Chapter Summaries

Yan Kuan exposed the Assassin Dynasties’ attacks and killed Hell Goddaughter’s allies before gathering the Eastern Wilderness Sage Lords to demand a united campaign against Hell and Human World. The Assassin Dynasties launched a counterattack at the gathering, but Yan Kuan’s hidden imperial weapons and array trapped their forces as the slaughter began.

• Yan Kuan defeated Hell Goddaughter, killed Human World Divine Son and two Killing Path Kings, then converted Hell Goddaughter with the Scripture of Salvation.
• Hell and Human World vowed revenge, while news of Yan Kuan’s victories spread throughout the regions and Sage Lords gathered in Divine City at his summons.
• Yan Kuan accused the Assassin Dynasties of threatening the Eastern Wilderness, revealed Human World Divine Son’s corpse, struck down a Yin Yang Sect expert, and called for Hell and Human World to be eradicated.
• Human World’s Divine Daughter and Hell Divine Son attempted to assassinate Yan Kuan, but he captured the former and outpaced the latter as the Assassin Dynasties’ forces arrived.
• The attackers activated the Hell Soul-Calming Tower, but Yan Kuan’s forces unleashed the Beginningless Killing Array, the Azure Lotus Emperor Weapon, and the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Can.
• The trapped Assassin Dynasty forces were overwhelmed, and their experts fell in large numbers inside Divine City.

Yan Kuan and his allies launched a campaign against Hell and Human World, destroying their scattered strongholds and storming Hell’s hidden ancestral realm. As Hell’s Great Saint formation threatened to bury the invaders, Jiang Yun unleashed the Sun God Furnace, and the final battle began.

• Yan Kuan warned the assembled forces against reckless action, then Jiang Yi told the Jiang Clan that Jiang Taixu was trapped by the Assassin Dynasties and urged them to join the assault with the Sun God Furnace.
• Jiang Yi revealed the recovered Imperial Weapon to Jiang Ren, Jiang Yun, and Jiang Yifei, while news spread that Jiang Taixu might still be alive; Jiang Yun and Jiang Yi then joined the campaign with the Sun God Furnace.
• Yan Kuan led the allied army through the Eastern Wilderness, destroying Hell and Human World’s scattered strongholds and converting many of their surviving assassins.
• Yan Kuan and Big Black Dog entered Hell’s hidden ancestral realm, where Yan Kuan suppressed a Great Accomplishment King and his Ancestral King Puppet fought Hell’s Saint-Level Guardian Stone Beast.
• Qi Luo and Old Undying cleared a path through Hell’s defenses, but a Killing Saint Phantom activated the realm’s Great Saint-level Slaughter Formation to destroy the invaders.
• Jiang Yun brought forth the Sun God Furnace and unleashed its Divine Fire to refine Hell’s God Realmlet.

Yan Kuan and Sky Village tracked the Ancient God Dynasty and Human World to a hidden Heavenly Domain and launched an assault on their refuge. Qi Luo rescued his seventh son and broke through to the Sage Realm after killing an enemy Killing Saint, but learning what his son had endured left him overwhelmed with grief.

• The army took Human World's Mystic Realm and learned Qi Luo's seventh son had been taken to the dynasties' hidden refuge.
• Yan Kuan located the Heavenly Domain, and the army entered the Chaos Wasteland to attack the Ancient God Dynasty's stronghold.
• Jiang Taixu revived the Sun God Furnace while Yan Kuan used the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Can to break the enemy formations.
• Qi Luo intercepted his bloodied seventh son and placed him in a Saint Weapon to recover.
• A Killing Saint wounded Qi Luo in a feint, but Qi Luo revived Heavenly Court's Golden Scepter and killed him after breaking through to the Sage Realm.
• Qi Luo examined the enemy's fragmented divine consciousness, glimpsed his son's life, and wept and roared in grief.

Yan Kuan’s expedition destroyed the Ancient God Dynasty’s Assassin forces, recovered their treasures and the remains of slain prodigies, and prepared to rebuild the Heaven Earth Human Three Divisions under the Mystic Gate. Back in Divine City, the campaign’s victory shook Big Dipper, while the Jiang Clan guarded the rescued but dying Jiang Taixu and searched desperately for a way to save him.

• Gai Jiuyou slew both Killing Ancestors with two fingers, and Qi Luo killed the last Killing Saint by fighting him inside a heavenly tribulation.
• Yan Kuan’s group defeated or converted the remaining defenders, including a hidden Puppet Killing Saint, then seized the dynasties’ World Stones and other treasures.
• Jiang Taixu led Jiang Yi and Jiang Yun in recovering their ancestors’ bones, while Yan Kuan planned to rebuild the Mystic Gate’s assassin divisions under Qi Luo and the Divine Daughters of Hell and Human World.
• Yan Kuan returned to Divine City and invited the sacred lands to reclaim their ancestors’ skulls, confirming the campaign’s victory and causing an uproar across Big Dipper.
• News spread that Jiang Taixu had survived for four thousand years and returned to the Jiang Clan, but his body and divine consciousness were nearly extinguished, so the clan sought medicines and life-saving methods.

Yan Kuan helped Jiang Taixu repel an attack on the Dragon Transformation Pool, then killed the Dark Night Monarch after the conspirators’ ambush was exposed. Jiang Taixu reunited with Fairy Caiyun, while Yan Kuan left to pursue the clashing Imperial Weapons.

• Jiang Taixu and Yan Kuan waited at the Dragon Transformation Pool as enemies gathered to prevent Jiang Taixu’s recovery.
• Yan Kuan joined Ye Fan and the young cultivators beneath the moon, then sensed the assault beginning as the Sun God Furnace confronted an enemy Imperial Weapon.
• Yan Kuan defeated thirteen Supreme Great Abilities and suppressed three ancient monsters who had survived for four thousand years.
• Fairy Caiyun reached Jiang Taixu, and the two reunited after four thousand years; the Dark Night Monarch then emerged from hiding and challenged Yan Kuan.
• Yan Kuan killed the Dark Night Monarch with the Qingyang Palace Lantern and pursued the two Imperial Weapons into the Void.

Yan Kuan defeated a Half-Saint of the Ruthless Empress’s Hidden Lineage, claimed the complete inheritance, and helped awaken the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron’s Deity before returning to Divine City with Xiao Nannan. There, Jiang Taixu shielded Ye Fan from the gathered factions, while Peng King and the Holy Lord Yaoguang asked that their imprisoned descendants and disciples be released.

• Yan Kuan fought the Half-Saint, overcame his Myriad Transformations Saint Art, and devoured him while taking the complete Ruthless Empress inheritance.
• The Half-Saint’s blood sacrifice summoned the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron, and Yan Kuan used the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Can and Origin Patterns to aid both Imperial Weapons’ revival.
• The Cauldron’s Deity appeared, welcomed Xiao Nannan’s embrace, and departed after Yan Kuan promised to care for her; Yan Kuan then killed the Half-Saint and returned to Divine City.
• Jiang Taixu emerged restored, unsealed Divine City, and warned the assembled factions against using their seniority to target Ye Fan, whom he named as his direct disciple.
• Peng King and the Holy Lord Yaoguang asked Jiang Taixu to release their grandson and disciples, whom Ye Fan had suppressed.

After Jiang Taixu freed Ye Fan and the other captives, Yan Kuan assassinated Holy Lord Yaoguang Li Daoqing and took his place by guiding Yaoguang Holy Son to claim the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron and the holy lord’s seat. He recruited Wei Wei as a trusted elder and began investigating the secrets beneath Yaoguang Holy Land, while Wei Wei and Yao Xi’s rivalry surfaced.

• Jiang Taixu freed the Purple Mansion Holy Son, Little Peng King, and Yaoguang Holy Son, then declared that cultivators below the Immortal Platform Realm could challenge Ye Fan to a life-and-death duel.
• Yan Kuan told Ye Fan the history of the Silkworm Princess and the Fighting Saint King, then hurled a newly forged divine spear through the Void to kill Li Daoqing outside Yaoguang Holy Land.
• After Li Daoqing’s death, Yaoguang Holy Son used the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron to defeat the former holy sons and saintesses and take the position of holy lord.
• Yan Kuan revealed himself to Wei Wei, appointed her an elder and confidant, and taught her the Primal Chaos Holy Light Art as he prepared to enter secluded cultivation.
• Yao Xi questioned Wei Wei about her appointment and what had happened between her and the new holy lord, and Wei Wei answered that she had complied with his wishes and criticized Yao Xi’s distant manner.

Yan Kuan met with the Jade Pool Saintess, who revealed that Jade Pool had recognized his Origin Arts and asked for his help. After teasing her and seeing her true face, he accompanied her toward Jade Pool Pure Land, where he noticed a Fighting Saint Ape and asked the Saintess to invite him along.

• Ye Fan told Yan Kuan that the Jade Pool Saintess had discovered his Gu Feng identity and wanted to meet him.
• Yan Kuan visited the Jade Pool Stone Gambling House, where the Saintess explained that Jade Pool recognized the Source Celestial Master’s Origin Arts and had noticed clues about his identity.
• Yan Kuan used his Divine Eyes to see the Saintess’s face, teased her until she attacked him, and effortlessly restrained her.
• The Saintess agreed to go with Yan Kuan to Jade Pool Holy Land and played the zither for him despite her anger.
• Outside Jade Pool Pure Land, Yan Kuan spotted a Fighting Saint Ape and asked the Saintess to invite him to travel with them.

Yan Kuan visited Jade Pool with Monkey, helped Monkey nourish the Sacred Spirit in the Nine-Orifice Wondrous Stone, and obtained a Stone King containing an Immortal Phoenix egg. He took the egg to Fallen Eagle Cliff, intending to claim the being sealed inside.

• Monkey asked Yan Kuan to help save the Silkworm Princess, and Yan Kuan said he had another way besides Jade Pool's Immortality Peach Divine Medicine.
• Yan Kuan warned Jade Pool that its Nine-Orifice Wondrous Stone contained a Sacred Spirit, then suggested Monkey's blood could help it mature; Monkey agreed to give blood in exchange for Jade Pool's favor and a peach.
• Yan Kuan and Monkey each ate an Immortality Peach, and Yan Kuan took their pits, promising to try growing new peach trees in Immortal Soil.
• Yan Kuan offered Jade Pool a fifty-thousand-year Lesser Medicine King for a Dragon Loach, but West Queen Mother refused and led the group to Jade Pool's treasured stones.
• Yan Kuan broke open the Stone King, sealed the snow-white egg inside, and stored it in the Ten Thousand Crows Vase; he told Monkey to find Ye Fan in Divine City if he needed help saving his aunt.
• Yan Kuan traveled to Fallen Eagle Cliff, where he planned to claim the Immortal Phoenix sealed in the egg.

Yan Kuan used the Human-Faced Ghost Lantern to explore Fallen Eagle Cliff, harvested Nethergrass and Yellow Springs water, and drew the descendants of the Eight Divine Generals to the battlefield by draining the Immortal Phoenix egg. He began a Heavenly Tribulation to forge the Divine Mark Purple-Gold Pagoda into a King's Divine Weapon while evolving his own King's Dao, and the weapon’s Divine Fetus continued to form.

• Yan Kuan followed yin soldiers through the Primordial Battlefield to a Netherworld path, where he collected Nethergrass and sealed the Yellow Springs Pool in a White Jade Vial.
• Yan Kuan entered a battlefield filled with ancient Divine Laws and began extracting Immortal Phoenix Blood Essence from the egg inside the Stone King.
• The disturbance awakened primordial races, and the descendants of the Eight Divine Generals gathered outside Fallen Eagle Cliff to rescue the god’s descendant.
• Yan Kuan revealed the Divine Mark Purple-Gold Pagoda and used the battlefield’s Divine Laws and the Heavenly Tribulation to temper it into a King's Divine Weapon.
• Yan Kuan sat beneath the Ancient Bodhi Tree’s phantom image and evolved his own King's Dao by reforging his Wheel Sea.
• The Divine Mark Purple-Gold Pagoda absorbed countless Divine Laws as a Divine Fetus resembling Yan Kuan formed within it.

Yan Kuan survived the nine-day lightning tribulation by deceiving heaven, while the remnants of the Eight Divine Generals escaped with Heavenly Emperor's Son's cracked Immortal Egg. He later guided Ye Fan to enter the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Zone for his Four Extremes breakthrough, but a Dao Diagram appeared to strike Ye Fan as the chapter ended.

• Yan Kuan used Bodhi Tree insights and Heaven-Deceiving Array Patterns to redirect the lightning tribulation toward Heavenly Emperor's Son and the Eight Divine Generals.
• The Eight Divine Generals and Ancestral Kings fought through the nine-day tribulation, suffering heavy losses before escaping with the cracked Immortal Egg.
• Yan Kuan emerged from the ruins with his body shattered but his Lifebound Divine Tower intact, and began rebuilding himself toward Great Accomplishment King.
• Yan Kuan convinced Ye Fan to undergo his Four Extremes tribulation outside the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Zone, where Ye Fan gathered vast resources and broke through.
• Ye Fan's breakthrough summoned a Heavenly Tribulation and revealed his Immortal King Overlooking the Nine Heavens and Chaos Planting Green Lotus phenomena.
• A profound Dao Diagram formed above Ye Fan and pressed down on him, revealing that the curse severing his path had appeared.

Ye Fan survived the Innate Dao Diagram’s attack and emerged from the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Zone with the remaining Nine Marvelous Sacred Fruits. Yan Kuan prepared to establish the Mystic Gate at Fire Demon Ridge, where the Northern Plains Wang Family arrived in force and demanded to see him.

• Ye Fan entered the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Zone, where a golden-furred ancient being destroyed the Innate Dao Diagram and Ye Fan disappeared into the depths.
• After three days, Ye Fan emerged carrying the remaining Sacred Fruits, and Yan Kuan divided them into sets for Ye Fan, Monkey, and Elder Gai Jiuyou.
• Yan Kuan invited Elder Gai Jiuyou to remain in the Eastern Wilderness and proposed treating the Silkworm Princess at Fire Demon Ridge; Monkey agreed to consult the Divine Silkworm Ancient Clan.
• News spread that Yan Kuan would establish the Mystic Gate at Fire Demon Ridge, and eminent figures and young talents gathered there for the sect’s founding.
• The Northern Plains Wang Family arrived with warships, chariots, and its King Realm Beast King, then demanded to know where the Fire Domain Master was.

At the Mystic Gate’s founding ceremony, Yan Kuan and Old Undying humiliated the Northern Plains Wang Family after exposing disguised ancient creatures among its ranks. Yan Kuan then tasked Wang Lie and the Wang Family with leading an expedition against the revived Nethergod Palace ruins, and they set out for Ice Snow Palace.

• Ancestor Wang Lie arrived with the Northern Plains Wang Family, but Old Undying revealed himself as a Half-Saint and confronted him on behalf of the Mystic Gate.
• Yan Kuan exposed ancient creatures from God Spirit Valley hiding among the Wang Family experts, subdued them, and forced Wang Lie to answer for their presence.
• The Wang Family offered the Violet Lightning Hammer at the Mystic Gate’s founding ceremony, and other visiting powers followed with gifts.
• At the banquet, Yan Kuan announced that the Nethergod Palace ruins had revived beneath Ice Snow Palace and asked the Wang Family to suppress the remnants.
• Wang Lie accepted the Violet Lightning Hammer and led the Wang Family’s forces aboard their Nine Ancient Warships toward Ice Snow Palace.

Wang Lie led the Wang Family into the ruins of Nethergod Palace in search of an ancestral Dragon Vein, while Yan Kuan and his companions explored Ten Thousand Dragons Nest. Xiao Nannan claimed the True Dragon Undying Medicine, and Yan Kuan sent an awakened primordial creature into the Wang Family as more ancient beings stirred.

• Wang Lie learned that dragon qi was rising beneath Ice Snow Palace and led the Wang Family into the underground palace to find its fortune.
• Yan Kuan told Ye Fan that Nethergod Palace had once been Ten Thousand Dragons Nest, and the group followed the dragon qi through nine Dragon Caves.
• Ye Fan found the True Dragon Undying Medicine, and Big Black Dog identified its fruit as a treasure that could extend a Great Emperor's life.
• Xiao Nannan pulled the True Dragon Undying Medicine from the ground, while Monkey struck back an attacking primordial creature and Yan Kuan sent it into the Wang Family's path.
• The True Dragon Undying Medicine became close to Xiao Nannan, and Yan Kuan sent Monkey, Ye Fan, and Big Black Dog deeper into Ten Thousand Dragons Nest as more primordial creatures awakened.

Yan Kuan and his companions explored the deepest part of Ten Thousand Dragons Nest, uncovering a human Sage sealed in Divine Source and reaching the ancient True Dragon Nest. There, the coffin of the Heaven Swallowing Great Emperor opened, revealing an Immortal Treasure Secret Scroll before sinking back into Chaos.

• Ye Fan spotted a human figure sealed behind stone, but Big Black Dog broke through and revealed the chained Bony Old Man in Divine Source.
• Yan Kuan identified the captive as a human Sage from the Primordial era and stored his Divine Source block in the Divine Mark Purple-Gold Pagoda.
• Yan Kuan led the group through Ten Thousand Dragons Nest to a colossal Dragon Wood nest, where Big Black Dog tried and failed to take it.
• The group saw Dragon Emperor Scales and four Ancient Coffins in the Chaos within the nest, and Big Black Dog identified them as the Heaven Swallowing Great Emperor's incarnation bodies.
• The Fourth Incarnation Body's coffin opened, and the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Can drew out an Ancient Scroll that Yan Kuan identified as an Immortal Treasure Secret Scroll and a topographical map of Kunlun.
• Monkey recognized the scroll as one his father had studied, and the coffin closed and sank into Chaos.

Yan Kuan explored the Ten Thousand Dragons Nest, then brought Ye Fan and their companions to Central Province as the Wang Family’s disastrous expedition stirred the Divine City. After reconnecting with Rain Butterfly Princess, Yan Kuan led the group through an ancient spatial passage into a perilous wild world, where a giant bird and a green serpent were already locked in battle.

• Yan Kuan sent Ye Fan and the others out of the Ten Thousand Dragons Nest, explored its depths, and withdrew after finding the Ten Thousand Dragons Bell, a sealed Great Saint, and the Ten Thousand Dragons Imperial Daughter.
• The Wang Family returned from the Ten Thousand Dragons Nest with heavy losses, and news that the nest contained an Undying Divine Medicine drew cultivators to the Divine City.
• Yan Kuan told Ye Fan to prepare for the House of Extraordinary Individuals Academy and its Ancient Starry Road, then traveled with the group to Lu City in Central Province.
• Yan Kuan reunited with Rain Butterfly Princess, and the two spent the night together at the City Lord Mansion.
• Yan Kuan and Gai Jiuyou led the group through a spatial passage hidden in an ancient tree into a wild world, where a giant five-colored bird fought a massive green serpent.

Yan Kuan cultivated in the Immortal Abode World and fused eight seal arts into his own Emperor Seal Secret Art, then explored alone in search of the true Immortal Burial Ground. After opening a cliff cave abode, he moved away to investigate a mysterious lake whose falling water level released increasingly dense spiritual energy.

• Yan Kuan and his companions traveled through the Immortal Abode World, where Ye Fan found cliff carvings and Yan Kuan collected a Dragon Loach for Xiao Nannan.
• Yan Kuan studied the Human King Seal, Mountain-Holding Seal, and Heaven-Flipping Seal at a Dao-Dissolving Divine Ground and fused them with his other seal arts.
• Yan Kuan used his evolving seals to suppress a giant Sky Centipede and took its Saint Weapon Mirror.
• Yan Kuan sent Ye Fan, Monkey, Xia Jiuyou, and Big Black Dog to explore separately, then set out alone to seek the true Immortal Burial Ground.
• Yan Kuan opened a cave abode in a cliff, left before the gathered Beast Kings could reach him, and went to a nearby lake where the water was steadily draining.

Yan Kuan explored an ancient cave dwelling, recovering spiritual treasures and an incomplete Undying Wonderful Tree, then helped Xiao Nannan gather Dragon Loaches before leading the group toward the Immortal Burial Ground. The group reached a dangerous swamp, where Yan Kuan captured Godslaying Insects and Big Black Dog found their Insect Nest’s trail.

• Yan Kuan entered the dried Immortal Lake’s cave dwelling, collected Earth Milk Spiritual Liquid and spiritual herbs, and refined a drop of Immortal Liquid with Empyrean Flame.
• Yan Kuan studied the Forty-Nine Jade Trees, found an incomplete Fiftieth Tree bearing Seven Jade Leaves, and sealed it away.
• Yan Kuan used Xiao Nannan’s Jade Vial to lure Dragon Loaches from the swamp, and they collected five before returning to Dao-Dissolving Divine Ground.
• Yan Kuan led the group toward the Immortal Burial Ground, protected Ye Fan and Big Black Dog from attacking beasts, and captured several Godslaying Insects.
• Big Black Dog recognized the insects and found the trail to their Insect Nest.

Yan Kuan and the group explored the Immortal Burial Ground, drove off the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s Divine Consciousness, and uncovered a hidden ancient world full of treasures. They found a Green Copper Fragment inscribed with the Sun Sutra, leaving them with one of the human race’s two great mother scriptures to decipher.

• Yan Kuan sealed the Godslaying Insect nest, and the group encountered a Divine Consciousness that he identified as the remnant of an Imperial Dao Supreme.
• Yan Kuan drove the Divine Consciousness underground with the Human-Faced Ghost Lantern, then unearthed a divine mountain and opened its Stone Gates.
• The group collected six Medicine Kings and fragments of a shattered Saint Bell inside the cave dwelling.
• Yan Kuan repelled the Divine Consciousness near the Heavenly Ladder, and the group entered a Primordial Era Small World filled with spiritual medicines and rare Source liquids.
• Yan Kuan captured a Three-Legged Golden Crow and collected its three eggs from a Dark Nest on a Fusang tree.
• Yan Kuan found an ancient Sage’s remnant bone and a Green Copper Fragment, which Monkey identified as bearing the Sun Sutra.

Yan Kuan and the others explored the Divine Treasury, found the Grand Sovereign’s complete Ancient Scripture in an Undying Wood coffin, and discovered the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s Immortal Phoenix skin sealed in divine ice. The group reached the source of the Supreme Dao Aura, where Yan Kuan recognized the skin’s rare bloodline and potential.

• Monkey translated two volumes of the Sun Sutra from the Immortal Tears Green Gold scripture, and Gai Jiuyou studied them with excitement.
• Ye Fan used the Source Heaven Divine Art to locate a mountain range shaped like a fallen immortal, and the group entered its Ancient Cave in search of the Supreme Dao Aura.
• Yan Kuan captured the Ghost Apes, drained much of the black river’s Taiyin True Water, and stored its chain, Strange Corpse, Bone Boat, and other creatures in his Black Gourd.
• The group found a ten-thousand-zhang jade platform and opened an Undying Wood coffin, discovering records of the Undying Heavenly Emperor and the complete Grand Sovereign Ancient Scripture.
• Big Black Dog nearly died while approaching the source of the Supreme Dao Aura, and Yan Kuan revealed the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s skin sealed within Five-Colored Divine Ice.