Chapter Summaries

Yan Kuan sparred with Dragon Princess, Golden Celestial Maiden, and Huo Liner, then took Golden Celestial Maiden away to the Golden Divine Treasury. Afterward, he teased Huo Liner about the Qilin Divine Medicine and launched a forceful advance on her, leaving her panicked.

• Dragon Princess, Golden Celestial Maiden, and Huo Liner joined forces to attack Yan Kuan, but he countered their techniques and defeated their combined assault.
• Golden Celestial Maiden unleashed her strongest weapon-based arts, but Yan Kuan dissolved her armor and carried her into the Golden Divine Treasury.
• Yan Kuan and Golden Celestial Maiden spent time together inside the Golden Divine Treasury before he emerged and found Huo Liner searching the Enlightenment Hall.
• Huo Liner asked Yan Kuan about the Qilin Divine Medicine, but he pretended not to remember it and teased her by conjuring a violet qilin phantom.
• Yan Kuan dodged Huo Liner's attempt to bite him, then overpowered her despite her protests.

Yan Kuan said goodbye to Ye Fan and the others, then collected the God-Demon Burial Ground in the Ninefold Divine Coffin before returning to the Big Dipper with Xiao Nannan. He arrived near the star and considered visiting Jade Lake while eyeing the Ancient Primordial Mines uneasily.

• Huo Liner discovered that the Qilin Divine Medicine had undergone nirvana and retained none of its memories from the Primordial Era, though it happily responded to Xiao Nannan.
• Yan Kuan warned Ye Fan that the depths of Heavenly Weapon Ancient Star held a dangerous Golden Crow Quasi-Emperor with whom he shared great karma, and said he would confront him only when he was close to achieving the Dao.
• Ye Fan and his companions left to continue exploring the Mythic Realm, while Sage Prince set off along the ape race's ancient path and Ji Haoyue took Xin Yue to a God Clan ancient star.
• Yan Kuan opened the Ninefold Divine Coffin and used the Source Heaven Law to collect the God-Demon Burial Ground inside it.
• Yan Kuan took Xiao Nannan and a palace and traveled back to the Big Dipper, where he considered visiting Jade Lake before approaching the Ancient Primordial Mines.

Yan Kuan returned to Big Dipper after more than a hundred years and found the star in turmoil as powerful outsiders gathered ahead of the Path to Immortality. At Mystic Gate, he reunited with its leaders and learned that Xiao Tongtong, its Solar Physique Divine Son, had risen to prominence among the new generation.

• Yan Kuan and his companions descended on Big Dipper, where they witnessed battles among powerful figures and sensed the star’s newly flourishing cultivation environment.
• Yan Kuan sent his companions to make their own arrangements and returned with Xiao Nannan to Mystic Gate at Fire Demon Ridge.
• Xiao Que'er recognized Yan Kuan at the gate, and Xiao Nannan embarrassed her by recalling how she had carried a milk bottle as a child.
• Yan Kuan learned that Qi Luo was in seclusion, then met him beneath an Old Locust Tree and asked about Big Dipper’s recent turmoil.
• Qi Luo explained that Mystic Gate had helped stabilize Big Dipper and that Xiao Tongtong had become its Divine Son, defeating many leading young fighters.

Yan Kuan learned that the Black Emperor had vanished with Mystic Gate’s resources, heard about the Golden Crow Clan’s pursuit of Tongtong and Hua Hua’s confinement at Mount Sumeru, and decided to leave those matters for later. As he prepared to explore the Big Dipper, he met his newly revealed disciples Huang Tiannv and Xiao Que'er and gave them divine materials.

• Qi Luo told Yan Kuan that the Black Emperor had disappeared into the cosmos with much of Mystic Gate’s resources, leaving the sect’s younger generation exposed to attacks.
• Qi Luo explained that the Golden Crow Clan had hunted Tongtong after he killed one of its princes, and Yan Kuan ordered Mystic Gate to warn the clan without starting a full-scale war.
• Qi Luo reported that Hua Hua had entered seclusion at Mount Sumeru, and Yan Kuan decided to leave the matter for Ye Fan while sending divine consciousness to check on him.
• Yan Kuan told Qi Luo not to publicize his return and prepared to explore with Xiao Nannan, while Qi Luo sent Xiao Que'er and Huang Tiannv to accompany him.
• Huang Tiannv greeted Yan Kuan as her master and playfully asked him for refining materials, so he offered her and Xiao Que'er divine materials as gifts.

Yan Kuan and Huang Tiannv attended a grand gathering in Azureglow City, where prominent cultivators and rulers from across the Big Dipper arrived. The gathering ended on a tense note when Yan Kuan sensed a Great Saint among the approaching Golden Crow Clan and suspected they intended to challenge Mystic Gate.

• Cultivators gathered on Jade Lake’s Floating Divine Island and watched Hua Yunfei, Li Youyou, Li Qingzhou, and the Mystic Gate Divine Son arrive.
• The Peacock King, Jiang Yifei, Xia Yiming, Yao Yuekong, Dongfang Ye, and other powerful figures joined the gathering as guests traded rumors about Mystic Gate Holy Lord Yan Kuan.
• Huang Tiannv questioned Yan Kuan about the rumors, and he denied having relationships with An Miaoyi and the current Jade Pool West Queen Mother.
• Yan Kuan identified Feng Huang of the Wind Clan for Huang Tiannv as another guest arrived.
• Yan Kuan sensed the Golden Crow Clan approaching with a Great Saint and wondered whether they meant to wage war against Mystic Gate.

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.