Recaps

Reborn as Yan Kuan in 1980, he cultivated with the Trigram Treasure Box, explored ancient sites, and gained power and resources. After clashing with the Dragon Sparrow Clan, he returned to his family and announced that he would cultivate the Dao.

• Xiao Yan completed the name Xiao Yan on the Firmament Billboard, then sent an Origin avatar through a cosmic vortex to visit his other homeland.
• Yan Xiao awoke as a newborn named Yan Kuan in 1980, retaining his memories and receiving the inheritance of Xiao Yan’s clone.
• Yan Kuan cultivated with the Trigram Treasure Box, formed a Qi Cyclone, and learned that he had been reborn in the Shrouding the Heavens universe.
• Yan Kuan explored the Ancient Tomb at Mount Ba Ling, absorbed Solar Trueflame, and broke through to the Life Spring Realm.
• Yan Kuan visited Mount Lu and attended the Mount Sanqing Cultivator Gathering, where he traded Blood Origin Pills for cultivation texts, treasures, and resources.
• When twenty-six cultivators pursued him for his pills, Yan Kuan defeated them and killed the Dragon Sparrow elders who tried to force him to join their clan.
• Yan Kuan raided the Jiujiang Dragon Sparrow Branch’s underground palace, taking more than half its treasures and leaving a warning in the name of Celestial Venerable Han.
• Yan Kuan returned to Jingcheng, refused his parents’ suggestion that he start school, and said he would cultivate the Dao and take them to White Cloud Temple.

Yan Kuan advanced his cultivation, forged an alliance with Ten Thousand Demons Valley, and explored the Earth Immortal’s burial ground at Dragon Tiger Mountain. After refining a Life-Devouring Pill, he began a series of life-death transformations, completing two and starting a third.

• Yan Kuan cultivated at White Cloud Temple, reached the Divine Bridge realm, and developed a Wheel Sea route for the Burning Art before leaving Jingcheng to gather herbs.
• Yan Kuan studied Chisongzi’s sword legacy at the Ancient Tomb and Shu Mountain, then returned to Jingcheng after three years and helped his parents cultivate.
• Yan Kuan negotiated with Sun Wukong and Ten Thousand Demons Valley, refining pills in exchange for herbs and revealing that he had inherited Grand Sage Red Pine’s legacy.
• Yan Kuan joined Sun Wukong and Old Crane in assembling the nine jade pieces, which led them to Dragon Tiger Mountain and the Earth Immortal’s burial ground.
• Yan Kuan and his companions explored the Dragon Mountains, found death-tainted branches of the Ginseng Fruit Tree, and escaped when something awoke in the final Dragon Cave.
• Yan Kuan refined a Life-Devouring Pill from a Divine Tree Branch and a Dao-Slaying King’s Blood Essence, then used it to reach Dou Wang and advance to the perfected peak of the nine-star Dou Emperor realm.
• Yan Kuan began his nine life-death transformations, completing the first two and starting the third as his body and Divine Soul underwent destruction and rebirth.

Yan Kuan explored Kunlun, gathered powerful treasures and refined beasts into Puppets while completing a major bodily transformation. He raided the Western holy sites, returned to Shu Mountain, and ended the stretch by defeating two Jurchen Guardians and claiming their weapons.

• Yan Kuan emerged from seclusion, explored sites holding Kunlun maps, and forged a Forbidden Artifact from Chisongzi’s Sword Sheaths and Broken Swords.
• Yan Kuan impersonated Bo Chong and Bo Lin to enter the Sky Kirin Clan’s ancestral cave, steal the Celestial Demon infant, and plunder clan treasures.
• Yan Kuan entered Kunlun, gathered rare medicines, and trapped a host of Ancient Beasts in Sealed Valley to seize the Yin-Yang Life Soul Pill and refine the Drought Demon into a Puppet.
• Yan Kuan turned the Golden-Winged Great Peng’s body into golden wings, subdued a Golden Suanni, and completed his Six Withers and Six Revivals transformation.
• Yan Kuan raided the Haigu Family and Jerusalem, then infiltrated the Vatican and manipulated Saintess Audelan during a theft of holy treasures.
• Yan Kuan returned to Shu Mountain with the Kunlun Ancient Map, the Imperial Jade Seal, and a stone platform bearing Goddess Nüwa’s Dao.
• Yan Kuan entered the Dragon Triangle Sea’s Water Mansion, defeated the two Jurchen Guardians, and refined them into Celestial Demon Puppets.
• Yan Kuan took the brothers’ weapons and recognized their black arrows as Da Yi’s Great Saint killing weapons, tied to the Golden Crow saints’ deaths and Da Yi’s own end.

Yan Kuan gathered powerful artifacts, medicines, and inheritances in Kunlun, then built alliances and overcame rival religious powers across the Ancestral Star. He unified Eastern and Western faiths, establishing a New God whose Divine Embodiment grew stronger through belief.

• Yan Kuan captured the Dragon Horse, drew its essence blood, and secured the cooperation of the Kunlun Beast Kings.
• Yan Kuan ventured through Kunlun’s Emperor’s Slaughter Formation, claimed the World-Protecting Saint Weapon and Divine Mark Purple-Gold Pagoda, and refined pills that transformed him and brought on his tribulation.
• Yan Kuan left Kunlun with the White Tiger Cub, reunited with his family, and gained Zhang Daoxuan’s support for reopening the Rite of Cosmic Balance.
• Yan Kuan studied and restored Daoist scriptures, then hosted the Rite of Cosmic Balance and shared the gathered traditions’ inheritances with their leaders and disciples.
• Yan Kuan defeated Penglai Celestial and his followers, claimed Penglai as his Dao field, and refined the Extraterrestrial Demon Saint into a Saint-Level Puppet.
• Yan Kuan led Eastern Lands leaders into Jerusalem, defeated the Feather Clan Kings, and converted the Holy City’s believers through the Lingbao Salvation Scripture.
• Yan Kuan overcame the Vatican’s Holy Knights, Forbidden Scrolls, Divine Knight, and Pope, then claimed the Golden Saint’s Armor and Spear of Longinus.
• Yan Kuan established the New God’s faith at the remade Holy See, placed his Divine Embodiment on Mount Olympus, and unified the Ancestral Star’s faith.