Chapter Summaries

Chu Yang and his allies faced Yaoguang Holy Land’s desperate assault, but Crow Daoist and Jiang Yun arrived with support and two Emperor Weapons. The battle escalated when a mysterious attacker in hemp clothes tried to assassinate Jiang Yun.

• Wang Zheng demanded that Chu Yang return the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron, then attacked him when Chu Yang refused.
• Crow Daoist appeared and fought Wang Zheng while Chu Yang wielded the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron against Yaoguang Holy Land’s forces.
• The Black Emperor gave Li Heishui and Liu Kou formation-patterned armor, allowing them to join the battle against Yaoguang’s cultivators.
• Jiang Yun arrived with the Hengyu Divine Furnace and announced that the Jiang Family would treat an attack on Chu Yang as an attack on Jiang Taixu.
• Chu Yang handed the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron to Crow Daoist, who began reviving its power as a mysterious man in hemp clothes attacked Jiang Yun.
• A bronze furnace shattered while shielding Jiang Yun, and the man in hemp clothes struck again as Jiang Yun unleashed the Hengyu Divine Furnace’s full power.

Chu Yang used the Power of Past Life to repel a Supreme from the Primordial Ancient Mine, then crushed Yaoguang Holy Land’s forces and returned the Hengyu Divine Furnace to Jiang Yun. With Yaoguang devastated and others wary of him, Chu Yang considered leaving the Eastern Wilderness under a new identity, while Black Emperor eagerly asked when they would enter the mine.

• The man in hemp clothes attacked Chu Yang, but Jiang Yun held him back with the Hengyu Divine Furnace while Crow Daoist and Chu Yang’s companions overwhelmed Yaoguang’s forces.
• A dark aura from the Primordial Ancient Mine forced Chu Yang to reveal the Power of Past Life, and he commanded the awakened Supreme to retreat before collecting both Imperial Weapons.
• Chu Yang killed the man in hemp clothes and Wang Zheng with a giant palm, leaving some survivors by chance and further weakening Yaoguang Holy Land.
• Chu Yang returned the Hengyu Divine Furnace to Jiang Yun, who departed to take it back to the Jiang Family.
• Chu Yang considered leaving the Eastern Wilderness and changing his identity, then Black Emperor asked when they would enter the Primordial Ancient Mine.

After cultivating in seclusion for two months, Chu Yang gathered Qin Yao, Golden-Winged Little Peng King, Li Heishui, Liu Kou, and Black Emperor and set out for the Primordial Ancient Mine. Meanwhile, Jiang Taixu arranged to help Ye Fan break through to the Four Extremes Realm and proposed a marriage alliance with the Feng Clan to secure his future support.

• The Yaoguang Holy Lord withdrew Yaoguang Holy Land from the Eastern Wilderness and ordered it into seclusion, giving the Ruthless lineage a chance to infiltrate it.
• Chu Yang completed cultivation of his fourth Dao Palace divine treasure and prepared to enter the Primordial Ancient Mine with Qin Yao and Golden-Winged Little Peng King.
• Chu Yang and his companions left Source City and crossed through the Void toward the Primordial Ancient Mine as news of their departure spread.
• The Yaochi Holy Daughter entered the Demon Clan Palace in Saint City.
• Ye Fan told Jiang Taixu that breaking through to the Four Extremes Realm would require ten million jin of source, and Jiang Taixu promised to gather it and proposed a marriage alliance with the Feng Clan.

Chu Yang led Qin Yao, Li Heishui, Liu Kou, Golden-Winged Little Peng King, and Black Emperor through the Primordial Ancient Mine to ruins that concealed a passage into a Demon Burial Ground. They reached a chamber with an empty, bloodstained coffin, tracked whatever had escaped, and found signs of an unparalleled Great Demon.

• Chu Yang led the group through the Primordial Ancient Mine and used Feng Hou Qi Men and the Source Heavenly Book to pass through a strange black whirlwind before entering the ruins.
• Chu Yang broke through the ruins' foundation, revealed a demon-filled passage, and gave Qin Yao and the others four stars to light their way inside.
• Chu Yang explained that the passage ran through one of the Ghost Veins in the Five Fiends Burying Demons terrain, which had been reversed into an Immortal Burying Ground.
• The group reached an underground burial chamber and found an empty coffin with dried blood inside; Chu Yang made Black Emperor track the scent.
• Black Emperor tracked the escaped presence into a wider passage, where Golden-Winged Little Peng King recognized the marks on the walls as signs of an unparalleled Great Demon.

Chu Yang and his companions reached an underground ice palace in the Primordial Ancient Mine, where they found the dead Yellow Robe Daoist, a mysterious woman, and a piece of Moon Cold Iron. The chapter ended with Chu Yang collecting the bodies and the scripture preserved in the woman’s shattered Immortal Platform.

• Chu Yang’s group broke through the barrier around the Yellow Robe Daoist’s shed remains, and Chu Yang gave the remains and Demon Core to Golden-Winged Little Peng King.
• Chu Yang saw an underground ice palace containing a woman on a Mystic Jade Bed and five motionless figures, then cut a passage to reach it with the Godslaying Sword.
• The group found that the five figures were mummified corpses and that Moon Cold Iron was hidden beneath the Mystic Jade Bed.
• Chu Yang examined the woman and found an ancient scripture preserved as a thought in her shattered Immortal Platform, with no remnant soul remaining.
• Chu Yang stored the Mystic Jade Bed and the woman’s corpse, then collected the five mummified bodies as well.

After exploring the Ice Crystal Palace, Chu Yang led the group deeper into the Primordial Ancient Mine, where they encountered the Yaoguang Holy Maiden, Yao Xi. Yao Xi fled from them, and the group pursued her, with Chu Yang giving Li Heishui a weapon before he joined in.

• Chu Yang studied the Five Fiends Diagram and concluded that he could not cultivate it because his Dao Palace divine treasuries held no deities; he instead considered how the Six Depots Celestial Thief might complement it.
• The group left the Ice Crystal Palace and continued through the Primordial Ancient Mine, relying on Chu Yang's understanding of the terrain and the four stars to travel safely.
• The Black Emperor spotted a white figure approaching, and the group prepared for a possible forbidden-zone threat before recognizing her as Yao Xi, the Yaoguang Holy Maiden.
• Yao Xi turned and ran as soon as she neared the group, prompting the Black Emperor, Liu Kou, and the Golden-Winged Little Peng King to chase after her and her presumed treasure.
• Chu Yang handed Li Heishui a fire poker, then prepared to follow the others.

Chu Yang and his companions captured Yao Xi and learned that Hua Yunfei had led her group into the Primordial Ancient Mine, where he killed everyone else. As they descended into a Dead Man’s Pit, Chu Yang revealed that the land had once held a mountain where ten Dragon Veins converged, possibly the site from which the Undying Heavenly Emperor moved Purple Mountain.

• Li Heishui joined the others in attacking Yao Xi, and Chu Yang captured her in the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron.
• Chu Yang questioned Yao Xi and learned that Hua Yunfei had lured her group into the Primordial Ancient Mine with a false map, then killed everyone but her.
• Chu Yang used the Godslaying Sword and his Soul Will to distort Yao Xi’s cognition, though she resisted his control and tried to fight back.
• Chu Yang and his companions continued downhill and identified the deadly terrain as a Dead Man’s Pit.
• Chu Yang explained that the pit formed where someone had moved a mountain peak that held ten converging Dragon Veins, prompting the Black Emperor to suspect a connection to Purple Mountain and the Undying Heavenly Emperor.

Chu Yang led the group into the caves beneath Dead Man's Pit, where strange snakes lurked in the darkness and his True Spirit Power guided the others along separate paths. He and Black Emperor found a cavern full of the creatures and uncovered a person-sized Immortal Source at its center.

• Chu Yang protected Li Heishui from a strange snake, then discovered forty-three cave entrances connected into seven paths and sent Qin Yao, Liu Kou, Li Heishui, and the Golden-Winged Little Peng King into separate caves.
• Chu Yang entered a cave with Black Emperor, where the darkness swallowed light and blocked ordinary Divine Sense, but Chu Yang's perception remained unaffected.
• Chu Yang identified a cavern as the strange snakes' lair and guided Black Emperor through the one passage that continued deeper.
• Chu Yang and Black Emperor entered a cavern crowded with strange snakes, and Chu Yang's light caused the creatures to collapse.
• Black Emperor spotted a person-sized Immortal Source in the cavern and hurt its paws when it tried to rush past the snakes.

Chu Yang and the Black Emperor explored Dead Man's Pit, where Chu Yang found a dead True Dragon Egg and clues to an ancient Source Heavenly Master. The Black Emperor obtained a mysterious jade fragment linked to the Underworld, while Chu Yang remained aboveground cultivating after suppressing the danger in the caves.

• Chu Yang identified the egg in the first cave as a dead True Dragon Egg, collected it with its Immortal Source, and explained how Dragon Qi had produced the strange snakes.
• In another cave, red-haired misfortune began to affect the Black Emperor, but Chu Yang stopped it; they found a red-haired corpse clutching a stone Chu Yang could not see through.
• Chu Yang and the Black Emperor found a portrait of Great Emperor Hengyu, and Chu Yang tore it down before leading the reluctant dog deeper into the cave.
• Chu Yang revealed a jade fragment hidden in translucent fluid and let the Black Emperor claim it; the fragment entered the divine eye between the dog's brows.
• Chu Yang explained that Great Emperor Hengyu's portrait had kept others away from the fragment, then returned to the surface and cultivated with Divine Source after suppressing Dragon Fall Land.

Chu Yang led his companions out of the Dead Man’s Pit after they gained powerful inheritances, then learned that Qin Yao had rejected a method to become a Saint because it required her to sever her Dao and her attachment to him. He promised to make her a Great Emperor anyway, and Qin Yao responded with an unexpected suggestion.

• The Golden-Winged Little Peng King emerged with a Divine Peng Treasure Body, and Chu Yang praised his chance to reach the path to immortality.
• Liu Kou and Li Heishui left their caves with opportunities that could lead them to become Saints, while Qin Yao remained inside until the eleventh day.
• Chu Yang brought everyone out of the Dead Man’s Pit and sent the others toward Saint City, while Qin Yao accompanied him south.
• Chu Yang questioned Qin Yao about what happened in her cave, and she confessed that she had rejected an Alternative Method because its first stage required her to sever her Dao.
• Chu Yang told Qin Yao to give up the method and promised he could still make her a Great Emperor; Qin Yao replied that something could happen between them there too.

Chu Yang took Qin Yao into Sacred Cliff, where he navigated Emperor Wushi’s formation patterns and revealed his powerful corpse puppets. They collected rare treasures and reached the summit, where Chu Yang found a silver scale that he gave to Qin Yao.

• Chu Yang brought Qin Yao to Sacred Cliff and explained that Emperor Wushi had left the formation patterns there.
• Chu Yang tested the hidden danger with the White Rat, then guided Qin Yao along the safe path beneath the formation patterns.
• Chu Yang used the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron and the Black Jade Catfish to retrieve a twenty-thousand-year Precious Medicine from a lake and gave it to Qin Yao.
• Ancient Corpses emerged from the lake, and Chu Yang sent two corpse puppets to repel them.
• Chu Yang led Qin Yao to Sacred Cliff’s summit, collected a silver scale from the abyss, and gave it to her.

Chu Yang subdued a Sacred Spirit shaped like a Three-legged Golden Crow and made it the artifact spirit Heavenly Yang, then led Qin Yao through Sacred Cliff toward its summit. As they reached the final golden path, he began transmitting a technique to her.

• Chu Yang suppressed the Fire God Crows and forced the Three-legged Golden Crow to become the artifact spirit of his Seven-Colored Blazing Sun, naming it Heavenly Yang.
• Chu Yang gave Qin Yao a fragment of the Sun Scripture and absorbed the million Fire God Crows into Heavenly Yang.
• Chu Yang and Qin Yao traveled deeper into Sacred Cliff, where he guided them past Emperor Wushi's killing formation, Ancient Corpses, and the Investiture of the Gods List.
• Chu Yang extended a golden path to the summit and tapped Qin Yao between the brows to pass her a technique.

Chu Yang obtained the Movement Character Secret from the coffin on Sacred Cliff and passed it to Qin Yao, guiding her as she learned it. After Qin Yao mastered the Secret, Monkey arrived and revealed that he had made major progress in cultivating his Sea of Wheels.

• Chu Yang suppressed the mist and coffin on Sacred Cliff, read the Movement Character Secret from its lid, and left with Qin Yao.
• Chu Yang passed the Movement Character Secret to Qin Yao and told her how she could seek the Battle Character Secret and the All-Encompassing Secret.
• Chu Yang stayed with Qin Yao in a mountain hut and helped her comprehend the Movement Character Secret; after several days, she mastered it.
• Monkey arrived to pay his respects to Chu Yang, who examined his cultivation and discovered that Monkey had successfully begun specializing in the Sea of Wheels Realm.

Chu Yang tested the Qi Body Source Flow on Monkey, then merged the Six Depots Celestial Thief with the Xihuang Scripture to create the Heaven Stealing Scripture. After repeated failures and revisions, he successfully cultivated its Sixth Divine Treasure, though the resulting sixth light cluster appeared connected to his large intestine.

• Chu Yang confirmed that the Qi Body Source Flow supported Monkey's Sea of Wheels cultivation and concluded the Six Depots Celestial Thief could suit Dao Palace cultivators.
• Chu Yang spent three days merging the Six Depots Celestial Thief with the Xihuang Scripture and named the resulting technique the Heaven Stealing Scripture.
• Chu Yang entered seclusion and began cultivating the new technique, using Godslaying Swords and his True Spirit to contain dangerous changes in his realms.
• Chu Yang repeatedly suffered injuries while refining the Heaven Stealing Scripture's Sixth Divine Treasure, recovering and improving the technique after each failure.
• Chu Yang finally completed the Sixth Divine Treasure, triggering spectacular visions and six clusters of light in his body, with the sixth seeming linked to his large intestine.

Chu Yang revealed that he had created the Heaven Stealing Scripture and helped Qin Yao cultivate it, allowing her to reach the Seventh Divine Treasure. He then traveled south with the disguised Yao Xi, while news of the Golden-Winged Little Peng King’s strength and the ambush against Yan Ruyu spread across the Eastern Wilderness.

• Chu Yang sensed that Emperor Wushi had dispersed the heavenly tribulation and told Qin Yao that he had created the Heaven Stealing Scripture, then guided her as she began cultivating it.
• After eighteen days, Qin Yao replaced her former cultivation technique, and Chu Yang helped her form the Sixth Divine Treasure and break through to the Seventh.
• Chu Yang urged Qin Yao to follow the Five Fiends Diagram without being ruled by desire, and she chose to continue even if the whole world became her enemy.
• Chu Yang advised Monkey to study the Qi Body Source Flow for the Life Spring as well as the Bitter Sea, then prepared to leave with Qin Yao.
• In a Southern Domain restaurant, Chu Yang heard rumors that the Yaoguang Holy Maiden had disappeared and left with Yao Xi, asking why she refused to submit to him.
• Chu Yang recalled that the Golden-Winged Little Peng King and two bandit descendants had defeated eight attackers who ambushed Yan Ruyu, and that the three had entered the Primordial Ancient Mine with him before their strength surged.

Chu Yang returned to the Fire Domain, cultivated in its ninth layer, and drew the Immortal Fire into his True Spirit. He began comprehending the Great Dao Runes within it beside an ancient cave.

• Chu Yang brought Yao Xi to the Fire Domain and left her in the fifth layer before entering the deeper layers alone.
• Chu Yang entered the ninth layer inside the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron and spent two months tempering stars while refining divine source and Immortal Source.
• Chu Yang advanced into the eighth Divine Treasure and triggered a heavenly tribulation, but the Sacred Flame dissolved the lightning before it could affect him.
• Chu Yang left the cauldron with True Spirit Power and found the Immortal Fire in the form of a small, rune-covered tree near an ancient cave.
• Chu Yang caught the Immortal Fire, forced it into his body, suppressed it with his True Spirit, and began comprehending its Great Dao Runes.

Chu Yang refined the Immortal Fire’s Great Dao Rune into Heavenly Yang, forged a moon from Moon Cold Iron, and left the Fire Domain with a Saint Weapon. He discovered the Yaoguang Holy Son attacking Yao Xi, exposed him as a Ruthless Successor, and watched him flee after launching an attack at Yao Xi.

• Chu Yang used the Immortal Fire to temper his stars and forge Cold Moon from Moon Cold Iron, then fused the Immortal Fire Great Dao Rune into Heavenly Yang, making it a Saint Weapon.
• Chu Yang left the Fire Domain with sacred flames and discovered that Yao Xi was gone; he sensed her nearby and followed her to a canyon.
• Chu Yang found Yao Xi fighting the Yaoguang Holy Son, who accused her of colluding with Chu Yang and claimed he was cleansing the sect.
• The Yaoguang Holy Son taunted Yao Xi about waiting for Chu Yang, while Chu Yang watched from hiding and inferred that the Ruthless lineage had seized control of the Yaoguang Holy Land.
• Chu Yang revealed himself and identified the Yaoguang Holy Son as a Ruthless Successor who practiced the Undying Heavenly Art.
• The Yaoguang Holy Son attacked Yao Xi with a secret art and fled after Chu Yang exposed his identity.

Chu Yang pursued Yaoguang Holy Son and overwhelmed him with his secret arts and manifestations, while a hidden expert from the Ruthless lineage tried to intervene. Chu Yang killed Yaoguang Holy Son despite the expert’s presence, leaving the Ruthless inheritance without its successor.

• Chu Yang let Yao Xi take the blow and pursued the fleeing Yaoguang Holy Son, while she sat down to heal her injuries.
• Chu Yang triggered the All-Encompassing Secret, caught up to Yaoguang Holy Son, and used the Big Dipper Star Chart to shatter his defenses and wound him.
• A Man in hemp clothes appeared to protect Yaoguang Holy Son, but Chu Yang used Heavenly Yang to hold him back.
• Chu Yang struck Yaoguang Holy Son with Cold Moon and used the Black Jade Catfish to attack his primordial spirit as a hidden expert repelled the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron.
• Chu Yang warned the hidden expert not to intervene, then dismembered Yaoguang Holy Son and had the Black Jade Catfish swallow his primordial spirit.

Chu Yang defeated Yaoguang Holy Son, gave Yao Xi the Ruthless Inheritance, and traveled to Zhuo Peak to discuss the Dao with Li Ruoyu and old acquaintances. The chapter ended with Ji Ziyue wondering why Hua Yunfei had stayed away, while Chu Yang knew he was afraid to face him.

• A hidden Sage King withdrew after Chu Yang killed Yaoguang Holy Son, and Chu Yang collected the treasures the Holy Son had left behind.
• The Three-legged Golden Crow admitted it could not contend with the Sage King, while Yao Xi chose to follow Chu Yang in hopes of reclaiming Yaoguang Holy Land.
• Chu Yang strengthened Yao Xi's resolve to follow him, gave her the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art and Undying Heavenly Art, and left her to pursue her own path.
• Chu Yang returned to Zhuo Peak, where he met Li Ruoyu, Ji Ziyue, Ji Haoyue, and Zhang Wenchang, then discussed the Dao with them for three days.
• Ji Ziyue wondered why Hua Yunfei had not appeared, and Chu Yang understood that Hua Yunfei was afraid to face him.

Chu Yang obtained Nine Transformations Immortality Elixir fruits and a Primordial Mother Qi Root from the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land, then uncovered a strange severed finger in a source stone and studied its Dao. He arrived at the ancient Saint's small world as forces gathered to seize Yan Ruyu and the Demon Race, and prepared to counterattack.

• Chu Yang left the Tai Xuan Sect, visited the Demon Emperor's Tomb and the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land, and received nine fruits and a wisp of Primordial Mother Qi Root from the Ruthless Great Emperor.
• Chu Yang took the sealed beauty from Purple Mountain and left a strand of True Spirit Power within Zhang Lin before heading to Yunze State.
• Chu Yang learned that forces from the Central Plains, Eastern Wilderness, and Northern Plains had besieged the Demon Race's ancient Saint small world, then cut open source ore and discovered a severed finger contaminated by eerie power.
• Chu Yang suppressed and removed the eerie power from the finger, comprehended its Reincarnation-like Dao for half a month, and advanced his eighth Dao Palace divine treasure toward completion.
• Chu Yang reached the besieged small world and saw Yan Ruyu, Peacock King, and the Demon Race face thirteen Great Powers and seven Imperial Lord-level figures.
• Chu Yang stepped into the sky using the Movement Character Secret, intending to kill at least half of the seven Imperial Lord-level enemies.