Chapter Summaries

Lu Qing entered the first level of the Dao Sect Treasury and saw the Profound Heaven Sword, Profound Heaven Bell, and Profound Heaven Mirror among the manifested treasures. The newly awakened treasure spirits asked him to choose a magical treasure, and the Mountain-Sea Axe and other spirits began competing for his attention.

• Lu Qing observed the magical treasures and their Dao Rhymes, including the three Profound Heaven Supreme Treasures.
• The Profound Heaven Mirror and Profound Heaven Bell revealed that the spirits had only just awakened and asked Lu Qing which treasure he wanted.
• Lu Qing introduced himself as a disciple of the Profound Heaven Sword Lineage.
• The Mountain-Sea Axe claimed it was forged from a fragment of the legendary Heaven-Opening Axe and urged Lu Qing to choose it.
• Other treasure spirits interrupted the Mountain-Sea Axe and called for Lu Qing's attention, including a loud spirit inhabiting a suit of armor.

Lu Qing entered the chamber of the Profound Heaven Sect’s ancient treasures, where numerous artifacts competed for his attention and the Profound Heaven Mirror examined his life. The Mirror revealed an ordinary woodcutter as his past life, while Lu Qing realized his present body’s spiritual origin had appeared before he arrived in this world.

• A silver Killing Armor and other Dharma treasures called out to Lu Qing, hoping he would choose them.
• The Profound Heaven Sword offered to test Lu Qing’s Sword Dao, while the Profound Heaven Bell and Profound Heaven Mirror urged him to choose a treasure freely.
• Lu Qing suspected his Calamity Avoidance skill obscured Heavenly Secrets and agreed to look into the Profound Heaven Mirror.
• The Profound Heaven Mirror showed Lu Qing’s present-life origin as a strand of spirituality born Innately before he arrived in this world.
• The Mirror revealed that Lu Qing’s past life had been an ordinary woodcutter killed by a tiger, and it welcomed the absence of another sect’s schemes.

Lu Qing declined to take one of the sentient Supreme Treasures and chose instead to forge his own Dao Seal treasure. The seniors gave him several forging aids, while the Violet-Light Thunder Dragon waited outside and wondered why he had not emerged.

• Lu Qing connected the Heavenly Sun Variable Fate and the contest among the Dao Sect's core disciples to shifts in Fate Allotment, and suspected the trial was linked to the vacant position of Dao Sect Walker.
• Lu Qing told the sentient treasures that he planned to forge his own Dao Seal treasure rather than choose one of them.
• The Profound Heaven Bell gave Lu Qing golden Dao Rhymes to use as kindling for forging.
• The precious fan gave Lu Qing a spiritual wind Dao Rhyme, and the Copper Furnace gave him a furnace suited to treasure forging.
• An old artifact-forger offered Lu Qing insights into time, which he accepted with thanks.
• Outside, the Violet-Light Thunder Dragon waited and wondered whether Lu Qing was still undergoing the treasures' trials or had challenged the Profound Heaven Supreme Treasures.

After a month in the Dao Sect Treasury, Lu Qing emerged without taking the Supreme Treasure’s Fate Allotment, and the Chiefs recognized that his choice reflected a temperament of his own. The Divine Bridge’s golden light left Thunder Dragon puzzled, while Sun Qidao trusted that Lu Qing’s heart still faced toward Profound Heaven.

• Thunder Dragon recalled past prodigies who had entered the Dao Sect Treasury and lamented that many had fallen before reaching their full potential.
• Yu Youshu asked Li Luoyang whether his disciple could gain Fate Allotment’s recognition, and Li Luoyang warned that such recognition could bring danger.
• Zhang Qingyun asked what Karmic Affinity had led Li Luoyang to accept Lu Qing, and Li Luoyang explained that he had simply promised any Outer Sect disciple who attained the Golden Core entry into the Sword Lineage.
• Ren Tianshi announced that Lu Qing had emerged from the treasury, having stayed on its first level and declined to pursue more treasures.
• The Divine Bridge glowed gold around Lu Qing, but Thunder Dragon saw no Supreme Treasure Fate Allotment and wondered why the light appeared.
• The Chiefs understood that Lu Qing had refused the Fate Allotment, and Sun Qidao said Lu Qing’s past actions showed his devotion to Profound Heaven.

Lu Qing returned from the Divine Bridge and confirmed his choice to refuse the Dao Sect Walker position, earning the Chiefs’ approval and several valuable gifts. He left with his decision unchanged, while the Thunder Dragon Artifact Spirit questioned why he had given up the Supreme Treasure Fate Allotment.

• Lu Qing crossed back over the Divine Bridge and met the six Chiefs on the Cloud Platform, who acknowledged his choice and urged him to cultivate diligently.
• Yu Youshu invited Lu Qing to study the Formation Dao and attend his lectures, and the Chiefs gave Lu Qing several treasures.
• Lu Qing considered the risks of becoming a Dao Sect Walker and reaffirmed that he preferred a quiet life of cultivation.
• The Thunder Dragon Artifact Spirit asked Lu Qing why he had surrendered the Supreme Treasure Fate Allotment, and Lu Qing said he disliked fighting and killing.

Lu Qing declined the Immortal Path Supreme Treasure and received the Thunder Dragon Artifact Spirit’s Divine Firmament Thunder Dao Seal to pass on to someone with Karmic Affinity. After leaving the treasury realm, he returned to his Daoist Dojo, where he saw how much its Immortal City had grown.

• The Thunder Dragon Artifact Spirit praised Lu Qing for refusing the Immortal Path Supreme Treasure and offered him a Divine Firmament Thunder Dao Seal.
• Lu Qing accepted the seal to find someone with Karmic Affinity and decided to visit the Profound Heaven Dao Academy while traveling to the Heavenly Domain.
• After Lu Qing left, the Thunder Dragon Artifact Spirit worried about Variable Fate, while hidden Dao Sect figures discussed nurturing new disciples and searching for the missing Junior Brother Bai.
• Lu Qing returned to his Daoist Dojo and admired the thriving grounds and the vast Immortal City his avatar had managed.

Lu Qing reflected on the Vermilion Bird World’s immense potential and prepared for the dangers of his coming journey. After sharing White Crane Boy’s spirit fruits and enjoying the peace of his Daoist Dojo, Lu Qing settled his troubled state of mind and underwent a clearer, Illumination-like transformation.

• Lu Qing studied the Dao Sect records and realized the Vermilion Bird World was a world of extraordinary potential, likely tied to the celestial spirits and the Totem Visualization Great Dao.
• Lu Qing concluded that the Dao Academy mission had concealed the world’s Source of Heaven and Earth and that the Dao Sect’s upper ranks had taken over the matter.
• White Crane Boy showed Lu Qing the spirit fruits he had grown and told him he had become an Intermediate Spirit Planter Master.
• Lu Qing shared a meal with White Crane Boy, and the peaceful scene helped him let go of his earlier worries.
• Lu Qing recited a Buddhist maxim and experienced a crystalline transformation in his state of mind.

Lu Qing resolved a shift in his Dao Heart and reached an Illumination Spiritual Heart, then witnessed a Buddhist kingdom collapse after the Profound Heaven Dao Sect struck back against the Buddha Land’s interference. The Divination remained still as the chapter ended.

• Lu Qing spent seven days discussing the Dao with the Heart Ape and Mind Horse, realizing he did not need to define himself by tranquility or serenity.
• Lu Qing embraced cultivating naturally and gained an Illumination Spiritual Heart, causing his two Dao Seals to acquire a natural aura.
• The Buddha of Spirit Heaven Buddhist Land sensed a destined person and tried to meddle with Heavenly Secrets, but a distant sword light cut through the thread.
• The Chiefs of Profound Heaven learned that the Buddhist Sect had interfered and discussed using the chance to sever one of its Buddha Lands.
• Lu Qing saw a Glazed Buddha Kingdom shake and fall as its Buddha Light shattered, while the Divination remained unmoved.

Lu Qing traced the Heavenly Secrets disturbance to a Buddhist Sect influence and sensed an opportunity awaiting him in the Vermilion Bird World, where he intended to seek materials for refining his Dao Seal treasure. After he departed, Profound Heaven’s leaders discussed the Buddhist threat, the trials awaiting Providence-bearing disciples, and the ancient forces that might still survive.

• Lu Qing traced the disturbance in his Spirit Platform’s past to the Buddhist Sect and resolved to treat the Spirit Heaven Buddhist Land and Glazed Buddhist Sect with caution.
• Lu Qing sensed that an opportunity was emerging and decided to travel to the Vermilion Bird World, believing it might aid him in refining his Dao Seal treasure.
• Lu Qing left the Southern Heaven Continent while his emotionless body remained in the Immortal City to oversee affairs.
• Zhang Qingyun, Jiang Wuya, and Ren Tianshi discussed the Buddhist Sect’s actions, the trials facing Providence-bearing disciples, and the coming contests among true disciples.
• Zhang Qingyun and the others noted that Variable Fate and ancient undying forces could disrupt their plans, and questioned whether the Devil Master's side and the Tribulation Qi still remained.

Lu Qing traveled to the Northern Heaven Continent and returned to Profound Heaven Dao Academy, where he reunited with old acquaintances and found its influence and Providence growing. After Academy Head Zhou told him to enter the world he had come for, Lu Qing departed and sensed that the Dao Academy’s seniors possessed unfathomable strength.

• Lu Qing used a Boundary-Breaking Teleportation Grand Formation to reach the Northern Heaven Continent while concealing his identity and presence.
• A gifted young genius sensed Lu Qing at the teleportation platform, but Uncle Chen warned him not to speak carelessly about the mighty expert.
• Lu Qing surveyed the Northern Heaven Continent, avoided places where terrifying auras lurked, and entered the Profound Heaven Domain.
• Lu Qing returned to Profound Heaven Dao Academy, where he met Steward Luo, Academy Head Zhou, and Elder Liu, and sensed the Academy’s Fate Allotment gathering.
• Academy Head Zhou told Lu Qing to enter the world he had come for, and Lu Qing departed across the provinces before sensing terrifying auras within the Dao Academy.

Lu Qing entered the Vermilion Bird World and used Divination to assess the dangers surrounding its opportunity. He discovered an ancient teleportation formation built on the Vermilion Bird’s True Form and began connecting its foundation to sacrifice.

• Lu Qing received three Divinations: entering at the wrong time would send him into an unknown imprint of time, while pursuing the opportunity risked injuries and future trouble; waiting calmly for seven days was safe.
• Lu Qing entered the Vermilion Bird World before noon and found an ancient teleportation formation in the valley.
• Lu Qing studied the formation’s simple patterns and recognized that they resembled markings on a strange stone he had obtained.
• The formation revealed an image of a spiritless Vermilion Bird, which Lu Qing understood to be the foundation of the teleportation array.
• Lu Qing considered the Vermilion Bird’s connection to totems and wondered how sacrifice related to the incense path and the Incense Divine Path.

Lu Qing arrived in the Vermilion Bird World and sensed a powerful ancient demon near Moonlight Lake. He observed a nearby tribe seeking a new totem after theirs had perished and recognized Jiang Heng as a Son of Providence.

• Lu Qing emerged from a teleportation array in the wilderness and sensed an ancient demon whose power matched a Dongzhen Realm Immortal Cultivator.
• Lu Qing reflected on the dangers of the Primordial Era and noticed the savage blood vitality of the world's inhabitants.
• Lu Qing observed a group from a nearby tribe approaching the mountains in search of a totem ancestor.
• Father Jiang told Jiang Heng that their tribe had to find a totem because their totem god had died and they risked becoming slaves.
• Lu Qing listened to the tribe's conversation, discerned a thread of Heavenly Secrets, and identified Jiang Heng as a Son of Providence.

Lu Qing waited in the mountains for an opportunity hidden in a lake while an Ancient Demon Phoenix Bird and the golden Ape King clashed across the sky. He remained concealed as the battle shook the region, expecting the disturbance to draw forces to the lake and aware that stronger cultivators might contest the opportunity.

• Lu Qing recognized the lake as the likely source of the foretold turmoil and chose to wait quietly in the mountains.
• The Phoenix Bird returned weakened, and the Spiritwood Tribe members entered the mountains after sensing its Ancient Demon aura.
• Lu Qing sent a thread of Spirit Light to aid those arriving with karmic affinity, then concealed himself beneath an ancient tree.
• The Ancient Demon Phoenix Bird battled the golden Ape King, forcing nearby tribes and two warring high-ranking tribes to retreat or relocate.
• Lu Qing sensed that the battle had not disturbed the Earth Veins and reasoned that the lake's opportunity might attract powerful forces from beyond the local tribes.

Jiang Heng and his father witnessed a Spiritwood Tribe sacrifice while Lu Qing studied how its offering awakened a dead totem’s faint spirituality and gained insight into Heaven’s Will, cultivation, and Tribulation Cycles. As Lu Qing prepared to take an opportunity and leave, a Supreme Treasure emerged in the mountain.

• Jiang Heng asked Father Jiang why two ancient demons had appeared, and Father Jiang feared they were fighting over something nearby.
• The Spiritwood Tribe offered three sacrifices to its totem while Lu Qing watched an ancient tree’s faint spirituality awaken and flow into the chieftain.
• Lu Qing connected the totem’s spirituality to the Incense Fire Great Dao and rejected Heaven’s Will’s offer of Merit, choosing to leave Merit in the Vermilion Bird World.
• Lu Qing reflected on how Tribulation Cycles balanced cultivators’ advancement with heaven and earth’s cultivation, and considered why his Daoist dojo had earned Merit.
• A silver moonlight Hong Guang appeared deep in the mountain, shaking heaven and earth as the energy flows boiled.
• Those present recognized that a Supreme Treasure had emerged.

Lu Qing concealed himself in the mountain and waited for the opportunity foretold by Divination, while protecting the Spiritwood Tribe from the battle raging outside. As great figures from the Central Region began arriving, the surrounding tribes prepared for the struggle over the emerging treasure.

• Lu Qing sensed that the companion beast had weakened, but stayed hidden and waited for the seven days named by Divination.
• As Ancient Demons fought beyond the mountain and Phoenix Bird fire threatened the Spiritwood Tribe, Lu Qing formed a barrier around the dozen tribe members he had escorted there.
• The Spiritwood Tribe thanked Lu Qing for saving them, while Jiang Heng and the old chieftain realized that a powerful formation master was protecting them.
• Lu Qing accepted the Merit that descended but resolved not to become the Heavenly Mandate bearers' guardian beyond his seven-day commitment.
• The Blackfish Tribe's leaders argued over whether to flee their ancestral land as the chieftain revealed a Spirit Talisman announcing the arrival of great figures from the Central Region.
• The Upper Wind Tribe, Blackfish Tribe, Yin-Yang Tribe, and Wanqi Tribe each received the Spirit Talisman from the Central Region.

Human cultivator tribes and powerful Ancient Demons arrived in the Southern Wastes to claim a mountain opportunity, and Lu Qing traced the growing conflict’s Cause and Effect. As killing intent ignited a major battle, the Phoenix Bird fled toward Lu Qing’s mountain and an unseen spatial ripple marked its feathers.

• The Cloud and Wind Tribes arrived from the central region, followed by the Rain and Thunder forces, while Lu Qing sensed an unclear causal link involving them and the two battling Ancient Demons.
• The Stone Tribe arrived on the sixth day, and powerful Ancient Demons appeared on the seventh as Lu Qing gathered the strands of Cause and Effect and discerned that a Tribulation would emerge.
• The Cloud Tribe’s young prince insulted the Ancient Demons, provoking them and triggering a violent battle while the Spiritwood Tribe watched from safety.
• The Phoenix Bird tried to escape the pursuing Ancient Demon Ape King, whose spirituality had been lost and whose body was covered in bloody karmic sin.
• The Phoenix Bird fled over Lu Qing’s mountain, where a concealed spatial ripple rose from the lake and marked its feathers, allowing Lu Qing to understand the Divination.

Lu Qing defeated the Ancient Demon Phoenix Bird and the pursuing Ancient Demon Ape King, then obtained a time imprint from the Ancient Era. He realized the imprint could be connected to the Dao-seal treasure he planned to refine and sensed the strange, faintly spiritual Heaven's Will of the Vermilion Bird World.

• Lu Qing used the Great Dao of Time to age the Ancient Demon Phoenix Bird to death and drew a streak of radiance from one of its feathers.
• The Ancient Demon Ape King and a puppet also perished as Lu Qing examined the radiance and the Ominous Hexagram disappeared.
• Lu Qing followed the Heavenly Secrets through the Long River of Time and identified the radiance as an imprint of time from the Ancient Era.
• Lu Qing understood that the imprint contained a vast secret realm shaped from a frozen shadow of the past and considered using it to refine his Dao-seal treasure.
• Lu Qing sensed the Vermilion Bird World's strange Heaven's Will and wondered whether the Heavenly Spirit Vermilion Bird had influenced it.

Lu Qing witnessed the Ancient Era’s destruction through the Heavenly Secrets imprinted in a stream of light, then claimed the opportunity and left the Vermilion Bird World. Back in the Heavenly Domain, he prepared to enter an Imprint of Time to finish refining his treasure.

• Lu Qing saw the Ancient Era collapse in tribulation, with Immortal figures and heavenly spirits annihilated as the stream of light formed.
• Heaven’s Will indicated that the opportunity belonged to the fated and that the capable would possess it, and Lu Qing stored the stream of light.
• After observing the Vermilion Bird World and deciding not to pursue anything else there, Lu Qing departed through the Vermilion Bird Array.
• Jiang Heng sensed Lu Qing’s departure, recognized that the man could not be fathomed, and later wondered when the foreign experts would leave.
• Lu Qing returned to the Heavenly Domain, considered the Vermilion Bird Heaven’s Will, and turned to his Dao Seal treasure.
• Lu Qing decided to enter an Imprint of Time to learn what had happened during that period and complete the refinement of his treasure.

Lu Qing returned to his Dao Abode and used Talisman Light to learn of the shifting powers and fate allotments across the Nine Heavens. He decided to refine the Dao Seal artifact as a seal and turned his attention to a fragment of Radiance of Time held by his incarnation on Sun-Moon Mountain.

• Lu Qing returned to Bixin Mountain Range and observed how its Earth Vein Qi had risen after receiving Creation from the heavens.
• Lu Qing read Talisman Light reports about rival sects choosing providence-bearers and the growing activity of the Demonic Path.
• Lu Qing observed that the northern Immortal City’s fate allotment was nearing manifestation and left its mundane affairs to his incarnation.
• Lu Qing chose a seal as the form of his Dao Seal artifact and connected his mind to his incarnation on Sun-Moon Mountain.
• Lu Qing’s spirit body on Sun-Moon Mountain opened its eyes as he focused on the fragment of Radiance of Time.

Lu Qing visited the Library Pavilion to research the Primordial Era and learned that it passed through four major periods before ending in catastrophe. He confirmed that the strand of Radiance of Time he planned to use lacked Tribulation Qi, then left to continue preparing for artifact refinement.

• Lu Qing inspected Sun-Moon Mountain's Spirit Plant Garden and saw that its Spiritual Resonance had gained traces of Dao Rhyme.
• Lu Qing entered the Library Pavilion's Ancient Records Sea and asked for an overview of the Primordial Era's major events.
• Lu Qing learned that the Primordial Era began under the rule of Innate Divine Spirits, followed by the rise of the Human Path and Immortal Path, the flourishing of the Six Paths, and a final period of catastrophe under the Ancient Demon Sect.
• Lu Qing concluded that his strand of Radiance of Time was not tainted by Tribulation Qi and considered his planned artifact refinement in Void Return likely safe.
• After Lu Qing left, the Library Pavilion's old Artifact Spirit remarked that the Immortal road of the present era was better for ordinary cultivators than the Primordial Era.