Chapter Summaries

The Taiyin Primordial Lady transformed Jiang Sheng into a Taiyin body and proclaimed him the Taiyin Star’s Young Lord, while the genuine Primordial Lady revealed herself within his sea of consciousness and explained the conflict over his fate. Jiang Sheng agreed to help her reclaim her body in exchange for a chance to reach the Sun Star, and she told him his path through the great calamity might offer hope beyond Pure Yang.

• The Taiyin Primordial Lady revealed that the Taiyin Illusion Realm had silently transformed Jiang Sheng’s body and cultivation, then named him the Taiyin Star’s Young Lord, Lingyuan.
• Jiang Sheng’s True Spirit remained clear beneath the transformation, protected by the Lotus Lamp, while Taiyin power froze his sea of consciousness and sealed his treasures.
• The genuine Taiyin Primordial Lady appeared in Jiang Sheng’s sea of consciousness and explained that the woman outside was another thought formed from her soulless body.
• Jiang Sheng regretted cooperating with the Primordial Lady but asked whether helping her reclaim her body would let him ascend the Sun Star and complete his Yin-Yang Dao.
• The Primordial Lady said Jiang Sheng’s fate and the Xuanmen Great Calamity aligned with his Dao, then described a possible hope of ascending beyond Pure Yang.

Taiyin True Monarch taught Jiang Sheng how to use the Taiyin Star and Sun Star to cross his next tribulations, then borrowed his body to prepare for a battle with the turbid thought occupying her own fleshly shell. After forty-nine days, she entered her body to confront it, leaving Jiang Sheng with the warning to pursue his own Taiyin method.

• Taiyin True Monarch proposed that Jiang Sheng cross the Heart Fire Tribulation at the Taiyin Star and the Spleen Earth Tribulation at the Sun Star in exchange for helping her retrieve her body.
• Jiang Sheng lent Taiyin True Monarch his body, and she used the Years Heartfire Art to melt the Taiyin ice in his sea of consciousness and preserve his foundation.
• Taiyin True Monarch warned Jiang Sheng to conceal his Sanxuan Dao Sect relic, then spent forty-nine days tending his meridians and acupoints while he learned her Taiyin methods.
• After the forty-nine days, Taiyin True Monarch recognized that Jiang Sheng’s Taiyin body had reached minor accomplishment and prepared to pass him the Taiyin Cold Light True Scripture.
• Taiyin True Monarch revealed that she had repaired the scripture and used a golden hairpin to return to her fleshly shell, where she faced the remnant soul’s turbid thought.
• Taiyin True Monarch told Jiang Sheng to seek his own Taiyin method rather than imitate another’s Dao.

Jiang Sheng gathered materials across the Taiyin Illusion Realm, forged a cloud bed, and refined Taiyin Ice God Pills to prepare for the Heartfire Calamity. He began the breakthrough on the cloud bed, and the Heartfire burned away his lifespan until his body became lifeless charcoal.

• After Taiyin True Monarch entered her body to battle her remnant soul's turbid thoughts, Jiang Sheng vowed to help her if she lost and left to pursue his own Taiyin Dao.
• Jiang Sheng collected materials from the six domains and forged a cloud bed on the ice mountain to protect him during the Heartfire Calamity.
• Jiang Sheng gathered medicinal ingredients across the six surrounding realms and refined two Taiyin Ice God Pills, stopping their pill lightning with his Sword Qi.
• After half a year on the cloud bed, Jiang Sheng took a treasure pill and began tempering the Heartfire.
• The Heartfire consumed Jiang Sheng's lifespan and scorched his body until he lost all breath, leaving only a charcoal-like shell on the cloud bed.

Jiang Sheng endured the heart fire tribulation by burning through his lifespan while keeping his Dao Heart intact, as the five sects reshaped Xuanhuang World amid the demonic calamity. His disciples followed his traces into a frozen world, where a Moon Immortal resembling Jiang Sheng appeared and carried them away.

• Jiang Sheng used his lunar cultivation to protect his soul and Dao Heart as the heart fire burned his body and consumed his lifespan.
• The five sects spread their lineages across Xuanhuang World and fought demons, while a new five-sect order began to replace the old thirteen-sect structure.
• Tian Ming'an, Qiu Buyu, Li Jianchun, and Huang Ping'an followed Jiang Sheng's sword marks through an unfamiliar frozen world.
• The four disciples struggled through growing lunar cold and ice flames, but continued onward because they believed they had to find their missing master.
• A Moon Immortal appeared before the nearly frozen disciples, swept them into a sleeve, and vanished.

Li Jianchun, Tian Ming'an, Qiu Buyu, and Huang Ping'an recovered from the Taiyin chill under the care of Jiang Sheng’s incarnation, True Lord Guanghan Yuehui. Jiang Sheng planned to take them to the Sun Star after recuperating, while he sought to balance Taiyin’s influence and preserve his true nature.

• Li Jianchun and the others woke in ice coffins at Clear Bamboo Palace, confirmed they were together, and fell back asleep to recover.
• True Lord Guanghan Yuehui revealed that he was another incarnation of their master, explained the danger of the Taiyin Illusion Realm, and put them back to sleep.
• Jiang Sheng’s main body spoke with Yuehui and explained that his heart-fire tribulation had passed, though he was still recovering.
• Jiang Sheng’s thought inspected the four disciples and found Taiyin chill lingering in their bodies and divine souls.
• Jiang Sheng said he would take the disciples to the Sun Star once he had recuperated, while Yuehui remained on the Taiyin Star.
• Jiang Sheng reflected that he needed solar power to balance Taiyin and planned to separate a solar body to protect his Dao Heart.

Jiang Sheng passed the liver wood heartfire tribulation, emerged as an ageless second-tribulation True Lord, and reunited with True Lord Yuehui in the Clear Bamboo Palace. He rescued his four disciples and began restoring their bodies and souls, leaving them to deduce a medicinal formula before he visits a friend.

• Jiang Sheng used azure wood qi to sustain his heartfire after his lifespan ran out, remade his body, and passed the second trial.
• Jiang Sheng met True Lord Yuehui, discussed the four disciples’ recklessness and their need to complete their foundations, and took them away in their ice coffins.
• True Lord Yuehui reflected on Jiang Sheng’s attachment to his disciples before vanishing into moonlight.
• Tian Ming'an, Qiu Buyu, Li Jianchun, and Huang Ping'an awoke in a cauldron as Jiang Sheng brewed medicine to repair their bodies and souls.
• The four disciples analyzed the medicinal soup, and Jiang Sheng explained that its formula was Primordial Yang Melding Yin Powder, derived from the Lunar Alchemy Canon.
• Jiang Sheng told the disciples to deduce the original Vast Cold Jade Palace Powder so they could safely accompany him to the Sun Star, then left to visit a friend.

Jiang Sheng left his disciples to study a medicinal formula together, then returned to Penglai Estate in the Central Region after several years away. Lingwei and Ling Yu welcomed him and asked where he had gone, leaving Jiang Sheng about to recount his travels.

• Jiang Sheng's disciples discovered the medicinal formula engraved inside the cauldron and began working together to reconstruct the Vast Cold Jade Palace Powder.
• Jiang Sheng sensed his disciples cooperating, then continued toward Penglai Estate.
• Jiang Sheng arrived at Penglai Estate and admired the Five-Element Spiritual Light Array that Lingwei had built to protect the sect.
• Lingwei welcomed Jiang Sheng and remarked that his cultivation and temperament had changed during his absence.
• Ling Yu joined Lingwei and asked Jiang Sheng where he had gone, and Jiang Sheng prepared to tell them his story.

After returning from the Taiyin Star, Jiang Sheng planned a gathering of the Xuanhuang World’s factions to discuss how to help him reach the Sun Star. Invitations spread across the continent, and the chapter left the various houses preparing to meet at Penglai Estate.

• Jiang Sheng told Lingwei and Ling Yu about his Taiyin Star journey and agreed to seek help before attempting to ascend the Sun Star.
• Lin Fan returned and accepted Jiang Sheng’s request to invite Underworld Lord Shaobai, Four Seas True Lord, Kong Zhen, and Jin Qiong to the gathering.
• Jiang Sheng asked Ling Yu to arrange an immortal banquet and set out to invite Crested Ibis Demon Monarch, Guanghui, and Guangwen.
• Crested Ibis accepted Jiang Sheng’s invitation to the banquet at Penglai Estate, while Guanghui agreed that he and Guangwen would attend.
• Lingwei sent messages to the other factions, and news of Jiang Sheng’s return and the upcoming banquet spread throughout the Xuanhuang Continent.

Penglai Estate held a grand immortal banquet to celebrate Jiang Sheng’s return, where he distributed treasures from the Taiyin Star and proposed ascending the Sun Star. As the sect leaders offered fire-protecting treasures, Xuanyi revealed five Innate Fire Spirit Seeds.

• Jiang Huan told Wang Yuan and Li Shu that True Lord Lingyuan had returned and explained how they might earn a chance to see him in the cloud-palaces.
• Jiang Sheng praised Ling Qiu’s teaching of Jiang Huan and gave her Golden-Aura Jade Dew Pills for Jiang Huan’s future Golden Core breakthrough.
• Immortal sages from many sects gathered at Penglai Estate, and Jiang Sheng arrived to distribute Taiyin Star treasures to his guests.
• Jiang Sheng asked the gathered sages to help devise a safe way to ascend the Sun Star, and several guests offered Phoenix, fire-warding, and other protective treasures.
• Xuanyi asked whether Jiang Sheng needed protection for himself or others, then revealed five Innate Fire Spirit Seeds.

Jiang Sheng gathered fire-warding treasures and support from the various houses, then prepared Tian Ming'an, Qiu Buyu, Li Jianchun, Huang Ping'an, Lin Fan, and Crested Ibis Demon Monarch for the perilous ascent to the Sun Star. He led them through its blazing outer fire and entered the Sun Star.

• Xuanyi gave Jiang Sheng five Innate Fire Spirit Seeds, and Jiang Sheng also accepted the other houses’ fire-warding items in exchange for a share of what he found on the Sun Star.
• Jiang Sheng explained to Lingwei that sharing the Sun Star’s treasures would strengthen cooperation among the houses during the Xuanmen Great Calamity.
• Tian Ming'an, Qiu Buyu, Li Jianchun, and Huang Ping'an passed Jiang Sheng’s test by deriving a pill formula, and Jiang Sheng prepared them to ascend the Sun Star.
• Jiang Sheng and Lin Fan spent fourteen days correcting and practicing fire-spirit Dao patterns, after which Jiang Sheng painted the patterns onto the four disciples and Lin Fan.
• Jiang Sheng set out with Tian Ming'an, Qiu Buyu, Li Jianchun, Huang Ping'an, Lin Fan, and Crested Ibis Demon Monarch, then swept them through the Sun Star’s outer fire and entered it.

Jiang Sheng explored the Sun Star, where he discovered fire spirits and valuable treasures amid the raging Solar True Fire. After finding a vast golden-red palace complex, he headed toward it, suspecting it held an important discovery.

• Jiang Sheng used the Fire Virtue Origin Talisman to protect Tian Ming'an, Qiu Buyu, Li Jianchun, and Huang Ping'an, then instructed them to cultivate on the Sun Star for seven days.
• Lin Fan left to attempt to contain Solar True Fire, while the Crested Ibis Demon Monarch departed to refine the Phoenix Plume.
• Jiang Sheng left a breath of pure qi with a jade tablet to guard the four disciples and take them away if Lin Fan did not return within seven days.
• Jiang Sheng slew numerous Sun Star Nature Spirits and discovered Innate Fire Spirit Marrow within one of them.
• Jiang Sheng found an Origin Fire Essence Stone and a Fusang Grove whose fruit spirits attacked him; he gathered unawakened fruits and leaves, then left a Dao marker behind.
• Jiang Sheng flew toward a vast golden-red palace complex, wondering whether it had belonged to someone important.

Jiang Sheng studied the Dao scripture inscribed at the Great Sun Divine Palace and learned the Great Sun Traversal Art, which revealed deficiencies in his own cultivation. He entered the palace, awakening changes within it, while True Monarch Guanghan sensed the event from the Taiyin Star.

• Jiang Sheng reached the Great Sun Divine Palace and used his Truth-Seeing Golden Pupils to overcome the fiery illusion surrounding its gate inscription.
• Jiang Sheng comprehended Dao Lord Huiyi Haogong’s Yangyi Vast Gold True Scripture and learned the Great Sun Traversal Art.
• Jiang Sheng realized the art exposed shortcomings in his escape techniques and offered a respectful Daoist salute to Jinhao Sun Lord.
• Jiang Sheng abandoned his attempt to derive a Yang cultivation art and entered the Great Sun Divine Palace.
• The palace grew more lively and phantom flames appeared within it, while True Monarch Guanghan sensed the change from the Taiyin Star without waking.

Jiang Sheng endured the Great Sun Divine Palace’s tempering corridor, then defeated its Sunfire Divine Soldiers by unleashing calamity-infused Five Elements Divine Lightning. He traversed to the Heavenly Dao Radiant Rite hall and stood before its entrance.

• Jiang Sheng walked through the palace-wall corridor, allowing its immortal-deity pressure to temper his body and soul.
• After leaving the corridor, Jiang Sheng was ambushed by a thousand Integration Realm Sunfire Divine Soldiers and more than ten thousand Void Refinement archers.
• Jiang Sheng used the Great Sun Traversal Art to escape the arrow barrage and reached the palace wall above the soldiers.
• Jiang Sheng summoned calamity-infused Five Elements Divine Lightning, which suppressed and annihilated the Sunfire Divine Soldiers in the urn city.
• Jiang Sheng used the Great Sun Traversal Art to reach a grand hall, where he read its inscriptions and saw the plaque naming it Heavenly Dao Radiant Rite.

Jiang Sheng explored the Great Sun Divine Palace and experienced the work of its former judge, who had monitored the Xuanhuang World and punished immortal officials. He met the awakened projection of Immortal Lord Shaoyang Flame Rite, who invited him to help revive the Dual Principles Dao Palace.

• Jiang Sheng entered the Great Sun Divine Palace, where the hall awakened and revealed its throne, ceremonial robes, and view over the Xuanhuang World.
• Jiang Sheng witnessed past judgments in which the Sun Monarch’s incarnation punished officials who violated heavenly regulations.
• Jiang Sheng resisted the ceremonial crown and robes, then explained that upholding heavenly regulations meant following Heaven and answering humanity.
• Immortal Lord Shaoyang Flame Rite appeared as a projection, revealed that his body and soul had vanished during the Epoch End Calamity, and thanked Jiang Sheng for awakening him.
• Immortal Lord Shaoyang Flame Rite invited Jiang Sheng to help revive the Dual Principles Dao Palace and promised him a golden-purple decree bearing his name.

Jiang Sheng rejected Immortal Lord Shaoyang Flame Rite’s request to restore the Dual Principles Dao Palace and destroyed the remnant soul and most of the palace’s formations. Elsewhere on the Sun Star, the Crested Ibis Demon Monarch began refining the Phoenix Plume with Great Sun Golden Flame and encountered a dead fire crow that offered to help.

• Immortal Lord Flame Rite demanded Jiang Sheng assist in reviving the Dual Principles Dao Palace, but Jiang Sheng refused and warned that the old orthodoxy could not restore the past.
• Immortal Lord Flame Rite activated the palace’s formations against Jiang Sheng, who shattered them with his sword arts and destroyed the palace’s starry dome.
• Jiang Sheng erased Immortal Lord Flame Rite’s final projection with the Qingping Sword, then confirmed that the remnant was truly dead.
• The Crested Ibis Demon Monarch found a golden-flamed sea and a nest of bones on the Sun Star, then began refining the Phoenix Plume there.
• In a hazy dream, the Crested Ibis Demon Monarch met a half-golden, half-black fire crow with Golden Crow blood, which offered to help refine the plume and warned him not to disturb the place’s master.

Crested Ibis Demon Monarch learned that the Sun Monarch had only been sleeping and began refining the Phoenix Plume with Fire Crow’s help as the Sun Monarch awakened. Meanwhile, Jiang Sheng explored the Great Sun Divine Palace’s scripture repository and treasures, then sent his disciples away while continuing to seek the Three Calamities.

• Crested Ibis Demon Monarch discovered from Fire Crow that the Sun Monarch had not fallen, and the awakened master’s will barred communication across the Sun Star.
• Fire Crow spent his remaining strength helping Zhu Ibis refine the Phoenix Plume as the flames around them grew docile.
• A hidden voice revealed that the Sun Monarch had arranged Jiang Sheng’s trials to lead him toward the Dual Principles Dao Palace legacy and promised to restore Flame Rite Shaoyang.
• Jiang Sheng entered the Great Sun Divine Palace scripture repository, used Flame Rite Shaoyang’s jade token to borrow canons, and studied methods related to the Three Calamities.
• Jiang Sheng searched the palace for several days, finding preserved pills, medicines, and signs that its ancient halls remained active through powerful time-and-space formations.
• Jiang Sheng found Tian Ming'an and the other disciples recovered, sent them away with an incarnation, and stayed on the Sun Star to pursue the spleen-earth calamity.

Jiang Sheng reflected on his rapid cultivation and entered the Sun Star’s innermost fire sea to refine a true Imperial Nectar, intending to break through his Third Calamity. As he began refining it, a hidden plan was revealed: someone intended to use the Imperial Nectar and Jiang Sheng’s tribulation to steal his cultivation and undying Primordial Spirit.

• Jiang Sheng reviewed his cultivation records, resolved to temper himself in the Sun Star’s fires, and seek the spleen earth tribulation and an undying soul.
• Jiang Sheng traversed the five layers of true fire, refining and consolidating his body, soul, mana, and Dao Fruit before finding true Imperial Nectar.
• Jiang Sheng swallowed the Imperial Nectar and began refining it on a lotus dais, a process that lasted three years.
• The Crested Ibis Demon Monarch awoke on the Sun Star near the Integration realm, but Fire Crow warned him that he could not break through there and urged him to leave.
• The Crested Ibis Demon Monarch left the Sun Star, while voices in the Great Sun Divine Palace revealed a plan to use Jiang Sheng’s tribulation to steal his cultivation and make the conspirator’s Primordial Spirit undying.

Jiang Sheng began the spleen-earth tribulation on the Sun Star, but a scarlet-gold being entered his sea of consciousness and revealed that he and Taiyin True Monarch had arranged Jiang Sheng’s gains to bind him through karmic debts. Jiang Sheng faced the being while his Primordial Spirit decayed, leaving his fate and body in danger.

• Jiang Sheng stopped refining the Emperor’s Elixir and linked liver-wood to heart-fire to nurture earth qi and begin his Third Calamity.
• Jiang Sheng’s Primordial Spirit began to rot, and a golden fire essence from the Great Sun Divine Palace entered the five-colored sea of fire.
• Crested Ibis Demon Monarch sensed the Sun Star’s agitation, recalled Fire Crow’s warning, and stayed hidden in a volcano after alerting Lingwei about Jiang Sheng and Lin Fan.
• Lingwei warned Ling Yu not to speak about the danger and silently considered that Jiang Sheng’s failure might force Penglai to ask the patriarchs to destroy Xuanhuang World.
• A scarlet-gold sun entered Jiang Sheng’s sea of consciousness, overwhelmed his defenses, and began transforming his soul as he endured the Primordial Spirit decay.
• Jiang Sheng questioned the scarlet-gold being and learned that Taiyin True Monarch’s help and his gains on both stars had bound him to them through karmic cause and effect.

Jinhao Sun Lord revealed that he and True Monarch Guanghan had bound Jiang Sheng with nine layers of karma so Jinhao Sun Lord could take over his body. As Jinhao Sun Lord entered Jiang Sheng’s soul, the Talisman of No Taboos activated, erased their karmic ties, and destroyed Jinhao Sun Lord.

• Jinhao Sun Lord explained how Jiang Sheng had accumulated nine layers of karma through his opportunities on the Taiyin Star and Sun Star, and said he intended to claim Jiang Sheng’s body, cultivation, and Dao Fruit.
• Jiang Sheng asked how Jinhao Sun Lord would make him disappear, then let down his defenses and allowed Jinhao Sun Lord’s remnant soul to enter his life soul and True Spirit.
• Jinhao Sun Lord experienced Jiang Sheng’s past in reverse and discovered Jiang Sheng’s encounters with the Xuanmen Great Calamity, the Three Realms, and Qingyan Heavenly Venerable.
• Jinhao Sun Lord witnessed Qingyan Heavenly Venerable grant Jiang Sheng the lands of Shanhe World and the authority of freedom, with a blessing that invoked heaven and earth.
• The Talisman of No Taboos appeared, separated Jinhao Sun Lord’s soul from Jiang Sheng, erased the karma between them, and dissolved Jinhao Sun Lord.

Jiang Sheng studied Jinhao Sun Lord’s and Taiyin Guanghan Moon Lord’s scriptures, using their yin-yang principles to repair his Fate Soul and complete the foundations of his cultivation method. Elsewhere, Daoist Lord Kaiyuan killed Heavenly Demon Mo Xuan, and three Great Thousand Worlds were driven toward the Jiuzhou World as the final battle began.

• Jiang Sheng learned that Jinhao Sun Lord and Taiyin Guanghan Moon Lord had hidden from the Epoch End Calamity and that their plans had ultimately failed.
• Jiang Sheng studied the Sun-Essence Ascending-Yang Radiant-Heaven True Scripture and Moonlight Cold-Moon Pure-Mind True Scripture, while their yin-yang power began repairing his Fate Soul and strengthening his method.
• Daoist Lord Kaiyuan rejected the Qilin Clan Leader’s offer to intervene, then killed Heavenly Demon Mo Xuan with the Tianhe World-Sealing Ruler.
• The Qilin Clan Leader asked Daoist Lord Kaiyuan to safeguard the Nine-Yin Qilin Seal and Myriad Demons Qilin Thorn before leaving.
• Fortune-Heaven Daoist Lord drove the Xuanhu World toward the Jiuzhou World, while Great Sage Zhuyan and Flood Dragon Great Sage sent the Zuoshen World and Jiushi World crashing toward it.
• Daoist Lord Miaoyan, Daoist Lord Yueheng, Daoist Lord Dejing, and Daoist Lord Chixiao heard an unseen speaker challenge them to settle their score while Kaiyuan was occupied.