Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang learned that Si Sui’s lost Primordial Spirit method was an external object that could make obsessions tangible, and realized it was likely the missing page of the [Hundred Lives Book]. He discovered the method had a deadly failure rate, leaving him to consider the danger of letting an obsession defeat its owner.

• Lu Yang set aside his doubts about the Nameless Dao Lord and went to [Equality of Things] to meet Heaven's Gatekeeper.
• Heaven's Gatekeeper gave Lu Yang a trace of the great power of the [Five Elements], then recalled that [Lock] and [Kill] had erased nearly all Primordial Spirit knowledge.
• Heaven's Gatekeeper explained that the Primordial Spirit methods of Si Sui, Chu Sheng, and Lord Huanyao had been called the [Mortal Realm Traversal Method], the [Seven Emotions Reaching Heaven Art], and the [Scripture of Seeking Immortality through True Nature].
• Heaven's Gatekeeper described Si Sui’s book, which made obsessions tangible and helped Du Xuan cultivate a Primordial Spirit in the Immortal Bridge Realm after eighty-four thousand years.
• Lu Yang recognized the book as likely the missing page of the [Hundred Lives Book] and learned that only Du Xuan had succeeded, while the Great Sword Sect had reached halfway and every other participant had died.

Lu Yang learned that the missing page of the [Hundred Lives Book] could help forge a Primordial Spirit as he considered whether Nameless Dao Lord was Dharma Power Dao Lord. Ling Xiao opened Nameless Dao Lord’s Jade Slip and learned how to locate the heavenly book in False History, along with the sentence written on it.

• Lu Yang concluded that Dharma Power Dao Lord’s Primordial Spirit method could explain his foundation’s flaw and strengthened his suspicion that Nameless Dao Lord was Dharma Power Dao Lord.
• Ling Xiao touched the Jade Slip with his Divine Thought and entered an illusion containing Nameless Dao Lord’s instructions.
• Nameless Dao Lord explained that Chu Sheng won the heavenly book from Si Sui through three Dao Struggles, after which Si Sui started the Dao Lord War.
• Nameless Dao Lord told Ling Xiao to seek a breakthrough in the unorthodox path of [Yin-Yang] within False History to draw out the heavenly book.
• Ling Xiao used the [Fate-Reforming Revolution] to endure the Forbidden Knowledge and heard the book’s sentence: “I hate that Heaven and Earth are unkind, that the Great Dao is unequal. Today, I shall make them equal for you.”

Lu Yang and Ling Xiao discussed the Nameless Dao Lord and the First History, which they planned to restore as the official history. Ling Xiao described the ancient powers and battles, but their account raised the question of why no Great True Lords remained in False History.

• Lu Yang and Ling Xiao suspected that the Nameless Dao Lord was the Dharma Power Dao Lord, though they worried he might have been hiding from the Dao Lords themselves.
• Ling Xiao explained that in the First History, the Dao Lord War had continued as the celestial phenomenon [Mars Guarding the Heart], where Si Sui might still be trapped.
• Ling Xiao described the First History's Immortal Pivot, where the Dao Court, Sword Pavilion, Sacred Sect, and Ancient Law contended for power.
• Lu Yang learned that the First Generation Four Peak Masters had led the Sacred Sect in mediating between the warring sides.
• Lu Yang and Ling Xiao realized that False History had no Great True Lords despite the Dharma Body Path remaining intact, and wondered what had happened to them.

Lu Yang learned from Ling Xiao that the Great Sword Sect had slaughtered the strongest figures of the First History before killing himself atop Extreme Heaven Cliff, after which the Heavenly Sword restricted cultivators from attaining the Great True Lord realm. Lu Yang and Ling Xiao continued toward False History, and Lu Yang welcomed the immense disadvantage awaiting him as a chance to prove himself invincible.

• Ling Xiao recounted how the Sword Immortal killed Emperor Cang and the First Generation Four Peak Masters, along with other powerful figures, over the course of decades.
• Ling Xiao revealed that the Sword Immortal returned to Sword Pavilion and slit his own throat atop Extreme Heaven Cliff in Immortal Calendar Year 264.
• Ling Xiao explained that the Heavenly Sword thereafter prevented cultivators from becoming Great True Lords and imposed further restrictions on True Lords.
• Lu Yang realized the Heavenly Sword had made False History and true history broadly resemble each other, despite their differences.
• Lu Yang and Ling Xiao discussed the danger of the place they were heading, and Lu Yang said the disadvantage would help him prove himself invincible under heaven.

Lu Yang visited Butian Que in Light Sea's Dark Side to learn about the Heaven-Treading Realm and Primordial Spirit cultivation before going to False History to rescue Si Sui. Butian Que revealed the World Honored One had forged his Primordial Spirit using a page from the book that created False History, and Lu Yang sensed that Patriarch had succeeded just as he was preparing to leave.

• Lu Yang asked Butian Que how he might have reached the Heaven-Treading Realm without the [Five Elements] seal, and Butian Que said he could have Plundered a complete, self-aware Heavenly Duke of Immortal Pivot with Senior Brother Danding's help.
• Lu Yang asked about cultivating a Primordial Spirit, and Butian Que instinctively used the Dark Side's storms to conceal their conversation from outside awareness.
• Butian Que explained that Old Beast had used a single page to create a book capable of rapidly cultivating a Primordial Spirit, and the World Honored One had succeeded after choosing to try it.
• Lu Yang realized the World Honored One had used the same page as the Dharma Power Dao Lord and concluded that the shortcut could work despite its risks.
• Lu Yang thanked Butian Que and said he would soon leave for False History and might need Butian Que's cooperation; then he sensed that Patriarch had succeeded.

Lu Yang witnessed Patriarch Tingyou refine the remnants of Fixed Number and attain the Order of Myriad Forms Grand Stability Divine Position, strengthening their cultivation. Back in the Human World, Ling Xiao proposed reporting the Nameless Dao Lord to Chu Sheng, and Lu Yang agreed the plan could redirect Chu Sheng’s attention while creating room to maneuver.

• Patriarch Tingyou refined the backlash of Fixed Number and attained the Order of Myriad Forms Grand Stability Divine Position.
• Lu Yang congratulated Patriarch Tingyou and reassured him, Suo Huan, and Empress Xiao that they were fellow travelers who shared in one another’s fortunes.
• Ling Xiao noticed Lu Yang had grown stronger and told him he had devised a strategy concerning the Nameless Dao Lord.
• Ling Xiao proposed reporting the Nameless Dao Lord to Chu Sheng, and Lu Yang considered using the move to divert Chu Sheng and muddy his judgment.

Ling Xiao used an avatar to bring Chu Sheng a report about the Nameless Dao Lord and his supposed plans for False History. Heaven-Connecting Child suspected the report was a feint concealing an attack on Feixue and [Five Elements], leaving Ling Xiao’s attempt to redirect Chu Sheng’s attention exposed to scrutiny.

• Ling Xiao refined the Grotto-Heaven Fragment into an avatar and went to the Sacred Sect to request an audience with Chu Sheng.
• Heaven-Connecting Child challenged Ling Xiao, who presented a Jade Slip and claimed the Nameless Dao Lord sought to release Si Sui through False History.
• Ling Xiao asked Chu Sheng to kill the Nameless Dao Lord and help him reach the [Other Shore], offering to guard False History afterward.
• Heaven-Connecting Child doubted that the Nameless Dao Lord was Du Xuan and noted that Dao Lords could not ordinarily be killed.
• Heaven-Connecting Child connected the report to a recent attack on Feixue and the Ancestral Dragon Seal of [Five Elements], suspecting the same Dao Lord was behind both schemes.
• Ling Xiao recognized that Heaven-Connecting Child had followed the diversionary plan he and Lu Yang devised, but Heaven-Connecting Child questioned whether False History was merely bait.

Heaven-Connecting Child revealed that Chu Sheng had created Ling Xiao and offered him a chance to become a Dao Lord in exchange for exposing the person directing him. Ling Xiao rejected the offer because he had already lost his Gold Nature, while Chu Sheng recognized the scheme and welcomed [Variable] into the game.

• Heaven-Connecting Child revealed that Chu Sheng had forged Ling Xiao from Danding's true spirit and praised Ling Xiao's Five Elements cultivation.
• Heaven-Connecting Child asked Ling Xiao to identify the person behind him and offered to let him ascend to the Other Shore if he did.
• Ling Xiao refused to betray Lu Yang, knowing his lost Gold Nature made the offer useless, and recognized that Chu Sheng was probing him.
• Ling Xiao's avatar collapsed, and True Lord Clear Serene Flying Snow appeared before Heaven-Connecting Child.
• Heaven-Connecting Child dismissed the threat of the [Five Elements] seal and the Heavenly Book False History, then declared that only [Variable] could challenge his Master.

Lord Flying Snow sent Chongguang toward the Overseas Immortal Alliance, then secretly severed a strand of Divine Thought from her main body to contact Lu Yang. Lu Yang concluded that Chu Sheng was probably not the Nameless Dao Lord, while Xue Feihong met the figure inside the crimson radiance and greeted him as her senior.

• Lord Flying Snow told Chongguang to seek help from the Overseas Immortal Alliance after his Dao Path was severed.
• Lord Flying Snow entered meditation and sent a strand of Divine Thought into the murky color in her Sea of Consciousness, severing its connection to her main body.
• Ling Xiao returned to his true body and sent Lu Yang the details of his meeting with Chu Sheng.
• Lu Yang explained that Chu Sheng had been probing Ling Xiao and was unlikely to be the Nameless Dao Lord.
• Lord Flying Snow's isolated Divine Thought stood before the crimson radiance, greeted Xue Feihong's senior, and looked up as their eyes met.

Lu Yang told True Lord Flying Snow how she could escape Chu Sheng’s control by proving the vacant [Divine Offering] position and seeking a chance to claim [Fortune]. True Lord Flying Snow accepted the deadly challenge because success depended on her own ability and resolve.

• Lu Yang restored True Lord Flying Snow’s memories of the Huai River Dragon Lord and promised to erase them again after their conversation.
• True Lord Flying Snow said she sought freedom, and Lu Yang warned that he could only offer a better master, not true freedom.
• Lu Yang explained that when the Ancestral Dragon possessed her, she had to resonate with a mysterious realm to prove the [Divine Offering] position.
• Lu Yang advised True Lord Flying Snow to study [Divine Offering] and seek a chance to demote [Heavenly River Water] and claim [Fortune].
• True Lord Flying Snow learned that success would let her escape with her life, while failure would kill her, and she accepted the plan with satisfaction.

Lu Yang entered False History through Mu Changsheng, choosing to abandon his cultivation and merge into it completely. As the Dao Lords set their plans in motion, Chu Sheng noticed Lu Yang and spoke to him.

• Lu Yang decided not to inform Dao Tianqi and spent years recovering until he was in peak condition.
• The World Honored One told Lu Yang that the time had come to enter False History and explained that he could either retain his power or abandon it to stay concealed.
• Lu Yang chose to abandon his cultivation and select another origin, honoring Huanyao's request despite the World Honored One's preference.
• The Dao Lords except Chu Sheng acted together, sending the Spell Dao Lord's eldest disciple, Ling Xiao, and Mu Changsheng into False History.
• Lu Yang saw Chu Sheng watching from above Other Shore, and Chu Sheng said he had been waiting for him.

Lu Yang used Mu Changsheng as bait to conceal himself in False History, while Chu Sheng’s attention was divided by problems with the [Five Elements] and the Netherworld. Chu Sheng then plunged False History into chaos, and its altered events culminated in an elder discovering a jade containing an infant with an old man’s appearance.

• As history rewound to 128,600 years ago, Lu Yang used [Out-of-Drama Observer] to erase Mu Changsheng from observation and secretly escape the Dao Lords’ control.
• The Dao Lords suspected Chu Sheng was behind Mu Changsheng’s disappearance, while Chu Sheng weighed the threats posed by False History, the weakened [Five Elements] seal, and Dao Tianqi’s awakening in the Netherworld.
• Chu Sheng stirred False History, cutting off the Dao Lords’ ability to observe or control it and unleashing a devastating flood as the Overseas Demon Race invaded in the first year of the Immortal Calendar.
• A Dao-robed elder watched floodwaters destroy his mountain and found a seven-apertured jade containing a child-sized figure with the appearance of a white-haired old man.

At Old Lord Temple, Yu Hua True Person sought the Great Virtue Immortal’s help for his disciple, who had been infected by Demon Miasma. Lu Yang, now a Spirit Immortal in False History, weighed the dangers of revealing his connection to Heavenly Palace as the Heavenly Duke’s malice gathered around the temple.

• A breach in Old Lord Temple’s isolation formation let Demon Miasma in and infected Yu Hua True Person’s personal disciple.
• Yu Hua True Person repaired the formation, carried his transformed disciple to the temple, and begged the Immortal to save him.
• Lu Yang’s Divine Thought revealed that he had spent three years steadying his Dao Heart after becoming a Spirit Immortal in False History.
• Lu Yang considered contacting Heavenly Palace but held back to avoid attracting the Dao Lords’ attention, planning instead to expand Divine Offering and gain believers.
• Lu Yang sensed the Heavenly Duke’s malice surrounding Old Lord Temple and turned his attention to Yu Hua True Person’s infected disciple.

Lu Yang discovered that the Dragon Lords’ invasion was a campaign to spread Demonic Miasma and seize the Dao Court’s fortune, with the Heavenly Duke directing their effort. He identified Yu Hua True Person’s disciple as carrying a dragon seed from the Vast Sea Dragon Lord and agreed to save him so he could study how Dragon Lords cultivated Fruit Positions.

• Lu Yang examined Yu Hua True Person’s disciple and found that Demonic Miasma was transforming him into a Yao.
• Lu Yang realized that the six Dragon Lords were using Demonic Miasma to replace human vitality and take the Dao Court’s fortune, with the Heavenly Duke as their mastermind.
• Lu Yang told Yu Hua True Person that his disciple carried a dragon seed, likely from the Vast Sea Dragon Lord, and would become a demonic creature if it consumed all his essence, qi, and spirit.
• Yu Hua True Person explained that the Vast Sea Dragon Lord was a Great True Lord who had driven back an avatar of the Dao Court’s Emperor during the floods.
• Yu Hua True Person kowtowed and begged Lu Yang to save his disciple, and Lu Yang agreed because he wanted to study the dragon seed and the Dragon Lords’ cultivation method.

Lu Yang offered True Person Yu Hua three ways to save his disciple, then pressured him to expand the [Old Lord Temple]’s incense offerings so Lu Yang could advance to True Monarch. He studied the dragon seed and began carving the temple’s mountain out of the Immortal Pivot, defying Heavenly Duke and declaring the mountain his own.

• Lu Yang told True Person Yu Hua that his disciple could be saved by a True Monarch, by accepting the Yao transformation, or by forcibly removing the dragon seed, which could cost him his cultivation or life.
• True Person Yu Hua rejected Yao transformation and balked at inviting a True Monarch, so Lu Yang said he could help without harming the disciple if the temple’s incense offerings tripled and he advanced to True Monarch.
• True Person Yu Hua hurried away to gather more incense offerings while Lu Yang examined the dragon seed and inferred that the Ancestral Dragon Method nurtured Fruit Positions through gestation.
• Lu Yang decided to use [Divine Offering]’s Heaven-Changing Earth-Shifting Method to create a small world, igniting divine abilities across the mountain to separate it from the Immortal Pivot.
• Heavenly Duke attacked Lu Yang with thunder and Yao miasma, but Lu Yang’s connected divine abilities erased the interference, and he declared that the mountain belonged to him.

Lu Yang used the mountain under his control to attain the [Mountaintop Fire] Fruit Position and became a True Lord in a single day. He then destroyed the Dragon Lord’s dragon spawn, openly escalating his conflict with the Dragon Lord.

• Lu Yang considered how to conceal his Karma while sensing the [Heavenly Palace] and chose to jump to [Mountaintop Fire].
• Lu Yang fused the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches for [Mountaintop Fire], rapidly advancing his cultivation and obtaining [Fate-Reforming Revolution] as his Lifebound Ability.
• Lu Yang completed the five divine abilities, manifested the [Mountaintop Fire] Fruit Position, and emerged as a True Lord before the world.
• Lu Yang used [Sun-Chasing Drive] to engulf the Dragon Lord’s dragon spawn in burning plains despite its warning that he would leave no room to retreat.
• Lu Yang refined the dragon spawn and a trace of [Great Sea Water] profundity into ashes and challenged the Dragon Lord to act against him.

Lu Yang attained the [Mountaintop Fire] True Lord Position and investigated why Ling Xiao had not appeared, learning that they may have entered the False History at different times. At Extreme Heaven Cliff, a man resembling True Person Demon-Sweeping watched Lu Yang’s ascension and concluded that his long dream was about to awaken.

• Lu Yang emerged from the jade stone as a True Lord, dispelled the Yao miasma, and noticed Ling Xiao was absent.
• Lu Yang used divination to determine that Ling Xiao might have entered the False History earlier or later than he had.
• Lu Yang asked True Person Yu Hua to gather the history of the previous hundred years and told him to let his recovering disciple rest for a month.
• At Extreme Heaven Cliff, a man resembling True Person Demon-Sweeping asked the voice trapped in the wind whether Lu Yang was the person it had awaited.
• The man thanked the voice for its answer and said his great dream was about to awaken.

Miao Le, the Spell Dao Lord’s eldest disciple, entered False History and used his [Yellow Millet] dream plane to begin replacing it, hoping to make Si Sui’s resurrection possible. The dream spread across False History, putting cultivators and mortals to sleep as Miao Le declared that they would never awaken.

• King Xi told Pan Huang that his divination suggested the newly advanced [Mountaintop Fire] True Lord might benefit them, though his earlier Great Inauspicious omen remained unexplained.
• Miao Le emerged from three months of isolation after assimilating his power into False History and revealed [Yellow Millet], a dream plane capable of turning truth into illusion.
• Miao Le recalled that the Spell Dao Lord had ordered him to merge [Yellow Millet] into False History to save Si Sui, and that the Nameless Dao Lord’s revelations had convinced him to proceed.
• Miao Le cast aside his hesitation and pressed [Yellow Millet] into False History, committing his foundations to the outcome.
• A warm breeze passed through False History, making Foundation Establishment True Persons drowsy and sending Qi Refining cultivators and mortals into deep sleep.
• Miao Le’s voice declared that all living beings under Heaven would sleep in an endless dream and never wake.

Lu Yang investigated a spreading sleeping sickness and traced it to Miao Le’s perfect plane, [Yellow Millet], where dreamers lived inside countless paintings. He entered the plane to test Miao Le’s abilities as the Dao Lords watched False History take shape.

• The Dao Lords sensed Miao Le merge [Yellow Millet] into False History, and Spell Dao Lord defended his decision to nurture [Great One].
• True Person Yu Hua told Lu Yang that the sleeping sickness had spread for three days and that Feng'er remained unconscious despite his healed wounds.
• Lu Yang concluded that the illness came from a powerful Spell Dao cultivator and suspected Dream Immortal Miao Le, the Spell Dao Lord’s eldest disciple.
• Lu Yang used [Fate-Reforming Revolution] to enter the dreams of the sleeping cultivators and found himself in [Yellow Millet].
• Lu Yang saw hundreds of millions of paintings containing mortals and Qi Refining cultivators, and realized the plane could eventually ensnare cultivators of higher ranks.

Lu Yang explored the shared dreamscape called [Yellow Millet] and found Yu Feng immersed in a fantasy battle and sensual scenarios. After revealing that Yu Feng was dying in the real world, Lu Yang learned that he refused to leave, then drew the attention of Dream Immortal Miao Le.

• Lu Yang entered the enormous public painting within [Yellow Millet] to investigate how it drew people into dreams.
• Lu Yang encountered Yu Feng, who invited him to join a battle against six supposed Dragon Lords alongside other dreamers.
• Lu Yang recognized the battle as a Qi Refining cultivator’s dying dream and rejected Yu Feng’s fantasies, disrupting the dream’s scenery.
• Lu Yang told Yu Feng that True Person Yu Hua was waiting for him in the real world, but Yu Feng said he did not want to leave and vanished into his private painting.
• Lu Yang identified the dream plane as Yellow Millet and sensed Dream Immortal Miao Le watching him.