Chapter Summaries

The Red Sun Great Dharma Master followed the [Dao] character’s ascension method and shattered his body, apparently ascending into the void. Afterward, Yao Yun claimed the character for Daye and announced that it would be made available for the people to study.

• The Red Sun Great Dharma Master spent ten days comprehending the [Dao] character and prepared his Primordial Spirit to ascend.
• Jiang Yi observed the Spirit Refining Grandmasters and considered how their pursuit of ascension would strengthen his [Ten-Thousand-Chariot Imperial Law Dao Foundation].
• The Red Sun Great Dharma Master shattered his physical body, cried out “Dao” three times, and vanished into the void as the astral winds faded.
• High Person Flowing Cloud argued that he should be allowed to claim the [Dao] character, but Xu Zhu and Yan Fei persuaded him to settle for studying it.
• Yao Yun declared that the [Dao] character would be moved to the capital, enshrined on a nine-tier ritual altar, and reproduced on steles for the common people.

Jiang Yi imparted the Circulating Through the Six Void Realms Formula to Yao Yun, helping her pursue ascension. Ten years later, Yao Yun prepared to leave Daye, entrusting its government to Xiao Feibai as several martial masters planned to ascend with her.

• Jiang Yi observed the Mortal Realm and reflected on how few people could cultivate the Circulating Through the Six Void Realms.
• Yao Yun contemplated the character Dao and considered shattering the void, but rejected Sijian Can’s dangerous method of ascension.
• Jiang Yi used Divine Intent to teach Yao Yun the Circulating Through the Six Void Realms Formula.
• Ten years later, Yao Yun told Xiao Feibai she intended to ascend and offered him Daye’s foundations.
• Xiao Feibai asked Yao Yun to wait while he chose an imperial heir, and she appointed him minister entrusted with her final mandate.
• Yao Yun announced that Mr. Yan, Xu Zhu, and several other Spirit Refining Grandmasters would ascend together on the fifteenth day of the first month.

Jiang Yi used the ascensions of Sijian Can and other martial masters to investigate a suspected ambush in the Spirit Realm, discovering that ascension led into a trap where a demonic cultivator captured newcomers for his White-Bone Banner. The chapter left Sijian Can warning those below not to ascend as Senior Brother Zhao carried him away.

• At the Lantern Festival, Yan Fei shattered the void with his sword and disappeared into the upper realm, and Xu Zhu began his own ascension.
• Jiang Yi explained that he had helped Sijian Can, Yan Fei, and the others ascend to scout the Spirit Realm, then used his [Illuminating the hidden and manifest] mystery to observe what awaited them.
• Sijian Can arrived in the Spirit Realm as a frail soul and mistook the attention of Senior Brother Zhao’s followers for a welcome into a sect.
• Senior Brother Zhao revealed his White-Bone Banner and captured Sijian Can, declaring that the newcomers’ souls would aid his cultivation.
• Sijian Can realized the ascension was a trap and shouted for those below not to ascend before Senior Brother Zhao carried him away.

Jiang Yi examined the Spirit Realm and concluded that its All Flames Lose Their Truth Spirit Aura had been created to foster Blood Xī and Yin Baleful Intent, possibly as part of a plan to challenge the Sun and Thunder Pivot. He gave the Ding Fire Method to Sijian Can, Yan Fei, and Xu Zhu, then helped Yao Yun reach the Spirit Realm, where she was immediately pursued by demonic cultivators.

• Jiang Yi reasoned that Gathering Grotto Continent's Spirit Realm had been deliberately transformed into an All Flames Lose Their Truth Spirit Aura, perhaps to help the Southern Continent's Eight Sects oppose the Sun and Thunder Pivot.
• Jiang Yi used the Ding Fire Method to restore Sijian Can's clarity and gave him the method, prompting Sijian Can to believe the High God had charged him with cleansing the demons.
• Jiang Yi found Yan Fei and Xu Zhu suffering in the Spirit Realm and imparted the Ding Fire Method to both of them.
• Jiang Yi helped Yao Yun enter the Spirit Realm, where her cultivation advanced rapidly and she sensed danger near Soul-Rending Mountain.
• Yao Yun fled from the danger, but Junior Brother Fang and Senior Brother Li caught up with her and argued over taking her as a Furnace Cauldron.

Jiang Yi studied ancient demonic cultivation and the mysteries of Foundation Establishment arts while watching Yao Yun face two cultivators after ascending. Yao Yun was overpowered, but Senior Brother Zhao killed Fang; afterward, Zhao blamed Yao Yun for Fang’s death.

• Jiang Yi examined the demonic cultivators’ methods and realized his [Illuminating the Hidden Light] had reached the second level of Foundation Establishment arts, aided by the golden nature of [Lesser Yang].
• Jiang Yi reflected on the Mortal Realm, Spirit Realm, and Mysterious Realm, then decided he would seek Lai Buyi and use the Heavenly Book to pursue fortuitous encounters after ascending.
• Yao Yun was captured on Soul-Rending Mountain by cultivators from Name Teaching, and Fang threatened to take her as his concubine and furnace cauldron.
• Yao Yun attacked Fang with weapons and fist force formed through the Secret Canon of the Bright God, but Fang’s black cord shattered her attacks and suppressed her.
• Senior Brother Zhao suddenly struck Fang with baleful light, killing him and consuming the ghastly white Qi that emerged from his body.
• Zhao then glared at Yao Yun and accused her of causing Fang’s death.

Yao Yun was saved from Li Ya by a Thunderclap Prefecture cultivator, while Jiang Yi observed the encounter and continued refining his Fire Phase mysteries. The story left Jiang Yi believing his two mysteries would be enough to ascend to the Spirit Realm.

• Li Ya killed Junior Brother Fang and attacked Yao Yun, intending to make her his scapegoat.
• A yellow-clad Thunderclap Prefecture cultivator intervened, countered Li Ya’s Flying Yaksha, and revealed that two allies were approaching.
• Li Ya fled west in his blood river, and the yellow-clad woman told Yao Yun she was destined to join Thunderclap Prefecture.
• Jiang Yi withdrew his gaze from the encounter and began refining the Bing Fire mystery [Heaven and Earth Burn].
• Jiang Yi planned to combine his Bing and Ding Fire mysteries and concluded that the two mysteries would let him ascend to the Spirit Realm.

Jiang Yi observed Yao Yun’s entry into Thunderclap Prefecture and learned how the Righteous Dao used Children of Destiny as Human Pillars amid an era favorable to demonic cultivation. He then considered the Dao’s shifting Spirit Aura and realized that mastering Heaven and Earth Burn required a Foundation Establishment-grade Fire Virtue Spirit Object, while learning the distinction between virtue and phase.

• Zhou Youting and two Thunderclap Prefecture cultivators discussed her fight with a Name Teaching fiend and the growing strength of demonic forces.
• Zhou Youting revealed that Yao Yun had ascended with exceptional Spirit Chance, and Senior Brother Xu welcomed her as a potential asset to the Righteous Dao.
• Jiang Yi used Illuminating the Hidden Brightness to observe Yao Yun’s life in Thunderclap Prefecture and saw how righteous sects recruited or engineered Children of Destiny as Human Pillars.
• Jiang Yi reflected on the world’s changing Spirit Aura and suspected that Dao Lords were using Gathering Grotto Continent for a deeper scheme.
• Jiang Yi realized he needed a Foundation Establishment-grade Fire Virtue Spirit Object to master Heaven and Earth Burn and learned that Fire Virtue and the Fire Phase were distinct.

Jiang Yi completed the Fire Virtue profundity [Heaven and Earth Burn], destroying the Water-Moon Grotto-Heaven and triggering a heavenly response. He defied the Heavenly Lord’s attempts to suppress him and ascended from the Mortal Realm into the dark void.

• Jiang Yi contemplated the Five Virtues and chose to cultivate the Fire Virtue profundity [Heaven and Earth Burn].
• Jiang Yi comprehended the profundity over several days, condensing the surrounding rings of fire into a flame between his brows.
• Jiang Yi’s breakthrough destroyed the Water-Moon Grotto-Heaven and caused Spirit Fire lotuses and red clouds to appear across the Mortal Realm.
• The Heavenly Lord attacked Jiang Yi with lightning, fire, wind, and thunder, but [Heaven and Earth Burn] absorbed or transformed its assaults.
• Jiang Yi challenged the Heavenly Lord, then ascended into the dark void and vanished from the Mortal Realm.

Li Conglong accepted the Hall of Ten Thousand Forms’ forced labor to spare his aging father, then found a broken mirror at the Li family’s ancestral cliff. The mirror connected him to Jiang Yi, who planned to use the Li family to investigate the Name Teaching and support his Dao Foundation.

• Li Caiwei told Li Conglong that the Hall of Ten Thousand Forms was conscripting cultivators, and he volunteered to leave for seven years of labor service.
• Li Conglong climbed to Ancestor-Gazing Cliff, found a broken mirror fragment hidden in the rocks, and took it with him.
• Jiang Yi, now a Foundation Establishment True Person in the Spirit Realm, observed Li Conglong through the mirror fragment.
• Jiang Yi decided to pass down a Wood Phase Qi Refining method to the Li family and use them to investigate the Name Teaching.

Jiang Yi chose Li Conglong as the recipient of a Jia Wood cultivation method, and the mirror fragment Li Conglong found revealed a complete Qi Refining art. To save his son from conscription, Li Zhengde arranged for Li Conglong to appear gravely ill and took his place at Iron Horse Pass.

• Jiang Yi examined the Li family's fortunes and decided Li Conglong could become a worthy cultivator, then secretly took hold of his Karma.
• Li Zhengde told Li Conglong he had been ordered to serve for seven years at Iron Horse Pass, and Li Conglong gave him the mirror fragment he had found on Green Ram Mountain.
• After Li Conglong's blood touched the fragment, it entered his brow and revealed the complete Heaven-Nurturing, Truth-Preserving, Mystery-Pointing Art and its accompanying Daoist arts.
• Li Conglong secretly shared his cultivation insights with Li Zhengde, who understood the mirror's significance and ordered him to take arsenic so he could evade conscription.
• When the Hall of Ten Thousand Forms immortal master arrived, Li Zhengde claimed Li Conglong was too ill to serve and agreed to take his place at Iron Horse Pass.

After ten years of cultivation, Li Conglong strengthened his power and tried to secure the Li Household’s future, while Li Caiwei agreed to marry into the Xu Household. Refining his father’s thunderstruck wood unexpectedly brought Li Conglong to the great perfection of the sixth level of Qi Refining, and Jiang Yi watched as his experiment with the Jia Wood Method continued.

• Li Conglong used the Earth-Covering Mountain-Shifting Technique and planned to link Green Ram Mountain to the Li ancestral residence with a grand formation.
• Li Conglong learned that the Xu Household had proposed a marriage and Li Caiwei agreed to marry the Xu son to help the Li Household.
• Li Conglong chose his father’s thunderstruck wood as part of Caiwei’s dowry, but emerald-green True Qi refined it and raised his cultivation to the great perfection of the sixth level of Qi Refining.
• Jiang Yi observed the refinement and explained that Jia Wood had once been the demonic path’s foremost choice before a Great Sword Immortal slew the True Lord of Wood Virtue.

Li Conglong saw his sister Li Caiwei married into the Xu family, then learned eight years later that the Xu family wanted the Li family to claim Resource Grounds near the Luo family. Jiang Yi foresaw that Li Conglong’s destiny had turned ominous and decided to wait and see whether he survived the danger before helping him reach the tenth level of Qi Refining.

• Li Conglong escorted Li Caiwei’s bridal sedan down Green Ram Mountain and promised to bring her home if the Xu family mistreated her.
• Li Conglong told Li Conglin he would arrange a test for spiritual apertures so he could learn Qi Refining.
• Eight years later, Li Conglin told Li Conglong that Li Caiwei had given birth to twins and that the Xu family proposed sharing Resource Grounds near the Luo family.
• Li Conglin warned that the Xu family was using the Li family to test the Luo family, and Li Conglong ordered him to investigate the grounds and their defenders.
• Jiang Yi used Xuanmiao to observe the Li family and learned that Li Conglong’s Seven Baleful Intents destiny had turned ominous.
• Jiang Yi decided to wait for Li Conglong to overcome the danger, after which he would give him superior Gang-Baleful Intent and help him reach the tenth level of Qi Refining.

Cao Qiu, Jun Jiusi, and Qin Xiaoyun planned to search the Southern Region for Jiang-Surnamed Son by attacking the Name Teaching. Meanwhile, Li Conglong sought a Wood Phase spiritual object to advance his cultivation and discovered a jade bottle that stirred his art.

• Cao Qiu failed to locate Jiang-Surnamed Son with the Cave-Illuminating Zhong and argued with Jun Jiusi about their prospects of killing him.
• Qin Xiaoyun suspected Jiang-Surnamed Son was hiding in the Southern Region and proposed advancing against the Name Teaching to flush him out.
• Li Conglong learned the Luo Household had left nearby resource grounds unguarded while the Xu Household sent three Qi Refining cultivators there.
• Li Conglong decided to seek a Wood Phase spiritual object in Pingde Market Ward and used clan resources originally intended for Li Conglin.
• After finding nothing in the shops, Li Conglong spotted a jade bottle at a shabby stall, and his Heaven-Nurturing, Truth-Preserving, Mystery-Pointing Art stirred.

Li Conglong discovered a spirit-filled seed in a green bottle and used it to break through to the seventh level of Qi Refining. After hearing that the Xu and Luo households were guarding an emerging Immortal Mansion at Falling Moon Lake, he suspected the Xu Household had lured the Li Household toward a trap and left to deal with the danger; Jiang Yi sensed the growing threat from [Immortal Dao].

• Li Conglong bought a rusty sword, an incense burner, and a green bottle from an old stallholder, then discovered a hidden wood-phase seed inside the bottle.
• Li Conglong nurtured the seed in a remote cave abode, refined its sprout, and broke through to the seventh level of Qi Refining.
• Li Conglong chose the Nurturing and Transforming Technique and bought a white jade talisman brush and talisman paper for Li Conglin.
• Zhao Xiong told Li Conglong that an Immortal Mansion was about to open at Falling Moon Lake and that the Xu and Luo households had occupied its shores.
• Li Conglong suspected the Xu Household had used the Resource Grounds as bait to target the Li Household, then left Zhao Xiong to return home.
• Jiang Yi observed Li Conglong's breakthrough and sensed that [Immortal Dao] was preparing to strike at him.

Jiang Yi comprehended a third Fire Technique mystery and decided to seek guidance on attaining Fire Virtue. Meanwhile, Li Conglong discovered a plot involving the Xu and Luo Households and set a trap of his own to protect the Li Household.

• Jiang Yi realized his Fire Phase was nearing perfection and comprehended [Heaven-Breaking Pillar], a mystery that could suppress other Fire Techniques.
• Jiang Yi decided to establish an undertaking to attain [Fire Virtue] and considered asking Master Lu how to proceed before consulting the Heavenly Book.
• Li Conglin reported that the Resource Grounds on Floating Cloud Mountain were a trap and that the Xu and Luo Households might be colluding, while someone appeared to be following his investigations.
• Li Conglong ordered Li Conglin to feign cooperation with the Xu Household and stage a quarrel with Luo Long so the Xu Household would believe the Li and Luo Households had fallen out.
• Li Conglong warned Li Conglin to flee if the plan went wrong, then prayed in the ancestral hall for the Heavenly Lord to protect the Li Household.

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.