Chapter Summaries

Chen Baiqing traced the Fine Buddha Statues and their stolen wish power to Lotus Pond, then sent Lin Luoyu to warn Chu Xingchen. At the Firmament Rhyme Hall, Chu Xingchen teased Yunxiao into paying Spirit Stones to keep watching him as Lin Luoyu began explaining the urgent report.

• Chen Baiqing concluded that Lotus Pond might be a heavenly demon stronghold and sent Lin Luoyu to deliver her Jade Token directly to their master, Chu Xingchen.
• Yunxiao watched Chu Xingchen while sorting messages, and Chu Xingchen demanded Spirit Stones for each extra look.
• Lin Luoyu delivered Chen Baiqing's Jade Token to Chu Xingchen, who exclaimed at the report and ordered emergency assistance from Senior Bai and Huang Miao of the Profound Clarity Heavenly Sect.
• Chu Xingchen teased Yunxiao into paying Spirit Stones to watch, then gave Lin Luoyu fruit and told her to take her time explaining the report.

Chu Xingchen sent Guangming Buddha and Wukong to investigate signs of a Heavenly Demon at Lotus Pond, while Guangming Buddha chose to approach the matter personally. After inspecting a village temple and its unusually potent wish power, he wondered where he could find someone with deluded thoughts.

• Chu Xingchen gave Lin Luoyu a Jade Token and told her to deliver it to Lü Xuan so people could be sent to investigate Lotus Pond.
• Wukong doubted Chu Xingchen's motives, but Guangming Buddha argued that Chu Xingchen's restraint had kept the world from falling into chaos.
• Guangming Buddha told Wukong to wait and avoid activating the Heavenly Derivation Sect's token unless a major disturbance occurred, then set out alone toward the fishing villages.
• Guangming Buddha found a small Great Hero Hall containing Buddha statues with unusually strong wish power, matching Chu Xingchen's warning.
• After speaking with a worshipper, Guangming Buddha continued through the villages and wondered where someone with deluded thoughts could be found.

Guangming Buddha confronted Boluo at Lotus Pond, where Boluo challenged the principles of Mahayana Buddhism and tried to force him to choose between killing Boluo and sparing the peaceful people. Guangming Buddha attacked without hesitation, and Boluo revealed that he understood Guangming Buddha’s reasons for coming: to resolve Chu Xingchen’s predicament and his junior brother’s.

• Guangming Buddha entered a temple at Lotus Pond and spoke to its Buddha statue, which answered him but did not reveal its true form.
• Boluo arrived, admitted he had helped bring about the Moment of Choice, and explained that he had left the statues, wish power, and Lotus Pond to draw Guangming Buddha there.
• Boluo asked whether Guangming Buddha would let the people of Lotus Pond die to kill him or let him escape for their sake.
• Guangming Buddha attacked Boluo, declaring that he would bear the resulting sins, and the two clashed across Lotus River as the temple was destroyed.
• Boluo said he understood Guangming Buddha’s motives: he had come to resolve Chu Xingchen’s predicament and his junior brother’s, and Nirvana was the answer in his heart.

Boluo fought Guangming Buddha and revealed a mysterious attack that wounded him and split the Buddha Kingdom. Convinced that waiting would only hurt his chances, Boluo unleashed his authority and called on his race to answer the Great Calamity today.

• Guangming Buddha summoned a vast Buddha Kingdom and attacked Boluo with countless hands and Spell Arts.
• Boluo transformed into his rakshasa body and used his Trace Move, tearing Guangming Buddha's robe, wounding his arm, breaking his staff, and splitting the Buddha Kingdom.
• Guangming Buddha said Boluo had not obtained Mahayana Buddhism's true teachings and urged him to abandon his evil path.
• Boluo rejected Guangming Buddha's warning, declaring that he wanted to win despite being unprepared and that this was his best chance.
• Boluo activated his authority, drained himself with black-and-yellow Wish Power, and called on his colleagues to answer the Great Calamity today.

Wukong activated Lü Xuan’s emergency talisman as Boluo’s attack overwhelmed the Lotus Pond, and Bai Xuanling arrived to aid Guangming Buddha. As the two fought Boluo together, Boluo concluded that Bai Xuanling was not true.

• Wukong evacuated mortals from the Lotus Pond and activated the Heavenly Derivation Sect’s Emergency Talisman when the Buddha Kingdom appeared.
• Wukong watched Boluo’s wish power and Guangming Buddha’s Origin Power clash, then worried whether the talisman would bring help.
• Bai Xuanling arrived and struck Boluo with Azure Darkness, cutting into the Buddha Kingdom.
• Bai Xuanling and Guangming Buddha joined forces, with Bai attacking Boluo while Guangming Buddha hemmed him in with Buddha hands and spells.
• Boluo endured their attacks with his wish power and told Bai Xuanling that he was not true.

Boluo fought Bai Xuanling and her allies, then revealed that Bai Xuanling had broken her immortal bones and become a half-immortal to remain in the world and protect Chu Xingchen. The battle continued as Bai Xuanling stood by her choice to save the people she cared about.

• Boluo used wish power to burn away Bai Xuanling’s attacks, while Bai Xuanling shattered more than half of the Heavenly Buddha Kingdom.
• Meiyu and Baibo arrived to aid Boluo, and the five fighters clashed inside Guangming Buddha’s rapidly recovering Buddha Kingdom.
• Chu Xingchen arrived and confronted Boluo, who said he was waiting for reinforcements and accused Chu Xingchen of drawing others into danger.
• Boluo told Chu Xingchen that Bai Xuanling had broken her immortal bones to stay in the world and protect him, leaving her a half-immortal.
• Bai Xuanling neither confirmed nor denied Boluo’s claim and continued fighting for the people and world she cared about.

Chu Xingchen and Bai Xuanling fought the heavenly demons as reinforcements joined the battle, while Boluo brought out Hengwang to attack Chu Xingchen. Hengwang’s enormous sword strike was shattered by Chu Xingchen’s punch, leaving Hengwang questioning Boluo’s plan.

• Chu Xingchen rejected Boluo’s attempt to unsettle him and attacked alongside Bai Xuanling.
• Boluo charged Bai Xuanling but was driven back, while Meiyu and Chi Guo also failed to overcome her sword intent.
• Zhong Su arrived and fought Guangming Buddha as Huang Miao and the Profound Clarity Heavenly Sect’s cultivators joined the battle.
• Boluo called Hengwang from beneath the Lotus Pond and asked it to fight Chu Xingchen.
• Hengwang unleashed a vast blood-red sword strike, but Chu Xingchen destroyed most of it with one punch.
• Hengwang looked toward Boluo, who was being attacked by Bai Xuanling and Huang Miao, and wondered what Boluo hoped to accomplish.

Fang Jin confronted Yuanqiong over its refusal to join the final battle, arguing that time had run out and Boluo had already chosen to sacrifice itself. Yuanqiong accepted that the war was unavoidable, summoned the hidden Elite Generals, and led them toward the Fated Asura Land.

• Fang Jin rebuked Yuanqiong for hiding its Elite Generals and refusing to join Boluo's desperate plan.
• Fang Jin told Yuanqiong that Chu Xingchen's arrival signaled Heaven's Way had begun its final assault, and that Zhong Su had already gone to the Asura Land.
• Fang Jin left for the battle, while Yuanqiong reflected on Boluo's sacrifice and realized Fang Jin's arguments were true.
• Yuanqiong summoned the Elite Generals it had hidden in Heaven Beyond Heaven and armed itself for battle.
• Yuanqiong shouted for them to burn the world to ashes, and countless crimson lights rose from the ground toward the Fated Asura Land.

As the Immortal Sects battled Boluo’s forces, Chu Xingchen traced the flow of Origin Power to Hengwang and sent Bai Xuanling after him. Boluo then surrendered himself to the might of Authority, declaring that he would win as his eyes turned to pure radiance.

• Fang Jin sacrificed himself to draw five Tribulation Transcendence cultivators away from Boluo, while Yuanqiong charged toward Chu Xingchen.
• Chu Xingchen used the Innate Primordial Origin Stabilizing Dao Two Qi Pearl to trace the Origin Power from slain Devil Race elites to the fleeing Hengwang.
• Chu Xingchen warned Bai Xuanling that Hengwang was suspicious, and Bai Xuanling and Huang Miao pursued him.
• Boluo drew in his Wish Power and Authority, intensified his flames, and challenged Chu Xingchen, declaring himself the victor.
• Boluo let the might of Authority command him, and his eyes turned into pure radiance.

Chen Baiqing stayed near the battle between the cultivators and Heavenly Demons, hoping to draw danger away from her master, Boluo. Cui Hao and Zheng Zhaoling joined her, and despite their arguments and scuffle, Cui Hao chose to remain at her side as the fighting intensified.

• Chen Baiqing watched the distant battle and refused the Heavenly Derivation Sect cultivators’ suggestion that she retreat to Central Province.
• Cui Hao and Zheng Zhaoling arrived, and Cui Hao admitted that Eldest Senior Sister had sent him to bring Chen Baiqing back.
• Chen Baiqing told Cui Hao to return without her, but he stayed beside her to watch the battle.
• Zheng Zhaoling punched Cui Hao, and Chen Baiqing separated them with the Azure Sky Treasure Ring.
• Chen Baiqing explained that she meant to draw a Heavenly Demon away from Boluo, while Cui Hao insisted on staying with her.

Chu Xingchen used Righteousness Qi and the White Azure Method to stop Hengwang and disrupt its plan, but Hengwang’s apparent death triggered a formation. Boluo revealed that he had survived and told Chu Xingchen that he had underestimated him.

• Boluo absorbed the surrounding Wish Power and Origin Power into Authority, then fought recklessly and forced the cultivators back.
• Bai Xuanling engaged Boluo while Chu Xingchen warned him not to trade injuries with the mindless Heavenly Demon.
• Chu Xingchen used Myriad Forms and Righteousness Qi to pierce Hengwang’s defenses and pin it within its blood mist.
• Chu Xingchen’s White Azure Method entranced Hengwang, which stabbed itself and triggered a half-formed Grand Formation.
• Boluo appeared behind Chu Xingchen as his body began to dissipate and said, “I didn't underestimate you. But you underestimated me.”

Boluo sacrificed himself to fuel Hengwang's grand formation, and Meiyu and Zhong Su shattered their Origin Cores to add their power. As the formation began drawing in pure and turbid qi, Chu Xingchen realized Heaven's Way may have lost its barrier authority when he arrived—and wondered whether it was hidden in his system—while Bai Xuanling took charge and gave him Boluo's remaining wish power authority.

• Boluo let Hengwang's formation absorb his origin power and flesh, then explained that his authority had revealed the rules Heaven's Way broke.
• Meiyu crushed Xu Linglong's recovered Origin Core, and Zhong Su shattered his own, releasing their origin power into the formation.
• Chu Xingchen tried and failed to stop Hengwang from absorbing the pure and turbid qi, then called for cultivators who could separate them.
• Bai Xuanling identified the formation's power as authority, and Chu Xingchen reasoned that it was connecting the two realms by using the lost barrier authority.
• Chu Xingchen concluded that Heaven's Way may have lost barrier authority the day he arrived and wondered if it was hidden in his system or its storage space.
• Bai Xuanling pressed Boluo's remaining wish power authority into Chu Xingchen's hand and told him he did not have to bear everything alone.

As the Grand Formation unleashed a world-altering force, Guangming Buddha sacrificed himself to turn his body into a Buddha Kingdom and shield the sky from the Blood Sun. On A Loving Family Peak, Chu Xingchen’s disciples learned that the Heavenly Demons were being eradicated and waited for his return, uncertain whether the Great Calamity had truly ended.

• Chu Xingchen placed wish-power authority into the Spirit-Shattering Butterfly Jade, which charged once as spiritual power and the laws of heaven and earth changed around the Grand Formation.
• Guangming Buddha told Chu Xingchen he would establish a great vow and become a Buddha Kingdom to protect the sky for three years, then bowed and ascended toward the Blood Sun.
• Guangming Buddha vowed to make his body an unbreakable Buddha Kingdom while heaven and earth remained unsettled, and his vow summoned a Five-Colored Lotus that covered the Blood Sun.
• The Grand Formation dissipated, leaving the remaining Heavenly Demons with nowhere to flee as Chu Xingchen watched.
• Chen Baiqing reached A Loving Family Peak and received Chu Xingchen’s message that he had gone to Profound Clarity Heavenly Sect for the Eighteen Immortal Sects conference.
• Xie Lingyu said the Heavenly Demons seemed eradicated and the Heavenly Derivation Sect was clearing their origin power, while Yuankong recognized Guangming Buddha’s Dao resonance in the Five-Colored Lotus.

Chu Xingchen returned to A Loving Family Peak and told his companions that the Heavenly Demons had been defeated, then announced they would return to Ten Thousand Flowers Ridge. At Pearl-Gem Peak, Lü Xuan worried that recovering Heaven's Way's authority within three years was unlikely, while Bai Xuanling confirmed they would become Chu Xingchen's Grand Elder and remain at Ten Thousand Flowers Ridge if the effort failed.

• Chu Xingchen walked up A Loving Family Peak and was greeted with an exuberant embrace from his companions.
• Chu Xingchen explained that the Heavenly Demons and hidden Devil Race members had been defeated, and that the Eighteen Immortal Sects would search together for Heaven's Way's scattered authority.
• Chu Xingchen announced that everyone would return to Ten Thousand Flowers Ridge, and Xie Lingyu agreed to go with him.
• At Pearl-Gem Peak, Lü Xuan warned Bai Xuanling that finding a Principle Crystal capable of repairing the Barrier within three years was unlikely.
• Bai Xuanling told Lü Xuan they had agreed to become Chu Xingchen's Grand Elder and would stay at Ten Thousand Flowers Ridge if the search failed.

Chu Xingchen and his disciples returned to Ten Thousand Flowers Ridge and held a celebration to welcome everyone home. During the gathering, Chu Xingchen privately asked Cui Hao whether he truly wanted to become sect leader, and Cui Hao shook his head.

• Chu Xingchen and the others returned to Ten Thousand Flowers Ridge, where Sandong eagerly ran to the Deep Pool and offered to show Qian Qing around.
• Chu Xingchen welcomed everyone back, announced a celebration, and arranged rooms and supplies for Yuankong, Qian Qing, and Ye Wanzhou.
• Chen Baiqing told Chu Xingchen that having him safe at the sect was enough for her, and he reassured her that he would attend the gathering that night.
• The disciples and elders celebrated by a bonfire, where Ye Wanzhou soon joined the games and Cui Hao drank with Chu Xingchen.
• Chu Xingchen privately asked Cui Hao whether he truly wanted to become sect leader, and Cui Hao firmly shook his head.

Cui Hao worried over Master’s private offer to make him Sect Leader and sought clues about Master’s unspoken concerns. After speaking with Li Xingtian and Chen Baiqing, he left them to their reading, still hiding what Master had told him.

• Cui Hao recalled that Master had privately offered him the Sect Leader position, then worried that he could not discuss it with the others without causing trouble.
• Li Xingtian explained that Chen Baiqing had asked him to watch for signs of Master’s worries, so he was rereading material about the Great Calamity.
• Li Xingtian said Cui Hao was the only suitable heir to the Sect, and Cui Hao suspected that Master was speaking through him.
• Cui Hao found Chen Baiqing reading by the Deep Pool and asked whether she sensed anything wrong with Master.
• Cui Hao claimed Li Xingtian thought Master might be injured, then told Chen Baiqing she could keep her thoughts to herself.

Chu Xingchen gathered the sect and announced that everyone would travel together to search for scattered authority, beginning in the Black Tortoise Kingdom. Yuankong then asked what the sect was called, prompting Chu Xingchen to think of a name.

• Cui Hao watched Chu Xingchen closely during a peaceful gathering but noticed nothing unusual about his master.
• Over the following weeks, Qian Qing practiced boxing at the Deep Pool while Yuankong swept the sect entrance and sometimes received her help.
• Chu Xingchen summoned everyone at Ten Thousand Flowers Ridge and proposed that the sect search for scattered authority together.
• Chu Xingchen named the Black Tortoise Kingdom in the Southern Jambu Continent as their first destination and invited everyone to suggest later stops.
• Yuankong asked what the sect was called, and Chu Xingchen began considering an answer.

Chu Xingchen led May All Go Well Returning Star Sect on a long journey from Yuzhou City toward Dongsheng Shenzhou, stopping to meet Li Junzi, visit places chosen by the disciples, and help people along the way. The group continued traveling together, with Zheng Zhaoling joining them and staying on.

• Chu Xingchen unveiled the Sect plaque bearing the name May All Go Well Returning Star Sect, then declared that the group was running away as they set out for the Southern Jambu Continent.
• The Sect reached Yuzhou City, held a grand gathering in Chanwood Temple's name, and Chu Xingchen and the disciples met with Li Junzi before leaving the Black Tortoise Kingdom.
• Li Yingling chose Dongsheng Shenzhou as their next destination, and the group traveled across continents, stopping at scenic places and intervening when they encountered wrongdoing.
• The group visited Li Yingling's chosen island chain, explored a Secret Realm in Central Province, and spent time at hot springs and a Sect recommended by Li Junzi.
• Cui Hao took the group to his hometown, shared stories and childhood foods, left a Dharma Treasure to protect his clan, and met some of his clansmen.
• Xu Jin and Yuyang Daozi occasionally joined the traveling party, while Zheng Zhaoling joined midway and stayed with the group as their road continued.

After returning to Ten Thousand Flowers Ridge, Chu Xingchen gave Cui Hao Myriad Forms and entrusted him with leading the sect while he left to handle urgent affairs. Cui Hao accepted the responsibility and grieved alone until dawn.

• Chu Xingchen and the others returned to Ten Thousand Flowers Ridge with their purchases, spirit horses, and Yun Li’s new beast, Yun Gui.
• Chu Xingchen told Xie Lingyu that he would visit the Heavenly Derivation Sect and asked her to stay behind to help manage the sect.
• Chu Xingchen met Cui Hao at night and gave him Myriad Forms, the peerless spirit treasure he had promised.
• Chu Xingchen entrusted the sect and several other treasures to Cui Hao, gave him guidance about their fellow disciples, and said he would leave the sect.
• Cui Hao sobbed alone over the stone table until dawn.

Bai Xuanling took over as Grand Elder of the Ten Thousand Wishes Return to the Star Sect and told Chen Baiqing that reclaiming lost authority could bring Chu Xingchen back. Chen Baiqing rejected being the price for his return, then chose to search for the authority alone before Li Xingtian revealed he could use his power actively and asked for her help; she agreed.

• Chu Xingchen won a game of Go against Bai Xuanling, asked her to protect Chen Baiqing, and left with the Spirit-Shattering Butterfly Jade.
• Bai Xuanling arrived at Ten Thousand Flowers Ridge, declared herself Grand Elder, and named Cui Hao the Sect Leader until Chu Xingchen returned.
• Bai Xuanling told Chen Baiqing she could exchange recovered authority for Chu Xingchen's return, but Chen Baiqing rejected the sacrifice and left in grief.
• After calming herself, Chen Baiqing decided to search for the authority alone and ignored a signal from the Azure Sky Treasure Ring.
• Li Xingtian told Chen Baiqing he could use his power actively and wanted her help; after asking whether the situation had been his choice, she answered, "Understood, Senior Brother."