Chapter Summaries

Xiao Hua gathered the Creation Sect’s Masters to discuss abandoning the Three Great Continents after the Nine Provinces Great Formation failed. Feng Wu’s ancient map led Xiao Hua to identify the immortal formation’s eye, leaving the group with a way to break it.

• Wenqu returned with the avatars, and Xiao Hua learned the Nine Provinces Great Formation had collapsed and taken the Nine Provinces Ding into his body.
• Xiao Hua told the group he might move the Creation Sect to the Myriad Monster Realm or Xiaoyu Continent, but Feng Wu asked them to examine an ancient map.
• Feng Wu revealed a map bearing the couplet “Four Poems: Feng, Ya, Song; Three Powers: Heaven, Earth, and Human.”
• Wenqu’s observations about the couplet prompted Xiao Hua to recall a formation eye he had found on the Primordial Continent.
• Xiao Hua declared that the immortal formation’s eye lay at Heaven, Earth, and Human Peaks in Mo Ran Black Forest, within Taiqing Sect in Meng Kingdom.

Xiao Hua proposed that the Heaven, Earth, and Human Peaks formed the eyes of an immortal array separating the Four Great Continents, and the group discussed how they might break it. The discovery offered a possible way to avert catastrophe, though Xiao Hua warned that the theory remained uncertain and his disciples still had to choose their path.

• Xiao Hua theorized that the Three Talents of the Taiqing Sect corresponded to Buddhist, Daoist, and Demon Race formations whose array eyes were Heaven, Earth, and Human Peaks.
• Demon Venerable Slayer suggested toppling all three peaks at once, and Xiao Hua assigned Maitreya Buddha World Honored One, True Person, and himself to attack the Buddhist, Demon Race, and Daoist formations respectively.
• Xiao Hua said he needed two pieces of primordial magnetism to refine his Five Elements As-You-Wish Heaven-Piercing Staff, while Maitreya Buddha World Honored One offered the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree for the task.
• Xiao Hua acknowledged that the possible solution was uncertain, then summoned his disciples so they could hear the new possibility and make their own choices.
• Liu Yi explained the situation to Yuan Ya, who greeted the ten Masters of the Sect, while Huang Tong admired him and considered taking him as a disciple.

Xiao Hua updated his disciples on the new hope for reaching the Xiaoyu Continent and warned them that their plans might change. He ordered them to hunt for Ancestor Hongmeng and the Mayfly Mother Worm, then chose to summon Xiao Bai rather than involve Dai Er.

• Liu Yi and Fu Zhiwen reported that most Chengtian Hall disciples had joined the Creation Sect, but they had found no trace of Ancestor Hongmeng's Primordial Spirit.
• Xiao Hua ordered Liu Yi and Fu Zhiwen to find and kill Ancestor Hongmeng, fearing he might have left an incarnation or other plan behind.
• Jiang Hong reported that he had effectively taken control of the West Sea Dragon Palace, and Xiao Hua told his disciples that the Heaven, Earth, and Human Peaks offered a new but uncertain hope for the Three Great Continents.
• Yuan Ya asked why Xiao Hua would not tell Dai Er about the route through the Myriad Monster Realm, and Xiao Hua decided to keep her uninformed to avoid provoking the Demon King.
• Xiao Hua sent Jiang Hong to invite Xiao Bai to the Creation Dao Palace and ordered Liu Yi to search the Four Seas Region for the Mayfly Mother Worm.

Xiao Hua told his disciples that he would soon determine their seniority before his ascension, then joined the other masters to study a technique for sharing their insights. He summoned Xiao Bai to discuss a passage to the Myriad Monster Realm and left him preparing to help find a route to Xiaoyu Continent amid the disaster threatening the Three Great Continents.

• Xiao Hua told Liu Yi and the other disciples that he would arrange their seniority before his ascension, and they knelt in tears.
• Fu Zhiwen questioned Xiao Hua’s choice to keep helping the Three Great Continents instead of preparing for tribulation, and Xiao Hua said he had made preparations and considered himself a cultivator of the Four Great Continents.
• Huang Tong examined the Immortal Palace’s Concentric Secret Technique and persuaded Xiao Hua to use it to accelerate the sharing of their insights.
• Xiao Hua activated the King of Fortune, and the ten thrones linked together in a ring of light as the masters began cultivating the technique.
• Xiao Hua summoned Xiao Bai and told him he had found a possible temporary passage to the Myriad Monster Realm, which might lead to Xiaoyu Continent.
• Xiao Bai agreed to accompany Xiao Hua to search for the passage, but urged him to bring others into the Kunlun Immortal Realm because the World-Ending Mayflies threatened the Three Great Continents.

Xiao Hua learned that Old Conch had kept Little White Dragon’s memories sealed and demanded that she lift them if she wanted to travel with him to the Myriad Monster Realm. He then sent Dai Er out of Shenhua Continent, where she found Xiao Hua presiding over the ten Masters of the Sect of the Creation.

• Xiao Hua asked Little White Dragon whether the Multicolored Sea God Conch would enter the Kunlun Immortal Realm and invited her to join the journey to the Myriad Monster Realm with Beiming.
• Xiao Hua and Little White Dragon discussed the Creation Sect disciples’ likely choice to face the World-Ending Mayflies in the Western Sea rather than leave.
• Xiao Hua realized Old Conch had not fully lifted Little White Dragon’s memory seals and told him to demand that she remove them completely.
• Little White Dragon left to prepare and promised to meet Xiao Hua at Yuanxi Reef Plain before the journey.
• Xiao Hua sent Dai Er out of Shenhua Continent, and she bowed to Xiao Hua and the other nine Masters of the Sect of the Creation.

Xiao Hua questioned Dai Er about the Myriad Monster Realm and the Empress’s journey to Xiaoyu Continent, hoping to learn how to return there. Dai Er explained what she knew and hinted at the Empress’s search for a missing Great Sage, but Xiao Hua was left needing more information about the Great Sages and the Empress’s strength.

• Xiao Hua asked Dai Er to share everything she knew about the Myriad Monster Realm and any passage to Xiaoyu Continent.
• Dai Er said she had no knowledge of a passage and described the realms and clans of the Myriad Monster Realm, including the Upper, Lower, and Water Clans.
• Dai Er revealed that the Empress had gone to Xiaoyu Continent while searching for a Great Sage who had vanished from the Myriad Monster Realm.
• Feng Wu introduced himself as the First Great Sage of the Great Sacred Hall, and Dai Er bowed to him.
• Dai Er offered to reveal some of the Empress’s secrets to help save her but asked Xiao Hua not to press her for secrets of the Heavenly Feather Clan.
• Xiao Hua asked Dai Er how powerful the Myriad Monster Realm’s Great Sages were and how strong the Empress had been.

Dai Er explained the Myriad Monster Realm’s ranks and how its laws could suppress outsiders’ strength. After realizing that Xie Yuan faced a trap arranged by Dongshan Yi, Dai Er asked Xiao Hua and the others to rescue the Empress, and Xiao Hua prepared to take her into the Myriad Monster Realm.

• Dai Er described the Heaven, Earth, and Demon ranks of the Myriad Monster Realm and explained that Xie Yuan’s power had been suppressed on Xiaoyu Continent.
• Xiao Hua told Dai Er that Xiao Huang and Xiaohei were cultivating, and Dai Er praised Xiao Huang’s potential as the extraordinary demon Diting.
• Huang Tong asked Dai Er where she would report news of Xie Yuan, and Dai Er realized that the Empress had been caught in a deathtrap arranged by Dongshan Yi.
• Dai Er knelt and asked Xiao Hua and the others to rescue Xie Yuan, explaining that the Empress had been kind to humans.
• Xiao Hua said he had already arranged for Yuan Ya to accompany Dai Er and told her she would not need to return to Tianfu Palace before the rescue.
• Xiao Hua asked Dai Er to provide one more thing for their journey to the Myriad Monster Realm.

Xiao Hua learned more about the Myriad Monster Realm and assigned his companions tasks to prepare for the journey. He then spent years comprehending spatial escape, culminating in a transformation that absorbed the surrounding cosmic phenomena into his Dharma Body.

• Dai Er explained that the Myriad Monster Realm used a common spirit language and described its Phoenix, Lion, Tiger, Leopard Whale, and Python races, but she had never heard of a Dragon race.
• Xiao Hua sent Dai Er back to cultivate, and Huang Tong urged the group to focus on finding the Metal-Wood Primordial Magnetism and the spatial passage in Xiao Bai’s memories.
• Xiao Hua gave Huang Tong the Hundred Beasts Banner, assigned Thunderclap True Person the Yin Yang Illustrated Manual, and asked his eight clones to refine eight of the Nine Provinces Dings.
• Xiao Hua activated the King of Fortune and spent years comprehending the spatial escape technique as the Creation Dao Palace and the surrounding space transformed.
• A vast spatial vortex replaced the Creation Dao Palace, and Xiao Hua’s Dharma Body grasped the phenomena around it and drew them into his body.

After emerging from seclusion, Xiao Hua learned that the Mayfly Mother Worm remained missing and the Three Great Continents faced destruction within a hundred years. He accepted the other powers’ young refugees into the Creation Dao Palace and appointed Jiang Hong to oversee the West Sea Dragon Palace, while Chunzang traveled in the East Sea.

• Xiao Hua summoned the Creation Sect disciples and their allies to the Creation Dao Palace after emerging from seclusion.
• Liu Yi reported that no one had found the Mayfly Mother Worm and that conditions across the Three Great Continents were worsening; Fu Zhiwen said the Great Sun Tathagata World Honored One expected the apocalyptic calamity within a hundred years.
• Fu Zhiwen explained that Buddhist, Immortal Palace, demon, dragon, and Hundred Schools of Thought groups had sent escorts and young children to the Creation Dao Palace, and that the Creation Sect had agreed to shelter them.
• Xiao Hua accepted the refugees’ presence and appointed Jiang Hong to temporarily oversee the West Sea Dragon Palace, with Ao Zhan assisting him.
• Liu Yi told Xiao Hua that Chunzang had entered the East Sea region and that the East Sea Dragon Palace had secretly sent Sea Patrol Yakshas to protect him.

Xiao Hua learned that his disciples had chosen to stay and fight the World-Ending Mayflies rather than flee to the Myriad Monster Realm, while arranging for vulnerable Creation Sect disciples to retreat to Shenhua Continent. He ordered the group preparing to depart to leave in ten days, then turned his attention to the silent black bear.

• Liu Yi told Xiao Hua that the disciples had agreed whoever survived longest would become eldest senior brother, and Fu Zhiwen said they would defend the Three Great Continents.
• Fu Zhiwen explained that Creation Sect disciples from Shenhua Continent also wanted to remain, while You Zhongquan presented a list of those who chose to return.
• Fu Zhiwen proposed sending female disciples and ordinary disciples to safety, but Chang Yuan and Jiang Hong objected to being included among the women sent away.
• Liu Yi ordered younger disciples and those below the Nascent Soul realm to enter Shenhua Continent, and Xiao Hua upheld the order despite Xiong Yi and Li Xiang wanting to stay.
• Xiong Yi and Li Xiang accepted the responsibility of rebuilding the Creation Sect elsewhere, and Xiao Hua told the departing group to prepare to follow him in ten days.
• Xiao Hua noticed the black bear standing silently to one side.

Xiao Hua arranged who would leave to break the immortal formation and who would stay to protect the Creation Dao Palace. Princess Zixia surprised him by choosing to stay behind with Wenqu.

• Xiao Hua assigned Black Bear Spirit, White Lion, and Golden Eagle to protect Creation Sect disciples settling in the Myriad Monster Realm, and asked Feng Wu to bring back the disciples from the Sacred Realm of a Thousand Demons.
• Xiao Hua decided Wenqu would guard the Creation Dao Palace while the others joined the effort to break the formation, and gave him the Xuanyuan Sword before accepting Wenqu’s advice to keep it himself.
• Maitreya Buddha World Honored One left to arrange matters at Little Linglong Temple and deliver news of the Dragon Saint to Great Sun Tathagata World Honored One, while Feng Wu departed for the Sacred Realm of a Thousand Demons.
• Princess Qingqing agreed to follow Thunderclap True Person, and Xiao Hua told her and Yu Xiajing to prepare to go with Princess Zixia.
• Princess Zixia declared that she would stay with Wenqu to guard the Creation Dao Palace, leaving Xiao Hua startled as he began to understand her choice.

Princess Zixia and Princess Qingqing chose to stay behind to reassure and protect the Creation Sect while Xiao Hua and the others departed to break the formation. After Thunderclap True Person promised to marry Qingqing upon his return, Xiao Hua approved her staying and shared a farewell drink with Zixia.

• Princess Zixia told Xiao Hua she would stay behind so his disciples would trust that he would return, and offered to advise Wenqu.
• Xiao Hua gave Wenqu the remaining pills that could kill the World-Ending Parasite King.
• Princess Qingqing volunteered to stay and guard the Creation Sect, explaining that she could recognize the Immortal Emperor's covert schemes.
• Thunderclap True Person promised to marry Princess Qingqing when he returned, and Xiao Hua approved her staying with authority limited to offering advice.
• Xiao Hua took Princess Zixia above the Western Sea, gave her several Cosmic Bags, and invited her to share Peach Wine before their departure.

Xiao Hua confessed to Princess Zixia about his past relationships with Fairy Hongxia and Xue Xue, including Xue Xue’s sacrifice, and Zixia confronted him over his mistakes. As Xiao Hua prepared to return to Xiaoyu Continent, Zixia warned him not to judge Fairy Hongxia or presume how she would receive him.

• Princess Zixia pressed Xiao Hua to reveal his past on Xiaoyu Continent, and he admitted he had loved more than one woman.
• Xiao Hua recounted his relationships with Fairy Hongxia and Xue Xue, and Princess Zixia struggled with jealousy but listened to his account.
• Xiao Hua told Zixia that Xue Xue and Wu Nai had sacrificed themselves to protect him, and Zixia said he had let Xue Xue down.
• Xiao Hua admitted his failures in love, while Zixia defended Fairy Hongxia and acknowledged her own part in their relationship.
• Princess Zixia said Fairy Hongxia would surely welcome Xiao Hua when he returned, but Xiao Hua suggested his feelings might have changed.
• Princess Zixia angrily ordered Xiao Hua to stop judging Fairy Hongxia and said he should not see her if he thought that way.

Princess Zixia urged Xiao Hua to stop misreading Fairy Hongxia’s feelings and spoke candidly about love, responsibility, and their uncertain future. After spending the night together, she explained that she feared Xiao Hua’s return to Fairy Hongxia would change their relationship.

• Princess Zixia told Xiao Hua that Fairy Hongxia had remained devoted to him and urged him to visit her.
• Xiao Hua admitted that he was afraid to see Fairy Hongxia, and Princess Zixia questioned whether he had brought her to the Xiaoyu Continent to meet her alone.
• Princess Zixia explained her hopes for security and asked Xiao Hua to consider her, Fairy Hongxia, and Sister Xue before pursuing other romances.
• Princess Zixia warned that she and Xiao Hua might follow separate paths after he ascended, then kissed him and spent the night with him.
• At sunrise, Princess Zixia denied seeing the future and said Fairy Hongxia’s return to Xiao Hua’s side could change his feelings toward her.

Xiao Hua and Princess Zixia affirmed their devotion as she chose to remain behind and wait while he crossed realms. At Yuanxi Reef Plain, Xiao Hua addressed the Creation Sect disciples and began arranging who would leave for the Myriad Monster Realm.

• Princess Zixia promised to wait ninety years for Xiao Hua, and he embraced her before their departure.
• Ten days later, Xiao Hua and Princess Zixia appeared before the gathered Creation Sect disciples, who welcomed them and vowed their faith in Xiao Hua.
• Xiao Hua bowed to the disciples for their sacrifices, and they pledged not to betray his trust.
• Xiao Hua gave the Kunlun Mirror to Thunderclap True Person and ordered him to take the departing disciples and descendants of other races to the Myriad Monster Realm.
• Little White Dragon told Xiao Hua that the Multicolored Sea God Conch would not enter the Kunlun Immortal Realm, and Xiao Hua chose not to bring her along because he distrusted her motives.

Xiao Hua prepared to leave for the Myriad Monster Realm, entrusting the Creation Sect to Wenqu, Princess Qingqing, and Princess Zixia. As he departed, Multicolored Sea God Conch stopped him and persuaded him to wait three days so she could try to remove Little White Dragon’s final seal and ask him to bring Bei Ming’s true body to the Myriad Monster Realm.

• Xiao Hua gathered his avatars and waited for Thunderclap True Person, then used the Kunlun Mirror to send Feng Wu and the others away.
• Xiao Hua entrusted the Creation Sect to Wenqu, Princess Qingqing, and Princess Zixia, and Wenqu used the King of Fortune to reveal the sky above Yuanxi Reef Plain.
• Xiao Hua bid farewell to the Creation Sect disciples and opened a spatial rift to leave for the Myriad Monster Realm.
• Multicolored Sea God Conch emerged and asked to follow Xiao Hua, but he refused and said he was in a hurry.
• Multicolored Sea God Conch offered to try to break Little White Dragon’s final seal and asked Xiao Hua to bring Bei Ming’s true body to the Myriad Monster Realm.
• Xiao Hua agreed to give Multicolored Sea God Conch three days and followed her toward a place in the West Sea.

Xiao Hua agreed to carry the Multicolored Sea God Conch’s descendants and Bei Ming’s young form to the Myriad Monster Realm, but found that she could not enter the Kunlun Immortal Realm because she still carried her unusable innate divine ability. He secretly used Huang Tong’s spatial evasion technique to reach the demon realm, where a sudden change in space forced him to lead their journey alone and transform into a phoenix.

• Xiao Hua collected the Multicolored Sea God Conch’s descendants and took Bei Ming’s young form after she removed Little White Dragon’s seal, but he could not collect her into the Kunlun Immortal Realm.
• The Multicolored Sea God Conch explained that her Great Seven-Colored Halo Shell Realm prevented her from entering the Kunlun Immortal Realm, so she entrusted Xiao Hua with her descendants and Bei Ming.
• Xiao Hua promised to bring Bei Ming to his clone and find a suitable place for the descendants in the Myriad Monster Realm, while reserving the right to prioritize Bei Ming’s safety.
• Xiao Hua secretly used spatial evasion to reach the demon realm in the Sacred Realm of a Thousand Demons, where Huang Tong emerged and praised his mastery of space.
• A sudden spatial change prevented Huang Tong from confirming the route to the Myriad Monster Realm, so he merged with Xiao Hua and left him to lead the crossing.
• Xiao Hua turned insubstantial with lightning, merged with Huang Tong, and transformed into a phoenix.

Xiao Hua entered the collapsing realm and used lightning and seal-script characters to open a passage through its chaotic spatial laws toward the Myriad Monster Realm. As the passage appeared, the surrounding light and shadow recoiled, threatening to erase the way forward.

• Xiao Hua discovered that the realm was collapsing from damage to its spatial laws and hurried to stabilize the area with lightning and runes.
• Xiao Hua tore open a spatial rift, but found only black light and shadow and learned from Huang Tong that they could not use spatial escape techniques without a realm dimension.
• Xiao Hua entered the rift with the Lightning Evasion Technique, moving through the chaotic spatial laws and spotting gaps in their ripples.
• Xiao Hua used green seal-script characters to form a faint passage and saw scenes from the Myriad Monster Realm at its far end.
• Xiao Hua opened a jagged rift through the passage, but the collapsing light and shadow recoiled and threatened to make the realm dimension disappear.

Xiao Hua escaped through a collapsing spatial passage and was battered unconscious when opposing planar forces collided. After recovering enough to fend off an attacker, he saw a familiar sky and realized he might have arrived somewhere dangerous.

• Xiao Hua used his spatial escape technique to enter a passage leading toward the Myriad Monster Realm’s plane barrier.
• Xiao Hua tore open a crack through the planar force, but opposing forces collided and shattered his defenses, knocking him unconscious.
• Xiao Hua drifted into the Myriad Monster Realm’s plane barrier while the passage outline remained intact.
• Xiao Hua woke after an unknown time and spent three days recovering from dizziness and pain.
• Xiao Hua punched down a creature that attacked him, then looked around and recognized the gloomy, storm-darkened sky.

Xiao Hua and Princess Zixia searched Lan Yue Palace for Fairy Xingyue’s hidden message, and Xiao Hua eventually entered a concealed pavilion using her token. Inside, he found an old book and repeatedly saw an illusion of himself and Princess Zixia on a beach.

• Xiao Hua concluded that Fairy Xingyue’s message was not hidden in the Heroes Pavilion and searched Lan Yue Palace with Princess Zixia.
• Xiao Hua found the true Lan Yue Palace in a vast garden, but its pavilion remained unreachable until he used Fairy Xingyue’s token and lightning techniques to open its entrance.
• Princess Zixia remained frozen outside the pavilion, so Xiao Hua entered alone and discovered a doorway that led to a beach.
• Xiao Hua saw an illusion of another Xiao Hua and Princess Zixia on the beach, which vanished when crimson fire flashed in his eyes.
• Xiao Hua found a meditation cushion and an old book on a platform, then saw the beach illusion appear again as he reached for the book.