Chapter Summaries

Yan Kuan visited the Heavenly Market, announced his intention to travel the Ancient Starry Road, and found a rare Dragon Loach while exploring the Stone Workshops. He left the market planning a Dragon Loach Feast before his departure, drawing Great Saints to Mystic Gate and stirring the Big Dipper.

• Yan Kuan met Huo Liner, the Dragon Princess, the Golden Celestial Maiden, and Yuan Gu, and told them he planned to journey into the stars after arranging matters in the Big Dipper.
• Yan Kuan stopped Ye Fan and Yuan Gu from escalating their hostility, then led the group to Wondrous Stone Street.
• Ye Fan cut open a stone and discovered more than half a cubic meter of Great Luo Silver Essence.
• Yan Kuan uncovered a nearly one-meter Dragon Loach sealed in Divine Source at Blood Phoenix Mountain's Stone Workshop and kept it despite the clan's claim to trade for it.
• Huntuo Great Saint's Grandson asked to trade for the Dragon Loach, but Yan Kuan invited Great Sage Huntuo to a feast instead.
• News of Yan Kuan's planned journey spread across the Big Dipper, and many Great Saints gathered at Mystic Gate for the Dragon Loach Feast.

Yan Kuan left Big Dipper for the Ancient Starry Road after warning the ancient races to keep the peace and entrusting Ye Fan with a route home and advice about the Ancestral Star. On the road’s desolate first stretch, he met the Fire God Monkeys, learned where to find the Eternal Starfield, and prepared to continue his journey.

• Yan Kuan convened the Human Race and ancient-race seniors, set terms for three hundred years of peace, and used Dongfang Taiyi’s presence to reinforce his warning.
• Yan Kuan gave Ye Fan a star map and guidance about the Ancestral Star, while telling him to establish the Heavenly Court if he ever founded a sect.
• Yan Kuan departed Big Dipper with Yan Ruyu, Little Tingting, and several companions, prompting young powerhouses across the ancient star to resolve to pursue their own paths.
• Yan Kuan and his companions entered the Ancient Starry Road through a Five-Colored Altar, and he continued alone after reaching a desolate ancient star.
• Yan Kuan negotiated with the Fire God Monkeys, exchanging protection for a Fire God Stone and Monkey Wine, and learned that Wan Qing had visited the cosmic bandits’ starfield.
• Yan Kuan identified the Eternal Starfield as his first destination beyond the realm and set out toward it.

Yan Kuan entered the Eternal Starfield, seized a fleet from the Heaven pirate group, and claimed its base on Paradise Planet. After forcing the pirates to submit, he took Fan Xian as his maid and explored the planet, ending his visit at a bar in Dao City.

• Yan Kuan reached the Eternal Starfield and observed its life-bearing planets and distinctive blend of cultivation and technology.
• Yan Kuan intervened in a battle between Cosmic Fleets, captured the Heaven pirates’ ships, and forced their crew to guide him to their base.
• Yan Kuan arrived at Paradise Planet, overwhelmed Fan Zhou and the pirates, and ordered Fan Xian to serve as his maid.
• Fan Xian led Yan Kuan through Dao City and into a bar, where she offered him wine and sat beside him.

Yan Kuan subdued the Brahma Family’s Ancient Sage, secured their help reaching the Eternal Main Star, and arrived in Yuan City with Fan Xian. At the city’s Arena, he spotted Qi Meng, a descendant of the Supreme Immortal Physique.

• Fan Yuntong attacked Yan Kuan in Sage King Armor, but Yan Kuan effortlessly defeated him and warned the Brahma Family against provoking him.
• Yan Kuan showed Fan Yuntong and Fan Zhou rare materials for Ultimate Evolution Fluid and asked them to help him reach Eternal’s Emperor’s Son.
• Fan Yuntong instructed Fan Xian to win Yan Kuan’s favor, and she stayed with him as they traveled to the Eternal Main Star.
• Yan Kuan and Fan Xian explored Yuan City and reached its Arena, where Yan Kuan noticed Qi Meng of the Xianyu Star Qi Family.

Yan Kuan watched an arena battle, took Fan Xian and Qi Meng sightseeing, and revealed his first Dao Palace deity before fighting Emperor's Son Dao Yi. After their Imperial Weapons clashed, Yan Kuan asked Dao Yi to trade him powerful technology and research, leaving the exchange unresolved.

• Yan Kuan threatened Cao Qing for pestering Fan Xian, then watched two ascetic cultivators battle in Yuan City's Arena.
• Yan Kuan and Fan Xian took Qi Meng around Eternal Star and relaxed together on a beach.
• Dao Yi met Yan Kuan, who summoned his first Dao Palace deity and sent it to fight him in the Void.
• Yan Kuan revealed the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Can, and Dao Yi wielded Great Emperor Dao Yan's immortal robe as their Imperial Weapons briefly clashed before withdrawing.
• Yan Kuan asked Dao Yi for a Great Saint Mothership, mechas, armor, and Eternal Starfield research, and Dao Yi asked what he would offer in exchange.

Yan Kuan traded for rare Immortal Medicine, cultivated his Dao Palace, and found the Azure Emperor’s Evolution Divine Liquid before receiving a Great Saint mothership from Dao Yi. He persuaded Dao Yi to join him in investigating the Netherworld Ship, and they reached the ancient fleet surrounding the Divine Ancient Coffin.

• Yan Kuan traded half of the Ancient Tree of Life’s trunk and other promised goods to Dao Yi for a branch of the Fusang Divine Tree.
• Yan Kuan cultivated the Dao Palace Secret Realm on the beach, awakening the heart’s Divine Treasury as his companions waited nearby.
• Yan Kuan and Yan Ruyu opened the Azure Emperor’s hidden realm at Soaring Immortal Pool and found his notes and a jar of Evolution Divine Liquid.
• Dao Yi delivered Yan Kuan’s Great Saint mothership, and Yan Kuan asked him to help investigate the Netherworld Ship and travel to the Big Dipper.
• Yan Kuan and Dao Yi reached the ghost fleet and saw the Divine Ancient Coffin chained between its four Great Saint motherships.

Yan Kuan, Dao Yi, and the Eternal Star Great Saint confronted the Ninefold Coffin of the Gods and witnessed the Void Great Emperor’s remnant power defeat two Supreme wills. After the coffins opened and the Supremes dissolved into Dao, the Void Great Emperor’s coffin drifted alone into the universe, leaving Yan Kuan mourning the loneliness of human Great Emperors.

• Yan Kuan, Dao Yi, and the Eternal Star Great Saint approached the Ghost Ship fleet and discovered the Ninefold Coffin of the Gods, whose first eight layers had been forced open.
• When three Supreme Laws emerged around the coffin, the Eternal Star Great Saint, Yan Kuan, and Yan Ruyu joined forces with the Void Great Emperor’s power to suppress the two hostile remnant wills.
• Dao Yi honored the Void Great Emperor as his power overcame the other Supremes, and the final coffin layer opened to reveal a body holding a damaged Eternal Blue Gold weapon.
• Yan Kuan risked his life to seize the damaged Supreme Artifact, while Dao Yi protected him with an imitation Dao Yan Immortal Garment.
• The two Supreme remains dissolved into Dao, destroying the Great Sage Arks and Ghost Ship fleet as Yan Kuan and Dao Yi salvaged the most valuable treasures.
• Yan Kuan and the others watched the Void Great Emperor’s coffin drift alone into the dark universe, and Yan Kuan mourned the dead human Great Emperors.

Yan Kuan refined a large batch of Evolution Fluid at Alchemy Mountain, using ancient high-grade fluid and rare divine materials to create a powerful new batch. As the furnace neared completion, powerful figures attempted to seize the treasure, but a hidden expert repelled Milo Heavenly King and left the gathered ancients wary.

• Yan Kuan received the Evolution Fluid recovered from the destroyed fleet from Dao Yi and returned to the Eternal Starfield to refine it.
• Yan Kuan gathered rare divine materials and old Evolution Fluid at Alchemy Mountain, while Fan Xian and Qi Meng arranged for their families to supply more ingredients.
• Yan Kuan refined the materials in Alchemy Mountain's Sacred Furnace, producing spectacular phenomena that drew crowds expecting at least fifth-stage Evolution Fluid.
• Qi Yaoguang and Fan Yuntong guarded the mountain as powerful figures demanded access to the Evolution Fluid and attacked the Fan and Qi ancestors.
• An unseen expert struck Milo Heavenly King out of Alchemy Mountain with overwhelming imperial might, shocking the gathered ancient saints.

Yan Kuan studied the Eternal Ancient Star’s genetic treasury and bloodline records, extracting ancient imprints from various blood samples to evolve Dao Fires and nourish his heart’s Fire Deity. His research suggested a path toward evolving Chaos Fire and advancing his cultivation, and he planned to finish examining the remaining blood before returning to the Big Dipper.

• Yan Kuan reviewed records on bloodlines and genetic engineering, concluding that forced bloodline alteration could contaminate one’s Origin and limit future cultivation.
• Yan Kuan extracted bloodline imprints from Blood Moon Clan samples and found that members at King realm and above developed distinct imprints, suggesting they could become new sources of bloodline.
• Yan Kuan refined replicated Supreme Immortal Physique blood into an illusory Dao Fire, swallowed it, and considered using tens of thousands of fires to evolve a Chaos Fire Deity.
• Yan Kuan studied blood from the Heavenly Emperor’s Son and Ye Fan, identifying unusual symbols in the former’s Five-Colored Divine Blood and observing the evolving golden runes in Ye Fan’s Sacred Body blood.
• Yan Kuan examined blood from the Ji Family, Jiang Clan, Great Xia, and Holy Ape Lineage, using the resulting Dao Fires to nourish his heart as his Fire Deity neared transformation.

Yan Kuan used the Heaven's Mandate Stone and the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art to transform his heart's God of Fire, testing whether ten thousand Origins could forge an Acquired Chaos Body. He failed to create a complete Acquired Chaos Body but formed an alternative Chaos Fire Body, then pushed the Dao Palace Secret Realm beyond its limits and began planning how to surpass the limits of his remaining Secret Realms.

• Yan Kuan gathered countless Origins inside the Heaven's Mandate Stone and tried to refine them into an Acquired Chaos Body, but their quality was insufficient for a complete transformation.
• Yan Kuan fused ten thousand Dao into Chaos Dao Fire, and his heart's God of Fire became an alternative Chaos Fire Body with some Acquired Chaos Body characteristics.
• Yan Kuan endured the Heavenly Tribulation and used its Ten Thousand Dao Source Fire to temper his body and complete the transformation of his heart's God of Fire.
• Yan Kuan's perfected Fire Deity generated an Earth Deity, and the Dao Palace Secret Realm advanced from the first heaven to the second.
• Yan Kuan devoured the tribulation lightning and transformed the Five Deities, uniting the five elements and pushing the Dao Palace Secret Realm beyond its Extreme Realm.
• Yan Kuan reflected that surpassing the limits of his remaining Secret Realms would be more difficult, though he expected to reach Quasi-Emperor before the age of five hundred.

Yan Kuan returned to the Big Dipper Star Domain as Eternal’s expedition failed to conquer it and its leaders sought peace. The Ancient Ten Thousand Races also arrived, captured by the Divine War Garment, while Yan Kuan prepared to harvest resources from Big Dipper’s powerful races and special physiques.

• Yan Kuan gathered fragments of the Heaven's Mandate Stone and decided to return to Big Dipper.
• Dao Yi revealed that he had publicized Big Dipper to humble Eternal’s factions, and asked Yan Kuan to help mediate the conflict when needed.
• The Lanto Clan’s expedition to Big Dipper suffered severe losses, so Eternal’s leaders formed a second fleet to negotiate peace with Big Dipper’s human race.
• The Ancient Ten Thousand Races debated whether Eternal possessed a Supreme Emperor Weapon and worried that war against its forces would be too costly.
• The Divine War Garment seized the Ancient Ten Thousand Races’ motherships and carried them back toward Big Dipper with a fleet of over a hundred ships.
• Yan Kuan arrived at Big Dipper and resolved to harvest its special physiques and resources before departing again.

Yan Kuan brokered peace between the Eternal Starfield and the ancient clans by arranging compensation in Ultimate Evolution Fluid, then began trading the fluid for blood and training the clans’ young heirs. After studying their blood samples, he used Eternal Starfield technology to create three bloodline replicas, leaving Huo Liner, Golden Celestial Maiden, and Dragon Princess uneasy.

• Yan Kuan and the Eternal Starfield fleet confronted Yan Qi and the Fire Lin Cave forces, but the sides stopped fighting when Yan Kuan proposed negotiations.
• Yan Kuan secured the ancient clans’ agreement to accept Ultimate Evolution Fluid as compensation, and the Eternal Starfield began trading with the Big Dipper’s powers.
• Huo Qizi, Huang Xudao, and other ancient-clan prodigies visited Yan Kuan, who offered Evolution Fluid and training in exchange for King-level Blood Essence.
• The prodigies agreed to provide blood after seeing Monkey and other human talents benefit from Yan Kuan’s training plan.
• Yan Kuan analyzed the collected blood and used bloodline replica technology to create three figures, while Huo Liner, Golden Celestial Maiden, and Dragon Princess felt uneasy.

Yan Kuan studied True Dragon and Qilin bloodline marks and used them to awaken new potential in his cloned maids. Meanwhile, Huo Liner and the Golden Celestial Maiden noticed a strange connection and decided to ask the Dragon Princess to help investigate the Great Sage Ark.

• Yan Kuan analyzed dragon bloodlines and found that the True Dragon Undying Medicine held a relatively complete True Dragon Mark.
• Yan Kuan imprinted the mark on Zi Er, making her more sentient and giving her a chance to surpass the limits of a clone.
• Yan Kuan gathered blood essence and samples from the Little Qilin, the White Tiger Cub, and the Fusang Divine Tree as he prepared to study the Qilin Mark and give Xiao Lan a similar gift.
• Huo Liner realized her strange feelings had begun after she exchanged blood with Yan Kuan and recalled that the Dragon Princess and Golden Celestial Maiden had also seemed unsettled.
• Huo Liner questioned the Golden Celestial Maiden, and they agreed to ask the Dragon Princess to show them around the Great Sage Ark so they could investigate.

The Dragon Princess, Huo Liner, and the Golden Celestial Maiden explored Yan Kuan’s ark and discovered his Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree, then found him resting with three maidservants who looked like them. The chapter left Yan Kuan facing the furious visitors as the women realized their maidservant doubles shared a mysterious connection with them.

• The Dragon Princess guided Huo Liner and the Golden Celestial Maiden past Yan Kuan’s dangerous laboratory and explained how he had risked his life to recover relics from Ancient Supremes.
• Huo Liner opened a cabin marked for enlightenment, and the women discovered an Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree, a living Little Tea Tree, and other treasures taken from Ancient Emperor Mountain.
• The Dragon Princess realized her companions were coveting Yan Kuan’s possessions and dragged them away after agreeing that he could treat them to tea.
• The Golden Celestial Maiden sensed something near a laboratory cabin, and the three women entered to find Yan Kuan resting while the Golden-Haired Maidservant, Xiao Lan, and Zi Er cared for him.
• The Dragon Princess, Huo Liner, and the Golden Celestial Maiden found that each maidservant resembled one of them and shared a mysterious connection, then demanded an explanation from Yan Kuan.

Yan Kuan explained to Huo Liner, the Golden Celestial Maiden, and the Dragon Princess that ancient bloodline runes could unlock their clans’ potential, then used their interest to study the Golden Divine Treasury. He discovered the Golden Clan’s Origin rune and gave it to the Golden Celestial Maiden’s maidservant, but their intimate encounter ended with her fleeing and ordering him to keep it secret.

• Yan Kuan woke in the laboratory and was beaten by Huo Liner, the Golden Celestial Maiden, and the Dragon Princess after mistaking their clones for his maidservants.
• Yan Kuan explained his bloodline-cloning research and showed the three women ancient rune imprints hidden in blood samples.
• The Dragon Princess and Huo Liner recognized True Dragon and Qilin runes, took their respective maidservant clones, and left the Golden Celestial Maiden to question Yan Kuan about her clone’s missing rune.
• Yan Kuan offered to study the Golden Divine Treasury in exchange for access, and the Golden Celestial Maiden opened the secret realm for him.
• Yan Kuan used the Weapon Incantation to find the Golden Clan’s Origin rune and inscribed it on the Golden Celestial Maiden’s maidservant.
• Yan Kuan kissed the Golden Celestial Maiden, but she pushed him away, demanded secrecy, and fled the laboratory with her maidservant.

Yan Kuan studied the Enlightenment Tea Tree’s bloodline runes but concluded he could not safely investigate its origins at Undying Mountain. When Huo Liner secretly followed him to drink tea, their conversation turned from memories of her father to Yan Kuan’s possible possession of the Qilin Divine Medicine, and he ended by asking whether she wanted to see her Imperial Father again.

• Yan Kuan compared Immortal Medicine samples and concluded that the Enlightenment Tea Tree was likely a naturally born Divine Medicine that required Undying Mountain’s environment.
• Yan Kuan abandoned the idea of visiting Undying Mountain to study the tree and went to the Heavenly Palace to brew stored Enlightenment Tea.
• Huo Liner slipped into the palace after him, coaxed him into sharing tea, and recalled her Imperial Father’s daily tea-brewing and her childhood with him.
• Huo Liner questioned Yan Kuan about studying bloodline runes and the Qilin Divine Medicine, but he denied knowing where it was.
• Yan Kuan teased Huo Liner about her questions, drew her into his embrace, and asked whether she wanted to see her Imperial Father again.

Yan Kuan used the Enlightenment Tea Tree pendant to let Huo Liner witness her father, the Qilin Ancient Emperor, attempt and fail to enter the Path to Immortality in the distant past. After the memory brought them back to the present, Yan Kuan comforted Huo Liner and learned that her father was still asleep in the Ancient Primordial Mines, while a message from the Ji Family prompted Yan Kuan to consider going out.

• Yan Kuan guided Huo Liner through the pendant’s memory, where she saw the Qilin Ancient Emperor wield the Qilin Staff and fail to open the Path to Immortality.
• The Qilin Ancient Emperor addressed Huo Liner across time, promised to take her with him to become immortal, and sent her and Yan Kuan back to the present.
• Supremes in the Ancient Primordial Mines discussed the possibility that the Path to Immortality would open in this era, while Huo Qizi sensed his father and worried about Huo Liner’s suspicions regarding Yan Kuan.
• Yan Kuan told Huo Liner that her father remained asleep in the Ancient Primordial Mines, and she fled after he teased and embraced her.
• The Divine Daughters of Hell and the Human World told Yan Kuan that the Ji Family wanted to send someone to cultivate under him, and he considered visiting the Ji Family and Void Hall.

Yan Kuan visited the Ji Family, revealed how the Void Great Emperor had destroyed two Undying Mountain Supremes, and gained an Imperial Dao inheritance from a blue-gold fragment. Afterward, he confronted Ji Biyue, who came to him late at night, and made her promise loyalty.

• The Ji Family welcomed Yan Kuan, and Ji Biyue and Ji Haoyue led him to meet Ji Zi in the Void Ancient Hall.
• A fragment of Eternal Blue Gold bearing the Void Great Emperor’s blood fell into Yan Kuan’s hand, and he explained that the Great Emperor had taken two Undying Mountain Supremes with him.
• Yan Kuan gave Ji Zi the Great Emperor’s blood refined into a Blood Jade and invited him to join the Great Sage Ark’s cultivation plan.
• While cultivating in the Void Ancient Hall, Yan Kuan burned away the Supreme Remnant Will hidden in the blue-gold fragment and absorbed its Imperial Dao inheritance.
• Ji Biyue visited Yan Kuan late at night, and he demanded her loyalty while promising her strength and authority.

Yan Kuan traveled to Yaoguang Holy Land with Ji Biyue, dealt with Duan De and a protest from Yaoguang disciples, and spent the night with Wei Wei and Ji Biyue. Wei Wei revealed that Yao Xi had arranged the confrontation because she seemed to suspect the identity of the Holy Lord Yaoguang.

• Yan Kuan promised to support Ji Biyue's bid to lead the Ji Family and invited her to travel with him through the Eastern Wilderness.
• At Yaoguang Holy Land, Yan Kuan sent Duan De to investigate the Sun Star after scolding him for prowling around ancestral tombs.
• Yaoguang disciple Li Qingzhou challenged Yan Kuan over Duan De's release, and Yan Kuan sent him flying with a single wave before Li Qingzhou bowed and withdrew.
• Wei Wei joined Yan Kuan and Ji Biyue that night and told Yan Kuan that Yao Xi had arranged the day's confrontation because she suspected the Holy Lord Yaoguang's identity.

Yan Kuan revealed to Yao Xi that he was also Yaoguang’s Sage Lord and explained the hidden lineage of the Ruthless Great Empress. After winning Yao Xi’s trust, he told her about the opportunities beneath Yaoguang, then entered a mysterious land of Chaos Immortal Soil with several companions.

• Yan Kuan drew Yao Xi into the room, where Wei Wei revealed that Yaoguang’s Sage Lord had permitted her relationship with him.
• Yan Kuan confessed that he was both Mystic Gate’s Sage and Yaoguang’s Sage Lord, and explained that Yaoguang’s hidden lineage inherited the Ruthless Great Empress’s Imperial Dao legacy.
• Yan Kuan told Yao Xi that the conflict over Yaoguang’s true inheritance had been an internal struggle and that she had nothing to fear from it.
• Yan Kuan and Yao Xi reconciled, and he asked her and Wei Wei to work together to oversee Yaoguang while he traveled among the stars.
• Yan Kuan told Yao Xi that the Ruthless Great Empress’s former tomb lay beneath Yaoguang and that hidden opportunities there should be secured for the Holy Land.
• Yan Kuan and several figures entered a mysterious land of Chaos Immortal Soil beneath Yaoguang, where he saw abundant spiritual treasures and opportunities.