Chapter Summaries

Taiyi visited the Yaoguang Holy Land’s Heaven-Class Stone Garden with Yao Xi, where he examined costly extraordinary stones and asked whether he could take Source Stones directly from the garden. He left the question to the Yaoguang Supreme Elder, while a mysterious stone called the Demon Embryo caught his attention.

• Chen Feng delivered the Jade Lake Holy Maiden’s invitation to Taiyi, who said he would visit when he had time.
• Taiyi teased Yao Xi about the Eastern Wasteland’s most beautiful women, and she admitted the Jade Lake Holy Maiden surpassed her in appearance.
• Taiyi and Yao Xi toured the Yaoguang Stone Workshop’s Heaven-Class Stone Garden, where Yao Xi asked about the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Sword he had obtained.
• Taiyi said he had promised to stake the sword in a wager against the Yaoguang Holy Son, and Yao Xi expressed confidence that Taiyi would win.
• Taiyi examined a stone named the Demon Embryo, then asked the Yaoguang Supreme Elder whether a Candidate Holy Son could take Source Stones directly from the Heaven-Class Stone Garden.

Taiyi secured the promise of two private selections from the Yaoguang Heaven-Class Stone Garden if he defeated the Yaoguang Holy Son, then went to keep an invitation from the Jade Lake Holy Maiden. He arrived disguised at the Yaochi Stone Workshop and watched her play the guzheng.

• Taiyi admitted he wanted to take an unusual stone away, and Li Daoqing promised him two stones if he defeated the Yaoguang Holy Son in three days.
• Li Daoqing warned Taiyi that stones from the Primordial Ancient Mine could contain deadly Primordial creatures.
• Taiyi invited An Miaoyi to the Yaochi Stone Workshop, but she stayed behind to cultivate the Taiyin True Scripture, and Taiyi helped her study it.
• The next day, Taiyi disguised himself and went to the Yaochi Stone Workshop to keep the Jade Lake Holy Maiden's invitation.
• A Jade Lake disciple led Taiyi to a secluded courtyard, where the Jade Lake Holy Maiden played the guzheng, and Taiyi opened his Martial Dao Heavenly Eye.

Taiyi met the Jade Lake Holy Maiden, whose true name was Yun Yao, and impressed her with his profound understanding of the Great Dao. Yun Yao then asked him to help nurture a Saint Spirit, and Taiyi uncovered the Stone King’s connection to Great Emperor Wushi.

• Taiyi revealed his true appearance to the Jade Lake Holy Maiden and discussed tea and the Great Dao with her in the Bamboo Grove.
• Yun Yao acknowledged Taiyi’s talent, revealed her true name, and explained that the Jade Pool Holy Land wanted his help nurturing a Saint Spirit with his sun true blood.
• Taiyi warned Yun Yao that nurturing a Saint Spirit could lead to catastrophe and questioned why the Jade Pool Holy Land persisted.
• Taiyi deduced that the Stone King was connected to Great Emperor Wushi, astonishing Yun Yao.
• Taiyi explained that he had inferred Wushi’s connection to the Jade Pool Holy Land from the Queen Mother of the West’s constitution and Great Emperor Wushi’s unique constitution.

The Divine City filled with powerful spectators for the contest between the Yaoguang Holy Son and Eastern Emperor Taiyi, a battle expected to determine the Eastern Wasteland’s leading young talent. As the contenders gathered at the Sky Battlefield, Taiyi arrived in dazzling holy light, and the great battle was about to begin.

• Taiyi asked the Jade Lake Holy Maiden to let him choose one of the Stone Kings held by the Jade Pool Holy Land, and she agreed to report his request to the Queen Mother of the West.
• Taiyi revealed that he possessed a sun sacred body, not merely a sun physique, and suggested that his blood was worth more than the dangerous Stone Kings.
• Experts and prominent figures from across the lands gathered in the Divine City to witness the contest for the Yaoguang Holy Land’s Holy Son position.
• Ji Haoyue told Ji Ziyue that Taiyi would win at equal cultivation, but noted that the Yaoguang Holy Son might have reached the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm.
• The Yaoguang Holy Son and the gathered young successors assembled at the Sky Battlefield, where Eastern Emperor Taiyi arrived shining like a Sun Deity.

Taiyi and the Yaoguang Holy Son began their battle for the position of Holy Son inside the Sky Arena, with Taiyi limiting his displayed cultivation to test his opponent. Their Holy Light Fist Seals collided in an intense exchange that left the Yaoguang Holy Son injured.

• Taiyi arrived at the gathering, drawing the attention of the assembled powers with his mastery of the Holy Light Technique.
• Li Daoqing opened the Sky Arena and urged Taiyi and the Yaoguang Holy Son to stop once the outcome was clear.
• The Yaoguang Holy Son entered the arena at the first heaven of Dragon Transformation, while Taiyi displayed only the Third Realm of the Four Extremes.
• The Yaoguang Holy Son attacked Taiyi with a Holy Light Fist Seal, and Taiyi met him head-on using the Sun True Scripture.
• Taiyi and the Yaoguang Holy Son exchanged dozens of blows, and the Yaoguang Holy Son was injured by Taiyi's formidable physical strength.

Taiyi overwhelmed the Yaoguang Holy Son despite his breakthrough to the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm, revealing the Human King Seal and matching his opponent’s Holy Light Technique. As the battle intensified, Taiyi recognized that the Yaoguang Holy Son had finally exposed an opening and prepared to end the fight with a succession of Saint Arts.

• Taiyi struck the Yaoguang Holy Son with the Human King Seal, and their arts collided in a devastating exchange.
• The Yaoguang Holy Son transformed into the Holy Light Furnace and attacked Taiyi with his full strength.
• Taiyi used Nine Secrets: Dou to create one hundred and eight thousand swords of Holy Light that broke through the Yaoguang Holy Son’s furnace and injured him.
• The Yaoguang Holy Son continued fighting Taiyi amid surging Holy Light, obscuring the battle from observers.
• Taiyi revealed that he had baited the Yaoguang Holy Son into exposing an opening and unleashed the Mountain-Embracing Seal, the Human King Seal, and the Heaven-Overturning Seal in succession.

Taiyi defeated the Yaoguang Holy Son on the Sky Battlefield after revealing that he had reached the second heaven of Dragon Transformation and had been suppressing his strength. The duel ended with Taiyi victorious, while the spectators struggled to explain how he had advanced so quickly.

• The Yaoguang Holy Son used the Myriad Transformations Sacred Art and Flying Immortal Art to fight Taiyi’s Holy Light Incarnation, briefly gaining the upper hand in close combat.
• The Yaoguang Holy Son urged Taiyi to concede, but Taiyi stopped suppressing his strength and revealed his Dragon Transformation cultivation.
• Taiyi’s Sun God Fist overwhelmed the Yaoguang Holy Son’s techniques, leaving him grievously wounded and unable to resist.
• Taiyi subdued the Yaoguang Holy Son with a great golden hand that formed an Order Cage.
• The spectators realized Taiyi had reached the second heaven of Dragon Transformation, while the Yaoguang Holy Son had only recently entered the first heaven.

Taiyi defeated Li Yao and became the new Holy Son of the Yaoguang Holy Land, while the powers of the Eastern Wasteland rushed to court his favor. He later revealed to Li Daoqing and Yao Xi that the figure who fought in the arena had only been one of his holy light bodies.

• Li Yao admitted defeat, and Li Daoqing declared Taiyi the victor and the new Yaoguang Holy Son.
• The Yaoguang disciples and gathered powers celebrated Taiyi, while Li Yao vowed to fight him again and left Divine City.
• Young successors from several powers invited Taiyi to a banquet, where he accepted their invitations and mingled with them.
• Taiyi's true body appeared at the Yaoguang Stone Workshop and told Li Daoqing and Yao Xi that his arena performance had been carried out by a holy light body.
• Li Daoqing and Yao Xi were astonished that Taiyi's holy light body had defeated Li Yao, and Li Daoqing praised Taiyi's strength.

Taiyi claimed three extraordinary stones from the Yaoguang Holy Land’s Heaven-Class Stone Garden after Li Daoqing rewarded him for his talent. Li Daoqing then reassured him that the Holy Land would protect him from the Ruthless One’s Lineage, and Taiyi asked whether he could request that lineage’s cultivation methods.

• Li Daoqing increased Taiyi’s reward to three extraordinary stones, and Taiyi chose the Demon Embryo, the Blood Sacrifice Altar, and a millstone-shaped stone.
• Li Daoqing warned Taiyi to prepare carefully before cutting open the dangerous Source Stones and assured him the Holy Land would not demand that he open them immediately.
• Li Daoqing privately told Taiyi that the Yaoguang Holy Land’s connection to the Ruthless One’s Lineage was complicated and that the Holy Land would protect him.
• Taiyi realized the Holy Land might support both him and the former Holy Son Li Yao, then asked Li Daoqing whether he could access the Ruthless One’s Lineage’s cultivation methods.

Taiyi revealed to An Miaoyi that the fighter who defeated the Yaoguang Holy Son had been his incarnation, then secretly opened two unusual stones inside the Purple Gold Gourd. He gave An Miaoyi an Ageless Immortal Flower and discovered a tiny qilin sealed within Divine Source.

• Taiyi visited Miaoyu Nunnery, where An Miaoyi congratulated him on becoming the new Holy Son and learned that Li Yao had been his incarnation.
• Taiyi sealed the palace with formation patterns and entered the Purple Gold Gourd with An Miaoyi to cut open an unusual stone.
• Taiyi found an Ageless Immortal Flower and gave it to An Miaoyi, who consumed it to preserve her youth.
• Taiyi cut open the Demon Embryo stone and uncovered a piece of Divine Source containing a tiny Purple Qilin.
• An Miaoyi recognized the creature as a qilin and wondered whether it was a young true qilin from before the Primordial Era.

Taiyi identified the Purple Qilin sealed in Divine Source as a Qilin Immortal Medicine seed, then left the Divine City and was ambushed by two Human World assassins. He repelled their first attacks and confronted them as his aura surged.

• Taiyi told An Miaoyi that the Purple Qilin was a Qilin Immortal Medicine seed and let her examine it.
• Taiyi declined most invitations after becoming the new Yaoguang Holy Son and left the Divine City for a gathering in Qu Prefecture.
• A gray-robed man and a white-robed woman launched sudden sword attacks on Taiyi outside the city gates.
• Taiyi's holy light blasted both attackers away, and he identified them as members of the Assassin Divine Dynasty, Human World.
• Taiyi stepped toward the two assassins as his aura intensified, forcing nearby onlookers to retreat.

Taiyi killed successive waves of Human World assassins, displaying the power of his Martial Dao Heavenly Eye and solar true fire. Human World and Hell then issued death warrants naming Eastern Emperor Taiyi, while the Yin-Yang Sect's Vice Hierarch used the crisis to accuse him of wrongdoing.

• Taiyi crushed two Human World assassins with his fists and blasted them into ash with his Martial Dao Heavenly Eye when they tried to flee.
• Seven more assassins attacked Taiyi, but he blocked them with a Solar Divine Furnace and burned them to ash with solar true fire.
• Two Immortal Platform experts appeared to kill Taiyi, but Han Dong and Lin Qing intervened, and the attackers vanished into the void.
• Human World and Hell publicly issued death warrants against Eastern Emperor Taiyi, shocking the gathered experts and Yaoguang Holy Lord Li Daoqing.
• The Yin-Yang Sect's Vice Hierarch sneered that Taiyi must have committed many sins to draw the two Assassin Divine Dynasties' warrants.

After Hell and the Human World issued a Death Warrant against Taiyi, the gathered factions weighed the threat of the ancient Assassin Divine Dynasties and the Yaoguang Holy Land’s response. Li Xuan and Wang Zheng returned with the assassins’ corpses, and Wang Zheng warned the Yin-Yang Sect against targeting Taiyi again.

• Li Daoqing challenged Wang Yangzhan over the Death Warrant, but Wang Yangzhan tried to turn the other factions against the Yaoguang Holy Land.
• The Holy Lords discussed the danger posed by Hell and the Human World, while Taiyi remained calm despite the Death Warrant’s reputation.
• Li Xuan appeared carrying two dead Half-Step Great Powers, and Wang Zheng emerged with the corpse of a Great Power from the Human World.
• Taiyi, Han Dong, and Lin Qing greeted Wang Zheng, whose renewed health was credited to Taiyi’s Ancient Medicine King.
• Wang Zheng told Wang Yangzhan that he would take up an Inherited Saint Weapon against the Yin-Yang Sect if it targeted Taiyi again.

Wang Zheng warned the gathered powers that he would defend Taiyi, while Taiyi agreed to meet an awakened Yaoguang Saint through his avatar. After Hell and Human World issued a Death Warrant against him, Taiyi met the Purple Mansion Saintess and revealed that he had found the entrance to the Jade Pool Ruins, where she might obtain the Western Empress Scripture.

• Wang Zheng threatened to take an Inherited Saint Weapon to the Yin-Yang Sect if Wang Yangzhan's faction harmed Taiyi.
• Li Xuan told Taiyi that an awakened Yaoguang ancestor wished to meet him, and Taiyi agreed to go in his avatar.
• More than half a month later, Hell and Human World issued a Death Warrant against Taiyi, and he waited in the wilderness to meet the Purple Mansion Saintess.
• Taiyi explained that the Western Empress Scripture was hidden in the Jade Pool Ruins and said he had found the entrance.
• Taiyi told Zixia that the Jade Lake had destroyed or removed nearly all its other legacies before withdrawing.

Taiyi and Zixia entered the sealed old Jade Pool grounds, hoping to find the Western Empress Scripture. They reached the thriving central region and discovered that the supposed immortal lake concealed hundreds of dead Jade Lake women.

• Taiyi told Zixia that her innate Dao embryo might let her sense the Queen Mother of the West’s traces and find the Western Empress Scripture, and asked for a copy if she succeeded.
• Guided by information from Han Lin and Han Dong, Taiyi led Zixia across the barren land to an ancient well that opened into the old Jade Pool grounds.
• Taiyi and Zixia traveled through the dried underground river and found the ruins’ desolate outer region, then reached a lush central area filled with palaces, waterfalls, and dense spiritual energy.
• Zixia recognized the legendary immortal lake and described its Divine Spring, but Taiyi used his Heavenly Eye to reveal what lay beneath its surface.
• Taiyi and Zixia saw several hundred corpses of young women in Jade Lake robes piled at the bottom of the lake.

Taiyi and Zixia found stone carvings containing passages of the Western Empress Scripture and both comprehended its Dao Palace section on the heart divine treasury. After Zixia was shocked by Taiyi’s Sun Sacred Body and learned that Great Emperor Wushi was the Queen Mother of the West’s son, Taiyi thanked her for helping him gain the scripture passage.

• Taiyi and Zixia left the eerie immortal lake and explored the barren stone mountains, finding scattered, mostly damaged Jade Lake techniques.
• Taiyi led Zixia to a cliff bearing a sun-shaped carving and explained that the Queen Mother of the West had scattered her insights among the mountains.
• Zixia meditated on the cliff, and her innate Dao embryo resonated with the mountain; Taiyi used the resonance and his Enlightenment Cushion to comprehend the Western Empress Scripture alongside her.
• Taiyi revealed that he possessed both Sun Physique and desolate ancient sacred body traits, calling himself a Sun Sacred Body, and explained how combined physiques could produce an innate sacred body Dao embryo.
• Taiyi told Zixia that Great Emperor Wushi was the son of the Queen Mother of the West and a great accomplishment sacred body, leaving her astonished.
• Taiyi rose and thanked Zixia for helping him obtain the Western Empress Scripture’s passage on the heart divine treasury.

Taiyi and Zixia collected the Western Empress Scripture’s methods for the Five Great Secret Realms in the Jade Pool Ruins, then fled when a terrifying black mist emerged from the Immortal Lake. After escaping safely, Zixia left, flustered by Taiyi’s teasing about their possible child’s physique.

• Taiyi and Zixia gathered the scriptures for the Five Great Secret Realms but could not obtain the Western Empress Scripture’s Taboo Chapter.
• As their sense of danger grew, Taiyi and Zixia headed for the exit, but black mist and a terrifying killing intent surged from the Jade Lake Immortal Lake.
• Taiyi used his nine-story Inherited Saint Weapon to shelter Zixia and carry them through the demonic clouds and out of the ancient well.
• Taiyi and Zixia escaped unharmed, and the black mist did not emerge from the well.
• Taiyi teased Zixia about what physique their child might inherit, and she flew away after promising to remember his favor.

Taiyi studied the Western Empress Scripture, then refined dragon marrow and survived three overlapping lightning tribulations, advancing to the fifth heaven of Dragon Transformation. While traveling across a frozen wilderness, he encountered a little girl whose Taiyin physique resonated with his sun sacred body.

• Taiyi secluded himself to study the Western Empress Scripture alongside the scriptures he had already obtained.
• Taiyi consumed dragon marrow and endured three overlapping tribulations, tempering his body, divine sense, and Chaos Bell as he advanced to the fifth transformation of Dragon Transformation.
• Taiyi continued traveling instead of returning to his holy land or approaching the Primordial Ancient Mine, and found blazing sun source in abandoned mineral veins.
• Taiyi reached a snow-covered ice field and encountered a little girl dressed in white in the frozen woods.
• Taiyi recognized that the little girl had a Taiyin physique, and she asked him who he was.

Taiyi encountered Jiang Tingting, a girl with the Taiyin Physique, and told her he could help resolve her fate of dying young. The chapter left Jiang Tingting trusting him and hopeful that he could save her.

• Jiang Tingting felt drawn toward Taiyi and met him while traveling to visit her grandfather, Jiang Haisheng.
• Taiyi revealed that he possessed the Sun Physique and recognized Jiang Tingting's Taiyin Physique, and she realized he was the Eastern Emperor.
• Jiang Tingting told Taiyi that the Jiang Family believed she would die before twenty and that her grandfather had left the family after she faced scorn.
• Taiyi reassured Jiang Tingting that her constitution's early-death affliction could be resolved, even without an Earth Life Fruit.
• Jiang Tingting said she trusted Taiyi, and he laughed at being called a good person.

Taiyi gave Jiang Tingting the Taiyin True Scripture and promised to guide her cultivation, while reassuring her that Ye Fan was well. Three months later, Tingting had recultivated her first three realms with the scripture, and Taiyi continued cultivating in his cave abode.

• Taiyi told Jiang Tingting that he had met Ye Fan a year earlier and that Ye Fan was doing well.
• Taiyi gave Jiang Tingting the opening section of the Taiyin True Scripture and promised to teach her every three days.
• Over the next three months, Taiyi guided Jiang Tingting and gave her the remaining portions of the scripture, while placing a restriction in her mind to protect it.
• Taiyi continued cultivating quietly as the little white tiger reached the Five Dao Palace Heavens through his nurturing and training.
• Jiang Tingting arrived at Taiyi's cave and teased the little white tiger, which insisted she call it Brother Yu.