Chapter Summaries

Taiyi woke after spending the night with Yao Xi, who had returned to the Yaoguang Holy Land, and discussed the Jade Lake Holy Maiden’s invitation with An Miaoyi. He prepared to leave her waiting before deciding whether to meet her.

• An Miaoyi told Taiyi that Yao Xi had left for the Yaoguang Holy Land overnight because she was too embarrassed to face him.
• An Miaoyi asked whether Taiyi would accept the Jade Lake Holy Maiden’s invitation, and he guessed she wanted the Immortal Flower of Eternal Youth.
• Taiyi suggested inviting the Jade Lake Holy Maiden and Purple Mansion Saintess to Miaoyu Nunnery, but An Miaoyi explained that their Holy Lands would not allow them to visit a pleasure house.
• Taiyi decided not to rush to meet the Jade Lake Holy Maiden and considered leaving her waiting for ten days or half a month.
• An Miaoyi helped Taiyi dress in a purple robe, purple-gold crown, and Cloudflight Boots.

Taiyi warned the Yaoguang Holy Lord that Purple Mountain was Great Emperor Wushi’s seat and urged him to approach it cautiously, then received a Black Gourd seized from the Purple Mansion Holy Son. He discovered the gourd’s damaged stopper could unleash chaos light and identified it as the ruined Immortal-Slaying Gourd, leaving its former power and mysterious origins to be explored.

• Taiyi told the Yaoguang Holy Lord that Purple Mountain held sealed Primordial Ancestor Kings and that only someone with Great Emperor Wushi’s innate sacred body dao embryo could cultivate or open the Wushi Scripture.
• The Yaoguang Holy Lord said he could not control whether the Holy Land’s elders joined the attack, and Taiyi advised him to bring the Divine City’s Stone Token if he went.
• Sun Wei returned with the Black Gourd he had taken from the Purple Mansion Holy Son, explaining that he had subdued the Holy Son and his guardians without killing them.
• Taiyi tested the gourd and its wooden stopper, and the stopper released a beam of chaos light powerful enough to strike the Great Hall’s formations.
• Taiyi identified the gourd as the damaged Immortal-Slaying Gourd, an ancient Emperor Weapon whose deity had perished in a primordial Divine War.

Taiyi revealed that the damaged Black Gourd could potentially be restored into a Quasi-Emperor Weapon and brought it into the Green-Gold Ancient Pagoda to begin repairing it. He also learned that the Heavenly Emperor’s Son had fathered an offspring with a Lightning Phoenix Bird, then started working on the gourd’s Weapon Spirit with Nine-Colored Divine Flames.

• Taiyi told An Miaoyi that the Black Gourd’s imperial Formation Patterns remained and that its exceptional material could eventually let him restore it as an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon.
• Taiyi sensed that the Heavenly Emperor’s Son had fathered an offspring with a Lightning Phoenix Bird, and he planned to seek other races for further descendants.
• Taiyi and An Miaoyi went to the Green-Gold Tower’s ninth-floor space, where the Weapon Spirit was being held.
• Taiyi emptied the Black Gourd of its Heavenly Yin Absolute Water and used the Green-Gold Ancient Pagoda to evaporate and purify it.
• Taiyi merged with the Saint Shell, drew the Weapon Spirit into the Black Gourd, and released Nine-Colored Divine Flames from a Purple Gold Gourd.

Taiyi tested the repaired Immortal-Slaying Gourd, then planned to refine the Chaos Great Halberd into a weapon with multiple forms using a technique from the Chaotic Ancient Scripture. He returned to Yaoguang Holy Land to request rare materials, leaving Mu Yuan Great Saint to react to the extraordinary list.

• Taiyi demonstrated that the partially repaired Immortal-Slaying Gourd could slice the Black-Gold Divine Cauldron apart and said it could slay a Half-Saint.
• Taiyi told An Miaoyi that he planned to visit the Fire Domain and try the Chaotic Ancient Era Weapon-Refining Art.
• Taiyi explained that he intended to reforge the Chaos Great Halberd into a weapon that could change forms, while leaving the Chaos Bell unchanged.
• Taiyi took An Miaoyi back to Yaoguang Holy Land and asked Mu Yuan Great Saint for rare materials to refine the halberd.
• Mu Yuan Great Saint reacted to Taiyi's request for precious materials, including blood dragon wood, fortune soil, star divine sand, and Nine Heavens Divine Jade King divine marrow.

Taiyi gathered rare materials from Yaoguang Holy Land and brought Mu Yuan Great Saint three dragon loaches before traveling to the Fire Domain to forge a weapon from the Chaos Great Halberd. The chapter left him hammering the melted immortal gold and divine materials amid the Ninth Layer’s nine-colored flames.

• Taiyi asked Mu Yuan Great Saint for rare materials to practice the Chaotic Ancient Era Weapon-Refining Art, and Mu Yuan approved.
• Taiyi showed Mu Yuan his rare treasures and three dragon loaches, then returned the damaged Black-Gold Divine Cauldron and received a treasury token.
• Taiyi collected a large quantity of materials from Yaoguang Holy Land’s treasury and left An Miaoyi there to cultivate.
• Taiyi searched the Ninth Layer of the Fire Domain for immortal fire but found none, then merged with the Saint Shell from desolate antiquity.
• Taiyi melted the Chaos Great Halberd in nine-colored flames, added divine materials and immortal treasures, and began forging with repeated hammer blows.

Taiyi forged the Eastern Emperor Bow and three Immortal Gold arrows, then found the immortal fire in the Fire Domain and used it to repair the Black Gourd. Afterward, he began reshaping the bow’s Chaos Immortal Gold into a long spear.

• Taiyi forged the Eastern Emperor Bow and crafted three arrows from Divine Mark Purple Gold, Eternal Blue Gold, and Phoenix Blood Red Gold.
• Taiyi drew the bow with the Divine Mark Purple Gold Arrow, but spotted mysterious immortal fire before he could test it.
• Taiyi reached the immortal fire in the Fire Domain and placed the Black Gourd within its flames to repair it.
• Taiyi continued forging his weapon, reshaping the Chaos Immortal Gold bow into a long spear.

After completing the Heavenly Dao Battle Box, Taiyi heard the Wushi Bell ring and suspected that the Great Powers had rescued Jiang Taixu from Purple Mountain. He reached the Northern Region Divine City as Primordial creatures attacked, and intervened when one targeted Yaoguang elders.

• Taiyi spent three months refining the Heavenly Dao Battle Box, which could transform into nine divine weapons and form a killing array.
• Taiyi found that the Immortal-Slaying Gourd had advanced to the Quasi-Emperor Weapon level, though its damage was too severe for him to wait for a full restoration.
• The Wushi Bell rang with imperial might, and Taiyi surmised that the Great Powers were making their third assault on Purple Mountain and might have rescued Jiang Taixu.
• Taiyi arrived in the Northern Region Divine City, where Primordial creatures pursued the Great Powers and began attacking the city.
• A massive blue-green-scaled creature killed Dragon Transformation cultivators with its claw, and Taiyi confronted it when Yaoguang elders came under attack.

Taiyi killed two powerful Ancient creatures in Divine City with the weapons of his Heavenly Dao Battle Box while Holy Lords fought Primordial creatures across the city. After the weapons returned to the box and transformed into a Divine Bow, he took out the Divine Mark Purple Gold Arrow, which began to grow.

• Taiyi shattered an Ancient creature’s enormous claw with a palm strike, then summoned the Heavenly Dao Battle Box and slew the creature with its nine divine weapons.
• A second, stronger Ancient creature charged Taiyi, but his weapons shattered its Life-Killing Great Art and dismembered it.
• Taiyi used his Martial Dao Heavenly Eye to spot Holy Lords, including the Ji Family Holy Lord and Jiang Family Holy Lord, fighting amid the battles engulfing Divine City.
• The nine weapons returned to the Heavenly Dao Battle Box, which transformed into a Divine Bow in Taiyi’s hand.
• Taiyi took out the Divine Mark Purple Gold Arrow, and it grew from a tiny arrow to normal size.

Taiyi used his Divine Mark Purple Gold Arrow to kill a powerful primordial creature, then joined Yaoguang Holy Lord Li Daoqing in resisting a Guzheng-playing Dao-Slaying King. He entered the divine forbidden domain and ended the chapter aiming his arrow at the woman, who rose warily to face him.

• Taiyi shot down a Holy Lord-level primordial creature with his Divine Mark Purple Gold Arrow, destroying its immortal platform and primordial spirit.
• Yaoguang Holy Lord Li Daoqing joined Taiyi as a Guzheng-playing woman sent deadly beams of light toward them.
• Taiyi and Li Daoqing combined their strength to block the woman's attacks.
• Taiyi repeatedly raised his power and forcibly entered the divine forbidden domain, though Nine Secrets: Jie did not activate.
• Taiyi aimed his Divine Mark Purple Gold Arrow at the woman, who stood and watched him warily.

Taiyi killed the Zither Woman, a Dao-Slaying King, with an Eternal Blue Gold Arrow. Seeing more Primordial creatures arrive outside Divine City, he rushed out to face them and began another tribulation.

• Taiyi pierced the Zither Woman’s defenses with an Eternal Blue Gold Arrow and blasted her head apart.
• Cultivators in Divine City, including Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and Black Emperor, watched in shock as Taiyi killed a Dao-Slaying King through sheer strength.
• Taiyi saw Primordial creatures continuing to gather outside Divine City and decided to confront them all at once.
• Taiyi rushed outside Divine City as the Yaoguang Holy Lord warned him of the powerful enemies there.
• Taiyi stood before the advancing ancient creatures, surrounded by lightning, and onlookers realized he was undergoing another tribulation.

Taiyi completed his tribulation outside Divine City, advancing to the Eighth Minor Step of the First Heaven of the Immortal Platform after lightning killed many ancient creatures. When two Great Accomplished Kings and other ancient creatures moved to attack him, the Yaoguang Holy Lord and others revealed powerful Emperor Weapons, forcing them to retreat.

• Taiyi swept ancient creatures into his tribulation, where the lightning killed many cultivators, including Dao-Slaying Kings.
• Taiyi and his weapons endured the tribulation, and he advanced to the Eighth Minor Step of the First Heaven of the Immortal Platform.
• Two Great Accomplished Kings and several Dao-Slaying Kings targeted Taiyi, coveting his two Extreme Dao Rough Embryos.
• The Yaoguang Holy Lord brought forth the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron, forcing the ancient creatures to retreat.
• The Jiang Family's Hengyu Furnace and the Ji Family's Void Mirror rose over Divine City, driving the ancient creatures farther away.

After the Primordial creatures withdrew from the Divine City, Taiyi learned that the Jiang Family had rescued Jiang Taixu from Purple Mountain and might seek his help to prolong the God King's life. Danyangzi arrived at the Yaoguang Stone Workshop as Taiyi and the Yaoguang Holy Lord discussed whether their Holy Land would assist the Jiang Family.

• Taiyi and the other human powers used three Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons to face the Primordial creatures, who retreated rather than risk a confrontation.
• Taiyi returned to the Yaoguang Stone Workshop with the Yaoguang Holy Lord, who said Taiyi's warning had limited the Yaoguang Holy Land's losses at Purple Mountain.
• The Yaoguang Holy Lord told Taiyi that the Jiang Family had rescued Jiang Taixu and was seeking medicine to save him, while many powers opposed his recovery.
• Taiyi said he would not give the Jiang Family an Ancient Medicine King without a worthwhile exchange, and the Yaoguang Holy Lord confirmed their Holy Land would neither help nor obstruct the family.
• Danyangzi arrived, surprising Taiyi and the Yaoguang Holy Lord.

Taiyi agreed to help Ye Fan seek Nine Secrets: Xing after Ye Fan reached the Four Extremes Secret Realm, and warned him to preserve the Demon Emperor's Essence Blood for his breakthrough. As the Jiang Family struggled to protect the dying Jiang Taixu, its elders asked Taiyi to guard him and offered Immortal Gold in return.

• Danyangzi borrowed the Yaoguang Holy Land's Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron to capture descendants of the Primordial clans.
• Ye Fan visited Taiyi and arranged to search Saint Cliff for Nine Secrets: Xing after reaching the Four Extremes Secret Realm.
• Taiyi warned Ye Fan that his remaining Demon Emperor's Essence Blood might help him overcome the dangers of his breakthrough.
• Two Jiang Family Supreme Elders asked Taiyi to protect Jiang Taixu at the Dragon Transformation Pool and offered him a piece of Immortal Gold.

Taiyi accepted the Jiang Family’s request to guard Jiang Taixu at the Dragon Transformation Pool in exchange for a piece of Dragon-Patterned Black Gold. As hostile powers gathered in Divine City, they tried to drive Taiyi away or tempt him with competing offers.

• The Jiang Family’s Supreme Elder offered Taiyi an egg-sized piece of Dragon-Patterned Black Gold, and Taiyi agreed to help protect Jiang Taixu.
• As Taiyi headed for the Dragon Transformation Pool, the Jiang Family elders explained that Ye Fan had brought remedies for Jiang Taixu and recommended Taiyi’s aid.
• Taiyi arrived at the underground palace, where Jiang Yun and the other Supreme Elders guarded the weakened Jiang Taixu, and reunited with Ye Fan.
• Word spread through Divine City that Taiyi had joined the Jiang Family, alarming factions that wanted Jiang Taixu dead before he recovered.
• Hidden enemies mocked the Jiang Family and urged Taiyi to withdraw, while others offered him benefits and appealed to his interest in the Nine Secrets.

Taiyi revealed that the Jiang Family had hired him with Immortal Gold and used divination to expose the hidden enemies targeting Jiang Taixu. He left the story with the Jiang Family wielding the Hengyu Furnace to destroy them, while the Divine City realized how formidable Taiyi’s methods were.

• Taiyi said the Jiang Family had offered him Immortal Gold and challenged his opponents to pay ten times as much to change his mind.
• Taiyi used the Nine Secrets: Shu to divine the locations of powerful figures concealed in the Divine City.
• Taiyi gave the coordinates to Jiang Yun, who ordered the Jiang Family to bring out the Hengyu Furnace and attack each location.
• The Jiang Family unleashed the Hengyu Furnace’s power and obliterated more than a dozen hidden Holy Lord-level figures.
• Observers in the Divine City concluded that Taiyi had uncovered the enemies through his extraordinary divination skills.

The Jiang Family used the Hengyu Furnace to eliminate hostile experts while Ye Fan supplied remedies to stabilize Jiang Taixu, and Taiyi's divinations helped keep the Divine City quiet. Outside the city, the wounded Fairy Caiyun was pursued by the Dark Night Monarch, whose identity she recognized as one of the Twin Kings of Central Plains.

• Jiang Yun thanked Taiyi for divining the coordinates of hostile experts, allowing the Jiang Family to strike them with the Hengyu Furnace.
• Ye Fan gave the Jiang Family a mysterious divine-fruit essence, which the elders refined into Jiang Taixu to stabilize his fading life.
• Taiyi recognized Ye Fan's nine drops of True Dragon Immortal Medicine essence and revealed that he had once taken a dragon pearl from the medicine in Myriad Dragon Nest.
• The Jiang Family used the True Dragon Immortal Medicine essence to treat Jiang Taixu while Taiyi's divinations and the Hengyu Furnace deterred further attacks.
• Outside the Divine City, the Dark Night Monarch pursued the badly wounded Fairy Caiyun, who identified him as one of the Twin Kings of Central Plains.

The Dark Night Monarch attacked Fairy Caiyun outside Divine City to torment Jiang Taixu and provoke him into leaving the city before he had recovered. Taiyi reassured Jiang Taixu that he would protect her, while the Dark Night Monarch continued taunting him.

• The Dark Night Monarch revealed his grudge against Jiang Taixu and unleashed his immense Dark Night Monarch Phenomenon outside Divine City.
• The Dark Night Monarch wounded Fairy Caiyun and threatened to leave her alive long enough to make Jiang Taixu witness her death.
• Jiang Yun and the others recognized the Dark Night Monarch and feared he might breach the Hengyu Furnace’s protection.
• The Dark Night Monarch’s taunts stirred Jiang Taixu awake, and he tried to rise despite his weakness.
• Taiyi told Jiang Taixu that his true body was outside Divine City with an Inherited Saint Weapon and would protect Fairy Caiyun.
• The Dark Night Monarch mocked Jiang Taixu for hiding inside Divine City, and an unseen speaker began, “Is that so?”

Taiyi intervened when the Dark Night Monarch threatened the wounded Fairy Caiyun, striking him with the Black Gourd and forcing him to flee. After the Dark Night Monarch escaped through the void, Taiyi pursued and wounded him again, determined not to let him get away.

• Taiyi revealed himself and used the Black Gourd to behead the Dark Night Monarch, whose inherited saintly robe and rapid recovery kept him alive.
• The Dark Night Monarch attacked Taiyi’s primordial spirit, but Taiyi blocked the strike with a black pagoda and forced him to retreat.
• Taiyi merged with the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body Remains, pursued the Dark Night Monarch, and attacked him with the Black Gourd.
• The Dark Night Monarch fled through the torn void, but Taiyi tracked him with Nine Secrets: Shu and Nine Secrets: Qian and struck him with Chaos Sword Qi.
• The Dark Night Monarch was forced from the void and nearly cut in half, while Taiyi declared that he would not let him escape.

Taiyi killed the Dark Night Monarch and helped the wounded Myriad Beginning Saintess, Fairy Caiyun, survive long enough to hope for a reunion with Jiang Taixu. Three days later, Jiang Taixu revived in the Jiang Family’s Underground Palace after receiving Immortal Medicine essence and additional True Dragon Divine Medicine essence from Ye Fan.

• Taiyi entered the Divine Forbidden Domain, used the Black Gourd to strike the fleeing Dark Night Monarch, and beheaded him despite the protection of his Inherited Saint Garment.
• The revived Quasi-Emperor Battle Garment escaped, while Taiyi collected the Dark Night Monarch’s corpse in the Black Gourd.
• Taiyi gave Fairy Caiyun two Little Medicine Kings and urged her to take them so she could recover and see Jiang Taixu again.
• The Jiang Family helped Jiang Taixu absorb Immortal Medicine essence for three days, and Ye Fan supplied another nine drops of True Dragon Divine Medicine essence.
• Jiang Taixu revived in the Underground Palace as the God King Physique’s Rebirth Technique restored his withered body.

Jiang Taixu revived as a true Saint and ended the Divine City's crisis, then learned Fairy Caiyun had been gravely wounded by the Dark Night Monarch. He used his remaining strength to restore Caiyun's youth, leaving their reunion transformed by his act of devotion.

• Jiang Taixu emerged as a true Saint, thanked Taiyi and Ye Fan, and ordered Jiang Yun to lift the seal on the Divine City.
• Jiang Taixu learned that the Dark Night Monarch had nearly killed Fairy Caiyun, and Caiyun told him that Taiyi had slain the Half-Saint.
• Fairy Caiyun confessed her regret over not leaving the Wanchu Holy Land with Jiang Taixu, while he assured her that he had never blamed her.
• Jiang Taixu defied Caiyun's protests and used his divine art to restore her aged body to its youthful appearance.