Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang and the Heretical Path Alliance crashed the Carefree Talisman market by announcing that one billion new talismans would be issued, bankrupting Immortal Lord Gu Ming. Immortal Lord Qing Yang escaped by selling his holdings before the market collapsed.

• Lu Yang ordered the Heretical Path Alliance to begin its operation as the Carefree Talisman price approached 990.
• Immortal Lord Gu Ming and his partners watched the price fall, then bought more talismans to push it back up.
• Lu Yang announced across the Ninth Layer of Celestial Court that one billion Carefree Talismans would enter the market.
• Immortal Lord Gu Ming urged his partners to borrow money and buy the new supply, while Immortal Lord Qing Yang finished selling his own talismans and left.
• Immortal Lord Gu Ming realized Qing Yang had abandoned him, and the Carefree Talisman market collapsed.

Lu Yang and the Heretical Path Alliance crashed the Carefree Talisman market, bankrupting Immortal Lord Gu Ming, whose Fruit Position was liquidated by Immortal Venerable Greater Yin. The turmoil strengthened the money Fruit Position, and Lu Yang gathered his profits to purchase the Fruit Position Sun in Spring.

• Immortal Lord Gu Ming borrowed heavily to drive up the price of Carefree Talismans, but the Heretical Path Alliance sold borrowed talismans and crashed the market again.
• Lu Yang ordered the alliance to push the price down to 100, wiping out the wealth of Gu Ming and other major holders.
• Immortal Venerable Greater Yin stripped Gu Ming of his cultivation and Fruit Position, killing him when he could not repay his debts.
• Banshan realized the alliance had made a fortune shorting Carefree Talismans, while Lu Yang sensed that the money Fruit Position had grown more complete.
• Lu Yang gathered the money Image from his profits and set out to purchase the Fruit Position Sun in Spring.

Lu Yang gave Wu Daoxuan the Greater Yang Fruit Position and, after Immortal Venerable Greater Yin called him junior brother, reconsidered the Millennial Calamity as a struggle over the Dao. He absorbed Wu Daoxuan’s Inscribe Heaven Fruit Position to refine a new True Treasure, then discovered its first holder had been a Buddhist cultivator.

• Lu Yang purchased the Greater Yang Fruit Position for Wu Daoxuan, lending him the money interest-free in exchange for mortgaging Inscribe Heaven.
• Wu Daoxuan severed his Great Dao, surrendered Inscribe Heaven, and entered Greater Yang to claim the Fruit Position.
• Immortal Venerable Greater Yin called Lu Yang her junior brother before vanishing, leaving him to wonder about her ties to the Sacred Sect and the Celestial Court.
• Lu Yang concluded that the Millennial Calamity might be a Dao Struggle offering a chance to produce a Nascent Soul Dao Lord.
• Lu Yang collected Wu Daoxuan’s Inscribe Heaven into the Righteous Banner and had his Grotto-Heaven devour it as he began refining Calamity Waves into a True Treasure.
• Lu Yang saw that Inscribe Heaven’s first holder had witnessed the Dao Lord’s death, then found a strand of Buddhist golden light and realized the holder had been a Bodhisattva.

Lu Yang devoured Inscribe Heaven and used its power to copy the Heretical Path Alliance’s other External Dao Images, balancing and strengthening his Grotto-Heaven. He then combined Fire in the Sky and Solar Cold Water with Calamity Waves, drawing attention from Gangxing Budao True Lord and a woman in the Celestial Court.

• Lu Yang devoured Inscribe Heaven, gaining the ability to inscribe and duplicate Images.
• Lu Yang copied the six other External Dao Images and used them to transform his Grotto-Heaven, strengthening his cultivation.
• Lu Yang sealed off the Heretical Path Alliance headquarters and revealed his growing power, startling the True Lords around him.
• Lu Yang combined Fire in the Sky and Solar Cold Water with Calamity Waves to form a second True Treasure.
• Gangxing Budao True Lord sensed an anomaly in Fire in the Sky, while a woman in the Celestial Court realized Lu Yang had already begun Pursuing Dao.

Lu Yang reforged the Avici Sword’s spirit as Minghe and discovered the Calamity Waves’ new True Treasure ability, Reform Method. After realizing his path risked tying him too closely to Fire in the Sky, he glimpsed the Sea of Suffering through his own cultivation, but its overwhelming waters forced him to withdraw.

• The Avici Sword spirit emerged as a Dao Attendant, and Lu Yang named her Minghe.
• Lu Yang learned that the Calamity Waves had gained Reform Method, which could sever or alter Fruit Position Images.
• The Righteous Banner and Calamity Waves resonated, revealing a Dao-Seeking Immortal Method that pointed toward Fire in the Sky.
• Lu Yang resolved that his third True Treasure must follow a Dao Path independent of Fire in the Sky.
• Lu Yang perceived the Sea of Suffering and found that its Image-filled waters could strengthen his Grotto-Heaven if he severed and selected them.
• After spending more than half his dharma power against the endless surging waters, Lu Yang withdrew his Divine Sense and the Sea of Suffering disappeared.

Lu Yang realized that Grotto-Heavens let True Lords control their Fruit Positions, then brought True Person Demon-Sweeping into the Sea of Suffering to investigate his Sword Dao Fruit Position. There, Demon-Sweeping absorbed the sea’s waters without harm, revealing that Empty Attainment Fruit Positions could filter impurities and grow through the Sea of Suffering.

• Lu Yang reasoned that Fruit Positions were self-sustaining systems of Images, and that True Lords with Grotto-Heavens could occupy and control their Fruit Positions.
• Lu Yang asked True Person Demon-Sweeping whether he had seen the Sea of Suffering, and Demon-Sweeping said his Sword Dao Fruit Position was not there.
• Lu Yang brought True Person Demon-Sweeping into the Sea of Suffering to see what would happen.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping swallowed the seawater, gained strength, and caused the waters to part around him as Sword Dao Images gathered.
• Lu Yang realized that Empty Attainment Fruit Positions filtered out impurities and absorbed beneficial Images, allowing them to grow rapidly in the Sea of Suffering.

Lu Yang tried to weave Images from the Sea of Suffering into a Fruit Position, but struggled until Immortal Venerable Greater Yin appeared and taught him about the stages of seeking the Dao. She sent him toward the Celestial Court’s Sixth Layer and promised to wait for him on the Ninth, leaving Lu Yang suspicious of what bound her there.

• Lu Yang asked True Person Demon-Sweeping to guard him while he tried using the Path-Opening Diagram’s Image Weaving Method on the Sea of Suffering.
• Lu Yang repeatedly failed to weave the Images, and Patriarch Tingyou explained that he had to complete the process himself for the resulting Fruit Position to be his.
• Immortal Venerable Greater Yin appeared, used the Money Fruit Position to make Lu Yang sit and absorb the Sea of Suffering’s water, and congratulated him on crossing the threshold of Seek Dao.
• Immortal Venerable Greater Yin explained that cultivators first Seek Dao, then Pursue Dao, and finally attain the Dao, before telling Lu Yang to go to the Sixth Layer and meet her on the Ninth.
• Lu Yang wondered why Immortal Venerable Greater Yin seemed healthier than Sky Soaring and suspected that she, too, was trapped by a restriction connected to the Nameless Dao Lord.

After learning that four powerful Immortal Lords controlled the upper layers of Celestial Court, Lu Yang decided to investigate the Ninth Layer. Looking up, he realized that the sixth layer and everything above it appeared to be formed from the Nameless Dao Lord’s head.

• Lu Yang returned from the Sea of Suffering with Patriarch Tingyou and True Person Demon-Sweeping, then summoned Banshan from the Righteous Banner.
• Banshan pleaded for a chance to become an orthodox Immortal Lord, and Lu Yang promised to help him and the others prosper.
• Banshan explained that the sixth layer and above shared one vast space and named four Immortal Lords who would never fall: Du Xuan, Heavenly Number, Word Cultivation, and Bright Hall.
• Lu Yang concluded that those mid-stage Immortal Lords controlled Celestial Court’s rules and decided to take Banshan to the upper layers, aiming for the Ninth Layer.
• After looking toward the upper layers with his changed perception, Lu Yang recognized the sixth layer as a face and realized that the layers above it were likely formed from the Nameless Dao Lord’s head.

Lu Yang led the Heretical Path Alliance into Celestial Court’s sixth layer, where he used the Righteous Banner to make four Immortal Lords surrender their orthodox Fruit Positions. Their cultivation brought him close to attempting Empty Attainment, and he resolved to acquire the remaining Fruit Positions needed to form a Fruit Position Prototype.

• Immortal Lord Du Xuan and the other approving Immortal Lords authorized the Heretical Path Alliance’s ascension to the sixth layer.
• Lu Yang led the Alliance into the upper layers and invited Immortal Lords to join his investment venture and learn his money-making methods.
• Lu Yang told Immortal Lord Qing Yang and three other orthodox Immortal Lords that he had a risky route into Immortal Pivot, then used the Righteous Banner to make them sign away their assets and Fruit Positions.
• Banshan and the other Heretical Path Alliance members replaced their External Dao Fruit Positions with the four orthodox positions, while Lu Yang absorbed the resulting cultivation.
• Lu Yang realized he could attempt Empty Attainment and planned to obtain the Greater Yin and Lesser Yin Fruit Positions to gather the Six Qi of Celestial Court.

Lu Yang concluded that Immortal Venerable Greater Yin was steering him toward Empty Attainment, then decided to move ahead with his own plan and provoke a clash between her and the Nameless Dao Lord. He targeted Jade Toad Immortal Lord at the Heaven and Earth Immortal Firm, where his attempt to recruit her failed and he detonated the External Dao Fruit Positions.

• Lu Yang used Minghe to break the sudden urge to seek Empty Attainment and reasoned that Immortal Venerable Greater Yin had been influencing him through the Money Fruit Position.
• Lu Yang decided to pursue Empty Attainment ahead of Greater Yin's expectations, potentially by guiding Wu Daoxuan, and resolved to act quickly.
• Lu Yang learned from Qing Yang that Jade Toad Immortal Lord managed the Heaven and Earth Immortal Firm and could wield part of the Greater Yin Image.
• Lu Yang entered the firm with several Immortal Lords, sealed the White Jade Hall, and presented six External Dao Fruit Positions and five orthodox Fruit Positions as collateral for a loan.
• Lu Yang used Moral Cultivation to try to recruit Jade Toad Immortal Lord into his Righteous Dao, but her Radiant Light broke the influence.
• Lu Yang detonated all the displayed External Dao Fruit Positions before Jade Toad Immortal Lord could respond.

Lu Yang ambushed Jade Toad Immortal Lord by detonating six External Dao Fruit Positions, but she survived by spending a Resurrection Coin and counterattacked with a True Treasure. As their battle escalated, Lu Yang revealed his Sea of Suffering and Fire in the Sky, while Jade Toad Immortal Lord resisted his Moral Cultivation technique.

• Lu Yang detonated six External Dao Fruit Positions, killing Jade Toad Immortal Lord, who then detonated her own body in retaliation.
• Jade Toad Immortal Lord resurrected by consuming a Resurrection Coin and accused Lu Yang of being from Immortal Pivot.
• Lu Yang sent Banshan and the others to surround Jade Toad Immortal Lord, who unleashed immortal fire from a Precious Vase and burned them.
• Lu Yang detonated Banshan and the others' bodies to break through the immortal fire, then revealed his Sea of Suffering and summoned Fire in the Sky.
• Lu Yang used Moral Cultivation to seize Jade Toad Immortal Lord's will, but she burned through his power with her immortal fire and preserved her freedom.

Lu Yang and Jade Toad Immortal Lord fought fiercely in the sealed White Jade Hall, trading powerful Images and Forbidden Arts. After her Graveyard attack failed, Jade Toad Immortal Lord empowered her Dharma Body and charged into close-quarters combat with Lu Yang.

• Lu Yang used Fire in the Sky to turn Jade Toad Immortal Lord’s immortal fire against her and inscribed punishments that forced her to break her Precious Vase Image.
• Lu Yang’s Heaven-Inscription Chapter sealed Jade Toad Immortal Lord’s two Resurrection Coins, but she spent her savings and borrowed power to invoke Greater Yin’s Graveyard Image.
• Jade Toad Immortal Lord’s Graveyard began burying Lu Yang and rotting his body, but he used Calamity Waves to sever the Image and then cut it apart with his sword.
• Jade Toad Immortal Lord realized the White Jade Hall’s seal prevented anyone from helping her and used her Lesser Yin Sealing and Storing Art to strengthen her Dharma Body.
• Lu Yang accepted Jade Toad Immortal Lord’s challenge, and the two began brawling at close quarters.

Lu Yang defeated the Jade Toad Immortal Lord and shattered her Spirit Platform, leaving her without her True Lord Position. He then remolded her body and began extracting her Lesser Yin and Greater Yin Dao attainments.

• Lu Yang fought the Jade Toad Immortal Lord alone, studying her Celestial Court cultivation system and Forbidden Arts as he gained the upper hand.
• Lu Yang shattered the Jade Toad Immortal Lord’s Lesser Yin Sealing and Storing Art, then used Calamity Waves to erase her Lesser Yin Fruit Position’s Image temporarily.
• The Jade Toad Immortal Lord’s Spirit Platform shattered, and Lu Yang seized and refined her escaping soul.
• Lu Yang remolded the Jade Toad Immortal Lord’s body and used the Heaven Mending Scripture to extract her Dao attainments and knowledge.

Lu Yang studied Jade Toad Immortal Lord’s Celestial Court techniques and resolved to combine them with his Grotto-Heaven to forge a True Treasure. After gathering the Six Qi of Celestial Court, he heard the Nameless Dao Lord’s voice and discovered that it could hear him too.

• Lu Yang compared Celestial Court’s Spirit Platform method and Forbidden Arts with True Treasures, then decided to use his Heaven Pillar Governing Mystery Grotto-Heaven as the basis for a True Treasure.
• Lu Yang relied on the Hundred Lives Book to make his plan possible, reasoning that he could Restart and return to a time before his Grotto-Heaven was gone.
• Lu Yang gathered all Six Qi of Celestial Court and prepared to enter the Sea of Suffering to weave an Image and attain a Fruit Position through Empty Attainment.
• Lu Yang heard the Nameless Dao Lord’s lingering words, including his threat against Chu Sheng, and feared that attaining Empty Attainment might revive the Dao Lord through him.
• The Nameless Dao Lord responded to Lu Yang’s unspoken curse, asked whether he knew Chu Sheng, and addressed him as a little friend.

Lu Yang resisted the Nameless Dao Lord Si Sui’s attempt to read his thoughts and realized he had been trapped in an illusion inside his Sea of Consciousness. Si Sui appeared before him and offered a deal: help him escape his predicament in exchange for the secrets of Nascent Soul cultivation.

• Lu Yang severed the Lesser Yin and Greater Yin cultivation from his Divine Thought, weakening the voice that had been reading his thoughts.
• Si Sui claimed that the Path-Opening Diagram connected Lu Yang to him, so Lu Yang destroyed the diagram and erased the related Empty Attainment method from his memories.
• Lu Yang tested whether Si Sui could still hear his thoughts and noticed that Immortal Venerable Greater Yin had not appeared despite his calling her.
• Lu Yang concluded that Si Sui had entered his Sea of Consciousness through an illusion after Lu Yang had voluntarily opened it to listen.
• Si Sui appeared as a tall, indistinct figure and offered Lu Yang the secrets of Nascent Soul cultivation if he helped Si Sui escape his predicament.

Lu Yang learned from Si Sui that the Millennial Calamity had ended long ago and that the World Honored One was the Seventh Nascent Soul who helped decide its final battle. Si Sui revealed that Immortal Venerable Greater Yin had imprisoned him under the World Honored One’s orders, then urged Lu Yang to free him by breaking the seals on four secret realms.

• Si Sui told Lu Yang that the final battle had occurred 129,600 years earlier, the Millennial Calamity had ended five thousand years ago, and Nascent Soul cultivation had been suppressed afterward.
• Si Sui identified the bald, unstable Seventh Nascent Soul as the World Honored One, leading Lu Yang to reconsider the Sacred Sect Ancestor’s motives for raising powerful cultivators.
• Lu Yang suspected Si Sui had been baiting him and questioned why Immortal Venerable Greater Yin had not shared what she knew about the Sacred Sect Ancestor.
• Si Sui admitted that Greater Yin guarded him but said the World Honored One had suppressed his eyes, ears, mouth, and nose, and that Chu Sheng had sent Greater Yin to imprison him after his existence was exposed.
• Si Sui explained that his four suppressed senses had become secret realms overseen by Immortal Lord Du Xuan, Immortal Lord Heavenly Number, Immortal Lord Word Cultivation, and Immortal Lord Bright Hall, and urged Lu Yang to help him escape.

Lu Yang outmaneuvered Si Sui’s manipulation by allowing Him to guide him into empty-attaining the Fruit Position, which freed Si Sui from Lu Yang’s Sea of Consciousness. The Celestial Court erupted into turmoil, and Lu Yang watched from the White Jade Hall as the conflict began.

• Lu Yang rejected Si Sui’s offer of help until Si Sui vanished from his Sea of Consciousness, then tested whether Greater Yin would appear by claiming he had seen a Dao Lord.
• Immortal Venerable Greater Yin appeared, suspected Lu Yang of hiding his Six Qi cultivation, and gave him a coin to bind him through the Image of money.
• At Greater Yin’s urging, Lu Yang used the Path-Opening Diagram to weave the Six Qi Images together and empty-attain the Fruit Position.
• The apparent Greater Yin revealed himself as Si Sui, who explained that Lu Yang’s empty-attainment had recovered His Dao Fruit and enabled His escape.
• The illusions shattered, Si Sui’s voice left Lu Yang’s Sea of Consciousness, and the Mystic Pearl vanished as the White Jade Hall was torn open.
• Lu Yang realized Si Sui had helped him achieve his own goal and watched the Celestial Court descend into conflict.

Si Sui revived and began reclaiming the Spiritual Qi that had sustained the Celestial Court, while Immortal Venerable Greater Yin tried to restrain him. She decided to travel to the Sea of Suffering to stop his revival and left Lu Yang to guard the Ninth Layer.

• Si Sui manifested a vast featureless face over the Celestial Court and drew its Spiritual Qi into himself, causing cultivators and mortals to perish.
• Immortal Venerable Greater Yin appeared above Si Sui and used Greater Yin Damp Earth to bury and restrain him.
• Si Sui reclaimed more power as Immortal Lord Word Cultivation and the Preaching Ground merged into him, and his newly formed mouth drove back the soil.
• Immortal Venerable Greater Yin realized Lu Yang's Empty Attainment Fruit Position had triggered Si Sui's revival and considered how to stop the Dao Lord's Great Dao from emerging.
• Immortal Venerable Greater Yin decided to go to the Sea of Suffering and ordered Lu Yang to hold the Ninth Layer in her absence.

Immortal Venerable Greater Yin brought Lu Yang to the Spirit Platform, where he learned that its connected thoughts could aid Dao comprehension and suspected its origins were tied to the World Honored One. She entered the Sea of Suffering to confront Si Sui, leaving Lu Yang to guard the entrance, and he glimpsed her golden Great Dao.

• Lu Yang agreed to help Immortal Venerable Greater Yin, who pulled him close and let him sense the overwhelming thoughts connected to the Spirit Platform.
• Immortal Venerable Greater Yin explained that the Spirit Platform linked cultivators practicing its method and revealed that Si Sui was only a remnant of Divine Intent, not the true Dao Lord.
• Immortal Venerable Greater Yin cleansed the thoughts on the Spirit Platform and explained that its Power of All Beings could help deduce the Dao.
• Lu Yang agreed to guard the Sea of Suffering while Immortal Venerable Greater Yin entered it to stop Si Sui from attacking Chu Sheng's disciples.
• Lu Yang saw that Immortal Venerable Greater Yin's Money Fruit Position had become a golden Great Dao stretching through the Sea of Suffering and into the void.

Lu Yang realized that Empty Attainment could lead to a Great Dao beyond the Sea of Suffering and began helping his companions pursue their own insights. Meanwhile, Immortal Venerable Greater Yin tried to bury Si Sui, but Immortal Lord Du Xuan restored the Sun-Moon Realm and set out to free Si Sui’s main Divine Intent.

• Lu Yang concluded that manifesting a Great Dao through Empty Attainment might be the path to the Nascent Soul Realm, and resolved to forge a Grotto-Heaven into a True Treasure.
• Lu Yang invited Patriarch Tingyou, True Person Demon-Sweeping, and Suo Huan to meditate on the Spirit Platform, urging True Person Demon-Sweeping to try carving out his own Dao.
• Si Sui merged with the buried Severance Great Dao while holding Lu Yang’s Mystic Pearl Fruit Position, preparing to return to the Other Shore.
• Immortal Venerable Greater Yin exchanged her Money Dao for the Severance Great Dao, then used the Forbidden Knowledge and Greater Yin Image to bury Si Sui.
• Immortal Lord Du Xuan released his suppression of the Sun-Moon Realm, disrupting Immortal Venerable Greater Yin’s tomb, and prepared to free Si Sui’s main Divine Intent from the Ninth Layer of Celestial Court.