Chapter Summaries

Taiyi defeated the trial’s luminous figure and obtained Nine Secrets: Qian and the first four volumes of the Taiyin True Scripture. He then claimed the dragon-patterned black gold Inherited Saint Weapon, a nine-level black pagoda, just as late-arriving cultivators entered and recognized him.

• Taiyi overwhelmed the luminous figure with the Sun God Fist, then used the Chaos Bell to block its attack on his primordial spirit.
• Taiyi recognized the figure’s final technique as Nine Secrets: Qian and received the secret art from an ancient stele.
• Taiyi found silver pages containing the first four volumes of the Taiyin True Scripture.
• Taiyi used Nine Secret: Bing to communicate with the black pagoda and took control of the Inherited Saint Weapon.
• Late-arriving figures saw Taiyi holding the pagoda and realized he had beaten them to the inheritance.

Taiyi claimed the Inherited Saint Weapon in the Saint-Sage Secret Realm and escaped before the other entrants could challenge him. With the weapon gone, powerful Beast Kings turned on the remaining cultivators and sent a terrifying beast tide toward the palaces.

• Taiyi unleashed the Nine-Story Ancient Pagoda’s saint might, forcing Feng Huang, Zixia, the Holy Sons, the Golden-Winged Little Peng King, and the others to kneel.
• Taiyi left the central halls after sending divine messages to An Miaoyi and the Purple Mansion Saintess, while the remaining entrants fought over lesser treasures.
• Taiyi used the Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping Art to disguise himself as a Miaoyu Nunnery disciple and escaped the secret realm with two spirit medicines.
• The powerful figures outside questioned the cultivators who emerged and learned that great fortunes had been found inside the secret realm.
• After Taiyi took the Inherited Saint Weapon away, the Beast Kings recognized that the killing formation had lost its support and ordered their beasts to attack the palaces.

Taiyi used his gains in the Saint-Sage Secret Realm to undergo a Heavenly Tribulation in the Northern Region and reached Four Extremes Great Perfection. His companions discussed the Beast Tide’s deadly aftermath and the powerful factions now hunting them for the Ancient Sages’ inheritance and Inherited Saint Weapon.

• A Beast Tide swept through the Saint-Sage Secret Realm, killing cultivators and forcing the major powers to deploy Saint Weapons to stop the upheaval.
• Three days later, Taiyi began a Heavenly Tribulation in an uninhabited stretch of the Northern Region after accumulating profound insights and resources in the secret realm.
• Little White Tiger marveled at Taiyi’s rapid progress, while Han Dong and Lin Qing praised his Great Dao understanding and discussed the major powers’ heavy losses.
• Lin Qing warned that factions were searching for Taiyi because he had obtained the Ancient Sages’ inheritance and an Inherited Saint Weapon, but Han Dong said their two Saint Weapons could protect them.
• Taiyi endured the fierce lightning with the Sun Emperor Fist and Primal Chaos Ancient Bell, survived the tribulation, and reached Four Extremes Great Perfection.

After surviving his tribulation and reaching Four Extremes Great Perfection, Taiyi accepted An Miaoyi’s offer to follow him. He brought her to Xuanyue Cave for its inscriptions left by Great Emperor Wushi, destroyed the sect, and revealed Little White Tiger’s formidable strength.

• Taiyi recovered from his tribulation and resolved to pursue greater cultivation and seek the Sun Saint Emperor’s legacy.
• An Miaoyi approached Taiyi and said she wanted to follow him; he agreed to let her come along.
• Taiyi, An Miaoyi, and Little White Tiger traveled to Xuanyue Cave, where Taiyi sought inscriptions left by Great Emperor Wushi.
• Taiyi killed a disciple and destroyed Xuanyue Cave’s mountain gate, then left Little White Tiger to deal with the sect.
• Little White Tiger slaughtered Xuanyue Cave’s elders and sect master, astonishing An Miaoyi with his strength.
• Taiyi explained that Little White Tiger had the Heavenly Demon Physique and had undergone the Demon God Flower’s baptism.

Taiyi took Little White Tiger and An Miaoyi to the ruins of Xuanyue Cave, where they discovered a relic connected to Great Emperor Wushi and gained insights from his traces. He then destroyed the Lihuo Sect and claimed the Lihuo Divine Furnace, an extraordinary weapon once used by Emperor Hengyu.

• Taiyi explained that Little White Tiger’s Heavenly Demon Physique and transformation came from his nurturing, then killed Xuanyue Cave disciples who had committed evil.
• Taiyi found a fragment of Emperor Jade in Xuanyue Cave and brought An Miaoyi and Little White Tiger to an ancient cave associated with Great Emperor Wushi.
• Taiyi lent the Emperor Jade to An Miaoyi as they contemplated the ancient inscriptions, and the Primal Chaos Ancient Bell helped him perceive a trace of Wushi’s Dao.
• After the cliff collapsed, Taiyi led his companions to the Lihuo Sect and killed its Supreme Elder, destroying the sect.
• Taiyi took the Lihuo Divine Furnace from the Supreme Elder’s body and explained that Emperor Hengyu had wielded it in his youth.

Taiyi studied the Lihuo Divine Furnace, the lost treasure once used by Emperor Hengyu, and awakened its resonance with the Sun True Scripture. He obtained the Hengyu Scripture’s Nine-Character Imperial Script, while the powers of the Eastern Wasteland continued searching for him.

• Rumors spread that Taiyi had taken an Ancient Sage’s legacy and Inherited Saint Weapon, provoking powerful factions to seek him out.
• Taiyi entered the Lihuo Divine Furnace to study Emperor Hengyu’s Dao traces as An Miaoyi and the others watched from outside.
• The Sun True Scripture resonated with the furnace, and Taiyi’s nine Sun God Birds called forth nine Divine Phoenixes.
• The Divine Phoenixes entered Taiyi’s sea of consciousness and formed nine ancient characters within it.
• Taiyi realized he had gained the Nine-Character Imperial Script, the essence of the Hengyu Scripture, rather than the complete scripture.

Taiyi studied Emperor Hengyu’s insights in the Lihuo Divine Furnace, then traveled in disguise to the Ice and Snow Palace to infiltrate the Myriad Dragon Nest. He reached the nest and saw Divine Source Blocks that seemed to contain sleeping creatures, but had not disturbed them yet.

• Taiyi emerged from the Lihuo Divine Furnace with Emperor Hengyu’s insights and invited Han Dong, Lin Qing, An Miaoyi, and Xiaobai inside to study them.
• Taiyi decided to visit the Ice and Snow Palace and entered its Back Mountain in disguise to search for the Myriad Dragon Nest.
• Taiyi spent three days and nights overcoming ancient formation patterns and entered a vast underground palace beneath the Ice and Snow Palace.
• Taiyi descended into a deep abyss protected by his black Ancient Pagoda, passed the Netherworld God Palace, and collected stones from a shattered Five-Colored Altar.
• Taiyi reached the Dragon Caves leading to the Myriad Dragon Nest and saw Divine Source Blocks that appeared to contain sleeping primordial experts.

Taiyi infiltrated the Myriad Dragon Nest and tried to seize the True Dragon Divine Medicine, but escaped with its dragon pearl and more than thirty drops of medicinal liquid after Primordial creatures detected him. He swallowed the pearl in seclusion and began another painful transformation of his body and Divine Sense.

• Taiyi approached the True Dragon Divine Medicine under the Ancient Pagoda’s protection and prepared a formation platform to escape.
• He used the Ancient Pagoda to restrain the medicine, captured its dragon pearl and more than thirty drops of medicinal liquid, but the plant broke free and fled into the Myriad Dragon Nest.
• Two Primordial creatures pursued Taiyi, but his Killing Formation delayed them while he escaped through successive Profound Jade Platforms.
• Taiyi hid in a mountain cave, sealed his aura with Formation Patterns, and took out the dragon pearl and medicinal liquid.
• Taiyi swallowed the True Dragon Pearl and used the Sun True Scripture to break and regenerate his bones and flesh while refining his Divine Sense.

Taiyi broke through into the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm and faced a devastating heavenly tribulation, using its lightning to temper his body and the Primal Chaos Ancient Bell. As the tribulation intensified, an ancient Heavenly Court and humanoid lightning figures appeared, and Taiyi looked forward to facing them in battle.

• Taiyi completed another transformation, and his cultivation breakthrough summoned the Dragon Transformation tribulation.
• Taiyi sent the Lihuo Divine Furnace and its contents beyond the tribulation before awakening Han Dong, Lin Qing, An Miaoyi, Little White Tiger, and the others.
• Taiyi endured the lightning and used its Dao marks to cultivate, while the Primal Chaos Ancient Bell emerged from his spine and was struck by the storm.
• Taiyi battled the eighty-one heavenly dragons, refined several of them, and used their essence to temper his spinal column.
• A lightning-formed True Dragon Ancient Platform and an ancient Heavenly Court appeared, with humanoid lightning figures watching Taiyi from above.
• Taiyi expressed his desire to fight the humanoid figures as the heavenly dragons and Dragon Platform pressed toward him.

Taiyi entered the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm at its second transformation and traveled to Divine City as the appointed challenge to the Yaoguang Holy Son approached. At the city gate, assassins attacked him, and he faced them without fear.

• Taiyi endured the heavenly tribulation, refined the eighty-one heavenly dragons, and broke through to the second transformation of the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm.
• Han Lin, Han Dong, An Miaoyi, Little White Tiger, and the others congratulated Taiyi, who announced that he would go to Divine City for his appointed challenge.
• Taiyi arrived at Divine City, where cultivators recognized him and speculated about his challenge to the Yaoguang Holy Son.
• Chen Feng recognized Taiyi, but two Dragon Transformation cultivators launched a sudden attack with flying swords, a stone pagoda, and a pitch-black bell.
• Taiyi remained calm as his holy light blazed against the assault.

Taiyi fought off a series of ambushes outside Divine City and killed every attacker, including several Dragon Transformation experts. As the onlookers watched in shock, his strength remained on display and the threat against him was left unresolved.

• Taiyi lured two fifth-heaven Dragon Transformation experts away from the populated area, crushed their attacks, and killed them with holy light sword qi.
• Five more old men charged Taiyi, including an expert at the seventh heaven of Dragon Transformation.
• Taiyi killed the seventh-heaven expert with the Sun God Fist, pulverizing his fists before blasting him apart.
• Three sixth-heaven experts attacked Taiyi with a forbidden weapon, but his holy light cracked the weapon and vaporized all three.
• Taiyi stopped the final fifth-heaven expert as he fled and killed him instantly.

Taiyi killed seven Dragon Transformation experts, but a Great Power’s puppet body tried to ambush him before Yaoguang Holy Lord Li Daoqing intervened and destroyed it. Li Daoqing brought Taiyi to the Yaoguang Stone Workshop, where he warned him that the forces coveting his Inherited Saint Weapon might strike again.

• Taiyi stood amid his defeated opponents as onlookers praised his strength and feared his surging holy aura.
• A Great Power’s puppet body attacked Taiyi, but Li Daoqing appeared, trapped the attacker in a Void Furnace, and refined it away.
• Li Daoqing took Taiyi to the Yaoguang Stone Workshop after Taiyi paid his respects and accepted the invitation to talk.
• Li Daoqing cautioned Taiyi that publicly challenging the Yaoguang Holy Son had drawn attention, while Taiyi insisted that their battle had to happen.
• Li Daoqing warned Taiyi to stay inside the Divine City because the attack had likely been a probe and greater dangers remained.

Taiyi agreed to let the Yaoguang Holy Land copy the Sage inheritance he had obtained, while keeping his other scriptures for himself. In the Divine City, he used his real identity to explore with An Miaoyi and began testing his Source Arts at the Dao Yi Stone Workshop.

• Li Daoqing told Taiyi that some members of the Yaoguang Holy Land wanted him to surrender his Inherited Saint Weapon, but he and Li Xuan had rejected the proposal.
• Li Daoqing asked Taiyi to provide the Holy Land with a copy of his Sage inheritance in exchange for access to a scripture or Sage Manuscript, and Taiyi agreed.
• Taiyi revealed that the figure escorted into the Divine City was his Holy Light Incarnation, while he had entered the city in disguise with An Miaoyi.
• Taiyi and An Miaoyi toured the Divine City before visiting the Dao Yi Stone Workshop.
• Taiyi examined stones and tested his Source Arts, then selected several Source Stones on the workshop's fifth level to have them cut open.

Taiyi continued practicing Source Arts in the Dao Yi Stone Workshop, improving from losses to modest profits as he advanced through its stone gardens. In the seventeenth-level garden, he bought a cracked watermelon-shaped stone that produced a dazzling, fragrant fiery-red Source, leaving the onlookers astonished.

• Taiyi gambled at the sixth- through sixteenth-level stone workshops, gradually improving his results and eventually making a profit of about a hundred jin of Source from one stone.
• Taiyi entered the seventeenth-level stone garden with An Miaoyi and felt an unusual sensation among its stones.
• Taiyi bought a cracked watermelon-shaped Source Stone for twenty-five jin of Source despite nearby cultivators mocking his choice.
• The stone cutter split the stone; its larger half yielded nothing, but continued cutting revealed fiery-red light and a rich fragrance.
• An Miaoyi and the gathered cultivators recognized the discovery as fiery-red Variant Source, which they estimated was worth at least a thousand jin of Source.

Taiyi and An Miaoyi entered Dao Yi Holy Land’s Heaven-Class Stone Garden, where Taiyi cut a large stone and triggered the rare phenomenon of an immortal flying from stone. He revealed a palm-sized piece of ice-snow source worth over fifteen hundred jin of pure source.

• Taiyi refused Dao Yi Holy Land’s offer to buy his fiery-red source and led An Miaoyi toward the Heaven-Class Stone Garden.
• Taiyi sensed an aura resembling that of the Primordial Ancient Mine as he and An Miaoyi examined the garden’s precious stones.
• Taiyi chose a large stone priced at three thousand jin of source and cut it himself.
• A human-shaped silhouette of light flew from the opened stone, prompting the old Daoist nun to seal the garden and stop it from escaping.
• Taiyi carefully removed the remaining rind and revealed a palm-sized piece of ice-snow source.

Taiyi refused to sell the incomplete ancient divine medicine he had cut from the ice-snow source. His Holy Light Incarnation then bought the Nine-Aperture Stone Man for ninety thousand jin of Source, and after most of it yielded nothing, he invited the onlookers to wager.

• The elders identified the source’s contents as the roots, stem, and foot-shaped tubers of an incomplete ancient divine medicine, and Taiyi refused offers of up to a hundred and fifty thousand jin of Source.
• News of the divine medicine spread, and Taiyi declined to keep gambling before leaving with An Miaoyi.
• Taiyi’s Holy Light Incarnation arrived at the Dao Yi Stone Workshop and bought the Nine-Aperture Stone Man for ninety thousand jin of Source.
• The Source master cut into the stone man, revealing only ordinary white stone and no treasure in its head or abdomen.
• With a fist-sized heart section and the forehead bone still unopened, Taiyi’s Holy Light Incarnation invited the onlookers to make a wager.

Taiyi wagered that the nearly exhausted Nine-Aperture Stone Man still held a rare treasure, drawing more than a hundred and fifty thousand jin of Source in bets from cultivators gathered at the Dao Yi Stone Workshop. He crushed a fragment from the stone man’s forehead and revealed a tiny, murderous sword made of dragon-patterned black gold, then sealed it as the crowd recognized its extraordinary nature.

• Taiyi invited the gathered cultivators to wager on whether the remaining Nine-Aperture Stone Man contained a treasure, and Wang Yu accepted the challenge.
• Old men, young cultivators, Yao Yuekong, and Xia Yiming joined the wager, bringing the total to more than 158,500 jin of Source.
• Taiyi accepted all the bets and chose the flat stone fragment that had formed the Nine-Aperture Stone Man’s forehead.
• Taiyi crushed the fragment, releasing a tiny black sword whose killing intent made the onlookers tremble.
• Taiyi sealed the sword, and the elders identified its material as dragon-patterned black gold.

Taiyi kept the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Sword he had unearthed and returned to Yaoguang Holy Land as Divine City’s powers watched. At Miaoyu Nunnery, he met An Miaoyi and examined the Primeval Divine Medicine, wondering whether it could be revived.

• Taiyi refused offers to sell the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Sword, while those who had wagered against him lamented their losses.
• News of the Primeval Divine Medicine and the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Sword spread through Divine City, and influential figures tracked the middle-aged couple who had found the medicine.
• The couple went to Miaoyu Nunnery, where watchers suspected they might be trying to escape and ordered their people to keep watch.
• An Miaoyi revealed her identity to Taiyi at Miaoyu Nunnery and congratulated him on his discoveries.
• Taiyi showed An Miaoyi the Primeval Divine Medicine sealed in ice-snow source and questioned whether it could be revived.

Taiyi used Divine Spring water and Immortal Liquid to nourish the damaged Human-Shaped Immortal Medicine, then spent the night with An Miaoyi. After an attack on the couple carrying the medicine was repelled by an Inherited Saint Weapon, Taiyi learned that the Yaoguang Holy Son had arrived and their contest would take place in three days.

• Taiyi placed the Human-Shaped Immortal Medicine’s roots in a mixture of Divine Spring water and Immortal Liquid, restoring some of its vitality, though it still needed time to recover.
• An Miaoyi congratulated Taiyi, and the two shared wine and spent the night together.
• Powerful cultivators ambushed the middle-aged couple leaving Miaoyu Nunnery, but the couple used an Inherited Saint Weapon to destroy the attackers and escape.
• An Miaoyi told Taiyi she did not regret gambling on him and hoped he would protect her path as a future powerhouse.
• Taiyi received a message that the Yaoguang Holy Son had arrived and that the Sky Battlefield would open in three days for their fight to decide who would lead the Yaoguang Holy Land.

Taiyi discussed the Starry Sky Ancient Road with An Miaoyi and gave her the first four volumes of the Taiyin True Scripture. In the Divine City, the Yaoguang Holy Son challenged Taiyi over the Holy Son position and the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Sword, while the Yaoguang Holy Maiden arrived to invite him.

• Taiyi told An Miaoyi he planned to pursue the Starry Sky Ancient Road and encouraged her to enter the Qishi Mansion.
• Taiyi transmitted the first four volumes of the Taiyin True Scripture to An Miaoyi, promising to seek the missing Immortal Platform Volume.
• The Yaoguang Holy Son visited the Yaoguang Stone Workshop, examined Taiyi's Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Sword, and agreed to fight him for the Holy Son position.
• The Yaoguang Holy Son left for a banquet, and Taiyi's holy light incarnation explored the Heaven-Character Stone Workshop.
• The Yaoguang Holy Maiden found Taiyi and reproached him for going to the Central Plains without telling her.