Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan discovered and absorbed the Merman Pearl, then accepted Daoshan’s invitation to visit Fayun Temple. The chapter left the temple in alarm when a young monk announced that Abbot Daozhen had entered nirvana.

• Ju Chenglai warned the cultivators at the Ancient Cloud Mountain Range that Lin Xuan had come to claim the Merman Pearl, and they all gave up competing for it.
• Lin Xuan saw through the Flying Light Profound Heaven Formation, revealed the hidden Merman Pearl, and absorbed it to gain water-element talents.
• Daoshan invited Lin Xuan to Fayun Temple, and Lin Xuan accepted before traveling there with his companions.
• At Fayun Temple, a young monk rushed to the Insight Pavilion and told the Deputy Abbot that Daozhen had entered nirvana.

Dao Huai discovered that Abbot Dao Zhen had died while cultivating the Great Nirvana Scripture and could not understand why he had pointed at a Buddhist couplet before his death. Fa Xuan arrived at Fayun Temple to challenge Dao Zhen, only to learn that the abbot had already passed into nirvana.

• Hui Ming told Dao Huai that Dao Zhen had stopped breathing after golden light flowed backward around his body, and Dao Huai realized the abbot might have died during his cultivation.
• Dao Huai confirmed that Dao Zhen was dead and, with Hui Ming, wondered what the abbot had meant by pointing at a couplet.
• Fa Xuan reached Fayun Temple and announced that he had come to challenge Dao Zhen again.
• Fa Xuan blasted aside the gate guards and entered the temple, prompting thousands of warrior monks to surround him.
• Dao Huai told Fa Xuan that Dao Zhen had made a mistake while cultivating and had already passed into nirvana.

Faxuan forced his way into Cloud Dharma Temple, intending to claim the abbacy after discovering Daozhen had entered nirvana. Just as he threatened the monks into submission, the temple’s highest reception ritual announced the arrival of the Northern Profound Heaven’s Emperor Consort, the Nine Heavens Venerable.

• Faxuan rejected Daohuai’s pleas to leave Daozhen undisturbed, and Daoneng challenged him to a debate over who would reach the Land of Ultimate Bliss.
• Faxuan argued that the fishmonger would attain the Land of Ultimate Bliss while the monk who accompanied him would accumulate slaughter karma, stunning the monks with his Buddhist insight.
• When the monks tried to block him, Faxuan defeated Daohuai and tens of thousands of martial monks with one strike, then entered the Heavenly Purity Hall and confirmed Daozhen had entered nirvana.
• Faxuan mocked Daozhen and demanded that the monks recognize him as Cloud Dharma Temple’s new abbot, threatening to kill them when Daohuai refused.
• Bells and drums sounded to welcome a supreme eminent monk, and a Jade Carriage pulled by four Green-Winged Flying Birds arrived as the monks identified its passenger as the Nine Heavens Venerable.

Lin Xuan arrived at Fǎyún Temple after Faxuan damaged its gates and challenged the temple, and Daoshan asked him to judge the dispute. Lin Xuan defeated Faxuan in a debate about the fishmonger and the eminent monk, leaving Faxuan convinced by his wisdom.

• Lin Xuan arrived at Fǎyún Temple, where the monks and worshippers greeted him with reverence.
• Daohuai told Daoshan that Faxuan had damaged the temple, and the monks revealed that Abbot Daozhen had passed into nirvana under strange circumstances.
• Daoshan asked Lin Xuan to judge the dispute, and Faxuan challenged him to a debate on the Dao.
• Lin Xuan asked Faxuan to repeat his answer about the fishmonger and the eminent monk, then declared it completely wrong.
• Lin Xuan explained that either man could enter Paradise or fail to enter it based on his own actions, and Faxuan bowed and accepted his wisdom.

Faxuan challenged Lin Xuan with a question about killing a chicken, but Lin Xuan outmatched him and exposed the obsession behind his ambitions. Faxuan attacked Lin Xuan in desperation and was killed by the Rakshasa Dharma Manifestation.

• Faxuan refused to concede and asked whether a sword or saber could kill a chicken faster, and Lin Xuan answered that the heart was fastest.
• Lin Xuan explained that killing intent mattered more than the weapon, impressing the monks and confirming Faxuan's defeat.
• Faxuan disputed Lin Xuan's answer, but Lin Xuan revealed Faxuan's plans to defeat Daozhen, seize Fayun Temple, and restore his former glory.
• Faxuan's obsession overwhelmed him, and he attacked Lin Xuan with the Great Mighty Heavenly Dragon Staff Art.
• Lin Xuan summoned the Rakshasa Dharma Manifestation, which struck Faxuan through with its golden sword and killed him.

After Lin Xuan defeated Fa Xuan, the monks of Dharma Cloud Temple asked him to preside over Dao Zhen’s funeral. Lin Xuan discovered that Youming had killed Dao Zhen and used his Rakshasa Dharma Body to lure the demon out, while monks from Great Dragon Temple sensed an evil presence approaching.

• Lin Xuan defeated Fa Xuan, and Dao Huai ordered that Fa Xuan receive a proper burial and that Dao Zhen’s death be reported to the other temples.
• Dao Huai and the other monks could not decipher the couplet Dao Zhen had pointed to before dying, so they asked Lin Xuan for help.
• Lin Xuan identified Youming as Dao Zhen’s killer, explaining that the couplet’s opening characters pointed to the demon’s name.
• Dao Huai and the monks begged Lin Xuan to subdue Youming, and he released his Rakshasa Dharma Body to attract the demon with Buddhist power.
• Pu Guang and Pu Hui traveled toward Dharma Cloud Temple with other Great Dragon Temple monks, then sensed an eerie wicked demon nearby.

A golden Youming overwhelmed Puguang and the sixteen Future Buddhas, trapping them and draining their Buddhist power. Lin Xuan arrived and shattered its defensive formation, cutting off all its tentacles.

• A golden Youming emerged from a rift and severely wounded Puguang, then ensnared him, Puhui, and the other monks to drain their Buddhist power.
• Qingyuan and fifteen other Future Buddhas arrived and attacked the Youming together, but its golden barrier blocked their strongest techniques.
• The Youming wrapped its tentacles around the sixteen Future Buddhas, leaving the monks resigned to their deaths.
• Lin Xuan appeared and unleashed the thirteenth move of the Ultimate Dao Sword Art, breaking the Youming's barrier and severing all its tentacles.

Lin Xuan destroyed Buddha’s Wrath Youming and explained how it had killed Daozhen, while the monks feared a Heaven’s Leak might be approaching. At Daozhen’s funeral, Lin Xuan used Buddhist power to form a superior-grade Golden Light Relic from his remains.

• Lin Xuan killed Buddha’s Wrath Youming with his sword and Nine Nether Hellfire, rescuing Qingyuan and the other Future Buddhas.
• Lin Xuan explained that Youming fed on Buddhist power and that Daozhen had been killed after his cultivation attracted it.
• Qingyuan and Puguang warned that Youming sightings across the Nine Heavens Immortal Domain and Azure Dragon Continent could signal the return of the Heaven’s Leak.
• Lin Xuan returned to Fǎyun Temple and presided over Daozhen’s funeral as the monks lamented that Daozhen had not completed the Great Nirvana Sutra.
• Lin Xuan used a Buddhist hand seal and a Twelve-Ranked Merit Golden Lotus to form a superior-grade Golden Light Relic from Daozhen’s remains.

Shao Yiyun reached the Quasi-Emperor Realm and vowed to defeat Wen Xingshang rather than marry someone she did not love. Meanwhile, Zhao Shan led starving villagers fleeing the deadly black fog at Biyou Mountain Range, where they encountered a beautiful woman in white riding toward them with female generals.

• Shao Yiyun successfully cultivated the Lingbo Divine Art and advanced to the Quasi-Emperor Realm.
• Zhao Ningxia warned Shao Yiyun that Wen Xingshang had reached the Emperor Realm and urged her to reconsider rejecting him.
• Shao Yiyun insisted she would rather remain unmarried than marry Wen Xingshang, and Zhao Ningxia wished her success in defeating him.
• Zhao Shan led villagers from Dashì Village away from the black fog that had consumed their homes and killed two groups of soldiers.
• With the villagers starving and Zhang Ying desperate to feed her infant, they spotted a beautiful woman in white riding toward them with a troop of female generals.

Donghuang Ziyou aided refugees from Great Stone Village and discovered that demon mist and red-eyed tigers had driven them from their homes. After her generals fought the tiger demons, a strange slime-covered creature emerged from the Biyou Mountain Range.

• Donghuang Ziyou gave the starving villagers food and medicine for Zhang Ying’s baby, then learned that a Mountain God had ravaged Great Stone Village.
• Donghuang Ziyou recognized the spreading black mist as demon mist and used her Fire Phoenix to clear it from the Biyou Mountain Range.
• Feng Lingfei, Guan Tong, and the other female generals fought thousands of red-eyed tiger demons as Donghuang Ziyou watched.
• A red-eyed tiger Demon Emperor struck Feng Lingfei, but she and Guan Tong worked together to defeat and restrain him.
• Before the tiger leader could answer Feng Lingfei’s questions, a huge slime-covered creature with a snake’s head charged out of the mountain range.

Donghuang Ziyou defeated and interrogated Li Ye, an Aberrant Serpent from another spacetime, then destroyed the serpent eggs hidden in the Biyou Mountain Range. As a powerful presence cried out from the ancient trees, Li Ye warned that she had arrived.

• Li Ye overwhelmed Feng Lingfei and Guan Tong, but Donghuang Ziyou struck him down and suppressed his attempt to self-destruct.
• Li Ye revealed that the Aberrant Serpent Race came from Dark Luo Star and had used the Red-Eyed Fierce Tigers to find a breeding ground; he also disclosed a stronghold in the Lingyun Mountain Range.
• Donghuang Ziyou burned the Red-Eyed Fierce Tiger Clan to ash and ordered Li Ye to lead her to the serpent eggs.
• Donghuang Ziyou found tens of thousands of eggs in a swamp and incinerated them all.
• A furious cry and powerful demonic aura erupted from the ancient black trees, and Li Ye cried out that she had arrived.

Donghuang Ziyou destroyed Xin Lan and her serpent nest, then forced Li Ye to lead her toward the serpent stronghold. There, Xin Na dismissed warnings about Empress Profound Ice just before Donghuang Ziyou's voice challenged the demons from outside the hall.

• Donghuang Ziyou killed Xin Lan with her Immortal-Demon Heart Intent Sword and froze the serpent's deadly mucus.
• Donghuang Ziyou ordered Li Ye to take her to the serpent stronghold, while villagers in Great Stone Village knelt to honor her.
• Zha Song told Xing Tao that the Qingshui Mountain Range could serve as a new breeding ground for the serpent race.
• Xing Tao ordered Xin Na to travel there and produce at least ten thousand new-generation serpents within ten days.
• Xin Na and Xing Tao dismissed Zha Song's warning about Empress Profound Ice, but Donghuang Ziyou challenged them from outside the hall.

Donghuang Ziyou stormed into the Other Snake Clan’s hall and killed its Goddess of War, Xinna, and leader, Xing Tao. She left no room for mercy, cutting Xing Tao down despite his oath to stay out of the Nine Heavens Immortal Domain.

• Donghuang Ziyou entered the ruined hall after killing Li Ye, and Xing Tao and Xinna recognized her as Empress Profound Ice.
• Xinna realized Donghuang Ziyou had killed her elder sister, Xin Lan, and attacked her with the Dark Sacred Art.
• Donghuang Ziyou shattered Xinna’s blades, sliced through her body, and froze her before she could self-destruct.
• Xing Tao transformed into a black dragon and attacked Donghuang Ziyou, who pierced his head and wounded his shoulder as he tried to flee.
• Xing Tao begged Donghuang Ziyou to spare him and swore to stay away from the Nine Heavens Immortal Domain, but she severed his neck.

Donghuang Ziyou learned that Sima Gang was preparing to seize the throne of Nine Cauldrons Heaven with help from a powerful, mysterious organization, and decided to investigate his residence herself. Meanwhile, the Serpent Race planned to infiltrate Northern Profound Heaven with hundreds of breeding mothers, while Lin Xuan grilled fish for his hungry daughters.

• Donghuang Ziyou destroyed the Serpent Race palace, then learned that Sima Gang was gathering forces to claim the throne of Nine Cauldrons Heaven.
• Ruoying reported that a mysterious organization had protected Sima Gang’s residence with ten ancient formations, and Donghuang Ziyou decided to investigate it personally.
• Xing Zhen learned that Empress Profound Ice had likely killed Xing Tao, Xinlan, and Xinna, but he ruled out attacking Northern Profound Heaven directly for now.
• Xing Zhen planned to send two hundred mother Serpents to Northern Profound Heaven so they could breed millions of warriors and later launch an attack.
• Lin Xuan caught and grilled fish for his four hungry daughters on the western sea islands of Cloud-Drooping Heaven.

Lin Xuan, Mu Youqing, and the four little treasures enjoyed grilled fish and played on the beach before encountering the ruler of Southern Si Kingdom and a huge fleet. Ju Jingzhang revealed that he was evacuating his entire nation because they had offended the Sea God.

• Lin Xuan served grilled fish to Mu Youqing and the four little treasures, who shared the food lovingly among themselves.
• Mu Youqing and the little treasures joined Lin Xuan to play on the beach, where they spotted a fleet of ninety-eight ships approaching the island.
• Lin Xuan and his family went to the southeastern beach and found hundreds of thousands of people preparing to leave under the watch of armed soldiers.
• Ju Jingzhang, ruler of Southern Si Kingdom, recognized Lin Xuan as the Emperor Consort of the Northern Profound Heaven and greeted him.
• Mu Youqing asked Ju Jingzhang why his people were leaving, and he said they had offended the Sea God and could no longer remain on the island.

Ju Jingzhang explained that a mysterious force had devastated the Kingdom of Nansi’s marine resources, forcing its people to relocate. Lin Xuan discovered the cause was a naturally formed seabed formation, broke it, and brought the fish back; the kingdom’s people celebrated as their crisis began to lift.

• Ju Jingzhang told Mu Youqing that a supposed Sea God had sealed the waters around Nansi, leaving its people with little choice but to move away.
• Weng Jiufan arrived with ships and respectfully greeted Lin Xuan, while Xuanzhu and her sisters asked their father to help the kingdom stay.
• Lin Xuan searched the surrounding sea with his divine sense and identified the culprit as a naturally formed Innate Water Escape Grand Formation.
• Lin Xuan cast a golden hand seal into the sea, breaking the formation and drawing countless fish back toward the island.

Lin Xuan restored Nansi’s fishing grounds, protected the island with an ancient array, and traveled with his family to Tianfeng Nation for the Tournament of Heavenly Prodigies. The chapter ended as Lin Xuan and the others watched Shao Yiyun demonstrate her power in the Martial Arts Arena.

• Lin Xuan broke Nansi’s innate Water Escape Grand Array, bringing the fish back and earning the people’s gratitude.
• Lin Xuan created the Great Void Water Drawing Array to stabilize the island and sustain its marine life, then arranged for Nansi’s people to return home.
• Weng Jiufan invited Lin Xuan, Mu Youqing, and the four little girls to travel with him to Tianfeng Nation for the Tournament of Heavenly Prodigies, and Lin Xuan accepted.
• Weng Jiufan introduced Lin Xuan to Tianfeng Nation’s ruler Wen Chujing, Holy Lord Zhao Qinglin, and other martial arts leaders, who welcomed him and gave him the best seats.
• Lin Xuan and his family watched Shao Yiyun, the Lingbo Sect’s holy maiden, wield azure light and surging seawater in the Martial Arts Arena.

Shao Yiyun defeated her tenth opponent and faced Wen Xingshang, hoping to win and annul their engagement, but he overwhelmed her in battle. After she fell too injured to stand, Wen Xingshang declared that they would marry at dusk.

• Shao Yiyun knocked her opponent off the arena, securing a place in the final showdown against Wen Xingshang.
• Wen Xingshang told Shao Yiyun to surrender, but she insisted on defeating him and rejecting their engagement, saying her ideal partner outshone him like stars outshone dust.
• Wen Xingshang struck back with the Tianfeng Fist and pushed Shao Yiyun onto the defensive.
• Shao Yiyun unleashed the Lingbo Divine Art, but Wen Xingshang used the Supreme Emotion-Drawn Art to break her water shield and injure her.
• Wen Xingshang declared Shao Yiyun defeated and announced that they would marry at dusk that day.

At the Prodigy Assembly, Shao Yiyun refused to marry Wen Xingshang and severed her meridians rather than submit. She awakened the Gui Water Sacred Body, defeated Wen Xingshang, and left the onlookers marveling at Lin Xuan’s foresight.

• Wen Xingshang defeated Shao Yiyun, and the crowd and Wen Chujing praised him as the strongest prodigy.
• Shao Yiyun declared she would never marry Wen Xingshang and severed her own meridians, leaving herself near death.
• Wen Chujing asked the Taishang Holy Lord to save Shao Yiyun, but Lin Xuan told him to wait and watch.
• Shao Yiyun’s Gui Water Mystic Body evolved into the Gui Water Sacred Body, restoring her and raising her strength to the Emperor Realm.
• Shao Yiyun used the Azure Water Sword Art to defeat Wen Xingshang, while Lin Xuan’s foresight earned the reverence of the Taishang Holy Lord and Wen Chujing.

After Wen Xingshang suddenly regained his strength, he attacked Shao Yiyun and tried to steal her Sacred Kui Water Physique. Lin Xuan intervened, freed Shao Yiyun, and exposed the entity possessing Wen Xingshang.

• Wen Xingshang rose after his apparent defeat and insisted that his duel with Shao Yiyun continue.
• Wen Xingshang used the True Formless Dragon Soul Art to trap Shao Yiyun and drain her spiritual energy, then injured Zhao Ningxia when she tried to intervene.
• The Supreme Holy Lord attacked Wen Xingshang but was repelled, while Wen Xingshang revealed that he intended to refine Shao Yiyun's Sacred Kui Water Physique.
• Lin Xuan summoned a colossal Rakshasa manifestation that struck Wen Xingshang and sent the stolen azure light back into Shao Yiyun.
• Shao Yiyun's power surged, and the Supreme Holy Lord saw a black human shadow peel away from Wen Xingshang and recognized that he had been possessed.