Chapter Summaries

Emperor Fude received news of Myriad Calamities Daoist’s devastating battle on Wuwang Peak and ordered Eunuch Lü to help Prince Chengxu eliminate him. Eunuch Lü left for Ming Province with the Blood Jade Token and instructions to visit the Nine Tribulations Chan Monastery.

• Eunuch Lü reported that Myriad Calamities Daoist had killed the Yinshan Sect’s Burial Earth Venerable and Goddess, severed Yuwen Xuan’s arm, and left Yu Linfeng’s fate uncertain.
• Emperor Fude ordered the palace to hide Yu Linfeng’s presumed death from Consort Rong, his younger sister, who was pregnant.
• Eunuch Lü warned that Myriad Calamities Daoist might be a threat like the Dragon Emperor, and Emperor Fude read a report linking the Daoist to a scholar who had risen to great power in half a year.
• Emperor Fude ordered Eunuch Lü to give the Blood Jade Token to Prince Chengxu and have him recruit an ally to eliminate Myriad Calamities Daoist.
• Emperor Fude instructed Eunuch Lü to visit the Nine Tribulations Chan Monastery and convey his regards to Chan Master Yanchu.

The Nine Tribulations Chan Monastery learned that the Myriad Calamities Daoist had overwhelmed his opponents at Wuwang Peak, and Abbot Yanxin foresaw a demonic calamity beginning in Ming Province. Yanchu brought Dharma King Baosheng to Li Daoyi in hopes of drawing him into the struggle, but Li Daoyi refused and would not lend True One Abbey’s Purple Mansion Canopy.

• Yandao and the other eminent monks discussed the Myriad Calamities Daoist’s strength and their desire to learn the fourth layer of the Force Art.
• Abbot Yanxin revealed a vision of war and destruction spreading from Ming Province, identifying the Myriad Calamities Daoist as the source of a calamity threatening Great Yin.
• Yanxin said Yanchu had gone to seek someone, and Yanjue identified the destination as True One Abbey.
• Yanchu carried Dharma King Baosheng to Li Daoyi and showed him the strand of force inside Baosheng, urging him to pursue the martial path beyond Subtlety.
• Li Daoyi refused to help Yanchu and rejected his request to borrow the Purple Mansion Canopy.
• Li Daoyi saw a scarlet tide of calamity rising over Ming Province and doubted that Great Yin would survive.

At Yu Linfeng’s grave, Yu Huaijin questioned Old Hai about the Yu family’s future, while the martial gathering drew powerful factions and hidden schemes to Longyuan Prefecture. Hong Yuan tracked the Red Lotus Cult and met the mysterious Granny Meng at Three Lives Bridge.

• Yu Huaijin mourned Yu Linfeng and asked Old Hai what the Yu family should do next, while Old Hai acknowledged that Yu Huaijin had approved Linfeng’s entry into the Rebirth Ferry.
• Old Hai told a young Ferryer that someone he feared had already gone to meet the formidable man they had discussed.
• Hong Yuan observed the rising tensions around the Qionghua Gathering, planted strands of Six Voids Force in powerful visitors, and traced the Red Lotus Cult to the Longyou Army.
• Hong Yuan met a green-robed woman at Three Lives Bridge, and she introduced herself as Granny Meng of Ghost Fan Tower or the Rebirth Ferry.

Granny Meng revealed that Rebirth Ferry had rescued Hong Yuan’s uncle and cousins from Green Fly, and warned that Green Fly had taken their blood and bone to prepare a curse against him. Meanwhile, Yun Chengxu visited Yinsi Primordial Lady to seek her aid against Myriad Calamities Daoist and left wondering how mortals could become gods.

• Granny Meng told Hong Yuan that she had found his imprisoned relatives while trying to rescue Yu Wuhen, and that his second uncle was Green Fly agent Yi Twelve.
• Granny Meng warned Hong Yuan that Green Fly had taken blood and bone from Hong Xiaochuan, Hong Yi, and Hong Ying, likely to prepare a blood curse against him.
• Hong Yuan left his relatives under Rebirth Ferry’s protection, sensed malice nearby, and headed east toward a presence in Law Province.
• Yun Chengxu and Eunuch Lü visited the mist-shrouded headquarters of the Void God Sect, where Yun Chengxu asked Yinsi Primordial Lady to deal with Myriad Calamities Daoist.
• Yinsi Primordial Lady accepted Yun Chengxu’s Blood Seal, and he left contemplating how to cultivate into a god while resolving to capture Myriad Calamities Daoist.

Yuwen Zhong secretly entered Ming Province with Attendant Shi and a group of experts, hoping to exploit any chance to strike at the Myriad Calamities Daoist. The Sword Saint Dugu Cheng accompanied them, revealing that he went not for revenge but to seek the Dao of the sword.

• Attendant Shi warned Yuwen Zhong that the Myriad Calamities Daoist was terrifying, but Yuwen Zhong said he would proceed cautiously.
• Yuwen Zhong explained that he had secretly brought more than a dozen experts into Ming Province and was waiting for the Myriad Calamities Daoist to show weakness.
• Yuwen Zhong saw Dugu Cheng standing apart with his sword and thanked him for protecting Yuwen Xuan.
• Dugu Cheng said Xiao Jiuli’s rapid swordsmanship gains concealed a growing shadow, Yuwen Xuan could no longer practice the sword, and Yang Yin’s sword heart had shattered.
• Dugu Cheng explained that he took disciples to witness different expressions of the sword Dao and declared that he had come only to seek the Dao.

Hong Yuan revealed himself as the Myriad Calamities Daoist and ambushed Yuwen Zhong and his entourage in a ruined temple. He slaughtered the assembled experts and pierced Yuwen Zhong through the chest, while Dugu Cheng remained nearby.

• Dugu Cheng and Yuwen Zhong’s party descended Heavenly Gate Mountain and sought shelter in an abandoned temple.
• Yuwen Zhong met Hong Yuan, shared wine with him, and learned that Hong Yuan had been waiting for him.
• Hong Yuan revealed his Daoist name, Ten Thousand Tribulations, and ordered Yuwen Zhong’s men to kill him.
• Hong Yuan shattered his wooden cup into deadly fragments and killed or incapacitated the experts attacking him.
• Hong Yuan collapsed the temple and engulfed Yuwen Zhong’s protectors in flames and destructive force.
• Yuwen Zhong broke a jade token and fled the fire, calling for Sword Saint Dugu Cheng, but Hong Yuan struck through his back and chest.

Hong Yuan killed Yuwen Zhong and fought Dugu Cheng, whose swordsmanship and treasured blade let him unleash powerful astral attacks. Hong Yuan overwhelmed him, destroyed his final Human-Sword Unity attack, and left Dugu Cheng dead in the flames.

• Hong Yuan saw through Yuwen Zhong's illusion and killed him with a flick, then turned to face Dugu Cheng.
• Dugu Cheng explained that the Green Fly had told him Hong Yuan was the Myriad Calamities Daoist, and said he had come to witness Hong Yuan's new martial heights.
• Dugu Cheng attacked with a lightning-fast sword strike, but Hong Yuan evaded it and discovered that his treasured sword amplified his blood and vital energy into astral aura.
• Hong Yuan shattered Dugu Cheng's sword with a punch and sent him flying through the flames, leaving him gravely wounded.
• Dugu Cheng unleashed Human-Sword Unity, but Hong Yuan gathered the surrounding flames into a fireball and blasted him apart.
• Hong Yuan departed as Dugu Cheng's ruined body was consumed by the explosion.

Four Green Fly Vicious Gu attacked the Tao Residence to seize two women and draw out Hong Yuan, but Qinglingzi and the hidden Red Lotus Cult envoys resisted them. Just as Yankong and Yandao arrived to confront the attackers, Hong Yuan revealed that he might have lured them into a trap.

• Shadow Moth sent swarms of deadly moths through the Tao Residence, throwing its residents into chaos.
• Qinglingzi fought Shadow Moth and summoned the Hundred-Poison Corpse Puppet, but Blade Locust joined the battle and damaged the puppet with his astral body.
• Thunder Cockroach attacked Qinglingzi, but Pianzhao intervened with the Mirror-Realm Mental Method, while Jiemie struck Corpse Fly with a curse-killing art.
• Corpse Fly gathered the four Vicious Gu together, and Yankong and Yandao arrived to confront them and the two Red Lotus Cult envoys.
• Yankong said the attackers could use the two women to unsettle the great demon, but Hong Yuan spoke from the rooftop and suggested that he had been fishing for them.

Hong Yuan defeated the intruders who had attacked the Tao Residence, killing Shadow Moth, Blade Locust, Thunder Cockroach, Yankong, and Yandao while Corpse Fly fled. After Hong Yuan called out to the shadows beyond the residence, Hai Qifeng and Ying Ji arrived and paid their respects to the Dao Lord of Myriad Tribulations.

• Hong Yuan appeared at the Tao Residence, and Shadow Moth tried to escape but was sliced apart by Hong Yuan's force net.
• Hong Yuan used Illusion Art to silence the chaos in the residence, then fought Blade Locust and Thunder Cockroach, killing both as Corpse Fly fled.
• Hong Yuan held back Yankong and Yandao with a force field, killed them in combat, and tossed their heads toward Qinglingzi.
• Hong Yuan called for someone hiding beyond the collapsed wall, where Hai Qifeng held Corpse Fly and Ying Ji stood beside him.
• Hai Qifeng and Ying Ji entered the Tao Residence, introduced themselves, and paid their respects to the Dao Lord of Myriad Tribulations.

Hong Yuan killed the Azure Coin Agents near the Tao Residence and won Hai Qifeng and Ying Ji’s submission, while Yanxin received guidance from Yanchen at Nine Tribulations Chan Monastery. At the Qionghua Gathering, Zhang Shenxiao challenged Hong Yuan to settle an old pact as the major figures awaited the next contest.

• Hong Yuan killed the hidden Azure Coin Agents, then questioned Hai Qifeng and Ying Ji about the Rebirth Ferry and made them pledge their service.
• Hai Qifeng and Ying Ji offered to recruit Ferryers and suppress news of the night’s events for three or four days, while Hong Yuan planted Six Voids Force in them.
• Yanxin told Yanchen that his Awareness could no longer reveal the future, and Yanchen urged him to cut away doubt as the monastery’s sacred aura filled the hall.
• Zhu Yunling and her companions arrived at the Qionghua Gathering on the Longji River and learned that Zhang Shenxiao had defeated a series of renowned opponents.
• Zhang Shenxiao entered the arena, summoned Hong Yuan, and challenged him to settle the Dragon Tiger pact between their lineages.

Zhang Shenxiao challenged the Tiger-Subduing Sect as the crowd speculated that his victory or defeat would decide which branch led their planned merger. When Hong Yuan arrived at the martial gathering, he accused Huiming of choosing the wrong path and hurled a burning bundle containing two heads toward the arena.

• Zhang Shenxiao waited for the Tiger-Subduing Sect to answer his challenge while Huiming and Huizhi discussed orders from the Nine Tribulations Chan Monastery.
• Yang Erhu entered the arena to answer the challenge, and Huiming accused his disciple of stealing a secret Force Art from Vajra Temple’s superior monastery.
• At the Longji River, Hong Yuan crossed the water by stepping on a wine cup and then soared through the air to the martial gathering.
• Hong Yuan confronted Huiming from atop a ship’s mast, called his choices wrong, and hurled a flaming bundle that revealed two heads.

Hong Yuan revealed himself as the Myriad Calamities Daoist and killed two Nine Tribulations Chan Monastery monks, prompting their allies and hidden forces to attack. As the battle spread across the arena and surrounding ships, Hong Yuan charged toward the monks while Zhang Shenxiao and Ferryers defended Yang Erhu and the others.

• Hong Yuan's severed heads of Yandao and Yankong killed Huiming and Huizhi, and Yanjue identified Hong Yuan as the Myriad Calamities Daoist.
• Yanzhen challenged Hong Yuan, who taunted the monks and drew out hidden attackers by threatening to leave.
• Ghost Cicada of the Green Fly Vicious Gu attacked Hong Yuan, but Hong Yuan killed him, cut down the mast, and hurled it toward Yanjue and Yanzhen.
• Hidden fighters swarmed the arena, while Zhang Shenxiao protected Yang Erhu from attackers and Ferryer Fang Qi intervened against Lady Enchanted Butterfly.
• Poison Spider trapped Yang Lie, Wu Duxiong, Yang Jinbao, the Thirteenth Lady, and others, but Hai Qifeng broke through the room's wall and confronted her.
• Dozens of attackers converged on the shattered platform as Hong Yuan's battle with the hidden forces began.

Hong Yuan, the Myriad Calamities Daoist, fought off an ambush at the Qionghua Martial Assembly as Yanzhen, Yanchu, Yun Chengxu, and other powerful figures joined the battle. He faced them all and ended the chapter standing above the attackers, while Yanjue tried to discern the weakness of Six Voids Force.

• Yanjue used Unimpeded All-Illuminating Wisdom to seek the weakness of Six Voids Force as Yanzhen prepared to attack Hong Yuan.
• Yun Chengxu and Green Fly leaders Yun Hongjian and Yun Honghui arrived, and they sent their forces into the battle as Yanchu moved to confront Hong Yuan.
• Hong Yuan used an illusion to make the ambushing experts attack one another, while Yanzhen broke free of Hong Yuan’s Buddhist illusion and clashed with him.
• Yanchu, Yun Honghui, Yun Hongjian, Yun Chengxu, and Eunuch Lü attacked Hong Yuan together, but he fought all five at once and leapt away from the ensuing clash.
• Hong Yuan identified Yun Honghui’s combined inner and outer astral force, recognized the others’ true arts and alchemical path, and challenged them to bring out anyone else.

Hong Yuan fought the experts who surrounded him at the martial gathering, killing Yun Hongjian and Yun Honghui while overpowering several others. As Fang Qi escaped with Yang Erhu, Hong Yuan turned his attention to a great ship and unleashed an icy mental attack.

• Xie Lingjun and Nan Guyun watched from a distance as Hong Yuan's power shook them, while Yun Chengxu and the others charged back into battle.
• Hong Yuan spread his Other-Force Net, causing the dozens of experts who had attacked earlier to explode from within, then repelled Yun Chengxu's fire-arrow assault.
• Yanzhen, Yanchu, Eunuch Lü, Yun Hongjian, and Yun Honghui attacked Hong Yuan together, but he dodged their strike and crushed Yun Hongjian's and Yun Honghui's heads.
• Hong Yuan seized Enchanted Butterfly and Blood Mosquito with invisible threads, clearing the way for Fang Qi to escape with Yang Erhu.
• Hong Yuan faced the great ships and sent out an icy wave of invisible force toward one of them.

Hong Yuan discovered the Seven Balefuls Soul-Locking blood curse aboard a ship and shattered the ritual with his Taiyin Soul-Slaying Curse. After defeating the attackers who converged on him, Hong Yuan rose above the Longji River beneath the full moon, witnessed by thousands.

• Hong Yuan sensed the blood curse and found seven sorcerers performing it on a tiny figure resembling him, while Huan Chun guarded them.
• The Yinshan Cult Master and the Death-Crossing Venerable intervened, but Hong Yuan's Taiyin Soul-Slaying Curse extinguished the candles, killed the sorcerers, and damaged their attacks and the Blood Origin.
• Granny Meng confronted the Yinshan Cult Master and the Death-Crossing Venerable, while Yun Chengxu, Yanzhen, Yanchu, Eunuch Lü, Huan Chun, and Yanjue joined forces against Hong Yuan.
• Yanjue revealed what he believed was Hong Yuan's weakness, but Hong Yuan unified his forces and killed Yanchu, Eunuch Lü, Huan Chun, Yanjue, and Yanzhen while severing half of Yun Chengxu's body.
• Hong Yuan repelled the black-robed attacker and rose hundreds of feet above the Longji River, standing against the full moon before thousands of witnesses.

Hong Yuan achieved eight-force unity and defeated the Void God Cult Master’s allies before confronting her aboard a great ship. After recognizing her as an Omnipotent who had traversed all three paths, he shattered her domain with a single punch, leaving their battle unresolved.

• The martial artists watching Hong Yuan in the sky were overwhelmed by his power, while Fang Qi abandoned his resistance and submitted to him.
• Ying Ji killed the Green Fly Poison Spider as Hai Qifeng absorbed the released Variant Force, and Yun Chengxu’s shattered ship sank with him aboard.
• Hong Yuan realized he had achieved eight-force unity, which he named Tribulation Force, and reflected that he could remain airborne for only fifteen minutes.
• Hong Yuan struck the black-robed woman who had attacked him, and Granny Meng identified her as the Void God Cult Master, also called Yinsi Primordial Lady.
• Granny Meng arrived carrying the unconscious Yinshan Cult Master and Death-Crossing Venerable, whom she had defeated, while Hong Yuan pursued the Void God Cult Master onto a great ship.
• The Void God Cult Master attacked Hong Yuan with mental techniques, an Astral Body, and a fiery domain, but Hong Yuan broke the domain with a punch and sent her flying backward.

Hong Yuan killed the Void God Cult Master, took a blood-colored crystal from her heart, and established the Myriad Calamities Path, inviting the gathered martial leaders to join him. Granny Meng identified a similar relic as Blood Origin and revealed that Great Yin harvested experts to create Blood Seals.

• Hong Yuan fought the Void God Cult Master beneath the lake, overcame her rapid regeneration, and tore a blood-colored crystal from her heart after killing her.
• Granny Meng and the Rebirth Ferry members saluted Hong Yuan as the Dao Lord, and he summoned important figures from the north and south to meet him.
• Hong Yuan announced the Myriad Calamities Path and invited the assembled leaders to enter his service, assigning Zhang Shenxiao to assess and register willing candidates.
• Hong Yuan met with Granny Meng and Feng Nanyan aboard a ship and showed them the crystal taken from the Void God Cult Master.
• Granny Meng identified the Yinshan Sect's Divine Relic, Blood Origin, and explained that Great Yin harvested powerful experts to make Blood Seals.

Yu Wuhen explained that the Blood Seal was tied to a secret history stretching back eight hundred years, when a divine being descended into the world during the Nether Calamity Era. He revealed that he descended from the first people that being rescued, but had not yet explained the Blood Seal’s creation.

• Hong Yuan asked Yu Wuhen about the Blood Seal after Yu Wuhen was rescued from Green Fly.
• Yu Wuhen requested to speak with Hong Yuan alone, and Granny Meng and Feng Nanyan left the hall.
• Yu Wuhen prostrated himself before the Blood Origin, then began explaining the Blood Seal’s history over wine.
• Yu Wuhen said that eight hundred years earlier, a god descended during the Nether Calamity Era and rescued people from evil gods’ priests.
• Yu Wuhen revealed that he was descended from the first sacrificial offerings the god saved, and praised the god for defeating evil cults and establishing order.

Yu Wuhen told Hong Yuan that the Yu Emperor came from beyond the heavens, founded the first kingdom, and was betrayed by Yun Zhao, who stole his divine artifact and rewrote history. After Yu Wuhen left, Granny Meng took the Blood Origin and asked Hong Yuan when he would teach her his arts.

• Yu Wuhen recounted how Yun Zhao and his allies betrayed the Yu Emperor while he suppressed evil gods, divided his body, and concealed his legacy.
• Yu Wuhen said the Yu Emperor brought the teachings of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism from another world, and that the Yun Family feared another divine being might descend.
• Hong Yuan told Yu Wuhen that Song Yinglong had been returned as a corpse puppet, and Yu Wuhen departed after sharing what he knew.
• Hong Yuan reflected on Yu Wuhen's claims but remained skeptical, then called out Granny Meng for listening outside the room.
• Granny Meng took the Blood Origin, asked about Hong Yuan's Nirvana Dharma Eye, and pressed him to teach her the fourth layer of force transformation.

Hong Yuan confirmed that his tribulation force could spread through bloodlines and began planning to suffuse the world with it by giving it spirituality. He set strict terms for the powers seeking to join the Myriad Calamities Path, leaving their representatives furious and facing a choice between submission and resistance.

• Hong Yuan refused to teach Granny Meng his force-transformation methods until she rendered sufficient service, and she offered to gather secret cultivation methods for him.
• Hong Yuan tested his tribulation force on an expert and found it could merge into flesh, bones, meridians, and bloodlines, passing to descendants.
• Hong Yuan planned to simplify his force art and improve his comprehension so he could give tribulation force spirituality and spread it across the world.
• Zhang Shenxiao reported which powers wanted to join the Myriad Calamities Path, and Hong Yuan rejected the northern military towns while setting conditions for the others.
• Granny Meng warned Hong Yuan that the loosely organized Rebirth Ferry might fracture, then agreed to collect secret methods for him.
• Zhang Shenxiao delivered Hong Yuan's demands to the gathered representatives, including disarmament, registration of martial artists, relocation of clan descendants, limits on noble authority, and surrender of secret manuals; the representatives reacted with anger.