Chapter Summaries

Yan Kuan explored the Chaos Immortal Land beneath Yaoguang Holy Land and used its Mystic Yellow energy to develop a method for rapidly cultivating the Four Extremities Realm. After gaining insight at the Bronze Immortal Hall, he left its deepest treasures untouched and planned his next journey.

• Yan Kuan led Wei Wei, Yao Xi, and Ji Biyue through the Chaos God Soil, where they found rare divine materials and reached the Bronze Immortal Hall.
• Yan Kuan used the Bronze Ring and Heaven Swallowing Demonic Can as protection while approaching the hall and cultivating amid its immense stores of Mother Qi of All Things.
• Yan Kuan evolved the Four Extremities Four Symbols and learned how Mystic Yellow energy could nourish his limbs and accelerate cultivation in the Four Extremities Realm.
• Yan Kuan absorbed some Mystic Yellow energy into his Purple-Gold Saint Tower, then emerged from the depths without entering the Bronze Immortal Hall.
• Yan Kuan warned Wei Wei, Ji Biyue, and Yao Xi to avoid the deepest region until Ye Fan returned, and he planned to travel across Big Dipper before continuing his training in the starry sky.

Yan Kuan visited Jade Pool, teased the Jade Pool Saintess and West Queen Mother, and asked whether the Queen Mother could marry outside the Holy Land. He later revealed that he had come to see Jade Pool’s Immortal Stone, and the Saintess asked him to contribute Sacred Blood to it.

• Yan Kuan surveyed Jade Pool’s Origin Arrays before the Jade Pool Saintess confronted him over his remarks about Jade Pool.
• Yan Kuan disguised himself, flirted with the Saintess, and embraced her while she punched and kicked him.
• The West Queen Mother appeared, and Yan Kuan asked whether she could marry outside Jade Pool before taking her Nine Phoenix Hairpin and leaving.
• The West Queen Mother sent the Saintess to keep an eye on Yan Kuan, then privately reflected on her reaction to his advances.
• Yan Kuan told the Saintess he had come to see the Immortal Stone, and she asked whether he would contribute several strands of Sacred Blood to it.

Yan Kuan examined Jade Pool’s Nine-Aperture Immortal Stone and found a powerful Sacred Spirit Divine Fetus within. He used the Divine Daughter Emperor Furnace and his Primordial Blood to accelerate her development, leaving her transforming inside the stone as West Queen Mother and the Jade Pool Saintess watched anxiously.

• Yan Kuan followed the Jade Pool Saintess to the Immortal Pool and saw the Nine-Aperture Immortal Stone tremble when he approached.
• Yan Kuan examined the Divine Fetus inside the stone and warned West Queen Mother that he needed to assess whether she could become a calamity.
• West Queen Mother explained that Jade Pool’s Ancient Sages had purified the Divine Fetus’s consciousness, and Yan Kuan asked to be left alone with her.
• Yan Kuan drew the Immortal Stone and himself into the Divine Daughter Emperor Furnace, where its laws and his blood influenced the Divine Fetus.
• Yan Kuan gave the Divine Fetus a drop of Primordial Blood, triggering a powerful transformation that he showed to the waiting West Queen Mother and Jade Pool Saintess.

Yan Kuan visited Xia Jiuyou in the Qin Mountains and entered Ascension Immortal Ground to obtain Dream Grade Dragon Marrow and an Undying Immortal Pill from Gai Jiuyou. After leaving supplies with Xia Jiuyou, Yan Kuan stayed with her at her thatched cottage.

• Yan Kuan said farewell to West Queen Mother and the Jade Pool Saintess after calming the Nine-Aperture Immortal Stone.
• Yan Kuan reunited with Xia Jiuyou in the Qin Mountains and led her through a hidden passage to the outskirts of the Transformation Immortal Pool and Eternal Dragon Nest.
• Gai Jiuyou gave Yan Kuan the Undying Immortal Pill and Dream Grade Dragon Marrow, and asked him to treat Xia Jiuyou well.
• Yan Kuan refined and stored the Dragon Marrow, thanked Gai Jiuyou, and left Ascension Immortal Ground with Xia Jiuyou.
• Yan Kuan gave Xia Jiuyou the Dragon Marrow and a dharma vessel, and she asked him to explain what his gifts meant.
• Yan Kuan and Xia Jiuyou kissed and spent the night together at her thatched cottage.

Yan Kuan sought resources for cultivating in the Dragon Transformation Realm and explored the Sun Star, where he uncovered the Sun Sage Emperor’s inheritance. He found Duan De undergoing a profound transformation behind an ancient Emperor Formation and prepared to investigate the secrets of his past lives.

• Yan Kuan considered how Fetal Immortal Spiritual Essence, an Undying Immortal Pill, and Dream Grade Dragon Marrow could support his cultivation in the Dragon Transformation Realm.
• Yan Kuan explored the Sun Star, restored the nine Fusang divine leaves, and comprehended the Sun Sage Emperor’s fire-path Dao arts in a series of ancient halls.
• Yan Kuan reached the Sun Ancient Temple and entered a golden Realm Gate leading to the deepest part of the Sun Star.
• Yan Kuan discovered Duan De cultivating the Tribulation Transcendence Art inside a damaged ancient Emperor Formation, with supreme yang qi purifying his body.
• Yan Kuan recognized Duan De’s Four Paths Reincarnation Seal and sent Empyrean Flame toward him to probe his hidden secrets.

Yan Kuan ambushed two Golden Crow Saints from Fire Mulberry Star with Da Yi’s Black Arrows, defeated them, and extracted their memories. He learned that the Golden Crow Tenth Imperial Son remained alive and set out toward the Ancient Starry Road, where a familiar purple figure awaited him aboard his Great Sage Ark.

• Yan Kuan recognized the Golden Crow Clan of Fire Mulberry Star entering through a starry passage and attacked its two Ancient Saints with Da Yi’s Black Arrows.
• The Black Arrows grievously wounded both Golden Crow Saints, and Yan Kuan revealed that Da Yi was his predecessor.
• The Golden Crow Saints trapped Yan Kuan in an Ancient Map, but he escaped, seized the map, and overwhelmed them with his strength.
• Yan Kuan pierced and subdued the fleeing Golden Crows, stripped their Saint-grade materials, and searched their memories for information about Fire Mulberry Star.
• Yan Kuan learned that the Golden Crow Quasi-Emperor had been missing and that the Tenth Imperial Son survived, then returned to his Great Sage Ark and found a familiar purple silhouette waiting.

Yan Kuan prepared to leave for the starry sky again, spending a night with the Dragon Princess before meeting with her, Huo Liner, and the Golden Celestial Maiden. He gave the women Saint-Class Arks and made intimate advances as he arranged for his departure, ending with the Golden Celestial Maiden reluctantly returning her maid Jin Ling to him.

• The Dragon Princess confronted Yan Kuan about leaving, spent the night with him, and said she would pursue the supreme path rather than wait for him.
• Yan Kuan met with the Dragon Princess, Huo Liner, and the Golden Celestial Maiden over Enlightenment Tea and explained that he would travel the starry sky again, leaving resources and a Great Sage Ark behind.
• Yan Kuan gave Huo Liner a Saint-Class Ark and secretly took tea leaves from her as she prepared to leave with a bundle from his tea garden.
• Yan Kuan pulled the Golden Celestial Maiden into a room, gave her a Saint-Class Ark, and pressed her to return her maid Jin Ling to him.
• The Golden Celestial Maiden reluctantly agreed to return Jin Ling, while Yan Kuan continued making advances toward her.

Yan Kuan, Little Tingting, and Xiao Nannan traveled the dangerous Ancient Starry Road, where they met Immortal Qing Shi and her maid Ling'er. Their group reached the Human Tribe Heavenly Pass, a vast ancient city beneath the stars.

• Yan Kuan and the girls continued their years-long journey through the stars, fighting powerful foes and finding the grave of Divine King Jiang Yue.
• Little Tingting destroyed a group of Shadow Spirits and met Immortal Qing Shi and Ling'er, who were also traveling the Human Race Ancient Road.
• Yan Kuan agreed that the two groups should travel together, and Immortal Qing Shi advised Little Tingting to be cautious at the first checkpoint.
• The travelers followed the ancient steles until they reached the Human Tribe Heavenly Pass, a vast city suspended beneath the stars.

Yan Kuan and the others entered the First Pass of the Human Race, where the City Lord outlined the coming trial and rules. Afterward, Yan Kuan treated Xiao Nannan and the others to local snacks as they settled into the city.

• Yan Kuan and Little Tingting learned about the First Pass and the strength of Immortal Qing Shi before the city gates opened.
• Yan Kuan invited Immortal Qing Shi and Ling'er onto the Five-Colored Beast and gave Qing Shi an Azure Lotus, while teasing Ling'er.
• The group entered the ancient city, where the Soldiers warned newcomers not to cause trouble.
• The Initiator, who was also the City Lord, announced that a trial would decide who could continue and ordered everyone to rest and find lodging.
• Yan Kuan took Xiao Nannan to buy snacks, and she shared candied hawthorn with Little Tingting and Ling'er.

Yan Kuan and Immortal Qing Shi prepared for the Human Race Ancient Road trial as assassinations spread through the First Pass. The trial began at Fallen Saint Island, where Di Tian made a domineering entrance as the cultivators chose their regions.

• Yan Kuan declined a cultivator’s offer to sell secret trial manuals, then discussed Immortal Qing Shi with Little Tingting and Xiao Nannan.
• Immortal Qing Shi told Ling'er that Little Tingting was guarding Yan Kuan from rivals, and she decided they should continue traveling with Yan Kuan’s group.
• After a seed-level powerhouse was assassinated, Immortal Qing Shi visited Yan Kuan, who showed her the Qingyang Sacred Lantern; she left him intelligence that highlighted Di Tian.
• The Initiator addressed the trial participants, and the Commander led them through a spatial passage from the First Pass to Fallen Saint Island.
• The Commander explained the island’s regions and warned the cultivators to avoid the Central Forbidden Land, while Di Tian strode forward toward the First Region with overwhelming Holy Might.

Yan Kuan trapped Di Tian in the Finger-Earth Cage, but Di Tian broke free by unleashing the ancient Scripture Three Realms Reincarnation, Engrave My Name for Eternity. Yan Kuan then traveled with Immortal Qing Shi, Little Tingting, and Ling'er to Fallen Saint Island, where they began exploring the trial grounds.

• Yan Kuan used his formation to imprison Di Tian, who was badly injured while trying to break free.
• Di Tian unleashed his ancient Scripture and shattered Yan Kuan's formation, while Yan Kuan secretly collected some of his Saint blood.
• The trial-takers hurried toward Fallen Saint Island, and Yan Kuan invited Immortal Qing Shi to travel with his group.
• Yan Kuan teased Ling'er as the group entered Fallen Saint Island and encountered a wary Beast King that soon retreated.
• Yan Kuan's group explored the island's wilderness and collected ancient medicines, while Immortal Qing Shi urged Ling'er to gain her own enlightenment.

Yan Kuan and his companions entered Fallen Saint Island’s Central Forbidden Zone and discovered a battlefield where cultivators could fight a copy of themselves. Yan Kuan began an intense battle against his blood-colored double, while Qing Shi, Little Tingting, and Ling'er waited for him to emerge.

• Yan Kuan comprehended the Natural Dao, gathered spirit medicines with Ling'er, then left her with the Qingyang Sacred Lantern and Sage's Notes as he and Qing Shi led Little Tingting toward the Central Forbidden Zone.
• Yan Kuan, Qing Shi, and Little Tingting crossed the Central Forbidden Zone, surviving deadly laws, ferocious beasts, and a Dao-Dissolving Flame that Yan Kuan absorbed.
• The group reached the Ten-Zhang Blood Pool and learned that its Blood-colored Battlefield could let each trial-taker battle a second self.
• Yan Kuan entered a Blood-colored Fissure and fought his identical opponent with his many techniques, striving to surpass himself and refine his abilities.
• After nine days, Qing Shi and Little Tingting waited by the Blood Lake, while Ling'er, having joined them after gaining insight, also waited for Yan Kuan to return.

Yan Kuan completed the Blood-colored Battlefield trial and left Fallen Saint Island with Immortal Qing Shi, Little Tingting, and Little Ling'er as Di Tian challenged the hidden powerhouse who had defeated him. After the First Pass announced a lethal trial to the Second Pass, Yan Kuan and his companions entered a lush world filled with spiritual fruits.

• Yan Kuan emerged from the Blood Lake after nine days, having fought his own Blood-colored Shadow and strengthened himself through the battle.
• The trial-takers left Fallen Saint Island, and Di Tian challenged the unseen expert, who dismissed him as too weak to fight until he reached the Saint King or Great Saint Realm.
• Yan Kuan took the girls to an old tavern, where Little Ling'er teased Xiao Nannan with wine and they bickered over spiritual fruits.
• Immortal Qing Shi warned Yan Kuan and Little Tingting not to reveal their origins on the Burial Emperor Star because of its old enemies.
• The Initiator announced that trial-takers had to fight their way to the Second Pass, with everyone allowed to attack anyone.
• Yan Kuan and his companions entered a verdant trial world, where Xiao Nannan and Little Ling'er ran ahead to gather spiritual fruits.

Yan Kuan subdued the Jadeite Little Man in the Herb Garden Forbidden Ground and learned that the trial’s ancient battlefield held the Source of the Dao. Through his Chaos Fire Body, he cleared the battlefield of its competitors, then tracked the treasure underground and caught it.

• Yan Kuan used the Qingyang Sacred Lantern to defeat the Jadeite Little Man and learned about the Source of the Dao and the trial’s rules.
• Yan Kuan chose to stay in the herb garden with Xiao Nannan and Little Tingting, while the Jadeite Little Man apologized and offered his Starry River Purple Sand.
• Yan Kuan’s Chaos Fire Body appeared over the battlefield, warned everyone to leave, and killed the native experts who attacked him.
• Yan Kuan ordered the trial-takers to depart, and Di Tian recognized that the Chaos Fire Body was an avatar before retreating.
• Yan Kuan connected with heaven and earth, pursued the Source of the Dao beneath the earth, and caught its ball of light in his palm.

Yan Kuan gained recognition from the Source of the Dao and arrived with his companions at the Second Holy City, where many trial participants abandoned the Emperor Road. He chose to remain and train before entering the Ancient Dao Field, then cultivated his Dragon Transformation Realm to its limit and began planning his breakthrough into the Immortal Platform Realm.

• The Source of the Dao recognized Yan Kuan, and he reflected that such treasures offered an opportunity to attain the Dao but could not replace carving out a path through strength.
• Yan Kuan and his companions traveled from the battlefield to the Second Holy City, where the Jadeite Little Man bid farewell to Xiao Nannan.
• At a tavern, demoralized cultivators decided to withdraw from the trials, while others stayed and renewed their resolve to continue.
• Yan Kuan told Immortal Qing Shi that he planned to remain in the city for several years to cultivate and enter the Ancient Dao Field; she agreed to stay and travel with him.
• Yan Kuan cultivated with the True Dragon Undying Medicine and the Undying Immortal Pill, reaching the extreme limit of the Dragon Transformation Realm without breaking beyond it.
• Yan Kuan began planning to enter the Immortal Platform Realm, while Little Tingting comforted him and Xiao Nannan joined her in plotting to teach him a lesson.

Yan Kuan confronted the Overlord Body for attacking Yan Ruyu and the other women in the Second Holy City, then carried the fight into the starry sky. He reached for the Overlord Body’s head as the chapter ended.

• Ling'er told Yan Kuan and Immortal Qing Shi that an Azure Heaven Overlord Bloodline bearer was expected in the Second Holy City, and they learned that Qi Zheng’s grandfather, Qi Tian, was the exceptional figure arriving to welcome him.
• Yan Kuan, Immortal Qing Shi, Little Tingting, and Ling'er attended a gathering hosted by Yan Chifeng, where Yan Chifeng introduced them to Qi Zheng and Xu Li.
• The Overlord Body pursued Yan Ruyu, Yi Qingwu, and the other women into the Second Holy City, where the Initiator ordered the fighters to stop and uphold the city rules.
• Yan Kuan challenged the Initiator over the city’s rules, then appeared beside Yan Ruyu and asked whether people could kill freely outside the Holy City.
• The Overlord Body attacked Yan Kuan, who hurled him into the starry sky and reached for his head.

Yan Kuan overwhelmed the Overlord in the Second Holy City and repeatedly wounded him, revealing that he intended to plunder the Overlord’s inherited techniques rather than kill him outright. After Yan Kuan seized the Overlord’s Emperor Script and Overlord Bell, the injured Overlord fled while Yan Kuan prepared to pursue him.

• Yan Kuan sent the Overlord crashing into an asteroid, while cultivators in the Second Holy City discussed their feud and the Overlord’s violation of the city’s rules.
• The Overlord recovered with the Undying God Art and charged Yan Kuan again, but Yan Kuan wounded him repeatedly and dismissed his claims of superiority.
• The Overlord used nine characters from the Lunar Yin Immortal Scripture, and Yan Kuan recognized the inheritance and countered with the Sun Sage Emperor’s characters.
• Yan Kuan’s attack devastated the Overlord, who tried to retaliate with the Overlord Bell and Battle Saint Technique.
• Yan Kuan used Empyrean Flame to refine away the Overlord’s techniques and seize them, then attacked again as the Overlord fled to avoid losing more of his inheritance.

Yan Kuan’s clone fought the Overlord and uncovered fragments of his memories before revealing that he was only a clone. As the Overlord’s final trump card, the Divine Consciousness of the Grand Sovereign of the Lunar Yin, appeared, Yan Kuan recognized the ancient Human Sovereign’s evil thought and the chapter ended with him explaining its origins.

• The Overlord attacked Yan Kuan with techniques from the Lunar Yin Immortal Scripture and Overlord Fist, while Yan Kuan refined his essence and glimpsed memories of the Overlord Body Ancestral Star and an Ancient Cave.
• The Overlord charged within thirty meters, but Yan Kuan struck him with a Heaven-Overturning Seal and revealed that he was fighting with a clone.
• Yan Kuan’s clone trapped the Overlord in a sea of stars, and the Overlord used his inherited scriptures and recovery technique to resist being refined.
• Badly wounded, the Overlord used a Weirdness Forbidden Treasure to summon the Divine Consciousness of the Grand Sovereign of the Lunar Yin.
• Yan Kuan identified the Divine Consciousness as an evil thought of an ancient Human Sovereign and recounted how past powers had pursued immortality through experiments involving such beings.

Yan Kuan used the Scripture of Salvation and the Human-Faced Ghost Lantern to suppress the Lunar Yin Emperor’s evil thought, awakening the Human Sovereign’s True Spirit will. The Human Sovereign appeared before Yan Kuan and Little Tingting, then looked at them with a complex expression.

• The Overlord broke free alongside the Divine Consciousness, but Yan Kuan struck him into a Star Sea vortex and demanded the Blood Pagoda and his inheritance.
• The Overlord summoned the Blood Pagoda, releasing the Lunar Yin Emperor’s Divine Consciousness and its overwhelming yin energy.
• Yan Kuan recited the Scripture of Salvation and brought forth the Human-Faced Ghost Lantern, injuring the Divine Consciousness and forcing it back toward the Blood Pagoda.
• The Divine Consciousness unleashed a vast aura that sent Yan Kuan flying, and Yan Kuan called Little Tingting to his side.
• The Human Sovereign’s True Spirit will manifested after the evil thought was suppressed, and Little Tingting called out to her ancestor.
• The Human Sovereign explained that his failed journey on the Path to Immortality had left an obsession that produced the evil thought, then gazed at Yan Kuan and Little Tingting with a complex expression.

The Human Sovereign traveled to Ascension Star with Little Tingting, recovered the broken Human Sovereign Seal, and passed away after entrusting it to her. Back at the Second Holy City, Yan Kuan continued battling the Overlord, who grew stronger and fought back with forbidden techniques and powerful weapons.

• Yan Kuan sent the Human Sovereign information about the Taiyin Sect, prompting him to abandon his journey to Big Dipper and take Little Tingting to Ascension Star.
• The Human Sovereign summoned the broken Human Sovereign Seal from the Kunlun Remnant Clan and repaired much of its damage with his divine consciousness.
• The Human Sovereign infused Little Tingting's essence blood into the seal, then faded away and left its awakened Deity to guard her.
• Little Tingting set out through the starry sky to return to her brother with the Human Sovereign Seal.
• The Overlord reconstructed his body, unleashed the Phoenix Blood War Spear and Purple Gold Great Bell, and attacked Yan Kuan's avatar.
• Yan Kuan struck the Overlord with the Human King Seal, but the Overlord escaped his grasp, regenerated, and manifested six phantom gods.