Chapter Summaries

Zhao An considered the mission to find the True Buddha Relic in a world ruled by Buddhist cultivators. The mission cultivators entered a realm of Buddha Lands twisted by rampant desire, where Miluo Buddha could detect their arrival.

• Zhao An compared the Buddhist world to the Buddhist Sects on the Immortal Path and resolved to search for the True Buddha Relic using his Providence.
• The mission cultivators arrived in a kingdom of Buddha Light filled with Buddha Lands, where black qi corrupted golden light.
• The cultivators saw that the Buddha Lands concealed greed, lust, starvation, and other desires magnified into grotesque forms.
• A mission cultivator looked toward the road of Buddha Light and noted that Miluo Buddha should have sensed their presence.
• The cultivators recognized that Miluo Buddha could distinguish their foreign Variable Fates from those that arose naturally.

Bifang traveled through the Small Void Realm, judged Miluo Buddha’s Buddhist Dao to be corrupt and suspected him of stealing Destiny Patterns. Four months later, Zhao An and Xiang Qingshan fought Buddhist Sins as Miluo Buddha appeared across the sky and began expanding his Buddha Land.

• A golden Buddha statue relayed Miluo Buddha’s decree to send six hundred Arhats and three hundred Bodhisattvas into the Mortal Realm to fight Heavenly Demons.
• Bifang descended from the mountain temple, encountered evil spirits, and continued through the chaotic Small Void Realm while examining its distorted Buddhist Dao.
• Bifang suspected Miluo Buddha had stolen Destiny Patterns and was attempting to replace Heaven’s Way with the Buddhist Dao.
• Four months passed as Dreamland’s Guidance cultivators learned more about the Small Void Realm; Zhao An found a relic and Xiang Qingshan killed another Buddhist Sin.
• Miluo Buddha appeared as an enormous face across the sky, expanded his Buddha Land, and raged at Zhao An and the other cultivators.

Bifang and the other cultivators from Beyond the Heavens fought the enraged Miluo Buddha, which had consumed much of the Small Void Realm and used its distorted past as a dreamlike shell. The chapter left them facing precise heavenly calamities as they realized they had likely taken something at the heart of the world.

• Bifang recognized that the Buddha Land covering the Mortal Realm was a dreamlike remnant of the past, with much of the Small Void Realm devoured and painted over.
• Xiang Qingshan struggled to fight the intangible human face and questioned whether the mission exceeded its assigned rank.
• Chu Chengqing repeatedly used his divinations but could find no roots or origins for the enemy.
• Chen Huan evaded targeted heavenly punishments, including falling meteors and a volcano erupting beneath him, and suspected the invaders had dug out the world's heart.
• Bifang took a falling meteor head-on and concluded that Heaven's Will was targeting cultivators from Beyond the Heavens.

Bifang confronted the Buddhist sin hidden within the temple and forced it to explain how it had entered the world. As the sin revealed its connection to the newly formed Buddhist Dao, Bifang traced its otherworldly origin and uncovered a Dao Marker.

• Bifang returned to the temple and found its golden Buddha statue decayed, revealing a dark passage and a black mist within.
• Bifang identified the old temple keeper as a Buddhist sin, which felt a chill at his presence and then threatened to kill him.
• Bifang deployed the Star-Dipper Formation, summoning immense star providence that frightened the Buddhist sin into pleading.
• The Buddhist sin claimed it had been drawn into the world because its origin lay in Buddha Light and blamed the old monk’s wish for everyone to attain Buddhahood for the state of the Buddhist Dao.
• Bifang used Heaven-Overflowing Fortune to trace the Buddhist sin’s cause and effect, revealing an extraterrestrial coordinate and a hexagonal, emerald-green Dao Marker.

Bifang killed Buddhist Sin and obtained the Dao Marker linking to a world Beyond the Heavens. Lu Qing examined the connection and decided that Bifang would investigate it after first exploring Dreamland.

• Bifang recognized Buddhist Sin as a mass of sin that had stolen the old Monk’s late-blooming Destiny Pattern, then killed it with a single palm.
• Dreamland Cultivators saw the enormous face in the sky cry out and rejoiced that the troublesome Heavenly Punishment had been defeated.
• Zhao An inferred that someone had found the mastermind behind the joint world task, though its final stage had never appeared.
• Lu Qing examined the Dao Marker and sensed that its connected world Beyond the Heavens was incomplete, likely devastated by a great calamity.
• Lu Qing decided that Bifang would investigate the connected world, but Bifang chose to examine Dreamland first.

Bifang considered how to investigate the mysterious land Beyond the Heavens and realized his immense Providence made a covert probe impossible, so he decided to enter Dreamland as a Golden Finger instead. Meanwhile, Dreamland’s existence began spreading through the Nine Heavens, though its rumors had not yet reached the Eight Wastelands.

• Bifang reviewed the sparse records of Beyond the Heavens and decided to send a vanguard through the Dao Marker to test its dangers.
• Bifang considered using Dreamland and its many Sons of Providence as a way to investigate Beyond the Heavens, but his immense Providence made it impossible for him to enter unnoticed.
• Lu Qing’s Enlightenment Avatar suggested that Bifang become the Golden Finger himself, and Bifang agreed to act as an old grandpa within Dreamland.
• Dreamland’s Guides and their connections drew the attention of powerful lineages, and rumors about Dreamland spread among cultivators.
• Cultivators discussed Dreamland’s abundant resources and missions, while the resulting gossip had yet to reach the distant Eight Wastelands.

Li Beiyun and Humanity-Dao White Marsh learned that reincarnation did not free them from the Eight Wastelands’ debt, so they chose to remain there while the great tribulation drew attention elsewhere. Meanwhile, ancient demonic cultivators gathered outside a village to investigate whether a country boy was the reincarnation of the Longevity Devil Master, but none dared enter.

• Li Beiyun saw his providence diminish after learning that reincarnated spirits still had to repay their debts in the Eight Wastelands.
• Humanity-Dao White Marsh showed Li Beiyun a post explaining the Eight Wastelands’ rules, and Li Beiyun decided they would stay there to avoid outside attention.
• Huang Wuxuan secluded himself to refine a spell, while the tribulation qi continued drawing cultivators across the Nine Heavens into heart demons.
• Ancient demonic cultivators gathered near a small village, believing a country boy there might be the Longevity Devil Master’s reincarnation.
• The old devils restrained themselves from entering the village and waited for confirmation, wary that the village might conceal a dangerous variable.

Demonic cultivators confirmed that the Longevity Devil Master's Reincarnation was a mentally impaired boy, despite his genuine demonic providence and destiny pattern. Netherghost brought the news to Heart Fox at Deathless Manor, where she pondered the mysterious gaze connected to the Devil Master's tomb.

• Demonic cultivators found a boy playing with mud and confirmed that his providence and token marked him as the Devil Master's Reincarnation.
• The old devils wondered why the boy was mentally impaired and decided to take him away as news of the discovery spread.
• Heart Fox watched the trapped Formation Old Undying at Deathless Manor and avoided looking directly at the gaze connected to the Devil Master's former tomb dojo.
• Netherghost told Heart Fox that the Devil Master's Reincarnation had been found and that this incarnation was unusual.

Heart Fox foresaw a future of torrential blood and feared the coming tribulation, while the old devils confirmed that the Devil Master's Reincarnation was born deficient and had no clear path to cultivation. The old devils accepted the Five Elders' orders and wondered whether his return would stir change in the Demon Domain.

• Netherghost told Heart Fox that the Devil Master's Reincarnation was said to suffer from the three afflictions and five deficiencies.
• Heart Fox divined a future of blood rain and mountains of corpses, and warned that the tribulation could leave forces across the Six Paths weakened.
• Netherghost decided to return and investigate further while Heart Fox pondered the vision and considered refining a sealed grotto-heaven to escape the tribulation.
• More than a dozen old devils examined the sleeping Devil Master's Reincarnation and concluded that he was born deficient and might lack one of the Three Souls and Seven Spirits.
• The old devils accepted the Five Elders' decree to let matters take their natural course, then discussed whether the Devil Master's return would cause movement in the Demon Domain.

The Demonic Path’s leaders debated how to protect the Devil Master's Reincarnation, whose lack of Spirit Light and consciousness made him vulnerable. They agreed to appoint Dao Protectors of strength comparable to the era’s strongest Heavenly Prodigies, while the story shifted to the Demon Domain and a mountain fissure filled with roaring Black Winds.

• The Demonic Path’s cultivators hesitated to pursue their ambitions because the Devil Master's Reincarnation might lack the wisdom needed to survive.
• The Five Elders’ decree led the gathered Dao Companions to agree that the Holy Sects should provide Dao Protectors for him.
• A cultivator asked what level of strength the Dao Protectors needed, and a registered Old Devil proposed matching the strongest Heavenly Prodigies of the current Great Era.
• Several Old Devils voiced their agreement, while news of the decision remained unknown to lower-level Demonic Cultivators such as Floating Light.
• The scene shifted to the Demon Domain, where a vast fissure split a mountain range and Black Winds howled within it.

Two black-robed demonic cultivators investigated a bottomless fissure at Ghost Mountain and discovered Ghost Vine, leading them to suspect the Devil Master's Great Dao had revived there. They escaped as the disturbance drew demons from across the region, and rumors spread that the Devil Master's domain had emerged.

• Two black-robed demonic cultivators descended into Ghost Mountain's fissure, protected themselves with a Wind-Sealing Divine Talisman, and recorded the abyss with an Image-Recording Stone.
• Ghost Vine vines erupted from the darkness and chased the two cultivators upward, prompting one to realize they had found what they were seeking.
• The cultivators escaped the fissure as Ghost Vine's pursuit stopped at its entrance, while a Profound Coffin resting above the vines trembled in the abyss.
• Demons gathered near Ghost Mountain and speculated that the disturbance involved the Devil Master's Great Dao and a possible inheritance.
• Cultivators shared Image Projections identifying the creature as Ghost Vine, and one revealed that the Devil Master's Reincarnation had recently been found in the Four Lands.

News of the Devil Master's Reincarnation stirred concern across the Northern Heaven Continent and among Dreamland Guides, while Zhao An considered how the reincarnation might affect his conflict with Li Beiyun. In the Four Lands, observers confirmed the reincarnated body had not yet cultivated into the Dao and discussed testing the Devil Master's hidden plans.

• Cultivators in the Northern Heaven Continent discussed the Devil Master's Reincarnation and the return of demonic cultivators amid the Great Era and Great Tribulation.
• Xiang Qingshan, Zhao An, Chu Chengqing, and Chen Huan heard the news, but only Zhao An considered its possible effects on the struggle between heavenly prodigies.
• Zhao An reflected that he would likely cross paths with the Devil Master's Reincarnation, while focusing for now on Li Beiyun, his opponent among the Variable Fates.
• Observers in the Four Lands said the Devil Master's Reincarnation had not yet cultivated into the Dao and proposed sending several people to test the revived Devil Master's contingency plans.

Elder Qin questioned Zhang Yun about Zhang Yi and learned that the reincarnation was cultivating in a sealed secret realm, while Zhang Yun continued to guard the deficient but powerful True Disciple. Meanwhile, reincarnations and senior demonic cultivators traveled toward the Demon Domain, where Zhang Yi’s status and rumored deficiency became a subject of discussion.

• Elder Qin rebuked Zhang Yun for failing to oversee the reincarnations properly, then departed after learning they were sealed in a Grotto-Heaven secret realm by the Yellow Springs River.
• Zhang Yun checked Zhang Yi’s cultivation and found demonic qi gathering at the center of his brow, then let him go play with the others.
• Elder Zhou led a group of reincarnations toward the Demon Domain as they wondered why Zhang Yi received better treatment than they did.
• The reincarnations complained about Zhang Yi and his apparent foolishness, while the Elders aboard their treasure ship quietly observed them.
• Senior fellow disciples set out later toward the same destination, wary of the dangers surrounding the Devil Master’s Great Dao.
• A True Disciple aboard a palace traveling through the void raised the rumor that Zhang Yi had an innate deficiency.

Demonic cultivators discussed the Devil Master’s missing soul and the difficulty of repairing his innate deficiency. Meanwhile, powerful forces arrived at Ghost Mountain, where Luo Zhengyun suspected the Devil Master had left a final contingency, and thunderclouds gathered overhead.

• Demonic cultivators debated which soul and spirit the Devil Master lacked and whether his Divine Soul could be repaired.
• The cultivators explained that Reincarnation made seizing souls more difficult and that the True Spirit ultimately had to return to Reincarnation.
• A magical palace crossed strange spaces and arrived near Ghost Mountain in the Demon Domain in less than three days.
• Luo Zhengyun’s group reached Ghost Mountain and identified it as a likely place for the Devil Master’s final contingency.
• Over seven days, forces gathered near Ghost Mountain as thunderclouds thickened and pressed the sky and earth into a heavy stillness.

Ghost Mountain drew attention after the Devil Master's Great Dao revived, and reports of the event spread across the Four Direction Continents. As rumors about the Devil Master and the ancient Immortals circulated, the blue-robed cultivators on Golden Turtle Island recognized the Tribulation as an opportunity and examined a claim on Floating Light.

• Little demons gathered to watch Ghost Mountain while old demons fled, fearing the nearby powers would bring disaster.
• Cultivators debated how the Nine Immortal Gates and the Six Paths might respond to the Devil Master's Great Dao and whether they could profit from the conflict.
• A cultivator on Floating Light claimed that ancient Immortals might not have truly died, provoking arguments about why they had not appeared for several eras.
• Gazes from distant places awakened as news of the claim spread.
• The blue-robed cultivators on Golden Turtle Island saw the Great Tribulation as a chance to establish themselves in the present age, and one of them called an elder's attention to the claim.

The Great Dream Immortal Sect’s elders discussed whether their ancestors might return, then decided that the sect should focus on transmitting its Dao rather than competing for Providence. They left the question of the ancestors aside and turned toward spreading the sect’s teachings beyond Golden Turtle Island.

• Several blue-robed cultivators saw a message suggesting that Immortals from the Great Tribulation might return and wondered whether their ancestors could return as well.
• An elder explained that the Great Dream Immortal Sect’s forebears had departed in pursuit of Transcendence before the Great Tribulation, leaving only the sect’s Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands behind.
• The elders noted that the newly selected disciples descending the mountain could become trapped in the Great Tribulation, as the previous group had.
• A cultivator proposed that the sect pursue Dao Transmission instead of competing with the present age for Providence.
• The elders agreed that spreading their Dao could earn Merit from Enlightenment and extend the Great Dream Immortal Sect’s foundation beyond Golden Turtle Island.

Golden Turtle Island sent its elite disciples into the world to spread the Dream Immortal Path, while its Elders warned them about the Great Tribulation and the dangers of becoming attached to their mission. The disciples departed to seek their own paths, and the Elders watched them go, acknowledging that the Great Era belonged to the young.

• Golden Turtle Island's disciples discussed how providence favored the present age's prodigies and why the Elders had warned them away from dangerous regions.
• The disciples reflected on Golden Turtle Island's weakened providence and the calamity it had driven away by coming alive.
• The blue-robed Elders urged the disciples to choose broad destinations for spreading the Dream Immortal Path, including Earth Continent and lands touched by Variable Fate.
• A senior brother explained that the Dream Immortal Path did not oppose the Immortal Path and warned the disciples against obsession, Dao-Assimilation, and Heart Demon Tribulations.
• The disciples departed in a streak of rosy light, while the Elders said the Great Era would belong to the young and acknowledged their own burdens and shackles.

At Golden Jade Ruyi Tower, Chen Weisheng told Jade Venerable that the Longevity Devil Master's Dao had revived and warned him that the Demon Domain had become a dangerous center of conflict. Jade Venerable agreed not to rush there, but his hatred remained undiminished, leaving Chen Weisheng concerned that his actions could stir conflict within the tower.

• Chen Weisheng and another figure discussed Golden Turtle Island's Dream Immortal Path and the Great Dream Immortal Master.
• Jade Venerable emerged from seclusion and asked Chen Weisheng whether the Devil Master's Dao had revived.
• Chen Weisheng confirmed that the Longevity Devil Master's Dao aura had returned and that its reincarnated body had gone to the Demon Domain, where rival Dao factions were gathering.
• Chen Weisheng cautioned Jade Venerable against entering the Demon Domain and reminded him that the reincarnated body could eventually leave the Demon Sect.
• Jade Venerable said he would not rashly pursue the Dao's successor, but Chen Weisheng recognized that his long-standing hatred had not faded.
• Chen Weisheng worried that Jade Venerable's actions could provoke the Ruyi Lineage, though he trusted his senior brother's authority to keep the tower stable.

Bifang reflected on the Great Tribulation and the paths of cultivation before sending a providence-bearing light orb through a Heaven-and-Earth Dao Marker toward Heaven Beyond Heaven. Meanwhile, Dreamland cultivators discussed the strange mission worlds and the growing tension of the Tribulation.

• Bifang sensed factions being drawn into the Longevity Devil Master's Great Dao and concluded that the Profound Heaven Dao Sect would also be caught up in the Tribulation.
• Bifang refined his silver-white orb, then sent it with a strand of Divine Sense and providence through the Dao Marker toward Heaven Beyond Heaven.
• Xiang Qingshan, Zhao An, and other Dreamland cultivators discussed the origins of the mission worlds and Dreamland's mysterious restrictions.
• The Dreamland cultivators discussed the Tribulation's mounting pressure as Pure Qi remained high above the azure universe while turbid qi and Tribulation Qi filled Heaven and Earth.

Zhao An and the others discussed Dreamland’s first mission in the Nine Heavens, which sent cultivators to Peace Mountain in the Demon Domain to claim a share of Providence. They considered its dangers and left the decision to each person.

• Chen Huan reported that fierce battles had broken out at Ghost Mountain and that several Void-Nihility battlefields had formed.
• Zhao An told the group Dreamland’s new mission required them to intervene in the Demon Domain’s Providence turmoil.
• Xiang Qingshan examined the mission and noted it named Peace Mountain beneath the Demon Domain rather than the region directly.
• The group recognized that claiming Providence could expose them to powerful experts and make escape difficult.
• Some cultivators argued the mission likely involved a minor demon king’s territory and only scattered Providence, so each person could decide whether to participate.