Chapter Summaries

The Heavenly Court of the Xuanling Realm advanced its plan to kill Yu Shao and reclaim Shen Metal, while Lu Yang handed evidence of True Person Qi He's betrayal to Jun Tong. Lu Yang suspected Jun Tong had knowingly let him leave with marked Shen Metal to draw the Xuanling Realm into conflict with Jiangnan.

• The Heavenly Official ordered nine Earth Immortals to move ahead of schedule, execute Yu Shao, and seize Shen Metal.
• Lu Yang brought the captured True Person Qi He and the intelligence extracted from him to Jun Tong at the Ten Thousand Man Pit.
• Jun Tong recognized the signs of Celestial Mother Transformation Mystic Light, accepted Lu Yang's intelligence, and let him leave without revealing his identity.
• Chen Taihe failed to recognize Lu Yang and suspected he was a rival seeking the position of Pomegranate Wood.
• Jun Tong told Chen Taihe that he had already investigated Qi He and planned to let the Xuanling Realm and Sword Pavilion weaken each other.
• Lu Yang suspected Jun Tong knew Shen Metal was marked and had allowed him to leave so the Xuanling Realm would bring trouble to Jiangnan.

Lu Yang reached True Person Demon-Sweeping and revealed his suspicions that the Sacred Sect planned to exploit the coming clash with the Xuanling Realm. Demon-Sweeping accepted him into the Sword Pavilion without requiring reincarnation and promised to remove the mark from his Shen Metal, leaving Lu Yang suspicious of his apparent honesty.

• Ye Guyue and Ye Xingfeng urged True Person Demon-Sweeping to use Jiangnan’s people as bait to capture Xuanling Realm cultivators, but he objected to the deaths and suffering that would cause.
• Lu Yang left the Ten Thousand Man Pit, found Demon-Sweeping, and offered to undergo reincarnation to join the Sword Pavilion.
• Demon-Sweeping refused to make Lu Yang reincarnate and said he would vouch for him if his intelligence proved valuable.
• Lu Yang showed the group the Shen Metal qi and explained his suspicion that the Sacred Sect planned to let the Sword Pavilion fight the Xuanling Realm while it harvested qi.
• Demon-Sweeping accepted Lu Yang into the Sword Pavilion, asked him to draw Xuanling Realm cultivators to the battle, and promised to remove the mark from his Shen Metal afterward.

Heavenly Immortal Minghua led the Xuanling Realm’s forces toward Shen Metal and Yu Shao, while Lu Yang cultivated aboard the boat and revived Patriarch Tingyou. The chapter ended with Lu Yang handing Tingyou three mysterious secret arts to study.

• Heavenly Immortal Minghua led three Earth Immortals and seven Human Immortals toward the Ten Thousand Man Pit, then discovered that Shen Metal and Yu Shao were nearby together.
• Lu Yang sealed a chamber aboard the boat and refined Shen Metal and Qi He’s inheritance to cultivate his Qian Tian Total Control Myriad Forms Dharma Body to its current limit.
• Lu Yang reviewed the Dharma Body’s five stages of cultivation and considered using the Sword Pavilion to find the Ten Thousand Martial Realm.
• Lu Yang shattered the Banner Spirit Kuigang to nourish the sleeping Patriarch Tingyou, who awakened and understood that his earlier experiences had been a deduction.
• Lu Yang gave Patriarch Tingyou the Cave Void Inner Observation True Explanation, Supreme Bright Golden Cup Jade Radiance, and Void Sacrificial Ritual Art to comprehend.

Patriarch Tingyou modified the Grand Void Sacrificial Rite so Lu Yang could draw rank-enhancing power from the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner, briefly raising his cultivation before the power was pulled away. Lu Yang resolved to enter Non-Existent Heaven again, but Heavenly Immortal Minghua and the others appeared to attack.

• Patriarch Tingyou dismissed two flawed manuals and said he could repair the Grand Void Sacrificial Rite so Lu Yang could retain the divine ability granted by Non-Existent Heaven.
• Patriarch Tingyou revised the rite to let Lu Yang sense the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner, and Lu Yang discovered a vast Jietian within it.
• Lu Yang drew power from the Jietian, causing his Myriad Fragrance Marrow to awaken and his cultivation to reach Foundation Establishment Middle Stage Perfection.
• The power was pulled back, leaving Lu Yang weakened, but he decided to return to Non-Existent Heaven to gain another Grand Void Divine Ability.
• Heavenly Immortal Minghua and several figures appeared beneath a blazing Heavenly Fire, and Yu Shao warned that they had come to kill them.

Lu Yang took advantage of the clash with Heavenly Immortal Minghua to enter Non-Existent Heaven, hoping to obtain a second Grand Void Divine Ability. As the battle shifted into True Person Demon-Sweeping’s Mystic Virtue Blessed Land, Lu Yang’s split soul awakened as Mu Changsheng, a Primordial True Person.

• Heavenly Immortal Minghua assessed the ship’s cultivators and demanded that True Person Demon-Sweeping hand over Yu Shao and Shen Metal.
• Heavenly Immortal Minghua activated the Great Sun Patrol Heaven Diagram, but True Person Demon-Sweeping used the Mystic Virtue Blessed Land to raise the battlefield into the sky.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping enveloped everyone aboard the ship in protective Radiance, including Lu Yang’s secluded chamber.
• Lu Yang controlled his true body with the Puppet on Strings and sent his consciousness into Non-Existent Heaven.
• Lu Yang’s split soul recovered its composure and declared, “I am a Primordial True Person” and “I am Mu Changsheng.”

Lu Yang used the Puppet on Strings to guide his Split Soul through the Second Tribulation by making it believe it could escape its hopeless future through reincarnation. The Primordial True Person witnessed the unusual breakthrough and admired what he mistook for the Split Soul’s steadfast Dao Heart.

• Lu Yang watched his Split Soul lament that its flawed Dao Foundation had cut off its path to a Fruit Position.
• Lu Yang sent the thought of using cheats into the Split Soul, which decided to kill itself and reincarnate to start over.
• The Split Soul drew its Dharma Sword and cut its own throat, breaking through the Second Tribulation.
• The Primordial True Person swallowed the stream of light showing the breakthrough and discovered that the Split Soul had used suicide as its way out.
• The Primordial True Person praised the Split Soul’s supposed perseverance and concluded that he had been taught a lesson.

True Person Demon-Sweeping drove back Heavenly Immortal Minghua and the Xuanling Realm forces with a single sword, while Lu Yang watched from his vessel. Ye Guyue and Ye Xingfeng secretly plotted to let the enemy kill Lu Yang and take his Shen Metal, leaving Chengxian to attack Lu Yang’s cultivation chamber.

• True Person Demon-Sweeping warned Heavenly Immortal Minghua that the Four Directions Dao Lords threatened the Xuanling Realm and urged him to flee.
• Heavenly Immortal Minghua invoked the Spirit Sun and sent its flames toward True Person Demon-Sweeping’s allies and the lands below.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping drew No-Kill and swept Minghua and the three Earth Immortals away while gravely wounding the seven remaining Human Immortals.
• Ye Guyue and Ye Xingfeng agreed to leave Lu Yang exposed so the Outsiders could kill him and they could claim his Shen Metal.
• Chengxian exploited their opening, broke into Lu Yang’s vessel, and blasted apart his cultivation chamber as Lu Yang’s Split Soul returned from Non-Existent Heaven.

Chengxian used the True Speech Art to attack Yu Shao and Lu Yang, while Ye Xingfeng plotted to use Lu Yang as a shield and seize the Shen Metal. Lu Yang transformed into a Smoke Sea, causing Chengxian’s execution strike to hit Ye Xingfeng instead, and Ye Xingfeng was destroyed in the ensuing attack.

• Chengxian recovered from his injuries with the True Speech Art and struck Yu Shao with the word “die.”
• Ye Guyue and Ye Xingfeng decided to let Chengxian attack Lu Yang, then planned to take the Shen Metal for themselves.
• Chengxian used the word “execute” to bind Lu Yang and send a killing blow at him.
• Lu Yang transformed into the Smoke Sea, causing Chengxian’s attack to pass through him and strike Ye Xingfeng.
• Several Human Immortals attacked Ye Xingfeng, whose dharma body shattered, while Lu Yang reformed and lamented that Ye Xingfeng’s destined fate had arrived.

Lu Yang secretly helped Chengxian kill Ye Xingfeng, then used the Sea of Sorrow and sword talismans to wear Chengxian down and kill him. The battle above ended as True Person Demon-Sweeping, Ye Guangji, emerged holding the heads of Heavenly Immortal Minghua and three Earth Immortals.

• Chengxian's strike killed Ye Xingfeng after Lu Yang obscured Ye Xingfeng's Divine Sense, and Ye Guyue accused Lu Yang of plotting the death.
• Lu Yang concealed his role, stalled Chengxian with the Smoke Sea, and let the Sea of Sorrow exhaust Chengxian's dharma power and restore his injuries.
• Lu Yang struck Chengxian from behind with Yuantu Treasure Talisman sword qi, killing him and collecting his remains in the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner.
• Lu Yang shouted that he had avenged Brother Ye as the Xuanling Realm's Human Immortals grew more afraid.
• The clouds parted to reveal Ye Guangji holding the heads of Heavenly Immortal Minghua and three Earth Immortals.

True Person Demon-Sweeping returned with Heavenly Immortal Minghua and the other Earth Immortals alive but stripped of their power, then learned what had happened between Lu Yang and the Ye siblings. As he defended Lu Yang and declared Ye Xingfeng responsible for his own death, the True Lords began their assault on the Xuanling Realm.

• True Person Demon-Sweeping returned to the boat carrying the beheaded but living Heavenly Immortal Minghua and the three Earth Immortals, then asked where Ye Xingfeng was.
• Lu Yang accepted responsibility for Ye Xingfeng's death and asked True Person Demon-Sweeping not to punish Ye Guyue.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping reenacted the earlier events and saw that Ye Guyue and Ye Xingfeng had plotted against Lu Yang.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping judged that Ye Xingfeng had brought his death upon himself and told Ye Guyue that he would guide Xingfeng back to the family after reincarnation.
• Lu Yang offered to help Ye Xingfeng recover if he could reincarnate, angering Ye Guyue, while True Person Demon-Sweeping praised Lu Yang's steadfast Dao Heart.
• Heavenly Immortal Minghua asked about the Xuanling Realm, and True Person Demon-Sweeping said it was too late as the True Lords began Heaven-Slaying Realm-Destroying.

True Person Demon-Sweeping and Lu Yang witnessed the Xuanling Realm’s destruction and discovered that True Lords had orchestrated its downfall. After True Person Demon-Sweeping cleansed Lu Yang’s Shen Metal, he invited him to explore a Heavenly Court Fragment in Jiangnan, and Lu Yang accepted while planning to use the expedition to reincarnate his separated soul.

• The True Lords overwhelmed the Xuanling Realm Supreme, dragged the realm into their world, and destroyed it, scattering its Heavenly Court into four fragments.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping revealed the severed but living heads he kept in a Storage Pouch, including Heavenly Immortal Minghua and three Earth Immortals.
• A True Lord’s gaze pressed upon the area, and Lu Yang recognized it as True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde’s before the attention moved on.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping removed a hidden red mark from Lu Yang’s Shen Metal, though Lu Yang worried that it or his separated soul might still carry hidden tricks.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping invited Lu Yang to explore the Heavenly Court Fragment that fell in Jiangnan, and Lu Yang accepted while deciding the expedition could help him reincarnate.

Lu Yang learned that the True Lords planned to divide the Xuanling Realm’s Fruit Position by sending lower-ranked cultivators into a Heavenly Court Fragment to harvest qi. He suspected he could exploit the realm’s restrictions to pose as a Great True Person, and turned to Chengxian for information about the fragment.

• Lu Yang checked his true body with Calamity Waves and Cave Illumination, then used Puppet on Strings to watch through his avatar again.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping distributed the Scripture of Mysterious Resonance and explained that the Heavenly Court would be divided among four groups competing to harvest qi.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping said Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivators could not enter the Xuanling Realm, leaving only Early and Middle Stage cultivators eligible.
• Lu Yang reasoned that the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner might let him pose as a Great True Person inside the fragment without provoking the Xuanling Realm, giving him an advantage over its entrants.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping asked Human Immortal Yu Shao to guide the group, and Yu Shao warned that his former low rank in the Heavenly Court limited what he could offer.
• Lu Yang decided that Chengxian, the Xuanling Realm Supreme’s personal disciple, would know more than Yu Shao and looked for him among the Banner Spirits in the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner.

Lu Yang reached the Heavenly Court Fragment in Jiangnan, where Chongguang and the Heaven Mending Peak Master recognized him and raised suspicions about his loyalties and cultivation. As the Southern Heavenly Gate appeared and the contenders entered, Chongguang asked Lu Yang whether he wanted to make another deal.

• Lu Yang arrived at the former Ten Thousand Man Pit with True Person Demon-Sweeping and saw Chongguang waiting with Sacred Sect members.
• Chongguang recognized Lu Yang, while Lu Yang noticed Chen Taihe, the Peak Master of Heaven Mending, watching him with hostility.
• Chen Taihe asked Lu Yang whether he cultivated Pomegranate Wood, and Lu Yang suspected Chen Taihe had discovered traces of his fight with Qi He.
• Ye Guyue questioned Lu Yang about Chen Taihe’s voice transmission, but Lu Yang denied that Chen Taihe had said anything and offered to hand over all his gains to join Sword Pavilion.
• The Southern Heavenly Gate appeared, and the contenders began entering the Heavenly Court Fragment as Chongguang asked Lu Yang if he wanted to make another deal.

Lu Yang entered the Southern Heavenly Gate, learned that Chongguang had given him only half of a scripture, and planned to wait near the Heavenly Capital Palace for the gathered cultivators. While Peak Master of Heaven Mending and Ye Guyue searched for him, Lu Yang secretly prepared a formation to ambush anyone leaving the palace.

• Lu Yang discovered that Chongguang’s Lunar Ridge Scripture was incomplete and that its remaining half would be unlocked only if he stayed in the Southern Heavenly Gate for the agreed time.
• Lu Yang learned from Banner Spirit Chengxian that the Heavenly Capital Palace contained the Six Ding Divine Fire, the Heaven-Co-Eternal Ageless Root, and a Dao Harmony Immortal Pill.
• Peak Master of Heaven Mending drained a Foundation Establishment True Person to advance his cultivation and vowed to find Lu Yang.
• Several days later, cultivators from Sword Pavilion and the Sacred Sect gathered outside the Heavenly Capital Palace, with Ye Guyue and Peak Master of Heaven Mending both searching for Lu Yang.
• Lu Yang stayed outside the palace and secretly set up a formation, intending to rob cultivators as they emerged instead of entering the dangerous hall himself.

Lu Yang watched as the cultivators entered Heavenly Capital Palace to seek its treasures, while he stayed behind to restore the Southern Heavenly Gate’s formations. When a dead Earth Immortal’s final strike activated inside the palace, it targeted the strongest cultivators, and Lu Yang was relieved he had not gone in.

• Lu Yang restored part of the Southern Heavenly Gate’s formations while observing Heavenly Capital Palace through the Ancestor of the Yun Family and Xiu Xin True Person.
• The pill fragrance from the opened palace overwhelmed weaker Foundation Establishment cultivators, while Peak Master of Heaven Mending and Ye Guyue recognized a Dao-comprehension pill and agreed to enter together.
• Peak Master of Heaven Mending and Ye Guyue pressed their hands to the palace gates, sensed the test of their status, and entered with other Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivators.
• Inside, the cultivators found a Dao Harmony Immortal Pill in a furnace and a Heaven-Co-Eternal Ageless Root beside a headless corpse.
• The corpse’s blood-written word, “Execute,” unleashed a deadly strike that targeted Peak Master of Heaven Mending and Ye Guyue, while Lu Yang realized he had been wise to stay away.

Lu Yang manipulated events in Heavenly Capital Palace until the Peak Master of Heaven Mending killed the wounded Ye Guyue, then confronted the Peak Master after he collected the treasures. Lu Yang summoned Chen Xin'an and unleashed the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner’s power, pressing a finger to the Peak Master’s forehead.

• The Earth Immortal Blood Characters attacked Ye Guyue and the Peak Master of Heaven Mending, whose Edict Jade Token protected him while Ye Guyue was badly injured.
• Ye Guyue tried to flee, but the Peak Master of Heaven Mending pursued her as the palace descended into a battle over its treasures.
• The Ancestor of the Cloud Clan and Xiu Xin True Person echoed Lu Yang’s words, revealing that he was manipulating events, and the Peak Master drained Ye Guyue to death.
• Lu Yang let the fleeing Sword Pavilion cultivators escape as witnesses, then entered Heavenly Capital Palace after the Peak Master collected the Dao Harmony Immortal Pill, Six Ding Divine Fire, and Heaven-Co-Eternal Ageless Root.
• Lu Yang summoned Chen Xin'an from the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner and unleashed its power, suppressing the Peak Master of Heaven Mending as he pressed a finger to his forehead.

Lu Yang killed Peak Master of Heaven Mending and the other Sacred Sect True Persons at Heavenly Capital Palace, then staged his own apparent collapse and claimed the spoils. As he handed over a treasure to Ancestor of the Yun Family and Xiu Xin True Person, he remembered Xiaohai True Person—and found him beside him, asking how Lu Yang had False Held the position of a Great True Person.

• Lu Yang killed Peak Master of Heaven Mending with a finger and absorbed him into the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner.
• Lu Yang used the formations around Heavenly Capital Palace and Sea of Sorrow to wipe out five fleeing Sacred Sect True Persons.
• Lu Yang pretended to suffer backlash, took Peak Master of Heaven Mending's Storage Pouch, and gave the Dao Harmony Immortal Pill to Patriarch Tingyou to refine.
• Lu Yang kept the Six Ding Divine Fire and gave the Storage Pouch and remaining treasure to Ancestor of the Yun Family and Xiu Xin True Person.
• Lu Yang remembered that Xiaohai True Person was still missing, then found him beside him asking how he had False Held the position of a Great True Person.

Lu Yang and Sky Soaring faced off in the Southern Heavenly Gate, each probing the other's secrets while hiding his own weakness. Sky Soaring offered Lu Yang a way to monopolize the Five Elements Fruit Positions in exchange for helping him lure Xue Feihong into the Netherworld and kill her.

• Lu Yang calmly claimed Mu Changsheng had lent him a divine ability because they were friends, while Sky Soaring questioned his identity and cultivation realm.
• Sky Soaring deduced that Lu Yang had used numerous divine abilities without revealing a Lifebound Divine Ability and asked if he was a Spirit Immortal.
• Lu Yang realized Sky Soaring lacked the strength to attack him because his current body was only at Foundation Establishment Early Stage.
• Lu Yang suggested Sky Soaring had fallen into Chongguang's scheme, but Sky Soaring instead accused him of revealing his identity to Xue Feihong.
• Sky Soaring explained his plan to prevent others from obtaining the Fruit Positions and offered Lu Yang his reversal method in exchange for helping him lure Xue Feihong into the Netherworld and kill her.

Lu Yang realized Sky Soaring’s plan had depended on a bluff and fought him through Xiaohai True Person, whose death opened the Netherworld. Back in Jiangnan, Lu Yang saw Covered Lamp Fire rise over Jiangbei as someone began Golden Seeking.

• Sky Soaring asked Lu Yang to help send Xue Feihong into the Netherworld, but Lu Yang recognized the request as a test of his strength.
• Lu Yang used False Holding to reach the rank of a Great True Person and attacked Sky Soaring, tracking him through his Puppet on Strings linked to Xiaohai True Person.
• Sky Soaring let Lu Yang’s strike kill Xiaohai True Person, causing his soul to reincarnate and the Netherworld to open.
• Lu Yang realized Sky Soaring’s consciousness had been trapped inside the Southern Heavenly Gate and that Chongguang and True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow had outmaneuvered him.
• Lu Yang’s Spirit Immortal true body saw Covered Lamp Fire rise over Jiangbei, signaling that someone was Golden Seeking.

Lu Yang deduced how several True Lords had trapped Sky Soaring and realized Hongyun had gained a chance to seize Covered Lamp Fire. In the Long Radiance Precious Light Cave Heaven, Chongguang revealed that he had approached Sky Soaring to seek a path to the Gold Position after True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow favored Hongyun instead.

• Lu Yang realized the True Lords had used Heavenly Court Fragments to isolate Sky Soaring and had blocked his suicide within the Southern Heavenly Gate.
• Lu Yang concluded that Hongyun’s Golden Seeking had gained a chance after Chongguang and True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow allowed him to pursue Covered Lamp Fire.
• Chongguang entered the Long Radiance Precious Light Cave Heaven and met Sky Soaring, who had been waiting there.
• Chongguang said he wanted Sky Soaring to find him another path to the Gold Position, since Covered Lamp Fire could no longer be attained.
• Sky Soaring recognized that True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow had abandoned Chongguang in favor of Hongyun, and Chongguang calmly accepted that he had to rely on himself.