Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang brought rain, spiritual energy, and renewed vitality to drought-stricken Jiangxi after three years of Heavenly Duke interference. He told Pan Huang that his Deification Method would put everyone’s talents to use, binding even mortals and their future reincarnations to its operation.

• The First Generation Elixir Peak Master and Butian Que discussed Lu Yang’s power and ambition to establish rules for cultivators, and decided his aims suited their own intentions.
• Lu Yang reflected that he had come to spread the Deification Method, believing it would eventually become False History’s mainstream Dao tradition.
• After three years of drought and rupturing Earth Veins in Jiangxi, Pan Huang recognized the Heavenly Duke’s indirect assault and worried about the strain on the Three Foundations.
• Lu Yang crossed from the Overseas into Jiangxi, bringing a vast Cloud Sea, Spiritual Qi, and rain that revitalized cultivators, treasures, and nature throughout the land.
• Pan Huang thanked Lu Yang, who declared that his Dao tradition would provide people with land, homes, education, work, rest, and care while ensuring they served the Deification Method even after reincarnation.

After three years of ordering Jiangxi and Overseas, Lu Yang sensed an unfamiliar force approaching. Chongguang awakened as a Spirit Immortal in Jiangbei, where Heavenly Duke searched his memories and encountered knowledge planted by a Dao Lord; Chongguang recognized the Dao Lord responsible as the notorious Buddhist figure.

• Lu Yang surveyed Jiangxi and Overseas and realized that controlling another region would greatly increase his power.
• Chongguang awakened at Kanyang Lake as his True History and False History selves unified in his stone embryo.
• Heavenly Duke detected Chongguang and forcibly searched his Sea of Consciousness for the knowledge within it.
• Chongguang realized that a Dao Lord had made him a messenger and that the knowledge was a trap for Heavenly Duke.
• After Heavenly Duke's consciousness reacted violently to the knowledge, a bell toll and Buddhist images appeared, and Chongguang recognized the Dao Lord as the famously shameless one.

The World Honored One learned that True Lord Imperial Ultimate Life Steward was plotting to coordinate False History's return with Spirit Transformation Ascension, and he welcomed the chaos. After losing power when his plan to convert Chongguang failed, he demanded Heavenly Dao authority and secretly began planning to abandon the Other Shore.

• The World Honored One examined the Heavenly Duke's memories and deduced that True Lord Imperial Ultimate Life Steward was working with Si Sui to time False History's return with Spirit Transformation Ascension.
• The World Honored One's Golden Body Great Buddha shattered, and he told the Sword Lord and Cang Hao that his attempt to convert Chongguang had failed and his Divine Thought had been slain by the Great Sword Sect.
• The World Honored One demanded compensation for his damaged foundation and requested authority over the Heavenly Dao to stabilize Radiant World Exchange Light True Lord.
• The Sword Lord and Cang Hao insisted that Radiant World Exchange Light True Lord, rather than the World Honored One, receive the authority, prompting the World Honored One to protest.
• The World Honored One secretly welcomed the exchange as a chance to abandon the Other Shore and pursue a better path.

The World Honored One concealed his plans from Sword Lord and Cang Hao while weighing whether to leave the [Other Shore], then used Chongguang as a test of True Lord Imperial Ultimate Life Steward. He rebuilt Chongguang’s cultivation around [Five Elements] and left to see whether the True Lord could handle the change, while Lu Yang sensed it.

• The World Honored One refused Sword Lord and Cang Hao’s demands, and they concluded they would have to investigate False History without his help.
• The World Honored One reflected on being trapped at the second level of the [Other Shore] and considered meeting True Lord Imperial Ultimate Life Steward before abandoning his current position.
• The World Honored One promised Chongguang an opportunity and explained that the imbalance in his divine powers had blocked his cultivation.
• The World Honored One removed Chongguang’s Jia Wood, granted him Gui Water, and remade his cultivation so all five elements gathered within him as pure Yin.
• The World Honored One vanished, intending to test the True Lord’s methods, as Lu Yang sensed the change in Heaven and earth.

Lu Yang consulted Si Sui about a Dao Lord’s test and learned that the mysterious person was testing whether Lu Yang had truly contacted him. Si Sui’s explanation of Chu Sheng’s path to enlightenment led Lu Yang to realize that killing World Honored One could restore the River of Time and let Chu Sheng wield both [Fixed Number] and [Variable].

• Lu Yang traced a faint karmic strand to a figure seeking the fundamental [Five Elements] and suspected a Dao Lord was testing him.
• Lu Yang switched to his Senior Cultivator’s perspective and visited Si Sui using the Foundation Establishment puppet.
• Si Sui explained that the mysterious person’s method tested whether Lu Yang had made contact with him.
• Si Sui revealed that the Karmic Net had once been the River of Time, which Chu Sheng used to attain [Fixed Number].
• Lu Yang asked what would happen if Chu Sheng killed World Honored One, and Si Sui said the Karmic Net could revert to the River of Time, allowing Chu Sheng to wield [Variable] alongside [Fixed Number].

Lu Yang and Si Sui realized Chu Sheng’s Spirit Transformation plan was too precise to be a gamble and suspected he had learned the future through [Grandmaster]. They concluded Chu Sheng had hidden [Grandmaster] within the River of Time, leaving Lu Yang relieved that he had not closed the [Hundred Lives Book].

• Lu Yang told Si Sui his conjecture about Chu Sheng’s Spirit Transformation Ascension plan and its fallback of controlling [Fixed Number] and [Variable].
• Si Sui argued that Chu Sheng’s plan depended on Wanbao attaining [Karma] with implausible certainty, suggesting Chu Sheng had known the future in advance.
• Lu Yang proposed that Chu Sheng had found a Spirit Transformation inheritance in [Grandmaster], which might explain his knowledge and achievements.
• Lu Yang told Si Sui that Dao Tianqi had attained [Netherworld] but was struck down by the Dao Lords, and that the Netherworld remained confined to Immortal Pivot.
• Lu Yang and Si Sui deduced that Chu Sheng had hidden [Grandmaster] within the River of Time, later concealed again when it became the Karmic Net.
• Lu Yang checked the [Hundred Lives Book] and sighed with relief that he had not closed it.

Lu Yang used Si Sui’s insight to conclude that the World Honored One was testing him through Martial Uncle Chongguang, then set out to take Jiangbei. In the Cloud Sea of Heaven-Reaching, the First Generation Elixir Peak Master prepared to fight Lu Yang and privately questioned what lay beyond the Immortal Pivot.

• Si Sui helped Lu Yang deduce that Martial Uncle Chongguang was the Dao Lord’s chosen pawn and that the World Honored One was behind the test.
• Lu Yang reasoned that Chongguang’s Spirit Immortal body was likely in Jiangbei and decided to seize the region after his three-year deadline expired.
• The First Generation Elixir Peak Master predicted that Lu Yang would target Jiangdong or Jiangnan next and discussed the coming campaign with Butian Que.
• The First Generation Elixir Peak Master chose to fight Lu Yang, while Butian Que agreed to stand by him.
• The First Generation Elixir Peak Master wondered why True Monarchs and Dao lineages had never ventured beyond the Immortal Pivot into the Light Sea.

The twelve Fruit Positions attacked the Cloud Sea of Heaven-Reaching and shattered its defensive formation, after which Lu Yang used [Heaven-Inscription Chapter] to impose a suicide decree on the First Generation Elixir Peak Master. The chapter left Liantian Dou unable to use his treasures or powers as [Heaven in the Palm] seized him.

• The twelve Fruit Positions used [Illuminating Law] to reveal and destroy the [Thirty-Three Heavens Chess Dao Formation].
• Liantian Dou confronted Lu Yang, whose [Milky Way Immortal] and [Dust Tribulation Sea] let him escape the First Generation Elixir Peak Master's sword and Tusita fire.
• Lu Yang invoked [Fire in the Sky] and issued a decree commanding Liantian Dou to commit suicide.
• Liantian Dou swept away the decree's effects, but discovered it had turned his attempts to heal and accept help from Butian Que into threats to his life.
• Liantian Dou realized that using the Jade Whisk had also stripped away his own powers, and [Heaven in the Palm] seized him.

Lu Yang defeated the First Generation Elixir Peak Master, who used his lifelong cultivation to resist him, and drew the attention of powerful factions across the Immortal Pivot. Facing the Great Sword Sect and Heavenly Duke, Lu Yang challenged every cultivator to come at him together.

• The First Generation Elixir Peak Master realized his world might not be real and resolved to reach the real world as he fought Lu Yang.
• The First Generation Elixir Peak Master sacrificed his treasures to form his lifelong [Nascent Soul Pill] and briefly shook Lu Yang’s giant hand.
• Lu Yang tightened his grip and overwhelmed the First Generation Elixir Peak Master, while Butian Que recognized how much Lu Yang had grown in three years.
• Lu Yang sensed the Great Sword Sect and Heavenly Duke watching him and weighed the danger of confronting them against Martial Uncle Chongguang attaining the [Five Elements].
• Lu Yang addressed the gathered factions and challenged all the cultivators to attack him together.

Lu Yang confronted Emperor Cang, who had gained the Heavenly Duke’s empowerment and reached the Heaven-Treading Realm. Lu Yang’s Fruit Positions overcame Emperor Cang’s Immortal Kingdom Dao Law, and a decree ordered Cang to behead the Supervising Marquis.

• At Extreme Heaven Cliff, Ling Xiao told the Great Sword Sect that the Heavenly Duke’s involvement was forcing Lu Yang to fight, while the Great Sword Sect said he could not join the battle.
• In Jiangbei, Lu Yang realized that using Martial Uncle Chongguang’s situation had drawn him away from Jiangxi and weakened his combat strength.
• Emperor Cang fused his three forms, accepted the Heavenly Duke’s empowerment, and broke through to the Heaven-Treading Realm.
• Emperor Cang unleashed the Immortal Kingdom Dao Law across Jiangbei, but Lu Yang’s light of Fruit Positions tore through its darkness.
• The Heavenly Duke empowered Emperor Cang again, but Lu Yang’s decree appeared ordering Cang to behead the Supervising Marquis, and Lu Yang descended to confront him.

Lu Yang killed Emperor Cang after Heavenly Duke failed to save him, then recognized the powerful figure appearing in the thunderclouds as World Honored One acting through Heavenly Duke. Realizing they were in the same realm, Lu Yang decided to test himself against World Honored One.

• Lu Yang subdued Emperor Cang with the Heaven-Inscription Chapter and changed his sentence from Deferred Beheading to Immediate Beheading.
• Emperor Cang called for Heavenly Duke to save him, but Heavenly Duke did not intervene, and Lu Yang stomped Emperor Cang to death.
• Heavenly Duke appeared in the thunderclouds, and Butian Que and the First Generation Elixir Peak Master recognized the figure as resembling their Big Senior.
• The Great Sword Sect concluded that the figure was no mere projection, and Lu Yang identified him as World Honored One borrowing Heavenly Duke's power.
• Lu Yang realized World Honored One was restricted to the Heaven-Treading Realm and resolved to fight him as a benchmark for his future battle with Chu Sheng.

Shi Tianyi tested Lu Yang by challenging him to prove he could overcome a stronger opponent, then fought him beyond the sky curtain. Lu Yang countered Shi Tianyi’s supreme Buddha treasure with Water Element transformations, but Shi Tianyi pressed his advantage and prepared another technique.

• Shi Tianyi realized Lu Yang had uncovered his identity and decided to test whether Lu Yang could defeat him before considering cooperation against Chu Sheng.
• Lu Yang released the First Generation Elixir Peak Master, then met Shi Tianyi above the sky curtain and unfolded [Heavenly Palace].
• Shi Tianyi manifested a supreme Buddha treasure and used its brute force to tear apart Lu Yang’s [Heavenly Palace].
• Lu Yang transformed into [Milky Way Immortal], but Shi Tianyi used [Life-and-Death Wheel] to weaken him with [Early Death Time].
• Lu Yang countered with [Unfailing River] and repelled Shi Tianyi’s attack, but Shi Tianyi withdrew his Vase Seal and invoked a treasure.

The World Honored One used multiple Dharma treasures to isolate Lu Yang, exhaust his Fortune, and fix his fate as death. Lu Yang unleashed [Fate-Reforming Revolution], broke the World Honored One’s Karma-based defense, and proved himself worthy of cooperation before time reset the battle.

• The World Honored One separated Lu Yang from the twelve Water-Fire Fruit Positions with [Yin-Yang] and used a Guillotine to nearly exhaust Lu Yang’s [Fortune].
• The World Honored One combined [Destiny], [Fixed Number], and [Karma] to declare Lu Yang’s death inevitable, then amplified the death Karma with a Spell-like talisman.
• Lu Yang invoked [Fate-Reforming Revolution], shattered the karmically ordained death, and reunited with the twelve Water-Fire Fruit Positions.
• The World Honored One tried to escape Lu Yang’s charge through [Karma], but [Fire in the Sky] trapped him in place and Lu Yang pierced his Buddhist body.
• Time reversed, erasing the battle, and Lu Yang asked whether he had proved his qualifications to cooperate; the World Honored One touched his pierced brow and agreed.

Lu Yang gained the upper hand against the World Honored One, whom the Great Sword Sect suspected was a Dao Lord from the real world. After their brief battle, the World Honored One assessed Lu Yang’s strength against the other Dao Lords, leaving Lu Yang to consider his chances against them.

• The Great Sword Sect told Ling Xiao that Lu Yang had won against Heavenly Duke, which he suspected was the World Honored One descended from the real world.
• Ling Xiao guessed that the opponent was the World Honored One, and the Great Sword Sect said Lu Yang had gained the upper hand without settling the fight.
• Lu Yang examined False History’s empty heavenly canopy and reflected that filling its gaps might turn the illusion into reality.
• The World Honored One asked how Lu Yang had attained a method resembling [Variable], and Lu Yang offered him a cultivation method Jade Slip.
• The World Honored One compared his strength with that of the other Dao Lords, and Lu Yang estimated his own chances against them.

Lu Yang questioned World Honored One about taking the Immortal Pivot and learned why Huanyao, World Honored One, and the Great Sword Sect chose different paths during the Dao Lord war. World Honored One revealed that the Great Sword Sect’s Sixty-Year Demon Purge had been meant to protect mortals from the Ancestral Dragon, whose power lay behind all cultivators.

• Lu Yang asked World Honored One to help him take the Immortal Pivot, and World Honored One agreed not to oppose him in Jiangdong or Jiangbei while warning that Jiangnan was different.
• World Honored One inferred that Lu Yang came from a later era, and Lu Yang asked why the Great Sword Sect had carried out the Sixty-Year Demon Purge before killing himself.
• World Honored One explained that Huanyao had chosen to establish the Netherworld, while he had sided with Chu Sheng to seek influence in the [Other Shore] and protect his companions.
• World Honored One said the Great Sword Sect had seen Sword Lord’s true nature and focused on protecting mortals after the Ancestral Dragon sought to escape its suppression.
• World Honored One revealed that cultivators traced their origins to the Ancestral Dragon, which could reclaim the power it had granted them.

Lu Yang verified the World Honored One’s account of the Ancestral Dragon with Si Sui and learned how the Ancestral Dragon harvested cultivators to unify the Five Elements. Si Sui agreed that the World Honored One could help them, but insisted he would still have to answer for his past actions.

• Lu Yang realized the Ancestral Dragon had founded cultivator civilization and planned to destroy it, then told the World Honored One he would verify the story with Si Sui.
• Lu Yang contacted Si Sui through [Puppet on Strings] and recounted what the World Honored One had told him.
• Si Sui explained that the Ancestral Dragon had chosen Immortal Pivot as a sacrificial ground and harvested True Lords to unify the five great Heavenly Numbers into the [Five Elements].
• Si Sui said he had joined Chu Sheng’s plan and used [Other Shore] to suppress the Ancestral Dragon, while Lu Yang suspected Chu Sheng had timed his revelation to manipulate Si Sui and gain trust.
• Lu Yang told Si Sui that the World Honored One had abandoned darkness and would help them escape and attain enlightenment.
• Si Sui said the World Honored One must study at his school for one hundred thousand years and pass his assessment before he would forgive him.

Lu Yang secured the World Honored One’s cooperation by revealing that Chu Sheng had attained enlightenment through the River of Time, which was now the Karmic Net. As Lu Yang staged his apparent defeat and retreat, Miao Le mistook it for a real opportunity and decided to intervene.

• Lu Yang told the World Honored One that Si Sui had forgiven him but expected him to study at the academy for a hundred thousand years.
• The World Honored One refused the Deification Method, but Lu Yang revealed that Chu Sheng had used the River of Time—the Karmic Net—to attain enlightenment.
• The World Honored One reacted with fury, then pledged to help Lu Yang spread the method and deal with the remaining obstacles.
• Lu Yang and the World Honored One identified Miao Le and his [Great One Beast] as the final Variable they needed to eliminate.
• Lu Yang appeared to lose the battle and flee toward Jiangxi, convincing Miao Le that the Heavenly Duke had failed to kill him.
• Miao Le decided to stop Lu Yang’s return and join forces with the Heavenly Duke, believing this might be his only chance to attain enlightenment through [Yellow Millet].

Lu Yang and the Heavenly Duke joined forces with the cultivators in Jiangxi to capture Miao Le, the last enemy of False History, Immortal Pivot. As Lu Yang prepared to set False History back on course, the Nascent Soul Pill’s light struck the Real World, rekindling Spirit Transformation Ascension.

• Lu Yang fled toward Jiangxi while the Heavenly Duke pursued him, and Miao Le intervened with the [Yellow Millet] dreamscape just before Lu Yang could escape.
• The [Boundless Dao] blocked Miao Le’s retreat, and cultivators in Jiangxi attacked him from behind as Lu Yang and the Heavenly Duke attacked from the front.
• The combined assault shattered Miao Le’s dreamscape, and the Heavenly Duke captured him under a decree and confined him in his palm.
• Lu Yang resolved to use the Deification Method to take control of False History and restore its proper course by reversing Karma.
• The World Honored One watched True Lord Biluofuguang appear as the [First Generation Elixir Peak Master] and prepare the Nascent Soul Pill.
• Chu Sheng moved at the end of the [Other Shore], and the Nascent Soul Pill’s light crashed from the Netherworld into the Real World, rekindling Spirit Transformation Ascension.

True Lord Biluofuguang completed the Nascent Soul Pill while Dao Tianqi blocked the Sword Lord and Cang Hao, and Chu Sheng intervened to protect and claim it. The pill exploded as Dao Tianqi revealed he had anticipated the deception.

• True Lord Biluofuguang refined the Nascent Soul Pill as the Sword Lord and Cang Hao attacked, but Dao Tianqi blocked them.
• Chu Sheng stopped Cang Hao’s [Heaven] character with a finger, and the Dao Lords discussed the risks of Spirit Transformation Ascension.
• The Nascent Soul Pill emerged from the furnace, and True Lord Biluofuguang seized it.
• Chu Sheng used his true name, Taiyi Heaven, to take the pill from True Lord Biluofuguang and return it to the Other Shore.
• Dao Tianqi spoke of being underestimated, and the Nascent Soul Pill suddenly exploded.

Chu Sheng destroyed the Nascent Soul Pill scheme and exposed the hidden [Heavenly Dao] inside the [Five Elements], causing the [Other Shore] to collapse and triggering the Light Sea’s [Tribulation]. The Ancestral Dragon regained the [Tribulation]’s favor, but the World Honored One questioned how Chu Sheng could still achieve Spirit Transformation Ascension without the [Five Elements].

• Dao Tianqi revealed that he had changed a few Images to turn the Nascent Soul Pill into an explosive pill, and Chu Sheng praised his schemes.
• The Ancestral Dragon learned that the Nascent Soul Pill had been destroyed, but the mysterious voice told him to accept that plans could go awry.
• Chu Sheng deduced that Butian Que had used [Yin-Yang] to hide within the [Heavenly Dao] and stripped the [Heavenly Dao] from the [Five Elements].
• The empty [Five Elements] could no longer support the [Other Shore], which began to collapse and brought forth the [Tribulation].
• The Ancestral Dragon regained the [Tribulation]’s favor, while the World Honored One asked what Chu Sheng would use to ascend now that the [Five Elements] was empty.