Chapter Summaries

The Demon Empress had Jin Chanzi devour Bodhi, allowing him to break through to Late Quasi-Saint, then defeated Buddhism’s remaining forces. She began freeing Kong Xuan from Zhunti’s conversion, and Kong Xuan recovered with a renewed vow to kill Zhunti.

• The Demon Empress seized Bodhi and gave him to Jin Chanzi, who devoured him and broke through to Late Quasi-Saint.
• The Demon Empress crushed Buddhism’s Quasi-Saints and pursued its fleeing Buddhas.
• Kong Xuan transformed into a peacock and used Five-Colored Divine Light to shatter the Demon Empress’s claw.
• The Demon Empress poured Demon Qi into Kong Xuan, dissolving the Buddhist influence within him.
• Kong Xuan recovered, cursed Zhunti, and vowed to kill him.

The Demon Empress destroyed Buddhism, and Kong Xuan refused to join her despite resisting her crushing pressure. Ren, Yang Jian, and Nezha left the ruined Demon Land to return and command their army.

• Kong Xuan tore apart a Buddha, burned his kasaya, and donned armor as the Demon Empress invited him to join the Demon Cult.
• Kong Xuan rejected the Demon Empress and resisted her pressure, while the remaining Buddhas were crushed and many begged for mercy.
• The Demon Empress refused to spare the frightened Buddhists, and Buddhism was erased from the Primordial World, leaving only a young monk and two Saints in Chaos.
• Observers lamented Buddhism’s destruction and recalled Ren’s prediction that no Buddhist character would remain visible in the Primordial World.
• Ren led Yang Jian and Nezha away from the desolate Demon Land to return and command their army.

Phoenix Ancestor revealed that Kong Xuan and Yuhua Xian had formed from the origins of Five Elements Ancestor and Yin-Yang Ancestor within his body, making them his children by blood. The Demon Empress recognized Kong Xuan as Five Elements Ancestor’s reincarnation and reached to seize him and Yuhua Xian, while Phoenix Ancestor pleaded for them.

• The Demon Empress pressured Kong Xuan until Phoenix Ancestor emerged and asked her to spare him.
• Phoenix Ancestor explained how Five Elements Ancestor and Yin-Yang Ancestor’s origins entered his body and became eggs that hatched into Kong Xuan and Yuhua Xian.
• Phoenix Ancestor admitted he had abandoned the eggs out of humiliation but could not ignore them now that he had found them.
• The Demon Empress identified Kong Xuan as Five Elements Ancestor’s reincarnation and criticized Yuhua Xian for refining the Yin-Yang Origin into a treasure.
• The Demon Empress reached to seize Kong Xuan and Yuhua Xian, and Phoenix Ancestor pleaded with her to stop.

The Demon Empress captured Yuhua Xian and Kong Xuan and ordered Jin Chanzi to draw them into the Devil Dao. At Northern Jambudvipa, eighteen Killing Dao Great Powers rushed to kill the young monk, but his blackened Golden Lotus unleashed Demon Qi blades against them.

• The Demon Empress bound Yuhua Xian and Kong Xuan and sent them with Jin Chanzi to the Demon Land to be converted to the Devil Dao.
• Ren returned and noticed that Duobao and the others did not object to Yuhua Xian's capture.
• The young monk fought Xuanming and Haotian while Demon Qi surged around him.
• The young monk froze in terror before Xuanming and Haotian could deliver their killing blows.
• Eighteen Quasi-Saint Killing Dao Great Powers charged the young monk, hoping to claim his power and reach Primordial Unity.
• The blackened Golden Lotus released countless Demon Qi blades, swallowing the nearest attacker as he pleaded for his life.

The Demon Empress revealed that Jieyin had fashioned the young monk from the Demon Emperor’s and a Demon God’s remains to serve Buddhism, while secretly cultivating him as her own vessel. Just as she moved to claim him, the young monk invoked Jieyin’s Dream-Entering Divine Ability and repelled her with Buddha light, though the borrowed power might not last.

• The Demon Empress killed all eighteen Killing Dao Great Abilities by using Demon Qi blades to taint and control them.
• The Demon Empress told the young monk that his body, Primordial Spirit, and True Spirit came from demonic sources, and that Jieyin had made him Buddhism’s hidden foundation.
• The Demon Empress seized the young monk with Demon Qi, but he unleashed brilliant Buddha light and broke free.
• The young monk claimed he had purged the Demon Qi and suppressed the Demon Blood in his body, leaving the Demon Empress unable to kill him.
• The Demon Empress recognized that the young monk was drawing on dream incarnations fused into his True Spirit and questioned how long their borrowed power could last.

The little monk and the Demon Empress fought a devastating battle above Northern Jambudvipa, while Ren and the other powers studied the Dao techniques revealed in their clash. The war neared its end as the little monk shattered another incarnation, and the Demon Empress launched a fresh attack.

• The little monk charged into the Demon Empress’s ocean of Demon Qi and used Three Thousand Buddhas, but she remained able to fight him despite his attempt to sever his connection to Demon Land.
• The Demon Empress attacked with Demon Dao Everlasting, and the little monk answered with Dream Buddha Palm, shaking Northern Jambudvipa and the surrounding world with their clash.
• Ruthless Emperor pulled Ren aside and told him to study the Demon Empress’s fist technique; Ren and the other great powers comprehended the battle’s Dao Rhyme.
• The fighting across the Primordial World dwindled as everyone watched the little monk and the Demon Empress, whose duel would determine the war’s end and the rise of the Demon Cult.
• The little monk shattered another incarnation of the Demon Empress, who had formed it from a Primordial Spirit incarnation fused with Demon Land, then she struck again with Demon Dao Everlasting.

The Demon Empress revealed that she had turned Buddhism’s Destiny and Golden Lotus into the Demon Cult’s Black Lotus, using the young monk’s battles to forge a perfect demon body. As she restrained him, Minghe seized his invitation to strike and appeared with the Red Lotus, aiming to kill him and attain Slaughter Dao Primordial Unity.

• The Demon Empress explained that her will had hidden in Buddhism’s black Destiny, transformed its Golden Lotus into the Black Lotus, and fed on Buddhism’s fall.
• The young monk realized the Demon Empress had used their repeated battles to awaken his Demon Blood and strengthen his body, then tried to destroy himself rather than surrender it.
• The Demon Empress used the Black Lotus to bind the young monk and stop his self-destruction.
• The young monk revealed that a Red Lotus was nearby and called on Minghe to kill him.
• Minghe attacked with the Red Lotus, pinned down the Black Lotus, and declared that he would claim Slaughter Dao Primordial Unity.

Minghe mortally wounded the little monk to complete his Killing Dao, but the Lord of Zhuxian Alliance struck the little monk’s heart and seized the Slaughter Saint Aura before Minghe could claim it. The little monk still clung to life as Minghe turned on the mysterious intruder.

• Minghe’s combined Yuantu and Abi Swords pierced the little monk, severing his Primordial Spirit and ravaging his body.
• Minghe celebrated the chance to kill a Saint and enter Primordial Unity through the Killing Dao as dozens of Killing Dao Great Abilities rushed toward the dying little monk.
• The Demon Empress became a Nine-Clawed Demon Dragon and attacked the Great Abilities, but they joined forces and overwhelmed her across the boundary between worlds.
• The Killing Dao Great Abilities learned the Demon Empress’s attacks were weakened by crossing worlds and charged at the little monk, who faced his impending death with a smile and tears.
• The Lord of Zhuxian Alliance suddenly pierced the little monk’s heart and seized the Slaughter Saint Aura, drawing Minghe’s fury.

The young monk died after revealing his life as Damo, a Greater Daemon who had sought to become a Buddha through Jieyin’s guidance. Ren kept the tear that became a prayer bead, while Minghe and the Lord of Zhuxian Alliance divided the Slaughter Saint Aura and began forging opposing Killing Daos.

• The dying young monk recalled how Jieyin’s Buddha light had guided him from being a Greater Daemon toward becoming Damo of Buddhism, and he died facing the Western Lands.
• Ren caught the young monk’s final tear, which became a prayer bead holding traces of Damo’s Dao Rhyme and visions of Jieyin calling him Damo.
• Minghe pulled the Killing Swords from the young monk and summoned the Slaughter Saint Aura, while the Shura Sect and Zhu Xian Alliance held back the other Killing Dao cultivators.
• The Lord of Zhuxian Alliance split the Slaughter Saint Aura, taking half for himself and leaving the other half to Minghe.
• The Lord of Zhuxian Alliance and Minghe each declared a different path for their Killing Dao and began breaking through toward Primordial Unity as blood-red rain spread across Northern Jambudvipa.

Minghe and the Lord of Zhuxian Alliance absorbed the Slaughter Saint Aura and reached Half-Step Primordial Unity, provoking the Killing Dao Great Abilities. After defeating several attackers, the Demon Empress took the dead young monk and the Black Lotus back to the Demon Land, while Minghe declared his Dao complete.

• Minghe and the Lord of Zhuxian Alliance split the Slaughter Saint Aura and broke through to Half-Step Primordial Unity.
• A Blood Fiend Stone who had created the Killing Fist led the Killing Dao Great Abilities in an attack on Minghe and the Lord of Zhuxian Alliance.
• Minghe pierced the Blood Fiend Stone with his Killing Swords, and the Lord of Zhuxian Alliance crushed another attacker with a Fiendish Qi claw.
• The Demon Empress took the young monk's body and the Black Lotus, then flew back to the Demon Land.
• Minghe's aura stabilized, and he roared that his Dao was complete.

Minghe and the Lord of Zhuxian Alliance battled after both reached Half-Step Primordial Unity, while Haotian reflected on his own weakness. Their fight was interrupted when Dark Turtle’s Creation Jade Butterfly Fragment cracked and split in two, drawing the gathered powers’ attention back to the treasure.

• Minghe and the Lord of Zhuxian Alliance clashed with their Killing Daos, and their battle engulfed the void in slaughter that killed fleeing Great Abilities.
• Xuanming watched from beyond the slaughter, while Haotian admitted he was weaker than the battle-hardened cultivators and resolved to enter seclusion.
• A sharp cracking sound stopped the fighters and onlookers, who turned toward Dark Turtle’s Creation Jade Butterfly.
• The Creation Jade Butterfly Fragment trembled, cracked, and split in two as sorrow from the Dao reached the gathered powers.
• The onlookers remembered the treasure they had come to Northern Jambudvipa to obtain, and greed stirred again.

Ren claimed the Creation Jade Butterfly Fragment, drawing the attention of the gathered Great Powers. His restored Zhu Xian Swords and powerful allies deterred most challengers, while Haotian and Xuanming declared they had no intention of taking it.

• Ren approached the Creation Jade Butterfly Fragment and declared that he would take it.
• Ren summoned the Four Zhu Xian Swords and formed the Zhu Xian Sword Formation, warning the Great Powers not to oppose him.
• The Great Powers reconsidered after seeing the swords had mostly recovered and weighing Ren's strength and allies; many abandoned their claims.
• Haotian said the fragment was useless to him because he already had a body-tempering art made by Hongjun.
• Xuanming said the Wu Clan had no need for the fragment and challenged anyone who dared to stop Ren.
• Ren thanked Xuanming as the remaining claimants held back.

Ren traded the Replica Qingping Sword to Lord of Zhuxian Alliance for the other powers’ agreement not to seize the Jade Butterfly Fragment. The alliances withdrew from the battlefield, leaving Northern Jambudvipa strewn with corpses and blood.

• Ancestor Minghe offered Ren the Jade Butterfly Fragment and threatened Lord of Zhuxian Alliance if he interfered.
• Lord of Zhuxian Alliance offered to ignore the fragment in exchange for Ren’s Replica Qingping Sword, and Ren accepted.
• Lord of Zhuxian Alliance declared Ren a friend of the Zhu Xian Alliance and ordered his forces to withdraw.
• The leaders of the Slaying Immortal, Immortal-Exterminating, and Immortal-Trapping Alliances ordered their forces to retreat.
• The remaining alliances and armies withdrew, leaving the battlefield covered in corpses and blood.

After the battle, Ren secured the Creation Jade Butterfly fragments and received Yuantu and Abi from Ancestor Minghe, while the allied forces withdrew from Northern Jambudvipa. Ren’s group returned with heavy casualties, new cultivation insights, and the treasures and scriptures looted from Spirit Mountain.

• Ren thanked Xuanming and affirmed that he would honor his cooperation and deal with the Wu Clan, and Xuanming led her army back to Buzhou Mountain.
• Haotian returned to the Heavenly Court and told Ren to watch its affairs during his seclusion, then asked Yang Jian to visit his mother.
• Ancestor Minghe handed Yuantu and Abi to Ren and said he would later pass on his understanding of the Killing Dao and leave the Shura Sect alliance arrangements to Great Brahma.
• Ancestor Minghe led the Shura Race back to the Blood Sea, and Ren began the Three Sects’ return from Northern Jambudvipa.
• Ren’s group returned with only tens of millions of their original hundreds of millions of Heavenly Soldiers and Generals, while survivors such as Nezha and Duobao gained insights from the battle.
• Tianpeng and his companions took Buddhism’s treasures and resources from Spirit Mountain, Lei Zhenzi and his men seized its scriptures, and Yunxiao reclaimed the Interception Sect treasures carried by Immortal Dingguang.

After returning to their base, Ren learned that Ruthless planned to reincarnate by forming a new Divine Embryo and rebuilding her cultivation. They discussed using Yuantu, Abi, and Ruthless’s old body to strengthen Ren’s Zhu Xian swords, then Ren brought out the treasures he had taken from Spirit Mountain.

• Ren and Ruthless returned to the palace, where Ruthless explained that she would reincarnate to build a stronger foundation using the Primordial World’s complete Great Dao.
• Ruthless said she would burn away her old body, form a new Divine Embryo, and begin cultivating again after reviewing her gains from the battle.
• Ren brought out Yuantu, Abi, the Four Zhu Xian Swords, and two formation diagrams, and Ruthless advised him on merging the weapons and strengthening the formation.
• Ren set the Four Zhu Xian Swords to devour Yuantu and Abi, while Ruthless proposed using her old body to transform Ren’s Emperor Flame into a Divine Flame.
• Ren brought out treasures taken from Spirit Mountain, including the Eight-Treasure Merit Pool and Six-Soul Banner, which Yunxiao had given him.

Ruthless examined the Six-Soul Banner and explained that Fiendish Qi had hidden the Primordial World from the Saints. After studying the Jade Butterfly Fragment, she discovered its Death Dao body-refinement method and proposed that Ren combine it with his Reincarnation Body Refinement, while Ren suspected the fragment and the recent slaughter were part of a hidden scheme.

• Ruthless examined Tongtian's inscriptions on the Six-Soul Banner, and Ren recognized the Sword Dao and Killing Dao within them.
• Ren asked why the Saints had not intervened, and Ruthless said Fiendish Qi concealed the world from their senses.
• Ruthless studied the Jade Butterfly Fragment and found that it described a Death Dao body-refinement method but lacked the Vitality Dao.
• Ruthless explained how Dark Turtle's cycles of sleep, apparent death, and revival had strengthened its body and its descendants' shells.
• Ren proposed that the fragment had been incomplete before it emerged and that an unseen force had orchestrated the recent slaughter.
• Ruthless advised Ren to incorporate the Death Dao into his Reincarnation Body Refinement and said she could use it for her coming Reincarnation.

Ren discovered that the Origin of All Evil had been completed by accumulated Evil Thoughts and Karmic Fire, allowing him to sever his Evil Corpse before reaching Great Luo. He merged it with the Dark Turtle's Jade Butterfly Fragment, triggering a massive drain of energy as he began breaking through in Ziwei Palace.

• Ren realized that the Life-and-Death Great Dao could deepen his Reincarnation Dao and strengthen his body-tempering technique, while Ruthless warned him to stay alert for hidden schemes.
• Ren's Karmic Fire erupted when he touched the death Dao Rhyme in the Jade Butterfly Fragment, and Ruthless concluded that the Origin of All Evil had become complete.
• Ruthless urged Ren to use the Three Corpses Severing Technique, and Ren severed the impurities from his Primordial Spirit to form his Evil Corpse.
• Ren merged the Origin of All Evil into the Dark Turtle's Jade Butterfly Fragment, which consumed energy from Ziwei Palace and Ren himself.
• Ren summoned the Ziwei Guards to draw down Starlight, released his cultivation resources for Ruthless to refine, and began frenzied cultivation as the Ziwei Legion joined the effort.

Ren refined nearly a year of gathered energy, severed his Evil Corpse, and broke through into the Daluo Realm. He named the corpse Wendao and supported his plan to create the Zombie Race, as Wendao prepared to begin amid the lingering death and blood qi on Northern Jambudvipa’s battlefield.

• Ren absorbed the gathered energy, comprehended the Death Dao, and severed his Evil Corpse, who appeared before him as a burly, red-eyed man.
• Ren broke through into the Daluo Realm, stabilized his foundation, and named his Evil Corpse Wendao as the first of his Three Corpses to challenge Hongjun’s established Dao.
• Wendao revealed that he had reached the Quasi-Saint realm in understanding and planned to cultivate the Corpse-Proving Dao using his Origin of All Evil and the Jade Butterfly Fragment.
• Wendao proposed creating the Zombie Race from death qi and resentment to build a foundation for eventually achieving Primordial Unity, and Ren approved his plan.
• Wendao noted that the Primordial World was relatively peaceful after the great war, but Northern Jambudvipa’s battlefield still held vast death qi and blood.

Wendao gathered the Coffin Lamp, the Imitation Chaos Bell, and the Six-Soul Banner before setting out to forge his Zombie Dao on the Northern Jambudvipa battlefield. Ren and the Ruthless Emperor discussed the risks of Three Corpses Severance, then entered seclusion as Wendao reached the corpse-strewn battlefield.

• Wendao asked Ren for the Coffin Lamp and Imitation Chaos Bell, planning to use their Death Qi and materials to forge a supreme treasure from Randeng's coffin.
• Wendao requested the Six-Soul Banner, and the Ruthless Emperor gave it to him and advised him to absorb negative powers to perfect his Zombie Dao.
• Wendao left Ziwei City with a jade token and headed for the battlefield, while Ren kept his identity secret from the Ziwei Legion.
• The Ruthless Emperor explained that severing the Three Corpses in the Daluo Realm could strengthen Ren's foundation, and Ren acknowledged how difficult that would be.
• Ren began cultivating, while the Ruthless Emperor prepared to study the Death Dao before reincarnation.
• Wendao entered the battlefield, welcomed its Fiendish Qi and vast sea of corpses, and planned to build his Corpse Dao on Netherworld Venerable Duan De's scripture.

Wendao forged Netherworld Mountain and prepared an Undead World while cultivating his own Death Dao. After a long period of seclusion, Ren woke as Ruthless finished preparing to reincarnate and rebuild her cultivation, and they set out for Ziwei Palace in the Heavenly Court.

• Wendao refined the corpses, bones, and his own rib into Netherworld Mountain, then drew the battlefield’s remnants of souls into it.
• Wendao spread Death Qi across the battlefield, formed the Reverse Death, Undead Formation, and declared his intention to create and rule the Undead Race.
• Wendao entered a coffin with the Imitation Chaos Bell and cultivated with the Coffin Lamp’s Death Flame and Karmic Fire to refine his Death Dao.
• Ren continued cultivating while Ruthless improved the Time Formation, and he fused the Heavenly Dipper Pearls into his body and refined his Reincarnation Nine-Turn Technique.
• Ruthless told Ren she had comprehended the Death Dao and was ready to reincarnate and rebuild her cultivation.
• Ren and Ruthless left for Ziwei Palace in the Heavenly Court so Ruthless could reincarnate there using its stellar energy.