Chapter Summaries

Lin Yu arrived at Heavenly Witch City to seize control of Witch Ghost Dao’s wilderness territory and broke its Myriad Ghosts Returning to Ancestor Array. After destroying nine Corpse Emperors, he faced the Witch Ghost Dao elders as they called for Monk Jingren, whose arrival was heralded by a powerful lion’s roar.

• Lin Yu crossed Witch Ghost Dao’s poorly governed territory and decided to take it over for its resources.
• Lin Yu reached Heavenly Witch City, where Witch Ghost Dao activated its Myriad Ghosts Returning to Ancestor Array.
• Lin Yu used Boundless Darkness to absorb the array’s black fog and purify its resentful souls.
• Three Witch Ghost Dao elders sent nine Corpse Emperors to attack Lin Yu, and his Destruction Wisdom King burned them to ashes.
• A gaunt Daoist arrived with five more Corpse Emperors and called for Monk Jingren, as a lion’s roar and a surge of pure yang vital energy swept away much of the black fog.

Lin Yu defeated the Witch Ghost Dao cultivators in Heavenly Witch City, forced them to submit, and obtained the Cosmic Pouch from Monk Jingren. He opened the pouch and entered its hidden Small World, where he discovered eight warehouses filled with treasures and supplies.

• Yu Wutong and the Witch Ghost Dao cultivators tried to flee, but Lin Yu suppressed them and sealed the Supreme Demonic Venerable's head.
• Monk Jingren questioned Lin Yu about the Destruction Wisdom King Dharma Form, and Lin Yu revealed he belonged to the Great Qian imperial clan.
• Monk Jingren challenged Lin Yu, and they fought for half a day before stopping amid the ruined city.
• Yu Wutong and the three Great Elders submitted to Lin Yu, who ordered them to restore order and receive the fleet while he gathered their Power of Faith.
• Lin Yu opened the Cosmic Pouch and entered its Small World, discovering eight warehouses filled with treasure, food, weapons, medicine, books, and silk.

Lin Yu took control of the Great Zen Temple’s hidden wealth and allowed Monk Jingren to spread Buddhism only in the wilderness under strict conditions. He forged the Primordial Heavenly Gate from the Cosmic Pouch, obtained the Present Tathagata Sutra as the pouch collapsed, and began cultivating its Dharma Seals.

• Monk Jingren explained that survivors of the former Great Zhou Dynasty had hidden weapons, armor, and other wealth in the Great Zen Temple, and Lin Yu let him rebuild the temple in the wilderness but forbade him from spreading Buddhism in Tianzhou.
• Lin Yu examined the temple’s vast stores and instructed Monk Jingren to teach morality and obedience to local laws rather than Buddhist retribution or an afterlife.
• Lin Yu removed the Cosmic Pouch’s supplies and refined its spatial mysteries into a Heavenly Gate, naming the artifact the Primordial Heavenly Gate.
• The Cosmic Pouch’s Small World collapsed, and the Present Tathagata Sutra’s illustrated page emerged from the destruction.
• Lin Yu studied the Present Tathagata Sutra, practiced the Root Seal, and grasped the Ten Great Dharma Seals and their will to break shackles and reach the Other Shore.

Lin Yu condensed his own formidable fist intent through the Present Tathagata Sutra and returned to Heavenly Witch City to organize its rebuilding. He used White Bone Strength Demon Gods to speed up infrastructure and farming, then nourished his Pillar of Heaven Mountain Divine Stone with heavenly lightning.

• Lin Yu mastered the Ten Great Dharma Seals and formed a fist intent that would let his martial arts advance toward the Human Immortal realm without bottlenecks.
• Lin Yu returned to Heavenly Witch City and learned from Wang Lie that the city needed a road connecting it to the port.
• Lin Yu refined corpses into White Bone Strength Demon Gods and gave Blood Blade command plaques so they could build roads and perform other labor.
• Over the next month, the puppets helped complete a wide bluestone highway and reclaim farmland as Tongtian Plain began to develop.
• Lin Yu stood at a mountain altar as lightning struck his Pillar of Heaven Mountain Divine Stone, which he was nourishing into a future Human Immortal avatar.

Lin Yu awakened the Divine Stone Spirit Embryo and took control of a Human Immortal body. After the embryo emerged from the shattered stone, Lin Yu refined lightning pills to strengthen his followers and left Blood Blade newly advanced to Marrow Cleansing Grandmaster.

• Lin Yu used the Dao of Creation Technique to awaken the Divine Embryo’s apertures and merge his soul with it, attaining the Human Immortal realm.
• The Divine Stone burst apart, and the Human Immortal clone emerged; Lin Yu gathered the stone fragments and reunited with his clone.
• Monk Jingren recognized the Divine Spirit Stone Embryo’s significance, abandoned his rivalry, and resolved to reestablish the Great Zen Temple.
• Lin Yu refined lightning into pills and distributed them to his assembled subordinates, strengthening their bodies and cultivation.
• Blood Blade mastered his moon-themed martial techniques, broke through to Marrow Cleansing Grandmaster, and thanked Lin Yu.

Lin Yu traveled to the ruins of the Great Zen Temple to find the Tathagata Kasaya, an ancient artifact that could rival the Boat of Creation. He captured the sealed Mount Taishi Dragon Soul and restored the kasaya by merging it with its missing sphere, leaving its Other Shore inheritance revealed.

• Lin Yu traveled from the overseas lands to Mount Taishi and searched beneath the Great Zen Temple ruins for the Tathagata Kasaya.
• Lin Yu used the Past Amitabha Sutra to send his divine soul deep underground and discovered a hidden stone chamber containing the kasaya and a radiant sphere.
• The Mount Taishi Dragon Soul attacked Lin Yu, but he subdued it and took its knowledge of the Great Zen Temple's techniques.
• Lin Yu merged the sphere into the Tathagata Kasaya, restoring the artifact and revealing its scriptures about crossing the Sea of Bitterness to the Other Shore.

Lin Yu gained the Tathagata Kasaya’s temporary recognition, then refined the Mount Taishi Dragon Soul into a powerful Doumu Xuanling True God Incarnation. He found another practitioner of the Future Unborn Sutra at Qingyang Manor and confronted him to seize his incarnation.

• Lin Yu manifested the Dao of the Other Shore, causing the Tathagata Kasaya to attach itself to him, though he understood it had not truly submitted.
• Lin Yu used the Hell Furnace and Heavenly Realm Pure Flame to refine the Mount Taishi Dragon Soul after overcoming its attack.
• Lin Yu condensed the refined dragon essence into a Doumu Xuanling True God Incarnation and gained one of the nine halos required to complete the Future Unborn Sutra.
• At Qingyang Manor, the Black-Bearded Daoist used Soul-Suppressing Incense and his seven halos to cultivate, lamenting that his Future Unborn Sutra hindered his progress toward becoming a Ghost Immortal.
• Lin Yu appeared before the Black-Bearded Daoist and demanded that he surrender his Doumu Xuanling Dharma body.
• The Black-Bearded Daoist challenged Lin Yu and attacked with a golden hand emerging from his seven halos.

Lin Yu defeated Vacuum Daoist, seized his faith-powered halos, and forced him into service, then led an army through the Primordial Heavenly Gate to attack the Great Luo Sect. The assault began as Lin Yu sought another divine body to complete his Immortal Nascent Soul.

• Lin Yu used the Future Unborn Sutra’s seals to capture Vacuum Daoist and strip away his seven halos.
• Lin Yu refined the seven gods into halos, bound Vacuum Daoist with a soul restriction, and ordered him to redirect Vacuum Dao’s wealth from Yang Yuan to Lin Yu.
• Vacuum Daoist revealed that the Great Luo Dao Venerable had amassed abundant faith power, and Lin Yu recognized the Great Luo Sect’s ties to Hong Xuanji and Zhao Fei’er.
• Lin Yu brought Blood Blade, Zhao Hu, and a thousand elite soldiers through the Primordial Heavenly Gate to Shuiyang Mountain.
• Lin Yu ordered the army to surround the Great Luo Sect and kill disciples who refused to surrender, and the soldiers began cutting through the sect’s forces.

Lin Yu led the assault on the Great Luo Sect, killed Zhao Fei'er, and captured several Peach God Dao treasures. The Great Luo Heavenly Venerate tried to flee but was intercepted and badly wounded by Lin Yu, who seized his Ruyi Staff and shattered his Demon Shark Armor.

• Lin Yu summoned Han Yue, who defeated Zhao Fei'er, while Lin Yu captured her God-Splitting Puppet and trapped her fleeing soul.
• Lin Yu's forces wiped out the Great Luo Sect's defenders, and Zhao Hu and Blood Blade presented the seized Heaven-Shaking Bow and Limitless Arrow.
• Elder Huang summoned the Great Luo Heavenly Venerate, who chose to flee after sensing the sect was under attack.
• Lin Yu intercepted the Great Luo Heavenly Venerate as he escaped and demanded that he surrender his cultivation.
• The Great Luo Heavenly Venerate equipped the Demon Shark Armor and Ruyi Staff and attacked Lin Yu, but Lin Yu seized the staff and shattered the armor with his divine palm.

Lin Yu refined Great Luo Heavenly Venerate and, through the nine halos and the three sutras, comprehended Buddha's Divine Palm and condensed the Primordial Cause Dao Fruit. He then unified countless martial arts and created the Primordial Beginning Grand Dao, leaving him in harmony with heaven and earth and able to command endless transformations.

• Lin Yu captured Great Luo Heavenly Venerate, and the Great Luo Sect was left nearly annihilated.
• Lin Yu refined Great Luo Heavenly Venerate in the Hell Furnace and used the resulting Divine Radiance to complete and equalize his nine halos.
• Lin Yu mastered the past, present, and future sutras, displayed the Ten Great Dharma Seals, and condensed the Primordial Cause Dao Fruit.
• Lin Yu gathered countless martial arts and Dao techniques in his Sea of Consciousness and deduced a new divine ability from their essential truths.
• Lin Yu named his creation the Primordial Beginning Grand Dao and formed the constantly changing Primordial Beginning Dao Fruit.

Lin Yu went to Yang An’s estate to obtain Emperor Pan's Living Sword, then used the sword’s attack alongside the Primordial Cause Dao Fruit to severely wound the Tathagata Kasaya’s spirituality and absorb its Maha Vajra Prajna Paramita scriptures. He left with a deeper grasp of cause and effect, while Yang An’s sword had been drawn into the conflict.

• Lin Yu consolidated his martial arts into the Primordial Beginning Grand Dao and chose to keep accumulating strength before attempting the lightning tribulations.
• Lin Yu arrived at Yang An’s estate in Qing Province and subdued its guards as he moved toward the young Champion Marquis.
• Lin Yu confronted Yang An, struck down his two Grandmaster servants, and forced Yang An to summon Emperor Pan's Living Sword.
• Yang An attacked Lin Yu with the sword’s four pure-yang wills, believing his destiny and the divine artifact made him invincible.
• Lin Yu hurled the Primordial Cause Dao Fruit at the Tathagata Kasaya and used its defenses to catch Emperor Pan's Living Sword’s attack, severely wounding the kasaya’s spirituality.
• Lin Yu absorbed the Maha Vajra Prajna Paramita scriptures from the kasaya, deepening his understanding of cause and effect.

Lin Yu defeated Yang An with the Tathagata Kasaya and Great Thousand Seal, then won the Emperor Pan's Living Sword by showing it his vision of a world where everyone could flourish. Seeking materials for a King of Divine Artifacts, he went to Yunmeng to find the Heavenly Dragon Dao Master and met Xingmou, who agreed to guide him.

• Lin Yu used the Tathagata Kasaya's Great Sleeve Universe to absorb Yang An's attacks and captured him with the Great Thousand Seal, keeping him alive for information about the Outer Heaven World.
• Lin Yu persuaded the Emperor Pan's Living Sword to accept him by showing its spirit his vision of a world belonging to all, then claimed the sword and resolved to forge his own King of Divine Artifacts.
• Lin Yu decided to seek the Dragon's Graveyard for artifact materials and traveled to Yunmeng to find the Heavenly Dragon Dao Master.
• Lin Yu summoned Xingmou with a talisman, and she left Xuantian Pavilion to meet him after sensing his message.
• After Lin Yu helped a grassland tribe drive off wolf demons, Xingmou arrived; Lin Yu explained his search for the Dragon's Graveyard, and she offered to lead him to the Heavenly Dragon Dao Master.

Lin Yu, Xingmou, and Dragon Maiden Ao Luan traveled to the Dragon's Graveyard after Lin Yu offered Ao Luan the Dao within the Tathagata Kasaya in exchange for her guidance. They reached the Yanfu Great Array, where Lin Yu sensed pursuers approaching and launched the Emperor Pan's Living Sword into the formation.

• Lin Yu and Xingmou went to the Heavenly Dragon Sect's sacred grounds and summoned Dragon Maiden Ao Luan.
• Lin Yu offered Ao Luan access to the Maha Vajra Prajna Paramita Dao in exchange for leading him to the Dragon's Graveyard, and she agreed despite warning that the Philosophers' Clans might follow.
• Ao Luan used a blood-activated compass needle to guide Lin Yu, Xingmou, and herself through the Void Turbulence to the Dragon's Graveyard.
• Ao Luan explained that the Yanfu Great Array guarded the graveyard and had resisted all her attempts to approach its core.
• Lin Yu sensed uninvited guests approaching, merged his soul thoughts with the Emperor Pan's Living Sword, and sent it into the Yanfu Great Array.

Lin Yu entered the Yanfu Great Array with Emperor Pan's Living Sword and the Tathagata Kasaya, resisting its relentless thunder while analyzing its nine formation-core treasures. Meanwhile, the heads of the Fan, Wu, Wang, and Sun Families arrived at the entrance to the Primordial Dragon's Graveyard, intent on claiming its treasures and the formation.

• Ao Luan explained that Emperor Pan's Living Sword could help Lin Yu understand and seize the Yanfu Great Array, and Lin Yu pressed deeper into it.
• Lin Yu used the sword's light to withstand the formation's crushing black clouds as Ao Luan and Xingmou followed him.
• Lin Yu protected himself with the Tathagata Kasaya while absorbing the formation's different kinds of thunder and analyzing the array's nine core treasures.
• Patriarch Fan and the heads of the Wu, Wang, and Sun Families appeared in the Void Turbulence and identified the entrance to the Primordial Dragon's Graveyard.
• The four patriarchs discussed exploiting the Heavenly Dragon Dao Master and claiming the graveyard's treasures and the Yanfu Great Array for their Saintly Families.

Lin Yu subdued the Yanfu Great Array and all nine of its divine artifacts, then faced the patriarchs of the Fan, Wang, Sun, and Wu Families when they arrived to claim it. He trapped their attacks within the formation and declared that the Saintly Families should submit to him.

• Lin Yu used Emperor Pan's Living Sword and the Tathagata Kasaya to navigate the Yanfu Great Array and refine its nine divine artifacts.
• Lin Yu collected the Tuolong Tortoise Shell formation diagram, shrinking the entire Yanfu Great Array into his palm.
• The four Saintly Family patriarchs arrived and attacked Lin Yu, demanding that he surrender the formation diagram.
• Lin Yu used the Yanfu Great Array to deflect their attacks and warned the patriarchs to leave or lose their lives.
• The patriarchs mocked Lin Yu's demand for their loyalty, while Ao Luan explained the Fan Family's and Wang Family's power to Yang Qian.

Lin Yu defeated and captured the four Saintly Family heads, then devoured much of their thoughts to gain their techniques and strengthen his Dao Fruit. He left Fan Yuntao and the others imprisoned in the Tathagata Kasaya, intending to convert them into his servants.

• Fan Yuntao and Wang Lingshan demanded that the Heavenly Dragon Sect hand over the Yanfu Great Array, while the Heavenly Serpent King mocked the families for their threats.
• Lin Yu combined Emperor Pan's Living Sword with his Dao Fruit and struck down Fan Yuntao, then imprisoned his thoughts in the Tathagata Kasaya.
• Lin Yu used the sword net to capture the other three family heads and sealed their thoughts inside the kasaya.
• Lin Yu devoured most of Fan Yuntao's thoughts, gaining insight into the Six Brahma Dao Scripture and reincarnation, then absorbed the Sun family head's thoughts and learned the Ten Thousand Soldiers Slaughtering Fist.
• Fan Yuntao and the Sun family head cursed Lin Yu from inside the kasaya, but Lin Yu silenced them and decided to convert the captured family heads into his tools and dogs.

Lin Yu converted the four Saintly Family heads with the Duren Sutra and entered the Primordial Dragon's Graveyard, where he absorbed Primordial Ice True Qi and discovered more than a thousand dragons preserved in ice. He left the group before the Dragon Graveyard's frozen treasures, including an Ancestral Dragon, with their value still to be claimed.

• Lin Yu chanted the Duren Sutra and converted Fan Yuntao, the Wang Family head, the Sun Family head, and the Wu Family head, sending them to the Primordial Heavenly Gate.
• Lin Yu entered the Primordial Dragon's Graveyard through the void and learned from Fan Yuntao that it was a vast Middle Thousand World.
• Lin Yu teleported to the graveyard's frozen western plains and absorbed Primordial Ice True Qi, forming the character for ice in his Dao Fruit and creating Ice Soul Divine Thunder.
• Lin Yu and his companions found a vast Ice Palace surrounded by more than a thousand pillars containing preserved Primordial Giant Dragons.
• Ao Luan identified the golden dragon at the palace's center as an Ancestral Dragon, and Lin Yu recognized the immense value of the frozen dragon bodies.

Lin Yu gathered the Primordial Dragon pillars and discovered authentic Dragon Tooth Rice, then began merging the Yanfu Great Array and Tathagata Kasaya into the Primordial Heavenly Gate. After refining the kasaya’s Artifact Spirit, he transformed the gate into a far more powerful independent world.

• Lin Yu, Ao Luan, and Xingmou collected over a thousand ice-bound dragon pillars into the Primordial Heavenly Gate.
• The collapsed palace exposed Primordial Dragon Tooth Rice, and the family heads offered to cultivate it for Lin Yu.
• Lin Yu absorbed the Yanfu Great Array into the Heavenly Gate, greatly expanding its space and power.
• Lin Yu and his allies attacked the Tathagata Kasaya’s intelligence, and Lin Yu tore it out and refined it into pure Zen qi.
• Lin Yu merged the kasaya’s scriptures and Buddhist power into the Heavenly Gate, which became a stable independent world with adjustable time.

Lin Yu confronted Yang Pan above the imperial palace, revealing his strength and challenging the emperor’s claim to the throne. After Lin Yu overwhelmed Yang Pan’s Vacuum Great Mudra, Yang Pan and a hidden imperial Human Immortal attacked him together.

• Lin Yu observed the imperial qi over Yujing City and saw Yang Pan and Hong Xuanji concealed within the palace and Marquis Wuwen’s Estate.
• Yang Pan sensed someone spying, confronted Lin Yu above the clouds, and accused him of plotting rebellion after learning Lin Yu had caused Yang An’s disappearance.
• Lin Yu rejected Yang Pan’s claim that the throne could only be granted and summoned the Primordial Heavenly Gate to meet the emperor’s attack.
• Yang Pan unleashed the Vacuum Great Mudra, but Lin Yu’s Immeasurable Seal shattered it and wounded him.
• Yang Pan attacked with Central Wuji Void Great True Qi as a hidden Human Immortal struck Lin Yu from behind with a blade of thunder.

Lin Yu fought Emperor Qian Yang Pan and Gongyang Yu, then used the Primordial Heavenly Gate and Emperor Pan's Living Sword to damage the Boat of Creation. Yang Pan was left injured aboard his damaged vessel as Lin Yu advanced to finish the battle.

• Gongyang Yu attacked Lin Yu with his blood-red blade, but Lin Yu repelled him with the Great Thousand Seal and Maha Seal while Yang Pan struck with the Central Wuji Void Great True Qi.
• Yang Pan summoned the Boat of Creation and fired its Langxiao Myriad Spirit Qi, which Lin Yu countered with the Ancestral Dragon phantom from the Primordial Heavenly Gate.
• Yang Pan unleashed the Boat of Creation's Biluo Great Transformation Qi and charged Lin Yu, while Lin Yu revealed that he had sent a human immortal avatar to hold back Hong Xuanji.
• Lin Yu and his allies joined forces to activate Emperor Pan's Living Sword, whose beam shattered the Boat of Creation's outer decks and blasted it back a hundred li.
• Yang Pan spat blood and stared in disbelief at the damage to the Boat of Creation as Lin Yu advanced and declared that it was time to end the fight.