Chapter Summaries

Eastern Emperor Taiyi confronted the Ancient Race clan chiefs over their accusations and defended his destruction of three royal clans as retaliation for their massacres of humans. When the Golden Great Saint challenged him, Taiyi followed him into the starry sky to fight, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Great Saint Hun Tuo and the Ancient Emperor Clan chiefs demanded that Taiyi answer for destroying three Primordial Royal Clans and other Ancient Race factions.
• Taiyi rejected their accusations, argued that the Ancient Races owed humanity an accounting for their slaughter of human villages and lineages, and challenged them to settle their grievances through combat.
• Taiyi invited the clan chiefs to attack him together, but the Golden King instead accepted his challenge and headed for Outer Space.
• Taiyi entered the starry sky with the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron as the Golden Great Saint pursued him with the Golden Mace.
• The Golden Great Saint unleashed the mace’s power and attacked Taiyi, beginning their battle.

Taiyi fought the Golden Clan’s Great Saint, the Golden King, in the starry sky, using the divine forbidden domain and Nine Secrets: Jie to overcome the gulf between their realms. Their battle left the Golden King wounded and shocked as it returned to the outskirts of the Big Dipper Star Domain.

• The Ancient Emperor Clans and Human Race cultivators set up a Dharma Eye outside the Divine City to project the battle, while Taiyi’s followers insisted he had killed a Great Saint before.
• The Golden King attacked with the Golden Mace, and Taiyi met him head-on with the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron while in the divine forbidden domain and using Nine Secrets: Jie.
• Taiyi and the Golden King fought through the starry sky, destroying meteors and stars as observers watched in alarm.
• Near the Big Dipper Star Domain, Taiyi’s black light narrowly missed the Golden King but cut off his hair and tore flesh from his cheek.
• The wounded Golden King retreated, expressing shock at Taiyi’s strength.

The Eastern Emperor used Nine Secret: Bing to seize control of the Golden Mace and destroy the Golden Cave, leaving the Golden King enraged. The Golden King reclaimed his weapon and unleashed the Golden Divine Treasury against the Eastern Emperor.

• The Eastern Emperor used Nine Secret: Bing to wrench the Golden Mace from the Golden King and send its beam toward the Golden Cave.
• The Golden Mace’s strike devastated the Golden Cave, and the Big Dipper Star Domain’s Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons revived to protect their territories.
• The Ancient Emperor Clan patriarchs realized the Eastern Emperor had used Nine Secret: Bing to control the Golden Mace and grew fearful of his power.
• The Golden King recovered the Golden Mace, vowed to kill the Eastern Emperor, and invoked the Golden Divine Treasury.

Taiyi killed the Golden King and his Great Saint rescuer while repelling an attempt by Myriad Dragon Nest to intervene. The other Ancient Emperor Clans then brought their Emperor Weapons into the starry sky to surround Taiyi, while the Ji and Jiang families prepared to lend him their weapons.

• Taiyi used the Wushi Technique and Sun Emperor Fist to destroy the Golden King, then pursued his escaping Primordial Spirit with the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron.
• A Great Saint from Myriad Dragon Nest tried to rescue the Golden King, but Taiyi blocked him with an ancient pagoda and the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron crushed the Golden Great Saint.
• Great Saint Qianlun of Myriad Dragon Nest confronted Taiyi, and the Clan Chiefs of Qilin Cave, Primordial Lake, Blood Phoenix Mountain, Divine Silkworm Ridge, and other Ancient Emperor Clans brought their Emperor Weapons to surround him.
• An Miaoyi asked the Ji Family and Jiang Family to lend their Emperor Weapons, and both Holy Lords said they had sent people to retrieve them.
• An enraged Ancestor King took control of the Golden Mace and joined the Ancient Emperor Clans as they confronted Taiyi in the starry sky.

Taiyi faced a coalition of Ancient Emperor Clans intent on taking his weapons and treasures, but reinforcements from the Yaoguang Holy Land and other Human Race lineages shifted the balance. He ended by urging the Human experts to wipe out the hostile Ancient Emperor Clans, leaving both sides poised for war.

• Ancient Emperor Clan experts surrounded Taiyi with their weapons, but he escaped with Nine Secrets: Xing and revealed three Dao Bodies, two Great Saints, and several Emperor Weapons and Supreme Artifacts.
• Changyou and Black Tortoise joined Taiyi, while Great Saint Qianlun rallied more Ancient Race Great Saints to seize Taiyi's fortune and suppress his weapons.
• Taiyi warned that the Ancient Emperor Clans would not escape retaliation, and an aged Great Saint of the Yaoguang Holy Land appeared with the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron.
• Gu Tianshu, Gai Jiuyou, and Wei Yi arrived bearing the Solar Divine Furnace, Void Mirror, and Western Emperor Pagoda, reversing the balance of power.
• Taiyi proposed exterminating the hostile Ancient Emperor Clans, and the Ancient Race experts shuddered as they realized more Human Race Emperor Weapons might still be waiting on Beidou.

Taiyi confronted the Ancient Race clans after the Human Race’s forces and Emperor Weapons turned the battle in their favor. He rejected taking the Golden Mace as his true goal and demanded compensation, leaving negotiations unresolved.

• Ancient Race observers and human cultivators watched as the Human Race’s Great Saints and Emperor Weapons outmatched the clans, and they learned that two Great Saints served Taiyi.
• The Divine Silkworm, Hun Tuo, and Qilin Great Saints urged negotiations, while Mu Yuan Great Saint, Wei Yi, Gai Jiuyou, and Gu Tianshu considered the danger of an all-out war.
• Taiyi agreed to negotiate but declared the Golden Mace his spoil of war, provoking the Golden Clan and other Ancient Emperor Clans.
• Taiyi argued that the Golden Clan had brought its destruction upon itself and demanded payment for the clans’ attacks, including the Myriad Dragon Nest’s strike.
• Gai Jiuyou proposed that the clans return the Golden Mace and compensate Taiyi, prompting an angry protest from the Golden Clan’s Ancestor King.

Taiyi forced the Golden Clan to surrender its peerless divine marrow in exchange for the Golden Mace, ending a confrontation that might have plunged Beidou into war. Gai Jiuyou proposed a Myriad Races Assembly, and the chapter ended with the Human Race elders recognizing Taiyi’s strength and the recovered Human Emperor Seal.

• Taiyi agreed to return the Golden Mace for the Golden Clan’s peerless divine marrow, and the Golden Clan’s surviving Ancestor King handed over the treasure.
• Gai Jiuyou proposed that all races meet at the Jade Pool Holy Land in one month to discuss Beidou’s future, and the Ancient Race Great Saints accepted.
• Mu Yuan Great Saint, Wei Yi, Gu Tianshu, and Gai Jiuyou praised Taiyi’s achievements, and Taiyi thanked them for their support.
• Gai Jiuyou recognized the Sun Emperor Pagoda and the damaged Human Emperor Seal, and Wei Yi reflected on the brutality of the battle that had damaged it.

Taiyi revealed how Jiang Tingting helped him gain the Human Emperor Seal’s recognition and agreed to return the Lihuo Divine Furnace to Jiang Taixu. After the Ancient Emperor Clans announced a Myriad Races Assembly and ordered their clans to stop oppressing humans, Divine City celebrated the Human Race’s newfound strength.

• Taiyi summoned the Human Emperor Seal and explained how Jiang Tingting’s Taiyin blood awakened its deity and won its recognition.
• Jiang Taixu arrived, resonated with the Lihuo Divine Furnace through the Hengyu Furnace, and confirmed it was the Jiang Family’s lost weapon.
• Taiyi explained that his Goddess Furnace had been forged by Emperor Hengyu for a friend and agreed to return the Lihuo Divine Furnace to the Jiang Family.
• The Ancient Emperor Clans announced that the Myriad Races Assembly would be held at Jade Pool Holy Land in one month and ordered their clans to stop oppressing humans.
• The Ancestor Kings hurried back to warn their clans, while the humans in Divine City celebrated the Eastern Emperor’s victories.

After returning from the Starry Sky, the Eastern Emperor reunited with his followers and became the focus of the Five Regions after news spread that he had become a Saint and slain a Great Saint. The Qilin Clan considered befriending him, and Qilin Heavenly King proposed that Huo Lin'er marry him, leaving Huo Qizi displeased.

• The Eastern Emperor reunited with Lin Jia, Yao Xi, An Miaoyi, and his other followers at the Yaoguang Holy Land, reassuring the three women after they feared for his safety.
• News spread across the Five Regions that the Eastern Emperor had become a Saint, defeated a Great Saint, and destroyed the Golden Clan, alarming rival powers and stunning the Heavenly Prides and Ancient Emperor's Children.
• The Yaoguang Holy Land, Miaoyu Nunnery, and Purple Mansion Holy Land celebrated the Eastern Emperor's return and considered the benefits of their ties to him.
• At the Jade Pool Holy Land, the Jade Pool Holy Maiden and the Nine-Aperture Divine Embryo reflected on the Eastern Emperor's extraordinary cultivation and feared they could not match him.
• At Qilin Cave, Huo Lin'er and Huo Qizi studied the Eastern Emperor's portrait, and Qilin Heavenly King suggested that Huo Lin'er become his wife; Huo Qizi frowned at the proposal.

Taiyi returned to the Yaoguang Holy Land and shared what he had discovered in the Ziwei Star Domain and on Flying Immortal Star, including the limits on the Sun Emperor Pagoda’s service. He donated the complete Dao Scripture and Immeasurable Immortal Scripture to the Holy Land, then gave Danyangzi, Granny Yu, and Mu Yuan Great Saint three life-extending Immortal Apricots.

• Taiyi told the Yaoguang Holy Land’s gathered leaders and companions about his journeys to the Ziwei Star Domain and Flying Immortal Star, and explained that the Sun Emperor Pagoda would protect him for only three hundred years.
• Taiyi presented Mu Yuan Great Saint with all five volumes of the Dao Scripture and the complete Immeasurable Immortal Scripture for the Yaoguang Holy Land.
• Mu Yuan Great Saint declared the Immeasurable Immortal Scripture the Holy Land’s highest inheritance and allowed core disciples to cultivate the Dao Scripture.
• Taiyi asked Danyangzi, Granny Yu, and Mu Yuan Great Saint to stay and gave them three Immortal Apricots that could extend a Saint’s life by two thousand years.

Taiyi rewarded Danyangzi, Granny Yu, and Mu Yuan Great Saint with life-extending medicines, then returned to Yaoguang and supported the cultivation of Lin Jia, An Miaoyi, and Yao Xi. The Jiang Family repaid him for the Lihuo Divine Furnace with rare treasures, including phoenix blood red gold, while the three women continued hoping to conceive his child.

• Taiyi gave Danyangzi and Granny Yu Immortal Apricots and gave Mu Yuan Great Saint an Immortal Apricot with Peerless Divine Marrow; the three accepted after he assured them he had more medicines.
• Taiyi reunited with Lin Jia, Yao Xi, and An Miaoyi, and over the following weeks received visitors through a Holy Light Body while Yaoguang Holy Lord Li Daoqing turned away many others.
• Taiyi gave Lin Jia and An Miaoyi the Complete Taiyin True Scripture and Elixirs of Immortality, and supplied Yao Xi with special physiques to advance her Heaven-Swallowing Devil Art.
• God King Jiang Taixu visited on behalf of the Desolate Ancient Jiang Family and gave Taiyi phoenix blood red gold and other treasures in return for the Lihuo Divine Furnace.
• Taiyi let the three women choose from the Jiang Family's other gifts and faced their hopeful, reproachful looks as none had yet conceived his child.

Taiyi showed Lin Jia, Yao Xi, and An Miaoyi the Ancient Pagoda’s vast collection of medicines and arranged for them to cultivate there while he prepared to return to Earth. He met Pang Bo, who shared news about their surviving classmates and where they had settled.

• Taiyi brought Lin Jia, Yao Xi, and An Miaoyi into the Green Ancient Pagoda and showed them its medicine fields, divine medicines, and Fusang tree.
• Taiyi asked the three women to cultivate inside the pagoda and said he could take them along when he returned to Earth.
• Pang Bo arrived, and Taiyi learned that his injuries had healed completely and that he had rescued Liu Yiyi and sent her to the Jade Pool Holy Land.
• Pang Bo said Zhou Yi and Wang Ziwen had joined the Great Evolution Holy Land and described Zhou Yi as powerful enough to contend with Divine Physiques and King Physiques.
• Pang Bo told Taiyi that Li Xiaoman, Zhang Ziling, and Zhang Wenchang were cultivating at the Taixuan Sect.

Taiyi visited Clumsy Peak with Pang Bo and prepared to take his former classmates back to Earth, while they discussed Zhang Ziling’s rise and Hua Yunfei’s persecution. The Saint Emperor’s Son appeared and revealed that his aunt, the Divine Silkworm Princess, was in Taiyi’s hands.

• Pang Bo told Taiyi that Zhang Ziling had joined Clumsy Peak after a pill transformed his cultivation, and regretted that Hua Yunfei was being hunted after his Heaven-Swallowing Devil Art was exposed.
• Taiyi declined to retrieve Kaide from Mount Sumeru and said they would gather their former classmates before returning to Earth, then went with Pang Bo to visit Taixuan Sect.
• Taiyi greeted Li Ruoyu at Clumsy Peak and reunited with Zhang Wenchang, Zhang Ziling, and Li Xiaoman, who were delighted to hear he could take them back to Earth.
• The Saint Emperor’s Son emerged from the void, and Pang Bo greeted him with relief after worrying that the Ancient Races might have harmed him.
• The Saint Emperor’s Son told Taiyi that his aunt was in Taiyi’s hands, and Taiyi identified her as the princess of the Divine Silkworm Clan.

Taiyi gave the gravely wounded Divine Silkworm Princess to the Saint Emperor's Son, who set off for Divine Silkworm Ridge seeking medicine to save her. Taiyi and Pang Bo then visited the Great Evolution Holy Land, where the Dayan Sacred Lord and its elders came out to welcome the Eastern Emperor.

• The Saint Emperor's Son offered a volume of the Nine Revolutions Heavenly Art for the Divine Silkworm Princess, but Taiyi handed her over without asking for payment.
• Pang Bo gave the Saint Emperor's Son his last Sacred Fruit, and Taiyi warned that it might not be enough to save her.
• The Saint Emperor's Son sealed away the princess and the Sacred Fruit, then departed for Divine Silkworm Ridge and considered seeking flat peaches at the upcoming Myriad Races Assembly.
• Taiyi and Pang Bo said farewell to Zhang Ziling, Zhang Wenchang, and Li Xiaoman before setting out for the Central Region.
• The Dayan Sacred Lord personally led Great Evolution Holy Land's senior members to welcome Taiyi, while they concealed their hostility toward Pang Bo because he had come with the Eastern Emperor.

Taiyi and Pang Bo reunited with their former classmates Zhou Yi and Wang Ziwen at the Great Evolution Holy Land, where Taiyi’s connection to them led the Sacred Lord to elevate Zhou Yi to Holy Son and Wang Ziwen to Candidate Holy Son. Taiyi told them he had found Earth’s coordinates and offered to take them there in two or three months.

• The Dayan Sacred Lord learned Zhou Yi and Wang Ziwen were old acquaintances of Taiyi and immediately appointed Zhou Yi the new Great Evolution Holy Son and Wang Ziwen a Candidate Holy Son.
• Zhou Yi and Wang Ziwen arrived in the hall, where they were delighted to reunite with Taiyi and Pang Bo.
• Zhou Yi thanked Taiyi and promised to repay the favor, while Wang Ziwen reflected on how much Taiyi had surpassed their former classmates.
• Pang Bo joked that he would rely on Zhou Yi and Wang Ziwen to protect him at the Great Evolution Holy Land.
• Taiyi revealed that he had found Earth’s coordinates and offered to take Zhou Yi and Wang Ziwen there in two or three months.

Taiyi and Pang Bo visited Jade Lake after finding Earth's coordinates and told Liu Yiyi they could return home. The Jade Lake Holy Maiden agreed to join their journey and asked Taiyi to seal the unusual stones containing the Nine-Aperture Divine Embryo; he agreed.

• Taiyi and Pang Bo arrived at Jade Lake, where the Queen Mother of the West and the Jade Lake Holy Maiden welcomed them.
• Taiyi asked to see Liu Yiyi, and Pang Bo told her they had found Earth's coordinates and could return at any time.
• Taiyi invited the Jade Lake Holy Maiden, Yun Yao, to travel with them to Earth, and she agreed.
• The Jade Lake Holy Maiden asked Taiyi to cast the Six Immortal-Banning Seals on the unusual stones, and Taiyi agreed.

Taiyi left the Jade Pool Holy Land after teaching the Dao and went to the Fire Domain to refine a Saint-level formation and weapons. He summoned Gai Jiuyou and offered him Half-Divine Medicine in exchange for guarding his path against the Forbidden Zone Supremes when the Road to Immortality opened.

• Taiyi sealed the wondrous stones at Jade Lake, then spent three days expounding the Dao to the Jade Pool Holy Land's cultivators and visitors.
• Taiyi traveled to the Fire Domain and refined a Saint-level formation and two Saint Weapons, but the mysterious Immortal Fire did not appear.
• Gai Jiuyou arrived at the Fire Domain with Xia Jiuyou after receiving Taiyi's message.
• Taiyi warned that a failed Road to Immortality could trigger the greatest Dark Turmoil in history and said he needed Gai Jiuyou to guard his path against the Supremes.
• Taiyi gave Gai Jiuyou a Half-Divine Medicine as advance payment, and Gai Jiuyou asked whether Taiyi feared he would heal his Dao Injury, attain the Dao, and become an emperor.

Taiyi gave Gai Jiuyou the Nirvana Healing Saintly Art and secured his promise to help fend off Supremes when Taiyi underwent his tribulation. At the Myriad Races Assembly in Jade Lake, Human Race Saints and the Eastern Emperor’s growing influence impressed the gathered clans, and Taiyi arrived with Gai Jiuyou and Xia Jiuyou.

• Taiyi gave Gai Jiuyou a Half-Divine Medicine and the Nirvana Healing Saintly Art, hoping the secret technique would heal his Dao injuries.
• Gai Jiuyou thanked Taiyi and promised to help him when he reached the late Quasi-Emperor stage and prepared to undergo tribulation.
• Human Race Saints arrived at the Myriad Races Assembly, surprising the Ancient Race Ancestor Kings with the strength of the Human Race’s hidden forces.
• Granny Yu arrived as a rejuvenated Saint, and she credited the Eastern Emperor with giving her an Immortal Apricot that could extend her life by two thousand years.
• The Eastern Emperor and Gai Jiuyou arrived at Jade Lake with Xia Jiuyou, prompting the gathered Human Race and Ancient Race leaders to rise and greet them.

Taiyi and Gai Jiuyou proposed that Saints and Ancestor Kings leave the world to younger generations, with Gai Jiuyou warning that Taiyi could challenge any peer. The Black Emperor arrived with Great Emperor Wushi’s edict, whose authentic aura and message, “No Saints Under Heaven,” stunned the gathered races and left the Ancient Race uneasy.

• Great Saint Hun Tuo praised the Human Race, and Gai Jiuyou and Taiyi called for Saints and Ancestor Kings to avoid acting freely.
• When Ancestor Kings objected, Gai Jiuyou pointed out that Taiyi was still a Saint, prompting Great Saint Hun Tuo to call for further discussion.
• The Black Emperor appeared and announced that he carried Great Emperor Wushi’s edict, provoking anger and disbelief among the gathered cultivators.
• The Black Emperor activated the Divine Paper, and its Great Emperor aura revealed the edict’s message: “No Saints Under Heaven.”
• The Ancient Race grew fearful that Great Emperor Wushi might still be alive, while the Human Race celebrated the edict’s appearance.

At the Myriad Races Assembly, the Ancient Race clans accepted the negotiations after Taiyi’s power silenced their objections. Back in Jade Lake, Taiyi punished Big Black Dog for scheming against him by preparing a dog-meat hot pot, leaving the dog alive but furious after Pang Bo and the others joined the meal.

• Ancient Emperor Clans including Divine Silkworm Ridge, Qilin Cave, and Blood Phoenix Mountain accepted the negotiations, and Taiyi left the remaining talks to Granny Yu and the human Saints.
• Taiyi captured Big Black Dog, broke his formation patterns, shaved him, and removed both hind legs for the pot.
• Taiyi invited the Jade Lake Holy Maiden, Gai Jiuyou, Gu Tianshu, and others to eat, but they declined or were unavailable.
• Taiyi summoned Pang Bo, Zhou Yi, and Wang Ziwen, who joined him and Liu Yiyi for the dog-meat hot pot and wine.
• Half a day later, Big Black Dog chased Pang Bo, blaming him for eating the meat while Pang Bo insisted he had not cut off the dog’s legs.