Chapter Summaries

The little white tiger returned to Taiyi after defeating the Golden-Winged Little Peng King and traded challenges with Jiang Yifei and Ji Haoyue. When Ye Fan accidentally revealed that the tiger had received the Demon Emperor's essence blood and the Demon God Flower's baptism, the others turned their attention to him.

• The little white tiger returned to Taiyi, who praised it for winning against the Golden-Winged Little Peng King.
• The little white tiger challenged Jiang Yifei, who declined because his cultivation level was higher, and then challenged Ji Haoyue, who promised to fight after it entered the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm.
• Ji Ziyue argued with the little white tiger about Ji Haoyue's strength and the Void Scripture, until Taiyi stopped them.
• Taiyi asked Duan De whether he had found any clues, but Ye Fan's Divine Sense suddenly revealed the little white tiger's connection to the Demon Emperor's essence blood and the Demon God Flower.
• Duan De, Yao Xi, Jiang Yifei, Ji Haoyue, and the others confronted Ye Fan, who denied the revelation and silently blamed the black dog for exposing the secret.

Taiyi’s companions watched Black Emperor and Little White Tiger clash after Black Emperor coveted the tiger’s Demon Emperor essence blood. Taiyi subdued Black Emperor and explained that his own supply of essence blood had already been used up.

• Black Emperor burst out of Ye Fan and attacked Little White Tiger, but their equally tough bodies made their clash inconclusive.
• Little White Tiger revealed that its body had been tempered with Demon Emperor essence blood and the Demon God Flower, astonishing the onlookers and making Black Emperor envious.
• Black Emperor asked Taiyi for eight or ten drops of Demon Emperor essence blood in exchange for help finding an emperor scripture and an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon.
• Little White Tiger attacked Black Emperor, who retreated and prepared to counter with a formation.
• Taiyi pinned Black Emperor beneath him, rapped his head, and said the Demon Emperor essence blood he had obtained was long gone.

Taiyi revealed his immense constitution while dealing with the Black Emperor, then gave Jiang Tingting the Immortal Platform Volume of the Taiyin True Scripture. Ye Fan reunited with Jiang Tingting and learned how Taiyi had helped her, then began to suspect Taiyi’s constitution was more than a sun sacred body.

• The Black Emperor identified Taiyi as an innate sacred body dao embryo, and Taiyi released him after warning him not to cause trouble.
• Duan De led the group in searching for ancient tomb ruins and clues to the Nine Secrets while Taiyi left with Jiang Tingting.
• Taiyi passed Jiang Tingting the Immortal Platform Volume of the Taiyin True Scripture and urged her to cultivate diligently.
• Ye Fan caught up with Taiyi and Jiang Tingting, revealed his true appearance, and learned that Jiang Yichen had told her family he was dead.
• Jiang Tingting explained how she met Taiyi and how he helped her, and Ye Fan began questioning what Taiyi’s sun sacred body really was.

Taiyi revealed that he possessed a Sun Sacred Body, which combined the Sun Physique and Desolate Ancient Sacred Body without its curse, and exchanged secret techniques with Ye Fan for the Source Heaven Book. After Ye Fan and Jiang Tingting left, Taiyi began studying the book aboard the Yaoguang warship.

• Taiyi explained to Ye Fan and Jiang Tingting that his Sun Sacred Body combined the traits of the Sun Physique and Desolate Ancient Sacred Body and was unaffected by the Sacred Body Lineage's curse.
• Taiyi revealed that he knew Ye Fan and Pang Bo had found Purple Mountain and asked to borrow the Source Heaven Book.
• Ye Fan lent Taiyi the Source Heaven Book, and Taiyi taught him the Heaven, Earth, and Human Seals and other secret techniques.
• Ye Fan thanked Taiyi, then took Jiang Tingting to rejoin Duan De, Jiang Yifei, and the others.
• Taiyi returned to the Yaoguang warship, secured his room against probing, and began reading the Source Heaven Book.

Taiyi emerged from seclusion after mastering the Source Heaven Book and learned that Duan De and the others had uncovered the Underground Palace. As cultivators gathered beneath Licheng, a vast army of Yin Soldiers poured out and attacked them.

• Taiyi studied the Source Heaven Book for seven days, using enlightenment treasures and unusual stones to advance his Source Arts.
• Duan De and the others found the ancient tomb, triggering a surge of yin energy and baleful energy beneath Licheng.
• Taiyi left seclusion and learned from Wang Peng that the younger generation would enter the Underground Palace first, with older powerhouses intervening if necessary.
• Thousands of Yin Soldiers riding savage beasts charged out of the Underground Palace, alarming the arriving cultivators.
• Cultivators attacked the Yin Soldiers with magical treasures, but the spectral army struck back and trampled many people to death.

Taiyi prepared Source Heaven Formation Patterns around Licheng to face powerful Holy Lord-level opponents while other factions entered the Underground Palace. Inside, the Little White Tiger purified Yin Soldiers and provoked the Big Black Dog, who angrily mocked it in return.

• The Dao Yi Saintess purified the Yin Soldiers outside the tomb, but they soon emerged again as the Great Evolution Holy Son split the earth and exposed the Underground Palace.
• Taiyi watched from a distance, then left Yaoguang Holy Land's warship and planted Source Heaven Formation Patterns around Licheng to prepare for future battles with powerful Great Powers.
• Duan De, Ye Fan, Yao Xi, Ji Haoyue, Jiang Yifei, and other young successors entered the Underground Palace and soon separated to act on their own.
• The Little White Tiger charged at the Yin Soldiers and purified them with its Holy Light Technique, drawing admiration from Lin Jia and other cultivators.
• The Little White Tiger called the Big Black Dog a useless, bald-tailed stray, and the Black Emperor retaliated by calling it a sickly cat.

Taiyi completed a vast Source Arts grand formation around Licheng to strengthen his combat power as the Underground Palace battle continued. He reflected on his rare progress in triggering the Divine Forbidden Domain while preparing for what lay ahead.

• Little White Tiger and Black Emperor traded threats after days of fighting, but Yao Xi called Little White Tiger away to focus on the Underground Palace.
• Ye Fan restrained Black Emperor as Little White Tiger charged toward the Yin Soldiers and the palace depths.
• Taiyi finished laying Source Heaven Patterns across the terrain around Licheng, encompassing the ancient tomb in a grand formation.
• Taiyi considered how the formation could amplify his combat strength enough to face Peak Great Powers.
• Taiyi reflected on his cultivation in the Green-Gold Ancient Pagoda, including his repeated brief entries into the Divine Forbidden Domain and his work on a Third Divine Form.

Yao Xi, An Miaoyi, Little White Tiger, and Lin Jia fought through the Underground Palace as blood-soaked Yin Spirits attacked the gathered cultivators. Lin Jia’s strength and Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Saint Spirit Sword stunned onlookers, while Yao Xi also demonstrated her power.

• The Underground Palace shook as Yao Xi, An Miaoyi, Little White Tiger, and Lin Jia advanced through its corridors, with Lin Jia taking the lead against the Yin Soldiers.
• A boiling lake of blood released powerful Yin Spirits, forcing Ji Haoyue, Jiang Yifei, the Great Evolution Holy Son, and the others to fight back.
• A blood-red Yin Body killed a Ji Family cultivator and charged at Lin Jia, but she cut it down with the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Saint Spirit Sword.
• Cultivators recognized Lin Jia’s sword as the one Taiyi had cut from the Dao Yi Stone Workshop, while Ye Fan and Pang Bo marveled at her combat strength.
• Yao Xi blocked a massive scaled monster and pierced its skull with a streak of black light.

Yao Xi and An Miaoyi revealed formidable divine weapons and defeated a giant serpent as the group advanced through the Underground Palace. Ye Fan, Pang Bo, the Black Emperor, and others reached a radiant complex of jade palaces, where the chapter left them facing an unexpectedly sacred scene.

• Yao Xi wielded a black jade sword containing dragon-patterned black gold, while An Miaoyi used her phoenix-blood zither and Nine Tribulations Phoenix Melody to destroy a giant serpent.
• The onlookers recognized the rare materials in the women's weapons and suspected the Eastern Emperor had given them the divine materials.
• The Black Emperor admired the weapons but rejected the idea of stealing from Yao Xi and An Miaoyi, wary of the Eastern Emperor's power and potential.
• Ye Fan kept quiet as the Black Emperor speculated that the Eastern Emperor might possess a sacred body, and Duan De wondered what the Eastern Emperor had gained from the Bronze Immortal Palace.
• The group continued through the Underground Palace and found a brilliantly lit complex of crystalline golden jade palaces surrounded by greenery and exotic plants.

Yan Ruyu warned Little White Tiger that Demon Kings might try to take it from Yaoguang Holy Land, then joined the young heirs exploring the underground palace. In the Hall of Light, Yan Ruyu was trapped by a powerful guardian as the others converged on an ancient beast-skin scroll and a mysterious platform, while a battle erupted outside.

• Yan Ruyu approached Little White Tiger, accepted its choice to follow the Eastern Emperor, and warned that Demon Kings might try to seize it.
• Lin Jia, Yao Xi, An Miaoyi, and Little White Tiger fought through the underground palaces, while Yan Ruyu used the Demon Emperor's Saint Weapon to kill three yin spirits possessing Great Power corpses.
• The group reached the Hall of Light and found three enormous black coffins and Yan Ruyu trapped inside a seven-level Ancient Pagoda by the hall's guardian.
• The Holy Sons and others eyed the ancient beast-skin scroll on a black divine platform, which might contain one of the Nine Secrets; the Black Emperor recognized the platform as a Great Emperor's bed made of Chaos stone.
• A major disturbance outside announced that powerful figures were fighting.

Taiyi arrived as the Peacock King faced the Ji and Yaoguang Holy Lords, and the Jiang Family Holy Lord joined the confrontation. Onlookers questioned whether Taiyi, despite his rapid cultivation and peerless talent, could challenge the Demon Race’s Peak Great Powers, while the Holy Lords urged him not to act rashly.

• The Peacock King confronted Li Daoqing, and the Ji Family Holy Lord joined him, threatening to kill the Peacock King.
• The Peacock King warned that he could use the Demon Emperor’s weapon against the heirs inside the Underground Palace if the Holy Lords used their own weapons.
• The Azure Flood Dragon King and Old Peng King arrived to support the Peacock King, and the Jiang Family Holy Lord joined the opposing side.
• Taiyi arrived, revealing his original appearance and powerful aura, and offered to join the battle.
• Cultivators and the Peacock King questioned whether Taiyi could face the Peak Great Powers, while the Yaoguang, Ji Family, and Jiang Family Holy Lords urged him not to be impulsive.

Taiyi challenged the Peacock King, relying on a Source Arts Grand Formation he had prepared to boost his strength. Their battle began with both unleashing the same ancient vision, Stars Illuminate the Azure Heavens, and the clash sent devastating shockwaves across the battlefield.

• Taiyi told Li Daoqing that his Source Arts Grand Formation could raise his fighting strength by a major realm, then persuaded the Holy Lord to let him face the Peacock King.
• The Peacock King agreed to fight Taiyi while the Old Peng King, the Azure Flood Dragon King, and the other Holy Lords withdrew to clear the battlefield.
• Taiyi and the Peacock King unleashed terrifying killing intent, alarming the cultivators and Holy Lords watching them.
• Taiyi and the Peacock King each manifested Stars Illuminate the Azure Heavens, astonishing the onlookers by displaying the same vision.
• Stars shot from both visions and collided, sending violent aftershocks across the battlefield that injured and felled many cultivators.

Taiyi used a Source Arts Grand Formation around Licheng to strengthen himself and battle the Peacock King, whose attacks he met with the Sun Emperor Fist. The Peacock King was driven back with an injured hand, and Taiyi challenged him to reveal his full strength before beginning to evolve the Nine Secrets: Dou.

• Taiyi revealed that Source Heaven Patterns across the region formed a Grand Formation that raised his combat strength by a major realm.
• The Peacock King charged Taiyi, and the two fought while moving their battle away from the surrounding region to spare it from destruction.
• Taiyi used his holy-light worlds and Sun Emperor Fist against the Peacock King's Stars Illuminate the Azure Heavens manifestation and Innate Five Elements attacks.
• Taiyi's fists injured the Peacock King's palms and drove him backward, astonishing the watching Holy Lords and Demon Race Colossi.
• The Peacock King recognized that Taiyi's physical body rivaled a Dao-Slaying King's, and Taiyi urged him to show his true strength before evolving the Nine Secrets: Dou.

Taiyi used the Battle Saint Method to transform the stars in his manifestation into colossal Dao weapons and break the Peacock King’s Stars Illuminate the Azure Heavens manifestation. The Peacock King was badly injured and sent crashing into the ground as onlookers debated whether Taiyi had used the Ruthless Great Emperor’s secret art.

• The Eastern Emperor unleashed the Holy Light Technique combined with Nine Secrets: Dou, and the Peacock King escaped the sword assault with his five-colored Treasure Garment damaged.
• Taiyi used Stars Illuminate the Azure Heavens against the Peacock King’s manifestation, then transformed the falling stars into enormous weapons.
• The Star Dao Weapons shattered the Peacock King’s manifestation and inflicted a backlash that made him bleed.
• The Peacock King retreated and attacked the Star Dao Weapons with Five Elements Divine Light and other Secret Techniques, but the bombardment sent him crashing into the ground.
• Watching cultivators wondered whether Taiyi had used Scattering Stars to Form Weapons, then concluded he had manifested the effect through Nine Secrets: Dou.

The Eastern Emperor battled the Peacock King with the aid of a Source Heaven Great Array, while Ye Fan used the Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi to reach a Chaos Stone and obtain a scroll containing a map of Purple Mountain and clues to the Nine Secrets. The powerful young successors discovered Ye Fan’s treasure and coveted it, as the battle outside continued to shake the heavens.

• The Eastern Emperor’s Source Heaven Great Array and reproduced Scattering Stars to Form Weapons secret technique badly wounded the Peacock King, who then unleashed his full strength and attacked with the Heavenly Demon Eight Forms.
• The Eastern Emperor met the Peacock King’s nine-dragon strike with the Sun Emperor Fist, and their clash engulfed the battlefield in scorching light.
• Yao Xi, An Miaoyi, Ji Haoyue, Jiang Yifei, Li Yao, and the other prodigies were immobilized by the Chaos Stone’s force field as they tried to seize it and the ancient scroll.
• Ye Fan advanced through the force field with the Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi above his head, revealing the precious treasure to the trapped prodigies.
• Ye Fan took the ancient scroll, discovering that it contained a map of Purple Mountain and a hidden piece of silk with clues to the Nine Secrets; Black Emperor suggested using the map to lure others into the mountain.
• Pang Bo and Black Emperor urged Ye Fan to leave before the powerful figures outside arrived, while Ye Fan considered informing the Jiang Family that Jiang Taixu was trapped in Purple Mountain.

Taiyi defeated the Peacock King in their battle and raced into the Underground Palace after learning that its treasures included chaos stone and the Source Root of Mother Qi of All Things. In the deepest chamber, the Holy Lords and Demon Race powers struggled against three terrifying yin spirits while vying to reach the final Palace.

• Taiyi and the Peacock King exchanged hundreds of blows, and Taiyi wounded him despite fighting from a lower realm.
• The faction leaders learned that the Underground Palace held clues to the Nine Secrets, chaos stone, and the Source Root of Mother Qi of All Things, then rushed inside.
• Taiyi and the Peacock King agreed to postpone their fight, and Taiyi used the Source Heaven Great Array and Sun God Movement Technique to enter the Underground Palace first.
• Taiyi reached the fifth level, where three powerful yin spirits fought the Old Peng King, the Dayan Sacred Lord, and other faction leaders.
• The Old Peng King tried to bypass the yin spirits, but the Dayan Sacred Lord blocked him with Great Evolution Sword Qi, and several Holy Lords' attacks forced him to dodge.

Taiyi entered the fifth level and joined the battle against three powerful Yin Spirits, quickly destroying one and helping the others turn the fight in their favor. The remaining Yin Spirits were under attack as the Holy Lords prepared to claim the final Palace's fortune.

• Taiyi arrived as the Holy Lords battled three Yin Spirits born from corpses that had failed to attain the Dao.
• Taiyi used the Battle Saint Method and Solar True Fire to trap and refine one Yin Spirit inside a Solar Divine Furnace.
• The Holy Lords and Great Powers joined forces against the other two Yin Spirits, while Taiyi attacked the second Peak Great Power Yin Spirit with his Sun Emperor Fist.
• Taiyi shattered the second Yin Spirit's arms, and the Dayan Sacred Lord, Purple Mansion Holy Lord, Wanchu Holy Lord, Nine Heavens Holy Lord, and others blasted it to pieces.
• The Holy Lords dodged the Yin Spirit's foul black blood as Taiyi remained protected by Holy Light.

Taiyi and the Holy Lords joined forces to kill the Dao-Slaying Yin Spirit in the Fifth Layer, then raced into the Sixth Layer. Taiyi arrived first and found Yan Ruyu facing Duan De while a Chaos Stone’s domain immobilized most of the young prodigies.

• Taiyi used the Sun Emperor Fist and Solar True Fire against the Dao-Slaying Yin Spirit, but it countered the flames with sinister black mist.
• The Peacock King, Old Peng King, Queen Mother of the West, and the Holy Lords attacked together and destroyed the Yin Spirit.
• Taiyi used the Source Heaven Patterns to boost his speed and entered the Sixth Layer ahead of the others.
• Taiyi found Yan Ruyu and Duan De in a standoff, while the Chaos Stone’s domain held Yao Xi, An Miaoyi, Ji Haoyue, Jiang Yifei, and the other young prodigies in place.
• Lin Jia warned Taiyi that the Chaos Stone’s domain was no ordinary one.

Taiyi seized the chaos stone with the Chaos Bell, then faced the arriving Holy Lords who disputed ownership of it. As he redirected their attention toward Duan De and Yan Ruyu, Li Daoqing unleashed a powerful black cauldron that crushed most of those in the hall to the ground.

• Taiyi used the Chaos Bell to draw in the chaos stone, freeing the immobilized young prodigies and astonishing the others with the bell's materials.
• Duan De tried to persuade Yan Ruyu to pursue the chaos stone, but she refused and demanded that he surrender the ancient scroll about the Nine Secrets.
• Old Peng King reached for the chaos stone, and Taiyi anticipated his move with the Nine Secrets: Qian and struck him with the Sun Emperor Fist.
• The Holy Lords arrived and learned that Ye Fan and his companions had escaped with the Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi, then argued with Taiyi over the chaos stone.
• Taiyi put the chaos stone away and urged the Holy Lords to focus on Duan De and Yan Ruyu instead.
• Li Daoqing released a black cauldron that pressed most people in the hall to the ground, while those carrying Inherited Saint Weapons or Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons remained standing.

Taiyi secured the chaos stone after the great powers backed down, while Duan De surrendered the Ancient Scroll, which turned out to depict the Nine Dragons Guarding a Pearl terrain. After returning to the Yaoguang Holy Land, Taiyi arranged for Lin Jia to become Granny Yu’s Personal Disciple, then prepared to visit the Holy City’s stone workshops.

• Li Daoqing deployed the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron, and the Azure Flood Dragon King, Peacock King, and Old Peng King countered with the Green Lotus Emperor Weapon before the Ji Family and Jiang Family urged everyone to accept Taiyi’s claim to the chaos stone.
• The powerful figures surrounded Duan De and made him hand over the Ancient Scroll; after examining it, they found it showed Nine Dragons Guarding a Pearl terrain and agreed to explore it together.
• Taiyi told Lin Jia, Yao Xi, An Miaoyi, and Little White Tiger that he had learned Source Arts from the Source Heaven Book in exchange for Nine Secrets: Shu, and said he planned to fleece the Holy City’s stone workshops.
• Taiyi returned to the Yaoguang Holy Land with his companions, where Lin Jia became Granny Yu’s Personal Disciple and received the Primordial Origin Scripture and permission to cultivate the Holy Light Technique.
• Taiyi told Lin Jia to cultivate under Granny Yu, reach perfection of the Dao Palace, and wait for a gift before breaking through to the Four Extremes Secret Realm.