Chapter Summaries

Cihang Bodhisattva abandoned Buddha Mountain and fought Western Buddha to help Aizen Myōō and Ning Chen escape. Afterward, Cihang set out to atone for Buddha Mountain’s wrongs, while Ning Chen and Aizen headed for the Central Heaven Realm to investigate a threat against Rising Sun Divine Palace.

• Cihang Bodhisattva renounced her Bodhisattva Dao Fruit, fought off Buddha Mountain’s defenders, and invited Aizen Myōō and Ning Chen to leave with her.
• Western Buddha attacked the three with his palm and golden alms bowl, but Cihang blocked him with her Willow Branch and led her companions away.
• At the foot of the mountain, Cihang vowed to atone for Buddha Mountain’s wrongs, while Ning Chen said he would grow stronger to reclaim Xin Yu’s soul from Heaven of No Desire.
• Ning Chen and Aizen Myōō set out for the Central Heaven Realm to confirm whether the Kylin Pavilion Master planned to attack Rising Sun Divine Palace.
• Cihang traveled among the Buddhist Realm’s people, doing good deeds and restoring a beggar’s severed leg.

As Buddhist Mountain weakened and demons from the Demon Realm secretly prepared to strike, the people of the Buddhist Realm learned that its Buddhas had eaten humans to attain immortality. Cihang Bodhisattva confessed the truth while Ning Chen and Aizen Myōō set out to seize the White Tiger Divine Temple’s Origin Crystal Pagoda so she could restore her cultivation.

• With Buddhist Mountain unable to control the rising ghosts and monsters, Western Buddha used his Buddha Eye and learned that the Demon Realm was behind the attacks on the monks.
• A masked Demon Realm commander ordered his forces to stop spreading rumors and focus on Buddhist Mountain, while learning that the young man they sought was the person Demonic Moon had died protecting.
• Cihang Bodhisattva refused repeated requests to return to Mount Sumeru and confirmed to her followers that Buddhist Mountain’s Buddhas ate people and that the ghosts and monsters came from their victims.
• Ning Chen and Aizen Myōō saw believers turn against Buddhist Mountain, smash shrines, and destroy temples as the truth spread.
• Aizen Myōō asked Ning Chen to help her recover her cultivation by taking the Origin Crystal Pagoda from the White Tiger Divine Temple, and he agreed.

Ning Chen and Aizen Myōō attacked the White Tiger Divine Temple while its Divine Lord was away, killed its defenders, and seized the Origin Crystal Pagoda. The White Tiger Divine Lord returned to find the temple destroyed and set out after the pair.

• Ning Chen and Aizen Myōō invaded the White Tiger Divine Temple and fought its ten remaining Divine-Demonic Level Experts.
• Ning Chen destroyed the White Tiger divine statue and defeated the White Tiger's soul while Aizen Myōō held off the temple's defenders.
• The White Tiger Divine Lord sensed the White Tiger's death, and the Kirin Divine Lord warned that someone had targeted the Hall of Gods.
• After killing all ten experts, Ning Chen and Aizen Myōō raised the Origin Crystal Pagoda from the ruins, and Ning Chen swallowed it with his phoenix shadow.
• The White Tiger Divine Lord returned to the destroyed temple, detected demonic and Buddhist energy, and revealed his killing intent toward the fleeing pair.

Ning Chen stayed behind to hold off the White Tiger Divine Lord while Aizen Myōō escaped, then lured the pursuer into the sea and escaped after the Kunpeng swallowed them both. Ning Chen reunited with Aizen Myōō at the border and continued toward the Central Heaven Realm with the Origin Crystal Pagoda.

• Ning Chen stopped to fight the White Tiger Divine Lord and sent Aizen Myōō ahead to escape.
• The White Tiger Divine Lord overwhelmed Ning Chen with his strength, but Ning Chen endured his attacks with the Undying Demonic Body and fled north.
• Ning Chen plunged into the sea and lured the White Tiger Divine Lord into the Kunpeng’s mouth, then escaped from its inner space.
• Ning Chen thanked the Kunpeng and left to meet Aizen Myōō at the border between the Buddhist Realm and the Central Heaven Realm.
• Ning Chen reassured Aizen Myōō that he was unharmed and said the White Tiger Divine Lord had been eaten by a big fish before they continued onward.

Ning Chen and Aizen Myōō cultivated in the Origin Crystal Pagoda for seven years, bringing Ning Chen to the peak of the Fourth Realm before he stalled at the Fifth Realm bottleneck. They sent the pagoda into the human world, where Earth Sovereign claimed it after an Imperial Dao battle but was ambushed by Luo Xingchen.

• Ning Chen and Aizen Myōō hid inside the Origin Crystal Pagoda near Kirin Divine City and began cultivating while the Kirin Divine Hall regained its standing.
• The Kirin Divine Lord concluded that the missing White Tiger Divine Lord had likely run into trouble near Kunpeng in the Northern Sea Region, but said he needed a suitable way to rescue him.
• After seven years, Ning Chen reached the peak of the Fourth Realm but could not break through, and he and Aizen Myōō decided to send the Origin Crystal Pagoda to the human world for Ziyi and the others.
• The Origin Crystal Pagoda descended into the human world, and Earth Sovereign defeated other Imperial Dao experts in the Shaking Light Starfield to claim it.
• Luo Xingchen ambushed Earth Sovereign with arrows of light and demanded that he leave the Origin Crystal Pagoda behind.

Luo Xingchen and Mu Qianshang defeated Earth Sovereign and seized the Origin Crystal Pagoda, then discovered its true form contained a world rich in origin power. Inside, they found a note inviting Luo Xingchen to come to the Divine Realm, where its writer was waiting for him.

• Luo Xingchen wounded Earth Sovereign with the Star Scar Bow while Earth Sovereign fought to protect the Origin Crystal Pagoda.
• Ancient Sun Venerable lent power to Earth Sovereign, but Mu Qianshang arrived and cut apart the divine sun with the Snow Sword.
• Mu Qianshang sealed Earth Sovereign's cultivation, and Luo Xingchen took the Origin Crystal Pagoda before the two departed.
• Ancient Sun Venerable told the injured Earth Sovereign that the Divine Realm would stop contending for the pagoda.
• Luo Xingchen placed the pagoda on the ground, causing it to expand into a hundred-zhang divine pagoda, and he and Mu Qianshang entered its origin-rich interior.
• Luo Xingchen and Mu Qianshang found a note telling Luo Xingchen to hurry to the Divine Realm, where its writer was waiting.

Luo Xingchen gathered the Underworld Yamas in the Origin Crystal Pagoda Ning Chen had sent down, and they cultivated for a century as they prepared to reach the Divine Realm. Meanwhile, Ning Chen and Aizen assembled a vast force in the Southern Border and marched north to destroy the Hall of Gods.

• Luo Xingchen revealed the Origin Crystal Pagoda to the Underworld Yamas, and Mu Qianshang explained that it contained the Divine Realm’s origin power.
• The Underworld Yamas cultivated inside the pagoda for a hundred years, and Qing Ling passed her Imperial Dao Great Tribulation.
• Ning Chen and Aizen discussed the Kirin Divine Lord’s plans and decided to gather more allies to attack the Kirin Divine Hall.
• Ning Chen visited the Myriad Swords Sect, where its green-robed sect master acknowledged him as Master and gathered disciples above the King Realm.
• Ning Chen spent over ten years recruiting the Hundred Great Sinners and experts from a hundred sects across the Southern Border.
• Ning Chen led tens of thousands of experts north, declaring that they would destroy the Hall of Gods.

Ning Chen led the Hundred Great Sinners and their armies in an assault on the Hall of Gods, breaking its formation and fighting through its defenders. He defeated the twelve divine generals and reached Kirin Divine Hall, while the Divine Lords stayed focused on completing the Slaying Gods Grand Formation.

• The Hundred Great Sinners arrived with thousands of King Realm experts, and Ning Chen ordered them to attack the Hall of Gods.
• Ning Chen shattered the Hall of Gods' formation with his demonic sword, and both armies clashed across the battlefield.
• Ning Chen fought off ten Divine-Demonic Level experts, while Aizen Myōō helped drive back the Hall of Gods' forces.
• The twelve divine generals joined the battle and surrounded Ning Chen, but he killed three and defeated the rest with his sword techniques and Qihuang Secret Art.
• The Divine Lords decided not to intervene because the White Tiger Divine Lord was absent and they needed to complete the Slaying Gods Grand Formation.
• Ning Chen reached Kirin Divine Hall as the Hundred Sects held back the Hall of Gods' troops.

Ning Chen fought the Vermilion Bird Divine Lord while the Slaying Gods Grand Formation destabilized under the Immortal Bell’s assault. After both combatants were badly wounded, Ning Chen drove them into the formation, accelerating its collapse as the Rising Sun God and others received signs of wider upheaval.

• Ning Chen advanced through the Kirin Divine Hall, absorbing divine blood as he attacked the forbidden formation with the Qihuang Secret Art and the Eastern Emperor Bell.
• The Vermilion Bird Divine Lord left the formation to confront Ning Chen, while the Rising Sun God received a warning from a Great Sinner and the Water Cloud Imperial Palace sensed change in the Divine Realm.
• Ning Chen and the Vermilion Bird Divine Lord exchanged powerful attacks, wounding each other as the three remaining divine lords struggled to maintain the Slaying Gods Grand Formation.
• The Vermilion Bird Divine Lord engulfed Ning Chen in divine flames, but Ning Chen infiltrated him with the Black Phoenix Origin and seized his arm.
• Ning Chen used Azure Dragon Descent to hurl himself and the Vermilion Bird Divine Lord into the Slaying Gods Grand Formation, hastening its collapse.

Ning Chen fought the Vermilion Bird Divine Lord while the Slaying Gods Grand Formation neared collapse, and the Vermilion Bird ultimately burned his divine soul to complete it. The Kirin God-Slaying Formation rose and drove the Hundred Sects into retreat, but Ning Chen’s swords trapped the kirin at the chapter’s end.

• Ning Chen used his Divine Domain and escalating attacks to gravely wound the Vermilion Bird Divine Lord, while the White Tiger Divine Lord arrived to help stabilize the Slaying Gods Grand Formation.
• The Vermilion Bird Divine Lord and Ning Chen unleashed their strongest attacks against each other, destroying the Kirin Divine Hall in their collision.
• The Vermilion Bird Divine Lord burned his final divine soul to repair the Slaying Gods Grand Formation, which endured nine heavenly tribulations and rose as the Kirin God-Slaying Formation.
• The Kirin Divine Lord ordered the Hall of Gods’ forces to attack, and Aizen Myōō led the Hundred Sects in retreat as the formation’s divine might killed many fleeing King Realm experts.
• Ning Chen called tens of thousands of swords into a Heaven and Earth Cage that trapped the kirin.

Ning Chen fought the four Fifth Realm Divine Lords and their Slaying Gods Grand Formation, unveiling the Four Immortal Slaying Swords and awakening the power of creation. Aizen Myōō carried the gravely wounded Ning Chen away after the clash devastated Kirin Divine City, while the Rising Sun God declared that war had begun.

• Ning Chen summoned the Four Immortal Slaying Swords and battled the Kirin Divine Lord's forbidden formation, pushing his cultivation to the barrier of the Fifth Realm.
• Ning Chen transformed the Immortal Severance Sword and wielded the power of creation, wounding the Black Tortoise Divine Lord and destabilizing the Slaying Gods Grand Formation.
• Ning Chen called tens of thousands of divine swords to attack the formation, and their collision split Kirin Divine City apart.
• Aizen Myōō carried the gravely wounded Ning Chen away as the four Divine Lords were struck by a torrent of blood.
• The Rising Sun God ordered the Rising Sun Divine Palace to prepare for battle, and the Plain-clothed Figure watched from north of Kirin Divine City as the war began.

The Hall of Gods marched on the Rising Sun Divine Palace, where the Rising Sun God fought the four Divine Lords and their Kirin God-Slaying Formation. As the formation transferred injuries and shifted its defenders, Ning Chen watched with Aizen Myōō and said it was no longer complete.

• Ten days after healing from the battle at the Kirin Divine Hall, the four Divine Lords led the Hall of Gods' army toward the southern border.
• The Rising Sun God and Moon God prepared the Rising Sun Divine Palace for the invasion, and both armies clashed when the Hall of Gods arrived.
• The Rising Sun God fought the Kirin Divine Lord, withstood his lightning, and used the Divine Realm's sun to attack the Kirin God-Slaying Formation.
• The Kirin Divine Lord's formation transferred injuries among the four Divine Lords, and the Rising Sun God discovered that the White Tiger Divine Lord could be replaced by the Black Tortoise Divine Lord to block an attack.
• Ning Chen watched the battle with Aizen Myōō and said the Kirin God-Slaying Formation could be broken because it was no longer complete.

The Rising Sun God and Moon God fought the four Hall of Gods Masters, whose Slaying Gods Grand Formation shared their injuries, while Ning Chen held back from intervening. The Rising Sun God was gravely wounded but shielded his sister from the Divine Lords’ final assault, leaving both siblings in mortal danger.

• The Rising Sun God battled the four Divine Lords as their formation transferred injuries among them, and the Moon God used moonlight to restrain their attacks.
• The Rising Sun God drove back three Divine Lords when they threatened the Moon God, then unleashed his strongest power and forced the formation onto the defensive.
• The Moon God struck the formation with the Nine Heavens Cold Palace, but it began to crack as she was injured; Ning Chen refused Aizen Myōō’s plea to intervene.
• The Rising Sun God pierced the White Tiger Divine Lord with his spear, but the formation shared the death tribulation, and the Kirin Divine Lord then punched through the Rising Sun God’s chest.
• As the Azure Dragon and Black Tortoise Divine Lords attacked the Moon God, the Rising Sun God stepped in front of her and took their combined blows.

The Moon God fought the four Divine Lords with the Chaos Divine Bow until Ning Chen intervened, defeated their formation, and pursued them as they fled. After the Moon God learned that her brother, the former War God, had fallen protecting her, Little Gourd arrived with three drops of divine blood to save him.

• The wounded Moon God unleashed the Chaos Divine Bow against the four Divine Lords, but her blood ran low and she collapsed before the Rising Sun Divine Palace.
• Ning Chen blocked the Kirin Divine Lord's attack, while Aizen Myōō carried the Moon God away from the battlefield.
• Ning Chen attacked the Slaying Gods Grand Formation with ten thousand swords and forced the four Divine Lords to retreat.
• The Black Tortoise Divine Lord took on the injuries of his three companions to let them escape, and Ning Chen killed him and pursued the others.
• Aizen Myōō treated the Moon God, who awoke and found her brother, the former War God, lying near death in a pool of blood.
• Little Gourd brought three drops of divine blood and said that Immortal Elder had sent him to save the War God.

Ning Chen killed the Kirin Divine Lord and pursued the fleeing White Tiger Divine Lord into a ghost land, where Ghost Qi swallowed them both. Meanwhile, the Rising Sun God gathered the Phoenix, Vermilion Bird, and Three-legged Golden Crow sources and underwent a terrifying transformation.

• Ning Chen defeated the Kirin Divine Lord, devoured him, and discovered that the White Tiger Divine Lord had fled alone.
• Ning Chen pursued the White Tiger Divine Lord for a day and night, then evaded a White-robed Youth who challenged him to a sword fight.
• Ning Chen followed the White Tiger Divine Lord into a sinister ghost land, where Ghost Qi swallowed the wounded Divine Lord and then Ning Chen.
• The Rising Sun God combined Phoenix Blood and Vermilion Bird blood, becoming the first god to obtain every source of divine fire.
• The Moon God and Aizen Myōō recoiled from the Rising Sun God's surging aura and wondered why the transformation was happening.

Ning Chen pursued the White Tiger Divine Lord into a real underworld, killed him, and discovered the buried graves of the Ten Yama Kings. After meeting the gravekeeper, Ning Chen left without finding the Lord of Hell and was immediately caught in a devastating heavenly tribulation.

• Ning Chen caught up with the White Tiger Divine Lord in the underworld and helped the ghost god kill him, absorbing his demonic essence.
• Ning Chen subdued the ghost god and forced it to lead him through the Ten Yama Halls to King Yama’s empty palace, where ghost arrows attacked them.
• Ning Chen reached the graves of the Ten Yama Kings, where a gravekeeper confirmed that the Lord of Hell had been gone for thirty thousand years and recognized Ning Chen as the person she had sought.
• The gravekeeper told Ning Chen to wait for the Lord of Hell’s return, but Ning Chen left to pursue his other matters after asking about the Underworld Soldiers.
• Ning Chen exited the underworld and faced a massive heavenly tribulation; he fled as lightning blasted him into the ground and charred his back.

Ning Chen’s heavenly tribulation pursued him and the White-robed Youth across Southern Border until they fled into a lawless void, where they agreed to seek a way back to the human world. Meanwhile, the Rising Sun God awakened and set out to find Ning Chen in the southern Fire Domain.

• Ning Chen diverted the endless heavenly tribulation toward the White-robed Youth, and the two endured its lightning as they fled across Southern Border.
• Ning Chen and the White-robed Youth entered a vast void where the tribulation vanished, fought until their strength was nearly spent, and then agreed to search for an exit together.
• Ning Chen sensed A'man through their linked heart meridians and headed toward her, while the White-robed Youth followed rather than remain trapped in the void.
• The Rising Sun God awakened at the Rising Sun Divine Palace, and the Moon God told him Ning Chen had gone toward the far southern lands.
• The Rising Sun God learned that Ning Chen was likely in the dangerous Fire Domain and set out to bring him back.

Ning Chen crossed into the mortal world as a soul to find Luo Xingchen and the others, while the White-robed Youth struggled to protect Ning Chen’s body from the laws of the Great Dao. Unable to enter the Origin Crystal Pagoda, Ning Chen used a statue and King Tianhe to make soldiers curse at the tower, drawing Luo Xingchen outside in a rage.

• Ning Chen and the White-robed Youth reached the boundary between the Divine Realm and the mortal world, and Ning Chen sent his soul through while the White-robed Youth guarded his body.
• Ning Chen found A'man trapped in ancient god's ruins, learned Luo Xingchen and the others had gone to the Shaking Light Starfield, and promised to collect her for the Divine Realm.
• The laws of the Great Dao attacked the White-robed Youth, who fled with Ning Chen’s body and suffered grave injuries.
• Ning Chen reached the Origin Crystal Pagoda but could not enter, so he possessed his statue before the Tianhe Dynasty’s palace and ordered King Tianhe to send soldiers to curse at the tower.
• After ten days of uninterrupted cursing, Luo Xingchen left the Origin Crystal Pagoda and angrily confronted the soldiers.

Ning Chen reunited with his friends in the mortal world, then returned to his physical body and raced through the void toward the Divine Realm. The Moon God and Rising Sun God lit a beacon to guide him, but a giant hand formed from the Great Dao Laws struck toward the Moon God.

• After Luo Xingchen emerged from the Origin Crystal Pagoda, Ning Chen revealed himself and persuaded him to deliver a message to the Moon God in exchange for a supreme treasure.
• Luo Xingchen dispersed the pagoda’s spiritual energy vortex, and Ruoxi, Mu Qianshang, Qing Ling, Consort Luo, Xia Ziyi, and others reunited with Ning Chen.
• Ning Chen told his friends to come to the Divine Realm and learned that Yin'er was cultivating at Heavenly Language Peak.
• After several days, Ning Chen bid his friends farewell and returned to the void, where the White-robed Youth handed him his physical body while fleeing the Great Dao Laws.
• The Moon God and Rising Sun God lit a guiding beacon in the Fire Domain, and Ning Chen and the White-robed Youth raced toward it as a giant hand struck toward the Moon God.

Ning Chen returned from the void with the Moon Goddess, the Rising Sun God, and Bai Wangyu, then set out east to pursue the Sword Dao despite warnings about the region’s turmoil. On the way, his Four Symbols Origin erupted and triggered a tribulation, and the chapter ended as he and Bai Wangyu watched sword cultivators besiege a wounded demon woman and Ning Chen proposed helping her.

• The Rising Sun God and Moon Goddess helped Ning Chen escape the void and fought off the Great Dao Laws before bringing him and Bai Wangyu to the Divine Palace.
• Ning Chen told the Moon Goddess and Rising Sun God about his recent experiences and learned that Aizen Myōō was in seclusion and that the Divine Court was hunting the rebel Qing Jian.
• Ning Chen left for the Eastern Divine Realm to advance his Sword Dao, and Bai Wangyu followed him.
• The Four Symbols Origin erupted during their journey, forcing Ning Chen to endure a lightning tribulation and suppress its power again.
• Ning Chen and Bai Wangyu reached the Eastern Divine Realm and found several dozen swordsmen besieging a wounded demon woman; Ning Chen suggested they help her.