Chapter Summaries

Ren Qing investigated the souls of Jing Province’s mortals, uncovered evidence that the force behind the layered world used a Buddhist method to seal memories, and awakened the Worm Cultivators. He left the Heavenly Eerie Realm forces cooperating to enter the Inner Layer World by spreading the names of Heavenly Court immortals and gods.

• Ren Qing expanded his cave abode, raised Gu Insects with the fungal humans, and studied mortal and Dao souls for clues about the Immortal Seat Rules.
• Ren Qing found a tattered page in a mortal soul and realized the person behind the scenes was connected to the Buddhist Sect and could seal memories using a method resembling Fruit Status.
• Ren Qing transformed into a True Dragon and spread disease-bearing rain across Jing Province, waking the Worm Cultivators and revealing that the province had multiple layers.
• The Blood Bat Matriarch turned on Wuzhi as the other forces learned the truth about the Inner Layer World and moved to attack him.
• Ren Qing told the Heavenly Eerie Realm experts to spread their names among the mortals to enter the Inner Layer World, and Lady White Bone killed Wuzhi.

Ren Qing contained the badly injured Wuzhi in the Lesser Thunderclap Monastery, where he used abundant lifespan-extending resources to keep the Bodhisattva from reincarnating. Back in Jing Province, Ren Qing began preparing the factions and Worm Cultivators for entry into the Inner Layer while secretly binding the powerful cultivators to the Heavenly Court.

• Wuzhi's Bodhisattva Fruit Status resisted his efforts to use Buddha energy, and the surrounding cultivators decided to leave him alive while the Insect Nest promised to oversee Jing Province.
• Ren Qing drew Wuzhi into the Stomach World and sealed him inside the Lesser Thunderclap Monastery, where Jia Rulai immobilized him with Buddhist Dream Flowers.
• Ren Qing moved the monastery to a remote ocean trench and flooded it with Wine Mine, extending Wuzhi's life and preventing his Bodhisattva Fruit Status from escaping through reincarnation.
• Ren Qing returned to Jing Province and began teaching the Gu Worm System across the factions' towns and villages to prepare the Worm Cultivators for the Inner Layer.
• Ren Qing sent dreamlike visions through the Lesser Heavenly Court and connected red threads from the Matchmaker Immortal to Lady White Bone and the other Heavenly Eerie Realm cultivators.
• The cultivators sensed a ruined wasteland and concluded that the Heavenly Court had living true immortals, while Ren Qing continued planning for their arrival in the Inner Layer.

As the Laba Festival approached, the Buddhist sect cracked down on Heavenly Court supporters and staged a mass execution during a Buddhahood Ceremony in Linshan City. Blackwater Daoist confronted the Merit Monks, and Lady White Bone appeared as the Heavenly Court began entering the Inner Layer World.

• A night watchman discovered Heavenly Court paintings in Sanxiang City, and the authorities later executed dozens of people as the Buddhist sect hunted its supporters.
• After Ma Shan told him that Heavenly Court supporters had been arrested in Linshan City, Blackwater Daoist hurried there and found the city sealed and hundreds marked for execution.
• At Caishikou, Kong Xin led the Buddhahood Ceremony while Blackwater Daoist and three companions prepared to rescue the prisoners.
• Kong Xin exposed the Heavenly Court network and used his apparent divine power to choke hundreds of prisoners, but Blackwater Daoist shouted the name of the Plague Spreading Immortal Envoy so listeners would remember it.
• Lady White Bone emerged from the ground and identified herself as the Heavenly Court Plague Department’s Plague Spreading Immortal Envoy as the Merit Monks welcomed her with their severed heads.

Lady White Bone and the other Heavenly Eerie Realm cultivators crushed the Merit Monks and helped the Heavenly Court faction seize control of Jingzhou’s Inner Layer World. Ren Qing spread Gu Insects and Worm Cultivators through Jingzhou, then left for the Dragon Blood Sea to advance the Zhi Li Technique and rebuild the Lesser Heavenly Court.

• Lady White Bone absorbed Merit Monk’s memories, killed him, and left Blackwater Daoist to blame the Buddhist sect and rally support for the Heavenly Court.
• The Blood Bat Matriarch revealed herself as the Three Calamity Worm Immortal, killed the Merit Monks at Sanxiang City, and harvested their spines for the Insect Nest.
• Ren Qing watched the Heavenly Eerie Realm cultivators eliminate the Merit Buddhas, then told Blackwater Daoist to spread the fame of the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals.
• Worm Cultivators arrived in Jingzhou and helped the Heavenly Court faction suppress the rebellion, while Ren Qing released Gu Insects to establish a new ecosystem and cultivate more Worm Cultivators.
• Ren Qing and the other cultivators suspected that Gu Insects were tied to Jingzhou’s deeper layers, while Gu Worms spread through trade and daily life and Li Yaoyang’s resource business prospered.
• Ren Qing left Jingzhou for the Dragon Blood Sea without Ghost Shadow and began advancing the Zhi Li Technique and rebuilding the Lesser Heavenly Court.

Ren Qing advanced the Zhi Li Technique to the Heavenly Eerie Realm by fusing with the Plague Dream Tree, then used the Matchmaker Immortal’s dream to reshape the Lesser Heavenly Court and Heavenly River. After returning to Jingzhou, he found that his Ghost Shadow had grown to nearly the size required for Ascension.

• Ren Qing transformed into a Nightmare Demon, entered the Matchmaker Immortal’s dream, and discovered that its soul had vanished while its red threads connected it to many living beings.
• Ren Qing contacted the Great Dream True Person through lingering impressions in his Split Souls and told him about the Ascension Ladder as he began fusing the Plague Dream Tree with his body and soul.
• Ren Qing completed the Zhi Li Technique breakthrough, gaining the pseudo Immortal Body Nurgle Plague Dream and the divine ability World Like a Dream.
• Ren Qing briefly caused the Lesser Heavenly Court to collapse, then restored it, erased the Wind-Void People’s memories of the event, and removed their illnesses.
• Ren Qing repaired the Lesser Heavenly Court, added Ascension Methods and traces of the Heavenly River, and left evidence that the Three Dao Ancestors had destroyed the Heavenly Court.
• Ren Qing returned to Jingzhou and found that his Ghost Shadow had grown to seven or eight thousand meters, with Jingzhou beginning to reject it.

Ren Qing advanced the Physical Tathagata to the Yang God Realm, bound it to a Divine Immortal official position, and discovered that Lingshan could process his Heavenly Dao Transformations. The chapter ended as someone in the Inner Layer World announced they had found a way to reach Deep Jingzhou.

• Ghost Shadow traveled from the Inner Layer World to Deep Jingzhou, where Ren Qing could barely sense it but knew it remained safe.
• The Physical Tathagata consumed Joyful Arhat Buddha energy, briefly developed a faint consciousness, and was erased by Ren Qing before it advanced to the Yang God Realm.
• The Physical Tathagata transformed into a vast, eerie mountain resembling Lingshan, and Ren Qing sacrificed the cultivation of other Fungal Souls to advance the Compassionate Monk Fungal Soul to the Heavenly Eerie Realm.
• Ren Qing fused the Compassionate Monk Fungal Soul and the Divine Immortal official position into the Physical Tathagata, gaining control of it as an avatar that could process his Heavenly Dao Transformations.
• Ren Qing prepared to absorb the Buddha energy of Wujinyi Bodhisattva when a voice from the Inner Layer World announced that it had found a way to reach Deep Jingzhou.

Ren Qing learned that Gu Insects could carry cultivators into the Inner Layer World, then prepared to follow after rescuing Jing Province’s Worm Cultivators into the Stomach World. On arriving, he heard Buddhist sutras and found the Inner Layer World unlike anything Ghost Shadow had reported, so he summoned the Physical Tathagata and possessed it.

• Pig Daoist tried to demonstrate how Gu Insects enabled entry into the Inner Layer World, but the Blood Bat Matriarch’s influence caused him to ascend before the factions could stop him.
• Heavenly Eerie Realm cultivators began ascending in succession, and Ren Qing sent a joined Ghost Shadow through the Inner Layer World to gather information.
• Ghost Shadow returned from the outskirts of Jing Province with evidence that a Buddhist mastermind had glimpsed the truth of the rules, prompting Ren Qing to suspect a disciple with Tathagata fruit status.
• Ren Qing used Ghost Shadow to move hundreds of thousands of Worm Cultivators into the Stomach World, where Li Yaoyang established Poison Worm Island and left behind Gu Refining techniques.
• Ren Qing ascended after the other Heavenly Eerie Realm cultivators, but heard sutras as soon as he entered; he summoned the Physical Tathagata and used Heavenly Demon Possession to control it.
• Ren Qing surveyed the Inner Layer World and was shocked by what he saw.

Ren Qing explored the Buddha-energy-filled inner layer world and learned that Dingguang Buddha transformed Gu insects into vessels for ancient Buddhist souls. He sealed a wisp of Dingguang Buddha energy inside the Physical Tathagata and waited to see how the local Buddhist factions would respond.

• Ren Qing examined the inner layer world and found enormous Buddha statues, signs of sealed entities, and traces of a surviving civilization.
• Ren Qing absorbed the memories of Pu Wu and identified Dingguang Buddha as possibly connected to Ancient Buddha Dipankara.
• A Gu insect transformed into a Buddha and was possessed by an ancient monk; Ren Qing killed it and learned how the transformation worked.
• Ren Qing stopped the Physical Tathagata from devouring too much Dingguang Buddha energy and sealed a wisp inside it instead.
• Ren Qing contacted the Heavenly Eerie Realm cultivators through the Matchmaker of the Dragon Blood Sea and considered recruiting them into the Heavenly Court.
• Commoners and a Merit Monk encountered the Physical Tathagata, while Ren Qing continued feeding it Wujinyi Bodhisattva's Buddha energy.

Ren Qing watched the Physical Tathagata confront three Insect Buddhas, whose Buddha energy and bodies became vulnerable to its influence. The Insect Buddhas left for a town under Ren Qing’s control, while a middle-aged monk fled to warn other temples.

• The middle-aged monk and the little novice hid as Golden Gate Temple’s Dharma-Guarding Buddha trampled people while approaching the Physical Tathagata.
• Ren Qing identified three Yang God Realm Buddhas formed from Eerie Objects as Insect Buddhas, including Many-Tongued Buddha and Palm Buddha.
• Palm Buddha probed the Physical Tathagata and lost Buddha energy as the flesh began forming a statue of him.
• Ren Qing used the Heavenly Demon Tribulation, enhanced by the Physical Tathagata, to make the Insect Buddhas see it as a source of advancement.
• The Physical Tathagata spread across Many-Tongued Buddha’s back without his noticing, and the three Insect Buddhas headed toward a town.
• The middle-aged monk decided Golden Gate Temple was in danger and fled with the little novice to contact other temples.

Ren Qing brought Many-Tongued Buddha to Golden Gate Temple and learned from his memories how Insect Buddhas and Wish Power worked in Jingzhou. As the Physical Tathagata fed on Many-Tongued Buddha, it discovered Pig Daoist sealed inside a Buddha statue.

• Ren Qing observed that Golden Gate Temple’s believers produced Wish Power, which restored the Insect Buddhas’ Buddha energy and differed from ordinary Dinguang Buddha energy.
• Ren Qing learned from Many-Tongued Buddha’s memories that Insect Buddhas were ranked as Arhats, Bodhisattvas, and Tathagatas, and that Golden Gate Temple’s Insect Buddhas had been assigned to an isolated corner of Lesser Buddha Heaven.
• Many-Tongued Buddha arrived at Golden Gate Temple weakened and deformed, while Ren Qing let the believers witness the Physical Tathagata parasitizing him.
• Ren Qing found Pig Daoist trapped in a Buddha statue inside the Great Hero Hall, where Wish Power had sealed him and Buddha energy was eroding him.
• Pig Daoist saw the tumor on Many-Tongued Buddha’s back sprout grotesque faces that stared greedily at his statue as the Physical Tathagata’s cultivation rose.

Ren Qing transformed Golden Gate Temple into an Insect Buddha farm, letting the Physical Tathagata devour the temple’s Buddhas while he spread fungus people and captured newly arrived souls. He also began searching for the Taiyin Star Lord’s body and soul, and left Golden Gate Temple radically changed.

• Ren Qing let the Physical Tathagata finish parasitizing Many-Tongued Buddha, then guided it to attack Palm Buddha and the remaining Feathered Buddha.
• Ren Qing drove the people from Golden Gate Temple and began rebuilding the city to farm Insect Buddhas, while Fungal Souls discovered that nearby temples’ Insect Buddhas had Yang God Realm cultivation.
• Ren Qing raised the Cancer Fungal Soul to the Heavenly Eerie Realm and sent its disease strain underground to search for the Taiyin Star Lord.
• Ren Qing brought the Divine Feet Scripture into the Inner Layer World, where its ancient monk soul possessed a Gu Insect and was named Fuxiang Buddha by Fortune Buddha.
• Ren Qing imprisoned Yuren and other souls in White Bone cages, used dream flowers to absorb their Buddha energy, and established an Insect Buddha farm throughout Golden Gate Temple.

Golden Gate Temple’s rumors drew Thousand-Hand Buddha and four Insect Buddhas to investigate, but Thousand-Hand Buddha revealed himself as Many-Tongued Buddha, a servant of the Physical Tathagata. Ren Qing used the Tathagata’s power to subdue the newcomers and continued his plan to control Lesser Buddha Heaven while Great Buddha Heaven was distracted.

• Thousand-Hand Buddha led four Insect Buddhas toward Golden Gate Temple, where the group found thousands of drained Buddha statues imprisoned in cages.
• Thousand-Hand Buddha revealed that he had once served at Golden Gate Temple and declared the Tathagata of Great Buddha Heaven false.
• Thousand-Hand Buddha transformed into Many-Tongued Buddha and trapped the other Insect Buddhas, while he knelt and worshiped the Physical Tathagata.
• The Physical Tathagata suppressed the Insect Buddhas with its Buddha energy, and Many-Tongued Buddha pledged to recruit more statues before receiving a boost in cultivation.
• Ren Qing watched Many-Tongued Buddha leave and planned to reclaim Lesser Buddha Heaven before turning his attention to Great Buddha Heaven.

Ren Qing strengthened the Physical Tathagata and discovered that the force behind the scenes had asked it to help resolve the Outer Realm Heavenly Demon's chaos in Great Buddha Heaven. He suspected the plan involved making tens of thousands of Merit Monks into Dinguang Buddha Children so they could contact the Heavenly Dao.

• The Physical Tathagata implanted Dream Flower and a vertical eye in Pig Daoist, then compelled him to travel to Great Buddha Heaven as Ren Qing's lookout.
• Ren Qing continued spreading disease strains through Taiyin Star Lord and used the Physical Tathagata to absorb Buddha energy from Insect Buddhas across Lesser Buddha Heaven.
• Ren Qing gathered Dream Flowers and transformed the Physical Tathagata into a two-thousand-meter crystalline Spirit Mountain, increasing its capacity to bear Heavenly Dao Transformation.
• A weak consciousness from the person behind the scenes contacted the Physical Tathagata and asked Ren Qing to go to Great Buddha Heaven to settle the Outer Realm Heavenly Demon's chaos.
• Ren Qing learned that Merit Monks were being gathered for a sacrificial ritual and deduced that the plan was to turn them into Dinguang Buddha Children who could contact the Heavenly Dao.

Ren Qing used the Physical Tathagata’s Buddha Kingdom in Palm to turn Jailer Hall cultivators into powerful Buddha statues and prepared Golden Gate Temple for an attack. While he implanted an Earth Immortal official position into Taiyin Star Lord and uncovered a plan to recreate Buddha’s Heavenly Dao, Ren Qing decided to leave Jing Province.

• Ren Qing discovered that the Physical Tathagata had awakened Buddha Kingdom in Palm, allowing cultivators to possess its Buddha statues and wield enhanced strength.
• Ren Qing sent five thousand Ghost Envoy Realm cultivators into Pseudo Buddha statues, then assigned Li Yaoyang to defend Spirit Mountain and Golden Gate Temple.
• Li Yaoyang organized the monks and Jailer Hall cultivators to prepare Spirit Mountain and fortify Golden Gate Temple against the insect Buddhas.
• Ren Qing spread the disease strain underground and implanted an Earth Immortal official position into Taiyin Star Lord’s moonfall stone core.
• Taiyin Star Lord’s awakening let Ren Qing uncover secrets about Jing Province and learn that Buddhists were trying to recreate Buddha’s Heavenly Dao.
• Ren Qing resolved to leave Jing Province as soon as possible after confirming the official position had fused with Taiyin Star Lord.

Ren Qing escaped Jing Province and watched the competing factions gather around its opportunity while strengthening himself from afar. As he prepared to advance his Art, a gigantic sphere began emerging beneath Jing Province.

• Blood Seal Bodhisattva led the Insect Buddhas to find the missing Physical Tathagata, but they found Golden Gate Temple empty and rushed back toward Great Buddha Heaven after the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons caused a disturbance.
• Ren Qing brought the Physical Tathagata and Jailer Hall cultivators out of Jing Province, then fled through Water Marsh Desert to the seabed near Dragon Blood Sea.
• Ren Qing released fungal souls to spread the Heavenly Court's name and informed Gu True Person of Dragon Blood Sea's location.
• Ren Qing transferred Heavenly Dao Transformation to the Physical Tathagata, whose monks helped suppress the karmic fire, while he watched Jing Province and cultivated.
• Cracks opened across Jing Province, the ground rose, and a gigantic sphere began burrowing out.

Ren Qing advanced the Heavenly Demon Tribulation and Ancestral Vein to the Heavenly Eerie Realm, then began expanding Jailer Hall’s reach beyond the stomach world. He left the chapter preparing outside-world missions for cultivators, including assignments involving Pig Daoist and Gu True Person.

• Ren Qing advanced the Heavenly Demon Tribulation, merged Wugui into his skull, and sensed Wuming parasitizing the corpse Immortal.
• Pig Daoist was summoned by the Physical Tathagata, received an Earth Immortal official position, and gained control of the vertical eye before agreeing to approach the Tathagata of Merit.
• Ren Qing advanced the Ancestral Vein, transformed into an Yinglong, and strengthened the dragons and Gu Insects in the stomach world.
• Blackwater Daoist led the Worm Cultivators into Dream City, where they learned how difficult it would be to earn resources and decided to hunt sea beasts.
• Ren Qing created Immortal Keys and dragon limbs to let Jailer Hall cultivators enter the outside world, then opened external missions that Tang Sheng and Han Li accepted.

Han Li rescued Gu True Person and recruited him for the Heavenly Court, while Tang Sheng and Daoist Mu She were sent to Great Buddha Heaven to assist Pig Daoist. The chapter left the Heavenly Court’s agents gathering in Great Buddha Heaven as preparations for the Myriad Buddhas Pilgrimage continued.

• Blood Poison Son attacked a hidden village of human insects, but Han Li rescued them, defeated him, and told Gu True Person that the Heavenly Court could help him extend his lifespan and reach the Immortal Realm.
• Gu True Person agreed to prove his worth to the Heavenly Court in exchange for a chance to join it and learn about Gu arts.
• Tang Sheng arrived in Great Buddha Heaven and told Pig Daoist that he would accompany him to the Myriad Buddhas Pilgrimage as a Heavenly Court observer.
• Ren Qing persuaded Daoist Mu She to take a mission, then sent him to Great Buddha Heaven, where he introduced himself to Pig Daoist and Tang Sheng as Plague Daoist of the Heavenly Court Plague Department.

Ren Qing rescued Great Dream True Person from a soul fusion that threatened to turn him into Grandmaster Tai Sui, then helped him break through to the Ascension Ladder. Ren Qing sent Jailer Hall cultivators into the Outer Layer World to harvest Gu Insects and resources, unleashing a sweeping invasion that left the world in chaos.

• Gu True Person and Han Li gathered Gu Insects in Jing Province, exchanged them for Blood Crystals, and evaded independent cultivators hunting human insects.
• Ren Qing stopped Great Dream True Person’s fungal Split Souls from overwhelming his Main Soul and helped him survive the Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s influence during his Ascension Ladder breakthrough.
• Ren Qing stabilized Great Dream True Person in the Stomach World, where he received the Great Dream Method and entered seclusion.
• Ren Qing dispatched more than a thousand Jailer Hall cultivators to the Outer Layer World on missions to collect Gu Insects and other resources.
• Jailer Hall’s Heavenly Court cultivators overwhelmed rogue factions and stripped the Outer Layer World of its resources, while Gu True Person joined the plundering.

Ren Qing’s Jailer Hall devastated the Outer Layer World and spread fear of Heavenly Court, while Ren Qing entered the Inner Layer World as North Star Lord and began consolidating power in Jing Province. The chapter ended with Spirit Mountain Tathagata taking control of Lesser Buddha Heaven as Jailer Hall quietly encircled the province.

• Four-Eyed Old Daoist tried to flee Jingzhou, but Sen Sheng withstood his Annihilation Spell and Jailer Hall overwhelmed the Island Magical Artifact; Ren Qing captured the stronger cultivators and scattered the rest into the Stomach World.
• Ren Qing’s forces stripped the Outer Layer World of resources and Eerie Objects, leaving a Heavenly Court flag that spread rumors about the force’s power.
• Ren Qing sent a fungal soul into the Inner Layer World, where Pig Daoist received news of the Outer Layer’s destruction and met Ren Qing, who identified himself as North Star Lord.
• Ren Qing concealed his group from the Buddhas and waited while Tang Sheng continued cultivating in the Inner Layer World.
• Ren Qing used Spirit Mountain Tathagata to command thousands of Buddhas in Lesser Buddha Heaven to convert their fellows and send them to Golden Gate Temple, where Spirit Mountain Tathagata devoured their Buddha qi.
• Jailer Hall cultivators entered the Inner Layer World, and Ren Qing quietly occupied much of Jing Province while forming an encirclement.

Ren Qing used Lesser Buddha Heaven to divert Great Buddha Heaven's forces and lure Ascended cultivators to their deaths, then joined the Myriad Buddhas Pilgrimage disguised among the monks. As the procession came under attack, Lady White Bone infiltrated Bodhisattva Hundred Wisdoms, while Ren Qing led his companions away under cover of Buddhist Dream Flowers.

• Ren Qing evacuated the monks of Lesser Buddha Heaven into the Western Buddha Realm and directed Ascended cultivators toward Great Buddha Heaven, where the Buddhist sect killed Daoist Qingxiao and blamed the disturbance on Outer Realm Heavenly Demons.
• Ren Qing settled the monks around Physical Tathagata, studied the ancient monks' transformed souls, and sent Jailer Hall cultivators to search for Gu Insects.
• Ren Qing joined the Myriad Buddhas Pilgrimage disguised as a Daoist, accompanied by Pig Daoist, Tang Sheng, and Daoist Mu She.
• Bodhisattva Hundred Wisdoms carried the procession toward Tathagata of Merit as cultivators gathered along the route, and Pig Daoist noticed that Tathagata of Merit was sealed inside amber-like insect eggs.
• Elephant Master and two other Heavenly Eerie Realm cultivators attacked Bodhisattva Hundred Wisdoms, while Lady White Bone secretly planted bones in his body and took control of him.
• Ren Qing led his companions away from the battle and concealed Daoist Mu She and Tang Sheng with Buddhist Dream Flowers.