Chapter Summaries

Wang Ba returned to the Yin Clan as True Person Taiyi, admitted to killing Fan Yuxian and Holy Maiden Huanling, and demonstrated his overwhelming strength by killing Myriad Void City. He agreed to leave the Ruins of Zhangshi to avert a siege against the Yin Clan, then seized Jiu Futu and escaped through the Primal Chaos Source Substance, leaving his pursuers bewildered.

• Yin Tianzhi refused to surrender the supposed murderer, recognizing that Spirit Source Prefecture, the Illusory Emptiness Realm, and the Ten Thousand Devil Palace intended to destroy the Yin Clan.
• Wang Ba descended from the Primal Chaos Source Substance, identified himself as the Yin Clan's Fourth-Rank Attendant Taiyi, and confessed to killing Fan Yuxian and Holy Maiden Huanling.
• When Myriad Void City denied recognizing Wang Ba, Wang Ba's sword-ray pierced through five Early Stage of Tribulation Crossing cultivators and killed Myriad Void City.
• The leaders of the three opposing powers abandoned their immediate attack and demanded that Wang Ba leave the Yin Clan and the Ruins of Zhangshi.
• Wang Ba agreed to leave, then seized Jiu Futu and fled upward through the Primal Chaos Source Substance.

After True Person Taiyi seized Jiu Futu and left the abyss, the Jade-Robed Youth attacked Yin Tianzhi, but a sword strike revealed that he was not Tian Guiye. Wang Ba then took Jiu Futu to the Ten Thousand Devil Palace, where he collected its stores of Qi and discovered a second Jade-Robed Youth before the mysterious figure escaped.

• True Person Taiyi departed with Jiu Futu, leaving Yin Tianzhi, the White-Haired Old Man, the Young Woman, and the Jade-Robed Youth stunned.
• The Jade-Robed Youth urged the White-Haired Old Man and the Young Woman to break their agreement and attack the Yin Clan, then struck at Yin Tianzhi with his Blood-Red Iron Awl Law Treasure.
• A pale-golden sword-ray interrupted the attack and cut the Jade-Robed Youth's cheek, exposing black devil Qi beneath his skin; Yin Tianzhi declared that he was not Tian Guiye.
• Wang Ba struck two caves as he flew away, then reached the Ten Thousand Devil Palace and questioned Jiu Futu, who offered to lead him to its stores of death Qi and other substances.
• Jiu Futu guided Wang Ba into the Ten Thousand Devil Palace's Daoist Grounds, where Wang Ba ordered him to collect the stored Qi before breaking open the Palace Master's cave abode.
• A second Jade-Robed Youth emerged from the shattered cave, recognized Wang Ba, and escaped as Jiu Futu cried out over the loss of his Blood Qi and Resentment Qi.

Wang Ba investigated the impostor who had posed as Tian Guiye, then focused on refining Divine Corpse Six Fingers and sent Jiu Futu to seek more Death Qi. Meanwhile, the impostor escaped after revealing a power associated with the Supreme True Buddha, and the factions of the Ruins of Zhangshi heard that Zhang Bokai of the Cloud-Heaven Sect had come to meet them.

• Wang Ba questioned Jiu Futu about the intruder who had stolen Blood Qi and Resentment Qi, then put Jiu Futu away when he asked for the Sword-Ray to be removed.
• The jade-green-robed impostor revealed a demonic shadow, fought Yin Tianzhi and the assembled cultivators with a reversed 卍 symbol, and escaped after mistaking the Ruins of Zhangshi for a living entity.
• Wang Ba considered the Death Qi needed to refine Divine Corpse Six Fingers, and Jiu Futu proposed gathering Death Qi by hunting World Eaters instead of killing living beings.
• Wang Ba accepted Jiu Futu's plan and continued consolidating his cultivation while Jiu Futu went to search for World Eaters.
• Leaders of the Ruins of Zhangshi's factions discussed the threat from the Supreme True Buddha and their inability to unite, then heard Zhang Bokai of the Cloud-Heaven Sect request an audience.

Wang Ba and Jiu Futu found and cleared a World Eater nest, then Wang Ba traveled to the Hundred-Grass Realm to study its rules. He discovered the realm was sealed by the Northern Great Bodhisattva, and the chapter ended as the monk noticed him and addressed him as the Supreme True Buddha.

• Wang Ba explained how comprehending rules could grow his Dao domain, while Jiu Futu returned with death Qi and reported finding a World Eater nest.
• Wang Ba and Jiu Futu traveled to the nest, where Jiu Futu fought its World Eaters and Primordial God or Devil while Wang Ba collected treasures.
• Wang Ba left Jiu Futu at the nest and headed toward the nearby Hundred-Grass Realm, hoping to study its rules.
• Wang Ba sensed that thousands of Tribulation Crossing-level beasts were trapped within the Hundred-Grass Realm by scripture-covered golden chains.
• Wang Ba recognized the gray-robed monk outside the realm as the Northern Great Bodhisattva and heard the trapped elder challenge him.
• Wang Ba decided to seek reinforcements from the Cloud-Heaven Realm, but the Northern Great Bodhisattva sensed him and called him the Supreme True Buddha.

Wang Ba fought the Northern Great Bodhisattva while the monk maintained a chain seal over the Hundred-Grass Realm. After Wang Ba broke the seal and the imprisoned being emerged, he recognized the white-robed elder as Celestial Lord Chao, World Lord of the Silkworm Dragon Realm.

• The Northern Great Bodhisattva trapped Wang Ba in phantom chains and tried to capture him, but Wang Ba used the Wind-Driving Staff and Scabbard to resist.
• The Bodhisattva seized Wang Ba with the Earth of the Six Greats, but Wang Ba’s hidden attack let the Wu Ape King strike the monk with memorial tablets and loosen his hold.
• As the being in the Hundred-Grass Realm shook its restraints, Wang Ba escaped the Bodhisattva’s grasp with his Dao Treasures.
• The being inside the Hundred-Grass Realm urged Wang Ba to cut the seal, and Wang Ba’s Sword-Ray struck the chains and cracked the Bodhisattva’s Buddhist Prayer Beads.
• Wang Ba’s repeated Sword-Rays broke the chains, released the Five Hundred Arhats, and allowed thousands of Fierce Beasts and a white-robed elder to emerge from the Hundred-Grass Realm.
• Wang Ba recognized the elder holding the Silkworm Dragon staff as Celestial Lord Chao, the World Lord of the Silkworm Dragon Realm.

Celestial Lord Chao rescued Wang Ba from the Northern Great Bodhisattva and brought him to the restored Silkworm Dragon Realm. There, he explained how World Domains could surpass their limits and revealed the origins of the jade staffs, then invited Wang Ba to come to his realm.

• The Northern Great Bodhisattva seized Wang Ba and tried to flee, but Celestial Lord Chao and his Fierce Beasts attacked, forcing him to abandon half his golden body and escape.
• Wang Ba thanked Celestial Lord Chao, who brought him to the Silkworm Dragon Realm after warning that the Supreme True Buddha's forces might return.
• Celestial Lord Chao explained how World Domains could be joined and expanded, and Wang Ba asked him to teach the method so he could save the Little Cang Realm.
• Wang Ba explained that he would not abandon his companions and realm to pursue immortality alone, and Celestial Lord Chao praised his conviction.
• Celestial Lord Chao and Wang Ba exchanged jade staffs, and Celestial Lord Chao explained that the staffs belonged to the Six-Candle Staff of Communing with the Netherworld and represented different Buddhist origins.
• Celestial Lord Chao invited Wang Ba to come to the Silkworm Dragon Realm.

Wang Ba refused Celestial Lord Chao’s offer to join the Silkworm Dragon Realm because he could not abandon the Little Cang Realm, which was trapped beyond Sea-Cutting Cliff. Celestial Lord Chao taught him the realm’s beast-taming art and gave him a golden book and spirit materials, then transported him to a world of fierce beasts to test his mastery while others handled the crisis outside.

• Wang Ba told Celestial Lord Chao that he could not serve the Silkworm Dragon Realm wholeheartedly while the Little Cang Realm depended on him.
• Wang Ba revealed that the Little Cang Realm lay beyond Sea-Cutting Cliff and explained how he had escaped the Sea of Boundary Turmoil; Celestial Lord Chao said breaking through the cliff was impossible and advised him to consider seizing the Boundary Sea Vortex exit.
• Celestial Lord Chao taught Wang Ba the Myriad Beasts Without Reins method and gave him spirit materials and a golden book on the Silkworm Dragon Realm’s beast-taming knowledge.
• Wang Ba studied under Celestial Lord Chao for several hundred years, learning beast taming and receiving guidance on rules and Dao Domains.
• Celestial Lord Chao transported Wang Ba to a world filled with fierce beasts and told him to fuse the bloodlines of a thousand kinds to complete his training.
• Wang Ba realized that his Dao Treasure and spirit beasts had disappeared, while Celestial Lord Chao had left him alone in the beast-filled world.

Wang Ba was trapped in an illusion created by Celestial Lord Chao and spent eight thousand years studying and fusing the bloodlines of a thousand Fierce Beasts. After successfully creating a beast beyond Tribulation Crossing perfection, he passed the test and returned to the Boundary Sea holding the Silkworm Dragon Staff.

• Wang Ba realized Celestial Lord Chao had left him in a space where his possessions and Dao Domain were inaccessible, and he could not escape.
• Wang Ba studied the rules embodied in the bloodlines of all thousand Fierce Beasts and recognized that the Ghost-Patterned Stone Dragon Lizard suggested another way to fuse them.
• Wang Ba grouped the Fierce Beasts by type and fused their bloodlines in stages, producing increasingly powerful multi-headed beasts over thousands of years.
• After eight thousand years, Wang Ba created a meek, many-headed lion whose power exceeded Tribulation Crossing perfection, and it transformed into the phantom of the Silkworm Dragon Staff.
• Wang Ba grasped the staff, returned to the Boundary Sea with his possessions and the sheltered cultivators intact, and found the emerald staff shimmering in his palm.

Wang Ba emerged from Master Chao’s illusionary realm believing eight thousand years had passed, then discovered only a dozen years had elapsed and learned the Silkworm Dragon Staff could reshape living beings’ perceptions. He set out to check on the Cloud-Heaven Realm and reunite with Divine Corpse Six Fingers and Jiu Futu, but could barely sense the mark on Divine Corpse Six Fingers.

• The old man in white sensed Wang Ba had mastered Myriad Beasts Without Reins and decided he could no longer keep him in seclusion before heading toward the Cloud-Heaven Realm.
• Wang Ba examined the Silkworm Dragon Staff, worried about Master Chao’s reasons for entrusting it to him, and wondered what had happened during the apparent eight thousand years.
• Wang Ba fused Dafu with the other three Four Spirits, transforming them into an eighth-tier Torch Dragon, then learned from the Wu Ape King that only a little over ten years had passed.
• Wang Ba refined the Silkworm Dragon Staff’s first layer and realized it could manipulate earth, fire, water, and wind within a living being’s consciousness, creating illusionary worlds and altered perceptions.
• Wang Ba prepared spirit materials for the Four Spirits and Wu Ape King, then planned to find Divine Corpse Six Fingers and Jiu Futu before approaching the Cloud-Heaven Realm.
• Wang Ba tried to sense his mark on Divine Corpse Six Fingers and found he could barely detect it.

Wang Ba traveled toward the Cloud-Heaven Realm after failing to find Divine Corpse Six Fingers and learned that the Supreme True Buddha had begun attacking it. After reaching the Purple Ying Realm, he joined a group of cultivators heading through Soulfall Marsh toward the Cloud-Heaven Realm.

• Wang Ba searched the ruined World Eater Nest but could not locate Divine Corpse Six Fingers or Jiu Futu, then decided to travel to the Cloud-Heaven Realm.
• Wang Ba nurtured the Four Spirits, advanced his Dao Domain, and refined seven of the Silkworm Dragon Staff's primordial cloud restrictions during his journey.
• Wang Ba reached the Purple Ying Realm and told Hanqing True Person that he wanted to support the Cloud-Heaven Realm.
• Hanqing True Person explained that the Supreme True Buddha had launched probing attacks and that Celestial Lord Chao, World Lord Xiahou, and Gai True Person had gathered to defend the Cloud-Heaven Realm.
• Hanqing True Person directed Wang Ba to travel through Soulfall Marsh with a group of cultivators, and Ba True Person agreed to look after him.
• Wang Ba joined fifteen early-stage and two mid-stage Tribulation Crossing cultivators as they set out for Soulfall Marsh.

Wang Ba and a group of Tribulation Crossing cultivators entered Soulfall Marsh on their way to reinforce the Cloud-Heaven Realm, where the chaotic rules and lurking beasts threatened them. After Wang Ba captured a hidden black fox and earned Ba True Person’s respect, the group found a world embryo and reached a peaceful stretch of void filled with Boundary Sea Vortexes.

• Ba True Person warned the group about Soulfall Marsh and led them into it, while Wang Ba placed a Command Token outside the marsh to track their position.
• A cultivator’s Primordial Spirit drifted out in the marsh’s phantom winds, and Ba True Person slapped it back into the cultivator’s body and ordered everyone to seal their five senses.
• When Ba True Person rebuked Wang Ba for keeping his senses open, Wang Ba swept his sleeve and captured a black fox hidden in the wind before it could attack.
• Ba True Person recognized Wang Ba’s abilities, apologized for his earlier attitude, and asked him to help guard the group as they continued.
• The group encountered a world embryo concealing a vicious creature, and Ba True Person warned them not to approach it.
• Ba True Person led the group to a stretch of void where dozens of Boundary Sea Vortexes slowly revolved.

Wang Ba and the other cultivators reached the Cloud-Heaven Realm, only to find the Supreme True Buddha’s forces waiting to ambush them. Wang Ba killed an Arhat and then defeated a Bodhisattva, but more enemies arrived as the battle continued.

• Ba True Person identified a Boundary Sea Vortex leading to the Cloud-Heaven Realm, and the cultivators formed an array before entering it.
• The group emerged near the Cloud-Heaven Realm and saw the Supreme True Buddha’s enormous statue looming nearby.
• As the cultivators hurried toward the realm, hidden monks ambushed them, destroying Ba True Person’s and True Person Nie’s flying Dao Treasures and engaging the group.
• Wang Ba crushed the old monk who confronted him with his Xuanhuang Dao Domain.
• Wang Ba fought the Black-Bearded Bodhisattva, killed him with a sword-ray, and took his ruyi Dao Treasure.
• More than ten figures surrounded by demonic Qi rushed toward the cultivators after the Black-Bearded Bodhisattva fell.

Wang Ba rescued Ba True Person, True Person Nie, and the other cultivators while fighting off the Supreme True Buddha’s forces, then discovered his junior fellow disciple Shen Fu among the demonic attackers. As Shen Fu attacked him, Wang Ba heard a faint warning from Shen Fu not to hold back, leaving their apparent confrontation in doubt.

• Wang Ba suppressed the Arhats with his Xuanhuang Dao Domain and Ancient Zither, then gathered the besieged cultivators into his sleeve.
• Wang Ba rescued True Person Nie and Ba True Person from the Bodhisattvas’ attacks, though True Person Nie’s body was severed before he reached her.
• Shen Fu arrived with the demonic forces and showed no sign of recognizing Wang Ba, who feared his junior fellow disciple had been corrupted.
• Wang Ba killed the blue-green Bodhisattva with two Sword-Rays as the other Bodhisattvas and demonic figures surrounded him.
• Wang Ba summoned the Torch Dragon to plunge the area into darkness, then approached Shen Fu and grappled with him.
• Wang Ba heard Shen Fu whisper that he should not hold back, or others might grow suspicious and Shen Fu would be unable to send him away.

Wang Ba learned from Shen Fu that the Supreme True Buddha planned to send an Arhat into the Sea of Boundary Turmoil, then fought through an ambush at the Boundary Sea Vortex. He pierced the hidden barrier and introduced himself to the arriving Cloud-Heaven cultivators as Taiyi.

• Shen Fu warned Wang Ba that an invisible net surrounded the area and revealed the Supreme True Buddha's plans to send an Arhat into the Sea of Boundary Turmoil.
• Cloud-Heaven Sect Sect Master Bai sent Chen Zhongqi and others to rescue the cultivators at the Boundary Sea Vortex after seeing them ambushed by four Bodhisattvas and eleven Arhats.
• Wang Ba used his methods to defeat Arhats and drive back Bodhisattvas, then used the Female Bodhisattva as a shield and killed a demonic shadow while escaping the attackers.
• Wang Ba discovered the hidden wall of rules blocking his path, then pierced it with his sword and killed a Dao Master as the pursuing forces recoiled.
• The Three-Eyed Bodhisattva and the others withdrew when Chen Zhongqi's reinforcements arrived, and Wang Ba thanked Chen Zhongqi while introducing himself as Taiyi.

Wang Ba escaped the Northern Great Bodhisattva’s ambush with help from Bai Liaochan, then entered the Cloud-Heaven Realm and discovered its abundant resources. He traded high-grade Dao Treasures for World Remains and other treasures until Bai Liaochan invited him to the Daoist Grounds and offered access to the treasury.

• Wang Ba sensed the Northern Great Bodhisattva’s attack and pushed Chen Zhongqi and the others away before escaping the suction with his giant bird phantom.
• Bai Liaochan appeared, stopped the Northern Great Bodhisattva’s assault, and ordered Chen Zhongqi to take Wang Ba into the Cloud-Heaven Realm.
• Wang Ba released Ba True Person, True Person Nie, and the others, who thanked him for saving them; True Person Nie gave him World Remains in gratitude.
• After learning that World Remains contained the rules of a realm, Wang Ba exchanged a high-grade Dao Treasure for True Person Nie’s stone, then traded more treasures with the gathered cultivators.
• Bai Liaochan arrived at the boundary membrane and told Chen Zhongqi to invite Wang Ba to the Daoist Grounds, where he could select treasures from the treasury or barter for them.

After Wang Ba helped repel the Northern Great Bodhisattva, Sect Master Bai welcomed him into the Cloud-Heaven Realm and explained the Supreme True Buddha’s encirclement and plans. Wang Ba entered the sect treasury to seek treasures the Little Cang Realm needed, while learning that the Myriad Phenomena Sect had suffered heavy losses and that the enemy was again challenging the Cloud-Heaven Realm.

• Sect Master Bai thanked the visiting cultivators, promised to cover their losses, and invited Wang Ba to speak with him privately.
• Wang Ba told Sect Master Bai that Celestial Lord Chao had taught him and learned that Chao, Gai True Person, and Heavenly Venerable Xiahou were in seclusion refining a treasure to oppose the Supreme True Buddha.
• Sect Master Bai explained that the Supreme True Buddha was tightening its encirclement to trap the Cloud-Heaven Realm’s three Mahayana cultivators and offered Wang Ba access to the sect treasury for his battle merits.
• Chen Zhongqi told Wang Ba that the Myriad Phenomena Sect had suffered heavy losses and that its founding patriarch, Chongyuan, had been seriously injured, but Wang Ba chose to visit the treasury first.
• As Wang Ba entered the Cloud-Heaven Sect Treasury, Chen Zhongqi explained that the Supreme True Buddha’s forces regularly challenged the Cloud-Heaven Realm to pressure its Mahayana cultivators into appearing.

Wang Ba explored the Cloud-Heaven Sect treasury, selected treasures for himself and the Little Cang Realm, and exchanged Dao Treasures for Cloud Shells. He then watched a Dharma combat go badly for the Cloud-Heaven Realm, where Chen Zhongqi intervened, and was asked to fight the next bout.

• Wang Ba examined the treasury catalog and selected elixirs, spirit beasts, law techniques, World Remains, and other treasures, including Nine-Colored Divine Soil.
• Wang Ba traded numerous Dao Treasures and a supreme-grade armlet for Cloud Shells, redeemed his most urgent selections, and left the remaining items reserved temporarily.
• Wang Ba joined Chen Zhongqi at the water screen and saw a Supreme True Buddha monk attack a defeated Cloud-Heaven Realm cultivator despite the concession.
• Chen Zhongqi struck the monk’s Precept Blade with his sword and claimed the fifth bout, but the monk withdrew after saying he had already won.
• An unseen cultivator asked Wang Ba whether he would take the next bout after Chen Zhongqi returned.

Wang Ba entered the Dharma combat after Chen Zhongqi was chosen to fight, and watched Chen nearly defeat Wisdom Dragon Bodhisattva before a Great Bodhisattva intervened. Wang Ba then faced Golden Wind Bodhisattva and turned the opponent’s own poisonous wind against him, leaving the battle underway.

• Bai asked Wang Ba to enter the next bout, and Wang Ba agreed to help buy time for the Mahayana cultivators.
• Wang Ba studied Wisdom Dragon Bodhisattva’s unfamiliar rules as the Bodhisattva gained the upper hand against Chen Zhongqi.
• Chen Zhongqi pierced Wisdom Dragon Bodhisattva and exposed his demonic nature, but an immense force drove Chen and his follow-up sword strike backward after the opposing side conceded.
• Wang Ba caught Chen Zhongqi and sent him back to rest, then answered East Great Bodhisattva’s accusation and challenged the Buddha’s claimed purpose.
• Golden Wind Bodhisattva attacked Wang Ba with a poisonous yellow wind, but Wang Ba controlled it and turned it on its master, who was overwhelmed and injured.

Wang Ba defeated Yellow-Skinned Bodhisattva and Fire Lotus Bodhisattva in succession, while wondering whether the Supreme True Buddha was connected to Tibo. As Zhizhen charged at him on Black Xi, Wang Ba remained motionless.

• Wang Ba used the Wind-Driving Staff to turn Yellow-Skinned Bodhisattva's yellow winds against him, then struck him down with the Ruyi Dao Treasure and claimed the Ochre Yellow Treasure Pearl.
• Fire Lotus Bodhisattva attacked Wang Ba with the Banner of Supreme Victory, but Wang Ba froze and then dispelled his heartfire with the Ancient Zither before nearly killing him with a palm strike.
• Fire Lotus Bodhisattva conceded and withdrew, and East Great Bodhisattva sent Zhizhen to fight Wang Ba.
• Wang Ba learned he had earned roughly four hundred and thirty million Cloud Shells from his two fights and chose to face the next opponent.
• Zhizhen appeared in a gigantic crimson Dharma form riding Black Xi and charged Wang Ba, who stood still as the beast rushed toward him.

Wang Ba fought Bodhisattva Zhizhen in a fierce Dharma combat, matching his six supreme-grade Dao Treasures and powerful Dharma manifestation. After Wang Ba’s beasts overwhelmed Zhizhen’s black xi and treasures, Zhizhen conceded.

• Bodhisattva Zhizhen attacked Wang Ba with six Dao Treasures, a black xi, and a shadowy divine light, but Wang Ba countered with his own treasures and Law of Heaven and Earth.
• Wang Ba endured a sneak attack from Zhizhen’s Vajra Pestle, then used the Halt ability to seize it and sever Zhizhen’s connection to the treasure.
• Wang Ba brought out his many Dao Treasures and the Torch Dragon, and the two sides charged as the spectators watched in shock at his arsenal.
• Wang Ba and Zhizhen fought evenly in close combat while the Torch Dragon and Zhizhen’s black xi struggled nearby; Wang Ba then summoned a Demonic Ape that empowered its staff with divine beasts and struck the black xi.
• The Torch Dragon swallowed the black xi and attacked Zhizhen’s Dao Treasures, allowing Wang Ba to reclaim his own treasures and surround Zhizhen, who leaped back and conceded.