Chapter Summaries

Xu Taiping and his companions entered Cloud Pill Palace’s Pill Fire Hall after learning that the Queen Mother had foretold their arrival and that Taiyi Star Lord could activate a formation to purge the evil qi. Xu Taiping followed a hidden thread to an abandoned Pill Furnace and lifted its lid, asking what he sought to reveal itself.

• The old Daoist Immortal Remains led Xu Taiping, Mo Qingzhu, and Bai Yue to Pill Fire Hall, explaining that the Queen Mother’s Jade Decree had said their arrival would dispel the calamity.
• The old Daoist Immortal Remains identified Taiyi Star Lord as the one who could activate the Taiyi Golden Light Purification Formation as Blightbones battered Cloud Pill Palace’s barrier.
• As the barrier weakened, the old Daoist Immortal Remains urged the three to search Pill Fire Hall for a way to stop the calamity.
• Xu Taiping used the Heaven-Flipping Seal and the True Intent of Lotus Root Broken, Yet Its Fibers Remain to follow a hidden thread to an abandoned Pill Furnace.
• Xu Taiping removed the furnace lid and asked the hidden presence inside whether it was ready to reveal itself.

Xu Taiping revealed an ancient mirror that held Taiyi Star Lord and other immortal remains, confirming that the Jade Mother had foreseen the present calamity. As Blightbone forces breached Cloud Pill Palace, Bai Yue and Mo Qingzhu went to help defend it while Xu Taiping began refining the mirror to summon Taiyi Star Lord.

• Xu Taiping revealed the ancient mirror hidden in the Cloud Pill Palace furnace lid and explained that it contained Taiyi Star Lord and other powerful Star Lords.
• Xu Taiping, Bai Yue, and Mo Qingzhu realized that the Jade Mother had foreseen their arrival and the means to address the Blightbone calamity.
• Blightbone forces attacked Cloud Pill Palace, and the palace master said he could hold them off for half an incense stick while Xu Taiping worked.
• The palace master destroyed a divine general Blightbone with sword qi, but several more breached the barrier and entered the clearing.
• Bai Yue and Mo Qingzhu went out to fight the Blightbones while Xu Taiping chanted over the ancient mirror and began refining it.

Mo Qingzhu and Bai Yue fought waves of Divine General Blightbones in Cloud Pill Palace, with Bai Yue unleashing the Pagoda Iron Armor Xiahou You had given him. Their fight took a dangerous turn when two enormous Jade Maiden and Golden Child Blightbones appeared and struck them down.

• Mo Qingzhu restrained Blightbones with spells and struck their Blood Demon Eyes while Bai Yue shattered their bodies with powerful punches.
• Bai Yue explained that Xiahou You had fought as the main force before because her Pagoda Iron Armor let her rival Great Sage Realm Martial Artists.
• Mo Qingzhu reminded Bai Yue about the Armor Pellet, and Bai Yue realized it contained the Pagoda Iron Armor.
• Bai Yue donned the armor, grew to over two hundred zhang tall, and smashed several Blightbones with his charge and Kun Yuan Seal.
• Two enormous Jade Maiden and Golden Child Blightbones appeared, and a casual palm strike from the Golden Child sent Bai Yue and Mo Qingzhu flying.

Bai Yue and Mo Qingzhu fought the Golden Child Blightbone while the Jade Maiden Blightbone pressed them with mountain spirit power. The old Daoist Immortal Remains shielded them with Golden Bells and asked them to stall the Blightbones, and Mo Qingzhu’s formation let them evade a devastating sword strike as Bai Yue gathered power for another attack.

• The Jade Maiden Blightbone pressed Bai Yue and Mo Qingzhu down with mountain spirit power while the Golden Child Blightbone attacked, and Mo Qingzhu used an Immortal Rank talisman to give Bai Yue room to strengthen the Pagoda Iron Armor.
• Mo Qingzhu activated a Golden Light Talisman as the Golden Child Blightbone attacked with three arms, and Bai Yue struck back, though the exchange left the Blightbone’s forces intact.
• Bai Yue prepared to continue fighting, but the old Daoist Immortal Remains enveloped him and Mo Qingzhu in Golden Bells and asked them to stall the Blightbones while he prepared a way to deal with them.
• Bai Yue charged the Golden Child Blightbone but was knocked backward when its other five arms shattered his fist force; Mo Qingzhu caught him before he was badly hurt.
• Mo Qingzhu used a Stealth Formation to move them behind the Golden Child Blightbone, and Bai Yue began gathering his fist force again as his aura surged.

Bai Yue and Mo Qingzhu fought Golden Boy and Jade Girl Blightbone until the Immortal Remains Old Daoist intervened and destroyed them. Before they could recover, another Supreme Venerable Xuanwei appeared, shattered the old Daoist’s body, and threatened to kill them.

• Bai Yue combined his Storm Phantom Image with his Fist Force, blasting Golden Child Blightbone apart and knocking Jade Maiden Blightbone away.
• Jade Maiden Blightbone healed Golden Child Blightbone, who then blocked Bai Yue’s attack and struck him with six fists as Mo Qingzhu protected him with a talisman.
• The Immortal Remains Old Daoist appeared as a fire flood dragon, swallowed Golden Child Blightbone, and destroyed Jade Maiden Blightbone with a strike of his tail.
• An enormous black palm shattered the Immortal Remains Old Daoist’s body, and a black-robed cultivator with Supreme Venerable Xuanwei’s face appeared.
• The black-robed cultivator revealed that he was another Supreme Venerable Xuanwei and said Bai Yue and Mo Qingzhu could not be allowed to live.

Xu Taiping used the Heaven-Flipping Seal to establish a connection with the Ancient Mirror, then rushed out of Pill Fire Hall to save Bai Yue and Mo Qingzhu from Supreme Venerable Xuanwei. The Ancient Mirror stopped Xuanwei’s palm from crushing Xu Taiping, but its spirit asked him for dao essence power to awaken Taiyi Star Lord’s Immortal Remains.

• Xu Taiping found that he could not connect with the restored Ancient Mirror until he pressed the Heaven-Flipping Seal against it and spoke on the Ancient Heavenly Venerable’s orders.
• Xu Taiping heard Bai Yue cry out, rushed to the hall entrance, and found Bai Yue wounded while Mo Qingzhu struggled to hold off Supreme Venerable Xuanwei’s black palm.
• Xu Taiping attacked Supreme Venerable Xuanwei with two Ultimate Realm Blade Strikes, but Xuanwei’s golden light blocked the first and his palm struck Xu Taiping into Pill Fire Hall’s wall during the second.
• Xu Taiping defended himself with the Heaven-Supporting Form of the Demon Ancestor Heaven-Shaking Fist, but Xuanwei repeatedly attacked him with the black palm.
• The Ancient Mirror intercepted Xuanwei’s next palm strike, and its spirit asked Xu Taiping to lend it dao essence power so it could try to awaken Taiyi Star Lord’s Immortal Remains.

Xu Taiping used the Spirit Mirror to summon Taiyi Star Lord’s immortal remains as Supreme Venerable Xuanwei’s attacks and resurrected Blightbones cornered him. Taiyi Star Lord’s remains shattered Xuanwei’s black palm shadow, and Xuanwei answered by summoning the Power of Thunder from the split firmament.

• Xu Taiping dodged Supreme Venerable Xuanwei’s black palm shadow while channeling Dao Essence Power into the Spirit Mirror.
• Supreme Venerable Xuanwei raised fallen Blightbones and reassembled the old Daoist’s immortal remains into another Blightbone.
• Xu Taiping was pinned beneath the palm shadow’s Mountain Spirit Power as Blightbones attacked, but golden light appeared around him.
• Taiyi Star Lord’s immortal remains emerged and shattered Supreme Venerable Xuanwei’s palm shadow withstanding its strike unharmed.
• Supreme Venerable Xuanwei formed a dharma aspect, split the firmament, and summoned a spear-like surge of the Power of Thunder.

Taiyi Star Lord's Immortal Remains repeatedly attacked Supreme Venerable Xuanwei, but Xuanwei's Profound Insight Bone-Illuminating Mirror turned the thunder and divine fire into blood. Xuanwei then aimed the mirror at Xu Taiping and Taiyi Star Lord, preparing to expose the flaws in their hearts and cultivation.

• Taiyi Star Lord's Immortal Remains absorbed Supreme Venerable Xuanwei's thunder attack and retaliated with Five Thunders Crashing Down, which Xuanwei's jade pendant helped him survive.
• Taiyi Star Lord's Immortal Remains offered to kill Xuanwei if Xu Taiping agreed to carry out a task, but Xuanwei struck the Immortal Remains with mirror light and dispersed its phantom image.
• Taiyi Star Lord's Immortal Remains revived its phantom image and unleashed Eight Might Divine Fire, burning away Xuanwei's protective light and Dharma Robe.
• Supreme Venerable Xuanwei used his Profound Insight Bone-Illuminating Mirror to turn the divine flames into blood, and Mo Qingzhu explained that the Great Dao Divine Weapon magnified flaws and evil thoughts.
• Supreme Venerable Xuanwei aimed the mirror light at Xu Taiping and Taiyi Star Lord's Immortal Remains and challenged them to reveal what lay in their hearts.

Xu Taiping's immaculate body and emptiness Daoheart magnified his power through the Bone-Revealing Mirror, but Supreme Venerable Xuanwei still overwhelmed him. Taiyi Star Lord's immortal remains borrowed Dao essence and Dragon Origin Power to reveal the true force of Tai Bai Eclipse Power, leaving Xuanwei suspended alone in the air.

• Bai Yue and Mo Qingzhu realized the Bone-Revealing Mirror did not affect Xu Taiping and instead magnified his cultivation and physique.
• Supreme Venerable Xuanwei recalled the cracked mirror and attacked Xu Taiping with the Corpse-Slaying Saber.
• Xu Taiping used his ultimate Heaven-Touching Stance to drive back Xuanwei's blade force, but quickly exhausted the mirror's power.
• Taiyi Star Lord's immortal remains asked Xu Taiping for Dao essence and Dragon Origin Power, then used crimson flames to break Xuanwei's attack and blast holes through his black-robed form.
• Taiyi Star Lord explained that his flames had used Dragon Origin Power, then unleashed actual Tai Bai Eclipse Power, destroying the courtyard and leaving Xuanwei alone in azure light.

Xu Taiping and Taiyi Star Lord faced Supreme Venerable Xuanwei and a growing swarm of powerful blightbones at Yangling Fire Mansion. Xu Taiping gave Taiyi Star Lord his remaining power to activate the Taiyi Golden Light Purification Formation, leaving Supreme Venerable Xuanwei alive for now.

• Supreme Venerable Xuanwei used the Bone-Illuminating Mirror to awaken dozens of blightbones as powerful as the Golden Boy and Jade Girl Blightbone.
• Xu Taiping realized he could not defeat the approaching blightbones with his remaining strength and asked Taiyi Star Lord for a way to stop them.
• Taiyi Star Lord offered to activate the Taiyi Golden Light Purification Formation, warning that doing so would prevent them from destroying Supreme Venerable Xuanwei.
• Xu Taiping gave Taiyi Star Lord all his remaining Dao Essence Power and Dragon Origin Power.
• Taiyi Star Lord activated the formation, sending golden light in every direction and raising enormous pillars of light.

Xu Taiping and the Taiyi Star Lord activated the Golden Light Formation, destroying the attacking Blightbones, but Supreme Venerable Xuanwei escaped to the fifth layer of the Sacred Land. The Star Lord offered Xu Taiping another innate True Fire Seed if he killed Xuanwei and gave him a promised reward of precious Dragon Remains and Immortal Remains Fragments.

• Xu Taiping watched the Taiyi Golden Light Purification Formation ignite the True Fire Seeds throughout the Yangling Fire Mansion and burn the Blightbones to ashes.
• The Taiyi Star Lord sent an innate-fire Fire Raven after Supreme Venerable Xuanwei, who escaped after challenging Xu Taiping to meet him on the fifth layer of the Sacred Land.
• The Taiyi Star Lord failed to catch Xuanwei with a summoned fire dragon and promised Xu Taiping another innate True Fire Seed if he killed him.
• The Taiyi Star Lord gave Xu Taiping Dragon Remains and Immortal Remains Fragments as the reward he had promised.

Xu Taiping accepted Taiyi Star Lord’s immortal and dragon remains, then gathered with Mo Qingzhu and the injured Bai Yue after Supreme Venerable Xuanwei’s attack. While searching Yangling Fire Mansion for a Red Flame Fruit to extend his lifespan, Xu Taiping learned from the Old Palace Master that he had once taken the Palace Master’s Spirit Bone Pill.

• Xu Taiping accepted Taiyi Star Lord’s immortal and dragon remains, and Taiyi Star Lord promised Ancient Buddha remains as a future reward for killing Supreme Venerable Xuanwei.
• Mo Qingzhu brought the gravely injured Bai Yue to Xu Taiping, and the three agreed to use Qusheng Jade Platform’s spirit fruits and pills to strengthen themselves.
• Xu Taiping told Xiahou You and Qu Chao Ci about the Innate True Fire Seed at Pill Fire Hall and invited them to join him there.
• Xu Taiping sent his eight Mysterious Origin Avatars to help search for a Red Flame Fruit, but the Old Palace Master of Cloud Pill Palace offered to lead him to one.
• The Old Palace Master explained that refining the fruit into a Yang Yan Pill would grant Xu Taiping three years of lifespan and revealed that Xu Taiping had taken his Spirit Bone Pill.

Xu Taiping learned that the Spirit Bone Pill he took had been refined by the Old Palace Master of Cloud Pill Palace as part of an attempt to escape the sixteen Origin Laws. The Old Palace Master revealed that the plan involved one hundred and eight pills, and that the Heavenly Court had feared the group might overthrow it.

• Xu Taiping confirmed that he had taken a Spirit Bone Pill, and the Old Palace Master explained how its lingering aura in Xu Taiping’s divine soul revealed this.
• The Old Palace Master showed Xu Taiping a defective Candle Pupil grown from his own eye, which resonated with the pill’s aura and convinced Xu Taiping that he had refined it.
• The Old Palace Master said he and a friend created the Spirit Bone Pill to let cultivators with Mortal Bone cultivate anew outside the sixteen Origin Laws.
• The Old Palace Master revealed that they had refined one hundred and eight pills to gather like-minded cultivators and support one another against the Origin Laws.
• Xu Taiping suggested the group might have overthrown the Heavenly Court, and the Old Palace Master said that the Heavenly Court had shared that suspicion.

The Old Palace Master explained how the Spirit Bone Pills were created and why a seventeenth origin law might be needed to end the Demon Mother's cycle of rebirth. Xu Taiping learned he was not a reincarnated Heavenly Court official, then recognized that the Old Palace Master's friend, Kang Cangzi, shared a familiar name.

• The Old Palace Master recounted how he and his friend distributed 108 Spirit Bone Pills before the Heavenly Court branded them rebels, imprisoned him, and lost track of the pills and his friend.
• The Old Palace Master explained that the Demon Mother was born from the sixteen origin laws and could only be permanently destroyed if a seventeenth law arose beyond them.
• Xu Taiping recalled Dragon Emperor Ao Yan's warning that the Human Race was also a pawn, and the Old Palace Master cautioned him not to speak his realization aloud.
• The Old Palace Master said he had sensed Spirit Bone Pill auras in cultivators over the ages, but told Xu Taiping that his young divine soul proved he was not a reincarnated immortal official.
• The Old Palace Master named his friend Kang Cangzi, and Xu Taiping reacted in shock because the name sounded familiar.

Xu Taiping learned how to draw Kang Cangzi out and accepted the Old Palace Master's ring, but the Old Palace Master then revealed that he could accelerate the Earth Treasury Fruit's growth to awaken the Jade Mother's divine intent. He offered to ripen the fruit within a year in exchange for borrowing its power.

• Xu Taiping told Danmingzi what he had heard about Kang Cangzi, and Danmingzi confirmed it was likely his old friend and said fine wine could lure him out.
• Xu Taiping said he knew how to brew Hidden Immortal Wine, and Danmingzi asked him to deliver a ring to Kang Cangzi if they met.
• When Xu Taiping touched Danmingzi's Immortal Remains, Danmingzi raised a wall of fire and asked whether Xu Taiping had the Earth Treasury Fruit.
• Xu Taiping revealed that the Earth Treasury Fruit had undergone five seed burnings and was nearing its sixth.
• Danmingzi offered to complete the sixth seed burning and ripen the fruit within a year if Xu Taiping lent its power to regenerate the Jade Mother's divine intent.

Xu Taiping learned that Danmingzi could pass on a method to help revive the Jade Mother's divine intent and end the Demon Mother's calamity. Danmingzi gave him pill recipes and prepared to perform his sixth Seed Burning with innate true fire, just as Xiahou You contacted him from the Pill Fire Hall.

• Danmingzi told Xu Taiping that reviving the Jade Mother's divine intent could let her take a divine rank and execute the Demon Mother.
• Danmingzi gave Xu Taiping his jade-like eyeball, which contained pill recipes and the method for helping the Jade Mother take her divine rank.
• Xu Taiping refined the eyeball in his Dao Body Furnace and received Danmingzi's pill recipes, including the Scarlet Yang Pill recipe.
• Danmingzi explained that Xu Taiping needed innate true fire to complete his sixth Seed Burning quickly and offered to perform it himself.
• Xiahou You contacted Xu Taiping and told him that she and Fairy Chao Ci were in the Pill Fire Hall.

Xu Taiping asked Danmingzi about the Heavenly Court while they prepared to use Innate True Fire to burn the Earth Fruit Golden Lotus. Danmingzi began explaining the Heavenly Court’s Divine Register, but the fire ignited and Xu Taiping put the lotus roots and stems into the furnace, leaving the explanation for later.

• Xu Taiping returned to the Dragon-Trapping Tower, where Danmingzi taught him how to control the Pill Furnace and said the pills would be ready in eight to ten hours.
• Danmingzi fed one of his Immortal Remains arms to the Pill Furnace, igniting its Innate True Fire for Seed Burning.
• Xu Taiping asked what had caused the Heavenly Court to collapse, and Danmingzi said he could not reveal the full truth because Xu Taiping could not bear the karma and he had not witnessed the collapse.
• Danmingzi explained that those summoned into the Heavenly Court entered the Divine Register rather than attaining the immortal path.
• When the True Fire Seed ignited, Danmingzi opened the furnace, and Xu Taiping tossed the Earth Treasury Golden Lotus roots and stems inside.

Danmingzi taught Xu Taiping how to burn the Earth Fruit’s seed while explaining the history of the Ancient Heavenly Court and warning him to leave the doomed heavens for the Immortal Realm. As the seed-burning process neared completion, Xu Taiping described his own idea of freedom, reminding Danmingzi of his friend Kang Cangzi.

• Danmingzi guided Xu Taiping in pouring his true essence into the Pill Furnace to intensify its innate true fire and burn away the Earth Fruit’s impurities.
• While they waited for the remaining branches to burn, Danmingzi explained that Earth Treasury Fruits were once common treasures and that their power was now unrestricted in the Dharma Ending Age.
• Danmingzi told Xu Taiping that the Ancient Heavenly Court had united the heavens into a Spirit Domain and offered cultivators a divine register that granted immortality through incense offerings.
• Danmingzi warned Xu Taiping that the Human Race’s fortune was spent and urged him to revive Jade Mother, avoid becoming entangled in the heavens’ karma, and seek ascension to the Immortal Realm.
• Xu Taiping said he wished to ascend from his own desire to see the worlds above, not from fear of death or the heavens’ destruction, and Danmingzi was reminded of Kang Cangzi.
• The Pill Furnace rumbled as the Earth Treasury Fruit’s seed burning neared completion, and Danmingzi called Xu Taiping to finish the final step.

Xu Taiping learned that his Earth Treasury Fruit had become a valuable willow branch capable of producing powerful Divine Weapons, and Danmingzi began refining Red Flame Pills for him. As Danmingzi’s remaining time dwindled, he started explaining how to revive Jade Mother’s divine intent.

• Xu Taiping opened the furnace and found that his Earth Treasury Fruit had become a willow branch, which Danmingzi said could nurture many Divine Weapons.
• Danmingzi took Xu Taiping’s eleven Red Flame Fruits and began refining pills, explaining that they could extend his life and strengthen his Origin Returning True Fire.
• Danmingzi described how Red Flame Pills could increase the power of Xu Taiping’s earthly fire against Dao Integration cultivators.
• Danmingzi began teaching Xu Taiping how to revive Jade Mother’s divine intent.

Xu Taiping learned that he must recover Jade Mother's divine intent to command uncorrupted immortal remains and gather nourishment for the earth fruit. He prepared to seek the Fire-Avoidance Pearl and endure innate true fire, though Danmingzi warned that the journey could still cost them their lives.

• Danmingzi told Xu Taiping to carry a willow branch to the Stargazing Platform in the Purple Tenuity Enclosure and receive Jade Mother's divine intent from the star rain.
• Danmingzi revealed that the Star Lords and Divine Generals on the sixth and seventh layers, including Jade Mother, had long since ceased to be themselves.
• Danmingzi explained that Xu Taiping must burn with innate true fire to distinguish Jade Mother's divine intent from that of Otherworldly Evil Gods, and said his true dragon body could briefly withstand it.
• Danmingzi said Xu Taiping would need to surpass Kaiyang Wuqu Star Lord in combat to obtain the Fire-Avoidance Pearl, though the sacred land would suppress the Star Lord's strength during the challenge.
• Danmingzi described how Jade Mother's divine intent would guide Xu Taiping to gather treasures and place them with the willow branch in the Jade Bottle before her Dharma Aspect, so the earth fruit could ripen.
• Xu Taiping asked whether obtaining Jade Mother's divine intent would let them pass through the sacred land unhindered.