Chapter Summaries

Shi Hao broke through to the Formation Realm, endured the Stone Clan bloodline curse, and set out for the Stone Country Imperial Capital to settle accounts with Martial King Manor. On the road, he reunited with his grandfather Shi Tian, who asked about Shi Hao's missing parents.

• Shi Hao defeated Shi Yi in the Void God Realm, while onlookers learned more about the feud and Martial King Manor's role in the old events.
• Fang Yang explained that Pi Hou, Da Zhuang, and Er Meng were unlikely to become Supremes on their own, then promised them Shi Yi's Supreme Bone and Heavy Pupils after Shi Hao killed him.
• Shi Hao broke through to the Formation Realm and passed the fire, water, and wind calamities, awakening a new Supreme Bone precious technique related to time.
• Shi Hao announced that he would go to the Stone Country Imperial Capital to settle his karmic debts with Martial King Manor, and Fang Yang sent him off with an array diagram to study.
• Fang Yang decided to take Pi Hou, Da Zhuang, and Er Meng to the capital and test his Corpse-Looting Technique on Shi Yi's body.
• Shi Hao met his grandfather Shi Tian outside the Stone Country Imperial Capital, and Shi Tian joyfully embraced him before asking where his parents were.

Shi Zhongtian and Shi Hao attacked the Martial King Manor to settle the old score over Shi Hao’s stolen Supreme Bone. Shi Hao killed Shi Yi, but unseen hands began drawing the youth’s spiritual power into his Heavy Pupils and his vitality into his Supreme Bone.

• Shi Zhongtian and Shi Hao entered Stone Country’s imperial capital and confronted the Martial King Manor over Shi Hao’s past injuries.
• Shi Hao rejected the patriarchs’ pleas for reconciliation, trapped Formation Realm cultivators inside the manor with a formation, and killed Shi Ziteng with one punch.
• Shi Zhongtian killed a patriarch, and he and Shi Hao slaughtered members of Shi Yi’s bloodline as Shi Hao demanded to know where Shi Yi was.
• The Martial King and Rain King arrived, and the Rain King brought Shi Yi to face Shi Hao.
• Shi Hao changed his killing blow into a sword strike and beheaded Shi Yi despite the Rain King’s attempt to protect him.
• Unseen hands touched Shi Yi’s head and body, drawing his spiritual power toward his Heavy Pupils and his vitality into his Supreme Bone.

After defeating the Rain King, Shi Hao and Shi Zhongtian went to Undying Mountain to find Shi Ziling and Qin Yining, where Shi Hao discovered his younger brother Qin Hao. Their reunion left Shi Hao troubled by his parents’ choices, and he pressed his father about what Qin Hao knew.

• Fang Yang extracted a Divine Ring, Heavy Pupils, and Supreme Bone from Shi Yi’s corpse, then gave them to Pi Hou, Da Zhuang, and Er Leng to study their absorption.
• Shi Hao defeated the Rain King at Martial King Manor, then left with Shi Zhongtian despite the Martial King asking them to stay.
• At Undying Mountain, Shi Hao and Shi Zhongtian were attacked; Shi Hao disarmed Qin Hao, then severed the Venerable Qin Fa’s arm when the Venerable injured Shi Zhongtian.
• Shi Ziling and Qin Yining reunited with Shi Hao and explained that the Qin Clan had kept them confined and raised Qin Hao as part of a plan to save Shi Hao with his younger brother’s essence blood.
• Shi Hao struggled with his parents’ account and asked whether Qin Hao knew he was Shi Hao’s older brother and knew what Shi Zhongtian looked like; Shi Ziling said he and Qin Yining had painted many portraits while imprisoned.

Shi Hao returned to Stone Village after breaking through to the Formation Extreme Realm, where Fang Yang awakened his stone Dao Soul and explained the new cultivation system. In the Future Dharma Realm, Wang Bo and Ye Fan advanced in the Peak Powerhouse Battle, while two new matches began and one contestant recognized the masked fighter as Emperor Venerable.

• Shi Hao left Undying Mountain with Shi Zhongtian, who planned to retrieve his buried Pixiu blood and later avenge his lost arm, while Shi Ziling stayed behind.
• Shi Hao traveled toward Stone Village, endured trials, engraved the Immortal Gold Sword Formation into his body, and broke through to the Formation Extreme Realm.
• Fang Yang developed Dao Souls among Stone Village's people, then awakened a ninth-stage stone Dao Soul in Shi Hao and explained how Dao Rings granted abilities and enhancements.
• Wang Bo defeated the Corpse Emperor after a day and a night, and Ye Fan defeated Shen Feixian after three days and nights, advancing in the Peak Powerhouse Battle.
• Taiyin and Taiyang began fighting on one battlefield, while a contestant in five-colored feathered robes knocked the mask from his opponent and exclaimed that Emperor Venerable was not dead.

The Undying Emperor defeated Divine Baby and renewed his plan to become a Battle Immortal as the Path to Immortality opened above the Big Dipper. Amitabha the Great Emperor then led billions of Buddhist followers and Mount Sumeru toward the Immortal Gate, leaving Fang Yang behind.

• Divine Baby attacked the Undying Emperor with the Jie Secret, but the Undying Emperor recognized him as the spirit of the Immortal-Ascension Cauldron and countered.
• The Undying Emperor suppressed Divine Baby, killed him, and resolved to pursue Battle Immortal Transformation in the Strange World.
• The Immortal Gate opened above the Big Dipper, releasing immortal qi and a catastrophic aura that killed an approaching powerhouse and split an aged Great Sage in half.
• Amitabha the Great Emperor manifested through the faith of Buddhist followers, displaying a body of faith with power rivaling a flawless great emperor.
• Fang Yang questioned Amitabha about using billions of Buddhist followers as stakes, but Amitabha led them and Mount Sumeru toward the Immortal Gate while Fang Yang remained behind with the Bodhi Tree.

Fang Yang stopped Forbidden Zone Supremes from entering the Path to Immortality and killed five of them, while Amitabha Great Emperor’s attempt to lead billions of Buddhist disciples through the path ended in disaster. Fang Yang gathered the survivors’ souls in the Future Dharma Realm, where Green Emperor proposed giving them an eternal place in its Dharma Network.

• Amitabha Great Emperor entered the Chaos Cave with billions of Buddhist disciples, and six Forbidden Zone Supremes rushed toward the Path to Immortality.
• Fang Yang let one Supreme enter because he had never unleashed a Dark Turmoil, then killed the other five when they attacked and tried to force their way past him.
• The Supreme who entered returned lifeless, while Amitabha Great Emperor’s attempt failed and billions of Buddhist disciples died; Fang Yang collected the broken Mount Sumeru and Amitabha’s Demon-Subduing Pestle.
• Fang Yang left the Supreme Bone Blade and Primal Unity Emperor Cauldron behind and declared that those who had never unleashed a Dark Turmoil could try the Path to Immortality.
• Fang Yang brought Mount Sumeru and the disciples’ souls to the Karma Prayer Beads, and Green Emperor proposed incorporating part of the Immortal Domain’s structure into the Future Dharma Realm so the souls could endure within its Dharma Network.

Fang Yang settled Buddhist followers in the Future Dharma Realm, drew a Swallowed Star identity, and sent Other Selves into new worlds. After finding that his Tang World Other Self had entered the perilous world of The Supreme of One World, he focused on keeping it safe while his Swallowed Star self joined the Extreme Martial Arts Hall.

• Fang Yang and Green Emperor arranged new lives and daily duties for hundreds of millions of Buddhist followers in the Future Dharma Realm, and Green Emperor praised Fang Yang's faith-cultivation inheritance.
• Fang Yang drew the Swallowed Star world card, chose an identity bearing his own name, and sent Other Self imprints into multiple worlds.
• Fang Yang's Other Self in The Twin Dragons of Great Tang heard a Daoist explain martial cultivation and realized the world might actually be The Supreme of One World.
• On Earth, Zhuge Tao offered Fang Yang a place in the Extreme Martial Arts Hall's Elite Training Camp, and Fang Yang accepted the offer.
• Fang Yang worried that his Tang World Other Self was trapped in a world controlled by beings of the Other Shore, so he focused on preserving it while keeping its actions inconspicuous.

Fang Yang advanced his Other Self in The Twin Dragons of Great Tang to Heaven-Man Communion and gave him the Seven Heaven-Severing Swords inheritance, planning to seek a Heaven-Severing Dharma Image after ascending. On Earth, Fang Yang revealed exceptional mastery of Thunder-and-Lightning and Light domains to Babata, who recruited him into Meteor Ink Star and promised him its martial artist inheritance and resources.

• Fang Yang made his Great Tang Other Self a Louguan School disciple, and Daoist Yin Xuan named him Yang Jun.
• Yang Jun opened all nine apertures, completed his Ancestral Aperture, and reached Heaven-Man Communion after three years of cultivation.
• Fang Yang gave Yang Jun the Dao Cannot Be Discussed inheritance and watched for signs of change, then planned to wait for his ascension.
• On Earth, Babata told Fang Yang that he could not inherit Huyan Bo's legacy because he was not a psychic.
• Fang Yang demonstrated third-level Thunder-and-Lightning and Light domains, shocking Babata into offering Meteor Ink Star's martial artist inheritance and free resources.
• Fang Yang accepted Babata's offer, and Babata prepared to pass down secret techniques and support his growth.

Fang Yang studied warrior secret arts and cultivated on Earth, while his other self ascended to the External Scene realm at the Louguan School. After using his tribulation to forge a treasure sword and heal Daoist Yin Xuan, he crossed into the Immortal World.

• Fang Yang chose Thunder Prison Tribulation, Wind Howl Slaughter, and Light Illusory Body to study lightning, wind, and light, then stunned Babata by revealing his powerful Domains.
• Babata gave Fang Yang more than a thousand Wood Molar Crystals, and Fang Yang used them to cultivate and gradually improve his bloodline aptitude.
• At the Louguan School, Fang Yang told Daoist Yin Xuan he would ascend that day after leaving the school martial arts he had developed from Dao Cannot Be Discussed.
• Fang Yang broke through to the External Scene realm and used the Heavenly Thunder, Yin Fire, and Golden Wind Tribulations to temper his Jujube Wood Sword into a high-grade treasure weapon.
• Fang Yang named his sword art Turning Effect into Cause and left the sword with Daoist Yin Xuan, whose vitality and youthful appearance were restored.
• Fang Yang crossed the barrier into the Immortal World and arrived among mist-covered, antique buildings.

After ascending to the True World, Fang Yang was acknowledged by the True Martial Emperor’s inheritance and joined the True Martial Sect in exchange for its cultivation resources and supreme arts. He began studying Dao Destruction and Dao Creation, then met Zhang Yuanshan and Meng Qi in a tavern, recognizing Meng Qi’s extraordinary future.

• Fang Yang arrived in the True Martial Hall, where the Taiji Sword left the statue of True Martial Emperor and chose him as its bearer.
• Xuanjizi learned that Fang Yang had ascended from a lower world and offered him the True Martial Seven-Severing Scripture and cultivation resources to join the True Martial Sect.
• Fang Yang accepted the offer, named the Taiji Sword the Life-Destruction Sword, and began contemplating its true intent to refine his Heaven-Severing Dharma Image.
• Zhang Yuanshan entered a tavern with Meng Qi, recognized Fang Yang, and introduced Meng Qi as the Fierce Vajra.
• Fang Yang praised Meng Qi’s physique and recognized the remarkable identities and destiny associated with him.

Fang Yang advised Zhang Yuanshan to face his family honestly, then discovered a new Seven Heaven-Severing Sword inheritance in the Life-Destruction Sword. Later, Meng Qi and his fellow reincarnators arrived in a demon-haunted era, where they encountered Fang Yang at the temple entrance.

• Fang Yang praised Meng Qi, while Meng Qi privately lamented his Fierce Vajra reputation and worried about his martial path.
• Zhang Yuanshan explained his conflict between marrying Junior Sister Mingxi for a family alliance and keeping his pledge to Fu Zhenzhen, and Fang Yang and Meng Qi urged him to speak plainly and focus on becoming stronger.
• Zhang Yuanshan regained his resolve and left the tavern, while Meng Qi hurried away after Fang Yang guessed his thoughts.
• Fang Yang returned to cultivating and found the Severing Dao to See Self sword form within the Life-Destruction Sword, adding its inheritance to his studies.
• Eight hundred years after Journey to the West, Meng Qi, Zhang Yuanshan, and their fellow reincarnators arrived at a ruined temple and cautiously searched it.
• Footsteps approached the temple, and Zhang Yuanshan recognized the arriving figure as Grandmaster Yang Jun.

Fang Yang joined Meng Qi and the others in the Journey to the West World and led them into Mount Ling. As the group crossed Lingyun Crossing, Fang Yang secretly gave Zhang Yuanshan a piece of flesh, and Zhang Yuanshan saw a corpse with his own face drifting down the river.

• Zhang Yuanshan and Jiang Zhiwei tested Fang Yang with their strongest sword strikes, but Fang Yang dispelled them and proved he was not a demon.
• Fang Yang introduced himself to the group, revealed his mission was to enter Mount Ling, and recognized a causal link between himself and Meng Qi’s Little Jade Buddha.
• Fang Yang asked Meng Qi to accompany him, and Meng Qi and the others followed him through the gate opened by the Little Jade Buddha and the Great Thunder Sound Temple Plaque.
• Fang Yang led the group to Lingyun Crossing, transformed the plaque into a boat, and had Zhang Yuanshan row them across the river.
• Fang Yang made Zhang Yuanshan swallow a piece of flesh, after which Zhang Yuanshan saw a corpse with his own face and wondered if he had died.

Fang Yang and the others crossed into Mount Ling, where they witnessed the Great Sage Equal to Heaven’s Ruyi Jingu Bang before Fang Yang completed his mission and returned to the Six Paths of Reincarnation Space. He spent his merit points on new martial arts and returned to the True Martial Sect to study them.

• Fang Yang’s physique and cultivation advanced at Lingyun Crossing, while Meng Qi, Jiang Zhiwei, Ruan Yushu, and Zhang Yuanshan also gained improved physiques and aptitude.
• Ruan Yushu traded dried dragonfish with Fang Yang for jerky made from Benbo’erba, which she recognized as nourishing meat from an External Scene demon.
• Fang Yang led the group through Mount Ling’s ruined gate, where they saw the Great Sage Equal to Heaven’s Ruyi Jingu Bang amid the shattered Void.
• Fang Yang warned the group about Mount Ling’s dangers and the demons outside; Zhang Yuanshan and the others chose to stay hidden while Fang Yang completed his mission and returned.
• Fang Yang exchanged martial arts for merit points, acquired All Things Attaining Dao and sections of the Eight-Nine Arcane Art and Monster Emperor Classic, then returned to the True Martial Sect to study them.

Zhang Yuanshan returned to the True Martial Sect after reaching Return to Simplicity, and Ruan Yushu delivered Fang Yang’s teachings and pastries while reporting that he had entered seclusion. Three days later, Fang Yang emerged from a lightning tribulation with the Heaven-Severing Dao Body, leaving Xuanjizi convinced the True Martial Sect could not contain his future.

• Zhang Yuanshan returned to the True Martial Sect, where Xuanjizi and Zhang Duan welcomed him and learned he had reached Return to Simplicity.
• Xuanjizi explained that Ruan Yushu had come to study cooking under Fang Yang, and Ruan Yushu delivered the true inheritance of Dao Destruction and Dao Creation along with Initial Explanation of Cause and Effect.
• Ruan Yushu told Xuanjizi, Zhang Duan, and Zhang Yuanshan that Fang Yang had entered seclusion to attempt a Dharma Body breakthrough.
• Three days later, a lightning tribulation struck around True Martial Hall, and the sect watched in alarm as the storm engulfed the mountain.
• Fang Yang emerged holding the Life-Destruction Sword and a sword formed from the tribulation, having comprehended the Heaven-Severing Dao Body.
• Xuanjizi recognized Fang Yang’s Dharma Body as nearly flawless and feared the True Martial Sect could not contain his rise.

Meng Qi arrived in the Divine Capital as Fang Yang rose to eighth on the Sky Ranking, while Fang Yang secretly waited above the city and pursued his plans across several worlds. In the Swallowed Star world, Fang Yang gave his Devouring Other Self the Heaven-Swallowing Myriad Transformations Record and prepared for the Cosmic Genius Battle, encouraging Luo Feng before its trials began.

• Meng Qi heard that Fang Yang had taken eighth place on the Sky Ranking as Dao Lord, pushing He Qi the Sword Madman down a rank, and hurried toward the Qionghua Banquet.
• Fang Yang waited unseen above the Divine Capital and contemplated the Seven Heaven-Severing Swords, the Other Shore Realm, and his cultivation across worlds.
• Fang Yang created the Heaven-Swallowing Myriad Transformations Record and sent it to his Devouring Other Self to help him evolve through devouring life-forms and gain clones.
• Fang Yang joined the Cosmic Genius Battle in the virtual universe, where the examiner announced that only a thousand of more than a million contestants would enter the Virtual Universe Company's core.
• Luo Feng worried that he and Hong might be eliminated, and Fang Yang encouraged Luo Feng while Hong noted he might improve his Space Law during the trials.

Fang Yang defeated Bolan to win the Cosmic Genius Battle and qualify for the Primal Secret Realm, while Luo Feng placed third and faced pressure from powerful figures demanding ownership of Earth. The competition ended with the selected geniuses preparing to join the Virtual Universe Company's secret realms.

• Fang Yang and Bolan dominated the trial towers, with Fang Yang secretly holding back and finishing just ahead of Bolan.
• Luo Feng broke through in the Space Origin Law and took third place, while Hong ranked 7,303rd and missed the core-tier places.
• Powerful figures learned that Fang Yang, Luo Feng, and Hong came from Earth and pressured Luo Feng to sell the planet; Luo Feng refused and sent people close to him away for safety.
• Fang Yang defeated Bolan after revealing his superior Time Origin Law comprehension, securing first place and entry to the Primal Secret Realm.
• Nine Swords Venerable announced the secret-realm placements and said the selected geniuses would soon be taken to the Virtual Universe Company's core.

Fang Yang and the other prodigies chose Chaos Steles in the Initial Universe, while the fallout from Prince Qi’s death weakened the Zhao Clan and intensified the struggle for Great Jin’s throne. Fang Yang then met Daoist Chonghe, who agreed to exchange the Pure Yang Sect’s One Qi Transforms Three Purities for Fang Yang’s knowledge of a Cause and Effect art.

• Fang Yang, Luo Feng, and Bolan examined the Chaos Stele illustrations, and Luo Feng chose the Nine Universe Chaos Stele while Fang Yang and Bolan chose the Universe Chaos Stele.
• Kandeli doubted Fang Yang and Bolan’s choices, but Nine Swords Venerable believed Fang Yang might accomplish something remarkable with the Universe Chaos Stele.
• Prince Qi died beneath the Dharma Body heavenly tribulation, Doumu Yuanjun fled, and the weakened Zhao Clan faced a potential challenge from the Cui Family.
• Fang Yang watched Demon Master Han Guang withdraw and discussed reincarnation and the Other Shore with Daoist Chonghe.
• Daoist Chonghe agreed to exchange One Qi Transforms Three Purities for Fang Yang’s knowledge of a technique that could sever his karmic connection to the Six Paths of Reincarnation Space.

Chonghe taught Fang Yang One Qi Transforms Three Purities, and Fang Yang set his sights on the approaching emergence of the Buddha's Palm General Outline. After Meng Qi ascended to the External Scene through four tribulations, Fang Yang found the Bodhi vessel containing the inheritance in the Western Regions, drawing the attention of Meng Nan.

• Chonghe imparted One Qi Transforms Three Purities to Fang Yang, who achieved initial mastery and planned to pursue the Buddha's Palm inheritance.
• Meng Qi gathered his peers and ascended to the External Scene by enduring four tribulations, astonishing the onlookers.
• Fang Yang advised Qi Zhengyan that he could temper and control the Demonic Lord's influence by establishing an obsession aligned with his original mind.
• The Wang Family's divination revealed that the Buddha's Palm General Outline would emerge in the Western Regions within half a year, attracting factions from across the martial world.
• Fang Yang located the Withered-and-Glorious Bodhi carrying the Buddha's Palm General Outline at Fish Sea.
• Meng Nan sensed the inheritance's emergence and tore through the void toward it.

Fang Yang killed Great Asura Meng Nan with one sword stroke, took the Buddha's Palm General Outline, and began cultivating it through an illusory Tathagata Golden Body. In another world, he ordered the Peacock Wisdom King to invite Sakyamuni to take the place of the Present Buddha, leaving Sakyamuni's response unresolved.

• Fang Yang defeated Meng Nan with a sun-like sword stroke, extinguished his Primordial Spirit, and refined his Great Asura Body into a divine sword.
• Fang Yang offered Great Master Lu and Cui Qinghe the chance to study the Buddha's Palm General Outline for a divine-weapon's worth of materials; Cui Qinghe accepted and Great Master Lu declined.
• Fang Yang used One Qi Transforms Three Purities to separate his understanding of the Buddha's Palm General Outline and form an illusory Tathagata Golden Body.
• At Mount Sumeru, Fang Yang ordered the Peacock Wisdom King to invite the Tathagata to take the Present Buddha's place.
• The Peacock Wisdom King delivered Fang Yang's decree to Sakyamuni at Hangu Pass, demanding that he return to his rightful place.

Sakyamuni accepted Fang Yang’s Present Buddha fruit position and prepared to spread Mahayana Buddhism in the Immortal Domain, while Ye Fan and Wang Bo fought fiercely at the end of the Emperor Road. The chapter ended with both Quasi-Emperors trading their strongest techniques, each seeking to surpass the other and prove his path.

• Sakyamuni reached Mount Sumeru and fused with Fang Yang’s Tathagata Golden Body, accepting the Present Buddha position and its immense power.
• Fang Yang told Sakyamuni to study the Tathagata Golden Body and later enter the Immortal Domain to spread Mahayana Buddhism, giving him forty-nine Bodhi Leaves.
• Sakyamuni sent a Bodhi Leaf to Jin Chanzi, who learned that he might accompany his master into the Immortal Domain and could eventually earn a chance at the Present Buddha position.
• Ye Fan and Wang Bo fought at the end of the Emperor Road as Quasi-Emperor Ninth Heaven powerhouses, with spectators watching through the Future Dharma Network.
• Ye Fan blocked Wang Bo’s Chaos Emperor Fist by evolving the same technique, and both men recognized how their rival had trained to counter him.