Chapter Summaries

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.

Yan Kuan found the Demon Empress Ruler shattered into five pieces and subdued the fragments before pressing deeper into the Demon Emperor’s Tomb. He discovered the Demon Emperor’s Imperial Blood and fought Xue Yueqing’s phantom to earn the inheritance, winning by barely half a move.

• Yan Kuan entered Emperor Weapon Mountain, overcame the damaged Demon Empress Ruler with the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Can, and uncovered the altar holding five broken cyan-gold fragments.
• He witnessed the Demon Empress’s failed attempt to reach the Immortal Realm and learned how she buried the ruler after it broke trying to help her.
• Yan Kuan used the Demon Emperor Ancient Scripture and Weapon Incantation to subdue the five fragments, then fought off corpse wraiths and Shadow Deities along the Yellow Spring.
• Yan Kuan found the Demon Emperor’s scattered Imperial Blood and faced Xue Yueqing’s phantom, which demanded a fight before granting the inheritance.
• Yan Kuan battled Xue Yueqing through repeated bodily destruction and recovery, finally winning by barely half a move after entering the Divine Forbidden state and activating the All-Encompassing Secret.

Yan Kuan recovered the Demon Emperor’s relics and honored Xue Yueqing’s last wish by burying his remains and beloved flowers beyond the Nine Heavens. After returning the Guardian Great Saint’s artifacts and leaving the search parties misdirected, Yan Kuan headed for Golden Seven Cities to seek a place to transform.

• Yan Kuan collected the Demon Emperor’s essence blood, Medicine Kings, and Jade Casket as the tomb collapsed, then learned that the Demon Emperor had preserved the bouquet his beloved left behind.
• Yan Kuan placed the Jade Casket and Xue Yueqing’s Imperial Blood imprint in a Nine Heavens Divine Jade coffin, and Xue Yueqing’s undying obsession entered it before the coffin ascended beyond the Nine Heavens.
• The Demon Emperor’s tomb disintegrated, and Yan Kuan collected the Dragon Pearl, essence blood, and other relics while preserving the Dragon Horse’s inheritance and the Star Ruins.
• Yan Kuan chose the Mythic Ancient Road as the place to undergo transformation and returned the Great Luo Silver Essence Holy Garment and another Great Saint Artifact to the Guardian Great Saint of Ruins City.
• The Guardian Great Saint concealed Yan Kuan’s identity and warned the gathered experts that he was near Quasi-Emperor strength, causing their search for him to fade.
• Yan Kuan reached Golden Seven Cities at the end of the Primordial Golden Ancient Road Secret Realm.

Yan Kuan, Xiao Nannan, and the Golden Nine-Tailed Croc Dragon traveled from Golden Seven Cities to the Mythic Ancient Road, where Yan Kuan gathered ancient creatures and bloodlines. After reaching the Mythic Other Shore, he waited for a divine-medicine offering and obtained Life God Leaves from the Ancient Tree of Life.

• Yan Kuan learned from the lord of Golden Seven Cities that he needed a Mythic Altar to reach the Mythic Ancient Road, then activated one and departed with Xiao Nannan and the Golden Nine-Tailed Croc Dragon.
• In a dark starfield, Yan Kuan found and seized a shattered Ten-Thousand-Zhang Divine Demon whose chest held a Mythic War Drum, then studied the ancient corpse and its bloodline.
• Yan Kuan's group crossed a giant boundary stele into the Mythic Ancient Hunting Zone, where Yan Kuan collected many ancient beasts and their blood, including a peak Sage King Black Tortoise and a Great Saint-level Ancient Jiao Dragon.
• Yan Kuan learned from the beasts about the Mythic Other Shore, crossed its Realm Gate, and reached reefs where divine medicine appeared.
• Yan Kuan waited for a divine-medicine offering and collected the Life God Leaves from the Ancient Tree of Life.

Yan Kuan crossed the Divine Sea of Bitterness toward the Mythic Other Shore, collecting ancient corpses and Life Spring Divine Liquid along the way. After learning that the sea held nine springs, he set his sights on the final and most important one as the place for his next transformation.

• Yan Kuan refined his self-created scripture and Secret Arts under the Heavenly Venerable Dao Body, then took the Croc Dragon and Xiao Nannan across the Sea of Bitterness toward the Other Shore.
• Yan Kuan entered the hidden sea, assembled a fleet of ancient ships, and suppressed a Great Saint-level Overlord Body into an Ancient Artifact.
• Yan Kuan found a Life Spring, tested its Divine Liquid on the Nine-tailed Crocodile Dragon, used most of the rest on Xiao Nannan, and collected more with the Jade Purification Vase.
• Yan Kuan traveled to another Life Spring and defeated a Great Saint-level Divine King Body, adding it to the ancient corpses he had collected.
• Yan Kuan concluded that the Sea of Bitterness contained nine Life Springs and declared that he would claim the final spring for his transformation.

Yan Kuan entered the Celestial Worthy of Numinous Treasure’s ninth Life Spring and endured its killing intent to approach the ancient inheritance within. After avoiding the four Slaughter Swords and reaching the Heavenly Venerable’s Wheel of Life, he began tracing the Celestial Worthy’s memories.

• Yan Kuan calmed the Numinous Treasure Killing Formation by reciting Lingbao scriptures and used the Human-Faced Ghost Lantern to enter the Sea of Life.
• Yan Kuan immersed himself in the killing-tainted Divine Spring Liquid, enduring repeated injuries and healing as he adapted to the Sea of Life.
• Yan Kuan used the Stone Mirror Platform to see the cave mansion moved into the Sea of Life by the deceased Old Six-Eared Macaque and recognized its hidden scriptures and the Young Six-Eared Macaque’s connection to the inheritance.
• Yan Kuan inspected the four Slaughter Swords but stopped trying to enter the cave mansion when they reacted to his approach.
• Yan Kuan reached the Celestial Worthy of Numinous Treasure’s cracked Wheel of Life, invoked the Heavenly Venerable’s inheritance, and began witnessing his memories as Divine Spring Liquid flowed into Yan Kuan’s body.