Chapter Summaries

Yang Huai revealed that he had already cultivated an Earth Immortal body, while learning more about Yuan Xiuxiu’s past and her ties to the Azure Heaven Orthodox Path. As he continued studying the ancient stele in the Heavenly River, he awakened its mysteries and sensed a strange voice within the Nine Heavens Weak Water.

• Winged Tiger told Yang Huai that Yuan Xiuxiu had obtained the Nine-Leaf Nine-Branch Wish-Fulfilling Snow Spirit Ganoderma from the Dachang ancestral lands and had been injured, and warned him not to challenge the Dao Lord Emperor.
• Yang Huai learned that Yuan Xiuxiu had deep ties to the Azure Heaven Orthodox Path, agreed to wait until he was stronger before meeting her, and asked Winged Tiger to bring him future opportunities for Earth Immortals.
• Winged Tiger reported that the Origin-Returning Sect had been nearly destroyed and that Yang Huai had refused to help open a ruin because he had already cultivated an Earth Immortal body; Yuan Xiuxiu was pleased and ordered the ruin’s treasures kept from him.
• Yang Huai comprehended part of the ancient stele’s power, forming the Lunar Star and Solar Star in his sea of consciousness and changing his five elemental stars.
• The Nine Heavens Weak Water suddenly churned, and Yang Huai sensed a gentle voice that seemed to come from within it.

Yang Huai studied the ancient stele in the Heavenly River, received a powerful sword from the Eldest Princess, and developed a Sea-Calming Divine Ability. As he left, he encountered a grieving woman whose presence stirred the river before she vanished.

• The Eldest Princess tried to strike the ancient stele, but Yang Huai persuaded her to study it and she gave him a rust-covered sword.
• Yang Huai cooked a hotpot beside the Heavenly River, and the Eldest Princess delighted in the unfamiliar meal.
• Yang Huai continued comprehending the stele and advanced his Nine Luminaries Star Canon, nearing completion of its sixth level.
• Yang Huai used the stele’s insights into space, yin-yang, and the five elements to create the Sea-Calming Divine Ability.
• Yang Huai saw a grieving woman by the river and tried to leave, but a swelling torrent stopped him before the river receded and the woman disappeared.

Yang Huai befriended the Heavenly River Spirit, named her Plain Maiden, and received Weak Water Radiance that let him safely enter the Heavenly River and recover star cores. Meanwhile, Di Jun and Empress Xihe discussed their plans for the gods and Chang Xi, and Di Jun prepared to have the Golden Crow princes claim authority over time.

• Yang Huai taught the little loli how to make hotpot and gave her the prepared meal to take home.
• Yang Huai named the Heavenly River Spirit Plain Maiden, and she rewarded him with Weak Water Radiance before returning to the Heavenly River.
• Yang Huai refined the Weak Water Radiance, entered the poisonous river unharmed, and recovered several star cores.
• At the Solar Palace, the little loli and the Golden Crow princes ate hotpot while a prince complained about the vegetables.
• Empress Xihe told Di Jun she would handle driving a wedge between the gods of the earth, and Di Jun worried about finding Chang Xi after her reincarnation.
• Di Jun planned for the ten Golden Crow princes to take turns presiding over the heavenly seasons and claim a share of temporal authority.

Yang Huai broke through to the sixth level of the Nine Luminaries Star Canon, mastered the Earth Evil Sword, and sparred with the Lunar princess. The appearance of ten suns revealed that her ten elder brothers had become Solar Gods and were about to oversee the Solar Star.

• Yang Huai reached the sixth level of the Nine Luminaries Star Canon, dispersed the heavenly lightning, and absorbed it into the Earth Evil Sword.
• Yang Huai planned to integrate the Pure Origin Myriad Wonders Six-God Sword Formula with his cultivation before returning to safeguard his true body's breakthrough.
• The Lunar princess challenged Jia Chen to a spar, but Yang Huai matched her techniques and used his Sea-Calming divine ability to knock her back.
• The Lunar princess admitted defeat, and Yang Huai reassured her that she could overcome her close-combat weakness with more experience.
• Ten suns appeared above the Heavenly Realm, and the Lunar princess said her ten elder brothers had been invested as Solar Gods by Father God.

Yang Huai continued honing his Nine Stars Return to Origin sword arts and studying the Milky River stele, while helping Plain Maiden seek control over her overflowing spirituality. He asked her to imagine how she might survive if the Milky River fell into the mortal world, then returned to Spirit-Fusion Peak, where his six divine beasts fused into the Nine-Light Star Wheel.

• Yang Huai defeated a Heavenly God celestial general and then a Heavenly God demon god in the Heavenly River Arena, drawing the admiration of the watching Tai Sui Grand Dukes.
• Yang Huai used nine Heavenly Heart Golden Lotuses to refine his Killing Intent as he continued comprehending the ancient stele’s Divine Ability of Calming the Seas.
• Plain Maiden confessed that her overflowing spirituality was difficult to control, so Yang Huai gave her ancient scriptures and explained their Daoist teachings.
• Yang Huai asked Plain Maiden what she would do if the Milky River fell into the mortal world; she said its spirit would vanish and promised to think of a way to escape that fate.
• At Spirit-Fusion Peak, Yang Huai watched the six divine beasts in his sea of consciousness merge into the Nine-Light Star Wheel as nine stars shone overhead.

Yang Huai learned that his attainment had reached Earth Immortality and joined the Pure Origin Sect’s contest for the Origin-Returning Sect’s three immortal treasures. After the Five-Lotus Heavenly Heart Sect’s sword immortal defeated the Pure Origin Sect’s first three fighters, Yang Huai prepared to take the field.

• The nine-star manifestation over Spirit-Fusion Peak led the Daoists to recognize Yang Huai’s Earth Immortal attainment and add him to the competition lineup.
• Daoist Guangrong told Yang Huai that victory could earn the Pure Origin Sect’s disciples Fire-Cloud Golden Elixirs and its greatest contributor a Form-Fixing Immortal Elixir, and Yang Huai agreed to compete.
• At All-Spirits Mountain, Zhao Zhenwu assigned Yan Muhua, Leng Rubing, Yue Hanxian, Yang Huai, Li Yingmei, and Feng Yuhe their order for the matches.
• Yan Muhua and Leng Rubing defeated the council of elders’ six disciples, while the Five-Lotus Heavenly Heart Sect overwhelmed the Golden Gate Sect, setting up a contest between the two sects.
• A single Five-Lotus Heavenly Heart Sect sword immortal defeated Yan Muhua, Leng Rubing, and Yue Hanxian, leaving Yang Huai next to fight.

Yang Huai defeated Jinglinzi and Yu Liang in succession during the Nine Heavens Orthodox Alliance’s matches, then faced Zhou Shuer of the Five-Lotus Heavenly Heart Sect. Zhou Shuer unleashed her stellar arts and treasure, but a vast star vortex formed around Yang Huai, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Yang Huai arrived as Jinglinzi opened their match with the Great Five-Elements Life-Extinction Divine Thunder.
• Yang Huai used the Pure Origin Myriad Wonders Six-God Sword Formula to break through Jinglinzi’s attack and knock him from the platform, winning the match.
• Yang Huai defeated Yu Liang’s talisman attack, but Yu Liang escaped with a void talisman and trapped Yang Huai in a Primordial Taiji Yin-Yang Formation.
• Yang Huai shattered the formation and struck Yu Liang down, prompting Zhou Shuer to challenge him.
• Zhou Shuer attacked Yang Huai with Heavenly Cycle Extinction Starlight and Magnetic Stellar Divine Light, but a vast star vortex appeared within the stellar cloud around him.

Yang Huai defeated Zhou Shuer and Jun Yue with his powerful nine-star Dharma Body and sword, then faced Cheng Jingyun and her renowned treasures. His concealed strike badly shook the Heavenly Capital Golden Cauldron, leaving Cheng Jingyun astonished and the duel unresolved.

• Yang Huai suppressed Zhou Shuer with his nine-star Dharma Body and blasted her off the platform.
• Yang Huai defeated Jun Yue, suppressed the Twelve Primordial Star Beads, and returned the treasure to him.
• Cheng Jingyun entered the arena with the Heavenly Capital Golden Cauldron and Heavenly Cycle Star Radiance Treasure Zither.
• Cheng Jingyun attacked Yang Huai with Lunar Divine Radiance, but he evaded it and pierced her cauldron’s protection with his sword intent.
• Yang Huai struck the Heavenly Capital Golden Cauldron with a concealed treasure, nearly shattering its Golden Dragon phantom and shocking Cheng Jingyun.

Yang Huai defeated Cheng Jingyun and then overcame Scarlet True Son in the Nine Heavens Orthodox Alliance contest. He left the arena victorious, winning renown for the Pure Origin Sect as Dao Ningzi’s rivals acknowledged the sect’s success.

• Yang Huai pierced Cheng Jingyun’s defenses with mind-image sword qi and Heavenly Capital Immortal Flame, forcing her to concede and surrender the match.
• Yang Huai withdrew the immortal flame, and Cheng Jingyun descended to plead forgiveness from Daoist Zhoutian.
• Scarlet True Son challenged Yang Huai and attacked with solar fire, treasure mirrors, the Solar Divine Mirror, and the Blazing Yang Banner.
• Yang Huai evaded Scarlet True Son’s Solar Origin Magnetic Divine Thunder, absorbed his solar radiance, and struck him twice with the Sea-Calming Pearl.
• Yang Huai exhausted Scarlet True Son’s defenses, forced the Solar Divine Mirror from his body, and defeated him with sword strikes.
• Daoist Zhoutian acknowledged Pure Origin Sect’s victory, while Golden Butterfly Fairy congratulated Dao Ningzi on securing both immortal treasures.

Yang Huai defeated the Five-Lotus Heavenly Heart Sect’s team, explained how he created his Nine-God Sword Formula, and received treasures and pills from the Pure Origin Sect. After advancing his Golden Elixir, he met Plain Maiden in the Heavenly Realm, where she said she may have found an answer.

• Yang Huai told Daoist Guangrong that he had created the Nine-God Sword Formula from the Six-God Sword Formula and had also developed an unfinished divine ability.
• Daoist Guangrong confirmed that the Pure Origin Sect had obtained the Qianyuan Immortal Embryo, the Sacred Heart Spirit Stone, and the Six Harmonies Void-Translocation Immortal Token.
• Li Yingmei delivered Yang Huai two gourds of pills and warned him not to leave the mountain for ten years because a strange calamity would befall him.
• Yang Huai swallowed two Form-Fixing Immortal Elixirs, causing his Golden Elixir to complete its first turn and deepen his affinity with the authority of origin.
• Daoist Zhoutian reassured the defeated Five-Lotus Heavenly Heart Sect disciples and said their loss might benefit them, while hinting that the Pure Origin Sect’s victory might not last.
• Plain Maiden greeted Yang Huai by the Heavenly River and told him she might have found the answer.

Yang Huai left the Heavenly River to study the Nine-Heavens Stellar Divine Stele and develop divine origins for the nine stars, while Plain Maiden used his secret art to create an incarnation and follow him. As Yang Huai formed Solar and Lunar true spirits, Plain Maiden sensed that disaster was approaching and feared the Heavenly River might fall into the mortal world.

• Yang Huai told Plain Maiden he would leave the Heavenly River and gave her the Profound Embryo Spirit-Transformation Method, explaining how a Soul-Hosting Stone could help her travel outside.
• Plain Maiden used a primordial treasure pearl containing a water-spirit immortal embryo to create an incarnation and followed Yang Huai to the Nine-Heavens Stellar Divine Stele.
• Yang Huai comprehended the Solar Star's mysteries and condensed a Solar true spirit, drawing the attention and envy of the watching heavenly soldiers and generals.
• Yang Huai formed a Lunar true spirit, strengthening his Origin Dao Fruit, then planned to study the Tai Sui Star next.
• Plain Maiden told Yang Huai that her growing unease made her fear the Heavenly River might fall into the mortal world, and Yang Huai reminded her that she had already prepared for that possibility.

Plain Maiden prepared to leave the heavenly realm after sensing disaster, while Zhurong and Gonggong’s battle culminated in Gonggong smashing the Zhou Mountain heavenly pillar. As heaven and earth began to collapse together, Plain Maiden was pulled toward the mortal world, leaving Baohua Hall behind.

• Yang Huai sensed two immense water and fire divine powers clashing, while the Celestial Court ordered the gods to stay at their posts and activated the Grand Array of the Circumstellar Stars.
• Plain Maiden entered her hidden space, stripped the origin from her divine womb, and formed her accompanying treasure into a divine seal so she could survive being cast into the mortal world.
• Eastern Sovereign Taiyi stopped Fuxi Clan from leaving Wanqu City, while Heavenly Emperor Di Jun watched as Zhurong gained the upper hand against Gonggong.
• Gonggong, enraged by his defeat and humiliation, crashed into Zhou Mountain and shattered the heavenly pillar.
• Plain Maiden sensed the pillar’s collapse, bade farewell to Baohua Hall, and was swept toward the mortal world along with her hidden space as the thirty-six treasure pearls sped away.

Yang Huai guarded Baohua Hall as the Celestial Court descended into chaos, then searched the changed Milky River for Plain Maiden after order was restored. He was rewarded for his service, and Tai Sui Star Lord arrived with news that the Heavenly Empress planned to promote him and put him in charge of training the Milky River water troops.

• Yang Huai drove off demon gods and other intruders who tried to enter Baohua Hall during the Celestial Court's upheaval.
• The Celestial Court recovered as Wa Sovereign repaired heaven and earth, while the stone stele that had suppressed the Milky River fell into the mortal realm and Plain Maiden's fate remained unknown.
• Yang Huai searched the Milky River and Baohua Hall for Plain Maiden but found no trace of her.
• The Heavenly Empress praised Yang Huai for defending Baohua Hall and rewarded him with jade nectar and three Lunar Osmanthus Seeds.
• Tai Sui Star Lord told Yang Huai that the Heavenly Empress intended to promote him and appoint him to train the Milky River water troops.

Yang Huai accepted command of the Heavenly River Navy and began developing a way for its soldiers to survive in the Milky River Weak Water. After creating the Heavenly River Secret Manual, he considered whether he could claim part of the river’s authority now that Plain Maiden was gone.

• Yang Huai accepted the Celestial Court’s orders to train an elite Heavenly River force, and Tai Sui Star Lord told him the flood’s destruction had led to Gonggong’s return to the origin of heaven and earth and the Fire God’s suppression beneath Zhou Mountain.
• Tai Sui Star Lord explained the roles of the Human Emperor and Earth Emperor and arranged for Yang Huai to train at the Heavenly Marshal Camp.
• Yang Huai left Baohua Hall and took command of the Heavenly River Navy, where Hundred Birds Star Lord Tian Xin and Tian You welcomed him and continued their usual training.
• Yang Huai studied the Milky River Weak Water Radiance and created talisman seeds that could let soldiers move through the river for up to twelve shichen.
• Yang Huai taught Tian Xin and Tian You the visualization method for his Heavenly River Secret Manual, then considered taking control of part of the Milky River Weak Water’s authority.

Yang Huai cultivated Heavenly River Weak Water authority and advanced his golden core to five revolutions before catching up on changes within the Pure Origin Sect. He learned that the sect was competing with the Spirit Platform Sword Sect for the Upper Origin Dao Repository, and wondered whether the mysterious Nine Heavens Spiritual Maiden was his wife, Yuan Xiuxiu.

• Yang Huai secretly gathered Heavenly River Weak Water origin while training the water soldiers, and Hundred Birds Star Lord Tianxing and Heavenly General Tian You tested their Weak Water Talismans by entering the river safely.
• Yang Huai ordered the soldiers to cultivate the Heavenly River Secret Manual and wondered what had allowed Plain Maiden to form within the mixed Weak Water origin.
• Yang Huai used his Form-Stabilizing Immortal Pills to reach the fifth revolution of his golden core, then emerged from five years of cultivation and visited fellow disciples.
• Yang Huai met Fang Ge at White Cloud Mountain and learned that the Pure Origin Sect sought to contend for the Upper Origin Dao Repository while deterring the Spirit Platform Sword Sect.
• Fang Ge said the Spirit Platform Sword Sect had invited the Nine Heavens Spiritual Maiden, and Yang Huai suspected she might be his mysterious wife, Yuan Xiuxiu.

Yang Huai heard conflicting accounts of the Nine Heavens Spirit Maiden and wondered whether she was Yuan Xiuxiu, but decided to remain in Heavenly Gold Cave and focus on cultivating rather than risk going to the Southern Borderlands. In the Heavenly Realm, he saw his water soldiers accepted into the Heavenly Marshal Camp and invited Tai Sui Star Lord to dinner.

• Fang Ge said the Nine Heavens Spirit Maiden had destroyed the Savage Demon Cult, while Lin Muzhong accused her of working with the cult and cited the Brightfire Island Lord as his source.
• Yang Huai questioned the rumors, suspected the Nine Heavens Orthodox Alliance was smearing the Azure Heaven Orthodox Path, and considered whether Dao Ningzi knew Yuan Xiuxiu's identity.
• Yang Huai decided to stay in Heavenly Gold Cave, cultivate his Origin Dao Fruit, and wait until he was strong enough to defend Yuan Xiuxiu's name.
• Tai Sui Star Lord watched Yang Huai's heavenly river water soldiers demonstrate control of the Milky River Weak Water, and the observers approved Yang Huai's entry into the Heavenly Marshal Camp.
• Yang Huai joined Tai Sui Star Lord and invited him to drink wine and eat food he would cook himself.

Yang Huai explored the Primordial River-Luo Treasure Mirror, where he challenged powerful Star Lords and discovered that combat there could deepen his understanding of their star arts. After lasting nearly a quarter of an hour against the Earth Evil Star Lord, he assessed the cultivation gap he needed to overcome.

• Yang Huai listened to the Demon Star Lord lecture on Soul-Pinning Photography before entering the Primordial River-Luo Treasure Mirror.
• Yang Huai challenged the Demon Star Lord and was defeated in two breaths by her Upper God power.
• Yang Huai fought Tai Bai Star Lord, was swiftly expelled, and gained greater insight into the Tai Bai True Form.
• Yang Huai challenged the Earth Evil Star Lord and lasted nearly a quarter of an hour before being blasted out.
• Yang Huai concluded that he remained far weaker than Upper Gods and considered how perfecting the sixth level of the Nine Luminaries Star Palace could help him contend with them.

Yang Huai continued strengthening his control over the Milky River and witnessed the Water Manor Star Lord defeat the Fire Manor Star Lord in a duel. After meeting several powerful Star Lords and gaining insights into the Dao, he sensed another strange fluctuation in the Milky River’s origin and set out to investigate it.

• Yang Huai trained the Milky River water soldiers, cultivated with the river’s authority, and reflected on his progress toward completing the Nine Luminaries Star Wheel.
• Yang Huai followed a faint disturbance through the Milky River but found only its currents flowing toward a lower Heavenly Realm, then went to the Zhou Tian Starry Sky.
• Yang Huai watched the Water Manor Star Lord overpower the Fire Manor Star Lord and learned from the battle’s display of the Attaining the Dao realm.
• Tai Sui Star Lord introduced Yang Huai to the Water Manor and Fire Manor Star Lords, then hosted the group on Tai Sui Star, where Yang Huai gained divine medicines, spirit fruits, and useful insights.
• Yang Huai sensed a second fluctuation in the Milky River’s origin and followed it, suspecting something lay behind the disturbance.

Yang Huai searched the depths of the Heavenly River for a year and a half before uncovering the Milky River Weak-Water Spirit Banner, a supreme treasure that could command half the Milky River weak-water origin. He then completed his cultivation of the Zhen Star Lord in the Primordial River-Luo Treasure Mirror and returned to study the banner’s mysteries, hoping to develop powers that could protect himself and Yuan Xiuxiu.

• Yang Huai repeatedly stirred the Heavenly River’s origin and searched the surrounding waters until he exposed a hidden riverbed formation concealing an icy-blue banner.
• Yang Huai communed with the banner, learned it was the Milky River Weak-Water Spirit Banner, and discovered that it could command half the Milky River weak-water origin.
• Yang Huai studied the banner’s two core Great Dao runes and learned that fully refining it would require him to imprint it with his own mark.
• Yang Huai fought the Zhen Star Lord in the Primordial River-Luo Treasure Mirror and, after enduring the battle, harmonized yin-yang and the five elements within the Nine Luminaries Star Wheel.
• Yang Huai collected rewards at the Heavenly Marshal Camp, then returned to the Heavenly River to study the banner and consider developing Milky River weak-water divine abilities.

With only a few years left before his appointment ended and a crisis threatening Yuan Xiuxiu, Yang Huai sought immortal elixirs to advance his Golden Core cultivation. Daoist Heavenly Crane helped him negotiate loans from sect elders, and Yang Huai secured pills from True Person Ziyu and Daoist Nun Guangzhen before weighing a third offer.

• Yang Huai sensed the Tenth Prince of the Golden Crow Clan overhead and saw how much the prince's strength had grown, then tested his own newly cultivated Heavenly River Divine Radiance.
• After refining thirty Firecloud Pills, Yang Huai advanced to a seven-revolution Golden Core and decided to borrow immortal elixirs rather than leave the sect while danger threatened Yuan Xiuxiu.
• Yang Huai sent Gaga with a letter asking Daoist Heavenly Crane to help find lenders, and Daoist Heavenly Crane hurried to Spirit-Fusion Peak after worrying that his nephew was risking his Dao heart.
• Daoist Heavenly Crane consulted sect elders and brought Yang Huai to meet six True Persons at Nine-Dragon Abbey, where Yang Huai accepted True Person Ziyu's six Violet Gold Pure Yang Pills in exchange for a future favor.
• Yang Huai also accepted Daoist Nun Guangzhen's four Phoenix Firecloud Pills in exchange for helping Cheng Muxian through a future tribulation, then considered whether to accept Martial Aunt Jiufang's offer to help open an immortal abode.