Recaps

Qin Guan discovered that his new Limitless Realm physical body could safely support his Divine Great Dao Power, while Xiao Guo prepared to evolve and revealed a hidden ability tied to the Qi Yuan Civilization inheritance. The chapter left Qin Guan fending off Crab Boss’s threats and embarrassing accusations as he promised to find it crab sisters.

• Zhao Jianfeng and Liu Shang marveled at Qin Guan’s strength, and Qin Guan found that his Limitless Realm physical body could withstand his Dao Origin-level Divine Great Dao Power.
• Xiao Guo accepted thirty thousand strands of Chaos Qi and went into seclusion to evolve; Little Fire explained that Xiao Guo could create copies of Crab Boss and that a secret technique lay behind a restriction in Xiao Guo’s stomach.
• Mu Lingze told Qin Guan that the Qi Yuan Civilization inheritance included the World-Breaking Technique and warned him not to reveal that he possessed it.
• Crab Boss threatened to expose Qin Guan’s supposed scandal unless Qin Guan found it crab sisters, then claimed it had seen him using the toilet and embarrassed Mu Lingze and Liu Shang.
• Qin Guan promised Crab Boss he would find crab sisters, and the two traded insults with Little Black Tower about their fixation on women.

Qin Guan returned to the Primordial Tower, where the Primordial Tower Spirit warned that the Mandate Temple, the Confucian Sect, and the Heaven's Will Merchant Association would attack again within half a month. She allowed Crab Boss to cultivate on the Second Floor and revealed that the complete Primordial Heaven and Earth Principles were there, leaving Qin Guan astonished by the golden Dao Runes above the Spirit Spring.

• Qin Guan joked with Little Black Tower about the Great Dao before using the Spacetime Token to reach the Primordial Tower.
• Qin Guan brought the Primordial Tower Spirit crab leg meat, then learned that Sui Sui was away and the enemies would return in less than half a month.
• Qin Guan asked to let Crab Boss cultivate on the Second Floor, and the Primordial Tower Spirit agreed.
• The Primordial Tower Spirit told Qin Guan that the complete Primordial Heaven and Earth Principles were on the Second Floor and sent him to cultivate.
• Qin Guan summoned Crab Boss, gave it three fire spirit veins, and watched it begin cultivating with the floor's one-hundred-times speed enhancement.
• Qin Guan went to the Spirit Spring and was shocked by the densely packed golden Dao Runes floating above it.

Qin Guan became trapped while trying to comprehend the final spatial-temporal Dao Pattern because his divinity resisted the Primordial Realm’s laws. The Primordial Tower Spirit proposed Dual Cultivation as the solution, and Lin Suisui arrived and revealed that she was the Primordial Dao Root Spirit.

• Qin Guan and Crab Boss cultivated in the Primordial Tower for ten days, but Qin Guan remained stuck on the final spatial-temporal Dao Pattern.
• The Primordial Tower Spirit explained that Qin Guan’s divinity clashed with spatial-temporal order and that Dual Cultivation could help reconcile their powers.
• Little Black Tower revealed that Qin Guan’s Chaos Body could protect the Primordial Tower Spirit’s origin and allow their powers to complement each other.
• Qin Guan hesitated, worried that Dual Cultivation would disrespect the Primordial Tower Spirit, until Lin Suisui arrived and said she also wanted his Chaos Origin to nourish her spirit body.
• Lin Suisui revealed that she was the Primordial Dao Root Spirit, shocking Qin Guan.

Lin Suisui revealed that she was the Primordial Dao Root Spirit and explained how Qin Guan could combine his powers with the Primordial Tower Spirit’s to advance his comprehension. After Qin Guan refused Dual Cultivation, Lin Suisui claimed he was unable to do it, and Little Black Tower tested the claim.

• Qin Guan learned that Lin Suisui was the Primordial Dao Root Spirit he had been seeking.
• Lin Suisui guided Qin Guan and the Primordial Tower Spirit in combining Chaos Power, divine power, and spirit source, then said Qin Guan needed Dual Cultivation to comprehend the final spacetime Dao pattern.
• Lin Suisui privately urged Qin Guan to Dual Cultivate with the Primordial Tower Spirit, but Qin Guan refused because he already had three wives and wanted mutual willingness.
• Lin Suisui told the Primordial Tower Spirit that Qin Guan could no longer Dual Cultivate, and Qin Guan went along with the excuse.
• Little Black Tower questioned Qin Guan about his impotence, then flew out and poked him to check.

Qin Guan broke through to the peak of the Origin Awakening Realm with Lin Suisui and the Primordial Tower Spirit’s help, but they warned that freeing Lin Suisui from her restraints would provoke the Primordial Realm. Crab Boss then appeared after reaching the Divine Ruins level and offered the women his pincer.

• Lin Suisui and the Primordial Tower Spirit helped Qin Guan fuse the final spacetime Dao pattern, and he consumed twenty million Primordial Soul Stones to complete his breakthrough.
• Qin Guan reached the peak of the Origin Awakening Realm and transformed the Divine Great Dao Tablet in his sea of consciousness.
• Qin Guan asked whether he could sever Lin Suisui’s restraints, but the Primordial Tower Spirit warned that doing so would turn the Primordial Realm’s Old Monsters against him.
• A blast from the mountain forest revealed that Crab Boss had broken through to the Divine Ruins level.
• Crab Boss snapped off his left pincer and offered it to Lin Suisui and the Primordial Tower Spirit, who asked Qin Guan to cook it.
• Qin Guan and Crab Boss celebrated their breakthroughs until Little Black Tower mocked Qin Guan for being unable to have children.

Qin Guan learned that Sui Sui was the Primordial Dao Root and joked with Little Black Tower and Crab Boss about his impotence before roasting Crab Boss’s claw. He controlled the Primordial Dao Flame with his divinity and planned to temper his body, but Little Black Tower questioned whether he was worthy of being a Martial Cultivator.

• Little Black Tower mocked Qin Guan for being impotent, and Crab Boss misunderstood his jealousy as the reason he had stood it up about finding Crab Younger Sisters.
• Crab Boss angrily slammed Qin Guan into the ground, then agreed that Qin Guan should roast its claw for Sui Sui and Tower Spirit before finding it Crab Younger Sisters.
• Qin Guan took the claw to the third floor and found that the Primordial Dao Flame no longer rejected him.
• Qin Guan fused his Chaos Yin Yang Fire with the Primordial Dao Flame and controlled the golden flames to roast Crab Boss’s claw.
• Qin Guan explained that his divinity and mastery of the Primordial Realm’s laws let him control the flames, then planned to use them to temper his body; Little Black Tower asked whether he was worthy of being a Martial Cultivator.

Qin Guan joked with Little Black Tower while cooking Crab Boss's claw, as the Confucian Sect mourned its fallen scholars and learned that its Chief Seat, Guangling, had broken through to the Divine Ruins Realm. After hearing about Qin Guan and the Qi Yuan Civilization Legacy, Guangling resolved to lead the sect's remaining leaders to the Southern Pole Continent to seize it.

• Little Black Tower warned Qin Guan that his impotence could undermine his Dao Heart, then tried to cut off his member before Qin Guan returned to cooking Crab Boss's claw.
• Eight Confucian Sect leaders grieved that Qin Guan had killed thirty-five of the thirty-six great Confucian scholars sent to the Southern Pole Continent.
• Guangling broke through to the Divine Ruins Realm, and the eight leaders hurried to welcome him out of seclusion.
• A senior Confucian scholar told Guangling about Qin Guan, the Qi Yuan Civilization Legacy, and the slaughter of the scholars.
• Guangling learned that only the Confucian Sect and the Mandate Temple knew of the legacy and ordered the leaders to accompany him to the Southern Pole Continent to obtain it.

After learning that Qin Guan possessed the Qi Yuan Civilization Legacy, Guangling led eight Confucian scholars toward the Southern Pole Continent to investigate him. Qin Guan learned that the Dao Demon's injuries prevented him from using the Boundless Tian Mo Formation to bring Qin Guan's master to the Primordial Realm, leaving them short on time before the Great Annihilation.

• Guangling heard that Qin Guan had defeated thirty great Confucian scholars and resolved to investigate him before deciding how to act.
• Lin Suisui and the Primordial Tower Spirit feasted on Crab Boss's meat while Qin Guan went to ask the Dao Demon about his master.
• The Dao Demon said Qin Guan's master still needed time and that his own injuries kept him from using the Boundless Tian Mo Formation.
• Qin Guan learned the Dao Demon's recovery could take ten to over a hundred years, despite the Great Annihilation arriving in less than five years.
• Qin Guan urged the Dao Demon to recover quickly and produce more demonic qi, but the Dao Demon warned that doing so would worsen his injuries.

Qin Guan secretly weakened the Demon-Sealing Lock and healed Dao Demon, then worried aloud about the powerful enemies pursuing him. Dao Demon offered him demonic qi for protection, and Qin Guan tried to store it in the Little Black Tower, which protested that the qi would erode its origin.

• Dao Demon’s chains tightened when he grew angry, and Qin Guan comforted him while promising to rescue him and take revenge on his enemies.
• Qin Guan discovered that he could touch the Demon-Sealing Lock without backlash and used Chaos Qi to imitate its seal, then quietly weaken its suppressive power.
• Qin Guan spent three days sending Chaos Qi into Dao Demon, greatly improving Dao Demon’s injuries and easing the pain of his restraints.
• Qin Guan said Mandate Temple, the Confucian Sect, and the Heaven’s Will Merchant Association might kill him before he could return.
• Dao Demon released his Black Demonic Qi for Qin Guan to use, but the Little Black Tower protested that storing it could erode its origin.

Qin Guan stored Dao Demon’s origin demonic energy in a crimson spatial orb, gathering enough to conjure two Divine-Ruins Grade Great Demons. After leaving the Abyssal Black Grotto, he reached the Tower Top and found Lin Suisui and the Primordial Tower Spirit feasting on Crab Boss’s limbs.

• Little Black Tower refused Qin Guan’s request to store Dao Demon’s demonic energy, and three Space Stones exploded when Dao Demon tried filling them.
• Qin Guan formed a stable crimson spatial orb and persuaded Dao Demon to pour his demonic energy into it.
• Qin Guan pushed Dao Demon to add more energy, until Dao Demon said the orb held enough to conjure two Divine-Ruins Grade Great Demons.
• Dao Demon’s chains tightened again, and Qin Guan left after saying he could not safely disable them yet.
• Qin Guan arrived at the Tower Top and saw Lin Suisui and the Primordial Tower Spirit eating Crab Boss’s severed limbs.

Qin Guan learned how terrifying Heaven-Wielding Realm experts were and heard that saints could pass the Saint Gate and leave the Primordial Realm. After returning to Dragon City, he found cultivators gathered to sell female crab demons, while Crab Boss rushed to inspect them despite having lost all its limbs.

• Crab Boss begged Qin Guan to take it away after Lin Suisui and the Primordial Tower Spirit repeatedly dismantled it during cultivation.
• Lin Suisui and the Primordial Tower Spirit explained the power of Heaven-Wielding cultivators, the Great Annihilation, and the Saint Gate, which 120 Primordial Realm predecessors had crossed.
• The Primordial Tower Spirit removed Crab Boss's last two legs and let it accompany Qin Guan, promising to help it cultivate when they returned.
• Lin Suisui opened a rift, and Qin Guan traveled through it to the sky above the Zhao Family estate in Dragon City.
• Qin Guan found cultivators offering female crab demons for sale, and Crab Boss hurried out to ask where its Crab Younger Sister was.

Qin Guan traded Primordial Soul Stones for female crab demons, which Crab Boss took into the Little Black Tower. Afterward, Qin Guan asked Zhao Tianzheng about the Mandate Temple and Confucian Sect, then stopped when a middle-aged man and a woman resembling Zi Qing arrived.

• Qin Guan offered Primordial Soul Stones in exchange for female crab demons, and a Grey Robe Elder traded him two Void Immortal-level crabs.
• Crab Boss flirted with the two crabs, then subdued a Primordial-level female crab demon after she broke free and attacked him.
• Crab Boss took the three female crab demons into the Little Black Tower and told Qin Guan to send any more crabs there.
• Qin Guan paid the Green Robe Old Man ten Primordial Soul Stones and collected thirty-five crab demons from the gathered cultivators.
• Qin Guan asked Zhao Tianzheng whether the Mandate Temple or Confucian Sect had made any moves, and Zhao Tianzheng invited him inside to talk.
• A middle-aged man called out to Qin Guan as he approached the Zhao Family residence, accompanied by a woman who resembled Zi Qing.

Qin Guan reunited with Wu She and Zi Ran, learned they had come from the Exile Continent, and agreed to take Zi Ran to find her sister after finishing his task. That night, Little Black Tower showed him Crab Boss and Wu She enjoying themselves in the Spirit Garden.

• Qin Guan welcomed Wu She and Zi Ran at the Zhao Family residence and learned that Senior Bu and Shen Qi had helped them reach the continent.
• Wu She told Qin Guan that Master and Master's Wife were well and that the Primordial Realm had not attacked the Chaos Realm, then learned Qin Guan had reached the Origin Awakening Realm.
• Zi Ran asked about her sister, and Qin Guan said she was in the North Pole and agreed to take Zi Ran there after their task was complete.
• Wu She and Zi Ran went into Little Black Tower, where Little Black Tower teased Wu She about his past and falsely claimed Qin Guan's little brother had become an idiot.
• After Qin Guan returned to Little Black Tower at night, Little Black Tower sent him to the Spirit Garden, where he found Crab Boss surrounded by female crab demons and saw Wu She with Zi Ran inside a formation.

Qin Guan watched Crab Boss enjoy the company of the female crab demons while Wu She and Zi Ran sparred, then resumed cultivating despite Little Black Tower’s taunts. Five days later, Confucian Sect headquarters arrived at the Mandate Temple, where Qingran and Zhi Ming prepared to seek help against Qin Guan.

• Qin Guan observed the Spirit Garden, and Little Black Tower mocked him for being unable to respond to the scene.
• Crab Boss rebuked the female crab demons who complained about its favor toward Xiao Cheng, and none of them chose to leave the Garden’s cultivation benefits.
• Qin Guan promised to seek out more female crab demons for Crab Boss, then found a place to cultivate.
• Five days later, Qingran told Zhi Ming that Confucian Sect headquarters was approaching the Mandate Temple.
• Guangling arrived through a rift in the sky with eight Elders, whose imposing auras matched those of Qingran’s former delegation of thirty Western Seats great Confucian scholars.

Guangling learned that Qin Guan possessed the Qi Yuan Civilization Legacy and was hiding with the Zhao Family in Dragon City, so he and Zhi Ming set out to kill him. Their attempt to ask the Southern Pole Continent’s Heavenly Dao to remove the realm barriers was met with a blunt refusal.

• Guangling arrived with eight veteran Confucians and learned from Zhi Ming and Qingran that Qin Guan had obtained the Qi Yuan Civilization Legacy and was staying in Dragon City.
• Zhi Ming said Qin Guan had support from the Primordial Dao Root Spirit and the Primordial Tower, and Guangling worried that provoking the Tower might free the suppressed Dao Demon.
• Zhi Ming reported that Qin Guan had bought female crab demons for the injured Red Crab Demon, and Guangling decided they should attack before Qin Guan could escape into the Primordial Tower.
• Guangling and Zhi Ming chose to seek the Heavenly Dao’s help bypassing the barriers between realms rather than travel through the transmission passage.
• The Heavenly Dao told the group not to disturb its cultivation, then angrily ordered them to get lost before Guangling could finish speaking.

The Southern Pole Continent Heavenly Dao drove Guangling and the Confucian Sect away when they came to pursue Qin Guan, then resolved to stay out of conflicts tied to him. Guangling left furious, while the Heavenly Dao pondered the dangerous Karma surrounding Qin Guan.

• The Southern Pole Continent Heavenly Dao repeatedly ordered Guangling and the eight old Confucian scholars to leave before they could explain their pursuit of Qin Guan.
• The eight old Confucian scholars challenged the Heavenly Dao, which froze the void and pressed them down with its power.
• Guangling used his Vast Righteous Dao Heart to block the pressure, then led his companions out of the dojo after warning that he would remember the humiliation.
• The Southern Pole Continent Heavenly Dao recalled how Qin Guan's Karma had injured its origin and decided to avoid all disputes related to him.
• Guangling left the area livid and clenched his fists in anger.

Guangling and Zhi Ming joined Nine Nether Hall assassins Blood Butcher and Shadow Baleful on their way to kill Qin Guan and claim the Qi Yuan Civilization Legacy. Meanwhile, Xiao Guo evolved in the Primordial Tower into a purple cauldron and demonstrated a startling ability to create Divine Ruins Realm Red Crab Demons.

• Guangling and Zhi Ming agreed to travel with Blood Butcher and Shadow Baleful to the Lower Realm, while Zhi Ming worried about Mandate Temple’s weakening position and recalled the Nine Nether Art.
• Xiao Guo’s furnace body overheated and began transforming, so Qin Guan moved it from the Little Black Tower to the Second Floor of the Primordial Tower and poured in Chaos Qi.
• The Primordial Tower Spirit and Lin Suisui arrived as Xiao Guo’s cauldron cracked and erupted in flames, and Qin Guan continued supplying Chaos Qi until Xiao Guo completed its evolution.
• Xiao Guo emerged as a small purple cauldron and invited Crab Boss inside to prepare a spider feast.
• Xiao Guo produced five legged Divine Ruins Realm Red Crab Demons, astonishing Qin Guan, the Primordial Tower Spirit, and Lin Suisui.

Xiao Guo evolved and created five Red Crab Demons with independent thoughts, then threatened to eat them. Qin Guan fed her one thousand Primordial Soul Stones, leaving her delighted by their taste.

• Xiao Guo created five Red Crab Demons as strong as Little Spider and announced that she wanted to eat them.
• The Red Crab Demons begged Xiao Guo to spare them and offered to fight for her, while Qin Guan urged her to keep them.
• Xiao Guo said she could create five more but needed to recover, and Qin Guan offered her a Primordial Soul Stone.
• Xiao Guo devoured one thousand Primordial Soul Stones and declared them even tastier than Little Spider's meat.
• Qin Guan suggested sparing the five Red Crab Demons, and Xiao Guo happily savored the stones instead.

Qin Guan used Xiao Guo to create five more Red Crab Demons, bringing his force to eleven, while Lin Suisui and the Primordial Tower Spirit warned him about the powerful enemies arriving in Dragon City. Qin Guan still considered pursuing Bai Fuzi’s Vast Righteous Dao Heart despite the danger.

• Qin Guan gave Xiao Guo nearly six hundred thousand candies, and she copied Crab Boss to create five Red Crab Demons.
• Xiao Guo ordered the ten copies to protect Qin Guan, then asked the Primordial Tower Spirit for permission to cultivate in her world and received it.
• Lin Suisui told Qin Guan that Guangling and the Confucian Sect would reach Dragon City the next day, and that the Heaven’s Will Merchant Association had hired Blood Butcher and Shadow Baleful.
• The Primordial Tower Spirit warned Qin Guan that Guangling and the other Divine Ruins experts could overwhelm him and his eleven crab demons.
• Lin Suisui said Qin Guan might defeat Guangling if his Divine Dao resisted the Vast Righteous Dao Heart, but Blood Butcher, Shadow Baleful, Zhi Ming, and eight old Confucians remained serious threats.

Qin Guan confronted Guangling and exposed that he had stolen the Vast Righteous Dao Heart from Zhaoyan. Guangling attacked, and the Confucian scholars and Zhi Ming surrounded Qin Guan, sealing off his escape routes.

• Qin Guan faced Guangling and the eight veteran Confucian scholars while waiting for the hidden Nine Nether Hall assassins to reveal themselves.
• Qin Guan told Guangling that the Vast Righteous Dao Heart caused him pain because it had not properly merged with his Divine Soul and body.
• Qin Guan accused Guangling of stealing Zhaoyan's Vast Righteous Dao Heart and falsely claiming to have awakened it himself.
• Guangling rejected Qin Guan's accusation and attacked him, blasting him back hundreds of zhang.
• The eight Confucian scholars surrounded Qin Guan with Heavenly Gang Righteousness Seals while Zhi Ming raised a Golden Barrier to block his retreat.

Guangling awakened Heaven-Wielding combat power through his Vast Righteous Dao Heart, but Qin Guan and the ten Red Crab Demons shattered his palm strike with their combined attack. Guangling then summoned two Black Robes and ordered his allies to hold off the demons so he could target Qin Guan.

• Guangling used his Vast Righteous Dao Heart to reach Heaven-Wielding Grade combat power and challenged Qin Guan.
• Qin Guan and the ten Red Crab Demons combined the Zhan Chi Sword Body's Blood Colored Sword Qi with their Flame Explosion attack to shatter Guangling's Golden Palm Seal.
• Guangling was forced back and realized Qin Guan's Great Dao power strongly suppressed Vast Righteous Qi.
• Guangling called two Black Robes from the void and ordered them to deal with the Red Crab Demons.
• Blood Butcher, Shadow Baleful, the eight old Confucian scholars, Qingran, and Zhi Ming moved to hold off the ten demons.

Guangling’s forces surrounded Qin Guan, but Blood Butcher’s Nine Nether Demonic Qi overwhelmed one Red Crab Demon. As Guangling prepared to strike Qin Guan, two demons emerged from the void and killed Blood Butcher and Shadow Baleful, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Guangling’s forces encircled Qin Guan, and Mu Lingze identified Blood Butcher and Shadow Baleful as assassins from Nine Nether Hall.
• Blood Butcher’s Nine Nether Demonic Qi corrupted a Red Crab Demon’s pincers and consumed its Demonic Fire, forcing the other Red Crab Demons to retreat.
• Guangling announced that he would kill Qin Guan while Blood Butcher and Shadow Baleful held off the remaining Red Crab Demons.
• Two Black Shadows appeared beside Blood Butcher and Shadow Baleful, pierced their chests with demonic claws, and drained their Nine Nether Demonic Qi.
• The Black Shadows revealed themselves as a Giant Ape Demon and a Giant Python Demon, who absorbed the assassins’ demonic qi.

Qin Guan and the ten Red Crab Demons were overwhelmed by Guangling until the Giant Ape Demon and Giant Python Demon joined the fight. Their combined assault finally forced Guangling back, but he unleashed a fresh surge of Vast Righteous Dao power and vowed to take them all down with him.

• Guangling broke through Qin Guan and the Red Crab Demons' defenses, battered them into retreat, and pinned them beneath his Vast Righteous Dao Domain.
• The Giant Ape Demon and Giant Python Demon slaughtered the Confucian Sect's eight veteran great scholars and Qingran, while Zhi Ming escaped.
• Qin Guan ordered the two demon fiends to turn from pursuing Zhi Ming and attack Guangling, freeing Qin Guan and the Red Crab Demons from suppression.
• Qin Guan and the demons fought Guangling together, and after a hundred exchanges their combined attack made him spit blood and fly backward.
• Guangling blasted his attackers away with a surge of Vast Righteous Dao power and threatened to take them all with him in death.

Cang Chong appeared after reaching the Heaven-Wielding Realm and learned that Qin Guan had devastated the Mandate Temple. After Zhi Ming revealed that Qin Guan held the Qi Yuan Civilization Inheritance, Cang Chong seized the Primordial Tower’s avatar and took Qin Guan away.

• Cang Chong reviewed the battlefield and restrained the Golden Tower as Qin Guan and his allies tried to escape.
• Zhi Ming told Cang Chong that Qin Guan had killed temple elders and Divine Sons and taken fifty million Primordial Soul Stones.
• The Primordial Tower Spirit warned that damaging its avatar could release the Dao Demon, then explained that Zhi Ming was responsible for the Demonic Qi crisis.
• Zhi Ming secretly told Cang Chong that Qin Guan held the Qi Yuan Civilization Inheritance.
• Cang Chong imprisoned the Golden Tower’s avatar, ordered Qin Guan to remain with the Mandate Temple, and left through a Space-Time Rift with Zhi Ming.

Trapped inside the Primordial Tower’s avatar after Cang Chong reached the Heaven-Wielding Realm, Qin Guan rebuilt his body and sought help from the Dao Demon, who refused to rescue him. Qin Guan then went to the Second Floor and told the dying Guangling that he was a student of the owner of the Vast Righteous Dao Heart, prompting Guangling to recognize Zhaoyan’s name.

• The Primordial Tower Spirit and Lin Suisui agreed that Cang Chong was unlikely to act immediately, then went downstairs to eat crab.
• Qin Guan finished reconstructing his body, reassured the others, and said Cang Chong would not dare use force for now.
• Qin Guan contacted the Dao Demon through the Demon Ape and asked for help, but the Dao Demon told him to come heal him instead and hung up.
• Qin Guan went to the Second Floor and told Guangling that he was a student of the owner of the Vast Righteous Dao Heart.
• Guangling reacted in shock and asked whether Qin Guan was Zhaoyan’s disciple.