Chapter Summaries

Qin Zheng fought Spirit Mountain’s Buddhist forces, killing their guardians and confronting eight perfected eighth Divine Treasure arhats who wielded Dao Realm Divine Objects. As Qin Zheng unleashed a sword strike that awakened powerful beings across the Vast Continent, Xu Nianqing and Xu Donglai rushed toward Spirit Mountain, while Yin Rukong recognized the Haotian Realm’s aura in the strike.

• Qin Zheng killed five yakshas and three guardian demons with a Sky-Opening Seal, then struck at the surrounding monks and arhats.
• Eight perfected eighth Divine Treasure arhats stopped Qin Zheng’s second attack, urged him to surrender, and revealed their Buddhist staffs as Dao Realm Divine Objects.
• Qin Zheng used a Haotian Realm fragment to isolate a million li of heaven and earth, then raised the Heaven and Earth Yellow Exquisite Pagoda and Immortal Slaying Sword before attacking Spirit Mountain with a sword strike.
• At the Jade Void training ground, Xu Donglai, Xu Nianqing, and Pei Qin Hu realized Qin Zheng’s aura had vanished and discussed his use of a Dao Realm Divine Object.
• Xu Nianqing and Xu Donglai left for Spirit Mountain, but a terrifying sword strike shook the Vast Continent and alerted its powerful factions.
• Yin Rukong sensed the Haotian Realm’s familiar aura in the sword strike and resolved to find its source.

Qin Zheng emerged beneath the Heaven and Earth Yellow Exquisite Pagoda and withstood Spirit Mountain’s Mixed Primordial strike, prompting Pei Qin Hu to defend him and clash with Spirit Mountain. The Demon Court then sent its Primordial Unity foundation to aid Spirit Mountain against Jade Void Palace, escalating the battle across the Vast Continent.

• Xu Nianqing, Xu Donglai, two other Jade Void Palace disciples, and Pei Qin Hu gathered near Spirit Mountain as its Six-Character Mantra and Buddhist light began converting living beings.
• The Human Immortal Dynasty’s Emperor’s Sword and the Demon Court’s demon aura shielded their domains from Spirit Mountain’s influence.
• Spirit Mountain unleashed a Mixed Primordial Buddha’s Palm, but Qin Zheng rose beneath the Heaven and Earth Yellow Exquisite Pagoda and endured the strike unharmed.
• Pei Qin Hu revealed that Qin Zheng was the successor chosen by the Patriarch and used the Demon Subduing Pestle to oppose Spirit Mountain.
• Pei Qin Hu and the Spirit Mountain Buddha exchanged blows as Qin Zheng remained under the Buddha’s other hand, and the looming battle threatened the Vast Continent.
• Yin Rukong announced that the Demon Court would join Spirit Mountain and attack Jade Void Palace.

Qin Zheng tested the Heaven and Earth Yellow Exquisite Pagoda as Spirit Mountain Buddhism and the Demon Court attacked him, then defeated their leaders with the Immortal Slaying Sword. The demon and Buddha factions fell silent and backed down, while Qin Zheng left with their treasures and the monk’s body.

• The Demon Court joined Spirit Mountain Buddhism in attacking Jade Void Palace, and Ye Tianxin intervened against Demon Lord Yin Rukong.
• The Demon Court’s demonic hand and Spirit Mountain Buddha’s palm struck Qin Zheng, but his Heaven and Earth Yellow Exquisite Pagoda blocked them both.
• Qin Zheng advanced under the pagoda and struck down the Demon Lord and Buddha with the Immortal Slaying Sword, killing the old monk and wounding Yin Rukong as he fled.
• Qin Zheng collected the demon core, beast claw, Buddhist staff, and old monk’s corpse, while Spirit Mountain Buddhism and the Demon Court stayed silent and refrained from attacking.

After Qin Zheng drove Spirit Mountain and the Demon Court into retreat, he struck the Demon lands again, killing half the Demon Race and gaining fifteen Merit Treasure Crystals. He planned to refine the Pollution Qi on Master Sa’s disciple before joining the Jade Void Palace’s journey to the Sea of Rules.

• Spirit Mountain withdrew after Qin Zheng’s victory, and Pei Qin Hu thanked Ye Tianxin for coming to Jade Void Palace’s aid.
• Pei Qin Hu ordered Ling Jingwan confined after she voiced a desire to take Qin Zheng’s treasures, and he warned the disciples not to provoke Qin Zheng.
• Qin Zheng’s sword strike killed half the Demon Race, prompting a furious warning from the Demon Court before its Hunyuan auras fell silent.
• Qin Zheng checked the Merit Scroll and saw that his attack had condensed fifteen Merit Treasure Crystals.
• Qin Zheng planned to refine the Pollution Qi on Master Sa’s disciple, while Buddhist and demonic remains lay before him and Ye Tianxin sat nearby.

Qin Zheng discovered that Spirit Mountain had a polluted existence and purified the imprisoned Daoist, Qi Liushan, using ten Merit Treasure Crystals. As Qi Liushan began to die, he recognized Qin Zheng’s connection to the Thirty-three Heavens and warned him never to return there.

• Qin Zheng found that the Golden Buddha Zen Staff and Spirit Emperor Demon Claw contained Great Dao Imprints, but he lacked enough Merit Treasure Crystals to refine them.
• Qin Zheng and Ye Tianxin sensed traces of Pollution Qi on the dead Buddha of Spirit Mountain and concluded that a high-ranking figure there was polluted.
• Qin Zheng considered bringing Ye Tianxin to the Thirty-three Heavens to help confront Spirit Mountain’s pollution, but set the idea aside because the situation there was uncertain.
• Qin Zheng used the Heaven and Earth Yellow Exquisite Pagoda to conceal the sealed world, then spent ten Merit Treasure Crystals to purify the Daoist.
• The purified Daoist, Qi Liushan, produced ten strands of Great Dao Origin Qi that Qin Zheng collected, and Qi Liushan warned that he could not survive the purification.
• Qi Liushan recognized that Qin Zheng had come from the Thirty-three Heavens and urgently told him never to return.

Qin Zheng learned from Qi Liushan that the ancient war in the Thirty-three Heavens may have been caused by Pollution Qi, while the Dao Realm powers had vanished before the conflict. After Qi Liushan died, Qin Zheng accepted his master's lineage methods and resolved to return his remains to the Thirty-three Heavens; he then began upgrading the Merit Scroll with Great Dao Origin Qi.

• Qi Liushan warned Qin Zheng not to return to the Thirty-three Heavens and explained how the ancient war and Pollution Qi had left him near death.
• Qi Liushan said the Three Pure Ones and other Dao Realm powers had not fought in the war, since the Dao Realm figures had already vanished, though he could not say whether any had returned since.
• Before dying, Qi Liushan gave Qin Zheng a jade slip containing his master's lineage methods and asked him to pass them on, and Qin Zheng agreed.
• Qi Liushan asked Qin Zheng to tell his master that he had never harmed living beings while polluted, then died after saying he would choose to become his master's disciple again in another life.
• Qin Zheng stored Qi Liushan's body and resolved to return it to the Thirty-three Heavens, then focused on cultivating toward Hunyuan.
• Qin Zheng sent Great Dao Origin Qi into the Merit Scroll, and when the fifth strand entered, the scroll radiated dazzling golden light across his sea of consciousness.

Qin Zheng gained the Merit Art Enlighten Dao Seek Essence and used it to enter the memories held in the Golden Buddha Zen Staff. He witnessed the suffering that shaped a Buddhist Hunyuan, and the resulting Great Dao resonance caused a hidden divine treasury within him to emerge.

• Qin Zheng discovered that Enlighten Dao Seek Essence could reveal the Dao essence in artifacts for one Merit Treasure Crystal, but the Three Pure Ones Divine Artifacts each required one hundred thousand.
• Qin Zheng spent one Merit Treasure Crystal on the Golden Buddha Zen Staff and entered a vision of an old monk and his young disciple, Dingyuan, sheltering starving people during a famine.
• As the famine worsened, the old monk offered his own flesh to the starving men and asked them to take Dingyuan to another temple, but they later killed the child.
• A powerful monk restored the old monk to a new body and showed him the child's skull, prompting the old monk to vow to kill every last person and rid the world of evil.
• The old monk's hatred stirred the Great Dao, and a hidden divine treasury within Qin Zheng slowly emerged.

Qin Zheng arrived at the Jade Void Daoist grounds after advancing to perfection in his eighth Divine Treasury and agreed to travel to the Sea of Rules. As he and Xu Donglai headed there amid unrest stirred by the Lingshan Buddhist Sect, Qin Zheng concealed himself from divination and prepared to confront the Buddhist Sect if necessary.

• Pei Qin Hu received word that the Lingshan Buddhist Sect had caused trouble in the Sea of Rules, and Xu Nianqing led two disciples there to reinforce Second Senior Brother while another waited for Qin Zheng.
• Qin Zheng appeared at the Jade Void Daoist grounds, where Pei Qin Hu realized he had advanced to the perfected eighth Divine Treasury; Qin Zheng agreed to go to the Sea of Rules with Xu Donglai.
• After Qin Zheng left, Pei Qin Hu divined that Qin Zheng was less than a hundred years old, shocking the Jade Void disciples.
• While traveling through the chaos with Xu Donglai, Qin Zheng used the Dao One Seal and the Limitless Seal to prevent anyone from divining information about him.
• Qin Zheng suspected the Lingshan Buddhist Sect had targeted Jade Void Palace because of his earlier actions and resolved not to hold back against them in the Sea of Rules.

Meng Qishan fought seven Lingshan Buddhist monks in the Sea of Rules while they revealed their vengeance against Jade Void Palace and targeted his disciples. Just as Xu Nianqing and two others were seized, a gold-patterned black-robed figure appeared and destroyed the Buddha holding them.

• Meng Qishan clashed with the six Buddhist arhats and an aged monk, injuring them while trying to preserve the treasured land.
• The old monk revealed that Jade Void Palace had killed Lingshan’s Dharma-protecting Vajras, arhats, and current Buddha three years earlier, and Meng Qishan realized the monks were keeping him occupied while others acted elsewhere.
• The Buddhists summoned Xu Nianqing and two other Jade Void disciples, then seized them in a golden Buddha’s hand and began to refine them.
• A gold-patterned black-robed figure pierced the golden Buddha’s head, appeared before the gathered fighters, and shattered the Buddha holding the disciples.

Qin Zheng attacked the Buddhist forces in the Sea of Rules, killing three Arhats and overpowering a golden Buddha formed from seven Arhats. The Buddha tried to trigger the Sea of Rules with his Primordial Chaos foundation, but Qin Zheng stopped his escape and struck him with the Immortal Slaying Sword.

• Qin Zheng killed three injured Arhats with a single punch while suppressing the disturbance he had caused in the Sea of Rules.
• Qin Zheng attacked the golden Buddha formed from seven Arhats as Meng Qishan continued fighting it with his sword.
• The golden Buddha activated his Primordial Chaos foundation, threatening to make the Sea of Rules erupt, then tried to flee.
• Qin Zheng's punch forced the golden Buddha back into a tangible state and knocked him from the clouds without triggering the Sea of Rules.
• Qin Zheng conjured the Immortal Slaying Sword and swallowed the golden Buddha in a slash of monstrous sword qi.

Qin Zheng killed the Buddhist Arhats who attacked Meng Qishan and helped suppress the raging Sea of Rules. After Xie Lingying recognized Qin Zheng as the cultivator he had protected three years earlier, Qin Zheng asked Meng Qishan to show him the discovered treasure ground, where six hidden Buddhas discussed their losses and awaited the Sixth Patriarch’s awakening.

• Qin Zheng collected seven relics and a golden alms bowl after killing seven Buddhist Arhats with the Immortal Slaying Sword, then helped Meng Qishan calm the Sea of Rules.
• Xu Nianqing and two other Jade Void disciples thanked Qin Zheng for saving them, and Meng Qishan sent them away to recover while promising to demand an explanation from Spirit Mountain.
• A Buddha formed by six more Arhats emerged from the Sea of Rules, but Qin Zheng destroyed it with a punch and palm strike, killing the six Arhats and settling the sea again.
• Xie Lingying recognized Qin Zheng as the cultivator he had helped protect from the Demon Court and was stunned to learn that Qin Zheng had risen from the perfected fourth level of the Divine Treasury in just over three years.
• Qin Zheng asked Meng Qishan to take him to the treasure ground, where six hidden Buddhas discussed their sixteen lost Arhats and said the Sixth Patriarch would awaken in seven days.

Qin Zheng and Meng Qishan reached a treasure ground in the Sea of Rules, where a rule divine beast guarded the treasures. After the dragon revealed that the injured Hunyuan figures could be restored by claiming blank Great Daos, Qin Zheng faced it alone and prepared to fight.

• Qin Zheng concluded that killing one perfected eighth-divine-treasury Grand Luo Gold Count earned one Merit Treasure Crystal, bringing his total to sixteen.
• Meng Qishan led Qin Zheng into a seven-colored region of chaotic rules and explained that Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate had not awakened for over a million years and might never awaken again.
• A giant rule divine beast emerged and attacked them, but the small boat's clear light protected Qin Zheng and Meng Qishan.
• Meng Qishan asked the dragon to grant them divine objects to awaken Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate, but the dragon mocked his plea and unleashed annihilating rule power.
• Qin Zheng told Meng Qishan to leave, then learned from the dragon that injured Hunyuan figures could recover by claiming blank Great Daos.
• Qin Zheng climbed onto the dragon's head with the Heaven and Earth Yellow Exquisite Pagoda, Immortal Slaying Sword, and Jade Ruyi, challenging it to act.

Qin Zheng killed the giant dragon that ruled the isolated Sea of Rules and refined its body into a Dragon Egg that would nurture his Myriad Dao Body clone. He then reached the dragon’s lair, where he discovered countless Exquisite Dao Fruits capable of granting brief comprehension of different Great Daos.

• The giant dragon attacked Qin Zheng with annihilating power, but Qin Zheng’s three Dao Realm Divine Objects protected him as he struck back with the Jade Ruyi and Immortal Slaying Sword.
• The dragon tried to amplify its power by calling on the Sea of Rules, but Qin Zheng’s Haotian Realm fragment had sealed the area off and limited the dragon’s reach.
• Qin Zheng struck the dragon seven more times with the Jade Ruyi, erased its intelligence, and discovered through the Merit Scroll that its body could be refined into a Myriad Dao Body.
• Qin Zheng spent ten Merit Treasure Crystals to refine the dragon’s body into a Dragon Egg and sent a wisp of his divine sense inside to form a clone that would continue nurturing in the Sea of Rules.
• Qin Zheng descended to the dragon’s lair and found that its strange fruit could become Exquisite Dao Fruits, each offering a breath of comprehension of a different Great Dao.

While Qin Zheng explored the Sea of Rules and comprehended Exquisite Dao Fruits, turmoil beneath the seabed revealed a sealed world and a mysterious Daoist named Shi Jingxuan. Shi Jingxuan offered Qin Zheng an empty seat of Hunyuan in exchange for his help in the future.

• Meng Qishan returned to Xie Lingying after Qin Zheng stayed behind to deal with the giant dragon, and the two agreed that Biyu Palace could receive a share of the treasure land’s wonders.
• In a temple beneath the Sea of Rules, Lingshan Buddhist Sect elders ordered Juexin and Jueneng to help the spirit dragon trap Qin Zheng or hold him for five days so the Sixth Patriarch could act.
• Qin Zheng comprehended seven Great Daos from Exquisite Dao Fruits and used the Myriad Dao Body to sense the Sea of Rules, while planning to share the remaining fruits with Jade Void Palace.
• The Myriad Dao Body discovered a hidden world beneath the seabed where divine seals held cracks shut, and a ball of light broke through a fissure and rushed toward Qin Zheng.
• Qin Zheng raised his defenses and weapons as the light appeared beside the Dragon Egg as an old Daoist, who introduced himself as Shi Jingxuan and offered him an empty seat of Hunyuan for future aid.

Qin Zheng learned that the Sea of Rules was the ruined Xuan Yuan Great World and that its dead cultivators wanted his help avenging its destruction in exchange for a Hunyuan Seat. The old Daoist promised to return within a month to begin condensing the seat, while Qin Zheng remained wary of the risks and the Daoist’s claims.

• The old Daoist explained that the Sea of Rules was once the Seven-star Xuan Yuan Great World, shattered by pollution from beyond the heavens and a war involving Legend-level beings.
• The old Daoist described the three stages above Hunyuan—Legend, Creation, and Other Shore—and said Qin Zheng had the aptitude to achieve Legend.
• Qin Zheng questioned how the dead cultivators could provide a Hunyuan Seat, and the old Daoist demonstrated his command of the Sun Dao by gathering chaotic rules into a blazing sun.
• The old Daoist said the departed cultivators would spend their remaining origin to condense a Hunyuan Seat if Qin Zheng agreed to avenge Xuan Yuan’s destruction.
• Qin Zheng asked how he could claim the seat without attracting hostile Hunyuan beings, and the old Daoist promised the Sea of Rules would keep them out.
• The old Daoist said the plan could begin within a month, then dispersed into a jade seal that would contact Qin Zheng when the time was right.

Qin Zheng left the dragon lair to protect the Myriad Dao Body and was ambushed by two Lingshan Buddhist arhats using a decree of the Three Ancestors of Buddhism. He killed the arhats and destroyed the decree’s Hunyuan manifestation, then departed as the Buddhists learned their Third Ancestor’s decree had shattered.

• Qin Zheng suppressed the Xuan Yuan Jade Seal beneath the Heaven and Earth Yellow Exquisite Pagoda and stored the Dragon Egg and Exquisite Dao Fruits.
• Qin Zheng left the dragon lair, intending to spread news of an approaching Hunyuan position and nurture the Myriad Dao Body in a hidden space.
• Monk Juexin and Monk Jue Neng used a Buddhist Hunyuan method to ambush Qin Zheng, but the pagoda and his other Dao Realm Divine Objects cleared his mind.
• Qin Zheng slew Monk Juexin and Monk Jue Neng with the Immortal Slaying Sword and collected their relics.
• Qin Zheng destroyed the Three Ancestors of Buddhism’s manifested Hunyuan figure with the Immortal Slaying Sword, Three Treasures Jade Ruyi, and annihilating power, then took the broken beast hide.
• At the fog-hidden temple, the Buddhists discovered that the Third Ancestor’s decree had shattered and decided to wait a few more days.

Qin Zheng left the Sea of Rules with Meng Qishan to awaken Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate, after suppressing the Xuan Yuan Jade Seal and learning that the old Daoist within it wanted the Heavenly Venerate brought back to the sea. The chapter ended as Meng Qishan opened the Heavenly Venerate’s hidden resting place and Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate appeared within the chaos mist.

• Qin Zheng told Meng Qishan that the vile dragon was dead and that he would keep one-third of the three hundred rule strange objects, while the rest would be used to awaken Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate.
• Xie Lingying invited Qin Zheng to visit Biyu Palace and view its copy of the Immortal Slaying Sword Scripture, then departed.
• As Qin Zheng and Meng Qishan neared the Sea of Rules’ boundary, the Xuan Yuan Jade Seal tried to break free, but Qin Zheng suppressed it with three Dao Realm Divine Objects.
• The old Daoist inside the seal urged Qin Zheng to bring Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate to the Sea of Rules for healing and warned that the seat of Hunyuan would condense within a month.
• Qin Zheng suggested that the Sea of Rules might nurture a seat of Hunyuan, leaving Meng Qishan to consider the possibility as they traveled toward the Heavenly Venerate’s resting place.
• Meng Qishan cut through the chaos mist to reveal a hidden world, where Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate appeared seated in the chaos.

Qin Zheng saw the extent of Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate’s Great Dao injuries and learned that two hundred Exquisite Dao Fruits could not awaken him. Just as Meng Qishan turned to ask Qin Zheng about the Hunyuan seat, the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi awakened and Dao Xing spoke to Qin Zheng.

• Qin Zheng’s Merit Scroll and four Dao Realm Divine Objects scattered Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate’s projection before it could open its eyes.
• Qin Zheng told Meng Qishan that Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate’s Great Dao was covered in cracks and nearly broken apart, and Meng Qishan admitted no one in the Jade Void lineage had seen it before.
• Qin Zheng offered two hundred Exquisite Dao Fruits, and Meng Qishan sent them toward Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate to repair his injuries.
• The fruits briefly raised Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate’s aura, but their power repaired only a small number of cracks before running out, leaving him asleep.
• As Meng Qishan began asking Qin Zheng about the Sea of Rules, the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi awakened in Qin Zheng’s hand and Dao Xing thanked him for his assistance.

Qin Zheng met Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate, who restored the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi and explained the Hunyuan cultivators on the Vast Continent. After advising Qin Zheng to pursue his own Dao rather than rely on an external Hunyuan position, Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate asked him to return to the Sea of Rules on his behalf.

• Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate awakened, and the two halves of the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi reunited before returning to Qin Zheng, restoring the artifact completely.
• Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate explained that seventeen Hunyuan cultivators had arrived on the Vast Continent and warned Qin Zheng that he should avoid provoking them before achieving the Dao.
• Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate examined the Xuan Yuan Jade Seal, and Qin Zheng recounted how he had found it in the Sea of Rules and learned of the request to heal Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate's Dao Injury.
• Qin Zheng rejected using a Hunyuan position from the Sea of Rules to achieve the Dao, and Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate urged him to seek his own Dao instead.
• Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate asked Qin Zheng to travel to the Sea of Rules on his behalf because he was interested in its Hunyuan position.

Qin Zheng met Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate, received the completed Nine Primordial Seals and three protective jade tokens, and learned that a Hunyuan position would soon form in the Sea of Rules. The chapter ended with Qin Zheng directing Meng Qishan and Jade Void Palace to spread the news, while he resolved to pursue Hunyuan through the Grand Luo Divine Treasury.

• Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate agreed that news of the coming Hunyuan position should spread, then returned the Xuan Yuan Jade Seal to Qin Zheng.
• Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate completed Qin Zheng's Primordial Beginning Golden Chapter by imparting the Nine Primordial Seals, and advised him to perfect his other cultivation method without rushing.
• Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate gave Qin Zheng three precious jade tokens containing his attacks and warned him that two Hunyuan from the Buddhist Sect and the Demon Race were about to awaken.
• After Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate fell back into slumber, Qin Zheng told Meng Qishan that his master would awaken completely before long.
• Qin Zheng asked Meng Qishan to spread news of the Hunyuan position throughout the Vast Continent, explaining that this was Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate's arrangement.
• Qin Zheng assessed his strengthened cultivation and resolved to achieve Hunyuan through the Grand Luo Divine Treasury.