Chapter Summaries

Lu Tian reached the Western sacred mountain, passed Jieyin and Zhunti’s trial, and became their disciple, breaking through to the Golden Immortal realm and activating the Mountain Patrol System. After gaining Saint-grade Comprehension and deriving the Great Nirvana Art from a Buddhist bead, he received Zhunti’s instruction in the Wrathful Vajra Method.

• Lu Tian traveled to the Western sacred mountain after leaving the Jie Sect and asked Jieyin and Zhunti to accept him as a disciple.
• Jieyin and Zhunti sealed Lu Tian’s magical power and required him to climb the mountain; his cultivation advanced to the peak of the True Immortal realm along the way.
• Lu Tian reached the summit, became a disciple of Jieyin and Zhunti, broke through to the Golden Immortal realm, and activated the Mountain Patrol System.
• Jieyin gave Lu Tian a Buddhist bead, and Lu Tian entered a forty-nine-day meditation after gaining insight into its restrictions.
• Lu Tian comprehended the Great Nirvana Art, and Zhunti taught him the Wrathful Vajra Method.

Lu Tian cultivated the Western Teachings’ scripture and manifested its profound Dharma, astonishing his new senior brothers. After his physical body fused with his Wrathful Vajra Dharma Form, he asked them to spar so he could test his strength.

• Jieyin and Zhunti taught Lu Tian the Wrathful Vajra Method and the Three Worlds Maha Immeasurable Sutra, then sent him to establish a cave dwelling on Spirit Mountain.
• Lu Tian devoted himself to studying the scripture, and his cultivation produced a golden Wrathful Vajra manifestation pointing to heaven and earth.
• Pharmacist, Maitreya, Sunlight, Moonlight, and Mahasthamaprapta arrived to greet Lu Tian, then marveled that he had manifested a profundity none of them had comprehended.
• Lu Tian greeted his senior brothers and explained that his physical body had fused with his Vajra Dharma Body during cultivation.
• Lu Tian asked the senior brothers to spar with him and test his strength, and one of them agreed to exchange moves.

Lu Tian fought Sunlight and learned to merge his Vajra Body with his physical body, then explained the method to Jieyin and Zhunti. The Sages began assessing his technique and its connection to Sunlight’s Great Sun Patrols the Heavens.

• Sunlight challenged Lu Tian, and the two exchanged powerful attacks that shattered the surrounding mountains.
• Sunlight used Great Sun Patrols the Heavens, but Lu Tian endured its flames and struck back with the Great Nirvana Art until Sunlight’s blazing sun form exploded.
• After the blast, Lu Tian remained standing and merged his weakened Vajra Body into his true body, realizing how to overcome the barrier between them.
• Sunlight congratulated Lu Tian, and Jieyin healed Sunlight before ordering the disciples to hold competitions every hundred years to build their combat experience.
• Zhunti asked Lu Tian how he fused his Vajra Body with his physical body, and Lu Tian detailed his method.
• Zhunti explained that Lu Tian’s technique and Sunlight’s secret art reached similar ends through different methods, then began examining how Lu Tian had spiritualized his body.

Lu Tian improved the Western Teachings’ spirit transformation method, earning Heavenly Dao Merit and Zhunti’s Vajra Scepter. Zhunti taught him the Dream Path Enlightenment Method, then Jieyin and Zhunti sent him into a dream; Lu Tian awoke on Spirit Mountain with the other disciples gone.

• Zhunti advised Lu Tian to draw Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy into his body while transforming into his Vajra Body, then entered meditation.
• After ten years, Heavenly Dao Merit descended upon Zhunti and Lu Tian because Lu Tian’s method had advanced the Western Teachings’ cultivation system.
• Zhunti refined the spirit transformation method into an instant evasion technique and a way to strengthen Dharma bodies by more than threefold.
• Zhunti awarded Lu Tian the Vajra Scepter and taught him the Dream Path Enlightenment Method, which allowed cultivators to rehearse cultivation and breakthroughs in dreams.
• Jieyin and Zhunti sent Lu Tian into the dream realm; when he awoke on Spirit Mountain, Pharmacist, Maitreya, and the other disciples were gone.

Jieyin and Zhunti taught Lu Tian Dao Enlightenment in Dreams, and he used the dream realm to create a miniature world and comprehend profound laws. After returning to reality, he asked Jieyin whether his damaged foundation could be repaired, leaving the answer pending.

• Jieyin and Zhunti taught Lu Tian the mnemonic for Dao Enlightenment in Dreams, and he spent five thousand years comprehending it within the dream.
• Lu Tian entered the Dream Realm, received the system reward Realm of Void and Reality, and used it to create a miniature universe governed by cycles and fundamental laws.
• Lu Tian discovered that his damaged foundation made cultivation slow, though creating a world had helped him comprehend laws and prepare for the Taiyi Realm.
• Lu Tian woke after a thousand years had passed in reality, then went to Jieyin and Zhunti to ask whether his damaged foundation could be repaired.
• Jieyin looked into Lu Tian with a flash of radiance as Lu Tian waited for his answer.

Lu Tian listened to Jieyin and Zhunti preach, created the Five Vajras in his fantasy world, and unexpectedly gained a trace of merit. With his masters’ permission and a map of the West’s remaining Blessed Lands, he left Spirit Mountain to seek opportunities to repair his damaged foundation and traveled northwest.

• Zhunti reassured Lu Tian that he would seize a chance for him despite his damaged foundation, and Lu Tian settled into the Western Teachings.
• After more than two hundred years of secluded cultivation brought little progress, Lu Tian attended Jieyin and Zhunti’s sermon on the Diamond Sutra.
• Lu Tian created the Five Vajras in Zero World, which returned a trace of Golden Light of Merit to him.
• Lu Tian asked to explore the West, and Jieyin gave him a map of three Blessed Lands while Zhunti advised him to search the northwest for his opportunity.
• Lu Tian’s five senior brothers escorted him for a thousand li, then returned to Spirit Mountain and resolved to cultivate harder.
• Lu Tian traveled northwest by himself, following Jieyin’s map through dangerous peaks and ravines.

Lu Tian cultivated in the Zero World, where new life produced merit that briefly increased his cultivation speed three thousandfold, then continued exploring blessed lands with his new treasures. At Phoenix Forest, he killed Crow Daoist and considered that he would eventually need to travel east, where the primordial world's great powers contended.

• Lu Tian discovered that the Five Great Vajras had gained intelligence and begun reproducing in the Zero World, earning merit when a new Blue Vajra clansman was born.
• Lu Tian refined two strands of merit, raising his cultivation efficiency three thousandfold for half an hour before it faded.
• Lu Tian reached Wushou Mountain Blessed Land, received Cloud-Treading Boots, and searched the mountain before finding nothing of value.
• Lu Tian explored Xiluo River Blessed Land, killed its rogue Ghost Kings, and received an Ice Lotus from the system.
• Lu Tian entered Phoenix Forest and killed Crow Daoist with his Vajra Dharma Form and Vajra Scepter after Crow Daoist attacked him.
• Phoenix Forest's cultivators praised Lu Tian for killing Crow Daoist, and Lu Tian decided that he would eventually have to seek his fortune in the east.

Lu Tian discovered a Demonic Path inheritance hidden in a jade pendant from Crow Daoist’s treasury and traveled to Luohu’s secret realm. After enduring the Inner Demon Trial, he encountered Luohu within his dream, where the Demon Ancestor judged his Vajra Dharma Form incomplete.

• Lu Tian found a jade pendant in Crow Daoist’s treasury and used Dao Enlightenment in Dreams to awaken its Demonic Path inheritance key.
• The key led Lu Tian to Luohu’s ruins, where he activated the secret realm and was confronted by Luohu’s Divine Sense.
• Luohu began the Inner Demon Trial, subjecting Lu Tian to agony and illusions as a test of his true heart.
• Lu Tian endured the trial, used an Ice Lotus seed and the Glazed Heart Pearl to steady his mind, and began comprehending the surrounding demonic qi.
• Luohu entered Lu Tian’s dream and praised his ability to reflect reality through illusion, then said his Vajra Dharma Form was still incomplete.

Lu Tian and Luohu perfected a secret art that combined origin devouring with a Demon Heart, allowing Lu Tian to strengthen his flawed foundation. After forming the Demon Heart and returning to Phoenix Forest, Lu Tian confronted the snake demon who had taken over Crow Daoist’s former territory.

• Lu Tian transformed his Vajra Body into a two-headed, four-armed form of Dao and Demon Twin Birth, then studied Luohu’s Demon Heart Swallowing Heaven Scripture.
• Lu Tian experimented with devouring Crow Daoist’s origin, but discovered that it only increased his cultivation and did not improve his foundation.
• Luohu taught Lu Tian a Demon Heart technique that could transform different origins and strengthen his foundation, and they spent fourteen thousand dream-years perfecting it.
• Lu Tian formed the Demon Heart after refining demonic qi, bid farewell to Luohu, and returned to the ruined landscape after two thousand years away.
• Lu Tian arrived in Phoenix Forest and seized the snake demon’s head as the demon’s cultivation began to collapse.

Lu Tian returned to the Western Teachings and revealed his Demonic Path inheritance and method for repairing his foundation to Jieyin and Zhunti. They arranged for him to enter Ancestor Minghe’s Blood Sea Trial, where his need to consume powerful origins would be tested, and negotiated terms with Minghe.

• After leaving Phoenix Forest, Lu Tian realized that even the origins of many immortals had barely repaired the damage to his foundation and saw that the Purple Bamboo within him was still barely alive.
• Lu Tian met Jieyin and Zhunti, revealed Luohu’s inheritance and his improved Demon Heart Swallowing Heaven Scripture, and explained how he planned to restore his foundation by devouring the origins of powerful beings.
• Jieyin and Zhunti proposed that Lu Tian enter Ancestor Minghe’s upcoming Blood Sea Trial, and Lu Tian agreed to participate.
• Jieyin and Zhunti traveled to the Blood Sea and asked Daoist Minghe to admit Lu Tian to the trial.
• Jieyin offered Minghe a Bitter Bamboo branch and leaves, and Minghe agreed to ensure Lu Tian survived, though he would count as eliminated if Minghe had to save him personally.

Lu Tian entered Ancestor Minghe’s Blood Sea trial and used himself as bait to lure and devour Asura opponents. After learning that the trial’s forces were concentrated in six war zones, he disguised himself as an Asura and headed toward one.

• Zhunti concealed Lu Tian’s Demonic Path inheritance before Ancestor Minghe opened the Crimson Continent and sent him into the trial.
• Lu Tian searched the vast continent for three days without finding any Asura, then transformed into one to attract enemies.
• Three Asura Golden Immortals ambushed Lu Tian, but he evaded their attack and crushed them before devouring two of their origins.
• Lu Tian learned from the surviving Asura’s memories that the trial selected Ancestor Minghe’s personal guards and that its participants fought across six major war zones.
• Lu Tian disguised himself as an Asura and traveled toward a war zone where more than a hundred tribes had joined forces.

Lu Tian joined the Asura alliance as vice-captain of the 18th Squad and followed Captain Moka to attack a group of Golden Immortals in the southeast. After the enemies sprang a formation ambush, Lu Tian survived their killing move, killed the remaining opponents, and absorbed the battlefield’s origin for himself.

• Lu Tian reached the Crimson Continent’s core battle zone, evaded Chixin’s blade assessment, and received the post of vice-captain of the 18th Squad.
• Captain Moka explained the squad’s battle plans and led five hundred True Immortals southeast, while Lu Tian followed with three hundred more.
• Three enemy Golden Immortals prepared an ambush inside a formation as Moka’s forces arrived and bombarded the mountain range.
• The enemies revealed their coordinated trap, sealed the space, froze the attackers, and used an ancient mirror to kill the True Immortals.
• Lu Tian escaped the mirror’s rays by slipping between layers of the void, killed the surviving Golden Immortals, and absorbed the origins of the fallen cultivators.

Lu Tian defeated Qiu Wu, then spent ten years honing his blade while fighting alongside an Asura hunting squad. After leaving the squad to develop his own Blade Technique, he entered seclusion and began sparring with a dream-created Qiu Wu.

• Lu Tian overwhelmed Qiu Wu with his Vajra Dharma Form and control of space-time, then devoured his origin.
• Lu Tian recognized that his combat techniques were crude and decided to seal away his secret arts and train with a blade.
• Over ten years, Lu Tian fought with the Nine Golden Immortal Hunting Squad and used the Demon Heart Swallowing Heaven Scripture to absorb enemies’ combat experience.
• Lu Tian advanced his blade skills enough to kill peak Golden Immortals across three minor realms and shared spoils with his squad.
• Lu Tian left the squad, opened a concealed cave dwelling, and entered a dream to practice against a conjured Qiu Wu.

Lu Tian refined his Blade Technique through years of dream-world battles and feedback from the Zero World, then left for the newly opened Star Burial Sea to find opponents and test his skill. As he entered the forbidden land, he approached a vast emerald star that appeared uninhabited.

• Lu Tian lost to Qiu Wu, drew with him after three years of comprehension, and defeated him after another eighty years.
• Lu Tian shaped the Zero World into a blade-focused civilization, whose evolving inhabitants sent him new insights into the blade Dao.
• Lu Tian trained for nearly five thousand years in the dream world and eventually defeated his Vajra Body projection using Blade Technique alone.
• Lu Tian learned that the Star Burial Sea had appeared and traveled there, while Styx discussed his journey with Jieyin and Zhunti.
• When the Star Burial Sea's tide opened a vast whirlpool, Lu Tian entered and headed toward a bright emerald star despite its spatial rifts.

Lu Tian searched Star Burial Sea, honed his Blade Technique, and slaughtered a crowd of Asura cultivators who gathered around a newly appeared treasure. When a High-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure emerged, Minghe watched with Jieyin and Zhunti, while Lu Tian faced the danger his displayed strength had invited.

• Lu Tian found a restorative Low-grade Acquired Spiritual Treasure and continued searching Star Burial Sea for opponents to test his Blade Technique against.
• Over three months, Lu Tian gained renown as a battle fanatic, and a moving treasure aura drew him toward a Crimson Tassel Spear with twenty-four restrictions.
• Lu Tian killed three peak Golden Immortals who challenged him for the spear, then faced hundreds of gathered cultivators seeking his treasures.
• Lu Tian unleashed his Clear Radiance Blade Technique and rapidly killed Golden Immortals until the survivors scattered in terror.
• A High-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure appeared above a distant star, and Lu Tian focused on claiming it as the watching Minghe recognized the astonishing promise of his blade arts.

Lu Tian drew thousands of Golden Immortals into attacking him at the Star Burial Sea, using the siege to test his limits and recover through slaughter. The assembled cultivators shattered his blade-light shield and launched another combined strike, leaving Lu Tian facing their overwhelming attack with his blade alone.

• Asura experts spotted the High-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure and agreed to eliminate Lu Tian, whom they called Moon Washing, before competing for it.
• Lu Tian tried to escape, but the Golden Immortals sealed the surrounding space and bombarded him with spells; he secretly welcomed the chance to devour their power and replenish himself.
• As reinforcements raised the attackers' numbers to three thousand, Lu Tian repeatedly restored his blade-light barrier, then let it break after confirming no more cultivators were coming.
• Jieyin, Zhunti, and Styx watched anxiously as Lu Tian faced the assembled Golden Immortals; Styx prepared to rescue him, while Jieyin expressed pride in his disciple.
• Lu Tian cut apart the remaining force of the attack that shattered his shield, then silently faced the sealed-in battlefield as the three thousand Golden Immortals launched another combined strike.

Lu Tian annihilated three thousand Golden Immortals with his Crescent Moon Slash, then absorbed their Power of Origin to restore his foundation and awaken an Innate Divine Ability. He discovered that Sky-Piercing Heart vastly accelerated his cultivation, but its lightning-tempering effect remained untested even against lightning containing Origin Law.

• Lu Tian used Crescent Moon Slash to pierce the enemies’ formation and kill the three thousand Golden Immortals trapped around him.
• Styx praised Lu Tian’s secret art, while Jieyin and Zhunti concealed the Dream Path Enlightenment Method and attributed his progress to a time secret treasure.
• Lu Tian stored the stone rod that had drawn the cultivators to the Star Burial Sea and absorbed the defeated experts’ Power of Origin to revive his Innate Purple Bamboo foundation.
• After seven days, Lu Tian had refined five hundred Golden Immortals and restored two percent of his foundation; after a month, refining all three thousand restored it to ten percent and awakened Sky-Piercing Heart.
• Lu Tian found that Sky-Piercing Heart raised his cultivation speed fiftyfold, then tested its lightning-tempering ability in a dream and saw no reaction even to lightning containing Origin Law.

Lu Tian tested the limits of his body-tempering method, then cultivated in seclusion until he reached peak Golden Immortal after eight hundred years. With the Crimson Continent engulfed in conflict and a final battle approaching, he prepared to refine the Five Qi in the Chest and seek the Taiyi Realm.

• Lu Tian discovered that ordinary lightning did not temper his body and planned to test Heavenly Tribulation Lightning Punishment when his tribulation arrived.
• Ancestor Minghe watched Lu Tian devour another's origin to mend his foundation, and Jieyin persuaded him to keep the secret method confidential.
• After news spread that Lu Tian had killed three thousand Golden Immortals, the powers of the six battlefields began hunting for him, while he assessed his chances against Taiyi Golden Immortals.
• Lu Tian concealed himself in a cave dwelling and refined pills for eight hundred years, steadily advancing his cultivation.
• As the Crimson Continent's conflicts escalated and the Asura Race suffered heavy losses, Lu Tian reached peak Golden Immortal and considered what treasures to use to condense the Five Qi in the Chest.

Lu Tian left seclusion and joined the Allied Forces as the Four Great Tribes launched their long-awaited assault on the city. As the battle began, three Taiyi experts appeared to fight the Allied Forces’ lone Taiyi, and Lu Tian’s group tried to break out amid the chaos.

• Lu Tian decided to travel east for Five Elements treasures after the Blood Sea Trial, but an Origin Golden Immortal attacked his cave and Lu Tian killed him and learned that the Four Great Tribes were besieging the Allied Forces.
• Lu Tian reached the battlefield, learned that his past actions had prompted the Four Great Tribes to begin their campaign early, and agreed to join his former captain’s group of more than eighty cultivators.
• For eight months, Lu Tian kept his strength concealed while the group prepared to escape the city during the battle.
• The Four Great Tribes surrounded the city with an army of more than ten thousand Golden Immortals and unleashed a devastating attack, which the Allied Forces’ Taiyi Golden Immortal largely repelled.
• Three more Taiyi experts arrived and engaged the Allied Forces’ Taiyi, while the old captain urged his group to break through the encirclement.

Lu Tian turned the Asura Race’s doomed breakout into a massacre, killing six thousand immortals and drawing the attention of three Taiyi Golden Immortals. He defeated their assault, killed one Taiyi, and drove the other two to flee, leaving Styx and the Primordial World’s supreme experts stunned.

• The old captain ordered the breakout force to scatter under the attack of three hundred Golden Immortals, leaving the squads surrounded and outnumbered.
• Lu Tian killed the three Golden Immortals around him with his Moon Washing Blade, revealing himself as Moon Washing, then slew six thousand immortals in a series of planned strikes.
• The Allied Forces’ Taiyi escaped through layers of space while three Asura Taiyi turned their attention to Lu Tian and launched a coordinated attack.
• Lu Tian survived their attacks, shattered the Demon Suppressing Pagoda, trapped an enemy Taiyi’s spirit sword in the Zero World, and killed that Taiyi and the water-bodied Taiyi.
• The remaining saber-wielding Taiyi fled, while Styx and two other supreme experts watched in shock as Lu Tian fought three Taiyi alone and defeated them.