Chapter Summaries

Yan Kuan led the group through the Immortal Burial Ground, where they discovered the remains of the Grand Sovereign and learned how the Undying Heavenly Emperor had sabotaged and killed emperors seeking the Path to Immortality. Monkey briefly reunited with his father through an awakened imprint, and the group returned to the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Platform as Yan Kuan prepared to deal with the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s Divine Consciousness.

• Yan Kuan spared the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s Divine Consciousness at Monkey’s request, then led everyone deeper into the Immortal Burial Ground.
• The group crossed an ancient battlefield and found Imperial Blood and the shattered remains of the Grand Sovereign, which Gai Jiuyou gathered and sealed.
• Yan Kuan used Monkey’s blood to awaken the Fighting Saint Emperor’s imprint, allowing Monkey to hear his father’s warning about the Undying Heavenly Emperor.
• Yan Kuan explained that the Undying Heavenly Emperor had trapped and devoured emperors, and urged Monkey to grow stronger before seeking revenge.
• Yan Kuan stopped Monkey from pursuing the Undying Heavenly Emperor and asked Gai Jiuyou to help refine the Divine Consciousness so it could not summon the Emperor’s true body.

Yan Kuan and his companions used Ye Fan’s Heavenly Tribulation to destroy the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s Divine Consciousness and secured the Five-Colored Divine Ice. After returning to the Eastern Wilderness, Yan Kuan entered the deepest Fire Domain to break through the Saint Domain Barrier, and his advance to Half-Saint drew down a tremendous tribulation.

• Yan Kuan provoked the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s Divine Consciousness, and Gai Jiuyou restrained it while Ye Fan drew down a Heavenly Tribulation that destroyed it.
• Yan Kuan took the Five-Colored Divine Ice containing the Human Skin, then arranged for Gai Jiuyou to stay in the Immortal Mansion with Ye Fan while Monkey returned to the Divine Silkworm Clan.
• Yan Kuan and Monkey left Lu City aboard the Ancient War Vessel and returned to the Eastern Wilderness, where Yan Kuan entered the Ninth Layer Fire Domain.
• At the deepest part of the Fire Domain, Yan Kuan cultivated beside the Immortal Fire Phoenix and absorbed a wisp of Ultimate Flame to break through the Saint Domain Barrier.
• Yan Kuan reached the Half-Saint level, triggering a powerful Chaos Lightning Tribulation, while his Divine Mark Purple-Gold Pagoda rose to undergo tribulation alongside him.

Yan Kuan awakened and restored the ancient immortal gourd, then went to God Spirit Valley to exterminate its Primordial Royal Clan. He overwhelmed the clan’s forces and left a Primordial Ancestral King trembling in fear.

• Yan Kuan used a Peerless Weapon Spirit and Immortal Flame to awaken the Black Gourd, gaining an ancient scripture and a powerful restored treasure.
• Yan Kuan decided to attack God Spirit Valley, sealed the region with the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Can, and laid a Slaughter Formation using the surrounding Myriad Dragon Veins.
• God Spirit Valley’s buried inhabitants awakened, but Yan Kuan refined an ancient King and burned through the charging army to absorb their Origin fire.
• A Primordial Ancestral King emerged and attacked Yan Kuan, but Yan Kuan shattered his Small World, tore off his arm, and refined its Origin blood into Saint flame.
• The Ancestral King retreated in terror after Yan Kuan proved far stronger than a Half-Saint should have been.

Yan Kuan destroyed God Spirit Valley, killing its Ancestral Kings and refining their powers and the clan’s gathered Divine Being into his foundation. At sunrise, he claimed the valley’s treasures and secret arts, then declared that the coming Golden Age would belong to him alone.

• Yan Kuan killed two Ancestral Kings of God Spirit Valley and absorbed their Sacred Flames into his holy Dao foundation.
• A third Ancestral King summoned the Ten Thousand Spirits Gathering Array and combined the clan’s Divine Beings into a vicious soul, but Yan Kuan trapped it in the Five Round Li Fire Formation and refined it.
• A final ancient Ancestral King ambushed Yan Kuan, but Yan Kuan evaded his attacks, seized him, and refined him into Sacred Flame.
• Yan Kuan refined the remaining Divine Beings and claimed God Spirit Valley’s hidden treasures, resources, Divine Source, and secret arts.
• Yan Kuan looked toward the Divine City and the Northern Plains and declared that the era would belong to him.

The Eastern Wilderness holy lands and forces from the other four regions gathered at the Northern Plains Wang Family to demand answers over the Nethergod Palace disaster. As accusations mounted in the Wang Family’s Heavenly Palace, the gathering left the Wang Family facing a confrontation backed by powerful forces from across the Big Dipper.

• The Nethergod Palace disaster killed many leaders and experts, including the Sage Lord of Myriad Beginnings Holy Land, and the Eastern Wilderness factions decided to confront the Wang Family in Northern Plains.
• Zi Tiandu told Zi Tianfeng that God Spirit Valley’s ancestral grounds had been destroyed and urged her to hide the news while seeking support through the Wang Family.
• The Golden Family, Ice God Palace, and other Northern Plains forces gathered at the Wang Family Ancient City, where Yan Kuan and the Divine Knight observed Wang Teng.
• Leaders from all five regions arrived at the Wang Family Ancient City, including representatives of Jade Pool, Great Xia, the Western Desert, War God Hall, and Mystic Gate.
• The Myriad Beginnings Holy Land elder and other Eastern Wilderness representatives accused the Wang Family of withdrawing from Nethergod Palace while their forces suffered heavy losses.

The Wang Family faced accusations of colluding with the Ancient Clan after survivors of the Nethergod Palace tragedy demanded answers. The confrontation erupted into battle, and Yan Kuan revealed that he had destroyed God Spirit Valley’s Ancestral Kings, leaving the Wang Family’s ties to the Primordial Royal Clan exposed.

• Wang Chengkun and the Golden Clan Leader tried to turn the gathering toward revenge for the Nethergod Palace victims, but the crowd accused the Wang Family of receiving advance warning and colluding with the Ancient Clan.
• Old Undying confronted the Wang Family, drove back Wang Teng and a Wang Family elder, and demanded that the victims search the family grounds for ancient creatures.
• Ancient creatures from God Spirit Valley revealed themselves in the Wang Family’s sacred land, sparking a battle in which Wang Teng and the Wang Family experts fought back.
• Wang Chengshen brought out the Wang Family’s foundation, the Dark Demon King, who awakened and warned the assembled factions against forcing the family to reveal all its power.
• Yan Kuan exposed Zi Tiandu and Zi Tianfeng as members of the Primordial Royal Clan and revealed that he had personally exterminated God Spirit Valley’s Ancestral Kings.

Yan Kuan forced the Northern Plains Wang Family to answer for its alliance with God Spirit Valley, then drove Wang Teng into exile and killed the Dark Demon King. He later defeated Wang Teng in the Luo Tian Wasteland but spared him three chances after the Immortal Crane intervened, leaving Wang Teng vowing to rise again through the Luan Gu Great Emperor's legacy.

• Yan Kuan accused the Northern Plains Wang Family of treason, and Wang Chengshen tried to blame Wang Teng's dealings with God Spirit Valley on his youth and Zi Tianfeng's influence.
• Wang Teng expelled himself from the Wang Family and fled in his golden Ancient War Chariot while the Dark Demon King covered his retreat, but the Divine Knight killed the ancestor with a single spear.
• Yan Kuan established an alliance among the human powers and rules against conspiring with hostile Primordial races, while the Wang Family left Wang Family Ancient City and Mystic Gate took control.
• Yan Kuan ordered Old Undying and the Divine Knight to let the remaining Wang Family members live for now, then secretly left to pursue Wang Teng in the Luo Tian Wasteland.
• Yan Kuan overwhelmed Wang Teng with Eight Seals United, but the Immortal Crane intervened and secured an agreement giving Wang Teng three chances before Yan Kuan would kill him.
• The Immortal Crane gave Yan Kuan a piece of ancient wood from the Luan Gu Great Emperor's legacy, and Wang Teng vowed to return after forming a Demon Fetus.

A mysterious purple-haired man stole the Ten Thousand Dragons Imperial Daughter, triggering the Ten Thousand Dragons Bell and a standoff between the ancient clans and human factions. After the Ten Thousand Dragons Nest chose to search for its missing princess instead of starting a war, Yan Kuan traveled with Xiao Nannan and Little Tingting toward the Central Province Ancestral Temple.

• A purple-haired man used a Black Gourd to abduct the Ten Thousand Dragons Imperial Daughter from the Ten Thousand Dragons Nest’s deepest cave.
• The Ten Thousand Dragons Bell awakened the nest’s ancient clans, while Imperial Weapons confronted each other outside and Yan Kuan led the human factions away.
• Lei Zhan told Great Sage Qianlun that God Spirit Valley likely abducted the princess to provoke war, and Qianlun ordered the clans to search for her while keeping the Emperor Weapon awakened.
• Yan Kuan left the Eastern Wilderness and traveled through Central Province with Xiao Nannan and Little Tingting on a Lightning Phoenix Bird.
• Xiao Nannan worried that she would be apart from Ye Fan, Yu Die, and Big Doggy, and Yan Kuan comforted her before the group approached the Central Province Ancestral Temple.

Yan Kuan explored the Feathered God Dynasty’s Ancestral Temples with Little Tingting and Xiao Nannan, uncovering treasures and the remnants of the dynasty’s blood sacrifices. After reaching the 34th Temple Small World, they encountered a mountain swarming with ancient corpses and vicious ghosts.

• Xiao Nannan remembered fragments of her painful past as Yan Kuan brought her and Little Tingting to the ruined heart of Central Province’s Ancestral Vein.
• Yan Kuan entered the Ancestral Temples, destroyed dangerous carvings and stone men, and collected treasures and rare beasts as he advanced through their many levels.
• At the 33rd Temple, Yan Kuan covered Xiao Nannan’s eyes, destroyed the blood-sacrifice altar, and retrieved Immortal Tears Green Gold and sealed Godslaying Insects.
• Yan Kuan found a Ninefold Coffin of the Gods beneath the altar, bowed to it without touching it, and proceeded to the 34th Temple.
• Yan Kuan and the girls entered a ghost-filled realm where ancient corpses and vicious ghosts crawled from a mist-shrouded mountain.

Yan Kuan defeated the ghosts in the 34th Temple Small World and followed Xiao Nannan and Little Tingting through the next worlds, where he exposed the empty Stone Womb attributed to the Feathered Great Emperor. After seizing the treasures and star maps, he repaired the Five-Colored Altar in the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Zone and took the two girls onto an Ancient Starry Road.

• Yan Kuan refined a Great Ghost King and used the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Can to clear the way into the 35th Small World.
• Yan Kuan met two ancient Daoist children who claimed the Feathered Great Emperor had awakened them and led them to the Highest Sacred Temple.
• Yan Kuan split the Stone Womb, revealing it was empty, then laid a killing formation around the Dragon Cave as the Daoist children rushed into the ancestral vein.
• Yan Kuan searched the temple treasures, uncovered an Ancient Star Domain Map, and took its coordinates for four ancient stars, including Ziwei.
• Yan Kuan used a teleportation formation to reach the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Zone, repaired the Five-Colored Altar, and entered the Ancient Starry Road with Xiao Nannan and Little Tingting.

Yan Kuan arrived on Ziwei with Little Tingting and Xiao Nannan and went to the declining Sun Ancient Church to restore its inheritance. After teaching the Holy Emperor’s descendants and helping an elder begin his Severing Dao tribulation, he sensed a threat and asked whether the church had enemies among the Golden Crow clan.

• Yan Kuan reached Ziwei through an ancient Five-Colored Altar and found its Great Dao easier to perceive than the Big Dipper’s.
• Yan Kuan brought Little Tingting and Xiao Nannan to the Sun Ancient Church, intending to restore the Holy Emperor and Human Sovereign lineages.
• Yan Kuan presented the Sun Ancient Church with an original copy of its Imperial Scripture and offered to restore its missing volumes using the church’s relics.
• Yan Kuan explained the Dao to the Holy Emperor’s descendants, and his guidance helped the church’s decrepit living fossil enter the Severing Dao tribulation.
• Yan Kuan sensed something in the distance and asked the Sun Church Leader whether the church had enmity with Ziwei’s Golden Crow clan.

Yan Kuan saved the Sun Ancient Church from a secret Golden Crow Clan assault, helped one of its elders become a King, and learned that the Eye of the Northern Sea might lead him to the Fusang Divine Tree. He then freed the Dragon Princess from Divine Source and proposed that she stay beside him as a maid.

• Yan Kuan discovered the Golden Crow Clan's plot against the Sun Ancient Church and used its sun holy power to seize and burn the attackers.
• Yan Kuan shattered the Golden Crow King's projection, killed Chiyang, and wounded the king's true body through backlash.
• A Sun Ancient Church elder broke through to become a King, and the Sun Church Leader told Yan Kuan that the Eye of the Northern Sea had last appeared centuries ago.
• Yan Kuan asked the Sun Church Leader to investigate the Eye of the Northern Sea and learned that the Taiyin Divine Son planned to visit Tianyuan Ancient City.
• Yan Kuan returned to Xiao Nannan, introduced the sealed Dragon Princess, and stopped her attack after she broke free.
• Yan Kuan restrained the Dragon Princess when she tried to summon the Ten Thousand Dragons Bell and asked her to remain by his side as a maid.

Yan Kuan confronted Taiyin Divine Son Duanmu Ming over the Duanmu Clan’s usurpation of the Taiyin inheritance and persecution of the Human Emperor’s descendants. After the Dragon Princess defeated Duanmu Ming, Yan Kuan declared that the Taiyin Sect must be cleansed.

• Yan Kuan visited Tianyuan Stone Mountain with the Dragon Princess and two other companions as Lu Ya and Duanmu Ming arrived to tour the ancient site.
• Yan Kuan publicly called Duanmu Ming a descendant of criminals and accused the Duanmu Clan of betraying the Taiyin Saint and usurping the Taiyin inheritance.
• Duanmu Ming attacked Yan Kuan, but the Dragon Princess intercepted him and struck him back with her imperial power.
• Duanmu Ming unleashed Taiyin Sacred Force, and the Dragon Princess countered with a Purple True Dragon before defeating him and causing him severe injuries.
• Yan Kuan sent the Taiyin Sect experts flying and declared that the Taiyin Sect must be cleansed.

Yan Kuan defeated Duanmu Ming and awakened the Taiyin Saint’s skull, revealing the Taiyin Sect’s slaughter of millions of the Human Sovereign’s descendants. After Yan Kuan delivered the Saint’s vengeful spirit, the Saint passed the Taiyin Lineage’s inheritance to Little Tingting.

• Duanmu Ming unleashed the Taiyin Sect’s ancient weapons against Yan Kuan, but Yan Kuan suppressed them and defeated him and his followers.
• Yan Kuan awakened the Saint’s skull, which revealed that the Taiyin Sect had massacred millions of the Human Sovereign’s descendants to seize the inheritance.
• The awakened Saint’s vengeful spirit killed Duanmu Ming and the other descendants of the traitors.
• Yan Kuan recited the Scripture of Salvation, calming the Saint’s spirit and allowing it to appear as a kindly old man.
• Little Tingting declared her resolve to avenge the Taiyin Lineage, and the Saint passed its inheritance and Taiyin Origin to her before departing.

Yan Kuan triggered the emergence of the Eight Scenery Palace in the Supreme Purity Holy Ground, drawing powerful heirs from across Ziwei to compete for its inheritance. As the major young experts gathered, Yan Kuan arrived with the Dragon Girl, Xiao Nannan, and Little Tingting, attracting everyone’s attention.

• Yan Kuan drove the Golden Crow Clan away from Tianyuan Stone Mountain after killing Duanmu Ming and the Taiyin Sect experts, then left with Little Tingting and Xiao Nannan.
• Yin Tianzhi told his brother Yin Tiande about Duanmu Ming’s death, and the brothers later decided to leave seclusion when the Eight Scenery Palace emerged.
• Yan Kuan used two incarnations of One Qi Transforms Three Purities to awaken the Eight Scenery Palace within the Supreme Purity Holy Ground.
• The emergence of the palace drew prominent heirs, including Yi Qingwu, Three Deficiencies Daoist, the ten Golden Crow princes, and Princess Yue Shi.
• Yan Kuan arrived at the Supreme Purity Holy Ground with the Dragon Girl, Xiao Nannan, and Little Tingting, and cultivators recognized them.

Yan Kuan entered the Eight Scenery Palace grounds and recited the Dao De Jing, triggering a response from the palace before a hidden attack sparked a massive battle. He used the Sun-Shooting Divine Arrows to kill nine Golden Crow Princes and continued fighting Lu Ya, leaving the survivors and onlookers stunned.

• The Eight Scenery Palace appeared, and young cultivators entered the Supreme Purity Holy Ground while its inscriptions revealed the upper portion of the Dao De Jing.
• Yan Kuan recited the scripture beneath the moonlight, causing the palace’s five thousand characters to shine and react to him.
• Lu Ya and the Golden Crow Princes attacked Yan Kuan after he accused them of making a concealed move, igniting a battle among the gathered forces.
• Yan Kuan drew the Sun-Shooting Divine Arrows and killed the Seventh Prince, the Tenth Prince, and several other Golden Crow Princes as they tried to flee.
• Yan Kuan kept Lu Ya at bay with the divine arrows and declared that all ten brothers would die, while the remaining cultivators watched in fear.

Yan Kuan killed Lu Ya and refined the ten Golden Crow princes into a Divine Pill before turning to claim the Eight Scenery Palace. He defeated its guardian and Yin Tiande, declared himself its master, and expelled the remaining outsiders from the Supreme Purity Holy Ground.

• Lu Ya swallowed the One-Day Ten-Crow Pill and unleashed his full potential, but Yan Kuan suppressed him and refined him and the nine dead princes into a Divine Pill.
• The Phoenix Wing Gilded Halberd fled after Yan Kuan attacked it, and he concluded that the Golden Crow Great Saint who owned it was still alive.
• Yan Kuan confronted Yin Tiande and Yin Tianzhi at the Eight Scenery Palace, then defeated the Yin Clan Ancestor with a Sun-Shooting Divine Arrow and took his King Kong Bangle.
• Yin Tiande tried to escape into the Eight Scenery Palace, but Yan Kuan defeated him with the Great Living Being Seal and reclaimed his Dao Fire.
• Yan Kuan killed Yin Tianzhi, declared himself the new master of the Eight Scenery Palace, and expelled the other onlookers from the Supreme Purity Holy Ground.

Yan Kuan uncovered Laozi’s treasures and the complete Dao De Jing in the Eight Scenery Palace, then led Little Tingting and the others to confront the Taiyin Sect. He destroyed the sect’s resistance and killed its surviving Saint, leaving the Taiyin Sect’s fate sealed.

• Yan Kuan collected the Purple-Gold Gourd and Jade Purification Vase, then found the hidden Dao De Jing and used its teachings to transform his Divine Mark Purple-Gold Pagoda.
• The Dragon Princess entered Dao Enlightenment, while Yan Kuan said he planned to deal with their pursuers and visit the Taiyin Sect.
• News of Yan Kuan’s victory over the Golden Crow Princes and a Great Accomplishment King spread across Ziwei Ancient Star, as the Taiyin Sect withdrew from Luzhou Continent.
• Yan Kuan arrived at the Taiyin Sect’s ancestral land and sent Little Tingting to attack with the Crystal Skull and Black Sword, disrupting the sect’s ancient formations.
• Yan Kuan seized or destroyed the Taiyin Sect’s awakened weapons and killed its old Saint, the Duanmu Clan ancestor, along with the remaining hidden reserves.

Yan Kuan summoned Ziwei’s ancient human inheritances and demanded they swear to punish anyone who harmed the Descendant of the Human Emperor, revealing that he was a Half-Saint who had killed multiple Saints. He then recruited the Old Human King to help destroy the Golden Crow Clan, leaving the assembled factions facing a war against one of Ziwei’s oldest powers.

• Yan Kuan comforted Little Tingting after the battle at the Taiyin Sect and purged its upper ranks while putting its remaining territory under new control.
• Yan Kuan hosted the ancient human factions at Eight Scenery Palace and demanded they swear to punish anyone who slaughtered the Descendant of the Human Emperor.
• Yan Kuan revealed his Half-Saint aura, forcing the gathered cultivators to their knees and exposing the supposedly deceased Old Human King and Light King among those present.
• The Old Human King recognized that Yan Kuan was a Half-Saint, and Yan Kuan admitted he had killed more than five Immortal Platform Fourth Realm experts.
• Yan Kuan offered the Old Human King a chance at rebirth in exchange for helping destroy the Golden Crow Clan, and the Old Human King asked how certain Yan Kuan was of victory.
• Yan Kuan assigned the gathered forces to eliminate the Golden Crow Clan’s remaining threats while he dealt with its foundations.

The human race’s forces confronted the Golden Crow Clan over its plot against the Sun Ancient Church and its descendants, while demon experts gathered to support the clan. Yan Kuan used the Purple-Gold Gourd to break the Golden Crow Clan’s great formation, and the battle escalated when its Great Saint emerged with the revived Black-Winged Gilded Halberd.

• Demon race leaders, including the Old Wolf God, the Nine-Headed Flood Dragon King, and the Celestial Demon Matriarch, gathered at the Golden Crow Clan’s ancestral land as the Golden Crow King sought their support.
• The Human King confronted the Golden Crow King, and the Sun Ancient Church revealed evidence from Aoyang Daoist’s damaged primordial spirit that the Golden Crow Clan had secretly targeted its inheritance and harmed descendants of the Sun Sage Emperor.
• The Golden Crow King ordered the clan to activate its defenses, summoning a Great Saint avatar through its eight-banner formation to attack the assembled forces.
• Yan Kuan activated the Purple-Gold Gourd and suppressed the eight banners, breaking the Golden Crow Clan’s formation; many gathered demons fled, and an unknown giant hand killed the Nine-Headed Flood Dragon King and the Celestial Demon Matriarch.
• Yan Kuan blasted apart an ancient city, prompting several Golden Crow figures to emerge from underground and one of them to take up the fully revived Black-Winged Gilded Halberd.