Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang sparred with Patriarch Tingyou to test his strength and discovered that Heavenly Guideline let him imitate divine abilities within his own world. The fight left both of them trading powerful techniques, and Lu Yang withdrew Heavenly Guideline to try another move.

• Lu Yang asked Patriarch Tingyou to spar, and Tingyou agreed while considering whether Lu Yang might be able to inherit Yama Hall’s False Holding Gold Position Method.
• Lu Yang opened with Calamity Waves, but Patriarch Tingyou used an illusory Residual Shadow to evade the sword strike and countered with weakened versions of Determining Kinship and Distance and Heavenly Punishment Thundercloud.
• Lu Yang survived the lightning attack and used Heavenly Guideline to enclose Patriarch Tingyou in his world, where he imitated Determining Kinship and Distance and sent Tingyou into another sea of lightning.
• Patriarch Tingyou dispelled the lightning with Embrace Mountain, and both fighters exchanged further imitated techniques, including words becoming law, Life Severing, and Mind Trapping.
• Patriarch Tingyou’s attack appeared to blow Lu Yang apart, but Lu Yang’s body proved illusory; he withdrew Heavenly Guideline and formed a ring of five divine abilities to try Same as the World.

Lu Yang defeated Patriarch Tingyou by redirecting his attack into Seven Radiance Heaven, then learned more about the limits of his strength and divine abilities. He realized Yama Hall could False Hold a Gold Position, but Patriarch Tingyou warned that each use would consume Gold Nature and could make it collapse.

• Lu Yang used Same as the World to transfer Patriarch Tingyou's attack into Seven Radiance Heaven's Earth Vein, prompting Patriarch Tingyou to concede defeat.
• Patriarch Tingyou explained that Lu Yang's combat strength still lagged behind Foundation Establishment Perfection cultivators from the Four Major Powers because he lacked their specialized Daoist spells and sword arts.
• Lu Yang assembled eight allies who could receive the Incense Fire Divine Path's blessing and realized that, with himself, they met Yama Hall's requirement of nine Foundation Establishment Perfection cultivators.
• Patriarch Tingyou explained that Yama Hall raised itself to a Fruit Position's height using Gold Nature, and each use consumed Gold Nature until Yama Hall collapsed.

Lu Yang learned that Hongyun's Gold Nature could let him False Hold the Gold Position through Yama Hall and considered using it to exploit Covered Lamp Fire and settle scores with Sky Soaring. He traveled to Jietian by way of the Outer Heaven Light Sea and discovered that the abyss was formed by five fused Jietians.

• Lu Yang learned that Yama Hall could use Gold Nature to False Hold a Gold Position and assist in seeking a Fruit Position, but his single strand would allow only one brief attempt.
• Lu Yang planned to enter Jietian as an Extraterrestrial Cultivator and considered using Yama Hall's connection to Covered Lamp Fire to challenge Sky Soaring's Five Elements Perfection.
• Lu Yang traveled to the Outer Heaven Light Sea, where his divine abilities shielded him from most of the Two Extremes Life-Death Profound Light.
• Lu Yang reasoned that Jietian arose from rare accidents in the collisions of Yin-Yang energies and wondered about the secrets of Nascent Soul Dao Lords.
• Lu Yang entered the abyss-like Jietian intending to confront Heaven-Earth Immortal Spirit and Buddhist Son Guangming, then saw that it consisted of five fused Jietians.

Suo Huan faced the destruction of his Earthfire Seaheart Furnace and a demand for his Spirit Ruins Blessed Land from Dragon Kings Chong Ying and Chong Ling. Lu Yang returned to the Overseas, crushed both Dragon Kings, and declared his intent to raise an army and wage war.

• Suo Huan learned that the True Lords were still in seclusion and feared he would die before he could save the Huanxu Realm.
• Chong Ying and Chong Ling led hundreds of thousands of Yao soldiers to raise the seawater, destroying Suo Huan's Earthfire Seaheart Furnace as they searched for his Spirit Ruins Blessed Land.
• The Dragon Kings invoked Crown Prince Tian Qiu's empowered Sea-Commanding Trident, and Suo Huan abandoned thoughts of resisting them.
• A hand descended from the sky and crushed Chong Ying and Chong Ling despite Tian Qiu's plea for mercy.
• Lu Yang appeared in the Overseas and announced that he had returned to raise an army and unleash war.

Lu Yang confronted Tian Qiu at Dragon Palace, crushed the souls of Chong Ying and Chong Ling, and fought the Dragon Palace Crown Prince. After learning Tian Qiu was weaker than the perfected cultivators inland, Lu Yang decided to harvest his Gold Nature and launched Heavenly Guideline.

• Lu Yang arrived above Dragon Palace and showed Tian Qiu the souls of Chong Ying and Chong Ling.
• Lu Yang crushed both souls, provoking Tian Qiu to attack with Frame Sun and Moon and his true form.
• Lu Yang evaded Tian Qiu’s bite, leaving Tian Qiu wary and Lu Yang confident that his opponent was comparatively weak.
• Lu Yang decided to seize Tian Qiu’s Gold Nature and used Heavenly Guideline to begin their battle.
• The battle’s earthshaking booms drew attention, and onlookers wondered who the Extraterrestrial Cultivator fighting the Crown Prince was.

Lu Yang battled Tian Qiu inside the world created by Heavenly Guideline, using several divine abilities to withstand and weaken the dragon. After Same as the World brought heavenly punishment down on Tian Qiu and stripped away his Karmic Fortune, the watching Foundation Establishment True Persons concluded he was finished and questioned Lu Yang’s origins.

• Lu Yang and Tian Qiu clashed physically, and Lu Yang healed his injuries while Embodied True Qi drained Tian Qiu’s blood energy and dharma power.
• Lu Yang used Primordial Convergence Art to refine Tian Qiu’s dragon blood and restore his own strength, forcing Tian Qiu onto the defensive.
• Tian Qiu pretended to flee, then attacked Lu Yang with Mystic River Heavy Water, but Lu Yang emerged unharmed using Same as the World.
• Same as the World brought heavenly punishment down on Tian Qiu and erased his accumulated Karmic Fortune, threatening his path to Golden Seeking.
• The watching Foundation Establishment True Persons deduced how Same as the World worked and called Tian Qiu finished, while speculating about Lu Yang’s background.

Lu Yang used Same as the World and Tian Qiu’s ruined Fortune to turn the Dragon Palace Crown Prince’s escape into a fatal trap. After Tian Qiu died, Lu Yang gained the Golden Talent True Dragon Bloodline and looked toward the Dragon Palace, eyeing its treasures.

• Tian Qiu attacked Lu Yang with Mystic River Heavy Water, but Lu Yang redirected the damage to Heaven and Earth with Same as the World.
• Lu Yang used Fortune Drawing Sign on Tian Qiu and received Great Auspicious results, while Tian Qiu sensed danger and tried to flee into the sea.
• Tian Qiu was caught in the eruption of Suo Huan’s Earthfire Seaheart Furnace and suffered deviation as he tried to escape.
• Lu Yang struck Tian Qiu with Embodied True Qi and killed him, then collected and absorbed Tian Qiu’s Gold Nature.
• The Hundred Lives Book granted Lu Yang the Golden Talent True Dragon Bloodline, and Lu Yang considered claiming a share of the Dragon Palace’s property.

Lu Yang killed Tian Qiu and enlisted Suo Huan, who feared the Dragon Lord’s revenge, in a plan to raid the Dragon Palace. Suo Huan agreed after Lu Yang demonstrated that his Ten Thousand Spirit Banner could raise Patriarch Tingyou to Foundation Establishment Perfection.

• Lu Yang killed Tian Qiu, and the witnesses suspected he had used a karmic art to sever the True Dragon’s life force.
• Suo Huan tried to flee, but Lu Yang stopped him and claimed they had hit it off at first sight.
• Suo Huan warned Lu Yang that Tian Qiu’s elder, the Dragon Lord, was a True Lord who might seek revenge when he returned.
• Lu Yang told Suo Huan that the Dragon Lord might blame him too, then promised to become a True Lord himself.
• Suo Huan revealed a secret passage to the Dragon Palace and proposed looting its treasury amid the chaos.
• Lu Yang offered Suo Huan a place in his Fengshen List and demonstrated its power by raising Patriarch Tingyou to Foundation Establishment Perfection, prompting Suo Huan to pledge himself to Lu Yang.

After Tian Qiu’s apparent death left the Dragon Palace under attack, Lu Yang used a secret passage to enter its hidden halls and learned of the True Dragon Clan’s negotiations with the Jiangdong Dao Court. He opened the Dragon Palace Treasury and prepared to take its contents, believing his own True Dragon bloodline made him the Dragon Lord’s true heir.

• With Tian Qiu dead, attackers assaulted the Dragon Palace, but its defenders used the grand array to hold them off while the other Four Seas Sect factions stayed away.
• Lu Yang and Suo Huan entered the Dragon Palace through a secret teleportation array on a remote island.
• Lu Yang summoned Tian Qiu as a Banner Spirit, and Tian Qiu revealed the Dragon Lord’s plans to have the True Dragon Clan return inland under an agreement with the Jiangdong Dao Court.
• Tian Qiu led Lu Yang and Suo Huan through the Dragon Palace to the treasury, which had previously admitted only Tian Qiu because of his bloodline.
• The Dragon Head Gate recognized Lu Yang’s True Dragon bloodline and opened the treasury, and Lu Yang and Suo Huan concealed its Precious Light as Lu Yang resolved to take everything.

Lu Yang explored the True Dragon Clan’s treasure vault and learned that Tian Qiu’s father planned to revive his eldest son and eventually install him as ruler under the Dao Court. Lu Yang discovered that the clan’s Heavenly Radiance Dragon Scripture and rare cultivation materials were perfectly suited to him, and decided the vault’s riches were his assets as a True Dragon.

• Lu Yang found a strand of Gold Nature in the vault and recognized it as the remnant of Tian Qiu’s slain elder brother, which the Dragon Lord had preserved in hopes of reviving him.
• Tian Qiu explained that his father created the Heavenly Radiance Dragon Scripture to prepare his elder brother to compete for the imperial throne after the True Dragon Clan joined the Dao Court.
• Lu Yang learned that the scripture’s Fruit Position was Fire in the Sky and that the Dragon Lord had designed the technique to help the clan gain the Dao Lord’s support.
• Lu Yang realized his True Dragon Bloodline and human body met the scripture’s unusual requirements, though he set aside his suspicions about a possible trap.
• Lu Yang recognized the brush, ink, paper, and inkstone as Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches prepared for Fire in the Sky, then decided the treasures counted as his assets.

Lu Yang used the True Dragon Bloodline to unlock the Dragon Clan treasury and seized its treasures, including spiritual materials, a Grotto-Heaven fragment, and the treasury’s furnishings. After emptying the room, he prepared to leave quickly and put the resources to use.

• Lu Yang recognized that the True Dragon Bloodline let him break the treasury’s seals and collected the Four Treasures of the Study and the Heavenly Radiance Dragon Scripture.
• Lu Yang took the Heavenly True Water, the Dragon Clan’s Merit Fortune seal, and the Separation and Union Jade Scepter from the left bookshelf.
• Lu Yang emptied the right bookshelf’s box of Five Elements spiritual materials and took the Heaven-Covering Purifying Mystery Grotto-Heaven Fragment.
• Lu Yang dismantled both bookshelves and decided to take the treasury’s floor and ceiling as well before leaving with the loot.

Lu Yang used the Dragon Palace Treasury’s resources to forge Parting Sorrow Heaven into a true Blessed Land, enduring the Three Calamities and Five Decays along the way. He succeeded in creating Mystic Capital Blessed Land, through which he saw that the world was riddled with holes from Fruit Positions, Blessed Lands, and Grotto-Heavens.

• Lu Yang left the Dragon Palace Treasury with Suo Huan, who replaced a stolen dragon-head ornament with a convincing fake.
• Lu Yang escaped the chaotic Dragon Palace and entered seclusion on a remote island to use his plundered treasures.
• Lu Yang poured Heavenly True Water into Parting Sorrow Heaven and discovered that forging a true Blessed Land triggered the Three Calamities and Five Decays.
• Lu Yang fed Five Elements spiritual materials into the calamities and stabilized Parting Sorrow Heaven with a Grotto-Heaven fragment.
• Lu Yang used Same as the World to halt the Five Decays, and Parting Sorrow Heaven became Mystic Capital Blessed Land.
• Lu Yang viewed the world through his new Blessed Land and saw that it was riddled with holes, including the thirty Fruit Positions and the Blessed Lands and Grotto-Heavens of powerful cultivators.

After refining his Mystic Capital Blessed Land, Lu Yang realized that cultivators used Fruit Positions to drain Heaven and Earth and suspected that the Dao Lords had shaped the cultivation system. He prompted Suo Huan to question the origin of his Spirit Ruins Blessed Land, while Hongju and Xiang Ye suspected Lu Yang was a True Person of the Sacred Sect and planned to bring him to Jiangbei.

• Lu Yang concluded that Fruit Positions were holes in Heaven and Earth and that Blessed Lands helped cultivators exploit them, while the Three Calamities and Five Decays both harmed cultivators and enabled Blessed Land refinement.
• Lu Yang connected the War of Dao Seizure to True Lords using Jietian to patch Heaven and Earth after taking the most valuable parts for themselves.
• Lu Yang asked Suo Huan how his Spirit Ruins Blessed Land had formed, leading Suo Huan to suspect that someone had secretly intervened and set him up.
• At Sacred Fire Cliff, Hongju deduced that Lu Yang's battle against Tian Qiu resembled Lord Hongyun's methods and reconsidered whether Lord Hongyun had reincarnated.
• Xiang Ye told Hongju that Lu Yang must be a True Person of the Sacred Sect and proposed bringing him to Jiangbei, arguing that Tian Qiu's Buddhist Fate gave them leverage.

Lu Yang absorbed White Chi's memories and gained the Dragon-Skinning Platform talent, while Suo Huan struggled with doubts about whether he had escaped the Huanxu Realm. Patriarch Tingyou reassured Suo Huan and used incense offerings to raise them both to Foundation Establishment Perfection before Buddha's Son Guangming appeared.

• Lu Yang used the Hundred Lives Book to settle White Chi's experiences and learned that Gangxing Budao True Lord of the Sword Pavilion had led White Chi's slaughter.
• Lu Yang obtained the Golden Talent Dragon-Skinning Platform, which could recreate White Chi's division and determine a person's life, death, and fortune.
• Suo Huan wondered whether he was still trapped in the Huanxu Realm and recalled being carved up and devoured by True Lords.
• Patriarch Tingyou, calling himself Nameless, reassured Suo Huan and gave him a talisman that gathered incense offerings, raising both of them to Foundation Establishment Perfection.
• Patriarch Tingyou called out to a distant eavesdropper, and Buddha's Son Guangming appeared with his Victorious Radiant Dhara Heaven Manifestation.

Guangming Buddha's Son arrived at Lu Yang's secluded island to invite its inhabitants into the Pure Land, then attacked when Patriarch Tingyou refused. His Earthly Buddha Land suppressed the Incense Fire Gods, but a mysterious white halo appeared to block his Buddha Palm.

• Guangming Buddha's Son approached Lu Yang's island, but Patriarch Tingyou hid Lu Yang's cave behind a Mist Barrier.
• Guangming Buddha's Son invited Patriarch Tingyou and the others to the Pure Land, but Patriarch Tingyou refused and blocked his path with Incense Fire divine power.
• Guangming Buddha's Son recognized the Incense Fire power as a possible Fruit Position Prototype and unleashed his Mind-Reading ability through his Dharma Appearance.
• Suo Huan and Patriarch Tingyou summoned Incense Fire Gods to resist, but Guangming Buddha's Son's Earthly Buddha Land cut off their incense fire and weakened them.
• Xiang Ye and Hongju arrived as Guangming Buddha's Son's Buddha Palm threatened to crush the defenders, but a jade-white halo appeared and invoked Same as the World.

Lu Yang confronted Guangming Buddha's Son, whose Buddha techniques countered Same as the World, and used his Mystic Capital Blessed Land and Golden Talent Dragon-Skinning Platform to destroy the Buddha’s Son’s avatar. The surviving voice promised to return in person, and Lu Yang said he would be waiting.

• Lu Yang introduced himself to Guangming Buddha’s Son as Lu Die and called him Dad, provoking the Buddha’s Son to attack.
• Guangming Buddha’s Son expanded his Earthly Buddha Land and used forty-eight thousand arms to sever Lu Yang’s connection to heaven and earth.
• Lu Yang revealed his Mystic Capital Blessed Land, saw that Guangming Buddha’s Son was an empty skin linked to the Dharma Appearance, and redirected a Buddha Palm with the Separation and Union Jade Scepter.
• Lu Yang trapped Guangming Buddha’s Son inside Heavenly Guideline and used Dragon-Skinning Platform to make his sword attacks tear through the Buddha’s Son’s Golden Body.
• The Buddha’s Son’s avatar was destroyed, and its voice promised that he would return in person; Lu Yang answered that he would be waiting.

After defeating Guangming Buddha's Son's avatar, Lu Yang prepared to leave overseas and accepted Xiang Ye's invitation to visit the First Saint Sect. Guangming Buddha's Son revealed that the battle had cost him a year of recovery, and he ordered all Pure Land cultivators into seclusion.

• Lu Yang used the Separation and Union Jade Scepter to absorb Guangming Buddha's Son's attack and began trying to refine its Buddha Light dharma power.
• Xiang Ye and Hongju greeted Lu Yang and invited him to visit the First Saint Sect; Xiang Ye asked whether Lu Yang was a reincarnated True Person, but Lu Yang denied any connection to the sect.
• Lu Yang accepted Xiang Ye's invitation and said Guangming Buddha's Son would be unable to emerge for roughly a year.
• At Victorious Life Brilliant Temple, Guangming Buddha's Son ordered all Pure Land cultivators into seclusion for a year.
• Guangming Buddha's Son realized that his Past Body's lifespan had been stripped away and considered seeking another way to gather the Four Disciples.

Lu Yang offered Suo Huan two ways to escape Sky Soaring’s scheme, and Suo Huan chose to keep the Spirit Ruins Blessed Land and pursue Gold through a different cultivation method. Lu Yang planned to use Suo Huan to draw Sky Soaring out, while in the Netherworld Sky Soaring sensed that his plan had been disrupted and encountered Guangming.

• Xiang Ye suspected that Lu Yang was a concealed Sacred Sect True Person, possibly Hongyun, and arranged for him to rest at Sacred Fire Cliff.
• Lu Yang offered Suo Huan either reincarnation after abandoning the Spirit Ruins Blessed Land or a new cultivation method while keeping it.
• Suo Huan chose the second plan, and Lu Yang gave him the Ultimate True Administering Immortal Dao so he could seek Gold by devouring the Xuanling Realm.
• Lu Yang privately concluded that Suo Huan remained caught in Sky Soaring’s scheme and planned to use his attempt to lure Sky Soaring out.
• Sky Soaring sensed that the Perception Barrier had been broken and that Suo Huan’s situation had changed.
• Guangming leapt from the River of Souls and greeted Sky Soaring.

Sky Soaring learned that Guangming Buddha's Son wanted his help to remove Demon-Queller in exchange for a chance to obtain White Wax Metal and escape his predicament sooner. Guangming Buddha's Son revealed his plan to make Quexie pursue Consciousness Separation through Mu Changsheng, while Sky Soaring saw how he could exploit the scheme in the Netherworld.

• Sky Soaring recognized that Guangming Buddha's Son was contacting him through the soul of another person and questioned why he wanted to help.
• Guangming Buddha's Son asked Sky Soaring to help remove Demon-Queller, who blocked his attempt to establish an Earthly Buddha Land in Jiangnan.
• Guangming Buddha's Son offered White Wax Metal, cultivated by True Person Quexie, as the reward for Sky Soaring's cooperation.
• Guangming Buddha's Son explained that he had directed Quexie to Mu Changsheng to learn the method of Consciousness Separation.
• Sky Soaring realized he could intercept the reincarnated True Person's soul in the Netherworld and alter the method for his own benefit.
• Guangming Buddha's Son clarified that he planned to make Demon-Queller sacrifice himself while establishing the Sword Dao Fruit Position, rather than kill him directly.

Lu Yang’s Sword Dao avatar emerged from seclusion with Sword Intent strong enough to scar the chamber floor, and True Person Demon-Sweeping took him to Jade Pivot to find a matching sword technique. As Jade Pivot began to respond, Demon-Sweeping secretly tested whether Lu Yang’s past-life memories remained, while his own ominous fortune and Jingguan’s warning suggested his No-Kill path might soon collapse.

• Lu Yang’s Sword Dao avatar demonstrated that his Sword Intent had advanced, impressing True Person Demon-Sweeping, who brought him to Jade Pivot.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping explained how Jade Pivot revealed sword techniques suited to a cultivator’s Sword Intent, then showed Lu Yang his own Uphold Dao, Hold Righteousness, Sever Karma Sword Art.
• Lu Yang sent his Sword Intent into Jade Pivot, and True Person Demon-Sweeping called him “Daoist Lu” to test whether his past-life memories had been erased.
• Lu Yang’s true body realized the call had been a test and was relieved that the avatar’s soul had been wiped and was controlled remotely.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping left Lu Yang to let Jade Pivot deduce a sword technique, then saw an auspicious sign and reflected that his time was running out.
• Jingguan warned True Person Demon-Sweeping that sustaining his No-Kill path might lead to cultivation deviation and mass killing.