Recaps

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hongju’s attempt to kill Lu Yang through the Same Fate Fortune-Shifting Ledger failed when Lu Yang broke through, earning Hongju heavenly punishment and forcing him to rewrite his plan and enter seclusion. After Lu Yang explained Wu Cang’s death to the Sacred Sect True Persons, True Person Chongguang summoned him, and Lu Yang decided to tell Chongguang about Hongyun and the dangerous overseas mission.

• Hongju’s written Destiny that Wu Cang would kill Lu Yang triggered heavenly punishment after Lu Yang broke through to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, costing Hongju a tenth of his Merit Fortune.
• Hongju erased the failed Destiny, wrote that Lu Yang would die overseas, and sealed his cave abode to enter seclusion.
• At Mending Heaven Peak, Lu Yang showed the True Persons Wu Cang’s soul in the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner and had him explain his actions, quieting their suspicions.
• True Person Chongguang summoned Lu Yang to Sacred Fire Cliff, pleased by his breakthrough.
• Lu Yang decided to tell True Person Chongguang about Hongyun and seek help with the dangerous overseas mission to the Biyang Cultivation World.

Lu Yang told True Person Chongguang about Wu Cang’s attack and the overseas Biyang Cultivation World, prompting Chongguang to uncover a connection to Daoist Hongyun and the Primordial True Person’s inheritance. True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow ordered Lu Yang overseas with a handwritten letter, promising to clear the way for him.

• Lu Yang claimed Wu Cang’s attack was part of a plot, and True Person Chongguang suspected True Person Hongju of scheming against him.
• Lu Yang said Wu Cang had tried to silence him after he learned of Daoist Hongyun’s overseas contingencies, then revealed the Biyang Cultivation World and the Imperial Golden Seal of Daoshuai True Decree.
• True Person Chongguang explained that the Primordial True Person had been an incarnation of calamity fortune whose inheritance was bound by Karma to the Sacred Sect.
• True Person Chongguang reported the matter to True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow, whose gaze examined Lu Yang before a handwritten letter arrived.
• True Person Chongguang gave Lu Yang the letter ordering him to travel overseas to resolve his Karma, promising to clear the way for him.

Lu Yang left the Sacred Sect after True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow offered to help clear his Karma, and he deliberately exposed his whereabouts to draw out those tied to him. As he headed overseas, a Pure Land Bodhisattva and Sword Pavilion’s Ye Xingfeng prepared for events involving him.

• Lu Yang decided to use True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow’s offer to settle his Karma with the major sects and set out to draw danger toward himself.
• Before leaving, Lu Yang killed Wu Cang and fed him to the Avici Sword, restoring its ability to reveal danger.
• A female Bodhisattva at Water-Moon Zen Forest sensed that Yuantu had gone overseas and expected Guangming to encounter Lu Yang through planted Karma.
• Sword Pavilion True Persons discussed Ting You’s survival as the True Lord approached reincarnation, and Ye Xingfeng decided to hunt the Witch Ghost inheritor overseas.
• Ye Xingfeng calculated that Lu Yang was already headed overseas and departed to kill him before the True Lord emerged from seclusion.

Lu Yang followed the Avici Sword’s karma toward its former owner’s reincarnation, discovering that the matter was tied to the Dao Court and facing an attack from Witch Ghost’s inheritor. Meanwhile, Ying Tongshou prepared to seize the reincarnated Blood Demon True Person’s soul, unaware of the battle nearby.

• Lu Yang used Divine Martial Sect’s Merit Fortune to trace the Avici Sword’s karma and learned that its former owner’s reincarnation was in a barren region Overseas, entangled with the Dao Court.
• Ying Tongshou ordered the Wave-Subduing Navy to seal off Star Sea and planned to retrieve Blood Demon True Person’s soul from Blood Demon Island for Jiangdong.
• Ying Tongshou revealed that a secret imperial decree would promote him to Fourth-Rank Broad Might General, raising his cultivation when he went out to sea.
• Lu Yang fought Witch Ghost’s inheritor, whose white Sword Light struck the sea as Lu Yang evaded in crimson light.
• Patriarch Tingyou appeared on the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner and apologized for drawing Lu Yang into the conflict, but Lu Yang dismissed his concern.

Lu Yang faced Ye Xingfeng of the Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion, who sought to kill him over his inheritance from the Witch Ghost Sect. After countering Ye Xingfeng’s overwhelming sword attack, Lu Yang used Determining Kinship and Distance to send him ten thousand miles away.

• Ye Xingfeng identified himself as a Sword Pavilion cultivator and declared that Lu Yang’s demonic inheritance had brought about this deadly encounter.
• Patriarch Tingyou warned Lu Yang that Ye Xingfeng’s cultivation and swordsmanship surpassed his own, but Lu Yang chose to fight.
• Ye Xingfeng used his Star River Sword Pellet and divine abilities to overwhelm Lu Yang’s scarlet sword light with a powerful strike.
• Lu Yang cast Embrace Mountain to seal the Spirit Slayer power in Ye Xingfeng’s sword attack and weaken him.
• Lu Yang used Determining Kinship and Distance to transport Ye Xingfeng ten thousand miles away.

Lu Yang discovered that the Avici Sword’s Karma would make him inherit the Blood Demon True Person’s punishment, then devised a scheme to pass that punishment on to others. Patriarch Tingyou watched as Lu Yang planned to lure his karmic connections into a treasure-filled secret realm and exploit them.

• Ye Xing Feng pursued Lu Yang after being teleported away, but Lu Yang erased his Karma lock and escaped before Ye Xing Feng could trace him.
• Lu Yang reached Blood Demon Island in the Foundation Establishment Realm and learned that the Blood Demon True Person had hidden there to delay reincarnation.
• Lu Yang discovered that the Blood Demon True Person planned to transfer Heaven’s punishment to whoever inherited the Avici Sword’s Karma, causing its past Sword Masters to die in calamities.
• Lu Yang found the Blood Demon True Person’s Heaven-Deceiving Art and realized it could pass punishment to people connected to him through Karma.
• Lu Yang planned to create a treasure-filled secret realm, use its treasures to make visitors owe him Karma, and transfer his Heavenly Killing Intent to them before killing the survivors and reclaiming the treasures.
• Patriarch Tingyou watched Lu Yang’s scheme and concluded that Lu Yang was more vicious than the Blood Demon True Person.

Lu Yang turned Blood Demon Island into the hidden core of a convincing secret realm, using Patriarch Tingyou’s advice to strengthen its protections and disguise its treasures. He redirected the island’s descent to the Biyang Cultivation World, where he planned to lure powerful cultivators into a deadly conflict.

• Lu Yang enclosed Blood Demon Island within Embrace Mountain, blended their Karma, and decorated the realm to make the island appear to hold its greatest treasures.
• Lu Yang set up Crimson Blood Lake and Soul-Stealing Valley as dangerous areas, placing lesser treasures there to tempt visitors deeper into the secret realm.
• Patriarch Tingyou warned that Embrace Mountain could be exposed if attacked and advised Lu Yang to use Heavenly Corpse Sha to create a Heaven-and-Earth-connected Earth Vein, making destruction risky.
• Patriarch Tingyou suggested using Banner Spirits as treasures because they had no cause or effect, then helped Lu Yang refine the secret realm’s disguises.
• Lu Yang used Resolving Doubts and Suspicions to redirect Blood Demon Island’s landing from Star Sea to the Biyang Cultivation World, hoping to draw powerful cultivators into the trap.

Ye Xingfeng followed Ying Tongshou’s Star-Fixing Plate toward the secret realm, while the Immortal Alliance learned of its emergence. Elder Lin agreed to bring the Imperial Golden Seal of Daoshuai True Decree to the realm after the entity sealed inside claimed it could help them escape their fate.

• Ying Tongshou told Ye Xingfeng that the secret realm would emerge within three days, then blamed its shifted landing point on Lu Yang changing it.
• Ye Xingfeng accepted Ying Tongshou’s explanation and ordered the Dao Court’s Wave-Subduing Giant Ship to follow the Star-Fixing Plate toward the Turbulent Sea.
• Elder Lin received word that a high-grade secret realm was emerging near Ghost Cloud and told the other Great Dao Fusion Cultivators.
• After dismissing the others, Elder Lin spoke with the pale golden face formed on the Imperial Golden Seal of Daoshuai True Decree.
• The entity urged Elder Lin to bring the seal to the secret realm, and Elder Lin agreed, hoping it might help the Immortal Alliance escape its restriction.

Ying Tongshou, Ye Xingfeng, Guangming, and the Immortal Alliance cultivators entered the secret realm that appeared as Blood Demon Island, while Lu Yang prepared to use the trap to draw out his enemies. Lu Yang planned to find the Dao Abomination and gather treasures before summoning True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow.

• Ying Tongshou surveyed the gathered cultivators and coveted Elder Lin’s Imperial Golden Seal of Daoshuai True Decree.
• Guangming realized Vase Water Moon Bodhisattva was controlling his thoughts, but the Bodhisattva’s will overcame his resistance.
• A dark light spread across the sky, and a towering mountain emerged from the Turbulent Sea, suppressing the gathered cultivators.
• Ye Xingfeng entered the Black Peak to hunt the Witch Ghost inheritor, followed by Ying Tongshou, the Immortal Alliance cultivators, and Guangming.
• Lu Yang watched the cultivators enter his trap and decided to locate the Dao Abomination and gather valuables before contacting True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow.

Lu Yang used the Soul-Dissipating Spirit-Seizing Smoke’s Karma to transfer heavenly punishment to Mu Huan and four other Immortal Alliance Dao Fusion cultivators, then killed them and continued hunting through Embrace Mountain. The Blood Demon True Person awakened on Blood Demon Island, realized Lu Yang had schemed against him, and trusted that True Lord Hongyun would rescue him if he revealed his Karma.

• Ying Tongshou collected a pagoda-shaped magical treasure before colliding with Elder Lin in Embrace Mountain.
• Lu Yang transferred his heavenly punishment to Mu Huan and four other cultivators who had collected his Soul-Dissipating Spirit-Seizing Smoke, then killed all five with the Avici Sword.
• Lu Yang used his Innate Divine Ability to survey Embrace Mountain and vanished to hunt its scattered cultivators.
• The Blood Demon True Person awakened early in the form of an infant and wondered why his heavenly punishment had diminished.
• Ye Xingfeng fought his way toward the Blood Demon True Person, who deduced Lu Yang’s scheme and expected True Lord Hongyun to save him if he revealed his Karma.

Daoist Hongyun sensed that Blood Demon True Person had returned and decided to go help him, believing his pursuers posed little threat. Meanwhile, Lu Yang restored the Avici Sword, only to discover that its Famed Artifact wonder recognized Blood Demon True Person as its master and let it break free.

• Daoist Hongyun recalled how he had survived by concealing his Karma and refining the remains of Long Radiance Precious Light Cave Heaven into a Blessed Land.
• Daoist Hongyun calculated that Blood Demon True Person was being pursued by a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage Sword Cultivator and set out to help him.
• Blood Demon True Person received Daoist Hongyun's message to hold on, then sensed the Avici Sword's third wonder activate and prepared to use a hidden contingency.
• Lu Yang devoured eleven Immortal Alliance Merge with Dao cultivators, restoring the Avici Sword and revealing its Famed Artifact wonder.
• The Avici Sword severed its connection with Lu Yang and flew away because Blood Demon True Person was its recognized Sword Master.

Lu Yang turned Blood Demon True Person’s attempt to reclaim the Avici Sword into a chance to take it as his own, while Ye Xingfeng arrived and Ying Tongshou and Elder Lin were manipulated into attacking Blood Demon True Person. The chapter ended as the two prepared to use an imperial edict and the Imperial Golden Seal of Daoshuai True Decree.

• Blood Demon True Person recalled the Avici Sword, but Lu Yang used the Heaven-Deceiving Art and Qi of Earth Vein to make the sword’s return trigger Heaven’s punishment.
• Blood Demon True Person sent the sword back with Heaven’s punishment attached, and Lu Yang demanded that he relinquish the Famed Artifact’s wondrous trait in exchange for help.
• Blood Demon True Person severed his connection to the Avici Sword, and Lu Yang claimed it after using the Merit Fortune and Heaven-Deceiving Art to withstand the punishment.
• Ye Xingfeng arrived and asked about the Witch Ghost’s inheritor, while Lu Yang revealed that he had used Distinguishing Similarities and Differences and the Heaven Investigating Instrument to misdirect him.
• Ying Tongshou and Elder Lin arrived with obsessions intensified by their losses of Merit and Fortune, and Lu Yang’s Resolving Doubts and Suspicions prompted them to attack Blood Demon True Person.

Lu Yang’s plan to spark a battle among four sides drew the attention of powerful figures and triggered a confrontation far beyond his control. As Embrace Mountain collapsed, Lu Yang appeared amid a standoff between their incarnations and a Dao Abomination, while Daoist Hongyun arrived and faltered before them.

• The Heavenly Killing Intent intervened as Ying Tongshou raised an imperial edict, summoning the Dao Court Son of Heaven’s gaze over Blood Demon Island.
• The Dao Abomination inside Elder Lin revealed itself and matched the Son of Heaven’s pressure, while a sword linked to Ye Xingfeng summoned True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde.
• True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde traced the calamity to Lu Yang and decided to remove him, sending his incarnation through Ye Xingfeng’s jade sword.
• Embrace Mountain collapsed, revealing Lu Yang and Guangming, whose Buddha Light brought forth the Vase Water Moon Bodhisattva.
• Daoist Hongyun arrived to challenge the gathering, then froze when the Son of Heaven, Bodhisattva, True Lord, and Dao Abomination all turned to face him.

Lu Yang activated True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow’s handwritten letter after his attempt to handle the overseas crisis failed. She arrived to find three True Lord incarnations, Daoist Hongyun, and a Dao Abomination, then took responsibility for the trouble and moved to stop them from escaping.

• Daoist Hongyun arrived, recognized the powerful figures gathered over the sea, and tried to distance himself from Blood Demon True Person, whom he flung aside.
• The three True Lord incarnations and the Primordial Dao Abomination allowed Hongyun to leave, but Lu Yang’s talisman prevented him from escaping.
• True Person Chongguang saw that Lu Yang had activated Clear Serene Flying Snow’s handwritten letter, and she praised him for trying to resolve the trouble himself first.
• Clear Serene Flying Snow emerged above the Boundless Sea, recognized the gathered True Lords and Hongyun, and laughed at the scale of the trouble Lu Yang had brought her.
• Clear Serene Flying Snow told Lu Yang she would take on his Karma, then vanished as the True Lord incarnations dimmed and Hongyun and the Dao Abomination fled.
• Clear Serene Flying Snow declared that no one would leave and pursued the gathered opponents.

True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow unleashed the Heavenly River and killed her enemies across the overseas lands, including the True Lord incarnations. Lu Yang survived and watched as she challenged the Dao Court, Pure Land, and Sword Pavilion to fight her.

• The Heavenly River dissolved the Primordial Dao Abomination, Ying Tongshou, and Ye Xingfeng, and Lu Yang collected their dropped treasures.
• Lu Yang saw True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow lift nearly half the overseas lands in her palm and nearly lost his soul when she looked at him.
• Daoist Hongyun offered to join the Pure Land, but Flying Snow destroyed Vase Water Moon Bodhisattva’s incarnation before she could accept.
• The incarnation’s death affected Vase Water Moon Bodhisattva’s true body, while Daoist Hongyun and the Dao Court Son of Heaven and Sword Pavilion True Lord’s incarnations also perished.
• Flying Snow’s laughter spread across the cultivation world, then stopped as auras rose around her; she asked who wished to fight her.

True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow provoked Cheng Tian Zhengde into a duel that threw the world into chaos and tipped the balance against Wall Earth. Lu Yang learned how Foundation Establishment cultivators could affect True Lords’ struggles, then celebrated the treasures he recovered from the dead.

• Vase Water Moon Bodhisattva and the Dao Court Son of Heaven withdrew their auras, while Cheng Tian Zhengde accepted True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow’s challenge and vanished from Extreme Heaven Cliff.
• The duel’s Fruit Positions caused disasters and murderous impulses among cultivators of Wall Earth and Ravine Stream Water, leaving bloodshed across the world.
• Patriarch Tingyou told Lu Yang that Wall Earth was at a disadvantage and that Foundation Establishment cultivators’ strength reflected the pressure on their Fruit Position.
• Lu Yang realized that Foundation Establishment True Persons could influence battles between True Lords and wondered why those lords cultivated them instead of eliminating them.
• Lu Yang scavenged the dead and gained four superior Spiritual Treasures, including treasures taken from Ye Xingfeng and Ying Tongshou.

Lu Yang examined the treasures he had taken from Ye Xingfeng, Ying Tongshou, and Daoist Hongyun, discovering that Hongyun’s unfinished True Treasure could grant him the Innate Divine Ability Star Concealing Radiance. As he considered the knowledge held by the weakened Dao Abomination, a Fruit Position Star in the sky abruptly dimmed.

• Lu Yang refined Ye Xingfeng’s lifebound flying sword, Hundredfold Hazard-Repelling Mystic Cloak, and Tranquil Clarity Purifying Pagoda, along with Ying Tongshou’s Purple Tenuity Official Subduing Supreme Golden Seal.
• Lu Yang studied Daoist Hongyun’s Imperial Golden Seal of Daoshuai True Decree and used it to manifest Star Concealing Radiance, which concealed karma, divine sense, danger, and his tracks.
• Lu Yang realized the seal could simulate a cultivator’s next Innate Divine Ability and potentially raise their effective cultivation, then celebrated the advantage it gave him against powerful opponents.
• Lu Yang considered extracting knowledge of Mahayana First Grade True Qi from the weakened Dao Abomination he had stored in the Ten Thousand Spirit Banner.
• A thunderous boom shook Lu Yang and his Dao Foundation, and one of the two Fruit Position Stars above the Vault Sky abruptly dimmed.

Lu Yang witnessed the fall of True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde’s Grotto-Heaven and learned that True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow had defeated Hongyun and taken on Karma for him. True Person Chongguang then summoned Lu Yang and Yin Shan to Sacred Fire Cliff for an important matter.

• A scarlet rain spread across the world as heaven and earth reacted to the death of a Golden Core True Lord, and Lu Yang suspected the rain’s apparent benefit was suspicious.
• The Jade Que Baogui Cave Heaven fell into the Foundation Establishment Realm, and True Person Chongguang explained that Cheng Tian Zhengde had entered reincarnation after sacrificing his Grotto-Heaven, though Clear Serene Flying Snow had bitten off a third of his Gold Nature.
• True Person Chongguang said Cheng Tian Zhengde had sought Karma by fighting True Lord Flying Snow, hoping Sword Pavilion’s True Lords would guide his return to his Fruit Position.
• True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow arrived and revealed that she had defeated Hongyun, taken a third of his Gold Nature, and protected Lu Yang from trouble by the Pure Land and Dao Court until he reached Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
• True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow told True Person Chongguang to prepare to take his position, and Chongguang ordered Lu Yang to return to the Cloud Sea and come with Yin Shan to Sacred Fire Cliff.

Hongju discovered that Daoist Hongyun had died and that his own life was tied to the fallen True Lord, but his calculations pointed to himself as the killer. He seized on Chongguang’s offer to help him ascend, while Chongguang began teaching Lu Yang about Ascending to Seek Gold.

• Hongju felt the Gold Nature in his bloodline dissipate and concluded that Daoist Hongyun had been destroyed, leaving him only two or three years to live.
• Hongju’s resentment toward Xue Feihong triggered a heavenly response, so he used the Same Fate Fortune-Shifting Ledger to stop his dharma body from collapsing.
• Hongju’s calculations implicated him in Daoist Hongyun’s death, but he blamed Chongguang and Yuantu for concealing the truth.
• Hongju received Chongguang’s promise of a lifetime of glory if he helped him ascend, and decided that Chongguang might be able to save his life.
• Chongguang welcomed Lu Yang and asked whether he knew how to Ascend to Seek Gold; Lu Yang asked him to explain the process.

True Person Chongguang explained that his Golden Seeking required him to reincarnate into the Qing Kingdom and reverse its Dao Court order, while Lu Yang and other Jiangbei cultivators attacked from outside. Lu Yang agreed to lead the effort and was offered a chance to choose protective Dao arts before the campaign.

• True Person Chongguang explained how Golden Seeking could turn a Blessed Land into a Grotto-Heaven, and warned that failure could create a dangerous Dao Abomination.
• True Person Yinshan identified an external attack as the main danger to True Person Chongguang's Golden Seeking, and Chongguang named the Qing Kingdom as the place he needed to enter.
• True Person Chongguang revealed his plan to reincarnate into the Qing Kingdom and reverse its Dao Court order to gain Covered Lamp Fire's favor.
• True Person Chongguang asked Lu Yang to gather Jiangbei cultivators and march south against the Qing Kingdom to create pressure from outside.
• Lu Yang agreed to follow True Person Chongguang's plan, and Chongguang offered him one or two Dao arts from the Dharma Manifestation Pavilion at Sacred Fire Cliff.