Chapter Summaries

Qin Tian learned that Demon Buddha Meng Qi had awakened from Meng Xiaoqi as one of Meng Qi’s demonized incarnations, then rejected his offer to defect and fought him. Demon Buddha revealed that all three incarnations had joined forces against Qin Tian and the heavenly will, leaving their confrontation underway.

• Qin Tian recognized Demon Buddha as the being who had been severed from Meng Qi and learned he had awakened through Meng Xiaoqi.
• Demon Buddha explained that he represented Lingbao finality and described the destructive aims and origins of the three demonized incarnations.
• Demon Buddha offered Qin Tian secret manuals and a chance to abandon Su Meng, but Qin Tian demanded the Reincarnation Seal and refused to join him.
• Qin Tian declared that he wanted to face the Three Pure Ones as a tribulation, and Demon Buddha challenged him before admitting they could not defeat him.
• Qin Tian seized Demon Buddha and sent them flying out of the café as Demon Buddha revealed that all three incarnations had moved against Qin Tian and the heavenly will.

Qin Tian fought the Demon Buddha, who united the Three Pure Ones into a powerful Dharma Manifestation, and was forced to retreat and strengthen himself. After breaking through to Grandmaster, Qin Tian began a second round against the Demon Buddha, while a battle involving the Other Shore unfolded elsewhere.

• The Demon Buddha explained that he and the other Demonized Three Pure Ones had sought a chance to challenge Qin Tian and revealed his Three Pure Ones Dharma Manifestation.
• Qin Tian summoned his Fuli Pangu Heavenly King Aspect and attacked, but the Demon Buddha’s Three Pure Ones Dharma Manifestation countered and broke apart his giant form.
• Qin Tian consumed heavenly treasures from the Luo Sect's Treasury, strengthened his inner scenery, and broke through to Grandmaster.
• Qin Tian spread his True Man's One-on-One Domain and began a second round against the Demon Buddha.
• As Qin Tian and the Demon Buddha fought, the Golden Sovereign of the Other Shore, the Mother of No Birth, appeared above the River of Time.

Gu Xiaosang confronted the Three Pure Ones incarnations above the River of Time and defeated their unified form, while Qin Tian battled the Demon Buddha and sought to absorb the Three Pure Ones’ profound meaning. The incarnations fell back into the River of Time alive, and Gu Xiaosang told them they would need their true selves to challenge her.

• Gu Xiaosang arrived above the River of Time as the Mother of No Birth and faced the Demon Buddha and the other two incarnations, who tried to hold her back.
• The three incarnations combined their Buddhist, Daoist, and demonic powers into a Divine Axe, but Gu Xiaosang shattered it with her moonlike radiance.
• Gu Xiaosang wielded the Heavenly Slaying Axe and drove the incarnations back, while they warned her that the River of Time had changed and she risked exposing her plans.
• Qin Tian suppressed the Demon Buddha with his Three Pure Ones treasured body and recognized the Seven-Star Sword as an Other Shore Artifact.
• Qin Tian attacked with the Overlord's Absolute Saber, but the Daoist head banished its saber light into the void and the battle intensified.
• Gu Xiaosang shattered the incarnations’ unified Three Pure Ones form and let them fall into the River of Time, telling them their true selves would have to merge to challenge her.

Qin Tian defeated the Three Pure Ones Demon Buddhas, freed Meng Xiaoqi from their possession, and absorbed the Three Pure Ones principles to strengthen his cultivation. He accelerated time to cultivate and reached Great Grandmaster, while his original body remained in danger on the Shrouding the Heavens battlefield.

• The Three Demon Buddhas fought Qin Tian on Earth, but his Pangu Dharma Manifestation and the Overlord's Absolute Saber overwhelmed their Three Pure Ones treasured body.
• Qin Tian broke the Three Pure Ones treasured body and used the Overlord's Absolute Saber to destroy the reverse swastika imprint controlling Meng Xiaoqi.
• Qin Tian stripped the Three Pure Ones principles from Meng Xiaoqi's inner scenery and incorporated them into his Pangu Dharma Manifestation, developing his Myriad Heavens and Worlds.
• Concerned about the battle in Shrouding the Heavens, where his original body had been wounded, Qin Tian used an Eastern Emperor Bell fragment to slow time and cultivate.
• Qin Tian united his dharma manifestation, primordial spirit, and flesh, reaching Great Grandmaster and preparing to condense his dharma body.

After the Demon Buddha and the Daoist silhouette in Tusita Palace failed to stop Qin Tian, they sent Reincarnation Transmigrators after him and provoked the Central Plains cataclysm to obstruct his advancement. Qin Tian forged his Pangu Dharma Manifestation, sensed the Grasslands war had begun early, and set out to confront the Grasslands Khan, Gu Erduo.

• The Demon Buddha ordered the Reincarnation Transmigrators to kill Firmament Above, offering freedom from reincarnation, and Han Guang accepted the challenge with interest.
• The Demon Buddha and the Daoist silhouette in Tusita Palace empowered the Demonic Path and urged its Dharma Bodies to attack the orthodox sects, starting the Central Plains cataclysm early.
• Qin Tian cultivated his Pangu Dharma Manifestation, combining the Three Pure Ones' profound meanings into Pangu's Divine Soul and expanding his Inner Scenery.
• Qin Tian sensed that the Grasslands cataclysm had erupted ahead of schedule and realized the three Other Shore beings were behind the change.
• Qin Tian decided the Demonic Path must not dominate the martial world and went to find the Grasslands Khan, Gu Erduo.

Qin Tian confronted Gu Erduo at the Grasslands border, severed Chonghe’s ties to the Lord of the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and used the clash of opposing powers to attain his Pangu Dao Body. As his Dharma Body tribulation began, Gu Erduo empowered the lightning with the Heavenly Slaying Axe, and Qin Tian prepared to overcome it.

• Qin Tian arrived at the Grasslands border, sent Chonghe and Lu Da toward other battlefields, and warned them that Han Guang had replaced Shaolin Abbot Kongwen.
• Qin Tian used the Overlord's Absolute Saber to sever Chonghe’s connections to the Lord of the Six Paths of Reincarnation and his restraints to a missing part of his true spirit.
• Gu Erduo attacked Qin Tian with the Heavenly Slaying Axe’s banished immortal power, stripping away his cultivation, but Qin Tian fused the opposing forces to advance his Dharma Body.
• Qin Tian’s Overlord's Absolute Saber and the Heavenly Slaying Axe clashed while Qin Tian drew on his other selves to refine his origin and foundations.
• Qin Tian merged his Pangu Dharma Manifestation with his body and primordial spirit, attaining the Pangu Dao Body and displaying a characteristic of Legend.
• Gu Erduo used the Heavenly Slaying Axe to transform Qin Tian’s lightning tribulation into nine kinds of heavenly punishment, and Qin Tian declared that overcoming tribulations was his specialty.

Qin Tian completed his tribulation and formed the Pangu Dao Body, then overwhelmed Gu Erduo in battle with its immense power and other shore traits. Gu Erduo tried to flee and awaken the Heavenly Slaying Axe, but Qin Tian began breaking down his heavenly punishment treasured body as he pursued him across the grasslands.

• Qin Tian deliberately endured Gu Erduo’s lightning tribulation and emerged unharmed with the Pangu Dao Body.
• Qin Tian fought Gu Erduo with the Overlord's Absolute Saber, using chaos to bind him and a River of Time to nullify his immortal-banishing power.
• Gu Erduo tried to escape, but Qin Tian used his omnipresence trait to catch up and trap him in a killing formation.
• Qin Tian demanded the Heavenly Slaying Axe, but Gu Erduo refused and used its power to attack and try to awaken it further.
• Qin Tian’s tiny saber lights began collapsing Gu Erduo’s heavenly punishment treasured body, so Gu Erduo burned his origin and fled toward the depths of the grasslands.

Qin Tian killed Gu Erduo, claimed the Heavenly Slaying Axe, and became the new number one on the Heaven Ranking. As the martial world quickly revised its opinion of him, Meng Qi set out for the Vast Sea to kill one man.

• Gu Erduo burned his origin and damaged his Inner Scenery to flee into Heaven Beyond Heaven, but Qin Tian used his omnipresence and minute-precise blade qi to pursue and erase him.
• Gu Erduo's death shook the Real World, and Qin Tian claimed the Heavenly Slaying Axe, awakening it and the Overlord's Absolute Saber to the Earthly Immortal level.
• The Six Fan School revised the Heaven Ranking, naming Qin Tian its first-ranked fighter and recording his victory over Gu Erduo.
• The major orthodox sects withdrew their condemnations of Qin Tian, and his reputation shifted from calamity to hero as news of his strength spread.
• Meng Qi read the new Heaven Ranking, resolved to attain a Dharma Body, and headed for the Vast Sea to kill one man.

Qin Tian used the Haotian Mirror to enter a Shrouding the Heavens world, where he awakened a Great Emperor Other Self and accepted the name Great Emperor Haotian. He left that incarnation to establish the Heavenly Court and continued traveling across worlds, discovering that his Other Selves were tied to Haotian Shangdi.

• Qin Tian found a Shrouding the Heavens world through the Haotian Mirror and sensed traces of an Other Self within its Heavenly Heart Imprint.
• Qin Tian awakened the Great Emperor imprint and manifested a Flawless Great Emperor as the Myriad Races Assembly took place at Jade Lake.
• Qin Tian announced himself as Great Emperor Haotian, and the assembly recognized him as a human Great Emperor from the early Desolate Antiquity.
• Qin Tian left his incarnation behind to reestablish the Heavenly Court, confer titles upon the Five Emperors, quell Dark Turmoil, and lead the great sect to ascend into immortality.
• Qin Tian traveled through other worlds, where his incarnations became Haotian and established new orders, defeated powerful enemies, and took control of the Firmament Ranking.

Qin Tian set out to claim the general outline of the Tathagata Divine Palm, which appeared as an Ancient Bodhi Tree at Fish Sea. He drove back the Dharma Body experts and took the tree, then sent its manifestation to Great Thunderclap Temple on Mars.

• Qin Tian used the Eastern Emperor Bell and human faith to develop a faster way to awaken his Other Selves through history.
• Qin Tian sensed the general outline of the Tathagata Divine Palm at Fish Sea and traveled there with the Heavenly Slaying Axe and Overlord's Absolute Saber.
• Qin Tian intimidated the gathered Dharma Body experts, who recognized him as Firmament, the Firmament Emperor, and feared his Earthly Immortal power and the axe's immortal-banishing ability.
• The Ancient Bodhi Tree rose from Fish Sea, and the White Tiger Demon King attacked Qin Tian while Taili used the Five-Colored Divine Light and Demon Saint Spear against him.
• A black-robed Dharma Body and the Kui Ox Demon King joined the fight, but Qin Tian countered their attacks and subdued the Kui Ox Demon King and Taili.
• Qin Tian seized the Bodhi Divine Tree and sent its manifestation to Great Thunderclap Temple on Mars, wondering how Buddha would meet Sakyamuni.

Sakyamuni received the Tathagata Divine Palm’s general outline, united the Buddhist identities of past, present, and future, and attained the Dao as a Quasi-Immortal Emperor. As more powerhouses broke through across the Three Realms, Qin Tian’s enemies attacked in an effort to seize the scripture and curb his rise.

• Sakyamuni comprehended his own tathagata golden body beneath the withered-and-flourishing Bodhi Tree and proclaimed the Forty-Eight Vows.
• Sakyamuni joined his Amitabha Great Emperor, Sakyamuni Buddha, and Future Star Lodge Buddha identities, broke through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level, and established a Pure Land above the Human World.
• Sakyamuni thanked Qin Tian for the teaching and discussed the Dao with him in Qin Tian’s Palace.
• Emperor Venerable became Yuanshi Tianzun and attained the Dao alongside Heavenly Venerable Lingbao and Heavenly Venerable Daode, while Azure Emperor, Duan De, and Great Emperor Fuxi also attained the Dao.
• Han Guang urged the Nine Demonic Paths and other opponents to join the attack on Qin Tian and seize the Tathagata Divine Palm’s general outline.

Qin Tian gathered the power of his thousand Other Selves and attained Legend by joining with the Lingbao figure in his innate true spirit. His breakthrough altered the past and drew the astonished attention of Chonghe and Han Guang.

• Qin Tian expelled his acquired experiences from his innate true spirit and saw Heavenly Venerable Lingbao within the primordial chaos.
• Qin Tian merged with Daoist Lingbao and awakened the power of Legend.
• Qin Tian summoned the power of a thousand Other Selves, formed a thirty-sixth-grade Chaos Green Lotus, and ascended toward the infinite heights.
• Qin Tian attained innate Legend, causing heaven and earth to resonate and changing past and future time and space.
• Chonghe and Han Guang sensed the breakthrough and wondered who had attained Legend in the declining age.

Qin Tian independently attained Legend, producing the rare manifestations Purple Qi Comes from the East, Stars Shining Like a Sea, and an Other Shore sign that hastened the ancient gods’ return. When Dingguang came to kill Meng Qi for the Dao Yi Seal, an Other Shore Yuanshi Tianzun erased him, and Meng Qi revealed to Guang Chengzi that he had already attained the Dao.

• Qin Tian broke through the Legend Gate with the power of his Innate Undying True Spirit and manifested Purple Qi Comes from the East and Stars Shining Like a Sea.
• Qin Tian’s attainment triggered the return of ancient immortals and Buddhas, while he regretted that few people understood the spectacle.
• Qin Tian recognized that Dingguang was heading to Meng Qi’s lodging to seize the Dao Yi Seal for Buddha Dipankara.
• Dingguang tried to kill Meng Qi, but an Other Shore Yuanshi Tianzun appeared and erased him across the myriad heavens.
• Meng Qi mistook Dingguang’s disappearance for a ghost being dispelled by his righteous qi, then met Guang Chengzi.
• Meng Qi revealed himself as Yuanshi Tianzun who had attained the Dao of the Other Shore, shocking Guang Chengzi.

Yuanshi Tianzun Meng Qi met Qin Tian outside time and asked him to bear the Haotian cause and effect as part of Meng Qi’s path to emptiness. Meng Qi gave Qin Tian the restored Haotian Mirror and warned that the Other Shore would soon notice his interference and descend.

• Meng Qi appeared before Qin Tian while the world and River of Time stood still, then explained that he had traveled back to conceal Qin Tian’s past from the Other Shore.
• Meng Qi asked Qin Tian to become the product of his subtraction to seek emptiness, explaining that the cause and effect he carried still blocked his progress.
• Qin Tian agreed to help but demanded compensation for his incarnation’s role in bearing Haotian Shangdi’s cause and effect.
• Meng Qi assembled the fragments of the Haotian Mirror and gave it to Qin Tian, explaining that it contained Haotian cause and effect and a sealed Haotian Dao Fruit.
• Meng Qi warned Qin Tian that changes to the past would eventually draw the attention of those on the Other Shore, who would soon descend.

Qin Tian accepted the Haotian Mirror and began inheriting Haotian Shangdi’s karma, but Fengxi’s historical imprint killed him during his first attempt. Back in the Shrouding the Heavens universe, he used the recovered scriptures to develop his Immortal Emperor system before deciding to advance the Three Realms to Quasi-Immortal Emperor level.

• Qin Tian accepted the Haotian Mirror and entered its inner world to merge with Haotian Shangdi’s historical imprints and karma.
• While tracing the Demon Buddha’s past, Qin Tian fled from Fengxi, who pierced him with her spear and sent his spirit back through the Reincarnation Seal.
• Qin Tian recovered scriptures including the Tathagata Divine Palm, the Haotian Emperor Scripture, and the Heaven-Severing Seven Swords, despite being wounded by Fengxi’s attack.
• Qin Tian’s true body returned to developing the Immortal Emperor realm within the Yang Spirit System using the Other Shore scriptures.
• An Otherworldly Emperor’s War Spear threatened the Three Realms, prompting Qin Tian to plan to advance them to Quasi-Immortal Emperor level.