Recaps

A heavenly phenomenon over the Southern Heaven Continent drew the attention of Buddhist and Immortal Sects across the four continents, who recognized it as a sign of a rising prodigy from the Profound Heaven Dao Sect. The chapter leaves the other sects watching the young cultivator’s future and urging their own disciples to keep up.

• A Buddhist Master in the Western Heaven Continent declared that a fortune had appeared in the Southern Heaven Continent, but it was destined for someone of Profound Heaven.
• Buddhist cultivators across the Western Heaven Continent witnessed the phenomenon and accepted that the prodigy did not belong to their sect.
• In the Northern Heaven Continent, a wise spirit beast and a figure in Dongting attributed the Southern Heaven Continent’s growing Fate Allotment to the Profound Heaven Dao Sect rather than the weakened Seeking Dao Immortal Sect.
• The Scarlet Heaven Dao Sect’s elders told their disciples to watch the prodigy, while the Dharma-Free Immortal Gate’s master said his disciples would encounter him in the future.
• Grand Heaven Dao Sect cultivators praised the Profound Heaven Dao Sect’s rising generation and compared its Sword Lineage with its Law Enforcement Lineage.

A celestial phenomenon in Southern Heaven Continent drew attention from cultivators in Eastern Heaven Continent and the Supreme Unity Immortal Court, who wondered why their own lands had received less fortune. The Immortal Court ordered its Heavenwatch Towers to observe more broadly and seek out outstanding talents.

• Cultivators in Eastern Heaven Continent watched a figure appear in the Clear Light amid thunder and debated why the Nine Dragons Divine Dynasty had produced no comparable talent.
• Officials of the Nine Dragons Divine Dynasty discussed how Eastern Heaven Continent had received less Fate Allotment and fortune than Southern Heaven Continent during the Eight Wastelands.
• Immortal officials at a Heavenwatch Tower lost sight of the threads of Cause and Effect when the celestial phenomenon arose beyond Eastern Heaven Continent.
• An elderly immortal official explained that the phenomenon came from Southern Heaven Continent and ordered the Heavenwatch Tower to broaden its observation and identify worthy talents and heaven-defying geniuses.

Lu Qing completed his Void Realm breakthrough, established his Dao Abode, and named it Clearless Prefecture. White Crane Boy visited the new abode and eagerly planned to cultivate Spirit Fields by its lake.

• The chapter described how the Seeking Dao Immortal Sect struggled with recent losses while the Profound Heaven Dao Sect prospered.
• Lu Qing finished establishing his Dao Abode and wondered how a Demonic Cultivator had once entered the Dao Sect’s protected territory.
• Lu Qing sent a formation beneath the ground, inscribed spirit patterns on the plaque, and named the place Clearless Prefecture.
• White Crane Boy congratulated Lu Qing, admired the sun, moon, and stars reflected from his Inner World, and asked to plant Spirit Fields beside the lake.
• Lu Qing gave White Crane Boy permission to cultivate the Spirit Fields, and it eagerly set about exploring its new home.

Lu Qing established Clearless Immortal City around his Daoist Dojo, while a group from the Divine Path Holy Spirit Lineage passed through the region on their way to the West Sea. Lu Qing sensed their presence and knew the West Sea held a dangerous Divination, but chose not to warn them.

• Lu Qing named his Dao Abode Clearless, and the nearby city and Cultivation Markets adopted the Clearless name.
• A blue-robed senior brother cautioned Mu Ling and his junior brother to show respect for the Profound Heaven Dao Sect as they passed Clearless Immortal City.
• The Divine Path Holy Spirit Lineage group continued toward the West Sea to seek a treasure that could hold an ancient divine spirit’s incense and faith.
• Lu Qing’s youthful incarnation handled the growing number of visitors while Lu Qing cultivated and tended the Spirit Field and medicinal field with White Crane Boy.
• Lu Qing sensed the Divine Path cultivators and let them depart without warning them about the dangerous Divination in the West Sea.

Lu Qing reflected on the growth of Clearless Prefecture, the expanding Profound Heaven Domain, and the hidden forces shaping the Nine Heavens. As he kept his Dao Abode clear of wider conflicts, a cloud reached the turbulent West Sea.

• Lu Qing's Immortal City attracted outside cultivators seeking stable homes, and his incarnation assigned cultivators to keep order while collecting reduced shares.
• Lu Qing received Spirit Talisman messages explaining that the Dao Academy's expanded Heavenly Domain needed personnel to explore new territories and handle threats.
• Lu Qing considered how the Demon Domain, the Six Demonic Paths, Void Ground, and competing forces might exploit shifting Fate Allotment across the Nine Heavens.
• Lu Qing resolved to keep his Dao Abode from becoming the center of a whirlpool of conflict, though its growing fortune made it harder to conceal.
• A cloud crossed the mountain ranges and reached the storm-tossed West Sea, where dangerous spatial rifts threatened careless travelers.

Three Divine Path cultivators searched the West Sea for a Grotto-Heaven relic using a positioning divine ability bestowed by their ancestor. They found a Buddhist Sect Sarira at the center of a golden sea, leaving the blue-robed young man alarmed by its immense power and the danger it might signal.

• The blue-robed young man explained that his ancestor had given him a talent mark to locate a Divine Path senior's Grotto-Heaven relic.
• The three Divine Path cultivators flew deep into the West Sea, searching for the relic.
• A glow appeared on the horizon, and one junior disciple rushed ahead while the blue-robed young man cautioned that the West Sea was dangerous.
• The three reached a silent golden sea, where a Sarira rose and fell at its center, radiating Buddha Light.
• The blue-robed young man recognized the Buddhist Sect Sarira and wondered who had fallen there and what danger its power might bring.

The Holy Spirit Ancestor discovered that Mu Ling, Mu Guang, and their companion had perished in the West Sea, apparently at the hands of someone wielding golden light. He sent five disciples to investigate and recover them, lending them the Strange Gate Temple for protection.

• The Holy Spirit Ancestor sensed a disturbance and learned that Mu Ling and the others had died in the West Sea.
• The Holy Spirit Ancestor told the assembled Divine Path cultivators that he had seen golden light but could not identify who had acted.
• The Divine Path cultivators speculated about which lineage might wield golden divine power and volunteered to travel to the West Sea.
• The Holy Spirit Ancestor chose the five leading volunteers and gave them the Strange Gate Temple as protection for their journey.

Lu Qing observed a devastating battle in the West Sea between a Divine Path Holy Spirit Patriarch and Buddhist cultivators over a Buddhist relic, and suspected the Demonic Path hoped to exploit growing tensions between the Immortal and Divine Paths. As the immortal city remained peaceful, Lu Qing continued preparing for the dangers ahead while his incarnation took part in its daily affairs.

• Lu Qing sensed a battle in the West Sea and recognized that a Buddhist relic was at its center.
• Reports spread that a Divine Path Holy Spirit Patriarch had fought Buddhist cultivators after his successor died, but neither side had gained the advantage.
• Lu Qing wondered why the Patriarch sought a Buddhist relic despite already possessing the Strange Gate Temple, and anticipated rising tensions between the Immortal and Divine Paths.
• Lu Qing suspected the Demonic Path might be trying to stir conflict and remained wary of its strongholds and schemes.
• Lu Qing watched White Crane Boy tend the reclaimed spirit fields while making preparations for future dangers.
• The northern immortal city continued its peaceful routine, and Lu Qing's young incarnation participated in its worldly affairs.

Lu Qing’s incarnation introduced modest reforms to Bixin Immortal City, improving order and encouraging safer ways for cultivators to earn resources as the settlement grew. Lu Qing left the city’s future to its residents while continuing his cultivation, with news from the West Sea and Eight Wastelands reaching him.

• Lu Qing sent his youthful incarnation to manage Bixin Immortal City while he cultivated in seclusion, and the incarnation began making gradual administrative changes.
• Cultivators organized spirit-seed farming outside the city, while Tribulation Cultivators fled the region in response to Lu Qing’s reputation.
• News of Bixin Immortal City spread, prompting some outside cultivators to consider moving there despite their doubts and concerns about finding a place.
• Lu Qing saw that the city had expanded several times over in half a year and accepted that more cultivators might arrive.
• Lu Qing reflected on preserving his own state of mind rather than pursuing voidness, then noted that the West Sea commotion had ended and news from the Eight Wastelands remained active.

Lu Qing entered the Long River of Dao Seals to study ancient cultivators and gain insight from their Great Daos. After seven days, he returned to his Dao Abode, where his Dao Seal had grown more solid and the next Dao Seal had begun to emerge.

• Lu Qing read reports that the Eight Wastelands remained the world's focus, then returned to his cultivation tower.
• Lu Qing entered his Inner World and observed how his cultivated Great Dao, divine abilities, and spells had evolved into living things.
• Lu Qing entered the Long River of Dao Seals and examined its ancient Dao Seals, discovering that he could see into the past but not beyond the mist-shrouded future.
• Lu Qing recalled the battle between two powerful figures in the West Sea and used its laws and the Holy Spirit Ancestor's aura to guide his reflections.
• Lu Qing observed illusory cultivators and the different Great Dao auras within the Long River for seven days before feeling rejected by the place.
• Lu Qing returned to his Dao Abode, where his Dao Seal had become more solid and the shadow of the next Dao Seal had appeared.

Lu Qing reflected on the West Sea battle and used his growing insight into time and lifespan to deduce that the Holy Spirit Ancestor was gravely weakened. He concluded the West Sea Sarira was too dangerous to pursue and considered how the Divine Path, Buddhist forces, and Dao Sect were changing amid the coming upheavals.

• Lu Qing heard that the Holy Spirit Ancestor had returned to his divine land and entered seclusion, while rumors spread about the West Sea battle and its lingering spatial rifts.
• Lu Qing examined the West Sea and reasoned that the Buddhist Sarira had either fled or been taken, and that the Holy Spirit Ancestor had suffered severe injuries.
• Lu Qing's understanding of lifespan revealed the Holy Spirit Ancestor's aged frailty, leading him to infer that the battle might have killed the Ancestor without the Supreme Treasure's intervention.
• Lu Qing reasoned that incense offerings could provide a refuge for weakened Divine Path experts and suspected the West Sea battle involved plans surrounding the Sarira.
• Lu Qing recalled the Dao Sect's growing use of Talisman Light and its screening for Demon Sect spies, but judged that he had no reason to fear the Questioning-Heart Path.

Lu Qing cultivated in the Long River of Time while considering the dangers of Supreme Treasures, the Strange Gate Temple’s fate, and the Sons of Providence he had encountered. He remained in the Immortal Mansion as young prodigies gathered in the Eight Wastelands, where some would rise and others fall.

• Cultivators discussed the Strange Gate Temple Supreme Treasure’s abilities and speculated about where it had fallen after entering a spatial rift.
• Lu Qing sensed that the treasure’s pursuit would carry great risks and reflected on the limits of interfering with Cause and Effect, Heavenly Secrets, and the Long River of Time.
• Lu Qing observed that his Fate Allotment had turned crimson with a faint pale-gold hue and connected Chen Fan and other Sons of Providence to possible cauldron fragments and Supreme Treasures.
• Lu Qing continued cultivating in the Immortal Mansion and resolved to study other Dao Seals along the path of One Transformation of Myriad Dao, Transforming Myriad Worlds.
• Zhou Shenlong, Chen Fan, Ye Lin, and Tan Tianci pursued their own paths, while Zhang Meng'an had fallen in the Eight Wastelands, where the next generation of prodigies gathered to struggle.

Ye Lin, Zhou Shenlong, and other cultivators gathered around a newly exposed Grotto-Heaven ruin in the Eight Wastelands, where Ye Lin tried to stay hidden and Zhou Shenlong discussed the dangers and opportunities with the Black Cat. The chapter ended with Lu Qing extending his cultivation within the Long River to a month.

• Ye Lin hid inside a breath-concealing formation near the Grotto-Heaven ruin and regretted using Heavenly Secrets to learn of it, since the revelation had drawn a crowd.
• Ye Lin considered the dangers of revealing his identity among the many sects and Six Paths gathered at the ruin.
• The Black Cat sensed an aura of the Demon Race within the Grotto-Heaven and urged Zhou Shenlong to look for something that could help heal his injuries.
• Zhou Shenlong and the Black Cat discussed Ye Lin, Lu Qing, and the difficulties of cultivating while entangled in the Eight Wastelands' Cause and Effect.
• Lu Qing continued cultivating within the Long River, extending his time from seven days to ten days and then to one month.

As Lu Qing cultivated in the River of Time, the Profound Heaven Dao Sect began selecting new true inheritors, stirring intense discussion among its disciples. Lu Qing learned that candidates might face disciples from other powers, then emerged from seclusion to find the contest framed as a comparison between the Dao Sect’s regions.

• Lu Qing’s cultivation advanced as another Dao Seal unfolded beneath his feet, and a year passed.
• The Profound Heaven Dao Sect announced that its ten true inheritor seats would be chosen anew, prompting Void Realm disciples to contend for them.
• Xu Yongsheng explained in the Talisman Light how Great Void Realm cultivators left Dao Seals in the River of Time and why their stability mattered in battle.
• Disciples speculated about the selection and heard unofficial news that other Immortal Sects and Six Paths powers would send disciples to spar with the candidates.
• Lu Qing learned of the selection rumors while outside the Dao Abode, entered seclusion, and emerged a month later to find disciples discussing rivalries among the Dao Sect’s regions.

Lu Qing ignored the struggle for the Profound Heaven Dao Sect’s true disciple positions and reflected on the Nine Heavens’ changing Heavenly Secrets and the possible return of other shattered Earth Realms. As he deepened his understanding of the Dao, he tested his crude Time Way at Bixin Mountain and left it flourishing while Clearless Immortal City continued to grow.

• Lu Qing decided not to pursue a true disciple position, judging that the rewards would not outweigh his cultivation in the Long River of Time.
• Lu Qing speculated that more Variable Fates would emerge and that other Earth Realms shattered after the Primordial Era might eventually return.
• Lu Qing’s Heavenly Human Nature and Sword Dao reached new insights, and he began to comprehend several Dao arts and the Heaven-Earth Grand Trend.
• Lu Qing swept his power across Bixin Mountain, causing flowers, trees, herbs, and spirit beasts to flourish and drawing the attention of herb gatherers and Clearless Immortal City’s cultivators.
• Lu Qing used his Time Way to accelerate the growth and decay of living things on the mountain, then restored them, concluding that the technique remained crude but could drain an enemy’s lifespan.

After emerging from a year of cultivation, Lu Qing found White Crane Boy thriving as the manager of a spirit-field enterprise staffed by spirit beasts and cultivators. As Lu Qing shared a meal with White Crane Boy, the Dao Seal stirred, leaving him with a new divination sign to investigate.

• White Crane Boy established spirit fields with a yellow sparrow, a gray wolf, and a white tiger, and built a team of spirit beasts and cultivators to manage them.
• Lu Qing emerged from seclusion and checked the spirit beasts and cultivators, finding no issues and leaving their management to White Crane Boy.
• White Crane Boy welcomed Lu Qing with spirit meals and wine, which Senior Situ had helped supply.
• As Lu Qing finished eating and drinking, he sensed movement in the Dao Seal and saw a divination sign sway within his sea of consciousness.

Lu Qing followed a Calming Hexagram to the Dao Seal Long River and gained insight from a wisp left by an ancient Heavenly Sun Realm cultivator’s Time Dao. He began forming a Long River of Time within his Inner World, as Heavenly Prodigies gathered along the real river.

• An ancient cultivator’s remnant passed through the Dao Seal Long River, leaving behind a wisp of Time Dao and a stroke of Creation.
• Lu Qing compared three Calming Hexagrams and chose the timing that promised a small gain without lingering entanglements.
• Lu Qing drew the wisp of temporal aura to himself and understood that the ancient cultivator’s Time Dao had taken the form of a river.
• Lu Qing decided to create a Long River of Time within his Inner World and manifested its illusory form amid Chaos.
• Heavenly Prodigies appeared along the Dao Seal Long River, studied one another, and turned their attention toward the river.

Lu Qing broke through to the Void Realm Second Gate after reopening Chaos within his Inner World, while a cultivator at Dharma-Free Immortal Gate regretted losing a chance to encounter a Heavenly Secret Thread. As the True Inheritor battles approached, Lu Qing received a distant message carried by Talisman Light.

• Figures on the Long River of Time recognized that someone had seized a rare opportunity, then dispersed without learning who it was.
• A jade-white-crowned youth at Dharma-Free Immortal Gate failed to divine the person who had reached the opportunity first and resolved to seek another chance in the future.
• Lu Qing sensed someone trying to divine him and severed his Heavenly Secrets and Cause and Effect.
• Lu Qing reopened Chaos within his Inner World and broke through to the Void Realm Second Gate, recognizing that future progress would require comprehending the Great Dao.
• Several months later, the battles for the True Inheritor positions were scheduled, and Lu Qing received a message carried by Talisman Light.

Lu Qing received Wang Chunfeng’s news about turmoil in the Eight Wastelands and learned that sect higher-ups might place him among the True Inheritance candidates without a selection. Dao Sect rumors also revealed escalating trouble in the Law Enforcement Lineage, leaving Lu Qing expecting danger as the True Inheritance Assembly approached.

• Wang Chunfeng congratulated Lu Qing on reaching the Abode Establishment Realm and sent reports about the Eight Wastelands, where an Ageless Treasure Herb had drawn cultivators and many prodigies had fallen.
• Lu Qing considered the lingering dangers tied to the Eight Wastelands, including the Broken Sword, Chu Xiu, and the eerie head connected to its tangled Fate Allotment and Cause and Effect.
• Lu Qing read Wang Chunfeng’s concealed message that sect higher-ups had discussed placing him directly among the True Inheritance candidates without a selection.
• Lu Qing browsed the Dao Sect’s new Talisman Light and saw rumors of changes among the Law Enforcement Lineage’s Immortal posts and missing disciples on Vast Heaven Demon Sect territory.
• Lu Qing anticipated that the True Inheritance struggle would bring danger and reflected on the Dao Academy’s growing presence within the Dao Sect.

The Gao Clan and other aristocratic families in the Law Enforcement Lineage resented the Dao Sect’s reforms and worried about losing control of the Profound Heaven Bell. In the Council Hall, Fu Huazi and the elders discussed the coming True Inheritance Assembly and the exceptional rivals emerging across the continents.

• Gao Clan cultivators complained that the Academy Head had agreed to rotate Law Enforcement positions and change long-standing rules.
• An old Gao Clan elder argued that the Law Enforcement Lineage would retain control of the Profound Heaven Bell and dismissed the threat posed by the reforms.
• The Gao Clan members criticized changes to positions and resource allocations, then mocked the Dao Sect’s efforts to support talented disciples without powerful backgrounds.
• Sun Qidao warned Fu Huazi that the reforms could cause turmoil at the True Inheritance Assembly, but Fu Huazi said his Dharma Body was enough to oversee events.
• Fu Huazi and the other Council Hall figures discussed the upcoming assembly and the True Buddha Scions, True Dragon Destiny Pattern, and other exceptional cultivators emerging across the continents.

The Profound Heaven Dao Sect set the True Inheritance Assembly for half a year later as the Nine Heavens prepared for the return of other Earth Continents and the rise of competing lineages. Lu Qing decided to avoid the assembly and, after half a year of cultivation, entered Chaos and opened a world founded on stars.

• Fu Huazi warned that Variable Fates and the Heavenly Sun Realm’s return presented both danger and opportunity, and the figures agreed to hold the True Inheritance Assembly in half a year.
• Yu Youshu and the others discussed guarding the Minor Realms and preparing for returning Earth Continents and unknown forces from Beyond the Heavens.
• Lu Qing learned that the assembly would include numerous guests and offer lavish rewards, including entire Minor Realms as Daoist Dojos.
• Lu Qing decided not to attend because revealing his rapid cultivation would draw attention and divinations from other lineages.
• After half a year of cultivation, Lu Qing stood atop a star, entered Chaos, and opened a world whose foundation was the stars.

Lu Qing formed the Stellar World and discovered that its creation had produced a second Dao Seal in the Long River of Time. He strengthened the world with Fate Allotment, then realized his Inner World needed a deeper understanding of Reincarnation and turned his attention to the Nether Sea.

• Lu Qing named his newly formed world the Stellar World and shaped its stars according to images from his previous life.
• Lu Qing saw that the Stellar World had created a new Dao Seal, drawing the attention of cultivators across different eras.
• Lu Qing considered the danger of future struggles between Dao paths but decided not to open another world until the Stellar World was more refined.
• Lu Qing infused the Stellar World with the Great Dao of Fate Allotment to give it the means to endure.
• Lu Qing saw that the dead in his Inner World lost their True Spirits and realized his understanding of Reincarnation was too shallow to guide their rebirth.
• Lu Qing identified the Nether Sea as the place where Reincarnation was most concentrated and sent a strand of Divine Sense there.

Lu Qing sent a strand of Divine Sense to the eastern sea to observe the Nether Sea and Reincarnation without risking his true body. He found the Nether Sea by becoming an incarnation of Great Dao Intent, glimpsed its True Spirits and endless cycle of rebirth, then found himself facing a vast expanse of land.

• Lu Qing decided to explore the Nether Sea with a strand of Divine Sense, wary of the dangers he sensed across the Long River of Time.
• Lu Qing reached the eastern side of Profound Heaven Continent and saw the lingering Tribulation and Baleful Intent left by a battle that had destroyed part of the land.
• Lu Qing avoided investigating the contaminated region and continued east toward the sea, where he sailed away from shore on a jade-green Flying Boat.
• Lu Qing stopped when he sensed that continuing would bring supreme terror, then used his Great Dao True Intent to become an incarnation of the Dao and perceive the Nether Sea.
• Lu Qing saw countless lights resembling True Spirits across the deathly still Nether Sea and sensed the eternal thread of Reincarnation before deciding to leave.
• Lu Qing found the Nether Sea gone and a vast expanse of land ahead, while his Flying Boat remained unchanged.

Lu Qing gained a Dao Seal of Reincarnation after sensing the Nether Sea, where the Gray Crow recognized the terrifying potential of his future. As the True Inheritance Assembly approached, Lu Qing divined the outcomes of accepting a Black Tortoise Minor Realm mission or attending the assembly and chose the path that offered a chance to gain Sunset Glow True Meaning.

• Lu Qing's Divine Sense left the Nether Sea after a month had passed outside, and a Gray Crow aboard a ferry sensed his aura and foresaw his future connection to the Reincarnation Great Dao.
• Lu Qing noticed that his Dao Seals had concealed his Heavenly Secrets from the Gray Crow and gained a Dao Seal of Reincarnation, entering a state of enlightenment.
• Lu Qing received a Spirit Talisman from Bai Changshou asking whether he would accept a Black Tortoise Minor Realm mission amid the approaching True Inheritance Assembly.
• Lu Qing's Divination revealed several possible outcomes, including a Dao injury at Black Tortoise Mountain and cause-and-effect entanglements from attending the assembly.
• Lu Qing eliminated the troublesome options and settled on accepting the mission and descending upon Sunset Glow Isle to seek a wisp of Sunset Glow True Meaning.

Lu Qing accepted a mission in the Black Tortoise Minor Realm after divination warned of trouble connected to the True Inheritance Assembly. As he traveled there, Bai Changshou and Liao Bufan discussed his suitability for the Merit-rich world and the risks he might face.

• Lu Qing chose a divination that foretold slight gains and suspected that attending the True Inheritance Assembly could help him avoid an outside disciple's provocation.
• Lu Qing accepted the special Black Tortoise Minor Realm mission and left White Crane Boy to guard his Daoist Dojo.
• Bai Changshou received word that Lu Qing had accepted the mission, and Liao Bufan welcomed the news because finding a suitable candidate had been difficult.
• Bai Changshou and Liao Bufan noted that the Black Tortoise Minor Realm favored cultivators with Heaven-Earth Merit and that other disciples might trouble Lu Qing.
• Lu Qing recalled that the Black Tortoise Minor Realm was a treasure land of Merit and considered that following this path might bring him further gains.