Chapter Summaries

Yan Kuan took Little Tingting into his care and defeated Jiang Hanzhong’s forceful arrival with a Golden-Winged Great Peng Divine Form. After leaving Breeze Town with Little Tingting and Xiao Nannan, he headed for Wei Country.

• Jiang Yifei told Jiang Yichen to give the Five-Colored Beast to Little Tingting as compensation, and Jiang Yichen agreed after being warned of Yan Kuan’s power.
• Little Tingting said goodbye to her family and received the Five-Colored Beast as her mount.
• Yan Kuan sensed the Jiang Clan’s approaching force, and Jiang Hanzhong’s Divine Hou Chariot entered Breeze Town with hundreds of armored riders and war chariots.
• Yan Kuan’s Golden-Winged Great Peng Divine Form suppressed Jiang Hanzhong and the Jiang Clan’s forces, sending them crashing down outside town.
• Yan Kuan told Jiang Yifei that messages for Little Tingting could reach him through Wei Region or Tai Xuan Gate, then departed with Little Tingting and Xiao Nannan.
• Jiang Hanzhong challenged Old Man Hanlin over his refusal to intervene, while Yan Kuan said he would go to Wei Country to look for something.

Yan Kuan searched the Ancient Battlefield in Wei Country for the Underground River leading to the Bronze Immortal Hall with Little Tingting and Xiao Nannan. When the Ji Family surrounded Yan Ruyu to challenge her, Yan Kuan sent her the Qingyang Sacred Lantern, helping her break the blockade and escape with Ye Fan.

• Yan Kuan returned to the barren mountains with Little Tingting and Xiao Nannan, still seeking the Underground River beneath the Ancient Battlefield.
• Yan Kuan sensed the Ji Family’s forces gathering and sent the Qingyang Sacred Lantern to the battlefield where Yan Ruyu was surrounded.
• Yan Ruyu accepted Ji Haoyue’s challenge, and the two fought using their powerful Wheel Sea phenomena.
• Yan Ruyu revealed two peerless Saint Weapons and broke through the Ji Family’s blockade while the demon race escorted Ye Fan away.
• Yan Ruyu defeated Ji Haoyue, who coughed up blood, then escaped and vowed to remember the Ji Family’s humiliation.

Ye Fan, Ji Ziyue, and the others entered the Bronze Immortal Hall, where Yan Kuan protected them from its deadly forces and mysterious inscriptions. The group reached a blood-written Immortal character, and Yan Kuan began cultivating beneath it while the others took shelter in a passage through the wall.

• Ye Fan and Ji Ziyue fell into the Underground River, where they met up with Yan Kuan, Xiao Nannan, and Little Tingting.
• The group encountered the Bronze Immortal Hall, and its strange power pulled them inside despite Ji Ziyue's warning.
• Yan Kuan guided everyone through the hall's ruins, shielding them from its Chaos and containing the Yin-Yang Qi from the Life and Death gates in his Trigram Treasure Box.
• A blood-written Immortal character enthralled Ye Fan, Ji Ziyue, and Xiao Nannan, but Yan Kuan's shout woke them before they reached it.
• Yan Kuan gave Ye Fan the Green Bronze Chunk, placed the Qingyang Sacred Lantern with Little Tingting, and began cultivating with Xiao Nannan beneath the Immortal character.

Yan Kuan and his companions escaped the Bronze Immortal Hall with Profound Yellow Essence, then used Ye Fan's connection to Li Xiaoman to lure Hua Yunfei into a formation. Yan Kuan confronted the Crocodile Ancestor possessing Li Xiaoman and prepared to strike with the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Can, while the Crocodile Ancestor warned that killing him would also kill her.

• Yan Kuan woke in the Bronze Immortal Hall, collected some Profound Yellow Essence, and led Xiao Nannan, Little Tingting, Ji Ziyue, and Ye Fan out of the hall.
• After reaching the eastern part of Wei Country, Yan Kuan learned about Hua Yunfei's strength and planned to use Ye Fan's message to draw him out.
• Ye Fan contacted Tai Xuan Gate, and Li Xiaoman brought his message to Hua Yunfei, who recognized an opportunity to reach Ji Ziyue.
• Hua Yunfei and Li Xiaoman entered a gorge and were trapped in Yan Kuan's formation, where Ye Fan confronted them.
• The Crocodile Ancestor possessing Li Xiaoman tried to escape with the Small Buddha and Divine Crocodiles, but Yan Kuan used the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Can to restrain him.
• The Crocodile Ancestor warned Yan Kuan that killing him would kill Li Xiaoman as well.

Yan Kuan used Immortal King Nine Seals and the Bronze Immortal Hall to extract Crocodile Ancestor’s Divine Fetus from Li Xiaoman, leaving Ye Fan to catch her as she collapsed. He then forced Hua Yunfei to surrender his inheritance and learned more about the Ruthless Empress’s competing lineages.

• Yan Kuan trapped Li Xiaoman and Crocodile Ancestor’s Divine Fetus inside an Immortal Hall Prison formed by Immortal King Nine Seals.
• Yan Kuan used the Bronze Immortal Hall to tear Crocodile Ancestor’s Divine Fetus from Li Xiaoman, and Ye Fan caught her as she fell.
• Yan Kuan told Ye Fan that Li Xiaoman’s Divine Soul had been damaged but that she was not in grave danger, then gained Crocodile Ancestor’s secret method for splitting off a Soul Origin Fetus.
• Yan Kuan summoned Hua Yunfei and demanded the Imperial Scripture and Secret Art inheritance, threatening to destroy Tai Xuan Gate.
• Hua Yunfei handed over his inheritances and revealed that the Ruthless Empress’s people had found him when he was five alongside a radiant child.
• Yan Kuan identified Yaoguang Holy Land as the other lineage behind Hua Yunfei’s inheritance and said he would settle accounts with them.

Yan Kuan spared Hua Yunfei, then challenged the Peacock King, who had come to retrieve the Demon Emperor Sacred Heart from Ye Fan. Their battle was interrupted by Holy Lord Yaoguang Li Daoqing, and Yan Kuan joined the Peacock King in fighting him.

• Yan Kuan told Hua Yunfei to keep cooperating with Tai Xuan Gate and reveal the truth about Li Xiaoman, while keeping him alive as his Puppet.
• The Peacock King appeared to claim the Demon Emperor Sacred Heart from Ye Fan, but Yan Kuan blocked him and proposed a match.
• Yan Kuan and the Peacock King unleashed their powerful phenomena and fought while Ye Fan led Xiao Nannan and Little Tingting away.
• The Peacock King exposed Holy Lord Yaoguang Li Daoqing, who emerged from hiding and urged Yan Kuan to join him against the demon.
• Yan Kuan rebuked Li Daoqing and teamed with the Peacock King to shatter his Holy Light world, starting a three-way battle that tore through the land and sky.

Yan Kuan brought Ye Fan and his companions to Zhuo Peak, where he recognized Li Ruoyu’s potential in the Natural Dao and helped awaken his opportunity. As Li Ruoyu entered a profound transformation through the Nine-Tiered Heavenly Stairs, Yan Kuan used the Divine Mark Purple-Gold Pagoda and Empyrean Flame to study Zhuo Peak’s ancient Dao.

• After Yan Kuan and Peacock King departed, Li Daoqing spat blood and was joined by experts from the Yaoguang Holy Land.
• Yan Kuan led Ye Fan, Li Xiaoman, Ji Ziyue, Xiao Nannan, and Little Tingting to Tai Xuan Gate and chose to visit Zhuo Peak.
• Li Ruoyu welcomed Ye Fan and his friends, while Yan Kuan recognized Li Ruoyu’s deep cultivation in Zhuo Peak’s Natural Dao.
• Yan Kuan sent Ye Fan to retrieve a Zhuo Bow and nine arrow shafts from a Badger Beast’s den, and Li Ruoyu gave Ye Fan a yellowed booklet.
• Li Ruoyu placed the Zhuo Bow on the Nine-Tiered Heavenly Stairs, then sat before them as they transformed into nine platforms and drew him into their palaces.
• Yan Kuan used the Divine Mark Purple-Gold Pagoda and Empyrean Flame to reveal Zhuo Peak’s Divine Marks and trace its ancient Dao.

Hua Yunfei explained the recent events to the gaunt elder, while Yan Kuan continued cultivating until Ji Hong challenged him at Zhuo Peak and tested his spatial arts. Yan Kuan then left with Xiao Nannan and Little Tingting and found the aged Tianxuan Holy Son, whose eyes filled with disbelief when he saw Xiao Nannan.

• Hua Yunfei told the gaunt elder that a Peerless Demon Saint had possessed Li Xiaoman and that Ye Fan and Yan Kuan had dealt with it at Zhuo Peak.
• Yan Kuan promised Hua Yunfei that he would eliminate Li Daoqing and the Shaking Light Divine Son, then returned to Zhuo Peak to cultivate.
• Ji Hong arrived at Zhuo Peak and fought Yan Kuan with the Void Great Hand Seal, but Yan Kuan matched his spatial arts and ended the confrontation.
• Ji Hong greeted Ji Ziyue and left to meet an old friend, while Yan Kuan thanked Li Ruoyu and departed with Xiao Nannan and Little Tingting.
• Yan Kuan brought the girls to a desolate mountain range and identified a tearful old man as the former Tianxuan Holy Son; the old man stared at Xiao Nannan in disbelief.

Yan Kuan brought Xiao Nannan and Little Tingting to the Northern Domain Holy City and persuaded the surviving elders of Tianshuan Holy Land to help Xiao Nannan with her monthly Rebirth. During the full moon, the Crazy Old Man examined her as she formed mysterious seals, but the outcome remained uncertain.

• Yan Kuan opened a portal to the Northern Domain, and the Crazy Old Man followed him through it.
• Yan Kuan found the ruined Tianshuan Stone Gambling House and asked Wei Yi and the Crazy Old Man to help cure Xiao Nannan, offering information about the Secret of Movement.
• Wei Yi and the Crazy Old Man agreed to let Yan Kuan's group stay at the Stone Gambling House.
• On the full-moon night, Xiao Nannan underwent Rebirth and forgot everyone until Yan Kuan restored her memories with divine light.
• The Crazy Old Man examined Xiao Nannan as she formed seals, and the seven-colored stone between her brows melted into a point of light instead of falling away.

Yan Kuan helped the Mad Old Man inherit Tianxuan's movement technique, then the Mad Old Man entered an Immortal Cocoon while Yan Kuan raided Yaoguang Stone Gambling House and opened the stolen stones. After staying at Tianxuan Stone Gambling House with Xiao Nannan and Little Tingting, Yan Kuan saw the Mad Old Man emerge from the cocoon rejuvenated.

• Yan Kuan recited an incomplete immortal-path scripture to the transforming Mad Old Man, who left Tianxuan's ancient movement technique as an inheritance before entering an Immortal Cocoon.
• Yan Kuan left the Qingyang Sacred Lantern and Heaven Swallowing Jar Lid with Little Tingting and Xiao Nannan, then went to deal with the chaos in Divine City.
• Yaoguang Holy Land discovered its Heavenly Character Garden had been looted and blamed the theft on bandits, while Yan Kuan revealed that he had taken several precious stones.
• Yan Kuan opened the Blazing Sun Stone and gave its Divine Source to Little Tingting, then gave Wei Yi the Ancient Worm Divine Source and kept the source containing a severed head.
• Yan Kuan opened the Demon Fetus and found a Qilin Seed, which he entrusted to the White Tiger Cub, then stayed at Tianxuan Stone Gambling House with the two girls as Wei Yi instructed them.
• The Mad Old Man's Immortal Cocoon split, and he emerged rejuvenated in the form of an imposing man.

Yan Kuan led his companions into Saint Cliff to search for the lost Secret of Movement and its treasures, using powerful weapons and the Human-Faced Ghost Lantern to overcome its sinister creatures and formations. They reached a broken black mountain that seemed to have been recently abandoned by an enormous being.

• Yan Kuan entrusted Tingting to Wei Yi and entered Saint Cliff with Xiao Nannan, the Mad Old Man, and Wei Yi.
• Yan Kuan killed an ancient evil bird and used the Human-Faced Ghost Lantern to destroy a black-haired evil spirit that attacked them.
• Yan Kuan recited the Lingbao Salvation Scripture and guided the group safely through Saint Cliff's Emperor Formations.
• Yan Kuan burned away the lake's water spirits, revealed an ancient Iron Sedan Chair, and led the group past it.
• Yan Kuan and his companions reached a broken black mountain whose strange aura suggested that an enormous life-form had recently left.

Yan Kuan and the two Great Saints captured a million Fire God Crows and refined them with a Golden Crow elf into a Saint Weapon Treasure Vase. They reached the deepest part of Saint Cliff, where they found the Deification Scroll sealing Undying Daoist.

• Yan Kuan, Crazy Old Man, and Elder Wei Yi explored Saint Cliff and Yan Kuan collected an ancient silver scale from the abyss.
• The group encountered a million Fire God Crows and their Golden Crow leader, which Crazy Old Man and Elder Wei Yi defeated and refined into Yan Kuan’s Treasure Vase.
• Yan Kuan found an incomplete Solar and Lunar cultivation art in a Beast Bone inside one of the Ancient Caves.
• Elder Wei Yi gave Yan Kuan the newly forged Saint Weapon, containing the Golden Crow elf as its Deity.
• Yan Kuan explained that the Vicious Ghost Shadow Spirit was the severed hand of a Forbidden Zone Supreme slain by Void Great Emperor, and the group bypassed the watery light near Reincarnation Lake.
• Crazy Old Man led them to the deepest region of Saint Cliff, where they saw the Deification Scroll of Beginningless Great Emperor sealing Undying Daoist.

Yan Kuan and his companions climbed Saint Cliff, fought its ancient guardians, and reached the summit to open the Great Completion Sacred Body’s coffin. The Nine Secrets Dao Diagram appeared, and Yan Kuan captured the Secret of Movement’s Dao traces and began to master them.

• Yan Kuan led Little Tingting and Xiao Nannan through Saint Cliff’s dangerous Emperor Formation, and the group evaded shadow spirits by circling toward the Deification Scroll.
• At the Deification Scroll, Yan Kuan used the Divine Mark Purple-Gold Pagoda to perceive imprints left by Shakyamuni and Laozi, while Mad Old Man and Wei Yi fought an ancient monster above them.
• Yan Kuan and his companions reached the summit, examined the Great Completion Sacred Body’s Stone Coffin, and studied the star maps left by Shakyamuni and Laozi.
• Mad Old Man burned away the coffin’s green hair, and Wei Yi opened the lid with the Dragon Spear, triggering Saint Cliff’s Emperor Formation and the Deification Scroll to suppress the released killing intent.
• The Dao Diagram of the Nine Secrets appeared in the void, and Yan Kuan captured its Dao traces, engraved the Secret of Movement in his heart, and achieved an initial mastery.

Yan Kuan and his companions subdued the mutated Great Completion Sacred Body and captured a divine thought incarnation of the Undying Heavenly Emperor on Saint Cliff. After leaving safely, Yan Kuan refined the incarnation and gained the Secret of Foresight, then turned his attention to resolving Little Tingting's physical hidden danger.

• Yan Kuan used the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art and the group’s weapons to suppress the mutated Great Completion Sacred Body, then took Heavenly Court’s golden Scepter.
• Yan Kuan, Mad Old Man, and Wei Yi encountered the Undying Daoist, whose divine thought incarnation offered two of the Nine Secrets in exchange for help.
• Yan Kuan and Wei Yi used the Heaven Swallowing Jar Lid while Mad Old Man and Xiao Nannan helped seal and refine the Undying Daoist’s divine thought.
• Mad Old Man departed after the group left Saint Cliff, and Wei Yi took Yan Kuan and Xiao Nannan back toward the Northern Domain Holy City.
• Yan Kuan refined the captured divine thought and obtained the Secret of Foresight, then decided it was time to address Little Tingting’s physical hidden danger.

Yan Kuan destroyed the Li Fire Sect and Profound Moon Grotto after learning of their crimes, then discovered traces of the Beginningless Great Emperor in an ancient cave. He followed the lingering Dao resonance to Profound Moon Grotto’s rear mountain, where the chapter left him among discarded relics.

• Yan Kuan left Xiao Nannan and Little Tingting with Elder Wei Yi and departed Northern Domain Holy City after receiving information about the Azure Cloud Gate, Profound Moon Grotto, and Li Fire Sect.
• Yan Kuan attacked the Li Fire Sect, killed its cultivators, and seized the Li Fire Divine Furnace.
• Yan Kuan unleashed the furnace’s fire phoenix and Li Fire to burn the Li Fire Sect and erase its corpses.
• Yan Kuan swept through Profound Moon Grotto, killing its defenders and pursuing those who tried to escape.
• Yan Kuan found an ancient cave bearing traces of the Beginningless Great Emperor and sensed the Great Dao imprint left behind there.
• Yan Kuan followed the lingering resonance to Profound Moon Grotto’s rear mountain and entered a valley used as a dumping ground.

Yan Kuan destroyed Azure Cloud Gate and rescued the people of Purple Mountain Stone Fortress from bandits before traveling to Purple Mountain. After learning Fifth Lord Zhang descended from the last Source Celestial Master, Yan Kuan discovered the ancestor’s stone implements might contain Divine Source and asked the villagers to gather them.

• Yan Kuan burned the junk in Profound Moon Grotto’s valley, found a piece of Broken Jade, and set out to destroy more local sects.
• Big Beard Chen’s bandits demanded Source and women from Purple Mountain Stone Fortress, but Yan Kuan killed them with stone spears and said he had destroyed Azure Cloud Gate.
• The fortress villagers killed the wounded bandits, while Yan Kuan examined two pieces of Imperial Jade above Purple Mountain and flew toward another oasis.
• The next morning, Yan Kuan met Old Man Zhang, learned his ancestor had been the last Source Celestial Master, and asked him about the nearby Purple Mountain.
• Yan Kuan recognized a stone mill as altered Origin Stone that might contain Divine Source, so Fifth Lord Zhang organized the villagers to collect their ancient stone implements.

Yan Kuan entered Purple Mountain with Old Man Wei Yi, Xiao Nannan, and Little Tingting to retrieve the Source Celestial Tome, rescue Divine King Jiang Taixu, and test himself against the Primordial Royal Clan. After finding Jiang Taixu trapped in the mountain, Yan Kuan left his rescue to Wei Yi and went to confront the Primordial Ancestral King.

• Yan Kuan showed Old Man Wei Yi the Li Fire Divine Furnace and persuaded him to travel with Xiao Nannan and Little Tingting to Purple Mountain.
• Yan Kuan entered an ancient mine alone, asked Wei Yi to hold back unless his life was in danger, and placed the Trigram Treasure Box in a natural Yin-Yang formation to temper it.
• Yan Kuan found the inscriptions of past explorers, including Gu Tianshu and Zhang Jiye, then continued deeper into Purple Mountain with Wei Yi and the girls.
• Yan Kuan discovered seven experts' remains and found Divine King Jiang Taixu trapped inside a stone wall, alongside a dormant Formless Evil Thought.
• Yan Kuan shattered the Formless Evil Thought and left Wei Yi to help Jiang Taixu before heading deeper into Purple Mountain to face the Primordial Ancestral King.

Yan Kuan explored Purple Mountain, subdued its awakened Primordial creatures, and found Zhang Jiye’s remains and an Undying Divine Phoenix Elixir. When an ancient Primordial Ancestral King attacked, Yan Kuan combined several Nine Secrets with Jiang Taixu’s Battle Saint Technique, entered the God Forbidden Domain, and pierced the king through the chest.

• Yan Kuan defeated and captured several Primordial creatures, then found Zhang Jiye’s skeleton and silver book in a cavern.
• Yan Kuan discovered an Undying Divine Phoenix Elixir and a Creation Spring Eye near the jade pools.
• A Primordial Ancestral King awakened and attacked Yan Kuan, who defended himself with the Heaven Swallowing Jar Lid and several Saint Weapons as Elder Wei Yi, Little Tingting, and Xiao Nannan arrived.
• Yan Kuan wounded the Ancestral King with the Dragon Spear, while Jiang Taixu recognized Yan Kuan’s use of the Nine Secrets and transmitted the Battle Saint Technique.
• Yan Kuan entered the God Forbidden Domain and drove his Dragon Spear through the Primordial Ancestral King’s chest.

Yan Kuan explored Purple Mountain, collected Medicine Kings, and found the Beginningless Scripture before using Imperial Jade to teleport out with his companions. He left them in the stone village, where he had the Big Black Dog hung upside down and ordered a hotpot meal in front of it.

• Yan Kuan suppressed the Primordial Ancestral King and led his companions deeper into Purple Mountain, past the Divine Army’s burial ground to the Beginningless Dao Platform.
• Yan Kuan braved the Chaos waterfalls to take two Medicine Kings, while Wei Yi noticed a follower whom Yan Kuan recognized as Zhang Lin.
• Yan Kuan and Wei Yi read Gu Tianshu’s inscriptions and found Yang Yi sealed in a Source block; Yan Kuan left one Medicine King beside her.
• Yan Kuan used Imperial Jade at the Beginningless Scripture’s altar to teleport everyone out of Purple Mountain, while a hidden figure followed through the fading void.
• Yan Kuan had Wang Shu and Lei Bo hang the Big Black Dog upside down and ordered them to prepare hotpot, threatening to serve the dog if they lacked meat.

Yan Kuan disciplined the Black Dog for trying to steal the Medicine King, then began opening Stone Village’s inherited stone artifacts to uncover their treasures and signs of an ancient monster. The chapter ended as the Black Dog tried to steal a cold, treasure-bearing stone and howled after Yan Kuan stopped it.

• Yan Kuan whipped the Black Dog for stealing the Medicine King, then sealed its divine power and put it on a leash after Xiao Nannan pleaded for it.
• Xiao Nannan asked Yan Kuan to let her raise the Black Dog, while Little Tingting helped the weakened Jiang Taixu walk in the sun.
• Yan Kuan opened Stone Village’s artifacts, revealing a Divine Source Bean, blood-red hair, remnants of drained Divine Source, fragrant liquid, and a Human Origin Fruit.
• The Black Dog tried to seize a stone emitting an icy aura and flee, but Yan Kuan stopped it, making it howl.