Recaps

Ye Fan completed his Sacred Body and killed the Great Completion Overlord Body, while Yan Kuan protected him from the Forbidden Zones. Yan Kuan then confronted Carefree Celestial Yun Geng in the Reincarnation Sea, seeking the time-related technique that could help his own transformation.

• Ye Fan completed his Sacred Body amid the Heavenly Tribulation, but the Overlord Body Ancestral Star and the Life Forbidden Zones attacked him.
• Yan Kuan stopped the Forbidden Zone Supremes, and Ye Fan killed the Great Completion Overlord Body in battle.
• Yan Kuan refined the Sacred Blood and Overlord Blood Ye Fan sent him, then went to the Reincarnation Sea to confront its Supreme.
• Yan Kuan identified the Supreme as Carefree Celestial Yun Geng, who had survived by replacing another cultivator and living a new life.
• Yun Geng underwent Ultimate Sublimation and attacked Yan Kuan with his curse-filled steles and Immortal Tears Green Gold Treasure Vase, but Yan Kuan pierced him with one punch.
• Yan Kuan told Yun Geng that only his Time Light technique interested him, and Yun Geng prepared to draw on his remaining strength.

Yan Kuan defeated Carefree Celestial Yun Geng, survived the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s maneuvering, and absorbed the Immortal Flame Origin in the Eastern Wilderness Fire Domain. With Ye Fan’s battle at the Overlord Body Ancestral Star concluded, Yan Kuan turned his attention toward Burial Sky Island.

• Carefree Celestial Yun Geng used Time Light and summoned the River of Time in a final attack, but Yan Kuan devoured the time-and-space power and defeated him.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor appeared, proposed joining forces against the Life Forbidden Zones, and withdrew after Yan Kuan rejected his offer and unleashed the Chaos Sea.
• Yan Kuan descended into the Eastern Wilderness Fire Domain, where the Little Fire Phoenix welcomed him and offered its Immortal Flame Origin.
• Yan Kuan fused the Immortal Flame Origin into his Lifebound Emperor Fire and accepted the Little Fire Phoenix as his Fire Spirit.
• After a roar came from the Overlord Body Ancestral Star, Yan Kuan looked toward the Azure Forbidden Zone, Burial Sky Island.

After defeating two Great Success Overlord Bodies, Ye Fan sensed Burial Sky Island’s appearance and rushed toward the Big Dipper as Yan Kuan began attacking the Azure Forbidden Zone. Yan Kuan unleashed the Immortal Flame against ten allied Supremes, and the chapter ended with the Undying Heavenly Emperor blocking reinforcements and preparing for a final battle.

• Ye Fan defeated two Great Success Overlord Bodies, collected their Blood Pills, and sensed Burial Sky Island appearing above the Big Dipper.
• Yan Kuan attacked Burial Sky Island and challenged the Supremes of the Azure Forbidden Zone, while Supremes from other forbidden zones gathered to confront him.
• The Corpse Emperor summoned Source God, Source Devil, and the Chaos Monster from the Tongtian Underworld Treasure, joining the four Supremes of the Azure Forbidden Zone against Yan Kuan.
• Yan Kuan revealed that he had subdued the Immortal Flame, which engulfed Burial Sky Island and burned the Supremes as he attacked them.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor appeared, blocked Ye Fan and any other reinforcements with the Heavenly Blade, and prepared to face Yan Kuan in a final battle.

Yan Kuan fought the Supremes on Burial Sky Island and, despite reaching the end of his Second Life, revealed that he had prepared a Nine Revolutions Emperor Pill. After swallowing it, he regained his youth and vitality, leaving the battle with the Undying Heavenly Emperor poised to continue on more equal terms.

• Yan Kuan killed the Spirit Emperor and the other attacking Supremes, then destroyed the Chaos Monster and suppressed the Tongtian Underworld Artifact.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor attacked Yan Kuan and used the Ascension Waterfall to seal Burial Sky Island and counter the Immortal Flame.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor wore down Yan Kuan's aging body, while Yan Kuan gathered Starlight and realized he had found an opportunity for nirvana.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor struck Yan Kuan down, but a peak Great Emperor figure emerged from Yan Kuan and shattered into Immortal Light, revealing a Blood-Colored Emperor Pill.
• Yan Kuan swallowed the Nine Revolutions Emperor Pill he had nurtured for a hundred years, regained his youth and vitality, and ascended Above the Heavens.

Yan Kuan burned the life essence of three lives to kill the Undying Heavenly Emperor, while the Beginningless Bell drove the Undying Heavenly Blade into the Interstice World. Yan Kuan claimed the Emperor’s spoils, but the Heavenly Dao’s strongest punishment was about to descend.

• The Undying Heavenly Emperor tried to leave Burial Sky Island and again proposed that he and Yan Kuan join forces, but Yan Kuan trapped him and launched Moment Eternity.
• Yan Kuan and the Undying Heavenly Emperor fought desperately; Yan Kuan pierced the Immortal Phoenix’s forehead with a sword strike, mortally wounding him.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor sent the Undying Heavenly Blade away, but the Beginningless Bell arrived and pursued it through the Ascension Waterfall into the Interstice World.
• Yan Kuan absorbed the remaining Imperial Dao Law and collected the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s body, essence, and inheritance fragments, though he believed some remnants might survive.
• The Heavenly Dao began gathering its strongest punishment against Yan Kuan for disrupting time, space, and the world’s origin.

Yan Kuan returned to Blue Star, severed his Chaos Demonic Body to create a new Divine Fetus, and reforged Mount Tai and Burial Sky Island. After stabilizing Blue Star with Ye Fan’s help, he opened a space-time passage and departed for the unknown, promising to return.

• Yan Kuan brought the battered Azure Forbidden Zone and Burial Sky Island to Mount Tai while enduring heavenly punishment, then sent Ye Fan and Nannan away to keep them from being caught up in the danger.
• Yan Kuan used his chance to begin a new life to sever his Primordial Blood and dissolve his Chaos Demonic Body, emerging as a new Divine Fetus with only his Dao of Fire origin.
• Yan Kuan refined his old body into the Great Dao Treasure Vase, then devoured the Supremes’ remains and the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s body to strengthen himself through rebirth.
• Ye Fan suppressed Blue Star while Yan Kuan used Immortal Flame and Empyrean Flame to reunite Mount Tai and Burial Sky Island.
• Yan Kuan awakened the Immortal Bell imprint and joined its power with his Imperial Pagoda to open a passage through space-time.
• Yan Kuan said goodbye to his family and friends, entered the passage with the Imperial Pagoda, and disappeared into the unknown after promising to return.

After Yan Kuan disappeared through time and space, Ye Fan rushed to protect the Mystic Gate from the forbidden zones. Yan Kuan’s Divine Embodiment emerged from Undying Mountain, killed a Divine Ruins Supreme, and prepared to bring the remaining forbidden zones to an end.

• Ye Fan collected Yan Kuan’s remnants on Burial Sky Island and hurried to Big Dipper when he sensed trouble at the Mystic Gate.
• Ye Fan crippled a Divine Ruins Supreme’s divine sense incarnation after it tried to reclaim the Immortality Peach Tree and other treasures.
• Supremes from Divine Ruins, Immortal Burial Mound, and Primordial gathered to attack the Mystic Gate, prompting Ye Fan to warn them away.
• Yan Kuan’s Divine Embodiment appeared from Undying Mountain and seized a Divine Ruins Supreme, declaring that he set the rules of the world.
• The Divine Ruins Supreme underwent Ultimate Sublimation, but Yan Kuan crushed his Immortal Platform and killed him.
• Yan Kuan looked down on the remaining forbidden zones and declared that they would be ended in this era.

Yan Kuan led the Empress and other powerful figures in destroying the Supremes who had caused Dark Turmoil, ending the threat from the forbidden zones. He then expounded the Dao at Undying Mountain, revealing the stages of becoming immortal through nine lives.

• Yan Kuan gave the forbidden zones an ultimatum, and the Empress, Ye Fan, and sealed experts joined him in confronting them.
• The Ten Thousand Dragons Emperor and Golden Emperor ambushed Dark-Turmoil Supremes, while the Empress’s Bronze Immortal Hall identified other Supremes who had devoured countless lives.
• Ye Fan and the assembled experts fought the Supremes; the Ten Thousand Dragons Emperor and Golden Emperor reunited with their daughters as the battle claimed the remaining Dark-Turmoil Supremes.
• Yan Kuan declared Dark Turmoil an untouchable taboo and invited all powerful beings to hear him expound the Dao at Undying Mountain; the Empress returned to the former Desolate Ancient Forbidden Zone.
• Yan Kuan explained the path of becoming immortal through nine lives, including the transformations, risks, and realms associated with each stage.

Yan Kuan preached the Nine Revolutions Emperor Pill Dao at Undying Mountain, then advised Ye Fan on his cultivation and revealed why his true body had traveled into the past. He urged Ye Fan to establish the Heavenly Court, and Ye Fan began considering the plan as Yan Kuan’s arrangements in this era neared completion.

• Yan Kuan revealed the Nine Revolutions Emperor Pill’s formula and demonstrated his pill-refinement methods, earning the gratitude and Faith Power of the gathered cultivators.
• Ye Fan asked why his completed Sacred Body could not break through, and Yan Kuan told him to forge a path to the Heavenly Emperor Dao Fruit in one life.
• Yan Kuan explained that his true body had crossed into the time before Eternal Dominance to attempt a rapid path toward immortality and discussed the dangers of changing the past.
• Ye Fan questioned Yan Kuan about realms beyond True Immortals, and Yan Kuan joked with him before telling him to focus on attaining his Dao Fruit.
• Yan Kuan urged Ye Fan to establish the Heavenly Court and explained that Ye Fan was fated to bear its karma, prompting Ye Fan to consider the plan.

A violent thunderstorm struck the Great Wilderness, and a Stone Statue holding a Divine Tower fell beside Stone Village’s Willow Deity. Shi Ziling and Qin Yining brought their dying son Shi Hao to the village, where his touch cracked the statue and released purple light that restored his vitality.

• Shi Yunfeng witnessed a vast Sea of Thunder and remembered the night decades earlier when the Lightning-Struck Willow fell into Stone Village.
• A Stone Statue holding a Nine-Story Stone Pagoda crashed beneath the Willow Deity, which signaled that Shi Yunfeng should keep it.
• Shi Ziling and Qin Yining arrived with their gravely ill son Shi Hao and learned that Stone Village had lost most of its former inheritance.
• The Willow Deity calmed Shi Hao, and his parents left him in Shi Yunfeng’s care while they sought another way to save him.
• Shi Hao touched the Stone Statue, which cracked open and released purple light from its Stone Pagoda, restoring some of his vitality.

Little Rascal learned a Bone Script from the purple pagoda and grew stronger as Stone Village heard of a Mountain Treasure emerging in the Azure Mountain Range. When four supreme beings unleashed a beast tide to conceal the treasure, the Stone Statue’s pagoda awakened and intervened to stop the slaughter.

• Little Rascal condensed a mysterious Bone Script, lifted a bluestone, and learned from Shi Yunfeng that it might be a Primordial Treasure Sigil.
• Shi Yunfeng and the village elders worried that unusual beasts in the Azure Mountain Range signaled the appearance of Mountain Treasure.
• Four Terror Beings fought over the emerged Sacred Object, while two ordered a beast tide to slaughter the surrounding peoples and hide the clues.
• The Willow Tree protected Stone Village as the beast tide destroyed villages, and Little Rascal and the villagers grieved for the dead.
• The Stone Statue’s purple pagoda awakened as one ferocious bird threatened millions, froze the Four Terror Beings, seized the attacker, and erased the rampaging beasts in purple light.

The Purple Gold Emperor Pagoda restored Stone Village after the beast tide and made Little Rascal its master’s direct disciple, teaching him the True Meaning of the Secret of Healing. It then began using the village’s ancient Cauldron and phoenix-blooded beasts to treat hidden injuries.

• The Willow Deity restored those killed by the beast tide, and Stone Village gathered the beasts left outside as provisions.
• The Purple Pagoda revealed that its master was the Chaos Great Emperor and had reversed time and space to revive the dead, then Shi Yunfeng had Little Rascal kowtow nine times and become the Great Emperor’s direct disciple.
• The Purple Pagoda taught Little Rascal the True Meaning of the Secret of Healing and described the Nine Secrets and the Great Emperor’s past battles, while Little Rascal hoped to heal Shi Yunfeng’s injuries too.
• A tiny Phoenix Bird emerged from the Stone Statue, and the Willow Deity questioned the Purple Pagoda about its master’s battle with a Five-Colored Immortal Phoenix.
• The Purple Pagoda told Shi Yunfeng to bring out Stone Village’s oldest Cauldron and several unusual bird carcasses, then drew their blood into the Cauldron and formed a fiery Divine Phoenix inside it.

Stone Village discovered Primordial Treasure Bones among the ferocious beast carcasses, giving the clan a chance to rebuild its cultivation foundation. After Little Rascal reached one hundred thousand jin through a grueling baptism, the Deity of the Emperor's Pagoda prepared to teach him the Primordial True Understanding, and Yan Kuan manifested a mysterious figure from its Treasure Bone.

• Shi Yunfeng discovered Primordial Treasure Bones in the beast carcasses and ordered the villagers to keep their discovery secret.
• The Deity of the Emperor's Pagoda sent Little Rascal into the Black Cauldron to comprehend healing methods and undergo a baptism with phoenix blood.
• Little Rascal endured repeated baptisms with the beasts' essence until he emerged reborn and lifted a boulder weighing one hundred thousand jin.
• The Deity of the Emperor's Pagoda told Little Rascal to master the True Meaning of the Blood Moving Realm before cultivating the Primordial True Understanding, whose Treasure Bone Shi Yunfeng brought forth.
• Yan Kuan's petrified form absorbed the Treasure Bone's runes and manifested a towering figure amid a vision of countless beings offering sacrifices.

Yan Kuan transformed into a Sacred Spirit and restored the Bone Cauldron, revealing the Transcendence Chapter and the Supreme Hall’s inheritances. He left Shi Hao with tasks to find the missing Divine Guidance Chapter and the Supreme Hall’s Dao Field, where Shi Hao later encountered a colossal creature emerging from the earth.

• Yan Kuan explained his Sacred Spirit transformation to Willow Deity and used the restored Black Cauldron to reveal the Mountain Treasure and the Supreme Hall’s inheritances.
• The Mountain Treasure and the small Bone Cauldron fused, forming a complete cauldron that recorded the Transcendence Chapter of the Primordial True Understanding.
• Yan Kuan entered his final transformation within the Bone Cauldron and asked Shi Hao to find the missing half of the Divine Guidance Chapter and the Supreme Hall’s Dao Field.
• Later, Shi Hao and Willow Deity encountered a gigantic claw emerging from underground near the Supreme Dao Field, and Willow Deity identified its owner as a possible Giant Turtle.

Shi Hao returned to Stone Village with treasures from the Ageless Divine Spring and asked the Willow Deity which ones could help her and his sleeping Great Emperor Master. The Willow Deity recognized a tiny white pagoda as the weakened Source of the Desolate Tower, and the Deity of the Emperor's Pagoda made it promise to protect Shi Hao on his future travels.

• Shi Hao returned to Stone Village with Shi Qingfeng, Big Red, Baldy, Furball, and the Godstriking Stone after investigating the Supreme God's Treasury site.
• Shi Hao reunited with the Lightning-Struck Willow and presented her with immortal spring soil and a drop of golden Divine Spring liquid.
• The Willow Deity sent the Fountain of Youth to the White Bone Cauldron beneath the Nine-Layer Purple Gold Pagoda, where four Golden Dragons entered to aid the sleeping Great Emperor Master.
• The Willow Deity identified the tiny white pagoda as an ancient treasure missing several layers, and the Deity of the Emperor's Pagoda revealed that it had helped inspire his own form.
• The Deity of the Emperor's Pagoda confronted the white pagoda over taking Shi Hao's treasures and demanded that it help protect Shi Hao during his future training.

The Willow Deity learned that Yan Kuan sought the Supreme Hall and the Primal Gate so he could guard the gate and investigate its secrets, and she agreed to accompany him. As they reached the Supreme Hall’s site, Yan Kuan briefly awakened and shattered the barrier between the two realms, killing several Upper Realm attackers.

• The Deity of the Emperor's Pagoda revealed that Yan Kuan had become a Supreme at just over two hundred years old and had defeated a million-year-old Immortal Phoenix, convincing the Willow Deity and the White Pagoda of his potential.
• The Deity of the Emperor's Pagoda explained that Yan Kuan sought the Supreme Hall to guard the Primal Gate, and the Willow Deity revealed her Three Thousand Realms before agreeing to wait for Yan Kuan to awaken.
• The Willow Deity opened a passage and took Yan Kuan, Shi Hao, the Small Pagoda, and the Deity of the Emperor's Pagoda to the Supreme Hall's location.
• The Willow Deity and the Small Pagoda explained that the Giant Turtle was a fabricated scheme aimed at Upper Realm pursuers, while the Deity of the Emperor's Pagoda defended Shi Hao's future prospects.
• A wisp of Yan Kuan's thought emerged from the White Bone Cauldron, shattered the barrier between the two realms with a single point, and caused several Mutilated Corpses to fall from the Upper Realm.

Yan Kuan taught Shi Hao the True Phoenix Treasure Technique and explained his cultivation philosophy while his Emperor's Pagoda advanced toward becoming an Immortal Artifact. After the group claimed the Supreme Hall and returned toward Stone Village, Shi Hao trained through relentless battles as the Lower Realm braced for the Upper Realm's coming harvest and Battle of Deification.

• Yan Kuan gave Shi Hao the blood of fallen Exotic Beasts for his Baptism and refined the Purple Gold Emperor Pagoda with the White Pagoda's Origin Laws.
• Yan Kuan passed the True Phoenix Treasure Technique to Shi Hao, and the White Pagoda learned that Yan Kuan possessed many Innate Treasure Arts.
• The Emperor's Pagoda subdued the Giant Turtle, took control of the Supreme Hall, and led it back toward Stone Village with Shi Hao, the Willow Deity, and the Small Pagoda.
• Shi Hao followed Yan Kuan's instructions and strengthened himself through fierce battles in the Great Wilderness.
• News spread that Upper Realm powerhouses would harvest the Lower Realm and begin the Battle of Deification, while Lower Realm forces prepared to resist.

Shi Hao returned to Stone Village with Yun Xi and Huo Ling'er, reunited with Yan Kuan, and learned that the Lower Realm’s supposed Sin Domain was a lie used to justify its exploitation. Yan Kuan began his reckoning by freeing Kun Peng’s son from Mount Bu Lao and turned his attention toward further targets.

• Shi Hao brought his companions through a collapsing Void passage to Stone Village, where Yan Kuan appeared and greeted his returning disciple.
• Shi Hao gave Yan Kuan the completed second half of the Primordial True Understanding Divine Guidance Chapter and told him that he had defeated Shi Yi, who had been taken away by another Double-Pupiled One.
• Yan Kuan explained that Upper Realm Remnant Immortals had falsely branded the Seven Frontier Kings’ descendants as sinners and had exploited the Lower Realm, prompting Shi Hao to vow to grow strong enough to settle accounts with them.
• Yan Kuan struck Mount Bu Lao across realms, overcame the Five Elements Mountain, and freed Kun Peng’s son from the Five Elements Divine Chain.
• Yan Kuan took Kun Peng’s son away and declared that the First Spirit Root, the Fake Medicine Seller, the immortal herb, and the Primal Gate would face reckoning next.

After escaping the Five Elements Mountain, the Undying Creature replenished his strength and reunited with Yan Kuan, who revealed that he was the deficient Son of Kun Peng. Yan Kuan offered to help restore his bloodline using the First Spirit Root and decided to seize the Immortal Herb at the Divine Valley, despite its dangerous origins.

• The Undying Creature drew in the essence of the Lower Realm Eight Regions, transformed with golden wings, and appeared before Yan Kuan and the others to thank him.
• Shi Hao failed to see the creature’s true form with his Heavy Pupil, and the Small Pagoda explained that he had been nurtured inside an egg for over a million years.
• Yan Kuan identified the creature as the Son of Kun Peng, whose bloodline had been damaged, and offered to help restore it with the First Spirit Root and a secret Nirvana Method.
• The Small Pagoda warned that the First Spirit Root was an Immortal King Giant transformed into a living herb, but Yan Kuan said he was willing to risk its karma.
• Yan Kuan showed the group the First Spirit Root in the Divine Valley, where its three flowers transformed into a little person and a magical artifact before returning to the tree.
• Yan Kuan resolved to obtain the First Spirit Root and refine it into pills.

Yan Kuan used the First Spirit Root to lure Upper Realm experts into the Lower Realm, where three powerful Immortal Artifacts descended and stirred a calamity. As Upper Realm giants began arriving, Yan Kuan and the Willow Deity prepared to confront them.

• Yan Kuan arranged a Source Celestial Array around the First Spirit Root, drawing in the Lower Realm’s essence and attracting Upper Realm attention.
• The Realm-Breaking Gates failed, then the Endless Bell, the Small Pagoda’s lost tower body, and the incomplete Six Paths Reincarnation Disk descended into the Desolate Domain.
• The three Immortal Artifacts unleashed a deadly celestial phenomenon, but Yan Kuan shattered it and warned the Upper Realm giants not to covet the Immortal Herb.
• Upper Realm giants forced their way through the realm barrier, and the Small Pagoda recognized former enemies among them as they entered Yan Kuan’s trap.
• The Willow Deity condemned the arriving giants for pursuing opportunities instead of defending Emperor Gate against the Foreign Realm.

Yan Kuan trapped the Upper Realm experts battling for the First Spirit Root and punished those harvesting the Lower Realm, then froze the conflict as the Double-Pupiled Woman escaped with the spirit root and a mysterious Paper Boat blocked her pursuers. The chapter left Yan Kuan questioning whether Nannan had intervened to help her.

• The Third Killing Formation and Wild Desolation killed Upper Realm attackers at Supreme Hall, and Son of Kun Peng caught the weapon and sensed his mother's lingering will.
• The Ninth Killing Formation trapped the giants fighting for the First Spirit Root, but the Endless Bell, Six Paths Reincarnation Disk, and another Broken Pagoda joined the battle.
• Yan Kuan recombined the Source Heaven Array Patterns to seal the Eight Regions and trap the experts fighting in the Divine Valley.
• Yan Kuan captured and sent the Old Woman, the Taoist, and the other herb gatherers into the Heaven and Earth Furnace, where they were refined to nourish the Lower Realm.
• The First Spirit Root broke free from the Dao Bell and fled, but the Double-Pupiled Woman caught it beyond the Nine Heavens as a Paper Boat blocked her pursuers.
• Yan Kuan froze the Eight Regions with the Source Heaven Array Patterns and wondered whether Nannan had sent the Paper Boat to help the Double-Pupiled Woman.

Yan Kuan overwhelmed the Reincarnation Disk and the Endless Bell, using Wushi to counter their powers while standing atop the disk. He then dragged the Yin-Yang Daoist into the lower realm and killed him, leaving the Upper Realm shaken.

• Yan Kuan suppressed the expert wielding the Reincarnation Disk beneath his Dharma Body’s foot.
• The Endless Bell’s holder attacked Yan Kuan with the characters “Endless,” but Yan Kuan answered with Wushi and a Beginningless Bell phantom, sending the holder flying and making him cough blood.
• Yan Kuan understood how the Beginningless Great Emperor had used the Immortal Bell’s true meaning to complete Wushi and defeat the Undying Heavenly Emperor.
• Yan Kuan dragged the Yin-Yang Daoist from the Void into the lower realm, prompting the Small Pagoda and Willow Deity to recognize him as an enemy.
• The Yin-Yang Daoist fought Yan Kuan with the two-tiered Small Pagoda, but Yan Kuan shattered his body and annihilated his primordial spirit.
• The Yin-Yang Daoist’s death stunned the onlookers and threw the Upper Realm into upheaval.

After Yan Kuan defeated the Upper Realm attackers, he used the First Spirit Root to create a Divine Pill for Shi Yi and sent the Double-Pupiled Woman away with it. He then urged Shi Hao to unite the lower realm before departing with the Small Pagoda, Willow Deity, and the Son of Kun Peng for the Ancient Treasure Realm to seek the Primal Gate.

• The Small Pagoda suppressed the spirit inside its lost layers and reunited them with its remaining body, restoring itself to six layers.
• Yan Kuan drove back the Upper Realm attackers, crippling the Endless Bell and Reincarnation Disk and forcing the surviving powers to withdraw.
• Yan Kuan recognized Nannan’s message in the Paper Boat and gave the Double-Pupiled Woman a Divine Pill made from the First Spirit Root and the fallen giants’ blood essence to revive Shi Yi.
• Yan Kuan returned the Small Pagoda to Shi Hao and revealed that its remaining two layers were held by an Immortal King in a Transformed Forbidden Zone.
• Yan Kuan told Shi Hao to become Stone Emperor, unify the lower realm, and grow stronger, so Shi Hao departed with Zhu Yan Furball and Little Red.
• Yan Kuan left Stone Village with the Small Pagoda, Willow Deity, and the Son of Kun Peng for the Ancient Treasure Realm, where the Primal Gate was located.

Yan Kuan and his companions explored an Ancient Treasure Realm connected to the Primal Gate, then discovered a Golden Crow tribe and a vast magma sea surrounding the Golden Sun Ancient Tree. They climbed the near-World Tree toward its Chaos Ancient Hall, while Yan Kuan gathered divine essence for Little Rascal’s transformation and kept the Small Pagoda from taking too much.

• Yan Kuan ordered the Willow Deity and Small Pagoda to locate and seal the Chaos hiding the Primal Gate, saving its exploration for the Battle of Deification.
• Yan Kuan found a Golden Crow, and he and his companions followed it to a city guarded by more than a hundred thousand Fire Crows.
• Yan Kuan teleported the group into a sealed divine soil, where they discovered a magma sea and the Golden Sun Ancient Tree.
• The group crossed the forbidden magma sea on the Small Pagoda and approached the tree, whose scale made them shrink to tiny figures.
• Yan Kuan stopped the Small Pagoda from hoarding the Earth Fire Liquid and refined its fortune for Little Rascal’s Baptism and transformation.
• Yan Kuan and his companions climbed the tree past ancient battlefields and Golden Crow relics toward the Chaos Ancient Hall and a nearby Divine Mountain.

Yan Kuan discovered a Golden-Haired Woman sleeping inside a Sun Divine Flower and found a Heavenly Emperor’s Bone Scripture in the Chaos Palace before relocating the Ancient Treasure Realm. Meanwhile, Shi Hao’s rise stirred the Lower Realm, and the Demoness arrived to tease the captive Yuechan about her supposed marriage to him.

• Yan Kuan collected Golden Treasure Liquid from the Sun Divine Flower, then used some of it to nourish the Golden-Haired Woman and protect her awakening with an emperor-level array.
• Yan Kuan examined the Chaos Palace’s Bone Scriptures and found a message signed by the Heavenly Emperor that warned the end of darkness lay beyond the Boundary Sea and that only a King could solve the crisis.
• Yan Kuan handed the scripture to Willow Deity, moved the Ancient Treasure Realm near Stone Village, and relocated his main body to the Golden Crow Clan’s forbidden grounds.
• The Stone Kingdom expanded across the Lower Realm as rumors linked its rise to the expert who had defeated Upper Realm giants.
• Shi Hao dined with Yuechan, his captive and the High Priestess of the Mending Heaven Sect, in the Stone Kingdom palace.
• The Demoness of the Intercepting Heaven Sect appeared and congratulated Yuechan on her supposed marriage to Shi Hao.