Chapter Summaries

Xu Xuan fought Taojue across a fabricated realm, using his accumulated powers and an ultimate Altar Thunder Pursuit to cut away the enemy’s face. He discovered that the apparent Taojue was a puppet of Without Absolution and that the real Taojue had deceived him; the chapter ended with Xu Xuan trapped between two indistinguishable histories.

• Xu Xuan invoked Yao Jun’s Dao fruit, Void Mirror, and Cavern Concealment to contend with Taojue, who created a vast devil realm and tried to plunder greater yin’s authority.
• Xu Xuan and Taojue reshaped time and space through their competing Daos, while Xu Xuan used severance, the White Jade Disk, and other powers to resist Taojue’s fabricated authorities.
• Xu Xuan provoked an ultimate Altar Thunder Pursuit and used the resulting judgment to weaken both sides, then cut away the aged face on the withering demon manifestation instead of striking Taojue down.
• Taojue revealed that Without Absolution had worn his face and acted as an independent puppet of fated destiny, while Taojue had already completed a higher form of borrowing the true to cultivate the false.
• Without Absolution escaped into a more real and ancient world, and Taojue vanished after leaving Xu Xuan unable to tell true history from False History.
• Xu Xuan found himself facing two identical histories and walked toward their fork, still unable to distinguish which was true.

Xu Xuan realized altar thunder concealed a missing position in the truth-and-falsehood order, then entered the history he believed was true to confront Taojue. In the White Paper Blessed Land, Tao Zhennan’s meeting with Mount Sumeru’s forces revealed that Torch Dragon had taken control of the Peacock Mother Temple and demanded an explanation from Hengshi before Yinkang Ziye completed his verification.

• Xu Xuan deduced that altar thunder was a divine status occupying the missing position between truth and falsehood, and suspected Taojue intended to overturn that arrangement.
• Xu Xuan used the wound left by Immortal Lord Heavenly Feather to identify true history, then entered it despite his doubts about becoming mortal.
• Tao Zhennan found that Tianpeng’s thunderbolts had dispersed from Heavenly Origin Marsh and met Huaxuan, who represented the Great Peacock Mother.
• Tao Zhennan entered the Peacock Mother Temple and discovered Torch Dragon had subdued the Great Peacock Mother and burned the temple’s demon Buddhists.
• Torch Dragon summoned True Lord Ji Earth through Tao Zhennan and warned that Yinkang Ziye would demand an explanation from Hengshi within a quarter of an hour or slaughter its Golden Cores, Assistant Deities, and Attendant Envoys.

The Second Demon began the Final Calamity, while the Lord of Ding Fire and Jiang Dong's Old Form fought to destroy the demonic realm. Xu Xuan attained Jade Void and confronted the Second Demon, and Divine Stammer revealed that the plan had succeeded as Emperor Nether uncovered the truth behind Deceiving Heaven.

• The Second Demon descended as the Devil Ancestor, triggered Dao Decline, and began the Final Calamity by replacing beings across the world with demons.
• The Lord of Ding Fire shot down the Greater Yang, and Jiang Dong's Old Form returned to overturn much of the demonic realm with Ultimate Fire.
• The Lord of Ding Fire fired again at Heaven's Falsehood Star, but the Second Demon erased the arrow's wound as false.
• Xu Xuan attained Jade Void, became its immortal, and challenged the Second Demon for deceiving him.
• At Heavenly Origin Marsh, the Lord of Ding Fire severed Divine Stammer's head and burned his immortal body, then Tao Zhennan received Divine Stammer's order to seal the gates.
• Emperor Nether arrived and realized that someone had accomplished Deceiving Heaven; Divine Stammer understood that Lord Hengchu had also been deceiving himself and declared the plan complete.

Zhang Yu experienced successive histories in which Blessed Sage Heaven was destroyed, his lineage vanished, and the Second Demon claimed the world, before the Millet Immortal confronted the Devil Ancestor over the hidden histories of truth and withering. The Devil Ancestor revealed that Zhang Yuzhi had anchored the true history while jade void entered a false one, then faced the Millet Immortal’s assembled histories and challenged him to overcome supreme falsehood.

• Zhang Yu returned to Blessed Sage Heaven and watched its cultivators die as the Second Demon’s Trueless Demonic Realm tore the grotto-heaven apart.
• Zhang Yu witnessed the rise of the True Lord Heavenly Decline and the Jade Void Immortal, then perished as his memories and cultivation unraveled.
• Zhang Yu found the Martial Mu lineage erased, met Zhang Baishi in a village, and summoned the Northern Sage, who attained the position of truth.
• Zhang Yu returned to Blessed Sage Heaven in another history, discovered that the True Lord’s palace had become the True Demon Palace, and bowed to the Second Demon.
• The Millet Immortal entered the Devil Palace and questioned the Second Demon about his deception, the concealed history of truth, and Taiyou.
• The Devil Ancestor explained that Zhang Yuzhi had anchored the true history while jade void was locked in a false history, then faced the Millet Immortal’s summoned Immortals, Deities, and Buddhas.

Xu Xuan uncovered how the True-Withering Venerable Position had been disguised and attained the Jade Void Dao, but its history trapped him beyond reach of the true history. After failing to escape through Severance, he heard a voice and sensed a blood-red light approach his sealed history.

• Xu Xuan exposed Mystic Truth Star, discovered that Lesser Yin’s concealment had made the Northern Sage’s True-Withering Venerable Position appear to be the True Qi Fruit Position, and anchored the Jade Void history.
• Xu Xuan attained the Jade Void Dao as its First Jade Void and realized that Truth, Lesser Yin, and Ji Earth kept him cut off from the true history.
• Xu Xuan considered dispersing Jade Void or entering Primordial Heaven, but concluded that neither route could free him.
• Xu Xuan tried to forget himself and pursue Severance with the Shang Xuan Immortal Sword, but Jade Void resisted and he abandoned the attempt.
• Xu Xuan heard someone call his name, then saw a speck of blood-red light approach and heard the voice ask how he had gotten trapped too.

Xu Xuan met Xu Wugui, gave him the Daoist Name Shao You, and arranged for him to carry part of jade void into true history while Xu Xuan cultivated severance. As their plans took shape, Xu Xuan returned to the beginning of his life in the snowy night, with only his sword retaining its clear light.

• Xu Wugui told Xu Xuan that Qiyong had kept him for years before casting him out, and described three histories, including a struggle involving the Second Demon.
• Xu Xuan proposed transferring jade void to an imagined version of Xu Wugui so he could escape false history and cultivate the Sword Dao; Xu Wugui agreed to enter true history disguised as a void qi Golden Core.
• Xu Wugui urged Xu Xuan to bring jade void into contact with yin and yang, while Xu Xuan reasoned that severing dusk from dawn could lead to mystic thunder.
• Xu Xuan lent Xu Wugui the authority of being free and easy, warned him to avoid Taojue, and named him Shao You.
• Xu Xuan began transferring jade void's divine status and Dao Fruit to Xuanxia, while separating his Primordial Spirit to cultivate severance.
• Xu Xuan returned to the snowy night at the foot of the mountain, where wounds gathered upon him and his sword alone shone clearly.

After Xu Xuan’s funeral, Mystic Unity hid his death and struggled to respond to the shifting balance of power. Xu Wugui returned as a newly attained Void Golden Core, revealed that Xu Xuan was trapped, and began arranging plans involving Xu Fayan, Tiantuo, and the coming crisis around the qi embryo.

• Liu Shu Han told Song Qing that Wen Si'an had ordered Xu Ming’s birth father’s death concealed until Xu Ming perfected his four divine abilities, and she revealed that the Heavenly Majesty had reincarnated in Many Treasures.
• Liu Xiaowen sent Cinnabar Thunder west toward Liu Shu Han’s father after learning that Green Pond’s boundary had shifted, then ordered Liu Shu Han back to Mystic Unity.
• Shi Xian and Tiantuo discussed their weakening concealment and the danger facing Mystic Unity before Shao You announced that he had attained the Dao as a Void Golden Core.
• Xu Wugui arrived in Great Scarlet Heaven, proved Xu Xuan trusted him, and explained that Xu Xuan was trapped rather than dead.
• Xu Wugui ordered Shi Xian to tell Xu Fayan that his master had ascended to immortality, and planned to send Xu Fayan to Xia amid a contrived upheaval.
• Xu Wugui urged Tiantuo to cultivate five Origin Wood abilities and eventually unite three bodies to seek the Dao, then planned to use Liu Xingfang and Emperor An in the qi embryo crisis; Tiantuo began cultivating his fifth divine ability.

Liu Xingfang completed his vigil in primordial chaos, perfected his altar thunder, and handed the Altar Earth Robe to Wei Mi as Great Peace began claiming Disc Continent. Meanwhile, Baoqiu, Xue Huaze, and Xu Wugui discussed the qi embryo and the schemes surrounding it, leaving Xu Wugui intent on turning the coming achievement of roaming union to his advantage.

• Liu Xingfang used Merciless to clear primordial chaos and saw Wei Mi’s army force its way toward Disc Continent’s center.
• Wei Mi entered Liu Xingfang’s thunderbolts, received the Altar Earth Robe, and declared Disc Continent territory of Great Peace.
• Liu Xingfang fulfilled his thunder oath, perfected all four divine abilities, and explained altar as shared understanding extended into Dao Virtue and Law.
• Baoqiu told Xue Huaze that the Jiang clan would support her quest for the golden position, while they discussed the decline of unity between immortals and mortals.
• Xu Wugui asked the Thunder Marsh Ancient God to help maintain union of preservation for the qi embryo, then considered whether the process could connect to Suspended Chaos.
• Shi Xian reported that the qi embryo would be completed after the An Dynasty pacified Disc Continent, and Xu Wugui resolved to claim the achievement of roaming union.

Xue Huaze used Thieving Passage to complete the qi embryo Dao, causing a new [Disc] position to manifest and accelerating cultivation across the world. Xu Wugui suspected the achievement was tied to Suspended Chaos and the Golden Crow’s plans, then ordered Mystic Unity closed to make its weakness convincing.

• Xue Huaze entered Disc Continent after the An Dynasty subdued most of the Xia Lands’ monsters, and Wei Mi allowed her to pursue the qi embryo retainer position.
• Xue Huaze used Liberation by Violence and Thieving Passage to unite her divine abilities with a white deer and connect to the primordial embryo through the Divine Navel.
• Primordial chaos poured through Disc Continent, Xue Huaze’s cultivation and life dissipated, and the completed qi embryo manifested as the [Disc] position, making cultivators absorb spiritual qi faster.
• Xu Wugui deduced that qi embryo connected to Suspended Chaos and suspected the Golden Crow intended to use Disc Continent to become a divine being; he ordered Tiantuo to hasten preparations.
• Xu Ming emerged from seclusion after sensing his father’s death, while Xu Wugui considered the Golden Crow’s plans and the weakening state of roaming union.
• Xu Wugui ordered Shi Xian to close the Mystic Unity Great Dao and refuse everyone, including Eastern Azure, Universal Salvation, and Many Treasures, to lure the Golden Crow into acting.

Xu Fayan offered Xu Zhishu a chance to transform into a spirit monster, but Liu Xingfang intervened and confronted him over his attempt to emulate the Nether Sheep. Meanwhile, Night Yu revealed Rising Sun’s plans to invert time and space and ordered the dynasty to demand that Xu Fayan prove his loyalty by conquering land and people.

• Xu Fayan offered Xu Zhishu a chance to enter his divine kingdom and pursue Purple Mansion in exchange for abandoning his human form, and Xu Zhishu agreed.
• Liu Xingfang arrived, sent Xu Zhishu away, and challenged Xu Fayan for testing human nature and violating the sect’s rules.
• Liu Xingfang drew Cinnabar Thunder and asked whether Xu Fayan was determined to emulate the Nether Sheep; Xu Fayan said he had to follow his dao path.
• Yang Zhongzhou reported that the qi embryo had been completed, while Night Yu explained that Rising Sun had entered beneath the Disc Continent and planned to invert time and space.
• Night Yu said the Divine Venerable in Sun Valley had to die for dry yang to be realized, and Yang Zhongzhou agreed to seek his lord’s instructions.
• Night Yu ordered that Xu Fayan would only be accepted into the dynasty if he rend a thousand miles of land and drove a million people from it.

Xu Fayan weighed the Great Li Kingdom’s demand that he seize An Dynasty territory, then set out toward the Western Sea with another plan in mind. Meanwhile, Liu Xingfang returned Cinnabar Thunder to the Xu ancestral shrine and was given resources to pursue the altar thunder five arts, as Tiantuo moved to secure the Sect’s position.

• Li Long told Xu Fayan that he could join the dynasty only if he rend a thousand miles of land and drive out a million people, and promised him Wasteland's End True Lord's golden nature if he succeeded.
• Xu Fayan rejected the idea of attacking An Dynasty territory directly and headed toward the Western Sea to pursue another way forward.
• Liu Xingfang placed Cinnabar Thunder beneath his master's spirit tablet and told Liu Xiaowen that he had needed the sword to subdue Xu Fayan.
• At Wondrous Solemnity Palace, Tiantuo provided Liu Xingfang with the Primordial Heaven Shrine, the Upper Yin Divine Position, and the Intercalation Immortal Scripture to help him cultivate the altar thunder five arts.
• Tiantuo sent Liu Xiaowen to Universal Salvation to ask Water Transformation True Lord to shelter the Sect and stabilize the situation.

Xu Fayan forged a new landmass from the Western Sea’s islands and gathered its dead inhabitants into his Divine Kingdom before visiting Jingying and trading the Talisman Compendium for the Life-Joining Scripture and Kunpeng’s Mysterious Feather. He then entered the Xia Lands with his kingdom, demanded a high position, and awakened a new divine ability as the Five Arts and Fruit Positions turned their gaze upon him.

• Xu Fayan created a thousand-li continent and gathered the Western Sea’s corpses into his nurturing earth Divine Kingdom.
• Pingxiu brought Xu Fayan to Jingying, who exchanged the Life-Joining Scripture and Kunpeng’s Mysterious Feather for the Talisman Compendium.
• Jingying revealed that her lineage’s Life-Joining Art refined nature and life into an external pill, then spoke with Pingxiu about her origins as a Spirit Monster.
• Xu Fayan moved his continent into the Xia Lands and defeated the Azure Rhinoceros when it tried to stop him.
• Yang Zhongzhou offered Xu Fayan increasingly high appointments, and Xu Fayan accepted only after the Imperial Son named him Duke of the Nether Kingdom.
• Xu Fayan endured the Xia Lands’ burning winds, achieved Enlightening Wonder and Constancy, and drew the attention of the Five Arts and Fruit Positions.

Xu Fayan negotiated with Ye Yu and Ming An over Great Xia’s plans for his nurturing earth cultivation, then devoured a portion of Wasteland's End’s Golden Nature and learned that he would have to confront Evil Land. He accepted Great Xia’s next reward while resolving to forge his own path to Transcendence.

• Wuge Gaoshi joined Xu Fayan, placed a clone and most of his Nature and Life in the Divine Kingdom, and was made its high priest and controller of the Origin Insect.
• Ye Yu demanded that Xu Fayan abandon sky thunder for Dry Yang, but Xu Fayan invoked the Bright Injured World-Wounding Rising Sun Emperor Lord and argued that his cultivation served the lord’s plans.
• Ming An revealed that White Paper Blessed Land meant to use Xu Fayan to seize earth virtue, while Ye Yu explained that Great Xia wanted him to swallow three nurturing earth Golden Natures and be revived after execution.
• Ming An took Xu Fayan to the Great Wilderness Prison, where Xu Fayan devoured a portion of Wasteland's End’s Golden Nature and comprehended the Great Wilderness Unsage Essence of Mystery.
• Xu Fayan sensed the rival Grave Sheep Evil Land to the north and planned to perfect his fifth divine ability before devouring it, while resolving to trust neither Great Xia nor White Paper and forge his own path to Transcendence.

Xu Xuan searched for a way to escape the effects of Severance as Xu Ming returned from Penglai and learned his father might still be saved. After Xu Ming saw a vision of Lesser Square Zhu and received a cultivation treasure from Tiantuo, Xu Wugui and Tiantuo investigated how Eastern Radiance Heaven, Dragonkind, and Xu Xuan’s fate might be connected.

• Xu Xuan sensed that Qi Embryo had connected chaos to true history and considered using chaos or the Sun and Moon Daos to escape his predicament.
• Xu Ming left Penglai, saw a vision of Lesser Square Zhu with a figure resembling Tiantuo and a dragon beneath the mountain, then went to pay respects at Xu Xuan’s grave.
• Wen Si'an sent Xu Ming to the Secret Realm, where Tiantuo told him there was still a chance to turn Xu Xuan’s situation around and gave him the Great Azure Transformation Mystic Essence.
• Xu Ming told Tiantuo about the vision, and Tiantuo realized that Eastern Radiance Heaven had responded to Xu Ming’s Eastern Pole Illumination.
• Xu Wugui joined Tiantuo and reasoned that the dragon beneath Lesser Square Zhu and Origin Vast’s hostility might be tied to Eastern Radiance Heaven’s arrangements and a coming transformation of Lesser Yang into Dawn.
• Xu Wugui questioned whether his Dao’s later actions had caused Xu Xuan’s earlier fate, recalling that someone had once demonstrated the reversal of cause and effect through Mystic Ruin Contemplation.

Gu Huaixu completed the cultivation of greed and entered the mortal world to subdue Nether Sheep, while Great Scarlet prepared to resist his seizure of the Great Nether Wastes Wilds. Xu Ming went to confront Evil Land Bodhisattva, carrying a Slaughter Blade from Song Qing, as Liu Xiaowen and Wen Si'an watched with concern.

• Gu Huaixu left the Demon-Subduing Grotto after completing the poison of greed and received Venerable Great World Sea's order to enter the mortal world and subdue the other grave sheep.
• Great World Sea sent Precious Flower to secretly assist and watch over Gu Huaixu, warning that the vanished Six Sages Well left him exposed to the risk of turning to the Demonic Path.
• Fan Huayan told Liu Xiaowen that True Lord Mercy Spring was in seclusion near the end of the Golden Core realm, and Universal Salvation agreed to help protect Fa Yan and nurturing earth.
• Liu Xiaowen returned to the sect and reunited with Xu Ming, who had completed his comprehension of Great Azure Transformation Mystic Essence.
• Evil Land Bodhisattva used his pure land to seize the Great Nether Wastes Wilds, and Xu Ming chose to confront him rather than rely on his father's sword intent or interrupt Xing Fang's seclusion.
• Song Qing delivered Xu Ming an ancient Slaughter Blade from True Lord Yang Chi, and Xu Ming set out to make Evil Land Bodhisattva pay.

Xu Ming confronted Evil Land in the Devouring-Virtue Pure Land, discovered the nurturing earth golden nature within it, and unleashed Primordial Form Manifesting Light to devastate Evil Land’s forces at the cost of severe backlash. Tiantuo arrived to help Xu Ming withdraw, then faced Evil Land himself.

• Xu Ming defeated Wei Zhaojia’s attack and challenged Evil Land to leave the territory ruled by the Great Scarlet Dao Lineage.
• Evil Land attacked Xu Ming with the Heaven-Nurturing Azure Years Disk, locusts, and his other bodies while Xu Ming sensed nurturing earth golden nature sealed within the Pure Land.
• Xu Ming activated Eastern Pole Illumination and combined sun-and-moon spells to wound Evil Land, then used Primordial Form Manifesting Light to erase much of the Mysterious Sheep and damage the Pure Land.
• Evil Land captured Xu Ming beneath his vow power, but Tiantuo arrived, drove back the wind and sand, and told Xu Ming to withdraw.
• Tiantuo confronted Evil Land and insulted him, declaring himself Evil Land’s ancestor.

Jiang Jie halted Supreme Truth and Miaolin’s confrontation while Tiantuo fought Evil Land over the Great Nether Wastes Wilds and was injured by a hidden Buddhist attack. The chapter ended with a mysterious youth confronting Ancient Boat and declaring that he would take over the Hanging Sky Monastery after eating the Ominous Portent.

• Jiang Jie separated Supreme Truth and Miaolin, let them leave, and went north to observe Tiantuo’s fight with Evil Land.
• Tiantuo used Whitewood Shrine, borrowed powers from other paths, and struck Evil Land with a barrage of Origin Wood spells.
• Evil Land’s glazed jewel struck Tiantuo between the brows, weakening him, while Evil Land escaped with half the Great Nether Wastes Wilds.
• Tiantuo inferred that Evil Land had been waiting for Miaolin and suspected that Hengshi had made a bargain with Glorious Age over nurturing earth.
• A youth with a strange, primal cultivation visited Ancient Boat at the Hanging Sky Monastery and announced that Mount Sumeru intended to reclaim the monastery.
• The youth said he would eat the Ominous Portent and attain the Dao, while Ancient Boat warned that his success would harm the Buddha Land and living beings.

Xu Fayan prepared for a decisive battle with Evil Land in the Nether-Mystic Expanse while completing his dry yang cultivation. Elsewhere, Panmi took Dusk Wood and advanced his Yi Wood Dao, as Ye Yu and Ming An discussed the empire’s plans to force Grave Sheep into proving his Dao and leave him no choice but to serve their design.

• Xu Fayan realized Evil Land had entered the Nether-Mystic Expanse and prepared for their coming battle by strengthening his cultivation and studying countermeasures.
• True Lord Panmi removed Dusk Wood from Yu Abyss, joined his former faces into one, and advanced his Yi Wood Dao.
• Ming An reported that the great tomb beneath the Disc Continent was ready to serve as a site for conversion to Primordial Heaven.
• Ye Yu and Ming An discussed Panmi’s transformation, the Gao Household’s butcher’s blade, and the risks of Evil Land’s plans for nurturing earth.
• Ye Yu said the Emperor Lord would begin the rites of dry yang as soon as Grave Sheep proved his Dao, closing his chance to enter the Buddha Land and leaving him dependent on the great lord for resurrection.

Xu Fayan confronted Evil Land in the Nether-Mystic Expanse, where the two argued over their paths and the loyalties they had kept or discarded. As Evil Land unleashed his full Bodhisattva power, Xu Fayan countered with his prepared abilities and transformed into Kunpeng’s Divine Form, leaving their battle poised to escalate.

• Evil Land subdued Wei Zhaojia and explained how nurturing earth’s manifestations shaped his Pure Land and cultivation.
• Xu Fayan arrived in the Nether-Mystic Expanse, and Evil Land revealed that he had waited for him and recognized his origins.
• Xu Fayan rejected Evil Land’s claim that abandoning morality and kinship was their shared nature, saying he had chosen not to break his master’s heart.
• Evil Land invoked his Bodhisattva power and used the greed root to suppress Xu Fayan’s Divine Kingdom, while Xu Fayan severed their connection with formless wind.
• Xu Fayan summoned a divine manifestation to resist Evil Land’s attacks, used his Supreme Clear Profound-Mystery Dharma Body, and transformed into Kunpeng’s Divine Form.

Xu Fayan defeated Evil Land by exchanging his Divine Kingdom for Heavenly Inquiry and manifesting the power of Xi earth, then became the legitimate heir of Nurturing Earth and prepared to seek the golden position. He learned from Xu Wugui that his ascension would likely cost him his life, and was told to preserve his spirituality, pursue Dao transformation, and prepare Dry Yang for Evening.

• Xu Fayan used [Enlightening Wonder and Constancy] to overcome Gu Huaixu’s transformations and destroy Evil Land’s demonic body with [Great Wind of the Yang Prison's World-Burning].
• Xu Fayan exchanged his Divine Kingdom through [Treasury Gold Treasure Talisman] for Heavenly Inquiry, manifested Xi earth, and overwhelmed Evil Land’s Pure Land; Tianxiang Xian seized Evil Land’s true spirit before it could be destroyed.
• Xu Fayan claimed the [Azure Loam Unholy Proliferating Mystic Nature], became Nether Sheep, and subdued Wei Xiuwen after Shao Ken arrived with the final spirit as a gift.
• Shao Ken relayed True Lord Qingrang’s warnings about the Golden Crows, the danger of seeking the golden position, and the need to preserve Xu Fayan’s spirituality; Xu Fayan said he would proceed after recovering.
• Xu Fayan met Xu Wugui in [Free and Easy Palace] and learned that Dao transformation suited him, that death would be unavoidable, and that he should preserve his spirituality and push Dry Yang toward [Evening].