Chapter Summaries

Yang Zhen discovered that the Twelve Azure Lotuses contest concealed an Earth Treasury Origin Opening Formation and activated it from the stone stele. The formation blasted Weng Yongli and Lin Miaoyi away, leaving them stunned as Weng Yongli demanded to know what Yang Zhen was doing.

• Fake Old Daoist revealed that the Azure Lotus Sect had hidden the Earth Treasury Origin Opening Formation inside the stone stele as the real test.
• Yang Zhen sat beside Lin Miaoyi and prepared to study the stone stele, while Zhou Tong tried unsuccessfully to signal him to break the formation.
• Weng Yongli suffered a backlash from the formation, spat blood onto the stele, and resumed trying to comprehend it.
• Yang Zhen sensed the formation, placed his hand on the stone stele, and released intricate golden markings that astonished Fake Old Daoist and Zhou Tong.
• The stone stele roared and blasted Weng Yongli and Lin Miaoyi backward, prompting Weng Yongli to shout at Yang Zhen.

Yang Zhen activated and broke the Earth Treasury Origin Opening Formation, astonishing the gathered disciples and elders. He obtained a powerful formation disk, while Fake Old Daoist expressed interest in recruiting him to the Azure Lotus Sect, prompting Zhou Tong to claim him for the Heavenly Severance Sect.

• Yang Zhen fully activated the Earth Treasury Origin Opening Formation, blasting Lin Miaoyi and Weng Yongli away and alarming Fake Old Daoist.
• Zhou Tong declared Yang Zhen the winner of the comprehension round, while Fake Old Daoist and Granny Chenggui urged Lin Miaoyi and Weng Yongli to try understanding the formation.
• Yang Zhen studied the formation and began manipulating its nodes with a dazzling array of Heaven and Earth True Runes, leaving Weng Yongli and Granny Chenggui bewildered.
• Yang Zhen shouted “Open!” and broke the formation, producing an exquisite, powerful formation disk.
• Fake Old Daoist admitted his interest in Yang Zhen and suggested he could join the Azure Lotus Sect, while Zhou Tong insisted Yang Zhen was his master and belonged to the Heavenly Severance Sect.

Yang Zhen broke the formation and studied its plate while Weng Yongli and Lin Miaoyi tried to comprehend the Twelve Azure Lotuses, only to find the stone stele empty. Yang Zhen revealed he had already comprehended the technique while examining the plate, leaving Weng Yongli furious and everyone else stunned.

• Yang Zhen broke the formation, and Weng Yongli and Lin Miaoyi began trying to comprehend the Twelve Azure Lotuses in the stone stele.
• Weng Yongli and Lin Miaoyi withdrew after discovering that the stele contained nothing, and Fake Old Daoist insisted he had inscribed the technique himself.
• Yang Zhen finished studying the formation plate and asked whether anything had happened.
• Yang Zhen said he had comprehended the Twelve Azure Lotuses while taking the formation plate.
• Weng Yongli pointed at Yang Zhen and roared that he did not believe him, and Yang Zhen dismissed his objection.

Yang Zhen claimed he had comprehended the Azure Lotus Sect’s Twelve Azure Lotuses during the competition, and the Fake Old Daoist confirmed the technique was gone from the stele. Yang Zhen revealed nine azure lotuses, leaving the sect elders astonished and Zhou Tong suspicious that he was still hiding something.

• The Fake Old Daoist checked the stone stele and confirmed the Twelve Azure Lotuses was gone, then asked Yang Zhen whether he had comprehended it.
• Yang Zhen asked whether that meant he had won, and the Fake Old Daoist said he had if he had truly comprehended the technique.
• Weng Yongli challenged Yang Zhen to demonstrate the technique, but the Fake Old Daoist defended him and said he had only studied it for a quarter of an hour.
• Yang Zhen announced that he had comprehended nine azure lotuses and manifested them around himself.
• The Fake Old Daoist celebrated Yang Zhen’s achievement but regretted that he belonged to the Heavenly Severance Sect, while Lin Miaoyi and the others stared in shock.
• Zhou Tong watched Yang Zhen suspiciously and thought he must still be hiding something.

After Yang Zhen broke the Earth Treasury Origin Opening Formation and comprehended nine of the Twelve Azure Lotuses, he stayed at the Azure Lotus Sect while Zhou Tong tried in vain to learn how many lotuses he had mastered. Lin Miaoyi brought Yang Zhen to meet the sect master, and he learned the sect might help him reach the ten-lotus threshold to enter a mysterious sacred place.

• Yang Zhen spent five days watering the flowers at his courtyard while Zhou Tong repeatedly asked how many Azure Lotuses he had comprehended.
• Yang Zhen offered to give Zhou Tong the Twelve Azure Lotuses in exchange for something valuable, then jokingly claimed he had comprehended thirteen.
• Lin Miaoyi invited Yang Zhen to the main hall to meet the Azure Lotus Sect master, despite Zhou Tong warning him it was a scheme.
• Lin Miaoyi told Yang Zhen that only someone who had comprehended at least ten Azure Lotuses could enter a place in the sect, and suggested the sect master might help him gain another.
• Lin Miaoyi explained that even the sect master had failed to condense ten Azure Lotuses without suffering a backlash.
• Yang Zhen arrived at the main hall and saw Granny Chenggui, Weng Yongli, and other visitors waiting, prompting him to wonder why the Azure Lotus Sect was treating him so hospitably.

Yang Zhen met the Azure Lotus Sect Master, who learned of his claimed Savage Wilderness inheritance and offered to help him enter the Azure Lotus Sect patriarch’s sacred ground. The Sect Master asked Yang Zhen to retrieve the Heaven and Earth Azure Lotus, leaving Yang Zhen curious about what else the sacred ground might contain.

• The Azure Lotus Sect Master summoned Yang Zhen and asked whose disciple he was.
• Yang Zhen claimed his master had warned him not to casually reveal his Savage Wilderness inheritance, shocking Lin Miaoyi, Weng Yongli, and the others.
• The Sect Master praised Yang Zhen for comprehending nine of the Twelve Azure Lotuses and explained that ten were needed to enter the Azure Lotus Patriarch’s sacred ground.
• The Sect Master offered to help Yang Zhen condense another azure lotus so he could enter and bring out the Heaven and Earth Azure Lotus.
• Yang Zhen hesitated over the request, then grew curious about the sacred ground and its other possible treasures.

Yang Zhen examined the Azure Lotus Sect’s sacred land and discovered that its strange terrain had been arranged to mirror the Samsara of Heaven and Earth. He suspected the place was connected to the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth, leaving the others stunned by the possibility.

• The Azure Lotus Sect Master brought Yang Zhen, Granny Chenggui, and Zhou Tong to the sacred land, where Yang Zhen questioned why the cave and its surroundings had been left untouched.
• Yang Zhen pulled up weeds and watched them regrow, then used his divine soul to examine the surrounding mountains.
• The Azure Lotus Sect Master and Zhou Tong discussed whether Yang Zhen had comprehended more than nine azure lotuses and could condense a tenth.
• Yang Zhen concluded that a Great Emperor had likely created the site and that its layout followed the Samsara of Heaven and Earth.
• Yang Zhen said the site might contain a Heaven-Encompassing Grand Array meant to reenact Samsara and could be tied to the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth.

Yang Zhen prepared a way to open the Azure Lotus Sect’s Samsara holy land and let others enter with him. After finishing his preparations, he slept for three days and woke to find a crowd waiting outside his room.

• Yang Zhen agreed to prepare what was needed to open the holy land, and the Azure Lotus Sect Master promised support from the major sects.
• Yang Zhen gave the Azure Lotus Sect Master a list of materials, which the sect gathered within three days.
• Lin Miaoyi stayed in Yang Zhen’s room while he spent two days making preparations with several Heavenly Book techniques.
• Yang Zhen devised a way to deceive the order of heaven and earth so he could bring the Azure Lotus Sect Master and others into the holy land.
• Yang Zhen went to sleep after completing his preparations and slept for three days.
• Yang Zhen woke, dressed, and greeted the crowd waiting quietly outside his room.

Yang Zhen led the Azure Lotus Sect Master and others into the sect’s hidden holy land, where they found a world within a world. A golden dragon attacked them beneath a colossal coffin, leaving Yang Zhen stunned by the sight.

• Yang Zhen agreed to take the Azure Lotus Sect Master, Elder Jia, Elder Feng, Zhou Tong, Granny Chenggui, and Lin Miaoyi into the holy land.
• Yang Zhen used a formation plate and shouted “Open sesame,” revealing a golden cave entrance covered in markings.
• Yang Zhen and the others entered the holy land and emerged in a lush world within a world.
• A golden dragon attacked the group, and the Azure Lotus Sect Master, Zhou Tong, and the others charged at it while Yang Zhen fell back.
• Yang Zhen saw a hundred-zhang coffin floating in the sky, surrounded by lightning and Void Power.

Yang Zhen realized the golden dragon attacking the Azure Lotus Sect Master was a puppet controlled by hidden strands of Qi activity beneath the patriarch’s coffin. He used a strange chant to make the dragon shrink, leaving Zhou Tong stunned and wondering what spell Yang Zhen had chanted.

• Yang Zhen suspected the golden dragon was a puppet after noticing its vacant eyes and learning that it had no wounds that would not heal.
• Yang Zhen sensed faint strands of Qi activity connecting the ground beneath the coffin to the dragon and asked Lin Miaoyi to guard him.
• Zhou Tong mocked Yang Zhen’s plan to slay the dragon and wagered that he would serve as Yang Zhen’s disciple for another hundred years and match him with Lin Miaoyi if Yang Zhen succeeded.
• Yang Zhen pressed his hands to the ground and chanted, causing the golden dragon to shrink before the astonished onlookers.

Yang Zhen sealed the golden dragon inside a Demon Puppet Token and learned that the token belonged to an ancient demon puppet master tradition. After the group discussed the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth, the restrictions around the enormous coffin began to change.

• Yang Zhen sealed the golden dragon inside a small token, which the Azure Lotus Sect master identified as a Demon Puppet Token.
• The Azure Lotus Sect master explained the ancient demon puppet masters, and Yang Zhen wondered how their methods related to the Heavenly Book: Life Assault Chapter.
• The Azure Lotus Sect master told Yang Zhen he would not demand the token back, while Zhou Tong reassured him that the sect would not act dishonorably.
• Yang Zhen asked what caused the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth and the black Heavenly Punishment lightning, prompting Zhou Tong to warn him against speaking so casually.
• The restrictions around the enormous coffin seemed to activate after the golden dragon was taken into the token, and Zhou Tong hoped another Demon Puppet Token would appear.

Yang Zhen and the others fled into the training ground as the Samsara World Within a World collapsed into chaos, where they witnessed an apparition of the Azure Lotus Sect Patriarch fighting several Half-Step Great Emperors. The vision ended with the Patriarch wounded and his enemies closing in.

• Yang Zhen and the Azure Lotus Sect Master led the group into the training ground to escape the Void Power sweeping through the world within a world.
• The enormous coffin and surrounding landscape vanished, leaving only the training ground amid an expanding domain of chaos.
• Lin Miaoyi collapsed under a gathering force, then recovered as a figure appeared where the coffin had been.
• The Azure Lotus Sect Master recognized the figure as the Azure Lotus Sect Patriarch, but Zhou Tong warned that it was only an apparition of the past.
• Several Half-Step Great Emperors attacked the Azure Lotus Sect Patriarch, and one shattered his mountain attack with a sword strike that wounded him.
• The Azure Lotus Sect Patriarch formed an enormous azure lotus behind himself as the remaining Half-Step Great Emperors charged.

Yang Zhen witnessed the Azure Lotus Patriarch die in a battle against five mysterious Half-Step Great Emperors, leaving a curse and a shattered object sealed in a coffin. He learned that the young man who appeared afterward was the legendary figure who had cut down three hundred and sixty Heavenly Tribulations, and began to suspect he was nearing the Great Wilderness era’s hidden secrets.

• The Azure Lotus Patriarch summoned the Heaven and Earth Azure Lotus and fought the five Half-Step Great Emperors, killing two before he died and his lotus burst apart.
• The dying Azure Lotus Patriarch cursed the surviving attackers, declared that Samsara would return in thirty thousand years, and saw a golden dragon charge at them.
• A young man appeared, drove the remaining attackers away, and sealed the coffin’s presence before deciding to leave its contents for those who came later.
• The Azure Lotus Sect Master vowed revenge, while Zhou Tong told Yang Zhen that the attackers were hidden people connected to the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth.
• Yang Zhen learned that the young man was the legendary figure who had cut down three hundred and sixty Heavenly Tribulations, and deduced that he had gathered the shattered object into the coffin.

Yang Zhen and the others investigated the enormous coffin left in the Realm within a Realm, which seemed to be sealed by powerful restrictions. Yang Zhen felt something inside was affecting his State of Mind, so he decided to approach it himself.

• The Azure Lotus Sect master warned Yang Zhen that the Realm within a Realm could trap people in their emotions, then explained that the Azure Lotus Patriarch had vanished in a burst of light and fragments.
• The Azure Lotus Sect master prepared to inspect the coffin, but Fake Old Daoist offered to go because the master's emotions and Qi and Blood were unsettled.
• Yang Zhen sensed that the coffin might be a Heaven and Earth Shackle and warned Fake Old Daoist to circle it rather than approach it directly.
• Fake Old Daoist circled the coffin and returned, saying it was covered in restrictions he could not understand.
• Yang Zhen said his State of Mind had been disturbed since the mysterious person appeared and volunteered to inspect the coffin, while the others suspected it contained a treasure from the Savage Wilderness era.

Yang Zhen approached the enormous coffin and triggered a powerful presence and a Heaven and Earth Baleful Devil. He summoned the Evil Shadow Black Taotie to swallow it, and the creature’s eerie laughter made the devil try to flee.

• Yang Zhen leaped toward the coffin and placed both hands on it while the others watched.
• The coffin’s power blasted Yang Zhen backward, but he recovered and charged at it again.
• A Heaven and Earth Baleful Devil appeared, prompting Zhou Tong to warn Yang Zhen about its Sha Qi.
• Yang Zhen summoned the Evil Shadow Black Taotie and ordered it to swallow the Baleful Devil.
• The Evil Shadow Black Taotie laughed menacingly, and the Heaven and Earth Baleful Devil turned and tried to run.

Yang Zhen and Evil Shadow Black Taotie subdued the Heaven and Earth Baleful Devil, which opened the enormous coffin for them. Yang Zhen entered and found a Dao Seed and a seed of the Heaven and Earth Azure Lotus as the coffin unfolded into a Dao platform.

• Evil Shadow Black Taotie chased down the Heaven and Earth Baleful Devil, beat it until it was drained of Sha Qi, and devoured the Sha Qi.
• The Heaven and Earth Baleful Devil shrank, barked like a dog, and merged into the enormous coffin, causing it to open.
• Yang Zhen leaped into the coffin with Evil Shadow Black Taotie, and the coffin closed behind them.
• Zhou Tong and the others rushed toward the coffin, but it unfolded into a vast Dao platform before they reached it.
• Yang Zhen found a Dao Seed and a seed of the Heaven and Earth Azure Lotus, while the Azure Lotus Sect Master and the others cried out in alarm.

Yang Zhen left the world within a world with the Azure Lotus Sect Master and the others, who learned he had rejected the Dao seed and believed the missing beam of light had been taken by those who defied heaven. After hearing about the Great Wilderness Emperor Road and its formidable Dao cultivators, Yang Zhen looked forward to going there, especially when he learned the Three Flowers Holy Maiden was already on her way.

• Yang Zhen told the others the beam of light was no longer inside, and the Azure Lotus Sect Master believed he had not taken it.
• The Azure Lotus Sect Master led everyone out of the world within a world, where the world of Samsara had stopped cycling and the plants had withered.
• The Azure Lotus Sect Master and Zhou Tong explained the Dao seed and the Great Wilderness Emperor Road, while Yang Zhen said he cultivated his own Dao.
• Zhou Tong and the Azure Lotus Sect Master told Yang Zhen about Dao Venerable Feng Boqi and his final disciple, the Dao Fanatic, who was a closely watched figure on the Emperor Road.
• Yang Zhen learned that the Three Flowers Holy Maiden and her companions had set out for the Great Wilderness Emperor Road, and he eagerly anticipated going there.

Yang Zhen nurtured the Heaven and Earth Azure Lotus seed while the Upper Three Sects arrived at the Azure Lotus Sect ahead of the Great Wilderness Emperor Road. Their visit ended with a Southern Heavenly Gate elder asking where Yang Zhen was, leaving the assembled sects awaiting an answer.

• Yang Zhen placed the Heaven and Earth Azure Lotus seed beside the World-Ending Heavenly Lotus and watched it begin to sprout after two days.
• Yang Zhen examined the powerful Dao Seed left by the Great Emperor but chose not to refine it, determined to keep his Dao heart his own.
• Representatives of the Upper Three Sects arrived at the Azure Lotus Sect, led by Dong Tianming, with the Purple Star Holy Maiden among them.
• Tu Mieyang berated Zhou Tong, and Zhou Tong mocked him in front of the gathered disciples and elders.
• A middle-aged woman from the Southern Heavenly Gate asked the Azure Lotus Sect Master where Yang Zhen was, silencing the training ground.

Zhou Tong faced Tu Mieyang and the other sect elders over his claim that Yang Zhen was his master. Yang Zhen accepted Dong Tianming’s challenge to test whether he could withstand a Great Saint without being defeated.

• Elder Fang asked to meet Yang Zhen, while Tu Mieyang mocked Zhou Tong for taking a young man as his master.
• Dong Tianming asked to meet Yang Zhen, and Zhou Tong rebuked him for speaking Yang Zhen’s name casually before arguing with Tu Mieyang.
• Yang Zhen emerged and asked what was happening, and Zhou Tong told him to knock Tu Mieyang’s head crooked.
• Dong Tianming challenged Yang Zhen to withstand his Great Saint Realm attacks without being defeated, and Yang Zhen accepted.
• The gathered disciples watched as Yang Zhen and Dong Tianming prepared to fight.

Dong Tianming launched a devastating attack against Yang Zhen, but Yang Zhen vanished and reappeared on Dong Tianming’s back. He struck Dong Tianming on the head, then complained that it was too hard.

• Dong Tianming gathered his Dao Intent and charged Yang Zhen with a powerful dragon-shaped attack.
• Yang Zhen disappeared, leaving the onlookers unable to sense him.
• Yang Zhen reappeared on Dong Tianming’s back as Dong Tianming flew across the training ground.
• Yang Zhen called Dong Tianming’s attack all flash and no substance, then punched him in the head.
• Dong Tianming roared in anger, and Yang Zhen wondered aloud why his head was so hard, making the Purple Star Holy Maiden laugh.