Chapter Summaries

Ji Hao inherited part of Heavenly Venerable Lingbao’s karma, then returned to the medieval era and broke through to Legend. His ascent produced the unprecedented Starlight Sea and a fourth omen, leaving Meng Qi and other witnesses astonished.

• After hearing the Heavenly Venerable’s discourse, Ji Hao realized he had become entangled in the Three Pure Ones’ karma and was a contingency connected to Meng Qi.
• Ji Hao awoke on Golden Turtle Island as Heavenly Venerable Lingbao, summoned Sanxiao, and warned them to prepare for a change in the Heavenly Court.
• Back in the medieval era, Ji Hao began attaining Legend through his own efforts, encountered Lingbao within his innate nature, and took Lingbao’s place.
• Ji Hao used the Qingping Sword to break open the Legend Gate, producing the Gate of All Wonders and spreading his projections across the Heavens and Myriad Realms.
• Ji Hao’s breakthrough created the unrivaled Starlight Sea and a fourth omen as the Thirty-Three Heavens appeared; Meng Qi was left stunned.

Ji Hao attained Legend and fought off Maitreya with power drawn from a thread of Heavenly Venerable Lingbao’s karma. In the Eastern Lapis Lazuli World, Meng Qi awakened Medicine King Buddha’s rebirth and realized the Azure Emperor had deliberately sent them to the medieval era.

• Ji Hao manifested his Other Shore traits, attained Legend, and scattered his projections across past spacetime to gather power.
• Maitreya tried to suppress Ji Hao and bring him to the Buddhist Pure Land, but Ji Hao escaped and drove Maitreya back with the Diamond Vajra.
• Ji Hao’s thread of Heavenly Venerable Lingbao’s karma let him wield power far beyond that of a newly attained Legend and battle Maitreya across the starry sky.
• Meng Qi asked Moonlight Bodhisattva for help reaching Medicine King Buddha, then learned that the Buddha had entered final Nirvana five thousand years earlier.
• Meng Qi invoked the Azure Emperor’s aura and the Haotian Mirror Fragment beside Medicine King Buddha’s sharira, causing the Buddha to return from Nirvana.
• Medicine King Buddha reenacted his twelve great vows, merged with the phantoms of two Daoists, and leaped out of the illusory river; Meng Qi realized the Azure Emperor had sent them to the medieval era deliberately.

Chapter Summary: Medicine Buddha’s Aid, Retracing the Past

Key Plot Points and Events

• At a critical moment—when the All Saints gather, the Overlord approaches Legend, Tai Shang’s Celestial Demon completes its transformation, and five thousand years have passed since Medicine King Buddha’s death—Medicine Buddha is summoned into the present.
• Moonlight Bodhisattva explains that Azure Emperor forged an unprecedented Other Shore path and sent Medicine Buddha into the current era to awaken her True Form and gradually unify the past.
• Medicine Buddha emerges from the River of Time in the Eastern Glazed Pure Land, where the remnants of Medicine King Buddha’s power have been preserved and refined.
• Ji Hao confronts Maitreya Buddha. Maitreya employs the nine forms of the Tathagata Palm, while Medicine Buddha counters with immense Buddhist power and resists the fourth form, “Turn Back and Reach the Shore.”
• Medicine Buddha proves overwhelmingly superior. Maitreya realizes that Azure Emperor has already enlightened her and withdraws rather than continue the battle.
• After the conflict, Medicine Buddha peacefully returns to the past and follows the destined course leading to her nirvana. Medicine King Buddha’s remaining essence condenses into a flawless cyan-blue glazed pearl.
• Ji Hao then uses his newly accessible Other Shore abilities—including the Fruit of All Causes and Time Envelopment—to retrace history. He first travels to the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace and witnesses the catastrophe surrounding the collapse of the Heavenly Court.
• He observes Nuwa’s protective power shielding the world from destructive lightning and flames, the scattering of the Twenty-Four Heavens, and the appearance of a terrifying entity resembling the Heavenly Dao Monster or another ancient supreme being.
• The clash among Other Shore figures causes time itself to reverse. Ji Hao remains conscious because his Time Envelopment Trait protects his memories from the reversal.
• During this reversed sequence, he witnesses the Heavenly Court falling from the heavens, with an unmoving imperial figure within it, and understands the literal meaning of “Heaven has fallen.”
• Ji Hao records important karmic connections and the location of a Sea-Pacifying Pearl before continuing farther into the past.
• In the present, Meng Qi activates a grand Buddhist formation and receives Ji Hao’s message from Lu Ya: “the highest level of the Ninth Heaven.”
• Azure Emperor appears through Medicine King Buddha’s vows, becoming crystalline and blessing the Three Realms. Ji Hao uses Time Envelopment to escape the retraced past and “catch” the Other Shore’s return to the present.

Character Developments

• Medicine Buddha is revealed to have advanced to an extraordinary level through Azure Emperor’s guidance. She is no longer merely inheriting Medicine King Buddha’s legacy but has become powerful enough to defeat Maitreya beneath the Other Shore.
• Ji Hao gains greater mastery over his Other Shore Trait and learns to use Time Envelopment to enter, observe, and partially resist changes to the past. He demonstrates caution and strategic thinking by targeting the relatively weak Eastern Sea Dragon Palace as a temporal anchor.
• Ji Hao also becomes more aware of the dangers of confronting supreme beings directly. His brief eye contact with the mysterious ancient entity nearly fractures his mind into countless conflicting personalities.
• Maitreya Buddha shifts from aggression to retreat after recognizing Medicine Buddha’s superior state. His fear and hesitation reveal the significance of Azure Emperor’s influence.
• Meng Qi acts as a prepared ally, using the Cyan-Blue Buddhist Beads and a grand formation to support the larger plan and communicate with Medicine King Buddha’s remnant.
• Azure Emperor is shown not only as a powerful hidden force but as a being capable of transforming himself and extending Medicine King Buddha’s vows across all realms.

Significant Themes

• Time and causality: The chapter explores time as something powerful beings can enter, reverse, and manipulate. Ji Hao’s journey shows that history is not entirely fixed, but interacting with it carries enormous danger.
• The Other Shore: Reaching the Other Shore grants authority over the laws of Heaven and Earth, allowing beings to transcend ordinary temporal and spatial limitations.
• Inheritance and transformation: Medicine Buddha inherits Medicine King Buddha’s legacy but evolves beyond it through Azure Emperor’s enlightenment, suggesting that true inheritance involves transformation rather than simple repetition.
• Buddhist salvation versus transcendence: The Tathagata Palm’s teachings—especially “Turn Back and Reach the Shore”—are contrasted with Medicine Buddha’s ability to resist being bound by conventional salvation or karmic guidance.
• Cosmic destruction and rebirth: The fall and restoration of the Twenty-Four Heavens, the collapse of the Heavenly Court, and the reversal of time emphasize cycles of destruction, renewal, and cosmic order.
• The limits of perception: Ji Hao can observe ancient catastrophes but cannot fully comprehend the supreme beings involved. The mysterious eyes demonstrate how vulnerable even a newly attained Legend can be before an Other Shore existence.

Important Character Interactions

• Moonlight Bodhisattva and Meng Qi: Moonlight explains the significance of Azure Emperor’s plan, while Meng Qi urgently summons Medicine Buddha for aid.
• Medicine Buddha and Maitreya: Their confrontation demonstrates Medicine Buddha’s newly attained superiority. Maitreya’s Buddhist techniques fail to force her into submission, and he ultimately retreats.
• Medicine Buddha and Dipankara: Medicine Buddha addresses Dipankara calmly, implying an old relationship and showing that she now stands at a level capable of casually overcoming his intervention.
• Ji Hao and Medicine Buddha: Ji Hao bows gratefully after she prevents the battle from becoming a defeat for their side. Her intervention allows him to continue his historical investigation safely.
• Ji Hao and the mysterious ancient entity: Their brief exchange of gazes nearly overwhelms Ji Hao’s mind, establishing the entity as a terrifying presence from the era of the Heavenly Court’s fall.
• Ji Hao and Meng Qi: Ji Hao later delivers Lu Ya’s message through the temporal connection, helping coordinate the present-day effort surrounding Medicine King Buddha and Azure Emperor.
• Medicine King Buddha and Azure Emperor: Medicine King Buddha’s vows become the foundation for Azure Emperor’s transformation and blessings, linking the ancient Buddha’s passing with Azure Emperor’s attempt to reshape the present and future.

Meng Qi witnessed Wang Siyuan’s breakthrough to the Dunyi Dharma Body and his attempt to cast the Ghost and Deity True Spirit Diagram into the Primeval Soul-Suppressing Coffin. As Yama of the Underworld intervened and a mysterious attacker struck at Wang Siyuan and Meng Qi, Meng Qi shouted for his Big Brother to save him.

• The Dou Family Shop shopkeeper explained how the disappearance of the dharma body masters, the rise of the Southern Wilderness, and the search for Golden Turtle Island had drawn martial artists away from the Divine Capital.
• Maitreya reflected on the White Lotus Pure Land’s surviving influence and regretted failing to stop Gao Lan.
• Ji Hao showed Meng Qi a Chaos Green Lotus containing part of Lingbao’s legacy, then returned to Biyou Palace to awaken his other selves.
• The returned dharma body masters’ appearance quieted the martial world, while Wang Siyuan survived heavenly punishment and attained the Dunyi Dharma Body.
• Wang Siyuan tried to send the Ghost and Deity True Spirit Diagram into the Primeval Soul-Suppressing Coffin, prompting Yama of the Underworld to attack as Meng Qi arrived.
• A mysterious black fist targeted Wang Siyuan and Meng Qi, and Meng Qi shouted, “Big Brother, save me!”

Chapter Summary: “A Battle with Gods and Demons, Legend Complete”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Wang Siyuan, driven completely mad, activates the Luo River Diagram’s deepest foundation and prepares to die together with everyone in the Grotto-Heaven. The Jiangdong Wang Clan’s accumulated power, Divine Weapons, ancestral remains, coffins, and formations are all sacrificed to unleash the Artifact’s full strength.
• The resulting formation combines Destiny and Time, but it is overwhelmed by a terrifying black fist associated with Emperor Fengdu. The attack destroys the Supreme Wuji Yuanshi Celebratory Cloud and severely damages the formation.
• Meng Qi nevertheless launches his Clinging Cause and Effect strike. At the critical moment, Ji Hao arrives and blocks the black fist, shattering one of its arms with his Golden Lotus.
• The enemy’s second fist targets Wang Siyuan, nearly destroying the Luo River Diagram’s formation and draining Wang Siyuan’s life force. The Demon Monarch then emerges, hoping to seize the Diagram, while Ji Hao suppresses him with Hao Ran Zheng Qi.
• The grave mountain descends into chaos. The Wang Family’s first ancestor, transformed into a powerful Heavenly Dao Monster, battles the Demon Monarch, Emperor Fengdu, and the suspected Fuxi. Its madness and strength allow it to divide its arms into additional monsters, overwhelming the battlefield.
• Fuxi uses the River of Time to scour the Heavenly Dao Monsters, rapidly weakening them and causing the Grotto-Heaven to collapse. Ji Hao avoids the attack while the Demon Monarch and Emperor Fengdu retreat.
• Ji Hao declares that the area rejects the Nether Wheel and the Nine Netherworlds, causing Emperor Fengdu’s power and the Sea of Bitterness to collapse. He then confronts Fuxi, realizing that Amitabha Buddha is influencing Fuxi in order to help Maitreya establish the Buddhist Kingdom.
• Ji Hao fights back with the Four Swords and the Zhuxian Sword Array. Although Fuxi is far stronger as an Other Shore existence, Amitabha’s control is limited because only a Divine Sense imprint is acting through him. Ji Hao summons the Diamond Vajra, which temporarily awakens to power near the Fortune level and forces Fuxi to withdraw.
• Ji Hao pursues the retreating forces into the Underworld and challenges Yama. Their battle devastates the dream Underworld, damaging its halls, black suns, Stellar Rivers, bridges, and the Yellow Springs.
• Yama’s second attack draws power from all the dead and embodies the final end of all things. Ji Hao counters with the Zhuxian Sword Formula, wounds Yama, and forcibly extracts the Yellow Springs.
• To prevent further damage to the Underworld, Yama offers Ji Hao a Netherworld Pearl capable of becoming a Legend-level Divine Weapon. Ji Hao accepts the compensation, returns the Yellow Springs, and leaves victorious.
• Meng Qi exits the collapsing Wang Family ancestral hall with theatrical composure. The Jiangdong Wang Clan loses almost all of its ancient foundation and falls from the ranks of the supreme powers.
• Back at Yuxu Palace, Meng Qi catches a mysterious dark pearl. The Karmic Retribution attached to him leaves his body and enters the pearl, from which Wang Siyuan reforms in a weakened, elusive state.

Character Developments

• Ji Hao completes his transformation into a true Legend. His True Spirit has entered the Infinite Heights, his Other Selves are spread across countless universes, and he now possesses genuine authority over Destiny and the Laws of Reality. He demonstrates that he is the strongest active Legend of the era.
• Wang Siyuan fully abandons his former rational and gentle persona, becoming a suicidal madman willing to destroy himself and the Wang Clan. Despite this apparent death, he is later reconstructed through the dark pearl and his own Karmic Retribution, suggesting that his schemes and existence remain far from over.
• Meng Qi continues to retain his irreverent, sarcastic personality even while facing apocalyptic danger. He also takes satisfaction in dramatically leaving the exploding Wang Family ancestral hall. His Clinging Cause and Effect strike contributes to the battle, though he remains frustrated that Ji Hao receives the chapter’s grandest display of power.
• The Demon Monarch is revealed to have been waiting for an opportunity to seize the Luo River Diagram, but he is nearly destroyed by the uncontrolled Heavenly Dao Monster and forced to retreat.
• Fuxi, apparently influenced or controlled by Amitabha Buddha, intervenes to suppress Ji Hao and aid Maitreya’s future advancement. He ultimately withdraws after Ji Hao’s warning and the Diamond Vajra’s threatening awakening.
• Yama proves capable of resisting Ji Hao through the power of the Underworld, but she is ultimately outmatched and forced to negotiate. Her willingness to trade the Netherworld Pearl shows her priority is preserving the Underworld rather than fighting to destruction.

Significant Themes

• The arrival of the Legend era: Ji Hao’s completed Legend status marks a major shift in the balance of power. He can now directly manipulate Destiny, suppress Other Shore manifestations, and impose his will upon reality.
• Sacrifice and destruction: The Wang Clan sacrifices its artifacts, ancestors, Grotto-Heaven, and history in a desperate attempt to alter the battle. The chapter emphasizes that great power often comes at the cost of entire traditions and civilizations.
• Madness versus calculation: Wang Siyuan’s madness contrasts with his former scheming intelligence, while the Heavenly Dao Monster represents pure irrational destruction. The controlled interventions of Fuxi and Amitabha show another form of manipulation hidden behind apparent chaos.
• The cycle of life and death: The River of Time, the Netherworld, the Yellow Springs, Samsara, and Yama’s final-ending fist all reinforce the inevitability of decay, death, and the eventual end of even worlds and epochs.
• Power and political restraint: Although Ji Hao could potentially force stronger beings to reveal more power, the presence of Daoist Celestial Worthy and other Ancient Ones limits how far they dare escalate. The conflict is therefore shaped not only by strength but by hidden alliances and cosmic deterrence.
• Legacy and renewal: The collapse of the Jiangdong Wang Clan ends two hundred thousand years of accumulated history, yet Wang Siyuan’s rebirth suggests that destruction may also be a stage in a larger transformation.

Character Interactions

• Meng Qi and Wang Siyuan: Meng Qi rejects Wang Siyuan’s invitation to die together, maintaining his sarcasm even during the crisis. Their conflict ends with Wang Siyuan’s apparent death and later reconstruction.
• Ji Hao and Meng Qi: Ji Hao arrives to protect Meng Qi from the black fist, demonstrating both his strength and his willingness to intervene on Meng Qi’s behalf.
• Ji Hao and Fuxi/Amitabha: Ji Hao recognizes that Fuxi is being used to advance Maitreya’s Buddhist ambitions. He confronts him directly and forces his retreat through a combination of swordsmanship, threats, and the Diamond Vajra.
• Ji Hao and the Demon Monarch/Emperor Fengdu: Ji Hao interferes with both powers, suppressing their attacks and making the region reject the aura of the Netherworld and Sea of Bitterness.
• Ji Hao and Yama: Their battle becomes a direct contest between Ji Hao’s newly completed Legend power and Yama’s accumulated authority over the Underworld. Ji Hao ultimately defeats her and negotiates the Netherworld Pearl in exchange for returning the Yellow Springs.
• Yama and the Underworld’s Great Emperor: After Ji Hao leaves, Yama questions his arrogance, but the Great Emperor advises patience, acknowledging that the Underworld’s forces are not yet ready to awaken fully and challenge him.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Meng Qi is surprised to discover that Wang Siyuan survived. Wang explains that the True Spirits trapped within the Investiture of the Gods could reconstruct their Dharma Bodies once freed, using methods that avoided lasting damage.
• In the Southern Wilderness, Qi Zhengyan studies records about Ji Hao, the first-ranked figure on the Heaven Ranking. Ji Hao is revealed to be a second-generation disciple of the Interception Sect and inheritor of Lingbao Heavenly Venerable, having already proven his own Legend.
• In the Endless Abyssal Sea, Liang Luo, a rational and powerful Celestial Immortal evil demon, attempts to weaken the seal separating the Nine Netherworlds from the Real Realm. He sacrifices evil demons to expand a fissure and summon the power of a terrifying ancient entity.
• Ji Hao senses the Nine Netherworlds’ invasion and destroys the manifested evil demon with the Qingping Sword. His attack shocks the surrounding experts, confirming the overwhelming power associated with his Legendary realm.
• Ji Hao appears publicly under the title “Purple Void Grand Supreme Jade Dawn Immortal Venerable,” causing Bi Jingxuan and others to recognize that he has become a major figure in the approaching Great Tribulation.
• Ji Hao reflects on the growing pressure of the era. He realizes that merely cultivating normally may leave him behind as powerful figures return and the laws of Heaven and Earth become increasingly active.
• Investigating the Nine Netherworlds, Ji Hao realizes that it represents the ultimate end of the Great Tribulation: the devouring of the Nine Heavens, the Real Realm, and all living things until only the Nine Netherworlds remains before its own destruction.
• Because Ji Hao inherited Lingbao Heavenly Venerable’s authority and karmic ties, the Nine Netherworlds recognizes him as a natural successor to the symbolism of the Great Tribulation’s end. It actively welcomes and empowers him.
• Ji Hao enters the Nine Netherworlds and receives an extraordinary boost, rising from perfected Legend to the Fortune level and approaching the strength of a weak Heavenly Venerable. His Lingbao Dharma Body harmonizes with the black qi of the Nine Netherworlds and absorbs its destructive power.
• In the fifth layer, near the Burial God Desert, Ji Hao captures an Asura warrior who is hunting an enemy from the Hundred-Armed Troll Tribe.
• From the Asura, Ji Hao learns about Yellow Springs, a deadly river symbolizing death and residual vitality. It can only be crossed by a Nether Boat or one of the mysterious Two-Realm Bridges.
• Ji Hao chooses the title “Jade Dawn Immortal Venerable” and extracts the Asura’s memories concerning the Nine Netherworlds. He then returns the warrior to the outside world, having identified Yellow Springs as an important clue.

Character Developments

• Meng Qi remains wary of Wang Siyuan’s deceptive nature, feeling tricked when he learns that Wang had concealed the possibility of reconstructing his body.
• Wang Siyuan is revealed to have survived and regained a physical form, demonstrating his long-term planning and knowledge of the Investiture of the Gods.
• Qi Zhengyan continues studying the major powers of the age and recognizes the immense significance of Ji Hao’s advancement.
• Liang Luo is established as an unusually rational evil demon. Although ambitious and powerful, he understands that Ji Hao is dangerous enough to avoid provoking directly.
• Ji Hao undergoes the chapter’s most important transformation. He moves from a powerful Legendary figure to someone capable of challenging the weakest Heavenly Venerable-level beings after entering the Nine Netherworlds.
• Ji Hao also gains a clearer understanding of his destiny. He realizes that he may be a candidate to inherit the authority associated with the end of the Great Tribulation and begins considering establishing his dojo within the Nine Netherworlds.
• The Asura warrior shifts from an aggressive hunter to a frightened informant when confronted by Ji Hao.

Significant Themes

• The beginning of the Great Tribulation: The loosening seal and emergence of the Nine Netherworlds signal that the final cosmic catastrophe has begun.
• Authority and inheritance: Ji Hao’s connection to Lingbao Heavenly Venerable gives him special authority over the Nine Netherworlds, showing that inheritance involves more than techniques—it includes destiny, karmic ties, and cosmic legitimacy.
• The relationship between destruction and order: Though the Nine Netherworlds appears chaotic and evil, its deeper essence is the orderly culmination of all things—the End of Days and the destruction of Myriad Things.
• The pressure of a great age: Ji Hao recognizes that in an era of returning experts and rapidly changing laws, failing to advance is equivalent to falling behind.
• Power through alignment with one’s nature: Ji Hao’s strength increases dramatically because his inherited path harmonizes with the Nine Netherworlds, suggesting that true power comes from acting in accordance with cosmic principles.
• The limits of ordinary cultivation: Ji Hao’s sudden rise demonstrates that opportunities created by the Great Tribulation can accomplish in moments what normal cultivation might require countless years to achieve.

Character Interactions

• Meng Qi and Wang Siyuan exchange a wary, sarcastic conversation about Wang’s survival and his habit of withholding information.
• Liang Luo commands his tentacled subordinate to sacrifice evil demons and expand the fissure into the Real Realm.
• Ji Hao’s sword strike directly opposes Liang Luo’s plan, annihilating the summoned evil-demon projection and preventing the initial incursion.
• Bi Jingxuan observes Ji Hao’s arrival and recognizes his importance as a fellow inheritor connected to the ancient Daoist lineage.
• Ji Hao interrogates the Asura warrior about the Nine Netherworlds, Yellow Springs, and the means of crossing it, then extracts his memories before sending him away.

Ji Hao reached the Pure Land on Mount Sumeru, where Yellow Springs's imprint explained that the Life and Death Origin Point was an intact Place Close to the Dao. After the Asura Ancestor arrived, Ji Hao destroyed Yellow Springs's imprint and activated the Buddha's nine-temple formation, opening the gates to the Life and Death Origin Point.

• An Asura reported to the Asura Ancestor that Ji Hao had crossed the Yellow Springs, and the Ancestor recognized the connection to the Life and Death Origin Point.
• Ji Hao met Yellow Springs's reincarnated imprint in the Pure Land and learned that the Life and Death Origin Point was a Place Close to the Dao.
• Yellow Springs described how mastering the mysteries of the Heavens and Myriad Realms could lead an Other Shore figure toward a Dao Fruit Prototype.
• The Asura Ancestor entered the Pure Land, causing it to fill with crimson light and the spirits of the Demon Gods he had slain.
• Ji Hao rejected Yellow Springs's bargain and destroyed his imprint, then activated the Buddha's nine-temple formation.
• The nine Pure Lands resonated and opened the gates to the Life and Death Origin Point.

Ji Hao trapped the Asura Ancestor and entered the Life and Death Origin Point with him, where the Dao’s forces tested Ji Hao and he discovered Emperor Zhenwu at its core. Emperor Zhenwu awakened and thanked Ji Hao, leaving their next move unresolved.

• Ji Hao used Yellow Springs and the Life and Death Origin Point to lure the Asura Ancestor into the Saint Sacrifice Great Array, then suppressed him and refined his body into the Asura Ancestral Sword.
• The Life and Death Origin Point opened, and Ji Hao entered with the Asura Ancestor; the Asura Ancestor sacrificed his body and cast his true spirit into the vortex, while Ji Hao kept his body for the sword.
• The Blood-Killing Daoist tried to enter without permission, but Ji Hao knocked him back out before the vortex closed.
• Inside the Life and Death Origin Point, Ji Hao resisted its life-and-death Dao forces and gained insight as he explored its outer and middle regions.
• Ji Hao found Emperor Zhenwu seated at the core of the origin point, and Emperor Zhenwu awakened and thanked him.

Ji Hao cultivated the Life and Death Origin Point, combining creation, existence, and destruction to form his Dao Fruit and attain Fortune as Yuchen, Wuji Lingbao Great Dao Fortune Heavenly Venerable. He condensed three illusory Great Daos into a vessel and rose above the sea of bitterness, beginning his journey toward the Other Shore.

• Ji Hao manifested the Wuji Point and Non-Life Point, drawing the principles of life and death into a balanced Yin-Yang Dao Diagram.
• Ji Hao deduced the Four Zhuxian Swords Formula and the Heaven Opening Seal, forming the Wuji of final destruction and the Wuji of creation.
• Experts across the Heavens and Myriad Realms sensed Ji Hao's breakthrough, while the Fortune Divine Envoy announced that Yuchen had attained Fortune.
• Ji Hao became Yuchen, Wuji Lingbao Great Dao Fortune Heavenly Venerable, and his breakthrough bestowed benefits on beings in the Nine Netherworlds and the Real Realm.
• Ji Hao completed his true spirit, Great Daos, and dharmakaya, then arranged his illusory Great Daos into three pillars of his Dao Fruit.
• Ji Hao rose above the boundless sea of bitterness, carried by his illusory Great Daos toward the unseen Other Shore.

Ji Hao attained Fortune Perfection and went to Spirit Mountain to help Meng Qi battle the Supreme True Buddha. Ji Hao and the Three Pure Ones formed the Zhuxian Sword Array, but the Supreme True Buddha burned his origin and unleashed a trace of Other Shore power to break it.

• Ji Hao reached Fortune Perfection in the Nine Netherworlds, then followed a summons back to Spirit Mountain.
• The Supreme True Buddha attacked Meng Qi and the demon gods, overwhelming Huiguang’s defenses and forcing Meng Qi to fight back with the Yellow Springs Skeleton.
• Ji Hao arrived and struck the Supreme True Buddha, while the Three Pure Ones joined him and formed the Zhuxian Sword Array.
• Ji Hao added the Zhuxian Array Diagram to strengthen the formation as the Supreme True Buddha summoned a Myriad Buddhas Formation and all nine forms of the Tathagata Palm.
• The Supreme True Buddha burned his origin to unleash a trace of Other Shore power and broke the Zhuxian Sword Array, prompting Ji Hao to complain that the formation had been broken yet again.

Ji Hao helped battle the Supreme True Buddha, seized Kashyapa’s remains, and obtained Kong Xuan’s Five-Colored Divine Feathers from Pengwang. After Meng Qi left Spirit Mountain, the chapter showed Huo Lishang advancing, a Luo Sect Divine Envoy repelling an invasion by the Demon Race, and humans questioning whether their martial rankings still mattered in an age of Legends.

• Ji Hao and his manifestations fought the Supreme True Buddha alongside the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, while Meng Qi defended the peak amid the collapsing worlds around Spirit Mountain.
• The Great Sage Equal to Heaven arrived with the Ruyi Jingu Bang and struck the Supreme True Buddha, and Ji Hao withdrew from their battle and collected Kashyapa’s remains.
• Ji Hao demanded Kong Xuan’s Five-Colored Divine Feathers from Pengwang, and Niumowang ordered Pengwang to hand them over rather than risk another fight.
• Qingqiu gave Meng Qi the promised payment, and Meng Qi left to study the Ananda projections while Ji Hao acknowledged that his path to the Other Shore remained ahead of him.
• Huo Lishang completed his dangerous cultivation and reached the Celestial Immortal level, while the Demon Race invaded Great Zhou’s Western Border and the Juanlian Divine Envoy drove them back.
• An online poster questioned the value of the Heaven Ranking after a recovered Great Saint threatened the Western Border and no human experts appeared to oppose him.

After the Western Border incident stirred panic and renewed interest in the Luo Sect, Sima Shi announced that Ji Hao had become a Fortune Heavenly Venerable. Ji Hao claimed an Underworld fragment, concealed Yaochi from the Unborn Mother, and began forging the authority of life-and-death samsara as two supreme beings clashed beyond the Real Realm.

• Posts about the Demon Race's invasion and the Luo Sect spread across the Myriad Worlds Knowledge World before the Six Fan Gates discussed how to contain the growing unrest.
• Sima Shi told the Six Fan Gates that Heavenly Venerable Yuchen had attained fortune, and the news dominated the Myriad Worlds Knowledge Balls.
• Ji Hao used his command of cause and effect to find and absorb a damaged Underworld fragment marked by the stele of Naihe Bridge, awakening six bridges within his inner universe.
• Ji Hao went to Yaochi and used the Other Shore Golden Bridge to hide it from the Unborn Mother, who briefly clashed with another supreme being across time and space.
• Ji Hao placed the Underworld fragment in Yaochi, accelerated its restoration, and combined its laws with those of the Ninth Heaven to establish the authority of the samsara of life and death.

Ji Hao established the Underworld’s authority, refined the Five-Colored Divine Feathers, and forged them into the Fortune Divine Nation by opening a new heaven and earth. The chapter ended with Niumowang arriving at Biyou Palace to confront him, and Ji Hao wondering how quickly Niumowang had recovered.

• Ji Hao refined the Underworld Fragment with the Ninth Heaven’s fortune aura, established the Underworld’s authority, and advanced his Dao of Life and Death.
• The Fengdu Yamas learned that Yuchen had seized Underworld authority, while King Chujiang restrained them from retaliating and Emperor Fengdu watched in silence.
• Ji Hao used Kong Xuan’s Five-Colored Divine Feathers to create a seven-colored origin point, then summoned Heavenly King Pangu to split chaos and open heaven and earth.
• Ji Hao transformed the opened world into the Fortune Divine Nation and fused the Underworld talismans into it.
• Niumowang appeared in the Real Realm with other powerful beings, found Ji Hao at Biyou Palace, and struck toward him.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Niumowang and the surviving Great Saints confront Ji Hao, seeking revenge and demanding that he bear the karmic consequences of the “fall of ten thousand Buddhas.”
• Niumowang attacks with a giant palm, but Ji Hao counters using the four Killing Swords. Their combined strike destroys the palm and wounds Niumowang, forcing him to regenerate an arm.
• Before Niumowang can unleash his full strength, Fighting Victorious Buddha appears and asks him to wait.
• On Earth, within a technologically advanced universe influenced by the “Super God Academy” setting, Fighting Victorious Buddha delivers a copy of the Dao De Jing to Ji Hao.
• The scripture allows Ji Hao to fully comprehend and cultivate the supreme technique “One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones.” His understanding surpasses earlier versions of the technique because he possesses the Fortune Realm and complete Great Dao Fruits.
• When Ji Hao prepares to use this new power, Niumowang and the other Great Saints withdraw.
• Determined not to fall behind in the struggle of the great era, Ji Hao returns to the ruins of the Ninth Heaven.
• Using the Diamond Vajra, he opens a passage into the sealed remains of the Heavenly Court. By exhausting his power, he temporarily elevates the weapon to a level approaching the Other Shore.
• Inside the Ninth Heaven ruins, Ji Hao encounters:
  • A broken stone tablet recording the Heavenly Emperor’s conquest and establishment of the Heavenly Court.
  • A remnant of the Heavenly Emperor’s aura, which attacks him through the power of time.
  • A mysterious palace fragment with a burning yellow lamp that acts as a beacon in the chaotic void.
  • The Big Dipper chariot, which carries Ji Hao toward the ancient Celestial Prison.
• Ji Hao enters the Celestial Prison after discovering that its outer seal has been destroyed. He travels through a vast underground realm filled with enormous jade pillars and oppressive darkness.
• He encounters the decayed body of the Six-Heaven Ancestral Dragon. Although seemingly dead, the dragon briefly awakens, only to be crushed by Ji Hao’s powerful Ghost Emperor’s Body.
• The dragon’s body disintegrates, revealing that its essence had previously been extracted. A headless remnant escapes into the darkness, hinting at deeper mysteries and hidden beings within the prison.
• Ji Hao continues descending into the prison.

Character Developments

• Ji Hao: Demonstrates his overwhelming combat power by defeating Niumowang’s attack with one sword strike. He also achieves a major breakthrough by mastering the true form of “One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones,” gaining a technique connected to the past, present, and future. His resolve strengthens as he deliberately enters the Ninth Heaven ruins despite the dangers.
• Niumowang: Revealed to have recovered to the Fortune Realm, though not yet at his peak. His confidence is shaken after Ji Hao wounds him so easily, forcing him to become more cautious.
• Fighting Victorious Buddha: Appears not as an immediate enemy but as a messenger, delivering the Dao De Jing to Ji Hao on behalf of Daode. His intervention prevents Niumowang from immediately escalating the battle.
• The Heavenly Emperor: Though absent, his former power remains terrifying. His accomplishments in establishing the Heavenly Court and the aura preserved on the stone tablet show his ancient dominance.
• Six-Heaven Ancestral Dragon: Once a powerful Innate Deity formed from the Immortal Realm’s Dragon Vein, it is now little more than a ruined shell. Its brief awakening and the escape of a headless remnant suggest that its body may have been hollowed out or exploited by another force.

Significant Themes

• Advancement and survival: Ji Hao recognizes that in the great era’s struggle, refusing to advance means falling behind. This drives him to seek danger and opportunity in the Ninth Heaven ruins.
• The relationship between past, present, and future: The cultivation of “One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones” reflects the unity of time and the ability to transcend ordinary temporal limitations.
• Rise and decline: The ruined Heavenly Court and broken stone tablet contrast its former glory with its present destruction, emphasizing the impermanence of even the greatest powers.
• The erosion of time: Ancient gods, prisons, bodies, and civilizations have decayed under the pressure of Eternal Years. Time is portrayed as a force capable of destroying even Innate Deities.
• Mystery and hidden danger: The dark prison contains unseen observers, remnants of ancient beings, and unexplained transformations. The destruction of the Ancestral Dragon’s body implies that greater forces continue to operate unseen.
• Power versus preparation: Ji Hao’s strength comes not only from cultivation but also from layered preparations, including the Diamond Vajra, the Ghost Emperor’s Body, and his Great Dao Fruits.

Important Character Interactions

• Ji Hao and Niumowang: Their clash establishes Ji Hao’s current superiority. Niumowang’s giant palm is destroyed, and Ji Hao’s sword wounds him before the fight can fully escalate.
• Niumowang and Fighting Victorious Buddha: Fighting Victorious Buddha interrupts Niumowang and urges him to hold back, preventing an immediate all-out confrontation.
• Fighting Victorious Buddha and Ji Hao: The Buddha gives Ji Hao the Dao De Jing, indirectly enabling his breakthrough into the true Three Pure Ones technique.
• Ji Hao and the Heavenly Emperor’s legacy: Ji Hao confronts the remaining aura and historical legacy of the Heavenly Emperor, resisting the power embedded in the stone tablet and entering the ruins he once ruled.
• Ji Hao and Six-Heaven Ancestral Dragon: Ji Hao easily suppresses the dragon’s revived corpse, exposing that its body has been emptied of its original essence and suggesting the presence of a hidden manipulator.

Ji Hao defeated the ancient figures guarding the reincarnation millstone, absorbed their authorities, and advanced to the peak of the middle stage of the Fortune Realm. He claimed the Heavenly Emperor’s Ghost Sovereign Body and fashioned a Nine Netherworld Ghost Emperor, who became a False Other Shore being upon entering the Nine Netherworlds.

• Ji Hao destroyed the Three-Legged Golden Crow with the Wuji Seal and recognized the headless figure escaping from it as the Flame Emperor.
• Ji Hao confronted Ghost Emperor Chengtang, who attacked with the Fortune Aura Emperor Cauldron and banners of nether virtue, but Ji Hao disintegrated both with the Wuji Seal.
• Ji Hao absorbed the authorities gathered by the reincarnation millstone, advanced to the peak of the middle stage of the Fortune Realm, and found the Heavenly Emperor’s Ghost Sovereign Body.
• Ji Hao suppressed the Demon Buddha’s imprint within the Ghost Sovereign Body, examined and partly restored the Heavenly Emperor’s array, then cut off the view into the realm beyond.
• Ji Hao used the array to transform a strand of clear qi into a Nine Netherworld Ghost Emperor at Fortune Perfection, who became a False Other Shore being after entering the Nine Netherworlds.

Chapter Summary: Fleeting Years, Meng Qi Attains Legend, the Curtain Rises

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ji Hao’s Nine Netherworld Ghost Emperor avatar collapses back into essence qi, returning to his body with the Ghost Emperor’s power. He concludes that fully controlling a realm beyond his Main Body will require time.
• He gives the avatar the Fortune Divine Nation, enabling it to command the Underworld and align with the Great Dao. Once fully formed, the Ghost Emperor should reach Fortune Perfection and, with the Nine Netherworlds’ blessing, the False Other Shore realm.
• Ji Hao witnesses a mysterious passage through the River of Time. He sees the Lingbao Heavenly Venerable riding Kui Niu backward through history, teaching in Biyou Palace and wielding the Qingping Sword.
• The visions reveal major historical catastrophes, including:
  • The Battle of Spirit Mountain’s Destruction
  • The Battle of the Heavenly Court’s Fall
  • The decline of the Heavenly Emperor and the severing of the River of Time
• Ji Hao realizes these events represent the karmic retribution of the Lingbao Heavenly Venerable and accepts responsibility for participating in that destiny.
• In the Nine Netherworlds, the newly emerging Ghost Emperor begins challenging Heitian Emperor’s Underworld. Because Heitian Emperor has not recovered his peak strength, the Ghost Emperor repeatedly wins and seizes much of the Underworld’s authority.
• Meng Qi, traveling near Sanxiao Island, discovers that the Luo Sect is preparing to attack the Ancient Fusang Tree and destroy the possibility of Gu Xiaosang’s resurrection. Unable to contact Ji Hao, he seeks help from the Mad Emperor and the Human Emperor’s Remnants.
• Meng Qi enters the Glazed Pure Land and witnesses a battle involving four Legends near the Ancient Fusang Tree. He realizes that the “Yuanshi Daoist” he is seeing is actually another manifestation of himself.
• By recognizing his true self and reclaiming his original position, Meng Qi achieves Legend status. His karmic connections and Other Selves form an Other Shore Golden Lotus, carrying his True Self toward the Infinite Heights.
• Meng Qi breaks through the manifested Legend Gate using the Wuji Imprint, transforming tribulation into primordial Chaos and shattering the barrier.
• His ascension creates the phenomenon of the “Coexistence of Two Eras,” signaling the beginning of a new age and awakening or attracting numerous ancient Celestials, gods, and sleeping powerful beings.
• At the same time, Ji Hao reaches Fortune Perfection through the interaction of the Ghost Emperor’s demonic Dao, the righteous Dao of the Ninth Heaven, and the Diamond Vajra. He recognizes that his next goal must be breaking through to the Other Shore.
• The chapter ends with the Real Realm changing dramatically: the Ancient Fusang Divine Tree becomes visible in its full majesty, the heavens fill with countless stars, and signs of ancient powers returning begin to spread.

Character Developments

• Ji Hao advances from near Fortune Perfection to actual Fortune Perfection. His Ghost Emperor avatar becomes a major force in the Nine Netherworlds, though Ji Hao understands that his strength remains insufficient for the Other Shore.
• Meng Qi completes his search for the self. By realizing that the “Yuanshi Daoist” is another aspect of his own existence, he abandons reliance on external identities and attains Legend status through self-recognition.
• Lingbao Heavenly Venerable is portrayed as an Other Shore being moving through history to fulfill immense karmic obligations. Her journey connects several ancient disasters and reveals the scale of her destiny.
• Heitian Emperor is temporarily weakened, allowing the Ghost Emperor to challenge and diminish his Underworld authority.
• The Heavenly Emperor is shown to have suffered a fate connected to the struggle over the Dao Fruit, evoking Ji Hao’s sympathy.
• Ancient powers throughout the Real Realm begin awakening in response to Meng Qi’s emergence as the first present-day Legend.

Significant Themes

• Self-realization and identity: Meng Qi’s breakthrough depends on recognizing that the apparent external Yuanshi Daoist is actually himself. True advancement comes from understanding and reclaiming one’s essential nature.
• Karmic retribution and destiny: Ji Hao’s visions show that the actions of Other Shore beings create enormous karmic consequences across history. Advancement often requires accepting and bearing these consequences.
• The inequality within realms: Ji Hao emphasizes that beings in the same realm can possess vastly different levels of strength. Reaching Fortune Perfection is not enough; only overwhelming power can secure a path to the Other Shore.
• The transition between eras: Meng Qi’s breakthrough marks the arrival of a new age. The “Coexistence of Two Eras” suggests that ancient and modern powers will soon collide.
• Time and history: The River of Time is not continuous or immutable; it can be severed, hiding portions of history and limiting what even powerful beings can perceive.
• Balance between opposing Dao paths: Ji Hao’s advancement results from the interaction of demonic and righteous principles, as well as Yin and Yang, suggesting that opposing forces can generate greater power when unified.

Character Interactions

• Ji Hao reflects on the differences between powerful Fortune Perfection beings and evaluates figures such as Yang Jian, Kashyapa, and the Azure Emperor.
• The Lingbao Heavenly Venerable indirectly interacts with Ji Hao through the River of Time, even noticing his observation from within Biyou Palace.
• The Ghost Emperor repeatedly clashes with Heitian Emperor over control of the Underworld, winning authority and establishing himself as the dominant power of the Nine Netherworlds.
• Meng Qi attempts to contact Ji Hao for aid against the Luo Sect but finds that Ji Hao is unreachable because he is connected to a special Dao-related location.
• Meng Qi instead seeks assistance from the Mad Emperor and the Human Emperor’s Remnants.
• Meng Qi encounters his own “Yuanshi Daoist” manifestation and recognizes their shared identity, allowing him to complete his breakthrough.
• Ji Hao observes Meng Qi’s emergence as a Legend and understands that the larger struggle among the Other Shore beings has begun in earnest.

Ji Hao returned to Golden Turtle Island and fought Yuan Hong, who had recovered his peak strength and challenged his claim to be Heavenly Venerable Yuchen. Ji Hao unleashed his self-created Zhuxian Sword Array Formula and gained the upper hand, ending the chapter as he prepared another attack.

• Two Daoist-robed men at Jiuxian Mountain recognized Ji Hao's Legend phenomenon and set out to awaken him as the Heavenly Venerable had instructed.
• Ji Hao arrived at Golden Turtle Island to reclaim his sanctuary, where Yuan Hong attacked him and revealed that he had recovered his peak fighting strength.
• Ji Hao and Yuan Hong fought across Golden Turtle Island, trading blows and transformations while Ji Hao resisted Yuan Hong's attempt to influence his mind.
• Ji Hao summoned three clear-qi avatars and trapped Yuan Hong in the Zhuxian Sword Array, then combined its power into his self-created Sword of Ultimate Great Destruction.
• Ji Hao used the array to lock Yuan Hong's fate onto death and strike at his inner universe, then stepped forward with a divine apparition behind him as the battle continued.

Ji Hao defeated Yuan Hong, reclaimed Golden Turtle Island, and relocated Biyou Palace to the Real Realm. He then borrowed the Eastern Emperor Taiyi’s Dao Fruit to battle his manifestation and emerged victorious, claiming a portion of the Eastern Emperor’s Dao Fruit.

• Ji Hao combined the Zhuxian Sword Array with his Thirty-Three Heavens and the Great Dao of humanity to batter Yuan Hong, who eventually escaped after the Old Mother rescued him with moonlight bearing the power of the Heaven-Punishing Axe.
• Ji Hao and Chonghe prepared to move Biyou Palace, and Ji Hao restored the palace to its hidden sanctuary before uprooting Golden Turtle Island from turbulent space-time and bringing it to the East China Sea Coast in the Real Realm.
• Ji Hao discovered the Qingping Sword suppressing the Eastern Emperor’s flesh and used the Transmuting Self Freedom Technique to manifest an Eastern Emperor avatar, sealing it within a One Origin Formation.
• Ji Hao summoned his Nine Netherworld Ghost Emperor avatar to match the Eastern Emperor avatar’s power, then fought through its time-manipulating bell and finally annihilated it with the Zhuxian Sword Array Formula.
• Ji Hao survived the battle and pocketed a portion of the Eastern Emperor’s Dao Fruit.

Ji Hao absorbed the Eastern Emperor’s dao, reached the limit of fortune perfection, and found a new path forward by merging the Lingbao and Yuanshi Dao Fruits. He created a Master Lingbao avatar, then sent the Nine Netherworld Ghost Emperor tracing into the past, where it encountered Jiuling Yuansheng guarding the Nine Netherworlds.

• Ji Hao repeatedly defeated the Eastern Emperor and the Heavenly Dao Monster, absorbing their dao principles until his fortune perfection Dao Fruit reached its limit.
• Ji Hao entered the oldest universe as Daoist Master Lingbao and merged an incomplete Dao Fruit of existence into his own, creating a flaw he could use to advance.
• Bi Jingxuan revived the Sanxiao Goddesses, who promised to help her attain Self-Proven Uniqueness.
• Ji Hao found Master Lingbao’s false Other Shore remains, merged his Yuanshi Dao Body with the Lingbao Dharmakaya, and absorbed the remains while replacing Master Lingbao in the past timeline.
• Ji Hao created a fortune perfection avatar called Master Lingbao and sent the Nine Netherworld Ghost Emperor upstream through time to strengthen an imprint in the Nine Netherworlds.
• The Ghost Emperor reached an earlier era and saw Jiuling Yuansheng blocking the Nine Netherworlds’ exit, startling the nine-headed lion with his gaze.

Chapter Summary: “Yuxu Bell Rings, an Extra Master Lingbao”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ji Hao continues retracing the River of Time and Space, extending his existence back through the history of the Nine Netherworlds. He witnesses concealed events, including the Heavenly Court’s invasion of the Nine Netherworlds, the destruction of the Buddhist Kingdom, demonic attacks on the Real Realm, and the ancient battle between the Demon Sage and the Heaven-Killing Daoist.
• He reaches the birth of the Nine Netherworlds, where Jiuluan Heavenly Venerable, Heitian Emperor, and Xuanming Ghost Emperor are also present. Ji Hao leaves his imprint at the world’s origin, becoming an ancient witness to its entire history, though he remains fundamentally different from a true Other Shore Being.
• Inside his oldest universe, Ji Hao’s “One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones” manifests as the Nine Nether Ghost Emperor, Master Lingbao, and Daoist Master Lingbao. Daoist Master Lingbao begins retracing the past through the Three Realms with the aid of the Qingping Sword.
• Daoist Master Lingbao enters the ancient Biyou Palace and temporarily assumes the identity of the original Lingbao Heavenly Venerable. Through this disguise, she alters history by ordering the disciples to support the future resurgence of the Heavenly Court.
• These subtle changes rewrite present-day memories. Duobao Heavenly Venerable and the Sanxiao maidens suddenly remember that their master has returned, though Yunxiao realizes that the change is connected to Jade Morning Heavenly Venerable’s attempt to reach the Other Shore.
• The Yuxu Bell rings, signaling a gathering in Yuxu Palace. The Four Zhuxian Swords arrive first, followed by several surviving or resurrected Yuxu disciples.
• Nezha appears and reveals that his master, Taiyi Zhenren, died after being injured during demonic chaos. Other disciples discuss the deaths or disappearances of Nanji, Judliusun, Huanglong, Puxian, Manjushri, and Cihang.
• Manjushri Guangfa Tianzun arrives in female form after her Bodhisattva body was destroyed. She is relieved that the Supreme True Buddha devoured her former remains, freeing her from past karma.
• Xiaotian Hound arrives on behalf of Erlang Shen.
• Finally, Master Lingbao appears in his true form, astonishing and delighting the gathered Yuxu immortals.

Character Developments

• Ji Hao advances his understanding of the distinction between false and true Other Shore beings. By placing imprints throughout history, he strengthens his existence but recognizes that he still cannot exist simultaneously across all time as a genuine Other Shore expert.
• Daoist Master Lingbao begins an independent path toward the Other Shore. She uses the Qingping Sword and her connection with Ji Hao’s ancient imprint to infiltrate the past, impersonate Lingbao Heavenly Venerable, and influence future history.
• Master Lingbao deliberately suppresses his aura and disguises his cultivation as a newly advanced Fortune expert who has only recovered to the peak Legend realm because of the erosion of time. This allows him to enter the Yuxu gathering without revealing his true strength.
• Nezha is shown as powerful, proud, and grief-stricken. His master’s death fuels a personal desire for revenge.
• Manjushri has escaped the fate of his former Bodhisattva identity and embraces his new female form as liberation from karmic burdens.
• Meng Qi reacts cautiously to the returning Yuxu figures, demonstrating his growing awareness of hidden identities and the dangers surrounding the Spirit Mountain catastrophe.
• Guangchengzi and the other Yuxu disciples reveal the devastating losses their lineage has suffered across the ages, emphasizing their dwindling numbers and declining influence.

Significant Themes

• The nature of true and false transcendence: Retracing history and leaving imprints can imitate ancient existence, but it cannot fully reproduce the timeless nature of a true Other Shore Being.
• Control and rewriting of history: Small interventions in the past can become established reality, altering memories and relationships in the present.
• Identity and disguise: Daoist Master Lingbao’s impersonation of the ancient Lingbao Heavenly Venerable illustrates how earlier eras can be manipulated when one possesses sufficient power and concealment.
• Decline and survival: The Yuxu gathering is marked by death, disappearance, and the erosion of old lineages. Those who remain have survived through unusual means, relics, or karmic transformations.
• Freedom from karma: Manjushri’s reaction shows that destruction of a former body and identity can also mean release from past attachments and karmic debts.
• The passage of time: Characters who once dominated the Three Realms are now reduced to scattered survivors, while ancient sects and palaces stand nearly empty.

Character Interactions

• Ji Hao and the ancient Azure Emperor silently cooperate during the retracing of history, relying on Heavenly Will to conceal their actions.
• Daoist Master Lingbao encounters the ancient Lingbao Heavenly Venerable and effectively takes over her historical role, later deceiving the Biyou Palace disciples by issuing a false prophetic decree.
• The Yuxu survivors exchange greetings and recount the fate of their lost brothers, revealing both grief and uncertainty over who survived the Spirit Mountain and Heavenly Court disasters.
• Meng Qi recognizes the importance of the arriving Zhuxian Swords and the surviving disciples, while Manjushri’s appearance provides him with a possible link to the hidden truth of Spirit Mountain.
• Xiaotian Hound approaches Meng Qi peacefully and identifies himself as Erlang Shen’s representative, creating a brief humorous contrast with the otherwise solemn gathering.
• Master Lingbao’s arrival reunites him with former fellow disciples, who are surprised that he survived and can still appear in his true form.