Chapter Summaries

True Lord Cheng used the Three-and-Five Ghost Gates Nether-Penetrating Great Formation to break the Blood God Child’s three-treasure formation, seize his treasures, and drain the blood sea. He then summoned Peach Capital’s immortal-script military talisman at the far end of the blood sea, forcing its waters toward Nether Capital’s gate.

• The Blood God Child formed the Three Powers Heavenly Net Great Formation with the Jade-Eyed Heavenly Net, Five Clouds Immortal-Locking Screen, and Profound Yin Earth-Lung Banner, slowing the Ghost Gate’s drain and trapping True Lord Cheng.
• The Blood God Child attacked Qi Shuming, but True Lord Cheng revealed two additional Nether Capital swords and five stone Ghost Gates, forming the Three-and-Five Ghost Gates Nether-Penetrating Great Formation.
• True Lord Cheng’s formation swallowed the Jade-Eyed Heavenly Net and Five Clouds Immortal-Locking Screen, then took the Profound Yin Earth-Lung Banner and restored the blood sea’s rapid flow into the Ghost Gates.
• True Lord Cheng explained how Nether Capital had developed its Underworld resonance and gained a suppression advantage over nether-yin treasures.
• True Lord Cheng summoned Peach Capital’s immortal-script military talisman at the opposite end of the blood sea, where its light evaporated nearby water and drove the remaining blood toward Nether Capital’s gate.

The Blood God Child brought out the Blood God Scripture and attacked True Lord Cheng, but Cheng resisted its beguiling power and knocked him back. As the Blood Sea continued to drain, the Blood God Child summoned a host of Asura Gods and Devils while his Second Primordial Spirit slipped away to attack Qi Shuming.

• The Blood God Child decided to risk everything and tried to lure True Lord Cheng with the Blood God Scripture.
• True Lord Cheng resisted the scripture's evil arts and struck down the Blood God Child's Human and Sword as One attack, sending him flying backward.
• The Blood God Child used the scripture to summon a host of identical Asura Gods and Devils, reducing the Blood Sea further.
• The Blood God Child's Second Primordial Spirit escaped under cover of the summoned horde and lunged at Qi Shuming as Blood Shadow Divine Light.

True Lord Cheng defeated the Blood God Child’s Second Primordial Spirit and sealed the sea of blood with a Five Elements Sword Formation, while Qi Shuming suffered lasting injuries and Li Yingqiong was killed. The Blood God Child’s escape attempts failed, and outside observers discovered Qi Shuming’s aged appearance and the Daoist’s trap.

• True Lord Cheng used the Evil-Slaying Sword to drive the Blood God Child’s Second Primordial Spirit out of Qi Shuming, then suppressed it with the Wuyang Dharma Seal.
• Li Yingqiong attacked Qi Shuming’s exposed Second Primordial Spirit, but Qi Shuming destroyed her blood shadow by detonating the Qianli Pearl and finishing her with the Southern Bright Li Fire Sword.
• Qi Shuming saw that possession had left him aged and gravely injured, while the Blood God Child refrained from attacking True Lord Cheng.
• The Blood God Child tried to transport the sea of blood away, but True Lord Cheng’s Five Elements Sword Formation blocked him twice.
• The weakening barrier let outside observers see into the sea of blood, where they recognized the aged Qi Shuming and learned that True Lord Cheng had prepared the formation in advance.

True Lord Cheng trapped Blood God Child’s blood sea in the Five Elements Sword Formation, while Emei supplied spiritual qi to strengthen the formation. Blood God Child sacrificed the sea and unleashed his demonic scripture and Asura Gods and Devils, forcing True Lord Cheng to advance and meet his attack.

• True Lord Cheng sealed Blood God Child’s blood sea at Three Rivers Mouth with the Five Elements Sword Formation, preventing it from shifting away.
• Blood God Child explained that Three Rivers Mouth’s earth vein led to Emei, but Qi Shuming and Miechenzi connected it to Emei’s Mountain-Guarding Grand Array and sent spiritual qi to reinforce Tai'a.
• Blood God Child summoned the Million Demon Soldiers’ souls as savage ghosts, and his Asura Gods and Devils devoured them to grow stronger.
• Blood God Child used the Blood God Scripture to drain the blood sea and empower the Asura Gods and Devils, while True Lord Cheng sent the Eight Ghost Gates and Peach Capital against it.
• Blood God Child intercepted Peach Capital with Yuantu and sent his remaining treasures, including Gengshen and Renzi, against True Lord Cheng, who advanced with his sword.

True Lord Cheng overwhelmed Blood God Child’s treasures, but the completed blood sacrifice transformed eighty-one Asura Gods and Devils into peak fifth-realm threats. As Blood God Child unleashed their self-destructive attacks, True Lord Cheng revealed an aura suggesting he had more than two incarnations.

• True Lord Cheng restrained Blood God Child’s treasures with his immortal artifacts, then captured five of them in Heaven and Earth Within the Sleeve.
• Blood God Child completed the Blood God Scripture’s blood sacrifice, empowering eighty-one Asura Gods and Devils with the blood sea and a million demon soldiers and ghost souls.
• True Lord Cheng fought the gods and devils, but they devoured one another’s remains to grow stronger, while Blood God Child ordered nine to explode and damage the battlefield.
• Blood God Child sent eight more gods and devils after True Lord Cheng, who escaped through space and challenged Blood God Child’s confidence in numbers.
• True Lord Cheng asked who had said he possessed only two incarnations, and a vast aura spread through the Five-Elements Dharma Realm.

The Daoist expanded his Three Realms Myriad Phenomena Dao Domain across Emei Mountain and began fighting Blood God Child after Qi Shuming’s attempt to kill the demon failed. Blood God Child revealed twenty-seven Asura Ghost Immortals, but the Daoist summoned eight Inner Landscape Deities to confront them, leaving the two adversaries facing off.

• The Daoist’s Dao Domain overwhelmed the Five-Elements Dharma Realm and spread across Emei Mountain, while Blood God Child sent forty Asura Gods and Devils to attack him.
• Blood God Child forced three Asura Gods and Devils to explode against Qi Shuming’s defenses, and Qi Shuming escaped while his body attacked Blood God Child with a suicide blast.
• Blood God Child survived by transferring himself into a guarded Asura, and Qi Shuming retreated into Emei’s Two Principles Dust Formation as Blood God Child mocked the sect.
• The Daoist unleashed his Dao Domain and destroyed thirty-three Asura Gods and Devils, but the remaining twenty-seven transformed into Immortal Realm Wrathful Asuras.
• The Daoist manifested Crown Prince Bingling, the Taiyin Emperor, three Thunder Department deities, the Yang Fire Star Official, the Qilin, and the Eastern King Wood Duke, who surrounded the Asuras.
• Blood God Child faced the Daoist across the battlefield and claimed that his twenty-six Asura Ghost Immortals outnumbered the Daoist’s eight deities.

Cheng Xinzhan’s seventeen Inner Landscape Deities destroyed Blood God Child’s Asura forces, and Taiyi Jiuku Tianzun drew the defeated demon into the Netherworld. Afterward, Cheng ordered Emei’s leaders and cultivators to join his campaign in Western Kham, leaving Qi Shuming to accompany him to Great Snow Mountain.

• Blood God Child sent his Asura Gods and Devils to break through the formations, but Marshal Deng and Patriarch Sa’s thunderbolts split and contained them as the Seven Star Lords arrived.
• Cheng Xinzhan’s Five Elements, Five Thunders, and Northern Dipper formations killed the Asuras, while his Earth Book seized the Blood Shadows and talismanic characters from the Blood God Scripture.
• Blood God Child tried to flee and threatened to expose Emei’s formation secrets, but Miechenzi refused to cut off the Earth Vein, and Taiyi Jiuku Tianzun pulled Blood God Child into the Netherworld.
• Cheng Xinzhan suppressed the Blood God Scripture and ordered Ye Yuanjing and Zhou Qingyun to lead Emei disciples to Western Kham, then directed Miechenzi and Tong Yuanqi to send every Third and Fourth Realm cultivator there.
• Cheng Xinzhan ordered Qi Shuming to accompany him to Great Snow Mountain in Tubo, and Qi Shuming accepted.

Cheng Xinzhan led Emei’s assembled cultivators west to join the battle against the Maha Sect, where Li Jingxu and other Xuanmen leaders were fighting the sect’s forces. After the Maha Buddha Elder ordered his followers to flee, Cheng flew past the battlefield toward the plateau and Putuotuo Celestial Palace, leaving Li Jingxu to hold the elder back.

• Cheng Xinzhan led Ye Yuanjing, Zhou Qingyun, Qi Shuming, and thousands of Emei disciples across Western Kham toward the Nu River battlefront.
• Cheng and his followers reached the fighting near Suspended Heart Temple, where Li Jingxu was battling the Maha Buddha Elder and other Xuanmen leaders faced Maha champions.
• The Maha followers recognized Cheng and panicked when they learned he had killed the Blood God Child, while the righteous forces cheered his arrival.
• The Maha Buddha Elder ordered his followers to abandon their Flying Boats, breaking them apart so their captives would fall and their pursuers would stop to rescue them.
• Cheng flew past the battle and headed straight for Putuotuo Celestial Palace, while Li Jingxu blocked the Buddha Elder from pursuing him.

True Lord Cheng attacked the Putuotuo Celestial Palace with Altar Thunder, breaking its Mountain-Guarding Grand Array and flooding it with mysterious yellow earth qi. Buddha Elder Wushe was forced to ascend, and True Lord Cheng pursued him into the sky.

• Qi Shuming warned True Lord Cheng that the Putuotuo Celestial Palace was guarded by Buddha Elder Wushe and a formidable grand array.
• True Lord Cheng released the Huang Yulian Platform’s mysterious yellow qi around the great snowy mountain, then summoned Patriarch Sa’s Thunder Generals to strike the array.
• Kongwen appealed to True Lord Cheng, but he ignored the abbot and used Altar Thunder to unleash a vast Thunderfall against the palace’s defenses.
• The Thunderfall broke through the Mountain-Guarding Grand Array, allowing earth qi and lightning to flood the Putuotuo Celestial Palace.
• Buddha Elder Wushe emerged from the palace and ascended toward the Heavenly Gate, and True Lord Cheng flew after him.

True Lord Cheng pursued Buddha Elder Wushe as the demon monk tried to ascend, while Emei’s cultivators stormed the weakened Putuotuo Celestial Palace. Cheng destroyed Wushe’s body and then killed his Primordial Spirit before he could reach the Heavenly Gate, leaving the palace’s defenders in despair.

• Buddha Elder Wushe fled upward to escape the mortal world, but True Lord Cheng sent thunder crashing into Putuotuo Celestial Palace’s array and pursued him.
• True Lord Cheng led Emei’s cultivators through the breached array, where Qi Shuming, the lion, and the sword cultivators overwhelmed the palace’s remaining defenders.
• Patriarch Sa struck Wushe with his Dharma Form, and Cheng slashed apart the demon monk’s human-mouth banner as Wushe continued ascending.
• Wushe’s banner spell dazed the fighters, but Qi Shuming and the lion broke its influence, while Cheng collapsed the void and concealed the Yin-Yang Profound Light within it.
• Cheng’s hidden sword light ground Wushe’s body to nothing, but the demon monk’s Bone Bowl protected his Primordial Spirit, which unleashed a devastating Om mantra.
• Cheng used Heaven and Earth Within the Sleeve to break the mantra, then split and shredded Wushe’s Primordial Spirit with the Celestial Master Sword, causing the Heavenly Gate to vanish.

After Maha’s defeat, True Lord Cheng and Li Jingxu agreed that Dao and Xuan could coexist in Kham-Shu without coercion, while Cheng imposed reforms and punishment on Emei. With the campaigns settled, Cheng left for Kunlun to establish a place of cultivation, ending the volume with a poem about dividing the mountain and bringing peace to the world.

• Li Jingxu joined True Lord Cheng at Great Snow Mountain after killing Buddha Elder Wuguang, and the allied forces entered the Putuotuo Celestial Palace to destroy Maha’s remaining forces.
• Cheng and Li Jingxu agreed that people in Kham-Shu could follow Dao or Xuan by choice, while Xuanmen should not be forcibly separated from Dao or imposed on Eastern Path believers.
• At dawn, Cheng ordered Qi Shuming removed as Emei Sect Master and installed Miechenzi, then confined Qi Shuming to Great Snow Mountain to copy scriptures as punishment.
• Miechenzi accepted the Sect Leader’s Token and swore to protect Qi Shuming’s children; Cheng ordered Emei to reform and begin uniting its lineages and establishments.
• Cheng departed on the Green-Mane Snow Lion for Kunlun, where he intended to establish a place of cultivation, and recited a poem about dividing Kunlun and sharing peace and warmth across the world.

True Lord Cheng oversaw the restoration of Western Kunlun and the Western Sea, while Daoist sects built his new cultivation grounds. As White Star Ribbon flowed again and he studied the sea’s Dao, a green-dressed girl arrived at Listening to the Earth Monastery and found him free.

• The Jiangnan Daoist sects worked together to landscape Western Kunlun and build Penetrating the Subtle Palace, with Listening to the Earth Monastery as True Lord Cheng’s everyday residence.
• True Lord Cheng restored the damaged mountain and sea veins by returning earth-lung mysterious yellow qi and uniting with the Dao of mountain and sea.
• White Star Ribbon refilled and flowed again as a waterfall, stream, and river, while True Lord Cheng gained insight into the Western Sea.
• A green shadow emerged from the spring and transformed into a sixteen-year-old girl in a green dress, who rejoiced that Senior Brother was not busy.

Xinshu found the corpse of the powerful white Jiao known as the Seven-Fingered Evil Fiend and brought its image to Cheng Xinzhan. Unable to raise it himself, Cheng Xinzhan persuaded Xinshu to learn how to nourish it so it could help restore the Western Sea’s veins and later serve him against demons.

• Cheng Xinzhan summoned Xinshu to help restore the Western Sea’s spiritual energy while teaching her Daoist arts during their work.
• Xinshu discovered a huge white Jiao corpse frozen in a seabed trench and showed it to Cheng Xinzhan.
• Cheng Xinzhan identified the corpse as the Seven-Fingered Evil Fiend, a demon once sealed by True Person Long Eyebrow.
• Cheng Xinzhan agreed the corpse would be useful but said he lacked time to raise and nourish it himself.
• Cheng Xinzhan persuaded Xinshu to raise the corpse for him and began teaching her the methods needed to separate, refine, and nourish it.

After arranging for Xinshu to learn about the Western Sea, the Daoist refined Blood God Child’s seized treasures and began merging three powerful flying swords with the Red Wart Fire Gourd. Xie Mingyi then reported that the Ice and Snow Palace’s entire sect was approaching Kunlun on foot as a surrender delegation, leaving the Daoist wondering why they traveled in such a strange and arduous manner.

• Xinshu returned to the Western Sea after seven days of instruction, while the Daoist reflected on how he had used the White Jiao’s corpse to guide her toward learning the sea veins.
• The Daoist destroyed Blood God Child’s demonic treasures, erased the spirits of his four flying swords, and refined Yuantu, Gengshen, and Renzi into golden essence qi.
• The Daoist poured the essence qi into the Red Wart Fire Gourd, hoping to combine metal and fire into a single treasure, and used the gourd to wear away the Blood God Scripture.
• Xie Mingyi informed the Daoist that the Ice and Snow Palace’s surrender delegation was due to arrive the next day.
• The Daoist used the Mirror Flower, Water Moon Art to see the Ice and Snow Palace’s vast procession trudging across the frozen Western Sea toward Kunlun, and wondered why they traveled on foot without warding off the cold.

The Ice and Snow Palace reached Western Kunlun after surrendering its weapons and sacrificing its evildoers, then begged True Lord Evolving Transformation to spare the sect. After a tense silence, Kunlun summoned Gong Zhengyu and Northern Yin for an audience, leaving the rest of the procession awaiting the True Lord’s judgment.

• Qi Zhanxi and Tan Zheng questioned whether True Lord Evolving Transformation would accept the Ice and Snow Palace’s surrender, while Gong Zhengyu credited Northern Yin with keeping the sect alive on its journey.
• Jin Yuzhen confirmed that the Ice and Snow Palace had executed its evildoers and left their bodies on the Western Sea ice, as Northern Yin had instructed.
• Gong Zhengyu led the procession to Western Kunlun’s gate, where the Ice and Snow Palace members prostrated themselves and offered their treasures, records, and obedience in exchange for mercy.
• The kneeling procession waited in silence while two people on Mount Kunlun discussed prolonging the display of authority before granting an audience.
• A Lion’s Roar announced that Gong Zhengyu and Northern Yin were summoned into the mountain to meet True Lord Evolving Transformation.

Chen Suxing met with his martial nephew, the True Lord, after leading the Ice and Snow Palace to surrender at Western Kunlun. The True Lord decided to end the sect’s corrupt succession while preserving its orthodox Great Yin methods, and Chen Suxing planned to disappear from public view.

• Gong Zhengyu and Chen Suxing went to Penetrating the Subtle Palace, where Xie Mingyi summoned Chen Suxing alone to meet the True Lord.
• The True Lord examined Chen Suxing, removed his hidden injuries, and placed restrictions on the surveillance devices Gong Zhengyu had concealed in him.
• Chen Suxing described the Ice and Snow Palace’s past crimes and explained that its fall to the Demon Path began when its third- and fourth-generation Patriarchs broke the master-disciple taboo through dual cultivation.
• The True Lord refused to meet Gong Zhengyu and ordered the Ice and Snow Palace’s collections preserved while Bao Ying established a new lineage to transmit its orthodox Great Yin methods.
• The True Lord ordered the remaining Ice and Snow Palace disciples confined near Western Splendor Hall and said those who had not willingly broken the precepts could be released without their former sect identity.
• Chen Suxing decided to stage his death by Wind Calamity and later return to the mountain under his original appearance, keeping his past two hundred years secret.

After the Divine Land celebrated the end of the Demon Tide, Li Guanfeng visited Cheng Xinzhan to relay Dai Yuxiang’s offer of peace. Cheng Xinzhan rejected it and decided the time had come to confront the Eastern Sea.

• The Suyào Sect took over the former Ice and Snow Palace’s grounds, while the Northern Dipper Palace received a share of its treasures and the region was renamed the Northern Pole Brightness Realm.
• As the Divine Land prospered, sects called for Cheng Xinzhan to be honored as Imperial Lord.
• Li Guanfeng visited Cheng Xinzhan and relayed Dai Yuxiang’s offer to uphold the Sea-Land Pact, recognize Dragon Spine Road’s coastal waters, and return Earth Yin Sea.
• Cheng Xinzhan refused Dai Yuxiang’s offer and told Li Guanfeng to inform Biyou Tower that the Sea-Land Pact was obsolete.
• Cheng Xinzhan invited Li Guanfeng to discuss the Void Arts and said he would visit the Pearl-Retaining Tower in the Yellow Sea.
• After Li Guanfeng left, Cheng Xinzhan concluded that pressure on the Eastern Sea had grown and decided it was time to move against the Sea Demons.

True Lord Cheng finished restoring and organizing his Western Kunlun sanctuary, then traveled alone to Mount Qingyuan to meet True Person Baoyuan as he turned his attention to the southeastern seas. The chapter ended with Baoyuan greeting him and remarking that he had arrived much earlier than expected.

• True Lord Cheng restored Earth Qi across his Union-with-the-Dao Land to ninety percent and prepared Kunlun Dao Palace to become the foundation of a new Dao Tradition.
• True Lord Cheng gave the introductory volumes of the Earth-Listening Scripture to seventy-two young disciples who had organized themselves to manage the sanctuary.
• True Lord Cheng sent Mingxu, Mingyue, and Mingyi back to their sects while Suyào Sect and Han Bao Ying continued their work in the Northern Pole Brightness Realm.
• True Lord Cheng traveled south alone, reflecting on how Listening to the Earth and World Suppression could improve the Divine Land and its spiritual atmosphere.
• True Lord Cheng used Innate Earth Escape to reach Mount Qingyuan and meet True Person Baoyuan, whose coastal defense had remained in place throughout the demon-cleansing campaigns.
• True Person Baoyuan welcomed True Lord Cheng and said he had arrived much earlier than expected.

Cheng Xinzhan met True Person Baoyuan at Cloud-Pillow Peak to discuss the campaign against the sea dragons and how to prevent them from escaping. After explaining the dangers and recalling how the Land-Sinking Great Sage had fled into the distant ocean, Cheng Xinzhan hinted that he had a sure plan and proposed striking all three sea regions at once.

• True Person Baoyuan praised Cheng Xinzhan for clearing the Divine Land of great demons in ten years, and Cheng Xinzhan clarified that demons and trouble still remained.
• Cheng Xinzhan asked whether the three Sea Dragon Kings could be stopped if they fled into the distant ocean, and True Person Baoyuan said that intercepting them at sea would be nearly impossible.
• True Person Baoyuan recalled that Land-Sinking had escaped Patriarch Sa by abandoning the Southern Sea and fleeing, prompting Cheng Xinzhan to insist that the three current dragons must not escape as well.
• Cheng Xinzhan explained that he had come to seek a sure course before entering the sea, then proposed striking all three sea regions at once.

Cheng Xinzhan visited the Yellow Sea Dragon Palace, where the Qingyang Dragon Lord revealed that Gu Li had borne a pure-blooded Azure Dragon son who must survive the perilous Jiazi Pass. After giving the child a blood-baleful spirit pearl, Cheng told the Dragon Lord he planned to move against the Eastern and Southern Seas and asked him to help govern the seas afterward; the Dragon Lord eagerly agreed and revealed he also wanted a wider domain for his son.

• Cheng Xinzhan arrived at the Yellow Sea Dragon Palace and learned that Gu Li had recently given birth to a pure-blooded Azure Dragon boy.
• The Qingyang Dragon Lord explained that young pure-blooded dragons faced a dangerous sixty-year Jiazi Pass and that their birth was being kept private.
• Cheng Xinzhan met Gu Li and the infant, gave the child a refined True Baleful Intent spirit pearl, and learned the boy had not yet been named.
• Cheng Xinzhan told the Qingyang Dragon Lord that he planned to move against the Eastern and Southern Seas and wanted the Spirit Dragons to govern the waters afterward.
• The Qingyang Dragon Lord accepted Cheng Xinzhan's proposal and said he intended to secure a larger sea domain for his son.