Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang learned that Chu Sheng could use [Variable] to turn the tables, while Si Sui urged him to pursue transcendence before the next war. Meanwhile, Chu Sheng remained outside Si Sui’s Taiji Diagram, injured and weakened, as Sword Lord, Cang Hao, and Wan Fa surrounded him with murderous intent.

• Lu Yang considered gambling on Si Sui attacking Chu Sheng but suspected Chu Sheng might be baiting him to trigger [Variable].
• Si Sui told Lu Yang that transcending could let the new world escape into Void Darkness and asked him to advance before Chu Sheng recovered.
• Chu Sheng waited outside Si Sui’s Taiji Diagram, but Si Sui did not emerge, leaving the two sides at a stalemate.
• Sword Lord, Cang Hao, and Wan Fa arrived and secretly surrounded Chu Sheng after noticing damage to [Fixed Number].
• Chu Sheng claimed he was unharmed for the time being as the three Dao Lords’ killing intent closed in around him.

Chu Sheng used the [Alchemy Dao] to restore some of his strength and forced Sword Lord, Cang Hao, and Wan Fa to back down, then concluded that the [Other Shore] would take eighty-four thousand years to repair. Si Sui explained Chu Sheng’s predicament to Lu Yang, who realized he might not need to restart.

• Sword Lord, Cang Hao, and Wan Fa tried to make Chu Sheng the living pillar of a rebuilt [Heavenly Dao], but Chu Sheng remained calm.
• Chu Sheng destroyed the [Alchemy Dao] to replenish his vital essence, prompting the three Dao Lords to withdraw their challenge.
• Chu Sheng used the River of Time to separate Cang Hao, Sword Lord, and Wan Fa into different periods, and they quickly apologized.
• Chu Sheng calculated that the [Other Shore] could not be repaired for eighty-four thousand years and considered activating the [Heavenly Dao] instead.
• Si Sui told Lu Yang that Chu Sheng was blocked from becoming the [Heavenly Dao]’s living pillar and could not break their stalemate without major changes.
• Lu Yang realized that he might not need to restart.

Lu Yang established [Heavenly Palace] across the newly opened [Wild Continent] and divided its remaining territory among the other powers. He left the lost page of the [Hundred Lives Book] in place to preserve the world, then wondered what had become of Chu Sheng in the Light Sea.

• Lu Yang summoned Patriarch Tingyou, True Person Demon-Sweeping, True Lord Flying Snow, and Ling Xiao, and Patriarch Tingyou named the new world [Wild Continent].
• Lu Yang gave the four Heaven-Treading Great True Lords Si Sui's [Red Dust Traversal Method] and chose not to remove the lost page of the [Hundred Lives Book] that sustained [Wild Continent].
• The World Honored One, Dao Tianqi, and True Cultivation Dao Lord arrived, and Lu Yang offered them the Deification Method to establish their own power in the western region.
• Dao Tianqi explained that the damaged Netherworld could not be quickly repaired without far more Origin Jade, most of which had been used to create [Other Shore] and the Netherworld.
• Lu Yang and the others divided the new world, with [Heavenly Palace] governing most of it, the World Honored One and True Cultivation ruling the west, and the Netherworld returning below.
• Lu Yang wondered where Chu Sheng was and what predicament he faced in the Light Sea.

Chu Sheng suspected that Sword Lord, Cang Hao, and Wan Fa had used the new [Heavenly Dao] to make him its human pillar, so he sought a reliable ally. On [Wild Continent], Si Sui offered to teach Lu Yang how to cultivate.

• Sword Lord, Cang Hao, and Wan Fa asked Chu Sheng to place [Fixed Number] in the rebuilt [Heavenly Dao], and he agreed.
• Sword Lord, Cang Hao, and Wan Fa revealed that Chu Sheng's [Fixed Number] would let them bind him to [Heavenly Dao] as its human pillar.
• Chu Sheng deduced that the three Dao Lords were plotting against him and resolved to settle the matter within a hundred years by finding a reliable helper.
• Lu Yang struggled to comprehend the Great Daos Si Sui had brought into [Wild Continent], leaving his cultivation at the completion of the Golden Core realm.
• Si Sui offered to teach Lu Yang about cultivation and resolve his doubts.

Si Sui judged Lu Yang’s cultivation methods to be badly deficient and offered to rebuild his foundations by personally teaching him. After three days of trying to master ancient Qi Refining, Lu Yang still failed, leaving Si Sui bewildered and shaken.

• Si Sui assessed Lu Yang’s Dao as exceptional but criticized his other methods and blamed his weak foundation on relying on overwhelming power.
• Si Sui promised to teach Lu Yang and gave him a Jade Slip to begin re-cultivating Qi Refining.
• Si Sui explained the four ancient Qi Refining realms, culminating in the unity of essence, qi, and spirit.
• Lu Yang studied the Jade Slip, declared that he understood, and tried to practice under Si Sui’s guidance.
• Three days later, Lu Yang still failed to unite essence, qi, and spirit, and Si Sui began to see him as a formidable challenge to his teaching record.

Si Sui discovered that Lu Yang could not practice Qi Refining because his spirit was innately incompatible with essence and qi, so he assigned him a vast body of ancient Dao writings and languages to strengthen his foundation. When Lu Yang sought to speed up the study by borrowing Dao Tianqi’s Wisdom Light, Si Sui warned that Wisdom Light could not be transferred to another.

• After examining Lu Yang for a month, Si Sui diagnosed his innate incompatibility with essence and qi and told him to stop practicing Qi Refining for now.
• Si Sui gave Lu Yang a Jade Slip containing hundreds of thousands of ancient writings, pronunciations, and dialects, explaining how ancient cultivators used accumulated knowledge to establish their foundations.
• Lu Yang learned that the Jade Slip he had studied was only a table of contents, while the actual texts formed a mountain of Jade Slips that could take centuries to master.
• Lu Yang decided to use Dao Tianqi’s Wisdom Light to help him study and told Si Sui his plan.
• Si Sui objected that Wisdom Light was the spiritual nature of the Great Dao and could not, in theory, be transferred to another.

Lu Yang and Si Sui learned that Dao Tianqi could share Wisdom Light only with his three fellow Peak Masters, and they suspected Chu Sheng’s Name Cult methods were behind the restriction. Lu Yang connected the Peak Masters’ names to Chu Sheng’s plans and concluded that Chu Sheng had been borrowing Dao Tianqi’s Wisdom Light all along.

• Lu Yang and Si Sui visited Dao Tianqi in the Netherworld to ask about sharing Wisdom Light.
• Dao Tianqi said he could share his Wisdom Light only with his three fellow senior brothers, prompting Si Sui and Lu Yang to suspect Chu Sheng’s influence.
• Lu Yang compared the Heart-Aligning Soul-Locking Art with Chu Sheng’s methods and proposed that the Four Peak Masters’ names connected them to Taiyi Heaven.
• Lu Yang interpreted Shi Tianyi as serving Chu Sheng’s intentions and Liantian Dou as helping Chu Sheng refine his plan for Spirit Transformation Ascension.
• Si Sui explained how Butian Que’s inherited Dual Cultivation Dao had supplied a flaw in Chu Sheng’s cultivation.
• Lu Yang interpreted Dao Tianqi’s name as meaning that his wisdom matched Chu Sheng’s and concluded that Chu Sheng had been borrowing his Wisdom Light.

Chu Sheng reflected on his origins and his ancient Name-and-Nature Seizing Heaven Method, while Lu Yang learned that Dao Tianqi’s Wisdom Light could not be freed. Lu Yang then used a forbidden scripture to transform himself into a Buddhist Cultivator, declaring that he was the World Honored One’s incarnation.

• Chu Sheng recalled how he had risen from a life of poverty in the Ancient Era and concluded that no one could stop his method unless its ritual was broken.
• Lu Yang and Dao Tianqi realized Chu Sheng had kept Dao Tianqi alive because the Netherworld and his Wisdom Light served the Spirit Transformation Ascension plan.
• Si Sui tried to undo the method but explained that changing Dao Tianqi’s name would not work because the inscription affected his life itself.
• Dao Tianqi apologized to Lu Yang for being unable to lend him his Wisdom Light, and Lu Yang devised a way to become one of the Four Peak Masters.
• Lu Yang recited the [Great Vehicle Right Enlightenment Fundamental Sutra], gained golden Buddha Light, and announced that he was the World Honored One’s incarnation.

Lu Yang joined Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts without being assimilated, gained the World Honored One’s Karma, and borrowed Dao Tianqi’s Wisdom Light to overcome his Qi Refining hurdle. As Lu Yang rapidly studied in the Netherworld, Si Sui sensed an omen and identified its source as the Final Calamity.

• The World Honored One tried to persuade True Cultivation to cultivate his Great Vehicle Right Enlightenment Fundamental Sutra, but Lu Yang’s entry into Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts interrupted them.
• Lu Yang resisted the World Honored One’s attempt to assimilate him, and their connection reached a balance that gave Lu Yang the World Honored One’s Karma without surrendering his Primordial Spirit.
• Dao Tianqi lent Lu Yang Wisdom Light, allowing him to overcome the Qi Refining hurdle, while Si Sui explained that the light temporarily corrected the incompatibility between Lu Yang’s spirit and qi body.
• Lu Yang began rapidly studying Si Sui’s Jade Slips, and Dao Tianqi lost his Wisdom Light and became stupid again.
• Si Sui and the other Dao Lords sensed an ominous danger, and Si Sui went to the dome of [Wild Continent] and recognized the sign of the Final Calamity.

Chu Sheng used the Heavenly Dao and the River of Time to summon End Tiger, the innate Dao God of Light Sea’s destruction, from the future and give it consciousness. End Tiger recognized Chu Sheng as [Jun], leaving their planned cooperation unresolved.

• The Three Dao Lords watched the Heavenly Dao create Jietian in Light Sea and wondered whether Chu Sheng could give them life.
• The Three Dao Lords sensed an ominous change and suspected Chu Sheng, while he realized their attention would soon reach the present and hurried to finish his plan.
• Chu Sheng sent his future body into the Final Calamity and declared that Light Sea’s birth and destruction formed the Dragon-Tiger Image.
• Chu Sheng revealed End Tiger in the Real World by combining the Heavenly Dao with the River of Time, giving the uncertain innate Dao God consciousness.
• End Tiger tried to manifest in the Real World, but Chu Sheng stopped it and proposed that they meet now and cooperate later.
• End Tiger recognized Chu Sheng as [Jun] and asked whether he had already transcended.

Chu Sheng and End Tiger compared what they knew about the Ancient Era, the Light Sea, and the Name Cult, while Chu Sheng questioned End Tiger’s account of its memories. As scrutiny from Sword Lord, Cang Hao, and Wan Fa drew nearer, Chu Sheng offered End Tiger a chance to truly live if it cooperated with him.

• Chu Sheng and End Tiger recognized that the Form Cult’s supposed Heavenly Person’s Form had become its supreme inheritance after Jun destroyed the cult.
• End Tiger claimed it remembered the Light Sea’s past because it was an innate Dao God born at the Light Sea’s end, but Chu Sheng suspected it was hiding the truth.
• End Tiger explained that the Ancient Era was the civilization of Beyond-Heaven Divine Mountain, whose collision with the Light Sea Origin Point gave rise to the Light Sea.
• Chu Sheng named himself Taiyi Heaven, and End Tiger deciphered the meaning of his name and identified his Fate-Snatching Art.
• Chu Sheng revealed that Taiyi Heaven was the second Immortal name, following the destruction of the Name Cult’s and Form Cult’s original inheritances by Jun.
• With Sword Lord, Cang Hao, and Wan Fa’s scrutiny approaching, Chu Sheng offered to help End Tiger truly live if it cooperated with him.

Chu Sheng persuaded End Tiger to cooperate against Si Sui by promising to let it meet the conscious Ancestral Dragon in the Real World. End Tiger entered the present, strengthening Chu Sheng’s Fixed Number, and then asked where the Ancestral Dragon was.

• End Tiger questioned Chu Sheng’s motives and argued that Chu Sheng himself could threaten the Light Sea, but Chu Sheng countered that Si Sui’s new world posed the greater danger.
• End Tiger recognized that Chu Sheng was the more anxious party and demanded to meet the conscious Ancestral Dragon in the Real World.
• Chu Sheng agreed and used the Fixed Number to bring End Tiger out of the future and into the present as a Young Daoist.
• End Tiger’s arrival restored much of Chu Sheng’s diminished Fixed Number, allowing Chu Sheng to stabilize the River of Time and conceal Sword Lord and the others’ gazes.
• End Tiger savored the living atmosphere of the present before asking Chu Sheng where the Ancestral Dragon was.

Chu Sheng used an [Other Shore] fragment and [Time] to bring forth a future shadow of the Ancestral Dragon, whom End Tiger confronted about transcendence and the Light Sea’s fate. End Tiger revealed that Jun had raised the Ancestral Dragon, leaving Chu Sheng questioning why End Tiger remembered someone erased from the records.

• Chu Sheng used [Time] on a partially repaired [Other Shore] fragment to summon a future shadow of the Ancestral Dragon.
• End Tiger taunted the Ancestral Dragon, who recognized him and mocked him for being enlightened into being again.
• The Ancestral Dragon argued that he sought to prove the Great Dao and transcend rather than await the Final Calamity, and said the Immortal had given him a chance to pursue [Five Elements].
• End Tiger explained that the [Name Cult] method let Chu Sheng and Taiyi Heaven usurp the image of the Ancestral Dragon’s [Primordial Origin], then dispersed the shadow.
• End Tiger said Jun had nearly raised the Ancestral Dragon single-handedly, prompting Chu Sheng to question how End Tiger remembered Jun when records of him had vanished.

After witnessing Chu Sheng summon the Final Calamity End Tiger, Si Sui devised a plan to prepare for its arrival within a hundred years. He returned to the Netherworld and pushed Lu Yang to keep improving his cultivation foundation.

• The Sword Lord, Cang Hao, and Wan Fa failed to uncover what had happened around Chu Sheng because the future appeared as a pitch-black void.
• Chu Sheng realized Si Sui had witnessed the omen and considered how either of Si Sui’s possible responses would benefit him.
• Si Sui concluded that he could not stop End Tiger alone and planned to raise the Heavenly Palace to the level of the Other Shore, recover the Netherworld, and gather three Dao Lords to fight Chu Sheng.
• Lu Yang told Si Sui he had finally understood his studies, and Si Sui judged that he had repaired much of his cultivation foundation.
• Si Sui called Lu Yang mediocre, rapped his head three times with a ruler, and walked away.

Si Sui trained Lu Yang by striking him with punches that imparted knowledge, forcing him to confront the gap between their understanding of the Great Dao. After repeated defeats, Lu Yang realized that Si Sui had reached a state where the Great Dao answered to him, and he began to understand what attaining the Dao meant.

• Si Sui awakened Lu Yang’s Primordial Spirit and explained that cultivation after Golden Core completion focused on the Primordial Spirit.
• Si Sui punched Lu Yang to impart knowledge and challenged him to defeat him as part of his training.
• Lu Yang attacked Si Sui with sword techniques, the Deification Method, and Boundless Dao, but Si Sui effortlessly evaded and countered him.
• Si Sui repeatedly shattered Lu Yang’s techniques with ordinary-looking punches and palms, gradually clarifying Lu Yang’s understanding.
• With Dao Tianqi’s Wisdom Light, Lu Yang realized that Si Sui no longer comprehended the Great Dao but made it answer to him.

Lu Yang trained with Si Sui to understand the Dao of [Heavenly Calendar Number] and [Transcendence], concluding that standing was created by the first Transcender. After ten years of cultivation, the Sword Lord, Cang Hao, and Wan Fa appeared in the Light Sea, prompting Lu Yang to turn his attention to their arrival.

• Si Sui stopped training Lu Yang and explained that understanding [Great Dao Answers Me] required Lu Yang to comprehend his own [Dao].
• Lu Yang borrowed Dao Tianqi's Wisdom Light and meditated on the Fruit Position [Heavenly Calendar Number], realizing that standing had been created by the first Transcender.
• Lu Yang sought Si Sui out for daily battles, and his grasp of [Heavenly Calendar Number] and [Transcendence] gradually deepened.
• Si Sui taught Lu Yang that Transcendence came through loss, describing how he and Chu Sheng had relinquished parts of themselves to reach it.
• After ten years, the Sword Lord, Cang Hao, and Wan Fa entered the Light Sea near the [Wild Continent], and Lu Yang wondered whether they had come to pledge allegiance.

Lu Yang received Sword Lord, Cang Hao, and Wan Fa as they came to surrender and offer help against Chu Sheng. After learning that End Tiger was involved in Chu Sheng’s secret actions, Lu Yang wagered a duel against Sword Lord for [Heavenly Dao], confident the outcome had already been decided; the duel was set for three days later.

• Sword Lord, Cang Hao, and Wan Fa arrived at [Wild Continent] and told Lu Yang they had come to surrender and help suppress Chu Sheng.
• Sword Lord showed Lu Yang the silent, extinguished void she had witnessed ten years earlier, and Si Sui identified End Tiger as the second innate Dao God behind it.
• Si Sui demanded that Sword Lord hand over [Heavenly Dao] so it could be integrated into Lu Yang’s Enlightenment Ground.
• Lu Yang proposed a wagered duel with Sword Lord, staking [Heavenly Dao] against his promise to repair the Ancestral Dragon’s Sea of Consciousness and help her regain the Dao Lord rank.
• Sword Lord accepted the wager and scheduled the duel for three days later, after which Lu Yang told Si Sui he believed the result was already decided.

Chu Sheng sent the enslaved portion of the Ancestral Dragon into [Grandmaster] to retrieve a book hidden within it. The Ancestral Dragon found the remnants of the [Name Cult] and [Form Cult], along with the shattered [Divine Fortune Book of Fate].

• Chu Sheng summoned the enslaved portion of the Ancestral Dragon and ordered him to retrieve a book from [Grandmaster].
• The Ancestral Dragon entered [Grandmaster] and found a plain filled with more than a thousand bone tombstones belonging to the [Name Cult].
• The Ancestral Dragon realized that members of the [Name Cult] and [Form Cult] had sacrificed themselves to preserve their inheritances inside [Grandmaster].
• The Ancestral Dragon reached the center of the plain and found the [Divine Fortune Book of Fate], whose final use had already been spent by Chu Sheng.

Within the sealed realm of [Heavenly Dao], Sword Lord confronted Cang Hao over the possibility that he planned to kill him and use his Sea of Consciousness to restore his cultivation. Sword Lord withdrew his suspicion on the condition that Cang Hao not ambush him, then began preparing for the wager while Cang Hao remained behind, his thoughts unreadable.

• After withdrawing their Divine Thoughts from Lu Yang, Sword Lord announced he would enter seclusion for three suns, and Cang Hao returned after Wan Fa and the others departed.
• Cang Hao acknowledged that the wager could give Sword Lord a chance to reclaim the position of Dao Lord, while Sword Lord questioned Cang Hao's loyalty and accused him of wanting his Sea of Consciousness.
• Sword Lord explained how Cang Hao could benefit from killing him after the wager, whether he won or lost, and Cang Hao admitted he had considered cashing in the trust they had built over the years.
• Cang Hao offered to settle their conflict with a fight, but Sword Lord withdrew his killing intent and warned him not to ambush him if he won the wager.
• Sword Lord said he would accept death if he lost, since [Heavenly Dao] would be lost to him regardless, then left Cang Hao alone behind layers of colored light.

Chu Sheng reflected on his failed plans and sensed a change in [Fixed Number] as Lu Yang and Sword Lord prepared to settle their wager under the [Heavenly Dao]. Their contest began with Lu Yang and Sword Lord facing each other, and neither had yet struck.

• Chu Sheng examined the damaged [Divine Fortune Book of Fate] and reasoned that its sealed power remained somewhere in the Light Sea.
• Chu Sheng recognized that his plans had failed and sensed a change in [Fixed Number] within a sealed realm.
• Three days later, Sword Lord, Cang Hao, and Wan Fa met Lu Yang and Si Sui at the Light Sea's border, accompanied by the World Honored One.
• Sword Lord and Lu Yang established their stakes before the [Heavenly Dao], with the World Honored One offering a Buddhist kingdom's living beings as Sword Lord's prize.
• Lu Yang and Sword Lord took their positions, exchanged a few words, and prepared to fight.