Chapter Summaries

Zhou Feng reached Central Plains and absorbed its abundant spiritual resources while attempting to forge the Longevity Body. A white elephant attacked him with Buddhist light that began converting his body, leaving him facing an unexpected threat.

• Zhou Feng repeatedly separated his body from his divine soul as he worked toward adapting his body to Longevity Substance and forming the Longevity Body.
• Zhou Feng crossed a strange path and entered Central Plains, where pure spiritual essence, Spiritual Mechanism, and Longevity Substance surrounded him.
• Zhou Feng absorbed the surrounding energy and used his Longevity Eclosion method to begin separating his body from his divine soul.
• A gigantic white elephant charged at Zhou Feng, trampled him into the sand, and found him unharmed.
• The white elephant's Buddhist light scorched Zhou Feng and began replacing traces of his cultivation with Buddhist techniques.

Zhou Feng defeated a Buddhist-light white elephant and discovered that its Precious Blood and flesh could provide the Mysterious Factors his body needed to transform. After learning that the elephant’s soul was tied to Mahayana Buddhism, he killed its body and began cooking the meat in the Emperor Pan Cauldron.

• Zhou Feng unleashed his blood qi and battered the white elephant, whose Buddhist light had tried to erase the Spiritual Mechanism in his spirit veins.
• Mu Bei tore off one of the elephant’s legs, and Zhou Feng sensed its Precious Blood loosening the restraint on his physical transformation.
• Zhou Feng realized that his body needed special materials, such as the Mysterious Factors in the elephant’s ancient bloodline, to transform.
• The white elephant revealed that its soul was entrusted to Mahayana Buddhism’s Reincarnation Pool, but Zhou Feng demanded its cultivation methods and divine abilities instead.
• Zhou Feng crushed the elephant’s head with the Emperor Pan Cauldron, recognized that part of its soul remained elsewhere, and stored its meat and Precious Blood.
• The Emperor Pan Cauldron gathered Heaven and Earth Essence Fire and began cooking the elephant meat, releasing a medicinal fragrance.

After killing White Elephant, Zhou Feng cooked and devoured its flesh in the Emperor Pan Cauldron, triggering a transformation of his Gluttony passive into Gluttony Instinct. He learned White Elephant’s incomplete Evil Suppression ability and decided to remain in the unfamiliar territory to investigate Mahayana Buddhism and the Supreme Buddhist Kingdom.

• Zhou Feng ate the medicinally refined White Elephant Meat, strengthening his blood and qi while his soul absorbed aspiration power.
• The Gluttony passive triggered, breaking through the limits of Zhou Feng’s blood and qi and completing his soul.
• After killing White Elephant, Zhou Feng drew a new passive, replacing Gluttony with Gluttony Instinct, which let him devour things and potentially extract their abilities.
• Zhou Feng used Gluttony Instinct to comprehend White Elephant’s incomplete Evil Suppression divine ability and decided to learn it.
• Zhou Feng returned his soul to his body and chose to stay, intending to learn about Mahayana Buddhism, the Supreme Buddhist Kingdom, and the realm beyond Feathered Ascension.

After wandering the Supreme Buddhist Kingdom’s desert, Zhou Feng encountered a bodhi tree that offered him a Buddha Legacy. He accepted its complete Evil Suppression divine ability despite the lingering pressure to join Buddhism, then watched the tree drop an even more enticing seed.

• Zhou Feng wandered the desert for more than ten days without finding anyone, while Buddhist light and vows gradually wore at him.
• A bodhi tree appeared beside an oasis, and Zhou Feng spent several days cultivating in the sand before approaching it.
• The tree dropped a bodhi seed containing a Buddha Legacy, but Zhou Feng first rejected it, causing the seed to wither.
• Zhou Feng accepted the Legacy and received the complete Evil Suppression divine ability along with Buddhist teachings and a persistent voice urging him to join the sect.
• Another bodhi seed fell, showing a Buddha holding a Vajra Pestle, and Zhou Feng recognized the tree’s bait-and-fishing tactic.

Zhou Feng used the Emperor Pan Cauldron to suppress the Bodhi Tree, then uprooted and cooked it with Wish Power Water despite Old Monk Bodhi's appearance. He left Old Monk Bodhi furious after annihilating his phantom with a powerful punch.

• Zhou Feng decided the Bodhi Tree's knowledge could help his cultivation, but chose to cook it rather than risk absorbing its converting Buddhist light.
• Zhou Feng summoned the Emperor Pan Cauldron, which suppressed the Bodhi Tree and drew on his spiritual power as he struck it.
• Zhou Feng gathered the Bodhi Seeds, uprooted the Bodhi Tree, and stored the tree and its roots in the Emperor Pan Cauldron.
• Old Monk Bodhi appeared and suggested Zhou Feng add Wish Power Water to the Bodhi Tree, which Zhou Feng did before the cauldron began refining them.
• Old Monk Bodhi spoke of Zhou Feng's Dao Bone and Demonic Heart, and Zhou Feng annihilated his phantom with a punch.
• Old Monk Bodhi's voice returned from afar, furious that Zhou Feng had attacked him.

Zhou Feng devoured the shattered Bodhi Tree and discovered its golden energy was blending the spiritual veins sealed in his body. He fought Old Monk Bodhi again, prompting the monk to reveal his true body and explain his Buddha-Demon beliefs before restraining Zhou Feng with power beyond the Feathered Ascension Realm.

• Old Monk Bodhi returned, but Zhou Feng ignored him and ate the Bodhi Tree trunk from the Emperor Pan Cauldron.
• The golden energy released by the tree soothed Zhou Feng and began blending the auras of his sealed spiritual veins.
• Zhou Feng attacked Old Monk Bodhi, shattered his incarnation, devoured its golden energy, and destroyed the oasis.
• Old Monk Bodhi returned in his true body amid Demonic Energy and a blood-rain illusion, and Zhou Feng recognized his Buddha-Demon cultivation.
• Old Monk Bodhi rejected Zhou Feng's understanding of demons and preached that they were part of Buddhist teachings.
• Old Monk Bodhi's intertwined Buddhist light and Demonic Energy restrained Zhou Feng with power above the Feathered Ascension Realm.

Old Monk Bodhi tried to forcibly convert Zhou Feng, but the pressure pushed Zhou Feng into the Feathered Ascension Realm. Bodhi abandoned conversion and attacked him in a savage battle that left Zhou Feng badly injured but still fighting.

• Old Monk Bodhi used Buddhist light and demonic energy to force Zhou Feng to submit to conversion.
• Under the pressure, Zhou Feng broke through to the Feathered Ascension Realm and pulled a crimson chain from his body.
• Old Monk Bodhi recognized Zhou Feng’s path of longevity and decided to end their confrontation through direct force.
• Old Monk Bodhi unleashed his beast-nature and attacked Zhou Feng, who met him head-on.
• Old Monk Bodhi snapped Zhou Feng’s spine and crushed his legs, but Zhou Feng continued fighting with a powerful punch.

Zhou Feng shattered Old Monk Bodhi’s magic treasure with a devastating punch, and Old Monk Bodhi mistook his extraordinary strength for proof that he was the Buddha Reincarnation. Old Monk Bodhi then revealed that an artificial obsession had driven the Central Plains into madness, leaving Zhou Feng to confront the truth about Mahayana Buddhism and the region.

• Old Monk Bodhi overwhelmed Zhou Feng in physical combat and trapped him beneath a Seven-Colored Glazed Bowl.
• Zhou Feng used Longevity Steps and Longevity Fist to punch through the bowl, stunning Old Monk Bodhi with his strength.
• Old Monk Bodhi concluded that Zhou Feng was the Buddha Reincarnation and stopped attacking him.
• Old Monk Bodhi illuminated Zhou Feng with Buddhist light, sending him information about the Central Plains.
• Zhou Feng learned that an artificially created obsession drove cultivators to pursue breakthroughs and that Mahayana Buddhism’s monks had succumbed to it; Old Monk Bodhi admitted he was contaminated.

After Old Monk Bodhi died, Zhou Feng inherited the monk’s power and became the ninety-eighth Buddha Child, but the Six Rens Art warned him of great misfortune. He learned that the Central Plains’ abundant inheritances were investments by hidden Dao, Buddhist, and demonic powers, binding cultivators with karma that would eventually have to be repaid.

• Old Monk Bodhi disintegrated and branded Zhou Feng with a Buddha Seal, naming him the ninety-eighth Buddha Child.
• The Buddha Seal empowered Zhou Feng with Bodhi’s essence and inheritance, resolving his spiritual-vein problem and completing the first transformation toward Feathered Ascension.
• Zhou Feng used the Six Rens Art three times and received warnings of great misfortune, so he decided to investigate the Buddha Seal and find help.
• As Zhou Feng crossed the desert, he encountered abandoned Buddhist treasures, Bodhi Trees, and mad monks who called him the Buddha Reincarnation and tried to pass on their cultivation.
• After subduing a monk, Zhou Feng learned that inheritances in the Supreme Buddhist Kingdom formed karmic bonds that cultivators would have to repay to reach the immortal realm.
• The monk explained that hidden Dao, Buddhist, and demonic powers had made the Central Plains a cultivator’s paradise to produce a genius who could lead them into immortality, while the region’s spiritual energy also accumulated karma.

Zhou Feng learned that the Central Plains was stocked with inheritances and treasures but lacked prodigies, and that the Buddha Seal was nourishing him while tying him to Mahayana Buddhism. At Kongshan Temple, Guankong tried to make him inherit its faith and force him toward Spirit Mountain, but Zhou Feng chose to use Guankong’s attacks to temper his body.

• Zhou Feng learned that Old Monk Bodhi had turned himself into the Buddha Seal, which was transforming Zhou Feng and creating karma with Mahayana Buddhism.
• Zhou Feng found Buddha Spirit Fruits and encountered an ancient temple, where Guankong emerged and called him Junior Brother.
• Guankong offered Zhou Feng Kongshan Temple’s ten thousand years of incense and faith, then urged him to enter Spirit Mountain.
• When Zhou Feng refused, Guankong attacked him with the temple’s accumulated faith and the Buddhist Vajra Roar, crushing his body.
• Zhou Feng recovered almost immediately and lay down before Kongshan Temple, inviting Guankong to keep attacking so he could temper his physical body.

Guankong forced the Ming King Legacy and Kongshan Temple onto Zhou Feng, then fled to break free of his karmic shackles. Zhou Feng learned that the temple was a fragment of an ancient Buddha’s domain and, rather than accept its duties, drew a new Passive Skill.

• Guankong used the ancient temple’s Buddhist power to bind Zhou Feng and force the Ming King Legacy onto him, then fled as the karmic entanglement loosened.
• Zhou Feng inherited both the Ming King Legacy and Old Monk Bodhi’s legacy, and Kongshan Temple recognized him as its abbot.
• Guankong rejoiced at escaping his shackles, but a black-smoked creature pierced him with a massive claw.
• Zhou Feng learned that Kongshan Temple was a fragment of a fallen Buddha’s domain, with duties to harvest wish power and resist nearby demons.
• Zhou Feng refused to take up the temple’s work, opened the Skill Panel, and drew a new Passive Skill.

Zhou Feng used Blood Qi Conversion to strengthen his body, then was pulled into Kongshan Temple’s Dojo space and learned that he had become its abbot, tasked with gathering faith and fighting invading demons. Though the temple offered Buddhist legacies and resources, he rejected the role forced on him and decided to consume the resources without cultivating its techniques.

• Zhou Feng activated Blood Qi Conversion, which refined his body but rapidly depleted his blood qi, so he devoured Spiritual Medicine and precious meat to replenish it.
• The Buddha Seal pulled Zhou Feng into Kongshan Temple’s Dojo space, where he learned that he was expected to harvest incense and faith power and resist demonic invasions.
• Monks led by Guan Ming welcomed Zhou Feng as the new abbot and warned him about the Yin Yang Realm Blood Shadow Demonic Evil.
• Zhou Feng discovered that the Buddha Seal prevented him from escaping and that the temple’s legacy and treasury were available to him.
• After dismissing Guan Ming and the other monks, Zhou Feng refused to follow the plan imposed on him and decided to devour the temple’s cultivation resources instead.

Zhou Feng studied the Ming King Legacy to improve his cultivation and escape the restraints that had made him abbot of Kongshan Temple. After he looted the temple’s treasure vault, Guan Ming watched as the Buddha punished him with flames and a cage.

• Zhou Feng realized he could not escape the Ming King Buddha Seal and decided to raise his cultivation by studying the Ming King Legacy.
• Zhou Feng learned about the Ascension Realm and immersed himself in the legacy’s cultivation methods and annotations, accepting the karmic ties that came with them.
• Zhou Feng followed the Ming King Imprint to a treasure vault and took its cultivation resources, including Ascension Pills and materials for forging a Natal Magic Treasure.
• Guan Ming found Zhou Feng looting the vault but waited for the Buddha to punish him.
• The Buddha’s light trapped Zhou Feng in a cage and burned him with Buddha Lotus Fire while a voice repeatedly demanded that he admit his error.

Zhou Feng ignored the Wisdom King Seal’s punishment, defeated Guan Ming, and questioned him about Mahayana Buddhism and the small world. He learned that the world was used to harvest prayer power and Blood Qi, and began considering how to escape like the previous abbot.

• Zhou Feng continued looting the treasury despite the Buddha Light Cage, and realized his Forbidden Body might let him ignore formations.
• Guan Ming tried to flee with the Heavenly Foot Technique, but Zhou Feng caught him with the Longevity Steps and punched through him.
• Guan Ming submitted to Zhou Feng’s questions and explained Mahayana Buddhism’s factions and the Central Plains’ power structure.
• Guan Ming revealed that Kongshan Temple’s small world harvested incense and Blood Qi, while its people lived like livestock and its supposed demon invasions likely manufactured despair.
• Guan Ming said the Wisdom King Dojo had been left running unattended, and that the previous abbot had escaped the small world.

Zhou Feng weakened the Ming King Imprint by letting Buddhist faith power consume most of his body, then escaped the small world by tearing through space. He buried himself in a state of apparent death to prepare for rebuilding his body and divine soul.

• Zhou Feng realized the small world treated its people as sources of faith and incense, while its abbots were outsiders bound by the Buddhist imprints.
• Zhou Feng let Buddhist faith power transform his body and compress his divine soul, weakening the Ming King Imprint while protecting his Life Wheel.
• Zhou Feng severed half of his divine soul and used Longevity Steps to break free of the imprints and escape the small world, taking items from the storeroom.
• Guan Ming watched Zhou Feng escape and realized Kongshan Temple had lost its abbot, leaving no one to oppose the fiends.
• Zhou Feng buried himself and placed his spiritual power, vital energy, and divine soul in his Life Wheel, using the Fake Death Technique to conceal himself.

After escaping Mahayana Buddhism’s pursuit by feigning death, Zhou Feng used his weakened state to rebuild his cultivation foundation and create the Mortal Transformation Method. He planned to use his Intelligent Brain to survive the method’s dangerous first step and escape Mahayana Buddhism’s territory.

• Zhou Feng spent three months hiding with his vitality, divine soul, and life force compressed within his Life Wheel.
• He decided to rebuild his unstable cultivation foundation and seek a path to eternal life that preserved his peak condition.
• Zhou Feng created the Mortal Transformation Method, which would preserve a strand of True Spirit and bloodline to consume his old body and soul and be reborn.
• He realized the method required separating his True Spirit and keeping it from fading while he was unconscious.
• Zhou Feng concluded that his Intelligent Brain could control his body and awaken him, letting him attempt the separation and escape while his aura vanished.
• Zhou Feng vowed to remember Mahayana Buddhism’s persecution and destroy it someday.

Zhou Feng awakened after the Mortal Transformation Method separated his True Spirit from his physical body and learned how the Intelligent Brain had kept him alive while he slept. He drew the Spirit Transformation passive, strengthened his soul, and continued toward the Central Plains, reaching the Cloud Dream Marsh Boundary Monument.

• Zhou Feng learned that the Intelligent Brain had guided his body toward the Central Plains and fed it Spiritual Medicine, while its passives helped it survive a great demon’s attack.
• Zhou Feng realized he needed to nurture a new body quickly because his current physical form no longer suited his True Spirit.
• Zhou Feng drew the Spirit Transformation passive, which converted his blood qi and flesh into Soul Power, and his soul grew stronger as the accumulated blood qi transformed.
• Zhou Feng continued toward the Central Plains to find a settlement of cultivators for reference.
• Zhou Feng heard people remarking on his bedraggled appearance and saw the Boundary Monument marked Cloud Dream Marsh.

Zhou Feng entered Cloud Dream Marsh, a sealed domain ruled by True Lord Cloud Dream where spiritual energy was abundant but forced cultivators to keep advancing. He learned that Enlightenment Points were the only currency and that leaving the domain might be beyond ordinary cultivators, but its resources and methods could help his Mortal Transformation Method.

• Fan Song told Zhou Feng that he would understand everything after entering the Cloud Dream Domain, then stepped aside as Zhou Feng crossed the Boundary Monument.
• Zhou Feng arrived in Cloud Dream Marsh and learned that True Lord Cloud Dream ruled the domain, which was linked to other domains by dangerous forest seas.
• A vortex formed overhead and spiritual rain fell as Zhou Feng learned that Enlightenment Points, earned by contributing methods and insights, had replaced spirit stones as currency.
• Zhou Feng learned that excessive spiritual energy could cause spiritification and that cultivators had to digest it through methods or risk turning their flesh and blood into spirit stones.
• Zhou Feng realized that the domain might be extremely difficult to leave, but its spiritual energy and access to methods could support his Mortal Transformation Method.

Zhou Feng entered Cloud Dream Marsh and drew suspicion as an exposed outsider, while its cultivators focused on a dying Ascension Realm elder. At the Enlightenment Stone Tablet, the White-Browed Old Man sought a last chance to escape death by lifespan, with Shen Yunmu and others watching for weakness.

• Zhou Feng entered a sprawling settlement in Cloud Dream Marsh and noticed its inhabitants' concealed hostility toward him.
• The cultivators held back from attacking Zhou Feng because they feared his unknown trump cards and awaited a more tempting target.
• At the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild, Shen Yunmu demanded that the White-Browed Old Man hand over the Ten Thousand Year Old Immortal Pine.
• The White-Browed Old Man concealed his ferocity while Shen Yunmu and nearby cultivators watched for his aura to falter.
• The White-Browed Old Man went to the Enlightenment Stone Tablet, inwardly refusing to accept that his lifespan would prevent him from reaching the Yin Yang Realm.

The White-Browed Old Man recalled how ancestral backlash ruined his life and resolved to find a way to survive without surrendering the Ten Thousand Year Old Immortal Pine. At the Enlightenment Stone Tablet, Zhou Feng traded his techniques for knowledge that could improve the Mortal Transformation Method and counter spiritualization, but his unease grew as he realized the help seemed deliberately arranged.

• The White-Browed Old Man remembered rebuilding his cultivation with two techniques before ancestral backlash drained his lifespan and drove him to the edge of Cloud Dream Marsh.
• The White-Browed Old Man headed toward the Enlightenment Stone Tablet while Chen Yunmu and the others held back, fearing he would take them down with him.
• Zhou Feng exchanged the initial Longevity Method and Longevity Steps for ten points of Dao Rhyme, then spent them on fragments of body-reconstruction techniques and fundamental cultivation knowledge.
• Zhou Feng used the knowledge to identify flaws in his cultivation and find ways to improve the Mortal Transformation Method and deal with spiritualization.
• The White-Browed Old Man arrived at the Enlightenment Stone Tablet with a group, and Zhou Feng's spiritualized body drew everyone's attention.