Chapter Summaries

Si Sui reflected on his friendship with Du Xuan and the limited number of Dao Lords, while Lu Yang showed him a vision of their past and challenged his guilt over the Si Tian Clan. Lu Yang then decided to visit Chu Sheng as he prepared to Empty Attainment the Dao of [Time], intending to let him perceive Lu Yang’s presence.

• Si Sui told Du Xuan that the Light Sea contained only ten Great Daos and that he could find no path beyond his mastery of the Dharma Body Path.
• Du Xuan hid his fear that someone else might claim the dharma power Dao Lord position, while Si Sui praised Chu Sheng and planned to invite him to a sermon.
• Lu Yang revealed to Si Sui that Spirit Transformation let him view and control all time and existence, including a future conversation between Si Sui and Du Xuan.
• Si Sui recalled Du Xuan’s earlier loyalty, blamed Chu Sheng for leading him astray, and explained how the Si Tian Clan had declined after he rejected its bloodline restrictions.
• Lu Yang rejected Si Sui’s guilt over the Si Tian Clan, arguing that their means were alike but their ends differed, and Si Sui accepted his reassurance.
• Lu Yang proposed visiting Chu Sheng as he prepared to Empty Attainment the Dao of [Time], and dismissed Si Sui’s warning that Chu Sheng might detect him.

Liantian Dou’s experimental alchemy caused another furnace explosion, while Shi Tianyi worked with Tianqi to deduce Master’s cultivation methods. Lu Yang then showed Chu Sheng a glimpse of Transcendence and reversed time, leaving Chu Sheng unaware of the encounter as Lu Yang prepared to torment him further.

• Liantian Dou’s new alchemy method exploded, and Shi Tianyi suppressed the blast before pulling Liantian Dou and his fellow disciples from danger.
• Shi Tianyi gave Tianqi Master’s Jade Slips and helped him deduce their cultivation methods for forty-nine days, after which Tianqi stopped causing him trouble.
• Lu Yang and Si Sui watched Shi Tianyi’s past, and Lu Yang’s gaze crossed ten thousand years to reach Chu Sheng.
• Chu Sheng briefly saw Lu Yang’s overwhelming form and Circular Lights, but could not comprehend or retain what he witnessed.
• Lu Yang restarted the world and withdrew his gaze, leaving Chu Sheng unaware of the encounter while Lu Yang planned to torment him further.

Lu Yang sent Si Sui into an extracted stretch of ancient history, intending to steal Chu Sheng’s Other Shore and provoke his true self. Si Sui hijacked Chu Sheng’s Fate-Snatching Art and gained control over his fortune, while Chu Sheng mistakenly believed his ritual had succeeded and planned to prove Time.

• Lu Yang showed Si Sui the ancient history he had restored and sent him into it to accelerate his cultivation using Chu Sheng’s Other Shore.
• Si Sui entered the past and considered how to restrain Chu Sheng without preventing the construction of Other Shore.
• Si Sui discovered Chu Sheng’s Fate-Snatching Art targeting the First Generation Four Peak Masters and replaced their auras with his own.
• Si Sui reclaimed his true name, Si Tian Chong, and used the ritual to seize control of Chu Sheng’s fortune and gain an advantage over him.
• Chu Sheng believed the Fate-Snatching Art had succeeded, received Wisdom Light, and decided to prove Time next.

Three hundred years after Xu Changhe began cultivating at the First Saint Sect, Shi Tianyi and his junior brothers discussed Huanyao’s departure from the Beast Taming Dao. Huanyao attained a new Dao that created the Ghost Gate and offered the dead a chance at reincarnation, but he worried that Chu Sheng would disapprove.

• Xu Changhe entered sudden enlightenment at the First Saint Sect’s Dao Lecture Platform, where other cultivators left him undisturbed.
• Liantian Dou challenged Shi Tianyi, while Butian Que teased Liantian Dou and the brothers discussed Huanyao’s long seclusion and desire to find his own Dao.
• Shi Tianyi worried that Huanyao’s chosen path might displease Chu Sheng, though Liantian Dou argued that Chu Sheng would support his ambition.
• A strange, weakening Dharma Light rose from the Cloud Sea of Heaven-Reaching, and Shi Tianyi, Liantian Dou, and Butian Que recognized it as Huanyao’s breakthrough.
• Huanyao manifested the Ghost Gate, attained a Dao that gave the dead a chance at reincarnation, and worried that Chu Sheng would be unhappy that he had abandoned the Beast Taming Dao.