Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang understood how Precious Lotus Treasury Bodhisattva’s Karma-Fixing Immortal Art worked, but she used it to inflict severe injuries on him. He drew on his own and True Person Demon-Sweeping’s Sword Dao Fruit Positions to unleash a sword strike that left no possibility of her escape and pulverized her.

• Lu Yang realized Precious Lotus Treasury Bodhisattva’s Immortal Art turned existing possibilities into certainty, and deduced that she had to weaken him before she could kill him.
• Precious Lotus Treasury Bodhisattva used the Karma-Fixing Immortal Art at full power, covering Lu Yang’s Dharma body with injuries.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping and Chongguang prepared to intervene, but voices from the Sword Pavilion and True Lord Flying Snow stopped them.
• Lu Yang drew Calamity Waves and combined his Sword Dao Fruit Position with True Person Demon-Sweeping’s enhancement and the Heaven-Inscription Chapter to amplify his Unbending Sword Intent.
• Precious Lotus Treasury Bodhisattva found no possibility of evading Lu Yang’s sword, and his strike pulverized her.

Lu Yang defeated the Pure Land and Dao Court forces in Jiangxi, though Precious Lotus Treasury Bodhisattva survived through reincarnation. With True Lord Flying Snow backing him, Lu Yang declared that he would establish the Righteous Dao and began reshaping Jiangxi to build it.

• Lu Yang killed Precious Lotus Treasury Bodhisattva once, but the Bodhisattva reincarnated and returned unharmed through his Grotto-Heaven.
• True Lord Flying Snow intervened to stop the Bodhisattva from attacking the weakened Lu Yang, and Precious Lotus Treasury Bodhisattva withdrew after recognizing the battle was lost.
• Emperor Jiayou fled to Jiangdong, while the Grand Tutor and Grand Guardian also retreated and the remaining forces abandoned Jiangxi.
• Lu Yang declared that cultivators of any origin or alignment could join his gate and become his disciples.
• Lu Yang's dharma power reshaped Jiangxi's rivers, mountains, and land according to his will.

Lu Yang reshaped Jiangxi into a grand formation and established the Righteous Dao’s mountain gate by combining the Dao fields of Patriarch Tingyou, Empress Xiao, and Suo Huan. With the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner serving as the entrance, he prepared to welcome cultivators into his Dao field.

• Lu Yang transformed Jiangxi’s mountains and rivers into a Third Grade formation that converged on his Heaven Pillar Governing Mystery Grotto-Heaven.
• Patriarch Tingyou restarted the Witch Ghost Sect and received the title Youdu Xuanming Prefect, alarming True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde.
• Empress Xiao established the Divine Mandate Platform and received the title Plain Radiance Cavern Yin Primordial Lord.
• Suo Huan restarted Universal Ruins Heaven and manifested the Fruit Position Mystic Abyss Universal Salvation True Lord.
• Lu Yang refined the three Dao fields into an immortal mountain and used the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner to create the Righteous Dao’s mountain gate.

A desperate loose cultivator named Han Qingyun arrived at Righteous Dao carrying a mysterious mirror, and Lu Yang discovered it could copy objects and might be connected to a True Lord. When Lu Yang tried to strip away its secrets, a hidden figure appeared in the mirror and attempted to escape, leaving Lu Yang eager to catch it.

• Han Qingyun was guided to Righteous Dao after silently wishing to join, then stepped through its black-qi-shrouded mountain gate and lost consciousness.
• Lu Yang considered reforging the overloaded Ten Thousand Spirit Banner into a True Treasure but failed to begin because his cultivation and Dao attainments were insufficient.
• Lu Yang searched Han Qingyun’s soul and learned that the Sky-Viewing Mirror had helped the Jiangbei loose cultivator rise from early Qi Refining to its peak in three months.
• Lu Yang took the Sky-Viewing Mirror and used Overlapping Images to deprive it of its secrets.
• A blurred figure appeared on the mirror’s surface and tried to shatter it, but Lu Yang rose and called it back, suspecting he had attracted a powerful figure.

Lu Yang seized a mysterious Image from an extraterrestrial cultivator and concluded that a growing number of True Lords might trigger the Millennial Calamity. Believing the calamity could be near, he decided to seek the Sacred Sect and True Lord Flying Snow to strengthen his Grotto-Heaven.

• Lu Yang used the Deprive Image to seize control of the Sky-Viewing Mirror and discovered that the unfamiliar figure in it was an extraterrestrial cultivator.
• The figure praised the Immortal Pivot and attacked Lu Yang with an unfamiliar Image, but Lu Yang overwhelmed the mirror image and took its Image for himself.
• Lu Yang found that the stolen Image slightly improved his Heaven Pillar Governing Mystery Grotto-Heaven and speculated that a super Jietian's appearance signaled the Millennial Calamity.
• Lu Yang suspected that an excess of True Lords attracted the calamity and that the factions were avoiding the creation of new True Lords to prevent it.
• Lu Yang resolved to seek the Life Steward Fruit Position and the Ten Thousand Martial Realm to advance his cultivation quickly.
• Lu Yang chose to go to the Sacred Sect first, hoping to speak with True Lord Flying Snow and learn from her.

Lu Yang visited the First Saint Sect and entered True Lord Flying Snow’s Cinnabar Mountain Red Water Grotto-Heaven to seek an audience with her. He cautiously considered whether she had lured him into a trap, then found her waiting serenely at the summit of Cinnabar Mountain.

• Lu Yang suppressed Fire in the Sky’s complaints and arrived quietly at the First Saint Sect.
• Chongguang welcomed Lu Yang, and Lu Yang asked him to introduce him to True Lord Flying Snow.
• Chongguang led Lu Yang to Feixue Palace, whose interior had become the blood-red Cinnabar Mountain Red Water Grotto-Heaven.
• Chongguang said Flying Snow had invited Lu Yang alone, prompting Lu Yang to suspect a trap before deciding he could withstand her attacks.
• Lu Yang entered the Grotto-Heaven and found True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow seated in a tea pavilion on Cinnabar Mountain.

Lu Yang learned from True Lord Splendid Silk Brocade that a Celestial Court True Lord had left the Greater Yang Image and that the coming calamity was near. True Lord Flying Snow invited him to attach his Grotto-Heaven to hers and help her break through to Late Golden Core, leaving Lu Yang to weigh the offer’s protection against the loss of his Dao Path.

• Lu Yang showed True Lord Flying Snow the damaged Sky-Viewing Mirror and asked about the Greater Yang Image within it.
• True Lord Splendid Silk Brocade arrived, recognized the Image as a Celestial Court remnant, and warned that the calamity was about to begin.
• True Lord Splendid Silk Brocade explained that the Celestial Court used Six Qi positions comparable to the sect’s Fruit Positions, and recounted how Gangxing Budao True Lord slew a powerful Greater Yang holder during the last calamity.
• True Lord Flying Snow announced her intention to break through to Late Golden Core and invited Lu Yang to stay and cultivate the Great Dao with her.

Lu Yang witnessed True Lord Flying Snow break through to Late Golden Core by changing the Supreme Position of her Grotto-Heaven, while Chongguang and True Lord Splendid Silk Brocade supplied additional Fruit Positions. Seeing Flying Snow’s Heaven-and-Earth-acknowledged Image, Lu Yang developed a plan to use his Heaven-Inscription Chapter to establish his own concept of the Five Grades of True Lords; the Golden Core forged from the three Fruit Positions then emerged.

• Lu Yang declined True Lord Flying Snow’s invitation to attach himself to her Grotto-Heaven, and she chose to pursue changing Ravine Stream Water’s Supreme Position instead.
• True Lord Splendid Silk Brocade added the Mulberry Wood Fruit Position, while Chongguang condensed his Cavern Yang Hidden View Grotto-Heaven and contributed the Covered Lamp Fire Fruit Position.
• The three Fruit Positions formed a furnace, and True Lord Flying Snow broke through to Late Golden Core as her Images appeared before Lu Yang.
• Lu Yang recognized that Flying Snow’s Image, First in Five Thousand Years of Combat, had gained Heaven and Earth’s recognition, and he classified True Lords into five grades.
• Lu Yang resolved to use his Heaven-Inscription Chapter to make the Five Grades of True Lords influential in Heaven and Earth, and the Golden Core refined from the three Fruit Positions emerged.

True Lord Flying Snow completed her breakthrough and agreed to let Lu Yang try refining the Ten Thousand Martial Realm’s External Dao Fruit Position in exchange for his help with her future cultivation. After arriving in the realm, Lu Yang discovered a Buddhist cultivator attempting to attain its External Dao, and suspected the timing was not a coincidence.

• True Lord Flying Snow refined three Fruit Positions, advanced her cultivation, and discussed the Ten Thousand Martial Realm with Lu Yang.
• Flying Snow agreed to give Lu Yang a chance to refine the Ten Thousand Martial Realm’s External Dao Fruit Position if he helped her cultivate when she later attempted to alter the Supreme Position.
• At the Heavenly Hall, the Dao Attendant fawned over Flying Snow and Lu Yang before sending Lu Yang to the Ten Thousand Martial Realm.
• Lu Yang arrived in the Outer Heaven Light Sea and sensed a Buddhist cultivator chanting while attempting to attain the realm’s External Dao Fruit Position.
• Lu Yang wondered whether the Buddhist cultivator’s attempt had begun because of his arrival.

Lu Yang was lured into a trap in the Ten Thousand Martial Realm by two Pure Land Bodhisattvas and two Extraterrestrial Cultivators seeking his soul and Fire in the Sky. Surrounded by a powerful formation and enemies, he remained confident as they prepared to attack.

• Lu Yang discovered his connection to the Sacred Sect had been severed, then shattered a giant hand of Two Extremes Life-Death Profound Light with his Sword Light.
• Two Extraterrestrial Cultivators emerged and revealed that the Sky-Viewing Mirror and Han Qingyun had been used to lure Lu Yang into the Ten Thousand Martial Realm.
• Lu Yang identified the Pure Land attackers as Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva and Precious Pestle Victorious Bodhisattva, and assessed the strength of all four enemies.
• Precious Pestle Victorious Bodhisattva activated a Second Grade formation resembling Earthly Buddha Land, empowering both Bodhisattvas.
• Precious Pestle Victorious Bodhisattva offered Lu Yang's soul and true spirit to Lesser Yin Immortal Lord and Treading Flame Immortal Lord, who planned to take his Fire in the Sky.
• Lu Yang mocked the four enemies despite being trapped and surrounded.

Lu Yang faced a coordinated attack from Pure Land and the Celestial Court, but used his True Lord power and Heaven-Inscription Chapter to break their formation and survive their water-and-fire assault. He emerged from the Buddha Kingdom seemingly unscathed, leaving his enemies shocked.

• Lesser Yin Immortal Lord attacked Lu Yang with Lesser Yin Lord Fire, but Lu Yang deprived the flames of their power and returned them.
• Treading Flame Immortal Lord stilled Lu Yang's powers while Precious Pestle Victorious Bodhisattva and Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva struck him, with Precious Pestle Victorious Bodhisattva's Demon-Subduing Vajra Pestle inflicting the greater injury.
• Precious Pestle Victorious Bodhisattva taunted Lu Yang and tried to distract him with Life-Seizing Sanskrit Sound, but Lu Yang revealed that he had become a True Lord to overcome enemies through strength.
• Lu Yang grew into a colossal form and used Heavenly Fire Burning Punishment to shatter Precious Pestle Victorious Bodhisattva's formation from within and without.
• Lesser Yin Immortal Lord unleashed the Lesser Yin Governing Heaven True Method, bringing down water to combine with the fire burning inside Lu Yang, but Lu Yang's Heaven-Inscription Chapter nullified the calamity.
• Lu Yang wielded Calamity Waves, cleaved open the Buddha Kingdom with one sword, and walked out as the attackers stared in disbelief.

Lu Yang escaped the killing formation, killed Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva, and stalled the remaining attackers while waiting for True Lord Flying Snow. Precious Pestle Victorious Bodhisattva used the time Lesser Yin Immortal Lord bought him to flee, leaving Lesser Yin trapped with Lu Yang and his reinforcements.

• Lu Yang broke out of the formation, but Lesser Yin Immortal Lord and Treading Flame Immortal Lord trapped him with the Kan Yang Jiao Li Immortal Art.
• Lu Yang escaped the water-and-fire attack, ambushed Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva, and killed him after Patriarch Tingyou, Suo Huan, and Empress Xiao blocked the others.
• Precious Pestle Victorious Bodhisattva asked Lesser Yin Immortal Lord to buy him time while he prepared to use his glass Treasure Lotus against Lu Yang.
• Lu Yang and his three Banner Spirits held off Lesser Yin Immortal Lord and the others as Suo Huan helped restore Lu Yang's strength.
• Precious Pestle Victorious Bodhisattva used the Treasure Lotus to escape, leaving Lesser Yin Immortal Lord behind to face Lu Yang.

Lu Yang recovered enough from the Water-Fire Calamity to refine the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner into the Moral Cultivation of Righteous Dao Banner using an Image from Fire in the Sky. He suspected the Sacred Sect had used him as bait, while True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow intercepted Lesser Yin Immortal Lord and Treading Flame Immortal Lord in the Outer Heaven Light Sea.

• Lesser Yin Immortal Lord rescued the injured Treading Flame Immortal Lord and fled after blocking Lu Yang and Patriarch Tingyou's group.
• Suo Huan used Shared Drink to ease Lu Yang's injuries but began suffering the same Water-Fire Calamity, so Lu Yang stopped him from taking on more.
• Lu Yang merged Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva's External Dao Fruit Position Decree into his Grotto-Heaven and severed an Image of Fire in the Sky.
• Lu Yang refined the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner with the severed Image and renamed it the Moral Cultivation of Righteous Dao Banner.
• Lu Yang suspected the Sacred Sect had knowingly used him as bait, while True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow stopped Lesser Yin Immortal Lord and Treading Flame Immortal Lord from escaping.

True Lord Flying Snow realized the Celestial Court’s attack was meant to draw her away while a greater threat targeted Lu Yang. Trapped in the Outer Heaven Light Sea, Lu Yang was confronted by Gangxing Budao True Lord, whose power belied his reputation as sick unto the marrow.

• True Lord Flying Snow deduced that Lesser Yin Immortal Lord and Treading Flame Immortal Lord had been used to keep her away from Lu Yang, and she recognized that a hidden Great True Lord might be the real threat.
• Lu Yang examined his newly refined Moral Cultivation of Righteous Dao Banner and suspected Heavenly Duke had helped raise its quality.
• Lu Yang noticed that Sacred Sect had not contacted him, realized another World Honored One might be trying to kill him, and tried to leave the Outer Heaven Light Sea.
• A powerful newcomer sealed the way through the Light Sea, darkened it into an Abyss Surface, and approached Lu Yang.
• Lu Yang recognized the newcomer as Sword Pavilion's Gangxing Budao True Lord, whose aura contradicted the rumors that he was too sick to fight.

Gangxing Budao True Lord ambushed Lu Yang, who survived with the Heaven-Inscription Chapter but suffered severe damage. Lu Yang refused to risk the Banner Spirits’ lives and fled after counterattacking, while Gangxing Budao True Lord pursued him.

• Gangxing Budao True Lord greeted Lu Yang and immediately cut off his head, forcing Lu Yang to revive through the Heaven-Inscription Chapter.
• Lu Yang’s restored body cracked under the sword strike, and Suo Huan used Shared Drink to halt the spreading wound.
• Suo Huan offered to cover Lu Yang’s retreat, but Lu Yang refused because Gangxing Budao True Lord could permanently kill the Banner Spirits.
• Gangxing Budao True Lord praised Lu Yang’s Supreme Fruit Position and launched another sword strike, while Lu Yang raised the Moral Cultivation of Righteous Dao Banner.
• Lu Yang used the banner’s Imperial Chariot mystery and sacrificed thousands of Banner Spirits in an explosion, then escaped while Gangxing Budao True Lord remained unharmed.
• Gangxing Budao True Lord sensed Lu Yang’s location and pursued him, confident that his sword strike had prevented Lu Yang from getting away.

Lu Yang tried to escape Gangxing Budao True Lord through the Outer Heaven Light Sea, but the pursuer kept closing in. With his strength fading and only one more escape likely, Lu Yang prepared to risk a desperate tactic.

• Lu Yang noticed the Void Darkness resembled the space he had entered before each restart of the Hundred Lives Book, but the Seize-the-Crown Sword Intent disrupted his thoughts and forced him to leave.
• Gangxing Budao True Lord attacked as Lu Yang emerged, but the Moral Cultivation of Righteous Dao Banner briefly exposed and restrained his killing intent.
• Lu Yang realized Gangxing Budao True Lord had lowered his position and was not using Great True Lord power, giving Lu Yang a chance to survive.
• Lu Yang fled into the Void Darkness again, but Gangxing Budao True Lord followed and appeared closer to him at each destination.
• Lu Yang used Forceful Inscription: All attacks ineffective to withstand Gangxing Budao True Lord's sword strike, then fled while nearly exhausted.
• Lu Yang concluded he probably could not survive another encounter and decided to risk walking along a cliff's edge.

Lu Yang realized Gangxing Budao True Lord had ambushed him because attaining Fire in the Sky threatened a long scheme to make Furnace Fire a Supreme Fruit Position. With Gangxing Budao True Lord closing in, Lu Yang chose to risk entering the Celestial Court to survive and recover.

• Lu Yang deduced that Gangxing Budao True Lord had suppressed Fire in the Sky’s inheritance and now sought to kill him for disrupting his plan.
• Lu Yang sensed that Gangxing Budao True Lord’s Sword Seed had locked onto him and summoned Suo Huan, Patriarch Tingyou, and Empress Xiao for help.
• Lu Yang revealed that he had used his movements as bait while Suo Huan and Patriarch Tingyou secretly calculated another Anchor Point.
• Lu Yang decided to use the water-fire calamity left by Lesser Yin Immortal Lord to find the Celestial Court, where Gangxing Budao True Lord would hesitate to follow.
• Lu Yang told Patriarch Tingyou that he would preserve the Righteous Dao’s disciples as a means of contact and return after recovering.

Lu Yang and his allies prepared to locate Celestial Court, with Suo Huan taking on Lu Yang’s injuries so he could survive another attempt on his life. Gangxing Budao True Lord nearly killed Lu Yang in the Outer Heaven Light Sea, but Ye Guangji intervened and changed the battle’s outcome.

• Patriarch Tingyou said he needed another attempt on Lu Yang’s life in the Void Darkness Land to finish locating Celestial Court.
• Suo Huan used Shared Drink to take all of Lu Yang’s injuries and transfer his dharma power to him, then relied on the Righteous Banner’s Uphold Righteousness mystery to survive.
• Empress Xiao gave Lu Yang her True Lord dharma body and Fruit Position’s true spirit, then self-destructed to briefly halt Gangxing Budao True Lord’s attack.
• Gangxing Budao True Lord restored his Rank to that of a Great True Lord and struck Lu Yang with Seize the Crown, suppressing Lu Yang’s Heaven-Inscription Chapter.
• Ye Guangji’s sword disrupted Gangxing Budao True Lord’s Sword Intent and strengthened Lu Yang’s Unbending Sword Intent, allowing Lu Yang to survive the blow.

True Person Demon-Sweeping attacked Gangxing Budao True Lord to save Lu Yang, sacrificing his Sword Dao connection and True Lord Position in the process. Lu Yang preserved Demon-Sweeping and Suo Huan in the Righteous Banner and escaped to the Celestial Court, while True Lord Flying Snow confronted Gangxing.

• True Person Demon-Sweeping arrived in the Outer Heaven Light Sea and struck Gangxing Budao True Lord to stop him from killing Lu Yang.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping severed his connection to the Sword Dao and returned his Dao Fruit, forcing Gangxing to take the sword strike without risking the Sword Dao Fruit Position.
• Lu Yang used the Righteous Banner to stabilize True Person Demon-Sweeping and Suo Huan, then escaped from Gangxing into the Celestial Court.
• Gangxing realized the scheme had forced Lu Yang toward the Celestial Court, but True Lord Flying Snow arrived with the Heavenly River and threatened to kill him.

Lu Yang recovered enough to head toward the Celestial Court under Patriarch Tingyou’s concealment, while the Old Dragon Lord defied Precious Lotus Treasury Bodhisattva to protect Jiangxi and support Lu Yang. The chapter left the Dragon Lord convinced that Lu Yang’s survival and destination pointed to a powerful figure’s plans for the Celestial Court, giving the Dragon Clan a chance to rise.

• Lu Yang suppressed the sword qi in his body after True Person Demon-Sweeping removed the Seize-the-Crown Sword Intent, and Patriarch Tingyou located the Celestial Court.
• Patriarch Tingyou used Carefree Heaven to disguise Lu Yang’s Fire in the Sky, warning that the cover would fail if Lu Yang fought.
• Lu Yang plunged beneath the Abyss Surface toward the Celestial Court, seeking a place to recover.
• Precious Lotus Treasury Bodhisattva returned to Jiangxi and prepared to undo the changes made there by the Demon Dragon.
• The Old Dragon Lord blocked Precious Lotus Treasury Bodhisattva and declared Jiangxi the Dragon Clan’s foundation.
• The Old Dragon Lord inferred that Lu Yang was still protected and that his journey to the Celestial Court was part of a greater plan, so he resolved to support him.