Chapter Summaries

Lü Yan bypassed the Star God Network’s restrictions to draw on Gouchen Heavenly Palace’s Star Power and used it to perform a powerful sword technique. His Great Luo perspective showed him a deformed dragon-serpent causing a flood in Yunmeng Marsh, and the creature noticed his gaze.

• Nüshi realized Lü Yan had activated Star Power Empowerment and warned Gouchen that an underage user had borrowed Gouchen Heavenly Palace’s power.
• Gouchen discovered that Lü Yan’s underage profile claimed he was eighteen thousand years old, revealing a loophole in the permission checks.
• Lü Yan used his Pure Yang Divine Ability to channel Star Power into his sword, producing eight blades that formed an Eight Trigrams formation and cast Azure Blade Divination of Heaven.
• Lü Yan’s perspective crossed time, and he saw a dragon-serpent travel downstream through Yunmeng Marsh, unleashing destructive winds and waves.
• The dragon-serpent turned toward Lü Yan’s gaze and revealed its deformed form, with only half of a single horn.

Ao Mo left the charitable home in Flying Sky Stockade and revealed his monstrous dragon-and-snake form to Hanzhi, who comforted him and promised that everyone would await his return. As he swam downstream, Yunxiao sensed that his growing power was stirring the earth veins and water veins.

• Ao Mo entered the stream and revealed his fearsome true appearance to Hanzhi.
• Hanzhi joined Ao Mo in the water, reassured him, and told him not to take Lü Yan's words to heart.
• Ao Mo said he would return, then swam downstream as Hanzhi watched him leave.
• Yunxiao appeared behind Hanzhi, and Qiongxiao and Bixiao joined them in teasing her.
• Yunxiao watched Ao Mo's departure and sensed that his passage was stirring the earth veins, surging the water veins, and spreading water Qi.

Qinghe and Wuluo investigated a spreading disturbance in the Earth Veins and water veins across the Hundred Lands Mountain Range. The disturbance was moving south along a river near Yunmeng Marsh, and its cause remained unknown.

• Alarms sounded at the Supreme Purity Heavenly Palace as the mountain range’s Earth Veins and water veins grew abnormally active.
• Qinghe arrived at the main control center and asked Wuluo what was causing the disturbance.
• Wuluo reported that the affected nodes were continuing to spread and said an Innate Deity’s birth was one possible cause.
• Wuluo connected the disturbed nodes on the screen and showed that the disturbance was moving south along the main river channel near Yunmeng Marsh.

Wuluo traced the spreading anomalies through the Hundred Lands Mountain Range and concluded that they were part of an unusual Divine Ascension Ritual heading toward the South Sea and beyond the Mystic Garden Barrier. She connected the ritual to the Heavenly Emperor’s Hidden Capital in Kunlun, but the scale of the activity left her uncertain about its purpose.

• Qinghe asked whether an Innate Deity could move before birth, and Wuluo said the anomalies’ deliberate route made that explanation unlikely.
• Wuluo mapped the disturbances along the mountain range’s waterways, showing that they avoided Yunmeng Marsh and led toward the South Sea.
• Qinghe reacted gravely to the destination, recalling that she had survived the South Sea upheaval that destroyed her tribe.
• Wuluo explained that the phenomenon aimed to leave the Mystic Garden Barrier and identified it as an unconventional Divine Ascension Ritual.
• Wuluo described the ritual preserved in the Heavenly Emperor’s Hidden Capital, which had once transformed selected living beings into deities.
• Qinghe realized a ritual was underway in the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, while Wuluo questioned why it was activating such an immense network of earth veins and water veins.

Lü Yan entered Bronze Island with a decree from Gouchen and reached the Human Head Tree, where he met the White Bone Bodhisattva, Lingguzi, and the serpent Xiang Yao. Lingguzi said Lü Yan had come to ask about the torrential rain and used Xiang Yao’s favor to ensure he answered honestly.

• Lü Yan found Hanging Silk Lady guarding Bronze Island’s core and presented Gouchen’s decree to gain passage.
• Hanging Silk Lady verified the decree, opened the way, and let Lü Yan proceed through the core area.
• Lü Yan reached the Human Head Tree and met Lingguzi, the White Bone Bodhisattva.
• Xiang Yao lowered his head from the tree and acknowledged that Lü Yan had completed part of his fate configuration, leaving him a favor.
• Lingguzi told Xiang Yao that Lü Yan wanted to learn about the torrential rain and spent Xiang Yao’s favor to secure honest answers.

Lü Yan questioned Xiang Yao about the Nine-Headed Serpent stirring up the South Sea and the relentless rain, learning that the answers involved a Divine Ascension Ritual. Xiang Yao traced the serpents’ origins to the first Witch King and revealed Jiugui’s fixation on finding her adoptive father in others.

• Xiang Yao agreed to answer Lü Yan’s questions honestly until sunset, while Lingguzi stayed to listen.
• Lü Yan asked Xiang Yao about the Nine-Headed Serpent he had seen in a vision and its connection to the rain.
• Xiang Yao identified the serpent as Jiugui’s child with Ao Fei and called him an accursed offspring whose Divine Ascension Ritual would bring disaster.
• Xiang Yao explained that the first Witch King hatched and raised the eggs that became Xiangliu and Jiugui, who were siblings with very different temperaments.
• Xiang Yao said Jiugui had searched for her deceased adoptive father in others and was therefore unsurprisingly drawn to Ao Fei.

Lü Yan questioned Xiang Yao about Ao Fei’s torrential rains and learned that they heralded a dangerous Water Traveling Dragon Transformation ritual. Xiang Yao explained why the ritual required Great Xia’s unique terrain, leaving Lü Yan to consider the risks Ao Fei faced in the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.

• Lü Yan challenged Xiang Yao to explain how he knew about Ao Fei, and Xiang Yao refused to reveal his source.
• Lü Yan reasoned that Xiangliu’s other surviving heads might be connected to Jiugui’s Black Water Pool, and Xiang Yao recognized his suspicion.
• Xiang Yao explained that he and Jiugui inherited the Nine Transformations in One Day ability and learned the Water Traveling Dragon Transformation ritual from their father.
• Xiang Yao said Ao Fei’s torrential rains were a precursor to the ritual and explained that it required powerful, balanced water and earth veins found only in Great Xia.
• Xiang Yao warned that the Hundred Lands Mountain Range remained too small and dangerous to safely support Ao Fei’s transformation.

Ao Mo’s attempt to complete the Water Traveling Dragon Transformation brought him to the southern sluice gate, where Chi Fou confronted him over the damage his torrential rains had caused. Driven toward Qi Deviation by his desire for revenge, Ao Mo accepted Mahoraga’s influence and transformed into an accursed dragon.

• A golden-armored divine statue stopped the swollen river at the southern sluice gate as Ao Mo emerged with a flood dragon’s head and a body covered in wounds.
• Ao Mo asked Chi Fou to let him pass, but she accused him of repaying the Flying Sky Stockade’s kindness with harm to the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
• Chi Fou recognized that Ao Mo’s incomplete Divine Ascension Ritual had brought him close to Qi Deviation, and Ao Mo declared that he did not care if he became a demon so long as he gained power for revenge.
• Mahoraga emerged from the sea of living beings’ subconscious minds and began merging with Ao Mo as his horns changed and the gathered Primordial Qi rushed into him.
• Ao Mo transformed into an accursed dragon, drew moisture from heaven and earth, and unleashed torrential rain.

Chi Fou confronted Ao Mo as his transformation drove him toward madness, while Skanda’s golden-armored form struck him down. Ao Mo survived by shedding his body and reemerged stronger, and Qinghe revealed that Skanda was a prototype Vajra Warrior as the fight continued.

• Chi Fou reflected that Mahoraga’s enticement and Ao Mo’s growing power had warped his reason and temperament, and she suspected Jiugui’s connection to him.
• Ao Mo charged Chi Fou, but Skanda struck him with a demon-subduing pestle and stomped him into the river.
• Ao Mo’s mangled body proved to be an empty shed shell, and he attacked Skanda again in a smaller, stronger form after using his Nine Transformations in One Day.
• Qinghe explained to Wuluo that Ao Mo could adapt to attacks unless killed in one blow, while Skanda was an engineering prototype called a Vajra Warrior.
• Wuluo recognized Chi Fou as the legendary Arbiter of Fate Goddess and asked why she was fighting; Qinghe replied that Chi Fou disliked fighting and that Wuluo should keep watching.

Chi Fou used Skanda to force Ao Mo to expend his final transformation, but let him escape rather than take his life. She then stopped the torrential rain and prepared to use the River Chart and Luo River Book to protect the land and its living beings.

• Chi Fou analyzed the Star God Network's data and concluded Ao Mo could transform only once more that day.
• Chi Fou ordered Skanda to lift the restrictions on his Law Seals and attack Ao Mo without holding back.
• Skanda crushed Ao Mo's neck until Ao Mo used his third transformation and escaped beneath the river, leaving behind his snakeskin.
• Chi Fou chose not to pursue Ao Mo because she hated taking life and believed in protecting the possibilities of living beings.
• Chi Fou stopped the rain, dispersed the clouds, and unfurled the River Chart and Luo River Book.

Lü Yan found Chi Fou restoring Skanda's water veins and learned that Ao Mo had become vastly more powerful through the Water Traveling Dragon Transformation. After Skanda brought Chi Fou back to Li Jingshu, she reflected that Lü Yan and Non-Crying Child were fundamentally different.

• Lü Yan recognized the River Chart and Luo River Book and asked Chi Fou where Ao Mo had gone.
• Chi Fou explained that Ao Mo had grown stronger after battles, merged with the Mahoraga, and was nearing Dragon Transformation.
• Chi Fou told Lü Yan that Ao Mo had headed toward the South Sea and warned that even Skanda might struggle to kill him.
• Skanda used the Power of Spiritual Travel to take Chi Fou to Li Household Village, where Li Jingshu asked whether the Vajra Warrior had proved useful.
• Chi Fou praised Skanda's abilities, then told Li Jingshu that Lü Yan was not like Non-Crying Child and would never become another version of him.

A vast Ocean of Milk made of Nectar of Immortality formed in Jade Capital Heaven, drawing the Eight Legions and Śakra’s forces into a spreading battle. Minghe opened a passage to the Netherworld beneath the ocean, contaminating the Nectar and turning it deadly to all but the Asuras and Yakshas.

• Li Boyang, Xiluo, Jinjiao, Yinjiao, and Wangshu watched the Heavenly Realm through the Haotian Mirror as an Ocean of Milk took shape in Jade Capital Heaven.
• Śakra sent his Garudas to investigate the Nectar of Immortality, and Lu Ya led them in fighting the Naga and Mahoragas as the conflict spread.
• Śakra brought his Devas into the growing battle after Kinnaras and Gandharvas joined the fighting around the Ocean of Milk.
• Deadly poison erupted from the ocean’s whirlpools, killing beings who entered the contaminated Nectar and halting the fighting.
• Minghe led the Asuras and Yakshas through the whirlpools, driving the other forces away from the Ocean of Milk.
• Śakra discovered that Minghe had opened a passage between the Heavenly Realm and the Netherworld, making the contaminated Nectar lethal to all but the Asuras and Yakshas.

Minghe and Śakra’s battle escalated into a Great Luo battlefield that engulfed the Thirty-Three Heavens and threatened to spread into the Yin World and mortal world. As Lu Ya watched, he noticed a Mahoraga growing stronger by consuming the poisoned Ocean of Milk and rushed to kill him.

• Śakra led the Devas and Garudas against Minghe, while the Eight Legions clashed around them in the Ocean of Milk.
• Minghe used Avici and Yuan Tu, manifestations of his Dao of Slaughter, to keep Śakra locked in a prolonged stalemate while pursuing a foothold in Jade Capital Heaven.
• The Great Luo battle’s distortions of space and time swept up the Eight Legions and spread from Yama Heaven through nearly all of the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• Dao Proving Ones from other times and spaces intervened, worsening the chaos until it began spreading toward the Yin World and the mortal world.
• Lu Ya spotted a Mahoraga defeating three Garudas and growing stronger by consuming poisoned Nectar of Immortality.
• Lu Ya sensed a crisis and swooped toward the Mahoraga, intending to kill him before he became immune to the Garudas’ attacks.

Lu Ya pursued the Mahoraga through the battlefield, but Chi escaped into the Ocean of Milk, whose depths gave birth to the Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures. The tree revealed fruit that served as gateways to distant worlds, and the Mahoraga entered the fruit showing Ao Mo confronting Chiru at the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.

• Chi shed his body with Snake Slough and split into nine, fleeing Lu Ya while the Garudas failed to stop him.
• Lu Ya caught and crushed nine of Chi's incarnations, then realized the real Mahoraga had escaped again.
• The Ocean of Milk began to boil, and the Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures grew from its depths, drawing astonishment from the assembled fighters.
• The tree's fruit displayed scenes throughout the Three Realms and beyond, while Minghe watched it with barely concealed greed.
• The Mahoraga emerged from the Ocean of Milk and plunged into the fruit showing Ao Mo confronting Chiru at the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.

Subhūti and Li Xi examined the Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures, whose fruits revealed places people yearned for, and Subhūti connected it to Mahākāśyapa’s plans. Subhūti realized Mahākāśyapa may have used his own will to unify all beings’ subconscious minds through Amala Consciousness, and condemned him as a madman.

• Subhūti and Li Xi observed that the Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures showed places people longed for and could not be fully perceived, even by Li Xi’s Heavenly Eye.
• Subhūti concluded that Mahākāśyapa had left behind the tree and had deliberately died to alter his origins and the future of Amitabha Buddha’s reincarnation.
• The chapter explained how Buddhist thought developed the five consciousnesses, mental consciousness, Manas Consciousness, and Alaya Consciousness before Mahākāśyapa proposed Amala Consciousness as a pure source of Buddha-nature.
• Subhūti questioned whether Mahākāśyapa had truly opened Amala Consciousness and realized he might have used his own self-awareness to dominate the subconscious minds of all living beings.
• Subhūti cursed Mahākāśyapa, recognizing that the tree’s projections of people’s yearnings aligned with Mahākāśyapa’s plan to unify their minds.

As Lu Ya fought Mahoraga in the Ocean of Milk, he recognized Mahoraga’s seemingly limitless revivals and adaptation as a threat and decided to reveal his trump card. He summoned an unformed Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• Li Boyang pointed out that the Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures had appeared through an abnormal gathering of Yuan Qi, prompting Wangshu to look back at its emergence.
• Lu Ya repeatedly killed Mahoraga with different attacks and realized that his Snake Slough technique let him revive and adapt beyond the limits of Jiuying’s Nine Transformations in One Day.
• Lu Ya worried that he might be unable to kill Mahoraga before their roles as attacker and defender reversed.
• After seeing the Garudas wounded and killed, Lu Ya decided that protecting his people mattered more than preserving his trump card for a future challenge to Śakra.
• Lu Ya summoned a small, winged figure resembling him and revealed it as the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife · Unformed Version.

Lu Ya decapitated the Mahoraga with the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife, but a golden Bora Flower restored it and helped it escape through the Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures. Li Boyang identified the flower as Bora, Mahākāśyapa’s symbol, while Ao Mo vanished from observation after the Mahoraga merged with him.

• Lu Ya severed the Mahoraga’s head with the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife, but the dying Mahoraga kept staring toward the Ocean of Milk’s center.
• A golden Bora Flower emerged from the Mahoraga, revealing the source of its immortality, and the Mahoraga swallowed it before regenerating.
• The Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures appeared, and the Mahoraga escaped into one of its fruits after shaking off Lu Ya.
• Wangshu, Jinjiao, and Yinjiao traced the tree’s appearance to the flower and saw that the Mahoraga had merged with Ao Mo, helping him become a wicked dragon.
• Jinjiao and Wangshu discovered that Ao Mo’s existence had become concealed, and Yinjiao asked Li Boyang what was happening.
• Li Boyang explained that the Bora Flower was also called the Udumbara Flower and had always been Mahākāśyapa’s symbol.

Li Boyang explained the origin of Mahākāśyapa’s golden pāṭala flower and argued that Mahākāśyapa had tried and failed to infect the Sea of Alaya Consciousness. Wangshu rejected Jinjiao’s theory that the Mahoraga was Mahākāśyapa’s fallen obsession and suspected it was Jiugui, the ruler of Black Water Pool; meanwhile, Lu Ya ordered the Garudas to retreat from the Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures as Asuras and Yakshas attacked.

• Li Boyang recounted how the Buddha Ancestor entrusted Mahākāśyapa with the true Dharma after Mahākāśyapa understood the meaning of the golden pāṭala flower.
• Li Boyang explained that Mahākāśyapa had sought to realize Amala Consciousness by infecting the Sea of Alaya Consciousness, where powerful consciousnesses—including Li Boyang’s—remained.
• Yinjiao concluded that Mahākāśyapa had tried to take a shortcut, while Jinjiao wondered whether his failed attempt had turned him into a Mahoraga possessing the pāṭala flower.
• Wangshu rejected Jinjiao’s theory and suspected that Chi was Jiugui, the ruler of Black Water Pool, and the mother of the vile dragon.
• Lu Ya ordered the Garudas to retreat from the Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures, but Asuras and Yakshas surged from the Ocean of Milk to attack them.

Minghe seized the Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures’ crimson fruit and transformed it into a blood-red lotus, creating karmic force and proving a second Dao. The chapter ended with his Dao Path evolving as the Red Lotus of Karmic Fire was born.

• Minghe recognized that the crimson fruit represented the shared desire of anger and drew the attention of all beings’ Alaya Consciousness toward it.
• Minghe’s subconscious manifested as crimson tides that caused the Heaven of Growth to overlap with Jade Capital Heaven, alarming its inhabitants.
• Śakra rejected the idea that the Primordial Beginning Heavenly Demon had returned and realized that Minghe was responsible for the strange power.
• Minghe charged toward the Wondrous Tree’s crown while his Yuan Tu and Avici Swords intercepted Śakra.
• Minghe poured his attachment to anger into the crimson fruit until it ripened and became a twelve-tiered lotus surrounded by karmic fire.
• Minghe proved a second Dao as the Red Lotus of Karmic Fire emerged and karmic force was born in the Three Realms.

Minghe awakened the Red Lotus of Karmic Fire, a power that burned cause and effect and threatened Śakra’s very existence. After Śakra revealed his Heavenly Eye and struck Minghe down, Minghe returned through the river of blood and challenged him to fight again, declaring that he could not die while the sea of blood remained.

• Minghe discovered that the Red Lotus of Karmic Fire had evolved into a power that burned Karmic Force, and its flames engulfed Śakra.
• Śakra escaped the flames, drove back Yuan Tu and Avici, and pierced Minghe’s chest with the Arrow of Indra.
• Minghe’s body dissolved into blood and flowed into the Red Lotus as the Netherworld vortex released a vast river of blood.
• The river of blood revived fallen Asuras and Yakshas as Blood God Children who could repeatedly return to battle.
• Minghe emerged from the river with the Red Lotus and challenged Śakra to a second round, declaring that he would not die while the sea of blood remained.