Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang entered Flame Mountain to inspect the Origin Jade on behalf of True Lord Zhifa Chiyuan, but he recognized the jade as a counterfeit and suspected the First Generation Elixir Peak Master was not what he seemed. He revealed his Great True Lord status and destroyed the Young Daoist, who turned out to be an empty shell.

• The Alchemy Maiden warned Lu Yang that the Purple-Green Tusita Fire would incinerate anyone who was not truly a True Lord, then tested him before letting him enter Flame Mountain.
• The Cauldron Child led Lu Yang to the cave abode, where he met a Young Daoist who appeared to be the First Generation Elixir Peak Master, True Lord Danding.
• The Young Daoist presented a piece of jade for Lu Yang to verify, and Lu Yang recognized it as a counterfeit made from a plane rather than true Origin Jade.
• Lu Yang challenged the Young Daoist's claim, then revealed his Great True Lord status and struck him down, exposing him as an empty shell.

Lu Yang infiltrated Flame Mountain and tricked the Alchemy Maiden and Cauldron Child into trusting him while posing as Bai He's friend. After they revealed that Danding was dead, they saw through Lu Yang's deception and trapped him inside a pill furnace.

• Lu Yang exposed the First Generation Elixir Peak Master as an illusion created by the Alchemy Maiden and Cauldron Child.
• Lu Yang claimed Bai He had entrusted him with his inheritance and asked him to fulfill Danding's wish, convincing the two children to take him to the Dragon-Tiger Elixir Scripture and the real Origin Jade.
• The Alchemy Maiden and Cauldron Child told Lu Yang that Danding had died in the Netherworld after his soul scattered before the Three Lives Stone.
• The Alchemy Maiden and Cauldron Child retreated from the pavilion, revealed they had recognized the beast's stench on Lu Yang, and transformed the pavilion into a giant pill furnace to attack him.

Lu Yang survived the Purple-Green Tusita Fire and confronted the golden book, which revealed that his arrival had thrown the Netherworld’s predetermined course into chaos. The book identified itself as a surviving bloodline of the Ancestral Dragon.

• Alchemy Maiden and Cauldron Child fed fire qi into the furnace, believing Lu Yang was a fiend and not the person foretold in the Dragon-Tiger Elixir Scripture.
• After three hours, Alchemy Maiden and Cauldron Child thought the furnace had reduced Lu Yang to ash, while the young man in black robes helped them.
• The golden book told Alchemy Maiden and Cauldron Child to look behind them, revealing that Lu Yang had survived and was standing with them.
• Lu Yang asked the golden book whether it had foreseen his arrival, and it said he was the Netherworld’s greatest Variable.
• Lu Yang asked who would have refined the Nascent Soul Pill if he had not come, and the golden book answered that he knew the person.
• Lu Yang asked what the golden book was, and it revealed that it was a surviving bloodline of the Ancestral Dragon.

Lu Yang learned that the golden book was the Immortal Pivot’s first Spirit Immortal, created when the Ancestral Dragon’s final enlightened being separated from the Heavenly Duke. The book revealed that Lu Yang would have to inherit Danding’s identity to continue the plan, and the chapter ended with Dao Tianqi appearing in the hidden chamber.

• Lu Yang asked whether the golden book could raise him to the Heaven-Treading Realm, but it explained that Danding had already used the Ancestral Dragon’s sole share of great power.
• The golden book said Danding needed Heaven-Treading cultivation to complete his preparations and avoid alerting a powerful enemy who knew of the book’s ability.
• The golden book revealed that it was the Ancestral Dragon’s last enlightened being, who had separated from the Heavenly Duke and taken only its Wisdom Light to be reborn as an Immortal Pivot Spirit Immortal.
• The golden book explained that Danding found and protected it with Old Dragon Lord’s help, then entrusted it with overseeing the Nascent Soul Pill plan.
• The golden book told Lu Yang to inherit Danding’s identity, and a hidden chamber opened to reveal Danding’s belongings and portrait.
• Dao Tianqi appeared beside Lu Yang, identified the portrait as his senior brother, and introduced himself as the First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master.

Lu Yang encountered Dao Tianqi in the Netherworld and learned how Senior Brother Danding’s memories had restored the portrait and revealed his plan. Dao Tianqi decided to go to the Real World to demand justice from the forces that had disrupted the Netherworld, leaving Lu Yang shocked that he intended to confront the Sacred Sect Ancestor.

• Lu Yang met Dao Tianqi, who deduced his plan to create a hidden plane and travel beyond Heaven.
• Dao Tianqi told Lu Yang about Senior Brother Danding’s experiments, his friendships with Senior Brother Wanbao and Senior Brother Butian, and his own strained relationship with Danding.
• As Dao Tianqi recounted his memories, his spirituality restored the damaged portrait in the quiet chamber.
• Dao Tianqi realized Senior Brother Danding had gambled that he would awaken and understand the plan Danding left behind, and admitted he had disappointed him.
• Dao Tianqi resolved not to disappoint Senior Brother Danding or Senior Brother Wanbao again and announced that he would go to the Real World to demand justice.
• Lu Yang realized Dao Tianqi intended to fight the Sacred Sect Ancestor.

Dao Tianqi told Lu Yang about Master’s unmatched fighting ability and recounted the stories behind Senior Brother Danding’s treasures as the portrait’s spirituality was restored. He asked Lu Yang to take Danding’s identity, refine Nascent Soul Pills, and help clean up the Netherworld before Master’s visit.

• Dao Tianqi explained that Master had been the Light Sea’s strongest fighter and that he himself could only delay Master in a direct confrontation.
• Dao Tianqi described Senior Brother Danding’s crown, robe, whisk, sword, seal, and cauldron, recalling the incidents that had inspired their creation.
• As Dao Tianqi shared memories of the past, the portrait of the First Generation Elixir Peak Master grew lifelike and its missing eyes were completed.
• Dao Tianqi removed the restored portrait and gave it to Lu Yang, saying Lu Yang’s preparations were not yet sufficient.
• Dao Tianqi asked Lu Yang to assume Senior Brother Danding’s identity, refine Nascent Soul Pills, and clean up the Netherworld before Master’s expected visit.

Lu Yang accepted Dao Tianqi’s offer to assume Danding’s identity, gaining access to Dao Tianqi’s Wisdom Light and a faster path to completing his True Treasures. After merging with Danding’s portrait and magical treasures, Lu Yang declared himself Danding, and his new identity sent tremors through multiple realms.

• Dao Tianqi offered to complete Lu Yang’s [Great Forest Wood] True Treasure in three days and share most of his Wisdom Light if Lu Yang temporarily assumed Danding’s identity.
• Dao Tianqi explained that Danding’s portrait would bear the Karma and draw attention while Lu Yang escaped beyond the Light Sea, so Lu Yang accepted the scroll.
• The Alchemy Maiden and Cauldron Child withdrew after Dao Tianqi’s appearance reassured them about Lu Yang.
• Lu Yang formed a plan to complete his True Treasures, attack the Netherworld, refine the [Nascent Soul Pill], and then leave behind Danding’s portrait as he escaped.
• Lu Yang donned six magical treasures and merged with Danding’s painting scroll, completing the transformation of his identity.
• Lu Yang declared, “From this day forth, I am [Danding],” and the Netherworld, Real World, and several other realms trembled as a severed thread of Karma resurfaced.

The World Honored One concealed the disturbance caused by Danding’s apparent return and confirmed that Huanyao had acted on his plan. He reviewed the preparations involving Danding, Huanyao, and Butian, then resolved to join them in overturning their master’s rule.

• The World Honored One sensed that Danding’s revival as an illusion had shaken [Fixed Number] and hid the disturbance from the Dao Lords above.
• He recognized that Huanyao had accepted his endorsement of the Mysterious Person as Danding’s successor, and admitted he had intended to help [Sky Soaring] through the arrangement.
• The voice of the World Honored One’s master confronted him about the disturbance, correctly guessed that he had revived Danding, and asked about Huanyao and Butian.
• The World Honored One considered Butian’s use of [Pomegranate Wood] and his own preparations connecting the Light Sea’s Dark Side to the Real World.
• He watched the contingencies left by his former junior brothers and resolved that they would overturn the master above them.

Celestial Master Qingwei Lingming and True Lord Zhifa Chiyuan discussed gathering essences through further battles to prepare Dragon-Tiger Mountain, while a young lord revealed he had recovered the Three Foundations' fragmented True Spirits and resolved to pursue his cause despite the sacrifices. At Flame Mountain, Lu Yang completed the Great Forest Wood True Treasure and regretted not gathering more essences from the dead.

• Celestial Master Qingwei Lingming told True Lord Zhifa Chiyuan that his injuries from Emperor Cang had reached their current limit and urged him to cause more deaths to gather essences for Dragon-Tiger Mountain.
• The young lord emerged after Lingming left, gave True Lord Zhifa Chiyuan the Vermilion Chariot Treasure Banner containing the recovered True Spirits, and apologized for failing to save Qing Kui.
• True Lord Zhifa Chiyuan accepted the banner, urged the young lord not to hesitate over necessary sacrifices, and the young lord resolved that justice would be stained with blood.
• At Flame Mountain, Lu Yang saw that the Ten-Thousand Refinement Blood Pool had been exhausted and completed the Great Forest Wood True Treasure.
• Lu Yang regretted that he had not killed more enemies earlier to gather additional essences.

With the light of wisdom, Lu Yang reshaped his Great Forest Wood True Treasure, refined his lineage’s divine abilities, and developed [Divine Offering] as a foundation for recreating the Other Shore. He ended convinced that his lineage could grant cultivators endless rebirth and that he could now attain Empty Attainment with ease.

• Lu Yang reshaped the Great Forest Wood True Treasure into a gateway called [Zongbu Deity], which could conceal what it contained and erase its traces.
• Lu Yang revised the [Divination Golden Book] and created his lineage’s second divine ability, [Heaven-Dripping Marrow].
• Lu Yang used the light of wisdom to develop his ideas for [Seven Radiance Heaven], making the youth in the [Netherworld Lord Hall] feel stupider in the process.
• A year later, Lu Yang completed the divine ability [Divine Offering], which made its cultivators deities under the [Northern Exorcism Institute] and preserved their Divine Sense through reincarnation.
• Lu Yang concluded that his lineage could enable cultivators to reincarnate without limit and declared that Empty Attainment was now within easy reach.

Lu Yang used the five Supreme Five Elements True Treasures to attain [Heavenly Calendar Number], devising a path toward the Heaven-Treading Realm that could take him beyond the Light Sea and Dao Lord's reach. In the Netherworld, a youth sensed Ancestral Dragon surging toward the Netherworld from the Real World.

• Lu Yang rejected attaining [Divine Firmament Thunder] from the Five Elements Images alone and realized he could use the five Heavenly Numbers to form a Grotto-Heaven, with [Divine Firmament Thunder] filling its deficiencies.
• Lu Yang used the wisdom-light of the First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master to fuse the Images into [Heavenly Numbers], then added [Heavenly Calendar Number] to stabilize the Fruit Position.
• Lu Yang celebrated his successful Empty Attainment and saw [Heavenly Calendar Number] and [Northern Exorcism Institute] as a path beyond Dao Lord's reach.
• In [Netherworld Lord Hall], the youth reconsidered the dangers and promise of [Danding].
• The youth sensed Ancestral Dragon surging from the Real World toward the Netherworld.

Lu Yang examined the Ancestral Dragon Seal and discovered how the Dao Lords’ seals had suppressed the Ancestral Dragon while concealing Chu Sheng’s scheme against the Three Foundations. He then spotted a black-and-white Great Dao siphoning power through a broken seal before returning to Dao Tianqi and asking whether Great Daos could be plundered.

• Lu Yang used his Wisdom Light to inspect the Ancestral Dragon Seal and identified six Dao Lord seals suppressing the Ancestral Dragon’s Five Elements Great Dao.
• Lu Yang deduced that the seals imposed different prices on their makers, that Chu Sheng’s Fixed Number seal prevented the others from withdrawing, and that it helped Chu Sheng scheme against the Three Foundations.
• Lu Yang saw that the Dharma Body seal had shattered more than halfway and that a black-and-white Great Dao was drawing spirituality from the Five Elements through its crack.
• Lu Yang returned from the vision, where Dao Tianqi asked what had happened.
• Lu Yang asked Dao Tianqi whether a Great Dao could be plundered, leaving him stunned.

Lu Yang and the First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master pieced together Senior Brother Butian’s plan to plunder the [Five Elements] and evade the Sacred Sect Ancestor’s notice. They concluded that the scheme had failed to collapse the [Five Elements] after Senior Brother Danding died, but Butian had concealed himself from Chu Sheng using [Yin] and the seal’s cracks.

• Lu Yang told the youth that Senior Brother Butian had been plundering the [Five Elements] through the seal for tens of thousands of years.
• The youth explained that Senior Brother Danding’s death had prevented Butian from collapsing the [Five Elements], though both surviving would have exposed them to the Sacred Sect Ancestor.
• The youth described how [Fixed Number] used the seal and the other Dao Lords’ fear of the Ancestral Dragon’s backlash to suppress them.
• Lu Yang realized the Dharma Body cracks were a trap designed by the Sacred Sect Ancestor, but the youth said Butian had anticipated the danger.
• The youth explained that Butian used [Yin], Lord Si Sui’s seal, and the [Five Elements]’ response to [Variable] to hide from Chu Sheng while remaining unseen by the other Dao Lords.

Lu Yang and the First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master considered why the First Generation Elixir Peak Master had chosen to die, then agreed to begin a war against Grotto-Heaven Method cultivators. Heaven's Gatekeeper asked how Si Sui had died, and the youth pointed to Emperor Cang and the mysterious [Grandmaster] as possible sources of answers.

• Lu Yang and the youth reasoned that the First Generation Elixir Peak Master had arranged his death to protect the First Generation Heaven-Mending Peak Master's plan from the Sacred Sect Ancestor's scrutiny.
• The First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master decided to act immediately, using a planned war against Grotto-Heaven Method cultivators to weaken their forces before the [Nascent Soul Pill] was made.
• The youth explained that he could not personally intervene without risking Master discovering his true body's location, and credited Lu Yang's victories and destruction of the [Ten-Thousand Refinement Blood Pool] with creating an opportunity to strike.
• Heaven's Gatekeeper asked how Emperor Cang had helped kill Si Sui, but the youth said the Dao Lord battle had obscured the truth and suggested asking Emperor Cang or seeking clues in the [Grandmaster].
• The youth revealed that [Carefree Wandering] had provided the Origin Jade used to create the [Four Directions Ghost Domain], while the [Grandmaster] remained in Master's hands and might explain how Master attained his Great Daos.

Lu Yang met True Lord Zhifa Chiyuan, learned that he had come to help fight Emperor Cang, and uncovered a possible reason for the enemy’s retreat to Mount Bozhong. Fearing Emperor Cang might be receiving the Dao Lord’s guidance, Lu Yang called for an immediate attack.

• Lu Yang created an avatar disguised as Qing Kui and received True Lord Zhifa Chiyuan at Flame Mountain.
• True Lord Zhifa Chiyuan revealed that Lord Huanyao had sent him to cooperate with Lu Yang against Emperor Cang.
• True Lord Zhifa Chiyuan explained that Emperor Cang’s true body was gone and that he now used his strongest Azure Heaven Avatar as his true body.
• Lu Yang deduced that Emperor Cang had damaged his Dharma Body by making his illusory aspects into real Avatars.
• Lu Yang suspected Emperor Cang had withdrawn to Mount Bozhong to digest guidance from the Dao Lord and urged True Lord Zhifa Chiyuan to attack that night.

Lu Yang urged True Lord Zhifa Chiyuan to launch an immediate attack on Mount Bozhong, despite the enemy’s overwhelming numbers. He revealed that a Great True Lord within the Grotto-Heaven Method faction could help them infiltrate, and planned to isolate and kill the enemy leaders one by one.

• True Lord Zhifa Chiyuan warned Lu Yang that Emperor Cang and seven other Great True Lords defended Mount Bozhong, including powerful leaders from the Sword Pavilion, Sacred Sect, and Pure Land.
• True Lord Zhifa Chiyuan explained that the Dao Lords preserved the Netherworld’s factional conflict because fighting among dead spirits weakened the Netherworld’s Great Dao and helped them seize control.
• Lu Yang insisted they attack immediately and kill the two Three Foundations traitors first, but True Lord Zhifa Chiyuan warned that their forces were badly outnumbered and Lu Yang’s surprise tactics would not work again.
• Lu Yang claimed he had a Great True Lord mole inside the Grotto-Heaven Method faction and identified Bodhisattva Baoguang Yinghuang as a potential ally.
• Lu Yang planned to have Bodhisattva Baoguang Yinghuang lure the enemy Great True Lords into a disguised secret realm, then seal them inside and defeat them separately.

Lu Yang and True Lord Zhifa Chiyuan infiltrated Mount Bozhong and found the Great Bodhisattva of the Pure Land watched by Xin Ye and Youhai. Lu Yang used Precious Wheel Immaculate Bodhisattva to contact him through Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts, then addressed him as a long-lost senior brother.

• Lu Yang explained that [All-Evil Slay] could not affect undead and planned to separate Emperor Cang from the other Great True Lords.
• Lu Yang and True Lord Zhifa Chiyuan used [Zongbu Deity] to approach Mount Bozhong, and Lu Yang strengthened its concealment against [Heavenly Rules and Earthly Principles].
• They found the Great Bodhisattva of the Pure Land at a temple, where Xin Ye and Youhai were keeping watch.
• Lu Yang released Precious Wheel Immaculate Bodhisattva, allowing the Great Bodhisattva to communicate with them through Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts.
• The Great Bodhisattva warned that he could report them to Emperor Cang, and Lu Yang asked, “Senior Brother, don't you recognize me anymore?”

Lu Yang enlisted the Vajra Realm Tathagata to help deal with Emperor Cang and the other Great True Lords, while Xin Ye sensed danger too late and was swallowed by the temple’s shifting gates. The Tathagata’s trap had begun, leaving Xin Ye and Youhai caught inside.

• The Vajra Realm Tathagata took control of Baolun, received Lu Yang’s intelligence about Butian Junior, and agreed to handle Emperor Cang while asking Lu Yang to open a gateway into Mount Bozhong at a designated location.
• Lu Yang agreed, and the Tathagata withdrew his will, leaving Baolun with Lu Yang and Zhifa Chiyuan astonished.
• Great True Lord Xin Ye felt a sudden palpitation and secretly warned Great True Lord Youhai that Bodhisattva Baoguang Yinghuang might attack them.
• Youhai dismissed Xin Ye’s fears, reasoning that the other Great True Lords would intervene and Emperor Cang could handle any remnants of the Three Foundations.
• The monks and Buddha in the temple turned their Buddha-lit gazes toward Xin Ye and Youhai, and the temple gates shifted open and shut, swallowing them before Xin Ye could call for help.

Precious Light Yinghuang Bodhisattva attacked Great True Lord Xin Ye and Great True Lord Youhai, but Heaven-Furnace World-Forger True Lord rescued them and pursued him into the temple. There, Danding effortlessly subdued Heaven-Furnace World-Forger True Lord’s Dao Fruit Secret Art and promised to make his name throughout the world.

• Precious Light Yinghuang Bodhisattva used [Mortal-Sage Co-Dwelling Dao Fruit] to attack Great True Lord Xin Ye and Great True Lord Youhai.
• Heaven-Furnace World-Forger True Lord pulled Xin Ye and Youhai from the temple with his Sword Light, saving them from the attack.
• Heaven-Furnace World-Forger True Lord entered the temple, defeated its Vajra Dharma Protectors, and struck Precious Light Yinghuang Bodhisattva with [Golden Cauldron Jade Dagger Dao Fruit].
• True Lord Biluofuguang arrived as Heaven-Furnace World-Forger True Lord mocked the Demon Sect’s artifact-and-pill inheritance.
• Heaven-Furnace World-Forger True Lord pursued Precious Light Yinghuang Bodhisattva through the temple gate and found Danding waiting in the darkness.
• Danding caught the [Golden Dagger Elixir] and nullified its profundity, then told Heaven-Furnace World-Forger True Lord he would make his name throughout the world.

Lu Yang trapped True Lord Heaven-Furnace World-Forger and killed him with a single sword strike after suppressing his escape art and weakening his Fruit Position. Xin Ye and Youhai arrived just in time to witness the killing, but the gateway sealed behind them, leaving them trapped with Lu Yang.

• Bodhisattva Baoguang Yinghuang lured True Lord Heaven-Furnace World-Forger into Lu Yang’s prepared trap at the Mount Bozhong passage.
• True Lord Heaven-Furnace World-Forger tried to escape with [Death-Substitution Rebirth Dao Fruit], but Lu Yang’s [Profound Heaven Righteous Crown] interrupted the art.
• Lu Yang struck with [Eight-Not Wisdom Sword] and used his Fruit Position to raise the sword’s status and degrade True Lord Heaven-Furnace World-Forger’s [Canopy-Dry Palace].
• Lu Yang decapitated True Lord Heaven-Furnace World-Forger in a single strike, and Xin Ye and Youhai arrived to see his head on the sword.
• Xin Ye and Youhai tried to retreat, but the gateway sealed; Lu Yang held a Fruit Position light and challenged them to come and die.