Recaps

At the Dao Debate Cloudsmoke Terrace, Lu Qing observed the different answers Heavenly Prodigies gave to the question of what Dao was and realized that cultivation required witnessing myriad Dao methods. Sensing the Dharma-Free Immortal Gate’s Fate Allotment along the Long River of Time, he found an uncannily recognizable trace ahead.

• Lu Qing watched Heavenly Prodigies present their Dao Rhymes and explain their different understandings of Dao.
• He considered how the Nine Dragons Divine Dynasty’s imperial heirs pursued Dragon Qi and how different Immortal Path factions followed their own interests.
• Lu Qing examined the varied Fate Allotments of the Daoist Lineages and realized he needed to behold myriad Dao methods.
• He sensed the Dharma-Free Immortal Gate’s Fate Allotment while his consciousness traveled above the Long River of Time.
• Lu Qing noticed a distant radiance that did not conceal its Fate Allotment’s origin, making its Daoist Lineage potentially identifiable.

Lu Qing left the Nine Heavens Dao Assembly after gaining an insight and recognized that its transformations in Fate Allotment benefited living beings throughout the Nine Heavens. Back in his Daoist Dojo, he found White Crane Boy cultivating in seclusion and drew a strand of Heavenly Secrets and Cause and Effect from the lake.

• Lu Qing noticed an Immortal Gate expert on the Dao Seal Long River, but both continued on their separate paths without approaching each other.
• Lu Qing entered the River of Time, understood the source of his faint sensation, and left the Dao Discussion Cloudmist Realm to cultivate in seclusion.
• Lu Qing observed tribulation thunder and changes in Providence across the Nine Heavens, realizing that the Dao Assembly's enlightenment and growing cultivation had brought merit and transformation.
• Lu Qing returned to his Daoist Dojo, where White Crane Boy was absorbed in enlightenment and White Marsh greeted him.
• Lu Qing went to the mountaintop lake and drew out a drop of water that transformed into a strand of Heavenly Secrets and Cause and Effect.

Lu Qing used a Heavenly Secret Lake droplet to view a vision of an azure-green river beyond the Nine Heavens, where the shattered Seeking Dao Immortal Cauldron rested. He suspected the river was connected to the Human Path’s return and wondered what the Seeking Dao Immortal Sect had done with its supreme treasure.

• Lu Qing stirred the Heavenly Secret Lake’s deduced water droplet and received a vision of an azure-green river filled with life but no visible living beings.
• Lu Qing recognized the ruined cauldron in the river as the Seeking Dao Immortal Cauldron, the Seeking Dao Immortal Sect’s lost sect-protecting treasure.
• Lu Qing sensed that the river lay outside the Nine Heavens and suspected it was connected to the Human Path that would return.
• Lu Qing recalled that someone in his sect possessed a fragment of the cauldron and wondered why the Seeking Dao Immortal Sect had shattered its supreme treasure.

After witnessing a remnant of the Seeking Dao Immortal Cauldron through Heavenly Secret Lake, Lu Qing set aside his unanswered questions and prepared to cultivate, knowing his next breakthrough would be difficult. At the Dao Discussion Cloudmist Realm, the debates grew more sincere, though one prodigy’s Dao Heart wavered against a rival’s great-river Dao Rhyme.

• Lu Qing considered the Seeking Dao Immortal Cauldron’s fragments and the Demonic Path’s interest in the treasure, then decided to enter seclusion rather than pursue speculation.
• Lu Qing reflected that his next step in the Dongzhen Realm would be a major transformation and concluded that the Dao Debate Assembly’s early sermons had benefited cultivators through Karmic Affinity.
• Cultivators at the Dao Discussion Cloudmist Realm gradually focused on debating the Dao as the realm’s clouds and mist calmed their hearts and exposed their true intentions.
• A prodigy who cultivated flowing water debated a great-river prodigy, whose vast river phenomenon caused the stream prodigy’s Dao Heart to waver.

Heavenly prodigies debated the Heavenly Sun Path on the Cloudmist platforms, exposing how its borrowed strength could leave cultivators’ own Dao Hearts weak. Hidden inheritors watched and reflected on the distant Dongzhen Realm, while the elders of Heavenly Sun saw unexpected flaws in the path they had introduced.

• Heavenly prodigies debated the Heavenly Sun Path, and observers noted its resemblance to Immortal, Divine, and Spirit cultivation.
• A mild-faced heavenly prodigy challenged a Heavenly Sun cultivator’s claim to Heavenly Human nature, leaving the cultivator’s borrowed aura discordant.
• Concealed inheritors discussed the Heavenly Sun Path’s influence and admitted that Fate Allotment’s hidden struggles lay beyond their control.
• A heavenly prodigy told a defeated Heavenly Sun cultivator that borrowed Dao arts could not compensate for a weak Dao Heart.
• Heavenly Sun elders recognized that the debates had revealed flaws in their path and recalled the Devil Master’s inconceivable abilities during the Primordial Cataclysm.

As the Nine Heavens Debate Dao Assembly neared its end, Lu Qing continued his secluded cultivation and sent his Dao Rhyme into the true Long River of Time. He spread it across countless eras, revealing a subtle presence that had always existed within time.

• Heavenly Sun elders discussed reducing heaven and earth’s rejection and considered transforming the Heavenly Sun Path into the Heavenly Sun Immortal Path.
• Three months passed while Lu Qing remained in secluded cultivation, and the Nine Heavens Debate Dao Assembly neared its end.
• Lu Qing walked farther along his inner road, then sent the Dao Rhyme of his Great Dao into the Long River of Time.
• A senior cultivator warned Lu Qing that touching the Long River of Time could destroy him, but Lu Qing thanked him and continued.
• Lu Qing sent manifestations of himself into the river and spread his Dao Rhyme across three thousand Great Eras, where a faint presence appeared throughout time.

Lu Qing entered seclusion to face the Time Tribulation, while changes in his aura stirred alarm in the Daoist Dojo. After the Grand Dao Discussion Assembly, breakthroughs among Profound Heaven Dao Sect disciples strengthened the sect’s Fate Allotment, and its Supreme Treasures discussed the changes within the sect.

• Lu Qing looked into the Long River of Time as figures with different Great Dao auras appeared before him.
• White Marsh cut off Chaosheng’s view of Lu Qing’s cultivation ground after sensing a dangerous aura of time.
• After the Grand Dao Discussion Assembly, Heavenly Prodigies pursued breakthroughs in seclusion, travel, and combat, while their advances enriched the sect’s Fate Allotment.
• The Profound Heaven Bell sensed fresh, vigorous vitality rising in the sect’s providence as disciples made breakthroughs.
• The Profound Heaven Mirror emerged from the Dao Sect Treasury and discussed with the Profound Heaven Bell the end of entanglements among the sect’s great families and the Law Enforcement Lineage’s leadership.

The Profound Heaven Supreme Treasures and the Dao Sect’s elders observed Lu Qing entering the Long River of Time to cross tribulation, while Fu Huazi judged that Lu Qing was confident and that the era was filled with emerging Variable Fates. Lu Qing remained in the tribulation and sensed the Voidness Dao.

• The Profound Heaven Bell dismissed the idea of being used as a trump card and concealed Lu Qing’s present-day Fate Allotment.
• The Profound Heaven Mirror noticed dense Time Tribulation Qi around Lu Qing’s Fate Allotment and wondered whether he was approaching the second step.
• Yu Youshu asked his personal disciples how far they had advanced the sect-protecting grand formation, and they guiltily thought of Lu Qing.
• Fu Huazi and White Crane observed Lu Qing crossing tribulation in the Long River of Time, and Fu Huazi said Lu Qing must be confident.
• Fu Huazi warned that many Variable Fates were emerging and that the future remained full of hidden dangers.
• Lu Qing continued crossing tribulation without feeling Tribulation Qi and sensed the Voidness Dao.

Lu Qing completed the Tribulation of Time and advanced to the second step of the Dongzhen Realm, Manifesting Three Thousand, with shadows spanning past, present, and future. After three years in seclusion, he learned of his new posts in the Dao Sect and sensed that something had just begun to emerge.

• Lu Qing endured the Long River of Time's pull toward the Voidness Dao and remained steady as he witnessed scenes from the Primordial Era.
• After three years, Lu Qing emerged from the River of Time and reached the second step of the Dongzhen Realm, Manifesting Three Thousand.
• Lu Qing received a message naming him Peak Master of Spirit Plant Peak and an Outer Sect Elder, whose duties included guiding and teaching disciples.
• Lu Qing noticed the Fate Allotments of every path stir and sensed that something had sprouted at the right time.

After returning to the Dao Sect, Lu Qing took up his Outer Sect Main Lineage elder duties and agreed to oversee cultivation courses. He began considering a Dao Academy system that would help disciples choose suitable studies, while the chapter left him with new resources and cultivation paths to explore.

• Lu Qing returned to the Dao Sect after his seclusion and met Fu Huazi and White Crane Ancestor following a Sword Lineage sermon.
• The Profound Heaven Bell recognized that Lu Qing had passed his Tribulation and approved of his new position as a peak master and main lineage elder.
• Lu Qing visited the Outer Sect Elder Hall and learned from Wei Zu how extensive the Dao Sect's affairs and responsibilities were.
• After hearing that the Outer Sect lineages lacked candidates to revise cultivation courses, Lu Qing agreed to take charge of them.
• Lu Qing examined the authority and resources of his elder position, then considered establishing a Dao Academy system that used guidance from earlier disciples to help students choose courses.

Lu Qing reviewed the Profound Heaven Dao Sect’s recent reforms and the turmoil facing the other paths, then divined the sect’s past to understand how its great-family factions had been challenged. He saw that the sect had gained a new path forward, while the changes within it had unfolded without his involvement.

• Lu Qing considered how conflicts across the continents and among the Six Paths had left the Profound Heaven Dao Sect room to act against entrenched great-family strongholds.
• After catching up on the sect’s affairs during his three years in seclusion, Lu Qing divined the past and saw an image of a clear sun dispelling the night.
• Lu Qing recalled how challenges from great-family disciples had tested the sect before a Primordial Spirit devil interrupted the probing.
• Lu Qing reasoned that the Law Enforcement Head had acted decisively against the great families and that the Artifact Refining Head might also have come from one of them.
• Lu Qing saw that the sect’s Fate Allotment had changed and sensed that its internal transformation had continued without his participation.

Lu Qing returned to the Profound Heaven Dao Sect, used its Fate Allotment to arrange cultivation courses, and left an avatar to oversee the work. After departing again, he sensed that the events ahead would concern the Human Path.

• Lu Qing recognized the sect’s elders’ turn to the Demonic Path and set about addressing the sect’s affairs without taking on long-term responsibility.
• Lu Qing borrowed the Profound Heaven Bell’s Fate Allotment and established cultivation courses, completing the work in seven days.
• Lu Qing created an avatar to remain at the sect and oversee its affairs, then departed to return to his Dao field.
• The Profound Heaven Bell watched Lu Qing leave and saw Fu Huazi and White Crane Ancestor discussing his departure and the difficulty of earning Great Merit.
• Lu Qing sensed that the next events were tied to the Human Path.

After reaching the second step, Lu Qing left his Daoist Dojo to explore an Earth Realm emerging from the Dharma-Ending Age and study its Great Dao. He found a Son of Providence being pursued, chose not to interfere, and settled on a misty mountain peak.

• Lu Qing decided to avoid the growing turmoil around the Human Path and departed his Daoist Dojo after breaking through.
• Lu Qing examined an Earth Realm coordinate and sensed a world shifting from the Dharma-Ending Age toward a Great Era.
• Lu Qing entered the Earth Realm and saw a richly dressed young master pursuing a little thief whose golden Fate Allotment marked him as a Son of Providence.
• Lu Qing chose not to interfere with the pursuit and traveled across the land to seek a place for cultivation.
• Lu Qing settled on a mountain peak where mist and clouds gathered.

Lu Qing witnessed the Purple Radiance World emerge from the Dharma-Ending Age into a new Great Era, while tracing the hidden Reincarnation Great Dao and its connection to the Nether Sea. He left the chapter considering the Purple Radiance World as a place to comprehend Reincarnation.

• Lu Qing observed memories of the Dharma-Ending Age, when Spiritual Vitality withered, Immortals and local deities fell, and True Spirits continued circling heaven and earth.
• Lu Qing concluded that his presence had likely helped awaken the Mountain God's Millennium Banquet.
• Lu Qing watched the Purple Radiance World revive as Spiritual Vitality returned, decay receded, and sweet rain fell across the land.
• Lu Qing examined the Nether Sea, the Reincarnation aura, and a segment of the Azure River reflected in his Reincarnation World.
• Lu Qing considered the Purple Radiance World a promising place to comprehend Reincarnation, unlike the perilous Nether Sea.

Lu Qing studied a tributary of the Reincarnation Great Dao and used records and his own observations to examine reincarnation and different forms of possession. He sensed hidden abnormalities among possessed cultivators and True Spirits but chose not to investigate the Netherworld yet.

• Lu Qing discovered that the Azure River he had encountered was a tributary and focused on comprehending the Reincarnation Great Dao.
• Lu Qing considered how reincarnation, True Spirit rebirth, and True Spirit Awakening differed from possession, and reflected on the dangers posed by old-monster enemies.
• Lu Qing studied records in the Profound Heaven Dao Sect’s jade slips and identified three kinds of possession: taking a new body, merging Divine Souls, and secretly diverting another’s Dao Heart.
• Lu Qing observed cultivators whose bodies, Divine Souls, or Dao Hearts showed signs of possession, including cultivators who changed their paths after the Dharma-Ending Age ended.
• Lu Qing sensed dark and muddy auras linked to possessed cultivators, but he delayed exploring the region resembling the Netherworld and turned his attention to the True Spirits circling the heavens.

Lu Qing examined the Nether Domain’s incomplete Reincarnation and concluded that Possession could not truly steal Heavenly Lifespan, though it offered other benefits. After locating a Reincarnation Portal in the Purple Light Realm, he entered it and found a bleak, eerie region.

• Lu Qing observed that the Nether Domain trapped True Spirits in an incomplete Reincarnation and reasoned that its Possession Method could not extend Heavenly Lifespan.
• Lu Qing considered how Possession altered Destiny and inherited identity, while old monsters seeking more life could not escape their predestined ends.
• Lu Qing used records of Destiny changes after Possession to locate the Reincarnation he wanted to study.
• Lu Qing departed as the old ape recognized the mountain god’s aura and suspected his arrival was connected to the Millennium Banquet.
• Lu Qing found the Reincarnation Portal in a valley and entered the dim, desolate region beyond it.

Lu Qing entered the Reincarnation Nether Domain and examined its Azure River and the strange Reincarnation Dao cultivation practiced there. He discovered that ancient cultivators were gathering outside the entrance, hoping to enter Reincarnation before the Great Era began.

• Lu Qing surveyed the Nether Domain and found that its Azure River was the only sign of life amid the surrounding deathly stillness.
• Lu Qing judged the Reincarnation cultivators’ path to be crude and unsettling, with their Dao Hearts seemingly assimilated by the Great Dao.
• Lu Qing noticed the cultivators moving outside the Nether Domain’s entrance and faded from view.
• The Purple Light Realm cultivators discussed the Primordial Era and hoped Reincarnation would let them restart their cultivation as True Spirits.
• An old man warned that they needed to enter Reincarnation before Heaven’s Will awakened and the Great Era arrived.
• A black-robed cultivator reflected on how many of their companions had perished and feared the calamity that had destroyed the Immortals.

Lu Qing discovered that the Nether Domain’s Reincarnation River was incomplete and tainted by Primordial Era Tribulation Qi, making the old experts’ plan to reincarnate doomed. He sat down to study Reincarnation through his own Dao, while cultivators in the Nine Heavens watched a radiant thread of Fate Allotment.

• Lu Qing realized the old monsters intended to use the Reincarnation process to escape their fading lifespans and enter new bodies.
• Lu Qing examined the Azure River and saw that its apparent vitality concealed the dense aura of Reincarnation.
• Lu Qing found that someone had buried their Dao in the river, which was incomplete and tainted by Primordial Era Tribulation Qi.
• Lu Qing concluded that the old monsters’ attempt to use Reincarnation to evade Heaven’s Will and Heavenly Tribulation would fail.
• Lu Qing sat beside the river and studied the path through Reincarnation using his own Dao.
• The Nine Heavens cultivators looked toward their Fate Allotment and a radiant thread of Fate Allotment.

Lu Qing noticed a small group of Buddhist Cultivators traveling through the mountains toward Clearless Immortal City, while the emergence of Humanity Fate Allotment stirred speculation across the Nine Heavens. The Buddhist group reached the city gate, where their arrival drew a crowd before the Immortal City Enforcement Team dispersed it.

• Cultivators across the Nine Heavens discussed the reappearance of Humanity Fate Allotment and speculated about the coming Human Emperor and the Human Path’s influence.
• Lu Qing, stationed in Clearless Immortal City as his Red Dust Avatar, glimpsed a fleeting Buddha Light over the West Sea.
• Lu Qing spotted an elderly Buddhist monk and several young Buddhist Cultivators walking along a mountain road, then let them pass without intervening.
• Several decades later, the Buddhist Cultivators appeared near Clearless Immortal City’s gate, surprising local residents and Cultivators.
• The Immortal City Enforcement Team arrived and dispersed the people gathered to watch the Buddhist Cultivators.

Lu Qing observed a Buddhist monk and his young disciple settling in Immortal City, then examined a damaged branch of Reincarnation in the Purple Light Realm. He watched True Spirits attempting to reincarnate get crushed by the River and began tracing the Reincarnation Dao through the past.

• A lead law-enforcement cultivator calmed the commotion as an old Buddhist monk and his young disciple arrived in Immortal City.
• The young disciple asked whether they would find Buddhist Law One-Line Heaven, and the old monk said they would settle in the city while seeking their own Buddhist Law.
• Lu Qing observed the monk’s hardship-tempered Buddha Light and found no Destiny connection between their Buddhist Affinities.
• Lu Qing watched True Spirits enter the Reincarnation Portal and get crushed by the River before they could carry their former wisdom into new lives.
• Lu Qing examined the Azure River’s origins and traced the present and past of its Reincarnation Dao into a single thread.

Lu Qing examined the Reincarnation River and witnessed the lives of cultivators who had tried to comprehend its Dao. He saw that the latest practitioners had been separated by three thousand years and learned why one predecessor had abandoned cultivation for an ordinary life before dying in a flood.

• Lu Qing observed that the Reincarnation River contained traces of many cultivators and that its latest practitioner had appeared three thousand years earlier, when a great Tribulation had struck the Nine Heavens.
• Lu Qing watched the latest practitioner return to the Reincarnation Nether Domain, pursue the path of Immortals through Reincarnation, and finally throw himself into the river in despair.
• Lu Qing saw another predecessor, a cultivator who had nearly returned to simplicity, living as a farmer in a small courtyard three thousand years ago.
• The farmer's ordinary Fate Allotment led to his death in a flood, but a thread of divine light revived his True Spirit, which revealed that he had failed to comprehend Reincarnation because entering it meant risking true death.

Lu Qing traced the dangers and history of the Reincarnation Dao, discovering links between the Reincarnation River and the Seeking Dao Immortal Cauldron. He then reshaped his Netherworld with a new principle: Reincarnation must have order and law.

• Lu Qing sensed that entering Reincarnation carried hidden dangers and saw a predecessor undergo Dao Transformation.
• Lu Qing found that the Reincarnation River had been disrupted in the Primordial Era and connected its missing section to the Seeking Dao Immortal Cauldron.
• Lu Qing concluded that predecessors had mastered the Reincarnation Dao and resolved to keep comprehending it.
• Lu Qing infused his Netherworld with a cold, merciless will and declared that his Reincarnation must have order and law.

Lu Qing pondered the Reincarnation Great Dao’s links to the Primordial Era and the hidden forces pursuing Humanity Fate Allotment, while changes in that Fate Allotment stirred the Nine Heavens. In the Outer Void, a White Marsh searched for the Human Path’s core and wondered where the Son of the Human Emperor was.

• Lu Qing connected the Reincarnation River to Nine-Nether and recalled that reincarnation might explain how the Void Ground’s old monsters evaded time and Heavenly Retribution.
• Lu Qing’s incarnation observed Buddhist cultivators settling in an Immortal City, while he continued his cultivation without concern.
• Humanity Fate Allotment emerged across the Nine Heavens, prompting cultivators to divine its meaning and consider the Human Path’s future.
• A White Marsh in the Outer Void failed to locate the core of Humanity Fate Allotment within the Nine Heavens and suspected it lay in a Variable Fate beyond them.
• The White Marsh used its Qi-Reading Meridian-Determining Divine Ability to seek the Son of the Human Emperor.

White Marsh sensed the Son of the Human Emperor’s Fate Allotment and set out to find its bearer, fearing that the chosen person might not survive the perilous road ahead. Meanwhile, Lu Qing examined the River of Time and its inherited cultivation insights, then decided to avoid Reincarnation until before Dao Inquiry.

• White Marsh detected the Human Emperor Fate Allotment and reasoned that the Son of the Human Emperor was unlikely to appear in the Nine Heavens.
• White Marsh followed the thread of Cause and Effect and Fate Allotment toward the person it had sensed.
• Lu Qing discovered that the Dao Rhyme left by several Reincarnation Dao practitioners concealed pitfalls that had led later cultivators astray.
• Lu Qing resolved to avoid the eerie Void Ground until he reached Dao Inquiry.
• Lu Qing concluded that entering Reincarnation was extremely dangerous and planned to do so before Dao Inquiry.

Lu Qing purified the lingering obsessions in the Reincarnation River and considered how the Human Path’s resurgence might shape the Heaven-Earth Grand Trend. After White Marsh passed through the Earth Realm on its journey toward the Human Path’s core, Lu Qing left and looked back at the realm’s faint purple radiance from Beyond the Heavens.

• Lu Qing drew Dao Rhymes from the Reincarnation River, dissolved its inherited traps, and purified the traces of lingering obsession.
• Lu Qing sensed the current White Marsh passing through Beyond the Heavens and inferred that its destination held the core of the Human Path’s Fate Allotment.
• Lu Qing considered how the Human Path’s transformations could echo through the Heaven-Earth Grand Trend and chose not to involve himself in its weighty Cause and Effect.
• White Marsh noticed a faint trace of purple qi in the Earth Realm, then continued along its water path through Beyond the Heavens.
• Lu Qing entered Beyond the Heavens and looked back at the Earth Realm, which glimmered faintly against the void.