Chapter Summaries

Suirenshi and Li Boyang discussed Suirenshi’s wisdom and his plan to leave his teachings in the current era. Suirenshi praised the Dao Ancestor’s ability to make the Dao understandable to all, then recalled advice that he should rule through force to secure humanity’s flourishing age.

• Suirenshi was astonished that the Supreme Ones shared their discussion of the Dao openly and treated one another with unexpected goodwill.
• Li Boyang praised Suirenshi’s ability to understand and use unfamiliar powers, describing his state as “Dao Emulates Own Inherent Spontaneity.”
• Suirenshi acknowledged his pride but said he could not express the voices of all things as universal principles the way Li Boyang could.
• Suirenshi reflected that the current era’s balance between gods and living beings was better than the orders that came before, and resolved to leave his wisdom there.
• Suirenshi recalled a friend’s advice that he should rule like the Heavenly Emperor and use overwhelming martial might to secure humanity’s flourishing age.

Suirenshi explained that becoming a witch had once been necessary for survival, then revealed that he would defy the Dao Ancestor to guide Great Xia’s descendants back from a wrong path. He left the conversation insisting that his descendants deserved a chance to live in the era he had helped create.

• Suirenshi told Li Boyang that Youchao Shi had truly founded the Witch View System and that, in his own era, people had to become witches to survive.
• Suirenshi explained that his strength came from the sacrifices and support of his family, elders, clansmen, and companions.
• Li Boyang asked whether Suirenshi wanted to create a world that fulfilled everyone’s expectations, even against his will, but Suirenshi said that was Li Boyang’s vision.
• Suirenshi said he would rise from his coffin and confront the Dao Ancestor if that was what it took to stop his descendants from being punished for taking the wrong path.
• Suirenshi told Li Boyang that he wanted to use his wisdom to help Great Xia’s descendants correct their mistakes and continue living in the era he had helped build.

Suirenshi defended his plan to bring Great Xia’s witches back into the future’s mainstream, then began explaining the Outer Dao to Li Boyang. He argued that, unlike the Orthodox Dao, it sought only survival.

• Xihe asked Great Unity whether Suirenshi and Li Boyang would fight, and Great Unity said their encounter was only a debate on the Dao.
• Hanmei told Zhenwu that Suirenshi’s strength came not from his own cultivation but from his extraordinary ability to use external things, even heaven and earth itself.
• Hanmei described Suirenshi’s Outer Dao as fundamentally different from the Orthodox Dao and nearly impossible to defeat when he fought with his life on the line.
• Li Boyang warned Suirenshi that changing the hearts of the Great Xia witches, who had been the protagonists for three thousand years, would be harder than founding Great Xia.
• Suirenshi said he believed his children and the wise leaders among them could reclaim a place in the future, then began his formal debate with Li Boyang.
• Suirenshi explained that the Outer Dao sought neither wisdom nor longevity or transcendence, but only survival.

As the Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures’ remaining fruits began ripening, Minghe revealed his Six Heavens Vajra form to stop Śakra, while Lu Ya intervened as a golden-winged Great Peng. Amid the scramble for the fruits, Li Xi reconsidered Suirenshi’s claim that the Outer Dao sought only to stay alive.

• Suirenshi’s words caused the Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures to tremble, and its six remaining fruits began to ripen early.
• A Dao Proving One rushed for the golden fruit, but Minghe blocked Śakra by manifesting his Six Heavens Vajra form and resisting Śakra’s Arrow of Indra with a Buddha’s fruition.
• Lu Ya transformed into a great Peng bird and cut between Minghe and Śakra, but Minghe struck him a hundred and eight thousand li away; Vaishravana and others then raced toward the tree’s fruits.
• In Good View City, Subhūti worried as the combatants rushed to seize the fruits, while Li Xi pondered whether cultivation had always begun with the desire to stay alive.

Suirenshi explained that his Outer Dao arose from a life spent relying on others’ sacrifices and using every available means to keep himself and his people alive. As the heavenly screen showed his past, he contrasted his desperate path with Li Boyang’s cultivation philosophy of taking from the world and ultimately remaking it.

• Li Boyang defended cultivation as a response to hardship that had gradually enabled people to seek better lives and immortality.
• Suirenshi argued that cultivation began by plundering heaven and earth, warning that those who only took could destroy the world; the Heaven-Eroding Lord declared that he would survive even if all else perished and was struck by golden lightning.
• Li Boyang said cultivation could advance beyond plunder by reshaping Yin and Yang and remaking heaven and earth, and praised Suirenshi’s breadth and influence.
• Suirenshi said he could not follow Li Boyang’s path because others had sacrificed themselves for him from birth, and the heavenly screen showed his mother’s death, his tribe’s losses, and the trials of his early life.
• Suirenshi explained that he used every force he could to survive and prevent further deaths, while the screen showed him praying to gods, sacrificing himself, and enduring bodily harm as those around him became more stable.
• Suirenshi described the Outer Dao as using external things by any means necessary, since he could not teach or persuade everyone and could only keep his people close and alive.

Suirenshi’s Outer Dao teachings showed Great Xia’s witches how to survive by adapting their methods, and a new branch of the Long River of Time emerged in which they joined the changing age. A new Dao Proving One entered the Purple Firmament Palace and named himself the Ancestor of Earth Immortal, or Lord Equal to the World.

• Suirenshi urged the witches to abandon paths that did not suit them and use any means necessary to survive.
• The images showed Suirenshi using unconventional methods and paying their costs, then finding practical ways to offset them.
• A new branch of the Long River of Time appeared in which Great Xia and the witches adapted to the new age by integrating traditional witchcraft into the Dao Ancestor’s cultivation system.
• A new Dao Proving One entered the Purple Firmament Palace with a Ginseng Fruit Tree behind him.
• The man told Kunpeng that he was all of Wu Xian, Wu Peng, and Wu Luo, yet none of them, and called himself the Ancestor of Earth Immortal, or Lord Equal to the World.

Xiluo recognized the Lord Equal to the World as the Ten Witches of Spirit Mountain and other great witches joined into a vessel for the Dao of Earth Immortal. Suirenshi revealed that he had extended the Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures into the yin and yang realms, where Lu Ya briefly seized its golden fruit and awakened memories through the Golden Lotus of Merit before it rose away.

• Xiluo saw the Lord Equal to the World and realized that its appearance had completed her Dao of Immortals.
• Suirenshi confirmed Li Boyang’s suspicion that he had used the Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures to extend the opportunity beyond the Heavenly Realm.
• The Wondrous Tree appeared across the Three Realms, creating an overlapping region where Vaishravana saw Fengdu and Dharma King Yama reached for its golden fruit.
• Lu Ya flew in and seized the golden fruit from Dharma King Yama before the fruit produced the Golden Lotus of Merit.
• Lu Ya touched the lotus, awakened memories of his past lives, and let it rise away when he realized the Merit Dao did not suit him.

Suirenshi revealed that he had chosen the Golden Lotus of Merit to restore Jiugui, then sent Ao Mo to claim it. As the Three Realms fought over the Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures at Witch Mountain, Wu Peng rallied Great Xia to seize one of its five remaining fruits and find a new way forward.

• Li Boyang questioned Suirenshi's choice of the fruit of love, and Suirenshi explained that the Golden Lotus of Merit could connect past and future lives.
• Lü Yan recognized the Golden Lotus of Merit's power to restore an indestructible body, and Suirenshi sent Ao Mo to Witch Mountain to claim it for Jiugui.
• Ao Mo was bathed in the lotus's golden light as a nine-headed serpent appeared behind him and coiled around the lotus.
• The forces of the Heavenly Realm, Netherworld, and human world clashed around the Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures.
• Wu Peng persuaded Wu Xian that the five remaining fruits offered Great Xia new paths, and Wu Xie summoned Great Xia's gods through his Mind-Aspect Barrier.
• Wu Peng summoned the roots of the Ginseng Fruit Tree, while the remaining five members of the Six Witches of Kaiming prepared to pursue the fruits.

Fu Kui reached the black fruit while Great Xia’s gods and witches fought off challengers, and Lu Huaijin’s Mountain Folk arrived through the Mystic Garden Gate to contest the other fruits. Fu Kui transformed the fruit into the World-Destroying Black Lotus, though its powers remained uncertain.

• Fu Kui led Great Xia’s forces and reached for the black fruit as its gods and witches held back the other competitors.
• The Ten Witches of Spirit Mountain used their unpredictable Witch Laws to hinder Dao Proving Ones from other times and spaces.
• Lu Huaijin and the Mountain Folk emerged through the Mystic Garden Gate, prompting Wu Luo and the other great witches to intercept them with Mind-Aspect Barriers.
• Fu Kui touched the black fruit and resisted its surge of hatred, drawing on his experience suppressing a Heart Demon.
• Fu Kui transformed the fruit into the Hatred of All Living Beings: World-Destroying Black Lotus.

As the Three Realms fought over the Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures, Shao Hao returned as the Dharma King of the Turning Wheel and battled Lu Ya. Ye Ming then recruited the Lord of Mount Tai to prevent the fruit of fear from becoming a Netherworld Baleful Intent Lotus, leaving him to wonder which powerful opponents Great Unity would send.

• After failing to seize the Golden Lotus of Merit, Dharma King Yama used the Yellow Springs’ power to pursue a gray fruit, but Lu Ya attacked him again.
• Shao Hao appeared, revealed that he was now the Dharma King of the Turning Wheel, and clashed with Lu Ya across the battlefield.
• Ye Ming urged the Lord of Mount Tai to intervene, explaining that the Netherworld would contest the fruit of fear but did not want it to become a Netherworld Baleful Intent Lotus.
• The Lord of Mount Tai agreed to act and asked who his opponents would be, considering whether Great Unity would send the future Great Emperor Ziwei or Di Jun.

Yinglong and Jiupanpo oversaw a vast data-collection operation in the South Sea while the battle for the Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures continued above Subduing Dragon Island. As Jiugui began recovering her former self and Suirenshi and Li Boyang discussed the tree’s origins, Suirenshi noticed a blue-robed fighter he recognized as Xiangliu’s child.

• Yinglong regretted missing the battle at Witch Mountain, but Jiupanpo argued that leading the South Sea operation mattered more.
• Yinglong used data from the Star God Network to direct more than a thousand cultivators in building an observation center along the South Sea coast.
• Jiupanpo transformed into a winged dragon and spotted Sagara watching from Mount Putuo’s Purple Bamboo Grove.
• Suirenshi gave the Golden Lotus of Merit to Ao Mo, and its light helped Mahoraga recover her past-life wisdom and personality as Jiugui.
• Suirenshi explained that Li Boyang’s indulgence had enabled the Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures to produce its seven fruits, while Li Boyang said he had merely gone with the flow.
• Suirenshi saw a blue-robed fighter wielding a Bagua Compass and wondered whether she was Xiangliu’s child.

Li Xi joined the battle at Good View City and was killed by Nü Chou, but she regenerated a body immune to Nü Chou’s resentment fire. In Purple Firmament Palace, Zhenwu explained that Li Xi’s immortality could let her survive the world’s destruction, while Hanmei began experiencing a rewritten past.

• Subhūti searched for Li Xi as the fighting drew away Good View City’s defenders, then saw her overwhelm combatants on the battlefield and head for the blue-green fruit atop the Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures.
• Nü Chou attacked Li Xi from behind, pierced her heart, and burned her body with the fire of accumulated resentment.
• Li Xi recognized Nü Chou, sent out her Primordial Spirit, and used Seventy Transformations in One Day to regenerate a body immune to Nü Chou’s flames.
• Zhenwu and Hanmei watched Li Xi’s battle from Purple Firmament Palace, and Zhenwu described how her immortality could let her endure the destruction and rebirth of the Three Realms.
• Zhenwu told Hanmei that Li Xi’s changed origin meant her future would differ from the one Hanmei remembered, and Hanmei felt her memories and past begin to change.

Li Xi used the transformed Five-Colored Divine Stone to defeat Nü Chou, then accepted the azure fruit’s choice and sat upon the World-Saving Azure Lotus. She sent protective azure light across the battlefield, removing those unable to resist it from the region of disordered spacetime and dimensions.

• Li Xi struck Nü Chou with the Five-Colored Divine Stone and knocked her from the sky.
• The Purple Empyrean Guests recognized Li Xi and discussed the Five-Colored Divine Stone’s potential to become the Heaven-Mending Divine Stone.
• Li Xi refused to claim the azure fruit as a personal opportunity and asked it to help end the war.
• The azure fruit opened into a twelve-petaled lotus seat, and Li Xi sat on it as her body took the form of a human torso and serpent’s tail.
• The Bagua Compass spread azure light that protected living creatures and transported away those unable to resist it.

Suirenshi and Li Boyang discussed Li Xi’s attempt to save unwilling beings from the battle, until the Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures awakened and a Great Kalpa took shape. As the tree attacked the battlefield, Xiangliu rescued Ao Mo and fled with him, leaving the nine-headed serpent to hold off the wooden dragons.

• Li Boyang explained that Li Xi was letting unwilling beings withdraw while reserving the battle’s opportunities for those with strength or resolve.
• Suirenshi praised Li Xi’s compassion and recognized that the World-Saving Azure Lotus had answered her righteous thoughts.
• The Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures seized the World-Saving Azure Lotus, and disturbances across the realms marked the formation of a Great Kalpa.
• The awakened tree’s wooden dragons attacked the battlefield, forcing Lu Ya and Shao Pu to retreat.
• Xiangliu gave Ao Mo a Dragon Pearl, separated the nine-headed serpent from him, and urged him to flee.
• Ao Mo followed Xiangliu while the nine-headed serpent held off the wooden dragons and bought them time to escape.

As Chi’s transformation toward Amala Consciousness shook the Sea of Alaya Consciousness, Subhūti explained Mahākāśyapa’s method of merging his will into all living beings. Śakra realized that the Seven Treasures Tree might be a deliberate weakness—and suspected the Dao Ancestor and other powerful figures had intervened to prevent Mahākāśyapa from destroying all living beings.

• Fu Kui used the World-Destroying Black Lotus to throw the wooden dragons into disarray, prompting the factions to withdraw and pause the war.
• Śakra and the others sensed the Sea of Alaya Consciousness shaking, and Subhūti identified the change as the emergence of Amala Consciousness.
• Subhūti explained that Amala Consciousness could unite living beings’ subconscious inclinations and turn their desires into purity, alarming the assembled figures.
• Śakra questioned how Chi had pursued Great Luo Golden Immortal and demanded to know Mahākāśyapa’s intentions.
• Subhūti said Mahākāśyapa had merged his will into all living beings by analyzing what their selves had in common, but could not explain why Chi left the Seven Treasures Tree and its seven fruits behind.
• Śakra realized the tree might be a deliberately created weakness and suspected Great Unity, the Dao Ancestor, and the Yin Son of Heaven had intervened.

Suirenshi and Xiluo realized that the Seven Treasures Tree had arisen from Mahākāśyapa’s attempt to attain Great Luo Golden Immortal by harnessing the desires of all living beings. In Heaven Beyond Heaven, Li Boyang defined the Great Luo Golden Immortal and warned that Mahākāśyapa’s path would destroy all things if he succeeded.

• Suirenshi understood that Wu Xian had used Mahākāśyapa’s intercepted obsession to stir living beings’ desires and manifest the Seven Treasures Tree, while Great Unity had shaped events behind the scenes.
• Xiluo told Li Boyang that Mahākāśyapa’s lingering obsession had grown powerful enough to develop into a Great Kalpa.
• Li Boyang explained that Mahākāśyapa’s method had a path to Great Luo Golden Immortal, then defined the realm as transcending time and returning all things to oneness.
• Li Boyang described several ways to attain Great Luo Golden Immortal, including his own, the Netherworld Lord’s, and Great Unity’s.
• Li Boyang warned the Dao Proving Ones that any path requiring the end of all things and the destruction of heaven and earth was a deviation, condemning the outcome of Mahākāśyapa’s method.

Fu Kui summoned Great Xia’s Nine Cauldrons to form the Divine Land Barrier, weakening the Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures’ wooden dragons. As the gray fruit began to stir, Dharma King Yama realized the tree might have been drawing power from the fruits.

• Li Xi, Minghe, Jiugui, and Fu Kui fought the wooden dragons around their lotuses, while Fu Kui called the Nine Cauldrons to his aid.
• Fu Kui formed the Nine Provinces Cauldrons · Divine Land Barrier across Great Xia, linking divine statues along the land’s dragon veins.
• Lu Huaijin recognized the barrier’s design and noted that it weakened outsiders by distorting the local order of heaven and earth.
• The wooden dragons weakened as the barrier restricted their access to Yuan Qi, changing the balance of the battle.
• Dharma King Yama saw the gray fruit regain vitality and suspected the Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures had been absorbing power from the fruits.

The Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures began stealing powers and using them to create wooden dragons as it moved to absorb the ripened fruits. Li Xi broke free of its attack and used Mediation of Creation to bind the tree, leaving the battle poised to shift.

• Dharma King Yama warned that the Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures intended to absorb the fruits, while Minghe and Fu Kui realized it was also assimilating their powers.
• Minghe proposed joining forces with Fu Kui, then clashed with Dharma King Yama over the gray fruit.
• Shao Hao and Lu Ya withdrew from the wooden dragons, and Lu Ya suspected the tree had reacted to Li Xi rather than to the fruits.
• Li Xi expanded her Bagua Compass to scatter the wooden dragons and sent the sprites back into the World-Saving Azure Lotus.
• Li Xi used Mediation of Creation to form a storm dragon that became a chain and bound the Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures.

Minghe and Dharma King Yama seized two fruits from the Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures, which began manifesting wooden copies of the lotus masters as Fu Kui and Li Xi fought to contain it. The tree regenerated after Li Xi pierced it, leaving four Wisdom King manifestations standing and Fu Kui shaken.

• Minghe plucked a white fruit and fled toward the Netherworld while Dharma King Yama seized the gray fruit.
• The Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures formed a half-body, three-headed wooden figure resembling Minghe and attacked him with scarlet karmic fire.
• Fu Kui used the Divine Land Barrier and [Earth Overturned and Heaven Upended] to trap and suppress the tree, but it produced an Immovable Wisdom King resembling him.
• The tree drained Jiugui’s power and formed a Kundali Wisdom King, then created a Buddha Mother Wisdom King resembling Li Xi that nearly converted Fu Kui.
• Li Xi pierced the Buddha Mother Wisdom King and the tree with the Five-Colored Stone, but the tree rapidly regenerated both, leaving Fu Kui horrified.

After the Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures revived and grew beyond heaven and earth, Li Jingshu ordered the Hundred Lands Mountain Range to unleash its orbital cannons against it. The Taiyi Orbital Cannon volley shook the Three Realms, while the fate of Li Xi and Jiugui remained unknown.

• The four Wisdom Kings restored the Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures, which rapidly grew until its branches reached the stars.
• Ao Mo worried about his mother, and Li Jingshu promised him she would be safe as the Hundred Lands forces prepared their orbital cannons.
• Ao Zhen appeared and warned the forces to spare Li Xi and Jiugui while claiming the tree and its fruits.
• Li Jingshu directed the Star God Network to coordinate the cannons and ordered them to fire at the Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures.
• Hundreds upon thousands of orbital cannons unleashed a blinding volley that annihilated matter and energy, shook the Three Realms, and drew the attention of the Dao Proving Ones.