Chapter Summaries

Zu Yuan learned that his existence had caused the Great Calamity in his previous life and that his rebirth had been orchestrated, while Zhuyin explained that the world’s destruction was tied to time reaching its end. As Zu Yuan gave in to the ghostly hands trying to assimilate him, Ouyang burst into the space and called out to him.

• Zu Yuan realized that the Devil Race had slaughtered the Cultivation World to find and kill him, and that the deaths of his master, Eldest Senior Brother, and Sect members were connected to his existence.
• Zhuyin told Zu Yuan that his death would begin the Great Calamity and explained that the calamity was the end of time and the world.
• Zu Yuan asked whether he should live or die, then stopped resisting as ghostly faces and black hands reached to assimilate him.
• Ouyang arrived in a wheelchair pulled by two strange birds and asked Zu Yuan what tasty thing he was eating behind his back.

Ouyang entered the strange space and disrupted Zhuyin's Phantom as it tried to beguile Zu Yuan. He pulled Zu Yuan free from the black hands, then fell asleep on top of him after confirming he was alive.

• After Ouyang threatened to destroy the place, the strange birds let him enter the space with his eyes covered.
• Zhuyin's Dao Sounds made Ouyang drowsy, but Ouyang's True Essence struck Zhuyin's Phantom and interrupted its preaching to Zu Yuan.
• Ouyang searched the darkness with True Essence arms and found Zu Yuan trapped in the wall, surrounded by countless black hands.
• Ouyang punched the black hands and hauled Zu Yuan free by his hair, then was struck by Zu Yuan as he flew toward him.
• Ouyang confirmed Zu Yuan was breathing, transferred True Essence into him, and fell asleep on top of him, keeping the black hands at bay.

Chen Changsheng awoke in his Consciousness Space with Zu Yuan’s remnant soul and confronted him over the tragedies of his previous life. Zu Yuan revealed that Zhuyin had changed his ambitions by telling him he was destined to save the world, leaving Chen Changsheng shaken by the possibility that he himself had caused the Great Calamity.

• Chen Changsheng woke in a desert inside his Consciousness Space and realized he had become himself again.
• Zu Yuan appeared as a remnant soul, asked why Chen Changsheng had recognized and killed him, and explained that they were joined in the Consciousness Space.
• Chen Changsheng accused Zu Yuan of causing countless deaths, but Zu Yuan said Chen Changsheng had killed him before he could carry out his plans.
• Zu Yuan recounted how he had grown up under Demon Venerable Chongming and how meeting Zhuyin changed his ambition to conquer the world.
• Zu Yuan reminded Chen Changsheng of Zhuyin’s claim that the Great Calamity began because of him, then said Zhuyin had told him he would save the entire world.

Chen Changsheng revealed to Zu Yuan that he had been reborn from the future and forced him to experience the devastation Zu Yuan had caused in that past life. The chapter ended with Zu Yuan reliving Chen Changsheng’s centuries of suffering while Chen Changsheng vowed never to forgive him.

• Chen Changsheng laughed at Zu Yuan’s claim that he was the world’s savior, then slapped and attacked him.
• Chen Changsheng told Zu Yuan he had been reborn from the future and blamed him for the world’s destruction.
• Chen Changsheng transformed his consciousness space into the apocalyptic world he had experienced before his rebirth.
• Chen Changsheng made Zu Yuan experience his memories of fleeing the Devil Race and enduring centuries of loss and despair.
• Chen Changsheng took on Zu Yuan’s appearance, sat upon a throne, and declared that Zu Yuan would suffer the despair he had endured.

Chen Changsheng relived the memory of Demon Venerable Zu Yuan killing Ouyang, forcing Zu Yuan to experience the suffering caused by his ambitions. Shaken by seeing Eldest Senior Brother die again, Chen Changsheng hesitated to kill Zu Yuan, who called him a coward.

• Chen Changsheng relived the destruction of his Sect and watched Demon Venerable Zu Yuan kill Ouyang, his Eldest Senior Brother.
• Chen Changsheng realized he had made Zu Yuan experience his own suffering, but had also witnessed Ouyang's death again from the executioner's position.
• Zu Yuan recognized the hatred and death caused by his ambitions and looked at Chen Changsheng with guilt.
• Chen Changsheng pinned Zu Yuan down and drew his saber, but stopped when he feared killing Zu Yuan would lead him to become Zu Yuan and kill Ouyang.
• Chen Changsheng considered ending both their lives to prevent that fate, but Zu Yuan asked whether he wanted to give up and called him a coward.

Chen Changsheng faced Zu Yuan in his consciousness space, admitted his fears, and affirmed that he had become Zu Yuan and would pursue Heaven Usurpation. He defeated Zu Yuan’s attempt to break his Dao heart, reached the peak of the ninth level of Tribulation Transcendence, and woke in the Dijiang Space beside the sleeping Ouyang.

• Zu Yuan accused Chen Changsheng of being a coward who relied on rebirth and Ouyang, and challenged him with the claim that his memories of Zu Yuan’s past crimes were only nightmares.
• Chen Changsheng acknowledged his cowardice and fear but said that his experiences had changed him and that he now stood as Zu Yuan, determined to change the world.
• Chen Changsheng’s appearance became Zu Yuan’s, while Zu Yuan became Chen Changsheng; Zu Yuan struck down his transformed opponent, and his Dao heart and cultivation surged to the peak of the ninth level of Tribulation Transcendence.
• A spring breeze from Eldest Senior Brother’s power transformed the desert in the consciousness space, and Zu Yuan smiled before disappearing.
• Zu Yuan woke in the Dijiang Space and looked tenderly at the still-sleeping Ouyang.

Zu Yuan accepted his past as Chen Changsheng and resolved to lead living beings against the coming calamity, while Ouyang reflected on his brother’s suffering and understood the forces at work. The chapter ended with Ouyang recognizing Zu Yuan as the same person he had raised in both lives.

• Zu Yuan received Dijiang’s spatial power and realized Zhuyin had conspired to seize his reborn body with help from a powerful, unknown cultivator.
• Ouyang woke and concealed that he had watched Zu Yuan’s memories, while Zu Yuan massaged his neck and returned them both to the Demon Realm.
• Zu Yuan flew to the Demon God Statue, and Ouyang recalled Chen Changsheng’s tragic past and felt relieved that he had found his Dao and chosen to move forward.
• Ouyang pieced together the conflict between those trying to change the past and those seeking the world’s destruction, then decided to let events unfold.
• Ouyang tore up his notebook page and affirmed that Zu Yuan was the same person he had raised in both lives.

Chongming recalled his master's sacrifice, his revenge against the Immortals, and how he revived in the Demon Realm as the Zhuj iu Tribe's first Witch. He remained puzzled by why Zhuyin had chosen him as he looked toward the Di Jiang Clan's tribe.

• Chongming remembered Zhuyin's terrifying ability to observe time and the Demon God's past help in his rise to power.
• Chongming recalled how his master integrated with the Dao of the Nine Hells to guide Hu Yun, and how the world grew peaceful afterward.
• Chongming redirected his anger toward the Immortals and killed a True Spirit, causing the Mortal World of the Tang State to lose Reincarnation.
• Chongming used Liberation by Violence to restore Reincarnation in the Mortal World, then revived in the Demon Realm through the Twelfth Grade Black Lotus.
• Chongming became the Zhuj iu Tribe's first Witch and used his limited ability to see the next hour to thrive in the Demon Realm.
• Chongming wondered what Zhuyin had intended and looked toward the Di Jiang Clan's tribe.

Bai Feiyu expanded the Divine Dao across the Mortal Worlds and ordered the Great Spirit Mountain Temple to accept investiture or face the gods’ wrath. As his million gods prepared for war, he waited for the old immortals hiding in reincarnation to reveal themselves.

• A burly god reported to Bai Feiyu that Western Buddha Kingdom cultivators had killed the gods sent there.
• Bai Feiyu ordered a final ultimatum for the Great Spirit Mountain Temple, warning that the gods would leave no cultivators in the west if it refused investiture.
• Cultivators flocked to the Divine Dao, and Bai Feiyu smoothly brought most of the Thirty-Six Mortal Worlds under divine control.
• Bai Feiyu’s million gods interpreted his order as a call to war and eagerly prepared to uproot the Great Spirit Mountain Temple.
• Bai Feiyu resolved to create a replacement for reincarnation if needed and waited for the old immortals to emerge once every Mortal World had gods.

Bai Feiyu worried about the Divine Dao’s rapid growth and struggled with the responsibility of leading a million gods. When the Azure Emperor returned injured and swore about his attacker, Bai Feiyu ordered the gods to march west on the Great Spirit Mountain Temple.

• Bai Feiyu feared that the Cultivation World’s silence concealed a threat to the newly flourishing Divine Dao.
• Bai Feiyu resolved to seek his Eldest Senior Brother’s advice after completing the god-investiture across the Mortal World.
• Bai Feiyu considered moving the gods away from living beings to prevent their divine duties from interfering with mortal life.
• The Azure Emperor, Ou Yezi, arrived in a visibly battered state and swore at whoever had harmed him.
• Bai Feiyu ordered all the gods to march west on the Great Spirit Mountain Temple.

Hui Zhi faced a gathering of Buddhist leaders demanding war against the Mortal World’s million deities, knowing Buddhism was too weak to win and that the conflict could no longer be avoided. He resolved to fight, while trusting that his agreement with the Devil Race Sacred Son would preserve Buddhism’s seeds if it fell.

• Monks and Buddhist leaders gathered at the Great Spirit Mountain Temple to demand a decision after an azure bird had ordered Buddhism to submit to the Divine Dao.
• Hui Zhi silenced the assembly and recognized that the leaders’ calls for war were driven by their desire for new believers and power.
• Hui Zhi understood that the Divine Dao had united Heaven and Earth, leaving Buddhism isolated and forcing an unavoidable struggle for survival.
• Hui Zhi recalled his deal with the Devil Race Sacred Son, which could preserve Buddhism’s seeds if the battle ended in defeat.
• Hui Zhi resolved that Buddhism had nowhere left to retreat and could only fight.

Hui Zhi prepared Buddhism for war against the gods, hoping to spread Buddhist teachings across heaven and earth, while Kongtiao warned that his ambitions would destroy Buddhism. Hui Zhi rejected Kongtiao’s old teachings and declared that his Buddha alone would rule the world.

• Hui Zhi rallied Buddhist cultivators to prepare for the gods’ invasion and spread Buddhist teachings eastward.
• Buddhist cultivators cheered and left the Great Hero Hall to announce Hui Zhi’s decree to their followers.
• Alone in the hall, Hui Zhi worried about the million gods and wondered whether Buddhism could truly prosper under his leadership.
• Kongtiao appeared and warned Hui Zhi that he was leading Buddhism to destruction.
• Hui Zhi mocked Kongtiao’s declining strength and rejected his call for Buddhism to stay out of worldly affairs.
• Hui Zhi declared that his Buddha was the Buddha of all living beings and the only Buddha of heaven and earth.

Bai Feiyu led the gods to confront Buddhism at the Great Spirit Mountain Temple, with both sides gathering their full strength for a decisive war. After warning the three Old Immortals that their secrets could destroy them, he set out west with the gods, declaring that they would rule Heaven and Earth.

• The gods assembled under Bai Feiyu as three thousand Buddha Kingdoms gathered at the Great Spirit Mountain Temple for war.
• The Artifact Ancestor, Technique Ancestor, and Law Ancestor offered to lead the charge, while Bai Feiyu reflected on their subservience and the remaining immortals.
• Bai Feiyu told the three Old Immortals that hidden secrets could become deadly and raised his hand as the gods cheered.
• Divine light formed a white cloak bearing a golden qilin, and Bai Feiyu donned it before leading the gods west.

Bai Feiyu and the million gods arrived to confront Hui Zhi and Western Buddhism, whose three thousand cultivators and vast Buddha Kingdom stood ready for battle. Hui Zhi challenged Bai Feiyu to settle their contest within Chaos, and the two vanished to fight there.

• The Divine Dao and Western Buddhism assembled for battle as observers weighed their strengths and recognized that both traditions depended on their leaders.
• Bai Feiyu saw the vast Buddha Kingdom and its treatment of living beings, and he and the gods grew furious.
• Chang Gong denounced Buddhism and called on its forces to submit to justice or die.
• Hui Zhi appeared on a seven-colored lotus and asked Bai Feiyu to fight within Chaos to avoid destroying Heaven and Earth.
• Bai Feiyu rebuked Hui Zhi, who revealed his Celestial Person aspect and manifested an eight-armed Golden Body; the two disappeared from Heaven and Earth.

Bai Feiyu and Hui Zhi entered Chaos and tested their mental states before Bai Feiyu struck with the Heaven-Measuring Ruler. Their followers panicked when both leaders vanished, and Diao Mao rallied the gods to attack.

• Bai Feiyu and Hui Zhi entered Chaos, where they resisted its devouring Qi while facing each other.
• Hui Zhi felt overwhelmed by Bai Feiyu’s state of mind, while Bai Feiyu remained unconcerned and judged himself superior.
• Bai Feiyu declared an Edict and sent the Phantom of the Heaven-Measuring Ruler crashing toward Hui Zhi.
• Hui Zhi’s Thousand-Armed Buddha fought back, and their clash stirred vast waves and destroyed countless miniature worlds within Chaos.
• Both sides panicked when Bai Feiyu and Hui Zhi vanished, and Diao Mao transformed into an Azure Bird and urged the gods to charge.

Diao Mao led the Million Gods toward Buddhism, but the Buddhist Pure Land stopped their advance and left both sides trading insults. In Chaos, Bai Feiyu defeated Hui Zhi without killing him, while Leng Qingsong arrived too late and continued searching for a way back to the world.

• Diao Mao led the Million Gods toward the Buddhist Pure Land, then halted them when he realized the Three Thousand Buddhist Cultivators were standing still.
• Several hundred gods were pushed onto the Pure Land and melted, but they returned to their temples and began rebuilding their Golden Bodies.
• The Million Gods and Buddhist Cultivators traded insults while their leaders fought in Chaos.
• Bai Feiyu smashed Hui Zhi and his Seven-Colored Lotus Platform, but Hui Zhi reappeared, thanked him for showing mercy, and refused his offer to become a Divine Sovereign.
• Hui Zhi vanished into Chaos, and Bai Feiyu pursued him with the Heaven-Measuring Ruler.
• Leng Qingsong appeared where they had vanished, searched Chaos in a frenzy, and then left to keep looking for a way back.

Bai Feiyu returned from Chaos and faced the Buddhist forces, while Hui Zhi realized Buddhism had already lost. Refusing to accept defeat, Hui Zhi became a Buddha-devil and devoured the Buddhist cultivators before confronting the gods.

• Bai Feiyu returned to the gods, and Diao Mao taunted the Buddhist cultivators before settling on Bai Feiyu’s shoulder.
• Hui Zhi returned to the Great Spirit Mountain Temple and found three thousand Buddhist cultivators eager to fight.
• Hui Zhi recalled his defeat in Chaos and concluded that Buddhism could not overcome the Divine Dao.
• Hui Zhi’s thousand-handed Buddha turned demonic, and he seized and devoured the Buddhist cultivators.
• Hui Zhi transformed into a Buddha-faced evil ghost and roared at the gods that Heaven and Earth had no need to exist without a Buddha.

Hui Zhi’s Thousand-Handed Evil Ghost consumed the Buddhist cultivators of the Great Spirit Mountain Temple as they calmly accepted death and demanded that Heaven and Earth answer for Buddhism’s exclusion from the orthodox Dao. As monks across the West and East joined their chants, Dongxu Zi reflected that the destruction of Buddhism’s foundations would allow it to be reborn within the Daoist Sect.

• The Buddhist cultivators let Hui Zhi’s Thousand-Handed Evil Ghost devour them, chanting sutras as the Three Thousand Buddha Kingdoms merged into one and the Asura grew stronger.
• Kongtiao joined the monks at the Great Spirit Mountain Temple in chanting, while Hui Zhi in the Nine Hells stopped his motorcycle and recited sutras toward the sky.
• At Questioning Sword Peak, Ci Hang and the other Zen monks mourned Buddhism’s calamity, and Zhao Qiansun led them in chanting the Rebirth Mantra as a Twelfth Grade Golden Lotus appeared beneath him.
• Dongxu Zi burned yellow paper on Azure Cloud Peak and considered how Buddhism’s destruction and rebirth could unite it with the Daoist Sect.

Hui Zhi sacrificed himself to merge all of Western Buddhism into a world-shaking Asura King, forcing Bai Feiyu and the Divine Dao to face a threat capable of contending with heaven and earth. The chapter ended with Bai Feiyu preparing the God-Sealing Treasure Book and asking whether the Divine Dao could summon a power of its own.

• Bai Feiyu tried to stop Hui Zhi from merging with the Thousand-Hand Asura by striking it with the Heaven-Measuring Ruler.
• Hui Zhi flew into the Asura's mouth and sacrificed himself, transforming it into a solid, six-armed Asura King with three heads and countless eyes and mouths.
• Bai Feiyu recognized the Asura King as a form capable of challenging heaven and earth, unlike the Asura forms he had seen in his previous life.
• Diao Mao warned Bai Feiyu that the Demon God might prevent them from leaving, but Bai Feiyu remained calm.
• Bai Feiyu summoned the God-Sealing Treasure Book and asked whether the Divine Dao could summon a power to match Buddhism's Asura demon god.

Bai Feiyu summoned the gods’ combined divine light to defeat the Asura Demon God, but Hui Zhi rushed to destroy the Sky-Piercing Giant Pillar and collapse heaven and earth. Bai Feiyu abandoned the supreme divine statue to stop him, while Ouyang and Dongxu Zi both sneezed far away.

• Bai Feiyu summoned the million gods and gathered the fortune of more than thirty Mortal Worlds into seven-colored divine light that burned and subdued the Asura Demon God.
• Hui Zhi realized Buddhism could not win and sent the Asura Demon God toward the Sky-Piercing Giant Pillar to destroy it and bring heaven and earth down.
• Bai Feiyu realized that unseen bystanders had forced him to choose between saving all living beings and unifying the Divine Dao.
• Bai Feiyu abandoned the formation of the supreme divine statue and sent the seven-colored divine light after the Asura Demon God.
• Ouyang and Dongxu Zi both sneezed while far away in the Demon Realm and at the Azure Cloud Sect.