Chapter Summaries

Li Yang entered the Eternal Life Immortal Venerable’s nine light gates and cultivated each foundational power from the level of a mortal until it produced a Divine Ability True Seed. He emerged with all nine seeds condensed within him, his powers clarified and transformed.

• Li Yang learned that the nine inheritances required him to cultivate each ability from scratch, then sent a strand of Soul Power into the essence gate and forged the essence divine ability.
• Li Yang cultivated magical power in the qi gate and trained his spiritual soul power in the spirit gate until both grew powerful.
• Li Yang mastered escape techniques in the escape gate and began training his offensive power in the offense gate.
• Li Yang strengthened his defenses through rigorous training and began cultivating vitality and recovery in the vitality gate.
• Li Yang trained his perception of future events in the knowledge gate and honed adaptability under harsh conditions in the change gate.
• Li Yang completed the inheritance, condensing nine Divine Ability True Seeds within his body as the powers underlying them became clear and pure.

Li Yang completed the Eternal Life Immortal Palace inheritance, gaining the Eternal Life Great Dao and powerful eternal-life divine abilities. After nine months of seclusion, he emerged at the Dao Pass Great Wall, where countless gathered cultivators awaited his clashes with the realm’s assembled heavenly talents.

• Li Yang received the Nine Supreme Divine Abilities, which sublimated his powers, then entered sudden enlightenment and gained the Eternal Life Great Dao’s divine abilities.
• During Li Yang’s nine-month seclusion, human, Devil Race, Demon Race, and Dragon Race heavenly talents gathered at the Dao Pass Great Wall and fought a series of battles.
• The Prince of the Great Sun Dynasty narrowly defeated the Devil Race’s Third Devil Son, while the Princess of the Moon Dynasty and several other human talents fought their rivals to draws.
• The Profound Yin Corpse Gate’s first senior disciple lost to the Kun Peng after a prolonged fight, while the Imperial Son of the Heavenly Emperor Dynasty wounded the First Devil Son and the Origin Holy Son drove back the Five Elements Sacred Beast.
• After nine months, Li Yang emerged from seclusion in a burst of golden light, drawing the attention of the entire Dao Pass Great Wall.

Li Yang returned from the Eternal Life Immortal Palace and drew the attention of prodigies and leaders from the Human Race’s major factions, who viewed him as the likely leader of the coming contest. After reuniting with his Joyful Union Sect companions, he stored them in his Spatial Magic Treasure and set off to find the moving Dragon Transformation Pool again.

• The Prince of the Great Sun Dynasty, the barefoot woman, and prodigies from the Mystic Immortal Sacred Land, Great Dao Sect, Heavenly Palace Sect, and Dao Source Gate watched Li Yang emerge and discussed competing for transformation.
• The City Lord’s Mansion ordered the army to treat Li Yang as a favored prodigy.
• Li Yang returned to his station, where the three elders and True Disciples welcomed him and reported their cultivation progress.
• Li Yang battled the Joyful Union Sect women, then stored the elders and True Disciples in his Spatial Magic Treasure because he feared the danger near Little Dragon and Mo Guangyin.
• Li Yang left the Dao Pass Great Wall and followed his vague sense of the Dragon Transformation Pool to its new location.

Mo Guangyin comprehended a Great Sun Divine Ability while guarding the Dragon Transformation Pool, and Li Yang returned to share a Dark Moon Great Divine Ability before organizing his own cultivation. As Li Yang and his companions continued advancing in seclusion, a hidden sacred aura appeared in a mountain range, where a voice asked the Monster Emperor whether they should investigate the world.

• Mo Guangyin used the Heavenly Wolf skeleton and the Three-Headed Sun-Devouring Monster Wolf’s Divine Ability Patterns to create a Great Sun Divine Ability and replace his last Minor Divine Ability.
• Li Yang returned to the Dragon Transformation Pool and gave Mo Guangyin a Dark Moon Great Divine Ability to comprehend.
• Li Yang planned how to arrange and fuse his divine abilities among his Divine Ability Wheels while he cultivated beside Little Dragon.
• Mo Guangyin, the three female Grand Elders, and the core disciples advanced through cultivation and Li Yang’s instruction as Li Yang’s aura grew increasingly unfathomable.
• A sacred aura emerged in a hidden mountain range, and a voice asked the Monster Emperor whether they should emerge and investigate the world; the Monster Emperor ordered it to remain concealed and investigate.

The Kirin quietly mobilized sealed heirs and powerful figures from several Demon Race clans as the Monster Emperor’s emergence approached. In the Xuanhuang Realm, the Prince of the Great Sun and the Kun Peng fought to a draw, then encountered newly arrived elders, while a new wave of heavenly talents made Li Yang’s influence fade further.

• The Kirin sent a strand of divine light across the worlds and noted that many contenders sought to become emperor.
• The Kun Peng clan leader and elders left their world with a sealed Kun Peng, while old Pengs brought out a Golden Peng sealed by Snow-Burial; Wind Tiger emerged from the White Tiger Race World, and Five Elements energy surged from its Divine Hall.
• The Prince of the Great Sun and the Kun Peng unleashed their strongest abilities in a destructive battle but could not decide a winner and withdrew.
• The Prince of the Great Sun returned to his Traveling Palace and greeted Grandpa Ri, while the Kun Peng encountered Snow-Buried, King of a Hundred Generations of Heavenly Talents.
• The next day, powerful heavenly talents launched another battle in the Xuanhuang Realm, and Li Yang was ignored as their strength drew attention.

As new heavenly talents emerged and battled across the world, Li Yang fused his many divine abilities into a series of Divine Ability Wheels beside the Dragon Transformation Pool. After completing nine wheels, he underwent a heaven-and-earth-shaking transformation.

• Golden Peng emerged from his long seclusion, defeated the Golden-Winged Great Peng, and then fought the Ancient Human Prince to a draw.
• Li Yang fused the Sun-Moon Rotation and Kun Peng Divine Ability with his Yin-Yang insights, forming the Yin Yang Tai Chi Diagram as his third Divine Ability Wheel.
• Li Yang combined his Five Elements power and divine abilities into a Great Five Elements Divine Ability that gathered power and erupted as divine lightning, then stored it in his fourth wheel.
• Li Yang fused the Golden-Winged Great Peng Divine Ability with Martial Arts to form the fifth wheel, then joined the White Tiger Divine Ability with Military Path power to form the sixth.
• Li Yang condensed Confucian Path Power, Buddhist Arts, and Taoist Attainment into his remaining wheels, completing all nine and triggering a transformation.

Li Yang perfected his Initial Nine Divine Abilities while using the Dragon Transformation Pool to conceal his cultivation and accumulate magic power. Three years later, the pool dispersed, and Mo Guangyin emerged transformed into a true dragon alongside two human cultivators.

• Li Yang strengthened his Heavenly Eye, Mind Communication, and other Initial Divine Abilities until they approached the level of Pureblood Sacred Beasts' primary abilities.
• Li Yang delayed breaking through to Soul Transformation because he wanted his Initial Nine Divine Abilities to reach their limits and allow him to transcend perfection.
• Li Yang entered the Yin Yang Two Energies Pot and continued accumulating magic power through cultivation with Mo Guangyin, the elders, and the True Disciples.
• Across the Xuanhuang Realm, snow-buried heavenly talents emerged, factions gathered their strongest cultivators, and a battle among the four great races created the Heavenly Talent Battlefield.
• Three years passed, and the Dragon Transformation Pool dispersed as Mo Guangyin and two human cultivators appeared above the valley; Mo Guangyin announced that she had transformed into a true dragon.

Little Dragon emerged from the Dragon Transformation Pool as a True Dragon with Ancestor Dragon true blood and a host of powerful divine abilities. It explained that the Earth Cultivation Method Li Yang had given it let it transcend the pool’s trials and obtain its deepest inheritance, leaving Li Yang wondering what other secrets Earth held.

• Little Dragon thanked Li Yang and revealed that it had become a True Dragon with Ancestor Dragon true blood.
• Mo Guangyin reflected on his rapid cultivation and the Great Divine Abilities he had comprehended, then realized Little Dragon had grown beyond his strength.
• Little Dragon demonstrated Dragon's Concealment and revealed that its divine abilities formed ten complete Divine Ability Wheels, with two more incomplete.
• Little Dragon explained the Dragon Transformation Pool’s trials and inheritance layers, including how it had obtained the Ancestor Dragon Legacy without enduring the usual trials.
• Little Dragon said the Earth Cultivation Method had given it the transcendent power needed to reach the pool’s core inheritance, prompting Li Yang to question whether Earth held further secrets.
• Little Dragon offered Li Yang its dragon divine abilities.

After completing their cultivation, Li Yang and the Little Dragon headed to the Xuanhuang Realm’s gathering of geniuses to harvest divine abilities and treasures by luring opponents into battle. The Little Dragon flew openly into the Golden Dragon Race’s desert territory, drawing the Golden Dragons’ attention.

• Li Yang learned numerous Dragon Race divine abilities from the Little Dragon, including four human-limit abilities, while the Little Dragon described its unusual inheritance and bond with the East Sea Little White Dragon.
• Li Yang decided to test their newly transformed strength against gathered foreign-race geniuses and planned for the Little Dragon to provoke opponents while he stayed concealed.
• Li Yang brought Mo Guangyin along, and the group traveled in concealment toward the Demon Race’s territory before heading for the Golden Dragon Race’s desert.
• The Little Dragon concealed its strength, then flew arrogantly into the desert and released its aura, attracting the Golden Dragons’ attention.

A true dragon known as the Little Dragon defeated the Golden Dragon lizard and challenged every heavenly genius in the desert, winning each fight by a narrow margin. It then entered a stone forest, defeated a white tiger, and demanded either its Origin Blood and Creation Fluid or a chance to study its divine abilities.

• The Little Dragon defeated the Golden Dragon lizard in a hard-fought battle, then vanished as the lizard reappeared days later with severe injuries.
• The Little Dragon challenged the Sacred Beasts across the desert and won each fight by a single move, leading spectators to suspect it grew stronger through combat.
• The Little Dragon left the desert and entered a stone forest, where it confronted an ordinary white tiger that had reached the Pureblood Sacred Beast level.
• The white tiger and the Little Dragon fought evenly until the dragon suddenly broke through its defenses and slammed it to the ground.
• The Little Dragon asked the defeated white tiger whether it would offer its Origin Blood and Creation Fluid or display its divine abilities for the dragon to learn.

Li Yang secretly captured challengers to Little Dragon, learned their inherited divine abilities, and made them swear not to reveal his scheme while Little Dragon swept through the gathered peerless geniuses. The campaign reached the Epoch Calamity Mountain Range, where a Five Elements Sacred Beast noticed Little Dragon and wondered whether it could pass its test.

• Li Yang captured a foremost Pureblood challenger, learned all its divine abilities, and made it swear to keep his actions secret until Little Dragon finished its challenges.
• Li Yang continued concealing himself and collecting divine abilities as Little Dragon defeated peerless geniuses across the Xuanhuang Realm.
• Soul Transformation Dao Venerables at the Dao Pass Great Wall spotted Li Yang briefly and discussed recruiting him after failing to see through his concealment.
• Little Dragon and Li Yang continued their sweeping campaign despite Li Yang sensing the Soul Transformation cultivators watching him.
• A Five Elements Sacred Beast in the Epoch Calamity Mountain Range observed Little Dragon's victories and prepared to test it.

Li Yang defeated the Eternal First Five Elements Sacred Beast with his Five Elements Divine Ability, then sought to learn its techniques. After Little Dragon defeated more heavenly talents, Li Yang watched a Kun Peng and True Dragon battle; as the Kun Peng departed, he transported it to another world to challenge it.

• The Eternal First Five Elements Sacred Beast recognized Li Yang and attacked him, hoping to uncover the secrets behind his strength.
• Li Yang countered the beast's Five Elements techniques and defeated it, then asked it to show him the mysteries of its divine abilities.
• Little Dragon moved on to challenge Quasi-Divine Beasts while Li Yang watched a Kun Peng and True Dragon fight at sea.
• The Kun Peng and True Dragon battled across the sky and sea but failed to trigger a transformation, then departed separately.
• Li Yang intercepted the departing Kun Peng and transported it from the Xuanhuang Realm to another world, asking to examine its divine ability.

Little Dragon and Li Yang continued collecting divine abilities across the Xuanhuang Realm, while Little Dragon defeated the Quasi-Divine Beast-level Heavenly Talents of the great races. By the end, he had defeated every Quasi-Divine Beast and become the strongest performer among the gathered Heavenly Talents.

• Little Dragon defeated the wounded Kun Peng and the Second Crown Prince of the East Sea Dragon Palace, then released the Kun Peng after studying its divine abilities.
• The Kun Peng recovered at the Monster Race Border Pass and wondered whether Little Dragon cultivated a method of gathering the Dao of all living beings.
• Li Yang told Little Dragon to challenge every Quasi-Divine Beast-level Heavenly Talent from the Human Race, Devil Race, Monster Race, and Dragon Race, while Li Yang refined the Nine-Headed Heavenly Wolf Bone into the Nine-Layer Profound Mystery Pagoda.
• Mo Guangyin entered Li Yang's Spatial Magic Treasure to cultivate, and Little Dragon defeated the Devil Race's Devil Son and collected his divine abilities.
• Little Dragon defeated Quasi-Divine Beast-level Heavenly Talents one after another until he had defeated them all and become the gathering's strongest performer.

Little Dragon fought the Demon Race’s Eternal First Heavenly Talent, Kun Peng, at Heaven Realm Mountain before the gathered experts and heavenly talents of the Xuanhuang Realm. Little Dragon barely won and vanished after taking Kun Peng’s Origin Blood and Creation Fluid, while the Source Dao Child concluded that their power came from transcendence beyond the immortal-path system.

• The East Sea Dragon Palace’s Dark Dragon ordered the clan to reform after learning that two exceptional dragon-race geniuses had gone unnoticed, then set out to watch Little Dragon battle Kun Peng.
• Soul Transformation experts and heavenly talents from across the races gathered at Heaven Realm Mountain to witness the clash and consider Little Dragon’s successive transformations.
• Little Dragon and Kun Peng exchanged powerful attacks, devastating the surrounding peaks as Little Dragon transformed into the Nine-Turn Yellow Dragon.
• Little Dragon barely defeated Kun Peng, absorbed its Origin Blood and Creation Fluid, and disappeared from the mountain.
• The Source Dao Child told the Dao Origin Sect’s robed ancestor that Little Dragon and the Eternal Heavenly Talents wielded power transcending the limits of the immortal path.

The Kirin sensed that an extraordinary prodigy had appeared before the era’s transformation and learned that the Dragon Race’s Ancestral Dragon served a human master. Meanwhile, Li Yang cultivated a water technique in his independent Cultivation World, unleashing a torrential storm that devastated its mountains, rivers, and city.

• The Kirin told his Dao Protector that a sun-and-moon-level prodigy had appeared before the heavenly opportunity for transformation, then learned the powerful true dragon was merely a human’s mount and pet.
• Xuanming True Dragon approached Little Dragon after his victory over Kunpeng and invited him to connect with the East Sea Dragon Palace.
• Little Dragon said he had to ask his master, Li Yang, before leaving, and explained that Li Yang was a younger human Nascent Soul cultivator who surpassed him.
• Xuanming reacted with disbelief when Little Dragon revealed that he served Li Yang as a mount, then questioned how a Nascent Soul cultivator could subdue him.
• Li Yang cultivated his water technique in an independent Cultivation World, where his comprehension brought forth a violent storm and torrential rain that battered the land.

Li Yang cultivated the Water, Wood, Earth, Metal, and Fire Divine Abilities until their powers influenced the heavens and earth, then unified them to produce a devastating Five Elements eruption. After a year of cultivation transformed and expanded his Small World, he returned its living creatures and emerged into the Mysterious Yellow World.

• Li Yang refined the Water and Wood Divine Abilities, observing how water and wood supported one another and altered the surrounding world.
• Li Yang cultivated the Earth and Metal Divine Abilities, unleashing earthshaking force and drawing metal energy from the world.
• Li Yang mastered the Fire Divine Ability, scorching the Small World, then used water and wood powers to restore life to the damaged land and its creatures.
• Li Yang moved every living creature into the Five Elements Space within his Nine-Layer Profound Mystery Pagoda and practiced there for a year as the Small World expanded.
• Li Yang successfully triggered the Five Elements eruption and gathered its overwhelming power into a sphere before withdrawing it.
• Li Yang returned the creatures to the expanded Small World and traveled into the Mysterious Yellow World.

Little Dragon battled the strongest Heavenly Talents across the Xuanhuang Realm, repeatedly gaining transformations through victory and eventually narrowly defeating Dao Qian. As the battlefield’s other talents began transforming through constant combat, Li Yang arrived and called Little Dragon back.

• The Small World's creatures honored Li Yang by building him a shrine and a towering statue after his cultivation improved their world.
• Little Dragon defeated the Eternal Heavenly Talent White Tiger, then secluded itself to deepen its Buddhist Daoist Arts and gain strength from battle.
• Little Dragon defeated the Golden-Winged Great Peng, the Five Elements Sacred Beast, the Devil Race's True Demon Son, and other Eternal Heavenly Talents, gaining transformations from its victories.
• Little Dragon narrowly defeated Dao Qian after increasing the Buddhist Dao power in its attack, then returned to secluded cultivation.
• The Heavenly Talents across the battlefield fought relentlessly and began undergoing transformations, while Little Dragon remained the brightest among them.
• Li Yang arrived at the Xuanhuang Heavenly Talent Battlefield, reached the Dao Pass Great Wall, and called Little Dragon to return.

Li Yang left the Xuanhuang Realm with Little Dragon, whose role as his mount stunned cultivators across the races and led many to suspect Li Yang was the true Number-One Prodigy. On the way through the Cultivation World, Li Yang examined tokens granting him access to powerful factions’ divine abilities and asked Mo Guangyin whether they would honor them.

• Li Yang watched the upheaval in the Xuanhuang Realm and returned to the Dao Pass Great Wall with Little Dragon.
• Mo Guangyin led Li Yang and Little Dragon out of the pass and toward the Cultivation World aboard a Flying Escape Spirit Treasure.
• Cultivators across the races saw Little Dragon act as Li Yang’s mount, and many reconsidered Li Yang’s standing as a prodigy.
• The Dragon Race ordered its Eternal Dragon Sons to compete for more opportunities while preserving Little Dragon’s ranking.
• During the journey, Li Yang reviewed tokens from several powerful factions and asked Mo Guangyin whether they would let him learn their divine abilities.

Li Yang traveled to the Cultivation World's Fundamental Realm to collect divine ability inheritances from the great forces, beginning with the Jiuli Dynasty and then visiting the Heavenly Emperor Dynasty. After three years in the latter, he entered its Scripture Repository with Su Yu and began studying its stored abilities.

• Li Yang explained why the great forces sought to recruit him and planned to gather the remaining divine abilities before advancing to Spirit Transformation.
• The Jiuli Dynasty welcomed Li Yang as its Pacifying King and opened its treasury and inheritances to him; he stayed for two and a half years before departing with its divine abilities.
• The Heavenly Emperor Dynasty appointed Li Yang a second-rank Heavenly King and introduced him to Su Yu, a former peak Spirit Transformation cultivator whose cultivation had fallen to the Nascent Soul Stage.
• Li Yang cultivated with Su Yu for three years, and his aura returned to the peak of his strength.
• Li Yang entered the Heavenly Emperor Dynasty's Scripture Repository with Su Yu and began comprehending its divine abilities while the observing Dao Venerables judged him to be stronger than an Emperor-level talent.

Su Yu recalled her past as the Heavenly Emperor Dynasty’s greatest talent and the tribulation that struck when she tried to advance from Spirit Transformation to Dao Integration. A Dark Being’s attack left her near death and led to her present condition, while her questions about the calamity remained unanswered.

• In the present, the Heavenly Emperor Dynasty’s Soul Transformation Dao Venerables used Su Yu as a test for Li Yang, hoping to judge his strength by whether he could subdue her.
• Su Yu remembered when she had been the dynasty’s celebrated number-one Heavenly Talent, before her failed breakthrough changed her fate.
• Su Yu faced a devastating tribulation while attempting to advance from Spirit Transformation to Dao Integration, enduring repeated lightning strikes without retreating.
• A Dark Being attacked with the power of a Dao Integration cultivator and brought Su Yu to the brink of death.
• The dynasty’s ruler rescued Su Yu, but the intervention left her in the state she now occupied.
• Su Yu wondered why Dark Beings intercepted cultivators attempting to reach Dao Integration and how the world’s existing Dao Integration cultivators had survived.