Arc 39The Karma Hide-and-Seek

Lu Yang survived Immortal Venerable Greater Yin and restored the Dharma Body Path before entering the past to find a way to undermine the Netherworld and the Other Shore. He escaped the World Honored One’s attempt to turn him into an avatar by hiding within Dragon Lord Yu Zhao, just as the Sacred Sect Ancestor moved to erase the past’s Karmic Scenes.

  • Lu Yang fought the Celestial Court’s True Lords, destroyed their bodies and souls, and escaped Immortal Venerable Greater Yin’s Life-Buying Money by hiding in the Karmic Net.
  • Lu Yang altered Sky Soaring’s past and learned from the Vajra Realm Sun Tathagata that the Yellow Springs Road could be attacked during the ancient war of the Dao Lords.
  • Lu Yang restored the Dharma Body Path, became a Great True Lord, and challenged the power descending from the Other Shore before escaping five thousand years into the past.
  • Lu Yang sought the World Honored One through Hongyun’s karma and reached the Pure Land, where he learned that the Foundation Establishment Realm was a decoy meant to divert the Sacred Sect Ancestor from the Netherworld.
  • Lu Yang discovered the World Honored One’s plans to convert him, claim the Dharma Body Path, and use him as an avatar, then traveled to the Dragon Palace in the novice avatar’s guise.
  • Lu Yang used Dove Occupies Magpie’s Nest to hide within Dragon Lord Yu Zhao, foiling the World Honored One and deciding to study plane construction while concealed for five thousand years.
  • The Sacred Sect Ancestor appeared through the Karmic Net and unleashed a shadow to erase every Karmic Scene from seventy thousand years in the past.
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Ch. 1017Even Together, You're No Match for Me!

Lu Yang used the Righteous Banner and his Fruit Position Image to destroy four True Lords and sever Immortal Lord Du Xuan’s Spirit Platform, overcoming the Celestial Court’s ability to reincarnate its fighters. As the remaining True Lords charged him, Lu Yang charged back, declaring that even together they could not defeat him.

  • Lu Yang decapitated four Golden Core True Lords with a single sword stroke, shocking the Star Palace and the Celestial Court.
  • Immortal Venerable Greater Yin recognized Lu Yang’s Sword Edge Metal method and suspected he was connected to the First Generation Peak Master, Butian Que.
  • Lu Yang used Covered Lamp Fire to discover that the Dao Court Lord’s All-Things-Linked Dao Fruit was enabling the Celestial Court’s True Lords to reincarnate.
  • Lu Yang activated the Righteous Banner and Thunderclap Fire, triggering All-Evil Slay to destroy the four True Lords’ bodies.
  • Lu Yang used the Thunder-Subduing Axe-Wielding Dao Fruit to sever the Greater Yang Fruit Position and collapse Immortal Lord Du Xuan’s Spirit Platform.
  • The other True Lords charged Lu Yang, but he rushed into their ranks and declared that even together they were no match for him.

Ch. 1018A Sword Opens the Vast Sea!

Lu Yang overwhelmed the true lords attacking him and, with Gangxing Budao True Lord’s help, used a sword strike to destroy six Golden Core Middle Stage souls. As their Grotto-Heavens fell, a vast aura from the Sea of Suffering locked onto Lu Yang.

  • Lu Yang charged into the true lords, adapted to their attacks, and used the Yin-Yang Mirror Divine Fruit to drive True Lord Radiant Floating Truth into self-destruction and flight to the Netherworld.
  • Lu Yang expanded his Dharma Body and brought down the Inverted Branch Bearing Mountain Dao Fruit, prompting True Lord Flying Snow and Immortal Venerable Greater Yin to declare that he could not be stopped by Golden Core Middle Stage cultivators.
  • Immortal Venerable Greater Yin gave Gangxing Budao True Lord a Greater Yin Jade Fluid Pill and persuaded him to confront Lu Yang.
  • Gangxing Budao True Lord walked into Lu Yang’s Great Tribulation Lord profundity and stood idle, while the other true lords self-destructed to shatter Lu Yang’s descending palm.
  • Gangxing Budao True Lord raised his Fruit Position to the Great True Lord domain, briefly freezing the souls escaping to the Netherworld, and Lu Yang swept through them with Calamity Waves and the Sword Dao power of True Person Demon-Sweeping.
  • Lu Yang shattered the souls of six Golden Core Middle Stage true lords, watched their Grotto-Heavens collapse, and sensed a vast aura from the Sea of Suffering lock onto him.

Ch. 1020Gathering of All Gold, Life-Buying Money!

After the battle, True Lord Flying Snow revived Great Sage Mingzhu while Lu Yang pondered the steps he still needed to reach the Tribulation’s critical point. Immortal Venerable Greater Yin then drained the Celestial Court’s wealth to unleash Life-Buying Money against Lu Yang, leaving him rapidly losing his dharma power, vitality, and soul.

  • True Lord Flying Snow restored Great Sage Mingzhu’s shattered soul and brought her back from the dead.
  • Lu Yang reflected on the Netherworld’s power and realized he still needed to reach and break through the Tribulation’s critical point.
  • Immortal Venerable Greater Yin recognized that Gangxing Budao True Lord had turned against her and chose to act against Lu Yang.
  • Immortal Venerable Greater Yin used Gathering of All Gold to seize all the Celestial Court cultivators’ wealth and convert it into a Dharma talisman.
  • Immortal Venerable Greater Yin cast Life-Buying Money at Lu Yang, causing his dharma power, vitality, and soul to fade.

Ch. 1021Calmly Turning the Tables, Altering Karma Once More!

Lu Yang survived Immortal Venerable Greater Yin’s Life-Buying Money only because the Star Palace True Lords shielded him, but Greater Yin intensified the attack after receiving a revelation that the Dao Lord wanted him dead. Lu Yang escaped into Nourishing Life Lord and activated the Time-Shifting World-Transposing Instrument with Primordial Heavenly Demon and Chongguang, beginning a plan whose destination remained unknown.

  • The six Great True Lords of Star Palace used the Victory Dharma Fate-Deciding Dao Chapter to shield Lu Yang, while Gangxing Budao True Lord struck the Life-Buying Money and weakened its effect enough for Lu Yang to survive.
  • Immortal Venerable Greater Yin spent her own reserves to intensify the Life-Buying Money, and a revelation from the Other Shore convinced her that Lu Yang had to die.
  • Lu Yang rejected using the Lord of State and Grain or reviving the Dharma Body Path, then entered the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness and hid inside Nourishing Life Lord.
  • Lu Yang summoned Primordial Heavenly Demon and Chongguang from the Ten Thousand Martial Realm and explained the operation he had planned.
  • Lu Yang activated the Time-Shifting World-Transposing Instrument, which connected him to the Karmic Net and made him vanish.

Ch. 1022Working with Sky Soaring Was Such a Pleasure!

Lu Yang searched the Karmic Net for his past and secretly altered a meeting with Sky Soaring. He left Sky Soaring with a hidden plan to establish the Netherworld when Lu Yang was in danger but escaped, then anchored the changed Karma.

  • Lu Yang used the Time-Shifting World-Transposing Instrument to search his personal history and found his last meeting with Sky Soaring before traveling to the Star Palace.
  • Lu Yang, the Primordial Heavenly Demon, and Chongguang hid as Heart Demons and followed Sky Soaring from the Heavenly Court to One Line Sky.
  • Sky Soaring sensed an intruder in his Sea of Consciousness, and Lu Yang used the Five Poisons Heart to give him a sudden thought about Lu Yang's Dao Fruit Secret Art.
  • Sky Soaring used Perception Barriers to suppress his memories and stop the karmic scene from collapsing as he followed the unexplained thoughts Lu Yang planted.
  • Sky Soaring concluded that he should establish the Netherworld when Lu Yang was harmed but escaped, and Lu Yang anchored the altered Karma in the Karmic Net.

Ch. 1023Target, Five Thousand Years Ago!

Lu Yang sought the Vajra Realm Sun Tathagata’s guidance on how to destroy the Yellow Springs Road and collapse the Netherworld. The Tathagata warned him away from the primordial age and told him to go five thousand years into the past, where a great karmic change would hide his actions.

  • Lu Yang used the Karmic Net to revisit a scene from his past and met the Vajra Realm Sun Tathagata, who called him a parasite of Karma.
  • The Vajra Realm Sun Tathagata agreed to answer one question before killing himself to sever his Karma and conceal the exchange from Heaven.
  • Lu Yang asked how and when to destroy the Yellow Springs Road as part of his plan to collapse the Netherworld and the Other Shore.
  • The Vajra Realm Sun Tathagata explained that the Netherworld began in the primordial age and that the Yellow Springs Road could best be targeted during the war of the Dao Lords 129,600 years ago, but Lu Yang would be discovered and killed there.
  • The Vajra Realm Sun Tathagata told Lu Yang to go five thousand years into the past and hide within history’s greatest karmic storm.

Ch. 1024Return—Now!

Lu Yang returned from Karma after realizing the World Honored One may have anticipated and planned around his Other Shore Collapse Plan. Sky Soaring entered the Netherworld openly to pursue enlightenment, while Lu Yang prepared to act as a Dao Lord’s gaze descended over the Sea of Suffering earlier than expected.

  • Lu Yang realized the World Honored One had preserved and then erased their karmic meeting, and wondered whether the Other Shore Collapse Plan had been part of the World Honored One’s own plans.
  • Lu Yang returned to the Real World through the Time-Shifting World-Transposing Instrument and declared that the moment to act had arrived.
  • Sky Soaring entered Ghost Gate without resistance and displayed his Five Elements Perfection, Empty Attainment Great Dao.
  • Sky Soaring waited in the Netherworld, believing Lu Yang needed to provide the Covered Lamp Fire required for his City-Wall Earth Dao Fruit Secret Art.
  • Lu Yang sensed the coming tribulation as a Dao Lord’s gaze descended over the Sea of Suffering, earlier than it had in the previous life.

Ch. 1025Sky Soaring Proves the Netherworld!

Sky Soaring severed the Netherworld’s reincarnation power to win the Dharma Force Dao Lord’s intervention, but a transcendent existence imposed Fixed Number and decreed that Sky Soaring would fail to reach Nascent Soul and die. Lu Yang recognized that the moment for his own move had arrived.

  • The World Honored One protected Sky Soaring as the Dao Court Lord acted, while Lu Yang noticed that the Sword Pavilion Dao Lord and Dharma Force Dao Lord behaved differently than in the previous life.
  • Sky Soaring halted the Netherworld’s guiding power and reincarnation cycle, then the Sword Pavilion Dao Lord attacked and the Dharma Force Dao Lord intervened, creating a new deadlock.
  • Lu Yang realized that the Netherworld’s fate had shaped the Dao Lords’ actions and that Sky Soaring had severed reincarnation to gain the Dharma Force Dao Lord’s support.
  • A transcendent existence imposed Fixed Number, revealing that Sky Soaring would fail to reach Nascent Soul and die in the Netherworld.
  • Sky Soaring stayed composed and wondered what method Lu Yang would use against Fixed Number, while Lu Yang rose and declared that the time had come.

Ch. 1026Five Elements Fused, the Dharma Body Path Reestablished!

Lu Yang used the Precious Life Complete Form Scripture to withstand Immortal Venerable Greater Yin’s Life-Buying Money and reestablish the Dharma Body Path. As he began making the path his own, Star Palace’s six Great True Lords blocked Greater Yin and True Lord Flying Snow, while the Dao Lords on the Other Shore reacted in alarm.

  • Lu Yang endured the Life-Buying Money’s curse-killing attack by using the Precious Life Complete Form Scripture to consume the True Constant Heart Fruit Position and repair the damage.
  • Immortal Venerable Greater Yin realized Lu Yang had perfected the Precious Life Complete Form Scripture to reestablish the Dharma Body Path.
  • Lu Yang summoned the severed Dharma Body Path from the Sea of Suffering, startling the Dao Lords on the Other Shore.
  • Lu Yang landed on the Dharma Body Path and sent his Rebirth Aspect and Past Dust Aspect to devour it.
  • Immortal Venerable Greater Yin ordered True Lord Flying Snow to stop Lu Yang, but Star Palace’s six Great True Lords blocked them.
  • Haoyuan Upper True identified Lu Yang’s cultivation method as the Precious Life Complete Form Scripture, and the six Great True Lords treated him as Lord Si Sui returned.

Ch. 1027The Second Fixed Number!

Lu Yang used the Time-Shifting World-Transposing Instrument to block Immortal Venerable Greater Yin while approaching the end of his attempt to occupy the Dharma Body Path. True Lord Flying Snow attained the Empty Attainment Fruit Position and joined the battle, but a new Fixed Number declared that the Dharma Body Path would not reappear.

  • True Lord Flying Snow formed the Empty Attainment Fruit Position and struck the Star Palace's Great True Lords, sending two of them flying.
  • Lu Yang suspected True Lord Flying Snow had received instructions, while Immortal Venerable Greater Yin used a curse-killing art against him.
  • Lu Yang severed his connection to the Xuanling Realm and used the Time-Shifting World-Transposing Instrument to activate a Dao Fruit Secret Art that raised a heavenly chasm between himself and Immortal Venerable Greater Yin.
  • Lu Yang's occupation of the Dharma Body Path neared completion as a new Fixed Number declared that the Dharma Body Path ultimately failed to reappear in the world.

Ch. 1028Suchness Forged into Constancy, an Undying Body Unworn by Myriad Tribulations!

Lu Yang exploited the Dao Lords’ competing interventions to break the Fixed Number that condemned him and revive the Dharma Body Path, becoming a Great True Lord. His breakthrough transformed lifespans throughout the Light Sea, and he ended by facing the Other Shore without fear.

  • Lu Yang saw the Spell Dao Lord weaken the Netherworld’s Fixed Number, forcing the Sacred Sect Ancestor to choose between him and Sky Soaring.
  • The Sacred Sect Ancestor restored the Netherworld’s Fixed Number to stop Sky Soaring, weakening the Fixed Number binding Lu Yang.
  • Tribulation descended and shook Lu Yang’s Fixed Number, while Lu Yang invoked Di Mouni to create an instant in which he could exploit its loophole.
  • Lu Yang sacrificed a phantom of himself to fulfill the Fixed Number’s condition, then merged the Rebirth Aspect and Past Dust Aspect into the Dharma Body Path and became a Great True Lord.
  • The Dharma Body Path’s revival increased the lifespans of mortals and cultivators across the Light Sea, while Dharma Power and Spell Dao gained strength.
  • Lu Yang appeared before all living beings and the Dao Lords, gazed toward the Other Shore, and recited a poem declaring himself unworn by tribulation.

Ch. 1029Our Contest Will Span Time and Space!

Lu Yang used Divine Firmament Thunder and Lord of State and Grain to complete a Fruit Position Ascension Ritual, then challenged the power of the Other Shore to a contest spanning time and space. As a descending thought threatened to kill him, he vanished before its finger struck.

  • Lu Yang used Supreme Divine Firmament Thunder to simulate Fire in the Sky, Sword Edge Metal, and City-Wall Earth.
  • Lu Yang fused Divine Firmament Thunder with Lord of State and Grain and transformed City-Wall Earth into blazing-white Karma Dharma light.
  • Lu Yang learned Si Sui’s four stages of Late Golden Core and compared them with Sky Soaring’s classification.
  • Lu Yang isolated Immortal Venerable Greater Yin from the Sea of Suffering and declared that his seniors would watch the coming drama.
  • A figure from the Other Shore descended as a thought and pointed at Lu Yang, who called on all living beings to climb to the mountaintop.
  • Lu Yang challenged the descending power to a game of Karma hide-and-seek and vanished just before its finger struck him.

Ch. 1031Five Thousand Years Ago

Lu Yang fled the Sacred Sect Ancestor by using City-Wall Earth to travel five thousand years into the past, arriving at the Sacred Sect in Jiangbei. He settled on an island and considered how to reach the World Honored One without disrupting the scene of Karma.

  • Lu Yang realized the Sacred Sect Ancestor was searching the Karmic Net and used the Lord of State and Grain’s time anchor to escape to five thousand years ago.
  • The Sacred Sect Ancestor’s gaze reached the Karmic Net after Lu Yang vanished, but the vast karmic history concealed him.
  • Lu Yang arrived at the Cloud Sea of Heaven-Reaching in Jiangbei, where a Sacred Sect Disciple was calling names on a stage.
  • Lu Yang crossed to an isolated island, took up residence in a cave, and summoned Chongguang and the Primordial Heavenly Demon.
  • Lu Yang weighed the limits his Great True Lord power placed on him in the scene of Karma and wondered how to meet the World Honored One and hitch a ride with him.

Ch. 1032Feixue's Origins

Lu Yang searched for a way to reach False History and settled on using Xue Feihong’s karma, but discovered that she carried the Sacred Sect Ancestor’s Fixed Number. He withdrew from the plan and continued searching for a flaw in the Ancestor’s control.

  • Lu Yang realized the altered official history concealed the World Honored One and concluded that entering the Pure Land or False History directly would expose him to the Sacred Sect Ancestor.
  • Lu Yang sent Chongguang and the Primordial Heavenly Demon to find Foundation Establishment True Person Xue Feihong, hoping to use her karma to enter False History.
  • Lu Yang saw a Fixed Number on Xue Feihong and inferred that the Sacred Sect Ancestor had been guiding her rise as a valuable asset.
  • Lu Yang ordered Chongguang and the Primordial Heavenly Demon to retreat and rejected the Zou Yu Descendants as another likely protected target.
  • Lu Yang resolved that the Sacred Sect Ancestor could not control every Variable and searched for a flaw in his plans.

Ch. 1033Breaking Point, Hongyun!

Lu Yang realized Hongyun’s mysterious death was concealed within False History and concluded that Hongyun, not Sky Soaring, might be the hidden Variable. He found Hongyun’s reincarnated body and plunged into the dark abyss within Hongyun’s karma.

  • Lu Yang decided to follow Hongyun until Sky Soaring appeared, then patiently watched Hongyun’s life unfold for two and a half years.
  • Hongyun suddenly died and fell into the Netherworld, but Lu Yang could detect no sign that Sky Soaring had killed him.
  • Lu Yang used the Yin-Yang Mirror Divine Fruit to reveal a karmic thread causing Hongyun’s death and inferred that the event was concealed in False History.
  • Lu Yang concluded that Hongyun might be the Variable planted by the World Honored One and chose to risk investigating him.
  • Lu Yang found Hongyun’s reincarnated body, revealed the split in his karma with Grasp Past and Present, and leaped into its dark abyss.

Ch. 1034Into False History, the World Honored One's Three Bodies!

Lu Yang resisted the World Honored One’s attempt to convert him and met Radiant World Exchange Light True Lord in the Void Darkness Light Sea. The monk revealed how his three identities formed his path to Attaining Enlightenment, then opened a karmic route for Lu Yang to travel to the era when the Netherworld was first established.

  • Lu Yang’s consciousness expanded across the lives of all beings until he broke free after a furious roar and found the World Honored One waiting in the Void Darkness Light Sea.
  • Lu Yang addressed the monk as Senior, and the monk inferred that they had met before and that Lu Yang was a Sacred Sect Disciple.
  • Lu Yang asked to visit the era when the Netherworld was first established, preferably before the First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master created the Yellow Springs Road.
  • The monk revealed that he had been the First Generation Myriad Treasure Peak Master, was now Radiant World Exchange Light True Lord, and would become the World Honored One of the Pure Land of Profound Joy.
  • The monk explained that his present body had severed its Karma and entered False History, and that defeating it there could make him fall from the Other Shore’s Supreme position.
  • The monk opened a karmic thread for Lu Yang to trace backward and warned him not to approach Huanyao, whose Karma could not be altered.

Ch. 1035The Sacred Sect Ancestor's Great Hand!

Lu Yang traveled through the World Honored One’s torrent of time toward a Karmic scene seventy thousand years in the past, but the Sacred Sect Ancestor disrupted the Karmic Net and seemed to detect his destination. Lu Yang reached the past and resolved to evade the Sacred Sect Ancestor’s search before attempting to alter causes and outcomes.

  • Lu Yang thanked Radiant World Exchange Light True Lord and entered the Karmic portal, traveling upstream through the World Honored One’s torrent of time.
  • The Sacred Sect Ancestor’s distant gaze froze the torrent, but the first master of Myriad Treasure Peak and the World Honored One restored its flow.
  • The Sacred Sect Ancestor struck the Karmic Net with a manifested hand, throwing it into disorder and creating a vortex of mixed eras.
  • Lu Yang plunged toward the Karmic scene seventy thousand years in the past before the vortex could sweep him elsewhere, then heard a voice say, “I found you.”
  • Lu Yang awoke during a temple morning lesson and reasoned that the Sacred Sect Ancestor had inferred his target from the disturbance in Karma.
  • Lu Yang suppressed his fear and decided that surviving the Sacred Sect Ancestor’s search mattered more than altering causes and outcomes.

Ch. 1036Karmic Battle!

Lu Yang found himself disguised as a novice in the Pure Land seventy thousand years in the past, where the Sacred Sect Ancestor was searching for him. As the First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master arrived, Lu Yang accepted Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts to conceal himself, leaving him caught between the Ancestor’s hunt and the World Honored One’s attempt to convert him.

  • Lu Yang realized his novice disguise helped him blend into the Pure Land, but his lack of Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts could eventually expose him to the Sacred Sect Ancestor.
  • The First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master announced his arrival to meet Senior Brother Wanbao, and Lu Yang recognized him as bait in the Sacred Sect Ancestor’s search.
  • Lu Yang concluded the World Honored One had deliberately placed him at this time and warned him about the First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master, while also forcing him toward Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts.
  • As the Monster-Rearing Peak Master drew near, Lu Yang recited the Great Vehicle Right Enlightenment Fundamental Sutra and joined Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts to hide.
  • Lu Yang feared that remaining in Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts would gradually wear away his Dao Heart, then watched the temple gates open as the First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master entered.

Ch. 1037I'm Fucking Late!?

Lu Yang witnessed the First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master visit the World Honored One and secretly overheard their conversation through the Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts. He realized the Yellow Springs Road was already complete and the Bridge of Forgetfulness was now being built, meaning he had arrived too late to change the timeline.

  • Lu Yang saw the First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master arrive at the temple and was astonished by his immense Wisdom Light.
  • The World Honored One, possessing the Little Novice, welcomed Huanyao and agreed to hear his problem concerning the Netherworld.
  • Lu Yang wondered about the pair’s close relationship and their past cooperation, then began looking for a way to leave the Pure Land.
  • The World Honored One secretly shared his conversation with Lu Yang through the Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts.
  • The First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master explained that the Yellow Springs Road was complete but he could not safely place the Netherworld’s mark on fragile true spirits using the Bridge of Forgetfulness.
  • Lu Yang realized the timeline had been disrupted and that he had arrived too late.

Ch. 1038Deceiving Heaven and Crossing the Sea, the World Honored One's Scheme!

Lu Yang learned through Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts that the World Honored One had created the Foundation Establishment Realm, which reinforced the Real World and held back the Other Shore’s collapse. He realized the Netherworld plan was a smokescreen and that secretly altering the Foundation Establishment Realm might break the deadlock.

  • The World Honored One explained that the First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master's Bridge of Forgetfulness needed Forbidden Knowledge related to the Other Shore to pair with the Yellow Springs Road.
  • The First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master proposed building the Netherworld beneath the Real World and asked the World Honored One to teach him the Plane Construction Method.
  • The First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master revealed that the World Honored One had created the Foundation Establishment Realm, which had reinforced the Real World for sixty thousand years.
  • Lu Yang realized the World Honored One had used the Netherworld as a decoy to draw the Sacred Sect Ancestor's attention away from the Foundation Establishment Realm.

Ch. 1039One Arrow, Three Birds

Lu Yang listened as the World Honored One discussed the Plane Construction Method with the First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master, while suspecting the World Honored One was trying to convert him. The First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master uncovered that the World Honored One had deliberately unbalanced the Foundation Establishment Realm’s Five Elements, and the World Honored One resolved to personally deal with him.

  • Lu Yang reasoned that destroying the Foundation Establishment Realm could strengthen Sky Soaring’s prospects of reaching the Netherworld and was part of the World Honored One’s attempt to convert him.
  • Lu Yang chose not to Restart and memorized the World Honored One and the First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master’s discussion of the Plane Construction Method, though he could not understand it.
  • The First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master noticed a huge fissure missing from the Foundation Establishment Realm’s blueprint, and the World Honored One said that a failure there could collapse the realm and kill Foundation Establishment True Persons.
  • The First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master concluded that the fissure resulted from the Five Elements being out of balance and accused the World Honored One of causing it by altering Heavenly River Water’s Supreme position.
  • The World Honored One privately recalled that he had created the flaw to bring the Other Shore Heavenly Collapse forward and secure support for the Netherworld, then decided to personally send the First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master on his way.

Ch. 1040How to Blow Up the Foundation Establishment Realm!

Lu Yang realized the World Honored One had maneuvered events around Heavenly River Water and Great Sea Water to stabilize the Foundation Establishment Realm and advance his bid for the Netherworld. Trapped in a scene of Karma seventy thousand years in the past, Lu Yang learned he could still pursue his plan by taking over the World Honored One’s overseas avatar.

  • Lu Yang inferred that Tian Qiu’s past success and Great Sea Water’s restoration had served the World Honored One’s plan to stabilize the Foundation Establishment Realm before Sky Soaring seized the Netherworld.
  • Lu Yang severed his connection to Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts and resisted the World Honored One’s gradual attempt to convert him.
  • The World Honored One told Lu Yang that monitored Karma would prevent him from leaving until he had gone with the current for roughly five thousand years.
  • Lu Yang worked out that he could widen the Foundation Establishment Realm’s crack by causing another Supreme Position displacement or by letting a True Lord of Heavenly River Water perish.
  • The World Honored One revealed that his blood brother, who cultivated Heavenly River Water, was near death in the Overseas Dragon Palace and proposed that Lu Yang prolong his life until a more useful time.
  • The World Honored One offered Lu Yang the identity of his overseas avatar, a little novice already sent to collect Grotto-Heaven Fragments, so Lu Yang could act without causing abnormal Karma.

Ch. 1041Butterfly on a Spiderweb

Lu Yang headed to the Dragon Palace, suspecting the World Honored One had hidden motives for asking him to extend the life of Old Dragon Lord’s brother. The World Honored One revealed that the Dragon Lord had secretly been his pawn and that Lu Yang’s apparent choice would let him turn Lu Yang into an avatar and advance several other schemes.

  • Lu Yang recalled the Heavenly River Water Dragon Lord and grew wary that the World Honored One wanted to use the Dharma Body Path for a concealed purpose.
  • At Great Thunderclap Temple, the World Honored One watched a Dao Lord search through Karma history for the Calamity Wielder and judged that the Immortal Lord of Tribulation and Karma was doomed.
  • The World Honored One identified Huanyao as the vengeful body he intended to claim for his senior brother.
  • The World Honored One revealed that Old Dragon Lord’s blood brother had been his hidden pawn since his pursuit of the Nascent Soul realm.
  • The World Honored One planned to use Lu Yang’s attempt to extend his avatar’s lifespan to inject Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts into Lu Yang and crush his perfected Dao Heart.
  • The World Honored One expected to convert Lu Yang into his avatar, obtain the Dharma Body Path, and use the resulting upheaval to advance his plans for the Dao Lords and Sky Soaring.

Ch. 1042Life in a Desperate Situation!

Lu Yang infiltrated the Dragon Palace and discovered that the World Honored One’s scheme around the dying Dragon Lord Yu Zhao presented a major pitfall. He used the Hundred Lives Book’s Dove Occupies Magpie’s Nest talent to replace Yu Zhao’s Karma and origin, making himself vanish from the World Honored One’s senses.

  • Lu Yang entered the Dragon Palace disguised as the World Honored One’s novice avatar and subdued Yu Zhao and the Old Dragon Lord.
  • The Immortal Pivot Survival Guide warned Lu Yang that examining Yu Zhao involved a major pitfall, though the Yin-Yang Mirror Divine Fruit revealed nothing.
  • Lu Yang reasoned that one of the Hundred Lives Book’s talents could circumvent the World Honored One’s calculations.
  • Lu Yang used Dove Occupies Magpie’s Nest to take on Yu Zhao’s identity at the level of Karma and origin.
  • The World Honored One sensed Lu Yang’s Karma vanish, leaving only the Old Dragon Lord and Yu Zhao in the Dragon Palace.

Ch. 1043The Style of Fixed Number

Lu Yang used Dove Occupies Magpie's Nest to hide inside Dragon Lord Yu Zhao, escaping the World Honored One's notice in a Karmic Scene seventy thousand years in the past. But the Sacred Sect Ancestor found no trace of him and chose to destroy every Karmic Scene there, threatening Lu Yang's hiding place.

  • Lu Yang used Dove Occupies Magpie's Nest to conceal himself within Dragon Lord Yu Zhao, and the World Honored One failed to find him.
  • The World Honored One concluded that Lu Yang's rescuer had disrupted his plan and decided to pursue other dragon heirs as potential pawns.
  • After the World Honored One left, Dragon Lord Yu Zhao and Old Dragon Lord awakened and continued entrusting the orphan, while Lu Yang discovered the World Honored One's infection within Yu Zhao.
  • Lu Yang realized he would need to hide for five thousand years and planned to study the World Honored One's method of creating planes.
  • The Sacred Sect Ancestor appeared to the World Honored One through the Karmic Net and unleashed a destructive shadow to erase every Karmic Scene seventy thousand years in the past.
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