Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang learned that Star Palace’s star charts were array treasures capable of imitating Fruit Positions and became determined to obtain their refinement method. Ming Feng refused to teach him, but gave him glasses that connected him to an Artifact Refining Secret Realm.

• Ming Feng mistook Lu Yang’s interest in array treasures for a desire to study the star charts, and Lu Yang went along with her assumption.
• Ming Feng revealed that the star charts were her master’s array-treasure creations, and Lu Yang considered using one to complete Divine Firmament Thunder’s missing wood element.
• Ming Feng said she could not teach Lu Yang the secret refinement method, which required approval from more than half of the Upper Trues, and explained that star-chart production needed extensive factories, researchers, and coordination.
• Lu Yang remained determined to obtain the method, believing Star Palace would grant it because Haoyuan Upper True and the thirty-six stone statues still needed him.
• Ming Feng gave Lu Yang her glasses to practice with, and he entered an Artifact Refining Secret Realm above a crowded ocean.

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• The author acknowledged that some borderline jokes had gone too far and explained that the recent chapters were a necessary transition rather than padding.
• The author said they would rest and review the later plot, then release ten chapters the next day to settle accounts.
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• The author thanked editor Liu Xing for urging them to persevere and thanked readers for helping the book reach 100,000 subscriptions.
• The author described reviewing reader comments and data after each update to guide the plot, and reiterated the next day's ten-chapter release.

Lu Yang entered the Artifact Refining Secret Realm with Ming Feng and began studying formation artifacts, while Ming Feng secretly used his presence to investigate his Dharma Body. As Patriarch Tingyou studied through Lu Yang’s eyes, a lesson revealed that the ultimate goal of formation artifacts was to create a Sea of Suffering.

• Ming Feng explained that the Artifact Refining Secret Realm was a virtual workshop where users’ permissions depended on their payments or completed projects.
• Ming Feng brought Lu Yang to her research facility and offered him a chance to craft formation artifacts, but Lu Yang chose to study first.
• Ming Feng secretly ordered the realm’s facilities to investigate Lu Yang’s Dharma Body and locate the Dharma Body Path in the Sea of Suffering.
• Lu Yang suspected Ming Feng was investigating him, but believed his past-life cultivation had been cleansed and could not be uncovered.
• Lu Yang used the Immortal Pivot Survival Guide to check a Golden Core tutorial, then had Patriarch Tingyou study it through his eyes.
• The tutorial’s professor taught that cultivation was the foundation of formation artifacts and declared that their ultimate purpose was to create a Sea of Suffering.

Lu Yang listened to a Star Palace professor explain how star charts imitate the Sea of Suffering and function as formulas of law, while Fruit Positions are simpler, self-contained theorems. The professor argued that the Star Palace’s cultivation methods lagged behind the Immortal Pivot’s Grotto-Heaven Method because its Dao Lord was less accomplished, leaving Lu Yang impressed by the Star Palace’s philosophy and startled by the professor’s blunt criticism.

• Lu Yang reconsidered the Star Palace’s potential after realizing its constellations and star charts imitated the relationship between Fruit Positions and the Sea of Suffering.
• The professor defined Dao as a supreme law that unified Images of Heaven and Earth and described the Sea of Suffering as the greatest array treasure.
• The professor explained that star charts were complex formulas of law calculated through external arrays, while Fruit Positions were concise theorems that displayed their power naturally.
• The professor said Immortal Pivot Fruit Positions were deliberately created by powerful Dao Lords, while Star Palace star charts were guided by their own great existence.
• The professor argued that the Grotto-Heaven Method demanded deeper understanding than the three foundational Daos and blamed the Star Palace’s weaker star charts on its Dao Lord’s inferior attainments.
• Lu Yang was surprised by how openly the professor criticized the Star Palace’s Dao Lord and recognized the argument as resembling the Immortal Pivot’s way of thinking.

Ming Feng discovered that Lu Yang's powerful Dharma Body came from a fragment of the Dharma Body Path and considered investigating him further, but Lu Yang woke before she could act. He asked for more of Star Soul's theories and received approval to study star chart refinement, where he recognized the Void Darkness Myriad Forms Genealogy as the Fruit Position Weaving Method.

• Ming Feng's examination showed no connection between Lu Yang's Dharma Body and the Dharma Body Path in the Sea of Suffering, leading her to conclude that fragments of the path existed.
• Ming Feng considered dissecting Lu Yang's avatar to study its fragment, but Lu Yang woke from the artifact-refining secret realm before she could proceed.
• Lu Yang asked Patriarch Tingyou about Star Soul's tutorial, and Patriarch Tingyou said its profound theory gave him ideas to consider.
• Lu Yang requested more tutorials by Star Soul, and Ming Feng agreed while telling him that Haoyuan Upper True had approved his application to study star chart refinement.
• Ming Feng showed Lu Yang the Void Darkness Myriad Forms Genealogy, and Lu Yang recognized it as the Fruit Position Weaving Method.

Lu Yang showed Ming Feng the Divine Firmament Thunder, inspiring her to create the Twenty-Ninth Star Chart, which resonated with his Fruit Position. The Immortal Pivot Survival Guide warned that the new chart was a massive trap just as Ming Feng proposed naming it the Seven-Treasure Glazed Wondrous Tree.

• Lu Yang studied Star Palace's Void Darkness Myriad Forms Genealogy and realized he could use his knowledge of Immortal Pivot Fruit Positions to help repair its flaws.
• Ming Feng explained that generations of formation-treasure masters had failed to devise a star-chart formula beyond the Twenty-Eight Star Charts.
• Lu Yang revealed the Divine Firmament Thunder, and Ming Feng recognized its Five Elements and Yin-Yang as a self-contained theorem.
• Ming Feng spent two and a half years designing a new, self-consistent formula and declared it the Twenty-Ninth Star Chart.
• Lu Yang sensed that the completed chart resonated with his Divine Firmament Thunder, but the Immortal Pivot Survival Guide warned him to escape because it was a massive trap.
• Ming Feng thanked Lu Yang and proposed naming the star chart the Seven-Treasure Glazed Wondrous Tree.

Lu Yang realized that Ming Feng had become connected to the World Honored One and feared the World Honored One might be conspiring with Star Palace's Dao Lord. After learning Upper True Haoyuan had summoned him, Lu Yang left the mother planet and told Star Lord Fu Chen to take him to Haoyuan immediately.

• Lu Yang agreed to Ming Feng's name for the Star Chart Seven-Treasure Glazed Wonder Tree project while privately suspecting the World Honored One had descended into her.
• Lu Yang recalled that the World Honored One could alter consciousness through karmic connections and worried that Ming Feng's tutorial might endanger Patriarch.
• Ming Feng told Lu Yang that Upper True Haoyuan had approved the project and that its first experimental product would be ready within three months.
• Ming Feng said Haoyuan had completed a lifespan-extracting formation treasure and asked Lu Yang to meet him; Lu Yang hid his alarm and agreed to go.
• Lu Yang left the mother planet with Star Lord Fu Chen and, once clear of Ming Feng's gaze, ordered Fu Chen to take him to Upper True Haoyuan immediately.

Lu Yang underwent Star Palace’s Dao Heart inspection and concluded that the World Honored One might be the first-generation Myriad Treasure Peak Master, using the array treasure path to spread influence. He reconsidered the danger and possible benefits of the World Honored One’s interest in him before receiving an urgent plea for help from the Xuanling Realm.

• Hao Yuan Upper True explained that every cultivator who visited the Mother Star underwent a measure to check their Dao Heart.
• Lu Yang inferred that Star Palace’s defenses might be intended to contain the World Honored One and realized Ming Feng’s array treasure lectures could transmit the World Honored One’s influence.
• Lu Yang suspected the first-generation Myriad Treasure Peak Master was the World Honored One and that Ming Feng’s Dao Heart had been altered through their master-disciple connection.
• Lu Yang decided his perfected Dao Heart and ability to Restart made him less vulnerable, and considered accepting benefits the World Honored One might offer.
• Lu Yang received a four-word message from the Supreme of the Xuanling Realm: “Realm in peril. Send aid swiftly!”

Lu Yang used the Xuanling Realm’s distress call to persuade Upper True Haoyuan to help him, while securing Star Palace’s treasures. After discovering that the Xuanling Realm was being drawn toward the Immortal Pivot and its Supreme had no idea they were in danger, Lu Yang realized the Immortal Pivot’s Fixed Number was guiding Jietian into ruin.

• Lu Yang told Upper True Haoyuan that the Xuanling Realm was in danger and agreed to draw ten thousand years of lifespan in exchange for help.
• Lu Yang said his true body was elsewhere, so Upper True Haoyuan agreed to accompany him and let him take anything from Star Palace’s stores.
• Lu Yang’s incense avatar gathered the listed Star Palace treasures while his true body sensed that the Xuanling Realm was accelerating toward the Immortal Pivot.
• Lu Yang used Puppet on Strings to question the Xuanling Realm’s Supreme, who said the Xuanling Realm planned to invade the nearby Immortal Pivot for its resources.
• Lu Yang recognized that Fixed Number was forcing Jietian toward the Immortal Pivot and suspected the Sacred Sect’s Ancestor Master was behind the method.

Lu Yang escaped the Xuanling Realm with his true body while his avatar gathered resources at the Star Palace. Upper True Haoyuan lent him a strategic-grade Sun-Shooting Bow, and Lu Yang recognized its designer, Star Soul, as the old professor from his tutorial.

• Lu Yang concealed his true body beyond the Xuanling Realm, then retreated into the Nourishing Life Lord to avoid interference from Dao Lords.
• Lu Yang's incense avatar collected Star Palace resources, including five portions of Five Elements Star Marrow and a strategic-grade Dao Soldier.
• Upper True Haoyuan showed Lu Yang Factory One and lent him the Sun-Shooting Bow, which could unleash a long-range strike approaching the strength of a Great True Lord by drawing on the Sea of Suffering.
• Upper True Haoyuan explained that the Sun-Shooting Bow was a disposable weapon powered by Dharma Body strength, which Lu Yang could easily provide.
• Lu Yang learned that Star Soul designed the bow and suspected Star Soul was the old professor who had judged his talent in the tutorial.

Lu Yang secretly obtained the strategic-level Dao weapon forging method through Patriarch Tingyou, then returned to the Xuanling Realm as the Pure Land Bodhisattvas battled its Supreme. He activated the Sun-Shooting Bow in his towering Dharma Body, drawing the Bodhisattvas’ attention as the weapon unfolded.

• Lu Yang asked Haoyuan Upper True to let him observe the forging of strategic-level Dao weapons, and Patriarch Tingyou secretly learned the process while Haoyuan Upper True explained it.
• The Sun-Shooting Bow finished assembly, and Haoyuan Upper True gave Lu Yang a Star Gate for emergencies.
• Lu Yang’s true body received the incense avatar’s gains, extracted roughly ten thousand years of lifespan, and sent everything through the Star Gate to Haoyuan Upper True.
• Lu Yang saw the Xuanling Realm’s Supreme surrounded by the Three Bodhisattvas of the Pure Land, with Precious Pestle Victorious Bodhisattva beating him with Pine and Cypress Wood.
• Lu Yang entered the Sea of Suffering and activated the Sun-Shooting Bow, expanding it into an enormous bow as the Three Bodhisattvas felt pain between their brows.

Lu Yang drew the Sun-Shooting Bow and fired an arrow empowered by Divine Firmament Thunder at the Pure Land Bodhisattvas. The arrow killed Precious Lotus Treasury Bodhisattva and Vase Water Moon Bodhisattva, then pursued Precious Pestle Victorious Bodhisattva into the Jiangxi Pure Land and struck it.

• Precious Lotus Treasury Bodhisattva and Vase Water Moon Bodhisattva prepared to attack the Xuanling Realm, while Precious Pestle Victorious Bodhisattva quietly moved toward an escape route.
• The dying Xuanling Realm Supreme's call for help reached outward, and Lu Yang's formidable presence appeared in the Sea of Suffering.
• Lu Yang drew the Sun-Shooting Bow, empowered his arrow with Divine Firmament Thunder and Sand Gold's profundity, and fired at the Pure Land Bodhisattvas.
• The arrow shattered Precious Lotus Treasury Bodhisattva's Golden Body, while its radiance destroyed Vase Water Moon Bodhisattva.
• Precious Pestle Victorious Bodhisattva fled to the Jiangxi Pure Land, but Lu Yang's arrow followed him, split open the Sea of Suffering above the Pure Land, and crashed down upon him.

Lu Yang’s arrow devastated the Pure Land, but the World Honored One intervened, allowing the slain Bodhisattvas to return and manifesting as the Vajra Realm Jewel-Born Tathagata. The World Honored One hurled Lu Yang’s broken arrow back at him, leaving Lu Yang furious at the shameless intervention.

• Lu Yang’s lightning arrow struck the Pure Land, killing Precious Lotus Treasury Bodhisattva and Vase Water Moon Bodhisattva and devastating the surrounding region.
• A bell from the Great Thunderclap Temple calmed the destruction, while Emperor Jiayou and Gangxing Budao True Lord assessed the attack and its limits.
• Precious Pestle Victorious Bodhisattva caught the arrowhead, and Precious Lotus Treasury Bodhisattva and Vase Water Moon Bodhisattva returned through rebirth.
• The three Bodhisattvas joined their Buddha Light and summoned the World Honored One as the Vajra Realm Jewel-Born Tathagata.
• The World Honored One shattered Lu Yang’s arrow, then hurled it back across the Sea of Suffering toward him.
• Lu Yang recognized the World Honored One’s intervention and cursed him for acting without shame.

Lu Yang fought off the Vajra Realm Jewel-Born Tathagata’s attack and refused its offer to join the Shakya Sect. The Tathagata and the Three Bodhisattvas followed him into the Void Darkness Light Sea, where Lu Yang prepared to fight.

• Lu Yang realized the Vajra Realm Jewel-Born Tathagata was weaker than a Great True Lord and endured its Buddha Light with his Rebirth Aspect and Calamity Baleful Light.
• The Vajra Realm Jewel-Born Tathagata addressed Lu Yang as Du Ye and revealed that it and Ming Feng were both Response Bodies of the World Honored One.
• The Vajra Realm Jewel-Born Tathagata offered Lu Yang a place in the Shakya Sect, but Lu Yang rejected the offer and shattered the Buddhist sutra.
• Lu Yang descended into the Xuanling Realm, and the Vajra Realm Jewel-Born Tathagata and the Three Bodhisattvas followed him into the Void Darkness Light Sea.
• Lu Yang noticed the Tathagata’s existence depended on the Three Bodhisattvas and accepted its challenge to fight.

Lu Yang fought Ratnasambhava Tathagata of the Vajra Realm to keep him from taking the Xuanling Realm. When his strengthened Divine Firmament Thunder could not break the stalemate, Lu Yang exposed Sky Soaring’s secret inversion of Chen Earth’s Yin-Yang to force him to act.

• Sky Soaring watched the Pure Land conflict and weighed seizing another Five Elements Fruit Position while the Bodhisattvas were occupied.
• Ratnasambhava Tathagata of the Vajra Realm invaded the Xuanling Realm and began absorbing its territory with Buddha Light.
• Lu Yang used four Five Elements Star Marrows to strengthen Divine Firmament Thunder, then called down lightning to suppress the invading Buddha Light.
• Ratnasambhava Tathagata of the Vajra Realm held his ground and continued a slow struggle to take the Xuanling Realm.
• Lu Yang called out to Sky Soaring, threatening to reveal that he had secretly inverted Chen Earth’s Yin-Yang, and Sky Soaring staggered in shock.

Lu Yang used the Xuanling Realm’s blessing to unleash eighty-one bolts of Divine Firmament Thunder against the Vajra Realm Jewel-Born Tathagata, devastating a vast region and damaging many Minor Realms. The Tathagata survived with his Golden Body restored, but his dharma power was greatly diminished, and he claimed he still held the advantage.

• Sky Soaring seized control of the Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva and moved to secure Sand-In-Metal Earth and White Wax Metal after his identity and Chen Earth's secret were exposed.
• True Lord Flying Snow charged toward the Pure Land, while the Vajra Realm Jewel-Born Tathagata realized that the Pure Land was at risk of becoming a battlefield for Golden Core True Lords.
• The Vajra Realm Jewel-Born Tathagata used Divine Foot Passage to attack Lu Yang, but Lu Yang's intent-responsive Divine Firmament Thunder blocked him.
• The Tathagata tried to suppress Lu Yang with a purple-gold alms bowl, but Lu Yang invoked Heaven's Will and unleashed Heaven and Man Execute Together, Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation.
• The eighty-one lightning bolts shattered the alms bowl, buried the Tathagata beneath the Xuanling Realm, split a vast region of land, and caused upheaval across dozens or hundreds of Jietian.
• The Tathagata crawled from the crater and restored his Golden Body, though his dharma power had fallen by sixty percent, then told Lu Yang that he was still one step ahead.

Lu Yang activated Supreme Dao Assimilation and used its overwhelming insight to recover his dharma power, sever Vajra Realm Jewel-Born Tathagata’s Gold Nature, and expose the three Bodhisattvas sustaining the Tathagata. He crushed Precious Pestle Victorious Bodhisattva, leaving the other two Bodhisattvas amid the shattered Buddha Light.

• Lu Yang noticed the fused Gold Nature in Vajra Realm Jewel-Born Tathagata and activated Supreme Dao Assimilation.
• Lu Yang pierced the Sea of Suffering and absorbed Image-water to rapidly restore his dharma power.
• When Vajra Realm Jewel-Born Tathagata attacked, Lu Yang seized him and cut away one strand of his divine radiance.
• Lu Yang identified the connection between the Three Bodhisattvas of the Pure Land and severed it, shattering Vajra Realm Jewel-Born Tathagata.
• Lu Yang grabbed Precious Pestle Victorious Bodhisattva and crushed him in his palm.

Lu Yang killed Precious Pestle Victorious Bodhisattva and drove the other Pure Land Bodhisattvas away, though he realized he could not save the Xuanling Realm from its fixed fate. After returning to the realm, he was thanked as its savior and gained cultivation knowledge from the remnant of Vajra Realm Jewel-Born Tathagata.

• Lu Yang crushed Precious Pestle Victorious Bodhisattva and destroyed his soul, causing Precious Lotus Treasury Bodhisattva and Vase Water Moon Bodhisattva to flee.
• True Lords across the Immortal Pivot watched Lu Yang's victory, while True Lord Flying Snow became eager to fight him.
• Lu Yang concluded that he could not change the Xuanling Realm's fixed fate and used his remaining insight to devise ideas for the Divine Firmament Thunder.
• Lu Yang returned to the Xuanling Realm, where its Supreme thanked him for directing his lightning away from populated areas.
• Lu Yang entered the Righteous Banner and fed the remnant gleam of Vajra Realm Jewel-Born Tathagata to the Hundred Lives Book, gaining cultivation knowledge of Pine and Cypress Wood, Hairpin Metal, and Willow Wood.

Lu Yang reflected on the risks of opposing the World Honored One and planned to claim the vacant Pine and Cypress Wood position before the Pure Land could fill it. After learning that the Vajra Realm might be the World Honored One’s miniature Sea of Suffering, he drew a Color Talent from Vajra Realm Jewel-Born Tathagata.

• Lu Yang decided that his complete Four Elements must remain secret while he pursued Pine and Cypress Wood through Golden Seeking.
• Lu Yang settled Vajra Realm Jewel-Born Tathagata’s experiences and learned that five titled Tathagatas governed the Vajra Realm on the World Honored One’s behalf.
• Lu Yang suspected that the Vajra Realm was the World Honored One’s miniature Sea of Suffering and the culmination of his Array Treasure Dao.
• Lu Yang drew the Color Talent Vajra Realm Mandala from the Hundred Lives Book.

Lu Yang used the Vajra Realm Mandala to learn the Little Sea of Suffering Creation Method and successfully created his own Vajra Realm at the bottom of the Sea of Suffering. He began considering how to use the realm as a hidden base and support his plans for Divine Firmament Thunder and its Fruit Position Ascension Ritual.

• Lu Yang studied the Little Sea of Suffering Creation Method and realized its principles resembled his deductions about Divine Firmament Thunder and Images.
• Lu Yang formed a fissure in the Sea of Suffering and created the Slanting Moon Three Stars Grotto-Heaven within it.
• Lu Yang discovered that his Vajra Realm lay between the Foundation Establishment Realm and the Sea of Suffering, and considered using it to gain an advantage over stronger opponents.
• Lu Yang recognized that the Vajra Realm could serve as a hidden base where he could create resources and prepare for his Divine Firmament Thunder ritual.
• Lu Yang dissolved the immortal mountain and reshaped its Images into a grand hall bearing the plaque Northern Exorcism Institute.