Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang watched Chongguang turn the tables on Long Tu and realized that people within the Light Sea could change their own fates. After Chongguang’s Heart Demon gained new powers, he used one to help True Person Demon-Subduer strike Hongju, then withdrew his support as Hongju counterattacked.

• Chongguang tricked Long Tu into losing Divine Thought, used his Heart Demon to control him, and defeated him.
• Lu Yang realized that even within the Light Sea, people could alter the script and find a chance of survival.
• Chongguang’s Heart Demon reached major completion, gained Body Beyond the Body and Toppling Sumeru, and returned with Long Tu and a remnant soul.
• Chongguang secretly lent True Person Demon-Subduer his Foundation Establishment Perfection rank, enabling him to strike Hongju with Sword Edge Metal.
• Hongju escaped the sword strike with Heavenly Path and unleashed his five divine abilities, while Chongguang withdrew his enhancement from True Person Demon-Subduer.

Hongju defeated True Person Demon-Subduer, who escaped while Chongguang’s Heart Demon secretly ensnared him. Chongguang used the captured cultivator to summon True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde and prepared to provoke the True Lord’s Heart Demon by invoking Ting You.

• Hongju crushed True Person Demon-Subduer's attack, but stopped the Peak Master of Heaven Mending from pursuing him after suspecting a trap.
• True Person Demon-Subduer fled to the Li Clan's territory, killed Xiaohai True Person, and tried to use his corpse to delay Hongju, but it released only green smoke.
• As True Person Demon-Subduer continued fleeing, Chongguang's Heart Demon took hold of him, and Chongguang used Toppling Sumeru to link their lives.
• Chongguang compelled True Person Demon-Subduer to send a Flying Message asking True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde for help.
• Chongguang concluded that Ting You was the source of True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde's Heart Demon and resolved to make the True Lord remember his former rival.

True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde sent his avatar to Gantang Circuit, hoping to ease his Heart Demon by bullying Lower Cultivators, while Lu Yang’s hidden scheme lured him into danger. Chongguang’s purple-black smoke swallowed the avatar and made Zhengde see Ting You, leaving both avatar and main body unconscious.

• True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde’s recurring nightmare of losing to Patriarch Tingyou worsened his Heart Demon, and he decided to send an avatar to bully Lower Cultivators.
• After receiving True Person Demon-Subduer’s plea for aid, True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde armed his avatar with the Dharma Sword and Spiritual Treasures and sent it toward Gantang Circuit.
• Lu Yang celebrated that True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde had taken the bait, while Chongguang’s arrangements in Gantang Circuit continued undisturbed.
• Chongguang’s purple-black smoke erupted and swallowed Zhengde’s avatar, triggering reactions from True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde and True Lord Flying Snow.
• True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde saw Ting You appear, then both his avatar and his main body on Extreme Heaven Cliff collapsed unconscious.

Chongguang fed his perfected Heart Demon and five divine abilities to True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde's Heart Demon, empowering it until even the Sword Pavilion's True Lords could not suppress it. As Chongguang escaped to Jiangbei, Cheng Tian Zhengde's body suddenly cracked and exploded after he warned his fellow True Lords to beware of a Tribulation.

• Chongguang sent his Heart Demon into True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde's avatar so it could devour Chongguang's Heart Demon and its five divine abilities.
• True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde sealed off his senses to resist the empowered Heart Demon, and Gangxing Budao True Lord and two other Sword Pavilion True Lords arrived to help.
• Gangxing Budao True Lord's Seize-the-Crown Sword Intent wounded the Heart Demon, but it split into dozens of Avatars using Body Beyond Body.
• Gangxing Budao True Lord suspected someone had plotted against Cheng Tian Zhengde in Gantang Circuit, but his attempt to calculate Karma revealed nothing, and Chongguang had already escaped to Jiangbei.
• Gangxing Budao True Lord hesitated to restore his cultivation to suppress the Heart Demon, and Cheng Tian Zhengde awoke, warned the three True Lords about a Tribulation, and exploded.

Chongguang used the Heart Demon and Gangxing Budao True Lord’s sword strike to seize the Heart Demon’s remnants and ascend beyond his former limits. His breakthrough revealed a fourth Great Dao, shocking the Old Dragon Lord.

• After True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde died, Gangxing Budao True Lord and the other Sword Pavilion True Lords destroyed most of the Heart Demon, but some of its wind escaped.
• Chongguang sensed the Heart Demon approaching and prepared to use a ghostly mask, while Lu Yang recognized his plan and chose not to intervene.
• Chongguang let Gold Nature erode him to resist the Heart Demon, then crushed the mask to use Toppling Sumeru on True Person Demon-Subduer.
• Gangxing Budao True Lord broke through to Great True Lord rank to save True Person Demon-Subduer, shattered Toppling Sumeru, and sent a sword strike toward Chongguang.
• The sword strike devastated the Heart Demon surrounding Chongguang, allowing Chongguang to devour its remnants and ascend a mysterious stairway as he cast off his restraints.
• A Radiance rose from the Sea of Suffering, and the Old Dragon Lord recognized it as a possible fourth Great Dao beyond the three foundations.

Lu Yang saw the tribulation manifest across the Light Sea and suspected it was a tool the Dao Lords used to draw out tribulations, though their silence left him uncertain. In Xuanyuan, a master told his disciple that the tribulation offered a path to the Other Shore, but the Fixed Number still limited who could claim the Dao positions.

• Lu Yang watched the tribulation appear and wondered why the Dao Lords, including the Sacred Sect Ancestor and World Honored One, did not intervene.
• Lu Yang linked the tribulation to the Millennial Calamity and guessed that the Dao Lords used the calamity to draw out tribulations while keeping them under control.
• Lu Yang decided the Dao Lords' silence was good news and considered conducting more experiments with the tribulation.
• In Xuanyuan, a disciple asked his master whether the tribulation's appearance meant the Millennial Calamity had begun early, and the master said its timing was fixed.
• The master told the disciple that triumphing over all True Lords in the tribulation could lead to the Other Shore, but that the Fixed Number made the remaining Dao positions difficult to attain.

Chongguang became a conscious True Demon and faced calls from the Immortal Pivot’s True Lords to kill him. He escaped with True Lord Flying Snow’s help and later thanked Lu Yang, while Hongyun’s despair brought a Heart Demon close to birth.

• Chongguang realized that his true consciousness controlled his Heart Demon body and that mastering it could lead him to a new realm.
• True Lord Flying Snow greeted Chongguang as an equal, but Gangxing Budao True Lord’s Sword Light failed to kill him.
• Gangxing Budao True Lord rallied the Immortal Pivot’s True Lords against Chongguang, warning that the Heart Demon had scattered Zhengde’s soul.
• Chongguang refused True Lord Flying Snow’s offer of protection and fled Beyond Heaven, while she blocked Gangxing Budao True Lord’s attempt to intercept him.
• Hongyun heard that Chongguang had become a True Lord, then took True Lord Flying Snow’s cold glance as scorn and began to develop a Heart Demon.
• Chongguang visited the Northern Exorcism Institute and thanked Lu Yang for bestowing the Dao, prompting Lu Yang to consider taking him as a disciple.

Lu Yang learned that Chongguang’s newly achieved true demonhood could grow by devouring souls, revealing the terrifying potential of the Heart Demon cultivation method. As the Xuanling Realm suddenly upheaved, Lu Yang resolved to rely on Chongguang to refine the method before spreading it.

• Lu Yang decided not to recruit Chongguang into the Righteous Banner, recognizing that Chongguang’s devotion to seeking the Dao made him unwilling to submit.
• Chongguang offered to serve Lu Yang, and Lu Yang understood that Chongguang wanted his protection because Heart Demons threatened Golden Core True Lords.
• Chongguang explained that his five divine abilities had become innate instincts and that his rank rested on the Great Dao of Tribulation.
• Chongguang revealed that his True Demon Womb could grow by devouring souls, which Lu Yang realized could let true demons advance without ordinary cultivation or bottlenecks.
• Lu Yang concluded that the Heart Demon method needed refinement before it could become a calamity for the cultivation world, and he looked to Chongguang to help improve it.
• The Xuanling Realm suddenly underwent a violent upheaval.

Lu Yang faced the True Lords who had come to the Xuanling Realm to demand answers about the True Demon, Chongguang. When True Lord Frost-Covering Wind-Soaring confronted him, Lu Yang struck first and transformed him into a rooster.

• True Lords from the Dao Court, Sword Pavilion, and Sacred Sect gathered outside the Xuanling Realm, while the Pure Land stayed away.
• Lu Yang arrived and denied responsibility for the True Demon, challenging the assembled True Lords to prove his involvement through Karma.
• Gangxing Budao True Lord sent True Lord Frost-Covering Wind-Soaring to accuse Lu Yang and demand an explanation.
• Lu Yang attacked True Lord Frost-Covering Wind-Soaring, severed his connection to Rooftop Earth, and changed him into a rooster.

Lu Yang frightened the assembled True Lords by transforming True Lord Frost-Covering Wind-Soaring into a chicken, then argued that the Pure Land had created the true demon and framed him. The confrontation eased without a fight, but Lu Yang left the gathering with the Pure Land as his declared suspect.

• Lu Yang used his Animal-Making Technique to turn True Lord Frost-Covering Wind-Soaring into a chicken, stripping away his rank and Fruit Position until the Void Darkness Light Sea killed him.
• True Lord Frost-Covering Wind-Soaring reincarnated and returned to the Gold Position, while Lu Yang warned the assembled True Lords that he could give them all an explanation.
• The Three Dukes of the Dao Court and Emperor Jiayou considered retreating, and Gangxing Budao True Lord chose not to risk fighting Lu Yang.
• Gangxing Budao True Lord accused Lu Yang of causing the Heart Demon and the true demon, but Lu Yang denied knowing where the true demon came from.
• Lu Yang claimed the true demon's powers resembled those of Pure Land Buddhist Cultivators and accused the Pure Land of plotting to frame him.

Lu Yang blamed the Pure Land for Chongguang’s transformation into a True Demon and offered the gathered True Lords a costly method for fighting Heart Demons. After the Sword Pavilion and Dao Court departed, True Lord Flying Snow asked to come inside with him.

• Lu Yang accused the absent Pure Land of causing Chongguang’s demonic transformation, and True Lord Flying Snow backed his claim while faulting Lu Yang for creating the Heart Demon.
• Lu Yang presented the Five Thunder Heavenly Heart True Method as a way to counter Heart Demons and explained that it required offerings and spiritual materials for the Righteous Dao.
• Gangxing Budao True Lord recognized the method as a scheme to collect payment, but Lu Yang defended his demands as necessary for helping people and advancing the Righteous Path.
• Gangxing Budao True Lord left, and the Dao Court followed; Lu Yang privately resolved to have Martial Uncle Chongguang settle accounts with them later.
• True Lord Flying Snow asked to visit inside, and Lu Yang welcomed her.

True Lord Flying Snow met Lu Yang and Chongguang to propose using Chongguang against the Overseas, hoping to advance her cultivation by forcing the Demon Race’s great sages to seek her help. Lu Yang demanded a benefit in return, and Flying Snow offered the chance to learn about her Heavenly Remnant Consciousness fragment through a duel.

• True Lord Flying Snow arrived at the Heavenly Court with Lu Yang and True Lord Splendid Silk Brocade, then asked Lu Yang where Chongguang was.
• Lu Yang brought Flying Snow and Splendid Silk Brocade into his grotto-heaven, where they waited until Chongguang appeared and greeted them.
• True Lord Flying Snow admitted she no longer expected Hongyun to win the Golden Seeking and said she needed another path.
• Lu Yang guessed that Flying Snow intended to use Chongguang to pressure the Overseas Demon Race’s great sages into helping her advance to Late Golden Core.
• Lu Yang objected that he would do the work while Flying Snow reaped the benefits, so Flying Snow offered information about her Heavenly Remnant Consciousness fragment, De Chongfu, as the stake in a duel.
• Flying Snow said a Forbidden Art prevented her from revealing the fragment’s location voluntarily and claimed the First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master had placed the art upon it when opening the Netherworld.

Lu Yang learned that True Lord Flying Snow was the Lord of Netherworld and proposed a wager tied to their duel. They traveled to Seven Radiance Heaven, where they began fighting at full strength.

• True Lord Flying Snow revealed that the Peak Master of Monster-Rearing was the Lord of Netherworld and tested Lu Yang's knowledge of taboos.
• Lu Yang proposed that the loser of their duel reveal what they knew about Forbidden Knowledge concerning the First Generation Peak Masters, while the winner would decide De Chongfu's fate.
• True Lord Flying Snow agreed that if Lu Yang lost, he would help send Chongguang Overseas to compel the Overseas Demon Race's great sages to support her breakthrough to Late Golden Core.
• Lu Yang suggested Seven Radiance Heaven as a secluded battlefield, and True Lord Flying Snow agreed to go there with him and Qiluo and Chongguang.
• Lu Yang and True Lord Flying Snow raised their full dharma power and clashed at Seven Radiance Heaven.

Lu Yang and True Lord Flying Snow fought across the Seven Luminaries Stabilizing World Preserving Truth Array, with Lu Yang resisting her Purifying World Light and surviving a strike from her Sea-Mountain Heaven-Opening Stone. Flying Snow decided to overwhelm his True Constant Heart with a succession of attacks and prepared to unleash more of her power.

• Lu Yang sensed that True Lord Flying Snow’s apparent retreat was a trap and refused to pursue her.
• True Lord Flying Snow used Purifying World Light to erase Lu Yang, but his True Constant Heart gradually resisted it.
• True Lord Flying Snow struck Lu Yang’s Purple Mansion with the Sea-Mountain Heaven-Opening Stone, splitting his Dharma Body apart.
• Lu Yang’s blood and qi gathered again, and he reappeared alive with only a red mark between his brows.
• True Lord Flying Snow concluded that she must overwhelm Lu Yang’s resistance with repeated attacks and announced that she would show him her vast divine abilities and dharma power.

Lu Yang battled True Lord Flying Snow, who revealed five True Treasures and used them to control the Light Sea and attack him. After Lu Yang countered her techniques and unleashed a Six-Nine Lightning Tribulation, True Lord Flying Snow revealed her boundless dharma power and sent an endless torrent of silk bolts crashing down on him.

• True Lord Flying Snow revealed four more True Treasures, and her Thousand-Rapids Mystic-Return Pearl slowed Lu Yang so the Sea-Mountain Heaven-Opening Stone could strike him.
• Lu Yang used Divine Firmament Thunder to create an opening, then used Great Tribulation Lord and his mastery of the Heart Demon Image to let the Stone pass through him.
• Lu Yang sent ten thousand demons into True Lord Flying Snow's Sea of Consciousness, but her perfected Dao Heart destroyed them while he prepared his next attack.
• Lu Yang struck True Lord Flying Snow with a Six-Nine Lightning Tribulation, and she used a white jade bottle to collect and neutralize the lightning.
• True Lord Flying Snow declared that boundless dharma power stood above vast divine powers and unleashed an ever-multiplying torrent of silk bolts at Lu Yang.

True Lord Flying Snow unleashed her strongest attack, but Lu Yang endured it and adapted to her profundities. He then relied on his physical strength to battle her at close range, leaving their fight raging into Seven Radiance Heaven.

• True Lord Flying Snow used the Thousand-Rapids Mystic-Return Pearl, Sea-Mountain Heaven-Opening Stone, and Heavenly Sash Plain-Silk Light to unleash a devastating waterfall strike at Lu Yang.
• Lu Yang endured the attack by redirecting its force through his Rebirth Aspect, using Suo Huan and the Great Tribulation Lord, and altering Divine Firmament Thunder into Spring-Blossom Water.
• After the waterfall subsided, Lu Yang healed his grievous injuries with Pine and Cypress Wood, while True Lord Flying Snow prepared to press her advantage.
• Lu Yang used True Constant Heart to adapt to and nullify True Lord Flying Snow's Purifying World Light, then challenged her to surrender or fight him physically.
• True Lord Flying Snow and Lu Yang traded blows in close combat, and their battle crashed from the sky into Seven Radiance Heaven.

Lu Yang defeated True Lord Flying Snow, who revived through the Ruin-Returning Tide-Luring Cup, and demanded the secrets of the four peaks. Her revelations about the First Generation Peak Masters led Lu Yang to realize that Butian Que was tied to Pomegranate Wood and that the Netherworld could be entered through another route.

• Lu Yang smashed True Lord Flying Snow to pieces in their battle, and Chongguang and True Lord Splendid Silk Brocade arrived to find the battlefield devastated.
• True Lord Flying Snow reassembled herself with the Ruin-Returning Tide-Luring Cup and explained that she had not yet attained Empty Attainment.
• Lu Yang demanded the secrets of the four peaks, and True Lord Flying Snow secretly shared three things she knew about the First Generation Peak Masters.
• Lu Yang realized Butian Que was the profound mystery of Pomegranate Wood's Fruit Position and that Butian Que had tried to dissuade him from attaining it.
• Lu Yang inferred that the Netherworld, founded on the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness Carefree Wandering, could be reached by obtaining its coordinates after passing other trials.

Lu Yang decided to provoke a great tribulation to uncover the Dao Lords’ plans and ordered Chongguang to kill two overseas True Lords. True Lord Flying Snow marked Lu Yang with a karmic coordinate to De Chongfu, leaving him considering a visit to Responding King.

• Lu Yang resolved to wait until he became a Great True Lord before examining Old Dragon Lord’s memories, and planned to devour Pine and Cypress Wood before restarting his cultivation.
• Lu Yang chose Tribulation as his target and planned to force a Dao Lord’s true body to descend, then broadcast its appearance across the Void Darkness Light Sea.
• Lu Yang called True Lord Flying Snow “Feixue” and asked Chongguang to travel overseas and kill one or two of the four overseas True Lords.
• Lu Yang told Chongguang to kill Great Sage Yuanxu and Xuan Yuan Great Sage, but spare Great Sage Mingzhu, whom True Lord Flying Snow preferred.
• True Lord Flying Snow placed a karmic coordinate to De Chongfu on Lu Yang, who considered visiting Responding King.

Chongguang returned to Immortal Pivot and infiltrated the Four Seas Sect to seize Great Sage Yuanxu’s body. After secretly taking control of him, Chongguang persuaded Xuan Yuan Great Sage to remain as his guard.

• Chongguang arrived Overseas and used Formless Realm to send thousands of Heart Demons into the Four Seas Sect.
• Chongguang used a Heart Demon inside a Xuan Turtle elder to bypass Great Sage Yuanxu’s layered formations.
• Chongguang struck Great Sage Yuanxu with Toppling Sumeru, destroying his consciousness and taking control of his body.
• Xuan Yuan Great Sage, Great Sage Mingzhu, and the Old Dragon Lord arrived, but none detected Chongguang’s possession.
• Chongguang, disguised as Great Sage Yuanxu, asked Xuan Yuan Great Sage to stay and guard him, and Xuan Yuan agreed.

Chongguang exposed himself while possessing Xuan Yuan Great Sage, but Xuan Yuan’s sacrifice destroyed his demon body and drove him away. Xuan Yuan reincarnated and, with Great Sage Mingzhu, headed for the Sacred Sect to seek protection from the Immortal Lord of Tribulation and Karma, while Old Dragon Lord fled into hiding.

• After manipulating Xuan Yuan Great Sage for seven days, Chongguang revealed his true demon body inside Xuan Yuan’s Sea of Consciousness, but Xuan Yuan used the Heartfire Reflection Technique to expose him.
• Great Sage Mingzhu arrived to help, but Old Dragon Lord abandoned them and fled with the True Dragon Clan.
• Xuan Yuan Great Sage self-destructed, turning his vital blood into spirit fire that burned Chongguang’s demon body to ash, though Chongguang’s consciousness survived through a Heart Demon left outside the Four Seas Sect.
• Xuan Yuan reincarnated within the Mystic Turtle Clan and told Great Sage Mingzhu that Chongguang remained alive and Old Dragon Lord could not be trusted.
• Xuan Yuan Great Sage and Great Sage Mingzhu set out for the Sacred Sect, while Old Dragon Lord watched them depart and continued hiding beneath the seabed.