Chapter Summaries

Ren and Yuding Zhenren discussed Sword Dao disciples, the children trained by Yang Jian and other Kunlun masters, and Yuding’s stalled cultivation after severing the Three Corpses. Ren promised to seek a way to fix the technique’s flaws, and their years-long conversation ended when a new figure arrived at Biyou Garden.

• Yuding Zhenren explained why he had come to teach Sword Dao geniuses and described the talents of Jian You, Wushi, Yang Jian, and Yang Jian’s disciple Ye Tong.
• Yuding told Ren that Yang Jian, Lei Zhenzi, Nezha, and Tianpeng had taken Ren’s Kunlun children as disciples, including Ye Tong, Yang Xi, Huahua, and Great Emperor Yufeng.
• Yuding said that Xiaosong had been taken by Green Bull, Four-Unlike, and Kui Ox before Xuandu could accept him, and Ren discussed the rarity of an Innocent Heart like Xiaosong’s.
• Yuding revealed that he had reached Quasi-Saint Peak but could not advance because the Three Corpses Severing Technique had left his Three Corpses impossible to fuse.
• Ren promised Yuding that he would find a way to remedy the flaws in Three Corpses Severance, and the two continued talking for several years.
• A new figure arrived at Biyou Garden.

Ren, Yuding, and Duobao discussed the mysterious loss of Spiritual Qi and medicinal potency from Jinao Island. Duobao suspected the leakage was connected to Guiling Holy Mother, whose fate was tied to the missing Blood Sea Mosquito, but they had no proof.

• Duobao returned from years of searching for the cause of Jinao Island's Spiritual Qi leakage without finding its source.
• Duobao connected the leakage to Guiling Holy Mother, and Ren and Yuding recalled that she had vanished after a Blood Sea Mosquito devoured her and part of the Twelfth-Grade Golden Lotus.
• Ren explained that the mosquito mattered to the Interception Sect, the Demon Cult, and Ancestor Minghe, who hoped to use its shared Blood Sea Origin to restore his own.
• Duobao reasoned that only a few people could draw Spiritual Qi through flaws in the Interception Sect's formation, and among those who knew the Sword Formation, Guiling was the only possible suspect.
• Ren and Yuding agreed that Duobao's theory deserved consideration, though they still lacked evidence that Guiling was causing the leakage.

Ren, Duobao, and Yuding traced the Spiritual Qi leaking from Jinao Island by sustaining a vast river of energy and following it into the East Blue. After years of observation, they found that it converged on a hidden Formation Array beneath the sea, which Ren began to open.

• Ren proposed flooding the trail with more Spiritual Qi so its destination would be easier to track, and Duobao and Yuding agreed.
• Ren transformed resources into energy while Duobao opened a passage in Jinao Island's Formation Array, and the three followed the resulting river of Spiritual Qi.
• Ren repeatedly replenished the dispersing energy as the trio tracked it into the ocean and observed its currents for several years.
• Ren identified undersea Dragon Veins that carried the Spiritual Qi toward a concealed Formation Array, and Duobao confirmed that its traces had been hidden among the East Blue's many formations.
• Ren pointed out the Formation Array's weak point and began opening it.

Ren, Duobao, and Yuding discovered Flower Fruit Mountain and learned that its Five-Colored Stone was about to undergo Transformation. Duobao intended to take the being born from it as his disciple, while Ren recognized its likely connection to Goku and continued investigating the energy flowing into it.

• Ren, Duobao, and Yuding entered Flower Fruit Mountain and found its Water Curtain Cave and a Five-Colored Stone absorbing the blessed land’s Spiritual Qi.
• Ren recognized Flower Fruit Mountain and realized the stone was likely the one that would become Goku, while Duobao and Yuding examined its extraordinary fortune and potential.
• Duobao decided the Five-Colored Stone would make a suitable disciple, and Ren remained puzzled about how the stone could become a living creature.
• Ren and the others traced Jinao Island’s leaking Spiritual Qi to the Five-Colored Stone, finding that it drew in and refined the energy through a hidden Formation Array.
• When Spiritual Qi surged toward the stone, Duobao declared that his disciple was about to be born, and Ren arrived at the stone’s location.

The Five-Colored Stone absorbed vast energy before splitting open and revealing a Lingming Stone Monkey, astonishing Duobao, Yuding, and Ren. As Duobao considered whether to make the Monkey his disciple, the three suspected an unknown Saint had arranged the Monkey’s unusual birth, while Ren privately believed Zhunti and Jieyin were responsible.

• The Five-Colored Stone drew in Flower Fruit Mountain’s Spiritual Qi, and Duobao supplied it with more energy to aid its Transformation.
• The Five-Colored Stone cracked and exploded, and a golden-furred Monkey emerged as beams of light pierced the mountain’s Formation Array and reached the Heavenly Dipper Layers.
• Duobao and Yuding recognized the Monkey as a Lingming Stone Monkey and wondered how it had merged with the Five-Colored Stone and gained such extraordinary aptitude.
• Ren pointed out that an external force must have caused the fusion, and Duobao and Yuding debated whether Nuwa or Buddhism’s two Saints were responsible.
• After the Monkey’s golden light faded, Duobao concluded that its bloodline inheritance and Bloodline Divine Ability had been sealed, leaving it with vast energy but no cultivation or realm.
• Duobao and Yuding continued investigating the Monkey’s origins, while Ren privately suspected Zhunti and Jieyin had arranged its birth.

Ren, Duobao, and Yuding suspected that the Lingming Stone Monkey’s creation might involve Hongjun Daozu, then watched the Monkey awaken the beasts of Flower Fruit Mountain. Duobao took the Monkey as his Interception Sect disciple, and the newly named Handsome Monkey King offered him a peach as an apprenticeship gift.

• Yuding reasoned that Hongjun Daozu may have arranged the extra Five-Colored Stones and created the Lingming Stone Monkey as part of a scheme.
• The Lingming Stone Monkey joined the troop at Flower Fruit Mountain, where his Spiritual Qi helped beasts awaken and the monkeys grow stronger.
• Duobao decided to take the Monkey as his disciple and brought him before himself, Ren, and Yuding.
• Duobao gave the Monkey information about the Primordial World, and the Monkey quickly learned to speak and asked to be taught how to fight.
• The Monkey accepted Duobao as his master, introduced himself as the Handsome Monkey King of Flower Fruit Mountain, and offered him a peach.

Duobao accepted the Handsome Monkey King as his disciple after receiving a peach, and the Four Great Spirit Monkeys gathered at Flower Fruit Mountain. Ren learned that they could Devour one another to combine their Origins and potentially become the Battle Combat Ape, leaving the newly born Lingming Stone Monkey stirred by the revelation.

• Duobao recalled how Tongtian had accepted him as a disciple in exchange for a peach and welcomed the Handsome Monkey King as his own disciple.
• The Six-Eared Macaque, Red-Buttocked Horse Monkey, and Long-Armed Ape arrived at Flower Fruit Mountain, drawn by the Lingming Stone Monkey's birth.
• The Red-Buttocked Horse Monkey explained that the Four Great Spirit Monkeys shared an origin and recounted how the other three had endured repeated deaths and revivals.
• The Long-Armed Ape revealed that the four monkeys could Devour one another to grow stronger and might ultimately unite as the Battle Combat Ape.
• The Lingming Stone Monkey responded to the Long-Armed Ape's greedy gaze with his own desire to Devour, while the Red-Buttocked Horse Monkey and Six-Eared Macaque rebuked the Long-Armed Ape for exposing their secret.

The Red-Buttocked Horse Monkey explained the Four Great Spirit Monkeys’ origins and the conditions governing their mutual devouring, while the Long-Armed Ape revealed his desperation to regain his lost power. Duobao captured the Long-Armed Ape and demanded that the others disclose everything they knew about their inheritance and Brutal Battle Intent.

• Ren and Duobao learned that the Four Great Spirit Monkeys could devour one another only under five strict conditions, and the Six-Eared Macaque added that they should first determine whether fusion would resurrect the Battle Combat Ape.
• The Long-Armed Ape said his diminished aptitude and repeated deaths had left him desperate to devour the Lingming Stone Monkey, despite the risks and the others’ objections.
• Duobao seized the Long-Armed Ape, bound him, and stored him in a Spirit Treasure, intending to keep him for a future battle with the Lingming Stone Monkey.
• The Red-Buttocked Horse Monkey explained that Brutal Battle Intent had driven the Long-Armed Ape into repeated calamities and reckless fights, especially after Nuwa severed much of his Origin.
• Duobao demanded that the Red-Buttocked Horse Monkey and Six-Eared Macaque reveal their knowledge and inheritances, threatening to capture them if they refused.

Ren and Duobao learned the Four Great Spirit Monkeys’ weaknesses and suspected their mutual Devouring could revive the Battle Combat Ape. They then investigated the Spiritual Qi loss at Flower Fruit Mountain and concluded its source lay inside the mountain, perhaps in a mystic realm or special space.

• The Red-Buttocked Horse Monkey explained how the Four Great Spirit Monkeys’ different origins shaped their Battle Intent, flaws, and inherited cultivation methods.
• The Six-Eared Macaque described how the Lingming Stone Monkey could awaken his Bloodline Divine Abilities and confirmed that his inheritance likely came from Fire Origin.
• The Red-Buttocked Horse Monkey and the Six-Eared Macaque left after Duobao promised to investigate whether the monkeys’ mutual Devouring was part of a conspiracy.
• Ren urged Duobao and Yuding to investigate whether Guiling was connected to the loss of Spiritual Qi on Jinao Island.
• Ren, Duobao, and Yuding examined the drained fragments of the Five-Colored Stone and determined that the Spiritual Qi was being drawn toward a place within Flower Fruit Mountain.

Ren, Duobao, and Yuding discovered a hidden secret realm beneath Flower Fruit Mountain and prepared to enter it. After Yuding broke the seal and exposed the Spatial Crystal Wall, Duobao revealed that Ren’s Heavenly Gate could open a passage through it.

• Ren used a Formation Array and Divine Mark Purple Gold to trace the Spiritual Qi to the place where the Five-Colored Stone had been, revealing a hidden spatial node.
• Ren, Duobao, and Yuding recognized the node as a secret realm and decided to conceal Flower Fruit Mountain before opening it.
• Duobao connected with Flower Fruit Mountain’s Innate Formation Array and rebuilt it into his Duobao Formation to hide and protect the mountain.
• Yuding struck the spatial seal with his Sword Dao, breaking it and exposing the Spatial Crystal Wall between the Primordial World and the secret realm.
• Duobao told Ren that the Heavenly Gate could merge into the crystal wall and create a passage, allowing them to enter the secret realm.

Ren, Duobao, and Yuding entered an ancient secret realm filled with Pure Barbaric Beasts, and Duobao concluded Guiling was hidden there. Ren used the Zhu Xian Sword to sense her, but Yuding warned them of an approaching danger, and they saw an immense humanlike figure emerge from the mist.

• Ren opened a passage into the secret realm, where a colossal bird was devoured by a mountain-sized snake.
• Duobao explained that the creatures were Pure Barbaric Beasts from before Beast Emperor Shen Ni awakened the Barbaric Beasts’ intelligence.
• Ren and Yuding agreed to search for Guiling first after Duobao deduced that she was drawing Spiritual Qi from Jinao Island into the realm.
• Ren used the Zhu Xian Sword and an Interception Sect art to sense Guiling’s location.
• Yuding warned the others that another creature was approaching, and an immense humanlike figure appeared beyond the mountain range.

Ren, Duobao, and Yuding witnessed a colossal giant kill a Pure Barbaric Beast, and Duobao connected it to mysterious murals from ancient Wu Clan lore. They continued through the vast hidden realm, following the Zhu Xian Sword to find Guiling and learn more.

• A colossal giant killed a giant snake with a single blow, tied its body around his waist, and disappeared into the mist.
• Ren and Yuding asked Duobao about the giant, and Duobao recalled murals of similar beings that had been found in the Wu Clan valley and other ancient places.
• Duobao explained that the Wu Clan had not made the murals and that their origin remained uncertain, though the images might depict giants from another era.
• Ren urged the group to find Guiling before investigating the giant, and he followed the Zhu Xian Sword's guidance with Duobao and Yuding close behind.
• The three traveled through a hidden realm so vast that Duobao compared it to a Great Thousand World.

Ren, Duobao, and Yuding followed the Zhu Xian Sword’s pull through a vast secret realm in search of Guiling. They reached a waterfall guarded by a Flood Dragon whose Interception Sect cultivation art convinced Duobao that Guiling was nearby.

• Ren and his companions marveled at the secret realm’s immense, ancient landscape, and Yuding explained the rumor that the Barbaric Beast Emperor Shen Ni had flattened much of the Primordial World.
• The group flew through the realm, witnessing savage Barbaric Beasts and overcoming dangers while Ren sensed the pull toward its source growing stronger.
• Ren followed the Zhu Xian Sword’s pull to a mountain range and identified a hidden blessed land behind a waterfall.
• A black Flood Dragon rose from the lake and confronted them, and Duobao recognized its Dragon Transformation Art as an Interception Sect technique and concluded that Guiling must be nearby.

Duobao, Ren, and Yuding found Guiling hidden in a mystic realm, where she had survived as a Six-Winged Black Mosquito after being swallowed by one. Guiling recounted how she endured the ordeal and revealed that she had merged with a Third-Grade Golden Lotus to escape digestion.

• Duobao recognized the Dragon Transformation Art and identified the voice behind the waterfall as an Interception Sect disciple; he and Guiling confirmed each other using their sect’s creed.
• Ren and Yuding followed Duobao through the waterfall into a blessed land protected by Guiling’s Unchanging Formation.
• Duobao found Guiling as a Six-Winged Black Mosquito resting on a golden-red lotus in a formation-filled Blood Pool.
• Guiling told Duobao that Zhunti had sealed her powers before a Blood-Winged Black Mosquito devoured her body, essence blood, and Primordial Spirit.
• Guiling explained that the mosquito could digest her essence blood and gain physical racial talents, while Zhunti’s seal and the undigested Destiny within a Third-Grade Golden Lotus helped her survive.
• As the mosquito’s digestion threatened to destroy her, Guiling merged into the Third-Grade Golden Lotus.

Guiling recounted how the Blood-Winged Black Mosquito dragged her into a dangerous hidden realm, where he became a mindless devourer of Pure Barbaric Beasts. After he consumed a Giant, she discovered that Giant Blood Essence could purify his Fiendish Qi and nourish the Golden Lotus, giving her a chance to survive.

• Guiling explained that the Blood-Winged Black Mosquito destroyed the Creation Restriction around the Flower Fruit Mountain Five-Colored Stone, released its Battle Intent, and plunged through a Spatial Crystal Wall into a hidden realm.
• Duobao and Yuding suspected the Lingming Stone Monkey was connected to a powerful figure, and Duobao vowed to protect his disciple; Guiling met Ren and agreed he could help her find disciples.
• Guiling said she rooted the Golden Lotus inside the Blood-Winged Black Mosquito and tried to keep him from provoking the realm's Pure Barbaric Beasts, but he lost his reason and began devouring them.
• The Blood-Winged Black Mosquito consumed hundreds of Pure Barbaric Beasts, grew enormously, and became corrupted by Fiendish Qi until he encountered and devoured a Giant.
• Guiling discovered that the Giant's Blood Essence could purify the mosquito's Fiendish Qi and nourish the Golden Lotus.

Guiling explained how Giant blood helped restore her and how the Blood-Winged Black Mosquito trapped her Primordial Spirit inside its body. She described developing Formation Array techniques and giving a blessed land’s sentient Formation Array a physical body, though its intelligence had not grown.

• Guiling said Giant blood purified Fiendish Qi and helped the Blood-Winged Black Mosquito regain some sanity.
• Guiling recounted how eight Giants hunted the Blood-Winged Black Mosquito, which escaped as an incarnation carrying her Golden Lotus before sealing her Primordial Spirit inside its body.
• Guiling explained that she developed Formation Array divine abilities and used the Golden Lotus and the mosquito’s treasures to build and strengthen formations in the blessed land.
• Guiling said she cultivated the Golden Lotus with a Karma Fire Red Lotus Seed and Giant blood until it became an Eighteenth-Grade Golden-Red Lotus.
• Guiling revealed that her Formation Array gained Sentience and that she merged it into a Flood Dragon corpse, but its intelligence did not increase despite learning the Dragon Transformation Art.

Guiling told Ren, Duobao, and Yuding how she used the Flood Dragon and the changing Destiny to guide the Interception Sect to her prison. Duobao freed her from the Blood-Winged Black Mosquito’s body, but her demand for revenge collapsed into disbelief when Ren revealed that Buddhism had already been destroyed.

• Guiling explained that her Formation Array’s Sentience inhabited a Flood Dragon and that she used Destiny and Jinao Island’s Spiritual Qi to lead the Interception Sect to her secret realm.
• Ren urged Duobao and Yuding to focus on rescuing Guiling, and Duobao crushed the Blood-Winged Black Mosquito’s body with physical strength to free her Divine Soul.
• Guiling emerged from the lotus pedestal, breathed the outside air, and declared that she wanted revenge on Buddhism, Maitreya, and Medicine Master.
• Ren told Guiling that Buddhism had been destroyed and its practitioners were forced to hide.
• Guiling stared in shock and repeatedly muttered that Buddhism’s destruction was impossible, while Duobao and Yuding tried to calm her.

Ren showed Guiling that Buddhism had been destroyed, and she vowed to avenge herself on Zhunti and Jieyin. After Guiling considered sacrificing Jinao Island to regain a body, she led Ren, Duobao, and Yuding deeper into the secret realm to observe the Giants.

• Ren used the Sky Ranking to show Guiling the changes in the Primordial World, including Buddhism's destruction.
• Guiling thanked Ren and declared that she would grow strong enough to kill Zhunti and Jieyin, while Ren promised to support her.
• Ren proposed that Guiling use Jinao Island, her former body, to undergo Transformation, and Guiling hesitated over sacrificing the Interception Sect's Dao Field.
• Guiling agreed to guide Ren, Duobao, and Yuding toward the Giants' gathering place so they could observe them.
• The group traveled deeper into the wild secret realm, passing Food Barbaric Beasts and fewer Pure Barbaric Beasts.

Ren and his companions entered the Giants’ territory and discovered a tribe whose customs and central palace resembled those of the Wu Clan, though its people lacked the Wu Clan’s distinctive aura. When a Giant attacked Guiling, Ren enlarged himself with Heavenly Dharma Body and countered with Shrouding the Heavens Fist.

• Guiling explained that Food Barbaric Beasts fled savage predators in the outskirts and gathered near the Giants, who captured and raised them for food.
• Ren, Duobao, and the others passed through the mist and saw the Giants’ tribe, its captive beasts, and a palace resembling the Ancestral Witch Hall.
• Ren and Duobao noted the tribe’s resemblance to the Wu Clan, while Guiling observed that the Giants lacked the Wu Clan’s blood vitality and Fiendish Qi aura.
• A Giant roared in an unfamiliar language and hurled a massive fist at Guiling.
• Ren used Heavenly Dharma Body and struck back with Shrouding the Heavens Fist, meeting the Giant’s blow with an explosive shockwave.

Ren and his companions met the Heavenly Wu Clan in the secret realm, where he learned of their hatred for the Blood-Winged Black Mosquito and their memories of the Savage Beast Era. The chapter left Ren sharing his wine with the grateful giants.

• Ren fought a giant whose strength astonished him, then watched the Heavenly Wu Clan gather under their elder’s command.
• Ren explained how Guiling had survived inside and killed the Blood-Winged Black Mosquito, and the clan welcomed them as guests.
• The elder revealed that the Heavenly Wu Clan came from the Heavenly Shaman Era and celebrated hearing that the Barbaric Beasts and their Devil were extinct.
• Ren, Duobao, Yuding, and Guiling accompanied the elder to the Heavenly Wu Tribe, where Ren learned that only a little over a thousand clan members remained.
• Ren brought out his wine for the clan, delighting the giants who had not tasted it since fleeing their former home.