Chapter Summaries

After devouring Spring Water, Lu Yang gained three spirit waters and used them to conceal and protect Patriarch Tingyou while he studied Mu Changsheng’s Non-Existent Heaven tome for two and a half years. Patriarch Tingyou successfully remade Carefree Heaven and advanced it into the orthodox ranks, awakening its mystery, Wishful Heart.

• Lu Yang explained how his Inexhaustible Shared-Drink Spring produced mystic-, Cang-, and yellow-colored spirit waters with distinct powers.
• Lu Yang took Patriarch Tingyou to the Nourishing Life Lord and gave him Mu Changsheng’s Non-Existent Heaven Fruit Position tome to study.
• Lu Yang concealed and guarded Patriarch Tingyou as he comprehended the tome for two and a half years.
• Patriarch Tingyou awoke and said he could use Non-Existent Heaven as a reference to remake Carefree Heaven and advance it into the orthodox ranks.
• Patriarch Tingyou reconstructed Carefree Heaven, whose newly awakened Fruit Position mystery was named Wishful Heart.

Patriarch Tingyou achieved Wishful Heart, a method that turns fantasies into reality, while Lu Yang learned that Old Dragon Lord was conspiring with Gangxing Budao True Lord to seize Fire in the Sky. True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow confronted Old Dragon Lord and urged Xuan Yuan Great Sage and Great Sage Mingzhu not to submit to Sword Pavilion.

• Patriarch Tingyou explained that Wishful Heart made fantasies real, and Lu Yang recognized its extraordinary potential.
• Lu Yang received Mu Changsheng's Divine Thought and learned that Old Dragon Lord was cooperating with Gangxing Budao True Lord to seize Fire in the Sky.
• Old Dragon Lord brought Xuan Yuan Great Sage, Great Sage Mingzhu, Mu Changsheng, and Tian Qiu into the Sea of Suffering, claiming they should submit to Gangxing as he approached Great True Lord status.
• Old Dragon Lord privately aimed to use the threat of Sword Pavilion to make Xuan Yuan Great Sage and Great Sage Mingzhu submit to him instead.
• True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow appeared and offered to protect Xuan Yuan Great Sage and Great Sage Mingzhu if they joined Sacred Sect.
• True Lord Flying Snow reminded the two Great Sages that a Great True Lord could not replace the Nascent Soul Dao Lord Overseas had lost, making them stop as Old Dragon Lord prepared to withdraw.

True Lord Flying Snow tried to win Xuan Yuan Great Sage and Great Sage Mingzhu away from Old Dragon Lord, but Gangxing Budao True Lord attacked the Sacred Sect to draw her attention away. After True Lord Flying Snow stopped his assault, she confronted him over his threat to her sect and defended her convictions.

• True Lord Flying Snow offered Xuan Yuan Great Sage and Great Sage Mingzhu protection and Great True Lord status if they affiliated their Grotto-Heavens beneath hers, and said she would accept only one of them.
• Old Dragon Lord secretly sent an urgent message calling for the plan to begin, and True Lord Flying Snow sensed the move.
• Gangxing Budao True Lord attacked Cloud Sea of Heaven-Reaching with sword strikes, overwhelming the Thirty-Three Heavens Chess Dao Formation and threatening the Sacred Sect's disciples.
• True Lord Flying Snow took control of the formation and extinguished the Sword Light that had appeared in the disciples' hearts.
• At Extreme Heaven Cliff, Gangxing Budao True Lord criticized True Lord Flying Snow's attachments and convictions, and she answered that her convictions were her Dao while his Dao would never truly be his.

True Lord Flying Snow left to protect Jiangnan while Gangxing Budao True Lord fought her to keep her away from Fire in the Sky. Old Dragon Lord found the shifting Supreme Fruit Position in the Sea of Suffering and ordered Tian Qiu and Mu Changsheng to seal it, while Mu Changsheng hoped the Nameless True Lord would intervene.

• True Lord Flying Snow charged toward Jiangnan, and Gangxing Budao True Lord rose to fight her above the Light Sea Boundary River.
• Old Dragon Lord led Tian Qiu, Mu Changsheng, Xuan Yuan Great Sage, and Great Sage Mingzhu into the Sea of Suffering.
• The group discovered Fire in the Sky, whose power suppressed Xuan Yuan Great Sage's Thunderclap Fire.
• Old Dragon Lord revealed that Gangxing Budao True Lord had tracked Fire in the Sky for five years using its Fruit Position booklet.
• Old Dragon Lord ordered Tian Qiu and Mu Changsheng to seal Fire in the Sky so Gangxing Budao True Lord could later demote its Supreme Rank.
• Mu Changsheng worried that the Nameless True Lord might not have received his message and feared Old Dragon Lord's success would block his own advancement.

At the Sea of Suffering, the Old Dragon Lord used Great Sea Water’s Root of Heaven and Earth to awaken consciousness within the Fire in the Sky and make it vulnerable to sealing. Just as he ordered the others to take it away, a Smoke-Shrouded Figure struck him from behind, and he recognized the attacker as Sky Soaring.

• Tian Qiu tried to envelop the Fire in the Sky with Heavenly River Water, but its Heavenly Fire Burning Punishment badly injured him.
• Mu Changsheng healed Tian Qiu while concealing his resentment toward the Old Dragon Lord and hoping for Lu Yang’s arrival.
• The Old Dragon Lord used Great Sea Water’s mystery to awaken the Fire in the Sky’s Images, causing them to fight one another and leaving the Fruit Position unable to resist a seal.
• A pale hand punched through the Old Dragon Lord’s chest, and he roared at the Smoke-Shrouded Figure, calling him Sky Soaring.

Tian Qiu betrayed Old Dragon Lord and fled with Mu Changsheng while Sky Soaring held off their pursuers. As Lu Yang prepared to enter the Sea of Suffering, Patriarch Tingyou and True Person Demon-Sweeping gave him two newly condensed Gold Natures to strengthen him.

• Tian Qiu sealed Fire in the Sky and joined Sky Soaring, while Mu Changsheng pretended to defect and tried to escape with him.
• Old Dragon Lord used Root of Heaven and Earth to split Mu Changsheng’s consciousness, but Sky Soaring erased the change with Perception Barrier.
• Tian Qiu and Mu Changsheng fled as Sky Soaring fought Old Dragon Lord and the two great sages of the Demon Race.
• Lu Yang considered going to the Sea of Suffering but decided to improve his odds before revealing himself.
• Patriarch Tingyou and True Person Demon-Sweeping gave Lu Yang Ting You Gold Nature and Demon-Queller Gold Nature.

Lu Yang gained two powerful Golden Talents from Patriarch Tingyou and True Person Demon-Sweeping, then revealed his plan to take control of Fire in the Sky. Meanwhile, Mu Changsheng helped Tian Qiu while secretly justifying his betrayal to the Heavenly Duke.

• Lu Yang used the Hundred Lives Book on Patriarch Tingyou’s Gold Nature and gained Supreme Dao Assimilation, a once-in-a-lifetime state of peak Dao comprehension.
• Lu Yang used the Hundred Lives Book on True Person Demon-Sweeping’s Gold Nature and gained All-Evil Slay, which could stack marks on an enemy’s Dharma Body and trigger an instant-death judgment.
• Lu Yang thanked Patriarch Tingyou and True Person Demon-Sweeping, then said he planned to abandon the light, rejoin the Sacred Sect, and take control of Fire in the Sky.
• Mu Changsheng raced with Tian Qiu through the Sea of Suffering and used Non-Existent Heaven to heal his injuries as Fire in the Sky’s resistance revived.
• Tian Qiu praised Mu Changsheng and promised he might be chosen to control Fire in the Sky, while Mu Changsheng privately doubted him and asked the Heavenly Duke for more fortune.

Mu Changsheng and Lu Yang each believed Sky Soaring was tracking them, while Sky Soaring followed Mu Changsheng and prepared to capture the outsider contacting him. Lu Yang arrived in time to take Fire in the Sky from Tian Qiu, and Sky Soaring revealed himself to confront him.

• Heavenly Duke’s intuition led Mu Changsheng to suspect Sky Soaring was secretly following them and might have noticed his messages to the Nameless True Lord.
• Lu Yang concluded that Sky Soaring was using Mu Changsheng as bait and hurried through the Sea of Suffering, while Sky Soaring secretly followed Mu Changsheng and Tian Qiu with traps and treasures prepared.
• Sky Soaring mistook Guan Ming for an unrelated True Lord and let him leave, while Patriarch Tingyou confirmed that the person they had identified was Fire in the Sky.
• Tian Qiu brought the sealed Fire in the Sky to the agreed high platform, where Lu Yang appeared and took it from him.
• Sky Soaring revealed himself, laughed, and declared that Lu Yang would not escape this time.

Sky Soaring prepared to trap Lu Yang above the Sea of Suffering, but Lu Yang used the Yellow Court to reconnect with Fire in the Sky and gained the Supreme Fruit Position. With Supreme Dao Assimilation active, Lu Yang began to demonstrate a new way to use the Heaven-Inscription Chapter, and he and Mu Changsheng vanished amid the collapse of Sky Soaring’s trap.

• Sky Soaring waited above the Sea of Suffering, confident that his formations and Perception Barriers would let him defeat Lu Yang.
• Lu Yang put the Yellow Court into the sealed Fire in the Sky, restoring their connection and unleashing the power of a Supreme Fruit Position.
• Lu Yang activated Supreme Dao Assimilation and perceived the Sea of Suffering and those around him with newfound clarity.
• Lu Yang realized he had misunderstood how to use the Heaven-Inscription Chapter and prepared to demonstrate its true use to Sky Soaring.
• Sky Soaring’s formations and Perception Barriers surged toward Lu Yang, but Boundless Phantom Colors erupted and Lu Yang and Mu Changsheng disappeared.

Lu Yang reflected on the Supreme Dao Assimilation that had revealed new uses for the Heaven-Inscription Chapter. After returning Mu Changsheng’s Fruit Position booklet and promising him a chance to observe the Great Dao in three days, Lu Yang inscribed a rule within his Dharma Body, causing his form to become obscured by boundless smoke.

• Mu Changsheng found Lu Yang on the seventh level of Nourishing Life Lord and bowed to him in reverence.
• Lu Yang returned Mu Changsheng’s Non-Existent Heaven booklet and promised to let him observe the Great Dao attained through Empty Attainment in three days.
• Lu Yang realized he could use the Heaven-Inscription Chapter to alter logic, creating paradoxes that concealed him from others.
• Lu Yang concluded that the Heaven-Inscription Chapter should be inscribed inwardly in his inner landscape and expanded outward.
• Lu Yang swallowed a spark of fire and inscribed the first rule upon his Dharma Body, which became shrouded in smoke.

Lu Yang discovered that he could borrow the power of different Fruit Positions by altering the rules within his Dharma Body, greatly increasing his strength. After assessing how he compared with several First-Class True Lords, he turned to Mu Changsheng and revealed a treasure sword that Mu Changsheng eagerly rushed toward.

• Lu Yang briefly made himself equivalent to Sky Soaring, but Great Forest Wood rejected his attempt to borrow its power because of Sky Soaring’s control.
• Lu Yang altered the rules within his Dharma Body and successfully borrowed more than half of Mu Changsheng’s Non-Existent Heaven power, then discarded it.
• Lu Yang tested several Fruit Positions and judged that he had barely reached the threshold of the first grade, comparing himself with Old Dragon Lord, True Lord Flying Snow, and Sky Soaring.
• Lu Yang concluded that reaching the supreme domain was the crucial step toward becoming a First-Class True Lord and considered learning from True Lord Flying Snow.
• Lu Yang thanked Mu Changsheng, unfurled the Righteous Banner, summoned True Person Demon-Sweeping and the Sword Dao, and revealed a treasure sword that Mu Changsheng eagerly rushed toward.

Mu Changsheng used his insight into Empty Attainment to evolve Non-Existent Heaven into a path toward the Other Shore, while Lu Yang compared Fruit Positions to staircases and the Great Dao to a road. Inspired by the discussion, Patriarch Tingyou announced that he would use Carefree Heaven and Wishful Heart to conjure Fruit Positions and forge his own path.

• Mu Changsheng studied True Person Demon-Sweeping's Sword Dao and explained that the Great Dao was like a road to the Other Shore, while Fruit Positions formed a staircase.
• Mu Changsheng used Non-Existent Heaven to absorb the Sea of Suffering's waters and began building an extensive staircase-like Dao path.
• Lu Yang considered how Mu Changsheng's insight might also benefit Suo Huan, who relied on a Fruit Position formed from a Realm Heaven Seed.
• The Righteous Banner shook as Patriarch Tingyou appeared and told Lu Yang he wanted to forge a Dao path with Carefree Heaven.
• Patriarch Tingyou declared that he would use Carefree Heaven and Wishful Heart to conjure Five Elements Fruit Positions and propel himself toward the Other Shore.

Patriarch Tingyou decided to use his peak condition and recent insight to attempt a major breakthrough, hoping to become a stronger support for Lu Yang. With Lu Yang and his allies guarding him, Tingyou began manifesting the Wall Earth Fruit Position in the Sea of Suffering.

• Lu Yang questioned whether Patriarch Tingyou could remain stable after using his risky method, but Tingyou said he had an eighty percent chance of success and insisted that now was the best time to try.
• Lu Yang agreed to guard Tingyou, dismissed Mu Changsheng, and concealed the pair within a dark region of the Sea of Suffering.
• Lu Yang, True Person Demon-Sweeping, and Suo Huan prepared to protect Tingyou as he began opening his path and told Lu Yang to watch closely.
• Tingyou brought forth Carefree Heaven and used Wishful Heart to form a five-colored point of light, then sent it into the Sea of Suffering.
• Tingyou chose to manifest Wall Earth, the first Fruit Position and the one he knew best.

Patriarch Tingyou manifested several Fruit Positions and realized that opening a Dao Path could serve as the grand ritual needed to sublimate their profundities and reach First-Class. As his attempt stirred the Sea of Suffering and drew danger near, Lu Yang recognized that Patriarch would need help—and wondered how Sky Soaring had achieved his own sublimation alone.

• Patriarch Tingyou manifested Wall Earth and Spring Water, but his status did not rise because they still borrowed Carefree Heaven's status.
• Patriarch Tingyou manifested Covered Lamp Fire, Pomegranate Wood, and White Wax Metal to prepare for opening his Dao Path.
• Patriarch Tingyou realized that opening a Dao Path was a grand ritual that could sublimate his Fruit Position's profundities across the Void Darkness Light Sea.
• The disturbance in the Sea of Suffering grew, and Lu Yang prepared for other True Lords to arrive while reflecting on Sky Soaring's solitary achievement.

Patriarch Tingyou used a risky method to raise his Rank and open a path toward becoming a First-Class True Lord, suffering severe injuries as Lu Yang watched. Sky Soaring sensed the ritual and raced toward them, and Lu Yang prepared to face his mortal enemy.

• Patriarch Tingyou used the Five Elements Fruit Position to raise his Rank through successive transformations, though Lu Yang realized the method could not reach the Other Shore.
• Patriarch Tingyou's Dharma Body cracked and bled from the falling Rank, but he ordered Lu Yang not to intervene while he continued the ritual.
• Golden Core Middle Stage cultivators sensed the disturbance in the Immortal Pivot, and True Lord Flying Snow recognized a new Fruit Position Ascension Ritual.
• Sky Soaring calculated that Lu Yang was protecting Patriarch Tingyou and rushed toward the Sea of Suffering to confront him.
• Lu Yang sensed Sky Soaring approaching with Holding Candle and resolved to test his strength against him.

Lu Yang used a self-directed logical paradox to resist Sky Soaring’s Perception Barrier, then empowered the Righteous Banner’s spirits with Thunderclap Fire to exploit his Golden Talent. Sky Soaring was weakened, leaving Lu Yang poised to press his attack.

• Sky Soaring recognized that someone was opening a new Dao and resolved to stop him, suspecting an alliance with the nameless beast.
• Lu Yang emerged from a fissure in logic and pierced Sky Soaring’s chest with a surprise attack, but Perception Barrier erased the memory and appeared to undo the injury.
• Lu Yang’s self-inscribed paradox let him retain the attack’s memory, and Sky Soaring deduced that he had limited the effect of Perception Barrier.
• Lu Yang summoned the Righteous Banner’s spirits and used Thunderclap Fire’s General’s Command to empower them as they attacked Sky Soaring together.
• The empowered spirits stacked ten execution marks through their attacks, triggering Lu Yang’s Golden Talent and weakening Sky Soaring for an incense stick’s burn.

Lu Yang used Thunderclap Fire and the Banner Spirits to weaken Sky Soaring, who erased the spirits and studied the attack through the Perception Barrier. When Sky Soaring struck at Patriarch Tingyou, Lu Yang intercepted him and activated Tawny Water, turning their fight into a mutual retaliation.

• Lu Yang sent Banner Spirits to attack Sky Soaring and trigger All-Evil Slay, weakening him twelve times before Sky Soaring erased the spirits with the Perception Barrier.
• Sky Soaring removed the weakenings by severing the memories tied to them, then used the Perception Barrier to replay Heaven and Earth's memories and inspect Lu Yang's technique.
• Sky Soaring acknowledged Lu Yang as a worthy opponent, then vanished from their spell battle and targeted Patriarch Tingyou instead.
• Lu Yang left the Logic Rift and struck toward Patriarch Tingyou, but Sky Soaring's attack passed through a barrier of firelight that kept Patriarch Tingyou out of reach.
• Sky Soaring's true body pierced Lu Yang's chest while his Retribution Dharma Outer Body attacked Patriarch Tingyou, and Lu Yang seized the hand and activated Spring Water's Tawny Water to rebound injuries.

Lu Yang countered Sky Soaring’s attack with Spring Water’s injury transfer, then faced Sky Soaring’s attempt to erase them both from Heaven and Earth. Lu Yang cut through the transcendent state with Sword Dao, and the two ended the clash weakened, apparently at a draw.

• Sky Soaring pierced Lu Yang’s chest, but Lu Yang used Azure Water to absorb his injuries and Tawny Water to reflect them onto Sky Soaring.
• Sky Soaring recovered from his wounds and vanished from Heaven and Earth, causing Lu Yang to turn transparent as they were drawn into a transcendent state.
• Lu Yang realized Sky Soaring meant to bypass him and attack Patriarch, then summoned his Unbending Sword Intent and borrowed True Person Demon-Sweeping’s Sword Dao.
• Lu Yang’s Sword Light tore open Sky Soaring’s closing eyes, restoring both of them to view, though each emerged weakened.
• Lu Yang and Sky Soaring met each other’s gaze as their fight appeared to end in a draw.

Lu Yang and Sky Soaring fought until Sky Soaring withdrew, each believing the other was closer to defeat than they let on. Sky Soaring resolved to seek allies and advance toward becoming a Great True Lord before Lu Yang could catch up.

• Lu Yang judged that he had gained an advantage in their exchange but knew Sky Soaring could change tactics and still overpower him.
• Sky Soaring retreated from the fight after sensing danger, then admitted to himself that he had lost his immortality and could no longer afford serious wounds.
• Tian Qiu arrived, and Sky Soaring acknowledged that no one below the Great True Lord realm could kill Lu Yang.
• Sky Soaring decided to go to Jiangnan and approach Gang Xing for cooperation, while planning to obtain an earth-element Fruit Position and gather three phases.
• Sky Soaring reasoned that the restrictions on Great True Lords would soon lift and reassured himself that he could advance before Lu Yang.

Patriarch Tingyou completed Carefree Heaven’s Fruit Position ascension, becoming a First-Class True Lord for a limited time and broadcasting his achievement across the Void Darkness Light Sea. When Old Dragon Lord arrived too late to stop him, Lu Yang and Patriarch Tingyou attacked, killing him and sending his soul fleeing into the Netherworld.

• Patriarch Tingyou used a Five Elements light curtain to slow his Rank’s decline and pushed Carefree Heaven to achieve the Dao as a First-Class True Lord.
• Patriarch Tingyou announced his achievement through the Immortal Pivot, then told Lu Yang that his elevated combat strength would gradually decline and require a day of rest before he could ascend again.
• Old Dragon Lord emerged from the Sea of Suffering after the ascension, realized he was too late, and tried to flee to the Real World.
• Lu Yang called on Patriarch Tingyou to attack, and Patriarch Tingyou stopped Old Dragon Lord with Wishful Heart as his concealed injuries erupted.
• Lu Yang’s Banner Spirit attacks stacked ten execution marks, and All-Evil Slay detonated, causing Old Dragon Lord’s body to explode and his soul to flee into the Netherworld.