Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang struggled to refine his fourth True Treasure until he sensed the Ancestral Dragon’s heartbeat and borrowed its power to complete the Dragon-Banishing Ruler. Though the treasure still lacked Supreme Great Sea Water, Lu Yang turned to the Old Dragon Lord, believing he could obtain it and Sky Soaring’s Great Forest Wood with the Dragon Lord’s cooperation.

• Lu Yang used avatars’ self-detonations to fuel the refinement of his fourth True Treasure, but it repeatedly failed to take form.
• Lu Yang used Sand Gold profundity and the Yin-Yang Mirror Divine Fruit to discover that he needed overwhelming borrowed power to break through the bottleneck.
• Lu Yang sensed the Ancestral Dragon’s heartbeat and realized the Five Elements Fruit Positions came from the Ancestral Dragon.
• Lu Yang used his Ancestral Dragon Remnant talent to connect with the Ancestral Dragon and borrow its power, completing the Dragon-Banishing Ruler.
• Lu Yang recognized that his connection to the Ancestral Dragon could expose him to danger, then resolved to seek the Old Dragon Lord’s cooperation to obtain Supreme Great Sea Water and Great Forest Wood.

Lu Yang planned to use Old Dragon Lord to lure Sky Soaring out of the Netherworld, but Old Dragon Lord recognized the Ancestral Dragon’s aura in Lu Yang and realized who he was. The chapter ended with Old Dragon Lord kneeling before Lu Yang and asking if his father was still alive.

• Lu Yang planned to have Old Dragon Lord force Sky Soaring out of the Netherworld so he could capture him in the Human World.
• Lu Yang examined the Dragon-Banishing Ruler and noted that its incomplete Great Sea Water Image prevented it from reaching its full power.
• Lu Yang released Old Dragon Lord from the Floating Light Realm Sea, but Old Dragon Lord sealed his Divine Thought and begged to be spared.
• Lu Yang forced Old Dragon Lord to look at him, and Old Dragon Lord sensed the Ancestral Dragon’s bloodline and feared Lu Yang’s identity.
• Lu Yang called Old Dragon Lord Ao Guang, prompting him to realize Lu Yang was the Ancestral Dragon and ask, “Dad, you’re not dead?”

Lu Yang confronted Old Dragon Lord, calling him Ao Guang and exposing his secret plan to refine the other Dragon Lords into True Treasures. Old Dragon Lord’s final hope of denying the truth collapsed when Lu Yang named his intended title: All-Dragon King.

• Lu Yang was stunned when Old Dragon Lord called him Dad, but he recognized that Old Dragon Lord was trying to survive by flattering whoever held power over him.
• Old Dragon Lord suspected Lu Yang might be a hidden Great True Lord rather than Ancestral Dragon, and reasoned that Ancestral Dragon could not have escaped the Sacred Sect Ancestor’s seal.
• Lu Yang revealed that he knew Old Dragon Lord had refined a True Treasure and understood the secrets of Ancestral Dragon’s seal, leaving Old Dragon Lord terrified.
• Lu Yang accused Old Dragon Lord of refining his four Dragon Lord brothers into True Treasures to use them in attaining a Fruit Position through Empty Attainment.
• Lu Yang named Old Dragon Lord’s intended title, All-Dragon King, and Old Dragon Lord collapsed in despair.

Lu Yang uncovered the Old Dragon Lord Ao Guang’s plan to attain the All-Dragon King Fruit Position and explained why he had failed to reach Empty Attainment. Ao Guang begged for Lu Yang’s help, and Lu Yang demanded that he acknowledge him as Master and take his side.

• Lu Yang recognized that Ao Guang sought the All-Dragon King Fruit Position to restore the True Dragon Clan’s former glory, despite the danger of angering both the Ancestral Dragon and the Four Dogs of Immortal Pivot.
• Lu Yang explained that Ao Guang had gathered all five True Treasures but could not pass the outer-resonance hurdle because the Dao Lord did not permit his advancement.
• Ao Guang bowed and begged Lu Yang to help him attain Empty Attainment, believing Lu Yang could help him take the final step.
• Lu Yang rebuked Ao Guang for severing their bloodline connection, avoiding him, and refusing to call him Master.
• Lu Yang offered help if Ao Guang came to him as a servant, making clear that Ao Guang would have to treat Lu Yang’s enemies as his own.
• Ao Guang called Lu Yang Master, prioritizing the chance to attain All-Dragon King over doubts about Lu Yang’s identity.

Lu Yang used the Out-of-Drama Observer to secure control over Old Dragon Lord, who mistook him for Ancestral Dragon returned from a feigned death. After Lu Yang manifested four True Treasures and helped Old Dragon Lord hear Ancestral Dragon's heartbeat, Old Dragon Lord concluded that Lu Yang was continuing Ancestral Dragon's plan to seize the heavenly numbers.

• Lu Yang used the enhanced Out-of-Drama Observer on Old Dragon Lord, intending to control him and erase him if necessary.
• Old Dragon Lord sensed danger from Lu Yang's method, suppressed his doubts, and concluded that Ancestral Dragon had feigned his death and left behind a hidden remnant.
• Lu Yang called Old Dragon Lord over and manifested the Righteous Banner, Calamity Waves, Yellow Court, and Dragon-Banishing Ruler.
• Old Dragon Lord heard Ancestral Dragon's heartbeat, recognized the missing step toward Empty Attainment as the Dragon King, and was astonished by Lu Yang's four Supreme Fruit Position Images.
• Old Dragon Lord recalled Ancestral Dragon's plan to use the Five Elements to command the five heavenly numbers and suspected Lu Yang had been advancing that plan for ages.

Old Dragon Lord advanced through All-Dragon King, while Lu Yang used his own Well Dragon King Fruit Position to seek Ancestral Dragon’s seal and glimpsed Sky Soaring in the Netherworld. After Lu Yang severed the connection, Sky Soaring grew uneasy that the Long Flowing Water ritual had restarted and might threaten his plans.

• Mu Changsheng feared that an unseen True Lord had manipulated events, but Old Dragon Lord returned safely, and Mu Changsheng congratulated him before leaving the hall.
• Old Dragon Lord revealed that he had reached Empty Attainment through All-Dragon King and estimated that it would condense its profundity within thirty years.
• Lu Yang used the knowledge gained from Old Dragon Lord’s breakthrough to create Well Dragon King, a weaker Fruit Position that could help locate Ancestral Dragon’s seal.
• Lu Yang sent an avatar into the Real World with Well Dragon King, but its view led into the Netherworld, where he glimpsed a palace and the figure of Sky Soaring.
• Sky Soaring noticed Lu Yang’s gaze before the avatar self-destructed, then worried that the Long Flowing Water ritual had restarted and could disrupt his plans.

Lu Yang used the Well Dragon King and Boundless Dao to plan a secret route into the Netherworld, suspecting it held the Ancestral Dragon’s contingency. He entered Chaos in Responding King to claim the Nascent Light Sea, but could not comprehend the reward or escape.

• Lu Yang reasoned that the Netherworld might contain the Ancestral Dragon’s contingency and surviving bloodline, then infused the Well Dragon King with Boundless Dao to reach it.
• Lu Yang concluded that Sky Soaring had monopolized the Netherworld and resolved to drive him out.
• Lu Yang remembered the Nascent Light Sea in Responding King and traveled there to claim the First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master’s treasure.
• Lu Yang severed his Divine Thought connection to the outside world and fully entered Chaos, making the Nascent Light Sea seem much easier to reach.
• The First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master urged Lu Yang to take Responding King’s reward, but Lu Yang could not comprehend it and remained trapped in Chaos.

Lu Yang used the Plane Creation Method to comprehend the Nascent Light Sea and learned it could form the foundation of the Foundation Establishment Realm and Netherworld. After he refused to use it to stabilize the Real World, the First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master gave him an artifact-refining method that led him to think of the Xuanling Realm.

• Lu Yang struggled to comprehend the Nascent Light Sea until the unseen voice taught him a Dharma Seal he recognized as the Plane Creation Method.
• Lu Yang connected the Plane Creation Method with the World Honored One’s Little Sea of Suffering Creation Method and attained enlightenment, forming a thread of light from Chaos.
• Lu Yang realized the Nascent Light Sea could serve as the foundation for constructing the Foundation Establishment Realm and Netherworld.
• Lu Yang refused to use the Nascent Light Sea to build a plane and stabilize the Real World, prompting the man in black robes to transform into a Dark Gold scroll.
• Lu Yang received the Heavenly Pivot Directorate Preaching Diagram and, after returning to Responding King’s pavilion, recognized its principles as related to the Xuanling Realm.

Lu Yang uncovered the hidden secret beneath the Xuanling Realm and identified the First Generation Elixir Peak Master as the mastermind behind its protections. Inside the concealed realm, an undead boy declared that Lu Yang was the final ingredient needed to complete an Immortal pill.

• Lu Yang reflected on how Star Palace and Elder Star Soul had failed to discover the secret of the Xuanling Realm.
• Lu Yang entered the Xuanling Realm and used the Heavenly Pivot Directorate Preaching Diagram to locate the source of its distortion.
• Lu Yang opened the hidden chamber with the Jade Book of Void Insight and Karmic Pacification, then used his techniques to reveal a secret realm beneath the Xuanling Realm's Fruit Position.
• Lu Yang deduced that the First Generation Elixir Peak Master had designed the Xuanling Realm's layered protections.
• Lu Yang entered the concealed volcanic realm and found a boy beside a towering treasure cauldron.
• The boy awakened and said Lu Yang was the final medicinal catalyst for the Immortal pill, while Lu Yang recognized him as an undead.

Lu Yang fought the attendant boy, a dead spirit whose Netherworld rank weakened both of their cultivation. After Lu Yang overpowered his Dharma Bodies and multiplied into thousands through the Floating Light Realm Sea Great Immortal Art, the attendant boy mistook the spectacle for an illusion and tried to break it.

• Lu Yang discovered that the attendant boy's Netherworld rank reduced their strength to Qi Refining, while the boy revealed his nine Great True Lord Dharma Bodies as external incarnations.
• The attendant boy's first Dharma Body struck Lu Yang, but Lu Yang reappeared and shattered it with a punch.
• Lu Yang and the attendant boy traded blows, and the boy sent three Dharma Bodies to meet Lu Yang's next attack.
• Lu Yang used the Floating Light Realm Sea Great Immortal Art to create ever-growing numbers of equally powerful versions of himself.
• The attendant boy decided Lu Yang's countless copies were an illusion and shouted for it to break as they attacked.

Lu Yang defeated the boy guarding the abandoned pill-refining chamber and used him to complete the Reincarnation Life-and-Death Pill. He realized the pill could let him enter the Netherworld as a dead spirit, bringing him closer to his search for the Ancestral Dragon's remaining bloodline and the Nascent Soul Pill.

• Lu Yang's true body suppressed the boy and his Dharma Bodies, then judged that the boy was weaker in both skill and cultivation.
• The First Generation Elixir Peak Master's message explained that the chamber had been abandoned and that the boy could serve as a catalyst for the unfinished immortal pill.
• The message urged Huanyao to take the pill and stay alive to watch a show prepared by his senior brother.
• Lu Yang threw the boy into the furnace and completed the Reincarnation Life-and-Death Pill.
• Lu Yang learned the pill could restore him as a dead spirit after death and concluded it could help him explore the Netherworld for the Nascent Soul Pill.

Lu Yang used the Heaven-Earth Treasure Cauldron to summon the karmic shadow of Bai He, an ancient attendant, and learned that the First Generation Elixir Peak Master’s inheritance had vanished. Bai He revealed the True Self Great Vow Scripture, whose method of merging Dharma Bodies gave Lu Yang an idea for strengthening his Floating Light Realm Sea Great Immortal Art.

• Lu Yang empowered his karmic insight and summoned Bai He from the Heaven-Earth Treasure Cauldron’s past.
• Lu Yang questioned Bai He about the Nascent Soul Pill and the secret realm, but Bai He knew little about either.
• Bai He revealed that the First Generation Elixir Peak Master’s missing inheritance included a pill-multiplying white jade box and the Golden Elixir Return-to-Dan Verification Diagram.
• Bai He explained that his cultivation method came from observing the Dao Lord of the Dharma Body Path, suggesting the Four Peak Masters lived before the Other Shore was established.
• Bai He transcribed the True Self Great Vow Scripture, and Lu Yang considered adapting its Dharma Body-merging method to enhance his Floating Light Realm Sea Great Immortal Art.

Lu Yang refined his giant-hand technique, absorbed the Danding Secret Realm into the [Nascent Light Sea], and began building the [Northern Exorcism Institute] as a foundation for a future supreme treasure. Meanwhile, the Old Dragon Lord and Tian Qiu emerged from seclusion, preparing to help Hongyun attain Golden Seeking and use the resulting chaos to advance Tian Qiu.

• Lu Yang unified his incarnations into a giant hand that could transform between a fist and a palm, then withdrew his power after refining its control.
• Lu Yang seized the volcano, Heaven-Earth Treasure Cauldron, soil, spiritual veins, and other contents of the Danding Secret Realm and stored them in the [Nascent Light Sea].
• Lu Yang shattered the emptied secret realm and absorbed its void fragments into the [Nascent Light Sea].
• With Patriarch Tingyou's guidance, Lu Yang shaped the [Northern Exorcism Institute] from the fragments and considered how the growing [Nascent Light Sea] could become a supreme treasure useful for crossing the Immortal Bridge stage.
• The Old Dragon Lord and Tian Qiu emerged from seclusion, and the Old Dragon Lord planned to help Hongyun attain Golden Seeking before advancing Tian Qiu amid the ensuing turmoil.

As the Lord of Netherworld awakened and began searching for him, [Sky Soaring] decided he had to abandon Netherworld and saw Hongyun’s return as a way to make his retreat appear unavoidable. But when Hongyun began Seeking Gold, [Sky Soaring] unexpectedly emerged from Netherworld in his true body, stunning everyone in Immortal Pivot.

• [Sky Soaring] realized the Lord of Netherworld had awakened and was secretly probing for him, and concluded that continuing to seek Netherworld could get him killed.
• [Sky Soaring] weighed abandoning Netherworld against the dangers of defying the Old Immortal of the Sacred Sect, then decided Hongyun’s return could provide a forced reason to leave.
• [Sky Soaring] sensed that Hongyun was Seeking Gold with someone’s secret support and welcomed the scheme as a way to escape his deadlock.
• Old Dragon Lord used Lu Yang’s [Sky Soaring] Strategy Guide to try to drive [Sky Soaring] from Netherworld, but Hongyun’s Seeking Gold disrupted the plan.
• [Sky Soaring] emerged from Netherworld in his original body at full strength, leaving Hongyun, Old Dragon Lord, Lu Yang, and the True Lords of Immortal Pivot stunned.

Sky Soaring emerged from Netherworld and killed Hongyun, while Old Dragon Lord, Tian Qiu, and Mu Changsheng escaped to Nourishing Life Lord. Tian Qiu attained Heavenly River Water, bringing Lu Yang closer to restoring Great Sea Water as Supreme.

• Sky Soaring appeared at Immortal Pivot, revealed his overwhelming power, then concealed his rank after a warning from Heavenly Dao.
• Sky Soaring erased Hongyun from existence before anyone could intervene, and discovered that Old Dragon Lord and his companions had fled Dragon Palace.
• Sky Soaring suspected Old Dragon Lord had uncovered a plan linked to the Ancestral Dragon, but chose to keep pursuing his own path toward the Other Shore.
• Old Dragon Lord, Tian Qiu, and Mu Changsheng arrived at Nourishing Life Lord, where Lu Yang confirmed that Tian Qiu had attained Heavenly River Water.
• Lu Yang concluded that Old Dragon Lord could demote Heavenly River Water's Image so Great Sea Water could regain its Supreme position, bringing him closer to Empty Attainment.

The Old Dragon Lord delivered the Image of the Supreme Great Sea Water, letting Lu Yang transform the Dragon-Banishing Ruler and briefly gain a surge of comprehension. As the Northern Exorcism Institute neared completion but still lacked the force to reach its ultimate limit, Lu Yang decided to use Sky Soaring to temper it.

• The Old Dragon Lord presented Lu Yang with the Image of the Supreme Great Sea Water after restoring the Great Sea Water to the supreme position.
• Lu Yang merged the Image into the Dragon-Banishing Ruler, giving it the power to enlighten spiritual nature and unlock wisdom.
• Lu Yang used the ruler to briefly gain wisdom light, but his enhanced comprehension soon went dormant and would need about three days to recover.
• The Northern Exorcism Institute neared completion as Lu Yang combined its materials with four True Treasures and Divine Firmament Thunder.
• Lu Yang decided that the supreme treasure needed a stronger force to temper it and identified Sky Soaring as the answer.

Lu Yang entered the Human World to confront Sky Soaring, believing the Great True Lord had lost the power that once made him untouchable. He broke through Sky Soaring’s Perception Barrier and revealed the Grotto-Heaven Sky Soaring had used to usurp the Netherworld.

• Lu Yang concluded that he could no longer use Divine Firmament Thunder to bring Sky Soaring down, so he decided to challenge him directly.
• Lu Yang entered the Human World beneath the Yin-Yang Mirror Divine Fruit and found it concealed by a calm, pervasive haze that improved his cultivation.
• Sky Soaring’s hidden Divine Thought approached Lu Yang, who used the Yin-Yang Mirror Divine Fruit to expose it and challenged Sky Soaring.
• Lu Yang merged the Northern Exorcism Institute with the Yin-Yang Mirror Divine Fruit and swept away the Perception Barrier.
• Lu Yang revealed Sky Soaring’s Five Elements Grotto-Heaven, the Attaining-Enlightenment Hidden Profound Residence, which Sky Soaring had used to usurp the Netherworld.

Lu Yang fought Sky Soaring in the [Human World], resisting his mental attack and clashing with his accumulated dharma power. His imperfect [Heaven-Filling Earth-Covering Great Hand Seal] was overcome by Sky Soaring’s balanced Five Elements Dao Fruit Secret Art, and Lu Yang activated [Supreme Dao Assimilation] as danger closed in again.

• Sky Soaring emerged from the [Attaining-Enlightenment Hidden Profound Residence] and tried to incapacitate Lu Yang with the [Perception Barrier].
• Lu Yang burned through the mist with [Covered Lamp Fire], but Sky Soaring struck him with destructive dharma power stored over countless years.
• Lu Yang summoned the [Floating Light Realm Sea Great Immortal Art] and collided with Sky Soaring, sending both of them reeling.
• Lu Yang formed the [Heaven-Filling Earth-Covering Great Hand Seal] with the Five Elements and [Divine Firmament Thunder], but Sky Soaring countered it with [Long Flowing Water].
• Lu Yang reduced the backlash with [Pine and Cypress Wood], [Spring Water], and [Rebirth Aspect], then activated [Supreme Dao Assimilation] as the [Perception Barrier] closed in again.

Lu Yang used [Supreme Dao Assimilation] to create [Heaven Within the Palm] and trap Sky Soaring, but Sky Soaring broke free through sheer cultivation. Lu Yang achieved his real goal: refining the [Northern Exorcism Institute] into a supreme treasure.

• Lu Yang detonated over a hundred external incarnations, forcing Sky Soaring back while [Supreme Dao Assimilation] transformed Lu Yang.
• Lu Yang coordinated nine groups of incarnations to create an unprecedented Six-Element Dao Fruit Secret Art and form [Heaven Within the Palm].
• Lu Yang seized Sky Soaring inside a world of Five Elements and compressed it to destroy him.
• Sky Soaring used his Great True Lord cultivation to blast apart [Heaven Within the Palm] and charge toward Lu Yang.
• Lu Yang fled with the newly completed [Northern Exorcism Institute], having used Sky Soaring as the force that refined it into a supreme treasure.

Lu Yang fought [Sky Soaring] in the void, using [Supreme Dao Assimilation] to decipher and copy the workings of the [Attaining-Enlightenment Hidden Profound Residence]. After [Sky Soaring] struck back with a golden pellet and ended Lu Yang’s state of assimilation, Lu Yang revealed that he had learned the [Golden Elixir Return-to-Dan Verification Diagram].

• Lu Yang escaped [Sky Soaring]'s attack by hiding inside the newly forged [Northern Exorcism Institute], and their palaces collided in the void.
• [Sky Soaring]'s [Attaining-Enlightenment Hidden Profound Residence] overwhelmed the [Northern Exorcism Institute], while Lu Yang's [Yin-Yang Mirror Divine Fruit] failed to dispel the sea of mist for long.
• Lu Yang used the Dragon-Banishing Ruler to grasp the equation behind [Sky Soaring]'s residence and began copying its operating principles, despite suffering severe injuries.
• [Sky Soaring] condensed his residence into a golden pellet and blasted the [Northern Exorcism Institute], ending Lu Yang's [Supreme Dao Assimilation].
• Lu Yang told [Sky Soaring] that he had learned the [Golden Elixir Return-to-Dan Verification Diagram] of the First Generation Elixir Peak Master.