Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang discovered a fabricated method of Consciousness Separation in the Ancestor of the Yun Family’s implanted memories and realized Sky Soaring was setting a deadly trap. As Sky Soaring and Guangming Buddha’s Son prepared to kill Demon-Queller, Lu Yang decided to interfere with Sky Soaring’s scheme.

• Lu Yang learned the Gang Lian Cheng Dao Yu Nie Sword Art from the Jade Pivot and considered how it could temper his Sword Intent.
• Sky Soaring seized the Ancestor of the Yun Family’s soul in the River of Souls and implanted a false memory claiming he had obtained Mu Changsheng’s method of Consciousness Separation.
• Sky Soaring and Guangming Buddha’s Son agreed to use White Wax Metal’s arrival in the Netherworld to kill Demon-Queller.
• Lu Yang examined the false memory through the Puppet on Strings and recognized its supposed method of Consciousness Separation as a trap that guaranteed death.
• Lu Yang resolved to thwart Sky Soaring’s scheme.

True Person Quexie met with Guangming Buddha's Son in Penetrating Earth Abyss and hoped to gain a chance at Golden Seeking by becoming his disciple, but Guangming Buddha's Son refused. Lu Yang learned that the two were plotting with a Sword Pavilion True Person against True Person Demon-Sweeping and flew to warn him.

• True Person Quexie emerged from his cultivation and lamented that his Sword Intent could not reach completion like True Person Demon-Sweeping's No-Kill Sword Intent.
• Guangming Buddha's Son brought the awakened Ancestor of the Yun Family to Quexie, who received the Consciousness Separation method the ancestor had obtained from Mu Changsheng.
• Quexie asked Guangming Buddha's Son to help him pursue Buddhist affinity and a chance at Golden Seeking, but Guangming Buddha's Son refused.
• Quexie resolved to contend for Golden Seeking and hoped True Person Demon-Sweeping would sacrifice himself to prove the Sword Dao Fruit Position's path.
• Lu Yang learned through the Ancestor of the Yun Family that Guangming Buddha's Son and Quexie were scheming against True Person Demon-Sweeping.
• Lu Yang flew to the summit of Extreme Heaven Cliff to warn True Person Demon-Sweeping that there were traitors in the Sword Pavilion.

Lu Yang warned True Person Demon-Sweeping that Pure Land Buddhists were plotting against him, but his master showed little concern. When Ye Shaoying reported that Mo Shiyuan had arrived at the Sword Pavilion Gate seeking True Person Demon-Sweeping, the master went to meet him as True Person Quexie declared that the good show had begun.

• Lu Yang told True Person Demon-Sweeping that he had obtained the Sword Art and sensed a Buddhist Cultivator near the Penetrating Earth Abyss.
• Lu Yang urged True Person Demon-Sweeping to prepare for a Pure Land plot, while privately hoping to profit from a deadly clash.
• Ye Shaoying arrived and reported that Mo Shiyuan and a group of independent cultivators had come to the Sword Pavilion seeking True Person Demon-Sweeping.
• Lu Yang divined Mo Shiyuan's history with True Person Demon-Sweeping, who had saved him from Buddhist Maiden Jingguan's forced conversions and the destruction of Jimo City.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping took Lu Yang to meet Mo Shiyuan at the Sword Pavilion Gate.
• In the Penetrating Earth Abyss, True Person Quexie made a decisive move in his chess game with Guangming Buddha's Son and said the good show had begun.

Lu Yang watched Mo Shiyuan confront True Person Demon-Sweeping over the destruction of Jimo City and the people he had kept in his Storage Pouch. True Person Demon-Sweeping explained that he had saved them from the Pure Land’s Conversion Zen Sound, while suspecting that someone within the Sword Pavilion had arranged the confrontation to pressure him.

• Lu Yang followed True Person Demon-Sweeping outside the Sword Pavilion Gate and saw Mo Shiyuan leading a crowd of independent cultivators.
• Mo Shiyuan accused True Person Demon-Sweeping, whose personal name was Ye Guangji, of deliberately letting Buddha’s blood fall on Jimo City and slaughtering its residents.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping explained that Jingguan’s Buddha’s blood carried the Conversion Zen Sound and that he had decapitated Jimo City’s residents to free them from its influence.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping opened his Storage Pouch and showed the crowd the heads of Jimo City’s residents, who remained conscious and unchanged years later.
• Mo Shiyuan called the residents puppets and accused True Person Demon-Sweeping of enslaving them and seeking fame; the crowd echoed his accusation.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping suspected that someone within the Sword Pavilion had informed Mo Shiyuan and arranged the confrontation to force him to sacrifice his Sword Intent.

True Person Demon-Sweeping beheaded Mo Shiyuan, whose death exposed a plot to shatter the No-Kill Sword Intent. Realizing the Ye Clan had betrayed him, True Person Demon-Sweeping lost control of his Sword Intent and unleashed a towering killing intent.

• True Person Demon-Sweeping dismissed Lu Yang’s attempt to intervene and calmly spoke with Mo Shiyuan about his distrust.
• Mo Shiyuan demanded that True Person Demon-Sweeping kill him to prove or disprove his claims, and True Person Demon-Sweeping agreed.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping beheaded Mo Shiyuan with the No-Kill Sword, but Mo Shiyuan died and his soul fell into the Netherworld.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping’s sorrowful Sword Intent affected the crowd, while True Person Quexie celebrated that his plan had made the No-Kill Sword kill.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping realized the Ye Clan had secretly given away his Sword Art, and his robe turned blood-red as a vast killing intent erupted.

True Person Demon-Sweeping endured the backlash from breaking his No-Kill Sword Intent, then revealed a new Heaven Execution Sword Intent and cut away part of his fortune to delay being forced into Golden Seeking. He asked Lu Yang to accompany him to the Pure Land, where the chapter left them preparing to go.

• Ye Shaoying named Ye Cheng Guangji’s adopted son and expected him to inherit the No-Kill Sword.
• True Person Quexie and Guangming Buddha's Son grew uneasy when True Person Demon-Sweeping’s aura remained and Golden Seeking did not appear.
• Lu Yang watched True Person Demon-Sweeping’s uncontrolled Sword Intent torment Mo Shiyuan’s people until Demon-Sweeping regained control.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping formed the Heaven Execution Sword Intent and severed part of his fortune, stabilizing his aura and delaying Golden Seeking.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping asked Lu Yang to accompany him to the Pure Land, and Lu Yang agreed.

True Person Demon-Sweeping left Sword Pavilion for the Pure Land, revealing a devastating new All-Slay Sword Intent alongside his No-Kill Sword Intent. He confronted True Person Quexie about plotting against Mo Shiyuan and sabotaging his Sword Intent, ending by asking whether Quexie feared he would kill him.

• True Person Demon-Sweeping descended from Sword Pavilion with Lu Yang as Quexie realized his plan to make him die proving the Sword Dao Fruit Position was falling apart.
• Vimala Arhat tried to block their way, but True Person Demon-Sweeping killed him so completely that the Pure Land could not recover his soul.
• Guangming Buddha's Son appeared through the Pure Land's Buddha Light and questioned Demon-Sweeping, who announced that he intended to visit the Pure Land.
• Quexie arrived and ordered Demon-Sweeping back to Sword Pavilion, while Demon-Sweeping revealed his All-Slay Sword Intent and Quexie concluded he possessed two Sword Intents.
• Demon-Sweeping accused Quexie of causing Mo Shiyuan's death and secretly ruining his Sword Intent, then asked if Quexie feared he would kill him.

True Person Demon-Sweeping killed True Person Quexie after Quexie attacked him, then continued toward the Pure Land. Lu Yang turned toward the weakened Sword Pavilion, seeing a chance to plunder it without the scruples Demon-Sweeping had.

• True Person Quexie accused True Person Demon-Sweeping of betraying the Sword Pavilion, then attacked him with the Buried Gold Land divine ability.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping shattered Quexie's attack and struck him with the All-Slay Sword Light, destroying his body and leaving only a wounded streak of spiritual light to escape.
• Lu Yang wanted to pursue Quexie, but True Person Demon-Sweeping said the All-Slay wound would kill him and insisted they continue to the Pure Land.
• Ye Shaoying watched the battle from Extreme Heaven Cliff, realized Demon-Sweeping had chosen to kill, and comforted himself that the Ye Clan remained safe.
• Lu Yang arrived at the Sword Pavilion Gate and recognized that its two Foundation Establishment Perfection cultivators were gone or gravely wounded, then resolved to take advantage of the weakened sect.

Lu Yang attacked the Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion with the Sacred Sect’s Mystic Thunder Dao Cloud and broke through its outer formation. With the Sacred Sect rushing in behind him, he charged into the pavilion to begin the assault.

• Lu Yang arrived at the Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion, where Ye Shaoying and Ye Cheng warned him to leave.
• Lu Yang’s Dharma Sword failed to break the pavilion’s powerful formation, so he summoned the Mystic Thunder Dao Cloud lent by Xiang Ye.
• Ye Shaoying fled as the Mystic Thunder Dao Cloud struck, and its lightning blasted Ye Cheng into dust.
• The Mystic Thunder Dao Cloud tore open the formation’s outer perimeter and leveled the surrounding cliffs.
• The Sacred Sect’s cultivators appeared and proclaimed a crusade against the Sword Pavilion.
• Lu Yang rode his Sword Light through the opening and charged into the Sword Pavilion, calling for the others to follow.

As the Sacred Sect breached the Sword Pavilion, Ye Shaoying revealed that True Person Demon-Sweeping had betrayed the sect, leaving its defenders without their strongest cultivator. Lu Yang infiltrated the Ye Clan’s territory with Xiu Xin True Person and began his assault, ordering the clan exterminated.

• Sacred Sect True Persons widened the breach in the Sword Pavilion’s array while Ye Shaoying told the defenders that True Person Demon-Sweeping had betrayed the Sword Pavilion and wounded True Person Quexie.
• Xiang Ye rushed into the Sword Pavilion to plunder its treasure vault, while Lu Yang concealed himself and headed for the Ye Clan’s territory.
• Xiu Xin True Person used her Guest Elder access to guide Lu Yang through the array passage into the Ye Clan’s territory.
• When a Ye Clan True Person accused Xiu Xin True Person of fleeing, Lu Yang transformed with Qian Tian Total Control Myriad Forms and captured him.
• Lu Yang revealed his presence to the Ye Clan, summoned Patriarch Tingyou and the Banner Spirits, and ordered them to exterminate the clan.

Lu Yang led the assault on the Ye Clan, then entered its treasury and discovered a cultivation method for sensing Fruit Positions. In a hidden meditation chamber, he found what appeared to be True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde’s Response Body, containing a thread of Gold Nature.

• Lu Yang and the Banner Spirits attacked the Ye Clan, while Ye Shaoying called for help from True Person Demon-Sweeping.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping crushed Ye Shaoying’s plea for aid and continued on his way, leaving the battle to Lu Yang.
• Lu Yang entered the Ye Clan treasury with a controlled descendant and found the Ascending Mystic Realm Contemplation Record, a method for sensing Fruit Positions.
• A Sword-Bearing Youth emerged from the meditation chamber, and Patriarch Tingyou recognized it as Zhengde’s Response Body.
• Lu Yang saw a pure thread of Gold Nature burning within the Response Body.

Lu Yang and Patriarch Tingyou confronted the Sword-Bearing Youth, the Response Body of True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde, in the Ye Clan’s sacred ground. Tingyou fought him with Lu Yang’s Incense Fire Divine Path empowering him, then revealed his identity and left Zhengde’s Response Body stunned.

• The Sword-Bearing Youth demanded to know who had entered the sacred ground, and Lu Yang declared that the Sacred Sect had come to destroy the Sword Pavilion.
• The Sword-Bearing Youth attacked Lu Yang, but Lu Yang stopped the strike with Same as the World.
• Lu Yang empowered Patriarch Tingyou with the Incense Fire Divine Path, allowing him to face the Sword-Bearing Youth at Foundation Establishment Perfection.
• Patriarch Tingyou used Drowning Village and Gold Dissolving Treasury to break through the Sword-Bearing Youth’s defenses and force him to retreat.
• Patriarch Tingyou revealed his face and Karma, and the Sword-Bearing Youth recognized him as Ting You and recoiled in shock.

Patriarch Tingyou and Lu Yang joined forces to defeat the Sword-Bearing Youth, the Response Body of True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde, and avenge the Witch Ghost Sect. After the enemy's body exploded, Patriarch Tingyou recovered to Foundation Establishment Perfection.

• The Sword-Bearing Youth attacked Patriarch Tingyou with Solemn Mystic Frost, a True Treasure, and All Qi Concealed, but Tingyou survived his sword strike by sealing its edge with the Mountain-Shifting and Peak-Moving True Art.
• Lu Yang broke the concealment seal and joined Patriarch Tingyou in attacking the Sword-Bearing Youth, whose defenses began to fail under Lu Yang's unending Sword Intent.
• The Sword-Bearing Youth used the Ascending Mystery Realm Fixed-View Sword to form a heavenly chasm that blocked both attacks, but the Dragon-Skinning Platform's invisible Image then began tearing apart his Dharma Body.
• Patriarch Tingyou punched the Sword-Bearing Youth, whose ravaged body exploded as his final thoughts turned to his sect and the people he had known.
• Patriarch Tingyou's incense-fire aura dispersed, and he recovered to Foundation Establishment Perfection.

Lu Yang captured and refined True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde’s Gold Nature, learning the origins of True Person Demon-Sweeping and gaining the Golden Talent Dove Occupies Magpie’s Nest. As the talent settled, Wall Earth’s Fruit Position trembled beneath the Vault Sky.

• Lu Yang pinned the escaping Gold Nature after Patriarch Tingyou defeated the Sword-Bearing Youth, and Patriarch Tingyou thanked him for letting him settle an old grievance.
• Lu Yang refined True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde’s Gold Nature and received his memories, a True Treasure, and a secret art for sensing a Fruit Position.
• Lu Yang learned that True Person Demon-Sweeping, Ye Guangji, had awakened from the Sword Pavilion Gate and suspected his unusually smooth rise concealed a mystery.
• The Hundred Lives Book granted Lu Yang the Golden Talent Dove Occupies Magpie’s Nest, which could replace another person’s existence by seizing their Destiny and Karma.
• Lu Yang rejected the temptation to use the talent for cultivation, and Wall Earth’s Fruit Position trembled as a star lit up in the Vault Sky.

Lu Yang ordered the complete slaughter of the Ye Clan despite the True Lord’s Gaze, and the Celestial Star withdrew without intervening. In Penetrating Earth Abyss, True Person Quexie sought Guangming Buddha's Son’s protection, while the Son recognized that the World Honored One intended to draw the Sword Dao Fruit Position into Pure Land.

• Lu Yang ordered his loyal Banner Spirits to kill the remaining Ye Clan disciples and True Persons, and they turned the estate into a Mountain of Corpses Sea of Blood.
• Patriarch Tingyou warned Lu Yang that True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde might forcibly descend, but Lu Yang said Zhengde would not dare and challenged the gaze from Wall Earth.
• The Celestial Star faded its Radiance and withdrew, leaving Lu Yang’s actions unpunished.
• True Person Quexie asked Guangming Buddha's Son to save his life, believing his survival would preserve Sword Pavilion.
• Guangming Buddha's Son recognized that True Person Quexie had fallen under a Perception Barrier and resolved to draw Sky Soaring into the World Honored One’s scheme.
• Guangming Buddha's Son recalled that the World Honored One sought to bring the Sword Dao Fruit Position into Pure Land, repeating the earlier seizure of City-Wall Earth.

True Person Demon-Sweeping told Lu Yang how a Buddha's Son gave him No-Kill Sword Intent, which tempered his All-Slay and helped make him the Number One Sword Cultivator Under Heaven. As they crossed the Great Dragon River into the Pure Land, Lu Yang learned the Pure Land intended to reclaim No-Kill and remake Demon-Sweeping as an Arhat, whereupon its monks welcomed him as Skanda Demon-Quelling Arhat.

• True Person Demon-Sweeping led Lu Yang across the Great Dragon River and said he had come to the Pure Land to settle his tribulation.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping explained that a mortal schoolteacher who was a Buddha's Son had befriended him and passed him No-Kill Sword Intent to temper his All-Slay.
• Buddhist Maiden Jingguan said the Pure Land would reclaim No-Kill, while Demon-Sweeping would sacrifice himself to his sword and be remade as an Arhat.
• Lu Yang and True Person Demon-Sweeping reached Jiangxi, where an old monk and a crowd of devoted mortals welcomed Demon-Sweeping as Skanda Demon-Quelling Arhat.

True Person Demon-Sweeping and Lu Yang entered the Pure Land, where Guangming Buddha's Son planned to turn Demon-Sweeping into an Arhat and use him in a ritual. Meanwhile, Sky Soaring appeared in the Ancestor of the Yun Family's body to confront Lu Yang, then accused him of being Hongyun.

• Lu Yang resisted the Pure Land's conversion chant with his Sword Intent while True Person Demon-Sweeping remained unaffected.
• An old monk escorted True Person Demon-Sweeping and Lu Yang to Victorious Life Brilliant Temple, where Guangming Buddha's Son declared Demon-Sweeping destined to become an Arhat.
• Guangming Buddha's Son revealed his plan to use True Person Demon-Sweeping, Sky Soaring's avatar, and Spirit Immortal Shangzhang as disciples in the Earthly Buddha Land ritual.
• Guangming Buddha's Son called for Sky Soaring, but True Person Quexie did not respond, leaving him puzzled about what he had forgotten.
• Sky Soaring arrived in the Ancestor of the Yun Family's body at the Ye Clan's territory, and Lu Yang realized Sky Soaring had targeted him rather than True Person Quexie.
• Sky Soaring rejected Lu Yang's formal greeting and asked, "Hongyun! It was you, right?!"

Lu Yang learned that Sky Soaring mistook him for Hongyun and believed he was pursuing the Sword Dao Fruit Position, while Sky Soaring warned that the Pure Land had underestimated True Person Demon-Sweeping. At the Pure Land, True Person Demon-Sweeping revealed his No-Kill Sword and severed the Buddhist Cultivators’ karmic connections, freeing them from the World Honored One’s unity.

• Sky Soaring explained that he recognized Hongyun’s Gold Nature and assumed Lu Yang had infiltrated the Sword Pavilion to seek the Sword Dao Fruit Position.
• Lu Yang learned that Sky Soaring believed the Pure Land had underestimated True Person Demon-Sweeping, though he did not explain why.
• Guangming Buddha’s Son revealed City-Wall Earth in his palm, and Lu Yang realized the Pure Land had contained it through the Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping rose and told Lu Yang to listen to his sword cry as his No-Kill Sword rang out across the Pure Land.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping’s sword severed the monks’ karmic connections to their Dharma Appearances, and the Buddhist Cultivators began experiencing distinct emotions.

True Person Demon-Sweeping severed the Pure Land’s connection to the World Honored One, causing Guangming to die and some Buddhist Cultivators to choose reincarnation. Before his own death, he bound the Sword Dao’s foundation to the Pure Land’s Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts, leaving the Pure Land and Sword Pavilion caught in a trap.

• True Person Demon-Sweeping severed the Pure Land’s connection to the World Honored One, and Guangming died as his Golden Body crumbled into dust.
• A newly promoted Arhat chose reincarnation, while an old Arhat blamed True Person Demon-Sweeping and called for him to be killed.
• The Victorious Radiant Dhara Heaven Manifestation appeared to True Person Demon-Sweeping and questioned the purpose of his actions; he replied that saving even a few Buddhist Cultivators was meaningful.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping revealed that he had left the No-Kill Sword Intent and Sword Art with the Ye Clan to entangle the Pure Land with them, then refused the young man’s offer to merge with him and be reborn.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping vanished, leaving the No-Kill Sword and an inscription behind as Lu Yang realized he had bound the Sword Dao’s foundation to the Pure Land’s Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts.

City-Wall Earth ran wild, prompting the Pure Land to forcefully activate the Earthly Buddha Land ritual while the Sword Pavilion prepared to send a True Lord into the Real World. Convinced the Dao Lords would not intervene, Lu Yang abandoned Sky Soaring’s offer and prepared to seize the Fruit Positions himself.

• The Victorious Radiant Dhara Heaven Manifestation stopped suppressing City-Wall Earth and forcefully activated the Earthly Buddha Land ritual with True Person Quexie and Wu Tai'an.
• Sky Soaring and Lu Yang recognized that the Pure Land and Sword Pavilion were both preparing to fight over the Sword Dao Fruit Position, and Lu Yang judged that True Person Demon-Sweeping’s plan had trapped both sides.
• Sky Soaring told Lu Yang that the Dao Lords would not act unless the world itself was threatened, then invited him to enter the Netherworld.
• Lu Yang rejected Sky Soaring’s offer, rose, and decided to gamble on taking City-Wall Earth and the Sword Dao Fruit Position.