Arc 34The Reborn Pure Yang

Dharma King Yama took command of the Netherworld as the struggle over Xu Jia’s reincarnation spread into a war among the Dao Proving Ones. The Pure Yang Primordial Spirit chose mortal reincarnation on his own terms, and the story ended with Lü Yan growing up under Xiluo’s watch and the Mountain Folk’s protection.

  • The Great Emperor of Fengdu appointed Yama as the first Dharma King Yama, and Yama accepted authority over the Ten Halls of the Nether Capital.
  • Maudgalyayana brought Xu Jia’s soul into the conflict, but Jiufeng swallowed his golden body and Amitabha Buddha’s soul as Li Jingshu, Mahākāśyapa, and Divine Lord Meng Zhang fought across the Three Realms.
  • Li Boyang used the Seven Stars Treasured Sword to sever the Dao Proving Ones’ causal ties, drawing hidden enemies into the present and exposing a second Six Ears seeking revenge.
  • Maitreya Buddha revealed his plan to become a Pure Yang Dao Ancestor, then fought Luo Qiao across dimensions while the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit gained self-awareness.
  • Luo Qiao and the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit formed the Immortal-Slaying Formation Diagram, but the Primordial Spirit gave up his rebuilt cultivation and fled toward the Yin World Nether Spring to seek mortal reincarnation with his memories intact.
  • Li Xi and Subhūti traveled to Flower-Fruit Mountain, where Duobao found a five-colored divine fetus being prepared to give Six Ears new life.
  • Li Xi planned to use Xirang to seal the Yin World Nether Spring, while Yinglong took over Deception Rabbit’s shapeshifting class.
  • Xiluo recorded the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit’s reincarnation as Lü Yan, who grew up with Mountain Folk bio-armor cells that protected him and adapted to his cultivation.
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Ch. 826Personally Appointed by the Great Emperor, Dharma King Yama

The Great Emperor of Fengdu offered Yama freedom, but Yama refused to leave the Palace of Zhoujue Yin Heaven. Instead, the Great Emperor appointed him the first head of the Ten Halls of the Nether Capital as Dharma King Yama, and Yama eagerly accepted.

  • Yama suppressed the Ghost Gods in the Palace of Zhoujue Yin Heaven, while saving the Yin Deities and ghost officers from the Nether Spring's influence.
  • The Great Emperor of Fengdu appeared in Yama Hall, and Yama greeted him as his master and disciple.
  • The Great Emperor offered to set Yama free, but Yama insisted he did not want to leave and maintained that he was the Great Emperor's disciple.
  • The Great Emperor told Yama he had decided to establish the Ten Halls of the Nether Capital and asked him to lead them as their first head.
  • The Great Emperor offered Yama the title Dharma King Yama and authority to wield the true Book of Life and Death and appoint officials and troops.
  • Yama knelt and accepted the appointment, pledging to serve the Great Emperor.

Ch. 827Dharma Kings of the Ten Halls, a Transformation of Order

Dharma King Yama was born with one-tenth of the Great Emperor of Fengdu’s divinity and authority, revealing a power that reshaped the Netherworld around him. Meng Po saw his emergence as the start of a planned transformation toward the Ten Halls, Eighteen Levels of Hell, and a more complete system for guiding souls.

  • A golden decree descended on the Palace of Zhoujue Yin Heaven, and Yama manifested as a towering Dharma King who crushed Shao Hao beneath his foot.
  • Yama strode through Fengdu and crossed the River of Forgetfulness as buildings, streets, and the land itself moved to clear his way to Cold Spring Prison.
  • Meng Po realized Yama’s birth would allow Fengdu’s authority to extend beyond the nine largest prison springs and govern the expanding Netherworld.
  • Meng Po envisioned a future system of the Ten Halls and Eighteen Levels of Hell, with judges and impermanence envoys selected from those who distinguished themselves during the upheaval.
  • Meng Po asked Diting whether this uncertain future could come to pass, then thought of the absent Heaven-Eroding Lord, who she believed was cultivating in seclusion.

Ch. 828Burn the Heavens and Boil the Seas, Prove the Dao in One Lifetime

Divine Lord Meng Zhang confronted Maudgalyayana, who slipped past his defenses and entered the Yin World Nether Spring. The Sea-Calming Divine Treasure and Netherworld rejected Maudgalyayana, revealing the extraordinary soul of Xu Jia, Amitabha Buddha’s reincarnated incarnation, as Dao Proving Ones coveted the chance to reincarnate as a Buddha.

  • Divine Lord Meng Zhang unleashed a lightning domain against the attackers, and Torch Dragon emerged with his Candle-Holding Fire to burn across the battlefield.
  • Maudgalyayana appeared and attacked with steel feathers formed through Fetal Transformation and Shape Shifting, but Divine Lord Meng Zhang trapped them in his magnetic field.
  • Maudgalyayana used The Ends of the Earth Within Reach to bypass Divine Lord Meng Zhang and enter the Yin World Nether Spring.
  • The Netherworld rejected Maudgalyayana, while the Sea-Calming Divine Treasure disrupted the boundary between the worlds.
  • Maudgalyayana’s transformations exposed the soul within him as Xu Jia’s, Amitabha Buddha’s special reincarnated soul, which made the Dao Proving Ones eager to claim a Buddha’s rebirth.

Ch. 829Interfering with Reincarnation, Recreating Souls

Six Ears questioned why Maudgalyayana had forced open the Yin World Nether Spring and suspected someone else had helped him. At the Cloud Dream Jade Pool Mirror, Li Jingshu saw that Dao Proving Ones were targeting Xu Jia’s unusual soul, but the apparent shortcut to proving their Dao Paths looked like a trap.

  • Six Ears recalled killing Xu Jia and wondered why Maudgalyayana had sent Xu Jia’s soul through the Yin World Nether Spring.
  • Six Ears realized that Maudgalyayana likely lacked the power to open the spring alone and wondered who had intervened.
  • Li Jingshu used the Kunlun Mirror to see that Xu Jia’s soul carried growing karma and had drawn the attention of the Dao Proving Ones.
  • Li Jingshu recognized that Xu Jia’s soul could let Dao Proving Ones establish their Dao Paths while retaining their memories, but the opportunity seemed dangerously perfect.
  • The Dao Proving Ones suspected that Maudgalyayana’s failure to cross the spring was no coincidence.

Ch. 830The Long River of Time Was a "River" Too!

Jiufeng tried to kill Maudgalyayana, but he trapped her with Buddha Kingdom in the Palm and revealed that he came from the future. Li Jingshu then used the Kunlun Mirror to attack Dao Proving Ones across multiple spacetimes, deliberately stirring the Long River of Time to expose those in hiding.

  • Jiufeng transformed into nine birds and slipped past Divine Lord Meng Zhang to attack Maudgalyayana in the gap between the worlds.
  • Maudgalyayana trapped Jiufeng’s final incarnation in Buddha Kingdom in the Palm, and his Mind-Reading Divine Ability revealed her confusion about his identity.
  • The Dao Proving Ones realized Maudgalyayana had never visited the Purple Firmament Palace and grew wary of acting against him.
  • Li Jingshu used the Kunlun Mirror to summon a skeletal claw that froze Dao Proving Ones and reached across spacetimes to attack them.
  • Li Jingshu stirred the Long River of Time with the Kunlun Mirror, hoping to force those hiding across time to reveal themselves.

Ch. 831The Dao of Xuanming, the Heavenly River Sovereign

Li Jingshu used the Kunlun Mirror to confront Mahākāśyapa and reveal the Dao of Xuanming across the Three Realms. The Dao Proving Ones watched from hiding as they wondered whether she planned to prove her Dao.

  • Maudgalyayana sensed Li Jingshu’s attack stirring the Long River of Time and crushed Upāli’s prayer bead to summon Mahākāśyapa.
  • Mahākāśyapa met Li Jingshu’s Xuanming claw with his Buddha’s hand, but her Kunlun Mirror pierced it and wounded him.
  • Li Jingshu explained that the Kunlun Mirror, not her own cultivation, let her stand against Mahākāśyapa.
  • Li Jingshu manifested the river linking the Three Realms, revealing the Dao of Xuanming to the astonished Dao Proving Ones.
  • The Dao Proving Ones hid in other dimensions and watched to see how the confrontation between Li Jingshu and Mahākāśyapa would unfold.

Ch. 832Arhat Golden Body

Maudgalyayana used Mahākāśyapa’s distraction to break through toward the Netherworld, where he survived the River of Forgetfulness with Amitabha Buddha’s aid. Horse-Face and Ox-Head pursued him, and the chapter ended with Maudgalyayana blocking Ox-Head’s sword using Three Heads and Six Arms.

  • Jiufeng realized Mahākāśyapa was buying time while Divine Lord Meng Zhang and Li Jingshu pressed their attack.
  • Maudgalyayana adapted to the chaos between the worlds and moved toward the Netherworld barrier, but Ox-Head charged to stop him as Horse-Face pursued with a chain that restrained two Dao Proving Ones.
  • Maudgalyayana kicked Ox-Head aside, entered the Netherworld, and burrowed into the River of Forgetfulness.
  • Amitabha Buddha’s soul empowered Maudgalyayana’s Arhat Golden Body, allowing him to survive the river, while Horse-Face followed under the protection of the Netherworld Lord’s undying body.
  • Horse-Face’s chain dragged the two Dao Proving Ones into the River of Forgetfulness, where they were corroded, and Maudgalyayana threw the chain back.
  • Ox-Head returned with his Netherworld Sword, and Maudgalyayana manifested Three Heads and Six Arms to block all thirty-six rays of its spiritual light.

Ch. 833Havoc in the Netherworld, Yama Enforces the Law

As Maudgalyayana fought his way toward Fengdu, he admitted to Jiufeng that he wanted to preserve the Buddha's son's past-life wisdom and change his fate. Dharma King Yama emerged from Cold Spring Prison and overwhelmed Maudgalyayana in the River of Forgetfulness, leaving Ox-Head and Horse-Face to seize his soul.

  • Ox-Head and Horse-Face struggled to contain the escaped Ghost Gods and Ghost Kings while fighting Maudgalyayana, who advanced toward Fengdu with Amitabha Buddha's power.
  • Maudgalyayana told Jiufeng he wanted the Buddha's son to retain his past-life wisdom and avoid entering nirvana beneath the sala trees.
  • Jiufeng questioned Maudgalyayana's ability to change the Buddha's son's fate and recalled that Mahākāśyapa had arranged the opening of the Yin World Nether Spring.
  • Dharma King Yama emerged from Cold Spring Prison and struck Maudgalyayana down into the River of Forgetfulness.
  • Dharma King Yama ordered Ox-Head and Horse-Face to seize Maudgalyayana's soul, and Horse-Face threw his chains toward him.

Ch. 834Five-Colored Divine Light, Peacock Great Wisdom King

Jiufeng broke free from Maudgalyayana’s Buddha Kingdom in the Palm, awakened her five-colored peacock incarnation, and swallowed Maudgalyayana’s golden body and Amitabha Buddha’s soul. As the peacock became the Peacock Great Wisdom King, the battle between Li Jingshu, Mahākāśyapa, and Divine Lord Meng Zhang shook the Three Realms.

  • Maudgalyayana struggled against Horse-Face’s chains while Dharma King Yama noticed Jiufeng trapped in his palm.
  • Jiufeng shattered the Buddha Kingdom in the Palm with her Five-Colored Divine Light, dissolving Dharma King Yama’s Netherworld flames.
  • Jiufeng swallowed Maudgalyayana’s broken golden body and Amitabha Buddha’s soul, and her five-colored peacock incarnation gained power across time and space.
  • Mahākāśyapa said it did not matter who escorted Amitabha Buddha into reincarnation so long as the Buddha retained the wisdom of his past lives.
  • Li Jingshu denounced the rule-breakers as her face formed from the Heavenly River, while her battle with Mahākāśyapa and Divine Lord Meng Zhang shook the Three Realms.

Ch. 835The sword that subdues demons and suppresses fiends

Li Boyang and Wangshu observed Mahākāśyapa’s costly return to his peak and recognized the insight in his method. Li Boyang then formed a star-forged sword that descended to sever the causal connections of Dao Proving Ones.

  • Li Boyang studied how Mahākāśyapa had reversed cause and effect to return to this era, realizing the method would cost Mahākāśyapa both his peak and his Dao Path.
  • Wangshu recognized that Mahākāśyapa had sacrificed himself and his Dao Path for a brief return to his former strength.
  • Li Boyang raised his hand as if drawing a sword, and Wangshu tossed him seven specially engraved coins.
  • Li Boyang transformed the coins into the Seven Stars Treasured Sword and drew on the stars and Heavenly River to form a sword spanning heaven and earth.
  • Dao Proving Ones watching across the Long River of Time sensed an ominous danger as Mahākāśyapa recognized the sword’s power to sever cause and effect.
  • The star-forged sword descended and cut the causal connections linked to Dao Proving Ones.

Ch. 836Cast Down into the Mortal World, the Future World-Honored One

Li Boyang’s sword severed the Dao Proving Ones’ ties to their true bodies and exposed Maitreya Buddha at the Fusang Tree. Maitreya empowered a surviving impostor of Six Ears, who attacked the original, and Six Ears fought back with his iron staff.

  • Li Boyang’s sword severed karma between the Dao Proving Ones and their true bodies, dragging those hidden in other dimensions into the present world.
  • Six Ears recognized Maitreya Buddha, who revealed that the Pure Yang Dao Ancestor’s Primordial Spirit was not beneath the Fusang Tree and that Six Ears’ enemy had been waiting there.
  • A second Six Ears emerged from the Mirror Dimension and attacked the original, empowered by Maitreya Buddha’s Buddhist light.
  • The impostor accused Six Ears of abandoning Father and killing him, then tore off his extra ears and declared that he had returned from hell for revenge.
  • The impostor split into more than a hundred clones, but Six Ears escaped their encirclement and struck nearby clones with an iron staff.

Ch. 837In this life, I seek no immortality!

As the two Six Ears fought across the Ten Continents and Three Islands, Yunxiao, Wu Di, and Zhao Gongming withdrew the remaining Rogue Cultivators from danger and wondered who had trained the monkeys. Zhao Gongming identified their likely teacher as Xu Jia, whose refusal of immortality left Yunxiao and Wu Di astonished.

  • Maitreya Buddha smiled beneath the Fusang Tree, then vanished after a lotus bloomed beneath his feet.
  • Yunxiao helped Zhao Gongming and the others move Rogue Cultivators away from the shock waves of the two monkeys' battle.
  • Yunxiao and Wu Di recognized that the monkeys' many techniques suggested a connection to the Dao Ancestor.
  • Zhao Gongming told Yunxiao and Wu Di that Xu Jia, the Dao Ancestor's servant, had helped create the Heaven-Escaping Boat, established Heart-Refining Island, and taught cultivation to many beings.
  • Zhao Gongming explained that Xu Jia had refused the Queen Mother of the West's offer of immortality, saying he sought a perfect cycle of reincarnation instead.

Ch. 838The Second Sage of Tushita Heaven

Luo Qiao confronted Maitreya Buddha and uncovered that he had intervened in the Long River of Time not simply to ensure his birth, but to rewrite his origins and become the Buddha Ancestor’s present-day successor. Maitreya acknowledged that Luo Qiao’s Knowledge of Past Lives had exposed the plan he had carefully hidden.

  • Maitreya Buddha appeared at Biyou Palace, where Luo Qiao recognized him as the future World-Honored One and second sage of Tushita Heaven.
  • Maitreya explained that he needed the Buddha Ancestor to enter nirvana in order to be born, and Luo Qiao realized he had secretly intervened in Maudgalyayana’s fate.
  • Luo Qiao questioned whether the Buddha Ancestor, carrying Xu Jia’s memories, would truly refuse nirvana, and recognized that the outcome remained uncertain.
  • Luo Qiao deduced that Maitreya was accelerating his birth to change from the Future Buddha into the Present Buddha by taking the Buddha Ancestor’s soul for reincarnation.
  • Maitreya admitted that he had prepared to enter the era unnoticed but had failed to account for Luo Qiao.

Ch. 839A born sage, the power of Great Luo

Maitreya Buddha revealed that the sword strike severing his karma had freed him from his original self’s plans, and he chose to seek a destiny beyond becoming Buddhism’s future sage. Luo Qiao confronted him in Biyou Palace, and their battle displayed power nearing the limits of the Three Realms.

  • Maitreya Buddha explained that Mahākāśyapa’s intervention exposed his plan and that Li Boyang’s sword severed his connection to his original self.
  • Luo Qiao realized Maitreya Buddha might be acting on his own will, and Maitreya said he would no longer settle for becoming a sage of Buddhism.
  • Maitreya declared that he, Ajita, could pursue the same path as Lü Dongbin and become a Pure Yang Dao Ancestor.
  • Luo Qiao attacked, but Maitreya hid his true body in another dimension; Luo Qiao followed using Heavenly Gang Steps to locate him.
  • Maitreya Buddha and Luo Qiao fought across dimensions, disrupting the East Sea and forcing Mahākāśyapa, Divine Lord Meng Zhang, and Li Jingshu to ease their own battle.
  • The Dao Proving Ones watched from Purple Firmament Palace as the clash approached the limits of conventional combat, while the Three Realms’ supreme powers remained a barrier to greater destruction.

Ch. 840I am not Li Boyang

Yao Xi opened her Mind-Aspect Barrier, revealing a vast vision of a restored Longbo Kingdom, while Xiluo recognized the ambition in her heart. The Pure Yang Primordial Spirit emerged as a child who rejected looking like Li Boyang, and he began to recall that his self-awareness may have started when he first sensed Li Boyang.

  • Yao Xi expanded her Mind-Aspect Barrier into a vast Longbo kingdom and said she would restore the kingdom in the real world.
  • Xiluo praised Yao Xi’s ability, while the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit began transforming inside the barrier.
  • The Pure Yang Primordial Spirit emerged as a child and told Xiluo, “I'm not Li Boyang.”
  • The Pure Yang Primordial Spirit admitted that he instinctively hated looking like Li Boyang, causing the Ginseng Fruit to revert to its monstrous infant form.
  • Xiluo asked when the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit gained self-awareness, and he recalled that it may have begun when he first sensed Li Boyang.

Ch. 841Lower-dimensional spacetime, Sword Tomb Domain

Li Boyang explained why he had allowed the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit to develop, while Maitreya Buddha broke into Yao Xi’s Mind-Aspect Barrier and rushed toward her, Xiluo, and the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit. Luo Qiao transformed the barrier into a Sword Tomb Domain, and Yao Xi transferred ownership of it to him.

  • Wangshu questioned Li Boyang for letting the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit grow, and he explained that it was not truly his incarnation and that he had encouraged its development through Xiluo.
  • Xiluo realized that the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit had already gained self-awareness, just as Maitreya Buddha shattered the Mind-Aspect Barrier and entered.
  • Maitreya Buddha used the lower-dimensional space’s distorted time perception to rush toward Yao Xi, Xiluo, and the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit.
  • Luo Qiao sent a storm of Sword Qi into the barrier, transforming its buildings, bridges, and Longbo Giants into a Sword Tomb Domain.
  • Yao Xi gave Luo Qiao ownership of the Mind-Aspect Barrier without resisting, astonishing Xiluo and Maitreya Buddha.

Ch. 842The Four Swords of Immortal Slaying, the Golden Immortal Dao Fruit

Luo Qiao descended into the Mind-Aspect Barrier as the embryonic Four Swords of Immortal Slaying formed and turned the barrier into his sword tomb domain. The Pure Yang Primordial Spirit used Mediation of Creation to give the four swords tangible form and entrusted them with the Dao of Immortals, leaving them as pillars of the barrier.

  • Luo Qiao rushed down toward the Mind-Aspect Barrier, and the Dao Proving Ones recognized the four radiances behind him as embryonic forms of the Four Swords of Immortal Slaying.
  • Yao Xi surrendered control of the Mind-Aspect Barrier, allowing it to become Luo Qiao's sword tomb domain, and Maitreya Buddha realized he had pushed Luo Qiao into taking the fight seriously.
  • The four radiances became swords that shattered Maitreya Buddha's golden lotus and filled the barrier with golden rain, which strengthened Yao Xi and revealed to Xiluo the power to reshape bodies.
  • The Pure Yang Primordial Spirit understood that the rain was an act of Mediation of Creation and gave tangible form to the four radiances as vessels for a Dao Fruit.
  • The Pure Yang Primordial Spirit entrusted his portion of the Dao of Immortals to the four divine swords, which became pillars supporting the Mind-Aspect Barrier.

Ch. 843Spacetime Ascension, the Immortal-Slaying Formation Diagram

The Pure Yang Primordial Spirit used Mediation of Creation to transform the sword tomb spacetime into a higher-dimensional world, while Xiluo restrained Maitreya Buddha. The ascended spacetime became a new Immortal-Slaying Formation Diagram, leaving Xiluo eager to confirm what she had witnessed.

  • The Pure Yang Primordial Spirit formed the Four Swords of Immortal Slaying and began reconstructing his body with Mediation of Creation.
  • Xiluo stopped Maitreya Buddha from reaching the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit and fed him the monstrous Ginseng Fruit.
  • The Pure Yang Primordial Spirit destroyed his newly formed body and used its Pure Yang Qi to raise the sword tomb spacetime to a higher dimension.
  • The ascension flung Yao Xi, Xiluo, and Maitreya Buddha out of the forming painting, and Xiluo recognized it as a Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the Land.
  • Xiluo named the new painting the Immortal-Slaying Formation Diagram.

Ch. 844The world is vast; let me roam free

The Pure Yang Primordial Spirit explained that he had dispersed his cultivation to reject the Dao Ancestor’s arranged path and avoid inherited karmic burdens, choosing instead to seek the freedom to make his own choices. Luo Qiao heard his reasoning as the Four Swords of Immortal Slaying continued ascending with the spacetime, and the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit left open the possibility that he might later choose a responsibility for himself.

  • The Immortal-Slaying Formation Diagram’s spacetime rose in dimensions, and the Four Swords of Immortal Slaying ascended with it as the guests in Purple Firmament speculated it might become a new Three Realms.
  • Luo Qiao used the Immortal-Trapping Sword to reshape earth, fire, water, and wind, screening the spacetime from Heaven Beyond Heaven’s gaze.
  • Luo Qiao asked why the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit had dispersed his cultivation after reconstructing his body, and the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit said the Golden Immortal Dao Fruit and its responsibility had not been his to begin with.
  • The Pure Yang Primordial Spirit explained that accepting Luo Qiao’s help to rebuild his body would have left him with karmic debt and an obligation, which he had refused in pursuit of freedom.
  • Luo Qiao questioned whether the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit sought absolute freedom, and he clarified that he wanted the chance to follow his heart and choose any responsibility for himself.

Ch. 845Playing through the mortal world, the Pure Yang Dao Ancestor

The Pure Yang Primordial Spirit chose to give up his Golden Immortal Dao fruit, body, and Primordial Spirit so he could reincarnate and live a mortal life on his own terms. After leaving the Immortal-Slaying Formation Diagram, he headed for the Yin World Nether Spring, while Xiluo left his fate to the Netherworld Lord and the Great Emperor of Fengdu.

  • Li Boyang watched Luo Qiao speak with the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit and reflected on the Primordial Spirit’s wish to roam freely.
  • Li Boyang restored the view of the Immortal-Slaying Formation Diagram for Wangshu, who admired the Four Swords of Immortal Slaying and compared them to her Seven Stars Treasured Sword.
  • The Four Swords of Immortal Slaying tore free, causing the formation’s world to collapse as the swords and the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit fled toward the Yin World Nether Spring.
  • Luo Qiao emerged from the formation, and Xiluo asked why the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit had given up so much.
  • Luo Qiao explained that the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit wanted to reincarnate in a mortal body, retain his memories, and experience a complete life for himself.
  • Xiluo decided that the Netherworld Lord and the Great Emperor of Fengdu could handle the Pure Yang Dao Ancestor’s journey.

Ch. 846Aolai Continent, Subhūti

Three days after the Four Swords of Immortal Slaying ended the calamity, Li Xi traveled with Subhūti to Aolai Continent to deal with the trouble left by his senior brothers. Subhūti revealed their next destinations, and Li Xi agreed to help him clean up the aftermath across the Three Realms.

  • After the Four Swords of Immortal Slaying ended the war, Dao Proving Ones hid or were hunted, while Aolai Continent remained protected by the East Sea Dragon Race and Divine Lord Meng Zhang.
  • Li Xi flew toward Aolai Continent with Subhūti, who pointed out Flower-Fruit Mountain as their destination.
  • Subhūti explained that he had been born in the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, adopted by Li Xi, and had chosen to help resolve the consequences of his senior brothers' failed scheme.
  • Subhūti told Li Xi that they would first address the trouble on Aolai Continent, then might visit Maudgalyayana in Hell and Mahākāśyapa in the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss.
  • Li Xi rented a steel aircraft carrier and complained that Subhūti had made her travel across the Three Realms to clean up after him.

Ch. 847A natural-born stone fetus, Fengxi Nüwa

Duobao climbed Flower-Fruit Mountain and discovered that a divine stone held the spiritual traces of Six Ears, which Li Xi had shaped into a natural-born spiritual fetus. Realizing he was meant to protect the fetus, Duobao chose to stay on the mountain and cultivate anew, while suspecting that Nüwa had fashioned it.

  • Renamed Duobao and reduced to a mortal boy, Maitreya Buddha climbed Flower-Fruit Mountain under Cult Master Tongtian's watch.
  • Duobao found a breathing boulder surrounded by spiritual orchids at the mountain's peak and sensed Six Ears's spiritual light within it.
  • The boulder blasted Duobao away when he tried to touch it, and he recognized that it was being fashioned to give Six Ears new life.
  • Duobao used his blood to see that the boulder was a five-colored divine fetus made from Xirang.
  • Duobao decided to protect the fetus and remain on Flower-Fruit Mountain as his cultivation ground, suspecting that Nüwa had created it.

Ch. 848Nüwa Loved the World, Seventy Transformations a Day

Li Xi revealed that she intended to seal the Yin World Nether Spring with Xirang, while Jiupanpo challenged Deception Rabbit to teach her shapeshifting and learned that Yinglong would take over the class. The chapter left Jiupanpo poised to begin studying transformations under Yinglong.

  • Li Xi explained that she had purified Six Ears's lingering essence and Qi, preventing it from spawning more demons and creating a future Innate Deity for Flower-Fruit Mountain.
  • Li Xi told Subhūti that they would go to the Yin World Nether Spring and try to seal it with Xirang, despite the likely resistance.
  • Jiupanpo insisted to Deception Rabbit that she wanted to master transformations because she admired Nüwa and hoped to save living beings.
  • Jiupanpo suspected Deception Rabbit was avoiding teaching the Dove People, but a dragon-headed demigod intervened and said Deception Rabbit had never discriminated against any race.
  • Yinglong introduced himself as Deception Rabbit's son and announced that he would take over the shapeshifting class for the next few years.

Ch. 849Volume's end: Short-lived and long-lived beings

Li Boyang and Xiluo discussed how to help the aging village chief regain a youthful outlook, and Li Boyang proposed having him spend time with the reincarnating Pure Yang Primordial Spirit. Xiluo agreed to watch over the conspicuous spirit when it was born, eager to meet it first.

  • Li Boyang's consciousness entered his statue in the ancestral temple, and Xiluo's consciousness animated the oddly shaped raccoon-cat statue beside him.
  • Xiluo offered to extend the old village chief's life with her Elixir of Immortality, but Li Boyang said the real problem was his aged mindset.
  • Li Boyang suggested that the village chief spend time with someone who had a heart of a newborn: the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit.
  • Xiluo suspected Li Boyang also wanted to teach the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit a lesson, and admitted she wanted to do the same after being rejected.
  • Li Boyang explained that the reincarnated spirit would attract attention by stirring the Heaven Soul, so Xiluo agreed to keep watch and record its birth.

Ch. 850Fifth Generation · Bio-Armor Cells? A Cultivation Cheat!

Lü Yan grew up in the Hundred Lands Mountain Range with Xiluo recording his childhood and the Mountain Folk protecting children with advanced bio-armor cells. After Fifth Generation · Bio-Armor Cells activated their Myriad Phenomena ability, Lü Yan gained an adaptive cultivation aid that let his body learn and improve continuously, while his experience informed plans for future generations of bio-armor.

  • Lü Yan learned that Xiluo had saved his mother during his birth and recorded his birth and childhood, leaving him with a growing collection of embarrassing footage.
  • The Mountain Folk implanted Fifth Generation · Bio-Armor Cells in Lü Yan on his first birthday to protect him from disease and repair physical injuries.
  • Lü Yan's cells compensated for the nutrients his reincarnated soul consumed, though his rapid growth gave him an enormous appetite that Xiluo also recorded.
  • When Lü Yan started school at age three, Myriad Phenomena activated in his cells and adapted to his breathing practice, cultivation, and physical needs.
  • Lü Yan found that Myriad Phenomena automatically learned and corrected his cultivation, and the Mountain Folk continued developing improved bio-armor cells for future generations.
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