Recaps

The Golden Crow Clan challenged the Mystic Gate, but Tongtong defeated Crown Prince Huaizun and Yan Kuan secretly annihilated the clan’s forces. That night, Huang Tiannv visited Yan Kuan while he bathed, claiming she had come to fulfill her filial duty.

• A Golden Crow Great Saint and Crown Prince Huaizun confronted Tongtong, demanding a battle over the clan’s past losses.
• Tongtong defeated Huaizun, and Jiang Yifei used the Divine Daughter Emperor Furnace to destroy the Golden Crow Great Saint.
• Tongtong refused Huaizun’s challenges and invoked Gai Jiuyou as a greater power beyond the Golden Crow Clan.
• Huaizun raised a slaughter formation, but Yan Kuan killed him from the shadows with the Golden Scepter and wiped out the remaining Golden Crow forces.
• Old Undying warned outsiders that the Mystic Gate would defend the Big Dipper, and news of the battle spread across the region.
• Huang Tiannv approached Yan Kuan as he bathed and said she had come to serve him and fulfill her filial duty.

Huang Tiannv boldly seduced Yan Kuan, and the two became lovers after he learned she had his parents’ approval and a Jade Bracelet meant for his future wife. A few days later, Yan Kuan heard that Ye Fan had returned, and he prepared to settle matters with Mount Sumeru.

• Huang Tiannv teased Yan Kuan at the jade pool until he took her to the Divine Palace and they spent the night together.
• At dawn, Yan Kuan told Huang Tiannv she did not need to leave, then asked whether Audrey Lane or his parents had arranged her visit.
• Huang Tiannv revealed that she had met Yan Kuan’s parents, received the Jade Bracelet from Saintess Audelan, and had Audrey Lane’s help in approaching him.
• Yan Kuan accepted Huang Tiannv as his future wife after learning his parents had approved of her.
• After a few days, Yan Kuan received news that Ye Fan had returned and decided it was time to settle matters with Mount Sumeru.

Ji Ziyue and Ji Haoyue returned to the Ji Family with Ye Fan and their son, while Ye Fan learned that Mount Sumeru had imprisoned his disciple Hua Hua. After Mount Sumeru refused to release Hua Hua, Ye Fan led an army toward the Western Desert as Yan Kuan prepared to seize control of the Buddhist Sect.

• Ji Ziyue and Ji Haoyue reunited with their family, and Ji Haoyue introduced his son, Ji Chengdao.
• Ji Ziyue told the Ji Family that Ye Fan had brought them home and that his powerful followers served the Mystic Gate.
• Ji Haoyue urged the Ji Family to establish a stronghold on the Ancient Starry Road, and Ye Fan offered to help create a teleportation formation.
• After learning that Mount Sumeru had imprisoned Hua Hua, Ye Fan vowed to march on the Western Desert and gathered allies in the Northern Domain Divine City.
• Mount Sumeru refused Ye Fan's request to release Hua Hua, so Ye Fan led his forces toward the Buddhist lands.
• Yan Kuan watched the army gather at Mount Sumeru and prepared to take control of the Buddhist Sect.

Ye Fan led the Mystic Gate army to Mount Sumeru to demand the return of his disciple Hua Hua, but the Buddhist Sect refused and fought back with its immense Faith Power. After Ye Fan killed two Buddhist leaders and battled the Eight Legions, the Peacock Bright King Bodhisattva appeared as Mount Sumeru’s powerful authority.

• Ye Fan arrived at Mount Sumeru with the Mystic Gate army and demanded that the Buddhist Sect return Hua Hua.
• The Dragon Horse tried to drink the Seven Treasure Pool dry, but the Eight Virtues Sea blocked it with Buddhist power.
• Ye Fan killed a young monk who defended the Buddhist Sect’s decision to keep Hua Hua, then fought off the middle-aged monk’s Faith Power.
• Li Tian attacked Mount Sumeru with the Divine Daughter Furnace, but the Arhats stopped it while the Old Monk claimed Hua Hua’s bond with Ye Fan had been severed.
• The Old Monk summoned the Eight Legions and attacked Ye Fan with a miniature Mount Sumeru, but Ye Fan destroyed the mountain and killed him.
• The Peacock Bright King Bodhisattva appeared as the Buddhist Sect’s leading power, while Yan Kuan watched her from the Void.

Ye Fan and the Mystic Gate attacked Mount Sumeru after Mahakashyapa Ancient Buddha and Great Peacock King refused to release Hua Hua. Yan Kuan helped Ye Fan defeat Great Peacock King, forcing Mahakashyapa to agree to their demands.

• Mahakashyapa Ancient Buddha refused Ye Fan's demand to let Hua Hua leave Mount Sumeru, and Great Peacock King declared that Hua Hua must remain with the Buddhist Sect.
• Dragon Horse challenged Great Peacock King, but she suppressed him with one hand until Ye Fan intervened and began fighting her.
• The Mystic Gate attacked Mount Sumeru while Ye Fan drew Great Peacock King away from the mountain and fought her with his cauldrons.
• Ye Fan's cauldrons seized Great Peacock King's Armlet and weakened her defenses, and Yan Kuan used the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Can to suppress her.
• Ye Fan threatened that Great Peacock King would be devoured if Hua Hua was not released, and Mahakashyapa Ancient Buddha agreed to compromise.

Ye Fan returned to Mount Sumeru, retrieved Hua Hua, and left after the Mystic Gate released Great Peacock King. Yan Kuan later returned alone, converted Great Peacock King, and helped her advance toward the Quasi-Emperor realm.

• Hua Hua revealed Shakyamuni's Buddha Crown Bone, and Mahakashyapa Ancient Buddha agreed to serve as his Dharma Protector King.
• Ye Fan and the Mystic Gate released Great Peacock King and departed Mount Sumeru, cementing the Mystic Gate's prestige across the Big Dipper.
• Yan Kuan confronted Great Peacock King in the Great Thunderclap Temple and dispersed Mount Sumeru's accumulated Faith Power, sending it back to bless the believers.
• Great Peacock King recognized her neglect of her believers, accepted Yan Kuan's conversion, and became devoted to him.
• Yan Kuan helped Great Peacock King cultivate through the Dao of Yin-Yang Joy, bringing her cultivation closer to the Quasi-Emperor realm.

Yan Kuan entered Lantuo Temple to find An Miaoyi, who had fallen into a deathlike meditation, and used the Six-Syllable Mantra to explore the Buddhist spiritual realm. After confronting the imprint of Great Emperor Amitabha and learning its secrets, he returned to An Miaoyi and stayed with her.

• Yan Kuan observed the power of faith at Lantuo Temple and entered the Nine-Story Stone Pagoda, where he found An Miaoyi motionless in meditation.
• Yan Kuan used the Six-Syllable Mantra to enter the Buddhist Heavenly Kingdom and traced the spiritual realm to its origin.
• Yan Kuan encountered the immense image of Great Emperor Amitabha and forced his way into the deepest part of the Buddha Realm to uncover its history.
• Yan Kuan returned to the Stone Pagoda, where An Miaoyi greeted him and explained that she had claimed to be his woman because she wished to rely on him.
• Yan Kuan restored An Miaoyi's strength and agreed to stay with her, and the two became intimate in the Stone Pagoda.

Anbu, the Forbidden Zone Son of Undying Mountain, emerged as Great Peacock King underwent a Quasi-Emperor Tribulation near Mount Sumeru. Great Peacock King survived attacks during and after her breakthrough, and the Buddhist Sect hailed her as Buddha Mother.

• A Headless Knight sent Anbu out from Undying Mountain, and Anbu sensed a Quasi-Emperor Tribulation in the Western Desert and headed toward it.
• Powerful figures gathered near Mount Sumeru and identified the Golden Peacock undergoing tribulation as Great Peacock King.
• Attackers tried to kill Great Peacock King during her tribulation, but the Demon Subduing Pestle destroyed them while Ji Zi exposed and eliminated those provoking conflict.
• Anbu introduced himself to Ji Zi, Void Great Emperor's son, and Forbidden Zone Son Shen Ming confronted him.
• Great Peacock King shattered the Order Divine Chains and completed her breakthrough, then destroyed a phantom that attacked her with a Sea of Thunder.
• Bodhisattvas, Ancient Buddhas, and Arhats hailed Great Peacock King as Buddha Mother.

After leaving the Western Desert, Yan Kuan traveled to Dark City as experts gathered for the Ten Thousand Races Grand Assembly and debated the approaching Path to Immortality. He spotted Moon Spirit Princess and Shi Zhongxuan, then watched a Kunlun Remnant Clan elder attack Jiang Yifei over an old blood feud.

• Great Peacock Buddha Mother dismissed the visitors from the Western Desert, then told Yan Kuan that the Ancient Ten Thousand Races planned a grand assembly in the Central Domain.
• Yan Kuan and Great Peacock Buddha Mother decided to leave the Western Desert for Dark City, where Yan Kuan listened to rumors about the Path to Immortality and the forbidden zones.
• Moon Spirit Princess and Shi Zhongxuan arrived in Dark City, and Yan Kuan considered them valuable targets because of their rare bloodlines.
• A White-Haired Elder of the Kunlun Remnant Clan attacked Jiang Yifei, accusing Emperor Heng Yu of killing two Quasi-Emperors of his clan.

Yan Kuan watched the Ten Thousand Races Grand Assembly descend into arguments over the Path to Immortality and attempts to target Mystic Gate. The assembly’s disputes were interrupted by the arrival of Shen Ming and Anbu, followed by a voice that challenged the Life Forbidden Zone heirs.

• Yan Kuan entered the Ancient Continent as the Divine Bell announced the start of the Ten Thousand Races Grand Assembly.
• An eight-headed serpent devoured an arrogant Saint, and the Demon Daoist killed the serpent and collected its remains.
• The Great Xia imperial clan’s Great Saint slaughtered cultivators who proposed driving humans from Big Dipper, silencing the challenge to human rule.
• Maple Matriarch urged the assembly to suppress Mystic Gate, while Great Peacock Buddha Mother stayed silent and Golden Crow Tenth Prince Tian Zhou said his father remained in seclusion.
• Shen Ming and Anbu appeared and mocked the assembly, before an unknown voice condemned the Life Forbidden Zone heirs as ants.

Yan Kuan revealed himself as a Chaos Body and attacked the gathered experts in Dark City, crushing the Forbidden Zone Children and forcing many others to flee. He explained that he had deliberately exposed his presence to draw out the Forbidden Zones, and he remained ready to face their followers as the battle continued.

• Shen Ming and Anbu recognized Yan Kuan as a Chaos Body, and Yan Kuan struck Thunder God with Chaos Divine Thunder while condemning the Forbidden Zone descendants.
• Yan Kuan crushed Anbu's Stone Chariot and pulled Anbu, Shen Ming, and Thunder God into his Chaos Storm, while revealing that Undying Mountain had only one formidable Supreme left.
• The Great Xia Dynasty's Great Saint and other experts opened an escape route, but Yan Kuan stripped the Nine Li Diagram from Moon Spirit Princess and killed Shi Zhongxuan in the storm.
• Golden Crow Prince Tian Zhou fled with the aid of Old Golden Crow's Broken Golden Bell, but Yan Kuan shattered the bell and seized part of it as Tian Zhou escaped with the Deity.
• Anbu warned that his elder had emerged from Undying Mountain, but Yan Kuan said he had exposed the Chaos Body deliberately to lure Forbidden Zone experts into hunting him.

Yan Kuan defeated the three Forbidden Zone Sons in a Chaos Storm, escaped the intervention of Stone Emperor and other Supremes, and became the target of a universe-wide search. He later appeared in the Frontier Wasteland with the Moon Spirit Princess and took advantage of her while the forbidden zones hunted for them.

• Thunder God, Anbu, and Shen Ming joined forces against Yan Kuan, but his Chaos Storm and the backlash of all beings overwhelmed them.
• A Headless Knight intervened to protect Anbu, and Stone Emperor sent an avatar and an Imperial Weapon to attack Yan Kuan.
• Yan Kuan used an Emperor Formation to evade Stone Emperor, leaving the Supremes unable to find his true body.
• The Forbidden Zone Supremes learned of Yan Kuan's Chaos Body, and factions across the universe began searching for him.
• Yan Kuan arrived in the Frontier Wasteland carrying the Moon Spirit Princess, who woke and recognized him.
• Yan Kuan ignored the Moon Spirit Princess's protests and had sex with her while the forbidden zones searched for them.

Yan Kuan returned to Yinghuo with Moon Spirit Princess, showed her humanity’s Ancestral Star, and explored the prisons Shakyamuni had built to seal eighteen demons. After freeing and subduing the prisoners, including Mountain Phoenix, he brought them back to Yinghuo to investigate its buried secrets.

• Yan Kuan and Moon Spirit Princess arrived on Yinghuo, where they witnessed a vision of the ancient Celestial War and Yan Kuan identified Blue Star as humanity’s Ancestral Star and his homeland.
• Yan Kuan explored the ruins beneath the Great Thunderclap Temple and found the coordinates of the nine planets holding Shakyamuni’s eighteen sealed demons.
• Yan Kuan traveled across the planets, released Great Xia Dragon Sparrow and other powerful demons, and forced them to become his followers.
• Yan Kuan fought and subdued Mountain Phoenix, the final prisoner and a third-layer Quasi-Emperor.
• Yan Kuan returned to Gloomfire Ancient Star with the demons, who agreed to help uncover Yinghuo’s secrets.

Yan Kuan explored Yinghuo’s North Sea, confirmed the Undying Heavenly Emperor was sealed in a dormant Nirvana state, and arranged a trap there with the fourteen demons. He then lured Cloud Rosy Fairy and other Quasi-Emperors through a black-hole passage, drawing them toward the hidden trap.

• Yan Kuan and the fourteen demons entered the North Sea’s demonic eye and discovered the Five Hundred Arhats guarding its seal.
• Yan Kuan’s power incarnation defeated and captured an Undead Octopus, then found an ancient battlefield and a palace where the Undying Heavenly Emperor lay dormant.
• Yan Kuan destroyed his incarnation before disturbing the sleeping Emperor and decided to use the location to trap the forbidden-zone forces.
• Yan Kuan and the fourteen demons concealed the Solar System with an Emperor Formation and prepared for their enemies to take the bait.
• Cloud Rosy Fairy found Yan Kuan’s Chaos Immortal Light, but he escaped through a black-hole passage, with her and the Three Worldly Gods pursuing him.
• Other hidden experts sensed the passage and followed the pursuers into it.

Yan Kuan lured Quasi-Emperors into the Ancient Burial Ground, where they discovered the remains of Imperial Dao Supremes and a blood-colored cocoon that seemed to be awakening. They fled through the Chaos Immortal Light into Yan Kuan’s Immortal Execution Killing Formation, where he slaughtered them and destroyed the evidence, provoking the Life Forbidden Zones.

• The Three Worldly Gods, Cloud Rosy Fairy, the Headless Knight, and other Quasi-Emperors followed the Chaos Body into the Ancient Burial Ground and found dead Quasi-Emperors and the remains of Imperial Dao Supremes.
• The Quasi-Emperors saw a living blood-colored cocoon above the palace and fled through the Chaos Immortal Light, which led them into Yan Kuan’s Ultimate Killing Formation.
• Yan Kuan activated the Immortal Execution Killing Formation, killing the trapped Quasi-Emperors and collecting their remains with the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Can.
• Yan Kuan killed Cloud Rosy Fairy and the Headless Knight after they were left helpless by the formation.
• Yan Kuan used the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s Forbidden Artifacts to destroy the traces of the battle, and enraged Supremes from six Life Forbidden Zones sent divine-sense avatars to hunt him.

The Forbidden Zone Supremes discovered the Undying Heavenly Emperor consuming Imperial Dao experts and attacked him while he was undergoing nirvana. As they pursued him, Yan Kuan found the hidden Immortal Bell and a node on the Path to Immortality, then took the bell for himself.

• The Forbidden Zone Supremes found the Corpse Burial Ground and recognized the Undying Heavenly Emperor as the being who had consumed Imperial Dao Supremes.
• The Stone Emperor and other Forbidden Zone Supremes attacked the transforming Undying Heavenly Emperor, who fought back with Five-Colored Immortal Light and destroyed several divine-sense incarnations.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor fled, and the Supremes pursued him as his hidden contingencies inflicted heavy losses on them.
• Yan Kuan's Chaos incarnation returned to the ruined battlefield and used an Ancient Scripture to reveal the Undying Heavenly Emperor's hidden cultivation cave and the Immortal Bell runes.
• Yan Kuan found the Chaos passage to a Path to Immortality node where Law shadows of the Undying Heavenly Emperor and the Beginningless Great Emperor remained in confrontation.
• Yan Kuan used the Beginningless Bell's Supreme Dao power to store the Order Immortal Bell in his Purple Gold Emperor Pagoda, then left to advance his cultivation.

Yan Kuan used the Immortal Treasure Map to enter Kunlun Immortal Ground, where he advanced to the fourth level of the Quasi-Emperor realm. He then headed to the God Organization to propose an expedition against the Underworld, and its members summoned a senior representative.

• Yan Kuan entered Dragon Mountain Immortal valley and found the Immortal Pool, where the two damaged immortal herbs he had sent there were recovering.
• Yan Kuan examined the grave holding the Ghost Face Mask and bloodstained garment, then entered the Immortal Pool to cultivate.
• Yan Kuan refined Quasi-Emperor essence and Dao laws, endured the fourth Quasi-Emperor Tribulation, and stopped when an Immortal Bell appeared within the lightning.
• Yan Kuan reached the peak of the fourth level and decided to use battle against the Underworld to temper himself, with the God Organization seeking revenge.
• Yan Kuan went to a God Organization stronghold in the Eternal Starfield and requested an audience with its chief god, prompting an expert to summon a senior figure.

Yan Kuan persuaded the God Organization to join him in attacking the weakened Underworld and helped summon the Ancient Heavenly Court’s remnants with Emperor Lord’s War Horn. The rally brought Chuan Ying and Gai Jiuyou together as the Heavenly Court forces prepared for war.

• Yan Kuan told the God Organization elder that the Underworld had lost most of its Supremes and urged the organization to strike while it was vulnerable.
• Yan Kuan revealed that Divine General Chuan Ying was still alive, and the God Organization agreed to investigate and prepare a joint campaign against the Underworld.
• Old God blew Emperor Lord’s War Horn, summoning Heavenly Court remnants and awakening the Longevity Celestial’s attention without drawing his intervention.
• Chuan Ying emerged from his seal and joined the forces gathered at the General Assembly Platform.
• Yan Kuan greeted Chuan Ying, who recognized his potential and then welcomed Gai Jiuyou, a peerless Supreme who had appeared nearby.

Yan Kuan scouted the Underworld and provoked its rulers into opening the Black Prison to unleash an army against the God Organization. He confronted the Seven Heroes of Luan with the Luan Gu Battle Axe and overwhelmed them with a single strike.

• Gai Jiuyou and Chuan Ying agreed to let Yan Kuan arrange the attack on the Underworld after he warned that Longevity Celestial, the Corpse Emperor, and other Supremes might intervene if the Underworld faced total destruction.
• Yan Kuan sent his spirit into the Netherworld to scout its defenses and discovered Yama Hall’s rulers discussing the Chaos Body and the Underworld’s Three Sons.
• After learning that the God Organization’s army had appeared, Lord Yama ordered the Black Prison opened to send its awakened corpses against the Heavenly Court’s remnants.
• The Seven Heroes of Luan emerged from the Black Prison, and Yan Kuan revealed the Luan Gu Battle Axe, prompting the riders to recognize their former enemy’s weapon.
• Yan Kuan swung the Luan Gu Battle Axe and left the Seven Heroes of Luan bloody and mangled with one strike.

Yan Kuan cut through the Underworld’s Black Prison with the Luan Gu Battle Axe, killing the Seven Heroes of Luan and devouring their Origin. As the former Heavenly Court forces battled the Underworld’s core army, the Lord Yama of Yama Hall revealed himself as an Innate Yin Spirit and clashed with the Elder of the God Organization; the elder’s Imperial Artifact wounded Yama, who survived by blocking it with a Nether Spear.

• Yan Kuan defeated the Seven Heroes of Luan, burned away their Nether blood, and refined their True Blood and Origin.
• Yan Kuan fought through the collapsing Black Prison, killing ancient experts and War Slaves to absorb their Origin.
• The Lord Yama of Yama Hall emerged to confront the former Heavenly Court forces, and the Elder of the God Organization identified him as an Innate Yin Spirit.
• The Elder of the God Organization invoked the Scripture of Salvation, destroying many Yin Soldiers and sending their refined power into the Black Prison to nourish Yan Kuan.
• The Lord Yama of Yama Hall summoned a Death World and attacked the Elder, but the elder’s Stone Pagoda shattered his Samsara Gate and wounded him.
• The Lord Yama of Yama Hall blocked the Stone Pagoda with a Nether Spear and survived to face the Elder of the God Organization again.

Imperial lineages and the God Organization besieged Underworld, while Yan Kuan shattered Black Prison and defeated the Three Sons of Underworld. After awakening the legendary Gu Xin'ao, Yan Kuan led an assault on Yama Hall and faced Lord Yama as his fifth Quasi-Emperor Tribulation neared its end.

• The Sun Emperor Pagoda, the West Emperor Pagoda, and other Imperial Weapons joined the God Organization in battle against Underworld's forces.
• Yan Kuan killed the Three Sons of Underworld with the Luan Gu Battle Axe, and their Forbidden Artifacts blasted open Black Prison.
• A white-haired Ancient Corpse emerged from Black Prison, and Yan Kuan's Purple Gold Emperor Pagoda awakened his memories as Gu Xin'ao.
• Gu Xin'ao joined Yan Kuan in attacking the Three Halls of Underworld, and Yan Kuan fought his way into Yama Hall as his fifth Quasi-Emperor Tribulation descended.
• Yan Kuan asked Elder of the God Organization and Gu Xin'ao to hold back the other Hall Masters, then challenged Lord Yama and unleashed the Four Killing Swords.

Yan Kuan defeated Lord Yama of Yama Hall and reached an ultimate state, while Chuan Ying and Gai Jiuyou held off the Second Generation Nether Emperor and Longevity Celestial. The Underworld’s three Hall Masters fell, and Yan Kuan and Gu Xin'ao underwent their final heavenly tribulations as the Forbidden Zone Supremes watched.

• Yan Kuan trapped Lord Yama of Yama Hall in the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation, then defeated him after unleashing Divine Forbidden and the All-Encompassing Secret.
• The Second Generation Nether Emperor tried to save Lord Yama of Yama Hall, but Chuan Ying intervened with a Cosmic Divine Arrow, and Longevity Celestial attacked Chuan Ying with the Longevity Sword.
• Gai Jiuyou blocked Longevity Celestial’s sword strike, and he, Chuan Ying, the Second Generation Nether Emperor, and Longevity Celestial entered a standoff.
• Yan Kuan shattered Lord Yama of Yama Hall’s primordial spirit and joined Old God to kill the Nether Emperor Hall Master.
• The Suppression Prison Hall Master fled, but Gu Xin'ao seized the chance to tear apart his Quasi-Emperor body, killing the Underworld’s final Hall Master.
• Elder of the God Organization departed as Yan Kuan and Gu Xin'ao underwent their heavenly tribulations and ultimate transformations.

Yan Kuan and Gu Xin'ao endured a devastating joint tribulation as Gu Xin'ao sought rebirth and Yan Kuan attempted to make up for his insufficient cultivation through the Nine Secrets. Yan Kuan entered a strange future-like realm, found a ruined universe and confronted Emperor Lord, then fought to break free and return.

• Gu Xin'ao used the Netherworld's death qi and Heavenly Tribulation to remake his body, while Yan Kuan drew on the Netherworld's Quasi-Emperors and Ancient Corpses to strengthen his transformation.
• The two men's tribulations merged into an immense calamity that devastated the Netherworld, and Yan Kuan used the Divine Wood and the Nine Secrets to enter a Dream of Ten Thousand Ages.
• Yan Kuan awoke in a barren future-like universe nearly ten thousand years later, aged and powerful enough to stand on the threshold of the Great Emperor realm.
• Yan Kuan returned to the Big Dipper and saw Xiao Nannan grieving amid the ruins, then witnessed Emperor Lord apparently refining the ruined universe.
• Emperor Lord attacked Yan Kuan, who fought back, shattered the heavens, and grew closer to reality as he sought a way to return.

Yan Kuan completed his Quasi-Emperor Seventh Heaven tribulation, refining the Immortal Bell’s laws and the Karma Fire into his body and Origin. After aiding Gu Xin'ao, he confronted the sealed Hell Warden Emperor and offered knowledge about the Nether Emperor in exchange for the remaining Nine Secrets.

• The Immortal Bell’s Dao shadow enveloped Yan Kuan, and its laws tempered him until he refined the bell and the Heavenly Tribulation’s Sea of Thunder dispersed.
• Endless Karma Fire descended, and Yan Kuan drew it in to rebuild his body, strengthen his primordial spirit, and refine the fire into his Origin.
• Yan Kuan completed his Seventh Heaven trial, buried the discarded fragments of his bones in the Netherworld, and saw that Gu Xin'ao remained in a perilous transformation.
• Yan Kuan sent Gu Xin'ao a pill formed from Karma Fire essence, then entered the Prison Suppression Hall and questioned the sealed Hell Warden Emperor about his ancient identity.
• Yan Kuan argued that the Hell Warden Emperor was likely one of the Nine Great Heavenly Lords and offered information about Cao Yusheng in exchange for the Hell Warden Emperor’s Nine Secrets.
• The Hell Warden Emperor agreed to consider the exchange, judging the value of Yan Kuan’s knowledge about the Nether Emperor.

Yan Kuan sealed Hell Warden Emperor in Prison Suppression Hall, learned Cao Yusheng’s origins, and found Emperor Source to continue his transformation toward proving the Dao. He then headed into the universe to challenge rivals, while a Divine Court Quasi-Emperor appeared near Ziwei Ancient Star and Yuhua Tian greeted him.

• Yan Kuan learned from Hell Warden Emperor that Cao Yusheng had been Wild Heaven Emperor’s comrade in the Age of Chaos, and received a missing Nine Secret from him.
• Yan Kuan and his allies sealed Prison Suppression Hall, leaving Chuan Ying and Gai Jiuyou to guard Hell Warden Emperor and the transforming Gu Xin'ao.
• Yan Kuan found Black Emperor in a Quasi-Emperor formation and extracted a thread of Emperor Source from his right paw.
• Yan Kuan seized the Emperor Source in the universe’s Frontier Wasteland, sent Black Emperor back to warn Ye Fan and the others about the coming Dark Turmoil, then entered the Ninefold Coffin of the Gods to continue transforming.
• A Divine Court Quasi-Emperor appeared near Ziwei Ancient Star, and Yuhua Tian asked him to reveal himself.