Chapter Summaries

After the Alchemy Master Competition, Taishu Yun and Taishu Jing prepared to return to their clan and advance to the Seventh Realm. Taishu Yun revealed a Dark Mist region that might hold traces of power beyond Laws, and the brothers decided to investigate it.

• Alchemist Fu Yuan and his group left Cloud City after refusing attempts by other forces to court him.
• Taishu Yun and Taishu Jing agreed to return to their clan after finding a suitable place to advance and complete their Law Small World.
• Taishu Yun told Taishu Jing about a barren region covered in Dark Mist, where an expert who grasped the Path of Darkness might have fallen.
• Taishu Yun suspected the lingering influence came from something deeper than Laws, possibly left by an expert above the Saint Realm.
• Taishu Jing insisted they go to the Dark Mist region, and Taishu Yun agreed to join him.

Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun decided to explore the Dark Death Land despite warnings about its deadly Dark Mist. They left Cloud City for the forbidden zone, teasing each other as they traveled.

• Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun told Murong Po and Murong Clan they planned to visit the Dark Death Land, and Murong Clan warned them of its dangers.
• Murong Clan accepted that the brothers would go, while Murong Po trusted their good fortune to protect them.
• Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun left Cloud City and flew southeast toward the Dark Death Land, which lay over a hundred thousand li away.
• Taishu Jing complained about traveling without Little Fire, then rejected Little White's offer to carry him as Taishu Yun and Little White teased him.

Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun entered the Dark Death Land, where the Dark Mist eroded even their law-light. They stopped to condense laws and advance into the Seventh Realm, while Little White guarded them; a dangerous Thunder Tribulation began forming overhead.

• Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun arrived at the Dark Death Land, and Little White warned them that its Dark Mist came from something deeper than laws.
• Taishu Yun and Taishu Jing entered the forbidden land, protecting themselves with their laws as the Dark Mist grew more corrosive.
• Taishu Yun stopped Taishu Jing from going farther when the Dark Mist began dissolving their law-light, and they decided to advance first.
• Little White declined to advance with them and instead used her divine art and the Way of Space to shield herself from the Dark Mist.
• Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun began condensing laws, and dark clouds gathered above them as their Thunder Tribulation formed black-gold lightning.

Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun faced the Thousand Lightning Tribulation of Destruction, whose law-piercing Spears of Destruction overwhelmed their defenses. Taishu Jing’s Starfall Bow cracked as the relentless barrage continued.

• Black-gold lightning spears emerged from the Tribulation Clouds and tore through the Dark Mist toward Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun.
• The Spears of Destruction shattered the pair’s law screen and burned them, prompting Taishu Yun to warn Taishu Jing to resist with everything he had.
• Taishu Jing used the Starfall Bow to fire arrows of laws at the incoming spears, while Taishu Yun weakened them with the Star Cloud Bell before striking them himself.
• The Spears of Destruction multiplied into a dense rain, wounding both youths and denting Taishu Yun’s bell as they struggled to hold out.
• Taishu Jing’s Yin Yang Life Death Diagram failed to stop the spears, and the Starfall Bow cracked under the assault.

Taishu Jing destroyed the Thousand Lightning Tribulation of Destruction with the Heavenly God Fist after his Starfall Bow broke, while Taishu Yun also survived the tribulation. A Jade Pool of Purple Qi Nectar appeared as their reward, and Taishu Jing drank from it to heal his Divine Sense and strengthen his Divine Body.

• Taishu Jing’s Starfall Bow broke under the Spears of Destruction, damaging his Divine Sense, and he saved its wounded Weapon Soul.
• Taishu Jing summoned Heavenly God’s Descent and used the Heavenly God Fist to destroy the remaining Spears of Destruction, sensing an aura hidden beneath laws.
• Taishu Jing survived the tribulation but suffered severe wounds, while Taishu Yun overcame it with his Star Cloud Bell intact and strengthened.
• A Jade Pool containing Purple Qi Nectar appeared above the dead land after the tribulation ended.
• Taishu Jing drank the Purple Qi Nectar, which nourished his Divine Sense and strengthened the origin of his Divine Body.

Taishu Jing drank the Purple Qi Nectar, stole the Jade Pool, and used the heaven-and-earth purple qi to strengthen his Divine Body Origin as he condensed laws. Taishu Yun also condensed laws, and their achievements produced vast heavenly phenomena across the world.

• Taishu Jing drank nearly all the Purple Qi Nectar, raising his Divine Body Origin from just over forty percent to around sixty-two percent.
• Taishu Jing took the Jade Pool into his Small World, and the Heavenly Dao allowed him to keep it without punishment.
• Taishu Jing gathered crystalline laws, formed a Law Bow from his Arrow Dao law, and grasped the law of reincarnation.
• Purple clouds and a thirty-thousand-li Purple Qi River appeared around Taishu Jing, nourishing his Divine Body Origin and becoming visible to the citizens of Yun Country.
• Taishu Yun absorbed the Purple Qi Nectar and condensed his laws, prompting a thirty-thousand-li Dao Diagram filled with mountains, rivers, divine beasts, and beings to appear.

Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun completed their advancement in the Dark Death Land, manifesting vast law-condensation phenomena and receiving heavenly treasures. Taishu Jing gained an Innate Purple Qi Source, finished transforming into a Law Body, and reunited with Little White as Taishu Yun teased him about his tribulation.

• Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun manifested Primordial Phenomena spanning thirty thousand miles, which disappeared after half an hour.
• Taishu Jing received an Innate Purple Qi Source from an Auspicious Cloud and used spiritual power to produce an Acquired Purple Qi Source.
• Taishu Jing placed the Innate Purple Qi Source in his Small World, where it resonated with the Jade Pool and began generating purple qi.
• Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun tempered their bodies with the Power of Laws and completed their Law Body transformations.
• Taishu Jing descended and found Little White waiting, then Taishu Yun arrived and teased him about looking bedraggled during the tribulation.

Taishu Yun and Taishu Jing teased each other before sharing rare spiritual treasures with Little White. After revealing their sources of Profound Yellow Mother Qi and Purple Qi, they encouraged Little White to advance next.

• Taishu Yun teased Taishu Jing about choosing a bow as his Spirit Weapon, and Little White playfully embraced the embarrassed Taishu Jing.
• Taishu Yun revealed that he had obtained a Profound Yellow Mother Qi Source and gave strands of Profound Yellow Mother Qi to Taishu Jing and Little White.
• Taishu Jing shared Acquired Purple Qi Source with Taishu Yun and Little White, and Little White recognized the rare treasure.
• Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun urged Little White to advance, saying they believed she would have what she needed.

Little White completed her advancement to the Seventh Realm, forming a Law Body and a Law Weapon. Heaven and earth then bestowed a Chaos Green Lotus phenomenon and a strand of Chaos Origin Qi, leaving her able to cultivate Chaos Origin Crystals.

• Little White condensed three hundred million Dao Law Runes, shaped them into a Daoist robe and silver-white mirror, and advanced to the Seventh Realm.
• Little White’s Laws cleansed her body and Dragon Soul, completing her Law Body and allowing her strength to break through a barrier.
• Chaos Qi flooded the sky as a Chaos Green Lotus appeared, and a lotus seed fell into Little White’s Small World.
• Heaven and earth bestowed a strand of Chaos Origin Qi, which could produce Chaos Qi and nurture Chaos Origin Crystals.

After Little White gained Chaos Origin Qi and created two Chaos Origin Crystals, she gave one each to Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun. Taishu Jing decided to forge a cauldron as his new Dao-Forging Artifact, while Little White received Void-Shattering Silver Iron so she could forge her own.

• Little White descended after her breakthrough and gave Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun a Chaos Origin Crystal each.
• Taishu Jing lamented that the Starfall Bow had broken, and Taishu Yun urged him to forge a more suitable Dao-Forging Artifact.
• Little White suggested that Taishu Jing forge a mirror, but he declined and chose a four-legged cauldron instead.
• Taishu Jing asked Taishu Yun for Void-Shattering Silver Iron so Little White could forge her own Dao-Forging Artifact.
• Taishu Yun gave Taishu Jing a piece of Void-Shattering Silver Iron, and Taishu Jing handed it to Little White in exchange for Acquired Purple Qi Source.

After the Thunder Tribulation cleared a vacuum in the Dark Death Land, Taishu Jing and Little White forged new Dao-Forging Artifacts from rare materials. Their cauldron and mirror faced separate heavenly tribulations to complete their formation.

• Taishu Jing melted the Starfall Bow fragments with Chaos Origin Crystal, Acquired Purple Qi Source, and Profound Yellow Mother Qi, then forged them into a Pale Purple Cauldron.
• Taishu Jing merged the Starfall Bow’s Weapon Soul into the cauldron, repairing and transforming it into a Dao Weapon and his future Dao-Forging Artifact.
• Little White forged a silver-purple mirror from materials suited to her Great Dao, including Void-Shattering Silver Iron and Heavenly Thunder Purple Gold.
• A Thunder Vortex formed over each artifact, and Taishu Jing moved out of range as violet-gold lightning began tempering the cauldron and mirror.
• Taishu Jing and Little White saw the artifacts develop divine charm under the heavenly lightning and smiled as their forging neared completion.

After forging new Saint Weapons, Taishu Jing, Taishu Yun, and Little White explored the depths of the Dark Death Land and discovered that its Dark Mist came from a black-gold corpse. They realized its darkness held mysteries beyond laws, and Taishu Yun said they would need Taishu Jing’s formations to study it safely.

• Taishu Jing and Little White received their newly forged weapons after they survived the Thunder Tribulation.
• Taishu Jing, Taishu Yun, and Little White advanced into the Dark Death Land, where they sensed darkness that could overcome the Power of Laws.
• Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun recognized that the darkness might reveal how to cultivate beyond the Saint Realm.
• The three discovered a black-gold skeleton at the source of the Dark Mist, with darkness flowing from it across the dead land.
• Taishu Yun asked Taishu Jing to use his formations to isolate the dense Dark Mist so they could study the corpse.

Taishu Jing formed a Seven-Turn Grand Formation that cleared the Dark Mist around the black-gold corpse, and Taishu Jing, Taishu Yun, and Little White began studying it. A million li away, two Saints explained to a young man that three Primordial Phenomena marked the birth of heroes who had entered the Seventh Realm with over a hundred million Dao Law Runes, leaving him shocked and resentful.

• Taishu Jing created a Seven-Turn Grand Formation that devoured the Dark Mist around the corpse and kept the group safe.
• Taishu Yun, Taishu Jing, and Little White sat around the corpse and began comprehending its mysteries.
• People and cultivators across Yun Country saw three extraordinary phenomena and worried about the Dark Death Land, though they did not understand what the signs meant.
• A young man and two Saints emerged from a spatial rift a million li away from the Dark Death Land.
• Elder Tan identified the phenomena as signs of three extraordinary heroes, and Elder Hu explained that they had entered the Seventh Realm with over a hundred million Dao Law Runes.
• The young man reacted with disbelief and resentment, comparing the Primordial Phenomena to the Ancient Phenomena triggered by his eldest brother.

A young man and two Second Turn Saints traveled through Yun Country to find Saintess Qing Yue’s childhood sweetheart, intending to kill him so she would accept the young man’s elder brother as her Dao Companion. After learning the Lan family lived in the Cloud Dream Mountain Range, they prepared to go there in three days, while Taishu Jing remained unaware of the threat.

• The young man explained that his elder brother had been rejected by Saintess Qing Yue and decided to eradicate her childhood sweetheart.
• Elder Tan and Elder Hu warned the young man that harming Qing Yue’s childhood sweetheart would provoke her, but he refused to turn back.
• The young man and the two elders searched Yun Country for half a month without finding Qing Yue’s hometown.
• Elder Tan learned from a merchant that the Small Lan Family lived in the Cloud Dream Mountain Range at the edge of Yun Country.
• The young man agreed to rest for a few days before departing for the Cloud Dream Mountain Range to carry out his plan.

Taishu Jing learned from the black-gold skeleton that the essence beyond laws was origin, and that awakening Primordial Power led to the Dao Source Realm. He tested his new understanding by using his laws to cleanse his body and true spirit, enduring severe pain before rejoining Taishu Yun and Little White.

• Taishu Jing comprehended that Primordial Power revealed Great Dao Origin, and that cultivators who awakened it reached the Dao Source Realm, also known as the realm of Kings.
• Taishu Jing concluded that the Nine Revolutions Saint Realm transformed both the Law Body and its laws, and that comprehending their mysteries could awaken origin.
• Taishu Jing used his newly developed laws to cleanse his body and true spirit, suffering intense pain for an hour.
• Taishu Yun and Little White asked Taishu Jing why he had looked like he was in pain, and he denied that anything had happened.

Taishu Jing, Taishu Yun, and Little White extracted the Dark Origin from the black-gold skeleton and left the Dark Death Land. They arrived outside the Cloud Dream Mountain Range, where Taishu Jing felt both eager and nervous about going home.

• Taishu Jing admitted that he had acted recklessly, apologized to Little White, and promised not to do it again.
• Taishu Yun used his Path of Devouring to extract the Dark Origin from the black-gold skeleton, then divided it among himself, Taishu Jing, and Little White.
• Taishu Jing summoned the Chaos Formation Seal back to his body, and the group left the Dark Death Land before its grand formation could collapse.
• Taishu Jing, Taishu Yun, and Little White traveled through the void and emerged outside the Cloud Dream Mountain Range.
• Taishu Yun said that their bodies had reached the Saint Realm and could rival a second-turn Saint.

Taishu Jing, Taishu Yun, and Little White approached their clan while teasing each other about marriage. Their journey was interrupted when a young man and two Saints from the Star Palace appeared, surprised to meet three Seventh Realm youths and a True Dragon.

• Taishu Jing urged Taishu Yun to find Sister Xi Yue before their mother arranged his marriage, and Taishu Yun teased Jing about settling his own marriage with Little White.
• Little White whispered to Taishu Jing, then playfully accused him of disliking her lack of reserve; Jing agreed to listen to her.
• Taishu Yun sensed strangers approaching, and a young man accompanied by Elder Tan and Elder Hu emerged from a spatial rift.
• The visitors recognized Little White as a Seventh Realm dragon, while Elder Tan warned the young man that Taishu Jing, Taishu Yun, and Little White were all in the Seventh Realm.
• Elder Hu cautiously asked which force the youths belonged to and revealed that he and his companions came from the Star Palace in the Center of the Continent.

Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun met a young man from Star Palace who had come with two Saints to kill Lan Xiyue’s childhood sweetheart. Taishu Jing realized the target might be his elder brother, Taishu Yun, and the young man grew suspicious of their origins.

• Taishu Jing told the old Saint that he and Taishu Yun were not from the Center of the Continent, and Little White teased him for calling her wild-born.
• The young man insulted Taishu Jing, so Little White unleashed her Dragon Might and forced him to retreat.
• The young man ordered Elder Tan and Elder Hu to find Junior Sister Qingyue’s family and kill her childhood sweetheart.
• Taishu Jing learned that the young man was looking for a family named Lan in the Cloud Dream Mountain Range and connected the search to Lan Xiyue.
• Taishu Jing asked whether the young man was seeking Lan Xiyue’s childhood sweetheart, and the young man confirmed it before demanding to know Taishu Jing’s true origins.

Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun discovered that the three visitors had come to kill Taishu Yun, then challenged their two Saint guardians instead of fleeing. The brothers revealed their formidable Laws and began fighting the Saints, leaving the battle underway.

• Taishu Jing laughed when the young man revealed his mission, and Taishu Yun realized he was the target because of Qingyue.
• Taishu Jing taunted the young man and the two Saints, while Taishu Yun joined him and Little White was told to hold the line.
• Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun summoned many Laws and formed weapons as the two old Saints prepared their own Law weapons.
• Taishu Jing advanced on the Saints with his Four-legged Cauldron, while Taishu Yun clashed with Elder Tan.
• Taishu Jing smashed his cauldron toward one Saint as Taishu Yun and Elder Tan's clash shattered the surrounding space.

Taishu Jing battled Elder Tan, an old Saint who wielded Wood-Water Laws, and easily broke his first two sword techniques. Elder Tan revealed the Power of Years, and Taishu Jing prepared to challenge it with the Pale Purple Cauldron.

• Taishu Jing shattered Elder Tan’s Water-Wood Azure Sky with his Yin Yang Life Death Diagram.
• Elder Tan launched 108,000 sword shadows, and Taishu Jing countered with 108,000 arrows that overwhelmed them.
• Elder Tan used Water-Wood Years to dissolve Taishu Jing’s arrows with the Power of Years.
• Taishu Jing moved in close with the Pale Purple Cauldron and prepared to break Elder Tan’s Power of Years.