Chapter Summaries

Gu Changqing sent his disciples a fragment of a formation diagram to help them defeat the Two Sages of the West. When Kong Xuan activated it, it became a Great Emperor Killing Formation that trapped the two Sages and left them struggling to escape.

• Gu Changqing watched his disciples’ battle and sent a purplish-gray fragment of a formation diagram to the Chaos battlefield.
• Zhunti urged Jieyin to join forces and use the Palm Buddha Kingdom against their opponents.
• Kong Xuan recognized the fragment as a gift from their Master and held it in his palm.
• The fragment expanded into a killing formation that trapped the Two Sages of the West and their Twelve-Grade Golden Lotus of Merit.
• Jieyin recognized the formation as resembling a Great Emperor Killing Formation, and he and Zhunti attacked its walls in a desperate attempt to escape.

Jieyin and Zhunti were trapped in Gu Changqing’s killing formation, which stripped away their origins and fortune until they detonated part of their Sage origins to escape. After fleeing back to Spirit Mountain in disgrace, the Two Sages ordered the Western Teachings to seal their mountain and withdraw from worldly affairs.

• Zhunti and Jieyin tried and failed to break the formation as its mist corroded their bodies, treasures, and Sage origins.
• Kong Xuan told Yang Jian and Nezha that the Two Sages would survive but would suffer a severe loss of fortune and cultivation.
• Jieyin and Zhunti detonated part of their Sage origins, cracked the formation wall, and escaped using the Twelve-Grade Golden Lotus of Merit.
• The wounded Two Sages fled toward Spirit Mountain without threatening their opponents, and Kong Xuan put away the dimmed Formation Diagram.
• The Western Teachings issued an edict sealing Spirit Mountain and withdrawing from worldly affairs, stunning the Three Realms.

After the Western Teachings retreated into seclusion, peace settled over the Three Realms. Yang Jian decided the time had come to confront the Heavenly Court over his family’s suffering and launched himself toward the South Heaven Gate.

• The Two Sages of the West fled to Spirit Mountain and issued an Edict sealing the mountain and withdrawing from worldly affairs.
• The Three Realms entered an unprecedented age of peace, with the mighty powers falling silent.
• Yang Jian recalled the Heavenly Court’s imprisonment of his mother, Yao Ji, and his sister, the Third Holy Mother, and renewed his resolve to settle old grievances.
• Yang Jian decided to challenge the Heavenly Court and question whether its laws and rule had any right to exist.
• Yang Jian summoned his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade and charged toward the South Heaven Gate.

Yang Jian arrived at South Heaven Gate with murderous intent and awakened the power of eight hundred and forty million Primordial Divine Elephants. He struck at the Heavenly Court’s supposedly unbreakable Defensive Barrier, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• The Four Heavenly Kings discussed the Ruined Temple and the Heavenly Court’s recent peace at South Heaven Gate.
• Yang Jian surged up from the mortal world and appeared before the gate with his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade and fierce killing intent.
• Mo Lishou challenged Yang Jian, but Yang Jian ignored the Four Heavenly Kings and focused on the gate tied to his mother’s imprisonment.
• The Four Heavenly Kings raised the Heavenly Court’s Defensive Barrier to stop Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian awakened all eight hundred and forty million Primordial Divine Elephant particles and threw a punch at the barrier.

Yang Jian shattered the Dao Ancestor’s golden barrier and destroyed the South Heaven Gate with one punch. He stood before the ruins with an unobstructed road into the Thirty-Three Heavens.

• Yang Jian’s fist broke through the barrier’s 9,999 layers of law despite the Four Heavenly Kings and Heavenly Soldiers watching in terror.
• Mo Liqing suffered a backlash and spat divine blood as the barrier failed.
• Yang Jian struck the South Heaven Gate, shattering it and sending a shock wave through the Heavenly Court’s wall and defenses.
• The blast destroyed the wall, its arrow towers and divine cannons, and tens of thousands of Heavenly Soldiers and Generals.
• Yang Jian withdrew his uninjured fist and faced the breach, with the path to the Thirty-Three Heavens clear before him.

Yang Jian destroyed the South Heaven Gate and killed its defenders, sending the Heavenly Court into panic. The Jade Emperor ordered the Zhoutian Grand Formation activated as Yang Jian approached Lingxiao Palace.

• The shattered South Heaven Gate sent shock waves through Lingxiao Treasure Hall, terrifying the Jade Emperor and the assembled immortals.
• Thousand-Mile Eye reported that Yang Jian had destroyed the gate and annihilated the Four Heavenly Kings and tens of thousands of Heavenly Soldiers.
• The Jade Emperor raged at Yang Jian, but Taibai Jinxing warned that ordinary generals could not stop him.
• The Jade Emperor summoned the star lords and ordered them to activate the incomplete Stars of the Zhoutian Grand Formation.
• Yang Jian walked through the shattered South Heaven Gate toward Lingxiao Palace, his pressure making the Heavenly Court tremble.

The Jade Emperor ordered the stellar lords to use the Stars of the Zhoutian Grand Formation to kill Yang Jian. Yang Jian devoured the formation’s attack with his Hell Furnace and used its power to strengthen his Divine Elephant Particles, leaving the formation surging backward against its masters.

• The Jade Emperor issued a decree ordering the stellar lords to assemble the Stars of the Zhoutian Grand Formation and kill Yang Jian.
• The Ziwei Great Emperor joined the formation despite doubting Yang Jian had rebelled without cause.
• The stellar lords unleashed the formation’s full starlight attack on Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian opened his Hell Furnace and devoured every beam of starlight without being harmed.
• The Hell Furnace converted the stellar power into energy that advanced Yang Jian’s Divine Elephant Particles.
• The Stars of the Zhoutian Grand Formation began surging backward against the stellar lords.

Yang Jian absorbed the energy of the Stars of the Zhoutian Grand Formation and transformed every Divine Elephant Particle into its mythical form. His newly manifested divine elephant phantom shattered the formation, leaving the Star Lords' weapon in ruins.

• Yang Jian endured the Hell Furnace refining the formation's stellar energy and transforming his Divine Elephant Particles.
• The Star Lords found themselves unable to stop the formation from feeding Yang Jian, while the Ziwei Great Emperor explained they would have to detonate their star cores to sever the connection.
• Yang Jian completed the transformation of every Divine Elephant Particle, and the Hell Furnace phantom dispersed as his mythical divine elephant appeared.
• The mythical divine elephant trumpeted, and its purple-gold sound waves shattered the Stars of the Zhoutian Grand Formation and its principal star phantoms.

Yang Jian destroyed the Zhoutian Grand Formation and absorbed the Stars of the Zhoutian’s origin, leaving the Heavenly Court’s Star Lords crippled. As the Jade Great Emperor’s forces attacked, Yang Jian emerged unharmed and announced it was his turn.

• Yang Jian shattered the Zhoutian Grand Formation with the roar of the Mythical Divine Elephant, and its backlash injured all three hundred and sixty-five Star Lords.
• Yang Jian walked toward the Jade Great Emperor as the Heavenly Court’s immortals and gods retreated in fear.
• At the Jade Great Emperor’s command, Wen Zhong led the Thunder Department and Luo Xuan led the Fire Department in attacking Yang Jian with the other departments’ spells and treasures.
• Yang Jian stood unharmed at the center of the collapsing torrent of spells, while the Heavenly Court’s attacks failed to penetrate his Sovereign Body.
• Yang Jian asked whether they were done playing, said it was his turn, and vanished.

Yang Jian overwhelmed the Heavenly Court’s assembled gods and rejected Taibai Jinxing’s plea to stop. He pointed his blade at the Jade Emperor and demanded to know why the corrupt Heavenly Court and its laws deserved to exist.

• Yang Jian swiftly defeated the gods gathered before Lingxiao Palace, leaving them unable to stand.
• Taibai Jinxing urged Yang Jian to stop and offered to plead with the Jade Emperor on his behalf.
• Yang Jian rejected Taibai Jinxing’s appeal, seized him by the neck, and carried him into Lingxiao Treasure Hall.
• Yang Jian threw Taibai Jinxing aside and pointed his blade at the Jade Emperor, questioning why the Heavenly Court and its laws should continue to exist.

Yang Jian confronted the terrified Jade Emperor in Lingxiao Treasure Hall, and the emperor’s last hope of rescue collapsed when Yang Jian revealed that the Western Teachings had been defeated and Spirit Mountain had sealed itself away. The Jade Emperor was left in utter despair as Yang Jian’s Ruined Temple stood unchallenged.

• Yang Jian threatened the Jade Emperor, who fell from his throne and scrambled backward in fear.
• The Jade Emperor begged the Immortal Officials to summon Tathagata Buddha and promised Buddhism would flourish in the Eastern Land.
• Yang Jian stopped an Immortal Official from leaving and said there was no need to summon Tathagata.
• Yang Jian revealed that Kong Xuan and Nezha had defeated Jieyin and Zhunti, and that Spirit Mountain had sealed its gates.
• The Jade Emperor remembered the mountain-sealing edict and realized his last hope was gone.

The Queen Mother confronted Yang Jian as he advanced on the Jade Emperor and unleashed the Plain Cloud Boundary Banner, hoping to erase him from spacetime. Yang Jian halted before its Chaos clouds, meeting the supreme treasure with cold mockery.

• The Jade Emperor collapsed beneath the Dragon Throne after learning that the Buddhist School had been crippled, while Yang Jian's footsteps approached.
• The Queen Mother flew from the rear palace and positioned herself between Yang Jian and the Jade Emperor.
• The Queen Mother condemned Yang Jian's family and defiance of the Heavenly Order, then summoned the Plain Cloud Boundary Banner.
• The Queen Mother poured her magical power into the banner, sending a sea of Chaos clouds toward Yang Jian as the defeated Immortals and Gods regained hope.
• Yang Jian stopped before the approaching clouds and looked at them without fear, his expression cold with mockery.

Yang Jian shattered the Queen Mother's Plain Cloud Boundary Banner attack with his physical power, but its final illusion trapped him in a vision of his mother, Yao Ji. The Queen Mother believed the illusion had given her time to recover and seek help.

• The Queen Mother unleashed the Plain Cloud Boundary Banner's chaos clouds to banish Yang Jian, but he stopped them with a power forbidden domain.
• Yang Jian crushed the space and clouds in his hand, severely wounding the Queen Mother and dimming the banner.
• The shattered banner sent its Illusion Law into Yang Jian, showing him Yao Ji in a peach grove and calling him to come for his favorite peach shortbread.
• The Queen Mother struggled to her feet and laughed, believing the Yaochi Illusion Realm had trapped Yang Jian long enough for her to recover and find another solution.

In a ruined temple, Gu Changqing watched Yang Jian struggle against the Queen Mother and decided to intervene. He snapped a stone brick from the offering table and sent it through the Chaotic Void toward the Queen Mother’s head.

• Gu Changqing watched Yang Jian fall into the Queen Mother’s Illusion Realm and criticized his slow progress against the Heavenly Court.
• Gu Changqing decided to help his disciple and snapped a palm-sized brick from the ruined temple’s offering table.
• The Queen Mother prepared to detonate the Illusion Realm and damage Yang Jian’s Divine Soul.
• A cyan-gray brick crossed the Chaotic Void toward the Queen Mother’s head as she prepared to strike.