Chapter Summaries

Great Emperor Cangxuan fought alone against five Great Emperor-level opponents in the starry sky, enduring their attacks as his strength waned. As more attacks converged on him, he drew on star power and world power to form a protective barrier.

• Ming Yuan struck Great Emperor Cangxuan with a massive sword beam, which Cangxuan blocked with Azure Thunder Attraction.
• Kong Xuanji broke through Cangxuan’s lightning prison with the spatial Flying Shuttle, but Cangxuan caught the shuttle with Star-Plucking Hand.
• Yu Tingxue attacked Cangxuan with Snow Drifting Among Mortals while Great Emperor Long River unleashed Long River Splitting Heaven.
• Great Emperor Cangxuan gathered star power and world power from the surrounding stars to create a barrier of world star power against the incoming attacks.

Five Great Emperor-level fighters shattered Great Emperor Cangxuan’s body, but he survived by rebuilding it, while Shi Yuan learned that Su Jingming and Ye Youming had attacked the undefended Temple of Light. As the four remaining enemies prepared to finish Cangxuan Ye, he revealed that he was not alone, and an aged voice raised the Starfall Sky Burner Formation from 108 stars.

• Five Great Emperor-level attacks shattered Great Emperor Cangxuan’s Emperor Body, but his Emperor Runes and Dao rules rebuilt it at the cost of weakening his aura.
• Shi Yuan discovered that Su Jingming had become a Great Emperor and joined Ye Youming and the Sky Chamber of Commerce to attack the Temple of Light, so he left to defend it.
• Great Emperor Long River and the other three fighters prepared to exhaust Cangxuan Ye’s Emperor Soul, but Cangxuan Ye said they could not destroy him alone.
• An aged voice activated the Starfall Sky Burner Formation, drawing shattered stars together until 108 enormous stars formed in the sky.

A hidden Psychic Great Emperor activated the Starfall Sky Burner Formation, revealing an ally of Great Emperor Cangxuan and threatening the surrounding worlds with heavenly fire. Yu Tingxue, Great Emperor Long River, and the Second Ancestor of the Origin Hall joined forces to defend against the attack.

• A hundred and eight stars formed an Emperor-Level Spirit Array, shocking Great Emperor Long River, Yu Tingxue, Kong Xuanji, and the Second Ancestor of the Origin Hall.
• Great Emperor Cangxuan left the formation’s encirclement, and an unseen elder ordered the Starfall Sky Burner Formation activated.
• The formation created a vast phantom star covered in heavenly fire, which spread across nearby worlds, causing destruction while also triggering a surge of spiritual energy.
• Yu Tingxue summoned a massive psychic zither and raised a barrier as she called for everyone to defend together.
• Great Emperor Long River used the Heavenly River World-Suppressing Halberd to form three towering water shields, while the Second Ancestor of the Origin Hall drew the Azure Nether Blade.

Great Emperor Cangxuan’s Starfall Sky Burner Formation broke through the four Great Emperor-level fighters’ defenses and bound them in searing Starfire Chains. After days of the chains weakening their Emperor Bodies, Great Emperor Long River finally shattered the fading pillar, leaving Cangxuan exhausted and injured.

• Great Emperor Cangxuan’s Starfire pillar overwhelmed and destroyed the attacks of the Origin Hall’s Second Ancestor, Great Emperor Long River, Kong Xuanji, and Yu Tingxue.
• The Starfire Chains repeatedly burned the four fighters, causing their Emperor Bodies to shatter and reform with weakened auras; Kong Xuanji was the first to be forced back into his original body.
• Over the following days, the pillar dimmed as the formation’s power dwindled, while the fighters continued to lose portions of their Emperor Souls.
• On September 30, Great Emperor Long River broke free of the chains and summoned a mighty river that extinguished the remaining starlight and Heavenly Fire.
• Great Emperor Long River’s river shattered the pillar, and Great Emperor Cangxuan stopped powering the formation, remaining upright despite his exhaustion and Dao injury.

After the battle, Kong Xuanji, Great Emperor Long River, the Origin Hall's Second Ancestor, and Yu Tingxue departed, leaving Great Emperor Cangxuan gravely weakened. Tian Shu Zi then appeared and asked his old friend to protect the Heavenly Pivot Array Sect after his imminent death.

• Kong Xuanji used the Spatial Flying Shuttle to escape after his cultivation fell and he could no longer fight effectively.
• Great Emperor Long River and the Origin Hall's Second Ancestor withdrew, and Yu Tingxue promised Great Emperor Cangxuan that the Spirit Hall would not interfere in the conflict again before leaving.
• Great Emperor Cangxuan spat blood and called for Tian Shu Zi after everyone else had departed.
• Tian Shu Zi asked Great Emperor Cangxuan to shelter the Heavenly Pivot Array Sect after he died.
• Great Emperor Cangxuan acknowledged that Tian Shu Zi's burning secret art had saved him, while Tian Shu Zi accepted that his brief power as a Psychic Great Emperor had cost him his remaining lifespan.

Tian Shu Zi died after asking Great Emperor Cangxuan to protect the Heavenly Pivot Array Sect and nurture Shen Xinglan. In Emperor Fall Valley, the armies began retreating, and Su Jiujiu used Rejuvenation Emperor Dew to stabilize the gravely wounded Xuantian, though Ao Yin and Tai Huang believed his path to becoming a Great Emperor had been severed.

• Tian Shu Zi dissolved into motes of light after entrusting the Heavenly Pivot Array Sect and Shen Xinglan to Great Emperor Cangxuan.
• Great Emperor Cangxuan promised to protect the Heavenly Pivot Array Sect, then vanished into motes of blue-green light.
• Yuan Tian and Kong Wuya ordered their forces to retreat from Emperor Fall Valley after receiving messages from Great Emperor Long River and Kong Xuanji.
• The battle ended with Xuantian covered in severe wounds inflicted by Ao Yin and Tai Huang, while the armies gathered to withdraw.
• Su Jiujiu gave Xuantian Rejuvenation Emperor Dew, which slowed the worsening of his injuries but could not heal the black-and-white rules in his wounds.
• Ao Yin and Tai Huang concluded that Xuantian's Emperor Body was nearly broken and that his path to becoming a Great Emperor had been severed.

After the battle at Emperor Fall Land, Xuantian collapsed into Su Jiujiu’s arms, and the story shifted to Nine-Mountain Lake’s Second Mountain Lake, where Yue Qingcang brought Qin Yan and the returning expedition members home. Yue Qingcang then led Qin Yan away, stopping at an unspecified destination.

• Yuan Tian and the Origin Hall disciples retreated after Ao Yin and Tai Huang declared the hunt a failure.
• Ye Weiyang led the Darkness Temple away, and Xuantian collapsed from his injuries into Su Jiujiu’s arms.
• On October 1, the Nine-Mountain Lake expedition returned to Canglan Star and entered Second Mountain Lake.
• Yue Qingcang thanked the elders and disciples, then took Qin Yan with him through the mountain lake.
• Yue Qingcang stopped after leading Qin Yan rapidly past mountain paths, pavilions, spirit fields, and cave dwellings.

Yue Qingcang confined Qin Yan in Cave Mansion No. 110 at Second Mountain Lake under the guise of protecting him from disturbances. Trapped but able to cultivate, Qin Yan planned to grow stronger while awaiting news of the Mystic Sanctuary.

• Yue Qingcang welcomed Qin Yan to Second Mountain Lake and showed him a cave dwelling enclosed by an upper ninth-grade Trap Formation.
• Qin Yan recognized that the formation would imprison him, but entered the cave dwelling after asking Yue Qingcang to watch for news of the Mystic Sanctuary.
• Yue Qingcang sealed the formation behind Qin Yan, leaving him unable to come and go freely.
• Qin Yan assessed his mental power at 687 hertz and calculated that he could reach ninth grade within two or three months.
• Qin Yan allocated his cultivation skill points to the Alchemy Path, reaching eighth-grade alchemist progress of 25 percent.
• Qin Yan brought out a bronze pill furnace and powerful Yang-qi spirit medicines, then began refining pills.

Qin Yan refined and consumed a Nine Yang Blood-Returning Pill while news spread that the Mystic Sanctuary had been devastated and Great Emperor Cangxuan wounded. At the chapter’s end, Cangxuan told the injured Xuantian that two possible methods of healing him remained.

• Qin Yan refined ten high-grade Nine Yang Blood-Returning Pills and consumed one to strengthen his Qi and blood.
• News spread across All Heavens that five Great Emperor-level fighters had attacked Great Emperor Cangxuan, five Temple of Light branches had been destroyed, and Su Jingming had become a Great Emperor.
• Su Jiujiu asked Su Jingming and Great Emperor Cangxuan whether Xuantian could be healed, and Su Jingming explained that only a Great Emperor commanding a life-related Emperor Dao could restore him.
• Great Emperor Cangxuan revealed that two other possible ways to heal Xuantian might be worth trying.

Great Emperor Cangxuan outlined two ways to heal Xuantian’s ruined emperor body: a Nine-Turn Nirvana Pill or emperor fluid combined with the Azure Heaven Great Dao. The pill’s ingredients were unobtainable, and the second method required at least fifty or sixty thousand drops, leaving Xuantian worried about the cost to his injured master.

• Great Emperor Cangxuan explained that a Nine-Turn Nirvana Pill could heal Xuantian and refine his emperor body, but the Mystic Sanctuary lacked its rare ingredients.
• Great Emperor Cangxuan proposed using emperor fluid with the Azure Heaven Great Dao to repair Xuantian’s body and origin.
• Su Jingming offered the Sky Chamber of Commerce’s few bottles of emperor fluid, but Great Emperor Cangxuan estimated Xuantian needed at least fifty or sixty thousand drops.
• Xuantian said his Emperor Nectar could not readily be exchanged for enough emperor fluid.
• Great Emperor Cangxuan offered to condense emperor fluid for Xuantian, but Xuantian urged him not to because he was injured and the process would take thousands of years.

Xuantian learned that Qin Yan had been taken to Nine-Mountain Lake, while Su Jiujiu reaffirmed her decision to remain his Dao companion despite his crippling injuries. At Second Mountain Lake, Qin Yan received news of the disaster at Cangxuan Holy Land and discovered that Xuantian was crippled and Great Emperor Cangxuan had entered seclusion.

• Great Emperor Cangxuan told Xuantian that Yue Qingcang had taken Qin Yan to Nine-Mountain Lake, and that Yun Nichang had gone to investigate.
• Su Jingming asked Su Jiujiu whether she still wanted to be Xuantian's Dao companion, and she firmly said she would stay with him through any hardship.
• Su Jingming accepted Su Jiujiu's decision and gave her his support.
• A young woman sent by the Mountain-Suppressing True Emperor delivered Qin Yan a jade slip containing news from Cangxuan Holy Land and All Heavens.
• Qin Yan read that Xuantian's emperor body had been ruined and that Great Emperor Cangxuan had entered secluded cultivation after suffering grave injuries.

Qing Lan took Qin Yan on a tour of Second Mountain Lake, leading him to the lake and gradually easing his suspicions. Meanwhile, Yun Nichang arrived to ask Yue Qingcang where Qin Yan was, and Yue Qingcang repeated his account of Qin Yan's escape.

• Qing Lan reassured Qin Yan that the Mystic Sanctuary would recover despite its losses and invited him to tour Second Mountain Lake.
• Qin Yan followed Qing Lan down to the lake, where she opened a passage through the spirit array with her token.
• Qing Lan took Qin Yan across the lake by pleasure boat, and he found nothing suspicious as she showed him the sights.
• Yun Nichang arrived at Second Mountain Lake and asked Yue Qingcang where Qin Yan was.
• Yue Qingcang told Yun Nichang that Qin Yan had escaped with a Ten-Thousand-Li Teleportation Talisman and that his search had found nothing.

Yun Nichang searched Second Mountain Lake for Qin Yan but found no trace of him, and Yue Qingcang arranged to have him brought back from the Deep Sea. Meanwhile, Qin Yan realized the voyage might give him a chance to escape and questioned Qing Lan about their location and the surrounding Sea Beasts.

• Yun Nichang searched every part of Second Mountain Lake, but the Mystic Mirror confirmed Qin Yan was not there.
• Yun Nichang left after telling Yue Qingcang she might visit again, and Yue Qingcang ordered an elder to have Lan'er bring Qin Yan back from the Deep Sea.
• Qin Yan traveled through the Deep Sea aboard a cruise ship with Qing Lan and Elder Lin after Elder Lin had restrained him and taken him from the lake.
• Qin Yan estimated that the ship had carried him beyond Second Mountain Lake's territory and decided to wait for it to get farther away before attempting to escape.
• Qin Yan asked Qing Lan why the Sea Beasts had not attacked them, and she explained that Second Mountain Lake had subdued the waters and that the remaining beasts feared its ships.

Qin Yan explored the deep sea with Qing Lan and challenged an Early Venerable Abyss-Devouring Whale. The chapter left him charging into battle with Mo Yuan, whose 49,110 patterns shocked Qing Lan.

• Qing Lan shared information about the waters, Nine-Mountain Lake's influence, and the sea beasts with Qin Yan.
• Qin Yan persuaded Qing Lan and Elder Lin to let him leave the cruise ship and explore the deep sea.
• Qin Yan encountered an Abyss-Devouring Whale, and Qing Lan warned him that it had reached the Early Venerable stage.
• Qin Yan insisted on fighting the whale and summoned Mo Yuan, revealing its 49,110 patterns and astonishing Qing Lan.

Qin Yan revealed that his blood Qi had reached 1.8 billion Cal, shocking Qing Lan and Elder Lin, then attacked the Abyss-Devouring Whale with Mo Yuan. He pinned the whale beneath nine pillars of seawater and appeared before it, poised to continue the assault.

• Qin Yan noted that Mo Yuan had nearly reached fifty thousand patterns after devouring resources from Emperor Fall Land.
• Qin Yan unleashed 1.8 billion Cal of blood Qi, astonishing Qing Lan and Elder Lin.
• Qin Yan used Blood Burst and struck the Abyss-Devouring Whale with Yin-Yang Five-Element Spear Qi, blasting apart its water barrier and sending it tumbling.
• Qin Yan summoned nine pillars of seawater to suppress the Abyss-Devouring Whale.
• Qin Yan moved in front of the restrained whale at extreme speed.

Qin Yan overwhelmed and killed the Abyss-Devouring Whale, then gathered its blood Qi. As Qing Lan and Elder Lin prepared to return, Qin Yan produced a dark-gold Rune Talisman as he approached Qing Lan.

• Qin Yan repeatedly stabbed the Abyss-Devouring Whale, leaving it badly wounded while Qing Lan and Elder Lin watched in shock.
• The Abyss-Devouring Whale unleashed its Whirlpool Turn, but Qin Yan shattered it with Word Manifests Reality and the command, “I say, vortex, shatter!”
• The Abyss-Devouring Whale tried to flee, but Qin Yan summoned a Great Annihilation Spear Shadow that tore it apart from within.
• Qin Yan collected the whale’s blood Qi, which the Blood Demon Nest consumed to nourish his Blood Puppets and Blood-Devouring Mosquitoes.
• Qing Lan praised Qin Yan, and Elder Lin urged them to return; as Qin Yan approached Qing Lan, he revealed a dark-gold Rune Talisman in his palm.

Qin Yan used an Azure Heaven Profound Thunder Talisman to kill Elder Lin, then began recovering from the backlash of its power. As he prepared to flee, Qing Lan confronted him, and Qin Yan summoned his nine-hundred-and-forty-zhang Yin-Yang Five Elements Chaos Golden Body to face her.

• Qin Yan unleashed the Azure Heaven Profound Thunder Talisman, whose lightning destroyed Elder Lin's defenses and blasted him into a mist of blood.
• The talisman's lingering power hurled Qin Yan into a reef and badly wounded him, but he treated his injuries with a healing pill and spiritual light.
• Qin Yan stopped recovering before he had fully healed, fearing the talisman's eruption would alert the elders of Second Mountain Lake.
• Qing Lan appeared before Qin Yan and blocked his escape, accusing him with anger and lingering fear.
• Qin Yan told Qing Lan to move, then summoned his nine-hundred-and-forty-zhang Yin-Yang Five Elements Chaos Golden Body.

Qin Yan and Qing Lan clashed in the deep sea, where her towering Ancient Wood Golden Body proved stronger despite Mo Yuan’s power boost. As Qin Yan hurried to finish the fight before reinforcements arrived, he summoned Little Black, which took the form of a four-thousand-zhang Darkness Force tree.

• Qin Yan merged with his nine-hundred-and-forty-zhang Golden Body, while Qing Lan summoned her two-thousand-five-hundred-zhang Ancient Wood Golden Body.
• Mo Yuan used Spear Spirit Clone to reach fifty thousand patterns and Early Venerable combat power.
• Qin Yan charged Qing Lan, but their clash sent him tumbling backward while leaving his Golden Body intact.
• Qin Yan realized he needed to end the fight quickly before Second Mountain Lake’s experts or Yue Qingcang arrived.
• Qin Yan ordered Little Black to strike, and Qing Lan saw Darkness Force gather into a four-thousand-zhang pitch-black ancient tree.

Little Black defeated and captured Qing Lan, allowing Qin Yan to escape Second Mountain Lake. Qin Yan disguised himself as an Abyss-Devouring Whale and swam away, while Second Mountain Lake’s elders arrived at the battle site an hour later.

• Little Black used his Nine Nether Soul-Devouring Demon Tree Golden Body to trap Qing Lan and destroy her Ancient Wood Golden Body.
• Little Black bound Qing Lan with Darkness Chains and pulled her into a black hole of darkness, capturing her alive.
• Qin Yan told Little Black they needed to leave, and Little Black returned to Qin Yan’s body.
• Qin Yan used Myriad Disguise to take the form of an Abyss-Devouring Whale and swam away from Second Mountain Lake.
• An hour later, several elders of Second Mountain Lake arrived at the waters where Qin Yan and Qing Lan had fought.

After killing Elder Lin with an Earth-Rank Low-Grade Dao Talisman, Qin Yan fled Second Mountain Lake and headed for Flowing Cloud Island to find a way off Canglan Star. A powerful stranger appeared in his path, leaving Qin Yan to hope his disguise would hold.

• Yue Qingcang ordered the elders to search the surrounding sea for Qin Yan, then vanished under the cover of the power of Law.
• Qin Yan swam east from Second Mountain Lake and ruled out Green Rock Island because Second Mountain Lake had stationed elders and disciples there.
• Qin Yan chose to travel to Flowing Cloud Island, hoping to board a merchant vessel and leave Canglan Star.
• Qin Yan's Abyss-Devouring Whale disguise frightened away nearby sea beasts as he swam toward the surface.
• A stern man surrounded by the power of Rule appeared before Qin Yan through a spatial black hole, and Qin Yan tried to remain calm and trust his disguise.