Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang experienced the origins and evolution of the Great One, then recognized that Miao Le had used the Great Dream of Eternity Scripture to attack his consciousness. Lu Yang exposed Miao Le as a Demon Cultivator and challenged him to see for himself what Lu Yang knew.

• Lu Yang witnessed how life emerged from Jietian remnants, gained intelligence through a Spell Dao cultivator, and became the spell-bound consciousnesses called the Great One.
• The Great One preserved its explorers’ experiences through consensus, adapted to the Light Sea, and began cultivating in search of the Dao.
• Lu Yang awakened from the dream and identified Miao Le as a Demon Cultivator who had tried to dissolve his consciousness.
• Miao Le asked how Lu Yang had resisted the Great Dream of Eternity Scripture, and Lu Yang criticized his failure to see the True Self, heaven and earth, and all living beings.
• Lu Yang formed a spell seal and invited Miao Le to see for himself whether Lu Yang understood the scripture.

Lu Yang used his superior Dao Heart to turn Miao Le’s dream technique against it, trapping Miao Le in a repeating nightmare and destroying one of its consciousnesses. He escaped [Yellow Millet] with Yu Feng and the other dreamers, then removed [Old Lord Temple] and its people before a giant hand struck the land.

• Lu Yang recognized that Miao Le’s [Great Dream of Eternity Scripture] resembled Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts and reasoned that his stronger Dao Heart could overcome it.
• Lu Yang forcibly imitated the dream technique, sending Miao Le into a recurring dream where Senior Sister Transcend Death repeatedly killed it.
• After more than two hundred deaths, one strand of Miao Le’s consciousness collapsed, while Lu Yang gained insight into [Yellow Millet] and consciousness-based methods.
• Lu Yang pulled Yu Feng and the other dreamers out of the painting and erased their memories of [Yellow Millet].
• Lu Yang returned to reality, sent the dreamers back to their bodies, and made [Old Lord Temple] and everyone under its rule vanish.
• Less than ten breaths later, a giant hand descended from the Vault Sky and crushed the land into dust.

Lu Yang resisted [Yellow Millet] as the Great Sword Sect and other Mind Fasting cultivators dispelled its dream influence. Heavenly Duke offered to help him advance if he took control of the Fire Element Fruit Positions and eliminated the holder of [Covered Lamp Fire], whose identity was tied to a thirty-year-old event.

• Lu Yang hid from the Divine Thought searching the region after a devastating calamity and recognized that [Yellow Millet] could be countered by cultivated Dao Hearts.
• The Great Sword Sect used Demon-Queller, Demon-Subduer, and Quexie to awaken living beings, while Mind Fasting cultivators across the Immortal Pivot dispelled [Yellow Millet].
• Lu Yang used [Divine Offering] to repel Heavenly Duke's influence, then agreed to consider cooperation in exchange for learning how to reach a higher realm.
• Heavenly Duke explained that Lu Yang needed to control every Fire Element Fruit Position, offered help, and named [Covered Lamp Fire] as the position held by the person he must eliminate.
• True Person Yu Hua reported a forgotten event from thirty years earlier, then involuntarily proclaimed, "Eastern Sovereign Attacks Heaven!"

Lu Yang deciphered Ling Xiao’s thirty-year-old message, revealing how Ling Xiao had stolen City-Wall Earth, hidden it with a million believers, and prepared a way for Lu Yang to recover his cultivation and contact Si Sui. The Attaining-Enlightenment Hidden Profound Residence was set to appear within three days, and Ling Xiao asked Lu Yang to save him.

• Lu Yang unlocked the Jade Slip’s hidden account of Ling Xiao’s attack on Heavenly Duke and his use of Quzhi to borrow the False History Five Elements Fruit Positions.
• Lu Yang used Fate-Reforming Revolution to reveal Ling Xiao’s message explaining that he had taken City-Wall Earth and hidden it in the Attaining-Enlightenment Hidden Profound Residence in Jiangdong.
• Ling Xiao revealed that he had prepared roughly a million people to support Lu Yang’s Divine Offering mystery.
• Lu Yang learned that the hidden residence would manifest within three days, giving him a chance to recover his cultivation, lure a dangerous enemy, and reach Si Sui.
• The Jade Slip shattered, and Lu Yang began planning how to use Ling Xiao’s contingency while preparing to rescue him.

As Dao Lords fought over the turmoil in False History, the Nameless Dao Lord secretly visited Miao Le and gave him a Dao Heart cultivation method. He asked Miao Le about a low-cultivation figure from True History, but Miao Le said he had found no such person or clues.

• Cang Hao tried to intervene in False History, but Spell Dao Lord blocked him, and Sword Lord and Wanbao also entered the struggle.
• Chu Sheng joined the battle to preserve the balance while the other Dao Lords' wills collided above False History.
• The Nameless Dao Lord descended into False History and found Miao Le meditating at Spirit Mountain in Immortal Calendar Year 3.
• The Nameless Dao Lord explained that [Yellow Millet] could help complete False History's Yin-Yang Image and gave Miao Le the [Purify Defilement, Wash the Heart Chapter].
• The Nameless Dao Lord asked whether Miao Le had encountered a low-cultivation person from True History, and Miao Le denied seeing anyone or finding clues.

The Nameless Dao Lord discovered Ling Xiao’s [Attaining-Enlightenment Hidden Profound Residence] and suspected that Ling Xiao was scheming with someone in Jiangnan. Lu Yang entered the Grotto-Heaven, claimed [City-Wall Earth] and Ling Xiao’s believers, and reached the Heaven-Treading Realm, changing history and drawing the Dao Lords’ attention.

• The Nameless Dao Lord traced Ling Xiao’s aura to the emerging [Attaining-Enlightenment Hidden Profound Residence] and learned that Ling Xiao had arrived thirty years early.
• The Nameless Dao Lord found a blank span in False History and suspected that someone in Jiangnan had removed part of the record and was cooperating with Ling Xiao.
• Lu Yang entered Ling Xiao’s Grotto-Heaven, explored its rooms, and opened the concealed chamber holding [City-Wall Earth].
• Lu Yang captured [City-Wall Earth] and used the glazed sphere of Ling Xiao’s believers to restore his cultivation and rise to the Heaven-Treading Realm.
• Lu Yang anchored [City-Wall Earth] onto history from a thousand years earlier, causing the Dao Lords to declare that a Variable had appeared and the course of history had changed.

The Spell Dao Lord suspected that someone besides Miao Le had changed False History, while Chu Sheng watched Variables gather there as intended. Lu Yang traced False History’s Karmic Net upstream, broke through its obstruction with help from Si Sui’s blows, and reached the Heavenly Dao passage connecting history to the Dao Lord battlefield.

• The Spell Dao Lord warned the other Dao Lords that someone else might have altered False History and asked Chu Sheng about the consciousness that had slipped in.
• Chu Sheng observed countless Variables converging on False History’s Karmic Net and welcomed their growth.
• Lu Yang struggled upstream through False History, using City-Wall Earth’s power while saving Guest Unwelcome to Heaven and Earth for a decisive moment.
• Si Sui’s repeated blows weakened the obstruction at False History’s source, allowing Lu Yang to break through.
• Lu Yang reached the Heavenly Dao passage and recognized that it had connected False History to the Dao Lord battlefield, with Si Sui’s silhouette at its far end.

Lu Yang used Si Sui’s Echo to slip into the outer edge of the [Heavenly Dao] and discovered the [Heavenheart Lock], an Ancestral Dragon Dao Artifact that might be keeping Si Sui trapped. He could go no deeper without the will of a Primordial Spirit, so he wondered where to find a cultivator who possessed one.

• Lu Yang summoned Si Sui’s Echo from the [Heavenly Palace] and confirmed it could not sense Si Sui’s sealed true body.
• Lu Yang merged an avatar with Si Sui’s Echo, gave it Si Sui’s reconstructed face, and used it to blend into the thunderous voices of the [Heavenly Dao].
• Lu Yang glimpsed the [Heavenly Dao]’s Great Daos of [Destiny] and [Fortune] and discovered the five-colored [Heavenheart Lock] between them.
• Lu Yang realized the [Heavenheart Lock] might be preventing Si Sui’s escape and could also be connected to the Primordial Spirit’s seal.
• Lu Yang found he could not go deeper because his Dao Heart lacked the will of a Primordial Spirit, and he wondered where to find a cultivator who had one.

Lu Yang realized Nameless Dao Lord might have entered False History to find Miao Le, and decided to use [Dao] as bait to lure him. As [Attaining-Enlightenment Hidden Profound Residence] drew powerful visitors, Nameless Dao Lord watched from the shadows while Butian Que approached the Old Dragon Lord with a request.

• Lu Yang concluded that a willing Primordial Spirit cultivator was needed to contact Si Sui through [Heavenly Dao], then identified Nameless Dao Lord as a possible target for Ling Xiao’s trap.
• Lu Yang reasoned that Nameless Dao Lord might have entered False History to find Miao Le and recognized [Attaining-Enlightenment Hidden Profound Residence] as a hook Ling Xiao had prepared for him.
• Lu Yang returned to [Attaining-Enlightenment Hidden Profound Residence] and began sensing [Heavenly Palace], deciding to use [Dao] as bait for Nameless Dao Lord.
• Nameless Dao Lord watched the hidden residence’s aura appear and observed the Six overseas Dragon Lords, the Great Sword Sect, and other arrivals.
• Butian Que approached the Old Dragon Lord and asked him to do something with her one more time.

Butian Que provoked Old Dragon Mother into a battle while Nameless Dao Lord recognized that Butian Que’s Great Dao had used her to connect with the Heavenly Duke. Nameless Dao Lord then detected Ling Xiao’s Jade Slip aura inside the hidden Grotto-Heaven and entered it ahead of time.

• Butian Que teased Old Dragon Lord until she revealed that she had shifted from Yang to Yin and could not fight him as before.
• Butian Que transformed and challenged Old Dragon Mother, prompting the six Dragon Lords to join forces against him.
• Nameless Dao Lord observed the clash and realized Butian Que had used Old Dragon Mother and [Great Sea Water] to connect his [Butian Dao] to the Immortal Pivot Heavenly Duke.
• Nameless Dao Lord sensed the lingering aura of the Jade Slip he had given Ling Xiao inside [Attaining-Enlightenment Hidden Profound Residence].
• Nameless Dao Lord used the Jade Slip’s trapped aura to enter the hidden Grotto-Heaven before it emerged into the Real World.

The Nameless Dao Lord entered a hidden chamber in Ling Xiao’s Attaining-Enlightenment Hidden Profound Residence and discovered that White Jade Capital was an illusory projection of a place beyond the Light Sea. After sensing all five Heavenly Numbers there, he concluded that the Ancestral Dragon had created it as a contingency.

• The Nameless Dao Lord entered the multicolored chamber and dispelled its Perception Barrier to reveal White Jade Capital.
• He realized White Jade Capital was only a projection whose true body lay beyond the Light Sea, a discovery that left him shocked and wary.
• The Nameless Dao Lord explored the empty city and found divine positions bearing the Images of Destiny and Fixed Number.
• He sensed Tribulation, Fortune, and Variable in the remaining palaces and inferred that the city’s master was unifying all five Heavenly Numbers.
• The Nameless Dao Lord concluded that the Ancestral Dragon had created White Jade Capital as a contingency and had ties to Ling Xiao through Mu Changsheng.

Lu Yang lured the Nameless Dao Lord into [Attaining-Enlightenment Hidden Profound Residence] with a projected [White Jade Capital] and clues implicating the Ancestral Dragon. The Nameless Dao Lord found Si Sui’s remnant and [Heavenheart Lock], concluded the Ancestral Dragon sought to reclaim the artifact, and revealed himself to Lu Yang as a Dao Lord who had appeared out of thin air.

• Lu Yang left [Attaining-Enlightenment Hidden Profound Residence] and projected [White Jade Capital] as bait, preparing a false trail that blamed the Ancestral Dragon.
• The Nameless Dao Lord entered [White Jade Capital], read the couplet about [Heavenheart Lock], and passed through the gateway.
• The Nameless Dao Lord discovered [City-Wall Earth] and Si Sui’s lingering echo, then inferred that the arrangement was meant to save Si Sui.
• The Nameless Dao Lord traveled backward into [Heavenly Dao] and found [Heavenheart Lock] serving as its foundation.
• Lu Yang sensed that someone had touched Si Sui’s remnant and realized the Nameless Dao Lord was an unknown Dao Lord who had taken the bait.

Nameless Dao Lord suspected the Ancestral Dragon had arranged a trap in the Attaining-Enlightenment Hidden Profound Residence, but he chose to wait rather than act. Outside, Lu Yang revealed that he had anticipated Nameless Dao Lord’s reasoning and had used the information gap to lead him astray.

• Nameless Dao Lord tried to turn back time and inspect the history of the Attaining-Enlightenment Hidden Profound Residence, but City-Wall Earth blocked him.
• Nameless Dao Lord suspected the Ancestral Dragon was behind the suspicious clues, yet could not determine what the Ancestral Dragon wanted from him.
• Nameless Dao Lord examined the people outside the residence as possible targets of the Ancestral Dragon’s possession, and Great Sword Sect sensed his scrutiny.
• Nameless Dao Lord decided to hide and wait for the Ancestral Dragon to act, while ruling out any plan to truly rescue Si Sui.
• Lu Yang calculated that Nameless Dao Lord would choose to wait and revealed that he had used an information gap to plot against him.

Lu Yang prepared to contact Nameless Dao Lord through Foundation Establishment puppets while the [Attaining-Enlightenment Hidden Profound Residence] manifested and drew powerful cultivators inside. Great Sword Sect stayed behind to pursue his own plan, and the captive beneath Extreme Heaven Cliff realized he was using the Grotto-Heaven to lure Nameless Dao Lord.

• Lu Yang used [Puppet on Strings] to control several Foundation Establishment cultivators and sent them toward the [Attaining-Enlightenment Hidden Profound Residence] as potential messengers to Nameless Dao Lord.
• The [Attaining-Enlightenment Hidden Profound Residence] manifested, and Old Dragon Mother urged Old Dragon Lord to enter and find City-Wall Earth.
• Old Dragon Lord used [Milky Way Immortal] to slip into the residence, but Butian Que detected and pursued him inside with [Butian Dao].
• Pan Huang charged through the jade-green storm, and later True Monarchs and Foundation Establishment True Persons entered as the storm faded.
• Great Sword Sect waited for [Mountaintop Fire] and questioned the captive beneath Extreme Heaven Cliff about the Grotto-Heaven, but the captive refused to answer until released.
• The captive sensed Nameless Dao Lord's jade slip in the residence and realized Great Sword Sect was using the Grotto-Heaven to lure Nameless Dao Lord.

Butian Que entered the Attaining-Enlightenment Hidden Profound Residence and discovered that its hostile environment weakened outsiders, while a divine fire in White Jade Capital offered a path to adopt the Grotto-Heaven’s lineage. As he grew suspicious of the apparent invitation, the Nameless Dao Lord watched him and sensed the six Dragon Lords approaching the central palace, where a clash of mysteries began.

• Butian Que explored the Grotto-Heaven and found its spiritual currents rejected outsiders, with the resistance growing stronger as he ventured deeper.
• Butian Que entered White Jade Capital and realized the Grotto-Heaven’s power weakened his cultivation, while the six Dragon Lords were likely reduced to the strength of Immortal Bridge Great True Lords.
• Butian Que found a mysterious divine fire in a palace and deduced that refining it could strengthen cultivators by drawing them into the lineage behind it.
• The Nameless Dao Lord secretly observed Butian Que and judged him unlikely to be connected to the Ancestral Dragon, while suspecting the six Dragon Lords instead.
• Butian Que sensed a clash of mysteries near the central palace and wondered whether the Dragon Lords had encountered an opponent.

Suo Huan blocked Dragon Lord Yu Zhao from advancing and repeatedly survived his attacks with the [Dust Tribulation Sea], then wounded him with a calamity-triggering strike. Huai River Dragon Lord arrived to join Yu Zhao, and her resemblance to True Lord Flying Snow and a strange discordant feeling left Suo Huan and hidden onlookers unsettled.

• Dragon Lord Yu Zhao attacked Suo Huan with [Heaven-Earth Intercourse Forging Dragon Teeth], but Suo Huan reformed from the bright radiance of the [Dust Tribulation Sea].
• Suo Huan revealed his identity and told Yu Zhao he could go no farther, prompting Yu Zhao to transform and attack with [Milky Way Immortal].
• Suo Huan survived the attack and struck Yu Zhao with a calamity-bearing bolt of lightning, leaving a deep charred wound on his dragon head.
• Yu Zhao retreated ten thousand miles and called for Big Sister when Huai River Dragon Lord arrived.
• Suo Huan recognized Huai River Dragon Lord's [Long Flowing Water] Fruit Position and noticed that she looked exactly like True Lord Flying Snow.
• Suo Huan, Yu Zhao, and hidden True Lords sensed a strange discord around Huai River Dragon Lord acting alone.

Lu Yang used Suo Huan and Empress Xiao to display the Deification Method’s power in the Attaining-Enlightenment Hidden Profound Residence, drawing cultivators toward the White Jade Capital’s divine fire. When the Cang River Dragon Lord arrived and shattered their manifestations, Lu Yang seized him with the Order of Myriad Forms Grand Stability Divine Position and confronted him from the palace.

• Lu Yang realized that the Huai River Dragon Lord’s Long Flowing Water was the Fruit Position’s true body, while the one above the Immortal Pivot was only its mystery.
• The Huai River Dragon Lord attacked Suo Huan, but Empress Xiao redirected his river mystery and held him at bay with Changing Heaven and Earth.
• Cultivators fought over the White Jade Capital’s palaces and divine fire as Suo Huan and Empress Xiao’s strength attracted their attention.
• The Cang River Dragon Lord arrived, shattered Suo Huan’s and Empress Xiao’s manifestations, and ordered his followers to search for City-Wall Earth.
• Lu Yang’s great hand seized the Cang River Dragon Lord, and Lu Yang invited him to repeat what he had said.

Patriarch Tingyou trapped the Cang River Dragon Lord despite his powerful escape and river arcane arts, while reflecting on Lu Yang’s plans for the Witch Ghost Sect. Tingyou then crushed the Dragon Lord with [Heaven in the Palm].

• Patriarch Tingyou seized the Cang River Dragon Lord with a vast hand, but the Dragon Lord used [Milky Way Immortal] to escape alongside Dragon Lord Yu Zhao.
• The Cang River Dragon Lord combined Yu Zhao’s and the Huai River Dragon Lord’s power with [Unfailing River] and attempted to flee again.
• Patriarch Tingyou’s hand followed the Dragon Lord through the clouds, leaving him stunned and pleading for peace.
• Patriarch Tingyou looked toward the [White Jade Capital] and recognized the Witch Ghost Sect titles Lu Yang had assigned to its Divine Positions.
• Patriarch Tingyou regained his former vigor and used [Heaven in the Palm] to crush the Cang River Dragon Lord into Blood Light.

Patriarch Tingyou crushed the Cang River Dragon Lord, who revived through the Immortal Pivot and fled toward the Old Dragon Lord. There, he found True Person Demon-Sweeping facing the Old Dragon Lord, with the Winding Ravine Dragon Lord maimed but still alive, as their agreed sword contest was about to begin.

• Patriarch Tingyou crushed the Cang River Dragon Lord, but realized something had escaped his grasp.
• The Cang River Dragon Lord revived through the Immortal Pivot, lost the memories of his death, and fled from Patriarch Tingyou.
• Patriarch Tingyou let the Cang River Dragon Lord go, saying he was heading toward Fellow Daoist Ye, who would be more difficult to face.
• The Cang River Dragon Lord followed the Old Dragon Lord's call and arrived with Dragon Lord Yu Zhao and the Huai River Dragon Lord.
• The Cang River Dragon Lord saw the severed Winding Ravine Dragon Lord still alive and found True Person Demon-Sweeping waiting with the sword No-Kill.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping reminded the Old Dragon Lord that he would receive one sword strike and that all Dragon Lords would perish if he lost his life.

True Person Demon-Sweeping used the Old Dragon Lord to test a new Sword Intent and killed five dragon lords with one strike. Great Sword Sect appeared afterward and congratulated him, saying his Primordial Spirit was now within reach.

• True Person Demon-Sweeping attacked the Old Dragon Lord with [All-Slay Sword Intent], breaking through its Water Element mysteries.
• The Old Dragon Lord used [Root of Heaven and Earth] to fill the sword light with consciousnesses and weaken its attack.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping forged a third Sword Intent, [Perfected Person], using those consciousnesses to temper the blade.
• True Person Demon-Sweeping killed the Old Dragon Lord, Cang River, Huai River, Yu Zhao, and Yang Lake with one sword strike.
• Great Sword Sect appeared, and True Person Demon-Sweeping sheathed his sword as the two met each other's gaze.
• Great Sword Sect praised the Divine Edge and told True Person Demon-Sweeping that his Primordial Spirit was within reach.