Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang launched a planned assault on Vimala Arhat and used his abilities to break the Arhat’s Golden Chestnut Tathagata Dharma Body. As Vimala realized Lu Yang had arranged the fight with the Sacred Sect’s backing and might still unleash his spirit sword, the battle remained unresolved.

• Lu Yang struck Vimala Arhat with Mountain Moving True Method, then attacked with Calamity Waves when Vimala tried to dispel the mud.
• Vimala Arhat manifested his Golden Chestnut Tathagata Dharma Body and clashed with Lu Yang’s Dharma Body.
• Lu Yang used Kill the Powerful to disrupt Vimala’s aura and exploit injuries left from Hongju’s earlier attack, breaking the Arhat’s Dharma Body.
• Lu Yang drew Vimala in with Total Control, while Vimala realized the Dao Court and Sword Pavilion had not intervened because Lu Yang had planned the fight as compensation.
• Vimala sensed that Lu Yang still had a formidable method in reserve and remembered the spirit sword that had once cleaved the sea.

Lu Yang cornered Vimala Arhat, who tried to escape after deploying the Immaculate Pure Land Temple and his treasures. Lu Yang’s clone met Vimala in the Real World and slew him with Calamity Waves, committing himself to face the Pure Land’s retaliation.

• Vimala Arhat shed his skin to escape Lu Yang’s attacks, then invoked the Immaculate Pure Land Temple and Ten Thousand Treasure River to defend himself.
• Lu Yang used Lost Harmony Magnet to disperse the Ten Thousand Treasure River, and Vimala Arhat decided to flee into the Real World.
• Vimala Arhat swallowed Lu Yang inside the temple and escaped, but found Lu Yang’s Celestial Embryo Clone waiting for him in the Real World.
• Lu Yang’s true body let the temple suppress him, strengthening his Divine Abilities as he focused on the clone’s finishing attack.
• Vimala Arhat warned that killing him would bring the Pure Land’s Bodhisattvas after Lu Yang, but Lu Yang struck with Proclaiming Might and destroyed him.

Lu Yang defeated Vimala Arhat and severed the karma that would have drawn Vimala back into the Pure Land, prompting a True Lord to intervene when the Pure Land’s power attacked him. As the True Lords’ attention shifted to the Fruit Position star, Long Flowing Water, it began to fall.

• Ye Shaoying predicted Vimala would defeat Lu Yang, while Jun Tong prepared to intervene if Lu Yang was about to die.
• Lu Yang rose as the Immaculate Pure Land Temple collapsed, revealing that Vimala Arhat had been slain.
• Lu Yang summoned Calamity Waves and declared that Vimala was gone; Ye Shaoying realized Yuantu had severed Vimala’s karma, leaving the Pure Land unable to reclaim him.
• A furious gaze crushed Lu Yang, but a Sacred Sect True Lord blocked it and challenged the force behind the attack.
• Lu Yang and the others looked toward Long Flowing Water, and the Fruit Position star began to fall.

Suo Huan failed to reach the Fruit Position and discovered that Pure Land, Dao Court, and Sacred Sect had planned to claim his power. As the three True Lords moved to seize him, Tian Qiu opened a gate to the Netherworld, and True Lord Sky Soaring Sun Obscuring appeared to claim a share.

• Long Flowing Water fell, and Suo Huan failed in his attempt to reach the Fruit Position.
• Three Golden Core True Lords moved to restrain Suo Huan and divide his Gold Nature and Blessed Land among their factions.
• Suo Huan revealed that he had anticipated the three factions' plan and challenged his hidden lord to act.
• Tian Qiu opened a gate to the Netherworld and began seeking the Heavenly River Water Fruit Position, while Dragon Lord blocked the three True Lords.
• True Lord Sky Soaring Sun Obscuring appeared beyond the Netherworld gate and asked to share in the feast.

True Lord Sky Soaring Sun Obscuring used Suo Huan’s sacrifice to draw Long Flowing Water toward the Netherworld gate, but Xue Feihong revealed that the Fruit Position was actually Ravine Stream Water. True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow’s trap left Sky Soaring facing a sudden reversal.

• Sky Soaring opened the Netherworld gate while the Dragon Lord and allied True Lords fought off those trying to stop him.
• Sky Soaring used Suo Huan’s sacrifice to open the Netherworld gate and pull Long Flowing Water toward it.
• Suo Huan recognized that Sky Soaring had secretly given him the Ten Thousand Spirits Return to Ruins Dao Scripture as a method to sacrifice him and make a Fruit Position fall.
• The Dragon Lord confronted Sky Soaring over his broken promise, but Sky Soaring took Long Flowing Water through the gate.
• Long Flowing Water surged into the Netherworld, and Xue Feihong revealed that it was actually Ravine Stream Water.

True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow exposed Sky Soaring’s deception and ambushed him in the Netherworld, but Sky Soaring invoked Covered Lamp Fire through Lu Yang. Sky Soaring then sacrificed Suo Huan to break the deadlock, and Lu Yang killed him with Calamity Waves.

• True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow struck the Netherworld, triggering its backlash and badly injuring Sky Soaring.
• True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow revealed that Sky Soaring had never controlled the Netherworld and explained how she had disguised Ravine Stream Water as Long Flowing Water.
• True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow attacked Sky Soaring to avenge Chongguang and protect her Dao Path.
• Sky Soaring’s avatar revealed the Same Fate Fortune-Shifting Ledger and invoked Covered Lamp Fire by changing Lu Yang’s fate.
• Sky Soaring decided to use Suo Huan’s life, and Lu Yang pierced Suo Huan with Calamity Waves.

Lu Yang used Sky Soaring’s ritual to bargain for Suo Huan’s Gold Nature, then killed himself to disrupt the ritual and free Covered Lamp Fire from Sky Soaring’s grasp. He left the True Lords facing Sky Soaring’s fury as his body exploded.

• Sky Soaring’s hidden plan activated Yuantu’s Karma-severing power when Suo Huan died, scattering his Karma and leaving his Blessed Land and Gold Nature up for grabs.
• Most True Lords abandoned their fight with Sky Soaring to seize Suo Huan’s assets, while True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow continued battling him alone.
• Lu Yang realized Calamity Waves could be controlled through Sky Soaring’s backup plan, and decided that his death would collapse the ritual holding Covered Lamp Fire.
• Lu Yang demanded and received a thread of Suo Huan’s Gold Nature from Sky Soaring, then cut his own throat with Calamity Waves and severed his Karma.
• Covered Lamp Fire hid itself again, and Lu Yang cursed Sky Soaring before detonating himself and calling out to the Hundred Lives Book.

After settling Suo Huan’s tragic life and gaining the Golden Talent Puppet on Strings, Lu Yang chose Jiangnan and the Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion for his tenth life, hoping to pursue Pomegranate Wood. He restarted with the Qian Heaven Myriad Forms Total Control Dharma Body and awoke before the Sword Pavilion sisters Yun Miaozhen and Yun Miaoqing.

• Lu Yang read the Hundred Lives Book’s account of Suo Huan’s life and obtained the Golden Talent Puppet on Strings.
• Lu Yang resolved to seek a way to save Suo Huan in a future life and chose Jiangnan as his birthplace, aiming to join the Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion and pursue Pomegranate Wood.
• Lu Yang selected the Qian Heaven Myriad Forms Total Control Dharma Body as his gain from the previous life, bringing Calamity Waves and the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner with it.
• Lu Yang began his tenth life and found himself before Yun Miaozhen and Yun Miaoqing of the Sword Pavilion.

Lu Yang awakened as a Spirit Sword Embryo and was chosen by Yun Miaoqing after Yun Miaozhen failed to refine him. He settled into Yun Miaoqing’s dantian and began cultivating with the Heaven Mending Scripture.

• Lu Yang realized he had become a Sword Embryo and decided to build up his cultivation before being born into the world.
• Yun Miaoqing suggested that she and Yun Miaozhen try to claim the Sword Embryo at Hidden Sword Manor.
• Yun Miaozhen used a blood-sacrifice technique on Lu Yang, but he refined her blood essence and resisted her.
• Yun Miaoqing touched Lu Yang, and the Sword Embryo resonated with her before flying into her body.
• Yun Miaozhen recognized Lu Yang as a Spirit Sword Embryo and resolved to find a way to obtain its power.
• Lu Yang settled in Yun Miaoqing’s dantian and began circulating the Heaven Mending Scripture.

Lu Yang discovered that his Heaven Mending Scripture had helped Yun Miaoqing break through while he gained most of her cultivation, and he examined his origins and innate Weapon Master ability as a Geng Metal Spirit Immortal. Meanwhile, Yun Miaozhen revealed to her master Xiu Xin that she intended to link her fortune with Yun Miaoqing’s and send her into the Demon Sect.

• Yun Miaoqing broke through to Qi Refining Fourth Layer while cultivating with Lu Yang, and Yun Miaozhen concealed her jealousy before urging them to return.
• Lu Yang realized he had cultivated through mutual benefit rather than Plunder and learned that he was formed from Geng Metal Qi.
• Lu Yang examined the Spirit Immortal path and his innate Weapon Master ability, then sensed a Foundation Establishment cultivator’s Divine Sense probing him.
• Lu Yang sent his Qian Tian Total Control Myriad Forms Dharma Body along the Divine Sense to find the person spying on him.
• Yun Miaozhen met her master Xiu Xin and asked her to link Yun Miaoqing’s Fortune to her own so she could send Yun Miaoqing into the Demon Sect.

Yun Miaozhen asked Xiu Xin True Person to separate the sisters’ fortunes and take Yun Miaoqing’s Spirit Sword Embryo, believing the sacrifices would help her cultivate. Lu Yang then appeared, extracted both women’s souls, and used his Golden Talent to place them under his control.

• Yun Miaozhen resolved to sever her attachment to Yun Miaoqing so she could cultivate the Ice Heart Merciless Sword Art.
• Xiu Xin True Person agreed to redirect the sisters’ fortunes, sending blessings to Yun Miaozhen and calamities to Yun Miaoqing.
• Yun Miaozhen asked Xiu Xin True Person to take Yun Miaoqing’s Spirit Sword Embryo and safeguard it for her.
• Xiu Xin True Person sensed danger and attacked, but her Sword Light dissipated as she and Yun Miaozhen realized their souls had been extracted.
• Lu Yang appeared with his Qian Tian Total Control Myriad Forms Dharma Body and used his Golden Talent, Puppet on Strings, to control both women.

Lu Yang used Puppet on Strings to influence Xiu Xin True Person and Yun Miaozhen, then learned that Sword Pavilion planned to attack the Jiangnan Ten Thousand Man Pit. He decided to send Xiu Xin there to investigate while he tested his talent and built up a network of controlled allies.

• Lu Yang told Xiu Xin True Person and Yun Miaozhen to forget what happened and abandon their plans against Yun Miaoqing, urging them to stand together.
• Xiu Xin True Person revealed that Sword Pavilion was preparing to attack the Jiangnan Ten Thousand Man Pit, prompting Lu Yang to suspect that a secret there had drawn the attention of True Lords.
• Lu Yang decided to have Xiu Xin investigate the Ten Thousand Man Pit while he developed quietly and tested Puppet on Strings.
• Under Lu Yang's influence, Xiu Xin postponed the plan against Yun Miaoqing and agreed to answer Sword Pavilion's summons to Jiangnan.
• Lu Yang planned to test Puppet on Strings further before using Xiu Xin to gather her friends and control them one by one.

Lu Yang had Yun Miaozhen and Xiu Xin True Person stage a demonic incursion at Hidden Sword Manor so they could seize its Geng Metal spiritual treasures for his Spirit Immortal body. After taking the manor’s stores, Yun Miaozhen revealed that she had also summoned the Cloud Clan’s Ancestor, and Lu Yang awaited the next target.

• Lu Yang confirmed that Puppet on Strings controlled Xiu Xin True Person, while Yun Miaoqing devoted herself to secluded cultivation without needing to be controlled.
• Yun Miaozhen sealed Hidden Sword Manor and accused it of colluding with the Jiangbei demonic path, while Xiu Xin True Person enclosed the manor with her magic treasure.
• Xiu Xin True Person killed the Sacred Sect Disciples whom Yun Miaozhen had secretly lured there, and Yun Miaozhen pressured the Mysterious Robe Elder into surrendering the manor’s spiritual treasures for inspection.
• Yun Miaozhen brought Lu Yang a Storage Pouch containing Hidden Sword Manor’s Geng Metal spiritual treasures, which he fed to his Spirit Immortal true body.
• Yun Miaozhen told Lu Yang that she had summoned the Cloud Clan’s Ancestor, and Lu Yang smiled as he considered the first fish hooked.

Lu Yang captured the Ancestor of the Yun Family with a Puppet on Strings and questioned him about the Jiangnan Ten Thousand Man Pit. The Ancestor revealed that the Sword Pavilion had discovered traces of a Great Realm Heaven with a Fruit Position there.

• The Ancestor of the Yun Family arrived at Hidden Sword Manor, accepted Yun Miaozhen’s Longevity Pill, and went with her to see the captured demonic cultivator.
• Lu Yang finished crafting the Yuantu Treasure Talisman while Xiu Xin True Person helped prepare the spirit ink.
• The Longevity Pill immobilized the Ancestor, and Lu Yang suppressed him before using Puppet on Strings to make him loyal.
• Lu Yang asked what the Ancestor knew about the Jiangnan Ten Thousand Man Pit, and the Ancestor said the Sword Pavilion had found traces of a Great Realm Heaven possessing a Fruit Position there.

Ancestor of the Yun Family told Lu Yang that the Jiangnan Ten Thousand Man Pit concealed the Xuanling Realm, a Great Realm Heaven with a Fruit Position that the Sword Pavilion and Sacred Sect sought to seize. Lu Yang contacted True Person Chongguang to gain access through the Sacred Sect, then arranged to obtain Geng Metal spiritual items and learned how the Sword Pavilion profited from Jiangnan factions.

• Ancestor of the Yun Family explained that a Xuanling Realm cultivator had been captured, revealing that the Ten Thousand Man Pit connected to a Great Realm Heaven governed by five ranks of Immortals.
• Lu Yang decided to approach the Sacred Sect, sent True Person Chongguang a Flying Message Spirit Book, and planned to pose as a reincarnated Sacred Sect True Person who had infiltrated the Sword Pavilion.
• Lu Yang asked Ancestor of the Yun Family, Yun Miaozhen, and Xiu Xin True Person how to obtain more Geng Metal spiritual items, and they proposed extracting them from factions suspected of colluding with the Jiangbei Demon Sect.
• Ancestor of the Yun Family explained that the Sword Pavilion routinely let Jiangnan factions grow through trade with Jiangbei, then used their alleged demonic collusion as justification to collect their resources.
• Lu Yang condemned the Sword Pavilion's exploitation of Jiangnan and resolved to reform it.

Lu Yang learned that the Coastal Li Clan possessed a superior Spiritual Treasure and went to seek resources for his Spirit Immortal. At the clan’s harbor, Xiaohai True Person revealed the Li Clan’s hidden discovery of a Grotto-Heaven Fragment before an arriving swordsman demanded to see him.

• Lu Yang found that the Coastal Li Clan had not sent gifts and learned that it was a Foundation Establishment Immortal Clan with a Territory-Expanding Ship.
• Lu Yang prepared a Celestial Embryo Clone and Yuantu Treasure Talismans so he could visit the Li Clan while concealing his true body.
• Xiaohai True Person refused to answer the Yun Family’s letter, resentful of the Sword Pavilion’s control over the Li Clan’s labor and resources.
• Xiaohai True Person and the Li Clan Head discussed their belief that the place where they found the Territory-Expanding Ship was a hidden Grotto-Heaven Fragment.
• An unknown swordsman arrived, shattered Xiaohai True Person’s ocean-like defense with a slash, and called for the Coastal Li Clan’s True Person.

Lu Yang infiltrated the Coastal Li Clan while Ancestor of the Yun Family drew Xiaohai True Person’s attention, then used Puppet on Strings to control Li Qingyun, Xiaohai, and the clan. After learning that the Zhaoyuan Bell opened a Grotto-Heaven Fragment, Lu Yang demanded a detailed account of it.

• Ancestor of the Yun Family confronted Xiaohai True Person outside Gantang Circuit, claiming the Li Clan had colluded with the demonic path and demanding an interrogation.
• Lu Yang secretly appeared before Li Qingyun inside the Li Clan and asked about the Zhaoyuan Bell he had taken from the family treasury.
• Lu Yang used Puppet on Strings to make Li Qingyun explain that the bell opened a Grotto-Heaven Fragment when shaken three times at its entrance.
• Xiaohai True Person entered the hall, but Lu Yang’s talent subdued him and the Li Clan members, making Xiaohai offer up his hidden fire-attribute talisman.
• Lu Yang examined Xiaohai’s talisman and asked him to describe the Grotto-Heaven Fragment in detail.

Lu Yang avoided personally entering a Grotto-Heaven Fragment beneath Gantang Circuit, then used Puppet on Strings to make the Li Clan explore it for him. Through Xiaohai True Person’s eyes, he discovered clues that the ruined cave heaven was connected to Chongguang’s Rigid Flame Furnace.

• Xiaohai True Person told Lu Yang that the Li Clan’s Grotto-Heaven Fragment lay beneath Gantang Circuit, but Lu Yang took Geng Metal treasures and refused to visit it or take the Territory-Expanding Ship.
• Lu Yang buried the treasures, destroyed his avatar, returned his consciousness to his true body, and used Puppet on Strings to influence the Li Clan into preparing an expedition.
• Xiaohai True Person and Li Qingyun led the Li Clan to a chamber where the fragment appeared at noon, and Xiaohai True Person used the Zhaoyuan Bell to reveal its entrance.
• Xiaohai True Person entered the fragment, suffered injuries in the fall, and explored its ruined structures and immense sea of fire while Lu Yang watched through his perspective.
• Lu Yang recognized the fire as Si Fire and saw a broken plaque that revealed the cave heaven’s name: Long Radiance Precious Light Cave Heaven.

Lu Yang recognized the Grotto-Heaven Fragment as Daoist Hongyun’s former domain and watched Xiaohai True Person discover three jade slips containing valuable secret arts and a diary. The diary revealed that Hongyun had investigated Chen Earth before his fall, and Lu Yang realized Sky Soaring had likely sabotaged him; then Sky Soaring appeared in the flames and seemed to look straight at Lu Yang.

• Lu Yang identified the Grotto-Heaven Fragment as Long Radiance Precious Light Cave Heaven, once belonging to Daoist Hongyun, and considered the benefits it might offer him.
• Xiaohai True Person overcame his fear, used the Territory-Expanding Ship to enter the ruined palace, and found three jade slips on a writing desk.
• Lu Yang examined the slips and recognized their secret arts for creating Blessed Lands and Grotto-Heavens and sensing the Covered Lamp Fire as methods tied to a True Lord’s cultivation.
• Xiaohai True Person’s view of Daoist Hongyun’s diary showed that Hongyun had noticed changes in Chen Earth five thousand years earlier.
• Lu Yang concluded that Sky Soaring had stripped Hongyun’s memories and sabotaged his attempts to reclaim his Fruit Position.
• Sky Soaring appeared amid the Si Fire and seemed to look through Xiaohai True Person directly at Lu Yang.

Lu Yang escaped the Grotto-Heaven after Sky Soaring sensed an unknown observer but let Xiaohai True Person leave, and he began plotting how to exploit the discovery. Meanwhile, True Person Chongguang read Lu Yang’s message about the Jiangnan Ten Thousand Man Pit and wondered whether the Sacred Sect truly had a loyal True Person named Yuantu.

• Sky Soaring searched Xiaohai True Person for the hidden observer, found nothing, and let him leave while keeping the Jade Slips undiscovered.
• Lu Yang withdrew his sight through Puppet on Strings and planned to draw Chongguang and True Lord Flying Snow toward the Grotto-Heaven, then use their search to pursue his own advancement.
• Lu Yang resolved to develop his Spirit Immortal body, contact Suo Huan, and use Chongguang and Suo Huan to divert attention while he sought a True Lord’s Fruit Position.
• True Person Chongguang read Lu Yang’s Flying Message about the Jiangnan Ten Thousand Man Pit and his undercover life in Sword Pavilion, then questioned whether Yuantu was a loyal Sacred Sect member.