Recaps

Ying Huaixu fought the Star-Devouring Leader after the latter mastered his Spirit Aspect body, while Frostmourne and Ying Huaixu’s healing turned the battle in his favor. Meanwhile, Ye Ningshuang and the Silver-White Star-Devourer depleted the stars, and the Silver-White Star-Devourer realized his clan could not win.

• The Star-Devouring Leader adapted to his Spirit Aspect body and challenged Ying Huaixu to a renewed fight.
• Ying Huaixu used Frostmourne to weaken the Star-Devouring Leader’s attacks and healed as he struck back.
• The Star-Devouring Leader extinguished two stars to unleash Star-Killing Starlight, but Ying Huaixu froze him with Frost Annihilation.
• Ye Ningshuang used nutrients from the Red Spider Lilies to heal while the Silver-White Star-Devourer consumed stars and lost his defense.
• The Silver-White Star-Devourer concluded that victory was impossible and blamed the Mile-High Heaven Clan for sending them to clear the Secret Realm alone.

Ye Ningshuang and Ying Huaixu defeated the Star-Devouring Clan, whose leaders surrendered and gave them the clan’s treasures. The Star-Devourers said they hoped the gifts would help Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang face other clans, leaving their reason for entering the Secret Realm unexplained.

• The Silver-White Star-Devourer recognized that the battle was lost and stopped fighting, pulling the Red Spider Lilies from his body and severing his link to the stars.
• The Star-Devouring Leader called a truce, and the wounded big dog came to rest beside the Silver-White Star-Devourer.
• Ying Huaixu recalled Xiaoxue to the Pet Space, and Ye Ningshuang lowered her guard when Ying Huaixu relaxed.
• The Star-Devouring Leader gave Ying Huaixu the clan’s treasures and Treasury, while the Silver-White Star-Devourer and big dog gave Ye Ningshuang a star pendant and Ying Huaixu a miniature palace of savings.
• The Star-Devouring Leader said the clan had entered the Secret Realm expecting either to destroy their opponents or be destroyed, and the Silver-White Star-Devourer explained that they wanted other clans to suffer defeat as well.

The Star-Devouring Leader and the Silver-White Star-Devourer shared what they knew about the forces controlling their clan and gave Ying Huaixu notes from the Beast God Hall. They planned to die after helping him, while still sending some information about him to their masters.

• Tai Wangshu and Chen Zhiyuan kept their distance and stayed ready while Ying Huaixu spoke with the Star-Devouring Clan.
• The Star-Devouring Leader warned Ying Huaixu that the Beast God Hall and other secret realms could threaten them even if their controllers paused their actions.
• The Star-Devouring Leader gave Ying Huaixu notes from the Beast God Hall and asked him to open them only after the Star-Devourers were dead and he had left.
• The Star-Devouring Leader and the Silver-White Star-Devourer described how their controllers enslaved races and crushed resistance, explaining that they hoped Ying Huaixu could eventually defeat them.
• The Silver-White Star-Devourer said they would still send information about Ying Huaixu to their controllers, but would conceal one or two things.

Ying Huaixu learned the Star-Devouring Leader and Silver-White Star-Devourer planned to mislead the Mile-High Heaven Clan and heard their warnings about the forces coveting Hongmeng World. The two Star-Devourers died after a final walk through their conjured homeland, and the collapsing Secret Realm carried Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang away.

• The Star-Devouring Leader prepared misleading intelligence about Ying Huaixu while concealing Tai Wangshu and his fellow disciples’ potential.
• The Silver-White Star-Devourer and Star-Devouring Ancestor spent their remaining power recreating their homeland, then walked through it with Ying Huaixu, Ye Ningshuang, and the dog.
• The Star-Devouring Leader warned Ying Huaixu that powerful beings sought to take Hongmeng World intact and cautioned him against entering Heart-Questioning Valley.
• The Star-Devouring Leader also told Ying Huaixu that the Great Sun Sacred Ground’s Secret Realm was important and feared by powerful beings.
• The Star-Devouring Leader and Silver-White Star-Devourer sang with the dog before fading away, and the Secret Realm collapsed.
• A Taiji Diagram enveloped Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang and transported them away.

After clearing the Star-Seizing Secret Realm, Ying Huaixu received enormous rewards and an urgent World Upgrade mission, while the system’s repeated music drove him to distraction. He left the realm grateful to his allies, reassured Ye Ningshuang, and ended up trying to silence the system’s background music.

• Ying Huaixu received vast rewards for completing the Secret Realm mission, including 9,999 improved Revive Coins, and the system issued an urgent World Upgrade mission.
• Ying Huaixu credited Huang Tianqi and the others for holding off the Star-Devouring Ancestors, and he praised Ye Ningshuang and Tai Wangshu for their support.
• Ying Huaixu invited Tai Wangshu to visit his sect, but Ye Ningshuang’s resentment made Tai Wangshu hurriedly refuse and leave.
• Ying Huaixu praised Ye Ningshuang and said he would leave his back to her, making her joyful and convinced that he trusted her most.
• Ying Huaixu searched for a way to turn off the system’s loud, repeating background music, which stopped after he cursed it inwardly.

After the Star Sea Secret Realm exploded, the five ruling clans met to discuss Ying Huaixu’s impossible survival and rapid advancement. They decided to use sect infighting to hinder his growth, while recognizing that Ye Ningshuang also remained a target.

• The Outsiders and ruling clans were shocked when Ying Huaixu and all his fellow disciples emerged from the Star Sea Secret Realm alive at ninth-layer perfection of the Dao Seal realm.
• The leaders of the Ancient God Clan, Beast God Hall, Ancient Buddha Clan, Mile-High Heaven Clan, and Eldritch God Clan met to discuss Ying Huaixu.
• The Eldritch God Clan’s leader traced earlier failed plans at Falling Radiance City and the Cold Pool Secret Realm to Ying Huaixu, whose interventions had repeatedly accelerated his cultivation and changed the era.
• The leaders confirmed that the Heavenly Dao remained asleep and speculated that its power rewarded Ying Huaixu for killing Outsiders.
• The Eldritch God Clan’s leader urged the Beast God and Gu Sha to provoke wars among sects in Hongmeng World, using karmic retribution to impede their opponents.
• The leaders agreed that Ye Ningshuang, another surviving target and one of the Primordial Chaos Twin Stars, could not be overlooked.

The Extraterrestrial Demons agreed to provoke a war between their forces in the Hongmeng World and the Divine Firmament Sword Sect, hoping to kill Ying Huaixu and stop the world’s people from awakening. Each faction prepared to strengthen its own agents while pursuing hidden goals, and the Beast Gods planned to use recovering Heavenly Dao Power to descend into the Hongmeng World.

• The Beast God and Gucha of the Ancient Buddha Kingdom proposed arming their lackeys to wage a devastating war against the Divine Firmament Sword Sect, and the Lord of the Weird Gods offered a Flesh Bud.
• The Lord of the Weird Gods revealed that he welcomed the possibility of Ying Huaixu surviving, and the other Weird Gods realized he had a hidden scheme.
• The Mile-High Heaven Powerhouses decided to cultivate An Ruoyun alongside the Thousand Mechanisms Sect Leader so they could use her as leverage over him.
• The Lord of the Beast Gods gave the Ten Thousand Demons Sacred Land a Savage Beast Blood Pool and explained that recovering Heavenly Dao Power could let the Beast Gods descend if someone provided cover.

The Beast God realized the Lord of the Weird Gods planned to exploit infighting and karmic burden to win the Heavenly Dao’s approval, then waited for events to unfold. Meanwhile, Ying Huaixu cleared a Secret Realm and collected rewards from the Star-Seizing Sect, leaving the sect master grateful after secretly returning the spirit stones he had looted.

• The Beast God deduced that the Lord of the Weird Gods intended to use corrupted outsiders to create karmic burden, then eliminate them to gain the Heavenly Dao’s favor.
• The Beast God provided wild beast blood to his clan members and went to sleep while waiting for the plan to unfold.
• The Star-Seizing Sect Master praised Ying Huaixu for clearing the Secret Realm, then discovered he was a man and lamented that he could not marry him to his son.
• The Star-Seizing Sect Master brought Ying Huaixu to receive rewards, but Ying Huaixu searched his residence and looted hidden stashes and a treasure chest.
• The sect master’s wife gave Ying Huaixu permission to keep what he found and took him to the Treasury, while the sect master mourned his lost savings.
• Ying Huaixu secretly returned the looted spirit stones to the sect master, who became grateful to him.

Ying Huaixu chose the Frost Cage from the Star-Seizing Sect Master's Treasury and discussed a coming calamity that might target the Divine Firmament Sword Sect and the wider Hongmeng World. Suspecting the crisis could connect to a strange new phase after the Sect Defense Battle, he decided to complete his World Level quest before making plans.

• Ying Huaixu kept a God-Tier Equipment Affix Forging Stone and heard the Star-Seizing Sect Master clarify that his wife would not have acted as Ying Huaixu had suggested.
• Ying Huaixu chose the Frost Cage, a crowd-control treasure he could strengthen with his frost-focused abilities.
• The Star-Seizing Sect Master told Ying Huaixu that he and his wife would personally visit the Divine Firmament Sword Sect, though the Star-Seizing Sect could not send broader support.
• Ying Huaixu learned that the Star-Seizing Ancestor had foreseen a calamity that might reach beyond the Divine Firmament Sword Sect and affect the Hongmeng World.
• Ying Huaixu connected the predicted crisis to the strange Dream Province storyline after the Divine Firmament Defense Battle and chose to complete his World Level quest first.

Ying Huaixu focused on completing quests before making further plans and learned that the Star-Seizing Ancestor’s promised passive reward was delayed by ten years. He discovered the Star-Seizing Sect had Dao Stones and began negotiating with its sect master to secure them for the Divine Firmament Sword Sect, leaving the two sects haggling over a deal.

• Ying Huaixu decided to prioritize quests and gather intelligence before planning the Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s defense.
• The Star-Seizing Sect Master told Ying Huaixu that the Star-Seizing Ancestor was in confinement for ten years, alongside the corpse of the Ancestor’s woman.
• Ying Huaixu asked how the Star-Seizing Sect would develop after losing the Star Sea Secret Realm, and the sect master said its disciples would refine Primordial Chaos Heaven’s starlight.
• The Star-Seizing Sect Master revealed that the Star-Seizing Sect’s stellar mineral veins produced Dao Stones, which the sect used in cultivating the Star Refining Art.
• Ying Huaixu asked to buy Dao Stones, and the Star-Seizing Sect Master proposed that the sect pay for places to train at the Divine Firmament Sword Sect.
• Ying Huaixu and the Star-Seizing Sect Master began haggling heatedly over the trade.

Ying Huaixu negotiated deals with the Star-Seizing Sect, the Ten Thousand Dragons Sacred Land, and the Nether Capital Merchant Guild, while Lao Zhuang delegated the talks to him. After consulting Lü Qingyi about the Merchant Guild’s offer, Ying Huaixu was told to have its representative sign a contract with Lao Zhuang.

• Ying Huaixu negotiated with the Star-Seizing Sect Master and secured a contract allowing ten disciples to enter the Divine Firmament Grand Secret Realm for ten million Dao Stones a month, with the disciples keeping everything they obtained.
• Lao Zhuang approved Ying Huaixu’s contract and asked him to negotiate cooperation with the Ten Thousand Dragons Sacred Land.
• Ying Huaixu arranged for the Dragon Clan to supply materials in exchange for the Divine Firmament Sword Sect crafting magical artifacts, with one artifact given for every ten sets of materials.
• The Nether Capital Merchant Guild proposed taking over the sect’s production orders for twenty percent of the profits, offering to save Ying Huaixu time for cultivation.
• Ying Huaixu consulted Lü Qingyi about the Merchant Guild’s proposal, and Lü Qingyi told him to have its representative sign a contract with Lao Zhuang.

Ying Huaixu approved a partnership with the Nether Capital Merchant Guild and left to find Ye Ningshuang and the others. The Star-Seizing Sect Master and Madam discussed how Ying Huaixu was reshaping the balance of power and concluded that his conspicuous role might be drawing danger away from others.

• Lü Qingyi agreed to let the Nether Capital Merchant Guild serve as a public face for their business, and Ying Huaixu promised to visit her after recovering.
• Ying Huaixu said farewell to the Star-Seizing Sect Master and hurried off to find Ye Ningshuang and the others.
• The Star-Seizing Sect Master worried that Ying Huaixu was quietly unifying the sects, while the Star-Seizing Sect Madam argued that his revelations had shown them the danger ahead.
• The Star-Seizing Sect Madam cautioned against forming an alliance too soon, reasoning that Ying Huaixu was delaying support negotiations to avoid alerting the hidden forces.
• The Star-Seizing Sect Master reflected on the Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s role in past calamities and wondered why his own sect had no one like Ying Huaixu.
• The Star-Seizing Sect Master realized Ying Huaixu was shouldering the attention while Ye Ningshuang was also formidable.

Ying Huaixu reunited with his disciples, learned that Ye Ningshuang was beating He Xiuyuan and Qin Erniu over their wasted talents, and distributed the Star Sea Secret Realm spoils among the group. After spending two more days at the Star-Seizing Sect, he left with everyone, while the sect master discovered Ying Huaixu had doubled his secret savings.

• Ying Huaixu found Ye Ningshuang beating He Xiuyuan and Qin Erniu because they could not properly demonstrate their powerful talents.
• Ying Huaixu divided the Dao Stones and spirit stones, sending seventy percent to the Divine Firmament Sword Sect and sharing the rest among the group.
• Ying Huaixu distributed the Star Sea treasures and spells to his fellow disciples, keeping none for himself.
• Ying Huaixu spent two days at the Star-Seizing Sect before departing with everyone.
• The Star-Seizing Sect Master found a note from Ying Huaixu and discovered that Ying Huaixu had added fifty thousand spirit stones to his secret savings.

After returning to the sect, Ying Huaixu considered the coming World Boss battle and told the disciples to strengthen their cultivation. He visited He Xixiang, who made him take a day off with wine, and both master and disciple quickly fell asleep.

• The Divine Firmament Sword Sect disciples redid their cultivation, and Ying Huaixu was pleased with their improved strength ahead of the Sect Defense Battle.
• Ying Huaixu worried that the World Boss battle might involve multiple bosses and that the sect’s strongest allies might be unavailable.
• Ying Huaixu told Huang Tianqi and the others to raise their Dao Palace levels before breaking through to Spirit Aspect, then returned to Tianqu Peak to visit He Xixiang.
• He Xixiang hugged Ying Huaixu, fussed over him, and told him to stop thinking about the future for the day.
• He Xixiang and Ying Huaixu drank her treasured wine, passed out after a sip, and Lü Qingyi settled them in and confiscated the jugs.

Ying Huaixu gained experience by sleeping beside He Xixiang, then went to Lü Qingyi, who gave him a Heavenly Tribulation Pearl to help him break through. After perfecting his Extreme Ice Dao Palace and defeating a heart demon that impersonated Lü Qingyi, he was told to take someone with him the next time he went out.

• Ying Huaixu woke beside He Xixiang, gained experience from being near her, and left when Lü Qingyi summoned him.
• Lü Qingyi gave Ying Huaixu a Heavenly Tribulation Pearl and stood guard as he used it to complete his tribulation.
• Ying Huaixu spent nearly a hundred thousand Dao Stones to perfect his Extreme Ice Dao Palace, which became the immortal-grade Guanghan Palace.
• Ying Huaixu challenged his heart demon and encountered a version of Lü Qingyi who called him her husband and invited him to bed.
• A droplet pierced the heart demon's forehead, completing Ying Huaixu's challenge, and Lü Qingyi told him to take someone along on his next outing.

Ying Huaixu broke through to Spirit Aspect and discovered the powers and abilities of his two Spirit Aspects. Lü Qingyi concealed his golden Way Sword Spirit Aspect from detection, then punished him with lightning after he made an improper remark.

• Ying Huaixu reached the first layer of Spirit Aspect and unlocked the Lord of Guanghan Palace and Lord of the Way Sword Spirit Aspects.
• Ying Huaixu activated the Guanghan Palace Spirit Aspect, froze his Small World, and found that both Spirit Aspects slowly gained experience while cultivating.
• Ying Huaixu examined the Way Sword upgrade and learned that its improvements accumulated without adverse effects, though he wondered how to obtain more Spirit Leaves.
• Lü Qingyi sensed Ying Huaixu's twin Spirit Aspects and placed a protective barrier over the golden one so others could not detect it when inactive.
• Ying Huaixu asked Lü Qingyi to change back to her former appearance, and she struck him repeatedly with Violet Firmament Divine Thunder.

Lü Qingyi sent Ying Huaixu to Reflection Cliff to release Old Ten and have her act as his guardian. After bringing her out, Ying Huaixu updated the Illusory Dream Trial with Star-Devouring Clan instances, which proved too difficult for the sect’s disciples.

• Lü Qingyi told Ying Huaixu that Old Ten’s cultivation had fallen to the Spirit Manifestation Realm and sent him to release her from Reflection Cliff.
• Ying Huaixu released Old Ten, who flirted with him before becoming docile when she noticed He Xixiang watching from the clouds.
• Old Ten agreed to accompany Ying Huaixu as a senior sister and said she wanted to see how the Divine Firmament Sword Sect had changed over the past six hundred years.
• Ying Huaixu discovered he could draw the Illusory Dream Trial toward himself and added instances featuring all twenty-four Star-Devouring Clan branches, plus separate instances for the Star-Devouring Leader and Silver-White Star-Devourer.
• The sect’s disciples tried the new instances, found them overwhelmingly difficult, and decided to focus on passing He Xiuyuan instead.

Ying Huaixu returned to the Divine Firmament Sword Sect to research a new cultivation build while his companions pursued their own training. Huang Tianqi’s bottleneck led him to discover that Li Chunfeng had grasped minor time abilities through pill refining, leaving the Pill Peak Master stunned by the pair’s breakthroughs.

• Ying Huaixu entered the Scripture Pavilion to choose cultivation techniques and spells for a budget endgame build, and he resolved to punish Ye Ningshuang when she returned from running instances.
• He Xiuyuan began punishing training with Cheng Wanshu, Qin Erniu went mining, Qiu Shiyi merged with weak water, and Chen Zhiyuan worked on formations and other devices.
• Huang Tianqi failed to form a Spirit Aspect despite reaching Great Perfection in his Spatial Dao Palace, so he returned to the Pill Room to refine pills and argued with Li Chunfeng.
• Huang Tianqi tried to break through his bottleneck by refining pills in a spatial Alchemy Furnace, while Li Chunfeng repeatedly restored the damaged ingredients.
• Huang Tianqi realized Li Chunfeng had comprehended time laws, and Li Chunfeng demonstrated that he could accelerate and reverse time in small areas.
• The Pill Peak Master was left wondering why years of pill refining had taught him only the Dao of alchemy when Huang Tianqi and Li Chunfeng had grasped space and time through the same craft.

Huang Tianqi and Li Chunfeng used spatial and time laws to improve their alchemy, while Huang helped Li strengthen his cultivation through the Illusory Dream Trial. The Pill Peak Master struggled with the comparison, and the chapter ended when Zhuang Mu noticed the woman in yellow called Old Ten had been let out.

• Huang Tianqi used spatial laws to shape pills, while Li Chunfeng rewound failed alchemy and repeatedly refined pills with time laws.
• Huang Tianqi and Li Chunfeng agreed to train together, with Huang helping Li solidify his cultivation and Li advising Huang on alchemy.
• Li Chunfeng endured the Illusory Dream Trial and raised his power from 0.05 He to 0.5 He, inspiring other Divine Firmament Sword Sect disciples to train on higher difficulties and consume more pills.
• Li Chunfeng began using time laws to increase the ages of spirit herbs, while Huang Tianqi occasionally produced immortal-grade pills despite his unorthodox methods.
• The Pill Peak Master grew despondent over the dominance of spatial and time laws, and Zhuang Mu tried to console him by reminding him that other sect members also faced rivals and setbacks.
• Zhuang Mu sensed the woman in yellow, realized Junior Sister had let Old Ten out, and predicted that things would get entertaining.

Old Ten returned to the Divine Firmament Sword Sect and struggled to understand its friendly, harmonious disciples and the sect’s new ways. After learning that her false accusation had led Lü Qingyi to purge Ancient God Firmament, she watched the Illusory Dream Trial and chose to challenge Lü Qingyi at ridiculous difficulty.

• Old Ten released her demonic energy, but the disciples admired her aura and urged her to try the Illusory Dream Trial.
• A disciple told Old Ten that Lü Qingyi had purged Ancient God Firmament after being falsely accused of demonic cultivation, and Old Ten realized her own accusation had set the events in motion.
• Old Ten watched disciples fight monsters in the Illusory Dream Trial and was impressed by their smooth, ferocious combat.
• The disciples explained that the trial recorded enemies Ying Huaixu had fought or slain, and Old Ten learned that he was the Holy Son they called Sister Ying.
• Before a disciple could warn her against choosing an extreme challenge, Old Ten selected ridiculous difficulty and Lü Qingyi’s challenge.

Old Ten easily cleared Lü Qingyi and He Xixiang’s Ridiculous Difficulty illusions, but Ying Huaixu repeatedly defeated her when they fought at the same level. After studying his records, she understood why Lü Qingyi had asked her to guard him and looked forward to seeing what threats he would face next.

• Old Ten defeated the weakened illusions of Lü Qingyi and He Xixiang, then entered Ying Huaixu’s illusion and was overwhelmed by his freezing techniques, Sword Mark, and relentless attacks.
• After five attempts, Old Ten released the seal on her Spirit Aspect physical body and beat the Dao Seal Realm Ying Huaixu with one punch.
• That night, Old Ten sealed her physical body and cultivation to Ying Huaixu’s level and fought him repeatedly, losing every time and learning to stop showing off while casting techniques.
• Old Ten recognized Ying Huaixu’s exceptional battlefield control, crowd control, damage, and recovery, and concluded that no one could beat him one-on-one at the same realm.
• Old Ten reviewed Ying Huaixu’s records of fighting the Four Foxes, slashing the Falling Star Giant Beast, and leading the Inner Sect through the Star Sea Secret Realm, then welcomed the chance to guard him against future threats.

Old Ten eagerly awaited Ying Huaixu’s return from seclusion while Tai Wangshu persuaded the Taiyin Sacred Land to ally with the Divine Firmament Sword Sect against the Outsiders. The elders questioned the alliance, but Tai Wangshu rejected cooperation with the Outsiders and insisted there was no safe neutrality.

• Old Ten finished viewing Ying Huaixu’s past and eagerly urged him to end his seclusion.
• Tai Wangshu presented Little Rabbit to the Taiyin Sacred Land’s leaders, and the Taiyin Old Ancestor revealed his identity and defended her decision to cooperate with the Divine Firmament Sword Sect.
• The Taiyin Old Ancestor showed the elders battle footage from the Star Sea Secret Realm, convincing them that Tai Wangshu was too valuable to alienate.
• Tai Wangshu declared that the Taiyin Sacred Land should tie its fate to the Divine Firmament Sword Sect, and the Taiyin Saint Lord warned that the Outsiders might retaliate.
• Tai Wangshu argued that the factions had to unite against the Outsiders, then rejected an elder’s proposal to cooperate with them.

Tai Wangshu suspected the Heavenly Dao was secretly using Ying Huaixu as its real countermeasure against the Outsiders, and the Taiyin Old Ancestor backed her decisions and took her as his disciple. When her new cultivation began, she rejected the Old Ancestor’s techniques and resources, saying she needed Pure Yang Power to balance her Taiyin Great Dao and ultimately asking him for merit.

• Tai Wangshu reasoned that the Heavenly Dao might be hiding its true plans behind Lü Qingyi and Ye Ningshuang, with Ying Huaixu serving as its real trump card.
• The Taiyin Old Ancestor ordered the Taiyin Sacred Land to follow Tai Wangshu and kill anyone caught contacting the Outsiders, then declared that he would personally guide her cultivation.
• The Taiyin Saint Lord gave Tai Wangshu the complete Taiyin Scripture, and the Old Ancestor took her to a star-filled Small World as his final disciple.
• Tai Wangshu dismissed the Old Ancestor’s Divine Abilities, cultivation methods, and resources, saying she needed to create her own method.
• Tai Wangshu said she needed Pure Yang Power to balance her Great Dao, then told the female Taiyin Old Ancestor that she wanted his merit, which he gave her.

Tai Wangshu transformed merit into power, mastered new techniques, and awakened a Yin-Yang Goddess Dharma Aspect with extraordinary restorative and offensive abilities. She tested her strength against a projection of Ying Huaixu but concluded she could not defeat him alone.

• Tai Wangshu explained that merit could be transformed into power, then used it to advance her Taiyin Scripture and divine abilities to full mastery.
• Tai Wangshu turned merit into a Taiji symbol, broke through her realm, and manifested a Yin-Yang Goddess Dharma Aspect that shattered a heavenly tribulation.
• Tai Wangshu used the Restoration Art to return the Taiyin Old Ancestor to human form and restore his cultivation, while explaining that other spirit beasts paid the balancing cost.
• Tai Wangshu demonstrated The Dao Gives Birth to One by striking a distant mountain peak with a Taiji Diagram.
• Tai Wangshu fought a projection of Ying Huaixu and determined that even four fighters like her might not be able to defeat him.

Tai Wangshu tested the yin-yang techniques she had developed after entering the Spirit Aspect realm and taught the Taiyin Old Ancestor the Profound Scripture of Yin and Yang. The Taiyin Old Ancestor used up his merit to master it, then prepared to leave with Tai Wangshu’s supplies as she warned him that First Yin might be planning a major move against the outsiders.

• Tai Wangshu used her new fist art to overpower the Taiyin Old Ancestor and redirect his divine abilities back at him.
• Tai Wangshu gave the Taiyin Old Ancestor the Profound Scripture of Yin and Yang, which he deciphered by spending his merit and reached minor mastery.
• The Taiyin Old Ancestor worried that merit might make him a puppet of the Heavenly Dao, and Tai Wangshu explained how merit and karmic retribution worked.
• After exhausting his merit, the Taiyin Old Ancestor claimed he needed to gain experience and asked Tai Wangshu for supplies.
• Tai Wangshu gave the Taiyin Old Ancestor over two hundred Revival Pills and a Yin-Yang Jade Pendant, and warned him that First Yin might soon act against the outsiders.