Chapter Summaries

As Si Sui neared revival, Immortal Lord Du Xuan agreed to help him break the seal on the Ninth Layer in exchange for the Greater Yang True Fruit. Patriarch Tingyou then stood in Du Xuan’s way, leaving the outcome of their confrontation unresolved.

• Si Sui’s five senses reassembled, but the World Honored One’s Six-Character Mantra suppressed his body and left his Divine Intent sealed on the Ninth Layer.
• Immortal Lord Du Xuan accepted Si Sui’s offer, while Immortal Lord Word Cultivation and Immortal Lord Bright Hall refused to aid him because they would receive no Supreme Fruit Position.
• Immortal Lord Du Xuan ordered Immortal Lord Heavenly Number to hold off Word Cultivation and Bright Hall, then entered the Ninth Layer alone.
• Du Xuan dispersed the white mist and encountered Patriarch Tingyou, who declared that he would stop him despite being an Outer Dao True Lord.
• Du Xuan laughed at Tingyou’s challenge, confident that his Middle-Stage Immortal Lord strength made him vastly superior.

Patriarch Tingyou used Carefree Heaven to create an experimental method for imitating other Fruit Positions, then drew on the Sea of Suffering to make them real enough to form Complete Five Elements. He struck Immortal Lord Du Xuan with his newly amplified power, leaving Du Xuan both furious and stunned.

• Immortal Lord Du Xuan attacked Patriarch Tingyou with Greater Yang radiance, but the blow failed to land as it seemed.
• Patriarch Tingyou transformed Carefree Heaven into an imitation of Great Forest Wood, briefly making its phantom appear real and causing Du Xuan to freeze.
• Patriarch Tingyou used Fire in the Sky to deprive Du Xuan of some of his Greater Yang power, but Du Xuan countered with the Heavenly Capital Demon-Breaking Divine Sound.
• Patriarch Tingyou realized he could improve an external dao Fruit Position by placing it within a larger system and transformed Carefree Heaven into several other Fruit Positions.
• Patriarch Tingyou rapidly refined the Sea of Suffering’s water, made the transformed Fruit Positions real, and formed Complete Five Elements.
• Patriarch Tingyou grew powerful enough to strike Du Xuan, who was left astonished that an external dao True Lord could achieve such a feat.

Patriarch Tingyou fought Immortal Lord Du Xuan and discovered a way to build upon Carefree Heaven’s Fruit Positions, but True Person Demon-Sweeping had to intervene when Tingyou ran out of strength. Du Xuan then faced Demon-Sweeping, whose sword opened a thousand-zhang Great Dao through the Sea of Suffering.

• Immortal Lord Du Xuan self-destructed his Dharma body, shattering Patriarch Tingyou’s manifested Five Elements Fruit Positions and destabilizing Carefree Heaven.
• Patriarch Tingyou realized he could layer Images of the Five Elements Fruit Positions over Carefree Heaven to create a greater system, and saw this as a path he could scout for Lu Yang.
• Du Xuan reformed his Dharma body and attacked Tingyou with Water-Fire Calamity, but True Person Demon-Sweeping severed the calamity with a Sword Light and saved him.
• Du Xuan tried to persuade Demon-Sweeping to support the Dao Lord’s revival, but Demon-Sweeping answered with an attack.
• Demon-Sweeping’s Sword Light split the Sea of Suffering, revealing a Great Dao a thousand zhang long and wide.

True Person Demon-Sweeping wounded Immortal Lord Du Xuan by exploiting the brief vulnerability in his revival, while Du Xuan realized his emotions were being manipulated. At the Ninth Layer of Celestial Court, Lu Yang completed his third True Treasure.

• Immortal Lord Du Xuan recognized that True Person Demon-Sweeping had attained a Sword Dao Fruit Position through Empty Attainment and opened a path through the Sea of Suffering.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping’s sword broke through the Heavenly Capital Demon-Breaking Divine Sound and forced Immortal Lord Du Xuan to self-destruct.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping found Du Xuan’s exposed soul during his revival and struck him with the Sword of Upholding Dao and Righteousness, Severing Karma, leaving a Sword Scar on his Spirit Platform.
• Immortal Lord Du Xuan felt jealousy and rage toward True Person Demon-Sweeping and Patriarch Tingyou, then realized something was magnifying his negative emotions.
• Lu Yang opened his eyes at the Ninth Layer of Celestial Court as a heartbeat shook the universe, and his third True Treasure was completed.

Lu Yang forged his third True Treasure, Yellow Court, using the Heaven Pillar Governing Mystery Grotto-Heaven and the Celestial Court Spirit Platform Method. As Immortal Lord Du Xuan attacked with his life-bound Dao-Seeking Immortal Method, Lu Yang's new domain swallowed the strike and sent it back toward him.

• Lu Yang forged a True Treasure from the Heaven Pillar Governing Mystery Grotto-Heaven, uniting the lights and scenes within his body and resolving to pursue a Dao that embraced all Myriad Forms.
• Immortal Lord Du Xuan decided to break the seal of the Ninth Layer and summoned his life-bound Dao-Seeking Immortal Method, the Kanli Chi-Shou Jade.
• Immortal Lord Du Xuan unleashed a strike of Yin-Yang light that dimmed the Images throughout the Ninth Layer.
• Lu Yang moved in front of Patriarch Tingyou and True Person Demon-Sweeping, named his third True Treasure Yellow Court, and formed a domain encompassing the Myriad Forms.
• Lu Yang's domain swallowed Immortal Lord Du Xuan's Yin-Yang strike, then opened a gateway and sent the attack back at him.

Immortal Lord Du Xuan’s Yin-Yang light was turned back against him by Lu Yang, who trapped him in a newly formed world and inflicted grave wounds. Du Xuan realized Lu Yang’s power exceeded his current strength and charged into close combat to prevent him from using more abilities.

• Immortal Lord Du Xuan’s Yin-Yang light resisted his control, shattered the Du Xuan Stone, and forced him to retreat.
• Lu Yang trapped Du Xuan in an illusory world of his own making, where Du Xuan’s attacks returned and badly wounded him.
• Lu Yang admitted he was using Du Xuan to hone his abilities and had not yet condensed a Dao-Seeking Immortal Method.
• Immortal Lord Du Xuan recognized that Lu Yang’s mysteries exceeded his strength and charged at him in his towering Dharma form.

Lu Yang joined forces with Patriarch Tingyou, True Person Demon-Sweeping, and Suo Huan to battle Immortal Lord Du Xuan inside a world created by the Yellow Court. He could not kill Du Xuan, but he suppressed and sealed him, matching True Lord Flying Snow’s achievement.

• Lu Yang summoned Patriarch Tingyou and True Person Demon-Sweeping through the Righteous Banner and merged their powers into his Yellow Court.
• Immortal Lord Du Xuan broke through Lu Yang’s space-distorting Images, but Lu Yang wounded him with Sword Dao techniques and healed himself with Suo Huan’s Spring Water.
• Lu Yang and Patriarch Tingyou overwhelmed Du Xuan with Images and inscribed a rule preventing an Immortal Lord from reviving after death.
• Du Xuan realized that the sun and moon in his sky were Lu Yang’s eyes and discovered he had been fighting inside a small world held in Lu Yang’s palm.
• Lu Yang revealed that True Person Demon-Sweeping’s Sword Dao let him sustain the world without spending his own dharma power, then suppressed and sealed Du Xuan.

Si Sui detonated his eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and body to break the World Honored One’s Spirit Platform seal, while Lu Yang watched the Ninth Layer collapse. The freed Divine Intent awakened, but instead of returning to Si Sui, it spoke a Buddhist greeting.

• Immortal Venerable Greater Yin taunted Si Sui after Lu Yang suppressed Immortal Lord Du Xuan, while Si Sui considered detonating his recovered body parts to escape defeat.
• Si Sui detonated his eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and body, shaking the Real World and the Ninth Layer as Lu Yang struggled to remain standing.
• The Ninth Layer’s cracked surface revealed an azure-jade Dao Platform containing Si Sui’s final Divine Intent.
• Si Sui believed the explosion had broken the seal and planned to reunite with his Divine Intent, reclaim his Great Dao, and escape into the Outer Heaven Light Sea.
• Si Sui’s Divine Intent opened its eyes, received his message, stood up, pressed its palms together, and said, “Amitabha.”

The World Honored One converted Si Sui’s remaining Divine Intent into the Immovable Tathagata of the Vajra Realm, ending the threat of Si Sui’s return. Immortal Venerable Greater Yin asked for the promised Mystic Pearl, but the Tathagata demanded Lu Yang instead, and she agreed.

• The World Honored One used their fixed thought-link to convert Si Sui, who came to believe he was a fragment of the World Honored One and became the Immovable Tathagata of the Vajra Realm.
• Immortal Venerable Greater Yin explained that the conversion completed a hundred-thousand-year scheme to erase Si Sui, then asked the Tathagata to grant her the promised Mystic Pearl.
• The Tathagata said the scheme’s flaw had left him with only a strand of Divine Intent rather than a complete Dao Lord dharma body, and demanded Lu Yang as compensation.
• Immortal Venerable Greater Yin agreed to hand over Lu Yang, deciding that her Junior Brother would have to suffer for her Dao Path.

The Immovable Tathagata of the Vajra Realm pursued Lu Yang after taking the Empty Attainment Fruit Position, but Lu Yang escaped into the Void Darkness Land. Lu Yang found a place linked to his past bloodshed where the pursuit could not reach him, and went to investigate, leaving the Tathagata astonished when their Karma was severed.

• Immortal Venerable Greater Yin approved the transfer of the Empty Attainment Fruit Position, and the Immovable Tathagata of the Vajra Realm gave her the Mystic Pearl before returning to the Real World to capture Lu Yang.
• The Immovable Tathagata of the Vajra Realm found the Celestial Court deserted, while Lu Yang hid in the Void Darkness Land and considered restarting his life.
• Lu Yang sensed danger at every possible destination and suspected the Immovable Tathagata of the Vajra Realm had locked onto him.
• Lu Yang discovered a safe place tied to the blood he had shed in the Void Darkness Land and decided to risk going there rather than waste a page of the Hundred Lives Book.
• Lu Yang descended toward the site and saw that it resembled a footprint, while the Immovable Tathagata of the Vajra Realm sensed that his Karma with Lu Yang had been severed.

Lu Yang traced the source of his blood to a small Jietian trapped at the edge of a vast shadow, where its pull threatened to destroy it. As a fragment of another swallowed Jietian approached, a streak of Blood Light emerged from within the endangered realm.

• Lu Yang realized the shadow was a footprint reflected from the Sea of Suffering and wondered whether the great being who left it was the Sacred Sect Ancestor.
• Lu Yang followed the Karma of his blood and found a small Jietian near the shadow, with traces of other Jietian that had already been swallowed.
• Lu Yang judged that the remaining Jietian would be pulled into the shadow within about a thousand years and considered how his blood might help someone there reach Foundation Establishment Perfection.
• A fragment of a swallowed Jietian hurtled toward the small realm, and Lu Yang waited to see what would happen.
• A streak of Blood Light burst from the Jietian and declared, “Insolence!”

Lu Yang investigated the Small Realm Heaven, where his blood had transformed the realm and helped a Crown Youth attain the rank of Imperial Sovereign. He discovered that the realm’s strange time effect only altered perception, then resolved to keep watching for whoever might be manipulating its Karma.

• Lu Yang saw a Foundation Establishment Perfection Crown Youth supporting the falling Jietian and recognized that his own blood had empowered him.
• Lu Yang discovered that the Jietian slowed Divine Thought nearly ten thousandfold, though the effect did not extend lifespan or improve cultivation.
• The Crown Youth refined the Jietian fragments and discussed forging an Imperial Weapon with a young man in a daoist robe, while expressing his belief that Immortals existed.
• The Crown Youth recalled that Lu Yang’s blood had helped him become an Imperial Sovereign and believed only an Immortal could save his realm.
• Lu Yang observed that his blood had fused with the Jietian and concluded it had helped the realm avoid destruction, then decided to keep investigating its Karma.

Lu Yang learned the Taihuang Realm’s history and discovered that Tai had created the Suihuo Forbidden Zone after seeking the Immortal Path. He confronted Tai and searched his memories, finding that a Sword Pavilion True Person Demon-Subduer had stopped Tai on the path.

• Lu Yang searched the Crown Youth’s soul and learned that he was Imperial Sovereign Yi of the Taihuang Realm.
• Lu Yang suspected the Immortal Realm in the historical records referred to the Shadow Region and went to the Suihuo Forbidden Zone.
• Lu Yang’s presence extinguished the Forbidden Zone’s flames and awakened its master, Tai.
• Lu Yang dragged Tai from his coffin and asked whether he was Tai, and Tai recognized Lu Yang as an Immortal.
• Lu Yang searched Tai’s memories and discovered that a White-Robed Youth from Sword Pavilion had blocked Tai’s attempt to traverse the Immortal Path.

Lu Yang investigated Tai’s memories of the Immortal Path and discovered that its life-sustaining light was a Time Image Crystal, while he grew curious about its likely connection to the Shadow Region. Tai explained that the Immortal Path would soon reopen and pledged himself to Lu Yang, who accepted him as a disciple on behalf of a fellow Daoist.

• Lu Yang recognized Tai as an unusually powerful Imperial Sovereign who had survived three strikes from True Person Demon-Subduer and learned that Tai had extended his life with Immortal Blood and immortal medicine.
• Lu Yang reviewed Tai’s memories of the Immortal Path and suspected it led into the Shadow Region, where True Person Demon-Subduer might have found an opportunity to cultivate Sword Edge Metal.
• Lu Yang took Tai’s crystal of Immortal Light and identified it as a Time Image Crystal that slowed Tai’s personal time rather than truly extending his lifespan.
• Tai told Lu Yang that the Immortal Path would soon reopen and that ten Imperial Sovereigns planned to enter it together.
• Tai knelt and asked Lu Yang to save his realm, and Lu Yang offered to accept him as a disciple on behalf of a fellow Daoist; Tai immediately kowtowed and greeted him as sect master.

Lu Yang questioned Tai about the Immortal Path and suspected that his lack of a Grotto-Heaven had confused the Shadow Region’s entry requirements. While he planned how to enter at full strength, a White-Robed Youth sensed danger and learned that his Heavenly Remnant Consciousness might hold a Dao Lord’s legacy.

• Tai told Lu Yang that Imperial Sovereigns learned the Immortal Path’s opening time through Heavenly Revelation.
• Lu Yang suspected the Shadow Region had drawn him through Karma but rejected him because he no longer possessed a Grotto-Heaven.
• Lu Yang decided to find a way to fool the Shadow Region’s perception and enter as a Golden Core True Lord, considering a Restart and other options.
• Lu Yang chose to wait while he reviewed his Celestial Court gains and prepared for his next life.
• A White-Robed Youth’s Sword Heart warned him of approaching danger, and an aged voice revealed that the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness might be the last Dao Lord’s legacy in the Void Darkness Light Sea.

Immortal Venerable Greater Yin waited to rebuild her chances of reaching the Dao Lord rank, while the Immovable Tathagata of the Vajra Realm gave up investigating Lu Yang. In the Taihuang Realm, Suo Huan awakened with an enhanced support ability, and the Immortal Path opened.

• Immortal Venerable Greater Yin stabilized her Heavenly Thoroughfare and regretted that Si Sui’s Fruit Positions had been destroyed, reducing her chance of breaking through.
• The Immovable Tathagata of the Vajra Realm failed to find Lu Yang through deduction, suspected a Dao Lord was involved, and abandoned his investigation.
• Suo Huan awakened and showed Lu Yang that Shared Drink could transfer injuries to someone whose body he borrowed, though he first needed to collect their aura.
• Lu Yang invited Suo Huan into the Yellow Court to help strengthen it, hoping to bring it back when Restart came.
• After more than ten thousand years passed in the Taihuang Realm, Lu Yang sensed that the Immortal Path had opened, and the great Forbidden Zones turned toward its gateway.

The Ten Imperial Sovereigns entered the Immortal Path, and Lu Yang secretly followed them by using fortune to conceal himself. Inside, they saw visions of their futures in which a White-Robed Youth killed them, but they pressed onward.

• The Imperial Sovereigns gathered at the Immortal Gate, restored their peak strength, and challenged Tai over his arrogance.
• Imperial Sovereign Yi attacked the Immortal Gate, and the Ten Imperial Sovereigns followed him inside.
• Lu Yang used the Hundred Lives Book and fortune gathered from Taihuang Realm cultivators to conceal himself and slip through the gate behind them.
• The gate vanished, leaving Lu Yang and the Ten Imperial Sovereigns on a dark path filled with images of the past, present, and future.
• The Ten Imperial Sovereigns saw visions of a White-Robed Youth killing them, yet marched forward together, while Lu Yang admired their resolute Dao Hearts.

Lu Yang followed the Ten Imperial Sovereigns to the ruins at the end of the Immortal Path, where they encountered Sword Pavilion's True Person Demon-Subduer. As Demon-Subduer prepared to kill them using his Sword Edge Metal and future foresight, Lu Yang froze everyone and exposed an ancient soul hidden inside him, which realized a Golden Core True Lord had infiltrated the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness.

• Lu Yang pondered the meaning of Heavenly Remnant Consciousness as he followed the Ten Imperial Sovereigns to a ruined palace complex at the end of the Immortal Path.
• True Person Demon-Subduer emerged from a pavilion, and the Ten Imperial Sovereigns attacked him before he could speak.
• True Person Demon-Subduer used his Lifebound Divine Ability to eliminate possible futures until only one remained, in which he killed all ten Imperial Sovereigns.
• Lu Yang walked among the frozen figures and revealed the ancient soul hidden in True Person Demon-Subduer's Sea of Consciousness.
• The ancient soul recognized Lu Yang as a Golden Core True Lord who had infiltrated the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness, while Lu Yang wondered if this was the World Honored One's joy.

Lu Yang forced Long Tu to explain the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness, learning that it was a shattered inheritance ground said to preserve trials based on Dao Lords’ past achievements. When Long Tu proposed exploring together, Lu Yang claimed the mystic realm as his own.

• Lu Yang confronted Long Tu and demanded to know what the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness was.
• Long Tu explained that the realm had been shattered by the World Honored One’s Footprint and could lead to a Dao Lord’s inheritance.
• Long Tu described the realm’s Seven Layers and said its trials might record Dao Lords’ past attainments of Nascent Soul.
• Long Tu proposed that he and Lu Yang explore the realm together, but Lu Yang declared it was his mystic realm.

Lu Yang entered the Human World trial after discovering its Sea of Suffering threshold and began defeating the cultivators who appeared before him. His attacks sharpened his thoughts, but killing one challenger also injured the cultivator whose imprint he had destroyed in the real world.

• Lu Yang defeated Long Tu, banished True Person Demon-Subduer, and offered the Ten Imperial Sovereigns a chance to become Righteous Banner Spirits.
• Lu Yang sensed the Sea of Suffering inside the pavilion, saw through its illusion, and entered the first trial, Human World.
• Lu Yang killed a black-robed challenger with a single slap and felt his thoughts and soul grow clearer.
• Lu Yang killed Qinghe of Star Palace, then wondered whether destroying the challengers' Images affected their true bodies.
• In the Star Palace, Qinghe's true body vomited blood and realized that Lu Yang had destroyed his imprint; he suspected the attacker would die soon because of his violent style.