Chapter Summaries

At Mount Sumeru, Fang Yang created the Twelve Manifestation Method and formed his first Nirmanakaya, the Heavenly Dragon Dharma King, using Buddhist faith. He began shaping a second Faith Body while Great Sage Moke worried about the cost of spending Mount Sumeru’s accumulated faith.

• At First Human Pass, the captain reported that Fang Yang had obtained the Monster Emperor’s tomb treasures, while Huo Qizi resolved to overcome his past defeat and pursue his Saint Path.
• At Mount Sumeru, Fang Yang combined Buddhist faith arts with Smile of the Flower to create the Twelve Manifestation Method, which could produce up to twelve Nirmanakayas.
• Fang Yang used Mount Sumeru’s power of faith to form a Great Saint-level True Dragon Nirmanakaya and named it the Heavenly Dragon Dharma King.
• Fang Yang announced that Buddhist disciples could recite the Heavenly Dragon Dharma King’s name, directing a stream of faith toward the new Nirmanakaya.
• Fang Yang began forming another Nirmanakaya, a White Tiger, and Great Sage Moke feared he would consume too much of Mount Sumeru’s accumulated faith.

Fang Yang used the Mortal World Cauldron’s Red Dust Karma Fire to refine the Dao Tribulation Gold Cauldron toward becoming a Quasi-Emperor Weapon. After forty-nine days, Chaos Lightning erupted from Mount Sumeru and caught the attention of the Divine Court’s young lord, who decided to investigate.

• Fang Yang created six Nirmanakayas and asked Great Sage Moke to activate the Mortal World Cauldron.
• Great Sage Moke drew the Mortal World Cauldron from Mount Sumeru and gathered Red Dust Karma Fire within it.
• Fang Yang split the Mortal World Cauldron in two with the Nine Secret: Bing and reshaped the halves into Human World Tripods.
• Fang Yang placed the Dao Tribulation Gold Cauldron inside one Human World Tripod and refined it with Red Dust Karma Fire.
• After forty-nine days, Fang Yang fed resources into the tripod as the Dao Tribulation Gold Cauldron formed an immortal-aura lightning talisman and unleashed Chaos Lightning.
• The Divine Court’s young lord spotted the Chaos Lightning and chose to investigate it himself.

Fang Yang refined the Dao Tribulation Gold Cauldron into a Quasi-Emperor Weapon while Great Sage Moke struggled with his resentment toward Victorious Fighting Buddha. On the Big Dipper, Ye Fan and Pang Bo encountered a Divine Court force seeking a treasure, which diverted its pursuit when the young master spotted an Ancient Enlightenment Tea Tree.

• Fang Yang advanced the Dao Tribulation Gold Cauldron to Quasi-Emperor Weapon status, and its spirit absorbed the Thor Divinity’s lightning laws as he prepared it for further advancement.
• Great Sage Moke suppressed his lingering anger toward Victorious Fighting Buddha and tried to mend the cracks in his Buddha Heart.
• The Divine Court’s young master arrived at the Big Dipper seeking the source of the Chaos Lightning and recognized the star as the Burial Emperor Star.
• Ye Fan and Pang Bo returned to the Big Dipper with the injured Dongfang Taiyi, who received Ye Fan’s Bodhi Seed and headed ahead with the sealed Taiyin Divine Spirit Thought.
• A black-armored Divine General pursued Ye Fan and Pang Bo after they fled using Nine Secrets: Xing, but the Divine Court force stopped when its young master spotted an Enlightenment Tea Leaf and ordered them to seize the Ancient Enlightenment Tea Tree.
• Ye Fan and Pang Bo watched the Divine Court force enter the black mountain and wondered at the young master’s audacity.

The Divine Court’s young master and his followers trespassed through Undying Mountain, where a headless knight destroyed their warship and killed them. The black-armored Divine General survived, took the Eternal Blue Gold Talisman and scattered materials, and renewed his pursuit of two Half-Saints for their movement technique.

• The Divine Court’s young master accepted more than twenty Enlightenment Tea Leaves and sent the black-armored Divine General after two Half-Saints to seize their movement technique.
• A headless knight emerged to punish the purple-gold warship for trespassing and destroyed it along with its occupants.
• The Divine Court’s young master called for help, but the headless knight shattered the crimson-robed Great Saint’s Dao diagram and killed both men.
• The black-armored Divine General recovered the Eternal Blue Gold Talisman and coveted the scriptures and Star River Divine Sand scattered by the attack.
• The black-armored Divine General decided to resume hunting the two Half-Saints, believing their movement technique might be the Movement Character Secret.

Dongfang Taiyi reached Mount Sumeru, gave Fang Yang the Bodhi Seed, and received a Divine Pill to heal his injuries. Fang Yang balanced the wills within the Bodhi Seed and nurtured it into a Bodhi Tree, then began cultivating beneath it.

• Dongfang Taiyi drank Eightfold Water at Mount Sumeru and followed Great Sage Moke to meet Fang Yang.
• Fang Yang gave Dongfang Taiyi a Divine Pill, and Dongfang Taiyi handed him the Bodhi Seed containing the Human Emperor of Taiyin's Divine Thought and Amitabha's will.
• Dongfang Taiyi discussed cultivating Taiyin and Sun arts with Fang Yang, then took the Divine Pill and began healing.
• Fang Yang used the Yin Yang Dao Diagram and a relic to contain the two wills from the Bodhi Seed, preserving their struggle instead of letting either one perish.
• Fang Yang poured Heaven-Reaching Creation Dew over the Bodhi Seed, which rapidly grew into a Bodhi Tree.
• Fang Yang sat beneath the Bodhi Tree and began sorting through his Dao and techniques.

Fang Yang guided Mount Sumeru’s Buddhists as Amitabha and Sakyamuni’s teachings reappeared beneath the reborn Bodhi Tree, then entered a profound enlightenment. The Mirror of the Past revealed the Dao laws of ancient emperors, accelerating the formation of Fang Yang’s Hunyuan Great Dao.

• The Bodhi Tree grew on Mount Sumeru as the old tree’s remaining life force nourished it, and Amitabha and Sakyamuni appeared beneath its branches.
• Great Sage Moke ordered cultivators below the King realm away, but Fang Yang invited the disciples to hear the Buddhas’ teachings and joined them as the Buddha of the future.
• Amitabha’s Mahayana teachings overwhelmed Sakyamuni’s, while Fang Yang’s words helped Great Sage Moke break through to the peak of the Great Sage realm.
• Amitabha and Sakyamuni faded into a rain of light that benefited Mount Sumeru, and Fang Yang entered enlightenment beneath the Bodhi Tree.
• On the ninth day, the Mirror of the Past revealed Amitabha, the Ruthless Empress, and numerous ancient emperors comprehending the Dao beneath the tree.
• Fang Yang imprinted the laws shown in the mirror into his Immortal Platform Secret Realm, rapidly developing his Hunyuan Great Dao and Hunyuan Scripture.

Fang Yang’s enlightenment on Mount Sumeru drew Dongfang Taiyi toward the Yin-Yang Great Dao, while Ye Fan and Pang Bo arrived pursued by a black-armored Divine General. Mighty Vajra attacked the pursuer to seize his Emperor Scripture, leaving Ye Fan and Pang Bo wondering whether they had entered a den of thieves.

• Dongfang Taiyi watched Fang Yang’s breakthrough and decided to pursue the Yin-Yang Great Dao rather than risk the Chaos Great Dao.
• Ye Fan and Pang Bo reached Mount Sumeru while fleeing a black-armored Divine General, and Mighty Vajra stopped them from disturbing Fang Yang’s enlightenment.
• Mighty Vajra recognized Ye Fan’s Indestructible Golden Body and welcomed him as a likely future Buddhist disciple.
• Ye Fan told Mighty Vajra that the black-armored Divine General carried an Eternal Blue Gold Talisman containing an Emperor Scripture.
• Mighty Vajra declared that the Divine General must be converted and attacked him, leaving Ye Fan and Pang Bo stunned by Mount Sumeru’s methods.

Mighty Vajra captured the black-armored Divine General and brought Ye Fan and Pang Bo to Dongfang Taiyi, who delivered the Eternal Blue Gold Talisman to Fang Yang as he created the Hunyuan Scripture. Fang Yang advanced to the seventh heaven of the Great Saint Realm, while Ye Fan and Pang Bo trained on Mount Sumeru; the chapter ended as Fang Yang investigated how An Miaoyi had reached the Saint Realm.

• Mighty Vajra shattered the black-armored Divine General’s spear, suppressed him with a Buddhist kingdom, and captured Ye Fan and Pang Bo when they tried to leave.
• Dongfang Taiyi took the Eternal Blue Gold Talisman from Mighty Vajra and sent it beneath the Bodhi Tree to aid Fang Yang in creating his scripture.
• Fang Yang formed the Hunyuan Scripture, survived a Heavenly Tribulation, and advanced to the seventh heaven of the Great Saint Realm.
• Mighty Vajra sealed Ye Fan and Pang Bo and made them carry water and chop firewood to cultivate the Vajra lineage’s golden-body method.
• Xia Yilin arrived at Mount Sumeru with An Miaoyi, who had unexpectedly become a Saint without continuing to cultivate the Ruthless Lineage’s scripture.
• Fang Yang used three copper coins to divine An Miaoyi’s past and investigate her rapid cultivation.

Fang Yang used the Mirror of the Past to reveal that An Miaoyi had been a Buddhist quasi-emperor in her former life, drawing her into deep enlightenment while he took Xia Yilin to tour the Great Thunder Sound Temple. At the Human Race’s third-pass trial grounds, Human King defeated Huo Qizi, who recovered from the battle and killed a Saint who tried to ambush him.

• Xia Yilin reunited with Fang Yang on Mount Sumeru, and An Miaoyi explained that she had abandoned her former ties and taken the Buddhist name Miaoyu.
• Fang Yang summoned the Mirror of the Past, which revealed An Miaoyi’s former life as a Buddhist quasi-emperor and sent her into profound enlightenment.
• Fang Yang reassured Xia Yilin that the mirror could not yet awaken An Miaoyi’s past-life memories, then took Xia Yilin to visit the Great Thunder Sound Temple.
• At the Human Race’s third-pass trial grounds, Human King defeated Huo Qizi with the Mountains and Rivers Seal and left after naming herself.
• A black-clad Saint attempted to ambush Huo Qizi, but Huo Qizi crushed him and used the Qilin Ancient Scripture to heal his wounds.

Fang Yang helped Xia Yilin confront doubts about her cultivation by offering to reveal her past life, while An Miaoyi reflected on her own past-life gains. A year later, as prodigies set out for the Ancient Roads, Fang Yang opened nine Grotto-Heavens and advanced to the Earth Immortal Realm.

• Fang Yang offered to show Xia Yilin her past life and recited the Heart Sutra with her to steady her mind.
• An Miaoyi recognized the connection between herself and her past life but chose not to follow her former cultivation path.
• Ye Fan left Mount Sumeru and, after visiting the Ji Family, set out for Qishi Mansion and the Human Ancient Road.
• Ji Zi ordered Ji Haoyue to travel with him along another Ancient Road, while privately thinking of Fang Yang’s rapid progress.
• Fang Yang opened nine Grotto-Heavens within his body and advanced to the Earth Immortal Realm.

Fang Yang chose to pursue the peak of the Great Saint Realm rather than devote years to the One Life Method, then returned to the Ten Thousand Dragon Nest and reunited with the Dragon Empress Daughter. The elder dragon awakened with a chance to become a Quasi-Emperor, while Fang Yang and the Dragon Empress Daughter secluded themselves together so he could help refine her Dragon Blood.

• Fang Yang weighed the Heavenly Immortal path against his goal of becoming a Quasi-Emperor and decided to focus on advancing his Great Saint cultivation.
• The Dragon Empress Daughter emerged from seclusion after reaching the Saint Realm and asked whether Fang Yang had returned to the Big Dipper.
• The elder dragon awakened from Divine Source, healed the Dao wounds left by the Human Demon, and revealed that he could reach the Quasi-Emperor realm within ten to thirty years.
• Fang Yang appeared in the Ten Thousand Dragon Nest, and Great Saint Gan Lun explained his identity and the changes since the Primordial Era to his father.
• The Dragon Empress Daughter led Fang Yang into a prepared chamber, where he gave her a secret art to refine her Dragon Blood and loosen the shackles of her imperial lineage.

Fang Yang helped the Dragon Empress Daughter forge a Dao guardian weapon from her imperial blood, earning the Ten Thousand Dragon Nest’s acceptance and the Ten Thousand Dragon Bell’s recognition. Nine years later, he reached the peak of the Great Saint realm and began his Quasi-Emperor Tribulation, where he fought the manifested Dao shadows of the Undying Emperor and the Human Emperor of Taiyin.

• Fang Yang and the Dragon Empress Daughter severed a portion of her imperial blood to create a Dao guardian weapon, and the Ten Thousand Dragon Bell revealed its laws to them.
• The Ten Thousand Dragon Bell acknowledged Fang Yang, and the Ten Thousand Dragon Nest accepted him; the Dragon Empress Daughter said they would marry after he proved his Dao.
• After the Dragon Empress Daughter left to seek treasures on her ancestral star, Fang Yang returned to Mount Sumeru and cultivated the Hunyuan Scripture for nine years, reaching the peak of the Great Saint realm.
• Fang Yang traveled far from the Big Dipper and triggered his Quasi-Emperor Tribulation, enduring a vast sea of lightning that tempered his body.
• The Dao shadows of the Undying Emperor and the Human Emperor of Taiyin appeared and attacked Fang Yang; he entered the God Prohibition Domain, seized the Undying Heavenly Blade, and cleaved the Immortal Phoenix in two.
• The Human Emperor abandoned the Human Emperor Seal and charged Fang Yang as a bright moon, shattering the heavens.

Fang Yang fought through successive waves of Great Emperor projections in his Quasi-Emperor Tribulation while the Yellow Emperor, Dao Yi, and other cultivators watched. As the final wave appeared, Fang Yang’s name blazed on the Crystal Stele at the threshold of the true Emperor Road.

• Fang Yang defeated the Human Emperor of Taiyin and the Undying Emperor, then faced projections of the Ruthless Empress, Great Emperor Hengyu, and the Supreme Emperor.
• The Yellow Emperor left the Flame Emperor at the Underground Palace of Zhuolu and went to watch Fang Yang’s tribulation, while Dao Yi and his guardian traveled to the lightning sea.
• Fang Yang battled six Great Emperor projections and shattered Emperor Daoyan’s projection as Dao Yi watched and vowed to grow strong enough to challenge him.
• Seven more Humanoid Lightning figures emerged, while cultivators gathered on the ancient roads and Jin Chanzi faced a black-haired Monster Race prodigy.
• Fang Yang’s name lit up on the Crystal Stele, and the black-haired man recognized it through tears of blood.

Fang Yang emerged from his Quasi-Emperor tribulation and drew the Great Cutting Technique and Great Heart Demon Technique from the Card Pool. After mastering the first step of the Great Cutting Technique, he began preparing to forge a weapon from his Supreme Bone.

• Jin Chanzi engraved his name thirteenth on the Crystal Stele and left despite the black-haired man's spear attack, which failed to pierce his Buddhist golden body.
• Fang Yang completed his tribulation, and Dao Yi learned who he was and worried that he could not catch up, but chose to stay and wait for him.
• Fang Yang spent his Fate Points and drew the Great Cutting Technique and Great Heart Demon Technique, then concealed himself in golden lotuses while the cultivators watched.
• Fang Yang spent three days and nights mastering the first step of the Great Cutting Technique, while the Lord of the Future devised a method to forge a weapon that could carry it.
• Fang Yang examined the deduced method, took out his Supreme Bone bearing the Yin Yang Dao Diagram, and adjusted the plan to preserve its remaining vitality.

Fang Yang mastered the Great Heart Demon Technique, forged a Saint Weapon from the Supreme Bone, and traveled with the Yellow Emperor and Ming De Quasi-Emperor. Back on Earth, he condensed the Primordial Heart Demon Scripture and absorbed his heart demons, bringing his Primordial Spirit closer to the source of heaven and earth.

• Fang Yang forged the Supreme Bone into a bone-white Saint Weapon using the Great Cutting Technique and the Great Treasure Refining Art.
• Fang Yang studied the Great Heart Demon Technique, rejected making a single obsession the meaning of his existence, and gained initial command of his heart-demon thoughts.
• Fang Yang met the Yellow Emperor, who told him that Shennong was refining pills from Chiyou's head and warned him to bring his family to Earth before the Path to Immortality opened.
• Fang Yang and the Yellow Emperor met Ming De Quasi-Emperor, who resolved to face the coming Dark Turmoil rather than abandon any of his descendants, and his cultivation advanced toward the Quasi-Emperor Eighth Heaven.
• Dao Yi returned to the Eternal Star Domain after deciding to focus on his own cultivation.
• On Earth, Fang Yang tempered his heart demons amid the mortal world and condensed the Primordial Heart Demon Scripture, absorbing his heart demons and elevating his Primordial Spirit.

Fang Yang completed another advancement in the Great Heart Demon Technique and defended his cultivation before Sakyamuni and the emperors, then freed White Tiger Daoist and Old Rooster to investigate Yinghuo. The group uncovered an immortal cave containing an Immortal Bell forged from Great Dao runes.

• Fang Yang refined a rank-eight Courage Immortal Gu, cultivated his Primordial Spirit, and used Earth's heart demons to advance the Great Heart Demon Technique over forty-nine days.
• Sakyamuni, the Yellow Emperor, the Flame Emperor, and Mingde Quasi-Emperor confronted Fang Yang over his demonic cultivation, but Fang Yang challenged Sakyamuni about abandoning Mount Sumeru, and their discussion turned to artifact refinement and alchemy.
• Fang Yang entered the yin prison after its seal broke and greeted White Tiger Daoist, who had cultivated Buddhism's Nirvana Scripture there.
• Fang Yang broke Old Rooster's seal, suppressed him when he attacked White Tiger Daoist, and heard White Tiger Daoist recount the immortal aura he had found on Yinghuo two thousand years earlier.
• Old Rooster led Fang Yang and White Tiger Daoist to a secret cave on Yinghuo, where Fang Yang uncovered an immortal cave containing an Immortal Bell surrounded by chaotic qi.

Fang Yang claimed the Immortal Bell Embryo and sealed the Undying Immortal Phoenix with three Extreme Emperor Weapons, then returned to Green Lotus Hall with White Tiger Daoist and Old Rooster seeking to follow him. He revealed that the Green Emperor was still alive, leaving White Tiger Daoist to realize that the Heart of Heaven Imprint had not returned to a blank state.

• Old Rooster was blasted away by the Immortal Bell Embryo, and White Tiger Daoist identified it as a treasure fashioned by an ancient expert.
• Fang Yang drew the Immortal Bell Embryo into the Dao Tribulation Gold Cauldron, provoking an Undying Immortal Phoenix made from Arctic Immortal Light to attack.
• Fang Yang used the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron, the Chaos Green Lotus, and the Chaotic Ancient Emperor Axe to seal the phoenix and study its laws.
• After the group found only a sealed entrance to the Path to Immortality, White Tiger Daoist and Old Rooster asked to follow Fang Yang.
• At Green Lotus Hall, Fang Yang said the Green Emperor was still alive, and White Tiger Daoist realized that the Heart of Heaven Imprint had not reset.

Fang Yang demonstrated his power at Green Lotus Hall, enlightened Xiao Song into a Saint, and shocked Huo Qizi with the news that he had reached Quasi-Emperor. At Yaochi’s Flat Peach Grand Gathering, a young Golden Crow from Huosang Planet challenged the Queen Mother of the West, leaving the gathering on the verge of conflict.

• Fang Yang presented Xiao Song with a mundane green lotus, and Xiao Song entered enlightenment and returned at the fifth heaven of the Saint realm.
• Huo Qizi defeated Fairy Qing Shi and the Human King on the Ultimate Emperor Road, then saw Fang Yang’s name on the Crystal Stele and wondered how he had advanced to Quasi-Emperor.
• The Queen Mother of the West convened cultivators at Yaochi’s Flat Peach Grand Gathering to discuss an Immortal Gate that had appeared beyond their world.
• A young man in golden feathered robes from Fusang Planet criticized Yaochi and challenged the Queen Mother of the West, while his Saint-level elders watched without intervening.

The Queen Mother of the West used Yaochi’s Western Emperor Pagoda to suppress the Golden Crow Clan after its members disrupted the Flat Peach Grand Gathering. Fang Yang left Yaochi after hearing of an Immortal Gate, where his emergence as a Quasi-Emperor before turning one hundred stunned the gathered cultivators.

• The Queen Mother of the West summoned the Western Emperor Pagoda and captured the Golden Crow Clan Saint King and his companions after they threatened Yaochi.
• The Yaochi Saintess visited Fang Yang with the body of a Saint-level Golden Crow, and Fang Yang invited her to gather with old friends.
• Fang Yang sensed an Immortal Gate in the outer starry sky and left Yaochi to investigate.
• A Saint King of the Fallen Feather Clan charged into the Immortal Gate, followed by another Saint King, while the other cultivators hesitated.
• Fang Yang appeared and pinned the Immortal Gate in place with his palm, drawing a voice from within it.
• The Great Saint of Blood Phoenix Mountain confirmed that Fang Yang was a Quasi-Emperor under one hundred, shocking the gathered cultivators.

Fang Yang reached Quasi-Emperor and subdued the creature behind the false Immortal Gate before returning to the Big Dipper. In the Great Xia Dynasty, its ancestor gave him a complete Supreme Emperor Scripture and Immortal Gold, and declared that he could take the Supreme Emperor Sword if Great Xia's descendants proved unworthy.

• Fang Yang trapped the false Immortal Gate, exposed Nine Infants, and captured the beast for later study.
• Cultivators invited Fang Yang to visit their factions, while the ancient imperial clans worried about his rise and their own prospects.
• Fang Yang returned to the Big Dipper and visited the Great Xia Dynasty, where the Old Imperial Uncle welcomed him.
• The Great Xia ancestor lent Fang Yang the Supreme Emperor Scripture, gave him several kinds of Immortal Gold, and authorized him to take the Supreme Emperor Sword if Great Xia's descendants proved unworthy.
• The Old Imperial Uncle proudly announced Fang Yang's advancement to the dynasty, and Xia Yiming struggled to believe the news until the Great Xia Empress confirmed it.