Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang sought a way to recover the Primordial Dao Abomination’s memories and learned that soul-searching it required an awkward workaround. After Plundering it, he discovered that the Mahayana First Grade True Qi required Gold Nature and led toward Empty Attainment rather than any Fruit Position.

• Lu Yang asked the Dharma Manifestation Pavilion for a Dao art that could search the memories of cultivators at his level or higher.
• The Formation Spirit recommended the Great Yin Celestial Transformation Wondrous Art, which could alter a target’s sex and loosen their Sea of Consciousness during dual cultivation.
• Lu Yang used the art on the Primordial Dao Abomination and had Chen Xin'an Plunder it.
• Lu Yang learned that the Abomination had been near death since True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow extracted its Gold Nature.
• Lu Yang discovered that cultivating the Mahayana First Grade True Qi required Gold Nature and was intended to lead to Empty Attainment, not a Fruit Position.

Lu Yang studied the Primordial True Person’s method for Mahayana First Grade True Qi and asked Patriarch Tingyou to help solve its mystery of Empty Attainment. As Lu Yang prepared for battle, True Person Chongguang entered reincarnation to seek Gold, drawing the attention of powerful forces.

• Lu Yang realized he could use the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner and the Dao Abomination’s Gold Nature to cultivate Mahayana First Grade True Qi, but he still did not know how to attain Empty Attainment.
• Lu Yang gave Patriarch Tingyou the cultivation method, and Tingyou withdrew into the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner to study it.
• Lu Yang chose the Mountain Moving True Method at the Dharma Manifestation Pavilion and practiced it at Mending Heaven Peak with Lady Ruoxiang.
• Lu Yang received a message that Chongguang would return through reincarnation at midnight and, after attaining Gold, retrieve City-Wall Earth for him.
• True Person Chongguang vanished from Sacred Fire Cliff at midnight and entered reincarnation to seek Gold, alerting the watching powers.

Lu Yang and True Person Yinshan entered Qing Kingdom ahead of a major Jiangbei campaign ordered by True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow, who tasked Lu Yang with leading the attack. Lu Yang learned how the Dao Court’s system controlled cultivation and judged that its peaceful rule left mortals powerless, as the campaign against Qing Kingdom approached.

• True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow ordered Lu Yang to lead the invasion of Qing Kingdom, promising that Golden Core True Lords and most stronger Foundation Establishment cultivators would stay out of the fighting.
• Lu Yang and True Person Yinshan traveled south as Jiangbei forces surrounded Qing Kingdom, and Lu Yang asked Yinshan to guide him through the campaign.
• Yinshan explained that Qing Kingdom was tightly governed by the Dao Court, whose rules were difficult to overturn despite its limited ability to expand.
• In a city once ruled by Qing Kingdom, Yinshan showed Lu Yang the Dao Canon and explained that mortals needed scholarly rank and official status to cultivate, while unranked cultivators were forbidden from using spiritual energy.
• Lu Yang concluded that the Dao Court’s orderly rule still treated ordinary people like livestock and left them with no power to resist.

Lu Yang and Hanxiang traveled to a secret trading gathering where Jiangbei cultivators exchanged treasures ahead of an impending battle. After several trades, Multi-Treasure Boy arrived as a conspicuous target, and Lu Yang smiled at the sight of him.

• Lu Yang and True Person Yinshan found Hanxiang alone at Gaizhu Mountain and learned the other summoned cultivators had gone to trade privately.
• Lu Yang persuaded Hanxiang to take him to the gathering, while True Person Yinshan stayed behind to guard Gaizhu Mountain.
• Lu Yang and Hanxiang entered a concealed cave where more than ten masked cultivators had gathered to trade.
• Dragon Fishing Old Man opened the gathering by offering a Foundation Establishment Early Stage Flood Dragon corpse in exchange for a lifespan-extending pill.
• Jiangbei cultivators traded various treasures, and Hanxiang disguised herself as a burly man to make her own trade.
• Multi-Treasure Boy arrived openly, drawing attention as a wealthy Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivator, and Lu Yang smiled at him.

Multi-Treasure Boy traded his Ten Thousand Treasure River and Qi of Earth Vein for Lu Yang’s Avici Sword, believing Lu Yang was a Sacred Sect True Person. After the trade ended, he and Dragon Fishing Old Man revealed they had been baiting cultivators and prepared to hunt Lu Yang down.

• Multi-Treasure Boy offered the Ten Thousand Treasure River and Qi of Earth Vein in exchange for a high-grade Spiritual Treasure suited to sensing danger and slaughter.
• Lu Yang suspected Multi-Treasure Boy was setting a trap, then negotiated for a ready-made Ten Thousand Treasure River and received 162 high-grade magical treasures along with the trade.
• Lu Yang exchanged the Avici Sword for Multi-Treasure Boy’s offerings, and the remaining Foundation Establishment True Persons completed their trades and departed.
• Dragon Fishing Old Man questioned whether Multi-Treasure Boy was sure Lu Yang was a Sacred Sect True Person, and Multi-Treasure Boy explained that Hanxiang and her Dharma-Hearing Hound had helped him identify Lu Yang.
• Multi-Treasure Boy ordered Dragon Fishing Old Man to summon the Dao Court people and hurried after Lu Yang before he could escape.

True Person Wuxing gathered allied cultivators in Qing Kingdom and secured Zhong Xin’s permission to attack a Demon Sect True Person in Jiangbei. Meanwhile, Lu Yang deliberately baited pursuers and waited for them to approach.

• True Person Wuxing met with Xia Weiming, Chen Anze, Fairy Yunhe, and Sword Master Xuanjin as they prepared to aid Qing Kingdom against the Demon Sect.
• Zhong Xin warned the group to prioritize finding True Person Chongguang’s reincarnation, but True Person Wuxing argued for attacking a suspected Demon Sect commander to earn merit.
• Zhong Xin approved True Person Wuxing’s plan to lead the cultivators behind enemy lines, urging them to retreat if the mission became too dangerous.
• Lu Yang flew toward Gaizhu Mountain, reasoning that pursuers who attacked him would make his response self-defense.
• Lu Yang spotted an escape light racing toward him and stopped to wait, pleased that his bait had drawn someone in.

Lu Yang used himself as bait while True Person Yinshan gathered allies to ambush the Qing Kingdom cultivators who came to kill him. The trap closed around Multi-Treasure Boy and his allies, leaving True Person Wuxing suspecting that Multi-Treasure Boy had betrayed them.

• Multi-Treasure Boy confronted Lu Yang, mistook his calm for a bluff, and attacked him with the Ten Thousand Treasure River.
• Lu Yang released Qi-Eating Insects to consume the river’s Precious Light, then used the Purple Tenuity Official Subduing Supreme Golden Seal to suppress its metal treasures.
• Dragon Fishing Old Man, True Person Wuxing, and five other Foundation Establishment True Persons arrived to surround Lu Yang.
• True Person Yinshan and the Jiangbei cultivators emerged from an outer ambush, and Yinshan severely wounded Xia Weiming.
• Lu Yang revealed that he and Yinshan had anticipated the attack and set the trap; True Person Wuxing turned on Multi-Treasure Boy and accused him of betrayal.

True Person Wuxing and his companions were trapped by Lu Yang, whose strength and protective Spiritual Treasure let him withstand their combined attack. Lu Yang provoked suspicion among the group and drove Multi-Treasure Boy to attack, leaving the others sensing that Lu Yang was about to kill him.

• True Person Wuxing apologized for suspecting Multi-Treasure Boy, then rallied the group and ordered them to attack Lu Yang to create a chance to escape.
• True Person Wuxing's Chaotic Five Elements Umbrella shielded the group from the clash, but it cracked under the force of the attack.
• Lu Yang emerged unharmed in his Hundredfold Hazard-Repelling Mystic Cloak and taunted the group.
• Lu Yang accused Dragon Fishing Old Man of colluding with the Jiangdong Dao Court, stirring suspicion toward Multi-Treasure Boy as well.
• Multi-Treasure Boy lost control and charged Lu Yang with the Ten Thousand Treasure River, then realized Lu Yang had provoked him with Resolving Doubts and Suspicions.
• Lu Yang's killing intent filled the battlefield, and Multi-Treasure Boy realized Lu Yang meant to kill him.

Lu Yang used the Avici Sword and Star Concealing Radiance to turn Multi-Treasure Boy’s attempted escape and counterattack into an opening to kill Dragon Fishing Old Man. He stood amid the aftermath, pleased that his temporary boost in cultivation had let him overwhelm his opponent.

• Lu Yang sealed Daoist Multi-Treasure’s World Travel ability with Embrace Mountain and threatened him with the Star River Sword Pellet.
• Multi-Treasure Boy used the Avici Sword to block Lu Yang’s attack, but the sword’s Famed Artifact mystery revealed that Lu Yang still controlled it.
• When the other True Persons attacked, Lu Yang vanished, and Multi-Treasure Boy found himself unable to control the Avici Sword.
• The Avici Sword turned toward Dragon Fishing Old Man, whose instincts were blinded by Lu Yang’s Star Concealing Radiance, and cut him down before he could defend himself.
• Dragon Fishing Old Man’s Dharma body and Dao Foundation were destroyed, while Lu Yang revealed that the Imperial Golden Seal of Daoshuai True Decree had raised his cultivation.

Lu Yang routed the Jiangdong True Persons after killing Dragon Fishing Old Man, then led the pursuit and captured several enemies. Back at Gaizhu Mountain, he prepared to interrogate the captives, taking Fairy Yunhe for himself and assigning the two clan ancestors to Chen Xin'an.

• True Person Wuxing fled with an escape talisman, and the other Jiangdong True Persons scattered as True Person Yinshan and his allies moved to stop them.
• Lu Yang used the Avici Sword and Mountain Moving True Method to immobilize the fleeing enemies, turning Fairy Yunhe into a small mountain.
• True Person Yinshan returned with Xia Weiming and Chen Anze captured, while True Person Wuxing, a Sword Cultivator, and Multi-Treasure Boy escaped.
• Lu Yang declined to press the advantage and brought the captives back to Gaizhu Mountain to interrogate them.
• Lu Yang summoned Chen Xin'an, took Fairy Yunhe for himself, and assigned the two Immortal clan ancestors to Chen Xin'an.

Lu Yang learned that True Person Chongguang intended to overturn Qing Kingdom’s system by inciting an uprising, but he suspected Chongguang had hidden contingencies about his reincarnation. At Zhalong Pass, Qing’s ruler Zhong Xin heard of a disastrous battle and faced the king, who asked why Great Qing was on the brink of ruin.

• Lu Yang learned from True Person Yinshan that Chongguang’s reincarnation would awaken with his memories and that the plan required Qing’s own people to overthrow its court.
• Lu Yang questioned whether Yinshan had revealed the whole truth and suspected something was amiss with Chongguang’s reincarnation.
• At Zhalong Pass, Zhong Xin received the badly wounded True Person Wuxing, Multi-Treasure Boy, and Sword Master Xuanjin, who reported a crushing defeat and the capture of three allies.
• Zhong Xin secretly condemned the survivors, then went to the king with a golden imperial edict.
• The king asked Zhong Xin how Great Qing could be nearing its fall despite his years of rule.

King of Qing tasked Zhong Xin with leading the campaign against the Demon Sect and eliminating Chongguang, then learned that Chongguang had been found. As Chongguang’s star began to brighten, True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow sent Lu Yang a command to head south.

• Zhong Xin warned King of Qing that Zhalong Pass was in danger and offered to lead the campaign in the King's place.
• Zhong Xin urged the King to drown all newborns to prevent Chongguang's reincarnation from growing stronger, and the King ordered him to carry out the plan.
• An armored soldier reported that the reincarnated True Person Chongguang had been found, and King of Qing celebrated.
• True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow watched Chongguang's dim star begin to glow and told Lu Yang to head south at once.

King of Qing ordered the apparent Chongguang reincarnations killed, but reports of more infants and the Demon Sect’s southward advance interrupted him. At Zhalong Pass, True Person Yinshan’s forces attacked Qing Kingdom’s defenses, where Zhong Xin appeared to lead the resistance.

• King of Qing had an infant with the Immortal Toon ability burned to ashes, but a report revealed that three more infants with Covered Lamp Fire abilities had been found.
• Zhong Xin and the Imperial Academy ministers could not confirm whether the infants were Chongguang’s reincarnations, and an old minister suggested they were decoys concealing the true reincarnation.
• King of Qing ordered Zhong Xin to handle the infants decisively, but an armored soldier announced that the Demon Sect had marched south.
• True Person Yinshan explained that he had tainted Qi Refining disciples’ pills with Blood Filth Qi so their deaths would foul the Spiritual Qi and weaken Zhalong Pass’s formation.
• True Person Yinshan attacked Zhalong Pass with a mountain-shaped Dharma treasure, but Zhong Xin appeared on the walls and stabilized the formation.

True Person Yinshan led the Sacred Sect’s forces against Zhalong Pass, then withdrew despite the approaching reinforcements. He revealed that their attack was meant to pin down the defenders while Yuantu dealt with the people capable of truly holding the pass.

• True Person Yinshan and Zhong Xin fought above Zhalong Pass as True Person Wuxing and Multi-Treasure Boy hesitated to join, fearing Lu Yang might be lying in ambush.
• Hanxiang and Yu Chan joined True Person Yinshan’s side, and six Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivators fought without either side gaining an advantage.
• A Sword Light approached, and True Person Wuxing identified its wielder as the Mystic Iron Sword Master of the Supreme Profound Sword Sect.
• True Person Yinshan ordered his forces to retreat, then rebuked Hanxiang for treating Qi Refining disciples’ deaths as grave casualties.
• Yu Chan asked about Yuantu, and True Person Yinshan explained that Yuantu had gone to deal with the people capable of truly holding Zhalong Pass.

The Mystic Iron Sword Master arrived at Zhalong Pass and learned that Lu Yang was an extraordinarily powerful Foundation Establishment cultivator with several superior Spiritual Treasures. While the defenders debated whether Lu Yang might attack Supreme Profound Sword Sect, Lu Yang appeared at its mountain gate and announced his intention to slaughter the sect and exterminate its clan.

• The Mystic Iron Sword Master joined the banquet at Zhalong Pass and regretted missing a chance to fight the man who had shaken Sword Master Xuanjin’s Sword Heart.
• True Person Wuxing revealed that Lu Yang had cultivated for less than a hundred years, killed Dragon Fishing Old Man, and carried at least three superior Spiritual Treasures.
• The Mystic Iron Sword Master boasted that his Profound Iron Sword could defeat Lu Yang, but True Person Wuxing explained that Lu Yang had earned his strength through talent and hard work.
• Zhong Xin and the others took comfort in the Supreme Profound Sword Sect sect master’s planned breakthrough, while Multi-Treasure Boy argued that Lu Yang could not secretly reach the sect’s mountain gate.
• Lu Yang reached Profound Sword Mountain, identified himself to two Supreme Profound Sword Sect disciples, and said he had come to slaughter the sect and exterminate its clan.

Lu Yang attacked the Supreme Profound Sword Sect after secretly taking control of its mountain-protecting array and killing most of its disciples. He transported Profound Sword Mountain to Zhalong Pass, where more than ten Sacred Sect Foundation Establishment True Persons joined him in attacking True Person Shangxuan.

• Lu Yang arrived at Profound Sword Mountain with a vast puppet army and killed the two disciples who challenged him.
• Sword Masters Xuanjin and Xuanyin activated the sect’s mountain-protecting array, but Lu Yang’s preparations turned it against the Sword Sect’s disciples.
• True Person Shangxuan appeared and attacked Lu Yang, who relied on the Hundredfold Hazard-Repelling Mystic Cloak to withstand his Sword Lights.
• Lu Yang combined his control of the array with his spatial divine arts and moved Profound Sword Mountain to the open plain at Zhalong Pass.
• Lu Yang called on True Person Yinshan, Hanxiang, Yu Chan, and the other Sacred Sect experts to overwhelm True Person Shangxuan with their attacks.

Lu Yang and the Jiangbei cultivators defeated the Supreme Profound Sword Sect’s leaders, and Lu Yang rewarded his allies before interrogating the captives and claiming their treasures. He discovered a strand of Xin Metal Qi tied to True Person Chongguang’s possible plans and resolved to use the sect’s destruction to pressure the Qing Kingdom.

• True Person Shangxuan fell to the Jiangbei cultivators’ siege, and the group captured him along with Sword Masters Xuanjin and Xuanyin.
• Lu Yang suppressed the three captives, rewarded the Jiangbei cultivators with Dao teachings and spirit swords, and described his plans for the prisoners as kindness.
• Lu Yang interrogated the captives with the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner and Celestial Mother Transformation Mystic Light, then killed the three battered men and fed them to the Avici Sword.
• Lu Yang learned that the Avici Sword could suppress metal-element powers by half and found the Supreme Profound Sword Sect’s Taiyi Formless Sword secret art in Shangxuan’s memories.
• Lu Yang discovered that Shangxuan’s Xin Metal Qi, Chongguang, might be connected to True Person Chongguang’s plans, and decided to refine the Invisible Sword himself.
• Lu Yang concluded that destroying the Supreme Profound Sword Sect would pressure the Qing Kingdom and create an opportunity for the reincarnated True Person Chongguang to act.

After the Supreme Profound Sword Sect’s Soul Lamp went out, the Mystic Iron Sword Master realized his sect had been destroyed and Zhalong Pass was doomed. Multi-Treasure Boy persuaded him to flee west and take refuge in Pure Land, where the Mystic Iron Sword Master embraced Buddhism.

• Multi-Treasure Boy befriended the Mystic Iron Sword Master by praising his sword and challenging True Person Wuxing’s assessment of Yuantu.
• The Mystic Iron Sword Master revealed that True Person Shangxuan was not in seclusion and could be contacted through a Soul Lamp.
• The Soul Lamp extinguished and shattered, leading the Mystic Iron Sword Master to conclude that the Supreme Profound Sword Sect had perished.
• Multi-Treasure Boy slapped the Mystic Iron Sword Master back to his senses and urged him to abandon Zhalong Pass before the Demon Sect attacked.
• Multi-Treasure Boy admitted that Pure Land had recruited him and invited the Mystic Iron Sword Master to join by touching a Jade-carved Buddha Statue.
• The Mystic Iron Sword Master received Buddha Light, saw a Dharma Body, and peacefully pressed his palms together in a Buddhist invocation.

Vimala Arhat joined the struggle around Zhalong Pass, giving Multi-Treasure Boy and the Mystic Iron Sword Master a method to empower warriors and announcing his plan to capture and convert Lu Yang. He underestimated a Demon Sect countermeasure that could defeat his art, leaving the Pure Land’s scheme vulnerable.

• True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow warned the Pure Land Buddha head not to interfere further in the conflict, and the Buddha head agreed to let its junior act.
• Vimala Arhat introduced himself to Multi-Treasure Boy and the Mystic Iron Sword Master and gave them the Great Wrathful Ox-Head Wisdom King Empowerment Art.
• Vimala Arhat explained that the art required men with pure yang Destiny Patterns and could briefly raise them to peak Foundation Establishment Middle Stage power.
• Multi-Treasure Boy ordered a search for suitable men, while the Mystic Iron Sword Master welcomed the Pure Land’s aid against the Demon Sect.
• Vimala Arhat said he intended to have the empowered warriors capture Lu Yang and convert him to the Pure Land.
• Vimala Arhat recalled that a Demon Sect Dao art could change a man’s sex and break the pure yang Destiny Pattern required by his empowerment art, but dismissed the possibility that anyone would use it.

Lu Yang refined the Invisible Sword and discovered that its Gold Nature was payment from True Person Chongguang for a planned assassination of the King of Qing. When a Pure Land Great True Person empowered three fighters at Zhalong Pass, Lu Yang stayed to study them, noticing their strength depended on burning their Yang energy.

• Lu Yang combined Chongguang, three thousand six hundred spiritual materials, and the damaged Star River Sword Pellet to refine the superior-grade Invisible Sword.
• Lu Yang discovered the sword’s Assassinate King, Coiled Steel, and Chongguang mysteries, and realized True Person Chongguang had prepared Gold Nature as payment for killing the King of Qing.
• True Person Yinshan told Lu Yang that the enemy had charged out at Zhalong Pass, and they flew there to assess the fighting.
• Multi-Treasure Boy identified Lu Yang as Yuantu and called for a Venerable to act, prompting three men to receive Pure Land empowerment and reach the peak of Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.
• True Person Yinshan prepared to flee, but Lu Yang stayed and noticed the three men’s empowered strength came from burning their Yang energy.