Chapter Summaries

Taiyi defeated two Lightning Birds with the Primordial Origin Holy Light Technique, cooked and ate one, then began using his source stones to break through from the Other Shore Realm into the Dao Palace Secret Realm. As the breakthrough continued, his Divine Spring surged within his golden Sea of Bitterness.

• Taiyi drove off and killed the two Lightning Birds with the Primordial Origin Holy Light Technique.
• Taiyi cooked one Lightning Bird in his imitation Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron and ate it.
• Taiyi resolved to enter the Dao Palace Secret Realm and gathered more than a hundred jin of source stones to cultivate.
• Taiyi circulated the Sun True Scripture, devoured the source stones, and sent torrents of essence toward the heavenly gates.
• Taiyi's Divine Spring surged in his golden Sea of Bitterness as a divine-marked bell swayed amid the radiance.

Taiyi cultivated the Heart Divine Treasury and traveled into the Great Wilderness, where he unearthed an ancient stele bearing a profound cultivation formula. Studying it revealed the Nine Secrets: Dou, and the chapter left him recognizing its legendary connection to Emperor Zun.

• Taiyi cultivated the Heart Divine Treasury to perfection but, like others with the Sacred Body, did not give birth to a deity.
• Taiyi tested his strength, altered his appearance with the Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping Art, and left the Yan Kingdom for the Great Wilderness.
• Taiyi uncovered numerous ruined building fragments and rare divine materials buried in a desert.
• Taiyi found a black Ancient Stele and absorbed its writing and diagrams as they resonated with the Dao.
• Taiyi unconsciously practiced the stele’s mysterious art, unleashing overwhelming combat power that blasted the desert into ruin.
• Taiyi recognized the formula as the Nine Secrets: Dou and recalled the legend of Emperor Zun.

Taiyi comprehended the Nine Secrets: Dou, then used abundant source to advance to the dao palace third heaven and achieve minor mastery of the Holy Light Technique. As he emerged from seclusion, mysterious attackers targeted him, mistaking him for a prodigy of the Yaoguang Holy Land.

• Taiyi found the Nine Secrets: Dou on an ancient stele, which crumbled after he comprehended its technique.
• Taiyi spent ten days excavating the ruins but found nothing else, then continued traveling and cultivating.
• Taiyi refined more than a thousand jin of source and entered the dao palace second realm, awakening the lung of divine treasures.
• After eighteen days, Taiyi released beams of light that tore through his cave and shattered a distant mountain, then prepared to advance further.
• Two months later, Taiyi emerged in the dao palace third heaven with minor mastery of the Holy Light Technique and 108 divine rings around him.
• An unknown assailant launched a blood-red Killing Sword at Taiyi, and several attackers recognized his technique and mistook him for a Yaoguang Holy Land disciple.

Taiyi was ambushed by five Yin-Yang Sect cultivators who coveted the young Yaoguang Holy Land prodigy, but he overwhelmed them with his holy light and Sun God Fist. As the surviving attackers fled, Taiyi pursued them and began forming a vast sword of light with the Nine Secrets: Dou.

• Five Yin-Yang Sect cultivators ambushed Taiyi after recognizing him as a young Yaoguang Holy Land disciple.
• Taiyi shattered the attackers’ magical artifacts with his holy light and killed one cultivator, forcing the others to flee.
• Taiyi caught a fleeing dao palace fourth heaven cultivator and killed him with the Sun God Fist.
• Taiyi used the Nine Secrets: Dou to form an enormous sword of light as he pursued the remaining attackers.

Taiyi fought two Four Extremes experts of the Yin-Yang Sect and overcame their combined Secret Technique with his Sun Sacred Body and Nine Secrets. He engulfed the injured pair in true solar fire, and they accused him of mastering the Sun True Scripture.

• The two Yin-Yang Sect cultivators joined their arms and formed a Yin-Yang Dao Diagram to resist Taiyi's holy-light sword.
• Taiyi recognized the Yin-Yang Sect technique as the diagram clashed with his sword, and both sides were thrown back.
• The pair attacked again with their expanding diagram, but Taiyi used the Sun God Movement Technique to evade it.
• Taiyi unleashed his Sun Sacred Body and the Nine Secrets: Dou, shattering the Yin-Yang Dao Diagram and sending both Four Extremes experts flying.
• Taiyi formed a furnace of heaven and earth and engulfed the two cultivators in true solar fire, prompting them to exclaim that he had mastered the Sun True Scripture.

Taiyi killed the remaining Yin-Yang Sect disciples, but two Dragon Transformation experts arrived and accused him of murdering their people. Refusing their demand to surrender, Taiyi faced an attack from the old woman.

• Taiyi used the Sun True Scripture’s nine imperial characters to strengthen his holy-light furnace and burn two Yin-Yang Sect experts to ash.
• Taiyi pursued a fleeing Dao Palace fifth-heaven cultivator and killed him with an arrow of holy light.
• Two Yin-Yang Sect Dragon Transformation experts tore through space and blocked Taiyi’s path.
• The elders accused Taiyi of killing their disciples and demanded he surrender and go to their sect for judgment.
• Taiyi denied their accusations, and the old woman reached out to seize him.

Taiyi escaped the Yin-Yang Sect elders by using Danyangzi’s treasures and fled across the wilderness with Profound Jade Platforms. After finally shaking off his pursuers, he planned to expose the sect’s secret search for gifted children to the Yaoguang Holy Land and traveled toward a nearby city.

• Taiyi struck the elders’ attack with a Great Power Magical Artifact, but the backlash injured him and he put the Jadeite Thumb Ring away.
• Taiyi used a Divine Movement Talisman and the Sun God Movement Technique to escape the Yin-Yang Sect elders, who merged through a Secret Technique to pursue him.
• Taiyi spent several days evading the pursuit and eventually escaped by crossing the void with a Profound Jade Platform.
• Taiyi resolved to inform the Yaoguang Holy Land that the Yin-Yang Sect was secretly searching the Eastern Wasteland for gifted children.
• Taiyi altered his appearance, used another Profound Jade Platform to travel over ten thousand li, and reached a sizable city.

Taiyi followed rumors of a great tomb to the Silver Mine Mountain Range, where Yin Soldiers emerged from the mines and attacked the gathered cultivators. As the Yaoguang Holy Land disciples fought their way toward the shafts, a blue-robed young maiden questioned whether they should press ahead recklessly.

• Taiyi heard that a mysterious passage at the Silver Mine Mountain Range had caused a deadly calamity and set out for the mountains.
• At the mines, Taiyi witnessed black mist consume a bloodied cultivator and dissolve him into corpse fluid.
• Ranks of Yin Soldiers charged from the shafts, killing cultivators who could not escape while others fought back.
• A Yaoguang Holy Land disciple named Chen Feng used a furnace to burn Yin Soldiers and led his companions toward the mines.
• As cultivators continued battling the Yin Soldiers, a blue-robed young maiden slew several and asked whether they should rush in so recklessly.

Taiyi fought through the Yin Soldiers and Ghost Fiends in an ancient mine, where he discovered a sealed underground palace and a suspended Bronze Coffin. He faced a powerful Ghost Fiend that attacked with Yellow Springs Evil Fiend, and the chapter ended as Taiyi struck back.

• Weiwei spotted Taiyi charging into the mine, though the Yaoguang Holy Land disciples could not see him through the fiendish mist.
• Taiyi used his holy light to destroy the Yin Soldiers, Yin Fiend Cavalry, and Ghost Fiends as he advanced through the tunnel.
• Taiyi broke through worn dao patterns at the tunnel's end and entered a luxurious underground palace containing a chained Bronze Coffin.
• A Ghost Fiend comparable to a cultivator of the Four Extremes Secret Realm attacked Taiyi with Yellow Springs Evil Fiend.
• Taiyi blocked the attack with the Primordial Origin Scripture and holy light, then struck at the Ghost Fiend.

Taiyi destroyed the ghost fiend after it possessed a decaying corpse, then found the bronze coffin empty. He encountered Duan De in the underground palace and showed interest in the battered bowl Duan De carried, prompting Duan De to flee.

• The ghost fiend possessed the corpse inside the bronze coffin and attacked Taiyi.
• Taiyi fought the possessed corpse with the Holy Light Technique and Sun God Fist, then burned the ghost fiend to ash with true solar fire.
• Taiyi searched the bronze coffin but found nothing inside.
• Duan De entered the hall and mistook Taiyi for the Yaoguang Holy Son.
• Taiyi asked to inspect Duan De's battered bowl, and Duan De tried to escape.

Taiyi pursued Duan De through the Silver Mine Mountain Range, trying to force him to reveal his Tribulation-Transcending Heavenly Art, but Duan De escaped using the Broken Bowl. After Taiyi fired the Blazing Sun Bow, a Yaoguang Holy Land elder confronted him over the magical artifact.

• Taiyi attacked Duan De and destroyed his Profound Jade Platform as Duan De tried to escape through the void.
• Duan De blocked Taiyi's attacks with the Broken Bowl and fled while refusing to fight.
• Taiyi used the Blazing Sun Bow to shoot at Duan De, who vanished after the arrow blasted apart the surrounding mountains.
• A dragon transformation expert from the Yaoguang Holy Land arrived and asked Taiyi why he had his master's magical artifact.

Taiyi revealed to Wang Peng that he was Danyangzi’s final disciple and delivered the letter Danyangzi had left for him. After learning of their master’s death, Wang Peng offered to escort Taiyi to the Yaoguang Holy Land, but Taiyi declined and continued on his own path.

• Taiyi identified himself as Danyangzi’s final disciple, and Wang Peng accepted him after recognizing the Primordial Origin Scripture.
• Taiyi gave Wang Peng Danyangzi’s letter, and Wang Peng grieved upon learning their master had passed away.
• Wang Peng explained Danyangzi’s hope that Taiyi might eventually contend for the Yaoguang Holy Lord position.
• Wang Peng offered to escort Taiyi to the Yaoguang Holy Land, but Taiyi declined, saying Danyangzi had left him forbidden weapons for protection.
• Wang Peng promised to help Taiyi if he encountered trouble and urged their senior brothers to support him.

Taiyi told Wang Peng that Yin-Yang Sect cultivators had tried to kill him and were secretly searching the Eastern Wasteland for gifted children, prompting Wang Peng to promise to report the matter to the Holy Lord. The arriving Yaoguang disciples learned that Taiyi was their martial uncle, while Weiwei recognized his extraordinary nature and learned that he was friends with Ye Fan and Pang Bo.

• Taiyi told Wang Peng that he had killed Yin-Yang Sect attackers, escaped two pursuing elders with Danyangzi’s Divine Movement Talisman, and uncovered their search for talented children.
• Wang Peng condemned the Yin-Yang Sect’s actions and promised to report them to the Holy Lord.
• Wang Peng introduced Taiyi to the arriving Yaoguang disciples as Danyangzi’s final disciple, and they saluted him as their martial uncle.
• Weiwei recognized Taiyi as the disguised figure from the mine and greeted him as her young martial uncle.
• Taiyi told Weiwei privately that Ye Fan and Pang Bo were his friends, and she realized how rapidly he had advanced and sensed his powerful physique.

Taiyi declined Wang Peng’s invitation to visit the Yaoguang Holy Land and continued his cultivation alone, while Wang Peng returned to report the Yin-Yang Sect’s actions. The enraged Yaoguang Holy Lord ordered a hunt for the sect’s forces and its Holy Son and Holy Maiden.

• Taiyi refused Wang Peng’s invitation, bid farewell to the Yaoguang disciples, and flew away, intending to let Yaoguang handle the Yin-Yang Sect.
• Wang Peng rebuked Chen Feng for underestimating Taiyi and revealed that Taiyi had mastered the Primordial Origin Holy Light Technique while still in the divine bridge realm.
• Wang Peng recalled how an enemy Holy Son had humiliated him in his youth, leaving a lasting flaw in his Dao heart and preventing him from reaching the Immortal Platform.
• Three days later, Wang Peng reported the Yin-Yang Sect’s actions to Li Daoqing, who flew into a rage.
• Li Daoqing ordered Yaoguang to find and destroy the Yin-Yang Sect’s bases in the Eastern Wasteland and hunt down its Holy Son and Holy Maiden.

The Yaoguang Holy Lord decided to retaliate against the Yin-Yang Sect, then appointed Taiyi a Candidate Holy Son after learning of his extraordinary mastery of the Holy Light Technique. While traveling through the Qian Kingdom, Taiyi found an intact ancient teleportation formation and set its coordinates for the Central Plains to seek out the Yin-Yang Sect’s inheritance.

• Li Daoqing overruled the Supreme Elders’ objections and ordered Yaoguang to respond forcefully to the Yin-Yang Sect.
• Wang Peng revealed that Taiyi had mastered the Holy Light Technique to minor mastery in the Dao Palace Realm, astonishing the Supreme Elders.
• Li Daoqing appointed Taiyi a Candidate Holy Son.
• Taiyi discovered an intact ancient teleportation formation while traveling through the Qian Kingdom.
• Taiyi modified the formation’s coordinates to travel to the Central Plains and target the Yin-Yang Sect’s inheritance.

Taiyi traveled to the Central Plains seeking the Yin-Yang Sect’s Ancient Scripture and a Nine Secret, while pursuers discovered he had escaped there. After testing his Yin-Yang Dao on a giant crocodile, he sensed a hidden Dao mark beneath a marsh and struck it with the Primordial Origin Holy Light Technique.

• Taiyi used an ancient teleportation formation to reach a desolate desert in the Central Plains, unaware that two black-mist-cloaked men had found the damaged formation and discussed hunting him.
• The two pursuers noted that Danyangzi had secretly trained Taiyi, who had mastered the Primordial Origin Holy Light Technique, and vowed he would not escape them.
• After half a month of travel, Taiyi learned he was in the eastern Central Plains and bought materials for refining Profound Jade Platforms and making formations.
• Taiyi flew west, defeated a giant crocodile with a yin-yang diagram formed through Nine Secrets: Dou, and stored its carcass.
• Taiyi sensed something unusual beneath a marsh, dug deep into the earth, detected a strange Dao mark, and struck it with the Primordial Origin Holy Light Technique.

Taiyi discovered a vast Chaos Immortal Soil, collected its divine source liquid and ancient medicine kings, then reached a Five-Colored Altar at its center. There, he saw a piece of immortal gold above an Immortal Pool.

• Taiyi found a pool of divine source liquid and collected it, securing resources for his future breakthrough.
• Taiyi discovered a medicinal field containing hundreds of spirit herbs, including ancient medicine kings, and gathered the herbs and divine soil.
• Taiyi explored deeper into the immortal land and reached a Five-Colored Altar surrounded by five ancient stone dragons.
• Taiyi examined the Immortal Pool at the altar's center and spotted a piece of immortal gold wreathed in chaos qi.

Taiyi discovered a hidden Immortal Pool containing chaos immortal gold and glimpsed a vision of Emperor Zun taking away the Emperor Corpse. He managed to move the immense treasure into his Bitter Sea, collected the pool’s precious liquid, and found a small Five-Colored Altar, but no Emperor Weapon or supreme scripture.

• Taiyi entered the Five-Colored Altar cautiously and saw a vision of Emperor Zun breaking the formation and carrying away the Emperor Corpse.
• Taiyi speculated that Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable had used the altar for a failed nirvana transformation and that Emperor Zun had disrupted his arrangements.
• Taiyi struggled to lift the block of chaos immortal gold, then used the Sun True Scripture and his Sun Sacred Body to raise it.
• Taiyi drew the chaos immortal gold into his Bitter Sea and collected all the precious liquid from the Immortal Pool.
• Taiyi searched the site but found no Emperor Weapon or supreme scripture, only a well-preserved small Five-Colored Altar.

Taiyi harvested the Five-Colored Altar and cultivated in its Immortal Pool, breaking through to the fourth Dao Palace heaven as he aimed for the fifth. Meanwhile, the Yaoguang Holy Land exposed the Yin-Yang Sect’s theft of gifted children, and negotiations ended with Yaoguang demanding five million jin of source.

• Taiyi excavated and stored the Five-Colored Altar, then cooked and ate the giant crocodile and flood dragon with Immortal Pool treasure liquid.
• After refining the meal’s medicinal potency, Taiyi entered the Immortal Pool with over a million jin of source to cultivate.
• Taiyi perfected his spleen divine treasury and broke through to the fourth Dao Palace heaven, but continued cultivating toward the fifth.
• The Yaoguang Holy Land hunted the Yin-Yang Sect and circulated evidence that it had been searching the Eastern Wasteland for gifted children.
• The Eastern Wasteland’s great sects denounced the Yin-Yang Sect, whose vice leader traveled to the Divine City to apologize to the Yaoguang Holy Land.
• Li Xuanji demanded five million jin of source from the Yin-Yang Sect’s vice leader as compensation for breaking the rules.

Taiyi was shattered by the Five-Colored Altar’s innate five-element power and refined within its Void Furnace. His body began regenerating from golden-threaded blood, while a mysterious figure in the starry depths sensed the breakthrough and suspected the Heavenly Venerable of Immeasurable Heaven.

• Li Xuan rejected the Yin-Yang Sect deputy sect master's plea, and the deputy sect master returned to the Central Plains to consult the old sect master Wang Yangzhan.
• Wang Yangzhan decided to visit Yaoguang Holy Land himself and ordered the deputy sect master to oversee the sect's upcoming recruitment.
• Taiyi broke through to the fifth Dao Palace heaven, but the five-element power destroyed his divine treasures and shattered his body.
• The Five-Colored Altar formed a furnace around Taiyi's remains and burned them with mysterious dao fire.
• A figure in an ancient land in the starry depths sensed the event, looked toward Beidou, and wondered whether the Heavenly Venerable of Immeasurable Heaven was responsible.
• Taiyi's crystal-clear, gold-threaded blood gathered in the furnace and rebuilt his heart, internal organs, flesh, and bones.