Chapter Summaries

Qin Tian gained deep insights into the Dao Palace after hearing the Desolate Heaven Emperor’s words, then cultivated in the Jade Pool Ruins and explored the Immortal Pool. At the final site bearing the Immortal Platform Scripture’s imprint, his Temporal-Spatial Eyes showed him a youth from ages past: Great Emperor Wushi.

• Qin Tian heard the Desolate Heaven Emperor’s three cries of the Dao and entered a profound state of enlightenment.
• Qin Tian’s Heart Palace opened, transforming his body and surging with Dao power as the Fire Deity recited scriptures within the Dao Palace.
• Qin Tian cultivated in the Jade Pool Ruins, used his Temporal-Spatial Eyes to obtain parts of the Western Emperor Scripture, and offered beast milk to Shi Hao’s wooden tablet.
• Qin Tian attempted to reach the Tenth-Layer Immortal Pool but retreated when his divine power ran low against the Extreme Dao imperial might.
• Qin Tian used his divine eyes at the final Immortal Platform Scripture site and saw a young man from the past demonstrating his arts.

Qin Tian used the Temporal-Spatial Eyes to witness the young Wushi creating the Wushi Technique across countless ages. The exchange ended when forbidden thunder interrupted them, leaving Qin Tian with exhausted eyes but a full view of Wushi’s art.

• Qin Tian recognized the young Wushi’s innate sacred body dao embryo and watched his blood qi awaken the ten thousand Daos.
• The young Wushi developed and refined many arts, including the Western Emperor Scripture, Mountain-Embracing Seal, Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist, and Passing Years, while forging his own technique.
• Qin Tian identified the art as the Wushi Technique, and the young Wushi heard him and accepted the name.
• Forbidden thunder struck, so the young Wushi unleashed the Wushi Technique against the tribulation and bid Qin Tian farewell before the vision faded.
• Qin Tian’s Temporal-Spatial Eyes nearly exhausted their essence, but he rejoiced that he had witnessed the Wushi Technique’s creation in detail.

After learning the Wushi Technique, Qin Tian repaired his Temporal-Spatial Eyes and spent the next year cultivating in the Jade Pool Ruins. He opened the fourth and fifth Dao Palace secret realms, reaching great perfection before preparing to leave.

• Qin Tian studied the Wushi Technique and its displayed divine arts, then hoped to glimpse the Wushi Scripture and gain treasures at Purple Mountain.
• Qin Tian absorbed divine substance from divine source to repair his Temporal-Spatial Eyes and decided to perfect the Dao Palace Secret Realm before leaving the Jade Pool Ruins.
• Qin Tian cultivated for another half year and opened the fourth secret realm, strengthening his qi, blood, and physical body as life returned to the surrounding plants.
• After consolidating the fourth secret realm for three months, Qin Tian used divine source to open the final Dao Palace secret realm.
• Qin Tian felt united with the Dao as all five directional deities emerged, completing the Dao Palace Secret Realm.

After completing all five Dao Palaces, Qin Tian used a Profound Jade Platform to leave the Jade Pool Ruins and arrive near Purple Mountain in the Northern Region. When Horse Bandits surrounded him and demanded his Source, Qin Tian calmly warned them that they had picked a fight with a Daoist priest and a child.

• Qin Tian finished cultivating all five Dao Palaces and carefully inscribed a Profound Jade Platform to avoid teleporting into the nearby Primordial Ancient Mine.
• Qin Tian activated the platform and arrived near Purple Mountain in the desolate Northern Region.
• Qin Tian traveled across the chaotic region and witnessed battles over oases and Source Mines.
• More than a hundred Horse Bandits on Dragon Scale Horses surrounded Qin Tian after smelling Source on him.
• Qin Tian refused to be intimidated and told the Horse Bandits they should not provoke a Daoist priest and a child.

Qin Tian traveled to the Northern Region to claim the Lihuo Divine Furnace, first killing a group of Horse Bandits and finding Divine Source. He reached the Lihuo Sect and clashed with its Grand Elder, leaving the outcome of their battle unresolved.

• Qin Tian explained to himself that ambushing Duan De and taking the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid had been an act of filial devotion.
• Qin Tian used the Void Great Hand Seal to kill every Horse Bandit and found a piece of Divine Source in the ground.
• Qin Tian learned where the Lihuo Sect was and hurried there to obtain its guardian treasure, the Lihuo Divine Furnace.
• Qin Tian attacked the Lihuo Sect with a mountain-embracing seal, and the Grand Elder countered by summoning the bronze furnace.
• The Grand Elder unleashed the furnace's Lihuo flames, but Qin Tian struck it with the Heaven-Flipping Seal, sending shock waves across the battlefield.

Qin Tian seized the Lihuo Divine Furnace and destroyed the Lihuo Sect before heading to the Azure Cloud Sect in search of Emperor Jade. There, he fought a dying Four Extremes cultivator and revealed the embryonic form of his Yin-Yang Life-and-Death Diagram Manifestation.

• Qin Tian cut off the Lihuo Sect's connection to the Lihuo Divine Furnace, discovered its deity had been transferred to the Solar Divine Furnace, and used it to destroy the sect.
• Qin Tian flew to the Azure Cloud Sect, where a dying Four Extremes cultivator confronted him.
• Qin Tian battled the elder and reflected on how special constitutions shaped the path to greater strength.
• The elder summoned a spirit-attuned treasure that merged four peaks into a mountain and pressed it down on Qin Tian.
• Qin Tian formed his embryonic Yin-Yang Life-and-Death Diagram Manifestation by combining the powers of life and death.

Qin Tian defeated a Four Extremes cultivator at the Azure Cloud Sect, took an ancient jade map, and killed the sect members who had committed sins. At the Mysterious Moon Cave, he awakened the emperor-level art Passing Years and then set his sights on the Yaoguang Holy Land to obtain the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art.

• Qin Tian killed the Four Extremes cultivator with Innate Grand Void Astral Energy and demanded the ancient jade from Chen Big Beard.
• Qin Tian used his Temporal-Spatial Eyes to identify and kill the Azure Cloud Sect members who had committed sins, collected treasures, and left.
• At the Mysterious Moon Cave, Qin Tian used the Wushi Technique and Emperor Jade to resonate with the ancient inscription.
• Qin Tian glimpsed a majestic man and comprehended Passing Years, an emperor-level killing art that wielded the Years Heavenly Blade.
• Qin Tian decided to target the Yaoguang Holy Land and obtain the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art to strengthen his physique and primordial spirit.

Qin Tian decided to seek the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art and the Ruthless Inheritance, hoping to gain a special physique and strengthen his cultivation. Disguised as a fat Daoist, he arrived at a Yaoguang Holy Land mine, where a force of armored riders launched an attack.

• Qin Tian decided that his mortal body was limiting his strength and resolved to pursue the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art and Ruthless Inheritance.
• Qin Tian reasoned that devouring only two special physiques might let him create a powerful physique without forming the demonic embryo that came from absorbing many origin essences.
• Qin Tian changed his appearance into an unremarkable fat Daoist and headed toward a Yaoguang Holy Land mine.
• Qin Tian saw the miners laboring in the mine and felt reminded of his own past.
• A young armored man led seventy or eighty riders on savage beasts as they charged into the mine.

Qin Tian used the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid to ambush and kill the Yaoguang Holy Land cultivators and Horse Bandits fighting over a Source Mine, then disguised himself as Duan De and stole the mine’s source. He hoped the attack’s surviving trace would draw out the Ruthless Lineage, leaving him a way to identify them and obtain their supreme scripture.

• A young bandit used three blood-red array flags to break the Yaoguang Forbidden Land’s defenses, while Qin Tian watched and resolved to eliminate the rival robbers.
• Qin Tian sent a paper effigy into the Source Mine and activated the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid as the Yaoguang cultivators and Horse Bandits fought.
• The Demon Lid’s extreme dao might killed hundreds of Yaoguang cultivators and Horse Bandits and shattered the Protective Array.
• Qin Tian arrived disguised as Duan De and explained that he had concealed most of the weapon’s aura so only the Ruthless Lineage would recognize it.
• Qin Tian took one million five hundred thousand jin of source from the mine and spent another hundred thousand jin to fuel the Demon Lid’s strike.

After discovering traces of the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid, the Yaoguang Holy Land mobilized the Ruthless Lineage to hunt Duan De, believing he had stolen the founding ancestor’s weapon from a tomb. Qin Tian was relieved that the danger had shifted to his alias and remained convinced Duan De would survive.

• A Yaoguang Great Power identified the lingering aura at the mine as belonging to the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid and sent word to awaken the ancestor.
• A Dao-Severing King emerged from divine source, reconstructed the scene, and confirmed that the Demon Lid had appeared before Duan De took the mine’s source.
• The Dao-Severing King ordered the Yaoguang Holy Land to mobilize and recover its supreme Emperor Weapon.
• The Yaoguang Holy Land searched across the Eastern Wasteland for Duan De and offered the position of Yaoguang Holy Son to anyone who captured him alive.
• After learning Duan De was a grave robber who had visited their holy land, the Ruthless Lineage concluded he had dug up an ancestor’s grave and grew furious.
• Qin Tian relaxed because the hunt targeted Duan De, whom he regarded as his master, and trusted that Duan De could withstand the Yaoguang Holy Land.

Qin Tian used the bounty on Duan De to draw Yaoguang disciples out of their holy land, hoping to find an inheritor of the Ruthless Lineage. After spotting the presumed Yaoguang Holy Son, he blocked the group’s path and challenged him.

• Qin Tian reasoned that Duan De might still have powerful weapons hidden away, so he felt no guilt about deceiving him.
• Yaoguang Holy Land offered the position of Holy Son to anyone who captured Duan De, drawing its young cultivators into the Eastern Wasteland and inspiring rumors that Duan De had robbed its ancestral graves.
• Qin Tian searched the Yaoguang disciples but found no inheritor of the Ruthless Lineage, then visited the Heavenly Demon Palace and drank Ten Thousand Beasts Milk.
• Qin Tian spotted a radiant youth he believed was the Yaoguang Holy Son and decided to trace his past to obtain the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art and the Indestructible Heavenly Art.
• Qin Tian blocked the Yaoguang disciples’ path, taunted the youth about the bounty on Duan De, and challenged him to prove his worth.

Qin Tian killed a Yaoguang disciple with the Fengshan Seal, manifesting Mount Tai and crushing him beneath it. The future Yaoguang attacked with the Primordial Sacred Light Technique, and Qin Tian countered with the Human King Seal as their battle escalated.

• Qin Tian used the Mountain-Embracing Seal to overwhelm a Yaoguang disciple, but the future Yaoguang stepped in and shattered the divine mountain.
• Qin Tian sealed off the area and manifested Mount Tai, whose overwhelming power drained the surrounding essence and energy.
• Qin Tian drove Mount Tai down and crushed the Yaoguang disciple despite the future Yaoguang's attempt to save him.
• The future Yaoguang unleashed the Primordial Sacred Light Technique, and Qin Tian answered with the Human King Seal.
• The two techniques collided, and the future Yaoguang declared that he would use his full strength to kill Qin Tian.

Qin Tian battled the “Yaoguang Holy Son,” countering his Ruthless secret arts with the Yin-Yang Kunpeng Seal. By anchoring himself to Yaoguang through their clash, Qin Tian used the Eye of Time to witness the moment Yaoguang received the inheritance and read the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art and Indestructible Heavenly Art.

• The “Yaoguang Holy Son” used Three Thousand Small Worlds to trap Qin Tian, but Qin Tian took control of the worlds with Innate Grand Void Astral Energy.
• “Yaoguang” merged the small worlds into a great realm, and Qin Tian answered with the Yin-Yang Kunpeng Seal, destroying the worlds and breaking through his attacks.
• “Yaoguang” formed a Chaos Immortal Flower and followed with further attacks, but Qin Tian’s Kunpeng overcame them.
• “Yaoguang” unleashed One Thought Blooms, Sovereign over All, and Qin Tian collided with the immortal flowers using the Kunpeng King Fist, planting an anchor on him.
• Qin Tian opened the Eye of Time into Yaoguang’s past and witnessed the old man imprint the Great Dao Treasure Bottle Seal on the young child.
• Through Yaoguang’s perspective, Qin Tian saw and heard the scriptures of the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art and the Indestructible Heavenly Art.

Qin Tian stole the complete Ruthless scriptures and escaped, while Duan De was cornered by Ruthless inheritors who wrongly believed he had the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar's lid. Duan De fled using Void Shift, and the pursuers continued hunting him on their ancestor's orders.

• Qin Tian obtained the complete Ruthless scriptures, left "Yaoguang" behind, and escaped before the Holy Land could catch him.
• The Yaoguang Holy Land's search for Duan De failed to locate him through divination, but hunters eventually cornered him as he emerged from a tomb.
• A Dragon Transformation Cultivator accused Duan De of possessing the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar's lid and attacked him, but the swords bounced off his body.
• Duan De denied having the lid and realized the thief who had stolen it was framing him, but he escaped before revealing the truth.
• The Dragon Transformation Cultivator sent pursuers after Duan De and reported to his ancestor, who ordered them to capture him and recover the progenitor's divine weapon.

Qin Tian studied the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art and discovered that it balanced and accommodated many origins rather than fusing them, forcing him to abandon his plans to create a Chaos Body by combining sacred physiques. The chapter explained how the art could form an acquired Chaos Demon Body shackled by demonic nature, then shifted to the Sacred City of the Northern Region.

• Qin Tian fled far from the Yaoguang group, returned to his temporary residence, and studied the Heaven-Swallowing Immortal Scripture under the protection of a formation.
• Qin Tian realized the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art accommodated different origins and branded their Dao laws onto the practitioner’s own origin instead of fusing the origins.
• Qin Tian concluded that combining Taiyin and Taiyang or a Sacred Body and Dao Embryo would not produce the supreme physiques he had hoped for.
• The chapter explained that the art’s accumulated origins and demonic nature could form an acquired Chaos Demon Body that shackled its practitioner and hindered their path to the Dao.
• The Ruthless Great Emperor escaped the demon embryo’s restraints by creating the Indestructible Heavenly Art, reversing the acquired into the innate, and nurturing an innate divine embryo.
• The narrative moved to the Sacred City of the Northern Region, an ancient city once said to have floated in the heavens before an upheaval brought it down.

After arriving in Divine City, Qin Tian spent weeks relaxing at its pleasure establishments before burning his diary and returning to cultivation. Unable to find a safe way to fuse two origins, he resolved to pioneer his own Dao Palace path and decided to seek a king of medicines in Purple Mountain.

• Qin Tian reached Divine City, explored its grand streets, and booked a private room at the Drunken Immortal Pavilion.
• Qin Tian repeatedly visited Miaoyu Nunnery and Water Moon Pavilion, recorded his indulgences in a diary, and later burned it.
• Qin Tian concluded that creating an art to fuse two origins was beyond his current abilities and chose to keep advancing with his mortal body.
• Qin Tian resolved to study the secret realms and pioneer his own Dao, beginning with an original path through the Dao Palace Secret Realm.
• Qin Tian considered seeking medicine in the Desolate Forbidden Zone but chose Purple Mountain instead, reasoning that his connection to Great Emperor Wushi might help him obtain a king of medicines.

Qin Tian forged a Great Dao Treasure Bottle from his Origin, then realized its unusual shape inspired him to revisit his old plan of Using the Body as an Array. He settled on testing the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art and went searching for a grave to obtain a special physique’s Origin.

• Qin Tian decided to combine insights from multiple Emperor Scriptures and condense the Great Dao Treasure Bottle directly from his Origin.
• Qin Tian formed the bottle using the nine emperor characters, but it emerged shaped like a milk jar rather than the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar.
• Qin Tian reconsidered Using the Body as an Array and theorized that he could merge Origin Dao laws with a grand formation, using the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art to obtain another physique’s Origin.
• Qin Tian decided to test the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art instead of relying on theory alone.
• Qin Tian searched for Yin Veins and the tomb of a King Body slain by Gai Jiuyou, hoping the Yaoguang Holy Land had not already visited it.

Qin Tian excavated the tomb of a Yuhua King Body and used the Great Dao Treasure Bottle to absorb its origin, uncovering how its feathered transformation opened hidden gates of potential throughout the body. He realized these mysteries could advance his Open Gate Method and might explain how the physique could become a flawless mortal body, but the Emerging Great Emperor had chosen a different path.

• Qin Tian located the Yuhua King Body's burial place with his Temporal Eye, broke through its weakened King-level formation, and entered the tomb.
• Qin Tian found the lifelike corpse and hoped to learn the secrets of its feathered transformation to improve his Open Gate Method.
• Qin Tian formed the Great Dao Treasure Bottle Seal and drew the corpse's origin power into the bottle.
• As the Yuhua King Body's mysteries took effect, hidden gates of potential opened throughout Qin Tian's body, including in his Six Viscera and Nine Great Acupoints.
• Qin Tian concluded that cultivating every part of the body could transform the Yuhua King Body into a flawless mortal body, and noted that the Emerging Great Emperor had instead become a Saint Spirit.

Qin Tian emerged from his transformation into a Yuhua King Body and tested the increased power and potential it gave him. He judged that he might have reached the eight forbidden domain after explaining how constitutions, Emperor Scriptures, and personal talent shaped combat strength.

• Qin Tian completed his transformation in the Yuhua cocoon and emerged surrounded by Yuhua Immortal Light.
• Qin Tian tested his enhanced blood and qi, concluding that his foundations and combat strength had improved greatly.
• Qin Tian activated the Great Dao Treasure Bottle and drew out more of the Yuhua King Body's power.
• Qin Tian wondered whether his strength had reached the eight forbidden domain.
• Qin Tian considered how cultivation, Emperor Scriptures, special constitutions, and individual talent determined the levels of the prohibitions.

Qin Tian assessed his strength as having reached the Seven Prohibitions Domain, while recognizing the danger of becoming addicted to absorbing Origin. After preparing an energy store for his Emperor Weapons, he entered Purple Mountain, intending to keep a low profile around its powerful sealed inhabitants.

• Qin Tian concluded that his combat strength had reached the Seven Prohibitions Domain and surpassed Ji Haoyue, though he was not yet strong enough for Eight Prohibitions.
• Qin Tian felt the urge to absorb more Origin and realized that the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art had awakened an addictive instinct, so he decided to head for Purple Mountain.
• Qin Tian bought materials at the Heavenly Demon Palace, refined an energy-storage artifact, and spent a month filling it by sacrificing a Dragon Vein.
• Qin Tian made a Stone Garment and entered Purple Mountain carrying the Lihuo Divine Furnace and Devouring Heaven Demon Lid, while avoiding reckless confrontations with its powerful sealed forces.