Recaps

Yan Kuan trapped Di Tian in the Finger-Earth Cage, but Di Tian broke free by unleashing the ancient Scripture Three Realms Reincarnation, Engrave My Name for Eternity. Yan Kuan then traveled with Immortal Qing Shi, Little Tingting, and Ling'er to Fallen Saint Island, where they began exploring the trial grounds.

• Yan Kuan used his formation to imprison Di Tian, who was badly injured while trying to break free.
• Di Tian unleashed his ancient Scripture and shattered Yan Kuan's formation, while Yan Kuan secretly collected some of his Saint blood.
• The trial-takers hurried toward Fallen Saint Island, and Yan Kuan invited Immortal Qing Shi to travel with his group.
• Yan Kuan teased Ling'er as the group entered Fallen Saint Island and encountered a wary Beast King that soon retreated.
• Yan Kuan's group explored the island's wilderness and collected ancient medicines, while Immortal Qing Shi urged Ling'er to gain her own enlightenment.

Yan Kuan and his companions entered Fallen Saint Island’s Central Forbidden Zone and discovered a battlefield where cultivators could fight a copy of themselves. Yan Kuan began an intense battle against his blood-colored double, while Qing Shi, Little Tingting, and Ling'er waited for him to emerge.

• Yan Kuan comprehended the Natural Dao, gathered spirit medicines with Ling'er, then left her with the Qingyang Sacred Lantern and Sage's Notes as he and Qing Shi led Little Tingting toward the Central Forbidden Zone.
• Yan Kuan, Qing Shi, and Little Tingting crossed the Central Forbidden Zone, surviving deadly laws, ferocious beasts, and a Dao-Dissolving Flame that Yan Kuan absorbed.
• The group reached the Ten-Zhang Blood Pool and learned that its Blood-colored Battlefield could let each trial-taker battle a second self.
• Yan Kuan entered a Blood-colored Fissure and fought his identical opponent with his many techniques, striving to surpass himself and refine his abilities.
• After nine days, Qing Shi and Little Tingting waited by the Blood Lake, while Ling'er, having joined them after gaining insight, also waited for Yan Kuan to return.

Yan Kuan completed the Blood-colored Battlefield trial and left Fallen Saint Island with Immortal Qing Shi, Little Tingting, and Little Ling'er as Di Tian challenged the hidden powerhouse who had defeated him. After the First Pass announced a lethal trial to the Second Pass, Yan Kuan and his companions entered a lush world filled with spiritual fruits.

• Yan Kuan emerged from the Blood Lake after nine days, having fought his own Blood-colored Shadow and strengthened himself through the battle.
• The trial-takers left Fallen Saint Island, and Di Tian challenged the unseen expert, who dismissed him as too weak to fight until he reached the Saint King or Great Saint Realm.
• Yan Kuan took the girls to an old tavern, where Little Ling'er teased Xiao Nannan with wine and they bickered over spiritual fruits.
• Immortal Qing Shi warned Yan Kuan and Little Tingting not to reveal their origins on the Burial Emperor Star because of its old enemies.
• The Initiator announced that trial-takers had to fight their way to the Second Pass, with everyone allowed to attack anyone.
• Yan Kuan and his companions entered a verdant trial world, where Xiao Nannan and Little Ling'er ran ahead to gather spiritual fruits.

Yan Kuan subdued the Jadeite Little Man in the Herb Garden Forbidden Ground and learned that the trial’s ancient battlefield held the Source of the Dao. Through his Chaos Fire Body, he cleared the battlefield of its competitors, then tracked the treasure underground and caught it.

• Yan Kuan used the Qingyang Sacred Lantern to defeat the Jadeite Little Man and learned about the Source of the Dao and the trial’s rules.
• Yan Kuan chose to stay in the herb garden with Xiao Nannan and Little Tingting, while the Jadeite Little Man apologized and offered his Starry River Purple Sand.
• Yan Kuan’s Chaos Fire Body appeared over the battlefield, warned everyone to leave, and killed the native experts who attacked him.
• Yan Kuan ordered the trial-takers to depart, and Di Tian recognized that the Chaos Fire Body was an avatar before retreating.
• Yan Kuan connected with heaven and earth, pursued the Source of the Dao beneath the earth, and caught its ball of light in his palm.

Yan Kuan gained recognition from the Source of the Dao and arrived with his companions at the Second Holy City, where many trial participants abandoned the Emperor Road. He chose to remain and train before entering the Ancient Dao Field, then cultivated his Dragon Transformation Realm to its limit and began planning his breakthrough into the Immortal Platform Realm.

• The Source of the Dao recognized Yan Kuan, and he reflected that such treasures offered an opportunity to attain the Dao but could not replace carving out a path through strength.
• Yan Kuan and his companions traveled from the battlefield to the Second Holy City, where the Jadeite Little Man bid farewell to Xiao Nannan.
• At a tavern, demoralized cultivators decided to withdraw from the trials, while others stayed and renewed their resolve to continue.
• Yan Kuan told Immortal Qing Shi that he planned to remain in the city for several years to cultivate and enter the Ancient Dao Field; she agreed to stay and travel with him.
• Yan Kuan cultivated with the True Dragon Undying Medicine and the Undying Immortal Pill, reaching the extreme limit of the Dragon Transformation Realm without breaking beyond it.
• Yan Kuan began planning to enter the Immortal Platform Realm, while Little Tingting comforted him and Xiao Nannan joined her in plotting to teach him a lesson.

Yan Kuan confronted the Overlord Body for attacking Yan Ruyu and the other women in the Second Holy City, then carried the fight into the starry sky. He reached for the Overlord Body’s head as the chapter ended.

• Ling'er told Yan Kuan and Immortal Qing Shi that an Azure Heaven Overlord Bloodline bearer was expected in the Second Holy City, and they learned that Qi Zheng’s grandfather, Qi Tian, was the exceptional figure arriving to welcome him.
• Yan Kuan, Immortal Qing Shi, Little Tingting, and Ling'er attended a gathering hosted by Yan Chifeng, where Yan Chifeng introduced them to Qi Zheng and Xu Li.
• The Overlord Body pursued Yan Ruyu, Yi Qingwu, and the other women into the Second Holy City, where the Initiator ordered the fighters to stop and uphold the city rules.
• Yan Kuan challenged the Initiator over the city’s rules, then appeared beside Yan Ruyu and asked whether people could kill freely outside the Holy City.
• The Overlord Body attacked Yan Kuan, who hurled him into the starry sky and reached for his head.

Yan Kuan overwhelmed the Overlord in the Second Holy City and repeatedly wounded him, revealing that he intended to plunder the Overlord’s inherited techniques rather than kill him outright. After Yan Kuan seized the Overlord’s Emperor Script and Overlord Bell, the injured Overlord fled while Yan Kuan prepared to pursue him.

• Yan Kuan sent the Overlord crashing into an asteroid, while cultivators in the Second Holy City discussed their feud and the Overlord’s violation of the city’s rules.
• The Overlord recovered with the Undying God Art and charged Yan Kuan again, but Yan Kuan wounded him repeatedly and dismissed his claims of superiority.
• The Overlord used nine characters from the Lunar Yin Immortal Scripture, and Yan Kuan recognized the inheritance and countered with the Sun Sage Emperor’s characters.
• Yan Kuan’s attack devastated the Overlord, who tried to retaliate with the Overlord Bell and Battle Saint Technique.
• Yan Kuan used Empyrean Flame to refine away the Overlord’s techniques and seize them, then attacked again as the Overlord fled to avoid losing more of his inheritance.

Yan Kuan’s clone fought the Overlord and uncovered fragments of his memories before revealing that he was only a clone. As the Overlord’s final trump card, the Divine Consciousness of the Grand Sovereign of the Lunar Yin, appeared, Yan Kuan recognized the ancient Human Sovereign’s evil thought and the chapter ended with him explaining its origins.

• The Overlord attacked Yan Kuan with techniques from the Lunar Yin Immortal Scripture and Overlord Fist, while Yan Kuan refined his essence and glimpsed memories of the Overlord Body Ancestral Star and an Ancient Cave.
• The Overlord charged within thirty meters, but Yan Kuan struck him with a Heaven-Overturning Seal and revealed that he was fighting with a clone.
• Yan Kuan’s clone trapped the Overlord in a sea of stars, and the Overlord used his inherited scriptures and recovery technique to resist being refined.
• Badly wounded, the Overlord used a Weirdness Forbidden Treasure to summon the Divine Consciousness of the Grand Sovereign of the Lunar Yin.
• Yan Kuan identified the Divine Consciousness as an evil thought of an ancient Human Sovereign and recounted how past powers had pursued immortality through experiments involving such beings.

Yan Kuan used the Scripture of Salvation and the Human-Faced Ghost Lantern to suppress the Lunar Yin Emperor’s evil thought, awakening the Human Sovereign’s True Spirit will. The Human Sovereign appeared before Yan Kuan and Little Tingting, then looked at them with a complex expression.

• The Overlord broke free alongside the Divine Consciousness, but Yan Kuan struck him into a Star Sea vortex and demanded the Blood Pagoda and his inheritance.
• The Overlord summoned the Blood Pagoda, releasing the Lunar Yin Emperor’s Divine Consciousness and its overwhelming yin energy.
• Yan Kuan recited the Scripture of Salvation and brought forth the Human-Faced Ghost Lantern, injuring the Divine Consciousness and forcing it back toward the Blood Pagoda.
• The Divine Consciousness unleashed a vast aura that sent Yan Kuan flying, and Yan Kuan called Little Tingting to his side.
• The Human Sovereign’s True Spirit will manifested after the evil thought was suppressed, and Little Tingting called out to her ancestor.
• The Human Sovereign explained that his failed journey on the Path to Immortality had left an obsession that produced the evil thought, then gazed at Yan Kuan and Little Tingting with a complex expression.

The Human Sovereign traveled to Ascension Star with Little Tingting, recovered the broken Human Sovereign Seal, and passed away after entrusting it to her. Back at the Second Holy City, Yan Kuan continued battling the Overlord, who grew stronger and fought back with forbidden techniques and powerful weapons.

• Yan Kuan sent the Human Sovereign information about the Taiyin Sect, prompting him to abandon his journey to Big Dipper and take Little Tingting to Ascension Star.
• The Human Sovereign summoned the broken Human Sovereign Seal from the Kunlun Remnant Clan and repaired much of its damage with his divine consciousness.
• The Human Sovereign infused Little Tingting's essence blood into the seal, then faded away and left its awakened Deity to guard her.
• Little Tingting set out through the starry sky to return to her brother with the Human Sovereign Seal.
• The Overlord reconstructed his body, unleashed the Phoenix Blood War Spear and Purple Gold Great Bell, and attacked Yan Kuan's avatar.
• Yan Kuan struck the Overlord with the Human King Seal, but the Overlord escaped his grasp, regenerated, and manifested six phantom gods.

The Overlord revealed his Nine Transformations of the Virtual God, Chaos Azure Lotus Step, and several Divine Forms, but Yan Kuan shattered him with a casual strike. A Human Race Ancient Road Guardian intervened to protect the Overlord, and Yan Kuan challenged the Guardian before another powerful figure appeared.

• The Overlord used the Nine Transformations of the Virtual God and Chaos Azure Lotus Step to evade Yan Kuan and close in on him.
• The Overlord transformed into a Kunpeng and then an Overlord Bell before combining several Divine Forms into his strongest battle form.
• Yan Kuan struck once and shattered the Overlord’s Divine Forms, leaving him broken and forcing him to reconstruct his body.
• The Overlord refused to surrender his inheritance and prepared to sacrifice himself, but a Human Race Ancient Road Guardian stopped him and blocked Yan Kuan from attacking further.
• Yan Kuan accused the Guardian of protecting the Overlord and told him to get out of the way; the enraged Guardian threatened Yan Kuan before another powerful figure appeared.

Yan Kuan returned from seclusion and confronted Guardian Qi Tian after Qi Tian tried to protect the Overlord. Yan Kuan trapped Grand Sage Canglan and the Overlord, pursued Qi Tian, and began a fierce battle with the veteran Great Saint.

• Yan Kuan rejected Grand Sage Canglan’s plea to spare the Overlord and challenged Guardian Qi Tian for interfering.
• Qi Tian attacked Yan Kuan’s fading avatar, which vanished after warning that Qi Tian would die.
• Yan Kuan emerged from seclusion in the Second Holy City and confronted Qi Tian, displaying the phantoms of more than one hundred powerful beings he had slain, including five Great Saints.
• Yan Kuan used War Banners to trap Grand Sage Canglan and the Overlord, then pursued the fleeing Qi Tian and struck him with a powerful punch.
• Yan Kuan and Qi Tian exchanged techniques in the starry sky, each suffering the force of the clash before they faced each other at a distance.

Yan Kuan entered Divine Forbidden and defeated Qi Tian, then declared that the corrupt Human Race Ancient Road needed a great purge. He sent his Chaos Fire Body after the fleeing Guardian to begin the blood-washing.

• Qi Tian intensified his Great Saint assault and suppressed Yan Kuan with his Dharma Body, but Yan Kuan counterattacked with the Empyrean Flame and badly wounded him.
• Yan Kuan and Qi Tian clashed with their Saint Weapons until Yan Kuan entered Divine Forbidden and gained the upper hand.
• Qi Tian begged for his life and invoked his status as a Guardian, but Yan Kuan cut him with sword Qi and announced his intention to purge the Human Race Ancient Road.
• Yan Kuan sent his Chaos Fire Body aboard the Divine Daughter Emperor Furnace to pursue Qi Tian and launch the purge.

Yan Kuan defeated and refined the Overlord, taking his inheritance and treasures before sparing him and sending him deeper along the Ancient Road. Afterward, Yan Kuan prepared to undergo tribulation and break through into the Immortal Platform.

• Yan Kuan ignored Grand Sage Canglan’s plea and refined the Overlord in the Divine Mark Purple-Gold Pagoda, extracting his inheritance and the origin secrets of the Azure Heaven Overlord Blood Lineage.
• Yan Kuan promised to spare the Overlord, then released him after plundering his scriptures and essence, leaving him deeply humiliated.
• Yan Kuan demonstrated the Overlord Fist, took the Overlord’s treasures, and sent the Overlord and his Purple Qilin flying toward another city on the Ancient Road.
• Grand Sage Canglan bade Yan Kuan farewell and left.
• Yan Kuan ordered the Initiator of the Second Holy City to open the Ancient Dao Field so he could undergo tribulation and enter the Immortal Platform.

Yan Kuan broke through in the Ancient Dao Field and chose a Life Ancient Star filled with the power of Dissolved into Dao as his tribulation ground. He defied the Great Dao’s demand to sever his obsessions and endured an apocalyptic Heavenly Tribulation, still striving to become a Supreme.

• Yan Kuan sensed the Way of Force in the Ancient Dao Field and broke through its restrictions to reach the starfield beyond.
• Yan Kuan found a Life Ancient Star steeped in the power of Dissolved into Dao and heard a fragmentary message about the Emperor’s death and the Heavenly Court’s collapse.
• Yan Kuan began his breakthrough above the dead star, where his Heavenly Tribulation merged with the star’s deadly silver radiance.
• Yan Kuan advanced through the Immortal Platform realms and rejected the demand to sever himself, declaring that he would sever whatever stood in his way.
• Yan Kuan refined wave after wave of Heavenly Tribulation, enduring Dao marks and lightning as his body, primordial spirit, and Divine Mark Purple Gold Saint Tower grew stronger.

Yan Kuan endured a Heavenly Tribulation that forced him to fight legendary Great Emperors and then the Empress, whose appearance and final words reminded him of Xiao Nannan. After the Empress vanished, he vowed not to let Nannan cry again and began refining the heavenly palace with Empyrean Flame.

• Yan Kuan survived the surging Heavenly Tribulation, strengthening his primordial spirit and repairing the Divine Mark Purple-Gold Pagoda as he climbed toward the ancient Heavenly Court.
• Yan Kuan fought the Fighting Saint Emperor, Wushi, Amitabha Buddha, and the Undying Heavenly Emperor in successive palaces, escaping each battle with new damage marked on his tower.
• Yan Kuan entered the eighth palace and was thrown back when he tried to greet the Empress, who attacked him with Flying Immortal Force.
• Yan Kuan struggled against the Empress's divine arts, countered them with his own techniques, and prepared to unleash Myriad Daos Return to One, Supreme Chaos.
• The Empress turned into a lonely little girl who called Yan Kuan “Brother” before disappearing, and Yan Kuan chased after her as his Chaos Black Hole collapsed.
• Yan Kuan vowed not to let Nannan cry again, found a Ghost Face Mask mark on his tower, and began refining the heavenly palace with Empyrean Flame.

Yan Kuan endured the Heavenly Tribulation’s visions and battled the Green Cauldron in the palace of Emperor Lord. He survived, reforged the Divine Mark Purple-Gold Pagoda into a World-Protecting Saint Weapon, and advanced to the fourth level of the Immortal Platform.

• Yan Kuan entered a palace guarded by ancient beasts, ancestral figures, and Heavenly Soldiers, refining the visions as he fought his way toward the throne.
• Yan Kuan confronted Emperor Lord’s Green Cauldron, and their clash shattered the palace and nearly destroyed him and the Divine Mark Purple-Gold Pagoda.
• Yan Kuan recovered and used the Weapon Incantation to reforge the shattered pagoda in the Chaos Sea, tempering it with lightning, Chaos, and the Green Cauldron’s fragments.
• Yan Kuan incorporated the Purple Gold Overlord Bell and Crimson Blood Divine Spear into the Saint Tower as its first and second levels’ spirit weapons.
• Yan Kuan absorbed the Heavenly Tribulation’s Dao marks and spiritual essence, strengthening his body and primordial spirit as the Saint Tower was completed.
• Yan Kuan reached the fourth level of the Immortal Platform after undergoing Ultimate Sublimation.

Yan Kuan looted the Ancient Dao Field after overcoming his tribulation, then ordered Second Holy City's entrenched factions to send their descendants onward to train and serve the Human Race Ancient Road. Back at Azure Wave Immortal Forest, he reunited with Xiao Nannan, teased her into apologizing for the Empress's earlier offense, and fell asleep as she coaxed him.

• Yan Kuan collected rare medicines, spiritual treasures, and ten Strange Fruits from the Ancient Dao Field before leaving the secret realm.
• Yan Kuan warned the Initiator of Second Holy City to restrict local descendants' secret-realm entries and send repeat entrants onward to train and contribute.
• Yan Kuan returned to Azure Wave Immortal Forest, accepted gifts from Second Holy City's families, and learned that Immortal Qing Shi and the other women had gone into seclusion.
• Yan Kuan found Xiao Nannan, shared spiritual fruits with her, and tested her feelings by talking about her growing up and leaving him.
• Yan Kuan persuaded Xiao Nannan to apologize for the Empress's earlier offense and coax him to sleep, then happily fell asleep in her arms.

As Yan Kuan rested in Second Holy City, his Chaos Fire Body pursued Qi Tian across the Human Race Ancient Road and purged the factions that had exploited it. He killed Qi Tian at the First Pass, and the road’s administrators began enforcing Yan Kuan’s rules.

• Yan Yu told the gathered clans that Yan Kuan’s bloodbath would continue and ordered them to obey his rules, while the Yan Clan accepted punishment for its abuses.
• Qi Tian fled across the Human Race Ancient Road, using relatives and allies to delay Yan Kuan’s Chaos Fire Body, then escaped onto the barren Sacred Spirit Ancient Road.
• When Qi Tian tried to flee into the Radiant Ancient Domain, Yan Kuan’s Chaos Fire Body intercepted him and revealed that Yan Kuan’s successful tribulation had made it strong enough to kill him without an Emperor Weapon.
• Yan Kuan’s Chaos Fire Body brought Qi Tian to the First Pass and nailed him to its wall with a divine spear as a warning to the trial-takers.
• The Human Race Guardians publicized Qi Tian’s crimes, and his faction and other predatory clans faced punishment as Yan Kuan’s rules took hold across the Ancient Road.

Yan Kuan left Second Holy City after studying the Taiyin inheritance and arrived at the Tenth Pass, where he planned to help the girls traveling with him become saints. While exploring the Life Ancient Star with Xiao Nannan, he spotted a Golden Crocodile Dragon that reminded him of a place tied to Ye Fan and the young Demon Emperor’s inheritance.

• Yan Kuan tried to combine Taiyin and Taiyang forces while in the Divine Forbidden, but their taiji diagram collapsed before he could balance them.
• After learning that three years had passed in Second Holy City, Yan Kuan decided to continue along the Ancient Starry Road with his companions.
• Yan Kuan’s departure stirred the Ancient Starry Road, and the group eventually reached the Tenth Pass, where he arranged for the girls to cultivate in the city’s secret land.
• Yan Kuan took Xiao Nannan to explore the Life Ancient Star, whose dense spiritual energy and ancient opportunities impressed him.
• Near a great lake, Yan Kuan saw cultivators fighting local beasts and recognized a rare Golden Crocodile Dragon, which he recalled was connected to Ye Fan’s discovery of part of the young Demon Emperor’s inheritance.

Yan Kuan captured the Golden Nine-Tailed Croc Dragon and uncovered the Demon Empress Snowmoon Clarity’s ancient inheritance, including a secret art that might help him surpass the Dragon Transformation Realm’s Extreme Realm. At Great Moon Slope, he found a hidden entrance to the Burial Grounds of Gods and Demons and sent his Chaos Fire Body inside, where it discovered the Demonic Well.

• Yan Kuan subdued the Golden Nine-Tailed Croc Dragon and let Xiao Nannan ride him after shrinking him to her liking.
• The Dragon carried Yan Kuan and Xiao Nannan to his Water Mansion, where Yan Kuan discovered a hidden chamber containing nine jade pieces of the Ancient Demon Clan Heavenly Scripture and a Peach Pit Kernel.
• Yan Kuan studied Snowmoon Clarity’s Blood Exchange Dragon Transformation Secret Art and considered combining it with Grand Sovereign’s Imperial Dragon Qi cultivation method to surpass the Dragon Transformation Realm’s Extreme Realm.
• Yan Kuan and his companions reached Great Moon Slope, where he revealed an ancient castle and sent his Chaos Fire Body into the Burial Grounds of Gods and Demons.
• Yan Kuan’s Chaos Fire Body encountered the burial ground’s frozen battlefield and found a Demonic Well at the source of the Styx, where the Dao Venerable had sealed the Sacred Spirit Ancient Ancestor.

Yan Kuan broke into the Demonic Wells, seized refined Sacred Spirit immortal elixir, and reinforced the seals while learning part of the Sacred Spirit Sky-Mending Art. Back at the Tenth Pass, he distributed drops of the elixir to Little Tingting, Xiao Nannan, and the Nine-tailed Crocodile Dragon before heading to supervise his sister’s cultivation.

• Yan Kuan used the Chaos Fire Body and the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Can to suppress the Demonic Well’s sealed horrors and uncover the Sacred Spirit lotus and its Stone Token.
• Yan Kuan memorized the opening incantation of the Sacred Spirit Sky-Mending Art, took refined immortal liquid, and laid a formation to strengthen the seal and continue refining the Sacred Spirit.
• Yan Kuan and the Chaos Fire Body visited all Seven Demonic Wells, reinforced their seals, and collected most of the existing immortal liquid and Sacred Spirit inheritance without risking their premature release.
• At the Tenth Pass, Yan Kuan set aside drops of Five-Colored Immortal Elixir for his household and stored the remainder in a Jade Vial.
• Yan Kuan gave Little Tingting and Xiao Nannan a drop each, then rewarded the Nine-tailed Crocodile Dragon with one as well.
• Yan Kuan told Little Tingting and Xiao Nannan to watch the house and went to supervise his sister’s cultivation.

Yan Kuan studied the Sacred Spirit Sky-Mending Method, then traveled from the Thirtieth Pass to Star Ruins with Xiao Nannan and the Nine-tailed Crocodile Dragon. At Cloudmist Continent, he began deciphering the Demon Emperor’s elaborate Imperial Tomb, whose true entrance remained hidden among the ancient continents.

• Yan Kuan concluded that the incomplete Sacred Spirit Sky-Mending Method resembled the Chaotic Ancient Era’s Heaven Mending Art and might hold a key to another life.
• Yan Kuan reached the Thirtieth Pass, reminded its Initiator to monitor the sealed Seven Demonic Wells, and asked him to watch for news from Heavenly Weapon Ancient Star.
• Yan Kuan learned that the Overlord had been sent to the Fiftieth Pass and asked the Initiator to arrange protection for the dwindling Sacred Blood lineage.
• Yan Kuan traveled with Xiao Nannan and the Nine-tailed Crocodile Dragon through Ruins City to Cloudmist Continent in Star Ruins.
• Yan Kuan used his divine eyes and deductions to map the ancient continents and identify them as False Tombs arranged around the concealed Demon Emperor’s Imperial Tomb.

Yan Kuan opened a breach near Cloudmist Continent, causing a Yellow Spring River to flow from the Imperial Tomb, then seized control of Ruins City and drew rival powers toward the Star Ruins. As a Radiant Clan Evil God and a Peerless Sacred Spirit arrived, Yan Kuan’s plan reached its next stage, with the human experts ordered back to Ruins City.

• Yan Kuan opened a breach in the starry sky near Cloudmist Continent, unleashing a deadly Yellow Spring River and spreading news of the Imperial Tomb.
• Yan Kuan entered Ruins City, confronted its Guardian Great Saint in Starry Cloud Tower, and forced him to surrender his weapons and authority.
• Yan Kuan told the Guardian Great Saint to spread the news and draw alien experts and Evil Gods to the tomb, then sealed him and took his place.
• A Radiant Clan Evil God and a Peerless Sacred Spirit arrived at the Yellow Spring River, claiming they had come to investigate the Imperial Tomb.
• The Guardian Great Saint, wearing the Great Luo Silver Essence Holy Garment, ordered the human cultivators to return to Ruins City.

Yan Kuan used the three Great Saints and their followers to wear down the Demon Emperor’s Tomb, then trapped them in a formation and forced them to open it. After refining the Peerless Sacred Spirit and claiming the Chaos Sacred Seal, Yan Kuan bowed before the gates and entered the tomb.

• The Sacred Stone Man, the Radiant Clan's Evil God, and Yan Kuan attacked the Demon Emperor's Tomb, but its gates repelled the Sacred Spirit and revealed that the tomb was not yet ready to open.
• Yan Kuan explained that the tomb's imperial Dao principles had weakened over time and revealed that he had lured the others there to help wear them down.
• Yan Kuan sprang his formation on the Sacred Spirit, the Evil God, and their followers, using an Imperial Weapon as its core to force them to attack the tomb.
• The Peerless Sacred Spirit escaped the formation and attacked Yan Kuan, but Yan Kuan seized and refined him, then took the Chaos Sacred Seal.
• The Radiant Clan's Evil God died in the formation, and Yan Kuan refined some of his Sacred Blood before entering the Demon Emperor's Tomb.