Chapter Summaries

Taiyi visited Yan Fei in the Ziwei Star Domain, where she chose to remain and pursue her chance to become a sage. He then returned to the Taiqing Sacred Realm and took Zixia, Di Chu, and their companions to the Big Dipper Star Domain, where the group arrived through a torn void.

• Taiyi told Zixia that Yan Fei would stay in the Ziwei Star Domain while he took Di Chu to Beidou to meet the Wushi Bell.
• Taiyi found Yan Fei cultivating with Divine Mark Purple Gold and learned that she could naturally resonate with it and capture the Dao marks of heaven and earth.
• Yan Fei declined to go to Beidou, saying her opportunity to break through lay in the Ziwei Star Domain, and Taiyi shared his recent experiences and guided her and Dragon Horse in cultivation.
• After three days, Taiyi promised to send Yan Fei high-stage Supreme Evolution Liquid and left for the Taiqing Sacred Realm.
• Taiyi agreed to take Yao Tong along with Zixia, Di Chu, Little White Tiger, and the others, then led them through the void toward the Big Dipper Star Domain.
• Taiyi and his companions emerged from the void outside the Big Dipper Star Domain.

The Eastern Emperor returned to Beidou with Zixia, Di Chu, and Yao Tong, and Zixia reunited with the Purple Mansion Holy Land as a Half-Saint. After leaving his son and disciple to their own journeys on Beidou, Taiyi set out for the Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star and arrived at a life star that stirred his Killing Formation Diagram and four Killing Swords.

• The Eastern Emperor brought Zixia, Di Chu, Yao Tong, and the others to the Purple Mansion Holy Land, where Zixia reunited with its senior figures and her teacher.
• Zixia revealed that she was a Half-Saint and agreed to stay at the Purple Mansion Holy Land.
• The Eastern Emperor left the holy land with Di Chu and told Yao Tong to temper himself on Beidou and visit the Sun Star to study the Sun Saint Emperor's legacy.
• The Eastern Emperor directed Di Chu to go to Purple Mountain with Little White Tiger, while Yao Tong departed on his own.
• Taiyi activated the Divine Light Platform and traveled toward the Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star, where his Killing Formation Diagram and four Killing Swords trembled upon his arrival.

The Eastern Emperor confronted the Golden Crow Old Quasi-Emperor, who was transforming inside a Golden Divine Egg, and demanded the immortal fire and Dao Tribulation Gold Bell. Their standoff escalated as the Old Golden Crow resisted, with the Lingbao killing formation awakening around them.

• The Eastern Emperor found the Golden Crow Old Quasi-Emperor in a Golden Divine Egg on Lingbao Heavenly Venerable’s immortal platform and killed the guarding Fire Crow Great Saint.
• The Dao Tribulation Gold Bell protected the egg and opened a Domain Gate, but the Eastern Emperor used the Lingbao killing formation to seal the area.
• The Golden Crow Old Quasi-Emperor warned that forcing his early emergence would destroy his transformation and threatened the Eastern Emperor.
• The Eastern Emperor refused to back down and demanded the immortal fire and Dao Tribulation Gold, forcing the Old Golden Crow to choose between surrendering them and emerging to fight.
• The Old Golden Crow’s anger stirred the Dao Tribulation Gold Bell, while the Lingbao Formation Diagram awakened and the Eastern Emperor’s brow began to shine.

The Eastern Emperor drove off the Golden Crow Quasi-Emperor and took the emperor bell and Immortal Fire before heading to the Human Race Ancient Road to claim the Origin of the Dao. When the Origin rejected him, he forcibly sealed it, provoking heavenly punishment.

• The Eastern Emperor accepted the Golden Crow Quasi-Emperor’s emperor bell and Immortal Fire, then let him escape through the Lingbao Killing Formation.
• The Eastern Emperor left Lingbao Heavenly Venerable’s Immortal Platform and traveled to a pure land between the first and second checkpoints of the Human Race Ancient Road.
• The Eastern Emperor found the Origin of the Dao underground and gathered all its scattered masses of light.
• The Origin of the Dao declared that the Eastern Emperor could not attain the Dao or become an Emperor, but he forcibly reunited and sealed it.
• A Divine Chain of Order appeared in the sky and slashed toward the Eastern Emperor as heavenly punishment.

After refining the Heavenly Punishment and gathering nearly all the ingredients for Ninth-Stage Evolution Liquid, the Eastern Emperor returned to Beidou and began preparations in Purple Mountain. He started the refinement with Yan Ruyu, his son Di Chu, and others present, but the process had only just begun.

• The Eastern Emperor departed the Human Race Ancient Road before its envoys and Dao Protector arrived, then returned to Beidou.
• He crushed a Jade Talisman to summon Yan Ruyu and brought her to Purple Mountain to avoid disturbances while refining the Ninth-Stage Supreme Evolution Liquid.
• The Eastern Emperor told Yan Ruyu, Di Chu, the Black Emperor, and Little White Tiger that he lacked the Fortune Source Eye and would use other treasures as a substitute.
• The Eastern Emperor asked Di Chu to contribute blood and prepared to add his own and Yan Ruyu's blood to the refinement.
• The Eastern Emperor asked the Wushi Bell to conceal any extraordinary heavenly signs, then brought out the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron and began adding rare ingredients.

Taiyi began refining Ninth Stage Supreme Bloodline Evolution Liquid in Purple Mountain, adding rare divine ingredients, immortal medicine essences, and precious blood to the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron. The Wushi Bell and the others were astonished by the Origin of the Dao and the immortal fire Taiyi revealed, while the refinement continued.

• Yan Ruyu offered fifteen drops of Demon Emperor's essence blood extracted from the Demon Emperor's Sacred Heart.
• Taiyi began refining the Supreme Evolution Liquid in the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron and added rare primary ingredients, immortal liquids, and branches from the Fusang Divine Tree and Life Ancient Tree.
• Taiyi added essences from four Immortal Medicines, the Demon Emperor's essence blood, and precious blood from his companions and others.
• Taiyi placed origin sources and Quasi-Emperor essence blood from two powerful corpses into the cauldron, then added over a hundred strands of northern pole immortal light and other primordial origin qi.
• Taiyi added the Origin of the Dao, astonishing the Wushi Bell, then revealed immortal fire left by Lingbao Heavenly Venerable's failed bodily dissolution, leaving Di Chu, Black Emperor, Little White Tiger, and Yan Ruyu stunned.

The Eastern Emperor began refining Ninth Stage Evolution Liquid in Purple Mountain, then used Eighth Stage Evolution Liquid on the Sun Star to transform his body and prepare for a breakthrough. After three months, he emerged from his cocoon and entered the starry sky, where a massive tribulation descended upon him.

• The Eastern Emperor reassured Di Chu that the Old Golden Crow, a ninth-heaven Quasi-Emperor with a chance to attain the Dao, would not revive soon.
• The Eastern Emperor began refining Ninth Stage Evolution Liquid in the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron and left a Holy Light Body to guard it.
• The Eastern Emperor traveled to the Sun Star and discovered four Reincarnation Seals inside the transforming Duan De.
• The Eastern Emperor consumed one-fifth of Dao Yi's Eighth Stage Evolution Liquid and underwent a painful rebirth in flesh and bone within a Divine Cocoon.
• After three months, the Eastern Emperor emerged from the cocoon and flew into the starry sky.
• A vast tribulation descended, and the Eastern Emperor endured the lightning without dodging.

The Eastern Emperor survived a devastating tribulation, broke through to the sixth heaven of the Great Saint Realm, and returned to Purple Mountain as the third-stage Evolution Liquid was completed. After explaining his deep accumulation and checking on Di Chu and Little White Tiger’s progress, he entered the Sun Emperor Pagoda.

• The Eastern Emperor endured a fierce lightning tribulation and advanced to the sixth heaven of the Great Saint Realm.
• Black Emperor announced that the third-stage Evolution Liquid had finished refining, while the Eastern Emperor said the eighth and ninth stages would take another two or three years.
• The Wushi Bell questioned the Eastern Emperor’s rapid breakthroughs, and he explained that his experience of a stretch of the future had given him extraordinary accumulation.
• The Eastern Emperor discovered that Di Chu and Little White Tiger had both become Saints and encouraged them not to compare themselves with him.
• After resting for three days and guiding Di Chu, Little White Tiger, Yan Ruyu, and the others, the Eastern Emperor entered the Sun Emperor Pagoda.

The Eastern Emperor used the Sun Emperor Pagoda to fight his equal-strength Dao Body in deadly battles, tempering his cultivation and refining his techniques over three years. He advanced to the Great Saint Peak, but the chapter ended with him and his Dao Body destroying each other in a final clash.

• The Eastern Emperor entered the Sun Emperor Pagoda, created a Dao Body, and began fighting it in the Divine Forbidden Domain.
• For three years, the Eastern Emperor fought his Dao Body repeatedly, suffering near-fatal injuries but using medicines and treasures to recover.
• The Eastern Emperor repaired flaws in his foundation, advanced from the sixth heavenly layer of the Great Saint Realm to the Great Saint Peak, and further developed his techniques.
• Di Chu, Black Emperor, Little White Tiger, Yan Ruyu, and the others witnessed the Eastern Emperor's brutal cultivation and were shocked.
• The Eastern Emperor and his Dao Body exchanged fatal attacks, destroying each other's Immortal Platforms and Primordial Spirits before both perished.

The Eastern Emperor recovered after another deadly battle with his Dao Body and reflected on how the ordeal had strengthened him while leaving him close to the Quasi-Emperor realm. In Purple Mountain, the ninth-stage Evolution Liquid was completed as his companions waited for him to emerge from seclusion.

• The Eastern Emperor revived with the Divine Talisman after defeating his Dao Body, then healed his injuries with a medicine king and reviewed the battle for several days.
• The Eastern Emperor recalled that consuming a fragment of the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill had transformed him and nearly pushed him into the Quasi-Emperor realm, but he sealed away its medicinal power.
• The Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron produced the ninth-stage great perfection Evolution Liquid inside Purple Mountain, where Di Chu, Little White Tiger, the Black Emperor, and the others admired its visions.
• The Black Emperor challenged Little White Tiger to a fight with his cultivation and body suppressed, and Little White Tiger mocked his conditions.
• Yao Xi and Di Chu wondered whether the Eastern Emperor would soon emerge from half a year of seclusion, while Zixia worried about his brutal battles with his Dao Body.

After months of brutal cultivation, the Eastern Emperor emerged greatly strengthened and capable of becoming an Emperor in the flesh, but chose to keep building his foundation. He secured the ninth-stage Evolution Liquid and prepared to travel the starry sky, aiming to become a Quasi-Emperor before turning one hundred.

• The Eastern Emperor emerged from the Sun Emperor Pagoda, reassuring his family and companions that he was unharmed after months of cultivation.
• The Wushi Bell observed that the Eastern Emperor could likely become an Emperor in the flesh, and he explained that the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill had helped him recover and transform.
• The Eastern Emperor gathered and sealed the ninth-stage Evolution Liquid, telling Di Chu and the others that he would reserve it for his own use.
• Di Chu asked whether his father would attempt a Quasi-Emperor breakthrough, and the group discussed the records set by Du Mu and Great Emperor Wushi.
• The Eastern Emperor said he needed a few more years to consolidate his strength, though he intended to become a Quasi-Emperor before turning one hundred.
• The Eastern Emperor prepared to travel the starry sky, while Yao Xi announced she would set out for the Starry Sky Ancient Road and Di Chu chose to train longer in Purple Mountain.

The Eastern Emperor traveled the abandoned Golden Ancient Road for ten years, tempering himself without rushing to break through. On an ancient star, he found the tomb of the Sun-Moon Divine General and provoked the sleeping Deified One, intending to fight him.

• Yao Tong planned to join the Ancient Road of the Human Race after becoming a Saint, while Zixia, Jiang Tingting, the Jade Lake Holy Maiden, and Yan Ruyu chose to remain in Beidou or travel later.
• The Black Emperor decided to accompany Di Chu along the Ancient Road, then quarreled with Little White Tiger over who would protect whom.
• After returning the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron to the Yaoguang Holy Land, the Eastern Emperor departed through the Divine Light Platform as Di Chu, Zixia, Yao Xi, and others saw him off.
• For ten years, the Eastern Emperor journeyed along the abandoned Golden Ancient Road, deepening his foundations and killing several Great Saints who tried to target him.
• The Eastern Emperor recognized an ancient star as the resting place of the Sun-Moon Divine General, an old follower of the Undying Heavenly Emperor, and decided to attack first.
• The Eastern Emperor struck the general's tomb, awakening the Sun-Moon Divine General, who charged out in silver armor and attacked; the Eastern Emperor welcomed the fight as a chance to temper himself.

Eastern Emperor defeated the Sun-Moon Divine General’s two Quasi-Emperor incarnations and revealed that he had killed and cooked the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s son. The enraged general emerged in his true body from the ancient tomb, confronting Eastern Emperor beneath the starry sky.

• Eastern Emperor overpowered the golden and silver incarnations, shattering their attacks and driving them back with his fists.
• The Sun-Moon Divine General’s incarnations said the Heavenly Emperor’s son might be stronger than Eastern Emperor, prompting Eastern Emperor to show a five-colored fan made from the prince’s feathers.
• Eastern Emperor told the incarnations he had stewed the prince, enraging them into attacking with greater power and laws.
• Eastern Emperor overwhelmed the incarnations again, and they dissolved into a rain of light.
• The ancient tomb revived the Sun-Moon Divine General by drawing power from the stars, and he emerged in his true body to face Eastern Emperor.

The Eastern Emperor emerged despite his lingering Dao Injuries and fought the Sun-Moon Divine General, displaying strength that already rivaled a Quasi-Emperor. Their battle swept across the starry sky, where the Old Madman recognized the Eastern Emperor and was stunned by how quickly he had reached this level.

• The Eastern Emperor emerged from seclusion and challenged the Sun-Moon Divine General to attack before he underwent his tribulation.
• The Sun-Moon Divine General condemned the Eastern Emperor's insults against the Undying Heavenly Emperor and attacked with the Great Sun Divine Fist.
• The Eastern Emperor countered with the Sun Emperor Fist, then used Nine Secrets: Jie and his Eastern Emperor World-Subduing Fist to meet the Sun-Moon Divine General's sun-and-moon assault.
• The Eastern Emperor and the Sun-Moon Divine General fought across the starry sky, shattering stars as their battle reached the region near the seventy-second pass of the Human Race Ancient Road.
• The Old Madman recognized the Eastern Emperor as one of the fighters and wondered how he could have become a Quasi-Emperor before the age of one hundred.

Eastern Emperor killed the ailing Sun-Moon Divine General after a fierce battle, then drew the Great Dao’s attention and faced a vast Heavenly Tribulation. At the seventy-second pass, Human Race experts watched in shock as the lightning engulfed him.

• Eastern Emperor revealed his Ten Great Phenomena and overwhelmed the injured Sun-Moon Divine General, whose Dao Injury worsened during their battle.
• The Sun-Moon Divine General burned his blood and divine soul in a final attack, but Eastern Emperor defeated him with his Emperor Fist, tore him apart, and crushed his Primordial Spirit.
• Old Madman and Daoist Qinghuang used the Ancient Formation Platform at the seventy-second pass to show the battle to the Human Race experts, who were stunned to learn Eastern Emperor had become a Quasi-Emperor.
• After killing the Sun-Moon Divine General, Eastern Emperor released his concealed aura and triggered a vast Heavenly Tribulation.
• A boundless Sea of Lightning engulfed Eastern Emperor as his golden blood energy surged into the sky.

The Eastern Emperor endured a vast Quasi-Emperor Tribulation after defeating a Quasi-Emperor as a Great Saint, transforming both his body and primordial spirit into the Quasi-Emperor domain. His tribulation proved powerful enough to shake the distant Seventy-Second Pass, and Old Madman realized it involved at least the Third Heaven.

• The Eastern Emperor revealed that he was undergoing his Quasi-Emperor Tribulation, shocking the cultivators watching from the Seventy-Second Pass.
• The lightning transformed the Eastern Emperor’s physical body and primordial spirit, bringing both into the Quasi-Emperor domain.
• The Eastern Emperor faced a sea of lightning that spanned a vast star domain and shattered the surrounding stars.
• Old Madman judged that the Eastern Emperor was undergoing a tribulation of at least the Third Heaven, astonishing Daoist Qinghuang.
• The Eastern Emperor fought back against the lightning and summoned the Chaos Bell, the Heavenly Dao Battle Box, and the Seven Arrows to undergo the tribulation with him.

Eastern Emperor Taiyi survived his Quasi-Emperor tribulation after battling the humanoid lightning of countless Great Emperors and Ancient Emperors, advancing directly to Quasi-Emperor Third Heaven. Soon afterward, a wound split his brow and he fled into the universe, leaving his Dao Protectors unable to find him.

• Eastern Emperor Taiyi fought and defeated his humanoid lightning before enduring three days and nights of battles against the lightning forms of Great Emperors and Ancient Emperors.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi entered the Ancient Heavenly Court’s sea of lightning and fought through an even more terrifying Ancient Battlefield for three days.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi emerged from the tribulation alive, reached Quasi-Emperor Third Heaven, and transformed his weapons into Quasi-Emperor Weapons.
• Human Race experts at the Seventy-Second Pass watched Eastern Emperor Taiyi’s tribulation and marveled at his youth and strength.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi staggered as a gash split his brow, suspected he had suffered a Dao injury, and fled into the depths of the universe.
• Daoist Qinghuang and the Old Madman pursued Eastern Emperor Taiyi but found only the ruined Star Domain.

After the Eastern Emperor survived his Quasi-Emperor Tribulation, Old Madman and Daoist Qinghuang learned that he had suffered a Great Dao injury and could not help them confront the Saint Spirits. News of his breakthrough and possible death in seclusion spread across the Ancient Roads, leaving rivals shaken and the Human Race uncertain of his fate.

• Daoist Qinghuang told Old Madman that the Saint Spirits and Outer Region experts were preparing to act on the altered Demon Wells, and that the Human Race planned to use the conflict to eliminate the danger and temper its young Heavenly Prides.
• Old Madman received the Eastern Emperor’s divine-sense message, which said the Eastern Emperor had noticed them during the battle but would enter seclusion to heal his Great Dao injury.
• Daoist Qinghuang and the other Human Race experts reacted with alarm to the news that the Eastern Emperor had suffered a potentially incurable injury.
• Word of the Eastern Emperor’s tribulation spread along the Human Race’s Ancient Road and then to other races, while Memory Crystals confirmed that he had slain a Quasi-Emperor before surviving his own tribulation.
• Heavenly Prides and Young Supremes were shaken by the Eastern Emperor’s rise and felt pressured to reach the Quasi-Emperor realm quickly.
• Rumors spread that the Eastern Emperor’s Great Dao injury might take centuries to heal or could kill him, and that he had entered secluded cultivation.

Ye Fan, Pang Bo, Lin Jia, and An Miaoyi learned that Taiyi had become a Quasi-Emperor but suffered a Great Dao Injury, and they worried over his condition. The chapter ended when a woman on an ancient star near the Tenth Pass saw Taiyi appear and questioned how he could be there if he was meant to be healing in seclusion.

• At the Twenty-Eighth Pass, Ye Fan and Pang Bo were shocked to hear that Taiyi had become a Quasi-Emperor and discussed whether his Great Dao Injury threatened his life.
• Ye Fan recalled that Black Emperor had said Taiyi possessed the Fusang Divine Tree, an Immortal Medicine that could help heal him.
• At the Twentieth Pass, Lin Jia and An Miaoyi learned of Taiyi’s breakthrough and worried about the severity of his injuries, though they drew comfort from his medicines and treasures.
• Near the Tenth Pass, Taiyi suddenly appeared before a woman whose body shone like the sun, and she asked why he was not secluded and healing from his Dao Injury.

The Eastern Emperor revealed that he had only pretended to be injured after his Quasi-Emperor Tribulation, hoping to draw out the Saint Spirits attacking the Tenth Pass for the Heaven-Mending Great Art. He recognized Yan Fei’s Origin of the Dao and told her that her younger brother Di Chu had also advanced rapidly, leaving her surprised by his progress.

• The Eastern Emperor admitted to Yan Fei and the Dragon Horse that he had faked his injuries to entice the Saint Spirits to attack the Human Race’s Tenth Pass.
• A Great Saint stone-man Saint Spirit appeared outside the Tenth Pass and attacked it, seeking the Heaven-Mending Great Art that could restore prematurely emerged Saint Spirits’ paths to perfection.
• The Eastern Emperor explained the Saint Spirits’ motives, and Yan Fei and the Dragon Horse praised his record-breaking rise to Quasi-Emperor before he humbly dismissed their praise.
• The Eastern Emperor sensed an Origin of the Dao within Yan Fei, and she revealed that she had gained its recognition and begun refining it.
• Yan Fei asked about her mother and brother, and the Eastern Emperor said her mother remained in Beidou while Di Chu had become Purple Mansion Holy Lord and was nearing Saint King after gaining other opportunities and High-Tier Supreme Evolution Liquid.