Chapter Summaries

Heng'e recovered the Lunar Soul Pearl from the secret realm and led Yan Ju to the place where a Great Golden Crow had fallen. There, they drew out the paired Solar Soul Pearl, which Yan Ju managed to seize.

• Heng'e retrieved the Lunar Soul Pearl from the Lunar Laurel Tree, refined it, and used the Void Treasure Mirror to collect the secret realm.
• Heng'e and Yan Ju escaped the erupting Dark Ancient frigid current; Yan Ju subdued two attacking ice phoenixes and let them go with a warning.
• Heng'e took Yan Ju to the volcanic site where a Great Golden Crow had fallen and explained that its Solar Soul Pearl was hidden in the magma.
• Heng'e used the Lunar Soul Pearl to draw out the Solar Soul Pearl, and Yan Ju restrained the blazing treasure with Solar Divine Radiance.

Yan Ju and Heng'e obtained and refined the Solar Soul Pearl and Lunar Soul Pearl after Heng'e suppressed a greedy Solar Star deity. They returned to the Emperor Yan Tribe, and Heng'e prepared to open the Lunar Hell using a Primordial Pure-Turbid Origin Womb.

• Yan Ju claimed the Solar Soul Pearl, and Heng'e froze and imprisoned the Solar Star deity who attacked them.
• Yan Ju and Heng'e returned to Lesser Yang Hall, where Heng'e refined the Lunar Soul Pearl and Yan Ju spent more than a decade refining the Solar Soul Pearl.
• Heng'e restored some of her lunar origin and refined the Void Treasure Mirror and Lunar Laurel Tree as preparation for opening the Lunar Hell.
• Yan Ju finished refining the Solar Soul Pearl, and Heng'e told him his opportunity had arrived and that the ritual altar was ready.
• Yan Ju and Heng'e went to the Nine Yin Forbidden Land, where Heng'e revealed a Primordial Pure-Turbid Origin Womb that would let them open the Lunar Hell without waiting for the lunar moon to rise.

Heng'e and Yan Ju completed Lunar Hell, used the Nine-Source Divine Mountains to transform the extreme yin side’s harmful powers, and received merit qi. After decades of preparation and cultivation, they sensed reincarnation manifesting, marking the success of their long-laid plan.

• Heng'e opened Lunar Hell as an eighteen-layer small world and planted the Lunar Laurel tree within it.
• Yan Ju placed the Nine-Source Divine Mountains in Lunar Hell, allowing it to absorb and transform resentment and baleful qi; he and Heng'e received golden light of merit.
• Heng'e secluded herself beneath the laurel tree to refine her merit qi, while Yan Ju moved tens of millions of evil spirits and yin souls from the Nine Yin Forbidden Land into Lunar Hell.
• Yan Ju returned to Lesser Yang Hall and cultivated the mysteries of the Solar Soul Pearl, eventually mastering the transformations of the nine deities.
• After sixty years, Yan Ju and Heng'e sensed the Great Dao laws shake as reincarnation manifested, confirming their plan had succeeded.

Houtu transformed into the Dao of Nine Netherworld reincarnation, while Yan Ju’s Boundless Treasure Wheel became part of its source and completed his path. Yan Ju and Heng'e merged Lunar Hell into the Nine Netherworld, and Houtu repelled gods who tried to seize its treasures before merit descended upon Yan Ju and Heng'e.

• Houtu transformed into the Dao of Nine Netherworld reincarnation, and innate treasures—including Yan Ju’s Boundless Treasure Wheel—entered the new realm.
• The Boundless Treasure Wheel connected reincarnation with the Great Dao sources of heaven and earth, giving Yan Ju a share of the Nine Netherworld’s source authority.
• Houtu drew wandering spirits into the Nine Netherworld, and Yan Ju and Heng'e chose to merge Lunar Hell into it.
• Lunar Hell’s yin soldiers, Lunar Laurel Tree, and Lunar Soul Pearl joined the Nine Netherworld, where the tree and pearl took on new forms.
• Ancient god Heavenly Venerables tried to seize the Nine Netherworld’s treasures, but Houtu trapped them in her wheel and sent them into the realm.
• Golden merit descended on Yan Ju and Heng'e, with Yan Ju receiving the larger share.

Yan Ju refined the golden merit and advanced into a source spirit, raising his Great Sun Destiny to the source Dao rank. After discussing the Nine Netherworld’s significance with the Flame Emperor Clan elders, he began cultivating while Heng'e remained in the Nine Netherworld.

• Heng'e headed to the Nine Netherworld to secure her position as the God of Nether Moon and pursue greater yin authority.
• Yan Ju drew in vast solar, flame, light, and pure yang energies as his foundation broke through and he became a source spirit.
• The Flame Emperor, Ting Yao, Zhurong, and other gods witnessed Yan Ju’s transformation and recognized the birth of a fire-element source spirit.
• Yan Ju told the Flame Emperor Clan elders that the Nine Netherworld represented the opening of a world of supreme yin, and the elders departed after hearing his explanation.
• Yan Ju began cultivating alone and found that his new source-spirit foundation let him comprehend the Great Dao of supreme yang far more quickly.

Yang Huai agreed to guard Master Jiufang while she sought treasures in the Jade Balance Immortal Mansion, which also contained a legendary Azure Talisman Stone. As the mansion emerged beneath Cloudcross Mountain, Master Jiufang and Daoist Guangzhen entered its depths, while Yang Huai stopped the attacking devil heads with Sun Truefire.

• Yang Huai reached the peak of the Golden Immortal realm and welcomed Master Jiufang to his cave residence.
• Master Jiufang explained that she sought the Five-Element Jade Lotus Pod from the Jade Balance Immortal Mansion and told Yang Huai that the mansion also held an Azure Talisman Stone.
• Yang Huai agreed to attend the gathering at Cloudcross Mountain, where Master Jiufang planned to retrieve the treasures.
• Master Jiufang and the other cultivators used the Cosmic Treasure Mirror, North Pole Magnetism Divine Chain, and Primordial Five-Element Strongmen to hold the emerging mansion in place.
• Master Jiufang and Daoist Guangzhen descended into the earth's core as devil heads rushed toward Cloudcross Mountain.
• Yang Huai unleashed Sun Truefire, breaking apart the demonic clouds and destroying the attacking devil heads.

Yang Huai effortlessly destroyed the West Sea Devil Master and a host of powerful devils, then confronted the banished star god who demanded the source of the Tai Bai Star. Their fight began with Yang Huai trapping her in the Sun God Seal’s fiery radiance.

• Yang Huai burned the West Sea Devil Master’s body and Primordial Spirit with the Sun True Fire.
• Yang Huai suppressed Five-Lives Devil Master Shan Haichen, Southern Cult Leader Ying Mingfang, Profound Yin Demon God Patriarch Cang Xuan, Heavenfiend Pan Wuyu, and their followers, absorbing their attacks into nine-colored immortal light.
• Yang Huai sensed an unseen observer near Cloudcross Mountain, but the feeling faded before he could locate its source.
• A violet-robed banished immortal arrived, identified Yang Huai as someone other than Tai Bai, and demanded that he return the Tai Bai Star’s source.
• The violet-robed woman froze Yang Huai’s Dutian Immortal Flames, but he released the Sun God Seal and engulfed her in golden-red fire.

Yang Huai drove off the violet-clad Supreme Unity deity and frightened away the treasure seekers near the Jade Balance Immortal Mansion. As a Heavenly Demon Emperor erupted from the heavenly pit and attacked him, the surrounding Daoists expected the demon to suffer.

• The violet-clad woman unleashed her Mystic Ice divine power, but Yang Huai countered it with innate yin-yang immortal light and struck her with the White Emperor's Spirit-Slaying Great Axe and Sea-Calming Pearl, forcing her to flee.
• Yang Huai chose not to pursue the wounded woman and restored the sky above the Azure Talisman Divine Land with solar wind.
• The Heavenly Sword City sword immortals aboard the earth-burrowing divine shuttle and Demon King White Lan retreated from the Jade Balance Immortal Mansion after witnessing the battle.
• A green demonic light burst from the heavenly pit, and Daoist Ku warned that it was the Heavenly Demon Great Art as vines ensnared several earthly immortals and Five Elements Warriors.
• Yang Huai burned through the vines with Solar True Fire and arrived to face the Heavenly Demon Emperor, who roared and attacked him.

Yang Huai defeated the Heavenly Demon Emperor’s attempts to resist and pulled the Jade Balance Immortal Mansion out of the earthcore. After receiving his reward, he repaid his final cultivation debt and became free to ascend to the Purple Palace Celestial Realm.

• Yang Huai used the Refining Fire Secret Art to burn through the Heavenly Demon Emperor’s vines and break its wooden shield, though the Jade Balance Immortal Mansion’s restrictions blocked the remaining flames.
• The Heavenly Demon Emperor tried to escape the sinking mansion, but Yang Huai seized it with a nine-colored hand and peeled it away from the north-south magnetism formation.
• The Heavenly Demon Emperor unleashed the Taiyi Five-Element Divine Pillar, but Yang Huai’s nine-colored immortal light suppressed its lightning and refined the demon back into its jade-green tree form.
• Yang Huai pulled the Jade Balance Immortal Mansion out of the celestial pit, stored it in his sleeve, and said it would help the Spirit-Fusion Peak lineage prosper and repay Daoist Guangrong.
• Master Jiufang gave Yang Huai the Azure Talisman Stone as his reward, and he accepted it as the Cloudcross Mountain treasure hunt ended.
• Yang Huai’s final cultivation debt was settled, leaving him free to ascend to the Purple Palace Celestial Realm whenever he wished.

Yang Huai restored an ancient altar to contact the Purple Palace Celestial Realm, helped establish Spirit-Fusion Peak’s inheritance, and began investigating the Azure Talisman Stone. He concluded that the stone likely concealed an innate magical treasure, but he would need to reach the Taiyi realm to uncover it.

• Yang Huai modified the ancient altar to connect with the Purple Palace Celestial Realm and sent a signal using the contact method he had agreed on with Black Prison.
• Daoist Guangrong told Yang Huai he would hold Spirit-Fusion Peak’s Cave-Opening Ceremony in three months, and Yang Huai promised to attend and advised him to temper his Yang Spirit.
• Yang Huai offered the Geng Metal Dharma Body, Pure Origin Myriad Wonders Six-God Sword Formula, and part of the Innate Yin-Yang Immortal Radiance as inheritances for Heavenly Gold Cave.
• Daoist Guangrong agreed to rename Spirit-Fusion Peak Tai Bai Peak, and he compiled the three inheritances as the Tai Bai Marvelous Book.
• Yang Huai studied the Talisman Emperor's True Explanation and tested the Azure Talisman Stone, sensing an innate restriction art he could not penetrate before reaching the Taiyi realm.

Yang Huai received his Patriarch’s guidance on breaking through to Taiyi and learned that the Purple Palace Celestial Realm was embroiled in a struggle over the vacant Star Palace Heavenly Emperor throne. He began nurturing his Innate Dao Embryo, while the injured woman in purple resolved to disrupt his cultivation before he reached Taiyi.

• Dao Ningzi gave Yang Huai a jade slip containing Taiyi breakthrough methods, an Innate Dao Embryo secret art, and later cultivation methods for the Pure Origin Myriad Mysteries Six Divine Art.
• Dao Ningzi warned Yang Huai that the Star Palace Heavenly Emperor had lost his throne and that immortals and gods were fighting over the succession, and he said the Purple Palace Immortal Palace would handle the Star God who had troubled Yang Huai.
• Yang Huai crushed the jade slip, studied its secret arts, and began nurturing his Innate Dao Embryo as he prepared to face the five Taiyi Dao Tribulations.
• The woman in purple recovered from Yang Huai’s strike on a Northern Sea spirit island and decided she had to stop him from cultivating in peace before he reached Taiyi.

Yang Huai sought a way to merge his many Fates with his innate origin Dao embryo, and Yan Ju studied Fate Palace mysteries with the Emperor Yan’s guidance. He entered Nine Netherworld with Heng'e to study the Life-and-Death Reincarnation Disc, where he began comprehending how Fates formed through reincarnation.

• Yang Huai realized his numerous powerful Fates could hinder his breakthrough and considered using his Great Dao of Innate Origin to combine them into an Origin Fate.
• Yan Ju asked the Emperor Yan about Fates, and the Emperor Yan explained that they reflected soul imprints, fortune, destiny, and, for gods, divine authority.
• Yan Ju used the Demon-Illuminating Mirror to inspect his Great Sun Destiny and discovered complete Solar Great Dao patterns within his Fate Palace.
• Over the next five years, Yan Ju studied Fates, then traveled to Nine Netherworld and met Heng'e, who agreed to take him to the reincarnation grounds.
• Yan Ju entered the Hall of Reincarnation and began studying how Fate Palaces formed through the transformations of life and death.

Yan Ju studied reincarnation and fate before returning to find the Emperor Yan Tribe greatly expanded, while Yang Huai refined his fate configurations and began forming a new innate origin star. The chapter ended as the newborn star appeared in the Purple Palace Celestial Realm and resonated with the origin Great Dao.

• Yan Ju watched souls pass through the Life-and-Death Reincarnation Disc and learned how fate configurations formed, while Heng'e continued cultivating her yin authorities in the Nine Netherworld.
• After nine years, Yan Ju comprehended life, death, and reincarnation, then studied Heng'e's Fate Palace before returning to the Emperor Yan Tribe.
• Yan Ju found the tribe had grown substantially and worked to curb warriors who secretly killed divine beasts and spirit beasts for their essence.
• Yang Huai completed a thirty-year seclusion and dissolved [God Descends to the Mortal World], [Heart of Utmost Sincerity], [Eastern Azure-Spirit Emperor Lord], [Tai Bai Star Lord], and [Ever-Changing Fish-Dragon] into innate origin.
• Yang Huai used the gathered innate origin to form a new natal star representing his authority over innate origin, and it appeared in the Purple Palace Celestial Realm, stirring the myriad stars.

Yang Huai’s breakthrough gave birth to his Innate Origin Star Lord destiny and transformed his body, while he prepared to attain the Taiyi realm. He improved the Jade Balance Immortal Mansion’s protective formation with help from the Emperor Yan and the Southern Pole Ancestor, leaving him better prepared for his coming tribulation and the Star God’s interference.

• The Heavenly Emperor identified the new star appearing in the Purple Palace Celestial Realm as the manifestation of a man from the lower realm who had attained the Dao.
• Yang Huai’s Innate Origin destiny became an Innate Origin Star Lord destiny, and he gained the Innate Origin Star Lord Divine Body.
• Yang Huai refined his new power and perfected his Innate Origin Dao Embryo while preparing to face the Taiyi Dao Tribulation.
• Yang Huai borrowed precious materials from Dao Ningzi to repair the Ninefold Reversal North-South Magnetism Formation protecting the Jade Balance Immortal Mansion.
• The Emperor Yan summoned the Southern Pole Ancestor, who revised Yang Huai’s formation diagram into a more powerful formation capable of trapping and killing Origin realm deities.

Yang Huai began merging with the Innate Origin Great Dao and successfully broke through to the Primordial Unity realm despite Bai Chen Star Lord’s attempt to kill him. He emerged before Tai Bai Peak as an Imperial Sovereign.

• Yang Huai began the Five Tribulations of Primordial Unity and used his flawless Dao Heart and deep experience with Great Dao origins to find the Innate Origin Great Dao.
• Yang Huai suppressed the Great Dao’s opposing forces with the nine-colored immortal lotus and began merging with the Dao, causing immense heavenly phenomena across the Azure Talisman Divine Land.
• Daoist Zhoutian suspected Tai Bai Star Lord was breaking through, while Dao Ningzi activated the Dragon Gate Mountain Immortal Abode’s forbidden arts.
• Bai Chen Star Lord attacked Tai Bai Peak with Profound Ice ancestral qi and then unleashed the Ice Soul Chen Star, but Yang Huai’s formations swallowed and ground away her attacks.
• Bai Chen Star Lord threatened to slaughter nearby inhabitants to interrupt Yang Huai, but Yang Huai emerged after completing his breakthrough.
• Bai Chen Star Lord realized Yang Huai had become a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal and likely an Imperial Sovereign.

Yang Huai defeated the Mystical Ice Goddess’s manifestation and broke through to the Taiyi realm, then agreed to a grand ceremony where he preached the Dao for nine days. As the celebration ended and the Sword Venerable asked whether Yang Huai had become an Imperial Lord, an immortal decree arrived from the Purple Palace Celestial Realm.

• Yang Huai refined the Mystical Ice Goddess’s manifested body, forcing her to retreat into the White Chen Star with her cultivation diminished, then dispersed the ice covering the Azure Talisman Divine Land.
• Yang Huai’s breakthrough became known, and Dao Ningzi proposed an Imperial Lord Grand Ceremony; Yang Huai agreed and promised to preach the Dao for nine days.
• One hundred days later, Yang Huai arrived at Dragon Gate Mountain, welcomed the gathered guests, and began his Dao sermon on the lotus platform.
• Yang Huai explained the realms of cultivation and the methods of attaining Taiyi, while the assembled cultivators listened for nine days.
• The Sword Venerable asked whether Yang Huai had attained the body of an Imperial Lord, and Dao Ningzi ordered the disciples to prepare an altar when an immortal decree appeared from the Purple Palace Celestial Realm.

Yang Huai received a formal immortal edict from the Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor, appointing him Western Tai Bai Dao Lord and granting him a residence, troops, and other privileges. After learning the appointment’s significance, Yang Huai chose to remain in the mortal world for now.

• The Heaven Gate opened above Yang Huai, and the Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor’s voice announced his ascension and appointment.
• Yang Huai accepted the talismanic decree, which named him a third-grade immortal official, Western Tai Bai Dao Lord, and granted him three thousand heavenly soldiers and other rewards.
• Daoists and sect elders congratulated Yang Huai, while Dao Ningzi and Daoist Guangrong asked which immortal palace had issued his decree.
• Yang Huai told his master and elders that he would report to the Central Primordial Ancestor Immortal Palace after ascending, and Daoist Guangrong explained the privilege of serving that palace directly.
• Yang Huai learned that his Tai Bai Dao Lord appointment carried greater weight than he had assumed, but he declined to ascend for now.

Yang Huai refined the Azure Talisman Stone into the Primordial Qianyuan One-Qi Divine Talisman and began considering its uses. Meanwhile, Yan Ju punished a tribal general who had provoked the Mountain Giant Bears and ordered the Grand Siming to find talisman experts for a new lineage.

• Yang Huai used his Innate Origin Dao Embryo to refine the Azure Talisman Stone, revealing and subduing an Innate treasure.
• After three years, Yang Huai learned the treasure’s name was the Primordial Qianyuan One-Qi Divine Talisman and studied its Hunyuan and Qian-Kun formations.
• At a council meeting, Yan Ju rejected calls for retaliation against the Mountain Giant Bears until the Emperor Yan Guards investigated who had provoked them.
• A guilty tribal High God confessed to slaughtering Mountain Giant Bears for their bloodline-purifying tree, and Yan Ju sentenced him to reincarnation.
• Yan Ju planned to demand an explanation from the Mountain Giant Bear ancestor and treat the dispute as a chance to speak with the Lord of Qingqiu.
• Yan Ju told the Grand Siming to find Qi Refiners skilled in talismans to help establish the Talisman Way.

Yan Ju organized twelve Qi Refiners to develop talismans while using their work to advance his own cultivation, and the Emperor Yan Tribe made peace with the Mountain Giant Bear clan. As Yan Ju turned his attention toward the Fire Mulberry Kingdom, the Emperor Yan seized control of part of the Solar Star’s origin, opening a new opportunity for the Sun God.

• Yan Ju gathered twelve talisman-skilled Qi Refiners, including Shao Yan, and gave them talisman seeds to develop for the Emperor Yan Tribe.
• Yan Ju promised the Qi Refiners rewards of treasures and spiritual lands, while the Grand Minister of Fate learned that their work could help them earn such rewards by subduing demons.
• Yan Ju studied the Primordial Qianyuan One-Qi Divine Talisman and considered how it could strengthen him before the Tribulation of Time.
• The Mountain Giant Bear King came to beg forgiveness, and the Emperor Yan accepted compensation and signed a nonaggression and trade treaty with the clan.
• Yan Ju identified the Fire Mulberry Kingdom as the Emperor Yan Tribe’s next target and considered its powerful divine clan and valuable treasures.
• The Solar Star shook as the Emperor Yan refined part of its origin, and Yan Ju realized he could benefit from his father’s control of it.

After taking command of the Solar Star, Emperor Yan discussed the Emperor Yan Tribe’s response to the Fire Mulberry Kingdom and asked Yan Ju to take over the sun’s divine office. Yan Ju agreed to guard the Solar Star for two thousand years, then began making requests of his father.

• The Fire Mulberry Holy Lord feared the Solar Star’s new master and planned to persuade neighboring rulers to destroy the Emperor Yan Tribe.
• Emperor Yan confirmed to the gathered gods that he had taken command of the Solar Star’s origin.
• Yan Ju advised against attacking the Fire Mulberry Kingdom outright and proposed exploiting divisions within its leadership.
• Emperor Yan rebuked Yan Ju’s use of schemes but said he would seek an opportunity to injure the Fire Mulberry Kingdom’s ruler himself.
• Emperor Yan asked Yan Ju to guard the Solar Star in his place for around two thousand years, and Yan Ju accepted.
• Yan Ju told Emperor Yan he had several requests in exchange for taking on the divine office.