Chapter Summaries

Yang Huai reunited with Yuan Xiuxiu, learned that Taichuzi had suffered a dangerous Dao wound, and discovered that Yuan Xiuxiu had a mysterious identity beyond the heavens. After Yuan Xiuxiu left to seek help for her master, Yang Huai remained with new treasures and the promise that he would learn more when he ascended.

• Dao Ningzi explained his plan for Yang Huai to challenge the Spirit Platform Sword Venerable in three years, and Yang Huai agreed.
• Taichuzi collapsed, and Yuan Xiuxiu used her Delusion-Piercing Heavenly Eyes to reveal a Dao wound inflicted by the White Emperor's Spirit-Slaying Jade Axe.
• Yuan Xiuxiu said she would take Taichuzi to the Overseas Immortal Palace, while Yang Huai promised to seek a way to heal him.
• Yuan Xiuxiu revealed her true face and confirmed that Yuan Xiuxiu was her childhood name, though she told Yang Huai not to call her wife.
• Yuan Xiuxiu gave Yang Huai the Qianyuan Imperial Manor Golden Lamp and said she would handle her complicated ties before explaining her identity further.

After the Sword Venerable defeated the Violet Sun Venerable, the factions withdrew from the Skyfire Mountain Range and Dao Ningzi told Yang Huai the Sword Venerable’s conditions for joining the Nine Heavens Orthodox Alliance. Yang Huai agreed to pursue the Demon Venerable within ten years, then escorted Yuan Xiuxiu and the others overseas.

• Yang Huai held Yuan Xiuxiu’s hand in public, embarrassing her and upsetting disciples from both alliances.
• The Sword Venerable defeated the Violet Sun Venerable, who left wounded after exchanging hostile words with him.
• The Sword Venerable led the Spirit Platform Sword Sect and Azure Heaven Orthodox Alliance away, while the Nine Heavens Orthodox Alliance withdrew without pursuing them.
• Dao Ningzi told Yang Huai that the Sword Venerable would consider joining the Nine Heavens Orthodox Alliance if the Pure Origin Sect restored the Demon Venerable’s true self within ten years and then defeated the Sword Venerable.
• Yang Huai accepted the challenge, and Dao Ningzi promised the sect would help him cultivate toward the Golden Immortal realm.
• Dao Ningzi led the Pure Origin Sect away, while Yang Huai escorted Yuan Xiuxiu, Black Prison, and the unconscious Taichuzi overseas.

Yang Huai used the Qianyuan Imperial Manor Golden Lamp to refine his body and Yang Spirit into a Celestial Immortal’s wondrous unity of form and spirit. As Yang Huai emerged from his breakthrough, Dao Ningzi sent Li Yingmei south to help at the Profound Mystery Sect, while Yang Huai reflected on the greater Dao rank he still needed to attain.

• Yang Huai refined the Qianyuan Imperial Manor Golden Lamp and drew its Innate Pure Yang Fire into his Yang Spirit.
• Yang Huai opened and ignited the apertures throughout his body, then scattered into Dao qi and merged with the Great Dao’s origin before returning with a Celestial Immortal’s wondrous unity of form and spirit.
• A single bolt of heavenly thunder shook the area around Spirit-Fusion Peak, and Dao Ningzi recognized that Yang Huai had completed his breakthrough.
• Li Yingmei asked Dao Ningzi about the thunder and, troubled by his comparisons with Yang Huai and others, requested permission to descend the mountain.
• Dao Ningzi sent Li Yingmei south to help at the Profound Mystery Sect and instructed him to borrow the Heart-Illuminating Mirror and Qianyuan Imperial Manor Golden Lamp from Yang Huai.
• Yang Huai assessed his new Celestial Immortal transformation and concluded that he still needed to raise his primary fate to a lower Dao rank for complete Dao fruition.

Yang Huai adapted to his new Heavenly Immortal realm and transformed Gaga the White Crane into his registered disciple, Qingfeng. After returning two treasures to Li Yingmei for his coming tribulation, Yang Huai considered how to strengthen his Dharma Body and received news that another of his selves had been sorted out.

• Yang Huai explained the importance of preserving his perfected fleshly body and realized he still needed an attendant boy.
• Yang Huai used the Grand Lunar Form-Refining Art to transform Gaga into a human Dao body, named him Qingfeng, and made him a registered disciple.
• Qingfeng welcomed Li Yingmei to Spirit-Fusion Peak and escorted him to meet Yang Huai.
• Yang Huai returned the Heart-Illuminating Mirror to Li Yingmei and lent him the Qianyuan Imperial Manor Golden Lamp for his coming tribulation.
• After Li Yingmei left, Yang Huai considered strengthening his Pure Origin Dharma Body by cultivating it in the wilderness and finding a powerful spirit treasure.
• Half a month later, Yang Huai sensed the Bronze Mirror sorting out another of his other selves.

Yang Huai learned that the Bronze Mirror was the Primordial Treasure Mirror, which created his other selves and could eventually let him reclaim them. He entered a new life as a Henggong Fish with a growth-type Fate, devoured his kin to rapidly grow stronger, and raised his Fate from gold to purple.

• Yang Huai learned that the Primordial Treasure Mirror reflected and created his other selves, and he resolved to cultivate them as future parts of himself.
• Yang Huai entered the life of an unnamed Henggong Fish egg and discovered its Myriad-Transforming Fish-Dragon Fate and the obsession to survive and cultivate a dragon god's body.
• Yang Huai studied the Henggong Fish inheritance while developing in the egg, then used the Milky River Weak Water Radiance to repel a large fish threatening nearby eggs.
• Yang Huai hatched and used the Water-Fire Dragon-Transformation Art to devour tens of thousands of fish eggs, rapidly growing into a formidable Henggong Fish.
• Yang Huai's Myriad-Transforming Fish-Dragon Fate rose from gold to purple, giving him a strong chance to become an innate water-and-fire true dragon and gain the Redwater River's river god authority.

Yang Huai transformed from a Henggong Fish into an innate Five-Element Dragon God, advancing his Myriad-Transforming Fish-Dragon Fate to the lower Dao rank. He planned to claim the ownerless Redwater River’s authority and use it to strengthen his foundation amid the Great Flood Period.

• Yang Huai devoured Henggong Fish eggs, settled in a deep-water spring, and transformed into an innate Water-Fire true dragon.
• Yang Huai killed a golden roc and other creatures drawn by his transformation, then established a Weak Water domain around the spring.
• Yang Huai gathered innate Azurewood, Wu Earth, and Geng Metal essences to complete the five elemental divine radiances.
• Yang Huai formed an innate Five-Element Dragon God body, reached the Heavenly God realm, and saw his Myriad-Transforming Fish-Dragon Fate advance to the lower Dao rank.
• Yang Huai resolved to refine the ownerless Redwater River and expand his authority as floods devastated most of the surrounding lands.

Yang Huai absorbed the Milky River Weak Water and Redwater River origins, becoming its River God and breaking through to the Upper God realm. He left to pursue the origins of other rivers, while a two-headed evil wolf arrived afterward, devoured the Redwater River, and vowed its hatred of the Heavenly River.

• Yang Huai cultivated in the Redwater River, refining its origin and incorporating the Five-Element Dragon Transformation Art into his Origin Dragon God Scripture.
• After a year, Yang Huai gained the Redwater River's authority, reached the Upper God realm, and resolved to gather the origins of countless rivers to become the Heavenly River Great Dragon God.
• Yang Huai abandoned the Redwater River's authority and departed to seek more river and Milky River Weak Water origins.
• Several starlit gods arrived at the Redwater River, and an elderly god offered them the secret of the five-colored loach who had purified it.
• A two-headed evil wolf devoured the two gods left behind, drained the Redwater River and its inhabitants, and lamented that Yang Huai had escaped.
• Yang Huai traveled toward the central regions, where Milky River Weak Water origin was more abundant and fewer gods could oppose him.

After gathering origins from the flooded Heavenly River, Yang Huai struggled to evade gods and demon gods who tracked his movements and traveled to the Xi Huang Dao Kingdom seeking support. Human Emperor Fuxi welcomed him, believing Yang Huai could help resolve the flood disaster.

• Yang Huai gathered Milky River Weak Water and long river origins, salvaged remains and treasures, and grew stronger, but his source Dao Fruit remained far from becoming a source god.
• A hawk-eyed demon god hunted Yang Huai, while other gods learned of his ability to survive in the Weak Water and kept watch over him.
• Yang Huai abandoned his efforts to gather origins alone and headed for the Xi Huang Dao Kingdom, hoping its Human Emperor would support him.
• Yang Huai reached Wanqu City, avoided Qingping Daoist Temple, and went to Xi Huang Hall to seek an audience with Human Emperor Fuxi.
• Lei Ming welcomed Yang Huai on Fuxi's orders, and Fuxi said he had foreseen a visitor from the north who could resolve the flood disaster.

Yang Huai secured Fuxi Clan’s support and was invested as the Heavenly River Great Dragon God, gaining an edict to command river deities. With Lei Ming and Zi Nu assisting, he began purifying the Milky River Weak Water, leaving the watching gods amazed as vast stretches of the flood vanished.

• Yang Huai offered to ensure favorable weather for human tribes in exchange for authority over rivers and lakes, and Fuxi Clan agreed to support him despite warning that the authority could hinder his cultivation.
• Fuxi Clan invested Yang Huai as the Heavenly River Great Dragon God and gave him an edict that let him command the gods of more than a dozen rivers.
• After refining the edict, Yang Huai joined Lei Ming and Zi Nu and traveled to the Xi Huang Dao Kingdom’s northeastern barrier against the Weak Water.
• Yang Huai plunged into the Weak Water while the gathered gods watched, then summoned a vast icy-blue Heavenly River that drew in and purified the toxic flood.
• The gods watched the Weak Water disappear across increasingly wide regions and realized the flooding was finally being resolved.

Yang Huai absorbed the Heavenly River Weak Water origin while Lei Ming, Zi Nu, and Great God Hai Xu protected him from demon gods trying to stop him. After further cultivation, Yang Huai received Dao Ningzi’s invitation as the two-year deadline arrived and set out to settle their matter.

• Yang Huai gathered the Heavenly River Weak Water and river origins, drawing the attention of the Nightmare Eagle Demon God and a host of other demon gods.
• Lei Ming and Zi Nu fought the Nightmare Eagle Demon God until Great God Hai Xu appeared and crushed the demon gods who had come to obstruct Yang Huai.
• Great God Hai Xu declared that no one could prevent Divine Lord Jin Chong from purging the Weak Water origin, and Yang Huai continued absorbing it under the Xi Huang Dao Kingdom’s protection.
• Yang Huai cultivated at Spirit-Fusion Peak, deepening his Dao and strengthening his cultivation while remaining just short of the primal god realm.
• When the two-year deadline arrived, Yang Huai received Dao Ningzi’s invitation and left his cave abode to settle the matter.

Yang Huai returned to Great Prosperity and rescued the Profound Mystery Sect from Old Lady Scarlet Heart’s attack with a single strike. He then entered Yama Demon Valley, where Li Yingmei and a white-haired immortal maiden were fighting several ancient demons, and was called on to help.

• Dao Ningzi and the Pure Origin Sect Daoists arranged support for Yang Huai and pledged themselves to the coming tribulation.
• Yang Huai traveled swiftly back to Great Prosperity and found the Profound Mystery Sect besieged at Yanxian Town.
• Yang Huai struck Old Lady Scarlet Heart with Heavenly Capital Immortal Fire, severed her control of the Scarlet-Heart Venom Flames, and gathered the spirits released from them.
• Yang Huai stepped into Yama Demon Valley and saw ancient demons attacking Li Yingmei while a white-haired immortal maiden fought three demons.
• The white-haired immortal maiden noticed Yang Huai and shouted for him to help her.

Yang Huai arrived at Yama Demon Valley and defeated the Demon Venerable, capturing him with a Wangdi Golden Talisman. As Demonheart Child tried to flee, Yang Huai redirected his own Vacuum Mother-and-Son Light Thunders into the demon’s path and destroyed him.

• The Demon Venerable fled when Yang Huai arrived, while Demonheart Child and Wood-Charm Daoist mocked him and continued attacking Ji Mingxue.
• Yang Huai entered the Demon Venerable’s demon-star domain and turned it into a Heavenly River domain filled with nine ancient stars.
• Yang Huai overwhelmed the Demon Venerable and sealed him with a Wangdi Golden Talisman.
• Demonheart Child threw three Vacuum Mother-and-Son Light Thunders at Yang Huai and escaped into the void.
• Yang Huai redirected the thunder pearls into Demonheart Child’s path, where they exploded and vaporized him.

Yang Huai and Ji Mingxue subdued Wood-Charm Daoist and suppressed Yama with the Sacred Heart Spirit Stone, then Yang Huai brought the Demon Venerable to Dao Ningzi at the Pure Origin Sect. After returning to his cave, Yang Huai sent his consciousness back to the primordial wilderness.

• Ji Mingxue trapped Wood-Charm Daoist with her Nirvana Treasure Wheel and sealed him into an emerald-like wooden seed.
• Yama tried to overwhelm Li Yingmei, but Ji Mingxue used the Sacred Heart Spirit Stone to suppress and refine the demonic energy within him.
• Shao Lingzong and the Profound Mystery Sect elders greeted Yang Huai and Ji Mingxue, then Yang Huai left with the Demon Venerable for the Pure Origin Sect.
• Zhang Qingning arrived at Yama Demon Valley seeking Yang Huai, but Daoist Chaoyuan told her that he had already left.
• Yang Huai handed the Demon Venerable to Dao Ningzi, who saw the captive as a major step toward restoring the Spirit Platform Sword Sect to the Nine Heavens Orthodox Path.
• Yang Huai returned to Spirit-Fusion Peak, prepared his cave for seclusion, and sent his consciousness into the primordial wilderness.

After clearing the Weak Water flood around the Xi Huang Kingdom, Yang Huai learned from Lei Ming and Zi Nu about the dangers of breaking through to become an Origin Deity. He planned to strengthen his origin Dao Fruit and pursue the Origin Great Dao, while learning that enemies might ambush him.

• After nearly three years of cleansing, Yang Huai cleared the Weak Water origin from the riverlands around the Xi Huang Kingdom and brought his origin Dao Fruit close to a breakthrough.
• Lei Ming and Zi Nu praised Yang Huai for resolving the flood, and Zi Nu told him that the Human Sovereign expected him to cleanse Weak Water from every river region.
• Yang Huai asked Zi Nu about the Origin Deity breakthrough and offered part of his Heavenly River authority for her knowledge.
• Lei Ming explained the Tribulation of Merging with the Dao, the Tribulation of Heaven's Heart, and the Heavenly Tribulation Beyond the Dao, warning that rivals might try to kill Yang Huai.
• Yang Huai realized Lei Ming had mistaken his path: he intended to achieve the Origin Great Dao, using Heavenly River origins to strengthen his origin Dao Fruit.

Yang Huai accepted Lei Ming’s offer to join the Lei Ze Clan so he could study its secret arts and pursue the Origin God realm. After Thunder Ancestor Lei Ze welcomed him and granted him access to the inheritance, Lei Ming took him to the Inheritance Hall.

• Lei Ming offered Yang Huai the Lei Ze Clan’s secret arts and the teachings of Xi Huang Palace if he joined the clan, and Yang Huai agreed.
• Lei Ming brought Yang Huai to Lei Ze, where Yang Huai saw its lightning-filled divine mountains and the nine-colored Thunder Mountain.
• Yang Huai met Thunder Ancestor Lei Ze, who welcomed him into the clan, granted him entry to the Thunder God Pool, and told him to follow Fuxi.
• Lei Ming laughed at Yang Huai’s careful praise of Thunder Ancestor, then was ordered to copy the Thunder God Scripture ten thousand times by hand.
• Lei Ming took Yang Huai to the Inheritance Hall, where Yang Huai saw shelves of lightning-lit scrolls containing profound mysteries.

Yang Huai studied Lei Ze Clan secret arts and prepared to integrate with the Heavenly River Great Dragon God's powerful origin. He began Dao Integration in the Lei Ze ancestral land, but the world's Heavenly Heart imprint struck back with a devastating ripple.

• Lei Ming let Yang Huai study the Lei Ze Clan's secret arts in exchange for future contributions and warned him not to damage or share them.
• Yang Huai studied methods of Dao Integration and selected four secret arts to protect himself from the three Dao calamities.
• After a year, Yang Huai mastered nearly all four arts, including the Calamity-Transmuting Divine Pagoda and Pure Ancient Sovereign Diagram.
• Yang Huai began merging his origin Dao Fruit with the world's Great Dao, drawing the attention of Lei Ze and the surrounding gods.
• The Heavenly Heart imprint resisted Yang Huai's integration with a nine-colored ripple that nearly crushed the portion of the origin he had occupied.

Yang Huai survived the Heavenly Heart Tribulation, merged with Heaven and Earth's Origin Great Dao, and advanced to the Origin Deity realm as his Myriad-Transforming Fish-Dragon Fate reached Upper Dao Rank. He tested his new power against Lei Ming, then ended their duel after Lei Ming gained the upper hand.

• Yang Huai dispersed his Origin Dao Fruit and merged it with Heaven and Earth's Origin Great Dao, resisting the ruling demon god’s rejection and reassembling his Primordial Spirit with the emerald bamboo’s aid.
• Yang Huai became an Origin Deity, gained greater control over the Origin Great Dao, and saw his Myriad-Transforming Fish-Dragon Fate advance to Upper Dao Rank.
• Yang Huai summoned Lei Ming to test his new strength, and Lei Ming showed him how to wield Origin Deity authority directly in combat.
• Yang Huai and Lei Ming battled above a flooding river, with Yang Huai’s sword techniques and Weak Water Heavenly River challenging Lei Ming’s thunder arts.
• Yang Huai stopped the duel and admitted Lei Ming had won, explaining that his Heavenly River secret art was not yet developed enough to withstand Lei Ming’s thunder saber.

After breaking through to the Origin God realm, Yang Huai refined the Heavenly River Weak Water while advancing the seventh level of the Heavenly River Secret Manual. He suppressed a second, dangerous breakthrough in the Azure Talisman Realm, then emerged just in time to join the Pure Origin Sect’s duel with the Sword Venerable.

• Yang Huai reflected on the strengths and shortcomings of his breakthrough and planned to build his power while investigating the sovereign god at the center of the Great Dao.
• Yang Huai used the Heavenly River Divine Radiance to refine the Weak Water origin, while Lei Ming and Zi Nu watched the river grow over seven years and wondered why the Heavenly Realm had not interfered.
• Yang Huai sensed his Dao Fruit nearing a limit in the Azure Talisman Realm, but suppressed its transformation because he was unprepared and lacked sufficient Dao cultivation.
• Zhao Zhenwu arrived at Spirit-Fusion Peak to invite Yang Huai to fulfill the Pure Origin Sect’s appointment with the Sword Venerable, whose duel was set for two days later.
• As the appointed morning arrived, Yang Huai emerged from his cave residence and told Zhao Zhenwu and Daoist Guangrong that they could go meet the Sword Venerable.

The Iron Zither Fairy and the other Spirit Platform Sect Daoists received repeated worst omens for the battle between Yang Huai and the Spirit Platform Sword Venerable, but went to witness it anyway. Yang Huai and the Sword Venerable began their duel on Spirit Islet, where Yang Huai overcame his sword attacks and began penetrating the defenses of Spirit Realm Mountain with Heavenly River Divine Radiance.

• The Iron Zither Fairy’s turtle-shell divination ended with the shell bursting apart, and she flew toward the South Sea despite the Sword Venerable’s warning; the other Daoists followed.
• Yang Huai met the Sword Venerable on Spirit Islet, where both recognized the other’s formidable progress and Yang Huai declared he had to win to prevent further conflict.
• The Sword Venerable drew the Ancient Watchtower Sword and unleashed swift space-time sword attacks, but Yang Huai countered with the power of his Source Dao Fruit.
• The Sword Venerable summoned Spirit Realm Mountain and used the Long River Sword Formation, but Yang Huai trapped the Ancient Watchtower Sword in nine-colored immortal radiance and threatened the Sword Venerable’s Primordial Spirit.
• The Sword Venerable used First Heaven True Water and Spirit Realm Mountain’s seven-colored defenses to recover, so Yang Huai unleashed Heavenly River Divine Radiance and forced Milky River Weak Water into the mountain’s concealed world.

Yang Huai defeated the Sword Venerable, then agreed to rescue the Spirit Platform Sword Sect’s trapped immortals in exchange for two gourds of Qianyuan Immortal Elixir. He reached the Twelve Blazing Suns Immortal-Burning Formation and began forcing his way through it, confronting the Nine Heavens Orthodox Path members guarding it.

• Yang Huai pierced the Sword Venerable with a Dao-injuring sword strike, and the Sword Venerable conceded defeat and agreed that the Spirit Platform Sword Sect would stop stirring up conflict.
• Ice Sea True Lord arrived and reported that Daoist Zhoutian and other Nine Heavens Orthodox Alliance members had trapped Spirit Platform Sword Sect immortals in the Twelve Blazing Suns Immortal-Burning Formation.
• Yang Huai agreed to break the formation in exchange for two gourds of sixth-turn Qianyuan Immortal Elixir, then set out to rescue the trapped immortals.
• Yang Huai reached the formation and brushed Jinglinzi and Zhou Shuer aside when they tried to block him; he also struck Jinglinzi for accusing him of betraying the Nine Heavens Orthodox Path.
• Daoist Tianluo and Sword Immortal Bixiao attacked Yang Huai, but he swept them away with his Heavenly River Divine Radiance.
• Yang Huai poured Milky River Weak Water into the formation gates to test it against the Twelve Blazing Suns Immortal-Burning Formation.