Chapter Summaries

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.

Yan Kuan killed Divine Court Vice Leader Yuhua Tian and learned from his memories that the Divine Court Emperor was secluding himself on a Crimson Star while preparing to prove the Dao. The Divine Court Emperor sent his newly forged Thirty-Three Heavens Blue Gold Emperor Tower to the Divine Court, where an unfamiliar Imperial Might suddenly challenged him.

• Yan Kuan ambushed Yuhua Tian with Rongcheng's Dragon Spear and overwhelmed him despite Yuhua Tian's use of the Divine Court Emperor's war spear.
• Yan Kuan pierced and refined Yuhua Tian, extracting his Quasi-Emperor Origin and memories about the Emperor Lord, Rongcheng, and the Overlord Body Ancestral Star.
• Yan Kuan traced the Emperor Lord's whereabouts to a concealed starfield but noted that the Overlord Body Ancestral Star was too dangerous to visit for now.
• The Divine Court Emperor awakened on the Crimson Star and prepared to send his Thirty-Three Heavens Blue Gold Emperor Tower to oversee the Divine Court.
• The Divine Court Emperor appeared before his sons and ministers at Emperor's Palace and asked about Yuhua Tian's death.
• An unfamiliar Imperial Might descended upon the Divine Court, provoking the Emperor Lord.

Yan Kuan attacked the Divine Court Emperor and challenged him to a battle for the Dao, despite the Emperor Lord’s warning that their fight could draw the Forbidden Zone Supremes. The chapter ended with the two Quasi-Emperors clashing in the starry sky, their fire-based powers destroying a star river.

• Yan Kuan used Rongcheng's Immortal Spear to attack the Divine Court Emperor, destroying the Emperor Lord’s clay statue before the Thirty-Three Heavens Imperial Pagoda drove the spear back.
• Yan Kuan confronted the Emperor Lord in space and declared that he intended to kill him and attain the Dao, then shattered the Emperor Lord’s projected divine consciousness.
• The Emperor Lord emerged from a fiery star and questioned Yan Kuan’s motives, but Yan Kuan again declared his intent to kill him and dismissed his Quasi-Emperor Ninth Heaven cultivation as no obstacle.
• The Emperor Lord transformed into a Crimson Dragon, broke through the defenses around Yan Kuan’s Purple Gold Emperor Pagoda, and attacked him directly.
• Yan Kuan and the Emperor Lord fought at close range as Yan Kuan taunted him about fearing the Forbidden Zone Supremes and the Emperor Lord revealed the Vermilion Bird power in his bloodline.
• Yan Kuan unleashed a seemingly plain palm strike that dimmed the stars, and the ensuing clash between his power and the Emperor Lord’s Crimson Dragon and Vermilion Bird forms destroyed a star river.

Yan Kuan fought Emperor Lord, revealed himself as the Chaos Body, and killed him after Emperor Lord faltered in their life-and-death battle. Yan Kuan survived badly wounded, but the Forbidden Zone Supremes had witnessed the battle and now posed an imminent threat.

• Yan Kuan overwhelmed Emperor Lord’s mixed fire techniques and criticized his wavering Dao heart as the two continued fighting.
• The Forbidden Zone Supremes watched from the Big Dipper’s Forbidden Zones, sensing Yan Kuan’s unfamiliar aura and questioning his identity.
• Yan Kuan revealed that he was the Chaos Body and attacked Emperor Lord with Chaos Law and his Chaos Divine Treasury.
• Emperor Lord transformed into his Vermilion Bird true form, but his fear and hesitation left him vulnerable to Yan Kuan’s decisive Chaos strike.
• Yan Kuan destroyed Emperor Lord’s primordial spirit and refined his body, winning the battle at great cost while facing the coming wrath of the Forbidden Zone Supremes.

After defeating the Emperor Lord, Yan Kuan faced a coordinated assault from the Forbidden Zone Supremes as he prepared to advance further. Gu Xin'ao and the gathered Imperial Weapons fought to protect him, while Huo Liner’s father intervened to defend her from a Supreme’s attack.

• Yan Kuan began recovering after his battle with the Emperor Lord, but the Stone Emperor attacked him with a massive hand from Undying Mountain.
• Gu Xin'ao blocked the Stone Emperor and fought his avatar, while Yan Kuan replenished his strength amid their battle.
• The Nether Emperor, the Longevity Celestial, and other Supremes attacked; the Dragon Princess wielded the Ten Thousand Dragons Bell against the Stone Emperor’s Dragon-Patterned Black Gold War Halberd, and the Dragon Emperor’s remnant imprint appeared before vanishing with the Stone Emperor.
• Ji Zi, Jiang Yifei, Jiang Taixu, and others brought Imperial Weapons to defend Yan Kuan as the Forbidden Zone Supremes renewed their attacks.
• Huo Liner confronted a Supreme with the Qilin Staff, and the Qilin stopped the Supreme’s strike and declared that Huo Liner was his daughter.

The Ancient Primordial Mines awakened their imperial weapons in support of Yan Kuan, but the Undying Heavenly Blade soon attacked him on behalf of the still-transforming Undying Heavenly Emperor. Yan Kuan revealed his hidden strength and trapped the Emperor in a killing array, forcing him to retreat while leaving behind several drops of Five-Colored Immortal Blood.

• The Golden Celestial Maiden and Dragon Princess awakened their imperial weapons, and the Ancient Primordial Mines’ Supremes fell silent as other forbidden zones halted their tests of Yan Kuan.
• The Undying Heavenly Blade awakened and crossed the cosmos to attack Yan Kuan, while Gu Xin'ao and several Imperial Weapons joined the fight against it.
• The Undying Heavenly Blade repeatedly wounded Yan Kuan, and Gu Xin'ao tried to trap and refine it until the Undying Heavenly Emperor appeared and sent him flying.
• Yan Kuan revealed that his apparent weakness had been an act, used Phoenix Tribulation Rebirth, and trapped the Undying Heavenly Emperor and his blade in a Peerless Killing Array.
• Yan Kuan, Gu Xin'ao, Chuan Ying, and Gai Jiuyou drove the array to full power, forcing the Undying Heavenly Emperor to escape and leave several drops of Five-Colored Immortal Blood behind.

Yan Kuan visited Big Dipper’s Life Forbidden Zones, gathering treasures while the Supremes watched but did not challenge him. At the Ancient Primordial Mines, Huo Liner reunited with her father, the Qilin Ancient Emperor, while the Dragon Princess and Golden Celestial Maiden went to seek their own sealed fathers.

• Yan Kuan returned to Big Dipper and entered Undying Mountain with Huo Liner, the Dragon Princess, and the Golden Celestial Maiden, while the Stone Emperor watched but restrained himself.
• Huo Liner stripped the Enlightenment Tea Tree of its leaves and a branch, and Anbu gave Yan Kuan a jar containing hundreds of stored tea leaves.
• Yan Kuan left Undying Mountain, collected nearly half of a Divine Spring from Divine Ruins, and toured Immortal Burial Mound, Reincarnation Sea, and Burial Sky Island.
• Yan Kuan brought the three Imperial Princesses to the Ancient Primordial Mines, where Huo Liner reunited tearfully with the Qilin Ancient Emperor’s Astral Divine Incarnation.
• Yan Kuan presented tea to the Qilin Ancient Emperor and directed the Dragon Princess and Golden Celestial Maiden to the Ancient Caves where their fathers were sealed.

Yan Kuan visited the Ancient Primordial Mines, shared Enlightenment Tea with Huo Liner and the Qilin Ancient Emperor, and warned the Supremes about the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s origins and schemes. After advising the Qilin Ancient Emperor to postpone the Big Dipper’s Path to Immortality, Yan Kuan left the mines with several treasures.

• Yan Kuan brewed Enlightenment Tea with the Source of the Dao, and Huo Liner entered Dao Enlightenment after drinking three cups.
• Huo Liner asked why the Qilin Ancient Emperor refused to meet Huo Qizi, and her father explained that he wanted his son to walk his own path while wishing happiness for her.
• Yan Kuan warned the Qilin Ancient Emperor about the approaching Path to Immortality and revealed that the Undying Heavenly Emperor was an Immortal Realm Phoenix who had plotted against Imperial Dao Supremes.
• The Supremes in the Ancient Primordial Mines and other forbidden lands discussed Yan Kuan’s revelations and grew more determined to eliminate the Undying Heavenly Emperor.
• Yan Kuan urged the Qilin Ancient Emperor to postpone the Big Dipper’s Path to Immortality, then visited other places in the mines and left with several treasures, including a large Primordial Life Stone.

Yan Kuan entered Purple Mountain with Black Emperor, encountered the lingering presence of the Beginningless Great Emperor, and received permission to enter the Undying Phoenix Nest. He confronted the Undying Heavenly Empress and overwhelmed her guards, capturing her Quasi-Emperor commander as the Empress finally rose to act.

• Yan Kuan paid tribute at Fifth Lord Zhang’s grave, then accompanied Black Emperor into Purple Mountain to search for traces of the Beginningless Great Emperor.
• At the Dao Platform, Yan Kuan saw the Beginningless Great Emperor’s sorrowful remnant and asked permission to enter the Undying Phoenix Nest; a mysterious voice granted his request.
• Black Emperor searched Purple Mountain and found a shattered altar and a Dao Wall inscribed with the words “Wrong,” while Yan Kuan activated a formation and sent Black Emperor away.
• Yan Kuan entered the Undying Phoenix Nest and provoked the Undying Heavenly Empress by claiming the Undying Heavenly Emperor could not protect himself and asking her to leave him for Yan Kuan.
• The Undying Heavenly Empress’s Great Saint guards attacked Yan Kuan, but he knocked them down, broke the nest’s formation, and captured her Female Quasi-Emperor guard commander.
• Yan Kuan entered the Phoenix Nest and addressed the Undying Heavenly Empress, who finally rose from her seat.

Yan Kuan subdued the Undying Heavenly Empress, extracted some of her Immortal Phoenix Blood Essence, and made her cooperate before traveling to the Sun Moon Divine General’s tomb. He defeated and refined the revived Divine General, calling the Eight Divine Generals a little interest collected from the Undying Heavenly Emperor.

• Yan Kuan overwhelmed the Undying Heavenly Empress and suppressed the Phoenix Nest’s treasures with the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Can.
• Yan Kuan extracted some of the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s phoenix blood from the Empress, then made her cooperate with his plans.
• Yan Kuan left the Phoenix Nest with the Empress’s Female Quasi-Emperor guard commander and traveled to the Sun Moon Divine General’s tomb.
• The Sun Moon Divine General awakened and sent his Sun and Moon divine forms to attack Yan Kuan, but Yan Kuan devoured and destroyed them.
• The Sun Moon Divine General emerged to fight Yan Kuan, who suppressed him, killed him, and refined his power as a tonic.

Yan Kuan killed the Nether Demon Divine General and found Ning Fei, the First Divine General, living in seclusion. He threatened the Heavenly Empress to draw Ning Fei out, then asked him to help confront the coming Dark Turmoil, and the two agreed to join forces.

• Yan Kuan devoured Kun Heaven Divine General’s Origin after defeating him, then ordered the Female Quasi-Emperor to lead him to the Nether Demon Divine General.
• Yan Kuan suppressed Nether Demon Divine General’s Green Lamp with Empyrean Flame and killed him, absorbing his Origin.
• The Female Quasi-Emperor led Yan Kuan to the First Divine General’s homeland, where he recognized Ning Fei living as a white-haired farmer.
• Yan Kuan threatened the Heavenly Empress’s life to provoke Ning Fei, who offered to trade his own life for hers.
• Yan Kuan returned Ning Fei’s Jade Pendant and invited him to help quell the coming Dark Turmoil, and they sealed their agreement with a fist bump.