Chapter Summaries

Chen Qianqian used her Go technique to defeat Jin Guang’s lackeys but spared him when Liu Yue'er reminded her of their business. Back at their residence, Nie Xiuyuan revealed he planned to uncover the truth about the past and vowed that Jin Miao and Yin Xiyuan would die in seven days.

• Jin Guang ordered his lackeys to attack Chen Qianqian, Liu Yue'er, and Bai Qian.
• Chen Qianqian trapped the attackers on a Go board and made them kill one another.
• Liu Yue'er stopped Chen Qianqian from killing Jin Guang, and an old voice warned him that Liu Yue'er was no ordinary person.
• Chen Qianqian and the others returned to their residence and told Nie Xiuyuan about the confrontation.
• Nie Xiuyuan said he wanted to uncover the truth of what happened back then and named Jin Miao and Yin Xiyuan as targets to die in seven days.

Jin Guang and Master Kongwen discussed the mysterious group that had challenged them, while Jin Guang vowed to deal with the three women after the Water and Land Dharma Assembly. Seven days later, Xiao Chen and his companions entered the assembly, where the Precious Elephant Kingdom’s rulers and the Buddhist Son arrived; Nie Xiuyuan’s group stayed seated.

• Master Kongwen warned Jin Guang that the hidden swordsman among the newcomers frightened him more than Jin Guang’s father, but Jin Guang vowed to settle accounts with the three women after the assembly.
• Cao Youqian revealed that he had obtained invitations for the group, and they passed the guards and took seats at the back of the assembly grounds.
• Cao Youqian told his companions how he had secured the invitations as they climbed the mountain to Treasure Elephant Temple.
• The Kings and Marquises of the Precious Elephant Kingdom and Buddha Hidden Temple arrived as the crowd gathered for the assembly.
• Golden Wheel King and Five Rosy Clouds King arrived together, and Nie Xiuyuan briefly showed killing intent at their appearance.
• The Buddhist Son descended onto a three-colored Buddhist lotus, and everyone welcomed him except Nie Xiuyuan and his companions, who remained seated.

At the Water and Land Dharma Assembly, Buddha Son Faxiang prepared to crown Golden Wheel King as ruler of the Precious Elephant Kingdom. Nie Xiuyuan interrupted the coronation by exposing Golden Wheel King and Five Rosy Clouds King’s past crimes, then revealed himself to the stunned crowd.

• Dharma King Moluo led the Water and Land Dharma Assembly through its rites, culminating in Buddha Son Faxiang reading the decree of absolution.
• Faxiang read the imperial edict investing Golden Wheel King as king and asked whether anyone objected.
• Nie Xiuyuan spoke up, accusing Golden Wheel King and Five Rosy Clouds King of adultery and the massacre of her husband’s family.
• Nie Xiuyuan’s True Intent formed a giant over the assembly, frightening Golden Wheel King and the other guests.
• Nie Xiuyuan revealed himself, shocking Golden Wheel King, Five Rosy Clouds King, and Buddha Son Faxiang.

Nie Xiuyuan confronted Golden Wheel King and Five Rosy Clouds King at the Water and Land Dharma Assembly, but Buddha Son Faxiang and the Precious Elephant Kingdom’s Nirvana experts moved to stop him. Cao Youqian, Xiao Chen, and their fellow disciples intervened, and the chapter ended with Cao Youqian knocking Dharma King Moluo into a crater.

• The crowd recalled that Golden Wheel King and Five Rosy Clouds King had wronged Nie Xiuyuan more than a hundred years earlier.
• Nie Xiuyuan challenged the pair to fight him together, but Buddha Son Faxiang ordered more than twenty Nirvana experts to seize him.
• Cao Youqian and Xiao Chen stepped forward to help Nie Xiuyuan, while Cao Youqian assigned the other disciples to face the Precious Elephant Kingdom’s forces.
• Xiao Chen confronted Buddha Son Faxiang, and Cao Youqian challenged six Kings and Marquises while assigning Qin Yin, Ye Beixuan, and Chen Qianqian to other opponents.
• Dharma King Moluo attacked Cao Youqian with the Arhat Jin Gang Palm, but Cao Youqian struck him down with a punch.

Ye Beixuan and Wang Baole stopped the Precious Elephant Kingdom and Buddha Hidden Temple’s Nirvana experts while Nie Xiuyuan faced Golden Wheel and Five Rosy Clouds. After Golden Wheel summoned the Ten Thousand Buddha Soldiers, Wang Baole and the Dao-Seeking Academy disciples entered the formation, and Nie Xiuyuan prepared to strike Golden Wheel.

• Ye Beixuan blocked more than a dozen Nirvana experts and pierced one of them with a purple sword image.
• Buddha Son Faxiang ordered Golden Wheel King to summon the Ten Thousand Buddha Soldiers, who formed the Ten Thousand Buddhas Great Formation and attacked Nie Xiuyuan’s group.
• Wang Baole countered the formation’s strike with a taiji diagram and emerged unharmed.
• Wang Baole, Bai Qian, Xu Caichen, Han Ping, and Chu Caiyi entered the formation together.
• Nie Xiuyuan told Golden Wheel that three different True Intents at Great Perfection could break the formation, then swung his sword at him.

Nie Xiuyuan and his allies attacked the Water and Land Dharma Assembly at Treasure Elephant Temple, overwhelming its defenders and crippling Golden Wheel King, Five Rosy Clouds King, and Buddha Son Faxiang. As a nine-tailed demon fox destroyed the Ten Thousand Buddhas Great Formation and the battle spread across the temple, Faxiang shouted for everyone to stop.

• Nie Xiuyuan, Cao Youqian, Qin Qin, Ye Beixuan, and Xiao Chen attacked the experts at the Water and Land Dharma Assembly while Qin Yun and Ximen Ye watched.
• Xiao Chen wounded Buddha Son Faxiang with a sword strike, while Nie Xiuyuan defeated Golden Wheel King and Five Rosy Clouds King and revealed his intent to destroy their clans to expose the person behind the Nie Clan’s destruction.
• Two Demon God phantoms appeared above the Ten Thousand Buddhas Great Formation, and a nine-tailed demon fox wielding five thunders shattered it.
• Wang Baole, Xu Caichen, Han Ping, Chen Qianqian, and the others fought the formation’s defenders as Cao Youqian, Qin Qin, and Ye Beixuan overwhelmed their opponents inside the temple.
• Buddha Son Faxiang shouted for everyone to stop, and Nie Xiuyuan and the others turned to look at him.

Nie Xiuyuan forced Buddha Son Faxiang to admit that his lineage's ancestor had planned the events of the past, then attacked him at the land and water Dharma assembly. As a powerful figure from the Buddha Hidden Temple arrived to stop the fight, Nie Xiuyuan welcomed the confrontation.

• Cao Youqian let Buddha Son Faxiang call for backup, but Grandmaster Grand Vow did not answer until Great Sage Blazing Sun appeared carrying him, battered.
• Nie Xiuyuan accused Buddha Son Faxiang of involvement in the past plot, and Great Sage Grand Vow urged Faxiang to stop hiding the truth.
• Buddha Son Faxiang admitted that his lineage's ancestor had planned what happened, then threatened that the Buddha Hidden Temple would suppress Nie Xiuyuan.
• Nie Xiuyuan struck Buddha Son Faxiang with his sword, broke his protective Buddha jade, and prepared to attack again.
• A powerful voice from the sky ordered Nie Xiuyuan to stop, and Faxiang rejoiced while Nie Xiuyuan said the arrival was expected.

Great Sage Sacred Heart arrived at Treasure Elephant Temple and offered to take Nie Xiuyuan as his disciple, but Nie refused to abandon his revenge. As Sacred Heart prepared to take Nie away, Chu Feng appeared and declared that he would protect his disciple.

• Great Sage Sacred Heart arrived above Treasure Elephant Temple in a golden Buddha statue carried by five Kings and Marquises.
• Great Sage Blazing Sun and Great Sage Mountain-Mover discussed Sacred Heart's possible advance to the Saint Realm, while Mountain-Mover secretly sent for backup.
• Great Sage Sacred Heart offered to accept Nie Xiuyuan as his disciple and punish Faxiang, Golden Wheel King, and the others if Nie renounced his revenge.
• Nie Xiuyuan rejected Sacred Heart's offer and declared that revenge was his only purpose.
• Great Sage Sacred Heart said he would remove Nie's killing intent and take him away, but Chu Feng appeared and challenged him to try.

Chu Feng arrived in the Precious Elephant Kingdom to help Nie Xiuyuan fulfill his wish and challenged Great Sage Sacred Heart after rejecting a peaceful resolution. As Sacred Heart's Buddhist realm began to engulf him, Chu Feng finally moved.

• Chu Feng introduced himself as Great Sage Qiankun after the dean brought him to the Precious Elephant Kingdom, shocking the onlookers.
• Chu Feng told Great Sage Sacred Heart that he had come to help Nie Xiuyuan take revenge and would not stop him, even if the kingdom ran with blood.
• Chu Feng challenged Sacred Heart to settle the matter by force after asking whether Sacred Heart could forgive someone who killed his whole family.
• Sacred Heart warned that he had cultivated three cycles of 108 true essences, while Chu Feng claimed to have traveled much farther along the same path.
• Sacred Heart revealed himself from the golden Buddha statue and unleashed the Buddhist technique Deliver All Living Beings, enveloping Chu Feng in a Buddhist realm.
• As Chu Feng was about to disappear within the Buddhist realm, he finally moved.

Chu Feng and Great Sage Sacred Heart fought at Treasure Elephant Temple, with Sacred Heart forcing Chu Feng to reveal his full strength. Chu Feng erased Sacred Heart’s final attack with one sword strike, leaving the battle’s outcome unclear.

• Chu Feng trapped Great Sage Sacred Heart in the Heaven and Earth Chessboard, but Sacred Heart escaped by sending out hundreds of clones.
• Great Sage Sacred Heart broke his prayer beads and burned his lifespan, summoning a golden Buddha-bone sarira to strengthen himself.
• Chu Feng revealed two fully tempered Divine Physiques, astonishing the spectators and prompting Sage Donglai to say he had the makings of an Immortal Emperor.
• Great Sage Sacred Heart unleashed Ten Thousand Buddhas Pay Homage, collapsing Treasure Elephant Temple and shattering the surrounding mountains.
• Chu Feng drew a treasured sword and erased the illusory Buddhas with one slash that swept across the sky.

Chu Feng defeated Great Sage Sacred Heart, who passed into nirvana, and Buddha Hidden Temple surrendered those involved in the Nie Clan’s destruction. As the temple sealed its gates for three years, Dao-Seeking Academy began punishing the guilty in the Precious Elephant Kingdom.

• Chu Feng defeated Great Sage Sacred Heart with a sword technique he named Myriad Daos Return to One, and Sacred Heart asked him to spare Buddha Hidden Temple before dying.
• Buddha Hidden Temple’s elders accepted defeat, and Honghui handed over the monks involved in the Nie Clan’s annihilation and took Sacred Heart’s remains away.
• Honghui announced that Buddha Hidden Temple would seal its gates for three years, while Great Sage Grand Vow asked Chu Feng for a dignified death and then passed into nirvana.
• Chu Feng ordered his disciples to kill the guilty, and Chen Qianqian seized Jin Guang as Nie Xiuyuan confronted Five Rosy Clouds King and Buddha Son Faxiang.
• Nie Xiuyuan struck down Buddha Son Faxiang when he tried to attack him, and the slaughter continued through Treasure Elephant Temple and the royal city.

After returning from the Precious Elephant Kingdom, Chu Feng was told to recruit new disciples for the Miscellaneous Dao Institute. He established an outer institute for new recruits and set the academy in motion to accept disciples again.

• Nie Xiuyuan set out to travel across the Eight Desolations and brew the world's finest wine, while some of Chu Feng's disciples chose to keep traveling and others returned with him.
• Chu Feng returned to the Dao-Seeking Academy as news of the Great Sage battle spread and academy disciples became eager to join the Miscellaneous Dao Institute.
• The dean told Chu Feng that the Miscellaneous Dao Institute had not recruited new disciples in years, and Chu Feng agreed to arrange a recruitment drive.
• Chu Feng announced that new disciples would train in an outer institute for three years before passing an assessment to enter the inner institute, where his disciples could take them as personal disciples.
• Chu Feng appointed Qin Qin to oversee recruitment, and news that the Miscellaneous Dao Institute was accepting disciples drew many cultivators to Dao-Seeking City.

The Miscellaneous Dao Institute recruited disciples at the Dao-Seeking Academy’s gathering, taking in a handful of ordinary candidates before Qin Qin accepted the Northern Abyss Shi Clan prodigy Shi Xuan. Qin Qin took Shi Xuan up the mountain to meet Chu Feng, while the recruitment ended amid the crowd’s protests and astonishment.

• Qin Qin and Chu Caiyi assessed candidates, and the institute recruited two disciples on the first day and three more on the second.
• Xu Caichen explained to the first two recruits that they had to pass the outer institute assessment before they could meet Chu Feng or become his disciples.
• Shi Xuan of the Northern Abyss Shi Clan arrived with his retainers and followed Fang Mu’s questions about his name and fortuitous encounters.
• Qin Qin offered Shi Xuan a place in the institute and promised to take him as her disciple, while saying Chu Feng would decide whether he became his disciple.
• When other candidates protested, Qin Qin displayed her Great Perfection True Intent, ended recruitment, and took Shi Xuan up the mountain.

Qin Qin brought Shi Xuan to Chu Feng after discovering that his immense fortune concealed a dangerous omen. Chu Feng identified Shi Xuan as a Great Villain of Destiny, and Shi Xuan chose to become his disciple so he could face that fate under Chu Feng’s guidance.

• Qin Qin told Chu Feng that she had recruited a young man whose fortune rivaled Xiao Chen’s, then brought Shi Xuan before him.
• Chu Feng used the Eye of World Destruction and saw black fortune devouring Shi Xuan’s purple-gold fortune.
• Shi Xuan described his nine fiancées and the Innate Saint Bone transplanted into him from a branch-family member.
• Chu Feng explained that Shi Xuan was destined to become a Great Villain of Destiny and could change his fate by defeating a Child of Destiny.
• Shi Xuan knelt and became Chu Feng’s thirteenth direct disciple.

After joining the Dao-Seeking Academy, Shi Xuan asked Chu Feng about his cultivation technique, but Chu Feng first sent him to investigate the Shi Clan, his fiancées, and the clan’s past misdeeds. Shi Xuan tasked Feng Shanhou with the investigation and kept its purpose secret.

• Fang Mu showed Shi Xuan his new courtyard and advised him to visit Chu Feng after the sun was high because their master slept late.
• Shi Xuan cultivated on Miaomiao Mountain, then visited Chu Feng, who told him to investigate his opponents before trying to change his fate.
• Chu Feng sent Xu Caichen and Shi Xuan to register Shi Xuan’s information and investigate the Shi Clan and his fiancées.
• At the Dragon Gate Inn, Shi Xuan instructed Feng Shanhou to investigate the matters recorded on a jade slip without publicizing Shi Xuan’s new discipleship.
• Feng Shanhou was shocked by the investigation request, but Shi Xuan told him he would understand the reason in time.

Shi Xuan learned that eight of his nine fiancées had become involved with other men and that the remaining one had once broken an engagement to marry into the Shi Clan. After he vowed to suppress the Children of Destiny who had stolen his fortune, Chu Feng promised to teach him a supreme divine ability, which Shi Xuan received seven days later.

• Xu Caichen delivered Shi Xuan a letter from the Shi Clan, and Shi Xuan read its findings to Chu Feng and the others.
• The letter revealed that eight of Shi Xuan’s fiancées had supported other men with Shi Clan resources, while the ninth had previously been engaged to someone else; it also said the boy whose Saint Bone Shi Xuan had taken had entered the Dao Palace.
• Shi Xuan asked Chu Feng what to do and vowed to suppress the Children of Destiny, so Chu Feng promised to teach him a supreme divine ability and assured him that he would stand behind him.
• After Shi Xuan left, Qin Qin and the others discussed targeting Children of Destiny for their opportunities, but Chu Feng said it was not yet time to bring back the other senior disciples.
• Seven days later, Shi Xuan met Chu Feng, received a jade slip containing his new divine ability, and resolved to tear apart those who had stolen his fortune.

Shi Xuan studied the Master Who Embraces Simplicity to prepare to comprehend the Nine Secrets, while Chen Qianqian and Bai Qian reached Hundred Clans City and learned the Thousand-Li Journey Trading Company was being threatened over a treasure. They planned to find Chen Qianqian’s younger brothers and see what would happen when the city’s trouble began.

• Shi Xuan studied the Master Who Embraces Simplicity after realizing it would help him comprehend the Nine Secrets, and Chu Feng praised his patience.
• Chen Qianqian and Bai Qian defeated cultivators attacking a caravan and accepted a ride to Hundred Clans City from the Thousand-Li Journey Trading Company.
• Eighth Master offered the women lodging, but Chen Qianqian refused, and the two parted ways with the caravan after entering the city.
• At an inn, Chen Qianqian and Bai Qian heard that the city’s three gangs and five sects had given the trading company seven days to surrender a treasure or face destruction.
• Chen Qianqian told Bai Qian she could sound a jade leaf to summon her younger brothers if they were still alive, and the two decided to eat first.

Chen Qianqian played a leaf flute in Hundred Beasts City, alerting the city’s factions and the weakened Thousand-Li Journey Trading Company. Second Brother recognized the melody as one their Boss had taught them, while the factions prepared to watch the company and seek reinforcements; the company decided to send Eighth Sister to meet Chen Qianqian in disguise.

• Second Brother and the elders of the Thousand-Li Journey Trading Company planned to offer their treasure to the city lord, while their foster father warned that enemies might attack before they could act.
• Chen Qianqian played a leaf flute at the inn, and Bai Qian praised her performance as they shared tea.
• The city lord and the leaders of the city's gangs and sects sensed a powerful chessboard connected to the flute and ordered surveillance of the Thousand-Li Journey Trading Company and reinforcements.
• Second Brother, Ninth Brother, and Eighth Sister recognized the melody as the tune their Boss had taught them, but Second Brother forbade Ninth Brother from involving her in their trouble.
• After the flute sounded again, the factions learned that Chen Qianqian was staying at the Eight Directions Inn, and the Thousand-Li Journey Trading Company chose to send Eighth Sister there in disguise.

Chen Qianqian reunited with her long-lost younger sister Yang Bamei after searching for her through a melody. Yang Bamei explained that the Thousand-Li Journey Trading Company was in danger after obtaining a sheepskin scroll that drained a True Fate Realm cultivator, and Chen Qianqian promised to protect her family.

• Chen Qianqian refused to sell her melody and warned Hundred Beasts City’s cultivators not to harm her people.
• An old woman arrived at the Eight Directions Inn, named the melody Small Temple Nocturne, and was brought to meet Chen Qianqian.
• Chen Qianqian recognized the disguised old woman as Yang Bamei, and the sisters embraced while Bai Qian blocked anyone from spying on them.
• Yang Bamei told Chen Qianqian that their family had built the Thousand-Li Journey Trading Company, but a sheepskin scroll had drained a True Fate Realm cultivator and left their adoptive father half dead.
• Chen Qianqian promised Yang Bamei that no one would harm their family while she was there.

Chen Qianqian used her Heaven and Earth Chessboard to seize control of Hundred Beasts City and punish the tiger city lord for mistreating the Thousand-Li Journey Trading Company. She gathered her younger siblings and the city’s faction leaders at the city lord’s residence, where You Lao'er returned with the disputed treasure.

• Chen Qianqian summoned a giant chessboard over Hundred Clans City, struck the tiger city lord, and ordered the city’s faction leaders to assemble.
• Chen Qianqian reassured Yang Bamei and Bai Qian that their backers were strong enough, then collected You Erlang and Zhao Xiaojiu from the Thousand-Li Journey Trading Company.
• At the city lord’s residence, Chen Qianqian confronted the tiger city lord and warned him not to evade responsibility for the company’s grievances.
• Chen Qianqian declared that the city was inside her Heaven and Earth Chessboard and sent You Lao'er to retrieve the treasure from the trading company.
• You Lao'er returned to find the faction leaders gathered while the tiger city lord served Chen Qianqian and Bai Qian, then announced that he had brought the treasure.