Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang discovered that the Human World trial could temper Dao Heart and used that insight to forge the Enlightened Self-View Immortal Method from his three True Treasures. He nearly lost his awareness to a Perception Barrier, then realized Sky Soaring had entered the trial as a Golden Core True Lord and attacked him.

• Lu Yang realized that the Human World trial strengthened Dao Heart and could help him resist the World Honored One’s influence.
• Lu Yang connected the trial’s effects to the Taihuang Realm’s Invincible Dao Heart and continued defeating Challengers to temper himself.
• Lu Yang used Dao Heart to unite the Righteous Banner, Calamity Waves, and Yellow Court into the Enlightened Self-View Immortal Method.
• Lu Yang became distracted by his breakthrough and nearly succumbed to a Perception Barrier while a palm pierced his chest.
• Lu Yang recognized Sky Soaring as his attacker and realized Sky Soaring had entered the trial as a Golden Core True Lord.

Lu Yang fought Sky Soaring’s afterimage, breaking free of its Perception Barrier and trading powerful attacks with it. After recognizing that Sky Soaring was roughly his equal in cultivation, Lu Yang faced its questions about his identity and his Grotto-Heaven refinement, ending on the afterimage’s hint that he might have noticed something important.

• Lu Yang broke free of Sky Soaring’s Perception Barrier with Righteous Banner and Moral Cultivation, then attacked with Yellow Court, Open Heaven and his stored Images.
• Sky Soaring ambushed Lu Yang from behind, but Lu Yang’s Heavenly Fire Burning Punishment struck its hand and forced the two into a clash that left Lu Yang injured and Sky Soaring apparently unharmed.
• Sky Soaring praised Lu Yang’s Dao Heart and questioned whether he belonged to the Sacred Sect, while Lu Yang claimed to lead Jiangxi’s Righteous Dao.
• Lu Yang realized Sky Soaring’s afterimage was at an early Golden Core level like himself and saw that Heavenly Fire had charred its palm.
• Sky Soaring asked about the destroyed Pure Land and suggested that Lu Yang’s risky Grotto-Heaven refinement meant he had noticed something; Lu Yang wondered what it meant.

Lu Yang confronted Sky Soaring Afterimage about the Grotto-Heaven Method and learned that using it to advance through the Golden Core stages left at most a ten percent chance of reaching Nascent Soul. The conversation ended with Lu Yang preparing to attack, while Sky Soaring Afterimage considered what information might be valuable enough to make him bargain.

• Sky Soaring Afterimage noticed Lu Yang's surprise and suggested he had been fortunate not to stray onto a crooked path.
• Lu Yang inferred that the Grotto-Heaven Method had a flaw and revealed that he had sabotaged Sky Soaring's plans, leaving only three of his Five Elements Fruit Positions.
• Lu Yang proposed that becoming bound to a Fruit Position might make a cultivator its nourishment, but Sky Soaring Afterimage rejected that explanation.
• Sky Soaring Afterimage revealed that using the Grotto-Heaven Method to reach Golden Core completion left no more than a ten percent chance of achieving Nascent Soul.
• Lu Yang stopped asking questions and readied his Radiant Light, while Sky Soaring Afterimage searched for information valuable enough to sway him.

Lu Yang battled Sky Soaring Afterimage, who used the Perception Barrier to escape Lu Yang’s small world and attack from concealment. As both were badly injured, dormant power from Lu Yang’s External Dao Fruit Positions began to awaken and gather into a single thought.

• Lu Yang used the Image of time inside his small world, but Sky Soaring Afterimage countered with the Perception Barrier and erased the memory of his method.
• Sky Soaring Afterimage broke free of the small world by using the Perception Barrier on himself, a technique he called Heaven and Earth Forget Me.
• Sky Soaring Afterimage criticized Lu Yang’s unstable cultivation and attacked him from concealment, while Lu Yang relied on defenses and counterattacks to wear him down.
• Lu Yang and Sky Soaring Afterimage both suffered heavy injuries as they continued fighting, each believing he could still win.
• As Lu Yang pushed his cultivation to its limit, the Images of Decree and Inscribe Heaven awakened within him and gathered into a single thought: “Huh!”

Lu Yang realized the World Honored One was reviving within him after two External Dao Fruit Positions had helped create a foothold in his Dao Heart. He preserved the final third of his Dao Heart, but the World Honored One took control of his cultivation and broke through the methods restraining them.

• Lu Yang recognized the World Honored One's attempt to transform his Dao Heart and realized his Enlightened Self-View Immortal Method had limited the damage to one-fifth.
• Sky Soaring Afterimage stabbed Lu Yang and used the Veil of True Essence Immortal Method to attack both Lu Yang and the World Honored One.
• Lu Yang withdrew his Enlightened Self-View Immortal Method and guarded one-third of his Dao Heart, allowing the World Honored One to occupy the other two-thirds and control his cultivation.
• Sky Soaring Afterimage redirected his attack toward the World Honored One, but the World Honored One used Forceful Inscription to declare that the place could not affect the Dao Heart.
• The World Honored One shattered both Immortal Methods and awakened fully enough to declare that he had never expected to be an avatar of the World Honored One.

Lu Yang fought the World Honored One avatar for control of his body and forced Sky Soaring Afterimage to help contain it. After Sky Soaring used the Perception Barrier to suppress the avatar, Si Sui’s hidden remnant awakened in Lu Yang’s Sea of Consciousness, and Lu Yang asked Sky Soaring to help him clear the Human World trial.

• Lu Yang challenged the World Honored One avatar for control of the Fire in the Sky and persuaded Sky Soaring Afterimage to cooperate.
• The World Honored One avatar froze the surrounding world and struck Sky Soaring Afterimage down with a punch.
• Sky Soaring Afterimage concealed his death with the Perception Barrier, revived, and began erasing the World Honored One avatar’s thoughts.
• Si Sui’s hidden remnant awakened in Lu Yang’s Sea of Consciousness, surprising Sky Soaring Afterimage.
• Lu Yang asked Sky Soaring Afterimage to help him clear the Human World trial, and Sky Soaring agreed to face the chaotic situation with him.

Lu Yang manipulated Sky Soaring Afterimage, the World Honored One's avatar, and Si Sui's remnant thought to seize the Human World's opportunity. When the World Honored One's true body descended, Lu Yang destroyed himself and called on the Hundred Lives Book, leaving his fate unresolved.

• Lu Yang let the World Honored One's avatar awaken and used Si Sui's remnant thought to pressure Sky Soaring Afterimage into conceding the trial.
• The World Honored One's avatar disrupted Lu Yang's claim to the Human World's opportunity, so Lu Yang had Sky Soaring Afterimage suppress Si Sui's remnant thought while they fought for control.
• The World Honored One's avatar awakened Si Sui's remnant thought and revealed how Lu Yang could detect and destroy it, persuading Si Sui to help distract Sky Soaring Afterimage.
• Lu Yang regained control, self-destructed, and prevented the World Honored One's avatar from using the Fire in the Sky to revive, allowing Lu Yang to absorb the Human World's opportunity.
• The World Honored One's true body descended from the Other Shore, and Lu Yang destroyed the remaining third of his Dao Heart before his True Self consciousness sank into darkness and called out for the Hundred Lives Book.

In the pre-Restart darkness, Lu Yang realized that the Grotto-Heaven Method might suppress cultivation of the Dao Heart and obstruct the path to Nascent Soul. Distrusting Sky Soaring Afterimage’s advice, he chose to Restart at his Second Anchor Point, where he had established his foundation with City-Wall Earth.

• Lu Yang sensed that his strengthened Dao Heart let him retain his True Self through reincarnation, potentially replacing Gold Nature’s function.
• Lu Yang concluded that the Grotto-Heaven Method’s Grotto-Heaven Unfallen and Gold Nature might bind cultivators to Fruit Positions and prevent them from developing powerful Dao Hearts.
• Lu Yang reconsidered restarting at the Third Anchor Point, suspecting Sky Soaring Afterimage had encouraged him to develop Fire in the Sky to lead him into a trap.
• Lu Yang rejected the First and Third Anchor Points and chose to Restart at the Second Anchor Point, where he had cultivated City-Wall Earth.
• The Hundred Lives Book recounted that the World Honored One searched the Sea of Suffering’s records after Lu Yang’s decisive suicide, then destroyed the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness while Sky Soaring Afterimage cursed Lu Yang.

Lu Yang used the Hundred Lives Book’s new Refresh Authority to replace the lifespan reward with a cultivation-method option, then split his previous cultivation into a Dao Body while keeping his current cultivation to conceal himself. He had the Hundred Lives Book settle his previous-life Gold Nature and awakened the Golden Talent Immortal Pivot Survival Guide.

• Lu Yang refreshed the lifespan choice and discovered that he could instead inherit a cultivation method from his previous life.
• The Hundred Lives Book restored Lu Yang’s previous cultivation, but his lost Grotto-Heaven and Fruit Position left him weaker than a True Lord.
• The Hundred Lives Book detected a conflict between Lu Yang’s current and previous cultivation, and Lu Yang chose to split them by creating a Dao Body.
• Lu Yang’s Dao Body became his dominant self, while his original body retained his current Dao Foundation cultivation and his soul carried his previous-life Gold Nature.
• Lu Yang had the Hundred Lives Book settle his Gold Nature and awakened the Golden Talent Immortal Pivot Survival Guide, which judged whether he was being scammed.

Lu Yang discovered that his Immortal Pivot Survival Guide could identify traps in items, then found Si Sui’s remnant had appeared in his Sea of Consciousness and could be controlled by his commands. Reassured that Si Sui posed little danger, Lu Yang began questioning him about cultivation.

• Lu Yang tested the Immortal Pivot Survival Guide and learned it could identify traps, including one in the World Honored One’s Great Derivation Divine Refining Art.
• When Lu Yang merged his Dao Body with his original body, Si Sui’s remnant appeared in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Si Sui explained that he hoped to use Lu Yang’s future ascension to awaken his true self and possibly replace the Dao Lord at the Other Shore.
• Lu Yang ordered Si Sui to raise his hands, squat, and bark, confirming that Si Sui obeyed his commands.
• Lu Yang recognized Si Sui as a valuable source of ancient knowledge and asked how Golden Core cultivators achieved the Nascent Soul.

Lu Yang received Si Sui's complete Golden Core legacy and discovered a cultivation method that could turn a Fate-Form Body into a supreme Dharma Body by devouring a Fruit Position. He considered using it to consume his City-Wall Earth Supreme Fruit Position and realized the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness might help him hide the plan from the World Honored One.

• Lu Yang learned that Si Sui did not know how his original body achieved Nascent Soul, but could explain Golden Core cultivation.
• Si Sui gave Lu Yang the Precious Life Complete Form Scripture, a legacy created by his original body that cultivated a Dharma Body without relying on the Grotto-Heaven Method.
• Lu Yang read that the method used a Fate-Form Body to attain Golden Seeking, devour its Fruit Position, and then become the cultivator's Dharma Body.
• Lu Yang considered using his City-Wall Earth Dao Foundation to create a Fate-Form Body, but recognized the risk of consuming a Supreme Fruit Position under the World Honored One's watch.
• Lu Yang thought of the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness as a possible way to hide his plan from the World Honored One.

Lu Yang completed his Fate-Form Body, named it Yuantu, and arranged safeguards to guide and control its growth. He then went to Mending Heaven Peak and killed Chen Taihe, while Chongguang noticed only a brief flicker in Chen Taihe’s Life Lamp.

• Lu Yang separated his Dao Body from his original body, created the Fate-Form Body, and named it Yuantu.
• Lu Yang left Yuantu Si Sui and Merely a Teacher as safeguards, gave him several potentially troublesome items, and decided to personally handle the approaching trial.
• Lu Yang appeared before Chen Taihe at Mending Heaven Peak and took the Chongguang Qi bottle from him.
• Chen Taihe mistook Lu Yang for True Lord Radiant Floating Truth and prostrated himself.
• Lu Yang summoned the Righteous Banner and killed Chen Taihe, while the Banner Spirit Peak Master of Heaven Mending took on Chen Taihe’s Karma.
• Chongguang noticed Chen Taihe’s Life Lamp flicker briefly but dismissed it and returned to his Golden Seeking.

Lu Yang searched Lady Ruoxiang’s memories to investigate whether Immortal Venerable Greater Yin was Mending Heaven Peak’s First Generation Peak Master, but a warning from the Immortal Pivot Survival Guide made him avoid the ancestral tablet. He then planned to use the Precious Life Complete Form Scripture to make Covered Lamp Fire his next target and test whether the Dao Lords would tolerate his attempt to seize a Fruit Position.

• Lu Yang searched Lady Ruoxiang’s memories for clues about the First Generation Peak Masters and Immortal Venerable Greater Yin.
• Lu Yang entered Mending Heaven Peak’s ancestral hall and found the dusty spirit tablet of Ancestor Baoguang Youzhao Guanghan.
• The Immortal Pivot Survival Guide warned Lu Yang not to touch the tablet, so he returned it and left the ancestral hall.
• Lu Yang decided to cultivate the Precious Life Complete Form Scripture and use Covered Lamp Fire to target Hongyun and provoke Sky Soaring in the Netherworld.
• Lu Yang resolved to test the Dao Lords’ response before pursuing his larger plan to seize City-Wall Earth, and left the Sacred Sect to find Hongyun.

Hongyun decided to retrieve his Grotto-Heaven Fragment in Jiangnan and summoned Hongju to use the Same Fate Fortune-Shifting Ledger for protection. Lu Yang appeared beside them unnoticed and began absorbing their moral-cultivation black qi as he prepared to settle an old score with Hongyun.

• Hongyun chose to go to Jiangnan for his Grotto-Heaven Fragment and summoned Hongju to use the Same Fate Fortune-Shifting Ledger for insurance.
• Hongju reported feeling uneasy about secretly eliminating the junior Yuantu, prompting Hongyun to investigate the possibility of a hidden Golden Core True Lord.
• Hongyun became lost in thought as Hongju presented the Ledger, and Lu Yang accepted the treasure in his place.
• Hongyun welcomed Lu Yang and lamented that the Righteous Dao had to rely on him, while neither Hongyun nor Hongju noticed Lu Yang absorbing their black qi.
• Lu Yang recalled that Hongyun had once bombed his fish and resolved to return the favor.

Lu Yang gave Hongyun a secret cultivation art that would make Hongyun his Fate-Form Body when completed, then questioned Hongju about Immortal Venerable Greater Yin. Hongju linked her to True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow’s bedchamber, while Lu Yang turned Hongyun’s anger toward Sky Soaring and planned to use Fate-Form Bodies in his future schemes.

• Lu Yang gave Hongyun the child chapter of the Precious Life Complete Form Scripture, which promised to help him recover but would make him Lu Yang’s Fate-Form Body upon completion.
• Lu Yang showed Hongju a portrait of Immortal Venerable Greater Yin, and Hongju said he had glimpsed her in True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow’s bedchamber at Sacred Fire Cliff.
• Lu Yang sent Hongju into a nearby thatched hut with the Banner Spirit and bestowed a Celestial Mother Transformation Mystic Light upon him.
• Lu Yang returned Hongyun’s contingencies to him and revealed that Sky Soaring had killed him, prompting Hongyun to vow revenge.
• Lu Yang strengthened his influence over Hongyun and planned to use Hongyun and Si Sui as layers of protection in his dealings with powerful enemies.

Sky Soaring discovered that Hongyun had broken through his Perception Barrier and suspected that someone tied to the First Generation Peak Masters was helping him. He used Xiaohai True Person to refine the Grotto-Heaven Fragment into a treasure, destroying the Coastal Li Clan and leaving with the Coastal Bright Light Pot.

• Sky Soaring learned that Hongyun had seen through the Perception Barrier and considered whether Gangxing Budao True Lord or a mysterious woman had helped him.
• Sky Soaring grew wary that the First Generation Peak Masters or the Ancestor might interfere with his plans, so he formed a Dharma Seal to activate a contingency.
• Xiaohai True Person was compelled to enter the Grotto-Heaven Fragment beneath the sea in Gantang Circuit, which Sky Soaring had originally prepared as bait for Hongyun.
• Sky Soaring took control of Xiaohai True Person, drew the Grotto-Heaven Fragment into his sleeve, and refined it into a jade pot.
• The Coastal Bright Light Pot swallowed the waters of Gantang Circuit and swept away the Coastal Li Clan, and Sky Soaring left with the finished treasure.

Lu Yang uncovered True Lord Radiant Floating Truth’s grudge against True Lord Flying Snow and considered recruiting him to support Hongyun’s return to the True Lord Position. He entered the Sea of Suffering to cultivate, discovered a mysterious Radiant Light, and fled after it noticed him.

• Lu Yang pieced together how True Lord Radiant Floating Truth had lost his standing to True Lord Flying Snow and suspected that he had secretly supported Hongyun.
• Lu Yang decided True Lord Radiant Floating Truth could serve as an ally while he pursued his plan involving Hongyun and Covered Lamp Fire.
• Lu Yang released Hongju, then entered the Sea of Suffering to explore what it meant to Pursue Dao.
• Lu Yang followed a wave to a Radiant Light that gathered countless Images into itself, then hurriedly withdrew when he sensed its power.
• The Radiant Light collapsed into a crowned, veiled face, whose voice demanded to know who had come.

Lu Yang realized that the Sea of Suffering contained the true forms of Fruit Positions and that ancient cultivators built deeper foundations by pursuing them directly. He suspected the Sacred Sect's Old Immortal had made the Grotto-Heaven Method a trap, then found a possible way for Yuantu to attain City-Wall Earth through the Sea of Suffering and surprise the World Honored One.

• Lu Yang connected the waves in the Sea of Suffering to Fruit Positions and realized that opening it had once been basic training for Foundation Establishment cultivators seeking Golden Seeking.
• Lu Yang concluded that the Grotto-Heaven Method made cultivation easier but suppressed cultivators' potential, and that advancing to Golden Core Middle Stage through it permanently limited their chance of reaching Nascent Soul to ten percent.
• Lu Yang suspected the Sacred Sect's Old Immortal had designed the cultivation system as a trap and decided the knowledge was dangerous to spread.
• Lu Yang realized that the true form of Roadside Earth could remain in the Sea of Suffering despite its manifestation being sealed by the Immortal Kingdom Dao Law.
• Lu Yang reasoned that he could find City-Wall Earth in the Sea of Suffering and have Yuantu attain it before fleeing into the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness to catch the World Honored One off guard.

Lu Yang spent twenty years cultivating in the Sea of Suffering while Yuantu followed Si Sui’s guidance and killed Arhat Fulong. Lu Yang then prepared a scheme against Sky Soaring, whose possession of Xiaohai True Person was exposed when the Same Fate Fortune-Shifting Ledger declared that Yuantu had died at his hands.

• Lu Yang roamed the Sea of Suffering for twenty years and strengthened his cultivation.
• Yuantu killed Arhat Fulong, took his Golden Body Relic, and received Si Sui’s advice to seek an opportunity overseas and cultivate Earthy Yang.
• Si Sui reported to Lu Yang that Yuantu was following the planned course, and Lu Yang arranged for Hongju to cooperate with him.
• Lu Yang predicted that Sky Soaring would use Xiaohai True Person and decided to trap him before pursuing the Covered Lamp Fire.
• Hongju used the Same Fate Fortune-Shifting Ledger to write that Yuantu died at Xiaohai True Person’s hands, triggering Heavenly Killing Intent.
• Sky Soaring, occupying Xiaohai True Person’s body in a remote Jiangbei city, sensed the change in Karma and wondered who was plotting against him.

Sky Soaring recognized that the Heavenly Killing Intent was bait designed to draw him toward Yuantu, but decided to protect the young cultivator and claim the Long Flowing Water Dao Abomination. Lu Yang anticipated Sky Soaring’s response and planned to use Yuantu to expose and weaken his defenses before Hongyun moved against Covered Lamp Fire.

• Sky Soaring traced the Heavenly Killing Intent to Yuantu and realized its sender was using the attack to lure him toward the Biyang Cultivation World.
• After learning that Yuantu was a Sacred Sect junior headed overseas, Sky Soaring resolved to protect him and take the Long Flowing Water Dao Abomination.
• Lu Yang predicted that Sky Soaring’s confidence would make him follow the bait and set out to reduce his power and exhaust his trump cards.
• Lu Yang planned to use Yuantu to pass intelligence to the Pure Land, hoping it would target Sky Soaring’s Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva.