Chapter Summaries

After Nalan Ruoshui awakened as a Holy War Angel, Yan Kuan learned that Chen Nan had escaped with Chu Yu and the Hou Yi Bow, then traveled to the Free City to investigate Divine Wind Academy. He caused a nighttime commotion at the girls’ dormitory, stole research materials, and ended the chapter befriending a small Dragon.

• Nalan Ruoshui awakened the power of the Holy War Angel, while Yan Kuan reflected on the Heavenly Dao and the coming war against the heavens.
• Yan Kuan learned that Chen Nan had taken the Hou Yi Bow and consumed one of his Blood Pills, and Chu Yue asked him not to blame Chu Yu.
• Yan Kuan went to the Free City and exposed several boys who were peeping near Divine Wind Academy’s girls’ dormitory, prompting the students to hunt for the supposed creeps.
• Yan Kuan stole research materials about Gods and Devils Blood and noted the dormitory locations of Dongfang Fenghuang and Long Wu.
• Yan Kuan visited the academy’s dragon-beast grounds and woke a small Dragon, which happily let him stroke its belly.

Yan Kuan stole the Dragonling from Divine Wind Academy and began raising the reborn divine beast, then used their arrival in the City of Sin to secure a teaching post at the academy. He settled in among the students and focused his attention on Dongfang Fenghuang and Long Wu.

• Yan Kuan coaxed the Dragonling, a fifth-rank Holy Dragon, away from Divine Wind Academy and rode him to the Ten Thousand Mountains.
• Yan Kuan inspected the Dragonling and planned to help him regain his former strength, while gathering spiritual herbs and rare treasures for him.
• Yan Kuan returned with the Dragonling to the City of Sin, where the Dragonling's antics drew attention and Divine Wind Academy's elders came looking for him.
• Yan Kuan refused to return the Dragonling and asked the academy's Vice Dean for a teaching position; the academy hired him to teach magic and ancient martial arts.
• Yan Kuan and the Dragonling became popular with female students, and Yan Kuan paid special attention to Dongfang Fenghuang and Long Wu.

Yan Kuan watched the academy’s students and interfered in the aerial clash between Chu Yu and Dongfang Fenghuang, while investigating Long Wu’s connection to Seven Absolutes Celestial Maiden. Dragonling went to retrieve the two girls and encountered Chen Nan, whose threat caused it to reveal its divine-dragon nirvana and awaken the hopes of Divine Wind Academy’s elders.

• Yan Kuan teased Dongfang Fenghuang and Long Wu at Divine Wind Academy as the academy’s guardian elders worried about his mysterious origins and entanglements.
• Chu Yu pursued Chen Nan outside the City of Sin on the White Tiger, and Dongfang Fenghuang arrived on her Golden Eagle to challenge her.
• Yan Kuan examined Long Wu and considered how her reincarnated soul might reveal secrets about Seven Absolutes Celestial Maiden.
• Yan Kuan sent Dragonling to bring back Chu Yu and Dongfang Fenghuang, and Dragonling captured the two girls before diving toward Chen Nan.
• Chen Nan raised the Hou Yi Bow at Dragonling, prompting the dragon to reveal the Golden Divine Dragon’s image and begin its Holy Dragon Nirvana, Void Reflection.

Dragonling completed its nirvana and survived the Ninth Heavenly Tribulation, but a battered Nameless God-Devil attacked it soon after. Yan Kuan rescued Dragonling and extracted the god-devil’s True Blood, provoking a response from the Demon Lord in the Death Forbidden Zone.

• Dragonling emerged from its Golden Dragon Cocoon as a Sixth-Order Divine Beast and overcame the Ninth Heavenly Tribulation.
• Dragonling confronted Chen Nan for aiming the Hou Yi Bow at it and overwhelmed him with its Dragon King aura.
• Demonic qi descended from the Ten Thousand Mountains and attacked the weakened Dragonling.
• Yan Kuan pulled Dragonling to safety, then dispersed the demonic qi and extracted the Nameless God-Devil’s True Blood.
• The Demon Lord’s chanting echoed from the Death Forbidden Zone, and Yan Kuan saw the silver-haired Demon Lord on a Bone Bed in his Emperor Fire.

Yan Kuan’s incarnation fought the Demon Lord in the Death Forbidden Zone, matching his time-space and flame powers against the Demon Lord’s demonic Laws and Six Paths Reincarnation. After they discussed the war against Heaven, the Demon Lord agreed to give Yan Kuan Heavenly Origin, then returned to his vacant state.

• Yan Kuan appeared before the Demon Lord and used time-space power to challenge him.
• The Demon Lord countered with Illusory Empty Flower and demonic flames, while Yan Kuan seized control of the flames and answered with his own.
• Yan Kuan and the Demon Lord exchanged attacks, using Time-Space Reversal and Six Paths Reincarnation while containing the damage within the Death Forbidden Zone.
• The Demon Lord manifested the Six Realms on the Chessboard of All Beings, and Yan Kuan discussed the forces and accumulated advantages that could bring about Heavenly Dao’s defeat.
• Yan Kuan asked for Heavenly Origin from the Tomb of Yellow Heaven, and the Demon Lord agreed before Yan Kuan’s incarnation vanished.
• The Demon Lord watched Yan Kuan disappear, remarked on his strange time-space Law, and returned to his vacant state.

Yan Kuan brought Chen Nan and the others back to Divine Wind Academy, then traveled to the Du Family Mystic Realm to investigate Heavenly Origin and the relationship between Heaven and the Heavenly Dao. He left after extracting Heavenly Devil’s memories and part of his Origin, having confirmed that each Heaven was an independent manifestation of the Heavenly Dao.

• Dragonling brought Chu Yu, Dongfang Fenghuang, and Chen Nan to Yan Kuan, who reunited with them and let Chu Yu take care of Dragonling.
• Yan Kuan persuaded Chen Nan to keep Dragonling with him temporarily, then arranged a dormitory for Chu Yu.
• After studying Heavenly Origin, Yan Kuan went to the Du Family Mystic Realm to investigate the nature of Heaven and the Heavenly Dao.
• Yan Kuan awakened Heavenly Devil’s Head and suppressed him when Heavenly Devil attacked.
• Yan Kuan refined Heavenly Devil’s memories and part of his Origin, then concluded that each Heaven was an independent manifestation of the Heavenly Dao.

The Du Family investigated Chen Nan after learning he had used the Heaven Defying Seven Devil Blades, while Yan Kuan examined Chenxi and provoked Chen Nan into unleashing the technique. Yan Kuan then went to Divine Wind Academy’s tournament, where he fixed his attention on Meng Ke'er and her unusual Divine Fetus.

• The Du Family learned that Chen Nan had killed Tao Ran with the Heaven Defying Seven Devil Blades and dispatched experts to investigate him.
• Yan Kuan caught Chenxi as the Dragonling brought her to him, then used Emperor Fire to examine her spiritual Origin.
• Chen Nan confronted Yan Kuan over Chenxi and unleashed the Heaven Defying Seven Devil Blades, but Yan Kuan burned away the attack and returned Chenxi to him.
• Yan Kuan warned Chen Nan that the Devil Summoning Scripture’s reversal could not be stopped, then left after examining the Dragonling and giving it medicinal pills.
• Chen Nan vowed to grow stronger and protect Chenxi, while Yan Kuan arrived at Divine Wind Academy’s tournament and became captivated by Meng Ke'er, the Divine Fetus reincarnation.

Yan Kuan marked Meng Ke'er and watched her endure a desire-filled illusion in the Death Forbidden Zone. After Chen Nan disrupted Nameless God-Devil's trial and Meng Ke'er escaped, Yan Kuan waited at Divine Wind Academy for her to come to him.

• News of divine bones in the Death Forbidden Zone spread, and the Four Great Academies selected ten young experts to scout it, including Meng Ke'er and Chen Nan.
• Yan Kuan marked Meng Ke'er and warned her that danger awaited in the Death Forbidden Zone, while she rejected his claim that she belonged to him.
• Nameless God-Devil's Void Heaven Illusion trapped the ten experts in worlds shaped by their fears, but Chen Nan escaped and drew the god-devil's attention.
• In Meng Ke'er's illusion, a demon attacked the Tantai sacred ground and the imagined power of the Path of Erotic Desire overwhelmed her.
• Chen Nan's golden and black spheres disrupted the illusion, freeing the experts; Meng Ke'er remembered what had happened and fled toward City of Sin.
• Yan Kuan brewed tea at Divine Wind Academy and waited for Meng Ke'er to walk into his trap.

Yan Kuan released Meng Ke'er after sleeping with her, then found Chen Nan recovering from his injuries as the Taiji God-Devil Diagram awakened. After Chen Nan broke through to the Four Extremes realm, Yan Kuan entered the diagram and reached the Spring of Life in its depths.

• Meng Ke'er attacked Yan Kuan, but he subdued her and claimed her; after their night together, he let her leave, and she promised to return to settle things with him.
• Yan Kuan learned that Chen Nan and Ling Yun were the only other young experts to escape the Ten Thousand Mountains, and he went to find the wounded Chen Nan.
• The Taiji God-Devil Diagram and Chen Nan's Jade Scepter gathered spiritual energy, healed his injuries, and helped him break through to the Four Extremes realm.
• Yan Kuan struck Chen Nan's dantian and entered the God-Devil Taiji Diagram, while a woman's voice questioned his power over time and space.
• Yan Kuan crossed the Chaos Gate and found the Spring of Life nourishing the remnant souls of gods and devils in the diagram's depths.

Yan Kuan absorbed the Spring of Life from the God-Demon Taiji Diagram, awakened Dugu Xiaoxuan from the Jade Scepter, and sealed her in an Immortal Cocoon while restoring her body. He then faced Chen Nan’s anger over the deaths in the Death Forbidden Zone and defended his decision not to save the others.

• Yan Kuan gathered spiritual medicines in the God-Demon Taiji Diagram and found another Chen Nan imprisoned above the Spring of Life, whose power was nurturing his soul.
• Yan Kuan absorbed the Spring of Life and saw Dugu Baitian watching from a fragment of spacetime before returning to the Ten Thousand Mountains.
• The Jade Scepter absorbed the Spring of Life and awakened Dugu Xiaoxuan, who attacked Yan Kuan when he refused to give it to her.
• Yan Kuan subdued Dugu Xiaoxuan, restored her body with the Spring of Life, and sealed her inside an Immortal Cocoon in his Inner World.
• Chen Nan confronted Yan Kuan about the deaths in the Death Forbidden Zone, and Yan Kuan said the others had chosen to enter and should bear the consequences.

Yan Kuan and Dragonling entered the Kunlun Mystic Realm to cultivate in seclusion, where Dragonling devoured the spirit fruits and helped warm the phoenix egg. The egg hatched, and the newborn Little Phoenix immediately bonded with Yan Kuan.

• Yan Kuan and Dragonling reached Hundred Flowers Valley, where Dragonling subdued the local demons and followed them into the Kunlun Mystic Realm.
• Dragonling devoured nearly all the spirit fruits and then met Old Demon Duanmu, who welcomed Yan Kuan’s plans to cultivate in seclusion.
• Yan Kuan asked to see Kunlun’s phoenix egg, and Dragonling used its golden dragon fire to warm it while Yan Kuan sent runes into the egg and Dragonling.
• The phoenix egg cracked open amid a burst of seven-colored light, and a golden-down-covered Little Phoenix emerged.
• Little Phoenix called Yan Kuan master, toddled into his palm, and affectionately pecked at his finger as the Kunlun demons watched in shock.

Chen Nan brought Corpse King Yu Xin and Chenxi to Kunlun to seek Yan Kuan’s help understanding Yu Xin’s abnormal condition. Yan Kuan revealed that the Tai Shang Forget Love Record had split Yu Xin into several selves and gave Chen Nan a flame to begin a plan to awaken her original personality in the Heavenly Realm.

• Chen Nan rode with Yu Xin and Chenxi to Kunlun, where Dragonling reunited with Chenxi and took them to the Kunlun Mystic Realm.
• The little princess Chu Yu defeated Dongfang Fenghuang in their aerial contest, then embarrassed Chen Nan by revealing his past with Lusi; Chenxi defended him.
• Chen Nan asked Yan Kuan about Yu Xin, and Yan Kuan explained that the Tai Shang Forget Love Record created flawed new personalities that could be harvested by its creator.
• Yan Kuan said Yu Xin had split herself into several versions, with her strongest self—the Emotionless Fairy—living in the Heavenly Realm, and suggested awakening her could restore Yu Xin.
• Chen Nan agreed to Yan Kuan’s offer of power, and Yan Kuan planted a flame inside him as the first step of his plan.

Chen Nan explored the Lesser Six Paths and activated the Marshal Conferring Platform, triggering upheavals across Tian Yuan Continent as the Demon Suppression Stone flew to the God-Demon Graveyard. Yan Kuan suppressed the hidden planner there, but the Marshal Conferring Platform and Demon Suppression Stone continued to clash.

• Chen Nan found the Great Dragon Blade in an ancient city, then reached the God-Demon Graveyard and activated the Marshal Conferring Platform.
• The platform stirred the graves and caused disturbances across Tian Yuan Continent, while the Demon Suppression Stone broke free from beneath the Radiant Divine Hall and plunged into the graveyard.
• The Demon Suppression Stone and Marshal Conferring Platform confronted each other, and Dugu Xiaoxuan urged Yan Kuan to intervene because she sensed her father's aura within them.
• Yan Kuan sent a flaming hand through Chen Nan to suppress the two objects, then exposed and subdued the gaunt planner concealed in yellow mist.
• The Marshal Conferring Platform and Demon Suppression Stone resumed their collision despite Yan Kuan's intervention.

Yan Kuan forced the Demon Suppression Stone and Marshal Conferring Platform into the eighteen levels of Hell, where their battle awakened Redrao and Dugu Baitian’s severed finger. After helping the finger reclaim some of Dugu Baitian’s blood and defeating the Demon Suppression Stone, Yan Kuan seized a portion of Redrao’s flesh and sent him back into Hell.

• Yan Kuan brought the Demon Suppression Stone and Marshal Conferring Platform into the eighteen levels of Hell to fight without exposing the Lesser Six Paths’ secrets.
• The battle awakened Redrao, the Western Lands’ ancient totem deity, and Dugu Baitian’s remnant spirit within a severed finger.
• Redrao attacked Yan Kuan with his Totem Holy Eye, but Yan Kuan dispersed its light and sealed him again in the twelfth level of Hell.
• Dugu Baitian’s finger and the Marshal Conferring Platform joined forces against the Demon Suppression Stone, which Yan Kuan helped shatter; its nine drops of blood merged into the finger.
• Yan Kuan kept some of the Marshal Conferring Platform’s power and seized part of Redrao’s flesh and serpent tail before Redrao was driven back into Hell.

Yan Kuan sent Chen Nan and his companions into the Celestial Realm, then traveled to the Chu Kingdom and encountered Nangong Xian’er as she plotted against Meng Ke’er. After interrupting her plans and making a wager with her, he left the next contest over Meng Ke’er’s submission unresolved.

• Yan Kuan used Ruidelaao’s totem light to break open a passage to the Celestial Realm and sent Chen Nan, Dragonling, Rogue Dragon, and the others through it.
• Yan Kuan suppressed Redrao, returned to the Kunlun Mystic Realm, and took Chu Yu with him to the Chu Kingdom after sensing Meng Ke’er and the Six Ancient Heretical Paths there.
• At Yellow Crane Tower, Nangong Xian’er and Wang Lin finalized their alliance against Meng Ke’er, while Nangong Yin escorted Wang Lin away.
• Yan Kuan appeared before Nangong Xian’er, teased her, and pulled her into his embrace; Nangong Yin interrupted them before they went further.
• Yan Kuan proposed that he and Nangong Xian’er compete to make Meng Ke’er submit and share a bed with them, with Nangong Xian’er promising herself to him if she lost.

Meng Ke'er entered Yan Kuan’s room, while Nangong Xian'er lost their wager and became his maid. Yan Kuan then took Nangong Xian'er and Meng Ke'er to the Bewitching Profound Realm, where the Path of Erotic Desire’s ancestor began to stir within Nangong Xian'er.

• Meng Ke'er told Wang Lin she would sacrifice her purity to help her reclaim the High Priestess position, then followed Yan Kuan into his room.
• Wang Lin tried to take Meng Ke'er away, but Yan Kuan immobilized her, and Nangong Xian'er entered the room to enforce the wager.
• Yan Kuan spent the night with Meng Ke'er while Nangong Xian'er remained his maid; the next morning, he revealed that he and Meng Ke'er had been together before.
• Yan Kuan asked Nangong Xian'er for the location of the Bewitching Profound Realm, then opened a passage and brought her and Meng Ke'er there.
• Nangong Xian'er entered the Mystic Realm with Yan Kuan and Meng Ke'er, awakening memories of the Path of Erotic Desire’s ancestor.

Chen Nan descended into the Human Realm and helped release the Evil Ancestor, who turned out to be his granduncle and a former candidate for the Chen Clan’s Eighth Person. Yan Kuan seized the newly freed ancestor, and Tantai Xuan descended to the Human Realm in response.

• Yan Kuan sensed Chen Nan’s success in the Heavenly Realm as Immortal Gods descended upon the Tantai Sacred Land.
• Chen Nan arrived at the Tantai Mystic Realm with Rogue Dragon, Dragonling, and others, then cleaved apart the passage to the Heavenly Realm and helped break the seal on the Evil Ancestor.
• The Evil Ancestor emerged, recognized Chen Nan as a member of the Chen Clan, and revealed that he was Chen Nan’s granduncle and the Six Paths Forefather.
• The Gravekeeper attacked the Evil Ancestor, while Western Totem Ruidelaao arrived and confronted Yan Kuan.
• Yan Kuan seized the Evil Ancestor and left, and Tantai Xuan descended from the Heavenly Realm to the Human Realm.

Tantai Xuan descended to the Mortal World but Yan Kuan seized her and brought her to the Bewitching Profound Realm, where she fused with Meng Ke'er. Their conflicting consciousnesses and Seven Absolutes powers remained unsettled as Yan Kuan pushed both women toward awakening and a breakthrough.

• Tantai Xuan descended on Tantai Sacred Land, but Yan Kuan reached through the Void and carried her away after Chen Nan sent him a booklet.
• Yan Kuan brought Tantai Xuan to Meng Ke'er, and the two women fused into one body while arguing over whether Meng Ke'er would disappear.
• The fused woman fought Yan Kuan, but her clashing consciousnesses and powers left her unable to resist him.
• Afterward, Yan Kuan awakened more of the Seven Absolutes divine power in Meng Ke'er and Tantai Xuan, whose cultivation neared the God Emperor realm.
• Yan Kuan continued trying to advance Tantai Xuan's cultivation and wondered what might happen if Yu'er fused with them.

Yan Kuan made the Evil Ancestor cultivate the Tai Shang Forget Love Record, leading him to devour the Heavenly Man and awaken Supreme One’s attention. Yan Kuan traced Supreme One’s lair and hurled the Evil Ancestor there, where a massive face attacked him.

• Yan Kuan studied the Devil Summoning Scripture and the Tai Shang Forget Love Record, then sent the latter to the Evil Ancestor and forced him to cultivate it.
• The Evil Ancestor combined his devouring arts with the two forbidden techniques and transformed into a Mad Devil.
• The Evil Ancestor fought and devoured the Heavenly Man, then sensed Supreme One and threatened to consume him too.
• Yan Kuan traced Supreme One through the Heavenly Man’s soul power and found the passage to Supreme One’s lair.
• Yan Kuan hurled the Evil Ancestor through the Chaos Starry Sky and into Supreme One’s living star, where a huge face attacked him with beams of light.

Yan Kuan intervened in the battle between Evil Ancestor and Supreme One, using Supreme One’s replica Millstone of the World to defeat and refine him. After learning secrets about the Heavenly Dao from Supreme One’s Origin Spiritual Light, Yan Kuan also refined Evil Ancestor and set out to seek more nourishment.

• Evil Ancestor fought Supreme One’s incarnation, stole the treasures from the palace, and began devouring his opponent.
• Supreme One’s true body emerged and overpowered Evil Ancestor, while Yan Kuan suppressed Supreme One’s treasures with his Inner World.
• Yan Kuan wielded the Millstone of the World against Supreme One, then fought him directly and exploited weaknesses revealed by the incarnation.
• Supreme One fused with the Millstone of the World, but Yan Kuan defeated him and sealed his escaping Origin Spiritual Light.
• Yan Kuan refined Supreme One’s Origin Spiritual Light, learned secrets about the Heavenly Dao, and then refined Evil Ancestor’s True Spirit.