Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang and Guanghai unleashed rival Buddhist techniques in the War of Dao Seizure, but Lu Yang’s Buddha Manifestation overwhelmed the battlefield with a single palm. The Pure Land was effectively eliminated, and its True Lord erupted in anger beyond Jietian.

• Guanghai borrowed Arhat Fulong’s status through Pure Land cultivation and cast the Infinite Light Great Mantra at Lu Yang.
• Patriarch Tingyou summoned Buddhist Banner Spirits, who joined their power to form a Buddha Manifestation behind Lu Yang; Su Nu entered Lu Yang and strengthened it.
• Lu Yang’s Buddha Manifestation endured Guanghai’s Boundless Light and struck the battlefield with a fiery palm, killing nearly every Buddhist cultivator and sending hundreds of souls into the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner.
• Guangming survived at the edge of the enormous palm print and collapsed to his knees as the Sacred Sect disciples stared in shock.
• Beyond Jietian, the Pure Land True Lord sensed that his Fruit Position Treasure had shattered and grew furious, while True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow mocked his reaction.

Lu Yang and the Sacred Sect Disciples encountered a swarm of Qi-Eating Insects that multiplied by devouring attacks. Lu Yang sensed the world’s hostility toward the outsiders and learned that the insects were being empowered by the realm’s resistance, while their true Son of Destiny was likely the Insect King.

• Guangming begged Lu Yang to spare him and offered to help deal with the remaining Pure Land cultivators and the Dao Court, but Lu Yang told him to be quiet.
• A black demon insect emerged from the ground, warned the outsiders to leave, and transformed into a swarm after Lu Yang looked at it.
• The Qi-Eating Insects multiplied by consuming the disciples’ attacks and advanced toward Lu Yang, who killed them with a glance.
• Lu Yang sensed that the world itself hated him and the Sacred Sect Disciples, and concluded that the three Golden Core True Lords were suppressing its power.
• Patriarch Tingyou identified the insects as Qi-Eating Insects and recounted how a Foundation Establishment cultivator’s billion-strong swarm had been killed by a Pure Land Bodhisattva.

The Dao Court struggled against the Qi-Eating Insects and discovered that the Pure Land had fallen to the First Saint Sect. Wang Jinting negotiated with the Insect King to target Lu Yang, while Lu Yang sought a way to find his enemies and was offered help by Bi Feiyuan.

• Wang Jinting watched Dao Court cultivators fall to the Qi-Eating Insects as a Sword Pavilion woman held them back.
• Wang Jinting saw on the Panoramic Map that the Pure Land had vanished and the First Saint Sect had taken its place.
• The Qi-Eating Insect King asked Wang Jinting about the powerful figure among the First Saint Sect, and Wang Jinting proposed an alliance against them.
• Lu Yang and Patriarch Tingyou discussed the threat of a prolonged insect assault, and Lu Yang failed to locate the Dao Court through divination.
• Bi Feiyuan offered to help Lu Yang find someone.

Lu Yang and the Sacred Sect disciples prepared to find the Dao Court’s hiding place while holding back the Qi-Eating Insects. As the battle began, Wang Jinting learned that Guangming had arrived with intelligence about Lu Yang and went to meet him.

• Bi Feiyuan, Daoist Jiaolong, Xu Xin, and Chongming offered abilities or treasures to help locate the Dao Court, while Qin Tianhe proposed using Guangming and his Void-Piercing Heaven-Escaping Black Shuttle to track its leader.
• Lu Yang agreed to try their methods as the Qi-Eating Insects approached, and the Sacred Sect disciples prepared to fight while pursuing the Insect King or the Dao Court’s hiding place.
• The Sacred Sect disciples attacked the swarm, with the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner’s spirits reducing casualties and Lu Yang crushing tens of thousands of insects with Heaven Collapse.
• Wang Jinting watched the battle through the Insect King’s spiritual sense projection and trusted that his Panoramic Map of the Vast Territory would help him avoid danger.
• A messenger told Wang Jinting that Guangming had arrived with intelligence about the Sacred Sect’s Foundation Establishment True Person, and Wang verified Guangming’s identity before going to meet him.

Lu Yang and his allies narrowed down the location of the hidden Dao Court cultivators, and Qin Tianhe found their target. Lu Yang unleashed his Blood Sun Sword Pellet, leaving the Dao Court group facing a second sun rising over the Cloud Sea.

• Lu Yang learned the Qi-Eating Insects had no souls and could not be tracked because they had come to die.
• Bi Feiyuan sensed the Dao Court cultivators nearby, and Lu Yang used the Eight Trigram Disk to narrow their possible location.
• Qin Tianhe found the target within the marked area, so Lu Yang shattered the Blood Sun Sword Pellet to release its killing divine ability.
• Yun Miaozhen argued with Wang Jinting that their enemy could not be a Foundation Establishment True Person, then agreed to meet a Pure Land cultivator before deciding whether to fight.
• The Pure Land cultivator recognized Wang Jinting as the enemy, and Wang saw only his own aura on the Panoramic Map of the Vast Territory within five thousand miles.
• The Dao Court cultivators looked up and saw a second sun rising in the Cloud Sea.

Lu Yang and Yu Suzhen unleashed a Foundation Establishment-powered tribulation fire that annihilated Dao Court’s forces across five thousand li. The First Saint Sect won the War of Dao Seizure, while the battered survivors discovered Guangming had escaped by sending an avatar into the attack.

• Lu Yang activated the Twelve Heavenly God-Sha Secret Demon Tribulation Light through Su Nu, summoning a devastating storm of Heavenly Gang and Earth Sha.
• Wang Jinting realized the Panoramic Map of the Vast Territory could not carry him beyond the five-thousand-li blast radius, and Yun Miaozhen’s Sword Heart shattered at the sight of the tribulation fire.
• The tribulation fire incinerated Dao Court’s disciples, Qi-Eating Insects, Yun Miaozhen, and Wang Jinting, while its explosion formed a vast mushroom cloud.
• Xu Xin, Chongming, Daoist Jiaolong, Bi Feiyuan, and Qin Tianhe survived the battle and recognized that the First Saint Sect had won.
• The survivors found Guangming hiding nearby, and he explained that only his avatar had entered the tribulation fire’s range.

The Sacred Sect Disciples defeated the Qi-Eating Insects as True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow integrated Jietian into Heaven and Earth. Lu Yang seized the chance to enter Foundation Establishment and formed the Ten Thousand Chariots Dragon Ascension Dao Foundation, drawing the attention of figures in the Pure Land and Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion.

• The Qi-Eating Insect King sent its swarm to attack again, but the insects died when True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow subdued Jietian and brought down deadly rain.
• Chongming recognized that Jietian’s integration into Heaven and Earth had begun, giving the Sacred Sect Disciples an opportunity to improve their status.
• Lu Yang reached the Foundation Establishment Realm through his status, hesitated over the karmic risks of his chosen Dao Foundation, then decided he could rely on the Hundred Lives Book and stepped forward.
• Lu Yang established his foundation with the Ten Thousand Chariots Dragon Ascension Scroll, manifesting a Golden Auspicious Cloud and a five-clawed True Dragon.
• A Golden Light briefly stirred in the Pure Land of Profound Joy, while a young man at Extreme Heaven Cliff realized Lu Yang’s Dao Foundation might attain a long-treasured Fruit Position despite Lu Yang not being a Buddhist Cultivator.

Lu Yang completed Foundation Establishment and discovered that the realm’s Bi Wind gradually eroded the soul, forcing True Persons to reincarnate after three hundred years. After the Pure Land and Dao Court appeared to recruit him, True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow congratulated him, leaving Lu Yang suspicious that the Sacred Sect had staged the offers to test his loyalty.

• Lu Yang manifested the Ten Thousand Chariots Dragon Control Foundation, whose Auspicious Clouds stretched over a thousand li.
• Lu Yang learned that Bi Wind continually eroded Foundation Establishment cultivators’ souls, making reincarnation necessary after three hundred years.
• Lu Yang assessed how Foundation Establishment had diminished the usefulness of his Blood Sun Sword Pellet, Ten Thousand Spirit Banner, and great divine abilities, and resolved to pursue the Ancestor of the Yun Family’s Heavenly Secret Treasure.
• The Pure Land and Dao Court appeared to offer Lu Yang positions and promising futures, but he ignored their recruitment.
• True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow congratulated Lu Yang on his performance in the War of Dao Seizure, and Lu Yang suspected the Sacred Sect had arranged the recruitment offers to test him.

After the War of Dao Seizure, Arhat Fulong discovered that Lu Yang had established a perfect Ten Thousand Chariots Dragon Control Foundation and regarded him as a threat to his Dao Path. The Pure Land withdrew to Jiangxi, while True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow dropped the Ten Thousand Gu Cave into Jiangdong, changing cultivation conditions there; Fulong was left to deal with Lu Yang on his own.

• Arhat Fulong sensed Lu Yang's Ten Thousand Chariots Dragon Control Foundation and rushed toward him, but three immense Dharma Bodies confronted him before the Pure Land's True Lord stabilized his Dao Foundation.
• Fulong acknowledged that he shared a karmic fate with Lu Yang, and the Pure Land's True Lord took Fulong, Guangming, and the surviving Buddhist cultivators back to Jiangxi.
• True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow dropped the Ten Thousand Gu Cave into Jiangdong, shifting the Fruit Position and changing cultivators' chances of breaking through Foundation Establishment.
• Vase Water Moon Bodhisattva praised Guangming for surviving by selling out the Dao Court and ordered that he be quietly trained at Hidden Dragon Temple.
• Vase Water Moon Bodhisattva told Fulong that his karmic fate with Lu Yang had ended and that the Pure Land would support him only if he could recruit or kill Lu Yang.

After achieving Foundation Establishment, Lu Yang inspected the Hundred Lives Book and discovered it had granted him an Anchor Point that let him choose where to Restart. He returned toward the Sacred Sect while announcing his breakthrough, stirring the Cloud Sea and alarming the Peak Master of Heaven Mending, who suspected Lu Yang carried Pan Long's inheritance.

• True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow congratulated Lu Yang, told him to announce his breakthrough to the Jiangbei sects, and sent him on his way.
• Chongming asked Lu Yang to return the Eight Trigram Plate, and Lu Yang gave it back before the other true disciples departed.
• Lu Yang examined the changed Hundred Lives Book and found a new Anchor Point, which let him choose a starting point for his next Restart.
• Lu Yang rode the Golden Auspicious Cloud toward the Sacred Sect, openly displaying his aura as he spread news of his Foundation Establishment across Jiangbei.
• True Person Chongguang rang the great bell at Sacred Fire Cliff, summoning the Sacred Sect's True Persons and frightening the Divine Martial Sect into expecting an attack.
• The Peak Master of Heaven Mending suspected Lu Yang possessed Pan Long's inheritance and felt wary, though he was relieved he had not made an enemy of him.

After establishing his Dao Foundation, Lu Yang learned that its corresponding Fruit Position, City-Wall Earth, was hidden in the Pure Land, though True Person Chongguang promised to help him claim it in the future. Lu Yang received a Qi-Eating Insect King and was formally named True Person Yuantu, with his own immortal mountain in the Sacred Sect.

• Lu Yang visited Sacred Fire Cliff and returned the Abyss-Sinking Assembly Scroll to True Person Chongguang.
• True Person Chongguang explained that Lu Yang’s Ten Thousand Chariots Dragon Control Foundation had been created to reveal the Pure Land’s hidden Fruit Position, City-Wall Earth, and promised they might seize it if Lu Yang later sought its fruit.
• Lu Yang concealed his doubts about Chongguang’s attempt to keep him in check and agreed to rely on his guidance.
• True Person Chongguang gave Lu Yang a Qi-Eating Insect King subdued by True Lord Flying Snow.
• True Person Chongguang enshrined Lu Yang’s Life Lamp and proclaimed him True Person Yuantu, causing an immortal mountain to rise as his Daoist sanctuary.

After establishing his Dao Foundation, Lu Yang explored his new immortal mountain and learned from Patriarch Tingyou how Foundation Establishment True Persons cultivate Lifebound Divine Abilities and advance along the Dao Path. He planned to seek a Heavenly Secret Treasure in the Law Refining Secret Realm and decided the realm would also provide the Qi-Eating Insect King with abundant sacrifices.

• Lu Yang met the Fifth-Grade Formation Spirit guarding his immortal mountain and told her to visit him that night so he could study formations.
• Lu Yang used the formation to build a Spiritual Qi grand hall, then summoned Su Nu and Patriarch Tingyou with the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner.
• Lu Yang proposed restarting the Witch Ghost Sect, prompting Patriarch Tingyou to explain Lifebound Divine Abilities and how Foundation Establishment True Persons nurture them with four Innate Divine Abilities.
• Patriarch Tingyou said a perfected Dao Foundation and comprehension were needed to condense a Lifebound Divine Ability, and that a Heavenly Calculation treasure could help.
• Lu Yang recalled that the Ancestor of the Yun Family would reincarnate in the Law Refining Secret Realm in thirty years and resolved to retrieve the Heavenly Secret Treasure.
• Lu Yang decided to take the Qi-Eating Insect King to the Law Refining Secret Realm, where its 140 million inhabitants could provide the flesh and blood it needed.

Lu Yang sealed the Law Refining Secret Realm and spent years developing a cultivation system based on Qi-Eating Insects, using the realm’s 140 million residents to raise them and monitor for the Ancestor of the Yun Family. After thirty years of failed efforts to condense his Lifebound Divine Ability, he sensed an insect seed inside a newborn infant.

• Lu Yang used his standing under True Person Chongguang to obtain the Law Refining Secret Realm for thirty years and learned that True Person Yinshan was entering seclusion to advance.
• Lu Yang recalled Wang Boyuan’s talent and designed cultivation stages that would let the secret realm’s residents raise Qi-Eating Insects without being consumed by them.
• Lu Yang refined the Qi-Eating Insect King into a Guardian Deity, fed it dharma power, and distributed its insect seeds among the secret realm’s people.
• Lu Yang spent thirty years trying to condense his Lifebound Divine Ability but failed.
• Lu Yang sensed an insect seed inside a newborn infant in the secret realm.

Lu Yang captured the Ancestor of the Yun Family and took the Heaven Investigating Instrument, whose illuminating power helped him condense his Lifebound Divine Ability. During the process, he glimpsed the Fruit Position City-Wall Earth, prompting concern at the Tianwu Dao Court that a great calamity might be near.

• The Ancestor of the Yun Family reincarnated into the Law Refining Secret Realm, discovered he was being watched, and tried to escape with the Heaven Investigating Instrument.
• Lu Yang arrived, took the instrument, and swallowed the Ancestor of the Yun Family into the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner.
• Lu Yang examined the Heaven Investigating Instrument and discovered its mystical property, All Illumination, which revealed principles and Karma.
• Using the instrument, Lu Yang gained insight into his soul and Dao Foundation and began condensing his Lifebound Divine Ability.
• Lu Yang glimpsed the Fruit Position City-Wall Earth before its Golden Light vanished.
• At the Tianwu Dao Court, a crowned young man sensed City-Wall Earth’s return and feared that the remnants of Zou Yu would stir as a great calamity approached.

After refining his Lifebound Ability, Lu Yang drove off Yu Shu and met with True Person Yin Shan, who assigned him to lead the destruction of the Divine Martial Sect. The chapter left Lu Yang preparing to use the Northern Border campaign to gather Karmic Fortune and pursue a breakthrough.

• Patriarch Tingyou and Su Nu tried to keep Yu Shu from disturbing Lu Yang, who was in seclusion at Luofeng Mountain.
• Yu Shu forced his way toward Lu Yang and clashed with Su Nu and Patriarch Tingyou until Lu Yang appeared.
• Lu Yang revealed his Round Light Mark and used his Lifebound Divine Ability to send Yu Shu away.
• Lu Yang greeted True Person Yin Shan, who told him the Sacred Sect had spared the Divine Martial Sect for thirty years so it could raise disciples.
• Yin Shan informed Lu Yang that he would lead the Divine Martial Sect's extermination and could use the campaign to gather Karmic Fortune and seek a Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches.

Lu Yang accepted True Person Chongguang’s backing to lead the Sacred Sect against the Divine Martial Sect, then sought more advantages before the campaign. At Gourd Island, he sent Su Nu and the Qi-Eating Insect King into danger, only to find both trying to make their underlings go first.

• True Person Yinshan told Lu Yang that True Person Chongguang was funding him to lead the Sacred Sect against the Divine Martial Sect, and Lu Yang accepted.
• Lu Yang reviewed his abilities and decided to investigate Gourd Island, a hidden trove Chen Xin'an had once mentioned.
• Lu Yang used the Heaven Investigating Instrument to find Gourd Island, but could not calculate what lay there and judged it dangerous.
• Lu Yang summoned Guardian Deity Su Nu and the Qi-Eating Insect King, then sent them onto the island to investigate.
• Su Nu found a battlefield of bones and broken treasures, followed a red glow to a deep valley, and tried to send the Qi-Eating Insect King inside first.
• The Qi-Eating Insect King refused and proposed sending its children into the valley, while Lu Yang sensed both of them avoiding the danger.

Lu Yang claimed Gourd Island’s Spiritual Treasures by accepting the heavy Karma attached to them, then secured authority from True Person Chongguang to lead the campaign against the Divine Martial Sect. He planned to use Zhao Xuhe to lure out Arhat Fulong and kill him with the Sacred Sect’s strength.

• Su Nu and the Insect King sent Qi-Eating Insects into Gourd Island, but the Soul-Dissipating Spirit-Seizing Smoke had no effect on them because they lacked souls.
• The sword spirit revealed herself and Lu Yang realized that Gourd Island held two Spiritual Treasures, but taking them meant accepting the Karma of guiding a Great True Person’s reincarnation.
• Lu Yang accepted the Karma, and Gourd Island transformed into the Avici Sword and Three-Nine Soul-Destroying Gourd, which he claimed.
• True Person Yinshan and the Peak Master of Heaven Mending arrived, and other True Persons mocked Lu Yang for taking on the burden before leaving.
• Lu Yang explained that he would prioritize helping Martial Uncle Chongguang Ascend to Seek Gold, and True Person Chongguang entrusted him with the campaign against the Divine Martial Sect.
• Lu Yang planned to use Zhao Xuhe to lure out Arhat Fulong and have the Sacred Sect eliminate him.

After thirty years of seclusion, Zhao Xuhe faced doubts about his memories and prepared to challenge Ouyang Haoze, who had besieged Skull Mountain Market. Lu Yang arrived, erased Ouyang Haoze and the Divine Martial Sect disciples around him with a single palm, then confronted a furious Divine Martial Sect True Person in the sky.

• Zhao Xuhe discovered that his memories of Coiling Dragon True Person clashed with his other memories and resolved to win the battle against the Divine Martial Sect.
• Lu Yuanchun told Zhao Xuhe that a newly ranked True Person had been sent to lead the campaign against the Divine Martial Sect.
• Ouyang Haoze taunted the First Saint Sect from outside Skull Mountain Market, and Zhao Xuhe prepared to fight him.
• Lu Yang appeared behind Zhao Xuhe and Lu Yuanchun, then used one palm to turn Ouyang Haoze and the Divine Martial Sect disciples into dust.
• A Divine Martial Sect True Person confronted Lu Yang in the sky, and Lu Yang declared that the Divine Martial Sect was trying to smash eggs against stone.

Lu Yang tested his combat strength against True Person Huanwu of the Divine Martial Sect, overpowering him with his Dao Foundation and newly revealed Lifebound Ability. The battle ended with Lu Yang cutting down Huanwu’s manifested giant, while the Sacred Sect observers watched in astonishment.

• True Person Huanwu manifested his Divine Soldier Heavenly Martial Foundation and attacked Lu Yang, who answered with his Ten Thousand Chariots Dragon Control Foundation.
• Lu Yang gained the upper hand, and three Sacred Sect True Persons arrived to watch the fight and prepare to assist him.
• True Person Huanwu used his Cease War Heavenly Sound to pin Lu Yang’s qi, then attacked with the Divine Martial Flood Dragon Binding Axe.
• Lu Yang revealed a Lifebound Ability that moved Huanwu thousands of li away and then returned him beside Lu Yang in his weakened state.
• Lu Yang drew the Avici Sword and severed Huanwu’s manifested giant in two.

Lu Yang defeated True Person Huanwu and revealed the four wonders of his Lifebound Divine Ability, the Luanlu Yulong Chariot. He met the Sacred Sect’s reinforcements, and Yu Chong invited him to discuss City-Wall Earth and his future Dao Path.

• True Person Huanwu abandoned his body and fled, but Lu Yang chose not to pursue him to keep his Lifebound Divine Ability concealed.
• Lu Yang learned that the Avici Sword’s little-girl spirit could grow stronger by devouring Dao Foundations, then put her away.
• Lu Yang examined the Luanlu Yulong Chariot and considered how its four wonders governed distance, Karma, and right and wrong.
• Three Foundation Establishment True Persons sent by the Sacred Sect arrived, and one praised Lu Yang’s strength.
• Yu Chong apologized for Yu Shu and invited Lu Yang to discuss City-Wall Earth and his future Dao Path.