Chapter Summaries

Qin Tian ventured into Purple Mountain, learned the complete Battle Saint Method from the imprisoned Divine King Jiang Taixu, and freed him with the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid and Lihuo Divine Furnace. Jiang Taixu regained some strength and accepted the returned furnace, while the two prepared to explore Purple Mountain together.

• Qin Tian crossed the Yin-Yang Eyes and imprinted their Dao resonance onto his Divine Mark Purple Gold Diagram.
• Qin Tian entered Purple Mountain and found Jiang Taixu trapped within a purple stone wall beside a primordial creature.
• Jiang Taixu taught Qin Tian the complete Battle Saint Method, and Qin Tian resolved to rescue him.
• Qin Tian used the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid to destroy a Half-Saint and pierce the stone wall, then sent Jiang Taixu Source and Divine Source to restore his strength.
• Jiang Taixu used the Lihuo Divine Furnace to break free, recovered some of his Divine Power, and thanked Qin Tian.
• Qin Tian offered the Lihuo Divine Furnace back to Jiang Taixu and invited him to explore Purple Mountain together.

Qin Tian and Jiang Taixu explored Purple Mountain, where Qin Tian studied the Source Heaven Book and tried to open the Wushi Scripture. After the Wushi Bell appeared, it approved Qin Tian’s plan to create an acquired sacred body Dao embryo, leaving him with a possible path to a powerful new physique.

• Qin Tian found the former Holy Maiden of Jade Lake sealed in divine source and crushed a creature that attacked him.
• Qin Tian read the Source Heaven Book, gained insight that strengthened his formation dao, and buried Zhang Jiye’s remains with Jiang Taixu.
• Jiang Taixu defeated a group of Primal Antiquity creatures that ambushed them as they traveled deeper into Purple Mountain.
• Qin Tian used the Wushi Technique on the Wushi Scripture, but could not open it, and the Black Emperor appeared after recognizing the technique.
• The Wushi Bell awakened and confirmed Qin Tian’s account of meeting young Wushi across time.
• Qin Tian explained his plan to combine a sacred body’s origin, an innate Dao embryo, and an array formation to create an acquired sacred body Dao embryo, and the Wushi Bell said it could be done.

Qin Tian received Great Emperor Wushi’s approval for his plan to form an acquired sacred body dao embryo, and Wushi’s gift of the light of time evolved his Temporal Eye. The chapter left Qin Tian with a medicine king for his dangerous breakthrough and Jiang Taixu with one to prolong Fairy Caiyun’s life.

• The Wushi Bell explained that Qin Tian’s acquired sacred body dao embryo plan was possible but extremely difficult, and Qin Tian vowed to pursue it.
• The Wushi Bell gave Qin Tian a river of time, which merged into his Temporal Eye and let it sever shadows of the future as well as the past.
• Qin Tian asked for a medicine king to help him survive his planned transformation, and the Wushi Bell transported Qin Tian, Jiang Taixu, and the Black Emperor to the Wushi Dojo.
• The Black Emperor tried to seize the medicine kings but was pinned down by the Dao Platform’s primal chaos, while the Wushi Bell gave one medicine king to Qin Tian.
• Jiang Taixu initially refused a medicine king, but Qin Tian reminded him that Fairy Caiyun had waited four thousand years for him, so Jiang Taixu accepted it for her.

Qin Tian burned the Yuhua King Body’s origin to gain a Dao-Slaying King’s insight, then used his Temporal Eye to stop time and summon his future self’s cultivation insights. He stood at the pinnacle of Severing the Dao while future beings began competing to influence his path.

• Qin Tian burned the Yuhua King Body’s origin to temporarily raise his cultivation perspective to the level of a Dao-Slaying King.
• Qin Tian used the sublimated Temporal Eye to stop time and stabilize his borrowed King realm.
• Qin Tian projected himself into the future and summoned a version of himself who had reached Severing the Dao, gaining that future self’s insights.
• Several powerful beings from future timelines discussed influencing Qin Tian before he completed Dao Illuminating the Years.
• Black Emperor and Jiang Taixu reacted to Qin Tian’s transformed aura, and Black Emperor backed away after Qin Tian looked at him.

Qin Tian joined Jiang Taixu to create a Five Elements Great Array and used divine fire to temper his body and Dao Palaces in hopes of reaching the Dao Palace Extreme Realm. As the ritual intensified, the fire began tempering his divine sense too, and Qin Tian continued pursuing the deeper transformation he sought.

• Qin Tian asked Jiang Taixu to help him build a Five Elements Great Array at the center of Purple Mountain.
• Qin Tian supplied the array with Divine Mark Purple Gold, an Enlightenment Tea Tree book, Purple Mountain's Divine Spring and Dragon Vein, and Hengyu Emperor Fire from Jiang Taixu's Lihuo Divine Furnace.
• Qin Tian entered the divine furnace and endured five-element Dao Fire that burned his body and cracked his Dao Palaces.
• Qin Tian swallowed the medicine king from the Wushi Bell, restoring his organs and Dao Palaces and transforming his body.
• Jiang Taixu and the Black Emperor urged Qin Tian to stop, but Qin Tian insisted that the ritual was meant to reveal the fundamental power hidden in his secret realms.
• The array drew in Great Dao laws, intensifying the fire until it tested Qin Tian's divine sense, which burned away impurities and began to grasp the essence within destruction.

Qin Tian endured a near-fatal divine-flame tribulation and uncovered the Dao Seed at the heart of the Dao Palace Secret Realm. He transformed his five Dao Palaces into five streams of Innate Origin Source Qi and opened the Five Qis Returning to the Origin Secret Realm.

• Qin Tian endured the intensifying Five-Colored Divine Flame as his body and secret realms neared collapse, while the Black Emperor and Jiang Taixu debated whether to save him.
• The Wushi Bell warned them to wait as Qin Tian's Dao Palace deities separated into past, present, and future aspects, then his five Dao Palaces collapsed around the five-element treasures.
• A Dao Seed appeared within Qin Tian's Dao Palace, and Jiang Taixu, the Black Emperor, and the Wushi Bell witnessed him reproduce a corner of the body-as-seed method.
• Qin Tian gained authority over the Dao Seed and transformed his five Dao Palaces into streams of Innate Origin Source Qi that nourished his five viscera and formed five grotto-heaven worlds.
• Qin Tian's Five Palace Deities became three wisps of immortal qi, and he opened the Five Qis Returning to the Origin Secret Realm.

Qin Tian reshaped the Dao Palace secret realm into five qis returning to the origin, creating a new path that shook heaven and earth. The Wushi Bell then questioned whether a sixth secret realm could lead to immortality, while Qin Tian knew it could lead far beyond—to becoming an Immortal King.

• Qin Tian formed five streams of pure qi that circulated through his five viscera, establishing the five qis returning to the origin secret realm.
• Heaven and earth manifested signs of blessing and terror as Qin Tian’s attainment shook the world and made gods and devils weep.
• Black Emperor asked what Qin Tian had done, and Qin Tian explained how he had replaced the five Dao Palaces with five qis.
• The Wushi Bell praised Qin Tian’s idea and wondered whether the five great secret realms were incomplete and a sixth could allow someone to become an immortal.
• The Wushi Bell struggled to deduce the sixth secret realm, while Qin Tian knew it could make someone who opened it independently an Immortal King Giant.

Qin Tian used the Divine Spring and five million jin of Source to break through into the Four Extremes Secret Realm, enduring a fierce lightning tribulation that strengthened his body and refined his Five Qis Returning to the Origin. After surviving nine bolts of Chaos Divine Thunder, he faced the next stage of the ordeal.

• Qin Tian gathered his Source beside the Divine Spring in Purple Mountain and began his breakthrough while Black Emperor watched greedily.
• Qin Tian used the Source to temper his body, strengthen his Five Qis, and establish the foundation for the Four Extremes Secret Realm.
• Qin Tian’s breakthrough triggered a vast lightning tribulation, and he used his four Divine Mark Purple Gold Array Diagrams to help withstand it.
• Qin Tian endured nine bolts of Chaos Divine Thunder, using the wood qi of enduring spring to heal his wounds and absorbing the thunder’s Dao imprints and chaos qi.
• Qin Tian refined the chaos qi into the embryonic great world within his foundation, then stood ready as the next wave of tribulation began.

Qin Tian manifested a Heavenly Venerable unique to himself and used it to overcome the Four Celestial Spirits and the projections of nine Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons in his lightning tribulation. The ordeal strengthened his divine sense and deepened his Five Qis Returning to the Origin, while the tribulation continued to test him.

• Qin Tian formed a Five Elements domain that cut off the Four Celestial Spirits from the primordial qi they were absorbing.
• Qin Tian summoned the Heavenly Venerable suppresses the mortal world Manifestation, which captured and killed the four spirits and forged their laws into a Jade Ruyi.
• The Wushi Bell recognized the Manifestation as one belonging solely to Qin Tian and said it carried a trace of the future.
• Projections of Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons appeared in the tribulation, and the Heavenly Venerable shattered them as Qin Tian endured the lightning's assault.
• Qin Tian's Divine Mark Purple Gold formation diagrams absorbed Dao traces, while his divine sense gathered the laws and essence released by the nine Emperor Weapon projections.
• Qin Tian's divine sense emerged from the tribulation with an aura approaching that of a deity, and his Five Qis Returning to the Origin grew more profound.

Qin Tian endured a devastating heavenly-punishment lightning spear and used the lightning tribulation to temper his body and extract its laws. The tribulation then summoned phantoms of three young Great Emperors, including Great Emperor Wushi, leaving Qin Tian facing a seemingly overwhelming fight.

• A blood-colored lightning spear pierced Qin Tian, and he let it pin him while his five-colored qi tried to extract its power of laws.
• A silver figure emerged from Qin Tian’s Niwan Palace, shielded him with Dao Lotuses, and swallowed the surrounding lightning as Qin Tian broke the spear and absorbed it.
• The lightning tribulation formed the Ancient Heavenly Court and produced humanoid phantoms of young Great Emperors, which Jiang Taixu identified as captured traces of their Dao Fruits.
• Black Emperor and the others sheltered inside the Deceiving Heaven Array Marks while Qin Tian replenished his power and recovered from his wounds.
• Qin Tian recognized the phantoms of Great Emperor Wushi, a Fighting Saint Emperor, and two young Heavenly Emperors, then prepared to face them.

Qin Tian faced the combined Four Extremes tribulation, battling the youthful forms of the Fighting Saint Emperor, Great Emperor Wushi, and the Undying Heavenly Emperor. He discovered that he could reverse time to restore himself, but the fight continued as the young Undying Heavenly Emperor attacked again.

• Qin Tian realized that his tribulation combined the trials for changing his Secret Realm method, stealing the universe’s origin, and advancing through the Four Extremes.
• The Fighting Saint Emperor battered Qin Tian with his staff while the Undying Heavenly Emperor wounded him with sudden saber strikes, and Great Emperor Wushi attacked with the Chaos Bell.
• Qin Tian used the Kunpeng Method to turn the fight with his speed, but Wushi’s bell slowed time and the Fighting Saint Emperor smashed his body apart.
• Qin Tian reversed time to restore himself, using the Temporal Eye’s strengthened origin.
• Qin Tian used Future Sight to choose a favorable timeline, caught the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s saber light between two fingers, and reached to suppress him.

Qin Tian fought three young Great Emperors in an escalating lightning tribulation, adapting his techniques to withstand their attacks and striking back with his Kunpeng art. He trapped the young Wushi in a Void Realm and began forming a Yin-Yang Life-and-Death Diagram, while still facing the other two opponents.

• Qin Tian and the young Undying clashed with the Kunpeng King Fist and Undying Immortal Phoenix Seal, while Qin Tian absorbed the Undying’s five-colored flames and endured attacks from the young Wushi and the young Heavenly Sovereign.
• Qin Tian used Divine Spirit symbols to form armor that broke down incoming attacks, then realized the tribulation was testing the beginnings of his new Dao Palace path.
• Qin Tian restrained the tribulation and the young Great Emperors with golden symbols before unleashing the second move of the Kunpeng Method Loose Hands, which split into a kun and a peng that devoured lightning essence.
• The young Wushi’s bell waves destroyed Qin Tian’s Kunpeng domain, and the young Saint Emperor’s Immortal Meteoric Iron damaged the Jade Ruyi as Qin Tian worried about fighting without a proper weapon.
• Qin Tian used the Eyes of Time to banish the young Wushi into a Void Realm, then activated his manifestation and began evolving the Yin-Yang Life-and-Death Diagram.

Qin Tian survived the heavenly tribulation, defeated the imprints of young Wushi and Young Fighting, and left Purple Mountain with Jiang Taixu and the Black Emperor. He set out to claim the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body’s remains, but a misdirected Void Shift left him in a dangerous, blood-red wasteland.

• Qin Tian defeated Young Undying, healed himself with the Wushi Technique, and then overcame Young Fighting and young Wushi with the Five-Colored Divine Light.
• The heavenly tribulation ended, and Qin Tian glimpsed the true Heavenly Court before a mysterious blade light injured his eyes.
• The Wushi Bell sent Qin Tian, Jiang Taixu, and the Black Emperor out of Purple Mountain, where Jiang Taixu restored his strength with the God King Rebirth Technique.
• Qin Tian asked Jiang Taixu to help him seize the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body’s remains and gave him coordinates to the Azure Flood Dragon King’s territory.
• Jiang Taixu departed to find Fairy Caiyun, while Qin Tian and the Black Emperor used Void Shift to travel toward the sacred body.
• Qin Tian emerged in a perilous crimson wasteland and demanded to know where the Black Emperor had taken him.

Qin Tian and the Black Emperor were accidentally transported into the Primordial Ancient Mine and struggled to survive its dangerous terrain. After Qin Tian used the Source Heaven Book to guide them and saved the Black Emperor from an invisible attacker, they found an ancient temple that gave them hope of escaping.

• The Black Emperor realized his Profound Jade Platform had sent Qin Tian and him into the Primordial Ancient Mine, and Qin Tian angrily confronted him before accepting they had to find a way out.
• Qin Tian and the Black Emperor crossed the mine as its sky shifted between darkness and starlight, then Qin Tian used the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid to protect them from black whirlwinds.
• Qin Tian recognized the Fire Dragon Tomb and led them cautiously onward, but the Black Emperor rushed into a pine grove to retrieve a jade pendant beside a skeleton.
• An unseen attacker struck the Black Emperor twice, and Qin Tian froze time and space to destroy the specter before continuing along the route in the Source Heaven Book.
• Qin Tian and the Black Emperor found an ancient temple built from source stone, which Qin Tian recognized as a sign that they might escape.

Qin Tian and Black Emperor reached an ancient temple in the Primordial Ancient Mine, where Black Emperor found a jade turtle among the ruins. Deeper inside, Qin Tian saw six figures from the past and recognized the opening stance of the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art.

• Qin Tian and Black Emperor followed the fourth Source Heavenly Master's directions to an ancient temple in the Primordial Ancient Mine.
• Black Emperor searched the ruined hall and found divine materials that had decayed, then uncovered a jade turtle that still shone with brilliance.
• Black Emperor claimed the jade turtle, and Qin Tian arranged to have first pick of their next treasure.
• Qin Tian spotted six figures that Black Emperor could not see and explained that they were shadows of the past.
• Qin Tian recognized a Sin Blood Mark among the figures and identified their posture as the opening stance of the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art.

Qin Tian and Black Emperor explored the Primordial Ancient Mine, where Qin Tian discovered Emperor Hengyu’s weapon-forging grounds and claimed phoenix blood red gold. After they escaped, Qin Tian prepared a Profound Jade Platform to travel to the Azure Flood Dragon King’s territory.

• Qin Tian practiced the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art and wondered whether Huang or other Heavenly Emperors were paying attention to him.
• Qin Tian called out to Huang, Shi Hao, and Ye Hei, but nothing in the Primordial Ancient Mine responded.
• Qin Tian and Black Emperor killed a monster with the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid and reached Emperor Hengyu’s weapon-forging grounds.
• Qin Tian found phoenix blood red gold and repeatedly beat Black Emperor when the dog tried to steal it.
• Qin Tian and Black Emperor left the Primordial Ancient Mine, and Qin Tian carefully inscribed a Profound Jade Platform aimed at the Azure Flood Dragon King’s territory.

Qin Tian arrived in Yunze Prefecture with the Black Emperor and joined Jiang Taixu and Fairy Caiyun to negotiate for the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body. The Azure Flood Dragon King wagered the body on a duel between Qin Tian and the Azure-Clad Little Flood Dragon King, and both sides expected their chosen fighter to win.

• Qin Tian and the Black Emperor reached Yunze Prefecture, where Jiang Taixu and Fairy Caiyun were waiting for them.
• Fairy Caiyun thanked Qin Tian for helping Jiang Taixu escape Purple Mountain, and Jiang Taixu said negotiations for the Saint's body were nearly settled.
• Jiang Taixu led Qin Tian, the Black Emperor, and Fairy Caiyun into the Azure Flood Dragon King's small world to meet him.
• The Azure Flood Dragon King proposed that the Azure-Clad Little Flood Dragon King fight Qin Tian, with the Saint's body at stake, and Jiang Taixu agreed immediately.
• Jiang Taixu trusted Qin Tian to win, while the Azure Flood Dragon King believed his stronger, more experienced young flood dragon would prevail.

Qin Tian accepted the Azure-Clad Little Flood Dragon King's challenge despite being two cultivation levels lower and crushed him with a single move. The demons were left stunned as Qin Tian declared that losing to him was the dragon king's greatest honor.

• The Azure-Clad Little Flood Dragon King challenged Qin Tian to fight outside and unleashed a water-dragon divine ability that swept away the mountain summit.
• Qin Tian dispersed the water dragon with his five-colored qi, then summoned a Heavenly Venerable manifestation from a thirty-six-petaled immortal lotus.
• The Heavenly Venerable pinned the Azure-Clad Little Flood Dragon King in his true flood dragon form with one hand, defeating him despite the cultivation gap.
• The demons expressed disbelief at the defeat, while Black Emperor compared Qin Tian's bearing to Great Emperor Wushi's.
• Qin Tian told the humiliated Azure-Clad Little Flood Dragon King that losing to him was the greatest honor of his life.

Qin Tian and his companions entered the Ageless Hall after the Azure Flood Dragon King honored his wager, and Qin Tian found the desolate ancient sacred body he needed for his cultivation plan. The Black Emperor tried to bite the corpse for its sacred blood, shattered his teeth, and vowed to drink from an innate sacred body someday.

• The Azure-Clad Little Flood Dragon King conceded to Qin Tian, and the Azure Flood Dragon King agreed to lead the group to the Ageless Hall.
• The Azure Flood Dragon King showed the group the hall’s treasures and explained that its Dao patterns could slow the passage of lifespan.
• Qin Tian found the desolate ancient sacred body on the hall’s ninth level and planned to use its origin alongside the innate Dao body to form an acquired sacred body Dao embryo.
• Jiang Taixu gave the Azure Flood Dragon King his insights on breaking through to Severing the Dao in exchange for the sacred body, and the Azure Flood Dragon King left.
• The Black Emperor lunged at the sacred body to drink its blood, broke his teeth on its indestructible flesh, and swore to drink from an innate sacred body in revenge.

Qin Tian used the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art to absorb the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body’s origin and began transforming his physique. As the absorption continued, he laid out a path toward an acquired sacred body dao embryo and imagined how it could lead him to a second lifetime.

• Jiang Taixu watched as Qin Tian prepared to absorb the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body’s origin, believing Qin Tian would not follow Ruthless Great Emperor’s path.
• Qin Tian formed the Great Dao Treasure Bottle Seal, and Black Emperor noticed that his bottle looked unlike the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar.
• The Desolate Ancient Sacred Body began reviving under the chain’s assault, so Qin Tian used the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid to suppress it.
• Qin Tian sent the chain into the corpse’s Wheel of Life and drew its origin into his Great Dao Treasure Bottle, transforming his body as his bones broke and regrew.
• Qin Tian planned to inscribe a Dao Array on his Great Dao Treasure Bottle, combine it with the sacred body origin, and eventually transform an acquired sacred body dao embryo into an innate one to pursue another lifetime.