Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian accepted Chi You’s invitation to meet Di Zun at the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, where he discovered the ruler looked remarkably like his Master, Qin Mu. The chapter ended with Yang Jian staring in shock and asking if Di Zun was his Master.

• Yang Jian and Chi You exchanged a powerful blow, and Chi You praised Yang Jian’s strength before revealing he had come to summon him on Di Zun’s orders.
• Yang Jian agreed to go to the Eastern Heavenly Court and brought Yang Chan with him.
• Chi You led Yang Jian and Yang Chan to the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, then left them to enter alone.
• Yang Jian met Di Zun on the Nine Dragon Imperial Throne and recognized a striking resemblance to Qin Mu.
• Yang Jian stared at Di Zun in shock and stammered, “Mas... Master?”

Yang Jian learned that Di Zun was one of Qin Mu’s avatars and accepted him as his Martial Uncle. As Yang Jian prepared to rescue his mother from Peach Mountain, Di Zun promised to back him and decided to improve his strength before he left.

• Di Zun revealed that he was one of Yang Jian’s Master Qin Mu’s avatars, and Yang Jian knelt to greet him as Martial Uncle.
• Yang Jian confirmed that he had descended to rescue his mother from Peach Mountain and avenge her suffering under Haotian.
• Di Zun warned that Haotian had stationed a hundred thousand elite water troops, ten Golden Immortal Immortal Lords, and a Quasi-Saint at Peach Mountain.
• Yang Jian declared that he would split Peach Mountain even if it cost him his life, and Di Zun promised to support him if the heavens collapsed.
• Di Zun told Yang Jian that his current strength was not enough and that he would not let him leave without improving it.

Di Zun warned Yang Jian that hidden Quasi-Saints made his current strength inadequate to storm Peach Mountain, then granted him the Ziwei Imperial Star’s Origin Power. As the power entered Yang Jian and began remaking his body, he endured overwhelming pain.

• Di Zun explained that Quasi-Saint Mighty Ones guarded Peach Mountain and that Yang Jian was far too weak to face veteran Quasi-Saints.
• Di Zun revealed the Ziwei Imperial Star and drew out its Origin Power, saying it could remake a Daluo Golden Immortal.
• Yang Jian accepted the Ziwei Origin and vowed to split Peach Mountain apart.
• Di Zun sent the purple orb into Yang Jian, whose body was battered by the violent power as it destroyed and repaired his meridians.

Yang Jian endured the Ziwei Power as it remade his body and raised his cultivation to Half-step Quasi-Saint. He reached the threshold of Quasi-Saint but could not advance without learning how to sever the Three Corpses and obtaining Innate Spiritual Treasures.

• Yang Chan worried as Yang Jian endured the Ziwei Power, while Di Zun assured her that he would survive.
• Yang Jian emerged from the purple cocoon with a remade body and the Ziwei Star Mark, then broke through to Peak Daluo Golden Immortal and Half-step Quasi-Saint.
• Yang Jian's aura shook the Lingxiao Treasure Hall and drew the attention of Heavenly Soldiers, Generals, and immortals across the eastern Heavenly Realm.
• Yang Jian tried to force open the Quasi-Saint threshold but failed, realizing he lacked both the method of severing the Three Corpses and the Innate Spiritual Treasures to carry them.
• As Yang Jian grew anxious about missing his chance, Di Zun spoke beside his ear.

Yang Jian used the Ziwei Imperial Star’s origin to sever his Evil Corpse and broke through to the early Quasi-Saint realm. His new aura shook the eastern Heavenly Realm, drawing the attention of countless powerful beings.

• Di Zun told Yang Jian that the Ziwei Imperial Star’s origin could serve as the vessel for his Three Corpses.
• Yang Jian confronted the rage and hatred rooted in his family’s destruction and forced his evil thoughts into the Ziwei Origin.
• Yang Chan watched in tears as Di Zun insisted that no one could help Yang Jian through the ordeal.
• Yang Jian used his Heavenly Eye and willpower to make the Ziwei Origin accept his evil thoughts, then severed the Evil Corpse from himself.
• Yang Jian’s Evil Corpse appeared in purple-black armor, greeted its Original Body, and merged back into him.
• Yang Jian broke through to the early Quasi-Saint realm, and powerful beings across the eastern Heavenly Realm sensed his aura.

Yang Jian became a Quasi-Saint after receiving Di Zun’s guidance and the Ziwei Origin, then left with Yang Chan to rescue their mother from Peach Mountain. Chi You recognized Yang Jian’s new strength and headed back to ask Di Zun about joining the spectacle.

• Yang Jian thanked Di Zun for helping him reach the Quasi-Saint realm, and Di Zun sent him to bring his mother back from Peach Mountain.
• Yang Jian and Yang Chan left the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, while Di Zun watched and called Yang Jian a chess piece that had finally grown up.
• Chi You sensed Yang Jian’s immense power as the siblings left and realized he had become a Quasi-Saint.
• Chi You headed back toward the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, eager to ask Di Zun if he could join the coming spectacle.
• Yang Chan questioned whether they should have stayed longer, and Yang Jian explained that Di Zun had helped him because he was his Master’s disciple.

Yang Jian returned to Mei Mountain as a Quasi-Saint after receiving Di Zun’s power, while Di Zun allowed Chi You to aid him at Peach Mountain in a personal capacity. Huo Ling arrived and was stunned by Yang Jian’s sudden rise in cultivation.

• Yang Chan asked Yang Jian how strong he had become, and he confidently said he would find out in a fight.
• Chi You asked Di Zun about Yang Jian’s strength and requested permission for the Eastern Heavenly Court to watch him split Peach Mountain.
• Di Zun refused to let the Eastern Heavenly Court intervene but gave Chi You leave to help Yang Jian privately.
• Chi You eagerly set off for Peach Mountain, intent on fighting and testing Yang Jian’s axe.
• Yang Jian returned to Mei Mountain with Yang Chan, where Huo Ling arrived and was shocked to sense that he had become a Quasi-Saint.

Yang Chan teased Yang Jian and Holy Mother Huoling by asking if Huoling was her sister-in-law, leaving both embarrassed before Yang Jian fled to inspect the Mei Mountain army. With thirty-six thousand soldiers assembled and ready to follow him, Yang Jian prepared to march on Peach Mountain and rescue his mother.

• Yang Chan asked whether Holy Mother Huoling was her sister-in-law, making Huoling and Yang Jian blush and stumble over their explanations.
• Yang Chan privately told Yang Jian that his denial was unconvincing because both he and Huoling were red-faced.
• Yang Jian changed the subject and hurried away, leaving Yang Chan and Huoling to talk; Huoling laughed and Yang Chan told her that Yang Jian liked her too.
• Yang Jian reached the Mei Mountain drill ground, where Yuan Hong and the other Seven Sages had assembled thirty-six thousand Demon Soldiers and Demon Generals.
• Yuan Hong reported that the army was ready to follow Yang Jian to flatten Peach Mountain, and Yang Jian approved.

Yang Jian led his army from Mei Mountain toward Peach Mountain to save his mother, prompting Haotian to mobilize the Heavenly Court against him. Sect Master Tongtian ordered Jie Teachings disciples to support Yang Jian, and Daoist Duobao led thousands of immortals out to war.

• Yang Jian led thirty-six thousand Demon Soldiers from Mei Mountain toward Peach Mountain, revealing that he had reached early-stage Quasi-Saint cultivation.
• Haotian learned of Yang Jian's advance and ordered one hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers and Generals to Peach Mountain to suppress him.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate mocked Qin Mu over Yang Jian's decision to challenge the Heavenly Court.
• Sect Master Tongtian ordered Daoist Duobao to summon Jie Teachings disciples and support Yang Jian.
• Daoist Duobao rallied several thousand immortals on Golden Ao Island and led them toward Peach Mountain with Innate Spiritual Treasures.

Jie Teachings and the Asura Race mobilized to support Yang Jian as he marched on Peach Mountain to save his mother. He arrived before Haotian’s Heavenly Net formation and the Heavenly Court army, with his mother’s aura inside the mountain.

• Daoist Duobao led Jie Teachings’ immortals toward Peach Mountain, turning Yang Jian’s rescue attempt into a conflict between orthodoxies.
• Old Ancestor Ming He ordered Tenhajun and the other Great Devil Kings to assemble the Asura army and support Yang Jian without killing.
• Tenhajun led hundreds of thousands of Asura warriors out of the Blood Sea toward Peach Mountain.
• Yang Jian arrived at Peach Mountain with his forces and faced the Heavenly Court army surrounding Haotian’s formation.
• The Golden Armored Divine General called on Yang Jian to surrender, but Yang Jian ignored him and focused on the mountain where he sensed his mother.

Yang Jian tore through the Heavenly Court’s army with a single axe strike and reached Peach Mountain to free his mother. Just as he attacked the Heavenly Net, Haotian’s Saint-level avatar appeared and stopped him with overwhelming pressure.

• Yang Jian rejected the Golden Armored Divine General’s demand to surrender and charged the hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers and Generals.
• Yang Jian shattered the Tiangang Disha Formation with one axe, killing tens of thousands of soldiers and gravely wounding the Golden Armored Divine General.
• Yuan Hong and the others charged through the breach as Holy Mother Huoling and Yang Chan attacked the fleeing Heavenly Court forces.
• Yang Jian reached Peach Mountain and raised his axe to break Haotian’s Heavenly Net.
• Haotian’s Saint-level avatar appeared above Peach Mountain and froze Yang Jian’s axe with its terrifying pressure.

Haotian's Avatar descended on the battlefield and attacked Yang Jian, who defied his claims of family loyalty and resisted his Saintly power. Yang Jian wounded the Avatar but was left gravely injured, and Haotian prepared to finish him with a Heavenly Emperor Sword.

• Haotian's Avatar appeared on the battlefield, restoring the Heavenly Soldiers' hope and pinning Mei Mountain's army beneath his Saintly pressure.
• Haotian accused Yang Jian of defying the Heavenly Court and claimed he would cleanse his family by suppressing him.
• Yang Jian condemned Haotian for imprisoning Yao Ji and sending soldiers to kill him, and Haotian answered by striking with a palm imbued with Heavenly Dao Laws.
• Yang Jian broke free of the pressure and swung the Shield and Axe Giant Axe at Haotian's Avatar, but the clash hurled him into a trench and left him badly wounded.
• Haotian's Avatar revealed a small wound on his palm, then gathered Heavenly Dao Laws into a Heavenly Emperor Sword to kill Yang Jian.

Yang Jian endured Haotian's Avatar's attack and prepared to face a fatal sword strike while Qin Mu watched without intervening. At the last moment, Yang Chan awakened the Lotus Lantern and blocked the sword long enough to give her brother a chance to survive.

• Yang Jian rose from the crater and challenged Haotian's Avatar to attack again.
• Xuan Du, Primordial Heavenly Venerate, Zhunti, Huang Tian, and Qin Mu watched the battle, while Qin Mu chose not to intervene.
• Haotian's Avatar unleashed the Heavenly Emperor Sword to erase Yang Jian, and Yang Jian prepared a final strike with the Shield and Axe Giant Axe.
• Yang Chan broke through Haotian's pressure and summoned the Lotus Lantern to protect her brother.
• The Lotus Lantern's seven-colored light briefly held back the Heavenly Emperor Sword, leaving Yang Jian a slim chance to survive.

Haotian's Avatar gravely wounded Yang Chan and effortlessly suppressed Holy Mother Huoling, leaving Yang Jian pinned beneath the Heavenly Emperor Sword. As Haotian prepared to finish the battle, a violent force tore open the sky above the Nine Heavens.

• Haotian's Avatar struck Yang Chan with a finger, severing her connection to the Lotus Lantern and sending her falling.
• Holy Mother Huoling caught Yang Chan, handed her to Yuan Hong and the others, and challenged Haotian's Avatar with the Ten Thousand Fires Burning Heaven Formation.
• Haotian's Avatar erased the formation's flames with his laws, cracked the Golden Rosy Crown, and sealed Holy Mother Huoling's magic power.
• Haotian's Avatar prepared to end the battle against Yang Jian, who remained pinned beneath the Heavenly Emperor Sword.
• A tremendous blast split the sky above the Nine Heavens, opening black cracks that poured in chaos energy.

Chi You broke Haotian's Saintly pressure and appeared at Peach Mountain, shocking the armies and onlookers. He declared that he had come in his own name as Yang Jian's friend to help him seek justice, leaving Yang Jian stunned.

• Chi You's voice shattered Haotian's pressure, freeing Yang Jian and the others from their restraints.
• Chi You tore open the Void Rift and emerged, revealing himself to Haotian and the assembled forces.
• Haotian recognized Chi You and questioned why he had entered Heavenly Court territory.
• Chi You rejected Haotian's attempt to frame his arrival as an Eastern Heavenly Court intervention and said he had come as Yang Jian's friend.
• Yang Jian was astonished that Chi You had come to help him.

Chi You fought Haotian's Avatar to a standstill, drawing the attention of everyone at Peach Mountain. While they battled in the Nine Heavens, Yang Jian recognized his chance to act against Peach Mountain's Prohibitions.

• Haotian's Avatar threatened to kill Chi You and Yang Jian for defying him.
• Chi You drew the Tiger Soul Blade and met Haotian's Avatar's Heavenly Emperor Sword strike head-on.
• Their clash shattered the space above Peach Mountain, and both fighters flew back wounded.
• Chi You charged Haotian's Avatar again, and they fought into the depths of the void.
• Yang Jian wondered why Chi You had called him a friend and brother, then focused on the opening to attack Peach Mountain's Prohibitions.

Yang Jian slaughtered the Heavenly Court forces at Peach Mountain and prepared to break the mountain to free his mother, but King Ksitigarbha arrived and stopped his axe. Qin Mu watched from the Underworld, treating the confrontation as a way to temper Yang Jian.

• After Haotian was tied down by Chi You, Yang Jian recovered and killed a heavenly general who ordered the troops to stop him.
• Yang Jian slaughtered the remaining Heavenly Soldiers and Generals, then approached Peach Mountain to rescue his mother.
• Yang Jian gathered all his strength and raised his axe to strike Peach Mountain, but a serene Buddhist force halted his blow.
• King Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva arrived with Diting and asked Yang Jian to lay down his weapon, then dissolved his attack with a Buddhist seal.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Laozi watched the confrontation, while Qin Mu said King Ksitigarbha could temper Yang Jian's hostility.

Yang Jian fought King Ksitigarbha, rejecting his arguments that saving Yao Ji would bring sin and kill countless people. King Ksitigarbha trapped him in the Ten Thousand Buddhas Worship Formation and offered to recruit him into the Western Teachings, promising to intercede for his mother.

• Yang Jian accused the gods and Buddhas of hypocrisy and attacked King Ksitigarbha with his giant Shield and Axe.
• King Ksitigarbha protected himself with a Twelve-Grade Giant Lotus and warned that destroying Peach Mountain would disrupt the western earth veins and kill billions.
• Yang Jian refused to stop, blaming Haotian and the bystanders for any deaths as he prepared another strike.
• King Ksitigarbha ordered the Arhats and Bodhisattvas to form the Ten Thousand Buddhas Worship Formation around Yang Jian.
• Holy Mother Huoling recognized the formation and retreated when its chanting began affecting her mind.
• King Ksitigarbha urged Yang Jian to join the Western Teachings and promised to plead for Yao Ji to enter the Western Pure Land.

King Ksitigarbha suppressed Yang Jian and prepared to seal his mind, while Qin Mu remained confident that help would arrive. A sword cleaved open the sky, and a host of powerful figures emerged as Yang Jian faced conversion to the West.

• Yang Jian rejected King Ksitigarbha’s offer to join the Western Teachings, and Ksitigarbha ordered the formation to suppress him.
• King Ksitigarbha’s golden chains bound Yang Jian, sealed his magic power, and forced him to his knees despite his resistance.
• Yang Chan, Yuan Hong, and the others could not reach Yang Jian, while observers including Primordial Heavenly Venerate assumed he would be converted.
• Taishang Laojun told Grand Master Xuan Du that the good show had only just begun, and Qin Mu remained confident that he had arranged help for Yang Jian.
• As King Ksitigarbha prepared to seal Yang Jian’s mind, a powerful Sword Qi split the sky and a group of murderous figures emerged from the rift.

The Interception Sect arrived at Peach Mountain to rescue Yang Jian, and Daoist Duobao broke King Ksitigarbha’s formation before battling him as the sect’s disciples fought the Western Teachings. As the battlefield descended into chaos and Haotian’s Avatar struggled against Chi You, a vast blood-red rift opened in the sky, releasing a terrifying surge of Blood Fiend.

• Saint Mother Huoling, Yang Jian, and the other witnesses saw Daoist Duobao lead the Interception Sect’s Ten Thousand Immortals to Peach Mountain.
• Daoist Duobao attacked King Ksitigarbha with the Myriad Treasure River, shattered the Ten Thousand Buddhas Worship Formation, and freed Yang Jian.
• Daoist Duobao summoned the Zhu Xian Formation Diagram and fought King Ksitigarbha while the Interception Sect and Western Teachings battled below.
• Zhao Gongming, Qiongxiao, and Saint Mother Jinling led the Interception Sect disciples against the Buddhist forces, while Yuan Hong and his companions joined the fighting.
• Haotian’s Avatar was distracted by the battle below, allowing Chi You to wound him and taunt him about the Western Teachings’ defeat.
• A blood-red rift tore open above Peach Mountain and released an immense wave of Blood Fiend, forcing Daoist Duobao and King Ksitigarbha to stop fighting and look toward it.