Chapter Summaries

Yan Kuan lured the Golden Crow Clan’s Great Saint and reserves into the Heavenly Battlefield, where he used two Imperial Weapons and his secret techniques to fight the Great Saint. He decapitated and suppressed the Great Saint with a surprise attack, then pursued his severed head to finish him off.

• Yan Kuan used the Purple Gourd and White Jade Purification Vase to draw the Golden Crow Clan’s reserves and Great Saint into the Heavenly Battlefield.
• Yan Kuan created three genuine selves and used the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Can to erase the Golden Crow saints before the Great Saint arrived.
• Yan Kuan fought the Golden Crow Great Saint, evading his attacks and striking back with the Great Living Being Seal, but suffered a wound to his brow.
• Yan Kuan’s third self struck with the Black Gourd’s Dao Sword and severed the Golden Crow Great Saint’s head as Yan Kuan’s aura surged.
• Yan Kuan suppressed the Great Saint’s headless body and chased after his severed head, determined to kill him.

Yan Kuan destroyed the Golden Crow Clan and established his authority over Ziwei, then received the Ancient Scripture of the Gods and summoned Human Desire Path’s heirs. The chapter ended with the Divine Daughter Furnace responding to Little Tingting’s Eternal Universe Sutra.

• Yan Kuan used his Heavenly Tribulation to kill the Golden Crow Great Saint, refining his Origin into Divine Fire.
• Yan Kuan suppressed the Black-Winged Gilded Halberd, and the Human King and Light King led the assault that razed the Golden Crow Clan’s ancestral land.
• After the Golden Crow Clan fell, inheritances across Ziwei came to pay homage, and Yan Kuan planned to establish the Mystic Gate as the Ziwei Dynasty’s state religion.
• Three Deficiencies Daoist and Feng Yuan presented Yan Kuan with the two halves of the Ancient Scripture of the Gods, which he identified as the Longevity Celestial’s Secret of Healing.
• Yan Kuan summoned Yan Yixi and Li Tian for the Divine Daughter Furnace, and Little Tingting’s Eternal Universe Sutra caused the ancient Saint Weapon to glow.

Yan Kuan strengthened the Human Desire Path’s ties to the Eight Scenery Palace, then spent the next ten years with Yi Qingwu and Princess Yue Shi. After the decade passed, a mysterious man arrived in the Supreme Purity Holy Ground and was summoned to meet Yan Kuan.

• Yan Kuan revealed that Little Tingting descended from Emperor Heng Yu and the Taiyin Sect’s Divine Daughter, and uncovered a peak Quasi-Emperor Weapon inside the Divine Daughter Furnace.
• Yan Kuan took the Imperial Furnace to study and affiliated the Human Desire Path with the Eight Scenery Palace, sending Yan Yixi to Shenzhou Abyss to seek information from Tianji Gate.
• Yan Kuan privately drew Yi Qingwu and Princess Yue Shi into his life, and the two women accepted their relationship as sisters.
• A message Yan Kuan had sent with Yan Yixi returned, warning that an Ancestral King Tribulation, the Holy Emperor’s return, and Fusang’s emergence would occur in ten years.
• Ten years later, a man fell from the sky into the Supreme Purity Holy Ground; after he asked whether Laozi ruled Xuandu Cave, Yan Kuan’s Dharma Decree summoned him for an audience.

Ye Fan reunited with Yan Kuan and Xiao Nannan at the Eight Scenery Palace, where he learned Yan Kuan had established himself on Ziwei Ancient Star and heard news of the Sun Sage Emperor’s relics and a possible Saint in Tianyuan Ancient City. Yan Kuan sent Ye Fan to investigate the Primordial Ancestral Kings there, then told Dragon Princess that her father and other ancient emperors were still alive.

• Ye Fan followed Yan Yixi into the Eight Scenery Palace, mistook Yan Kuan’s display for the Dao Ancestor, and reunited with Yan Kuan and Xiao Nannan.
• Yan Kuan introduced Ye Fan to Dragon Princess, Yi Qingwu, and Princess Yue Shi, then explained that Laozi had founded the Eight Scenery Palace before he arrived on Ziwei Ancient Star.
• Ye Fan recounted his journey from the Big Dipper and his seven years lost among the stars, while Yan Kuan learned he had encountered a Primordial warship and the relics of the Sun Sage Emperor.
• Yan Kuan ordered Yi Qingwu to contact the Sun Ancient Church about retrieving the Sun Sage Emperor’s coffin and relics, then received word that a Saint might have appeared in Tianyuan Ancient City.
• Yan Kuan sent Ye Fan with an Ancient Map to Tianyuan Ancient City to meet Yan Yixi and Li Tian and confront the Primordial Ancestral Kings aboard the warship.
• Yan Kuan comforted Dragon Princess by revealing that her father, the Ten Thousand Dragons Emperor, and several other ancient emperors remained alive in the Forbidden Zones.

Ye Fan met Yan Yixi and Li Tian outside Tianyuan Ancient City and told them about Yan Kuan’s extraordinary history and the Undying Divine Medicines of Big Dipper. At Tianyuan Stone Mountain, the Mad Old Man revived into his youthful form to confront the arriving Primordial Ancestral Kings, while Yan Kuan prepared to fight them with his Dao Bodies and powerful weapons.

• Ye Fan told Yan Yixi and Li Tian that he and Yan Kuan came from an ancient star in the End of Dharma era, and he described Yan Kuan’s exploits across three Life Ancient Stars.
• Ye Fan explained that Big Dipper held several Undying Divine Medicines, including the True Dragon Elixir and White Tiger Elixir, which Yan Kuan kept with Xiao Nannan.
• Ye Fan, Yan Yixi, and Li Tian followed news of Yan Kuan to Tianyuan Stone Mountain, where the Mad Old Man recognized Ye Fan and sent him a vision of his journey through the starry sky.
• The Mad Old Man warned that something was about to happen, transformed into his youthful self, and declared that he would kill the descending Primordial Ancestral Kings and prove his Dao.
• Ye Fan and the others followed the Mad Old Man through a spatial passage and found him and Yan Kuan confronting a Purple Bronze Ancient Ship carrying dozens of powerful beings.
• Yan Kuan gave the Mad Old Man the Dragon Spear, created three Dao Bodies with One Qi Transforms Three Purities, and armed them with powerful weapons as the ship’s occupants challenged them.

Yan Kuan and Mad Old Man confronted the Primordial Ancestral Kings after the warship’s occupants refused to retreat, and Yan Kuan dragged the conflict to the Heavenly Battlefield. There, Mad Old Man battled three Great Saints while Yan Kuan devoured the awakened Primordial warriors, ending the battle transformed into an even more terrifying being.

• Yan Kuan offered the Primordial Ancestral Kings a chance to reseal themselves, but they refused and admitted they intended to devour Ziwei’s living beings for their Life Essence.
• Yan Kuan used the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Can to pull the Primordial warship into the Heavenly Battlefield, where Mad Old Man attacked it and forced the Thousand-Handed God-Demon to emerge.
• Mad Old Man wounded the Thousand-Handed God-Demon with his Divine Spear, while two other Great Saints intervened with the Seven Treasure Wonderful Tree and the Diamond Silver Scale.
• Yan Kuan appeared with the Immortal-Slaying Gourd and struck the Thousand-Handed God-Demon as Mad Old Man severely wounded the other two Great Saints with the Six Paths Reincarnation Fist.
• The Primordial warriors emerged to attack Yan Kuan, but he and his three avatars overwhelmed them and used the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Can to devour them and the Thousand-Handed God-Demon.
• Yan Kuan devoured the Primordial warriors as nourishment and transformed into an even more terrifying level.

Yan Kuan and Mad Old Man defeated two Great Saints, who had invaded Ziwei Ancient Star, and Mad Old Man departed to seek another breakthrough. After consolidating his cultivation, Yan Kuan learned of the suspected appearance of the Undying Fusang Divine Tree in the North Sea and sent Ye Fan, Yan Yixi, and Li Tian to search for it.

• Mad Old Man rejected the Great Saints’ offer to retreat and continued fighting until Yan Kuan returned from the black hole.
• Yan Kuan and Mad Old Man killed the Golden-Haired Dragon-Horned Great Saint and trapped the Silver-Haired Great Saint in the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Can.
• Yan Kuan gave Mad Old Man two jade trees, and Mad Old Man returned the Quasi-Emperor Dragon Spear before leaving to seek another breakthrough.
• Yan Kuan informed the people of Ziwei Ancient Star that Mad Old Man had left, then assessed his own cultivation and resolved to pursue an alternative Dou Emperor path.
• The Sun Ancient Church’s discovery of a remnant diagram sparked a search for the Undying Fusang Divine Tree, and Yan Kuan sent Ye Fan, Yan Yixi, and Li Tian to the North Sea to find the Valley of Tang.

Yan Kuan and the Sun Ancient Church awakened the Sun Sage Emperor’s Divine Consciousness at the Valley of Tang, where he revealed he was only a wisp of the emperor’s evil thought. The Divine Consciousness agreed to protect the emperor’s descendants, left Yan Kuan nine ancient characters and the Ancient Coffin, then dissolved as the Valley of Tang sank beneath the North Sea.

• Yan Kuan and the others reached the Valley of Tang and saw the Fusang Divine Tree and the Sun Sage Emperor’s ancient palace; cultivators who rushed toward them were burned to ash by its sun sacred power.
• The Sun Ancient Church built an Altar and summoned a Green-Robed One-Armed Elder carrying a Small Pagoda, while a Stone Coffin appeared before the Fusang Divine Tree.
• Yan Kuan led the assembled cultivators in worship, restoring the Elder’s awareness; the Elder declared himself the Sun Sage Emperor, then realized he was only a wisp of the emperor’s evil thought.
• Yan Kuan showed the Divine Consciousness the Sun Ancient Church’s plight, and it agreed to return to its homeland and protect its descendants.
• The Divine Consciousness inscribed nine ancient characters on Yan Kuan’s forehead, handed him the Ancient Coffin, and dissolved into Dao, leaving the Small Pagoda behind.
• Yan Kuan took the Sun Sage Emperor’s relics and led the cultivators away as the Valley of Tang sank beneath the sea and the Eye of the Northern Sea reappeared.

Yan Kuan brought Ye Fan and the others back to the Big Dipper Star Domain, then went to the Fire Domain and reunited the two halves of the Ancient Scripture of the Gods. Meanwhile, the Dragon Princess visited the Ancient Primordial Mines and left with the ancient beings of Ten Thousand Dragons Nest.

• Yan Kuan activated a Five-Colored Altar on Ziwei Ancient Star and led the group along the Ancient Starry Road toward the Big Dipper Star Domain.
• Near the Big Dipper, Yan Kuan opened a temporary passage and brought the group down in Jin Country; he sent Ye Fan, Li Tian, and Yan Yixi toward the Northern Domain while he went to the Fire Domain.
• Yan Kuan returned to the deepest part of the Fire Domain, where the Immortal Fire Phoenix gave him a flame that fused the two halves of the Ancient Scripture of the Gods.
• Jiang Yifei realized Little Tingting and Ye Fan had returned, while the Silkworm Daoist wandered drunkenly through Northern Domain Divine City and Huo Linzi visited the Ancient Primordial Mines.
• The Dragon Princess sought her father at the Ancient Primordial Mines but received no response, then left with the ancient beings of Ten Thousand Dragons Nest.

The Dragon Princess warned Ten Thousand Dragons Nest that humanity had hidden powerful experts and urged it to keep a low profile. Yan Kuan then attacked the Blood Moon Clan, killed its leaders and members, and devoured their essence with the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art.

• The Dragon Princess told Great Sage Qianlun and Lei Zhan that Ten Thousand Dragons Nest should ally with humanity and prepare for a human Supreme, so Qianlun ordered Lei Zhan to cut contact with Ancient Emperor Mountain.
• Silkworm Ridge experts took the Silkworm Daoist from Northern Domain Divine City as human cultivators feared the ancient races’ growing power.
• The Blood Moon King and Xuan Tuo recalled the Blood Moon Clan’s history of treating humans as blood food and discussed humanity’s weakness.
• Yan Kuan attacked Blood Moon Ridge, killed Huo Tan and other defenders, and declared that he had come to destroy the Blood Moon Clan.
• Yan Kuan killed Xuan Tuo, nailed the Blood Moon King to the ruined hall, and defeated the clan’s Kings and Ancestral Kings.
• Yan Kuan used the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art to devour the Blood Moon King and the rest of the Blood Moon Clan.

After the Blood Moon Clan was annihilated, the awakened Ancestral Kings investigated and the ancient clans and human forces moved toward a fragile peace. Yan Kuan went to Great Xia to return Grand Sovereign’s remains and enlist its support for a campaign against hostile clans, while Victorious Fighting Buddha and major factions backed a Ten Thousand Races Assembly at Jade Pool.

• Primordial Ancestral Kings inspected Blood Moon Ridge and concluded that one person had killed the Blood Moon Clan without leaving traces of a powerful weapon.
• Ancient Emperor clans and human leaders agreed to avoid baseless conflict, and Yan Kuan criticized the leaders who claimed credit for the easing tensions before sending Ye Fan and the Black Dog to Jade Pool.
• Yan Kuan visited Great Xia, demonstrated its Imperial Dragon Qi, and returned Grand Sovereign’s remains, prompting the dynasty to mourn its ancestor.
• Yan Kuan told Great Xia that the Undying Heavenly Emperor had plotted against Grand Sovereign and proposed gathering Five Regions experts to intimidate hostile ancient clans; Great Xia agreed to handle Central Province negotiations.
• Victorious Fighting Buddha sent a Dharma Decree, and Jade Pool, major human factions, Silkworm Ridge, and Ten Thousand Dragons Nest supported a Ten Thousand Races Assembly at Jade Pool.

The Ten Thousand Races Grand Assembly gathered ancient races and humans at Jade Pool, where Monkey attacked the Heavenly Emperor’s Son and challenged the Ancient Emperor Mountain Lineage. Yan Kuan and the Silkworm Princess arrived, and a Saint-level Ancestral King entered Jade Pool, forcing the human cultivators to kneel.

• Monkey attacked the Heavenly Emperor’s Son, killed his servants, and declared that he would destroy the Ancient Emperor Mountain Lineage to avenge his father.
• Yuan Gu mocked the humans’ lack of powerful representatives as ancient races argued over reclaiming human territory.
• The Assassin King of the Mystic Gate Heaven Division killed a royal-clan member who insulted the humans and warned that his race would share Blood Moon Ridge’s fate.
• Yan Kuan arrived in an ancient palace pulled by a Primordial Ancestral Beast, and Monkey killed the Ancient Emperor Mountain Ancestral King who had threatened him.
• The Silkworm Princess appeared, drove off the Heavenly Emperor’s Son, and reunited with the Little Divine Silkworm as the ancient races hailed her.
• A dragon-headed Primordial Ancestral King entered Jade Pool and forced the human cultivators to their knees with his Saint-level pressure.

Yan Kuan and the Barbarian King confronted the Hidden Dragon Stream Ancestral King outside Jade Pool, where the Black Tortoise killed him and the Barbarian King claimed his clan’s territory. When seven more Ancestral Kings arrived, Yan Kuan’s allies attacked them, leaving three still resisting.

• Yan Kuan ordered the Hidden Dragon Stream Ancestral King to kneel and apologize or be killed, and the Barbarian King delivered the demand.
• The Black Tortoise broke the Ancestral King’s finger, tore off his dragon horns, and killed him with a barrage of punches.
• The Barbarian King said his tribe would take over Hidden Dragon Stream, while Yan Kuan invited the Jade Pool Saintess into his palace to play music with Princess Yue Shi.
• Seven Ancestral Kings arrived outside Jade Pool and challenged Yan Kuan, while the Black Tortoise retreated rather than face them all.
• At Yan Kuan’s command, Qi Luo killed two Ancestral Kings, then joined Old Undying and the Divine Knight in attacking the others.
• The attackers killed more Ancestral Kings, leaving three of the seven still holding out.

Mystic Gate’s three Saints and the Black Tortoise killed the Ancestral Kings who attacked the Jade Pool, while the White-Robed Divine King and Yan Kuan confronted a much larger force of ancient kings. The Divine Knight defeated Ancestral King Tai Ming, leaving the remaining Sage Kings facing the human race’s formidable strength.

• Ye Fan reunited with Jiang Taixu and Fairy Caiyun, then explained Yan Kuan’s plans to Jiang Taixu, who entrusted the matter to him.
• Jiang Taixu explained that Saints born in the Post-Ancient Desolate Era were exceptionally powerful, as the Divine Knight killed the last Ancestral King and revealed that he possessed the Eight Prohibitions.
• More than twenty Ancestral Kings and four Sage Kings arrived at the Jade Pool and demanded that the human race prove its right to negotiate.
• The Divine Knight challenged Ancestral King Tai Ming, while the White-Robed Divine King restrained the other Sage Kings and Yan Kuan warned them against moving.
• The Divine Knight killed Ancestral King Tai Ming in a battle atop the Heavenly Platform, stunning the assembled human and ancient-race cultivators.

Jiang Taixu killed Ancestral King Hao Yang, and Yan Kuan answered the ancient races’ threats by summoning ten human Imperial Weapons at Jade Pool. Blood Phoenix Mountain and Fire Lin Cave backed down, while Yan Kuan insisted that the human race would accept a war if the ancient clans continued to provoke it.

• Jiang Taixu killed Ancestral King Hao Yang with a zither note, then warned the other Ancestral Kings not to move recklessly.
• The Divine Knight returned to the Ancient Hall, where the Phoenix Bird healed his injuries and Yan Kuan gave him the Ancient Scripture of the Gods.
• Fallen Sky King arrived with more Ancestral Kings, offered to adopt the Divine Knight and Jiang Taixu, and prepared to attack after Yan Kuan insulted him.
• Nine Phoenix King arrived and threatened Jade Pool with Ancient Emperor Weapons, prompting Yan Kuan to summon ten Imperial Weapons from the human race and its allies.
• Yan Kuan warned that the weapons could destroy Blood Phoenix Mountain and Fire Lin Cave, and representatives of both clans spoke up to seek peace as he challenged them to begin a war if they dared.

Yan Kuan used the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Can and other Imperial Weapons to crush the ancient clans at the Ten Thousand Races Grand Assembly, then exposed Kun Zhou's role in the Primordial Era's turmoil and forced him to accept a fight. The Fighting Saint King reunited with Silkworm Princess, but Yan Kuan insisted on facing Kun Zhou himself, leaving the two Great Saints poised to battle.

• Yan Kuan revived the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Can, killing Fallen Sky King, Nine Phoenix King, the Twin Sage King, and many other Ancestral Kings while forcing the remaining ancient clans to kneel.
• Great Sage Huntuo arrived to mediate, but Yan Kuan accused hidden forces of stirring up chaos and dragged Silver Moon Heavenly King before the assembly.
• Silkworm Princess recognized the black iron rod as Kun Zhou's weapon and accused him of attacking her in the Primordial Era.
• Kun Zhou appeared, and Yan Kuan denounced his schemes against the human race; the Fighting Saint King also arrived and reunited with Monkey and Silkworm Princess.
• Yan Kuan demanded that Kun Zhou fight him, declaring that Kun Zhou would have to defeat him to earn the right to establish his own order in the human race's territory.

Yan Kuan defeated Kun Zhou in the Outer Domain Battlefield after using multiple Imperial Weapons to counter Kun Zhou’s hidden Emperor Weapon, then revealed that he had broken through the Extreme Realm by forging a new cultivation path. His victory triggered a strange Tribulation of Creating a Method, with an Eye of the Heavenly Dao appearing above him.

• Kun Zhou and Yan Kuan traveled to the Outer Domain Battlefield while cultivators in Jade Pool watched through a divine eye.
• Yan Kuan overwhelmed Kun Zhou, but Kun Zhou unleashed a secretly borrowed Ancient Emperor Weapon and wounded him.
• Yan Kuan summoned the Chaos Green Lotus and Yao Guang’s Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron, then used One Qi Transforms Three Purities and the Black Gourd’s Dao Sword to knock Kun Zhou’s weapon away.
• Yan Kuan resumed the fight without relying on Imperial Might and crushed Kun Zhou, revealing that he had surpassed the perfected Wheel Sea Realm by creating his own path.
• Yan Kuan killed Kun Zhou and explained that he had refined Origin through the Burning Art to reach a new realm equivalent to a Battle Emperor.
• A Tribulation of Creating a Method gathered above Yan Kuan, and he recognized an Eye of the Heavenly Dao within the tribulation clouds.

Yan Kuan forced the ancient clans to accept peace terms while revealing humanity’s hidden strength and beginning a purge of clans that had persecuted humans. The chapter ended with the Great Xia Dynasty and Monkey demanding vengeance against Ancient Emperor Mountain over the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s schemes.

• Yan Kuan returned to Jade Pool after killing Great Sage Kun Zhou and pressured the ancient clans to accept peace, summoning their Great Sages to negotiate.
• Elder Wei Yi, Victorious Fighting Buddha, Gu Tianshu, and the Old Great Sages of the Ji Family and Great Xia Dynasty joined Yan Kuan, while Xia Jiuyou presented Gai Jiuyou’s Dharma Body to demonstrate humanity’s power.
• Yan Kuan argued that the Primordial Era’s persecution of humanity’s Taiyin and Taiyang lineages was a crime, and Dragon Princess confirmed that the Sun Ancient Emperor had been a true ancient emperor.
• Yan Kuan ordered the purging of ferocious clans that had harmed humans, then secured agreement that experts who had entered the Saint Realm would not casually fight in the Big Dipper.
• Yan Kuan announced that the Great Xia Dynasty would settle its grudge with Ancient Emperor Mountain, and the Old Great Saint of Great Xia accused the Undying Heavenly Emperor of conspiring against their ancestor.
• Monkey revealed that the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s schemes had also left Fighting Saint Emperor with Dao injuries, and declared that Ancient Emperor Mountain deserved execution.

The Great Xia Dynasty launched its attack on the Heavenly Emperor's Son and the remnants of Ancient Emperor Mountain, while Monkey and Ye Fan confronted the forces trying to protect him. The Heavenly Emperor's Son was ultimately killed by Monkey, as the campaign against the ancient races continued.

• The Old Great Saint of the Great Xia Dynasty killed the guards protecting the Heavenly Emperor's Son and ordered the Great Xia forces to pursue him.
• Monkey ambushed the Heavenly Emperor's Son outside Jade Pool, but Huang Xudao, Huo Qizi, and Huo Liner intervened to protect him.
• Ye Fan, Yan Yixi, and Li Tian attacked the Eight Divine Generals, while Xiang Yufei and Qi Lin held off Huo Qizi and Huo Liner.
• Ye Fan confronted Huang Xudao, and Monkey fought the Heavenly Emperor's Son in a fierce duel between the descendants of the Fighting Saint Emperor and the Undying Heavenly Emperor.
• Monkey shattered the replica of the Undying Heavenly Blade and killed the Heavenly Emperor's Son.

The Mystic Gate destroyed the Ancient Stone Clan and Blue Demon Clan, ending the campaign against the ferocious clans and forcing the ancient races into submission. The Heavenly Market Convention gained renown as a vast floating marketplace where humans and ancient clans could trade without conflict.

• Huo Qizi and Huang Xudao withdrew from the battlefield after the Heavenly Emperor's Son vanished, leaving the Eight Divine Generals to their fate.
• Old Undying led Ye Fan, Tu Fei, and the Mystic Gate's War Division in destroying the Shi Clan with the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Can, then looted its treasures.
• The Mystic Gate forces joined the Divine Knight and Qi Luo at Blue Demon Abyss and entered the Blue Demon Clan's underground city.
• The Divine Knight killed the Blue Demon Heavenly King, and the Mystic Gate destroyed the clan and uprooted the Blue Demon Ancient Tree.
• The ancient ferocious clans were exterminated, and the Heavenly Market Convention grew into a renowned floating marketplace for human and ancient-clan traders.