Recaps

Taiyi studied the Lihuo Divine Furnace, the lost treasure once used by Emperor Hengyu, and awakened its resonance with the Sun True Scripture. He obtained the Hengyu Scripture’s Nine-Character Imperial Script, while the powers of the Eastern Wasteland continued searching for him.

• Rumors spread that Taiyi had taken an Ancient Sage’s legacy and Inherited Saint Weapon, provoking powerful factions to seek him out.
• Taiyi entered the Lihuo Divine Furnace to study Emperor Hengyu’s Dao traces as An Miaoyi and the others watched from outside.
• The Sun True Scripture resonated with the furnace, and Taiyi’s nine Sun God Birds called forth nine Divine Phoenixes.
• The Divine Phoenixes entered Taiyi’s sea of consciousness and formed nine ancient characters within it.
• Taiyi realized he had gained the Nine-Character Imperial Script, the essence of the Hengyu Scripture, rather than the complete scripture.

Taiyi studied Emperor Hengyu’s insights in the Lihuo Divine Furnace, then traveled in disguise to the Ice and Snow Palace to infiltrate the Myriad Dragon Nest. He reached the nest and saw Divine Source Blocks that seemed to contain sleeping creatures, but had not disturbed them yet.

• Taiyi emerged from the Lihuo Divine Furnace with Emperor Hengyu’s insights and invited Han Dong, Lin Qing, An Miaoyi, and Xiaobai inside to study them.
• Taiyi decided to visit the Ice and Snow Palace and entered its Back Mountain in disguise to search for the Myriad Dragon Nest.
• Taiyi spent three days and nights overcoming ancient formation patterns and entered a vast underground palace beneath the Ice and Snow Palace.
• Taiyi descended into a deep abyss protected by his black Ancient Pagoda, passed the Netherworld God Palace, and collected stones from a shattered Five-Colored Altar.
• Taiyi reached the Dragon Caves leading to the Myriad Dragon Nest and saw Divine Source Blocks that appeared to contain sleeping primordial experts.

Taiyi infiltrated the Myriad Dragon Nest and tried to seize the True Dragon Divine Medicine, but escaped with its dragon pearl and more than thirty drops of medicinal liquid after Primordial creatures detected him. He swallowed the pearl in seclusion and began another painful transformation of his body and Divine Sense.

• Taiyi approached the True Dragon Divine Medicine under the Ancient Pagoda’s protection and prepared a formation platform to escape.
• He used the Ancient Pagoda to restrain the medicine, captured its dragon pearl and more than thirty drops of medicinal liquid, but the plant broke free and fled into the Myriad Dragon Nest.
• Two Primordial creatures pursued Taiyi, but his Killing Formation delayed them while he escaped through successive Profound Jade Platforms.
• Taiyi hid in a mountain cave, sealed his aura with Formation Patterns, and took out the dragon pearl and medicinal liquid.
• Taiyi swallowed the True Dragon Pearl and used the Sun True Scripture to break and regenerate his bones and flesh while refining his Divine Sense.

Taiyi broke through into the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm and faced a devastating heavenly tribulation, using its lightning to temper his body and the Primal Chaos Ancient Bell. As the tribulation intensified, an ancient Heavenly Court and humanoid lightning figures appeared, and Taiyi looked forward to facing them in battle.

• Taiyi completed another transformation, and his cultivation breakthrough summoned the Dragon Transformation tribulation.
• Taiyi sent the Lihuo Divine Furnace and its contents beyond the tribulation before awakening Han Dong, Lin Qing, An Miaoyi, Little White Tiger, and the others.
• Taiyi endured the lightning and used its Dao marks to cultivate, while the Primal Chaos Ancient Bell emerged from his spine and was struck by the storm.
• Taiyi battled the eighty-one heavenly dragons, refined several of them, and used their essence to temper his spinal column.
• A lightning-formed True Dragon Ancient Platform and an ancient Heavenly Court appeared, with humanoid lightning figures watching Taiyi from above.
• Taiyi expressed his desire to fight the humanoid figures as the heavenly dragons and Dragon Platform pressed toward him.

Taiyi entered the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm at its second transformation and traveled to Divine City as the appointed challenge to the Yaoguang Holy Son approached. At the city gate, assassins attacked him, and he faced them without fear.

• Taiyi endured the heavenly tribulation, refined the eighty-one heavenly dragons, and broke through to the second transformation of the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm.
• Han Lin, Han Dong, An Miaoyi, Little White Tiger, and the others congratulated Taiyi, who announced that he would go to Divine City for his appointed challenge.
• Taiyi arrived at Divine City, where cultivators recognized him and speculated about his challenge to the Yaoguang Holy Son.
• Chen Feng recognized Taiyi, but two Dragon Transformation cultivators launched a sudden attack with flying swords, a stone pagoda, and a pitch-black bell.
• Taiyi remained calm as his holy light blazed against the assault.

Taiyi fought off a series of ambushes outside Divine City and killed every attacker, including several Dragon Transformation experts. As the onlookers watched in shock, his strength remained on display and the threat against him was left unresolved.

• Taiyi lured two fifth-heaven Dragon Transformation experts away from the populated area, crushed their attacks, and killed them with holy light sword qi.
• Five more old men charged Taiyi, including an expert at the seventh heaven of Dragon Transformation.
• Taiyi killed the seventh-heaven expert with the Sun God Fist, pulverizing his fists before blasting him apart.
• Three sixth-heaven experts attacked Taiyi with a forbidden weapon, but his holy light cracked the weapon and vaporized all three.
• Taiyi stopped the final fifth-heaven expert as he fled and killed him instantly.

Taiyi killed seven Dragon Transformation experts, but a Great Power’s puppet body tried to ambush him before Yaoguang Holy Lord Li Daoqing intervened and destroyed it. Li Daoqing brought Taiyi to the Yaoguang Stone Workshop, where he warned him that the forces coveting his Inherited Saint Weapon might strike again.

• Taiyi stood amid his defeated opponents as onlookers praised his strength and feared his surging holy aura.
• A Great Power’s puppet body attacked Taiyi, but Li Daoqing appeared, trapped the attacker in a Void Furnace, and refined it away.
• Li Daoqing took Taiyi to the Yaoguang Stone Workshop after Taiyi paid his respects and accepted the invitation to talk.
• Li Daoqing cautioned Taiyi that publicly challenging the Yaoguang Holy Son had drawn attention, while Taiyi insisted that their battle had to happen.
• Li Daoqing warned Taiyi to stay inside the Divine City because the attack had likely been a probe and greater dangers remained.

Taiyi agreed to let the Yaoguang Holy Land copy the Sage inheritance he had obtained, while keeping his other scriptures for himself. In the Divine City, he used his real identity to explore with An Miaoyi and began testing his Source Arts at the Dao Yi Stone Workshop.

• Li Daoqing told Taiyi that some members of the Yaoguang Holy Land wanted him to surrender his Inherited Saint Weapon, but he and Li Xuan had rejected the proposal.
• Li Daoqing asked Taiyi to provide the Holy Land with a copy of his Sage inheritance in exchange for access to a scripture or Sage Manuscript, and Taiyi agreed.
• Taiyi revealed that the figure escorted into the Divine City was his Holy Light Incarnation, while he had entered the city in disguise with An Miaoyi.
• Taiyi and An Miaoyi toured the Divine City before visiting the Dao Yi Stone Workshop.
• Taiyi examined stones and tested his Source Arts, then selected several Source Stones on the workshop's fifth level to have them cut open.

Taiyi continued practicing Source Arts in the Dao Yi Stone Workshop, improving from losses to modest profits as he advanced through its stone gardens. In the seventeenth-level garden, he bought a cracked watermelon-shaped stone that produced a dazzling, fragrant fiery-red Source, leaving the onlookers astonished.

• Taiyi gambled at the sixth- through sixteenth-level stone workshops, gradually improving his results and eventually making a profit of about a hundred jin of Source from one stone.
• Taiyi entered the seventeenth-level stone garden with An Miaoyi and felt an unusual sensation among its stones.
• Taiyi bought a cracked watermelon-shaped Source Stone for twenty-five jin of Source despite nearby cultivators mocking his choice.
• The stone cutter split the stone; its larger half yielded nothing, but continued cutting revealed fiery-red light and a rich fragrance.
• An Miaoyi and the gathered cultivators recognized the discovery as fiery-red Variant Source, which they estimated was worth at least a thousand jin of Source.

Taiyi and An Miaoyi entered Dao Yi Holy Land’s Heaven-Class Stone Garden, where Taiyi cut a large stone and triggered the rare phenomenon of an immortal flying from stone. He revealed a palm-sized piece of ice-snow source worth over fifteen hundred jin of pure source.

• Taiyi refused Dao Yi Holy Land’s offer to buy his fiery-red source and led An Miaoyi toward the Heaven-Class Stone Garden.
• Taiyi sensed an aura resembling that of the Primordial Ancient Mine as he and An Miaoyi examined the garden’s precious stones.
• Taiyi chose a large stone priced at three thousand jin of source and cut it himself.
• A human-shaped silhouette of light flew from the opened stone, prompting the old Daoist nun to seal the garden and stop it from escaping.
• Taiyi carefully removed the remaining rind and revealed a palm-sized piece of ice-snow source.

Taiyi refused to sell the incomplete ancient divine medicine he had cut from the ice-snow source. His Holy Light Incarnation then bought the Nine-Aperture Stone Man for ninety thousand jin of Source, and after most of it yielded nothing, he invited the onlookers to wager.

• The elders identified the source’s contents as the roots, stem, and foot-shaped tubers of an incomplete ancient divine medicine, and Taiyi refused offers of up to a hundred and fifty thousand jin of Source.
• News of the divine medicine spread, and Taiyi declined to keep gambling before leaving with An Miaoyi.
• Taiyi’s Holy Light Incarnation arrived at the Dao Yi Stone Workshop and bought the Nine-Aperture Stone Man for ninety thousand jin of Source.
• The Source master cut into the stone man, revealing only ordinary white stone and no treasure in its head or abdomen.
• With a fist-sized heart section and the forehead bone still unopened, Taiyi’s Holy Light Incarnation invited the onlookers to make a wager.

Taiyi wagered that the nearly exhausted Nine-Aperture Stone Man still held a rare treasure, drawing more than a hundred and fifty thousand jin of Source in bets from cultivators gathered at the Dao Yi Stone Workshop. He crushed a fragment from the stone man’s forehead and revealed a tiny, murderous sword made of dragon-patterned black gold, then sealed it as the crowd recognized its extraordinary nature.

• Taiyi invited the gathered cultivators to wager on whether the remaining Nine-Aperture Stone Man contained a treasure, and Wang Yu accepted the challenge.
• Old men, young cultivators, Yao Yuekong, and Xia Yiming joined the wager, bringing the total to more than 158,500 jin of Source.
• Taiyi accepted all the bets and chose the flat stone fragment that had formed the Nine-Aperture Stone Man’s forehead.
• Taiyi crushed the fragment, releasing a tiny black sword whose killing intent made the onlookers tremble.
• Taiyi sealed the sword, and the elders identified its material as dragon-patterned black gold.

Taiyi kept the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Sword he had unearthed and returned to Yaoguang Holy Land as Divine City’s powers watched. At Miaoyu Nunnery, he met An Miaoyi and examined the Primeval Divine Medicine, wondering whether it could be revived.

• Taiyi refused offers to sell the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Sword, while those who had wagered against him lamented their losses.
• News of the Primeval Divine Medicine and the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Sword spread through Divine City, and influential figures tracked the middle-aged couple who had found the medicine.
• The couple went to Miaoyu Nunnery, where watchers suspected they might be trying to escape and ordered their people to keep watch.
• An Miaoyi revealed her identity to Taiyi at Miaoyu Nunnery and congratulated him on his discoveries.
• Taiyi showed An Miaoyi the Primeval Divine Medicine sealed in ice-snow source and questioned whether it could be revived.

Taiyi used Divine Spring water and Immortal Liquid to nourish the damaged Human-Shaped Immortal Medicine, then spent the night with An Miaoyi. After an attack on the couple carrying the medicine was repelled by an Inherited Saint Weapon, Taiyi learned that the Yaoguang Holy Son had arrived and their contest would take place in three days.

• Taiyi placed the Human-Shaped Immortal Medicine’s roots in a mixture of Divine Spring water and Immortal Liquid, restoring some of its vitality, though it still needed time to recover.
• An Miaoyi congratulated Taiyi, and the two shared wine and spent the night together.
• Powerful cultivators ambushed the middle-aged couple leaving Miaoyu Nunnery, but the couple used an Inherited Saint Weapon to destroy the attackers and escape.
• An Miaoyi told Taiyi she did not regret gambling on him and hoped he would protect her path as a future powerhouse.
• Taiyi received a message that the Yaoguang Holy Son had arrived and that the Sky Battlefield would open in three days for their fight to decide who would lead the Yaoguang Holy Land.

Taiyi discussed the Starry Sky Ancient Road with An Miaoyi and gave her the first four volumes of the Taiyin True Scripture. In the Divine City, the Yaoguang Holy Son challenged Taiyi over the Holy Son position and the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Sword, while the Yaoguang Holy Maiden arrived to invite him.

• Taiyi told An Miaoyi he planned to pursue the Starry Sky Ancient Road and encouraged her to enter the Qishi Mansion.
• Taiyi transmitted the first four volumes of the Taiyin True Scripture to An Miaoyi, promising to seek the missing Immortal Platform Volume.
• The Yaoguang Holy Son visited the Yaoguang Stone Workshop, examined Taiyi's Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Sword, and agreed to fight him for the Holy Son position.
• The Yaoguang Holy Son left for a banquet, and Taiyi's holy light incarnation explored the Heaven-Character Stone Workshop.
• The Yaoguang Holy Maiden found Taiyi and reproached him for going to the Central Plains without telling her.

Taiyi visited the Yaoguang Holy Land’s Heaven-Class Stone Garden with Yao Xi, where he examined costly extraordinary stones and asked whether he could take Source Stones directly from the garden. He left the question to the Yaoguang Supreme Elder, while a mysterious stone called the Demon Embryo caught his attention.

• Chen Feng delivered the Jade Lake Holy Maiden’s invitation to Taiyi, who said he would visit when he had time.
• Taiyi teased Yao Xi about the Eastern Wasteland’s most beautiful women, and she admitted the Jade Lake Holy Maiden surpassed her in appearance.
• Taiyi and Yao Xi toured the Yaoguang Stone Workshop’s Heaven-Class Stone Garden, where Yao Xi asked about the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Sword he had obtained.
• Taiyi said he had promised to stake the sword in a wager against the Yaoguang Holy Son, and Yao Xi expressed confidence that Taiyi would win.
• Taiyi examined a stone named the Demon Embryo, then asked the Yaoguang Supreme Elder whether a Candidate Holy Son could take Source Stones directly from the Heaven-Class Stone Garden.

Taiyi secured the promise of two private selections from the Yaoguang Heaven-Class Stone Garden if he defeated the Yaoguang Holy Son, then went to keep an invitation from the Jade Lake Holy Maiden. He arrived disguised at the Yaochi Stone Workshop and watched her play the guzheng.

• Taiyi admitted he wanted to take an unusual stone away, and Li Daoqing promised him two stones if he defeated the Yaoguang Holy Son in three days.
• Li Daoqing warned Taiyi that stones from the Primordial Ancient Mine could contain deadly Primordial creatures.
• Taiyi invited An Miaoyi to the Yaochi Stone Workshop, but she stayed behind to cultivate the Taiyin True Scripture, and Taiyi helped her study it.
• The next day, Taiyi disguised himself and went to the Yaochi Stone Workshop to keep the Jade Lake Holy Maiden's invitation.
• A Jade Lake disciple led Taiyi to a secluded courtyard, where the Jade Lake Holy Maiden played the guzheng, and Taiyi opened his Martial Dao Heavenly Eye.

Taiyi met the Jade Lake Holy Maiden, whose true name was Yun Yao, and impressed her with his profound understanding of the Great Dao. Yun Yao then asked him to help nurture a Saint Spirit, and Taiyi uncovered the Stone King’s connection to Great Emperor Wushi.

• Taiyi revealed his true appearance to the Jade Lake Holy Maiden and discussed tea and the Great Dao with her in the Bamboo Grove.
• Yun Yao acknowledged Taiyi’s talent, revealed her true name, and explained that the Jade Pool Holy Land wanted his help nurturing a Saint Spirit with his sun true blood.
• Taiyi warned Yun Yao that nurturing a Saint Spirit could lead to catastrophe and questioned why the Jade Pool Holy Land persisted.
• Taiyi deduced that the Stone King was connected to Great Emperor Wushi, astonishing Yun Yao.
• Taiyi explained that he had inferred Wushi’s connection to the Jade Pool Holy Land from the Queen Mother of the West’s constitution and Great Emperor Wushi’s unique constitution.

The Divine City filled with powerful spectators for the contest between the Yaoguang Holy Son and Eastern Emperor Taiyi, a battle expected to determine the Eastern Wasteland’s leading young talent. As the contenders gathered at the Sky Battlefield, Taiyi arrived in dazzling holy light, and the great battle was about to begin.

• Taiyi asked the Jade Lake Holy Maiden to let him choose one of the Stone Kings held by the Jade Pool Holy Land, and she agreed to report his request to the Queen Mother of the West.
• Taiyi revealed that he possessed a sun sacred body, not merely a sun physique, and suggested that his blood was worth more than the dangerous Stone Kings.
• Experts and prominent figures from across the lands gathered in the Divine City to witness the contest for the Yaoguang Holy Land’s Holy Son position.
• Ji Haoyue told Ji Ziyue that Taiyi would win at equal cultivation, but noted that the Yaoguang Holy Son might have reached the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm.
• The Yaoguang Holy Son and the gathered young successors assembled at the Sky Battlefield, where Eastern Emperor Taiyi arrived shining like a Sun Deity.

Taiyi and the Yaoguang Holy Son began their battle for the position of Holy Son inside the Sky Arena, with Taiyi limiting his displayed cultivation to test his opponent. Their Holy Light Fist Seals collided in an intense exchange that left the Yaoguang Holy Son injured.

• Taiyi arrived at the gathering, drawing the attention of the assembled powers with his mastery of the Holy Light Technique.
• Li Daoqing opened the Sky Arena and urged Taiyi and the Yaoguang Holy Son to stop once the outcome was clear.
• The Yaoguang Holy Son entered the arena at the first heaven of Dragon Transformation, while Taiyi displayed only the Third Realm of the Four Extremes.
• The Yaoguang Holy Son attacked Taiyi with a Holy Light Fist Seal, and Taiyi met him head-on using the Sun True Scripture.
• Taiyi and the Yaoguang Holy Son exchanged dozens of blows, and the Yaoguang Holy Son was injured by Taiyi's formidable physical strength.

Taiyi overwhelmed the Yaoguang Holy Son despite his breakthrough to the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm, revealing the Human King Seal and matching his opponent’s Holy Light Technique. As the battle intensified, Taiyi recognized that the Yaoguang Holy Son had finally exposed an opening and prepared to end the fight with a succession of Saint Arts.

• Taiyi struck the Yaoguang Holy Son with the Human King Seal, and their arts collided in a devastating exchange.
• The Yaoguang Holy Son transformed into the Holy Light Furnace and attacked Taiyi with his full strength.
• Taiyi used Nine Secrets: Dou to create one hundred and eight thousand swords of Holy Light that broke through the Yaoguang Holy Son’s furnace and injured him.
• The Yaoguang Holy Son continued fighting Taiyi amid surging Holy Light, obscuring the battle from observers.
• Taiyi revealed that he had baited the Yaoguang Holy Son into exposing an opening and unleashed the Mountain-Embracing Seal, the Human King Seal, and the Heaven-Overturning Seal in succession.

Taiyi defeated the Yaoguang Holy Son on the Sky Battlefield after revealing that he had reached the second heaven of Dragon Transformation and had been suppressing his strength. The duel ended with Taiyi victorious, while the spectators struggled to explain how he had advanced so quickly.

• The Yaoguang Holy Son used the Myriad Transformations Sacred Art and Flying Immortal Art to fight Taiyi’s Holy Light Incarnation, briefly gaining the upper hand in close combat.
• The Yaoguang Holy Son urged Taiyi to concede, but Taiyi stopped suppressing his strength and revealed his Dragon Transformation cultivation.
• Taiyi’s Sun God Fist overwhelmed the Yaoguang Holy Son’s techniques, leaving him grievously wounded and unable to resist.
• Taiyi subdued the Yaoguang Holy Son with a great golden hand that formed an Order Cage.
• The spectators realized Taiyi had reached the second heaven of Dragon Transformation, while the Yaoguang Holy Son had only recently entered the first heaven.

Taiyi defeated Li Yao and became the new Holy Son of the Yaoguang Holy Land, while the powers of the Eastern Wasteland rushed to court his favor. He later revealed to Li Daoqing and Yao Xi that the figure who fought in the arena had only been one of his holy light bodies.

• Li Yao admitted defeat, and Li Daoqing declared Taiyi the victor and the new Yaoguang Holy Son.
• The Yaoguang disciples and gathered powers celebrated Taiyi, while Li Yao vowed to fight him again and left Divine City.
• Young successors from several powers invited Taiyi to a banquet, where he accepted their invitations and mingled with them.
• Taiyi's true body appeared at the Yaoguang Stone Workshop and told Li Daoqing and Yao Xi that his arena performance had been carried out by a holy light body.
• Li Daoqing and Yao Xi were astonished that Taiyi's holy light body had defeated Li Yao, and Li Daoqing praised Taiyi's strength.

Taiyi claimed three extraordinary stones from the Yaoguang Holy Land’s Heaven-Class Stone Garden after Li Daoqing rewarded him for his talent. Li Daoqing then reassured him that the Holy Land would protect him from the Ruthless One’s Lineage, and Taiyi asked whether he could request that lineage’s cultivation methods.

• Li Daoqing increased Taiyi’s reward to three extraordinary stones, and Taiyi chose the Demon Embryo, the Blood Sacrifice Altar, and a millstone-shaped stone.
• Li Daoqing warned Taiyi to prepare carefully before cutting open the dangerous Source Stones and assured him the Holy Land would not demand that he open them immediately.
• Li Daoqing privately told Taiyi that the Yaoguang Holy Land’s connection to the Ruthless One’s Lineage was complicated and that the Holy Land would protect him.
• Taiyi realized the Holy Land might support both him and the former Holy Son Li Yao, then asked Li Daoqing whether he could access the Ruthless One’s Lineage’s cultivation methods.

Taiyi revealed to An Miaoyi that the fighter who defeated the Yaoguang Holy Son had been his incarnation, then secretly opened two unusual stones inside the Purple Gold Gourd. He gave An Miaoyi an Ageless Immortal Flower and discovered a tiny qilin sealed within Divine Source.

• Taiyi visited Miaoyu Nunnery, where An Miaoyi congratulated him on becoming the new Holy Son and learned that Li Yao had been his incarnation.
• Taiyi sealed the palace with formation patterns and entered the Purple Gold Gourd with An Miaoyi to cut open an unusual stone.
• Taiyi found an Ageless Immortal Flower and gave it to An Miaoyi, who consumed it to preserve her youth.
• Taiyi cut open the Demon Embryo stone and uncovered a piece of Divine Source containing a tiny Purple Qilin.
• An Miaoyi recognized the creature as a qilin and wondered whether it was a young true qilin from before the Primordial Era.