Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang trapped True Lord Heaven-Furnace World-Forger and killed him with a single sword strike after suppressing his escape art and weakening his Fruit Position. Xin Ye and Youhai arrived just in time to witness the killing, but the gateway sealed behind them, leaving them trapped with Lu Yang.

• Bodhisattva Baoguang Yinghuang lured True Lord Heaven-Furnace World-Forger into Lu Yang’s prepared trap at the Mount Bozhong passage.
• True Lord Heaven-Furnace World-Forger tried to escape with [Death-Substitution Rebirth Dao Fruit], but Lu Yang’s [Profound Heaven Righteous Crown] interrupted the art.
• Lu Yang struck with [Eight-Not Wisdom Sword] and used his Fruit Position to raise the sword’s status and degrade True Lord Heaven-Furnace World-Forger’s [Canopy-Dry Palace].
• Lu Yang decapitated True Lord Heaven-Furnace World-Forger in a single strike, and Xin Ye and Youhai arrived to see his head on the sword.
• Xin Ye and Youhai tried to retreat, but the gateway sealed; Lu Yang held a Fruit Position light and challenged them to come and die.

Emperor Cang rushed to Mount Bozhong after sensing a death, only to discover that Heaven-Furnace World-Forger, Xin Ye, and Youhai had all been killed by a young man he recognized as [Danding]. He turned to enlist True Lord Biluofuguang against him, but Biluofuguang had vanished.

• Emperor Cang watched Bodhisattva Baoguang Yinghuang's battle and revealed that his three bodies had returned to perfection.
• Emperor Cang sensed a death, hurried to the temples, and accused True Lord Biluofuguang of failing to intervene.
• Emperor Cang opened a path through the temples and found the severed heads of Heaven-Furnace World-Forger, Xin Ye, and Youhai.
• A young man emerged from the hollow and absorbed the deathly essence from the three heads.
• Emperor Cang recognized the young man as [Danding] and turned to ask True Lord Biluofuguang to help attack him, but Biluofuguang was gone.

Lu Yang fought Emperor Cang while True Lord Zhifa Chiyuan held off Emperor Cang’s avatar. Emperor Cang’s counter to Lu Yang’s avatar technique failed, and the chapter ended with Zhifa self-destructing after Lu Yang called for action.

• True Lord Biluofuguang fled, and True Lord Zhifa Chiyuan appeared behind Danding as Emperor Cang greeted Lu Yang.
• Lu Yang provoked Emperor Cang and attacked with the [Floating Light Realm Sea Great Immortal Art], filling the battlefield with Avatars.
• Emperor Cang used the [Myriad Resonant Thunder Art] to make one Avatar’s injury spread through the others, forcing Lu Yang to withdraw them.
• Emperor Cang sent thunder through the Avatars’ connection toward Lu Yang, but Lu Yang used [Dust-Avoiding Robe] and [Base Man, Stay Away] to evade the strike.
• Emperor Cang and Lu Yang clashed while Emperor Cang prepared his Yellow Heaven and Azure Heaven avatars for a coordinated attack.
• Lu Yang called out, and True Lord Zhifa Chiyuan self-destructed, overturning Emperor Cang’s calculations.

Lu Yang used the self-destruction of True Lord Zhifa Chiyuan and Heaven's Gatekeeper to kill the Yellow Heaven avatar and attack Emperor Cang's forces across Mount Bozhong. Emperor Cang tried to bargain with Lu Yang, but Lu Yang dismissed his hopes of a Dao Path and remained intent on fighting.

• True Lord Zhifa Chiyuan self-destructed, gravely damaging the Yellow Heaven avatar.
• Heaven's Gatekeeper self-destructed the [Dao-Seeking Heavenly Gate Diagram], injuring Emperor Cang's Azure Heaven Avatar.
• Lu Yang used [Zongbu Deity] to conceal his presence, then killed the weakened Yellow Heaven avatar with the [Eight-Not Wisdom Sword].
• Lu Yang's Residual Shadows slaughtered cultivators across Mount Bozhong, intensifying the blood rain and clarifying the Netherworld's aura.
• Lu Yang interrupted Emperor Cang's [Myriad Resonant Thunder Art] and stopped him from attacking the avatars.
• Emperor Cang offered Lu Yang the backing of two Dao Lords, but Lu Yang rejected his argument and mocked his prospects for a Dao Path.

Lu Yang revealed that Emperor Cang had misunderstood Si Sui’s cultivation method: merging his three bodies was meant to forge a supreme treasure and help him build an Immortal Bridge, not directly reach Heaven-Treading. The truth left Emperor Cang insisting Si Sui had intended to harm him, while Lu Yang condemned the waste of the Dao Lord’s care.

• Lu Yang explained that Emperor Cang’s three bodies were only meant to reach Merge with Dao before joining into a supreme treasure, but Emperor Cang had pushed them to Immortal Bridge and failed to merge them.
• Emperor Cang defended altering the method, claiming he had discovered that merging his main body with Heaven would enslave him as a tool supporting the Other Shore.
• Lu Yang mocked Emperor Cang’s deductions and used the Wisdom Light to comprehend the complete Three Profound Heaven-Observing True Method.
• Lu Yang revealed that following Si Sui’s method would let Emperor Cang grasp the mystery of the body as Heaven and Earth, form his own plane, and eventually reach Heaven-Treading.
• Emperor Cang doubted Lu Yang’s explanation and continued insisting Si Sui must have wanted to harm him, while Lu Yang lamented that the Dao Lord’s care had been wasted.

Lu Yang trapped Emperor Cang with an altered thunder technique and asked how Si Sui had died; Emperor Cang revealed that Heavenly Dao had been built upon Si Sui's death before a terrifying figure appeared over the Netherworld. A frail youth emerged from the Netherworld Lord Hall and ordered the figure to get back, making it vanish.

• Lu Yang used Heaven Within the Palm and his improved Heavenly Heart Thunder Resonance Method to strike Emperor Cang's fleeing Azure Heaven incarnation.
• Lu Yang explained that he had adapted Si Sui's Myriad Resonant Thunder Art to destroy Emperor Cang's avatars.
• Lu Yang asked how Si Sui had died, and Emperor Cang said Heavenly Dao had been established through the Dao Lord war and built upon Si Sui's corpse.
• Emperor Cang's consciousness collapsed, and a tiny figure appeared above the Netherworld as the dead spirits and Lu Yang looked up at it.
• A frail youth walked out of the Netherworld Lord Hall and shouted, "Get back!", erasing the figure and dispersing its power.

The World Honored One explained to [Sky Soaring] how the Dao Lords were waiting for one another to act after Huanyao awakened, and [Sky Soaring] devised a way to tie his own attainment of [Tribulation] to the Lord of Netherworld. The World Honored One then watched the Karmic Net and identified [Danding] as a decisive variable in the game.

• The World Honored One told [Sky Soaring] that Huanyao had awakened and that Sword Lord, Cang Hao, and the one at the highest point were hesitating over who would move first.
• [Sky Soaring] realized he could use the threat posed by the Lord of Netherworld to pressure the Dao Lords into allowing him to attain [Tribulation].
• [Sky Soaring] questioned whether the World Honored One was truly willing to harm the First Generation Monster-Rearing Peak Master, and the monk said he did not intend to harm [Sky Soaring].
• The World Honored One recalled how he had once used the Dao Lords' ambitions and a great battle to attain the Dao, then studied the Karmic Net for a new game.
• The World Honored One saw a resplendent light rise within the Karmic Net and identified [Danding] as the piece that could decide the outcome.

After learning how the Dao Lord War led to Heavenly Dao’s creation, Lu Yang explained the two possible ways to break the Light Sea’s deadlock. The youth realized that reviving Si Sui could put the World Honored One against them, while Lu Yang began to suspect Chu Sheng understood the weakness in the disciples’ bond.

• The youth isolated Lu Yang from the outside world and asked what secrets he had learned, so Lu Yang recounted the truth surrounding Si Sui’s death.
• The youth explained that Sword Lord and Cang Hao had used Si Sui and the Five Elements seal to force the Sacred Sect Ancestor into a bargain that established Heavenly Dao.
• Lu Yang told the youth that they could either save the Ancestral Dragon, causing Other Shore to collapse, or revive Si Sui, striking at Heavenly Dao and Fixed Number.
• Lu Yang warned that Senior Brother Wanbao would oppose Si Sui’s revival because he had buried Si Sui and built his own attainment of the Dao upon Si Sui’s corpse.
• The youth said Senior Brother Butian and Senior Brother Danding’s Nascent Soul Pill plan also aimed to collapse Other Shore, avoiding a test of Senior Brother Wanbao’s loyalty.
• Lu Yang realized Chu Sheng, who had raised the fellow disciples, must have understood how their bond could be exploited.

Lu Yang learned that the Nascent Soul Pill was designed to perfect and permanently lock [Other Shore], forcing the Sacred Sect Ancestor to destroy it and clash with other Dao Lords. He and the youth considered how to disguise the pill’s true effect, and the youth pointed to the Dharma Power Dao Lord as a possible solution.

• Lu Yang warned the youth that saving Ancestral Dragon and collapsing [Other Shore] might serve the Sacred Sect Ancestor’s plans.
• The youth gave Lu Yang the golden book containing the Nascent Soul Pill recipe and shared his Wisdom Light.
• Lu Yang realized the pill would perfect [Other Shore], prevent its Dao Lords from advancing, and trap the Sacred Sect Ancestor at its summit.
• Lu Yang concluded the plan would force the Sacred Sect Ancestor to destroy [Other Shore] and fight the other Dao Lords.
• The youth suggested Lu Yang look to the Dharma Power Dao Lord, who had become a Dao Lord after gambling on a breakthrough from the Immortal Bridge Realm.

Lu Yang learned how the Dharma Power Dao Lord had reached Dao Lord despite failing to enter Heaven-Treading, and devised a plan to win the Dao Lords' support while smuggling the Nascent Soul Pill to the [Other Shore]. The youth agreed to the plan, and the tiny figure overlooking the Real World responded by placing a piece of his own.

• The youth explained that Lord Si Sui pioneered the Great True Lord cultivation stages and helped his friend, the Dharma Power Dao Lord, force a breakthrough to Golden Core completion.
• Lu Yang realized the Dharma Power Dao Lord might support them if the Nascent Soul Pill could strengthen the Primordial Spirit and prevent becoming lost.
• Lu Yang proposed publicly inviting the Dao Lords to help rescue Si Sui while secretly sending the Nascent Soul Pill through Butian Que and the [Five Elements] to the [Other Shore].
• The youth accepted Lu Yang's plan and asked him to negotiate with the Spell Dao and Dharma Power Dao, promising that Lu Yang would be safe in the Netherworld.
• The tiny figure on the [Other Shore] watched the Real World and said that [Variable] had placed a piece before casting down a strand of Radiant Light.

After True Lord Zhifa Chiyuan confirmed that the Dharma Power Dao Lord had not contacted him, Lu Yang sought a way to reach the World Honored One directly. He entered the World Honored One’s private Karmic Scene, where the World Honored One, speaking through Precious Wheel Immaculate Bodhisattva, asked who he was.

• Lu Yang returned to Mount Bozhong and found True Lord Zhifa Chiyuan recovered most of the way from detonating his True Dharma Body.
• True Lord Zhifa Chiyuan told Lu Yang that the Dharma Power Dao Lord had still not contacted him and agreed to hold off the Spell Dao while Lu Yang handled another matter.
• Lu Yang summoned [Vajra Realm Tathagata] through Bodhisattva Baoguang Yinghuang, then used [Divine Firmament Thunder], [City-Wall Earth], and [Heavenly Calendar Number] to enter the Karmic Net himself.
• Lu Yang entered the Karmic Scene where he had previously persuaded Bodhisattva Baoguang Yinghuang to switch sides, and the World Honored One descended through Precious Wheel Immaculate Bodhisattva.
• Precious Wheel Immaculate Bodhisattva recognized that Lu Yang had reached the World Honored One’s private domain and asked him who he was.

Lu Yang warned the World Honored One that Chu Sheng might be steering their plans toward the Other Shore, then proposed using the effort to rescue Si Sui to recruit the other Dao Lords. The World Honored One revealed that Si Sui was trapped in False History and could not be freed without undoing his own enlightenment, and he suspected Chu Sheng’s next move would involve the True Dragon Clan.

• Lu Yang told the World Honored One his plan to obtain the Nascent Soul Pill and suspected Chu Sheng had deliberately guided them toward the Other Shore.
• The World Honored One agreed the Other Shore might be compromised and said they could use that suspicion as a reason to negotiate with the dharma power Dao Lord and the Spell Dao Lord.
• The World Honored One explained that Si Sui’s survival had been sealed into False History, with [Heaven Dao] as the lock and Chu Sheng’s [Fixed Number] reinforcing the prison.
• The World Honored One refused to rescue Si Sui because restoring him would erase the history in which he attained enlightenment and cost him his position as Nascent Soul Dao Lord.
• The World Honored One predicted Chu Sheng might play a piece through the True Dragon Clan and revealed that others besides himself and Sky Soaring had benefited from his great Alter Cause, Change Effect.

The World Honored One explained how Chu Sheng’s second History altered the Dragon Lords’ fates, and Lu Yang traced the changes to a hidden scheme involving True Lord Biluofuguang and the Ancestral Dragon. The chapter ended with Lu Yang and the World Honored One questioning Chu Sheng’s true aim and the Ancestral Dragon’s original suppression.

• The World Honored One explained that he used Alter Cause, Change Effect, and [Heaven's Dao] to exchange the First History and the second History, trapping Si Sui in what became False History.
• The World Honored One revealed that the second History had six Dragon Lords, but the Huai River Dragon Lord vanished after the histories changed, leaving the Wei River Dragon Lord in his place.
• The World Honored One told Lu Yang that True Lord Biluofuguang killed the Huai River Dragon Lord and later absorbed the essences of other Dragon Lords after they became undead in the Netherworld.
• Lu Yang deduced that the Cang River Dragon Lord reincarnated as True Lord Biluofuguang and used the Huai Seizure Upheaval to seize the Image of [Ancestral Dragon's Creation].
• Lu Yang and the World Honored One concluded that the undead Cang River Dragon Lord might be the only one able to help the Ancestral Dragon escape, then questioned Chu Sheng’s relationship with the Ancestral Dragon and how it had been suppressed.

Lu Yang and the World Honored One concluded that Chu Sheng had kept the Ancestral Dragon as a dangerous contingency to destroy the Netherworld, rather than acting as its partner. At the Netherworld’s Three Lives Stone, True Lord Biluofuguang’s eyes cracked with five-colored light as a voice urged him to go and return soon.

• Lu Yang questioned whether Chu Sheng and the Ancestral Dragon had been partners, and the World Honored One explained how the Dao Lords had fought and eventually sealed the Ancestral Dragon.
• The World Honored One concluded that Chu Sheng had used True Lord Biluofuguang—and thus the Ancestral Dragon—as a contingency to attack the Netherworld, while remaining wary of the Ancestral Dragon’s ambitions.
• Lu Yang realized that the Netherworld’s growing solidity might now let the Ancestral Dragon’s Primordial Spirit wreak havoc there.
• True Lord Biluofuguang approached the Three Lives Stone, where his pupils cracked and five-colored radiance appeared as a voice told him, “Fellow Daoist, go early and return early.”

Lu Yang and the World Honored One learned that the Ancestral Dragon’s Primordial Spirit had been drawn out and could threaten their control of the Netherworld. They contacted Butian Que through a remnant thought, and he revealed a prepared way to deliver the Nascent Soul Pill to his past self while insisting the plan could not be changed.

• The Dao Lords noticed the Ancestral Dragon’s Primordial Spirit within the Three Lives Stone, while True Lord Biluofuguang calmly returned to the Four Directions Ghost Domain.
• The World Honored One told Lu Yang that the Ancestral Dragon could seize the Lord of Netherworld position, and Lu Yang judged that they still had time before the Ancestral Dragon could act.
• Lu Yang asked the World Honored One to trace back to the Cloud Sea of Heaven-Reaching so they could contact Butian Que through the memorial tablet at Mending Heaven Peak.
• Butian Que awakened in a provocative female form, changed back into a young man, and explained that his remnant thought could pass the Nascent Soul Pill to his past self before he entered the seal.
• When Lu Yang warned that problems on the Other Shore might require changing the plan, Butian Que insisted the Nascent Soul Pill plan could not be altered and said the World Honored One was not necessarily the most outstanding among them.

Lu Yang refined the [Nascent Soul Pill], but [Other Shore] returned and decreed his death and the pill’s destruction. Dao Tianqi revealed his true body and used the [Reincarnation Life-and-Death Wheel] to exchange [Other Shore] with the Netherworld, trapping his master there.

• Lu Yang worried that the First Generation Elixir Peak Master and the Ancestral Dragon had made refining the [Nascent Soul Pill] suspiciously easy.
• [Other Shore] returned, and its ruler decreed, [Danding dies in the Netherworld!].
• Lu Yang severed his connection to [Danding] and called on the World Honored One, who guided [Fixed Number] to conclude with [Danding is dead].
• [Fixed Number] began declaring the destruction of the [Nascent Soul Pill], but its writing stopped as the real Dao Tianqi activated the [Reincarnation Life-and-Death Wheel].
• Dao Tianqi exchanged the Netherworld’s components with [Other Shore], sending his master into the Netherworld, then invited him to tour it.

Dao Tianqi weakened Chu Sheng by casting him into the Netherworld, prompting the Dao Lords to attack while the World Honored One borrowed the [Heavenly Dao]. The World Honored One then took the [Nascent Soul Pill] from Lu Yang and vanished, having set his own plan in motion.

• Dao Tianqi cast Chu Sheng into the Netherworld, where Lu Yang glimpsed Chu Sheng's immense true form without being harmed.
• The five Dao Lords attacked Chu Sheng together, but Chu Sheng withstood them and the [Fixed Number] began to reconnect toward the [Nascent Soul Pill].
• The World Honored One borrowed the [Heavenly Dao] and drove Spell Dao Lord and Magic Power Dao Lord out of the First History while Sword Lord and Cang Hao allowed him to proceed.
• The World Honored One revealed his identities as Di Mouni, Di Mituo, and [Shi Tianyi], then appeared before Lu Yang.
• Lu Yang handed the [Nascent Soul Pill] to the World Honored One, who took it and vanished.

The First History manifested across the Light Sea, and Spell and Dharma Power moved to alter Si Sui’s fate while Sword Lord tried to stop them. The World Honored One drew the hidden figure above the Vault Sky into acting, and a clash of supreme powers erupted near the Netherworld.

• Phantoms of the First History appeared throughout the Light Sea as Lu Yang continued refining pills and recognized the history in which Si Sui had not died.
• Spell and Dharma Power entered the historical phantoms to change Si Sui’s fate, while Sword Lord fought them and pushed their conflict deep into history.
• The Dao Lords’ battle spread across past eras, disrupting events throughout the Light Sea as both sides struggled over whether Si Sui would live or die.
• The World Honored One revealed that he had allowed the First History to manifest to entangle the Dao Lords and force the hidden figure above the Vault Sky to act personally.
• A giant palm descended toward the Netherworld, and the World Honored One’s enormous foot struck it, causing their wills to collide beyond the Real World.

Lu Yang uncovered that the Ancestral Dragon had secretly escaped long ago and allied with Chu Sheng, while the Ancestral Dragon devoured True Lord Flying Snow and the Old Dragon Lord. As a catastrophic tribulation threatened the Real World, Chu Sheng revealed that the Dao Lords had been trapped in a game he had controlled from the start.

• Lu Yang realized that the Ancestral Dragon had escaped during the First History by using True Lord Biluofuguang, while the Cang River Dragon Lord took on his Karma as a substitute.
• The Old Dragon Lord remembered that he had been kept alive to let the Ancestral Dragon escape the Netherworld, then traveled to Jiangbei and entered the Cloud Sea of Heaven-Reaching.
• True Lord Flying Snow recovered her memories as the First History’s Huai River Dragon Lord, but the Ancestral Dragon used [Seizing the Huai] to swallow her.
• The Ancestral Dragon sensed that the Old Dragon Lord and True Lord Flying Snow retained some resistance, then anticipated a tribulation from the collapse of [Other Shore].
• The Dao Lords sensed the danger and confronted Chu Sheng, who asked why they thought he had created the path of demon rearing and declared that the game had been a dead end for them from the beginning.

Lu Yang completed the [Nascent Soul Pill], but [Other Shore] imposed [Fixed Number] to kill Danding and destroy the pill. Dao Tianqi revealed his true body and used the [Reincarnation Life-and-Death Wheel] to overturn heaven and earth, pulling the figure from [Other Shore] into the Netherworld.

• Lu Yang worried that the First Generation Elixir Peak Master had anticipated the Ancestral Dragon’s role in refining the [Nascent Soul Pill].
• The seven-layered [Other Shore] appeared above the Netherworld and declared, [Danding dies in the Netherworld!].
• Lu Yang severed his Karma with Danding and fled, but [Fixed Number] spread to threaten him until the World Honored One intervened.
• [Fixed Number] restarted with the words [Nascent Soul Pill destroyed in the Nethe.], but an indescribable color disrupted it before it could take shape.
• Dao Tianqi revealed that he had been refining the [Reincarnation Life-and-Death Wheel] in the [Netherworld Lord Hall].
• Dao Tianqi turned the wheel upside down, sending the Dao Lord’s Netherworld components to [Other Shore] and pulling its tiny figure into the Netherworld, where Dao Tianqi invited his Master to tour.