Chapter Summaries

Meng Chuan asked the Virtuous Heavenly Venerable about the nothingness of Reducing to Emptiness, and the Heavenly Venerable offered to let him experience it through a bridge. Meng Chuan glimpsed absolute nothingness from outside it, feeling that he was close to becoming nothing himself.

• Meng Chuan asked the Virtuous Heavenly Venerable what the nothingness of Reducing to Emptiness was.
• The Virtuous Heavenly Venerable warned Meng Chuan to learn from Reducing to Emptiness without abandoning his own path.
• The Virtuous Heavenly Venerable offered to serve as a bridge so Meng Chuan could experience the nothingness directly.
• Meng Chuan followed the bridge and saw boundless darkness where time, Karma, and Fate had no meaning.
• Meng Chuan remained outside absolute nothingness but felt as though he was about to become nothing.

Meng Chuan glimpsed the Eternal Silence of Nothingness and accepted Virtuous Heavenly Venerable’s invitation to return during the Final Tribulation. After Meng Chuan left, Golden Horn and Silver Horn received memories of the altered history and wondered how he had reached the Other Shore.

• Meng Chuan studied the Eternal Silence of Nothingness and gained all the insights his current position allowed.
• Virtuous Heavenly Venerable invited Meng Chuan to return during the Final Tribulation and help the Three Pure Ones achieve Transcendence in exchange for further insights.
• Meng Chuan accepted the invitation and left Tusita Palace.
• Golden Horn and Silver Horn later gained memories of Meng Chuan’s conversation with Virtuous Heavenly Venerable and asked whether he had reached the Other Shore.
• Virtuous Heavenly Venerable confirmed that Meng Chuan was not at the Other Shore, but was greater than it.
• Golden Horn and Silver Horn reflected on how changes to history affected the memories of Legendary and Fortune-level beings.

Meng Chuan gave the True Martial Emperor the complete Heaven-Severing technique and warned him that an unprecedented opportunity was approaching. After realizing Meng Chuan had reached the Other Shore, the True Martial Emperor understood that Meng Qi’s coming ascent could give him a chance to reach it too.

• The True Martial Emperor gave Meng Chuan the complete Heaven-Severing technique to repay him for saving his life and guiding him on the Dao.
• Meng Chuan warned the True Martial Emperor to seize an unprecedented opportunity, then departed without explaining further.
• The Yuanyang Ruler revealed that history had changed, prompting the True Martial Emperor to realize Meng Chuan had already reached the Other Shore.
• The True Martial Emperor concluded that Meng Qi was about to reach the Other Shore and that the resulting conflict could give him a chance to ascend.
• The True Martial Emperor recognized that reaching the Other Shore alongside Meng Qi would bind him more closely to Meng Qi’s side and benefit them both.

Meng Chuan considered the alliances and dangers surrounding the Final Tribulation, then gave Meng Qi the Pangu Banner, the Primordial Heavenly Venerable’s mightiest Divine Weapon. Meng Qi recognized the ancient weapon and learned how far it surpassed the later supreme Divine Weapons.

• Meng Chuan reasoned that helping the True Martial Emperor would strengthen Meng Qi’s alliance and that the Azure Emperor would likely side with Meng Qi regardless of whether he visited.
• Meng Chuan assessed the other Other Shore Beings, noting the Buddhist Sect and Golden Emperor’s alliance, the Demon Emperor’s wavering stance, and the Azure Emperor’s need for allies.
• Meng Qi awoke after tracing through history, and Meng Chuan teased him about a gift from Fellow Daoist Daode before handing him a jade box.
• Meng Qi opened the box and found the Pangu Banner, the Primordial Heavenly Venerable’s mightiest Divine Weapon, one of the three ancient weapons born alongside the Three Pure Ones.

Meng Qi began refining the Pangu Banner, which embodied the Primordial Heavenly Venerable’s Dao Fruit of Creation of Heaven and was meant for him to inherit. As Meng Chuan watched, he traced history back through the Final Tribulation to earlier major events.

• Meng Chuan explained that the Pangu Banner represented the Primordial Heavenly Venerable’s Dao Fruit of Creation of Heaven and was intended for Meng Qi to inherit.
• Meng Qi accepted his role in the Three Pure Ones’ Reducing to Emptiness and began refining the Pangu Banner with the Limitless Seal.
• Meng Chuan studied the Dao Realm embodied by the banner and traced history, observing the Golden Emperor’s return and his own past clash with him.
• Meng Chuan witnessed the Azure Emperor’s Attainment of the Dao, the first Other Shore attainment after the Final Tribulation began.
• Meng Chuan traced back to the Great Powers’ return, which followed Meng Qi’s attainment of Self-Proven Legend and began the Final Tribulation, and then to the Demon Buddha’s reign of chaos at the end of the Medieval Era.

Meng Chuan watched the hidden history of the Primordial and Medieval Eras unfold, tracing how the Heavenly Court’s fall, the Demon Turmoil, and the Human Emperor’s ambition reshaped the world. The account ended with the Demon Buddha’s rampage and suppression, leaving Meng Chuan as an observer of the forces that had shaped the present.

• Meng Chuan watched Ananda reincarnate as Haotian, reverse Tathagata's Palm, and become the Demon Buddha after reaching the Other Shore.
• The Demon Buddha slaughtered countless Great Powers and Great Divine Ability Users, then attacked the Buddhist Sect and was suppressed by the Buddha while the other Other Shore Beings reinforced the Seal.
• Meng Chuan observed the Overlord’s rise and death, then the Human Emperor’s attempt to make the Human Race rule all others, which led to his downfall and the Golden Emperor’s emergence as Wusheng Laomu.
• Ananda incited the Demon Race’s assault on Spirit Mountain, then reversed the Ten Thousand Buddhas Grand Formation, killing masters from both the Buddhist Sect and the Demon Race.
• The Other Shore Beings shattered the Heavenly Court over the Jianmu Fruit; the Heavenly Emperor became the Time Blade, and the Buddha used the fruit to become half-transcendent.
• Meng Chuan watched these events reveal how the fall of the Heavenly Court affected the Thunder God, the Demon Sage, the Golden Emperor, and the Azure Emperor.

Meng Qi recounted the major events of the Current Era, tracing how Haotian’s Reincarnation manipulated the Heavenly Emperor, the Demon Lord, the Three Pure Ones, and other powers. He concluded that Golden Emperor eventually rose after the Buddha suppressed the Demon Buddha, leaving the story with no eternal protagonist or ultimate villain.

• Thunder God helped the Demon Lord reach the Other Shore and revealed that the Heavenly Emperor possessed the Jianmu Fruit, then betrayed him during the Heaven-Slaying campaign.
• The Heavenly Emperor’s killing of the Demon Lord exposed his strength and the Jianmu Fruit, leading to the fall of the Heavenly Court.
• The Buddha’s first attempt at Reducing to Emptiness succeeded through Journey to the West, while Sun Wukong’s Havoc in Heaven tested the Heavenly Emperor.
• During Investiture of the Gods, Houtian became the Reincarnation Seal, Thunder God obtained it, and the Heavenly Emperor attained the Dao as the Heavenly Court flourished.
• At the beginning of the Current Era, Thunder God helped the Heavenly Emperor defeat Cheng Tang, while the Three Pure Ones remained divided and later fought over who would lead Reducing to Emptiness.
• After the Buddha suppressed the Demon Buddha, Golden Emperor rose as the next major hidden hand, and Meng Qi noted that no one remained the eternal Ultimate Archvillain.

As Meng Chuan traced the Eras from the Final Tribulation back to the Creation of Heaven and Earth, he saw how the Other Shore Beings and Heavenly Emperors had shaped history. At the Root of Time, he discovered that the identities of the earliest Other Shore Beings in the Lifetime World were intriguing.

• Meng Chuan traced the Immemorial Primordial World and learned how the Three Immemorial Sovereigns' struggle for the Heavenly Emperor's Position led to Fuxi Emperor's Fall, Eastern Emperor Taiyi's death, and Haotian's rise.
• Meng Chuan followed history back to Yellow Old Lord's Reign and saw how Dao Venerable attained Transcendence after defeating the Nine Netherworlds Evil Demon Emperor.
• Meng Chuan reached the Primordial Era and witnessed Primordial Heavenly Venerable create Heaven and Earth as the Three Pure Ones contended with one another.
• Meng Chuan looked beyond the Primordial Era into Chaos, reached the Root of Time, and considered the intriguing identities of the earliest Other Shore Beings in the Lifetime World.

Meng Chuan summoned Qi Zhengyan, praised his rapid cultivation, and discussed his dream of creating a world where everyone had equal opportunity without enforcing absolute equality. The chapter ended with Meng Qi finishing the refinement of the Pangu Banner.

• Meng Chuan altered history slightly and summoned Qi Zhengyan from the Nine Netherworlds to his dwelling.
• Qi Zhengyan told Meng Chuan that he still felt his strength was insufficient, and Meng Chuan praised how quickly he had reached Creation.
• Meng Chuan reflected on Qi Zhengyan's goal of giving everyone a fair chance and his willingness to retire once that dream was realized.
• Meng Chuan and Qi Zhengyan discussed their shared ideals and rejected the pursuit of absolute equality.
• Several years passed, and Meng Qi completely refined the Pangu Banner.

After refining the Creation of Heaven Dao Fruit, Meng Qi launched a plan with Yang Jian to seal the Black Heavenly Emperor and claim dominance in the Nine Netherworlds. They trapped three False Other Shore Beings, then turned their attention to the Luo Sect’s foothold in the Luo Feng Black Prison.

• Meng Qi demonstrated his new strength by attacking the Black Heavenly Emperor’s Daoist Grounds while Yang Jian sent a Sea of Blood against it.
• The Demon Lord and Seven-Kills Daoist intervened to help the Black Heavenly Emperor resist Meng Qi and Yang Jian.
• Meng Qi summoned three Incarnations and joined them with himself to form an Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, trapping the Black Heavenly Emperor, the Demon Lord, and the Seven-Kills Daoist.
• Meng Qi and Yang Jian headed for the Luo Feng Black Prison to attack the Luo Sect, with Qi Zhengyan joining them and the Dark Nether Ghost Emperor standing to support their assault.
• The Golden Emperor tried to oppose the attack, but the Azure Emperor held her back because he also coveted the Nine Netherworlds.

Meng Qi drove the Luo Sect and Buddhist Sect back from the Nine Netherworlds while the Azure Emperor and Golden Emperor contended over the spoils. He then sought the Demon Emperor’s help in watching the Demon Buddha, whom he believed was doomed regardless of what happened next.

• The Azure Emperor helped Meng Qi drive Zhen Yuanzi and the Luo Sect out of the Nine Netherworlds while sealing the Black Heavenly Emperor inside his Daoist Grounds.
• Meng Qi made his preparations visible to the Other Shore Beings, then arranged for Qi Zhengyan to leave and Yang Jian to conceal his whereabouts.
• The Great Sage Equal to Heaven visited the Demon Emperor Hall, where Meng Qi appeared and then went to meet the supposed Demon Emperor.
• Meng Qi appealed to the supposed Demon Emperor to watch the Demon Buddha, arguing that he and the Great Sage Equal to Heaven were likely to attain the Other Shore.
• Meng Qi left believing the request would go smoothly and that the Demon Buddha was doomed either way.

Gu Xiaosang’s visit to Amitabha Buddha helped prompt a bargain between him and the Golden Emperor, but his stance toward Meng Qi remained ambiguous. With preparations complete, Meng Qi left the Nine Netherworlds to attempt Attainment of the Dao as the Primordial Heavenly Venerable.

• Gu Xiaosang met Amitabha Buddha and failed to secure a definite promise of support for Meng Qi.
• After Gu Xiaosang withdrew from the dream, the Golden Emperor appeared before Amitabha Buddha and formally struck a bargain concerning Maitreya’s Attainment of the Dao.
• Gu Xiaosang and Meng Qi reunited in the Nine Netherworlds and discussed Amitabha Buddha’s unclear intentions and the risks surrounding Meng Qi’s attempt.
• Meng Qi confirmed that his preparations were complete, while Meng Chuan said he would not intervene unless events departed from expectations.
• Meng Qi left the Nine Netherworlds with his sword and saber, and a full moon’s light fell across him as he met the eyes within it.

Meng Qi began his attempt to attain the Other Shore as Golden Emperor and other Other Shore Beings tried to stop him, while Maitreya and True Martial Emperor weighed whether to seize the reduced resistance for their own attempts. The battle escalated around Meng Qi, who began forming Illusory Dao Fruits, while Meng Chuan watched for signs that events had changed.

• Ananda's phantom warned Lamp-Burning Buddha that Su Meng was attempting to attain the Other Shore, and Lamp-Burning Buddha resolved to interfere.
• Maitreya considered attempting the Dao while Meng Qi drew opposition, while True Martial Emperor decided to seize the opportunity and Yang Jian rejected it.
• Meng Qi left the Nine Netherworlds, and Golden Emperor attacked as the Absolute Blade and Human Emperor Sword bought Meng Qi time.
• Meng Qi formed two half-formed Illusory Dao Fruits and began claiming the future to escape the River of Time, but Golden Emperor attacked before he could trace back through the past.
• Yang Jian, Azure Emperor, Bodhi Ancient Buddha, Amitabha Buddha, and other Other Shore Beings intervened against one another as Meng Chuan watched and wondered whether anything had changed.

The Virtuous Heavenly Venerable battled Amitabha Buddha while the Golden Emperor went unopposed, but the Seven-Kills Daoist and other combatants intervened to protect Meng Qi's side. True Martial seized the chance to attempt Attainment of the Dao, beginning his ascent toward the Other Shore as the chapter ended.

• Amitabha Buddha used his Dao Fruit Embryo to hold back the weakened Virtuous Heavenly Venerable during the Final Tribulation.
• The Seven-Kills Daoist attacked the Golden Emperor with the Nethersea Sword, while the Supreme True Buddha threatened Maitreya and forced Amitabha Buddha to send the Fuxi Emperor to save him.
• The Fuxi Emperor appeared, and the True Martial Emperor began Attainment of the Dao, forming an Illusory Dao Fruit of life and death.
• The Golden Emperor acknowledged True Martial's move but did not interrupt him, as the other Other Shore Beings continued attacking Meng Qi.
• True Martial's past selves awakened and surged upstream through the River of Time while the Yuanyang Ruler protected him from outside interference.

True Martial began his Attainment of the Dao, while Meng Qi neared the Other Shore with help from Wang Siyuan’s plan to influence the Heavenly Dao Monster. When the Demon Buddha seized control of the monster and it attacked Meng Qi, the Golden Emperor intervened, striking its hand and saving him.

• True Martial began pushing toward the Other Shore, and Maitreya realized it was not his chance to attain the Dao.
• Gu Xiaosang prepared to merge with the Heavenly Dao Monster to help Meng Qi, but Wang Siyuan took her place and briefly influenced the monster.
• The Heavenly Dao Monster suddenly turned on Meng Qi under the hidden control of the Demon Buddha, while the Golden Emperor also aimed a strike at him.
• As Meng Qi neared his birth in the past, he trusted Meng Chuan would keep him from dying and pressed on with his Heart-Intent Blade.
• The Golden Emperor struck the Heavenly Dao Monster’s giant hand, shocking the gathered beings and saving Meng Qi.

After the Golden Emperor revealed that she had manipulated Gu Xiaosang and helped ensure Su Meng reached the Other Shore, the other factions turned their attacks on the True Martial Emperor. Just before the combined assault could kill him, a jade hand holding a Jade Disc appeared to intervene.

• The Golden Emperor revealed her Dao Fruit Embryo, exposed her deception, and Su Meng reached the Other Shore as Heaven and Earth fell into chaos.
• The Azure Emperor blocked the Bodhi Ancient Buddha from reaching the True Martial Emperor, while the Apricot Yellow Banner and Yuanyang Ruler joined the defense.
• The Demon Sage Fengxi, the Golden Emperor, and the Heavenly Dao Monster attacked the True Martial Emperor as Gu Xiaosang learned that the Golden Emperor had controlled her life.
• The Heavenly Dao Monster, Heaven-Slaying Axe, and Red Embroidered Ball overcame Yang Jian and the Yuanyang Ruler, leaving True Martial facing a lethal assault.
• A jade-like hand holding a Jade Disc appeared before True Martial and told everyone to give it some face.

Meng Chuan revealed himself as an unknown Dao Fruit Embryo from beyond the Lifetime World and stopped the Golden Emperor and others from killing True Martial. Meng Qi ascended to the Other Shore, leaving the Golden Emperor to declare that she would repay the Three Pure Ones for their teachings.

• The Other Shore Beings recognized Meng Chuan as a new Dao Fruit Embryo and concluded that he had come from outside their world.
• Meng Chuan asked the other Other Shore Beings to spare True Martial, but the Heavenly Dao Monster attacked him.
• Meng Chuan used the Great Dao Jade Disc to repel the Heavenly Dao Monster and evaporate much of its body.
• Meng Qi completed six Other Shore Phenomena, escaped the River of Time, and ascended to the Other Shore.
• Meng Qi looked at the devastated Gu Xiaosang and exchanged nods with Meng Chuan before facing the Golden Emperor.
• The Golden Emperor said she would repay the debt she owed for the Three Pure Ones' teachings.

Meng Qi chose to strike the Golden Emperor, repaying the Karma behind his Attainment of the Dao while refusing to abandon what he cherished for the sake of becoming a conventional Other Shore Being. As True Martial neared his own Attainment of the Dao, Meng Qi’s blade threatened to wound both the Golden Emperor and his own path.

• Wusheng Laomu recognized that she owed Primordial Beginning and Lingbao for the legacies that helped her attain the Dao, and that Meng Qi owed her for her long-running aid to his own Attainment.
• Other Shore Phenomena appeared across the Heavens as True Martial entered the final stages of his Attainment of the Dao, with Meng Chuan crediting the complete Heaven-Severing as a major factor.
• Meng Qi rejected the view that everything beyond struggles over the Great Dao was merely Dreamlike Bubbles and Shadows, declaring that he would not become that kind of Other Shore Being.
• Meng Chuan released the Heavenly Dao Monster from his Great Dao Jade Disc and vanished into the Void as the Other Shore Beings watched Meng Qi.
• Meng Qi swung his blade at the Golden Emperor to settle their Karma and defend his own principles, accepting that the strike would also wound his path of the Dao.

Meng Qi settled his debt to the Golden Emperor by striking her, ending their obligation but making them mortal enemies. As the other combatants withdrew rather than risk a futile battle, the fight over True Martial’s Attainment of the Dao remained unresolved.

• Meng Qi’s Creation of Heaven slash pierced the Golden Emperor’s defenses and cut her palm, but her golden blood bound him in Shackles of the Great Dao.
• The Golden Emperor’s injury settled Meng Qi’s debt for his Attainment of the Dao, leaving the two as mortal enemies; both stopped fighting and prepared to withdraw.
• Amitabha Buddha and the Bodhi Ancient Buddha gave up trying to prevent True Martial’s Attainment of the Dao after Meng Chuan and Meng Qi blocked them.
• The Virtuous Heavenly Venerable and Azure Emperor allowed the two Buddhas to leave, as the Other Shore Beings ended the clash without fighting to the death.

Meng Chuan confronted the Demon Buddha as the latter tried to escape, and the two fought across space-time. Meng Chuan overwhelmed the Demon Buddha’s attacks, though the battle continued with a clash of their Great Dao powers.

• As True Martial approached the Other Shore, Meng Qi’s progress weakened the Demon Buddha and helped him break free of the Demon Emperor’s blockade.
• Meng Chuan appeared with a Jade Disc to stop the Demon Buddha from escaping and challenged him to fight for his life.
• The Demon Buddha attacked Meng Chuan with several forms of Tathagata’s Reverse Palm, spreading darkness and destruction across past, present, and future.
• Meng Qi reassured Gu Xiaosang as Meng Chuan’s Great Dao Divine Seal dispelled the Demon Buddha’s darkness and scattered his attacks.
• Meng Chuan and the Demon Buddha traded devastating blows that shook the Myriad Heavens and Worlds, while Meng Qi recognized Meng Chuan’s familiar fighting style.