Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang learned more about how half-immortals could produce children as he watched Li Haoran fight Zhao Po in the tournament. Li Haoran revealed his Rebirth Golden Core and clone, but Zhao Po won when Li Haoran’s main body was below the arena.

• Lu Yang heard that half-immortal blood could develop into a spirit and become the couple’s child, explaining why ancient half-immortals avoided shedding blood in battle.
• Li Haoran used a refined spatial barrier and rhythmic strikes to weaken Zhao Po’s copper coin sword and sever his control over it.
• Zhao Po infused his living corpse with blood, then attacked alongside it and sent Li Haoran flying off the arena.
• A second Li Haoran revealed that the first was a clone made possible by his Rebirth Golden Core and explained that he controlled his regenerated corpse using corpse-driving techniques.
• The referee declared Zhao Po the winner because Li Haoran’s main body was below the arena.

Mingtai won the early Golden Core division, and Meng Jingzhou defeated Charming Sect disciple Ye Mengyin in the mid-stage division. As the matches continued, a young man from the Heavenly Court Sect interrupted a bout and announced their arrival.

• Mingtai won the early Golden Core division, while Meng Jingzhou mourned Lu Yang’s absence before entering the next division.
• Meng Jingzhou resisted Ye Mengyin’s charm arts and music, then knocked her down with a punch to win their match.
• Ye Mengyin told Meng Jingzhou that she had sworn to marry whoever defeated her, but revealed her sect forbade marriages with the Meng family and Ask Dao Sect.
• Bai Ming and Lan Ting advanced, and Bai Ming pointed out a strong Yun Province cultivator with a Devouring Core.
• A young man dropped onto the arena and announced that the Heavenly Court Sect had come to join the event.

The Heavenly Court Sect’s Young Master Lu appeared at the Ask Dao Sect’s competition with five Heavenly Kings and challenged two Golden Core prodigies at once. Sect Master Lu accepted his terms, while the gathered orthodox forces united against the visitors, and Meng Jingzhou watched Young Master Lu with suspicion.

• The guests were startled when Young Master Lu announced he belonged to the Heavenly Court Sect, and the Undying Celestial Fairy, controlling Lu Yang’s body, demanded to know why he had come.
• The Netherworld Heavenly King, Hundred Herbs Heavenly King, Unbreakable Heavenly King, Treasure-Rich Heavenly King, and Golden Flame Heavenly King identified themselves as the sect’s guardians and descended from the clouds.
• Venerable One Qi warned the Qi Control Sect Master that the Heavenly Court Sect might have a half-immortal hidden nearby, possibly the Bean Celestial Venerable.
• Young Master Lu said he had slept since antiquity and challenged two mid-stage Golden Core prodigies, offering to withdraw if he lost and continue in the competition if he won.
• The Undying Celestial Fairy accepted the challenge and threatened to expel the Heavenly Court Sect if Young Master Lu lost, while Qiu Jingan, the Five Great Immortal Sects, and the First Prince supported her.
• Meng Jingzhou kept staring suspiciously at Young Master Lu as the First Prince wondered whether he had given himself away.

Young Sect Master Lu defeated Su Mo and Mo Wenli in the arena, then impressed the judges by using an ancient Taotie technique. Sect Master Lu explained the technique’s origins, while the Undying Celestial celebrated her performance in the mental space.

• Bai Ming, Yan Tianzhi, and Lanting watched Young Sect Master Lu compete and reacted to his strength and familiar mannerisms.
• Su Mo ordered Mo Wenli to charge his lightning arts while Su Mo used his Devouring Golden Core to restrain Young Sect Master Lu.
• Young Sect Master Lu matched Su Mo’s spiritual-power devouring, cut through Mo Wenli’s lightning attack, and knocked Mo Wenli off the arena.
• The referee declared the Heavenly Court Sect the winner, and Young Sect Master Lu asked whether he could continue competing.
• Sect Master Lu identified Young Sect Master Lu’s ability as the ancient form of Heaven-Devouring Earth-Swallowing and explained how the Taotie clan’s technique had changed.
• The Undying Celestial excitedly asked how her performance had been in the mental space.

Su Mo reunited with the Thunderfire Sect and offered to guide Mo Wenli, while the Heavenly Court Sect’s elders worried about their elaborate deception being exposed. In the arena, Meng Jingzhou overwhelmed Long Huo, who rose again after remembering the people counting on him, but the referee declared Meng Jingzhou the winner.

• The Thunderfire Sect Master revealed to Mo Wenli that Su Mo was his supposedly deceased grandmaster, and Su Mo promised to give Mo Wenli pointers.
• The five Protector Heavenly Kings discussed how the Heavenly Court Sect had made a grand entrance, and the Third Elder said he had bought insurance as a contingency plan.
• Long Huo of Dragon Soaring Village attacked Meng Jingzhou with Swimming Dragon Strike, but Meng Jingzhou dodged effortlessly in the selfless and egoless realm.
• Meng Jingzhou struck Long Huo repeatedly with the Six Heaven-Shaking Forms, driving him toward the arena’s edge as Long Huo kept resisting.
• Long Huo remembered his companions and refused to give up, but the referee declared Meng Jingzhou the winner.

Meng Jingzhou defeated Long Huo, while Young Cult Master Lu faced Kong Hao in a second match. After Kong Hao began losing, he broke one layer of a seal to borrow an ominous power, and Lu Yang reported him for cheating.

• The referee saved Long Huo, and Meng Jingzhou helped him accept his defeat before Long Huo reunited with his village chief, childhood sweetheart, and sworn older sister.
• Young Cult Master Lu faced Kong Hao of the Flying Waterfall Sect, whose cold and poison techniques and beastlike attacks kept the match at a stalemate.
• Lu Yang gained the upper hand with a powerful sword strike that badly wounded Kong Hao.
• Kong Hao spoke with the colossal being sealed inside him and chose to break one layer of the seal for more power.
• Kong Hao's wounds healed as his body changed, and Lu Yang recognized the borrowed power and reported him to the referee for cheating.

Lu Yang exposed the spirit inside Kong Hao as an illegal source of power, leading the patriarchs to discover that it was the sealed Tribulation Transcendence Taotie Ji Xiong. As the tournament continued, Lu Yang advanced to the semifinals against Yan Tianzhi and praised the Prison Suppression Sect’s battle-mark method, leaving its representatives astonished.

• Lu Yang used the Invincible Pill’s advice to report Kong Hao, and the referee disqualified Kong Hao for fighting with another soul’s power.
• Venerable One Qi and the other patriarchs inspected Kong Hao’s spiritual platform, identified the sealed spirit as the old Taotie Ji Xiong, and reconstructed how it had been sealed inside him.
• Venerable One Qi offered Kong Hao a choice between undoing the seal so the patriarchs could capture Ji Xiong in exchange for compensation or keeping the seal and risking backlash as he unlocked it over time.
• Meng Jingzhou defeated Lan Ting to reach the finals, while Yan Tianzhi defeated Bai Ming to advance to the semifinals.
• Lu Yang met Yan Tianzhi in the semifinals and praised the Prison Suppression Sect’s battle-mark cultivation method and its founding patriarch.
• Qiu Jingan and Luo Hongxia stared at Yang Ding in astonishment, and Yang Ding admitted that he had meant to promote the Prison Suppression Sect.

Lu Yang defeated Yan Tianzhi with a golden statue technique and advanced to the finals. There, he faced Meng Jingzhou, who refused to surrender despite Lu Yang invoking his authority as acting sect master.

• Qiu Jinan asked the Immortal Fairy to help promote the Five Elements Sect, but Lu Yang said the timing was wrong and promised to work with the sect another time.
• Lu Yang battled Yan Tianzhi, countering his Azure Dragon battle pattern and damaging his Shield Ghost with sword strikes.
• Lu Yang used the move “Suppress” to trap Yan Tianzhi in a golden statue, then kicked it off the arena to win.
• After recovering his spiritual energy, Lu Yang began the final against Meng Jingzhou, who eagerly challenged him.
• Lu Yang tried to persuade Meng Jingzhou to put on a show and then ordered him to surrender as acting sect master, but Meng Jingzhou refused and asked to discuss it further.

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou staged a fierce duel, but Lu Yang won and then boasted that no one could surpass his talent. Sect Master Lu challenged him to fight, and the two prepared to begin.

• Meng Jingzhou and Lu Yang fought at full strength, impressing the watching cultivators with their swordsmanship and boxing.
• Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou unleashed their ultimate moves, and Meng Jingzhou fell more gravely wounded than Lu Yang.
• The referee declared Meng Jingzhou the loser, while the Five Heavenly Kings helped Lu Yang recover with golden pills.
• Lu Yang dismissed the prodigies of the age and claimed no one could surpass his talent, while the Netherworld Heavenly King said he might have become an immortal in antiquity.
• Sect Master Lu challenged Lu Yang and stepped onto the arena, and the two agreed to fight.

Lu Yang controlled both his own body and the Undying Fairy’s body to fight himself, while the spectators watched the two evenly matched cultivators battle. They called the fight a draw, and Heavenly Court Church departed as Meng Jingzhou complained that Lu Yang had shown off twice instead of giving him a turn.

• The Undying Fairy cheered on both Lu Yangs before yielding control so Lu Yang could fight with both bodies at once.
• Lu Sect Master and Lu Young Cult Master traded spells, sword strikes, and close-quarters attacks without gaining the upper hand.
• After exhausting themselves, the two fighters praised each other and agreed to end their contest in a draw.
• Lu Young Cult Master left Ask Dao Sect with the Five Protectors, while the spectators learned that Meng Jingzhou, Tao Yaoye, Man Gu, and Li Haoran were Heavenly Court Church’s four Holy Sons.
• Backstage, Meng Jingzhou complained to Man Gu that Lu Yang had shown off twice despite promising to let him show off once.

After the ten-day competition ended, Lu Yang helped oversee the celebration’s aftermath and learned how the captured Great Yu cultivators would be divided. The chapter left him at the barbecue shop, where the Cult Master seemed to have forgotten who had told him to treat Lu Yang with special courtesy.

• The competition continued as the immortal sects and Luoshui Guards identified suspicious contestants, and the imperial court took charge of investigating them.
• After the celebration ended, Luo Hongxia opened the treasure box holding the Great Yu cultivators, and the sects argued over how to divide them before Venerable Yiqi took charge.
• Lu Yang learned that Kong Hao planned to keep the ancient Taotie sealed and try to become its friend.
• Lu Yang noticed that the Imperial Preceptor had not appeared and wondered whether he had fled, then found himself at the barbecue shop as it was closing.
• The Cult Master invited Lu Yang inside, then wondered who had told him to treat Lu Yang with unusual politeness; Lu Yang asked where the Undying Immortal was.

Lu Yang discovered that everyone had forgotten the Immortal and that their memories had been replaced with a version of events in which he had never appeared. The Unstoppable Immortal identified the change as an exceptionally powerful karma spell, leaving them to wonder who could wield such power.

• Lu Yang questioned the Immortal Church Sect Master and its members, who denied ever meeting the Immortal and gave different explanations for the competition, barbecue shops, and statues.
• Lu Yang asked people on the commercial street and at the Ask Dao Sect, but none of them remembered seeing the Immortal.
• Lu Yang woke the Unstoppable Immortal and told her that the Immortal had disappeared from everyone’s memories.
• The Unstoppable Immortal explained that severing a person’s karma with the world could erase their connections, and said the spell’s power suggested a powerful karma technique or a karma Dao Fruit.

Lu Yang and the Immortal Fairy worked out how karma, forgetfulness, and an immortal’s Dao Fruit might be connected, then used the Third Boss’s statue to locate him. After ten days of battle, the Immortal escaped with the State Preceptor and brought them both to Prison Peak, where Eldest Senior Sister and the Immortal Fairy awaited them.

• The Immortal Fairy explained to Lu Yang that immortals could potentially advance further, and that forgetfulness was a chosen Dao Fruit characteristic tied to severing or transferring karma.
• The Immortal Fairy sent Lu Yang to fetch Eldest Senior Sister, who was interrogating the Black and White Venerable Ones at Prison Peak.
• Eldest Senior Sister rebuked the Immortal Fairy for telling Lu Yang too much about immortals and Dao Fruits, then asked how they could find the Immortal.
• The Immortal Fairy had Lu Yang use the Third Boss’s statue and call his name to locate him.
• The Immortal and the State Preceptor continued their exhausting battle after ten days of the Immortal’s repeated self-detonations, while the State Preceptor struggled to escape.
• When the First Boss called him, the Immortal seized the distracted State Preceptor and retreated through a spatial doorway, landing with him at Prison Peak before Eldest Senior Sister and the Immortal Fairy.

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy, Lu Yang, and Eldest Senior Sister rescued the Immortal and confronted the Imperial Preceptor. After his attacks and escape attempts failed, the Imperial Preceptor cursed Lu Yang, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• The Everlasting Immortal Fairy restored the Immortal's soul and Dao Fruit, and he joined her and Lu Yang against the Imperial Preceptor.
• The Imperial Preceptor erased his presence with his Karma Dao Fruit and tried to walk away, but the Everlasting Immortal Fairy spotted him and slapped him down.
• The Imperial Preceptor fired a Soul-Breaking Needle at the Everlasting Immortal Fairy, but she caught it and broke it without harm.
• The Imperial Preceptor sacrificed his lifespan to gather power, but Eldest Senior Sister kicked him and interrupted his technique.
• The Imperial Preceptor cursed Lu Yang with a series of misfortunes and the loss of his cultivation and soul after death.

The Imperial Preceptor’s curse on Lu Yang backfired because his karmic bonds with the Undying Fairy and Yun Zhi protected him. With the Imperial Preceptor incapacitated, Ask Dao Sect learned that Wu Youdao had also been captured and tried to question the Imperial Preceptor, but his suffering left him unable to answer.

• The Imperial Preceptor cursed Lu Yang with the Seven Calamities and Eight Sufferings, but the curse bounced off Lu Yang and struck him instead.
• The Undying Fairy explained that her protection had caused the curse to backfire, while the Third Boss chatted with the Black-and-White Venerable about Ask Dao Sect.
• Lu Yang announced that all the Great Yu cultivators had been captured and revealed that he and the Undying Fairy had also caught Wu Youdao.
• Yun Zhi questioned the Imperial Preceptor about Great Yu’s numbers and plans, but his pain kept him from responding.

Lu Yang and the Undying Fairy struggled to free the Grand Preceptor from an unprecedented curse, so Eldest Senior Sister went to seek the power of the nation's fortune. While they waited, Lu Yang learned that the Grand Preceptor's pursuit of a Dao Fruit of Karma had connected him more deeply to karma rather than helping him transcend it.

• Yun Zhi failed to lift the Grand Preceptor's curse, and the Undying Fairy explained that he could not take a second embryonic Dao Fruit.
• The Undying Fairy told Lu Yang that his rank as Second-in-Command reflected his understanding of the Undying Dao Fruit, prompting the Third-in-Command to offer to improve.
• Lu Yang suggested using the power of the nation's fortune to break the Grand Preceptor's curse, and Eldest Senior Sister went to the imperial palace.
• Prison Peak's prisoners whispered that Lu Yang was unfathomable after seeing a half-immortal attack him and get captured.
• The Undying Fairy explained that the Grand Preceptor's embryonic Dao Fruit of Karma bound him to karma and could not help him sever it.

Lu Yang and the Undying Fairy considered who had erased the fairy’s existence, while Yun Zhi imprisoned the cursed Imperial Preceptor. Three months later, Lu Yang reached the late Golden Core stage and learned that the Imperial Preceptor had died from the Seven Calamities and Eight Sufferings.

• Lu Yang suggested that someone had replaced the Undying Fairy by erasing traces of her existence and taking credit for her deeds, but they could not identify which immortal was responsible.
• Yun Zhi explained that spreading the Imperial Preceptor’s curse through the national fortune would cause disastrous consequences, then arranged for the grandmaster to guard him in Prison Peak.
• Yun Zhi went to investigate the Imperial Preceptor’s group’s hideout, while Lu Yang and the Undying Fairy left Prison Peak.
• After three months of cultivation, Lu Yang broke through to the late Golden Core stage.
• The sects began searching the Great Yu cultivators’ legacy sites, and Ask Dao Sect sent the First Elder to excavate the Black-and-White Venerable’s treasure site.
• Lu Yang learned that the Great Yu Imperial Preceptor had died after enduring the Seven Calamities and Eight Sufferings for three months.

Lu Yang reached the late Golden Core stage, and the Undying Fairy argued that her presence in his dantian already made him a Nascent Soul Realm Cultivator. At the Ask Dao Sect’s mountain gate, Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou found several Integrated Body Realm Cultivators attacking Daoist Buyu, who escaped into the sect before explaining that he had too many enemies to remember them all.

• The Undying Fairy explained the ancient origins of the Nascent Soul Realm and claimed Lu Yang qualified because she was a Primordial Spirit in his dantian and he had Nascent Soul Realm combat strength.
• Lu Yang heard fighting near the Ask Dao Sect’s mountain gate and went to investigate with Meng Jingzhou as other disciples gathered to watch.
• Lu Yang recognized Daoist Buyu fighting several Integrated Body Realm Cultivators, who said they had come to propose marriage to Lu Yang but attacked Buyu when they spotted him.
• Tao Yaoye studied the battle for Dreamlike Bubbles, which had grown into a profitable venture and made her the second-richest among the younger generation.
• Daoist Buyu escaped into the sect, and he told Lu Yang that he could not explain the attackers’ grudge because he had too many enemies to remember them all.

Daoist No Words returned to Ask Dao Sect after being beaten by his enemies, and the disciples gathered to see him. The First Elder revealed that the Heavenly Court Cult was made up of sect members, leaving Daoist No Words furious that they had named him the Growth Heavenly King without asking.

• Lu Yang worried that more marriage proposals would bring his master's enemies to the sect, then suggested Daoist No Words write a will.
• Ask Dao Sect disciples crowded around to see Daoist No Words, whom many had only known from a wanted poster.
• The First Elder arrived and recalled how Daoist No Words had once impersonated Ye Qianqian to trick Fourth Elder and framed the First Elder with an unfinished letter.
• The First Elder gathered Yun Zhi, the elders, and the disciples to explain that they had formed the Heavenly Court Cult.
• Daoist No Words objected to being made a Heavenly King Protector and named the Growth Heavenly King, but the First Elder said his eldest disciple had agreed to the title.

The elders discussed how the Heavenly Court Sect should stay hidden, while Lu Yang talked the Undying Fairy out of rushing to claim the sect master position. Daoist Buyu then tried to teach Lu Yang sword dao, only to find that his self-taught sword moves were already flawless.

• Daoist Buyu offered to promote the Heavenly Court Sect, but the Fourth Elder and Eighth Elder advised him to keep it out of public view.
• Lu Yang told the Undying Fairy that she would need to defeat Eldest Senior Sister before taking the sect master position, and she agreed to wait until she regained her strength.
• After the meeting, Daoist Buyu called Lu Yang aside and offered to teach him how to comprehend the sword dao.
• Daoist Buyu questioned Lu Yang's habit of storing his swords in his identity jade token and said he had carried his sword to guard against ambushes when he was young.
• Lu Yang demonstrated his basic sword moves, and Daoist Buyu found no flaws to point out.