Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang fought Wu Cang inside Mending Heaven Peak, enduring his powerful Innate Divine Ability before striking back with the Avici Sword. Outside the peak, Sacred Sect True Persons watched in shock as Wu Cang was cut down.

• Sacred Sect True Persons gathered outside Mending Heaven Peak and planned to ambush Wu Cang and take the True Lord's handwritten text.
• Lu Yang empowered his Qi-Eating Insects, but Wu Cang unleashed Not Southward Rush and trapped him in Heavenly Furnace Divergent Fire.
• Wu Cang's flames burned Lu Yang nearly to death, while the Avici Sword finished devouring Lu Yang's dharma power.
• Lu Yang invoked Discern Right and Wrong and struck with the Avici Sword, splitting the flames and cutting Wu Cang in half at the waist.

Lu Yang defeated Wu Cang with a devastating Avici Sword strike but let the badly wounded opponent escape, then began healing his own injuries. In Sacred Fire Cliff, Hongju and Tanxu revealed they had linked Wu Cang and Lu Yang’s fates through a treasure, intending to use Wu Cang to kill Lu Yang and obstruct Chongguang.

• Lu Yang split Wu Cang in two with the Avici Sword, broke the formation around Mending Heaven Peak, and sent a sword scar through the Cloud Sea of Heaven-Reaching.
• Lu Yang used Distinguishing Similarities and Differences and the Heaven Investigating Instrument to treat his injuries, while Wu Cang escaped without being killed.
• Lu Yang realized the Avici Sword had gained a restraint against Wood Element abilities after damaging Wu Cang’s Dao Foundation, then used Azure Luan Noon Fire to heal himself.
• Pu Xu met with Hongju, who explained that his Same Fate Fortune-Shifting Ledger had tied Wu Cang’s fate to Lu Yang’s and written that Wu Cang would kill him.
• Tanxu and Hongju discussed how Wu Cang’s attack would keep Lu Yang injured and delay Chongguang’s plans, and Hongju said they could still use Wu Cang to kill Lu Yang later.

After recovering from his injuries, Lu Yang received protective treasures from True Person Chongguang and left the Cloud Sea of Heaven-Reaching to seek an opportunity overseas. Wounded Wu Cang also decided to flee overseas, unaware that he had reached the same destination.

• With Chen Shuqian's help, Lu Yang recovered more than half of his injuries in ten days and grew suspicious of Wu Cang's rash behavior.
• Lu Yang visited True Person Chongguang, who gave him an Edict Jade Token and three Spiritual Treasures for his overseas journey.
• Lu Yang told Lady Ruoxiang and Chen Shuqian to say he had entered closed cultivation, then secretly left the Cloud Sea of Heaven-Reaching.
• Wu Cang reflected on his attack against Lu Yang, decided it had been too rash, and resolved to leave the Cloud Sea of Heaven-Reaching.
• Wu Cang chose to go overseas.

Lu Yang crossed the violent Overseas sea aboard the Void-Crossing Golden Ship and rescued Chen Xinghai and his crew from the Ghost Cloud. He realized Chen Xinghai spoke the inland standard True Speech, suggesting a connection between Overseas and the inland powers.

• Lu Yang used the Heaven Investigating Instrument to locate a ship trapped in the Ghost Cloud.
• Chen Xinghai struggled to steer the Azure Han Dragon Ship through the storm as its protective talisman cracked and the Guest Elder fell under possession.
• After Chen Xinghai gave up hope, Lu Yang's golden ship tore through the Ghost Cloud and rescued the crew.
• Chen Xinghai thanked Lu Yang, who noticed that the helmsman spoke standard True Speech and suspected ties between Overseas and the inland.

Lu Yang learned that he had arrived in the Biyang Cultivation World, where the Immortal Alliance ruled and powerful cultivators might include Nascent Soul Dao Lords. After killing a Sea Patrol Spirit Beast, he hid from the investigating Immortal Alliance cultivator and listened as Chen Xinghai was denied insurance compensation.

• Lu Yang killed a flood serpent that emerged near Chen Xinghai’s ship and searched the minds of Chen Xinghai and the other sailors to learn about the Biyang Cultivation World.
• Lu Yang discovered that the Immortal Alliance ruled the world and that its cultivation ranks included Golden Core True Lords, with possible Nascent Soul Dao Lords above them.
• Lu Yang realized that the flood serpent had been an Immortal Alliance Sea Patrol Spirit Beast, erased the sailors’ memories of him, and concealed himself.
• A middle-aged Immortal Alliance cultivator arrived to investigate the slain Spirit Beast and asked Chen Xinghai whether he had seen anyone suspicious.
• Chen Xinghai asked for disaster-insurance compensation for his damaged ship, but the cultivator refused and instead offered to refer him to a shipyard acquaintance for repairs on credit.

Lu Yang investigated the Immortal Alliance Sea Patrol Envoy Situ Zheng and discovered that the overseas cultivation system differed from what he knew. When the Divine Thunder Sect came under attack, Lu Yang decided to send Su Nu to intervene and take on the resulting karma.

• Lu Yang searched Situ Zheng’s soul and learned that the Divine Thunder Sect was associated with a Golden Core True Lord and that its Sea-Treading Art required a water Spiritual Root.
• Lu Yang sent Su Nu to follow Situ Zheng and scout the Divine Thunder Sect’s island.
• Su Nu observed that the island was populated by Qi Training cultivators, with no Foundation Establishment cultivators in sight.
• The Azure Thunder Gate surrounded the island and declared that it would exterminate the Divine Thunder Sect.
• Lu Yang decided to have Su Nu help the Divine Thunder Sect while he remained hidden.

Lu Yang, possessing Su Nu, intervened in the Azure Thunder Gate’s attack on the Divine Thunder Sect and killed its White-Browed Elder before confronting the sect’s ancestor. He discovered that the supposed Nascent Soul ancestor was only a strand of true qi, and recognized it as resembling Primordial Breath.

• Madam Xiao activated the Gui Water Divine Thunder Grand Formation, but Liu Chi betrayed the Divine Thunder Sect and sabotaged it for the Azure Thunder Gate.
• Lu Yang, possessing Su Nu, killed the White-Browed Elder with a glance and demanded to face the Azure Thunder Gate’s True Person.
• Azure Thunder Ancestor arrived as a figure made of true qi, but Lu Yang seized him with one hand, leaving the gathered disciples stunned.
• Azure Thunder Ancestor claimed he had recently undergone Nascent Coagulation and made the Azure Thunder Gate a Nascent Soul sect.
• Lu Yang recognized that Azure Thunder Ancestor was only a strand of true qi and suspected it was Primordial Breath, the method of Primordial True Person.

Lu Yang seized control of the Divine Thunder Sect after overpowering Azure Thunder Ancestor, then investigated the Biyang Cultivation World's cultivation system and learned that its highest realms never raised a cultivator's level of existence. He concluded that even the world's strongest cultivators were only equivalent to Qi Refining Great Perfection, and that he could defeat them effortlessly.

• Lu Yang blamed Azure Thunder Ancestor for ruining his plan to appear benevolent, then ordered Madam Xiao to place the Divine Thunder Sect under his control.
• Liu Chi offered his Mutant Thunder Spirit Root and loyalty to Lu Yang, who killed him and took the Spiritual Root.
• Lu Yang brought Madam Xiao into the sect and ordered her to gather its books, then searched her soul to learn about the Biyang Cultivation World.
• Lu Yang read the Water-Fire Divine Thunder True Method and learned that Spiritual Roots descended from Heaven after birth and that the Immortal Alliance recognized seven cultivation realms.
• Lu Yang realized that Divine Refining, Return to Void, and Merge with Dao only further purified true qi without elevating one's level of existence.

Lu Yang discovered that Spiritual Roots siphoned lifespans from mortals and low-realm cultivators to sustain the Biyang Cultivation World's powerful, then realized the Immortal Alliance itself embodied the Earthy Yang Heavenly Firmament he sought. As he concluded he would need to overthrow or replace the Alliance to claim it, Piaomiao arrived seeking an audience with a Sacred Sect senior.

• Lu Yang studied the Biyang cultivation system and wondered whether its purified true qi could reach First Grade, while questioning how its cultivators lived so long.
• Lu Yang and Madam Xiao investigated Liu Chi's Mutant Thunder Spirit Root, and Lu Yang discovered it absorbed lifespan from mortals and low-realm cultivators.
• Lu Yang examined the Immortal Alliance's founding records and suspected that Extraterrestrial Demons had won the war and reshaped the world into a hierarchy that fed its rulers.
• Lu Yang realized the Immortal Alliance represented Earthy Yang, the Life Steward of all things, and decided he would have to overthrow or replace it to obtain the Heavenly Firmament.
• Piaomiao of the Immortal Alliance sent a Divine Thought to Lu Yang and requested an audience with a Sacred Sect senior cultivator.

Lu Yang encountered Fairy Piaomiao outside the Divine Thunder Sect, suspected her intentions, and captured her before she could explain. He fled the Turbulent Sea with her and prepared to Plunder information from her using the Heaven Mending Scripture, while the Immortal Alliance feared his power and debated how to locate her.

• Fairy Piaomiao used the Heaven Gazing Mirror to find Lu Yang, who identified himself as the Peak Master of Heaven Mending and showed her the Heaven Mending Decree.
• Lu Yang suspected Fairy Piaomiao was deceiving him and trapped her in the Yama Hall, despite her insistence that she meant no harm.
• Lu Yang recalled Su Nu, sealed the Yama Hall, captured Fairy Piaomiao, and escaped the cultivation world with her.
• At the Immortal Alliance Headquarters, eleven concealed figures discovered that Fairy Piaomiao had vanished and decided to use the Imperial Golden Seal of Daoshuai True Decree to find her.
• Lu Yang hid in an underwater cave outside the Turbulent Sea and planned to use the Heaven Mending Scripture to Plunder information from Fairy Piaomiao.

Lu Yang learned that Daoist Hongyun had turned the Biyang Cultivation World into a cultivation ground for refining the Imperial Golden Seal of Daoshuai True Decree, and feared the Immortal Alliance could use it to find him. The Immortal Alliance located Lu Yang and brought in Guangming to help rescue Fairy Piaomiao, but Guangming recognized Lu Yang and realized he was in danger.

• Lu Yang learned from Fairy Piaomiao that Daoist Hongyun had left the Imperial Golden Seal of Daoshuai True Decree, which split into Spiritual Roots and used Biyang cultivators as materials to refine a True Treasure.
• Lu Yang worried that the Immortal Alliance could trace him through the true spirits lodged in the Imperial Golden Seal of Daoshuai True Decree.
• The Immortal Alliance used the Imperial Golden Seal of Daoshuai True Decree to locate Lu Yang, and Mu Huan recruited Guangming without revealing Lu Yang's likely connection to the First Saint Sect.
• Guangming arrived with the Immortal Alliance's Great Dao Fusion Cultivators and used Buddha Light to expose Lu Yang's underwater cave dwelling.
• Lu Yang recognized Guangming, who inwardly panicked at encountering him again.

Lu Yang confronted Mu Huan and the Immortal Alliance cultivators, then learned that the Primordial True Person’s inheritance could lead to First Grade Mahayana True Qi. He left the cultivators trapped in a formation while he and Guangming remained outside.

• Mu Huan and ten other Great Dao Fusion Cultivators attacked Lu Yang, while Guangming fled and begged to be spared.
• Lu Yang used Determining Kinship and Distance to send their Dharma treasures thousands of miles away, then had Su Nu stop Guangming from escaping.
• Elder Lin recognized Lu Yang’s Ten Thousand Spirit Banner and offered to reveal the Immortal Alliance’s secrets in exchange for help freeing their souls from a restraint.
• Elder Lin gave Lu Yang a Jade Disc that revealed the location of the Primordial True Person’s Gold-Seeking Ground and its promise of First Grade Mahayana True Qi.
• While pretending to consider Elder Lin’s offer, Lu Yang secretly trapped the Immortal Alliance cultivators in a formation and shifted outside it with Guangming.

Lu Yang revealed that he had used Elder Lin’s offer as a distraction while preparing a grand array, then trapped and subdued the Immortal Alliance’s Dao Fusion cultivators. With Guangming leading the way, he reached the Immortal Alliance Headquarters and sealed the island, preparing to dismantle its rule and gather Earthy Yang qi.

• Lu Yang activated his Sixth-Grade array and transformed the surrounding sea into a blood sea that crushed and immobilized the Immortal Alliance’s Dao Fusion cultivators, including Elder Lin.
• Lu Yang used the Three-Nine Soul-Destroying Gourd to suppress the cultivators’ souls and captured them, then agreed to bring Guangming along as a guide.
• Lu Yang flew to the Immortal Alliance Headquarters after its Soul Lamps revealed that eleven Dao Fusion cultivators had been incapacitated.
• Lu Yang sealed the headquarters island against escape and prepared to use the Sacred Sect’s methods to bring down the Immortal Alliance and gather Earthy Yang qi.

Lu Yang consolidated control of the Immortal Alliance, dismantled its old system, and obtained Earthy Yang qi. After sacrificing twelve Great Dao Fusion Cultivators to the Avici Sword, he discovered its new ability revealed a deadly threat from Heaven and Earth, which he traced to Hongyun and the Covered Lamp Fire.

• Lu Yang forced the Immortal Alliance cultivators to submit, promised to preserve their positions, and set rival factions against each other using the Chu Sheng Four-Step Plan.
• Three months after taking control, Lu Yang opened Cultivation Methods to everyone, deepening divisions between cultivators with and without Spiritual Roots.
• Lu Yang extracted Earthy Yang qi as the Immortal Alliance's rule over the Turbulent Sea was torn down and rebuilt, then decided to return to the Sacred Sect before attempting a breakthrough.
• Lu Yang used the Avici Sword to kill the twelve Great Dao Fusion Cultivators and gained the auxiliary ability Treading Danger.
• Lu Yang used Treading Danger and saw a scarlet sign of danger above himself, realizing Heaven and Earth were targeting him with Heavenly Slaughter.
• Lu Yang saw the Covered Lamp Fire in the sky and concluded that Hongyun was using a Fruit Position Treasure involving Karma and Destiny to kill him.

Lu Yang left the Immortal Alliance with the Earthy Yang qi, abandoning a chance at Mahayana First Grade True Qi. Wu Cang arrived afterward, was drawn to the Imperial Golden Seal of Daoshuai True Decree, and transformed into a new persona that accepted the name Wu Cang and the karma of killing Lu Yang.

• Lu Yang left the Immortal Alliance secretly, deciding to return to the Sacred Sect with the Earthy Yang qi and leave Guangming behind.
• Guangming discovered Lu Yang had fled and rejoiced at becoming the foremost power in the Biyang Cultivation World.
• Wu Cang arrived at the Immortal Alliance, took Guangming's Vajra Liquid, and asked about opportunities in the region.
• Guangming led Wu Cang to the Imperial Golden Seal of Daoshuai True Decree, whose face asked why Wu Cang was not Primordial.
• The seal's presence awakened a force in Wu Cang, healed his injuries, and transformed his appearance and demeanor.
• Wu Cang accepted the karma of killing Lu Yang and declared that he would be Wu Cang from then on.

Wu Cang broke free of the Primordial True Person’s confinement and pursued Lu Yang, who barely escaped two attacks using his divine abilities. Wu Cang then caught up through a rift and compelled Lu Yang to stop, leaving him trapped.

• Wu Cang learned that Guangming’s Karma led to Lu Yang and used Guangming’s karmic thread to track him.
• Lu Yang activated the Edict Jade Token after Wu Cang appeared, allowing its summoned middle-aged man to strike Wu Cang and giving Lu Yang time to escape.
• Wu Cang pursued Lu Yang and overwhelmed his Blood Sea Heaven-Covering Grand Array, but Lu Yang escaped again with Determining Kinship and Distance.
• Wu Cang found Lu Yang through a rift and used his demonic voice to force him to stay and surrender.

Lu Yang fled Wu Cang, learned that Wu Cang was a Dao Abomination born from Primordial True Person’s failed Golden Seeking, and faced an offer from Vase Water Moon Bodhisattva to join the Pure Land. He chose death and activated the Hundred Lives Book, but the Bodhisattva’s altered eyes and startled question hinted that something had disrupted the reset before everything began again.

• Lu Yang detonated his Banner Spirits and used the Rosy Cloud Garment to escape Wu Cang, who pursued him through his karmic bond with Guangming.
• Patriarch Tingyou identified Wu Cang as a Dao Abomination formed from a cultivator who had died during Golden Seeking.
• Wu Cang caught up to Lu Yang, but Vase Water Moon Bodhisattva manifested through Guangming and offered Lu Yang a chance to survive by joining the Pure Land.
• Lu Yang refused the offer and used the Life-Killing Curse to destroy his dharma body before invoking the Hundred Lives Book.
• As the Hundred Lives Book erased the scene, the Bodhisattva’s eyes revealed another presence, which asked, “What... are... you... doing?” before being erased as the world began again.

After the World Honored One of Pure Land appeared during his previous life, Lu Yang decided to abandon the City-Wall Earth and pursue Mahayana First Grade True Qi instead. In his new life, he chose Earthy Yang Breath, endured the Yin Fire tribulation, and broke through to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage with the Innate Divine Ability Embrace Mountain.

• Lu Yang recalled the World Honored One's intervention and decided to investigate Mahayana First Grade True Qi at the Second Anchor Point before restarting again.
• Lu Yang selected Treasure in the Hundred Lives Book and obtained the Earthy Yang Breath from his previous life.
• Lu Yang replicated his earlier experiences, outlived Arhat Fulong, and obtained Chen Shuqian's Azure Luan Noon Fire.
• Lu Yang merged the Earthy Yang Breath at the hour of the tiger and awakened the Innate Divine Ability Embrace Mountain.
• As Yin Fire burned his body and Dao Foundation, Lu Yang used the Azure Luan Noon Fire and Chen Shuqian's help to endure the tribulation for ten days.
• Lu Yang emerged from the secret chamber after succeeding and reached Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.

Lu Yang reached Foundation Establishment Middle Stage and gained the Innate Divine Ability Embrace Mountain, which strengthened his ability to perceive and cleanse Karma and suppress opponents’ powers. When Wu Cang arrived to demand a True Lord’s handwritten letter, Lu Yang prepared to use him to strike back at whoever had manipulated his Karma.

• Lady Ruoxiang congratulated Lu Yang on reaching Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, and he examined his new Innate Divine Ability, Embrace Mountain.
• Lu Yang used Embrace Mountain to strengthen Distinguishing Similarities and Differences, see the Heavenly Punishment Calamity Qi contaminating his Karma, and disperse it.
• Lu Yang discovered that Embrace Mountain could suppress cultivation, negate a selected divine-ability mystery, or trap opponents by weighing down an area.
• Wu Cang appeared and demanded the True Lord’s handwritten letter, but Lu Yang refused to hand it over.
• Lu Yang suspected that a Sacred Sect figure had manipulated Wu Cang’s Karma and concealed his breakthrough so he could make Wu Cang’s death trigger a backlash against the mastermind.

Lu Yang overwhelmed Wu Cang with a sequence of divine abilities and trapped him in Soul-Dissipating Spirit-Seizing Smoke. When Wu Cang tried to escape in front of witnesses, Lu Yang made him crash into Hua Shi’s Embrace Mountain, then captured his soul in the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner and claimed Wu Cang had killed himself.

• Lu Yang realized the World Honored One’s influence over Buddhist Cultivators might depend on Merit Fortune and identified heavenly punishment as a possible way to avoid it.
• Wu Cang attacked Lu Yang with Wood Fire, but Lu Yang suppressed his Dao Foundation with Embrace Mountain and used Determining Kinship and Distance to throw him into the Three-Nine Soul-Destroying Gourd’s smoke.
• Wu Cang exploded three low-grade Spiritual Treasures to break free of the smoke and flee as other Sacred Sect True Persons noticed the disturbance.
• Lu Yang used Hold the One and Guard the Center; Distinguishing Similarities and Differences to make Wu Cang crash into Hua Shi’s Embrace Mountain, shattering his Dharma body.
• Lu Yang seized Wu Cang’s soul, stuffed it into the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner, and told the watching crowd that Wu Cang had voluntarily sought his own death.