Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang refined Earthy Yang into the Imperial Life Steward divine ability and received Patriarch Tingyou’s revised Yama Hall method, which let him False Hold an External Dao Fruit Position at great risk. He went to the Suppress-South King to offer the Dao Court a cultivation method, hoping to earn a high position.

• Lu Yang refined Earthy Yang and gained the Imperial Life Steward divine ability, which could set Destiny and strengthen the binding force of rules.
• Patriarch Tingyou gave Lu Yang a revised Yama Hall method that could False Hold Seven Radiance Heaven once without Gold Nature, though repeated use could destroy his Dao Foundation or kill him.
• Lu Yang decided to present the Dao Court with a valuable gift and sought someone to introduce him to the Dao Court Son of Heaven.
• Lu Yang visited Wu Tai'an at the Suppress-South King's Residence and presented the Seven Radiance Heaven Incense Fire Divine Path cultivation method for the Dao Court.

Lu Yang presented the Dao Court with the Incense Fire Godhood Method and used the gift to challenge his low-ranking Official Position, securing Wu Tai'an’s promise to arrange an audience with the Emperor and investigate the insult. After leaving the Suppress-South King’s Residence, Lu Yang encountered a black-robed Demon Cultivator who invited him to meet his associates.

• Wu Tai'an recognized the Incense Fire Godhood Method’s value to the Dao Court and agreed to request an audience with the Emperor for Lu Yang.
• Lu Yang pointed out that his sixth-rank Official Position was an insult, and Wu Tai'an blamed underlings, promising an investigation and compensation.
• Lu Yang accepted Wu Tai'an’s offer to send him and his fellow True Dragons to Tianwu City, then exchanged friendly courtesies with him.
• After leaving the residence, Lu Yang privately considered giving the Dao Court a remaining Seven Radiance Heaven and using it to pursue Hongyun.
• A black-robed Demon Cultivator bowed to Lu Yang and invited him to meet his associates, and Lu Yang agreed to follow him.

The Dao Court Son of Heaven received Wu Tai'an’s letter about the Incense Fire Godhood Method and stripped the All-Heaven Department Left Suppression Commissioner of his rank over the mishandling of the Dongting Dragon King’s Official Position. Lu Yang recruited a group of Demon Cultivators and, while the Son of Heaven watched from afar, made them swear loyalty to His Majesty.

• The Dao Court Son of Heaven read Wu Tai'an’s letter, recognized the value of the Incense Fire Godhood Method, and considered the True Dragon Clan’s request for an audience and the Dongting Dragon King’s Official Position.
• The Dao Court Son of Heaven stripped the All-Heaven Department Left Suppression Commissioner of office, reducing him to a mortal, then used his Jade Eyes to watch Lu Yang from afar.
• Lu Yang entered an Immortal Cave Mansion and found more than ten Foundation Establishment Demon Cultivators, each holding an unusual military Official Position.
• Lu Yang used Puppet on Strings to control the Demon Cultivators, then told them he would help improve their status in the Dao Court.
• Lu Yang directed the Demon Cultivators to pledge loyalty to His Majesty, and they echoed his salute and cry of “Loyalty! Devotion!”

Lu Yang received the Dao Court Son of Heaven’s summons and traveled to Tianwu City, leaving the Demon Cultivators to organize under the One Heart Society. Before the Son of Heaven could question him, Lu Yang presented a Jade Slip containing the coordinates linked to the Incense Fire Godhood Method.

• The Dao Court Son of Heaven ordered Dongting Dragon King Du Huan to enter the capital at once after approving Lu Yang’s public display of loyalty.
• Lu Yang told the Demon Cultivators he had to leave, established a means of contact with Xiao Shan and the others, and named their faction the One Heart Society.
• Lu Yang reached Tianwu City, where the Immortal Kingdom Dao Law forced him to descend, and he saw the golden Cloud Sea surrounding the imperial palace.
• Director An escorted Lu Yang through Xuanwu Gate and into Tian Wu Hall to attend upon the Son of Heaven.
• Lu Yang knelt before the Son of Heaven and immediately offered a Jade Slip containing the coordinates of the Jietian corresponding to the Incense Fire Godhood Method.

Lu Yang offered the Seven Radiance Heaven coordinates to the Dao Court Son of Heaven, who appointed him All-Heaven Department Right Assistant Commander. The post gave Lu Yang access to Dao knowledge suited to his Fire in the Sky foundation, and he left Tian Wu Hall planning around the future opportunity presented by Non-Existent Heaven.

• Lu Yang gave the Dao Court Son of Heaven the Seven Radiance Heaven coordinates and left the decision about his reward in the Son of Heaven's hands.
• The Dao Court Son of Heaven appointed Lu Yang All-Heaven Department Right Assistant Commander, a Third Grade official post that granted him access to the Immortal Kingdom Dao Law's gathered knowledge.
• Lu Yang realized the post's Dao understanding included Noon Fire, which suited his Fire in the Sky foundation and could help him improve his cultivation.
• The Dao Court Son of Heaven believed the reward posed no threat and expected Lu Yang could not cultivate Fire in the Sky to challenge him.
• After leaving Tian Wu Hall, Lu Yang reasoned that Old Dragon Lord had sent him openly because the plan depended on a long-term opportunity, and that Non-Existent Heaven could leave him Number One Under Heaven.

Lu Yang used his Dao Court salary to gain a brief burst of insight into Noon Fire, then sought another way to earn merit by helping Patriarch Tingyou pursue Non-Existent Heaven. His plans were interrupted when Eunuch An assigned him to interrogate a captured cultivator of City-Wall Earth, whom Lu Yang suspected was Senior Brother Zhao Xuhe.

• Lu Yang chose insight as his Dao Court salary and used the Immortal Kingdom Dao Law’s blessing to rapidly comprehend Noon Fire until the blessing ended.
• Lu Yang decided to earn merit by ambushing Chongguang in the Qing Kingdom and preventing him from taking Covered Lamp Fire.
• Lu Yang told Patriarch Tingyou that he could pursue Golden Seeking by attaining Non-Existent Heaven, and Tingyou agreed after worrying about leaving Lu Yang unprotected.
• Lu Yang resolved to use Sky Soaring’s power to complete the Non-Existent Heaven prototype in the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner and prepare for a future life with Tingyou as his protector.
• Eunuch An told Lu Yang that the emperor wanted him to interrogate a captured City-Wall Earth cultivator without alerting the Pure Land, and Lu Yang suspected the captive was Zhao Xuhe.

Lu Yang pretended to interrogate Zhao Xuhe, took credit for obtaining the Nine Transformations Dragon-Transformation Formula, and earned Emperor Jiayou’s favor and a generous reward. When the Dragon Lord contacted him expecting Du Huan to be resentful, he instead saw Lu Yang thriving in office.

• Lu Yang dismissed the guards, copied the Nine Transformations Dragon-Transformation Formula from memory, forced Zhao Xuhe to sign it, and sent him to reincarnation.
• Emperor Jiayou confirmed the method was genuine and did not alert the Pure Land, then awarded Lu Yang three yuan of salary.
• Lu Yang received the reward, declared his loyalty, and saw his Not Content to Be Under Others talent activate.
• The Dragon Lord contacted Lu Yang through the Dragon Lord’s Scale and was puzzled to see him looking successful and upbeat.

Lu Yang convinced Old Dragon Lord that his rise in the Dao Court came from a mysterious benefactor and the True Dragon Clan’s offerings, while revealing the political value of the City-Wall Earth cultivation method. Old Dragon Lord agreed to send him spiritual materials and a True Treasure, leaving Lu Yang equipped to build influence in Jiangdong.

• Lu Yang knelt before Old Dragon Lord and claimed that he had succeeded in Jiangdong, showing him his All-Heaven Department Vice Commander position.
• Lu Yang presented the Incense Fire Godhood Method and Seven Radiance Heaven coordinates, and Old Dragon Lord concluded that a mysterious reincarnated True Lord was using Lu Yang to approach the Dao Court.
• Lu Yang recounted reporting the Nine Transformations Dragon-Transformation Formula, and Old Dragon Lord explained that Jiayou hoped to use it to reclaim City-Wall Earth's Supreme Fruit Position for Roadside Earth.
• Lu Yang complained that Jiangdong cultivators shut him out, prompting Old Dragon Lord to realize he wanted money and promise him spiritual materials.
• Old Dragon Lord sent Lu Yang a True Treasure containing spiritual materials and lent it to him for protection.

Lu Yang received the Sea-Commanding Conch from the Old Dragon Lord, then used the Immortal Kingdom Dao Law's blessings to master the Returning Palace divine ability and reach Foundation Establishment Late Stage. He planned to wait for Chongguang to reincarnate in Qing Kingdom and recruit him as a helper.

• Lu Yang recognized the Sea-Commanding Conch as a powerful True Treasure and suspected the Old Dragon Lord had left a strand of Divine Thought in it to watch him.
• Lu Yang tossed the conch into the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner, where he could arrange what the Dragon Lord's Divine Thought saw.
• Lu Yang let Patriarch Tingyou sample the Immortal Kingdom Dao Law's power, but Tingyou found that it slowed his thoughts.
• Lu Yang used up Emperor Jiayou's three blessings and comprehended the Noon Fire divine ability, Returning Palace.
• Lu Yang combined Returning Palace, Imperial Life Steward, and the Double-Departure Imperial Mountain-Sea Chart through Calamity Waves' Upholding Dharma, forming Heaven-Earth Union and reaching Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
• Lu Yang reasoned that Chongguang would eventually reincarnate as Zhong Xin in Qing Kingdom to seek Covered Lamp Fire, and decided to make him a future helper.

Lu Yang refined a Celestial Embryo Clone and sent it to Jiangbei so he could pursue a plan to deal with Hongyun while his true body remained in the Dao Court. He resolved to enlist Martial Uncle Chongguang and lure Hongyun toward Seven Radiance Heaven, then received a response to his accusation about Hongyun’s Grotto-Heaven Fragment.

• Lu Yang reviewed his previous-life gains and used the Immortal Embryo Worldly Scripture to refine a Celestial Embryo Clone.
• Lu Yang had a controlled True Dragon deliver the clone to Jiangbei, then activated it remotely and began planning around the Xuanling Realm and Non-Existent Heaven.
• Lu Yang decided that dealing with Hongyun could prompt Martial Uncle Chongguang to reincarnate and seek Gold Nature, and planned to trap Hongyun in Seven Radiance Heaven.
• Lu Yang sent Martial Uncle Chongguang a Flying Message accusing Hongyun of leaving a Grotto-Heaven Fragment beneath the waters of Gantang Circuit in Jiangnan.

Lu Yang planned to eliminate Hongyun’s escape routes and led Suo Huan to Hongyun’s hidden lair. The chapter ended with Lu Yang finding Hongyun after breaking through the lair’s formations.

• Lu Yang sent Chongguang a letter of accusation so he would destroy Hongyun’s Grotto-Heaven Fragment in Jiangnan.
• Lu Yang offered Suo Huan two ways to seek Gold and promised to help restore his Spirit Ruins Blessed Land and secure him a First Grade official position.
• Lu Yang and Suo Huan reached Hongyun’s secluded lair, and Lu Yang broke through its formations using Hongyun’s memories.
• Hongyun sensed danger but decided to stay, believing he could defeat a late-stage Great True Person and seize their fortune.
• Lu Yang spotted Hongyun’s hiding place and said he had found him.

Lu Yang overwhelmed Hongyun with his Fire in the Sky abilities and stripped away Hongyun’s powers and treasures. He ended the fight holding two of Hongyun’s divine abilities and more than ten Spiritual Treasures, newly impressed by the dominance of his Supreme Fruit Position.

• Lu Yang broke Hongyun’s formations and defeated his Thunder Gradually Withdraws with the Noon Fire divine ability Returning Palace.
• Hongyun suspected Lu Yang had ties to the Dao Court and tried to escape, but Lu Yang trapped him in the Double-Departure Imperial Mountain-Sea Chart.
• Lu Yang used the chart’s mysteries to immobilize Hongyun, burn his power, disrupt his techniques, and bring him under Wise Ruler’s Governance.
• Lu Yang deprived Hongyun of Thunder Gradually Withdraws, Root of All Things, his dharma power, and more than ten Spiritual Treasures.

Lu Yang defeated Hongyun by using Fire in the Sky, but Hongyun escaped by destroying his body and fleeing to the Netherworld. Meanwhile, Chongguang used the Ten Thousand Man Pit as a feint to enable True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow to attack Gantang Circuit, where her Purifying World Light exposed and began destroying the Grotto-Heaven Fragment.

• Lu Yang stripped Hongyun of his Divine Abilities, Spiritual Treasures, and dharma power, then forced him to self-destruct and flee into the Netherworld.
• Lu Yang kept Hongyun's Root of All Things and concluded that Chongguang would target the Ten Thousand Man Pit as a diversion.
• Sword Pavilion's True Person Demon-Sweeping drove Jiangbei cultivators away from the Ten Thousand Man Pit, prompting the Sacred Sect to make a show of preparing for war.
• Chongguang entered Jiangnan but changed course for Gantang Circuit while True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow struck and True Lord Splendid Silk Brocade held off Sword Pavilion.
• True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow's Purifying World Light erased the Coastal Li Clan and exposed the Long Radiance Precious Light Cave Heaven fragment, which began to dissolve as Sky Soaring watched in shock.

Lu Yang watched True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow fight three Sword Pavilion True Lords and learned how she had once defeated a Golden Core Middle Stage opponent. As the battle continued, she suggested that Gangxing Budao True Lord had forced his way into Late Golden Core and was now constrained by the Fruit Positions he used.

• Lu Yang saw three Sword Pavilion True Lords manifest the Fruit Positions Rooftop Earth, Furnace Fire, and Wall Earth alongside Gangxing Budao True Lord.
• True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow attacked the three Sword Pavilion True Lords alone and gained the advantage.
• Lu Yang recalled that True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow had killed the Dao Court Grand Preceptor fifty-three times before damaging his Grotto-Heaven and forcing him to retreat.
• Lu Yang wondered why Gangxing Budao True Lord had not appeared to help Sword Pavilion.
• True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow inferred that Gangxing Budao True Lord had forced his way into Late Golden Core and asked whether using Furnace Fire and Rooftop Earth was uncomfortable; the two Sword Pavilion True Lords changed expression.

True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow challenged the Sword Pavilion and survived a Great True Lord’s devastating strike by self-destructing and returning through her Fruit Position. Sky Soaring secretly preserved a fragment of Hongyun’s Grotto-Heaven, but Lu Yang caught his remnant Divine Sense as he tried to inhabit it.

• True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow taunted Gangxing Budao True Lord’s cultivation method, prompting True Lord Frost-Covering Wind-Soaring and True Lord Radiant Light Smelting Glory to attack her.
• A Great True Lord in the Sword Pavilion struck True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow with the Seize the Crown Sword Intent, severing her body, but she self-destructed and returned through her Fruit Position.
• True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow withdrew after concluding that she had destroyed Hongyun’s Grotto-Heaven Fragment, unaware that Sky Soaring had preserved a tiny remnant in Gantang Circuit.
• Sky Soaring assessed Gangxing Budao True Lord’s hidden cultivation flaw and praised his own Five Elements Perfection.
• Sky Soaring sent his Divine Sense toward the preserved Grotto-Heaven remnant, but Lu Yang seized it.

Lu Yang escaped Chongguang with Sky Soaring’s help, then revealed the Yang Chen Earth divine ability and his Fire in the Sky cultivation to the hidden True Lord. Sky Soaring guessed that an elder in Lu Yang’s family was the Old Dragon Lord.

• Lu Yang concealed his aura with help from Sky Soaring’s Perception Barrier and fled Gantang Circuit.
• True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow realized Gantang Circuit had been tampered with, retrieved Chongguang, and left to recover.
• Lu Yang thanked Sky Soaring and explained that he had trusted him to help conceal his aura and preserve the Grotto-Heaven Fragment.
• Lu Yang showed Sky Soaring the Root of All Things divine ability containing Yang Chen Earth, which he had taken from Hongyun.
• Sky Soaring saw that Lu Yang cultivated Fire in the Sky and questioned how he knew about him.
• Lu Yang said an elder in his family had told him, and Sky Soaring guessed that the elder was the Old Dragon Lord.

Lu Yang met with Emperor Jiayou, who tested his loyalty after learning that Lu Yang had sent an avatar overseas. Lu Yang confessed and explained his actions as service to Jiangdong, then was ordered to accompany the emperor Beyond Heaven to retrieve the Incense Realm Heaven.

• Lu Yang sealed the Grotto-Heaven Fragment containing Sky Soaring in the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner, cutting it off from Sky Soaring's true body.
• Eunuch An told Lu Yang that Emperor Jiayou planned to retrieve the Jietian and wanted Lu Yang to accompany him.
• Emperor Jiayou confronted Lu Yang in Tian Wu Hall and asked whether he considered himself cloud or water.
• Lu Yang admitted that he had sent an avatar overseas to meet the Dragon Lord and claimed he had spoken of Emperor Jiayou's grace.
• Lu Yang defended the One Heart Society as a way to teach Demon Cultivators to repay the emperor, and Emperor Jiayou ordered him to accompany him Beyond Heaven.

Emperor Jiayou took Lu Yang to Seven Radiance Heaven, seized it, and proposed making him the commissioner of a new Imperial City Bureau based on the Incense Fire Divine Path. Lu Yang pretended to accept while planning to use his own, more complete Seven Radiance Heaven to build a power base, and Hongyun arrived to find the original gone.

• Emperor Jiayou crossed the Outer Heaven with Lu Yang and asked how he had extracted the Nine Transformations Dragon-Transformation Formula from Zhao Xuhe.
• Lu Yang attributed his interrogation method to Mending Heaven Peak and explained the Heaven Mending Scripture and Celestial Mother Transformation Mystic Light.
• Emperor Jiayou seized Seven Radiance Heaven and shattered Hongyun's Seven Luminaries Stabilizing World Preserving Truth Array.
• Emperor Jiayou offered Lu Yang a divine position and the commissionership of the new Imperial City Bureau, while withholding an official appointment.
• Lu Yang feigned gratitude, recognized Emperor Jiayou's attempt to limit his advancement, and planned to use his own Seven Radiance Heaven to build a stronghold.
• Hongyun returned to the former site of Seven Radiance Heaven and found it missing.

Hongyun realized that Sky Soaring had killed him and sabotaged his efforts for five thousand years, then discovered his last escape route was gone. Lu Yang trapped him in the Outer Heaven Light Sea and demanded that he enter the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner, forcing Hongyun to fight back with Fear of Felling.

• Hongyun learned that True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow had destroyed his Grotto-Heaven Fragment and found Seven Radiance Heaven gone, leaving him with no path to reclaim his former position.
• Hongyun remembered that Sky Soaring had killed him five thousand years earlier and suspected that the rival had sabotaged him ever since.
• Hongyun returned toward Jiangbei, where Lu Yang’s Celestial Embryo Clone sealed the area with Golden Light and confronted him.
• Lu Yang revealed the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner and demanded that Hongyun enter it, while Hongyun secretly sought a way to break the formation.
• Hongyun abandoned his escape attempt and unleashed Fear of Felling, which struck Lu Yang’s Divine Radiance and forced him to take the attack seriously.

Lu Yang defeated Hongyun by countering his divine powers with Sword Intent and Root of All Things, then captured Hongyun's soul and obtained his Gold Nature. He planned to use it against Sky Soaring while preparing to launch Non-Existent Heaven and build his own power within the Dao Court.

• Lu Yang used Calamity Waves and Sword Intent to break Hongyun's Great Wind and wound him, forcing Hongyun to retreat and use Heavenly Path.
• Lu Yang locked Hongyun's Heavenly Path with Root of All Things, then overcame Hongyun's Thunder Gradually Withdraws with the Returning Palace.
• The Returning Palace destroyed Hongyun's Dharma Body, and Lu Yang captured his fleeing soul with the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner.
• Lu Yang gained Hongyun Gold Nature and planned to use it to threaten Sky Soaring.
• Lu Yang decided to launch Non-Existent Heaven and build his own power within the Dao Court before returning to the battered site.