Recaps

After breaking through, Lu Qing reflected on how seeing cultivators had become his Karmic Affinity and began considering whether Karmic Affinity could be erased. Meanwhile, the Demon Land descended unexpectedly, disrupting the plans of powerful figures on both the Immortal and Demon paths.

• After three months of cultivation, Lu Qing returned to the mountain lodge and realized his breakthrough had changed his sense of time and lifespan.
• Lu Qing concluded that his Karmic Affinity had been seeing cultivators and discovering that Immortals existed in the world.
• Lu Qing considered whether his Fortune-Slaying Sword could erase Karmic Affinity and recorded a potential Behind-the-Scenes Enemy in his notebook.
• The eerie winds and clouds over the Four Lands grew denser as the Demon Land descended, catching both Immortal and Demon cultivators off guard.

The Ancient Demon Land appeared as an unfamiliar embryonic world, disrupting the Heavenly Secrets and becoming a new Variable Fate beyond the expected struggle between immortals and demons. The factions agreed to enter it in seven days, while cultivators across the Nine Heavens began heading north toward the unknown world.

• The Ancient Demon Land emerged at the center of the Four Lands as a world containing all Six Paths, drawing the attention of mighty beings and the Immortal and Demonic Paths.
• The hidden powers realized the Demon Land had changed into a new Variable Fate and agreed to abandon the old rules and rely on their own methods.
• The cultivators received the order to withdraw and enter the Demon Land in seven days.
• Xie Chonghuo and his junior brother discussed the strange appearance of the Demon Land, while Yuan Sui and Wang Chunfeng recognized its resemblance to a world of its own.
• Lu Qing connected the Demon Land's Six Paths to the Demon Race and foresaw that its appearance would intensify the contest for Fate Allotment.
• Countless cultivators rushed toward the northern reaches of the Nine Heavens, drawn by the unknown world's opportunities.

Across the Nine Heavens and Four Seas, cultivators recognized that the struggle between the Immortal Path and Demonic Path had become a deadly Fate Allotment tribulation. Lu Qing severed his Killing Tribulation by killing three distant Demonic Cultivators with the Fortune-Slaying Sword, then reflected on how Fate Allotment could be cut without confronting an enemy directly.

• Cultivators across the continents discussed the new tribulation-answering prodigies and learned that Yellow Springs of Wrongful Death had converted Master Tanfo into the Demonic Path disciple No Buddha.
• Cultivators realized that the Human Tribulation threatened them all, and that those heading to the newborn world might have no choice but to fight.
• Lu Qing severed the Tribulation Qi entangling himself and traced several tribulation-answerers through the Great Concealment Art.
• Three Purple Mansion Realm Demonic Cultivators sensed Lu Qing and approached, but his sword light killed them before they could act.
• Lu Qing recognized the three dead cultivators as the ones connected to his Killing Tribulation and considered how the Fortune-Slaying Sword could cut Fate Allotment and Karmic Affinity from afar.

Lu Qing examined the growing providence in the Tribulation Cloud and learned from Senior Brother Wang that the Demon Land World would soon emerge from the Chaos Qi and might expand toward the Profound Heaven Domain. After reviewing reports of powerful figures gathering across the realms, Lu Qing continued cultivating as he awaited the changes ahead.

• Lu Qing discerned the different Paths' providence in the Tribulation Cloud and sensed that the Earth Veins and spiritual energy had grown more active.
• Lu Qing received Senior Brother Wang's message that the Demon Land World held immense opportunities, that its Chaos Qi would disperse in seven days, and that it might expand toward the Heavenly Domain.
• Lu Qing considered whether the Demon Land World could reconnect the Heavenly Domain with the Nine Heavens Realm and sent Senior Brother Wang a brief reply.
• Lu Qing read White Crane Boy's reports about powerful figures appearing across the Western Heaven Continent, the Supreme Unity Immortal Court, the Nine Dragons Divine Dynasty, and the Four Lands.
• Lu Qing decided to continue settling his heart and cultivating while awaiting the Demon Land World's emergence.

As the Immortal and Demonic Paths gathered around the newly transformed Demon Land, both sides learned that its threshold would remain unknown for seven days. Elder Nonaction revealed that the Demon Land might let someone gather immense Fate Allotment and achieve Immortal Ascension Realm, while Yuan Sui warned the Profound Heaven Dao Sect disciples to clear Tribulation Qi before entering.

• Wang Chunfeng joined the Nine Sects' lively gathering while Demonic Cultivators watched from their grim encampment and resented the Immortal Sects' feast.
• Fan Rong drank wine as a Heart Demon questioned the Demonic Path, but he dismissed its voice and accepted that he could not turn back.
• The demon heads asked Elder Nonaction what to do after the Demon Land emerged as a world and the Demonic Path's Fate Allotment surge abruptly stopped.
• Elder Nonaction said the Five Elders expected the Demon Land to remain tied to the Demonic Path and suggested that gathering its Fate Allotment could lead to Immortal Ascension Realm.
• Elder Nonaction announced that Chaos Qi would disperse in seven days, when the threshold for entering the Demon Land would be determined.
• Yuan Sui relayed the news to the Profound Heaven Dao Sect disciples and warned them to remove Tribulation Qi before they entered.

Lu Qing received a visit from Li Jueqi, who invited him to guide disciples from the Profound Heaven Dao Academy into the Dao Sect. Lu Qing declined to focus on cultivation, then sensed unusual movements in the heavens, earth, and formations.

• Wang Chunfeng worried about the Tribulation Responders linked to the Demonic Cultivators he had slain and wondered where Junior Brother Lu's responder was.
• Lu Qing cultivated in seclusion for several days before Li Jueqi arrived at his mountain pavilion.
• Li Jueqi introduced himself as a fellow Sword Lineage disciple and asked Lu Qing to take a Guidance mission for disciples from the Profound Heaven Dao Academy.
• Lu Qing declined the mission because he was at a critical point in his cultivation, and Li Jueqi departed.
• Lu Qing wondered why the academy prodigies needed Guidance, then sensed movement in the heavens, lands of Spiritual Resonance, Earth Vein qi, and formations.

Lu Qing watched the Nine Heavens Dao Sect’s Sect-Protecting Grand Formation undergo long-awaited changes, which he connected to the Demonic Cultivator incident and the wider upheaval surrounding the Demon Land. As nearly ten thousand phantom figures altered the formation across the sect, he focused on studying their techniques and absorbing insights into Formation Dao.

• Lu Qing recognized the formation ripples sweeping through the Dao Sect and reasoned that the Sect-Protecting Grand Formation was being changed rather than invaded.
• Lu Qing connected the changes to the Demonic Cultivator incident, the Law Enforcement Treasure Boat crash, and the possible upheaval caused by the Demon Land.
• Other disciples gathered to watch, and one explained that the sect was changing its formations to guard against Demonic Cultivators and Primordial Era trump cards.
• Lu Qing observed starlike Formation Eyes and noticed a phantom figure above each one, while disciples across the main lineages watched the work.
• Nearly ten thousand phantom figures used different techniques to alter the formation, and Lu Qing concentrated on their movements as formation insights flooded his mind.

Lu Qing watched Yu Youshu improve the Sect-Protecting Grand Formation and immersed himself in the Formation Dao intent, gaining new insights into his own formations. As disciples withdrew from their enlightenment and pursued their gains, Yu Youshu’s work stirred the sect’s Fate Allotment and Earth Vein.

• Lu Qing focused on the figures constructing the formation and discovered flaws in his own Formation Dao, including the Providence Suppression Formation.
• Lu Qing became so absorbed in the unfolding Dao intent that he withdrew his attention from everything else.
• Formation Lineage disciples recognized the leading figure as their chief seat, Yu Youshu, and learned that the improvements involved the Earth Vein and the sect’s Fate Allotment.
• Several disciples could no longer sustain their enlightenment and withdrew, then stayed nearby to meditate, recover, or study the grand formation.
• Yu Youshu continued calmly constructing the formation as the sect’s Fate Allotment and Earth Vein surged and drew attention.

As Yu Youshu wove the Profound Heaven Dao Sect’s fate allotment into a grand formation, Lu Qing gained a realization about the Formation Dao and chose to cultivate a path of his own. The chapter ended with new Dao intent emerging within Lu Qing and beginning to transform his cultivation.

• Yu Youshu laid a formation that drew forth the Dao Sect’s fate allotment, while a bell shadow steadied the surging ocean of fate.
• Lu Qing watched Yu Youshu’s formation and realized that the Great Dao of formations could not be reached by merely following predecessors.
• Lu Qing chose his own ever-changing Formation Dao, guided by a stable Dao Heart, instead of adopting the senior’s established path.
• Lu Qing sensed that he could soon break through and identified the formation-setter as a chief seat of the Dao Sect.
• Lu Qing dispersed the formation stairways, leaving only the path formed from his own insights.
• A new strand of Dao intent emerged from Lu Qing’s Dao Heart and spread through his cultivation, Purple Mansion Realm, and Divine Soul.

Lu Qing gained a deeper understanding of his Formation Dao and used a new formation to stabilize his Providence. As his cultivation neared the late Golden Core stage, events in the Demon Land World unfolded amid pervasive killing intent.

• Yu Youshu recognized Lu Qing as a Sword Lineage disciple with a promising path in formations and regretted that he could not recruit him into the Formation Lineage.
• Lu Qing condensed the White-Jade Stairway and linked his changing crimson Providence to his Formation Dao.
• Lu Qing used his formation to stop his Providence from scattering and realized it could help him constrain another person's Fate Allotment.
• Lu Qing's Formation Dao took shape in his Inner World, and his cultivation approached the late Golden Core stage.
• In the Demon Land World, invisible killing intent filled the mountains, land, and even the Spiritual Resonance people drew in.

As the Chaos aura around the Demon Land World weakened, killing intent spread through the Four Lands and drove cultivators into Human Tribulation. Immortal and Demonic factions began clashing as the struggle over Fate Allotment intensified.

• Lu Qing cultivated in Sun-Moon Mountain and watched the Chaos aura around the Demon Land World gradually weaken over several months.
• A cultivator infected by the pervasive killing intent decided to join the Demonic Path and tracked down the person destined to answer his Tribulation.
• The two Golden Core cultivators met and fought, each convinced that killing the other was necessary.
• Fighting between lower-level Immortal and Demonic cultivators spread, while both sides grew alert to the contest over Fate Allotment.

As the tribulation over the Four Lands became impossible to suppress, the Immortal and Demonic Paths entered the struggle for fate allotment. The other Four Paths followed, and the chapter left the tribulation raging as the stars began to shift again.

• Yuan Sui and Wang Chunfeng heard that the Dao of Inquiry would not interfere with the Variable Fate and that cultivators could act as they wished.
• Immortal Path cultivators departed to seek their tribulations, while Elder Nonaction urged the Demonic Path cultivators to enter the struggle and seize fate allotment.
• Immortal and Demonic Path prodigies joined the conflict, intensifying the tribulation across the Four Lands.
• An ancestor beyond the Four Seas sent Spirit Path youths into the world, while Divine Path and Ghost Path cultivators also prepared to compete.
• The other Four Paths entered the tribulation, and the stars shifted as the starry chart once again seemed ready to fall from the heavens.

Lu Qing watched the celestial stars descend and felt the immense Fate Allotment and tribulation shaking the Nine Heavens, while choosing to remain in the Daoist Dojo. He reflected on his new Dao Intent and sword’s ability to sever Fate Allotment, then set out for a nearby immortal market to look for a suitable Spirit Sword.

• Lu Qing saw countless stars fall into the Nine Heavens, unleashing immense Fate Allotment and a tribulation that shook the world’s paths of cultivation.
• Lu Qing steadied his Providence, sensed countless gazes across the heavens, and stopped watching the celestial event.
• Lu Qing used his new perception to see dense Dao Intent around the Dao Sect and noticed that few disciples remained in the area.
• Lu Qing considered how his Fortune-Slaying Sword had erased the Fate Allotment and Karmic Affinity of three Demonic Cultivators.
• Lu Qing decided to seek a suitable Spirit Sword and chose to visit the nearest immortal market.

Lu Qing traveled to the Sword Lineage Immortal Market to search for a dharma sword capable of bearing his Fortune-Slaying Sword form. He began examining the swords in a shop, with his search still underway.

• Lu Qing decided that he needed a fine sword suited to his Sword Dao and set out for the nearest Sword Lineage Immortal Market.
• Lu Qing entered the market, which rested on enormous flower-shaped dharma treasures that he saw were halves of a Broken Sword.
• Lu Qing reflected on how his altered eyes and Karmic Affinity let him perceive Dao Intent and faint traces of laws.
• Lu Qing entered a shop filled with Spirit Swords and treasured swords, suppressed his Golden Core aura, and began examining them.

Lu Qing encountered the consciousness of a sealed broken Immortal Sword while searching for a sword in the Immortal Market. The sword tried to recruit him, but Lu Qing rejected it because its Sword Dao did not suit his own.

• Lu Qing sensed a voice coming from the snow-white flower beneath the Immortal Market, recognized that it was a broken sword, and continued searching without answering.
• The broken sword recalled how a greedy sword master fifty thousand years earlier had brought it to the Profound Heaven Dao Sect’s attention and caused its seal to deepen.
• The broken sword rejoiced that Lu Qing could see its true body and tried to persuade him to become its sword master, boasting of its Immortal Sword origins.
• Lu Qing entered another shop as the sword continued speaking to him, but he felt that its cold, eerie Sword Dao conflicted with his own and had no interest in accepting it.

Lu Qing ignored the Broken Sword’s efforts to tempt him and found a sword that resonated with his Karmic Affinity. He bought it while remaining skeptical of the Broken Sword’s claim that killing could make him stronger.

• Lu Qing visited the second shop and examined its treasured swords while the Broken Sword urged him to choose it.
• The Broken Sword claimed to be an Immortal Sword and promised to help Lu Qing become stronger, but he showed little interest.
• Lu Qing sensed a thread of Karmic Affinity in a snow-white sword carved with three mountains and a winding stream.
• The Broken Sword said that killing living beings would increase Lu Qing’s cultivation, but he dismissed the claim as implausible.
• Lu Qing bought the sword for three hundred and fifty Spirit Money.

Lu Qing rejected the Broken Sword’s offer and severed its connection to him, choosing to return to peaceful cultivation. The Broken Sword was left questioning whether its path and understanding of Immortality had been wrong.

• Lu Qing decided not to pursue the Broken Sword’s slaughter-based cultivation method and kept the sword forged by the Artifact Refining Lineage.
• The Broken Sword offered Lu Qing an immortal art, but he politely refused and left the Immortal Market.
• Lu Qing used his Sword Dao to sever the connection the Broken Sword had formed with him, then returned to his Cultivation Cave.
• The Broken Sword watched Lu Qing depart and wondered whether its own existence had taken the wrong path.

The Broken Sword mistook signs of a new Heavenly Change Era for a chance to recruit another prodigy, but its ambition was seen by powerful figures beyond the Nine Heavens Cultivation Realm. They began preparing a new game centered on Variable Fates, while Lu Qing sensed the attention of the Dao Sect’s upper ranks and noticed a change in his Divination.

• The Broken Sword concluded that a new Heavenly Change Era would help it find and nurture a peerless Sword Master.
• A vast seal suppressed the Broken Sword as distant figures observed its ambition and the causes tied to the Immortal Market.
• The figures identified the Broken Sword’s connection to the Heavenly Domain and agreed to begin a new game of chess, with the board to be complete in thirty years.
• The figures overlooked Lu Qing in their calculations, though one briefly paused its gaze over the Immortal Market.
• Lu Qing sensed a gaze from the Dao Sect’s upper ranks, withdrew a divination of a distant Fate Allotment, and found that his Divination had begun to grow more solid.

Lu Qing weighed two Calming Divinations and chose to cultivate the Fortune-Slaying Sword rather than pursue an imminent breakthrough. While practicing, he developed new thoughts about severing Fate Allotment and the Karmic Affinity between Celestial Stars, heaven, and earth.

• Lu Qing realized that the second Divination likely arose from hearing the Broken Sword’s voice and showed two possible outcomes, both Calming.
• Lu Qing considered the Divinations and chose to pursue minor insights by cultivating the Fortune-Slaying Sword.
• Lu Qing cultivated with his Dharma sword and reflected on how Golden Core cultivators resisted death and how killing could incur heaven-and-earth Tribulation.
• Lu Qing envisioned Fate-Allotment Threads flowing from the stars into the worlds below and reasoned that severing Fate Allotment required cutting away its root.
• Lu Qing concluded that truly bringing down a Celestial Star would require severing its Karmic Affinity with the Nine Heavens Great Realm, between heaven and earth and world and world.

Lu Qing developed his Fortune-Slaying Sword by exploring Providence and Karmic Affinity, unexpectedly gaining a thread of Life-and-Death True Intent. His sword awakened a consciousness in a realm beyond the Six Paths, and he ended the chapter recognizing the modest gains of his cultivation.

• Lu Qing contemplated merging Karmic Affinity with his Fortune-Slaying Sword and formed a sword light brimming with vitality.
• Lu Qing's sword light burst through the clouds and reached a realm beyond the Six Paths, where it lit a lamp and awakened a weathered consciousness.
• The awakened consciousness welcomed another fellow traveler who had taken the first step toward seeking the Dao.
• Lu Qing tested his sword on a spiritual tree, severing its Fate Allotment and then restoring it along with its Karmic Affinity.
• Lu Qing recognized that his study of the Providence-related Sword Dao had given him a thread of Life-and-Death True Intent.

Lu Qing comprehended Life-and-Death True Intent and used it to bring vitality to his Inner World, advancing to the Golden Core Seventh Realm. He then refined his Sleeve Cosmos ability, leaving a nearby disciple confused by the mountain landscape’s sudden disappearance and return.

• Lu Qing realized that his Life-and-Death True Intent connected annihilation with renewed life and would aid the evolution of his Inner World.
• Lu Qing decided his future Inner World needed Life-and-Death Reincarnation and rejected turning it into a Grotto-Heaven as the path to the Primordial Spirit Realm.
• Lu Qing infused his Inner World with Life-and-Death True Intent, and its mountains, rivers, and winds began to feel alive.
• Lu Qing broke through to the Golden Core Seventh Realm, and his cultivation and Divine Consciousness strengthened.
• Lu Qing swept the surrounding mountains and trees into his sleeve with Sleeve Cosmos, then restored the landscape after a passing disciple mistook the change for a lapse in his own perception.

Lu Qing spent nearly three months in seclusion, refining his Sleeve Cosmos and completing the Star-Shifting Divine Ability. He emerged to find Tribulation Clouds gathering over many Sword Lineage Dojo disciples and learned from messages that the outside world had grown dangerous.

• Lu Qing realized he had mastered the rudimentary form of Sleeve Cosmos and could use it to contain living creatures and cut off Heavenly Secrets.
• Lu Qing cultivated in seclusion for nearly three months, tempering his dharmic power and completing the Star-Shifting Divine Ability.
• Lu Qing judged that using the Star-Shifting Divine Ability would bring more loss than gain for now because Stellar Destiny was difficult to obtain and tampering with Providence could invite Cause and Effect.
• Lu Qing sensed the three-month period for the Guidance Formation had arrived and saw Tribulation Clouds hanging over many Sword Lineage Dojo disciples as the number of people there dwindled.
• Lu Qing checked messages from Senior Brother Wang and White Crane Boy, learning that the outside world had become increasingly dangerous.

As tribulations and news of opportunities stirred the Dao Sect, Lu Qing reviewed Spirit Plant Garden matters and approved the departure of disciples who wanted to seek their own chances. A new group of prodigies arrived at the Profound Heaven Dao Sect, including familiar Golden Core and Purple Mansion cultivators, and began to be registered.

• Lu Qing checked the spiritual lights for news from Sun-Moon Mountain and considered how Tribulation Qi could threaten cultivators through their Dao Hearts.
• Hu Laozhang reported Spirit Plant Garden affairs, and Lu Qing approved the requests of several disciples who wished to leave.
• Lu Qing read reports of extraordinary opportunities appearing across the continents and recognized how they were tempting cultivators to seek their fortunes.
• A Guidance Formation brought several dozen newcomers to the Inner Sect, including Golden Core prodigies and Purple Mansion cultivators such as Gu Xuantian, Su Xinyue, Wan Feiyu, Zhou Shenlong, Chen Fan, and Ye Lin.
• Dao Sect disciples began registering the newcomers and asked which of them were True Person disciples as more arrivals appeared.

Newly arrived disciples chose among the Profound Heaven Dao Sect’s lineages while hidden powers and Providence influenced their decisions. Zhou Shenlong considered Beast-Taming Peak, Chen Fan resolved to advance to Golden Core, and Ye Lin learned that the Sword Lineage was his best option but could not confirm whether he could join.

• Zhou Shenlong’s Black Cat warned him that the aura at Reception Peak was terrifying and urged him to choose Beast-Taming Peak.
• Chen Fan asked Old Copper why he could not undergo Golden Core tribulation in the Heavenly Domain, and Old Copper warned him that its tribulations had grown too dangerous.
• Chen Fan agreed to cross the Golden Core as soon as possible, and his Providence grew stronger.
• Ye Lin consulted the Heavenly Secrets Jade and learned that the Sword Lineage suited him best.
• Ye Lin asked whether he could join the Sword Lineage, but the jade slip gave no answer without another treasure.

Ye Lin tried to join the Sword Lineage but learned that its trials and registered-disciple requirements were beyond what he could manage, so he chose the Outer Sect Lineage instead. Meanwhile, Sun Qidao glimpsed the Daoist Dojo through a fluctuation of Providence and saw the Cause and Effect of the people within it.

• Ye Lin learned that Sword Lineage outer sect disciples had to climb nine thousand steps and that registered disciples were few and held varying ranks.
• Ye Lin used the Heavenly Secrets Jade to ask whether he could become a registered disciple and how to join the Sword Lineage, but it answered no.
• Ye Lin gave up on the Sword Lineage and agreed to join the Outer Sect Lineage.
• The Heavenly Secrets Jade trembled at a terrifying gaze from beyond, then concealed its glow and pretended to be an ordinary jade fragment.
• While playing Go with Li Luoyang, Sun Qidao noticed a fluctuation of Providence and saw the Cause and Effect of countless people in the Daoist Dojo.