Chapter Summaries

Xiang Yuan learned that the Heavy Court Realm was tied to a Celestial Emperor’s scheme and prepared for the coming interplanar war, though Jingyun revealed little. Back at Black Tortoise Firstborn Manor, he left Baize and Guan Yan to manage the unrest, then summoned them to the Heavenly Court to fill the vacant Turtle and Serpent General posts.

• Jingyun told Xiang Yuan that the Heavy Court Realm was part of an unknown Celestial Emperor’s plan to return and that his opportunity there was connected to his position as True Warrior Great Emperor.
• Xiang Yuan reasoned that an interplanar war would be decided by the two Celestial Emperors, while immortals and gods would serve mainly as expendable tools.
• Xiang Yuan visited Lay Practitioner Bai Yue in Purple Bamboo Grove, stayed with her instead of returning to his own Dao field, and was eventually thrown out of Contemplation Hall.
• Baize took charge of Black Tortoise Firstborn Manor while Xiang Yuan drank tea and cultivated, then urged him to address the manor’s incomplete ranks and absent Turtle and Serpent Generals.
• Xiang Yuan decided Baize and Guan Yan would fill the vacant general posts and summoned them to the Heavenly Court by imperial decree.

Xiang Yuan attended the Heavenly Court’s war assembly, then led his forces to the Demon Continent as the Divine Firmament Realm’s army emerged. As the enemy displayed its overwhelming formation, Xiang Yuan ordered his troops to stay put and asked Baize to chill him a cup of cola before he went to fight.

• Xiang Yuan arrived at the Heavenly Court and heard the Heavenly Emperor denounce the false emperor of Divine Firmament Realm before ordering the gods to defend the lower realms.
• Xiang Yuan gathered with his generals and secretaries at the Demon Continent, where he questioned why the Heavenly Emperor had left the strategically important Heavenly Demon Realm unguarded.
• The Divine Firmament Realm’s ascension passage opened above the Demon Continent, and its soldiers and divine generals assembled for battle.
• The True Warrior Great Emperor’s Dharma Aspect appeared, and his army roared a challenge that made the Demon Continent’s demons and monsters kneel.
• Xiang Yuan dismissed the enemy’s grand display, told his forces not to move, and asked Baize to chill a cup of cola while he prepared to face the enemy.

Xiang Yuan destroyed the Demon-Subduing Patriarch and his formations, then survived an attempt by the Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor’s mirror to copy him. When the Heavenly God Realm’s ascension passages vanished, Xiang Yuan forced his way into the realm and discovered doubles confronting one another across it.

• Xiang Yuan used his small-world projection to shatter the Demon-Subduing Patriarch’s formations, defeat the thirty-six divine generals, and erase the opposing heavenly soldiers.
• The Demon-Subduing Patriarch’s black mirror tried to copy Xiang Yuan, but the jade belt shielded him and made the mirror figure disappear.
• Xiang Yuan returned to camp, where he reassured Baize and Guan Yan as the two secretaries worried that his strength had made their work unnecessary.
• The Heavenly Palace gateway vanished, cutting off the route between the lower realms and the Heavenly God Realm.
• Xiang Yuan used the jade belt to locate a way into the Heavenly God Realm and saw real and fake figures confronting each other, including two Lady Guanyins facing off at the South Sea Purple Bamboo Grove.

Xiang Yuan watched Laywoman Bai Yue confront the Divine Firmament Realm’s Avalokiteshvara, whose appearance resembled hers, and urged his senior sister to treat her as an impostor. After the two Bodhisattvas debated and fought over purity and worldly ties, Avalokiteshvara drew Laywoman Bai Yue into a realm of pure white Buddhism, and Xiang Yuan rushed in to intervene.

• Xiang Yuan noticed the two Guanyin Bodhisattvas’ similar appearances and suspected that they were reincarnated bodies.
• Ji Muqing asked Xiang Yuan to help Laywoman Bai Yue, but Laywoman Bai Yue asked him not to interfere while she sought answers from Avalokiteshvara.
• Laywoman Bai Yue and Avalokiteshvara exchanged arguments about purity, then battled with Buddhist powers across the South Sea.
• Avalokiteshvara invited Laywoman Bai Yue to understand herself through the present and enveloped them both in a pure white Buddhist realm.
• Xiang Yuan transformed into black light and struck at the Buddhist realm after Laywoman Bai Yue and Avalokiteshvara closed their eyes together.

Xiang Yuan helped Lay Practitioner Bai Yue merge with Avalokiteshvara of the Divine Firmament Realm, then rushed to the Heavenly Court to aid the Celestial Emperor against the Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor. The battle shifted when Great Luo Heaven joined the two realms, and the Celestial Emperor revealed that his apparent ally had helped lure his enemy away from the false Heavenly Realm.

• Xiang Yuan broke through Guanyin Bodhisattva’s barriers and found that Lay Practitioner Bai Yue and Avalokiteshvara of the Divine Firmament Realm were merging.
• Lay Practitioner Bai Yue absorbed Avalokiteshvara’s power and wisdom while preserving her will, and reassured Xiang Yuan that she remained herself.
• Lay Practitioner Bai Yue left with Hou and Ji Muqing to save people in the lower realm, while Xiang Yuan went to the Heavenly Court to support the Celestial Emperor.
• Xiang Yuan found the Heavenly Court devastated, saw the wounded Queen Mother, and hid near the battle between the Celestial Emperor and the Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor.
• The Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor claimed that the Celestial Emperor’s ally had joined his side, leaving Xiang Yuan fearing that King Frieza had betrayed them.
• Great Luo Heaven of the Divine Firmament Realm connected with the Heavenly God Realm, and the Celestial Emperor revealed that his ally had helped lure the Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor away from the false Heavenly Realm.

The Celestial Emperor believed he had won the fusion of the Divine Firmament Realm and the Heavenly God Realm, but the Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor and Jingyun had outmaneuvered him. As the defeated emperor disintegrated, he struck at Xiang Yuan, whose jade belt began to glow.

• The Celestial Emperor took control of the merging Great Luo Heavens and announced that he had won his gamble against the Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor.
• Xiang Yuan approached the weakened Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor, but the emperor killed the Queen Mother and attacked him; King Frieza then revealed herself in disguise.
• The Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor appeared in Great Luo Heaven and revealed that his ally had fought the Celestial Emperor while he directed the fusion with Jingyun.
• The Celestial Emperor accepted defeat, then used his remaining power to erase Xiang Yuan from Heaven's laws and principles.
• A streak of chaos light struck Xiang Yuan from outside his body as his jade belt began to glow.

After Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor defeated the False Emperor, the merged realms were rewritten and most people forgot the planar war. Xiang Yuan restored Baize’s memories and later visited Laywoman Bai Yue, while Jingyun explained some of the Heavenly Dao’s secrets.

• Jingyun rejected Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor’s offer of greater status and refused to let him elevate Xiang Yuan, who remained her nominal disciple.
• Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor discovered Supreme Elder Lord at Doushuai Palace and realized the False Emperor had revealed the hidden realms and arrangements needed for the merger.
• Jingyun told Xiang Yuan that Celestial Emperors were incarnations of the Heavenly Dao and that the Celestial Emperor sought the opportunity Xiang Yuan had taken.
• One month later, Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor merged the realms and erased most memories of the planar war, but Xiang Yuan restored Baize’s memories with a chop to the head.
• Xiang Yuan restored Guan Yan’s memories as well, then went to Purple Bamboo Grove and rejoined Laywoman Bai Yue, reciting poems to her.

After spending months in the Heavenly God Realm, Xiang Yuan returned to Dry Abyss Realm, overcame his aversion to feminine beauty, and sought Bai Wuyan’s guidance before breaking through to the Body Integration Realm. Their discussion of the many worlds named Zhou ended in failed divination and an unexpected offer from Bai Wuyan to inspect Xiang Yuan’s Primordial Spirit through dual cultivation.

• Xiang Yuan returned to Dry Abyss Realm, released his cultivation suppression, and reached the bottleneck for the Body Integration Realm.
• Xiang Yuan spent three days at Overlord Residence recovering from his fear of beauty-bone skeletons before heading to Unrivaled Palace.
• Xiang Yuan asked Bai Wuyan why so many worlds contained a state called Zhou, and Bai Wuyan began divining its hidden origins.
• Bai Wuyan’s second attempt to divine Upper Zhou triggered a powerful backlash that wounded her, so she summoned Xiang Yuan to wash and help her dress.
• Xiang Yuan asked Bai Wuyan to guide him through the Body Integration Realm, and Bai Wuyan suspected he had dual cultivated with Door-Crack Sword Venerable.
• Bai Wuyan proposed dual cultivating with Xiang Yuan’s Primordial Spirit to check for traces of Door-Crack Sword Venerable, marking their first time doing so.

Xiang Yuan and Bai Wuyan copied and evolved Heavenly Dao laws together, allowing him to break through into the Body Integration Realm, and Bai Wuyan explained the challenge of merging his inner and outer worlds. She sent him to teach in her place at White Lotus Palace, where Cheng Yuling arrived and mistook Xiang Yuan’s place on the master’s seat for a sign of his growing status.

• Bai Wuyan copied the Heavenly Dao laws from Xiang Yuan’s Primordial Spirit, and their cultivation together evolved the laws while exhausting them both.
• Xiang Yuan discovered that he had broken through into the Body Integration Realm, and Bai Wuyan explained that he still needed to merge his inner and outer heaven and earth.
• Xiang Yuan worried about using a world with living beings for his integration, and Bai Wuyan suggested the lifeless Ancient Wilderness Realm.
• Bai Wuyan sent Xiang Yuan to teach the Nether Passage cultivators at White Lotus Palace while she meditated to consolidate her gains.
• Xiang Yuan found Xiao Lingyue in forced seclusion, shared the principles of heaven and earth with her, and then sat in Bai Wuyan’s place before Yinshuang, Daoxue, and Qing Zhuying.
• Cheng Yuling entered White Lotus Palace, saw Xiang Yuan seated in the master’s place, and proudly introduced him to the others without realizing the awkward misunderstanding.

Xiang Yuan’s attempt to teach Unrivaled Palace’s grandmasters collapses into a farcical lesson after Cheng Yuling joins in, and he later convinces Bai Wuyan not to punish the troublemakers. He then approaches Bai Wuyan about the Heavenly Sect’s plan to become the Heavenly Court, arguing that she can support it without sacrificing her cultivation.

• Qing Zhuying learns that Cheng Yuling is Bai Wuyan’s foremost disciple, Xiao Lingyue’s mother and senior sister, and Xiang Yuan’s adoptive mother and mother-in-law.
• Xiang Yuan tries to send Cheng Yuling away from his lesson, but Yinshuang and Daoxue’s teasing leads him to send the three grandmaster students to stand facing a wall and return Cheng Yuling to her courtyard.
• Xiang Yuan ends the lesson, visits Xiao Lingyue, then goes to Bai Wuyan and explains why the class ended early; Bai Wuyan becomes furious at the students, but Xiang Yuan persuades her not to punish them.
• Bai Wuyan secretly releases Cheng Yuling, who heads to White Lotus Palace to show off before the others while Xiang Yuan remains unaware.
• Xiang Yuan tells Bai Wuyan that the Heavenly Sect plans to become the Heavenly Court and proposes that she join as an original shareholder and ally rather than be bound by divine rank.

Xiang Yuan negotiated with Bai Wuyan over the Heavenly Court’s coming birth, promising her freedom from its control in exchange for helping Ji Wuzhou oppose Zhang Tianyang. He then visited Sword Heart Studio to approach Sword Venerable Su Ran, but found Shang Qingmeng in seclusion beside her and saw Su Ran preparing to prove her innocence through her actions.

• Xiang Yuan explained that Bai Wuyan could gain original equity in the Heavenly Court and learn its laws through him, while Bai Wuyan insisted on being present when it was born and keeping her own preparations secret.
• Bai Wuyan agreed to oppose Zhang Tianyang alongside the Heavenly Sect, and she warned Xiang Yuan that Su Ran might try to use him as a cultivation cauldron.
• Xiang Yuan visited Ziping and found Qin Zhaorong there; after learning Shang Qingmeng had entered seclusion to break through to the Body Integration Realm, he left for Sword Heart Studio.
• Xiang Yuan arrived at the Sword Pillar Forbidden Ground and found Shang Qingmeng cultivating beside Su Ran, then asked Su Ran to send her away before discussing his important business.
• Su Ran refused to send Shang Qingmeng away and declared that she would prove through her actions that she was not a shameless master.

Xiang Yuan entered seclusion with Shang Qingmeng while Sword Venerable Su Ran summoned Ziping and Qin Zhaorong to witness her supposedly innocent cultivation guidance. When she saw the extraordinary laws in Xiang Yuan’s small world, she abandoned her proof of innocence and began dual cultivation with him, sealing the others away.

• Xiang Yuan avoided Sword Venerable Su Ran and plunged into the spirit spring to help Shang Qingmeng with her Body Integration Realm breakthrough.
• Sword Venerable Su Ran brought Qin Zhaorong into the grotto-heaven, where she and Ziping failed to challenge their master and were told to witness her cultivation guidance.
• Sword Venerable Su Ran drained Xiang Yuan’s blood medicine, then drew out the projection of his small world to guide his cultivation.
• Sword Venerable Su Ran discovered the immense Heavenly Dao laws in Xiang Yuan’s small world and decided she could not resist the opportunity to dual cultivate with him.
• Sword Venerable Su Ran tossed Ziping and Qin Zhaorong into the spring beside Shang Qingmeng and sealed them off before beginning dual cultivation with Xiang Yuan.

Xiang Yuan and Sword Venerable Su Ran spent more than ten days merging their little worlds and cultivating, then blamed each other for their intimacy before agreeing that Xiang Yuan would face her disciples. After Su Ran sent Xiang Yuan, Ziping, and Qin Zhaorong back to Ziping's courtyard, Xiang Yuan coaxed Ziping and Qin Zhaorong into silence and helped Qin Zhaorong enter seclusion; Su Ran watched him leave and worried about Shang Qingmeng.

• Xiang Yuan and Sword Venerable Su Ran harmonized their little worlds, gradually comprehended the Heavenly Dao, and embraced during their dual cultivation.
• After their cultivation ended, Xiang Yuan and Sword Venerable Su Ran argued over responsibility, then agreed that he would handle her disciples' reactions while she let him leave.
• Sword Venerable Su Ran released Xiang Yuan, Ziping, and Qin Zhaorong into Ziping's courtyard, where Qin Zhaorong and Ziping confronted Xiang Yuan about his conduct.
• Xiang Yuan hugged Ziping and coaxed her, then helped her cultivate with Qin Zhaorong until Qin Zhaorong broke through toward the Nether Passage Realm and entered seclusion.
• Xiang Yuan shifted away from Sword Heart Studio, while Sword Venerable Su Ran considered what to do about Shang Qingmeng.

Xiang Yuan soothed Bai Wuyan after Cheng Yuling publicly cursed her, then helped Bai Wuyan refine his small world before entering a sinister new realm through Jambu Gate. The chapter ended with Sword Venerable Su Ran arriving and throwing herself into Xiang Yuan’s arms, angering Bai Wuyan.

• Bai Wuyan blamed Xiang Yuan for Cheng Yuling’s insults, and Xiang Yuan defended Cheng Yuling while promising to punish the people who spread the rumors.
• Xiang Yuan offered Bai Wuyan his insights into the laws of heaven and earth, and they spent five days cultivating together as she reshaped his small world.
• Xiang Yuan punished Yinshuang, Daoxue, and Qing Zhuying by sending them to reflect, while Cheng Yuling returned to Shendu after cursing Bai Wuyan without consequence.
• Xiang Yuan and Bai Wuyan entered a new world filled with demonic aura, blood rivers, and a grotesque bone forest.
• Sword Venerable Su Ran arrived through a radiant doorway, embraced Xiang Yuan, and complained that he had taken too long to come find her, enraging Bai Wuyan.

Xiang Yuan left Bai Wuyan and Sword Venerable Su Ran fighting and questioned the sinister temple, Corpse-Abandoning Protector, about the Demon Ruins Realm. He learned that the realm held demons from Journey to the West and that the Bull Devil King lived nearby, leaving him desperate to warn the two women before trouble arrived.

• Bai Wuyan arrived and clashed with Sword Venerable Su Ran, whose taunts drove the battle to escalate as Xiang Yuan slipped away.
• Xiang Yuan pursued the fleeing temple, blocked its path, and discovered that the temple itself was Corpse-Abandoning Protector.
• Corpse-Abandoning Protector explained that Guanyin Bodhisattva had transported Charnel Forest to the Demon Ruins Realm after the Pilgrim defeated the demons of Lion Camel Ridge.
• Corpse-Abandoning Protector told Xiang Yuan about the Three Demons of Double-Fork Ridge and said the two women fighting nearby were stronger than they were.
• Corpse-Abandoning Protector revealed that the Bull Devil King lived at Thunder Accumulation Mountain, and Xiang Yuan realized the two women needed to stop fighting before he arrived.

Xiang Yuan learned that Bull Devil King’s family controlled much of the Demon Ruins Realm and that two Reincarnation Relics had been taken from Corpse-Abandoning Protector. After collecting one relic and discovering the mission still required two more, Xiang stopped Bai Wuyan and Sword Venerable Su Ran from fighting and briefed them on the danger, though they ended by questioning him about Bull Devil King’s marriage.

• Corpse-Abandoning Protector told Xiang Yuan that Bull Devil King, Iron Fan Princess, Red Boy, and True Immortal Ruyi had been sent to the Demon Ruins Realm, where the three demons of Double-Fork Ridge were protected by kinship ties and the Wind-Settling Pearl.
• Corpse-Abandoning Protector gave Xiang Yuan one Reincarnation Relic and revealed that Bull Devil King and the three demons had taken the other two, leaving Xiang’s mission at 1/3.
• Xiang Yuan punched Corpse-Abandoning Protector in anger, then called out to Bai Wuyan and Sword Venerable Su Ran as they continued fighting.
• Xiang Yuan used his influence over Sword Venerable Su Ran’s dual-cultivation treasures and restrained Bai Wuyan to break up their fight.
• Xiang Yuan explained the Demon Ruins Realm and the missing relics, prompting Bai Wuyan and Sword Venerable Su Ran to stop fighting and listen.
• Sword Venerable Su Ran and Bai Wuyan questioned Xiang Yuan about Bull Devil King’s relationship with Iron Fan Princess and Jade-Faced Princess.

Xiang Yuan, Bai Wuyan, and Sword Venerable Su Ran arrived at Double-Fork Ridge, where Su Ran destroyed the corrupted mountain with a single sword strike. The blast interrupted True Immortal Ruyi’s scheme to seize three relics, and Xiang Yuan charged the Rotting Corpse Daoist as the surviving demons confronted the group.

• Bai Wuyan explained that the Demon Ruins Realm had been corrupted by a dead Celestial Emperor and celestial demons from beyond the domain.
• Sword Venerable Su Ran cleaved Double-Fork Ridge apart, destroying its peaks, demons, and blood creek with one sword strike.
• True Immortal Ruyi persuaded Lord Bear Mountain, Special Gentleman, and General Yin to help him seize three relics and escape the realm.
• True Immortal Ruyi and the three demons survived the strike and discovered Xiang Yuan, Bai Wuyan, and Sword Venerable Su Ran nearby.
• Xiang Yuan charged the Rotting Corpse Daoist with his Storm Mist Blade.

Xiang Yuan fought True Immortal Ruyi while Bai Wuyan and Sword Venerable Su Ran defeated the other demons of Double-Fork Ridge and seized their treasures. After Xiang Yuan overcame True Immortal Ruyi, he promised to spare him in exchange for information, leaving the demon ready to betray his elder brother, the Bull Devil King.

• Xiang Yuan and True Immortal Ruyi clashed, each mistaking the other's shock for fear and charging back into battle.
• Sword Venerable Su Ran killed Lord Bear Mountain and General Yin, while Special Gentleman surrendered and revealed where the Wind-Settling Pearl and Reincarnation Relic were buried.
• Bai Wuyan retrieved the two treasures, then killed Special Gentleman despite Sword Venerable Su Ran's promise to spare him.
• Xiang Yuan learned that True Immortal Ruyi was the Bull Devil King's younger brother, then countered the Ruyi Twin Hooks and defeated him in their transformed forms.
• Bai Wuyan and Sword Venerable Su Ran drenched Xiang Yuan after his fight, and he offered True Immortal Ruyi his life in exchange for everything he knew.

Xiang Yuan learned about the weakened Bull Devil King family, killed True Immortal Ruyi, and disguised himself and his companions to approach Iron Fan Princess. At Cloud-Touching Cave, Iron Fan Princess offered them the Plantain Fan and asked them to kill Bull Devil King.

• True Immortal Ruyi told Xiang Yuan that the Bull Devil King family had weakened under corruption, though Bull Devil King remained powerful and Red Boy’s Samadhi True Fire had lost much of its might.
• True Immortal Ruyi revealed Bull Devil King’s plan to use the Wind-Settling Pearl and the Twin-Fork Ridge demons against Iron Fan Princess, then proposed inviting Bull Devil King to a feast so Xiang Yuan could target her.
• Xiang Yuan rejected True Immortal Ruyi’s offer, ordered Bai Wuyan and Sword Venerable Su Ran to kill him, and explained that the former traitor could not be trusted.
• Bull Devil King left Thunder Accumulation Mountain with Red Boy to attend the feast at Sun-Relieving Mountain, while Xiang Yuan, Bai Wuyan, and Sword Venerable Su Ran disguised themselves as the dead Twin-Fork Ridge demons.
• Xiang Yuan and his companions confronted Iron Fan Princess at Cloud-Touching Cave, and she offered them the Plantain Fan and asked them to kill Bull Devil King.

Xiang Yuan obtained the Plantain Fan and its incantations from Iron Fan Princess, then uncovered Bull Devil King's plan to have her killed. When the deception was exposed, Iron Fan Princess and Red Boy joined Xiang Yuan and his companions against Bull Devil King, whose opening attack devastated their group but left him badly wounded by their combined weapons.

• Xiang Yuan took the Plantain Fan and learned its two size-changing incantations from Iron Fan Princess, while Sword Venerable Su Ran searched her and found no Reincarnation Relic.
• Iron Fan Princess and the disguised Xiang Yuan's group agreed to oppose Bull Devil King, and Xiang Yuan asked about Red Boy's support.
• Bull Devil King returned to Cloud-Touching Cave and found Iron Fan Princess apparently slain; Xiang Yuan accused him of arranging the murder, and Iron Fan Princess rose alive to confront him.
• Red Boy joined Iron Fan Princess and Xiang Yuan's group against Bull Devil King, who knocked the mother and son aside and shattered the three demons' disguises with his Mixed Iron Staff.
• Xiang Yuan and his companions struck Bull Devil King with their Storm Mist Blade and divine swords, piercing his body and leaving him severely injured.