Chapter Summaries

The [Mystic Garden Barrier] protected the Hundred Lands Mountain Range from the South Sea tsunami while expanding its territory by transforming the floodwaters. As Mount Putuo fought to survive as a floating island, Lu Huaijin spotted Dragon King Manas of Great Strength rising from the sea.

• The [Mystic Garden Barrier] activated its Eight Trigrams to hold back the storm surge and absorb the floodwaters, causing the Hundred Lands Mountain Range to grow.
• Li Huaijin explained to Li Chungang that the barrier’s success was already remarkable, while Li Jingshu reported that the villagers, Butterfly People, and gods were reinforcing its formation cores.
• Li Chungang and Li Jingshu saw Mount Putuo withstand the storm through the Purple Bamboo Grove and the Twenty-Four Legions of Dharma Protector Deities, while Li Xi noted it had become a floating island cut off from the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
• Lu Huaijin spotted a huge crimson dragon-like being with seven pearls emerging from the seabed and identified it as Dragon King Manas of Great Strength.

Miaoshan defended Mount Putuo against the Nagas and fought Dragon King Manas of Great Strength until the [Mutton-Fat Jade Purifying Vase] smashed his upper body. A little girl in an azure robe appeared as the storm ended, revealing herself as the reborn Sea Dragon King and true ruler of the South Sea.

• The Nagas launched an open attack, and Miaoshan sent Vajra Warrior to intercept Dragon King Manas of Great Strength.
• Vajra Warrior struck Manas but was knocked back, so Miaoshan used her thousand-armed Dharma form to block the waves and turn several Nagas against their allies.
• Manas broke Miaoshan’s hand seals with a roar and attacked her with his enormous pincers.
• The [Mutton-Fat Jade Purifying Vase] fell from the sky and crushed Manas’s upper body, prompting him to accuse Sagara of betrayal.
• A little girl in an azure robe appeared, and the storm and tides calmed as the sea beasts submitted to the reborn Sea Dragon King.

Li Jingshu identified Sagara as the Sea Dragon King, but the Nine-Headed Dragon King Vasuki arrived to fight Sagara and Miaoshan. Li Jingshu blasted one of Vasuki’s heads with her God-Slaying Sniper Rifle, and Lu Huaijin and Li Chungang charged into battle.

• Li Xi identified the girl in the sky as Sea Dragon King Sagara, and Li Jingshu recognized her from Xiluo’s stories.
• Nine whirlpools opened across the South Sea, and Vasuki’s nine dragon heads emerged to attack.
• Miaoshan defended Mount Putuo from Vasuki’s dragon breath while the Dragon King of Great Strength rebuilt his body and argued with Vasuki.
• Li Jingshu fired her God-Slaying Sniper Rifle from the Hundred Lands Mountain Range and blasted apart one of Vasuki’s heads.
• Lu Huaijin charged out of the Mystic Garden Barrier, and Li Chungang followed after telling Li Xi to stay behind.

Dragon King Takshaka of the Poisonous Gaze had assimilated most of the North Sea Nagas after sending Vasuki away, but Shang Yang and the North Sea forces confronted him at the polar glaciers. As the battle began, Shang Yang trapped Takshaka’s forces in a Wind and Rain formation, and Zhenwu judged that Takshaka would be unable to turn the fight around.

• Dragon King Takshaka of the Poisonous Gaze reflected on his origins and his ability to absorb other Nagas, then regretted that he had not had more time to assimilate them.
• Giant Kun surrounded the Nagas at the polar glaciers, and Shang Yang arrived with storm winds and rain.
• Takshaka challenged Shang Yang and mocked him as an old fossil, then his Nagas attacked the North Sea forces.
• The Giant Kun met the Nagas in battle as they unleashed their Divine Abilities.
• Shang Yang deployed the Wind and Rain Flag: Twenty-four Solar Terms Transformation Formation and used a Bagua Compass to control it.
• Zhenwu dismissed Takshaka’s failure to stop Shang Yang and concluded that the formation would leave the Dragon King unable to cause trouble.

Divine Lord Meng Zhang trapped Dragon King Nanda of Joy in the East Sea while Upananda of Virtuous Joy evaded him and tried to intervene. As Li Boyang and the other Dao Proving Ones watched a challenger seeking to prove his Dao in the present world, a thunderous crash came from Mount Sumeru.

• Divine Lord Meng Zhang overwhelmed Nanda’s forces in the East Sea as many Nagas defected and joined him.
• Upananda of Virtuous Joy avoided Meng Zhang’s encirclement and repeatedly tried to rescue his trapped elder brother.
• Li Boyang observed the Dao Proving Ones from Tushita Palace while concealing his connection to the Primordial Beginning Heavenly Demon.
• The Dao Proving Ones watched the unknown challenger’s attempt to prove his Dao in the present world and speculated about his identity and prospects.
• A thunderous crash erupted at Mount Sumeru, the center of Renli Heaven and the Six Desire Heavens.

Mount Sumeru shook when Ji Meng opened a passage to a new ocean world, alarming Śakra · Indra and the Eight Legions. Li Boyang confronted Ji Meng, who refused to abandon his attempt to attain the Dao and dared the Dao Ancestor to stop him.

• Mount Sumeru shook, and Śakra · Indra asked what had happened as he surveyed his unfinished Heavenly Emperor's City.
• A Garuda told Śakra · Indra that the Nagas had opened a complete new world through a vortex on Mount Sumeru.
• Li Boyang arrived at the vortex and saw Ji Meng's vast ocean world, then challenged him for linking it to the present world through the Four Seas' sea eyes.
• Ji Meng refused to be dissuaded and told Li Boyang that he would have to destroy the world or fight him there to stop his Dao attainment.
• Li Boyang warned that he could erase Ji Meng across all timelines, but Ji Meng laughed and declared that he did not fear death.

Li Boyang entered the spacetime vortex to confront the Dragon Lord, while Xiluo unleashed the Queen Mother of the West avatar in the Jade Pool. The Queen Mother of the West faced the Dragon Lord’s sons at the vortex, forcing them to reveal their names.

• Ji Meng vanished after warning Li Boyang not to fall for the Dragon Lord’s provocation, and Zhuang Zhou cautioned him about entering the Dragon Lord’s home world.
• Li Boyang stepped into the spacetime vortex, saying he had prepared contingencies.
• Xiluo awakened the Queen Mother of the West avatar in the Jade Pool and opened it to the Six Desire Heavens, releasing boundless vitality.
• The Queen Mother of the West confronted a golden dragon named Ao Guang, wounded his claw, and demanded that he call his brothers out.
• Ao Guang’s brothers emerged, and the Queen Mother of the West compelled them to introduce themselves as Ao Qin, Ao Run, and Ao Shun.

Li Boyang confronted Dragon Lord Ji Meng in the underwater world and sent him into the Zhoutian Star Dou Grand Formation in the Yunmeng Jade Pool Realm. Wangshu challenged Ji Meng there as he transformed into a colossal dragon, leaving their battle underway.

• Li Boyang reached Ji Meng’s immense crystal palace and questioned why Ji Meng was rushing to sacrifice the aquatic races for their rise.
• Ji Meng attacked Li Boyang with lightning, but Li Boyang used the Heaven and Earth Ring to send him into the Yunmeng Jade Pool Realm.
• Wangshu appeared from the Great Yin Star and challenged Ji Meng within the Zhoutian Star Dou Grand Formation.
• Ji Meng tried to return through the closing ring, but Wangshu trapped him with the formation and forced him to face her.
• Ji Meng transformed into a colossal dragon and battled Wangshu among the stars, drawing the attention of the realm’s inhabitants.

Li Boyang uncovered that an ancient god from before Xihe’s era had created the Dragon Transformation Platform and used Dragon Lord Ji Meng as a piece in an attempt to escape its destined death. The ancient god explained that its death was necessary for water and all later life to arise, and revealed that it had personally nurtured the first Dragon Race to alter its fate.

• Li Boyang concluded that Ji Meng had been concealing the true mastermind and that the Dragon Transformation Platform had given rise to both the Dragon Race and Ji Meng.
• The ancient god emerged from the ocean and asked when Li Boyang had begun to suspect it.
• Li Boyang cited Ji Meng’s use of the term “Water Race” and the Dragon Race’s instinctive fighting style as clues that Ji Meng was not the mastermind.
• Li Boyang identified the mastermind as a primordial god from before Xihe’s era, and the god admitted that Li Boyang’s teachings had awakened its intelligence and let it perceive the future.
• The ancient god explained that its death had to precede the birth of water and living beings, making its attempt to survive likely to draw opposition from Dao Proving Ones.
• The ancient god said it had personally nurtured the first Dragon Race as a way to change its ordained fate.

Li Boyang battled the ancient god as Samadhi True Fire began refining the ocean world, while the god used the world itself to attack him. Li Boyang broke the god’s giant palm with two pills and revealed that he stood outside the world, treating it as a teapot in his hands.

• The ancient god explained that Ji Meng had acted too eagerly and that he had underestimated Li Boyang when he flooded the land.
• Li Boyang summoned the Eight Trigrams Furnace and used Samadhi True Fire to burn the ancient god’s ocean world.
• The ancient god unleashed waves to slow the fire, sacrificing many shrimp soldiers, crab generals, and dragon descendants in the resulting disasters.
• The ancient god formed a giant palm from the world to seize Li Boyang, but Li Boyang’s Premonition Divine Ability showed him that escape was impossible from within it.
• Li Boyang sent two pills into the sky, shattered the giant palm, and transformed them into the sun and moon that subdued the ocean.
• Li Boyang appeared above the world and declared that he regarded it as a teapot held in his hands.

Li Boyang formed the [Sun and Moon Pot] to seize the God of Time Immemorial’s Great Dao and bind his world to the river of history, making it harder for him to rewrite his fate. The pot’s creation sent waves through time, giving other Dao Proving Ones a chance to resist their own predestined fates, though Xihe believed Li Boyang would prevent history from being rewritten.

• The God of Time Immemorial realized Li Boyang intended to seize his Great Dao and preserve its world in the river of history.
• The Queen Mother of the West subdued four dragons, recorded their names, and looked toward the river of time as the Dao Proving Ones turned their attention to Li Boyang.
• Li Boyang completed the [Sun and Moon Pot], which roared with the God of Time Immemorial’s power and sent waves surging through the river of time.
• The Queen Mother of the West recognized that the ancient god came from an era too distant for her to see clearly.
• Xihe told the newly hatched Golden Crow that Li Boyang’s era offered Dao Proving Ones freedom from the constraints that trapped those in the past and future.

Li Boyang obtained the Dragon Transformation Platform from the Water Mother Primordial Lady and merged it with the Sun and Moon Pot. After he departed, the Netherworld Lord revealed that their exchange established a tacit understanding with the Dao Ancestor, while he suspected Li Boyang had a grander purpose for the artifacts.

• The Water Mother Primordial Lady offered Li Boyang the Dragon Transformation Platform in exchange for a condition, and he agreed without asking what it was.
• Li Boyang said he would not harm the Dragon Lord and the other dragon kings, and the Water Mother Primordial Lady handed him the Dragon Transformation Platform.
• Li Boyang merged the Dragon Transformation Platform with the Sun and Moon Pot, then learned the ancient god's name was Water Mother Primordial Lady before vanishing.
• The Netherworld Lord appeared and explained that he had helped refine the Dragon Transformation Platform, and that Li Boyang's taking it created a tacit understanding between them.
• The Netherworld Lord said he was not afraid Li Boyang would use the artifact against him, because he believed Li Boyang had a greater purpose.

Li Boyang used the [Sun and Moon Pot] as a catalyst to refine heaven and earth, expanding the land, oceans, and celestial bodies while transforming the world’s primordial energy. Jinjiao broke through his bottleneck by recognizing the process, while the Queen Mother of the West watched as the upheaval began causing catastrophic changes across the world.

• The land and oceans expanded as mountains rose, and Jinjiao realized the entire world was cleaving heaven from earth anew.
• Jinjiao recognized the world’s transformation as pill refinement and identified the [Sun and Moon Pot] in Li Boyang’s hand as its catalyst.
• Jinjiao broke through his bottleneck, glimpsed the river of time, and saw Li Boyang using the [Sun and Moon Pot] to alter the present world.
• The Queen Mother of the West arrived as Li Boyang transformed the [Sun and Moon Pot] into the Palace of Eight Visions and summoned the Eight Trigrams Furnace into its center.
• The Queen Mother of the West saw the Palace of Eight Visions convert Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, while the expanding world brought earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and deadly changes in gravity.

The world underwent an ongoing ascent into higher dimensions, changing the balance of power and allowing Dao Proving Ones to briefly escape time. Wangshu defeated Dragon Lord Ji Meng in battle and questioned him while waiting for her Teacher to return.

• The Eight Trigrams Furnace began transforming the world into a five-dimensional structure, making its land, oceans, and resources effectively infinite to ordinary beings.
• The Dao Proving Ones realized the world's dimensional ascent would continue and force them to keep advancing to retain their status.
• In the Yunmeng Jade Pool Realm, the strengthened [Zhoutian Star Dou Grand Formation] turned the battle in Wangshu's favor and bound Ji Meng with chains of stars.
• Ji Meng raised his dimensionality to escape the formation, but the strain burst the scales across his body.
• Wangshu beheaded Ji Meng and then dismembered him with the [Seven Stars Treasured Sword], leaving his pieces unable to resist.
• Wangshu asked Ji Meng what he wanted to say while they waited for her Teacher to return.

Wangshu spared Ji Meng and his four sons, while Li Boyang arranged for the surviving dragons and Water Race to settle in the expanded four seas under Divine Lord Meng Zhang and the other sea rulers. Ao Guang accepted his role in the East Sea, where he and his brothers would help their people adapt but were forbidden to leave the seas without permission.

• Wangshu told Li Boyang and Xiluo that she had kept Ji Meng alive, while his dismembered pieces formed a belt of stars around the Great Yin Star.
• Li Boyang proposed that Ji Meng's four sons manage the four seas and revealed that he had also saved the dragon offspring and shrimp soldiers and crab generals.
• Divine Lord Meng Zhang welcomed Ao Guang to the East Sea, explained that his brothers had been sent to the other seas, and tasked him with helping the Dragon Race and Water Race adapt.
• Divine Lord Meng Zhang told Ao Guang that none of the new arrivals could leave the four seas without permission.
• Miaoshan accepted the arrangement in the South Sea, Wu Xian enforced it in the West Sea despite objections, and Shang Yang brought Zhenwu to receive Ao Shun and the others in the North Sea.

Ten years after heaven and earth transformed, the Three-Eyed Holy Demons spread aid, cultivation, and technology while the world expanded dramatically. Li Boyang met a surviving Longbo Giant seeking mist and cloud gauze, but Xiluo objected to giving away so much stock.

• Yunmeng Marsh expanded from eight hundred li to eighty thousand li, prompting the mountain folk to replace boats with flying steel aircraft carriers.
• The matured Three-Eyed Holy Demons escorted the carriers and helped other intelligent beings meet their basic needs and learn cultivation and crafts.
• Many intelligent beings chose to practice Hanging Silk Lady's Transformation Method despite Li Boyang's warnings, because humanoid forms better suited cultivation and the mountain folk's treasures.
• Li Boyang asked a giant beneath the carrier why he had not cultivated the Transformation Method, and the giant explained that he was already humanoid and had lost interest in travel after Longbo Kingdom fell.
• The giant said he had come to buy Li Household Village's mist and cloud gauze, and Li Boyang questioned whether his visit was truly a coincidence.
• Xiluo complained that Li Boyang was giving away too much mist and cloud gauze and asked whether he intended to stop doing business.

Li Boyang considered how expanding trade and transportation networks could keep the growing world connected and prevent isolated states from becoming hereditary domains. In the East Sea, Xiluo questioned the Longbo Giant about his request for mist and cloud gauze, and he accidentally revealed more than he intended.

• Li Boyang reflected that the mountain folk’s steel carriers and a network of roads, rails, and shipping routes could strengthen exchanges between distant peoples.
• Li Boyang learned that Lu Huaijin and other radicals wanted Nü E to expand the Mystic Garden Barrier, while Great Xia opposed the plan and Wu Zhen’s transportation-network proposal faced resistance from many rulers.
• Li Boyang acknowledged that he had secretly traveled to the East Sea with Xiluo, who knew of his departure and supported it.
• Xiluo asked the Longbo Giant why he wanted mist and cloud gauze, and he claimed it was for his kin’s clothing.
• Xiluo questioned why the cloth needed to resist water and fire, and the Longbo Giant realized he had revealed information he meant to keep secret.

Li Boyang offered to sell the Longbo Giant Mist and Cloud Gauze if he explained why he needed it, and the giant agreed to trust him. The chapter revealed that the Longbo Giants needed the gauze to fish Golden Ao out of the deep sea and reclaim the ruins of their sunken kingdom.

• The Longbo Giant turned to leave after deciding Li Boyang would not sell the Mist and Cloud Gauze, and Xiluo laughed when she realized why he had failed to buy any.
• Li Boyang stopped the Longbo Giant and offered to help if he shared his real reason for seeking the gauze.
• The Longbo Giant noticed Li Boyang's unusually small, apparently self-operating steel aircraft carrier and agreed to trust him because he was a Holy Demon.
• The chapter described how Golden Ao had taken over the resurfacing ruins of the Longbo Kingdom and repeatedly outmaneuvered the Longbo Giants.
• The Longbo Giants planned to use water- and fireproof Mist and Cloud Gauze as fishing line to catch Golden Ao with golden glue bait.

Yao Xi and Luo Qiao accidentally drew a Golden Ao into an incomplete chain net, and it charged at them after the net broke. As the Longbo Giants rushed to rescue them, their eldest declared that their descendants mattered more than preserving the kingdom’s ruins, while the former high priest sensed that the god of the East Sea was still alive.

• Luo Qiao asked Yao Xi if their eldest brother had returned, and she scolded him for getting distracted while they baited the Golden Ao.
• A Golden Ao surfaced beneath an island, snapped the chain net, and charged at Luo Qiao and Yao Xi.
• The elders heard the Golden Ao’s roar and hurried to rescue the two youngest Longbo Giants.
• The eldest told the elders to spare no cost to protect the children, even if that meant losing the ruins of the Longbo Kingdom.
• After the others left, the former high priest prayed to the god of the East Sea and felt a familiar divine will descend.

Luo Qiao fought the Golden Ao using forbidden techniques and the Sacrificial Dance until a mysterious method transformed his Qi, but the beast swallowed him. Yao Xi unleashed a lightning strike that killed the Golden Ao as arriving Longbo Giants watched in disbelief.

• Luo Qiao hurled Yao Xi away, burned his Qi and Blood, and struck the Golden Ao hard enough to crack the island on its back.
• Luo Qiao used the Sacrificial Dance and his agility to evade the Golden Ao, but he could not find a way to defeat its massive body.
• A voice gave Luo Qiao a meridian diagram, and his Breathing Method transformed his Qi and Blood into domineering Life Primordial Qi.
• The Golden Ao swallowed Luo Qiao, and Yao Xi cried out in despair.
• Yao Xi rose into the air and struck the Golden Ao's head with lightning, killing it as nearby Longbo Giants looked on in shock.