Chapter Summaries

Blood Buddha Son, Netherworld Child, and the Lin Family lured Chu Kuangren into a Netherworld World ambush that suppressed his strength to a tenth. Chu Kuangren survived their attacks and prepared a flaming sword to end the fight.

• Netherworld Child revealed that the Netherworld World was a trap whose incomplete Great Golden Immortal Dao Patterns suppressed Chu Kuangren's strength to a tenth.
• The Lin Family Immortals attacked Chu Kuangren, but his Phoenix Fire—now able to burn sins after devouring Red Lotus Karma Fire—forced them back.
• Blood Buddha Son sent bewitched believers, including Immortals, to attack and detonate themselves against Chu Kuangren.
• Netherworld Child summoned spectral soldiers and generals, but Chu Kuangren emerged from the smoke inside a fiery red lotus and burned them away.
• Chu Kuangren mocked the three sides for their empty reputations and gathered his Phoenix Fire into an enormous flaming sword.

Chu Kuangren fought Blood Buddha Son, Mingzi, and a Lin Family Earth Immortal inside the Netherworld World despite being suppressed to a tenth of his strength. After killing the Earth Immortal, he shattered Blood Buddha Son’s Papiyas Aspect with a single punch, leaving Blood Buddha Son badly wounded.

• Chu Kuangren’s phoenix-fire sword slash annihilated the netherworld soldiers, Blood Buddha followers, and Lin Family disciples surrounding him.
• Blood Buddha Son, Mingzi, and a Lin Family Earth Immortal attacked Chu Kuangren, but his Yin-Yang Life-and-Death Diagram repelled them.
• Chu Kuangren used Spatial Techniques to appear beside the Lin Family Earth Immortal and kill him with Kunwu, while Mingzi reinforced the Netherworld World’s space to hinder further teleportation.
• Blood Buddha Son summoned the Blood-colored Papiyas Aspect and attacked Chu Kuangren’s soul as Mingzi increased the world’s suppression.
• Chu Kuangren smashed apart the Papiyas Aspect’s enormous palm and destroyed its face with one punch, causing Blood Buddha Son to suffer a backlash and spit blood.

Chu Kuangren overwhelmed Blood Buddha Son despite his suppressed cultivation, using his unrestricted physical strength to shatter the Poxun Dharma Form. Mingzi absorbed the Netherworld World's demonic qi and returned to fight, but Chu Kuangren remained stronger and revealed that he had let Blood Buddha Son delay him.

• Mingzi realized Chu Kuangren's physical strength had not been suppressed and ordered Blood Buddha Son to hold him off for a quarter of an hour while he sought a way to kill him.
• Blood Buddha Son revived the Poxun Dharma Form with his blood-colored prayer beads, but Chu Kuangren dismantled it and left Blood Buddha Son badly wounded.
• Mingzi absorbed the demonic qi in Yin Netherworld Valley and returned with his power greatly increased.
• Mingzi attacked Chu Kuangren, but Chu Kuangren stood firm and forced him back.
• Chu Kuangren activated his Gods and Devils Qi and Unique Origin Body, then told Blood Buddha Son that he had allowed him to last that long.

Chu Kuangren defeated Mingzi and Blood Buddha Son in the Netherworld World, but the Lord of the Supreme Demon Court intervened before he could seize the Immortal Realm Will they left behind. Chu Kuangren confronted the Demon Court’s lord through the hole blasted into the Netherworld Passage.

• Mingzi attacked Chu Kuangren with the Netherworld Seal, but Chu Kuangren countered with two Nine Provinces Cauldrons and grievously damaged the seal.
• Chu Kuangren killed Mingzi with Sword Qi after the damaged Netherworld Seal’s backlash weakened him.
• Chu Kuangren caught Blood Buddha Son and burned his body, Immortal Soul, and Karmic Sin to ashes with Phoenix Fire.
• Chu Kuangren slowed three escaping masses of Immortal Realm Will with his spacetime power, but golden fire from outside struck through the Netherworld Passage and let them escape.
• Chu Kuangren recognized the attacker as the Lord of the Supreme Demon Court and challenged him over the attack.

After killing Blood Buddha Son and Mingzi, Chu Kuangren learned that the Demon Court concealed the last Heaven's Will Child and mastered the fragment of the Poxun Scripture. He then set out with He Fei and Little Fox to settle accounts with the Lin Family.

• The Demon Lord intervened as Chu Kuangren gathered Immortal Realm Will, but Chu bluffed him into revealing that the last Heaven's Will Child was in the Supreme Demon Court.
• Chu Kuangren warned the Demon Lord that the Demon Court would soon be destroyed, and the Demon Lord left before the Academy Dean arrived.
• Chu Kuangren found the Poxun Scripture fragment among Blood Buddha Son's spoils and collected more treasures from the Netherworld World.
• After several days of study, Chu Kuangren mastered the Poxun Scripture and gained a new source energy combining desire and Buddha-power.
• Chu Kuangren told He Fei and Little Fox that they were going to the Lin Family to make it pay for repeatedly testing his limits.

After learning that Chu Kuangren had survived the ambush and killed Blood Buddha Son and Mingzi, Lin Zhaotian prepared the Lin Family for his arrival. Chu Kuangren waited until news of their coming battle had spread, then uprooted a vast river and sent it toward the Lin Family’s volcanic stronghold.

• Lin Zhaotian learned that Chu Kuangren had defeated the ambush, killed Mingzi and Blood Buddha Son, and was coming for the Lin Family.
• Lin Zhaotian summoned the Lin Family’s people as news of the impending battle spread across the Qinglan Immortal Realm.
• Chu Kuangren traveled leisurely with Lan Yu, Little Fox, He Fei, and He Yun while explaining that he wanted the world to see what happened to those who targeted his people.
• Chu Kuangren asked He Fei about the Lin Family’s volcanic home and its reliance on fire energy for cultivation and pill refining.
• Chu Kuangren lifted a river hundreds of thousands of miles long into the sky and sent it toward the Lin Family.

Chu Kuangren arrived at the Lin Family with a vast river and used its waters as a sword to break their Defensive Formation. The attack devastated the family’s volcanic home and left its cultivators dead or injured.

• The Lin Family’s disciples prepared for Chu Kuangren’s arrival, confident that their ancient lineage and resources could defeat him.
• The Golden-Wing Commander, White Eagle Commander, and Night Sparrow Commander arrived with Golden Crow Guards as other forces gathered to watch.
• After two days of waiting, Chu Kuangren appeared at the head of a vast tide of river water and sent it crashing down on the Lin Family.
• Lin Zhaotian activated the Lin Family’s Defensive Formation, but Chu Kuangren formed a giant water sword and struck the shield with it.
• Chu Kuangren shattered the formation, flooding the Lin Family and leaving its buildings destroyed and countless cultivators dead or injured.

Chu Kuangren attacked the Lin Family and overwhelmed its cultivators with red lotus phoenix fire, then broke the Li Fire Grand Formation with his Yin-Yang Life-and-Death Diagram. Lin Zhaotian survived with a Heavenly Immortal Artifact and summoned the Fire God Dharma Form as Chu Kuangren prepared to counter with Demon Buddha Papiyas.

• Chu Kuangren began his battle with the Lin Family by unleashing red lotus phoenix fire that burned many cultivators and destroyed the Thousand Mechanisms Legion's battle puppets.
• Lin Zhaotian and several Earth Immortals formed the Li Fire Grand Formation and attacked Chu Kuangren with enhanced Immortal Arts.
• Chu Kuangren used All Laws Return to the Void to absorb their attacks, then broke the formation with his Chaos Gods and Devils, Yin-Yang Life-and-Death Diagram, grievously injuring several elders.
• Lin Zhaotian's defensive Heavenly Immortal Artifact protected him, and he swallowed an elixir to strengthen himself before summoning the Fire God Dharma Form.
• Chu Kuangren announced that he would meet Lin Zhaotian's dharma form with Demon Buddha Papiyas.

Chu Kuangren overwhelmed Lin Zhaotian and the Lin Family with his Bodhisattva Mara Aspect, then detonated the Resentful Buddha Demon Pestle when the Lin Family patriarch emerged as a Heavenly Immortal. The patriarch survived the blast but was badly injured, leaving him facing Chu Kuangren amid the ruins.

• Chu Kuangren revealed his Bodhisattva Mara Aspect, stunning the cultivators with his mastery of Buddhist cultivation alongside other Daos.
• Lin Zhaotian attacked with his Fire God Dharma Form and a Heavenly Immortal Artifact, but Chu Kuangren used the Resentful Buddha Demon Pestle to overpower him and rout the Lin Family cultivators.
• The Lin Family patriarch began gathering power inside a volcano, revealing an overwhelming Heavenly Immortal aura.
• Chu Kuangren hurled the Resentful Buddha Demon Pestle into the volcano and detonated it, destroying the surrounding volcanoes and badly injuring the patriarch.
• The Lin Family patriarch emerged from the ruins alive, and Chu Kuangren noted that his defensive Immortal Artifact had saved him.

Chu Kuangren killed the Lin Family Patriarch and fought off Lin Zhaotian and the Golden Crow Guards, who joined forces against him. After they claimed he would eventually run out of Immortal Essence, he summoned earth qi to form a grand array around the Lin Family estate.

• The Golden-Wing Commander and the Golden Crow Guards moved to protect the wounded Lin Family Patriarch, but Chu Kuangren used spacetime power to reach him and kill him with Red Lotus Phoenix Fire.
• Chu Kuangren's Papiyas manifestation killed several Immortals, sending the Lin Family cultivators fleeing in panic.
• Lin Zhaotian gathered the Lin Family's divine flame seeds and raised his power to the Heavenly Immortal level, prompting the Golden-Wing Commander to join forces with him against Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren fought off Lin Zhaotian and the Golden Crow Guards with his techniques and physiques, while their attacks failed to hurt him.
• The Golden-Wing Commander declared that Chu Kuangren would eventually exhaust his Immortal Essence, but Chu Kuangren gathered earth qi across hundreds of millions of miles to form a grand array around the Lin Family estate.

Chu Kuangren used the Earth Qi Great Formation to annihilate the Golden Crow Guards and Lin Family cultivators, destroying the ancient immortal clan. After collecting their treasures, he left the watching factions stunned by the scale of his power.

• Chu Kuangren trapped the Golden Crow Guards and Lin Family cultivators inside an Earth Qi Great Formation and crushed most of them with a divine mountain.
• The Golden-Wing Commander led the surviving Golden Crow Guards into the sky, but Chu Kuangren formed an earth dragon that devoured them all.
• Lin Zhaotian attacked Chu Kuangren with his Fire God Avatar, but Chu Kuangren turned the earth dragon into an Earth Qi Sword and shattered the avatar, killing Lin Zhaotian.
• Chu Kuangren slaughtered the remaining Lin Family cultivators and collected their treasures, including every divine flame seed.
• The watching factions witnessed the Lin Family's destruction and were left shocked by Chu Kuangren's strength.

After Chu Kuangren destroyed the Lin Family, the Qinglan Immortal Realm feared his growing strength, while Jin Di Yi gained five strands of Immortal Realm Will and vowed to defeat him. On the journey away from the battle, Chu Kuangren reviewed his shortcomings and reassured He Fei and He Yun that he would protect them as his people.

• News of the Lin Family's destruction spread, and the Daoist Traditions recognized that few in the Qinglan Immortal Realm could match Chu Kuangren.
• The Demon Lord showed Jin Di Yi recordings of Chu Kuangren's battles, and Jin Di Yi admitted his odds of winning were below ten percent but vowed to study Chu Kuangren and defeat him.
• He Fei marveled that Chu Kuangren had avenged her family so quickly, while Little Fox warned her not to hope for more than following him, prompting Lan Yu to strike the fox.
• Chu Kuangren reviewed the battle and noted that opponents could now anticipate his Earth Qi formation, concluding that he was still too weak.
• He Fei and He Yun thanked Chu Kuangren for avenging their family, and he told them that only he was allowed to bully his people.

Chu Kuangren gave Lan Yu a growth-type Immortal Artifact, used a Three Pure Ones Gathering Immortal Pill to break through, and helped his companions advance by distributing the Lin Family’s elixirs. He learned that Chu Hong had left for the Dragon-Phoenix Battlefield and revealed that he had instigated the war between Divine Dragon Island and Wutong Mountain to avenge her.

• Chu Kuangren obtained the Heavenly Light Divine Staff and gave it to Lan Yu, who began refining it in seclusion.
• Chu Kuangren analyzed the lost Three Pure Ones Gathering Immortal Pill formula, took the pill, and broke through to Fourth-Grade Earth Immortal.
• Little Fox advanced two grades, He Fei became a Second-Grade Immortal, and Lan Yu reached Ninth-Grade Immortal after receiving Lin Family elixirs from Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren gave He Yun the Three Pure Ones Gathering Immortal Pill formula, and He Yun said he could refine the pills with enough time and materials.
• Gu Wuqing informed Chu Kuangren that Chu Hong was heading to the Dragon-Phoenix Battlefield, and Chu Kuangren revealed that he had provoked the war to avenge her.

Chu Hong reached the Dragon-Phoenix Battlefield to repay Wutong Mountain for its past help and rescued its Phoenixes from the combined forces of Divine Dragon Island and the Supreme Demon Court. After defeating their attackers, she asked where Qingfeng and the two mountain lords were and learned they were on Half-Moon Island.

• Chu Kuangren learned Chu Hong was at the Dragon-Phoenix Battlefield and left with Lan Yu and Little Fox to reach her quickly.
• The Supreme Demon Court joined Divine Dragon Island in the war, turning the tide against Wutong Mountain and attacking a group of Phoenixes.
• Chu Hong arrived, revealed her twice-awakened Pureblood Divine Phoenix bloodline, and saved the Phoenixes from the Dragon Immortal and Demon Immortal.
• Chu Hong defeated the Dragon Immortal and Demon Immortal with her Phoenix Fire, then told the Phoenixes she had come to repay Wutong Mountain's kindness, not to rejoin it.
• Chu Hong asked about Qingfeng and the two mountain lords, and a Phoenix Immortal said they were on Half-Moon Island.

Chu Hong arrived at Half-Moon Island to help Wutong Mountain, though she made clear she would leave after the battle. The Dragon Lords and Golden Crow Guards overwhelmed the Phoenixes, killing the Phoenix Mountain Lord and gravely wounding the Phoenix Matriarch.

• The Phoenix Mountain Lord learned that Divine Dragon Island had joined the Supreme Demon Court and asked whether Qingfeng's foretold turning point had arrived.
• Chu Hong fought her way to Half-Moon Island, where the Phoenix Matriarch recognized her as a Pureblood Divine Phoenix after her second bloodline awakening.
• Chu Hong told the Phoenix Mountain Lord she had come to repay Wutong Mountain's kindness but would have nothing more to do with it after the battle.
• The Phoenixes failed to break out of Half-Moon Island, and the five Dragon Lords and Golden Crow Guards surrounded them.
• The Golden Dragon Lord and the other Dragon Lords killed the Phoenix Mountain Lord, while the Phoenix Matriarch was gravely wounded.

The Golden Dragon Lord cornered the Phoenixes of Wutong Mountain and nearly killed the Phoenix Mountain Lord and Chu Hong. Chu Kuangren arrived in time to protect them, blocked the Golden Dragon Lord’s attack, and declared that he would kill him.

• The Golden Dragon Lord offered to spare the Phoenixes who surrendered, and most accepted while the Phoenix Mountain Lord and a few others refused.
• Chu Hong stood with the Phoenix Mountain Lord and Qingfeng, then joined them in resisting the Golden Dragon Lord’s attack.
• The Golden Dragon Lord struck the Phoenix Mountain Lord down and prepared to kill Chu Hong as Qingfeng wondered where Wutong Mountain’s foretold turning point was.
• Chu Kuangren arrived with Lan Yu and Little Fox, and his Nine Provinces Cauldrons shattered the Golden Dragon Lord’s attacks and steadied the sinking island.
• Chu Kuangren declared that the Phoenixes were under his protection and told the Golden Dragon Lord he would die.

Chu Kuangren arrived to protect Chu Hong and the others, then fought the Golden Dragon Lord, the Red Dragon Lord, and their forces. After the Demon Court ordered its Earth Immortals to retreat from him, Chu Kuangren prepared an Earth Qi Great Formation against the Dragon Lords.

• Chu Kuangren arrived and promised to protect Chu Hong and the others while threatening to kill the Golden Dragon Lord.
• Chu Kuangren blocked the fleet's bombardment with a purple lotus, then used his Chaos Gods and Devils Physique and Unique Origin Body to repel the Dragon Lords and kill two Earth Immortals.
• Chu Kuangren used Red Lotus Phoenix Fire against the Red Dragon Lord, then matched the Golden Dragon Lord's attack with the Nine Provinces Cauldrons.
• Chu Kuangren summoned Papiyas, seized the two Dragon Lords, and smashed them together.
• The Demon Court's Earth Immortals received the Demon Lord's order to retreat if they encountered Chu Kuangren, but the Golden Dragon Lord refused to flee.
• Chu Kuangren summoned vast Earth Qi and Water Qi and formed an Earth Qi Great Formation.

Chu Kuangren used the Earth Qi Great Formation to destroy Divine Dragon Island’s forces on the Dragon-Phoenix Battlefield and rescue Chu Hong. He prepared to take her away, but the Phoenix Mountain Lord asked him to let Chu Hong return to Wutong Mountain and become its next Mountain Lord.

• Chu Kuangren activated the Earth Qi Great Formation, terrifying the Dragon Lords and prompting the Demon Lord to recognize that his forces on the battlefield were doomed.
• Chu Kuangren killed three Dragon Lords with a strike of earth qi, then used an earth dragon and a sword to kill the Golden Dragon Lord and Red Dragon Lord.
• Chu Kuangren slaughtered the Golden Crow Guards and dispersed the formation, leaving the nearby sea stained with blood.
• Chu Kuangren scolded Chu Hong for sneaking into danger and said he would confine her when they returned.
• Chu Kuangren told the Phoenix Mountain Lord he had intervened only for Chu Hong and took her by the hand to leave.
• The Phoenix Mountain Lord asked Chu Kuangren to let Chu Hong return to Wutong Mountain, promising to groom her as its next Mountain Lord, and Chu Kuangren asked if she was begging him.

The Phoenix Mountain Lord asked Chu Kuangren to help protect Wutong Mountain and persuade Chu Hong to return. Chu Hong received the incomplete Nine Transformations Nirvana Scripture and remained by Chu Kuangren’s side, while he agreed to shelter Wutong Mountain and left her future role open.

• The Phoenix Mountain Lord explained that Wutong Mountain needed Chu Kuangren’s protection and offered Chu Hong its secret scripture to entice her to return.
• Chu Hong said she wanted to stay with Chu Kuangren, but agreed to visit Wutong Mountain after the Phoenix Mountain Lord described the scripture and promised she could come and go freely.
• At Wutong Mountain, Chu Hong inherited the first five transformations of the Nine Transformations Nirvana Scripture, which was meant for Pureblood Divine Phoenixes.
• Chu Kuangren agreed that Chu Hong could serve as Wutong Mountain’s Phoenix Maiden while remaining with him and outside the mountain’s authority.
• Chu Kuangren allowed the Phoenix Mountain Lord to use his name to protect Wutong Mountain, but postponed deciding whether Chu Hong would return.

After two years of traveling the Qinglan Immortal Realm to study cultivation texts, Chu Kuangren gained new insights from the Dao De Jing. He began a lecture at the Academy on the fundamental Dao, leaving the audience listening as he recited its opening line.

• Chu Kuangren healed the Phoenix Mountain Lord, returned the Azure Luan Mirror to Qingfeng, and gave her his notes on the Yaochi Immortal Scripture to help her guide Chu Hong.
• Chu Hong became Wutong Mountain's Phoenix Maiden, and word spread that Chu Kuangren would protect the mountain.
• Chu Kuangren spent two years visiting major Daoist Traditions and trading for their cultivation texts, then returned to the Academy to study his gains.
• Chu Kuangren drew the Dao De Jing and spent three months reading it, deepening his understanding of the Dao.
• Chu Kuangren announced a lecture at the Academy and asked the gathered students and teachers what the Dao was.
• Chu Kuangren explained that the many cultivation Daos derived from a fundamental Dao, then began reciting, “The Dao that can be spoken is not the constant Dao...”