Chapter Summaries

Wang Ba defeated Zhizhen and won the remaining matches in the Supreme True Buddha’s challenge, while Bai Liaochan prevented East Great Bodhisattva from taking his spoils. After the Supreme True Buddha’s forces withdrew, Wang Ba gave three of Zhizhen’s six supreme-grade Dao Treasures to the Cloud-Heaven Sect and agreed to visit its elders’ cultivation grounds.

• Wang Ba defeated Zhizhen, but East Great Bodhisattva drew him into a Buddha Kingdom and demanded the return of the Buddha Treasures and guardian divine beasts.
• Bai Liaochan confronted East Great Bodhisattva, insisted that Wang Ba had won fairly, and forced him to withdraw his claim to the spoils.
• Wang Ba defeated two more Bodhisattvas, completing five victories as the Supreme True Buddha’s monks withdrew from the challenge.
• Wang Ba offered Zhizhen’s six supreme-grade Dao Treasures to Bai Liaochan, who accepted three for the Cloud-Heaven Sect.
• Bai Liaochan invited Wang Ba to the place where the sect’s elders had cultivated in seclusion, and Wang Ba agreed to go with him.
• Chen Zhongqi remembered Wang Ba’s mention of the Myriad Phenomena Sect and headed into the realm.

Patriarch Chongyuanzi emerged from seclusion still gravely injured and learned that Taiyi had won five challenge matches for the Cloud-Heaven Sect. After hearing Hui Yunzi’s account of the Little Cang Realm’s crisis, Chongyuanzi promised to help its Myriad Phenomena Sect disciples if he survived the Supreme True Buddha’s attack, then received an urgent invitation to a celebration banquet from an expert surnamed Chen.

• Chongyuanzi awoke from seclusion and learned from the sect master that Taiyi had won five matches and the Cloud-Heaven Sect was holding a celebration banquet.
• Chongyuanzi rebuked the sect master for neglecting relations with other cultivators and insisted that the Myriad Phenomena Sect’s disciples from the Little Cang Realm belonged to the same sect.
• Hui Yunzi met Chongyuanzi and recounted the Little Cang Realm’s calamities, Wang Ba’s deeds, and the danger caused by the realm’s dwindling primal chaos source substance.
• Hui Yunzi asked to return to the Little Cang Realm, and Chongyuanzi promised to help its Myriad Phenomena Sect disciples if the Supreme True Buddha withdrew and he remained alive.
• The child attendant told Chongyuanzi that an expert surnamed Chen from the Cloud-Heaven Sect had arrived and invited him to the celebration banquet.

Wang Ba entered the Cloud-Heaven Sect’s Qian'guang Cave and, through its accumulated insights, created the Primordial Spirit method Myriad Streams Return to the Source. At the victory banquet, he reunited with Hui Yunzi and learned that Patriarch Qitian was with him.

• Wang Ba entered Qian'guang Cave for three days and absorbed the insights left by generations of Cloud-Heaven Sect cultivators.
• Wang Ba’s Primordial Spirit became an insubstantial void that absorbed surrounding spiritual impulses, and he named his method Myriad Streams Return to the Source.
• Daoist Brother Bai welcomed Wang Ba from seclusion and explained that the banquet celebrated his victories over five Great Bodhisattvas and would strengthen morale.
• Wang Ba learned that Sect Master Bai had set aside 1.4 billion Cloud Shells and the treasury treasures he had previously admired.
• At the banquet, Wang Ba recognized Hui Yunzi, who excitedly asked about the Little Cang Realm and the sect before realizing Wang Ba was True Person Taiyi.
• Hui Yunzi introduced the ocher-robed young man beside him as Patriarch Qitian.

Wang Ba, now known as True Person Taiyi, reunited with Patriarch Qitian and Hui Yunzi at the Cloud-Heaven Sect’s victory banquet. When invited to discuss the Dao, he answered cultivators’ questions across many realms with such depth that the gathering was left in awe, and the chapter ended with True Person Taiyi requesting an audience with the Myriad Phenomena Sect delegation.

• Wang Ba greeted Patriarch Qitian and Hui Yunzi, while Patriarch Qitian explained that Patriarch Chongyuan was too injured to attend.
• Patriarch Qitian told Hui Yunzi that he had treated Wang Ba as a peer because he did not know Wang Ba’s present intentions, then sent word of Wang Ba’s identity to Patriarch Chongyuan.
• At the banquet, cultivators took turns discussing the Dao until Wang Ba was invited to explain his cultivation insights.
• Wang Ba answered questions from cultivators of many realms, guiding them from Dao Opportunity and Dao domains toward the rules of the Boundary Sea and impressing the Tribulation Crossing cultivators.
• After the discussion ended, the Myriad Phenomena Sect master urged Hui Yunzi to seek Wang Ba’s guidance, but a Cloud-Heaven Sect cultivator arrived and said True Person Taiyi had requested the Myriad Phenomena Sect delegation’s presence.

Wang Ba reunited with Patriarch Qitian, Hui Yunzi, and Lan He, gave them a Primordial Spirit Creation Pill for Patriarch Chongyuan, and stayed behind to discuss the Sea of Boundary Turmoil with Bai Liaochan. Bai Liaochan refused to consider breaking Sea-Cutting Cliff, and the chapter ended as the Supreme True Buddha’s forces approached again.

• Wang Ba introduced Patriarch Qitian, Hui Yunzi, and Lan He to Bai Liaochan, who greeted them respectfully.
• Wang Ba learned that Patriarch Chongyuan was near death after his Dao Domain collapsed and most of his Primordial Spirit was lost.
• Wang Ba obtained an eighth-tier Primordial Spirit Creation Pill from Bai Liaochan and gave it to Patriarch Qitian, then remained behind while Hui Yunzi stayed with him.
• Wang Ba told Bai Liaochan that the Supreme True Buddha was bringing cultivators out of the Sea of Boundary Turmoil and using them to build his forces.
• Bai Liaochan insisted that Sea-Cutting Cliff could not be broken, and Wang Ba suggested investigating the Boundary Sea Vortex instead.
• A shrill whistle sounded, and Bai Liaochan announced that the Supreme True Buddha’s people had arrived again.

Wang Ba led a ten-person formation to defeat the Supreme True Buddha’s monks in three consecutive challenge matches, buying more time for Gai True Person and the others. Afterward, the Purple Robes Youth warned Wang Ba that, as the Heavenly Lord’s direct disciple, he should know how to escape if events went awry.

• The Supreme True Buddha changed the challenge rules to battles between ten-person formations, and the Cloud-Heaven Realm’s cultivators chose Wang Ba to lead their formation.
• Fellow Daoist Gongsun’s formation lost its first match after the Bodhisattvas merged into a great Buddha Dharma Form and broke through their defenses.
• Wang Ba linked the Primordial Spirits of nine Mid Stage of Tribulation Crossing cultivators with his own and led them to defeat the opposing formation.
• Wang Ba’s formation won two more matches, including one against Zhizhen, and the Supreme True Buddha’s forces withdrew after three defeats.
• Wang Ba worried that the Supreme True Buddha would change its plans, and the Purple Robes Youth told him to prepare a way out if things went awry.

Wang Ba suspected the Cloud-Heaven Sect was concealing a dangerous plan and investigated the golden markings affecting Black Xi and a cultivator from the Sea of Boundary Turmoil. As the victory banquet began, the Supreme True Buddha launched a surprise assault, and the Cloud-Heaven Realm’s Boundary Membrane was breached.

• Wang Ba reasoned that the Cloud-Heaven Sect’s repeated victory celebrations and Bai Liaochan’s warning to retreat suggested hidden dangers, then urged Hui Yunzi to bring the patriarchs to the Daoist grounds in secret.
• Wang Ba examined Black Xi and a Six Paths Pool Water-altered cultivator, finding mysterious golden markings on their Primordial Spirits, and reported his discovery to Bai Liaochan.
• Bai Liaochan gave Wang Ba little explanation, but hinted that the Supreme True Buddha’s forces had been waiting for Gai True Person, Chao Shi, and Xiahou Heavenly Demon to appear.
• Wang Ba attended the victory banquet and grew uneasy when Hui Yunzi failed to return, while Bai Liaochan reassured him that the enemy’s movements were being watched.
• The Supreme True Buddha attacked multiple sectors of the Boundary Membrane, and Bai Liaochan ordered the cultivators to remain at the Daoist grounds as the defenses came under assault.
• The Boundary Membrane broke, leaving the gathered cultivators stunned.

Wang Ba helped Sect Master Bai repel the Supreme True Buddha’s forces while discovering that the three Mahayana cultivators were absent from the Cloud-Heaven Realm. He left to rescue the Myriad Phenomena Sect as another force assembled against the Supreme True Buddha beyond the realm.

• As the Supreme True Buddha’s forces breached the Cloud-Heaven Realm, Sect Master Bai directed its defenders to draw the invading monks deeper inside rather than seal the boundary.
• Sect Master Bai sent Wang Ba to capture or kill Bodhisattva Zhizhen, and Wang Ba subdued him in nine breaths before returning.
• Lan He asked Wang Ba to save the Myriad Phenomena Sect, and Wang Ba realized that Gai True Person and the other Mahayana cultivators were outside the realm.
• Sect Master Bai dispatched Wang Ba to the Myriad Phenomena Sect’s location, where Patriarch Qitian and other cultivators were fleeing the invading monks.
• At the Boundary Sea, Bokai secured an alliance with enormous humanoid figures, who emerged from rifts and faced the Supreme True Buddha’s golden Reclining Buddha.

The Supreme True Buddha’s monks attacked the Azure Dragon Mountains, threatening the formations and the boundary membrane as Patriarch Qitian and Patriarch Chongyuan fought to hold them back. Wang Ba arrived in time to kill the bodhisattva and seize the surviving arhats, but the boundary membrane finally began to collapse as another Buddhist force announced its arrival.

• A bodhisattva and seven arhats attacked the formations protecting the Myriad Phenomena Sect, the Longevity Sect, and the Wandering Immortal Temple, while Patriarch Qitian flew out to stop them from breaking the boundary membrane.
• Patriarch Chongyuan used his compass to restrain the pursuing arhats, but the effort gravely weakened him as the Ochre-Robed Youth fought off five arhats above the barrier.
• The Ochre-Robed Youth killed two arhats, then fell under the attacks of the remaining three while Hui Yunzi and the others feared that Wang Ba would not arrive.
• Wang Ba appeared, caught the falling Ochre-Robed Youth, killed the bodhisattva, and captured the remaining arhats and monks with his Xuanhuang Great Hands.
• Wang Ba paid his respects to Patriarch Chongyuan, who welcomed him and asked after the Little Cang Realm Myriad Phenomena Sect.
• The boundary membrane collapsed in a fragment, and a voice from beyond declared that the Supreme True Buddha had come to deliver them to the Land of Ultimate Bliss.

Wang Ba confronted Supreme True Buddha’s invasion as the boundary membrane broke and the Great Calamity began. He overwhelmed the monks who entered the Cloud-Heaven Realm, then stood at the breach and invited more to come, leaving the defenders newly hopeful.

• Still Cave’s Primordial Gods and Devils attacked the Buddha Kingdom, while the Cloud-Heaven Realm joined the assault and the West Great Bodhisattva recognized the invasion.
• The boundary membrane broke again, and Wang Ba reassured the Three Sects’ cultivators before flying up to meet the invading monks.
• Wang Ba swept away the first group of monks and defeated three Bodhisattvas, discovering that their Buddhist forms concealed powerful demonic bodies.
• Wang Ba subdued more Bodhisattvas and Arhats as they poured through the breach, while a beast from his sleeve plunged the defenders into darkness.
• When the light returned, the invading monks were gone, and Wang Ba stood at the breach inviting more eminent monks to enter.

Wang Ba held back waves of Supreme True Buddha monks at the Boundary Membrane, then confronted the Northern Great Bodhisattva, who overwhelmed his defense. Just as Wang Ba faced capture, Chao Shi arrived on a many-headed Fierce Lion and drove the monks back with a roar.

• Wang Ba guarded a breach in the Boundary Membrane, then withdrew and released the Wu Ape King and Four Spirits to attack invading monks elsewhere.
• Wang Ba warned Chongyuanzi that Azure Dragon Mountain Lineage might need to leave the Cloud-Heaven Realm, and Chongyuanzi left the decision to him.
• Wang Ba waited until many monks had entered before ambushing them, but a golden Buddha Hand from the Northern Great Bodhisattva forced him to flee.
• The Northern Great Bodhisattva confronted Wang Ba and disrupted the Earth-Cleaving Staff’s protection, leaving Wang Ba trapped beneath a crushing palm.
• Chao Shi appeared atop a many-headed Fierce Lion and unleashed a roar that killed many intruders and interrupted the Northern Great Bodhisattva’s attack.

As the Supreme True Buddha’s forces fought in the Cloud-Heaven Realm, Celestial Lord Chao revealed himself to save Wang Ba and draw out Buddha Lord Tianshang. When Tianshang appeared, Bai Liaochan led the Cloud-Heaven cultivators into battle, and Celestial Lord Chao flew beyond the boundary to confront the immense seated Buddha.

• In the Boundary Sea, Yin Tianzhi urged the waiting rogue cultivators to unite with the Cloud-Heaven Realm, but Prefecture Lord Fan and others insisted they should wait until victory seemed possible.
• The Northern Great Bodhisattva ambushed Wang Ba, but Wang Ba endured his palm strike before Celestial Lord Chao arrived and drove the Bodhisattva back with a lion’s roar.
• Celestial Lord Chao praised Wang Ba and explained to Bai Liaochan that he had revealed himself to protect his disciple and force Buddha Lord Tianshang to act.
• The Northern Great Bodhisattva tried to escape, but Celestial Lord Chao’s Myriad-Headed Lion Beast attacked him until Tianshang’s seated Buddha statue used the Demon-Subduing Mudra to pull him to safety.
• Bai Liaochan ordered the Cloud-Heaven cultivators into battle, while Celestial Lord Chao warned Wang Ba to retreat if the situation turned dire and then flew beyond the boundary to face Tianshang.

The Cloud-Heaven Realm trapped the Supreme True Buddha’s forces in a realm-wide formation while its cultivators fought to hold them back. Wang Ba realized the battle was meant to distract the enemy from Gai True Person and Xiahou Heavenly Demon’s assault on the Supreme True Buddha’s lair, then prepared to protect Bai Liaochan from a Bodhisattva attack.

• The Purple Robes Youth linked the Cloud-Heaven Realm’s boundary membrane to its formations, trapping the invading monks and distributing their attacks across the realm.
• The East Great Bodhisattva and South Great Bodhisattva tried to organize their forces, while Cloud-Heaven Realm cultivators and reinforcements engaged them in battle.
• The South Great Bodhisattva ordered more than twenty Bodhisattvas to attack Bai Liaochan, who was straining to control the realm-wide formations.
• Wang Ba learned that Gai True Person and Xiahou Heavenly Demon had begun a secret assault on the Supreme True Buddha’s Boundary Sea Vortex and Buddha Kingdom, and understood that the Cloud-Heaven Realm was serving as bait.
• Wang Ba agreed to hold off the Bodhisattvas, placed defensive treasures around Bai Liaochan, and summoned the Four Spirits before drawing the Emerald Jade Staff engraved with “Silkworm Dragon.”

The Lord of the Still Cave destroyed the lotus branch at the Reclining Buddha, awakening Buddha Lord Tianshang and shocking the Cloud-Heaven cultivator who had hired him. In the Cloud-Heaven Realm, Wang Ba used the Torch Dragon and Silkworm Dragon Staff to deceive and kill Bodhisattvas, then plunged them into darkness again to continue his attack.

• The Lord of the Still Cave crossed the battlefield and beheaded the West Great Bodhisattva, revealing his Mahayana-level strength.
• The Lord of the Still Cave confirmed with the Cloud-Heaven cultivator that destroying the Reclining Buddha would fulfill their agreement, then broke the lotus branch in the Buddha's hand.
• The Reclining Buddha opened its eyes and sat up as the monks welcomed Buddha Lord Tianshang, leaving the Lord of the Still Cave and the Cloud-Heaven cultivator stunned.
• Wang Ba used the Torch Dragon to erase the Bodhisattvas' perception and the Silkworm Dragon Staff to make them mistake his illusion for a real attack, killing four Bodhisattvas.
• The South Great Bodhisattva warned the others to use Telepathy, allowing them to break free of Wang Ba's illusion and link their perceptions.
• Wang Ba closed the Torch Dragon's eyes again, plunging the battlefield into darkness as he prepared to attack.

Wang Ba used darkness, illusion, transformation, and mind games to defeat the Bodhisattvas, leaving none of the twenty-three standing. He emerged from the darkness with the Torch Dragon as the onlookers watched in shock.

• At the Boundary Sea, Gai True Person, Heavenly Demon Xiahou, and the master of the Still Cave advanced toward the Reclining Buddha as the other attackers fled.
• Wang Ba suppressed the Bodhisattvas’ perceptions and killed several while they struggled to locate and counter him.
• Wang Ba disguised himself as Bodhisattva Zhijiu, then plunged the group back into darkness and sowed suspicion among them.
• The Bodhisattvas attacked Bodhisattva Zhishang after Bodhisattva Zhiwei died, but Wang Ba continued striking from the darkness.
• Wang Ba’s attacks and the Bodhisattvas’ panic silenced them one by one until he emerged with the Torch Dragon, while the remaining onlookers stared in shock.

Wang Ba helped turn the battle in the Cloud-Heaven Realm by killing Arhats, while Bai Liaochan confronted the newly arrived Great Bodhisattvas. As the Northern Great Bodhisattva targeted Wang Ba, a Myriad-Headed Lion Beast crashed into the realm, and a voice announced that Xiahou Heavenly Demon had fallen and Gai True Person and the Lord of the Still Cave had fled.

• The Boundary Membrane broke, allowing Great Bodhisattvas Sun Truth and Moon Truth to enter and attack Wang Ba, but Bai Liaochan intervened to fight them.
• Wang Ba used his Great Brush to kill Arhats and disrupt the enemy ranks, giving the Cloud-Heaven Realm's cultivators a chance to regain the initiative.
• The Northern Great Bodhisattva arrived and targeted Wang Ba, who evaded his attempted capture while his allies remained occupied elsewhere.
• The fighting beyond the boundary abruptly stopped, then a Myriad-Headed Lion Beast crashed through the Boundary Membrane and devastated the realm.
• A voice declared that Xiahou Heavenly Demon had fallen, Gai True Person and the Lord of the Still Cave had fled, and urged Celestial Lord Chao to surrender the Cloud-Heaven Realm to the True Buddha.

Wang Ba escaped the collapsing Cloud-Heaven Realm with the Three Sects while the Buddhist forces overwhelmed its defenders. After Chao Shi fell, Wang Ba fled through a sealed void barrier and reappeared outside Soulfall Marsh.

• Buddha Lord Tianshang defeated Xiahou Heavenly Demon and the other Mahayana cultivators, while the Northern Great Bodhisattva tried to seize Wang Ba.
• Wang Ba tricked the Northern Great Bodhisattva with a sword-light decoy, gathered the Three Sects' cultivators, and fled beyond the Boundary Membrane.
• Wang Ba fought through the Arhats and reached a sealed void barrier, where the Northern Great Bodhisattva revealed that the apparent weakness had been a trap to draw out the Mahayana cultivators.
• Wang Ba used the Torch Dragon's darkness and repeated sword strikes to break through the barrier, then escaped after hearing that Chao Shi had fallen.
• Wang Ba vanished through a Divine Pattern and emerged from a concealed Command Token outside Soulfall Marsh, while the Northern Great Bodhisattva vowed to find him.

Wang Ba fled the Northern Great Bodhisattva through Soulfall Marsh, using a series of tricks to draw him into a fight with an Eight-Tailed Celestial Fox. While they battled, Wang Ba adjusted a Boundary Sea Vortex with the Heavenly Direction Compass and escaped through it, leaving the Northern Great Bodhisattva unable to track him.

• The Northern Great Bodhisattva ambushed Wang Ba outside Soulfall Marsh, but Wang Ba used the Memorial Tablets and Torch Dragon to escape into the marsh.
• Wang Ba searched Soulfall Marsh for the Boundary Sea Vortices while the Northern Great Bodhisattva pursued him through the marsh and fended off its Fierce Beasts.
• Wang Ba used an illusion and a concealed strike to injure the Northern Great Bodhisattva, then led him toward a World Embryo.
• The Northern Great Bodhisattva attacked the World Embryo and was caught in battle with an Eight-Tailed Celestial Fox after sealing the area around it.
• Wang Ba adjusted a Boundary Sea Vortex with the Heavenly Direction Compass and escaped through it; the wounded Northern Great Bodhisattva found his tracking failed and fled from the pursuing fox.

Yin Tianzhi witnessed the Cloud-Heaven Realm losing to the Supreme True Buddha, then saw golden light bloom from the East Lapis Lazuli Buddha Realm. At the Demon-Seizing Dao, a Boundary Sea Vortex unexpectedly opened and the Blue-Robed Figure emerged, shocking White Hair by returning after more than two hundred years.

• Cultivators hiding outside the Cloud-Heaven Realm learned that Xiahou Heavenly Demon and Celestial Lord Chao had died, while Gai True Person and the Lord of the Still Cave had fled, and decided to return to the Ruins of Zhangshi.
• Yin Tianzhi saw the Supreme True Buddha's golden light overpowering the Cloud-Heaven Realm, then noticed golden light blooming from the East Lapis Lazuli Buddha Realm.
• Senior Qian told the white-armored cultivator about the Little Cang Realm's growing camps and warned him to stay alert while they guarded the Boundary Sea Vortex.
• The Boundary Sea Vortex expanded and spun faster, so Senior Qian sent word to Chonghua Dao Master and the Vajra Realm Lord.
• The Blue-Robed Figure emerged from the vortex and withstood Senior Qian's Twin Hammers Dao Treasure, and White Hair recognized him as the Dao Master.

Wang Ba returned to the Cloud-Heaven Realm and tested his strength against Dao Master Chonghua and Man Daoist, who had both reached early Tribulation Crossing. When Yu Yu attacked with a mysterious power in her right eye, Wang Ba glimpsed the final staff of earth, fire, water, and wind: the True Fire Staff.

• Qian Baimao welcomed Wang Ba back and reported that the realm was peaceful and its outside forces had been incorporated into the Three Great Camps.
• Dao Master Chonghua attacked Wang Ba, and Wang Ba held him off with only his Xuanhuang Dao Domain while discovering that Chonghua had reached early eighth tier.
• Man Daoist joined the sparring, and Wang Ba divided his Dao Domain to withstand both Chonghua and Man Daoist as they moved the fight away from the ancient city.
• Qiao Zhongxu, Yingyuan Dao Master, and Gan Xiong arrived and watched in astonishment as Wang Ba fought two Tribulation Crossing cultivators.
• Yu Yu rushed in to help Chonghua, but Wang Ba blocked her punch; when she unleashed divine light from her right eye, Chonghua stopped her with a Scarlet Jade Staff.
• Wang Ba was driven back by Yu Yu's divine light and recognized the writing on Chonghua's Scarlet Jade Staff as 'True Fire,' identifying it as the last of the four staves.