Chapter Summaries

Wang Ba returned to the Sea of Boundary Turmoil, learned that Yu Yu had absorbed Immortal Lord Lu He’s eye and wielded the True Fire Staff, and reunited with allies in the Little Cang Realm. He warned Qiao Zhongxu that the Supreme True Buddha might send an Arhat, then brought the cultivators from beyond the boundary to the Little Cang Realm.

• Yu Yu unleashed the power of Immortal Lord Lu He’s eye, collapsed, and was caught by Chonghua as Wang Ba realized the eye had been pierced by Tibo’s True Fire Staff.
• Wang Ba stopped Chonghua from confronting Changying Dao Master and asked Man Daoist when he could recover his Mahayana cultivation; Man said it could take thousands of years.
• Wang Ba thanked Gan Xiong for supporting the Three Great Camps and gave him two supreme-grade Dao Treasures, while promising that Gan Xiong could eventually leave the Sea of Boundary Turmoil with him.
• Wang Ba invited Qiao Zhongxu and Jiang Chi to discuss the Supreme True Buddha’s likely response to the Great Sea Market’s disappearance, warning that an Arhat might arrive.
• Wang Ba and his companions flew to the Little Cang Realm on Fanming, where Wang Ba released the cultivators he had brought from beyond the boundary.
• The Emaciated Old Man and the Ochre-Robed Youth recognized the bustling World Domain as the Little Cang Realm.

Wang Ba brought Patriarch Chongyuan, Patriarch Qitian, Hui Yunzi, and other cultivators back to the Little Cang Realm, where they reunited with its sects and learned how greatly the realm and its people had changed. Wang Ba and Yao Wudi shared a heartfelt reunion, and the chapter ended with Yao Wudi asking to accompany his disciple on his next journey.

• Wang Ba confirmed that he had brought Patriarch Chongyuan, Patriarch Qitian, Hui Yunzi, and the others back to the Little Cang Realm through the Sea of Boundary Turmoil.
• Patriarch Chongyuan and Patriarch Qitian saw the Little Cang Realm’s many Guard Cities and learned that two great calamities had changed the realm beyond recognition.
• Cang Fuzi and the cultivators of the Little Cang Realm welcomed the returning patriarchs, and Wang Ba introduced the generations of disciples to one another.
• Jiang Yi recognized Patriarch Chongyuan, Patriarch Qitian, and other old acquaintances, while the Little Cang Realm’s disciples greeted the patriarchs and learned their identities.
• Cang Fuzi awakened Shao Yangzi and other long-dormant figures, who were moved to reunite with the patriarchs.
• Yao Wudi teased Wang Ba about his exploits, then asked to accompany him on his next journey, and Wang Ba quietly agreed.

Xun Fujun reunited with Hui Yunzi, who gently reassured him, while Wang Ba convened the Sea of Boundary Turmoil’s leaders to plan for the Supreme True Buddha’s expected invasion. After displaying the many captured Arhats and Bodhisattvas, Wang Ba secured Qiao Zhongxu’s cooperation, then went to meet a waiting figure on Myriad Laws Peak.

• Hui Yunzi criticized Xun Fujun for failing to eliminate Han Yanzi’s hidden incarnation, then comforted him and said he had not disgraced his teacher.
• Wang Ba warned the leaders at Pure Yang Palace that the Supreme True Buddha might send Bodhisattvas or Arhats into the Sea of Boundary Turmoil and that escape was nearly impossible.
• Patriarch Chongyuan proposed using the Heaven-Observing Mirror to monitor the sea, while Shao Yangzi urged the group to assess the enemy and their own options.
• Xun Fujun proposed gathering cultivators together and using the Plum-for-Peach Substitution Technique, and Wang Ba ordered the factions to fortify their defenses and clear the countryside.
• Wang Ba showed Qiao Zhongxu ten captured Arhats and more than twenty Bodhisattvas; Qiao Zhongxu recognized Bodhisattva Zhizhen and agreed to follow Wang Ba’s arrangements.
• After dismissing the meeting and finishing his tasks, Wang Ba went to Myriad Laws Peak, where a graceful figure was waiting for him.

After a brief reunion with Bu Chan, Wang Ba gave her and Wang Liu nine-colored divine soil, then left to cultivate as the threat of the Supreme True Buddha loomed. After more than two hundred years in seclusion, he completed his ninth-rank Dao Domain and reached the mid stage of Tribulation Crossing.

• Wang Ba showed Bu Chan two pieces of nine-colored divine soil, and she planted one with her Nine-Colored Gourd Vine while Wang Liu placed his roots in the other.
• Wang Ba tested Wang Liu’s whip technique, praised his progress, and instructed him to master it and pursue the rules before Tribulation Crossing.
• Wang Ba gave Cang Fuzi the eight World Remains from the Cloud-Heaven Realm, while Bu Chan left to cultivate Spirit Plants at the Hundred Arts Academy.
• Wang Ba flew beyond the Little Cang Realm, entered a formation among drifting rubble, and focused on advancing his cultivation as the Sea of Boundary Turmoil awaited the Supreme True Buddha’s forces.
• After more than two hundred years, Wang Ba’s Xuanhuang Dao Domain enveloped every rule and reached ninth rank, bringing him to the mid stage of Tribulation Crossing.

Wang Ba tested his newly formed ninth-rank Dao Domain, then returned to the Little Cang Realm and led an effort to break its limits. By combining eight World Remains with the realm’s laws, he transformed the Little Cang Realm into a greater realm.

• Wang Ba captured Bodhisattva Zhizhen again after Zhizhen tried to ambush him and escape, then learned that his Yin Spirit Power could not sway him outside a realm.
• Wang Ba confirmed with Patriarch Chongyuan that the Supreme True Buddha had not entered the Sea of Boundary Turmoil and proposed expanding the Little Cang Realm so cultivators could reach the Tribulation Crossing Realm more easily.
• Wang Ba gathered Man Daoist, Patriarch Chongyuan, Patriarch Qitian, and others outside the Little Cang Realm to begin its advancement.
• Wang Ba used his Xuanhuang Dao Domain to reshape the Boundary Membrane as the three Tribulation Crossing cultivators held its laws in place and Cang Fuzi incorporated eight World Remains.
• The Little Cang Realm expanded into a disk-shaped greater realm, and Cang Fuzi celebrated the successful transformation.

Wang Ba watched the Little Cang Realm break through its limits and become a Great Realm, stirring insights into rules among the gathered cultivators and transforming the realm within. After assessing its new strength and aiding its people, he turned to a captured Arhat as he prepared to pursue another matter.

• The Little Cang Realm became a Great Realm, and its transformation gave many cultivators insights into rules; Yao Wudi began comprehending them through his Myriad Laws Lineage.
• Wang Ba learned that the realm could support Early Stage Tribulation Crossing cultivators and gave most of his Tribulation Crossing Divine Pills to Jiying and the others to distribute.
• The Little Cang Realm expanded as its rules and deities grew stronger, and Wang Ba collected the incense power Song Dongyang had accumulated.
• Wang Ba reviewed the Witch People's progress, noted that most had reached only the seventh tier, and hoped the rules he had sent into Northern Uttarakuru would help them advance.
• Wang Ba judged that the Little Cang Realm could now muster a formidable force, then brought out an Arhat whose appearance summoned thunderclouds before he subdued him and stared at him with crimson eyes.

Wang Ba soul-searched the Supreme True Buddha’s monks, uncovering their scriptures, six Buddhist Divine Abilities, and a cultivation system based on six great elements. He began studying their methods, but his seclusion was interrupted when someone appeared ready to enter the Tribulation Crossing Realm.

• Wang Ba combined Yin Spirit Power with soul-searching to overcome the golden patterns in an Arhat’s consciousness and learned that the Supreme True Buddha had three great Dharma realms.
• Wang Ba repeatedly searched the monks and pieced together cultivation methods from novice monk to Great Bodhisattva, along with six Buddhist Divine Abilities and clues about the Supreme True Buddha’s system of merit and expansion.
• Wang Ba concluded that the Supreme True Buddha’s campaign to save sentient beings had become an endless drive to expand, and he recalled that Kongchanzi’s vow had brought him rapid cultivation gains.
• Wang Ba studied the Great Bliss Sutra and two other Buddhist cultivation scriptures for several decades.
• A thundercloud interrupted Wang Ba’s secluded cultivation, and he sensed that someone was about to enter the Tribulation Crossing Realm.

Wang Ba discovered that the Sea of Boundary Turmoil’s rules had disrupted Jiang Chi’s tribulation, then realized the Immortal Pass might offer a way to shield the Little Cang Realm from them. At the Immortal Pass, his four staffs corresponding to earth, fire, water, and wind sank into its wall, confirming his theory.

• Jiang Chi attempted to enter the Tribulation Crossing Realm, but foreign rules disrupted his Dao Domain and Wang Ba rescued him from the Tribulation Lightning.
• Wang Ba identified the Sea of Boundary Turmoil’s rules as the cause of Jiang Chi’s failure and considered how to shield the Little Cang Realm from their influence.
• Wang Ba asked Qiao Zhongxu for help with a possible solution, then traveled to the Immortal Pass.
• Wang Ba brought out the Earth-Cleaving Staff, True Fire Staff, Water-Covering Staff, and Wind-Driving Staff, and they sank into the Immortal Pass’s wall.

Wang Ba fully refined three of the great staffs and used them with the Silkworm Dragon Staff to glimpse a way through the Immortal Pass, but the attempt nearly consumed his Primordial Spirit. As he considered gathering more staffs and cultivators to try again, Patriarch Chongyuan reported unusual activity in the Boundary Sea Vortex, and a monk with a vertical eye returned to the Sea of Boundary Turmoil.

• Wang Ba completed the refinement of the Earth-Cleaving Staff, True Fire Staff, and Water-Covering Staff, then used the four great staffs to glimpse the rules of Earth, Fire, Water, and Wind within the Immortal Pass.
• Wang Ba combined the four great staffs with the Silkworm Dragon Staff and opened a hollow in the Immortal Pass, but the staffs drained his Primordial Spirit so severely that he relinquished control and withdrew them.
• Wang Ba concluded that breaking through the Immortal Pass would require multiple Mahayana cultivators and considered obtaining the final staff of the Six-Candle Staff of Communing with the Netherworld.
• Patriarch Chongyuan contacted Wang Ba to report unusual activity in the Boundary Sea Vortex's main trunk and said they had mobilized the Heaven-Observing Mirror.
• A monk with a vertical eye between his brows emerged from a vortex in the Sea of Boundary Turmoil and said he had returned.

Zhiwu, a monk serving the Supreme True Buddha, returned to the Jade Pot Realm and learned that the Little Cang Realm had gathered most of the outside factions. He went to recruit cultivators from the Little Cang Realm, where Wang Ba and his allies prepared to use him to find a way out of the Sea of Boundary Turmoil.

• Zhiwu inspected ruined territories across the Sea of Boundary Turmoil and concluded that the Jade Pot Realm had defeated most outside factions.
• Zhiwu reunited with Qiao Zhongxu, explained his allegiance to the Supreme True Buddha, and learned that the Little Cang Realm had united many factions and possessed numerous Integrated Body Perfection Stage Cultivators.
• Zhiwu traveled to the Little Cang Realm, announced that he had a great opportunity to offer, and revealed his Tribulation Crossing cultivation to Zhao Feng and the other cultivators.
• Zhao Feng invited Zhiwu into the Little Cang Realm while Qian Baimao watched in shock.
• Wang Ba and his allies observed Zhiwu through a water mirror and confirmed that they had prepared measures to counter his Telepathy and the Buddhist influence.
• Wang Ba decided to use Zhiwu to prepare an escape from the Sea of Boundary Turmoil and took up the Silkworm Dragon Staff.

Wang Ba devised a way to filter the Sea of Boundary Turmoil’s laws from the Little Cang Realm by placing spirit beasts along its boundary membrane, creating an environment where cultivators could attempt to reach Tribulation Crossing. He then brought Fanming and other divine beasts into the realm to undergo breakthroughs, ending as the Blood Qilin fell unconscious and thunderclouds gathered overhead.

• Wang Ba realized that Buddhist laws enabled the Sea of Boundary Turmoil’s laws to seep through the Little Cang Realm’s boundary membrane, and he concluded that spirit beasts could absorb and filter them.
• Wang Ba sent countless spirit beasts to the boundary membrane and arranged additional layers of filtration, though he saw that some beasts died and some outside laws still slipped through.
• Wang Ba brought Fanming into the Little Cang Realm, where Fanming endured tribulation lightning and broke through to the eighth tier, transforming between bird and fish forms.
• Wang Ba released the Four Spirits, the Wu Ape King, Fugui, and the Pink Rabbit, then gave the Pink Rabbit a refined bead of plague toxin Qi.
• Wang Ba fed the Blood Qilin a prepared spirit liquid to help it catch up with the Four Spirits, and thunderclouds gathered as the beast fell asleep.

Wang Ba studied A Er’s Ghost-Patterned Stone Dragon Lizard bloodlines and planned to develop new ways of fusing spirit beasts. A century later, Zhiwu departed the Sea of Boundary Turmoil with nearly eight hundred cultivators, while Zhao Feng and the others prepared to strengthen the Little Cang Realm; an unseen figure followed Zhiwu into the Boundary Sea Vortex.

• A Er triggered its lightning tribulation, and Wang Ba recognized that studying its bloodline fusion could advance his work with Myriad Beasts Without Reins.
• Wang Ba began examining the Ghost-Patterned Stone Dragon Lizard’s bloodlines and considered combining groups of spirit beasts into increasingly complex creatures.
• Zhiwu secured Zhao Feng’s promise to spare the Jade Pot Realm, then left with the cultivators he had gathered as Zhao Feng, Jiying, and the others watched.
• After Zhiwu departed, Zhao Feng said he would attempt a breakthrough, while Qiao Zhongxu and Gan Xiong left the gathering.
• Zhiwu checked the nearly eight hundred cultivators for hidden seals and led them through the Boundary Sea Vortex, unaware that a concealed figure followed him.

Wang Ba entered the Supreme True Buddha’s domain with Zhiwu, observed the monks inspect and allocate the captured cultivators, and investigated the Six Paths Pool Water and the Mind-Washing Mirror. He encountered the Lord of the Six Paths, whose identity he suspected was the Xiahou Heavenly Demon.

• Zhiwu returned with the cultivators, and Bodhisattva Zhikong ordered a golden net inspection to search for anyone concealed among them.
• Bodhisattva Zhikong divided the eight hundred practitioners among the Arhats and claimed the Purple-Armored Youth and Qian Baimao for the West Great Bodhisattva, frustrating Zhiwu.
• Zhiwu led the cultivators through the Six Paths Pool Water, where Mysterious Golden Patterns entered their Primordial Spirits, while Wang Ba watched unseen.
• Wang Ba navigated the rebuilt passages, passed beneath the Mind-Washing Mirror, and followed a teasing voice into a cavern palace.
• The Lord of the Six Paths recognized Wang Ba as True Person Taiyi and mentioned Shen Fu, prompting Wang Ba to suspect that he was the Xiahou Heavenly Demon.

Wang Ba discovered that the Lord of the Six Paths was Xiahou Heavenly Demon, who revealed that the battle in the Cloud-Heaven Realm had been a probe of the Supreme True Buddha and asked Wang Ba to help draw the Lord of the Still Cave into their plans. Wang Ba agreed to try, then left to learn what had happened after the battle.

• Wang Ba reasoned that the Lord of the Six Paths was Xiahou Heavenly Demon, and Xiahou confirmed Shen Fu was safe and had been sent to compete to become the next Buddha Son.
• Xiahou explained that the Cloud-Heaven Realm battle had aimed to expose the Supreme True Buddha's hidden strength and force him to reveal his true body, but the Buddha Lord had controlled two of the Three Great Dharma Realms.
• Xiahou told Wang Ba that the Buddha Lord was self-sealing and likely preparing to ascend, while Shen Fu had preserved his true self after passing through the Water of the Six Paths and could become a candidate for the Future Buddha Lord.
• Xiahou demanded that Wang Ba help divert the Supreme True Buddha's attention by drawing out the Lord of the Still Cave, and Wang Ba agreed to try without promising success.
• Xiahou gave Wang Ba a communication Dao Treasure and directions out of the hidden realm, and Wang Ba departed to find out what had happened after the Cloud-Heaven Realm battle.

Wang Ba returned to the Baiqu Yin Clan just as Yin Tianzhi weighed alliances to protect the clan from the turmoil in the Ruins of Zhangshi. After Yin Tianzhi asked him for help, Wang Ba announced visits to nine factions, leaving Yin Tianzhi stunned by his apparent plan to confront them.

• Yin Tianzhi rejected pressure to ally with the Laowen Sect and Golden Water Marsh, wary of their intentions and the Laowen Sect's Cheng Lianzi.
• Yin Tianzhi and the other Patriarchs recalled Attendant Taiyi and discussed the Yin Clan's vulnerable position amid rising tensions across the Ruins of Zhangshi.
• Yin Fu announced that Attendant Taiyi had arrived, and Yin Tianzhi joyfully welcomed Wang Ba into the Daoist Grounds.
• Yin Tianzhi asked Wang Ba to help preserve the Yin Clan, and Wang Ba sent messages announcing visits to Spirit Source Prefecture, the Illusory Emptiness Realm, and seven other factions.
• Yin Tianzhi warned that the factions might unite against Wang Ba, who replied that he would need to make sure he went to the right place.

Wang Ba sent the Baiqu Yin Clan to visit the nine powers of the Ruins of Zhangshi, leaving them to wonder what Yin Tianzhi intended. At Spirit Source Prefecture, Wang Ba accepted Fan Wind and Thunder’s challenge to withstand three sword strikes, then stood unmoving as two struck him.

• Wang Ba congratulated Deng Yingjue and Tao Bingji, asked Tao Bingji to explore whether the Yunhuo Realm would merge into a Great Realm, and asked about the Still Cave.
• Cheng Lianzi wondered whether the Ruins of Zhangshi prevented cultivators from reaching the Late Stage of Tribulation Crossing, then received Taiyi’s visiting notice and learned that the Yin Clan had sent notices to all nine powers.
• Cheng Lianzi delayed his planned action with Golden Water Marsh while he tried to understand Yin Tianzhi’s intentions.
• Fan Wind and Thunder gathered Spirit Source Prefecture’s cultivators and allies to meet Taiyi, whom he believed had come to avenge his past humiliation.
• When Fan Wind and Thunder demanded that Taiyi withstand one sword strike, Wang Ba offered to withstand three, and Fan Wind and Thunder unleashed two powerful strikes.
• Wang Ba stood motionless as both strikes hit him, leaving Yin Tianzhi, Fan Wind and Thunder, Sang Kong, Cheng Lianzi, and the watching cultivators stunned.

Wang Ba defeated Fan Wind and Thunder’s challenges, then proposed leading the powers of the Ruins of Zhangshi against the Supreme True Buddha. After the other powers attacked him and Cheng Lianzi unleashed the Laowen Sect’s Mahayana Legacy Treasure, Wang Ba turned the flames against Cheng Lianzi, who conceded and pledged the Laowen Sect’s allegiance.

• Wang Ba calmly endured Fan Wind and Thunder’s first two sword strikes and invited him to make a third, but Fan Wind and Thunder stopped and declared their grievances settled.
• Wang Ba proposed discussing the Supreme True Buddha and said an outsider like him would lead the Ruins of Zhangshi’s powers, prompting Yin Tianzhi to warn him as several powers launched a coordinated attack.
• Wang Ba summoned a giant demonic ape, which checked six mid-stage Tribulation Crossing cultivators while Yin Tianzhi moved to join him.
• Cheng Lianzi attacked Wang Ba with the Laowen Sect’s Mahayana Legacy Treasure, but Wang Ba absorbed its flames into his Xuanhuang Dao Domain and sent them back at Cheng Lianzi.
• Cheng Lianzi conceded and declared that the Laowen Sect would acknowledge Wang Ba as its master and help remove those who opposed unifying the ruins.

Wang Ba secured the submission of the Ruins of Zhangshi’s factions, while their leaders exposed old rivalries and offered him treasured artifacts. He returned most of their gifts, accepted Cheng Lianzi’s mysterious horn, and rewarded him with a Dao Treasure, leaving the factions eager to follow his rule.

• Cheng Lianzi submitted to Wang Ba, who jokingly ordered him to kill Buddha Lord Tianshang before dismissing the command.
• World Lord Sang pledged the Illusory Emptiness Realm’s allegiance, and Fan Wind and Thunder pledged Spirit Source Prefecture’s support.
• The six cultivators fighting the Demonic Ape also submitted, then blamed Cheng Lianzi for directing their earlier attack on Wang Ba.
• The master of Golden Water Marsh offered his faction’s treasure, prompting the other leaders to present their own treasures as well.
• Wang Ba returned the offered treasures, but accepted Cheng Lianzi’s mysterious horn and gave him a high-grade Dao Treasure in return.
• Cheng Lianzi declared that he would follow Wang Ba alone.

Wang Ba organized the Ruins of Zhangshi to prepare for the Supreme True Buddha’s invasion while investigating an ancient horn that briefly stirred a mysterious ocean. Chonghua realized the True Martial Dao required him to follow his own path and left, while Wang Ba began seeking additional allies at the Still Cave.

• Golden Water Marsh cultivators ordered rogue cultivators to register and directed Integrated Body Realm cultivators to attend Taiyi’s lectures at the Yinxu Daoist Grounds.
• The ten major powers and other factions worked together to build defenses against the Supreme True Buddha, while rogue cultivators gained hope under Wang Ba’s protection.
• Wang Ba’s ancient horn briefly connected his consciousness to a vast ocean, alarming a hidden presence that forced his probing intent away.
• Wang Ba and Chonghua recognized that the True Martial Dao followed a path distinct from the Myriad Laws Lineage, and Chonghua decided to seek his own Dao.
• Chonghua left the Ruins of Zhangshi, and Wang Ba reviewed the region’s forces before choosing the Still Cave as a place to seek help.

Wang Ba secretly left the Ruins of Zhangshi with Tao Bingji to seek an alliance with the Lord of the Still Cave against the Supreme True Buddha. The Still Cave’s Ji Hu rejected them, but an unexpected arrival recognized Wang Ba as Xuanyuanzi.

• Wang Ba asked Yin Tianzhi to oversee the Ruins of Zhangshi while he traveled secretly to the Still Cave, leaving the Wu Ape King to help protect the Yin Clan.
• Wang Ba brought Tao Bingji along, guiding his cultivation during their journey and learning that Tao Bingji had once been the Primordial God and Devil Yuan She.
• At the Still Cave, Ji Hu attacked Wang Ba, mistaking him for someone from the Cloud-Heaven Realm, until Tao Bingji recognized him and revealed their past connection.
• Wang Ba explained that he had come to seek the Lord of the Still Cave’s help against the Supreme True Buddha, but Ji Hu ordered them to leave and threatened Tao Bingji.
• As Wang Ba and Tao Bingji departed, a traveler recognized Wang Ba and greeted him as a young friend; Wang Ba recognized him as Xuanyuanzi.