Arc 14The Purple Tenuity Emperor

Yang Huai passed the Ninefold Heaven Gate trial, became a Jade Pure disciple, and rose to rule the stars as the Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor. He built the foundations of a Chaotic Cave Star Sea while facing demons and political threats, and the arc ended with Fuyun completing her Dao-Unification as a source-level Primordial Unity Golden Immortal.

  • Yang Huai crushed the Snow Zheng, freed Li Ji, and defeated the Void Ancient Dragon King before killing Azure Forest Heavenly Venerable and joining the surviving contestants at the Jade Clarity Dao Palace.
  • Yang Huai became Jade Pure Daoist’s first direct inner-chamber disciple, cultivated his Dao embryo, and helped establish the Jade Void Secret Realm and a mutual aid society for disciples.
  • Yang Huai accepted Xuanfeng as his first disciple, then received the All-Heaven Star Chart and divine banners from Fuxi Clan and ascended as the Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor.
  • Yang Huai recruited Star Lords, formed his celestial hierarchy, and guarded a chaos embryo until it became a major world, defeating the Nirvana Dragon Sovereign and the Heavenly Fortune Demon Venerable along the way.
  • Yang Huai took command of the All-Heaven Star Array, released Kong Xuan and Guanghua from their eggs, and began planning the Chaotic Cave Star Sea as Jade Pure lineages spread across the Barbaric Lands.
  • Yang Huai saved Jingwei from a demon’s scheme, warned Shennong about the Heavenly Demon Palace, and gained the Emperor Yan Tribe’s support for his star sea project.
  • Yang Huai and Lamp-Burning Daoist began transforming the star domains into a vast spirit pool, while Yang Huai agreed to trade for the Heavenly Measure to stabilize the starry sky.
  • Yang Huai gave Fuyun the Miro Pearl, and she survived her tribulations, defeated the Mirror-Wielding Emperor’s attack, and completed her Dao-Unification as a source-level Primordial Unity Golden Immortal.
Chapters 330–354 Vol. 4 Read

Ch. 330Nether Antiquity

Southern Polestar Daoist allowed the ancient god Celestial Venerables and other applicants to remain as registered disciples, then sent them into the Ninefold Heaven Gate to seek inner disciple status. Inside the trial realm, Yang Huai encountered Snow Zheng attacking a mysterious ice Qilin nest and intervened when the beasts turned on him.

  • Jade Clarity Daoist offered the ancient god Celestial Venerables guest elder advisor positions, but they pleaded to become disciples and were allowed to remain as registered disciples.
  • Southern Polestar Daoist opened the Ninefold Heaven Gate, and the ancient god Celestial Venerables and more than two hundred Daoists entered its trial.
  • Yang Huai found himself in a frozen realm, while the Three Pure Ones Daoists noticed him and discussed whether to take him as a disciple.
  • Yang Huai discovered five Snow Zheng fighting a mysterious ice Qilin and threatening its nest of cubs, while an unconscious woman in white lay nearby.
  • The mysterious ice Qilin fled when the Snow Zheng sealed the Qilin nest, and the beasts then turned their attention to Yang Huai.
  • Yang Huai seized all five charging Snow Zheng with violet qi and crushed their bodies in his grasp.

Ch. 331Li Ji

Yang Huai, calling himself Taiwei, saved Li Ji and agreed to let her accompany him through the deadly trial, then protected a group of Mystic Ice Qilins before encountering a pack of Void Ancient Dragons. He wounded their Void Ancient Dragon King after it targeted Li Ji, but the beast tried to escape into the void.

  • Yang Huai crushed the five Snow Zhengs, freed Li Ji from the Mystic Ice, and introduced himself as Taiwei.
  • Li Ji offered her talents for sensing danger and identifying ferocious beasts, and Yang Huai agreed to let her follow if she obeyed him.
  • Yang Huai concealed the Mystic Ice Qilins' glacier with ancestral purple qi and set off with Li Ji to explore the area.
  • Yang Huai killed dozens of attacking Void Ancient Dragons after Li Ji warned him of their approach and their leader.
  • The Void Ancient Dragon King trapped Yang Huai and Li Ji in a void illusion and targeted Li Ji, but Yang Huai broke its formation and pierced its chest with purple qi; the wounded king began fleeing into the void.

Ch. 332Beast Emperor

Yang Huai slew the Void Ancient Dragon King, found rare treasures in its nest, and later used the Primordial Five-Poison Divine Banner to kill the Ice Tiger Emperor alongside Heavenly Venerable Qinglin. Qinglin then confronted Yang Huai with a group of identical copies and demanded the banner.

  • Yang Huai killed the Void Ancient Dragon King with a strike of purple light, then followed its aura with Li Ji to its nest.
  • Yang Huai killed the adult Void Ancient Dragons, collected rare divine materials, and gave Li Ji four treasures before leaving her to refine them.
  • Yang Huai discovered Heavenly Venerable Qinglin fighting the Ice Tiger Emperor, and Qinglin asked him to help hold the beast emperor in place.
  • Qinglin bound the Ice Tiger Emperor with wood-element roots, and Yang Huai used the Primordial Five-Poison Divine Banner to devour it.
  • Yang Huai tried to leave, but Qinglin and more than a dozen identical copies appeared before him and demanded that he hand over the banner.

Ch. 333A Second Innate Dharma Treasure

Yang Huai used the Astral Profundity Diagram, his second innate Dharma treasure, to kill Azure Forest Heavenly Venerable and claim his treasures. After learning that the ferocious beasts were unnaturally concentrated in the region, Yang Huai resolved to hunt their kings and clear the trial.

  • Yang Huai trapped Azure Forest Heavenly Venerable in the Astral Profundity Diagram and killed him with the Five-Poison River despite his attempt to fight back.
  • Yang Huai collected Azure Forest Heavenly Venerable's treasures and left before a savage aura swept through the area.
  • Zhao Gongming and Yunxiao split from the fleeing group to draw off the pursuing Three-Headed Phoenixes, while Azure Lion, White Elephant, and Golden Light sacrificed themselves to protect one another.
  • The Supreme Clarity Daoist and Jade Clarity Daoist discussed the disciples' conduct and the purpose of the trial as the surviving contestants were returned to the Jade Clarity Dao Palace without their treasures.
  • Yang Huai examined Azure Forest Heavenly Venerable's axe, rope, and tree seed, then decided to hunt the ferocious beast kings by luring them into the Astral Profundity Diagram one at a time.

Ch. 334Mystery of the Ancient Era

Yang Huai hunted Fiend Beast Kings with Li Ji while investigating how to confront the Beast Emperor near the Qilin Source. When a surge of fiendish power rallied the surrounding beasts, he joined forces with Lamp-Burning Daoist and proposed recruiting the leader of the Qilin clan.

  • Yang Huai sent exotic insects from the Primordial Five-Poison Divine Banner into the cold currents, then hunted nearby Fiend Beast Kings with Li Ji.
  • Yang Huai killed a Centipede Dragon, and Li Ji explained that its corpse could lure the Jade One-Horned Ao Emperor, a powerful Fiend Beast Emperor.
  • Yang Huai killed a Golden-Feathered Eagle King and discovered through the Glacier Moths that Lamp-Burning Daoist and Feather Thunder were battling Three-Headed Phoenix Birds.
  • A Beast Emperor's roar summoned fiend beasts across the Qilin Source, prompting Lamp-Burning Daoist to seek allies while Feather Thunder chose caution.
  • Yang Huai met Lamp-Burning Daoist and proposed recruiting the Qilin clan's leader to help fight the Beast Emperor.
  • Lamp-Burning Daoist agreed to approach the Qilin leader, while Yang Huai remained with Li Ji.

Ch. 335Decisive Battle

Yang Huai prepared for the battle by forging a Primordial River-Luo Treasure Mirror, then joined the fighting at the Qilin Cave and turned the tide against the ferocious beast kings. He left the battlefield with Lamp-Burning Daoist still facing the Jade One-Horned Ao Emperor.

  • Yang Huai forged a Taiyi Primordial River-Luo Treasure Mirror from the silvery-white root and heavenly treasures while Li Ji hid a poison-laced centipede dragon along the emperor's route.
  • The Jade One-Horned Ao Emperor led its forces toward the Qilin Cave, where the Qilin clan and Lamp-Burning Daoist's allies were already battling the ferocious beasts.
  • Yang Huai killed two Void Ancient Dragon Kings attacking a Black-Ice Qilin King and helped another Qilin King by suppressing and slaying two Strength God Apes.
  • Yang Huai trapped four charging ferocious beast kings inside the Primordial River-Luo Formation and killed them, shocking the Qilin warriors and distant onlookers.
  • Lamp-Burning Daoist noticed Yang Huai's victory while he continued fighting the Jade One-Horned Ao Emperor.

Ch. 336Curtain Fall, Outcome

Yang Huai provoked the Jade One-Horned Ao Emperor and helped Lamp-Burning Daoist and the Thunder Qilin exploit its weaknesses, but the beast’s powerful divine abilities devastated Qilin Cave. After poisoning the emperor and escaping its counterattack, Yang Huai trapped Lamp-Burning Daoist inside the Astral Profundity Diagram; the chapter left Lamp-Burning Daoist glaring at him as the Three Pure Ones gathered their disciples.

  • Yang Huai slaughtered and taunted innate ferocious beasts until the Jade One-Horned Ao Emperor raged and struck at him, nearly shattering the Primordial River-Luo Space.
  • Lamp-Burning Daoist used the Spirit Coffin Lamp to ensnare the emperor’s Primordial Spirit, allowing the Thunder Qilin and Yang Huai to strike it with lightning and the Primordial Five-Poison Seal.
  • The emperor unleashed the Eight-Aspect Divine Radiance, devastating Qilin Cave and gravely injuring the Thunder Qilin, then withdrew into its shell to recover.
  • Yang Huai trapped the emperor in the Astral Profundity Diagram and used the Primordial Five-Poison Divine Banner to poison it, but fled after its Primordial Nether Divine Radiance shattered much of the stellar realm.
  • Lamp-Burning Daoist pursued Yang Huai and was caught inside the Astral Profundity Diagram, while Yang Huai escaped toward the Purple Tenuity Star.
  • The Three Pure Ones Daoists gathered the surviving disciples, and Lamp-Burning Daoist confronted Yang Huai with anger.

Ch. 337Jade Clarity Dao Palace, First Disciple of the Inner Chamber

Yang Huai became the first disciple of Jade Pure Daoist’s inner-chamber lineage as the Three Pure Ones chose disciples and assigned roles to the remaining candidates. After receiving the Jade Pure Primordial Golden Scripture, Yang Huai resolved to grow strong and find a way to prevent the future Three Sects’ internal strife.

  • Jade Pure Daoist named Yang Huai his first direct inner-chamber disciple and accepted thirteen other disciples, while Supreme Clarity Daoist took Li Ji as his direct disciple and gave her the Dao title Wudang.
  • Supreme Clarity Daoist accepted seven inner-chamber disciples and the remaining qualified candidates as outer disciples.
  • Jade Pure Daoist appointed Lamp-Burning Daoist Outer Sect Vice Leader and made Azure Forest Heavenly Venerable and Daoist Yulei Dharma Protecting Deities.
  • Yang Huai and the other Jade Pure disciples paid their respects, and Jade Pure Daoist bestowed the Jade Pure Primordial Golden Scripture upon them.
  • Yang Huai recognized the scripture’s power and considered how to prevent the future conflict among the Three Sects and change its outcome.

Ch. 338Jade Clarity Dao Palace Mutual Aid Society

Yang Huai established himself as the Jade Clarity Dao Palace’s chief disciple, organized the disciples into a mutual aid society, and introduced his Primordial Great Dao Embryo Secret Art to the Jade Pure Daoist. After a century of cultivation, his Heavenly Emperor Dao Embryo neared completion, and a vast purple dragon appeared above Kunlun Mountain.

  • Yang Huai sent the fifteen Daoists to establish temporary cave abodes on Kunlun Mountain and directed them to Daoist Antarctic for help.
  • Yang Huai refined his cultivation scripture and founded a mutual aid society where Jade Clarity disciples shared insights; the Jade Pure Daoist approved of the results.
  • Yang Huai presented his Primordial Great Dao Embryo Secret Art to the Jade Pure Daoist, who judged that it could succeed, and asked him to establish a training secret realm for the disciples.
  • The Jade Pure Daoist created the Jade Void Secret Realm, where disciples could challenge gatekeepers for treasures and cultivation inheritances.
  • After a hundred years, Yang Huai’s Heavenly Emperor Dao Embryo neared completion; thirty years later, supreme purple qi descended above Kunlun Mountain and formed a vast purple dragon.

Ch. 339Bestowal of Treasure, Nine Root Source Forms

Yang Huai crossed into the True One Realm by overcoming the tribulation that obstructed the Dao of creation, then asked the Jade Clarity Daoist about cultivation beyond that realm. After learning the Primordial Nine Forms and receiving the Primal Origin True Talisman, he was sent to seek guidance from Taiqing and the Highest Purity Daoist.

  • Yang Huai completed the true-self tribulation, gathered his Great Dao imprints, and waited a sixty-year cycle before triggering the tribulation that obstructed the Dao of creation.
  • Yang Huai suppressed the lightning tribulations and defeated the True One and creation imprints, manifesting a vast root source Dao embryo before Kunlun Mountain's gathered disciples.
  • Southern Polestar Daoist escorted Yang Huai to meet the Jade Clarity Daoist, who explained how True One cultivators could accommodate additional root sources through the Primordial Nine Forms.
  • Yang Huai asked whether accumulating more root sources always made a cultivator stronger, and the Jade Clarity Daoist warned him to cultivate what suited him and remain cautious of powerful figures.
  • The Jade Clarity Daoist bestowed the Primal Origin True Talisman on Yang Huai and told him to visit Taiqing and the Highest Purity Daoist for their teachings.

Ch. 340Giving the Highest Purity Daoist a "Bad Idea"

Yang Huai visited the Great Purity Daoist and Highest Purity Daoist, receiving treasures while persuading the latter to train Jie Sect disciples in a reincarnation formation. He returned to his abode, assessed his gains, and began tending a gourd vine with pure water after securing it inside a powerful formation.

  • Yang Huai paid his respects to the Great Purity Daoist, who gave him a gourd of golden elixirs and a bottle of pure water to tend the gourd vine.
  • Yang Huai visited the Highest Purity Daoist and suggested that a reincarnation illusion formation could train the scattered-minded Jie Sect disciples; the Daoist gave him twelve Sea-Calming Pearls.
  • The Highest Purity Daoist established the Thousand-Illusion Reincarnation Formation, and the Highest Purity Palace disciples became solemn and sorrowful after undergoing its trials.
  • Yang Huai examined his treasures, including the Primal Origin True Talisman, twelve Sea-Calming Pearls, thirty-six Stellar Golden Elixirs, and the Pure Jade Bottle.
  • Yang Huai protected the gourd vine with the Primordial River-Luo Formation, poured a drop of sweet dew onto its roots, and witnessed a startling phenomenon.

Ch. 341Kunlun Mountain's Abrupt Change in Style

Yang Huai advanced his cultivation, then weighed a proposed assignment guarding the Star Palace Emperor Lord’s reincarnation and secured more time before taking on new duties. At Kunlun Mountain, he brought eight Highest Purity Palace disciples to the Jade Clarity Dao Lineage’s mutual aid gathering, where Holy Mother Wudang began sharing ancient secrets.

  • Yang Huai watched two unusual gourds grow on the immortal vine, though he could not tell whether they were treasures.
  • After gaining a third Origin, Yang Huai reached minor completion in his Wuliang Origin Dao Embryo and began studying the Primordial Emperor Shangdi Aspect.
  • The Purple Origin Celestial Lord told Yang Huai that the Purple Palace Immortal Palace might send him to guard the Star Palace Emperor Lord’s reincarnation, and Yang Huai raised concerns about a possible plot against him.
  • The Purple Origin Celestial Lord decided to seek an extension of Yang Huai’s time in office and considered assigning him to guard a newly forming major world.
  • Yang Huai brought Holy Mother Wudang and seven other Highest Purity Palace disciples to the Jade Clarity Dao Lineage’s mutual aid gathering, where Holy Mother Wudang spoke about ancient history.
  • The Jade Clarity Daoist remarked to the Supreme Clarity Daoist that Taiwei Zi might lure his foolish disciple away.

Ch. 342Take Disciples Early

Jade Clarity Daoist approved Yang Huai’s appointment as the Great Emperor of Purple Tenuity, while Yang Huai guided disciples at a mutual aid gathering and encouraged the Highest Purity Palace disciples facing a punishing trial. A hundred years later, after strengthening his Heavenly Emperor authority, Yang Huai gained permission to seek disciples and spotted a battle on a mountain that might lead him to his first recruit.

  • Jade Clarity Daoist proposed that Yang Huai become the Great Emperor of Purple Tenuity, and Supreme Clarity Daoist and Great Clarity Daoist approved.
  • Yang Huai praised Azure Lion’s Dao understanding and advised him to organize it into jade slips, then guided the other disciples during the mutual aid gathering.
  • Holy Mother Wudang and the other Highest Purity Palace disciples worried that they might fail Jade Clarity Daoist’s Thousand-Illusion Reincarnation Formation trial, and Yang Huai urged them to persevere.
  • A hundred years later, Yang Huai strengthened his Heavenly Emperor authority through the Primordial Nine Forms and asked Jade Clarity Daoist for permission to seek disciples.
  • Yang Huai left Kunlun Mountain to search its subsidiary ranges and noticed a being with innate divine light fighting beneath a storm, declaring it might be his first disciple.

Ch. 343Primordial Gengjin Sword Seed, Divine Title

Yang Huai rescued a primordial sword-bamboo spirit from the Golden Midge Insects, recruited him as his first disciple, and later captured Four-Unlike and found two extraordinary eggs. Back at Kunlun, the Jade Clarity Daoist named the disciple Xuanfeng and appointed Yang Huai to become the North Pole Central Purple Tenuity Great Emperor as the Celestial Court prepared to reopen.

  • Yang Huai collected the Golden Midge Insects, rescued the sword-bamboo youth, and accepted him into his sect as his first disciple.
  • Yang Huai concealed the Gengjin Jade Bamboo grove as a future cultivation site for his disciple.
  • Yang Huai broke the valley's Cosmos Five-Element Formation, took the five-colored egg, and captured Four-Unlike to serve as his Master's mount.
  • Yang Huai brought the youth and Four-Unlike to Kunlun, where the Jade Clarity Daoist accepted Four-Unlike and named the youth Xuanfeng, Xuanfeng Golden Firmament Cave Deity True Lord of Supreme Virtue.
  • The Jade Clarity Daoist told Yang Huai that he had been recommended as the North Pole Central Purple Tenuity Great Emperor and must meet Human Emperor Fuxi Clan at the former Celestial Court.

Ch. 344Ten Thousand Stars Entered the Body, the Supreme Seat

Yang Huai accepted the Purple Tenuity Emperor’s authority and went to the rebuilding Celestial Court, where Fuxi Clan entrusted him with the All-Heaven Star Array. As he deployed its divine banners, the power of the stars elevated his Purple Tenuity root source Dao embryo and announced his birth as a Heavenly Emperor.

  • Jade Clarity Daoist warned Yang Huai that the Purple Tenuity Emperor position carried heavy karma, and Yang Huai returned to his cave abode to teach Xuanfeng, nourish two eggs, and leave an incarnation in Kunlun Mountain.
  • Ten days later, Yang Huai reached the former Celestial Court, met Gouchen, and pledged to help Fuxi Clan restore order.
  • Fuxi Clan gave Yang Huai the All-Heaven Star Chart and three hundred and sixty-five All-Heaven Star Divine Banners, entrusting him with command of the All-Heaven Stars.
  • Yang Huai refined the chart and realized it relied on the Solar and Lunar Stars and that Fuxi Clan had retained the River Map and Luo Writing as the true array eyes.
  • Yang Huai sent the divine banners into the starry sky, connected with the myriad stars, and underwent a dramatic ascension as the Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor.

Ch. 345The Heavenly Emperor Spreads the Dao Fire Across the Wilderness

Yang Huai became the North Celestial Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor and began building his celestial government by recruiting Star Lords and establishing the All-Heaven Star Array. After years of organizing the Purple Tenuity Imperial Palace, he received Chang Xi, also known as Heng'e, and welcomed her to meet.

  • Yang Huai's fate became the North Celestial Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor, and his power surged as he gained authority over the stars.
  • Yang Huai returned to Kunlun Mountain and recruited Giant Scorpion and many other gods and qi refiners to serve as All-Heaven Star Lords.
  • Yang Huai established the Purple Tenuity Imperial Gateway and its courts, taught the Star Lords his scripture, and spent decades recruiting and organizing his celestial hierarchy.
  • Chang Xi appeared before the Purple Tenuity Imperial Palace and asked to meet Yang Huai.
  • Yang Huai recognized Chang Xi as Heng'e and welcomed her as his guest.

Ch. 346Holding the Fort

Chang Xi negotiated with Yang Huai for the Emperor Yan Tribe to receive fifty primordial star divine positions in exchange for helping him take control of the All-Heaven Star Array. After receiving a secret decree from the Sage Emperor, Yang Huai traveled to the Two-World River to guard a developing great thousand world, where he planted ancestral qi and prepared to wait for it to mature.

  • Chang Xi asked Yang Huai for one hundred primordial star divine positions on behalf of the Emperor Yan Tribe, and Yang Huai agreed to grant fifty with a warning that its deities must obey the law.
  • Yang Huai explained to Giant Scorpion that the Emperor Yan Tribe was an ally and assigned her to enter the mortal world for tempering after the Celestial Court was established.
  • Lü Immortal Lord delivered a secret decree from the Sage Emperor to Yang Huai at the Grand Tenuity Celestial Lord's residence.
  • Yang Huai arranged new posts for his assistant officials, then left the Grand Tenuity Heaven Domain and traveled through Myriad Demon Mountain to the Two-World River.
  • Yang Huai reached a great thousand world's chaos womb, infused it with ancestral qi, and withdrew into the chaos to guard it until it matured.

Ch. 347The Gap Was Too Vast

Yang Huai waited in the River of Origin as the chaos embryo matured, surviving a space-time black wind and defeating beasts drawn to it. When the embryo began opening into a new world, the Nirvana Dragon Sovereign tried to devour it, but Yang Huai defeated and suppressed it, leaving the newborn world safe.

  • Yang Huai continued cultivating within the chaos embryo while the Celestial Court was reestablished and conflict spread across the Barbaric Lands.
  • A space-time black wind swept through the River of Origin, killing several Gray-Origin Elephant Dragons, while Yang Huai remained unharmed and crushed an attacking World King Beast.
  • Six hundred years later, the chaos embryo began opening into a world, and the Nine-Colored Treasure Wheel absorbed the four powers of earth, water, wind, and fire.
  • The Nirvana Dragon Sovereign attacked the newborn world and tried to seize it with its dragon claw.
  • Yang Huai used the Chaos Cauldron and Nine-Colored Taiji Diagram to defeat and suppress the Nirvana Dragon Sovereign.

Ch. 348All-Heaven Changes Hands

Yang Huai defeated the Heavenly Fortune Demon Venerable, completed the creation of a major world, and redirected its location to Qingfeng. He then replaced the All-Heaven Star Array’s core and seized its control from the Fuxi Clan, strengthening his authority as Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor.

  • Yang Huai used the Primordial Emperor God’s Dharma form to destroy the Heavenly Fortune Demon Venerable, whose death opened several Dao Venerable positions in the Demon Realm.
  • The major world broke free from the Chaos embryo and entered the lower realm; Yang Huai received merit, informed Qingfeng of its location, and returned the sacred decree.
  • Yang Huai reflected on the strength of Purple Palace Dao Venerables, visited his fathers-in-law, borrowed Black Prison’s five-colored altar, and resumed closed-door cultivation.
  • Yang Huai altered the All-Heaven Star Array, replaced its All-Heaven Star Chart core with the Astral Profundity Diagram, and made Purple Tenuity its primary center.
  • The Fuxi Clan sensed the array’s control slipping away and realized Taiwei Zi had taken command, but held back from confronting the Jade Clarity Dao Palace’s foremost disciple.
  • Yang Huai used the array’s authority to spread his Root Ancestral Qi through the stars and sensed an invisible aura resonating with him.

Ch. 349Establishing a Great Vow

Yang Huai discovered that the previous Purple Tenuity Emperor was hiding in the star sea and began planning to develop it into a home for the Jade Pure lineage. He welcomed Kong Xuan and Guanghua as disciples, then sought the Jade Clarity Daoist’s support for his great vow to establish a Chaotic Cave Star Sea.

  • Yang Huai sensed the previous Purple Tenuity Emperor in the star sea, sealed the All-Heaven Star Array, and continued strengthening the Astral Profundity Diagram.
  • At Kunlun Mountain, Yang Huai released the peacock and peng born from the Primordial Taiji Five-Element Array, named them Kong Xuan and Guanghua, and taught them Jade Pure cultivation arts.
  • Yang Huai proposed to the Jade Clarity Daoist that he develop the All-Heaven Star Sea into a place for Jade Pure disciples by improving the array, creating a Chaotic Cave Star Sea, and bringing in living beings from the Barbaric Lands.
  • The Jade Clarity Daoist approved Yang Huai’s plan, recognizing its potential to expand the Jade Pure lineage and bring him greater fortune.
  • Yang Huai returned to the Purple Tenuity Imperial Palace with his three disciples and began studying how to perfect the All-Heaven Star Array and build the Chaotic Cave Star Sea.
  • Across the Barbaric Lands, populations grew while primordial spiritual qi declined, qi refiners gained prominence, and Xuanmen sects spread, with Jade Pure lineages becoming the most numerous.

Ch. 350Bearing a Sect's Karma Upon One's Shoulders

Yang Huai took in gifted nominal disciples across the land to strengthen his Great Dao, naming an ice-born girl Linglong and preparing for his path toward Creation. At the Eastern Sea, he intervened as Jingwei pursued the Dragon Crown Prince, who had fled into the water after a fight.

  • Yang Huai failed to persuade his fellow Kunlun disciples to accept students, so he took more than a hundred gifted nominal disciples himself.
  • Lamp-Burning Daoist questioned Taiwei Zi’s many disciples, but Jade Clarity Daoist approved the arrangement and instructed Lamp-Burning Daoist to visit Purple Tenuity Star in five hundred years.
  • Yang Huai named the newborn daughter of the Youyu Clan chief Linglong and promised to return to guide her when she came of age.
  • Yang Huai cultivated by the Eastern Sea and reflected that filling out the Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor Root-Origin Great Dao was necessary for him to attain Creation.
  • Jingwei fought the Eastern Sea Dragon Crown Prince over his mistreatment of her clansmen, and he fled into the sea before Yang Huai warned her not to follow.

Ch. 351An Old Friend Became the Hidden Hand

Yang Huai rescued Jingwei from a Heavenly Demon Palace plot and fought a hidden Creation Realm enemy and a Demon Race remnant wielding the Myriad Beasts Divine Saber. After Shennong arrived and the enemy escaped, Yang Huai learned that Bai Ze, the new Lord of the Heavenly Demon, might be behind the attack and was a growing threat to the Human Race and Celestial Court.

  • Yang Huai revealed a net of Innate Kui Water Divine Thunder beneath the Eastern Sea and captured a green-robed demon who had tried to lure Jingwei into danger.
  • An azure giant hand attacked Yang Huai, while a hidden enemy killed the captured demon; Yang Huai countered with his Purple Tenuity authority and recognized an old friend behind the scheme.
  • A Demon Race Creation Realm being attacked Yang Huai with the Myriad Beasts Divine Saber, then escaped with Tai Sui Star Lord when Shennong arrived.
  • Shennong rebuked Jingwei for leaving the Human Emperor Palace, then thanked Yang Huai for saving her and invited him to the Emperor Yan Tribe.
  • At the Emperor Yan Palace, Shennong explained that the Heavenly Demon Palace was an ancient Demon Race force led by Bai Ze, whom Yang Huai suspected was the Creation Realm enemy.

Ch. 352Chaotic Cave Star Sea

Yang Huai persuaded Emperor Yan Shennong to support his plan to create a Chaotic Cave Star Sea, promising the Emperor Yan Tribe a central role in its human lineage. He built the Solar Source Land and began nourishing the surrounding stars, then encountered Lamp-Burning Daoist as he prepared to construct the Purple Tenuity Source Pool.

  • Yang Huai warned Emperor Yan Shennong that escaped Demon Sages could threaten the Emperor Yan Tribe and asked him to support the creation of a Chaotic Cave Star Sea.
  • Yang Huai offered the Emperor Yan Tribe a chance to become central to the star sea’s human lineage, and Shennong agreed to help.
  • Yang Huai traveled to the Solar Star and spent five hundred years building a source land that transformed solar starlight into stable pure-yang spiritual qi.
  • Yang Huai released the first stream of pure-yang spiritual qi into the surrounding starfields and planned to secure the star sea with innate Dharma treasures.
  • As Yang Huai returned to build the Purple Tenuity Source Pool, he encountered Lamp-Burning Daoist, whose arrival promised to advance the project.

Ch. 353So Tempted He Could Cry

Yang Huai developed the Purple Tenuity Star into a spirit pool and planned to revitalize the Star Sea of All Heavens, while negotiating with Lamp-Burning Daoist for an innate treasure in exchange for authority over death. Lamp-Burning Daoist agreed to trade the Heavenly Measure, and Yang Huai was then startled by news that Fu Yun was preparing to unite with the innate realm of illusion and reality.

  • Yang Huai sent Lamp-Burning Daoist and star gods to inspect the star worlds of All Heavens while he transformed the Purple Tenuity Star.
  • After six hundred years, Lamp-Burning Daoist returned and watched Yang Huai complete the Purple Tenuity Spirit Pool by drawing starlight into the star.
  • Yang Huai proposed joining the Purple Tenuity, Solar, and Lunar Star Domains into a vast spirit pool to make the barren starry region flourish.
  • Lamp-Burning Daoist asked for authority over death and extinction in exchange for stabilizing the starry sky, and Yang Huai demanded an innate treasure as well.
  • Lamp-Burning Daoist decided to trade Yang Huai the Heavenly Measure, and Yang Huai continued building formations on the Left Assistant Star.
  • Yang Huai awoke at Wuliang Imperial Lord's residence after hearing that Fu Yun's Golden Immortal Dao fruition was complete and she was preparing to unite with the innate realm of illusion and reality.

Ch. 354Dao-Unification: Reality and Illusion

Fuyun began her Dao-Unification of the Great Dao of reality and illusion with Yang Huai’s treasures and the Purple Origin Celestial Lord’s support. She survived an attack from the Mirror-Wielding Emperor and succeeded, while the Emperor identified Yang Huai as a target of the Divine Spirit Abyss.

  • Yang Huai reunited with Fuyun and gave her the Miro Pearl, a tribulation-crossing treasure art made from innate clear qi and merit Golden Light.
  • The Purple Origin Celestial Lord arranged a tribulation-crossing formation and destroyed the Void Devil Master to open a vacant Dao seat for Fuyun.
  • Fuyun endured the first four Primordial Unity tribulations and merged her Dao Embryo with the Great Dao of reality and illusion.
  • The Mirror-Wielding Emperor attacked Fuyun’s Primordial Spirit mark, but the Miro Pagoda shielded her and the Primordial Ancestor Sacred Virtue Sword wounded him.
  • Fuyun occupied the vacant Dao seat and completed her Dao-Unification, becoming a source-level Primordial Unity Golden Immortal.
  • The Mirror-Wielding Emperor returned to the Divine Spirit Abyss and recognized Wuliang Emperor as a target of the Nine Divine Palaces.
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