Chapter Summaries

Xiao Hua and his companions emerged from Heaven Peak into the Tiyue Mountain Range and began searching Xiaoyu Continent’s dangerous lands for clues to breaking the formation separating the Four Great Continents. After Ying Kui suggested the immortal formation might have developed a spirit, Xiao Hua returned with him toward Taiqing Sect, determined to destroy the barrier before the Three Great Continents’ inhabitants perished.

• Xiao Hua and Ying Kui realized they had emerged in the Tiyue Mountain Range at night, despite having left Taiqing Sect that afternoon, and Ying Kui explained that formations could distort time.
• Xiao Hua dispatched Huang Tong, Feng Wu, Maitreya Buddha World Honored One, True Person Da, Wu Daoist, Thunderclap True Person, and Demon Venerable Slayer to investigate Xiaoyu Continent’s dangerous lands for clues.
• At Human Peak, Xiao Hua and Ying Kui found the planar confinement far stronger than before and seemingly growing stronger; Ying Kui proposed that the immortal formation might have produced a spirit.
• Xiao Hua, Ying Kui, and Heavenly Man passed through the formation and emerged in the Mysterious Yin Illusion Realm, where Xiao Hua left Heavenly Man to investigate.
• Xiao Hua returned toward Taiqing Sect with Ying Kui and explained that the Three Great Continents’ billions of inhabitants would perish if the formation remained intact and Xiaoyu Continent’s mutated spiritual energy could not pass through.

Xiao Hua waited for reports while Ying Kui spent three years teaching him Confucian cultivation and then asked to be taken to the Qiang He Sea. Xiao Hua’s search for the immortal formation had yielded no useful clues, and Ying Kui prepared to die at sea as he asked Xiao Hua whether he had made his decision.

• Ying Kui promised to help Xiao Hua for three years, explaining that his Confucian oath would erase his memories after death and bind him to the mortal world through many reincarnations.
• Xiao Hua sent Loose Nascent Souls to retrieve companions, find a new site for the Taiqing Sect, and gather reports while Ying Kui taught him.
• Over three years, Ying Kui lectured Xiao Hua and tens of thousands of Creation Sect disciples as reports arrived, but searches across the forbidden lands, Qiang He Sea, Buddhist ruins, and several kingdoms found no trace of the immortal formation.
• The Taiqing Sect relocated to Yuexiu Mountain Peak, but Xiao Hua still lacked the certainty needed to dismantle Heaven, Earth, and Human Peaks.
• Xiao Hua took Ying Kui to the Qiang He Sea, where Ying Kui said he was ready to bury his bones and asked whether Xiao Hua had considered his decision.

Ying Kui used his remaining strength to awaken the figure in the Nine Dragon Coffin Seal, who revealed himself to be the real Immortal Emperor Gouchen rather than Emperor Tianhuang’s avatar. Xiao Hua recognized how Xie Xin had impersonated Gouchen and began to show the awakened emperor the Sheji Town Paper.

• Xiao Hua brought out the Nine Dragon Coffin Seal and agreed to give Ying Kui a chance to atone by awakening its occupant.
• Ying Kui advised Xiao Hua to search for the formation eye beyond the Heaven, Earth, and Human Peaks and mentioned seeing patterned stone blocks like seals.
• Ying Kui used two streams of innate True Qi to awaken the figure in the coffin, then decayed into powder that fell into the Qiang He Sea as Wenqu Star vanished.
• The awakened figure broke free of his restraints, called out Xie Xin, and recognized Xiao Hua; Xiao Hua realized he was the real Immortal Emperor Gouchen and that Xie Xin had impersonated him.
• Xiao Hua explained the Sheji Town Paper’s significance by presenting it to Gouchen, who was shocked to learn Xiao Hua had reached the Great Vehicle Daoist Sect.

Xiao Hua learned that Immortal Emperor Gouchen was Xie Xin’s original body-double and had been sealed in the Heavenly Prison, then recruited him to help fight the world-destroying crisis on Xiaoyu Continent. Gouchen agreed to lend his strength, while Xiao Hua revealed he wanted the Penglai Fairyland; the chapter ended with Xiao Hua asking his companions to assess Ying Kui’s suggestions.

• Immortal Emperor Gouchen identified the Sheji Town Paper and explained that he had suppressed Xin Xin in the Liao River, intending to pardon her after the Pure Land scripture quest succeeded.
• Xiao Hua told Gouchen that Xie Xin had imprisoned him and Sun Jian, and revealed that Xie Xin had named Xin Xin Princess Zixia and granted her in marriage to him.
• Gouchen revealed that Xie Xin was his avatar and had sealed him in the Nine Dragon Coffin Seal to take his place in Lingyun Hall; Xiao Hua explained how he had rescued him from the Heavenly Prison.
• Xiao Hua told Gouchen that the Three Great Continents faced destruction from Upper Realm insects, and Gouchen explained that the laws restricted his knowledge but agreed to lend his strength.
• Xiao Hua showed Gouchen the Xuanyuan Sword, then asked him to grant a request after they returned to the Immortal Palace and revealed that he wanted the Penglai Fairyland.
• Xiao Hua asked his companions what they thought of Ying Kui’s two suggestions, and Huang Tong considered Ying Kui’s perspective while Tian Ren called him a schemer.

Xiao Hua and the others went to Heaven, Earth, and Human Peaks to investigate Ying Kui’s clues about the immortal formation’s array eye. When Xiao Hua used Light Escape to pass through the barrier at Human Peak, he glimpsed something that left him stunned and emerged in the Mysterious Yin Illusion Realm.

• Feng Wu explained why the immortal formation’s array eye was unlikely to be at the peaks or their corresponding forbidden lands, and the group decided to investigate Human Peak.
• Huang Tong told Xiao Hua that Fairy Hongxia had entered seclusion in the concealed Ice Phoenix Palace to stabilize her rapidly advanced bloodline.
• Xiao Hua brought the Immortal Emperor Gouchen to the three peaks, where Gouchen learned how powerful the Dao cultivators of Yilin Continent were compared with the cultivators of the Four Great Continents.
• Xiao Hua assigned the group to explore the three peaks according to their formations, with the Maitreya Buddha World Honored One and Wu Daoist taking Heaven Peak, Feng Wu and Huang Tong taking Earth Peak, and Xiao Hua and Thunderclap True Person taking Human Peak.
• Xiao Hua could not enter the Land of Nine Heavens through Human Peak’s barrier, so he used Light Escape and glimpsed a scene in the light and shadow before reappearing in the Mysterious Yin Illusion Realm in disbelief.

Xiao Hua identified the Buddhist array space sealed by Mount Sumeru in Million Meng Mountain as the location of the immortal array’s eye, and explained how the array had shaped the Four Great Continents. He prepared the group to enter the dangerous space and break the array, but left the immediate plan in Demon Venerable Slayer’s hands.

• Xiao Hua learned that Maitreya Buddha World Honored One had seen the Sea of Bitterness and revealed that he had glimpsed a sealed space beneath the Buddhist array on Human Peak.
• Xiao Hua concluded that Mount Sumeru suppressed the Buddhist array space in Million Meng Mountain and that the immortal array’s eye lay beneath the Witch King, in the eighteenth level of Saw Hell.
• Xiao Hua explained how the array had confined soul cultivators, separated the major factions, and forced the Buddhist Sect to abandon West Continent of Aparagodaniya.
• Xiao Hua sent Immortal Emperor Gouchen into the Kunlun Immortal Realm for protection while promising to help him restore order in the Immortal Palace.
• Xiao Hua warned his avatars that the array spirits were far stronger than the group and said they would have to use the enemy’s expectations to their advantage.
• Demon Venerable Slayer returned with Demon Blade Shi, and Xiao Hua told him that the group’s success depended on him.

Xiao Hua and his clones planned to bait the three Formation Spirits by giving them human nature and freedom, while coordinating attacks on the formations from the peaks and Million Meng Mountain. Xiao Hua’s group entered the sealed space, where Zi Ming sensed the Formation Spirit’s power and suspected that Xiao Hua had arrived.

• Xiao Hua assigned Maitreya Buddha World Honored One, Thunderclap True Person, and Feng Wu to serve as bait for the Buddhist, Daoist, and demonic Formation Spirits, while True Person Da, Tian Ren, and Demon Venerable Slayer prepared to attack the three peaks.
• Xiao Hua sent Creation Sect disciples to withdraw beyond ten thousand li and arranged for Huang Tong, Tian Ren, and True Person Da to attack the formation barriers after a little over a month.
• Xiao Hua and his group reached Million Meng Mountain, where Wu Daoist sensed the sealed space and Xiao Hua voiced concern about Witch King Ming’s fate.
• Wu Daoist opened the sealed space with the Nan Yuan Bei Zhe technique, and Xiao Hua’s group followed him inside.
• Zi Ming saw green seal characters surge from the deity statue and felt the sealed space’s immense pressure return; she wondered if the new Witch King had arrived.

Xiao Hua arrived at the Buddhist formation space, sent Ziming back to Houtu Great Village, and broke through the seal to reach the Eighteen Layers of Hell. He and his companions encountered the three formation spirits, who appeared as elderly Daoists and began addressing Xiao Hua.

• Xiao Hua and his companions entered the formation space, where Maitreya Buddha World Honored One held back the descending Mount Sumeru phantoms.
• Xiao Hua told Ziming that Ziye had been revived, and Wu Daoist escorted her back to Houtu Great Village.
• Xiao Hua concluded that the three formation spirits were beneath them in the Eighteen Layers of Hell and smashed through the seal with the As-You-Wish Staff.
• Xiao Hua and his companions descended into a realm that shifted through scenes of spring, summer, autumn, and winter instead of the hell they expected.
• Three elderly Daoists appeared above a celestial pool, and the leftmost one challenged Xiao Hua before the middle one objected to greeting guests with wind and rain.

Xiao Hua and his companions confronted the three formation spirits guarding the Heavenly Pool, and Demon Venerable Slayer used their own reasoning to stop them from attacking. Xiao Hua named the spirits Dao, Buddha, and Demon, then began persuading them that he had returned to discuss humanity, leaving them listening as Mount Sumeru hovered overhead.

• Xiao Hua and Demon Venerable Slayer questioned why the formation spirits were suppressing cultivators, making them hesitate to attack.
• Maitreya Buddha World Honored One identified himself as a Buddhist disciple, and Feng Wu declared himself of the Demon Race, delighting the corresponding formation spirits.
• Xiao Hua named the Daoist, Buddhist, and Demon Race formation spirits Dao, Buddha, and Demon, and they happily accepted.
• Xiao Hua said he had come to discuss matters rather than break the formation, then explained that he had studied humanity and sought the spirits to share his ideas.
• Buddha raised Mount Sumeru again after hearing Zi Ming's name, but Xiao Hua persuaded him to hear the explanation first.

Xiao Hua lured the three formation spirits toward Yangzhou by having Demon Venerable Slayer describe how travel and human experience had helped him attain humanity. When the spirits realized they could gain bodies by devouring others, they attacked Feng Wu, Thunderclap True Person, and Maitreya Buddha World Honored One, trapping them in the formation.

• Demon Venerable Slayer revealed his devil formation and explained that he had attained humanity by experiencing the mortal world.
• Xiao Hua described Yangzhou and persuaded the formation spirits to leave their formations, while Feng Wu and Thunderclap True Person joined the journey.
• The Buddhist formation spirit hesitated over leaving its formation, but Xiao Hua claimed he had already arranged for Zi Ming to remove Witch King Shi from the space.
• Demon Venerable Slayer suggested that formation spirits could devour those who had not attained humanity, and Xiao Hua moved beside the three spirits, revealing his plan.
• Feng Wu, Thunderclap True Person, and Maitreya Buddha World Honored One realized Xiao Hua had brought them as prey and attacked him.
• The formation spirits transformed and struck at the three incarnations, trapping them with the Song of Years, Buddhist light, and Five Elements Annihilation.

Xiao Hua and his allies destroyed the Three Peaks to break the grand array, triggering a catastrophe that threatened the Xiaoyu Continent. Mount Sumeru intervened and halted the immediate collapse, but the heavens then fractured over Qiang He Sea as stars and torrents of water descended.

• The three array spirits trapped Thunderclap True Person, Maitreya Buddha World Honored One, and Feng Wu, then revealed that breaking the array pillars would bring destruction to the Xiaoyu Continent.
• Xiao Hua left the sealed space and ordered True Person Da and Demon Venerable Slayer to prepare their weapons at Heaven, Earth, and Human Peaks.
• Xiao Hua, True Person Da, and Demon Venerable Slayer struck the Three Peaks together, collapsing them and causing the world to quake as purple void ribbons descended.
• The array spirits appeared free, but Xiao Hua and his three avatars vanished from the array eye after Demon Venerable Slayer struck it, halting the trembling and the ribbons' descent.
• Mount Sumeru emerged near Witch God Ridge, shattered the purple void ribbons, and flew to the Buddhist Sect ruins, causing the sealed space to collapse.
• Mount Sumeru flew toward Qiang He Sea as the heavens cracked, and stars and torrents of turquoise water poured down east of the sea.

Xiao Hua and his allies broke the immortal formation, triggering the restoration of the Four Great Continents’ laws, and hurried away to settle their karma. At Yuanxi Reef Plain, Princess Zixia’s forces fought off the World-Ending Mayflies, but the battle left her injured as Wen Qu helped defeat two powerful mayflies.

• True Person Da’s Pangu Axe broke the formation, and Xiao Hua confirmed that spiritual energy was flooding into the Three Great Continents as sealed spaces vanished.
• Xiao Hua warned that the recovering Heaven and Earth rules would soon force them to leave, then departed with True Person Da and the others after sending messages to Xiang Zhili, Wu Qing, Cui Yingying, and Yuan Ya.
• Princess Zixia led the Creation Sect battle units in attacks that killed most of the World-Ending Mayflies at Yuanxi Reef Plain.
• A hidden mayfly injured Princess Zixia, and she protected Princess Qingqing from another attack before further spikes threatened Qingqing.
• Wen Qu used Five Qi True Thunder and the Heaven and Earth Pagoda to expose and kill two ninth-grade Yuan Force mayflies, after which the disciples exterminated the remaining enemies.
• Princess Zixia ordered the disciples to rest, and Princess Qingqing approached to ask about her injuries.

Princess Zixia, Princess Qingqing, and Wen Qu discussed the growing World-Ending Mayfly threat and waited for Xiao Hua and Thunderclap True Person to return. As a vast swarm surrounded Yuanxi Reef Plain, a world-ending force appeared on the western horizon, leaving Wen Qu sensing despair.

• Princess Zixia and Wen Qu worried that the Mayflies were multiplying and that the Creation Sect could not hold out much longer.
• Princess Qingqing and Princess Zixia lamented that Xiao Hua and Thunderclap True Person had been gone for fifty-six years.
• Wen Qu ordered the Creation Sect disciples to form up as a massive swarm of World-Ending Mayflies surrounded Yuanxi Reef Plain.
• Wen Qu rallied the disciples to fight, while Princess Zixia and Princess Qingqing stayed back to avoid disrupting the battle formation.
• Princess Qingqing and Princess Zixia spotted a vast darkness approaching from the west, and Wen Qu sensed a world-ending aura spreading across the sea and sky.

Xiao Hua’s return and the emergence of Mount Sumeru ended the world-ending crisis across the Three Great Continents. He reunited with Chun Zang, who set out to cross the Western Sea toward Xiaoyu Continent and Huanghua Ridge.

• Wenqu reassured the Creation Sect disciples that the distant upheaval signaled the immortal formations breaking, but a black barrier spread across the sky and world-ending fluctuations shook the Three Great Continents.
• Mount Sumeru burst through the barrier as the Great Sun Tathagata World Honored One, Rāgaratna Tathagata, and the Saints of the Great Sacred Hall arrived; its appearance unleashed a gale that swept away the World-Ending Mayflies.
• Tun Tian tried to carry Chun Zang and the Six-Eared Macaque to safety, but the gale trapped them and swept them through the air until Xiao Hua appeared and calmed it.
• Xiao Hua greeted Chun Zang, Tun Tian, and the Six-Eared Macaque, told Chun Zang that Xiao Xianrui was well and waiting at Huanghua Ridge, and sent him onward with his two disciples.
• Chun Zang chose to cross the Western Sea by boat, and the gale spread across the Three Great Continents as the World-Ending Mayflies burst into dust.

Xiao Hua returned after destroying the World-Ending Mayflies and received the gratitude of the Three Great Continents’ leaders. As preparations began for the Nine Provinces Great Formation, he felt the heavenly lightning closing in and postponed speaking with Princess Zixia about Fairy Hongxia.

• Xiao Hua arrived with True Person, Wu Daoist, Heavenly Man, and Huang Tong after the gale annihilated the World-Ending Mayflies, and the sects, Buddhist disciples, and demon kings thanked him for saving the world.
• Xiao Hua reassured Princess Qingqing that Thunderclap True Person was safe and would fulfill his promise, then released Feng Wu and Thunderclap True Person from the Kunlun Mirror while Maitreya Buddha World Honored One remained inside to avoid being taken by the Heavenly Gate.
• Xiao Hua explained that the elites sent to the Myriad Monster Realm had been saved, while Rāgaratna Tathagata announced plans for a monument and for Maitreya Buddha World Honored One to descend in his second-turn golden body.
• Feng Wu advised the Golden-Winged Great Peng to return to the Great Sacred Hall and use its star power to stabilize his star marks before Shattering the Void.
• Ao Jia invited Xiao Hua to Dragon Island to discuss the Dragon Realm, and Xiao Hua asked what gift he had brought before turning to Princess Zixia.
• Xiao Hua sensed the heavenly lightning and realized his cultivation could no longer be concealed; he confirmed to Princess Zixia that he had seen Fairy Hongxia, and she told him to handle his affairs before they spoke further.

Xiao Hua and his companions gathered the wandering souls left behind by the World-Ending Mayflies and returned to the Creation Dao Palace. Princess Zixia and Princess Qingqing reconciled and decided to remain with their loved ones, while the Creation Sect disciples assembled to welcome the Sect Leader Masters.

• Xiao Hua accepted the Immortal Palace’s gift and asked the Immortal Emperor to prepare to lay down the Nine Provinces Great Formation on Cangxian Continent.
• After the other visitors departed, Xiao Hua and his companions took their thrones at the Creation Dao Palace, then realized the victims devoured by the World-Ending Mayflies still needed help.
• Xiao Hua released Demon Venerable Slayer, and they joined their divine senses and Netherworld Primordial Force to gather wandering souls into the Yin aspect of space.
• Princess Qingqing and Princess Zixia reconciled, clasped hands, and decided to accompany Thunderclap True Person and Xiao Hua.
• After more than a month, Xiao Hua and his companions returned to the Creation Dao Palace, where the disciples welcomed them and the princesses were invited inside.

Xiao Hua gathered the Creation Sect disciples to settle affairs and warn them before the group’s imminent ascension. He and Princess Zixia prepared to leave together, while Demon Venerable Slayer bid farewell to his brothers and set out for the Demon Realm.

• Xiao Hua praised the disciples, and True Person appointed Jiang Hong as West Sea Dragon King for guarding the West Sea Dragon Palace.
• Xiao Hua told Liu Yi that Xiaoyu Continent’s mutated spiritual qi was fatal to Dao cultivators and gave him revised cultivation techniques for the Creation Sect’s future.
• Xiao Hua warned the disciples against internal conflict and told them that he and the others would soon ascend, prompting the disciples to bid them farewell.
• Princess Zixia chose to accompany Xiao Hua, and he took her, Princess Qingqing, and Yu Xiajing into Shenhua Continent.
• Demon Venerable Slayer embraced his brothers and announced that he would go to the Demon Realm, where he hoped to establish a Creation Sect and reunite with them in the higher realms.

Xiao Hua met the leaders of the Dao Alliance and Heavenly Alliance and brought them to the Immortal Palace to see Immortal Emperor Gouchen. When Gouchen hesitated to lend the Sheji Town Paper, Xiao Hua recognized its recipient as Xie Xin, shocking everyone.

• Xiao Hua and his companions left Creation Dao Palace, and Demon Venerable Slayer departed for Huanghua Ridge to take Zhang Qingxiao to the Devil Realm.
• Old Man Gu Qiong, True Person Ji Yan, Ye Zhen, Hao Yue Jushi, and Kong Qiang arrived, and Xiao Hua agreed to introduce them to Immortal Emperor Gouchen.
• Xiao Hua warned the visitors that the changing Heaven and Earth Laws might cause the Gate of the Immortal Realm to close again.
• Sun Jian welcomed Xiao Hua and the Daoist leaders at the South Heaven Gate and escorted them to meet Gouchen and Empress Dongmian.
• Old Man Gu Qiong requested to borrow the Sheji Town Paper, but Gouchen said he had already bestowed it upon someone.
• Xiao Hua exclaimed that the recipient was Xie Xin, leaving the Immortal Palace gathering stunned.

Xiao Hua exposed Xie Xin as an impostor posing as the Immortal Emperor Gouchen and revealed the real Immortal Emperor. Xie Xin escaped the dream trap and resisted the surrounding Supremes, but the real Immortal Emperor and Empress Dongmian trapped him with their golden thrones.

• Wenqu used the Heaven and Earth Pagoda and Xuanyuan Sword to suppress Xie Xin, who had been posing as the Immortal Emperor Gouchen.
• Xiao Hua released Princess Qingqing and Princess Zixia, questioned Great White Golden Star, and accused Xie Xin of being unable to form the Nine Provinces Great Formation.
• Xiao Hua revealed the real Immortal Emperor Gouchen, who recognized the Sheji Town Paper as Empress Dongmian’s token of love.
• Xie Xin broke free of Wenqu’s restraint, seized Empress Dongmian, and attacked the real Immortal Emperor with an Execution Stage, but Old Man Gu Qiong’s Meng Ping Tian Xia exposed the attack as an illusion.
• Xie Xin summoned a golden gate from a scroll and attempted to escape as Xiao Hua prepared his sword gourd.
• The real Immortal Emperor Gouchen and Empress Dongmian used their golden thrones to form a guillotine and execution platform that descended to imprison Xie Xin.

Xiao Hua and Wenqu helped Immortal Emperor Gouchen execute Xie Xin and recover the Luo Book, then reconciled with Gouchen and secured the princesses' safety. Xiao Hua began rebuilding the Nine Provinces Great Formation for the Immortal Palace, with Wenqu taking the central position as the chapter ended.

• Xiao Hua's Spirit Severing Primordial Light pinned down the Luo Book while Wenqu's execution platform imprisoned Xie Xin, allowing Immortal Emperor Gouchen to kill him with the guillotine.
• Xiao Hua kept the Luo Book, and Immortal Emperor Gouchen collected his own belongings from Xie Xin and thanked the Daoist cultivators for their help.
• Immortal Emperor Gouchen issued a pardon through the Haotian Mirror and entrusted it to Xiao Hua to protect Princess Qingqing and Princess Zixia.
• Xiao Hua warned Gouchen that Xie Xin had likely worked with Ancestor Hongmeng and urged him to investigate the Immortal Palace and Cangxian Continent.
• Xiao Hua took Princess Qingqing and Princess Zixia into Shenhua Continent, then announced that he would rebuild the Nine Provinces Great Formation.
• Xiao Hua brought out the Nine Provinces Ding and assigned Wenqu's Yuzhou Cauldron to command the formation's center.