Chapter Summaries

Great Emperor Zi Wei invited Lin Yi to explore the ruins of Purple Heaven Palace in the Six Source Ancestral Land, believing Lin Yi’s connection to the Dao Lord’s Meditation Cushion might let him reach the ruins’ hidden core treasure. Lin Yi accepted, and the group set out from Taiyi City aboard Zi Wei’s vessel, with Great Emperor Gu Nan planning to test Lin Yi’s Divine Demon Body when they arrived.

• Great Emperor Zi Wei forgave Lin Yi for exhausting the meditation cushion and explained that its connection to Purple Heaven Palace might give Lin Yi access to treasures in its ancient ruins.
• Great Emperor Zi Wei revealed that the ruins’ core treasure had eluded him and invited Lin Yi to accompany him; Lin Yi accepted after weighing the opportunity and risks.
• Great Emperor Zinan asked to join the expedition, but Great Emperor Zi Wei stayed silent, and she reluctantly gave up after Great Emperor Gu Nan refused to guard Taiyi City.
• Lin Yi boarded Great Emperor Zi Wei’s Heavenly Purple Travel Boat, and they traveled through the Tidal Spirit Sea toward the Six Source Ancestral Land.
• Great Emperor Gu Nan described the ruins’ treasures, criticized Lin Yi for exhausting the cushion, and challenged him to spar; Lin Yi accepted.

Lin Yi, Great Emperor Zi Wei, and Great Emperor Gu Nan reached the Purple Heaven Ancient Ruins and entered a tunnel that tested and tempered the body. Lin Yi continued through its crushing pressure by consuming Emperor Fruits, strengthening his Divine Demon Body as he approached a faint figure at the tunnel’s end.

• Great Emperor Zi Wei, Great Emperor Gu Nan, and Lin Yi avoided the patrol squads and reached the Frozen Ancient Land.
• Great Emperor Zi Wei opened the entrance to the Purple Heaven Ancient Ruins and warned Lin Yi that offensive Emperor Artifacts would be suppressed inside.
• Lin Yi’s God-Demon Blood Qi surged uncontrollably in the ancient tunnel, and Great Emperor Zi Wei explained that its pressure tested and tempered the body.
• Lin Yi advanced without stopping as the tunnel’s pressure purified and strengthened his God-Demon Blood Qi, while Great Emperor Zi Wei and Great Emperor Gu Nan discussed his exceptional foundation.
• After Lin Yi’s Qi-Blood ran low and his awareness grew hazy, he ate Emperor Fruits to replenish it and continued walking as their energy reinforced his body.

Lin Yi endured the Purple Heaven tunnel’s body-tempering trial and received the Void God Flash Dao art from an ancient Purple Heaven master. He awakened at the tunnel’s end, where Great Emperor Gu Nan eagerly asked what reward he had received.

• Lin Yi replenished his blood qi with Emperor Pills and Fruits as he advanced through the tunnel’s crushing pressure, passing inscriptions left by ancient Purple Heaven disciples and Great Emperor Zi Wei.
• Great Emperor Zi Wei and Great Emperor Gu Nan watched Lin Yi push beyond Zi Wei’s former limit, and Zi Wei acknowledged Lin Yi’s resilience.
• Lin Yi endured the final stretch despite his body splitting under the pressure and reached the white-robed figure at the tunnel’s end.
• The figure declared Lin Yi qualified to inherit his legacy and infused him with Void God Flash, a powerful spatial Dao art ranked third among Purple Heaven’s thirty-six Heavenly Dipper Dao arts.
• The Dao resonance repaired Lin Yi’s body and awakened his understanding of spatial nodes; after he woke, Great Emperor Gu Nan asked what reward he had received.

Lin Yi fought Great Emperor Gu Nan in the Purple Heaven Palace’s Primordial Trial Grounds and used his newly acquired spatial Dao Art, Void God Flash, to turn the duel around. The arena ended the fight and awarded Lin Yi a high-grade reward, while Gu Nan conceded.

• Great Emperor Zi Wei explained that the tunnel’s inheritance was a rare Dao Art, then led Lin Yi and Great Emperor Gu Nan to the Primordial Trial Grounds.
• Lin Yi and Great Emperor Gu Nan began a physical contest, and Lin Yi’s tunnel-tempered Divine Demon Body held its own against Gu Nan’s taiheng body.
• Great Emperor Gu Nan unleashed Ziwei Sky-Propping Hand and forced Lin Yi to the arena’s edge.
• Lin Yi used Void God Flash to evade Gu Nan’s attacks and repeatedly strike openings in his defense.
• The arena halted the duel after its time limit and judged Lin Yi eligible for a high-grade reward.
• Great Emperor Gu Nan conceded, and Lin Yi modestly credited his victory to the Dao Art.

After defeating Great Emperor Gu Nan in the arena, Lin Yi cleansed his soul in the Purple Heaven Tranquilizing Divine Pool and learned that Gu Nan had chosen to forge an acquired Dao Foundation. The three reached the Thousand-Pattern Enlightenment Stone Forest, where Lin Yi prepared to study ancient Dao Foundation patterns and swallowed his arena reward, the Three-Spirit Dust-Cleansing Pill.

• Lin Yi reflected on how the body-tempering trial and Void God Flash had let him hold his own against Great Emperor Gu Nan.
• Lin Yi spent two days cultivating in the Purple Heaven Tranquilizing Divine Pool, cleansing his soul before recognizing the danger of staying too long.
• Great Emperor Gu Nan revealed that he planned to forge an acquired Dao Foundation and would accompany Lin Yi into the deeper trials.
• Great Emperor Zi Wei explained that the Thousand-Pattern Enlightenment Stone Forest held Dao Foundation patterns and forbade the use of force to find or study them.
• Lin Yi examined his Three-Spirit Dust-Cleansing Pill, then arrived at the stone forest with Great Emperor Zi Wei and Gu Nan.
• Great Emperor Gu Nan entered the forest after drinking Lin Yi's enlightenment tea, and Lin Yi drank the rest before swallowing the pill.

After taking a Three-Spirit Dust-Cleansing Pill, Lin Yi entered the Thousand-Pattern Enlightenment Stone Forest to study Dao Foundation templates as references for his own innate foundation. He explored its formations and helped Great Emperor Gu Nan understand a physical-body Dao Foundation before continuing deeper in search of paths suited to him.

• Great Emperor Zi Wei warned Lin Yi not to copy another cultivator’s Dao Foundation, and Lin Yi entered the stone forest after thanking him.
• Great Emperor Gu Nan chose a physical-body formation and began studying it, while Lin Yi explored the forest’s Core Zone and examined a sovereign-rule innate Dao Foundation.
• Lin Yi realized the stone forest’s formations offered frameworks for comparison, then studied several templates as he searched deeper for ones compatible with his divine demon body and world law.
• Lin Yi found Great Emperor Gu Nan struggling with a physical-body Dao Foundation and quickly grasped its framework, explaining that the formation was intact but might not suit Gu Nan’s path.
• Lin Yi left Enlightenment Tea for Great Emperor Gu Nan and continued deeper, while Gu Nan recognized that he had wasted time on a formation that did not fit him and marveled at Lin Yi’s comprehension.