Chapter Summaries

As ten suns scorched the Eastern Sea and threatened the Emperor Yan Tribe, Yan Ju revealed the Nine-Source Divine Mountains and organized a vast formation to shield the tribe. The formation succeeded, and the Emperor Yan called on the gods to help extinguish the fires spreading across the land.

• Yan Ju, the Emperor Yan, and other gods sensed the ten suns’ devastating heat as it spread across the earth.
• Yan Ju presented the Nine-Source Divine Mountains and explained that they could power a formation to protect the Emperor Yan Tribe.
• The Emperor Yan ordered the tribe to gather food and shelter while Yan Ju selected gods, including Ting Yao and Heng'e, to establish the formation.
• Yan Ju and the other gods placed the nine divine mountains and activated the formation, which blocked the heat and extinguished fires within its barrier.
• The Emperor Yan asked the assembled gods to help put out the wider fire disaster and rescue living beings.

Emperor Yan and the gods struggled to contain the devastation caused by the Ten Suns Heavenly Punishment Formation, while Yan Ju absorbed and refined its solar fire. As a bow-wielding war god shot down the Golden Crows, Yan Ju sensed the Golden Crow Clan’s funeral bell tolling, and a furious voice rang across heaven and earth.

• Emperor Yan absorbed fires across the land and used the Shennong Cauldron to try to save survivors, while Yan Ju maintained the formation and refined its solar fire.
• Demon gods begged Great Sage Bifang to stop the ten princes, but he dismissed their losses and threatened Pinebeard Duke.
• Pinebeard Duke and Cang Xuan suspected Bifang was stalling them, but Bifang intercepted and captured them when they tried to leave for the Celestial Court.
• The Golden Crows killed gods who attacked their formation, until a golden-bow-wielding war god fired Lunar Star arrows and brought down several of them.
• Yan Ju watched the Golden Crows fall and sensed the Solar Star tremble as a furious voice called for the bowman to stop.

Eastern Sovereign Taiyi arrived after Hou Yi shot down nine Golden Crows, then fought the gathered ancient gods as they moved to overthrow the Celestial Court. As the Flame Emperor departed to join the war, Yan Ju took command of the Emperor Yan Tribe and brought the troubled Heng'e aside to question her.

• Eastern Sovereign Taiyi broke out of his secret realm, saw nine Golden Crows slain, and intervened as Hou Yi prepared to shoot the last one.
• Metal God Roushou and numerous ancient gods confronted Eastern Sovereign Taiyi, who realized the ten suns' rampage had been used to undermine the Celestial Court and the Golden Crow Clan.
• Eastern Sovereign Taiyi protected the surviving young Golden Crow and attacked Di Jiang, while the gods prepared to fight him before reinforcements arrived.
• Yan Ju returned to the Emperor Yan Tribe as the Flame Emperor gathered its elite to join the battle, and the Flame Emperor entrusted Ting Yao and Yan Ju with the tribe's safety.
• The Flame Emperor warned Yan Ju to beware troublemakers and left him a powerful ally in Flame Emperor Valley before departing for the battlefield.
• Yan Ju sealed the tribe, assigned defensive duties, and then took the distracted Heng'e into the palace to question her.

Yan Ju realized that someone had used Chang Xi’s Lunar origin to help Hou Yi kill the ten Golden Crow princes, threatening both the Solar and Lunar lineages. As chaos spread through Heaven and earth, he stabilized the Emperor Yan Tribe and gave Heng'e a way to strengthen her Daoheart by saving the trapped spirits.

• Heng'e told Yan Ju she had felt the ten Golden Crow princes die as if she had shot them herself, and Yan Ju deduced that someone had used Chang Xi’s extracted Lunar origin to forge the arrows.
• Yan Ju reassured Heng'e that he would face the consequences with her, and Heng'e promised to help stabilize the Emperor Yan Tribe.
• Yan Ju punished restless deities, reestablished the Pure Origin Myriad Wonders Nine-God Ancient Formation, and contained unrest as chaos and atrocities spread across the land.
• Ting Yao warned Yan Ju that evil gods might be testing the tribe, and Yan Ju sent a divine general to capture invading yin corpses and vicious ghosts with eighteen banners.
• Yan Ju gave the palace attendants puppet scouts, then ordered Heng'e to use the Daoheart Salvation art to save the spirits imprisoned in the banners.

Heng'e used Daoheart Salvation to soothe the resentful souls trapped in the Ten-Thousand Souls Divine Banner while Yan Ju sensed the Celestial Court’s battle claiming one ancient god after another. The Solar Star finally went dark, leaving Yan Ju relieved that the Sun God had fallen.

• Heng'e cultivated Daoheart Salvation and freed resentful spirits from the Ten-Thousand Souls Divine Banner, learning their tragic histories and easing their Killing Intent.
• Heng'e realized that saving the spirits was like enduring tribulations and would help her attain the Great Dao.
• Yan Ju sensed the spatial and wind great origins fluctuate as their occupying ancient gods fell, then felt the sun and celestial-phenomena origins convulse together.
• Yan Ju detected further upheaval in the metal, lightning, rain, and wood great origins as the All-Heaven Star Array appeared and the Celestial Court’s stars were devastated.
• The Lunar Star went dark and was relit as blood rain fell, and Yan Ju suspected Xihe had fallen and Di Jun was gravely wounded.
• The Solar Star went dark, and Yan Ju relaxed, believing the last Sun God had fallen.

Yan Ju was attacked by the Earth-Origin Baleful Deity, but Sui Ren appeared and defeated the evil god. Sui Ren urged Yan Ju to protect the Emperor Yan Tribe and prepare for the coming age, leaving Yan Ju to await Emperor Yan Shennong’s return.

• Yan Ju seized more authority over the sun while meditating in the Emperor Yan Palace.
• The Earth-Origin Baleful Deity attacked the Emperor Yan Tribe, shattered its defenses, and threatened Yan Ju.
• Yan Ju called on Ancestor Sui, who appeared and fought the Earth-Origin Baleful Deity across spacetime.
• Sui Ren overcame the evil god’s curse and used his divine arts to defeat him.
• Sui Ren told Yan Ju to protect the Emperor Yan Tribe and preserve its people, then returned to cultivate in Flame Emperor Valley.
• Yan Ju resolved to guard the tribe and await Emperor Yan Shennong’s return.

After more than twenty years in seclusion, Yang Huai reached new heights in cultivation and traveled to Suspended Spirit Island to heal Taichuzi’s Dao injury. He and Yuan Xiuxiu reunited, but she revealed her celestial identity and announced that she would ascend to the Purple Palace in a few months, leaving Yang Huai warned about the banished immortals seeking him.

• Yang Huai emerged from seclusion with his cultivation nearing the peak of the Golden Immortal realm and traveled to Suspended Spirit Island to help Taichuzi.
• Yuan Xiuxiu sensed someone entering the island’s formation, then welcomed Yang Huai when he appeared before her pavilion.
• Yang Huai used innate yin-yang divine light to remove Taichuzi’s Dao injury and restored his weakened Primordial Spirit with pure-yang essence qi.
• Taichuzi thanked Yang Huai for healing him, and Yang Huai and Yuan Xiuxiu spent time together on the island.
• Yuan Xiuxiu revealed that she was the daughter of the Purple Origin Celestial Lord and said she would ascend to the Purple Palace in a few months.
• Yuan Xiuxiu told Yang Huai to seek her in the Purple Palace and warned him that banished immortals might target him because Tai Bai had descended into the world.

Yang Huai learned that Yuan Xiuxiu was a Purple Palace princess and that marrying her would require him to reach at least the Grand Unity Immortal realm, then parted from her and returned to visit his family. Back at Heavenly Gold Cave, his Dao heart stirred a powerful resonance, while Emperor Yan Shennong returned to the Emperor Yan Tribe.

• Yuan Xiuxiu explained that she could not risk remaining in the mortal world and planned to ascend to the Purple Palace Celestial Realm.
• Black Prison told Yang Huai that Yuan Xiuxiu was the daughter of the Purple Origin Celestial Lord and that he would need to become a Grand Unity Immortal to marry into her family.
• Yang Huai shared a family banquet with Yuan Xiuxiu and Taichuzi, then left Suspended Spirit Island after Yuan Xiuxiu and Black Prison entered seclusion.
• Yang Huai visited Father Yang and Mother Yang in Huangshan County, then returned to Spirit-Fusion Peak and meditated as his Dao resonance calmed the surrounding cultivators.
• Ji Mingxue sensed Yang Huai's Dao-heart power and judged that he could contend with the Patriarch's Dao achievements.
• Yan Ju guarded the Emperor Yan Tribe until Emperor Yan Shennong returned amid celestial music and divine lights.

After the Emperor Yan returned, Yan Ju offered Fuxi and Shennong advice on strengthening the human race, while Fuxi was chosen as its common ruler and his daughter Xuanji entered Tingyao’s service. Yan Ju refused to pursue Xuanji and focused on Heng’e and his cultivation, but Heng’e’s sudden transformation suggested Chang Xi’s consciousness was awakening.

• Emperor Yan asked Yan Ju for his judgment, and Yan Ju urged the human race to strengthen itself patiently, unite allies, and develop systems and cultivation methods.
• Fuxi praised Yan Ju’s insight and suggested he manage the tribe, but Yan Ju declined; Shennong then proposed Fuxi as the human race’s common ruler and urged him to accept.
• Fuxi’s daughter Xuanji stayed at Tingyao’s side to study the Dao of water, while Yan Ju suspected her placement served a political purpose.
• Yan Ju cultivated innate yin and yang with Heng’e and told her he would not pursue Xuanji merely to advance his ambitions.
• Tingyao learned that Yan Ju was spending his time with Heng’e and decided not to interfere, while she sensed a new life growing within her.
• Heng’e awoke in a burst of lunar radiance, and Yan Ju recognized the signs that Chang Xi’s consciousness was about to awaken.

After Heng'e's memories of her past as Chang Xi resurfaced, she and Yan Ju discussed her former sister, her unresolved grievances, and their relationship. Heng'e took revenge on Yan Ju, then guided his Lunar Dao cultivation, while he began gathering ghosts to aid her and prepare for his own plans.

• Yan Ju used the Pure-Cleansing Ancient Emperor Divine Seal to ease Heng'e's pain as her Lunar divine power surfaced and memories of Chang Xi returned.
• Heng'e recounted how her elder sister fell in love, left her alone on the Lunar moon, and later tried to trade her for the Celestial Court's benefit; she vowed to discover who had plotted against them and stolen her origin.
• Heng'e declared that Yan Ju had to repay the grievance of bullying her, and the two remained in the Lesser Flame Hall for several months as Lunar and Solar manifestations appeared above it.
• Crown Prince Changqin challenged Yan Ju again, but Yan Ju dismissed him and said he should first cultivate the Dao-Origin Fire.
• Yan Ju advanced in the Lunar Dao with Heng'e's guidance and gave her Myriad Souls Banners to help save collected ghosts and evil specters.
• Yan Ju sent Emperor Yan Tribe clansmen to gather ghosts both to aid Heng'e and to clear the land, prepare for reincarnation-related plans, and build a force of evil-suppressing Dao soldiers.

Yan Ju continued refining yin soldiers while the Emperor Yan Tribe rebuilt its strength amid growing conflict across the wilderness, and the Fuxi Clan reappeared in Tao Capital. Yang Huai calculated that Father Yang and Mother Yang were nearing the ends of their lives, visited them in Huangshan County, and left them to share a quiet moment before joining them that evening.

• Yan Ju refined hundreds of thousands of yin soldiers and ghost generals from the Banner of Myriad Spirits, while Water Mother Xuanji questioned his methods.
• Crown Prince Changqin summoned Xuanji to Tingyao Palace for a task near the Western Sand River, and she told him not to imitate Yan Ju's flattery.
• The Emperor Yan Tribe rebuilt its population and military strength as rival powers fought for land and resources, and the Fuxi Clan founded a state again in Tao Capital.
• Yang Huai calculated that Father Yang and Mother Yang were nearing their allotted lifespans and went to the Yang Residence in Huangshan County.
• Yang Huai watched Father Yang and Mother Yang reminisce beside their peach grove without disturbing them, then joined the family at dusk.

Yang Huai severed most of his mortal ties and repaid the favor he owed Daoist Guangzhen by sending her a talisman and the Qianyuan Imperial Manor Golden Lamp. Daoist Guangzhen rushed to the Six Harmonies Immortal Abode, where the Dark Yin Witch had trapped Cheng Muxian, and used the lamp to break through the witch’s demonic assault.

• After Father Yang and Mother Yang passed away, Yang Huai realized he was nearly free of mortal attachments, with three promised conditions still binding him.
• Yang Huai wrote a Wangdi Golden Talisman and sent Qingfeng to deliver it and the Qianyuan Imperial Manor Golden Lamp to Daoist Guangzhen.
• Liu Nansong tried to take the items from Qingfeng, but Daoist Guangzhen called him in and accepted them herself.
• Daoist Guangzhen calculated that Cheng Muxian was in danger and hurried to the Six Harmonies Immortal Abode, where the Dark Yin Witch had seized control and trapped Cheng.
• The Dark Yin Witch enveloped Cheng Muxian in a demon lotus and attacked Daoist Guangzhen, who used the Qianyuan Imperial Manor Golden Lamp to dissolve the witch’s demonic curtain.

Daoist Guangzhen used the Qianyuan Imperial Manor Golden Lamp and Wangdi Golden Talismans to trap the Dark Yin Witch inside Cheng Muxian, while Yang Huai completed two of his three tasks. Yan Ju and Heng'e harmonized their solar and lunar powers, and Yan Ju proposed that Heng'e help him create a cultivation method for yin gods.

• Daoist Guangzhen suppressed the Dark Yin Witch with the Qianyuan Imperial Manor Golden Lamp and protected Cheng Muxian's Primordial Spirit with Wangdi Golden Talismans.
• Yang Huai sent an immortal talisman to Suspended Spirit Island and considered two of his three tasks complete.
• Yan Ju refined his First Mountain Red Copper sword and summoned Heng'e to harmonize their solar and lunar cultivation.
• Over several years, Yan Ju's great sun manifestation grew gentler and more balanced, while Heng'e's lunar manifestation became less cold.
• Yan Ju asked Heng'e to help perfect a cultivation method for yin gods and urged her to establish a path for the innate Great Dao of pure yin.

Yan Ju persuaded Heng'e to develop cultivation methods for yin spirits and ghosts, then oversaw the Emperor Yan Tribe’s rapid growth and rising demon-hunting frenzy. He ordered the tribe to avoid killing neutral divine and spirit beasts, though Heng'e doubted he could stop the slaughter.

• Yan Ju showed Heng'e a ghost-immortal cultivation art and urged her to guide evil entities onto a righteous path, prompting her to consider developing methods for yin gods and ancestral qi.
• Heng'e recalled a path left by the first-generation Lunar Yin Goddess as a way to complete her authority over pure yin.
• A year later, Emperor Yan Shennong named his newborn eldest daughter Lesser Flame, so Yan Ju renamed Lesser Flame Hall as Lesser Yang Hall.
• Over the next thirty years, the Emperor Yan Tribe’s population and number of low-level cultivators grew, while demon hunting became widespread as tribespeople used demon-beast flesh and blood for body-refining arts.
• A divine general reported that tribespeople resisted restrictions on demon hunting, and Yan Ju ordered them to distinguish hostile targets from innocent divine and spirit beasts.
• After the general left, Heng'e doubted Yan Ju could stop the frenzy and wondered who had set it in motion; Yan Ju admitted he did not know.

Yan Ju inspected the Emperor Yan Tribe’s growing industries and its army of yin soldiers, then ordered a response after a Heavenly God hunting squad was wiped out. The demon responsible was captured and brought before him, and Yan Ju recognized it as the two-headed wolf that had hunted him in a previous life.

• Yan Ju and Heng'e toured the Emperor Yan Tribe’s slaughtering grounds, forges, and alchemy valley as Yan Ju advised the tribe’s cultivators.
• Yan Ju and Heng'e inspected Nine Yin City, where hundreds of thousands of yin soldiers trained, and Yan Ju urged Heng'e to improve the system of yin soldiers and ghost generals.
• A warrior reported that every member of Divine General Jiang Ling’s Heavenly God hunting squad had died, so Yan Ju ordered the Shaman Sacrifice Hall to trace them and elders of the Sacred Land Hall to pursue the killer.
• Several days later, elders brought a captured two-headed demon wolf to Yan Ju, who recognized it as the Dark Earth Star Lord that had hunted him in his previous life.
• The two-headed demon wolf begged Yan Ju to spare its life.

Yan Ju strengthened the Emperor Yan Tribe and advanced his cultivation while planning to forge an Origin Divine Wheel as an artifact of Dao attainment. He revealed that the materials for it had come from the Emperor Yan Tribe’s recent campaign against heaven.

• Yan Ju ordered the four elders to kill the two-headed evil wolf despite its offer of a priceless treasure, and they dragged the demon god away.
• Xuanji watched Yan Ju’s growing achievements and reconsidered his suitability, dismissing Crown Prince Changqin as a match.
• Ten years later, Yan Ju formed an Innate Yin-Yang Taiji Diagram and Innate Five-Element Divine Radiance, displaying power comparable to Origin God experts.
• Yan Ju told Heng'e he would refine a wheel to embody his origin Dao Fruit, while Heng'e asked about his plans for his Yin soldiers and divine generals.
• Yan Ju reviewed the three transcendence tribulations and listed rare materials for his divine weapon, then said the Emperor Yan Tribe had obtained them by raiding the Heavenly Emperor’s treasury.

Yan Ju used rare divine materials from the Flame Emperor's Treasury to forge the Boundless Treasure Wheel, a vessel meant to help him attain the Dao. After learning that Houtu had appeared near the Emperor Yan Tribe, he went with Heng'e and Emperor Yan Shennong to meet her, where they witnessed her reveal a profound Great Dao of life and death.

• Yan Ju selected several precious divine materials from the Flame Emperor's Treasury, and Emperor Yan Shennong decided to let him use them as he pleased.
• Emperor Yan Shennong and Ting Yao discussed whether Yan Ju might accept a marriage alliance with Xuanji, but chose to ask Yan Ju and Xuanji what they wanted first.
• After nearly eighty years of refinement, Yan Ju completed the Boundless Treasure Wheel and explained to Heng'e that it was a vessel for attaining the Dao.
• Two years later, Heng'e told Yan Ju that Houtu had appeared near the Emperor Yan Tribe, and Yan Ju summoned Emperor Yan Shennong and Ting Yao to go meet her.
• Houtu emerged from meditation and revealed a black-and-white wheel of light that embodied the cycle of life and death, astonishing Heng'e and the others.

Yan Ju urged Houtu to establish reincarnation so the countless dead could return to Heaven and Earth, and explained his plan for guiding evil spirits. Houtu took his Boundless Treasure Wheel to help the dead transcend, promising to return it once the great matter was accomplished.

• Emperor Yan Shennong welcomed Houtu, but she declined his invitation and said she was traveling through the wilderness.
• Yan Ju told Houtu about his underground yin city and proposed gathering, guiding, and containing evil spirits until they could enter reincarnation.
• Yan Ju described reincarnation as a way to balance Heaven and Earth, warning that unchecked evil spirits could grow into a calamity; Houtu asked whether he would sacrifice himself to avert one, and he answered honestly that it would depend on fate.
• Houtu examined Yan Ju's Boundless Treasure Wheel and asked him to relinquish it to help the dead transcend; Yan Ju agreed, and Houtu departed with the treasure, promising to return it after the great matter was accomplished.
• Ting Yao worried that Yan Ju had given Houtu a means to restrain him, but Yan Ju reassured her and privately hoped the treasure would gain immeasurable fortune by helping establish reincarnation.

Yan Ju gained the Emperor Yan Tribe’s support for his campaign against evil entities and began expanding his Yin City enterprise with Heng'e’s help. When they planned a Lunar Hell, Heng'e revealed she meant to recover belongings from a secret place rather than visit the dangerous Lunar Star.

• The Emperor Yan assigned Yan Ju fifty hunting squads, Sacred Land Hall elders, and permission to form a divine corps, while Ting Yao offered to take Xuanji as her final disciple instead of pursuing a marriage alliance.
• Yan Ju returned to Lesser Yang Hall, sent hunting squads to gather evil entities, recruited artifact refiners to build Yin Cities, and drafted a new clan sacrificial system.
• Yan Ju and Heng'e saw that the Nine Yin Forbidden Land could no longer contain their growing forces, so Heng'e proposed opening a small world for them.
• Yan Ju proposed shaping the world into an eighteen-level Lunar Hell, and Heng'e said they would need an innate Lunar treasure to guard and suppress it.
• Yan Ju offered to ask the Emperor Yan to arrange Celestial Venerables to accompany Heng'e to the Lunar Star, but Heng'e clarified that she meant a secret place known only to her and her sister Xihe.

Heng'e and Yan Ju searched two secret refuges she and her elder sister had left behind, finding an ancient treasure and a Lunar Moon Laurel. Heng'e found no sign that her sister had returned, but the laurel was enough for the small world they planned to open.

• Heng'e led Yan Ju to a hidden realm formed from primordial pure yin qi and explained that she and her elder sister had created it in ancient times.
• Heng'e found two Snow-Silk Divine Robes in the cottage, then transformed the realm into the Void Treasure Mirror and told Yan Ju it had served as a retreat for the sisters.
• Heng'e and Yan Ju traveled toward the border of the Eastern and Western Lands, passing battles between gods and Devils before entering a snow mountain amid a fight between ice phoenixes, giant apes, and gods.
• Heng'e guided Yan Ju through a Primordial Antiquity glacier into a secret realm containing a Lunar Moon Laurel, which she said could suppress the small world they were about to open.
• Heng'e searched the cottage in the laurel realm but found nothing, and Yan Ju urged her not to dwell on it.