Chapter Summaries

Qin Tian brought Yin Tiande to the Eight Sceneries Palace and offered to take him as a disciple, while Yin Tiande demanded a same-realm battle to preserve his pride. After Qin Tian defeated him and shared Laozi’s legacy, Yin Tiande accepted him as master, and Qin Tian declared his aim to spread cultivation methods throughout the world.

• Qin Tian transported everyone away, then brought Yin Tiande into the Eight Sceneries Palace and offered to take him as a disciple.
• Yin Tiande challenged Qin Tian to fight at the same realm, wagering that he would leave the palace if he won and become Qin Tian’s disciple if he lost.
• Qin Tian created a paper effigy with the strength of a Ninth Heaven Great Power, and it defeated Yin Tiande and sealed his essence, qi, and spirit.
• While the effigy fought Yin Tiande, Qin Tian studied Laozi’s Taiqing One Qi Primordial Unity Slash, One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, and Alchemy Scripture.
• Qin Tian gave Yin Tiande Laozi’s scriptures without demanding tests and said he wanted everyone to have methods to cultivate.
• Yin Tiande bowed to Qin Tian as his master, and Qin Tian took pride in being called a cultivator of great virtue.

Qin Tian inspected the Cloud Dream Realm and decided to delay teaching Yin Tiande the dangerous Yang Spirit Method while he considered its risks. After traveling to the Taiyin Divine Sect, Qin Tian confronted its leaders over the destruction of the Taiyin Human Emperor Lineage, seized the Taiyin skull, and turned the sect’s defensive formation against them.

• Qin Tian estimated that the Cloud Dream Realm would reach Ziwei Ancient Star in about two years and decided not to teach Yin Tiande the Yang Spirit Method yet.
• Yin Tiande told Yin Tianzhi that he had become Qin Tian’s disciple, and news of the Saint’s support spread across Ziwei.
• Qin Tian traveled to the Taiyin Divine Sect and accused its lineage of murdering the Taiyin Human Emperor Lineage.
• The Taiyin Divine Son attacked Qin Tian with Taiyin saint power, a King’s Funeral Bell, and a Taiyin skull, but Qin Tian broke the attacks and took the skull with Five-Colored Divine Light.
• The Taiyin King activated the Taiyin God-Refining Grand Formation, but Qin Tian changed its foundations and trapped the sect within a Nine Dragons Divine Flame Canopy.
• Qin Tian examined the nether bamboo and recalled that it had been planted in the flesh and blood of beings who cultivated Taiyin saint power.

Qin Tian freed the Taiyin Human Emperor’s descendants from their resentment, then defeated the Taiyin Evil Saint and sent him into the Yin Realm to face their vengeance. He planned to lure the Underworld into confronting Duan De and began considering how the rescued souls could serve the Yin Realm.

• Qin Tian used the Human Emperor Banner and his own blood to calm the wronged souls of the Taiyin Human Emperor’s descendants and send them into the Yin Realm.
• Qin Tian decided the Underworld’s vast stores of souls could perfect his Reincarnation Laws, and devised a plan to draw its attention by announcing the Netherworld Emperor’s tomb and involving Duan De.
• The Taiyin Evil Saint emerged and attacked Qin Tian, but Qin Tian crushed him with one hand despite his Saint King cultivation.
• Qin Tian burned away the Taiyin Evil Saint’s curse, soaked the descendants’ bones with the saint’s blood, and cast his Primordial Spirit into the Yin Realm to be torn apart by the wronged souls.
• Qin Tian sent the freed Taiyin souls to the Yin Realm and considered creating a ghost cultivation method so they could serve as its officials.

Qin Tian continued researching the Yang Spirit Method’s Second Secret Realm while testing cultivation measurements and potential pathways on captives in the Taiqing Sacred Realm. Yin Tiande rejected experimental cultivation but left inspired to train, while Qin Tian remained determined to find a path that would not be absorbed by the Secret Realm Method.

• Qin Tian decided to teach Yin spirits the Visualization Method first and considered using the deceased Taiyin Saint Emperor to pioneer a ghost cultivation method.
• Qin Tian tested a numerical system for measuring cultivation progress and told Yin Tiande that he was at ninety-seven percent of the Great Power realm.
• Qin Tian experimented on Taiyin Kings to study the body’s potential, but found that his ideas about strengthening the five viscera remained constrained by the Secret Realm Method.
• Qin Tian rejected several bodily cultivation approaches and considered other candidates for the Yang Spirit Method’s Second Secret Realm, including acupoints, Dantians, and bloodline genes.
• Yin Tiande told Qin Tian that experimental cultivation did not suit him, thanked his master for his guidance, and went back to cultivate.
• Yin Tiande stopped to ask Qin Tian how old he was.

Qin Tian continued developing his cultivation methods while Yin Tiande learned from the Dao De Jing and changed his treatment of his younger brother. Two years later, the Cloud Dream Realm descended upon Ziwei, and Yin Tiande explored its vast spiritual world before challenging the Heaven-reaching Tower.

• Qin Tian tested more than a dozen ways to develop the body's potential, rejected the Primordial Golden Pellet method, and decided that his next Secret Realm should focus on bodily strength.
• Yin Tiande entered Unity of Heaven and Man while reciting the Dao De Jing, gained a deeper understanding of Severing the Dao, and sealed Yin Tianzhi away with the scripture to study.
• After two years, the Cloud Dream Realm descended upon Ziwei, where its Sea of Faith powered the realm's growth and the Yin Realm purified negative emotions.
• Yin Tiande entered the Cloud Dream Realm, explored its vast city of beings and civilizations, and received scriptures subject to its rules on merit and karmic burdens.
• Yin Tiande challenged the Heaven-reaching Tower, reached the twenty-eighth floor, and earned two Emperor Scriptures after surviving the Emperor Shadows' trials.

Qin Tian continued developing the Yang Spirit System by testing ways to open a second secret realm, while Yin Tiande was sent to capture suitable criminals as test subjects. When Qin Tian realized he could not wait five years for Ye Fan and the others to arrive, he sent his Yang Spirit into the void to find an Ancient Race expeditionary force.

• Yin Tiande resolved to grow stronger, though he recognized that Qin Tian had a greater chance of becoming the era’s supreme Great Emperor.
• Qin Tian’s seventy-second attempt to create a second secret realm using the Taiyin and Taiyang origin forces failed, and he considered planting Dao seeds to make the method easier to learn.
• Qin Tian sent Yin Tiande to capture deeply sinful members of the Demon Race for experiments and reviewed the proposals that might complete the Yang God Dao.
• Qin Tian foresaw that Ye Fan and the others would reach the starfield in five years, but decided he needed more test subjects sooner.
• Qin Tian sent his Yang Spirit across the void toward a Purple-Gold Battleship carrying an Ancient Race expeditionary force that had been sealed for ages.

Qin Tian studied Di Lisi’s preserved soul fragment aboard an ancient warship and worked out how deity resentments formed. When three Great Saints attacked to seize his power, Qin Tian’s true body arrived to face them.

• Qin Tian entered the purple-gold warship and found Di Lisi’s skull, sustained by a soul fragment and Great Emperor Wushi’s power of faith.
• Qin Tian analyzed the origins of deity resentments, then used reincarnation rules and the Yin Realm to nourish Di Lisi’s fragment.
• A thousand-armed demon god awakened and attacked Qin Tian, but Qin Tian’s Yang Spirit sealed the demon god’s Primordial Spirit.
• Two more Great Saints appeared and threatened to kill Qin Tian, divide his power, and trace his origins to his Life Source Land.
• Qin Tian summoned his true body through a wormhole, and the three Great Saints broke out of their divine sources to attack together.

Qin Tian suppressed three weakened Great Saints in the universe and returned to Ziwei, where he continued his experiments and cultivation projects. Five years later, a mysterious cauldron crashed into the Eight Sceneries Palace, disrupting the peace.

• Qin Tian used reincarnation and the Yin-Yang Golden Flood Dragon Scissors to suppress the Ancestor Kings and Saint Kings sent against him.
• Qin Tian defeated the thousand-handed demon god’s attacks and sealed all three Great Saints inside the Two Modes Dust-Mote Grand Formation.
• Qin Tian returned to Ziwei and directed the Cloud Dream Realm to gather Life Source Lands while dissecting Ancient Race Sages and Worthies to study a second secret realm.
• Yin Tiande continued trying to clear the Heaven-reaching Tower but failed to pass the thirtieth floor.
• Five years passed, and a cauldron from beyond the world crashed into the Eight Sceneries Palace.

Ye Fan arrived at the Eight Sceneries Palace and reunited with Qin Tian, who had taken control of several Primordial Ancestor Kings. After an Underworld Yin Spirit vowed to avenge the destroyed Taiyin Divine Sect, Qin Tian declared that he would enter the Underworld and prepare to purge its ruler’s entourage.

• Ye Fan crashed into the Eight Sceneries Palace’s blessed land, where a boy recognized him by his surname and the cauldron he rode.
• The Thousand-Handed Great Saint escorted Ye Fan through the palace, where Golden Horn and Silver Horn admitted him to meet its master.
• Ye Fan recognized Qin Tian as the Little Heavenly Venerable, learned that Qin Tian had recruited surviving Ancestor Kings, and watched Qin Tian give the two Great Saints their Daoist names.
• An Underworld Yin Spirit found the Taiyin Divine Sect in ruins and vowed to punish the Eight Sceneries Palace’s master for its destruction.
• Qin Tian welcomed the threat, called himself the Underworld’s rightful second-generation master, and planned to prepare before entering the Underworld.

Ye Fan reunited with his parents, Xu Qiong, and Xu Ye in the Cloud Dream Realm, then learned that Earth was the Primordial Ancient Star and that his family needed resources to survive its cultivation world. He entered the Heaven-reaching Tower to earn merit and help them, leaving the story as his challenge began.

• Qin Tian sent Ye Fan to the Cloud Dream Realm, where Ye Fan reunited with his parents and met Xu Qiong and Xu Ye after more than a decade apart.
• Ye Fan learned that his parents had begun cultivating and that Earth was known as the Primordial Ancient Star, while Xu Qiong and Xu Ye remained at the Bitter Sea stage.
• Ye Fan offered his family Divine Source, spirit wines, talismans, and other resources, but Xu Ye explained that sending them to Earth required merit through Void Express.
• Xu Ye told Ye Fan that challenging the Heaven-reaching Tower was a fast way to earn merit, so Ye Fan decided to enter despite Xu Qiong's worries.
• Ye Fan stepped into the Heaven-reaching Tower and declared that he would make Sacred Body Ye Fan's name resound through the Cloud Dream Realm.

Ye Fan battled his way through the Heaven-reaching Tower, defeated several powerful guardians, and reached the twenty-ninth trial, where he faced the Fighting Saint Emperor. As the fight pushed him into the Divine Forbidden Domain, the emperor shadow entered it too, leaving Ye Fan to confront an opponent who had matched his breakthrough.

• Ye Fan cleared the first eleven trials with ease, and spectators recognized his golden vital energy as a sign of the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body.
• Ye Fan defeated a Great Accomplishment Sacred Body projection and received the Sacred Body Cultivation Method, then overcame the second and third trial guardians.
• Ye Fan struggled through trials twenty-six to twenty-eight, enduring severe injuries as he advanced toward the first unclaimed trial beyond them.
• Ye Fan recognized the twenty-ninth trial's guardian as the Fighting Saint Emperor and fought him with his Sacred Body techniques, but the emperor's staff shattered Ye Fan's bones and broke his manifested dragon sword.
• Ye Fan's Feathering Cauldron shielded him as he entered the Divine Forbidden Domain, activating Nine Secrets: Jie and healing his injuries through Nirvana; the Fighting Saint Emperor entered the same domain.

Ye Fan defeated the Fighting Saint Emperor on the twenty-ninth floor and faced Azure Emperor Qin Tian on the thirtieth, where the Azure Emperor’s overwhelming power forced Ye Fan to discover a new path within the Eight Forbidden Domain. The chapter ended as Ye Fan and the Azure Emperor launched another fierce exchange, with Ye Fan’s newly formed Heavenly Emperor Body challenging the Azure Emperor’s taboo-level art.

• Ye Fan entered the divine forbidden domain and defeated the Fighting Saint Emperor on the twenty-ninth floor by surviving their mutual destruction with the Feathering Cauldron and using the Nirvana Method.
• Yin Tiande told the crowd that his master, Qin Tian, was younger than he was and far stronger than Ye Fan, then vowed to defeat Ye Fan before challenging Qin Tian.
• Ye Fan entered the thirtieth floor and faced Azure Emperor Qin Tian, whose Demon Emperor’s Nine Slashes and overwhelming power pushed Ye Fan into a desperate struggle.
• Under the Azure Emperor’s pressure, Ye Fan realized that the Eight Forbidden Domain had higher and lower levels and resolved to keep breaking through.
• Ye Fan merged the manifestations of his Sacred Body with himself to form a Heavenly Emperor Body and revealed his own Forbidden Path, prompting Qin Tian to press the attack with the Azure Emperor’s Chaos Green Lotus art.

Ye Fan lost to Qin Tian as the Azure Emperor but gained a clearer understanding of his own forbidden path, while Qin Tian absorbed the insights into his Dao. Years later, Qin Tian sent Yin Tiande to protect the Sun God Sect from the Golden Crow Clan, whose invasion had just begun.

• Qin Tian as the Azure Emperor defeated Ye Fan, and the Cloud Dream Realm’s inhabitants recognized the Heavenly Emperor level.
• Ye Fan returned from the battle invigorated and resolved to challenge the Azure Emperor again after perfecting his Dao, while Qin Tian gained insight into both their forbidden paths.
• Qin Tian absorbed Ye Fan’s taboo power, then learned through his visions that the Golden Crow Clan planned to attack the Sun God Sect and ordered Yin Tiande to intervene.
• The Golden Crow King led a million-strong army to surround the Sun God Sect, claiming it had stolen their scriptures and demanding entry.
• Yin Tiande arrived by Domain Gate, suppressed the Golden Crows’ Taiyang True Fire, and declared that the Sun God Sect would not be destroyed.

Yin Tiande defended the Sun God Sect, killed Daoist Chi Yang, and fought the Golden Crow King until the Thousand-Handed Demon God intervened. As a Golden Crow Great Saint challenged Qin Tian’s followers, Qin Tian recognized him as the last survivor of Houyi’s sun-shooting tale and fired a Taiyin arrow at him.

• Yin Tiande killed Daoist Chi Yang, then repelled the Golden Crow King until the Thousand-Handed Demon God appeared and stopped the Crow-Winged Gilt Halberd.
• The Thousand-Handed Demon God revealed his Yang Spirit cultivation and battled the Golden Crow Great Saint, while the Golden Crow King and princes watched.
• Qin Tian traced the Golden Crow Great Saint’s past and identified him as the last of the Ten Golden Crows who had escaped Houyi.
• Qin Tian learned that Houyi’s Taiyin arrows had been made from the Moon Laurel Immortal Medicine and considered seeking the Taiyin and Taiyang Immortal Medicines.
• Qin Tian formed a Divine Bow, nocked the final Taiyin Profound Arrow, and fired it across Ziwei toward the Golden Crow Great Saint.

Qin Tian killed the Golden Crow Great Saint with a Taiyin Profound Arrow, then drew the Golden Crow emperor embryo into his plans. On Ziwei Ancient Star, the search for the Sun God Tree led Ye Fan and the assembled cultivators to Tang Valley, where Qin Tian awakened the Taiyang Saint Emperor’s deity resentment.

• Qin Tian’s arrow killed the fleeing Golden Crow Great Saint, while the Thousand-Handed Demon God apologized for failing to defeat him.
• Qin Tian traced the Golden Crow’s cause and effect to a sleeping Golden Crow embryo guarded on an immortal platform and decided to use it as a tonic for his cultivation.
• Qin Tian spread word through the Cloud Dream Realm about the Taiyang Saint Emperor’s palace and the Fusang Immortal Medicine, prompting Ziwei’s sects to search the North Sea.
• The Sun God Tree appeared at Tang Valley, where its solar power killed cultivators who tried to approach; Ye Fan arrived as Qin Tian descended.
• Qin Tian identified the one-armed old man with the stone coffin as the Taiyang Saint Emperor, and the old man recovered his identity and declared himself the emperor.

Qin Tian restored the Taiyang Saint Emperor’s Deity Resentment with a reincarnation technique and explained how it could live again through the Yin Realm. The Deity Resentment entered the realm, strengthened its connection to the universe, and took the name Taiyang Netherworld Venerable.

• The Taiyang Saint Emperor’s Deity Resentment awakened beneath the Fusang tree, and Qin Tian used a Reincarnation Talisman to restore his senses.
• Qin Tian explained that the Deity Resentment carried part of the Saint Emperor’s soul and could live another life if its body of faith avoided burning out.
• The Saint Emperor opened his coffin and discovered that the Undying Heavenly Emperor had taken his corpse, leaving behind only golden human skin.
• Qin Tian opened the gate to the Yin Realm and gave the Saint Emperor yin virtue, which helped make his soul more complete.
• The Saint Emperor entered the Yin Realm, whose rules resonated with his Dao and grew closer to the Great Universe.
• The Saint Emperor declared that he was unworthy of his former title and named himself Taiyang Netherworld Venerable.

Qin Tian planted the Fusang Divine Tree in the Cloud Dream Realm, strengthening that realm and creating a Nether Sun for its ghosts. He then visited the Sun God Sect, where he found a prematurely born Solar Divine Body and confronted an underworld visitor who wanted to take the infant.

• The Taiyang Saint Emperor gave Qin Tian the Fusang Divine Tree, and Qin Tian revealed his Yang Spirit before entering the Cloud Dream Realm.
• Qin Tian planted the Fusang Divine Tree on an island of faith, where it absorbed faith, stabilized the Cloud Dream Realm, and helped refine the virtual realm toward reality.
• The Fusang Divine Tree’s solar power reached the Yin Realm and became a Nether Sun under the Taiyang Netherworld Venerable, giving its ghosts balanced yang energy to strengthen their souls.
• Qin Tian went to the Sun God Sect and found its elders gathered around a newborn with the Solar Divine Body, born years earlier than expected.
• Qin Tian brought the Taiyang Saint Emperor back to the Yang Realm to teach the infant, but an underworld visitor arrived and announced his intention to take the child for the Underworld.

The Taiyang Saint Emperor defeated the Underworld Yin Spirit and helped Qin Tian turn its curse into a talisman to use against Duan De. With the story on Ziwei Ancient Star nearing its end, Qin Tian prepared to return to Big Dipper after sending Golden Horn and Silver Horn to claim the Nine Secrets: Zhe from the Human King Hall and Longevity Temple.

• The Sun God Sect recognized the Taiyang Saint Emperor as their ancestor, and he chose to face the Underworld Yin Spirit himself.
• The Taiyang Saint Emperor killed the Yin Spirit with the Sun Emperor Fist and his nine emperor characters, then explained that the Underworld curse could track its killer.
• The Taiyang Saint Emperor condensed the curse into a talisman, which Qin Tian took as part of his plan to set up Duan De.
• Qin Tian decided to return to Big Dipper after obtaining Nine Secrets: Zhe, and ordered Golden Horn and Silver Horn to retrieve the scripture.
• Golden Horn and Silver Horn arrived at the Human King Hall and Longevity Temple, announced they served the Eight Sceneries Palace Master, and demanded the Divine Spirit Ancient Scripture.

Qin Tian returned to Big Dipper, discovered the Divine Flower, and sent his Ancient Race followers to answer the Ancient Emperor Platform’s summons. At his command, they destroyed Spirit Valley, while Qin Tian followed another opportunity through the void and arrived somewhere unexpected.

• Qin Tian mastered the Zhe Secret, left the Life Source Land for Big Dipper, and allowed Yin Tiande to remain behind to train independently.
• Following his ahoge’s signal, Qin Tian found the Divine Flower sealed inside a rotten wooden box and learned that its blooming could kill even Quasi-Emperors.
• The Ancient Race Saints answered the Ancient Emperor Platform’s summons, and Qin Tian ordered them to destroy Spirit Valley.
• Golden Horn, Silver Horn, the Thousand-Handed Demon God, and the other returning Ancestor Kings annihilated Spirit Valley despite its Ancestor King’s pleas.
• Qin Tian sensed another opportunity in the veins of the void, followed a Five-Colored Altar’s pathways, and arrived in a realm that startled him.

Qin Tian followed his ahoge into the Undying Mountain and used the Enlightenment Tea Tree to create his own Sea of Bitterness Scripture, strengthening his inner world as he traced the tree’s past. He encountered the traces of ancient emperors and, at the end of the chapter, saw a youth resembling himself planting the tree.

• Qin Tian entered the Undying Mountain, concealed his aura with Saint Spirit power, and followed the Void Emperor Formation toward its heartland.
• Qin Tian subdued the frightened Enlightenment Tea Tree and sat beneath it to create a scripture for the Sea of Bitterness, forming a Dao Seed and evolving the Sea of Bitterness, Life Spring, Divine Bridge, and Other Shore.
• Qin Tian merged his soul with the Enlightenment Tea Tree and developed one hundred and eight stars in his inner scenery, advancing his glabella ancestral aperture toward a real world.
• Qin Tian traced the Enlightenment Tea Tree’s past and saw Great Emperor Wushi, Ruthless Great Emperor, the Undying Heavenly Emperor, Great Emperor Fuxi, the God Emperor, Tribulation Transcendence Heavenly Venerable, and Emperor Venerable leave their marks or visit the tree.
• Qin Tian saw a youth resembling him plant the Enlightenment Tea Tree and cultivate beneath it.