Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang planned to sabotage the Yellow Springs Road and make the Netherworld collapse, but he needed a hegemon-grade Dao weapon and Tribulation sensing to carry out the plan. He prepared for the Star Palace’s attack on the Celestial Court thirty years later, hoping to trigger the great Tribulation and overturn the balance of power.

• Lu Yang identified the Yellow Springs Road as the Netherworld’s foundation and planned to tamper with it using City-Wall Earth and the Time-Shifting World-Changing Dao Fruit.
• Lu Yang summoned Patriarch Tingyou, who recognized similarities between the Netherworld blueprint and his False Holding Gold Position method and studied the Yellow Springs Road.
• Lu Yang’s Karma and memories connected to obtaining the Netherworld blueprint were erased, but True Person Demon-Sweeping later used Divine Thought to tell him the true history.
• After two and a half years, Patriarch Tingyou reported that he could plant a cause in the Yellow Springs Road that would eventually make the Netherworld collapse.
• Lu Yang resolved to use the Star Palace’s attack on the Celestial Court, expected thirty years later, to obtain a hegemon-grade Dao weapon, trigger Tribulation sensing, and bring about the great Tribulation.

Lu Yang secured Sky Soaring’s agreement to lend him the Covered Lamp Fire, then prepared to leave with Haoyuan Upper True and the Star Palace’s overlord-grade Dao soldier. He understood that the planned attack on the Celestial Court was a smokescreen to trigger the Millennial Calamity early, and decided to reveal his full power.

• Lu Yang showed Sky Soaring the Time-Shifting World-Changing Dao Fruit and persuaded him to lend the Covered Lamp Fire, then asked for benefits as Sky Soaring departed.
• The Xuanling Realm Supreme warned Lu Yang that someone from the Star Palace had arrived, and Lu Yang urged him to prepare an escape while saying he would not flee.
• Lu Yang met Haoyuan Upper True and asked whether the overlord-grade Dao soldier was ready so they could leave for the Star Palace.
• Lu Yang realized the Star Palace meant to use an attack on the Celestial Court to draw out the Immortal Pivot and trigger the Millennial Calamity early.
• Lu Yang decided to join the Star Palace’s charge and unleash his full power, relying on the Dharma Power Dao Lord to shield him from the Sacred Sect Ancestor.

Lu Yang entered the Star Palace and challenged the Dharma Power Dao True Lords who opposed giving him a hegemon-class Dao weapon. He agreed to fight Zhen Gao and declared that if Zhen Gao could withstand one punch, the weapon would be his.

• Lu Yang suppressed the combined auras of thirty Dharma Power Dao True Lords as he entered the Star Palace, then saluted only the five Great True Lords.
• Lu Yang rebuffed a True Lord who questioned his arrogance, and Zhen Gao stepped forward to challenge him.
• Lu Yang accepted Zhen Gao’s challenge, and they faced each other within a protected arena in the Ten Thousand Land Realm.
• When Zhen Gao offered to wait while Lu Yang borrowed a weapon, Lu Yang said one punch would decide who received the hegemon-class Dao weapon.

Lu Yang let Zhen Gao attack first, endured his Dharma Power Dao techniques unharmed, then struck him with Calamity Baleful Light. The punch’s aftershock grievously wounded Zhen Gao before Upper True Haoyuan stopped Lu Yang’s fist.

• Zhen Gao challenged Lu Yang’s claim that he could win with one punch, and Lu Yang invited him to attack first.
• Zhen Gao used the wondrous seal of returning to the origin to dissolve Lu Yang’s protective thunderous Dharma radiance and absorb the resulting dharma power.
• Zhen Gao’s attacks failed to harm Lu Yang, who remained uninjured while his Rebirth Aspect charged.
• Lu Yang formed a fist and unleashed Calamity Baleful Light, which struck Zhen Gao and sent him crashing into the towering hall.
• Upper True Haoyuan intercepted Lu Yang’s fist, while its aftershock left Zhen Gao grievously wounded.

Lu Yang defeated Zhen Gao with one punch, then received the charged hegemon-grade Dao armament Lord of State and Grain from Upper True Haoyuan. He chose to enter the Millennial Calamity as the vanguard, welcoming the chance to fight.

• Lu Yang defeated Zhen Gao with a single punch, and Zhen Gao admitted he was outmatched.
• Lu Yang told Upper True Haoyuan that the Star Palace would tolerate him even if he killed a Celestial Court cultivator during the coming calamity.
• Upper True Haoyuan led Lu Yang to Factory One, where the Lord of State and Grain was being forged from three linked rings.
• After the furnace drained the last star, Upper True Haoyuan explained that the armament allowed three Fruit Position sublimations and could be controlled by Lu Yang alone.
• Lu Yang stored the Lord of State and Grain and insisted that they go to war without waiting for him to practice with it.
• When Upper True Haoyuan asked whether he feared dying in the Millennial Calamity, Lu Yang said it was what he had always wished for.

Immortal Venerable Greater Yin learned that the Star Palace’s Dharma Power Dao True Lords had revived, then faced their sudden assault on the Celestial Court. With its formation destroyed, she called for aid as Upper True Haoyuan ordered the Star Palace’s fleet to attack.

• Immortal Venerable Greater Yin summoned Immovable Tathagata of the Vajra Realm and pressed him to investigate her unease about Karma.
• Immovable Tathagata claimed the Star Palace’s Dharma Power Dao True Lords had revived, then began counting down the time until their attack.
• Thirty-six Star Palace True Lords launched their strategic Dao weapons at the Celestial Court, and Immortal Venerable Greater Yin activated the Jietian Grand Formation to meet them.
• The Celestial Court’s formation blocked the combined strike but was destroyed, leaving much of the Celestial Court in ruins.
• Immortal Venerable Greater Yin lit incense to request aid from the Other Shore, while Upper True Haoyuan sent the Star Palace’s fleet forward to attack.

Sacred Sect, Sword Pavilion, and Dao Court responded to Star Palace’s attack on Celestial Court after learning that the Millennial Calamity had begun early. Dao Court restored its strength through the Immortal Kingdom Dao Law, while Gangxing Budao True Lord secretly decided to betray the other powers; the chapter ended with Immortal Pivot’s forces gathering at Celestial Court.

• True Lord Flying Snow told Sacred Sect’s leaders that the Patriarch had ordered them to aid Celestial Court and explained that Dao Court would guard Immortal Pivot.
• Dao Court’s new Son of Heaven and Three Dukes ascended to their positions, using the Immortal Kingdom Dao Law to become a Great True Lord and three Golden Core True Lords.
• True Lord Flying Snow warned that the new Son of Heaven had become an agent of the Immortal Kingdom Dao Law, then led Sacred Sect toward Celestial Court.
• Gangxing Budao True Lord decided that Sword Pavilion should betray the other powers to secure victory in the Millennial Calamity.
• Sacred Sect and Sword Pavilion arrived at Celestial Court as Dao Court manifested illusory figures, and twelve Immortal Pivot True Lords unleashed their auras against Star Palace’s thirty-six Dharma Power Dao True Lords.

The Star Palace’s six Great True Lords used the Victory Dharma Fate-Deciding Dao Chapter to trap the Immortal Pivot True Lords and gain an advantage, but True Lord Flying Snow altered its rules. As both sides prepared for direct combat, Lu Yang quietly gathered power and watched the figures overseeing the battle.

• Upper True Haoyuan and the Star Palace’s five other Great True Lords raised the Victory Dharma Fate-Deciding Dao Chapter across the battlefield, intending to win by assimilating the Immortal Pivot True Lords’ dharma power.
• Upper True Haoyuan explained to Lu Yang that the Dao Chapter would let the side with greater total dharma power win without fighting.
• True Lord Flying Snow used the Purifying World Radiance-Manifesting Dao Fruit to strip away the Dao Chapter’s rules, changing its effect so that dharma power was judged individually.
• Upper True Haoyuan realized the Star Palace could no longer stay on the defensive, and Zhen Gao welcomed the prospect of fighting the Immortal Pivot True Lords directly.
• Lu Yang silently amassed power through the Trend Taking Shape of Sand Gold and sensed towering figures watching the battle from above the Sea of Suffering.

The Star Palace and Celestial Court clashed as their Star Lords and Immortal Lords entered battle, and Great Sage Mingzhu overwhelmed Shen Shao by repeatedly detonating herself and drawing on Netherworld power. With the Star Palace’s Great True Lords unable to turn the tide, Lu Yang finally advanced toward the Celestial Court and challenged its inhabitants.

• Upper True Haoyuan sent the Star Lords into battle, and Immortal Venerable Greater Yin led the Celestial Court’s Immortal Lords to meet them.
• Great Sage Mingzhu attacked the Star Palace forces, but Shen Shao struck her with the Sinking Star Pearl and pinned her down.
• Great Sage Mingzhu broke free by detonating herself, revived, and used Pearl-Hiding Abyss to amplify repeated explosions that severely wounded Shen Shao and absorbed his dharma power.
• Upper True Haoyuan concluded that the Celestial Court’s forces had drawn on the Netherworld and asked Lu Yang to act.
• Lu Yang strode toward the Celestial Court with Calamity Waves, Yellow Court, and the Righteous Banner, then challenged, “Who dared fight me?”

Lu Yang faced a group of four Golden Core Middle Stage cultivators sent by the Celestial Court and the Immortal Pivot. After they attacked him together, he evaded their techniques with Boundless Dao and killed all four with one sword strike.

• Immortal Venerable Greater Yin and True Lord Flying Snow agreed to send reinforcements against Lu Yang, while Gangxing Budao True Lord refused to join the fight.
• Immortal Venerable Greater Yin sent Immortal Lord Du Xuan, and True Lord Flying Snow sent Xuan Yuan and Light Concealer to join Great Sage Mingzhu.
• Lu Yang recognized the arriving cultivators as old acquaintances and used the Righteous Banner's Moral Cultivation to catch them off guard.
• Great Sage Mingzhu self-destructed, and Xuan Yuan empowered the resulting flames with General's Command while True Lord Radiant Floating Truth and Immortal Lord Du Xuan attacked Lu Yang with their techniques.
• Lu Yang used Great Relay Station Earth's Boundless Dao to step beyond the four attacks, then struck with Calamity Waves, Slay the Future, decapitating all four opponents.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.