Chapter Summaries

Yang Huai rewarded Daoist Xuanfeng, Kong Xuan, and Emperor Lingji for reaching the Origin God Realm, then reflected on the growing Jade Clarity Dao Lineage. Meanwhile, the three Mystic Sect Venerables separated their foundations, leaving the story with deities across the Barbaric Lands reacting to the split.

• Yang Huai gave Daoist Xuanfeng four innate Geng Metal divine irons and the Tai Bai Star Seal, granting him the chance to command Taibai Star or pass its divine office to another Star God.
• Yang Huai bestowed the Primordial Five-Element Orbs on Kong Xuan and granted Emperor Lingji access to twelve void universes.
• Yang Huai observed the thriving civilization on Purple Tenuity Star and hoped his Jade Clarity Dao Lineage would grow to occupy a leading position in the All-Heaven Star Sea.
• The Supreme Clarity Daoist decided Kunlun Mountain could not comfortably house the disciples of all three teachings and led more than a thousand disciples away to seek a new foundation.
• The Great Clarity Daoist announced that he would establish his Dao Lineage elsewhere, leaving Kunlun Mountain to the Jade Clarity Daoist, who sealed the Hall of the Three Pure Ones.
• News spread that the three Mystic Sect Venerables had divided their households, prompting speculation among deities across the Barbaric Lands.

Yang Huai watched the God-Mystic Conflict intensify as Emperor Yan Shennong fought the Ten-Domain Upper Kingdoms’ allies, then proposed Celestial Court peace talks. The talks were set in motion, but Yang Huai expected both sides to use them as an opportunity to attack.

• Yang Huai witnessed Emperor Yan Shennong kill several ancient god Heavenly Venerables during a battle against the Five-Nation Alliance.
• After learning that the Celestial Court would hold a grand court assembly, Yang Huai decided to attend.
• At the assembly, Fuxi Clan revealed that the Ten-Domain Upper Kingdoms and other god races planned to attack the Emperor Yan Tribe.
• Yang Huai proposed that Fuxi Clan summon the Ten-Domain Upper Kingdoms’ leaders and Shennong to negotiate, with force to follow if either side refused.
• Fuxi Clan sent envoys to invite both sides to the peace talks, and Yang Huai returned to Purple Tenuity Palace expecting the negotiations to become a trap.

Fuxi Clan ordered the area around Phoenix-Luring Mountain cleared as the Celestial Court prepared to mediate a conflict between the god clans and the Mystic Sect. After Emperor Yan Shennong warned Yang Huai that the Astral God Clan might target the All-Heaven Star Sea, Yang Huai sought the Jade Clarity Daoist’s help and received the Pangu Banner; a year later, the previous Purple Tenuity Emperor emerged as a battle erupted below.

• Fuxi Clan chose to clear all gods and immortals from within several hundred thousand miles of Phoenix-Luring Mountain.
• Emperor Yan Shennong thanked Yang Huai for supporting the Emperor Yan Tribe, asked him to suppress the All-Heaven Stars’ light during a critical moment, and warned him of a possible threat from the Astral God Clan.
• Yang Huai complained to the Jade Clarity Daoist that god clan Creation Realm experts might attack him, and the Jade Clarity Daoist lent him the Pangu Banner for one kalpa.
• A year later, Yang Huai sensed a fierce battle erupt below and saw the previous Purple Tenuity Emperor appear within the All-Heaven Star Sea.

Yang Huai revealed the Pangu Banner while beset by the Purple Tenuity Emperor, a Creation-realm Star God, and an ancient beast. He shattered the Star God’s body and broke the beast’s attack, then used the banner’s Suppression Formula to pin down his remaining enemies.

• Purple Tenuity Emperor confronted Yang Huai in the All-Heaven Star Sea with his All-Heaven Star Array and Purple Tenuity Treasure Seal.
• A Creation-realm Star God appeared through the Astral Profundity Diagram with the All-Heaven Star Treasure Tree and demanded Yang Huai surrender the All-Heaven Star origin.
• Jade Clarity Daoist met a green-robed Daoist and a sallow-faced Daoist, then vanished with them into another stretch of spacetime.
• Yang Huai summoned the Pangu Banner and struck the Creation-realm Star God, shattering its body and much of its Creation imprint.
• Yang Huai swung the Pangu Banner again, destroying the ancient beast’s giant claw and revealing its Five Elements form.
• Yang Huai invoked the banner’s Suppression Formula, leaving Purple Tenuity Emperor and the ancient beast weighed down beneath the power of chaos.

Yang Huai used the All-Heaven Star Array and Pangu Banner to kill Purple Tenuity Emperor and the Five-Element Ferocious Beast Emperor, claiming their treasures and strengthening his Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor Dao. Afterward, he sensed a powerful divine force vanish toward Xi Huang Palace.

• Yang Huai trapped Purple Tenuity Emperor in the All-Heaven Star Array, suppressed him with the Pangu Banner, and killed him with Immortal-Slaying Sword Qi.
• Yang Huai took the Purple Tenuity Seal and Purple Tenuity Sword, causing his Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor Dao embryo to reach great perfection.
• Yang Huai turned to the Five-Element Ferocious Beast Emperor and destroyed its body and Creation imprint with the Pangu Banner.
• Yang Huai claimed the Five-Element connate Dharma treasure and refined the beast's remaining chaos fragments into the Astral Profundity Diagram.
• Yang Huai sensed a powerful divine force flicker and vanish toward Xi Huang Palace.

Yang Huai watched Emperor Yan Shennong battle the ancient god Heavenly Venerables, then joined the fighting below and killed three Demon Sages. After the Emperor Yan Tribe defeated the Divine Race forces, Yang Huai secured the submission of five ancient god Heavenly Venerables to the Mystic Sect, while three others were killed.

• Emperor Yan Shennong wounded the Soft-Water Heavenly Venerable while fighting Bai Ze and Tai Shi Heavenly Venerable, then received aid from the Queen Mother of the West and Primordial Origin Holy Mother.
• Bai Ze escaped, Primordial Origin Holy Mother captured the Soft-Water Heavenly Venerable, and Emperor Yan Shennong kept Tai Shi Heavenly Venerable from fleeing.
• Yang Huai entered the battle below and killed Nine-Infant Serpent, then slew Shangyang and Bifang as they tried to escape.
• Yang Huai called on the remaining ancient gods to submit, and five Heavenly Venerables joined Purple Tenuity Palace and the Mystic Sect.
• The Emperor Yan Tribe killed the three ancient gods who refused to submit, while the five defectors were relieved to have survived.

Yang Huai watched Primordial Origin Holy Mother defeat Tai Shi Celestial Venerable and secure the Emperor Yan Tribe’s victory, then returned to Purple Tenuity Palace to inspect the treasures he had gained. After refining several of them, he heard rumors that Heavenly Emperor Fuxi Clan had vanished.

• Primordial Origin Holy Mother used her Origin Dharma Form to suppress Tai Shi Celestial Venerable and turn him into the source essence of the Innate Five Supremes.
• The Emperor Yan Tribe celebrated its victory, while Emperor Yan Shennong checked on the survivors and invited Yang Huai to the Human Emperor Palace; Yang Huai declined.
• Yang Huai returned to Purple Tenuity Palace with five submitted True One Realm Celestial Venerables, then went to the Celestial Court to seek Fuxi Clan.
• Lei Ming and Zi Nu told Yang Huai that Fuxi Clan was in seclusion, but Yang Huai suspected the Heavenly Emperor was absent from the Celestial Realm.
• Yang Huai refined the Purple Tenuity Seal, Purple Tenuity Sword, and Innate Five-Element Treasure Wheel, and set aside the All-Heaven Star Treasure Tree fragment for possible restoration.
• A thousand years later, rumors spread that Heavenly Emperor Fuxi Clan had vanished.

With Fuxi Clan missing, Yang Huai agreed to temporarily take charge of the Celestial Court and sought support from the other powers. After securing the Four Imperial Sovereigns’ noninterference and Emperor Yan Shennong’s backing, he left his true plans unspoken.

• Water Mother Xuanji, Hou Ji, and Mi Fei failed to contact Fuxi Clan, and Hua Xu Clan proposed that the North Celestial Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor temporarily preside over the Celestial Court.
• Yang Huai agreed to shoulder the Heavenly Emperor’s duties but rejected the Water Earl and a thunder god’s push to convene a Grand Court Assembly in his name.
• Yang Huai met Southern Polestar Daoist, then went to the Netherworld, where Left Sacred Emperor Lord told him Houtu Earth Sovereign would neither interfere nor participate.
• Yang Huai visited Emperor Yan Shennong and secured the Emperor Yan Tribe’s support for his temporary rule of the Celestial Court.
• Yang Huai said he would return the authority when Fuxi Clan came back, while keeping his hope of placing Shennong in the position secret.

Thirty years after Hua Xu and the deities entered Purple Tenuity Palace, Yang Huai announced that Fuxi was trapped in the river of time and that he would temporarily assume the Heavenly Emperor’s position. He secured the gods’ support for his rule for five thousand years and moved to elevate the Mystic Sect’s Three Purities Heavenly Venerables above the Four Imperials.

• Yang Huai told the grand court assembly that Fuxi was trapped in the river of time and that he would establish Purple Tenuity Palace in the Celestial Court while temporarily taking charge as Heavenly Emperor.
• Emperor Yan Shennong, Hua Xu, and the gods of several ministries supported Yang Huai’s assumption of authority, while Ancient God Firmament asked what would happen if Fuxi did not return.
• Yang Huai promised to return the Heavenly Emperor’s authority if Fuxi came back within five thousand years, and said the Four Imperials would otherwise choose a worthy successor.
• After the gods bowed to Yang Huai, he announced that he intended to confer the title of Three Purities Heavenly Venerables on the Mystic Sect’s three leaders and rank them above the Four Imperials.
• Heavenly Venerable Chengchun objected to the elevation, but Yang Huai defended the Three Purities’ merit and the Southern Polestar Daoist endorsed the conferment.
• The Jade Purity Primordial Heavenly Venerable sensed the changes in the Celestial Court from Kunlun Mountain and smiled faintly.

Yang Huai secured the Central Heavenly Emperor’s authority while considering how to strengthen his Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor Dao Path. As congratulations poured into Purple Tenuity Palace, he sensed the arrival of a destructive presence beyond Profound Cavern Realm.

• The Vault Ancient God left Soaring Firmament Palace to seek an heir for Heavenly Emperor Palace and summon ancient gods to oppose the Mystic Sect.
• Hua Xu and the Fuxi Clan deities departed the palace, while Yang Huai wondered what had happened to Fuxi and resolved to guard against Beyond Shore experts.
• Yang Huai planned to cultivate Purple Tenuity Star Lords and use his Central Heavenly Emperor authority to advance his Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor Dao Path.
• Purple Tenuity Palace celebrated Yang Huai’s new position as guests arrived with gifts, and Yang Huai returned to receive them.
• Yang Huai sensed a destructive aura approaching Profound Cavern Realm and recognized that the person he had awaited had arrived.

Yang Huai uncovered Dao Lord Yudu’s betrayal and turned the eighteen altars’ blood sacrifice into a trap for the otherworldly Divine Emperor. He struck the invading emperor with his Sovereign Emperor Pan Aspect, driving the battered foe back through the vortex.

• A black-clad deity sensed that a gateway between worlds was about to open as Heavenfire prepared sacrifices at Sky Eye Mountain.
• Yang Huai arrived, froze the conspirators, exposed Dao Lord Yudu’s slaughter avatar, and revealed that Yudu had been controlled by the otherworldly Thunder Emperor.
• Yang Huai altered the summoning formation and sacrificed Yudu and the other black-robed figures to activate the eighteen altars.
• The otherworldly Divine Emperor emerged through the vortex and struggled against the Profound Cavern Realm’s suppression.
• Yang Huai manifested the Sovereign Emperor Pan Aspect and struck the Divine Emperor with an axe, shattering his thunderous shadow and forcing part of him to flee.

Yang Huai defeated the extraterritorial Five-Thunder Divine Emperor, seized and refined his Five-Thunder Banner, and continued strengthening his own origins. Three thousand years later, another Golden Immortal failed to merge with the Boundless Grand Dao.

• Yang Huai pursued the wounded Five-Thunder Divine Emperor through the God-Summoning Altar, but the emperor sacrificed the Five-Thunder Banner to escape into another world.
• Yang Huai chose not to pursue the emperor, returned to the Profound Cavern Immortal Court, and refined the Five-Thunder Banner after destroying its resisting imprint.
• Yang Huai studied the banner’s Grand Dao prohibitions and advanced his cultivation as a sixth Equilibrium Dao Embryo began to take shape.
• Three thousand years later, Yang Huai sensed a Golden Immortal attempting to merge with the Boundless Grand Dao, but blood light and thunder signaled that the attempt had failed.

Yang Huai welcomed newly appointed Heavenly and Earthly Dao Venerables Xiaoyao and Biyi, while the realm’s altered nature left the new officeholders unable to wield their Dao origins. After reuniting with Fuyun’s secondary body and giving her the Spacetime Pearl, he considered Biyi’s offer to negotiate over the Origin Forbidden Lands and planned to secure benefits while protecting the Boundless Grand Dao.

• Yang Huai welcomed the new Heavenly and Earthly Dao Venerables, who discovered they could not control their Dao origins in the Profound Cavern Realm.
• Purple Origin Celestial Lord arrived with Fuyun’s secondary body and introduced Dao Venerable Xiaoyao and Holy Mother Biyi to Yang Huai.
• Yang Huai hosted a banquet for the visitors, and Xiaoyao and Biyi departed after making no agreement with him.
• Yang Huai reunited with Fuyun and gave her the Spacetime Pearl to aid her future comprehension of the Spacetime Dao.
• Fuyun relayed Biyi’s proposal to return the Earth Venerable Forbidden Land and Sea of Five Elements Forbidden Land and discuss the other Origin Forbidden Lands; Yang Huai considered what benefits to request.

Yang Huai negotiated with Xiaoyao Dao Venerable over the remaining Origin Forbidden Lands while Holy Mother Biyi consolidated her control of the Profound Cavern Realm. After completing the Equilibrium Origin, Yang Huai visited Emperor Yan Shennong and asked whether he wanted the position of Heavenly Emperor.

• Xiaoyao Dao Venerable offered Yang Huai three rare treasures in exchange for the Firmament Forbidden Land and Chaos Origin Sea Forbidden Land, and Yang Huai agreed to transfer them in six thousand years.
• Xiaoyao Dao Venerable asked to buy other Origin Forbidden Lands, but Yang Huai refused to sell the Spacetime and Yin-Yang Forbidden Lands and said Holy Mother Biyi had already obtained the Xuanming and Mingxu Forbidden Lands.
• Holy Mother Biyi thanked Fu Yun for helping her gain the upper hand in the Profound Cavern Realm and explored the Profound Cavern Immortal Court with her.
• After four thousand five hundred years, Yang Huai completed the Equilibrium Origin and considered withdrawing from his role as Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor.
• Yang Huai visited Emperor Yan Shennong in Emperor Yan City and asked whether Shennong wanted to become Heavenly Emperor.

Yang Huai told Emperor Yan Shennong that he would abdicate as Central Heavenly Emperor after five hundred years and backed Shennong as his successor. At the Celestial Court assembly, Yang Huai installed Shennong, relinquished the throne, and returned to Purple Tenuity Palace to pursue his cultivation.

• Yang Huai privately told Shennong and Ting Yao that he would abdicate in five hundred years and support Shennong's bid for the throne.
• Shennong accepted the opportunity despite recognizing that Yang Huai was also using him to bear the risks of the position, and Ting Yao agreed to stand by him.
• Shennong and Ting Yao visited the Jade Clarity Dao Palace, the Fuxi Tribe, and other tribes as they prepared for the succession.
• At the Celestial Court assembly five hundred years later, Yang Huai named Human Emperor Shennong as the next Central Heavenly Emperor and bestowed the Imperial Seal.
• Yang Huai relinquished the Heavenly Emperor's authority, the gods accepted Shennong's accession, and Yang Huai returned to Purple Tenuity Palace to study the origins of Sage Virtue, Merit Virtue, and Yin Virtue.

Yang Huai gained a Supreme Dao Position fate as the North Celestial Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor after opening the All-Heaven Star Sea and earning an unprecedented number of Essence Points. He began refining the fate, while tensions between Xiaoyao Dao Venerable and Holy Mother Biyi threatened the Profound Cavern Realm after his planned departure.

• Yang Huai reflected on the origins needed for transcendence and watched life flourish across the All-Heaven Star Sea as he patrolled it with his junior sister.
• A Starry Beast Emperor arrived at Purple Tenuity Star, and the North Celestial Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor sent Holy Mother Wudang and several Star Gods into the outer starry skies.
• Yang Huai learned that resonating with the North Celestial Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor fate had earned him 361,500 Essence Points, then spent 200,000 to fix the Supreme Dao Position fate.
• Yang Huai observed Xiaoyao Dao Venerable and Holy Mother Biyi continue fighting over the Origin Forbidden Lands as local powers prepared for his eventual departure.
• Eight days later, Yang Huai received and began refining the nine-colored North Celestial Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor fate, causing his Immortal Emperor aura to expand.

Yang Huai completed his refinement of the North Celestial Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor Godhood and awakened the Wuliang Origin Heavenly Emperor Godhood, which he kept hidden. After a new cultivator attained the Boundless Dao, Yang Huai summoned him to the Immortal Court, accepted him as his second personal disciple, and named him Kaiyuan.

• Yang Huai refined the Heavenly Emperor Godhood until his origin destiny fate reached Supreme Dao Seat rank, then concealed its power.
• Yang Huai identified his new authority as the Wuliang Origin Heavenly Emperor Godhood and resolved not to reveal it except in a crisis.
• Wu Changyuan used his Primordial Beginning Dao foundation to pursue the Boundless Grand Dao and became an Innate Dao Lord.
• Yang Huai sent Primordial Unity Immortal Lord and Sea-Controlling Immortal Lord to summon Wu Changyuan to the Immortal Court.
• Yang Huai accepted Wu Changyuan as his second personal disciple, named him Kaiyuan, and began teaching him the Wuliang Origin inheritance.

After a sudden premonition warned Yang Huai that enemies might strike as he left the Profound Cavern Realm, he and Fu Yun prepared a concealed escape using the Myriad-Heavens Mystic-Aspect Summoning Formation. Yang Huai’s decoy drew two Divine Emperors into pursuit, while a third attacked the other fleeing incarnations.

• Yang Huai completed his comprehension of the Origin of Balance, then sensed danger and went with Fu Yun to ask Holy Mother Biyi for Perfect Harmony Saint Venerable’s talisman decree.
• Holy Mother Biyi lent them the decree, and Yang Huai and Fu Yun left the Earth Dao Palace with it.
• Nine years later, Yang Huai used the Primordial River-Luo Divine Talisman, an incarnation, and over a hundred Origin qi essence crystals to prepare their escape from the Profound Cavern Realm.
• Yang Huai sent an incarnation carrying the Perfect Harmony talisman decree through the summoning formation as a decoy, then escaped with Fu Yun while the Free and Unfettered Dao Venerable realized they had left.
• Two Divine Emperors pursued the decoy and fought the Nine-Dragon Canopy unleashed by the talisman decree, while the Lunar Divine Emperor spotted the other fleeing incarnations and destroyed several of them.

Yang Huai fled from the Taiyin Divine Emperor through the Two-World River and entered the Chaos Dao Secret Realm to escape the pursuing Primordial Unity powerhouses. After striking the Taiyin Divine Emperor with the Primordial Emperor's Giant Axe, Yang Huai escaped into the lower realms and decided to hide and cultivate rather than seek refuge in the Purple Palace Celestial Realm.

• The Taiyin Divine Emperor pursued Yang Huai through the Two-World River while the Primordial Unity Divine Emperor and Wanyu Demon Emperor destroyed Yang Huai's decoy incarnation and joined the hunt.
• Yang Huai chose the Chaos Dao Secret Realm as his escape route, avoiding the Annihilation Dao Secret Realm where the Star God Palace and Nirvana Dao Palace had prepared an ambush.
• The Taiyin Divine Emperor fired Lunar Moon-Soul Divine Arrows at Yang Huai, but the True Radiance Heavenly Emperor Seal blocked them with its Sacred Virtue Ancestral Dragon phantoms.
• The Taiyin Divine Emperor entered the Chaos Dao Secret Realm and transformed into his Primordial Unity Dao body, but Yang Huai struck him with the Primordial Emperor's Giant Axe.
• Yang Huai concealed his traces with the Primordial Qianyuan One-Qi Divine Talisman, fled into the lower realms, and resolved to cultivate in hiding before seeking revenge.

After escaping the pursuit of the Lunar God Emperor and his allies, Yang Huai stayed in the lower realm with Fu Yun and scattered Boundless Grand Dao inheritances across many worlds. He returned to the Spirit Garden Realm to cultivate and reflect a new self, whose first sight was an overwhelmingly powerful fire.

• The Lunar God Emperor told Demon Emperor Wan Yu and the Primordial Unity God Emperor that Boundless had wielded pseudo-Primordial Unity power, and the three gave up the pursuit and prepared to report their failure.
• Yang Huai refused to return to the Purple Palace Immortal Palace and remained in the Spirit Garden Realm with Fu Yun, who agreed to wait and cultivate there with him.
• Yang Huai gave Fu Yun the Nine-Turn Profound Art, and the couple gathered spiritual roots and established a temporary cave residence.
• Yang Huai and Fu Yun traveled through many realms, where Yang Huai planted Boundless Grand Dao inheritances and left treasures and an immortal estate to attract potential successors.
• After fifteen hundred years, Yang Huai returned with Fu Yun to the Spirit Garden Realm and entered cultivation to improve his artifact-refining skills and reflect a new self.
• Yang Huai opened his eyes within the Primordial Treasure Mirror and sensed a tyrannical fire that seemed to embody the origin of fire.