Chapter Summaries

Yang Huai summoned the Star Palace Shangdi and ordered him to open the All-Heaven Star Sea, promising him a chance to attain the Dao. He then asked the Limitless Dao Lord to help establish Guixu in the Purple Palace Celestial Realm, revealing his plan to complete his Dao from creation to ending.

• Yang Huai sent the Jiuxiao Ancient God to summon the Star Palace Shangdi to the Heavenly Dao Palace.
• Yang Huai gave the Star Palace Shangdi an All-Heaven Star Sea Map and ordered him to open the All-Heaven Star Sea, promising an opportunity to attain the Dao if he succeeded.
• Yang Huai instructed Supreme Teacher Taiyi, the Jiuxiao Ancient God, Lingyi, and Hong Zhao to support the opening and deal with interfering gods.
• Yang Huai calculated that opening the All-Heaven Star Sea and establishing Guixu would advance his Dao path, despite likely opposition from the Primordial Unity Divine Court.
• Yang Huai visited the Limitless Dao Lord and asked him to help create a land of Guixu in the Purple Palace Celestial Realm.
• Yang Huai explained that Guixu would return all things to their ultimate destination and supply new origins to the celestial realm, and the Limitless Dao Lord began to understand his Dao path.

Yang Huai and the Limitless Dao Lord combined their Guixu models and established the Limitless Guixu at the former site of the Demon Realm. The other Saint Venerables questioned the dangerous realm’s purpose and safeguards, leaving Yang Huai prepared to fight if he could not convince them.

• Yang Huai and the Limitless Dao Lord agreed to combine their Guixu models, with Yang Huai’s Twelvefold Yuan Ji Guixu Dao Diagram as the foundation.
• After five thousand years of joint deductions, Yang Huai and the Limitless Dao Lord established the Limitless Guixu in the middle reaches of the Two-World River, swallowing the Demon Realm’s ruins.
• The Limitless Dao Lord declared the Guixu a realm of finality, prompting chief gods and Saint Venerables to gather and confront him and Yang Huai.
• Saint Venerable Hanguang accused the two of threatening all living beings, while the Limitless Dao Lord defended finality as part of the Dao and challenged Hanguang to fight them.
• Benevolent Light Holy Mother questioned whether the Guixu had restraints, and the Limitless Dao Lord said it could not expand unless the myriad heavens declined and that it would nurture new vitality.
• Purple Emperor Saint Venerable warned that the Guixu could become a calamity, and Yang Huai remained ready to fight if the Saint Venerables could not be persuaded.

Yang Huai persuaded the Saints to establish the Nine Firmament Heaven, using its control over primordial qi to weaken Divine Spirit Abyss while sharing its authority through a council. As the Saints agreed to reopen it in fifteen hundred years, Daoist Taiwei began forming a new Dao Fruit from the star seas of two realms.

• Limitless Dao Lord presented the Twelvefold Yuan Ji Guixu Dao Diagram, and Yang Huai defended it as a balance between destruction and creation before warning that he would fight anyone who challenged him.
• Vast Firmament Venerable and Benevolent Light Holy Mother accepted Yang Huai's explanation and departed after urging him to treat the common people kindly.
• Yang Huai gathered the Saints and proposed the Nine Firmament Heaven as a way to control primordial qi and gradually weaken Divine Spirit Abyss.
• Yang Huai proposed a five-Saint alliance council to maintain the Nine Firmament Heaven and share its destiny and origin essence, with Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor carrying out its operations.
• All five Saints approved reopening the Nine Firmament Heaven in fifteen hundred years, and Daoist Zhihe privately warned Yang Huai that he was taking great risks.
• As authority over the All-Heaven Star Sea returned to Yang Huai, Daoist Taiwei began forming a silver-white Dao Fruit containing the star-sea transformations of two realms.

Daoist Taiwei condensed the Myriad Phenomena Dao Fruit, while Yang Huai opened the Nine Heavens Celestial Realm and made it the channel through which the Limitless Guixu’s growth would strengthen the Purple Palace Celestial Realm. The Divine Spirit Abyss’s gods feared the consequences, and Vast Firmament Venerable considered whether to oppose Wuliang Venerable’s plan.

• Daoist Taiwei made the Myriad Phenomena Dao Fruit his core and planned to forge a bamboo staff as its Dao-achieving treasure.
• Yang Huai’s foundation advanced after Daoist Taiwei condensed the Myriad Phenomena Dao Fruit.
• Yang Huai joined the Nine Heavens Dao Diagram to the Purple Palace Immortal Palace, split open the chaos with the Wuliang Chongli Sword, and formed the Nine Heavens Celestial Realm.
• Yang Huai placed a green lotus imprint in the Nine Heavens, establishing a cycle that would strengthen it and the Purple Palace Celestial Realm as the Limitless Guixu grew.
• The Five-Element Main God warned the other gods that the Purple Palace Venerables’ plan threatened the Divine Spirit Abyss, and the Sacred Cosmos God Lord went to consult the Sacred Ancestor.
• Vast Firmament Venerable and Benevolent Light Holy Mother discussed how Wuliang Venerable’s control of all-heaven primordial qi could let him shape the myriad heavens and worlds, while Vast Firmament Venerable left open whether he would oppose him.

Yang Huai weighed whether to claim the Dao Throne of Continuance as his power and cultivation grew, while Shaohao completed his mortal rule and prepared to ascend as Heavenly Emperor. As Taiwei Daoist perfected the All-Heaven Staff, he and Yan Ju prepared to confront the two Western Venerables.

• Yang Huai considered claiming the Dao Throne of Continuance, which could strengthen him but might interfere with his entry into the Barbaric Heaven Realm.
• After five thousand years, Shaohao completed his governance, gave Xuandu Daoist a map of spirit mountains, and announced sacrifices to Heaven and the enfeoffment of mortal rulers at Yellow Mountain.
• Qiongao lamented the decline of Heavenly Emperor Palace, and the Vault Ancient God promised to help restore its glory.
• The Yellow Emperor sensed Shaohao's offerings, then summoned Xuanyuan Palace's old ministers to prepare for his abdication and succession to Taiwei Daoist's position as Purple Tenuity Emperor of the Northern Pole Central Heaven.
• Taiwei Daoist infused the All-Heaven Staff with merit, completing fourteen stellar restriction regions, then told Yan Ju they would begin planning against the two Western Venerables.

Taiwei Daoist returned to Kunlun Mountain and listened to Jade Clarity Daoist explain the Mixed Origin Dao Fruit, while discovering that Plain Maiden had been living on West Kunlun Mountain. After learning that ancient Dao founders could threaten any campaign against the West, Taiwei Daoist revealed that he wanted to inherit both Jade Clarity Daoist’s Dao Fruit of Creation and his martial uncle’s Dao Fruit of Continuance.

• Taiwei Daoist arrived at Kunlun Mountain, reunited with Southern Polestar Daoist, and entered Jade Clarity Hall to hear Jade Clarity Daoist’s sermon.
• Taiwei Daoist recognized Plain Maiden among the immortals and realized she had been staying with the Queen Mother of the West on West Kunlun Mountain.
• Zhen Yuanzi asked how to resist the Devil Ancestor, and Jade Clarity Daoist taught the immortals to guard their Dao hearts against demonic tribulations.
• After the 108-year sermon, Jade Clarity Daoist told Taiwei Daoist that ancient Dao founders still existed and warned him not to rush into acting against the West.
• Taiwei Daoist asked to inherit both the Dao Fruit of Continuance and Jade Clarity Daoist’s Dao Fruit of Creation, prompting Jade Clarity Daoist to infer that Taiwei Daoist had another self nearing proof of the Dao.

Taiwei visited the Queen Mother of the West at West Kunlun Mountain and learned that a thief had stolen her Hundred Beasts Fruit spiritual root. He also met Plain Maiden, the former spirit of the Heavenly River, and offered to return a spiritual item nurtured by the river’s origin.

• Jade Clarity Daoist advised Taiwei to visit his eldest martial uncle and consider taking on the Dao position of continuance.
• Taiwei sent an innate true dragon other-self westward to enter the Western Religion, then traveled to West Kunlun Mountain.
• Lord White Spirit challenged Taiwei at the mountain entrance, but the Queen Mother of the West welcomed him to a banquet.
• Taiwei praised the Queen Mother of the West and the Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden, then learned that a thief had stolen the Hundred Beasts Fruit spiritual root ten thousand years earlier.
• The Queen Mother of the West explained that Plain Maiden had once sacrificed her origin to save people from the damaged Heavenly River and had recently joined her sect.
• Taiwei offered to return a spiritual item nurtured by the Heavenly River’s origin to Plain Maiden.

Taiwei Daoist gave Plain Maiden the Heavenly River Spirit Banner before leaving West Kunlun and returning to the All-Heaven Star Sea. There, as he prepared to relinquish the Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor position, he directed Lamp-Burning Daoist to settle unrest and gathered his disciples to discuss their futures.

• Taiwei Daoist gave Plain Maiden the Heavenly River Spirit Banner, and she accepted it as her innate treasure and felt an old obsession begin to fade.
• Taiwei Daoist left West Kunlun, returned to Purple Tenuity Star, and found immortals competing through the River Luo Treasure Mirror for positions among the All-Heaven Principal Gods.
• Taiwei Daoist told Lamp-Burning Daoist to discipline and pacify those unsettled by his planned abdication, then invited him to hear the Great Heavenly Venerable of Ten Directions Light expound the Sacred Spirit Dao Fruit.
• Taiwei Daoist summoned his eight disciples, praised their cultivation, and acknowledged that he had tried to treat them fairly.
• Taiwei Daoist considered the disciples' paths and futures as he prepared for his departure from the Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor position.

Taiwei Daoist distributed powerful magical treasures among his disciples and arranged their future roles in the Mystic Sect. He announced that he would abdicate as Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor in a thousand years, leaving the Xuanyuan Clan pondering the rotation of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.

• Taiwei Daoist bestowed the Primordial Five-Poison Divine Banner and Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation upon Xuanfeng, and gave Kong Xuan treasures suited to his Five-Element Dao while predicting he would lead a great sect.
• Taiwei Daoist gave Guanghua three magical treasures, then bestowed the Heavenly Measure on Emperor Lingji and the Primal Origin True Talisman on Gu Lin.
• Taiwei Daoist granted Ember Emperor, Ice Snow'er, and Taichu Daoist treasures suited to their cultivation, and warned all his disciples to use their powerful gifts carefully.
• Taiwei Daoist announced he would abdicate as Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor in a thousand years and appointed Xuanfeng to succeed him as chief of the Mystic Sect Dao Court.
• Taiwei Daoist told his disciples they could become elders of the Mystic Sect Dao Court, then discussed relinquishing his imperial position with the Xuanyuan Clan, who asked about the Five Emperors.

Xuanyuan Clan received spirit mines from Taiwei Zi before the heavenly and human emperorships changed hands, while a mysterious thief broke into Taiwei Zi’s medicinal garden and began plotting further thefts. Yan Ju sensed the thief’s activity and reflected on Yao Ji’s relationship with Yang Erlang, leaving the conflict with the schemer unresolved.

• Xuanyuan Clan asked Taiwei Zi for resources, received the newly opened spirit mines in the southern star region, and was warned to commit fewer killings.
• A thousand years later, Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor abdicated to Shaohao, Zhuanxu became the new Human Emperor, and Taiwei Zi sensed the Heavenly Emperor Great Dao growing more complete.
• Taiwei Zi discovered that a thief had breached his Qingli Divine Mountain medicinal garden and damaged his Primordial River-Luo Formation, but the thief had escaped.
• The azure-robed thief considered returning for the All-Heaven Star Tree, then turned toward the Flame Emperor Clan’s spirit garden to steal rare plants.
• Yan Ju noticed Taiwei Zi’s spiritual scrutiny and dismissed the intruder as a petty thief while discussing Yao Ji and Yang Erlang with Xuan Guang and Grand Siming.
• Yan Ju realized that a schemer had tried to sow discord between the Mystic Sect and Celestial Court, and resolved that the debt would not go unpaid.

Xuan Guang apprehended Yao Ji and sent Yang Tian You into reincarnation, while Shaohao and the Flame Emperor God Clan managed the political fallout. Beneath Peach Mountain, Yao Ji learned that Yan Ju had arranged her punishment to protect her and her children, and she regretted her choices.

• Xuan Guang captured Yao Ji and her children, sent Yang Tian You into reincarnation, and brought the family to the Celestial Court.
• Heavenly Lord Shaohua urged Shaohao to punish Yao Ji severely, but Shaohao chose to handle the matter himself.
• Xuan Guang told Shaohao that Yao Ji had been suppressed beneath Peach Mountain and that Yang Tian You would earn merits in reincarnation.
• Shao Yan and Jingwei explained to Yao Ji that Yan Ju had protected her family and arranged for her children to study under Daoist Xuanfeng.
• Yao Ji realized Yan Ju had been protecting her and expressed regret, while Shao Yan warned her not to take her imperial status for granted.

Yan Ju discovered a powerful intruder stealing from the Flame Emperor Clan’s herb garden and fought him alongside Daoist Taiwei. The green-robed thief escaped after revealing strength beyond nine great universes, leaving Yan Ju and Daoist Taiwei expecting another encounter.

• Yan Ju agreed to help Xuan Guang gather the missing Xuantian origin needed to refine her Eternal Night Curtain.
• Yan Ju sensed a thief inside the Flame Emperor Clan’s territory and went to confront him at Flame Emperor Valley.
• The green-robed man broke through the valley’s formation, entered the herb garden, and found the Yellow-Center Plum, Enlightenment Tea Tree, and other rare treasures.
• Yan Ju fought Shenyin, using his treasure wheel, the Self-Transforming Wishful Freedom Scripture, and the power of light to counter the Shenyin Sword.
• Daoist Taiwei joined the battle, but Shenyin briefly exceeded ten great universes, wounded him, and escaped through layers of space-time.
• Yan Ju warned that Shenyin might target them again, while Daoist Taiwei said their secret arts would make another assassination attempt easier to counter.

Daoist Taiwei learned more about Divine Concealment’s ancient origins and sought a treasure that could counter his Space Dao techniques, while Divine Concealment decided to lie low. Fifteen hundred years later, the Great Heavenly Venerable of Ten Directions Light reached the second Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal realm, bringing Yang Huai closer to his own fourth-realm breakthrough.

• The Jade Clarity Daoist told Daoist Taiwei that Divine Concealment was an ancient Heavenly Emperor Palace retainer, the second Space Origin God, and a notorious thief with a mortal enemy above them.
• Daoist Taiwei left Kunlun Mountain and headed for the Eight Scenic Palace to seek the Taiji Diagram, preparing gifts and hoping to learn a way to counter Divine Concealment’s secret arts.
• Divine Concealment weighed the danger posed by Daoist Taiwei and his possible incarnations, then vanished from the sect grounds and resolved to lie low.
• Fifteen hundred years later, the Great Heavenly Venerable of Ten Directions Light perfected the Holy Spirit Dao, condensed the Primordial Zenith Heaven Sacred Heart, and reached the second-realm Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal level.
• Yang Huai observed the breakthrough and realized that its insights could help him, Daoist Taiwei, and Yan Ju approach the fourth Primordial Zenith realm.

Yang Huai revisited Eastern Mountain, helped Bound Dragon Master complete a treasured batch of pills, and reunited with the Black Tortoise he had left behind. He then traveled to the ruins of the Roushou Tribe to seek old friends and retrieve a precious treasure.

• Yang Huai secretly supplied creation spiritual light that let Bound Dragon Master refine twelve Six-turn Creation Golden Elixirs and complete the Tai Shi Dao Seal.
• Bound Dragon Master thanked his long-absent master, while Yang Huai reflected on abandoning his Eastern Mountain arrangements after the Chaos Cauldron drew the Beyond Shores' attention.
• Yang Huai found the Black Tortoise stone turtle beneath White Yang City's City Lord's Manor and invited it to accompany him or return to the Black Warrior Clan.
• The Black Tortoise chose to follow Yang Huai, who took it with him and left White Yang City.
• Yang Huai arrived at the former Roushou Tribe site, now overgrown ruins, to seek old friends, fulfill Jin Chong's lingering obsession, and retrieve a precious treasure.

Yang Huai recovered Princess Xingya from the River of Time, but Torch Dragon blocked his attempt to locate the Pangu Bow. After sending Xingya to the Netherworld Underworld, Yang Huai entered seclusion while Daoist Taiwei brought Black Warrior to the North Pole Sacred Land to cultivate with Divine Lord Zhiming.

• Yang Huai battled Torch Dragon in the River of Time and retrieved Princess Xingya's soul, but Torch Dragon obscured the Pangu Bow's whereabouts.
• Yang Huai restored Princess Xingya's body, told her how the world had changed, and sent her to the Netherworld Underworld to find surviving Roushou Tribe members.
• Yang Huai handed Black Warrior to Daoist Taiwei and entered seclusion to comprehend the Pangu Emperor's Boundless Sacred Heart.
• Daoist Taiwei brought Black Warrior to the North Pole Sacred Land and asked Divine Lord Zhiming to let it cultivate with the Black Warrior Clan.
• Divine Lord Zhiming agreed to take in Black Warrior, while Daoist Taiwei sought to strengthen ties with him.

Taiwei Daoist invited Divine Lord Zhiming to join the Mystic Sect as one of its Four Great Saint Venerables, and Zhiming agreed to consult the other three saints. Meanwhile, Shenyin stole Bitter Bamboo from Great Mount Sumeru, prompting Zhunti Daoist and Daoist Jieyin to consider seeking help against him; the chapter ended with a black-lotus figure approaching Great Heavenly Venerable of Ten Directions Light with news of a good thing.

• Taiwei Daoist invited Divine Lord Zhiming to become a Four Great Saint Venerable of the Mystic Sect, and Zhiming said he would discuss the offer with the other three saints.
• Zhunti Daoist discovered that Shenyin had stolen Bitter Bamboo and found a lingering sword wound on his chest.
• Daoist Jieyin healed Zhunti Daoist and agreed to help him after Zhunti linked Shenyin to Torch Dragon and the theft of other treasures.
• Shenyin examined the stolen Bitter Bamboo and planned to fuse its origin into the Shenyin Sword, but vanished when he sensed Torch Dragon searching for him.
• Great Heavenly Venerable of Ten Directions Light sensed Torch Dragon's search, then received a black-lotus visitor who offered to show him a good thing.

The Great Heavenly Venerable of Ten Directions Light and the Devil Ancestor searched the Ancestral Dragon Treasury for the Purifying World White Lotus, but found that Shenyin had already taken it. Meanwhile, Daoist Taiwei and Yang Huai each advanced to the fourth realm of the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal, and Yang Huai began reflecting a new other self, only to discover he had become a seed.

• The Devil Ancestor led the Great Heavenly Venerable of Ten Directions Light into the Ancestral Dragon Treasury, where they found its spiritual-root garden and lotus pond emptied.
• The Great Heavenly Venerable of Ten Directions Light concluded that Shenyin had taken the Purifying World White Lotus, and the Devil Ancestor left a World-Destroying Black Lotus carving in the palace before restoring its restriction.
• Fifteen hundred years later, Daoist Taiwei condensed the Primordial Myriad Phenomena Dao Heart and became the first to enter the fourth realm of the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal, gaining the Heavenly Dao power of Myriad Phenomena.
• Yang Huai condensed the Pangu Emperor's Boundless Sacred Heart and reached the fourth realm, then abandoned the Baleful Intent Ancestor and Devil Ancestor fate statuses.
• Yang Huai activated the Primordial Treasure Mirror to reflect a new other self and found that he had become a seed.

Yang Huai refined a nameless World Tree seed into another self and sent Taiwei Daoist to recover the other half of its origin from Jianmu. Taiwei transformed Jianmu into an innate azure dragon and made it his first disciple’s fourth disciple.

• Yang Huai discovered that the World Tree seed lacked wood-element origin and began restoring its vitality while searching for the other half of the seed.
• Taiwei Daoist learned that Jianmu was likely the severed portion of the World Tree and traveled to Eastern Wasteland Mountain with the Creation Gourd.
• Taiwei Daoist used Creation spiritual liquid to awaken Jianmu’s spirit and offered to take half its origin in exchange for entry into the Mystic Sect.
• Taiwei Daoist transformed Jianmu into an innate azure dragon, moved the mortals climbing it to safety, and took a portion of its origin.
• The azure dragon completed its transformation tribulation, paid respects to Taiwei Daoist, and became the fourth disciple of Taiwei’s first disciple.

Taiwei Daoist planted the World Tree seed on Chaotic Cave Star, where Yang Huai’s Primordial Spirit will guided its growth. After nearly twelve hundred years, the seed sprouted, awakening powerful abilities and beginning to regulate the star’s Qi.

• Taiwei Daoist rejected a lesser grotto-heaven as unsuitable and planted the World Tree seed on Chaotic Cave Star near the All-Heaven Star Palace.
• Taiwei Daoist told Taichu Daoist that the seed was the true World Tree, distinct from Jianmu, and urged him to study its mysteries.
• Yang Huai’s Primordial Spirit will merged with the seed, awakened its life origin, and planned to strengthen its defenses and overcome its immobility without hatching guardian deities.
• After nearly twelve hundred years, the seed split open and a platinum leaf sprouted, prompting the Primordial Treasure Mirror to reveal the World Tree’s awakened divine abilities.
• The World Tree sent roots into space-time and began regulating Chaotic Cave Star’s Qi, while Yan Ju recognized its potential to transform the All-Heaven Starry Sky and aid his comprehension of Continuance.

Yang Huai’s World Tree grew into a powerful cultivation treasure, helping Daoist Taiwei establish Chaotic Cave Sacred Land and accelerate the cultivation of Mystic Sect disciples. Centuries later, Yang Huai’s Spiritual Calling drew a hidden chaotic island from a space-time storm, revealing an innate lotus nurturing a deity and attracting an angry pursuer.

• The World Tree’s roots controlled space-time and enriched Chaotic Cave Star, while Daoist Taiwei planted spiritual seeds and set up time-different cultivation abodes for his disciples.
• Yang Jiao, Yang Jian, and Yang Chan entered the abodes and advanced from Yin Spirit to Yang Spirit; Yang Jiao and Yang Jian also gained Heavenly Immortal cultivation, while an innate star deity reached the Golden Immortal realm.
• Daoist Taiwei opened Chaotic Cave Star to further cultivators under strict conditions, and over five hundred years it became known as Chaotic Cave Sacred Land.
• Yang Huai used the World Tree’s roots to search a space-time storm, where Spiritual Calling pulled out a chaotic spiritual island containing rare spiritual roots and a purple innate lotus with a deity gestating inside.
• A furious figure pursued the island and demanded to know who had stolen their opportunity.