Chapter Summaries

Taiyi attacked the Taiyin God Sect with the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron and declared that he would punish the Duanmu Clan for usurping the sect and slaughtering the Human Emperor’s bloodline. He unleashed the Emperor Weapon’s might before the sect could awaken its defenses, leaving the Taiyin God Sect’s territory engulfed in destruction.

• Taiyi killed Duanmu Xi and absorbed him into the Human Emperor Banner, then swallowed the fleeing black seal with the Dragon-Patterned Cauldron.
• Taiyi merged with the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body Remains, and the pressure of his Emperor Weapon forced the Taiyin God Sect’s experts to their knees.
• Taiyi revealed that he came from the Big Dipper Star Domain, known elsewhere as the Burial Emperor Star, and said he had come to visit the Taiyin God Sect.
• Taiyi accused the Duanmu Clan of usurping the Taiyin God Sect and killing the Human Emperor’s descendants, then declared that he would seek justice.
• Taiyi struck with the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron before the sect could awaken its foundations, destroying its defenses and engulfing its territory in terrifying light.

Taiyi led the wounded Duanmu Xi to the Taiyin God Sect, where he killed him and revealed the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron as an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon. He declared that he would punish the Duanmu Clan for usurping the Taiyin God Sect and slaughtering the Human Emperor bloodline, leaving the sect’s experts pinned beneath the cauldron’s pressure.

• Taiyi attacked Duanmu Xi near the Taiyin God Sect, shattered his body and Primordial Spirit, and swallowed him into the Human Emperor Banner.
• Taiyin God Sect experts charged at Taiyi, but his Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron swallowed the black seal protecting Duanmu Xi.
• Taiyi merged with the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body Remains, and the cauldron’s Extreme Dao pressure forced the sect’s experts and arriving factions to their knees.
• Taiyi told the gathered experts that he came from the Big Dipper Star Domain, also known as the Burial Emperor Star.
• Taiyi announced that he would seek justice for the Human Emperor lineage and punish the Duanmu Clan for its crimes.

Taiyi used the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron to erase the Taiyin God Sect before its Saint foundations could awaken, then warned the powers of the Ziwei Star Domain not to persecute the Sun God Sect or the Saint Emperor's descendants. He left the Duanmu Clan powerhouses captured and the surrounding sects cowed by his threat of future retaliation.

• Taiyi unleashed the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron and destroyed the Taiyin God Sect before its foundations could awaken.
• Cultivators arriving at the ruins were shocked by the sect's destruction, while some cheered the Duanmu Clan's downfall.
• Taiyi suppressed the Duanmu Clan powerhouses, declared that their crimes deserved no pity, and drew them into the cauldron.
• Taiyi warned the powers of the Ziwei Star Domain that he would destroy any sect that targeted the Sun God Sect or persecuted the Saint Emperor's descendants.
• Taiyi told the assembled sect leaders that he would hold them responsible for any harm to Sun God Sect disciples and could return with the Emperor Weapon even after leaving the star domain.

Taiyi destroyed the Duanmu Clan’s rule over the Taiyin God Sect and swept away its branches and outposts, then claimed its holdings for the Sun God Sect. He sent Yao Qing back with a Holy Light Body and an Inherited Saint Weapon to secure the sect and take over the Taiyin inheritance.

• Taiyi crushed the Taiyin God Sect branch in Heavenly Wind Ancient City, killing its defenders and triggering the sect’s collapse across the Ziwei Star Domain.
• Taiyi destroyed 133 Sun God Sect branches and outposts across the Northern Reed Continent, while his Holy Light Bodies seized the Taiyin God Sect’s seven most important ancient realms and their treasures.
• Taiyi declared the Taiyin God Sect’s holdings Sun God Sect property and offered rewards for the heads of surviving Duanmu Clan members, prompting cultivators to hunt them across the domain.
• Taiyi told the Sun God Sect’s Supreme Elder that the Duanmu Clan, not the Taiyin God Sect, had been destroyed, and said he was correcting the usurpation of the Taiyin succession.
• Taiyi arranged for a Holy Light Body carrying an Inherited Saint Weapon to escort Yao Qing home and ordered the Sun God Sect to claim the Taiyin inheritance.

Taiyi secured the Sun God Sect’s future by promising to protect its Daoist tradition and recover the Sun Emperor Pagoda. He then searched with the Purple Mansion Saintess for Laozi’s Taiqing Sacred Realm, but his attempts to locate it failed.

• Taiyi promised Yao Qing he would protect the Sun God Sect and make Human Demon its foundation.
• Taiyi told Yao Qing that he would seek the Sun Emperor Pagoda, which he believed was still in the Ziwei Star Domain.
• Taiyi and the Purple Mansion Saintess left the Sun God Sect, and she warned that Yaoguang Holy Land might try to summon back the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron.
• Taiyi explained that he expected the Golden Crow Clan to act once the cauldron disappeared, then turned his attention to finding Laozi’s legacy.
• Taiyi and the Purple Mansion Saintess searched the mountain range for several days, but neither his deductions nor his recitation of the Dao De Jing revealed the Taiqing Sacred Realm.

Taiyi recited the Dao De Jing and revealed the Taiqing Sacred Realm, then entered the Eight Sceneries Palace with Zixia after destroying those who tried to stop him. Outside, cultivators failed to break through the Grand Formation, while Taiyi and Zixia stood within the ancient palace.

• Taiyi contemplated the Dao De Jing beneath the full moon, and his recitation revealed the Taiqing Sacred Realm and the Eight Sceneries Palace.
• Cultivators and Sect Masters rushed to seize the palace’s fortune and attacked Taiyi, but his Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron destroyed their weapons and killed the attackers.
• Taiyi declared himself master of the Eight Sceneries Palace and led Zixia across the Rainbow Bridge into the Taiqing Sacred Realm.
• The Rainbow Bridge and palace vanished from sight, leaving the surrounding mountains exposed, while the Grand Formation stopped cultivators outside and reduced a Saint Lord-level Weapon to dust.
• News of the manifestation spread, but Sect Masters who tried to enter by possessing Holy Lord-level corpses triggered the Killing Formation and lost them.
• Taiyi and Zixia entered the purple-qi-filled Eight Sceneries Palace, while the cultivators outside remained unable to reach them.

Taiyi and Zixia entered Laozi’s hidden Eight Sceneries Palace and found a trove of treasures, including a sealed Quasi-Emperor Weapon and the complete Dao De Jing. After Taiyi invited Zixia to study the scripture, she became immersed in its teachings.

• Taiyi and Zixia entered the Eight Sceneries Palace through its Grand Formation and discovered bottles and jars of Immortal Treasures.
• Taiyi identified Undying Divine Phoenix Blood, a Vajra Ring, a protective Primordial Spirit, and other treasures Laozi had left behind.
• Taiyi opened the Purple Gold Gourd, found Precious Pills inside, and kept it despite its Quasi-Emperor Weapon power being sealed until the Great Saint realm.
• Taiyi and Zixia found the complete Dao De Jing hidden inside the stone platform and recognized it as a supreme Ancient Scripture.
• Taiyi invited Zixia to read the scripture, and she began studying its profound teachings.

Taiyi explained his theory that Laozi was the awakened corpse of the Virtue Heavenly Venerable, then gave Zixia Divine Phoenix Blood to strengthen her foundation. In the Eight Sceneries Palace, he began preparing an extravagant cleansing bath for her with rare medicines and a Taiyi Golden Elixir.

• Taiyi and Zixia discussed the Dao De Jing, and Taiyi suggested Laozi was the Virtue Heavenly Venerable's Emperor Corpse reborn with a new consciousness.
• Taiyi offered Zixia the Divine Phoenix Blood, explaining that he had already undergone a cleansing with immortal phoenix essence.
• Taiyi brought out a Black Jade King cauldron and filled it with Divine Spring water, immortal liquid, ancient medicines, and medicine kings.
• Taiyi added nine drops each of True Dragon Divine Medicine essence and divine phoenix immortal medicine essence to the cauldron.
• Taiyi poured most of the Divine Phoenix Blood into the mixture, then crushed a Taiyi Golden Elixir and added it to the treasure liquid.

Taiyi used a cauldron of rare medicines to help Zixia undergo a dangerous transformation, which greatly increased her potential and physical strength. While she recovered and comprehended the Dao, Taiyi studied the Dao De Jing and its secret techniques.

• Taiyi prepared a cauldron of rare medicines and urged Zixia to enter it for a full-body baptism.
• Zixia endured the fierce medicinal power as Taiyi helped her refine it through a brutal transformation lasting more than half a month.
• Zixia emerged with greatly strengthened body and divine sense, increased potential, and Dao fragments that could help her advance several levels.
• Taiyi studied the Dao De Jing and examined secret techniques including One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones.
• Another half month passed as Zixia continued comprehending the Dao and Taiyi continued studying.

Taiyi completed his cultivation in the Eight Sceneries Palace and prepared to undergo tribulation, while powerful observers remained nearby. News then spread across the Ziwei Star Domain that Xuantian had fought a Sacred Body from the Burial Emperor Star to a near-fatal draw.

• Taiyi mastered One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones and formed three Dao bodies.
• Taiyi swallowed Laozi’s precious pill and spent ten days refining its power, bringing his cultivation close to a breakthrough.
• Taiyi left the sealed Taiqing Sacred Realm to undergo tribulation and sensed powerful auras still watching him.
• Reports shook the Ziwei Star Domain that Xuantian and a Sacred Body had fought until both were gravely injured and nearly died.
• Two old hierarchs from the Taiyin God Sect and the Sun God Sect intervened, and Xuantian agreed not to continue the fight.

The Yaoguang Holy Land attempted to summon back the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron after Eastern Emperor Taiyi took it to the Ziwei Star Domain. There, Taiyi survived three tribulations in succession, leaving witnesses stunned by his growing power.

• Haotian Emperor watched Ye Fan and the Tyrant Body fight to a draw and become Dao-Slaying Kings.
• Yuhua Great Emperor proposed using the Sun Saint Emperor’s Divine Spirit Thought and human skin to gather faith and resurrect him.
• Mu Yuan Great Saint and Yaoguang Holy Land’s senior figures activated a black altar and called for the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron to return.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi survived three consecutive tribulations in the Northern Reed Continent, astonishing the watching cultivators and sect masters.

Taiyi reached the ninth step of the Second Heaven of the Immortal Platform before the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron was summoned back to Beidou without him. At the Yaoguang Holy Land, Mu Yuan Great Saint relayed that Taiyi and the Purple Mansion Saintess had been transported to the Ziwei Star Domain, where they planned to cultivate and seek a way home.

• Taiyi completed his tribulation, gathered his divine weapons, and prepared to return to the Taiqing Sacred Realm.
• The Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron stirred, overwhelmed the gathered cultivators with its pressure, and tore through space toward Beidou, leaving Taiyi frustrated behind.
• The Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron returned to the Yaoguang Holy Land, where Mu Yuan Great Saint received Taiyi's divine will from it.
• Mu Yuan Great Saint told the Yaoguang Holy Lord and the others that Taiyi and the Purple Mansion Saintess had been transported to the Ziwei Star Domain while exploring Purple Mountain for the Wushi Scripture.
• Mu Yuan Great Saint reassured them that Taiyi was safe and would seek a way home after severing the Dao, or travel the Starry Sky Ancient Road after becoming a Saint.
• Granny Yu remarked that the Sun Sacred Body and the Innate Dao Embryo might have astonishing offspring if they united.

The Ziwei Star Domain’s major powers failed to breach the Taiqing Sacred Realm and plotted to seize Taiyi’s treasures once he emerged. Inside the Eight Sceneries Palace, Taiyi remained unconcerned with the siege and continued cultivating with Zixia, whose strength had increased.

• Several powers attacked the Taiqing Sacred Realm, but its Quasi-Emperor formation repelled them and killed some of their experts.
• The Golden Crow Clan, Sunset Glow Palace, and other sects vowed to claim the Eight Sceneries Palace’s fortune and Taiyi’s treasures, while Guanghan Palace chose to wait and observe.
• Three days later, Taiyi stayed inside the Eight Sceneries Palace with Zixia after guiding her through the Yin-Yang Sect’s Dual Cultivation Art.
• Zixia’s aura grew stronger, and she scolded Taiyi for tempting her into depravity.

Taiyi reassured Zixia that he had prepared a Dao Body and the Immortal-Slaying Gourd to protect the Sun God Sect while he dealt with the powers blockading the Taiqing Sacred Realm. He confronted the gathered sects over the Eight Sceneries Palace, and the Golden Crow Clan’s Jin Yuan threatened the Sun God Sect.

• Zixia said her recent transformation and seven days of dual cultivation had raised her cultivation enough to attempt three consecutive tribulations.
• Taiyi explained that his Dao Body had taken the Immortal-Slaying Gourd to the Sun God Sect to join his Holy Light Body and guard against trouble.
• Taiyi told Zixia to wait while he went out to confront the powers blockading the Taiqing Sacred Realm.
• The gathered powers demanded the Eight Sceneries Palace’s fortunes and argued that Taiyi had no right to claim them.
• Jin Yuan threatened the Sun God Sect unless Taiyi yielded the Eight Sceneries Palace’s fortunes.

Taiyi trapped the Golden Crow Clan and the other Great Sects in the Heavenly Cycle Star Grand Formation and began slaughtering their forces. When Dao-Slaying Kings attacked with Inherited Saint Weapons, he revealed the One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones technique and sent his three Dao Bodies into battle.

• Taiyi threatened to eradicate the Golden Crow Clan and prevent the assembled experts from leaving, then sealed the area with the Heavenly Cycle Star Grand Formation.
• The sect experts and hidden Dao-Slaying Kings attacked Taiyi, whose formation killed several Sect Masters and over a hundred lesser experts.
• Jin Yuan wielded the Golden Crow Clan's Crow-Wing Gilt Halberd against Taiyi, but Taiyi countered with a Black Great Halberd and sent Jin Yuan flying.
• The Dao-Slaying Kings broke the formation with their Inherited Saint Weapons and closed in on Taiyi.
• Taiyi used One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, sending three Dao Bodies armed with powerful weapons to fight the attackers.
• Taiyi's Dao Bodies overwhelmed the Dao-Slaying Kings, killing some and leaving the others stunned by his technique and stolen Saint Weapons.

Taiyi annihilated the forces invading the Taiqing Sacred Realm and suppressed their Inherited Saint Weapons with the Green-Gold Ancient Pagoda. Afterward, he explained to the Purple Mansion Saintess that the pagoda was a Supreme Artifact, and news of the slaughter spread among the watching cultivators.

• Taiyi slew Jin Yuan, destroyed his Primordial Spirit, and suppressed the Golden Crow Clan’s Crow-Wing Gilt Halberd with the Green-Gold Ancient Pagoda.
• Taiyi and his three Dao Bodies pursued the fleeing experts, killed more Dao-Slaying Kings, and suppressed the factions’ weapons and an ancient Daoist monastery.
• Before the Taiqing Sacred Realm, the Green-Gold Ancient Pagoda unleashed its might, and Taiyi wiped out the invading experts while the Ziwei Divine Dynasty’s Saint Weapon escaped.
• The watching cultivators identified the dead leaders and feared that Taiyi’s pagoda might be an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon.
• Taiyi returned to the Purple Mansion Saintess and explained that the Green-Gold Ancient Pagoda was a Supreme Artifact refined by an expert comparable to a Great Accomplishment Sacred Body.

After Zixia successfully passed three tribulations and reached the Seventh Transformation of Dragon Transformation, Taiyi’s Holy Light Body confronted the Golden Crow Clan at the Sun God Sect. As the clan’s killing formation summoned a Great Saint Avatar, Taiyi drew out the Immortal-Slaying Gourd and prepared to counterattack.

• Zixia endured three successive tribulations and entered the Seventh Transformation of Dragon Transformation, displaying the power of her Innate Dao Embryo and the Dao De Jing.
• The Golden Crow Clan surrounded the Sun God Sect and demanded that Taiyi hand over the Sun True Scripture.
• The Golden Crow Clan’s Eldest Crown Prince ordered eight Great Powers to activate the clan’s Primordial Killing Formation around Taiyi and the sect.
• The formation summoned a Great Saint Avatar, while the Sun God Sect’s leaders raised the Human Emperor Banner to protect the sect.
• Taiyi’s Holy Light Body warned the Golden Crow Clan that it was close to death, summoned the Immortal-Slaying Gourd, and pulled out its stopper.

The Eastern Emperor’s Holy Light Body destroyed the Golden Crow Clan’s killing formation with the Immortal-Slaying Gourd and began using the Deity-Deliverance Art to convert the surviving Golden Crows. As the surrounding sects recoiled from his power, the Eastern Emperor and Zixia arrived, and he offered to help complete the conversion.

• The Eastern Emperor’s Holy Light Body used the Immortal-Slaying Gourd to destroy the Golden Crow Clan’s formation, kill its elders and princes, and suppress the Golden Crow cultivators.
• The Eastern Emperor’s Holy Light Body threatened to keep the surviving Golden Crows as livestock and battle beasts for the Sun God Sect.
• The Eastern Emperor’s Holy Light Body recited the Dao De Jing and used the Deity-Deliverance Art to convert the captured Golden Crows, while nearby sect cultivators retreated to avoid its influence.
• The Eastern Emperor and Zixia arrived, and the Eastern Emperor offered to help convert the Golden Crow cultivators.

Taiyi returned to the Sun God Sect, revealed that he had killed a Golden Crow Clan Dao-Slaying King, and began subduing the clan’s cultivators. When the Golden Crow King appeared as a projection and threatened retaliation from the clan’s ancestral star, Taiyi refused to back down.

• Taiyi withdrew his Holy Light Body and showed the Golden Crow Clan a Dao-Slaying King’s severed head, shocking the clan and reassuring the Sun God Sect.
• Taiyi used the Deity-Deliverance Art to subdue the Golden Crow Clan cultivators while leaving the other onlookers unaffected.
• The Golden Crow King appeared through a projection, and Taiyi seized and suppressed him.
• The Golden Crow King offered compensation and asked Taiyi to spare his clan, but Taiyi refused and vowed to destroy any power that targeted the Sun God Sect.
• The Golden Crow King threatened that a quasi-emperor nearing the Dao on the Golden Crow Clan’s ancestral star would retaliate, alarming the gathered powers.

Taiyi subdued the Golden Crow forces that attacked the Sun God Sect and reassured its leaders that he could protect them. After the Golden Crow King learned of the defeat and the news spread across Ziwei Star, Taiyi traveled alone to confront the Fusang Divine Tree Kingdom, where powerful Golden Crow elders might still await him.

• Taiyi revealed that the Golden Crow Quasi-Emperor's tribulation had gone terribly wrong, then killed the Golden Crow King who had been captured in his palm.
• Taiyi converted more than ten thousand Golden Crow cultivators, including the eldest prince, and drew them into the Black Gourd.
• Yao Qing introduced Taiyi to Sun God Sect Master Yao Yang, and Taiyi promised to protect the sect even if the Golden Crow Clan retaliated.
• The Golden Crow King learned that his forces had been defeated and, fearing for his clan, left his secluded cultivation ground to take action.
• News of Taiyi's victory spread across Ziwei Star, alarming major sects and delighting many cultivators.
• Taiyi left Zixia at the Sun God Sect and traveled alone to the Northern Reed Continent, where he blocked the entrance to the Fusang Divine Tree Kingdom.