Chapter Summaries

Yan Kuan removed the stone weapons from Nüwa’s imperial body, revealing memories of her past and driving the Demon Lord’s sacred shadow into an abyss. Meanwhile, the Martial Ancestor destroyed the Other World’s outer stronghold, though King Pangu warned that its deeper forces and abducted geniuses remained a threat.

• Yan Kuan removed the stone weapons from Nüwa’s body, and visions revealed how she and the Three Sovereigns, Five Emperors, and Pangu had helped seal the emperors of the All Heavens in the Unique True World.
• The Demon Lord’s sacred shadow drew a colossal beast from the darkness and attacked Yan Kuan, who hurled the shadow into the abyss and destroyed it.
• King Pangu, Lu Zhan, Gu De, and their allies fought while the Martial Ancestor used Saint Sacrifice to burn away the Other World.
• Meng Degang led awakened experts against the Martial Ancestor, but Keke’s father killed Meng Degang and destroyed his remaining consciousness.
• Lu Zhan and the other Ancestors escaped as the Other World collapsed, and King Pangu warned that its true foundation and abducted geniuses remained elsewhere.
• Yan Kuan sealed the Stone Gate world, while Keke and Xiao Chen approached his pearl-like treasure and the Nine Provinces experts gathered at the primordial divine city.

Yan Kuan helped Keke reunite with its long-sleeping mother and restore her, then discovered the First Dragon Ship was under attack. He identified the pursuer as the Demon Emperor and drew the ship and its attacker toward the Nine Provinces.

• Yan Kuan sealed Nüwa's imperial corpse and helped Keke use its wooden box to reach the world its mother had prepared.
• Keke reunited with its blue-haired mother, who repeatedly fell asleep until Yan Kuan helped restore her.
• Keke's mother thanked Yan Kuan, and Keke gave him a spiritual fruit as thanks.
• Yan Kuan spotted the First Dragon Ship being pursued through a void world and learned that the attacker was the Demon Emperor.
• Yan Kuan pierced time and space and drew the First Dragon Ship and the Demon Emperor's power toward the Nine Provinces.

The Demon Emperor attacked the First Dragon Ship as it crossed the world barrier, but Yan Kuan intervened, defeated him, and marked him before sending him to the otherworld. The Demon Emperor arrived at the damaged Ninety-Nine Stone Steps, where his unexpected descent alarmed the otherworld’s powerful beings.

• The Demon Emperor pursued the First Dragon Ship through the turbulent void and overwhelmed Buddha with Black Mist.
• Yan Kuan appeared, drove back the Demon Emperor’s attack, and severed his azure-scaled beast claw.
• Yan Kuan tracked the Demon Emperor into the land of exile, subdued him, and used Empyrean Flame to probe him and mark his Origin and Divine Soul.
• Yan Kuan sent the Demon Emperor through a passage to the otherworld and warned him to seal himself before descending after the great change in heaven and earth.
• The Demon Emperor crashed into the otherworld’s damaged altar near the Ninety-Nine Stone Steps, prompting its Ancestor Gods and Ancestors to gather.

Yan Kuan explored an ancient fortress ruin, taking an Ancestral Dragon skin map and claiming a Stone Jar that contained a Stone Person King Puppet. He followed the map to the Death World’s Primordial Battlefield, where the jar revealed itself as the Source of All Evil and absorbed the battlefield’s Curses and Primordial Wraiths.

• Yan Kuan uncovered an ancient fortress ruin beneath Nine Provinces and found a Stone Person King Puppet guarding its central palace.
• Yan Kuan took the Ancestral Dragon skin map and awakened the Stone Jar, which subdued the evil sealed within it.
• Yan Kuan used the Stone Jar to absorb the Stone Person King Puppet before leaving the ruins with the map.
• Yan Kuan studied the map, then traveled to the Death World’s Primordial Battlefield in search of the eighth Heavenly Stele and Emperor Xu.
• The Stone Jar flew out and absorbed the Black Light and soul force of a Primordial Wraith on the battlefield.
• A demon phantom recognized the Stone Jar as the Source of All Evil before the jar swallowed it and absorbed the surrounding Curses.

Yan Kuan explored the Death World's eighth Heavenly Stele and confronted Emperor Xu, who had hidden beneath the Primordial Battlefield to preserve his life. Yan Kuan defeated and captured him, then chose not to pursue the other eight emperors because a larger battle would disrupt his plans.

• Yan Kuan absorbed a Primordial Wraith with the Stone Jar and collected a withered Dream Flower root and seed for Qingqing and Keke.
• Yan Kuan passed the wordless Heavenly Stele and explored the Great Gobi, the River of the Future, and the severed boundary at the end of the Death World.
• Yan Kuan awakened Emperor Xu beneath the Primordial Battlefield and revealed that he had hidden near the Eighth Heavenly Stele to evade heaven and earth's reckoning.
• Emperor Xu attacked Yan Kuan with his illusory Great Dao and burned illusory worlds, but Yan Kuan injured him and then destroyed his Dao, suppressing his body and Divine Soul.
• Yan Kuan located the other eight emperors but decided not to attack them because their combined response would expose his actions and affect his plans.

Yan Kuan encountered Hongjun at the eighth Heavenly Stele and forced him to merge with its Great Dao imprint, gaining insight from Hongjun’s Dao-borne nature before leaving Death World. On Dragon Island, the sleeping Keke endured an Ancestor God tribulation while barely waking, and remained unharmed by the lightning.

• Yan Kuan watched Hongjun study the eighth Heavenly Stele, then suppressed him when Hongjun tried to seize its Great Dao imprint.
• Yan Kuan sent Hongjun into the imprint, allowing him to merge with countless Daos and form a powerful divine hand-seal.
• Yan Kuan recognized Hongjun’s unusual nature, gained insight from him, and departed Death World.
• On Dragon Holy Mountain, Wanwan and the dragons watched as Heavenly Thunder descended on the sleeping Keke.
• Keke’s radiance deflected the thunder, but Wanwan’s taunt woke it briefly when it thought she was stealing its sacred fruit.
• Keke grabbed the seven-colored lightning, suffered a painful shock, then accused the sky of ambushing it without realizing it had faced an Ancestor God tribulation.

Keke visited Qingqing’s Dream Flower before Yan Kuan brought the little beast to see Xiao Chen, who had been cultivating inside the Stone Jar. After judging Xiao Chen’s strength and dependence on Sacred Objects, Yan Kuan sent him out to fight as war between the Nine Provinces and the other world approached.

• Keke awakened on Dragon Holy Mountain, devoured the gathered spiritual essence and treasures, and then went with Wanwan to visit Qingqing at the Dream Flower.
• Yan Kuan reunited with Keke and Qingqing before taking Keke to the world where Xiao Chen was cultivating inside the Stone Jar.
• Yan Kuan released Xiao Chen from the Stone Jar and pulled out two levels of the Five Emperors Pagoda, revealing that they had served as a prison within it.
• Yan Kuan challenged Xiao Chen to assess his combat ability without relying on Sacred Objects, and Xiao Chen recognized his dependence on them.
• After traces of the other world were found, Yan Kuan sent Xiao Chen out to fight, signaling that war between the Nine Provinces and the other world would resume.

The Heaven-Defying Family and its allies attacked Stone King Zixiao to avenge his role in the plot against the Nine Provinces Source and his curse on their clan. Xiao Chen helped defeat Zixiao, while the arrival of reinforcements from the other world opened a new battle against their forces.

• Ge Qian and Ancestor Xuan gathered the Heaven-Defying Family and its allies to attack Zixiao, who had hidden himself in Zixiao Palace beside the great lake.
• Zixiao emerged and fought the attackers, but Keke’s parents and Ancestor Xuan pressured him while Emperor Within Stone revealed himself and Keke connected her two-level Five Emperors Pagoda to Zixiao’s single level.
• Emperor Within Stone and Ge Qian struck Zixiao, and Xiao Chen blocked his escape and grew stronger as they fought.
• King Pangu attacked a Stone King who tried to rally the Heaven Realm against the Nine Provinces, and Xiao Chen tore Zixiao’s battered body in half.
• Lu Zhan and Gu De arrived with reinforcements from the other world, so Ge Qian, Keke’s parents, and Ancestor Xuan trapped them while the Nine Provinces forces attacked the other world’s headquarters.

The Nine Provinces forces invaded Otherworld, where they detonated its Tech-Martial arsenal and fought to free the imprisoned heroes of the Primordial Prison. As Ge Qian defeated a Supreme Ancestor God, Otherworld’s rulers retreated and began their ultimate ritual to summon the Sacred Ancestor.

• The Five Emperors Pagoda descended on Lu Zhan and Gu De as the Nine Provinces forces opened a gateway and charged into Otherworld.
• The Nine Provinces forces assaulted Otherworld’s strongholds, and a Nine Provinces expert detonated the Tech-Martial Civilization Zone’s super arsenal, forcing three Otherworld Ancestors to erase the region.
• The nine ancient lamps sealed the Primordial Prison Zone while the Nine Provinces heroes fought to rescue its imprisoned killers, and Keke helped contain them with Lost Paradise and the Divine Diagram scroll.
• The Twin Stone Kings arranged for a red-haired Supreme Ancestor God who had helped kill Progenitor Dragon to provoke Ge Qian, but Ge Qian erased him with his Divine Law.
• Lu Zhan and Gu De returned to Otherworld, whose forces retreated into the Ancient Ancestor Forbidden Zone and began summoning the Sacred Ancestor.

The Otherworld Sacred Ancestor was summoned through a blood altar and broke the Stone Gate’s seal, but the Nine Ancient Lamps wounded him as he attacked King Pangu. The exiled Demon Emperor then struck, seeking to consume the Sacred Ancestor’s power, while the Sacred Ancestor descended in an incarnation and joined the Demon Lord’s holy shadow to stop him.

• The Otherworld’s experts used a blood-soaked altar to summon the Otherworld Sacred Ancestor, who emerged through a Space Gate and broke the Stone Gate’s seal.
• The Demon Lord’s holy shadow emerged and warned the Otherworld Sacred Ancestor that Nine Provinces had an Emperor from a later age.
• The Otherworld Sacred Ancestor attacked King Pangu, but the Nine Ancient Lamps wounded him and revealed that they carried the Divine Fire of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.
• The Demon Emperor attacked the Otherworld Sacred Ancestor, destroyed the altar, and tried to sever his arm for nourishment.
• The Otherworld Sacred Ancestor descended in a demonic incarnation, forcing the Demon Emperor to retreat into Chaos, then invoked the Source power of Human World’s eternal regret and joined the Demon Lord’s holy shadow to fight him.

The Otherworld Sacred Ancestor, the Demon Lord’s holy phantom, and the Demon Emperor battled while Nine Provinces experts pressed their assault on the Primordial Prison. There, the Twin Stone Kings revealed their role in the Progenitor Dragon’s death and forced Ge Qian to face his imprisoned father, but Keke turned their Heavenly Stele scheme against the Otherworld, ending with dozens of its experts reduced to ash.

• The Demon Emperor fought the Otherworld Sacred Ancestor and the Demon Lord’s holy phantom while Nine Provinces experts advanced through the Primordial Prison.
• The Twin Stone Kings arrived with Otherworld forces, and more than thirty imprisoned Stone Men emerged from the prison’s final three levels.
• The Twin Stone Kings taunted Ge Qian about helping plot the Progenitor Dragon’s death, then unleashed his imprisoned father, a wingless Stone Dragon, to attack him.
• King Pangu, Ancestor Xuan, and Emperor Within Stone confronted the Twin Stone Kings as Keke summoned Heavenly Stele phantoms.
• The Twin Stone Kings tried to make the Heavenly Stele’s karmic backlash destroy Keke, but Keke summoned imprints of dead Otherworld experts and redirected the backlash toward their descendants and followers.
• The karmic backlash struck the Otherworld experts and their lineages, and dozens of bodies shattered as the Heavenly Stele phantoms pressed down.

The Nine Provinces and their allies launched a coordinated assault on the Otherworld, killing the Twin Stone Kings as the Demon Emperor regained power and the Demon Lord fought the sacred figure within the Nine Lamps. The war widened as forces from the Primordial Heaven Realm and Death World attacked Nine Provinces, while the Three Sovereigns, Five Emperors, and human ancestors joined the battle.

• Emperor Within Stone, Demon-Human Ge Qian, the stone Ancestral Dragon, and the Stone Men from the final prison layers overwhelmed the Twin Stone Kings and annihilated them.
• The Demon Emperor broke free of the Otherworld Sacred Ancestor's suppression, accepted his origin divine power, and the Demon Lord clashed with a sacred figure before the Nine Lamps.
• A ten-million-strong army from the Death World joined the assault on the Otherworld, while the Martial Ancestor was ambushed by Xutian and Emperor Within Stone was intercepted by Lishi Beast.
• Experts from the Primordial Heaven Realm and Death World attacked Nine Provinces, turning the conflict into a battle among four great worlds as the armies of Nine Provinces continued to advance.
• Fuxi, Suiren, Shennong, the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, and armies of human ancestors arrived to fight for Nine Provinces.
• Yan Kuan stood beside Nüwa as the Demon Lord demanded the Demon Emperor act, but the Demon Emperor trembled after seeing someone grinning at him across time and space.

The Nine Provinces and their allies retreated after devastating the Otherworld and stopping the Demon Lord’s attempt to destroy it. Years later, nine Ancestral Dragons competed for the Progenitor Dragon’s inheritance, and the Progenitor Dragon returned to Zulong Village, where Ge Qian called her Mother.

• King Pangu ordered the Nine Provinces and Death World armies to withdraw after the Demon Lord’s madness spread across the battlefield.
• King Pangu and the Nine Lamps rescued their allies, while Demon Emperor saved the ruined Otherworld and agreed to protect its descendants.
• Years of war followed as the Nine Provinces rebuilt its strength and the dragon race flourished after its Curse was broken.
• Nine Ancestral Dragons gathered above Zulong Village and battled for the Progenitor Dragon’s inheritance.
• The Progenitor Dragon transformed into a woman and sat at the entrance to Zulong Village, where Ge Qian recognized her as his mother.

Xiao Chen gave up the Progenitor Dragon essence so Yan Kuan could restore the Progenitor Dragon and her nine sons, while Keke helped the dragon race resolve its ancient karma. Xiao Chen entered the Origin land of the First Ancient City, later emerged as a War King, and charged back inside to challenge the Demon Emperor and pursue the War Emperor path.

• Xiao Chen surrendered the Progenitor Dragon essence to the nine Ancestral Dragons, and the Progenitor Dragon’s memories revealed how Otherworld had destroyed the dragon race and trapped her as the Yellow River.
• The Progenitor Dragon’s spirit reached for Ge Qian before fading, but Yan Kuan used another Violet Jade Bracelet and Ge Qian’s gathered dragon essence to revive her and her nine sons.
• Ge Qian took the restored Purple Jade Bracelet and set out with the awakening Stone Ancestral Dragon for their ancestral homeland, while Keke became a seven-colored Little Ancestral Dragon and joined the nine Ancestral Dragons as one complete lineage.
• Yan Kuan offered Xiao Chen a chance to enter the Origin land of the First Ancient City and replace the Demon Emperor and Otherworld Sacred Ancestor, and Xiao Chen accepted despite the danger.
• After several histories of civilization, Xiao Chen emerged from a stone cocoon as a War King, carrying a miniature Divine City as his life-bound artifact.
• Xiao Chen declared that he would defeat the Demon Emperor and become the War Emperor, then charged into the Origin land of the First Ancient City.

Keke’s parents, Demon-Human Ge Qian, and their allies killed Gu De after Keke took his weapon, then launched a decisive assault on the Otherworld. The battle widened as Heaven Realm Stone Kings joined the Otherworld while forces from the Nine Provinces and Death World fought back.

• Keke took Gu De’s natal stone weapon, and Mu Zizi, Keke’s father, and Demon-Human Ge Qian surrounded him.
• The Nine Provinces powerhouses shattered Gu De’s body and refined him in the Five Emperors Pagoda, defeating the Heaven Realm Stone Kings who came to rescue him.
• Demon-Human Ge Qian seized Gu De’s last wisp of divine will and destroyed him, while Emperor Within Stone revealed that the Otherworld’s Stone Kings were occupied with rebuilding the Blood Altar.
• Emperor Within Stone ordered an attack on the Otherworld, and forces from the Nine Provinces and Death World began a decisive campaign against it.
• The Otherworld’s reserves defended the Ninety-Nine Stone Steps as allied Heaven Realm Stone Kings entered the battle, but Huang Maomao and the Golden Saint King drove back the Lishi Beast.
• The Primordial Heaven Realm’s foremost demon king joined the Otherworld, while the Stone Raven arrived to help Emperor Within Stone and the Nine Provinces.

King Pangu and the other Nine Provinces powerhouses gathered the Sacred Objects of All Heavens, revealing a path to the Source land of the Unique True World. As the Nine Provinces’ ancestors ascended the Emperor-level path, the Otherworld Kings and the other Stone Kings attacked to stop them.

• King Pangu used the Heavenly Steles to crush the Blood Altar and defeat the Otherworld Kings’ assault, while Lu Zhan summoned the First Sacred Capital in a desperate sacrifice.
• King Pangu, Keke, and the other powerhouses brought the Heavenly Steles and other sacred treasures together, and the objects merged to reveal a passage to the Unique True World.
• The Otherworld Kings prayed for their Sacred Ancestor to return, but the passage did not respond; King Pangu and the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors then climbed the Ninety-Nine Stone Steps.
• The Demon Lord’s holy shadow revealed that the path led to the Source land, prompting armies and Stone Kings to charge toward it, though many were destroyed by its sacred power.
• King Pangu and the other Nine Provinces ancestors continued across the Tongtian Death Bridge, while the Otherworld Kings and other Stone Kings launched their strongest attacks to stop them.

The Nine Primordial Emperors descended to seize the Origin Sacred Land, destroyed the Demon Lord’s holy shadow, and attacked the Three Sovereigns, Five Emperors, and King Pangu. As they confronted the otherworld’s Demon Emperor, three more emperors arrived, leaving the Nine Primordial Emperors facing unexpected opposition.

• The Demon Lord warned Lu Zhan and the otherworld Stone Kings away as nine Primordial Emperor projections descended and attacked him.
• The Nine Primordial Emperors defeated the Demon Lord’s holy shadow and killed a Stone King who rushed to avenge him.
• Suiren, Fuxi, Shennong, Yellow Emperor, Zhuanxu, Diku, Yao, Shun, and King Pangu confronted the emperors on the Ancient Road, repeatedly reassembling after their forms were shattered.
• The Nine Primordial Emperors advanced along the Ancient Road, intending to seize the Origin Sacred Land and use the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors as sacrifices.
• The First Sacred Capital struck the Nine Primordial Emperors and exploded, revealing the Demon Emperor’s intervention.
• Three more emperors arrived on the stone steps, startling the Nine Primordial Emperors.

The three sovereigns destroyed the Nine Primordial Emperors’ avatars and tried to reach the initial sacred land, but killing intent and a primordial Fierce Beast blocked them. Five Otherworld Sacred Ancestors descended and attacked, only for a mysterious sovereign of the Later Era to appear and devastate their army.

• The three sovereigns attacked the Nine Primordial Emperors, whose avatars burned the Myriad Heavens to resist before the Heavenly Steles briefly suppressed them.
• The three sovereigns killed and refined the Nine Primordial Emperors’ avatars, then advanced along the Ancient Road as the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors repeatedly revived against them.
• At the Ancient Road’s end, killing intent from the Unique True World wounded the three sovereigns, and a primordial Fierce Beast blocked their path.
• The Otherworld Sacred Ancestors forced their way through a blood-colored altar and ordered Lu Zhan and the otherworldly forces to kill the Nine Provinces’ survivors.
• A mysterious young sovereign emerged from the First Sacred Capital’s ruins, knocked the five Otherworld Sacred Ancestors away, and annihilated their advancing army.

Xiao Chen faced the Three Emperors, the Five Otherworld Sacred Ancestors, and the newly arrived Chaotic Ancient Five Heroes as they threatened the Nine Provinces’ plan. Nüwa reunited with her body and sacred weapons, while Yan Kuan completed Martial Ancestor’s summoning, bringing Emperor Pangu back at his peak.

• Xiao Chen challenged the Three Emperors and Five Otherworld Sacred Ancestors, but the Chaotic Ancient Five Heroes arrived and struck them down.
• The Chaotic Ancient Five Heroes attacked Xiao Chen, and Nüwa appeared to protect him before merging with her restored body and sacred weapons.
• Yan Kuan helped Martial Ancestor complete the ritual using oracle bone fragments, opening storm eyes that connected the present to the distant past.
• King Pangu entered a storm eye and merged with the reborn giant, restoring Emperor Pangu to his peak in the present age.

Pangu and the other Sacred Ancestors of Nine Provinces returned and fought the Chaotic Ancient Five Heroes, while the conflict widened into a war across the Myriad Heavens. Though Nine Provinces’ allies won several battles, their forces began to falter until Pangu summoned a reassembled Stone Man as their hidden imperial trump card.

• Pangu struck the Chaotic Ancient Five Heroes, the three great emperors, and the five Otherworld Sacred Ancestors, while Nüwa and the other Sacred Ancestors of Nine Provinces returned from before ancient times.
• The Chaotic Ancient Five Heroes attacked the Sacred Ancestors, and Xiao Chen, the emperors, and otherworld forces joined the battle as the Myriad Heavens split into opposing camps.
• Nine Provinces’ armies and allies fought the otherworld forces across many worlds; Emperor Within Stone, the Martial Ancestor, Keke’s father, and other warriors killed or drove back several Stone Kings.
• The Golden Lion King and Huang Xinren used their third eyes to destroy the Lishi Beast, while Babra avenged Lena by killing the otherworld expert who had ordered her corpse refined.
• As Nine Provinces began to falter against the enemy’s greater numbers, Pangu summoned a reassembled Stone Man, and Heavenly Emperor City appeared above its head as another Stone Man revived within it.