Recaps

Taiyi identified the Purple Qilin sealed in Divine Source as a Qilin Immortal Medicine seed, then left the Divine City and was ambushed by two Human World assassins. He repelled their first attacks and confronted them as his aura surged.

• Taiyi told An Miaoyi that the Purple Qilin was a Qilin Immortal Medicine seed and let her examine it.
• Taiyi declined most invitations after becoming the new Yaoguang Holy Son and left the Divine City for a gathering in Qu Prefecture.
• A gray-robed man and a white-robed woman launched sudden sword attacks on Taiyi outside the city gates.
• Taiyi's holy light blasted both attackers away, and he identified them as members of the Assassin Divine Dynasty, Human World.
• Taiyi stepped toward the two assassins as his aura intensified, forcing nearby onlookers to retreat.

Taiyi killed successive waves of Human World assassins, displaying the power of his Martial Dao Heavenly Eye and solar true fire. Human World and Hell then issued death warrants naming Eastern Emperor Taiyi, while the Yin-Yang Sect's Vice Hierarch used the crisis to accuse him of wrongdoing.

• Taiyi crushed two Human World assassins with his fists and blasted them into ash with his Martial Dao Heavenly Eye when they tried to flee.
• Seven more assassins attacked Taiyi, but he blocked them with a Solar Divine Furnace and burned them to ash with solar true fire.
• Two Immortal Platform experts appeared to kill Taiyi, but Han Dong and Lin Qing intervened, and the attackers vanished into the void.
• Human World and Hell publicly issued death warrants against Eastern Emperor Taiyi, shocking the gathered experts and Yaoguang Holy Lord Li Daoqing.
• The Yin-Yang Sect's Vice Hierarch sneered that Taiyi must have committed many sins to draw the two Assassin Divine Dynasties' warrants.

After Hell and the Human World issued a Death Warrant against Taiyi, the gathered factions weighed the threat of the ancient Assassin Divine Dynasties and the Yaoguang Holy Land’s response. Li Xuan and Wang Zheng returned with the assassins’ corpses, and Wang Zheng warned the Yin-Yang Sect against targeting Taiyi again.

• Li Daoqing challenged Wang Yangzhan over the Death Warrant, but Wang Yangzhan tried to turn the other factions against the Yaoguang Holy Land.
• The Holy Lords discussed the danger posed by Hell and the Human World, while Taiyi remained calm despite the Death Warrant’s reputation.
• Li Xuan appeared carrying two dead Half-Step Great Powers, and Wang Zheng emerged with the corpse of a Great Power from the Human World.
• Taiyi, Han Dong, and Lin Qing greeted Wang Zheng, whose renewed health was credited to Taiyi’s Ancient Medicine King.
• Wang Zheng told Wang Yangzhan that he would take up an Inherited Saint Weapon against the Yin-Yang Sect if it targeted Taiyi again.

Wang Zheng warned the gathered powers that he would defend Taiyi, while Taiyi agreed to meet an awakened Yaoguang Saint through his avatar. After Hell and Human World issued a Death Warrant against him, Taiyi met the Purple Mansion Saintess and revealed that he had found the entrance to the Jade Pool Ruins, where she might obtain the Western Empress Scripture.

• Wang Zheng threatened to take an Inherited Saint Weapon to the Yin-Yang Sect if Wang Yangzhan's faction harmed Taiyi.
• Li Xuan told Taiyi that an awakened Yaoguang ancestor wished to meet him, and Taiyi agreed to go in his avatar.
• More than half a month later, Hell and Human World issued a Death Warrant against Taiyi, and he waited in the wilderness to meet the Purple Mansion Saintess.
• Taiyi explained that the Western Empress Scripture was hidden in the Jade Pool Ruins and said he had found the entrance.
• Taiyi told Zixia that the Jade Lake had destroyed or removed nearly all its other legacies before withdrawing.

Taiyi and Zixia entered the sealed old Jade Pool grounds, hoping to find the Western Empress Scripture. They reached the thriving central region and discovered that the supposed immortal lake concealed hundreds of dead Jade Lake women.

• Taiyi told Zixia that her innate Dao embryo might let her sense the Queen Mother of the West’s traces and find the Western Empress Scripture, and asked for a copy if she succeeded.
• Guided by information from Han Lin and Han Dong, Taiyi led Zixia across the barren land to an ancient well that opened into the old Jade Pool grounds.
• Taiyi and Zixia traveled through the dried underground river and found the ruins’ desolate outer region, then reached a lush central area filled with palaces, waterfalls, and dense spiritual energy.
• Zixia recognized the legendary immortal lake and described its Divine Spring, but Taiyi used his Heavenly Eye to reveal what lay beneath its surface.
• Taiyi and Zixia saw several hundred corpses of young women in Jade Lake robes piled at the bottom of the lake.

Taiyi and Zixia found stone carvings containing passages of the Western Empress Scripture and both comprehended its Dao Palace section on the heart divine treasury. After Zixia was shocked by Taiyi’s Sun Sacred Body and learned that Great Emperor Wushi was the Queen Mother of the West’s son, Taiyi thanked her for helping him gain the scripture passage.

• Taiyi and Zixia left the eerie immortal lake and explored the barren stone mountains, finding scattered, mostly damaged Jade Lake techniques.
• Taiyi led Zixia to a cliff bearing a sun-shaped carving and explained that the Queen Mother of the West had scattered her insights among the mountains.
• Zixia meditated on the cliff, and her innate Dao embryo resonated with the mountain; Taiyi used the resonance and his Enlightenment Cushion to comprehend the Western Empress Scripture alongside her.
• Taiyi revealed that he possessed both Sun Physique and desolate ancient sacred body traits, calling himself a Sun Sacred Body, and explained how combined physiques could produce an innate sacred body Dao embryo.
• Taiyi told Zixia that Great Emperor Wushi was the son of the Queen Mother of the West and a great accomplishment sacred body, leaving her astonished.
• Taiyi rose and thanked Zixia for helping him obtain the Western Empress Scripture’s passage on the heart divine treasury.

Taiyi and Zixia collected the Western Empress Scripture’s methods for the Five Great Secret Realms in the Jade Pool Ruins, then fled when a terrifying black mist emerged from the Immortal Lake. After escaping safely, Zixia left, flustered by Taiyi’s teasing about their possible child’s physique.

• Taiyi and Zixia gathered the scriptures for the Five Great Secret Realms but could not obtain the Western Empress Scripture’s Taboo Chapter.
• As their sense of danger grew, Taiyi and Zixia headed for the exit, but black mist and a terrifying killing intent surged from the Jade Lake Immortal Lake.
• Taiyi used his nine-story Inherited Saint Weapon to shelter Zixia and carry them through the demonic clouds and out of the ancient well.
• Taiyi and Zixia escaped unharmed, and the black mist did not emerge from the well.
• Taiyi teased Zixia about what physique their child might inherit, and she flew away after promising to remember his favor.

Taiyi studied the Western Empress Scripture, then refined dragon marrow and survived three overlapping lightning tribulations, advancing to the fifth heaven of Dragon Transformation. While traveling across a frozen wilderness, he encountered a little girl whose Taiyin physique resonated with his sun sacred body.

• Taiyi secluded himself to study the Western Empress Scripture alongside the scriptures he had already obtained.
• Taiyi consumed dragon marrow and endured three overlapping tribulations, tempering his body, divine sense, and Chaos Bell as he advanced to the fifth transformation of Dragon Transformation.
• Taiyi continued traveling instead of returning to his holy land or approaching the Primordial Ancient Mine, and found blazing sun source in abandoned mineral veins.
• Taiyi reached a snow-covered ice field and encountered a little girl dressed in white in the frozen woods.
• Taiyi recognized that the little girl had a Taiyin physique, and she asked him who he was.

Taiyi encountered Jiang Tingting, a girl with the Taiyin Physique, and told her he could help resolve her fate of dying young. The chapter left Jiang Tingting trusting him and hopeful that he could save her.

• Jiang Tingting felt drawn toward Taiyi and met him while traveling to visit her grandfather, Jiang Haisheng.
• Taiyi revealed that he possessed the Sun Physique and recognized Jiang Tingting's Taiyin Physique, and she realized he was the Eastern Emperor.
• Jiang Tingting told Taiyi that the Jiang Family believed she would die before twenty and that her grandfather had left the family after she faced scorn.
• Taiyi reassured Jiang Tingting that her constitution's early-death affliction could be resolved, even without an Earth Life Fruit.
• Jiang Tingting said she trusted Taiyi, and he laughed at being called a good person.

Taiyi gave Jiang Tingting the Taiyin True Scripture and promised to guide her cultivation, while reassuring her that Ye Fan was well. Three months later, Tingting had recultivated her first three realms with the scripture, and Taiyi continued cultivating in his cave abode.

• Taiyi told Jiang Tingting that he had met Ye Fan a year earlier and that Ye Fan was doing well.
• Taiyi gave Jiang Tingting the opening section of the Taiyin True Scripture and promised to teach her every three days.
• Over the next three months, Taiyi guided Jiang Tingting and gave her the remaining portions of the scripture, while placing a restriction in her mind to protect it.
• Taiyi continued cultivating quietly as the little white tiger reached the Five Dao Palace Heavens through his nurturing and training.
• Jiang Tingting arrived at Taiyi's cave and teased the little white tiger, which insisted she call it Brother Yu.

After nine days of medicinal tempering, Jiang Tingting emerged transformed, her Taiyin physique’s life-threatening calamity resolved. Taiyi prepared to leave after three months, but commotion outside interrupted their farewell.

• Jiang Tingting emerged from the cauldron with greatly strengthened blood and vital energy, and Taiyi confirmed that her calamity had been resolved.
• Taiyi told Jiang Tingting to stay with the Jiang Family and cultivate until she reached the Four Extremes Secret Realm, then said he was leaving.
• Taiyi revealed that he had advanced to the sixth transformation of Dragon Transformation during his stay.
• Violent fluctuations came from outside, and someone shouted that Little White Tiger was a rare ancient variant and ordered others to catch her.

Little White Tiger defeated the Jiang Family knights guarding the sealed cave, then caught and overpowered Jiang Yichen as he fled. Jiang Yichen was left gravely injured, while Little White Tiger took control of his Purple Gold Gourd.

• Little White Tiger shattered the Jiang Family knights’ weapons with its roar and knocked the Dao Palace cultivators unconscious.
• Little White Tiger defeated the two Four Extremes knights blocking its path, while Jiang Yichen fled and another knight was left unable to fight.
• Little White Tiger caught up to Jiang Yichen and destroyed his Heavenly Net Umbrella and sword attacks.
• Little White Tiger seized Jiang Yichen’s Purple Gold Gourd, erased his Divine Sense from it, and struck him down with the treasure.
• Jiang Yichen lay broken and bloodied as someone shouted for Little White Tiger to stop.

Taiyi and the Little White Tiger fought off Jiang Yifei and the Jiang Family members who tried to capture the beast, while Jiang Tingting explained the misunderstanding. Taiyi then crushed the Jiang Family’s Eighteenth Ancestor with one palm and departed, leaving Jiang Yifei questioning how Tingting knew the Eastern Emperor.

• Jiang Yifei attacked the Little White Tiger, but it evaded his palm and struck back before he effortlessly sent it reeling.
• Jiang Tingting emerged from the cave and told Jiang Yifei that the Little White Tiger was her friend and had attacked the Jiang Family members after they tried to capture it.
• Taiyi called the Little White Tiger, mounted it, and bid farewell to Jiang Tingting as they left.
• Jiang Yifei recognized Taiyi as the Eastern Emperor, but the Jiang Family’s Eighteenth Ancestor appeared and attacked him and the Little White Tiger.
• Taiyi struck the Eighteenth Ancestor with a palm, wounded him, and warned him not to try again before departing with the Little White Tiger.
• Jiang Yifei asked Jiang Tingting how she knew Taiyi and reflected on the Ruthless One’s Lineage’s history with the Jiang Family.

Taiyi learned that Jiang Tingting had overcome the danger posed by her Taiyin Physique, then heard of a Saint at the Taixuan Sect and the reappearance of the Bronze Immortal Palace. He set out for the Southern Region with An Miaoyi, while Duan De abandoned a fruitless search for a rumored tomb and decided to seek the Bronze Immortal Palace instead.

• Jiang Tingting told Jiang Yifei and the Jiang Family experts that Taiyi had helped resolve her Taiyin Physique’s early-death calamity, and a Half-Step Great Power confirmed her newfound vitality.
• The Jiang Family prepared to travel to the Taixuan Sect after learning that a seemingly deranged Saint from the Tianxuan Holy Land had appeared there and caused trouble while borrowing its Domain Gate.
• Half a month later, An Miaoyi reunited with Taiyi at Miaoyu Nunnery, and he said he planned to go to the Southern Region after hearing that the Bronze Immortal Palace had appeared.
• Taiyi explained that the Ruthless One’s Lineage had given him only the first two volumes of the Heaven-Swallowing Devil Art, so he intended to obtain the remaining teachings himself.
• An Miaoyi agreed to accompany Taiyi, while Duan De gave up searching a rumored Great Tomb in the Jin Kingdom and decided to explore the Bronze Immortal Palace.

Taiyi persuaded Duan De to join an expedition to the Bronze Immortal Palace by revealing its connection to the Ruthless Great Emperor and enticing him with the discovery of Purple Mountain. He then negotiated to borrow Duan De’s Heaven-Swallowing Demon Canopy, ending with Duan De lowering his demand to one Ancient Medicine King over eighty thousand years old.

• Taiyi intercepted Duan De and tempted him with the prospect of exploring an Ancient Emperor Mountain together.
• Taiyi showed Duan De Purple Mountain’s Nine Dragons Supporting Pearl terrain, and Duan De agreed to cooperate.
• Taiyi revealed that the Bronze Immortal Palace was a true immortal artifact once used by the Ruthless Great Emperor, exciting Duan De and An Miaoyi.
• Taiyi asked to borrow Duan De’s Heaven-Swallowing Demon Canopy and offered a Dao oath, a fifty-thousand-year-old Ancient Medicine King, and a possible terrain map in return.
• Duan De demanded two Ancient Medicine Kings over eighty thousand years old, but Taiyi refused and mentioned asking Tu Tian instead.
• Duan De lowered his demand to one Ancient Medicine King over eighty thousand years old.

Taiyi borrowed the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Canopy from Duan De and tried to draw the Heaven-Swallowing Devil Art’s inheritance from it, but failed. He then met Wang Peng, who thanked him for helping him break through to the Immortal Platform Secret Realm.

• Taiyi and Duan De bargained over a Little Medicine King, and Duan De lent him the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Canopy for ten days in exchange for one fifty-thousand-year-old Little Medicine King.
• Taiyi swore a Dao oath and arranged to meet Duan De at the Bronze Immortal Palace in ten days.
• Taiyi repeatedly used the incomplete Heaven-Swallowing Devil Art scroll to communicate with the canopy’s deity, but gained no inheritance and considered seeking Hua Yunfei or the jar’s other half.
• Taiyi and An Miaoyi traveled to Yaoguang Holy Land’s territory and summoned Wang Peng.
• Wang Peng, newly promoted to Supreme Elder after entering the Immortal Platform Secret Realm, thanked Taiyi for the Elixir of Immortality Fragment that had helped him break through.

Taiyi and his allies set a trap at Yaoguang Holy Land’s Fifteenth Mining Area to lure the great bandits and seize the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar. The Ninth Great Bandit Jiang Yi attacked, and Li Xuan confronted him as their battle began.

• Taiyi learned that Li Xuan had spread news of a Peerless Divine Source to draw the great bandits to the mining area.
• Taiyi and his companions used Yaoguang Holy Land’s Domain Gate to reach the Fifteenth Mining Area, where Li Xuan revealed that he and Wang Zheng had prepared Peerless Formation Patterns.
• Taiyi produced the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Canopy, and he and Li Xuan planned to wait for the bandits and capture the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar.
• Jiang Yi, the Ninth Great Bandit, led armored riders into the mining area and used Blood-Colored Banners to disrupt the local formation.
• Li Xuan ordered the Yaoguang disciples to stand down and fought Jiang Yi, countering his Eight Gods Barbarian Strength with the Primordial Origin Holy Light Technique.

Li Xuan and the Yaoguang Holy Land ambushed Jiang Yi, Wu Dao, and Tu Tian, using the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Canopy and Great Emperor formation patterns to restrain their Devouring Heaven Demon Jar. The three bandits fought back with Saint Weapons, but the jar was pulled away, leaving the confrontation unresolved as Wu Dao struggled to protect them.

• Li Xuan revealed his Peak Great Power strength and attacked Jiang Yi, who summoned Wu Dao and Tu Tian along with the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar.
• The Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron and Great Emperor formation patterns restrained the jar, while Tu Tian realized the Yaoguang Holy Land had the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Canopy.
• Wang Zheng arrived, and Li Xuan brought out a Purple Gold Gourd to threaten the three bandits.
• Wu Dao used an ordinary, decayed Saint Weapon to shield Jiang Yi and Tu Tian as the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar was dragged away from them.
• Wu Dao urged Jiang Yi and Tu Tian to flee, while Li Xuan and Wang Zheng assessed the Saint Weapon's limited power.

Taiyi seized the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar and used it to help Hua Yunfei access the Ruthless inheritance. The jar revealed the complete Heaven-Swallowing Devil Art, but Taiyi did not obtain the Indestructible Heavenly Art.

• Jiang Yi and Tu Tian tried to escape with Wu Dao, but Wang Zheng and Li Xuan destroyed Wu Dao’s Saint Furnace and suppressed the three bandits in the Purple Gold Gourd.
• The grand formation drew the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar to Taiyi, who used the Incomplete Art to communicate with it but failed to obtain the Ruthless inheritance.
• Taiyi summoned Hua Yunfei near the Taixuan Sect and gave him a jade talisman that restored his severed memories.
• Taiyi took Hua Yunfei to a sealed cave and used the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar to help him remove the restriction placed by the Ruthless One’s Lineage.
• Hua Yunfei traced the Nine-Character Imperial Script, causing the Demon Jar to reveal a Ghost Face Mark that imparted the complete Heaven-Swallowing Devil Art to Taiyi.
• Taiyi realized he had obtained the flawless devil art, including its Taboo Chapter, but not the Indestructible Heavenly Art.

Taiyi helped Hua Yunfei obtain the complete Heaven-Swallowing Devil Art and destroyed the demon seed controlling him. He warned Hua Yunfei about Ye Fan and Pang Bo, then suggested he partner with Duan De to explore tombs.

• Taiyi used the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar to suppress and completely devour the demon seed in Hua Yunfei's Bitter Sea.
• Hua Yunfei thanked Taiyi and vowed to repay his kindness.
• Taiyi warned Hua Yunfei not to provoke Ye Fan and Pang Bo, and Hua Yunfei agreed while explaining that the Ruthless One's Lineage might still force him to act against them.
• Taiyi suggested Hua Yunfei team up with Duan De, who could find tombs while Hua Yunfei sought the corpses within them.
• Hua Yunfei considered Taiyi's suggestion to work with Duan De.

Taiyi had Hua Yunfei bring Li Xiaoman to him and prepared to deal with the Crocodile Ancestor's Divine Embryo hidden inside her. With the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar, Taiyi and his allies forced the Divine Embryo out and began destroying its Quasi-Emperor Forbidden Artifact.

• Taiyi advised Hua Yunfei to consider seeking help from Duan De, then asked him to bring Li Xiaoman to him.
• Taiyi explained to Li Xuan that he did not intend to recruit Hua Yunfei, and asked Li Xuan and Wang Zheng to help confront the Crocodile Ancestor's Divine Sense.
• Hua Yunfei returned with Li Xiaoman, and Taiyi had Li Xuan and Wang Zheng suppress her with the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar.
• Taiyi exposed the Crocodile Ancestor's Divine Embryo inside Li Xiaoman, forcing it out of her sea of consciousness.
• The Crocodile Ancestor's Divine Embryo tried to escape, but the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar sealed the void and overwhelmed its damaged Bronze Ancient Buddha.

Taiyi suppressed the Crocodile Ancestor's Divine Embryo inside Li Xiaoman, then visited the Taixuan Sect to reunite with Ye Fan and Pang Bo. After sharing a meal on Clumsy Peak, he admitted he had come to investigate the Bronze Immortal Palace, leaving the three old friends together as its secrets drew them closer.

• Taiyi refined the Crocodile Ancestor's Divine Embryo with the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar and told Li Xiaoman to take care of herself.
• Hua Yunfei told Taiyi that Ye Fan and Pang Bo were still on Clumsy Peak, and Taiyi left for the Taixuan Sect with Wang Zheng and Li Xuan.
• Taiyi arrived openly as the Yaoguang Holy Son, told the Taixuan Sect Master he had come to see Ye Fan and Pang Bo, and went to Clumsy Peak.
• Ye Fan and Pang Bo welcomed Taiyi and congratulated him on becoming the Yaoguang Holy Son.
• Taiyi shared the roasted chickens with Ye Fan and Pang Bo, then confirmed he had come to explore the Bronze Immortal Palace.

Taiyi reunited with Ye Fan and Pang Bo on Clumsy Peak, revealed that Li Xiaoman had been influenced by the Crocodile Ancestor, and agreed to help the two reach the Northern Region. The chapter ended as Ye Fan and Pang Bo recounted their escape from the Bronze Immortal Palace while keeping their discovery of the Source Root of Mother Qi of All Things secret.

• Taiyi met Li Ruoyu again, and Ye Fan and Pang Bo learned that Taiyi had obtained the Nine Secrets: Jie before Clumsy Peak's inheritance appeared.
• Taiyi told Ye Fan and Pang Bo that a strand of the Crocodile Ancestor's divine sense had possessed Li Xiaoman, but Ye Fan said he would not rekindle their relationship.
• Ye Fan asked Taiyi to arrange passage to the Northern Region through the Yaoguang Holy Land's Domain Gate, and Taiyi agreed.
• Taiyi guessed that Ye Fan and Pang Bo had entered the Bronze Immortal Palace, and they described how they had been pursued by Ji Family cultivators and barely escaped after being swallowed by it.

Taiyi took Ye Fan and Pang Bo to the Northern Region, where Yao Xi joined their journey. After warning them about the dangers and his enemies, he suggested they rob marauders to obtain Source.

• Taiyi agreed to take Ye Fan and Pang Bo to the Northern Region, and the three set out from the Taixuan Sect.
• At the Yaoguang Holy Land, Yao Xi joined Taiyi, Ye Fan, and Pang Bo on their trip to the Divine City.
• The group crossed the Domain Gate and arrived in the barren wilderness of the Northern Region.
• Taiyi warned Ye Fan and Pang Bo that the Northern Region was dangerous and that his enemies might target anyone associated with him.
• Taiyi suggested that Ye Fan and Pang Bo rob marauder bands for Source, and they were eager to try.

Taiyi parted ways with Ye Fan and Pang Bo, then traveled with Yao Xi and Li Xuan to the Jade Pool Holy Land. After Wang Zheng dealt with two Yaoguang cultivators who planned to target Ye Fan and Taiyi, the group was welcomed by the Queen Mother of the West and the Jade Lake Holy Maiden.

• Ye Fan and Pang Bo thanked Taiyi for his advice and left to search for opportunities in the Source Mine Districts.
• Yao Xi chose to accompany Taiyi, who summoned Li Xuan to take them through the void toward the Jade Pool Holy Land.
• Two cultivators of the Ruthless One's Lineage plotted to seize Ye Fan's origin essence and lamented that they could not devour Taiyi's sun-body essence.
• Wang Zheng used the Purple Gold Gourd to capture the two plotters after they invoked the Saint's decree.
• Wang Zheng caught up with Taiyi's group, confirmed the plotters had been targeting them, and joined them on their journey to Jade Lake.
• The Queen Mother of the West and the Jade Lake Holy Maiden welcomed the visitors and led them to the Immortal Pool, where Taiyi saw an ancient fruit-bearing tree.