Chapter Summaries

Sky Soaring used his knowledge of the World Honored One’s hidden history to judge that the World Honored One might support his attempt to reach the Netherworld. He pushed his Empty Attainment Great Dao toward the Netherworld’s core, but the final leap left him exposed to the Dao Lords—and he waited for an unnamed True Lord to intervene.

• Sky Soaring recalled how the World Honored One had attained the Nascent Soul through False History and why City-Wall Earth and the Earthly Buddha Land protected that position.
• Sky Soaring concluded that the World Honored One might back him if he sought the Netherworld rather than the Other Shore.
• Sky Soaring threw the Heavenly River Water into the air and extended his Empty Attainment Great Dao farther into the Netherworld.
• Sky Soaring sacrificed the Great Forest Wood to the Great Dao and glimpsed the Netherworld’s original Fruit Position at its core.
• Sky Soaring realized his Great Dao could not bridge the remaining distance and anticipated the Dao Lords would attack during his leap.
• Sky Soaring waited for an unnamed True Lord of the Dharma Body Path to draw the Dao Lords’ attention for him.

Sky Soaring tried to draw Lu Yang out as a shield while preparing his leap toward the Nascent Soul, but Lu Yang recognized the trap and refused to leave the Nourishing Life Lord. Sky Soaring began the leap anyway, only to be struck by a sword attack as the Dao Lord finally intervened.

• Sky Soaring waited in the Netherworld, hoping Lu Yang would emerge and draw the Dao Lord’s attention while he completed his leap.
• Lu Yang realized Sky Soaring was trying to use him as a shield, and he refused to go out.
• Sky Soaring accepted that he could not maximize his advantage and began burning his power and Quzhi Great Dao to launch his final leap.
• Sky Soaring used Quzhi’s Edict of Obedience to reverse his position and make himself the Dao Lord for an instant.
• A sword cry rang out and slashed toward Sky Soaring as the Dao Lord made a move.

Sky Soaring pressed toward the Netherworld’s core while four Dao Lords intervened, but the Sacred Sect Ancestor fixed his fate to die before reaching the Nascent Soul. Lu Yang watched from the Nourishing Life Lord, intent on studying the spectacle rather than helping.

• The Sword Pavilion Dao Lord and the World Honored One clashed as sword cries and scrolls of time stalemated around Sky Soaring.
• Cang Hao sent the Jiangdong Dao Court’s Immortal Kingdom Dao Law against Sky Soaring, but the Dao Lord of the Dharma Power Dao blocked it with waves of dharma power.
• Sky Soaring crossed more than half the distance to the Netherworld’s core and realized the Sacred Sect Ancestor had imposed a Fixed Number that destined him to fail and die.
• Sky Soaring wondered why Lu Yang had not been born to draw the Sacred Sect Ancestor’s hatred, while Lu Yang watched from the Nourishing Life Lord and refused to intervene.

Yuantu and the Pure Land used the Fruit Positions to create an Earthly Buddha Land, revealing that Sky Soaring’s apparent body was only his Retribution Dharma Outer Body. Sky Soaring died and briefly acted freely, but his attempt to seize the Netherworld failed because it already had a master; the Dao Lords then dragged the Netherworld into the Real World, erasing everything as Lu Yang called out for the Hundred Lives Book.

• Sky Soaring used spells, inverted his life and death, and called the World Honored One’s true name, strengthening their karmic connection.
• Yuantu joined with City-Wall Earth and the other Pure Land Fruit Positions to form an Earthly Buddha Land, which used Grasp Past and Present to reveal Sky Soaring’s true body and alter the Karmic Net.
• The World Honored One’s lapse let the Sword Pavilion Dao Lord kill Sky Soaring, but a young Daoist emerged and used his stored connection to the World Honored One to act freely for an instant.
• The young Daoist charged into the Netherworld’s core and collapsed when he discovered it already had a master, destroying the thing at its core in the process.
• The Dao Lords made peace and pulled the Netherworld into the Real World, swallowing it and killing the living beings and most True Lords.
• As the Dao Lords and all existence were erased, Lu Yang cried out for the Hundred Lives Book.

After restarting on the Abyss Surface, Lu Yang recalled Sky Soaring’s failed attempt to seek the Netherworld and reasoned that the Dao Lords had intervened to exhaust Sky Soaring’s chance to revive. He concluded that seeking the Netherworld was still possible if Sky Soaring could evade the Sacred Sect Old Immortal’s scheme or resolve his Fixed Number.

• Lu Yang survived the Restart but found that he could not remember the Dao Lords’ true forms, whose mere appearance had destroyed the world.
• Lu Yang inferred that the Sacred Sect Old Immortal had concealed the Netherworld’s lingering owner while steering Sky Soaring toward a fatal confrontation.
• Lu Yang feared that Sky Soaring’s defeat left him without a cultivation path to follow.
• Lu Yang realized the Dao Lords had acted because Sky Soaring possessed a revival chance that could let him return and claim the Netherworld.
• Lu Yang concluded that Sky Soaring still had hope if he gained an extra life unknown to the Sacred Sect Old Immortal or found a way to resolve the old ghost’s Fixed Number.

Lu Yang chose to restart at the Initial Anchor Point and carry over his cultivation, then established a Third Anchor Point during the selection phase to exploit the possibility of choosing twice in a future restart. After regaining his cultivation, he discovered that Si Sui’s lingering remnant had brought him an Image of City-Wall Earth.

• Lu Yang rejected the Second and First Anchor Points and chose to proceed to the Initial Anchor Point.
• On returning to the moment before selecting a gain, Lu Yang set it as his Third Anchor Point, hoping a future restart would let him choose twice.
• Lu Yang chose to carry over his cultivation, then planned to join Joyous Union Hall and surpass Yu Suzhen.
• Si Sui’s lingering remnant spoke to Lu Yang from his Sea of Consciousness and revealed a surprise.
• Si Sui’s lingering remnant showed Lu Yang an Image of City-Wall Earth, making Lu Yang ecstatic.

Lu Yang reforged the Yellow Court with the Image of City-Wall Earth and discovered that it could manipulate people’s Karma, though his current power could only erase Foundation Establishment cultivators. He planned to pursue Pomegranate Wood and the Heaven Mending Scripture while seeking the remaining Supreme Fruit Position Images.

• Si Sui's remnant thought revealed that it had secretly taken an Image of City-Wall Earth from Yuantu during his Golden Seeking.
• Lu Yang fused the Image of City-Wall Earth with the Yellow Court, reforging the treasure and severing its connection to Fire in the Sky.
• Lu Yang used the Yellow Court to alter Liu Xin's Karma, causing him to abandon his plan and leave Lu Yang's cave dwelling.
• Lu Yang realized the Yellow Court could kill people and erase their traces, but its power currently stopped at Foundation Establishment True Persons.
• Lu Yang decided that Pomegranate Wood was the most suitable Wood Element Fruit Position for his cultivation and committed to focusing on the Heaven Mending Scripture.

Lu Yang investigated the memorial tablet in Mending Heaven Peak’s ancestral hall and met Butian Que, the First Generation Peak Master who revealed that the Heaven Mending Scripture was only half of her fundamental Dao Method. Butian Que offered to teach him the other half, the Devouring Path Demon Art, through an intimate method that left Lu Yang facing an unsettling choice.

• Lu Yang suspected someone had withheld the Heaven Mending Scripture’s deeper teachings and went to investigate the ancestral hall’s memorial tablet.
• Lu Yang touched the tablet and resisted its attempt to draw his consciousness into it, until the hidden Divine Thought enveloped him.
• Lu Yang met Butian Que, who revealed that she had created the Heaven Mending Scripture before reaching full mastery of Yin-Yang and had later transformed her body.
• Butian Que explained that the Devouring Path Demon Art was the Heaven Mending Scripture’s second half and that the two together formed her fundamental Dao Method.
• Butian Que changed into a man and told Lu Yang he would have to plunder her and learn the art through hands-on instruction.

Lu Yang rejected Butian Que’s bizarre advances, but Butian Que gave him the Jade Book of Void Insight and Karmic Pacification, a cultivation method for dealing with Heaven and Earth rather than plundering Golden Core True Lords. Before his Divine Thought vanished, Butian Que revealed that he had left something within Pomegranate Wood and warned that taking it might draw the attention of an Old Immortal.

• Butian Que transformed through an array of seductive forms, but Lu Yang slapped him away and prepared to destroy his Divine Thought.
• Butian Que recognized that Lu Yang was pursuing Pomegranate Wood and gave him the Jade Book of Void Insight and Karmic Pacification, bypassing the tests.
• Lu Yang read the method and learned its four formulas for gaining Heaven and Earth’s support, discovering that it could not plunder Golden Core True Lords.
• Butian Que revealed that he had left something within Pomegranate Wood for whoever attained it and warned Lu Yang that an Old Immortal might come after him.
• Butian Que’s Divine Thought shattered, leaving Lu Yang alone in the ancestral hall to wonder what he might find in Pomegranate Wood.

Lu Yang abandoned his search for Pomegranate Wood and chose Precious Pestle Victorious Bodhisattva as his target, planning to kill him with Divine Firmament Thunder and seize his Fruit Position. He altered the Xuanling Realm’s course so it would head toward the Pure Land, setting up the next stage of his plan.

• Lu Yang weighed the dangers of targeting different Wood-element Fruit Positions and decided that Precious Pestle Victorious Bodhisattva was the most viable target.
• Lu Yang planned to kill the Bodhisattva with Divine Firmament Thunder, take his reincarnated body, and flee to Responding King.
• Lu Yang rode to the Void Darkness Light Sea and used the Yellow Court to examine the Xuanling Realm’s karma and possible futures.
• Lu Yang cut away unfavorable future scenes with Calamity Waves and shifted the Xuanling Realm’s course away from the Sword Pavilion and toward the Pure Land.
• Lu Yang concluded that the first step was complete and prepared to set a killing trap.

Lu Yang used the Jade Book of Void Insight and Karmic Pacification to make the Xuanling Realm accept his Divine Firmament Thunder as a native Fruit Position, creating a cover for his plan against Precious Pestle Victorious Bodhisattva. The Supreme of the Xuanling Realm discovered that the realm now treated Lu Yang as family and blocked him from attacking.

• Lu Yang entered the Xuanling Realm and used Radiant Light and the Jade Book’s formulas to calm its rejection of him.
• Lu Yang used the Kneading and Swallow formulas, causing auspicious phenomena to gather around him and revealing that the Xuanling Realm had reached its peak.
• Lu Yang drove Divine Firmament Thunder into the Xuanling Realm with the Motion Formula, while the Supreme of the Xuanling Realm noticed the realm growing distant from him.
• Lu Yang used the Stillness Formula to make the Xuanling Realm lower its Jietian core and accept Divine Firmament Thunder as a native External Dao Fruit Position.
• The Supreme of the Xuanling Realm tried to attack Lu Yang, but the realm blocked him and told him that Lu Yang was family.

After embedding Divine Firmament Thunder in the Xuanling Realm, Lu Yang met its Supreme, who mistook him for an Empty Attainment talent and invited him to the Heavenly Court. The Supreme led Lu Yang to a palace and asked whether he had heard of the Star Palace.

• Lu Yang awoke amid the devastated Xuanling Realm and sensed that Divine Firmament Thunder had fully embedded itself in the realm.
• The Xuanling Realm's Supreme confronted Lu Yang, and Lu Yang claimed he had attained a second Supreme Position after ascending from the lower realm.
• The Supreme recognized Lu Yang's attainment as Empty Attainment and invited him to return to the Heavenly Court to discuss the Dao.
• As they traveled, Lu Yang considered the Xuanling Realm's unusually long lifespans and its lack of temporal displacement.
• The Supreme brought Lu Yang into a palace, shut the gates, and asked whether he had heard of the Star Palace.

Lu Yang agreed to visit the Star Palace, hoping to use its ties to protect himself while pursuing Precious Pestle Victorious Bodhisattva. The Star Palace prepared to test him, unaware that its leaders had mistaken his attainment through Empty Attainment for a false claim.

• The Xuanling Realm Supreme told Lu Yang that every new Supreme had to pay respects to the Star Palace, and Lu Yang agreed after realizing the connection could deter the World Honored One from intervening.
• The Xuanling Realm Supreme privately hoped the Star Palace would injure Lu Yang as it had injured him, keeping Lu Yang from gaining favor in the Xuanling Realm.
• At the Star Palace, a cultivator reported to Upper True Haoyuan that a new True Lord had appeared in the Xuanling Realm through Empty Attainment.
• Upper True Haoyuan dismissed the report of Empty Attainment as false and ordered the Star Lords to handle Lu Yang according to precedent.
• Upper True Haoyuan wondered whether any Dharma Body Path cultivators remained in the age of the Immortal Pivot Fiends.

Lu Yang used Xuanling Realm to create Divine Firmament Thunder and establish heavenly tribulations, earning the title Immortal Lord of Tribulation and Karma. He then traveled to the Star Palace, where he was greeted by a Star Lord in a golden-white flying-saucer-like construct.

• Lu Yang discovered that Xuanling Realm’s Heaven’s Will mystery could transform his External Dao Fruit Position toward orthodoxy.
• Lu Yang declared that cultivators throughout Xuanling Realm would face heavenly tribulations at major stages of cultivation, and its inhabitants hailed him as the Immortal Lord of Tribulation and Karma.
• The Supreme of Xuanling Realm recognized Lu Yang as his equal but grew resentful as Xuanling Realm favored Lu Yang and severed its connection with him.
• Lu Yang considered using Divine Firmament Thunder to shape the cultivation path across the Immortal Pivot and Void Darkness Light Sea, potentially advancing his Fruit Position.
• Lu Yang received the Star Palace’s coordinates, departed Xuanling Realm, and arrived in a starry expanse filled with steel constructs.
• A golden-white disc bearing a Star Lord’s spiritual sense welcomed Lu Yang as an External Dao native.

At the Star Palace, the Room Sun Rabbit Star Lord attacked Lu Yang with a steel Dao soldier called the Radiant Spirit God, mistaking him for a heretic. Lu Yang shattered its attacks with Divine Firmament Thunder, and their clash drew the attention of onlookers in the sea of stars.

• The Tail Fire Tiger Star Lord and the Room Sun Rabbit Star Lord discussed taking Lu Yang to the mother planet, and the woman decided to test her Dao soldiers on him.
• The Room Sun Rabbit Star Lord sent Dao-pattern chains to capture Lu Yang, but he tore them apart with Divine Firmament Thunder.
• Lu Yang's lightning shattered much of the Star Palace's steel cluster before its formations could activate.
• The Room Sun Rabbit Star Lord joined the remaining steel constructs into the Radiant Spirit God and stomped at Lu Yang.
• Lu Yang pierced the Radiant Spirit God's foot with golden lightning, and he taunted the Room Sun Rabbit Star Lord as the clash drew onlookers.

Lu Yang overwhelmed the woman Star Lord and her Radiant Spirit God, then revealed a colossal Dharma Body that startled the ancient True Lords of Star Palace. He crushed the Dao soldier beneath one foot, leaving an enormous footprint in the sea of stars as Star Palace and the Two Extremes Life-Death Profound Light reached a stalemate.

• The woman Star Lord replaced the Radiant Spirit God's damaged foot and struck Lu Yang with the Radiant Spirit Star-Shattering Hammer, but he remained unharmed while her dharma power rapidly drained.
• Lu Yang realized the battle had drawn the Star Lords' attention and expanded his Dharma Body to more than ten times the Radiant Spirit God's height.
• Lu Yang's display awakened the stone statues of ancient True Lords, who wondered whether he could take command of the fractured Dharma Body Path.
• Lu Yang stomped toward the woman Star Lord, whose male companion had disappeared, and she poured all her remaining dharma power into one final strike.
• Lu Yang crushed the Radiant Spirit God into Star Palace, and the resulting clash with the Two Extremes Life-Death Profound Light left a colossal footprint in the sea of stars.

After crushing Fang Rabbit, Lu Yang went with Fu Chen to meet Star Palace’s thirty-six stone statues, who eagerly examined his powerful Dharma Body. He claimed it came from a fragment of the Dharma Body Path in the Xuanling Realm and said he had turned to cultivating Fruit Positions when his Dharma Body cultivation stopped advancing, leaving the statues baffled by his apparent talent and ordinary aptitude.

• Lu Yang crushed Fang Rabbit with his Dharma Body, and Fu Chen praised him and invited him to meet Star Palace’s lords.
• Fu Chen led Lu Yang into the central hall, where the thirty-six stone statues crowded his Dharma Body with their Divine Thoughts.
• Lu Yang introduced himself as Du Ye and said the Xuanling Realm had invited him to Star Palace.
• Lu Yang claimed he had refined a peculiar fragment from the Xuanling Realm to forge his Dharma Body and suggested it was a remnant of the severed Dharma Body Path.
• Lu Yang said his Dharma Body cultivation had stopped advancing, so he had settled for cultivating Fruit Positions, leaving the stone statues stunned and debating his talent.

Lu Yang used an incense-and-faith avatar to negotiate with Star Palace, whose stone statues considered extracting his lifespan before Upper True Haoyuan warned them that the avatar could not safely be suppressed. Haoyuan invited Lu Yang to join Star Palace and offered him a Heavenly Remnant Consciousness token, while Lu Yang asked to study Star Palace’s array-and-artifact techniques after recognizing their connection to the Sacred Sect.

• Star Palace’s stone statues considered suppressing Lu Yang and dividing up his lifespan until Upper True Haoyuan warned them that Lu Yang was only an avatar and could not be safely defeated.
• The stone statues abandoned force and left negotiations to Upper True Haoyuan, who invited Lu Yang to join Star Palace.
• Lu Yang accepted the invitation but stayed silent when Haoyuan asked him to extract lifespan for the statues.
• Haoyuan gave Lu Yang a pass token for the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness, which Lu Yang had been seeking.
• Lu Yang asked to study Star Palace’s array-and-artifact techniques after recognizing that their principles resembled the Sacred Sect’s Secret Explanation of Array Treasures.

Lu Yang visited the Star Palace’s Mother Star, where he assessed its defenses and learned how its research society operated. He was summoned to meet the Mentor, a Star Lord researcher tasked with investigating his Dharma Body.

• Fu Chen escorted Lu Yang through the Flare Nebula Belt’s star gate and described the Mother Star’s defenses, which Lu Yang judged unable to stop a strong Early Golden Core cultivator.
• Star Palace cultivators greeted Lu Yang as a fellow Daoist, and Fu Chen explained the Mother Star’s division between laboring residential zones and cultivator research zones.
• A researcher invited Lu Yang to meet the Mentor, who led the Vermilion Bird Lodge and taught most of the Mother Star’s researchers.
• The Mentor reviewed a report that Lu Yang had absorbed a fragment of the Dharma Body Path and insisted the claim was impossible under her model.
• Haoyuan Upper True asked the Mentor to verify Lu Yang’s claim and discover how he gained his powerful Dharma Body, and she confidently accepted the task.

Lu Yang visited a Star Palace laboratory to have his Dharma Body examined and asked to learn Array Treasures. After he followed a complex blueprint and improved the design, the researcher revealed she was Ming Feng, a senior disciple of Myriad Treasure Peak of the Sacred Sect.

• Lu Yang entered the laboratory, where the researcher asked for his blood to examine his Dharma Body, but he explained that he was an avatar with no blood to give.
• The researcher dismissed Lu Yang’s talent for Array Treasures, so he demonstrated his Blood River Sword Pellet and insisted on being tested.
• The researcher gave Lu Yang a complex blueprint, and he refined the Array Treasure with help from the Righteous Banner’s patriarch through their soul link.
• Lu Yang’s successful, improved Array Treasure astonished the researcher, who apologized and introduced herself as Ming Feng of the Sacred Sect.