ao Wushuang to another treasure-filled place, and he eagerly agreed to brave any danger for the loot.

Long Zixuan returned after killing the Otherworldly Daoist, and the group brought the captured Demon Race members back to the Great Ruin Realm. Meanwhile, eight Divine Monarchs investigated a mysterious catastrophe and learned that the Divine King had descended to the lower realm in person.

• Long Zixuan told Nan Feng and the others how he had killed the Otherworldly Daoist with the Kunpeng’s power and explained that Big Black had left Wu Dade to make his own way back.
• Big Black severed the spiritual senses of the captured Demon Race members, but Yunxi painted them away before Ziling could; Yunxi revealed that she had learned to paint.
• Xin Ning agreed to take hungry Tian Ling'er back to the village, and the group returned to the Great Ruin Realm with their captured beasts.
• Yunxi and the others released demon beasts into the Great Ruin Realm, while Nan Feng gave selected beasts to the Wood Spirit Imperial Dynasty and the Yun family to tame.
• Eight Divine Monarchs discussed Star Annihilation Divine Monarch’s failing condition and the strange upheaval, then learned that the Divine King had descended to the lower realm with the Heavenly Machine Divine Calculation.

Heavenly Pole descended into the Forty-Ninth Star Domain to investigate the calamity and sought traces of the Creation Supreme Being. After killing Star Annihilation and deciding to use the Heavenly Machine Grand Array to question the eight Heavenly Daos, he discovered he lacked the ten Divine Monarchs needed to power it, just as the young monk Liaochen arrived.

• The Heavenly Court approved Heavenly Pole’s descent in an avatar to investigate the calamity in the Forty-Ninth Star Domain.
• Heavenly Pole examined the wounded Star Annihilation Divine Monarch and recognized an aura connected to reincarnation.
• Dao Wuyi explained that the aura might come from the Underworld or the Ghostly Realm’s Bridge of Reincarnation, but Heavenly Pole erased Star Annihilation to avoid complications.
• Heavenly Pole revealed that he had descended to find traces of the Creation Supreme Being, and Dao Wuyi proposed using the Heavenly Machine Grand Array to communicate with the eight Heavenly Daos.
• Heavenly Pole realized the array required ten Divine Monarchs, though only eight remained, when Liaochen arrived to greet the Divine Realm’s cultivators.

Bodhisattva Liaochen arrived to help the Heavenly Pole Divine King open the Heavenly Machine Grand Array and revealed that Zhe Xingsun had become a Demon Venerable by imitating the hero of a story. The story’s mysterious teller remained unknown, leaving Dao Wuyi and the others wondering what kind of being had shared it with the monkey.

• Liaochen crossed the Star River and offered the Heavenly Pole Divine King help with the Heavenly Machine Grand Array.
• Liaochen explained that the Western Brahma Sect had learned about the array through a page from the Dao Canon that had reached the Buddha.
• Liaochen told the Heavenly Pole Divine King that Zhe Xingsun had imitated a story’s main character, taking the Sea Calming Divine Needle and causing havoc across the realms.
• Liaochen swore an oath that his account was true and said Zhe Xingsun had expected a monk to rescue him from beneath Five Elements Mountain.
• Dao Wuyi asked what sort of being had told Zhe Xingsun the story.

Liaochen, Heavenly Pole Divine King, and Dao Wuyi formed an alliance to investigate the Forty-Ninth Star Domain’s secrets, then used the Heaven Destroying Stone to destroy the First Subdomain’s Heavenly Dao. Their search revealed an image of a monstrous Otherworldly Daoist, while Nan Feng and the others returned to Small Mountain Village with Tian Ling'er.

• Liaochen said the Western Brahma Sect feared the story’s foretold fate and explained that the Forty-Ninth Star Domain held a major secret.
• Heavenly Pole Divine King agreed to cooperate with Liaochen, who assigned the Arhats Kasyapa and Jia Twelve to help Dao Wuyi complete the Heaven’s Secrets Grand Array.
• Liaochen proposed destroying the local Heavenly Dao, and he revealed a Heaven Destroying Stone that could make it possible.
• Dao Wuyi completed the array, examined the First Subdomain’s Heavenly Dao records, and found an image of a many-armed monster whose energy had disturbed the Nine Cauldrons.
• Liaochen and Heavenly Pole Divine King allowed Dao Wuyi to use the stone to destroy the First Subdomain’s Heavenly Dao, killing its young spirit and condemning its inhabitants to perish.
• Nan Feng and the others returned to Small Mountain Village with hundreds of hunting trophies, and Tian Ling'er wondered whether it was the birthplace of creation.

Tian Ling'er entered Small Mountain Village and found that its power healed her injured Heavenly Dao, then recognized Li Fan as her master. After Li Fan tried to revive the rare fish from a scale and welcomed Tian Ling'er, the village prepared a feast while the Heavenly Pole Divine King continued searching the star domains for the mysterious Dao practitioner.

• Tian Ling'er followed Nan Feng and the others into Small Mountain Village, where she felt her Heavenly Dao injuries begin to heal.
• Long Zixuan gave Li Fan a scaled feather that was all that remained of the rare fish, and Li Fan placed it in the pond with fish feed in hopes that its eggs would hatch.
• Tian Ling'er knelt before Li Fan and called him her master, but Li Fan comforted her, invited her to stay, and promised to help find her grandfather.
• Li Fan saw the disciples' abundant live prey and joined the villagers in preparing a feast, while Tian Ling'er recognized the dishes' Great Dao laws.
• The Heavenly Pole Divine King ordered his forces to keep searching the remaining four minor star domains after destroying the Heavenly Dao in four others.

Li Fan and his disciples shared a village feast, where Uncle Zhang’s potent wheat wine refined their bodies and laws before they all passed out. While Li Fan cared for them, the Heavenly Machine Divine King’s group destroyed the Sixth Sub-Star Domain’s Heavenly Dao and prepared to target the last two.

• Li Fan noticed Wu Dade was missing, while Long Zixuan explained that his junior brother was exercising.
• Wu Dade crawled back to the village under the weight of his stone rings, and Old Yellow Ox removed them before putting them on Big Black Ox.
• Li Fan welcomed Wu Dade to the feast, and the villagers later drank Uncle Zhang’s wheat wine, which refined their laws and bodies as many guests passed out.
• Li Fan carried his disciples to bed and comforted Yunxi when she dreamed that Qing Chen and the others had died.
• The Heavenly Machine Divine King’s group destroyed the Sixth Sub-Star Domain’s Heavenly Dao, leaving only the Seventh and Eighth Sub-Star Domains.

Li Fan organized the villagers and disciples to harvest wheat while Dao Wuyi, Liaochen, and the Heavenly Pole Divine King used a Heavenly Dao Worm to search for the Eighth Sub-Star Domain’s missing Heavenly Dao. The worm reached the Great Ruin Star Realm and appeared before the village children, where Tian Ling'er sensed it as a threat.

• Li Fan told Gongya to use ghost teeth to keep stored meat cool, comforted Tian Ling'er about saving porridge for her grandpa, and decided to organize the wheat harvest.
• Dao Wuyi discovered that the Eighth Sub-Star Domain’s Heavenly Dao Spirit was missing, and Liaochen urged him to use the demonic Heavenly Dao Worm left by his master to find it.
• Dao Wuyi awakened the worm and linked his, Liaochen’s, and the Heavenly Pole Divine King’s senses to it as it traveled toward the Great Ruin Star Realm.
• Li Fan led his disciples and the villagers in harvesting wheat while the village children wandered beyond the village to explore.
• The black beetle flew up to Tian Ling'er and the children, and Wang Xiao Er guessed that it was a dung beetle.

The Heavenly Dao Worm found the Heavenly Dao Spirit near Small Mountain Village, but the children mistook it for a dung beetle and forced it to eat manure. Through their connection to the worm, Heavenly Pole Divine King, Liaochen, and Dao Wuyi suffered its terror and nausea as the feeding continued.

• Tian Ling'er sensed the Heavenly Dao Worm approaching, and Wang Xiao Er raised his sickle to squash it.
• Heavenly Pole Divine King, Liaochen, and Dao Wuyi realized the worm had found the Heavenly Dao Spirit, then felt a terrifying presence threaten them through their connection to it.
• Er Ya stopped Wang Xiao Er from killing the worm and suggested feeding it so the children could watch it roll dung balls.
• Daniu and Xiaozhu brought a manure bucket, and Wang Xiao Er fed the worm a ladleful of dung while guarding it with his sickle.
• The children kept feeding the worm, which grew larger as it gorged itself, while the three connected observers retched and begged for the feeding to end.

The children fed the Heavenly Dao Worm until Aunt Wang mistook it for a pest and killed it, severing its connection to Heavenly Pole Divine King, Liaochen, and Dao Wuyi. Liaochen persuaded the others to continue their scheme and sent Dao Wuyi to track the worm’s trail with the Undying Stone.

• The children fed the Heavenly Dao Worm bucket after bucket of manure until it became full and collapsed.
• Aunt Wang called the worm a harmful pest and smashed it with her hoe before taking the children home for flatbreads.
• Heavenly Pole Divine King, Liaochen, and Dao Wuyi felt their connection to the worm break and feared they had died, then realized they were unharmed.
• Heavenly Pole Divine King suspected a powerful enemy and proposed suspending their plans, but Liaochen argued that the worm’s killer might not be strong.
• Liaochen gave Dao Wuyi the Undying Stone and persuaded him to track the Heavenly Dao Worm’s aura and investigate.

Dao Wuyi and two Divine Monarchs traced the Heavenly Dao Worm to the Great Ruin Realm, where they discovered that Yun Yinchen’s destiny had been changed and that he had a daughter hidden from heavenly insight. Dao Wuyi suspected she possessed an Outer Realm Destiny and threatened the Yun clan to force Yun Yinchen to reveal her whereabouts.

• Dao Wuyi followed the Heavenly Dao Worm’s traces to the Great Ruin Realm, a Star Realm evolving into a Constant Realm, but could no longer sense the Worm there.
• Dao Wuyi learned that the realm’s changes were tied to the Lord of the Desolate Heavens and went with Profound One Divine Monarch and Golden Red Divine Monarch to the Yun Family.
• Dao Wuyi recognized Yun Yinchen as the Divine Domain’s former heavenly talent and realized his destiny had changed from the fate he had once divined.
• Profound One Divine Monarch restrained Yun Yinchen while Dao Wuyi used Blood Divination, which revealed that Yun Yinchen had a daughter.
• Dao Wuyi suspected Yun Yinchen’s daughter possessed an Outer Realm Destiny and threatened to destroy the Yun clan unless Yun Yinchen handed her over.

Dao Wuyi threatened the Yun Family to force them to reveal Yunxi’s whereabouts, and Yun Qianshan led him and his companions to the Small Mountain Village. There, Li Fan taught his disciples to make noodles, just as the arriving Divine Monarchs reacted in shock to the village.

• Dao Wuyi destroyed the Yun Family Great Hall and overwhelmed the clan members while demanding that Yun Yinchen hand over Yunxi.
• Yun Qianshan offered to lead Dao Wuyi to Yunxi, and Dao Wuyi threatened to kill the Yun Family if he was deceived.
• Li Fan taught Gongya, Yunxi, and the other disciples how to make noodles, then everyone ate what they had made.
• Yun Qianshan brought Dao Wuyi and the other two to the Small Mountain Village, where they turned pale with shock at what they saw.

Dao Wuyi and the two Divine Monarchs entered the Small Mountain Village, mistaking its overwhelming mysteries for signs of a supreme opportunity. After Second Uncle led them to Li Fan’s courtyard, Dao Wuyi recognized the power of its inscription and asked Yun Qianshan in terror whether his granddaughter lived there.

• Dao Wuyi and the Divine Monarchs sensed the village’s strange power and speculated that it might be connected to the Creation Supreme Being.
• Profound One Divine Monarch spotted the dead Heavenly Dao Worm, and Dao Wuyi recognized it as his master and vowed to claim the village’s opportunity and avenge him.
• The village suppressed the visitors’ cultivation, and Second Uncle’s presence convinced them they had encountered an existence beyond the Divine King realm.
• Second Uncle invited Dao Wuyi and the others to meet Li Fan, and they reluctantly agreed when he took their hesitation as an insult to the villagers.
• At Li Fan’s courtyard, the Divine Monarchs trembled before the inscription Unique Leisurely Courtyard, and Dao Wuyi asked Yun Qianshan whether his granddaughter lived there.

Dao Wuyi and the two Divine Monarchs entered Li Fan’s Small Courtyard and were overwhelmed by its Dao and the terrifying beings within. They realized Li Fan was an unfathomable big shot, and Dao Wuyi was stunned to see Yunxi sitting beside him as her father arrived.

• Second Uncle brought Yun Yinchen, Yun Qianshan, and Dao Wuyi into the Small Courtyard, where Dao Wuyi sensed a flawless Great Dao and the others felt the courtyard’s terrifying pressure.
• Li Fan learned the visitors had threatened the Yun family with a predicted calamity and dismissed fortune-telling as a trick.
• Profound One Divine Monarch collapsed when he tried to probe Li Fan, while Golden Red Divine Monarch lost his cultivation after attempting to send the courtyard’s coordinates outside.
• Dao Wuyi warned the others not to harbor disrespectful thoughts, and Li Fan’s words forced the three kneeling visitors to their feet.
• Li Fan invited Second Uncle and the Yun family elders to sit, and Yunxi asked her father whether he was all right.
• Dao Wuyi realized Yunxi was Yun Chen’s daughter and had been sitting beside Li Fan.

Dao Wuyi and the two Divine Monarchs were spared by Li Fan after they admitted they could not tell fortunes in the Small Courtyard. As the three fled the village, they encountered a mysterious stone bridge that Dao Wuyi feared was the Bridge of Reincarnation.

• Dao Wuyi recognized Yunxi as Yun Yinchen’s daughter and realized Li Fan was protecting her, while the Divine Monarchs regretted attacking her family.
• Li Fan challenged Dao Wuyi to tell his fortune, but Dao Wuyi refused and recognized Wu Dade as resembling a Creation Supreme Being from an ancient portrait.
• Wu Dade asked Dao Wuyi when he would get to eat dog meat, but Dao Wuyi said he could not read Wu Dade’s fate as the black dog bit him.
• Li Fan let Dao Wuyi, Profound One Divine Monarch, and Golden Red Divine Monarch leave after telling them to reform, and Yun Yinchen and Yun Qianshan departed as well.
• Outside the village, Dao Wuyi warned his companions not to reveal what they had seen, then the three encountered a stone bridge that he believed was the Bridge of Reincarnation.

The Bridge of Helplessness appeared outside Small Mountain Village and carried Dao Wuyi, Profound One Divine Monarch, and Golden Red Divine Monarch into punishment for their sins. Old Woman Meng and Black Impermanence discussed the being who had awakened reincarnation and the possible return of the Underworld’s Ruler.

• The Bridge of Helplessness appeared after Senior Li told the three Divine Monarchs to start over as humans and repent properly, and it forced them onto the bridge.
• Old Woman Meng said the three sinners could not afford her soup and summoned the Underworld’s punishments for them.
• Dao Wuyi, Profound One Divine Monarch, and Golden Red Divine Monarch were swept away, and the bridge vanished after screams came from beyond it.
• Yun Yinchen and Yun Qianshan remembered the bridge while inside Small Mountain Village, but their memories disappeared when they left.
• Black Impermanence told Old Woman Meng that the three had been fried, and she said an unfathomable being had awakened reincarnation and that the Ruler might one day return.

Liaochen revealed that the Western Brahma Sect had used Dao Wuyi and a false Reincarnation Bridge stone to confirm that true reincarnation existed, then planned to provoke a war to make it descend. Heavenly Pole Divine King accepted the sect’s cultivation method, while the Ghost Domain declared war on the Divine Domain.

• Heavenly Pole Divine King discovered that Xuanyi and Jinchi’s Soul Lamps had vanished, and Liaochen rejoiced when his matching stone crumbled.
• Liaochen told Heavenly Pole Divine King that the stone Dao Wuyi carried came from an imitation Reincarnation Bridge and had been used to test for true reincarnation.
• Liaochen explained that the Western Brahma Sect expected war between the Ghost Domain and Divine Domain to bring reincarnation into the world and let its Buddha claim it.
• Liaochen offered Heavenly Pole Divine King the Brahma Sect’s supreme faith cultivation method and a future Buddha position, and Heavenly Pole Divine King accepted the offer.
• Gui Qi’s Heavenly Darkness Command Flag alerted the ghosts in the Ding Star Realm that the Ghost Domain had mobilized and declared war on the Divine Domain.

The Ghost Realm’s ancient giants sensed that true reincarnation was near and ordered an invasion of the Divine Domain’s first thousand star domains. The surprise attack spread into a vast war, leaving multiple Divine Domain territories conquered and their living populations slaughtered.

• Ghost Realm giants awoke in the Dead Land, sensed the coming of true reincarnation, and ordered an attack on the star domains under the Divine Domain.
• Ghost Kings and Ghost Lords rallied armies across the Ghost Realm, including one Ghost Lord who set out to find his brother Little Egg.
• The Long Resentment Domain’s army invaded the Border God Star Domain and conquered it in three days, killing its trillions of inhabitants.
• More than a hundred Divine Domain star domains fell to the Ghost Realm’s surprise assault as beacons spread warnings and survivors fled.
• The war between gods and ghosts began, with the Ghost Realm’s advancing forces turning conquered territories into dead worlds.

As the Ghost Domain’s invasion devastated the lower-realm star domains, Wuyang tried to lead Si Wei Heaven’s forces to help but was blocked by the Imperial Court. The Venerables stripped him of his authority and forbade the heavens from intervening, then questioned the Heavenly Pole Divine King about a story sought by the Western Heaven Brahma Court.

• War beacons spread across the star domains as the Ghost Domain destroyed hundreds of them, while the God Realm’s forces prepared but did not respond.
• Wuyang ordered Si Wei Heaven’s army to assemble, but Sikou stopped him from mobilizing the troops without the Imperial Court’s decree.
• Wuyang went to the South Heaven Gate to demand permission to fight, and the Imperial Court summoned him and the Divine Kings of the heavens.
• A Venerable punished Wuyang, stripped him of his authority, placed Si Wei Heaven under Sikou, and forbade any soldiers from descending without the Imperial Court’s order.
• Wuyang was left kneeling outside the South Heaven Gate and warned that the lower realm was finished.
• The Venerable asked the Heavenly Pole Divine King whether he had found the story sought by the Western Heaven Brahma Court, and the Heavenly Pole Divine King’s expression changed.

The Venerable let Heavenly Pole Divine King leave and spoke of the Ghost Domain’s interest in the absent reincarnation, while its armies ravaged the lower realms. Mingzhi Ghost Monarch protected his troops from Resentment Hunger at personal cost, then received orders to attack the Divine Domain’s Forty-First through Fiftieth Star Domains.

• The Venerable dismissed Heavenly Pole Divine King without punishment and reflected that the Ghost Domain might be trying to summon reincarnation through the deaths of beings in the lower realms.
• The Ghost Domain devastated star domains as the Divine Domain failed to respond, leaving survivors to flee or die.
• Mingzhi Ghost Monarch absorbed the resentment building in his troops to spare them from Resentment Hunger, then used female ghosts to calm his own torment at the cost of his vital soul essence.
• Heitian and Leng Wudi worried that Mingzhi Ghost Monarch’s method would kill him, while soldiers from both camps prepared to sacrifice themselves rather than let him bear the hunger again.
• Mingzhi Ghost Monarch received orders to join other Ghost Lords in conquering the Divine Domain’s Forty-First through Fiftieth Star Domains within a month.