Chapter Summaries

Taiyi left the Ziwei Star Domain through a Five-Colored Altar, entrusting Zixia with the Immortal-Slaying Gourd to protect her and their children. He arrived at an unfamiliar pure land and found an ancient Daoist temple, a Divine Spring, and a remarkable apricot tree that spoke to him.

• Taiyi gave Zixia the Immortal-Slaying Gourd and the coordinates of the Big Dipper Star Domain so she could protect their family and return to Beidou if needed.
• Three days later, Taiyi said farewell to Zixia, their children, and the Sun God Sect before entering the Five-Colored Altar’s passage.
• Taiyi traveled through the starry passage beneath the protection of the Sun Stone Pagoda and emerged on a Five-Colored Altar in an unfamiliar pure land.
• Taiyi discovered an ancient Daoist temple and medicine fields containing Ancient Medicine Kings, a Divine Spring, and a fruit tree resembling the Immortal Apricot.
• Taiyi recognized that the fruit tree was not a true Immortal Medicine and noticed traces that an Immortal Medicine had once grown beside the Divine Spring.
• The apricot tree revealed that it was conscious and timidly begged Taiyi not to hurt it.

Taiyi acquired the Divine Spring Eye, the Ancient Apricot Tree, and the medicines growing around them, then explored the Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable's Daoist Temple. He discovered the Immeasurable Immortal Scripture inscribed on golden pillars and began studying it.

• Taiyi learned that the Ancient Apricot Tree had grown from an Immortal Apricot pit and persuaded it to leave with him by showing it a Qilin Immortal Medicine seed.
• Taiyi used the Green-Gold Ancient Pagoda to move the Divine Spring Eye, the Ancient Apricot Tree, and the entire Medicine Field into the pagoda's inner space.
• Taiyi entered the Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable's Daoist Temple, where he found its halls, bookshelves, and treasury largely emptied.
• Taiyi reached the deepest hall and recognized the Immeasurable Immortal Scripture inscribed on its Gilded Divine Pillars.
• Taiyi began studying the scripture's Sea of Bitterness Chapter.

Taiyi experienced a possible future in which he rose to Quasi-Emperor alongside the Chaos Body, then lost his children during the Dark Turmoil and died fighting the supreme beings. Awakened in the Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable’s Daoist Grounds, he resolved to change that future and protect those he loved.

• Taiyi absorbed the Immeasurable Immortal Scripture and the Dao marks left by the Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, greatly advancing his mastery of the Nine Secrets.
• Taiyi saw a future in which he became a Quasi-Emperor, fought beside the Chaos Body, and joined the battle against the supreme beings during the Dark Turmoil.
• Taiyi watched an Underworld supreme being kill Di Chu and Yan Fei, then charged into battle and died after failing to defeat his opponent.
• The Chaos Bell and two pagodas awakened Taiyi in the Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable’s Daoist Grounds, where he realized the vision had shown him a possible future.
• Taiyi vowed to seize control of his fate, prevent the tragedy, and become invincible.

Taiyi emerged from the immortal land and faced the Ninefold Saint Tribulation outside Flying Immortal Star, driven by his resolve to prevent the future in which his loved ones were killed. As he endured the lightning and tempered his treasures, he remained determined to survive and change that future.

• Taiyi recalled the deaths of Yan Fei, An Miaoyi's unborn child, his companions, his master, and the people of the Yaoguang Holy Land and Sun God Sect, and resolved to protect them.
• Taiyi used the Sun Ancient Pagoda to take the Large Five-Colored Altar and its underlying earth veins, then broke through the damaged formation and escaped the immortal land.
• Taiyi reached the space outside Flying Immortal Star, released his aura, and triggered the Ninefold Saint Tribulation, alarming countless experts on the ancient star.
• Taiyi endured the destructive lightning, using it to temper his body and primordial spirit while keeping his other treasures hidden in the Sun Ancient Pagoda.
• Taiyi released the Primal Chaos Ancient Bell, the Nine Divine Weapons, and the Five Immortal Gold Divine Arrows into the tribulation to receive its baptism and become Saint Weapons.
• Taiyi faced the overlapping tribulation without fear, insisting that he would survive and prevent the tragic future from coming to pass.

Taiyi survived nine successive Saint Tribulations and battled a Humanoid Lightning figure bearing his own weapons and techniques. The clash between the two Sun Sacred Bodies shook the starry sky as observers on Flying Immortal Star watched in disbelief.

• Cultivators on Flying Immortal Star marveled at Taiyi's nine Saint Tribulations and coveted his immortal-gold weapons from afar.
• Taiyi endured the lightning, while his Chaos Bell, Nine Divine Weapons, and Five Immortal Gold Arrows absorbed the Great Dao marks and transformed.
• A Humanoid Lightning figure appeared with Taiyi's Chaos Bell, weapons, and techniques, then attacked him with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist.
• Taiyi recognized the figure as his counterfeit and countered with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist.
• Taiyi and the Humanoid Lightning figure clashed with their weapons and exchanged Sun Emperor Fist strikes, shattering celestial bodies and shocking the watching cultivators.

Taiyi defeated his golden humanoid lightning after a brutal battle, using the Chaos Bell to immobilize it before destroying it with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist. As the lightning dispersed, new figures descended from the sea of lightning and charged at him.

• Taiyi and his humanoid lightning fought across the starry sky, trading secret techniques and devastating planets as Taiyi’s strength and resolve grew.
• Taiyi gradually overwhelmed the humanoid lightning and used the Chaos Bell to freeze it and its lightning weapons in place.
• Taiyi struck the immobilized opponent with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist and shattered it, astonishing the watching powerhouses.
• The humanoid lightning and its weapons dispersed into streaks of lightning instead of recovering.
• Imposing figures descended from the sea of lightning and charged at Taiyi with killing intent.

Taiyi fought through successive waves of humanoid lightning resembling ancient emperors, adapting his combat awareness until he turned the battle in his favor. After the lightning figures vanished, he entered the palace above the sea of lightning, where an unseen battle continued for nine days and nights.

• Nine humanoid lightning figures resembling Ancient Great Emperors attacked Taiyi, who fought them with the Chaos Bell, divine weapons, and his fists.
• Taiyi’s battle awareness adapted to his present body, and he gradually overcame the nine attackers despite suffering terrible wounds.
• Taiyi killed more than ten lightning figures as new opponents appeared, while the Chaos Bell, Nine Divine Weapons, and Immortal Gold Arrows were badly damaged.
• The humanoid lightning figures suddenly vanished, and Taiyi replenished his strength by drawing in the essence qi of the star domain.
• Taiyi ascended above the sea of lightning into an ancient palace complex, where an unseen battle raged for nine days and nights.

After surviving nine successive saint tribulations, Taiyi reached the saint ninth heaven and reforged his divine weapons. He arrived outside Flying Immortal Star, where powerful observers restrained their greed and weighed whether to approach him.

• Taiyi emerged from the unprecedented ninefold tribulation as a saint ninth heaven expert, stunning the witnesses on Flying Immortal Star.
• Taiyi considered the profound insights he had gained from experiencing a stretch of the future and chose not to advance further yet.
• The Chaos Bell, Heavenly Dao Battle Box, and five Immortal Gold Divine Arrows were reforged by the tribulation into saint weapons.
• The watching experts coveted Taiyi's Extreme Dao Rough Embryo but held back, fearing his overwhelming strength and potential.
• Taiyi used Nine Secrets: Xing to cross the starry sky and arrive outside Flying Immortal Star.

After Taiyi completed nine successive saint tribulations, Great Saint Lu Xuan of the Feiniao Clan attacked him with the Human Emperor Seal. Taiyi revealed the Sun Emperor Pagoda and his Sun Saint Emperor lineage, then declared he would take back the Human Emperor Seal for the Human Race.

• Taiyi sensed danger when Great Saint Lu Xuan approached him and dodged as Lu Xuan launched an attack with the Human Emperor Seal.
• Taiyi blocked the Emperor Weapon’s strike with the Sun Emperor Pagoda, while the watching experts realized the Feiniao Clan had tried to seize his fortune.
• Lu Xuan demanded to know why Taiyi possessed the Sun Emperor Pagoda, and Taiyi identified himself as a descendant of the Sun Saint Emperor.
• Taiyi condemned Lu Xuan for holding the Human Emperor Seal and vowed to retrieve it for the Human Emperor’s descendants.

Taiyi fought the Feiniao Clan’s Great Saint in a supreme Dao battle, each wielding an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon. Taiyi overwhelmed his opponent with the Sun Emperor Pagoda and Nine Secrets, aiming to defeat him quickly and seize the Human Emperor Seal before the Feiniao Clan’s allies intervened.

• Taiyi and the Feiniao Clan’s Great Saint rejected attempts to calm them and activated the Sun Emperor Pagoda and Human Emperor Seal, beginning a supreme Dao battle.
• The two fighters clashed in the starry sky as Flying Immortal Star’s Ancestral Formation shielded the continent from the battle’s devastation.
• The Feiniao Clan’s Great Saint absorbed the Human Emperor Seal into his body and attacked Taiyi with its power.
• Taiyi used Nine Secrets: Xing and the Sun Emperor Fist to contend with the Great Saint, annihilating vast stretches of stars in their clash.
• Taiyi activated Nine Secrets: Jie to multiply his combat strength and pressed his opponent with relentless attacks, seeking to end the battle before the Great Saint’s allies could intervene.

Taiyi used the Divine Forbidden Domain, Nine Secrets: Jie, and the Sun Emperor Pagoda to overwhelm Great Saint Lu Xuan in battle. He revealed the Hengyu Furnace and moved to suppress Lu Xuan, who was forced to defend himself with the Human Emperor Seal.

• Taiyi unleashed Nine Secrets: Jie and drove Great Saint Lu Xuan into the depths of the universe.
• Taiyi pressed Lu Xuan with the Sun Emperor Fist and Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist, leaving him battered and unable to fight back directly.
• Lu Xuan opened his vertical eye and fired a destructive beam at Taiyi.
• Taiyi summoned the Hengyu Furnace to destroy the beam and descend upon Lu Xuan.
• Lu Xuan used the Human Emperor Seal to block the Hengyu Furnace as Taiyi sent the Sun Emperor Pagoda sweeping toward him.

Taiyi killed the Feiniao Clan Great Saint and suppressed the Human Emperor Seal, then faced down the Kunlun Remnant Clan’s Great Saints as they challenged his claim to the weapon. When human Qi Refiners arrived, Taiyi recognized their leader as a pinnacle Great Saint, and the Kunlun experts identified him as Guiguzi.

• Taiyi used the Lihuo Divine Furnace and Sun Emperor Pagoda to kill the Feiniao Clan Great Saint and used Nine Secret: Bing to suppress the fleeing Human Emperor Seal.
• The Kunlun Remnant Clan’s Great Saints confronted Taiyi and threatened him over his attempt to take their Emperor Weapon.
• Taiyi claimed the Human Emperor Seal as a human and summoned three Dao Bodies with One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, revealing additional Supreme Artifacts.
• Human experts recognized Taiyi’s technique as Laozi’s secret art and rushed to support him.
• A white-haired Qi Refiner confronted the Kunlun experts, who identified him as Guiguzi and reacted with wariness.

Taiyi joined forces with Guiguzi and the Qi Refiners to make the Kunlun Remnant Clans withdraw after Lu Xuan’s death and the Human Emperor Seal’s capture. He then revealed that he came from Earth, the Primordial Ancient Star, and had begun as a mortal before being transported to the Big Dipper Star Domain.

• The other Kunlun Remnant Clan chiefs urged both sides to avoid a fight, while the Torch Dragon and Qiongqi Great Saints warned Taiyi that the Human Emperor Seal would return to the Feiniao Clan.
• Guiguzi and the Qi Refiners stood with Taiyi, and the clan experts withdrew rather than risk a clash.
• Taiyi thanked the Qi Refiners, put away his treasures and Three Pure Qi Incarnations, and introduced himself to Zhuang Zhou and Guiguzi.
• Guiguzi asked whether Taiyi came from the Ziwei Star Domain, and Taiyi said he had visited it and received Laozi’s legacy but came from the same place as the Qi Refiners.
• Taiyi revealed Earth as his home and explained that he and his classmates had been transported to the Big Dipper Star Domain, where he began cultivating.

Taiyi discussed the Dao with Zhuang Zhou, Guiguzi, and the Pre-Qin Qi Refiners, learned Flying Immortal Star’s coordinates and dangers, then traveled west toward an ancient tomb he remembered from a glimpse of the future. After defeating a Saint King-level Fierce Bird, he left it bloodied and pleading for its life.

• Taiyi spent seven days and nights discussing the Dao with Zhuang Zhou, Guiguzi, and the other Qi Refiners, learning that Ge Hong possessed the Nine Secrets: Zu but had left Flying Immortal Star.
• Taiyi obtained the Primordial Ancient Star’s coordinates and learned of secret realms, ruins, and dangerous ghost domains on Flying Immortal Star.
• Taiyi departed the Guigu Daoist Grounds after Guiguzi warned him that returning to the Primordial Ancient Star would require a safe route through the starry sky.
• Taiyi traveled to western Flying Immortal Star, where he remembered finding a Great Tomb and obtaining Dao Tribulation Gold during a glimpse of the future.
• Taiyi blasted away a Saint-level Elephant Dragon, then defeated a Vermilion Bird-blooded Saint King Fierce Bird and tore off its wings.
• The wounded Fierce Bird sent Taiyi a divine thought, pleading for its life and submitting.

Taiyi subdued Hong Luan and brought her to a Quasi-Emperor’s tomb, where they broke into the underground palace and fought through its defenses. He defeated three Great Saint-level Yin Spirits with his own strength, leaving Hong Luan both awed and uneasy about her dependence on him.

• Taiyi spared the Vermilion Bird-blooded Saint King Hong Luan after she offered up her main Primordial Spirit, then took her toward the tomb she had guarded for over a thousand years.
• Taiyi used the Sun Emperor Pagoda to find and breach the tomb’s ancient formation, and Hong Luan realized he possessed an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon.
• Taiyi and Hong Luan entered the underground palace, where Hong Luan slew the Yin Soldiers and the pair fought through the tomb’s levels.
• Taiyi collected the ancient steles containing the Quasi-Emperor’s scripture and cultivation insights for Yaoguang Holy Land.
• Taiyi evaporated the Yellow Springs Water and defeated three Great Saint-level Yin Spirits in direct combat, astonishing Hong Luan and making her reconsider her resistance.

Taiyi and Hong Luan crossed the Yellow Springs Water, looted the ninth layer of an ancient tomb, and seized a Quasi-Emperor corpse and Dao Tribulation Gold. After leaving the tomb, Taiyi set out to recruit powerful cultivators, and Hong Luan offered to lead him to experts she knew.

• Taiyi stopped Hong Luan from flying across the Yellow Springs Water, then used the Sun Emperor Pagoda to make a bridge across it.
• Taiyi gathered the ancient medicines and their treasure soil into the Ancient Pagoda, then carried Hong Luan safely into the ninth layer.
• Taiyi suppressed and collected fragments of a destroyed Quasi-Emperor Blood Spear in the empty hall.
• Taiyi opened the stone coffin with Nine Secret: Bing and found a Quasi-Emperor corpse gripping a piece of Dao Tribulation Gold.
• Taiyi took the corpse and Dao Tribulation Gold, then left the tomb with Hong Luan and decided to recruit powerful cultivators.
• Hong Luan offered to guide Taiyi to Saint King experts she knew, and Taiyi asked whether any had only recently advanced to Great Saint.

Taiyi and Hong Luan sought out a Great Saint-level ancient beast for Taiyi’s mountain gate, and Taiyi fought the Changyou without relying on an Emperor Weapon. The battle left the Changyou badly wounded and driven back, while Hong Luan watched in awe.

• Taiyi promised Hong Luan he would erase her Primordial Spirit imprint after three hundred years of service, and she carried him to a marsh-filled mountain range.
• A giant Changyou attacked Taiyi and Hong Luan, but Taiyi struck it with holy light and identified the beast from the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
• Taiyi declared that he wanted the Changyou to guard his mountain gate, and the enraged beast attacked him.
• Taiyi triggered the Divine Forbidden Domain and fought the Changyou with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist, while Hong Luan retreated to watch.
• The Changyou was driven back, bloodied and badly injured, while Taiyi remained safe and sound.

Taiyi defeated Changyou, a Great Saint, and recruited him after revealing that he had cultivated for only thirteen years. He set out to subdue more experts, and Changyou offered to lead him to a powerful friend.

• Taiyi blasted Changyou apart with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist, then captured his Primordial Spirit.
• Changyou submitted to Taiyi, who released him and allowed him to rebuild his body.
• Changyou and Hong Luan were shocked when Taiyi said he was about thirty-eight and had begun cultivating in his twenties.
• Changyou became convinced of Taiyi's extraordinary potential and agreed to follow him.
• Taiyi decided to recruit more experts, and Changyou offered to take him to a friend of comparable strength.

Taiyi confronted the Black Tortoise Great Saint and demanded that he follow him, then defeated him in a fierce battle in Flying Immortal Star’s extraterrestrial battlefield. The battered Great Saint yielded, having learned from onlookers that Taiyi had already defeated another Great Saint.

• Taiyi demanded that the Black Tortoise Great Saint follow him, but the tortoise attacked instead.
• Taiyi blocked the Great Saint’s claw and fought him with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist, then drew him into the starry battlefield.
• Experts from Flying Immortal Star recognized Taiyi and the Black Tortoise Great Saint, and watched Taiyi clash with him without an Emperor Weapon.
• Taiyi used Nine Secrets: Jie to increase his combat strength and shattered the Black Tortoise Great Saint’s claws and cracked his shell.
• The wounded Black Tortoise Great Saint begged Taiyi to stop and yielded after intercepting spiritual transmissions from the watching experts.

Taiyi gathered powerful ancient beasts under his command and learned that the Feiniao Clan was plotting to reclaim the Human Emperor Seal. Before leaving Flying Immortal Star, he prepared to strike the clan with an Extreme Dao weapon and escape safely.

• Changyou explained to the Black Tortoise Great Saint that Taiyi’s strength made serving him an opportunity, and the Black Tortoise accepted his defeat with lingering resentment.
• Over three months, Taiyi’s followers subdued six Saint King-level ancient beasts and a dozen other Saint Beasts across the Great Wilderness.
• The Black Tortoise Great Saint warned Taiyi that his actions had angered powerful Kunlun Remnant Clans, including the Feiniao Clan, which was seeking help to reclaim the Human Emperor Seal.
• Taiyi decided to attack the Feiniao Clan before leaving Flying Immortal Star, and arranged a formation to ensure his group could retreat safely.
• Taiyi, Changyou, and the Black Tortoise Great Saint summoned the Sun Emperor Pagoda above Flying Immortal Star and directed it toward the Feiniao Clan’s territory.