Chapter Summaries

Yang Huai cultivated within the Purple Tenuity Star, creating a qi-refiner scripture and building a new Emperor of Heaven Dao from Purple Tenuity ancestral qi. After reaching the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm, he entered the fully gestated embryo and emerged thirty-six years later with his innate treasure.

• Yang Huai discovered an innate divine diagram within the stellar origin and chose to create a qi-refiner cultivation method rather than follow the ancient gods’ path.
• Thirty years later, Yang Huai derived the and used it to cultivate a golden core and an innate Grand Tenuity Primordial Spirit.
• Yang Huai decided to build his own Emperor of Heaven Dao upon Purple Tenuity ancestral qi, drawing on the sun, moon, and other ancestral qi to strengthen its foundation.
• After one hundred and twenty years, Yang Huai formed an Emperor of Heaven Dao embryo, joined it to the Great Dao, and attained the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Yang Huai entered the fully gestated innate Grand Tenuity Embryo, then emerged thirty-six years later in imperial robes as the innate divine diagram settled into his palm.

Yang Huai left the Purple Tenuity Star to seek a renowned master and encountered a Qi Refiner being hunted by the Western Pass Three Fiends. After rescuing Chilinzi and learning about the Emperor Yan Tribe’s progress, Yang Huai continued toward Kunlun Mountain, where a Celestial Venerable was preparing to accept disciples.

• Yang Huai learned the powers of the Astral Profundity Diagram and decided to leave the Purple Tenuity Star to seek tutelage from Taiqing, Jade Pure, or Shangqing.
• Near the border of Central Province and the eastern lands, Yang Huai saw the Western Pass Three Fiends pursuing the red-robed Chilinzi and hid in the void.
• Yang Huai used a power that banned all laws to destroy the three fiends, seized their White Bone Skeleton Banner, and freed the souls trapped inside it.
• Chilinzi offered Yang Huai a strange silver-white object containing a trace of star origin and told him the Emperor Yan Tribe was negotiating with the Five-Nation Alliance led by Great Desolation High Kingdom.
• Yang Huai headed for Kunlun Mountain, while Chilinzi also set out to seek a master there; they learned that a Celestial Venerable was preparing to open the mountain gates and accept disciples.

Yang Huai descended through nine layers of poisonous clouds beneath Kunlun Mountain and found an ancient divine corpse with a trace of innate treasure on its chest. When a Nine-Tailed Emperor Scorpion attacked him, he subdued her with the Heavenly Emperor’s authority and demanded that she submit.

• Yang Huai used the Heavenly Emperor’s authority to send the Flame Elephant Beetles retreating and descended beneath the cloud cliff.
• Yang Huai passed through layers of poisonous clouds inhabited by powerful exotic insects, suppressing them with his Heavenly Emperor qi.
• Yang Huai reached the ninth layer and discovered an ancient tiger-bodied divine corpse with treasure light on its chest.
• A woman in black, revealed as a Nine-Tailed Emperor Scorpion, attacked Yang Huai with dark sword light and nine scorpion tails.
• Yang Huai suppressed the Nine-Tailed Emperor Scorpion, severed her tails, and asked whether she would submit to him.

Yang Huai subdued Giant Scorpion and retrieved the Primordial Five-Poison Divine Banner from an ancient divine corpse before traveling deeper into East Kunlun. There, he met Zhao Gongming, Yun Zhongzi, Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao, as a dispute over a cave abode broke out nearby.

• Yang Huai bound the Nine-Tailed Emperor Scorpion with a violet-gold talisman, and she gave her name as Giant Scorpion.
• Yang Huai braved the ancient divine corpse's Eternal poisonous fire and used the Astral Profundity Diagram to seize its treasure.
• After half a month of remote refinement, Yang Huai identified the treasure as the Primordial Five-Poison Divine Banner and warned Giant Scorpion not to covet it.
• Yang Huai left Giant Scorpion in the valley and traveled to the Hanguang Jade Bi in East Kunlun.
• Yang Huai introduced himself as Taiwei Zi and met Zhao Gongming, Yun Zhongzi, Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao.
• A dispute erupted nearby when someone challenged others for taking a cave abode that he and his brother had opened.

At Kunlun Mountain, rival factions clashed over places to settle as the Youbai Clan crown prince was forced to yield. The Jade Purity Heavenly Venerable began selecting disciples with the Soul-Sundering Bell, leaving fewer than two hundred candidates standing before the next trial, the Ninefold Heaven Gate.

• A divine beast demolished the Youbai Clan crown prince’s cave, and Zhao Gongming joined the demons who claimed the expanded space.
• Yang Huai refused the crown prince a place beside him, and the crown prince left without fighting.
• Southern Extremity Master announced the Jade Clarity Dao Palace’s dangerous trials and rang the Soul-Sundering Bell nine times, sending most candidates away.
• Yang Huai, Yun Zhongzi, Zhao Gongming and his siblings, the Youbai Clan crown prince, and other powerful figures survived the bell’s test.
• The Highest Purity Daoist arrived and prepared to select candidates after they passed the Ninefold Heaven Gate.

Southern Polestar Daoist allowed the ancient god Celestial Venerables and other applicants to remain as registered disciples, then sent them into the Ninefold Heaven Gate to seek inner disciple status. Inside the trial realm, Yang Huai encountered Snow Zheng attacking a mysterious ice Qilin nest and intervened when the beasts turned on him.

• Jade Clarity Daoist offered the ancient god Celestial Venerables guest elder advisor positions, but they pleaded to become disciples and were allowed to remain as registered disciples.
• Southern Polestar Daoist opened the Ninefold Heaven Gate, and the ancient god Celestial Venerables and more than two hundred Daoists entered its trial.
• Yang Huai found himself in a frozen realm, while the Three Pure Ones Daoists noticed him and discussed whether to take him as a disciple.
• Yang Huai discovered five Snow Zheng fighting a mysterious ice Qilin and threatening its nest of cubs, while an unconscious woman in white lay nearby.
• The mysterious ice Qilin fled when the Snow Zheng sealed the Qilin nest, and the beasts then turned their attention to Yang Huai.
• Yang Huai seized all five charging Snow Zheng with violet qi and crushed their bodies in his grasp.

Yang Huai, calling himself Taiwei, saved Li Ji and agreed to let her accompany him through the deadly trial, then protected a group of Mystic Ice Qilins before encountering a pack of Void Ancient Dragons. He wounded their Void Ancient Dragon King after it targeted Li Ji, but the beast tried to escape into the void.

• Yang Huai crushed the five Snow Zhengs, freed Li Ji from the Mystic Ice, and introduced himself as Taiwei.
• Li Ji offered her talents for sensing danger and identifying ferocious beasts, and Yang Huai agreed to let her follow if she obeyed him.
• Yang Huai concealed the Mystic Ice Qilins' glacier with ancestral purple qi and set off with Li Ji to explore the area.
• Yang Huai killed dozens of attacking Void Ancient Dragons after Li Ji warned him of their approach and their leader.
• The Void Ancient Dragon King trapped Yang Huai and Li Ji in a void illusion and targeted Li Ji, but Yang Huai broke its formation and pierced its chest with purple qi; the wounded king began fleeing into the void.

Yang Huai slew the Void Ancient Dragon King, found rare treasures in its nest, and later used the Primordial Five-Poison Divine Banner to kill the Ice Tiger Emperor alongside Heavenly Venerable Qinglin. Qinglin then confronted Yang Huai with a group of identical copies and demanded the banner.

• Yang Huai killed the Void Ancient Dragon King with a strike of purple light, then followed its aura with Li Ji to its nest.
• Yang Huai killed the adult Void Ancient Dragons, collected rare divine materials, and gave Li Ji four treasures before leaving her to refine them.
• Yang Huai discovered Heavenly Venerable Qinglin fighting the Ice Tiger Emperor, and Qinglin asked him to help hold the beast emperor in place.
• Qinglin bound the Ice Tiger Emperor with wood-element roots, and Yang Huai used the Primordial Five-Poison Divine Banner to devour it.
• Yang Huai tried to leave, but Qinglin and more than a dozen identical copies appeared before him and demanded that he hand over the banner.

Yang Huai used the Astral Profundity Diagram, his second innate Dharma treasure, to kill Azure Forest Heavenly Venerable and claim his treasures. After learning that the ferocious beasts were unnaturally concentrated in the region, Yang Huai resolved to hunt their kings and clear the trial.

• Yang Huai trapped Azure Forest Heavenly Venerable in the Astral Profundity Diagram and killed him with the Five-Poison River despite his attempt to fight back.
• Yang Huai collected Azure Forest Heavenly Venerable's treasures and left before a savage aura swept through the area.
• Zhao Gongming and Yunxiao split from the fleeing group to draw off the pursuing Three-Headed Phoenixes, while Azure Lion, White Elephant, and Golden Light sacrificed themselves to protect one another.
• The Supreme Clarity Daoist and Jade Clarity Daoist discussed the disciples' conduct and the purpose of the trial as the surviving contestants were returned to the Jade Clarity Dao Palace without their treasures.
• Yang Huai examined Azure Forest Heavenly Venerable's axe, rope, and tree seed, then decided to hunt the ferocious beast kings by luring them into the Astral Profundity Diagram one at a time.

Yang Huai hunted Fiend Beast Kings with Li Ji while investigating how to confront the Beast Emperor near the Qilin Source. When a surge of fiendish power rallied the surrounding beasts, he joined forces with Lamp-Burning Daoist and proposed recruiting the leader of the Qilin clan.

• Yang Huai sent exotic insects from the Primordial Five-Poison Divine Banner into the cold currents, then hunted nearby Fiend Beast Kings with Li Ji.
• Yang Huai killed a Centipede Dragon, and Li Ji explained that its corpse could lure the Jade One-Horned Ao Emperor, a powerful Fiend Beast Emperor.
• Yang Huai killed a Golden-Feathered Eagle King and discovered through the Glacier Moths that Lamp-Burning Daoist and Feather Thunder were battling Three-Headed Phoenix Birds.
• A Beast Emperor's roar summoned fiend beasts across the Qilin Source, prompting Lamp-Burning Daoist to seek allies while Feather Thunder chose caution.
• Yang Huai met Lamp-Burning Daoist and proposed recruiting the Qilin clan's leader to help fight the Beast Emperor.
• Lamp-Burning Daoist agreed to approach the Qilin leader, while Yang Huai remained with Li Ji.

Yang Huai prepared for the battle by forging a Primordial River-Luo Treasure Mirror, then joined the fighting at the Qilin Cave and turned the tide against the ferocious beast kings. He left the battlefield with Lamp-Burning Daoist still facing the Jade One-Horned Ao Emperor.

• Yang Huai forged a Taiyi Primordial River-Luo Treasure Mirror from the silvery-white root and heavenly treasures while Li Ji hid a poison-laced centipede dragon along the emperor's route.
• The Jade One-Horned Ao Emperor led its forces toward the Qilin Cave, where the Qilin clan and Lamp-Burning Daoist's allies were already battling the ferocious beasts.
• Yang Huai killed two Void Ancient Dragon Kings attacking a Black-Ice Qilin King and helped another Qilin King by suppressing and slaying two Strength God Apes.
• Yang Huai trapped four charging ferocious beast kings inside the Primordial River-Luo Formation and killed them, shocking the Qilin warriors and distant onlookers.
• Lamp-Burning Daoist noticed Yang Huai's victory while he continued fighting the Jade One-Horned Ao Emperor.

Yang Huai provoked the Jade One-Horned Ao Emperor and helped Lamp-Burning Daoist and the Thunder Qilin exploit its weaknesses, but the beast’s powerful divine abilities devastated Qilin Cave. After poisoning the emperor and escaping its counterattack, Yang Huai trapped Lamp-Burning Daoist inside the Astral Profundity Diagram; the chapter left Lamp-Burning Daoist glaring at him as the Three Pure Ones gathered their disciples.

• Yang Huai slaughtered and taunted innate ferocious beasts until the Jade One-Horned Ao Emperor raged and struck at him, nearly shattering the Primordial River-Luo Space.
• Lamp-Burning Daoist used the Spirit Coffin Lamp to ensnare the emperor’s Primordial Spirit, allowing the Thunder Qilin and Yang Huai to strike it with lightning and the Primordial Five-Poison Seal.
• The emperor unleashed the Eight-Aspect Divine Radiance, devastating Qilin Cave and gravely injuring the Thunder Qilin, then withdrew into its shell to recover.
• Yang Huai trapped the emperor in the Astral Profundity Diagram and used the Primordial Five-Poison Divine Banner to poison it, but fled after its Primordial Nether Divine Radiance shattered much of the stellar realm.
• Lamp-Burning Daoist pursued Yang Huai and was caught inside the Astral Profundity Diagram, while Yang Huai escaped toward the Purple Tenuity Star.
• The Three Pure Ones Daoists gathered the surviving disciples, and Lamp-Burning Daoist confronted Yang Huai with anger.

Yang Huai became the first disciple of Jade Pure Daoist’s inner-chamber lineage as the Three Pure Ones chose disciples and assigned roles to the remaining candidates. After receiving the Jade Pure Primordial Golden Scripture, Yang Huai resolved to grow strong and find a way to prevent the future Three Sects’ internal strife.

• Jade Pure Daoist named Yang Huai his first direct inner-chamber disciple and accepted thirteen other disciples, while Supreme Clarity Daoist took Li Ji as his direct disciple and gave her the Dao title Wudang.
• Supreme Clarity Daoist accepted seven inner-chamber disciples and the remaining qualified candidates as outer disciples.
• Jade Pure Daoist appointed Lamp-Burning Daoist Outer Sect Vice Leader and made Azure Forest Heavenly Venerable and Daoist Yulei Dharma Protecting Deities.
• Yang Huai and the other Jade Pure disciples paid their respects, and Jade Pure Daoist bestowed the Jade Pure Primordial Golden Scripture upon them.
• Yang Huai recognized the scripture’s power and considered how to prevent the future conflict among the Three Sects and change its outcome.

Yang Huai established himself as the Jade Clarity Dao Palace’s chief disciple, organized the disciples into a mutual aid society, and introduced his Primordial Great Dao Embryo Secret Art to the Jade Pure Daoist. After a century of cultivation, his Heavenly Emperor Dao Embryo neared completion, and a vast purple dragon appeared above Kunlun Mountain.

• Yang Huai sent the fifteen Daoists to establish temporary cave abodes on Kunlun Mountain and directed them to Daoist Antarctic for help.
• Yang Huai refined his cultivation scripture and founded a mutual aid society where Jade Clarity disciples shared insights; the Jade Pure Daoist approved of the results.
• Yang Huai presented his Primordial Great Dao Embryo Secret Art to the Jade Pure Daoist, who judged that it could succeed, and asked him to establish a training secret realm for the disciples.
• The Jade Pure Daoist created the Jade Void Secret Realm, where disciples could challenge gatekeepers for treasures and cultivation inheritances.
• After a hundred years, Yang Huai’s Heavenly Emperor Dao Embryo neared completion; thirty years later, supreme purple qi descended above Kunlun Mountain and formed a vast purple dragon.

Yang Huai crossed into the True One Realm by overcoming the tribulation that obstructed the Dao of creation, then asked the Jade Clarity Daoist about cultivation beyond that realm. After learning the Primordial Nine Forms and receiving the Primal Origin True Talisman, he was sent to seek guidance from Taiqing and the Highest Purity Daoist.

• Yang Huai completed the true-self tribulation, gathered his Great Dao imprints, and waited a sixty-year cycle before triggering the tribulation that obstructed the Dao of creation.
• Yang Huai suppressed the lightning tribulations and defeated the True One and creation imprints, manifesting a vast root source Dao embryo before Kunlun Mountain's gathered disciples.
• Southern Polestar Daoist escorted Yang Huai to meet the Jade Clarity Daoist, who explained how True One cultivators could accommodate additional root sources through the Primordial Nine Forms.
• Yang Huai asked whether accumulating more root sources always made a cultivator stronger, and the Jade Clarity Daoist warned him to cultivate what suited him and remain cautious of powerful figures.
• The Jade Clarity Daoist bestowed the Primal Origin True Talisman on Yang Huai and told him to visit Taiqing and the Highest Purity Daoist for their teachings.

Yang Huai visited the Great Purity Daoist and Highest Purity Daoist, receiving treasures while persuading the latter to train Jie Sect disciples in a reincarnation formation. He returned to his abode, assessed his gains, and began tending a gourd vine with pure water after securing it inside a powerful formation.

• Yang Huai paid his respects to the Great Purity Daoist, who gave him a gourd of golden elixirs and a bottle of pure water to tend the gourd vine.
• Yang Huai visited the Highest Purity Daoist and suggested that a reincarnation illusion formation could train the scattered-minded Jie Sect disciples; the Daoist gave him twelve Sea-Calming Pearls.
• The Highest Purity Daoist established the Thousand-Illusion Reincarnation Formation, and the Highest Purity Palace disciples became solemn and sorrowful after undergoing its trials.
• Yang Huai examined his treasures, including the Primal Origin True Talisman, twelve Sea-Calming Pearls, thirty-six Stellar Golden Elixirs, and the Pure Jade Bottle.
• Yang Huai protected the gourd vine with the Primordial River-Luo Formation, poured a drop of sweet dew onto its roots, and witnessed a startling phenomenon.

Yang Huai advanced his cultivation, then weighed a proposed assignment guarding the Star Palace Emperor Lord’s reincarnation and secured more time before taking on new duties. At Kunlun Mountain, he brought eight Highest Purity Palace disciples to the Jade Clarity Dao Lineage’s mutual aid gathering, where Holy Mother Wudang began sharing ancient secrets.

• Yang Huai watched two unusual gourds grow on the immortal vine, though he could not tell whether they were treasures.
• After gaining a third Origin, Yang Huai reached minor completion in his Wuliang Origin Dao Embryo and began studying the Primordial Emperor Shangdi Aspect.
• The Purple Origin Celestial Lord told Yang Huai that the Purple Palace Immortal Palace might send him to guard the Star Palace Emperor Lord’s reincarnation, and Yang Huai raised concerns about a possible plot against him.
• The Purple Origin Celestial Lord decided to seek an extension of Yang Huai’s time in office and considered assigning him to guard a newly forming major world.
• Yang Huai brought Holy Mother Wudang and seven other Highest Purity Palace disciples to the Jade Clarity Dao Lineage’s mutual aid gathering, where Holy Mother Wudang spoke about ancient history.
• The Jade Clarity Daoist remarked to the Supreme Clarity Daoist that Taiwei Zi might lure his foolish disciple away.

Jade Clarity Daoist approved Yang Huai’s appointment as the Great Emperor of Purple Tenuity, while Yang Huai guided disciples at a mutual aid gathering and encouraged the Highest Purity Palace disciples facing a punishing trial. A hundred years later, after strengthening his Heavenly Emperor authority, Yang Huai gained permission to seek disciples and spotted a battle on a mountain that might lead him to his first recruit.

• Jade Clarity Daoist proposed that Yang Huai become the Great Emperor of Purple Tenuity, and Supreme Clarity Daoist and Great Clarity Daoist approved.
• Yang Huai praised Azure Lion’s Dao understanding and advised him to organize it into jade slips, then guided the other disciples during the mutual aid gathering.
• Holy Mother Wudang and the other Highest Purity Palace disciples worried that they might fail Jade Clarity Daoist’s Thousand-Illusion Reincarnation Formation trial, and Yang Huai urged them to persevere.
• A hundred years later, Yang Huai strengthened his Heavenly Emperor authority through the Primordial Nine Forms and asked Jade Clarity Daoist for permission to seek disciples.
• Yang Huai left Kunlun Mountain to search its subsidiary ranges and noticed a being with innate divine light fighting beneath a storm, declaring it might be his first disciple.

Yang Huai rescued a primordial sword-bamboo spirit from the Golden Midge Insects, recruited him as his first disciple, and later captured Four-Unlike and found two extraordinary eggs. Back at Kunlun, the Jade Clarity Daoist named the disciple Xuanfeng and appointed Yang Huai to become the North Pole Central Purple Tenuity Great Emperor as the Celestial Court prepared to reopen.

• Yang Huai collected the Golden Midge Insects, rescued the sword-bamboo youth, and accepted him into his sect as his first disciple.
• Yang Huai concealed the Gengjin Jade Bamboo grove as a future cultivation site for his disciple.
• Yang Huai broke the valley's Cosmos Five-Element Formation, took the five-colored egg, and captured Four-Unlike to serve as his Master's mount.
• Yang Huai brought the youth and Four-Unlike to Kunlun, where the Jade Clarity Daoist accepted Four-Unlike and named the youth Xuanfeng, Xuanfeng Golden Firmament Cave Deity True Lord of Supreme Virtue.
• The Jade Clarity Daoist told Yang Huai that he had been recommended as the North Pole Central Purple Tenuity Great Emperor and must meet Human Emperor Fuxi Clan at the former Celestial Court.

Yang Huai accepted the Purple Tenuity Emperor’s authority and went to the rebuilding Celestial Court, where Fuxi Clan entrusted him with the All-Heaven Star Array. As he deployed its divine banners, the power of the stars elevated his Purple Tenuity root source Dao embryo and announced his birth as a Heavenly Emperor.

• Jade Clarity Daoist warned Yang Huai that the Purple Tenuity Emperor position carried heavy karma, and Yang Huai returned to his cave abode to teach Xuanfeng, nourish two eggs, and leave an incarnation in Kunlun Mountain.
• Ten days later, Yang Huai reached the former Celestial Court, met Gouchen, and pledged to help Fuxi Clan restore order.
• Fuxi Clan gave Yang Huai the All-Heaven Star Chart and three hundred and sixty-five All-Heaven Star Divine Banners, entrusting him with command of the All-Heaven Stars.
• Yang Huai refined the chart and realized it relied on the Solar and Lunar Stars and that Fuxi Clan had retained the River Map and Luo Writing as the true array eyes.
• Yang Huai sent the divine banners into the starry sky, connected with the myriad stars, and underwent a dramatic ascension as the Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor.