Chapter Summaries

After a year in seclusion, Lu Qing reached Golden Core Perfection but found no opportunity to break through to the Primordial Spirit Realm. As Tribulations and deadly struggles over Fate Allotment spread through the cultivation world, he remained in the Daoist Dojo and continued deepening his cultivation and Formation Dao.

• Lu Qing emerged from a year of cultivation at Golden Core Perfection, with his Dharma Power full but no clear chance to break through to the Primordial Spirit Realm.
• Lu Qing observed that disciples were leaving the Daoist Dojo as the contest for Fate Allotment and the dangers beyond the mountains intensified.
• Lu Qing learned through the Talisman Light that a prodigy who had gathered more than thirty strands of Mars Fate Allotment had died in the Demon Land World, and another cultivator had taken his Fate Allotment.
• Sects sealed their mountain gates or allowed disciples to leave as Tribulations spread, while other cultivators continued risking their lives in the Demon Land World.
• Lu Qing sensed that the Killing Tribulation had begun and wondered briefly about the Profound Heaven Domain before returning to cultivation.
• Lu Qing continued cultivating his Inner World and Formation Dao, condensing his fifth White Jade Stairway and deepening his command of Daoist arts and divine abilities.

After emerging from seclusion, Lu Qing learned that Spirit Plant Peak planned to merge its gardens because many disciples had left during the Tribulation. He agreed to the change and visited Sun-Moon Mountain, where Hu Laozhang and the others began cultivating a new seventh-grade Spirit Plant.

• Lu Qing received Jin Yu’s Spirit Talisman letter explaining that the outer sect elders planned to merge Spirit Plant Gardens due to vacant positions.
• Lu Qing agreed to the merger, trusting Hu Laozhang and the others to manage Sun-Moon Mountain while some disciples temporarily left to pursue opportunities amid the Tribulation.
• Lu Qing manifested a thought-form at Sun-Moon Mountain and saw that a seventh-grade Spirit Plant, Phoenix-tail Leaf, had been added to the fields.
• Hu Laozhang distributed Phoenix-tail Leaf seeds and said that experienced disciples would be selected to tend the plants carefully.

Jing Xuan and Liu Cai continued working at Sun-Moon Mountain as Lu Qing prepared the Spirit Plant Garden to grow higher-grade crops. The chapter ended with Lu Qing watching Zhang Meng'an arrive at a teleportation exit atop an azure bird marked as a heaven-and-earth variant species.

• Jing Xuan and Liu Cai spoke with Hu Laozhang about their year of learning Spirit Plant cultivation at Sun-Moon Mountain.
• Lu Qing ordered newly reclaimed fields planted with Phoenix-tail Leaf and told Hu Laozhang to obtain seventh-grade Spirit Plant seeds for the fields after the Five-Element Spirit Rice harvest.
• The arriving Spirit Plant disciples completed their handover, found places to stay, and began reclaiming fields.
• Lu Qing observed the sect's teleportation exit and recognized Zhang Meng'an standing atop an azure bird with gold-threaded pupils.

Lu Qing observed Zhang Meng'an being pressured by cultivators who wanted his Celestial Star Destiny for their powerful senior brother, then considered the dangers and hidden attention surrounding Star Destiny. He kept his distance from other people’s Fate Allotment as months passed and rumors began to spread.

• Lu Qing heard the confrontation between Zhang Meng'an and a group of cultivators without revealing his presence.
• The group demanded that Zhang Meng'an give his Fate Allotment to their senior brother once they left, then departed.
• The Azure Bird urged Zhang Meng'an to hide after leaving, and Zhang Meng'an resolved to become stronger.
• Lu Qing reflected on Celestial Star Destiny, the nature of Star Lords, and the Karmic Affinity that came with such Fate Allotment.
• Several months passed, and news began to stir.

Fang Zixian recorded events near the Divine Medicine Mountain Range while cultivators struggled to understand the dangers and rules of the Demon Land World. A sudden snowfall manifested everyone’s Fate Allotment, leaving cultivators with Celestial Star Destiny exposed to danger.

• Cultivators discovered that the Divine Medicine Mountain Range’s spirit herbs lured entrants to their deaths and absorbed their cultivation essence.
• Fang Zixian used his Chronicle of Ages inheritance to record events, hoping that documenting Variable Fate would help him reach the Primordial Spirit realm.
• Fang Zixian decided to watch the Divine Medicine Mountain Range for Variable Fates connected to the Fate Allotment contest.
• Diamond-shaped snowflakes fell through cultivators’ defenses and entered their heavenly apertures without leaving any detectable trace.
• The snowflakes caused Fate Allotment to manifest above the cultivators, and those with Celestial Star Destiny became conspicuous targets.

Snowflake Destinies spread through the Demon Land World, stirring greed for Fate Allotment and triggering a deadly struggle among cultivators. Lu Qing learned of the snowfall through Talisman Light and suspected the growing disturbances were preparations for something greater, while an immortal vessel arrived at the sea between the Heavenly Domain and the Demon Land World.

• Fang Zixian realized the snowflakes had entered him and could not be avoided, stirring a desire to seize others' Fate Allotment.
• Cultivators across the Demon Land World reacted to the snowfall as Fate Allotment manifested, with some rushing toward prominent targets.
• Lu Qing learned from Floating Cloud Fly's Talisman Light reports that the Demon Land World had been divided into five regions around a central mountain and that strange snow was spreading there.
• Lu Qing suspected the snowfall and other disturbances were preparations for a greater Killing Tribulation, and he watched the tribulation Fate Allotment above the heavens.
• An immortal vessel crossed the vanished natural barrier and moored in the sea between the Heavenly Domain and the Demon Land World.

Song Wujiu investigated the Heavenly Domain while searching for the Heavenly Outer Profound Light, then left without finding its Fate Allotment. The chapter ended at Qingfeng Sect, where Qin Yang cultivated after surviving his fall and eating a spiritual herb.

• Song Wujiu assessed the new disciples aboard the immortal vessel and considered the dangers hidden within the Heavenly Domain.
• Song Wujiu recalled the Heavenly Domain’s connection to the Ancient Demon Domain and decided not to remain there.
• Song Wujiu departed the Profound Heaven Domain aboard the immortal vessel without sensing the Heavenly Outer Profound Light’s Fate Allotment.
• At Qingfeng Sect, Qin Yang trained in the clearing as a girl in red asked how his cultivation was going.
• Qin Yang recognized that the spiritual herb he had eaten had made his body stronger and increased his strength.

Qin Yang joined the small Qingfeng Sect and reached the First Layer of the Qi Nourishment Realm after only a month of cultivation. As his Fate Allotment began to emerge, Lu Qing sensed that it could influence the Fate Allotment of the Six Paths.

• The Qingfeng Sect Master rescued Qin Yang from beneath a cliff and brought him to the Qingfeng Sect.
• Qin Yang told Feng Yao that he had opened his meridians and felt ready to enter the Qi Nourishment Realm, while keeping his lost memories secret.
• The Qingfeng Sect Master watched Qin Yang draw in spiritual energy and break through to the First Layer of the Qi Nourishment Realm.
• The Qingfeng Sect Master praised Qin Yang's aptitude and urged him to avoid arrogance and tell him if he needed more spiritual energy.
• Qin Yang's hidden Fate Allotment grew stronger as he continued on the Immortal Path.
• Lu Qing sensed that the emerging Fate Allotment might affect the Six Paths and wondered how it would develop.

As the Killing Tribulation engulfed the Demon Land World and affected the Nine Heavens Great Realm, Lu Qing remained in seclusion, focused on his breakthrough to the Primordial Spirit Realm. Meanwhile, cultivators outside learned how to enter the Trial World more safely and sought fortune and Fate Allotment within.

• Lu Qing remained detached from the changing Fate Allotment and continued cultivating in seclusion as he approached a breakthrough.
• The Killing Tribulation spread through the Six Paths, driving cultivators to slaughter one another across the Demon Land World.
• A blood-river Demonic Cultivator pursued several fleeing cultivators across a barren wilderness.
• After nearly two years, outside cultivators compiled information about the Trial World, whose first entrants had suffered an approximately eighty-percent death rate.
• Cultivators identified safer routes through the Trial World and targeted the resources and Fate Allotment within, with the Spirit Path standing out among the Six Paths.

Yuan Sui killed a Blood River Demonic Cultivator who had attacked Azure Glow Mountain disciples, then reflected on the mounting deaths caused by the struggle over Fate Allotment. A fellow disciple arrived with word that someone from the Grand Heaven Dao Sect was seeking him, but Yuan Sui saw the visitor arrive before the message was finished.

• The Blood River Demonic Cultivator pursued fleeing Azure Glow Mountain disciples and killed one of them with a sweep of his blood river.
• A young man in white descended from Beyond the Heavens and killed the Blood River Demonic Cultivator with a single palm, then dispersed the gathered Blood Baleful Qi.
• The white-robed young man was identified as Yuan Sui, whose Fate Allotment was vast despite his lack of Celestial Star Destiny.
• A blue-robed fellow disciple recognized Yuan Sui and said a Dao brother from the Grand Heaven Dao Sect wished to meet him.
• Yuan Sui spotted the approaching rainbow light, and a young man with an extraordinary aura arrived before him and the disciple.

Yuan Sui met Huang Mingguang, who warned that the Demonic Path was aligning with the Demon Race amid a wider upheaval involving several realms and forces. They went to Immortal Mountain, where the Immortal Path faced a united Demon Race and Demonic Path over Fate Allotment.

• Yuan Sui questioned Huang Mingguang about the Demon Sect, and Huang confirmed that old devils and other Paths were complicating the conflict in the Demon Land World.
• Huang Mingguang reported that Profound Lights from Beyond the Heavens had continued to arrive as human reincarnations, prompting speculation that another shattered realm was intervening.
• Huang Mingguang told Yuan Sui that the Demon Race and Demonic Path had grown closer, led by a Golden Feather Sect cultivator whose conduct recalled the Primordial Era's Demon Emperor lineage.
• Yuan Sui and Huang Mingguang headed to Immortal Mountain after learning that the opposing forces had gathered there.
• At Immortal Mountain, Immortal Path cultivators confronted the assembled Demon Race and Demonic Path over Fate Allotment.

Yuan Sui and Huang Mingguang realized the factions had gathered at Immortal Mountain to contest Fate Allotment, while the Demon Sect sought to turn the land into Demon Land. As the three sides collided, the Fate Allotment of the Divine, Ghost, and Spirit Paths was dragged into the battle, spreading upheaval across the universe.

• Black Sun Sect disciples identified the Nine Immortals and focused on the Dharma-Free Immortal Gate as their opponents.
• An immortal cultivator and an Old Devil stepped forward in turn, suppressing and then restoring the Demon Race and Demonic Path’s Fate Allotment.
• Yuan Sui and Huang Mingguang concluded that the Demon Sect intended to reverse heaven and earth and make the region into Demon Land.
• Yuan Sui considered how the missing Dao-Seeking Cauldron and the Demonic Path’s ambitions could affect the contest for Fate Allotment.
• The Fate Allotment of the Divine, Ghost, and Spirit Paths was pulled into the clash at Immortal Mountain, and its disturbance spread across the universe.

As the Six Paths Fate Allotment sparked battles across the Nine Heavens Great Realm, Wind and Clouds entered the Demon Land World carrying Purple Star Destiny, while cultivators rushed to claim it. The chapter ends with Wan Shenyou trapped at the edge of a deadly battlefield, questioning whether anyone could safely bear the Fate Allotment.

• Wind and Clouds emerged into the Demon Land World through a closing passage and vowed not to surrender the Celestial Star Destiny in his possession.
• A cultivator spotted Purple Star Destiny and sent word to his companions so they could claim it for their sect.
• Rumors spread in Southern Heaven Continent that Army Breaker and Greedy Wolf Destiny had appeared there.
• Battles across the Demon Land World killed cultivators and destroyed their treasures as the Fate Allotment surged.
• Wan Shenyou cut down demonic shadows while he and an equally matched Demonic Cultivator retreated toward the battlefield's edge.
• Wan Shenyou regretted coming to seek an easy advantage and wondered whether anyone could endure the Fate Allotment within themselves.

After three months of seclusion, Lu Qing survived a Wind Tribulation and broke through to the Primordial Spirit Realm. He sensed that a sealed Broken Sword had sent a portion of its power out with a disciple, and suspected it could grow stronger by killing.

• Outside Immortal Mountain, cultivators hunted those bearing Stellar Destiny as Rogue Cultivators fled the chaos.
• Thunder sounded over the Daoist Dojo, and cultivators in a nearby tower wondered who was undergoing a breakthrough Tribulation.
• Lu Qing emerged from seclusion in the Sword Lineage Dojo after reaching the Primordial Spirit Realm and reflected on his Wind Tribulation and newfound abilities.
• Lu Qing noticed sword-light Fate Allotment fleeing with a disciple and saw the shadow of the sealed Broken Sword beneath it.
• Lu Qing sensed that the seal had weakened and suspected the Broken Sword would become dangerous if it escaped into the outside world.

After breaking through to the Primordial Spirit Realm, Lu Qing surveyed the Southern Heaven Continent and examined the Seeking Dao Immortal Sect’s Fate Allotment. His gaze followed the divination toward the southeast, where he contemplated the vast land that might sink into the sea, before he withdrew his vision.

• Lu Qing watched a disciple depart with the Broken Sword, then received his master’s message not to concern himself with it.
• Lu Qing looked beyond the Dao Sect’s mountains and surveyed the Southern Heaven Continent, noting its Tribulation Clouds, cultivators, and scattered cities.
• Lu Qing examined the barren buffer region between the Profound Heaven Dao Sect and the Seeking Dao Immortal Sect, whose territory controlled the northern route.
• Lu Qing saw the Seeking Dao Immortal Cauldron’s shadow among the Seeking Dao Immortal Sect’s Fate Allotment clouds and recalled seeing the treasure before.
• Lu Qing followed the divination’s direction southeast and considered the words “Southeast land submerges” and the two figures it foretold.
• Lu Qing withdrew his gaze and reflected that his breakthrough into the Primordial Spirit Realm had gone as expected.

Lu Qing settled into daily cultivation and watched the seasons pass after reaching the Primordial Spirit First Gate. His understanding of the Great Dao brought him to the threshold of the Second Gate, while turmoil in the Demon Land World intensified.

• Lu Qing concluded that a great upheaval would likely occur within a few years and that rising spiritual vitality would produce more peerless prodigies.
• Lu Qing kept in touch with White Crane Boy and worried about Senior Brother Wang, who had sent no message from the Demon Land World.
• Lu Qing eased out of prolonged seclusion and spent the passing seasons cultivating, drinking tea, and observing the mountains around his tower.
• Lu Qing's Inner World developed spiritual light, and he comprehended the nature of true and false, bringing his state of mind to the threshold of the Primordial Spirit Second Gate.
• As Lu Qing's mind grew more tranquil over the year, the storms beyond the mountain became more violent.

Qin Yang and the Broken Sword fled into a poisonous Great Marsh after Qin Yang took a Divine Office object from the gods. As the Rain God prepared to clear the miasma, the Broken Sword learned what Qin Yang had taken and warned him that his enemies sought another mysterious treasure tied to his destroyed sect.

• The Broken Sword led Qin Yang into the Great Marsh to escape the gods pursuing them.
• The Rain God arrived with the gods and prepared to disperse the marsh’s poisonous miasma so they could capture Qin Yang.
• The Broken Sword asked Qin Yang what he had stolen, and Qin Yang showed it the snow-white Divine Office object.
• The Broken Sword explained that the object could grant authority over a region and said the gods were furious because Qin Yang had taken it.
• Qin Yang recalled that his enemies had destroyed Qingfeng Sect and that clues pointed to a wider conspiracy involving Golden Mountain Sect and the Demon Sect.
• The Broken Sword warned Qin Yang that his other treasure, which carried immortal and Primordial Era auras, could attract powerful enemies, and said they needed to escape the marsh.

Qin Yang entered the core of the Demon-Refining Great Marsh to escape the Rain God, while the gods pursuing him became unknowingly tainted by tribulation. In his fourth year after entering the sect, Lu Qing watched the names of gifted cultivators and powers spread across the world as the Great Era of Heavenly Change gathered momentum.

• Broken Sword told Qin Yang that the Great Marsh had been forged by the Primordial Era's Devil Master Wuhen and that its surface was only the uppermost layer of its space.
• Cultivators on a wooden boat tried to seize the Divine Seat Talisman from Qin Yang, who was only at the Purple Mansion Realm.
• The Rain God used rain to track Qin Yang, but Qin Yang vanished into a spatial rift and entered the Great Marsh's core.
• The gods resolved to kill Qin Yang, while a thread of tribulation tainted their Spirit Platforms without their knowledge.
• In his fourth year after entering the sect, Lu Qing read Talisman Light messages and rankings as the names of Heavenly Mandate figures and powers from all Six Paths spread.

Lu Qing broke through to the Primordial Spirit Second Gate and reflected on Delusion-Breaking as he reconsidered what made a world and a Dao. Meanwhile, the Eight Wastelands continued to develop amid the struggle for Fate Allotment, and the Immortal Mountain Six Paths Battle took on a new significance as prominent cultivators were restrained together.

• The Demon Land World was formally renamed the Eight Wastelands, where cultivators discovered Star Destiny bearers, established markets and cities, and fought for Fate Allotment.
• In his fifth year after entering the sect, Lu Qing broke through to the Primordial Spirit Second Gate and understood it as Delusion-Breaking.
• Lu Qing concluded that there was no flawless Great Dao or perfect world, and that cultivators had to break the delusions within their hearts.
• Lu Qing considered the Primordial Spirit Three Gates and the realms beyond, then felt his Othermind stir as a north wind carried a faint murmur.
• Another year passed in the Eight Wastelands, and the Immortal Mountain battle continued as famous masters, Six Paths cultivators, and senior figures were restrained in the same place.

The Six Paths experts remained locked in a stalemate at Immortal Mountain while Golden Core cultivators and heavenly prodigies became the focus of the fighting. As word spread that Chu Yuan had emerged to challenge his rivals, Zhao Buhuo confronted a Spirit Cultivator, trapped at Immortal Mountain despite reaching the Primordial Spirit Realm.

• The Six Paths experts restrained one another at Immortal Mountain, leaving Golden Core cultivators to occupy the wider battlefield without destroying the Eight Wastelands.
• Fate Allotment drew powerful cultivators and prodigies into the Eight Wastelands, where their rankings and clashes attracted attention.
• Cultivators discussing the rankings said Chu Yuan had emerged from seclusion in the Late Golden Core Realm and planned to challenge the heavenly prodigies.
• A Rogue Cultivator said a Golden Feather Sect Star Lord reincarnation was restrained at Immortal Mountain and losing Celestial Star Destiny to challengers outside.
• Zhao Buhuo of the Golden Feather Sect glared at the Spirit Cultivator before him, frustrated that his breakthrough to the Primordial Spirit Realm had left him trapped at Immortal Mountain.