Chapter Summaries

Yan Kuan led Monkey and Old Crane to Dragon Tiger Mountain, where they believed Quasi-Emperor Rongcheng’s burial ground was hidden beneath Daoism’s ancestral court. They reached the outer mountain ruins and considered how difficult it would be to enter the secluded Inner Mountain and find the Earth Immortal’s treasure.

• Yan Kuan explained that the Dragon Mountains on the jade pieces marked Quasi-Emperor Rongcheng’s burial ground, not the Ninety-Nine True Dragon Mountains.
• Monkey and Old Crane decided to investigate, and Yan Kuan said he knew the location before leading them to Dragon Tiger Mountain in Jiangxi.
• The three identified the mountain’s ancient formation and recognized that the Earth Immortal’s burial ground lay within Daoism’s ancestral court.
• Yan Kuan led Monkey and Old Crane through Dragon Tiger Mountain’s ruined outer court as they discussed the history and power of its Daoist branches.
• Monkey pointed out the cliff tombs and Hanging Coffins, while Old Crane warned that Daoists had occupied the mountain long ago and outsiders might not find the Inner Mountain or its treasure.

Yan Kuan led Old Crane and Monkey through Dragon Tiger Mountain to the hidden Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains, where they discovered an Earth Immortal’s burial ground. They found thousands of hanging coffins and glimpsed a branch of the Undying Divine Medicine Ginseng Fruit Tree inside a Jade Coffin.

• Yan Kuan used the Jade Scroll Map to guide Old Crane and Monkey through Dragon Tiger Mountain into the hidden land where an Earth Immortal was buried.
• The three found a Zhengyi Sect Dao protector’s skeleton and learned from his inscription that only a Beheading King could enter the forbidden land without the proper means.
• Yan Kuan shielded himself from the powerful Dao marks on a Bone Stele inscribed with the words “Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains,” while Old Crane and Monkey coughed blood.
• Monkey spotted thousands of Hanging Coffins in a fissure beneath a cliff and sensed a fragrance coming from the Dragon Mouth.
• Yan Kuan and Monkey saw a green branch of the Undying Divine Medicine Ginseng Fruit Tree inside an ancient Jade Coffin.

Yan Kuan, Monkey, and Old Crane reached the Jade Coffin in the Burial Grounds of Earth Immortals, avoiding the natural killing light guarding it. They found that the branch of the Undying Divine Tree had become an evil medicine, and the chapter left them with the ancient coffin still unopened.

• Yan Kuan, Monkey, and Old Crane searched the Hanging Coffins and found the remains of Severing Dao Kings among the buried cultivators.
• Yan Kuan recognized the fragrant branch on the Jade Coffin as part of the Ginseng Fruit Tree of Immortality, corrupted by death qi into an evil medicine.
• Old Crane tested the Jade Coffin with a magical artifact, which the Dragon Mountain Reverse Scale Killing Light destroyed and injured him.
• Yan Kuan directed Monkey and Old Crane to test routes around the killing light, and they eventually found a safe path to the coffin.
• Monkey grabbed the Divine Tree Branch and was frozen by its death qi, but Yan Kuan struck his hand away and used Empyrean Flame to remove its surface chill.
• Yan Kuan explained that the branch had absorbed death qi from the Hanging Coffins and could extend life while also rotting flesh.

Yan Kuan, Old Crane, and Monkey explored the Burial Grounds of Earth Immortals, finding the Dragon Mountains stripped of treasures and discovering an inscription about the Ginseng Fruit Tree and Undying Divine Tree. They fled after awakening something in the final intact mountain, and Yan Kuan left with a Dao-Slaying King's corpse and an Undying Divine Tree Branch intended for the Life-Devouring Pill.

• Yan Kuan explained that the Daoist Ancestral Court had likely taken the treasures from the first Dragon Mountain, and Old Crane and Monkey reluctantly agreed to continue searching.
• The three explored the second Dragon Mountain and five more, finding Jade Coffins and Undying Divine Tree branches while avoiding increasingly dangerous Hanging Coffins.
• Monkey spotted that the Dragon Mountains from the tenth onward had collapsed, and Yan Kuan found an inscription on the eighth mountain saying the Earth Immortal had buried his disciples there.
• At the final intact Dragon Mountain, the group read that the Earth Immortal had been buried with the Ginseng Fruit Tree and Undying Divine Tree.
• Yan Kuan sensed danger in the Dragon Cave, so Old Crane carried him and Monkey away as something roared awake inside.
• After escaping, Yan Kuan collected a Dao-Slaying King's corpse and kept the death-tainted Undying Divine Tree Branch, intending to use it to refine the Life-Devouring Pill.

Yan Kuan planned to refine a Seventh Grade Life-Devouring Pill using the death-contaminated Undying Divine Tree Branch as its main ingredient. After the Valley Lords supplied the herbs, he began the demanding refinement before the gathered demons, leaving the pill unfinished.

• Yan Kuan explained that the Life-Devouring Pill could greatly increase strength but shortened the consumer’s lifespan, and said he wanted to attempt refining one with the Undying Divine Tree Branch.
• Old Crane agreed that Ten Thousand Demons Valley would support Yan Kuan, and the Valley Lords gathered the required spirit herbs within two days.
• On the third day, Yan Kuan began refining the pill in the square’s Medicine Cauldron using his Empyrean Flame.
• Yan Kuan refined the Blood Spirit Mushroom and several auxiliary herbs into a concentrated medicinal liquid.
• Yan Kuan set the first batch aside and began refining the next group of ingredients.

Yan Kuan refined a Life-Devouring Pill using the Undying Divine Tree branch and a Dao-Slaying King's Blood Essence, then completed the pill after days of careful nurturing. Heavenly lightning gathered over Ten Thousand Demons Valley to test the newly formed pill.

• Yan Kuan separated the usable life essence from the Undying Divine Tree branch and refined its remaining life and death energies with other medicinal ingredients.
• Yan Kuan added the Dao-Slaying King's Blood Essence to the cauldron and used his own blood and Empyrean Flame to suppress and stabilize the pill embryo.
• Yan Kuan spent six days controlling the pill's fusion, then nurtured it for about ten more hours until it became a round pill with green, black, and red colors.
• Black clouds and silver lightning gathered above Ten Thousand Demons Valley as the completed pill triggered a tribulation, and Yan Kuan welcomed the Heavenly Thunder.

Yan Kuan’s pill refinement drew a Heavenly Tribulation, and Monkey helped the blood-red pill withstand wave after wave of lightning. The demons joined the tempering, but a Thunder Pool then engulfed Yan Kuan and the Medicine Cauldron, where Empyrean Flame rose to refine the lightning.

• Old Crane, Monkey, and Spirit Cat recognized that Yan Kuan’s pill had drawn a rare Heavenly Tribulation.
• Monkey used his Golden Staff to shatter the lightning bolts aimed at the blood-red pill in Yan Kuan’s Medicine Cauldron.
• Monkey smashed apart the tribulation clouds and ordered the demons to form an array and temper themselves in the falling lightning.
• A much stronger Thunder Pool descended over the plaza, and Yan Kuan warned Monkey to retreat before it engulfed him and the Medicine Cauldron.
• Empyrean Flame surged over the Sea of Thunder and began refining the Heavenly Thunder.

Yan Kuan refined a Flawless Life-Devouring Pill whose quality neared Eighth-Rank, then used it to cultivate in Ten Thousand Demons Valley’s secret spiritual land. The pill transformed his body and advanced his strength to Dou Wang, though consuming it left him with only three years to live.

• Yan Kuan produced a Spirit Pill from the tainted Divine Tree Branch and stored it in a Jade Vial.
• Yan Kuan entered Ten Thousand Demons Valley’s secret cultivation ground after agreeing to borrow its spiritual qi for a breakthrough.
• After three days of preparation, Yan Kuan swallowed the Life-Devouring Spirit Pill and absorbed its medicinal power.
• The pill nourished and reconstructed Yan Kuan’s body while consuming his life origin, leaving him with three years to live.
• Yan Kuan’s Battle Crystal vanished into his Sea of Bitterness, and crimson Battle Qi Transformation Wings burst from his back as his strength reached Dou Wang.

Yan Kuan used pills and the Life-Devouring Pill to break through to the perfected peak of the nine-star Dou Emperor realm. He prepared to begin the first stage of his Wheel Sea Secret Realm cultivation, Three Flourishes and Three Declines.

• Yan Kuan took a Battle Spirit Pill and an Imperial Zenith Pill while cultivating, then advanced to the three-star Dou Emperor realm.
• Yan Kuan continued cultivating for three days and three nights and reached the perfected peak of the nine-star Dou Emperor realm, gaining control of spatial power.
• Yan Kuan recalled that he had spent five years tempering his foundation and had entered Ten Thousand Demons Valley partly to obtain its six Ancient Jade pieces.
• Yan Kuan explained that he planned to cultivate only the Wheel Sea Secret Realm through nine life-death transformations, using the Life-Devouring Pill to accelerate the process.
• Yan Kuan divided the transformations into three stages and prepared to begin the first, Three Flourishes and Three Declines.

Yan Kuan underwent the first two stages of the dangerous Life-Death Transformation, enduring his body’s decay and rebirth to strengthen his foundation. He began the third transformation, in which his bones shattered and his flesh became mire, while his Divine Soul also started to change.

• Yan Kuan completed the first Life-Death Transformation, rebuilding his body and forming the Black-White Duality Wheel of Life and Death.
• Yan Kuan began the second stage, the Life-Death Grinding Wheel, and endured another cycle of destruction and rebirth.
• Yan Kuan completed the second transformation as black-and-white divine radiance filled his body and golden flames flickered in his eyes.
• Yan Kuan began the third transformation, shattering his bones and turning his flesh into mire as his Divine Soul underwent a perfect transformation.

After leaving Ten Thousand Demons Valley, Yan Kuan sought a suitable place to continue his Life-Death Transformations and decided to gather terrain maps of the Kunlun Forbidden Zone. He entered the ancient tomb’s sword-qi chamber to retrieve a Bone Map and use Great Sage Chisongzi’s sword qi to forge a Forbidden Artifact.

• Yan Kuan emerged from seclusion after eighty-one days in Ten Thousand Demons Valley, reaching the peak of the Dou Emperor realm and a minor achievement in the Wheel Sea’s third transformation.
• Yan Kuan concluded that the Kunlun Forbidden Zone was the only place suitable for his next transformation and planned to acquire terrain maps of its outer regions.
• Yan Kuan reviewed the locations of the surviving Kunlun terrain maps and decided which ones he could safely pursue.
• Yan Kuan entered the stone chamber, where its sword lights struck him and were drawn into the light on his forehead.
• Yan Kuan crossed the chamber and found seven worn Sword Sheaths left by Great Sage Chisongzi.
• Yan Kuan brought out Broken Swords from the Immortal Sword Sky Pool to use as vessels for forging a Forbidden Artifact from the seven strands of Great Sage Sword Qi.

Yan Kuan opened Great Sage Chisongzi’s coffin, recovered a Sword Dao Imprint and a Firevine Seed, and forged a Forbidden Artifact from the sage’s swords. After tracing a map of the Kunlun Forbidden Zone from a Bone Fragment, he traveled to Changbai Mountain to seek another hidden terrain map.

• Yan Kuan used a Dao-Slaying King’s essence blood to lower Chisongzi’s coffin, recovered the Sword Dao Imprint, and received a Firevine Seed.
• Yan Kuan refined the seven Sword Sheaths and Broken Swords into a Forbidden Artifact capable of unleashing Great Sage Sword Qi.
• Yan Kuan studied a Bone Fragment and traced a section of the Kunlun Forbidden Zone’s terrain map before erasing his drawing.
• Yan Kuan visited Mount Lu and Mount Tai, failing to obtain Mount Lu’s map but finding the terrain map and Ancient Artifacts beneath Mount Tai’s Five-Colored Altar.
• Yan Kuan placed the Forbidden Sword Case in the Immortal Sword Sky Pool for nurturing and traveled to Changbai Mountain.
• Yan Kuan arrived at the Primordial Dragon Cave, intending to find its hidden Kunlun Terrain Map without alerting the Sky Kirin Clan.

Yan Kuan infiltrated the Primordial Dragon Cave disguised as Elder Bo Chong and found a Dao Diagram he hoped to study. When the Sky Kirin Clan celebrated its newborn Celestial Demon Physique, he seized the infant and the Sky Kirin Ancestor and fled, leaving the clan in pursuit.

• Yan Kuan entered Changbai Mountain's Dragon Rising Ground and observed the Sky Kirin Clan's ancestral cave.
• Yan Kuan replaced Elder Bo Chong, entered the Primordial Dragon Cave, and discovered a Dao Diagram he could not safely extract yet.
• Yan Kuan overheard demons discussing the newborn Celestial Demon Physique and decided to act during the clan's celebration.
• The Sky Kirin Clan gathered to celebrate the infant, and the Sky Kirin Ancestor held the child.
• Yan Kuan, disguised as Bo Lin, snatched the infant and the Sky Kirin Ancestor and escaped as the clan chased after him.

Yan Kuan raided the Primordial Dragon Cave and the Sky-Scale Clan, stole their treasures, and obtained a divine art from the Celestial Demon Physique’s blood essence. He then found the Changbai Ancestor Ginseng and traded the removal of the clan’s traps for five drops of its ginseng liquid.

• Yan Kuan used Empyrean Flame to study the Dao Diagram in the Primordial Dragon Cave while the clan’s experts were held back by his restrictions.
• Bo Ren and Bo Yi tried to rescue the Sky Kirin Ancestor and the infant Celestial Demon Physique from Bo Lin, but Bo Lin escaped as crimson flames erupted from the Primordial Dragon Cave.
• The Sky-Scale Clan discovered that Yan Kuan had impersonated Bo Chong, sealed away Bo Chong and Bo Lin, and stolen treasures from the clan treasury, so Bo Ren ordered a search for the thieves.
• Yan Kuan refined a drop of the Celestial Demon Physique’s blood essence to obtain the Celestial Demon Godslaying Art and the Soul Refining God Devouring Art.
• Yan Kuan followed Changbai Mountain’s earth veins, found the Ancestor Ginseng, and persuaded it to give him five drops of ginseng liquid in exchange for removing the Sky-Scale Clan’s array flags.

Yan Kuan was ambushed in Changbai Mountain by Manchu Remnants, but slaughtered them and learned about the Jurchen Guardians and their powerful allies. He planned to raise his strength and create another disturbance to keep the Sky Kirin Clan occupied.

• A distant archer struck Yan Kuan with a feathered arrow, leaving a slight wound before Manchu Remnants confronted him in Changbai Mountain.
• Yan Kuan denounced the Manchu Remnants and killed them when they attacked, including their strongest fighters.
• Yan Kuan burned the bodies with Empyrean Flame to erase the evidence before Sky Kirin Clan experts arrived.
• Yan Kuan learned that two Jin Dynasty Jurchen Guardians were trapped in an Ancient Water Mansion and would remain there for decades.
• Yan Kuan decided to increase his strength and headed toward the outskirts of Changbai Mountain to cause another disturbance.

Yan Kuan explored the Kunlun Forbidden Zone, mapped a route through its dangerous terrain, and uncovered ancient ruins and treasures. After three days in the depths, he found a dead Sacred Spirit and a fifty-thousand-year-old Lesser Medicine King.

• Yan Kuan studied Kunlun's terrain for more than half a month, pieced together part of the map to the Central Ascension Ground, and prepared a route into the forbidden zone.
• Yan Kuan entered the primordial Kunlun wilderness and cautiously studied its mountains and rivers to deepen his understanding of feng shui.
• Yan Kuan concealed himself from a group of powerful Ancient Apes, then avoided them and continued exploring while leaving arrangements around dangerous areas.
• Yan Kuan gathered Ancient Medicine and discovered a natural Dragon Cave where he dug up a dead Sacred Spirit whose life force had been drained by the terrain.
• Yan Kuan explored deeper into Kunlun, found rare spiritual treasures, and dug up a Lesser Medicine King more than fifty thousand years old.

Yan Kuan hunted Drought Demons in Kunlun Immortal Earth to absorb their Essence of Separation Fire, but a powerful Sect Leader-level monster blocked his route. After scouting the dangers, he began refining a Yin-Yang Life Soul Pill as beasts approached, drawn by its fragrance.

• Yan Kuan lured a Dragon Transformation-level Drought Demon into a deadly terrain formation and refined its Essence of Separation Fire.
• He discovered stronger Drought Demons, including one at Sect Leader level, and retreated to safety before it could attack him.
• Yan Kuan tested the Drought Demons and realized their muddled minds might let him deal with them despite their strength.
• He repeatedly surveyed the Scorched Land and nearby dangers, then prepared to refine a Yin-Yang Life Soul Pill.
• Yan Kuan refined Yin Lingzhi, a Soul-Nourishing Divine Fruit, and other herbs as approaching creatures followed the pill’s fragrance.

Yan Kuan completed the Yin-Yang Life Soul Pill’s formation and sealed it inside the Medicine Cauldron to nurture for seven days, then withdrew to watch the attracted Primordial Ancient Beasts converge on the gorge. He spotted a powerful Golden-Winged Great Peng and considered taking its wings to make a flying battle skill.

• Yan Kuan sealed the Yin-Yang Life Soul Pill in the Medicine Cauldron and drew thunder and spiritual energy into it to nurture the pill for seven days.
• Yan Kuan set the cauldron on a Great Green Rock, left the gorge, and waited nearby for the beasts to gather.
• The Primordial Ancient Beasts charged into the gorge after Yan Kuan departed, including the Unicorn Thunder Apes, a poisonous python, a black panther, and the Drought Demon.
• A Golden-Winged Great Peng arrived and occupied the sky above the gorge, while Yan Kuan watched from a treetop and considered refining its wings into a flying battle skill.

Yan Kuan used the Ancient Banner to manipulate the Sealed Valley’s shifting terrain and lure powerful beasts into a deadly contest over the Yin-Yang Life Soul Pill. As the Beast Kings clashed, the Sect Leader Level Drought Demon defeated the Unicorn Thunder Ape pack’s lightning with its Essence of Separation Fire.

• Yan Kuan altered the Sealed Valley’s terrain and delayed its shift, turning the Life Gate into a nearly inescapable Killing Game.
• The Sealed Valley’s Ancient Beasts fought amid the rising Pill Fragrance Spiritual Qi, while powerful creatures including the Black Panther, Old Jiao, Golden-Winged Great Peng, and Mist Poison Dragon gathered.
• Yan Kuan retreated outside the valley and watched as the Beast Kings contested the Yin-Yang Life Soul Pill and eyed the Sect Leader Level Drought Demon warily.
• The Unicorn Thunder Ape pack attacked the Drought Demon with a vast storm of lightning.
• The Drought Demon countered with the Essence of Separation Fire, burning the Thunder Apes and turning weaker ones into Calamity Ash.

The Beast Kings joined forces to defeat the Li Fire Drought Demon in Sealed Valley, though Yan Kuan suspected it had faked its fall. With the strongest beast apparently down, the survivors turned on one another, and the Unicorn Thunder Apes suffered devastating casualties.

• Yan Kuan watched as the Li Fire Drought Demon burned several Unicorn Thunder Apes into Calamity Ash.
• The Golden-Winged Great Peng, Poison Dragon, Old Jiao, Black Panther, Dark Cloud Leopard, and remaining Unicorn Thunder Apes attacked the Drought Demon together.
• The Drought Demon targeted Old Jiao with its World-Burning Separation Flames and nearly burned it alive.
• The beasts overwhelmed the Drought Demon with venom, lightning, and coordinated attacks, and it collapsed after a massive explosion.
• Yan Kuan sensed the Drought Demon’s Essence of Separation Fire and suspected its apparent defeat was a trick.
• The surviving Beast Kings turned on one another, and the Black Panther and Old Jiao attacked the Unicorn Thunder Apes.