Chapter Summaries

Yan Kuan showed the Divine Knight and Saintess Audelan the Heavenly Divine Kingdom he had created at Mount Penglai, then returned to White Cloud Temple and learned that Ye Fan’s body had emitted golden light. He became interested in meeting Ye Fan.

• Yan Kuan brought the Divine Knight and Saintess Audelan through a Space Wormhole to Mount Penglai and showed them the Heavenly Divine Kingdom.
• Yan Kuan explained that the faith-powered realm would guide believers’ souls into a divine sanctuary and help his Divine Embodiment grow.
• Yan Kuan asked the Divine Knight and Saintess Audelan to cultivate in the Divine Kingdom, telling the Divine Knight that time was running out.
• Yan Kuan returned to White Cloud Temple, where his parents asked about his plans to find a girlfriend and give them a grandchild.
• Yan Kuan’s parents told him that Ye Fan had entered a key university and that golden light had emerged from his body before his entrance examination.
• Yan Kuan decided to find a suitable opportunity to make contact with Ye Fan.

Ye Fan visited White Cloud Temple with his mother, where he encountered the young abbot Yan Kuan and sensed something unusual about a new Great Heavenly Lord statue. After Ye Fan left, Yan Kuan revealed that he had obtained a trace of golden blood and recognized signs of Ye Fan’s Sacred Body awakening.

• Ye Fan accompanied his mother to offer incense at White Cloud Temple and noticed that a new Great Heavenly Lord statue seemed to glow.
• Yan Kuan awakened Ye Fan from a daze, explained the statue’s effect, and showed him proof that he was the temple’s abbot.
• Yan Kuan offered Ye Fan a miniature statue and invited him to help spread the Great Heavenly Lord’s teachings, but Ye Fan declined because he planned to attend college in Shandong.
• Yan Kuan told Ye Fan he intended to become the abbot of Jade Emperor Temple on Mount Tai, though Ye Fan doubted him.
• After Ye Fan left, Yan Kuan produced a trace of golden blood and said Ye Fan’s Sacred Body was beginning to awaken.

Yan Kuan refined a strand of Ye Fan’s Sacred Body Golden Blood and uncovered fragments of an imperishable legacy, then spent six years strengthening his body and combat skills. After reaching a draw with the Divine Knight in a fierce sparring match, Yan Kuan was served by Saintess Audelan.

• Yan Kuan traced the golden blood’s origins and inferred that it contained fragments of the Imperishable Golden Body legacy.
• Yan Kuan traveled to the Penglai Immortal Realm and planned to temper his body and foundation before Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin arrived.
• Over the next six years, Yan Kuan trained with resources from Kunlun and Peng Lai and repeatedly sparred with the Divine Knight.
• Yan Kuan and the Divine Knight fought with spears and then fists, with Yan Kuan’s Glazed Golden Flame Body matching the Divine Knight’s Divine Blood King Body.
• Yan Kuan and the Divine Knight ended their battle in a draw, after which Saintess Audelan wiped away Yan Kuan’s sweat.

Yan Kuan bid farewell to Audrey Lane and set out for Mount Tai, where he arrived at the Jade Emperor Temple. As Ye Fan recognized him, nine colossal creatures descended from the sky, shocking everyone on the mountain.

• Yan Kuan told Audrey Lane he was leaving for Mount Tai and warned her to preserve the ancient Altar after he departed.
• Yan Kuan spent the night with Audrey Lane, then left Penglai Immortal Palace the next morning.
• Yan Kuan reached the Jade Emperor Temple on Mount Tai as a group of young tourists climbed the mountain.
• Ye Fan recognized Yan Kuan and prepared to greet him.
• Nine colossal creatures appeared amid thunder and descended from the sky, leaving the people on Mount Tai stunned.

Nine dragon corpses dragged a Bronze Ancient Coffin onto Mount Tai, where the crash revealed ancient Five-Colored Altars. Yan Kuan activated a formation that opened an Ancient Starry Road, carrying the coffin and everyone stranded on the altar away from Mount Tai.

• Nine dragon corpses crashed onto Jade Emperor Peak with the Bronze Ancient Coffin, wrecking the summit while leaving the survivors alive with only superficial injuries.
• Cracks in the summit revealed dozens of ancient Five-Colored Altars, and Ye Fan called out to Yan Kuan as survivors examined the site.
• Yan Kuan led the survivors to a massive stone Five-Colored Divine Altar beneath the coffin, where jade blocks and stone slabs began shining.
• A Taiji Bagua Diagram formed around the coffin and dragon corpses, trapping people on the altar as Yan Kuan used the Character Assembly Secret to deduce the formation.
• The formation opened an Ancient Starry Road, and an invisible force pulled everyone atop the altar into the Bronze Ancient Coffin.
• The coffin shut and the nine dragons carried it through the passage as Five-Colored Divine Light rose from Mount Tai and the diagram vanished.

Trapped inside the Bronze Ancient Coffin, Ye Fan and his classmates encountered the unexpected Pang Bo while Yan Kuan and the Divine Knight investigated the Small Bronze Coffin. After the coffin shook and opened, Yan Kuan and the Divine Knight reached a barren red world identified as Yinghuo, or Mars.

• Ye Fan counted the people in the coffin and found Pang Bo, who had missed the gathering, among them.
• Yan Kuan confirmed that Pang Bo was real and explained that he had seen him chase the group up Jade Emperor Peak.
• Ye Fan introduced Pang Bo to Yan Kuan, then questioned Yan Kuan as he examined the Small Bronze Coffin.
• The Bronze Ancient Coffin shook violently, and its carvings glowed as it absorbed the impact.
• The coffin tipped over, and Yan Kuan and the Divine Knight went through the opening toward the light.
• Yan Kuan and the Divine Knight found a desolate reddish-brown landscape and identified the ancient star as Yinghuo, or Mars.

Yan Kuan revealed that the Great Thunderclap Temple ruins sealed two ancient Great Demons, then lent Ye Fan the Bodhi Seed in exchange for its return and three comparable treasures. After Pang Bo removed the temple plaque and the ruins collapsed, Yan Kuan warned everyone to flee as a crocodile-like monster emerged.

• Yan Kuan explained that the temple held damaged Buddhist treasures and sealed two Great Demons, while the Divine Knight declined the artifacts.
• Ye Fan and Pang Bo searched the temple, where Ye Fan took a Bronze Buddhist Lamp and Pang Bo claimed a half Vajra Pestle after arguing with Liu Yunzhi.
• Yan Kuan took a Bodhi Seed from the Bodhi Ancient Tree and agreed to lend it to Ye Fan for three hundred years in exchange for its return and three treasures of equal or greater value.
• Pang Bo removed the Great Thunderclap Temple plaque, triggering the Stone Buddha's destruction and the collapse of the temple as Yan Kuan secretly stored the Bodhi Tree and its leaves.
• Yan Kuan warned Ye Fan and the others to flee because the sealed Great Demons would emerge, and everyone ran when a crocodile-like monster appeared.

Yan Kuan attacked Crocodile Ancestor as he broke out of the Great Thunderclap Temple seal, using the Great Saint Sword Casket and Qingyang Sacred Lantern to weaken him. The Divine Knight and Yan Kuan’s Divine Embodiment wounded Crocodile Ancestor with the Divine Spear, leaving him pierced through the chest as Yan Kuan prepared to use his body as materials.

• After Ye Fan’s classmates fled, Yan Kuan killed the Divine Crocodile and refined the others with golden flames.
• Crocodile Ancestor emerged from beneath the Great Thunderclap Temple ruins, weakened by his struggle against the seal, and attacked Yan Kuan.
• Yan Kuan used the Great Saint Sword Casket to sever Crocodile Ancestor’s arm and further weaken his cultivation.
• Yan Kuan revived the Qingyang Sacred Lantern, whose flames wounded Crocodile Ancestor and forced him to flee while wielding his broken demon sword.
• Crocodile Ancestor sacrificed part of his tail to escape, but the Divine Knight struck him with the Divine Spear.
• Yan Kuan’s Divine Embodiment impaled Crocodile Ancestor from behind with the Spear of Longinus and said he would dismantle the demon for materials.

Yan Kuan defeated Crocodile Ancestor, explored the Great Thunderclap Temple’s underground Hells, and claimed the Human-Faced Ghost Lantern. As the Ancient Starry Road reopened, Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and the others entered the Bronze Ancient Coffin with Yan Kuan and set off toward an unknown starfield.

• Yan Kuan’s Divine Embodiment refined Crocodile Ancestor, gathered his valuable remains, and led the way into the ruins of the Great Thunderclap Temple.
• Yan Kuan and his companions entered the temple’s two layers of Hell, where they found the Human-Faced Ghost Lantern and claimed it.
• Yan Kuan collected the ruins and Crocodile Ancestor’s scales, then told Ye Fan and the others they could wait for a deity to take them home or travel with the Bronze Ancient Coffin.
• Yan Kuan entered the Bronze Ancient Coffin, and Ye Fan followed after deciding to seize the opportunity and honor his deal with Yan Kuan.
• Pang Bo, Lin Jia, Li Xiaoman, Cade, and the remaining classmates also entered the Bronze Ancient Coffin.
• The Five-Colored Altar activated, and Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin departed with them for a distant, unknown starfield.

Yan Kuan and Ye Fan’s group reached the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Zone, where Ye Fan heard an ancient scripture and the group discovered divine fruits and spring water. The zone’s power opened their Wheel Seas while draining their vitality, and Yan Kuan watched as Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and their classmates transformed.

• Yan Kuan entered the coffin within the Bronze Ancient Coffin, and the Bodhi Seed let Ye Fan hear and remember a profound ancient scripture.
• The group emerged into a lush world, found the broken stele naming the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Zone, and discovered divine fruits and a spring; Yan Kuan exchanged Limbless Divine Crocodile Jerky for the fruit Ye Fan and Pang Bo had eaten.
• Pang Bo exposed Li Changqing’s hypocrisy during an argument over the jerky, and Ye Fan shared food with close classmates before Yan Kuan led the group out of the forbidden zone.
• The forbidden zone’s power opened Ye Fan and his classmates’ Wheel Seas while draining their vitality, and Yan Kuan and the Divine Knight escaped before it affected them.
• Yan Kuan gave the Divine Knight saint-level materials and sent him to the Northern Plains to watch the Wang Family and Jin Family, then waited as the group completed its transformation.
• Ye Fan and Pang Bo reverted to youth, while most of their classmates aged dramatically; those who had eaten more crocodile jerky suffered less vitality loss.

Yan Kuan explained how the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Zone had aged Ye Fan’s classmates, then helped them enter Lingxu Grotto-Heaven before leaving for Jin Country. On the way, he rescued a couple from a Crested Lightning Bird, captured the bird, and set out to refine its bloodline.

• Yan Kuan explained that the forbidden zone’s power had drained the classmates’ life force while opening their cultivation paths, and that divine crocodile meat had helped Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and others resist its effects.
• Wei Wei of Lingxu Grotto-Heaven met the survivors and brought them to her sect, where Ye Fan’s group was accepted as disciples.
• Yan Kuan stayed at Lingxu Grotto-Heaven for several days, marked its coordinates, and left across the Endless Mountains toward Jin Country.
• Yan Kuan knocked away a Crested Lightning Bird that was attacking a husband and wife, then discovered a suspicious drug scent on them and cleared it.
• The Crested Lightning Bird attacked Yan Kuan again, but he subdued it and pursued it when it tried to flee.
• Yan Kuan tamed the Crested Lightning Bird and headed toward Jin Country, circulating divine power to refine its bloodline.

Yan Kuan entered the Eternal Fire Domain and refined its successive flames into Fire Seeds, using the Purple Qi and Five-Colored Trueflames to temper his body and reforge his Divine Mark Purple-Gold Pagoda. At the boundary of the seventh and eighth layers, he heard Crow Daoist refining a treasure and recognized the over-three-thousand-year-old Living Fossil.

• Yan Kuan traveled to Jin Country, sent Little Lightning to forage, and entered the Eternal Fire Domain to gather crimson flame into a Fire Seed.
• Yan Kuan passed through the blue, milky-white, and black layers, condensing their flames and examining the strange Stone Forests.
• Yan Kuan endured the Purple Qi Comes East to temper his body and form a Purple Qi Trueflame, then entered the seventh layer and used it to withstand the Five-Colored Trueflame.
• Yan Kuan condensed a Five-Colored Cloud Flame Fire Seed, strengthened his body, and refined the Divine Mark Purple-Gold Pagoda with the six flames.
• Yan Kuan approached the eighth layer and heard crows; he identified the expert refining a treasure there as Crow Daoist, a Living Fossil more than three thousand years old.

Yan Kuan confronted Crow Daoist in the Eighth Fire Domain, then helped him forge an artifact in exchange for White Jade Divine Iron. He entered the Ninth Fire Domain, where the Ultimate Immortal Flame awakened the Empyrean Flame’s hidden power and helped it grow.

• Yan Kuan confronted Crow Daoist in the Eighth Fire Domain and used the domain’s flames to defeat and bind him.
• Yan Kuan offered to help Crow Daoist overcome his artifact-forging difficulties in exchange for the remaining White Jade Divine Iron.
• Yan Kuan helped Crow Daoist forge a Sect Leader Grade Artifact, then used the leftover divine iron to make a Jade Vial.
• Yan Kuan entered the Ninth Fire Domain and encountered a rune-formed Ultimate Immortal Flame and its tiny Phoenix Bird spirit.
• The Phoenix Bird shared flame essence with Yan Kuan’s Empyrean Flame, causing it to grow and awaken a trace of spirituality.

Yan Kuan arrived at the Azure Emperor’s Tomb, seized the Demon Emperor’s Heart and extracted some of its essence blood before it escaped. He then met Ye Fan, who asked him to save Pang Bo, and reached the Immortal Mountain with him, where Pang Bo urged them to leave.

• Yan Kuan left seclusion in the Eighth Fire Domain and hurried to Lingxu Grotto-Heaven as the Azure Emperor’s Tomb emerged.
• Yaoguang Holy Land and the Ji Family arrived at the tomb, and the Demon Emperor’s Heart burst from its Crystal Coffin and flew away.
• Yan Kuan intercepted the Demon Emperor’s Heart, extracted a Jade Vial of its essence blood, and let it escape when its power surged.
• Yan Kuan watched cultivators attack the tomb’s seal, then met Ye Fan, who explained that a great demon had possessed Pang Bo and gave him a golden page containing the complete Dao Scripture Wheel Sea Scroll.
• Yan Kuan led Ye Fan to the Five Finger Peaks, where they encountered a beautiful woman near the Demon Emperor’s Heart, and Pang Bo called from the mountain, telling them to leave.

Yan Kuan subdued Pang Bo’s possessing demon, seized Duan De, and gathered the treasures released from the Demon Emperor’s Tomb while overpowering the five Great Powers. The chapter ended with him borrowing a drop of Yan Ruyu’s Demon Blood and summoning a sword from within the tomb.

• Yan Kuan revealed that Pang Bo carried demon god blood, struck him unconscious, and told Ye Fan that he had resolved the danger within him.
• Yan Kuan took Ye Fan to the Endless Mountains, where they watched the great powers open the Demon Emperor’s Tomb and release a flood of Spirit Weapons.
• Ye Fan retrieved a blue-green dagger, and Yan Kuan bound Duan De and ordered Ye Fan to guard him.
• Yan Kuan struck the Stone Mountain to reveal the Jade Treasure Basin, then used it to draw the tomb’s scattered treasures toward himself.
• When five Great Powers tried to seize the treasures, Yan Kuan shattered their attacks and injured one of them.
• Yan Kuan asked Yan Ruyu for a drop of Demon Blood, activated the Peerless Sword Art, and called a sword from the Demon Emperor’s Tomb.

Yan Kuan used the Azure Emperor’s weapon to draw the Desolate Tower’s Dao marks into his Divine Mark Purple-Gold Pagoda, then spared Yan Ruyu’s clansmen and revealed his astonishing cultivation history. He told Duan De he wanted the Heaven Swallowing Jar Lid and offered to trade for it using secrets about Duan De’s origins and tomb-raiding quest.

• Yan Kuan awakened the Qingyang Sacred Lantern and wielded the Azure Emperor’s weapon to destroy the Demon Emperor’s Tomb, provoking the Desolate Tower to appear.
• Yan Kuan used his Divine Mark Purple-Gold Pagoda to absorb the Desolate Tower’s immortal Dao runes, while Duan De watched from Five Finger Peaks, still pinned down by Ye Fan.
• Yan Ruyu begged Yan Kuan to spare her clansmen, and he knocked them unconscious and erased part of their memories.
• Yan Kuan told Ye Fan, Yan Ruyu, and Duan De that he had cultivated for nearly twenty-eight years and intended to contend on the Emperor Road.
• Yan Kuan told Duan De he wanted the Heaven Swallowing Jar Lid and offered to trade for it by revealing secrets about Duan De’s origins and what he sought in tombs.

Yan Kuan and Ye Fan traveled to Yan Capital, where Yan Kuan explained the Sacred Body’s cultivation challenges and urged Ye Fan to grow stronger. There, they met the hungry girl Nannan, and Yan Kuan took her in after learning that she repeatedly forgot her past and carried mysterious stones.

• Yan Kuan and Ye Fan left the Demon Emperor's Tomb with the Heaven Swallowing Jar Lid and discussed the possibility of Ye Fan returning to his Ancestral Star.
• Yan Kuan explained the Sacred Body’s origins, its cultivation requirements, and the danger of breaking through to the Four Extremes.
• Yan Kuan and Ye Fan traveled to Yan Capital, where Yan Kuan told Ye Fan to consider joining Tai Xuan Gate.
• Nannan approached Ye Fan to beg for food, and Yan Kuan recognized her and offered to take her with him.
• Ye Fan bought Nannan buns, and she explained that she had no family, often forgot her past, and possessed stones that kept her from hunger.
• After feeding and cleaning Nannan, Yan Kuan took her in and told Ye Fan that he was not yet strong enough to know certain secrets.

Yan Kuan reunited with Jiang Tingting’s family and discovered that she had a dangerous Taiyin Physique, promising to help her. A band of riders arrived searching for someone from the Jiang family and asked Old Man Jiang whether his father, Jiang Zhe, was still alive.

• Yan Kuan recognized Jiang Tingting’s parents as a couple he had saved and reunited them with Xiao Nannan and the White Tiger Cub.
• Yan Kuan examined Little Tingting and found that she possessed a Taiyin Physique whose hidden danger could cause her to die young.
• Yan Kuan stopped the Jiang family from kneeling and said he would help Little Tingting, just as a group of riders approached Breeze Town.
• A refined young man riding a Golden Divine Hou asked Old Man Jiang whether his father was alive and named Jiang Zhe.

Jiang Yifei and the others found Old Man Jiang’s family and revealed their connection to the Ancient Jiang Family. After Little Tingting’s Taiyin Physique was confirmed, her parents asked Yan Kuan to take her as his disciple, and he left her fate unresolved after confronting Jiang Yichen.

• Jiang Yifei confirmed that Old Man Jiang was descended from Jiang Zhe and invited the family to return to the Jiang Clan.
• Yan Kuan warned that Little Tingting’s Taiyin Physique could be dangerous and that the Jiang Clan might not spend a rare treasure to save her.
• Little Tingting’s parents asked Yan Kuan to accept her as his disciple, prompting Jiang Yichen to object.
• Jiang Yifei confirmed that Little Tingting had awakened the Taiyin bloodline and Yan Kuan explained that an Earthly Fate Fruit could prevent her from dying young.
• Jiang Yichen insulted Yan Kuan, who sent him flying; Jiang Yifei apologized as Yan Kuan sent Little Tingting and Xiao Nannan to play.

Yan Kuan tested Jiang Yifei’s defenses, then revealed that he knew Jiang Yifei possessed the Undying Heavenly Art and demanded its inheritance, backed by the Heaven Swallowing Jar Lid. Jiang Yifei agreed to cooperate, and the two arranged compensation for Jiang Yichen’s offense while keeping the inheritance deal secret.

• Yan Kuan unleashed his Great Sun Rising from the Eastern Sea phenomenon against Jiang Yifei, whose strange purple light resisted the attacks.
• Yan Kuan drew Jiang Yifei into the back courtyard and revealed his knowledge of the Ruthless Great Empress’s inheritance and its sacrificial vessels.
• Yan Kuan produced the Heaven Swallowing Jar Lid and demanded the Undying Heavenly Art inheritance from Jiang Yifei.
• Jiang Yifei agreed to hand over the inheritance after recognizing Yan Kuan’s strength and the threat of the half Imperial Weapon.
• Yan Kuan and Jiang Yifei agreed that Jiang Yichen would apologize and give up his mount as compensation for Tingting, while concealing their arrangement.