Recaps

Lu Yang used the Reincarnation Life-and-Death Pill to enter the Netherworld and discovered that it could deceive the Netherworld into marking him as a dead spirit. As he crossed the Bridge of Forgetfulness, he saw eight stars overhead and realized the Dao Lords were watching him.

• True Person Demon-Sweeping dispersed his cultivation and agreed to test Lu Yang's Great Void Resonance Canon while studying the three Sword God Heart Fasts.
• Lu Yang protected True Person Demon-Sweeping with the Righteous Banner and swallowed the Reincarnation Life-and-Death Pill to pursue his goals in the Netherworld.
• The pill deceived the Netherworld by making Lu Yang's apparent death draw guidance from the Yellow Springs Road.
• Lu Yang followed the Netherworld's guidance past the Ghost Gate and onto the Yellow Springs Road, where the Bridge of Forgetfulness's power marked the pill as a dead spirit.
• Lu Yang saw eight stars above the Netherworld and recognized the four pairs of watching eyes as the Dao Lords.

Lu Yang discovered that the Four Dogs of Immortal Pivot controlled most of the Netherworld, then survived the World Honored One’s inspection by hiding behind the Reincarnation Life-and-Death Pill. The World Honored One mistook him for Danding and seemed to believe he had come to rescue the First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master.

• Lu Yang realized the Four Dogs of Immortal Pivot controlled five components of the Netherworld and had sealed off a route for escaping the Light Sea.
• The World Honored One and other Dao Lords raised the Bridge of Forgetfulness and exposed its true spirits to their Images, erasing thousands of them.
• The World Honored One swept the surviving spirits with Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts, but Lu Yang’s Heart Fasting resisted the contamination.
• The World Honored One stopped short of searching Lu Yang’s consciousness after noticing the Reincarnation Life-and-Death Pill.
• The World Honored One addressed Lu Yang as Danding, and Lu Yang concluded that he had been mistaken for the First Generation Elixir Peak Master.

Lu Yang crossed the Netherworld’s checkpoints and leaped from the Three Lives Stone into the Four Directions Ghost Domain. He arrived in the Ming Luo Tree Sea just as three embattled dead spirits despaired of finding a savior, and his arrival left them stunned.

• Lu Yang reasoned that the World Honored One guarded the Bridge of Forgetfulness, while the Sword Pavilion Dao Lord, the Dao Court Lord, and the Sacred Sect Ancestor controlled other parts of the passage into the Netherworld.
• Lu Yang passed the Three Lives Stone without incident and jumped from the precipice into the Four Directions Ghost Domain.
• In the Ming Luo Tree Sea, Xuan Fa, Hong Li, and Hao Jiang prepared to flee as hostile dead spirits threatened their refuge and argued over whether Lord Si Sui had died.
• Hao Jiang said no savior would come, and a brilliant light crashed into the Ming Luo Tree Sea, forming a powerful figure before the three men.

Lu Yang learned that the Taihao Sect’s inheritance treated Dharma Bodies as fields for nurturing Spiritual Plants, and he recognized the Netherworld as a chance to study ancient cultivation methods. After hearing about Dragon-Tiger Mountain’s call for surviving ancient-method cultivators, he headed toward the besieged Taihao instead, intending to defeat several True Lords and take their heads as proof of his allegiance.

• Lu Yang questioned three Foundation Establishment undead spirits and learned he was in the Ming Luo Tree Sea, where the Taihao Sect’s survivors were sheltering.
• Heaven's Gatekeeper explained that the World Honored One had killed Great True Lord Ming Luo and described the Taihao Sect’s Spiritual Plant-based Dharma Body inheritance.
• Lu Yang realized the Netherworld’s ancient methods could help him build his own inheritance.
• Hong Li told Lu Yang that Dragon-Tiger Mountain was gathering ancient-method cultivators and urged him to go there rather than risk himself in the doomed Ming Luo Tree Sea.
• Lu Yang told the undead spirits to stay put and walked toward the center of the Ming Luo Tree Sea to take the heads of the besieging True Lords.

True Lord Taihao was overwhelmed by three Dao Court True Lords, but she used the Scatter Beans to Make Soldiers Technique to seek a way out. Precious Wheel Wugou Bodhisattva was forgotten amid the battle and found himself trapped beneath a strange lamp as a black-robed man appeared.

• Bodhisattva Wugou struck True Lord Taihao with his True Principle Wheel, and the sword-wielding True Lord sent her crashing into the Ming Luo Tree Sea.
• True Lord Taihao raised the Tree Sea into a colossal giant, but Grand Preceptor Shangxuan Fubi used the Northern Feng Capital-Sealing Seal to suppress it.
• True Lord Taihao scattered her golden beans into Illusory Bodies, hoping one would escape and give her disciples a chance to flee.
• Precious Wheel Wugou Bodhisattva realized that everyone had forgotten his existence as a lamp’s light revealed a black-robed man standing over him.

Lu Yang learned that the Netherworld’s Dao Court ruled most Grotto-Heaven cultivators and realized its system sent generations of powerful true spirits there. He intervened to restore Taihao True Lord’s strength, but the sword-wielding True Lord dismissed his suspicions and continued fighting her.

• Precious Wheel Immaculate Bodhisattva recognized Lu Yang as a Great True Lord and explained how the Netherworld recreated undead cultivators’ powers.
• Immaculate Bodhisattva revealed that Grand Preceptor Shang Xuan had died only about five thousand years earlier and was valued by the Netherworld’s Dao Court.
• Lu Yang deduced that Emperor Jiayou had secretly killed the former Grand Preceptor and that the Dao Court’s true power lay in the Netherworld.
• Immaculate Bodhisattva told Lu Yang that the Netherworld’s Dao Court ruled nearly all Grotto-Heaven Method cultivators, prompting Lu Yang to understand how the Dao Court sent powerful true spirits there.
• Lu Yang reached out, and Taihao True Lord regained her strength and battered the sword-wielding True Lord with her Spiritual Plants.
• The sword-wielding True Lord used his Sword Light to clear his mind, then decided nothing had been wrong.

Lu Yang investigated the Netherworld’s imitation of the Immortal Kingdom Dao Law and captured True Lord Zaoyuan Yingguang while Taihao True Lord fought him. After Taihao fled and found herself trapped by Lu Yang’s Boundless Dao, he claimed to practice the Precious Life Complete Form Scripture and persuaded her that he was not a bad person.

• Lu Yang vivisected the former Grand Preceptor and confirmed that the Netherworld had simulated the Immortal Kingdom Dao Law rather than importing the real one.
• Lu Yang captured True Lord Zaoyuan Yingguang to examine the Netherworld’s simulated Fruit Position, and Taihao True Lord discovered him after the battle’s mysteries lifted.
• Taihao True Lord remembered Lu Yang and fled with her disciples, but Lu Yang sealed the paths with Boundless Dao and forced her back.
• Taihao True Lord stopped trying to escape, bowed to Lu Yang, and guessed that he practiced the Precious Life Complete Form Scripture.
• Lu Yang agreed with Taihao True Lord’s guess and asked whether she believed he was not a bad person, and she nodded repeatedly.

Taihao True Lord gave Lu Yang the seed of the unfinished Taihao Divine Wood, which contained her sect’s inheritance, and he decided to use it to create a Great Forest Wood True Treasure. He planned to cultivate the seed to seize the Netherworld’s power, but still needed to find a suitable place for it to grow.

• Taihao True Lord collapsed the Ming Luo Tree Sea into a seed and explained that her Master had failed to make the Taihao Divine Wood thrive in the Netherworld.
• Lu Yang suggested that Ming Luo had lacked suitable wood-element resources, and Taihao True Lord agreed that her Master had ultimately sacrificed himself to grow the tree sea.
• Taihao True Lord entrusted Lu Yang with the Divine Wood seed and its Taihao Sect inheritance, and Lu Yang accepted it.
• Lu Yang handed his three True Lord captives to Taihao True Lord to interrogate about the Netherworld’s Great True Lords.
• Lu Yang decided to refine the Divine Wood seed into a Great Forest Wood True Treasure and use it to seize the Netherworld’s power.
• Lu Yang wondered where the Divine Wood could best grow and devour the Netherworld’s Creation.

Lu Yang learned that the Ten-Thousand Refinement Blood Pool on Northern Feng Mountain could nourish the divine tree seed, but it was guarded by the Grotto-Heaven Method and a traitor’s avatar. Taihao True Lord revealed that the traitor, Emperor Cang, had betrayed Lord Si Sui during the ancient Dao Lord war and was now the Dao Court’s first Son of Heaven.

• Taihao True Lord awakened the three captured True Lords, and Ying Guang True Lord urged her to defect to their side.
• Lu Yang asked where the divine tree seed should take root, and Ying Guang True Lord identified the Ten-Thousand Refinement Blood Pool atop Northern Feng Mountain.
• Taihao True Lord warned that the pool was the Grotto-Heaven Method’s foundation and that a traitor had an avatar there.
• Taihao True Lord revealed that Cang, Lord Si Sui’s last disciple, had betrayed him during the final battle and caused his defeat.
• Taihao True Lord identified Cang as Emperor Cang, the Dao Court’s first Son of Heaven, whose true body remained in the Nether Capital.

Lu Yang learned that Emperor Cang had betrayed Lord Si Sui and created three powerful avatars, while True Lord Ying Guang defended a plan to exploit souls through reincarnation. Lu Yang destroyed Ying Guang with a single palm, leaving the conflict over the Netherworld unresolved.

• True Lord Taihao revealed that her master had identified the first Dao Court Son of Heaven as Lord Si Sui’s traitor, fought his avatar at the Ten-Thousand Refinement Blood Pool, and died after being ambushed.
• Heaven's Gatekeeper admitted he had not known the traitor was Emperor Cang and explained that Cang had created the Three Profound Heaven-Observing True Method and three avatars.
• True Lord Taihao confirmed that many Three Foundations Dao cultivators had defected alongside Emperor Cang, while True Lord Ying Guang argued that controlling the Netherworld would let cultivators exploit souls and dead spirits indefinitely.
• Lu Yang asked whether True Lords would also be subjected to the reincarnation cycle, prompting Ying Guang to claim that his rank exempted him.
• Ying Guang's hidden sword qi activated, but Lu Yang shattered it and erased Ying Guang with Heaven Within the Palm.

Lu Yang killed Ying Guang True Lord, then left the Ming Luo Tree Sea with Taihao True Lord and two captives. Xin Ye Great True Lord investigated the scene and concluded that Lu Yang and the others had ambushed Ying Guang for treasure.

• After Ying Guang True Lord died, the former Grand Preceptor and Wugou Bodhisattva offered to guide Lu Yang to the Ten-Thousand Refinement Blood Pool and revealed what they knew about the Netherworld’s powerful figures.
• Taihao True Lord warned that Ying Guang’s death would alert the Sword Pavilion, and Lu Yang agreed that they had already been noticed.
• Lu Yang displayed the Floating Light Realm Sea Great Immortal Art, then told Taihao True Lord to gather everyone and leave before the Sword Pavilion arrived.
• Less than half an hour later, Xin Ye Great True Lord and two others reached the crater left by the vanished Ming Luo Tree Sea and used the Sin Mirror Illuminating Karma Grand Spell to investigate.
• Xin Ye Great True Lord identified the attackers’ Fruit Position profundities and inferred that Lu Yang, Precious Wheel, Shang Xuan, and a third person had ambushed Ying Guang for treasure and fled.

Great True Lord Xin Ye concluded that a Spell Dao Great True Lord had killed Ying Guang and ordered a force to hunt the culprit at Northern Feng Mountain. Lu Yang used divination to realize his ruse had drawn the Netherworld forces away, then set off with True Lord Taihao for the Ten-Thousand Refinement Blood Pool.

• Great True Lord Xin Ye rejected True Lord Golden Hall’s suspicion that a Dharma Body Path Great True Lord had acted and identified a Spell Dao Great True Lord as the likely culprit.
• Great True Lord Xin Ye guessed the culprit had rescued True Lord Taihao to gain her trust and access Great True Lord Ming Luo’s hidden reserves.
• Bodhisattva Baoyu Mianxiang suggested Wugou and Shang Xuan had survived because they surrendered quickly.
• Great True Lord Xin Ye ordered his forces, Heaven Furnace, and Youhai to pursue the Spell Dao Great True Lord at Northern Feng Mountain.
• Lu Yang read the trigrams and realized the Spell Image had lured the Netherworld forces away, leaving Northern Feng Mountain unguarded.
• Lu Yang told True Lord Taihao to accompany him to the Ten-Thousand Refinement Blood Pool.

A Spell Dao infiltrator fled toward Northern Feng Mountain after the Ming Luo Tree Sea vanished, while Lu Yang and Taihao True Lord slipped past the mountain’s defenses. Lu Yang declared the mountain his opportunity and made Northern Feng Mountain disappear from the Four Directions Ghost Domain.

• A disguised Spell Dao infiltrator suspected that the Ming Luo Tree Sea incident was a trap and tried to flee Northern Feng Mountain.
• The infiltrator’s fate jade cracked, warning him that escape meant certain death, so he turned back toward Northern Feng Mountain.
• A young man cultivated alone in the Ten-Thousand Refinement Blood Pool while Xin Ye and others pursued the suspected Great True Lord of the Spell Dao.
• Lu Yang and Taihao True Lord passed unnoticed through the Grotto-Heaven Method’s formations with the aid of a bright lamp.
• Lu Yang said Northern Feng Mountain was his opportunity, closed his hand, and made the mountain vanish from the Four Directions Ghost Domain.

Lu Yang concealed his presence from the Immortal Bridge cultivator at Northern Feng Mountain by falsifying the mountain’s karmic signals, then climbed with Taihao True Lord and Patriarch Tingyou. Patriarch Tingyou sensed a hidden entrance that could let them bypass the summit’s barrier formation.

• At the summit, the young man sensed danger, but his divination found nothing amiss, so he resumed cultivating after concluding his intended attacker had given up.
• At the foot of Northern Feng Mountain, Lu Yang used Radiance, the dead spirits’ karmic threads, and [Heaven Within the Palm] to deceive the Karmic Net and conceal the danger from the young man.
• Lu Yang and Taihao True Lord climbed the mountain, and Lu Yang summoned Patriarch Tingyou, who said the place felt familiar and improved his thoughts and comprehension.
• Taihao True Lord explained that a barrier formation encircled the summit and lowered anyone who entered from the formation’s standing.
• Patriarch Tingyou found a hidden entrance at the mountain’s edge, where the rock sank inward to reveal a pitch-black passage.

Lu Yang and his companions explored a cave in Northern Feng Mountain and discovered that the mountain was condensed from degraded Void Darkness. Patriarch Tingyou realized that Void Darkness, the void, planes, and Grotto-Heavens formed a God-Ascending Ladder, explaining why the Grotto-Heaven Method surpassed other cultivation methods.

• Lu Yang checked the newly appeared cave for traps, entered with True Lord Taihao, and used the Covered Lamp Fire to reveal traces of Void Darkness.
• Patriarch Tingyou and True Person Demon-Sweeping examined the cave walls and concluded that Northern Feng Mountain was condensed from a degraded form of Void Darkness.
• Patriarch Tingyou drew Xuan energy from the mountain, released it, and watched it unfold into countless interwoven Images.
• Patriarch Tingyou realized that Void Darkness descended into the void, then planes and Grotto-Heavens, forming a God-Ascending Ladder.
• Patriarch Tingyou explained that Chu Sheng added Grotto-Heavens beneath the Light Sea plane, making the Grotto-Heaven Method uniquely able to wield powerful Immortal Pivot Fruit Positions.

Lu Yang and True Lord Taihao used the Dragon-Banishing Ruler to understand how the God-Ascending Ladder related cultivation realms to planes. Lu Yang concluded that the Sacred Sect Ancestor had engineered a flaw in the Grotto-Heaven Method and suspected True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow was a Variable destined to become the Dao Lord of Tribulation.

• True Lord Taihao found Patriarch Tingyou's discussion incomprehensible until Lu Yang struck him with the Dragon-Banishing Ruler and awakened his wisdom-light.
• Lu Yang and True Lord Taihao deduced that Great True Lords sought to raise themselves to the status of a plane, and Lu Yang concluded that the Heaven-Treading Realm involved creating something akin to a plane.
• Lu Yang realized that the Grotto-Heaven Method's incomplete planes limited its practitioners, while [Sky Soaring] had used an Empty Attainment Fruit Position to mend a flaw in his Five Elements Perfection Grotto-Heaven.
• Lu Yang concluded that Immortal Venerable Greater Yin could not use her Empty Attainment [Gathering of All Gold] to mend her Grotto-Heaven's flaw, leaving her Nascent Soul prospects at roughly ten percent.
• Lu Yang connected True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow's [Moistening Downward] Fruit Position to a possible way of repairing her Grotto-Heaven and suspected she was a Variable from False History chosen to become the Dao Lord of Tribulation.

Lu Yang learned more about the Void Stones and the limits of the Immortal Bridge Realm, then prepared to deal with Emperor Cang’s avatar at the Ten-Thousand Refinement Blood Pool. When the avatar tried to escape Northern Feng Mountain, Lu Yang twisted his path and sent him back inside.

• Lu Yang thanked Patriarch Tingyou for revealing secrets about the Grotto-Heaven Method and the Void Stones, and realized that reaching Sky-Stepping required more than two Immortal Bridges.
• Taihao True Lord identified the summit as the location of the Ten-Thousand Refinement Blood Pool and waited for Lu Yang’s instructions.
• Emperor Cang’s avatar sensed danger, discovered Northern Feng Mountain had been sealed off, and suspected a powerful supreme treasure was involved.
• Lu Yang decided against attacking the avatar directly because a battle could expose him and damage Heaven Within the Palm.
• Emperor Cang’s avatar flew toward the mountain’s exit, but Lu Yang used the Heaven-Rotating Sun-Turning Dao Fruit to twist his path and send him back into Northern Feng Mountain.

Lu Yang trapped Emperor Cang's avatar in Northern Feng Mountain and overwhelmed him with silver incarnations, a self-detonation, and two supreme treasures. Emperor Cang escaped their prison by detonating the Ten-Thousand Refinement Blood Pool, only to crash headfirst into the mountain wall.

• Patriarch Tingyou closed the passage gate after Emperor Cang's avatar fell into Northern Feng Mountain, where Lu Yang's silver incarnations attacked him.
• Emperor Cang's avatar summoned the Ten-Thousand Refinement Blood Pool to block the incarnations, but Lu Yang ordered them to self-detonate and badly burned him.
• Lu Yang trapped Emperor Cang's avatar inside the Dao-Seeking Heavenly Gate Diagram and struck it with the Northern Exorcism Institute.
• Emperor Cang's avatar detonated the Ten-Thousand Refinement Blood Pool, blasting the Institute away and tearing open the diagram so he could flee.
• Emperor Cang's avatar charged in a random direction, expecting to escape, but smashed his head bloody against Northern Feng Mountain.

Lu Yang suppressed Emperor Cang's avatar on Northern Feng Mountain and destroyed it with Divine Firmament Thunder. The avatar's death alerted powers in Nether Capital, while a Spell Dao spy discovered that Northern Feng Mountain had vanished.

• Emperor Cang's avatar crashed into Northern Feng Mountain, and Lu Yang used the Dao-Seeking Heavenly Gate Diagram, the Northern Exorcism Institute, the Dragon-Banishing Ruler, and Sword Light to suppress him.
• Lu Yang deflected Emperor Cang's avatar's offers and claims, then struck him with Divine Firmament Thunder and destroyed him.
• A Golden Light rose in Nether Capital, where a voice reacted to Blue Heaven's avatar's death and a young man wondered who had killed him.
• A Spell Dao spy disguised as a Foundation Establishment cultivator searched for Northern Feng Mountain, repeatedly lost his way, and realized the mountain had disappeared.

At the border between Northern Feng Mountain and Mount Luofu, Great True Lord Xin Ye and his allies confronted True Lord Zhifa Chiyuan and argued over their betrayal of the Dao Lords. Emperor Cang then ordered Xin Ye to return after Northern Feng Mountain vanished and his Azure Heaven Avatar was slain, leaving Xin Ye convinced that Chiyuan had staged a diversion.

• Great True Lord Xin Ye, Great True Lord Youhai, and True Lord Heaven Furnace Smelts the World joined forces against True Lord Zhifa Chiyuan but were suppressed by his True Dharma Body.
• Great True Lord Youhai accused the Dao Lord of abandoning them, while Great True Lord Xin Ye said they had joined Emperor Cang for the [Ten-Thousand Refinement Blood Pool].
• True Lord Zhifa Chiyuan insisted that Xin Ye and Youhai were wrong, saying that some things would never be wrong.
• Emperor Cang ordered Great True Lord Xin Ye, Great True Lord Youhai, and True Lord Heaven Furnace Smelts the World to return after Northern Feng Mountain vanished, the Azure Heaven Avatar was slain, and the [Ten-Thousand Refinement Blood Pool] was taken.
• Emperor Cang assured Xin Ye that the attacker was no stronger than Immortal Bridge and said his true body would also go to Northern Feng Mountain.
• Great True Lord Xin Ye accused True Lord Zhifa Chiyuan of using the confrontation as a diversion for the attack on Northern Feng Mountain.

Lu Yang contacted True Lord Zhifa Chiyuan through Qing Kui and agreed to join forces against Emperor Cang. He then revealed to Taihao True Lord that they would avoid the ambush at Northern Feng Mountain and head for Embracing-Calf Mountain instead.

• Qing Kui was transported to the vanished Northern Feng Mountain, where he saw Lu Yang gathering pill fire from the Ten-Thousand Refinement Blood Pool.
• Lu Yang used Qing Kui’s jade statue to contact True Lord Zhifa Chiyuan and propose a joint operation.
• True Lord Zhifa Chiyuan warned Lu Yang that Emperor Cang’s true body was powerful and that the Dao Court controlled Embracing-Calf Mountain and Mount Bozhong.
• Lu Yang and True Lord Zhifa Chiyuan agreed to gather at Northern Feng Mountain and ambush Emperor Cang’s group.
• Lu Yang knocked Qing Kui unconscious and sent him away after Taihao True Lord excitedly suggested using the mountain’s formation.
• Lu Yang corrected Taihao True Lord, ordering a retreat to Embracing-Calf Mountain so Emperor Cang’s forces could fight among themselves.

Lu Yang traveled to Embracing-Calf Mountain and learned that three Dao Court Great True Lords guarded it, with Emperor Cang able to reinforce them. He decided to kill them all by sacrificing a supreme treasure, then fixed his attention on Heaven's Gatekeeper.

• Lu Yang and Taihao True Lord used Patriarch Tingyou's passage to enter Embracing-Calf Mountain and evade its formations.
• The former Grand Preceptor identified the mountain's three Merge with Dao guardians and explained how Dao Court ministers could claim Grotto-Heavens; he also warned that Emperor Cang could arrive as reinforcements.
• Taihao True Lord cautioned Lu Yang that defeating the three guardians would be difficult, but Lu Yang insisted on wiping out the Ghost Domain to conceal the cost of exposing his origins.
• Heaven's Gatekeeper urged Lu Yang to make a small sacrifice to kill the guardians, and Lu Yang proposed blowing up a supreme treasure like the Ten-Thousand Refinement Blood Pool.
• Lu Yang stared at Heaven's Gatekeeper as he suggested sacrificing a supreme treasure, leaving Heaven's Gatekeeper stunned.

Lu Yang discovered that the Divine Tree Seed was drawing knowledge from Si Sui’s past sermons to accelerate his mastery of Great Forest Wood, and he planned to use the Ten-Thousand Refinement Blood Pool to strengthen the resulting True Treasure. He also mapped out a concealed path to the Heaven-Treading Realm by transforming Yellow Court with his five True Treasures and Divine Firmament Thunder.

• Lu Yang tucked away the Dao-Seeking Heavenly Gate Diagram and prepared to use the recovering Ten-Thousand Refinement Blood Pool, accepting that it might be destroyed.
• Lu Yang saw the Divine Tree Seed absorb the pool’s pill fire and reveal scenes of Si Sui preaching, which taught him wood-element knowledge and accelerated his understanding of Great Forest Wood.
• Lu Yang decided to feed Great True Lords to the blood pool to restore it, then let the Divine Tree Seed drain it to create a powerful Great Forest Wood True Treasure.
• Lu Yang concluded that the Grotto-Heaven Method offered a universal path to plane creation, while Yellow Court could become a plane after he gathered five True Treasures and completed Empty Attainment.
• Lu Yang planned to use Divine Firmament Thunder to repair the Grotto-Heaven Method’s flaw, empowered by the Dharma Body Path and Northern Exorcism Institute, and conceal his Heaven-Treading advancement beyond the Light Sea.

Lu Yang infiltrated a Netherworld palace disguised as a Dao Court undead True Lord and tricked three Great True Lords into accepting the Dao-Seeking Heavenly Gate Diagram. He detonated the supreme treasure in their grasp, leaving their fate unresolved.

• Three Dao Court Great True Lords feasted and mocked the failures at Northern Feng Mountain while refusing to send support.
• Lu Yang entered in disguise, knelt before the Great True Lords, and claimed the Celestial Master Mansion planned to surround and kill His Majesty's true body.
• Lu Yang presented the Dao-Seeking Heavenly Gate Diagram as intelligence, using Covered Lamp Fire and the Yin-Yang Mirror Divine Fruit to suppress the Great True Lords' suspicions.
• The dragon-robed Great True Lord realized the scroll was suspicious, but Lu Yang forced him to open it.
• The Dao-Seeking Heavenly Gate Diagram exploded as the three Great True Lords watched a beam of light in despair.

Lu Yang slaughtered the three Great True Lords guarding Embracing-Calf Mountain and used the resulting spiritual essence to nourish a divine wood seed. As he and Emperor Cang prepared to confront each other, Sky Soaring began reversing Quzhi’s position to restore his Great True Lord cultivation in the Real World.

• Emperor Cang sensed Lu Yang destroy the three Great True Lords at Embracing-Calf Mountain with the [Dao-Seeking Heavenly Gate Diagram], while True Lord Zhifa Chiyuan recognized the ambush and attacked Emperor Cang to buy Lu Yang time.
• Lu Yang burned through Embracing-Calf Mountain, killed its undead spirits, and fed their spiritual essence into the growing divine wood seed.
• Emperor Cang confronted Lu Yang through [Heavenly Rules and Earthly Principles] but hesitated to attack because Lu Yang threatened to destroy the damaged [Dao-Seeking Heavenly Gate Diagram].
• As Emperor Cang’s net descended toward Embracing-Calf Mountain, Quzhi erupted from the Netherworld and rose toward the Real World, revealing that Sky Soaring was trying to restore his Great True Lord cultivation.