Chapter Summaries

Yan Kuan used Divine Liquid and Divine Fire to help Shi Hao complete the rebirth of his Supreme Bone, then guided him into the Array Formation Realm. As Yan Kuan studied the transformation to develop a new Nirvana Method, Shi Hao was left to prepare the Desolate Domain for the Battle of Deification.

• The Demoness teased the captive Fairy Yuechan while she and Shi Hao bantered about the Demoness's World-Breaking Talisman.
• Yan Kuan arrived with a Purple-Gold Gourd of Divine Liquid and poured it into Stone Village's Black Cauldron to nourish Shi Hao's Supreme Bone.
• The Demoness made Fairy Yuechan attend Shi Hao during his Baptism, while Yan Kuan teased the women and spoke of an Enlightenment Tea Tree.
• Yan Kuan used seven-colored Divine Fire to refine Shi Hao in the Black Cauldron, and Shi Hao's Supreme Bone underwent Nirvana and regenerated its symbols.
• Yan Kuan's Dao Sound helped Shi Hao inscribe symbols throughout his body and advance to the late stage of the Array Formation Realm.
• Yan Kuan told Shi Hao to prepare in the Desolate Domain and eliminate the Upper Realm's remaining forces after the Battle of Deification, while he continued developing a new Nirvana Method.

Shi Ziling reunited with his family in the Stone Kingdom, where Qin Yining quickly approved of Shi Hao marrying Yuechan and pushed the wedding through that very day. Yuechan resisted her new mother-in-law but ultimately yielded, and Qin Yining sent the newlyweds to the bridal chamber.

• Shi Ziling returned to the palace with Qin Yining and Qin Hao and reunited with his father, Shi Zhongtian.
• Shi Hao introduced his family to Yuechan, and Qin Yining warmly took to her as a prospective daughter-in-law.
• The Demoness teased Yuechan and claimed she had entered the palace to become Yan Kuan's master's wife, while Shi Hao explained that his master was in secluded cultivation.
• Yan Kuan approved of holding Shi Hao and Yuechan's wedding that day, and Qin Yining clashed with Yuechan over the rushed marriage.
• Qin Yining ordered Peng Jiu to prepare a banquet, and Shi Hao and Yuechan were married before Stone Kingdom nobles and guests.
• After the guests departed, Yuechan objected to the marriage and Qin Yining's demands, but eventually apologized and yielded before Qin Yining sent the couple to the bridal chamber.

Yan Kuan revealed that Qin Hao carried the Immortal Bone of Longevity and the Calamity of Immortality, then promised to guide him without taking him as a disciple. When the Upper Realm launched the Battle of Deification, Yan Kuan defended the Lower Realm and defeated the Netherworld’s invading forces, leaving their Origin to strengthen the realm’s laws.

• Yan Kuan explained that Shi Hao’s bloodline descended from the Seven Frontier Kings and that Qin Hao carried the Immortal Bone tied to the Calamity of Immortality.
• Qin Yining, Shi Ziling, Shi Zhongtian, and Shi Hao begged Yan Kuan to save Qin Hao, and Yan Kuan agreed to guide him while leaving the outcome to Qin Hao.
• The Small Pagoda warned Yan Kuan that the Upper Realm was preparing to invade the Eight Regions, and Yan Kuan said its forces could enter only through the opening he had left in the Desolate Domain.
• As gods, demons, and Shadow Spirits descended, Yan Kuan used an Order Divine Chain to kill the invading creatures and refine their remains.
• Yan Kuan seized the Yellow Springs River and its Origin to reinforce the Lower Realm’s incomplete laws.
• A Chaotic Corpse attacked with the Netherworld and its Treasure Wheel, but Yan Kuan pierced them with his Order Divine Chain and burned the corpse to ashes.

Yan Kuan faced the Upper Realm powers who descended to confront him, destroying several experts and driving back the Valley Lord of Sword Valley and the Bronze Immortal Hall. After the Immortal Hall Supreme awakened, Yan Kuan entered the hall to battle him directly, while the Endless Bell remained a threat.

• Immortal Celestial Venerable Qin Changsheng, the Western Sect Leader, the Ox Rider, the Second Figure of Immortal Hall, and the Valley Lord of Sword Valley appeared as Yan Kuan prepared for battle.
• Yan Kuan destroyed all five of Qin Changsheng’s bodies and shattered the Western Sect Leader’s and Ox Rider’s manifestations, while Qin Changsheng escaped with a remnant soul.
• The Immortal Hall Supreme awakened, and the Valley Lord of Sword Valley and the Western Sect Leader joined him and the Endless Bell against Yan Kuan.
• Yan Kuan broke the Valley Lord’s sword, sent the Bronze Immortal Hall crashing down, trapped the Endless Bell, and suppressed the Valley Lord into the earth.
• Yan Kuan brushed aside Immortal Hall’s Green Copper Rust Curse, entered the Bronze Immortal Hall, and killed the Nine-Headed Undying Bird as he advanced to fight the Immortal Hall Supreme.

Yan Kuan’s Void God Clone defeated the Immortal Hall Supreme and the Endless Bell’s holder, then his true body awakened and captured the fleeing Supreme. Shi Hao found Yan Kuan safe in Stone Village, where Yan Kuan prepared to help the Son of Kun Peng at the Kun Peng Nest and Primal Gate.

• Yan Kuan fought the Immortal Hall Supreme inside the Bronze Immortal Hall, disrupting its awakening while the Endless Bell’s holder joined the battle.
• The Immortal Hall Supreme and the bell’s holder combined their attacks, but Yan Kuan revealed his Forbidden Expert strength, shattered the Endless Bell, and drove the Supreme into the earth.
• The Immortal Hall Supreme warned that forbidden strength invited a calamity upon becoming immortal, then vanished after Yan Kuan’s true body captured him.
• Shi Hao worried when Yan Kuan’s Void God Clone failed to return, and Small Pagoda reassured him that Yan Kuan was safe in Stone Village.
• The Son of Kun Peng brought Shi Hao and Small Pagoda to Stone Village, where Shi Hao found Yan Kuan discussing the Dao with the Willow Deity.
• Yan Kuan gave the captured Immortal Hall Supreme to Small Pagoda and told the Son of Kun Peng they would later go to the Kun Peng Nest and arrange his matter.

Yan Kuan uncovered the Kunpeng’s tragic fate in her nest and began using her remains and destroyed eggs to help Son of Kun Peng rebuild his body. He then left the nest with Willow Deity and prepared a major living sacrifice to open the Primal Gate.

• Yan Kuan and Shi Hao led the group through the Kunpeng Nest’s trials and reached the Kunpeng’s tomb and inheritance grounds.
• The group found destroyed Kunpeng eggs and learned that the Female Kunpeng had been betrayed, grievously wounded, and killed by the Immortal Severing Curse.
• Yan Kuan sacrificed the Immortal Hall Supreme to draw out the curse’s remaining power and restore spirituality to the Kunpeng’s bone fragments.
• With Son of Kun Peng’s consent, Yan Kuan used the Kunpeng eggs, bones, blood, and feathers to begin reforging his body through Empyrean Flame and Time-Space Force.
• Yan Kuan and Willow Deity left the tribulation-wracked Kunpeng Nest and resolved to offer a major living blood sacrifice to open the Primal Gate.

Yan Kuan entered the Primal Gate in a Spiritual Body and crossed into the Boundary Sea, where he found the Embankment and traces left by the Nameless Quasi-Immortal Emperor. After seeing the dangers and other time-spaces beyond the Embankment, he began considering how to use them to advance toward Immortal Emperor.

• Willow Deity and Small Pagoda cast Upper Realm giants into the Primal Gate, then Yan Kuan entered it with a Spiritual Body carrying their Origin treasures.
• Yan Kuan crossed the time-space storm and reached the Embankment, where he saw the remains of True Immortals and the footprints of the Nameless Quasi-Immortal Emperor.
• Willow Deity's remnant tree dispelled the lightning at Thunder Mountain and guided Yan Kuan toward the beach beyond the Primal Gate.
• Yan Kuan found a warning stele beside an altar of Star Remains and used his vision to examine the Boundless Boundary Sea.
• Yan Kuan saw a wounded being from another time-space drown in the Boundary Sea, then considered using its many worlds and Alternate Selves to pursue Immortal Emperor.

Yan Kuan drew the attention of the Darkness Source while tempering himself at the Boundary Sea, then burned away his self and sent his True Spirit into another world. He arrived in a dying soldier’s body amid the final battle at Chaoge, where an unseen observer noticed his arrival.

• Yan Kuan tempered his body and primordial spirit with the Boundary Sea, collected Immortal Dao remains, and refined their essence into an Immortal Pill.
• After the Darkness Source pursued him, Yan Kuan charged into the Boundary Sea with the Willow Deity and Small Pagoda, battling Black Mist and Immortal Dao Thunder.
• Yan Kuan burned away his self and the Past, refined the origins of Small Pagoda and the Willow Deity into a spark, and sent it toward the Bottom of Boundary Sea.
• The spark crossed into another world and entered the fading remnant spirit of a dead Great Shang Dynasty soldier on the Chaoge battlefield.
• Yan Kuan’s True Spirit merged with the soldier’s aura and began changing the local Laws as Black Dragon Heaven confronted King Zhou of Shang elsewhere on the battlefield.
• A figure watching from a Divine Mountain noticed the disturbance, while a flame began burning corpses in the ruins.

Yan Kuan possessed King Zhou’s body and forced Black Dragon Heaven to end the God Clan’s rule over humanity, then returned from the other universe with new insights into the Source of Darkness. Back in the Lower Realm, he learned that Shi Hao had been struck by the Immortal Severing Curse and chose to watch events unfold while forming a plan.

• Black Dragon Heaven killed King Zhou, but Yan Kuan’s True Spirit entered King Zhou’s body through the gathered souls of fallen humans and resumed the fight.
• Yan Kuan severed one of Black Dragon Heaven’s heads and demanded that the God Clan and humanity part ways; Black Dragon Heaven eventually agreed when Yan Kuan invoked White Dragon.
• Yan Kuan returned to the Boundary Sea, where Small Pagoda and Willow Deity discussed the Source of Darkness before he emerged from the White Bone Cauldron with a strengthened Origin.
• Yan Kuan learned that Shi Hao had unified the Lower Realm Eight Regions but had been ambushed by an Immortal Hall expert and struck by the Immortal Severing Curse.
• Yan Kuan did not immediately rescue Shi Hao and instead watched from afar as a plan took shape.

Shi Hao gave his cracked Supreme Bone to Qin Hao and chose to survive his curse through his own transformation, with Yan Kuan guiding him back to Stone Village. Yan Kuan then attacked Upper Realm inheritances to restore the Lower Realm’s Laws, while Shi Hao lay in the Azure Mountain Range as his Supreme Blood began to revive.

• As his injuries worsened, Shi Hao met Qin Hao and removed his cracked Supreme Bone, grafting it onto his younger brother and warning him not to rely on the bones alone.
• Yan Kuan appeared with the Willow Deity and Small Pagoda, offered Shi Hao a choice between being saved immediately and enduring a transformation himself, and Shi Hao chose to rely on himself.
• Yan Kuan took Shi Hao from the Stone Kingdom Palace to Stone Village so he could endure the tribulation while Yan Kuan kept him alive.
• Yan Kuan unleashed chaos lightning on Upper Realm inheritances that had attacked the Lower Realm and plundered their Great Dao origins and spiritual vitality.
• The Eight Regions drew together as Yan Kuan restored the Lower Realm’s Laws, and Shi Hao’s Supreme Blood began to revive deep beneath the Azure Mountain Range.

After helping Shi Hao complete his transformation and prepare for the Upper Realm, Yan Kuan entered the Boundary Sea to find a chance to reclaim his Alternate Self. He awakened in a world of apocalyptic battles just as Chu Yu’s forces faced the Third Prince of Bayue Kingdom.

• Shi Hao expelled the Bronze Rust Curse, awakened with Rebirth, and received Yan Kuan’s inheritance and advice before returning to Stone Village.
• Yan Kuan spoke with the Willow Deity, took a willow branch, and vanished into the Boundary Sea to seek his next transformation.
• Yan Kuan’s True Spirit waited for his Alternate Self to near death, then saw a young man crawl from an unmarked grave in the God-Demon Graveyard.
• At the border of Chu Kingdom, Chu Yu fought the Third Prince of Bayue Kingdom while a young man threw the Hou Yi Bow into her position and fled the battle.
• As Chu Yu’s guards were nearly defeated, ice attacks swept through the enemy ranks, and the Third Prince glimpsed a staggering figure rising nearby.

Yan Kuan recovered enough to help Chu Yu’s survivors, while Chen Nan killed Ren Jian and the remaining Bayue Kingdom soldiers. Yan Kuan then obtained the Dragon Pearl from Chen Nan, leaving its power in his hands.

• Chu Yu rushed to support Yan Kuan, who stopped her from killing Chen Nan and told her to handle the surviving enemies.
• Yan Kuan forced Chen Nan to choose between killing Ren Jian and being killed himself, and Chen Nan approached the wounded prince.
• Ren Jian attacked Chen Nan with a Flying Sword, but Chen Nan used the Hou Yi Bow to kill him with a dead branch, then finished off the remaining Bayue Kingdom men.
• Chu Yu and Chen Nan rescued the surviving Chu Kingdom guards while Yan Kuan rested in her arms and recovered.
• Yan Kuan asked Chen Nan for the Dragon Pearl, which Chen Nan had taken after the giant serpent’s death, and placed it against his chest.

Yan Kuan healed himself with the Dragon Pearl and continued traveling with Chu Yu and Chen Nan, reaching a town after crossing the mountains. The next morning, a large Chu Kingdom army entered town, and Yan Kuan recognized the eldest princess, Chu Yue.

• Chen Nan used the Hou Yi Bow to frighten off an Ancient Giant, then the group camped beside a river.
• Yan Kuan rebuilt and healed his body with the Dragon Pearl at a waterfall, then carried Chu Yu back to camp after they were alone together in the pool.
• The group resumed its journey the next morning, with Chu Yu riding on Yan Kuan's back, and eventually reached a town.
• Yan Kuan and Chu Yu rested at an inn with Chen Nan and the two injured travelers, then shared a room for the night.
• A Chu Kingdom army entered the town, and Yan Kuan saw the eldest princess, Chu Yue, among the arriving troops.

Chu Yu reunited with Chu Yue, told her about Ren Jian and the Blazing Immortal Lotus, and traveled with the princess’s army to Fengning City. After Chu Yue left to inspect the border, Chu Yu teased Yan Kuan about his interest in her sister and offered to imitate Ehuang and Nuying, while Yan Kuan noticed someone peeping outside.

• Yan Kuan and Chu Yu dressed and went downstairs to meet Chu Yue, who had arrived at the inn.
• Chu Yue comforted Chu Yu over her missing guards, then took her and the others to a guarded command tent to hear what had happened with Ren Jian.
• Chu Yu presented Chu Yue with a petal from the Blazing Immortal Lotus and explained Bayue Kingdom’s hostile intentions and the changes to Yan Kuan and Chen Nan.
• Chu Yue praised Yan Kuan, granted Chen Nan the status of an unnamed national scholar, and led the army toward Fengning City.
• Chu Yue settled Chu Yu in the City Lord Mansion and left to inspect the border, while Chu Yu and Yan Kuan spent the night together.
• Chu Yu told Yan Kuan she knew he liked Chu Yue and offered to imitate Ehuang and Nuying, and Yan Kuan noticed someone peeping through the window.

Yan Kuan and the princesses returned to Pingyang, where Chu Yu gave the Blazing Immortal Lotus to Emperor Chu Han and Yan Kuan was assigned to the House of Extraordinary Individuals. Five days later, Nalan Ruoshui arrived to examine Yan Kuan’s Dragon Pearl-altered body, drawing his curious attention.

• Chu Yue escorted Chu Yu, Yan Kuan, and Chen Nan back to Pingyang, where Chu Yu slipped away to buy snacks and Yan Kuan paid for them.
• Chu Yu presented the Blazing Immortal Lotus to Emperor Chu Han, and Chu Yue persuaded him to send Yan Kuan to the House of Extraordinary Individuals instead of making him Chu Yu’s guard commander.
• Chu Yu chose Yan Kuan a courtyard at the House of Extraordinary Individuals, while Chu Yue placed Chen Nan in the neighboring courtyard and took Chu Yu back to the palace.
• Yan Kuan secretly explored the imperial city and borrowed royal texts at night, while Chen Nan pretended to be crippled and plotted his escape.
• On the fifth day, Nalan Ruoshui came to examine Yan Kuan, who cooperated by revealing his physique as Chen Nan watched with an inexplicable sense of loss.
• Yan Kuan admired Nalan Ruoshui during the examination and considered exploring the mysteries of her reincarnation.

Yan Kuan used his closeness with Nalan Ruoshui and Chu Yue to intervene in Nalan Ruoshui’s unwanted marriage and warn Chu Yue about the danger of an alliance between the Grand General and the Left Chancellor. He then revealed a hidden place beneath the Chu Imperial Palace to Chu Yue and offered to help the imperial family with a mysterious problem there.

• Nalan Ruoshui examined Yan Kuan, while he teased Chen Nan by claiming he wanted to pursue her too.
• Zhuge Chengfeng returned to the Imperial Capital severely wounded, and Chen Nan later encountered a terrifying old man in the Imperial Library whom Yan Kuan identified as the Chu Kingdom’s ancestor.
• Nalan Ruoshui told Yan Kuan she did not want to marry Sima Lingfeng, and Yan Kuan promised to help by seeking Chu Yue.
• Yan Kuan warned Chu Yue that Sima Changfeng and the Left Chancellor could combine military and political power, and he openly declared that he wanted Chu Yue, Chu Yu, and Nalan Ruoshui.
• Yan Kuan transported Chu Yue to a hidden underground repository, where they saw Ancestor Xuan, and offered to resolve a mysterious problem beneath the Chu Imperial Palace.

Yan Kuan showed Chu Yue the ancient tomb beneath the imperial city and warned her that Great Chu Xuanzu might be tempted by a Demon Daoist’s evil art. After Chu Yue accepted Yan Kuan’s offer and became his lover, he brought her and Chu Yu back to the tomb, where a powerful disturbance erupted beneath the city.

• Yan Kuan took Chu Yue into an ancient tomb, where she discovered the remains of a Martial Immortal who had slain two immortal Demon Daoists and found a mass grave linked to their evil cultivation.
• Yan Kuan warned Chu Yue that Great Chu Xuanzu had obtained the Demon Daoist’s art, then left her in the tomb as the Xuanzu appeared.
• Yan Kuan visited Chu Yu, and Chu Yue later overheard her younger sister’s intimate words before confronting Yan Kuan at his courtyard.
• Great Chu Xuanzu tested Yan Kuan’s power, but Yan Kuan restrained him and promised he could strengthen the Chu imperial family; Chu Yue then asked whether she could become Empress and accepted Yan Kuan.
• The next day, Yan Kuan brought Chu Yue and Chu Yu to the Underground Library, where he said the Martial Immortal’s body was not his target and led them underground.
• A muffled explosion shook the underground cave, unleashing a surge of spiritual energy and Immortal Light above the imperial city as a White Jade Palm flashed into view.

Yan Kuan uncovered the Left Hand of the Heavenly Devil beneath the Chu Imperial Palace, then subdued the awakened Son of the Devil Lord. He left the underground palace carrying both powerful beings for further study.

• Yan Kuan led Chu Yu, Chu Yue, and the royal experts into the hidden underground world and found the sealed Left Hand of the Heavenly Devil.
• The Left Hand of the Heavenly Devil attacked Yan Kuan, and its strike exposed an Ancient Cave where three Red-haired Monsters emerged.
• Yan Kuan burned the Red-haired Monsters and gave their Blood Red Pills to Chu Yue as another presence awakened in the nearby Ancient Tomb.
• Yan Kuan restrained the Son of the Devil Lord as divinity and demonic nature fought within him, but the Blood Demon Evil Dao took control and attacked with a Blood Sword.
• Yan Kuan shattered the Blood Sword, subdued the Son of the Devil Lord, and departed carrying him and the Left Hand of the Heavenly Devil.

Yan Kuan studied the Great Demon’s unusual immortality and went to oversee Zhuge Chengfeng’s breakthrough into the Sixth-Order True Martial Realm. As Zhuge Chengfeng absorbed the Blood Pill, Yan Kuan considered how the God Tomb System’s Inner World might complement the Immortal Ancient method of Becoming Immortal.

• The Great Demon fought the Blood Clan Twin Emperors, whose souls had survived within his blood, while Yan Kuan observed and experimented on him.
• Chu Yu asked Yan Kuan to protect her master Zhuge Chengfeng during his breakthrough, and Yan Kuan agreed in exchange for a promised reward.
• Yan Kuan met Great Chu Xuanzu, Chu Yue, and Nalan Ruoshui at the Underground Palace, where Chu Yu’s teasing prompted Chu Yue to join in their playful banter.
• Zhuge Chengfeng began absorbing Yan Kuan’s Blood Pill on the White Jade Platform as Chu Kingdom’s experts watched.
• Yan Kuan reflected on how opening an Inner World could provide a powerful Immortal Seed and strengthen the Immortal Ancient method.

Yan Kuan observed Zhuge Chengfeng break through to the Sixth-Order True Martial Realm and studied how the God Tomb System’s Inner World compared with other cultivation methods. He later awakened Nalan Ruoshui’s Holy War Angel power, leaving her transformed by morning’s end and declaring that she would be his angel.

• Yan Kuan used the Blood Pill’s power to guide Zhuge Chengfeng through opening an Inner World and advancing to the Sixth-Order True Martial Realm.
• Yan Kuan compared the Inner World method with the Secret Realm Method and Immortal Ancient Method, considering how their principles might be combined.
• Yan Kuan noticed signs of the Holy War Angel’s power in Nalan Ruoshui and invited her to his room that night.
• Yan Kuan took Nalan Ruoshui on a tour, informed her parents, and brought her to a secluded room for his experiments.
• Nalan Ruoshui’s Holy War Angel power awakened during the night, changing her hair and features, and Yan Kuan told her she would be his angel.