Chapter Summaries

Wang Ba reunited with Xuanyuanzi in the Still Cave and sought an alliance against the Supreme True Buddha, learning that Xuanyuanzi had become a trusted teacher among the Primordial Gods and Devils. The Lord of the Still Cave allowed Wang Ba to stay briefly, and Xuanyuanzi showed him a hidden Great Realm holding the reincarnated bodies of many Primordial Gods and Devils.

• Wang Ba and Xuanyuanzi reunited, and Xuanyuanzi explained how the Lord of the Still Cave had brought him there and reconstructed his body as an early Eighth Tier Primordial God and Devil.
• Wang Ba told Xuanyuanzi that the Little Cang Realm was trapped in the Sea of Boundary Turmoil and that he needed the Still Cave's help against the Supreme True Buddha.
• Xuanyuanzi led Wang Ba and Tao Bingji to the Lord of the Still Cave, who struck Xuanyuanzi aside when he defended Wang Ba but reconsidered after hearing how quickly Wang Ba had risen.
• The Lord of the Still Cave allowed Wang Ba to remain in the Still Cave for a few days, then sent him, Xuanyuanzi, and Tao Bingji away from the great hall.
• Xuanyuanzi showed Wang Ba a hidden Great Realm surrounded by World Eaters, where the reincarnated bodies of many Primordial Gods and Devils were kept.

Wang Ba visited a sealed Great Realm where reincarnated Primordial Gods and Devils were being raised, and discovered that their past-life memories and limited instruction hindered their cultivation. After his guidance helped one cultivator condense a Dao Opportunity, Wang Ba advised Xuanyuanzi to change how the Still Cave nurtured them; years later, a message announced that the Supreme True Buddha had arrived.

• Xuanyuanzi brought Wang Ba into the Still Cave’s Great Realm, explaining that its missing world spirit and small population made it easier to locate reincarnated Primordial Gods and Devils.
• Wang Ba examined the realm’s cultivators and told Xuanyuanzi that their poor progress came partly from neglecting external resources and from copying paths shaped by their past lives.
• Wang Ba guided the cultivators, identified flaws in two of their paths, and helped a Nascent Soul cultivator break through by obscuring his past-life memories.
• Wang Ba taught the cultivators from Qi Refining through Tribulation Crossing, and one listener quickly condensed a Dao Opportunity and triggered Spirit Transformation Tribulation Lightning.
• Wang Ba urged Xuanyuanzi to tell the Lord of the Still Cave to delay awakening reincarnates’ memories, restore a world spirit, and encourage worldly experience and the use of spirit resources.
• After several years of teaching in the realm, Wang Ba received a communication Dao Treasure and learned that the Supreme True Buddha had arrived.

After learning that the Supreme True Buddha had advanced on the Ruins of Zhangshi, Wang Ba left the Still Cave, secured permission for Sakura Mother to become the realm’s world spirit, and received support and a gift from the Lord of the Still Cave. At Zhangshi, the monks began their trial to choose a Future Buddha Lord, while a sudden burst of fire from the formation disrupted their assault.

• Wang Ba learned that the Supreme True Buddha was heading for the Ruins of Zhangshi and told Xuanyuanzi he had to return.
• Wang Ba asked the Lord of the Still Cave to let Sakura Mother become the world spirit, and the Lord agreed before giving Wang Ba a Storage Dao Treasure filled with spirit materials and plants.
• At the Yinxu Daoist Grounds, Cheng Lianzi and other leaders demanded to see the Ruin Master, but Yin Tianzhi refused and the Wu Ape King assured them that the Ruin Master had everything under control.
• Cheng Lianzi privately questioned whether the Ruin Master had left, and Yin Tianzhi worried as he watched him depart.
• The West Great Bodhisattva arrived with the contenders for Future Buddha Lord, and Zhijing Bodhisattva began the trial by attacking the formation around the Ruins of Zhangshi.
• As the monks’ Buddhist light struck the formation, a streak of fire shot out from within it and startled the West Great Bodhisattva.

The Ruins of Zhangshi fought back against the Supreme True Buddha’s forces, and Cheng Lianzi and Wu Ape King badly wounded Zhijing Bodhisattva. True Person Taiyi emerged from seclusion and turned the battle with powerful formations and his Xuanhuang Dao Domain, but the West, Northern, and South Great Bodhisattvas surrounded him.

• The Ruins of Zhangshi’s formation struck the attacking Arhats, while Cheng Lianzi fought Zhijing Bodhisattva with his Fire Stone.
• Yin Tianzhi and the other cultivators joined the battle, but a hidden staff ambushed Zhijing Bodhisattva and a Demonic Ape attacked him.
• The West Great Bodhisattva sent more than a dozen Bodhisattvas to aid Zhijing, and they overwhelmed the ape until True Person Taiyi emerged from the ruins.
• True Person Taiyi reinforced the formations with supreme-grade Dao Treasures, allowing the cultivators of Zhangshi to break through the Arhats and counterattack.
• True Person Taiyi used his Xuanhuang Dao Domain to seize the Bodhisattvas, prompting the West Great Bodhisattva and the Northern and South Great Bodhisattvas to surround him.

Wang Ba fought the three Great Bodhisattvas above the Ruins of Zhangshi, revealing strength that astonished allies and hidden observers alike. After turning the tide with the Divine Beast Chaos, he captured the Northern Great Bodhisattva and challenged the other two to surrender.

• A white-lit figure in the Six Paths of Reincarnation and two beings concealed in the void watched the battle, while the surrounding armies clashed below Wang Ba.
• The Northern Great Bodhisattva recognized Wang Ba and attacked alongside the other two Great Bodhisattvas.
• Wang Ba imitated the Supreme True Buddha's methods, then transformed the Buddha phantom into his Xuanhuang Dao Domain and held off all three Bodhisattvas.
• The Northern Great Bodhisattva secretly strengthened his attacks and sent Buddha Treasures against Wang Ba, but Wang Ba detected his ploy.
• Wang Ba combined the Five Divine Beasts into Chaos, whose cry disrupted the Four Great Elements and sent the Bodhisattvas' attacks back at them.
• Wang Ba seized the Northern Great Bodhisattva with his Xuanhuang Dao Domain and drew him into his sleeve, then asked the remaining two Bodhisattvas whether they would enter as well.

Wang Ba defeated the three Great Bodhisattvas attacking the Ruins of Zhangshi, but Buddha Lord Tianshang intervened from afar and the monks vanished before he could learn what had happened. After the battle, Wang Ba secured Gai True Person’s invitation to the Cloud-Heaven Realm and the Lord of the Still Cave’s promise to aid him.

• Wang Ba overpowered the West Great Bodhisattva and South Great Bodhisattva after capturing the Northern Great Bodhisattva, while observers outside the Ruins of Zhangshi marveled at his strength.
• The West Great Bodhisattva formed a hand seal, prompting Buddha Lord Tianshang to point toward Wang Ba from the distant Reclining Buddha.
• The Ruins of Zhangshi began to tremble as an ancient consciousness stirred, and Buddha Lord Tianshang’s light then enveloped the monks and made them disappear.
• Wang Ba thanked the cheering cultivators, then met Gai True Person and the Lord of the Still Cave in the void outside the ruins.
• Gai True Person invited Wang Ba to the Cloud-Heaven Realm, and the Lord of the Still Cave agreed to support the Ruins of Zhangshi and formed an alliance with him.

After the Ruins of Zhangshi repelled the Supreme True Buddha, Wang Ba rewarded its defenders and learned that the ruins might be the corpse of an immortal from the Second Boundary Sea. He began to suspect that the hidden core was using cultivators to nourish itself.

• Wang Ba praised Cheng Lianzi for confronting Bodhisattva Dust and gave him a supreme-grade Dao Treasure; Cheng Lianzi vowed to kill Zhijing Bodhisattva or die trying.
• Wang Ba rewarded Yin Tianzhi with a supreme-grade Dao Treasure and distributed lesser rewards to the other defenders.
• Wang Ba warned that the Supreme True Buddha would return better prepared and urged the cultivators to coordinate their varied methods.
• While helping repair the formations, Wang Ba found the stone beneath the ruins extraordinarily hard and asked why the place was called the Ruins of Zhangshi.
• Cheng Lianzi explained that his sect's records described an immortal from the Second Boundary Sea whose corpse drifted through the Boundary Sea, and said his patriarch had found a mysterious horn in the ruins.
• Wang Ba connected the ruins' core, its demand for cultivators' recognition, and his own expulsion from the horn's ocean, then suspected the being within the ruins was feeding on the cultivators.

Wang Ba confirmed that the horn reacted to the hidden presence within the Ruins of Zhangshi, then traveled to the Cloud-Heaven Realm. There, Bai Liaochan welcomed him and revealed that he was close to a breakthrough.

• Wang Ba tested the Laowen Sect patriarch’s horn and sensed the same force that had rejected him from the core of the Ruins of Zhangshi, then departed for the Cloud-Heaven Realm.
• Buddha Lord Tianshang told the Great Bodhisattvas to select the Future Buddha Son quickly and eliminate the threat of the Cloud-Heaven Realm before he left the Boundary Sea.
• The Great Bodhisattvas reported that Zhijing Bodhisattva had been eliminated from the Future Buddha Son trial, and Buddha Lord Tianshang said he would personally deal with True Person Taiyi and the East Lapis Lazuli Buddha Realm.
• Wang Ba inspected Sea-Cutting Cliff and the Cloud-Heaven Realm before meeting Bai Liaochan outside the realm.
• Bai Liaochan tested Wang Ba’s strength with a finger strike and admitted he had hoped to gain insight into his own imminent breakthrough; Wang Ba encouraged him, and they went to meet Bai Liaochan’s teacher.

Wang Ba asked Gai True Person and Bai Liaochan to help free the cultivators trapped in the Sea of Boundary Turmoil, but learned that breaking Sea-Cutting Cliff could endanger the Four Great Realms. After agreeing to consider another route, he asked to visit Buddha Lord Tianyin, and Gai True Person took him toward the East Lapis Lazuli Buddha Realm.

• Wang Ba met Gai True Person and heard his warning that human cultivators should not grow too close to Primordial Gods and Devils.
• Wang Ba explained that his family, sect, friends, and descendants were trapped in the dying Sea of Boundary Turmoil, then asked Gai True Person and Bai Liaochan to help open Sea-Cutting Cliff.
• Gai True Person refused and revealed that the Four Great Realms depended on Sea-Cutting Cliff for their supply of Primal Chaos Source Substance.
• Bai Liaochan suggested freeing the trapped cultivators through the Boundary Sea Vortex at the Reclining Buddha, and Wang Ba agreed to consider that approach after Buddha Lord Tianshang ascended.
• Wang Ba asked to visit Buddha Lord Tianyin for guidance on Supreme True Buddha Dharma Methods, and Gai True Person agreed to escort him to the East Lapis Lazuli Buddha Realm.

Wang Ba visited the East Lapis Lazuli Buddha Realm with Gai True Person to seek Buddha Lord Tianyin’s guidance on the Supreme True Buddha’s methods. Tianyin explained how the Supreme True Buddha’s Mahayana teachings had been distorted, and Wang Ba ended by asking whether Tibo was responsible.

• Gai True Person told Wang Ba that Tianyin had once held off the Supreme True Buddha with the Ten Thousand Buddhas Formation, but had exhausted himself in the process.
• Yanpoluo welcomed Wang Ba and Gai True Person into the East Lapis Lazuli Buddha Realm and led them through its thousand small worlds toward Tianyin.
• Wang Ba explained the Buddhist conception of Lesser, Middle, and Greater Thousand Worlds as they traveled to Tianyin’s temple on Xumi Mountain.
• Several monks challenged Wang Ba for studying the Supreme True Buddha’s methods, but Tianyin quieted them and explained that the East Lapis Lazuli Buddha Realm followed the Hinayana path.
• Tianyin said the Supreme True Buddha’s Mahayana teachings were authentic in origin but had been misapplied, and Wang Ba asked whether Tibo had altered their core.

Wang Ba learned how Tibo and Immortal Lord Lu He died and how Tibo’s teachings spread into the Supreme True Buddha, then discovered that the East Lapis Lazuli Buddha Realm’s mysterious future Buddha Lord was an old acquaintance. The chapter ended as Kongchanzi arrived at Xumi Mountain and greeted Wang Ba, revealing that the two had connected mentally.

• Wang Ba read the East Lapis Lazuli Buddha Realm’s records, which said Tibo and Immortal Lord Lu He both died in their battle and that Tibo’s śarīra and the True Emptiness Staff came to the realm.
• Buddha Lord Tianyin explained that Tibo had promoted Mahayana Buddhism and called himself the True Buddha, whose doctrine later spread as the Supreme True Buddha; Wang Ba and Gai True Person discussed Buddha Lord Tianshang’s possible ascension and the danger he posed.
• Wang Ba released a captured Arhat and proposed that reversing the Buddhist School’s Four Great Element Laws might restore the minds of Supreme True Buddha monks; Buddha Lord Tianyin agreed to have a cultivator study the matter.
• Buddha Lord Tianyin summoned Xinyuan, whom Wang Ba recognized from the Little Cang Realm, but Yanpoluo clarified that Xinyuan was not the future Buddha Lord and that the chosen figure was preparing for a destined encounter.
• The ninefold heavens shattered above Xumi Mountain as a dazzling monk descended amid Buddhist manifestations; Wang Ba recognized him as Kongchanzi, and Kongchanzi greeted him by name.

Wang Ba met Kongchanzi, whom Buddha Lord Tianyin had chosen as the East Lapis Lazuli Buddha Realm’s future leader, and asked Tianyin to help break Sea-Cutting Cliff, but Tianyin refused because he had to protect his realm. As Kongchanzi guided Wang Ba along the Fragrant Waters Sea and taught him Buddhist divine abilities, the Supreme True Buddha returned to the East Lapis Lazuli Buddha Realm.

• Buddha Lord Tianyin introduced Kongchanzi as his chosen successor and asked him to study the captured Arhat whose temperament had been changed by the Four Great Laws.
• Wang Ba stayed in the East Lapis Lazuli Buddha Realm to visit the Fragrant Waters Sea after Gai True Person returned to the Cloud-Heaven Realm.
• Wang Ba asked Buddha Lord Tianyin to help break Sea-Cutting Cliff and rescue the beings trapped in the Sea of Boundary Turmoil, but Tianyin declined to protect the Glazed Buddha Realm.
• Buddha Lord Tianyin told Yanpoluo that Kongchanzi had the compassion and Buddha-nature needed to lead the realm through the coming calamity, and asked Yanpoluo to guide him.
• Kongchanzi took Wang Ba along the Fragrant Waters Sea and taught him Buddhist divine abilities, including the Dharma Form Divine Ability, the Great Divine Ability of the Eight Divisions of Heavenly Dragons, and the Truth-Listening Technique.
• The Supreme True Buddha entered the East Lapis Lazuli Buddha Realm through a fissure in its World Domain.

Wang Ba used the Fragrant Waters Sea to deepen his understanding of the Myriad Laws Dao, then encountered a monk identical to Buddha Lord Tianyin. Buddha Lord Tianyin revealed that the newcomer was his original self, apparently Buddha Lord Tianshang.

• Kongchanzi explained how the Buddhist School's six great elements and cultivators' rules ultimately returned to unity, then guided Wang Ba to use the Fragrant Waters Sea.
• Wang Ba and Kongchanzi climbed Xumi Mountain while drinking the sea's water, deepening their shared understanding of the Six Great Rules and Wang Ba's Myriad Laws Dao.
• Wang Ba reached the summit and descended alone, digesting his insights as the Fragrant Waters Sea's effects faded.
• Wang Ba encountered an old monk resembling Buddha Lord Tianyin, who recognized him as True Person Taiyi.
• Buddha Lord Tianyin prepared the monks for his final nirvana, then appeared above the Fragrant Waters Sea and greeted the old monk as his original self.

Buddha Lord Tianshang revealed that he had returned to reunite with his incarnation, Buddha Lord Tianyin, and attacked the monks gathered at the Fragrant Waters Sea. As Tianyin, Kongchanzi, Yanpoluo, Wang Ba, and Gai True Person tried to stop him, the Silkworm Dragon Staff summoned Chao Shi to protect Wang Ba.

• Buddha Lord Tianshang identified Tianyin as his incarnation and said he had come to make them one again.
• Tianshang’s Buddhist light killed a Body Integration Realm monk, and Kongchanzi intercepted the attack aimed at Xinyuan.
• Yanpoluo and the other monks formed a Buddha to defend Kongchanzi, but Tianshang’s attack shattered their formation before Tianyin stepped in to shield Kongchanzi.
• Wang Ba attacked Tianshang, and Gai True Person arrived with a sword strike, but Tianshang used feints to draw Tianyin away and reach for Wang Ba.
• The Silkworm Dragon Staff emerged from Wang Ba’s Primordial Spirit, and Chao Shi appeared to shield him from Tianshang.

Celestial Lord Chao revealed himself and joined Buddha Lord Tianyin and Gai True Person in fighting Buddha Lord Tianshang, whose power threatened the East Lapis Lazuli Buddha Realm. Buddha Lord Tianyin used the Soul-Detesting Elixir to wound himself and Tianshang, then explained their past connection as Tianshang’s former self before asking whether Kongchanzi’s empowerment ceremony was ready.

• Celestial Lord Chao emerged from the Silkworm Dragon Staff and joined Buddha Lord Tianyin and Gai True Person in surrounding Buddha Lord Tianshang.
• Wang Ba recognized that the Boundary Sea’s Reception Tribulation Lightning was gathering, and Buddha Lord Tianshang summoned the Seated Buddha’s hand through the Boundary Membrane.
• Buddha Lord Tianyin stopped Kongchanzi from attacking Tianshang, gave him to Wang Ba, and used the Soul-Detesting Elixir on himself.
• Buddha Lord Tianshang withdrew beyond the Boundary after the elixir weakened him, while Buddha Lord Tianyin explained that they were originally one and that he was Tianshang’s past self.
• Buddha Lord Tianyin asked Yanpoluo whether Kongchanzi’s empowerment ceremony was ready, and Kongchanzi shuddered.

After Buddha Lord Tianyin’s passing, Wang Ba and Celestial Lord Chao discussed rebuilding the Silkworm Dragon Realm and the uncertain prospects of ascending beyond the Third Boundary Sea. They left Xumi Mountain after learning that Kongchanzi had inherited Tianyin’s legacy, while crimson clouds appeared above Wondrous Enlightenment Temple.

• Celestial Lord Chao told Wang Ba he planned to rebuild the Silkworm Dragon Realm, and Wang Ba and Gai True Person offered disciples, formations, and elixirs to help.
• Gai True Person departed for the Cloud-Heaven Realm to oversee Liao Chan’s breakthrough, while Wang Ba and Celestial Lord Chao discussed Sea-Cutting Cliff and the uncertain nature of the Second Boundary Sea.
• Xinyuan asked about the Wheel-Turning Temple legacy in the Little Cang Realm, and Wang Ba assured him it remained safe before introducing him to the Wu Ape King.
• Wang Ba and Celestial Lord Chao spent several days exchanging insights into Myriad Beasts Without Reins until monks emerged from Wondrous Enlightenment Temple chanting the Rebirth Mantra.
• Yanpoluo told them Kongchanzi had received Tianyin’s empowerment and legacy and invited Wang Ba to Kongchanzi’s future succession ceremony.
• Wang Ba and Celestial Lord Chao departed Xumi Mountain beneath crimson clouds as Celestial Lord Chao recited a verse about life as a dream.

Celestial Lord Chao and Wang Ba rebuilt the Silkworm Dragon Realm using an Azure Emptiness Ancient Tree and a cultivator who became its world spirit. After warning Wang Ba that Buddha Lord Tianshang could return, Celestial Lord Chao urged him to use Myriad Beasts Without Reins to nurture a ninth-tier divine beast, and Wang Ba thought of a possible place to find a core beast.

• Celestial Lord Chao explained that divine beasts rarely broke through to the ninth tier and described how Myriad Beasts Without Reins could help them experience other bloodline rules.
• Celestial Lord Chao and Wang Ba met Gai True Person in the Cloud-Heaven Realm, where Gai showed them the Azure Emptiness Ancient Tree and introduced the cultivator who had agreed to become its world spirit.
• The cultivator transformed into a new world domain at the former site of the Silkworm Dragon Realm, and Celestial Lord Chao reshaped its rules over the following year.
• Gai True Person left after congratulating them, and Celestial Lord Chao gave Wang Ba the Silkworm Dragon Staff before they entered the rebuilt realm.
• Celestial Lord Chao warned Wang Ba that Buddha Lord Tianshang could return and urged him to nurture a ninth-tier divine beast for protection.
• Wang Ba realized he lacked a late-eighth-tier core beast but suddenly thought of a place that might help.

Wang Ba entered Soulfall Marsh and subdued an Eight-Tailed Celestial Fox by offering it a chance to reach the ninth tier. After binding it and naming it Iron Pillar, he collected its kin and treasures before leaving a marker beside the Boundary Sea Vortices.

• Wang Ba entered Soulfall Marsh and evaded the creatures and attacks guarding its World Embryo.
• An Eight-Tailed Celestial Fox emerged from the World Embryo and fought Wang Ba, using its tails and a powerful black-light attack.
• Wang Ba offered to help the fox reach the ninth tier and demonstrated his ability by raising the Wu Ape King's cultivation with fierce beasts.
• The fox agreed to obey Wang Ba, but after testing him with a sudden tail attack, it submitted when he effortlessly turned the attack aside.
• Wang Ba placed Divine Patterns on the fox, named it Iron Pillar, and gathered its kin and the treasures and Spirit Materials hidden in the World Embryo.
• Wang Ba left Soulfall Marsh after marking the Boundary Sea Vortices, suppressing his urge to return to the Sea of Boundary Turmoil.

Wang Ba returned to the Silkworm Dragon Realm, where Celestial Lord Chao proposed using Chaos and the Eight-Tailed Celestial Fox in a vast divine-beast fusion project to create a ninth-tier beast. After Chao left to gather beasts and seek world domains, Wang Ba raised the Five Spirits, studied bloodlines, and repaired the realm’s laws, deepening his own cultivation over fifty years.

• Wang Ba returned to the Silkworm Dragon Realm and released Iron Pillar, the Eight-Tailed Celestial Fox, whom Celestial Lord Chao identified as a divine beast from the Heavenly Demon Cave.
• Celestial Lord Chao explained the Five Spirits’ eighth-tier limit and proposed combining Chaos with the Celestial Fox and other divine-beast bloodlines to create a ninth-tier beast.
• Wang Ba suggested fusing many completed beasts a second time, and Chao became excited by the possibility that large numbers of such creations could challenge Buddha Lord Tianshang.
• Celestial Lord Chao left to find divine beasts and world domains, instructing Wang Ba to abandon the Silkworm Dragon Realm if the Supreme True Buddha attacked.
• Wang Ba began preparing the Five Spirits for advancement and considered the exceptionally durable Wu Ape King as a possible primary beast, while also thinking of Jia Ten Five.
• Over fifty years, Wang Ba refined the Silkworm Dragon Staff, used its simulations to study bloodlines, and worked with the realm’s World Spirit to repair the Silkworm Dragon Realm’s laws, strengthening his foundations.

Wang Ba successfully transformed Iron Pillar into a ninth-tier azure Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox and discussed how to combine its bloodline with Hundun. After Celestial Lord Chao returned with spirit beasts and warned that Buddha Lord Tianshang was preparing to ascend, Wang Ba left for the Still Cave to obtain more materials.

• Wang Ba completed Iron Pillar’s transformation into a ninth-tier azure Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox by using Myriad Beasts Without Reins to fuse numerous divine beast bloodlines.
• Wang Ba reflected on his cultivation bottleneck, then welcomed Celestial Lord Chao back to the Silkworm Dragon Realm.
• Celestial Lord Chao examined the azure fox, approved Wang Ba’s approach, and provided a vast collection of spirit beasts for further cultivation.
• Celestial Lord Chao explained that fusing Hundun with the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox would require insight into the Boundary Sea’s origin, which was connected to the Mahayana realm.
• Celestial Lord Chao warned Wang Ba that Buddha Lord Tianshang was preparing to ascend and gave him a teleportation treasure to summon aid.
• Wang Ba stored the spirit beasts and Iron Pillar, then left for the Still Cave to seek more spirit materials.