Chapter Summaries

Yang Huai completed the third level of the Pure Origin Dharma Body and traveled with Jiang Yuexin and Jiang Rongyue to the White Jade Mountain Gathering. After Yan Ying claimed the first prize without fighting, Daoist Guangrong urged Yang Huai to compete for the next one, the Grand Origin Treasure Seal.

• Yang Huai manifested the Innate Golden God Body and considered how its power would strengthen him in battle.
• Yang Huai rode Gaga to the White Jade Mountain Gathering with Jiang Yuexin and Jiang Rongyue, where they found Li Hong and Fang Ge at a contest.
• Yan Ying challenged Li Hong for a Heart-Calming Pendant, and Li Hong yielded it to him.
• Jiang Rongyue told Yang Huai that Yan Ying was one of the Pure Origin Sect's five Dao Sons and described another Dao Son who had mastered the Six Divine Beasts Secret Art.
• Fairy Guangzhen offered her Grand Origin Treasure Seal as the next prize, and Daoist Guangrong told Yang Huai to compete for it because it held a stroke of fortune.

Yang Huai defeated Yan Ying to claim the Grand Origin Treasure Seal, revealing his third-level Innate Golden God Body. When the Ninefold Sword Stele was reopened, Yang Huai sensed that the ancient sword it became had a sword spirit calling to him for help.

• Yan Ying challenged Yang Huai for the Grand Origin Treasure Seal, and Fang Ge allowed them to compete for it.
• Yang Huai manifested his Innate Golden God Body and crushed Yan Ying’s attack, forcing him to yield.
• Fang Ge awarded the Grand Origin Treasure Seal to Yang Huai after no one else stepped forward to challenge him.
• Daoist Guangrong warned Yang Huai that he had exposed a trump card, but Yang Huai said winning the seal had spared them further trouble.
• Master Jiufang and the elders reopened the Ninefold Sword Stele, which transformed into a nine-colored ancient sword covered in golden script.
• Yang Huai sensed that the stele’s ancient sword spirit was calling to him for help.

Yang Huai comprehended the Chonghua Sect’s Twelve Heavens Mind-Image Sword Art while the Pure Origin Sect attacked the Ninefold Sword Stele to destroy the imprisoned Spirit Demon Emperor. The demon escaped the collapsing seal as a wisp of black qi and invaded Yang Huai’s sea of consciousness, demanding his body.

• Yang Huai ignored the sword spirit’s request to open his sea of consciousness, while Dao Ningzi told him to steady his mind and taught him a talisman and secret incantation.
• The Ninefold Sword Stele revealed twelve sword-intent inheritances, and Yang Huai rapidly comprehended them, forming the Chonghua Orb above his head.
• Master Jiufang and the Pure Origin Sect elders used their sword formation and the Violet Palace Divine Flame to attack the Spirit Demon Emperor inside the Ninefold Sword Stele.
• The Spirit Demon Emperor’s attack was drawn into Master Jiufang’s golden cauldron, but the divine fire blasted a fissure in the formation as the sword prison collapsed.
• A wisp of the Spirit Demon Emperor’s black qi escaped and entered Yang Huai’s heart and sea of consciousness, demanding his body.

Yang Huai trapped the Spirit Demon Emperor’s remnant soul and, with the Pure Origin Sect’s help, refined it into spiritual nourishment while receiving a wisp of Violet Palace Divine Flame. After the sect claimed the Ninefold Sword Stele and prepared to leave, Yang Huai awoke stronger, with the mysteries of the Mysterious Heaven Golden Register becoming clearer.

• Yang Huai used a true talisman and secret incantation to trap the Spirit Demon Emperor’s remnant soul inside a golden cauldron.
• Jiu Fang, Dao Ningzi, and Zhao Zhenwu joined forces to seal the remnant soul, and the Violet Palace Divine Flame refined it within Yang Huai’s sea of consciousness.
• Yang Huai concealed his soul from the Spirit Demon Emperor, then refined the spiritual energy left behind into his own cultivation.
• Jiu Fang left a spark of Violet Palace Divine Flame in Yang Huai’s sea of consciousness, where his Sui Sovereign Lamp received it and burned away stray thoughts.
• Jiu Fang claimed the Ninefold Sword Stele’s ancient sword and bestowed it upon Fang Ge as the Pure Origin Sect prepared to return to Longmen Mountain.
• Yang Huai awoke after refining the spiritual nourishment, finding his life essence and magic power greatly increased.

Yang Huai returned to Huangshan County to visit his parents, then went back to the Five Luminaries Tribe and investigated who could control evil entities. After learning no nearby practitioner was known for such arts, he began planning to sell evil-suppressing artifacts and asked whether First-Yang Mountain was near Sun Luminary Valley.

• Yang Huai stored the Purple Mansion divine fire and reviewed the Twelve Heavens Mind-Image Sword Art before flying to Huangshan County to spend time with his parents and Yang Huan.
• Yang Huai asked the High Priest whether anyone could control evil entities, and the High Priest warned that such arts were dangerous and said the Five Luminaries Tribe had no practitioner of them.
• Yang Huai met Jin Xin, sensed hostility from his elder brother, and considered whether Jin Xin might be connected to the hidden threat.
• Jin Zheng reported that the wooden evil-suppressing artifacts had protected his hunting party, and Yang Huai planned to reward warriors and build a trade in the artifacts.
• Yang Huai learned Huo Du had been searching for qi refiners and asked whether First-Yang Mountain was near Sun Luminary Valley.

Yang Huai won the Five Luminaries Demon God's support for distributing and selling his evil-suppressing wood carvings, then built a grand King Sui Sacred Hall that drew a manifestation of Sui Ren's will. The clanspeople acclaimed Yang Huai as the Craftsman God and agreed to learn his craft, while the acclaim transformed his fate pattern and strengthened his path toward godhood.

• Yang Huai gained the Five Luminaries Demon God's approval to reward tribal warriors with wood carvings and sell them to nearby tribes.
• Yang Huai proposed building a King Sui Sacred Hall, and the Five Luminaries Demon God ordered the tribe to construct it on a grand scale.
• Yang Huai carved the hall and its statue of King Sui, and the Five Luminaries Demon God and the clanspeople bowed before the finished shrine.
• Sui Ren's will manifested as tens of thousands of clanspeople paid homage, leading the High Priest to declare the Five Luminaries Tribe the orthodox successor.
• Sui Yun called Yang Huai the Craftsman God, and the clanspeople's acclaim changed Yang Huai's fate pattern as they agreed to learn his art.

Yang Huai trained apprentices in the Suiren Spirit Form Visualization Method and learned from Princess Xingya about the heavens and their rulers. After Jin Zheng found a Black Warrior in Moonshaped Valley, Yang Huai attacked the divine beast with his Twelve Heavens Mind-Image Sword Art.

• Yang Huai taught selected children and young people carpentry and the Suiren Spirit Form Visualization Method as part of his God-Making Project.
• Princess Xingya visited Yang Huai, praised his newly built hall, and explained that the Heavenly Emperor and Heavenly Empress ruled the many Sun and Moon Gods, while tyrants fostered evil beings.
• Jin Zheng reported finding a Black Warrior in Moonshaped Valley, so Yang Huai assembled a hunting party and Princess Xingya followed them.
• Yang Huai and the others waited in hiding until the Black Warrior surfaced, then Yang Huai disappeared from the riverbank to draw its attention.
• Yang Huai struck the Black Warrior's eyes and soul with the Twelve Heavens Mind-Image Sword Art, heavily wounding it despite its protective shell.

Yang Huai defeated and subdued the Black Warrior, then followed Princess Xingya to Eastern Mountain, where her attendants captured a Lunar True Dragon and recovered valuable treasures. After Princess Xingya gave the treasures to Yang Huai, she asked where he had obtained his powerful metal-cultivation secret art.

• Yang Huai used the Twelve Heavens Mind-Image Sword Art to defeat the Black Warrior and made it submit by planting a mark in its water-and-fire pill pearls.
• The Black Warrior offered to lead Yang Huai and Princess Xingya to Eastern Mountain, where an ice silkworm had taken over its former cultivation ground.
• Princess Xingya sent her two attendants into the cave, where they discovered and captured a Lunar True Dragon despite the Black Warrior's claim that only an ice silkworm lived there.
• The attendants recovered a ten-thousand-year pure-yang warm jade and several precious medicinal herbs, which Princess Xingya gave to Yang Huai.
• Princess Xingya questioned Yang Huai about the origin of the secret art he used to cultivate innate metal spirit.

Yang Huai used a claim of Western Kunlun’s backing to deflect Princess Xingya’s questions, then cultivated with the Pure Yang treasures he had obtained. Daoist Guangrong later revealed a mission to enter the Six Harmonies Immortal Abode, leaving Yang Huai wondering how he should face Azure Heaven Orthodox Path cultivators there.

• Yang Huai claimed that a high god from Western Kunlun had taught him the Western Metal Body Refining Scripture, and Princess Xingya departed with her attendants after testing him.
• Yang Huai refined a Pure Yang Ganoderma to strengthen his Innate Golden God Body and gave the Emerald Jade Heart to the Five Luminaries Demon God.
• Yang Huai advanced his cultivation at Spirit-Fusion Peak while Daoist Guangrong met Daoist Guangzhen, who revealed that she had used the Grand Origin Treasure Seal to identify who held a key to an immortal abode.
• Daoist Guangrong took an emerald jade token from the Grand Origin Treasure Seal, returned the seal to Yang Huai, and explained that the token was a key to the Six Harmonies Immortal Abode.
• Daoist Guangrong told Yang Huai that he and Daoist Guangzhen planned to send him and other sect Dao heirs into the abode in half a year, and Yang Huai asked what to do if they met Azure Heaven Orthodox Path cultivators.

Yang Huai learned that the Dao Alliance planned to strike at sects pursuing forbidden arts, and Daoist Guangrong tasked him with obtaining the Six Harmonies Celestial Star from the Six Harmonies Immortal Abode. Sent to Red Flower Shoal to study formations, Yang Huai settled in and spent the next month absorbed in his books, leaving the female disciples convinced he was a Dao fanatic.

• Daoist Guangrong told Yang Huai about the forbidden treasures and arts associated with the Azure Heaven Orthodox Path, then identified the Six Harmonies Celestial Star as his main target in the immortal abode.
• Daoist Guangrong sent Yang Huai to Red Flower Shoal to study formations under Daoist Guangzhen, who was in seclusion.
• Cheng Muxian welcomed Yang Huai, introduced him to Liu Nansong, and showed him the quarters prepared for him.
• Yang Huai asked permission to keep his white crane Gaga on the mountain, and Cheng Muxian agreed as long as it did not disturb cultivation.
• Yang Huai studied three books on formations, divination, and immortal abodes, then stayed indoors reading for more than a month.

Yang Huai endured the first stages of refining his divine soul, then left seclusion and spent time with Princess Xingya as she weighed whether to marry him into the Roushou Tribe. The chapter ended with Yang Huai asking what identity she meant when she suggested he join her tribe.

• Yang Huai completed his Innate Golden God Body and began refining his divine soul, drawing innate metal spirit origin qi while Princess Xingya sensed Metal God Roushou’s divine power.
• Princess Xingya considered the two choices her Father God had offered: follow the original plan or marry Jin Chong into the Roushou Tribe.
• Yang Huai endured the soul-tempering flames, used the Innate Pure Yang Warm Jade to ease his pain, and left seclusion rather than risk damaging his foundation.
• Yang Huai invited Princess Xingya for a walk, made her a wreath and bouquet, and spoke of his hope that his people would one day live freely across the land.
• Princess Xingya asked whether Yang Huai would join the Roushou Tribe, and hinted that she meant as her husband; Yang Huai asked what his current identity was.

Yang Huai secured Princess Xingya’s promise of marriage and learned that the Roushou Tribe planned to risk his life to retrieve a treasure. He then confronted Jin Chen, whose demonic secret art was exposed before Yang Huai killed him.

• Princess Xingya asked whether Yang Huai would accept a dangerous role in helping the Roushou Tribe retrieve a treasure, and he agreed to consider it in exchange for the tribe’s support.
• Princess Xingya invited Yang Huai to cultivate the Innate Golden God Body in the Roushou Tribe’s secret ground the next day.
• Yang Huai ordered Jin Zheng to demolish Jin Chen’s sleeping hall and attacked Jin Chen when he emerged.
• Yang Huai accused Jin Chen of plotting against him and pierced his Heavenly Dipper Blood Body with the Heavenly Dipper Five-Element Fist.
• Jin Chen revealed his demonic form and tried to flee, then attacked Yang Huai with fused Yin demons and evil entities.
• Yang Huai used metal spirit authority and sacred golden flames to destroy Jin Chen’s evil body and kill him.

Yang Huai’s other self was sent to the Roushou Tribe after Jin Chen’s death, while his main self discovered that his fate had advanced to purple. At Fortune Mountain, he demonstrated his swordsmanship and learned Qimen techniques from Cheng Muxian, ending the day at ease among the disciples.

• The Five Luminaries Demon God condemned Jin Chen’s forbidden practices, stripped his descendants and wives of the Jin surname, and told Yang Huai he would live permanently in the Roushou Tribe.
• Yang Huai asked about his betrothal gifts, ordered Jin Zheng and the other warriors to accompany him, and returned to his stone hall to test his Innate Golden God Body.
• At Fortune Mountain, Yang Huai saw that his main fate had become the purple Wilds Craftsman God after completing the obsession mission.
• Cheng Muxian challenged Yang Huai to assess her Peach-Talisman Sword Art, and he demonstrated its principles while identifying flaws in her technique.
• Yang Huai helped Cheng Muxian refine her sword arts and broke her arrays, improving his understanding of Qimen Dunjia as they exchanged knowledge.
• Cheng Muxian prepared a meal for Yang Huai, who grew more familiar with the female disciples and enjoyed a rare day of relaxation.

Yang Huai left the Five Luminaries Tribe with Princess Xingya and arrived at the powerful Roushou Tribe to begin cultivating. He entered Golden Source Cave, where he had one hundred days to strengthen his divine soul before joining Xingya in a secret land.

• Guangzhen Immortal Maiden worried over the uncertain Six Harmonies Immortal Abode journey and considered seeking help and preparing Dharma treasures.
• Jinyao welcomed Princess Xingya’s delegation, entrusted Jin Chong to her care, and gave him two jade boxes before Yang Huai departed with her.
• Yang Huai and his companions saw the Roushou Tribe’s vast territory and formidable divine forces as they traveled there with Princess Xingya.
• Princess Xingya sent Yang Huai to Golden Source Cave to cultivate for one hundred days, warning him to strengthen his divine soul for the danger ahead.
• Yang Huai entered a chamber saturated with innate metal spirit origin and began his cultivation.

Yang Huai cultivated a divine soul and transformed into a True God within the Golden Source Cave Palace. His breakthrough revealed an Innate Metal-Spirit Origin Spiritual Embryo, which he subdued with his Six Divine-Powers Origin Sword Array.

• Princess Xingya told her divine attendants to guard the Golden Source Cave Palace and let Jin Chong cultivate undisturbed.
• Yang Huai cultivated in an Innate Metal-Spirit Origin Divine Pool, using the Innate Pure Yang Warm Jade to heal his soul as it fused with divinity.
• Yang Huai studied Jinyao's Soul-Hosting Stone and Mystic Womb Soul-Transference Great Method, deciding to cultivate the escape technique after forming his divine soul and True God body.
• After two months, Yang Huai formed a divine soul and an Innate Golden God Body, gaining power over the Metal Spirit and demonstrating his strength with the Heavenly Dipper Five-Element Fist.
• Yang Huai's strike revealed a hidden Innate Metal-Spirit Origin Spiritual Embryo shaped like a golden halberd, and he seized it after trapping it with his Six Divine-Powers Origin Sword Array.

Yang Huai completed his Divine True cultivation and explored the Roushou Tribe with Princess Xingya before they were sent to seek a lost treasure. They arrived at a Celestial Realm Star Lord’s lair, where Xingya revealed that their target was the Pangu Bow.

• Yang Huai emerged from Golden Source Cave after refining his golden ge and cultivating Divine True-level secret arts, and Princess Xingya congratulated him on his breakthrough.
• Princess Xingya gave Yang Huai her dowry to keep, then showed him the Roushou Tribe’s Slaughter Hall and its Nether Soul-Slaughter Banners.
• Yang Huai asked about First-Yang Mountain and Xuandu, then visited Jin Zheng and the others assigned to Xingya’s reserve guard unit.
• Six elders transported Yang Huai and Princess Xingya to a mountain range, warning them to find a lost treasure within three days before its Celestial Realm Star Lord returned.
• At the Star Lord’s lair, Princess Xingya told Yang Huai that they were searching for the Pangu Bow, a bow said to contain the ancestral god’s legacy.

Yang Huai and Princess Xingya failed to find the Pangu Bow in the Dark Ancient Earth Cavern, then returned to the Roushou Tribe, where Jin Chong was used in a ritual that purified three stars but cost him his life. Back at Fortune Mountain, Yang Huai learned Jin Chong might yet return and fused the Three Stars Illuminating the Body destiny without fixing it permanently.

• Princess Xingya led Yang Huai into the Dark Ancient Earth Cavern to search for the Pangu Bow, but the deadly cold forced them to retreat without finding it.
• A two-headed dire wolf arrived after their departure, detected intruders, and froze the surrounding mountains while searching for them.
• The Roushou Tribe's elders told Yang Huai to prepare for a ritual, and he asked Princess Xingya to protect the clan's disciples and release his three spirit beasts if he died.
• Three days later, the ritual purified three blood-red stars, but Jin Chong did not emerge from the palace, and Princess Xingya realized he was gone.
• Yang Huai returned to Fortune Mountain and revealed that he had used a Soul-Hosting Stone to leave Jin Chong a chance of returning in the distant future.
• Yang Huai gained 1,700 essence points and fused the Three Stars Illuminating the Body destiny as a temporary destiny, beginning a ninety-six-hour fusion countdown.

Yang Huai reentered the All-Spirits Ranking trials, hoping the ranking’s Dao mysteries could suppress the ominous curse in his destiny. He defeated the guardians through the eighth trial and entered the ninth, determined to overcome the challenge that had stopped him before.

• Yang Huai asked Daoist Guangrong about fortune-suppressing treasures, and Daoist Guangrong suggested seeking mysteries within the All-Spirits Ranking.
• Yang Huai entered the Spirit Realm Grotto-Heaven again, where Youguang Fairy directed him to the trial tower.
• Yang Huai effortlessly defeated the guardians in the first five trials and overcame the powerful green-clad fairy in the sixth.
• Yang Huai used his Six-God sword arts to defeat True Lord Fuhuo in the seventh trial.
• Yang Huai endured True Lord Fuhuo’s Scarlet Fire Divine Flame, defeated him in the eighth trial, and stepped into the ninth.

Yang Huai defeated True Lord Fuhuo at the ninth gate of the Void Spirit Realm Tower, then entered the tenth gate but withdrew after finding its gatekeeper beyond his strength. Outside the tower, Yang Huai rose to third place on the All-Spirits Ranking and received a surge of Dao attainment, while a Pure Origin Sect figure saw his own attainment sharply diminish.

• True Lord Fuhuo attacked Yang Huai with the Five-Fire Divine Banner and starfire formations, but Yang Huai broke through them with Junting, the Taiji Golden Ring, and the Grand Origin Treasure Seal.
• Yang Huai and True Lord Fuhuo fought for over an hour as Yang Huai refined his swordsmanship and True Lord Fuhuo relied on his Scarlet Fire Primordial Unity Art to withstand his attacks.
• Yang Huai battered True Lord Fuhuo, shattered the Fire God mark between his brows, and pierced his skull with Junting, defeating him at the ninth gate.
• Yang Huai received healing light, entered the passage to the tenth gate, and later withdrew because he could not defeat its Primordial Spirit realm gatekeeper.
• Yang Huai's name rose to third place on the All-Spirits Ranking, and he received a large amount of Dao attainment and fortune.
• A figure inside the Pure Origin Sect discovered that his Dao attainment had fallen by nearly half and his ranking had dropped.

Yang Huai upgraded his [God Descends to the Mortal World] Destiny and used a new Dao achievement to transform [Peerless Sword Immortal] into a purple Destiny. After two months of cultivating at Red Flower Shoal, he was summoned to Longmen Mountain Immortal Abode as the Six Harmonies Immortal Abode was about to open.

• A Pure Origin Sect Dao Child and Senior Brother Feng discovered that their Dao rankings had fallen and resolved to reclaim them.
• Yang Huai received the temporary [Three Stars Illuminating the Body Destiny] as an auxiliary Destiny and upgraded [God Descends to the Mortal World] to gold.
• Yang Huai chose to merge his new Dao achievement into [Peerless Sword Immortal], transforming it into a purple Destiny and unleashing a sword phenomenon across the region.
• Dao Ningzi concealed the phenomenon with the Cosmic Treasure Mirror and summoned his junior sisters and junior brothers to the Dragon Gate Immortal Abode.
• Yang Huai spent two months cultivating at Red Flower Shoal before Guangzhen Immortal Maiden called him to Longmen Mountain Immortal Abode to meet the other two disciples and hear Dao Ningzi's instructions.