Chapter Summaries

After helping stabilize the worlds shaken by the Abyss of Time, Lei Jun gathered the treasures needed to form the Taiji Dao Body and succeeded in transforming his innate constitution. Two years later, he accepted Feng Ting as his third personal disciple, while Shangguan Ning prepared to advance to the Eighth Heaven.

• Chen Donglou defeated Quan Yuanqi alongside Lei Jun, entrusted the North Star Sword and a sword scripture to the younger generations, and departed Saha to die alone.
• Lei Jun helped stabilize Saha, destroyed Ruan Qiao and Quan Yuanqi's remaining defenses at Spirit Mountain, and joined Phoenix Feng Ming in repairing Da Ju.
• Ming Emperor Han Zhining attempted to use Great Ming's national fortune to break into the Immortal Realm, failed, and died as the dragon vein shattered.
• Xu Yuanzhen brought Feng Ting, a youth with the Purple Mansion Immortal Body, from another great thousand world, and Lei Jun sent him to Dragon Tiger Mountain's Dao Child Courtyard.
• Lei Jun combined five peerless treasures to form the Taiji Dao Body, then spent two years studying its changes while Shangguan Ning entered seclusion to advance.
• Feng Ting completed Qi Refining and chose Lei Jun as his master at the Ordination Ceremony, becoming the Celestial Master's third personal disciple with the Taoist Name Feng Huating.

Kang Ming allowed Xiahou Bo to choose whether to remain with the Yellow Heaven Path, while Yellow Heaven Path disciples began seeking reconciliation with Dragon Tiger Mountain. As Lei Jun managed Da Ju’s defenses and studied the Abyss of Time with Xu Yuanzhen, she discovered she could walk in the human world without losing immortal power for a limited time, and they anticipated the human world’s merger within twenty years.

• Xiahou Bo chose to stay beside Kang Ming at the Yellow Heaven Altar, and Kang Ming told him that those who left and those who stayed must not become entangled again.
• Yellow Heaven Path disciples arrived at Great Han Dragon Tiger Mountain to pay their respects, and Lei Jun ordered Xin Beiyuan to screen them according to the old Great Tang precedent.
• Phoenix Feng Ming reported that Flowering Brightness Holy Lord would not come to Da Ju, then agreed that Huangfu Qi and the Spirit Mountain Shaman Sect could relocate there while he took Feng Ming’s place.
• Lei Jun visited Guicang to study the Abyss of Time with Xu Yuanzhen, and they learned that Zhang Wantong’s absence from contact likely meant she had encountered trouble in the World of Demons.
• Xu Yuanzhen entered the human world and demonstrated that she could prevent her immortal essence and Magic Power from dissipating for a limited time; she estimated that the human world would merge within ten to twenty years.

Lei Jun and Xu Yuanzhen studied the Pure Gold Hall and Gao Tiansui’s techniques while Wang Guiyuan prepared to resolve his karmic bond with Avici before the human realms merged. As they discussed their disciples and the Dragon Tiger Mountain’s growing Yuan Magnetic Talisman tradition, a demon wearing Buddhist prayer beads emerged from the Abyss of Time, revealing another fallen monk from the demon-ravaged world.

• Lei Jun and Xu Yuanzhen examined Zheng Baiyu’s Pure Gold Hall and drew insights from its ties to the Ancient Heavenly Palace and Gao Tiansui’s methods.
• Wang Guiyuan examined Buddhist treasures from the demon world and said he would reclaim Avici after forming his Buddhist Golden Body, likely when the human realms merged.
• Lei Jun asked Feng Ting about the Ordinance Conferment Ceremony, and Feng Ting chose to wait and attend with his fellow disciples while weighing the Yuan Magnetic Talisman against the Wind Riding Talisman.
• A headless demon emerged from the Abyss of Time, and Lei Jun restrained it after he and Wang Guiyuan recognized Buddhist prayer beads on its wrist.
• Lei Jun and Xu Yuanzhen identified the demon as a Buddhist monk corrupted by the demon world’s environment, where the Thousand-Eyed Thousand-Handed Great Lord had become the Hundred-Eyed Demon Tree.

Lei Jun and his disciples tracked political shifts across the converging human realms while Dragon Tiger Mountain’s younger generation advanced in cultivation. In the Great Ming Human Realm, Zhuo Baojie and Han Xiaofei confronted Neo-Confucian forces, and Zhuo Baojie’s Reversing Heaven Road began breaking their ritual system.

• Xu Yuanzhen described the rival powers in the World of Demons, and Wang Guiyuan and Lei Jun considered whether Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva had once left that world for Avici.
• Zhuo Baojie reported that Later Han King Zhou Pu planned to move his capital to Jianye, while Southern Yue sent Zhang Mengchen to seek an alliance with Great Tang; Lei Jun said the human realms should decide their own affairs.
• Chu Kun returned from investigating the Suzhou Chu Clan and Mister North Star Zheng Baiyu, then agreed to cultivate beside the Abyss of Time while Wang Guiyuan departed for Saha.
• Zhuo Baojie’s Divine Court Universe revealed its full form as the Reversing Heaven Road, and Lei Jun teased him before guiding him toward the Divine Court Upper Scene realm.
• Tu Guangyu, Xin Beiyuan, Xu Rui, and Shangguan Ning advanced to new cultivation milestones as Dragon Tiger Mountain’s ranks of High Merit Elders grew.
• In the Great Ming Human Realm, Zhuo Baojie and Han Xiaofei defeated the empowered Ming soldiers and attacked the hidden Neo-Confucian grand scholars; Zhuo Baojie unfolded the Reversing Heaven Road and shattered their ritual system.

Lei Jun cultivated in the Yellow Springs to deepen his Taiji Dao Body and derive a future Immortal Secret, then coordinated affairs across Saha and Guicang. The chapter ended with news that Zhao Chanyang had killed Old True Lord Ge but might have encountered trouble in the Heavenly Realm.

• Lei Jun used Fengdu City and Thunder Emperor City to transform the Yellow Springs’ spiritual currents, strengthening his cultivation and developing ideas for an Immortal Secret to face Gao Tiansui.
• Lei Jun and Wang Guiyuan dismantled Venerable Puguang’s Ritual Array in Saha and stabilized its rift, after which Lei Jun gave Wang Guiyuan the recovered treasures and returned Qiang Ming Lin Lang to the Spirit Mountain Shaman Sect through Sun Li.
• Huangfu Qi gave Qiang Ming Lin Lang to Zhao Qianran, who gained an opportunity to advance and later visited Lei Jun to thank him.
• Lei Jun took over from Xu Yuanzhen in Guicang while she went to Yu Yu Heaven to enter seclusion, and he watched the Abyss of Time with Chu Kun.
• Lei Jun told Chu Kun that Zhao Chanyang had killed Old True Lord Ge but might have encountered trouble in the Heavenly Realm, where Xu Yuanzhen had failed to find him.

Lei Jun and Chu Kun dealt with threats emerging from the Abyss of Time while Tang Xiaotang fought over a mysterious Spirit Flower in the Demon World. The chapter ended with Lei Jun killing the wounded Demon Saint Kunpeng after it tried to seize the All Heavens Demon Vine.

• Lei Jun told Chu Kun that Zhao Chanyang had encountered trouble linked to the Demon Dragon Emperor Lord, while Tang Xiaotang was searching for a treasure to raise her enlightenment.
• Tang Xiaotang fought the One-Eyed Demon Saint and Demon Saint Kunpeng over a Spirit Flower and its vines, then pursued the flower as the vines entered the Abyss of Time.
• Lei Jun and Chu Kun received the All Heavens Demon Vine in Guicang, where Chu Kun defeated a half-human, half-dragon demon that had emerged from the Abyss of Time.
• Lei Jun recognized the vine's potential and suppressed it, then noticed the wounded Demon Saint Kunpeng approaching through the Abyss of Time.
• The Demon Saint Kunpeng seized the vine, but Lei Jun intercepted it and trapped the demon in his Dao Scenery Profound Enclosure.
• Lei Jun unleashed Profound Yellow Harmonious Illumination · Universe Reillumination and completely destroyed the Demon Saint Kunpeng.

Lei Jun experimented with the All Heavens Demon Vine and Reverse Origin Heart Fruit, discovering a way to convert some demonic qi into spiritual qi, while the Great Ming realm’s rival powers continued to take shape and his cultivation advanced. In the Azure Sky, Ruan Qiao and Wang Dianchen received a message from the Heavenly Lord about He Ying and the approaching convergence of the human realms.

• Lei Jun used the All Heavens Demon Vine and Reverse Origin Heart Fruit to draw demonic qi from the Demon World and turn part of it into spiritual qi, then sealed the artifacts away for future experiments.
• Lei Jun kept Kunpeng Yu’s death secret, while the fallen Great Ming realm fractured into four major powers and two minor ones, including Luo Hai’s rebel army backed by Pixiu Kong.
• Feng Ting received his ordinance conferment, advanced to the Fourth Heaven, and was assigned by Lei Jun to study under Zhuo Baojie alongside Hua Jie and Hua Rong.
• Lei Jun continued cultivating and estimated that he would be ready to challenge the Heavenly Chasm Tribulation at around one hundred and twenty years of age.
• Ruan Qiao and Wang Dianchen saw the giant talisman on the Three-Layer Altar ignite with a message from the Heavenly Lord, who instructed them to remain calm and promised to return by the convergence of the human realms.

Nie Fang defeated his half-brother and challenged Great Ming’s Neo-Confucian order, while the Pixiu Demon Sage sought Lei Jun’s favor. After years of preparation, Lei Jun survived the Heavenly Chasm Tribulation and attained the Cave Mystery Second Layer, leaving the Talisman School cultivators astonished.

• Nie Fang used his automaton puppets Countercurrent and Common Man to defeat Nie Song and Nie Zhongjie after Shen Xi and other Taoist experts joined the battle against the Great Ming Confucians.
• Luo Hai brought the Pixiu Demon Sage to meet Lei Jun, who accepted the demon sage’s wish to remain neutral and heard his offer of future help against the Former Affiliates of the Heavenly Palace.
• Han Xiaofei advanced to the Eighth Heaven Divine Court, while Kang Ming attained the Ninth Heaven and Meng Shaojie continued recording Great Ming’s decline.
• Lei Jun restored Saha, brought the Jade Purity Miro Grotto-heaven to Dragon Tiger Mountain, and prepared the six human realms and other worlds to support his breakthrough.
• On his one hundred and twentieth birthday, Lei Jun endured the Heavenly Chasm Tribulation and attained the Cave Mystery Second Layer, causing the Divine Court Universes of advanced Talisman School cultivators to unfold briefly.

After Lei Jun reached the Cave Mystery Second Layer, he began preparations for the convergence of the six human worlds, moved the Three Great Grotto-heavens and Myriad Laws Altar into a Dragon Tiger Immortal Realm, and entered Avici as the worlds converged. There, Wang Guiyuan confronted Chen Dadao while Lei Jun killed the One-Eyed Demon Saint, and the Abyss of Time remained a threat.

• Lei Jun attained the Supreme Palace Enclosure, prompting Dragon Tiger Mountain disciples and elders across the human worlds to congratulate him, while Zhuo Baojie continued his secluded attempt to reach the Mahayana Realm.
• Lei Jun and Yuan Mobai announced that Human World Unification was imminent, and rulers, sects, and cultivators across the six human worlds mobilized to protect the common people; Chu Yu delivered Zhang Wantong and Zhang Hui's Heavenly Books to Lei Jun for safekeeping.
• As the human worlds began to overlap, Lei Jun used the Three Great Grotto-heavens to raise the Myriad Laws Altar and form a Dragon Tiger Immortal Realm above the Ancestral Home.
• Wang Guiyuan attained a Buddhist Golden Body as Avici returned, then entered Avici to confront Chen Dadao while the Abyss of Time tore through Guicang and Xu Yuanzhen went to investigate Azure Sky.
• Lei Jun entered Avici with the Jade Purity Miro Grotto-heaven and the other grotto-heavens, where he trapped the One-Eyed Demon Saint in Thunder Emperor City and killed it with Profound Yellow Harmonious Illumination.

Lei Jun and Wang Guiyuan watched as the six human worlds merged and the Heavenly Book became complete, while Xu Yuanzhen fought Wang Dianchen and Ruan Qiao in Azure Sky. Gao Tiansui emerged from the Abyss of Time and confronted Lei Jun, asking him to join his cause as midnight approached.

• Lei Jun destroyed the One-Eyed Demon Saint, while Wang Guiyuan trapped and killed Chen Dadao in Avici, gaining greater control over the realm.
• Lei Jun’s talisman arrays helped stabilize the merging of the six human worlds, and the Heavenly Book’s scattered pages and Dark Side reunited into a complete Scroll.
• Xu Yuanzhen fought Wang Dianchen in Azure Sky, broke Gao Tiansui’s Ritual Array, and defeated him with her Immortal Secret · All Heavens Moving Qi and Dragon-Tiger Combination Strike.
• Bai Mei joined Xu Yuanzhen and drove Ruan Qiao to flee Azure Sky with the wounded Wang Dianchen, while Xu Yuanzhen began destroying Gao Tiansui’s Three-Layer Altar.
• The Light Sphere warned Lei Jun to stay far from the Abyss of Time at midnight, and Gao Tiansui emerged before that hour and asked Lei Jun and Wang Guiyuan to change their minds and support him.

After Lei Jun defeated Gao Tiansui and secured Avici and Azure Sky, the Human Realm Confluence reshaped the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and forced its rulers to reconsider their plans. The chapter ended with Later Han’s Zhou Pu and Geng Yuan Yan beginning a secret plan on a military drill ground.

• Lei Jun brought Xu Yuanzhen the Profound Empty Primordial Qi, left Azure Sky in Bai Mei’s care, and returned to Avici after defeating Gao Tiansui.
• Golden Crow Haoyang, Phoenix Feng Ming, Huangfu Qi, Pixiu Kong, and others assessed the changing realms, while Huaming returned to the Human Realm and Luo Hai traveled to represent the Great Ming factions.
• Jiang Fengge and Ren Caomu learned of Gao Tiansui’s defeat and worried about how Lei Jun’s formation could threaten their plans; Gao Tiansui regrouped with Ruan Qiao and Wang Dianchen and prepared to study the Universe Chart.
• Lei Jun reached Avici, heard from Chu Kun that Guixu had remained sealed and the major dynasties were negotiating, and agreed that Dragon Tiger Mountain would not participate in their summit.
• The dynasties’ envoys met in Xinzhou and agreed to continue suppressing the Neo-Confucian patriarchal ritual system; afterward, Zhou Pu and Geng Yuan Yan began preparations for an undisclosed plan at a drill ground.

Lei Jun rescued Zhao Chanyang from the World of Demons, learned that the Demon Dragon Emperor Lord might be usurping the Ziwei Northern Zenith, and obtained the Investiture of the Gods Talisman. As the Taoist sects moved to recognize Lei Jun as Profound Gate Leader and Zhuo Baojie advanced to the Ninth Heaven, Lei Jun entered Azure Sky to refine his Dao methods.

• Lei Jun found the injured Zhao Chanyang in Locking Heaven Abyss and brought him back, where Zhao revealed that the Demon Dragon Emperor Lord was plotting to usurp the Ziwei Northern Zenith.
• Zhao Chanyang gave Lei Jun the Investiture of the Gods Talisman, which preserved signs of the Ancient Heavenly Palace's destruction and could help counter Gao Tiansui.
• Lei Jun and his companions considered whether the Demon Dragon Emperor Lord, the Hundred-Eyed Demon Tree, and Great Extinction Bodhisattva had foreign origins, while Lei Jun also confirmed that Feng Ting likely came from another great world.
• Zhao Chanyang returned to Kunlun to recover, and representatives of the Taoist sects agreed to discuss formally recognizing Lei Jun as Profound Gate Leader.
• Zhuo Baojie emerged from seclusion after reaching the Taoist Mahayana Realm, and Lei Jun gave him the Middle Heaven Sword and assigned new duties to his disciples.
• Lei Jun went to Azure Sky, studied the traces Gao Tiansui had left behind, and refined his Profound Yellow Heavenly Stems Ten Scenes using his Taiji Dao Body and Natural Enlightenment.

Lei Jun completed the Profound Gate Leader ceremony, then spent three months expounding the Dharma to cultivators from many traditions. As the Human Realm Confluence settled, he tasked the Taoist Sects with deploying talismans to prepare for threats beyond the unstable Abyss of Time, while his own cultivation continued to advance.

• Lei Jun led the Taoist Sects cultivators in thirty-six days of scripture recitation inside the Three Purities Three Jewels Grotto-heaven, then returned to the Human Realm and offered rites to the successive patriarchs.
• Lei Jun opened the altar on Dragon Tiger Mountain and expounded the Dharma for three months, guiding cultivators from Taoist, Buddhist, Confucian, shamanic, and martial traditions.
• Zhao Chanyang and Bai Mei departed for Kunlun, while Kang Ming returned to the Yellow Heaven Altar in the East Sea after observing the ceremony.
• Lei Jun warned the Taoist Sects cultivators about the unstable Abyss of Time and distributed talismans for them to refine and deploy throughout the Human Realm.
• Lei Jun and Wang Guiyuan discussed the planned ritual array, possible Immortal Realm breakthroughs by Zhao Qianran, Mu Chunyang, Shen Xi, and Xiao Yumen, and the prospects of Feng Ming, Meng Shaojie, and Nie Fang.
• Lei Jun said the Ten-Colored Crane Canopy and his position as sect leader were accelerating his cultivation and helping him prepare to advance toward the Purple Forbidden Enclosure.

Lei Jun cultivated toward the Immortal Realm’s third layer while discussing Hui Yin’s rare Buddhist talent and the rising cultivation of their peers. As demons watched the Abyss of Time and Great Extinction Bodhisattva kept watch from hell, Lei Jun remained in the Three Purities Three Jewels Grotto-heaven to refine his treasures.

• Lei Jun reflected on the difficult road from Cave Mystery’s second layer to the third and sensed that the Ten-Colored Crane Canopy had shortened his progress.
• Wang Guiyuan told Lei Jun that Hui Yin had attained a perfected Dharma Body and acquired a Flawless Root of Wisdom, while Lei Jun discussed the cultivation prospects of their peers and Yuan Mobai.
• In the World of Demons, a Demon Saint reported to Demon Dragon Emperor Lord that the Daoist had vanished and that Great Sun was entangled with another Daoist nun; the Emperor Lord ordered the demons to keep watch and let Great Sun handle it.
• Venerable Wu Jing reported to Great Extinction Bodhisattva that Demon Dragon Emperor Lord remained in the Heavenly Realm, and the Bodhisattva ordered him to keep watching the Abyss of Time.
• Lei Jun stayed in the Three Purities Three Jewels Grotto-heaven and refined the Green Bamboo Staff, which grew from ten sections to eleven.

Lei Jun refined his three Dao-attainment treasures, exchanged insights with Xu Yuanzhen after she formed her second immortal secret, and resonated their Dao Scenery Profound Enclosures. As he considered the Abyss of Time’s possible return and oversaw Dragon Tiger Mountain’s rising disciples, he left the story anticipating the next generation’s advance into the Upper Three Heavens.

• Lei Jun reforged the Supreme Purity Jade Clarity Immortal Bamboo, nurtured the Jade Clarity Zhou Heavenly Dharma Mirror, and repeatedly transformed the Supreme Purity Eight Scenery Treasure Rain Cape.
• Xu Yuanzhen emerged from seclusion with the Tai Shi Dao Body and revealed her second immortal secret, the Grand Void Empty Mirror.
• Lei Jun and Xu Yuanzhen studied each other’s immortal secrets and linked their Dao Scenery Profound Enclosures to strengthen and refine them.
• Lei Jun and Xu Yuanzhen discussed the possibility that the Abyss of Time could enter the Human Realm after the Human Realm Confluence.
• Lei Jun advised Cheng Rongrong after she reached the Eighth Heaven Divine Court realm and reminded Han Xiaofei to prepare for disciples climbing into the Upper Three Heavens.
• Lei Jun noted that descendants of the Great Han branch at Dragon Tiger Mountain were approaching the challenge of entering the Upper Three Heavens.

Dragon Tiger Mountain prospered as disciples from both the Han and Tang lineages prepared to advance, while Lei Jun approved Guo Yan’s plan to establish a new branch and accepted Mo Gaoyuan despite the Xia Clan’s troubled history. In the Demon World, Tang Xiaotang fought the Great Sun Demon Saint near the Abyss of Time, where a group of Confucian-robed visitors appeared.

• Han Xiaofei reported that Zhu Wei, Zhong Jinxuan, and Hou Yu had entered secluded cultivation to challenge the Seventh Heaven Realm, while Xue Yu and other elders also prepared to advance.
• Zhuo Baojie, Liu Xiao, and Zuo Li discussed Xue Yu’s seclusion and the younger disciples carrying Dragon Tiger Mountain’s inheritance forward.
• Guo Yan asked Lei Jun for permission to establish a new branch lineage, and Lei Jun approved her plan.
• Ke Sicheng brought Lei Jun Xia Qing’s recommendation of Mo Gaoyuan, and Lei Jun permitted the talented youth to enter the sect under Ke Sicheng’s guidance.
• Tang Xiaotang used the Supreme Purity Boat and her Reverse Origin Sword to outpace and wound the Great Sun Demon Saint, forcing it to flee toward the Abyss of Time.
• The Abyss of Time erupted with a chaotic surge, and the Great Sun Demon Saint dodged into it as Tang Xiaotang noticed Confucian-robed figures arriving on the other side.

Tang Xiaotang attacked the Confucian Great Confucians led by Huo Ying, destroying their White Jade Chariot and pursuing Huo into the Abyss of Time. Lei Jun and Wang Guiyuan later discussed the Confucian Forest Great Thousand World’s entrenched aristocratic families and the conflict between Old Learning and New Learning.

• Huo Ying and Yue Song greeted Tang Xiaotang, while Yue Song secretly urged the Great Confucians to conceal their hostility and cooperate with her for now.
• Tang Xiaotang sensed their malice, attacked them with the Supreme Purity Boat, and shattered their White Jade Chariot with the Zhao Yuan Pearl.
• Huo Ying fled into the Abyss of Time, and Tang Xiaotang pursued him; Venerable Wu Jing later found fragments of the chariot and took them to report to the Great Extinction Bodhisattva.
• Lei Jun told Wang Guiyuan that Tang Xiaotang had slain Huo Ying and that the Great Sun Demon Saint might have entered the Confucian Forest Great Thousand World.
• Lei Jun, Wang Guiyuan, and Chu Kun discussed how the Confucian Forest’s Literary Veins and aristocratic families produced powerful Bone Structures, and how Extraterrestrial Demons had weakened those families and allowed gifted commoners to emerge.
• Lei Jun explained that New Learning arose in opposition to the Old Learning aristocratic clans, while divisions had also begun forming within New Learning.

Lei Jun discussed the escalating Old Learning and New Learning conflict in the Confucian Forest Great Thousand and the arrival of Great Sky Temple invaders, while remaining behind as Xu Yuanzhen crossed the Abyss of Time. Back at Dragon Tiger Mountain, disciples advanced in their cultivation, Yuan Mobai emerged having completed Five Qi Returning to the Mysterious, and Lei Jun raised growing changes in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.

• Lei Jun, Wang Guiyuan, and Chu Kun discussed the rise of factions within Yanzhao's New Learning, the leaders of Old and New Learning, Zheng Baiyu's return, and possible motives behind the Huo and Yue clans' visit to the World of Demons.
• Lei Jun explained that Mount Luofu in Guangnan followed an unusual Taoist tradition, then learned that Great Sky Temple inheritors had invaded the Confucian Forest Great Thousand from the World of Demons.
• Xu Yuanzhen entered the Abyss of Time to reach the Confucian Forest Great Thousand, while Lei Jun stayed behind to study the Abyss and improve communication between the worlds.
• Qiu Ming, Zhu Wei, Zhong Jinxuan, Xue Yu, and Su He passed the Heavenly Chasm Tribulation and became High Merit Dharma Masters; Qin Caiwei reported that Feng Ming had reached the second level of the Immortal Spirit Realm.
• Lei Jun sent Qin Caiwei and Zhuo Baojie to congratulate Feng Ming and invite him and Grand Sun Holy Lord to Dragon Tiger Mountain, while assigning Han Xiaofei to train in the Hall of Affairs.
• Yuan Mobai emerged from seclusion having completed Five Qi Returning to the Mysterious and reached the Bridge of Profound Understanding; Lei Jun told him that changes in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths had become increasingly apparent.

Lei Jun investigated signs that the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths were beginning to converge and sent Talismans across both realms while remaining wary of the Abyss of Time and the Demon Buddha Lineage. In the Confucian Forest Great Thousand World, Xu Yuanzhen and Tang Xiaotang investigated the Extraterrestrial Demons and Mount Luofu before Xu Yuanzhen told Tang Xiaotang that Lei Jun had become Profound Gate Leader, leaving Tang Xiaotang visibly jealous.

• Lei Jun discussed the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths’ changes with Yuan Mobai, Chu Kun, Phoenix Feng Ming, and Huangfu Qi, and concluded that their convergence was likely but its timing and consequences remained uncertain.
• Lei Jun sent Han Xiaofei to post Talismans throughout the Nine Heavens and Zhuo Baojie to post them throughout the Ten Earths, while he and Wang Guiyuan discussed Avici and the Demon Buddha Lineage’s search for Kongmo Jade.
• Xu Yuanzhen gave Zhang Wantong the complete Scroll of the Heavenly Book, and the two discussed the mysterious origins of the Extraterrestrial Demons and the cosmic gate beyond their world.
• Xu Yuanzhen reunited with Tang Xiaotang in Guangnan, and they examined Mount Luofu’s unusual successors after Tang Xiaotang failed to find the Great Sun Demon Saint.
• Xu Yuanzhen told Tang Xiaotang that Lei Jun had been elected Profound Gate Leader, and Tang Xiaotang’s eyes reddened with jealousy as Xu Yuanzhen remarked that she was pleasing to the eye.

Xu Yuanzhen and Tang Xiaotang sparred to a standstill while Lei Jun considered Zheng Baiyu’s prolonged absence and the pressures facing the Confucian Forest Great Thousand World. Jiang Fengge sent Xiao Jing and her allies back to the human realm to carry out a secret pact with Youyin, and the chapter ended with a report of a Northern Frontier conspiracy reaching Dragon Tiger Mountain.

• Xu Yuanzhen provoked Tang Xiaotang into sparring, and their matches ended without either gaining a decisive advantage.
• Lei Jun and Chu Kun discussed Zheng Baiyu’s continued absence as he fought Demon Buddha forces in the Abyss of Time and helped Old Learning withstand New Learning.
• Jiang Fengge replied to Zheng Baiyu with a painting, then ordered Xiao Jing to lead Lin Xiaoyi, Ye Zhao, and others to the human realm.
• Xiao Jing’s group met Chang Chong, Shatiluo, Wo Jiehan, and Chao Feng in the Northern Frontier and received instructions for their secret operation.
• Chao Feng learned that Wei Bosheng was nearby and considered how Neo-Confucian factions might turn to Zheng Baiyu and the Great Nether Dynasty for survival.
• Zhuo Baojie reported to his master that Headmaster Yuan had warned of a secret Northern Frontier gathering involving Lianshan and Youyin.