Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang chose to recover a treasure from his previous life and used its power to rebuild his cultivation and establish a new Dao lineage. He perfected a divine statue in the Northern Exorcism Institute, advanced it to Divine Lord, and named his new path the Deification Method.

• Lu Yang resumed his life in the small-fry pond, fought Yu Suzhen in the Joyous Union Hall, then chose Treasure from the Hundred Lives Book.
• Lu Yang resonated with the Heavenly Calendar Number and drew on the Northern Exorcism Institute's power to cultivate the Fengce World-Sustaining True Qi through Qi Refining completion.
• Lu Yang created the Divine Offering and Heaven-Dripping Marrow divine abilities to open the divine statue's eyes and ears.
• Lu Yang swallowed the Calamity Tribulation Fruit, drew on his understanding of Sky Soaring's Tribulation, and created Dust Tribulation Sea, Heaven in the Palm, and Fate-Reforming Revolution.
• Lu Yang completed the divine statue's five senses and mind, advanced it to Divine Lord, and named his Dao lineage the Deification Method.

Lu Yang used [Supreme Dao Assimilation] to design a Deification Method that could rival the Grotto-Heaven Method and rebuilt his cultivation to the Immortal Bridge Realm. As his insight faded, he discovered an ancient estate hidden in the Void Darkness Land: [Ancestral Dragon Estate].

• Lu Yang examined the Divine Lord realm and distinguished between [Response Bodies] and stronger [Reward Bodies].
• Lu Yang planned a Deification Method that used the [Heavenly Calendar Number] to raise Divine Lords' status and required merit, incense offerings, Dao Heart, and credit assessments for advancement.
• Lu Yang imagined becoming a Dao Lord beyond Chu Sheng's sight and defeating him.
• Lu Yang climbed to the summit of the [Northern Exorcism Institute], restored his cultivation to the Immortal Bridge Realm, and concluded that spreading his Dao lineage remained necessary to advance further.
• Lu Yang sensed a light in the Void Darkness Land and saw an ancient estate marked [Ancestral Dragon Estate].

Lu Yang entered the Ancestral Dragon Estate in the Void Darkness and discovered that its empty room had once held something capable of revealing the consequences of his actions. He realized Chu Sheng had used the estate to uncover Dao Tianqi’s Netherworld, then saw a tiny figure waiting in the Void Darkness.

• Lu Yang sent a Response Body to the estate and found its courtyard built entirely from precious Void Stone.
• A mystic voice invited Lu Yang inside and explained that the estate had been prepared for Variants like him to experience the impact they would have on the Light Sea.
• Lu Yang concluded that Chu Sheng had reached the estate before him, taken its treasure, and used it to create False History.
• Lu Yang reasoned that Si Sui had discovered Chu Sheng’s scheme here, triggering the Dao Lord War, and that Chu Sheng had later imprisoned Si Sui in time.
• Lu Yang realized Chu Sheng had used the estate to discover Dao Tianqi’s Netherworld and expose it.
• Lu Yang looked up and saw a tiny figure standing in the Void Darkness and watching him.

Lu Yang offered four Banner Spirits a chance to renew their Dao Paths by joining his Deification Method, but Suo Huan’s chosen path required him to intercept the imagery of [Tribulation]. Suo Huan survived the ordeal, advanced to Divine Lord Middle Stage, and left Lu Yang wondering whether the method could work with the other Great Heavenly Numbers.

• Lu Yang summoned Patriarch Tingyou, True Person Demon-Sweeping, Suo Huan, and Empress Xiao, then offered them four divine abilities and a place in his [Heavenly Palace].
• Suo Huan chose [Dust Tribulation Sea] and cultivated the [Tribulation Sea Crossing Method], which drew him and Lu Yang into the [Sea of Suffering].
• Lu Yang realized that joining [Dust Tribulation Sea] required intercepting the imagery of [Tribulation] and warned Suo Huan that the attempt could kill him.
• Suo Huan chose to endure the tribulations, and after three days he extracted a faint thread of light from [Tribulation].
• Suo Huan awakened as a Divine Lord Middle Stage, and the added imagery strengthened [Dust Tribulation Sea].
• Lu Yang wondered whether he could use the same method with the other four Great Heavenly Numbers.

Lu Yang sought the Heavenly Numbers’ Images and tried to locate [Variable], but his connection to it revealed no whereabouts. Patriarch Tingyou suggested that [Variable] would only appear if Lu Yang’s Heavenly Palace and Deification Method brought meaningful change to the Light Sea, leaving Lu Yang to reconsider what his Dao lineage should build.

• Suo Huan awakened after completing his mission, and Lu Yang helped him up, noting that his Dao Path could continue.
• Empress Xiao chose [Divine Offering], and Lu Yang sensed that [Fortune] lay within the [Heavenly Dao].
• Lu Yang identified possible Images of [Destiny] and the other Heavenly Numbers in Dao Lords’ pieces and the [Five Elements] seal, then decided to avoid acting rashly.
• Lu Yang activated [Fate-Reforming Revolution] but could not locate [Variable], and he suspected that the World Honored One had also failed to summon it.
• Lu Yang asked Patriarch Tingyou for guidance, and Patriarch Tingyou argued that overthrowing the [Other Shore] and Grotto-Heaven Method was not enough without building a new order that changed the Light Sea.

Lu Yang realized that drawing [Variable] into the Real World might require acting during Chu Sheng’s Spirit Transformation Ascension, then arranged for Mu Changsheng to awaken Dao Tianqi. As the World Honored One arrived in the form of Guangming, Lu Yang chose to stay hidden.

• Lu Yang concluded that [Variable] was trapped in a dead-end dilemma and identified Chu Sheng’s Spirit Transformation Ascension, when the Dao Lords would leave the Light Sea, as a possible chance to affect it.
• Lu Yang used the [Out-of-Drama Observer] to arrange for Mu Changsheng to find [Responding King].
• Mu Changsheng entered [Responding King], cleared its trial, and took the [Nascent Light Sea], awakening Dao Tianqi.
• Dao Tianqi and Lu Yang met each other’s gaze through Mu Changsheng, but both avoided revealing themselves because Chu Sheng had deeply infiltrated the Netherworld.
• Lu Yang sensed Guangming entering the Overseas Immortal Alliance and recognized the Buddha Light in his eyes as a sign that the World Honored One had come.

A monk from outside the Immortal Alliance visited the Great Virtue Immortal’s temple and discovered that its teachings enabled cultivators to calculate and improve their chances of reaching True Person. As he offered incense and entered Non-Existent Heaven, he learned that the Ancestral Dragon had already been controlled by Chu Sheng, jolting him into alarm.

• The monk hired a Qi Refining cultivator as a guide and was astonished when the cultivator calculated Karma using the Divination Golden Book.
• The cultivator brought the monk to the Great Virtue Immortal’s temple and explained how its teachings and good deeds helped cultivators gain divine abilities and improve their chances of breakthrough.
• The monk inspected the incense, then offered a stick to the Great Virtue True Immortal to seek a divine ability.
• As the monk’s consciousness entered Non-Existent Heaven, he heard that Chu Sheng had already controlled the Ancestral Dragon.
• The monk’s Buddha Light surged, and he demanded to know what had happened.

Lu Yang revealed Chu Sheng’s plots to the World Honored One and asked him to help oppose Chu Sheng. After agreeing to conceal Lu Yang’s karma, the World Honored One traced the clues back to Huanyao and wondered whether Huanyao had awakened.

• The World Honored One investigated [Non-Existent Heaven], but a Karmic Net formed and forced him to retreat into a Karmic Scene.
• Lu Yang, disguised as Mu Changsheng, told the World Honored One that Chu Sheng had enslaved the Ancestral Dragon and that True Lord Biluofuguang was its reincarnation.
• Lu Yang recounted Chu Sheng’s plans and the previous life’s events, including the plots involving Danding, Butian Que, the Sword Lord, and Cang Hao.
• The World Honored One agreed to conceal Lu Yang’s karmic ripples as long as Lu Yang did not act conspicuously or reach Great True Lord.
• The World Honored One traced Mu Changsheng’s altered fate and concluded that Huanyao might have awakened.

Lu Yang realized that the Immortal Alliance’s [Divine Offering] could let cultivators gradually replace heaven and earth’s natural order with their own, creating a method to remake the Light Sea. As he considered the implications, Emperor Jiayou approached with Cang Hao hidden within him.

• Mu Changsheng explained that Immortal Alliance cultivators had used [Divine Offering] to gain control over mountains and regions by refining their aura into divine power.
• Lu Yang recognized the process as using human qi to replace heaven-and-earth Spiritual Qi and saw how the Deification Method could expand this control across the Light Sea.
• Lu Yang compared his fine-grained, collective method with the [Heavenly Dao] and concluded that it could replace heaven and earth’s original system.
• Lu Yang sensed trouble approaching and saw Emperor Jiayou walking across the sea, with Cang Hao’s aura concealed within him.

Emperor Jiayou confronted Mu Changsheng over the Immortal Alliance and threatened to erase it if Mu refused to join the Dao Court. Mu rallied the Alliance’s cultivators through [Divine Offering], elevating [Non-Existent Heaven] to the status of an orthodox Fruit Position as their clash began.

• Emperor Jiayou arrived at the Immortal Alliance and congratulated Mu Changsheng on finding a new path beyond ordinary True Lord status.
• Emperor Jiayou offered Mu Changsheng a marquisate if he changed allegiance, then threatened to destroy the Immortal Alliance when Mu refused.
• Emperor Jiayou wielded [Roadside Earth] to drain the seas and transform the Alliance’s waters into land, inflicting immense pressure on its cultivators.
• Mu Changsheng challenged Emperor Jiayou’s dismissal of lower cultivators and called upon the Alliance’s cultivators through [Divine Offering].
• Mu Changsheng and a towering golden figure uplifted [Non-Existent Heaven], raising it from an External Dao Fruit Position to the status of an orthodox Fruit Position.

Lu Yang used the Immortal Alliance’s cultivators to raise [Non-Existent Heaven] and sever the Alliance’s homeland from Immortal Pivot, then fought Emperor Jiayou to a standstill. After Emperor Jiayou withdrew, the World Honored One claimed responsibility for Mu Changsheng’s move and offered Cang Hao cooperation.

• Lu Yang drew on the Immortal Alliance’s Real World and Foundation Establishment cultivators to raise [Non-Existent Heaven] and block Emperor Jiayou’s [Traversing the Peaks].
• Lu Yang used [Wishful Heart] and [Divine Offering] to sever the Immortal Alliance’s homeland, its Foundation Establishment Realm, and part of the [Sea of Suffering] from Immortal Pivot and Light Sea, declaring, “Severed Earth and Heaven!”
• Lu Yang and Emperor Jiayou’s profundities collided, restoring the flooded seabed and dimming [Roadside Earth] as the two True Lords fought to a standstill.
• Emperor Jiayou withdrew after receiving the Son of Heaven’s order, while Lu Yang taunted him for being defeated by a lower cultivator.
• At [Other Shore], the World Honored One inferred that Huanyao had awakened and claimed to Cang Hao that Mu Changsheng and the Immortal Alliance had acted on his behalf.
• The World Honored One asked whether Cang Hao was interested and offered to cooperate.

Lu Yang used the battle with Emperor Jiayou to promote his Deification Method and obtained a [Fortune] Image for Empress Xiao, then sought the [Heavenly Remnant Consciousness] to learn about the Primordial Spirit. He confronted Heaven's Gatekeeper in the [Dao-Seeking Heavenly Gate Diagram] and offered to help awaken Pan Huang and the other ancient-path cultivators.

• Lu Yang withdrew his consciousness from Mu Changsheng after the strain of resisting Emperor Jiayou's attack nearly shattered Mu Changsheng's [Divine Offering].
• Lu Yang gave Empress Xiao the [Fortune] Image he had intercepted from Emperor Jiayou, and she refined it and converted to the Deification Method three days later.
• Lu Yang projected a Response Body into the Light Sea, followed his Karma with the [Heavenly Remnant Consciousness], and returned to the [Dao-Seeking Heavenly Gate Diagram].
• Heaven's Gatekeeper attacked Lu Yang with the Array Diagram, but Lu Yang stopped its operation with a stomp.
• Lu Yang introduced himself as Great Virtue and told Heaven's Gatekeeper that he had come to help awaken Pan Huang and the other twelve ancient-path cultivators.

Lu Yang asked Heaven's Gatekeeper to help build a collective consciousness and revive Pan Huang and the other Great True Lords under the Deification Method, offering to rescue Si Sui as leverage. Heaven's Gatekeeper sent him into the Light Sea's Dark Side, where Lu Yang found the sleeping Great True Lords and the three ownerless Mind-Fasting Sword Spirits, while again forgetting to ask about cultivating a Dao Heart Primordial Spirit.

• Lu Yang asked Heaven's Gatekeeper to assist his undertaking and agreed to complete Si Sui's trial by awakening Pan Huang and the others.
• Lu Yang demanded that Pan Huang and the other Great True Lords switch to the Deification Method as a condition of revival, and he claimed he could rescue Si Sui.
• Heaven's Gatekeeper challenged Lu Yang to awaken and persuade the Great True Lords himself, then sent him into the Light Sea's Dark Side.
• Lu Yang found the sleeping Great True Lords and the Sword Lord's first disciple's three ownerless Mind-Fasting Sword Spirits, which he wanted for their Destiny remnant and their potential to aid Master Demon-Queller.
• Lu Yang remembered that he had forgotten to ask Heaven's Gatekeeper about cultivating a Dao Heart Primordial Spirit, but decided to ask after leaving the Dark Side.

Lu Yang discovered that the Great Sword Sect who survived was his Evil Consciousness, which had taken control of the three Dao Sword Gods after the Good Consciousness was killed. As [Fated Death] closed in, the Evil Consciousness attacked Lu Yang, who declared that he would kill him himself.

• Lu Yang's awakening stirred the sword chimes, and the Evil Consciousness seized control of them to suppress Pan Huang and the other Great True Lords.
• Lu Yang appeared and scattered the sword chimes' killing intent, saving Pan Huang and the others.
• Lu Yang used his Dharma Eye to reveal the phantom's face and deduced that it was Great Sword Sect's Evil Consciousness, while Sword Lord had killed the Good Consciousness.
• The Evil Consciousness explained that [Fated Death] would return now that his disguise was exposed, and a vast presence began closing in on him.
• The Evil Consciousness blamed Lu Yang and attacked, but Lu Yang said he would personally slay him.

Lu Yang used [Heaven-Dripping Marrow] to alter the river of [Destiny] and kill the Great Sword Sect’s evil consciousness before it could strike, stopping the [Fated Death] aimed at the Sword Lord. He gave the recovered Sword Gods and the Image of [Destiny] to True Person Demon-Sweeping, then decided to search the Dark Side for Butian Que.

• The Great Sword Sect’s evil consciousness prepared a devastating sword of consciousness, but Lu Yang refused Pan Huang’s offer to form an array and faced it alone.
• Lu Yang used [Heaven-Dripping Marrow] to view and alter countless futures until he found one in which the evil consciousness died.
• Lu Yang drew [Calamity Waves] and guided destiny toward that outcome, causing the evil consciousness to shatter and the Sword Lord’s [Fated Death] to disperse.
• Lu Yang collected [Demon-Queller], [Quexie], [Demon-Subduer], and the Image of [Destiny] and gave them to True Person Demon-Sweeping.
• Lu Yang set aside his plan to contact Heaven’s Gatekeeper and decided to search the Dark Side for Butian Que.

Sword Lord and Cang Hao learned that Wanbao had made a move in the Real World and agreed to cooperate with him after seeing a promising future. On Light Sea’s Dark Side, Lu Yang confronted Butian Que and tried to recruit him away from the [Heavenly Dao] and Sword Lord’s camp.

• Sword Lord consulted the river of destiny about Wanbao’s move, then agreed with Cang Hao to cooperate with him.
• Lu Yang used the resonance between Yin-Yang Great Daos to find Butian Que’s consciousness on Light Sea’s Dark Side.
• Butian Que entered the Dark Side through the [Yin Great Dao] and met Lu Yang, who identified himself as Great Virtue.
• Lu Yang warned Butian Que about Chu Sheng’s plan for the Dao Lords to hunt the True Lords of Light Sea after the [Other Shore] collapsed.
• Lu Yang urged Butian Que to abandon the [Heavenly Dao], join him, and hand over the power of the [Five Elements] Great Dao.

Lu Yang secretly allied with Butian Que, arranged for the transfer of [Five Elements] power, and resurrected Pan Huang. After realizing a mysterious [Lock] suppressed knowledge of the Primordial Spirit across the Light Sea and Netherworld, Lu Yang saw a possible way forward when the World Honored One invited him to False History.

• Lu Yang persuaded Butian Que to secretly siphon off some of the great power of [Five Elements] and send it to Light Sea's Dark Side.
• Lu Yang resurrected Pan Huang, who agreed to switch to Lu Yang's lineage, and assigned him to help transport the intercepted power.
• After withdrawing his consciousness from the Light Sea, Lu Yang remembered the Primordial Spirit and realized that a [Lock] had erased awareness of it across the Light Sea and Netherworld.
• Lu Yang considered who could learn about the Primordial Spirit and enter the [Heavenly Palace], but found no suitable candidate among those he knew.
• Guangming, possessed by the World Honored One, looked past Mu Changsheng toward Lu Yang and invited him to visit False History.

Lu Yang learned that the World Honored One and the Sword Lord planned to send him into False History to spread the Immortal Alliance’s system throughout the Light Sea. He realized their plans depended on when False History returned to reality, and sought an earlier entry so he could contact Si Sui and help him escape before the [Other Shore] collapsed.

• The World Honored One explained that the Sword Lord and he would conceal Lu Yang in False History while he expanded the Immortal Alliance’s system across the Light Sea.
• The World Honored One said he would send Lu Yang into a distant era by erasing his Karma and reincarnating him as an infant.
• Lu Yang inferred that the Sword Lord wanted to release Si Sui after the [Other Shore] collapsed, while the World Honored One intended to protect Dao Tianqi’s pawn from [Heavenly Dao].
• Lu Yang decided he needed False History to return before the [Other Shore] collapsed and that Si Sui had to break out of his prison to help him seize the initiative.
• Lu Yang asked the World Honored One to send him into an era closer to the Dao Lord War from one hundred twenty-nine thousand six hundred years ago.

Lu Yang realized that absorbing cultivators into the [Heavenly Palace] could naturally complete the Images of the five great Heavenly Numbers, but a slight rise in rank nearly made him lose his way in Void Darkness. He asked Pan Huang for guidance on cultivating a Primordial Spirit, and Pan Huang began to share Si Sui’s concise teaching.

• Pan Huang ascended into the [Heavenly Palace], and Lu Yang recognized the [Variable] Image appearing on him.
• Lu Yang realized that the Images of the five great Heavenly Numbers could be completed by absorbing cultivators into the [Heavenly Palace] and studied the Overseas Immortal Alliance’s newly established gods.
• Mu Changsheng persuaded several Heretical True Lords to convert to the Deification Method, and their arrival slightly raised Lu Yang’s rank.
• The increase nearly made Lu Yang lose his way in Void Darkness, so he recognized the danger and resolved to seek the path of the Primordial Spirit.
• Lu Yang thanked Pan Huang for his help and asked for guidance on the Primordial Spirit; Pan Huang said Si Sui had described it in a single sentence.

Lu Yang learned from Si Sui’s remembered words that cultivating a Primordial Spirit meant breaking free of obsession through a struggle against the self, but discovered that the method had been suppressed and erased. The chapter ended with True Person Demon-Sweeping and Empress Xiao arriving at the Heavenly Palace, and Lu Yang recognizing that his master had emerged from seclusion and stabilized his cultivation.

• Pan Huang repeated Si Sui’s words, prompting Lu Yang to contemplate the struggle between the True Self and obsession required to manifest a Primordial Spirit.
• Lu Yang concluded that his path through good and evil consciousness was too extreme for him and that the Dao Lords had both locked and killed knowledge about the Primordial Spirit.
• Pan Huang realized that he could not remember the specific method Si Sui had once passed down.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping and Empress Xiao arrived as the Heavenly Palace shook again.
• Lu Yang recognized that True Person Demon-Sweeping had emerged from seclusion, and the feedback from his breakthrough stabilized Lu Yang’s state and removed a hidden danger.