Chapter Summaries

Yang Huai defeated the demoness, purified the Heavenly River Portrait, and then strengthened himself by cultivating the Heavenly Gate Golden Chapter as dangerous insect swarms attacked his garden. After striking a bargain with the Golden Toad, he awakened the first part of his innate inheritance: his true name.

• Jiang Rongyue explained the demoness's origins, gave Yang Huai the Fire Spirit Divine Edge and Hundred Beauties Portrait, and admitted that she had used the fight to temper him.
• Yang Huai ferried the merfolk princess's soul onward, purified the painting into a Heavenly River Portrait, and gained a storage magical artifact.
• Yang Huai fought off waves of poisonous golden insects, then began cultivating the Heavenly Gate Golden Chapter to strengthen his roots and vines.
• Yang Huai chose to focus on metal and wood abilities rather than absorb the insects' poisons, and he agreed to help the Golden Toad in exchange for protection from other threats.
• After Yang Huai devoured and refined the fiery rhinoceros beetles, his innate inheritance awakened and revealed his true name.

Yang Huai learned more about his Primordial Profound Metal Spirit Vine and the ancient corpse beneath the cliff, then received the Pure Origin Dharma Body cultivation method from Jiang Rongyue. The chapter ended with Yang Huai realizing that the Dharma Body’s strength depended on fate.

• Yang Huai named his newly awakened vine the Primordial Profound Metal Spirit Vine and discovered it had an Innate Golden Spirit Dharma Body.
• The Golden Toad told Yang Huai that an Insect Valley below the cliff held an undecayed corpse that drew countless insects, and Yang Huai decided not to venture down before becoming stronger.
• Yang Huai saw Dachang Dao soldiers and Dharma protectors ride out of the city, then asked Jiang Rongyue what had happened.
• Jiang Rongyue returned from the Profound Mystery Sect with the Pure Origin Dharma Body method and explained that Yang Huai’s abundant innate qi allowed him to cultivate it early.
• Jiang Rongyue explained that the method’s full power required Dao karma, which was linked to recognition, fortune, and destiny.
• Yang Huai concluded that fate determined the strength of the Dharma Body.

Yang Huai learned and rapidly cultivated the first form of the Pure Origin Dharma Body, then returned to East Kunlun and absorbed the rare Emperor's Flowing Essence. His quiet work at the Daoist temple was interrupted when the wounded large white rabbit fled there with a Nine-Infant Serpent in pursuit.

• Jiang Rongyue taught Yang Huai how to cultivate the Pure Origin Dharma Body, and he quickly opened its hidden apertures and formed its first stage.
• Yang Huai tested the new form against Jiang Rongyue, who matched his strength and advised him to spend several days mastering it before continuing.
• Yang Huai returned to East Kunlun in the Primordial Profound Metal Spirit Vine's body and absorbed Emperor's Flowing Essence, causing its aura and body to grow.
• The wounded large white rabbit arrived at the Daoist temple and asked Yang Huai to save it from the pursuing Nine-Infant Serpent.
• Yang Huai called on the Golden Toad to protect the temple, and the Golden Toad finally answered that the serpent should not have entered its territory.

Yang Huai watched the Lunar Golden Toad and Golden Dragon defeat the Nine-Headed Serpent, then absorbed the serpent’s remaining corpse to grow stronger. The Taoist temple’s master returned the next day with the supposedly missing white rabbit, which she called by name.

• The Lunar Golden Toad fought the Nine-Headed Serpent but was trapped by its water-fire vortex, while Yang Huai realized the serpent’s weakness lay where its necks joined.
• Yang Huai warned the Golden Toad, endured the serpent’s flames, and called for the Golden Dragon, which struck the serpent’s necks and helped turn the battle.
• The Lunar Golden Toad and Golden Dragon attacked the serpent’s heart and necks, killed it, and destroyed its Primordial Spirit before fighting over its nine inner cores.
• Yang Huai absorbed the serpent’s remaining essence with the Heavenly Gate Golden Chapter, regrew his vines, and noticed a flower bud forming on his main trunk.
• The Golden Dragon took the serpent’s heads, the Golden Toad took its heart, and Yang Huai kept the rest of the corpse while the white rabbit disappeared.
• The Taoist temple’s master returned the next day carrying the white rabbit and revealed that it had a name.

Yang Huai joined Jin Meng’s battle against the Golden Crocodile and lent him Junting, allowing Jin Meng to kill the demon. After healing the surviving soldiers, Yang Huai learned that the crocodile’s water manor held an item Jin Meng thought might be useful to him.

• The temple master named the big white rabbit Jade Rabbit, ordered it and Yang Huai to live in harmony, and rewarded Yang Huai by refining the nine-headed serpent’s corpse into energy that strengthened him.
• Yang Huai sensed the Dragon-Scale Robe warming, then heard Jin Meng fighting another demon beyond West Extension City and went to investigate.
• Jin Meng fought the Golden Crocodile on the Yan River while the demon’s crocodiles attacked the ships and soldiers caught in the whirlpool.
• Yang Huai lent Jin Meng Junting, and Jin Meng used the divine sword to split the Golden Crocodile and its inner dan in one strike.
• Yang Huai healed the wounded soldiers and generals, ordered them to deal with the remaining crocodiles, and agreed to visit the crocodile demon’s water manor after Jin Meng mentioned a potentially useful item.

Yang Huai defeated the Azure Dragon remnant soul in the Crocodile King's hidden cavern and obtained an Azure Dragon Pearl that could advance his cultivation. After spending half a month absorbing the nine-headed strange serpent's essence as the Innate Profound Gold Spirit Vine, he woke to find unfamiliar figures commenting on its flower buds.

• Yang Huai and Jin Meng entered the Crocodile King's Water Palace and uncovered a hidden cavern containing the bones of a true dragon and an Azure Dragon Stone.
• Jin Meng gave Yang Huai the Azure Dragon Stone, and Yang Huai awakened the Azure Dragon remnant soul inside it.
• Yang Huai defeated the remnant soul with the Junting Ancient Sword, revealing an Azure Dragon Pearl.
• Yang Huai left the cavern, parted from Jin Meng, and began studying the pearl as a cultivation aid.
• After half a month absorbing the serpent's essence, Yang Huai opened his eyes and heard unfamiliar figures wonder whether his Innate Spirit Vine could bear spirit fruits and become their sister.

Yang Huai’s spirit vine underwent a major transformation, gained a natal origin pellet, and listened to a gathering of Daoists and spirit beasts at the temple. He secured Xuan Pin’s promise to bring him a White Tiger true-form painting, reached great mastery in the Azure Dragon Everlasting Spring Art, and was left dealing with an Azure Luan Divine Bird that kept bringing feathers to nest on him.

• Yang Huai awoke to find his spirit vine greatly enlarged and transformed, with a natal origin pellet formed in its roots.
• Xuan Pin introduced herself to Yang Huai after he warned her not to touch his flower bud, and invited him to visit her at West Kunlun Peak.
• Yang Huai and several spirit beasts secretly listened to the Daoists discuss ancient divine cultivation methods and qi-refining methods.
• Yang Huai asked about White Tigers, and Xuan Pin agreed to bring him a White Tiger true-form painting from West Kunlun.
• Three days later, Yang Huai reached great mastery in the Azure Dragon Everlasting Spring Art and demonstrated its powers before the temple master told him not to show off.
• The Azure Luan Divine Bird returned and kept bringing phoenix feathers to build a nest on Yang Huai.

Yang Huai’s advice helped the lonely temple mistress gain enlightenment and advance her cultivation, after which he intimidated the Jade Rabbit into offering the Taiyin Lunar Phase Art. He continued refining his path as a primordial spirit vine, then mastered the Azure Dragon Everlasting Spring Art in West Extension City.

• The temple mistress recalled her childhood with her elder sister and her loneliness after her sister married, while Yang Huai and the Jade Rabbit offered to keep her company.
• Yang Huai’s words about the moon’s waxing and waning helped the temple mistress let go of her attachment, gain enlightenment, and enter seclusion after her cultivation advanced.
• Yang Huai threatened the Jade Rabbit with a spar, but let it go when it offered to teach him the Taiyin Lunar Phase Art.
• Yang Huai reflected on the ancient gods’ path and decided to pursue the primordial sacred spirit Dao embryo body while continuing to comprehend the Heavenly Gate Golden Chapter.
• In West Extension City, Yang Huai cultivated through a storm, manifested an Azure Dragon, and reached great mastery in the Azure Dragon Everlasting Spring Art.

Yang Huai killed Firecloud Immortal and his Void Spirit Sect companions after they attacked him in West Extension City, then learned from Jiang Rongyue about the All-Spirits Ranking’s secret realm. Jiang Rongyue revealed that the Profound Mystery Sect’s Patriarch had once received an immortal edict there.

• Firecloud Immortal and the Void Spirit Sect disciples detected dragon auras near West Extension City and flew there to hunt what they believed were flood dragons.
• Firecloud Immortal burned down Yang Huai’s rented home while demanding that he come out, and Yang Huai extinguished the surrounding fires after breaking the attack.
• Firecloud Immortal attacked Yang Huai with the Seven-Extremes Dragon-Soul Sword, but Yang Huai destroyed the sword, killed Firecloud Immortal, and struck down the fleeing disciples.
• Jiang Rongyue warned Yang Huai that Five-Cloud Patriarch was powerful, and Yang Huai and Jiang Rongyue left after compensating the elderly couple for the ruined home.
• Jiang Rongyue explained how the All-Spirits Ranking led to a secret realm and described its rare inheritances; she revealed that their Patriarch had once received an immortal edict there.

Yang Huai returned to the Profound Mystery Sect, demonstrated his rapid mastery of the Azure Dragon Everlasting Spring Art, and gained access to the Phoenix Nirvana Treasure Canon. After nearly two months of cultivation, he broke through to Dan Qi and considered strengthening his cultivation further before attempting the All-Spirits Ranking.

• Jiang Rongyue and Yang Huai returned to the Profound Mystery Sect after Yang Huai achieved his cultivation goal ahead of schedule.
• Yang Huai showed Daoist Guangrong his Azure Dragon Origin Pearl and explained how it had helped him master the Azure Dragon Everlasting Spring Art.
• Daoist Guangrong secured Shao Lingzong's approval for Yang Huai to study the Phoenix Nirvana Treasure Canon.
• Yang Huai cultivated in the Ink Bamboo Grove for nearly two months and broke through to the Dan Qi realm.
• Yang Huai considered cultivating the Phoenix Nirvana Treasure Canon and completing the second layer of the Pure Origin Dharma Body before entering the All-Spirits Ranking.

Yang Huai sparred with Jiang Rongyue, revealing that his swordsmanship and hidden strength could rival hers despite his brief cultivation. The fight ended with Yang Huai appearing at her throat through Unity of Man and Sword, leaving Jiang Rongyue unable to raise her sword.

• Yang Huai practiced the Phoenix Nirvana Treasure Canon, and Daoist Guangrong praised his progress before Jiang Rongyue arrived and challenged him.
• Yang Huai asked Jiang Rongyue to suppress her mana to the Dan Qi realm, and the two began sparring with their swords near Ink Bamboo Grove.
• Yang Huai used his Azure Dragon and White Tiger sword arts to pressure Jiang Rongyue, who unleashed her Pure Origin Dharma Body and phoenix true fire.
• Yang Huai activated his Geng Metal Dharma Body and countered Jiang Rongyue's nine-colored light with a powerful sword technique.
• Jiang Rongyue deployed red flying needles and Blazing Phoenix Banners, but Yang Huai broke through the formation with a lightning sword beam and appeared at her neck through Unity of Man and Sword.

Yang Huai defeated Jiang Rongyue in a swordsmanship match, trained under Daoist Guangrong, and received the Taiji Golden Ring before continuing his cultivation on Kunlun Mountain. Meanwhile, the Moon Palace goddess confronted Bifang and Shangyang and revealed enough power to suppress both Heavenly Emperor attendants.

• Yang Huai defeated Jiang Rongyue in their match, though he insisted she had not truly lost.
• Daoist Guangrong told Yang Huai to delay entering the Spirit Realm Grotto-Heaven and personally trained him for a month.
• Daoist Guangrong gave Yang Huai the Taiji Golden Ring and Treasure Refining Secret Arts, and Yang Huai began refining the treasure.
• The Azure Luan Divine Bird explained that mastering the Phoenix True Form required understanding the phoenix’s resolve to undergo nirvana.
• Bifang and Shangyang searched Kunlun Mountain for the Moon Palace goddess, who confronted them and unleashed lunar power that suppressed them both.

Yang Huai accepted the temple master's invitation to ascend to the Heavenly Realm and received the Grand Lunar Form-Refining Art to prepare for taking form. At the temple master's farewell banquet, Xuan Pin brought him a young White Tiger, helping him complete the White Tiger Spirit Sword Art, and he gave her alchemy and military texts for the human race.

• The temple master returned to the hillside with two frozen one-legged birds, then spent half a month in the Daoist temple while Yang Huai continued cultivating his Phoenix True Form.
• The temple master invited Yang Huai to follow her to the Heavenly Realm and gave him a Lunar Osmanthus Seed and the Grand Lunar Form-Refining Art to help him take form.
• The Golden Toad asked to follow the temple master, and the Azure Luan Divine Bird offered to serve her; the temple master accepted them and asked the Azure Luan to gather strange fruits for her farewell banquet.
• Many guests, including ancient gods, arrived at the Daoist temple for the temple master's final gathering, where Xuan Pin presented Yang Huai with a young White Tiger.
• Seeing the White Tiger completed Yang Huai's White Tiger Spirit Sword Art, and he thanked Xuan Pin by giving her jade slips containing an external alchemy inheritance and military treatises.

Yang Huai completed his transformation into an Innate Sacred Spirit Dao Embryo and gained a life-bound treasure before leaving the lower realm. Chang Xi returned to the heavens with the spirit beasts as a celestial figure called her back, while Yang Huai faced a choice about fusing his new fate with his sword fate.

• Xuan Pin gave Yang Huai the Western Metal Body Refining Scripture, and he set it aside to focus on the Grand Lunar Form-Refining Art.
• Chang Xi used her divine power to help the Primordial Profound Metal Spirit Vine endure its transformation tribulation, and Yang Huai emerged with a metal-and-wood Innate Sacred Spirit Dao Embryo.
• Chang Xi refined Yang Huai's discarded vine body into a life-bound black-gold rope and gave it to him as a potential dharma treasure.
• A celestial figure summoned Chang Xi back to heaven, and she erased her Daoist temple before ascending with the green vine, Golden Toad, and Azure Luan.
• Yang Huai returned to his courtyard, where a prompt asked whether to fuse his Innate Metal Spirit Fate with his Innate Sword Bone Fate despite a conflict with his Dao body.

Yang Huai used his Essence Origin Points to fix and fuse his golden sword fate, then continued planning how to develop his Dharma Body and obtain innate Geng Metal origin power. Eight days later, the fusion transformed his fate into Peerless Sword Immortal and awakened new sword insights.

• Yang Huai gained Essence Origin Points for fulfilling Green Vine's wishes and spreading alchemy and military strategy, then spent points to fix the Innate Golden Spirit Fate and God Descends to the Mortal World.
• At the Profound Mystery Sect, Yang Huai considered pursuing the sword Dao and forging an Innate Golden God Dharma Body, while Zhang Qingning and Luo Xiang reflected on their own cultivation.
• Yang Huai annotated an ancient stele in the lecture hall and received a Top Grade A assessment.
• Eight days later, the Bronze Mirror absorbed the essence of the Innate Sacred Spirit Dao Embryo Body as Yang Huai's Innate Sword Bone Fate fused with the Innate Golden Spirit Fate.
• The fused fate became Peerless Sword Immortal, strengthening Yang Huai's sword insight and transforming his second innate divine ability into the Innate Golden Spirit Dharma Body.

Yang Huai’s Peerless Sword Immortal Destiny transformed his physique and helped him master several sword arts as he prepared to challenge the All-Spirits Ranking. After receiving Everday Peak’s scripture and the sect’s spirit-ascension ritual, he entered the Spirit Realm Grotto-Heaven, leaving the elders waiting to see how high he would rank.

• Yang Huai practiced sword arts through the night, reached great mastery in several techniques, and completed the second level of the Pure Origin Dharma Body over the next half month.
• Yang Huai asked Daoist Guangrong to cultivate Everday Peak’s Myriad Mysteries Return-to-Origin Scripture, and Daoist Guangrong agreed to arrange an inheritance ceremony.
• Yang Huai received the scripture from Daoist Chaohe and Sect Master Shao Lingzong, who then prepared the ritual for his entry into the Spirit Realm Grotto-Heaven.
• Yang Huai stepped onto the altar before Phoenix Hall as Shao Lingzong activated its formation, and the Spirit Realm Token sent him into the grotto-heaven.
• Jiang Yuexin, Jiang Rongyue, Daoist Guangrong, Shao Lingzong, and the elders watched the heavens and discussed the rank Yang Huai might achieve on the All-Spirits Ranking.

Yang Huai entered the Void Spirit Realm Tower to challenge the All-Spirits Ranking and collect Spirit Realm tokens for innate golden-spirit origin energy. He cleared four stages, defeated increasingly powerful guardians, and ended the chapter with seven tokens.

• Youguang explained the tower's rules, confirmed that innate golden-spirit origin energy was available for five tokens, and opened the entrance for Yang Huai.
• Yang Huai killed Wu Man on the first floor with a single sword strike and continued into the second stage.
• Yang Huai killed Wu Man again on the second and third stages, collecting one token from the second stage and two from the third.
• Wu Man reappeared in a room deep within the tower and raged against the rules that kept him trapped there.
• Yang Huai defeated Purple Demon on the fourth stage with his Junting Ancient Sword and collected four tokens, bringing his total to seven.

Yang Huai defeated Purple Demon in the fifth and sixth stages, overcoming his Dharma treasures and second-layer Dharma Body with the Junting Ancient Sword and his own Innate Metal-Phase Sacred Spirit Dao Embryo Sword Body. He collected enough Spirit Realm tokens to evolve his original body, leaving him poised to strengthen his foundation further.

• Yang Huai used his Innate Golden Spirit form and three-colored sword qi to defeat Purple Demon in the fifth stage, winning eight Spirit Realm tokens.
• Yang Huai decided to press on through the sixth stage before considering how to cultivate his Innate Golden Spirit Dao Embryo Sword Body.
• Purple Demon attacked Yang Huai with the Heart-Demon Banner, but Yang Huai resisted its influence and struck him with the Taiji Golden Ring.
• Yang Huai activated the second layer of the Pure Origin Dharma Body and fought Purple Demon’s Spirit Official Emperor form in the cramped tomb.
• Yang Huai adapted to his giant form, overwhelmed Purple Demon with sword qi, and defeated him after a prolonged battle.
• Yang Huai collected sixteen more Spirit Realm tokens, giving him enough to exchange for at least six streams of Innate Golden Spirit Origin Qi.

Yang Huai absorbed Innate Golden Spirit Origin Qi to form his Innate Golden Spirit Dao Embryo Sword Body, gaining the ability to command golden spirits. He challenged the seventh stage and faced True Lord Fuhuo, whose powerful formations and attacks Yang Huai endured before their forces collided.

• Yang Huai exchanged thirty Spirit Realm tokens with Youguang Fairy for six strands of Innate Golden Spirit Origin Qi.
• Yang Huai absorbed five jade bottles of the Origin Qi and formed his Innate Golden Spirit Dao Embryo Sword Body, gaining the Command Golden Spirits divine ability.
• Yang Huai left the side hall and entered the seventh stage, where True Lord Fuhuo ambushed him with an Earthfire Linked-Ring Formation.
• Yang Huai survived the baleful earthfire and broke through True Lord Fuhuo’s five-colored divine lightning net using the Taiji Golden Ring.
• True Lord Fuhuo attacked Yang Huai with a Five-Spirit Giant Palm, and Yang Huai countered with Junting and his giant Dharma Body.

Yang Huai defeated True Lord Fuhuo in the seventh trial and spent tokens on the Wishful Fire-Calming Pearl before entering the eighth. He survived True Lord Fuhuo’s Scarlet Fire Divine Flame, leaving the new battle poised to continue.

• Yang Huai used peach talismans, the Taiji Golden Ring, and the Rune Earth Lock to trap True Lord Fuhuo, then pierced his glabella and passed the seventh trial.
• Yang Huai chose the Wishful Fire-Calming Pearl over cultivation treasures and other magic treasures, spending twenty-five Spirit Realm Tokens.
• Youguang Fairy told Wu Man and Purple Demon that Yang Huai had chosen the pearl, and they realized it could counter the flames of the eighth trial.
• Yang Huai entered the eighth trial and faced True Lord Fuhuo amid a volcanic landscape as the guardian unleashed the Scarlet Fire Divine Flame.
• Yang Huai emerged unharmed behind the Wishful Fire-Calming Pearl’s icy radiance, and True Lord Fuhuo recognized his choice.