Recaps

Li Conglong killed Xu Tian and prepared to lead Rogue Cultivators against the Xu Household, while Jiang Yi covertly aided him and considered opening [Yang Qi Taixiang Heaven]. The chapter left Li Conglong’s attack on the Xu Household imminent and Jiang Yi poised to explore the artifact of rank.

• Li Conglong spent the Li Household’s resources on weapons and a talisman, then recruited Zhao Xiong to rally Rogue Cultivators when the Xu Household was distracted.
• Xu Tian mistook Li Conglong’s submission to the Luo Household for weakness and arranged to meet him at Floating Cloud Mountain, unaware that Jiang Yi was secretly helping Li Conglong.
• At their meeting, Li Conglong killed Xu Tian and four Xu Household elites, then sent Zhao Xiong a message to begin their assault on the Xu Household.
• Jiang Yi judged that the Li Household could rise to power after absorbing the Xu Household and considered opening [Yang Qi Taixiang Heaven], expecting Ji Fuyao to sense the disturbance.

After reaching Foundation Establishment, Jiang Yi entered [Yang Qi Taixiang Heaven], the Position Artifact tied to the [Lesser Yang] Metal Position, and discovered its vast stores of treasures and resources. He navigated its intricate ritual array until eight enormous golden characters appeared before him.

• Jiang Yi recalled how [Yang Qi Taixiang Heaven] had passed through Profound Mystery True Person’s hands and realized he had disrupted the Upper Cultivators’ plans for Xuanchanzi and Zhang Yuansheng.
• Jiang Yi used his Golden Nature and Divine Sense to enter [Yang Qi Taixiang Heaven] and patiently drew the Metal Position’s attention to reveal the artifact’s true form.
• Jiang Yi explored floating islands containing nine Nine Luminaries Divine Spirit Fruits, a Demon Dao cauldron, vast collections of scriptures, and a lifelike pill.
• Jiang Yi passed into a realm of inexhaustible Spirit Resources and inferred that Yu Shenxiu had arranged them as a ritual array requiring great Dao Wisdom to traverse.
• After walking until he was exhausted, Jiang Yi stopped beneath eight enormous golden characters: [All Daos revere Yin-Yang] and [Thus Sun and Moon transform into one another].

Jiang Yi learned why the [Lesser Yang] Metal Position demanded that its successor follow Yu Shenxiu’s path, and why Ji Fuyao had crossed the heavens to investigate. He realized Ji Fuyao was pursuing [Yang Administration] as the missing step in his attempt to become a Dao Lord, and that [Yang Qi Taixiang Heaven] was connected to it.

• Jiang Yi entered [Yang Qi Taixiang Heaven], where Profound Mystery True Person greeted him and examined his powerful Dao Foundation.
• Jiang Yi and Profound Mystery True Person discussed how Yu Shenxiu had transformed [Lesser Yang], making it powerful but prone to Calamity Tribulations.
• Jiang Yi realized that a successor to [Lesser Yang] would have to imitate Yu Shenxiu, explaining the Great Talisman Sect’s and Xiantian Sect’s interest in the position.
• Profound Mystery True Person explained that Ji Fuyao wanted to change [Sun] from a principle of manifestation to one of administration.
• Profound Mystery True Person said Ji Fuyao had completed [Dao Administration] and [Law Administration], and had nearly completed [Yin Administration], but still lacked [Yang Administration]; Jiang Yi connected it to [Yang Qi Taixiang Heaven].

Jiang Yi understood how Yu Shenxiu’s death had blocked Ji Fuyao’s path to presiding over Yang, then entered the heart of [Yang Qi Taixiang Heaven] as [Lesser Yang]’s successor. There he discovered Yu Shenxiu’s humble memorial courtyard and, beyond it, a hidden void containing five divine abilities intended to help successors challenge the [Sun].

• Jiang Yi concluded that the Three True Supreme Heads had helped Ji Fuyao suppress [Lesser Yang], but Yu Shenxiu’s resistance had left Ji’s path of [presiding over Yang] incomplete.
• Jiang Yi reassured Profound Mystery True Person that he accepted the dangers of inheriting [Lesser Yang] and would consider his life worthwhile even if he died on its metal position.
• Jiang Yi followed his golden nature into a humble courtyard Yu Shenxiu had recreated, paid respects to the spirit tablet, and left without lingering.
• After Jiang Yi closed the courtyard door, he fell into a vast, desolate void and realized that the courtyard’s rules tested a visitor’s patience and courtesy.
• Jiang Yi found five towering Dharma Bodies and inferred that Yu Shenxiu had left divine abilities for successors to use in another bout against the [Sun].

Jiang Yi entered Yang Qi Taixiang Heaven and discovered that its five Dharma Bodies offered a direct path to the Lesser Yang metal position, but also revealed that he was expected to imitate Yu Shenxiu and challenge Ji Fuyao. He rejected the demand to become Yu Shenxiu’s successor and chose to preserve his own cultivation truth, hinting that another path remained.

• Jiang Yi examined the five Dharma Bodies and identified the divine abilities they embodied.
• He realized that mastering the five Dharma Bodies could perfect his destiny nature and lead him to the Lesser Yang metal position.
• Jiang Yi concluded that Yu Shenxiu’s legacy required him to repeat Yu’s deeds and fight Ji Fuyao at White Jade Capital.
• He understood that Patriarch Netherworld Profound had likely backed him to revive Yu Shenxiu’s former lordship and restore Lesser Yang.
• Jiang Yi refused to don Yu Shenxiu’s robes and crown, choosing to uphold his own cultivation truth and seek another path.

Jiang Yi studied Yu Shenxiu’s Fire Virtue Law Nature through the Heavenly Book and examined the six Fire Virtue Dao Fruits for a path of his own. He concluded that Heavenly Fire was his best chance to attain, through the Yang Virtue of Lesser Yang and the Yin Virtue of Lady Mysterious Maiden.

• Jiang Yi used Supplicating the Heavenly Book to study Yu Shenxiu’s Covered Lamp Fire and considered seeking Five Virtues Dao Fruits without following Yu Shenxiu’s Dao Path.
• After about a month of study, Jiang Yi reviewed the six Fire Virtue Dao Fruits and ruled out Covered Lamp Fire, Thunderclap Fire, Furnace Fire, Mountain Foot Fire, and Mountaintop Fire as unavailable or too difficult to pursue.
• Jiang Yi asked the Heavenly Book to identify the Fire Virtue Dao Fruit best suited to his cultivation, and it pointed him toward Heavenly Fire.
• The Heavenly Book revealed that Heavenly Fire included both the Sun’s Yang Virtue and Taiyin’s Yin Virtue.
• Jiang Yi decided that Lesser Yang could provide Yang Virtue and Lady Mysterious Maiden could share Yin Virtue, making Heavenly Fire the Dao Fruit he was most likely to pluck.

Jiang Yi completed the five profound mysteries of [Heavenly Fire] and claimed [Yang Qi Taixiang Heaven] as his Position Artifact. Twenty years later, Li Conglong’s household had prospered, and the Broken Bronze Mirror stirred during his seventieth birthday celebration.

• Jiang Yi finished comprehending the five profound mysteries and reached the threshold of [Heavenly Fire].
• Jiang Yi drew [Yang Qi Taixiang Heaven] into his Origin Gate and secured Yu True Lord’s legacy.
• Jiang Yi looked out over Green Ram Mountain and learned that the Li Household had risen after the Xu Household’s destruction.
• Li Conglong warned Li Conglin about their rivals and urged him to win the favor of the Hall of Ten Thousand Forms’ immortal master.
• Li Conglong entered the ancestral hall to honor his father and elder brother, and the Broken Bronze Mirror began to glow.
• Li Conglong welcomed the mirror’s senior, who remarked that he had been attentive for twenty years.

Jiang Yi gave the Li Household the Five Phases Aperture Refining Art, hoping to use them to expand his influence and advance his [Heavenly Fire] Dao Fruit. Li Conglong shared the art with Li Conglin, and Jiang Yi discovered that Li Conglin had exceptional cultivation talent.

• Jiang Yi judged Li Conglong unlikely to reach Foundation Establishment and decided to build the Li Household into a power across Green Ram Mountain and the surrounding region.
• Jiang Yi deduced the Five Phases Aperture Refining Art and sent it through the damaged mirror to Li Conglong.
• Li Conglong memorized the art, realized its value, and concluded that the mirror intended it for the Li Household.
• After the birthday banquet, Li Conglong secretly shared the art with Li Conglin and urged him to cultivate it in seclusion.
• Several months later, Jiang Yi saw that Li Conglin's cultivation talent far exceeded Li Conglong's and considered him key to the Li Household's future expansion.

Jiang Yi visited Profound Mystery True Person’s [Foundation Establishment Realm] and learned how a Dao Child of the [Great Yan Dynasty] earned [Heavenly Fire] through a lifetime of world-shaping achievements. After investigating the dynasty’s history, Jiang Yi began to grasp [Fire Virtue]’s true nature, then sensed a celebration at the Li family.

• Jiang Yi visited Profound Mystery True Person and watched the cats of the [Cat Kingdom] defeat a mouse rebellion.
• Jiang Yi asked how to obtain [Heavenly Fire], and Profound Mystery True Person recounted how a Dao Child reincarnated, founded the [Great Yan Dynasty], and earned the Dao Fruit through his achievements.
• Jiang Yi questioned whether the Dao Child had acted alone, and Profound Mystery True Person revealed that three True Lords and twelve True Persons had prepared and supported him.
• Jiang Yi consulted the Heavenly Book about the [Great Yan Dynasty] and realized that [Fire Virtue]’s essence lay in shining, not merely burning.
• Jiang Yi sensed that something had happened at Green Ram Mountain and saw the Li family celebrating the birth of Li Conglong’s son.

At Li Conglong’s seventieth-birthday celebration for his newborn son, Luo Weiyuan announced that the Luo Household had produced a gifted child chosen by the Hall of Ten Thousand Forms, sharpening the rivalry between the households. Li Conglong left the feast and prayed before the Broken Bronze Mirror and his ancestors to protect his son and preserve the Li bloodline.

• Li Conglong celebrated the birth of his son as guests brought gifts and congratulations to the Li ancestral residence.
• Luo Weiyuan arrived with gifts and announced that twelve-year-old Luo Tianyang had a spiritual aperture and would soon enter the Hall of Ten Thousand Forms.
• Li Conglong congratulated Luo Weiyuan, then answered his veiled taunts by saying his son’s future depended on fortuitous encounters.
• Li Conglong left the feast, took his infant son to the ancestral hall, and prayed to the ancestors and the immortal master for the child’s protection.

Jiang Yi gave the newborn Li Changming a fire destiny and named him Changming, prompting the ancestral mirror to foretell that he would establish a Dao Foundation. Fifteen years later, Li Conglong died, and Li Conglin took Changming to pay respects to the Li Household’s true root.

• Jiang Yi recognized the newborn as a child with Fire Destiny, bestowed a flame upon him, and named him Changming.
• The ancestral mirror declared that Changming would establish his Dao Foundation, and Li Conglong pledged the Li Household’s loyalty to Jiang Yi.
• Fifteen years later, dying Li Conglong named Li Conglin as household head and mourned that Caiwei had not come to see him.
• Li Conglong died; the courtyard’s old scholar tree withered, then sprouted fresh buds two days later.
• Li Conglin told Changming that the Li Household’s roots mattered more than its branches and led him to pay respects to its true root.

Li Changming reached the Fourth Level of Qi Refining and received Essence-Nourishing Pills from Li Conglin, who urged him to advance before the Hall of Ten Thousand Forms’ Ascension Ceremony. When elders from the third branch complained about Changming’s conduct and the resources he received, Li Conglin defended his support for him and arranged to send those elders to garrison Iron Horse Pass if the sect demanded clan members.

• Li Changming cultivated at sunrise, broke through to the Fourth Level of Qi Refining, and wondered about the Li Household’s origins.
• Li Conglin gave Li Changming three Essence-Nourishing Pills and encouraged him to reach the Fifth Level before the Ascension Ceremony in two years.
• Li Pingde and two elders from the third branch accused Li Changming of disrespect and complained that Li Conglin favored him over his own sons.
• Li Conglin defended his investment in Li Changming and suggested that Li Pingde leave clan affairs to enjoy time with his family.
• Li Conglin ordered his aide to send the third-branch elders to garrison Iron Horse Pass if the Hall of Ten Thousand Forms called for clan members.