Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang learned from Yu Chong that his Zou Yu Clan once ruled Jiangdong and lost City-Wall Earth to the Pure Land, then accepted Yu Chong’s offer of allegiance in exchange for a Dao Book. As Lu Yang sensed Arhat Fulong approaching, he also detected the familiar Karma of Guangming near him.

• Yu Chong met Lu Yang in the Foundation Establishment Realm and revealed that Zou Yu was Tian Wu’s former identity and that the Zou Yu Clan had once ruled Jiangdong.
• Yu Chong explained that City-Wall Earth had been the Zou Yu Clan’s Fruit Position before the Pure Land seized it, and offered the clan’s allegiance to Lu Yang in hopes he would reclaim it.
• Lu Yang pressed Yu Chong for practical support and accepted a Dao Book when Yu Chong had little else to offer.
• Yu Chong left, and Lu Yang decided the Zou Yu Clan needed his help more than he needed theirs.
• Lu Yang sensed Arhat Fulong approaching from the Extreme North and detected Guangming’s familiar Karma nearby.

True Person Huanwu returned to the Divine Martial Sect grievously wounded and accepted help from Arhat Fulong, who secretly planned to kill or convert Lu Yang. Lu Yang used Determining Kinship and Distance! to appear before Guangming, who immediately fell to his knees and begged for mercy.

• True Person Xuanwu restored True Person Huanwu's body with a pill and urged him to abandon the Divine Martial Sect, but Huanwu refused to give up its legacy.
• Arhat Fulong arrived at the Divine Martial Sect, offered Huanwu a Relinquished Golden Body, and secretly considered how to trap and deal with Lu Yang.
• Guangming wandered the sect, reflected on his lack of reason to cultivate, and remembered Lu Yang killing Guanghai and the others.
• Lu Yang appeared in front of Guangming using Determining Kinship and Distance!, and Guangming recognized him as a True Person and dropped to his knees in tears.

Lu Yang manipulated Guangming into passing word to Arhat Fulong about Zhao Xuhe’s planned Foundation Establishment, while Fulong secretly possessed Guangming and planned to use him as bait. Lu Yang then transferred the Skull Mountain Earth Vein to Zhao Xuhe and set him up to self-destruct it if anyone blocked his breakthrough, severing his own karmic ties to the vein.

• Lu Yang asked Guangming to tell Fulong that Zhao Xuhe, a peak Qi Refining cultivator of the Nine Transformations Dragon Art, was preparing to establish his foundation.
• Arhat Fulong possessed Guangming through the Mind-Awakening Incense, learned of Lu Yang’s plan, and decided to use Guangming to mislead Lu Yang before disposing of him.
• Guangming realized Fulong had visited his body and concluded that remaining useful to both Fulong and Lu Yang might keep him alive.
• Lu Yang entered Zhao Xuhe’s secluded room and transferred control of the Eight-Hundred-Mile Skull Mountain Vein to him.
• Lu Yang used Resolving Doubts and Suspicions to make Zhao Xuhe determined to fight anyone who blocked his Foundation Establishment, including by self-destructing the vein.
• Lu Yang used Distinguishing Similarities and Differences to cut his karmic connection to the Skull Mountain Earth Vein, leaving Zhao Xuhe to bear the consequences.

Arhat Fulong recruited the Peak Master of Heaven Mending to help kill Lu Yang at Skull Mountain, offering a cauldron and his future Golden Body Relic. Lu Yang uncovered their plot with the Heaven Investigating Instrument, leaving him aware of the danger before the confrontation began.

• The Peak Master of Heaven Mending watched Chen Shuqian and Chen Xin'an cultivate and hoped one of them would achieve Foundation Establishment.
• Arhat Fulong offered the Peak Master of Heaven Mending a cauldron cultivating the Nine Transformations Dragon Art in exchange for drawing away the Sacred Sect's True Persons so Lu Yang could die outside Skull Mountain.
• The Peak Master of Heaven Mending demanded Arhat Fulong's Golden Body Relic as well, and agreed to personally help kill Lu Yang.
• Arhat Fulong claimed he could restrain Lu Yang with his knowledge of the Ten Thousand Chariots Dragon Control Foundation, while the Peak Master of Heaven Mending privately considered betraying him if needed.
• Lu Yang detected the plot through the Heaven Investigating Instrument and discerned the cause and effect behind it.

Lu Yang empowered Zhao Xuhe to attempt Foundation Establishment, using him to lure Arhat Fulong and the Peak Master of Heaven Mending into a trap. Fulong arrived with Divine Martial Sect allies, but the gathered True Persons realized they had been drawn into a carefully arranged confrontation.

• Lu Yang used Discern Right and Wrong to raise Zhao Xuhe’s prospects of building a Great Dao Foundation.
• Zhao Xuhe began his Foundation Establishment breakthrough at Skull Mountain, believing the Sacred Sect’s presence would protect him from Coiling Dragon True Person.
• Arhat Fulong sensed Zhao Xuhe’s breakthrough and traveled to Skull Mountain with the concealed Peak Master of Heaven Mending and Divine Martial Sect True Persons Huanwu and Xuanwu.
• Zhao Xuhe recognized Fulong as Coiling Dragon True Person, while Lu Yang and three other Sacred Sect True Persons appeared in the Foundation Establishment Realm.
• Huanwu, Xuanwu, and the Peak Master of Heaven Mending blocked the Sacred Sect True Persons, isolating Lu Yang and Fulong and revealing the gathering as a killing trap.

Su Nu posed as Lu Yang to lure Arhat Fulong into destroying the Skull Mountain Earth Vein, triggering Heaven’s karmic punishment against him and the other True Persons. After completing her mission, Su Nu self-destructed, leaving Arhat Fulong wondering where Lu Yang had been hiding.

• Arhat Fulong attacked the apparent Lu Yang while the eight Foundation Establishment True Persons surrounded the battlefield, and the apparent Lu Yang evaded him as Zhao Xuhe tried to condense his Dao Foundation.
• Arhat Fulong moved to seize Zhao Xuhe, who erupted in rage and used yin energy to shake the Eight-Hundred-Mile Skull Mountain Vein.
• Arhat Fulong discovered the Sacred Sect True Persons had fled and found that his Lifebound Divine Ability could not escape, while the apparent Lu Yang blocked his way.
• The apparent Lu Yang revealed herself as Su Nu, Guardian Deity of Yama Hall, as the destruction of Skull Mountain brought karmic punishment upon Zhao Xuhe, Arhat Fulong, Peak Master of Heaven Mending, and the other True Persons.
• Su Nu told her master that her mission was complete, then self-destructed, leaving Arhat Fulong furious and asking where Lu Yang was.

Lu Yang plundered the Divine Martial Sect’s Merit, Fortune, and treasures, then escaped to the Sacred Sect’s Cloud Sea of Heaven-Reaching. He planned to wait out Arhat Fulong’s remaining lifespan rather than risk a direct fight, and True Person Chongguang praised him as a future pillar of the Sacred Sect.

• Lu Yang drained the Divine Martial Sect’s Merit and Fortune and emptied its treasury while the sect’s disciples remained unaware.
• True Person Huanwu and True Person Xuanwu discovered the robbery, and Arhat Fulong used his Lifebound Divine Ability to return to the Divine Martial Sect despite Lu Yang’s obstruction.
• Arhat Fulong arrived too late and watched Lu Yang retreat to the Cloud Sea of Heaven-Reaching, then realized Lu Yang had lured him away to attack the sect.
• Lu Yang returned to Luofeng Mountain, resolved to remain in the Cloud Sea for fifty years, and planned to outlive Arhat Fulong rather than fight him directly.
• True Person Chongguang watched Lu Yang’s actions through the Karmic Net and called him a future pillar of the Sacred Sect.

After more than five years in seclusion, Lu Yang mastered the Pingrong Wanguan Shu and discovered that his opportunity to reach Foundation Establishment Middle Stage lay overseas. He remained determined to avoid risk despite Arhat Fulong’s provocations, then enlisted True Person Yinshan to find the Divine Martial Sect’s fleeing True Persons so he could consecrate the Avici Sword.

• Lu Yang emerged from seclusion after five years and used his newly transformed fortune to locate an overseas opportunity for his next breakthrough.
• Su Nu told Lu Yang that Arhat Fulong had spent years near the Sacred Sect and that others mocked Lu Yang for hiding away to preserve his life.
• True Person Yinshan congratulated Lu Yang, who said he would wait decades before seeking opportunities because his Karma with Fulong remained unresolved.
• Arhat Fulong taunted Lu Yang and sent a Rainbow Cloud Garment to Luofeng Mountain, which Lu Yang refined and gave to Su Nu.
• Lu Yang handed True Person Yinshan the Divine Martial Sect’s treasury to inventory and asked him to find Huanwu and Xuanwu, who had fled overseas.
• True Person Yinshan agreed to find Huanwu and Xuanwu so Lu Yang could consecrate the Avici Sword.

Arhat Fulong used a Wind-Avoiding Pill from the Peak Master of Heaven Mending to prolong his life while waiting for Lu Yang to leave the Sacred Sect. Twenty years later, Lu Yang sent Su Nu out disguised as himself, and Fulong mistook the ruse for a sign that Lu Yang was growing impatient, prompting the Peak Master to give him another pill.

• Arhat Fulong learned that the Pure Land planned to pass the Hidden Dragon Temple to Guangming after his death, deepening his resentment toward Lu Yang and leaving him with nowhere to turn.
• The Peak Master of Heaven Mending offered Fulong a Wind-Avoiding Pill in exchange for his Golden Body Relic and help teaching his daughter the Six Paths Nirvana Phoenix Art, and Fulong accepted.
• Twenty years later, Lu Yang heard that Fulong had passed into nirvana, but his calculations suggested Fulong was still alive.
• Lu Yang sent Su Nu out of the Sacred Sect disguised as himself, and Fulong watched her and concluded that Lu Yang was testing whether he was dead.
• Fulong asked the Peak Master of Heaven Mending for another Wind-Avoiding Pill, and the Peak Master agreed to give him one more.

Lu Yang reforged the Avici Sword into a superior Spiritual Treasure and set an Anchor Point in the present, then waited while Arhat Fulong's Wind-Avoiding Pills ran out. When Lu Yang finally visited the dying Fulong, Fulong realized Lu Yang had used a treasure to toy with him for twenty years and died in despair.

• True Person Yinshan brought the captured True Person Huanwu and True Person Xuanwu to Lu Yang, who chose to keep waiting before confronting Arhat Fulong.
• After ten more years, the Avici Sword consumed the two Divine Martial Sect True Persons and became a superior Spiritual Treasure with the Human Butcher wonder.
• Lu Yang set an Anchor Point in the present so he could choose a Talent after Restarting, then decided to keep waiting rather than search for the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches.
• Arhat Fulong exhausted Peak Master of Heaven Mending's Wind-Avoiding Pills and became too weak to move or fight.
• Lu Yang visited the dying Arhat Fulong, who realized Lu Yang had used a treasure to deduce the secrets of Heaven and cursed him before dying.

Lu Yang killed Arhat Fulong and took his Golden Body Relic, then agreed to trade it to Chen Taihe for a secret art. Chen Taihe planned to use the art to transfer his breakthrough calamity to Chen Xin'an, unaware that the surviving Chen Xin'an was actually a Banner Spirit.

• After Arhat Fulong died, Lu Yang seized his Golden Body Relic and burned the cave abode before leaving.
• Chen Taihe reflected on his losses and decided to visit Lu Yang to buy back the relic.
• Lu Yang confirmed that he had killed Fulong and showed Chen Taihe the relic.
• Chen Taihe offered a Substitution Art that transferred a cultivator’s breakthrough calamity to their biological offspring.
• Lu Yang realized Chen Taihe intended to make Chen Xin'an bear his tribulation, but knew Chen Xin'an was a Banner Spirit wearing the real Chen Xin'an’s Karma.
• Lu Yang handed over the relic, and Chen Taihe left eager to give it to Chen Xin'an.

Lu Yang realized that Calamity Qi from the destruction of Skull Mountain had clouded the Peak Master of Heaven Mending’s judgment and that he himself had only partly escaped its influence. The Peak Master, Chen Taihe, returned to Mending Heaven Peak and refused Ruoxiang’s demand to stop using Shu Qian as a tribulation substitute, insisting he would reach Foundation Establishment Late Stage and guide Ruoxiang back after her reincarnation.

• Lu Yang used Distinguishing Similarities and Differences to recognize that he had given Fulong’s Golden Body Relic to the Peak Master of Heaven Mending too easily because lingering Karma had clouded his judgment.
• Lu Yang realized that consuming the Divine Martial Sect’s Merit Fortune had helped him retain some clarity, while the Peak Master’s depleted Fortune left him Tribulation-Clouded Heart.
• The Peak Master of Heaven Mending returned to Mending Heaven Peak and was brought to meet Ruoxiang.
• Ruoxiang challenged Chen Taihe for insisting that Shu Qian substitute for the tribulation while she sought to break the Mystery of the Womb after reincarnation.
• Chen Taihe refused to reconsider, declared that he would not fail to reach Foundation Establishment Late Stage, and promised to find and guide Ruoxiang’s reincarnated body.

Lu Yang helped Chen Xin'an prepare for Foundation Establishment, then met Ruoxiang, the Peak Master's wife, who revealed that she planned to kill Chen Taihe over their conflicting plans for their children. The chapter left Lu Yang hearing Ruoxiang's case while weighing her motives.

• Lu Yang empowered Chen Xin'an with Discern Right and Wrong and allowed him to keep the Golden Body Relic as he attempted Foundation Establishment.
• Ruoxiang revealed herself to Lu Yang as another Foundation Establishment True Person in Mending Heaven Peak and concealed their meeting with a Karma-masking red gauze.
• Ruoxiang told Lu Yang she wanted to kill Chen Taihe and knew about his transaction with Lu Yang.
• Ruoxiang explained that she needed her children to help her recover memories after reincarnation, while Chen Taihe planned to use them to take tribulations in his place.
• Lu Yang recognized that Ruoxiang and Chen Taihe were locked in a Dao Struggle over whether their children would live or die.

Lu Yang agreed to join Lady Ruoxiang in killing Chen Taihe, the Peak Master of Heaven Mending, after she promised him the peak’s position and resources. Chen Shuqian then secretly asked Lu Yang to help her kill her parents and save her life, offering him a healing spiritual flame, leaving him poised to profit from both women’s schemes.

• Lady Ruoxiang explained that Chen Taihe had betrayed her family and offered Lu Yang the next Peak Master of Heaven Mending’s position if he killed him.
• Lu Yang agreed to ally with Lady Ruoxiang and sent her away after hearing her plan to prevent Chen Taihe from using Chen Shuqian as a tribulation substitute.
• Chen Shuqian secretly visited Lu Yang after forming her Immortal Foundation and asked him to help her kill her father and mother so she could be free.
• Chen Shuqian offered Lu Yang the Azure Luan Noon Fire, a healing flame, in exchange for saving her life, and Lu Yang realized Lady Ruoxiang already meant to protect her.

Peak Master of Heaven Mending began a public Heavenly Thunder Tribulation, while Lu Yang learned that Chen Taihe was using his own children as substitutes. The chapter left Chen Taihe furious and the Sacred Sect True Persons stunned when Lady Ruoxiang embraced Lu Yang in public during the tribulation.

• Three months later, Chen Taihe announced his attempt to reach Foundation Establishment Late Stage and invited the Sacred Sect's True Persons to witness it.
• Chen Taihe swallowed Chongguang qi and began his tribulation, while Lu Yang recognized the strength of his Dao Foundation.
• True Persons watching discovered that Chen Taihe had sealed Chen Xin'an and Chen Shuqian's Divine Senses to use them in his Bloodline Substitute Life Art.
• Lu Yang left Luofeng Mountain and headed openly for Mending Heaven Peak after assuring True Person Yinshan that someone there had invited him.
• Lady Ruoxiang welcomed Lu Yang by embracing him, and the sight made Chen Taihe spit blood as the gathered True Persons stared in shock.

Lu Yang and Lady Ruoxiang awakened Chen Shuqian and helped her break free of the Peak Master of Heaven Mending’s control during his tribulation. As the Peak Master turned to Chen Xin'an as his remaining substitute for the calamity, Chen Xin'an revealed that he had also betrayed him.

• True Person Yinshan told True Person Chongguang that Lu Yang was with Lady Ruoxiang, and the two watched the scene unfold at Mending Heaven Peak.
• The Peak Master of Heaven Mending recognized that Lady Ruoxiang had used the Two-Body One-Mind True Art to awaken Chen Shuqian.
• Chen Shuqian regained consciousness, detonated her body to sever their bloodline karma, and escaped the Peak Master’s Substitute Calamity Secret Art.
• Lady Ruoxiang and Chen Shuqian rejected the Peak Master of Heaven Mending, while Chen Shuqian thanked Lu Yang for saving her.
• The Peak Master of Heaven Mending tried to transfer the Heavenly Thunder to Chen Xin'an, but Chen Xin'an revealed that he had long become his lord’s man.

Lu Yang’s scheme caused Chen Xin'an and Chen Shuqian to turn against the Peak Master of Heaven Mending, whose attempt to advance was thwarted when Heavenly Thunder killed him. The Sacred Sect’s True Persons grew wary of Lu Yang, while Lu Yang regretted losing the Peak Master as material for the Avici Sword.

• The Peak Master of Heaven Mending realized Chen Xin'an had been loyal to Lu Yang’s master from the beginning and begged Chen Xin'an not to betray him.
• Chen Xin'an rejected the Peak Master of Heaven Mending and self-destructed, dissipating another layer of Karma.
• Heavenly Thunder struck the Peak Master of Heaven Mending, killing him as he roared Lu Yang’s name.
• Chen Xin'an’s white qi form appeared before Lu Yang and prostrated himself, while the Sacred Sect’s True Persons discussed Lu Yang’s schemes and feared his abilities.
• An aged True Person warned a young True Person never to offend Yuantu, citing his power, predictions, and past battle against Huanwu.
• Lu Yang watched the Heavenly Thunder fade and lamented that the Peak Master of Heaven Mending could no longer be used to strengthen the Avici Sword.

Lu Yang received temporary authority over Mending Heaven Peak from Lady Ruoxiang and used its peak-master decree to borrow a True Lord’s Dao Book from Sacred Fire Cliff. He left with the Golden Core Observation Manual, while insisting to himself that his controversial actions made him a good person.

• Lu Yang learned that Lady Ruoxiang had become Peak Master of Heaven Mending while he had been appointed Guest Elder, then accepted her apology.
• Lady Ruoxiang gave Lu Yang the Heaven Mending Decree, allowing him to act temporarily in her stead, and Chen Shuqian arrived and glared at her.
• Lu Yang left Mending Heaven Peak to borrow a Dao Book about Golden Seeking, privately deciding that he had helped Lady Ruoxiang, Chen Shuqian, and Chen Xin'an escape Chen Taihe.
• True Person Chongguang praised Lu Yang for handling Chen Taihe’s matter and accepted the Heaven Mending Decree.
• True Person Chongguang used Golden Light to summon the Golden Core Observation Manual and gave it to Lu Yang.

Lu Yang studied the Golden Core Observation Manual and learned how to seek City-Wall Earth, including the dangers of refining incompatible Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches. As he set out to pursue his opportunity, Wu Cang trapped him in a formation and demanded the handwritten work; Lu Yang drew the Avici Sword and threatened to take Wu Cang’s cultivation as payment.

• Lu Yang studied the Golden Core Observation Manual and learned that he needed Zhu Yong’s Heavenly Gang Qi, while discovering that some combinations of Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches were deadly.
• After thirty days, Lu Yang left his meditation chamber to pursue his opportunity, but sensed a visitor overhead and called him out.
• Wu Cang introduced himself, trapped Lu Yang and himself inside a formation, and asked to borrow the True Lord’s handwritten work on credit.
• When Lu Yang refused to hand over the work, Wu Cang revealed his Foundation Establishment Middle Stage aura and threatened him.
• Lu Yang observed that Wu Cang had refined only one Innate Divine Ability, drew the Avici Sword, and declared that Wu Cang’s cultivation would pay for the handwritten work.

Lu Yang fought Wu Cang, a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivator, inside Wu Cang’s formation and revealed multiple powerful divine abilities. The battle left Wu Cang’s Wood Fire unable to trap Lu Yang after Lu Yang unleashed his 140 million Qi-Eating Insects.

• Lu Yang attacked Wu Cang with the Avici Sword and used Determining Kinship and Distance to evade Wu Cang’s defenses, confirming he could still escape the formation.
• Lu Yang fed dharma power into the Avici Sword while Wu Cang summoned a giant Divine Dragon Treasure Cedar Tree and launched a Crimson Fruit at him.
• The Crimson Fruit shattered Lu Yang’s Determining Kinship and Distance, but Lu Yang survived the blast by protecting himself with Distinguishing Similarities and Differences.
• Wu Cang’s Wood Fire clung to Lu Yang and threatened to exhaust his dharma power, so Lu Yang opened the Centipede Bee Pouch and released 140 million Qi-Eating Insects.
• The Qi-Eating Insects devoured all the flowing flames, while nearly ten million offspring insects burned to ash.