Chapter Summaries

Lianshan Xin and the Heavenly Queen planned their assault on the Dragon Maiden, arranging support from Xie Tianxia and Maitreya Bodhisattva. They captured the Dragon Maiden using the Heavenly Queen’s disguise and the Living Person Coffin, leaving Lianshan Xin ready to use her identity to collect a hundred million spirit stones from the Dragon Palace.

• Lianshan Xin proposed reinforcing the Pagoda Mountain line and seeking help from Xie Tianxia and Maitreya Bodhisattva against Ao Su and the Unborn Venerable Mother.
• The Heavenly Queen chose to target the Dragon Maiden before Xie Ciyuan, while the Turtle Chancellor left to meet his destined opponent.
• The Dragon Maiden sensed Zhou Xin and Ao Su at Dragon Guarding Mountain Manor and ordered them brought to her quarters.
• Lianshan Xin and the Heavenly Queen went to confront the Dragon Maiden, with the Heavenly Queen disguised as Ao Su and Lianshan Xin posing as Zhou Xin.
• The Heavenly Queen stabbed the Dragon Maiden and trapped her inside the Living Person Coffin, securing her identity for a future visit to the Dragon Palace.
• Lianshan Xin planned to use the Dragon Maiden’s identity to demand repayment of the hundred million spirit stones he claimed she owed.

The Heavenly Queen defeated the Dragon Maiden, took her place, and gained part of the Dragon Maiden’s power while keeping her alive in the Living Person Coffin. She and Lianshan Xin planned to exploit their assumed identities to seize influence on Divine Dragon Island, as the island master’s aide demanded a treasure from Xie Wu.

• After a fierce battle, the Heavenly Queen emerged from the Living Person Coffin, had Lianshan Xin disguise her as the Dragon Maiden, and concealed the coffin with Heaven and Earth in the Sleeve.
• The Heavenly Queen meditated and refined part of the Dragon Maiden’s origin, gaining a Dragon Clan aura; Maitreya identified her World-Devouring Spirit-Swallowing Great Method as a primordial demonic inheritance.
• The Heavenly Queen revealed that the Dragon Maiden was alive and would remain hidden in the coffin while she carried out the Dragon Maiden’s next assignment.
• The Heavenly Queen gave Lianshan Xin the Dragon Maiden’s dragon pearl, and he chose to keep it as a consumable that could temporarily let him assume a dragon’s strength.
• The Heavenly Queen and Lianshan Xin planned to use the Dragon Maiden’s and Zhou Xin’s identities to take control of the Dragon Palace’s arrangements and the Zhou Family on Divine Dragon Island.
• The Divine Dragon Island Master’s aide met Xie Wu and requested the treasure Xie Ciyuan had brought from the Xie Clan; Xie Wu asked whether the aide had brought the Longevity Art.

Xie Wu delivered the Longevity Art to Xie Ciyuan while warning him that Xie Guanhai might turn on him, and the Heavenly Queen discovered that the Divine Dragon Island Master intended to target the Qilin through Xie Ciyuan. She ordered Lianshan Xin to kill Xie Ciyuan before the Island Master could claim the Qilin’s power.

• Xie Wu received the Longevity Art for Xie Guanhai, concealed that she could open its Jade Tube, and sent it with Xie Ciyuan to deliver personally.
• Xie Wu warned Xie Ciyuan that the desperate Xie Guanhai might target him, and Xie Ciyuan agreed to return to the Xie Clan despite his fears.
• Lianshan Xin offered the Dragon Pearl to the Heavenly Queen, who decided to preserve its remaining power for Tian Ji’s advancement.
• The Heavenly Queen sensed an imitation of the Divine Tomb on Divine Dragon Island, and she and Maitreya identified its connection to the Island Master and Xie Ciyuan.
• The Heavenly Queen concluded that the Divine Dragon Island Master planned to kill Xie Ciyuan and devour the Qilin, then ordered Lianshan Xin to kill Xie Ciyuan first.
• Lianshan Xin agreed to the Heavenly Queen’s order and readied the Blood-Severing Dust-Cleansing Blade.

Lianshan Xin accompanied the Heavenly Queen, disguised as the Dragon Palace’s Eighth Princess, to meet Xie Wu while he lured Xie Ciyuan into a trap and killed him. When Xie Wu discovered their deception and prepared to fight, the Heavenly Queen revealed her Taotie Dharma Form, and Xie Wu recognized the returned Empress and pledged to follow her again.

• Lianshan Xin agreed to help draw Ao Su back to the Dragon Palace by arranging for Hong Yun to break off her engagement with him.
• The Heavenly Queen, disguised as the Dragon Palace’s Eighth Princess, confronted Xie Wu about Divine Dragon Island’s schemes and entered a private discussion with her.
• Lianshan Xin used the Dragon Pearl to distract Xie Ciyuan, then killed him with the Blood-Severing Dust-Cleansing Blade and Golden Lotus Grown in a Sea of Fire.
• Xie Wu sensed the fight and exposed the Heavenly Queen’s disguise, but the Heavenly Queen revealed her Taotie Dharma Form.
• Xie Wu recognized the Heavenly Queen as the returned Empress and pledged to serve her again.

The Heavenly Queen revealed that she was the reincarnated Empress and recruited Xie Wu and Lianshan Xin to help her destroy Divine Dragon Island and seize Qilin. Meanwhile, the Divine Dragon Island Master recognized the Divine Tomb as fake and prepared to meet two Daoist guests, tempted to eat them.

• Maitreya told Lianshan Xin that the Taotie Dharma Form could come from the World-Devouring Spirit-Swallowing Great Method, and suggested the real Taotie might be behind Great Yu’s execution line.
• Maitreya revealed that Maodu had rescued Taotie from the Dao Court’s Old Ancestor, while Lianshan Xin discussed the power of the Dao Court’s Jiang Buping and Jiang Bufan.
• The Heavenly Queen told Xie Wu that she had reincarnated after the Empress’s defeat five hundred years earlier, and Xie Wu pledged her loyalty and revealed that Xie Guanhai had traded the Divine Tomb for the Divine Dragon Island Master’s Longevity Art.
• The Heavenly Queen ordered Xie Wu to keep playing the Xie Family Clan Head and assigned Lianshan Xin to impersonate Xie Ciyuan, so they could mislead the Divine Dragon Island Master and protect Qilin.
• The Heavenly Queen said Taotie had vanished and that she had found Qilin, then promised to help Xie Wu achieve Dao Integration after her own breakthrough.
• The Divine Dragon Island Master confirmed the Divine Tomb was fake, ordered two Dao Court guests brought to him, and admitted he wanted to eat them.

Jiang Bufan warned the Unborn Venerable Mother to spare Dao Court members, while she speculated about his bond with Jiang Buping. On Divine Dragon Island, Lianshan Xin returned Zhou Xin’s body to the Zhou family and discovered a celestial phenomena execution line above Zhou Shixiong and Madam Zhou, leading him and Maitreya to suspect that Taotie was the Divine Dragon Island Master.

• Jiang Bufan told the Unborn Venerable Mother that Jiang Buping had likely dealt with traitors in the Dao Court before he became Dao Chief, and she teased him about his relationship with his senior brother.
• Maitreya sensed that a powerful being with deep karmic ties to him was discussing him, and he and Lianshan Xin speculated that the Divine Dragon Island Master might be an old acquaintance.
• Lianshan Xin and Thousand Faces brought Zhou Xin’s disguised corpse to the Zhou family, where Thousand Faces pretended to grieve as Zhou He.
• Lianshan Xin told Zhou Shixiong that Ao Su had been the last person Zhou Xin saw, and suggested that Zhou Xin had discovered one of Ao Su’s secrets.
• At Maitreya’s instruction, Lianshan Xin used Spirit Vision and saw a bloodied maw and an execution line above Zhou Shixiong and Madam Zhou.
• Lianshan Xin and Maitreya concluded that Taotie might be the Divine Dragon Island Master, and Lianshan Xin vowed to kill the being for taking his wife’s former-life property.

Lianshan Xin revealed that the Divine Dragon Island Master was Taotie and recruited Zhou Shixiong to help organize resistance. He planned to kill Taotie, reclaim his path to the Dao Integration Realm, and involve Xie Tianxia in the fight.

• Lianshan Xin had Jiang Ping'an tell Zhou Shixiong that Ao Su had killed Zhou Xin and entered the Celestial Phenomena Realm, convincing Zhou Shixiong that Xin had uncovered dangerous secrets.
• Zhou Shixiong led Lianshan Xin into a secret chamber protected from eavesdropping, where Lianshan Xin revealed his Qilin Dharma Form and confirmed his identity as the Qilin Demon Emperor.
• Lianshan Xin told Zhou Shixiong that the Divine Dragon Island Master was Taotie, and Zhou Shixiong connected the revelation to his Old Ancestor's warning to beware of the Island Master.
• Lianshan Xin warned Zhou Shixiong that Taotie was waiting to devour him when he advanced to the Celestial Phenomena Realm, then asked him to gather allies to resist Taotie.
• Zhou Shixiong agreed to serve as Lianshan Xin's Qilin Envoy, and Lianshan Xin decided to involve Xie Tianxia in his plan to kill Taotie.

Lianshan Xin recruited Zhou Shixiong against Taotie by spinning a tale about Taotie’s weakened strength, then discovered Zhou’s faith helped him break through to Celestial Phenomena. After learning Taotie could help the Heavenly Queen advance toward Dao Integration, Lianshan Xin contacted Xie Tianxia, who revealed her Dragon-Ascension Dao Lineage and ordered him to spread its Dragon Transformation Art.

• Lianshan Xin persuaded Zhou Shixiong that Taotie had fallen to Celestial Phenomena Realm and instructed him to recruit Wei Chong while he handled the Chen Family.
• Lianshan Xin told Zhou Shixiong he would retrieve the Chen Family’s inherited Immortal Artifact, then Zhou Shixiong broke through to Celestial Phenomena after mistaking Lianshan Xin’s head-pat for a blessing.
• Lianshan Xin told the Heavenly Queen that Taotie was the Divine Dragon Island Master and could help her master the World-Devouring Spirit-Swallowing Great Method.
• Lianshan Xin contacted Xie Tianxia through One Dream, Three Thousand Worlds and proposed that she kill Qilin while the Heavenly Queen refined Taotie.
• Xie Tianxia revealed that she intended to establish the Dragon-Ascension Dao Lineage and gave Lianshan Xin the Dragon Transformation Art to spread throughout the world.

Xie Tianxia explained how her Dragon-Forming Way differed from Jiang Bufan’s Extraordinary Way and enlisted Lianshan Xin to help establish it. She promised Lianshan Xin and Yan Shuang access to her cultivation power while urging them to become strong enough to keep her in check.

• Xie Tianxia said Jiang Bufan’s Extraordinary Way gave overlooked geniuses opportunities without restricting their growth, while her Dragon-Forming Way would ensure its cultivators could never surpass her.
• Xie Tianxia credited Emperor Yongchang’s rule and Jiang Bufan’s Extraordinary Way with creating an era of opportunity, and Lianshan Xin recognized the Extraordinary Way’s influence.
• Xie Tianxia asked Lianshan Xin to help her Dragon-Forming Way and told him to become a Dao Lord who could restrain her if power corrupted her.
• Lianshan Xin agreed to help, though he noted that Xie Tianxia’s plan blocked his and Yan Shuang’s path of Dragon Subjugation.
• Xie Tianxia allowed Lianshan Xin and Yan Shuang to keep cultivating the Dragon Subduers Immortal Art and borrow her cultivation power up to the Celestial Phenomena Realm, advising them to rely on their own paths whenever possible.

Lianshan Xin relayed Xie Tianxia’s offer to help the Heavenly Queen refine Qilin and Taotie in exchange for support spreading her Dao, then investigated the Chen Clan’s potential weakness on Divine Dragon Island. He discovered that Chen Jichuan was cultivating toward Dao Integration using what appeared to be three incarnations, one of which had been stolen, while the Unborn Venerable Mother proposed renaming Jiang Bufan’s disciple Chen Zimo to Chen Zidao.

• Lianshan Xin told the Heavenly Queen that Xie Tianxia would leave Qilin for her to refine if she swore to help spread Xie Tianxia’s Dao, and the Heavenly Queen swore a Heavenly Dao Oath.
• The Heavenly Queen and Lianshan Xin discussed Chen Jichuan as their main obstacle on Divine Dragon Island, and she ordered Lianshan Xin to investigate the Chen Family.
• At the Hundred Delicacies Banquet, Lianshan Xin used a box-opening chance to observe Chen Ziru and saw him and another man channel their auras into Chen Jichuan.
• Chen Jichuan said his cultivation art was incomplete because one of his three sons, Dao'er, was missing, then absorbed Chen Ziru and the other man into himself.
• In the Dao Court, the Unborn Venerable Mother took possession of Jiang Bufan’s newborn son and suggested renaming Chen Zimo as Chen Zidao.

Jiang Bufan and the Unborn Venerable Mother discussed Chen Jichuan’s incarnations, Dao Court secrets, and the power of Destiny Insight, while Lianshan Xin and Maitreya pieced together Chen Zimo’s identity. The chapter left Lianshan Xin discovered by a mysterious little girl with a Destiny Divine Ability on Pagoda Mountain.

• The Unborn Venerable Mother revealed that Chen Jichuan had lost his Dao Embryo and teased Jiang Bufan about his efforts to help Jiang Buping.
• Jiang Bufan and the Unborn Venerable Mother discussed Chen Jichuan’s One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, the Dao Court’s old conflicts, and Jiang Bufan’s plans for Chen Zimo.
• Lianshan Xin asked Maitreya about One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones and learned that its uncontrolled incarnations could become the cultivator’s foundation but might seize control.
• Lianshan Xin deduced that Chen Zimo was likely Chen Jichuan’s Dao Embryo incarnation, which Jiang Bufan had taken in and raised as his disciple.
• A mysterious little girl found Lianshan Xin on Pagoda Mountain while He Miaojun stepped on him in his grass disguise.

Lianshan Xin learned that the Unborn Venerable Mother had arrived on Divine Dragon Island and sought He Miaojun’s advice on protecting Maitreya, whom he had hidden in a little black box. When Lianshan Xin connected with the Mother through Dream of Jianghu, she mistook him for Shakyamuni.

• Lianshan Xin sealed Maitreya inside the little black box, blocking the Unborn Venerable Mother’s probes.
• Lianshan Xin turned to He Miaojun for help, and she warned him about the dangers of cultivating powerful incarnations.
• He Miaojun told Lianshan Xin that the Unborn Venerable Mother might still care for Shakyamuni and Maitreya, and suggested he pretend to be Shakyamuni.
• Lianshan Xin warned Lin Ruoshui that the Unborn Venerable Mother was coming, and Lin Ruoshui assured him he was unlikely to be in danger.
• The Unborn Venerable Mother arrived on Divine Dragon Island, searched for Maitreya, and failed to find him.
• Lianshan Xin used Dream of Jianghu to contact the Unborn Venerable Mother, who recognized the ability and called him Shakyamuni.

Lianshan Xin encountered the Unborn Venerable Mother, who mistook him for Shakyamuni and offered him the inheritance of her True Void Homeland. Their conversation revealed the Unborn Venerable Mother was also searching for Maitreya, Jiang Buping, and a Little Black Box said to hold secrets beyond Dao Integration.

• The Unborn Venerable Mother mistook Lianshan Xin for Shakyamuni because of his Buddhist aura, while Maitreya secretly reinforced her belief through the Little Black Box.
• Lianshan Xin tried to deny being Shakyamuni, but the Unborn Venerable Mother's Destiny Insight was blocked by Buddhist light, which further convinced her.
• The Unborn Venerable Mother apologized for her past actions and claimed Shakyamuni and Maitreya were her children, while Maitreya warned Lianshan Xin not to trust her.
• Lianshan Xin said he sought to create a New World, and the Unborn Venerable Mother praised his ambition and offered him the True Void Homeland.
• The Unborn Venerable Mother revealed she had come to Divine Dragon Island to find Jiang Buping and a Little Black Box, which she said held secrets beyond Dao Integration.

Lianshan Xin questioned the Unborn Venerable Mother about the Little Black Box and learned more about her history with Maitreya, then asked how to counter Chen Jichuan's One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones. After Lianshan Xin left to meet Maitreya at Pagoda Mountain, the Unborn Venerable Mother appeared before Jiang Buping and told him his junior brother was pregnant.

• Lianshan Xin denied that Shakyamuni had seen the Little Black Box while Maitreya panicked inside it, and the Unborn Venerable Mother explained that Dao Lords believed it held mysteries beyond Dao Integration.
• The Unborn Venerable Mother revealed that she had helped create misunderstandings between Shakyamuni and Maitreya, including getting Maitreya drunk and Shakyamuni holding Maodu off while Maitreya killed Yinglong.
• Maitreya agreed to meet the Unborn Venerable Mother at Pagoda Mountain, and Lianshan Xin asked her for guidance about Chen Jichuan and One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones.
• The Unborn Venerable Mother said Lianshan Xin's One Dream, Three Thousand Worlds could counter Chen Jichuan's incarnations by drawing them from their dreams into its worlds.
• After Lianshan Xin left, the Unborn Venerable Mother appeared before Jiang Buping and told him his junior brother was pregnant, adding that it was not Jiang Buping's child.

Wusheng Loli revealed to Jiang Buping how Jiang Bufan had secretly protected him and supported the Unjust Way, leaving Jiang Buping shaken and thinking only of his junior brother. On her way to Pagoda Mountain, Wusheng Loli encountered Qi Shiyun, who found the little girl intriguing.

• Jiang Buping praised Jiang Bufan for becoming pregnant and welcomed the child, while Wusheng Loli revealed that she was the child Jiang Bufan had given birth to.
• Wusheng Loli told Jiang Buping that Jiang Bufan had secretly eliminated Dao Court scum and had once demanded that Emperor Yongchang recognize the Unjust Way as orthodox.
• Jiang Buping learned that Jiang Bufan had risked his standing to protect the Unjust Way and had given up his freedom to lead the Dao Court, leaving him deeply moved.
• Wusheng Loli revealed that Jiang Bufan had stolen Chen Zidao from Chen Jichuan and raised him as Chen Zimo, and Jiang Buping realized his junior brother had done even more for him than he knew.
• Wusheng Loli left Jiang Buping lost in thoughts of Jiang Bufan, then encountered Qi Shiyun, who was intrigued by the spirited little girl.

Wusheng Loli revealed herself as the Unborn Venerable Mother and joined Qi Shiyun and Lin Ruoshui in using their Demon Womb abilities to summon Maitreya’s consciousness. The battle left Maitreya as the only one hurt, while the two women’s cultivation surged and their Dharma Forms began to take shape.

• Qi Shiyun discovered that Wusheng Loli was a Demon Womb with Destiny Insight, while Wusheng Loli identified Qi Shiyun as the Mind-Reading Ability Demon Womb.
• Wusheng Loli brought Qi Shiyun and Lin Ruoshui into another space, recognized them as Demon Wombs, and learned they refused to kill each other for power.
• Wusheng Loli revealed that she was the Unborn Venerable Mother, and Qi Shiyun offered to summon Maitreya’s consciousness by combining three Divine Abilities.
• Wusheng Loli agreed to join Qi Shiyun and Lin Ruoshui in a battle inside the True Void Homeland, where Maitreya’s consciousness appeared.
• Wusheng Loli passed cultivation and experience to Qi Shiyun and Lin Ruoshui as Maitreya’s Six Divine Powers infused them, and two Dharma Forms began to take shape.

Qi Shiyun and Lin Ruoshui advanced toward the Dharma Form Realm in the Unborn Venerable Mother’s True Void Homeland, using Maitreya’s repeated descents to make up for their shallow reserves. They successfully condensed rare, powerful Dharma Forms, and the Unborn Venerable Mother recognized that both women had promising paths ahead.

• Qi Shiyun and Lin Ruoshui accepted the Unborn Venerable Mother’s help and began condensing their Dharma Forms, using the Demon Wombs as nourishment.
• The Unborn Venerable Mother summoned Maitreya’s consciousness repeatedly to strengthen the women’s cultivation, while Maitreya cursed and resisted.
• Lianshan Xin learned that Qi Shiyun and Lin Ruoshui were with the Unborn Venerable Mother and realized they were nearing the Dharma Form Realm.
• After fifty-six descents from Maitreya, Lin Ruoshui condensed a Milky Way Dharma Form with the potential to inherit the Water Ancestor’s mantle.
• Qi Shiyun condensed a growth-type peach-blossom paradise Dharma Form that could ultimately become One Flower Fills the World, and the Unborn Venerable Mother called her path a new Dao Lineage.

Lianshan Xin listened to Maitreya’s account of his fraught relationship with the Unborn Venerable Mother, then used a dream to recruit Chen Jichuan into a plan against the Dao Court. The chapter ended with Lianshan Xin and Xie Tianxia sensing another mysterious influx of power.

• Lianshan Xin asked Maitreya to report what was happening in the True Void Homeland, and Maitreya complained that the Unborn Venerable Mother had repeatedly mistreated him.
• The Unborn Venerable Mother proposed that Maitreya help her find the Little Black Box so they could escape their seals, but she refined his consciousness again after catching him cursing her.
• Lianshan Xin entered Chen Ziru’s dream and appeared to Chen Jichuan as Shakyamuni Buddha, persuading him to serve against the Dao Court Ancestor.
• Chen Jichuan agreed to kill Taotie and protect Lianshan Xin, who was hosting Maitreya’s consciousness, while Shakyamuni claimed that only he could kill Maitreya himself.
• Lianshan Xin’s original body and Xie Tianxia both felt a sudden influx of power, leaving Xie Tianxia puzzled about her slightly bulging lower abdomen.

Xie Tianxia discovered she was carrying a Buddha Embryo, and Lianshan Xin and Lianshan Jingcheng traced it to the Unborn Venerable Mother using Qi Shiyun’s karmic connection to send her Buddhist power. He Miaojun explained that the embryo could reveal the Creation Dao, leaving Lianshan Xin wondering if he was Nuwa Lady’s reincarnation.

• Xie Tianxia met Lianshan Xin in a dream and asked him to examine her unexplained pregnancy.
• Lianshan Xin and Lianshan Jingcheng determined that Xie Tianxia carried a Buddha Embryo formed through her karmic connection to Qi Shiyun and the Unborn Venerable Mother.
• Xie Tianxia realized the Unborn Venerable Mother was drawing her into a factional conflict involving Shakyamuni Buddha and Maitreya Bodhisattva, though the embryo might help her attain the Dao.
• He Miaojun urged Xie Tianxia to refine the Buddha Embryo, explaining that childbirth held mysteries of the Creation Dao.
• Lianshan Xin learned that the Creation Dao belonged to Nuwa Lady and did not conflict with other Dao lineages, then asked whether he was Nuwa Lady’s reincarnation.

Lianshan Xin convinced his parents that his unusual ability might make him Lady Nuwa’s reincarnation, then helped Xie Tianxia understand and refine the Buddha Embryo in her belly. The resulting surge of Buddha Affinity drew the attention of Xie Guanhai and the Buddha Head, while Lianshan Xin’s reunion with Chen Jichuan ended with his cultivation rising on a golden lotus throne.

• Lianshan Xin argued with He Miaojun and Lianshan Jingcheng about being Lady Nuwa’s reincarnation and his ability to make men and spirits pregnant, but his parents dismissed his claims and beat him.
• Lianshan Xin told Xie Tianxia that the Buddha Embryo in her belly carried the Creation Dao Lineage, and Xie Tianxia decided to refine it.
• Xie Tianxia refined the Buddha Embryo while Xie Lingjiang observed her soaring Buddha Affinity and fortune; Xie Guanhai and the Buddha Head sensed the change from afar.
• The Buddha Head grew jealous of Xie Tianxia’s newfound Buddha Affinity, rose from his meditation, and caused Spirit Mountain to tremble.
• Chen Jichuan sent Chen Zishi to test Lianshan Xin, but Lianshan Xin displayed overwhelming Buddha nature and revealed himself as Shakyamuni.
• Lianshan Xin sat on a golden lotus throne as his cultivation surged, and he concluded that Spirit Mountain ought to belong to his family.