Chapter Summaries

Cang Hao revealed that Chu Sheng’s power might depend on a ritual hidden within [Grandmaster], while Lu Yang disclosed Chu Sheng’s likely refuge and urged the Dao Lords to stop fighting each other. The Dao Lords considered joining forces to test or injure Chu Sheng before Si Sui confronted him.

• Cang Hao shattered Chu Sheng’s oppressive gaze and explained that destroying a ritual within [Grandmaster] might make Chu Sheng’s power backlash against him.
• Lu Yang told Cang Hao that Chu Sheng likely hid in a secret realm in Void Darkness and had obtained the [Heavenly Book] there.
• Cang Hao said the secret realm had eluded every faction, and Lu Yang questioned why Chu Sheng was conserving his strength while the Dao Lords fought.
• The Sword Lord said Chu Sheng was waiting for Si Sui, prompting Lu Yang to ask whether Si Sui could still defeat him.
• Lu Yang urged the Dao Lords to join forces against Chu Sheng, and they fell silent as they considered his proposal.

Lu Yang urged the Dao Lords to lure Chu Sheng into a group attack so they could discover the extent of his strength. The World Honored One offered to sacrifice himself to undo the Karmic Net, leaving the Dao Lords astonished by the cost of his plan.

• Lu Yang argued that the Dao Lords should bait Chu Sheng into fighting and attack him together, even if the plan risked casualties.
• Cang Hao and Sword Lord agreed that Lu Yang's plan could work, but questioned how they could force Chu Sheng to appear.
• The World Honored One revealed that the Karmic Net could revert to the River of Time only if he died, and offered to kill himself.
• Dao Tianqi and the other Dao Lords realized that the World Honored One could use his Three-Life Body to make the sacrifice meaningful only if Chu Sheng killed him.
• Lu Yang understood that the World Honored One planned to destroy his past body's [Karma], which would cripple him and undo Chu Sheng's calculations.

Chu Sheng watched the Dao Lords stop fighting and suspected they were plotting against him, while the World Honored One prepared to abandon Karma and pursue Tribulation. Si Sui released the Cultivation Dao Lord to join the gathering, hoping the eight Dao Lords would reveal Chu Sheng’s true strength.

• Chu Sheng observed the Dao Lords exchanging Divine Thoughts and reasoned that they could not reach his hidden estate or force him out.
• Du Xuan objected to the World Honored One destroying his Great Dao, but the World Honored One explained that he could use Tribulation to become a Dao Lord again.
• The Dao Lords agreed to join forces against Chu Sheng, while the Cultivation Dao Lord mistakenly believed their truce was meant to preserve the balance between two sides.
• Si Sui released the Cultivation Dao Lord from the seal and warned him to stay cautious as he went to the Light Sea.
• The Cultivation Dao Lord departed, and Si Sui wondered whether eight Dao Lords could test Chu Sheng’s true strength.

Lu Yang traded the [Vajra Realm] as a refuge for Sword Lord and the other Dao Lords in exchange for the Name Cult’s honorific-name method. As the World Honored One shattered the Great Dao of [Karma], First Saint appeared in the Real World.

• Cang Hao offered Lu Yang the [Heart-Aligning Soul-Locking Art] in exchange for a safe foothold for the Dao Lords in Void Darkness.
• Lu Yang gave Sword Lord, Cang Hao, Wan Fa, and Du Xuan the [Vajra Realm] as temporary shelter, and Cang Hao handed over the Jade Slip.
• Lu Yang studied the method and decided to consider his honorific name carefully rather than choose one immediately.
• The World Honored One shattered the Great Dao of [Karma], causing the Karmic Net to transform into the River of Time.
• First Saint appeared in the Real World, and his arrival filled the Dao Lords with pressure.

Chu Sheng appeared with the countenance and power of a heavenly being, prompting the Dao Lords to attack him. As Chu Sheng pressed toward the Light Sea, he targeted Lu Yang, who counterattacked rather than submit to the finger that had once killed him.

• Chu Sheng emerged from the Void Darkness, and his presence overwhelmed the Dao Lords and brought the Heaven-Treading Realm’s Great True Lords to tears of blood.
• Cang Hao identified Chu Sheng’s inheritance from [Name Cult] and [Form Cult] and urged everyone to strike before he could return.
• Cang Hao and Sword Lord attacked Chu Sheng with [Fortune] and [Destiny], but Chu Sheng remained unaffected and said [Fixed Number] protected him.
• Lu Yang and Dao Tianqi joined Sword Lord and Cang Hao in blocking Chu Sheng’s advance toward the Light Sea.
• Chu Sheng bypassed their attacks and pointed at Lu Yang, who unleashed his Primordial Spirit and counterattacked.

Chu Sheng used [Time] to split the battle into past, present, and future, and Lu Yang survived his killing finger by invoking [Fate-Reforming Revolution]. Chu Sheng then divided the Dao Lords across different streams of time, leaving Dao Tianqi alone outside the river as his true target.

• Chu Sheng split himself across time, and Dao Tianqi and the Sword Lord failed to stop his past self from striking Lu Yang.
• Lu Yang hid inside the [Heavenly Palace], where [Fate-Reforming Revolution] shattered his shadow in the past and erased Chu Sheng’s future scene.
• Time returned to the present, and Chu Sheng mistook Lu Yang for a genius raised by the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness and a Variable.
• Chu Sheng summoned the River of Time and divided the Dao Lords among its past, present, and future streams.
• Lu Yang realized that Chu Sheng had left Dao Tianqi outside the River of Time as his true target.

Chu Sheng drove Dao Tianqi into the Future, but the battle weakened him and left the remaining Dao Lords with a chance to strike. Sword Lord and Cang Hao restrained him with the Heavenheart Lock before the Spell Dao Lord and World Honored One combined their powers to pierce his unprotected body.

• Chu Sheng blocked Dao Tianqi's escape to the Netherworld and forced him into the Future with a beam of heavenly light.
• The River of Time collapsed, freeing the other Dao Lords, and Chu Sheng coughed blood as his aura weakened.
• Sword Lord and Cang Hao summoned the Heavenheart Lock, which Chu Sheng's past self then took away.
• The Spell Dao Lord used the Sutra of the Extinction of All Dharma to shatter Chu Sheng's Images and weaken his profundity.
• The World Honored One reinforced the attack with Calamity Qi and pierced Chu Sheng through the chest with a Buddha Palm.

First Saint fought off the united Dao Lords while they tried to exhaust his strength before Si Sui appeared. Lu Yang realized that First Saint had deliberately risked defeat to temper [Fixed Number] and seek an understanding of [Variable].

• First Saint erased his wound by stepping into the past, then blasted the World Honored One, whose [Tribulation] Dao saved him from death.
• Lu Yang led the Dao Lords in attacking First Saint, forcing him to use [Fixed Number] and breaking his previously perfect state.
• The Dao Lords pressed their advantage, while First Saint’s use of [Fixed Number] grew more costly and the group suffered grave injuries.
• First Saint fought more savagely through the River of Time as his [Fixed Number] weakened and began to show signs of damage.
• Lu Yang sensed [Fate-Reforming Revolution] respond to First Saint and realized he was deliberately cultivating [Variable] through their life-and-death battle.

Lu Yang deduced that Chu Sheng was using Three Bodies of Past, Present, and Future to fight the Dao Lords, then uncovered a hidden connection between Chu Sheng’s past cultivation, the Sacred Sect’s Four Daos, and the First Generation Four Peak Masters. Chu Sheng praised Lu Yang’s perceptiveness while keeping his own secrets concealed.

• The World Honored One warned that Chu Sheng had not truly grasped [Variables] and was only creating its Image within [Fixed Number].
• Chu Sheng cast Lu Yang into the future, where Lu Yang found remnants suggesting the other Dao Lords had suffered grave wounds.
• Lu Yang recognized that Chu Sheng was using Three Bodies of Past, Present, and Future to confront opponents across different times.
• Lu Yang deduced that Chu Sheng’s present body had attained [Time], while his future body had attained [Fixed Number], and that his past body was founded on the Sacred Sect’s Four Daos.
• Lu Yang connected those four Daos to the First Generation Four Peak Masters and questioned whether the [Heaven] in their names referred to Chu Sheng’s Taiyi Heaven.
• Chu Sheng praised Lu Yang for uncovering the conspiracy without Chu Sheng revealing its details.

Lu Yang deduced that Chu Sheng was relying on a precarious inferior strategy to comprehend [Variable], but Chu Sheng attacked him before Si Sui emerged. Lu Yang summoned [Heavenly Calendar Number], whose connection to the first Spirit Transformation cultivator stunned Chu Sheng, and his shattered body gave way to a clear radiance.

• Lu Yang explained that Chu Sheng's plan depended on diminishing [Fixed Number] without exceeding the limit that would make it break, and that Chu Sheng had originally meant to face Si Sui in that state.
• Chu Sheng praised Lu Yang, then attacked him with [Fixed Number], showing him a future in which he defeated Lu Yang within ten moves.
• Lu Yang's [Fate-Reforming Revolution] failed to stop Chu Sheng's finger and instead magnified its force.
• Lu Yang combined [Divine Offering], [Heaven-Dripping Marrow], [Dust Tribulation Sea], [Heaven in the Palm], and [Fate-Reforming Revolution] into [Heavenly Calendar Number].
• Chu Sheng recognized the five Great Heavenly Numbers within [Heavenly Calendar Number] and struck Lu Yang, whose Dharma Body shattered as a clear radiance rose from it.
• Chu Sheng understood that [Variable] ranked first because it bore the trace of the first and only cultivator to reach the upper realm of Spirit Transformation.

Lu Yang recovered his strength and revealed a side path of [Transcendence], prompting Chu Sheng to target him. Cultivation Dao Lord shattered the River of Time and found himself facing the gathered Dao Lords, realizing too late that his teacher had set him up.

• Lu Yang returned to his peak after aligning with an Image, and Chu Sheng identified his Great Dao as a side path of [Transcendence].
• In the [Present], Chu Sheng persuaded Sword Lord, Cang Hao, Wan Fa, and Du Xuan to ease their attacks, then sent his power into [Future] to strike Lu Yang with [Fixed Number].
• An unseen plan disrupted Chu Sheng's attack, blurring his three-life body and dimming his radiance.
• Cultivation Dao Lord emerged with Golden Core perfection, saw the River of Time undefended from outside, and shattered it with a fierce attack.
• Cultivation Dao Lord saw Lu Yang and the other Dao Lords emerge together, realized he had been set up, and Chu Sheng acknowledged that Si Sui had bested him in that round.

Lu Yang realized Si Sui’s scheme had wounded Chu Sheng but also driven him closer to [Variable], then identified the Law Refining Secret Realm as Chu Sheng’s route to restoring his Dao Lord status. After Chu Sheng returned to that status and the other Dao Lords turned toward the Light Sea, a figure emerged from False History and struck Sword Lord aside.

• Lu Yang recognized that Si Sui had used the Cultivation Dao Lord to break the River of Time and disrupt Chu Sheng’s scheme, while Chu Sheng’s injuries deepened his [Variable] power.
• Lu Yang deduced that Chu Sheng could use the one hundred and forty million souls in the Law Refining Secret Realm to fill the [Other Shore] fragments and restore his Dao Lord status.
• Chu Sheng summoned the Law Refining Secret Realm through [Grandmaster], bypassed Lu Yang’s blockade, and absorbed the souls’ Seas of Consciousness.
• Chu Sheng shattered the Light Sea’s blockade, and Piaomiao urged Nian Yao, Cang Hao, Wan Fa, and Du Xuan to slaughter its inhabitants and restore their own Dao Lord status.
• Sword Lord charged toward the Light Sea, but a figure who emerged from False History struck him and sent him flying into Void Darkness.

Si Sui returned from False History with immense power but remained at Golden Core perfection, leaving Lu Yang unsure how to overcome Chu Sheng. When the other Dao Lords refused to join him, Si Sui attacked them alone, igniting Void Darkness with his vitality and charging forward with a supreme fist.

• The Celestial Court reappeared, and Si Sui emerged from the Light Sea as his return restored its completeness.
• Lu Yang realized Si Sui had not become a Dao Lord and considered how to defeat Chu Sheng despite the deadlock around Chu Sheng's strength.
• Sword Lord returned and asked Si Sui whether he intended to fight another Ancestral Dragon Battle.
• Si Sui asked Wan Fa and Du Xuan to join him, but they and the other Dao Lords stayed silent because they saw no hope of defeating Chu Sheng.
• Si Sui criticized the Dao Lords for remaining unchanged, then ignited Void Darkness with his vitality and charged at them, shouting, "Kill!"

Si Sui revealed a Dharma Body Path fused with Yin-Yang that let his punches strike both the material world and his opponents’ Dao Hearts. After defeating Du Xuan and reclaiming the power he had granted him, Si Sui faced the wary Dao Lords, who recognized his [Dao Heart].

• Si Sui’s first punch overwhelmed the Dao Lords, and Sword Lord and Cang Hao combined [Destiny] and [Fortune] to oppose him.
• Si Sui shattered their attack with two punches and advanced on Du Xuan, who chose not to resist, believing Si Sui would spare him.
• Si Sui pierced Du Xuan’s forehead, seized his Primordial Spirit, and used a heart-shaped Dharma seal to shatter it.
• Si Sui explained that Du Xuan had betrayed his ideals by choosing himself and helping Chu Sheng harm living beings, then returned Du Xuan’s soul to reincarnation and his usurped dharma power to the Great Dao.
• The Dao Lords watched Si Sui warily, and one asked whether he had truly succeeded in attaining [Dao Heart].

Si Sui defeated Du Xuan with the [Dao Heart], a Great Dao capable of reversing a Dao Lord’s cultivation, then entrusted it to Lu Yang and relinquished his other Great Daos. By returning them to the Light Sea and transcending through his own power, Si Sui became the second Transcender in Light Sea history, the Tai Chi Dao Lord.

• Si Sui used the [Dao Heart] to reverse Du Xuan’s cultivation and destroy his Primordial Spirit, revealing a power that alarmed the other Dao Lords.
• Chu Sheng reminded Si Sui of their past contest over the [Heavenly Book] and said that he still did not understand the human heart.
• Lu Yang congratulated Si Sui without fear and declared that his conduct had nothing to hide.
• Si Sui gave the [Dao Heart] to Lu Yang and returned the [Dharma Body] and [Yin-Yang] Great Daos to the Light Sea.
• Si Sui cast aside the mysteries of the Great Dao and transcended through his own power, attaining liberation.
• Chu Sheng named Si Sui’s achievement [Tai Chi], recognizing him as the second Transcender in Light Sea history.

Chu Sheng and Si Sui debated what true transcendence meant, with Chu Sheng urging Si Sui to join him in ruling the Light Sea and using its inhabitants to pursue greater power. Si Sui refused, and the two prepared to continue their ancient Dao Struggle as enemies.

• Si Sui asked whether Chu Sheng was still himself, and Chu Sheng said that his name and appearance were false forms as long as his true self remained unchanged.
• Chu Sheng called Si Sui’s transcendence false because Si Sui had gained freedom from Karma but lacked the power to advance quickly through the layers of [Other Shore].
• Chu Sheng argued that the first Transcender’s path had destroyed the Ancient Era and accused Ancestral Dragon and Si Sui of imitating that achievement.
• Chu Sheng invited Si Sui to join him in ruling the Light Sea, but Si Sui rejected the offer and said their paths differed.
• Chu Sheng accepted Si Sui’s refusal, and the two ended their debate with no agreement.

Lu Yang and the Dao Lords witnessed Si Sui and Chu Sheng reveal the true essences of their Great Daos. They learned that Chu Sheng had forged the Path of Birth and was nearly impossible to kill, while Si Sui had become a second Light Sea.

• Si Sui and Chu Sheng revealed the essential nature of their Great Daos at [Other Shore].
• Lu Yang realized that controlling three Great Daos had strengthened him, though he still could not defeat Sword Lord without a deadly fight.
• The World Honored One said Si Sui's power exceeded what the first layer of [Other Shore] should allow, and even he would have to fight seriously to suppress Si Sui.
• Lu Yang understood that Chu Sheng's Nascent Soul treated Void Darkness as a womb and the Light Sea as nourishment, making birth his path to transcendence.
• Sword Lord realized that the other Dao Lords had only cultivated the [Yuan] of Nascent Soul, while Chu Sheng had created [Other Shore] and reached its Seventh Layer.
• Cang Hao concluded that Chu Sheng's Primordial Spirit was entrusted to Void Darkness, making him immortal as long as Void Darkness endured; Si Sui had also become an enduring second Light Sea.

Si Sui used the power of [Transcendence] to trap Chu Sheng in a recreated Real World where Chu Sheng’s Great Dao and power vanished. Chu Sheng revealed that he had knowingly helped Si Sui Transcend, and the two recognized that their shared pursuit of the Great Dao had made them fellow travelers despite their opposing ambitions.

• The Dao Lords watched the battle between Si Sui and Chu Sheng and longed to restore their cultivation, while Dao Tianqi returned from the distant future.
• Si Sui recreated the Real World and forced Chu Sheng into it, where [Fixed Number] and [Time] did not exist and Chu Sheng became mortal.
• Chu Sheng praised Si Sui’s punch for revealing the mysteries of [Transcendence].
• Chu Sheng recalled that he had allowed Si Sui to Transcend because he hoped another Transcender would improve his chances of Spirit Transformation Ascension.
• Si Sui and Chu Sheng recognized that they shared the same ruthless pursuit of the Great Dao, though their ambitions differed.

Chu Sheng revealed his True Nascent Soul Dao Body and fought Si Sui, unleashing a Great Wind through Void Darkness that threatened the other Dao Lords. As Sword Lord, Cang Hao, and Wan Fa rushed toward the Light Sea, a skeletal hand reached down from the Other Shore to shield it.

• Chu Sheng revealed Void Darkness as a ring and formed a radiant Nascent Soul Dao Body to clash with Si Sui.
• The Dao Lord War sent aftershocks through Void Darkness, threatening to strand Primordial Spirits without the Light Sea.
• Sword Lord, Cang Hao, and Wan Fa chose to rush into the Light Sea and repair the Other Shore.
• Chu Sheng shattered the Deification Method's blockade, and Lu Yang prepared to intercept the three Dao Lords.
• A skeletal hand reached down from the Other Shore and sheltered the Light Sea in its palm.

Si Sui resisted Chu Sheng’s attempt to make him abandon the Light Sea, then used the heavenly book to create a new reality that covered it. He left Chu Sheng with an empty Light Sea, stripped of its Great Dao and living beings.

• Chu Sheng tried to persuade Si Sui to join [Other Shore], but Si Sui refused and mocked Chu Sheng for not understanding the human heart.
• Si Sui abandoned their battle and reached for the Light Sea despite Chu Sheng’s attacks, losing the flesh from his hand but gathering the sea into his grasp.
• Lu Yang saw the heavenly book and Si Sui’s badly damaged true body; Si Sui explained that Chu Sheng could not truly kill him.
• Si Sui took the unsealed heavenly book and poured his immense power into it, causing it to create a new reality over the Light Sea.
• Si Sui declared that the new Light Sea would have neither the Great Dao nor living beings, leaving Chu Sheng to pursue his upper realm in an empty shell.