Chapter Summaries

Li Xiang and more than twenty Golden Core cultivators joined Xiao Hua’s Creation Sect, and Xiao Hua discussed its organization and his concealed strength with his three Nascent Soul disciples. The chapter ended with Lan Dianzi suggesting that Black Wind Ridge was unsuitable for the sect’s mountain gate.

• Li Xiang explained why he had delayed joining Xiao Hua and asked to enter the Creation Sect, while his disciples also pledged themselves to the sect.
• Xiao Hua welcomed the new disciples, then kept Xiong Yi, Li Xiang, and Lan Dianzi to discuss sect affairs.
• Xiong Yi presented draft regulations, and Xiao Hua agreed to let the three Nascent Soul disciples manage the sect and its divisions.
• After Liu Yi and the others left, Xiong Yi, Li Xiang, and Lan Dianzi questioned Xiao Hua about his strength and warned him to conceal any breakthrough from the Immortal Palace.
• Lan Dianzi told Xiao Hua that Black Wind Ridge was not a suitable location for the Creation Sect’s mountain gate.

Xiao Hua reconsidered where the Creation Sect should establish itself, then helped Xuan Songzi begin shaping a body as a dispersed Nascent Soul. The process triggered a lightning tribulation over Black Wind Ridge, leaving Xiao Hua rushing to protect the sect and its people.

• Lan Dianzi and Li Xiang warned Xiao Hua that Black Wind Ridge was unsuitable for the Creation Sect, so Xiao Hua sent Lan Dianzi and Fu Zhiwen to inspect a mountain range in Jing Province while Li Xiang managed Black Wind Ridge.
• Xiao Hua entered the quiet chamber and learned that Xuan Songzi and True Person Jingting were ready to cultivate dispersed Nascent Souls, but could not absorb a human essence that was too old.
• Xiao Hua chose a roughly 120,000-year-old human essence for Xuan Songzi and guided the painful process of shaping his body.
• Xiao Hua completed the body-shaping process, but realized Xuan Songzi's new form was only as tall as a young child.
• A lightning tribulation descended over the quiet chamber, and Xiao Hua fled outside with Xuan Songzi and True Person Jingting, fearing the tribulation would destroy the formation and devastate Black Wind Ridge.

After surviving a powerful lightning tribulation, Xiao Hua reassured Yuan Ya and helped him resume his cultivation. He then gave Yan Lingzhi to True Person Jingting, whose Spiritual Apertures reopened, and the chapter ended with Xuan Songzi awaiting his turn.

• Xiao Hua returned to Black Wind Ridge after three days and told Li Xiang to hurry in searching for the Blessed Land before the Immortal Palace noticed the commotion.
• Xiao Hua comforted Yuan Ya over Butterfly Dance’s betrayal and gave him guidance and a jade slip for cultivating the Big Dipper Divine Fist and a body-tempering technique.
• Xiao Hua brought Xuan Songzi and True Person Jingting out of the Kunlun Mirror and warned them that their next scattered-infant lightning tribulation would be even fiercer.
• Xiao Hua gave True Person Jingting a Yan Lingzhi, and its green seal-script light restored his Spiritual Apertures.
• True Person Jingting rejoiced at regaining his Spiritual Apertures while Xuan Songzi watched and waited.

Xiao Hua prepared to restore the damaged Primordial Spirits in his lower dantian, but the Immortal Palace’s attention and a nearby Land God’s surveillance made him race against time. After dealing with the Land God and ordering his disciples to mine the veins, he went underground to investigate the Metal-Wood Primordial Magnetism.

• Xiao Hua gave Yan Lingzhi to Xuan Songzi and True Person Jingting, then sent them into the Kunlun Ruins to cultivate.
• Xiao Hua considered using Yan Lingzhi or Spirit Awakening Liquid to repair the damaged Nascent Soul Primordial Spirits and worried that the Immortal Palace or Yuzhou Confucian cultivators might target him.
• Dragon Vein Xiao Hua burst out after sensing Dragon Qi and boundless Vast Righteous Qi, and Xiao Hua learned that Princess Changling had restored Jiang Kingdom under a Golden Core cultivator.
• Xiao Hua told Xiong Yi that he would enter seclusion, warned him to expect disturbances, and ordered him to have the demons and outer sect disciples empty the mine veins.
• Xiao Hua captured a hidden Confucian cultivator near Black Wind Ridge and learned from Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua that the man was a Land God serving as an eye and ear of the Immortal Palace.
• Xiao Hua planted threads of soul in the Land God, then used the Art of Earth Evasion to reach the black mist and investigate the Metal-Wood Primordial Magnetism.

Xiao Hua spent more than three years absorbing the Metal-Wood Primordial Magnetism, strengthening the Duotian Star Array, and preparing for the Immortal Palace’s campaign against Daoist sect countries. After learning that several such countries had fallen, he ordered Creation Sect to prepare to relocate from Black Wind Ridge to the Soaring Dragon Mountain Range.

• Xiao Hua used the Blood Refinement Art to sense the Metal-Wood Primordial Magnetism and eventually drew the enormous mass into his space after years of cultivation.
• The Metal-Wood Primordial Magnetism’s removal strengthened the Duotian Star Array, and Xiao Hua demonstrated its increased power by catching and returning a Golden Condor patrol bird.
• Xiao Hua warned Xiong Yi, Lan Dianzi, and Li Xiang about the Immortal Palace’s Earth Deities and learned that its forces had destroyed four Daoist sect countries.
• Xiao Hua suspected the Immortal Palace was hunting those responsible for Kong Hongwu’s death and feared Black Wind Ridge might be targeted.
• Li Xiang reported that the Soaring Dragon Mountain Range was suitable as a refuge, so Xiao Hua ordered Creation Sect to prepare to move there and summoned Fu Zhiwen to establish an array.

After learning that Liaoshan had been murdered, Xiao Hua suspected the Sword Dao Battle was involved. At Jiangchao Temple, Cimei watched devotees demand justice for Liaoshan and lamented her own uncertain path to Buddhist fruition.

• Xiao Hua learned from Xiong Yi that Liaoshan, abbot of Jiangchao Temple, had been killed, and suspected the Sword Dao Battle was involved.
• Cimei contemplated the vast faith and thought power gathering around the covered Guanyin statue while Liaoshan’s corpse lay in a coffin beneath it.
• Jingcheng urged Cimei to promise the kneeling devotees that Jiangchao Temple would find Liaoshan’s killer, but Cimei said she was lamenting her own helplessness and envying Cihang’s good fortune.
• Cimei told Jingcheng that attaining fruition outside the Pure Land World was far more difficult than within it, then tapped her chest twice as he failed to understand her meaning.

Cimei and Jingcheng discussed the loss of their Buddha Hearts and the uncertainty surrounding Liaoshan’s murder as violence spread between Buddhist and Confucian forces. After Cimei received reports of escalating attacks, a Confucian cultivator struck at Guanyin’s golden body and threatened to massacre Jiangchao Temple and its believers if Pure Land reinforcements entered Changsheng Town.

• Cimei told Jingcheng that both of them had lost their Buddha Hearts, and explained that Liaoshan’s death had made him fear further killings.
• Jingcheng refused to promise the kneeling believers that their golden body would be protected, and he and Cimei considered how faith and suspicion had fueled the conflict.
• Cimei received reports of destruction and deaths across several regions, while Buddhist kingdoms and temples mobilized to support Jiangchao Temple.
• Jingcheng learned that ten major Confucian countries had sent a million troops to besiege Changsheng Town and planned to scatter the believers and topple Guanyin’s golden body.
• A giant fist attacked the golden body, but Cimei blocked it with a Buddhist lotus and suffered a minor injury.
• An unidentified attacker warned Cimei that he would slaughter Jiangchao Temple and its believers if any Pure Land Buddha General or monk soldier entered Changsheng Town.

Cimei faced an overwhelming sword attack at Jiangchao Temple until Manjushri Bodhisattva arrived and drove off the attacker. Elsewhere, a young monk reached the Cangxian Continent after a shipwreck and set out for Changsheng Town with the boatman who had saved him.

• Cimei and Jingcheng discussed the threat from the Duanmu Family and the believers gathering at Jiangchao Temple, while Cimei warned that their refusal to leave could lead to an Immortal-Buddha War.
• A powerful sword strike descended on the Guanyin Bodhisattva statue, and Cimei flew up to defend it as Buddhist phenomena shielded Changsheng Town.
• Manjushri Bodhisattva arrived and repelled the sword; he told Cimei that his mission from Buddha Tathagata was unrelated to Changsheng Town.
• Near the East Sea, a young monk and a boatman reached shore on a log after their ship was destroyed.
• The young monk thanked the boatman for saving him and invited him to travel with him to Changsheng Town.

Chun Zang set out on foot across Cangxian Continent toward Changsheng Town, believing he was following Buddha’s decree to reach Thunder Sound Temple. He left a fishing village with its residents preparing to help him find the way to Yuzhou.

• Chun Zang parted from the boatman after promising to ask the Great Sun Tathagata how many years the boatman had left to live.
• After Chun Zang walked away, the boatman revealed himself as Yuan Tongtian and followed from the air, determined to protect him on his master's orders.
• Chun Zang reached a fishing village and asked a fisherwoman for water and directions to Yuzhou.
• The fisherwoman gave Chun Zang water, then called her husband to help him find the route.
• The fisherman was shocked that Chun Zang planned to walk to Yuzhou and offered to arrange directions and dry provisions.

Xiao Hua continued building a defensive formation at the Soaring Dragon Mountain Range while receiving news about upheaval across Cangxian Continent. He learned that Gaza Kingdom had fallen and another Daoist nation was destroyed by the Immortal Palace, leaving him to consider how these events connected to Jiang Kingdom and the National Teacher’s tokens.

• Yuan Tongtian watched Chun Zang accept provisions from two fishermen and worried about his missing master, Xiao Hua.
• Xiao Hua worked to establish three grand arrays at the Soaring Dragon Mountain Range after relocating Black Wind Ridge’s possessions there.
• Lan Dianzi reported that the Qi Stone mine was too extensive to excavate quickly, and Xiao Hua told him to bring Black Bear and the others to the mountain range.
• Lan Dianzi told Xiao Hua that Manjushri Bodhisattva had driven away Confucian cultivators threatening the Buddha statue at Jiangchao Ridge.
• Lan Dianzi reported that Tongzhu, Gu, and Jiming Kingdoms had destroyed Gaza Kingdom, while Jiang Kingdom remained, possibly with Gaza’s people and forces.
• Lan Dianzi reported that the Immortal Palace had annihilated a Daoist nation in Jingzhou that possessed a National Teacher’s token.

Xiao Hua finished preparing the Soaring Dragon Mountain Range for his disciples and went to Black Wind Ridge to collect its Qi Stone mine, deciding to build a Teleportation Array in the hidden former Metal-Wood Primordial Magnetism Space. As he worked underground, a force of one hundred thousand immortal soldiers and several immortal generals appeared above Cangxian Continent.

• Xiao Hua gave Lan Dianzi supplies for the disciples and told him to bring the Black Wind Ridge disciples back to the Soaring Dragon Mountain Range.
• After finishing a temporary stage of the formation, Xiao Hua flew alone to Black Wind Ridge and found its Qi Stone caverns empty.
• Xiao Hua used his divine sense to excavate a huge section of the Qi Stone mine, triggering a collapse that buried him before he escaped unharmed.
• Xiao Hua chose the hidden Metal-Wood Primordial Magnetism Space beneath Black Wind Ridge as the site for a Teleportation Array, with Great Snow Mountain in the Pure Land as its other end.
• Xiao Hua carefully continued collecting the Qi Stones while planning trips to the Pure Land and the Sacred Realm of a Thousand Demons.
• A passage opened amid the heavenly fire, wind, and lightning above Cangxian Continent, and one hundred thousand immortal soldiers followed by several immortal generals emerged.

Sun Jian led the Immortal Palace army to Black Wind Ridge while Kua Chong was sent to destroy Jiang Kingdom. As the soldiers began setting up the Heavenly Net and Earthly Net around Black Wind Ridge, Sun Gang hoped Xiao Hua would escape before the formation was complete.

• Sun Jian split the Immortal army, sending Kua Chong to attack Jiang Kingdom and leading the main force toward Black Wind Ridge.
• Sun Gang challenged Sun Jian’s intentions and followed him, hoping to warn Xiao Hua about the campaign.
• Sun Jian’s army appeared above Black Wind Ridge, causing nearby Confucian cultivators and the Earth God to flee.
• An Immortal General reported that a Daoist formation concealed Black Wind Ridge and that no cultivators had escaped.
• Sun Jian ordered the Immortal Soldiers to establish the Heavenly Net and Earthly Net around Black Wind Ridge.
• Sun Gang warned that the commotion might attract the Buddhist sect and hoped Xiao Hua would escape before the encirclement was complete.

Xiao Hua discovered that the Immortal Palace had sealed Black Wind Ridge beneath a powerful Heavenly Net and Earthly Net, and he tested the barrier while preparing to resist. Sun Jian ordered the formation maintained as Kua Chong returned from Jiang Kingdom and prepared to lead the attack on Black Wind Ridge.

• Xiao Hua found newly laid Law-Binding Chains underground and realized the Immortal Palace had trapped him inside Black Wind Ridge.
• Xiao Hua attacked the net with the Kunlun Mirror, endured its lightning, and heard an immortal general demand his surrender.
• Sun Jian ordered the Heavenly Net and Earthly Net maintained and directed his forces to prepare to crush Black Wind Ridge's Great Heavenly Cycle Star Array.
• Kua Chong reported that he had killed Daoist cultivators in Jiang Kingdom and encountered Buddhist disciples and monk soldiers there.
• Sun Jian allowed Kua Chong to proceed against Black Wind Ridge, and Kua Chong volunteered to lead the vanguard.

Xiao Hua emerged from Black Wind Ridge’s Great Heavenly Cycle Star Array and confronted the Immortal Palace army, which had come under the Immortal Emperor’s edict. He and Kua Chong traded their first blows, and neither gained the advantage.

• Sun Jian questioned Kua Chong about who had blamed Black Wind Ridge’s cultivators for Kong Hongwu’s assassination, and Kua Chong named Dongfang Haohua.
• Kua Chong attacked the Duotian Star Array, but its power turned his axe back toward him until Sun Jian pulled him aside.
• Xiao Hua emerged from the array and demanded to know what crime the Immortal Palace accused him of, while Sun Gang recognized him and stayed silent.
• Kua Chong ordered Xiao Hua to surrender, but Xiao Hua refused and challenged him to fight.
• The Heavenly Net and Earthly Net cut off outside Primordial Qi, but Xiao Hua drew power from the stars and expanded his Dharma Body and As-You-Wish Staff.
• Xiao Hua and Kua Chong clashed their staff and axe; both were forced back, and Kua Chong excitedly acknowledged Xiao Hua’s strength.

Xiao Hua defeated Kua Chong after revealing his overwhelming strength and captured him, then faced Sun Jian, who demanded the hostage’s release. Xiao Hua refused, accusing the Immortal Palace of intending to slaughter Black Wind Ridge.

• Kua Chong warned Xiao Hua before using a secret technique that created four identical giant avatars, but Xiao Hua shattered the battle axes and destroyed one avatar with his Divine Thought Hammer.
• Kua Chong’s avatars collapsed, leaving him badly injured, and he tried to flee while Xiao Hua imprisoned him with his great hand.
• The Immortal Generals sent a Law-Binding Chain toward Xiao Hua, forcing him to withdraw his hand, but Xiao Hua quickly caught up with Kua Chong as he escaped.
• Sun Jian launched a flaming arrow to stop Xiao Hua, who dodged the attack and exposed Sun Jian’s concealed strike with his As-You-Wish Staff.
• Xiao Hua held Kua Chong while Sun Jian promised safe passage if he surrendered, but Xiao Hua refused and said he could not abandon Black Wind Ridge’s disciples.

Xiao Hua held Kua Chong hostage to force Sun Jian to let him leave the encirclement, while refusing to trust Sun Jian’s offer of protection. Sun Jian opened a path through the formations, and Xiao Hua departed with Kua Chong, leaving their next meeting set to be hostile.

• Xiao Hua threatened to kill Kua Chong if Sun Jian attacked, and Sun Jian revealed that he had recognized Xiao Hua from the start.
• Sun Jian returned a Qiankun Ring he owed Xiao Hua and offered to spare Black Wind Ridge if Xiao Hua released Kua Chong.
• Xiao Hua refused to trust Sun Jian, arguing that their connection could be exposed and used against them; Sun Gang urged Sun Jian to trade Xiao Hua for Kua Chong.
• Sun Jian rejected Sun Gang’s advice and ordered the Heavenly Net and Earthly Net opened, allowing Xiao Hua a path to escape.
• Xiao Hua denied that he was accepting Sun Jian’s favor and flew through the gap with Kua Chong in his hand.

Xiao Hua escaped Sun Jian’s army at Black Wind Ridge, refused Ancestor Hongmeng’s invitation, and fled toward Changsheng Town. After the Immortal Palace destroyed Black Wind Ridge, Xiao Hua spent five years building a Teleportation Array and began activating it with the Great Universe Shifting Token.

• Xiao Hua used Kua Chong as a hostage to escape the Heavenly Net and Earthly Net while Ancestor Hongmeng’s forces arrived nearby.
• True Lord Qingxu offered to take Xiao Hua to meet Ancestor Hongmeng, but Xiao Hua declined and hurried toward Changsheng Town.
• Sun Jian ordered the Duotian Star Array broken, then had Black Wind Ridge’s mines destroyed and the ridge flattened before returning to the Immortal Palace.
• Black Wind Ridge became a wasteland, while Xiao Hua continued building a grand array in the Soaring Dragon Mountain Range and entered secluded cultivation in the Metal-Wood Primordial Magnetism Space.
• After five years, Xiao Hua completed the Teleportation Array and began activating the Great Universe Shifting Token.

Xiao Hua completed a Soul Cultivator-inspired Teleportation Array and finished the protective grand formation around the Soaring Dragon Mountain Range. He summoned the Creation Sect disciples to the newly revealed Creation Dao Palace to give them instructions.

• Xiao Hua used the Great Universe Shifting Token to activate the Teleportation Array and imprint its location, then rested for more than a month to recover.
• Xiao Hua searched the area, returned to the Soaring Dragon Mountain Range, and completed its mountain-protecting grand formation.
• Xiong Yi, Li Xiang, Fu Zhiwen, and Lan Dianzi admired how the formation concealed the sect and praised Xiao Hua's progress.
• Xiao Hua sealed the grand formation with a crystal plaque, preventing voice transmissions from entering, and brought his disciples inside.
• Xiao Hua flew to the Creation Dao Palace as bells rang and disciples gathered from across the mountains.

Xiao Hua gathered the Creation Sect’s leaders to discuss the sect’s defenses and the turmoil across the Cangxian Continent. After entrusting control of the mountain-range formation to Xiong Yi and Lan Dianzi, he revealed that he planned to leave on a long journey and placed the sect’s affairs in their hands.

• Xiao Hua entered the newly completed Creation Dao Palace and praised the Creation Sect’s disciples and their strengthened defenses.
• Xiong Yi reported that the Immortal-Buddha conflict and wars among the Hundred Schools of Thought had spread across the Cangxian Continent, while Manjushri Bodhisattva had not revealed who killed Lia Shan.
• Lan Dianzi and Li Xiang warned that the unresolved murder could lead Buddhist and Confucian forces to blame the Daoist school.
• Xiao Hua refined two mother tokens for the Soaring Dragon Mountain Range’s grand formation and gave them to Xiong Yi and Lan Dianzi to control together.
• Xiao Hua told the disciples he would leave on a lengthy journey and entrusted the Creation Sect’s affairs to Xiong Yi, Lan Dianzi, and Li Xiang.

Xiao Hua arranged the Creation Sect’s leadership and resources before preparing to travel across the Cangxian Continent with selected disciples and demons. He left Xiong Yi, Lan Dianzi, and Li Xiang in charge, warning them to keep the sect united until he returned.

• Xiao Hua gave Xiong Yi, Lan Dianzi, and Li Xiang methods for refining Life Spirit Tablets, cultivation resources, and guidance for managing the Creation Sect.
• Xiao Hua formally accepted Chang Yu and Wu Tian as disciples, kept Chang Yu at the sect to pursue a Nascent Soul, and agreed to take Wu Tian on his journey.
• Xiao Hua told Wang Zhengfei to prepare to travel with him at dawn and reassured Xiong Yi that he might return in a few years, though the journey could last decades or longer.
• The Black Bear Spirit, Golden Roc, and White Lion begged to accompany Xiao Hua, and he agreed while assigning Qin Xiaoyao and other disciples to govern their demon followers.
• Xiao Hua warned Xiong Yi, Lan Dianzi, and Li Xiang against internal conflict and charged them with preserving the Creation Sect while he was away.