Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang used his powers to plant fabricated past-life memories in Zhao Xuhe, convincing him that he was Coiling Dragon True Person. He planned to use Zhao Xuhe to draw Arhat Fulong’s attention while Lu Yang prepared to break through to Foundation Establishment himself.

• Lu Yang obtained half of the Primordial Dao Scripture from Liu Xin and went to observe Zhao Xuhe at his cave dwelling.
• Fairy Qinghe broke up with Zhao Xuhe and appeared to be heading for Liu Xin’s cave dwelling.
• Lu Yang decided that Zhao Xuhe could serve as a backup plan against Arhat Fulong and flooded his mind with fabricated memories.
• Zhao Xuhe believed he was Coiling Dragon True Person reincarnated and resolved to return to Foundation Establishment while hiding his awakened memories from the Peak Master of Heaven Mending.
• Lu Yang planned to use Zhao Xuhe as bait to attract Arhat Fulong while he pursued his own Foundation Establishment breakthrough.

Lu Yang killed Liu Xin, replaced the original Chen Xin'an with his Ten Thousand Spirit Banner spirit, and sent the impostor to infiltrate Peak Master of Heaven Mending. When the Peak Master sensed Chen Xin'an’s Karma, he found the original’s fading soul and used Red Ru Scale to save it.

• Lu Yang killed Liu Xin and took his Ten Thousand Spirit Banner, then resolved to target the Ancestor of the Yun Family for his Heavenly Secret Treasure.
• Lu Yang summoned the two Chen Xin'ans, ordered Banner Spirit Chen Xin'an to kill the original, and made the spirit take his place.
• Lu Yang placed the Primordial Chaos Unity Divine Talisman inside Banner Spirit Chen Xin'an and sent him to spy on Peak Master of Heaven Mending.
• Lu Yang destroyed Liu Xin's banner and refined it into his own, expanding its Grotto-Heaven.
• Peak Master of Heaven Mending sensed Chen Xin'an's Karma, found his nearly dispersed soul, and used Red Ru Scale to stabilize it.

Chen Xin'an recovered after the Peak Master of Heaven Mending restored his soul, while Lu Yang learned that the Righteous-Demonic War was a struggle over Dao lineages offering opportunities to improve one’s chances at Foundation Establishment. Lu Yang decided to seek a breakthrough on the battlefield, where he believed Arhat Fulong would not dare interfere.

• The Peak Master of Heaven Mending restored Chen Xin'an's soul and promised to remake his body with Creation Jade Mud, giving him a chance to attempt Foundation Establishment.
• Chen Xin'an asked about improving his odds, and the Peak Master of Heaven Mending explained that the Righteous-Demonic War was a contest between True Lords over Dao lineages, with battlefield opportunities that could aid Foundation Establishment.
• The Peak Master of Heaven Mending warned Chen Xin'an that the battlefield was extremely dangerous and said he would seek another way to obtain a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Lu Yang realized that many of the Sacred Sect's advanced Qi Refining disciples were stationed on the Righteous-Demonic battlefield rather than at the Cloud Sea of Heaven-Reaching.
• Lu Yang concluded that Arhat Fulong would not dare attack him under the True Lords' watch and decided to return to the battlefield to pursue a breakthrough among weaker opponents.

Lu Yang spent ten years preparing to revisit Skull Mountain, regain Yama Hall’s Earth Vein blessing, and pursue the strength needed to face Arhat Fulong. At Skull Mountain, he discovered that Patriarch Tingyou had already claimed the Earth Vein, and pretended to be a loyal Witch Ghost Sect disciple when Tingyou contacted him.

• Lu Yang planned to regain Sacred Sect true disciple status, reclaim Skull Mountain’s Earth Vein, and obtain the Yun Family Ancestor’s Heavenly Secret Treasure before facing Arhat Fulong.
• Over ten years of seclusion, Lu Yang restored his great divine abilities, reached Qi Refining Great Perfection, and then publicly advanced to Qi Refining Late Stage.
• Lu Yang joined the Three Rivers Society and had Su Nu cultivate the Twelve Heavenly God-Sha Secret Demon Tribulation Light with the Blood Sun Sword Pellet.
• Lu Yang traveled with Fairy Feixia, Zhao Xuhe, and Lu Yuanchun to oversee Skull Mountain Market, then secretly returned to the Witch Ghost Secret Realm.
• Lu Yang found another Yama Hall occupying Skull Mountain’s Earth Vein and deduced that Patriarch Tingyou had seized a Divine Martial Sect disciple’s body in an earlier life.
• When Patriarch Tingyou demanded to know who he was, Lu Yang introduced himself as a Witch Ghost Sect disciple and bowed to the patriarch.

Lu Yang convinced Patriarch Tingyou that he was the last descendant of the Witch Ghost Sect and had joined the First Saint Sect to survive. When Lu Yang asked to rebuild the sect, Patriarch Tingyou gave him control of Skull Mountain’s Earth Vein.

• Lu Yang claimed that the Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion had hunted the Witch Ghost Sect until only his lineage remained, and Patriarch Tingyou questioned which branch he came from.
• Lu Yang invented a story about the Grand Elder secretly preserving the sect’s inheritance, and Patriarch Tingyou believed him after confirming Lu Yang possessed the Witch Ghost Sect’s teachings.
• Lu Yang explained that he had joined the First Saint Sect to hide from the Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion, and Patriarch Tingyou praised him for preserving the inheritance.
• Lu Yang said he had come to Skull Mountain to reclaim the sect’s foundation and make the Witch Ghost Sect great again.
• Su Nu prompted Lu Yang to raise the Earth Vein, and Patriarch Tingyou relinquished control of it to Su Nu through Yama Hall.

Lu Yang met Patriarch Tingyou after True Person Yinshan left, and Tingyou strengthened Su Nu before entrusting the Witch Ghosts, Heavenly Corpse Sha, and the sect’s future to Lu Yang. Lu Yang brought Tingyou into the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner and revealed its full force across Skull Mountain, drawing True Person Yinshan’s attention.

• After True Person Yinshan chose Zhao Xuhe, claimed one strand of Heavenly Corpse Sha, and left, Lu Yang summoned Patriarch Tingyou at Skull Mountain.
• Patriarch Tingyou praised Lu Yang’s Ten Thousand Spirit Banner and transformed Su Nu’s divine ability, restoring her to half her former strength without an Earth Vein.
• Patriarch Tingyou gave Lu Yang the Witch Ghosts and explained how the remaining Heavenly Corpse Sha could aid Foundation Establishment or be detonated against an invading enemy.
• Patriarch Tingyou revealed that he wanted to preserve the Witch Ghost Sect’s inheritance and asked Lu Yang to take him into the banner.
• Lu Yang opened the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner’s Yama Hall and unveiled his assembled Witch Ghost army across Skull Mountain.
• True Person Yinshan turned back toward Lu Yang’s killing intent and saw the towering Yama Hall beneath the Vault Sky.

Lu Yang revealed himself as the Witch Ghost Sect’s inheritor and persuaded True Person Yinshan to recommend him for a True Inheritance position in exchange for offering the sect’s orthodoxy to the Sacred Sect. Meanwhile, True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow announced that the War of Dao Seizure was approaching, leaving True Person Chongguang worried that the Sacred Sect lacked a champion strong enough to secure victory.

• True Person Yinshan arrived at Skull Mountain, mistook Lu Yang for a reincarnated Sacred Sect True Person, and learned from Patriarch Tingyou that Lu Yang was the Witch Ghost Sect’s inheritor.
• Lu Yang confirmed that he belonged to the Three Rivers Society and offered the Witch Ghost Sect’s inheritance to the Sacred Sect, while insisting he had no intention of founding a new sect.
• True Person Yinshan agreed to recommend Lu Yang for a True Inheritance position because of his contribution and his membership in the Three Rivers Society.
• True Person Chongguang told True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow that he had completed the Rigid Flame Furnace and planned to visit “that region” before taking the Covered Lamp Fire position.
• True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow announced the coming War of Dao Seizure and ordered True Person Chongguang to summon the True Inheritances, prompting him to worry the Sacred Sect would suffer a loss.

Qin Tianhe trained against the Cloud Sea and learned that the Sacred Sect was preparing for another War of Dao Seizure, where a newly promoted true disciple would be tested. Lu Yang arrived and effortlessly calmed ten waves, leaving Qin Tianhe and Xu Xin to mistake him for a True Person.

• Qin Tianhe struggled to suppress the Cloud Sea’s waves and managed to withstand four before exhausting himself.
• Xu Xin told Qin Tianhe that the Four Directions Orthodoxy was preparing for a War of Dao Seizure under True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow, and that Yin Shan had recommended a newcomer who had never visited the Righteous-Demonic Battlefield.
• Qin Tianhe and Xu Xin discussed their contempt for true disciples they considered unworthy and anticipated the coming battle.
• Lu Yang’s arrival stirred ten enormous waves, which he suppressed with a single surge of dharma power.
• Qin Tianhe and Xu Xin introduced themselves and bowed to Lu Yang, addressing him as a True Person.

Lu Yang met True Person Chongguang, who accepted him as a True Disciple, named him Yuantu, and urged him to join the coming War of Dao Seizure. Chongguang then showed him three Golden Core True Lords beginning to set the battlefield by pulling a star from the heavens toward the earth.

• Lu Yang entered Sacred Fire Cliff and was led by its Formation Spirit to True Person Chongguang.
• Chongguang examined Lu Yang's divine abilities and confirmed they had been passed down by True Person Yinshan.
• Lu Yang agreed to join the War of Dao Seizure rather than attempt Foundation Establishment immediately.
• Chongguang formally recognized Lu Yang as a True Disciple of the Yuan generation and bestowed the Daoist title Yuantu.
• Lu Yang watched three Golden Core True Lords rise and join hands to seize a star and hurl it toward the earth.

Lu Yang learned the rules of the War of Dao Seizure and entered the Starry Realm Heaven carrying the Sacred Sect’s Abyss-Sinking Assembly Scroll. The Dao Court and Pure Land leaders secretly coordinated their forces and prepared to use special treasures to target the Chusheng Demon Sect disciples.

• True Person Chongguang explained that the three factions would compete to destroy enemy Fruit Position Treasures or defeat the Jietian’s Son of Destiny and claim its Heavenly Mandate.
• True Person Chongguang gave Lu Yang the Abyss-Sinking Assembly Scroll, which weakened non-Sacred Sect fighters and strengthened Sacred Sect disciples within its landscape.
• Lu Yang followed the Guiding Force from his disciple token into the Starry Realm Heaven.
• Guanghai used a Heart-Linked Life Talisman to gather his allies, including Wang Jinting, the leader of the Dao Court’s forces.
• Wang Jinting revealed the Panoramic Map of the Vast Territory, which could locate Chusheng Demon Sect disciples and transport allies to chosen locations.

Qin Tianhe fled Guangming and his Buddhist Cultivators, while the Dao Court and Pure Land gained the upper hand against the Sacred Sect across Jietian. Lu Yang arrived and immediately killed the Buddhist Cultivator blocking his path, leaving the battle poised to become a killing spree.

• Guangming led Buddhist Cultivators in pursuing Qin Tianhe and tried to convert him into a Buddhist Host.
• Guangming explained that Hidden Dragon Temple had sent them to the War of Dao Seizure to recruit outsiders, and the Sacred Sect suffered heavy losses as its enemies ambushed it across Jietian.
• Fairy Miaozhen killed a Sacred Sect true disciple while Wang Jinting praised her, and Dao Court and Pure Land True Lords gloated that their alliance had gained the advantage.
• Qin Tianhe realized Guangming was using him as bait and planned to find another Sacred Sect disciple to draw into the pursuit.
• Lu Yang descended into the battlefield, ignored Guangming's question, and decapitated the Buddhist Cultivator who tried to block his first sword strike.

Lu Yang overwhelmed Guangming and the Buddhist Cultivators with his vastly superior Divine Rank, turning their defenses and attacks against them. After a quarter hour of thunder, the battlefield was left scorched and empty.

• Guangming used the Great Mantra of the True Golden Body to protect the Buddhist Cultivators, but Lu Yang's sword easily cut through it and killed another cultivator.
• Guangming hurled the Six Harmonies Dust-Cleansing Flame at Lu Yang, but Lu Yang emerged unharmed and used the fire to slaughter the Buddhist Cultivators.
• Guangming urged the remaining Buddhist Cultivators to stay together and watch his methods, though he knew he could not defeat Lu Yang.
• Lu Yang gathered the Buddhist Cultivators in one place and unleashed Nine Heavens Dulu Secret Demon Yin Thunder upon them.
• Lu Yang stopped the lightning after a quarter hour, leaving no Buddhist Cultivators alive on the scorched battlefield.

Lu Yang killed sixteen Buddhist Cultivators and turned them into Banner Spirits, while Guangming escaped and falsely claimed demons had slaughtered the group. Guanghai sent the Dragon Host after Lu Yang, who planned to use the captured Buddhist Cultivators to strengthen Yama Hall and refine the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner.

• Guangming teleported to Guanghai and lied that demons had killed the Buddhist Cultivators he had been with.
• Guanghai ordered Guanghui to lead the Dragon Host, with Guangming as their guide, to exterminate the supposed demon group.
• Lu Yang absorbed the sixteen dead Buddhist Cultivators into the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner and made them his Banner Spirits.
• Patriarch Tingyou proposed studying the Buddhist Cultivators' methods to improve Yama Hall, then took the Banner Spirits into the banner's Grotto-Heaven to begin his research.
• Lu Yang realized Patriarch Tingyou was more useful as a technical talent than as a combatant.

Lu Yang faced a new force of Buddhist Cultivators led by Guanghui, who tried to turn him against Qin Tianhe. Lu Yang revealed that his Witch Ghost army had surrounded them, leaving the outnumbered Buddhists trapped.

• Lu Yang told Qin Tianhe that he was a newly promoted true disciple, but Qin Tianhe mistakenly decided he was a disguised Sacred Sect True Person.
• Over a hundred Buddhist Cultivators arrived, and Lu Yang's Divine Sense nullified their Shakya Thunder Sound Technique.
• Guanghui offered to let Lu Yang leave if he handed over Qin Tianhe, but Lu Yang rejected the deal and warned that the Buddhists would not leave.
• Lu Yang summoned thousands of Witch Ghosts and Yin Soldier Ghost Generals, surrounding Guanghui's one hundred and eight Buddhist Cultivators.
• Patriarch Tingyou appeared as the Witch Ghost army advanced, and Lu Yang remarked that the Buddhists had dared to strike back after he had already defeated them.

Lu Yang used the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner to overwhelm the Buddhist Cultivators, while Guanghui combined their power into a mighty Vajra to challenge him. Su Nu shattered the Vajra, and after the battle Lu Yang raised the fallen monks as loyal Witch Ghosts; Qin Tianhe brought him the captured Guangming, who begged for his life and offered intelligence.

• Guanghui rallied the Buddhist Cultivators against the Witch Ghosts, but their Golden Bodies crumbled under the ghosts’ attacks and Divine Rank blessing.
• Guanghui unified more than a hundred Buddhist Cultivators into the Dragon-Elephant Vast-Strength Vajra and charged toward Lu Yang.
• Su Nu emerged from Yama Hall and shattered the Vajra with a single strike, leaving Guanghui unable to reach Lu Yang.
• Lu Yang let the Witch Ghosts overwhelm the Buddhist Cultivators, then used the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner to revive the dead monks as loyal followers.
• Qin Tianhe brought the captured Guangming to Lu Yang, and Guangming offered important intelligence in exchange for his life.

Lu Yang spared the captured Guangming after learning that the Sacred Sect’s forces had been trapped in an encirclement formed by the Pure Land and Dao Court. He set out with Qin Tianhe to find the other Sacred Sect disciples and began considering how to use their strength against the enemy.

• Qin Tianhe caught Guangming as he fled, and Guangming offered to serve Lu Yang in exchange for his life.
• Lu Yang and Guangming discussed the Pure Land’s permissive attitude toward surrender, drawing the attention of the three True Lords watching the battle.
• Lu Yang learned that the Pure Land’s Eight Legions of Buddhas and a Dao Court contingent had encircled the Sacred Sect disciples, so he placed a restrictive spell in Guangming’s Sea of Consciousness and spared him.
• Lu Yang asked Qin Tianhe how many Sacred Sect cultivators had joined the battle, and Qin Tianhe listed seven true disciples, eleven Qi Refining Great Perfection disciples, and more than a hundred others.
• Qin Tianhe piloted the Void-Piercing Heaven-Escaping Black Shuttle, and Lu Yang spotted a formation where the Sacred Sect disciples had gathered.

Lu Yang and Qin Tianhe reached a wilderness formation where Sacred Sect disciples were sheltering, and Lu Yang’s presence was revealed as a true person. The disciples’ infighting paused, leaving Lu Yang to assess the strange true disciples gathered there.

• Lu Yang and Qin Tianhe entered the formation, drawing the attention of the Sacred Sect disciples hiding inside.
• Xu Xin tried to force the disciples to follow his leadership, struck down a dissenter, and clashed with Chongming when he objected.
• Qin Tianhe introduced Lu Yang as a true person, prompting Xu Xin to recognize him and the others to rein in their hostility.
• Lu Yang recognized Chongming from a past life and considered the personalities of Chongming, Xu Xin, Daoist Jiaolong, and Bi Feiyuan.

Lu Yang told the Sacred Sect disciples they were surrounded and arranged for them to draw enemy attention while he targeted the Pure Land’s strongest fighter and Fruit Position Treasure. After Guangming told Guanghai that Lu Yang used the Nine Transformations Dragon Art, Guanghai resolved to capture him, and Lu Yang prepared to lead the wounded disciples back into battle.

• Lu Yang revealed the encirclement and proposed that the Sacred Sect disciples break out to distract the enemy while he made a decapitation strike.
• The Sacred Sect disciples accepted Lu Yang’s plan and chose the Pure Land as their target because Lu Yang had already killed the Dragon Host.
• Guanghai questioned Guangming about surviving the Dragon Host’s slaughter, but Guangming claimed he had run away to preserve information for their group.
• Guangming told Guanghai that one of the Dragon Host’s killers used Arhat Fulong’s Nine Transformations Dragon Art, prompting Guanghai to plan to capture the cultivator and gain influence in Hidden Dragon Temple.
• Lu Yang expected Guanghai to fight him over the cultivation method and urged the wounded Sacred Sect disciples to kill their way back with him.

The Sacred Sect launched a surprise assault on Guanghai’s Earth-Traveling Boat, catching the Pure Land Buddhists off guard. As the fighting intensified and Guanghai prepared to counterattack, Lu Yang found him and descended through the boat’s defenses.

• Guanghai dismissed the shortage of refined array diagrams and remained confident that the Pure Land could defeat the Sacred Sect.
• The Sacred Sect disciples burst into the Earth-Traveling Boat, where Daoist Jiaolong battered it and Bi Feiyuan, Xu Xin, and Chongming attacked the Buddhist Cultivators.
• Guanghai used Buddhist preaching to dispel Bi Feiyuan’s influence, allowing the Buddhists to regroup and form seven Vajra Dharma Bodies.
• Guanghai claimed the seven Vajra Dharma Bodies would be enough to defeat the attackers, but sensed Lu Yang’s gaze through the boat’s defenses.
• Lu Yang identified Guanghai and plunged down, smashing through the Earth-Traveling Boat’s layers of protection with his dharma power.

Lu Yang trapped Guanghai with the Abyss-Sinking Assembly Scroll and shattered his twelve formations. Guanghai summoned a strand of Arhat Fulong’s Divine Sense, but Lu Yang countered with Su Nu and prepared to capture Fulong in the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner.

• Lu Yang trapped Guanghai inside the Abyss-Sinking Assembly Scroll and sent the Banner Spirits to attack the returning Buddhist Cultivators.
• Guanghai hid within twelve array diagrams, but Lu Yang entered the formation and destroyed them with Heaven Collapse.
• Guanghai crushed a dragon-shaped pendant and let Arhat Fulong’s Divine Sense take over, causing the Sacred Sect disciples to retreat and the Buddhist Cultivators to celebrate.
• Fulong tried to probe Lu Yang’s soul and persuade him to join the Pure Land, recognizing Lu Yang’s Nine Transformations Dragon Art.
• Lu Yang summoned Guardian Deity Su Nu from the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner, overwhelming Fulong’s aura and declaring his intent to capture him.