Recaps

Yu Tunzhou learned that Luofu Grotto-Heaven held a portal of immortals and gods and agreed to return there to resolve a Buddhist disciple’s tribulation and the Martial Fortune he had refused. After meeting Huang Tian, Yu Tunzhou revealed his Dao of Wuji, provoking the Golden Crow Divine Intent to cry out the name “Haotian.”

• Dharma Master Jiese told Yu Tunzhou that Luofu Grotto-Heaven was Venerable Rahula’s manifestation temple, where a portal of immortals and gods had opened and two Buddhist disciples had vanished.
• Yu Tunzhou agreed to travel back to Luofu Grotto-Heaven and explained his improved Refining the True method, which Lin Yueheng and Jiese confirmed worked.
• Yu Tunzhou offered to pass the new method and unarmed combat inheritances to Master Xuanku so they could be spread in the Northern Dark Sea.
• Huntian warned Yu Tunzhou that Long Yan had encountered the Human Emperor’s self-attachment corpse beneath the sea and had thought of the name “Heavenly Emperor.”
• Huang Tian told Yu Tunzhou that his grandmaster had instructed him to settle the two-tenths share of Martial Fortune Yu Tunzhou had left in Luofu Grotto-Heaven, then challenged him to spar.
• Huang Tian displayed his Pure Yang Dao Body, and Yu Tunzhou revealed his Dao of Wuji; the Golden Crow Divine Intent erupted in rage and shouted, “Haotian!”

Huang Tian learned that Yu Tunzhou’s Dao concealed Haotian’s tyrannical Dao of the Self Alone, then received a method to resist the Golden Crow Divine Intent and considered cooperating with it. Meanwhile, the Xie Household plotted against Yu Tunzhou and prepared to exploit the Yao Household, as the Martial Ancestor arrived in the Divine Capital to face the old prince.

• The Golden Crow Divine Intent revealed that Yu Tunzhou’s Wuji Dao led to the Outer Dao of No Self Under Heaven, which it called the Dao of the Self Alone and a path that would make him an enemy to all.
• Yu Tunzhou asked Huntian for a way to resist the Golden Crow Divine Intent’s corrosion, and Huntian gave Huang Tian a Secret Method while urging him to consider cooperating with the Divine Intent.
• Huang Tian told Yu Tunzhou that the Martial Ancestor had gone to the Divine Capital, then visited Daoist Xuanfa and shared the Refining the True method with him.
• Yao Qingli met Xie Jinkun at Azure Jade Pass and offered the Heavenly Origin Pill refining method in exchange for Yu Tunzhou’s death; Xie Jinkun said the Xie Household planned to capture him at Luofu Grotto-Heaven.
• The Xie Household’s council confirmed that two Underworld Grandmaster assassins had been hired to kill Yu Tunzhou and discussed obtaining the Yao Household’s refining method and the return of Xie Linchuan.
• The barefoot Martial Ancestor entered the Divine Capital and gave Martial Fortune to youths he favored, whereupon the old prince teased him for pretending to be young.

Lu Daolin entered the Divine Capital and demonstrated to Ji Tianfang how to seize a suppressed heavenly soldier, then invited him to meet the strongest person from four thousand years ago. Meanwhile, Yu Tunzhou prepared to spread the Martial Dao through the Eastern Wilderness, learned more about the Human Emperor's legacy and the Northern Plains Xie Household, and departed for Luofu Grotto-Heaven as Floating Hill Mountain began its preparations.

• Lu Daolin tested Ji Tianfang, seized a heavenly soldier from a suppressed portal, and invited him to meet the strongest person from four thousand years ago.
• Kou Ziling told Emperor Tianshun that Ji Tianfang had no chance of defeating Lu Daolin and urged him to restore control over the other three great Lineages before seeking an audience with the figure behind the imperial family.
• Jin Buxi trained in Yu Tunzhou's Youth Edition boxing form while the Immortal Cauldron urged him to help spread the Martial Dao across the Eastern Wilderness.
• Yu Tunzhou and Floating Hill Mountain finalized plans to teach the Refining the True method, the Spark Instruction, a visualization diagram, and the Youth Edition boxing form in more than three hundred cities.
• Yu Tunzhou collected the refined true dragon spirit essence for Huntian, learned from the Immortal Cauldron that the Human Emperor's Self-Obsession Corpse might have been captured, and heard that the Human Emperor's blood descendants had last been seen in the Northern Plains.
• After learning of the Northern Plains Xie Household's attempt to extract and graft its Seven-Orifice Exquisite Heart bloodline, Yu Tunzhou left for Luofu Grotto-Heaven while Floating Hill Mountain prepared to begin teaching the Martial Dao.

Jiang Xu and the gathered households searched Luofu Grotto-Heaven for its dormant Martial Fortune and the entrance to the Buddhist Pure Land while discussing Yu Tunzhou’s rise and plotting around him. Yu Tunzhou appeared on the summit, drew the Martial Fortune toward himself, then crushed it with his Fist Intent and pressed his presence across the entire Grotto-Heaven.

• Jiang Xu returned without finding Martial Fortune, while Jiang Chengyan and Jiang Chengfeng discussed the Pure Land, the missing scriptures, and plans to let others lead any attack on Yu Tunzhou.
• Chen Dingxin asked Chen Changbai about the Human Emperor’s inheritance, but Chen Changbai urged him to focus on finding the Pure Land and its Buddhist treasures.
• Representatives of several clans climbed the mountain, where Xie Heyu mocked Yu Tunzhou’s inscription and dismissed his success as luck.
• Yue Hongyi thought she glimpsed a green-robed figure passing the group, but the others sensed no one nearby.
• Daoist Xuanyin, Xuanzang, and the other inhabitants sensed a new presence in Luofu Grotto-Heaven as Yu Tunzhou reached the summit.
• Yu Tunzhou’s Fist Intent drew the dormant Martial Fortune toward him, then shattered it and bore down upon the entire Grotto-Heaven.

Yu Tunzhou returned to Luofu Grotto-Heaven and demonstrated overwhelming strength, suppressing its inhabitants and scattering the Martial Fortune three times. After learning that Dingguang remained missing inside the Pure Land and that Daoist Long Hua might be tied to the Long Yan investigation, he left the mountaintop to pursue his other concerns.

• Yu Tunzhou recalled his years in Luofu Grotto-Heaven and unleashed fist intent that shook the entire realm, scattering the Martial Fortune as it gathered toward him.
• The household representatives and sect leaders reacted to Yu Tunzhou’s power, while Xie Heyu secretly tried to contact two Underworld assassins and received no reply.
• Yu Tunzhou directed his fist intent at everyone, then withdrew it before striking; he scattered the Martial Fortune each of the three times it surged toward him.
• Yu Tunzhou greeted the people below and carved a new inscription on the mountaintop before meeting Master Xuanzang, who said Dingguang and a monk from Little Thunderclap Temple had vanished into the Pure Land.
• Yu Tunzhou asked Master Xuanzang about Dingguang and the portal to the immortals and gods, then left to investigate Daoist Long Hua, whom Floating Hill Mountain suspected of resembling Long Yan.
• Xie Heyu learned that the assassins would follow the original plan outside the grotto-heaven because killing a Quasi-Grandmaster cost more; Yue Hongyi found Yu Tunzhou’s new inscription and descended the mountain.

Yu Tunzhou confronted Long Hua, learned that the Taicang Long Clan sought to reform the world by opposing the Immortals and Gods, and rejected Long Hua’s demand to bind him with the Six Souls Banner. He seized Long Hua as a traitor to Floating Hill Mountain, while Bao Guanyun withdrew after Yu Tunzhou claimed responsibility for finding the Pure Land.

• Yu Tunzhou refused to absorb the twenty percent of Martial Fortune because its karmic ties could hinder his future cultivation.
• Yu Tunzhou confronted Long Hua and learned that the Xiao Household had predicted an anomaly would emerge from Luofu, leading the Aristocratic Clans to target Lu Huaiqing.
• Long Hua revealed that the Taicang Long Clan sought reform and considered the Immortals and Gods the source of the world’s corruption and calamity.
• Yu Tunzhou rejected Long Hua’s demand to enter his true name on the Six Souls Banner, then tried to seize him as a traitor to Floating Hill Mountain.
• Bao Guanyun asked Yu Tunzhou to spare Long Hua because he held a clue to opening the Pure Land, but Yu Tunzhou said he would handle Buddha’s Son Dingguang’s situation.
• Bao Guanyun left, and Yu Tunzhou told Long Hua that his value was far lower than he had thought.

Yu Tunzhou found the entrance to the Pure Land, entered it, and learned that the Human Emperor had once cried out against the Dao Venerable. The seemingly peaceful Buddhist town revealed its demonic nature when children brutally attacked a dog and the townspeople ignored them.

• Yu Tunzhou used Heavenly Hearing and Earthly Perception to locate the hidden portal and opened it with the Buddhist phrase, “This Dharma is equal, without high or low.”
• Bao Ruyin gave Yu Tunzhou information and prayer beads, then led her companions into the Pure Land; Long Hua revealed that the Human Emperor had once killed his daughter during a bout of madness and shouted, “Dao Venerable!”
• Yu Tunzhou threw Long Hua through the portal to scout ahead, then entered the Pure Land himself and found that the entrance and the others had vanished.
• Huntian warned Yu Tunzhou that Rahula had been suspected of falling to the demonic path and cautioned him not to break any Buddhist precepts.
• Yu Tunzhou watched children stab a yellow dog while the townspeople calmly ignored the violence, and he realized that the Pure Land's apparent peace concealed something sinister.

Yu Tunzhou discovered that the Turbid Kingdom’s Buddhist precepts and ordinary customs had been inverted, while its people were being influenced by the State Preceptor Mietian. After resisting the kingdom’s supernatural scrutiny and learning that Dingguang might be at Little Formless Temple, Yu Tunzhou headed east as Mietian’s chanting began to affect the land; the chapter ended with Bao Ruyin and the Bao Household confronting Mietian in the capital.

• Yu Tunzhou observed the Turbid Kingdom’s people praising cruelty and vice, and Huntian concluded that the land retained orthodox Buddhist fortune despite its demonic customs.
• The crowd and a gilded Buddha statue turned their attention to Yu Tunzhou, but the Muscle-Tendon Changing Classic eased the heavenly suppression before he acted against a pickpocketing boy.
• A shackled nun told Yu Tunzhou that Mietian’s Law Power weakened cultivators, urged him to seek Abbot Jingchen at Little Formless Temple, and warned that Mietian’s nirvana plan had to be stopped within seven days.
• The nun identified the wanted monk as Dharma Master Miemo and said Dingguang had been with him at Little Formless Temple, so Yu Tunzhou set out east.
• Mietian’s inverted Buddhist chanting began to overwhelm the kingdom; the nun stayed behind to resist it while Yu Tunzhou fled toward the east.
• Bao Ruyin and the Bao Household defended themselves before Mietian’s residence, where Bao Ruyin recognized Mietian and he wondered whether he was the person she knew.

Bao Ruyin and Deng Canglan escaped east as a mysterious Dharma Aspect shook the royal capital, while other outsiders encountered strange manifestations in the Pure Land. Yu Tunzhou reached Mind Aspect Temple, where its abbot Lairu greeted him by name.

• Bao Ruyin and the Bao Household fled east after Monk Mietian struck her with the Tathagata Divine Palm and a towering Buddha appeared at the state preceptor's residence.
• Deng Canglan told Bao Ruyin that the figure might not be Kou Ziling, then reflected on his master's Primordial Self-Slaying Scripture and the Buddha behind the Little Thunderclap Temple.
• Chen Dingxin watched a man enter Mind Aspect Temple and burn to death in pale golden flames, then fled when the temple gates closed again.
• Daoist Qingzhi met a refined man calling himself Fu Tingxue, recognized him as Old Mo, and saw a Buddha's golden body emerge in the distance.
• Yu Tunzhou crossed out of the Turbid Kingdom and reached Mind Aspect Temple, where the abbot Lairu welcomed him and addressed him as Benefactor Yu.

Yu Tunzhou challenged the mysterious old monk at Mind Aspect Temple, whose touch freed him from the Buddhist kingdom’s suppression and connected his Fist Intent to heaven and earth. While searching for Dingguang, Yu Tunzhou reached Little Formless Temple, where he encountered Abbot Jingchen and recognized him as Old Gang Leader Su.

• Yu Tunzhou debated the old monk about the Buddha and the Turbid Kingdom, then destroyed Mind Aspect Temple with a punch to assert that martial artists used their fists as their reason.
• The old monk touched Yu Tunzhou between the brows, lifting the world’s suppression of him and empowering his connection to heaven and earth before vanishing.
• Huntian suspected the old monk was Venerable Rahula or someone even more powerful, and Yu Tunzhou set out to find Dingguang.
• At Little Formless Temple, Yu Tunzhou learned Dingguang was missing and that Abbot Jingchen had gone to confront Mietian; the white fox confirmed it had come there with Dingguang.
• Yu Tunzhou entered the main hall, recognized the statue as Venerable Rahula, and sensed several powerful figures approaching.
• Abbot Jingchen arrived with two monks and a woman, and Yu Tunzhou recognized the gray-robed abbot as Old Gang Leader Su.

Yu Tunzhou met reflections of powerful figures from the upper realm and learned that the Other Shore consisted of worlds reflected from the Central Plains after an ancient calamity. He joined Abbot Jingchen’s campaign against Mietian, but a distress signal from Fu Tingxue drew the group toward the border as Mietian prepared for Dingguang Buddha’s return.

• Yu Tunzhou met Abbot Jingchen, Abbot Fuhu, Bai Yu, and a young monk, recognizing them as reflections of renowned upper-realm experts whose strength and memories had diminished.
• Huntian explained that an ancient calamity split the Central Plains into countless reflected worlds and divided the True Spirits of its inhabitants, while Yu Tunzhou wondered whether he was Grand Dharma Master Xuandu’s reincarnation.
• Yu Tunzhou agreed to join Jingchen’s campaign against Mietian and persuaded the other clan representatives to follow, then heard how Mietian had transformed the Turbid Kingdom and planned to forge a Buddha Golden Body by defiling a Buddhist treasure.
• A monk reported that Fu Tingxue had sent a signal for help, so Jingchen and Fuhu prepared to rush to the border.
• In the Turbid Kingdom’s royal capital, Mietian learned that Demonic Contamination Gu had been planted in Fu Tingxue’s army, spoke to the king about a troubling dream, and murmured a prophecy that Dingguang Buddha would descend into the Saha World as a mortal.

Mietian prepared to enter seclusion before the Nirvana Assembly, while Dingguang witnessed the Turbid Kingdom’s distorted morality and recognized its darkness as Ignorance. Jingchen’s group reached the Eastward Coming Kingdom’s encampment, where they found Demonic Contamination and Yu Tunzhou recognized Fu Tingxue as Old Mo’s projection.

• Mietian announced he would enter seclusion and entrusted the Turbid Kingdom’s defense to Qingxuzi, Xue Wuya, Yellow Springs Daoist, Tantai Yinglong, and Yang Ming.
• Dingguang saw children tormenting animals, then discovered one of the children secretly caring for an injured sparrow and identified the kingdom’s inverted morality as the Darkness of Ignorance.
• Deng Canglan escorted Bao Ruyin and the Bao Household toward the border, then chose to return to the capital to learn what a demon truly was.
• Jingchen and his companions reached the Eastward Coming Kingdom’s encampment and found that Demonic Contamination had halted the army’s advance.
• Yu Tunzhou met Commander Fu Tingxue and recognized him as Old Mo’s projection, while Daoist Qingzhi shared his shock.

Yu Tunzhou learned that the demonic monk Mietian was Kou Ziling’s projection and agreed to help stop the Nirvana Assembly. After defeating Fu Tingxue in a sparring match, he entered the Turbid Kingdom alone, where the town’s silent residents watched him from every house and he suspected the Buddha statue was behind it.

• Daoist Qingzhi recognized Mietian’s portrait as Kou Ziling and warned Yu Tunzhou that Mietian might already be Kou Ziling’s avatar.
• Abbot Jingchen and the others planned to assault the Turbid Kingdom, destroy its official temples, and cut off the Incense and Fire Prayer Power sustaining Mietian’s Buddhist treasure.
• Yu Tunzhou agreed to help but chose to enter the Turbid Kingdom alone and find Dingguang before the main assault.
• Fu Tingxue sparred with Yu Tunzhou, who found a flaw in the connection between Fu Tingxue’s inner and outer worlds and won the exchange.
• Yu Tunzhou crossed into the Turbid Kingdom at night and found every household’s residents silently watching him, leading him to suspect the town’s Buddha statue.

Yu Tunzhou destroyed two official temples in the Turbid Kingdom and defeated Xue Wuya, a powerful Blood River Dao expert, while gaining a closer connection to the world’s blessings. Xie Heyu then tried to ambush him with two Underworld assassins, but they recognized the corpse Yu Tunzhou carried and fled, leaving Xie Heyu injured and vowing revenge on his household.

• Yu Tunzhou destroyed a temple’s incense-and-fire barrier and Buddha statue, freeing the nearby people from its influence and acquiring a pure sarira.
• Yang Chong learned that a border temple had fallen, and Yellow Springs Daoist assured him that Xue Wuya had gone to kill the outsider.
• Yu Tunzhou destroyed a second temple and confronted a gray-robed attacker who transformed with three heads and six arms and wielded the Blood River True Scripture.
• Yu Tunzhou fought back and killed the attacker, whom he identified as Xue Wuya, a newly advanced Blood River Dao Dharma Aspect expert.
• Xie Heyu brought the King of Equality and Wheel-Turning King to ambush Yu Tunzhou, but both assassins recognized Xue Wuya’s corpse and fled.
• The Wheel-Turning King struck Xie Heyu as he tried to stop him, then escaped, warning that he would settle the debt with the Xie Household.

Yu Tunzhou discovered that Xue Wuya’s repeated resurrection depended on the Turbid Kingdom’s incense offerings, traced their source to Mietian, and set out to destroy the temples sustaining him. As Yu Tunzhou’s temple attacks accelerated, Fu Tingxue rushed to warn him, but Yu was already fighting two of Mietian’s powerful allies and overwhelming them with the world’s growing support.

• Yu Tunzhou learned that the headless Xue Wuya was being sustained by incense offerings and traced the power to Mietian’s devil Buddha form in the royal capital.
• Yu Tunzhou severed Xue Wuya’s incense thread, then began destroying temples to weaken Mietian and strengthen himself.
• Yang Chong discovered that five official temples had been destroyed, while Abbot Jingchen warned that Mietian had created five supreme experts through incense offerings.
• Fu Tingxue left the Little Formless Temple to find Yu Tunzhou after the group feared he might be surrounded by Mietian’s forces.
• Yu Tunzhou fought Yellow Springs Daoist and Tantai Yinglong after they ambushed him, then struck Yellow Springs Daoist down and found an incense thread attached to him.

Yu Tunzhou discovered that Mietian planned to seize the Buddha kingdom’s power during the impending Nirvana Ceremony, then destroyed more than ninety temples and received heaven-and-earth blessings that let him glimpse a Dharma Domain and clarify his Dao Path. Meanwhile, An Ruyu’s timeline showed how she encountered Yu Tunzhou and chose to earn his trust, while the chapter ended with a mysterious figure approaching the young novice monk who bore the Buddhist School’s great fortune.

• Yu Tunzhou confronted Mietian in the Buddha kingdom, escaped the demon Buddha’s attack, and concluded that Mietian might complete his transformation before the announced ceremony date.
• Fu Tingxue found the corpses of the two supreme experts Yu Tunzhou had defeated, and Abbot Jingchen ordered the group to hasten their march against the Turbid Kingdom.
• Yu Tunzhou demolished more than ninety temples, paralyzed the incense-and-fire network, and gained a temporary Dharma Domain after clarifying that his Dao Path was the Outer Dao of No Self Under Heaven.
• An Ruyu’s account recounted her orders from the Incense-Smelling Cult, her encounters with Feng Yanleng and Old Mo, her meeting with Yu Tunzhou, and her decision to win his trust before trying to kill him.
• Yang Chong went mad as the lights on his map went out, while a newly freed man arrived before the Buddhist School’s fortunate novice and asked where the Thunderclap was.

Deng Canglan confronted Mietian’s distorted vision of Buddhist deliverance, then recognized and accepted the many contradictory parts of himself to establish the Dao of the True Demon. As Mietian’s grip on the Turbid Kingdom faltered and its people declared his defeat, the true Buddha’s child lit a spark of Buddha nature, and Ancient Buddha Dipankara returned to the mortal world.

• Mietian showed the young novice the Turbid Kingdom’s suffering and argued that he would deliver its people by devouring their desires, thoughts, and suffering.
• Mietian’s dark-gold Buddha form seized Jingchen and the others, while the novice realized that Buddha nature and demonic nature both existed within everyone.
• Deng Canglan accepted that the people’s virtues and evils were all parts of himself, reunited with his childhood self, and declared that the Dao of the True Demon acknowledged no established Dao.
• Deng Canglan told Mietian he had lost, and people throughout the Turbid Kingdom repeated the words as Mietian failed to identify the real Deng Canglan among them.
• Deng Canglan revealed his Indestructible Primordial Spirit, explained that Mietian had overlooked the true Buddha’s child, and said he had stalled for time.
• The Buddha’s child lit a small golden flame, and Ancient Buddha Dipankara descended once more into the mortal world.

Dingguang witnessed how Ignorance twisted the Turbid Kingdom and vowed to light the first lamp for its suffering people, manifesting the Ancient Glazed Lamp and revealing himself as Ancient Buddha Dipankara. As Mietian attacked him and tried to extinguish the lamp, a mysterious green-robed figure appeared, shattered Mietian’s Buddha Dharma Aspect, and promised to thwart his ambition.

• Dingguang witnessed the suffering of a devoted wife, a betrayed blind Daoist, and an old man neglected by his children, while discovering goodness persisted in the Turbid Kingdom.
• Dingguang resolved to guide ordinary people through Ignorance, and his vow manifested the Ancient Glazed Lamp, illuminating the Turbid Kingdom and freeing people from Mietian’s Ignorance nets.
• Abbot Jingchen recognized the lamp as Ancient Buddha Dipankara’s companion treasure, while Daoist Qingzhi and the others realized Dingguang had attained enlightenment; Fu Tingxue sensed Mietian had reached the realm of Immortals and Gods.
• Mietian gathered the Ignorance net again and struck at Dingguang and the lamp with a world-shaking palm, claiming he would extinguish the lamp and devour the ancient Buddha.
• A green-robed figure appeared, silently dissolved Mietian’s attack, then destroyed his Buddha Dharma Aspect with one step and vowed to prevent him from becoming a Buddha and patriarch.

Yu Tunzhou faced Mietian’s Buddha Kingdom power, broke free of the Four Witherings Inversion, and revealed a Dharma Domain in which only his own Dao could stand. He wounded Mietian with a second punch as the battle continued beneath Venerable Rahula’s Buddha phantom.

• Yu Tunzhou ignored Mietian’s Demon-Subduing Great Mudra, seized him, and dragged him across the ground for a hundred miles.
• Daoist Qingzhi explained that the Heavenly Dao had raised Yu Tunzhou to the External Scenery Fourth Layer, while the onlookers considered his extraordinary strength and origins.
• Mietian invoked Venerable Rahula’s phantom and trapped Yu Tunzhou in the Four Witherings Inversion before unleashing his Buddhist arts.
• Yu Tunzhou drew together his cultivation and true self, formed his Self-Alone Dharma Domain, and walked out of the inversion.
• Yu Tunzhou’s punch suppressed Mietian’s arts, and his second punch pierced Mietian’s chest.

Yu Tunzhou defeated Mietian’s Buddhist techniques and forcibly dragged him back when he tried to ascend, causing Mietian to die as his Dao dispersed. After Kou Ziling revealed that higher breakthroughs had long been obstructed by powerful Dao enemies, an old monk approached Yu Tunzhou and invited him to join the Buddhist School.

• Mietian fused with the remnant of Venerable Rahula’s Buddhist Dharma Body and attacked Yu Tunzhou with Four Witherings Unite and Ten Thousand Buddhas Pay Homage to the Ancestor, but Yu Tunzhou’s Dharma Domain and fist shattered both techniques.
• Mietian tried to ascend by detonating the Buddha kingdom’s remaining origin, but Yu Tunzhou pulled him back from the immortal gate, and Mietian dispersed into golden light after declaring that Yu Tunzhou had not truly defeated him.
• In Great Yan’s imperial palace, Kou Ziling told Emperor Tianshun that powerful figures who sought to advance had long been killed or vanished because of Dao enemies, and said he had aligned with the imperial family to seek protection from the Immortals and Gods.
• Jingchen and the others watched the Turbid Kingdom recover as Mietian’s golden Buddhist light fell, while Yu Tunzhou waited for what would follow.
• An old monk approached Yu Tunzhou, introduced himself with a Buddhist invocation, and asked him to join the Buddhist School.

Yu Tunzhou learned that the Buddha had truly passed into extinction and that Maitreya might be behind Little Thunderclap Temple’s schemes. After the Buddhist kingdom’s blessing faded, he affirmed his own Martial Dao and reached the threshold of [Nature-Seeing Heaven], while the old monk wondered whether Maitreya had planned it all.

• Venerable Rahula told Yu Tunzhou that the Buddha had passed into extinction and warned that the Muscle-Tendon Changing Classic carried great karmic significance for the Buddhist School.
• Dingguang said Maitreya might be behind Little Thunderclap Temple and explained that Deng Canglan had entered the Buddhist kingdom, where he stopped Mietian from ascending and joining with his main body, Kou Ziling.
• Yu Tunzhou realized Maitreya’s actions may have blocked Kou Ziling’s plan, awakened Dingguang early, and freed Rahula, while leaving Dingguang’s present self in control.
• Dingguang planned to stabilize Rahula’s True Spirit and later settle the Mahayana-Hinayana dispute at Vajra Chan Temple; Rahula warned Yu Tunzhou that his wrist object might be a core fragment of the Nine Heavens.
• As the blessing faded, Yu Tunzhou reflected on the punch he had thrown at the Buddha and realized he would have thrown it even knowing the man’s identity, thereby stepping onto the threshold of [Nature-Seeing Heaven].
• Yu Tunzhou returned the blessing’s remaining power in a final punch at the firmament, and Rahula wondered whether Maitreya had included the events in his plan.

Deng Canglan stabilized his Nature-Seeing Heaven realm and decided to travel to the Eastern Wilderness, while Kou Ziling sent Shen You overseas to oversee his holdings and monitor the Demon Race. After the Buddhist kingdom’s battle, the Underworld answered the Xie Household’s complaint over its failed assassination by sending Xie Yun’s severed head.

• Deng Canglan rejected a boy’s offer to buy the Three Rankings, reflected on the True Demon’s path, and decided to visit the Eastern Wilderness after hearing news of Yu Tunzhou’s new martial path.
• Shen You met Kou Ziling in the Divine Capital, and Kou Ziling assigned him to manage overseas holdings and watch the surviving clans’ movements.
• Experts began leaving Luofu Grotto-Heaven after Mietian’s death, while Long Hua departed after failing to meet Yu Tunzhou and resolved to recruit him.
• Xie Yun confronted Yan Qi about the Underworld’s failed attempt on Yu Tunzhou, then agreed to meet the Wheel-Turning King and the King of Equality for an explanation.
• One week later, the Xie Household received Xie Yun’s severed head, and the Underworld said the two Yama Kings had acted on their own.

King Qin Guang recruited Wang Fujing into the Underworld's core as factions prepared to enter the Heavenly Court ruins. Yu Tunzhou returned to Luofu Grotto-Heaven, where Qin Yong warned him of divine hostility and urged him to retrieve what Lu Huaiqing had hidden in the Heavenly Court before its reopening.

• King Qin Guang defended severing ties with the Xie Household and appointed Wang Fujing as the King of Mount Tai.
• King Qin Guang revealed that someone had entered the Yincao Underworld, and Wang Fujing agreed to plan how to turn the Netherworld Mother's branch against the suspected intruder, Great Hero Mo.
• Yu Tunzhou failed to find another version of himself and considered returning to the Eight Sceneries Palace to investigate his connection to Grand Dharma Master Xuandu.
• Yu Tunzhou returned to Luofu Grotto-Heaven to cultivate and learned from Master Xuanzang that hidden plotting threatened the Vajra Chan Temple.
• Yue Hongyi reunited with Yu Tunzhou, recalled Luo Zichuan's efforts to seek help for Twin Rivers Commandery, and departed to gain experience in the jianghu.
• Qin Yong warned Yu Tunzhou that he was suspected of being the Luofu anomaly and that Lu Huaiqing's hidden item had to be retrieved before the Martial Ancestor and the old prince entered the Heavenly Court ruins in three months.

Yu Tunzhou learned that Lu Huaiqing’s legacy and his own Dao Path might be connected to the taboo Heavenly Emperor Haotian, then focused on cultivation instead of dwelling on the danger. He broke through to the Late Divine Ability Stage and established two more wondrous sights, leaving seven of the Eight Sceneries complete.

• Qin Yong told Yu Tunzhou that Lu Huaiqing had sought the lord of the Heavenly Court and warned that Haotian’s name and related ruins were taboo, with past investigations ending in disappearances and destruction.
• Huntian revealed that his severed memories pointed to Haotian and that Yu Tunzhou’s Outer Dao of No Self Under Heaven might be connected to the Heavenly Emperor; Yu Tunzhou resolved to pursue Lu Huaiqing’s sealed coordinates and keep cultivating.
• Yu Tunzhou remained in Luofu for over a month and broke through from the Middle to the Late Divine Ability Stage, strengthening his Inner Heaven and Earth.
• Yu Tunzhou formed the sixth wondrous sight, Yaoguang Ensnaring Illusion, by setting the stars in his Inner Heaven and Earth into motion and weaving their light into a stellar formation.
• Yu Tunzhou formed the seventh wondrous sight, the Cloud and Rainbow Abyss, which increased the vitality of his Inner Heaven and Earth and improved his body’s healing.
• Yu Tunzhou’s seven completed sceneries formed a seamless minor chiliocosm; he realized that completing the final scenery would let him cultivate Nether Passage and access Xuandu Heaven.

Yu Tunzhou learned that his unusually powerful lightning trials might be Dao Calamities and sought a way to obtain treasures that could help him survive the next one. He used Master Lu’s Ascension Platform to reach a snowbound cabin, where a lame young man mistook him for the Martial Ancestor and then suggested that the Martial Ancestor looked like himself.

• Yu Tunzhou examined the seven Divine Abilities formed from his Inner Scenery and realized that opening his eighth wondrous sight required surviving another formidable lightning tribulation.
• Huntian proposed that Yu Tunzhou’s lightning trials were incomplete Dao Calamities tied to his reincarnation and warned him that borrowing Martial Fortune could cause unforeseen trouble.
• Yu Tunzhou considered searching the Heavenly Court ruins for Peaches of Immortality or Nine-Revolution Golden Elixirs, then used Master Lu’s Ascension Platform to follow the coordinates he had left.
• Yu Tunzhou arrived on a snowy mountaintop and entered a cabin, where a lame young man asked whether he was the Martial Ancestor.
• The young man said Yu Tunzhou was not the Martial Ancestor and explained that Master Lu had said the Martial Ancestor looked somewhat like him, leading Yu Tunzhou to suspect the young man was Lu Daolin’s projection body.