Chapter Summaries

After the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin brought the survivors to the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land, Jin Taiyi searched alone for food and followed a strange summons into the jungle. He discovered a spring and nine small trees bearing golden fruits, but the chapter ended before he approached them.

• Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin landed near an abyss in the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land, and the young survivors climbed out of the bronze coffin.
• Jin Taiyi kept the Vajra Pestle, which still held a sliver of divine power, as the bronze coffin slid into the abyss.
• The survivors found a stone tablet marked Desolate Ancient Ban and split into groups to search for food.
• Ye Fan and Pang Bo invited Jin Taiyi to join them, but he went in another direction after sensing a possible surprise.
• Jin Taiyi crossed the jungle and a mountain, then discovered a spring beside nine small trees bearing golden fruits.

Jin Taiyi ate the Sun Divine Fruits, awakened his ancestral bloodlines and memories of a past life, and gained the Sun True Scripture’s opening chapter. After gathering Divine Spring water and Divine Crocodile meat, he fled the forbidden land and spotted a group of aged people.

• Jin Taiyi ate nine golden fruits and drank from the Divine Spring, triggering a painful transformation and awakening his bloodlines.
• A mysterious figure in the Desolate Antiquity Abyss sensed that Jin Taiyi had awakened both Sun Saint Emperor and Sacred Body bloodlines.
• Jin Taiyi woke with memories of a past life and the Sun True Scripture’s opening chapter in his mind.
• Jin Taiyi realized he had become a child with a sun physique after eating the Sun Divine Fruits.
• Jin Taiyi filled two bottles with Divine Spring water, packed the cleaned Divine Crocodile meat, and ran from the forbidden land.
• Jin Taiyi spotted a group of decrepit, elderly people in the distance.

Taiyi fled the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land rather than risk being discovered by the Yan Kingdom’s great powers, then gathered spirit medicines and found shelter in a mountain cave. After killing a giant bear and cooking it with the Divine Crocodiles, he ate his fill and ended the chapter safe for the moment.

• Taiyi decided not to seek out Ye Fan and the others or join a small sect, fearing that powerful forces would discover his origins and Sun True Scripture.
• Taiyi left the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land and found a spirit medicine in a hollow tree, then collected more as he crossed the surrounding forest.
• Taiyi found a cave, killed a giant brown bear with the last trace of divine power in the Vajra Pestle, and dragged the carcass inside.
• Taiyi prepared the cave as shelter, roasted the bear and Divine Crocodiles, and ate until he was full and invigorated.

Taiyi studied the Sun True Scripture, sensed his Wheel of Life, and successfully opened his Golden Bitter Sea with the aid of a spirit herb. Three months later, he condensed another divine mark in his Bitter Sea.

• Taiyi blocked the cave entrance and decided to remain in the mountains until he could conceal his radiant body.
• Taiyi spent three days studying the Sun True Scripture and sensing his Wheel of Life, guided in dreams by the Golden Little Man.
• Taiyi ate a spirit herb and used its vital essence to open his Bitter Sea, which became a blazing Golden Bitter Sea.
• Taiyi spent three months cultivating in the cave, where about twenty divine marks formed above his Bitter Sea.
• Taiyi condensed another mysterious divine mark in his Golden Bitter Sea.

After months of cultivation, Taiyi mastered concealing his power and left the mountains to seek opportunities, accepting that his sun sacred body would need vast resources to advance quickly. He reached a dangerous mountain range haunted by demonic beasts, where human and animal bones warned of the threat ahead.

• Taiyi tested his golden finger strike, reviewed his progress, and concealed the divine radiance of his Sun True Scripture.
• Taiyi concluded that his sun sacred body combined the traits of a desolate ancient sacred body and a sun physique, giving him great potential but making rapid cultivation dependent on rare resources.
• Taiyi left his cave and traveled through the Great Wilderness, exchanging beast hides for new clothes and killing a fierce tiger to deter criminals.
• Over more than ten days, Taiyi journeyed onward, captured two bandits who tried to abduct him, learned of a dangerous forest, and killed them after questioning them.
• Taiyi followed the bandits' directions into the mountain range and found animal bones and human skulls as a distant roar sounded.

Taiyi waited for the Black-Armored Giant Snake and Golden-Eyed White Tiger to weaken each other, then stole the Spirit Plant from the snake’s cave and escaped. The wounded snake returned to find both Taiyi and the tiger gone.

• Taiyi watched the Black-Armored Giant Snake and Golden-Eyed White Tiger fight until both were badly wounded.
• Taiyi used the Sun God Movement Technique to reach the cave while the beasts battled in the forest.
• Taiyi uprooted a nine-leaved Spirit Plant just as the Black-Armored Giant Snake noticed him and rushed back.
• Taiyi blasted through the cave and escaped the snake’s pursuit in a streak of golden light.
• The Black-Armored Giant Snake returned to the ruined cave and found the Golden-Eyed White Tiger gone.

After refining a spirit plant, Taiyi expanded his Bitter Sea, broke through to the Life Spring Realm, and began forging a bell as his weapon. He left the bell unfinished but shaped by over a hundred divine marks, determined to pursue the Great Dao.

• Taiyi refined the spirit plant’s medicinal power for three days, greatly expanding his Bitter Sea and condensing dozens of divine marks.
• Taiyi used the remaining medicinal power to cultivate for two months until he broke through to the Life Spring Realm and gained the ability to fly.
• Taiyi spent another month gathering over a hundred divine marks and forging them into the rough shape of a bell.
• Taiyi chose a bell instead of his ancestor’s Stone Pagoda, influenced by his name and his longing for the legendary Eastern Emperor Bell.

Danyangzi, a Supreme Elder of the Yaoguang Holy Land, revealed that he knew Taiyi possessed the Sun Body and Sun True Scripture, then offered to take him as a disciple. Taiyi feared the Holy Land because his companions had been taken by its subordinate grotto-heavens, but Danyangzi promised to spend his remaining time and resources nurturing him, leaving Taiyi hesitant.

• Danyangzi seized Taiyi and brought him into a mysterious cave, where he identified Taiyi's Sun Body and inferred how he had inherited the Sun True Scripture.
• Danyangzi explained that Taiyi would need vast resources and protection from powerful rivals, and Taiyi agreed that an unaffiliated cultivator faced many dangers.
• Danyangzi revealed that he was a Supreme Elder of the Yaoguang Holy Land and asked Taiyi to become his disciple.
• Taiyi told Danyangzi that he had arrived by accident, that his companions had been taken by the Holy Land's six grotto-heavens, and that he had hidden after awakening his Sun Body.
• Danyangzi recounted his former status as a Holy Son and his failed bid to become Holy Lord, then offered to devote his remaining resources to Taiyi's cultivation.
• Taiyi hesitated because he feared joining the Yaoguang Holy Land, despite needing resources and finding refusal difficult.

Taiyi accepted Danyangzi’s offer to become his Personal Disciple in the Yaoguang Holy Land, gaining the Primordial Origin Scripture and a potential path to its leadership. He then offered to share the Wheel Sea Scroll of the Sun True Scripture, but Danyangzi explained that only rare life-extending medicines could help him.

• Danyangzi offered Taiyi the position of Candidate Holy Son and praised the Primordial Origin Holy Light Technique, while privately hoping Taiyi might one day purge a hidden demonic lineage within the Yaoguang Holy Land.
• Taiyi considered the benefits and dangers of joining the Yaoguang Holy Land and decided to accept Danyangzi as his teacher.
• Danyangzi received Taiyi’s obeisance and passed the Primordial Origin Scripture into his mind, explaining that it could also conceal the aura of his sun sacred body.
• Taiyi offered to write out the Wheel Sea Scroll of the Sun True Scripture for Danyangzi, hoping it might improve his condition.
• Danyangzi said he had already exhausted ordinary means of extending his life and would need a medicine king, an Earth Life Fruit, or an Immortal Divine Medicine; Taiyi vowed to seek one for him.

Taiyi cultivated his Sun Sacred Body under Danyangzi’s guidance, using source to expand his bitter sea and learning from the elder’s experience. A year passed as he studied the Yaoguang Holy Land’s Primordial Origin Scripture alongside the Sun True Scripture, leaving him with two complementary paths of cultivation.

• Taiyi demonstrated his golden bitter sea to Danyangzi, who marveled at the strength of his foundation and recognized that he had eaten Sacred Fruits from the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land.
• Taiyi told Danyangzi how he and his classmates had been transported to the forbidden land, where he ate nine divine fruits and awakened his physique and a scripture.
• Danyangzi gave Taiyi a source stone and instructed him to cultivate carefully, building the strongest possible foundation before entering the next realm.
• Taiyi absorbed the source’s life essence and expanded his bitter sea while Danyangzi taught him cultivation principles and formation knowledge.
• A year passed as Taiyi studied the Primordial Origin Scripture as a supplement to the Sun True Scripture, and the two scriptures complemented one another and aided his cultivation.

Taiyi overcame the Calamity of Lostness, crossed the Divine Bridge, and entered the Other Shore Realm after less than a year of cultivation. Danyangzi then gathered rare medicines and powerful beast blood to help Taiyi undergo the Other Shore’s nine bodily transformations.

• Taiyi endured three days of darkness and illusion before piercing the Calamity of Lostness and restoring his senses.
• Taiyi crossed the Bitter Sea to the Other Shore and glimpsed a Dao Palace in the distance, though he could not enter its secret realm.
• Taiyi told Danyangzi that he had reached the Other Shore, and Danyangzi praised his rapid progress and talent.
• Taiyi refined pieces of pure source for several days while Danyangzi left the cave and returned with rare treasures, spirit medicines, and savage-beast true blood.
• Danyangzi explained that Taiyi needed nine transformations in the Other Shore Realm and prepared the materials to cleanse and strengthen his body.

Taiyi underwent five transformations in the Other Shore Realm under Danyangzi’s guidance, then learned that his dying master wanted him to choose his own path and eventually go to the Yaoguang Holy Land. Danyangzi entrusted Taiyi with his collection, a Forbidden Weapon, letters, and a Supreme Elder token, and began passing on his knowledge of the Holy Land.

• Danyangzi brewed a cauldron of medicine from Savage Beast true blood, rare herbs, and source, and Taiyi endured more than half a month of agony to complete five bodily transformations.
• Taiyi continued cultivating the Sun True Scripture and Primordial Origin Scripture, mastering several Sea of Bitterness secret techniques, including the Primordial Origin Holy Light Technique.
• Danyangzi praised Taiyi’s extraordinary talent and revealed that his sun sacred body had limitless potential, then urged him to decide when to cultivate at the Yaoguang Holy Land.
• Danyangzi told Taiyi that his life was nearing its end and gave him a Treasure Box containing his collection, materials for future transformations, and a mighty-expert-level Forbidden Weapon.
• Danyangzi gave Taiyi letters for his senior brothers and the Yaoguang Holy Lord Li Daoqing, along with a Supreme Elder token, and transmitted information about the Holy Land through his divine sense.

After Danyangzi sent Taiyi away and sealed himself in his cave to die, Taiyi defeated the Black-Armored Giant Snake and continued his journey. Hearing that the Desolate Ancient Jiang Family had destroyed the Li Family and confronted Yanxia Cave Heaven, he considered the danger surrounding the Demon Emperor’s Tomb and chose not to head for the Primordial Ruins.

• Danyangzi revealed that the Yaoguang Holy Land concealed the Ruthless One's Lineage and charged Taiyi with purging its evil influences if he grew strong enough to take control.
• Danyangzi sent Taiyi away, then sealed himself inside his cave as his remaining life ended.
• Taiyi killed the Black-Armored Giant Snake that had ambushed him, refined its gallbladder, and roasted and stored its meat.
• Taiyi flew toward a nearby town and overheard locals say the Desolate Ancient Jiang Family had wiped out the Li Family and killed its members' murderers at Yanxia Cave Heaven.
• Taiyi reasoned that the Demon Emperor’s Tomb was likely already dangerous and decided not to go to the Primordial Ruins.

Taiyi crippled Wang Five after the Wang Family heir tried to trample him with his horse, then faced the Yanxia Cave Heaven elder and Wang Five’s relatives when they arrived to rescue him. The elder questioned Taiyi’s origins and challenged the severity of his punishment.

• Taiyi entered the town, where locals described the Wang Family’s growing power and abuses after the Li Family’s destruction.
• Wang Five rode recklessly through town and charged at Taiyi, who threw him from his Dragon Scales Horse and destroyed his Sea of Bitterness.
• Wang Five’s relatives and an elder of Yanxia Cave Heaven arrived, and Taiyi shattered a flying sword sent against him.
• The Yanxia Cave Heaven elder asked Taiyi which grotto-heaven or blessed land he came from and questioned why he had crippled Wang Five.
• Taiyi asked whether the elder intended to stand up for Wang Five.

Taiyi killed the Wang Family cultivators and Elder Han Feng of Yanxia Cave Heaven after they attacked him, then left the town. Outside it, he sensed something and stopped above a cemetery.

• The Wang Family's eldest young master charged Taiyi, who killed him with a kick and sent his head flying into the man's body.
• Elder Han Feng and the Yanxia Cave Heaven cultivators attacked Taiyi with flying swords and a mountain-like seal.
• Taiyi released eighty-one rays of holy light, destroying the attacks and killing the Yanxia Cave Heaven cultivators and Elder Han Feng.
• The townspeople watched in awe as Taiyi withdrew his holy light and flew away from the town.
• Taiyi sensed something outside the town and stopped above a cemetery.

Taiyi discovered a hidden legacy in Jiang Zhe’s tomb, gaining a vast supply of pure source and a Sage Ancient Scripture. He then arrived at Yanxia Cave Heaven as a successor of the Yaoguang Holy Land’s secluded lineage and was welcomed by its sect leader.

• Taiyi opened Jiang Zhe’s coffin and found a Jadeite Thumb Ring that contained hundreds of thousands of jin of pure source and a complete Sage Ancient Scripture.
• Taiyi took the ring, erased his traces, and calculated that its resources would let him cultivate to the fifth heaven of the Dao Palace without risking a trip to the Yaoguang Holy Land.
• Taiyi reached Yanxia Cave Heaven and introduced himself to the gate guards as a successor of the Yaoguang Holy Land’s secluded lineage.
• Yanxia Cave Heaven rang its great bell, and sect leader Qingyang came out with elders to greet Taiyi and ask his name and teacher.

Taiyi revealed that he was a disciple of a Yaoguang Holy Land supreme elder and had come to Yanxia Cave Heaven to visit Lin Jia. After impressing Sect Master Qingyang and the elders with his rapid cultivation, he reunited with Lin Jia.

• Taiyi presented his supreme elder token and told Sect Master Qingyang that he had come to visit old friends.
• An elder recognized Taiyi as the companion Lin Jia had once described, and Taiyi confirmed he was one of the survivors from the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land.
• Taiyi said he had cultivated for less than two years and reached the Other Shore Realm, shocking the sect master and elders.
• Elder Xu guided Taiyi to Lin Jia, while he left the pair alone to catch up.
• Lin Jia recognized Taiyi as Jin Tailang, and they greeted each other warmly.

Taiyi reunited with Lin Jia and told her that a supreme elder of the Yaoguang Holy Land had taken him as his final disciple. He prepared snake-meat hot pot with spiritual herbs, and the two old classmates began catching up over a meal.

• Taiyi explained to Lin Jia that he had disappeared after passing out in the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land and had later become a disciple of the Yaoguang Holy Land.
• Lin Jia teased Taiyi about looking after her, and he jokingly asked her to massage his shoulders and legs.
• Taiyi brought out a black cauldron, snake meat, spiritual herbs, and other ingredients to make hot pot with Lin Jia.
• Taiyi cooked the meal with spirit spring water, and Lin Jia was amazed by the ingredients and their spiritual energy.
• Lin Jia tasted the snake meat, felt its powerful vital essence, and eagerly began eating while Taiyi told her there was plenty.

Taiyi comforted Lin Jia about their separation and her longing for Earth, then gave her an Ancient Sage scripture and a piece of Source before leaving. Lin Jia was left with valuable resources and renewed hope of returning to Earth with him.

• After three days of cultivation, Lin Jia refined the medicinal power of Taiyi’s meal and improved her Bitter Sea.
• Lin Jia grew sad when Taiyi prepared to leave, and told him she missed their old life on Earth.
• Taiyi reassured Lin Jia that they would meet again and promised they could return to Earth together.
• Taiyi passed Lin Jia the Ancient Scripture he had obtained from Jiang Zhe’s Tomb.
• Taiyi gave Lin Jia a fist-sized piece of Source, but she tried to refuse the precious gift.

Taiyi traveled through the Great Wilderness, forged a divine bell as the rough blank for his Path-Proving Weapon, and reached Other Shore perfection. As he faced the Dao Palace realm, two lightning birds ambushed him, and he fought back.

• Lin Jia accepted the Source Taiyi left her and returned to her cabin to study the Sage Scripture after a bell rang to signal a major event.
• Taiyi traveled through the Great Wilderness, cultivated by night, and fought Savage Beasts to temper his body.
• At an ancient volcano, Taiyi spent half a month forging a divine bell and carving ancient depictions onto it.
• Using Danyangzi's Source, Taiyi completed his transformations and reached Other Shore perfection, then gazed toward the Dao Palace.
• Two lightning birds ambushed Taiyi near the volcano, but he blocked their lightning and struck one with his fist.