Chapter Summaries

Yan Qingshan met Dragon Clan Chief Yuan Qian and learned that a damaged formation was allowing Demonic Being Qi to escape from the Dragon Clan’s Demon Suppressing Prison. After entering the demonic sea to find the Lord of Darkness, Yan Qingshan discovered the true prison below.

• Duan Tao led Yan Qingshan to meet Yuan Qian, who tested Yan Qingshan with Dragon’s Might before hearing why he had come.
• Yan Qingshan showed the Dragon Clan the suppressed Great Heavenly Demonic King and said he would deal with the demons in their prison as well.
• Yuan Qian explained that his breakthrough a hundred years earlier had damaged the prison’s formation, and Yan Qingshan questioned why the Dragon Clan had not sought an Ancestral Symbol.
• Yan Qingshan entered the leaking demonic sea to locate the Lord of Darkness while Yuan Qian and the elders maintained the formation.
• Yan Qingshan passed through the leaked Demonic Being Qi and spotted the true Demon Suppressing Prison beneath it.

Yan Qingshan entered the vast Demon Suppressing Prison, destroyed a demonic spirit, and awakened the Lord of Darkness. After overpowering her, he claimed the prison and its Demonic Beings, then carried her away so she could recover outside.

• Yan Qingshan descended into the Demon Suppressing Prison and saw its aging chains and seals leaking demonic qi.
• A thousand-zhang demonic qi python attacked Yan Qingshan, and he destroyed it with golden lightning.
• Yan Qingshan reached the black throne and awakened the Lord of Darkness, who attacked him with chains.
• Yan Qingshan subdued the Lord of Darkness and declared the Demon Suppressing Prison and its Demonic Beings belonged to him.
• Yan Qingshan carried the Lord of Darkness out of the prison so she could recover, and she held onto him as they flew upward.

Yan Qingshan sealed the demonic sea back into the Demon Suppressing Prison and set its captured Demonic Tribe members against one another. He planned to let one powerful threat emerge so he could draw out Taishang and test his chance to subdue the Tianxuan Continent’s Plane Embryo.

• The Lord of Darkness emerged with Yan Qingshan and recognized Qing Tan as a successor to the Darkness Palace legacy she had left behind.
• Yan Qingshan revealed four demonic souls, including the Great Heavenly Demonic King, and explained that he wanted to provoke Taishang by creating a threat.
• Yan Qingshan sent the four demonic souls into the demonic sea, causing it to contract as they stirred the Demonic Tribe within the prison.
• Yan Qingshan purified and sealed the demonic sea inside the Demon Suppressing Prison while Ling Qingzhu, Qing Tan, and the Dragon Clan experts watched.
• The imprisoned Demonic Tribe members began slaughtering and devouring one another as Yan Qingshan waited for a sufficiently powerful enemy to emerge.

Yan Qingshan used the demonic monstrosity to draw out the Plane Spirit and tried to gain control of the Plane Embryo with Ling Qingzhu’s help. The Plane Spirit briefly connected with him but vanished, leaving him to conclude that he must first eliminate every invader.

• Yan Qingshan asked Ling Qingzhu to call upon the Supreme while the Lord of Darkness watched the demonic aura inside the Demon Suppressing Prison grow stronger.
• Ling Qingzhu summoned the Supreme’s power, and Yan Qingshan opened the prison to release a monster formed from countless demonic souls and demonic aura.
• Yan Qingshan held Ling Qingzhu’s hand, and their consciousnesses entered the chaos, where they sensed the immature Plane Spirit known as the Plane Embryo.
• Yan Qingshan urged the Plane Spirit to help him protect the Tianxuan Continent, and Ling Qingzhu asked it to trust him.
• The Plane Spirit appeared and allowed Yan Qingshan to touch it, briefly letting him sense the power of the continent before disappearing.
• Yan Qingshan realized he had not gained control of the Plane Embryo and would have to purify every invader before trying again.

Yan Qingshan returned from the Plane Embryo with a breakthrough to the Ancestral Realm and explained why the Symbol Ancestor’s attempt to master the Plane Spirit had failed. He decided to leave the Tianxuan Continent so that its Plane Spirit might be forced to choose a new master, while promising to arrange for the Demonic Tribe’s defeat first.

• Yan Qingshan returned with Ling Qingzhu and destroyed the freed demonic python with a streak of golden light.
• Yan Qingshan told the Lord of Darkness that he had reached the Ancestral Realm but had not gained the Plane Spirit’s recognition.
• Yan Qingshan explained that the Symbol Ancestor had relied on the Plane Spirit’s goodwill instead of forcing it into desperation, and that the Plane Spirit would not choose an outsider while a powerful defender remained.
• The Lord of Darkness asked whether Yan Qingshan would attack the remaining Demonic Tribe, but he said that was her task and announced he planned to leave for the Great Thousand World.
• The Lord of Darkness objected that Yan Qingshan would leave her, Ling Qingzhu, and Qing Tan behind, and Yan Qingshan promised to arrange matters and said his departure could create the crisis needed for the Plane Spirit to accept a master.

Yan Qingshan explained that he planned to leave the Tianxuan Continent after setting up a way for the Plane Spirit to recognize a suitable master and deal with the Demonic Tribe. He revealed that Lin Dong was the strongest candidate, while he intended to join his main body in the Great Thousand World.

• Yan Qingshan told the Lord of Darkness that he would leave to make the Plane Spirit face a genuine crisis and choose a master.
• The Lord of Darkness identified Ying Huanhuan, the Ice Master's reincarnation, as a possible Ancestral Realm expert, and Yan Qingshan revealed that she liked Lin Dong.
• Yan Qingshan explained that Lin Dong's ties to the Ancestral Stone and his mastery of the Devouring and Space Ancestral Talismans gave him the best chance of gaining the Plane Spirit's recognition.
• Yan Qingshan reflected that the Plane Spirit had manipulated the Symbol Ancestor and was attempting to use him in the same way, but he had already gained benefits from their contact.
• Yan Qingshan decided to leave the Tianxuan Continent after arranging contingencies and head with his main body to the Great Thousand World.

Lin Dong reunited with Qing Tan at Yan Qingshan’s courtyard and learned that the Demonic Tribe had infiltrated the Heavenly Demonic Marten Clan. He and Little Marten set out for the clan’s Heavenly Cave to investigate the Eternal Illusion Demonic Flower, while Yan Qingshan planned to wait for Lin Dong’s return before leaving.

• Lin Dong arrived with Little Marten, Lin Yan, Yuan Qian, and Qing Zhi, greeted Yan Qingshan, and reunited with Qing Tan and the Lord of Darkness.
• The Lord of Darkness criticized Lin Dong’s low cultivation, while Yan and Yan Qingshan explained his connection to the Ancestral Talismans.
• Yan Qingshan revealed that an Eternal Illusion Demonic Flower had trapped the Heavenly Demonic Marten Clan’s experts in illusions and named Hao Jiuyou as a Demon Prison agent behind the scheme.
• Lin Dong agreed to help Little Marten investigate the Heavenly Cave, and Qing Zhi joined them to confront the Demonic Tribe.
• After the group departed, the Lord of Darkness asked when Yan Qingshan would leave, and he said he would wait until Lin Dong returned.

After Lord of Darkness captured two Demonic Kings summoned by Hao Jiuyou, Yan Qingshan revealed the sealed rift between the Tianxuan Continent and the Demonic Tribe to Lin Dong. Yan Qingshan then crossed into the demon realm and attacked its forces, awakening the Demonic Emperor as he prepared for his final battle before leaving the plane.

• Hao Jiuyou sacrificed an arm to summon Demonic Kings, but Lord of Darkness captured the two arrivals and Qing Zhi restrained Hao Jiuyou.
• Qing Zhi failed to trace Demon Prison after its connection through the vortex was severed, and Lord of Darkness took the captives to the Dragon Clan.
• At the Dragon Clan Ancestral Land, Yan Qingshan told Lin Dong he planned to leave the Tianxuan Continent and showed him the Symbol Ancestor's formation sealing the Demonic Tribe's spatial rift.
• Yan Qingshan held Lin Dong in place and charged through the formation into the demon realm, where his golden lightning annihilated demons and awakened the Demonic Emperor.
• The Demonic Emperor rose to confront Yan Qingshan, who continued purging the demon realm and said he wanted to gather data for developing techniques against the Outer Realm Evil Race.

Yan Qingshan confronted the injured Demonic Emperor in the spatial rift and revealed that he knew the Sacred Race’s origins in the Heavenly Origin Realm. A mysterious figure noticed that the future had changed as Yan Qingshan and the Demonic Emperor began a battle that shook the sealed world.

• Yan Qingshan recognized that the Demonic Emperor still bore the wound Symbol Ancestor had inflicted and declared that he had come to repay the Tianxuan Continent.
• The Demonic Emperor realized Yan Qingshan was an outsider of Quasi-Heavenly Sovereign strength, and Yan Qingshan mentioned the Heavenly Origin Realm, shocking him.
• A towering figure in the Chaos Void noticed that a vision of the future had changed, with one of three figures replaced by a tree and a man beneath it.
• The Demonic Emperor attacked Yan Qingshan with demonic lightning, palm-eyes, and torrents of demonic qi, while Yan Qingshan countered with the Thunder Scepter and Nine-Headed Thunder Dragon.
• Yan Qingshan and the Demonic Emperor’s summoned manifestations collided, shaking the sealed world as Symbol Ancestor’s formation contained the destruction.

Yan Qingshan outmaneuvered the Demonic Emperor by secretly planting lightning power in the Demonic Army, causing the Demonic Emperor’s sacrificial attack to fail. With the Demonic Emperor severely injured and bound, Yan Qingshan revealed that he wanted to study the Outer Realm Evil Race’s origin power rather than destroy him.

• The Demonic Emperor transformed into a thousand-armed demonic shadow and sacrificed his true body and more than half the Demonic Army to create the Primordial Demonic Stele.
• The Demonic Emperor sent the Primordial Demonic Stele and Myriad Demon Seal down to suppress Yan Qingshan.
• Yan Qingshan revealed that he had secretly spread lightning power through the Demonic Army while they fought.
• Yan Qingshan detonated his hidden power, causing the Primordial Demonic Stele to explode and leaving the Demonic Emperor severely injured.
• Yan Qingshan separated the Demonic Emperor from the Demonic Army, bound him with lightning dragons, and said he wanted the Outer Realm Evil Race’s origin power.

Yan Qingshan returned after severely injuring the Demonic Emperor and explained how Lin Dong and Ling Qingzhu could use the Plane Spirit to defeat him. After giving them instructions and saying farewell to the women he cared for, Yan Qingshan departed Tianxuan Continent in a pillar of azure light.

• Yan Qingshan extracted the Demonic Emperor’s heart and a bone containing origin power, then left him trapped and severely weakened.
• Yan Qingshan told Lin Dong and Ling Qingzhu that they could gain control of the Plane Embryo by using the Demonic Emperor to force the Plane Spirit to choose a master.
• Yan Qingshan urged Lin Dong to strengthen himself by refining the Dragon Clan’s primordial Dragon Bone and visiting the Devouring Divine Hall.
• Yan Qingshan instructed Ling Qingzhu to cultivate the Supreme Induction Art and asked the Lord of Darkness to protect her and Qingtan.
• Yan Qingshan comforted Qingtan and said farewell to her, Ling Qingzhu, and the Lord of Darkness before departing in a pillar of azure light.

More than a decade after the Hun Clan's destruction, Yan Qingshan opened a passage to the Great Thousand World and prepared to ascend. He left a source-qi array in the Pill Realm for his companions and departed as the first recorded ascender from the Dou Qi Continent.

• The Azure Emperor Palace unified the Dou Qi Continent, and Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun waited in Holy Pill City for the source qi Yan Qingshan had predicted would return.
• Yan Qingshan opened a luminous passage above Holy Pill City, allowing Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun to sense the source qi beyond it.
• Yan Qingshan directed the Dou Saints into the Pill Realm, where he established an array of Bodhi Trees to draw source qi and aid their cultivation.
• Yan Qingshan told Xiao Yi Xian, Qingling, Ziyan, and the other women that he would ascend first and bring them to the Great Thousand World after they reached the Dou Emperor realm.
• Yan Qingshan took the Bodhi Ancient Tree through the passage as crowds across the continent hailed his ascension.

Yan Qingshan ascended from the Dou Qi Continent into the Great Thousand World and met Luo Tianshen of the declining Luoshen Clan. After Luo Tianshen helped him adapt to the spiritual energy conversion, Yan Qingshan accepted an invitation to stay with the clan while he learned about the new world.

• Yan Qingshan navigated concealed spatial turbulence near the Great Thousand World and reached the Western Heaven Continent.
• The chapter described the Luoshen Clan's decline and its looming conflict with the Blood God Clan, Bone God Clan, and Might God Clan.
• Luo Tianshen investigated an abnormal spiritual energy disturbance in Luoshen Clan territory while his son, the young clan leader, prepared the guards.
• Yan Qingshan emerged from the spatial vortex, and Luo Tianshen explained that his power was converting into the Great Thousand World's spiritual energy.
• Luo Tianshen invited Yan Qingshan to consult the Luoshen Clan's records and stay with the clan, and Yan Qingshan accepted.

Yan Qingshan stayed in Luoshen City as Luo Tianshen and his eldest son welcomed him and offered him access to the Luoshen Palace library. He studied the Great Thousand World's cultivation systems and considered rebuilding his foundation while his avatars regained strength quickly.

• Luo Tianshen's eldest son toasted Yan Qingshan and welcomed him to the Luoshen Clan.
• Yan Qingshan told Luo Tianshen and his son that he planned to use his spiritual energy conversion to explore new cultivation ideas rather than advance quickly.
• Yan Qingshan began studying ancient texts in the Luoshen Palace library, including notes on the Sovereign realm and writings attributed to Luoshen.
• Yan Qingshan weighed the Great Thousand World's cultivation paths against those of the Dou Qi Continent and Tianxuan Continent, especially the Spirit Soul Realm's ability to refine beast essence souls.
• Yan Qingshan considered spirit beast bloodline bonds and Spirit Beast Parasitism as ways to gain beast abilities.

Yan Qingshan studied the Great Thousand World’s beast rankings and considered whether he could evolve into a Supreme Dragon-Phoenix with Ziyan’s help and a chance to obtain dragon-phoenix fusion power. Luo Tianshen then invited him to become a retainer of the struggling Luoshen Clan, leaving Yan Qingshan to decide whether to accept.

• Yan Qingshan read the Luoshen Clan’s illustrated Myriad Beasts Record and reviewed the ranks and origins of the Supreme Dragon-Phoenix.
• Yan Qingshan considered how his connection with Ziyan and his Dragon-Phoenix Power might let him pursue a Supreme Dragon-Phoenix evolution in the Great Thousand World.
• Luo Tianshen brought Yan Qingshan Sovereign Spirit Liquid and spiritual delicacies, explaining that the Luoshen Clan’s resources could not make up for its lack of capable younger members.
• Luo Tianshen invited Yan Qingshan to become a Luoshen Clan retainer and offered him treatment equal to his own.

Yan Qingshan declined Luo Tianshen’s invitation to become an honorary elder, but treated Luo Tianshen’s Blood Demon Curse and refined a pill to relieve it. As a pill tribulation gathered over Luoshen Palace, Luo Tianshen’s clan watched the lightning strike toward the alchemy chamber.

• Luo Tianshen offered Yan Qingshan generous terms to join the Luoshen Clan as an honorary elder, but Yan Qingshan declined because he did not intend to stay.
• Luo Tianshen suffered a coughing fit, and Yan Qingshan recognized that he was afflicted by Blood God Clan’s Blood Demon Curse.
• Yan Qingshan suppressed Luo Tianshen’s symptoms, refined a pill to provide temporary relief, and gave Luo Tianshen’s son a formula for treating the curse.
• Luo Tianshen offered Yan Qingshan the clan’s alchemist texts, pill formulas, and spirit herbs, then brought his son to stand guard outside the alchemy chamber.
• A pill tribulation gathered above Luoshen Palace, and Luo Tianshen deployed his Dharma Body to reassure the city before lightning struck toward the alchemy chamber.

Yan Qingshan finished refining multiple pills and gave Luo Tianshen a Blood Spirit Pill to treat his curse and Luo Tianshen’s son a life-saving Yin-Yang Nirvana Pill. After accepting the Luoshen Clan’s Dharma Body inheritances and celebrating with them, Yan Qingshan planned to leave in three days using their teleportation array.

• Yan Qingshan refined multiple high-grade pills over three days, repeatedly swallowing the thunderclouds above Luoshen Palace with a spatial vortex.
• Yan Qingshan gave Luo Tianshen a Blood Spirit Pill to help remove the Blood Demon Curse, and Luo Tianshen offered him the Luoshen Clan’s Dharma Body inheritances.
• Yan Qingshan gave Luo Tianshen’s son a Yin-Yang Nirvana Pill that would activate during a life-threatening crisis and let him be reborn stronger.
• Yan Qingshan asked to use the Luoshen Clan’s teleportation array and said he would leave in three days; Luo Tianshen arranged a farewell feast.
• Yan Qingshan spent three days being hosted by the Luoshen Clan, then left Luoshen Ancient City.

Yan Qingshan arrived on Commerce Continent to inspect its trade hub and seek a way to turn its wealth into resources for his plans. After noting the limits of making Commerce Continent a super force’s foundation, he decided to find and support an agent there.

• Yan Qingshan assessed Commerce City’s formation outside its gates, drawing the attention of a woman in a phoenix carriage.
• Yan Qingshan entered the city and marveled at its crowded streets, abundant shops, and prosperity.
• Yan Qingshan concluded that Commerce Continent’s divided forces and trade environment made it unsuitable as the foundation of a super force.
• Yan Qingshan decided to find a suitable candidate and support an agent on Commerce Continent.

Yan Qingshan entered the Commerce Auction House and caught the attention of the Immortal Fox Empress, who failed to bewitch him with her technique. He then sought an appraisal for pills he wanted to trade for artifacts or cultivation techniques.

• Yan Qingshan saw the Immortal Fox Empress arrive at the auction house, where her servant Little Madman struck men who had insulted her before Master Mo Qing escorted her inside.
• The Immortal Fox Empress noticed Yan Qingshan and tried to affect him with the Immortal Fox Grand Technique, but he resisted and she became interested in him.
• Yan Qingshan entered the Commerce Auction House and asked a maidservant to take him to an appraiser.
• Yan Qingshan gave the appraiser a jade bottle of pills and asked to exchange them for spiritual or divine artifacts, spiritual arts, or divine techniques.

Yan Qingshan auctioned two unprecedented Yin-Yang Nirvana Pills at the Commerce Auction House and received a VIP token. He bought the Minor Thousand Palace, while the auction’s tenth item—the Spirit Illusion Orb and its ancient Earth Sovereign inheritance—was introduced, with bidding yet to begin.

• Yan Qingshan explained the Yin-Yang Nirvana Pill’s effects to the appraiser, and Master Mo Qing confirmed its grade while agreeing to compensate him if one pill had to be tested.
• Master Mo Qing gave Yan Qingshan a Commerce Token, and a maid escorted him to a pavilion at the front of the auction hall.
• Master Mo Qing opened the auction by presenting the Minor Thousand Palace, which Yan Qingshan bought for six thousand drops of Sovereign Spirit Liquid.
• Yan Qingshan watched several more items sell without bidding again and examined the Minor Thousand Palace.
• Master Mo Qing unveiled the Spirit Illusion Orb, described the inheritance of the ancient Spirit Illusion Divine Monarch, and set its starting price at one hundred thousand drops of Sovereign Spirit Liquid.