Chapter Summaries

[Sky Soaring] entered the Netherworld to attain the Dao, while Chu Sheng weighed whether to help him despite the danger. Chu Sheng ultimately supported his ascent, provoking the other Dao Lords to move against him.

• Chu Sheng sensed the Netherworld’s summons and watched [Sky Soaring] begin his attempt to attain the Netherworld.
• [Sky Soaring] used the Five Elements and [Perception Barrier] to conceal his advance, then walked through the Netherworld to the Netherworld Lord Hall.
• [Sky Soaring] challenged the observers to act, and Chu Sheng considered whether helping him was necessary to preserve his own path to ascension.
• The [Other Shore] declared that [Sky Soaring] may attain the Netherworld, strengthening his foundation and revealing Chu Sheng’s support.
• The Dao Lords turned on Chu Sheng, recognizing his action as an opportunity to strike him.

Chu Sheng pressed ahead with his plan for [Sky Soaring], despite the Dao Lords’ efforts to stop him. [Sky Soaring] died at Netherworld Lord Hall, Ling Xiao escaped to cultivate the Deification Method, and Chu Sheng fell from the Seventh Layer to the Sixth Layer.

• Sword Lord, Cang Hao, and Wan Fa joined forces to block Chu Sheng from interfering with the Real World, while the World Honored One fought Dharma Power Dao Lord Du Xuan.
• Chu Sheng considered abandoning [Sky Soaring] but continued, stepping down and shattering the three Dao Lords’ defenses.
• With Chu Sheng’s [Fixed Number] backing him, [Sky Soaring] advanced toward Netherworld Lord Hall to prove the Dao of [Quzhi].
• A youth emerged from Netherworld Lord Hall, and [Sky Soaring] called out “Di Mouni” before dying; Ling Xiao then abandoned the Netherworld path and cultivated the Deification Method.
• Ling Xiao dissolved into divine light and shot Beyond Heaven as the Dao Lords halted; Chu Sheng remained on the Sixth Layer and wondered whether his killing intent had been discovered.

Chu Sheng suspected Xuande had access to the Divine Fortune Book of Fate and decided to use the Ancestral Dragon as bait to draw him toward [Grandmaster]. Lu Yang saw Chu Sheng send the Ancestral Dragon there to retrieve a book, and recognized that Xuande’s trap had worked.

• Chu Sheng recalled how the Divine Fortune Book of Fate had revealed his mortal past and reasoned that his previous life had resisted Xuande’s attempt to defeat him.
• Chu Sheng concluded that Xuande wanted to inspect [Grandmaster] and planned to lure him there by sending the Ancestral Dragon.
• Lu Yang observed that the Ancestral Dragon was beginning to act and watched its consciousness leave True Lord Biluofuguang and reach Chu Sheng.
• Chu Sheng ordered the Ancestral Dragon to go to [Grandmaster] while maintaining the [Fate-Snatching Art] and retrieve a book.
• The Ancestral Dragon fell into darkness, and Lu Yang realized Xuande had taken the bait.

Lu Yang followed the Ancestral Dragon into [Grandmaster] and discovered that the sun-and-moon ritual was an artificial [Talent] inherited from the [Name Cult], maintained by draining the Ancestral Dragon. He then found the golden [Restart] treasure among the corpses and prepared to learn more before acting.

• Lu Yang entered [Grandmaster] as an [Out-of-Drama Observer] by following the Ancestral Dragon.
• Lu Yang recognized the sun and four moons as a [Name Cult] ritual built around [Taiyi Heaven], [Shi Tianyi], [Dao Tianqi], [Liantian Dou], and [Butian Que].
• The Ancestral Dragon entered the sun, and Lu Yang realized the ritual drained his Primordial Spirit to sustain an artificial [Talent].
• Lu Yang inferred that Chu Sheng had used the ritual to take the First Generation Four Peak Masters as disciples and later relied on the Ancestral Dragon to maintain it.
• Lu Yang decided to wait until he understood the ritual fully before intervening, then found the golden [Restart] treasure among the corpses.

Lu Yang read the golden book’s records of Chu Sheng’s earlier lives and learned that the Ancestral Dragon’s plan had destroyed the golden age and threatened the Light Sea. The book warned that Lu Yang’s power of Restart would thwart Chu Sheng’s plan, and Lu Yang turned his attention to the Ancestral Dragon as he considered what to do next.

• Lu Yang recognized the golden book as a unique treasure whose essence could teach him about the [Hundred Lives Book] and Chu Sheng’s [True Nascent Soul].
• The Ancestral Dragon opened the golden book and read records carved into its pages by a future version of himself.
• Lu Yang saw that Chu Sheng’s [life before last] described the Ancestral Dragon plotting to sacrifice the Light Sea, while Si Sui fought it after most living beings had already been sacrificed.
• Lu Yang realized Chu Sheng’s intervention had let Si Sui learn of the Ancestral Dragon’s plan in time, though the Light Sea still withered because of the Ancestral Dragon’s actions.
• Lu Yang read Chu Sheng’s [previous life] warning not to ascend and identifying Lu Yang as someone with Restart who would rescue Si Sui and recreate the world.
• Lu Yang concluded that he could not alter the golden book’s records in his current state and shifted his attention to the Ancestral Dragon.

Lu Yang tricked Ancestral Dragon into handing over the Fate-Snatching Art Dharma Seal, then used it to sever Dao Tianqi’s connection to Taiyi Heaven. The chapter ended with Chu Sheng’s immense Wisdom Light withering to a faint spark.

• Ancestral Dragon learned that Chu Sheng had stolen his life and chose to leave the [Grandmaster] because he needed Chu Sheng to sustain him.
• Lu Yang convinced Ancestral Dragon that he could repair his incomplete life, using the [Out-of-Drama Observer] to erase Ancestral Dragon’s sense of danger.
• Ancestral Dragon revealed that Chu Sheng had ordered him to repair the [Name Cult] ritual and gave Lu Yang the Dharma Seal of the [Fate-Snatching Art].
• Lu Yang took control of Ancestral Dragon’s body, returned to the One Sun, Four Moons, and used the Dharma Seal to reach Dao Tianqi’s crescent moon.
• Lu Yang severed the crescent moon’s connection to Taiyi Heaven, causing Chu Sheng’s Wisdom Light to wither to a faint spark.

Lu Yang destroyed the [Fate-Snatching Art], hid the [Divine Fortune Book of Fate], and ended his observation of the Ancestral Dragon, leaving Chu Sheng unable to uncover what had happened. Chu Sheng was left bewildered as the Ancestral Dragon's enslaved consciousness and all traces of its Karma vanished.

• Lu Yang separated Dao Tianqi from the crescent moons, then shattered the remaining moons and destroyed the [Fate-Snatching Art].
• Chu Sheng realized the Ancestral Dragon had helped Xuande, descended to the lowest level of [Other Shore], and examined the changes in its Sea of Consciousness.
• The World Honored One disrupted Chu Sheng's attempt to reverse time and investigate the Ancestral Dragon's Karma.
• Lu Yang sealed the [Divine Fortune Book of Fate], buried it among the corpse mounds, and erased the Ancestral Dragon's aura from [Character in the Play].
• The World Honored One fell from the second layer to the first, while Chu Sheng watched the scene shatter and sensed the Ancestral Dragon's enslaved Primordial Spirit had died.

Chu Sheng abandoned his Spirit Transformation Ascension plan and withdrew into [Other Shore], hiding himself after losing to Lu Yang in their battle of schemes. With Chu Sheng gone from the Light Sea, Lu Yang descended into the Netherworld and declared his authority to Fellow Daoist Taiyi Heaven.

• Chu Sheng concluded that he could not defeat the Mysterious Virtue Dao Ancestor without learning more, so he decided to retreat until he could reenter [Grandmaster] and find the [Divine Fortune Book of Fate].
• Chu Sheng pulled another fragment of Primordial Spirit thought from the Ancestral Dragon, sealed the dragon’s voice, and returned to [Other Shore], where he concealed his aura and future from the outside world.
• Sword Lord used [Destiny] to search for Chu Sheng’s future and found that he had vanished, leading her to conclude that he had lost and withdrawn.
• Lu Yang recognized that Chu Sheng had hidden himself to avoid defeat and planned to dismantle his remaining advantages gradually rather than drive him toward mutual destruction.
• Lu Yang sent his Primordial Spirit into the Netherworld, reclaimed the [Three Lives Stone] from Chu Sheng’s influence, and ordered Fellow Daoist Taiyi Heaven to retreat a hundred thousand miles whenever they saw him.

Lu Yang turned his boast against Chu Sheng into an Order of the Light Sea, strengthening his cultivation while Chu Sheng remained silent. After agreeing to help the World Honored One change paths, Lu Yang borrowed Dao Tianqi’s Wisdom Light and learned that Dao Tianqi had lost his memories of an eighth secret realm, so he set out to bring back Liantian Dou for answers.

• Lu Yang established an Order that forced Taiyi Heaven to retreat a hundred thousand li whenever it saw him, using Chu Sheng’s silence to strengthen his cultivation.
• The World Honored One met Lu Yang in the Netherworld and asked to try his cultivation method so he could abandon Karma.
• Lu Yang agreed, explaining that the World Honored One’s departure from the Other Shore could let Si Sui escape False History with great power.
• Lu Yang borrowed Dao Tianqi’s Wisdom Light and asked about the eighth secret realm of the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness.
• Dao Tianqi said his memories of the secret realm had vanished and mentioned that Liantian Dou had once tried to help restore them.
• Lu Yang left to bring Liantian Dou back and ask him about the lost memories.

Lu Yang entered the Karmic Net and rescued the First Generation Elixir Peak Master from the moment Chu Sheng had killed him, bringing him back to the Real World. Danding reunited with Dao Tianqi and the World Honored One, who promptly beat him for mistaking his rescuer.

• Lu Yang found the First Generation Elixir Peak Master's death in the Karmic Net and blocked Chu Sheng's attack, forcing Chu Sheng to retreat.
• Lu Yang carried the First Generation Elixir Peak Master through the flow of time and returned him to the Real World.
• Dao Tianqi recognized the First Generation Elixir Peak Master as Senior Brother Danding and rushed to greet him.
• The First Generation Elixir Peak Master wondered whether City-Wall Earth or the World Honored One had rescued him, then realized the World Honored One was present.
• The World Honored One struck the First Generation Elixir Peak Master for calling him Bald Head and gave him a beating.

Lu Yang tried to reach the ancient era through the Karmic Net but discovered that Chu Sheng had severed the past with a chasm of misaligned Karma. The World Honored One offered to use himself as an anchor to retrace the ancient era, and Lu Yang prepared to proceed despite Chu Sheng’s likely notice.

• Lu Yang observed the World Honored One’s restrained fight and continued through karmic history toward the ancient era.
• Lu Yang recognized that Chu Sheng had divided history into three layers and severed the ancient era from the present with a chasm of misaligned Karma.
• Lu Yang tried to cross the chasm with his Great Dao light wheel, but the Karmic Net collapsed and the path ended at a dangerous, dim cosmos.
• The World Honored One emerged and thanked Lu Yang for his help, then explained that he could use himself as an anchor to retrace the ancient era through his own memories.
• Lu Yang accepted the World Honored One’s plan and said they could later use Si Sui as an anchor, adding that Chu Sheng was the one who had to avoid him.

Chu Sheng severed his final emotion, Fear, while Lu Yang used the Karmic Net to revisit ancient history and discovered the complete Heavenly Remnant Consciousness. The World Honored One said it was only an unreachable imitation, but Lu Yang realized his Spirit Transformation Heir talent might let him enter it.

• Chu Sheng examined the damaged Wisdom Light he had preserved and decided to sever Fear so his Primordial Spirit could advance and suppress Xuande's thoughts.
• After severing Fear, Chu Sheng sensed that Danding had revived and was tracing ancient history, but chose not to interfere.
• With the World Honored One's help, Lu Yang crossed the Karmic Net and entered a scene of ancient history, where he saw the seven-layered Heavenly Remnant Consciousness, also known as the Immortal Path.
• The World Honored One explained that the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness in the scene was only a hollow imitation because Karma could not reach it.
• Lu Yang brought out the Hundred Lives Book and realized his Spirit Transformation Heir talent might allow him to enter the complete Heavenly Remnant Consciousness.

Lu Yang returned from the ancient past and asked Liantian Dou about Dao Tianqi’s lost memories. Liantian Dou theorized that Wisdom Light concealed memories within Tianqi’s true spirit, leaving Lu Yang with a possible explanation for the memory loss.

• Lu Yang withdrew from the dim universe after noticing that Chu Sheng no longer seemed anxious, then returned to the Real World.
• Lu Yang healed Liantian Dou’s injuries from the World Honored One, and Liantian Dou thanked him for saving him.
• Liantian Dou explained that memories and consciousness were carried by the true spirit, and that his revival had not affected Ling Xiao because their memories differed.
• Liantian Dou ruled out an incomplete true spirit as the cause of Dao Tianqi’s memory loss and proposed that an external object was concealing his memories.
• Lu Yang realized that the external object Liantian Dou meant was Wisdom Light.

Lu Yang and Liantian Dou concluded that an object hidden in Dao Tianqi’s Wisdom Light had attracted [Heavenly Remnant Consciousness] and oppressed his true spirit, so Lu Yang drained the Wisdom Light to search for it. As the hidden object emerged, Lu Yang also began to envision a new path of cultivation based on elevating his essence.

• Lu Yang connected Dao Tianqi’s mental stagnation during Wisdom Light borrowing to the possibility that his Wisdom Light contained an external object affecting his true spirit.
• Liantian Dou theorized that Dao Tianqi had brought the hidden object back from the Eighth Secret Realm, and Lu Yang agreed to drain his Wisdom Light to expose it.
• Lu Yang pondered surpassing Chu Sheng by developing a path beyond the existing rank system, and considered letting his [Death Loop] grow without limit to achieve a second transformation of essence.
• Lu Yang’s thoughts caused Dao Tianqi’s Wisdom Light to boil and drain away, leaving Dao Tianqi in a profound stupor.
• Liantian Dou examined Dao Tianqi’s Sea of Consciousness and uncovered a glowing Talisman Script surrounded by spreading illusory colors; the script resolved into the character [Jun].

Chu Sheng learned that a transcendent cultivator had made the Eighth Secret Realm accessible through the intact Heavenly Remnant Consciousness, which Chu Sheng had dismantled long ago. The other Dao Lords blamed him, while Chu Sheng remained silent, unaware that he had destroyed his own chance to transcend.

• Chu Sheng deduced that Lu Yang might possess the qualification to enter the Eighth Secret Realm and considered hiding the related karma again.
• A vast radiance erupted from the Netherworld, swallowed the Light Sea and Other Shore, and resisted the Dao Lords' attempts to repel it.
• A transcendent cultivator's voice revealed that the Eighth Secret Realm was his true spirit and that the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness had to remain intact as its stairway.
• The Dao Lords realized Chu Sheng had dismantled the Heavenly Remnant Consciousness and roared his name in anger.
• Chu Sheng closed his eyes in silence, realizing he had unknowingly buried the chance to transcend that had been prepared for him.

Lu Yang pieced together Jun’s plan for the Eighth Secret Realm and realized Dao Tianqi had been meant to guide Light Sea’s cultivators toward it. He watched an image of Chu Sheng offering cooperation, then rejected him because he could use the Spirit Transformation Heir to enter the realm through the ancient past instead.

• Chu Sheng concluded that Xuande had come to Light Sea for the Eighth Secret Realm and Jun’s inheritance.
• Lu Yang inferred that Jun had given Dao Tianqi the greatest Wisdom Light and arranged for the Eighth Secret Realm to appear when Light Sea’s cultivation stagnated.
• Lu Yang saw a gaze try to enter the Netherworld and allowed a vision of his past confrontation with Chu Sheng to take shape.
• In the vision, Chu Sheng offered to restore the Guardian Lineage’s Heavenly Remnant Consciousness if Lu Yang helped gather the seven gates and open the Eighth Secret Realm.
• Lu Yang pretended to consider Chu Sheng’s offer, then refused and dispersed the vision, deciding he could enter the Eighth Secret Realm from the ancient past with the Spirit Transformation Heir’s help.

Lu Yang nearly advanced the [Death Loop] before stopping, then deliberately revealed his experiment while Chu Sheng watched. At the Jiangnan Sword Pavilion, True Person Demon-Subduer met [True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde], while Long Tu planned to use [Responding King] and its [Transmigration Pool] to regain a body; the patriarch judged Demon-Subduer a promising talent.

• Lu Yang's Great Dao halo began to distort as the [Death Loop] neared a breakthrough, but he stopped when he sensed it might break apart.
• Lu Yang guessed Chu Sheng was watching him and looked toward the Karmic Net, intending to show him something.
• True Person Demon-Subduer emerged from seclusion as a Great True Person and learned that [True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde] wanted to see him.
• Demon-Subduer and Long Tu discussed entering [Responding King] and using its [Transmigration Pool] to restore Long Tu's body and Sea of Consciousness.
• [True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde] consulted the patriarch, who examined Long Tu within Demon-Subduer's Sea of Consciousness and called Demon-Subduer a promising talent.

True Cultivation questioned Long Tu about the eighth secret realm and learned that the Guardian Lineage had heard it could offer shelter during a Heaven-toppling upheaval. As True Cultivation began to suspect the Guardian had survived, a young man in black robes stopped his retreat and trapped him at Extreme Heaven Cliff.

• True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde mistook the figure who appeared at Extreme Heaven Cliff for his Patriarch and asked about extending his lifespan.
• True Cultivation pulled Long Tu from True Person Demon-Subduer's Sea of Consciousness and questioned him about the eighth secret realm.
• Long Tu revealed that the Guardian had mentioned the realm as a possible refuge during a Heaven-toppling upheaval.
• True Cultivation and Lu Yang wondered whether the Guardian had survived the World Honored One's attack.
• A young man in black robes called True Cultivation back to Extreme Heaven Cliff as he tried to escape.

Lu Yang concealed his true objective by making Chu Sheng believe his clash concerned Long Tu and the Eighth Secret Realm, while secretly targeting True Cultivation. The chapter left Lu Yang observing True Cultivation remotely as he prepared to mislead Chu Sheng and infiltrate the Eighth Secret Realm unseen.

• True Cultivation used [Meeting and Forgetting Each Other] to escape Lu Yang, but Lu Yang blocked the gaze of the Other Shore and vanished after the World Honored One disrupted the area’s Karma.
• The Dao Lords searched True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde, True Person Demon-Subduer, and Long Tu, but found their memories of the encounter damaged and incomplete.
• Chu Sheng spent a thread of Wisdom Light restoring the past, discovered the gatekeeper had hidden in the Eighth Secret Realm, and altered Karma to free True Cultivation from Long Tu’s memory-erasure.
• True Cultivation realized Lu Yang had not helped him and feared what Lu Yang had done, unaware that Lu Yang was observing him through [Out-of-Drama Observer].
• Lu Yang reasoned that he had to mislead Chu Sheng to enter the Eighth Secret Realm without provoking the Final Calamity, and considered observing True Cultivation his first step.

Chu Sheng altered the history of the Guardian Lineage’s destruction, but discovered that its first Guardian and much of the lineage had survived by hiding in the eighth secret realm. The elder in that realm sensed that their secret had been discovered and believed the day of Transcendence was approaching.

• True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde and True Person Demon-Subduer woke on Extreme Heaven Cliff with missing memories and sensed that something was wrong.
• Sword Lord and Cang Hao discussed Wanbao and Xuande’s plans, then considered collapsing [Other Shore] to weaken Chu Sheng and force both sides to seek their cooperation.
• The World Honored One’s foot struck toward [Heavenly Remnant Consciousness], but Chu Sheng changed the karmic history and knocked it aside, sparing the first Guardian and the lineage from destruction.
• Chu Sheng failed to revive the Guardian Lineage and realized that the first Guardian and more than half of the lineage had survived by hiding in the eighth secret realm.
• An aged elder in the hidden realm spat blood after sensing the discovery, then said that the day of Transcendence was drawing near.