Chapter Summaries

Lu Tian devoured the battlefield’s fallen experts, restoring half of his damaged foundation and discovering the Creation-Destruction powers of his true form. As he accelerated his recovery, seven Taiyi Golden Immortals united to kill him and launched a joint attack.

• Styx realized Lu Tian could strengthen himself by devouring fallen experts, while Jieyin and Zhunti celebrated having gained him for the Western Teachings.
• Moxi showed six other Taiyi Golden Immortals evidence of Lu Tian’s strength and his ability to absorb fallen experts, and all seven agreed to kill him before he grew stronger.
• Lu Tian restored half his origin and discovered that his true form was a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Root with powers of creation and destruction.
• Lu Tian tested his healing in the Dream World, then combined the Power of Creation with Golden Immortal-grade pills to recover most of his injuries within five days.
• The seven Taiyi Golden Immortals attacked Lu Tian together, and he transformed into a four-armed Vajra Dharma Form bearing four divine weapons.

Lu Tian annihilated the seven Taiyi Golden Immortals with a world-shattering blade strike, restored his foundation by absorbing their origins, and began undergoing a Shaping Thunder Tribulation. The Three Pure Ones discovered that Lu Tian was a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Root connected to them, and Yuanshi Tianzun recognized him as the young man he had once refused to accept as a disciple.

• Lu Tian combined the power of nine realms, the Great Annihilation Technique, and life-burning methods to unleash a blade strike that killed all seven Taiyi Golden Immortals and split the Crimson Continent.
• Lu Tian absorbed the seven cultivators' origins until his foundation was completely restored, triggering a Shaping Thunder Tribulation.
• Lu Tian faced the tribulation with the Moon Washing Blade and absorbed its lightning, which strengthened his understanding of destruction.
• At Kunlun Mountain, Dao De Tianzun, Yuanshi Tianzun, and Tongtian Jiaozhu deduced that a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Root connected to all three was taking form.
• Yuanshi Tianzun saw Lu Tian undergoing the tribulation and remembered refusing to accept him as a disciple twenty thousand years earlier.

After Lu Tian’s thunder tribulation revealed his extraordinary foundation, Tongtian and Yuanshi regretted that he had left the Jie Sect for the Western Teachings. Tongtian proposed a contest between their disciples, with the Western Teachings invited to join, while Jieyin and Zhunti stood by Lu Tian.

• Yuanshi and Tongtian saw Lu Tian’s past and realized that the Jie Sect’s neglect and disorder had driven him away, prompting Tongtian to resolve to reform the outer sect.
• Tongtian recognized Lu Tian’s revealed Top-grade Innate Spiritual Root and regretted losing a talent who had reached Golden Immortal Perfection after leaving the Jie Sect.
• Jieyin and Zhunti appeared beside Lu Tian and met Tongtian’s gaze from afar, provoking Tongtian’s anger and deepening his remorse.
• Lu Tian reflected that Zero World could one day let him create heaven and earth and attain sainthood, while his confidence intensified Tongtian’s regret.
• Tongtian proposed that his disciples compete and discuss the Dao with Yuanshi’s disciples; Yuanshi agreed and suggested inviting the Western Teachings as well.
• Zhunti and Jieyin dismissed the Three Pure Ones’ belated regret and reaffirmed their commitment to reviving the West and caring for their disciples.

After Styx gave Lu Tian a mysterious placenta, Lu Tian discovered it was Chaos Embryo Cloth and used it to evolve his foundation toward the level of a Chaos Demon God. Jieyin and Zhunti realized his secret arts could help revive the West, while Lu Tian insisted that the Western Teachings should forge their own path rather than embrace the Demonic Path.

• Jieyin and Zhunti praised Lu Tian, asked him to help his senior brothers, and agreed to let him travel east after the Blood Sea Trial.
• Styx arrived to see them off and gave Lu Tian a life-bearing placenta he had obtained while creating the Asura Race.
• Lu Tian identified the item as Chaos Embryo Cloth and revealed that he could devour it to evolve his foundation, prompting Jieyin and Zhunti to conceal and test the secret.
• After absorbing a tenth of the placenta, Lu Tian reached a foundation halfway toward the Chaos Demon God level, and Jieyin and Zhunti recognized the potential for the West's revival.
• Lu Tian gave Jieyin and Zhunti the devouring and Demon Heart secret arts but urged them not to spread the Demonic Path; they agreed to modify the arts for their disciples and said they would decide how to compensate him.

Lu Tian refined the Wood Element qi and received the Plain Cloud Boundary Banner from Jieyin to refine the Metal Element qi, while Jieyin and Zhunti developed a secret method based on Lu Tian’s art. After the masters taught it to Lu Tian’s senior brothers, they learned that Lu Tian had created the original method and marveled at his talent.

• Lu Tian asked Jieyin for the Green Lotus Treasure-Colored Banner, but Jieyin taught him to refine the Five Qi with his origin and went east to trade the banner for the Plain Cloud Boundary Banner.
• Lu Tian refined the Wood Element qi, and Jieyin returned with the Plain Cloud Boundary Banner after trading with the Queen Mother of the West.
• Jieyin and Zhunti spent over a hundred thousand years in a dreamscape adapting Lu Tian’s secret method for the Western Teachings, then returned to Spirit Mountain with him.
• Jieyin imparted the method to the five senior brothers while Lu Tian refined the Metal Element qi using the Plain Cloud Boundary Banner.
• Pharmacist and the other senior brothers awoke from their comprehension and learned that Lu Tian had created the original method, leaving them astonished by his talent.

Lu Tian and the Western Teachings disciples agreed to attend the Mystic Gate Grand Gathering in three thousand years, where they would face the elites of the Chan and Jie Sects. At Two Realms Mountain, Lu Tian gained a Twelve-Grade Void Clarity Spiritual Lotus through the system and set off east with his Senior Brothers to seek opportunities.

• Jieyin and Zhunti announced that the Chan and Jie Sects had invited Western Teachings to Kunlun Mountain for a Dao discussion in three thousand years, and Lu Tian volunteered to represent his teaching.
• Pharmacist, Maitreya, Mahasthamaprapta, Sunlight, and Moonlight also volunteered, and Jieyin promised to help them advance to Taiyi while warning them they might suffer public defeats.
• Lu Tian asked to travel east alone, and the group arrived at Two Realms Mountain, where the system rewarded him with a Twelve-Grade Void Clarity Spiritual Lotus.
• Lu Tian agreed to travel with Pharmacist, and the other Senior Brothers joined them after Zhunti told them to follow Lu Tian's lead.
• The disciples scattered to explore Two Realms Mountain, while Lu Tian found a secluded spot and took out the Void Clarity Spiritual Lotus.

After refining the Twelve-Grade Lotus Platform, Lu Tian went to Two Realms Mountain to rescue Pharmacist from a strange spatial realm. He discovered how to escape and returned with Pharmacist, only to find their fellow disciples under attack by two Taiyi Realm demons.

• Lu Tian refined the Twelve-Grade Lotus Platform over six hundred years and sensed that the Taiyi Realm was within reach.
• After learning that Pharmacist was trapped at Two Realms Mountain, Lu Tian traveled there and searched the tangled spatial layers while Maitreya, Mahasthamaprapta, Sunlight, and Moonlight waited outside.
• Lu Tian found the injured Pharmacist and investigated the strange realm, discovering that it connected illusion and reality and resonated with his Zero World.
• Lu Tian used merit to deduce the realm's mystery, opened a passage, and led Pharmacist out before merging the distorted space into a magic artifact.
• Lu Tian and Pharmacist returned to the summit and found Mahasthamaprapta, Maitreya, Sunlight, and Moonlight being pushed back by the Striped-Eyed White-Browed Tiger and the Purple-Scaled Python Demon.

Lu Tian and his senior brothers reached Qianyuan Mountain, where Lu Tian received the Kunyuan Dao Robe and they searched for treasures. He arrived as Taiyi Zhenren defeated Pharmacist and claimed a fire treasure, then faced Taiyi Zhenren’s sudden sword attack.

• Lu Tian’s group traveled east for a thousand years, sharing their gains and narrowly escaping a demon dragon at a Blessed Land.
• Lu Tian led his senior brothers to Qianyuan Mountain and received the Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure Kunyuan Dao Robe from the system.
• The brothers searched Qianyuan Mountain separately, while Lu Tian found little and the others had their own encounters.
• Lu Tian discovered Pharmacist fighting Taiyi Zhenren over a treasure associated with nine fire dragons, and Taiyi Zhenren defeated Pharmacist.
• Lu Tian intervened to protect Pharmacist and identified Taiyi Zhenren, who attacked Lu Tian with the Yin Yang Sword.

Lu Tian defeated Taiyi Zhenren with his spiritual treasures, then spent six hundred years in seclusion and advanced to the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm. On his way to Kunlun, he discovered a human tribe trapped by a Golden Immortal cat demon and decided to intervene, considering humanity’s importance to the Sages’ plans.

• Lu Tian broke Taiyi Zhenren’s assault and drove him away with Primordial Heavy Water, then accepted the Nine Dragon Fire Cover from Pharmacist.
• Lu Tian secluded himself for six hundred years, refining the Nine Dragon Fire Cover and Kunyuan Dao Robe while Jieyin protected his cultivation.
• Lu Tian endured heavenly lightning that strengthened his body, completed his Taiyi Golden Immortal Dao Fruit, and transformed into a Body of Five Elements Origin.
• Lu Tian traveled toward Kunlun and, after four hundred years, discovered a human tribe of roughly one hundred thousand people trapped by a Golden Immortal cat demon.
• Lu Tian considered humanity’s role in the Sages’ plans and prepared to intervene in the cat demon’s attack.

Lu Tian secretly aided human clans fleeing west, giving them cultivation methods and jade stones to encourage their migration and strengthen the Western Teachings. After reaching Kunlun Mountain and gaining an Enlightenment Tea Tree, he was summoned by Jieyin, who questioned his sudden advancement to the Taiyi Realm.

• Lu Tian rescued a fleeing human clan from a raccoon demon, gave its elder three jade stones containing a cultivation method and directions west, and urged the people to worship the Western Teachings.
• The elder divided the clan into groups and led some west, but generations suffered heavy losses from demons and battles; Lu Tian continued aiding other human groups in secret.
• Lu Tian arrived at Kunlun Mountain three hundred years before the Mystic Gate Grand Ceremony and received a mature Enlightenment Tea Tree as a reward.
• Taiyi Zhenren greeted Lu Tian and led him to the immortal palace where Jieyin and Zhunti were waiting.
• Jieyin asked Lu Tian how he had advanced to the Taiyi Realm and reprimanded him for doing so merely to participate in the gathering.

Lu Tian showed Jieyin and Zhunti that he had refined four Innate Supreme Treasures and also obtained the Enlightenment Tea Tree, then used its tea to enter a profound state of enlightenment. He awoke with an uncontrolled pupil technique, joined his masters at the Mystic Gate Grand Gathering, and stood before the arrival of the Three Pure Ones and Nuwa.

• Lu Tian revealed four Innate Supreme Treasures, convincing Jieyin and Zhunti that he had refined suitable treasures into his Five Qi and preserved his foundation.
• Lu Tian presented the Enlightenment Tea Tree, gave Jieyin and Zhunti tea leaves for their disciples, and entered enlightenment after brewing a top-grade leaf.
• After three hundred years, Lu Tian awoke with a powerful pupil technique, and Zhunti covered his eyes to stop him from looking directly at the saints.
• Jieyin brought Lu Tian and the Western Teachings' disciples to the Mystic Gate Grand Gathering, where Lu Tian sensed Styx and surveyed the gathered cultivators.
• Supreme Purity Daode, Yuqing Yuanshi, Shangqing Lingbao, and Wa Huang Nuwa appeared, and a tremendous aura surged through the gathering.

The Six Sages gathered for the Mystic Gate Grand Gathering, where Jieyin and Zhunti impressed the assembly with spiritual tea and Three Lights Divine Water. Zhao Gongming defeated True Person Huang Long in the opening contest, and a Western Teachings disciple entered the arena as the chapter ended.

• Taiqing welcomed the guests and explained that the gathering would feature Yuqing and Shangqing discussing the Dao and give the Sages a chance to explore its mysteries together.
• The Three Pure Ones displayed their gifts and abilities, but Jieyin and Zhunti surprised the assembly by serving Enlightenment Tea Tree leaves brewed with Lu Tian's Three Lights Divine Water.
• Xuandu announced the beginning of the gathering, and Zhao Gongming volunteered to spar before True Person Huang Long stepped forward to challenge him.
• Zhao Gongming used the Dragon-Binding Rope and Primordial Golden Whip to defeat Huang Long, leaving the Chan Sect camp silent and Yuanshi Tianzun weighing whom to send next.
• A Western Teachings disciple entered the arena, prompting Styx to praise his courage.

Lu Tian challenged Zhao Gongming at the Mystic Gate Grand Ceremony, asking Tongtian Jiaozhu for permission to settle his grudge against members of the Jie Sect’s outer sect if he won. Zhao Gongming trapped Lu Tian with the twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Beads, but Lu Tian revealed several powerful treasures and began forcing his way through the formation as a deadly crisis suddenly struck.

• Styx wagered a High-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure on Lu Tian’s victory, while the gathered experts mocked his chances.
• Lu Tian bowed to Tongtian Jiaozhu and asked to settle his mortal grudge with members of the Jie Sect’s outer sect if he won; Tongtian agreed.
• Zhao Gongming attacked Lu Tian, who froze space, traded blows with him, and suppressed the Dragon-Binding Rope with the Plain Cloud Boundary Banner.
• Zhao Gongming activated the twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Beads, trapping Lu Tian in a formation that weighed him down and forced him onto the defensive.
• Lu Tian summoned his Vajra Dharma Form and revealed the Twelve-Grade Void Clarity Spiritual Lotus, Nine Dragon Fire Cover, and Kunyuan Dao Robe as he tried to break the formation by force.
• Lu Tian used his treasures to defend himself and restrain some of the Sea-Calming Divine Beads, but a deadly crisis suddenly made Zhao Gongming and the watching powers tremble.

Lu Tian defeated Zhao Gongming and went to the Jie Teachings outer sect to settle old grudges, killing the disciples who had bullied him. Tongtian Jiaozhu’s anger brought him under crushing Sage pressure, and the confrontation escalated as Jieyin, Zhunti, and Yuanshi Tianzun joined the clash of Sage auras.

• Lu Tian unleashed Moon Like a Hook and defeated Zhao Gongming, but Tongtian Jiaozhu’s protective formation froze the battle before the blow could kill him.
• Tongtian Jiaozhu allowed Lu Tian to go to the outer sect, where Lu Tian used his pupil technique to expose the karmic debts of the disciples who had bullied him.
• Lu Tian killed dozens of his former tormentors with the Moon Washing Blade, provoking Tongtian Jiaozhu’s rage and crushing Sage pressure.
• Lu Tian bowed to Tongtian Jiaozhu but refused to retreat, and Jieyin’s Sage aura shielded him as the storm clouds split apart.
• Tongtian Jiaozhu and Jieyin faced off, while Yuanshi Tianzun and Zhunti added their Sage auras to the clash and Lu Tian endured the pressure at its center.

Lu Tian fought Duobao inside the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, enduring three days and nights of relentless attacks while searching for a way to break it. With both fighters nearly exhausted, Lu Tian realized Duobao was also nearing his limit, but the battle remained unresolved.

• Dao De Tianzun stopped Tongtian and Yuanshi from continuing their clash, and Tongtian ordered Duobao to fight Lu Tian with the Immortal-Slaying Sword.
• Duobao dispersed thirty percent of his cultivation before the duel, then opened the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation after Lu Tian unleashed his strongest slash.
• Lu Tian used the Plain Cloud Boundary Banner and Kunyuan Dao Robe to withstand the formation's endless sword qi, but could find no way to strike back or break its four swords and diagram.
• Lu Tian endured the formation for three days and nights without conceding, earning admiration from the watching great powers as his defenses and magic power dwindled.
• Lu Tian realized that his Five Elements Body gave him an advantage over Duobao, who was also nearly out of magic power after sustaining the formation's attacks.

Lu Tian burned nearly all his life essence to break Duobao’s Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation and won the duel, then began recovering by devouring Styx’s blood-colored placenta. The contest ended with the Jie Sect defeating the Western Teachings four to three, while Jieyin urged his disciples to follow their own paths and grow at their own pace.

• Lu Tian sacrificed most of his life essence to attack Duobao, broke through the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, and survived through rebirth from a drop of blood as Duobao fell to the formation’s backlash.
• Lu Tian asked Jieyin to delay healing him, then went with Zhunti to recover in a time-accelerated space by devouring the blood-colored placenta, which restored his vitality and transformed his origin.
• Tongtian sent Wu Dang to test the Western Teachings, and she defeated Mahasthamaprapta.
• Gui Ling Shengmu, Golden Spirit Holy Mother, and Yunxiao won their matches, while Pharmacist narrowly defeated Bi Xiao after seven days and nights of fighting.
• Jieyin reminded his disciples of the hardships he and Zhunti had faced and encouraged them to advance along their own paths.
• The Jie Sect won the contest four victories to three, overturning the great powers’ contempt for the younger generation.

After recovering from the Mystic Gate Grand Ceremony, Lu Tian strengthened his foundation and received Jieyin’s encouragement to remain the strongest of his generation. The Demon Race’s empresses, Changxi and Xihe, came to meet him, and Changxi gave him an Ink Painting Scroll.

• The Interception Sect defeated nearly all of the Interpretation Sect’s Golden Immortals, and the three-month Mystic Gate Grand Ceremony ended with the Interception Sect established as the top sect.
• Tongtian and Yuanshi argued over their disciples’ conduct and performance until Dao De Tianzun stopped them, after which Tongtian returned to Biyou Palace and comforted the recovering Duobao.
• Lu Tian completed a thousand years of recuperation, refined more of the mysterious placenta, and improved his foundation and abilities.
• Jieyin and Zhunti warned Lu Tian against deliberately risking his life for another breakthrough and assured him they would support him as he competed with the Interception and Interpretation Sects.
• Jieyin told Lu Tian that envoys from the Demon Race had requested an audience, and Lu Tian agreed to meet them.
• Changxi and Xihe met Lu Tian in the main hall, and Changxi gave him an Ink Painting Scroll as a meeting gift.

Changxi gave Lu Tian a treasure and sought Enlightenment Tea Leaves for her unborn child, while Lu Tian negotiated a visit to the Demon Race Treasury without deepening his ties to the Demon Race. At the Kunlun Dao discussion, Lu Tian advanced through prolonged enlightenment, then accepted Changxi and Xihe’s invitation to the Heavenly Court, where he received a powerful formation diagram.

• Changxi gave Lu Tian an ordinary Houtian Spiritual Treasure and asked for Enlightenment Tea Leaves for the child she was carrying; Lu Tian gave her tea and secured an invitation to the Demon Race Treasury.
• Lu Tian considered the karmic risks of joining the Demon Race and resolved to prepare for Houtu’s future role in reincarnation.
• At the Eight Sceneries Palace, Lu Tian listened to the Sages discuss the Dao and advanced his mastery of several laws over ten thousand years.
• Changxi and Xihe invited Lu Tian to the Demon Race Heavenly Court, and he traveled there with them aboard their flying boat.
• At the South Heaven Gate, Lu Tian received the Formless Immeasurable Formation diagram, which could unite its users’ power to trap even a Sage.

Lu Tian toured the Demon Race Heavenly Court and searched its treasury, while Bai Ze secretly revealed to Di Jun and Taiyi that human essence blood could be used to break the Witch Clan’s bodies. Di Jun arranged for Lu Tian to carry an invitation to his master, using the meeting to suggest ties between the Heavenly Court and the Western Teachings, while Bai Ze continued watching Lu Tian.

• Changxi arranged for seven Demon Race cultivators to guide Lu Tian around the Heavenly Court before he entered its treasury.
• Bai Ze told Di Jun and Taiyi that weapons forged with human essence blood could break the Witch Clan’s Indestructible Bodies, and Di Jun ordered him to watch Lu Tian in secret.
• After searching the treasury for 1,300 years, Lu Tian took a Low-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure Spirit Brush that could make painted inanimate objects real.
• Di Jun privately invited Lu Tian, asked him to deliver a Gilded Invitation to his master for his sons’ upcoming birth celebration, and gave him a flying boat.
• Lu Tian suspected the invitation and flying boat were meant to signal an alliance between the Heavenly Court and the Western Teachings, while Di Jun and Taiyi accepted that he might see through their plan.

Lu Tian discovered that the demon clan was slaughtering humans to gather blood essence for the Witch Slaying Sword, so he rescued survivors and secretly carried them west to benefit the Western Teachings. The Three Pure Ones stopped his spirit vessel at Two Realms Mountain, and the Western saints came to defend him as the two sides prepared to clash over the humans’ fortune.

• Di Jun dismissed Taiyi’s concerns about burdening their elder brother’s bloodline with karma and resolved to forge the Witch Slaying Sword to destroy the Witch Clan.
• After noticing that human-protective jade talismans were breaking more often, Lu Tian followed a signal and killed a demon general who had been collecting human blood and souls.
• Lu Tian realized the demon clan was gathering materials for the Witch Slaying Sword and persuaded human tribes to travel west with him, taking in survivors as he searched for Blessed Lands.
• After three thousand years, Lu Tian reached Two Realms Mountain with a million humans aboard his spirit vessel, and Dao De Tianzun detected their fortune flowing west.
• The Three Pure Ones halted Lu Tian and demanded that he return the humans, but Jieyin and Zhunti arrived to defend their disciple and refused to surrender them.