Recaps

Lu Yang traced the source of his blood to a small Jietian trapped at the edge of a vast shadow, where its pull threatened to destroy it. As a fragment of another swallowed Jietian approached, a streak of Blood Light emerged from within the endangered realm.

• Lu Yang realized the shadow was a footprint reflected from the Sea of Suffering and wondered whether the great being who left it was the Sacred Sect Ancestor.
• Lu Yang followed the Karma of his blood and found a small Jietian near the shadow, with traces of other Jietian that had already been swallowed.
• Lu Yang judged that the remaining Jietian would be pulled into the shadow within about a thousand years and considered how his blood might help someone there reach Foundation Establishment Perfection.
• A fragment of a swallowed Jietian hurtled toward the small realm, and Lu Yang waited to see what would happen.
• A streak of Blood Light burst from the Jietian and declared, “Insolence!”

Lu Yang investigated the Small Realm Heaven, where his blood had transformed the realm and helped a Crown Youth attain the rank of Imperial Sovereign. He discovered that the realm’s strange time effect only altered perception, then resolved to keep watching for whoever might be manipulating its Karma.

• Lu Yang saw a Foundation Establishment Perfection Crown Youth supporting the falling Jietian and recognized that his own blood had empowered him.
• Lu Yang discovered that the Jietian slowed Divine Thought nearly ten thousandfold, though the effect did not extend lifespan or improve cultivation.
• The Crown Youth refined the Jietian fragments and discussed forging an Imperial Weapon with a young man in a daoist robe, while expressing his belief that Immortals existed.
• The Crown Youth recalled that Lu Yang’s blood had helped him become an Imperial Sovereign and believed only an Immortal could save his realm.
• Lu Yang observed that his blood had fused with the Jietian and concluded it had helped the realm avoid destruction, then decided to keep investigating its Karma.

Lu Yang learned the Taihuang Realm’s history and discovered that Tai had created the Suihuo Forbidden Zone after seeking the Immortal Path. He confronted Tai and searched his memories, finding that a Sword Pavilion True Person Demon-Subduer had stopped Tai on the path.

• Lu Yang searched the Crown Youth’s soul and learned that he was Imperial Sovereign Yi of the Taihuang Realm.
• Lu Yang suspected the Immortal Realm in the historical records referred to the Shadow Region and went to the Suihuo Forbidden Zone.
• Lu Yang’s presence extinguished the Forbidden Zone’s flames and awakened its master, Tai.
• Lu Yang dragged Tai from his coffin and asked whether he was Tai, and Tai recognized Lu Yang as an Immortal.
• Lu Yang searched Tai’s memories and discovered that a White-Robed Youth from Sword Pavilion had blocked Tai’s attempt to traverse the Immortal Path.

Lu Yang investigated Tai’s memories of the Immortal Path and discovered that its life-sustaining light was a Time Image Crystal, while he grew curious about its likely connection to the Shadow Region. Tai explained that the Immortal Path would soon reopen and pledged himself to Lu Yang, who accepted him as a disciple on behalf of a fellow Daoist.

• Lu Yang recognized Tai as an unusually powerful Imperial Sovereign who had survived three strikes from True Person Demon-Subduer and learned that Tai had extended his life with Immortal Blood and immortal medicine.
• Lu Yang reviewed Tai’s memories of the Immortal Path and suspected it led into the Shadow Region, where True Person Demon-Subduer might have found an opportunity to cultivate Sword Edge Metal.
• Lu Yang took Tai’s crystal of Immortal Light and identified it as a Time Image Crystal that slowed Tai’s personal time rather than truly extending his lifespan.
• Tai told Lu Yang that the Immortal Path would soon reopen and that ten Imperial Sovereigns planned to enter it together.
• Tai knelt and asked Lu Yang to save his realm, and Lu Yang offered to accept him as a disciple on behalf of a fellow Daoist; Tai immediately kowtowed and greeted him as sect master.

Lu Yang questioned Tai about the Immortal Path and suspected that his lack of a Grotto-Heaven had confused the Shadow Region’s entry requirements. While he planned how to enter at full strength, a White-Robed Youth sensed danger and learned that his Heavenly Remnant Consciousness might hold a Dao Lord’s legacy.

• Tai told Lu Yang that Imperial Sovereigns learned the Immortal Path’s opening time through Heavenly Revelation.
• Lu Yang suspected the Shadow Region had drawn him through Karma but rejected him because he no longer possessed a Grotto-Heaven.
• Lu Yang decided to find a way to fool the Shadow Region’s perception and enter as a Golden Core True Lord, considering a Restart and other options.
• Lu Yang chose to wait while he reviewed his Celestial Court gains and prepared for his next life.
• A White-Robed Youth’s Sword Heart warned him of approaching danger, and an aged voice revealed that the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness might be the last Dao Lord’s legacy in the Void Darkness Light Sea.

Immortal Venerable Greater Yin waited to rebuild her chances of reaching the Dao Lord rank, while the Immovable Tathagata of the Vajra Realm gave up investigating Lu Yang. In the Taihuang Realm, Suo Huan awakened with an enhanced support ability, and the Immortal Path opened.

• Immortal Venerable Greater Yin stabilized her Heavenly Thoroughfare and regretted that Si Sui’s Fruit Positions had been destroyed, reducing her chance of breaking through.
• The Immovable Tathagata of the Vajra Realm failed to find Lu Yang through deduction, suspected a Dao Lord was involved, and abandoned his investigation.
• Suo Huan awakened and showed Lu Yang that Shared Drink could transfer injuries to someone whose body he borrowed, though he first needed to collect their aura.
• Lu Yang invited Suo Huan into the Yellow Court to help strengthen it, hoping to bring it back when Restart came.
• After more than ten thousand years passed in the Taihuang Realm, Lu Yang sensed that the Immortal Path had opened, and the great Forbidden Zones turned toward its gateway.

The Ten Imperial Sovereigns entered the Immortal Path, and Lu Yang secretly followed them by using fortune to conceal himself. Inside, they saw visions of their futures in which a White-Robed Youth killed them, but they pressed onward.

• The Imperial Sovereigns gathered at the Immortal Gate, restored their peak strength, and challenged Tai over his arrogance.
• Imperial Sovereign Yi attacked the Immortal Gate, and the Ten Imperial Sovereigns followed him inside.
• Lu Yang used the Hundred Lives Book and fortune gathered from Taihuang Realm cultivators to conceal himself and slip through the gate behind them.
• The gate vanished, leaving Lu Yang and the Ten Imperial Sovereigns on a dark path filled with images of the past, present, and future.
• The Ten Imperial Sovereigns saw visions of a White-Robed Youth killing them, yet marched forward together, while Lu Yang admired their resolute Dao Hearts.

Lu Yang followed the Ten Imperial Sovereigns to the ruins at the end of the Immortal Path, where they encountered Sword Pavilion's True Person Demon-Subduer. As Demon-Subduer prepared to kill them using his Sword Edge Metal and future foresight, Lu Yang froze everyone and exposed an ancient soul hidden inside him, which realized a Golden Core True Lord had infiltrated the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness.

• Lu Yang pondered the meaning of Heavenly Remnant Consciousness as he followed the Ten Imperial Sovereigns to a ruined palace complex at the end of the Immortal Path.
• True Person Demon-Subduer emerged from a pavilion, and the Ten Imperial Sovereigns attacked him before he could speak.
• True Person Demon-Subduer used his Lifebound Divine Ability to eliminate possible futures until only one remained, in which he killed all ten Imperial Sovereigns.
• Lu Yang walked among the frozen figures and revealed the ancient soul hidden in True Person Demon-Subduer's Sea of Consciousness.
• The ancient soul recognized Lu Yang as a Golden Core True Lord who had infiltrated the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness, while Lu Yang wondered if this was the World Honored One's joy.

Lu Yang forced Long Tu to explain the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness, learning that it was a shattered inheritance ground said to preserve trials based on Dao Lords’ past achievements. When Long Tu proposed exploring together, Lu Yang claimed the mystic realm as his own.

• Lu Yang confronted Long Tu and demanded to know what the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness was.
• Long Tu explained that the realm had been shattered by the World Honored One’s Footprint and could lead to a Dao Lord’s inheritance.
• Long Tu described the realm’s Seven Layers and said its trials might record Dao Lords’ past attainments of Nascent Soul.
• Long Tu proposed that he and Lu Yang explore the realm together, but Lu Yang declared it was his mystic realm.

Lu Yang entered the Human World trial after discovering its Sea of Suffering threshold and began defeating the cultivators who appeared before him. His attacks sharpened his thoughts, but killing one challenger also injured the cultivator whose imprint he had destroyed in the real world.

• Lu Yang defeated Long Tu, banished True Person Demon-Subduer, and offered the Ten Imperial Sovereigns a chance to become Righteous Banner Spirits.
• Lu Yang sensed the Sea of Suffering inside the pavilion, saw through its illusion, and entered the first trial, Human World.
• Lu Yang killed a black-robed challenger with a single slap and felt his thoughts and soul grow clearer.
• Lu Yang killed Qinghe of Star Palace, then wondered whether destroying the challengers' Images affected their true bodies.
• In the Star Palace, Qinghe's true body vomited blood and realized that Lu Yang had destroyed his imprint; he suspected the attacker would die soon because of his violent style.

Lu Yang discovered that the Human World trial could temper Dao Heart and used that insight to forge the Enlightened Self-View Immortal Method from his three True Treasures. He nearly lost his awareness to a Perception Barrier, then realized Sky Soaring had entered the trial as a Golden Core True Lord and attacked him.

• Lu Yang realized that the Human World trial strengthened Dao Heart and could help him resist the World Honored One’s influence.
• Lu Yang connected the trial’s effects to the Taihuang Realm’s Invincible Dao Heart and continued defeating Challengers to temper himself.
• Lu Yang used Dao Heart to unite the Righteous Banner, Calamity Waves, and Yellow Court into the Enlightened Self-View Immortal Method.
• Lu Yang became distracted by his breakthrough and nearly succumbed to a Perception Barrier while a palm pierced his chest.
• Lu Yang recognized Sky Soaring as his attacker and realized Sky Soaring had entered the trial as a Golden Core True Lord.

Lu Yang fought Sky Soaring’s afterimage, breaking free of its Perception Barrier and trading powerful attacks with it. After recognizing that Sky Soaring was roughly his equal in cultivation, Lu Yang faced its questions about his identity and his Grotto-Heaven refinement, ending on the afterimage’s hint that he might have noticed something important.

• Lu Yang broke free of Sky Soaring’s Perception Barrier with Righteous Banner and Moral Cultivation, then attacked with Yellow Court, Open Heaven and his stored Images.
• Sky Soaring ambushed Lu Yang from behind, but Lu Yang’s Heavenly Fire Burning Punishment struck its hand and forced the two into a clash that left Lu Yang injured and Sky Soaring apparently unharmed.
• Sky Soaring praised Lu Yang’s Dao Heart and questioned whether he belonged to the Sacred Sect, while Lu Yang claimed to lead Jiangxi’s Righteous Dao.
• Lu Yang realized Sky Soaring’s afterimage was at an early Golden Core level like himself and saw that Heavenly Fire had charred its palm.
• Sky Soaring asked about the destroyed Pure Land and suggested that Lu Yang’s risky Grotto-Heaven refinement meant he had noticed something; Lu Yang wondered what it meant.

Lu Yang confronted Sky Soaring Afterimage about the Grotto-Heaven Method and learned that using it to advance through the Golden Core stages left at most a ten percent chance of reaching Nascent Soul. The conversation ended with Lu Yang preparing to attack, while Sky Soaring Afterimage considered what information might be valuable enough to make him bargain.

• Sky Soaring Afterimage noticed Lu Yang's surprise and suggested he had been fortunate not to stray onto a crooked path.
• Lu Yang inferred that the Grotto-Heaven Method had a flaw and revealed that he had sabotaged Sky Soaring's plans, leaving only three of his Five Elements Fruit Positions.
• Lu Yang proposed that becoming bound to a Fruit Position might make a cultivator its nourishment, but Sky Soaring Afterimage rejected that explanation.
• Sky Soaring Afterimage revealed that using the Grotto-Heaven Method to reach Golden Core completion left no more than a ten percent chance of achieving Nascent Soul.
• Lu Yang stopped asking questions and readied his Radiant Light, while Sky Soaring Afterimage searched for information valuable enough to sway him.

Lu Yang battled Sky Soaring Afterimage, who used the Perception Barrier to escape Lu Yang’s small world and attack from concealment. As both were badly injured, dormant power from Lu Yang’s External Dao Fruit Positions began to awaken and gather into a single thought.

• Lu Yang used the Image of time inside his small world, but Sky Soaring Afterimage countered with the Perception Barrier and erased the memory of his method.
• Sky Soaring Afterimage broke free of the small world by using the Perception Barrier on himself, a technique he called Heaven and Earth Forget Me.
• Sky Soaring Afterimage criticized Lu Yang’s unstable cultivation and attacked him from concealment, while Lu Yang relied on defenses and counterattacks to wear him down.
• Lu Yang and Sky Soaring Afterimage both suffered heavy injuries as they continued fighting, each believing he could still win.
• As Lu Yang pushed his cultivation to its limit, the Images of Decree and Inscribe Heaven awakened within him and gathered into a single thought: “Huh!”

Lu Yang realized the World Honored One was reviving within him after two External Dao Fruit Positions had helped create a foothold in his Dao Heart. He preserved the final third of his Dao Heart, but the World Honored One took control of his cultivation and broke through the methods restraining them.

• Lu Yang recognized the World Honored One's attempt to transform his Dao Heart and realized his Enlightened Self-View Immortal Method had limited the damage to one-fifth.
• Sky Soaring Afterimage stabbed Lu Yang and used the Veil of True Essence Immortal Method to attack both Lu Yang and the World Honored One.
• Lu Yang withdrew his Enlightened Self-View Immortal Method and guarded one-third of his Dao Heart, allowing the World Honored One to occupy the other two-thirds and control his cultivation.
• Sky Soaring Afterimage redirected his attack toward the World Honored One, but the World Honored One used Forceful Inscription to declare that the place could not affect the Dao Heart.
• The World Honored One shattered both Immortal Methods and awakened fully enough to declare that he had never expected to be an avatar of the World Honored One.

Lu Yang fought the World Honored One avatar for control of his body and forced Sky Soaring Afterimage to help contain it. After Sky Soaring used the Perception Barrier to suppress the avatar, Si Sui’s hidden remnant awakened in Lu Yang’s Sea of Consciousness, and Lu Yang asked Sky Soaring to help him clear the Human World trial.

• Lu Yang challenged the World Honored One avatar for control of the Fire in the Sky and persuaded Sky Soaring Afterimage to cooperate.
• The World Honored One avatar froze the surrounding world and struck Sky Soaring Afterimage down with a punch.
• Sky Soaring Afterimage concealed his death with the Perception Barrier, revived, and began erasing the World Honored One avatar’s thoughts.
• Si Sui’s hidden remnant awakened in Lu Yang’s Sea of Consciousness, surprising Sky Soaring Afterimage.
• Lu Yang asked Sky Soaring Afterimage to help him clear the Human World trial, and Sky Soaring agreed to face the chaotic situation with him.

Lu Yang manipulated Sky Soaring Afterimage, the World Honored One's avatar, and Si Sui's remnant thought to seize the Human World's opportunity. When the World Honored One's true body descended, Lu Yang destroyed himself and called on the Hundred Lives Book, leaving his fate unresolved.

• Lu Yang let the World Honored One's avatar awaken and used Si Sui's remnant thought to pressure Sky Soaring Afterimage into conceding the trial.
• The World Honored One's avatar disrupted Lu Yang's claim to the Human World's opportunity, so Lu Yang had Sky Soaring Afterimage suppress Si Sui's remnant thought while they fought for control.
• The World Honored One's avatar awakened Si Sui's remnant thought and revealed how Lu Yang could detect and destroy it, persuading Si Sui to help distract Sky Soaring Afterimage.
• Lu Yang regained control, self-destructed, and prevented the World Honored One's avatar from using the Fire in the Sky to revive, allowing Lu Yang to absorb the Human World's opportunity.
• The World Honored One's true body descended from the Other Shore, and Lu Yang destroyed the remaining third of his Dao Heart before his True Self consciousness sank into darkness and called out for the Hundred Lives Book.

In the pre-Restart darkness, Lu Yang realized that the Grotto-Heaven Method might suppress cultivation of the Dao Heart and obstruct the path to Nascent Soul. Distrusting Sky Soaring Afterimage’s advice, he chose to Restart at his Second Anchor Point, where he had established his foundation with City-Wall Earth.

• Lu Yang sensed that his strengthened Dao Heart let him retain his True Self through reincarnation, potentially replacing Gold Nature’s function.
• Lu Yang concluded that the Grotto-Heaven Method’s Grotto-Heaven Unfallen and Gold Nature might bind cultivators to Fruit Positions and prevent them from developing powerful Dao Hearts.
• Lu Yang reconsidered restarting at the Third Anchor Point, suspecting Sky Soaring Afterimage had encouraged him to develop Fire in the Sky to lead him into a trap.
• Lu Yang rejected the First and Third Anchor Points and chose to Restart at the Second Anchor Point, where he had cultivated City-Wall Earth.
• The Hundred Lives Book recounted that the World Honored One searched the Sea of Suffering’s records after Lu Yang’s decisive suicide, then destroyed the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness while Sky Soaring Afterimage cursed Lu Yang.

Lu Yang used the Hundred Lives Book’s new Refresh Authority to replace the lifespan reward with a cultivation-method option, then split his previous cultivation into a Dao Body while keeping his current cultivation to conceal himself. He had the Hundred Lives Book settle his previous-life Gold Nature and awakened the Golden Talent Immortal Pivot Survival Guide.

• Lu Yang refreshed the lifespan choice and discovered that he could instead inherit a cultivation method from his previous life.
• The Hundred Lives Book restored Lu Yang’s previous cultivation, but his lost Grotto-Heaven and Fruit Position left him weaker than a True Lord.
• The Hundred Lives Book detected a conflict between Lu Yang’s current and previous cultivation, and Lu Yang chose to split them by creating a Dao Body.
• Lu Yang’s Dao Body became his dominant self, while his original body retained his current Dao Foundation cultivation and his soul carried his previous-life Gold Nature.
• Lu Yang had the Hundred Lives Book settle his Gold Nature and awakened the Golden Talent Immortal Pivot Survival Guide, which judged whether he was being scammed.

Lu Yang discovered that his Immortal Pivot Survival Guide could identify traps in items, then found Si Sui’s remnant had appeared in his Sea of Consciousness and could be controlled by his commands. Reassured that Si Sui posed little danger, Lu Yang began questioning him about cultivation.

• Lu Yang tested the Immortal Pivot Survival Guide and learned it could identify traps, including one in the World Honored One’s Great Derivation Divine Refining Art.
• When Lu Yang merged his Dao Body with his original body, Si Sui’s remnant appeared in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Si Sui explained that he hoped to use Lu Yang’s future ascension to awaken his true self and possibly replace the Dao Lord at the Other Shore.
• Lu Yang ordered Si Sui to raise his hands, squat, and bark, confirming that Si Sui obeyed his commands.
• Lu Yang recognized Si Sui as a valuable source of ancient knowledge and asked how Golden Core cultivators achieved the Nascent Soul.

Lu Yang received Si Sui's complete Golden Core legacy and discovered a cultivation method that could turn a Fate-Form Body into a supreme Dharma Body by devouring a Fruit Position. He considered using it to consume his City-Wall Earth Supreme Fruit Position and realized the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness might help him hide the plan from the World Honored One.

• Lu Yang learned that Si Sui did not know how his original body achieved Nascent Soul, but could explain Golden Core cultivation.
• Si Sui gave Lu Yang the Precious Life Complete Form Scripture, a legacy created by his original body that cultivated a Dharma Body without relying on the Grotto-Heaven Method.
• Lu Yang read that the method used a Fate-Form Body to attain Golden Seeking, devour its Fruit Position, and then become the cultivator's Dharma Body.
• Lu Yang considered using his City-Wall Earth Dao Foundation to create a Fate-Form Body, but recognized the risk of consuming a Supreme Fruit Position under the World Honored One's watch.
• Lu Yang thought of the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness as a possible way to hide his plan from the World Honored One.

Lu Yang completed his Fate-Form Body, named it Yuantu, and arranged safeguards to guide and control its growth. He then went to Mending Heaven Peak and killed Chen Taihe, while Chongguang noticed only a brief flicker in Chen Taihe’s Life Lamp.

• Lu Yang separated his Dao Body from his original body, created the Fate-Form Body, and named it Yuantu.
• Lu Yang left Yuantu Si Sui and Merely a Teacher as safeguards, gave him several potentially troublesome items, and decided to personally handle the approaching trial.
• Lu Yang appeared before Chen Taihe at Mending Heaven Peak and took the Chongguang Qi bottle from him.
• Chen Taihe mistook Lu Yang for True Lord Radiant Floating Truth and prostrated himself.
• Lu Yang summoned the Righteous Banner and killed Chen Taihe, while the Banner Spirit Peak Master of Heaven Mending took on Chen Taihe’s Karma.
• Chongguang noticed Chen Taihe’s Life Lamp flicker briefly but dismissed it and returned to his Golden Seeking.

Lu Yang searched Lady Ruoxiang’s memories to investigate whether Immortal Venerable Greater Yin was Mending Heaven Peak’s First Generation Peak Master, but a warning from the Immortal Pivot Survival Guide made him avoid the ancestral tablet. He then planned to use the Precious Life Complete Form Scripture to make Covered Lamp Fire his next target and test whether the Dao Lords would tolerate his attempt to seize a Fruit Position.

• Lu Yang searched Lady Ruoxiang’s memories for clues about the First Generation Peak Masters and Immortal Venerable Greater Yin.
• Lu Yang entered Mending Heaven Peak’s ancestral hall and found the dusty spirit tablet of Ancestor Baoguang Youzhao Guanghan.
• The Immortal Pivot Survival Guide warned Lu Yang not to touch the tablet, so he returned it and left the ancestral hall.
• Lu Yang decided to cultivate the Precious Life Complete Form Scripture and use Covered Lamp Fire to target Hongyun and provoke Sky Soaring in the Netherworld.
• Lu Yang resolved to test the Dao Lords’ response before pursuing his larger plan to seize City-Wall Earth, and left the Sacred Sect to find Hongyun.

Hongyun decided to retrieve his Grotto-Heaven Fragment in Jiangnan and summoned Hongju to use the Same Fate Fortune-Shifting Ledger for protection. Lu Yang appeared beside them unnoticed and began absorbing their moral-cultivation black qi as he prepared to settle an old score with Hongyun.

• Hongyun chose to go to Jiangnan for his Grotto-Heaven Fragment and summoned Hongju to use the Same Fate Fortune-Shifting Ledger for insurance.
• Hongju reported feeling uneasy about secretly eliminating the junior Yuantu, prompting Hongyun to investigate the possibility of a hidden Golden Core True Lord.
• Hongyun became lost in thought as Hongju presented the Ledger, and Lu Yang accepted the treasure in his place.
• Hongyun welcomed Lu Yang and lamented that the Righteous Dao had to rely on him, while neither Hongyun nor Hongju noticed Lu Yang absorbing their black qi.
• Lu Yang recalled that Hongyun had once bombed his fish and resolved to return the favor.

Lu Yang gave Hongyun a secret cultivation art that would make Hongyun his Fate-Form Body when completed, then questioned Hongju about Immortal Venerable Greater Yin. Hongju linked her to True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow’s bedchamber, while Lu Yang turned Hongyun’s anger toward Sky Soaring and planned to use Fate-Form Bodies in his future schemes.

• Lu Yang gave Hongyun the child chapter of the Precious Life Complete Form Scripture, which promised to help him recover but would make him Lu Yang’s Fate-Form Body upon completion.
• Lu Yang showed Hongju a portrait of Immortal Venerable Greater Yin, and Hongju said he had glimpsed her in True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow’s bedchamber at Sacred Fire Cliff.
• Lu Yang sent Hongju into a nearby thatched hut with the Banner Spirit and bestowed a Celestial Mother Transformation Mystic Light upon him.
• Lu Yang returned Hongyun’s contingencies to him and revealed that Sky Soaring had killed him, prompting Hongyun to vow revenge.
• Lu Yang strengthened his influence over Hongyun and planned to use Hongyun and Si Sui as layers of protection in his dealings with powerful enemies.