Chapter Summaries

As the Final Tribulation spread, Xu Changxing returned to the Tianyan Sect just as Immortal Lord Muling began his Daluo tribulation, causing the calamity to engulf the sect and its Grotto-Heaven. After witnessing Taiyi Dao Lord’s apparent manipulation and returning to the Immortal Realm, Xu Changxing sat beside the Gate of Samsara and let his aura fade away.

• High Person Sanshou demanded that Daoist Wuchen explain how they could survive the Final Tribulation, and Wuchen said they could only attempt to prove the Dao or wait to die.
• Immortal Lord Muling began his Daluo tribulation, summoning thunderclouds above the Tianyan Sect.
• Xu Changxing tore through space to return, and the laws spilling from the rift merged with the tribulation clouds, making the Final Tribulation surge across the Grotto-Heaven.
• High Person Sanshou blamed Daoist Wuchen for failing to foresee the calamity, while Wuchen realized the Final Tribulation had obscured heaven’s secrets.
• Xu Changxing failed to stop the lightning from consuming the Tianyan Sect and the Grotto-Heaven, then returned to the Immortal Realm and entered the Eye of the Great Dao.
• Xu Changxing reached Wuyou Immortal Venerable’s former residence, sat beside the Gate of Samsara, and let his aura fade until the spreading tribulation lightning no longer stirred him.

The Final Tribulation destroyed the Immortal Realm and gave rise to countless new worlds, while Xu Changxing survived through the Heavenly Dao Painting. He confronted Taiyi Dao Lord over the world-creation merit and revealed that the Azure-Robed One had secretly weakened Taiyi Dao Lord.

• Tribulation lightning consumed the Immortal Realm and the Eye of the Great Dao, while Xu Changxing's spirit entered the Gate of Samsara as his body was destroyed.
• Taiyi Dao Lord shattered the Eye of the Great Dao, unleashing vitality that created new worlds and spread world-creation merit.
• Xu Changxing appeared in a merit storm and refused Taiyi Dao Lord's demand to transfer the merit to him.
• Xu Changxing explained that Tianyuan had used the Gate of Samsara to repaint the Heavenly Dao Painting, allowing Xu Changxing to survive and cultivate as a human again.
• Taiyi Dao Lord attacked Xu Changxing, but Xu Changxing dispelled his Daoist art and revealed Taiyi Dao Lord had fallen below the Dao Ancestor realm.
• Taiyi Dao Lord realized the Azure-Robed One had sent a wisp of his aura into the Final Tribulation, causing his cultivation to plummet.

Xu Changxing used World-Creation Merit to slay Taiyi Dao Lord and helped bring a new world into being. After restoring the surviving immortals, he prepared to travel through the newborn worlds and live out the new cycle.

• Taiyi Dao Lord tried to flee, but Xu Changxing pierced him with merit-forged swords until he vanished completely.
• Xu Changxing thanked the Azure-Robed Dao Ancestor, who bowed in return and departed into the Void.
• After the newborn worlds began to nurture life, Xu Changxing released tens of thousands of preserved true spirits into them and rebuilt Li Changge’s body.
• Xu Changxing restored Jiang Yao, the Tianyan Sect immortals, and Wuyou Immortal Venerable, who admitted he had kept Xu Changxing’s plans from Taiyi Dao Lord.
• Xu Changxing dismantled the Heavenly Dao Painting and restored Tianyuan Immortal Venerable, who dissolved his remaining karma with Xu Changxing.
• Xu Changxing transformed into a young Daoist and set out to roam the newborn worlds.