Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang realized that the Five Thousand Year Taboo was tied to the Law Refining Secret Realm, then erased his memories of it to avoid danger. The Immortal Kingdom Dao Law restored those memories, provoking a confrontation between the World Honored One’s Buddhist lineage and the Dao Court Lord’s power, and Lu Yang considered striking back with False Holding Gold Position.

• Lu Yang deduced that the Law Refining Secret Realm shielded Sky Soaring and Mu Changsheng from the Five Thousand Year Taboo’s effects, while his own discovery exposed him to the World Honored One.
• Lu Yang erased his memories of the taboo and stopped himself from investigating it further.
• The Immortal Kingdom Dao Law restored Lu Yang’s forbidden knowledge, causing the Cloud Sea Golden Buddha to react as the Dao Court Lord’s power stirred.
• Dark clouds and thunder gathered over Jiangdong as the Pure Land fell silent and the Cloud Sea Golden Buddha glared toward an unseen presence.
• Lu Yang concluded that the Dao Court Lord was opposing the World Honored One and considered using False Holding Gold Position to attack.

Lu Yang received a True Art that might let him use a False Held Gold Position to reach Fire in the Sky, while the World Honored One’s influence in Jiangxi continued to grow. The chapter ended with news that a Demon Monk had arrived in Jiangxi to cultivate Buddhism.

• Lu Yang chose not to confront the World Honored One yet and reassured Empress Xiao that he was not afraid.
• Chongguang met Lu Yang in Tian Wu Hall and gave him a Jade Slip containing the Kanli True Art of Position Shift.
• Lu Yang studied the True Art and realized it might let him redirect a False Held Gold Position toward Fire in the Sky.
• Xiao Shan reported that a Demon Monk had arrived in Jiangxi, claiming he wished to Cultivate Buddhism.

Lu Yang learned that Guangming’s Buddhist cultivation had consumed people across the Border Pass and left the cities in crisis, so he and Chongguang confronted Guangming in Jiangdong. Guangming denied responsibility and accused Chongguang of slander, leaving the dispute poised to escalate.

• Xiao Shan told Lu Yang that people repairing Guangming’s broken buddha statue had gained power, while the Border Pass cities’ reports shifted from urgent distress to claims that everything was fine.
• Lu Yang saw a Jade Slip image of people merging their bodies into the statue before it dissolved them, while Guangming declared that it was still not enough.
• Lu Yang and Chongguang flew to Jiangdong’s border to stop Guangming’s Buddhist cultivation and investigate his remaining plans.
• Lu Yang confronted Guangming over the deaths and missing Dao Court Official Positions, but Guangming claimed the people had volunteered to help him.
• Chongguang accused Guangming of murder and compared him to the Sword Pavilion, prompting Guangming to condemn Chongguang as a slanderous devil.

Lu Yang and Chongguang attacked Guangming Buddha's Son over the deaths in Jiangdong, but his five Dharma Appearances trapped Lu Yang in a dangerous contest of conversion. Just as Lu Yang hesitated over using his trump card, an unknown swordsman arrived and wounded Guangming Buddha's Son.

• Guangming Buddha's Son claimed the people of ten Jiangdong cities had willingly died while cultivating Buddhism, and Lu Yang and Chongguang attacked him.
• Guangming Buddha's Son's broken Buddha Statue absorbed their divine abilities, and he proposed a wager about completing the Great Buddha behind him.
• Lu Yang used Wise Ruler's Governance to expose five Dharma Appearances, which joined forces and tried to convert him until the Immortal Kingdom Dao Law protected him.
• Lu Yang hesitated to use False Holding Gold Position, suspecting the World Honored One might know about it, while Guangming Buddha's Son urged him to accept the wager.
• An unknown swordsman struck Guangming Buddha's Son across the face with an azure blade and declared them mortal enemies.

True Person Demon-Sweeping and Chongguang helped Lu Yang defeat Guangming Buddha's Son, but the Five Dharma Appearances revealed the World Honored One's true plan: to tempt Lu Yang into cultivating the abandoned Buddha statue and taking command of the Pure Land. The chapter ended with the Five Dharma Appearances prostrating themselves before Lu Yang and urging him to accept.

• True Person Demon-Sweeping arrived in Jiangdong and attacked Guangming Buddha's Son with the No-Kill Sword.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping severed Guangming Buddha's Son's connection to the broken Buddha statue, allowing Chongguang to ignite him with Jade Terrace Radiant Blaze.
• Guangming Buddha's Son unleashed the Five Dharma Appearances against Lu Yang, but Lu Yang escaped and killed him with Calamity Waves and his divine abilities.
• Lu Yang realized the Buddha's Son had been a decoy and turned his attention to the broken Buddha statue.
• The Five Dharma Appearances offered Lu Yang command of the Pure Land if he cultivated the statue, promising that its Buddhist followers would obey him.

The Five Dharma Appearances offered Lu Yang command of the Pure Land and Jiangxi, but True Person Demon-Sweeping attacked them to prevent him from accepting. Lu Yang rejected their offer and called on Demon-Sweeping to kill them.

• The Five Dharma Appearances offered Lu Yang control of the Pure Land and Jiangxi, promising he would command its Buddhist Cultivators without becoming the World Honored One's incarnation.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping cut through the Five Dharma Appearances, then broke their Prajnaparamita mantra with his All-Slay Sword Intent.
• The Five Dharma Appearances argued that their offer served a great purpose, while True Person Demon-Sweeping condemned the Pure Land for taking away people's freedom.
• Lu Yang said he agreed with the Five Dharma Appearances, and they prostrated themselves before him as True Person Demon-Sweeping prepared to leave.
• Lu Yang refused the offer and urged True Person Demon-Sweeping to slaughter the Five Dharma Appearances.

Lu Yang rejected the Five Dharma Appearances’ offer to take control of the Pure Land and attacked them with True Person Demon-Sweeping and Chongguang. He trapped them with the Immortal Kingdom Dao Law and revealed his plan to make Jiangxi submit by eliminating its Buddhist Cultivators, while True Person Demon-Sweeping promised that no one would die.

• Lu Yang used the Gold-Inlaid Military Command Talisman and Calamity Waves to destroy one Dharma Appearance, while True Person Demon-Sweeping and Chongguang destroyed two more.
• The remaining Dharma Appearances revived their fallen members with the Extensive Collection Dharani Nirvana Great Mantra and questioned why Lu Yang refused their offer.
• Lu Yang recalled that the World Honored One could restore Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts and decided that accepting control of the Pure Land was too dangerous.
• Lu Yang struck with a sword empowered by Jiangdong’s Immortal Kingdom Dao Law, and the Five Dharma Appearances combined into a towering Golden Body Great Buddha.
• Lu Yang sealed the wilderness with the Immortal Kingdom Dao Law and bound the Five Dharma Appearances in chains, preventing their escape.
• Lu Yang said he would kill all Buddhist Cultivators to make Jiangxi submit, and True Person Demon-Sweeping offered to handle it without anyone dying.

Lu Yang’s plan to destroy the Pure Land’s Buddhist Cultivators while preserving City-Wall Earth’s Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts came to fruition as True Person Demon-Sweeping killed the five Dharma Appearances. The Great Buddha’s head fell in the Jiangxi Pure Land, leaving the monks shaken and an angry voice echoing.

• Lu Yang reasoned that the World Honored One would tolerate the Buddhist Cultivators’ deaths as long as City-Wall Earth remained bound to the Pure Land, and he planned to use Master Demon-Queller’s No-Kill Sword Intent.
• The five Dharma Appearances questioned whether Du Huan was a reincarnated True Lord after his sudden rise disrupted Buddhism’s plans for a flourishing age.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping stopped Lu Yang and offered to bear the Karma of killing the Pure Land figure himself.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping drew the No-Kill Sword and struck down the five Dharma Appearances with merged Sword Intents.
• In the Jiangxi Pure Land’s Great Hero Hall, the Great Buddha’s head cracked off and shattered as the monks watched in panic.

Tian Qiu emerged from seclusion after his Buddhist Fate Karma vanished and joined Empress Xiao’s campaign to avenge the Pure Land’s past attack. Lu Yang’s allied forces invaded Jiangxi and destroyed Ultimate Bliss Temple, after which Lu Yang challenged Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva to a decisive battle.

• Tian Qiu discovered that the Buddhist Fate Karma clinging to him had disappeared and left his seclusion palace.
• Empress Xiao told Tian Qiu that the Dao Court was marching on Jiangxi to avenge the Pure Land’s past grudge.
• Desire Mountain dismissed warnings to evacuate Ultimate Bliss Temple and claimed the Pure Land was ready to defeat any attackers.
• Lu Yang used Sun-Viewing Imperial Radiance Register and his sword to kill the Buddhist Cultivators at Ultimate Bliss Temple, while protecting the mortal dancing girls.
• Lu Yang revealed that the four allied powers had invaded Jiangxi and that Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva had returned to his Heretical form.
• Lu Yang invoked the False Holding Gold Position and challenged Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva to a fight to prove his Dao.

Lu Yang attacked the Jiangxi Pure Land and challenged Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva, whose array and Great Hero Hall he destroyed. The Bodhisattva abandoned his Dao Path to fight as a Heretical True Lord, and their Dharma Bodies collided.

• Lu Yang’s fiery-cloud sea struck Great Hero Hall and shattered the Arhats’ Two-Worlds Ten-Directions Central Sal Tree Array.
• The Arhats begged Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva to emerge from seclusion, and he transformed from a buddha statue into a living person.
• Lu Yang appeared above the hall, rejected the Bodhisattva’s warning, and stomped Great Hero Hall and its supporting mountains into ruin.
• Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva abandoned his Dao Path, revealing his Heretical True Lord status as thunder shook Vault Sky.
• Lu Yang and Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva collided with their Dharma Bodies.

Lu Yang fought Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva while False Holding Gold Position, using his Dao arts to wound and pressure the Heretical True Lord. He then shifted Yama Hall into alignment with Fire in the Sky and successfully achieved False Holding Fire in the Sky.

• Lu Yang blinded Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva with Sun-Viewing Imperial Radiance Register and attacked with Supreme Bright Golden Cup Jade Radiance, burning the Bodhisattva’s hand.
• Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva used the Yang-Receiving Scripture and its transformations to extinguish Lu Yang’s fire and charging soldiers.
• Lu Yang realized he could use Kanli True Art of Position Shift because Fire in the Sky favored him and he could locate the Kanli True Position.
• Lu Yang shifted Yama Hall away from Covered Lamp Fire and aligned his Fruit Position Star with Fire in the Sky.
• Lu Yang successfully achieved False Holding Fire in the Sky.

Lu Yang used the supreme Fire in the Sky Fruit Position to impose rules on Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva and seize his Yang-Receiving Scripture. Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva tried to exploit the rules and counterattack, but Lu Yang canceled the restrictions that might have affected him and evaded the blow.

• Lu Yang manifested Fire in the Sky, forcing fire-element cultivators across the world to kneel and leaving Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva unable to transform his Myriad Transformations into a counter.
• Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva tried to flee, but Lu Yang's rule against deserters trapped him in heavenly fire and forced him to abandon his Golden Body.
• Lu Yang imposed a rule against stubborn resistance and pulled the Yang-Receiving Scripture away from Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva, whose attempt to suppress the treasure triggered another heavenly-fire punishment.
• Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva reasoned that Lu Yang was also bound by the rules and launched his Myriad Transformations Fruit Position at him despite a third rule punishing those who fought valiantly.
• Lu Yang evaded the attack and canceled the rules against fleeing and resisting, leaving Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva horrified at the unfair advantage of Fire in the Sky.

Lu Yang used the Image of Fire in the Sky to trap and overpower Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva, who tried to survive until Lu Yang lost the True Lord Position. Just as Lu Yang’s power began to fade, he replenished it with stored Gold Nature and prepared to continue the fight.

• Lu Yang seized part of Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva’s Myriad Transformations Fruit Position and fed it to his Sword Dao Fruit Position.
• Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva retreated while fighting, but Lu Yang established rules that punished fleeing and refusing to welcome him.
• Lu Yang used a rule to cross the distance instantly and grab Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva, who exploded his body and abandoned his head to escape.
• The rule burned Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva’s fleeing soul, while Lu Yang’s True Lord aura began to fade.
• Lu Yang fused five stored strands of Gold Nature into the Hongyun Gold Nature, replenishing his power, then taunted Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva for not running away.

Lu Yang nearly finished defeating the Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva, but the World Honored One awakened City-Wall Earth and altered the past. Sky Soaring regained a connection to the Bodhisattva and could draw on White Wax Metal and Sand-In-Metal Earth's power, creating a new threat.

• The Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva's Yang-Receiving Scripture submitted to Lu Yang, who refined it into spiritual materials while continuing to burn the Bodhisattva's soul.
• Lu Yang sensed that the Pure Land might interfere and looked toward Jiangbei, where Sky Soaring watched the battle through a karmic image.
• Sky Soaring recognized Lu Yang's potential to attain a second Supreme Fruit Position, then claimed that Lu Yang and True Lord Flying Snow came from the same place.
• The World Honored One used five Dharma Appearances to awaken City-Wall Earth, and Lu Yang burned through them to harvest their Gold Nature.
• City-Wall Earth's radiance revealed its fundamental mystery, Grasp Past and Present, and changed a cause from Sky Soaring's past.
• Sky Soaring gained a new memory that he had left power within the Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva, allowing him to reclaim control and borrow power from White Wax Metal and Sand-In-Metal Earth.

Lu Yang and Sky Soaring faced off after Sky Soaring escaped Lu Yang’s grasp by using his Dao attainment to combine two Fruit Position Images. Lu Yang refused to abandon his path to reverse Chen Earth, and his defiance ignited as he took a final step toward Sky Soaring.

• Sky Soaring combined the Images of White Wax Metal and Sand-In-Metal Earth to escape Lu Yang’s Fire in the Sky.
• Lu Yang reasoned that City-Wall Earth could alter Karma only within strict limits and that Sky Soaring was using their conflict to undermine his Dao Path.
• Sky Soaring explained that their enmity came from Lu Yang’s attempt to reverse Chen Earth, giving Lu Yang the option to withdraw.
• Lu Yang rejected that compromise, believing retreat would weaken his Image and betray the demands of Fire in the Sky.
• Sky Soaring compared Lu Yang to his younger self but remained committed to his own Dao.
• Lu Yang’s experiences across ten lifetimes became kindling as he stepped forward and declared, “I will not submit!”

Sky Soaring summoned the strength of Jiangxi’s Buddhist believers to strike Lu Yang with a vast Buddha Palm, but Lu Yang answered with a sword cry that awakened swords across the world. Drawing Calamity Waves, he unleashed his Unbending Sword Intent and lifted the Buddha Palm, overturning the battlefield.

• Sky Soaring invoked Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts and brought a colossal Buddha Palm down upon Lu Yang.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping prepared to help, but Lu Yang stopped him and called out for everyone to hear his sword cry.
• Lu Yang’s sword cry spread across the Five Realms Under Heaven, and Foundation Establishment cultivators turned toward the firelight beneath the Buddha Palm.
• Lu Yang drew Calamity Waves and unleashed his Sealed Sword Intent, which appeared as the unbreakable sword Unbending.
• Lu Yang’s strike lifted the Buddha Palm, blasting its enormous fingers with Blood Light and overturning the Five Realms Under Heaven like a flipped chessboard.

Lu Yang unleashed his named Sealed Sword Intent with the Sword Dao Fruit Position and defeated Sky Soaring, then used Fire in the Sky to ban Buddhism in Jiangxi for a thousand years. With the World Honored One’s intervention abruptly halted, Lu Yang’s power reached an unprecedented height as he considered advancing to Golden Seeking.

• Lu Yang’s Sealed Sword Intent amplified the Sword Dao Fruit Position, and he clashed head-on with Sky Soaring in a battle whose shockwaves shook Heaven and earth.
• Sky Soaring’s borrowed body shattered and Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva died, while Lu Yang sealed City-Wall Earth and Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts inside the Foundation Establishment Realm.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping seized the moment to slaughter Buddhist Cultivators and sweep them into his Storage Pouch.
• Lu Yang established a rule that Buddhism could not flourish in Jiangxi for a thousand years, with anyone cultivating it facing Heavenly Fire Burning Punishment.
• The World Honored One’s Buddha Light appeared to approach, then vanished, and Lu Yang laughed as Fire in the Sky shone more brightly than ever.

Lu Yang halted his attempt to seek the Golden Fruit Position after realizing his foundation and governance were incomplete, then abolished the Pure Land’s authority across Jiangxi. He left the next stage of his plan clear: to bring the Five Realms Under Heaven under one nation.

• Lu Yang withdrew from Golden Seeking, replenished his Hongyun Gold Nature with the Five Dharma Appearances Gold Nature, and recalled Yama Hall.
• Lu Yang used the Immortal Kingdom Dao Law to abolish the Pure Land and install Dao Court rule across Jiangxi, while Heavenly Fire struck cultivators connected to Buddhist teachings.
• Lu Yang walked through Tianwu City with Empress Xiao and took her to an inn, restoring their earlier ease with each other.
• Empress Xiao asked what Lu Yang would pursue next, and Lu Yang declared that he sought One Nation Under Heaven.

Lu Yang’s new law reshaped the Five Realms Under Heaven, and after ten years of accumulating power, he prepared to help Chongguang seek Gold. The chapter ended as Lu Yang announced he would reverse Chen Earth for Chongguang that very day.

• Lu Yang promulgated a law separating immortals and mortals and placing cultivators above commoners, while the Immortal Kingdom Dao Law spread it across the land.
• Lu Yang suppressed resistance to the law, and True Person Demon-Sweeping did not interfere and privately asked whether it could reach Jiangnan.
• Ten years later, Huanming City had risen in place of Tianwu City, and Lu Yang prepared to seek Gold atop Star-Plucking Tower but sensed one final step was missing.
• Chongguang arrived and recognized that Lu Yang had attained the ultimate Foundation Establishment state, Return to Simplicity.
• Lu Yang told Chongguang there was no day like today and said he would reverse Chen Earth for him, prompting Chongguang to suspect a trap.

Lu Yang reversed Chen Earth, stripping Sky Soaring of two Fruit Positions and forcing him to hide in the Netherworld. Chongguang repaid Lu Yang with a Jade Box of Ten Thousand Martial Realm energy and a Jade Slip that revealed the missing step in Golden Seeking: the Sacred Sect's Zou Yu Descendant.

• Lu Yang used Yama Hall and the Image of Covered Lamp Fire to reverse the world's Chen Earth and restore it to Yang.
• Sky Soaring lost the powers of Long Flowing Water and Covered Lamp Fire, concealed his weakened presence with a Perception Barrier, and vowed to challenge Lu Yang again when the True Lords returned.
• Lu Yang replenished False Holding Fire's depleted Gold Nature with White Chi Gold Nature from the Dragon Palace Treasury.
• Chongguang thanked Lu Yang for opening the Golden Seeking Dao Path and gave him a Jade Box and a Jade Slip in repayment.
• Lu Yang recognized the Jade Box's contents as vast Ten Thousand Martial Realm energy and realized the Jade Slip identified the Sacred Sect's Zou Yu Descendant as the missing Variable in Golden Seeking.