Recaps

Lu Yang killed Emperor Cang after Heavenly Duke failed to save him, then recognized the powerful figure appearing in the thunderclouds as World Honored One acting through Heavenly Duke. Realizing they were in the same realm, Lu Yang decided to test himself against World Honored One.

• Lu Yang subdued Emperor Cang with the Heaven-Inscription Chapter and changed his sentence from Deferred Beheading to Immediate Beheading.
• Emperor Cang called for Heavenly Duke to save him, but Heavenly Duke did not intervene, and Lu Yang stomped Emperor Cang to death.
• Heavenly Duke appeared in the thunderclouds, and Butian Que and the First Generation Elixir Peak Master recognized the figure as resembling their Big Senior.
• The Great Sword Sect concluded that the figure was no mere projection, and Lu Yang identified him as World Honored One borrowing Heavenly Duke's power.
• Lu Yang realized World Honored One was restricted to the Heaven-Treading Realm and resolved to fight him as a benchmark for his future battle with Chu Sheng.

Shi Tianyi tested Lu Yang by challenging him to prove he could overcome a stronger opponent, then fought him beyond the sky curtain. Lu Yang countered Shi Tianyi’s supreme Buddha treasure with Water Element transformations, but Shi Tianyi pressed his advantage and prepared another technique.

• Shi Tianyi realized Lu Yang had uncovered his identity and decided to test whether Lu Yang could defeat him before considering cooperation against Chu Sheng.
• Lu Yang released the First Generation Elixir Peak Master, then met Shi Tianyi above the sky curtain and unfolded [Heavenly Palace].
• Shi Tianyi manifested a supreme Buddha treasure and used its brute force to tear apart Lu Yang’s [Heavenly Palace].
• Lu Yang transformed into [Milky Way Immortal], but Shi Tianyi used [Life-and-Death Wheel] to weaken him with [Early Death Time].
• Lu Yang countered with [Unfailing River] and repelled Shi Tianyi’s attack, but Shi Tianyi withdrew his Vase Seal and invoked a treasure.

The World Honored One used multiple Dharma treasures to isolate Lu Yang, exhaust his Fortune, and fix his fate as death. Lu Yang unleashed [Fate-Reforming Revolution], broke the World Honored One’s Karma-based defense, and proved himself worthy of cooperation before time reset the battle.

• The World Honored One separated Lu Yang from the twelve Water-Fire Fruit Positions with [Yin-Yang] and used a Guillotine to nearly exhaust Lu Yang’s [Fortune].
• The World Honored One combined [Destiny], [Fixed Number], and [Karma] to declare Lu Yang’s death inevitable, then amplified the death Karma with a Spell-like talisman.
• Lu Yang invoked [Fate-Reforming Revolution], shattered the karmically ordained death, and reunited with the twelve Water-Fire Fruit Positions.
• The World Honored One tried to escape Lu Yang’s charge through [Karma], but [Fire in the Sky] trapped him in place and Lu Yang pierced his Buddhist body.
• Time reversed, erasing the battle, and Lu Yang asked whether he had proved his qualifications to cooperate; the World Honored One touched his pierced brow and agreed.

Lu Yang gained the upper hand against the World Honored One, whom the Great Sword Sect suspected was a Dao Lord from the real world. After their brief battle, the World Honored One assessed Lu Yang’s strength against the other Dao Lords, leaving Lu Yang to consider his chances against them.

• The Great Sword Sect told Ling Xiao that Lu Yang had won against Heavenly Duke, which he suspected was the World Honored One descended from the real world.
• Ling Xiao guessed that the opponent was the World Honored One, and the Great Sword Sect said Lu Yang had gained the upper hand without settling the fight.
• Lu Yang examined False History’s empty heavenly canopy and reflected that filling its gaps might turn the illusion into reality.
• The World Honored One asked how Lu Yang had attained a method resembling [Variable], and Lu Yang offered him a cultivation method Jade Slip.
• The World Honored One compared his strength with that of the other Dao Lords, and Lu Yang estimated his own chances against them.

Lu Yang questioned World Honored One about taking the Immortal Pivot and learned why Huanyao, World Honored One, and the Great Sword Sect chose different paths during the Dao Lord war. World Honored One revealed that the Great Sword Sect’s Sixty-Year Demon Purge had been meant to protect mortals from the Ancestral Dragon, whose power lay behind all cultivators.

• Lu Yang asked World Honored One to help him take the Immortal Pivot, and World Honored One agreed not to oppose him in Jiangdong or Jiangbei while warning that Jiangnan was different.
• World Honored One inferred that Lu Yang came from a later era, and Lu Yang asked why the Great Sword Sect had carried out the Sixty-Year Demon Purge before killing himself.
• World Honored One explained that Huanyao had chosen to establish the Netherworld, while he had sided with Chu Sheng to seek influence in the [Other Shore] and protect his companions.
• World Honored One said the Great Sword Sect had seen Sword Lord’s true nature and focused on protecting mortals after the Ancestral Dragon sought to escape its suppression.
• World Honored One revealed that cultivators traced their origins to the Ancestral Dragon, which could reclaim the power it had granted them.

Lu Yang verified the World Honored One’s account of the Ancestral Dragon with Si Sui and learned how the Ancestral Dragon harvested cultivators to unify the Five Elements. Si Sui agreed that the World Honored One could help them, but insisted he would still have to answer for his past actions.

• Lu Yang realized the Ancestral Dragon had founded cultivator civilization and planned to destroy it, then told the World Honored One he would verify the story with Si Sui.
• Lu Yang contacted Si Sui through [Puppet on Strings] and recounted what the World Honored One had told him.
• Si Sui explained that the Ancestral Dragon had chosen Immortal Pivot as a sacrificial ground and harvested True Lords to unify the five great Heavenly Numbers into the [Five Elements].
• Si Sui said he had joined Chu Sheng’s plan and used [Other Shore] to suppress the Ancestral Dragon, while Lu Yang suspected Chu Sheng had timed his revelation to manipulate Si Sui and gain trust.
• Lu Yang told Si Sui that the World Honored One had abandoned darkness and would help them escape and attain enlightenment.
• Si Sui said the World Honored One must study at his school for one hundred thousand years and pass his assessment before he would forgive him.

Lu Yang secured the World Honored One’s cooperation by revealing that Chu Sheng had attained enlightenment through the River of Time, which was now the Karmic Net. As Lu Yang staged his apparent defeat and retreat, Miao Le mistook it for a real opportunity and decided to intervene.

• Lu Yang told the World Honored One that Si Sui had forgiven him but expected him to study at the academy for a hundred thousand years.
• The World Honored One refused the Deification Method, but Lu Yang revealed that Chu Sheng had used the River of Time—the Karmic Net—to attain enlightenment.
• The World Honored One reacted with fury, then pledged to help Lu Yang spread the method and deal with the remaining obstacles.
• Lu Yang and the World Honored One identified Miao Le and his [Great One Beast] as the final Variable they needed to eliminate.
• Lu Yang appeared to lose the battle and flee toward Jiangxi, convincing Miao Le that the Heavenly Duke had failed to kill him.
• Miao Le decided to stop Lu Yang’s return and join forces with the Heavenly Duke, believing this might be his only chance to attain enlightenment through [Yellow Millet].

Lu Yang and the Heavenly Duke joined forces with the cultivators in Jiangxi to capture Miao Le, the last enemy of False History, Immortal Pivot. As Lu Yang prepared to set False History back on course, the Nascent Soul Pill’s light struck the Real World, rekindling Spirit Transformation Ascension.

• Lu Yang fled toward Jiangxi while the Heavenly Duke pursued him, and Miao Le intervened with the [Yellow Millet] dreamscape just before Lu Yang could escape.
• The [Boundless Dao] blocked Miao Le’s retreat, and cultivators in Jiangxi attacked him from behind as Lu Yang and the Heavenly Duke attacked from the front.
• The combined assault shattered Miao Le’s dreamscape, and the Heavenly Duke captured him under a decree and confined him in his palm.
• Lu Yang resolved to use the Deification Method to take control of False History and restore its proper course by reversing Karma.
• The World Honored One watched True Lord Biluofuguang appear as the [First Generation Elixir Peak Master] and prepare the Nascent Soul Pill.
• Chu Sheng moved at the end of the [Other Shore], and the Nascent Soul Pill’s light crashed from the Netherworld into the Real World, rekindling Spirit Transformation Ascension.

True Lord Biluofuguang completed the Nascent Soul Pill while Dao Tianqi blocked the Sword Lord and Cang Hao, and Chu Sheng intervened to protect and claim it. The pill exploded as Dao Tianqi revealed he had anticipated the deception.

• True Lord Biluofuguang refined the Nascent Soul Pill as the Sword Lord and Cang Hao attacked, but Dao Tianqi blocked them.
• Chu Sheng stopped Cang Hao’s [Heaven] character with a finger, and the Dao Lords discussed the risks of Spirit Transformation Ascension.
• The Nascent Soul Pill emerged from the furnace, and True Lord Biluofuguang seized it.
• Chu Sheng used his true name, Taiyi Heaven, to take the pill from True Lord Biluofuguang and return it to the Other Shore.
• Dao Tianqi spoke of being underestimated, and the Nascent Soul Pill suddenly exploded.

Chu Sheng destroyed the Nascent Soul Pill scheme and exposed the hidden [Heavenly Dao] inside the [Five Elements], causing the [Other Shore] to collapse and triggering the Light Sea’s [Tribulation]. The Ancestral Dragon regained the [Tribulation]’s favor, but the World Honored One questioned how Chu Sheng could still achieve Spirit Transformation Ascension without the [Five Elements].

• Dao Tianqi revealed that he had changed a few Images to turn the Nascent Soul Pill into an explosive pill, and Chu Sheng praised his schemes.
• The Ancestral Dragon learned that the Nascent Soul Pill had been destroyed, but the mysterious voice told him to accept that plans could go awry.
• Chu Sheng deduced that Butian Que had used [Yin-Yang] to hide within the [Heavenly Dao] and stripped the [Heavenly Dao] from the [Five Elements].
• The empty [Five Elements] could no longer support the [Other Shore], which began to collapse and brought forth the [Tribulation].
• The Ancestral Dragon regained the [Tribulation]’s favor, while the World Honored One asked what Chu Sheng would use to ascend now that the [Five Elements] was empty.

Dao Tianqi halted the [Other Shore] from crushing the Light Sea, enabling Chu Sheng’s scheme to replace the [Five Elements] with the [Netherworld]. But the Ancestral Dragon discovered that True Lord Flying Snow and her [Moistening Downward] had vanished, prompting Chu Sheng to suspect a hidden Variable and descend from the Seventh Layer to the Sixth Layer.

• Dao Tianqi emerged from the Netherworld and used its death qi to hold up the falling [Other Shore], saving the Jietian beneath it.
• The World Honored One realized Chu Sheng had engineered the crisis to make Huanyao replace the [Five Elements] with the [Netherworld], and concluded the decisive contest would come on the road to Spirit Transformation Ascension.
• The Ancestral Dragon became the [Tribulation]'s sole choice and found that True Lord Flying Snow, her soul, and the [Moistening Downward] had disappeared from Sacred Fire Cliff.
• Chu Sheng detected crimson radiance lingering in Feixue's brow and deduced that someone had secretly guided her into the Void Darkness.
• Chu Sheng ruled out Wanbao as the one behind Feixue's escape, suspected a hidden Variable, and descended from the Seventh Layer to the Sixth Layer.

True Lord Flying Snow escaped to the Heavenly Palace and took her place as [Divine Offering] while Chu Sheng drove [Other Shore] into Spirit Transformation Ascension. The World Honored One then gave up his Dao-proving, changing history so Si Sui survived and bringing False History back, but his departure also stopped the ascension.

• True Lord Flying Snow reached the Heavenly Palace with [Moistening Downward] and overcame the resistance to merge with the [Divine Offering] seat.
• Chu Sheng used [Fixed Number] to let the Ancestral Dragon mobilize [Tribulation] and drive [Other Shore] toward Spirit Transformation Ascension.
• Chu Sheng warned Sword Lord and Cang Hao that continued interference could destroy the [Heavenly Dao], so they stopped opposing him and turned to False History.
• The World Honored One burned away his Golden Body and relinquished his Dao-proving, changing history so he never joined the battle of 129,600 years ago and Si Sui did not die.
• The World Honored One's departure removed [Karma] from the position of [Yin-Yang], halting Spirit Transformation Ascension as False History began to return.

Chu Sheng discovered that the Heavenly Emperor was connected to the disruption of his plans and tried to recruit him with the Seven Emotions Reaching Heaven Art. The Heavenly Emperor realized Lu Yang had anticipated the offer, but he could not understand the method and was powerless to act.

• The World Honored One abandoned his Dao Lord position, halting the [Other Shore]’s ascent and shocking Chu Sheng.
• Chu Sheng traced a connection through Feixue’s shell into Void Darkness and revealed the [Heavenly Palace].
• The Heavenly Emperor emerged from the Soaring Firmament Hall, and Chu Sheng recognized that he had cultivated the [Red Dust Traversal Method].
• Chu Sheng offered the Heavenly Emperor the [Seven Emotions Reaching Heaven Art] to separate himself from Lu Yang and pursue the Primordial Spirit.
• The Heavenly Emperor could not understand Chu Sheng’s method and realized Lu Yang had expected Chu Sheng’s offer.

After the Heavenly Emperor rejected Chu Sheng’s offer, Chu Sheng refused to abandon Spirit Transformation Ascension and used Fixed Number to stabilize True History. Sword Lord and Cang Hao restarted False History under the Heavenly Dao’s control, but it repeated its former course because a black-robed young man’s talent made his history unique and immune to outside changes.

• The Heavenly Emperor rejected Chu Sheng’s offer, and Chu Sheng decided to keep trying to save Spirit Transformation Ascension rather than abandon it.
• Chu Sheng stepped onto the Fifth Layer and used Fixed Number to halt False History’s return, buying time to preserve the Heavenly Dao.
• Sword Lord and Cang Hao redirected their power toward False History, where the World Honored One had fallen to the perfection of the Golden Core.
• Sword Lord used the Heavenly Dao to collapse and restart False History from its source, expecting to reshape its course at will.
• False History repeated its former course despite Sword Lord’s control, while a black-robed young man revealed the Guest Unwelcome to Heaven and Earth talent that made his history unique.

The World Honored One summoned the [Variable] Great Dao through [Karma], allowing Lu Yang to condense the entire span of False History into a single moment and reach its far future. As the history of True Lord Imperial Ultimate Life Steward resurfaced in the Real World, Chu Sheng’s [Fixed Number] shattered and False History began returning to reality.

• Lu Yang’s [Guest Unwelcome to Heaven and Earth] preserved his victory against the Sword Lord’s attempt to alter False History.
• The World Honored One gathered the faith of Buddhist followers and summoned the [Variable] Great Dao, causing False History to collapse into a timeless singularity.
• Lu Yang used the momentary convergence of past and future to leap to the end of False History, more than a hundred thousand years after Chongguang obtained the Five Elements.
• Chongguang looked over a prosperous Immortal Pivot and remembered the achievements of True Lord Imperial Ultimate Life Steward.
• Living beings in the Real World recalled False History’s buried record, and its returning Karma shattered Chu Sheng’s [Fixed Number].

Lu Yang used [Supreme Dao Assimilation] and the thoughts of the gods in the [Heavenly Palace] to suppress the Heavenly Emperor and forge his Primordial Spirit. As False History merged with the Real World, Lu Yang returned and broke through the limits of the Heaven-Treading Realm.

• Lu Yang entered the final stage of the [Red Dust Traversal Method] and faced the Heavenly Emperor in a battle between their good and evil Primordial Spirits.
• Lu Yang activated [Supreme Dao Assimilation], gaining an advantage the Heavenly Emperor could not copy, and began refining him.
• Lu Yang used [Divine Offering] to gather the thoughts of the gods in the [Heavenly Palace] and bind the Heavenly Emperor in shadows.
• Lu Yang suppressed the Heavenly Emperor, forged his Primordial Spirit, and returned to the Real World as the Heavenly Emperor's figure shattered.
• The World Honored One guided False History through Chu Sheng's blockade, merging it with the Real World as Lu Yang broke through the Heaven-Treading Realm's limits.

After attaining his Primordial Spirit, Lu Yang saw how True History and False History were converging and examined the Great Sword Sect’s history. He discovered that the Sword Lord had deliberately shaped the Great Sword Sect’s loyal, compassionate character, and the chapter ended as she asked him to protect the Light Sea’s living beings.

• Lu Yang used his Primordial Spirit to understand that the two histories were converging, and that Si Sui had to wait for them to diverge before escaping and recovering his missing time.
• Lu Yang recognized the Great Sword Sect as a half-step Dao Lord and examined three histories connected to his past.
• Lu Yang saw that Sword Lord Nian Yao had raised the Great Sword Sect with patient guidance and that his devotion to her ran deep.
• Lu Yang concluded that the Sword Lord had deliberately cultivated the Great Sword Sect’s character to use his loyalty at a crucial moment.
• Lu Yang witnessed the Sword Lord tell the Great Sword Sect that Si Sui had gone to war with Chu Sheng and ask him to protect the Light Sea while the Dao Lords were away.

Lu Yang watched the Great Sword Sect confront the choice of sacrificing himself to keep the Ancestral Dragon imprisoned or surviving to guard the Light Sea. The scene ended with the Great Sword Sect’s three spirits arguing over whether the Dao Lords and Sword Lord could be trusted.

• Lu Yang realized the Great Sword Sect had slaughtered the True Lords to deprive the Ancestral Dragon of anyone from whom to borrow strength.
• The wounded Great Sword Sect recognized that he himself remained the Ancestral Dragon’s most suitable target.
• The Great Sword Sect split into three spirits that argued for survival, self-sacrifice, and releasing the Ancestral Dragon.
• The self-sacrificing spirit said his death would prevent the Ancestral Dragon from escaping through him and explained that the Grotto-Heaven Method could weaken it.
• The sinister spirit accused Nian Yao, Si Sui, Chu Sheng, and the Dao Lords of plotting against one another, calling them all beasts.

Lu Yang witnessed Great Sword Sect’s struggle over sacrificing himself to stop the Ancestral Dragon and preserve the world from the Dao Lords. After Great Sword Sect took his own life, Lu Yang told the Ancestral Dragon that he had seen and remembered the deed, and would restore its meaning through history.

• Great Sword Sect debated whether his slaughter of cultivators and planned suicide were justified, insisting that his actions were all he could do to prevent greater deaths.
• An indifferent Great Sword Sect urged him to stay alive and use the Ancestral Dragon as leverage against the Dao Lords, while the Demon Dragon warned that their victory would erase Great Sword Sect from history.
• Great Sword Sect rejected the Demon Dragon’s warning, declaring that his actions had meaning in the present, then reunited his divided spirits and cut his own throat.
• In the first month of Immortal Calendar 264, Great Sword Sect died in Jiangnan, and the Ancestral Dragon raged for three months over his choice.
• Lu Yang appeared beside Great Sword Sect’s corpse and told the Ancestral Dragon that he had witnessed and remembered the sacrifice, promising to bring its meaning back from history.

Lu Yang learned the Great Sword Sect’s forgotten history and received a supreme Dharma Sword forged through the sect’s sacrifice. As the Dao Lords prepared to descend, Lu Yang named the sword Heaven Execution and readied himself for the coming trial.

• Lu Yang explained that his witnessing the original First History restored its buried karma, while the Great Sword Sect recalled its past and accepted that its Dao Path had ended.
• The Great Sword Sect warned Lu Yang that his battle methods were inadequate to face the Sword Lord and offered to become a weapon for him.
• The Great Sword Sect united its three spirits to manifest a temporary Primordial Spirit and sacrificed itself to forge a supreme Dharma Sword from Sword Pavilion Gate and Extreme Heaven Cliff.
• The Sword Lord sensed Sanhe’s return and regretted not killing the Great Sword Sect more thoroughly.
• Lu Yang emerged with the Dharma Sword, named it Heaven Execution, and prepared for the Dao Lords’ descent.

The return of True History reshaped the Light Sea, restored the dead, and brought the collapse of [Other Shore] and the Dao Lords’ fury. Dao Tianqi resolved to bear the burden of holding the Light Sea together, while the World Honored One hoped Lu Yang could help keep him from being crippled.

• The upheaval from the Immortal Pivot restored lifespan to petrified True Lords in the Star Palace, and Haoyuan Upper True identified Lord Si Sui’s power as its source.
• Immortal Venerable Greater Yin watched the Celestial Court disappear, recovered memories of a history that should not have existed, and witnessed True History divide the Light Sea into ninety-nine provinces.
• The Deification Method spread through the Light Sea, severing it from Void Darkness and [Other Shore] as the Dao Lords’ power threatened to destroy the world.
• False History returned the dead to the Immortal Pivot, while Dao Tianqi and the World Honored One discussed the approaching destruction and the danger of Dao Tianqi bearing its burden alone.
• The World Honored One looked toward Lu Yang and his Dharma Sword, hoping he could help Dao Tianqi withstand the collapse of [Other Shore].

As [Other Shore] collided with the Netherworld and Heaven's collapse threatened the Light Sea, Lu Yang arrived with the strength of the people behind him. He rallied the Light Sea to withstand the destruction, ending with a proclamation of his vow to save the common folk.

• The World Honored One used the Foundation Establishment Realm to divert some of Heaven's destructive fire but warned Dao Tianqi that they might need to withdraw.
• Dao Tianqi told the World Honored One that the Light Sea's living beings were not helpless and that one powerful person could not save them alone.
• Lu Yang rose through the realms as countless people behind him lifted his rank, then greeted Dao Tianqi and asked him to leave the next step to the Light Sea.
• The Netherworld withdrew, and Lu Yang led the Light Sea's gathered powers to form a Great Wall and withstand the remaining fire of Heaven's collapse.
• Lu Yang proclaimed his vow to save the common folk, transform the cosmos, and usher in a new spring.

As the Dao Lords prepared to dismantle the first and second layers, Lu Yang gathered the power and aid of his allies to transform the Light Sea. The Light Sea rose, surprising even Chu Sheng and the other Dao Lords.

• The Sword Lord proposed dismantling the first and second layers to punish Lu Yang and force Dao Tianqi to intervene, and the other Dao Lords agreed.
• Chu Sheng ignored their plan and watched Si Sui re-emerge, wondering whether he could cultivate back to the innate and become a Dao Lord.
• Lu Yang confronted the falling Heaven-Tipping Fire with crimson radiance and invoked [Divine Offering].
• True Lord Flying Snow, True Person Demon-Sweeping, Ling Xiao, and Patriarch Tingyou joined Lu Yang's growing phantom of light with their powers.
• Lu Yang invoked [Fate-Reforming Revolution], bringing the [Heavenly Palace] into the Light Sea and merging it with the phantom.
• The Light Sea rose, leaving the Dao Lords astonished.

Lu Yang transformed the Light Sea into a giant that blocked the Dao Lords’ attack and severed their access to its foundation, leaving Dharma Power Dao Lord Du Xuan especially vulnerable. After the Dao Lords agreed that Du Xuan would descend first, a blazing figure tore through the giant’s defenses and struck its brow.

• The Light Sea formed a giant whose light-made hands blocked the Heaven-Tipping Fire and shattered the [Other Shore] fragments within it.
• Immortal Venerable Greater Yin lost access to her Fruit Position and powers, then regained them by circulating the Deification Method.
• Dharma Power Dao Lord Du Xuan discovered his lineage had been severed and his connection to the Dharma Power Dao was weakening.
• Cang Hao urged Du Xuan to descend first, and Du Xuan agreed after Spell Dao Lord approved and promised support.
• A blazing figure tore through the giant’s palm and struck its brow with the force of status descending from [Other Shore].

Du Xuan descended into the Light Sea with an [Other Shore] fragment and tried to strip its cultivators of dharma power, but Lu Yang revealed that he had become the Light Sea itself and drove Du Xuan out with a devastating fist. The Dao Lords on [Other Shore] recognized Lu Yang as a true enemy in the Dao Struggle.

• Du Xuan descended into the Light Sea and found that its cultivators retained their dharma power despite his attempt to strip it away.
• Du Xuan attacked Lu Yang by turning Lu Yang's own dharma power against him, but Lu Yang vanished into the Light Sea.
• Lu Yang revealed himself as the Light Sea and gathered its Great Daos and marvels into the Light Sea Origin of Myriad Daos fist.
• Lu Yang's fist shattered Du Xuan's power and blasted his true body out of the Light Sea.
• Lu Yang declared that the Light Sea did not welcome Du Xuan, and the Dao Lords on [Other Shore] recognized Lu Yang as an enemy worthy of the Dao Struggle.