Chapter Summaries

Peng Six brought the Demon Race Primordial Mingyue’s proposal to join forces with Buddhism to capture Qin Zheng, and the Sixth Ancestor agreed to wait until Qin Zheng left Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate’s sanctuary. After Mingyue killed a monk and departed, the Sixth Ancestor restored the monk in Peng Six’s body, while Qin Zheng remained in the sanctuary to cultivate.

• Peng Six entered the Sea of Rules temple and told the Buddhist elders that the Demon Race wanted to cooperate against Qin Zheng.
• Mingyue possessed Peng Six, killed one monk, and was confronted by the awakened Sixth Ancestor, who warned him about his karma with the Three Ancestors.
• Mingyue killed the monk again and explained that Qin Zheng was sheltering in Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate’s place of slumber, so the Demon Race would wait for him to leave.
• The Sixth Ancestor agreed that Buddhism would also wait, and Mingyue departed after leaving the monk’s soul inside Peng Six’s body.
• The Sixth Ancestor restored the monk’s original appearance, while Qin Zheng stayed in the sanctuary and returned five strands of Great Dao Origin Qi to the Great Dao Tree.

Qin Zheng used five strands of Great Dao Origin Qi to grow the Great Dao Tree and condense a new Dao Fruit, then left his seclusion in the Sea of Rules. A rumor that a Hunyuan Seat was about to appear there drew Mingyue and the Sixth Patriarch into a tense exchange, which was interrupted by the arrival of someone they regarded as a threat.

• Qin Zheng grew the Great Dao Tree by five zhang, condensed an illusory Dao Fruit, and found that his techniques and treasures had reached completion.
• Qin Zheng thanked Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate for protecting him, left the sleeping land, and returned toward the Sea of Rules after seven days of seclusion.
• News spread across the Vast Continent that a Hunyuan Seat was about to be born in the Sea of Rules, stirring the factions and drawing the Demon Race’s attention.
• Mingyue learned that the Jade Void Palace had spread the rumor and suspected the Sixth Patriarch had discovered something in the Sea of Rules.
• Mingyue confronted the Sixth Patriarch at the ancient temple and proposed they join forces to seize the rumored seat.
• As the Sixth Patriarch began to reveal what he had discovered, he and Mingyue sensed someone emerging from the chaotic void.

After Demon Ancestor Ming Yue and the Six Ancestors of Buddhism attacked Qin Zheng, he fought both Hunyuan mighty ones with his Dao Realm Divine Objects and held his ground, though he was eventually injured. Pei Qin Hu arrived to shield him, but Qin Zheng’s familiar aura then rose behind Pei, revealing that his master had appeared.

• Ye Tianxin thanked Pei Qin Hu for protecting him after his battle with the Demon Race Hunyuan had damaged his foundation and ended his chance to Achieve Hunyuan.
• The Demon Race and Buddhist Hunyuan auras awakened, and Ye Tianxin and Pei Qin Hu realized the two powers were targeting Qin Zheng.
• Qin Zheng emerged from the sleeping place and used the Heaven and Earth Yellow Exquisite Pagoda to withstand attacks from Ming Yue and the Six Ancestors of Buddhism.
• Qin Zheng fought both Hunyuan mighty ones with his Dao Realm Divine Objects, while their clash sent shockwaves across the Vast Continent and cracked its sky.
• Ming Yue and the Six Ancestors injured Qin Zheng, but Pei Qin Hu arrived with the Demon Subduing Pestle and warned them against continuing their attack.
• Qin Zheng asked Pei Qin Hu to step aside as a familiar aura rose behind him, and Pei recognized it as his master’s.

Qin Zheng used Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate’s precious jade to repel and severely wound Demon Ancestor Ming Yue and the Six Ancestors of Buddhism, then returned to the Human Immortal Dynasty to aid Ye Tianxin and arrange an investigation into contaminated beings. He left to investigate Spirit Mountain and opened the hidden Buddhist divine mountain with a strike of Hunyuan Wuji.

• Qin Zheng used the precious jade and Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate’s power to strike down Demon Ancestor Ming Yue and the Six Ancestors of Buddhism, though he said they had survived and would not soon cause trouble.
• Qin Zheng told Pei Qin Hu that Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate might awaken if a Hunyuan position condensed, and sent Pei Qin Hu back to guard Jade Void Palace.
• Qin Zheng learned that the Human Immortal Dynasty’s ruler had lost his chance to Achieve Hunyuan, then went to meet Ye Tianxin.
• Qin Zheng gave Ye Tianxin more than ten Rule wonders and asked him to investigate contaminated beings in the Immortal Dynasty and send him a list.
• Qin Zheng went to Spirit Mountain and struck the hidden space with Hunyuan Wuji, revealing a divine mountain glowing with golden Buddha light.

Qin Zheng invaded Spirit Mountain to find and purify its polluted inhabitants, discovering that a vast source of Pollution Qi had taken root there. After capturing several contaminated Arhats and fighting the creatures guarding the source, he pursued the fleeing handsome young man while storing two monsters he lacked the merit to purify.

• Qin Zheng entered Spirit Mountain, sensed its worsening Pollution Qi, and captured several Arhats he identified as contaminated.
• Qin Zheng subdued the resisting monks and threatened the elders, then cut through Spirit Mountain with the Immortal Slaying Sword until a polluted monster emerged.
• Qin Zheng defeated and captured the monster, then exposed three more monsters and a handsome young man who claimed the polluted beings had not harmed the Vast Continent.
• Qin Zheng isolated the young man and his monsters, purified and killed several contaminated Arhats, and annihilated two monsters with a punch.
• Qin Zheng used up his available Merit Treasure Crystals purifying the monsters, stored the two survivors in the Haotian Mirror, and headed toward Spirit Mountain after the young man fled.

Qin Zheng defeated the polluted Shi Fanxin at Spirit Mountain, raided Spirit Mountain and the Demon Court, and purified several Polluted Bodies. The purification yielded no answer about Shi Fanxin’s destiny, but Qin Zheng ended with more than seventy strands of Great Dao Origin Qi.

• Qin Zheng confronted the polluted Shi Fanxin at Spirit Mountain, defeated him with the Immortal Slaying Sword and Three Treasures Jade Ruyi, and sealed him in the Haotian Mirror.
• Qin Zheng collected the Fragmented Buddha True Skin and polluted cymbals, then killed polluted monks and Arhats despite the old monks’ protests.
• Qin Zheng attacked the Demon Court and slew dozens of Grand Luo Gold Count beings, warning the demons not to invade the Human Race.
• Qin Zheng used forty-one Merit Treasure Crystals to purify three Polluted Bodies, then purified Shi Fanxin, who survived but remained barely conscious.
• Qin Zheng found no response from the Merit Scroll about Shi Fanxin’s destiny and discovered that he had gained more than seventy strands of Great Dao Origin Qi.

Qin Zheng used Great Dao Origin Qi to transform his Great Dao Tree and fuse two Divine Treasury Gates, greatly increasing his strength and bringing him close to Hunyuan. After Shi Fanxin awakened from corruption, he revealed that his destiny had been stolen and that the Heavenly Court planned to attack the Vast Continent, while a problem with the Sea of Rules seal had prompted them to send people there.

• Qin Zheng poured Great Dao Origin Qi into the Great Dao Tree, turning its illusory Dao Fruit into a real but immature fruit as the Divine Treasury Gates began transforming.
• Two Divine Treasury Gates fused into one, and the resulting changes greatly increased Qin Zheng's power as strands of Hunyuan intent emerged from him.
• The Three Treasures Jade Ruyi healed Shi Fanxin, who awoke with severe injuries and discovered that Buddhist scriptures had become difficult for him to understand.
• Qin Zheng awakened with strength near Hunyuan, and Shi Fanxin recovered memories of his corruption, including that something had been taken from him and would cause a future calamity.
• Shi Fanxin told Qin Zheng that the Heavenly Court planned to destroy the Vast Continent during the Water-Land Dharma Assembly, when the Primordial Chaos seat manifested.
• Shi Fanxin warned Qin Zheng that the Sea of Rules seal had developed a problem and that the Heavenly Court would send people there.

Qin Zheng learned that the Heavenly Court was constrained by internal conflict and returned to the Sea of Rules, where he agreed to wait for a Hunyuan position while secretly nurturing the Myriad Dao Body. Three days later, a catastrophic disturbance began as strands of rule power gathered into a Dao Prototype.

• Qin Zheng informed Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate that the Heavenly Court would send people, and Dao Xing explained that powerful beings still resisted aberrations inside the Thirty-three Heavens.
• Qin Zheng returned to the Sea of Rules and questioned the Xuan Yuan Jade Seal, which revealed it could condense two Hunyuan positions while sealed and promised Qin Zheng the first in seven days.
• Qin Zheng rejected the jade seal’s offer of cultivation insights and used the Dragon Egg to nurture the Myriad Dao Body beneath the Sea of Rules.
• Three days later, a violent disturbance spread annihilating force across the Sea of Rules, forcing its inhabitants to flee.
• Qin Zheng watched pure strands of rule power gather and intertwine into a Dao Prototype.

Qin Zheng escaped Shi Jingxuan’s attempt to force the Hunyuan seat upon him, while the seat’s completion drew the awakened Hunyuan into battle. As Shi Jingxuan carried the seat toward Qin Zheng, Qin Zheng unleashed the Hunyuan Wuji aura concealed in Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate’s precious jade.

• Grand Luo powerhouses charged toward the Dao Prototype, while Buddhism’s five awakened Hunyuan chose to wait and watch.
• Qin Zheng refused to set out for the Hunyuan seat, but Shi Jingxuan used the Xuan Yuan Jade Seal to send it toward him; Qin Zheng struck the seal and escaped with the Haotian Mirror fragment.
• A Heavenly Immortal and God attacked Shi Jingxuan, while Demon Ancestor Ming Yue tried to seize the seat and Qin Tianjun stopped him; nine Hunyuan gathered around the forming seat.
• When the Hunyuan seat was complete, the Hunyuan attacked Shi Jingxuan, but Buddhism’s five Hunyuan intervened against the immortals, gods, and Demon Race.
• Shi Jingxuan agreed to give Buddhism six Great Daos, then carried the seat toward Qin Zheng; Qin Zheng activated Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate’s precious jade and released a Hunyuan Wuji aura.

Qin Zheng witnessed Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate negotiate with Shi Jingxuan and severely injure thirteen Demon and Buddhist Hunyuans, while the Sea of Rules produced sixteen Dao Prototypes. Youyi Lingguan then appeared as a polluted false incarnation and attacked the sixteen Hunyuans, as Qin Zheng's Merit Scroll identified him as a target worth two thousand Merit Treasure Crystals.

• Qin Zheng attacked Shi Jingxuan with the Immortal Slaying Sword, but Shi Jingxuan reassembled until Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate intervened and took the sword.
• Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate offered to weaken thirteen Demon and Buddhist Hunyuans, explaining that Shi Jingxuan's faction planned to strike the High Heaven Palace.
• A Hunyuan Wuji Daoist emerged from the Sea of Rules and struck down the thirteen Demon and Buddhist Hunyuans, but they recovered and resumed fighting.
• The Sea of Rules condensed sixteen Dao Prototypes, which sixteen Hunyuans began merging with while Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate broke seals beneath the sea.
• Youyi Lingguan appeared under an imperial decree and attacked the sixteen Hunyuans with the Silver Dragon Immortal Spear.
• Qin Zheng sensed Pollution Qi, and his Merit Scroll identified Youyi Lingguan as a false being formed from pollution and offered two thousand Merit Treasure Crystals for killing him.

Qin Zheng watched Heavenly Court forces attack the newly awakened Hunyuans, then seized a chance to kill two Initial Realm heavenly soldiers with his divine weapons. Their deaths earned him a thousand Merit Treasure Crystals, bringing him closer to achieving Hunyuan.

• The Heavenly Court’s Youyi Lingguan and twenty Hunyuan soldiers appeared, and Shi Jingxuan drew Youyi Lingguan into battle beneath the Sea of Rules.
• The twenty heavenly soldiers fought the sixteen injured Hunyuans, while Qin Zheng entered the fray hoping to collect Merit Treasure Crystals and pollution.
• The Buddhist and Demon Race Hunyuans fled, leaving Qin Tianjun and two others to face five heavenly soldiers; Demon Ancestor Ming Yue was struck down while escaping.
• Qin Tianjun formed the Heavenly Doom Array against three stronger soldiers, and Qin Zheng used the Haotian Mirror to isolate two Initial Realm soldiers.
• Qin Zheng struck the two soldiers repeatedly with three divine weapons until their Great Daos shattered, earning a thousand Merit Treasure Crystals.

Qin Zheng purified the two Heavenly Soldiers’ corpses and used their Great Dao Origin Qi to open the Grand Luo Divine Treasury, then achieved Hunyuan with Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate’s aid. He rose ready to join the battle and seize the Heavenly Court’s treasures.

• Qin Zheng purified the two Heavenly Soldiers’ corpses with Merit Treasure Crystals and gained a thousand strands of Great Dao Origin Qi.
• Qin Zheng fed the Great Dao Origin Qi to the Great Dao Tree, merging all eight divine treasuries into the Grand Luo Divine Treasury as the Dao Fruit matured.
• Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate sent Qin Zheng the Immortal Slaying Sword Scripture, which completed the fusion and opened the Grand Luo Divine Treasury.
• Qin Zheng absorbed the river and three Daoist phantoms that emerged from the treasury, completing his transformation and achieving Hunyuan.
• Qin Zheng rose with his divine weapons and prepared to join the battle and harvest treasures from the Heavenly Court’s forces.

Qin Zheng completed his Hunyuan breakthrough and used three Other Shore Divine Weapons to kill a High Realm Heavenly Soldier. After leaving the Sea of Rules to hunt more enemies, he was confronted by a Hunyuan Wuji who reached for him through the chaotic mist.

• The Heavenly Soldiers defeated the three Hunyuan cultivators, but Qin Zheng intervened and rescued the two Initial Realm Hunyuan cultivators by using spatial power to remove two Heavenly Soldiers.
• Qin Zheng appeared beneath the Great Dao and completed the final step of Achieving Hunyuan as its power merged into his body.
• Qin Zheng summoned the Heaven and Earth Yellow Exquisite Pagoda, the Immortal Slaying Sword, and the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi, then killed the High Realm Heavenly Soldier with their combined power.
• Qin Zheng considered pursuing the Hunyuan Wuji Heavenly Soldier, then left the Sea of Rules to hunt the remaining Heavenly Soldiers and other enemies.
• A Hunyuan Wuji voice recognized Qin Zheng's Three Pure Ones Divine Artifacts, and a giant hand emerged from the chaotic mist to seize him.

Qin Zheng watched Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate drive Yi Sheng True Monarch and the Giant Spirit God into the Sea of Rules, then hunted down the Heavenly Court soldiers pursuing the Buddhist Hunyuan. After defeating eight soldiers, he pursued the rest, hoping to gather enough Merit Treasure Crystals to advance again.

• Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate rescued Qin Zheng from Yi Sheng True Monarch, then fought Yi Sheng True Monarch and the Giant Spirit God in the Sea of Rules.
• Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate sent Qin Zheng to deal with the Heavenly Court soldiers pursuing six wounded Buddhist Hunyuan.
• The six Buddhist Hunyuan destroyed their worldly incarnations after secretly transmitting their Hunyuan positions to their hidden true forms, but the Heavenly Court soldiers preserved their heads to track them.
• Qin Zheng defeated eight Heavenly Court soldiers with the Immortal Slaying Sword and the Haotian Mirror, while the Buddhist Hunyuan heads vanished in golden flames.
• Qin Zheng collected the soldiers' Merit Treasure Crystals and set off to find the remaining Heavenly Court soldiers.

Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate defeated the three Heavenly Court immortals and used the Haotian Mirror to break Shi Jingxuan free from his seals. Shi Jingxuan set out for the Heavenly Court to confront his old enemy, while Qin Zheng discovered that his Haotian Mirror fragment had begun trembling in response.

• Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate fought Yi Sheng True Monarch and the Giant Spirit God while Old Daoist Shi Jingxuan battled Youyi Lingguan, who used a compass to strengthen the seals and drain Shi Jingxuan's power.
• Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate knocked the three immortals into the sealed land, then revealed that Shi Jingxuan was a legendary figure who could regain up to half his strength if the seals were broken.
• Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate trapped the three immortals inside the Haotian Mirror, whose power purified their Pollution Qi and broke the seals beneath the Sea of Rules.
• Shi Jingxuan emerged as a Dao Realm legend, thanked the Jade Void lineage, and headed for the Thirty-three Heavens to confront his old enemy.
• Qin Zheng finished killing the heavenly soldiers he had found, but his Haotian Mirror fragment suddenly trembled as a roar shook the chaos.

Qin Zheng learned from Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate that Haotian Shangdi’s attempt at transcendence first brought pollution into the Chaos Sea, and that the Three Pure Ones later led the Other Shores into the Polluted Land. Dao Xing explained how the Heavenly Emperor exploited the aftermath to weaken the Thirty-three Heavens, then revealed the Haotian Mirror’s history and why its fragment had chosen Qin Zheng.

• Qin Zheng followed a vast disturbance to the vanished Sea of Rules, where Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate told him that its seal had broken and an incomplete legendary existence had emerged.
• Dao Xing restored Qin Zheng’s sealed memories and recounted how Haotian Shangdi reached Half-step Transcendence, drew pollution into the Chaos Sea, and sacrificed himself to stop it.
• Dao Xing explained that the Three Pure Ones later coordinated the Other Shores’ simultaneous transcendence and assault on the Polluted Land, after which the Heavenly Emperor used polluted monsters to ignite the war among humans, demons, and gods.
• Qin Zheng saw Dao Xing’s nearly complete Haotian Mirror react with his fragment, and learned that the Other Shores’ battle in the Polluted Land had shattered the divine weapons.
• Dao Xing revealed that he had sent the Haotian Mirror fragment to the Vast Continent to test whether it had chosen Qin Zheng, and said it was time for the mirror to return to its rightful owner.

Qin Zheng received the Haotian Mirror from Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate and learned why the Thirty-three Heavens faced danger and why its native experts could not simply leave. After Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate returned to the Thirty-three Heavens, Qin Zheng began sorting through his gains and preparing to cultivate on the Vast Continent, while six recovered Buddhist Hunyuan beings considered turning the continent into a Buddhist kingdom.

• The Haotian Mirror acknowledged Qin Zheng as its master and absorbed a fragment, while Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate explained its powers and urged Qin Zheng to restore it.
• Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate told Qin Zheng that the Heavenly Emperor's schemes had been tolerated by other Dao Realm mighty ones and that leaving the Thirty-three Heavens would jeopardize a native being's Dao Path.
• Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate returned to the Thirty-three Heavens and advised Qin Zheng to remain away until he reached Hunyuan Wuji, unless he restored the Haotian Mirror first.
• Qin Zheng returned to the Jade Void Dojo, told Pei Qin Hu and the other disciples that Dao Xing Heavenly Venerate had left, and entered seclusion to review his treasures and Merit Treasure Crystals.
• Qin Zheng used the Haotian Mirror to purify the polluted corpses of the heavenly soldiers, while six recovered Buddhist Hunyuan beings appeared in the chaos and discussed refining the Vast Continent into a Buddhist kingdom.

Qin Zheng advanced to Middle Realm Hunyuan and began unlocking another Merit Art while studying the Haotian Mirror. Ten years later, the six Buddhist Hunyuan cultivators invaded the Vast Continent to convert its people, but Qin Zheng appeared to confront them.

• Qin Zheng consumed nearly ten thousand strands of Great Dao Origin Qi to advance from Initial Realm to Middle Realm Hunyuan.
• Qin Zheng used twenty strands of Great Dao Origin Qi to trigger a transformation in the Merit Scroll, then took out the Haotian Mirror to study it.
• The six Buddhist Hunyuan cultivators waited in the chaos for ten years, gathered reports from Lingshan, and decided Qin Zheng had left the Vast Continent.
• The six Buddhist Hunyuan cultivators entered the Vast Continent and unleashed Buddhist light that began converting its inhabitants.
• Qin Zheng restored Pei Qin Hu's clarity and left the Jade Void Dao Field to confront the six Buddhist cultivators.

Qin Zheng killed the Six Ancestors of Buddhism, whose Great Daos then merged into the Vast Continent, before using the Merit Scroll to travel to the Haotian Mirror Fragment. The fragment had already changed the fortunes of Jiang Daliu, but a true dragon emerged from the Linxian River as he tried to return home.

• Qin Zheng trapped and killed all six Buddhist Hunyuan, then learned from the First Ancestor of Buddhism that the Buddha had entered extinction.
• The six fallen Hunyuans' Great Daos merged into the Vast Continent, and Qin Zheng decided to leave the Demon Race alive before using ten Merit Treasure Crystals to travel to the Haotian Mirror Fragment.
• Jiang Daliu used the mirror fragment to attract valuable fish and strengthen his body, then planned to sell his catch and learn martial arts.
• Spirit fish began leaping into the Linxian River, and Jiang Daliu feared a great demon had arrived from the Ten Thousand Mile Lake Marsh.
• A storm battered Jiang Daliu's boat, and a true dragon rose from the river ahead of him.

Qin Zheng seized a Haotian Mirror fragment from a dragon demon and learned that the Nine Yang Great World held many more fragments, along with thirty-three Hunyuan experts. He decided not to wait for the next Great Sun appearance and began planning to seize the fragments from those experts, but spared the dragon demon by ordering it to guard Jiang Daliu.

• The mirror fragment protected Jiang Daliu from drowning, but the dragon demon recognized it as a Great Sun Fragment and drew it away from him.
• Qin Zheng appeared, seized the fragment, and shrank the dragon demon into his palm when it attacked him.
• After Jiang Daliu reached the riverbank and collapsed, the dragon demon explained that Great Sun Fragments came from a mysterious sun that appeared every thousand years and that its fragments had scattered across the Nine Yang Great World.
• The dragon demon told Qin Zheng that the world had thirty-three Hunyuan experts and offered to guide him to their families, but Qin Zheng said he could not wait three years for the next Great Sun appearance.
• When Jiang Daliu woke, Qin Zheng decided to spare the dragon demon and ordered it to become Jiang Daliu's guardian divine beast.