Chapter Summaries

Li Wangxian was born into the declining Solar Ancient Sect with an extraordinary affinity for the Dao and Yin and Yang Qi, though the elders could not identify his constitution. A month later, he realized he had transmigrated into the world of Shrouding the Heavens with an immortal seed and a foundation transformed by his brief glimpse beyond dimensions.

• The Solar Divine Dynasty's sect master and elders examined his newborn son and marveled at his affinity with the Great Dao and Yin and Yang Qi.
• The elders debated whether the infant had a Supreme Immortal Physique or an Innate Dao Embryo, but could not determine his constitution.
• The sect master's wife asked what to name their child, and he named him Wangxian.
• One month later, Li Wangxian recognized that he had transmigrated into Shrouding the Heavens and recalled his dimensional journey into the Ziwei Star Domain.
• Li Wangxian discovered an Yin and Yang Immortal Seed in his Bitter Sea and realized his dimensional glimpse had also strengthened his connection to the Great Dao.

After three years of preparation, Li Wangxian began cultivating with the Lesser Yang Scripture and advanced rapidly through the Bitter Sea stage. He stopped himself from breaking through to the Life Spring realm, leaving Father Li, Mother Li, and the elders astonished by his progress.

• Father Li gave Li Wangxian the Lesser Yang Scripture and the incomplete Sun Remnant Scripture as he began cultivation in earnest.
• Li Wangxian comprehended the Lesser Yang Scripture and used the Yin and Yang Immortal Seed to draw Dao resonance and spiritual currents into his body.
• Li Wangxian opened his Bitter Sea and circulated life essence through his body, nourishing his flesh, organs, and bones.
• After more than ten days of cultivation, Li Wangxian’s Bitter Sea formed divine patterns and surged like an awakening volcano, reaching the second process of the Bitter Sea stage.
• Li Wangxian restrained his cultivation before it carried him into the Life Spring realm, surprising and delighting Father Li, Mother Li, and the elders.

Li Wangxian cultivated the Sun Remnant Scripture and advanced through the Sea of Bitterness realms at extraordinary speed, then endured and overcame the Divine Bridge’s calamity of lostness. He reached the Other Shore, glimpsed the Dao Palace, and felt his essence, energy, and spirit undergo a great transformation.

• Li Wangxian studied the Lesser Yang Scripture before comprehending the Sun Remnant Scripture with insights from the Yin and Yang Immortal Seed.
• After a month of cultivation, Li Wangxian opened a Life Spring in his Bitter Sea, then formed a Divine Bridge three months later.
• Li Wangxian tried to mend the Sun Remnant Scripture’s passages on the Sea of Bitterness but failed, while reaching the pinnacle of the Divine Bridge Realm.
• Li Wangxian endured two months of the calamity of lostness as his senses and spiritual perception faded, then found the Other Shore by realizing it was wherever he stood.
• Li Wangxian crossed the Bitter Sea, briefly glimpsed the Dao Palace, and reached the Other Shore Realm as his Bitter Sea expanded and his essence, energy, and spirit sublimated.

After stabilizing his Other Shore cultivation, Li Wangxian chose a bell as his first artifact and resolved to pursue the perilous path of harmonizing Taiyin and Taiyang. He left seclusion determined to grow strong enough to protect the Sun God Sect and obtain both ancient scriptures.

• Li Wangxian completed his seclusion after stabilizing his Other Shore Realm and advancing his cultivation further.
• He examined the Divine Patterns in his Sea of Bitterness and decided to refine them into a bell as his first artifact.
• Li Wangxian committed to the difficult path of bringing yin and yang into harmony, hoping to attain the Dao.
• He resolved to prevent the Sun God Sect's destruction by becoming strong enough to face the Golden Crow Clan and other powerful enemies.
• Li Wangxian reflected that both the Sun Scripture and Taiyin True Scripture might still be found on Ziwei, and his thoughts turned grim as he considered the Taiyin God Sect's stolen legacy.

Li Wangxian left the Sun Church with Uncle Jiang to study Yang City’s ancient Morning Bell as a reference for forging his Dao Bell. After arriving in disguise, he vowed to reclaim Yang City for the Sun Church someday.

• Li Wangxian realized he needed to see ancient bells before he could settle the form of his artifact, so he asked his father to leave the Sun Church.
• His father gave him several Profound Jade Platforms, and Li Wangxian wore a Longevity Lock before departing with Uncle Jiang.
• As they traveled east, Li Wangxian told Uncle Jiang that he wanted to take Yang City back, and Uncle Jiang assured him he would succeed.
• Uncle Jiang and Li Wangxian reached Yang City, disguised their appearances, and entered to visit its famous Morning Bell.

Li Wangxian visited Yang City’s ancient bell to learn what his own bell artifact lacked, but he and Uncle Jiang were ambushed by cultivators after leaving the city. Back at the Sun Church, Li Wangxian began refining a Dao Bell in his Bitter Sea and gave it its initial form.

• Li Wangxian studied the ancient bell in Yang City and learned from Uncle Jiang about the details that shaped its sound and structure.
• Li Wangxian bought bronze bells and casting books, then left Yang City with Uncle Jiang, who detected pursuers and used Profound Jade Platforms to escape through the void.
• Uncle Jiang’s trap disrupted the void and killed many of the pursuing cultivators, while their middle-aged leader abandoned the chase.
• Li Wangxian returned safely to the Sun Church, where his parents acted indifferent to his ordeal to help toughen him, though his mother later showed her worry.
• Li Wangxian designed a bell in his mind’s sea, tempered more than a thousand Divine Patterns, and forged them into a small golden Dao Bell in his Bitter Sea.

After reaching the Dao Palace Realm, Li Wangxian discovered that his bloodline was undergoing ancestral reversion, bringing him powerful solar potential and a chance to complete the Sun Remnant Scripture. He entered secluded cultivation as his family supplied treasures to aid the transformation, and he began listening to Dao sounds that could guide him toward the scripture’s missing sections.

• Li Wangxian set aside his search for immortal materials and focused on cultivation after reflecting on the danger he had faced.
• In three months, Li Wangxian reached great perfection in the Sea of Bitterness Realm, survived the nine transformations of the Other Shore, and entered the Dao Palace Realm.
• Li Wangxian’s body began radiating golden light, and he confirmed with his father that his imperial bloodline was undergoing ancestral reversion.
• Li Wangxian entered secluded cultivation while his father and the Sun Church elders sold assets to obtain treasures that would strengthen his transformation.
• Three days later, solar laws manifested in Li Wangxian’s blood and resonated with the Sun Remnant Scripture, producing Dao sounds that he believed could help him complete its Sea of Bitterness and Dao Palace sections.

Li Wangxian emerged from three months of cultivation after his ancestral transformation, having restored most of the Sun Scripture’s Wheel Sea and Dao Palace Scrolls. His dramatic breakthrough stirred the Sun God Sect, where its remaining senior members gathered to welcome him.

• Li Wangxian used the Great Dao Celestial Music and his bloodline’s divine laws to understand the Sun Scripture and sensed that he could eventually complete its Wheel Sea and Dao Palace Scrolls.
• After three months of study, Li Wangxian restored both scrolls to over ninety percent but realized the remaining imperial-level mysteries were beyond his current realm.
• Li Wangxian concealed his cultivation with the Longevity Lock and emerged from seclusion, drawing astonished divine senses from across the Sun God Sect.
• Elder Jiang blocked the probing divine senses and escorted Li Wangxian to the main hall, where his parents, Elder Lin, and Elder Chen had gathered.

Li Wangxian’s ancestral imperial bloodline was confirmed, thrilling the Sun Church, and he presented two sections of the Sun Scripture that he had restored. His extraordinary claims left the hall speechless, and Mother Li declared that he had the makings of a Great Emperor, making him lose his composure.

• Elder Lin and Elder Chen examined Li Wangxian and confirmed that his bloodline had reverted to its ancestral source, nearly rivaling an emperor’s son.
• The Sun Church’s elders and Li Wangxian’s parents celebrated the return of the Human Emperor’s bloodline, while Mother Li made him smile along with them.
• Li Wangxian handed Father Li complete Sea of Bitterness Realm and Dao Palace Realm sections of the Sun Scripture.
• Li Wangxian said he had restored the scriptures through the resonance between his ancestral bloodline and the incomplete scripture, though he could not complete the emperor-level profundities.
• After the hall fell silent at Li Wangxian’s claims, Mother Li praised him as having the makings of a Great Emperor, and he spluttered.

Li Wangxian’s rapid cultivation reached Dao Palace fifth heaven, and he decided to travel to Reed Continent to seek the Taiyin True Scripture and materials for an artifact. His father refused to let him go because he was still too young.

• Li Wangxian asked his mother to stop calling him someone with the makings of a Great Emperor, but Elder Chen soon declared it publicly after the sect elders confirmed he had repaired the Sun Scripture.
• Li Wangxian’s father ordered the sect to keep the scripture and its recent discoveries secret, and the elders agreed to delay passing it down until Li Wangxian was safer.
• After a year of secluded cultivation, Li Wangxian reached Dao Palace fifth heaven and discovered that his awakened emperor blood had greatly strengthened his Dao attainment and sun saint power.
• Li Wangxian decided to seek the Taiyin True Scripture near Tianyuan City on Reed Continent and look for immortal gold divine materials to forge an artifact.
• Li Wangxian told his father he wanted to travel to Reed Continent, but his father immediately refused.

Li Wangxian argued that he needed to leave the Sun Church to search for the Taiyin True Scripture and temper himself, and his family finally agreed that he could travel with a guardian. His father then demanded that he prove his strength in a fight, and their first clash shook the mountains.

• Li Wangxian insisted that he was strong enough to face Ziwei’s prodigies, but his father and the others urged him to wait until he was older.
• Li Wangxian changed his appearance with a mystic art and showed Elder Lin that his jade pendant could conceal his youthful aura.
• Li Wangxian’s father agreed not to let him travel alone, then challenged him to defeat him before granting permission to leave.
• Li Wangxian accepted the challenge, and he and his father met in a mountain range outside the Sun Church with the church’s upper ranks watching.
• Li Wangxian opened with ten thousand rays of Sun Saint Power, and his father met the attack with his own Sun Saint Power.

Li Wangxian defeated his father, Li Shenglan, in a fierce spar, proving his strength and winning permission to venture out for training. Li Shenglan urged him to grow strong enough to protect the Sun lineage, and his son promised he would.

• Li Wangxian shattered his father's Dao diagrams with the Sun Emperor Fist and sent him crashing into a mountain.
• Li Shenglan formed a miniature world to seal Li Wangxian, but Li Wangxian unleashed his talent and fought back with overwhelming Dao power.
• Li Wangxian broke free of the miniature world and emerged uninjured, while Li Shenglan suffered a minor wound and conceded defeat.
• Li Wangxian's mother scolded father and son, then the family exchanged smiles as Li Shenglan acknowledged his son's victory.
• Li Shenglan told Li Wangxian to become strong enough that no one could oppress the Sun lineage, and Li Wangxian firmly promised to do so.

Li Wangxian traveled from Yang City through a Domain Gate to Thunder City, where he considered testing his body against the region’s lightning. On his way to the city, four cultivators surrounded him to rob him, and he chose to fight them.

• Li Wangxian left the Sun Church, disguised his appearance and concealed his aura, then flew to Yang City.
• Li Wangxian paid for passage through the Ziwei Divine Dynasty’s Domain Gate and crossed the void to an altar outside Thunder City.
• Li Wangxian learned about Thunder City’s lightning, its cultivators, and rumors of dao tribulation gold, and considered staying to temper his body.
• Four cultivators surrounded Li Wangxian and demanded his valuables, claiming they would spare his life.
• Li Wangxian rejected the robbery and said he would beat the four cultivators, despite being just short of the Four Extremes Realm.

Li Wangxian defeated a band of robbers with a single Dao shout and demanded their unusual Treasure Wheel as compensation. The bearded man launched the wheel at him, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• The bearded man and his companions attacked Li Wangxian with spiritual treasures, but his Dao shout shattered them and injured the attackers.
• The bearded man saved the group from the remaining Dao waves with his Buddhist-light Treasure Wheel, and Li Wangxian noticed the artifact’s power.
• Li Wangxian demanded compensation, and the bearded man offered Source, spirit herbs, and purple tribulation thunder gold to avoid losing the wheel.
• Li Wangxian insisted that the Treasure Wheel be included, so the bearded man cried out an apology and unleashed it at him.

Li Wangxian battled the bearded man and his sealed King's Divine Weapon, the Treasure Wheel. After trapping the weapon and subduing its exhausted master, Li Wangxian seized it and announced that he would rob him.

• The bearded man unleashed the Treasure Wheel, and Li Wangxian countered it with the Four Extremes Seal, which the weapon broke through.
• Li Wangxian recognized that the Treasure Wheel was a sealed King's Divine Weapon and fought it barehanded, using his golden body and Sun Divine Laws.
• Li Wangxian diverted the Treasure Wheel's attacks, trapped it with the Four Extremes Seal, and reinforced the seal with a golden pagoda from his Bitter Sea.
• Li Wangxian used the Rainbow Transformation Technique to catch and subdue the bearded man, whose divine power had been depleted.
• Li Wangxian sealed the masterless Treasure Wheel and told the bearded man that it was time for a robbery.

Li Wangxian defeated a band of robbers, claimed their treasures, and traveled to Thunder City. After learning why the city’s buildings were made of stone, he headed for the Heavenly Thunder Platform.

• Li Wangxian examined the sealed Treasure Wheel and decided it was his most powerful weapon.
• Li Wangxian searched the bearded robber’s Bitter Sea and took his Source, spirit herbs, weapons, and other treasures.
• Li Wangxian stripped the other three robbers of their belongings, thanked them, and left as they swallowed their anger.
• Li Wangxian flew to Thunder City and learned that stone buildings helped protect residents from frequent lightning strikes.
• A friendly old man pointed Li Wangxian toward the Heavenly Thunder Platform, where formations drew in controlled lightning for cultivation.

Li Wangxian learned about the Ninefold Thunder Prison while posing as a young newcomer in Thunder City, and the locals recognized him as the Holy Son who had subdued the Good Person Bandits. After hearing that a bounty had been placed on the bandits, he prepared to leave the city and enter the thunder domain for training.

• Li Wangxian overheard cultivators discussing how a young Holy Son had subdued the Good Person Bandits and learned that the Thunder Sea was divided into nine layers called the Ninefold Thunder Prison.
• The cultivators told Li Wangxian about Healing Sacred Medicine at the Medicine King Hall and the powerful divine substance rumored to be forming in the prison's innermost layer.
• Luo Yang and Peng Tao recognized Li Wangxian as the Holy Son, and Peng Tao informed him that the Good Person Bandits carried a bounty of five thousand jin of source.
• Li Wangxian questioned the cultivators about the Ninefold Thunder Prison and decided to train there rather than use the city's Heavenly Thunder Platforms.
• Luo Yang escorted Li Wangxian to the Medicine King Hall and asked him to hold the thousand-year-old deer antler velvet until he could exchange two spirit medicines for it; Li Wangxian agreed before leaving the city.

Li Wangxian and other cultivators went to the Ninefold Thunder Domain to watch Xu Sheng duel Ye Liuyun of the Azure Heaven Gate. They learned Xu Sheng had spent years tempering himself in the thunder there after losing to Daoist Sanque, and the chapter left them awaiting the fight he had arranged to test his strength.

• Li Wangxian and the others heard that a Saint Son of the Longevity Temple would duel Ye Liuyun, and learned the fighter was Xu Sheng rather than Daoist Sanque.
• The cultivators recalled that Xu Sheng had once competed with Daoist Sanque for the Saint Son position and lost.
• Li Wangxian and the crowd reached the Ninefold Thunder Domain and saw Xu Sheng and Ye Liuyun facing off in midair.
• Ye Liuyun mocked Xu Sheng for remaining at Four Extremes Perfection and suggested his defeat had ruined his Dao heart.
• A cultivator explained that Xu Sheng had shaved his head because he trained in the thunder domain, seeking to strengthen his Dao Foundation and challenge Daoist Sanque again.
• The crowd learned that Xu Sheng had stopped Ye Liuyun to test the combat strength he had gained through years of cultivation.

Ye Liuyun attacked Xu Sheng with the Azure Heaven Gate’s Ten Thousand Miles of Sky Sword, but Xu Sheng charged through the sword qi with a powerful physical ability and lightning arts. Though the crowd mistook Xu Sheng’s lingering injuries for wounds inflicted by Ye Liuyun, an elder realized Xu Sheng was about to win.

• Ye Liuyun unleashed the Ten Thousand Miles of Sky Sword, overwhelming the battlefield with a sea of sword qi.
• Xu Sheng charged through the sword qi, using a lightning technique and his shining body to withstand its attacks.
• Ye Liuyun summoned a Saint Sword and clashed fiercely with Xu Sheng for over a hundred moves.
• Onlookers believed Ye Liuyun had wounded Xu Sheng and praised his swordsmanship, while Li Wangxian dismissed Xu Sheng’s body as a minor physical divine ability rather than a golden body.
• A respected elder said Xu Sheng was about to win, and a cultivator noticed that the lightning in Xu Sheng’s blood came from his earlier tempering in the Thunder Domain.

Xu Sheng defeated Ye Liuyun after their divine abilities collided, while Li Wangxian faced a Star Sect claim that the Good Person Bandits had stolen its king-grade Treasure Wheel. The chapter ended with Li Wangxian openly provoking Mo Tianxing as the Star Sect’s hostility rose.

• Ye Liuyun overcame his doubts and unleashed Stars Fall Westward, while Xu Sheng answered with Nine Heavens Thunder Prison.
• Xu Sheng won the clash, and the Azure Heaven Gate disciples carried away the badly injured Ye Liuyun.
• Xu Sheng considered his strength against Daoist Sanque and resolved to temper himself with a heavenly tribulation in the Dragon Transformation Realm before fighting him again.
• Mo Tianxing and Star Sect disciples surrounded Li Wangxian, claiming their sect’s sealed king-grade Treasure Wheel had been stolen by the Good Person Bandits.
• Peng Tao told Li Wangxian that the Star Sect and other great sects were using false theft claims to seize the bandits’ weapon.
• Li Wangxian challenged Mo Tianxing’s story by asking whether the Star Sect’s supreme elder was a baldy, provoking a surge of killing intent.