Recaps

Lu Yang forged Divine Firmament Thunder, resisted Sky Soaring’s attempts to recruit and use him, and watched Sky Soaring seek Nascent Soul by expanding the Netherworld. The Dao Lords destroyed the world and triggered Lu Yang’s Restart, leaving Sky Soaring’s possible return as the only path forward he could see.

• Lu Yang forged Divine Firmament Thunder from a Realm Heaven Seed and used it to temper his injuries from the Sword Pavilion Dao Lord.
• Lu Yang fought Old Dragon Lord, who transformed into Old Dragon Mother, then Sky Soaring seized the Gold Nature that Lu Yang knocked loose and revealed his plan to become Lord of Netherworld.
• Sky Soaring gave Lu Yang Old Dragon Lord’s Gold Nature and urged him to act in the coming calamity, while Lu Yang chose to remain in Responding King and observe.
• Sky Soaring entered the Netherworld and spread its power across the Immortal Pivot, declaring himself Dao Lord of the Netherworld Dao and seeking Nascent Soul.
• Sky Soaring used the Great Forest Wood, Heavenly River Water, and Wall Earth Fruit Positions to extend his Empty Attainment Great Dao toward the Netherworld’s core, while Lu Yang refused to draw the Dao Lords’ attention for him.
• The Dao Lords attacked Sky Soaring as he attempted his final leap, and the Earthly Buddha Land exposed his true body before the Sword Pavilion Dao Lord killed him.
• The Dao Lords pulled the Netherworld into the Real World and destroyed existence, but Lu Yang survived through Restart and concluded Sky Soaring might still return if he overcame the Sacred Sect Old Immortal’s Fixed Number.

Lu Yang established Divine Firmament Thunder in the Xuanling Realm, then joined Star Palace and studied its star charts while concealing his identity and investigating the World Honored One’s influence. When the Xuanling Realm moved toward the Immortal Pivot, Lu Yang gathered Star Palace resources and prepared to intervene.

• Lu Yang chose the Initial Anchor Point, set a Third Anchor Point, and fused Si Sui’s stolen Image of City-Wall Earth into the Yellow Court.
• Lu Yang learned the Heaven Mending Scripture’s deeper teachings from Butian Que and used the Jade Book’s formulas to establish Divine Firmament Thunder as an External Dao Fruit Position in the Xuanling Realm.
• Lu Yang traveled to Star Palace, defeated the Star Lords’ Radiant Spirit God, and joined after Upper True Haoyuan warned the stone statues that Lu Yang was only an avatar.
• Lu Yang demonstrated his array-treasure skill to Ming Feng and entered her Artifact Refining Secret Realm, where he studied Star Soul’s theories on cultivation, star charts, and the Sea of Suffering.
• Ming Feng approved Lu Yang to study star-chart refinement, and Lu Yang helped her create the Twenty-Ninth Star Chart, which she named the Seven-Treasure Glazed Wonder Tree.
• Lu Yang suspected the World Honored One had influenced Ming Feng through karmic connections, then received the Xuanling Realm Supreme’s message that the realm was in peril.
• Lu Yang agreed to provide ten thousand years of lifespan in exchange for Upper True Haoyuan’s help, while learning that the Xuanling Realm planned to invade the Immortal Pivot.
• Lu Yang gathered Star Palace treasures and received the Sun-Shooting Bow from Upper True Haoyuan as he prepared to face the approaching crisis.

Lu Yang defeated the Pure Land’s response body, perfected Pine and Cypress Wood, and created the Great Tribulation Lord while establishing the Northern Exorcism Institute. As he uncovered the Void Darkness Light Sea’s dormant Tribulation Dao, he sent Chongguang down a perilous Heart Demon path and set events in motion against Hongyun and the Jiangnan Sword Pavilion.

• Lu Yang used the Sun-Shooting Bow to defeat the Pure Land Bodhisattvas and shatter the Vajra Realm Jewel-Born Tathagata, then gained new cultivation knowledge from its remnant gleam.
• Lu Yang created the Slanting Moon Three Stars Grotto-Heaven, claimed Pine and Cypress Wood, and completed Divine Firmament Thunder as the Great Tribulation Lord.
• Lu Yang founded the Righteous Dao and Northern Exorcism Institute, distributing Dharma Seals and offering methods to fight Heart Demons.
• Lu Yang gave Chongguang The Scripture of the Self-Transforming Freedom Heart Demon, while karmic memories revealed the Void Darkness Light Sea’s dormant Tribulation Great Dao.
• Chongguang refined a Heaven of Freedom and set out to confront Heart Demon afflictions, while Lu Yang altered an event that sent Hongyun toward Gantang Circuit.
• Chongguang trapped Ye Guyue in a Heart Demon illusion and recruited her and Xiaohai True Person as he prepared to draw Hongyun into a confrontation.
• Chongguang learned that True Person Tanxu had surrounded Gantang Circuit and decided to target the Sword Pavilion to draw out a Great True Person for his Heart Demon to devour.

Chongguang rose from a Heart Demon plotter to a True Lord of Tribulation, while Lu Yang confronted the cultivation world and fought True Lord Flying Snow. The arc ended with Chongguang’s overseas campaign surviving Xuan Yuan Great Sage’s self-destruction, as Xuan Yuan and Great Sage Mingzhu headed for the Sacred Sect and Old Dragon Lord stayed hidden.

• Chongguang manipulated True Person Demon-Subduer and True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde, whose death and the ensuing battle let Chongguang devour the Heart Demon’s remnants and ascend toward a new realm.
• Chongguang became a True Lord of Tribulation and sought Lu Yang’s protection, while Lu Yang learned that Chongguang’s True Demon Womb could grow by devouring souls.
• Lu Yang confronted the gathered True Lords over the Heart Demon and true demon, killed True Lord Frost-Covering Wind-Soaring, and blamed the absent Pure Land for Chongguang’s transformation.
• True Lord Flying Snow challenged Lu Yang to a duel over De Chongfu and Forbidden Knowledge, and the two fought at Seven Radiance Heaven until Lu Yang defeated her in close combat.
• True Lord Flying Snow disclosed secrets about the First Generation Peak Masters, and Lu Yang arranged for Chongguang to kill Great Sage Yuanxu and Xuan Yuan Great Sage while sparing Great Sage Mingzhu.
• Chongguang possessed Great Sage Yuanxu and lured Xuan Yuan Great Sage into guarding him, but Xuan Yuan exposed him and self-destructed to burn Chongguang’s demon body to ash.
• Chongguang survived through a Heart Demon left outside the Four Seas Sect, while Xuan Yuan reincarnated and set out with Great Sage Mingzhu for the Sacred Sect as Old Dragon Lord fled into hiding.