Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang destroyed Vimala Arhat’s summoned Wrathful Wisdom Kings and led the Jiangbei forces to capture Zhalong Pass. With the Qing Kingdom’s Spiritual Qi monopoly broken, he turned to Chongguang’s next assignment and discovered a Pure Land scripture that could summon a Venerable’s Divine Thought.

• Lu Yang used Celestial Mother Transformation Mystic Light to reverse the Wrathful Wisdom Kings’ Yang energy, causing them to explode and making Vimala Arhat disappear.
• Lu Yang praised Multi-Treasure Boy for supposedly tricking the Dao Court, Sword Pavilion, and Pure Land, prompting True Person Wuxing and the others to accuse him of being a traitor.
• The Jiangbei True Persons attacked as the Qing Kingdom’s forces fled, and Zhalong Pass fell.
• Lu Yang considered Chongguang’s task to assassinate the King of Qing, but decided to wait for the means or timing Chongguang had prepared.
• Lu Yang examined the fallen Wrathful Wisdom Kings and found the scripture Convert to Right Dharma, which could summon a Pure Land Venerable’s Divine Thought; he decided it might serve as bait for a trap.

Lu Yang repeatedly lured and captured Vimala Arhat’s Divine Thoughts, hoping to strengthen the Avici Sword. Vimala Arhat became convinced Jiangbei was dangerously cursed, but as he tried to leave, a mysterious presence appeared before him.

• Lu Yang concealed traps around a Qi Refining disciple and used Convert to Right Dharma to lure Vimala Arhat’s Divine Thought, then killed it and collected its fragments.
• Lu Yang used a disciple from Multi-Treasure Boy’s sect as bait, and Vimala Arhat sent another Divine Thought that Lu Yang captured.
• Vimala Arhat projected a stronger Divine Thought, but Lu Yang’s formations captured it too, worsening Vimala Arhat’s injuries.
• Vimala Arhat realized he might be affected by Calamity Qi, suppressed his thoughts with scripture, and decided to leave Jiangbei.
• As Vimala Arhat rose to go, someone helped him stand, and he turned to see a pair of eyes shining with Golden Light.

Hongju killed Vimala Arhat after using a Fruit Position Treasure to cloud his thoughts, then survived Pure Land’s attempt to intervene with help from a Sacred Sect True Lord. He gave Lu Yang Vimala’s Merit and Fortune and the Same Fate Fortune-Shifting Ledger to settle their past enmity, but Lu Yang saw the ledger as a tool for assassinating the King of Qing.

• Hongju ignited Vimala Arhat with a glance and shattered his Golden Body when Vimala tried to escape, while a Fruit Position Treasure clouded Vimala’s Spirit Platform.
• Pure Land’s Guiding Light caught Vimala’s soul, but a cold snort scattered the Buddha-head clouds and sent Vimala’s soul back to Pure Land.
• Hongju received permission from a True Lord to act, then went to Zhalong Pass and found Lu Yang gathering Vimala’s Divine Thoughts.
• Hongju admitted he had clouded Vimala’s Spirit Platform and asked Lu Yang to settle their enmity, but Lu Yang’s polite response made clear he still held a grudge.
• Hongju gave Lu Yang Vimala’s Merit and Fortune and the Same Fate Fortune-Shifting Ledger, asking him to write that their karma was dissolved.
• Lu Yang recognized the ledger as a potential means to trigger Heavenly Killing Intent and considered using it to assassinate the King of Qing.

King of Qing gave Zhong Xin the Sovereign Sword and authority over Qing Kingdom, unaware that Zhong Xin was actually True Person Chongguang. Lu Yang assassinated King of Qing during the transfer, leaving Chongguang in control of the kingdom as his plan to seize authority from above was revealed.

• King of Qing blamed Zhong Xin for losing Zhalong Pass and described the eighty-one rebel armies threatening Qing Kingdom.
• King of Qing granted Zhong Xin the Sovereign Sword, tally, battle-axe, and his royal Official Position through Acting with Authority.
• Lu Yang teleported behind King of Qing and killed him with the Invisible Sword, aided by Heavenly Killing Intent and Fated Death.
• Zhong Xin revealed himself as True Person Chongguang and declared that the lords had yielded.
• Lu Yang realized Chongguang had hidden his reincarnation and intended to seize authority from above to overturn Qing Kingdom's Dao Court rules.

True Person Chongguang blood-sacrificed the Qing Kingdom to secure his advancement, then shifted the resulting heavenly punishment onto Lu Yang. Lu Yang redirected the punishment to Jiangbei’s Foundation Establishment True Persons, earned Gold Nature, and withdrew as Chongguang praised him.

• True Person Clear Serene Flying Snow blocked the distant masters’ sight as radiance spread from Chongguang across the Qing Kingdom and its people.
• True Person Chongguang ignited the Qing Kingdom, turning its residents, cultivators, homes, and cities into fuel for his advancement.
• Lu Yang realized Chongguang had arranged for him to kill the King of Qing so the heavenly punishment for the blood sacrifice would fall on him.
• Lu Yang used the Heaven-Deceiving Art to redirect the punishment toward the Jiangbei Foundation Establishment True Persons who had accepted his rewards.
• True Person Chongguang praised Lu Yang and awarded him a strand of Gold Nature, then told him to withdraw.

Multi-Treasure Boy witnessed Mystic Iron Sword Master’s flames consume cities and then saw True Person Chongguang raise his Blessed Land toward the Fruit Position. As Chongguang approached Covered Lamp Fire, he discovered that it was not what he had expected.

• Mystic Iron Sword Master burst into flames, and the fire engulfed several cities before spreading into the Foundation Establishment Realm.
• Multi-Treasure Boy realized the wildfire was the Bi Wind and fled into the Foundation Establishment Realm, where he saw Jade Pavilions form within the blaze.
• True Person Chongguang began ascending his Cave Yang Blessed Land, while True Person Yinshan and Hongju looked on and Hongju judged his preparations certain to succeed.
• Chongguang reached the Sea of Suffering and understood that Fruit Positions and Grotto-Heavens generated the Bi Wind endured by Foundation Establishment True Persons.
• As Chongguang drew near Covered Lamp Fire, he noticed it differed from what he had expected and froze in disbelief.

Lu Yang discovered that the Hundred Lives Book could devour Gold Nature and settle another person’s life to grant him a talent. It awarded him the Golden Talent Innate Celestial Spirit, while a thunderclap and a despairing cry interrupted his plans.

• Lu Yang watched True Person Chongguang and his Cave Yang Blessed Land rise toward the Covered Lamp Fire, then saw the Hundred Lives Book devour Chongguang’s Gold Nature.
• Lu Yang learned that Gold Nature could not replenish the Book’s pages, but its life experiences could be settled to grant a talent.
• The Hundred Lives Book revealed that Chongguang had been born as Xin Metal Qi, become an Innate Celestial Spirit, and reincarnated to join the First Saint Sect.
• Lu Yang received the Golden Talent Innate Celestial Spirit, which would let him assume a Spirit Immortal’s identity and standing when he reincarnated.
• An earth-shattering thunderclap resounded through the Real World and the Foundation Establishment Realm, followed by a furious, despairing cry of “No—!!!”

True Person Chongguang’s attempt to form the Cave Yang Blessed Land failed when the Covered Lamp Fire rejected him, and he died as his Blessed Land fell. The factions agreed to divide the fallen Blessed Land among Foundation Establishment cultivators, and Lu Yang was ordered to enter and investigate the failure.

• True Person Chongguang manifested his four Innate Divine Abilities and completed the Cave Bright Flying Scene Diagram, but the Covered Lamp Fire repelled him and his Golden Seeking failed.
• Hongju’s Dharma body exploded, while cultivators connected to the Covered Lamp Fire suffered backlash and True Person Chongguang’s figure dispersed.
• The Cave Yang Blessed Land fell into the Foundation Establishment Realm, drawing the attention of cultivators seeking Chongguang’s treasures and insights.
• True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow agreed to let the factions compete for the Blessed Land, limiting entry to cultivators at Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.
• True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow ordered Lu Yang to enter the Blessed Land and find out why Chongguang’s attempt had failed.

Lu Yang and True Person Yinshan gathered at the ruined capital to contend for Cave Yang Blessed Land, now falling into the Real World. As the rival factions arrived, Lu Yang clashed with Sword Pavilion cultivator Ye Guyue, then learned that True Person Chongguang’s Dao companion had come and was watching him.

• True Person Yinshan told Lu Yang they needed to win True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow’s favor after losing True Person Chongguang’s backing.
• Hou Lan and Cheng Tinggui arrived for the Dao Court, followed by Huiku and other Pure Land figures.
• Ye Guyue of the Sword Pavilion confronted Lu Yang with a sudden sword strike, but his Spiritual Treasure and Determining Kinship and Distance drove her back.
• A Sacred Sect woman arrived in mourning clothes, and True Person Yinshan identified her as True Person Chongguang’s Dao companion.
• Lu Yang remembered Chongguang’s son Chongming and noticed that Chongguang’s Dao companion was staring directly at him.

Lu Yang learned that True Person Chongguang might have survived his failed Golden Seeking and that he could help restore him using the Spirit Immortal body. True Person Miaoyin asked for Lu Yang’s help, and he demanded a First Grade True Art of the Sacred Sect in return.

• Ye Guyue challenged Lu Yang to settle their conflict inside Cave Yang Blessed Land, while True Person Miaoyin intervened to stop their fight.
• Chongming asked True Person Yinshan whether his father had truly died, and Yinshan said Chongguang might have prepared contingencies.
• True Person Miaoyin privately told Lu Yang that Chongguang was not completely dead and explained how the Seven Emotions Heart Refining Curse could let him return as a Heaven and Earth Spirit.
• Lu Yang realized that the Xin Metal Qi he possessed could guide Chongguang back, but said he would need compensation for using it.
• Lu Yang demanded a First Grade True Art of the Sacred Sect from True Person Miaoyin.

Lu Yang negotiated a partial Second Grade True Art from True Person Miaoyin and entered the Cave Yang Blessed Land, intending to investigate True Person Chongguang’s failure and seize its treasures. After sensing something amiss about the Blessed Land, he learned that Patriarch Tingyou had emerged from seclusion.

• Lu Yang rejected True Person Miaoyin’s offer of a single day’s payment and obtained an incomplete volume of the Qian Tian Yi Yuan Unified All Gods Method as compensation.
• Lu Yang considered killing True Person Miaoyin to obtain the rest of the method, but decided he first needed to investigate why True Person Chongguang’s Golden Seeking had failed.
• As the Cave Yang Blessed Land emerged, Lu Yang entered cautiously and avoided absorbing its Spiritual Qi, suspecting it was Chongguang’s power.
• Lu Yang identified Chongguang’s Innate Divine Abilities as valuable potential Spiritual Embryos and used the Heaven Investigating Instrument to locate Dragon Shade Water.
• Lu Yang sensed something was wrong, then discovered that Patriarch Tingyou had emerged from seclusion in the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner.

Lu Yang learned from Patriarch Tingyou that perfect Mahayana First Grade True Qi required harvesting Outer Heaven Qi to pursue a Fruit Position from another Jietian, and he resolved to target True Person Miaoyin for the secret art. He also learned that both True Person Chongguang and the Primordial True Person had been inexplicably rejected by the Fruit Positions they sought, before an approaching Sword Light interrupted his thoughts.

• Patriarch Tingyou explained that the Primordial Golden Que Jade Book produced flawless true qi but did not explain how to advance its rank or establish a foundation.
• Lu Yang showed Patriarch Tingyou a fragment of the Qian Tian Yi Yuan Unified All Gods Method, and Patriarch Tingyou deduced that cultivating Empty Attainment required harvesting Outer Heaven Qi from a Jietian.
• Patriarch Tingyou urged Lu Yang to obtain the method’s Qi Harvesting Secret Art, and Lu Yang decided to make True Person Miaoyin his foremost target.
• Lu Yang asked why Covered Lamp Fire had repelled True Person Chongguang, but Patriarch Tingyou could offer no explanation.
• Patriarch Tingyou revealed that the Primordial True Person had likewise failed to attain Long Flowing Water, leaving Lu Yang to suspect a hidden cause behind both rejections.
• A Sword Light raced toward Lu Yang and interrupted his thoughts.

Lu Yang hid from Ye Guyue as she searched the area, then watched her clash with a mysterious opponent who turned out to be Chong Ying of the Four Seas Sect, a True Dragon and descendant of a Dragon Lord. The chapter ended with Lu Yang identifying Chong Ying’s powerful lineage while remaining concealed nearby.

• Lu Yang used Star Concealing Radiance to hide from Ye Guyue and observed her search for an unseen presence.
• Ye Guyue attacked the land of Dragon Shade Water, stirring its hidden wilderness and provoking a roar from beneath the ground.
• Chong Ying emerged and fought Ye Guyue in a fierce but tacitly restrained battle meant to draw out any lurking ambushers.
• Lu Yang stayed hidden and recognized that Ye Guyue and Chong Ying had fought together to test whether anyone would attack them.
• Lu Yang used the Heaven Investigating Instrument to identify Chong Ying as a True Dragon of the Four Seas Sect and a Dragon Lord’s descendant.

Lu Yang ambushed Ye Guyue while she fought Chong Ying, severely wounding her, but she escaped with a strange art that Patriarch Tingyou identified as a Second Grade True Art. The revelation left Lu Yang reconsidering how to deal with her.

• Chong Ying insulted Ye Guyue and attacked her with his Celestial River Mouth divine ability, but her Rescue Gold Radiance strengthened her sword light.
• Lu Yang struck Ye Guyue with his Invisible Sword during her attack on Chong Ying, forcing her to destroy most of her body to evade the fatal blow.
• Ye Guyue restored her missing arm with a medicinal pellet as Lu Yang attacked with the Avici Sword and Chong Ying sealed her escape routes.
• Ye Guyue used the Nine-Son Mother Heavenly Demon Immortal-Slaying Sword Art to create a decoy that absorbed both attacks while she escaped.
• Patriarch Tingyou identified Ye Guyue's art as a Second Grade True Art and said she had completed External Qi Harvesting, prompting Lu Yang to reconsider his plan.

Lu Yang split the Dragon Shade Water with Chong Ying, then fed his half to the Avici Sword, which gained the Deprive Dragon mystery. As the Blessed Land began collapsing toward its center, Lu Yang realized he was being forced to meet Chongguang and spotted Chongming fleeing pursuers.

• Lu Yang and Chong Ying split the Dragon Shade Water in half and concealed themselves as investigators arrived at the devastated battlefield.
• Lu Yang fed his half of the Spiritual Embryo to the Avici Sword, awakening its fourth divine mystery, Deprive Dragon, which severed Merit Fortune.
• Patriarch Tingyou questioned how the yin-earth Dragon Shade Water could produce a mystery compatible with the Avici Sword's Geng Metal Qi, while Lu Yang sensed Chongguang calling through the Invisible Sword.
• Lu Yang used the Heaven Investigating Instrument to see that the Blessed Land's outskirts were collapsing and its central Golden Light, Chongguang's Cave Bright Flying Scene Diagram, was holding the center together.
• Lu Yang saw Chongming being pursued by three Foundation Establishment cultivators and recognized him as Chongguang's son.

Chongming was trapped by three Dao Court Thousand Households until Lu Yang arrived and killed them. Lu Yang took Chongming’s treasures and nearly killed him, but True Person Chongguang intervened, leaving Lu Yang to claim he had only been joking.

• Three Dao Court Thousand Households attacked Chongming and taunted him with the claim that his father’s allies might want him dead.
• One Thousand Household struck Chongming with a Bronze Gong, but Lu Yang appeared and revealed that he had already killed the man.
• Lu Yang killed the two fleeing Thousand Households and told Chongming to call him Senior Brother.
• Lu Yang claimed Chongming’s treasures were his own, stripped them from him, and raised the Invisible Sword toward him with killing intent.
• True Person Chongguang spoke through a breeze, and Lu Yang withdrew his sword and said he had only been joking with Chongming.

Chongguang explained why he had rejected using Chongming as a substitute and brought Lu Yang to witness his final struggle, revealing that his failed Golden Seeking was tied to the Dragon Shade Water. Lu Yang and Patriarch Tingyou discovered that Chen Earth qi had once been Yang Earth but had been secretly altered.

• Chongguang sent Chongming out of the Blessed Land and told Lu Yang that Miaoyin had intended to use Chongming to take the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation in her place.
• Chongguang taught Lu Yang that a Sacred Sect disciple had to rely on himself rather than gamble his Dao Path on using others as materials.
• Chongguang carried Lu Yang through the collapsing Blessed Land, explaining that the True Lords had guessed he had failed and were waiting for his last struggle.
• Chongguang said the Spiritual Embryos Lu Yang had taken were only branches of his divine abilities and identified the Dragon Shade Water as the source of his mistake.
• Patriarch Tingyou concluded that Chen Earth qi had originally been Yang Earth and that a powerful expert had secretly changed it.

Lu Yang realized that a powerful being had altered Chen Earth’s nature, ruining several Fruit Positions and prompting the factions to suspect True Lord Sky Soaring. Chongguang drew the True Lords’ attention and received Covered Lamp Fire’s Guiding Light for a second chance at Golden Seeking, having relied on himself all along.

• Lu Yang deduced that Chen Earth had been changed from Yang Earth to Yin Earth, damaging Chongguang’s path and several other Fruit Positions, including Long Flowing Water and Great Forest Wood.
• Chongguang said the True Lords were waiting for him to force the hidden culprit to reveal himself, while the factions outside the Blessed Land suspected True Lord Sky Soaring was seeking to become a Dao Lord.
• True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow resolved to confront Chongguang if he had ruined her Dao Path.
• Chongguang brought Lu Yang to the gathered Foundation Establishment True Persons and called out to the True Lords watching from beyond the Blessed Land.
• Lu Yang realized Chongguang had restored Dragon Shade Water to Yang Earth, allowing it to harmonize with the Avici Sword.
• Covered Lamp Fire appeared again and sent Chongguang a Guiding Light, as Lu Yang understood that Chongguang had relied on himself rather than Chongming.

Chongguang used the Same Fate Fortune-Shifting Ledger to gather merit and reverse Chen Earth back to Yang Earth, while Lu Yang bargained with him for a Second Grade True Art. Chongguang began ascending the Cave Yang Blessed Land, but an immense river of Purple Qi blocked his path.

• Chongguang spent his accumulated Merit Fortune to write that he could make Chen Earth return, then tried to draw the other cultivators’ Fortune to finish the inscription.
• Lu Yang threatened Chongguang with the Avici Sword, which could sever Fortune, and forced him to negotiate instead of taking all the cultivators’ Fortune.
• Chongguang gave Lu Yang the complete Qian Tian Yi Yuan Unified All Gods Method in exchange for one-third of his Merit Fortune and promised him a chance to plunder Ye Guyue.
• Chongguang wrote the final character in the Same Fate Fortune-Shifting Ledger, spreading the reversal of Chen Earth to Yang Earth across Heaven and Earth.
• Chongguang expelled everyone from the Blessed Land and began ascending, but a vast river of Purple Qi cut off his path as an unseen voice rebuked him.

Purple Qi eyes appeared above the Vault Sky and drew the attention of more than ten True Lords, obscuring the battle and leaving Lu Yang to contemplate seizing the City-Wall Earth Fruit Position. Chongguang sent Ye Guyue into a fragment of the Blessed Land, where Lu Yang concealed himself and moved closer to her and the others who had followed.

• A pair of enormous Purple Qi eyes split the Purple Qi River and nearly crushed Chongguang’s Cave Yang Blessed Land, but True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow repaired it and urged Chongguang to continue ascending.
• True Lords from the Sacred Sect, the Pure Land, the Dao Court, the Sword Pavilion, and Overseas manifested their Fruit Positions and confronted the mysterious figure, obscuring the heavenly secrets and the battle.
• Lu Yang realized that the powers’ forces might be depleted and considered taking the City-Wall Earth Fruit Position from the Pure Land after reaching Foundation Establishment Perfection.
• Lu Yang returned to a fragment of the Blessed Land and saw that Chongguang had sent Ye Guyue there along with several others.
• Lu Yang concealed his aura with Star Concealing Radiance and approached Ye Guyue, who still carried a Second Grade True Art.