Chapter Summaries

Yang Huai accepted Daoist Five Lotus’s challenge to settle their dispute in a duel at the Central Heaven Platform in three days. To prepare, Pure Origin Emperor took him to the Sword Mound, where Yang Huai claimed a strand of Primordial Sword Qi and offered to supply Heavenly Gold Immortal Lord with one thousand immortal swords in compensation.

• Daoist Five Lotus challenged Yang Huai to a spar at the Central Heaven Platform in three days, and Yang Huai accepted.
• Pure Origin Emperor explained that Five-Lotus Emperor wielded innate destruction and powerful slaughter techniques, then offered to help Yang Huai find a sword.
• Pure Origin Emperor brought Yang Huai to the Sword Mound, where Heavenly Gold Immortal Lord directed him toward a primordial sword embryo in the northern mountains.
• Yang Huai found the sword embryo but instead drew out a strand of Primordial Sword Qi and fused it into the embryo within his sea of consciousness.
• Heavenly Gold Immortal Lord lamented the lost treasure and demanded one thousand immortal swords, which Yang Huai offered to provide.

Yang Huai fought Daoist Five-Lotus on the Central Heaven Platform and used the Primordial Qianyuan One-Qi Divine Talisman to trap him in the Primordial Chaos Creation Formation. Daoist Five-Lotus admitted defeat and settled the karmic ties between their sects, while the Pure Origin Emperor and the platform’s presiding immortal realized Yang Huai possessed an innate Dharma treasure containing a Dao Embryo.

• Daoist Five-Lotus opened the battle with Solar Divine Thunder and transformed into five bodies to form a destructive Primordial Five-Elements Formation against Yang Huai.
• Yang Huai unleashed the Primordial Chaos Creation Formation, which swallowed Daoist Five-Lotus’s attacks and trapped him in a simulated Chaos Cauldron.
• The Pure Origin Emperor and the observing immortals sensed the formation’s Chaos Great Dao, while the Pure Origin Emperor wondered whether Yang Huai planned to fuse with chaos or creation.
• Daoist Five-Lotus invoked his Heavenly Cycle Treasure Wheel, five innate true talismans, and Cosmic Threefold Mystic Transformation, but Yang Huai’s formation continued suppressing him.
• At the Pure Origin Emperor’s urging, Daoist Five-Lotus admitted defeat and declared the two sects’ karmic ties settled; Yang Huai then recalled the chaotic qi and his talisman.
• The Pure Origin Emperor and the yellow-robed immortal maiden recognized Yang Huai’s talisman as an innate Dharma treasure containing an innate Dao Embryo.

Yang Huai defeated the Five-Lotus Patriarch and consulted Pure Origin Emperor about claiming the Chaos Great Dao, learning which Dao Lords might be possible targets. After receiving help to staff his estate, Yang Huai prepared to report to the Grand Tenuity Heaven Domain, while Pure Origin Emperor warned him to conceal his primordial treasure.

• Yang Huai withdrew the Primordial Chaos Creation Formation after the Five-Lotus Patriarch admitted defeat and honored his promise to leave.
• Pure Origin Emperor examined Yang Huai's Primordial Qianyuan One-Qi Divine Talisman and explained that Yang Huai could claim a vacant Great Dao by waiting for a Dao Lord to transcend or by killing one who had merged with it.
• Pure Origin Emperor named nine Chaos Dao Lords and explained why most were dangerous or inaccessible, leaving Sage Lord Cang Xuan, the Chaos Devil Lord, and Dao Lord Shiye as possible targets.
• Yang Huai ruled out the Chaos Devil Lord and considered investigating Sage Lord Cang Xuan or Dao Lord Shiye before making a move.
• Pure Origin Emperor agreed to provide four officials for Yang Huai's estate and warned him not to reveal his primordial magic treasure again as Yang Huai prepared to report to the Grand Tenuity Heaven Domain.

Yang Huai assembled his immortal retinue and led twelve thousand Heavenly soldiers toward the Grand Tenuity Heaven Domain, learning about the region and its dangers along the way. As his procession reached Myriad Demon Mountain, Black Prison appeared and called him “son-in-law,” urging him to stop a fleeing Nine-Lived Civet.

• Yang Huai appointed Taiwu vice general, Xuanmiao and Gan Hua as registrars, and Ji Mingxue as civil judge and Investigating Divine Lord.
• Yang Huai and Taiwu recruited two commandants, a Heaven Domain Commandant, and a martial judge, then selected twelve thousand Heavenly soldiers and generals.
• Yang Huai led his troops toward the Grand Tenuity Heaven Domain as Xuanmiao and Taiwu explained the surrounding Heaven Domains, Myriad Demon Mountain, and the wider Purple Palace realm.
• A fleeing messenger warned Yang Huai’s procession that a Demon King had crossed over from the Ten-Thousand Demon Grotto.
• Black Prison recognized Yang Huai as his son-in-law and asked him to stop a Nine-Lived Civet escaping into Myriad Demon Mountain.

Yang Huai took up his post as Grand Tenuity Celestial Lord and visited Purple Origin City to reconcile with Yuan Xiuxiu. After she accepted his gift and softened toward him, someone hidden in the shadows reacted angrily to their exchange.

• Daoist Xuanmiao slew the nine-lifed cat demon and destroyed its inner core, then Yang Huai gave Black Prison Nine-Turn Heavenly Gold Pills and promised to help it.
• Yang Huai smoothly took over the Grand Tenuity Heaven Domain and received Daoist Xuanqing and Immortal Lord Hechi, whose cultivation foundations he assessed.
• Yang Huai left the domain's routine affairs to Daoist Xuanmiao and Daoist Gan Hua, then visited Purple Origin Celestial Lord with gifts before arranging to meet Yuan Xiuxiu.
• Yang Huai presented Yuan Xiuxiu with the Flower of Eternity, called Fleeting Splendor, and explained why he had delayed visiting her.
• Yuan Xiuxiu questioned Yang Huai about his absence and asked which one was his father-in-law, while someone in the shadows grew furious.

Yang Huai reunited with Yuan Xiuxiu and asked her to identify those who had combined the Great Daos of Chaos and Creation. Summoned to Rising Sun Hall by Purple Origin Celestial Lord, he accepted a martial challenge and proposed fighting all eight great marshals at once.

• Yuan Xiuxiu admired Yang Huai's gift, heard about his actions in the lower realm, and agreed to research who had combined the Great Daos of Chaos and Creation.
• Yangzhi summoned Yang Huai to Rising Sun Hall at the Crown Prince's invitation, and Yuan Xiuxiu warned him that her father might make things difficult for him.
• Yuan Xiuxiu accompanied Yang Huai to Rising Sun Hall and quietly told him about the abilities of Purple Origin Celestial Lord's marshals.
• Purple Origin Celestial Lord arranged for Marshal Yutan to challenge Yang Huai, despite Yuan Xiuxiu's objection.
• Yang Huai accepted the exchange but asked to face all eight great marshals at once, angering them.

Yang Huai faced the eight Heavenly Marshals in the Two Principles Secret Realm and overwhelmed their strongest fighters with his secret arts. Heavenly Marshal Wan Xiang conceded, leaving Yang Huai victorious.

• Purple Origin Celestial Lord transported Yang Huai, Yuan Xiuxiu, and the eight Heavenly Marshals to the Two Principles Secret Realm for their contest.
• Four Golden Immortal Heavenly Marshals attacked Yang Huai, who trapped them in his Innate Five-Element Immortal Radiance.
• Yang Huai struck Heavenly Marshal Yao Xing with Dao Venerable will and forced him out of the fight.
• Yang Huai blocked Yu Tan's Innate Three Powers Slaughter Swords, suppressed them, and wounded Yu Tan with a Formless treasure pearl.
• Yang Huai used Dao-Origin Fire to force Yu Tan back, and Heavenly Marshal Wan Xiang conceded the battle.

Yang Huai defeated the eight Heavenly Marshals, impressed Purple Origin Celestial Lord, and returned to cultivating in the Chaos Cauldron. He perfected a sword strike infused with Celestial Venerable will, then successfully united with the Innate Creation Great Dao, leaving his Primordial Spirit transformed by its source.

• Yang Huai asked Yuan Xiuxiu about Great Dao secret arts, then released the four remaining Golden Immortals he had imprisoned and returned their treasures.
• Purple Origin Celestial Lord encouraged the defeated Heavenly Marshals and warned Yang Huai not to assume that condensing a Dao Venerable trait guaranteed future success.
• Yang Huai parted from Fu Yun, brought Black Prison back to Purple Origin Heaven Domain, and waited for Fu Yun to find him information about a target.
• Yang Huai cultivated the Creation Dao Embryo in the Chaos Cauldron and developed a Transcendence Sword capable of slaying an ordinary Primordial Unity Golden Immortal.
• Yang Huai used the Innate Creation Dao Embryo to unite with the Innate Creation Great Dao before the Heavenly Heart imprint could interfere, transforming his Primordial Spirit.

Yang Huai strengthened his Celestial Venerable foundation, then worked with Princess Fu Yun to lure the Chaos Devil Lord into a trap by targeting Shang Qingtong’s planned breakthrough. Purple Origin Celestial Lord arrived to teach Yang Huai the secrets of breaking through to Great Luo, and his reaction suggested he had accepted Yang Huai and Fu Yun’s relationship.

• Yang Huai completed his breakthrough to the first step of Celestial Venerable and spent more than ten years strengthening his Primordial Spirit foundation.
• Yang Huai met Princess Fu Yun, who proposed targeting the Chaos Devil Lord while he tried to obstruct Shang Qingtong’s attempt to merge with the Great Dao of Termination.
• Yang Huai agreed to the plan and said he had more than a sixty percent chance of seizing and killing the Chaos Devil Lord quickly; Princess Fu Yun offered to enlist Shang Qingtong and arrange the bait.
• Yang Huai took Princess Fu Yun’s hand, but Purple Origin Celestial Lord appeared and interrupted them.
• Princess Fu Yun said Purple Origin Celestial Lord had come to teach Yang Huai the secrets of breaking through to Great Luo, and Yang Huai served him tea as the three exchanged awkward looks.

Yang Huai arranged for Shang Qingtong to attempt merging with the Great Dao of Ending, while secretly drawing powerful enemies to her breakthrough. As Shang Qingtong began her tribulation, Thunder Sacred Lord, Ice Emperor Fairy, and Dao Lord Shiye appeared, and Yang Huai chose to strike the hidden Chaos Devil Master first.

• Yang Huai discussed the Dao Venerable Three Tribulations with Princess Fuyun and questioned Purple Origin Celestial Lord about Great Luo and Dao Venerables.
• Yang Huai and Princess Fuyun left Purple Origin Celestial Lord's residence and prepared to meet Shang Qingtong in secret.
• Yang Huai arranged for Shang Qingtong to purchase Dharma-Slaying Heavenly Gold, then continued refining the Transcendence Sword while waiting for their planned meeting.
• Twelve years later, Shang Qingtong sacrificed a dying world and began merging with the Great Dao of Ending, bringing down the Dao Heart Demon Tribulation and the Great Dao Creation Tribulation.
• Thunder Sacred Lord attacked Shang Qingtong, Ice Emperor Fairy intervened, and Dao Lord Shiye appeared as other Primordial Unity Golden Immortals approached.
• Yang Huai spotted the hidden Chaos Devil Master casting a spell against Shang Qingtong, chose him as his first target, and launched a devastating strike at his Primordial Spirit Will.

Yang Huai killed the Chaos Devil Lord and seized the vacant place in the Great Dao of Chaos, then used the turmoil and the Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor’s intervention to undergo the Origin Dao and Dao Unity Tribulations. He passed the Dao Unity Tribulation, emerged vastly stronger, and left with his own Dao Venerable will strengthened for the final tribulation.

• Yang Huai slew the Chaos Devil Lord with the Transcendence Sword, prompting Thunder Sage Lord and Dao Lord Shiye to flee.
• Yang Huai merged with the Great Dao of Chaos and became its new innate Dao Lord.
• Gloom God Lord’s gaze threatened Yang Huai, Shang Qingtong, and Ice Empress Fairy, but a talisman decree from Shang Qingtong drove it away in the name of the Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor.
• Yang Huai entered the Origin Dao Tribulation and broke through its first layer, then faced the Dao Unity Tribulation by reclaiming imprints from his past, present, and future.
• Shang Qingtong successfully merged with the Great Dao of Termination while Yang Huai fought through the Dao Unity Tribulation.
• Yang Huai absorbed the remaining Great Dao imprints, passed the Dao Unity Tribulation, and emerged with cultivation more than tenfold greater than before.

Yang Huai returned to the Purple Palace Immortal Palace after surviving the True Self Tribulation, and Celestial Lord Purple Origin agreed to protect him in the Purple Origin Heaven Domain while he prepared for the Dao Venerable Tribulation. During a hundred-year retreat, Yang Huai discovered that his new Dao Venerable trait let him retrieve his scattered selves, while his attention also turned to the Emperor Yan Tribe’s growing military threat.

• Yang Huai and the others returned to the Purple Palace Immortal Palace, where Demon-Subduing Dao Lord hosted a gathering to celebrate his breakthrough and Yang Huai’s advancement.
• Yang Huai asked Celestial Lord Purple Origin about Gloom God Lord’s connection to Chaos Devil Master, and Celestial Lord Purple Origin warned him that his closeness to Dao Venerable made him a target.
• Celestial Lord Purple Origin offered to protect Yang Huai in the Purple Origin Heaven Domain for a hundred years, and Yang Huai arranged to enter seclusion there.
• Yang Huai discovered that his new Dao Venerable trait let him control the Primordial Treasure Mirror more deeply and retrieve his scattered selves.
• As the Chaos Cauldron spirit, Yang Huai observed Azure Thunder Kingdom envoys leave the Eastern Mountain Sect after failing to meet him, and heard them discuss the Emperor Yan Tribe’s conquest of neighboring lands.

Yang Huai reclaimed most of his scattered selves, strengthened his Chaos Cauldron spirit, and gave the Eastern Mountain Sect a formation to withstand the Azure Thunder Kingdom. As the sect repelled Crown Prince Qingyu’s delegation, Yang Huai’s Dao Venerable Tribulation began in the Purple Palace Celestial Realm.

• Yang Huai reclaimed the imprints of his scattered selves, including Qingli, the Primordial Profound Metal Spirit Vine, Jin Chong, Earth Evil Star Lord Jia Chen, and the Heavenly River Great Dragon God, while leaving Sun God Yan Ju’s timeline untouched.
• Yang Huai absorbed the Chaos Cauldron spirit’s imprints, passed its true-self tribulation, and strengthened his spirit body, but chose not to pursue the Dao with it to avoid exposing his origins.
• After the Emperor Yan Tribe went to war with the Azure Thunder Kingdom, Daoist Liyuan and Bound Dragon Master asked Yang Huai for help, and he gave the Eastern Mountain Sect a formation diagram and twenty-four Chaos Creation Divine Banners.
• More than ten years later, Crown Prince Qingyu and his entourage demanded entry to Eastern Mountain, but Bound Dragon Master refused them and two Origin Realm gods failed to break the sect’s formation.
• An aged god persuaded Crown Prince Qingyu to withdraw rather than risk offending Supreme Venerable Taishi, while Yang Huai was occupied by the arrival of his Dao Venerable Tribulation.
• Yang Huai appeared in the firmament above the Purple Origin Celestial Lord's Residence as the Dao Venerable Tribulation fully manifested.

Yang Huai endured the first six waves of his Dao Venerable tribulation and formed the Boundless Origin Dao Embryo, attaining Dao Venerable cultivation. He still needed to pass the final three trials and sever his connection to Heaven and Earth's Grand Dao to become a complete Great Luo.

• Purple Origin Celestial Lord agreed to go to the Purple Origin Heaven Domain after Princess Fuyun worried about Yang Huai's tribulation.
• Yang Huai resisted the pull of Heaven and Earth's Grand Dao and formed the Boundless Grand Dao from his Chaos Dao Embryo and Primordial Beginning Dao Embryo.
• Yang Huai destroyed the first four waves of Dao Lord phantoms with his Eternal Immortal Radiance, while the Purple Origin Heaven Domain's marshals watched in awe.
• Yang Huai used the Sun God Seal and the Zhurong Clan's Hand of God to fight the fifth and sixth waves of the tribulation.
• Yang Huai absorbed the three Dao Venerable-level phantoms and attained Dao Venerable cultivation, but still faced the final three trials.

Yang Huai survived the ninth Dao Venerable Tribulation, attained the Dao, and took the title Wuliang, enriching the Purple Palace Celestial Realm with a new Great Dao origin. He reunited with Princess Fuyun and discussed formalizing their relationship, just as the Purple Origin Celestial Lord revealed that the Sage Emperor and Heavenly Empress had already sent their favor.

• Yang Huai defeated the six figures of the seventh tribulation, then used the Primordial Chaos Creation Formation and the Primordial Qianyuan One-Qi Divine Talisman to refine the ninth tribulation’s Great Dao origin.
• Yang Huai’s breakthrough created a new origin within the Great Dao, and the Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor and Radiant Treasure Heavenly Empress recognized its benefit to the Purple Palace Celestial Realm.
• Yang Huai suppressed eighteen heavenly phenomena, appeared before the heavenly soldiers and marshals as Dao Venerable Wuliang, and received their congratulations.
• Yang Huai took Princess Fuyun’s hands and entered the hall with her, where the Purple Origin Celestial Lord cautioned him to treat her properly and said he must pass the Sage Emperor’s test to marry her formally.
• Yang Huai declined to hold a grand celebration and proposed a private gathering with the Pure Origin Sect and the Purple Origin Celestial Lord’s Residence.
• The Purple Origin Celestial Lord told Yang Huai that the Sage Emperor and Heavenly Empress had already sent their favor, so he might not need to request a decree himself.

Yang Huai received the title of Principal Second Rank Boundless Emperor Lord, and the Sage Emperor decreed that he marry Princess Fuyun, who was elevated to Principal Second Rank Purple Palace Immortal Spirit Princess. They married quietly, and afterward discussed her cultivation and Yang Huai’s plans for advancing as a Dao Venerable.

• Immortal Lord Lü proclaimed the Sage Emperor’s decree naming Yang Huai Boundless Emperor Lord and granting him gifts.
• Immortal Lord Lü proclaimed a second decree elevating Princess Fuyun and ordering her marriage to Yang Huai.
• Yang Huai and Princess Fuyun agreed to a discreet wedding, which they held half a year later.
• Yang Huai and Princess Fuyun drank the wine of joined cups and began their married life together.
• Princess Fuyun told Yang Huai that she planned to enter seclusion to cultivate the Dao of Illusion and Reality.
• Princess Fuyun asked how Yang Huai planned to cultivate next, and he said he already had a method.

Yang Huai intervened in the dispute between Immortal Lord Hechi and an Ice Phoenix Dao Lord, then judged them for the deaths caused by their battle. After the Ice Phoenix won their fight, Yang Huai sent her into reincarnation and promised to look after her descendants.

• Yang Huai sent Patriarch Xuanmiao to bring the battling Immortal Lord Hechi and Ice Phoenix Dao Lord to the Celestial Lord's office.
• Immortal Lord Hechi accused the Ice Phoenix of killing his followers, while she claimed he had stolen her clan's treasure and seized its young.
• Yang Huai ordered them to fight in his Dao domain and made the survivor answer for the eighty-nine dead or injured, either through compensation or a million deeds of virtue.
• Yang Huai swept both Dao Lords into a chaos-colored primordial cosmos, where the Ice Phoenix defeated Immortal Lord Hechi at great cost to her foundation.
• Yang Huai sent the Ice Phoenix into reincarnation, promising her descendants protection and offering her a future chance to enter the Purple Palace if she regained the Dao and accumulated a million deeds of virtue.

Yang Huai planned to strengthen his Infinite Origin Dao Embryo by founding lineages and waited for the right moment to help the Chaos Cauldron undergo its final Heavenly Venerable Tribulation. After the Azure Thunder Kingdom fell and the regional powerhouses departed, he began the tribulation above Eastern Mountain, putting the Eastern Mountain Sect's Daoists to sleep for their safety.

• Yang Huai ordered Taiwu to surround Immortal Gate City, eliminate its inhabitants, and rescue the Ice Phoenix Clan's eggs, then entrusted the captured immortals' interrogation to Ji Mingxue and Daoist Kong Yan.
• Yang Huai considered using the Barbaric Lands to advance his Dao, but delayed the Chaos Cauldron's tribulation to avoid exposing the innate treasure to powerful rivals.
• Yang Huai gave Taizhenzi the Artifact Way inheritance and passed other teachings to Daoist Liyuan, Bound Dragon, and the Eastern Mountain lineage.
• The Emperor Yan Tribe defeated the Azure Thunder Kingdom, captured Thundercloud City, and annihilated the Azure Thunder Clan; Yang Huai then waited fifty years for the region's Ancient God Heavenly Venerables to leave.
• Yang Huai released the Chaos Cauldron's suppression of its Dao fluctuations and began its final Heavenly Venerable Tribulation above Eastern Mountain, causing the Eastern Mountain Sect's Daoists to fall asleep for their protection.

Yang Huai endured the Celestial Venerable tribulation and used the Chaos Cauldron to defeat and suppress the Azure Thunder Ancestor. As powerful figures appeared to claim the treasure, Yang Huai abandoned the Chaos Cauldron and fled to the Purple Palace Celestial Realm, leaving it amid a clash of terrifying powers.

• Yang Huai used the Chaos Cauldron to absorb the thunder tribulation and destroy three emerging Great Dao imprints.
• The Azure Thunder Ancestor ambushed Yang Huai, but Yang Huai struck him repeatedly and sealed him inside the Chaos Cauldron.
• Yang Huai explained that the Chaos Cauldron could refine away the Azure Thunder Ancestor's eternal cultivation and kill him completely.
• After Yang Huai attained the Dao, a beautiful goddess, a white-robed Jade Pure Daoist, and another voice appeared to claim the Chaos Cauldron.
• Yang Huai returned to the Purple Palace Celestial Realm, and several powerful forces clashed around the abandoned Chaos Cauldron.

After losing the Chaos Cauldron and Lord of Chaos destiny, Yang Huai attended the Purple Palace Immortal Palace Grand Gathering and cultivated the Great Dao of Suppression until his Origin Dao Embryo neared Minor Attainment. A new Primordial Treasure Mirror anchor sent him into the body of Grand Tenuity, an incomplete successor to the Purple Tenuity Star, whose inherited desire was to become the true Purple Tenuity Emperor.

• Yang Huai recovered after his failed mission, assessed his losses, and discovered that his Pure Origin Myriad Wonders Boundless Scripture had reached Dao Venerable Initial Attainment.
• Yang Huai attended Lingxiang Baoguang Holy Mother’s Immortal Palace Grand Gathering at the Myriad Manifestations Immortal Land, where he met prominent immortals and observed the gathering’s powerful guests.
• Yang Huai returned to the Grand Tenuity Heaven Domain and studied the Great Dao of Suppression, advancing his Boundless Origin Dao Embryo toward Minor Attainment and forming a Boundless Origin Auspicious Cloud.
• Twenty years later, Yang Huai entered a new anchor through the Primordial Treasure Mirror and awoke as Grand Tenuity, an Innate Deity born from the Purple Tenuity Imperial Star’s incomplete legacy.
• Grand Tenuity’s destiny revealed that he was not the true Purple Tenuity Star God, and the desire to become the true Purple Tenuity Emperor arose within him.