Chapter Summaries

Ice Daoist discovered the remains of Xituo Continent monks and followed a group fleeing three Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons. He rescued the survivors and hurled the sealed demons toward the Heaven-Rising Cold Current, where a gigantic Buddha hand struck at them.

• Ice Daoist found abandoned temples and human skins on the northern ice field, gathered the monks’ Law Artifacts, and buried their remains.
• Youping fled with a group of monks as three Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons devoured their protective golden light, and Ming'an sacrificed himself to buy them time.
• Youping hurled the surviving monks toward the northwest and prepared to face the demons, but Ice Daoist arrived and encased the creatures in a rapidly compressing ball of ice.
• Ice Daoist learned that Youping’s group was heading for the Heaven-Rising Cold Current and launched the cracked ice ball toward it.
• A gigantic golden Buddha hand emerged from the direction of the Heaven-Rising Cold Current and struck at the three demons.

Wang Ba’s second attempt to create a Moruo Colossal Elephant produced a female calf, but gathering tribulation clouds appeared over Myriad Laws Peak. Elsewhere, Ice Daoist learned how the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons devastated the Three Continents and followed Youping to the North Pole Ice Abyss, where a monk challenged their arrival without the Venerable’s approval.

• Wang Ba left a puppet and bloodline-purifying materials for the lonely Three-Legged Bird, which showed interest in the puppet after he departed.
• Wang Ba’s modified Moruo Colossal Elephant Dao Seed hatched into a female calf with reproductive organs, and dark clouds gathered over Myriad Laws Peak.
• Ice Daoist killed three Totem Beasts with help from a golden Buddha hand, then accepted Youping’s invitation to the Xituo Continent cultivators’ refuge.
• Youping told Ice Daoist that the Totem Beasts had turned on Tupi Continent’s cultivators, Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons had emerged from them, and the surviving Xituo cultivators had fled to North Sea Continent.
• Youping led Ice Daoist to the North Pole Ice Abyss, where a bare-chested monk demanded to know who had authorized the visitor.

Wang Ba discovered that Moruo Colossal Elephants could strengthen themselves by devouring their own kind, but attempts to raise them outside a hidden space drew increasingly powerful Tribulation Lightning. After Elephant Forty-Nine developed a perfected Dao Opportunity, Wang Ba left to deal with Ice Daoist’s trouble and learned that Patriarch Dengyuan had rescued Youping’s group.

• A newly born Moruo Colossal Elephant calf was struck dead by Tribulation Lightning, and the adult elephant devoured its corpse, causing its Dao Intent to improve.
• Wang Ba raised two more elephants inside the Yuan Magnetism Rail Man’s hidden space, but one died when it faced Tribulation Lightning outside.
• Wang Ba let the adult elephant devour the dead elephants, subdued it after it attacked him, and named it Elephant Forty-Nine.
• After Elephant Forty-Nine devoured another corpse, golden markings appeared on its body and its Dao Intent became a perfected Dao Opportunity.
• Wang Ba received word that Ice Daoist was in trouble on the North Sea Continent and left for Great Jin after the Yuan Magnetism Rail Man declined to go.
• Ice Daoist asked Youping about a mysterious Venerable and a Late Spirit Transformation cultivator who had saved Youping’s group; Youping described the cultivator as Patriarch Dengyuan of the Qin Clan.

Wang Ba used Qin Shengyong’s ties to Qin Dengyuan to secure permission for Ice Daoist to enter the North Pole Ice Abyss. Ice Daoist descended to cultivate, but a voice warned him not to approach the Venerable’s dwelling.

• Wang Ba divined Ice Daoist’s journey and received Qin Shengyong, who requested access to the Myriad Phenomena Sect’s Teleportation Array for a Qin Clan cultivator seeking Spirit Transformation.
• Wang Ba hosted Qin Shengyong and revealed that monks from Xituo Continent remembered Qin Dengyuan for defeating World Eater avatars during the upheaval of the heavens.
• Ice Daoist asked Youping to arrange a meeting with Zhaojie so he could enter the North Pole Ice Abyss, and Zhaojie refused because the Venerable resided there.
• Wang Ba and Qin Shengyong appeared through Ice Daoist’s Vermilion Bird Command Token, and Qin Shengyong presented Qin Dengyuan’s portrait to remind Zhaojie and Youping of their debt to him.
• Zhaojie allowed Ice Daoist to enter the abyss on the condition that he not disturb the Venerable, and Ice Daoist descended as his cultivation insights deepened.
• A voice thundered at Ice Daoist to stop approaching the Venerable’s dwelling.

Wang Ba sent the gray ape on a journey north, where its perseverance awakened a great Buddhist light and led it to the monks of Xituo Continent. Recognized as the inheritor of Ciwu’s Yuan Void Formlessness, the ape was welcomed as a Buddha, while Ice Daoist gained access to the depths of the ice abyss and achieved a breakthrough.

• Wang Ba divined that Ciwu had foreseen the future and sent the gray ape north across the snowfields.
• Ice Daoist was barred from descending farther into the ice abyss by Zhaocheng, who guarded the Venerable’s dwelling.
• Zhaojie and the Xituo monks recognized the approaching golden light as Yuan Void Formlessness and gathered to welcome its inheritor.
• The monks discovered that the exhausted inheritor was a monkey, then accepted him as Ciwu’s chosen successor and channeled Buddhist light into him.
• Zhaocheng apologized to Ice Daoist and allowed him to descend into the ice abyss, where he cultivated until Dao Intent flowed and Dao Opportunity arose.

Wang Ba used the Zhou Tian Stars Diagram to help Ice Daoist deepen his Ice Dao comprehension in the North Pole Ice Abyss, where Ice Daoist perfected his Ice Soul Dao Opportunity and discovered the abyss was formed by the North Sea Black Tortoise. Ice Daoist and Wang Ba both heard the ancient voice of Xuanyuanzi, the Dark Tortoise True Spirit, who revealed himself and asked Ice Daoist for help.

• Wang Ba studied the North Star on the Zhou Tian Stars Diagram and sent its Ice Dao insights to Ice Daoist, spending most of his Yin Spirit Power.
• Ice Daoist absorbed the abyss's cold, perfected his Ice Soul Dao Opportunity, and came close to Spirit Transformation without attempting the tribulation.
• Ice Daoist sensed the abyss and its inhabitants as part of his surroundings, then heard an unseen speaker ask why he was leaving so soon.
• Wang Ba heard the same voice in the Myriad Phenomena Sect, searched with his Divine Sense, and found that his divination had become muddled again.
• Ice Daoist investigated deeper and saw that the abyss was a passage formed by the North Sea Black Tortoise's cold breath.
• Xuanyuanzi appeared on the Black Tortoise's brow, identified himself as its True Spirit, and asked Ice Daoist to lend him a hand.

Xuanyuanzi told Wang Ba how a dark tortoise became a powerful cultivator, merged with the Little Cang Realm, and was trapped there when it could not ascend. He asked Wang Ba to help him achieve Liberation by Violence.

• Xuanyuanzi moved Ice Daoist to his tea table and served him Cloud-Mist Heavenly Frost, which purified hidden emotions from his Divine Soul and helped his Ice Soul Dao Opportunity transform.
• Wang Ba appeared through the Vermilion Bird Command Token, drank the Sixth-Tier Spirit Tea without difficulty, and introduced himself to Xuanyuanzi.
• Xuanyuanzi explained that Qin Lin had been a Touching Dragon whose True Spirit entered the realm and reincarnated as a human.
• Xuanyuanzi described how a Fifth Tier dark tortoise regressed into a Dao Seed, died during its rebirth, and left a new True Spirit to cultivate until its body merged with the realm's laws.
• Xuanyuanzi revealed that he was the trapped dark tortoise and asked Wang Ba to help him achieve Liberation by Violence.

Wang Ba learned that Xuanyuanzi hoped he could eventually free him from his Dark Tortoise body, but Wang Ba’s attack could not pierce its blood-qi armor. Xuanyuanzi aided the Ice Daoist, whose Ice Soul Dao Domain formed before he ascended to face Spirit Transformation Tribulation Lightning.

• Xuanyuanzi explained that his body had imprisoned his True Spirit and that a great calamity from beyond the realm might arrive within five hundred years, with Wang Ba and the Little Cang Realm’s living beings at its center.
• Xuanyuanzi offered to strengthen Wang Ba’s incarnation, and Wang Ba agreed to test the Dark Tortoise’s defenses.
• Wang Ba’s nine-colored saber slash failed to leave a mark on the tortoise’s blood-qi armor, so he could not reach its body.
• Xuanyuanzi sent the Ice Daoist a spiritual pearl containing cultivation insights and cold-blossom essence, allowing him to form a Twenty-Four-Petal Ice Lotus and Ice Soul Dao Domain.
• The Ice Daoist said he could no longer suppress his breakthrough and rose from the Ice Abyss as Xuanyuanzi and the fifth-tier monks watched his Spirit Transformation Tribulation Lightning begin.

The Ice Daoist survived a powerful Fifth Tier tribulation, then froze the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons who arrived at the North Pole Ice Abyss. Wang Ba realized their bodies contained chaos substance that might solve Dao Intent Spirit Beasts’ breeding problem, used it on Jia Ten Five and Big White Goose, and then began a sudden breakthrough beneath the Emperor Willow and Jade Fire Parasol Tree.

• The Ice Daoist endured his Fifth Tier Tribulation Lightning, astonishing Zhaojie and the monks gathered at the North Pole Ice Abyss.
• Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons converged on the abyss, and the Ice Daoist froze them all at Wang Ba’s request.
• Wang Ba recognized that killing the demons yielded primal chaos source substance and gathered their remains into a mass of chaos Qi.
• Wang Ba split the chaos Qi between Jia Ten Five and Big White Goose, then returned beneath the two trees as his Dao Intents surged.
• Wang Ba’s presence rose to a new level, and vast amounts of Spiritual Qi rushed toward him.

After reaching the late Nascent Soul stage, Wang Ba considered the immense challenge of advancing his many cultivation paths and turned to raising Moruo Colossal Elephants. When Elephant Forty-Nine devoured two of them, he transformed, survived a tribulation, and awakened an ancient will bent on reopening the Moruo Great Dao through a blood sacrifice.

• Wang Ba advanced to the late Nascent Soul stage and concluded that he would have to comprehend and fuse his many Dao Opportunities one by one.
• Wang Ba found that Jia Ten Five and the Big White Goose had developed a subtle aura resembling that of Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons.
• Five Moruo Colossal Elephant calves emerged from their Dao Seed hosts, but attempts to breed them failed, and Wang Ba released two males to Elephant Forty-Nine.
• Elephant Forty-Nine devoured both male elephants, developed elaborate Divine Patterns, and transformed into a flaming, gold-and-black colossal elephant.
• Wang Ba moved Elephant Forty-Nine to Zhongsheng Continent for his tribulation, during which the elephant advanced into the fifth-tier early stage and an ancient will awakened, declaring its plan to blood-sacrifice all living beings and reopen the Moruo Great Dao.

The Moruo Colossal Elephant King awakened in Elephant Forty-Nine’s body and tried to dominate Wang Ba, but Wang Ba defeated it by exploiting Elephant Forty-Nine’s resistance and extracting its True Spirit will. After considering how to handle the captured will, Wang Ba went to the Bead Secret Realm and approached the Spirit Turtle Pond.

• The Moruo Colossal Elephant King returned through Elephant Forty-Nine, passed its fifth-tier lightning tribulation, and demanded that Wang Ba serve it.
• Elephant Forty-Nine’s will resisted the elephant king, while Wang Ba repeatedly trapped it with Nine-Colored Great Hand Seals.
• Wang Ba used the True Spirit Extraction Method to pull the Moruo Colossal Elephant King’s True Spirit will from its body and sealed it.
• Wang Ba put Elephant Forty-Nine away and considered scattering the captured will to prevent the elephant king from returning.
• Wang Ba entered the Bead Secret Realm and went to the Spirit Turtle Pond, where Ghost Loaches surfaced.

Wang Ba used the Ghost-Eyed Chi Dragon’s essence blood to counter the Moruo Colossal Elephant King’s True Spirit Will in the Profound Dragon Dao Soldiers, helping most of them break through to the fourth tier. After examining Elephant Forty-Nine and learning that Sword-Obsessed had escaped during the fall of Great Sui’s Imperial Capital, Wang Ba decided to go in person to help him.

• Wang Ba infused the Psychic Ghost Loaches with the Moruo Colossal Elephant King’s True Spirit Will, causing them to mutate and attack one another as the will tried to reawaken.
• Wang Ba brought out the Ghost-Eyed Chi Dragon and persuaded it to provide fifty drops of essence blood in exchange for a Storage Law Artifact containing fourth-tier Spirit Chickens.
• Wang Ba used the Chi Dragon’s essence blood and spirit beast inner cores to stabilize and advance most of the Profound Dragon Dao Soldiers, though their Control Dharma Methods lost much of their effectiveness.
• Wang Ba examined Elephant Forty-Nine and discovered it had reproductive organs resembling those of the Ghost-Patterned Stone Dragon Lizard, giving him hope that it could establish a foundation for Mara Giant Elephant Dao Soldiers.
• Qu Shentong told Wang Ba that Sword-Obsessed had escaped after True Martial Practitioners breached Great Sui’s Imperial Capital and had sought the sect’s help; Wang Ba decided to go himself.

Sword-Obsessed defended Banqiao City against the Martial Saint while the Dragon Transformation Pool weakened him and strengthened his opponent. Just as Sword-Obsessed was nearly defeated, Myriad Phenomena Sect’s reinforcements arrived in the form of a world-surpassing Blade-Ray.

• Banqiao City’s cultivators argued over the late Sui Emperor Yang Que and feared the advancing True Martial army led by the Martial Saint.
• The Martial Saint hurled a javelin at Banqiao City, but Sword-Obsessed deflected it with his Eight-Aspects Sword and revealed himself as the Eighth Prince.
• Lu Yu identified himself as the inheritor of Heart Sword Peak and told Sword-Obsessed that an important figure from Myriad Phenomena Sect was coming.
• Sword-Obsessed fought the Martial Saint to a draw until the Dragon Transformation Pool suppressed his Law Power and strengthened the Martial Saint, who shattered his sword and wounded him.
• A dragon-headed Command Token saved Sword-Obsessed from the Martial Saint’s killing blow, and Lu Yu received word that the sect’s reinforcements had arrived.
• Sword-Obsessed and Lu Yu looked up as a world-surpassing Blade-Ray descended toward Banqiao City.

Wang Ba arrived at Banqiao City and stopped the True Martial army with a single saber strike, then subdued the tattoo-faced Martial Saint without killing him. As the Martial Ancestor appeared and respectfully addressed Wang Ba as his teacher, the confrontation took an unexpected turn.

• Wang Ba's Chaos One Saber carved a vast abyss through the True Martial army's path, and the strike's mysteries astonished Sword-Obsessed.
• Wang Ba greeted Sword-Obsessed, who recognized him from their meeting over a hundred years earlier and was shocked by his strength.
• The tattoo-faced Martial Saint attacked Wang Ba twice, but Wang Ba's illusion made him strike empty air and left him bewildered.
• Wang Ba invited Sword-Obsessed to join the Myriad Phenomena Sect and offer the Ye Clan's descendants its protection.
• The Martial Saint attacked again after the Dragon Transformation Pool failed to aid him, and Wang Ba broke his bones before an old man intervened.
• The Martial Ancestor arrived and respectfully called Wang Ba his teacher.

Wang Xu revealed his goal of ending cultivation in the Little Cang Realm, while Wang Ba refused to stop him and left with Sword-Obsessed, Lu Yu, and others. Wang Ba erased or sealed the memories of everyone present except Wang Xu, leaving his former disciple alone.

• Wang Xu bowed to Wang Ba and asked him to spare Zhang Chao, threatening to cleanse the sect if Wang Ba refused.
• Wang Xu declared that he wanted fairness for the oppressed and a world without cultivators, stirring the True Martial armies and alarming the cultivators.
• Wang Ba considered the danger Wang Xu's movement posed but chose not to fight him, reminding him of his promise to protect the Myriad Phenomena Sect.
• Wang Ba gathered Sword-Obsessed, Lu Yu, the Ye Family descendants, and some cultivators, then made everyone but Wang Xu lose consciousness or awareness before departing.
• Wang Xu said he hoped to return to Wang Ba's tutelage after accomplishing his goal, and Wang Ba told him to wait until he had truly let go.

Wang Ba left Emperor Pole Continent after meeting Wang Xu, who ordered the Martial Saint to conquer the continent while keeping the True Martial Sutra’s life-extending method secret. At the Myriad Phenomena Sect, Sword-Obsessed joined the sect and established Eight-Aspects Sword Peak, while Qu Shentong told Wang Ba he would soon have to become sect master.

• Wang Xu struck the Martial Saint after Wang Ba departed, then ordered him to conquer Emperor Pole Continent within twenty years and keep watch over Banqiao City.
• The Martial Saint asked Wang Xu to share the True Martial Sutra’s life-extending method, but Wang Xu reminded him that his lifespan exceeded a hundred and ten years and refused to give more.
• In the Dragon Transformation Pool, Wang Xu and the Golden-Haired Old Man discussed the secret lifespan-extension methods and the expulsion of cultivators toward the Myriad Gods Kingdom.
• Wang Ba presided over Sword-Obsessed’s Peak-Opening Ceremony at the Myriad Phenomena Sect and named his new peak Eight-Aspects Sword Peak.
• Sword-Obsessed gave Wang Ba the Ye Clan’s stored collections, and Wang Ba found books and materials useful to his Divine Patterns Dao.
• Qu Shentong told Wang Ba that he would soon undergo Tribulation Crossing and that Wang Ba would have to take the position of sect master.

Wang Ba secured the sect’s support for developing the Daoist Grounds while refusing to take over as Sect Master, then used the Mother God’s plans to obtain resources for breeding spirit beasts. After decades, Jia Ten Five and Big White Goose produced an egg and Elephant Forty-Nine gave birth, and Wang Ba sent Wang Qingyang to bring back a junior disciple whose appearance startled her.

• Qu Shentong asked Wang Ba to succeed him as Sect Master, but Wang Ba revealed that the Dao Intent Spirit Beasts’ successful mating had brought the Daoist Grounds project closer to reality, so Qu agreed to remain in office and support him.
• Wang Ba discussed the missing Guan Ao with Qu Shentong, then returned to Myriad Laws Peak to study Ye Clan records, develop Dao Soldier methods, and monitor the spirit beasts.
• The Mother God summoned Wang Ba and asked him to prevent Void Refinement cultivators from interfering with her planned conquest of Emperor Pole Continent; Wang Ba promised to incite conflict between the Myriad Phenomena Sect and Primordial Demon Sect in exchange for supplies.
• The Mother God sent Wang Ba large quantities of resources and incense power, which he used to prepare for large-scale breeding of Dao Intent Spirit Beasts.
• After decades of fruitless mating, Jia Ten Five and Big White Goose produced an enormous spirit egg, while Elephant Forty-Nine gave birth to a fourth-tier supreme-grade Moruo Colossal Elephant.
• Wang Ba sent Wang Qingyang to Hailing Kingdom to bring back her junior fellow disciple, and she was startled when she found him.

Song Dongyang, a former Grand Chancellor left to die after his household was executed, was rescued by Wang Qingyang and awakened as the reincarnation of a Myriad Phenomena Sect senior. He chose to leave vengeance behind and returned to the sect, where he learned of his former companion Tang Ji and approached his mysterious teacher’s home.

• As Song Dongyang lay dying in his ancestral home, Wang Qingyang appeared and told him he was the reincarnation of a Half-Step Spirit Transformation senior from her sect.
• The Star Water Fou awakened Song Dongyang’s past-life memories and restored his vitality, allowing him to reach Foundation Establishment; he declined to avenge his family and left with Wang Qingyang.
• Wang Qingyang brought Song Dongyang into the Myriad Phenomena Sect, where he passed the Spirit Mirage Heart-Questioning Formation and received gifts from the sect’s cultivators.
• Tang Ji recognized Song Dongyang’s name and explained that they had once ventured together onto Wood-Forest Island, though Song Dongyang remembered nothing of him.
• Wang Qingyang explained that their teacher was the sect’s Deputy Sect Master, and she brought Song Dongyang to the plain, quiet Myriad Laws Peak to meet him.

Wang Ba guided Song Dongyang through the memories of his previous life, rescued him from a Heart Demon, and assigned him a long course of study while keeping him on the Star Dipper Scripture. After five sixty-year cycles passed, Wang Ba’s breeding efforts had produced a Dao Intent Spirit Beast, making construction of the Daoist Grounds possible.

• Wang Qingyang brought Song Dongyang into Wang Ba’s secret realm, where dense Spiritual Qi forced him to begin cultivating under Wang Ba’s guidance.
• Wang Ba restored Song Dongyang’s memories of his previous life, and Song Dongyang became confused about his identity as his past and present selves clashed.
• Wang Ba noticed that his thoughts affected the fortune surrounding Song Dongyang, then awakened him from his Heart Demon with a cry of insight.
• Wang Ba told Song Dongyang to cultivate the Star Dipper Scripture and eventually read and master the vast collection in the Ten Thousand Laws Scripture Repository.
• Half a year later, Wang Ba saw a newly hatched Dao Intent Spirit Beast and concluded that construction of the Daoist Grounds could begin.
• Five sixty-year cycles passed amid cultivation.

The Myriad Phenomena Sect prepared to establish Daoist Grounds as Wang Ba began opening a space inside the boundary wall, only to face the Little Cang Realm’s crushing backlash. With the Ice Daoist slowing the collapse, Wang Ba called on several patriarchs for help as the space continued to destabilize.

• Ma Shengxu directed the Myriad Phenomena Sect’s members to clear and protect the grounds before the undertaking, while Han Jinyu went to welcome Liang Wuji, Xiong Zhaojing, and Qin Yunjian.
• Jiang Yi explained to Pang Xiu that establishing Daoist Grounds required Aperture Opening, Separating the Clear and Turbid, and Opening the Gate, and warned that a Dao Tribulation could bring World Eaters.
• Wang Ba arrived as the auspicious hour came and entered the membrane eye while Elder Jiying, Qi Yan, Tang Ji, and Shen Ying held it open.
• Wang Ba released Dao Domains into the cramped space and used his Thunder God Body to resist the Little Cang Realm’s backlash as the space expanded and began to collapse.
• The Ice Daoist appeared and froze the space to slow its collapse while Wang Ba merged the Dao Domains, then called on several patriarchs to lend him a hand.