Chapter Summaries

Yan Kuan challenged the Time Ancestor God and Space Ancestor God in the Western Heavenly Realm, overpowering them despite their control of time-space power and their supreme treasures. He captured both Ancestor Gods and took the Divine Domain containing the God Offering Altar and Demon Offering Altar before leaving.

• Yass noticed the God Offering Altar’s summoning formation activate and warned the nearby gods and her allies.
• Yan Kuan confronted the Time Ancestor God and Space Ancestor God, whose emergence revealed that they had survived beneath the God Offering Altar and Demon Offering Altar.
• The two Ancestor Gods attacked Yan Kuan with time-space Laws and the Key of Time and Cone of Space, but he suppressed them and began reclaiming the treasures.
• Yan Kuan’s Immortal Pagoda swallowed the Ancestor Gods’ life essence, and the Key of Time and Cone of Space transformed back into the Heart of Time and Heart of Space.
• The Immortal Pagoda captured the Time Ancestor God and Space Ancestor God after they begged for mercy.
• Yan Kuan seized the Divine Domain containing both altars, tore open the Void, and departed.

Chen Nan entered the seventeenth level of Hell and helped awaken his father, Chen Zhan, whose demonic body had been sealed after the Chen Clan’s Devil Summoning Scripture transformed him. With the Demon Lord and Chen Zhan enforcing a new order, they swept countless experts from the Heavenly and Human Realms into the Third Realm, an upheaval later called the Day Without Heaven.

• Chen Nan followed his parents’ trail into the seventeenth level of Hell and released the seals on Chen Zhan’s demonic body.
• Yan Kuan defeated the experts obstructing Chen Nan, allowing Chen Nan’s blood to revive Chen Zhan’s head and complete his awakening.
• Chen Zhan defeated the Chen Family Fourth Ancestor and Chen Family Fifth Ancestor, and Chen Nan captured the two transformed ancestors in his Inner World.
• The Demon Lord arrived with the Marshal Conferring Platform and announced that he would exile uncertain forces into the Third Realm.
• The Demon Lord and Chen Zhan reforged the seventeenth level of Hell and used its power to draw experts from the Heavenly and Human Realms into the Third Realm.
• The mass exile shook the realms and became known to later generations as the Day Without Heaven.

Yan Kuan sent the remaining experts into the Third Realm, guided Dragonling toward a new path, and captured Law Ancestor Rocheal and Golden Chrysalis for his research. After searching the realms and returning to the Bewitching Profound Realm, he chased Dugu Xiaoxuan, who teased him into a playful battle.

• Yan Kuan forced the Gravekeeper into the Third Realm, while Chen Nan sent the Chen Family Fourth Ancestor and Chen Family Fifth Ancestor along with the other experts.
• The First Generation Pope of Light appeared before Dragonling, and Yan Kuan explained Dragonling's past incarnation and urged it to cultivate a greater path.
• Yan Kuan found Law Ancestor Rocheal trapped in Golden Chrysalis's heart, captured Rocheal, and agreed to help Golden Chrysalis return to Kunlun in exchange for cooperation with his research.
• Yan Kuan seized the restricted area containing Golden Chrysalis and Rocheal, then searched the Western Heavenly Realm and briefly visited the Third Realm and the Human Realm.
• Yan Kuan returned to the Bewitching Profound Realm, where Dugu Xiaoxuan teased him and he chased her into a playful fight.

Yan Kuan visited Qian Long, who urged him to see his sister Long Wu, and traveled with Dragonling to Ethereal Peak in the East Sea. After reuniting with Long Wu, Yan Kuan learned that the Seven Primordial Monarchs sealed on the island were close to breaking free.

• Qian Long confronted Yan Kuan and asked when he would visit Long Wu, then revealed the brutal trial the Demon Lord had imposed on his disciples.
• Yan Kuan brought Dragonling from the Church of Light and flew with it to Ethereal Peak in the East Sea.
• Yan Kuan and Dragonling entered Ethereal Peak, where Dragonling eagerly eyed the island's beasts and immortal fruits before Long Wu welcomed them.
• Long Wu reunited affectionately with Yan Kuan and Dragonling, while Dragonling won fruit and herbs from the women on the island.
• The seven sky-reaching pillars began shining brightly, and Long Wu warned Yan Kuan that the sealed Seven Primordial Monarchs might soon break free.

Yan Kuan stopped the Seven Primordial Monarchs after they broke free from their seal at Misty Peak, then overwhelmed them in battle. He captured them for further study and planned to take them to the eighteen levels of Hell.

• The Seven Primordial Monarchs broke free from the seven Holy Mountains, and Misty Peak’s patriarch ordered the disciples to evacuate.
• Yan Kuan sealed Misty Peak behind a curtain of light, preventing the disciples from leaving and protecting them from the conflict.
• The Seven Primordial Monarchs confronted Yan Kuan and demanded to know what had happened to the shattered Fourth Realm and their promised reward.
• Yan Kuan explained that the Fourth Realm had been reforged into the Three Realms, warned them to return to the Fifth Realm, and repelled their attacks.
• Yan Kuan repeatedly destroyed the Seven Primordial Monarchs, disrupted their ability to reunite, and prepared to take them to the eighteen levels of Hell for research.

Yan Kuan forced the Seven Primordial Monarchs to reveal their secrets before letting them go, and they searched the Mortal World and the shattered seventeenth level of Hell for the Gate of Coordinates. One monarch found Chen Nan and Yu Xin in Kunlun and tried to seize their unborn child, forcing the Chen Clan to retreat to the Heaven Realm and use its eight-souls possession technique.

• Yan Kuan threatened the Seven Primordial Monarchs with the Millstone of the World until Chu Xiangyu agreed to reveal their cultivation methods, origins, and secrets; Yan Kuan then let them leave under an agreement not to slaughter wantonly in the Three Realms.
• The Seven Primordial Monarchs investigated the Mortal World and searched the shattered seventeenth level of Hell, then traced the missing portion of the world to the Du Family Mystic Realm and slaughtered the experts who opposed them.
• One monarch remembered a pair he had encountered on Kunlun Mountain and left the others to investigate, while Chen Nan and his companions prepared to move Hundred Flowers Valley to the Heaven Realm.
• The monarch demanded Yu Xin's unborn child as his successor and threatened to take all the children she and Chen Nan might have, but Chen Nan, Yu Xin, and their allies refused to yield.
• Dragonling called for Yan Kuan, who declined to attack the monarch directly but helped protect Dragonling; the Chen Family Fourth and Fifth Ancestors then led Chen Nan's group to the Heaven Realm to use the possession of eight souls.

Chen Nan and Songtsen Gampo’s battle at Mount Fengdu awakened the terrifying Azure Heaven Avatar, who was ultimately torn apart and captured by Yan Kuan. A mysterious figure then sealed the Heavenly Pit, leaving Chen Nan with a glimpse of someone seemingly connected to Yan Kuan.

• Chen Nan awakened the Eight Souls of the Chen Clan and fought Songtsen Gampo, then moved their battle to Mount Fengdu at Dragonling’s urging.
• Chen Nan sent Songtsen Gampo into the Heavenly Pit, where the World-Destroying Hand and other monstrous limbs emerged alongside a stele marked “Azure Heaven... Second Incarnation.”
• Azure Heaven Avatar appeared and overwhelmed Songtsen Gampo, who detonated himself; Chen Nan’s Taiji God-Devil Diagram absorbed Songtsen Gampo’s spiritual essence.
• Chen Nan, Golden Chrysalis, and Dharma Ancestor Rocheal battled Azure Heaven Avatar until they tore apart her body, but a battered War Banner captured her before she could reform.
• A mysterious figure nodded to Chen Nan, then hurled the stele into the Heavenly Pit and sealed it, ending the bloody storm and other strange phenomena.

After Chen Nan vanished following the war with the Six Monarchs, he spent ten years aging and losing control of his power. Yan Kuan offered to help him recover, revealing that two rival cultivation arts had formed personalities inside him, and sent him toward the Lesser Six Paths to seek a way forward.

• Yan Kuan studied the bound Azure Heaven Avatar while the aftermath of Songtsen Gampo’s death and the Fifth Realm conflict unfolded.
• Chen Nan fought in the Fifth Realm, helped defeat the Six Monarchs, and then disappeared after suffering grave injuries.
• Ten years later, Chen Nan wandered as a frail veteran until Yan Kuan stopped him by asking about Yu Xin and Long'er.
• Chen Nan accepted Yan Kuan’s offer of help in exchange for a future promise, and Yan Kuan explained that the Devil Summoning Scripture and Tai Shang Forget Love Record had each formed a personality seeking to replace him.
• Yan Kuan gave Chen Nan the Heart of Time and Heart of Space, then directed him to join Law Ancestor Rocheal and De Meng’s group in the Lesser Six Paths to seek the Time-Space Great God’s treasure trove.

The gods crossed the Yellow Springs River and Sea of Blood, where Lanskai revived Dragonling’s Heavenly Dragon soul and Bone Dragon bestowed its Origin power on Little Phoenix. They freed the mad Seven Absolutes Woman from her sealed space, but Yan Kuan and Nangong Xian’er intercepted her five half-souls beyond the Lesser Six Paths before joining the gods.

• The gods crossed the Bridge of Helplessness and heard the Moon Goddess’s flute, which stirred painful memories in Rogue Dragon and Dragonling.
• Lanskai and Reisman revived in the Sea of Blood, and Lanskai rekindled Dragonling’s Heavenly Dragon soul before leaving with Reisman.
• Bone Dragon emerged from the Sea of Blood and gave its Origin power to Little Phoenix instead of Rogue Dragon.
• De Meng attacked the cliff and awakened the sealed Seven Absolutes Woman, who crushed him inside her absolute space.
• The gods broke through the stone wall, freeing the mad Seven Absolutes Woman, who split five remnant souls from herself and sent them beyond the Lesser Six Paths.
• Yan Kuan and Nangong Xian’er subdued the five half-souls, took them into Yan Kuan’s Inner World, and followed the gods deeper into the Lesser Six Paths.

Chen Nan gained control of time and space from the Time-Space Great God’s legacy, reclaimed Tai Shang Chen Nan and Demonic Chen Nan, and forced Dharma Ancestor, De Meng, and Nangong Xian'er to travel with him into the Past. They arrived at the God-Demon Graveyard, where the Gravekeeper’s gaze startled Chen Nan.

• The Morning Bell and Evening Drum revealed how the Time Ancestor God and Space Ancestor God betrayed the Time-Space Great God and stole the Hearts of Time and Space.
• Chen Nan inherited the Time-Space Great God’s legacy, gained control of time and space, and reversed his aging while turning Tai Shang Chen Nan and Demonic Chen Nan into children before absorbing them back into himself.
• Nangong Xian'er joined Chen Nan, who forcibly brought Dharma Ancestor and De Meng into a journey to the Past despite their protests.
• Yan Kuan watched their journey begin and wondered whether they could find Black Hand Guang Yuan and the Chaos Clan.
• The four traveled upstream through time and space and arrived at the God-Demon Graveyard, where the Gravekeeper’s gaze seemed to see through time and space.

Chen Nan and his companions traveled into the Past to exploit Black Hand Guang Yuan’s injuries and destroy his Three-Life Incarnations. After Zi Feng was pulled from the time-space passage, Nangong Xian’er called on Chen Nan to wound Guang Yuan with the time-space treasures as Yan Kuan joined the scheme from the present.

• Yan Kuan sent Dragonling and the reunited Phoenix Celestial Maiden into Chen Nan’s time-space journey, while a million souls from the Sea of Blood sacrificed themselves to strengthen the attack on Guang Yuan.
• Chen Nan’s group traveled toward the Primordial era, learned that it was a severed battlefield of the Heaven-Defying Rank, and followed the Jade Pendant to Guang Yuan’s hiding place.
• The group reached the ruined Ancient Continent and evaded an attack from one of Guang Yuan’s defensive measures before confronting him in the northern mist.
• Chen Nan sacrificed some of the million souls and used the God-Demon Taiji Diagram to destroy Guang Yuan’s Three-Life Incarnations, forcing his true body to appear.
• Chen Nan’s demonic soul used the Heaven-Stealing Sword to pull Zi Feng out of the time-space rift, and Nangong Xian’er urged Chen Nan to use the three time-space treasures to seriously wound Guang Yuan.

Yan Kuan pursued Guang Yuan through the Chaos Starry Sky, destroying his body and stealing the Chaos Mirror before Guang Yuan escaped into a passage linked to the Heavenly Dao. Yan Kuan followed him deliberately, drew the Heavenly Dao’s attention, and prepared to question it directly.

• Yan Kuan attacked the injured Guang Yuan in the Chaos Starry Sky, repeatedly shattering him and destroying his attempts to escape.
• Yan Kuan seized and refined the Chaos Mirror, which turned against Guang Yuan and blocked his escape.
• Yan Kuan crushed Guang Yuan’s Chaos Domain and tore his body apart until only his head remained.
• Guang Yuan used the Heavenly Pearl to open a passage connected to the Heavenly Dao, and Yan Kuan followed him inside.
• The passage collapsed, the Heavenly Pearl shattered, and Yan Kuan refined Guang Yuan’s remaining soul and spiritual consciousness.
• Yan Kuan addressed the awakened Heavenly Dao, having followed Guang Yuan in order to learn its power and question heaven.

Yan Kuan invaded the Chaos Clan, destroyed Heavenly Capital Purgatory City, and killed King Youluo before dragging Chaos territories into the Ten Direction Forbidden Region to refine their inhabitants into Origin. His attack awakened Heaven-Defying Rank experts sealed in the severed Primordial Era, who returned to stop him.

• Yan Kuan refined a Chaos Continent and advanced toward Heavenly Capital Purgatory City, where King Youluo waited to test the city against him.
• Yan Kuan entered Purgatory City, captured and studied its Heavenly Beasts, then destroyed the Stone Pagoda and the Central Ancient Pagoda.
• King Youluo attacked Yan Kuan with his Sea of Blood and Nine Heavens Ten Earths Sole Supremacy Art, but Yan Kuan annihilated him and burned the city and its Chaos Clan inhabitants.
• Yan Kuan traveled to the Ten Direction Forbidden Region and dragged in Chaos Continents, killing King Yufeng and refining the Chaos Clan into Origin.
• The upheaval awakened Heaven-Defying Rank experts in the severed Primordial Era, and they returned through time and space to stop Yan Kuan.

Yan Kuan destroyed the Chaos Clan’s stronghold and challenged the Heavenly Dao with a reforged imitation Millstone of the World. The chapter ended as his wheel collided with the Heavenly Dao’s true Millstone, shattering part of it while the Heavenly Dao continued its attack.

• Dugu Baitian, Demon Lord, and Ghost Lord stalled Chaos King, Azure Heaven, and the other supreme experts in the River of Time and Space while Yan Kuan slaughtered the Chaos Clan.
• Chaos King and the others returned too late to save Chaos Son, then were trapped by the Lesser Six Paths and its army of gods, demons, and resentful dead.
• Yan Kuan told Demon Lord and the others to release the six experts, then continued destroying the Chaos Clan as Chaos King confronted him.
• Yan Kuan activated the Millstone of the World, fused with the Ten Direction Forbidden Region, and drew the Heavenly Dao’s attention.
• The Heavenly Dao struck Yan Kuan with Heavenly Punishment, but his reforged imitation Millstone ground it apart and surged toward the Nine Heavens.
• Yan Kuan’s imitation Millstone collided with the Heavenly Dao’s true Millstone, breaking off part of its wheel before the Heavenly Dao continued grinding it downward.

Yan Kuan returned from the God Tomb World and used his insights to undergo a rebirth by sacrificing his Origin to transform the Eight Regions of the Lower Realm. He ascended to the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, imposed new rules on travel between the realms, and set his sights on the Immortal Ancient Small World, where he expected to meet Shi Hao.

• Yan Kuan escaped the Heavenly Dao of the God Tomb World through a chaotic time-space vortex, while Chaos King, Azure Heaven, and Supreme One refused to follow him beyond the Six Realms.
• Yan Kuan returned to the Primal Gate and concluded that he needed to become a Mortal Immortal before returning to challenge the God Tomb World's Heavenly Dao.
• Yan Kuan learned that the Willow Deity's True Spirit and the Small Pagoda had gone to Fallen Immortal Ridge to seek the Small Pagoda's lost tower levels and speak with the forbidden-zone experts.
• Yan Kuan dispersed his Origin throughout the Eight Regions, endured true aging, and emerged from his transformation in a powerful rebirth.
• Yan Kuan opened a passage to the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and established rules restricting Upper Realm descents to those below the Venerable realm.
• Yan Kuan traveled to the Three Thousand Dao Provinces and decided to enter the Immortal Ancient Small World, expecting Shi Hao to be there.

Yan Kuan found Shi Hao among the prodigies gathering before the Immortal Ancient Secret Realm opened, and the two discovered the disguised Silver Phoenix. They traveled to Five Elements Province, where Yan Kuan planned to obtain the Thunder Emperor Treasure Technique and Shi Hao hoped to see his younger brother Qin Hao.

• Yan Kuan watched the Immortal Hall Successor and the mysterious man beside the Demoness clash, while Yuechan and the Demoness fought their own brief duel.
• Yan Kuan and Shi Hao found a silver fledgling in a nest, recognized her as the injured Silver Phoenix, and brought her along as she teased and fought with Shi Hao.
• Yan Kuan warned Shi Hao to wait for the Immortal Ancient Secret Realm before targeting the Immortal Hall Successor's true body, then chose Five Elements Province as their next destination.
• Yan Kuan told Shi Hao that the Profound Heaven Secret Realm held clues to the Thunder Emperor Treasure Technique, while Shi Hao realized he might see Qin Hao at Mount Bu Lao.
• Yan Kuan and Shi Hao arrived in Five Elements Province as Mount Bu Lao prepared to hold its talent selection inside the secret realm.

Yan Kuan entered the Profound Heaven Secret Realm, seized the Thunder Emperor inheritance and a mysterious damaged armor, and uncovered their connection to Yuantian Supreme's past. He left the Highest Hall after replacing the inheritance on its cushion with a fake Immortal Bone, intending to watch the other prodigies fight over it.

• Yan Kuan and Shi Hao entered the secret realm among the final group, and Yan Kuan was sent to the region occupied by the Fire Demon Palace's chosen prodigies.
• Yan Kuan pulled a Lightning-Struck Tree and a Golden Skeleton from a mountain, drove most of the Fire Demon Palace group out, and found a golden page hidden inside the skeleton.
• Yan Kuan studied the Thunder Emperor page while traveling with Little Silver Phoenix, then teleported into the Highest Hall ahead of the other prodigies.
• Yan Kuan chose a damaged set of armor from the Weapon Tomb and found a second golden page beneath Yuantian Supreme's inheritance.
• The two pages revealed Yuantian Supreme's past battle in the Thunder Emperor Palace ruins and showed that the damaged armor was connected to the Thunder Emperor.
• Yan Kuan took the Thunder Emperor inheritance and left an Immortal Bone made from dust on the cushion as a false prize for the arriving prodigies.

Yan Kuan watched Shi Hao, Cao Yusheng, and the Lunar Jade Rabbit plunder the Profound Heaven Secret Realm, then gave Shi Hao the Supreme's Treasure Bone and sent him toward Yun Xi in the Blood-colored Plain. After arranging for Cao Yusheng to spread a rumor about the Thunder Emperor inheritance, Yan Kuan headed to Fire Province to seek its many flames and Fire Seeds.

• Shi Hao, Cao Yusheng, and the Lunar Jade Rabbit disguised themselves and switched sides during the battle in the Highest Hall, robbing the fallen prodigies and First Generations.
• Yan Kuan transported the three accomplices outside, made them share their gains, and passed Profound Heaven Supreme's blue Treasure Bone among them to study.
• When the secret realm began closing, Yan Kuan gave Shi Hao two Golden Pages and damaged armor, then kicked him toward the Blood-colored Plain to help Yun Xi.
• Yan Kuan ordered Cao Yusheng to spread a rumor that the Great Demon Desolate had obtained the Thunder Emperor inheritance, then kicked him away to carry it out.
• Yan Kuan left with the Lunar Jade Rabbit and Little Silver Phoenix for Fire Province, intending to collect its Fire Seeds and flames.

Yan Kuan searched Fire Province for powerful Fire Seeds, collecting flames from an ancient ruin without touching the Three Lifetimes Copper Coffin. After a Heavenly Thunder struck him and a bell announced the approaching Three Thousand Provinces War, he took Xue Lin and the Little Jade Rabbit to a spiritual land to enter seclusion.

• Yan Kuan awakened Fire Province’s buried flames and traveled to the Great Rift Valley with Xue Lin and the Little Jade Rabbit.
• Yan Kuan entered the underground ruin, avoided the Three Lifetimes Copper Coffin, and burned a Vicious Ghost-like puppet to ashes.
• Yan Kuan absorbed a mysterious flame that reflected his techniques, then subdued the Azure Moon Flame and its remaining soul consciousness.
• Yan Kuan collected the earthfire from the valley and caught a bolt of Heavenly Thunder before it struck him.
• Yan Kuan heard a bell announcing the approaching Three Thousand Provinces War and took Xue Lin and the Little Jade Rabbit to a spiritual land to cultivate.

As the Three Thousand Provinces War approached, Yan Kuan gave Shi Hao guidance on entering the Immortal Antiquity Secret Realm and urged him to cultivate before taking revenge on the factions behind the Kunpeng and Seven Frontier Kings’ downfall. Shi Hao reunited with Baldy, confronted Cao Yusheng over selling him out, and ended the chapter preparing to enter the secret realm with Yan Kuan’s backing.

• Qi Daolin warned Shi Hao and Qing Yi that lacking a powerful Fire Seed would put them at a disadvantage in the coming war, but Shi Hao remained confident.
• Yan Kuan appeared, gave Qi Daolin a Treasure Box of Supreme Hall inheritances, and asked him to look after Shi Hao while he was away.
• Shi Hao welcomed Baldy and reunited with Cao Yusheng and Little Jade Rabbit, then learned Cao Yusheng had repeatedly sold information about him for profit.
• Shi Hao and Cao Yusheng negotiated a share of the money Cao Yusheng had earned from selling him out, and the group celebrated their reunion with food and wine.
• Shi Hao asked Yan Kuan whether a self-cultivated flame could surpass an external Fire Seed, and Yan Kuan told him to seek his opportunity in the Immortal Antiquity Secret Realm.
• Yan Kuan told Shi Hao to cultivate Divine Fire and Immortal Qi before pursuing the Immortal Hall, Sword Valley, and other enemies, and reassured him that he would enter the secret realm too.