Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang and the other Dao Lords battled over False History while Chu Sheng used [Fixed Number] to keep [Other Shore] from collapsing. The fighting subsided into a stalemate as Wan Fa and Du Xuan hesitated to risk themselves, leaving Si Sui’s rescue unresolved.

• Sword Lord saw new futures emerge after Lu Yang arrived, while Lu Yang erased her sword from False History and Wan Fa and Du Xuan pressed their attack.
• Chu Sheng used [Fixed Number] to stabilize the Ancestral Dragon Seal and [Other Shore], then blocked the World Honored One from reaching False History.
• Lu Yang withdrew from the attack, and Chu Sheng suspected that he was still hiding another card, including the absent Huanyao and a mysterious Primordial Spirit.
• Dao Tianqi entered the battle through False History’s karma, shifting the balance and reigniting the conflict.
• The Dao Lords’ forces stalled because Du Xuan would not risk falling through the layers again, and the scales returned to balance.

After surviving Chu Sheng’s attempt to erase him from time, Lu Yang sent Ling Xiao and other cultivators into False History while the Dao Lords were occupied. As Lu Yang disappeared to pursue his hidden plan, True Cultivation prepared to enter False History, unaware that the [Hundred Lives Book] was observing him.

• A year after Chu Sheng nearly erased Lu Yang from history, the [Death Loop] and [Order] restored his Karma and stabilized his wounded Primordial Spirit.
• Lu Yang summoned Ling Xiao, gave him the [Red Dust Traversal Method], and sent him into False History to seek a great fortune.
• Wan Fa sent Miao Le toward False History, and World Honored One stirred Karma to send more cultivators there, keeping the Dao Lords occupied.
• Lu Yang saw that the Lower Cultivators had slipped through the Dao Lords’ defenses, then vanished from the Netherworld.
• True Cultivation arrived at Extreme Heaven Cliff and planned to enter False History with True Person Demon-Subduer to pursue the heterodox path of [Yin-Yang].
• As True Cultivation resolved to act, multicolored writing appeared on the [Hundred Lives Book] panel, where an observer watched him.

True Cultivation infiltrated False History through True Person Demon-Subduer, but Chu Sheng detected him and forced him back into True History. Lu Yang then redirected him toward a past Dao Lord War, while Dao Tianqi used the Reincarnation Life-and-Death Wheel to pull Sword Lord into the Netherworld and leave False History open.

• True Cultivation attached his Primordial Spirit thought to True Person Demon-Subduer and slipped into False History while the Dao Lords fought.
• Chu Sheng recognized True Cultivation from traces at Extreme Heaven Cliff and struck at him, but a palm from the Netherworld blocked the blow.
• Chu Sheng used the [Divine Fortune Book of Fate] to consider the World Honored One's plans for Si Sui and resolve to deal with Wanbao later.
• Chu Sheng drove True Cultivation out of False History, and an ethereal voice urged him to travel back one hundred and twenty-nine thousand six hundred years through True History.
• True Cultivation followed the suggestion toward the past Dao Lord War, and Sword Lord spotted him as Chu Sheng recognized Lu Yang's plan.
• Dao Tianqi raised the [Reincarnation Life-and-Death Wheel] and transported Sword Lord into the Netherworld, leaving False History's gates open.

True Cultivation tried to reach the False History by traveling through the ancient era, while Chu Sheng and the Sword Lord moved to stop him. Just as Chu Sheng cornered True Cultivation, a thought directed him toward the complete Heavenly Remnant Consciousness of the ancient era.

• The Sword Lord attacked the Netherworld, but Dao Tianqi concealed himself and True Cultivation seized the chance to trace Karma toward the False History.
• Chu Sheng used [Fixed Number] to create a lethal chasm in the Karmic Net, forcing True Cultivation to seek another route through the ancient era.
• Lu Yang clashed with Chu Sheng and lost, but revealed that [Fixed Number] had weakened enough to be challenged.
• The Sword Lord used [Emotion Thread] to empower Cang Hao, who blocked True Cultivation from entering the False History from the ancient era.
• Chu Sheng struck at True Cultivation as he tried to hide, and a sudden thought told True Cultivation to go to the complete Heavenly Remnant Consciousness of the ancient era.

Cultivation tried to escape Chu Sheng by reaching the [Heavenly Remnant Consciousness], but failed and lost control of his thoughts under pressure. He self-destructed, and Chu Sheng discovered that the True Person Demon-Subduer had vanished too, prompting him to rewind events and investigate.

• Cultivation fled toward the [Heavenly Remnant Consciousness] while Chu Sheng pursued him and Lu Yang intervened to block Chu Sheng’s attack.
• Cultivation crashed into the [Heavenly Remnant Consciousness] but passed through it, realizing it was only an illusion.
• Cultivation’s thoughts grew chaotic under the threat of death, and Chu Sheng recognized that his Primordial Spirit had a fatal flaw.
• Cultivation unleashed a Primordial Spirit self-destruction, and Chu Sheng erased the resulting lingering thoughts with [Fixed Number].
• Chu Sheng noticed that the True Person Demon-Subduer had vanished along with Cultivation and began rewinding the scene to restore the missing Karma.

Dao Tianqi revealed that he had impersonated Lu Yang to deceive Chu Sheng while Lu Yang entered the Eighth Secret Realm. Lu Yang arrived there believing he had seized the initiative before Chu Sheng.

• Chu Sheng investigated True Person Demon-Subduer, ruled out the fleeing black-robed figure as the source of the disguise, and found that Demon-Subduer had lost his consciousness.
• The false battle in False History ended, and the black-robed youth returned to the Netherworld Lord Hall injured; Liantian Dou, Butian Que, and the World Honored One came to check on him.
• Dao Tianqi revealed his true identity and explained that he had completed the transformation of [Death Loop] in the Netherworld, then impersonated Lu Yang to fool Chu Sheng.
• Dao Tianqi and the World Honored One explained that Lu Yang’s ten years of attacks on False History had concealed Dao Tianqi’s work and enabled Lu Yang to enter the ancient past.
• Lu Yang reached [Heavenly Remnant Consciousness] and the Eighth Secret Realm using the [Dove Occupies Magpie's Nest] talent, determined to take the initiative against Chu Sheng.

Lu Yang entered the Eighth Secret Realm and discovered that it was an absolutely real place, allowing him to stand in the Ancient Era rather than a karmic reflection of the past. Realizing it contained Jun’s memories and might be Dragon-Tiger Mountain, he encountered someone in the ruined hall.

• Lu Yang used the Spirit Transformation Heir talent to withstand the realm’s rejection and entered the ruined divine mountain.
• Lu Yang found that Order could not analyze the realm and realized he had arrived in a real scene rather than a Karmic Scene.
• Lu Yang saw the Ancient Era in the Light Sea but sensed that leaving the secret realm would destroy him.
• Lu Yang concluded that the Eighth Secret Realm was Jun’s True Spirit and memories, possibly located at Dragon-Tiger Mountain.
• A figure appeared in the ruined hall, approached Lu Yang, and ordered him to halt.

Lu Yang overwhelmed an Ancient Era cultivator who mistook him for a Dao Ancestor and added the name Xuande to the Dao Register. This brought Lu Yang into a vision of the seventeen Dao Ancestors, who discussed merging the register with the Divine Fortune Book of Fate and left him responsible for the matter after he attained enlightenment.

• A mysterious Ancient Era cultivator attacked Lu Yang, but Lu Yang dissolved the cultivator’s power and was recognized as a Dao Ancestor.
• The cultivator searched the Dao Register, found no record of Lu Yang, and asked his name so he could add him.
• Lu Yang introduced himself as Xuande, and the register gained an eighteenth page as he saw a hall containing seventeen Dao Ancestors.
• The Dao Ancestors debated the Divine Fortune Book of Fate and decided to merge the Dao Register into it, leaving methods to restrain a false Immortal.
• One Dao Ancestor told Lu Yang to handle the matter after attaining enlightenment, and Lu Yang returned from the vision to the Eighth Secret Realm.

Lu Yang reached Heaven Beyond Heaven and learned that Dao Venerable had cultivated there for 129,600 years, with his presence fading as his Merit neared perfection. After Lu Xian led him to the Truth Seeking Hall, Lu Yang found only an empty meditation cushion, where Dao Venerable’s true form had once been visible.

• Lu Xian greeted Lu Yang as Mysterious Virtue Dao Ancestor after adding him to the Dao Register.
• Lu Xian told Lu Yang they were in Heaven Beyond Heaven in the 129,600th year of the Junping Calendar, as Dao Venerable’s Merit neared perfection.
• Lu Yang asked to pay respects to Dao Venerable, and Lu Xian led him through a divine mountain that grew prosperous with every step.
• At the Truth Seeking Hall, Lu Yang saw his own statue among eighteen Immortal statues after Lu Xian entered his name in the Dao Register.
• Lu Xian bowed before the empty meditation cushion and explained that Dao Venerable’s form had faded over time, leaving only a breeze.

Lu Xian explained that Heaven Beyond Heaven was formed from the Dao Venerable’s final memory and resolved to reincarnate into a new era of cultivation. As Lu Yang realized Lu Xian was the first Guardian and learned of Immortal Taiyuan’s place in the origins of the three qi, Lu Xian revealed that Taiyuan had preferred to be called Taiyi Heaven.

• Lu Xian explained that his [Jiao Guiren] cultivation had let him survive beneath the Dao Venerable’s protection, and that he had waited for a new era of ten paths before reincarnating.
• Lu Xian told Lu Yang that reincarnation would not alter history, because the past already included Lu Yang’s interference in Heaven Beyond Heaven, and asked him to guard the Dao Venerable’s legacy estate.
• Lu Yang recognized Lu Xian as the first Guardian of the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness lineage and warned that someone would kill him after his reincarnation.
• Lu Xian connected the [Divine Fortune Book of Fate] and the Name and Form Teachings to Immortal Taiyuan, who had been the Dao Venerable’s greatest adversary.
• Lu Xian explained that the three qi arose from Taiyuan and revealed that Immortal Taiyuan had preferred to be called Taiyi Heaven.

Lu Yang realized Immortal Taiyuan may have manipulated Chu Sheng through the Divine Fortune Book of Fate and used the book to lure Lu Yang toward him. He concluded that his own search for the book had nearly led to his death, though he had been spared by going in the Ancestral Dragon's body.

• Lu Yang asked Lu Xian whether Chu Sheng could survive the risk of Immortal Taiyuan taking over his body, and Lu Xian said the danger was real.
• Lu Xian described Immortal Taiyuan as emotionless and devoted solely to transcendence, prompting Lu Yang to compare him with Chu Sheng.
• Lu Yang suspected Immortal Taiyuan had altered the Divine Fortune Book of Fate's records to guide Chu Sheng into creating the Seven Emotions Heaven-Ascent Art.
• Lu Yang reasoned that Immortal Taiyuan could perceive the outside world and remember his Restarts while imprisoned in the Divine Fortune Book of Fate.
• Lu Yang concluded that Immortal Taiyuan had lured him into seeking the book, and realized he had narrowly avoided death because he searched in the Ancestral Dragon's body rather than his true body.

Lu Yang considered whether Immortal Taiyuan was a hidden enemy and asked Lu Xian to explain Ancient Era cultivation. Lu Xian described its ten paths and the fate of its Dao Ancestors, leaving Lu Yang wondering whether the fabricated identity of Mysterious Virtue Dao Ancestor was real after all.

• Lu Yang suspected that Immortal Taiyuan had survived from the Ancient Era and considered testing the limits of the [Divine Fortune Book of Fate].
• Lu Yang asked Lu Xian about the ten paths and methods of Ancient Era cultivation.
• Lu Xian explained that the ten paths were methods of enlightenment, then described how [Fate Cultivation] allowed cultivators to preserve their memories through reincarnation.
• Lu Xian recounted how the [Fate Cultivation] Dao Ancestor reincarnated before the era began and returned to kill the cultivator who had sacrificed him.
• Lu Xian said he did not know what became of the Dao Ancestors after the Dao Venerable transcended, but guessed they had entered the Void Darkness and gone to another realm.
• Lu Yang realized that Ancient Era cultivators might have left the Light Sea, making his fabricated identity as Mysterious Virtue Dao Ancestor seem increasingly real.

Lu Yang studied Lu Xian’s reincarnation method and helped him escape death by pulling his True Spirit and much of the Guardian Lineage out of the past. After discovering he could interfere with known history, Lu Yang planted bait in the Karmic Net to test a theory about Chu Sheng’s failed attempt to revive the Guardian Lineage.

• Lu Xian gave Lu Yang a reincarnation method that traded a lifetime of cultivation for strength in the next life, and Lu Yang found he could understand it without Wisdom Light.
• Lu Xian chose to reincarnate, and Lu Yang placed an imprint in his True Spirit so he could guide him back after he regained his memories.
• Lu Xian departed, while Lu Yang remained in Heaven Beyond Heaven to study the method and search for the Dao Venerable’s secret of transcendence.
• When Lu Xian activated the imprint in the past, Lu Yang reached into the light and shadow, rescued his True Spirit after Chu Sheng killed him, and saved more than half of the Guardian Lineage.
• Lu Yang planted a beam of Radiant Light in the Karmic Net as bait for Immortal Taiyuan, hoping to test his theory about Chu Sheng’s failed attempt to revive the Guardian Lineage.

Lu Xian returned from his tribulation with much of the Guardian Lineage, and he presented Lu Yang with several Ancient Era cultivation methods. Lu Yang recognized links between those methods and the Heavenly Dao and Other Shore, then prepared to cultivate toward a second fundamental metamorphosis.

• Lu Xian returned to Heaven Beyond Heaven with the Guardian Lineage, explaining that he had linked their true spirits to his own to save them.
• Lu Xian gave Lu Yang the [Revering Gods] Method and described how its three Dao Ancestors developed different paths to deification.
• Lu Yang recognized that the [Revering Gods] Method had influenced the Heavenly Dao established by Sword Lord and Cang Hao.
• Lu Xian presented the [Feng Shui] and [Study] methods, connecting them to Chu Sheng's [Other Shore] and Cang Hao's Great Dao of [Words].
• Lu Yang gathered the methods and encouraged Lu Xian to enter seclusion to seek the Primordial Spirit.
• Lu Yang concluded that he had more than a hundred thousand years to cultivate and believed a second fundamental metamorphosis was within reach.

After the First Guardian escaped into the Eighth Secret Realm, the consciousness within the Divine Fortune Book of Fate urged Chu Sheng to investigate the Guardian Lineage. Chu Sheng followed the lead, and someone in a sealed palace sensed that the bait had been taken.

• Chu Sheng questioned the Divine Fortune Book of Fate about the Primordial Spirit’s death, and Taiyi Heaven revealed that he had been right to suspect it.
• Chu Sheng decided to cooperate with the consciousness in the book, while Taiyi Heaven stayed hidden to avoid being destroyed by the next world restart.
• Taiyi Heaven realized that the First Guardian had escaped with others into the Eighth Secret Realm and might carry a method left by Jun.
• The book warned Chu Sheng that the Guardian Lineage held a major secret and that the First Guardian’s karma needed thorough investigation.
• Chu Sheng put away the book and entered the depths of the Karmic Net, while a sealed palace in Heaven Beyond Heaven sensed his action.

Chu Sheng investigated the past through the Karmic Net and discovered that the first Guardian had a copy of the Dao Register, which listed Xuande as the final Dao Ancestor of the Ancient Era. The revelation left Chu Sheng and the consciousness in the Divine Fortune Book of Fate convinced that Xuande, also known as Lu Yang, could not be allowed to live.

• The World Honored One followed Chu Sheng into the Karmic Net and watched him examine an earlier stretch of Karma.
• Chu Sheng traveled back to the Guardian Lineage’s palace and confronted the first Guardian, who recognized him as a remnant of the Name and Form Teachings.
• When the first Guardian realized the scene was in the past, the Karmic Scene shattered, and the Divine Fortune Book of Fate told Chu Sheng to inspect the book in the Guardian’s hands.
• Chu Sheng recreated the scene and secretly saw the first Guardian reading a copy of the Dao Register, a treasure that listed the honorifics of Dao Ancestors.
• The final page named Xuande, prompting the book’s consciousness to recall that Xuande was the mysterious eighteenth Dao Ancestor and suspect that Jun had altered the past.
• Chu Sheng said that Xuande, Lu Yang, could not be allowed to live.

Chu Sheng found Dao Tianqi in the Netherworld and discovered that he could not kill him because of [Death Loop], while the [Divine Fortune Book of Fate] warned that Xuande’s ability to Restart gave him an unfair advantage. Lu Yang realized Immortal Taiyuan was inside the book, and with his 129,600 years of accumulation complete, he prepared to return to Void Darkness and begin his second essential transformation.

• Chu Sheng killed the World Honored One in the Karmic Net, prompting the World Honored One to realize Chu Sheng intended to head for the Netherworld during his resurrection.
• Chu Sheng confronted Dao Tianqi in the Netherworld and erased him, but Dao Tianqi returned through [Death Loop] and revealed that he could no longer be killed.
• Chu Sheng and the consciousness in the [Divine Fortune Book of Fate] considered Xuande’s Restart ability and resolved to proceed cautiously while seeking transcendence.
• Lu Xian, gravely injured by ripples through Karma, told Lu Yang that Heaven Beyond Heaven was about to open.
• Lu Yang concluded that Immortal Taiyuan was within the [Divine Fortune Book of Fate] and, after completing 129,600 years of accumulation, prepared to return to Void Darkness for his second essential transformation.

Dao Tianqi expanded the Netherworld and demanded that False History be reversed so Si Sui could be freed, prompting Sword Lord to attack. With Chu Sheng, Wan Fa, and Du Xuan supporting the rescue, World Honored One chose to risk his position and enter the struggle.

• Dao Tianqi spread the Netherworld across the Light Sea and demanded that Si Sui be rescued from False History.
• Chu Sheng blocked Sword Lord's attack and stopped suppressing False History, allowing Si Sui to strike at his seal.
• Sword Lord advanced to the Fifth Layer and formed a vast sword formation around the Origin of False History.
• Cang Hao realized Dao Tianqi had prepared the vacant Netherworld Lord position for Wanbao, while Wan Fa and Du Xuan offered to hold off Sword Lord.
• World Honored One decided to gamble on Si Sui's return, declaring, "If I do not enter hell, who will?"

The World Honored One retained Karma, altered history, and fell from the Other Shore, allowing Chu Sheng to seize him. The Sword Lord and several Dao Lords intervened to save him, while Si Sui also blocked Chu Sheng, leaving the World Honored One's fate unresolved.

• The First Generation Myriad Treasure Peak Master left the Dao Lord War, changing history and causing Heavenly Dao to collapse.
• The Sword Lord fell from the Fifth Layer to the Fourth Layer, and the World Honored One stepped down from the Other Shore.
• Chu Sheng seized the World Honored One and tried to kill him, intending to use his death to restore his own standing.
• The Sword Lord, Cang Hao, Wan Fa, Du Xuan, and Dao Tianqi intervened to stop Chu Sheng and save the World Honored One.
• Si Sui appeared from False History and blocked Chu Sheng's second hand, prompting Chu Sheng to open the Divine Fortune Book of Fate.

Chu Sheng split into three figures to hold off the Dao Lords and tried to kill the World Honored One in the Netherworld, but Ancestral Dragon’s intervention let the World Honored One take command of the Netherworld. Chu Sheng then discovered a black-robed figure in the Void Darkness nearing a breakthrough, drawing every Dao Lord’s attention.

• Chu Sheng divided the three qi into three bodies, which blocked Si Sui and separated Sword Lord, Cang Hao, Wan Fa, Du Xuan, and Dao Tianqi from him.
• Chu Sheng reached the World Honored One in the Netherworld and tried to kill him, while the World Honored One gained enlightenment as death approached.
• Ancestral Dragon struck the [Five Elements] seal, interrupting Chu Sheng and allowing the river of fate to pull him away from the World Honored One.
• The World Honored One took command of the Netherworld, merged his Primordial Spirit with it, and ended the Dao Lords’ fighting.
• Chu Sheng activated the [Other Shore] and spotted a black-robed figure in the Void Darkness whose hundred-thousand-year accumulation was about to break through.
• Sword Lord, Cang Hao, Wan Fa, Du Xuan, Ancestral Dragon, Si Sui, Dao Tianqi, the World Honored One, and the other Dao Lords turned their attention to the black-robed figure.