Chapter Summaries

As Xu Taiping absorbed the Crowns of Heaven, his companions fought the escalating Purple Tribulation Lightning to protect him. After a Thunder Dragon struck the Sword Platform and left them battered, another Purple Tribulation Lightning Ring remained as Xu Taiping swallowed the final Crown of Heaven.

• Xiahou You and Heavenly Lord Shihu watched through the Spirit Mirror as Xu Taiping's companions endured the tribulation, while Ping'an and Old Daoist Huang retreated to his side.
• Feng Tianxing, Heavenly Lord Cangzhu, Daoist Fengzhu, Heavenly Lord Hanjian, and Zhong Xuan urged Xu Taiping to keep absorbing the Crowns of Heaven and prepared to face the remaining lightning together.
• A Purple Tribulation Lightning Ring gathered power and formed a Thunder Dragon, which dived toward the Sword Platform.
• Heavenly Lord Cangzhu, Zhong Xuan, and the others emerged battered beneath the shattered Jade Tower Phantom Image, and Heavenly Lord Hanjian's arm remained charred by the thunder.
• Feng Tianxing glanced at Xu Taiping as he swallowed the final Crown of Heaven, while another Purple Tribulation Lightning Ring still shone overhead.

Xu Taiping swallowed and refined the final Crown of Heaven while Feng Tianxing took his place against the last Purple Tribulation Lightning Ring. Xu Taiping's golden core began to crack, bringing him to the final step before nascent soul formation.

• Feng Tianxing offered to withstand the final Purple Tribulation Lightning Ring so the guardians could preserve their strength for the threats afterward.
• Feng Tianxing and the other guardians urged Xu Taiping to seize the opportunity and continue his breakthrough, promising they could share in its fortune.
• Xu Taiping swallowed the final Crown of Heaven, and a much stronger phantom dragon head appeared in the Purple Tribulation Lightning Ring.
• Feng Tianxing transformed into a storm and flew up to meet the tribulation, while Xu Taiping strained to refine the Crown of Heaven's spiritual power.
• Xu Taiping refined the final Crown of Heaven, and the power surged through his meridians into his golden core.
• Xu Taiping's golden core swelled and began to crack, bringing him close to golden core shattering and nascent soul formation.

Xu Taiping endured the pain of shattering his golden core and began forming his nascent soul. As he neared the final step, the tribulation eye opened, forcing Heavenly Lord Cangzhu and the Fengdu Great Emperor to rise and face it.

• Xu Taiping used the power of two Soul-Merging Pills to withstand the pain as his golden core shattered.
• Xu Taiping gathered his divine essence, true essence, origin qi, and blood into a cyan sphere, where the outline of a nascent soul began to form.
• Heavenly Lord Shihu and Xiahou You saw that Xu Taiping had overcome the core-shattering ordeal, while the Dharma Protectors were badly strained by Dong Cangzi and his allies.
• The purple thunder tribulation eye opened above the Sword Platform, and Heavenly Lord Cangzhu and the Fengdu Great Emperor shot into the sky to face it.

Heavenly Lord Cangzhu and Fengdu Great Emperor defended the Sword Platform from the Heavenly Tribulation Eye, and Cangzhu used the Haotian Mirror to suppress its thunder. The Eye unleashed Purple Sky Divine Thunder, which pushed back the mirror’s light, while Heavenly Lord Shihu explained that the lightning could be countered only by enduring it with one’s physical body.

• Heavenly Lord Cangzhu and Fengdu Great Emperor raised golden barriers to protect the Sword Platform from the Heavenly Tribulation Eye’s purple thunder.
• Heavenly Lord Cangzhu summoned the Haotian Mirror as Fengdu Great Emperor formed a Deity Projection to hold back the storm.
• The thunder shattered Fengdu Great Emperor’s projection, which re-formed with eight arms before the giant thunder sword pierced it and threatened Fengdu Great Emperor.
• Heavenly Lord Cangzhu used the Haotian Mirror to dissolve the thunder, but the Eye released Purple Sky Divine Thunder that pushed down the mirror’s light.
• Heavenly Lord Shihu told Xiahou You that Purple Sky Divine Thunder destroyed spells and treasures, while its physical harm was comparable to ordinary tribulation lightning, making bodily resistance possible but perilous.

Heavenly Lord Cangzhu and the Fengdu Great Emperor stopped Xu Taiping’s first bolt of Purple Sky Divine Thunder, allowing him to form a nascent soul, but Dong Cangzi reopened the Heavenly Tribulation Eye. When another bolt appeared, Xu Taiping sent Ping'an, Old Daoist Huang, and Xiaohei back and charged toward it himself.

• The Fengdu Great Emperor trapped the Purple Sky Thunder Dragon in a phantom Nether River, but it broke free, and Heavenly Lord Cangzhu used the Haotian Mirror to destroy its remaining body at the cost of spitting blood.
• The Heavenly Tribulation Eye began to close, and Xu Taiping formed his nascent soul as five-colored light surged around him.
• Dong Cangzi struck the nearly closed Heavenly Tribulation Eye with a black sword shadow and reopened it, prompting another bolt of Purple Sky Divine Thunder to appear.
• Ping'an, Old Daoist Huang, and Xiaohei flew toward the tribulation lightning to protect Xu Taiping, but Xu Taiping knocked them back to the Sword Platform with star soul power.
• Xu Taiping continued toward the Purple Sky Divine Thunder alone, astonishing Xiahou You and Heavenly Lord Shihu.

Xu Taiping completed the formation of his Nascent Soul and began replenishing its breath, transforming his Qi and Blood into golden true blood and his Divine Essence into sixteen layers of Divine Marrow Power. As the Nascent Soul manifested a gourd and Baleful Transformation power, the Purple Sky Divine Thunder struck, and Xu Taiping rose to face it after forcing Ping'an and Old Daoist Huang back.

• Xu Taiping watched his Nascent Soul exhale Innate True Spirit Qi, which transformed his Qi and Blood into golden true blood and greatly increased his strength.
• A second breath transformed Xu Taiping's Divine Essence into sixteen layers of Divine Marrow Power, enhancing his Divine Sense enough to detect the Purple Sky Heavenly Tribulation Eye.
• Xu Taiping sensed that the Dharma Protectors, including Feng Tianxing, were injured and prepared to abandon the Nascent Soul's final exhalation to intercept the tribulation.
• The Nascent Soul's third exhalation formed a gourd and awakened Baleful Transformation power, so Xu Taiping withdrew his attention and rushed toward the falling thunder.
• Xu Taiping used his True Dragon Mountain Spirit Power to drive Ping'an and Old Daoist Huang back, then drew the Water-Cutting Blade as Blade Ghost urged him to withstand the Purple Sky Divine Thunder with his physique alone.

Xu Taiping endured the purple sky divine thunder with his body, trusting Blade Ghost and his own intuition that he still had a choice in the face of despair. He survived the strike, though badly charred, and told his companions he had to live on to see and save the people he cared about.

• Blade Ghost reminded Xu Taiping that despair did not leave him without a choice, and Xu Taiping thanked him before leaping toward the tribulation clouds.
• Xu Taiping asked Blade Ghost about the purple sky divine thunder, then chose to endure it himself.
• The thunder dragon engulfed Xu Taiping, repeatedly scorching his body and divine soul as a coolness from his dantian restored him.
• The Heavenly Tribulation Eye closed, and Xu Taiping fell from the sky until Xiaohei caught him on its back.
• Ping'an blamed himself for failing to protect Xu Taiping, while Old Daoist Huang feared Xu Taiping's body was beyond saving.
• Xu Taiping weakly insisted that he had to live on to see the people he missed and rescue those he wanted to save.

Xu Taiping survived tribulation lightning body tempering with help from his Baleful Intent Transformation Power and his will to live, then discovered a second Origin Power awakening in his nascent soul. Blade Ghost reacted with shock when Xu Taiping identified it as Punishment Baleful Intent Power.

• Xu Taiping's heart began beating again, and his charred flesh peeled away as his body recovered.
• Heavenly Lord Cangzhu and Feng Tianxing realized Xu Taiping had survived using tribulation lightning to temper his body.
• Blade Ghost explained that Xu Taiping's Baleful Intent Transformation Power helped, but his refusal to die let him seize the Heavenly Dao's Survival in Desperate Straits life-force.
• Xu Taiping waited for the Otherworldly Heavenly Demon, the final obstacle to completing his breakthrough, while his injuries healed.
• Xu Taiping saw a lightning-flickering Vajra Pestle appear in his nascent soul's left hand and asked Blade Ghost whether it had awakened Punishment Baleful Intent Power.
• Blade Ghost reacted in shock and demanded that Xu Taiping repeat what he had said.

Xu Taiping’s breakthrough drew Ancestral Qi and a vast horde of Otherworldly Heavenly Demons, while Blade Ghost prepared to use the attackers to test his blade and teach Xu Taiping. The chapter ended as at least three hundred demons descended on the Sword Platform and Blade Ghost eagerly told Xu Taiping to stay close.

• The sky split open above the Sword Platform, and Blade Ghost explained that Xu Taiping’s breakthrough had drawn Ancestral Qi and Otherworldly Heavenly Demons into Shangqing Realm.
• Old Daoist Huang confirmed that Xu Taiping’s Nascent Soul had completed all three breaths, while Heavenly Lord Cangzhu, Feng Tianxing, and the others prepared to defend the Sword Platform.
• Blade Ghost asked Xu Taiping to pass him the Life-Taking Blade, then promised to test his blade against the demons and told Xu Taiping to follow and learn.
• Ancestral Qi poured through the opening as the Otherworldly Heavenly Demons descended, and Ping'an initially thought only seven or eight had arrived.
• The opening widened, releasing at least three hundred Otherworldly Heavenly Demons, and Blade Ghost called them first-rate whetstones before telling Xu Taiping to stay close.

Hundreds of Otherworldly Heavenly Demons descended as Dong Cangzi and the Lawbreakers kept Xu Taiping’s protectors occupied during his tribulation. Feng Tianxing and Ping'an with Old Daoist Huang repelled several demons, but a tiger-headed Sky Demon struck Ping'an with a roar and left him badly wounded.

• Xiahou You and Heavenly Lord Shihu saw that more than three hundred Otherworldly Heavenly Demons were approaching, including at least ten with strength comparable to Heaven-Connecting Realm powerhouses.
• Dong Cangzi’s clone cut a gap in the Dragon-Slaying Ranking, allowing Liu Dong Cang and the Lawbreakers to reach the Sword Platform and harass Xu Taiping’s protectors.
• The first Otherworldly Heavenly Demons landed, and Feng Tianxing killed one after it hurled a spear at Xu Taiping.
• Ping'an and Old Daoist Huang drove back two demons, and Old Daoist Huang killed them by severing their fortune with the Heavenly Balance Ruler.
• A tiger-headed Sky Demon knocked Ping'an backward and unleashed a roar that made blood burst from Ping'an’s Mountain-Lifting Ape true body.

Ping'an and Old Daoist Huang were rescued from two Sky Demons by the Thousand Faces Puppet, which then slaughtered the demons attacking Xu Taiping. As Blade Ghost faced another wave of Sky Demons and Dong Cangzi's attack, he called on Kang Cangzi to stop watching and deal with his treacherous disciple.

• Su, a human-headed Sky Demon, broke Old Daoist Huang's qi-slaying art and bound him and Ping'an with a transformed hair rope.
• The Thousand Faces Puppet cut down Su and the tiger-headed Sky Demon with a single saber slash, rescuing Ping'an and Old Daoist Huang.
• Xu Taiping and the Thousand Faces Puppet faced dozens of Sky Demons, and the puppet used the God-Reining Style to slaughter those on the ground.
• As the puppet prepared to attack the Sky Demons circling above, Dong Cangzi struck at Xu Taiping, forcing Blade Ghost to block and lose his gathered blade force.
• Blade Ghost turned to fight the Sky Demons and shouted for Kang Cangzi to stop watching and slay his treacherous disciple, Dong Cangzi.

Kang Cangzi intervened to stop Dong Cangzi from attacking Xu Taiping and sealed Dong Cangzi’s clone. As Blade Ghost fought the Otherworldly Heavenly Demons, he corrected Xu Taiping’s technique, and Xu Taiping began striking down the demons with greater force.

• Kang Cangzi’s golden light burned half the Otherworldly Heavenly Demons to ashes, and he agreed with Blade Ghost to split the remaining enemies.
• Dong Cangzi ignored Kang Cangzi’s order and struck at Xu Taiping, but Kang Cangzi seized and sealed Dong Cangzi’s clone.
• Blade Ghost invited Kang Cangzi to watch his blade techniques, then urged Xu Taiping to join the fight.
• Xu Taiping used the God-Binding Form to cut an Otherworldly Heavenly Demon incarnation in half.
• Blade Ghost demonstrated a more domineering Binding Blade Form, cutting apart a dozen Otherworldly Heavenly Demon incarnations.
• Xu Taiping thanked Senior Blade Ghost and used the Binding Blade Form to destroy several more demon incarnations.

Xu Taiping and Blade Ghost annihilated waves of Otherworldly Heavenly Demons, then Xu Taiping joined Heavenly Lord Cangzhu and the others in using the Thunder Sound Five-Direction Earth-Splitting Formation to seal the sky breach. With the demons defeated, legendary ancestral qi descended toward the Sword Platform, poised to complete Xu Taiping’s breakthrough to Dao Integration.

• Xu Taiping and Blade Ghost unleashed the Demon-Slaying Style, crushing a hundred-odd Otherworldly Heavenly Demons with a formation of deity projections.
• Several hundred more Otherworldly Heavenly Demons descended through the hole in the sky, and Xu Taiping threw Thunder Sound Banners to Feng Tianxing and the other powerful figures.
• Xu Taiping, Heavenly Lord Cangzhu, Feng Tianxing, and the others formed the Thunder Sound Five-Direction Earth-Splitting Formation and crushed the descending demons with its phantom millstone.
• Xu Taiping and the others raised the phantom millstone to block the sky breach, destroying the demons that descended and frightening some into fleeing.
• Black astral qi with a five-colored halo descended from the breach, and Heavenly Lord Shihu identified it as ancestral qi that would complete Xu Taiping’s breakthrough to Dao Integration.

Xu Taiping absorbed Ancestral Qi to cleanse his body and soul, then began merging it with his Origin Powers as he advanced through Dao Integration. His breakthrough’s growing signs of power left Heavenly Lord Shihu wondering whether Xu Taiping might reach the Heaven-Connecting Realm.

• Feng Tianxing, Blade Ghost, and the others withdrew to the edge of the Sword Platform as Xu Taiping prepared to absorb the Ancestral Qi from Beyond the Domain.
• Xu Taiping drew the Ancestral Qi into his body, cleansing his physique and Divine Soul of turbid qi and heightening his perception of the Heavens.
• A five-colored aura entered Xu Taiping’s Divine Soul and awakened his understanding of the Spring Heavenly Dao Edict, but an invisible seal prevented him from accessing it fully.
• Xu Taiping began merging Ancestral Qi with the Origin Powers in his Primordial Spirit, Heart Aperture, and Nascent Soul.
• As Xu Taiping’s breakthrough produced expanding halos and auspicious clouds, Heavenly Lord Shihu watched the signs rise from one layer to five and wondered if Xu Taiping could reach Heaven-Connecting upon Dao Integration.

As Xu Taiping broke through to Dao Integration Origin Opening, a divine resonance containing an edict of the Great Dao descended into him. His surging aura and thirteen Dao Integration Spirit Patterns left Heavenly Lord Shihu wondering whether he would reach Dao-Integration Heavenly Communion directly.

• Xiahou You and Heavenly Lord Shihu watched Xu Taiping's auspicious clouds expand to seven hundred zhang, and Shihu judged that he could reach Dao Integration Origin Opening but not Heavenly Communion.
• Xu Taiping's auspicious clouds and Spirit Patterns grew until he broke through to Dao Integration Origin Opening, sending a pillar of golden light into the sky.
• A silver thread shining with five-colored light descended from the sky canopy and entered Xu Taiping, whom Shihu identified as receiving a divine resonance containing an edict of the Great Dao.
• Heavenly Lord Shihu explained that the resonance could help Xu Taiping comprehend an edict, and Xiahou You realized it might allow him to reach Heavenly Communion.
• Xu Taiping's aura pillar doubled in size, his Spirit Patterns increased from eight to thirteen, and Shihu wondered if he was about to break through to Dao-Integration Heavenly Communion.

Xu Taiping comprehended the Tai Su Balance-Void Law and completed his breakthrough from Dao Integration to Heavenly Communion. Just as others congratulated him, Dong Cangzi’s phantom redirected a Ruin Star toward the world, and Xu Taiping tried to lift it with his new Great Dao edict.

• Ancestral qi poured down and enveloped Xu Taiping, prompting Heavenly Lord Shihu and Xiahou You to marvel at his breakthrough and cultivation.
• Xu Taiping tested the Tai Su Balance-Void Law, making snowflakes strike with tremendous weight and a massive boulder float like a feather.
• Xu Taiping released his origin magic power and completed his breakthrough into the Heavenly Communion Realm.
• Feng Tianxing and others congratulated Xu Taiping, but a Ruin Star began plunging toward the world.
• Dong Cangzi’s phantom broke free of Kang Cangzi’s seal and used Star Moving to send the Ruin Star toward the world.
• Xu Taiping invoked the Tai Su Balance-Void Law and commanded the Ruin Star to rise.

Xu Taiping used his newly comprehended Great Dao edict to repel Dong Cangzi’s Ruin Star, then collapsed from the strain. Dong Cangzi revealed Xu Taiping’s treasures and secrets to provoke the Cultivation World into hunting him.

• Dong Cangzi used the Star Moving edict to send a Ruin Star crashing toward Xu Taiping and the others at Xuān Pǔ Palace.
• Xu Taiping invoked the Tai Su Balance-Void Law, grew to more than a thousand zhang tall, and punched the Ruin Star away from the Yellow Springs Ruins.
• Xu Taiping collapsed after the exertion, and Heavenly Lord Shihu recognized that he had reached the Dao-Integration Heavenly Communion Realm and comprehended a Great Dao edict.
• Kang Cangzi burned Dong Cangzi’s phantom-image clone with his Natal True Fire, but Dong Cangzi warned that he had entangled Kang Cangzi in karma.
• Dong Cangzi revealed images of Xu Taiping’s treasures and secret arts, then threatened to expose his Earth Treasury Fruit and make him a target of the Cultivation World.

After Dong Cangzi exposed Xu Taiping’s opportunities and vowed to hunt him, Xu Taiping learned that his rise to the Dao-Integration Heavenly Communion Realm had made the Upper Realm dangerous for him. Kang Cangzi gave him the complete Taiqing Clone Art and a way to escape to the Muhe Spirit Field, while Xu Taiping learned that Ding Mou planned to challenge Dong Cangzi in three years.

• Dong Cangzi taunted Xu Taiping from the Sword Platform before his phantom shattered, and Xu Taiping was relieved that the secret of the Spirit Bone Pills remained hidden.
• Kang Cangzi asked Xu Taiping’s Dharma Protectors to leave; Feng Tianxing, Heavenly Lord Cangzhu, Xuanbei, Fengdu Great Emperor, and Fengzhu departed with warnings.
• Heavenly Lord Hanjian told Xu Taiping that Ding Mou would challenge Dong Cangzi for a Half-Immortal Seat in three years and gave him a Moonlight Stone to watch the contest.
• Blade Ghost reproached Kang Cangzi for failing to protect Xu Taiping from Dong Cangzi’s move, and Kang Cangzi apologized and gave Xu Taiping the complete Taiqing Clone Art.
• Kang Cangzi gave Xu Taiping a bead that could transport the group to the Muhe Spirit Field in the Kunlun Ruins, and Blade Ghost and Old Daoist Huang reacted with shock at the costly gift.

Xu Taiping and his companions took refuge in the sealed Xuān Pǔ Palace secret realm while he recovered, and Blade Ghost explained the danger of seeking a Half-Immortal Seat. The chapter ended with Xu Taiping asking Blade Ghost whether he now knew who he was.

• Kang Cangzi warned Xu Taiping that the Muhe Spirit Field would only protect them for three to five years and invited him to join the Chaotic Stars Demon-Slaying Assembly.
• The Six-Nostril Mirror used the Jade Mother's Edict to seal Xuān Pǔ Palace for ten to twelve hours, giving Xu Taiping and his companions time to recover.
• At Jade Balance Mountain, Heavenly Lord Shihu learned that the Ancestor had ordered an investigation into Xu Taiping's whereabouts, while Xiahou You prepared to enter seclusion for the Chaotic Stars Assembly.
• Blade Ghost confirmed that Xu Taiping's origin magic power had not been damaged and explained that all Half-Immortal Seats were occupied, so a new Half-Immortal would have to challenge someone holding a seat.
• Blade Ghost refused to reveal the Cultivation World's deeper secrets because Xu Taiping was not ready, and Xu Taiping asked whether Blade Ghost now knew his own identity.

Blade Ghost warned Xu Taiping about the danger of his Heavenly Dao Edict and promised to reveal three routes from the Upper Realm to the Lower Realm at the Muhe Spirit Field. After Xu Taiping and his companions escaped Xuān Pǔ, they arrived at the Muhe Spirit Field and faced a giant demonic creature.

• Blade Ghost told Xu Taiping he needed to recover his cultivation and find his true body, but offered to share knowledge of three passages to the Lower Realm once they reached the Muhe Spirit Field.
• Blade Ghost warned Xu Taiping that Half-Immortal experts might kill him to extract his Heavenly Dao Edict, which would remain sealed until he reached the Half-Immortal Realm unless he forcibly empowered it.
• Xu Taiping told Blade Ghost that his Nascent Soul had produced both Punishment Baleful Intent and Baleful Transformation, and Blade Ghost said the combination would make him unmatched among cultivators of the same realm once he stabilized his cultivation.
• Old Daoist Huang warned Xu Taiping that hundreds of new auras of misfortune had appeared, so Xu Taiping left the promised Netherworld Artifacts and Jade Slip for Fengdu Prefecture and crushed Kang Cangzi's Spirit Pearl.
• Xu Taiping, Old Daoist Huang, Ping'an, and their companions arrived at the Muhe Spirit Field, where a demonic creature over a hundred zhang tall charged at them.