Chapter Summaries

Yang Huai became the North Celestial Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor and began building his celestial government by recruiting Star Lords and establishing the All-Heaven Star Array. After years of organizing the Purple Tenuity Imperial Palace, he received Chang Xi, also known as Heng'e, and welcomed her to meet.

• Yang Huai's fate became the North Celestial Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor, and his power surged as he gained authority over the stars.
• Yang Huai returned to Kunlun Mountain and recruited Giant Scorpion and many other gods and qi refiners to serve as All-Heaven Star Lords.
• Yang Huai established the Purple Tenuity Imperial Gateway and its courts, taught the Star Lords his scripture, and spent decades recruiting and organizing his celestial hierarchy.
• Chang Xi appeared before the Purple Tenuity Imperial Palace and asked to meet Yang Huai.
• Yang Huai recognized Chang Xi as Heng'e and welcomed her as his guest.

Chang Xi negotiated with Yang Huai for the Emperor Yan Tribe to receive fifty primordial star divine positions in exchange for helping him take control of the All-Heaven Star Array. After receiving a secret decree from the Sage Emperor, Yang Huai traveled to the Two-World River to guard a developing great thousand world, where he planted ancestral qi and prepared to wait for it to mature.

• Chang Xi asked Yang Huai for one hundred primordial star divine positions on behalf of the Emperor Yan Tribe, and Yang Huai agreed to grant fifty with a warning that its deities must obey the law.
• Yang Huai explained to Giant Scorpion that the Emperor Yan Tribe was an ally and assigned her to enter the mortal world for tempering after the Celestial Court was established.
• Lü Immortal Lord delivered a secret decree from the Sage Emperor to Yang Huai at the Grand Tenuity Celestial Lord's residence.
• Yang Huai arranged new posts for his assistant officials, then left the Grand Tenuity Heaven Domain and traveled through Myriad Demon Mountain to the Two-World River.
• Yang Huai reached a great thousand world's chaos womb, infused it with ancestral qi, and withdrew into the chaos to guard it until it matured.

Yang Huai waited in the River of Origin as the chaos embryo matured, surviving a space-time black wind and defeating beasts drawn to it. When the embryo began opening into a new world, the Nirvana Dragon Sovereign tried to devour it, but Yang Huai defeated and suppressed it, leaving the newborn world safe.

• Yang Huai continued cultivating within the chaos embryo while the Celestial Court was reestablished and conflict spread across the Barbaric Lands.
• A space-time black wind swept through the River of Origin, killing several Gray-Origin Elephant Dragons, while Yang Huai remained unharmed and crushed an attacking World King Beast.
• Six hundred years later, the chaos embryo began opening into a world, and the Nine-Colored Treasure Wheel absorbed the four powers of earth, water, wind, and fire.
• The Nirvana Dragon Sovereign attacked the newborn world and tried to seize it with its dragon claw.
• Yang Huai used the Chaos Cauldron and Nine-Colored Taiji Diagram to defeat and suppress the Nirvana Dragon Sovereign.

Yang Huai defeated the Heavenly Fortune Demon Venerable, completed the creation of a major world, and redirected its location to Qingfeng. He then replaced the All-Heaven Star Array’s core and seized its control from the Fuxi Clan, strengthening his authority as Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor.

• Yang Huai used the Primordial Emperor God’s Dharma form to destroy the Heavenly Fortune Demon Venerable, whose death opened several Dao Venerable positions in the Demon Realm.
• The major world broke free from the Chaos embryo and entered the lower realm; Yang Huai received merit, informed Qingfeng of its location, and returned the sacred decree.
• Yang Huai reflected on the strength of Purple Palace Dao Venerables, visited his fathers-in-law, borrowed Black Prison’s five-colored altar, and resumed closed-door cultivation.
• Yang Huai altered the All-Heaven Star Array, replaced its All-Heaven Star Chart core with the Astral Profundity Diagram, and made Purple Tenuity its primary center.
• The Fuxi Clan sensed the array’s control slipping away and realized Taiwei Zi had taken command, but held back from confronting the Jade Clarity Dao Palace’s foremost disciple.
• Yang Huai used the array’s authority to spread his Root Ancestral Qi through the stars and sensed an invisible aura resonating with him.

Yang Huai discovered that the previous Purple Tenuity Emperor was hiding in the star sea and began planning to develop it into a home for the Jade Pure lineage. He welcomed Kong Xuan and Guanghua as disciples, then sought the Jade Clarity Daoist’s support for his great vow to establish a Chaotic Cave Star Sea.

• Yang Huai sensed the previous Purple Tenuity Emperor in the star sea, sealed the All-Heaven Star Array, and continued strengthening the Astral Profundity Diagram.
• At Kunlun Mountain, Yang Huai released the peacock and peng born from the Primordial Taiji Five-Element Array, named them Kong Xuan and Guanghua, and taught them Jade Pure cultivation arts.
• Yang Huai proposed to the Jade Clarity Daoist that he develop the All-Heaven Star Sea into a place for Jade Pure disciples by improving the array, creating a Chaotic Cave Star Sea, and bringing in living beings from the Barbaric Lands.
• The Jade Clarity Daoist approved Yang Huai’s plan, recognizing its potential to expand the Jade Pure lineage and bring him greater fortune.
• Yang Huai returned to the Purple Tenuity Imperial Palace with his three disciples and began studying how to perfect the All-Heaven Star Array and build the Chaotic Cave Star Sea.
• Across the Barbaric Lands, populations grew while primordial spiritual qi declined, qi refiners gained prominence, and Xuanmen sects spread, with Jade Pure lineages becoming the most numerous.

Yang Huai took in gifted nominal disciples across the land to strengthen his Great Dao, naming an ice-born girl Linglong and preparing for his path toward Creation. At the Eastern Sea, he intervened as Jingwei pursued the Dragon Crown Prince, who had fled into the water after a fight.

• Yang Huai failed to persuade his fellow Kunlun disciples to accept students, so he took more than a hundred gifted nominal disciples himself.
• Lamp-Burning Daoist questioned Taiwei Zi’s many disciples, but Jade Clarity Daoist approved the arrangement and instructed Lamp-Burning Daoist to visit Purple Tenuity Star in five hundred years.
• Yang Huai named the newborn daughter of the Youyu Clan chief Linglong and promised to return to guide her when she came of age.
• Yang Huai cultivated by the Eastern Sea and reflected that filling out the Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor Root-Origin Great Dao was necessary for him to attain Creation.
• Jingwei fought the Eastern Sea Dragon Crown Prince over his mistreatment of her clansmen, and he fled into the sea before Yang Huai warned her not to follow.

Yang Huai rescued Jingwei from a Heavenly Demon Palace plot and fought a hidden Creation Realm enemy and a Demon Race remnant wielding the Myriad Beasts Divine Saber. After Shennong arrived and the enemy escaped, Yang Huai learned that Bai Ze, the new Lord of the Heavenly Demon, might be behind the attack and was a growing threat to the Human Race and Celestial Court.

• Yang Huai revealed a net of Innate Kui Water Divine Thunder beneath the Eastern Sea and captured a green-robed demon who had tried to lure Jingwei into danger.
• An azure giant hand attacked Yang Huai, while a hidden enemy killed the captured demon; Yang Huai countered with his Purple Tenuity authority and recognized an old friend behind the scheme.
• A Demon Race Creation Realm being attacked Yang Huai with the Myriad Beasts Divine Saber, then escaped with Tai Sui Star Lord when Shennong arrived.
• Shennong rebuked Jingwei for leaving the Human Emperor Palace, then thanked Yang Huai for saving her and invited him to the Emperor Yan Tribe.
• At the Emperor Yan Palace, Shennong explained that the Heavenly Demon Palace was an ancient Demon Race force led by Bai Ze, whom Yang Huai suspected was the Creation Realm enemy.

Yang Huai persuaded Emperor Yan Shennong to support his plan to create a Chaotic Cave Star Sea, promising the Emperor Yan Tribe a central role in its human lineage. He built the Solar Source Land and began nourishing the surrounding stars, then encountered Lamp-Burning Daoist as he prepared to construct the Purple Tenuity Source Pool.

• Yang Huai warned Emperor Yan Shennong that escaped Demon Sages could threaten the Emperor Yan Tribe and asked him to support the creation of a Chaotic Cave Star Sea.
• Yang Huai offered the Emperor Yan Tribe a chance to become central to the star sea’s human lineage, and Shennong agreed to help.
• Yang Huai traveled to the Solar Star and spent five hundred years building a source land that transformed solar starlight into stable pure-yang spiritual qi.
• Yang Huai released the first stream of pure-yang spiritual qi into the surrounding starfields and planned to secure the star sea with innate Dharma treasures.
• As Yang Huai returned to build the Purple Tenuity Source Pool, he encountered Lamp-Burning Daoist, whose arrival promised to advance the project.

Yang Huai developed the Purple Tenuity Star into a spirit pool and planned to revitalize the Star Sea of All Heavens, while negotiating with Lamp-Burning Daoist for an innate treasure in exchange for authority over death. Lamp-Burning Daoist agreed to trade the Heavenly Measure, and Yang Huai was then startled by news that Fu Yun was preparing to unite with the innate realm of illusion and reality.

• Yang Huai sent Lamp-Burning Daoist and star gods to inspect the star worlds of All Heavens while he transformed the Purple Tenuity Star.
• After six hundred years, Lamp-Burning Daoist returned and watched Yang Huai complete the Purple Tenuity Spirit Pool by drawing starlight into the star.
• Yang Huai proposed joining the Purple Tenuity, Solar, and Lunar Star Domains into a vast spirit pool to make the barren starry region flourish.
• Lamp-Burning Daoist asked for authority over death and extinction in exchange for stabilizing the starry sky, and Yang Huai demanded an innate treasure as well.
• Lamp-Burning Daoist decided to trade Yang Huai the Heavenly Measure, and Yang Huai continued building formations on the Left Assistant Star.
• Yang Huai awoke at Wuliang Imperial Lord's residence after hearing that Fu Yun's Golden Immortal Dao fruition was complete and she was preparing to unite with the innate realm of illusion and reality.

Fuyun began her Dao-Unification of the Great Dao of reality and illusion with Yang Huai’s treasures and the Purple Origin Celestial Lord’s support. She survived an attack from the Mirror-Wielding Emperor and succeeded, while the Emperor identified Yang Huai as a target of the Divine Spirit Abyss.

• Yang Huai reunited with Fuyun and gave her the Miro Pearl, a tribulation-crossing treasure art made from innate clear qi and merit Golden Light.
• The Purple Origin Celestial Lord arranged a tribulation-crossing formation and destroyed the Void Devil Master to open a vacant Dao seat for Fuyun.
• Fuyun endured the first four Primordial Unity tribulations and merged her Dao Embryo with the Great Dao of reality and illusion.
• The Mirror-Wielding Emperor attacked Fuyun’s Primordial Spirit mark, but the Miro Pagoda shielded her and the Primordial Ancestor Sacred Virtue Sword wounded him.
• Fuyun occupied the vacant Dao seat and completed her Dao-Unification, becoming a source-level Primordial Unity Golden Immortal.
• The Mirror-Wielding Emperor returned to the Divine Spirit Abyss and recognized Wuliang Emperor as a target of the Nine Divine Palaces.

After Fu Yun’s breakthrough, she brought Yang Huai to the Purple Origin Celestial Pool and revealed her Heavenly Saint Clan gift and plan to cultivate a second body through an innate spirit embryo. She warned him that powerful enemies were targeting him, and the chapter left Yang Huai visiting the Immortal Palace’s elders while Qingfeng searched for a way into a nameless greater world.

• Purple Origin Celestial Lord celebrated Fu Yun’s breakthrough with a banquet, then told Fu Yun and Yang Huai that the Purple Origin Celestial Pool was ready for them.
• Fu Yun led Yang Huai through a teleportation formation to the Sage Emperor Spirit Garden and showed him the Purple Origin Celestial Pool and a massive innate spirit stone.
• Fu Yun revealed that she had chosen the Dao of space-time and planned to cultivate a second body from the innate divine spirit inside the stone, using her Heavenly Saint Clan’s twin-body gift.
• Fu Yun warned Yang Huai that Gloom Dao Palace and Primordial Unity Divine Court would target him after his recent killings, and asked him to visit the Immortal Palace’s elders with her.
• Yang Huai accompanied Fu Yun to visit Sage Venerables, Immortal Venerables, and Holy Mothers, then learned at Myriad Demon Mountain that Qingfeng had found the nameless greater world and was trying to enter it.

Yang Huai refined the Heavenly Measure and continued building the Chaotic Cavern Star Sea while the Three Pure Ones prepared to confront gods persecuting qi refiners. Gou Chen urged Fuxi Clan to claim control of Yang Huai’s star-domain project, just as Supreme Clarity Daoist attacked the Three Primordial Divine Palace.

• Lamp-Burning Daoist accepted Yang Huai’s conditions, handed over the Heavenly Measure, and agreed to patrol the stars with Yang Huai’s subordinate gods.
• Yang Huai sent his Star God disciples to hunt starry behemoths, then refined the Heavenly Measure and learned how it worked with the Sea-Calming Pearls.
• Yang Huai continued arranging star formations and sought guidance from Jade Clarity Daoist and Supreme Clarity Daoist, declining a new heavenly duty to focus on the project.
• Supreme Clarity Daoist and Jade Clarity Daoist agreed that the Three Pure Ones should confront gods who had persecuted and killed Mystic Gate qi refiners.
• Gou Chen told Fuxi Clan that Yang Huai planned to open the cosmic sea of stars and argued that the Celestial Court should control it.
• Supreme Clarity Daoist attacked the Three Primordial Divine Palace, and Gou Chen recognized the battle as a confrontation with its three ancient God Venerables.

Supreme Clarity Daoist destroyed the Three Primordial Heavenly Venerables and fought the ancient evil gods, revealing a fearsome sword formation that shocked the Celestial Court. With Gouchen shaken by the Mystic Sect’s strength, Yang Huai set out for Gouchen Palace to confront him over his attacks on the star gods.

• Supreme Clarity Daoist defeated Earth Spirit Divine Venerable and killed him alongside Heaven Spirit and Water Spirit when they joined forces against him.
• Supreme Clarity Daoist destroyed the Three Primordial Divine Palace and went to Buzhou Mountain, where he forced Wuwang Heavenly Venerable out and fought him.
• Wuwang Heavenly Venerable fled to a mountain range where Ancestor Huangquan, Saint Nether Heavenly Venerable, and Spirit Demon Ancestor ambushed Supreme Clarity Daoist.
• Supreme Clarity Daoist summoned a four-sword killing formation that trapped and overwhelmed the evil progenitors, shocking the gods who recognized it as a connate supreme treasure.
• Yang Huai decided to stop tolerating Gouchen’s secret attacks on Purple Tenuity’s star gods and headed toward Gouchen Palace.

Yang Huai secured Fuxi Clan’s agreement to open the All-Heaven Star Sea after Gouchen was punished for imprisoning a Star God. As the Profound Gate’s power grew and Taiwei Zi opened the Jade Clarity Dao Lineage to disciples, the Three Clarity Heavenly Venerables learned that the venture would also benefit their lineages.

• Yang Huai brought the rescued Star God before Fuxi Clan and demanded justice for Gouchen’s forbidden soul-searching.
• Gouchen admitted his guilt and entered the Nine Nether Reincarnation Cycle, while his subordinate gods lost their offices and were sent to the Heavenly Soldier Camp.
• Yang Huai agreed to give the Celestial Court fifteen percent of the All-Heaven Star Sea’s fortune in exchange for its support, accepting conditions on trade and entry for Celestial Court Dao lineages.
• Supreme Clarity Daoist slew two more ancient God Heavenly Venerables before stopping his campaign after a battle with an old man from the depths of time.
• Taiwei Zi announced that the Jade Clarity Dao Lineage would accept disciples at Kunlun Mountain.
• Jade Clarity Daoist told Supreme Clarity Daoist and Great Clarity Daoist that each would receive fifteen percent of the All-Heaven Star Sea’s fortune and allow their disciples to enter it.

Yang Huai opened Kunlun Mountain to recruit disciples, drawing hundreds of thousands of candidates to face three trials. The first trial produced several promising disciples, while the Jade Clarity Dao Lineage disciples grew anxious about being surpassed by their juniors.

• The Jade Clarity disciples discussed Yang Huai’s growing influence and heard that Yun Zhongzi had gone to the starry sky a thousand years earlier.
• Yang Huai arrived at Kunlun Mountain and established three trials to select registered, outer, inner, and personal disciples.
• Candidates rushed onto the Heaven-Ascending Stairway, where many failed under its restrictive spells and illusions.
• An innate fire deity became the first candidate to pass the stairway, followed by Xuanfeng, Kong Xuan, a gifted Di Jiang clanswoman, and other divine candidates.
• Guanghua completed the first trial in frustration, and more than two hundred candidates eventually passed it.
• Yang Huai estimated that his disciples would number four or five hundred, prompting the Jade Clarity disciples to worry that their juniors might surpass them.

Yang Huai completed his recruitment of disciples, accepting new personal and inner disciples and assigning hundreds of others as registered or outer disciples. He brought them to the Purple Tenuity Imperial Gateway, where he organized intensive instruction and training to prepare them for positions among the heavenly stars.

• The innate fire spirit, Xuanfeng, and Kong Xuan passed the trials, and Yang Huai accepted the spirit as an inner disciple named Ember Emperor and Ice Snow'er as his fifth inner disciple.
• Emperor Lingji explained that she wanted to escape the limits of her Di Jiang bloodline, and Yang Huai accepted her as his sixth personal disciple.
• Taichu and Gu Lin passed the trials; Yang Huai accepted Taichu as an inner disciple and Gu Lin as a personal disciple, while Guanghua also overcame his obsession and passed.
• Yang Huai assigned disciple ranks to the recruits, ending with three personal disciples, five inner disciples, eighty-nine registered disciples, and one hundred and sixty-five outer disciples.
• After holding an acceptance ceremony, Yang Huai led the disciples to the Purple Tenuity Imperial Gateway and set instructors, training schedules, assessments, and secret realms for their cultivation.
• Guang Chengzi and Chijingzi praised Yang Huai's teaching and worried that delaying their own recruitment could leave them without disciples to fill positions among the heavenly stars.

Yang Huai prepared the Lunar Star for the All-Heaven Star Sea while Chang Xi ignored his messages and focused on her own cultivation. In the Purple Tenuity Imperial Gateway, Lamp-Burning Daoist pointed Yellow Dragon True Person toward Taiwei Zi’s scripture and recognized the vast ambition behind his plan to create the All-Heaven Major Stars.

• Yang Huai dismissed disciples who had completed their work, finished the forbidden formations across the Purple Tenuity Star Domain, and gathered several dozen disciples to enter the Lunar Star.
• Yang Huai surveyed the Lunar Star without asking Chang Xi for help, while Chang Xi sensed his arrival but froze his messages and entered seclusion in the Netherworld Halls of the Nine Abysses.
• Over seven hundred years, Yang Huai mapped the Lunar Star’s true form and found a spiritual pool beneath the Lunar Laurel Tree as the site for a lunar source land.
• Lamp-Burning Daoist advised Yellow Dragon True Person to study Taiwei Zi’s Taiwei Jade Book of Purple Celestial Patterns to understand the opportunities in the All-Heaven Star Sea.
• Lamp-Burning Daoist realized Taiwei Zi intended to uncover more primordial major stars and establish himself as the true Master of Ten Thousand Stars.

Yellow Dragon Daoist studied the Taiwei Jade Book of Purple Celestial Patterns and considered claiming authority over Zhen Star, while Yang Huai completed the Lunar Star formations and activated the Chaotic Cave Star Sea. The star system began gathering and transforming stellar radiance into spiritual qi, leaving the Purple Tenuity Star Domain’s barren stars awakening with new life.

• Yellow Dragon Daoist studied the Star God cultivation methods and considered seeking the vacant position of Zhen Star, though his strained ties with the dragon race gave him pause.
• Yang Huai installed three hundred sixty-five Lunar Divine Mountains, increasing the Lunar Star’s radiance and directing its moonlight into the star sea.
• Yang Huai reviewed his plans and activated the divine peaks across the Purple Tenuity, Solar, and Lunar Star Domains, forming the Chaotic Cave Star Sea.
• The Chaotic Cave Star Sea began gathering stellar radiance and transforming it into spiritual qi, while the Solar and Lunar Stars formed their own source lands.
• Star Gods and other observers sensed the changes as spiritual qi awakened barren stars across the Purple Tenuity Star Domain and gave them new potential for life.

Yang Huai continued cultivating as the All-Heaven Star Sea evolved, while Tai Sui Star Lord and a blue-robed Daoist discussed reclaiming it for the Demon Race. After Yellow Heaven Dao Venerable fell to demons, Yang Huai joined the Immortal Palace assembly, where the Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor called for a volunteer to descend and subdue them.

• Yang Huai transformed the All-Heaven Star Sea and advanced his Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor root origin toward major completion.
• Tai Sui Star Lord and a blue-robed Daoist watched the All-Heaven Star Array and planned to reclaim the stars for the Demon Race.
• Fu Yun told Yang Huai about the Myriad Flowers Conference, but he declined to attend and continued cultivating.
• Yellow Heaven Star turned blood-red as Yellow Heaven Dao Venerable fell, and Yang Huai suspected the reincarnated Star Palace Shangdi was in danger.
• Yang Huai attended the Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor's assembly, where the Sage Emperor asked who would descend to subdue the demons.

The Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor sent Dao Lord Miaoyuan, several powerful immortals, and Yang Huai to rescue Star Palace Shangdi from the Eastern Azurewood Demon Emperor. Their heavenly army attacked Origin Wood Mountain, but the demon emperor’s formation resisted their assault, and Yang Huai offered to join the fire attack.

• Dao Lord Miaoyuan volunteered to lead an army against the Eastern Azurewood Demon Emperor and requested Yang Huai’s help to counter the demon’s Divine Wood Staff.
• Yang Huai agreed to join Miaoyuan, and the immortals led hundreds of thousands of heavenly soldiers toward Origin Wood Mountain to rescue Star Palace Shangdi.
• The heavenly army attacked the mountain, but the demon emperor raised the Innate Five-Elements Origin-Unification Formation as a towering divine tree that withstood their killing formation.
• Southern Ying Huo Star Lord attacked the tree with innate fire, but the formation absorbed the fire and began regenerating.
• The Eastern Azurewood Demon Emperor mocked the immortals and threatened to send them into the Eternal Ruin Abyss, so Yang Huai offered to aid Ying Huo Star Lord with his own divine fire.