Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang seized Gangxing Budao True Lord’s reincarnated body to obtain his Sand Gold, then stripped Images from Sword Edge Metal and Fire in the Sky before escaping to Responding King. The Dao Lords’ clash ended with the Dao Court and Pure Land securing their prizes, the Sacred Sect winning the Dao Struggle, and the Sword Pavilion suffering a major defeat.

• Gangxing Budao True Lord reincarnated in Jiangnan, but Lu Yang seized him and extracted his Gold.
• Lu Yang used Teacher Exemplar to take Images from Sword Edge Metal and tore the Yellow Court and more Images from Fire in the Sky.
• Lu Yang abandoned Fire in the Sky and Sword Edge Metal, then fled into Responding King to avoid the Dao Lords.
• The Dao Court took control of Fire in the Sky, while the Pure Land bound Sword Dao to Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts.
• The Sacred Sect won the righteous-demonic Dao Struggle, and the Sword Pavilion suffered heavy losses as a sword cry rang across the Light Sea.

Lu Yang escaped into the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness with Sand Gold and Great Relay Station Earth, but the Sword Pavilion Dao Lord’s sword cry left him gravely wounded and trapped. He studied Great Relay Station Earth’s Boundless Dao and began stripping Gangxing Budao True Lord of his Gold Nature.

• Lu Yang escaped through the void into the immortal palace secret realm, carrying Sand Gold and Great Relay Station Earth as spoils from the Dao Struggle.
• Patriarch Tingyou warned Lu Yang that the sword cry had badly damaged his Dharma Body and that entering the Sea of Suffering to heal would likely get him killed.
• Lu Yang discovered that the Sword Scars could gradually damage his Dao Heart, then used his True Treasures to concentrate Fire in the Sky in the Righteous Banner and Sword Edge Metal in Calamity Waves.
• Lu Yang examined Great Relay Station Earth and learned that its Boundless Dao could open a path through obstacles and let him slip into the Real World.
• Lu Yang seized the sealed infant containing Gangxing Budao True Lord and forcibly stripped him of his Gold Nature.

Lu Yang chose Mysterious Pass Spirit-Merging Refining Art from Gangxing Budao True Lord’s settlement and used the refined True Lord to obtain Sand Gold. After learning Sand Gold’s nurturing mystery and nearly being drawn into the Sea of Suffering, Lu Yang demonstrated a powerful union of his four Fruit Position mysteries and considered seeking a Realm Heaven Seed to attempt Pseudo-Empty Attainment.

• Lu Yang selected Mysterious Pass Spirit-Merging Refining Art as his second Color Talent, recognizing that it could enhance Fruit Position mysteries.
• After ten years, Lu Yang refined Gangxing Budao True Lord’s Fate-Form Body and obtained Sand Gold within Responding King.
• Lu Yang nearly lost himself to the Sea of Suffering as he devoured Sand Gold, but sensed danger and pulled back before he died and Restarted.
• Lu Yang realized Sand Gold’s mystery was Trend Taking Shape, a nurturing power, and suspected Gangxing Budao True Lord had helped Precious Lotus Treasury Bodhisattva break through in order to kill her.
• Lu Yang united his gold, water, fire, and earth mysteries in Dao-Ringing Thunder Resonance and considered asking the Nourishing Life Lord for a Realm Heaven Seed to attempt Pseudo-Empty Attainment.

Lu Yang discovered that the Sword Pavilion Dao Lord’s strike had killed his karma in the Real World, making it impossible for him to leave Responding King safely. He traveled through the Void Darkness Land to Nourishing Life Lord and obtained a Realm Heaven Seed for Pseudo-Empty Attainment.

• Lu Yang sent an Incense Fire avatar into the Real World, and the Sword Pavilion Dao Lord’s Sword Light instantly destroyed it.
• Lu Yang tried again with a soul fragment severed from his karma, but Sword Light destroyed that avatar as well.
• Lu Yang realized the Dao Lord had killed his karma and future in the Real World, leaving him alive only within the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness.
• Lu Yang sent an avatar through the Void Darkness Land to Nourishing Life Lord, where he found no sign of Sky Soaring.
• Lu Yang took a Wordless Book from the secluded bookshelf, obtained a Realm Heaven Seed, and returned to Responding King.

Lu Yang used a Realm Heaven Seed, the Mysterious Pass Spirit-Merging Refining Art, and Sand Gold to create the Pseudo-Empty Attainment Fruit Position Divine Firmament Thunder. He left the chapter expecting it to grow rapidly, while its incomplete Pomegranate Wood Image remained a weakness he could address later.

• Lu Yang wrote the Five Elements and Yin-Yang mysteries into a blank book to form a thunder-based Realm Heaven Seed, choosing Pomegranate Wood to fill its Wood Element Image.
• Lu Yang used Minghe and Calamity Waves to erase futures in which his Pseudo-Empty Attainment failed, then completed the seed’s formation.
• Lu Yang named the new Fruit Position Divine Firmament Thunder and drew it into the Mysterious Pass between his brows.
• Lu Yang tempered Divine Firmament Thunder against his Sword Pavilion Dao Lord injuries with the Mysterious Pass Spirit-Merging Refining Art and enhanced it with Sand Gold.
• Lu Yang estimated Divine Firmament Thunder could become an External Dao Fruit Position within thirty years and a true Fruit Position within a hundred.

After thirty-five years of cultivation inside Responding King, Lu Yang completed the Divine Firmament Thunder as an External Dao Fruit Position and discussed its Images and possible direction with Patriarch Tingyou. Its Summoning Image then let him glimpse Old Dragon Lord and Mu Changsheng waiting for him in Nourishing Life Lord, raising his suspicions about an upheaval in the Real World.

• Lu Yang completed the Divine Firmament Thunder, which reached the level of an External Dao Fruit Position but still lacked its Wood-phase Image.
• Patriarch Tingyou praised Lu Yang's progress and examined the Divine Firmament Thunder's four Images: Summoning, Creation, Responding Yuan, and Manifestation.
• Patriarch Tingyou advised Lu Yang to develop the Fruit Position's essence toward information rather than simply imitate Fire in the Sky.
• The Divine Firmament Thunder's Summoning Image awakened and showed Lu Yang Old Dragon Lord and Mu Changsheng waiting for him inside Nourishing Life Lord.
• Old Dragon Lord and Mu Changsheng said they believed Lu Yang was alive and hoped to find him because he held five Supreme Fruit Position Tomes.
• Lu Yang summoned his incense avatar and wondered whether a great upheaval had occurred in the Real World.

Nearly fifty years after the Righteous-Demonic War, Lu Yang ambushed Old Dragon Lord and overwhelmed him with powerful Dao arts. Old Dragon Lord offered to help Lu Yang escape his predicament by joining Xuanyuan, leaving Lu Yang to consider the proposal.

• Old Dragon Lord reviewed the changes among the factions with Mu Changsheng and lamented how dangerous the world had become.
• Lu Yang suddenly slapped Old Dragon Lord, then struck him with Divine Firmament Thunder after Boundless Dao blocked his escape.
• Old Dragon Lord healed himself with Root of Heaven and Earth, then claimed he knew a way to help Lu Yang escape his predicament.
• Old Dragon Lord revealed that Xuanyuan could help Lu Yang and offered him a Spell if he joined before the Millennial Calamity.

Lu Yang suspected Old Dragon Lord’s offer to recruit him into Xuanyuan was a trap, and the Immortal Pivot Survival Guide confirmed that the promised cultivation technique was dangerous. After Old Dragon Lord refused to give him a thread of Gold Nature, Lu Yang attacked him to take it by force.

• Lu Yang questioned why Xuanyuan wanted him, and Old Dragon Lord explained that Xuanyuan had noticed his sword cry and his ties to the Qi-Eating Insects.
• Lu Yang summoned Jade Maiden, and Old Dragon Lord identified her as a surviving branch of the Qi-Eating Insects tied to Xuanyuan’s Great Celestial Master Chongying Yuanyou.
• Old Dragon Lord offered Lu Yang the Supreme Dao Lord's Scripture of Eternal Clarity and Tranquility and presented a Supreme Response Stone as the material needed to refine it.
• The Immortal Pivot Survival Guide warned Lu Yang that the Supreme Response Stone was a gigantic trap, so Lu Yang demanded a thread of Old Dragon Lord’s Gold Nature as a condition for joining Xuanyuan.
• Old Dragon Lord refused, and Lu Yang seized him, intending to extract his Gold Nature by force.

Lu Yang fought the Old Dragon Lord, who transformed into a woman and used Great Sea Water to make Lu Yang’s incense avatar pregnant. Lu Yang forced the child’s premature birth and destroyed it, but his avatar was weakened as the Old Dragon Mother prepared to continue the fight.

• The Old Dragon Lord attacked Lu Yang with Heaven-Earth Intercourse Forging Dragon Teeth, but Lu Yang held the dragon’s jaws open and sent the Qi-Eating Insects inside.
• The Old Dragon Lord spat out the insects, but Lu Yang’s All-Evil Slay weakened him and Lu Yang blasted half his face apart with lightning.
• The Old Dragon Lord used Root of Heaven and Earth to fill Lu Yang’s body with spirituality, but Lu Yang used Holding Candle and Boundless Dao to sever their connection.
• The Old Dragon Lord abandoned his primary sex and raised Great Sea Water to its peak, causing Lu Yang’s incense avatar to become pregnant.
• Lu Yang used Trend Taking Shape to deliver the child early, took control of it, and destroyed it, leaving his avatar depleted.
• The Old Dragon Lord completed his transformation into a beautiful, mature woman and demanded that Lu Yang bear him a child.

Lu Yang defeated Old Dragon Mother with Divine Firmament Thunder and tore a speck of Gold Nature from his soul. Just as Lu Yang reached for it, Sky Soaring appeared and claimed it first.

• Old Dragon Mother made Lu Yang’s incense avatar undergo pregnancy again, but Lu Yang interrupted it and extracted the child, leaving both of them severely weakened.
• Lu Yang struck Old Dragon Mother with twenty-seven bolts of Divine Firmament Thunder, drawing on heaven and earth’s power and incapacitating him.
• Lu Yang tried to extract Old Dragon Mother’s Gold Nature, but Old Dragon Mother exploded his body and fled as a soul from the Nourishing Life Lord Secret Realm.
• Lu Yang used Divine Firmament Thunder to strike Old Dragon Mother’s fleeing soul, knocking a speck of Gold Nature loose before Old Dragon Mother escaped.
• Lu Yang reached for the fallen Gold Nature, but Sky Soaring appeared from concealment and seized it first.

Lu Yang negotiated with Sky Soaring over Old Dragon Lord’s Gold Nature and learned that Sky Soaring planned to attempt the Nascent Soul realm during the approaching Millennial Calamity. Their conversation uncovered the history of Radiant World Exchange Light True Lord, and Sky Soaring ended by revealing that the legendary figure had not perished.

• Sky Soaring demanded Responding King’s coordinates in exchange for Old Dragon Lord’s Gold Nature, but Lu Yang refused and threatened to leave.
• Sky Soaring explained that Lu Yang’s actions had disrupted his plan to gather all Five Elements Fruit Positions and become Lord of Netherworld, reducing his chances of success in the Nascent Soul realm.
• Sky Soaring asked which True Lord Lu Yang had reincarnated from, and Lu Yang claimed to be Radiant World Exchange Light True Lord.
• Sky Soaring recognized the name and explained that Radiant World Exchange Light True Lord had cultivated Mountain Foot Fire to borrow the power of Fire in the Sky.
• When Lu Yang asked why the gifted True Lord had perished, Sky Soaring replied that no one had said he perished.

Lu Yang pressed Sky Soaring about Radiant World Exchange Light True Lord and the distorted timeline surrounding the Millennial Calamity. Sky Soaring revealed that the World Honored One attained enlightenment five thousand years ago and then influenced the past and future, leaving Lu Yang with a startling explanation of how He existed across time.

• Lu Yang suspected Radiant World Exchange Light True Lord was an identity the World Honored One had used and questioned Sky Soaring about the missing years around the Millennial Calamity.
• Sky Soaring said the calamity remembered as occurring five thousand years ago had actually happened one thousand five hundred and thirty-seven years ago.
• Lu Yang asked when the World Honored One attained Nascent Soul, and the Void Darkness Light Sea reacted violently to the question.
• Sky Soaring guessed that Lu Yang had visited False History, then offered to answer if Lu Yang disclosed his honorific title.
• Lu Yang gave his title as True Lord Imperial Ultimate Life Steward, and Sky Soaring failed to trace its Karma but honored their bargain.
• Sky Soaring revealed that the World Honored One attained enlightenment in the present five thousand years ago, then influenced the past and future through a heaven-reaching mystery.

Lu Yang learned that Forbidden Knowledge could overwhelm cultivators who lacked the foundation to withstand it, then rejected Sky Soaring’s proposal to exploit the Millennial Calamity and revive the Dharma Body Path. Sky Soaring gave Lu Yang the Old Dragon Lord’s Gold Nature anyway, hoping Lu Yang would eventually act and draw the Dao Lords’ attention.

• Sky Soaring revealed a weighty piece of Forbidden Knowledge, leaving Lu Yang’s thoughts stagnant for half an hour before he recovered.
• Lu Yang reasoned that familiarity with Forbidden Knowledge gave cultivators the foundation to endure more of it, then questioned why Sky Soaring had shared so many secrets.
• Sky Soaring urged Lu Yang to resolve Sword Pavilion Dao Lord’s influence during the Millennial Calamity, seize another Wood Element Fruit Position, and reestablish the Dharma Body Path.
• Lu Yang refused to trust the proposal, recognizing that Sky Soaring wanted him to draw the Dao Lords’ fire, while Sky Soaring suspected Lu Yang had another trump card.
• Sky Soaring gave Lu Yang the Old Dragon Lord’s Gold Nature and hoped Lu Yang would grow stronger and act during the coming calamity.

Lu Yang settled Old Dragon Lord’s Gold Nature, carefully sealed away the ancient dragon’s vast memories, and chose the Heaven and Earth Born with Me talent. Its transformation strengthened his connection to Heaven and Earth and the Divine Firmament Thunder, leaving him eager to test its potential while he waited to see how Sky Soaring would seek the Nascent Soul.

• Lu Yang suspected Sky Soaring might still be hiding nearby, so he planned to use and destroy an incense-fire avatar before leaving Responding King.
• Lu Yang rejected Old Dragon Lord’s immense memories and knowledge, sealing them in the Hundred Lives Book to avoid letting them affect his Dao Heart.
• Lu Yang chose Heaven and Earth Born with Me over Great Reclusion in the City, deciding that its benefits for his Fruit Position ritual outweighed the alternative.
• Lu Yang gained the passive talent, whose transformation astonished Mu Changsheng and made Lu Yang feel newly attuned to Heaven and Earth.
• Lu Yang sensed the talent might help him perform the Fruit Position Ascension Ritual in a future life, but resolved to stay and watch Sky Soaring’s attempt to seek the Nascent Soul.

Lu Yang accepted Mu Changsheng’s offer to shelter in Nourishing Life Lord in exchange for reports on the Millennial Calamity, while worrying that Sword Scars threatened his Dao Heart. Sky Soaring sensed Lu Yang watching him and approached the abyss at One Line Sky.

• Lu Yang considered whether Heavenly Duke was a mindless entity sealed within Immortal Pivot, then realized the Sword Scars might shatter his Dao Heart unless he Restarted within ten years.
• Mu Changsheng asked Lu Yang for shelter from the Millennial Calamity and offered to relay events through an avatar hidden in Immortal Pivot.
• Lu Yang welcomed Mu Changsheng into Nourishing Life Lord, pleased to gain a source of information about the outside world.
• Lu Yang watched Sky Soaring from Responding King, and Sky Soaring sensed his gaze and welcomed the attention.
• Sky Soaring stood at One Line Sky in Overseas and walked toward the abyss leading to the Netherworld.

Celestial Masters Chongying Yuanyou and Suen Jiuku discussed Xuanyuan’s preparations for the coming calamity and their plan to invade the Immortal Pivot, but the calamity suddenly began years ahead of schedule. In the Immortal Pivot, Sky Soaring returned to the Netherworld and triggered the calamity himself, declaring that it would begin with him.

• Chongying Yuanyou completed the Heaven-Defying Everbright Grand Spell and learned from Suen Jiuku that their attempt to recruit a mysterious Dharma Body True Lord had failed.
• Chongying Yuanyou and Suen Jiuku discussed Xuanyuan’s chances in the coming battle and agreed that they needed to invade the Immortal Pivot, defeat its True Lords, and abolish the Grotto-Heaven Method.
• A sudden disturbance rippled through Xuanyuan and the Void Darkness Light Sea, and Chongying Yuanyou discovered that the calamity had been brought forward by more than ten years.
• Sky Soaring approached the Netherworld with Tian Qiu and True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde, who were trapped by Perception Barriers beneath his Grotto-Heaven.
• Sky Soaring stamped into the Netherworld, sending its darkness across the Immortal Pivot and proclaiming that the great calamity would begin with him.

Sky Soaring opened the Millennial Calamity early by spreading the Netherworld’s influence from One Line Sky and declaring his intention to seek Nascent Soul, making himself a target for the True Lords of the Void Darkness Light Sea. As Xuanyuan and Star Palace gathered to respond, Star Palace’s ancient cultivator Haoyuan awakened and agreed to fight.

• Sky Soaring spread dense ink-black Netherworld influence from Immortal Pivot across the Void Darkness Light Sea and challenged his enemies to come.
• True Lord Radiant Floating Truth asked True Lord Flying Snow whether they should stop Sky Soaring, but she said Xuanyuan and Star Palace should handle the threat and noted that he had drawn the calamity onto himself.
• Celestial Master Chongying Yuanyou arrived at Star Palace and explained that Sky Soaring was seeking Nascent Soul while the other Immortal Pivot Fiends hoped the factions would weaken each other.
• A Divine Thought within a Star Palace statue volunteered to fight, revived into the middle-aged man Haoyuan, and received Celestial Master Chongying Yuanyou’s acknowledgment.

Lu Yang and Mu Changsheng watched as Star Palace unleashed thirty-six powerful stone statues against Sky Soaring, who survived the concentrated attack despite being injured. Sky Soaring then began extending the Netherworld across the Void Darkness Light Sea and declared himself its Dao Lord.

• Lu Yang learned from Mu Changsheng that earlier Millennial Calamities had seen the major factions target the unorthodox paths rather than fight one another directly.
• Star Palace opened thirty-six star gates around Sky Soaring and sent its preserved Ancient Method Golden Core cultivators to attack him.
• The attack devastated the surrounding land, but Sky Soaring emerged apparently unharmed, concealing his injuries with smoke.
• Lu Yang recognized that Sky Soaring was using the Netherworld Fruit Position to spread the Netherworld beyond Immortal Pivot.
• As the Void Darkness Light Sea shook, Sky Soaring declared that the sea would fall into the Netherworld and proclaimed himself the Dao Lord of the Netherworld Dao.

Sky Soaring inverted life and death across Immortal Pivot to elevate the Netherworld, drawing the attention of powerful True Lords who tried to stop him. After Sky Soaring vanished beneath Chongying Yuanyou’s spell, Lu Yang and the others sensed a vast presence watching from the Vault Sky.

• Mortals and Qi Refining cultivators across Immortal Pivot began losing their flesh and blood as the Netherworld’s power spread, while Great True Lords realized Sky Soaring was making the dead dominant over the living.
• Lu Yang understood that Sky Soaring was expanding the Netherworld’s authority over the Real World and using a hidden Empty Attainment Great Dao to raise its status.
• Haoyuan, Chongying Yuanyou, Emperor Jiayou, True Lord Feixue, and True Lord Radiant Floating Truth gathered at One Line Sky to stop Sky Soaring from attaining Nascent Soul.
• Sky Soaring argued that the Netherworld could offer the gathered True Lords a new path to the Dao, but Chongying Yuanyou dismissed his words and attacked with the Heaven-Defying Everbright Grand Spell.
• Sky Soaring was burned away, but Lu Yang and the other True Lords sensed a vast shadow in the Vault Sky and looked up at its pair of long, narrow eyes.

Sky Soaring used the Netherworld’s power to engulf the Immortal Pivot and entered its depths to pursue the Nascent Soul. There, he sacrificed Wall Earth to extend his Empty Attainment Great Dao, confirming the method that had once let him witness the World Honored One attain the Other Shore.

• Sky Soaring revealed that the figure outside the Netherworld had been his Retribution Dharma Outer Body and spread the Netherworld’s power across the Immortal Pivot, causing its inhabitants and True Lords to vanish from view.
• Lu Yang realized Sky Soaring had bestowed Netherworld status on the True Lords, making their statuses plummet, before a Perception Barrier cut off Mu Changsheng’s broadcast.
• Sky Soaring entered the expanded Netherworld and descended along his Empty Attainment Great Dao until he reached its deepest part.
• Sky Soaring lifted the blockade over the Immortal Pivot and summoned the Great Forest Wood, Heavenly River Water, and Wall Earth Fruit Positions.
• Sky Soaring cast Wall Earth into his Empty Attainment Great Dao, extending it deeper into the Netherworld and confirming his method worked.