Arc 18The Yin-Yang Dao Foundation

Wang He formed the first Yin and Yang Proof Dao Foundation, expanded Cultivation Spirit Source onto Shuhua Star, and entered a secret realm in search of a Purple Mansion opportunity. After defeating five top-tier wizards, he reached the realm’s contested upper fragment while Wang An and Divine Lord Huanjing watched from the Inner Scene Grotto-Heaven.

  • Wang An helped Wang He clarify Yin and Yang through experiments in shattered worlds, and Wang He forged the Two Aspects Star Wheel as the first artifact of the Dao of Yin and Yang.
  • Wang He used the sun and moon’s imagery to form the Yin and Yang Proof Dao Foundation, then introduced himself as Tai Zheng and received extraordinary status from the Human Federation.
  • Wang He accepted Yuan Qing’s offer of a nominal discipleship and a possible Federation Star Region Inspector post, then moved Cultivation Spirit Source to Shuhua Star and began developing Cloud Radiance Continent.
  • Wang He cleared demonic beasts from the company’s spiritual lands and transformed Cold Spirit Spring into Yin Moon Spring, while Wang An and Divine Lord Huanjing established rules for the spread of secret lands and realms.
  • After secret lands spread across the Federation but Purple Mansion realms remained absent, Wang He joined more than a thousand Dao Foundation cultivators at a newly emerged secret realm near Qingqiu Star.
  • Wang He entered the secret realm, defeated a metal flood dragon, strengthened the Two Aspects Star Wheel, and kept a Life and Death Desolate Vine despite Grand Wizard Xinghuo’s claim to it.
  • Wang He found a Purple Yang Spiritual Essence Jade, defeated a hidden attacker, and killed Wizard Xinghuo and four other top-tier wizards after they trapped him in their formations.
  • Wang He reached the upper star fragment and rested near the contested central area, while Wang An and Divine Lord Huanjing watched him and shared their Five Elements and Spatial Transformation attainments.
Chapters 427–451 Vol. 5 Read

Ch. 427The Company Gets on Track and Turns a Large Profit

Wang He inspected Cultivation Spirit Source’s alchemy operations and learned that the company had earned a large profit in its first week. He ordered Jade Rabbit to find land for gradual expansion before returning to cultivate, while Wang An’s Inner Scene Grotto-Heaven underwent major changes.

  • Wang He visited Area A-6 and watched Xiao Huoyu supervise alchemists producing Yin and Yang Primordial Nourishing Pills.
  • Xiao Huoyu reported that the Supreme Yin Osmanthus Medicinal Powder had been listed for sale and received favorable responses from university teachers.
  • Wang He inspected the company’s offices and learned from Jade Rabbit that it had earned 203,480 primordial crystals in profit over the past week.
  • Wang He instructed Jade Rabbit to find suitable land near Jiaomu University for expanding pill production and growing spirit plants and medicines.
  • Wang He returned to Cool Peak to cultivate as major changes took place in Wang An’s Inner Scene Grotto-Heaven.

Ch. 428[Space Transformation Fruition] [Divine Lord Huanjing of Spiritual Origin, True Void Opening, and Space Transformation]

After the Inner Scene Grotto-Heaven expanded, its enormous black tree gave birth to Huanjing’s Space Transformation fruition, making her a Divine Lord and establishing space transformation throughout the grotto-heaven. Wang An arrived after her ascension, accepted her as his disciple, and discussed how her new path suited her nature as a spiritual root spirit cultivator.

  • The enormous black tree absorbed the void’s spatial storms and expanded the Inner Scene Grotto-Heaven as Huanjing’s spiritual root fused spatial laws and formed the Space Transformation fruition.
  • Huanjing manifested a complete body, declared herself Divine Lord, and established the Dao of Space Transformation, causing new qi, secret lands, realms, and spatial materials to arise within the grotto-heaven.
  • Countless spirit cultivators and spirit beasts bowed to Huanjing, praising her as Divine Lord Huanjing of Spiritual Origin, True Void Opening, and Space Transformation.
  • Wang An appeared beside Huanjing after her ascension, and she asked to become his disciple; he agreed, binding their karma and Qi Destiny.
  • Huanjing explained that the Divine Immortal Dao suited her better than the Heavenly Immortal path, which would have required her to cast off her spiritual root.

Ch. 429The Difference Between Divine Immortals, Heavenly Immortals, and Earth Immortals; Mastering the [Spatial Transformation] Law

Wang An and Huanjing explored the grotto-heaven’s mysteries, and he mastered the [Spatial Transformation] law before forming an Earth Immortal fruition tied to the Inner Scene Grotto-Heaven. He left the grotto-heaven for the Heavenly River Dao Palace and sensed a major change around the Qi Gathering Tower at Jiaomu University.

  • Huanjing explained that her true spirit body could move within the grotto-heaven but weakened when far from her main body.
  • Huanjing used communion of their souls to help Wang An comprehend the grotto transformation fruition, and they spent three months together.
  • Wang An mastered the [Spatial Transformation] law, advanced to the Peak of the Middle Golden Core Stage, and began influencing the Primordial Qi System.
  • Wang An used Innate Profound Gas from the Heavenly Dao to condense an Earth Immortal fruition, which merged with the grotto-heaven’s core and incurred a debt to the Heavenly Dao.
  • Wang An left the Inner Scene Grotto-Heaven and returned to the Heavenly River Dao Palace, where he sensed a change at Jiaomu University’s Qi Gathering Tower.

Ch. 430Heavenly Fire Dao Foundation Advancement and Changes

Wang He watched Chen Yanxia advance to the Dao Foundation realm and form a Heavenly Fire Dao Foundation after overcoming the Five Great Demon Kings' trial. The chapter ended with Wang He returning to cultivation at Qi Refining Perfection and examining the principles inscribed on his growing qi seed.

  • Wang He joined Xiao Huoyu and Lu Lingxian in watching Chen Yanxia's Dao Foundation advancement at Jiaomu University.
  • Chen Yanxia's Blazing Sun Fire Mirror absorbed the surrounding heavenly fire imagery and yang fire qi, then underwent a transformation.
  • The Five Great Demon Kings' Demonic Trial descended on the mirror and tested Chen Yanxia for half an hour.
  • Chen Yanxia passed the trial, became a Dao Foundation cultivator, and declared his Dao name Blazing Fire and his Heavenly Fire Dao Foundation.
  • Wang He spoke with Xiao Huoyu and Lu Lingxian about their cultivation and the company's progress, then returned to his cultivation chamber.
  • Wang He reviewed his cultivation at Qi Refining Perfection and studied the principle runes on his qi seed.

Ch. 431Principles and Runes, an Experiment in Yin and Yang Transformations in Small Worlds

Wang He struggled to decide whether to follow seasonal cycles or devise a new theory of Yin and Yang, so he sent his ideas to Wang An. Wang An tested both approaches in two shattered worlds, leaving one to recover through Yin and Yang cycles and the other to produce an intelligent spirit flower.

  • Wang He condensed his vague understanding of Yin and Yang into principles of opening, closing, pivoting, the Six Origins and Manifestations, and the Supreme Ultimate, then asked his original body to resolve his uncertainty.
  • Wang An used his experience destroying grotto-heavens to create two experiments in shattered worlds: one following the seasons and solar terms, the other following the first emergence and circulation of Yin and Yang.
  • Wang An accelerated the worlds’ cycles with Five Elements vital Qi, causing widespread death as plants and animals adapted, evolved, and developed distinct ways to survive.
  • As Wang An withdrew his protection and Primordial Qi, the creation world continued recovering while its inhabitants grew and hid according to the Yin and Yang cycles.
  • In the seasonal world, creatures fought over dwindling resources until a tyrant spirit flower absorbed their vitality and formed a spirit-body cultivator at the First Layer of Qi Refining.

Ch. 432Choosing a Path, [Two Aspects Star Wheel]

Wang He chose creation energy as the foundation for his Yin and Yang Dao and forged a star-cluster artifact that could generate Yin and Yang and consume matter. He named it the Two Aspects Star Wheel and declared it the first artifact of the Dao of Yin and Yang, with the potential to advance beyond a Dharma artifact.

  • The Overlord spirit cultivator, stranded in a lifeless small world without Primordial Qi, began devouring its matter to sustain himself and seek advancement.
  • Wang An moved the remaining landmasses and two experimental small worlds to safety, then sent his findings to his reincarnated self, Wang He.
  • Wang He chose creation energy for his Yin and Yang Dao Foundation and formed three Yang manifestations in his dantian.
  • Wang He directed Jade Rabbit to buy rare spirit materials and used Yin and Yang True Qi, Greater Yang True Fire, and Supreme Yin Divine Light to forge a star-cluster artifact.
  • Wang He refined the artifact's seventy-two Earthly Fiend restrictions and discovered its manifestations, Two Aspects Creation and Yin and Yang Transform Matter.
  • Wang He named the artifact the Two Aspects Star Wheel and proclaimed it the first artifact of the Dao of Yin and Yang.

Ch. 433Choosing a Breakthrough Location: The Vacuum of Space

Wang He chose to attempt his Dao Foundation breakthrough in space, using the sun and moon’s imagery after deciding the available locations on the Azure Dragon Planetary System were inadequate. He ordered a specially customized interstellar ship, and six months later boarded it at Horn City’s spaceport to prepare for his attempt.

  • Wang He refined the Two Aspects Star Wheel into a Life-Bound Dharma Artifact and reviewed Jade Rabbit’s list of locations where Yin and Yang were in harmony.
  • Wang He decided that the Cold Yang Spring, the baleful-energy mountain, and the Qi Gathering Tower were unsuitable for his breakthrough.
  • Wang He proposed using the sun and moon’s imagery in space, and Jade Rabbit warned that its vast power could consume a cultivator.
  • Wang He ordered a customized interstellar ship with receiving formations and defensive Formation Domains, then spent time preparing his cultivation and techniques.
  • Six months later, Wang He arrived at Horn City’s spaceport with Xiao Huoyu and Lu Lingxian to inspect the completed ship.
  • After the ship passed inspection, Wang He said goodbye to Xiao Huoyu and Lu Lingxian and boarded the disc-shaped vessel.

Ch. 434Breakthrough, Attention, Imagery

Wang He began his Dao Foundation breakthrough in a ship positioned between the star and the moon, using a Formation Domain and the Two Aspects Star Wheel to absorb their Yin and Yang imagery. As his Qi, talisman, and star wheel transformed into a nascent Dao Foundation, the star wheel remained unsatisfied.

  • Wang He piloted his ship from Horn Wood Star to a point between the star and moon where Yin and Yang were balanced.
  • Wang He ordered Jade Rabbit to activate the Formation Domain, drawing in vast currents of Yin and Yang imagery from both celestial bodies.
  • An observer at the orbital spaceport registered a Dao Foundation breakthrough, while Chen Yanxia and the president of Jiaomu University chose to watch Wang He without interfering.
  • Wang He used the Two Aspects Star Wheel to absorb and separate twelve forms of Yin and Yang imagery, then swallowed a pill and formed the imagery of vitality's withering and flourishing.
  • Wang He shaped his shadow into a Yin counterpart, deepened his control over it, and began transforming his Essence Qi, Spirit Qi, and Heaven-Observing Qi-Gathering Yin and Yang True Talisman as a Dao Foundation took shape.
  • After consuming all the imagery and Heaven and Earth Qi the Formation Domain could draw in, the Two Aspects Star Wheel remained unsatisfied.

Ch. 435The First Dao Foundation, Yin and Yang Proof; Daoist Name, Tai Zheng

Wang He formed the first Yin and Yang Dao Foundation, named Yin and Yang Proof, and gained six innate mysteries as his Two Aspects Star Wheel evolved. After returning to Horn Wood Star, he announced his Daoist name, Tai Zheng, to the gathered leaders.

  • Wang He’s qi seed sprouted as the Two Aspects Star Wheel absorbed Yin and Yang star energy, creating the Yin and Yang Proof Dao Foundation and six innate mysteries.
  • Wang He spent two days comprehending the mysteries, refined the Two Aspects Star Wheel, and discovered it could naturally create Yin and Yang spirit objects.
  • Wang He ordered Jade Rabbit to return to Horn Wood Star, noting that his breakthrough may have alarmed many people.
  • Xiao Huoyu, Lu Lingxian, Yang Zhenhua, Chen Yanxia, Lin Zhixin, and other leaders gathered at the spaceport and congratulated Wang He on his unprecedented Dao Foundation.
  • Wang He introduced himself as Tai Zheng and declared that his Dao Foundation was called Yin and Yang Proof, the world’s first of its kind.

Ch. 436Yin and Yang Mysteries, a New Cultivation System

After establishing the Yin and Yang Proof Dao Foundation, Wang He directed Cultivation Spirit Source’s expansion and discovered that his cultivation rapidly depleted the Primordial Qi around Cool Peak. Half a month later, Yuan Qing arrived to meet him, and her unusual sense of closeness to him left her wondering about his true nature.

  • Wang He met Mo Chenyu and Qian Mingzheng, then returned to Cultivation Spirit Source and gave its executives plans for mass production and future spacecraft purchases.
  • Wang He examined the Yin and Yang transformations in his inner landscape and realized that perfecting their six mysteries could lead him toward the Purple Mansion realm.
  • Wang He’s first cultivation attempt drained Cool Peak’s Primordial Qi within ten minutes, forcing him to stop absorbing it and practice techniques instead.
  • The Human Federation granted Wang He extraordinary council membership and First Tier clearance, and a deputy director of its Advanced Research Institute was scheduled to visit.
  • Half a month later, Yuan Qing arrived at Cool Peak as a body of divine light and greeted Wang He, sensing an inexplicable closeness to him as he demonstrated his Yin and Yang Proof Dao Foundation.

Ch. 437The First Yin and Yang, Status and Backing, Gaining a Continent, Shuhua Star

Wang He secured nominal-disciple status in the Heavenly River Dao Lineage, an inspector post, and a leased continent on Shuhua Star. Three years later, after developing the Six-Element Divine Light, he moved Cultivation Spirit Source’s headquarters there and met Governor Zhongli Quan.

  • Wang He told Yuan Qing he would avoid the central star region until reaching the Purple Mansion realm, and she made him a nominal disciple and offered him the Federation Star Region Inspector post.
  • Yuan Qing agreed to provide Wang He with Yin and Yang texts and arranged for him to lease a continent on Shuhua Star, while his inspector appointment awaited approval.
  • Three years later, Wang He’s Yin and Yang mystic landscape formed its second scene, the Six-Element Divine Light.
  • Wang He and Cultivation Spirit Source’s executives and artisans traveled by the Heavenly River to move the company headquarters to Shuhua Star.
  • Wang He met Governor Zhongli Quan at the spaceport, where his Yang aura transformed the governor’s ghostly residence and drew Zhongli Quan’s attention.

Ch. 438Understanding the Situation of Shuhua Star's Factions and Its Abundant Spirit Land Resources

Wang He and the Cultivation Spirit Source Company took over Cloud Radiance Continent and learned about Shuhua Star’s factions and abundant cultivation resources. As they surveyed the continent, Wang He began planning how to develop it, and the group arrived at Yunhua, its highest peak and spirit-vein site.

  • Zhongli Quan introduced Shuhua Star’s four continents and explained Cloud Radiance Continent’s suitability for cultivation, while asking whether Wang He wanted the Governor’s Office’s help.
  • Wang He thanked Zhongli Quan but said the company would survey Cloud Radiance Continent before deciding how to develop it, then completed the handover documents.
  • After Wang He departed, Zhongli Quan sensed that Wang He’s gentle Yang Qi might benefit ghost cultivators and broaden their path.
  • Wang He and the company’s senior managers traveled to Cloud Radiance Continent, where Jade Rabbit reported its spirit veins, resource sites, and artificial spirit lands.
  • Xiao Huoyu and Supervisor Lu pointed out promising locations for a pill-refinement factory and large-scale spirit-herb cultivation as Wang He planned to use the Two Aspects Star Wheel to reshape the continent.
  • The group reached Yunhua, Cloud Radiance Continent’s highest peak and the site of the Cultivation Spirit Source earth vein, as Jade Rabbit began reporting on it.

Ch. 439The First Peak, Cloud Radiance Peak: Demonic Beast Incursions and the Dao Foundation's Mystery, Ascending Yang Form

Wang He inspected the Dao Foundation spiritual grounds on Cloud Radiance Peak and learned that Qi Refining demonic creatures had been harassing their guards. Using his [Ascending Yang Form], he exposed and killed the hidden beasts, leaving the spiritual grounds’ threat largely cleared.

  • Wang He told his company executives to survey Cloud Radiance Continent and identify locations with Dao Foundation potential.
  • Wang He visited a spiritual ground, where Captain Xiahou Zhen confirmed his identity and explained that Mountain-Piercing Earth-Burrowing Beasts and Illusory Feather Space-Melding Eagles had been harassing the guards.
  • Xiahou Zhen provided samples from the demonic creatures, and Wang He summoned the [Two Aspects Star Wheel] and warned the guards to take shelter.
  • Wang He activated the [Ascending Yang Form], whose golden-red sunlight revealed the hidden Illusory Feather Space-Melding Eagles and killed them.
  • Wang He used yang qi to illuminate the earth veins, expose seven Mountain-Piercing Earth-Burrowing Beasts, and kill them with divine sunlight.

Ch. 440Spirit Treasure [Supreme Yin Nourishing and Moistening Transformed Water], Yin Moon Spring

Wang He explored Cloud Radiance Peak’s spiritual treasures and transformed Cold Nether Spirit Transformation Water into Supreme Yin Nourishing and Moistening Transformed Water. He then reshaped Cold Spirit Spring into Yin Moon Spring, where a new drop of the spirit treasure condensed.

  • Wang He killed the remaining demonic beasts around Cloud Radiance Peak with the Two Aspects Star Wheel, then toured the spiritual land with Xiahou Zhen.
  • Wang He inspected Cold Spirit Spring, the Astral Baleful River, and Morning Cloud Sea as Xiahou Zhen arranged a handover to employees from the Cultivation Spirit Source Company.
  • Wang He used the Two Aspects Star Wheel to transform Cold Nether Spirit Transformation Water into Supreme Yin Nourishing and Moistening Transformed Water and sent it for appraisal.
  • Wang He infused the principles of Supreme Yin Nourishment and Transformation into Cold Spirit Spring, changing its nature over the following half year.
  • Wang He watched a drop of Supreme Yin Nourishing and Moistening Transformed Water condense in the altered spring and renamed it Yin Moon Spring.

Ch. 441Secret Lands and Secret Realms Emerge, the Leadership Finds a Solution, the Ancestral Hall

Wang An's decree introduced spatial spiritual objects, secret lands, and secret realms, prompting the Human Federation's leaders to establish policies for managing them and motivating cultivators. After the meeting, Daoist Yufu entered the Heavenly River Dao Lineage's ancestral hall.

  • Wang An issued a decree announcing the emergence of spatial spiritual objects, inner-scene blessed fields, secret lands, and secret realms.
  • Daoist Yufu convened nine Federation leaders, who discussed declining innovation, weakening cultivation, and slowing population growth.
  • Daoist Yufu proposed suppressing wasteful hedonism, sending cultivators to train in the Ancient Church of Truth Seeking's Thirteen Heavenly Realms, and using secret realms to encourage advancement.
  • The leaders agreed that the Federation would control regularly opening secret realms and lands, award access through competitions, and protect the identities of cultivators entering random ones.
  • The leaders discussed the risk of Earth Immortal cultivators holding people captive in inner scenes, then adjourned after setting policies for their departments to implement.
  • Daoist Yufu used the Federation deputy speaker's seal to enter the grotto-heaven and visit the Heavenly River Dao Lineage's ancestral hall.

Ch. 442"First Edition of the New Spatial Region Management Measures" [Baishi] Blessed Field

Daoist Yufu witnessed the ancestral master's authority establish Heavenly Dao laws restricting intelligent life in self-sustaining spaces, and the Human Federation issued new measures governing spatial regions. The decree sparked a wave of exploration and interest in Inner Scene blessed fields, while cultivators began sharing their discoveries; half a month later, the first explorers emerged from a secret land sealed off by Federation forces.

  • Daoist Yufu reported his trouble to the ancestral masters, and Divine Lord Huanjing's authority created the Spatial Transformation Immortal Law restricting intelligent life in secret realms and blessed lands.
  • The Supreme Council of the Human Federation issued the First Edition of the New Spatial Region Management Measures, prompting widespread exploration and a rush to obtain spatial fluctuation detectors.
  • Daoist Baishi livestreamed the creation of his Inner Scene blessed field and demonstrated that it expanded over time, faster when supplied with abundant matter and energy.
  • Cultivators with spatial spiritual objects followed Baishi's example, attracting Qi Destiny to the Earth Immortal Dao, while corporations offered bounties and organized collection teams.
  • Half a month later, cultivators began emerging from the earth-vein secret land, where Federation forces had sealed off the area and three Dao Foundation cultivators stood guard.

Ch. 443Innate Imagery Spirit Treasures, Secret Lands, and Their Impact

The Federation’s first secret land revealed innate spirit treasures that could help cultivators form Dao Foundations, igniting a rush to explore similar places. Over the next five years, secret lands multiplied and Dao Foundation cultivators surged, but no Purple Mansion secret realms appeared, worrying aging veteran cultivators.

  • After the cultivators left the secret land, a Federation official offered them safe cultivation chambers, resource exchanges, or passage away, while requiring them to record what they had found.
  • Ten days later, a new Dao Foundation imagery appeared, and explorers reported that the secret land’s monsters guarded three innate spirit treasures that might help cultivators form Dao Foundations.
  • News that an explorer had formed a mid-grade Dao Foundation drove cultivators to buy exploration supplies, while the failure of another cultivator attempting a breakthrough intensified interest in the secret lands.
  • Daoist Yufu learned that 340 secret lands had been recorded and that their spread would mobilize cultivators, increase activity, and risk social conflict while providing more paths for advancement.
  • Over five years, secret lands appeared across the Federation, Dao Foundation cultivators multiplied, and planetary development accelerated, but the expected Purple Mansion secret realms did not appear.
  • Veteran Late-Stage and Perfection Dao Foundation cultivators grew anxious because some had only a little over a century left before spiritual exhaustion threatened their cultivation.

Ch. 444Secret Realm, [Innate Primordial Yin-Yang True Ultimate Mystic Qi], [Ultimate True Qi]

Wang He emerged from seclusion having reached the Dao Foundation Middle Stage and refined his Yin-Yang Mystic Qi into Innate Primordial Yin-Yang True Ultimate Mystic Qi. He decided to enter the secret realm opening on Qingqiu Star, where cultivators from across the Federation had gathered.

  • Daoist Yufu received an urgent report that a secret realm was about to emerge in the northeastern Demonic Beast Star Domain and ordered warships and Purple Mansion Perfected Persons to secure the area.
  • Wang He completed his breakthrough to the Dao Foundation Middle Stage, transforming his mystic landscape and refining Innate Primordial Yin-Yang True Ultimate Mystic Qi.
  • Jade Rabbit told Wang He that more than a thousand Dao Foundation cultivators had gathered near the secret realm, and Xiao Huoyu and Lu Lingxian urged him to pursue its Purple Mansion opportunity.
  • Wang He agreed to travel to the secret realm to gauge the Federation's Dao Foundation cultivators, then departed for the Mountain and Sea Planetary System.
  • At the temporary starport outside Qingqiu Star, cultivators discussed the factions gathered there and the declining prospects of other Transcendent Systems, while Daoist Qianmiao redirected their attention to their rivals for the secret realm's opportunity.

Ch. 445[Avert Calamity Punishment] [Jingming Radiance] [Enlightening Information]

Wang He attended a gathering of Dao Foundation cultivators, where Daoist Qianmiao introduced him as the first person to attain the Yin and Yang Dao Foundation and a nominal disciple of the Heavenly River Dao Lineage. Wang He lectured on Yin and Yang until his audience struggled to follow, drawing the attention of powerful factions and their Purple Mansion disciples.

  • The cultivators discussed young talents capable of contending with peak Initial Tier experts, including Daoist Jie Jian, Fairy Mingzhi, Fairy Yue, and Yuan Lingzi.
  • Wang He arrived at the temporary port, and Daoist Qianmiao revealed his Yin and Yang Dao Foundation and his place in the Heavenly River Dao Lineage.
  • Daoist Qianmiao welcomed Wang He to the gathering as Daoist Tai Zheng and praised his rapid breakthrough to the Dao Foundation realm.
  • Wang He explained the Six Elements Theory of Yin and Yang, leaving the gathered cultivators confused by the increasingly intricate principles.
  • Perfected Person Yuanlian and his young female disciple watched Wang He's lecture aboard an interstellar warship, and Yuanlian praised its value.
  • Purple Mansion factions including the Sword Qi Palace, Pure Radiance Mountain, the Supreme Yin Hall, and the Primordial Spirit Sea turned their attention toward Wang He.

Ch. 446The Federation's New Generation of Geniuses, Kunshan on Qingqiu Star

Wang He, known as Tai Zheng, lectured leading cultivators on the Dao of Yin and Yang until the secret realm passage opened. He traveled with them to Kunshan on Qingqiu Star, where cultivators gathered beneath the unstable entrance and awaited the Federation’s arrangements.

  • Jie Jian, Ming Zhi, the Moon Official, and Yuan Lingzi visited Wang He and greeted him as the foremost cultivator of Yin and Yang.
  • Wang He formed Yin-Yang qi into meditation cushions and lectured the assembled cultivators on the principles of Yin and Yang for three days.
  • The Federation announced that the secret realm entrance had formed and would open in one hour.
  • Wang He accepted Jie Jian’s invitation, and their group boarded a military spacecraft to Kunshan on Qingqiu Star.
  • The spacecraft reached the unstable spatial rift above Kunshan, where many Dao Foundation cultivators had gathered beneath the entrance.

Ch. 447Entering, Desolate Beast, the "Freezing and Stagnation" Image, [Desolate Realm Divine Gift]

Daoist Qianmiao and the other cultivators entered the secret realm after Yuanlian warned them about its dangers and the rarity of its Purple Mansion opportunity. Wang He arrived alone on a floating planetary fragment and faced a powerful metal flood dragon, whose innate freezing-and-stagnation ability he identified as a Desolate Realm Divine Gift.

  • Daoist Qianmiao said the secret realm was likely to contain only one Purple Mansion opportunity, and Yuanlian warned cultivators to prioritize survival and avoid harming their fellow Federation members.
  • Wang He and the other Dao Foundation cultivators entered the stabilized secret-realm gateway, each using their own method of travel.
  • Wang He appeared alone on a planetary fragment and found Dao Foundation spirit objects guarded by powerful Desolate Beasts.
  • Wang He provoked a metal flood dragon from a deep-sea cave, and it attacked him with an image domain that froze the sea and crushed its surroundings.
  • Wang He identified the flood dragon's innate power as a Desolate Realm Divine Gift and used his Yin-Yang force field to withstand its bite, though the creature's domain slowed his movements.

Ch. 448Yin and Yang Partial Decline; Freezing and Stagnation Layered Light

Wang He countered the metal flood dragon’s freezing and stagnating power, defeated it without destroying its spirit-metal body, and gathered resources from its undersea lair. After strengthening the Two Aspects Star Wheel and advancing his cultivation, he surveyed the nearby star fragments and prepared to leave.

  • Wang He used lesser Yang and reverting Yin to weaken the metal flood dragon’s Desolate Realm Divine Gift, then trapped and crushed it with the Two Aspects Star Wheel.
  • Wang He used Yin and Yang Partial Decline to extinguish the flood dragon’s spirituality while preserving its metal body, then let the star wheel devour it.
  • Wang He explored the flood dragon’s lair, collected a cold-metal vein and the Freezing and Stagnation Layered Light, and gathered other spirit resources nearby.
  • Wang He raised the Two Aspects Star Wheel to First-Tier High Grade, strengthening its abilities and bringing his cultivation close to the peak of the middle stage of Dao Foundation.
  • Wang He assessed his spirit lights and other finds, observed a powerful void whale feeding near the star fragments, and prepared to leave.

Ch. 449Wizard Xinghuo, the Life and Death Desolate Vine, and Arrogance

Wang He explored a star fragment, subdued a rare Life and Death Desolate Vine, and rejected Grand Wizard Xinghuo’s attempt to claim it. Xinghuo seethed over the encounter but decided against provoking Wang He because of his backing.

  • Wang He rode a Void Whale to another star fragment and watched Grand Wizard Xinghuo defeat an Earth-Element Desolate Monkey with life magic.
  • Wang He found a Life and Death Desolate Vine feeding on a corpse, tested its aggression with Qi Refining-stage desolate beasts, and subdued it with the Two Aspects Star Wheel.
  • Grand Wizard Xinghuo approached Wang He and claimed that he had raised the vine, offering a thousand spirit crystals to buy it back.
  • Wang He challenged Xinghuo’s claim, kept the vine, and vanished from the star fragment.
  • Xinghuo considered seizing Wang He’s spiritual artifact but restrained himself because Wang He was a nominal disciple of the Heavenly River Dao Lineage.

Ch. 450Ambush, encirclement, a Quasi-Second Tier sword artifact, and great magic

Wang He collected spiritual treasures in the secret realm and killed an ambusher wielding a blood-red sword artifact. Wizard Xinghuo and four other top wizards then trapped him with Quasi-Second Tier great magic and demanded his treasures.

  • Wang He learned that the secret realm’s upper levels held stronger treasures and the likely opportunity to reach the Purple Mansion, and he encountered Mo Yuemei, now called Heavenly Human Cangyue.
  • Wang He claimed a Purple Yang Spiritual Essence Jade and sensed five Elemental Wizards and another hidden enemy watching him.
  • A hidden assailant struck Wang He with a blood-red sword artifact, but Wang He froze and burned the attacker to ashes, taking the sword.
  • Wizard Xinghuo and four other top wizards launched the Heaven-Devouring Earth-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Calamity Realm and the Heaven-Sealing Earth-Locking Five Elements Forbidden Realm around Wang He.
  • Wizard Xinghuo demanded that Wang He surrender his lifebound spiritual artifact and treasures, while Wang He rejected the threat and watched the vortex descend.

Ch. 451Two Aspects Divine Light, Awaiting Opportunity, Communion of Attainments

Wang He used the Two Aspects Divine Light to kill five top-tier wizards and escaped with their spoils, then traveled to the star fragment where cultivators awaited the Purple Mansion opportunity. Meanwhile, Wang An and Divine Lord Huanjing watched the secret realm and communed their attainments, causing their Inner Scene Grotto-Heaven to expand.

  • Wang He unleashed the Two Aspects Divine Light, broke the sealing formations, and killed the five top-tier wizards, though the technique depleted much of the Lesser Yang Star Cluster.
  • Wang He discovered that the blood fiend sword contained a spatial spiritual object, stored his spoils inside it, and quietly left as cultivators approached.
  • Investigating cultivators concluded that Daoist Tai Zheng had killed the five wizards with a single powerful technique.
  • Four days later, Wang He reached the vast upper star fragment, gathered Primordial Qi, and rested on the outskirts of the contested central area where cultivators awaited the Purple Mansion opportunity.
  • Wang An and Divine Lord Huanjing watched the secret realm through the Spatial Transformation Divine Tree; Huanjing recognized Wang He as Wang An’s reincarnated thought and asked to take him as a disciple.
  • Wang An and Divine Lord Huanjing communed their Five Elements and Spatial Transformation attainments, generating spiritual objects and expanding the Inner Scene Grotto-Heaven.
Arc 18 of 23
Arc 18 of 23