Recaps

Qin Tianshi, Zhuang Chengkong, Tu Miao'er, and Hua Guzhao discussed how to identify the true name of a Primordial Immortal’s dojo without provoking deadly backlash. Hua Guzhao summoned his fellow disciple Lou Hai, who brought out a jade cicada spirit treasure to divine the heavenly secrets.

• Qin Tianshi said the dojo’s immortal had mastered fire arts and was known as the Fire Law Dao Lord and Divine Lord Lihuo.
• The cultivators considered possible names for the dojo but could sense no connection to them, so Zhuang Chengkong suggested finding a heavenly secrets cultivator.
• Hua Guzhao said he knew a fellow disciple skilled in the Heavenly Secrets Path and called for Lou Hai.
• Lou Hai arrived, discussed the Ancient Heavenly Court era, and warned that divining the dojo’s true name would bring backlash.
• Lou Hai took out a luminous white jade cicada spirit treasure.

Tu Miao'er recognized Lou Hai's Jade Heavenly Secrets Cicada as a treasure of the famed Lou Clan, and Lou Hai used it to draw out a karmic true name. Lu Qing sensed the heavenly-secret disturbance and considered the Lou Clan's history while observing the mysterious Immortal Continent, whose connection to Southern Departing Fire Divine Lord remained unclear.

• Tu Miao'er identified Lou Hai's jade cicada as the Lou Clan's Jade Heavenly Secrets Cicada, prompting the others to recall the clan's former renown.
• Lou Hai began using the cicada, and its cry disturbed heavenly secrets as it tried to draw a karmic true name from the ancient past.
• Lu Qing sensed the disturbance and recognized the treasure as the Lou Clan's Jade Heavenly Secrets Cicada.
• Lu Qing reflected on the Lou Clan's decline and noted the fortune surrounding cultivators listed on the Hidden Dragon Ranking.
• Lu Qing watched cultivators gather around the hard-to-reach Immortal Continent and questioned its connection to Southern Departing Fire Divine Lord.

Lu Qing’s avatar waited amid the commotion over an Immortal’s True Name while Lu Qing’s main body explored the First Era through the River of Time. He found that the Dao-Seeking Hall reflected each era’s distinctive Energy Flow, but it had not appeared in the First Era’s river, leaving him to seek it within that ancient world.

• Cultivators gathered at the Immortal Continent debated the recorded name Departing Fire and its possible connection to Kan Water, while Lu Qing’s avatar waited and wondered how long the main body had been in the Dao-Seeking Hall.
• Lu Qing’s main body reached the First Era by tracing the River of Time back from his own time and observed its ancient, untamed world.
• Lu Qing considered how the Dao-Seeking Hall differed across the eras, reflecting each period’s Energy Flow and cultivation style.
• Lu Qing recalled that he had passed the Second Era’s Dao-Seeking Hall without seeing its Heaven-Ascending Path and wondered whether its secluded cultivation style had suited him.
• Lu Qing failed to find the First Era’s Dao-Seeking Hall in the River of Time and concluded that it must be situated within that era’s world.

Lu Qing realized that the Dao-Seeking Hall’s purpose in the First Epoch was tied to the newly born Immortal Path, and he suspected its Dao-Seeking Brush had fallen into that era. He traveled to the Nine Heavens cultivation world and arrived at an ancient mountain where he began seeking traces of immortals.

• Lu Qing inferred that the Dao-Seeking Hall was connected to the First Epoch’s newly born Immortal Path and that its Dao-Seeking Brush was likely there.
• Lu Qing entered the ancient era and reached a rural village beneath a renowned immortal mountain.
• The old village chief told the children that immortals lived in the mountain, though he had never confirmed the stories.
• Lu Qing, disguised as a green-robed scholar, told the village chief he had come to seek immortals.
• The village chief warned Lu Qing about wild beasts and recalled seeing a strange Immortal Sun Sea near the mountain when he was young.
• Lu Qing thanked the village chief, then stood on a stone platform to survey the immortal mountain.

Lu Qing reached Emerald Cloud Mountain, where he discovered that Emerald Cloud Temple was debating a sweeping reform of Immortal Path cultivation in the changed world after the Primordial Era. The temple master argued that heaven and its new Tribulation Qi made the old cultivation path impossible to sustain, while the elders resisted changing their inherited Dao.

• Lu Qing studied Emerald Cloud Mountain’s strange spiritual energy and concluded that genuine cultivators likely lived there.
• Lu Qing learned that cultivators called the mountain Emerald Cloud Mountain and that Emerald Cloud Temple stood on it.
• Emerald Cloud Temple’s elders rejected adopting the newly emerging Great Dao methods and defended their inherited cultivation path.
• The temple master warned that the world had changed since the Primordial Era and that the old path had contributed to heaven and earth’s inability to bear immortal cultivation.
• The temple master said the Immortal Path and the other Six Paths would have to change, then fell silent after declaring that the transformation could not be resisted.

Lu Qing arrived at Emerald Cloud Temple seeking the Immortals said to dwell on its mountain, and the temple’s cultivators welcomed him as an extraordinary guest. After hearing that he had recently emerged from seclusion, the temple master began explaining how the cultivation world had changed.

• The cultivators of Emerald Cloud Temple discussed whether anyone could still attain the longevity of the Primordial Immortals.
• Lu Qing reached Emerald Cloud Temple and told the elderly cultivator at its gate that he had come seeking Immortals.
• The elderly cultivator invited Lu Qing inside, and the temple master and other cultivators greeted him warmly.
• Lu Qing introduced himself and asked what had happened in the cultivation world beyond the mountains.
• The temple master told Lu Qing that cultivation had changed greatly and began recounting recent events.

Lu Qing learned that major sects were transforming the Immortal Path to cleanse Heaven and Earth of lingering Tribulation Qi, resentment, and Killing Intent. He was invited to the Green Duckweed Discourse in seven days and suspected that the Great Dao across all Six Paths was changing, with Dao-Seeking Hall connected to those changes.

• Lu Qing discussed with Emerald Cloud Temple cultivators how changes in Heaven and Earth were making cultivation difficult.
• An Emerald Cloud Temple elder explained that the Golden Cloud Sect and other major factions had foreseen bloodshed and the extinction of Daoist lineages unless the Immortal Path was transformed.
• The cultivators said leading figures from several sects and the three great Heavens were transforming the Immortal Path while working to cleanse Heaven and Earth's Killing Intent and resentment.
• An elder invited Lu Qing to the Green Duckweed Discourse on Green Duckweed Mountain in seven days, where cultivators would debate the new and Primordial Era methods.
• Lu Qing accepted the news and reflected that all Six Paths might be changing, with Dao-Seeking Hall's trace likely among them.

Lu Qing learned that the Immortal Cloud Sun Sea above Emerald Cloud Temple reflected a Primordial Era sect and considered whether similar Reincarnations connected the two eras. After sensing the temple’s future hardships, he granted it a Heavenly Secret Thread that could open a path to better fortune.

• Xiao Wu brought Lu Qing breakfast and explained that the cloud-top palaces reflected a sect from the Primordial Era.
• Lu Qing recalled a similar mountain sect he had encountered in the Primordial Era and wondered whether the two places represented similar Reincarnations.
• Lu Qing sensed Emerald Cloud Temple’s aura and a faint connection to the Primordial Era.
• Lu Qing saw hardships in Emerald Cloud Temple’s future Destiny and bestowed a Heavenly Secret Thread that could help its people overcome them.

Lu Qing reflected on the resolve required to pursue the Dao without waiting for perfection, then traveled toward Green Duckweed Mountain to attend the Green Duckweed Discourse. The chapter ended as cultivators arrived at pavilions beside Green Duckweed Lake.

• Lu Qing realized that pursuing the Dao sometimes required pressing forward despite uncertainty and imperfection.
• Lu Qing perceived strange energies linking distant figures to the mortal world and sensed traces of reincarnation around Emerald Cloud Mountain.
• Lu Qing studied the map from the master of Emerald Cloud Temple and located Green Duckweed Mountain in the Central Land of the Eastern Court Divine Province.
• Lu Qing considered how the Green Duckweed Discourse might reveal the mysteries behind the new and old cultivation paths and the Dao-Seeking Hall.
• Lu Qing disappeared from the lakeside, and cultivators arrived in streaks of light at the pavilions surrounding Green Duckweed Lake.

Cultivators from many lineages gathered beneath Green Duckweed Mountain for the Green Duckweed Discourse, including disciples from Beyondworld Mountain. As the Beyondworld disciples arrived, their traveling senior brother reflected that their secluded realm had never truly escaped the wider cultivation world.

• Cultivators beneath Green Duckweed Mountain used their robes' cloud patterns to identify Dao lineages and kept their distance from ancient sects.
• A cultivator explained that the Beyondworld Mountain disciples cultivated in a realm opened by the Beyondworld True Person, where worldly tribulation aura was weaker.
• The Beyondworld Mountain disciples arrived, and a junior brother privately complained about gathering in such a crowded place.
• The senior brother considered whether Beyondworld Mountain's isolation had helped or harmed its disciples and doubted that it had escaped the cultivation world's reach.
• Clouds surged across heaven and earth, and thunder shook the world.

Cultivators from across the world gathered at Green Duckweed Mountain for a Dao debate over a new path of cultivation, as the Dharma-Free Immortal Gate made a dramatic arrival. Lu Qing surveyed the ancient era’s dangerous spiritual environment and its emerging formations, then entered a pavilion to rest.

• The Dharma-Free Immortal Gate arrived at Green Duckweed Mountain amid clouds, thunder, and dragon-script, drawing attention from cultivators below.
• An old cultivator explained the Dharma-Free Immortal Gate’s history of brilliant disciples driven mad by the Dao and warned of its unpredictable methods.
• A Beyondworld Mountain junior brother asked why the Dharma-Free Immortal Gate had come, and his Senior Brother said it would not miss such a major event.
• Cultivators from many regions gathered ahead of the debate, while Lu Qing considered how ancient immortal descendants and other powers might respond to the new Dao.
• Lu Qing observed formations intended to cleanse resentment and stabilize the dangerous primordial environment, then entered a pavilion occupied by a wary young Daoist couple.

Lu Qing watched the wonders gathering over Green Duckweed Lake and considered how the site would become a forbidden region in the East Sea of later ages. As the final day of the Dao discussion approached, an extraordinary wind descended from the Nine Heavens, heralding the arrival of several mysterious figures.

• Lu Qing watched cultivators gather around Green Duckweed Lake and reflected on how its location would become a forbidden region in the future East Sea.
• Lu Qing sensed the chaotic Dao resonance but found no trace of Dao-Seeking Hall and remained untroubled.
• Over three days, cultivators established Dao huts and cave-heaven treasures around the lake and on nearby mountaintops.
• As the final day drew near, five-colored radiance formed a rainbow arc across the sky.
• Someone cried out as a supernatural wind descended, bringing golden light, rosy clouds, falling golden lotuses, and colorful phoenixes.
• Several hazy figures arrived amid the wind, light, clouds, and mist.

Lu Qing arrived at Green Duckweed Mountain for a discourse on the Dao between the old cultivation methods and the New Dao. Meanwhile, Azure Sea Sword Mountain’s leaders watched the gathering through a deduction, but the Heavenly Secrets around it remained obscured.

• Lu Qing entered Green Duckweed Mountain after concealing the Heavenly Secrets around himself, and the gathered cultivators did not question him.
• Cultivators from the other Six Paths watched the Immortal Path’s discourse, hoping to learn how the New Dao could avoid provoking tribulation.
• At Azure Sea Sword Mountain, Huang Yugong deduced the Green Duckweed Mountain gathering but found its Heavenly Secrets chaotic and impossible to see clearly.
• Heaven Calculation True Person said that only the old sect master could be a fellow traveler to the great figures at the gathering.
• Spirit Sword True Person argued that the flourishing Providence of every path was unstable and that a new path had to be found before it collapsed.
• Huang Yugong wondered whether the newborn heaven and earth was truly so formidable and whether the great figures had already glimpsed its future.

Huang Yugong, Spirit Sword True Person, and Heaven Calculation True Person discussed the dangers facing cultivators of the ancient paths and whether Spirit Path cultivators could follow the Immortal Path’s lead. As Immortal Path figures prepared to give their discourse at Green Duckweed Mountain, cultivators across the Nine Heavens watched, and Lu Qing observed the mountain’s vast, layered spaces and the effects of the figures’ restrained auras.

• Heaven Calculation True Person and Huang Yugong recognized that the ancient paths might be running out of time and said the Spirit Path should prepare while the Azure Sea Sword Master was away.
• Spirit Sword True Person argued that Heaven and Earth might not treat cultivators as fellow travelers, and that the laws of the Nine Heavens were too profound to predict with certainty.
• The three cultivators considered whether Spirit Path cultivators could follow the road opened by the Immortal Path figures.
• Powerful gazes from across the Nine Heavens turned toward Eastern Court Divine Province without displaying their Great Dao phenomena.
• Lu Qing saw cultivators enter seclusion to comprehend the Dao as the restrained auras of the Immortal Path figures transformed the land around Green Duckweed Mountain.
• Lu Qing observed that Green Duckweed Mountain contained layered restricted worlds vast enough to accommodate cultivators from throughout the Nine Heavens and beyond.

Lu Qing attended a gathering at Green Duckweed Mountain where cultivators debated the Old and New Dao and learned about Shang Weiyang of the Dharma-Free Immortal Gate. The arrival of five Immortal Path True Persons silenced Heaven and Earth, and Lu Qing sensed that they existed at a different point in time.

• Cultivators at Green Duckweed Mountain discussed the Primordial methods, the rise of the New Dao, and the Golden Core as a dividing line in cultivation.
• A cultivator named Shang Weiyang of the Dharma-Free Immortal Gate urged others to adapt their mindset, while nearby cultivators identified his One-Heart Path and warned one another about him.
• Lu Qing listened to the introductions and observed the immense Fate Allotment and distant gazes surrounding the gathering.
• Five ethereal figures appeared, and their presence stilled the wind, thunderclouds, and circulation of Fate Allotment across Heaven and Earth.
• Lu Qing recognized the figures as great True Persons and sensed that, despite appearing at Green Duckweed Mountain, they were separated from the gathering by time.

Lu Qing watched five powerful figures manifest a Great Dao amid the turbulent Fate Allotment and considered their connection to the Dao-Seeking Hall and the First Era. The figures took positions corresponding to Yin-Yang and the Five Elements as the Immortal Path Fate Allotment rumbled.

• Lu Qing sensed the familiar aura of the Dao-Seeking Hall and wondered whether one of the five figures had glanced at him.
• Lu Qing considered why the Dao-Seeking Hall and Dao-Seeking Brush had appeared in the First Era, and wondered what the coming discussion of the Dao would reveal.
• The five figures appeared as the energy flow of heaven and earth resumed and strands of Great Dao runes emerged in the surrounding Profound Light.
• A Great Dao spanned the sky, and the figure at the far left stood above it.
• The other four figures took positions within the Great Dao corresponding to Yin-Yang and the Five Elements, causing the Immortal Path Fate Allotment to rumble.

Lu Qing observed the Immortal Path Great Dao revealed at the Green Duckweed Discourse, where five Superior True Persons presented a likely path of Immortal cultivation. Nine ancient figures arrived to block the Dao, leaving the gathered cultivators anticipating a clash between the New Dao and Old Dao while Lu Qing sensed something unexpected.

• Lu Qing saw the Immortal Path Great Dao and considered how its manifestation could shape cultivation throughout the Nine Heavens Cultivation Realm.
• A Superior True Person explained that the Green Duckweed Discourse would begin with observing the Dao before debating it.
• One of the five Superior True Persons exposed concealed visitors at the edge of the heavens, and nine ancient figures manifested.
• The cultivators realized the five Superior True Persons had been waiting for the nine visitors, who had come to block the Dao and challenge the New Dao.
• Cultivators speculated about the visitors’ Primordial Era lineages and wondered why the Immortal Path was changing.
• Lu Qing looked at the nine figures, raised his brows, and felt a faint stirring in his Spiritual Heart as he thought, “It should not be that.”

Nine powerful figures, led by Eclosion, arrived as the Immortal Path's conflict over a new cultivation path drew the attention of hidden experts. The observers doubted the newcomers could challenge the five Superior True Persons, while one old monster warned that they did not understand the significance of reaching even half a step toward that height.

• Lu Qing sensed that the nine arriving figures were not the targets the five Superior True Persons had been awaiting.
• Hidden experts exchanged Divine Senses and recognized Eclosion as the leader of the nine, noting the sect sought the return of the Primordial Immortals.
• The observers recalled that lingering Tribulation Qi and other problems from the Primordial Era had made cultivation increasingly difficult across all Six Paths.
• Some hidden cultivators dismissed the nine as old relics and questioned why more Immortal Path cultivators had not come to oppose the five.
• A mocking cultivator looked toward the five vast figures and said that others did not understand what it meant to reach their level, even by half a step.

Lu Qing reflected on ancient travelogues and the mysteries of the Immortal Path as the nine Eclosion Sect figures arrived at Green Duckweed Mountain to discuss the Dao. The five Superior True Persons demonstrated power beyond the visitors’ expectations, and one speaker’s words about beginnings and endings left a visitor suffering a strange backlash from time.

• Nine figures from the Eclosion Sect arrived at Green Duckweed Mountain, claiming they had come to discuss the Dao.
• A Superior True Person welcomed them and brought them onto the mountain by shifting space, prompting one visitor to ask whether the five had taken a final step.
• Lu Qing recalled Dongyang the Hermit's travelogue and considered whether its account of Immortal Ascension meant the Great Dao had existed before the First Era.
• The central hazy figure declared that knowing what came before and after brought one close to the Dao.
• One visitor tested the flow of time, then found an enduring trace of time in his palm and suffered backlash.

Lu Qing and the cultivators gathered on Green Duckweed Mountain witnessed a Great Dao revealed by five Immortal Path Venerables, while distant powers speculated about its origins and the Eclosion Sect. The Venerables announced that the Dao was a heavenly secret they had discovered after ten thousand years of expounding the Dharma and invited questions.

• A cultivator severed his connection to another True Immortal’s Dao, fearing it would taint his own Great Dao.
• A figure above a sea abyss mocked the Eclosion Sect for sending nine cultivators instead of coming in person.
• Powerful figures beyond Eastern Court Divine Province discussed the terrifying Great Dao and wondered whether its creators had reached the next step of the new Immortal Path.
• Nine figures took their seats on Green Duckweed Mountain as Lu Qing turned his gaze toward the Great Dao.
• The five figures announced that the Dao was a heavenly secret discovered after ten thousand years of expounding the Dharma and invited the cultivators to ask questions.

At the Green Duckweed Discourse, five powerful figures explained that changing heaven and earth had made the old Dao unsustainable and revealed terrifying possible futures for the Nine Heavens. The chapter left Lu Qing and the gathered cultivators facing signs of a great tribulation that could arrive in less than a century.

• A cultivator asked why the new Dao needed revision, and a Superior True Person said heaven and earth had changed so the old Dao could no longer endure.
• Beyondworld Mountain disciples discussed the new Dao, while cultivators speculated that mortal cultivation and broader access to sects might help stabilize the immortal path's providence.
• When a cultivator asked whether heaven's altered secrets meant a great tribulation was coming, one of the five figures revealed a curtain displaying possible destinies.
• Lu Qing saw futures in which cultivators pursued Dao fruits in the void but remained constrained, and others in which calamities and pollution made cultivation increasingly difficult.
• The visions showed no hope of survival and suggested a tribulation could come within a century, threatening not only immortal cultivators but all Six Paths.

A heavenly revelation announced that the great tribulation would arrive in less than a hundred years, forcing cultivators to face the new Immortal Path. Lu Qing watched the Great Dao gain substance and began to suspect that the Dao-Seeking Hall’s trial concerned the origin of the path, while an Exalted True Immortal explained how to cultivate and spread it to transcend the tribulation.

• Cultivators learned that the great tribulation would descend in less than a hundred years, and even an elderly Rogue Cultivator realized he would have to attempt the new path.
• The river of the Great Dao rumbled and became more tangible as the heavenly revelation reached living beings.
• Lu Qing sensed the change from Green Duckweed Mountain and wondered whether the Dao-Seeking Hall’s trial required him to witness the new path’s origin.
• Lu Qing considered how the original path to immortality had become impassable in later generations and suspected the answer lay with the five Exalted True Immortals.
• An Exalted True Immortal told the cultivators to gather fate, build their foundations, seek inward, and spread the Dao by opening their mountain gates and enlightening all living beings.

At the Green Duckweed Discourse, five Superior True Persons explained the supreme method of crossing the approaching tribulation and began expounding the New Dao of the Immortal Path. Lu Qing listened as the teachings outlined the new cultivation realms and the path’s differences from the Primordial Immortal Path.

• Cultivators recognized the signs of an approaching great tribulation and discussed why the supreme method offered a better path than seclusion.
• A Superior True Person warned that the tribulation might stem from lingering Primordial Era Tribulation Qi and began explaining the Immortal Path’s principles.
• The five Superior True Persons expounded the New Dao, including the Purple Mansion, the Golden Core path, and how cultivators should seek the Great Dao.
• Lu Qing listened to the teachings and sensed that the Dao-Seeking Hall’s Energy Flow had been lingering over Green Duckweed Mountain.
• The first day’s exposition covered qi nourishment, the nine levels of the Qi Nourishment Realm, and the distinctions between Foundation Establishment, Purple Mansion, and Golden Core.

Lu Qing listened to the five Superior True Persons debate and expound the Golden Core path, learning that Dao-seeking led to Immortal Ascension Realm and that Transcendence lay beyond it. As the exposition ended, the approaching Great Tribulation and the New Dao’s accessibility prompted cultivators to consider the need to guide all beings into cultivation.

• Lu Qing heard the five Superior True Persons describe Dao Mastery, Transcendence, and Immortal Ascension Realm, while a familiar trace of sect Providence drew his attention.
• Lu Qing considered the road ahead and concluded that he needed to break through into Dao-seeking and deepen his understanding of Dao-Seeking Hall.
• The five Superior True Persons expounded the Dao for nine heavens amid wondrous signs across the sea and sky.
• The nine uninvited figures silently weighed the new path’s impact as they realized a Great Tribulation was approaching and that their Primordial cultivation made deducing Heaven’s secrets increasingly difficult.
• Other cultivators recognized that the New Dao offered an easier entry into cultivation and understood why opening the mountain gates to enlighten all beings was a supreme way to cross the Tribulation.

Cultivators discussed the New Dao revealed by the five Superior True Persons and the impending Dao Tribulation. They resolved to cultivate quickly and spread the Dao among all living beings, while the other Six Paths considered why the Immortal Path had opened its teachings so widely.

• Cultivators praised the New Dao's Inner World and reflected on how it differed from the Primordial Immortal Path.
• Cultivators worried that the New Dao's lack of an immediate Dao Tribulation might herald a more terrifying calamity, possibly multiplying Tribulation Cycles and Tribulation Qi.
• Cultivators recalled that the five Superior True Persons had urged them to cultivate quickly and enlighten all living beings to gain heaven-and-earth Merit before the Tribulation arrived in less than a hundred years.
• A mocking figure in the sea abyss suggested that the Immortal Path had opened its teachings to weaken the threat of Tribulation Qi by drawing the other Six Paths into the New Dao.
• Observers from the other Six Paths judged that spreading Dao Transmission suited the Nine Heavens Cultivation Realm better than selecting a few inheritors, as the realm needed more cultivators but could not bear excessive Immortals.