Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang used Divine Firmament Thunder and Lord of State and Grain to complete a Fruit Position Ascension Ritual, then challenged the power of the Other Shore to a contest spanning time and space. As a descending thought threatened to kill him, he vanished before its finger struck.

• Lu Yang used Supreme Divine Firmament Thunder to simulate Fire in the Sky, Sword Edge Metal, and City-Wall Earth.
• Lu Yang fused Divine Firmament Thunder with Lord of State and Grain and transformed City-Wall Earth into blazing-white Karma Dharma light.
• Lu Yang learned Si Sui’s four stages of Late Golden Core and compared them with Sky Soaring’s classification.
• Lu Yang isolated Immortal Venerable Greater Yin from the Sea of Suffering and declared that his seniors would watch the coming drama.
• A figure from the Other Shore descended as a thought and pointed at Lu Yang, who called on all living beings to climb to the mountaintop.
• Lu Yang challenged the descending power to a game of Karma hide-and-seek and vanished just before its finger struck him.

Lu Yang fled the Sacred Sect Ancestor by using City-Wall Earth to travel five thousand years into the past, arriving at the Sacred Sect in Jiangbei. He settled on an island and considered how to reach the World Honored One without disrupting the scene of Karma.

• Lu Yang realized the Sacred Sect Ancestor was searching the Karmic Net and used the Lord of State and Grain’s time anchor to escape to five thousand years ago.
• The Sacred Sect Ancestor’s gaze reached the Karmic Net after Lu Yang vanished, but the vast karmic history concealed him.
• Lu Yang arrived at the Cloud Sea of Heaven-Reaching in Jiangbei, where a Sacred Sect Disciple was calling names on a stage.
• Lu Yang crossed to an isolated island, took up residence in a cave, and summoned Chongguang and the Primordial Heavenly Demon.
• Lu Yang weighed the limits his Great True Lord power placed on him in the scene of Karma and wondered how to meet the World Honored One and hitch a ride with him.

Lu Yang searched for a way to reach False History and settled on using Xue Feihong’s karma, but discovered that she carried the Sacred Sect Ancestor’s Fixed Number. He withdrew from the plan and continued searching for a flaw in the Ancestor’s control.

• Lu Yang realized the altered official history concealed the World Honored One and concluded that entering the Pure Land or False History directly would expose him to the Sacred Sect Ancestor.
• Lu Yang sent Chongguang and the Primordial Heavenly Demon to find Foundation Establishment True Person Xue Feihong, hoping to use her karma to enter False History.
• Lu Yang saw a Fixed Number on Xue Feihong and inferred that the Sacred Sect Ancestor had been guiding her rise as a valuable asset.
• Lu Yang ordered Chongguang and the Primordial Heavenly Demon to retreat and rejected the Zou Yu Descendants as another likely protected target.
• Lu Yang resolved that the Sacred Sect Ancestor could not control every Variable and searched for a flaw in his plans.

Lu Yang realized Hongyun’s mysterious death was concealed within False History and concluded that Hongyun, not Sky Soaring, might be the hidden Variable. He found Hongyun’s reincarnated body and plunged into the dark abyss within Hongyun’s karma.

• Lu Yang decided to follow Hongyun until Sky Soaring appeared, then patiently watched Hongyun’s life unfold for two and a half years.
• Hongyun suddenly died and fell into the Netherworld, but Lu Yang could detect no sign that Sky Soaring had killed him.
• Lu Yang used the Yin-Yang Mirror Divine Fruit to reveal a karmic thread causing Hongyun’s death and inferred that the event was concealed in False History.
• Lu Yang concluded that Hongyun might be the Variable planted by the World Honored One and chose to risk investigating him.
• Lu Yang found Hongyun’s reincarnated body, revealed the split in his karma with Grasp Past and Present, and leaped into its dark abyss.

Lu Yang resisted the World Honored One’s attempt to convert him and met Radiant World Exchange Light True Lord in the Void Darkness Light Sea. The monk revealed how his three identities formed his path to Attaining Enlightenment, then opened a karmic route for Lu Yang to travel to the era when the Netherworld was first established.

• Lu Yang’s consciousness expanded across the lives of all beings until he broke free after a furious roar and found the World Honored One waiting in the Void Darkness Light Sea.
• Lu Yang addressed the monk as Senior, and the monk inferred that they had met before and that Lu Yang was a Sacred Sect Disciple.
• Lu Yang asked to visit the era when the Netherworld was first established, preferably before the First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master created the Yellow Springs Road.
• The monk revealed that he had been the First Generation Myriad Treasure Peak Master, was now Radiant World Exchange Light True Lord, and would become the World Honored One of the Pure Land of Profound Joy.
• The monk explained that his present body had severed its Karma and entered False History, and that defeating it there could make him fall from the Other Shore’s Supreme position.
• The monk opened a karmic thread for Lu Yang to trace backward and warned him not to approach Huanyao, whose Karma could not be altered.

Lu Yang traveled through the World Honored One’s torrent of time toward a Karmic scene seventy thousand years in the past, but the Sacred Sect Ancestor disrupted the Karmic Net and seemed to detect his destination. Lu Yang reached the past and resolved to evade the Sacred Sect Ancestor’s search before attempting to alter causes and outcomes.

• Lu Yang thanked Radiant World Exchange Light True Lord and entered the Karmic portal, traveling upstream through the World Honored One’s torrent of time.
• The Sacred Sect Ancestor’s distant gaze froze the torrent, but the first master of Myriad Treasure Peak and the World Honored One restored its flow.
• The Sacred Sect Ancestor struck the Karmic Net with a manifested hand, throwing it into disorder and creating a vortex of mixed eras.
• Lu Yang plunged toward the Karmic scene seventy thousand years in the past before the vortex could sweep him elsewhere, then heard a voice say, “I found you.”
• Lu Yang awoke during a temple morning lesson and reasoned that the Sacred Sect Ancestor had inferred his target from the disturbance in Karma.
• Lu Yang suppressed his fear and decided that surviving the Sacred Sect Ancestor’s search mattered more than altering causes and outcomes.

Lu Yang found himself disguised as a novice in the Pure Land seventy thousand years in the past, where the Sacred Sect Ancestor was searching for him. As the First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master arrived, Lu Yang accepted Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts to conceal himself, leaving him caught between the Ancestor’s hunt and the World Honored One’s attempt to convert him.

• Lu Yang realized his novice disguise helped him blend into the Pure Land, but his lack of Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts could eventually expose him to the Sacred Sect Ancestor.
• The First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master announced his arrival to meet Senior Brother Wanbao, and Lu Yang recognized him as bait in the Sacred Sect Ancestor’s search.
• Lu Yang concluded the World Honored One had deliberately placed him at this time and warned him about the First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master, while also forcing him toward Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts.
• As the Monster-Rearing Peak Master drew near, Lu Yang recited the Great Vehicle Right Enlightenment Fundamental Sutra and joined Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts to hide.
• Lu Yang feared that remaining in Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts would gradually wear away his Dao Heart, then watched the temple gates open as the First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master entered.

Lu Yang witnessed the First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master visit the World Honored One and secretly overheard their conversation through the Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts. He realized the Yellow Springs Road was already complete and the Bridge of Forgetfulness was now being built, meaning he had arrived too late to change the timeline.

• Lu Yang saw the First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master arrive at the temple and was astonished by his immense Wisdom Light.
• The World Honored One, possessing the Little Novice, welcomed Huanyao and agreed to hear his problem concerning the Netherworld.
• Lu Yang wondered about the pair’s close relationship and their past cooperation, then began looking for a way to leave the Pure Land.
• The World Honored One secretly shared his conversation with Lu Yang through the Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts.
• The First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master explained that the Yellow Springs Road was complete but he could not safely place the Netherworld’s mark on fragile true spirits using the Bridge of Forgetfulness.
• Lu Yang realized the timeline had been disrupted and that he had arrived too late.

Lu Yang learned through Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts that the World Honored One had created the Foundation Establishment Realm, which reinforced the Real World and held back the Other Shore’s collapse. He realized the Netherworld plan was a smokescreen and that secretly altering the Foundation Establishment Realm might break the deadlock.

• The World Honored One explained that the First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master's Bridge of Forgetfulness needed Forbidden Knowledge related to the Other Shore to pair with the Yellow Springs Road.
• The First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master proposed building the Netherworld beneath the Real World and asked the World Honored One to teach him the Plane Construction Method.
• The First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master revealed that the World Honored One had created the Foundation Establishment Realm, which had reinforced the Real World for sixty thousand years.
• Lu Yang realized the World Honored One had used the Netherworld as a decoy to draw the Sacred Sect Ancestor's attention away from the Foundation Establishment Realm.

Lu Yang listened as the World Honored One discussed the Plane Construction Method with the First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master, while suspecting the World Honored One was trying to convert him. The First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master uncovered that the World Honored One had deliberately unbalanced the Foundation Establishment Realm’s Five Elements, and the World Honored One resolved to personally deal with him.

• Lu Yang reasoned that destroying the Foundation Establishment Realm could strengthen Sky Soaring’s prospects of reaching the Netherworld and was part of the World Honored One’s attempt to convert him.
• Lu Yang chose not to Restart and memorized the World Honored One and the First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master’s discussion of the Plane Construction Method, though he could not understand it.
• The First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master noticed a huge fissure missing from the Foundation Establishment Realm’s blueprint, and the World Honored One said that a failure there could collapse the realm and kill Foundation Establishment True Persons.
• The First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master concluded that the fissure resulted from the Five Elements being out of balance and accused the World Honored One of causing it by altering Heavenly River Water’s Supreme position.
• The World Honored One privately recalled that he had created the flaw to bring the Other Shore Heavenly Collapse forward and secure support for the Netherworld, then decided to personally send the First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master on his way.

Lu Yang realized the World Honored One had maneuvered events around Heavenly River Water and Great Sea Water to stabilize the Foundation Establishment Realm and advance his bid for the Netherworld. Trapped in a scene of Karma seventy thousand years in the past, Lu Yang learned he could still pursue his plan by taking over the World Honored One’s overseas avatar.

• Lu Yang inferred that Tian Qiu’s past success and Great Sea Water’s restoration had served the World Honored One’s plan to stabilize the Foundation Establishment Realm before Sky Soaring seized the Netherworld.
• Lu Yang severed his connection to Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts and resisted the World Honored One’s gradual attempt to convert him.
• The World Honored One told Lu Yang that monitored Karma would prevent him from leaving until he had gone with the current for roughly five thousand years.
• Lu Yang worked out that he could widen the Foundation Establishment Realm’s crack by causing another Supreme Position displacement or by letting a True Lord of Heavenly River Water perish.
• The World Honored One revealed that his blood brother, who cultivated Heavenly River Water, was near death in the Overseas Dragon Palace and proposed that Lu Yang prolong his life until a more useful time.
• The World Honored One offered Lu Yang the identity of his overseas avatar, a little novice already sent to collect Grotto-Heaven Fragments, so Lu Yang could act without causing abnormal Karma.

Lu Yang headed to the Dragon Palace, suspecting the World Honored One had hidden motives for asking him to extend the life of Old Dragon Lord’s brother. The World Honored One revealed that the Dragon Lord had secretly been his pawn and that Lu Yang’s apparent choice would let him turn Lu Yang into an avatar and advance several other schemes.

• Lu Yang recalled the Heavenly River Water Dragon Lord and grew wary that the World Honored One wanted to use the Dharma Body Path for a concealed purpose.
• At Great Thunderclap Temple, the World Honored One watched a Dao Lord search through Karma history for the Calamity Wielder and judged that the Immortal Lord of Tribulation and Karma was doomed.
• The World Honored One identified Huanyao as the vengeful body he intended to claim for his senior brother.
• The World Honored One revealed that Old Dragon Lord’s blood brother had been his hidden pawn since his pursuit of the Nascent Soul realm.
• The World Honored One planned to use Lu Yang’s attempt to extend his avatar’s lifespan to inject Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts into Lu Yang and crush his perfected Dao Heart.
• The World Honored One expected to convert Lu Yang into his avatar, obtain the Dharma Body Path, and use the resulting upheaval to advance his plans for the Dao Lords and Sky Soaring.

Lu Yang infiltrated the Dragon Palace and discovered that the World Honored One’s scheme around the dying Dragon Lord Yu Zhao presented a major pitfall. He used the Hundred Lives Book’s Dove Occupies Magpie’s Nest talent to replace Yu Zhao’s Karma and origin, making himself vanish from the World Honored One’s senses.

• Lu Yang entered the Dragon Palace disguised as the World Honored One’s novice avatar and subdued Yu Zhao and the Old Dragon Lord.
• The Immortal Pivot Survival Guide warned Lu Yang that examining Yu Zhao involved a major pitfall, though the Yin-Yang Mirror Divine Fruit revealed nothing.
• Lu Yang reasoned that one of the Hundred Lives Book’s talents could circumvent the World Honored One’s calculations.
• Lu Yang used Dove Occupies Magpie’s Nest to take on Yu Zhao’s identity at the level of Karma and origin.
• The World Honored One sensed Lu Yang’s Karma vanish, leaving only the Old Dragon Lord and Yu Zhao in the Dragon Palace.

Lu Yang used Dove Occupies Magpie's Nest to hide inside Dragon Lord Yu Zhao, escaping the World Honored One's notice in a Karmic Scene seventy thousand years in the past. But the Sacred Sect Ancestor found no trace of him and chose to destroy every Karmic Scene there, threatening Lu Yang's hiding place.

• Lu Yang used Dove Occupies Magpie's Nest to conceal himself within Dragon Lord Yu Zhao, and the World Honored One failed to find him.
• The World Honored One concluded that Lu Yang's rescuer had disrupted his plan and decided to pursue other dragon heirs as potential pawns.
• After the World Honored One left, Dragon Lord Yu Zhao and Old Dragon Lord awakened and continued entrusting the orphan, while Lu Yang discovered the World Honored One's infection within Yu Zhao.
• Lu Yang realized he would need to hide for five thousand years and planned to study the World Honored One's method of creating planes.
• The Sacred Sect Ancestor appeared to the World Honored One through the Karmic Net and unleashed a destructive shadow to erase every Karmic Scene seventy thousand years in the past.

Lu Yang survived the Sacred Sect Ancestor’s destruction of the Karmic Net by hiding inside Dragon Lord Yu Zhao’s karma, then waited for the Dao Lords to withdraw. Once the net was restored, he used Grasp Past and Present to rewrite Yu Zhao’s fate, leaving the result of his intervention to unfold.

• The Sacred Sect Ancestor sent a strand of dharma power from the Other Shore and destroyed the Karmic Scenes throughout the Karmic Net.
• Lu Yang activated A Bit Capable and used Dove Occupies Magpie’s Nest to hide inside Dragon Lord Yu Zhao’s karma, escaping the destruction.
• The World Honored One and the Sacred Sect Ancestor searched the damaged Karmic Net repeatedly before withdrawing their attention.
• Lu Yang waited for the karma to reconnect, then waited another two and a half years before emerging.
• Lu Yang activated Grasp Past and Present, rewriting Dragon Lord Yu Zhao’s fate so he had survived by faking his death and living until seventy thousand years later.

Sky Soaring crossed the Netherworld and reached Golden Core Perfection as the First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master awakened. The Peak Master recognized the World Honored One as Senior Brother Wanbao, then committed suicide, leaving the Netherworld empty and causing the Time Scroll to ripple.

• Sky Soaring crossed the Netherworld’s barriers and discovered that the Three Lives Stone showed he had no past life, but he continued onward without hesitation.
• Sky Soaring broke through to Golden Core Perfection and arrived at the Netherworld Lord Hall as its gates opened and the First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master awakened.
• The First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master addressed Sky Soaring as Master, recognized the World Honored One as Senior Brother Wanbao, and said he would fulfill their wishes in the great calamity.
• The First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master shattered and vanished, leaving no soul or Divine Thought; the Netherworld became empty and the Time Scroll rippled.

Sky Soaring died while trying to enter the Netherworld, and Ling Xiao Dong Huang True Lord emerged from False History to take his place. The Sacred Sect Ancestor revealed the Other Shore and imposed a new Fixed Number forbidding enlightenment in the Netherworld, while Dragon Lord Yu Zhao appeared to fulfill his promise to bring it down.

• Sky Soaring threw the five Fruit Positions into Quzhi and charged toward the Netherworld Lord Hall, but the Fixed Number killed him and erased his soul.
• The World Honored One's scroll restored Ling Xiao Dong Huang True Lord from False History, and he stepped into the Netherworld Lord Hall to advance toward Nascent Soul.
• Time stopped as the Other Shore was revealed, and its Immortal Light turned most cultivators to ash while Golden Core True Lords glimpsed the seven-tiered mountain.
• The Sacred Sect Ancestor stepped down from the Seventh Layer, creating the Fixed Number that no one could attain enlightenment in the Netherworld and ending the upheaval.
• Dragon Lord Yu Zhao appeared at the Immortal Pivot, Overseas, ready to fulfill his promise to make the Other Shore fall.

Lu Yang resurrected Dragon Lord Yu Zhao through altered karma, then destroyed the Foundation Establishment Realm by detonating the Heaven-Covering Purifying Mystery Grotto-Heaven. The collapse caused widespread Divine Rank falls, but Dao Foundations created by Huanyao allowed some Foundation Establishment True Persons to survive, while the World Honored One remained unmoved.

• Lu Yang anchored Dragon Lord Yu Zhao's altered karma in the Real World, restoring Yu Zhao's body, Grotto-Heaven, Gold Nature, and True Dragon bloodline.
• Lu Yang collapsed the Heaven-Covering Purifying Mystery Grotto-Heaven, alarming the World Honored One and the Dao Lords, who wondered who had altered karma.
• Lu Yang saw that Sacred Sect Ancestor showed no reaction to the impending collapse and detonated the Grotto-Heaven anyway.
• The Foundation Establishment Realm shattered, causing Divine Rank falls across the Real World and killing many Foundation Establishment True Persons.
• The World Honored One realized that Dao Foundations created by Huanyao had helped some Foundation Establishment True Persons survive the collapse, then dismissed Huanyao's efforts.

The collapse of the Foundation Establishment Realm made the Other Shore descend, while Ling Xiao Dong Huang True Lord threatened to detonate the Netherworld unless the Dao Lords let him attain enlightenment. The Sacred Sect Ancestor continued the Fixed Number instead, igniting the Dao Struggle the World Honored One had planned to exploit.

• Great True Lords across the Void Darkness Light Sea sensed that the Other Shore was falling after the Foundation Establishment Realm collapsed.
• The Dao Lords halted their fight over the Netherworld and restrained the Fixed Number to prevent it from erasing Ling Xiao Dong Huang True Lord.
• Ling Xiao Dong Huang True Lord revealed that he had one foot inside the Netherworld Lord Hall and threatened to detonate the Netherworld unless they released the Fixed Number.
• The Sacred Sect Ancestor refused to compromise and sent the Fixed Number descending again, shocking Lu Yang and Sky Soaring.
• The World Honored One revealed that making Sky Soaring the Lord of Netherworld had been incidental to his plan to provoke a Dao Struggle against Chu Sheng.

Lu Yang used the Yin-Yang Mirror Divine Fruit to glimpse the Dao Lords battling on the Other Shore, but the Sword Pavilion Dao Lord’s Sword Light permanently destroyed his eyes. He concluded that the Sacred Sect Ancestor remained beyond the other Dao Lords’ power, while the Other Shore continued descending.

• Lu Yang endured the radiance of a Dao Lord’s Image and used the Yin-Yang Mirror Divine Fruit to see through the darkness.
• Lu Yang and Ling Xiao Dong Huang True Lord briefly recognized each other, then focused on the battle on the Other Shore.
• The Sword Pavilion Dao Lord’s Sword Light struck Lu Yang, shattering his Dharma Body and permanently destroying his eyes.
• Lu Yang glimpsed five Dao Lord Images surrounding the Sacred Sect Ancestor and concluded that the Sword Pavilion, magical power, and Spell Dao Lords had grown stronger, while the World Honored One had not changed.
• Lu Yang judged that the other Dao Lords could not shake the Sacred Sect Ancestor, then sensed the Other Shore descending faster after the Foundation Establishment Realm shattered.