Chapter Summaries

Taishu Jing defeated and killed Elder Tan, a second-turn Saint, using the Three Lives Fist after smashing apart his Stream of Time with the small cauldron. The Weapon Soul devoured some of Elder Tan’s Saint’s Blood, while the young man who had witnessed the battle was left in disbelief.

• Taishu Jing shattered Elder Tan’s law sword and wounded him with the small cauldron, which eagerly absorbed the Saint’s Blood.
• Taishu Jing told Elder Tan his three moves were over and challenged him to withstand one final attack.
• Elder Tan used Wood-Water Heaven and Earth, but Taishu Jing’s Three Lives Fist broke his Saint Weapon and pierced his brow.
• Elder Tan died with a satisfied smile after recalling a woman from his past, and Taishu Jing let the small cauldron drink some of his Saint’s Blood.
• The young man who watched the battle could not accept that Elder Tan had lost to Taishu Jing, a cultivator in the Seventh Realm.

Taishu Yun and Taishu Jing killed the two Saints who had come after them, then Taishu Jing gave a Saint Realm to Little White. The surviving young man confessed that his elder brother had sent him to kill Taishu Yun over Junior Sister Qingyue, and Taishu Yun faced him with killing intent.

• Taishu Yun shattered Elder Hu's Saint Weapon and killed him with a spacetime-powered punch.
• Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun reunited, and Taishu Yun decided to deal with the terrified young man himself.
• Taishu Jing gave the dead Saint's ownerless Saint Realm to Little White and buried the corpse.
• The young man begged Taishu Yun to spare him and revealed that his elder brother had sent him to kill Taishu Yun because he wanted Junior Sister Qingyue.
• Taishu Yun looked at the young man with killing intent after hearing him dismiss his brother's responsibility.

Nearly a year after the Beast Tide, Taishu Yun and Taishu Jing returned to the Taishu Family and found the younger generation had grown stronger. While Taishu Jing and Little White teased each other on the journey, Taishu Yun resolved to go to Star Palace and kill Shentu Jue.

• The Taishu Family’s younger generation entered the Spirit Vein Realm after Taishu Yun and Taishu Jing helped build their foundations.
• Taishu Jing carried Little White through the air as she kissed his cheek, and he responded with an easy smile.
• Taishu Yun reflected on Lan Xiyue and vowed to visit Star Palace rather than let her down.
• Taishu Yun agreed to go to Star Palace with Taishu Jing and declared that Shentu Jue must die.

Taishu Yun killed Shentu Xing after learning that Shentu Xing’s brother was connected to Star Palace, then prepared to continue home with Taishu Jing and Little White. As they left, Taishu Jing carried Little White on his back, while Taishu Yun considered reforging the Star Cloud Bell.

• Taishu Jing angrily condemned Shentu Xing for insulting younger brothers, and Taishu Yun dismissed Shentu Xing’s threats about his brother and the seventh-revolution Saint.
• Taishu Yun killed Shentu Xing, collected his Dantian Inner World, and learned that Shentu Xing had revealed details about the Shentu Clan.
• Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun discussed brotherly loyalty, while Little White hugged Taishu Jing and climbed onto his back.
• Taishu Yun extracted the old Saint’s Saint Realm, buried the body, and reflected on the battle’s effects on himself and the Star Cloud Bell.
• Taishu Yun and Taishu Jing set off toward home, with Little White riding on Taishu Jing’s back.

Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun returned to their family courtyard with Little White after deciding they would eventually confront Shentu Jue and settle the matter of the Ice Dragon Vein. They rested together until Murong Jingyu discovered Taishu Jing and Little White asleep in the same bed.

• Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun agreed to face Shentu Jue and address the Half-Saint Grade Ice Dragon Vein at the Center of the Continent.
• Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun joked about being unable to escape the Pass of the Beauty, while Little White showed her affection for Taishu Jing.
• The brothers arrived at their hometown and went straight to their courtyard to avoid a crowd welcoming them home.
• Taishu Yun returned to his room, while Little White rested in Taishu Jing's arms and the two fell asleep.
• Murong Jingyu entered the courtyard, found Taishu Jing and Little White sleeping together, and was shocked.

Taishu Yun told Murong Jingyun about the brothers’ journey and explained that he and Taishu Jing had returned to protect the family before continuing toward the Center of the Continent. Murong Jingyun agreed to let them set up a teleportation array so she could visit her parents in Cloud City, and the brothers prepared to leave once their work was done.

• Murong Jingyun found Taishu Jing asleep beside Little White and teased Taishu Yun about their height difference.
• Taishu Yun recounted the brothers’ experiences over the past year, including Little Fire’s departure, and explained that they needed to strengthen the family’s defenses.
• Taishu Yun offered to have Taishu Jing set up a teleportation array so Murong Jingyun could visit her parents in Cloud City.
• Murong Jingyun agreed to the array and joked that it would let her take Taishu Yun’s father to meet his in-laws.
• Taishu Yun said he and Taishu Jing would leave soon, then reflected on the difficulty Saints faced crossing the vast distance to the Center of the Continent.

Taishu Yun and Taishu Jing created a secret realm from a modified Law Small World and gave Taishu Feng and Murong Jingyun the means to control and access it. The family agreed to keep the realm secret as Taishu Yun and Taishu Jing prepared to leave.

• Taishu Yun handed the Space-Time Small World to Taishu Jing, who expanded it and inscribed a Twin Great Formation with his Heavenly Arrow Formation Seal as its core.
• Taishu Jing gave Taishu Feng half of the formation seal, allowing him to control and conceal the formation inside the Small World.
• Taishu Yun warned Taishu Feng and Murong Jingyun to keep the Small World secret, and Taishu Feng agreed that only they and the elders would know about it.
• Murong Jingyun playfully pinched Taishu Jing's cheeks while the family joked together.
• Taishu Yun gave Taishu Feng and Murong Jingyun access imprints, which they had to activate together to open or close the Small World.

Taishu Jing, Taishu Yun, and Little White left the Taishu Family after Taishu Jing secured the Small World and a teleportation formation for his parents. They set out for the Center of the Continent and planned to ask Steward Du for information about the journey ahead.

• Taishu Jing entrusted the Small World to Taishu Feng and Murong Jingyun and taught them how to enter and leave it.
• Taishu Jing arranged a five-turn teleportation formation that would transport the family to Cloud City.
• Taishu Jing, Taishu Yun, and Little White said goodbye to Taishu Feng and Murong Jingyun, then departed from the family.
• Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun overcame their sadness at leaving home as the three arrived above the Cloud Dream Mountain Range.
• Taishu Jing proposed asking Steward Du to explain the Center of the Continent and help them plan their route.

Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun visited Steward Du to learn which powers at the Center of the Continent could threaten them, and he introduced a ballad that named its greatest forces. The brothers learned that Little White’s ancestral land, Myriad Emperors Ridge, was among those formidable powers.

• Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun asked Steward Du for information about the Center of the Continent, and he showed them a map of the region.
• Steward Du explained that powers with Dao Source Realm experts were among the strongest and said they were known through a famous ballad.
• Steward Du recited the ballad’s lines, revealing the names and descriptions of many powerful forces at the Center of the Continent.
• Taishu Jing teased Little White about Myriad Emperors Ridge, and Little White confirmed that its inherited memories described the strength of the beast clans gathered there.

Steward Du offered Taishu Yun and Taishu Jing a dangerous ancestral route and a safe Treasure Exchange Pavilion route to the Center of the Continent, and they chose the dangerous one. Before leaving, Taishu Jing asked about the Ice Dragon Vein transaction and gave Steward Du a first-transformation Saint Medicine as a parting gift.

• Steward Du revealed two routes to the Center of the Continent and explained that the perilous scroll was his personal possession, while the safe route had been arranged by his superior.
• Taishu Yun and Taishu Jing accepted the perilous route, saying they wanted adventure along the way and that danger made cultivation worthwhile.
• Taishu Jing asked which faction had traded for the Ice Dragon Vein, and Steward Du said it might have been the Ice Origin Sect.
• Taishu Yun and Taishu Jing thanked Steward Du and prepared to leave the Treasure Exchange Pavilion.
• Taishu Jing gave Steward Du a Saint Medicine that had completed its first transformation, then left with Taishu Yun.

Taishu Jing, Taishu Yun, and Little White left Cloud City and followed their route toward the Chu Dynasty. After crossing into Wind Kingdom, they learned that the Chu Dynasty supplied it with resources in exchange for valuable metals and ores, while Wind Kingdom lacked the strength to resist.

• Taishu Jing, Taishu Yun, and Little White studied Steward Du's route map and identified the Chu Dynasty as their next destination.
• Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun decided to leave Cloud City without saying goodbye to their grandparents, then departed through the city gates.
• The three travelers crossed into Wind Kingdom and learned from its people that the country was built around desert oases and rich metal deposits.
• Taishu Jing told Taishu Yun that the Chu Dynasty gained Wind Kingdom's mined resources in exchange for supplies.
• Taishu Yun noted that Wind Kingdom could not oppose the arrangement because its Sovereign was only in the Sixth Realm, while the Chu Dynasty's ruler had reached the Eighth Realm.

Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun crossed Wind Kingdom during a sandstorm and met an elderly man traveling with his granddaughter, Yu'er. After Taishu Jing gave Yu'er a Spirit Fruit, the two discovered that she had the rare Ice Muscle Jade Bone physique, though her grandfather did not believe she had unusual talent.

• An elderly traveler gave Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun headscarves to protect them from Wind Kingdom’s sandstorms and introduced his granddaughter, Yu'er.
• Taishu Yun learned that Yu'er's parents had been killed by ferocious beasts while excavating, and that the old man and girl had to fend for themselves to survive.
• Taishu Jing gave Yu'er a Spirit Fruit, which she ate without becoming sleepy.
• Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun recognized that the Spirit Fruit had awakened Yu'er's Ice Muscle Jade Bone physique, a rare cultivation talent.
• Yu'er's grandfather dismissed Taishu Jing's praise of her aptitude, while Taishu Jing kept the truth to himself.

Taishu Jing left the group’s desert campsite and discovered a pack of scorpions beneath the sand. He killed them and planned to use them for breakfast.

• Taishu Yun and the old man spoke about the local excavators’ years of traveling and working in the desert.
• Taishu Jing walked away from camp, and the old man worried that he might be attacked by fierce beasts.
• Taishu Jing used his Divine Sense to find more than a dozen second-rank desert beasts beneath the sand.
• The scorpions attacked with their poisonous tails, but Taishu Jing trapped them in midair and snapped their necks.
• Taishu Jing noticed the scorpions’ blue-tinged blood essence and decided they would make breakfast.

Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun gave the Sand Scorpions’ valuable remains to the old man’s group, who had helped and cared for them during their journey. After the group settled for the night, Taishu Jing began teaching Yu'er to cultivate and drew spiritual energy into her body.

• Taishu Jing returned with a dozen or so Sand Scorpions, and the old man’s group dismantled them for their valuable parts.
• Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun refused to keep the Sand Scorpions’ remains and urged the old man’s group to accept them as a goodwill gift.
• The old man’s group stored the items and rested after the work was finished.
• Yu'er woke, went to Taishu Jing, and accepted a Spirit Fruit he gave her.
• Taishu Jing asked Yu'er if she wanted to cultivate, then brought her to the top of the stone pillar and demonstrated cultivation.
• Yu'er imitated Taishu Jing, and spiritual energy began flowing into her body to nourish her Ice Muscle Jade Bone constitution.

Taishu Jing reflected on his Dao Fa while Yu'er began cultivating and reached the Blood Bone Realm overnight. The group traveled toward the city, but a cloud of dust and commotion appeared nearby before they arrived.

• Little White asked Taishu Jing why he had taught Yu'er to cultivate, and he said he had simply wanted to help her.
• Little White rested in Taishu Jing's arms as he contemplated nature and the great Dao, while Yu'er cultivated through the night.
• Yu'er woke feeling stronger, met Little White, and asked about her horns before Taishu Jing brought her down from the stone pillar.
• Taishu Jing, Yu'er, Taishu Yun, and the old man's group ate breakfast and set out toward the city.
• After traveling through the desert for a morning, the group neared the city, but a swirling cloud of dust and chaotic sounds arose nearby.

Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun learned about Wind Kingdom’s murderous sand bandits as a band of them rode toward their group. The bandits surrounded the travelers, and their leader threatened them, unaware of what the Taishu brothers could do.

• Taishu Yun asked the old man about dangers caused by people in the desert, and he explained that sand bandits robbed and killed their victims.
• The old man said Wind Kingdom had one band of several hundred sand bandits, led by a Fifth Realm expert with several Fourth Realm subordinates.
• Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun heard the approaching Sand Camels, and the old man rallied the travelers to prepare to fight.
• The travelers formed a circle and stood between the sand bandits and Taishu Jing, Taishu Yun, and little Yu'er.
• The leading sand bandit mocked the old man and his companions, boasting that his Soul Palace Realm cultivation made them easy to crush.

Taishu Jing subdued a group of sand bandits with the Power of Heaven and Earth and demanded to know where their headquarters was. The Sand Bandit Leader refused to cooperate, so Taishu Jing decided to take him there by force.

• Nearly fifty sand bandits confronted the old man’s group and demanded their belongings, while the old man and the scar-faced man prepared to fight back.
• Taishu Jing reassured Yu'er and asked the Sand Bandit Leader about the bandits’ numbers, learning that they had over four hundred members split into groups of around fifty.
• Taishu Jing commanded the sand bandits to kneel, and the Power of Heaven and Earth crushed them and their Sand Camels into the sand.
• Taishu Jing demanded the location of the bandit headquarters and claimed its treasures for himself.
• The Sand Bandit Leader refused to reveal the headquarters, warning Taishu Jing that the bandit chiefs were powerful, so Taishu Jing threw sand in his eyes and said he would take him there.

Taishu Jing forced the Sand Bandit Leader to reveal the location of the sand bandits' headquarters and set off with Taishu Yun to claim its riches. The leader secretly regretted surrendering and resolved to guide the brothers into a deadly place instead.

• Taishu Jing disintegrated the remaining sand bandits after the Sand Bandit Leader agreed to lead him to their headquarters.
• Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun accepted thanks from the old man and Yu'er, then gave the group the sand bandits' possessions and spare Sand Camels.
• Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun departed with the Sand Bandit Leader, who guided them toward the sand bandits' headquarters.
• The Sand Bandit Leader began plotting to lure the brothers into a dangerous place where he hoped they would die.

The Sand Bandit Leader led Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun to the Cave King's hunting ground, hoping the beast would kill them. Instead, the brothers easily defeated the Cave King, leaving the bandit helpless and the beast dead.

• The Sand Bandit Leader brought Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun near his headquarters and pointed them toward a dune, hiding his plan to send them into the Cave King's hunting ground.
• Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun stepped onto the dune, and the Cave King burst from beneath it as the Sand Bandit Leader revealed his scheme.
• Taishu Jing knocked the Cave King into the sand with a spiritual-power palm, stunning the Sand Bandit Leader.
• Taishu Yun struck the Cave King with a larger golden palm, shattering its shell and killing it.
• Taishu Jing reproached Taishu Yun for using far more than a little extra force as Precious Blood and blue crystals flowed from the corpse.

After killing the Cave King, Taishu Jing learned the sand bandits’ secrets from their leader’s True Spirit and followed Taishu Yun to their hidden headquarters. The brothers infiltrated the bandits’ gathering, and Taishu Jing revealed that he meant to slaughter them.

• Taishu Jing killed the Sand Bandit Leader by extracting and crushing his newly formed True Spirit, learning the locations of the bandits’ headquarters and treasury and hearing about a mysterious Underground Palace.
• Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun traveled to the headquarters, hidden beneath a stretch of sandstone, and entered its underground chamber.
• The brothers found more than three hundred sand bandits celebrating after a raid and killing dozens of people they called fat sheep.
• Taishu Jing disguised their purpose and joined the bandits’ conversation, then said he would slaughter a batch of fat sheep too.
• The sand bandits realized Taishu Jing was referring to them and fell silent, turning to face him and Taishu Yun.