Chapter Summaries

Buddha Lord Tianshang expelled the Plague Toxin from the Three Great Dharma Realms and chose a Future Buddha Lord, while planning to draw True Person Taiyi out by using the Sea-Cutting Cliff World as bait. Wang Ba returned safely to the Cloud-Heaven Realm and asked Gai True Person and the others to help him open Sea-Cutting Cliff.

• Buddha Lord Tianshang moved the surviving monks and Buddhist subjects into the Standing Buddha Dharma Realm as the Reclining Buddha Dharma Realm collapsed under the Plague Toxin.
• Buddha Lord Tianshang and the Nine Former Buddha Lords used ten Śarīra to purge the toxin, then agreed to appoint a Future Buddha Lord and target True Person Taiyi after recovering.
• Buddha Lord Tianshang selected a stern young monk, formerly a disciple of the Lord of the Six Paths, to become the Future Buddha Lord, while the Plague Toxin flared again in three monks.
• Wang Ba wondered whether Shen Fu had survived and whether Xiahou Heavenly Demon had taken him, then returned with Gai True Person, Kongchanzi, and the others to the Cloud-Heaven Realm.
• Bai Liaochan warned that the united Three Great Dharma Realms might rival a Profound Immortal, but Wang Ba assured the group that their enemies could not attack soon.
• Wang Ba bowed to Gai True Person and the assembled cultivators and asked them to help him open Sea-Cutting Cliff.

Wang Ba asked the Mahayana cultivators to help open Sea-Cutting Cliff, but Gai True Person refused because he feared the consequences for the Four Great Realms. Wang Ba agreed to pursue Gai’s alternative plan to defeat the Supreme True Buddha, and Bai Liaochan proposed disrupting the Three Great Dharma Realms’ convergence, prompting Wang Ba to think of a possible way.

• Wang Ba told the gathered cultivators that six supreme treasures could open Sea-Cutting Cliff if six Mahayana cultivators controlled them.
• Celestial Lord Chao, the burly man surnamed Jiao, and Kongchanzi agreed to help, while Gai True Person refused on behalf of the Cloud-Heaven Realm.
• Gai True Person proposed defeating the Supreme True Buddha first and promised the Cloud-Heaven Realm would support Wang Ba’s cultivation; Wang Ba accepted the plan.
• Bai Liaochan explained that Buddha Lord Tianshang could become a Profound Immortal by merging the Three Great Dharma Realms, and suggested disrupting their convergence to use a Secret Method against him.
• Wang Ba realized that a particular place might be able to break the Three Great Dharma Realms’ converging momentum.

Wang Ba proposed a surprise attack on the Supreme True Buddha while his allies prepared other ways to counter Tianshang and the Three Great Dharma Realms. He then tried to combine the six Nether-Penetrating Staffs, provoking the Boundary Sea Origin before the staffs were forced apart, and vanished after considering what had happened.

• Wang Ba urged Bai Liaochan to prepare his secret method for striking Buddha Lord Tianshang, while Celestial Lord Chao proposed helping Wang Ba’s Eight-Tailed Celestial Fox advance to the ninth tier.
• Wang Ba proposed a surprise attack on the Supreme True Buddha, and the cultivators agreed to recover before joining him as needed.
• Wang Ba advised Celestial Lord Chao on raising the Chaos Azure Fox, and Celestial Lord Chao left to try the method.
• Kongchanzi gave Wang Ba the True Emptiness Staff, and Wang Ba learned it could subdue earth, fire, water, and wind.
• Wang Ba brought out all six staffs, but their attempted fusion provoked the Boundary Sea Origin, which split them apart.
• Wang Ba exchanged a few words with Gai True Person and used the Escape-Dissolving Divine Ability to disappear.

Wang Ba confronted the spirit inhabiting the Ruins of Zhangshi and persuaded it that the Supreme True Buddha’s expansion threatened them both. The spirit agreed to cooperate but revealed that it could not fight the Three Great Dharma Realms unless Wang Ba lured them to the ruins.

• Wang Ba returned to the ruins and learned from Cheng Lianzi that Laowen Sect’s patriarch had believed them to be an immortal’s remains.
• Wang Ba activated the ancient horn, then struck the Ruins of Zhangshi with the True Fire Staff, provoking the ruins to awaken and seize control of cultivators’ true spirits.
• Wang Ba stopped Cheng Lianzi from being drawn into the ruins and asked its spirit about Immortal Lord Lu He, Tibo, and Sea-Cutting Cliff.
• Wang Ba warned the spirit that the Supreme True Buddha’s plans threatened its Ghost Immortal Dao and persuaded it to help oppose the Three Great Dharma Realms.
• The spirit agreed to cooperate but explained that it could not leave the Profound Immortal remains it inhabited or fight the Three Great Dharma Realms unless Wang Ba lured them to the ruins.

Wang Ba gathered his allies to confront Buddha Lord Tianshang, who ambushed them before they could assess the absent Three Great Dharma Realms. Though Tianshang overwhelmed the group, Wang Ba used the four staffs to open a passage, and an enormous hand reached through to seize him.

• Wang Ba spoke with No Return, whose confused memories flared into turmoil until Wang Ba calmed him and suggested that the Ghost Immortal Dao had eroded his True Spirit.
• No Return refused Wang Ba's request to release the cultivators trapped in the Ruins of Zhangshi, and Wang Ba sent Cheng Lianzi and the others to shelter before summoning his allies.
• Gai True Person, Celestial Lord Chao, Kongchanzi, and the other Mahayana cultivators joined Wang Ba in the Boundary Sea, where they found that Buddha Lord Tianshang and the Three Great Dharma Realms were gone.
• Wang Ba deployed the four staffs, revealing a passage, but Buddha Lord Tianshang ambushed the group and knocked Wang Ba's True Spirit from his body before it returned unharmed.
• The Chaos Azure Fox and the Mahayana cultivators attacked Tianshang, but his Thousand-Headed, Thousand-Armed Dharma Form repelled them and sent them flying.
• Tianshang charged at Wang Ba, then noticed the passage formed by the four staffs as an enormous hand reached through and seized him.

Wang Ba summoned No Return of the Ruins of Zhangshi to battle Buddha Lord Tianshang and the Three Great Dharma Realms, but discovered they were being supplied by conduits beyond the Boundary Sea. As the Dharma Realms merged and Tibo’s phantom grew stronger, No Return warned Wang Ba that they needed to retreat.

• No Return’s enormous stone hand struck Buddha Lord Tianshang, but the Three Great Dharma Realms emerged and forced it back.
• Wang Ba opened the passage wider, allowing No Return to cross from the Ruins of Zhangshi and confront the Three Great Dharma Realms.
• No Return warned Wang Ba that the Dharma Realms were beginning to merge, while Gai True Person and Celestial Lord Chao urged the cultivators to fight rather than retreat.
• Buddha Lord Tianshang summoned the former Buddha Lords, and their power began forming the phantom of Tibo, whom Wang Ba recognized from the Great Sea Market.
• No Return and Tibo’s phantom fought as the Three Great Dharma Realms continued merging, and Wang Ba discovered hidden conduits supplying them from beyond the Boundary Sea.
• Wang Ba and the other cultivators tried to sever the conduits, but their attacks had no effect, and No Return warned that the accelerating merger meant they had to retreat.

Wang Ba and Kongchanzi disrupted the Three Great Dharma Realms’ supply lines, but Buddha Lord Tianshang sacrificed Buddhist subjects and the Nine Former Buddha Lords to force their unification. Xiahou Heavenly Demon then emerged from among the Buddha Seeds and escaped with Shen Fu and other monks, while Wang Ba and his allies kept attacking the opening in the realms’ defenses.

• Kongchanzi used the True Emptiness Staff to shatter the blood vessels nourishing the Three Great Dharma Realms, briefly weakening their Tibo Phantom.
• At the urging of the Former Buddha Lords, Buddha Lord Tianshang sacrificed countless Buddhist subjects to strengthen the realms, and the Nine Former Buddha Lords burned themselves away to accelerate their unification.
• As the realms began to unite, Xiahou Heavenly Demon revealed that he had hidden as a demonic seed among the Buddha Seeds and attacked Buddha Lord Tianshang.
• Buddha Lord Tianshang’s brief distraction gave the Ruins of Zhangshi an opening, and Xiahou Heavenly Demon fled with Shen Fu and many monks.
• Wang Ba, Gai True Person, and their allies attacked the Three Great Dharma Realms to delay their unification, while Buddha Lord Tianshang prepared to respond.

Buddha Lord Tianshang sacrificed himself to unite the Three Great Dharma Realms, gaining overwhelming power and driving back No Return of the Ruins of Zhangshi. Wang Ba and his allies escaped through the passage after Gai True Person spent his life protecting them, while No Return held off Tianshang long enough to follow.

• Buddha Lord Tianshang burned away his body to complete the Three Great Dharma Realms’ unification, emerging in Tibo’s form and blasting No Return of the Ruins of Zhangshi away with a finger strike.
• Wang Ba ordered the others to flee, but Tianshang sealed the void and disabled their Teleportation Arrays as Wang Ba tried to gather his allies.
• Chao Shi intercepted Tianshang’s attack to save Wang Ba, and Gai True Person struck with his sword to help Wang Ba, Celestial Lord Chao, Madam Hua, and the bald-headed man surnamed Jiao escape.
• Gai True Person revealed that his sword strike had exhausted his life and asked Wang Ba to take the group back; Wang Ba gathered them into his sleeve and raced for the passage with the Chaos Azure Fox.
• No Return of the Ruins of Zhangshi blocked Tianshang’s pursuing attack, giving Wang Ba and the others time to enter the passage, and then followed as it closed.

Wang Ba proposed moving the Great Realms away from the Sea-Cutting Cliff to escape Buddha Lord Tianshang, but his attempt to open the Immortal Pass failed. After the Sea-Cutting Cliff’s plague toxin attacked the man surnamed Jiao, Wang Ba realized how the Three Great Dharma Realms had dispelled it and declared he had found a way to deal with Buddha Lord Tianshang.

• Bai Liaochan said Buddha Lord Tianshang’s unified Dharma Realm made him nearly impossible to defeat, while allies from distant regions could not arrive in time.
• Wang Ba proposed relocating the three remaining Great Realms, and the group went to the Sea-Cutting Cliff to search for their connections.
• Wang Ba used all six staffs to open a vortex in the cliff, but the effort nearly drained him, so Kongchanzi pulled the staffs free.
• The man surnamed Jiao touched the Sea-Cutting Cliff and was attacked by Blue-Black Qi, which the Plague Immortal absorbed.
• Wang Ba spotted plague toxin on the cliff, realized it explained how the Three Great Dharma Realms had dispelled the toxin, and announced he had found a way to deal with Buddha Lord Tianshang.

Wang Ba proposed breaking through Sea-Cutting Cliff to cut off the Supreme True Buddha's sustenance, and the others agreed to support him. After six Mahayana cultivators briefly opened the cliff but could not sustain the effort, Wang Ba organized reinforcements and defensive preparations.

• Wang Ba deduced that Sea-Cutting Cliff sustained the Three Great Dharma Realms and proposed opening it to deprive the Supreme True Buddha of that support.
• Xiahou Heavenly Demon restored the Void Demon Realm, announced his intention to ascend, and admitted his opportunistic actions after Gai True Person challenged him.
• Xiahou Heavenly Demon told Wang Ba that Shen Fu had become his sole inheritor and offered to let Wang Ba consult Shen Fu directly.
• Wang Ba and five other Mahayana cultivators used the Six Staffs to open a tiny breach in Sea-Cutting Cliff, but overwhelming suction and exhaustion forced them to stop.
• Wang Ba sent a speck of spiritual light through the closing breach and concluded that they needed more cultivators to sustain an opening.
• Wang Ba assigned the others to summon reinforcements, help the Eight-Tailed Celestial Fox advance, and strengthen their defenses, and everyone accepted his leadership.

Wang Ba reunited with Shen Fu in the Void Demon Realm, but Shen Fu chose to remain there and pursue his own path. As the cultivators prepared to break Sea-Cutting Cliff before Buddha Lord Tianshang could attack, Gai True Person sacrificed his life, and Wang Ba called on everyone to join him in breaking through.

• Wang Ba met Shen Fu, who explained that he had found his own path in the Void Demon Realm and refused to return with him.
• Kongchanzi persuaded Yanpoluo to cooperate in opening Sea-Cutting Cliff, promising he had a way to protect the Buddha Realm's disciples if they survived.
• The Mahayana cultivators gathered at Sea-Cutting Cliff and agreed they could wait no longer to attempt a breakthrough before Tianshang attacked.
• Gai True Person relinquished his life, leaving a spark of True Spirit in Bai Liaochan's hand, while Madam Hua and the others resolved to face Tianshang.
• Wang Ba told Xiahou Heavenly Demon that they might be the tallest ones, summoned six staffs, and urged everyone to form the formation and break through Sea-Cutting Cliff.

Wang Ba and the assembled cultivators tried to open Sea-Cutting Cliff with the Six Staffs, but its escalating suction rapidly drained their strength and killed many supporters. As Buddha Lord Tianshang approached, reinforcements arrived, including the Lord of the Still Cave and a vast host of World Eaters.

• Wang Ba gathered the Mahayana cultivators and their formations, then used the Six Staffs to open a vortex in Sea-Cutting Cliff.
• The vortex widened and its suction intensified, draining the cultivators; some Body Integration cultivators died despite Madam Hua's efforts to sustain them.
• Zhang Bokai learned from No Return of the Ruins of Zhangshi that Tianshang was approaching and sent a warning as Buddha Lord Tianshang appeared in the distance.
• Kongchanzi brought out the Northern Great Bodhisattva, Bodhisattva Zhizhen, and other monks whose altered dispositions he had restored, and they joined the formations.
• Ba True Person, True Person Nie, and hundreds of cultivators arrived to reinforce the formations, but the vortex continued growing and the suction increased.
• The Lord of the Still Cave arrived with Xuanyuanzi and an enormous host of World Eaters, and Wang Ba greeted them with relief.

Wang Ba and the assembled cultivators used the Six Staffs, Primordial Gods and Devils, and World Eaters to widen a breach in Sea-Cutting Cliff while Buddha Lord Tianshang attacked them. As the exhausted group struggled to hold the opening, a giant bird appeared from the other side, and Fanming’s voice asked whether they had arrived too late.

• The Primordial Gods and Devils sacrificed World Eaters to feed the Six Staffs, widening the opening in Sea-Cutting Cliff as the cultivators took elixirs and endured its growing suction.
• Buddha Lord Tianshang struck at Wang Ba’s group, but Wu Ape King blocked the attack with a memorial tablet, turning its power into nourishment for the Six Staffs.
• Buddha Lord Tianshang’s attack prompted No Return to fight him, while Wang Ba realized he could borrow strength from the Four Great Realms.
• Bai Liaochan was swept into the vortex, and the Lord of the Still Cave caught him as Wang Ba took control of the Wind-Driving Staff; Madam Hua pulled the bald-headed man surnamed Jiao to safety and took over the True Fire Staff.
• The vortex’s currents suddenly slowed, and a giant bird’s head emerged through the opening as Fanming asked whether they had arrived too late.

Wang Ba redirected the Four Great Realms’ power through the six great staffs to help open Sea-Cutting Cliff, while Fanming and the Zhou Tian One-Qi Formation struggled against the vortex. As the Four Great Realms supplied Primal Chaos Source Substance, Buddha Lord Tianshang attacked their formation, but the Ruins of Zhangshi and a Green-Robed Young Woman intervened, and she escaped through a cave filled with Death Qi.

• Fanming and the cultivators of the Sea of Boundary Turmoil emerged from the vortex’s Primal Chaos Source Substance, but their Zhou Tian One-Qi Formation could not free Fanming from Sea-Cutting Cliff.
• Wang Ba transferred control of the six great staffs to Zhao Feng and the other cultivators, then sent the Buddha Realm, Silkworm Dragon Realm, Void Demon Realm, and Cloud-Heaven Realm cultivators back to their realms.
• Wang Ba connected four staffs to pillars of light from the Four Great Realms, which supplied Primal Chaos Source Substance and caused the vortex to expand.
• Buddha Lord Tianshang attacked the formation protecting the Four Great Realms, but the Ruins of Zhangshi interrupted him and sent a black-haired monster toward him.
• A Green-Robed Young Woman appeared and struck Buddha Lord Tianshang with divine light from her right golden double pupil, then vanished through a cave leading into Death Qi.

Wang Ba and the cultivators of the Boundary Sea used the Four Great Realms and their own lives to destroy Sea-Cutting Cliff, while Buddha Lord Tianshang attacked the realms. As the vortex swallowed Wang Ba, Yao Wudi rescued him, and Chonghua emerged from the Buddhist light alive.

• Wang Ba linked the Four Great Realms to the four staffs, using their connection to Sea-Cutting Cliff to accelerate its collapse.
• Buddha Lord Tianshang broke the formation protecting the Four Great Realms, but their leaders and millions of cultivators joined forces to keep the pillars of light standing.
• Buddha Lord Tianshang attacked the Silkworm Dragon Realm as the Chaos Azure Fox, the Ruins of Zhangshi, and others tried to stop him.
• Wang Ba called for an all-out effort, and cultivators across the Boundary Sea sacrificed themselves to empower the True Fire Staff and shake Sea-Cutting Cliff apart.
• Fanming burst from the vortex with the Four Great Realms on its back, and Sea-Cutting Cliff collapsed as the vortex expanded.
• The vortex pulled Wang Ba toward it, but Yao Wudi rescued him; then Chonghua emerged from the Buddhist light supporting a battered world domain.

Chonghua saved the Silkworm Dragon Realm and Celestial Lord Chao after Sea-Cutting Cliff collapsed and Buddha Lord Tianshang lost his source of power. As Tianshang absorbed the Three Great Dharma Realms, Chonghua struck him, but Tianshang survived as a solid, one-armed monk.

• Sea-Cutting Cliff collapsed, draining Buddha Lord Tianshang's power and weakening his strike against the Silkworm Dragon Realm.
• Chonghua arrived at the last moment, rescued the battered Silkworm Dragon Realm, and cast it beside the Cloud-Heaven Realm.
• Wang Ba reunited with Yao Wudi, Wang Liu, Yu Wuhen, Bu Chan, and Celestial Lord Chao as the gathered cultivators prepared for Tianshang's final counterattack.
• Buddha Lord Tianshang's Three Great Dharma Realms struck the Ruins of Zhangshi, then flowed into his phantom as he began absorbing them.
• Chonghua exploited the opening and struck Tianshang, destroying the Three Great Dharma Realms but leaving Tianshang alive as a solid, one-armed monk.

Buddha Lord Tianshang reversed the Three Great Dharma Realms and launched a lethal attack on Wang Ba, forcing the cultivators to unite against him. Wang Ba led their resistance through the Zhou Tian One-Qi Great Formation, and Tianshang finally fell beneath the Boundary Sea’s Tribulation Lightning, leaving Wang Ba to declare victory.

• Buddha Lord Tianshang used a Karmic Divine Ability to appear before Wang Ba and strike at him, but Yao Wudi intervened and blocked the attack by drawing on the Little Cang Realm’s origin.
• Man Daoist assembled the cultivators in the Zhou Tian One-Qi Great Formation as Yao Wudi and others attacked Tianshang, who nonetheless pierced the formation and struck Wang Ba; the Immortal Lord Lu He memorial tablet protected Wang Ba from the fatal blow.
• Tianshang manifested as an enormous one-armed Buddha and pressed his palm down on the formation, overwhelming the cultivators until Wang Ba called the remaining fighters into the battle.
• Wang Ba connected with the cultivators through the formation and led it upward against Tianshang’s Buddha Hand, but Tianshang continued to overpower them as the Boundary Sea’s Tribulation Lightning gathered overhead.
• The Tribulation Lightning engulfed Tianshang before he could finish crushing the formation, and he dissipated, leaving his śarīra behind as Wang Ba announced that they had won.

After Buddha Lord Tianshang’s final nirvana, Wang Ba led his followers away from the declining Four Great Realms, but his vow still kept him from attaining Mahayana. On the journey to Extreme Azure Abyss, Bodhisattva Tibo recognized Wang Ba as Immortal Lord, and Wang Ba bowed to Wu Ape King, leaving the others stunned.

• After the battle, Wang Ba realized the primal chaos source substance around the Four Great Realms was running out and decided to take the Little Cang Realm and his followers toward Extreme Azure Abyss.
• Wang Ba parted from Kongchanzi and Shen Fu, returned the True Spirits of the Yin Clan and Laowen Sect cultivators through No Return, and let the Sea of Boundary Turmoil cultivators choose where to settle.
• Wang Ba departed on Fanming with the followers who chose to accompany him, while Sea-Cutting Cliff collapsed and disappeared into the void.
• Wang Ba’s group passed Soulfall Marsh and continued toward Extreme Azure Abyss as the Little Cang Realm slowly recovered and Gan Xiong chose to settle elsewhere.
• Fanming swallowed a humanoid figure formed from Sea-Cutting Cliff fragments, but Bodhisattva Tibo emerged from Fanming’s back and addressed Wang Ba as Immortal Lord.
• Wang Ba bowed to Wu Ape King as the Immortal Lord, stunning the gathered cultivators, and Wu Ape King asked when Wang Ba had discovered him.

Wang Ba confronted the Wu Ape King and learned that Immortal Lord Lu He had possessed Little Monkey, while Tibo and Lu He revealed their hidden contest over the Boundary Sea. As Lu He reclaimed his power and prepared to fight Tibo, the Lord of the Boundary Sea, Taiyuan, arrived to speak.

• Wang Ba asked whether Little Monkey could return, and the Wu Ape King confirmed that he could if the Wu Ape King was absent.
• Wang Ba explained how a string of coincidences had exposed Lu He's identity within the Wu Ape King, while Tibo and Lu He discussed how both had used Wang Ba as a piece in their contest.
• Tibo reclaimed the Six Staffs, and Lu He emerged from the Wu Ape King, absorbed Immortal Blood from cultivators, and recovered his golden double pupils.
• Lu He summoned his Dao Sword, Hidden Emptiness, from the Ruins of Zhangshi, while Wang Ba rescued the weakened cultivators and learned that the two Memorial Tablets contained the missing half of the Third Boundary Sea's origin.
• Lu He and Tibo prepared to fight over the Boundary Sea origin, but Taiyuan, the Lord of the Boundary Sea, appeared and asked them to hear him out.