Chapter Summaries

Buddha Bodhi used the power of Namo Maitreya Buddha to awaken the Stone Giants’ minds, accepting the possible cost to Jiang Liuer’s Buddhist fruition. After Xiao Hua recognized that their transformation would require patient teaching rather than a single spell, he and Buddha Bodhi began educating the clan, leaving nearly ten thousand Stone Giants on the path to learning.

• Buddha Bodhi explained why he was willing to use Namo Maitreya Buddha’s faith power to help the Stone Giants, and Xiao Hua agreed that Jiang Liuer would not resent the act.
• Buddha Bodhi awakened the old Stone Giant’s wisdom, while a fissure split the statue of Namo Maitreya Buddha in the distant Buddha niche.
• The old Stone Giant gathered his clansmen, and Buddha Bodhi used his Dharma to open the minds of the Stone Giant clan despite Xiao Hua’s concern about the statue’s damage.
• Xiao Hua realized that transforming the Stone Giants required time and persistent teaching, not merely Buddhist Dharma or Daoist techniques.
• Buddha Bodhi performed Opening Spirit on nearly ten thousand Stone Giants, then began teaching them basic writing with Xiao Hua and his disciples’ help.

Xiao Hua led the Stone Giants in studying the Shuowen Jiezi, then emerged from the magma when two groups of Stone Giants began fighting. He discovered that one group invoked Maitreya Buddha while the other called on a Dragon God, and sent Jiang Hong to investigate after stopping their battle.

• Xiao Hua worried over the cracking Buddha statue as the Stone Giants continued their lessons, then heard tremors and sent them to meet an approaching force.
• Xiao Hua and his companions emerged from the magma, and he realized the surrounding Primordial Qi could help the Stone Giants cultivate; he and Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua discussed using their heaven-defying space to aid them.
• The Magma Stone Giants clashed with an invading group, and Xiao Hua noticed that the invaders called on a Dragon God and bore faint dragon patterns, while the Magma Stone Giants bore faint swastika symbols.
• Xiao Hua ordered Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua to stop the slaughter, and Five Qi True Thunderbolts scattered both groups.
• Xiao Hua ordered Jiang Hong to follow the fleeing Stone Giants and discover the reason for their conflict.

Xiao Hua rescued the Stone Giants from the magma battles, taught them language and cultivation in his space, and learned about their dwindling food and neighboring peoples. While investigating a strange passage beneath their home, he found a vast chamber of Fire Qi Stones and enormous bones atop a stone pillar.

• Xiao Hua sent Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua to accompany Jiang Hong, then led the disciples and Stone Giants into his space.
• Jade Slip Xiao Hua taught the Stone Giants cultivation, Confucian and Buddhist teachings, and speech, while Fu Zhiwen and the disciples helped them learn.
• The Stone Giants explained that scarce Fire Qi Stones had intensified fighting among settlements, including attacks by Dragon God worshipers, golden-armored people, and strange birds.
• Xiao Hua and Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua discussed the Stone Giants' limited knowledge and the Primordial Chaos Beast they had heard about.
• Bone Tempering Xiao Hua called Xiao Hua to investigate something strange beneath the magma lake, and they descended through a passage into a vast chamber.
• Xiao Hua found a stone pillar surrounded by Fire Qi Stones, with enormous white bones covering its top, and asked Bone Tempering Xiao Hua how he had reached it.

Xiao Hua and his companions found dead white bones and crystals in the lava, while Bone Tempering Xiao Hua began developing compassion and gained courage to control the Heavenly Human White Bone. After the others left to pursue their tasks, Xiao Hua discovered another stone pillar bearing a different pile of mysterious bones.

• Bone Tempering Xiao Hua explained that compassion for the Stone Giants had led him into the lava, where he found crystals and white bones, and Xiao Hua said those feelings might help him control the Heavenly Human White Bone from within.
• Bone Tempering Xiao Hua reported that the first bones held lightning power that vanished into his body and showed no vitality; Xiao Hua collected them as potential materials for soul artifacts.
• Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua gathered crystals from the lava and gave them to Bone Tempering Xiao Hua to deliver to the Stone Giants.
• Bone Tempering Xiao Hua left to deliver the crystals and cultivate, while Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua departed to study the Vast Righteous Qi.
• Xiao Hua flew to another passageway and found a second stone pillar topped with thinner, shorter bones pierced by countless tiny holes; the hard bones rang with a Golden Chirping Sound when he tapped one.

Xiao Hua discovered another group of Stone Giants worshipping Jiang Hong and began organizing the Creation Sect to enlighten the Primordial Chaos races across the continent. The disciples set out to explore and spread enlightenment while searching for places where the Incense-Passing Cult could settle.

• Xiao Hua found more bone-covered pillars in the magma, then met Jiang Hong, whose Stone Giants had mistaken him for their Dragon God.
• Xiao Hua bestowed Fire Qi Stones on Jiang Hong's Stone Giants, enlightened them, and arranged for Liu Family disciples to help Jiang Hong manage them.
• Xiao Hua consulted the other incarnations and Creation Sect disciples, who proposed enlightening other Primordial Chaos species, expanding the effort, and coordinating support through Kunlun Mirror fragments.
• Xiao Hua released tens of thousands of Creation Sect disciples, sent them out under Liu Yi, Yuan Ya, and You Zhongquan, and tasked them with exploring the land and locating suitable human settlements.
• Xiao Hua explained that the search for settlements was meant to accommodate Incense-Passing Cult disciples, and he cautioned that divination could be unreliable.

Xiao Hua and the Creation Sect continued awakening and helping Primordial Chaos races, but he worried over his missing avatars, the dangers facing his disciples, and the Buddha statues tied to Jiang Liuer. Before leaving to search for Dragon Vein Xiao Hua and Phoenix Body Xiao Hua, he entrusted the Kunlun Mirror to Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua and learned that his avatars were beginning to sense his secret space.

• Xiao Hua used the Kunlun Mirror to awaken the spirits of dark-ice fishmen, and their Buddha statue of Jiang Liuer split in two.
• Over the following months, Creation Sect disciples brought many Primordial Chaos races to Xiao Hua for spirit awakening, while Buddha Bodhi’s Buddhist flame grew brighter.
• Xiao Hua worried that Dragon Vein Xiao Hua and Phoenix Body Xiao Hua had disappeared, that powerful Primordial Chaos beings were killing disciples, and that he was taking Jiang Liuer’s opportunity.
• Xiao Hua gave Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua the Kunlun Mirror and asked him to continue awakening the Primordial Chaos races while Xiao Hua searched for the missing avatars.
• Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua revealed that he had begun sensing Xiao Hua’s space, and Xiao Hua realized his other avatars might eventually enter it as well.

Xiao Hua investigated a disturbance on the mysterious continent, fought off a giant Primordial Chaos Beast, and discovered that the land had almost no water-elemental Primordial Qi. The chapter left him preparing to test whether he could summon clouds and rain as a battle erupted in the distance.

• Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua used the Kunlun Mirror to draw Primordial Chaos Wood Clan members inside while Xiao Hua headed toward a distant rumble.
• Xiao Hua encountered a giant bird that attacked him, struck it with his Divine Thought Hammer, and seized several of its feathers before it fled into the void.
• Xiao Hua searched the area for a reason the bird had returned and noticed a nearly depleted pool of molten iron, but found nothing unusual about it.
• Xiao Hua realized the continent had no visible water or rain and sensed that its water-elemental Primordial Qi was extremely scarce.
• Xiao Hua activated his Eye of Delusion Breaking to attempt the Cloud-Gathering and Rain-Making Technique as a shout and a burst of seven-colored radiance erupted in the distance.

Xiao Hua arrived as Yuan Ya fought a powerful Primordial Chaos Beast and gave him a demon spear to overcome the beast’s advantage. After Yuan Ya drove the beast away, Xiao Hua took the spear back and gathered the strange radiance from the hills for the Creation Sect disciples.

• Xiao Hua found Yuan Ya battling a seven-colored Primordial Chaos Beast among the hills, where Creation Sect disciples stood guard.
• Xiao Hua had Demon Spirit Xiao Hua suppress the Dragon Bone Spear’s demonic qi and gave the spear to Yuan Ya, protecting his mind as he took hold of it.
• Yuan Ya used the Dragon Bone Spear to turn the fight around, counter the beast’s attacks, and drive it away.
• Yuan Ya asked Xiao Hua to bestow the spear on him, but Xiao Hua took it back and told him to master the consciousness within it first.
• Xiao Hua instructed the disciples to watch over Yuan Ya and used Sleeve Universe to gather the crystalline radiance from the hills.

Xiao Hua searched the strange continent for a suitable human settlement and the secret treasure, but found no people or water and failed to contact Dragon Vein Xiao Hua or Phoenix Body Xiao Hua. After provoking a powerful Primordial Chaos Beast, he fled as its crystal beads disrupted his teleportation and pursued him into the sky.

• Xiao Hua gave the Creation Sect disciples Extreme Magnetic Yuan Light, then flew off to continue his search.
• Xiao Hua reflected on the continent's lack of humans and questioned whether it could support the Incense-Passing Cult disciples.
• Xiao Hua tricked a giant, long-necked beast into knotting its own neck and escaped.
• Xiao Hua spent more than ten days searching without finding water, the secret treasure, or any sign of Dragon Vein Xiao Hua and Phoenix Body Xiao Hua.
• Xiao Hua released his pressure and lightning to draw out a beast, but the beasts hid from him for several days.
• A powerful beast in a mountain forest trapped Xiao Hua with crystal beads, and he escaped with Lightning Evasion as the beads pursued him.

Xiao Hua escaped a mysterious beast by breaking through the limits of his lightning evasion and gaining a first insight into light escape. While searching underground for Dragon Vein Xiao Hua, he found a pig-shaped Primordial Chaos Beast and startled it into a violent awakening.

• A hidden beast’s rippling attack tore apart Xiao Hua’s armor and body, but the pressure helped him transform into particles and flee at unprecedented speed.
• Xiao Hua hid in a cave and spent more than ten days comprehending his breakthrough in light escape.
• Unable to determine his direction, Xiao Hua tried using Liu Yi’s die to choose a route, then traveled underground when it landed with its one-point face downward.
• Xiao Hua sensed a gray-green stone cave and found a sleeping, pig-shaped Primordial Chaos Beast inside.
• Xiao Hua pricked the beast’s ear and snout with his divine sense, provoking it to wake, smash through the cave, and erupt toward the surface.

Xiao Hua fought a powerful pig-shaped Primordial Chaos Beast, then discovered that its apparent roars were attempts to communicate. The beast led him to its lair and gave him a Buddhist jade slip containing an extraordinary soul-based divine ability, which Xiao Hua began studying.

• Xiao Hua clashed with the Primordial Chaos Beast, countering its attacks with his staff, five-colored lightning, and golden force while it struck with lightning, wind, and hidden bone spines.
• Xiao Hua realized the beast could not understand his speech, and the beast produced a Buddhist jade slip that Xiao Hua mistakenly thought pointed toward an offering at its lair.
• Xiao Hua caught the beast leading him back toward a dangerous area and restrained it with Five Elements True Qi, threatening it with Spirit Severing Primordial Light.
• The beast led Xiao Hua to its lair and brought him a second Buddhist jade slip containing a rare Buddhist divine ability that used soul power to communicate.
• Xiao Hua lowered his defenses, heard the beast's faint speech through ripples reaching his Niwan Palace, promised to repay it, and began examining the jade slip.

Xiao Hua comprehended a Buddhist secret technique that let him communicate with the sleeping Primordial Chaos Beast, Devouring Heaven, and learned that the beast was also called Jie Chi. He questioned Devouring Heaven about the Primordial Continent and was left recognizing that its inhabitants followed an order independent of humanity.

• Xiao Hua studied the Buddhist jade tablet while Devouring Heaven slept peacefully nearby.
• After many days of study, Xiao Hua used the secret technique to send a message into Devouring Heaven’s mind and woke it by promising good food.
• Xiao Hua realized the technique could overcome language barriers and considered how adapting it might benefit the Daoist sect and Primordial Chaos races.
• When Devouring Heaven pretended not to understand the idea of names, Xiao Hua challenged its act, and Devouring Heaven revealed its names: Devouring Heaven and Jie Chi.
• Xiao Hua questioned Devouring Heaven about the continent and learned that Primordial Chaos Beasts occupied territories they could expand by defeating or devouring neighboring beasts.

Xiao Hua tried to learn where the seven-colored rosy light had appeared, but realized Heaven-Devouring had been evading his questions because he feared what lay there. After the two fought, Xiao Hua offered him a magic artifact in exchange for guidance, and Heaven-Devouring remained wary.

• Xiao Hua asked about the seven-colored rosy light, but Heaven-Devouring redirected the conversation and asked about Xiao Hua’s origins and the human race.
• Xiao Hua realized Heaven-Devouring was deliberately avoiding his questions and sealed the area with his domain.
• Heaven-Devouring broke through Xiao Hua’s domain, but Xiao Hua struck him with the As-You-Wish Staff and threatened him with the Soaring Flood Dragon Scissors.
• Xiao Hua and Heaven-Devouring fought barehanded, trading nearly a thousand collisions before Xiao Hua gained the upper hand.
• Heaven-Devouring refused to reveal the rosy light’s location, fearing Xiao Hua would make him lead the way and enter first.
• Xiao Hua offered Heaven-Devouring a magic artifact if he guided him without having to enter, then displayed several artifacts for him to choose from.

Xiao Hua gave Tuntian a powerful Nine-toothed Rake, and Tuntian agreed to lead him to the dangerous, treasure-filled Chao Tian Que. As Tuntian described its trials and the beasts competing within, Xiao Hua began to suspect his story concealed a trap and discovered that Tuntian did not know what rain was.

• Xiao Hua presented Tuntian with the Nine-toothed Rake, which Tuntian used to smash a mountain peak.
• Tuntian flew with Xiao Hua toward Chao Tian Que and described it as a place where strange phenomena heralded the appearance of treasures.
• Tuntian said that only young, less powerful strange beasts could enter Chao Tian Que and warned that the Primordial Chaos Five Juniors had repeatedly claimed its treasures.
• Tuntian recounted being framed during a previous contest and described the dangers inside Chao Tian Que as huge grains of yellow sand and falling weapons.
• Xiao Hua questioned Tuntian's description of falling objects and learned that Tuntian had never heard of rain.

Xiao Hua listened to Swallowing Heaven's tales about the Primordial Chaos Five Juniors before entering the golden expanse Swallowing Heaven identified as Chao Tian Que. Unable to sense his two avatars, Xiao Hua suspected they had fallen inside and used the Art of Earth Evasion to search beneath the sand.

• Swallowing Heaven claimed the Primordial Chaos Five Juniors had repeatedly robbed and beaten him, and named them Ink Jade Stupid Donkey, Golden Toad, Five-Colored Stupid Chicken, Black and White Stinky Turtle, and Little White Smelly Cat.
• Swallowing Heaven led Xiao Hua to Chao Tian Que, then refused to go farther and pointed out where he believed its entrance might appear.
• Xiao Hua warned Swallowing Heaven not to deceive him, then flew into the golden wilderness while Swallowing Heaven turned back before changing direction and flying elsewhere.
• Xiao Hua searched the golden expanse with his divine sense but could not find Dragon Vein Xiao Hua or Phoenix Body Xiao Hua, so he suspected both avatars had fallen inside Chao Tian Que.
• Xiao Hua examined the ordinary-looking sand, then used the Art of Earth Evasion to sink beneath it.

While searching the golden desert for the entrance to Chao Tian Que, Xiao Hua was trapped by sand scorpions that grew stronger as he destroyed them. A colossal dragon formed from the desert’s strange fluctuations immobilized him, and Xiao Hua released the transformed Divine Strength Centipede as the dragon head descended.

• Xiao Hua searched the desert for Chao Tian Que but found no entrance before nightfall.
• A sand scorpion attacked Xiao Hua, and he destroyed it, prompting an endless swarm of increasingly powerful sand scorpions to rise from the sand.
• Xiao Hua discovered that destroying the scorpions created fluctuations that trapped him, so he used lightning to wipe them out and flee.
• A ten-thousand-zhang sand scorpion attacked Xiao Hua, and he shattered it with his divine sense, stirring chaotic fluctuations across the desert.
• The fluctuations gathered into a vast crystal-like dragon that suppressed Xiao Hua with its dragon might and began lowering its head toward him.
• Xiao Hua released the transformed Divine Strength Centipede from his space as the dragon head descended.

Xiao Hua and the Divine Strength Centipede crossed a restriction into a primordial wilderness beneath a mirror-like sky, where real beasts attacked them. After spotting a distant mountain reflected overhead, Xiao Hua directed the centipede toward the sky, but it could not reach the mirror surface.

• The Divine Strength Centipede overcame the dragon manifestation and carried Xiao Hua toward Chao Tian Que, where its dragon might broke through an invisible restriction.
• Xiao Hua found himself in a primordial wilderness beneath a mirror-like sky and discovered that his divine sense could not leave his body.
• The Divine Strength Centipede killed hundreds of attacking strange birds, then flew away from the fiery-marked beasts gathering below.
• Xiao Hua spotted a towering mountain and ordered the Divine Strength Centipede to fly upward toward the mirror surface, but it could not reach it.

Xiao Hua discovered that Chao Tian Que’s central mountain was a vast Buddhist pagoda resembling his Great Evolution Exquisite Pagoda, and he used the Baye Linglong Scripture to enter it. He arrived on the pagoda’s eighth level, leaving the surrounding beasts outside as Buddhist visions filled the interior.

• Xiao Hua realized that travelers in Chao Tian Que were drawn toward the same central mountain, which proved to be a gigantic Buddhist pagoda.
• The pagoda’s Buddhist clouds repeatedly suppressed Xiao Hua, so he descended to the ground and approached it on foot.
• Xiao Hua suspected the pagoda might be connected to Jiang Liuer’s previous life, then reconsidered and decided to enter rather than seek a relic.
• Xiao Hua chanted the Baye Linglong Scripture, causing Buddhist lotuses to form a path that carried him to the pagoda’s eighth level.
• Xiao Hua entered through a half-open door as savage beasts gathered outside, and his Buddhist sense revealed countless Buddhist scenes within the pagoda.

Xiao Hua confronted the Ten-Headed Lion King, guardian of the eighth floor of the Heaven-Reaching Pagoda, and endured its attacks inside its belly. After his lightning and Innate True Water overcame the beast’s defenses, Xiao Hua prepared to strike back with his Heaven and Earth Manifestation and Lingmou Zhu Fire.

• Xiao Hua spotted scarlet flashes in the Buddhist light, retreated, and was attacked by a series of lion heads.
• Xiao Hua recognized that the Nine-Headed Lion King was actually the Ten-Headed Lion King and broke its concealed tenth head’s tooth with the As-You-Wish Staff.
• The Ten-Headed Lion King drew Xiao Hua into its belly, where wind and lightning assaulted him.
• Xiao Hua used his Thunder Control Technique to destroy the wind and lightning, then protected himself from the acidic liquid with Innate True Water.
• The Ten-Headed Lion King admitted it had underestimated Xiao Hua, who unleashed his Heaven and Earth Manifestation and Lingmou Zhu Fire.

Xiao Hua defeated the Ten-Headed Lion King and questioned it about Chao Tian Que, the Primordial Chaos World, and his companions. He learned that Dragon Vein Xiao Hua and Phoenix Body Xiao Hua had reached the ninth level, then left the eighth level for the stairs leading up.

• Xiao Hua used Lingmou Zhu Fire and his golden body to overwhelm the Ten-Headed Lion King until it begged for mercy.
• Xiao Hua learned that two other True Person Xiaos had entered the ninth level and that the Ten-Headed Lion King knew of Dragon Vein Xiao Hua and Phoenix Body Xiao Hua.
• The Ten-Headed Lion King explained what it knew about Chao Tian Que, the tower’s guardians, and the powerful Primordial Chaos Beasts nearby.
• Xiao Hua recognized that Tuntian’s insulting names referred to the Primordial Chaos Five Juniors and learned that they had bullied Tuntian after it became vegetarian.
• The Ten-Headed Lion King said the beasts trapped in the pagoda would be able to leave when Chao Tian Que reopened after its Weapons were taken.
• Xiao Hua stepped onto the stairs to the ninth level and vanished in the Buddhist light.