Chapter Summaries

As Immortal Pivot and the Real World began collapsing under the Other Shore’s descent, the Sacred Sect Ancestor Chu Sheng descended to the Fifth Layer and used the Law Refining Secret Realm to stabilize them. He explained that the Dao meant treating all things as false except oneself, leaving the World Honored One to confront the difference between their paths.

• Lu Yang sensed Immortal Pivot disintegrating as the Great Dragon River expanded and the overseas waters flooded inland.
• The World Honored One questioned why Chu Sheng remained unmoved by the Other Shore’s collapse and called out to him from the Second Layer.
• Chu Sheng answered the World Honored One, criticized his approach, and descended from the Sixth Layer to the Fifth.
• Chu Sheng summoned the Law Refining Secret Realm and imposed a Fixed Number that made it capable of stabilizing the Real World.
• Chu Sheng cast the Law Refining Secret Realm into the Void Darkness Light Sea, halting the collapse of the Real World and Immortal Pivot.
• Chu Sheng told the World Honored One to put himself first, declaring that the Other Shore could be recreated and the Light Sea reshaped.

Lu Yang witnessed the Other Shore’s battle reshape the Real World, then learned that the Immortal Pivot concealed the suppressed Ancestral Dragon at its core. After the Ancestral Dragon was hidden again and Ling Xiao Dong Huang True Lord was erased by the Fixed Number, Lu Yang faced the same descending finger and vowed to keep fighting across his remaining lives.

• Lu Yang saw the Sacred Sect Ancestor stand on the Other Shore’s Fifth Layer while the other Dao Lords and the World Honored One stood on the Fourth and First Layers.
• The Immortal Pivot’s core was revealed as a vast inland sea containing the Ancestral Dragon, who roared Chu Sheng’s name as the Sacred Sect Ancestor answered him.
• The Sacred Sect Ancestor, Sword Pavilion Dao Lord, Dao Court Lord, and World Honored One restored the regions and submerged the Ancestral Dragon beneath the Two Extremes Life-Death Profound Light.
• Ling Xiao Dong Huang True Lord realized the Netherworld’s expansion restrained the Other Shore, but the Fixed Number disintegrated him before he could finish speaking.
• The Fixed Number’s gaze fell on Lu Yang, who smiled, accused the figure of acting out of guilt, and vowed to keep challenging it through his remaining lives.

After the Sacred Sect Ancestor killed him, Lu Yang reviewed his life in the Void Darkness and considered the Hundred Lives Book’s limits and origins. He chose the Third Anchor Point and restarted.

• Lu Yang concluded that the Hundred Lives Book was tied to the Void Darkness Light Sea and that his Great True Lord cultivation had helped him restart after the Sacred Sect Ancestor killed him.
• Lu Yang reviewed what he had learned about the First Generation Peak Masters, including the Monster-Rearing Peak Master’s suicide to force the Sacred Sect Ancestor to act.
• Lu Yang recognized that the upheaval he had caused exceeded his current strength and resolved to improve his fundamentals before confronting the Dao Lords’ wider game.
• The Hundred Lives Book asked Lu Yang to select a restart anchor point, and he chose the Third Anchor Point.

Lu Yang restarted from the Third Anchor Point, chose to recover his previous life's cultivation, and gathered the talents he had left unsettled. He ended with the Image of City-Wall Earth and a dazzling rainbow talent formed from four Golden Core True Lords' Gold Natures and his accumulated experiences.

• Lu Yang restarted at the Third Anchor Point and chose cultivation as his gain from the previous life, becoming a Dharma Body Path Great True Lord.
• Lu Yang subdued Yu Suzhen, then remembered Si Sui's residual thought and offered to remake it into a Heart Demon.
• Si Sui agreed and gave Lu Yang the Image of City-Wall Earth, which Lu Yang merged into the True Treasure Yellow Court.
• Lu Yang settled the cultivation from his previous life and became a Dharma Body Path Great True Lord.
• Lu Yang settled the four Gold Natures of True Lord Radiant Floating Truth, Great Sage Mingzhu, Xuan Yuan Great Sage, and Dragon Lord Yu Zhao, gaining a rainbow talent.

Lu Yang examined the Talents gained from his previous life, discovering powerful abilities and clues to a history older than the Dao Lord War. He also obtained a Talent for secretly using others to investigate dangerous secrets, then noticed Teacher Exemplar had another reward to claim.

• Lu Yang gained Light-Splitting Shadow Transformation, which let him create powerful shadow avatars, and considered combining it with self-destruction.
• Lu Yang gained Grand Self-Detonation and recognized its potential to turn his avatars into weapons of mass destruction.
• Lu Yang learned that Xuan Yuan Great Sage was related to Ancestral Dragon, speculated about Ancestral Dragon's connection to the Heavenly Duke and ancient history, and gained Ancestral Dragon Remnant.
• Lu Yang gained Out-of-Drama Observer, which let him assign people to investigate secrets and erase them without leaving a trace.
• Lu Yang realized that Martial Uncle Chongguang and the Primordial Heavenly Demon had triggered the highest-level feedback from Teacher Exemplar, revealing another reward.

Lu Yang discovered that the Heart Demon Fruit could make it easier to attract Tribulation and devised plans to use it against Chen Taihe and the Old Dragon Lord. When he revealed his Great True Lord power, he alarmed the Heavenly Dao, which killed him and sent him back to the Void Darkness Land.

• Lu Yang understood that refining the Heart Demon Fruit could make him more likely to attract Tribulation, be regarded as a demon, and encounter demon-related opportunities.
• Lu Yang split the Heart Demon Fruit into three parts, refined the Tribulation portion, and planned to cultivate Martial Uncle Chongguang repeatedly to strengthen its effect.
• Lu Yang planned to use the remaining portions and Out-of-Drama Observer to send Chen Taihe to explore Pomegranate Wood, then target Ancestral Dragon Pit and the Old Dragon Lord.
• Lu Yang revealed his aura to travel to Overseas and realized that the Void Darkness Light Sea did not permit Great True Lords to emerge freely.
• The Heavenly Dao killed Lu Yang after he alarmed it, and the Hundred Lives Book returned him to the Void Darkness Land with 86 pages remaining.

Lu Yang deduced that the Heavenly Dao was an incomplete creation sustained by the Real World, then used Sand Gold’s mystery to conceal his Great True Lord status and avoid its notice. After restarting at the Third Anchor Point, he committed to cultivation and began settling Dragon Lord Yu Zhao’s experiences.

• Lu Yang reasoned that the Heavenly Dao was formed from Fortune and Destiny, served the interests of the Sword Pavilion Dao Lord and the Dao Court Lord, and depended on the Real World.
• Lu Yang chose the Third Anchor Point, selected treasure, and used Trend Taking Shape to conceal his Great True Lord status at the Golden Core Middle Stage.
• Lu Yang knocked out Yu Suzhen and opened the Hundred Lives Book to settle the remaining talent, Dragon Lord Yu Zhao.
• The Hundred Lives Book began settling Dragon Lord Yu Zhao’s experiences and described his ancient origins and revival.

Lu Yang discovered that Mystic Cause, Strange Fruit let him draw stable karmic shadows from the Karmic Net, and he used Old Dragon Lord’s shadow to test the talent’s limits. He planned to lure Old Dragon Lord into a trap through Mu Changsheng, then opened Old Dragon Lord’s Recollection, where a deafening roar nearly collapsed his Sea of Consciousness.

• Lu Yang activated Mystic Cause, Strange Fruit and created a shadow of himself from one second earlier, confirming that extracted causes produced temporary, non-thinking figures.
• Lu Yang drew Old Dragon Lord’s karmic shadow from the Dragon Palace’s karmic thread and found that it could reproduce the original’s techniques, though with reduced strength.
• Lu Yang concluded that karmic shadows depended on his knowledge of their targets and could not reach too far into the past, then dispersed Old Dragon Lord’s shadow.
• Lu Yang planned to use Heavenly Remnant Consciousness and the Out-of-Drama Observer to lure Old Dragon Lord into Nourishing Life Lord, with Mu Changsheng helping deliver him into the trap.
• Lu Yang entered Nourishing Life Lord, raised his essence, energy, and spirit, and opened Old Dragon Lord’s Recollection, but a roar nearly collapsed his Sea of Consciousness.

Lu Yang explored Old Dragon Lord’s dangerous memories and discovered that the First Generation Elixir Peak Master had sought the Ancestral Dragon’s surviving bloodline to make a Nascent Soul Pill. The memory ended with the Elixir Peak Master declaring his plan to use Immortal Pivot as the furnace and fight a powerful enemy to the death.

• Lu Yang separated harmless memories from Old Dragon Lord’s Forbidden Knowledge and learned that Old Dragon Lord had been searching beneath the Dragon Palace of the Four Seas Sect.
• Lu Yang’s guess that the Ancestral Dragon had left something for Old Dragon Lord unsealed a memory of Old Dragon Lord meeting Wu Wei.
• Wu Wei hinted at the World Honored One’s hidden Karma, and Lu Yang recognized him as the First Generation Elixir Peak Master.
• The First Generation Elixir Peak Master told Old Dragon Lord that he intended to refine a Nascent Soul Pill, prompting Old Dragon Lord to object that such pills could not exist.
• The First Generation Elixir Peak Master revealed that he would use the Ancestral Dragon’s surviving bloodline as medicine and Immortal Pivot as the furnace, staking his life on the pill to fight his enemy.

Lu Yang uncovered a hidden memory from the sealed years in Old Dragon Lord’s memories and witnessed six powerful figures debating whether to pursue the Other Shore or construct the Heavenly Dao. The discussion ended with one speaker arguing that the Heavenly Dao was the correct path, while the identity of the absent seventh figure remained unclear.

• Lu Yang concluded that the first master of Elixir Peak had failed to use the Ancestral Dragon to refine a pill and suspected that the World Honored One had concealed part of the history.
• Lu Yang noticed a memory fragment near the origin of Old Dragon Lord’s memories that he had subconsciously ignored because its history had been severed.
• Lu Yang entered the fragment and found himself in Void Darkness Land, where a Daoist announced that six people had gathered.
• The gathered figures debated whether to pursue the Other Shore or build the Heavenly Dao, and one speaker argued that the Heavenly Dao would let them command the Light Sea and grow stronger.

Lu Yang watched a memory of Dao Lords debating whether to establish the Heavenly Dao or the Other Shore, and the Other Shore won. He suspected the debate concerned using the Ancestral Dragon as the foundation for one of them, though he could not tell whether Si Sui or the Ancestral Dragon had been excluded.

• Lu Yang realized the memory had unlocked because he had learned the name of the Heavenly Dao.
• A young Dao Lord argued that the Heavenly Dao could be surpassed in rank and that variables might eventually displace its masters.
• Chu Sheng promoted the Other Shore as a way to raise their ranks and permanently suppress variables, and another Dao Lord endorsed his proposal.
• The Dao Lords chose the Other Shore, and Lu Yang wondered which Dao Lord had been absent from the debate.
• Lu Yang considered whether the Ancestral Dragon had secretly spied on the meeting and suspected the Dao Lords might have planned to refine it into the foundation of the Heavenly Dao or the Other Shore.

Lu Yang spent two and a half years creating the Floating Light Realm Sea Great Immortal Art as a weapon to ambush Old Dragon Lord. When he tried to observe Mu Changsheng as bait, he discovered someone else was observing him too.

• Lu Yang used Light-Splitting Shadow Transformation to create countless Avatars and compress them into a silver ocean inside the Nourishing Life Lord.
• Lu Yang answered Spell Dao’s call by merging the Qi-Eating Insect Swarm into the ocean, creating the Floating Light Realm Sea Great Immortal Art.
• Lu Yang prepared to use the new art to trap Old Dragon Lord and left the Nourishing Life Lord to find bait.
• Lu Yang used the Out-of-Drama Observer to watch Mu Changsheng and realized another observer was watching him as well.

Lu Yang used Out-of-Drama Observer to alter Mu Changsheng’s fortune and set a script that led him toward the Old Dragon Lord. He discovered that Mu Changsheng had been meant to become the True Dragon Clan’s Sixth Dragon Lord, but the ritual had failed because the Sacred Sect Ancestor had taken his soul.

• Lu Yang realized that someone was borrowing the Heavenly Duke’s eyes to observe Mu Changsheng, then used Out-of-Drama Observer to examine him.
• Lu Yang learned that he could alter Mu Changsheng’s fortune and set a script, though breaking free of that script would cause severe backlash.
• Lu Yang scripted Mu Changsheng to awaken and reveal the secret of the Nourishing Life Lord to the Old Dragon Lord in exchange for a chance to escape.
• Mu Changsheng awakened inside the Dao Abomination before the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner arrived and feared that his consciousness would gradually perish.
• Lu Yang traced the rise of Mu Changsheng’s Purple Qi to a ritual hidden in Long Flowing Water that was meant to gestate a Sixth Dragon Lord.
• Lu Yang concluded that Mu Changsheng had failed to become the Sixth Dragon Lord because the Sacred Sect Ancestor had taken his soul.

Lu Yang restarted the Dragon Lord gestation ritual by elevating Mu Changsheng's fortune, then realized an old alteration prevented the ritual from granting control over Long Flowing Water. The Old Dragon Lord sensed the ritual overseas and feared that someone had revived it to target him.

• Lu Yang inferred that the First Generation Elixir Peak Master had arranged for Mu Changsheng to become the Sixth Dragon Lord, and that the Sacred Sect Ancestor had disrupted the plan.
• Lu Yang used the Out-of-Drama Observer to raise Mu Changsheng's fortune, causing the stalled Dragon Lord gestation ritual to resume using his Gold Nature as a substitute for his soul.
• The ritual encountered a problem because Sky Soaring had inverted Chen Earth's Yin-Yang attribute five thousand years earlier, preventing the gestated Dragon Lord from controlling Long Flowing Water.
• The Old Dragon Lord sensed the ritual's revival and feared the Sixth Dragon Lord could reconnect with the Ancestral Dragon and help it escape its seal.
• The Old Dragon Lord decided to investigate but realized the ritual might be bait intended to harm him.

Old Dragon Lord suspected a trap and prepared to flee Immortal Pivot through a gateway to Xuanyuan, while Lu Yang secretly watched to test the Out-of-Drama Observer’s power. A message from Dragon Palace about someone from the Dao Court made Old Dragon Lord pause before escaping.

• Old Dragon Lord feared that powerful figures had set a trap for him and decided to flee that night.
• Old Dragon Lord opened a golden gateway to Xuanyuan, his prepared refuge, while Lu Yang watched unseen.
• Lu Yang considered how to draw Old Dragon Lord into Nourishing Life Lord and tested whether the Out-of-Drama Observer could keep his script on track.
• Old Dragon Lord received a Dragon Palace message announcing that someone from the Dao Court had arrived, and he stopped before entering Xuanyuan.

Lu Yang watched Old Dragon Lord mistake Emperor Jiayou’s mission to recruit True Dragons for evidence of a Dao Court Lord conspiracy, and the misunderstanding persuaded Old Dragon Lord to take Jiayou to meet the newborn Sixth Dragon Lord. As Old Dragon Lord followed the script and took the bait, Lu Yang considered how the Other Shore might have made Fixed Number impossible to defy.

• Emperor Jiayou told Old Dragon Lord that the Dao Court wanted True Dragons to travel the waters and claimed the Dao Court Lord was watching the matter.
• Old Dragon Lord mistook Jiayou’s words for confirmation that the Dao Court Lord was behind the scheme and had warned him earlier.
• Old Dragon Lord offered to show Jiayou the newborn Sixth Dragon Lord, and Jiayou agreed to go with him.
• Old Dragon Lord concluded that the Sixth Dragon Lord’s birth was likely tied to the Dao Court and planned to use Jiayou as a shield if the meeting proved dangerous.
• Lu Yang recognized that Old Dragon Lord had taken the bait and speculated that the Other Shore had strengthened Fixed Number and enabled Sacred Sect Ancestor’s rise.

Mu Changsheng awoke in a True Dragon body after Long Flowing Water rejected him, and he suspected the Heavenly Duke had manipulated his rebirth. The Old Dragon Lord invited him to the Dragon Palace, while each mistook the other for holding a valuable opportunity connected to the Nourishing Life Lord.

• Mu Changsheng regained consciousness in a True Dragon body and realized he had fallen out of Long Flowing Water without gaining its Fruit Position.
• Mu Changsheng feared that the Heavenly Duke had schemed through his rebirth and reasoned that the Old Dragon Lord had saved him because of the Nourishing Life Lord.
• The Old Dragon Lord and Emperor Jiayou recognized Mu Changsheng as a Foundation Establishment True Dragon, and Emperor Jiayou said he could enter the Dao Court.
• The Old Dragon Lord suspected the Dao Lord wanted him to eliminate the Heavenly Duke's backup plan and decided he needed greater benefits in return.
• The Old Dragon Lord invited Mu Changsheng to the Dragon Palace, and both mistook the other for possessing a benefit tied to the Nourishing Life Lord.

The Old Dragon Lord learned about Mu Changsheng’s Non-Existent Heaven plan and received the karmic coordinate to enter the Nourishing Life Lord. When he entered, a terrifying sea of silver light overwhelmed him, and an unknown presence greeted him.

• Mu Changsheng revealed the Non-Existent Heaven plan to the Old Dragon Lord, who recognized its potential to give True Lords decades to withdraw from the world.
• Mu Changsheng told the Old Dragon Lord about the Nourishing Life Lord and gave him its karmic coordinate.
• The Old Dragon Lord had Mu Changsheng enter the Nourishing Life Lord and bring back a heterodox Fruit Position tome.
• After verifying the tome, the Old Dragon Lord entered the Nourishing Life Lord himself and was overwhelmed by a sea of silver light.
• A clear voice greeted the Old Dragon Lord, saying it had been awaiting him.

Lu Yang stripped the Old Dragon Lord of his physical body and Gold Nature, then used the resulting materials and an Image of Great Sea Water to begin refining a fourth True Treasure. The Old Dragon Lord survived as a wounded soul, while Lu Yang took his first step toward Empty Attainment.

• Lu Yang trapped the Old Dragon Lord in a sea realm and decided not to kill or take over his identity.
• The Old Dragon Lord pleaded for mercy and warned Lu Yang about his connection to the Ancestral Dragon, but Lu Yang ordered Minghe to sever the Measuring Wood above his head.
• Lu Yang summoned Jade Maiden and Calamity Waves to strip away the Old Dragon Lord's body and Gold Nature, leaving only a weakened soul.
• The Old Dragon Lord provided Lu Yang with an Image of Great Sea Water, grateful that he had survived.
• Lu Yang gathered the Old Dragon Lord's treasure materials and the Image of Great Sea Water, then began refining his fourth True Treasure.

Lu Yang struggled to refine his fourth True Treasure until he sensed the Ancestral Dragon’s heartbeat and borrowed its power to complete the Dragon-Banishing Ruler. Though the treasure still lacked Supreme Great Sea Water, Lu Yang turned to the Old Dragon Lord, believing he could obtain it and Sky Soaring’s Great Forest Wood with the Dragon Lord’s cooperation.

• Lu Yang used avatars’ self-detonations to fuel the refinement of his fourth True Treasure, but it repeatedly failed to take form.
• Lu Yang used Sand Gold profundity and the Yin-Yang Mirror Divine Fruit to discover that he needed overwhelming borrowed power to break through the bottleneck.
• Lu Yang sensed the Ancestral Dragon’s heartbeat and realized the Five Elements Fruit Positions came from the Ancestral Dragon.
• Lu Yang used his Ancestral Dragon Remnant talent to connect with the Ancestral Dragon and borrow its power, completing the Dragon-Banishing Ruler.
• Lu Yang recognized that his connection to the Ancestral Dragon could expose him to danger, then resolved to seek the Old Dragon Lord’s cooperation to obtain Supreme Great Sea Water and Great Forest Wood.