Chapter Summaries

Yan Kuan and his companions climbed the Dragon Holy Mountain, where they met the dying Old First Dragon and linked Yan Kuan’s Violet Jade Bracelet to the Progenitor Dragon. Old First Dragon revealed the dragon race’s curse and the defeat of the Nine Provinces, leaving Yan Kuan with the chance to help the dragons rise again.

• Yan Kuan carried Keke toward the Dragon Holy Mountain after seeing powerful dragons and beasts gather at its base.
• Yan Kuan led Wanwan and Shi Feixuan up the mountain and found young dragons fighting to evolve into Dragon Kings in a hidden oasis.
• Old First Dragon called Keke over and allowed the Seven-Colored Sacred Tree’s energy to revive him.
• Yan Kuan showed Old First Dragon the Violet Jade Bracelet, and its connection to the Progenitor Dragon extended Old First Dragon’s lifespan.
• Yan Kuan promised to help the dragon race rise again, and Old First Dragon revealed that the Nine Provinces had been defeated and made an experimental ground by the other world.

Old First Dragon transformed Keke into a Little Ancestor Dragon and revealed how the dragon race’s Curse had repeatedly caused dragon breeds to be exterminated. Yan Kuan agreed to help the dragons, and after a mass hatching and battle, three young Dragon Kings emerged, with Keke riding atop the Snow Dragon Prince.

• Old First Dragon transformed Keke into a seven-colored Little Ancestor Dragon and explained the history of the dragon race’s Curse and Keke’s cursed lineage.
• Keke resisted his new form, while Yan Kuan reassured Old First Dragon that Keke and the dragon race would be fine.
• Yan Kuan agreed to help the dragon descendants, and Old First Dragon brought him and several young dragons to the Dragon Holy Mountain.
• Old First Dragon baptized more than a hundred dragon eggs and young dragons, while Yan Kuan summoned life-infused rain to help them hatch.
• The newly hatched dragons fought to establish their status and advance, and the Azure Dragon Prince, Violet Dragon Prince, and Snow Dragon Prince emerged as the three victors, with Keke riding the Snow Dragon Prince.

Yan Kuan and his companions discovered the Demon Ancestor, who sought to borrow Keke’s Sacred Tree to return to life. Keke lent him the tree in exchange for Ice God Jade and a promise of repayment, and the Demon Ancestor sealed himself inside a snow mountain for a year.

• Keke found a giant snow lotus, which Yan Kuan stored for it after it could not eat more.
• Yan Kuan’s group uncovered two ice coffins containing nearly identical old human skins and met the pale young man who bore the same birthmark.
• The young man asked to borrow Keke’s Sacred Tree, explaining that it could help revive him and that he had escaped from the Dead City.
• Wanwan recognized the young man as the legendary Demon Ancestor, though he had forgotten his past.
• The Demon Ancestor offered treasures, and Keke eagerly took an Ice God Jade and let the Sacred Tree absorb it before agreeing to lend out the tree.
• The Demon Ancestor froze himself inside a snow mountain for a year, while Keke mourned the Sacred Tree and then went treasure-hunting with Yan Kuan and the others.

On the Ghost Festival, Yan Kuan led Wanwan and Shi Feixuan into the Dead City as the Dragon race attacked it from outside. At the city’s core, the Heavenly Stele suppressed the Demonic Well, but Yan Kuan declared that he would refine them both.

• The Dead City appeared beneath a storm of blood rain, and Yan Kuan led Wanwan and Shi Feixuan toward its gates.
• The Dragon race attacked the city, while Yan Kuan burned away the ghosts and other dangers along their route.
• Yan Kuan’s group reached the central plaza, where Wanwan and Shi Feixuan studied the mysterious carvings on the Heavenly Stele.
• The Heavenly Stele inscribed with “eternal suppression of the Isolated Island” sealed the Demonic Well as the Dragon race’s assault shook the Dead City.
• Yan Kuan gathered his flames around the city and announced that he would refine both the Heavenly Stele and the Demonic Well.

Yan Kuan and his companions left Dragon Island aboard the First Dragon Ship, crossed the forbidden sea, and reached Longevity Continent. They learned they had arrived in the Southern Wasteland, where the Undying Sect founded by Shi Zhixuan had risen to prominence.

• Yan Kuan burned away the Dead City’s ghosts and returned with his companions to Dragon Holy Mountain.
• After Chi You emerged from seclusion, Yan Kuan and the others prepared to leave Dragon Island, and the three little Dragon Princes summoned the First Dragon Ship.
• Keke brought a pile of fruit aboard the ship, and the dragons and young beasts bid farewell to Dragon Island as the ship departed.
• Keke’s Seven-Colored Sacred Tree absorbed divine power from the forbidden sea and grew new leaves and a golden bud during the voyage.
• The First Dragon Ship carried Yan Kuan, Wanwan, Shi Feixuan, and the young beasts across the forbidden sea to Longevity Continent.
• Wanwan gathered information that they had arrived in the Southern Wasteland, home to the rising Undying Sect founded by Shi Zhixuan.

Yan Kuan stayed at Cloistered Moon, Ashamed Flower Hall, where he and Wanwan gathered intelligence about the Eternal Life Realm. After learning that the White-Shelled Little Turtle was the brother of the Southern Wastelands Dragon King, Yan Kuan suggested that the old dragon could help Wanwan establish connections.

• Yan Kuan spent the day enjoying music, food, and the company of courtesan queens at Cloistered Moon, Ashamed Flower Hall, while Wanwan joined him.
• Wanwan learned that Shi Zhixuan might appear at the Undying Sect's succession ceremony in three months.
• Yan Kuan received secret histories about ancient places in the Eternal Life Realm and news that the White Jade Turtle had been found in Heavenly Emperor City.
• Keke played with the White-Shelled Little Turtle, and Wanwan noticed that its ancient chain bore Dragon clan Divine Script.
• Yan Kuan revealed that the turtle was the brother of the Southern Wastelands Dragon King and said the old dragon could provide Wanwan with useful connections.

Yan Kuan freed a sealed Dragon King, recruited him to help reclaim the Southern Wastelands dragon race, and then led his group into the Central Lands. In Sky Net Nation, Yan Kuan took several relics from the Heavenly Palace of Ancestor God Youchao for study.

• Yan Kuan freed the White-Shelled Little Turtle and learned that its Purple-Gold Ginseng King could restore its lost strength.
• Keke began eating the Purple-Gold Ginseng King, but Yan Kuan persuaded the White-Shelled Little Turtle to serve him and returned the ginseng so it could recover its power.
• The Dragon King transformed into a man in white, revealed that he had once reached the Half-Ancestor realm, and agreed to retake control of the Southern Wastelands dragon race.
• Yan Kuan and his group traveled through the southwestern frontier into the Central Lands and set out for the plains of Sky Net Nation.
• Yan Kuan summoned the Heavenly Palace of Ancestor God Youchao and took a stone dagger, a stone sphere, and a stone arm belonging to the Nine-Part Stone Person.

Yan Kuan returned to the Southern Wasteland with Wanwan and Shi Feixuan to meet the newly returned Shi Zhixuan, who revealed that many celebrated Half-Ancestors and even their world might be illusions. Yan Kuan rejected the need to fear that possibility, insisting that strength could make them real, and left Shi Zhixuan’s claims unresolved.

• Yan Kuan used the stone dagger to take Wanwan and Shi Feixuan from the coast to the Undying Sect after learning that Shi Zhixuan had returned.
• Yan Kuan found Shi Zhixuan in the sect’s ancient hall, where Shi Zhixuan struggled to distinguish reality from illusion and revealed that he had become a Half-Ancestor.
• Shi Zhixuan guided Wanwan and Shi Feixuan through visions of sleeping beings, legendary figures, and a bloody catastrophe, then claimed that many famous Half-Ancestors were illusory beings.
• Shi Zhixuan argued that Hongjun was an illusory being who had become real, and said he hoped to shatter illusion with Yan Kuan’s help.
• Yan Kuan questioned whether ruins and bones proved the Ancestor Gods were real, then told Shi Zhixuan that anyone strong enough to shatter everything could become the origin point and be real.

Yan Kuan examined the Nine Lamps and the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors before traveling to Devil Plains, where he summoned the Twenty-Four War Swords. Their emergence drew powerful figures from across the Eternal Life Realm, including Primal Celestial Venerable, Buddha, and Master Tongtian.

• Yan Kuan left Wanwan and Shi Feixuan to recover on their own, then studied the stone artifacts and the Nine Lamps in Heavenly Emperor City.
• Yan Kuan saw the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors through the flames and communicated with them about their plans and ideals.
• Yan Kuan traveled to Devil Plains and used an array to reveal the Twenty-Four War Swords, while an unseen sword wielder traced an array around them.
• The War Swords’ appearance awakened the battlefield’s skeletons, which gathered before the swords as powerful figures arrived.
• Great Saint Kong Xuan, the legendary Daoist Zhunti’s treasure, and the Immortal Slaughtering Four Swords appeared at Devil Plains.
• Primal Celestial Venerable, Buddha, and Master Tongtian arrived, with Master Tongtian confronting the other two as the Twenty-Four War Swords stood revealed.

The Twenty-Four War Swords shattered into Sword Heart essence and opened a passage that drew ancient powers into the Devil Plains. War Swords then began slaughtering Half-Ancestors and false gods, leaving the Longevity Continent shaken by the deaths of its greatest figures.

• Kong Xuan, Master Tongtian, Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning, and the Buddha tried to claim the Twenty-Four War Swords, but an otherworldly expert made them shatter and release Sword Heart essence.
• Kong Xuan, Master Tongtian, Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning, the Buddha, and other ancient powers entered the passage revealed beneath the swords.
• Master Tongtian used his Immortal Slaughtering Four Swords to suppress one War Sword as more swords emerged and the experts fought to seize them.
• War Swords slew Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning, the White Tiger Sage Emperor, Master Tongtian, the Buddha, Daoist Zhunti, Satan, and numerous other Half-Ancestors and false gods.
• Heavenly thunder and rain of blood spread across the Longevity Continent as people realized that many Supreme Figures had fallen.

Yan Kuan used the Twenty-Four War Swords to trap and kill two Ancestor Gods who invaded the Eternal Life Realm, then connected all forty-nine War Swords across time. He discovered a state of eternal existence resembling the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, but rejected it as incomplete and prepared to discuss the Dao with them.

• A wielder of the Twenty-Four War Swords threatened to destroy the Eternal Life Realm, but Yan Kuan watched from between the real and unreal as an Ancestor God invaded.
• Yan Kuan dismissed the first Ancestor God as too weak to satisfy his plan, while the War Swords battled it and a second Ancestor God began crossing into the realm.
• The two Ancestor Gods joined forces, but Yan Kuan revealed his trap and used the War Swords to crush and kill them.
• The Eternal Life Realm's experts were shocked by the deaths of the two Ancestor Gods as blood rain marked their fall.
• Yan Kuan connected all forty-nine War Swords across the past, present, and future, then separated them again across time and space.
• Yan Kuan recognized that his new eternal state was inferior to true transcendence, rejected it as his path, and turned to discussing the Dao with the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.

Xiao Chen discovered the Suiren Drill in the ruins of the Heavenly God Palace, where Yan Kuan appeared and told him he could help him return to the Nine Provinces. Yan Kuan offered to help if Xiao Chen pursued strength enough to break through every arrangement, leaving Xiao Chen with a chance to reunite with Ruo Shui.

• A black dragon-like beast swept away Xiao Chen’s two little beasts, leaving him waiting on the floating divine island for their return.
• The bloodstained burial shroud guided Xiao Chen to the ruins’ center and unearthed an ordinary stone that Yan Kuan identified as the legendary Suiren Drill.
• Yan Kuan appeared before Xiao Chen and reflected on how Xiao Chen’s life had been swept along by fate without letting him change the world.
• Yan Kuan told Xiao Chen that Ruo Shui might still be alive and entangled in trouble in the Nine Provinces.
• Xiao Chen asked Yan Kuan to help him return to the Nine Provinces, and Yan Kuan said he would help if Xiao Chen aimed to become the strongest and break through every arrangement.

Xiao Chen reunited with Little Stubborn Dragon and Keke, then reached Heavenly Emperor City with Yan Kuan as a strange storm gathered. The broken blade guided Xiao Chen to break through into the Awareness Repository Realm and awaken Body Weapon Fusion, while Yan Kuan urged him to consider forging his own path and warned him about the White Tiger Sage Emperor.

• Xiao Chen found Little Stubborn Dragon, Keke, and three unfamiliar Dragon Princes in the Southern Wastelands, where Keke drove the hostile princes away.
• Yan Kuan took Xiao Chen and the others to Heavenly Emperor City and told Xiao Chen to focus on breaking through to the Awareness Repository Realm.
• As an ominous storm engulfed the city, Xiao Chen's broken blade passed blade intent to him, and Keke's Sacred Artifacts flew into the dark sky amid visions of ancient battles.
• Xiao Chen resisted the blade intent, completed his breakthrough, and awakened the divine ability Body Weapon Fusion by merging the broken blade's aura into his body.
• Yan Kuan asked Xiao Chen to consider whether he would follow new martial arts, retrace the ancient martial path, or forge his own path, then pointed to the White Tiger Sage Emperor as an immediate threat.

After reflecting on his cultivation, Xiao Chen fought the White Tiger family’s attackers and unleashed a demonic blade state that let him kill enemies far above his realm. Near death after defeating Tiger Lie, he refused Long Teng’s demand to surrender the Dragon Clan Sacred Tree.

• Xiao Chen abandoned his attempt to force a new cultivation path and resolved to build his understanding through experience.
• Tiger Wind attacked Xiao Chen, who killed him with a single blade strike before battling Tiger Attendant and Tiger Slave.
• Xiao Chen’s demonic blade intent let him kill Tiger Attendant, Tiger Slave, and several hostile young heirs from Heavenly Emperor City’s great families.
• Xiao Chen used the Dragon Clan Sacred Tree’s Sealing Art and his blade strikes to kill the fifth-realm expert Tiger Lie, but Tiger Lie’s dying attack left him near death.
• Long Teng appeared and demanded the Dragon Clan Sacred Tree, but Xiao Chen told him to get lost.

Xiao Chen killed Long Teng after a fierce battle, prompting the Old Dragon of the Southern Wastelands to confront him and Keke. The White-Shelled Little Turtle defeated the Old Dragon and brought him before Yan Kuan, who ordered him to die in battle rather than be forgiven.

• Long Teng attacked Xiao Chen, but Keke bound him and helped Xiao Chen land a fatal strike that turned him to ash.
• The Old Dragon of the Southern Wastelands arrived to avenge Long Teng, but the White-Shelled Little Turtle appeared and challenged him.
• The White-Shelled Little Turtle confronted the Old Dragon over his past crimes and fought him after presenting the Ancestral Dragon's horn.
• The White-Shelled Little Turtle defeated the Old Dragon and brought him to Xiao Chen's courtyard to plead with Yan Kuan.
• Yan Kuan said the Old Dragon's crimes did not deserve death but could not be forgiven, and ordered him to die in battle.

Yan Kuan sent Xiao Chen to begin the War Immortal Path by hunting the false gods of the Eternal Life Realm, then traveled to the Bewildering Flower Sea and met Qingqing. He accompanied her to her village, where her grandfather became wary after Yan Kuan revealed he had come seeking the Heaven and Earth Copper Furnace.

• Xiao Chen recognized Yan Kuan as a member of the Xiao Family, called him Great-Uncle, and accepted his task to destroy Hongjun by killing the Half-Ancestor false gods.
• Yan Kuan stopped Keke from following Xiao Chen and ordered the little beast to cultivate.
• Yan Kuan met Qingqing in the Bewildering Flower Sea, and she took Keke with her as they headed to her village.
• Qingqing introduced Yan Kuan and Keke to her grandfather, while Keke subdued the Black Dragon King and frightened Niu Ren.
• Yan Kuan told Qingqing's grandfather that he had come for the Heaven and Earth Copper Furnace, making the old man wary of the outsider.

Yan Kuan traveled with his companions to the Barbarian Holy Mountain and entered the Underworld to investigate Ancestor God Suiren’s failed plan for an Underworld and Samsara. He began reshaping the laws of the All Heavens to create a great Samsara, leaving the Unique True World outside its reach.

• The Black Dragon King led Yan Kuan and the others to the Barbarian Holy Mountain, where he found and honored the remains of a Dragon clan expert.
• Keke transformed the Dragon Bone into a Sage Sword and gave it to the Black Dragon King, while the group gathered earth vein Blood Essence from the site.
• Yan Kuan led his companions through the Underworld to the Nine Underworlds Platform to examine whether Ancestor God Suiren’s plan could succeed.
• An old woman guarding the platform recognized Niu Ren as a descendant of her lineage, and Yan Kuan asked her to help Keke find Amethyst Wood Yin Ginseng Fruit.
• After Qingqing supported his idea, Yan Kuan reopened the passage and used supreme divine power to create Samsara throughout the All Heavens, excluding the Unique True World.

Keke gathered Xiao Chen, Yaoyao, and Xuanxuan at the Devil Plains as forty-nine War Swords appeared and the sealed Lost Paradise opened. After the group entered the powerless realm and faced hostile Half-Ancestors, Yan Kuan prepared to accelerate Samsara and the collapse of the illusory worlds, bringing the final war closer.

• Keke told Xiao Chen, Yaoyao, and Xuanxuan that forty-nine War Swords would appear, Lost Paradise was hidden in Hell, and the third Heavenly Stele was near.
• Forty-nine War Swords descended on the Devil Plains, and Keke began opening the seals to Lost Paradise while Xiao Chen, Yaoyao, and Xuanxuan prepared to enter.
• The seals broke, and a Dragon King's soul emerged from Hell before disintegrating; cultivators who entered Lost Paradise lost their magical powers and divine abilities.
• Xiao Chen, Yaoyao, Xuanxuan, and the Half-Ancestors entered Lost Paradise, where they found a towering Heavenly Stele and a hidden divine garden.
• The White Tiger Sage Emperor and the Primal Celestial Venerable called for Keke's death, so Keke fled deeper into Lost Paradise as the Half-Ancestors formed alliances and followed.
• Yan Kuan watched the Heavenly Stele tremble from the Nine Underworlds Platform and prepared to accelerate Samsara, the collapse of the illusory worlds, and the coming war.

Keke inherited Lost Paradise from its deceased parents as the laws suppressing the Half-Ancestors began to change. Xiao Chen awakened the Dead City and opened the Abyss of Sin, forcing the battle between illusion and reality to begin and drawing the Half-Ancestors into a deadly tribulation.

• Keke recognized its parents’ skeletons in Lost Paradise, mourned them, and received their message that the world belonged to it.
• Lost Paradise began merging with Keke, the Half-Ancestors regained their powers, and Dragon Island emerged as the worlds shook.
• The Dead City appeared in Hell, and Xiao Chen rushed inside with his War Sword, awakening its army and the sealed Abyss of Sin.
• The Dead City’s Death Knell summoned the Half-Ancestors, who attacked the abyss while the White Tiger Sage Emperor and Sun Saint God also struck at Xiao Chen.
• The Half-Ancestors blasted Ancestor God Youchao’s corpse from the abyss and fought over it as Xiao Chen battled them and slashed the White Tiger Sage Emperor.
• The Half-Ancestors’ assault on the abyss unleashed Black Light that tore apart and swallowed one of them, beginning the great tribulation between illusion and reality.

As the Dead City’s Death Knell destroyed the illusory Half-Ancestors who tried to escape the calamity, Shennong, Old First Dragon, and Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan fought Hongjun beyond the heavens. Xiao Chen left the Dead City to join the battle, and Hongjun’s final cries suggested that he had been defeated.

• Hongjun attacked the Dead City, but Shennong and Old First Dragon confronted him and extinguished the arriving Ancestral God from the other world.
• Xiao Chen and the Dead City army trapped the illusory Half-Ancestors, while Laozi, Buddha, and other real experts dissolved their illusory selves and reclaimed their Origin.
• Xiao Chen killed White Tiger, the Sun Saint God, and other illusory Half-Ancestors as the Death Knell announced their destruction.
• Hongjun fought Shennong and Old First Dragon beyond the heavens, where Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan broke through to Ancestral Godhood and joined the battle.
• After every illusory Half-Ancestor in the Dead City had fallen, Xiao Chen headed beyond the heavens to slay Hongjun, and the battle’s final cries suggested Hongjun was defeated.