Chapter Summaries

Yang Huai used the Milky River Weak Water to trap the Five-Lotus Heavenly Heart Sect’s experts and break the Twelve Blazing Suns Immortal-Burning Formation. After disarming Violet Sun Venerable, he dragged him and the Heavenly Capital Golden Cauldron into the Heavenly River Divine Radiance, while the Sword Venerable and Ice Sea True Lord moved to aid the injured Spirit Platform Sword Sect immortals.

• Yang Huai’s Milky River Weak Water poisoned the hidden Earth Immortals, killing those who tried to refine it.
• Daoist Zhoutian and the other formation leaders evaporated the Weak Water, but its spiritual poison vapor seeped into the Twelve Blazing Suns Immortal-Burning Formation.
• The Sword Venerable and Ice Sea True Lord arrived, and the Sword Venerable prepared to receive their injured Spirit Platform Sword Sect juniors.
• The formation shattered, and Violet Sun Venerable emerged with the White Emperor’s Spirit-Slaying Jade Axe and Heavenly Capital Golden Cauldron to attack Yang Huai.
• Yang Huai wounded Violet Sun Venerable and seized the jade axe with the Heavenly River, then pulled Violet Sun Venerable and the golden cauldron beneath its waters.

Yang Huai forced Daoist Zhoutian to end the Five-Lotus Heavenly Heart Sect’s attack and accept terms that weakened its influence and strengthened the Spirit Platform Sword Sect. After the factions began arranging the sects’ return to the Nine Heavens Orthodox Alliance, Yang Huai examined the Five-Lotus Emperor’s manuscripts and found that this realm’s path beyond Golden Immortality differed greatly from the wilderness.

• Yang Huai threatened Daoist Zhoutian with the Milky River Weak Water until Zhoutian agreed to release the Spirit Platform Sword Sect and stop obstructing its entry into the Nine Heavens Orthodox Alliance.
• Yang Huai demanded the Five-Lotus Emperor’s manuscripts in exchange for ending the conflict, and Daoist Zhoutian accepted and asked him to save the trapped cultivators.
• Yang Huai withdrew the Milky River Weak Water, rescued the cultivators, and kept the Heavenly Capital Golden Cauldron and White Emperor’s Spirit-Slaying Jade Axe despite Daoist Zhoutian’s demand that he return them.
• Daoist Zhoutian led the defeated Five-Lotus Heavenly Heart Sect away, while Yang Huai brought Sword Venerable and the Spirit Platform Sword Sect to Peaceful Lake.
• The sects began discussing the Spirit Platform Sword Sect and Azure Heaven Orthodox Alliance joining the Nine Heavens Orthodox Alliance, and the Five-Lotus Heavenly Heart Sect delivered the manuscripts to Yang Huai.
• Yang Huai read the Five-Lotus Emperor’s ancient book and realized that the path beyond Golden Immortality in this realm differed greatly from the wilderness.

After studying the Five-Lotus Emperor’s ideas about surpassing the Golden Immortal realm, Yang Huai reconsidered his cultivation plans and promised to help Jiang Rongyue bring Daoist Liyang back. More than ten years later, he finished absorbing the Milky River Weak Water and returned to the Xi Huang Dao Kingdom to report his success.

• Yang Huai read the Five-Lotus Emperor’s account of the Primordial Unity Realm and considered forming a Dao of his own instead of pursuing his original plan unchanged.
• Yang Huai told Jiang Rongyue that Daoist Liyang’s scattered soul could be restored after he attained Golden Immortal cultivation, and she thanked him.
• Yang Huai asked Dao Ningzi for records about realms beyond the Golden Immortal, and Dao Ningzi promised to search ancient Dao lineages for them.
• Over ten years, Yang Huai absorbed all the Milky River Weak Water and greatly increased his Dao attainment.
• Yang Huai returned with Zi Nu and Lei Ming to the Human Emperor Palace of the Xi Huang Dao Kingdom to report that the undertaking was complete.

Yang Huai became Water Minister of the Xi Huang Dao Kingdom and sought new paths to advance his cultivation. When Tai Yi Clan led the heavenly army to destroy the kingdom, Yang Huai fought back, then severed his consciousness from that self as the kingdom fell; back at Spirit-Fusion Peak, a fate resonance offered him an immediate fusion.

• Fuxi Clan appointed Yang Huai Water Minister and let Lei Ming and Zi Nu each choose two treasures from the treasury.
• Yang Huai refined his new divine edict, oversaw the kingdom's waters, and began pursuing the innate Five Elements and Nine Luminaries as paths to advance his Origin Dao Fruit.
• Fuxi Clan sensed that Tai Yi Clan was targeting the Xi Huang Dao Kingdom and raised an Innate Eight-Trigrams Diagram to defend it.
• Tai Yi Clan invaded with the heavenly army, shattered the Human Emperor Palace, and declared that the human race would be destroyed.
• Yang Huai fought the demon gods as Water Minister, then severed his consciousness from that self after the Xi Huang Dao Kingdom was crushed.
• Back at Spirit-Fusion Peak, Yang Huai saw a prompt offering to fuse with his Myriad-Transforming Fish-Dragon Fate.

Yang Huai merged the Myriad-Transforming Fish-Dragon Fate and completed his Golden Immortal Dao attainment, then spent his Essence Points upgrading his other fates. As his transformations began, the Wilds Craftsman God fate changed into Eastern Azure-Spirit Great Emperor.

• Yang Huai used eight thousand Essence Points to merge the Myriad-Transforming Fish-Dragon Fate and cultivated while the fusion took eight days.
• The fate merged at dawn, completing Yang Huai’s source Dao Fruit and triggering a vast rainbow and nine-colored immortal light over Spirit-Fusion Peak.
• The Pure Origin Sect elders feared Yang Huai was ascending, but Dao Ningzi realized he had only broken through; Ji Mingxue sensed his formidable Golden Immortal Dao nature.
• Yang Huai saw that Golden Immortalhood had given him another primary fate slot, then upgraded Heart of Utmost Sincerity to the upper Dao rank.
• Yang Huai chose to upgrade Wilds Craftsman God, Peerless Sword Immortal, and God Descends to the Mortal World, and Wilds Craftsman God transformed into Eastern Azure-Spirit Great Emperor.

Yang Huai transformed the Peerless Sword Immortal Fate into the Tai Bai High Lord Fate, drawing the attention of sects and immortals who believed he was Tai Bai Star Lord reincarnated. After three years of absorbing Tai Bai starlight, he emerged with an Innate Origin Star Lord body as Taichuzi, Yuan Xiuxiu, and Daoist Guangrong waited nearby.

• Yang Huai sublimated the Wilds Craftsman God Fate into the Eastern Azure-Spirit Emperor Lord Fate and the Peerless Sword Immortal Fate into the Tai Bai High Lord Fate.
• Yang Huai absorbed the Tai Bai Star’s origin, cultivated his Origin Star Lord Divine Body, and strengthened his purple God Descends to the Mortal World Fate.
• Dao Ningzi and the Pure Origin Sect Daoists concluded that Yang Huai was Tai Bai descended into the world, while Daoist Zhoutian and other Orthodox Path leaders worried about his influence.
• On Suspended Spirit Island, Taichuzi and Yuan Xiuxiu recognized the Tai Bai phenomenon as Yang Huai’s destiny star, and Yuan Xiuxiu hoped he might help remove Taichuzi’s Dao wound.
• After three years, Yang Huai ended his cultivation with an Innate Origin Star Lord body and came out to meet Taichuzi, Yuan Xiuxiu, and Daoist Guangrong.

Yang Huai sealed Taichuzi’s worsening Dao wound for about fifty years and learned that Dao Ningzi might pass a message to the patriarch beyond heaven. After arranging for Daoist Liyang’s reincarnation, Yang Huai entered the Primordial Treasure Mirror and discovered his new alternate self was an unborn boy destined to embody a pure yang great sun.

• Yang Huai used his origin Great Dao to seal Taichuzi’s Dao wound, preserving his vitality while he sought a way to heal it completely.
• Yuan Xiuxiu left Heavenly Gold Cave after Yang Huai comforted her, while Dao Ningzi visited and offered him collected cultivation manuscripts.
• Dao Ningzi promised to seek guidance from the patriarch through an elder who would soon ascend to the heavenly realm.
• Yang Huai gave Daoist Liyang’s lingering soul fragments to Daoist Guangrong so they could be exchanged for a Form-Fixing Immortal Elixir and sent into reincarnation.
• Yang Huai entered the Primordial Treasure Mirror and found his alternate self was an unborn boy with a solar divine mark, whom his parents said was born with the fate of a pure yang great sun.

Yang Huai reincarnated as the unborn eldest son of the Emperor Yan and Ting Yao, awakened his spirit early, and strengthened his divine foundation in the womb. The Emperor Yan brought home an injured girl named Chang'e, while Yang Huai’s Great Sun manifestation emerged as he crossed into the greater-spirit realm.

• Yang Huai learned that he was the Emperor Yan’s unborn son and resolved to inherit the Emperor Yan’s glory and contend for the Great Sun’s authority.
• Yang Huai cultivated innate pure-yang energy in Ting Yao’s womb, awakened his spirit early, and delighted Ting Yao and the Emperor Yan.
• The Emperor Yan brought an injured girl with an innate Lunar Star body to the palace, and Ting Yao named her Chang'e and planned to raise her as Yang Huai’s companion.
• Yang Huai continued refining his bloodline until he crossed the threshold of a greater spirit.
• Yang Huai’s Great Sun manifestation appeared above the palace, and the second-generation Fire God praised its divine bearing.

Yang Huai was born as Yan Ju, the Flame Emperor Shennong and Tingyao’s extraordinary eldest son and heir, amid omens that stirred the Solar Star. The heavenly realm sent a congratulatory gift, while Heng'e carried Yan Ju toward his baptism and felt an unexplained dislike for his sun-fire aura.

• After divine omens appeared during Tingyao’s pregnancy, the Flame Emperor sent her to Flame Emperor Valley to protect her and the unborn child.
• Seven years later, Yan Ju’s birth unleashed a golden radiance and a Solar Star omen that drew the attention of Di Jun and Heavenly Empress Xihe.
• Di Jun ordered Xihe to send treasures to the Emperor Yan Tribe as a congratulatory gift, hoping to sow division among the earthbound gods.
• The Flame Emperor named the infant Yan Ju as his eldest son and heir, and Yan Ju burned an old Fire God who reached toward his basket.
• Tingyao asked Heng'e to carry Yan Ju to his baptism, while the Flame Emperor and Tingyao turned to meet the heavenly envoy; Heng'e felt instinctive irritation at Yan Ju’s sun-fire aura.

Yan Ju underwent a three-month cleansing in Emperor Yan’s medicinal pool, absorbing its divine medicines and cultivating the Southern Emperor Yan True Scripture. He emerged having reached the Heavenly God realm and grown into a youth, leaving Emperor Yan and Ting Yao delighted.

• Heng'e carried the infant Yan Ju to the cleansing hall, where he manifested a youthful divine body and pinched her cheeks after she teased him.
• Yan Ju and Heng'e chased each other through the void until Ting Yao stopped them, and she joked that Heng'e could be bestowed upon Yan Ju when he grew up.
• Ting Yao placed Yan Ju in Emperor Yan’s medicinal pool, where he formed a golden-red lotus cocoon and began absorbing its powerful medicines.
• Emperor Yan and Ting Yao left Heng'e to watch over Yan Ju while they dealt with visiting mortal gods and the Celestial Court’s gifts.
• After three months, Yan Ju absorbed the pool dry, endured the Heavenly God tribulation, and emerged with a complete solar divine body and Dao Fruit.
• Yan Ju grew into a youth and paid respects to Emperor Yan and Ting Yao, who joyfully helped him rise.

Yan Ju studied divine lineages and authority under Ting Yao, learned of the Xi Huang Kingdom’s destruction, and gave Heng'e a lunar cultivation art to help restore her source. He left with her for the Great Hall of Light, while Heng'e began to see him in a kinder light.

• Yan Ju asked Ting Yao whether Emperor Yan’s many bloodlines strengthened his authority, and she explained that the Human Emperor had pursued a similar path before the Xi Huang Kingdom fell.
• Yan Ju teased Heng'e and declared that he intended to marry her, while Ting Yao warned him to preserve his Pure Yang authority.
• Ting Yao told Yan Ju that the Xi Huang Kingdom had been destroyed, most of the Fuxi Clan had perished, and the Human Emperor’s whereabouts were unknown.
• Yan Ju vowed to defeat the demons and devils, then ended his lesson and left the palace with Heng'e.
• Yan Ju gave Heng'e the Grand Lunar Form-Refining Art and claimed to have created it, and she accepted it before following him to the Great Hall of Light.

Yan Ju demonstrated his mastery of the Nine Zhurong Flames, then learned the Zhurong Clan’s Refining Fire Method and quickly reached the Heaven-Origin Fire realm. After receiving Zhurong’s personal instruction, Yan Ju left the Great Hall of Light with Heng'e, while a haughty half-grown boy watched them depart.

• Yan Ju showed Zhurong that he had mastered the Nine Zhurong Flames, and Zhurong invited him to learn the Refining Fire Method.
• As Zhurong taught the method, Yan Ju quickly cultivated Fire of Spirituality and advanced through Human-Origin Fire to Heaven-Origin Fire, surprising Zhurong.
• Yan Ju thanked Zhurong and asked him about the method’s mysteries, receiving patient personal guidance from the clan chief.
• A half-grown boy in a fiery-red brocade robe watched Yan Ju and Zhurong, then haughtily turned away and left with his attendant gods.
• Yan Ju found Heng'e outside the hall, teased her by ruffling her hair and pinching her cheek, and left with her beneath the sun.

Yan Ju broke through to the High God realm and prepared to attend the Hundred Tribes Assembly. After receiving treasures from his parents, he discovered carpentry had already spread through the Emperor Yan Tribe, then went to ask Ting Yao about it before the assembly began.

• Yan Ju broke through to the High God realm using his Great Sun Dao Fruit, and the Emperor Yan urged him to represent the tribe at the Hundred Tribes Assembly.
• Ting Yao took Yan Ju to the Flame Emperor's Treasury, where he saw rare spirit plants and divine treasures gathered by the Emperor Yan.
• Ting Yao gave Yan Ju the Suiren Lamp and an ancient red-bronze sword, which he refined that afternoon.
• Yan Ju met craftsmen building a small tower with a ruler created by Ting Yao and learned that carpentry had already spread through the Emperor Yan Tribe.
• Yan Ju entered Ting Yao's palace to ask her about the craftsmen, and the Hundred Tribes Assembly began several days later.

At the Assembly of the Hundred Clans, Yan Ju easily defeated the challengers, including Crown Prince Changqin, and displayed mastery of fire techniques and the First Mountain Red Copper Sword. Just as the gathering was about to end, a new challenger arrived beneath a vast rising sun and called Yan Ju out.

• Yan Ju defeated Yu Jian of the Youyu Clan with Heavenly Origin Fire, and Yu Jian conceded.
• Crown Prince Changqin challenged Yan Ju, but Yan Ju trapped him in the Pure Origin Myriad Marvel Nine Divine Sword Formation and pointed his sword at Changqin's chest.
• Zhurong declared Changqin defeated, slapped him twice, and scolded him for risking his life; Changqin then vanished in anger.
• A new challenger arrived with a vast rising sun and crow cries, then called on Yan Ju to compete.

Lu Ya and the Demon Master visited the Emperor Yan Tribe, offering gifts and an alliance in exchange for Lu Ya becoming Emperor Yan’s disciple. Emperor Yan refused, and the Demon Master left after the tribe rejected his threats and Fangfeng challenged the visitors; Lu Ya and the Demon Master then continued their tour to approach other deities.

• Lu Ya and the Demon Master arrived at the Emperor Yan Tribe and offered treasures, an alliance, and a title in return for Emperor Yan accepting Lu Ya as his disciple.
• Emperor Yan rejected the offer, condemned the Celestial Court for the massacre at the Xi Huang Dao Kingdom, and rallied his people against the visitors.
• The Demon Master threatened the tribe, while Lu Ya challenged Yan Ju to a contest; Emperor Yan and Ting Yao refused to risk a fight involving their young son.
• Emperor Yan summoned Fangfeng to face the demons, and the Demon Master withdrew with Lu Ya and the treasure chests rather than accept the challenge.
• Lu Ya vowed revenge, and the Demon Master said they would continue visiting other deities to win allies or isolate those opposed to the Heavenly Realm.

Yan Ju tested his new divine-beast puppets against Heng'e, then learned that rising tensions threatened the alliance of the earth gods. He and Heng'e entered the Flame Emperor's Treasury to hide and cultivate, where Yan Ju began exploring its spiritual resources.

• Yan Ju developed six divine-beast puppets using carpentry and artifact-refining techniques, and defeated Heng'e with their sword formation before giving her the puppets.
• Ting Yao ordered Yan Ju and Heng'e to cultivate inside the Flame Emperor's Treasury, explaining that enemies would stir up war and seek to destroy the alliance of the earth gods.
• Yan Ju refused his parents' offer to send him to cultivate under the Heavenly Venerables atop East Kunlun, choosing to remain with the Flame Emperor Tribe.
• Yan Ju and Heng'e settled into a palace in the Treasury, where Yan Ju planned to cultivate the Great Sun Origin and explore the area's spiritual resources.
• Yan Ju brewed tea from tender leaves of a spiritual tea tree and began absorbing its mysteries.

Yan Ju and Heng'e cultivated in the Flame Emperor's Treasury, where a wondrous tea tree aided their progress, and Yan Ju began mastering artifact refinement and alchemy. After three years of seclusion, thunderous clashes beyond the secret realm suggested that powerful gods were fighting, leaving Yan Ju worried for the Flame Emperor couple.

• Heng'e drank tea from the ancient tree, gained a surge of comprehension, and advanced closer to becoming a Heavenly God.
• Yan Ju and Heng'e gathered spiritual fruits and studied in the Flame Emperor's Treasury while Yan Ju strengthened his divine body and comprehended the Solar Dao.
• Yan Ju carved out workshops, forged a pill furnace using the Six Harmonies Heavenly Scripture, and learned to refine Violet Gold Pure Yang Pills.
• Yan Ju cultivated for three more years and reached the peak of the High God realm.
• Thunderous clashes beyond the Flame Emperor Secret Realm alarmed Yan Ju and Heng'e, and Yan Ju held Heng'e's hand as he voiced his fear of dying with regrets.

Yan Ju waited out the upheaval in the Flame Emperor Secret Realm and learned that the Emperor Yan Tribe had survived the Celestial Court’s attack, though some clansmen were killed or injured. He began preparing to break through to the origin god realm, and the chapter ended as the Emperor Yan sensed that someone was about to make a move.

• Yan Ju and Heng'e discussed his feelings for her and waited as the chaos overhead moved away from the Flame Emperor Secret Realm.
• After two and a half years, Ting Yao arrived and told Yan Ju that the Emperor Yan Tribe had endured the attack, while the gods in the heavens had suffered more heavily.
• Yan Ju offered to leave the secret realm and fight, but Ting Yao told him to stay and cultivate until he could attain an origin god body.
• Yan Ju prepared to face the three tribulations required to enter the origin god realm and sent a message asking the Emperor Yan and Ting Yao for help.
• The Emperor Yan decided to seek aid in East Kunlun, then sensed that someone had lost patience and was about to act.

Heavenly Emperor Di Jun and Eastern Sovereign Taiyi chose to attack Dongwang Gong to seize his Dragon-Headed Staff and strengthen their claim to supreme-yang authority. Meanwhile, Yan Ju successfully merged with the Solar Dao and became an Origin God, while Heng'e began to recover fragments of her memories.

• Di Jun failed to pierce the obscured heavenly secrets and agreed with Taiyi that the Celestial Court needed to act quickly.
• Di Jun chose Dongwang Gong as their next target, and Taiyi departed to lead the stars against his overseas lineage.
• Emperor Yan and Ting Yao guarded Yan Ju as he began his breakthrough, with the Kongtong Seal concealing the Dao's fluctuations.
• Yan Ju endured the Solar Dao's rejection, formed a Solar Dao Fruit, and used his Heavenly Heart Mark to seize a portion of its authority.
• Yan Ju successfully became an Origin God of the Solar Dao, and Heng'e felt pain as fragments of memories surfaced.

Yan Ju refined pills and divine weapons, accepted Emperor Yan’s task to record and teach those crafts, and cultivated with Heng'e to deepen his understanding of yin and yang. Years later, ten Golden Crow princes set out from the Eastern Sea to intimidate the myriad races, despite Lu Ya’s misgivings.

• Heng'e recovered fragments of memories of a snowy world and an unknown girl, while Yan Ju led her away with him.
• Emperor Yan praised Yan Ju’s pill and artifact refinement, then asked him to compile and share notes with the tribe’s craftsmen; Yan Ju agreed.
• Yan Ju and Heng'e joined their solar and lunar origins, producing a months-long celestial phenomenon that strengthened Yan Ju and advanced his comprehension of innate yin and yang.
• Yan Ju spent the following years refining pills, artifacts, and formation flags while Emperor Yan and Ting Yao visited without disturbing him.
• After Emperor Yan and the Empress engaged Dongwang Gong in battle in the Eastern Sea, the ten Golden Crow princes flew toward the ancient land under the pretext of intimidating the myriad races.
• Lu Ya worried that the brothers might be ambushed, but joined their Ten Suns Heavenly Punishment Formation as they drew on the Solar Star’s power and set out.