Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang and Sky Soaring negotiated over the treasures from Heaven after Lu Yang injured Sky Soaring in a sneak attack. Lu Yang traded an equal share of the spoils for Sky Soaring’s translations of four Ancient Method sutras, then used the Immortal Pivot Survival Guide to catch Sky Soaring’s deceptive translations and secure an honest deal.

• Lu Yang assessed his failed attempt to take Sky Soaring’s Gold Nature as a success in regaining leverage, while Sky Soaring resolved to demand a larger share after being injured.
• Sky Soaring proposed that the allies share their treasures, and Lu Yang offered three more shares and four Ancient Method sutras in exchange for a favor.
• Lu Yang asked Sky Soaring to translate the sutras, but the Immortal Pivot Survival Guide warned him that Sky Soaring’s first translation was a massive trap.
• Sky Soaring revised the translation, but the guide still warned Lu Yang that it contained a small trap, so Lu Yang gave him one final chance.
• Sky Soaring demanded half the goods upfront, took a drop of Sun-Moon Mystic Nectar, and corrected the translation until the guide stopped warning Lu Yang.
• Lu Yang handed over the remaining treasures, and both men exchanged sincere smiles while privately recognizing how difficult the other was to deal with.

The Zhuxuan Clan Leader learned that Zhu Xuanhao and Slaughter Star Lord Qinghe had died, then moved to seize control of Horn Wood Dragon. Meanwhile, Lu Yang examined his spoils and found a way to refine a powerful Spell, but needed a True Lord soul; Sky Soaring supplied one in exchange for Lu Yang’s Sun-Moon Mystic Nectar.

• The Zhuxuan Clan Leader received news of Zhu Xuanhao and Slaughter Star Lord Qinghe’s deaths and decided to take Horn Wood Dragon for the clan.
• Lu Yang examined the Horn Wood Celestial Gate Star Core and the four Ancient Method Sutras Sky Soaring had translated for him.
• Lu Yang learned that he could refine Mighty Spirit Kui Gang Righteous Qi only with a True Lord soul, but Qinghe and Zhu Xuanhao’s souls had lost their True Lord rank.
• Sky Soaring sent Lu Yang the living soul of the Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva and asked for all his Sun-Moon Mystic Nectar.
• Lu Yang traded Sky Soaring his two drops of Sun-Moon Mystic Nectar and took the soul, planning to refine the Spell.

Lu Yang refined Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva's soul into a Dark Light Dharma Ring at the core of the Taihuang Realm and began creating a second Fate-Form Body. The chapter ended with him transferring his Sword Edge Metal Dao Foundation's five divine abilities into the new body.

• Lu Yang reasoned that acting like a rookie True Lord would keep Sky Soaring uncertain about his identity, and decided to wait until Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva was refined before scanning the Immortal Pivot Survival Guide.
• Lu Yang considered how ancient spell cultivation might have developed from Qi Refining through Golden Core, with spells naturally becoming divine abilities as cultivators advanced.
• Lu Yang entered the Taihuang Realm's core and refined Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva's soul into a Dark Light Dharma Ring, which he expected would need forty-nine years for preliminary refinement.
• Lu Yang took out the Horn Mansion Celestial Gate Star Core and used the Precious Life Complete Form Scripture to shape it into a young daoist resembling True Person Demon-Subduer.
• Lu Yang severed the five divine abilities of his Sword Edge Metal Dao Foundation and transferred them, along with a Sword Scar of Golden Light, into the Fate-Form Body.

Lu Yang completed a Fate-Form Body that would return to the Immortal Pivot as True Person Demon-Subduer, then recruited Long Tu into the Righteous Dao. Long Tu secured Lu Yang’s promise to restore the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness, but Lu Yang removed the contract’s deadline as soon as Long Tu joined.

• Lu Yang finished refining a Fate-Form Body with True Person Demon-Subduer’s appearance, memories, Karma, and Destiny.
• Lu Yang freed Long Tu’s thoughts and offered him a place in the Righteous Dao, promising he could help Long Tu be reborn.
• Long Tu agreed to join if Lu Yang reassembled the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness and restored the Guardian Lineage’s inheritance within three hundred years.
• Lu Yang signed Long Tu’s Dharma Contract, and Long Tu entered the Righteous Banner to become a disciple of the Righteous Dao.
• At Lu Yang’s command, Long Tu produced the contract, and Lu Yang changed its three-hundred-year deadline to indefinite.

Lu Yang completed his preparations to travel to the Immortal Pivot by refining his Past Dust Aspect and arranging for Long Tu to aid True Person Demon-Subduer. He and Sky Soaring agreed to send avatars in their stead and renewed their alliance with a Heavenly Dharma Contract.

• Lu Yang used his remaining Five Elements Star Marrow to elevate Covered Lamp Fire, creating Candlelight Dispels Night with the transformations Holding Candle and Dispelling Night.
• Lu Yang placed Long Tu in True Person Demon-Subduer's Sea of Consciousness and prepared the jade-statue avatar for the journey.
• Lu Yang summoned Sky Soaring in the Void Darkness Light Sea and asked when they would depart for the Immortal Pivot.
• Lu Yang and Sky Soaring acknowledged that their real bodies could not leave because powerful figures were watching them, then revealed their respective avatars.
• Lu Yang presented a Heavenly Dharma Contract, and Sky Soaring signed it, renewing their alliance.

True Person Demon-Subduer returned to the Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion and learned that Quexie had died and become a Dao Abomination. Meanwhile, Lu Yang and Sky Soaring secretly plotted to betray each other while sharing the Retribution Dharma Outer Body.

• True Person Demon-Subduer returned to the Sword Pavilion, where Demon-Queller greeted him and told him Quexie had died while Seeking Gold and been suppressed in the sealed Penetrating Earth Abyss.
• True Person Demon-Subduer doubted that the True Lord had acted out of affection for Quexie and reflected on the Sword Pavilion's Reincarnation Gold system and the investment in his own cultivation.
• Lu Yang asked Sky Soaring whether the Sacred Sect's great figure was still watching the Real World, and Sky Soaring concluded that the danger had likely passed for now.
• Lu Yang and Sky Soaring argued over Lu Yang's use of the Retribution Dharma Outer Body, each secretly planning to betray the other after finding the second trial of the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness.
• Lu Yang revealed to himself that his presence in the outer body was a disguised Early Golden Core Dao Body, giving him the strength to seize it from Sky Soaring when the time came.

True Person Demon-Subduer sought Gangxing Budao True Lord’s help with the final step of his Golden Seeking ritual for Sword Edge Metal. Gangxing Budao True Lord used the Eternal Sword to save him from a failed future and revealed that his path was blocked until the Sword Dao was attained; after Demon-Subduer left, a stream of light slipped from his Sea of Consciousness.

• True Person Demon-Subduer told Gangxing Budao True Lord that he had severed nearly every future in which his Golden Seeking ritual failed, but feared severing the last one.
• Gangxing Budao True Lord instructed True Person Demon-Subduer to seek Golden Seeking through that final failed future, and the attempt showed him perishing.
• Gangxing Budao True Lord used the Eternal Sword to shatter the vision and save True Person Demon-Subduer, warning that the sword could be used on him only once.
• Gangxing Budao True Lord explained that Sword Edge Metal was anchoring the future of the Sword Dao and would remain unavailable until the Sword Dao was attained, likely by Demon-Queller.
• True Person Demon-Subduer accepted Gangxing Budao True Lord’s instruction to keep cultivating and left, unaware that a stream of light had escaped his Sea of Consciousness.

Lu Yang and Sky Soaring discussed Gangxing Budao True Lord’s plan to use Sword Edge Metal to help Furnace Fire rise by depriving Fire in the Sky of its Supreme rank. Lu Yang traced Mu Changsheng to the Four Seas Sect and concealed the karmic disturbance, leaving Sky Soaring uneasy about Lu Yang’s mastery of Covered Lamp Fire.

• Lu Yang asked Sky Soaring whether Gangxing Budao True Lord’s explanation for True Person Demon-Subduer’s failure to attain Sword Edge Metal was accurate.
• Sky Soaring deduced that Gangxing Budao True Lord wanted Sword Edge Metal to secure a plan to deprive Fire in the Sky of its Supreme rank and elevate Furnace Fire.
• Lu Yang realized that Gangxing Budao True Lord needed a Foundation Establishment cultivator of Fire in the Sky and suspected Old Dragon Lord was protecting Mu Changsheng at the Four Seas Sect.
• Lu Yang used Holding Candle to trace Mu Changsheng through Old Dragon Lord’s karmic connections and confirmed that Mu Changsheng was at the Four Seas Sect.
• Lu Yang used Dispelling Night to conceal the karmic disturbance, while Sky Soaring wondered whether Lu Yang had imitated his Perception Barrier.

Xuan Yuan Great Sage arrived at the Dragon Palace and learned that the Old Dragon Lord had regained the water-element Supreme position. When Lu Yang appeared and the Old Dragon Lord fled, Lu Yang followed the trail of his escape.

• Xuan Yuan Great Sage noticed that Great Sea Water had regained some of its divine wonder and followed shrimp soldiers and crab generals to the Dragon Palace.
• Xuan Yuan Great Sage saw the Old Dragon Lord, Tian Qiu, Great Sage Mingzhu, and Great Sage Yuanxu, and realized the Old Dragon Lord had gained the water-element Supreme position.
• The Old Dragon Lord announced that he wanted the Great Sages' help to break through, while Xuan Yuan Great Sage worried that the Old Dragon Lord meant to make them subordinate to him.
• Great Sage Mingzhu asked whether the Old Dragon Lord had consulted the Sacred Sect, and the Old Dragon Lord boasted that he did not fear True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow.
• Lu Yang appeared beside the Old Dragon Lord, who vanished from the throne, and Lu Yang used Dispelling Night to follow his trail.

Lu Yang pursued the Old Dragon Lord across the seafloor, overcame his Great Sea Water technique, and sealed him with Dispelling Night. The Old Dragon Lord then unleashed a tremendous roar, leaving the fight poised for his counterattack.

• The Old Dragon Lord recognized the Retribution Dharma Outer Body and fled, but Lu Yang pursued him with Radiant Light and revealed three Life Lamps on his body.
• The Old Dragon Lord summoned the Sea-Commanding Conch and attacked Lu Yang with Hundred Rivers Merge Clear Light, drawing on the profound mystery of Great Sea Water.
• Lu Yang endured the attack, redirected his injuries into the Rebirth Aspect, and used Calamity Baleful Light to corrupt the clear-water technique and injure the Old Dragon Lord.
• As the Old Dragon Lord tried to flee, Lu Yang's Past Dust Aspect extinguished his three Lamps with Dispelling Night, sealing his body.
• The Old Dragon Lord roared across the sea region, and Sky Soaring warned Lu Yang that he was most dangerous when cornered.

Lu Yang pursued Old Dragon Lord and battled him beneath the sea, but Old Dragon Lord’s powerful spells left Lu Yang struggling to break free. Sky Soaring joined the fight through the Retribution Dharma Outer Body, turning the battle into a two-against-one attack.

• Old Dragon Lord escaped Lu Yang’s Dispelling Night light and nearly bit him in half, but Lu Yang dispersed his Dharma body into green smoke to evade the attack.
• Old Dragon Lord identified Heaven-Earth Intercourse Forging Dragon Teeth as a Second Grade spell with three hundred precepts, then threatened Lu Yang when he demanded Mu Changsheng’s whereabouts.
• Lu Yang attacked again with the Rebirth Aspect, prompting Old Dragon Lord to use Sinking Yin Obscure Dim Light to suppress Lu Yang’s body and seal his dharma power.
• Lu Yang used Holding Candle to search for a flaw in the sealing spell, but Old Dragon Lord repaired the few weaknesses he found.
• Lu Yang yielded, and Sky Soaring used Perception Barrier to conceal their approach before piercing Old Dragon Lord’s chest through the smoke.
• Old Dragon Lord realized Sky Soaring and Lu Yang were both controlling the Retribution Dharma Outer Body and attacked him together.

Lu Yang and Sky Soaring forced Old Dragon Lord to reveal that Mu Changsheng was at the Ends of the Earth, a forbidden boundary near the Netherworld. They then accused Old Dragon Lord of conspiring with Mu Changsheng to ambush them for information, leaving him trapped under their suspicion.

• Old Dragon Lord surrendered after Lu Yang and Sky Soaring triggered the Calamity Baleful Light within him, draining his life force.
• Old Dragon Lord revealed that Mu Changsheng was at the Ends of the Earth, where the Real World met a boundary leading down to the Netherworld.
• Sky Soaring explained that approaching the Ends of the Earth could drag cultivators down in realm, and Lu Yang decided to make Sky Soaring fall in realm during a future Restart.
• Old Dragon Lord tried to leave, but Lu Yang and Sky Soaring stopped him and accused him of leading them there because he had teamed up with Mu Changsheng over the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness.
• Old Dragon Lord denied planning an ambush, but Lu Yang and Sky Soaring treated their deduction as proof of his intent to kill them.

Mu Changsheng intervened to stop Lu Yang and the Old Dragon Lord from fighting, offering to share what he knew about the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness. He revealed that his Non-Existent Heaven Fruit Position had gained a mystery that could make injuries vanish, drawing Patriarch Tingyou’s interest.

• The Old Dragon Lord prepared to unleash Great Sea Water’s hidden mystery, while Lu Yang and Sky Soaring each suspected the other of scheming.
• Lu Yang and the Old Dragon Lord readied themselves to fight again, but Mu Changsheng emerged from the Sea of Suffering and asked them to stop.
• Mu Changsheng offered to share his information about the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness and manifested his Non-Existent Heaven Fruit Position as a talisman-covered mirror.
• Mu Changsheng used the mirror’s light to make the Old Dragon Lord’s Calamity Baleful Light injuries vanish.
• Patriarch Tingyou recognized the effect as a Fruit Position mystery and urged Lu Yang to obtain Mu Changsheng’s method.

Lu Yang agreed to trade the Human World coordinates for Mu Changsheng’s method of making Non-Existent Heaven produce mysteries, prioritizing Patriarch Tingyou’s research over the Nourishing Life Lord. As Mu Changsheng and Old Dragon Lord reeled at Lu Yang’s sincerity, Sky Soaring tried to retake control of the Retribution Dharma Outer Body.

• Patriarch Tingyou explained that Mu Changsheng’s ability to alter Non-Existent Heaven’s Images and create mysteries seemed impossible for an External Dao Fruit Position, and asked Lu Yang to obtain the method.
• Mu Changsheng failed to remove the root of Old Dragon Lord’s injuries, so he secretly concealed the Calamity Baleful Light in Old Dragon Lord’s dantian and made it appear that he had healed him.
• Old Dragon Lord recovered to his peak and praised Mu Changsheng, who then offered to exchange information because he held the Nourishing Life Lord and wanted the Human World coordinates.
• Lu Yang insisted on learning Mu Changsheng’s method before discussing their cooperation, then agreed to trade the Human World coordinates for an explanation.
• Lu Yang told Patriarch Tingyou that his concerns were his own, while Sky Soaring cursed and tried to seize control of the Retribution Dharma Outer Body.

Lu Yang and Mu Changsheng exchanged the real coordinates and Karma for entering the Nourishing Life Lord, but Lu Yang and Sky Soaring immediately fought over the Retribution Dharma Outer Body. Lu Yang tried to weaken Sky Soaring by forcing him to spend the Perception Barrier’s mysteries, and the fight remained unresolved.

• Sky Soaring secretly planned to seize the Nourishing Life Lord’s coordinate Karma for himself while pretending to be angry and struggling against Lu Yang.
• Lu Yang and Mu Changsheng agreed to exchange the coordinate Karma for the Nourishing Life Lord for information about how Non-Existent Heaven produced Xuan’s mysteries.
• After the Divine Thoughts met and confirmed the exchange was genuine, Old Dragon Lord pulled Mu Changsheng away and warned him that the Sacred Sect was about to fight.
• Lu Yang and Sky Soaring attacked each other, with Sky Soaring piercing Lu Yang’s chest and Lu Yang transferring the harm through the Rebirth Aspect before striking with Calamity Baleful Light.
• Sky Soaring used the Perception Barrier to prevent the Calamity Baleful Light from locking onto him and erased his Dharma Contract with Lu Yang.
• Lu Yang revealed that he had expected Sky Soaring to break the contract and intended to drain the Perception Barrier’s mysteries to bring Sky Soaring down to his level.

Lu Yang and Sky Soaring fought over the Nourishing Life Lord’s coordinates, then cooperated long enough to read them before returning to their usual wary alliance. Their true bodies also stopped fighting, but they rejected a binding oath and agreed to rely on their own methods.

• At One Line Sky, Old Dragon Lord explained to Mu Changsheng that Sacred Sect True Lords often fought over benefits, while Lu Yang and Sky Soaring battled inside the mist left by the exploded Retribution Dharma Outer Body.
• Lu Yang and Sky Soaring seized opposite ends of Mu Changsheng’s Divine Sense and deadlocked, each refusing to let the other read the coordinates first.
• Old Dragon Lord created a second strand of Divine Thought, and Lu Yang and Sky Soaring each read their chosen strand before destroying the other.
• Lu Yang and Sky Soaring presented themselves as allies again and accused Old Dragon Lord of undermining their unity.
• In the Human World, Lu Yang and Sky Soaring healed the injuries from their fight and proposed an alliance, but they rejected an oath to the Sea of Suffering and chose to rely on their own methods.

Lu Yang returned to the Taihuang Realm and learned from Patriarch Tingyou how to exploit its collapsing time Image to gain extra years to refine Mighty Spirit Kui Gang Righteous Qi. After Patriarch Tingyou began preparing the method, Lu Yang met Sky Soaring and suggested it was time to set off, eager to pursue his plans to strengthen himself and seek rare treasures.

• Lu Yang apologized to Patriarch Tingyou for failing to obtain the External Dao Cultivation Method and promised to acquire it from the Nourishing Life Lord if he had the chance.
• Patriarch Tingyou proposed using the Taihuang Realm's collapsing time Image to gain a few dozen years for Lu Yang to refine Mighty Spirit Kui Gang Righteous Qi.
• Lu Yang urged Patriarch Tingyou to proceed, saying the realm could be destroyed if necessary, and Patriarch Tingyou began preparing the method.
• Lu Yang left the Taihuang Realm and greeted a wary Sky Soaring in the Void Darkness Light Sea.
• Lu Yang asked Sky Soaring if they were ready to set off and planned to use the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness to grow stronger before pursuing the Supreme Fruit Position, Sword Edge Metal, and City-Wall Earth.

Lu Yang and Sky Soaring entered the Nourishing Life Lord’s second trial, a library where every book contained Forbidden Knowledge. Mu Changsheng revealed that the books recorded Fruit Positions and explained how he had used one to create and cultivate the Non-Existent Heaven.

• Lu Yang and Sky Soaring arrived in the Nourishing Life Lord’s library, where Old Dragon Lord and Mu Changsheng were already reading.
• Lu Yang and Sky Soaring found that Divine Thought could not easily process the books’ Forbidden Knowledge, and Lu Yang used the Righteous Banner’s spirits to translate an ancient volume.
• Lu Yang challenged Mu Changsheng about the External Dao Cultivation Method, prompting Mu Changsheng to explain that each book corresponded to a Fruit Position.
• Patriarch Tingyou questioned how revising a book could safely alter a Fruit Position, and Mu Changsheng said the Nourishing Life Lord’s trial protected such experiments from collapse.
• Mu Changsheng revealed that he had written the Non-Existent Heaven’s book himself and nurtured the resulting Realm Heaven Seed within the Nourishing Life Lord’s power.

Lu Yang realized the Nourishing Life Lord could help him prepare for attaining Fruit Positions through Empty Attainment, then learned that only Late Golden Core Great True Lords could reach its upper floors. He and Sky Soaring planned to lure Gangxing Budao True Lord into retrieving the books, hoping the effort would leave him wounded and vulnerable.

• Lu Yang recognized that he could use the Nourishing Life Lord to experiment with nurturing Fruit Positions across successive lives and seek the volumes for Supreme Fruit Positions.
• Mu Changsheng admitted he had only reached the first three floors and had never seen the upper-floor volumes.
• Lu Yang and Sky Soaring reached the sixth floor but found an invisible barrier blocking their way to the upper floors.
• Sky Soaring brought a book from the sixth floor to Mu Changsheng, who read it aloud and identified the orthodox Fruit Position as Lesser Yin.
• Lu Yang and Sky Soaring realized Gangxing Budao True Lord could reach the ninth floor, then secretly planned to lure him into taking the books and leave him injured so they could seize them.

Lu Yang assessed the risks of ambushing Gangxing Budao True Lord and concluded they needed two more reliable allies, while suspecting Old Dragon Lord of secretly cooperating with the Sword Pavilion. Old Dragon Lord considered drawing the Sword Pavilion into a conflict with the Sacred Sect, as Gangxing Budao True Lord received a mysterious visitor who asked about the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness.

• Lu Yang judged that Gangxing Budao True Lord’s strength and ability to calculate Karma made an ambush dangerous, but believed his need for Nourishing Life Lord’s Fruit Position codex would force him to take risks.
• Lu Yang suspected Old Dragon Lord had ties to the Sword Pavilion and decided their current forces needed two more first-class fighters to have a chance against Gangxing Budao True Lord.
• Lu Yang considered recruiting True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow and worried that, unlike Sky Soaring and Feixue, he could not revive endlessly if Gangxing Budao True Lord killed him.
• Old Dragon Lord feared Lu Yang had guessed his secret Fire in the Sky plan and resolved to draw the Sword Pavilion into a conflict with the Sacred Sect so he could benefit from their infighting.
• At Extreme Heaven Cliff, Gangxing Budao True Lord welcomed a mysterious visitor, who asked him whether he knew of the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness.