Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang checked on Yu Suzhen and discovered she had become remarkably skilled at manipulating the Three Rivers Society cultivators around her. After watching her juggle several secret relationships, he was left stunned by the progress of her enterprise.

• Lu Yang decided to check Yu Suzhen’s progress while continuing to plan his path toward Foundation Establishment.
• Yu Suzhen attended Luo Wuya’s banquet, charmed the gathered cultivators, and left Luo Wuya intrigued by her softened demeanor.
• Zhao Xuhe secretly visited Yu Suzhen, and she pressed him to make their relationship public; he refused because of his arranged marriage.
• Lu Yuanchun visited Yu Suzhen afterward, and she acted distressed while concealing her schemes from him.
• Luo Wuya arrived unexpectedly, and Lu Yang watched Yu Suzhen react with alarm before marveling at her success.

Yu Suzhen’s schemes to draw in Zhao Xuhe, Lu Yuanchun, and Luo Wuya drew the attention of the Peak Master of Heaven Mending, who discovered Lu Yang behind her. Lu Yang offered to trade Chen Xin'an’s possible revival for the Peak Master’s help concealing Yu Suzhen’s Karma while she used Heaven-Stealing Secret against Xiao Shiye.

• Luo Wuya heard Yu Suzhen’s account of how Lu Yuanchun had coerced her and promised to keep the matter confidential before leaving her cave dwelling.
• Yu Suzhen revealed that she had deliberately used different tactics to draw in Zhao Xuhe, Lu Yuanchun, and Luo Wuya as part of her cultivation scheme.
• The Peak Master of Heaven Mending appeared in Yu Suzhen’s cave dwelling, froze her, and confronted Lu Yang about scheming against his disciples and obtaining Heaven-Stealing Secret.
• Lu Yang took control of Yu Suzhen’s body and told the Peak Master that Chen Xin'an still had a chance to be reborn, offering that information in exchange for a deal.
• Lu Yang asked the Peak Master to conceal Yu Suzhen’s Karma while she used Heaven-Stealing Secret to plunder Xiao Shiye, Daoist Hongyun’s bait, and the Peak Master agreed to hear his proposal.

Lu Yang accepted the Peak Master of Heaven Mending’s proposal to cooperate and become a cultivation partner with Chen Shuqian, though both sides secretly plotted against each other. After recognizing the danger of being tracked and captured, Lu Yang decided to enter the Witch Ghost Secret Realm with his true body and confront the threats there.

• The Peak Master of Heaven Mending proposed that Lu Yang become Chen Shuqian’s cultivation partner, promising to help with Hongyun’s matter, and Lu Yang agreed to wait until after his Foundation Establishment attempt.
• After Lu Yang left, the Peak Master of Heaven Mending revealed that he planned to track Lu Yang’s true body, capture him, and use him to improve Chen Shuqian’s chances of Foundation Establishment.
• Lu Yang realized the Peak Master of Heaven Mending intended to make him a cultivation resource and doubted that Chen Xin'an would be safe in his hands.
• Lu Yang considered hiding in the Witch Ghost Secret Realm, where the Golden Core Sword Qi might protect him from the Peak Master of Heaven Mending and Daoist Hongyun.
• Lu Yang concluded that the Tingyou Sect’s connection to the Golden Core Sword Qi had to be investigated, then decided to send his true body into the secret realm.

The Tingyou Sect’s elders discussed finding the person who destroyed their Patriarch Statue, hoping to use him to break the Heavenly Sword and escape the Witch Ghost Secret Realm. Lu Yang attacked the City of Wrongful Death, seized thousands of Witch Ghosts, and located the hidden senior behind the Tingyou Sect.

• White Impermanence awakened the Tingyou Sect’s elders and explained that the Patriarch had ordered them to find the statue’s destroyer, whose strength might help break the Heavenly Sword.
• The Civil and Martial Judges awakened, and the Day and Night Roaming Gods discovered Lu Yang waiting outside the City of Wrongful Death.
• Lu Yang used the Mysterious Yin Form-Capturing Great Art to kill the city’s cultivators while sparing its mortals, then absorbed the released Witch Ghosts into the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner.
• The eight elders confronted Lu Yang, but he ignored them and vanished to sit atop the Heaven-Reaching Statue.
• Lu Yang addressed the hidden senior behind the Tingyou Sect and said he had come at the senior’s invitation.

Lu Yang confronted Patriarch Tingyou, who revealed that he intended to seize Lu Yang’s body to escape his failing reincarnations and restore the Witch Ghost Sect. Their battle exposed Tingyou’s true identity to the Golden Core Sword Qi, which began to stir above the secret realm.

• Lu Yang took control of the Heaven-Reaching Statue’s geomancy and awakened the soul hidden inside it.
• Patriarch Tingyou appeared before Lu Yang and recognized him as a disciple of the First Saint Sect.
• Tingyou revealed his plan to borrow Lu Yang’s body and use the First Saint Sect’s identity to break the Golden Core Sword Qi.
• Lu Yang attacked Tingyou with his Saint Manifestation, but Tingyou countered with the Manifestation of the Profound Underworld Lord and matched Lu Yang’s standing.
• Tingyou abandoned his concealment, causing his past identity and Karma to become clearer as the Golden Core Sword Qi rang in the sky.

Lu Yang trapped Patriarch Tingyou in a prepared talisman formation, but Tingyou summoned the eight elders to manifest the Netherworld Court and break free. A Golden Core Sword Qi awakened and identified Tingyou as the last sect master of the Witch Ghost Sect, while declaring that the chief culprit must be executed.

• Patriarch Tingyou attacked Lu Yang with soul-destroying yin thunder, but Lu Yang evaded it with Sword Escape.
• Patriarch Tingyou used Witch Ghosts to track Lu Yang's Sword Lights and pursue him between them.
• Lu Yang countered the yin thunder with Five Thunder Talismans, then activated a grand formation he had prepared around the City of Wrongful Death.
• Lu Yang's formation battered Patriarch Tingyou, but Tingyou summoned the eight elders to take their places in Yama Hall and broke free of the formation.
• Golden Core Sword Qi awakened and proclaimed that the Witch Ghost Sect Master, the chief culprit, must be executed.
• Lu Yang realized that Patriarch Tingyou was the last sect master of the Witch Ghost Sect.

Patriarch Tingyou used Yama Hall to ascend into the Foundation Establishment Realm and struck Lu Yang with Heaven Collapse, then tried to possess him using souls harvested from the City of Wrongful Death. Lu Yang survived and repelled the possession, allowing the Golden Core Sword Qi to destroy Patriarch Tingyou’s soul; Lu Yang collected the scattered thoughts and memories.

• Patriarch Tingyou restored Yama Hall and used it to rise into the Foundation Establishment Realm without constructing an Immortal Foundation.
• Patriarch Tingyou performed Heaven Collapse, but Lu Yang emerged with only blood on his clothes.
• Patriarch Tingyou slaughtered the inhabitants of the City of Wrongful Death and gathered their souls to empower his possession attempt.
• Lu Yang explained that his A Bit Capable talent let him withstand Heaven Collapse and then threw Patriarch Tingyou out of his Sea of Consciousness.
• The Golden Core Sword Qi shattered Patriarch Tingyou’s soul, and Lu Yang gathered the scattered thoughts containing his memories.

Lu Yang refined Patriarch Tingyou’s soul thoughts and learned the Witch Ghost Sect’s inheritance, including a method that could grant Foundation Establishment power through Yama Hall. He rejected using it for his own cultivation because it would sever his Dao Path, but discovered that an avatar could use the method instead and considered Yu Suzhen as a source of fortune.

• Lu Yang accepted the karmic burden of the Witch Ghost Sect’s inheritance and refined Patriarch Tingyou’s soul thoughts in seclusion.
• Lu Yang learned that a surviving Golden Core True Lord from the Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion was connected to the Witch Ghost Sect’s destruction and stopped investigating the matter to avoid drawing the True Lord’s attention.
• Lu Yang studied the Mysterious Underworld Lord Soul-Capturing Position and realized that Yama Hall could imitate Foundation Establishment by transforming and governing a region, but would trap him there and cut off his future path.
• Lu Yang found Patriarch Tingyou’s alternative, the Great Avatar Universal Assembly Divine Method, which could let an avatar cultivate the position and inherit the Witch Ghost Sect’s karma.
• Lu Yang considered using Yu Suzhen to obtain the fortune needed for Yama Hall and potentially refining her into a Guardian Deity.

Lu Yang weighed his preparations for Foundation Establishment and decided to attempt the breakthrough with an eighty percent chance of success. Meanwhile, Xiao Shiye’s fated encounter with Yu Suzhen led him to gamble at the Sacred Sect’s Merit Pool, where Daoist Hongyun’s plan to claim his Fortune ended in failure.

• Lu Yang concluded that perfect Foundation Establishment was unnecessary and resolved to break through once he had an eighty percent chance.
• In a secret realm, Xiao Shiye and Yu Suzhen were forced to harmonize the inheritance’s Yin and Yang powers, and their encounter bound them together.
• Xiao Shiye became determined to grow strong enough to become Dao companions with Yu Suzhen and wagered all his yearly Contribution Points at the Merit Pool.
• Xiao Shiye won a Colorful Merit Fish and swallowed it whole to refine it.
• Daoist Hongyun appeared to claim Xiao Shiye’s Fortune, but discovered that Xiao Shiye was already dead and angrily realized his plan had failed.

After stealing the Colorful Merit Fish, Yu Suzhen was drained by Heaven-Stealing Secret and killed, while Lu Yang refined her soul into a Guardian Deity named Su Nu and used the fish’s fortune to strengthen Yama Hall. The Peak Master of Heaven Mending and Daoist Hongyun arrived at Skull Mountain as Lu Yang prepared to face them.

• Yu Suzhen stole Xiao Shiye’s Colorful Merit Fish, but Heaven-Stealing Secret drained her cultivation, fortune, and soul, killing her.
• Daoist Hongyun and the Peak Master of Heaven Mending found Yu Suzhen’s corpse and pursued Lu Yang, who had taken the fish.
• Lu Yang hid the Witch Ghost Secret Realm’s Karma with the Primordial Chaos Unity Divine Talisman and began refining Yu Suzhen’s soul into a Guardian Deity.
• Lu Yang remade Yu Suzhen as Su Nu, bound her with self-destruction restrictions, and seated her in Yama Hall.
• Lu Yang poured the Colorful Merit Fish’s fortune into Yama Hall as the Peak Master of Heaven Mending and Daoist Hongyun arrived at Skull Mountain.

Peak Master of Heaven Mending entered the Witch Ghost Secret Realm and was nearly killed by a Golden Core Sword Qi, while Lu Yang completed Yama Hall and gained a powerful boost from Guardian Deity Su Nu. The chapter ended with Lu Yang imprisoning the wounded Peak Master inside Yama Hall.

• Peak Master of Heaven Mending found the Witch Ghost Secret Realm and entered it despite Daoist Hongyun sensing danger.
• A Golden Core Sword Qi struck Peak Master of Heaven Mending, shattered his Jade Plaque, and destroyed his body, leaving only his soul.
• Lu Yang completed Yama Hall, and Su Nu became its Guardian Deity and obediently joined him.
• The Eight-Hundred-Mile Skull Mountain Vein empowered Lu Yang’s Yama Heaven Profound Underworld Seizing Ghost Prefect divine ability and accelerated his Corpse-Dissolution Immortal transformation.
• Peak Master of Heaven Mending tried to flee, but Lu Yang opened Yama Hall and imprisoned him inside.

Lu Yang fought Peak Master of Heaven Mending inside Yama Hall, using Su Nu’s power and his own incarnation to wear down the wounded cultivator. When Peak Master of Heaven Mending broke free, Lu Yang struck him with Heaven Collapse and sent him crashing back into Yama Hall.

• Peak Master of Heaven Mending fashioned a temporary body from earth and stone while Lu Yang summoned Witch Ghosts from Yama Hall.
• Peak Master of Heaven Mending used his Yin-Yang Great Dao Diagram to burn away Lu Yang’s ghostly forces, but Lu Yang struck back with Nine Heavens Dulu Secret Demon Yin Thunder.
• Lu Yang kept sending waves of forces against Peak Master of Heaven Mending, while Guardian Deity Su Nu absorbed the strain and suffered injuries.
• Peak Master of Heaven Mending unleashed the Yin-Yang Primordial Profound Divine Light, destroyed Yama Hall’s defenses, and escaped into the air.
• Peak Master of Heaven Mending realized Lu Yang was using an external incarnation, but Lu Yang struck him with Heaven Collapse and knocked him back into Yama Hall.

Lu Yang defeated the Peak Master of Heaven Mending at great cost, forcing him to reveal his Dao Path and flee Skull Mountain after sacrificing part of his soul. A powerful Sacred Sect rival arrived and mistook Lu Yang for one of the sect’s reincarnated True Persons.

• The Peak Master of Heaven Mending used Mountain-Sitting Lord and Red Ru Scale to reveal that he sought the Pomegranate Wood Fruit Position, then escaped Yama Hall on a human-faced fish.
• Lu Yang pursued the Peak Master with Yama Hall, but the Peak Master split his soul and sacrificed one half to escape beyond Skull Mountain.
• Lu Yang captured and refined the sacrificed Divided Spirit in the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner, while the Peak Master escaped badly injured.
• Lu Yang restored Yama Hall with Skull Mountain’s yin qi and decided to postpone killing the Peak Master until he reached true Foundation Establishment.
• Chongguang arrived, prompting Daoist Hongyun to leave, then asked Lu Yang which Sacred Sect True Person he had reincarnated as.

Lu Yang joined the Sacred Sect while arranging to guard Skull Mountain, and he agreed to give True Person Yinshan its buried Heavenly Corpse Sha. Back at Skull Mountain, he transferred the Witch Ghost Sect’s inheritance and Karma to Guardian Deity Su Nu and considered using the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner and the Hundred Lives Book to secure the sect’s treasures without inheriting its dangers.

• Lu Yang told True Person Chongguang he would join the Sacred Sect, leave it a copy of the Witch Ghost Sect inheritance, and guard the Northern Border at Skull Mountain.
• True Person Yinshan asked Lu Yang for the Heavenly Corpse Sha buried in Skull Mountain’s Earth Veins, and Lu Yang agreed to let him have it after it was slowly refined over thirty years.
• True Person Chongguang promised to help Lu Yang make peace with Peak Master of Heaven Mending in return for helping Yinshan.
• Lu Yang returned to Skull Mountain Market, chose the Blood Garment Pavilion as his cultivation chamber, and noticed Fairy Feixia among the crowd.
• Lu Yang transferred Patriarch Tingyou’s lingering thoughts and the Witch Ghost Sect inheritance to Su Nu, shifting the associated Karma onto the Guardian Deity.
• Lu Yang considered placing Su Nu and the Witch Ghosts in the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner so he could use the Hundred Lives Book to evade the sect’s Karma and claim its treasures.

Lu Yang absorbed the Witch Ghosts into the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner, then cultivated the Severing Thoughts to See Self Heavenly Silkworm Secret by cutting nine emotional Divided Spirits from his soul and transferring their karmic influence onto Su Nu. Meanwhile, Peak Master of Heaven Mending returned to Mending Heaven Peak and warned Chen Shuqian that the Third-Rank True Qi inheritance Lu Yang coveted carried a hidden price.

• Lu Yang gathered the Witch Ghosts, Yama Hall, Su Nu, and the Divided Spirits of Peak Master of Heaven Mending and Chen Xin'an into the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner so they could accompany him after a restart.
• Lu Yang began cultivating the Severing Thoughts to See Self Heavenly Silkworm Secret, and Chen Xin'an and Peak Master of Heaven Mending suppressed the first Divided Spirit’s overwhelming joy.
• Lu Yang transferred the karmic links of all nine Divided Spirits onto Su Nu, leaving her overwhelmed by their emotions as he prepared to cultivate two techniques to perfection within three months.
• Lu Yang estimated his chance of reaching Foundation Establishment at eighty percent if he obtained the Ascension Order from True Person Yinshan.
• Peak Master of Heaven Mending returned to Mending Heaven Peak and told Chen Shuqian that Lu Yang had deceived him and destroyed his body, but warned that the Third-Rank True Qi inheritance came with a price.

Lu Yang completed his Corpse-Dissolution transformation and entered the Foundation Establishment Realm to forge his Dao Foundation. As he neared success, he sensed someone had plotted against him and confronted the supposedly dead Coiling Dragon True Person.

• Lu Yang used his Divine Sense to restrain his transformed body and achieved the Corpse-Dissolution Immortal rank.
• Lu Yang received the Ascension Order from the Sacred Sect and entered the Foundation Establishment Realm.
• Lu Yang summoned Su Nu to guard him against Heart Demons and began forging a Dao Foundation with the Ten Thousand Chariots Dragon Ascension Scroll.
• Lu Yang sensed Karma tightening around him and realized someone was plotting against him.
• Coiling Dragon True Person appeared before Lu Yang with a Little Dragon and trapped him within its golden eyes.

Arhat Fulong confronted Lu Yang and tried to recruit him into the newly founded Hidden Dragon Temple, using the Dragon Trap Ring to restrain him through the Nine Transformations Dragon Art. Lu Yang escaped the Foundation Establishment Realm and chose to fight at Skull Mountain, but Fulong’s golden Pure Land overwhelmed his defenses.

• Arhat Fulong revealed that he had entered Nirvana and offered Lu Yang a place as a Dharma Guardian Vajra in the Hidden Dragon Temple.
• The Dragon Trap Ring pinned Lu Yang’s Dao Foundation, but Lu Yang escaped by leaving the Foundation Establishment Realm and returned to the Real World.
• Lu Yang decided to fight Arhat Fulong at Skull Mountain rather than flee or Restart.
• Arhat Fulong’s pressure crushed weaker cultivators and forced Qi Refining Great Perfection cultivators to chant Buddhist sutras, while Lu Yang summoned Yama Hall with Guardian Deity Su Nu and the Red-Clad Ghosts.
• Arhat Fulong caught Yama Hall with a canopy of Precious Light, then transformed Skull Mountain into a Golden Land and swept away its Yin Sha with Rosy Cloud Light.

Lu Yang fought Arhat Fulong, whose Buddhist mantra shattered the Yama Hall and left Lu Yang relying on Su Nu and a Corpse-Dissolution technique to survive. Arhat Fulong then used the Fire-Blazing Dragon to make flames cling to Lu Yang even after his escape, and asked whether he would take refuge.

• Arhat Fulong used the great mantra No Three Evil Paths in the Kingdom to batter Lu Yang's Yama Hall and expose him to attack.
• Arhat Fulong struck Lu Yang with his Nine-Ring Tin Staff, and Lu Yang shielded himself with Su Nu before sending her back into his dantian.
• Lu Yang let the staff smash his body apart, then used Corpse Dissolution to re-form hundreds of li away and escape Arhat Fulong's Divine Sense lock.
• Arhat Fulong summoned the Fire-Blazing Dragon and incinerated Lu Yang, but Lu Yang re-formed with persistent flames still clinging to him.
• Arhat Fulong arrived before Lu Yang and asked whether he was willing to take refuge.

Lu Yang unleashed Skull Mountain’s Heavenly Corpse Sha and destroyed its Earth Vein, stripping Arhat Fulong of his Merit and Fortune at the cost of severe karmic debt. Knowing the Hundred Lives Book would reset the consequences, Lu Yang self-destructed and vowed to kill Arhat Fulong in his next life.

• Lu Yang drew Heavenly Corpse Sha from Skull Mountain’s Earth Vein, and Arhat Fulong recognized the dangerous Dao Path it could form with Fire-Blazing Dragon.
• Arhat Fulong dried up the Heavenly Corpse Sha river with Fire-Blazing Dragon and demanded that Lu Yang stop resisting.
• Lu Yang hurled Yama Hall at Arhat Fulong, then detonated it with the Heavenly Corpse Sha and destroyed Skull Mountain’s Earth Vein.
• The Earth Vein’s destruction brought Heaven’s punishment, causing Arhat Fulong to lose the Merit and Fortune stored in Hidden Dragon Temple.
• Lu Yang revealed that he could restart his life with the Hundred Lives Book, then self-destructed and vowed to kill Arhat Fulong in his next life.

Lu Yang restarted his life, chose the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner as his reward, and joined the Sacred Sect to secure a powerful backing. After discovering that Banner Spirits could take on their originals’ karma, he planned to use Chen Xin'an’s Banner Spirit to infiltrate the Peak Master of Heaven Mending’s circle.

• Lu Yang chose the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner, whose Banner Spirits erased its karma and kept the Peak Master of Heaven Mending from detecting him.
• Lu Yang decided to become a true disciple of the Sacred Sect and was assigned to Joyous Union Hall, where he killed Yu Suzhen again.
• Lu Yang summoned Su Nu and learned that she could borrow the karma of her original body, including permanently after that body died.
• Lu Yang planned to deal with Chen Xin'an’s original body and use his Banner Spirit to replace him, spy on the Peak Master of Heaven Mending, and eventually attack him.