Chapter Summaries

Within the sealed realm of [Heavenly Dao], Sword Lord confronted Cang Hao over the possibility that he planned to kill him and use his Sea of Consciousness to restore his cultivation. Sword Lord withdrew his suspicion on the condition that Cang Hao not ambush him, then began preparing for the wager while Cang Hao remained behind, his thoughts unreadable.

• After withdrawing their Divine Thoughts from Lu Yang, Sword Lord announced he would enter seclusion for three suns, and Cang Hao returned after Wan Fa and the others departed.
• Cang Hao acknowledged that the wager could give Sword Lord a chance to reclaim the position of Dao Lord, while Sword Lord questioned Cang Hao's loyalty and accused him of wanting his Sea of Consciousness.
• Sword Lord explained how Cang Hao could benefit from killing him after the wager, whether he won or lost, and Cang Hao admitted he had considered cashing in the trust they had built over the years.
• Cang Hao offered to settle their conflict with a fight, but Sword Lord withdrew his killing intent and warned him not to ambush him if he won the wager.
• Sword Lord said he would accept death if he lost, since [Heavenly Dao] would be lost to him regardless, then left Cang Hao alone behind layers of colored light.

Chu Sheng reflected on his failed plans and sensed a change in [Fixed Number] as Lu Yang and Sword Lord prepared to settle their wager under the [Heavenly Dao]. Their contest began with Lu Yang and Sword Lord facing each other, and neither had yet struck.

• Chu Sheng examined the damaged [Divine Fortune Book of Fate] and reasoned that its sealed power remained somewhere in the Light Sea.
• Chu Sheng recognized that his plans had failed and sensed a change in [Fixed Number] within a sealed realm.
• Three days later, Sword Lord, Cang Hao, and Wan Fa met Lu Yang and Si Sui at the Light Sea's border, accompanied by the World Honored One.
• Sword Lord and Lu Yang established their stakes before the [Heavenly Dao], with the World Honored One offering a Buddhist kingdom's living beings as Sword Lord's prize.
• Lu Yang and Sword Lord took their positions, exchanged a few words, and prepared to fight.

Lu Yang fought the Sword Lord, who used a method of love that weakened him and turned his own understanding against him. Lu Yang endured the loss to uncover her abilities and recognized the power of her Sword Seed.

• Lu Yang opened the fight by summoning the [Heavenly Palace] and striking the Sword Lord with the might of the [Wild Continent].
• The Sword Lord used [Deep Love Brings No Longevity] to ensnare Lu Yang in threads of affection and draw strength from him.
• Lu Yang used the Heaven-Execution Sword to sever the threads, then raised his station with [Heavenly Calendar Number] to evade them.
• The Sword Lord used [Excessive Wisdom Brings Harm] to turn Lu Yang's own comprehension into Wisdom Swords that damaged his Primordial Spirit and drained his power.
• Lu Yang accepted the loss, having learned one of the Sword Lord's trump cards, and praised her Sword Seed.

Lu Yang fought the Sword Lord, using Fate-Reforming Revolution and Heaven in the Palm to damage her Dharma Body, but her Emotion Threads continued to erode him. As the battle turned into a contest of endurance, the Sword Lord drew on Cang Hao’s Fortune to sharply weaken Lu Yang’s foundation.

• Lu Yang severed his Emotion Threads, losing six Metal Phase Fruit Positions and their cultivation, but the Sword Lord immediately bound him with new threads.
• Lu Yang attacked with Fate-Reforming Revolution while the Sword Lord trapped him in Heaven in the Palm, and the clash cost her part of her Dharma Body.
• The Sword Lord intensified her Emotion Threads, and Lu Yang continued trading attacks as the World Honored One and Si Sui assessed her technique.
• Lu Yang realized that Cang Hao had likely been bound to the Sword Lord by Emotion Threads for ages, and Cang Hao’s aura suddenly plummeted.
• The Sword Lord wrote Lu Yang’s name in the void using Cang Hao’s Fortune, sharply reducing Lu Yang’s foundation and shifting the battle in her favor.

Lu Yang’s battle with Sword Lord exposed the coercive nature of her bond with Cang Hao, while Lu Yang’s real wager depended on someone else intervening. Cang Hao revealed that he had cultivated Chu Sheng’s Seven Emotions Heaven-Ascent Art, breaking Sword Lord’s Emotion Thread and leaving her stunned.

• Lu Yang blocked Sword Lord’s surprise attack and separated them with a Heavenly Chasm.
• Sword Lord healed herself by transferring her injuries to Cang Hao, then urged him not to act against her.
• Cang Hao denounced Sword Lord’s threats and rejected her claim that their losses were equivalent.
• Lu Yang realized his wager had depended on someone beyond Cang Hao, whose intervention he had trusted.
• Cang Hao revealed the aura of the Seven Emotions Heaven-Ascent Art, causing Sword Lord’s Emotion Thread to lose its hold on him.
• Sword Lord recognized the Primordial Spirit Method created by Chu Sheng and called his name.

Chu Sheng sensed that Cang Hao had broken free of Sword Lord’s Emotion Threads and hoped to keep the two Dao Lords locked in conflict. As Sword Lord and Lu Yang fought, Lu Yang weakened her status and faced her desperate strike with a Great Dao of his own.

• Chu Sheng sensed Cang Hao had switched to the Seven Emotions Heaven-Ascent Art and planned to prevent Nian Yao’s death so Cang Hao would not regain his Dao Lord position.
• Cang Hao’s escape from the Emotion Threads caused Sword Lord to suffer their backlash, and she transformed into an azure blade woven from Emotion Threads.
• Lu Yang seized Sword Lord’s weakened state and used Heavenly Calendar Number to lower her status, improving his odds in their fight.
• Sword Lord unleashed a desperate attack that fused Emotion Threads, Destiny, and a forced interpretation of Great Dao Answers Me.
• Lu Yang saw through Sword Lord’s gambit and summoned a Great Dao that illuminated the Void Darkness.

Lu Yang used his newly awakened understanding of the Heavenly Calendar Number as Order to erase Sword Lord’s attack, then forced the power further to kill her and expose her hidden means of survival. Sword Lord returned through a severed tributary of fate, but Cang Hao had witnessed the method, leaving her escape compromised.

• Lu Yang saw the world as text and used the Light of Order to delete Sword Lord’s strike, though doing so cost him nearly thirty percent of his profundities.
• Sword Lord manifested in human form, badly injured, and Lu Yang realized her Emotion Threads still clung to his Primordial Spirit.
• Lu Yang summoned power from the Wild Continent and used the Heavenly Calendar Number to delete Sword Lord, drawing on his Great Dao until it wailed under the strain.
• Sword Lord survived by severing the tributary of fate in which she had been killed, but the method was exposed, and Cang Hao had witnessed it.

Lu Yang drove Sword Lord to flee after using [Great Dao Answers Me] to severely damage her, and Cang Hao and Wan Fa pursued her while Si Sui promised to hold Chu Sheng back. Cornered in a sealed realm-space, Sword Lord calmly told Wan Fa to make his move.

• Lu Yang put away the exhausted [Heavenly Calendar Number] and reflected on the power of [Great Dao Answers Me] after deleting Sword Lord on the data level.
• Sword Lord fled into the Light Sea, and Cang Hao conceded the wager and declared that the [Heavenly Dao] belonged to Lu Yang.
• Cang Hao and Wan Fa pursued Sword Lord, while Si Sui assured Lu Yang that Chu Sheng would not intervene unless he did.
• As Cang Hao chased her, Sword Lord explained that [Destiny] could unite the other Heavenly Numbers into the [Heavenly Dao] and offered her knowledge of the Ancient Era.
• Cang Hao and Wan Fa trapped Sword Lord in a realm-space, where she stopped fleeing and told Wan Fa to make his move.

Wan Fa struck Cang Hao and then turned on Sword Lord, but her Emotion Thread failed to affect him. Cang Hao revealed that he and Wan Fa were the same person, leaving Sword Lord, Chu Sheng, and Si Sui stunned.

• Wan Fa ambushed Cang Hao with Spell Rosy Cloud Light, while Chu Sheng and Si Sui reacted from afar.
• Si Sui explained that Chu Sheng had secretly arranged for an Emotion Thread to be planted in Wan Fa, and Lu Yang realized Sword Lord’s attack was unlikely to succeed.
• Sword Lord decided to drive Cang Hao away and use the Emotion Thread on Wan Fa, but Wan Fa struck her with the Sutra of the Extinction of All Dharma.
• Sword Lord activated the Emotion Thread, but Wan Fa’s Supreme Forgetfulness nullified it, leaving her badly wounded.
• Cang Hao announced that Chu Sheng had no more schemes and that no one could save Sword Lord.
• Cang Hao and Wan Fa stood together and fused into one, revealing that they were the same person.

Cang Hao and Wan Fa fused through a shared Name, combining the Great Daos of Fortune and Spell and gaining power beyond the other Dao Lords. Cang Hao killed Sword Lord, while Chu Sheng recognized him as a dangerous future rival and turned his attention to the Divine Fortune Book of Fate.

• Chu Sheng deduced that Cang Hao and Wan Fa were separate people who had made their essences similar enough to share one Name.
• Cang Hao and Wan Fa fused their Fortune and Spell Great Daos, rising to the strength Si Sui had held before transcending.
• Sword Lord fled from Cang Hao, but Cang Hao unleashed Radiance and killed her, causing the Great Dao of Destiny to fall silent.
• Cang Hao gathered a Sea of Consciousness and vanished into the Void Darkness.
• Chu Sheng regretted letting Cang Hao survive, then looked toward the Divine Fortune Book of Fate with renewed determination to seek the Dao.

Si Sui used the [Heavenly Dao] to complete the [Heavenly Palace], raising Lu Yang to the station of a Dao Lord. Lu Yang realized that he had only temporarily occupied the position and that true advancement required preserving the self.

• Lu Yang worried that Cang Hao’s new path made him unreliable except in the fight against Chu Sheng.
• Si Sui revealed that the [Heavenly Dao] could mend the final flaw in the [Heavenly Palace] and said he would do it that day.
• Si Sui merged the [Heavenly Dao] into the [Heavenly Palace], drawing power from cultivators across the [Wild Continent] to support it.
• Lu Yang experienced the world as an illusion and felt a powerful desire to transcend rather than fall from his new station.
• Si Sui explained that a true Dao Lord must preserve the self, and Lu Yang saw that the [Hundred Lives Book] had not recognized his rise as a breakthrough.

After becoming a Dao Lord, Lu Yang erased the ten years spent in his breakthrough and gained control over order and cultivation throughout [Wild Continent]. He resisted the urge to eliminate Si Sui, who urged him to remain true to the [I] Dao.

• Lu Yang repaired [Heavenly Calendar Number] and rewound [Wild Continent] so his ten-year breakthrough took only an instant.
• The World Honored One sensed Lu Yang's manipulation of time and hoped that [Heavenly Palace]'s completion might help him recover his cultivation.
• Lu Yang absorbed the insights and cultivation of cultivators who had switched to the Deification Method, recognizing that their progress strengthened him through [Order].
• Lu Yang felt irritated that Si Sui stood alongside him as an equally real being, then struck himself to destroy the thought and apologized.
• Si Sui warned Lu Yang not to follow the paths of Nian Yao and Cang Hao, recalling how they and others had changed over time and urging him, “Fellow Daoist, do not change.”

Lu Yang discovered that the missing page of the [Hundred Lives Book] was hidden in Wild Continent’s Greater Yang and restrained the book from taking it. In the Light Sea, Chu Sheng sensed the supreme power’s return and began suspecting Lu Yang possessed it.

• Lu Yang realized Si Sui planned to restore the Netherworld and join forces with him and Dao Tianqi against Chu Sheng, then began mastering his new power.
• Lu Yang found the missing [Hundred Lives Book] page at the core of Wild Continent’s Greater Yang and stopped the book from seizing it, fearing the continent would collapse and Chu Sheng would notice.
• The [Divine Fortune Book of Fate] reacted, and Chu Sheng called out to the supreme power but received no response.
• Chu Sheng calculated that the power had another vessel, concluded a cultivator had obtained it, and identified Lu Yang as his prime suspect.

Chu Sheng discovered that [Variable] had given him a chance to preserve what he knew and prepare for Lu Yang’s repeated resets, but he realized it signaled a fatal danger ahead. Meanwhile, Lu Yang left the Wild Continent with Si Sui and tested the power he had gained as a temporary Dao Lord.

• Chu Sheng recalled his failed attempts to repair the [Divine Fortune Book of Fate] and realized the supreme power had likely passed into a new vessel connected to Lu Yang.
• Chu Sheng concluded that he could not seize the power directly and needed both to exhaust its uses and retain his knowledge after starting over.
• [Variable] appeared to Chu Sheng, restoring his condition to Nascent Soul, the first layer of the [Other Shore], and warning him of an imminent fatal predicament.
• Lu Yang left the Wild Continent and walked through Void Darkness with Si Sui, who praised his foundation but warned that Huanyao's Wisdom Light might not help him elevate his essence.
• Lu Yang accepted the limits of his borrowed power and pressed a hand down toward the empty Light Sea.

Lu Yang clashed with Chu Sheng in the Void Darkness, discovering a way his Dao might eventually break Chu Sheng’s True Nascent Soul. Unable to defeat Chu Sheng with Si Sui’s help in their current condition, Lu Yang took the Ancestral Dragon Estate and left, promising to settle matters later.

• Chu Sheng escaped Lu Yang’s attack through the River of Time, but Lu Yang struck the link between its past and present with the Light of Order.
• Chu Sheng’s many temporal forms merged to block the strike, and he retained his Dao Lord rank after Variable faded.
• Lu Yang saw Chu Sheng’s True Nascent Soul and its connection to the Void Darkness, and realized he might be able to delete it if he reached a higher rank.
• Lu Yang asked Si Sui whether they could kill Chu Sheng together, but Si Sui said his remaining strength was insufficient and Cang Hao would likely wait for them to weaken.
• Lu Yang abandoned the fight, seized the Ancestral Dragon Estate, and laughed at Chu Sheng before departing.

After returning the Ancestral Dragon Estate, Lu Yang lost Dao Tianqi’s Wisdom Light and began considering a new path based on the [Heavenly Calendar Number]. He decided to stop waiting and face Chu Sheng in a decisive battle with three Dao Lords.

• Lu Yang sent the dismantled Ancestral Dragon Estate to the Netherworld, where Si Sui and Dao Tianqi repaired it, and Dao Tianqi reclaimed his Wisdom Light.
• Lu Yang tried to devise a Wisdom Light of his own but discovered that recreating the mysterious formula could take hundreds of thousands of years.
• Lu Yang considered what he could carry through a Restart and concluded that the [Heavenly Calendar Number] could become the basis of a path strong enough to rival a Dao Lord.
• Si Sui and Dao Tianqi arrived after Si Sui had recovered, and Lu Yang realized that seventy years had passed since [Wild Continent] opened.
• Lu Yang decided that three Dao Lords were enough and chose to begin the decisive battle against Chu Sheng.

Chu Sheng confronted Lu Yang, Si Sui, Dao Tianqi, and the fused Cang Hao and Wan Fa, but revealed that he had never recovered from his injuries and had instead been consumed by the Final Calamity. When he tried to unleash it, he disintegrated before he could finish speaking.

• Chu Sheng proposed that the others unite against Cang Hao and Wan Fa, but the fused Cang Hao appeared and agreed to attack Chu Sheng first.
• Lu Yang urged Cang Hao and Wan Fa to prove their allegiance by striking first, and Si Sui backed his demand.
• Chu Sheng shattered Void Darkness into fragments and used the Variable to force changes, separating the others and endangering the fused Cang Hao and Wan Fa.
• Si Sui struck Chu Sheng and discovered that his aura had weakened rather than recovered over the past fifty years.
• Lu Yang sensed the Final Calamity within Chu Sheng, whose Primordial Spirit, soul, and cultivation disintegrated before he could finish his final words.

Chu Sheng triggered the Light Sea’s Final Calamity, forcing Lu Yang to discover that Chu Sheng had preserved records of his past lives to restart alongside him. Lu Yang reclaimed the missing page of the [Hundred Lives Book] as the Final Calamity engulfed the world, determined to confront Chu Sheng directly in the next life.

• Chu Sheng used [Time] and [Fixed Number] to bring the Light Sea’s Final Calamity into the present, and [End Tiger] emerged furious at being dragged into it.
• Cang Hao and Wan Fa fled while Dao Tianqi and Si Sui discussed delaying the Final Calamity, which Si Sui said would eventually consume all of Void Darkness.
• Lu Yang suspected Chu Sheng had planned to force a Restart, then saw a golden book within the Mysterious Cave and endured the Final Calamity to read it.
• Lu Yang realized Chu Sheng had restarted by leaving behind records stripped of memory and personality, and that the records could let Chu Sheng accompany him into the next life.
• Lu Yang returned to [Wild Continent] and the [Hundred Lives Book] swallowed its missing page as the Final Calamity approached.
• Lu Yang vowed to kill Chu Sheng in a direct confrontation and invoked the [Hundred Lives Book] to start over.

After the [Hundred Lives Book] restarted, Lu Yang discovered its true form and gained the [Spirit Transformation Heir] talent, which let him enter the [Heavenly Remnant Consciousness] regardless of cultivation. He reasoned that Chu Sheng’s records were likely kept in [Grandmaster] and that he had a window of time before Chu Sheng could learn what they contained, then chose the initial Anchor Point.

• Lu Yang saw the [Hundred Lives Book] in its true form and realized it now had a title page.
• The panel granted Lu Yang the unique talent [Spirit Transformation Heir], giving him access to the [Heavenly Remnant Consciousness] regardless of cultivation.
• Lu Yang concluded that Chu Sheng’s book could preserve records across restarts and was probably kept inside [Grandmaster].
• Lu Yang reasoned that Chu Sheng would need the Ancestral Dragon to access [Grandmaster], but the Ancestral Dragon was in the Netherworld, delaying Chu Sheng’s discovery of the records.
• The panel asked Lu Yang to choose a restart Anchor Point, and he selected the initial Anchor Point.

Lu Yang chose the [Heavenly Calendar Number] as his reward and fused it with the one in the [Heavenly Palace], creating a Great Dao that surpassed the Light Sea’s limits. He decided to establish it in the Void Darkness, restore his cultivation, and use future restarts to learn when Chu Sheng would discover the altered records and how to break the deadlock.

• Lu Yang apologized to Patriarch Tingyou, True Person Demon-Sweeping, Suo Huan, and Empress Xiao because he could not choose them as his reward after restarting.
• Lu Yang steadied his Primordial Spirit and chose treasure from the [Hundred Lives Book], receiving a [Heavenly Calendar Number].
• Lu Yang fused the two [Heavenly Calendar Number] treasures and realized they had formed a Great Dao that surpassed the Light Sea’s limits.
• Lu Yang decided to let the Great Dao take root in the Void Darkness rather than the [Sea of Suffering].
• Lu Yang planned to use ten lives to determine when Chu Sheng would investigate the [Grandmaster] and to obtain new Anchor Points.
• Lu Yang entered the Void Darkness to establish his Great Dao and test whether breaking through Golden Core completion would earn the [Hundred Lives Book]’s acknowledgment.