Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang learned why Si Sui had fought Dan Qingjian and watched the World Honored One and the Ancient Dao Ancestors negotiate over plans to save all living beings. He realized his Anchor Points and Restarts gave him a choice between finding a way to save the world and pursuing the Seed of the Great Dao to transcend.

• Shan Qiuhuo and Zhu Liuxian explained that Si Sui fought Dan Qingjian because Dan Qingjian wanted disciples to imitate his own path, while Si Sui believed in freely imparting the Dao.
• Zhu Liuxian recognized the World Honored One as Return to Fate, but the World Honored One denied being him and revealed his Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts and the Netherworld.
• Zhu Liuxian agreed to let the World Honored One save living beings, provided he did not reincarnate them before Zhu Liuxian's plan failed.
• Shan Qiuhuo offered to merge his essence with the Netherworld to strengthen it, and the World Honored One agreed to discuss the plan with him.
• Lu Yang realized that his Anchor Points and Restarts could let him keep adjusting failed attempts to save the Divine Continent, but he could also pursue the Seed of the Great Dao and transcend.

Lu Yang and the others watched Zhu Liuxian use the Geomancy Grand Formation to enter the Divine Province’s future and confront the Final Calamity, where he found the Seed of the Great Dao. The formation ultimately failed as the calamity grew stronger, but Zhu Liuxian returned with news that Knowing Fate had become the innate Dao God embodying the Final Calamity.

• Chu Sheng and the Divine Fortune Book of Fate suspected Jun had arranged the Seed of the Great Dao as part of a scheme, while Zhu Liuxian’s formation offered a way to search the Divine Province’s future.
• Zhu Liuxian activated the Geomancy Grand Formation and crossed into the future, where he tested it against the Final Calamity and found the Seed of the Great Dao.
• The Final Calamity’s power doubled as Zhu Liuxian approached it, overwhelming the formation and hiding the Seed of the Great Dao again.
• Zhu Liuxian returned to the present badly damaged after the formation collapsed, but told Lu Yang that Knowing Fate had succeeded in becoming the innate Dao God of the Final Calamity.

Zhu Liuxian revealed that Knowing Fate had nearly awakened the Final Tribulation Dao God, while Shi Weixiong killed Yu Huanjun to advance his plan of slaying every Dao Ancestor and then confronting Final Calamity. Lu Yang refused Chu Sheng’s offer to cooperate, but learned from the patriarch of the Name Cult that Sky Soaring and Dao Tianqi were trapped by Sword Lord, Wan Fa, Du Xuan, Cang Hao, Feng Baiwu, and Zhen Qulu.

• Zhu Liuxian explained that Knowing Fate had rewritten history by replacing Divine Province’s original innate Dao God, and that his remnants had left the Final Tribulation Dao God close to awakening.
• Lu Yang realized that awakening the Final Tribulation Dao God could make it resist its destined extinction, just as a Primordial Spirit flame went out and Yu Huanjun was reported dead.
• Shi Weixiong killed Yu Huanjun with Jiao Guiren’s help, then told Dan Qingjian he would next target his father, Shi Quanxian.
• Dan Qingjian described the factions among the Dao Ancestors and future arrivals, while Lu Yang considered how difficult it would be to undergo a third qualitative transformation.
• Chu Sheng approached Lu Yang, the World Honored One, and Si Sui to propose cooperation, but Lu Yang rejected him; Chu Sheng then revealed himself as the patriarch of the Name Cult.
• The patriarch of the Name Cult offered the location of Sky Soaring and Dao Tianqi, who had been trapped by four future Dao Lords and the Divine Veneration Dao Ancestors Feng Baiwu and Zhen Qulu.

Zhen Qulu captured the Ancestral Dragon’s Primordial Spirit with Lu Yang’s help and prepared to enact his plan to control the Final Calamity. Meanwhile, Chu Sheng secretly retrieved information from the Final Calamity, learned that Purple Firmament Palace was Divine Province’s Immortal Pivot, and set out to support a sacrifice of all living beings.

• Zhen Qulu revealed that the Heavenheart Lock had been the damaged prototype of his treasure and said he needed the Ancestral Dragon’s Primordial Spirit to complete his plan to control the Final Calamity.
• Lu Yang arrived with Si Sui, the World Honored One, Zhu Liuxian, and Shan Qiuhuo, while Du Xuan declared that he wanted to kill Sky Soaring and Si Sui ended their bond.
• Lu Yang and Sky Soaring subdued the Ancestral Dragon’s resistance, and Lu Yang handed its Primordial Spirit to Zhen Qulu, who sealed it away.
• Chu Sheng secretly crossed through time, obtained Final Tribulation energy, and used it with the Divine Fortune Book of Fate to locate Divine Province’s Immortal Pivot at Purple Firmament Palace.
• Chu Sheng concluded that the Immortal intended to sacrifice all living beings at Purple Firmament Palace and departed with his allies to help bring about the sacrifice.

Sword Lord Nian Yao joined Zhen Qulu’s attempt to make her the Final Tribulation Dao God by absorbing and controlling the Final Calamity, but it gained full consciousness and shattered her plan. At Purple Firmament Palace, Chu Sheng revealed that he had engineered the catastrophe to force the Dao Ancestors toward his great sacrifice and test whether Lu Yang could restart.

• Sky Soaring told Lu Yang that Heaven Beyond Heaven seemed to have made the Dao Lords pawns for a Spirit Transformation chosen in advance.
• Sword Lord recalled how her pursuit of the Heavenly Dao had turned into cold indifference, and she agreed to begin Zhen Qulu’s plan.
• Zhen Qulu and Sword Lord used the Heavenheart Lock, the Ancestral Dragon’s Primordial Spirit, and the powers of Cang Hao, Wan Fa, and Du Xuan to make Sword Lord absorb the Final Calamity.
• Sword Lord used Emotion Thread to parasitize the Final Calamity and began turning it into part of her Heavenly Dao, but the Calamity developed a powerful consciousness and broke free, cracking her body.
• Zhen Qulu realized Immortal Taiyuan and the Name and Form Patriarchs had caused the Final Calamity to awaken early, while Chu Sheng opened the Spirit Transformation abode and revealed his plan to exploit the catastrophe and test Lu Yang’s power to restart.

Chu Sheng’s scheme to use the Final Tribulation Dao God as a diversion became clear to Lu Yang, while Shi Weixiong killed Du Xuan, Sword Lord, and Zhen Qulu and sealed the temporal passage. Lu Yang realized the Dao Ancestors were being lured to Purple Firmament Palace, where Chu Sheng might open the passage and destroy them, but he refused to Restart.

• The Final Tribulation Dao God gained its own will and began pressing toward the present, but Shi Weixiong’s saber cut back the calamity and severed the temporal passage.
• Shi Weixiong offered Cang Hao, Wan Fa, and Du Xuan death by his saber or extinction in the Final Calamity; Cang Hao and Wan Fa escaped through Immortal Taiyuan’s intervention, while Du Xuan chose death and was slain.
• Shi Weixiong killed Sword Lord and Zhen Qulu, then sealed the passage; End Tiger warned that the Final Tribulation Dao God would try to reopen it.
• Lu Xian told Lu Yang that Chu Sheng had entered Purple Firmament Palace and was preparing the same ritual the Ancestral Dragon had used at the Immortal Pivot.
• Lu Yang deduced that Chu Sheng planned to unleash the Final Tribulation Dao God, seize the Seed of the Great Dao, and use the Dao Ancestors’ response as a trap at Purple Firmament Palace.
• Lu Yang rejected Restarting, deciding his remaining Restart was too valuable to spend before the decisive moment.

Chu Sheng abandoned his plan to lure the Dao Ancestors into a trap and began the Transcendence Grand Sacrifice, while Lu Yang watched and waited to learn what gave Chu Sheng confidence. After Shi Weixiong attacked, Chu Sheng opened the temporal passage and sent the Final Tribulation Dao God to strike at Lu Yang, leaving the outcome dependent on whether Lu Yang could Restart.

• Chu Sheng realized the Dao Ancestors had seen through his plan, so he ordered the Name and Form Teachings to begin the Grand Sacrifice immediately.
• Lu Yang recognized that Chu Sheng was forcing the Dao Ancestors to come stop the sacrifice, and he considered whether Immortal Taiyuan's emergence would let him Restart safely.
• Shi Weixiong struck the Purple Firmament Palace with a powerful Divine Blade, while the ancestors of the Name and Form Teachings, Cang Hao, and Wan Fa withdrew from the fight.
• Chu Sheng refused Immortal Taiyuan's offer to intervene, explaining that he feared Lu Yang's connection to Jun and his ability to Restart.
• The Final Tribulation Dao God held Shi Weixiong at bay as Chu Sheng expanded the temporal passage and urged it to kill Lu Yang before a Restart erased its consciousness.
• The Final Tribulation Dao God sent its second hand toward Lu Yang, and Chu Sheng watched to see whether Lu Yang would Restart.

Lu Yang survived Chu Sheng’s test by faking his death through reincarnation, aided by Sky Soaring’s sacrifice, and found refuge with the [Fortune Cultivation] lineage. Da Yunlai revealed that the conflict was a Dao Struggle between the Dao Venerable and the Final Calamity, leaving Lu Yang to question the source of the [Divine Fortune Book of Fate] and its Restart power.

• Lu Yang chose to fake his death with Lu Xian’s [Fate Cultivation] reincarnation method as Final Tribulation Dao God attacked, while Si Sui blocked the palm.
• Sky Soaring sacrificed the fragment of the Ancestral Dragon’s Primordial Spirit to conceal Lu Yang’s survival, and Lu Yang reincarnated while Chu Sheng and the watchers believed he had died.
• Lu Yang awoke as a giant paramecium in a protected realm, where Da Yunlai and two attendant children of the [Fortune Cultivation] lineage welcomed him.
• Da Yunlai explained that Lu Yang and Chu Sheng were opposing centers of fortune in a Dao Struggle between the Dao Venerable and the Final Calamity, with each side’s victory determining which future became reality.
• Da Yunlai told Lu Yang that the future he remembered had been observed by the Dao Venerable and brought into the Ancient Era as a [Variable], prompting Lu Yang to question the origin of the [Divine Fortune Book of Fate].

Lu Yang deduced that the struggle against Final Calamity might have continued across generations of Spirit Transformation cultivators, then used Da Yunlai’s fortune arts to steer Chu Sheng toward that theory. Chu Sheng abandoned his immediate breakthrough plan and chose to seek transcendence first, creating a new possible ending.

• Da Yunlai explained that Final Calamity had likely influenced Immortal Taiyuan, while Lu Yang concluded that Jun’s Hundred Lives Book had created a narrow chance to resist it.
• Da Yunlai and two Fortune Cultivation Dao Ancestors bowed to a straw effigy, briefly weakening Chu Sheng’s fortune as Sky Soaring’s Perception Barrier concealed Lu Yang’s apparent death.
• Chu Sheng summoned the Final Tribulation Dao God from the future and headed through a time passage to seize the Seed of the Great Dao.
• Da Yunlai told Lu Yang that Knowing Fate had founded Fate Cultivation after obtaining the Divine Fortune Book of Fate, and Lu Yang suspected it came from an earlier Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• Lu Yang asked Da Yunlai to increase Chu Sheng’s fortune so he would discover a possible scheme behind Spirit Transformation and Final Calamity.
• Chu Sheng deduced that Jun might be grooming him as the next Spirit Transformation cultivator to enable Jun’s transcendence, so he postponed his breakthrough and resolved to seek transcendence first.

Lu Yang trusted that Chu Sheng would seize the Seed of the Great Dao but avoid becoming the world’s foundation, while planning to turn Chu Sheng’s success into a fatal mistake. As Chu Sheng kept the Seed and prepared to continue sacrificing living beings, the Dao Ancestors struggled to stop the ritual, and the World Honored One offered Shi Weixiong a possible way to help.

• Lu Yang asked Da Yunlai about the Seed of the Great Dao and concluded that Chu Sheng would become harder to control as his fortune grew.
• Chu Sheng witnessed the origins of the Seed of the Great Dao and learned that Spirit Transformation required opposing the Final Calamity and sustaining the world; he also uncovered [Jun]’s plan involving the Light Sea.
• Chu Sheng rejected the Seed’s invitation to become Spirit Transformation, took it for himself, and placed it inside the [Divine Fortune Book of Fate] for safekeeping.
• Chu Sheng told the Immortal Taiyuan that they would continue the grand sacrifice of all living beings, then used the Seed’s power to recover and rise to the Ninth Layer of the Other Shore.
• At Purple Firmament Palace, Shi Weixiong and the other Dao Ancestors failed to stop the sacrifice ritual, while Shi Weixiong hesitated to sacrifice his Divine Blade to defeat the Final Tribulation Dao God.
• The World Honored One offered Shi Weixiong a way to help as the Divine Province faced destruction.

The World Honored One gathered the Divine Continent’s living beings into the Netherworld and vowed to carry them beyond the Final Calamity, but Chu Sheng attacked and sent Si Sui into the future. As Chu Sheng prepared to crush the World Honored One and continue his plans, Shi Weixiong met Lu Yang, who claimed to have a method that guaranteed victory.

• The World Honored One used Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts to make the Divine Continent’s people recognize themselves as his incarnations, then gathered their souls into the Netherworld and rose to become its lord.
• Dao Tianqi helped stabilize the strained Netherworld, and the World Honored One vowed to take its inhabitants into the future before carrying them out of the present.
• Chu Sheng intercepted the World Honored One, overwhelmed the Netherworld with his power, and sent Si Sui into the future when he tried to intervene.
• Chu Sheng planned to kill the World Honored One, return the rescued people for the grand sacrifice, and use the Netherworld to strengthen the Other Shore Ascension Plan.
• The Dao Ancestors pursued Chu Sheng through time, while Shi Weixiong stayed behind and asked Da Yunlai whether victory remained possible.
• Da Yunlai revealed Lu Yang, who told Shi Weixiong that he had a method that guaranteed victory.

Chu Sheng joined the past, present, and future selves into one and broke through to transcendence after destroying the Netherworld and harnessing the sacrifice at Purple Firmament Palace. As Chu Sheng prepared to refine the Seed of the Great Dao, Lu Yang revealed that Chu Sheng had taken the bait.

• Chu Sheng attacked the World Honored One across time, but Shi Weixiong severed the palm in some scenes and created an opening for the World Honored One to escape.
• The Name and Form patriarchs admitted they could not turn back, while Immortal Taiyuan emerged from the Divine Fortune Book of Fate and absorbed the Final Tribulation Dao God, revealing his name as Taiyi Heaven.
• Immortal Taiyuan, Chu Sheng, and Taiyi Heaven united their Ninth Layer power across past, present, and future to become Chu Sheng Taiyi Heaven, who overwhelmed Shi Weixiong and shattered the Netherworld.
• Chu Sheng sent the Netherworld's inhabitants back to the Ancient Era, gathered the Netherworld fragments, and gained power from the sacrifice at Purple Firmament Palace until he transcended.
• Chu Sheng realized he had escaped [Jun]'s thoughts and the power of Restart, while Lu Yang watched from the Ancient Divine Continent and laughed that Chu Sheng had taken the bait.

Lu Yang used the Divine Blade, empowered by the sacrifices of the Dao Ancestors, to confront Chu Sheng, who had transcended and remembered his past Restarts. Lu Yang revealed that Heaven Beyond Heaven preserved memories and objects across Restarts, turning each cycle into a trap that strengthened him while preventing Chu Sheng from keeping the Seed of the Great Dao.

• Lu Yang took Shi Weixiong's Divine Blade after Shi Weixiong, Zhu Liuxian, and Jiao Guiren sacrificed themselves to empower it, then gained the [Other Shore] Seventh Layer.
• Lu Yang killed the World Honored One, and Dao Tianqi and Si Sui sacrificed themselves to strengthen the blade further.
• Chu Sheng revealed that he remembered Lu Yang's eighteen Restarts, but Lu Yang said Chu Sheng had prevailed through vileness rather than strength.
• Lu Yang used the Hundred Lives Book to Restart the world, but the Divine Blade remained with him, and the Dao Ancestors remembered their previous sacrifices and came to empower it again.
• Lu Yang explained that Heaven Beyond Heaven's [Absolute Reality] preserved what had happened across Restarts, and he repeatedly restarted to gather more Dao Ancestor sacrifices and raise his cultivation to the [Other Shore] Eighth Layer.
• Chu Sheng tried to take the Seed of the Great Dao, but Lu Yang Restarted the world and sent it back to the Divine Fortune Book of Fate, revealing his trap and promising to defeat Chu Sheng head-on.

Lu Yang used repeated Restarts and the Dao Ancestors’ blade sacrifices to reach the Ninth Layer of [Other Shore] and awaken the Great Dao of [Variable], while Chu Sheng failed to hide or strengthen himself. Lu Yang turned the battle around and declared that Chu Sheng’s only possible end was death.

• Lu Yang repeatedly Restarted as the Dao Ancestors sacrificed themselves to the Divine Blade, eventually reaching the Ninth Layer of [Other Shore].
• Knowing Fate briefly disrupted Chu Sheng by attempting to reincarnate into his past, giving Lu Yang time to grow stronger.
• Chu Sheng hid in the future’s absolute nothingness to refine the Seed of the Great Dao, but Lu Yang’s Restart reversed his attempt and exposed him.
• Lu Yang’s experiences across his lives gave rise to the Great Dao of [Variable], awakening memories of him across the Light Sea and in the Heavenly Palace.
• Lu Yang surpassed Chu Sheng in power, struck him repeatedly, and proclaimed that death was Chu Sheng’s sole unchanging end.

Lu Yang deceived Chu Sheng into shattering the Seed of the Great Dao by pretending that he was close to Transcendence. Chu Sheng absorbed the resulting torrent of power in hopes of achieving Spirit Transformation, while Lu Yang watched him be swallowed by it.

• Chu Sheng discovered that Transcendence had cut him off from [Variable], so he fled through the River of Time and tried to stall Lu Yang.
• Lu Yang used [Variable] to make people across spacetime forget him, revealing an apparent path to Transcendence by severing his Karma.
• Chu Sheng tried to stop Lu Yang by cracking the [Divine Fortune Book of Fate] and the Seed of the Great Dao, threatening to detonate the Seed's power.
• Lu Yang hesitated when cutting his ties to his friends, allowing Chu Sheng to shatter the Seed and unleash its power.
• Lu Yang revealed that he had lied about Transcending and explained that he relied on friends, while Chu Sheng had mistaken him for someone like himself.
• Chu Sheng ignored Lu Yang's warnings and focused on enduring and refining the unleashed power, which swallowed him whole.

Lu Yang used the power left by Chu Sheng’s Seed of the Great Dao to attain Spirit Transformation and open a Transcendence Gate that made Spirit Transformation accessible to all. After [Jun] transcended, Lu Yang returned to the Ancient Divine Continent and welcomed a new era in which the Final Calamity no longer threatened the world.

• Lu Yang absorbed the power in the rift left by Chu Sheng and attained Spirit Transformation, becoming the Lord of Revolution, the Venerable of Change.
• [Jun] explained that Chu Sheng had chosen [Supreme Forgetfulness] after each of seven chances and was now frozen within the rift, where his obsession formed a lasting Transcendence Gate.
• Lu Yang realized the gate could provide Spirit Transformation power to future cultivators and allow them to transcend, fulfilling [Jun]’s vow to equalize the Dao.
• [Jun] told Lu Yang that he would transcend and entrusted him with the Purple Firmament Palace, Lu Xian, and the future of the Light Sea before vanishing.
• Lu Yang returned to the Ancient Divine Continent, where Lu Xian recognized him, and summoned beings from across time to Purple Firmament Palace.
• Lu Yang declared the beginning of a new era and proclaimed that the Heavenly Dao could be changed.

In the Purple Firmament Palace, Lu Xian worried that the Dao Venerable might leave after one yuan, while Jiao Guiren read a censored account of Lu Yang’s past. Lu Yang and Si Sui discussed the rumors and Lu Yang’s acceptance of his past before Si Sui began recounting the ancient era, starting with Chu Sheng.

• Lu Xian failed to meditate and found Jiao Guiren reading the [Hundred Lives Book], which recorded the current Dao Venerable’s life and journey seeking the Dao.
• Lu Xian peeked at the book and saw a passage about Yu Suzhen before the Purple Firmament Palace erased it and Jiao Guiren changed the subject.
• Lu Xian told Jiao Guiren he feared the Dao Venerable might leave after one yuan, but Jiao Guiren reassured him and was suddenly summoned away by Lu Yang.
• Lu Yang retrieved the [Hundred Lives Book] and complained to Si Sui that Jiao Guiren had spread the truth about his past and damaged his reputation.
• Si Sui praised Lu Yang for accepting his past, and the two shared wine and spoke of the people absent from the reborn Light Sea.
• Lu Yang asked about the ancient era, and Si Sui agreed to tell him about Chu Sheng.

The World Honored One told Return to Fate how Chu Sheng took him and three others in as disciples, then recalled how the four fought over their ranks. Shi Tianyi won the position of Big Senior, leaving the child as Little Junior, a rank he later accepted for the New Year's money.

• Guangming admired Spirit Mountain and reflected on how the Dao Venerable’s rise had inspired cultivators of humble birth to strive for higher realms.
• The World Honored One met Return to Fate, who compared their histories as the weakest among their peers and asked about the World Honored One’s relationship with Chu Sheng.
• The World Honored One said Chu Sheng had taken in Danding, Butian, Huanyao, and him at once, and that he had won the Big Senior position through his own ability.
• Shi Tianyi, the Yanggang Youth, the Jumei Youth, and the child gathered to determine their ranks, and Shi Tianyi insisted that age made him Big Senior.
• The child claimed he was invincible at early-stage Qi Refining and pushed back the Yanggang Youth, but Shi Tianyi overpowered him with his middle-stage cultivation and beat him.
• The Yanggang Youth and Jumei Youth picked up the leftovers, and the child became Little Junior; he later accepted the rank after learning he could demand New Year’s money from his senior brothers.

Chen Taihe and Lady Ruoxiang argued over her cave dwelling, while Chen Xin'an proposed joining Sakyamuni Land to erase their painful memories. Elsewhere, Shi Tianyi managed his unruly martial brothers and welcomed his returning Master.

• Chen Taihe clashed with Lady Ruoxiang over her ancestral cave dwelling, but fled after she suggested he help guide the Dao Venerable to her when he returned.
• Chen Taihe visited Chen Xin'an, who planned to convert to Sakyamuni Land so the World Honored One could erase their memories; Chen Taihe decided to join him.
• A hidden white-robed woman dismissed Chen Taihe and Chen Xin'an's hopes, saying the World Honored One was close to Mending Heaven Peak and had seen worse.
• Shi Tianyi scolded the Jumei Youth for testing his dual cultivation method on a rabbit, then watched him and Liantian Dou bond over modifying their techniques.
• Shi Tianyi subdued the three-year-old child who challenged him to fight, then heard his Master call from the hut and welcomed him back.

Beyond the Light Sea, Dao Tianqi and Patriarch Tingyou discussed how to create False Holding Spirit Transformations to help Lu Yang face the Final Calamity. Elsewhere, Chu Sheng advanced his Fate-Snatching Art by manipulating his disciples and severing his own sorrow, while Shi Tianyi sensed the change in his master but suppressed his doubts.

• Dao Tianqi told Patriarch Tingyou that his False Holding Spirit Transformation Art lacked a practical method, and agreed to help deduce one with other Dao Lords.
• Dao Tianqi recalled how Chu Sheng had once tested his potential through Big Senior and the other disciples while preparing the Fate-Snatching Art.
• Chu Sheng protected Shi Tianyi as he established his foundation, then severed the emotion of sorrow from his Dao Heart after confronting the guilt of killing everyone who knew his name.
• Shi Tianyi noticed his master's cold, murderous gaze after the breakthrough, but accepted Chu Sheng's explanation and concealed his suspicions.
• Chu Sheng gave Shi Tianyi Cultivation Methods to pass to his Little Junior for deduction, then considered proving Time after completing the Fate-Snatching Art.