Chapter Summaries

Lu Qing reflected on the approaching Great Era and continued cultivating while the Dao Sect prepared for a West Sea inheritance mission. The four Dao Children decided to go, leaving the sect’s larger contest still ahead.

• Lu Qing considered whether the coming Great Era involved the return of powerful figures and chose to keep his true body stationed at the Daoist Dojo while he explored the academy’s records.
• The Dao Sect prepared to send its disciples, including its four Dao Children, to the Human Dao Grand Momentum Heaven in the West Sea.
• Chen Fan agreed to go, while Zhou Shenlong said he wanted to see the Human Path’s cultivation road; the Black Cat encouraged him.
• Yin Xu and Ye Lin expressed interest in facing the Sons of the Human Emperor, and the four Dao Children discussed the mission on friendly terms.
• Lu Qing continued organizing jade slips and deriving cultivation methods, observing that disciples across the Dao Sect were mobilizing for the coming contest.

Lu Qing considered the dangers of the Starry Sky Forbidden Zone mission while continuing his work for the sect and the Artifact Refining Lineage. He sent a message to his true body about recovering the Dao-Seeking Hall’s Supreme Treasure, while the chapter shifted to Void Cloud Academy, where cultivators gathered at a solemn building.

• Lu Qing concluded that the Starry Sky Forbidden Zone was likely tied to the Primordial Era and that the large-scale mission could conceal considerable danger.
• Lu Qing continued deriving spells for the Artifact Refining Lineage and overseeing the Outer Sect Main Lineage, which lacked a resident Chief.
• Lu Qing sent his true body a Divine Sense message suggesting it visit the Primordial Era and look into recovering the Dao-Seeking Hall’s Supreme Treasure.
• At Void Cloud Academy, cultivators entered and left the academy, and many headed toward a particular building.

At the inter-academy trials, Zhou Yunkong of Void Cloud Academy and Qiao Zong of Taiji Academy began a duel rooted in their longstanding rivalry. Watching from the guests’ platform, Lu Qing sensed the clash stirring Humanity Providence and glimpsed that the Great Net of Humanity might be only a reflection of something greater.

• Cultivators from Void Cloud Academy and Taiji Academy gathered to watch Zhou Yunkong and Qiao Zong face off before the trials began.
• The spectators recalled that Qiao Zong had once been a menial servant at Void Cloud Academy before joining Taiji Academy and rising to prominence.
• Zhou Yunkong and Qiao Zong began their sorcery duel in the arena.
• Lu Qing told Nan Fengtian that Void Cloud Academy had the better chance of winning, while concealing his deeper interest in Humanity Fate Allotment.
• As the duel stirred Humanity Providence, Lu Qing sensed the Great Net of Humanity and suspected it was a weakened reflection of a greater force.

Lu Qing observed Humanity Fate Allotment gather at Void Cloud Academy and realized that one of the two Son of the Human Emperors had been born with the Heavenly Mandate to respond to an approaching tribulation. After a Human Path powerhouse investigated the disturbance and the arena battle ended, the Fate Allotment seemed to settle, but Lu Qing knew a true person of the Heavenly Mandate had emerged.

• Lu Qing saw Humanity Fate Allotment flow toward Void Cloud Academy under pressure from the river Beyond the Heavens.
• Lu Qing deduced that one of the two Son of the Human Emperors was a person born with the Heavenly Mandate to face the coming calamity.
• Lu Qing considered that the Heavenly Mandate bearer could become the Son of the Human Emperor or even the final Human Emperor.
• A Human Path powerhouse swept a gaze across heaven and earth to investigate the Variable Fate, then departed.
• The arena battle ended and Humanity Fate Allotment returned to calm, but Lu Qing recognized that a true person of the Heavenly Mandate had been born.

Lu Qing watched the Academy Minor Competition and considered how Variable Fate might alter the contest between Taiji Academy and Void Cloud Academy. A Human Dao Envoy from Universe Palace then announced that the event would become a Hundred-Academy Grand Competition held in Void Cloud World, leaving the academies shocked and Lu Qing suspecting the changes were connected to cultivators from the Nine Heavens.

• Lu Qing observed Qiao Zong of Taiji Academy fall behind in his arena match against Void Cloud Academy, but reflected that Variable Fate could change which academy ultimately prevailed.
• Nan Fengtian discussed the match with Lu Qing, who cautioned that the official competition had not yet begun.
• A Universe Palace Human Dao Envoy arrived and declared that the Academy Minor Competition would become the Hundred-Academy Grand Competition, with Void Cloud World as its venue.
• Lu Qing recognized the envoy's Human Dao Edict as an incomplete manifestation of the Human Emperor's Edict and suspected the new competition was linked to cultivators from the Nine Heavens.
• The gathered cultivators reacted with shock and questioned why Void Cloud World had been chosen, while Lu Qing left the academy and walked through the busy streets.

Lu Qing learned that the Hundred-Academy Grand Competition might stir Humanity Fate Allotment as the Heaven of Universe filled in the Nine Heavens’ Dao Rhyme. More than a month later, news confirmed that visitors from Beyond the Heavens had arrived, and Lü Liang and his friends suspected the newcomers were connected to a dangerous dispute over the starry sky.

• Lu Qing considered the Hundred-Academy Grand Competition’s role in Humanity Fate Allotment and watched the dangerous starry skies Beyond the Heavens.
• The Flying Light Bulletin reported that visitors from Beyond the Heavens had arrived, prompting cultivators to question who they were and what Great Dao they practiced.
• Lü Liang gathered his friends and suggested the newcomers’ arrival could be a chance for Feng Qi to rise and earn Humanity Path merit.
• Li Lin revealed that his cousin had encountered the visitors, who were vicious and had disregarded the Humanity Academy.
• Li Lin said the visitors had come prepared for something involving the starry sky, leaving his friends alarmed.

Lü Liang and his companions learned that Beyond-Heavens Cultivators had mostly appeared in a dangerous, uninhabited region of the starry sky, while Wen Yun sought his teacher’s counsel about his junior disciples wanting to confront them. Wen Yun left to warn the disciples, who remained eager to challenge the visitors despite his caution.

• Lü Liang and his companions discussed the Academy’s changed competition rules and feared that missions involving the Beyond-Heavens Cultivators could be dangerous.
• Lü Liang bought the latest Humanity News and found that the Beyond-Heavens Cultivators had mostly appeared in a remote, deadly region of the starry sky.
• Wen Yun asked his teacher whether he should intervene as his junior brothers and sisters prepared to clash with the Beyond-Heavens Cultivators.
• Wen Yun’s teacher said the confrontation was his disciples’ Tribulation and that Wen Yun could not dissuade them.
• Wen Yun left his teacher and warned the waiting disciples not to underestimate the Beyond-Heavens Cultivators, but they continued to boast about confronting them.

Lu Qing heard that Bodhi Hall’s direct disciples had been wiped out in a forbidden region beyond the heavens and traced the commotion to turmoil in Humanity Fate Allotment and ancient Dao Rhymes. He reassured his true body that the situation remained under control while his Dao Grounds continued to flourish.

• Wen Yun warned his fellow Bodhi Hall disciples that their Teacher would not intervene and that going out would be their tribulation, but they dismissed his concerns and planned to leave anyway.
• Seven days later, Lu Qing heard inn patrons discussing the deaths of the direct disciples under the three Bodhi Hall elders in a Starry Sky Beyond Heaven forbidden region.
• Lu Qing used his Heavenly Eyes to observe the Fate Allotment and Cause and Effect behind the deaths and recognized that the turmoil was stirring ancient and present Dao Rhymes around the forbidden regions.
• Lu Qing sent a message to his true body that the situation remained within the chessboard’s control and would not cause a world-ending catastrophe.
• At Clearless Dao Grounds, the Star Tree’s starlight nourished the land, while Heavenly Secret Lake and the Star Tree supported each other’s growth.

Lu Qing continued cultivating while his Red Dust Avatar monitored the growing turmoil around the West Sea Heritage Land. At the Inheritance Grounds, Young Master Nie waited for Wei Shaoping’s promised opportunity, as a mysterious formation was prepared aboard their tower ship.

• Lu Qing sensed the karmic ties between his Great Dao and the Nine Heavens, then continued cultivating through his avatars across the Long River of Time.
• Lu Qing’s Red Dust Avatar watched as cultivators debated the Son of the Human Emperor’s chances and the contest for the West Sea Humanity Path Supreme Treasure.
• Young Master Nie pressed Wei Shaoping about when the opportunity to act would come, and Wei Shaoping said it should arrive within seven days.
• Young Master Nie dismissed Wei Shaoping and the divination cultivators, then returned to the tower ship’s hidden cosmos.
• Eleven Eight-Trigram White Jade Formations stood beneath the tower ship’s starry dome as feather-robed cultivators sat at their eight directions and formation ripples emerged.

Wei Shaoping’s disciples complained about serving Young Master Nie, while Wei privately wondered whether the supreme treasure could be his turning point. In the Inheritance Grounds, Huang Wuxuan and Li Jiuyang faced each other before the inheritance platform, and Li Jiuyang recognized Huang as Water Chen of the Fourth Star Position.

• Wei Shaoping told his disciples to continue divining and produce results within seven days for Young Master Nie.
• Wei’s disciples complained that Young Master Nie should have seized the supreme treasure himself, and Wei warned them not to speak carelessly.
• Wei privately considered whether the supreme treasure might be his chance to change his fortunes.
• Huang Wuxuan hesitated to approach the inheritance platform after noticing Li Jiuyang nearby.
• Li Jiuyang identified Huang Wuxuan as Water Chen of the Fourth Star Position, leaving Huang wondering how his identity had been exposed.

Huang Wuxuan and Li Jiuyang triggered the West Sea inheritance trial, which required them to endure the guardian’s phantom for one incense stick. Outside, the gathered forces waited as Young Master Nie learned that the heavenly secrets had cleared and the time to act had arrived.

• The Mysterious Stone Tablet told Huang Wuxuan that Li Jiuyang could see through his aura using the Human Emperor’s Heavenly Eye, then fell silent.
• Li Jiuyang and Huang Wuxuan activated the inheritance trial, which required at least two challengers to be present.
• The guardian’s phantom subjected both cultivators to a terrifying gaze and announced that they had to endure for one incense stick to succeed.
• Powerful cultivators and their Dao protectors kept watch over the West Sea Inheritance Grounds while the younger cultivators grew restless.
• After seven days, Young Master Nie entered the Starry-Sky Four-Directional Eight-Trigrams Formation, and Wei Shaoping told him the heavenly secrets had cleared and the time was today.

Lu Qing sensed rising disturbances around the West Sea Human Path Inheritance Grounds and the East Sea Reincarnation Entrance. As the East Sea began to stir, an old man transformed into a young figure and set out toward it.

• Young Master Nie praised Wei Shaoping and prepared to leave after Wei reported success.
• Seven days later, Lu Qing sensed changing Humanity Fate Allotment and clashing auras in the West Sea, while keeping watch on the Reincarnation Nether Sea.
• The East Sea's silence began to break as fervor stirred among those connected to the Reincarnation Entrance.
• Carefree Child thought the Ancestor's portrait had moved, but the old man dismissed him and sent him away.
• The old man transformed into a young figure, declared that the Reincarnation Entrance had opened, and walked toward the East Sea.

Lu Qing sensed the Reincarnation Entrance opening in the East Sea and sent a carefully severed Reincarnation Avatar into the gathering storm. As the avatar, Li Changhe, arrived among hidden experts, the entrance unleashed a surge that swallowed nearby cultivators and transformed them into mist.

• Thunder shook the Nine Heavens as Lu Qing sensed a heavenly anomaly in the East Sea and saw the Reincarnation Entrance appear.
• Lu Qing sent a new avatar toward the entrance while his true body continued secluded cultivation and his other avatars followed their own paths.
• Lu Qing’s avatar entered the East Sea under the name Li Changhe, carrying no Cause and Effect connection to his true body.
• Li Changhe arrived among numerous unfamiliar powerful auras and welcomed the growing chaos.
• Space rippled like flowing water, sweeping away nearby cultivators and turning their lives and cultivation into mist.

A vast upheaval in fate spread across the Nine Heavens Cultivation Realm as an enormous gateway appeared in the East Sea, unsettling cultivators far away. The Mysterious Stone Tablet identified the gateway as the opening of the Reincarnation Entrance and urged Huang Wuxuan to flee, while Lu Qing watched the disturbance from the Dao Sect.

• A massive gateway fell from the River of Time in the East Sea, dissolving the barrier between ages and sending waves of unease through cultivators' Dao Hearts.
• The Six Paths Fate Allotment churned across the heavens, shaking sect providence and drawing secluded patriarchs out to stabilize their lineages.
• Wei Shaoping, Young Master Nie, and the West Sea cultivators were struck by the disturbance, though Young Master Nie's Dragon-Beast Jade Pendant dispelled his unease.
• The Mysterious Stone Tablet warned Huang Wuxuan that the Human Emperor's Son would likely take the inheritance and told him to run, then recognized the aura as the opening of the Reincarnation Entrance.
• Lu Qing observed the fate fluctuations from the Dao Sect and saw the Bronze Bell keep the sect's fate clouds from breaking into greater waves.

The Reincarnation Entrance appeared in the East Sea, stirring all Nine Heavens and drawing powerful experts who sought to calculate its secrets or enter it. Li Changhe arrived among them, recognized several strange auras, and the chapter left the deeper contest around the entrance unresolved.

• The Reincarnation Entrance's manifestation sent a brief wave of unease and resonance through all Nine Heavens.
• Li Changhe followed the crowd to the portal and watched experts enter while others briefly observed and calculated Heavenly Secrets.
• Elderly experts and their incarnations gathered, including a youthful-looking figure from Eastern Heaven Continent seeking the opportunity.
• Li Changhe identified several auras associated with Incense, Dynasty of Fortune, and decay among the gathered experts.
• The East Sea's hidden clash remained contained, while the Reincarnation Entrance drew the attention of powerful figures around the chessboard.

The Cloud Platform Figures discussed the newly manifested Reincarnation Entrance and the secrets of the Fangxian who had returned from Nine-Nether. As the Heavenly Net Chessboard expanded toward the Human Path, Lu Qing read news from Humanity World and learned that Starry Sky Beyond Heaven was becoming a focus of cultivation.

• The Cloud Platform Figures treated the Reincarnation Entrance as an expected change, while discussing the difficulty of comprehending Reincarnation and the Fangxian's connection to Nine-Nether.
• A figure explained that Reincarnation-related objects could conceal their bearers from Heaven's Will and evade Reincarnation's pull, but could not extend their lifespans.
• The chessboard's focus shifted to the Human Path as Humanity Providence rose and Human Path pieces moved along the River of Time.
• Cultivators and sects across the world encountered new opportunities and dangers, including expeditions and a forbidden zone in Starry Sky Beyond Heaven.
• Lu Qing read the Daily News Bulletin from Humanity World and noted that Starry Sky Beyond Heaven appeared repeatedly in recent reports.

Lu Qing connected the Academy Grand Competition and a series of reports about new ruins and strange places to a growing convergence of Heavenly Secrets around the Starry Sky Beyond Heaven. He concluded that the region might hold a dangerous legacy left by powerful Immortals, but his incarnation chose to observe rather than enter the unknown forbidden zone.

• Lu Qing recognized that reports of new Grotto-Heavens, ruins, and mist-covered places clustered around the Starry Sky Beyond Heaven.
• He considered how Humanity Heaven's Fate Allotment and the Academy Grand Competition might relate to the possible emergence of a Human Emperor.
• Lu Qing suspected that the Starry Sky Beyond Heaven was a major variable behind the gathering currents of Heavenly Secrets and might contain something more dangerous than Remnant Immortals.
• He decided not to confront the Starry Sky Forbidden Zone directly and continued observing the Academy Grand Competition from within the area covered by Humanity Fate Allotment.

Lü Liang received an Academy Wilderness-Reclamation Order for a mission beyond the Void Cloud Minor Realm and wondered why the Academy had mobilized so many cultivators. As the West Sea Portal stabilized, he remained uneasy about the mission’s connection to the Starry Sky Beyond Heaven and the rumors surrounding Bodhi Hall.

• People discussed the Beyond-Heavens Cultivators and rumors about the deaths of Bodhi Hall’s true disciples.
• Lü Liang examined his Wilderness-Reclamation Order and learned that the Academy had assigned him a reclamation mission beyond the Void Cloud Minor Realm.
• Lü Liang realized he could not decline the mission and worried about the Academy’s intentions and its connection to the Starry Sky Beyond Heaven.
• Lü Liang recalled that Bodhi Hall had made no major move after gathering its disciples back, despite reports that nearly all its true disciples had died.
• The West Sea Portal gradually stabilized, with spatial rifts no longer appearing everywhere.

The stabilized portal drew cultivators from across the Nine Heavens, who speculated that it led to the tomb or Daoist Dojo of Primordial Immortals. A new expedition prepared to enter for Silver Star Return Ruins, while the Profound Heaven Dao Sect sent another group of disciples and its leaders considered the dangers and the sect’s plans.

• Cultivators gathered before the portal discussed whether the world beyond held the tombs of Primordial Immortals and learned that the Heaven of Universe was where powerful figures’ Dao Shadows had vanished.
• Those gathered identified the distinctive tower ship of Azure Sea Sword Mountain and learned that it had already sent earlier groups through the portal.
• The Azure Sea Sword Mountain cultivators prepared to enter for Silver Star Return Ruins, where the Human Path’s Academy Grand Competition was taking place, and discussed the dangers of Time Remnant Shadows and their mission tasks.
• The Profound Heaven Dao Sect sent another group of peak masters, elders, and disciples after the portal’s entry threshold was relaxed.
• The Dao Sect peak masters observed the dangerous phantom of the Long River of Time and said they would follow the sect’s arrangements as the upheaval stirred the Fate Allotment of the Nine Heavens.

Lu Qing observed how the arrival of cultivators from the Nine Heavens changed the Humanity Heaven of Universe’s Fate Allotment and cultivation requirements. He also watched Li Changhe enter the Reincarnation Entrance, where an unseen peril threatened those who followed.

• Cultivators sensed shifts in the Nine Heavens’ Heavenly Secrets and the Six Paths Fate Allotment as newcomers entered the Humanity Heaven of Universe.
• The Bodhi Hall of Universe Palace announced stricter Providence advancement requirements, and Lu Qing received the new rules.
• Lu Qing concluded that Heaven’s Will was concentrating Fate Allotment on Heavenly Prodigies and sensed Nine Heavens cultivators arriving through the West Sea Portal.
• Lu Qing saw that the Reincarnation Entrance in the East Sea concealed a more dangerous disturbance than the commotion in the West Sea.
• Li Changhe entered the Reincarnation Entrance and endured its Dao-rhyme washing, while several unaware cultivators followed into its perilous first threshold.