Recaps

Li Luoyang and Sun Qidao sensed the Heavenly Mandate disciples’ Providence and recognized Dao-Seeking’s concealed plans around the Tripod Shadow, choosing to let the Heaven-derived Variable Fate unfold. Lu Qing saw the new arrivals enter the sect’s Fate Allotment as the distant Demon Land World appeared in the far north.

• Li Luoyang and Sun Qidao noticed a Dao Sect disciple’s Heavenly Secrets Jade and discussed whether the disciple could bear their great Providence.
• Li Luoyang and Sun Qidao recognized Dao-Seeking’s familiar Cause and Effect behind the concealed Heavenly Secrets surrounding the Tripod Shadow, then chose not to interfere.
• The figures at the chessboards accepted the Heaven-derived Variable Fate and overturned their earlier moves to observe it.
• Lu Qing saw the Heavenly Mandate disciples’ golden Providence surge into the sect’s Fate Allotment and realized they had arrived.
• The Demon Land World appeared in the far north, shocking cultivators across the world.

The Demon Land World settled into place, revealing the Divine Medicine Mountain Range and drawing cultivators from across the Four Lands to its immense spiritual energy and Fate Allotment. As the Six Paths converged, Spirit cultivators arrived seeking a chance to claim the Human Path’s great Fate Allotment.

• The sky showed cultivators across the world a vision of the Divine Medicine Mountain Range, its peaks covered in vanished Treasure Herbs and divine medicines.
• Cultivators and demonic beasts rushed toward the Four Lands as the vision intensified the world's Tribulations.
• The Demon Land World settled into place, and its immense Fate Allotment gathered while spiritual energy loosened the cultivators' shackles.
• Ghost and Spirit cultivators joined the Immortal and Demon Paths in the Four Lands, and cultivators discussed the Spirit Clan's hopes of establishing the Human Path.
• Spirit cultivators arrived in a palace complex, occupied the Xun position, and emerged with a golden-lit youth at their front.

The Six Paths gathered as a transformed world took shape, and the Immortal Path, Spirit Path, Divine Path, and Demon Path revealed their forces and preparations. Towering gates appeared and pulled the cultivators into the world, leaving the Rogue Cultivators confused as they were drawn in after the Six Paths.

• The Spirit Clan young lord surveyed the Demon and Immortal territories and sensed powerful auras among them.
• Divine beings arrived, including gods of the Incense Divine Path and the Innate Divine Path.
• Golden Feather Ancestor's disciple arrived with Demon Race cultivators, carrying the Dao-Refining Furnace to suppress his Immortal Path Fate Allotment and keep Tribulation Qi at bay.
• After the Six Paths took their positions, the Chaos Qi dispersed and towering gates appeared, scattering cultivators to different places.
• The Nine Immortals Sect sent warnings about the newborn world and its two possible destinations, including the merged Heavenly Domain.
• The gates sucked the Six Paths inside without resistance, then began pulling in the bewildered Rogue Cultivators.

Light gates carried cultivators from the Four Lands into the Divine Medicine Mountain Range, while demonic-path survivors debated the dangers and fortunes within. Wang Chunfeng entered the Demon Land World with a Sword Pellet in his Purple Mansion Realm.

• Countless light gates appeared across the Four Lands and transported the cultivators already there away, leaving the gates open for those who arrived later.
• Later cultivators saw the Divine Medicine Mountain Range beyond the gates and began entering, believing they could reach the land of fortune.
• Disciples of Yellow Springs of Wrongful Death emerged from the Withered Graves and exchanged wary greetings about avoiding the danger.
• A Nine-Ghost cultivator returned to No-Dao Hall, judged the gates sinister, and arranged cleanup while deciding to wait for others to test them.
• A decree from one of the Five Elders urged cultivators to enter for possible fortune, and Wang Chunfeng entered the Demon Land World with his Sword Pellet spinning in his Purple Mansion Realm.

People entered countless strange worlds through light gates and discovered that escaping each world's confinement was a trial before they could enter the arena. Meanwhile, Lu Qing saw how contact with the Profound Heaven Dao Academy had brought new technology and a steady flow of disciples to the Dao Sect.

• Wang Chunfeng found a forest world with Red Dust Qi and spotted cooking smoke rising from a valley.
• Other entrants landed in radically different worlds, including a desert city steeped in Black Baleful Intent, a realm with nine suns, and worlds ruled by deities, demons, and other forces.
• Figures observing the entrants concluded that they had to break free from their worlds as a trial, while the Heavenly Demon figure refused to interfere with its trapped clan.
• Lu Qing opened a strand of spiritual light that displayed news after completing his breathing exercises.
• Lu Qing noted that closer ties between the Nine Heavens and the Heavenly Domain had enabled teleportation and spread the Dao Academy's cultivation tools among Dao Sect disciples.

Lu Qing read the Talisman Light’s reports about the gateways in the Four Lands, the Celestial Star Destiny, and the Dao Sect’s recruitment of talented disciples. He recognized that the sect was gathering promising cultivators to strengthen its Fate Allotment, and observed that its new arrivals possessed unusually strong providence.

• Lu Qing bought a Talisman Light and read messages shared across the Dao Sect’s expanding communication network.
• Disciples reported that Six Paths cultivators had entered gateways in the Four Lands, leaving some behind and cutting off news from those within.
• Lu Qing read reports that other Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands had gained opportunities from Celestial Stars and selected Star Lord Fate Allotment successors.
• Disciples discussed the Dao Sect accepting younger genius seeds from Minor Realms to strengthen its Fate Allotment against rival paths.
• Lu Qing observed that the new cultivators arriving at the Dao Sect all possessed providence of at least azure, with some reaching pale violet.

Lu Qing learned that a newly arrived Golden Core cultivator wanted to contend for his Spirit Plant steward position, and he sent a guarded response rather than leaving Sun-Moon Mountain. Months later, the challenger and his senior brother arrived and found that the mountain’s powerful formation seemed beyond what a First Golden Core Realm cultivator could establish.

• Lu Qing observed that the Dao Sect’s vast Fate Allotment weakened the Killing Tribulation within its mountain gates, though Tribulation Clouds beyond them continued to intensify.
• Hu Laozhang informed Lu Qing that a newly arrived Minor Realm Golden Core cultivator wanted to challenge him for the Spirit Plant steward position at Sun-Moon Mountain.
• Lu Qing sent a Talisman containing his power and Divine Sense, deciding to reveal some strength without rushing out to fight.
• Several months passed as Lu Qing cultivated in his Daoist Dojo while Hu Laozhang and the others tended to Sun-Moon Mountain.
• The challenger and his senior brother arrived above Sun-Moon Mountain and questioned whether its impressive Spirit-Gathering Formation could have been made by a First Golden Core Realm cultivator.

Lu Qing used a talisman to manifest his magical power at Sun-Moon Mountain, where Jing Xuan and Liu Cai had tried to claim the land. He bound them to guard the mountain and left his power there, while he sensed the situation from seclusion.

• Jing Xuan and Liu Cai challenged Hu Laozhang and the other stewards, but Hu Laozhang activated Lu Qing’s talisman and summoned an overwhelming aura.
• Lu Qing appeared through the talisman’s power and heard Jing Xuan and Liu Cai offer to guard Sun-Moon Mountain for three hundred years.
• Lu Qing collected their storage bags and bound them with a strand of Cause and Effect, then left his magical power stationed on the mountain.
• Liu Cai speculated that serving Lu Qing might benefit them, while Hu Laozhang introduced himself and the other stewards to the two newcomers.
• Lu Qing sensed the events at Sun-Moon Mountain from beneath a tree and decided that the power he had left there would prevent future problems.

Lu Qing discovered that his Dharma Power could form a controllable incarnation and resumed cultivating as the Great Tribulation drew most disciples away. At Sun-Moon Mountain, Jing Xuan and Liu Cai learned of his strength and status and decided to earn his favor, while more disciples from Minor Realms began eyeing positions in the Dao Sect.

• Lu Qing realized that his Divine Soul had reached the Eighth Golden Core Realm and that his Dharma Power incarnation could handle matters he could not attend to personally.
• Lu Qing concluded that the Great Tribulation gave him a chance to cultivate without interference and believed he could reach the Primordial Spirit Realm before Fate Allotment peaked.
• Jing Xuan and Liu Cai learned that Lu Qing was a powerful chief disciple and regretted having considered taking his deacon position.
• Liu Cai urged Jing Xuan to work seriously and seek Lu Qing's favor, and Jing Xuan agreed.
• More disciples brought from Minor Realms through Guidance began looking for Dao Sect positions that suited their cultivation and resources.

Lu Qing remained in seclusion while visitors who coveted his Spirit Plant steward position were turned away by his guards and the sect. During cultivation, he entered a profound state of mind and glimpsed the Dao rhythm within the flowing streams, sensing that his next step toward the eighth Golden Core realm required a flawless path.

• Jin Yu rejected applications from disciples seeking Lu Qing's Spirit Plant position, warning that they had not understood the situation.
• A failed Golden Core cultivator approached Sun-Moon Mountain, but Liu Cai and Jing Xuan stopped him and he left after learning they guarded the mountain for Lu Qing.
• Other visitors also gave up their claims to the position after learning Lu Qing was a chief disciple, and Sun-Moon Mountain returned to calm as its spirit rice grew more vigorous.
• Lu Qing cultivated for several more days and entered a state of profound mental clarity, watching repeating streams that seemed to embody truth and falsehood.
• Lu Qing realized the state was not the threshold of the eighth Golden Core realm and refused to let his mind fall into the streams, wary of compromising his complete foundation.
• Lu Qing used Qi-Seeking Divine Light to see that every droplet in the streams contained Dao rhythm and began glimpsing the nature of that realm.

Lu Qing recognized that the streams confronting him formed a Refine the Self, Seek the True Self mental barrier usually faced before the Primordial Spirit realm. He found the true path, broke through the barrier, and strengthened the true intent in his inner world as news from the Demon Land World finally spread outside.

• Lu Qing realized the streams were manifestations of his own Dao heart and identified the challenge as a Primordial Spirit mental barrier.
• Lu Qing distinguished his true cultivation path from the countless illusory streams and stood firm despite the doubts arising within his mind.
• Lu Qing broke through the barrier, stabilized at the eighth Golden Core realm, and gained another layer of true intent in his inner world.
• More than a month passed, and news from within the Demon Land World spread outside.

Cultivators entering the Demon Land World found themselves isolated in limited trial worlds and had to discover what would let them pass. In a desert city caught in a cycle of time, Wu Han chose to enter its past as a Divine Soul while his companions waited outside.

• A ghost cultivator trapped beneath nine blazing suns concluded that he had to challenge them before their heat destroyed him.
• Cultivators in different trial worlds tested their strange surroundings through force, observation, and attempts to understand the inhabitants.
• Wu Mu and Wu Han recognized the Desert Ancient City as a projection of the past, where mortals repeatedly lived and died before the city was buried in sand.
• Wu Han decided to enter the city's cycle as a Divine Soul and ordered the two elders to send him in, despite their warnings.
• Wang Chunfeng hesitated as he looked outside from the place where he had entered the trial.

Wang Chunfeng investigated a world divided between the New Dao and Old Dao and concluded that their conflict formed his trial. Across many worlds, cultivators faced trials suited to different paths, while the gateways began releasing the first entrants back into the outside world, where most quickly died.

• Wang Chunfeng listened to a teahouse argument and recognized the conflict between the New Dao and Old Dao as the likely focus of his trial.
• Wang Chunfeng considered whether to aid either Dao, then spent days observing their competing paths and their ties to the Primordial Golden Core Dao.
• Cultivators in other worlds faced trials ranging from rebuilding the Six Paths and restoring the Ghost Path to hunting demons, founding sects, and winning debates.
• More than a month after the trials began, Chaos Qi dispersed and figures emerged from the gateways above the Four Lands, but most died within moments.
• A cultivator with dual pupils saw the Demon Land World inside a gateway, and the discovery drew attention as information spread from the bodies of those who had died.

As the Demon Land World’s trials intensified turmoil and tribulations across the Nine Heavens, Lu Qing discovered that Zhang Meng'an carried a Four Symbols Azure Dragon Celestial Star Destiny. Zhang Meng'an left the Dao Sect to seek Tribulation Responders, while Lu Qing sensed a mysterious connection between the young geniuses’ destinies and Fate Allotment across heaven and earth.

• Reports about the Demon Land World spread through the Four Lands as tribulations, bloodshed, and deaths surged across the Immortal and Demonic Paths and the Four Seas.
• Lu Qing learned about Senior Brother Wang’s trial and considered the Demon Land World’s origins, its dangerous trials, and the high death rate among those who entered.
• Lu Qing recognized Zhang Meng'an as a bearer of Celestial Star Destiny and identified his Azure Dragon Divine Human destiny as Four Symbols rank.
• Lu Qing reasoned that providential geniuses needed to leave the Dao Sect and develop their potential rather than bring their growing tribulations upon the sect.
• Zhang Meng'an rode his Azure Bird past the Sword Lineage Dojo, agreed not to enter the Demon Land World yet, and set out to seek Tribulation Responders as his breakthrough neared.
• Lu Qing sensed a faint connection between Zhang Meng'an’s Celestial Star Destiny and a strand of Fate Allotment in the world.

Lu Qing sensed that Providence would soon reach a peak and felt a faint Karmic Affinity with a peerless Fate Allotment. Meanwhile, a mysterious Variable Fate arrived from Beyond the Heavens and entered Qin Yang, who awakened to cultivation after seeing an image preserved in a spiritual herb.

• Lu Qing sensed that Providence might reach its peak within roughly a dozen years and suspected that countless peerless geniuses would emerge.
• Lu Qing felt a faint connection to a Fate Allotment veiled by Heavenly Secrets and associated it with the Profound Heaven Domain.
• Months passed as news from the Demon Land World spread and Killing Intent appeared in more places.
• Qin Yang climbed down a cliff to collect a spiritual herb, then slipped and fell while holding it.
• A Heavenly Outer Profound Light entered the Nine Heavens as a Variable Fate, but no faction could locate it.
• Qin Yang saw a cultivation scene imprinted in the spiritual herb's Spiritual Resonance, said “Cultivation,” and his Fate Allotment produced boundless phenomena.

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.