Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang accompanied Xiao Shiye to the Merit Pool, but Liu Xin and a band of indebted disciples ambushed them, seeking their treasures and Contribution Points. Trapped in a Mirage, Lu Yang received a Treasure-Breaking Awl from Xiao Shiye and faced the choice of escaping alone or staying to fight.

• Lu Yang agreed to accompany Xiao Shiye to the Merit Pool and learned Xiao planned to test his recent good fortune.
• Liu Xin recognized Lu Yang and, after hearing about his Contribution Points, marked him as another robbery target alongside Xiao Shiye.
• Lu Yang sensed the attackers closing in and tried to flee with Xiao Shiye, but they were trapped inside a Mirage.
• Xiao Shiye gave Lu Yang one of his two Treasure-Breaking Awls and offered to stay behind while Lu Yang escaped.
• Lu Yang considered abandoning Xiao Shiye, even as Xiao faced the attackers and the Sword Pellet warned him of danger.

Lu Yang realized Xiao Shiye’s apparent self-sacrifice was a scheme to make him take the danger, but the two secretly coordinated to ambush their pursuers. Lu Yang annihilated the surrounding cultivators with the Heavenly Demon Blood-Dissolving Divine Light, then pursued Liu Xin until Fairy Qingchen appeared and Liu Xin asked to reconcile.

• Lu Yang recognized that splitting from Xiao Shiye would leave him exposed, and he resolved not to fall for Xiao Shiye’s apparent plan to stay behind.
• Lu Yang and Xiao Shiye pretended to quarrel, then used the Divine Firmament Sword Control Art to place Lu Yang among the unprepared cultivators surrounding Xiao Shiye.
• Lu Yang unleashed the Heavenly Demon Blood-Dissolving Divine Light, devouring the cultivators and leaving only their empty skins behind.
• Lu Yang pursued Liu Xin to avenge his past-life suffering, while Liu Xin tried to escape and called for Qingchen to release the restriction.
• Fairy Qingchen emerged after breaking the Nine Palaces Great Array, and Liu Xin stood beside her as he asked Lu Yang and Xiao Shiye if they could reconcile.

Liu Xin and Fairy Qingchen trapped Lu Yang and Xiao Shiye in a formation and attacked them with the Primordial Breath Ten Thousand Spirit Banner. As their forces began to falter, Liu Xin summoned a secret trump card to help break the stalemate.

• Lu Yang rejected Liu Xin’s offer of a Dao Book and warned that he would report Liu’s ambushes to the Law Enforcement Hall.
• Fairy Qingchen activated a formation that trapped Lu Yang and Xiao Shiye, while Liu Xin revealed his Primordial Breath Ten Thousand Spirit Banner.
• Lu Yang charged Liu Xin, shattered two summoned Banner Spirits, and evaded Fairy Qingchen’s Phoenix Tail Hairpin with Xiao Shiye’s help.
• Xiao Shiye detonated magical treasures to damage the formation, while Liu Xin summoned Banner Spirits to reinforce it and released over ten thousand vengeful ghosts against Lu Yang.
• Lu Yang used his Sword Pellet and sword techniques to scatter the vengeful ghosts, as Xiao Shiye’s attacks destabilized the formation again.
• Liu Xin bowed to his hidden Senior Brother and asked him to intervene against Lu Yang and Xiao Shiye.

Liu Xin summoned Chen Xin'an, the missing Mending Heaven Peak True Disciple he had turned into a Banner Spirit, to fight Lu Yang, while Fairy Qingchen was killed and made into another Banner Spirit. As Chen Xin'an pressed Lu Yang with his superior Heaven Mending Scripture, Xiao Shiye unleashed a Spiritual Treasure Pagoda and made it self-destruct, engulfing everyone in an explosion.

• Liu Xin summoned Chen Xin'an from the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner, and Chen Xin'an agreed to fight Lu Yang for the third time.
• Fairy Qingchen recognized Chen Xin'an, so Liu Xin killed her and turned her into a Banner Spirit to stabilize the formation.
• Chen Xin'an identified flaws in Lu Yang's cultivation and attacked him with the Third-Rank Heaven Mending True Qi.
• Xiao Shiye brought out a nine-level Spiritual Treasure Pagoda and made it expand toward self-destruction.
• The Spiritual Treasure Pagoda exploded and swallowed everything in its blaze.

Lu Yang survived Xiao Shiye’s Spiritual Treasure explosion, took the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner and its contents, and killed Xiao Shiye. Daoist Hongyun appeared afterward, reclaimed the loot, investigated Lu Yang, and left him shaken.

• Xiao Shiye’s Spiritual Treasure explosion destroyed Fairy Qingchen’s formation, killing Liu Xin and Chen Xin'an, but Lu Yang survived by turning into a blood shadow and protecting his true spirit in his Sword Pellet.
• Xiao Shiye reached for the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner, but Lu Yang reappeared and claimed it, then found the Primordial Dao Scripture and Fairy Qingchen’s Secret Explanation of Array Treasures in the Storage Pouches.
• Lu Yang thanked Xiao Shiye for the unexpected gains, then drained him into a dried husk to prevent him from returning for revenge.
• Lu Yang saw that Xiao Shiye’s Fortune had vanished, but Daoist Hongyun appeared beside the corpse and took the Primordial Dao Scripture and Ten Thousand Spirit Banner from Lu Yang.
• Daoist Hongyun investigated Lu Yang, identified him as a major Variable, then lost interest after learning he cultivated the Heavenly Demon Blood-Dissolving Divine Light and departed, leaving Lu Yang drenched in sweat.

After Daoist Hongyun took the Primordial Dao Scripture, Lu Yang reflected on the Sacred Sect’s hidden power, then cultivated until he reached Qi Refining Late Stage. He visited Zhao Xuhe seeking a way to improve his true qi grade, and Zhao Xuhe offered him the incomplete Nine Transformations Dragon Art to settle his debts.

• Lu Yang realized Daoist Hongyun might have used Xiao Shiye to catch the Colorful Merit Fish, and suspected the Sacred Sect’s higher-ups treated disciples like fish in a pond.
• Lu Yang returned to his cave abode, memorized cultivation methods, studied Fairy Qingchen's Secret Explanation of Array Treasures, and spent half a month repairing his Sword Pellet.
• Lu Yang visited Zhao Xuhe and learned that Zhao Xuhe was deep in debt after losing his fortune speculating on Death Substitute Puppets.
• Lu Yang told Zhao Xuhe he regretted not learning about true qi grades earlier and offered one or two thousand Contribution Points for a superior cultivation method.
• Zhao Xuhe gave Lu Yang the incomplete Nine Transformations Dragon Art, hoping to put the otherwise useless method toward repaying his debts.

Unable to cultivate as a blood shadow, Lu Yang spent decades mastering arrays and inscribing one around a Sword Pellet. He succeeded just as his lifespan ran out, then called for the Hundred Lives Book.

• Lu Yang bought the Nine Transformations Dragon Art from Zhao Xuhe and began studying Fairy Qingchen’s Secret Explanation of Array Treasures instead of ending his life.
• Lu Yang spent two months deciphering the book’s deliberately difficult example and identified it as an Illumination Array.
• Lu Yang continued studying simpler arrays, regained confidence, and mastered the book’s contents over twenty years while keeping his distance from the outer sect’s rising Sons of Destiny.
• Zhao Xuhe became a famous true disciple but died after failing to break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm.
• As his lifespan neared its end, Lu Yang inscribed array patterns around a Sword Pellet and successfully made them operate.
• Lu Yang laughed as he died and called out to the Hundred Lives Book.

Lu Yang retained the Array Treasure from his previous life, named it Blood Sun, and used his accumulated gains to cultivate the Nine Transformations Dragon Art. After three years of progress, Zhao Xuhe confronted him, accusing him of taking Coiling Dragon True Person’s inheritance.

• Lu Yang chose to keep his Sword Pellet, named its blood-shadow avatar Blood Sun, and began repeating his previous life’s plans.
• He profited from trading Death Substitute Puppets, amassed twenty puppets and 60,000 Contribution Points, then bought supplies and began cultivating the Nine Transformations Dragon Art.
• Lu Yang dispersed his cultivation and fed the scattered true qi to his Primordial Breath Avatar before entering seclusion.
• After three years, Lu Yang reached the Qi Refining Sixth Layer and resolved to save the Flying Fish Transformation’s breakthrough ability for Qi Refining Great Perfection.
• Zhao Xuhe arrived with several cultivators, accusing Lu Yang of stealing Coiling Dragon True Person’s inheritance after Coiling Dragon Island vanished.

Lu Yang confronted Zhao Xuhe and the Sacred Sect disciples, learning that Zhao Xuhe’s master had engineered their meeting to manipulate Karma. Though the disciples trapped him with carefully prepared counters, Lu Yang unleashed a formation hidden in his Blood Sun Sword Pellet.

• Lu Yang realized that cultivating the Nine Transformations Dragon Art had disrupted Zhao Xuhe’s destined opportunity and caused Coiling Dragon Island to disappear.
• Lu Yang killed Zhao Xuhe’s senior brother with the Blood-Transforming Divine Light, and the dying disciple revealed that his sacrifice had established Karma for Zhao Xuhe to aid his reincarnation.
• Zhao Xuhe and the Sacred Sect disciples demanded that Lu Yang surrender his opportunity, while Lu Yuanchun trapped him with a Golden Light Treasure Mirror.
• Zhao Xuhe tried to suppress Lu Yang’s Blood Sun Sword Pellet with the Primordial Magnetic Golden Seal, but Lu Yang redirected it and attacked with Blood-Transforming Divine Light.
• Several disciples sacrificed themselves to restrain Lu Yang’s divine light, allowing Lu Yuanchun to bombard him with golden radiance.
• Lu Yang activated the Blood Sun Sword Pellet’s formation patterns, sealing Heaven and Earth and enclosing everyone in the formation he had developed in his previous life.

Lu Yang used the Blood-Washing Heavenly River Sword Formation Map to trap Lu Yuanchun and his group, killing Zhao Xuhe and the other cultivators. Lu Yuanchun’s jade pendant summoned the Peak Master of Heaven Mending, whose rebuke shattered Lu Yang’s formation and left him under immense pressure.

• Lu Yang activated his Array Treasure, trapping Lu Yuanchun, Zhao Xuhe, and their companions in a Heavenly River of Sword Qi.
• Lu Yang infused the formation with Heavenly Demon Blood-Dissolving Divine Light, killing several of Lu Yuanchun’s junior brothers.
• Lu Yuanchun tried to detonate the Golden Light Treasure Mirror, but Lu Yang dispersed the blast through the formation and killed Zhao Xuhe.
• Lu Yuanchun’s jade pendant shattered and released the Peak Master of Heaven Mending, who broke Lu Yang’s formation with a rebuke.
• Lu Yang learned that the figure was a Foundation Establishment True Person and watched his formation collapse beneath the Peak Master’s pressure.

Peak Master of Heaven Mending learned that Lu Yang had seized Coiling Dragon True Person’s opportunity and sent Lu Yuanchun to take it back, but Lu Yang defied him when he appeared to kill him. Lu Yang unleashed the Life-Killing Curse and struck at the descending finger before darkness consumed his consciousness.

• Peak Master of Heaven Mending told a middle-aged man that he had sent Lu Yuanchun to deal with the talented Lu Yang and reclaim Coiling Dragon True Person’s opportunity.
• Liu Xin hid in his cave abode, clutching a Divine Talisman and fearing that Peak Master of Heaven Mending would discover him.
• Lu Yuanchun apologized to his master after losing his Divine Sense jade pendant and failing to save Junior Brother Zhao.
• Lu Yang gathered the Blood River into his Sword Pellet and challenged Peak Master of Heaven Mending beneath his gaze.
• Peak Master of Heaven Mending sent a gigantic finger down toward Lu Yang, who activated the Life-Killing Curse and unleashed a sword strike that cleaved through Changkong.

After awakening the A Bit Capable talent, Lu Yang suspected Liu Xin was hiding a treasure that concealed Karma and set a trap for him. He killed Liu Xin and turned him into a loyal Banner Spirit with the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner.

• Lu Yang chose to awaken a talent and gained A Bit Capable, which let him handle attacks within his ability with effortless flair for two moves.
• After Liu Xin assigned him to Joyous Union Hall, Lu Yang suspected Liu Xin had a treasure that concealed Karma because he had survived killing a Sacred Sect True Disciple.
• Lu Yang reenacted his earlier actions to draw Liu Xin’s attention, obtained half of the Primordial Dao Scripture, and waited for Liu Xin to come to his cave dwelling.
• Liu Xin broke into Lu Yang’s cave dwelling and was caught by the Blood-Washing Heavenly River Sword Formation Map.
• Lu Yang drained Liu Xin with the Blood-Transforming Divine Light and used the Primordial Breath Ten Thousand Spirit Banner to make him a Banner Spirit loyal to his new master.

Lu Yang tested the Primordial Primordial-Breath Divine Talisman by killing Chen Xin'an and evading the Peak Master of Heaven Mending’s karmic deduction. Ten years later, he broke through to the Qi Refining Late Stage and prepared to seek support from a Foundation Establishment master.

• Liu Xin told Lu Yang that the Primordial Primordial-Breath Divine Talisman could evade karmic deductions, and Lu Yang summoned Chen Xin'an from the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner.
• Chen Xin'an offered Lu Yang a hidden treasure trove and a Foundation Establishment opportunity, but Lu Yang scattered Chen Xin'an’s true spirit instead.
• The Peak Master of Heaven Mending tried to deduce who had killed Chen Xin'an, but the talisman concealed Lu Yang from detection.
• Lu Yang repeated his methods from previous lives, earned Contribution Points, concealed his techniques, bought spirit pills, and cultivated in seclusion.
• After ten years, Lu Yang broke through to the Qi Refining Late Stage and decided he would accept an offer of patronage from any Foundation Establishment master.

After reaching Qi Refining Late Stage, Lu Yang attracted several factions seeking to recruit him and joined the Three Rivers Society for access to its authority and resources. Fairy Feixia’s connection to Zhao Xuhe made Lu Yang suspect that she and Zhao Xuhe had once obtained a Foundation Establishment opportunity.

• Fairy Feixia and a fellow cultivator reviewed Lu Yang’s background and decided that the Three Rivers Society should recruit him.
• Lu Yang examined recruitment offers from various Sacred Sect factions and concluded that he wanted authority more than money.
• Fairy Feixia introduced the Three Rivers Society and offered Lu Yang a True Disciple-grade divine ability, annual Contribution Points, and access to restricted purchases and cultivation guidance.
• Lu Yang signed the society’s Contract, and Fairy Feixia added a talisman seal to his disciple token.
• Recognizing Feixia as Zhao Xuhe’s future Dao companion, Lu Yang recalled that they had both attempted Foundation Establishment and suspected they had obtained a Foundation Establishment opportunity.

Lu Yang obtained the complete Yin Corpse-Dissolution Transformation True Method and agreed to accompany Fairy Feixia to Skull Mountain Market, where he hoped to find a Foundation Establishment opportunity. On the flying boat, he reunited with the despondent Zhao Xuhe and offered him a spiritual pill, leaving Zhao Xuhe wondering whether they were truly fated.

• Fairy Feixia summoned Lu Yang and gave him a list of divine abilities from which he chose the Yin Corpse-Dissolution Transformation True Method.
• Fairy Feixia invited Lu Yang to join her posting at Skull Mountain Market, and he accepted in hopes of finding a Foundation Establishment opportunity.
• Ten days later, Lu Yang boarded the flying boat to Skull Mountain and spotted Lu Yuanchun among the cultivators.
• Lu Yang found Zhao Xuhe drinking spiritual wine alone and greeted him as a fated senior brother.
• Lu Yang gave Zhao Xuhe a spiritual pill, and Zhao Xuhe began to feel close to him and wonder if they had met in a past life.

Lu Yang arrived at Skull Mountain Market, where he took responsibility for a formation eye and established himself as Pavilion Master of Blood Garment Pavilion. After setting up hidden defensive measures and dismissing the disciples assigned to him, he prepared to cultivate in seclusion.

• Lu Yang and Zhao Xuhe arrived at Skull Mountain, where Fairy Feixia explained the Marketplace’s Corpse Tide and assigned Lu Yang a formation eye.
• Zhao Xuhe realized Lu Yang held greater status and strength than he had shown, addressed him as “my lord,” and privately decided Lu Yang was wary of him.
• Lu Yang entered the Marketplace and installed the Blood-Washing Heavenly River Sword Formation within his formation eye, concealing it as a backup inside the existing formation.
• Lu Yang named the pavilion Blood Garment Pavilion and received more than a dozen Sacred Sect Disciples assigned to his territory.
• Lu Yang dismissed the disciples, sealed Blood Garment Pavilion, and prepared to cultivate until an opportunity for Foundation Establishment arose.

After five years of cultivation, Lu Yang reached Qi Refining Eighth Layer but still could not master Taiwei Imperial Pardon Treasure Repository. When an early Corpse Tide threatened the Marketplace, he refused Fairy Feixia’s invitation to investigate its cause and chose to hold the fort.

• Lu Yang studied the True Method of Yin-Transformation Corpse-Dissolution, abandoned the elusive Mysterious Yin Form-Capturing Great Art, and struggled to comprehend Taiwei Imperial Pardon Treasure Repository.
• After five years of cultivation, Lu Yang broke through to Qi Refining Eighth Layer and concealed his improved cultivation with the Breath Concealment Art.
• Lu Yang learned that Divine Martial Sect disciples had recently provoked the Sacred Sect near Skull Mountain and that no one had found Mysterious Female Yin Jade.
• Fairy Feixia told Lu Yang that the Corpse Tide had erupted fifteen years early, with over ten thousand zombies heading toward the Marketplace, and suspected the Divine Martial Sect was behind it.
• Fairy Feixia invited Lu Yang to investigate the Corpse Tide and seize the treasure causing it, but Lu Yang refused and agreed to remain behind to hold the fort.

Lu Yang learned that Divine Martial Sect disciples had used a Mysterious Female Yin Jade to trigger the Corpse Tide, but suspected the discovery was a trap and chose to stay in Skull Mountain Market. When Fairy Feixia and Lu Yuanchun returned under pursuit, Lu Yuanchun opened the Marketplace’s formation for an ambush, leaving Lu Yang and the other Sacred Sect disciples exposed.

• Yun Miaoqing delivered intelligence about the Corpse Tide and invited Lu Yang to leave the Primordial Saint Demon Sect for the Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion.
• Lu Yang learned that Divine Martial Sect disciples had used a Mysterious Female Yin Jade to trigger the Corpse Tide and considered seeking the jade, but suspected Daoist Hongyun was manipulating events and decided not to leave the Marketplace.
• The next day, Fairy Feixia and Lu Yuanchun approached the Marketplace while being pursued, and Lu Yang ordered the Hundred-Skeleton Return-to-Truth Formation raised.
• Lu Yuanchun used a token to open the formation, allowing the Divine Martial Sect to lock the gap with a miniature formation.
• Lu Yuanchun fled in the opposite direction, abandoning the Marketplace and its Sacred Sect disciples to the Divine Martial Sect.

Lu Yang and Fairy Feixia defended the Marketplace as Divine Martial Sect forces attacked, while Lu Yuanchun tried to escape with the Mysterious Female Yin Jade. The chapter ended with Lu Yang restoring the Marketplace’s grand formation, trapping Lu Yuanchun inside and prompting him to beg for help.

• Fairy Feixia stayed to defend the breach and told Lu Yang that Lu Yuanchun had seized the Mysterious Female Yin Jade and abandoned the others.
• Wu Zhichong attacked, and Fairy Feixia used her Rosy Mist Veil to block his punch while warning Lu Yang that Wu had killed Senior Brother Chen.
• Lu Yuanchun returned with Mountain-Moving Daoist Duanmu Yuan pursuing him, then burned his blood essence and pretended to join the fight.
• Lu Yuanchun used the Blood Shadow Heaven-Escaping Technique to flee, but a Qi Refining Great Perfection cultivator struck him down and forced him back into Skull Mountain.
• Lu Yang scattered formation patterns, broke the Divine Martial Sect’s lock on the breach, and restored the Marketplace’s grand formation.
• Lu Yuanchun saw the formation close and shouted for Lu Yang to save him.

Lu Yang used the restored Hundred-Skeleton Return-to-Truth Formation to protect Skull Mountain Market and recovered the Mysterious Female Yin Jade from Lu Yuanchun. Ouyang Haoze attacked from outside the formation, but Lu Yang repeatedly emerged unharmed, leaving the Divine Martial Sect True Disciple wary of the formation.

• Lu Yang opened the formation long enough for Lu Yuanchun to enter, then revealed that he had restored it as a Ninth Grade Formation Master.
• Lu Yuanchun handed Lu Yang the Mysterious Female Yin Jade, hoping to avoid trouble and redirect the Divine Martial Sect's attention.
• Ouyang Haoze arrived with Wu Zhichong and Duanmu Yuan, then declared that he intended to eliminate the demonic cultivators in Skull Mountain Market.
• Lu Yang confronted Ouyang Haoze across the formation, but Ouyang Haoze refused to negotiate and attacked with the Arrow Barrage Strike.
• Ouyang Haoze smashed Lu Yang twice, but Lu Yang reappeared unharmed from the formation each time, and Ouyang Haoze recognized that attacking from outside would be futile.