Chapter Summaries

Yao Yan gave Ying Xuanzi and the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace Master Reincarnation Seeds before heading to the Da Yan Dynasty to meet Lin Dong. He offered Lin Dong lodging in exchange for teaching him Baji Beng, and Lin Dong accepted.

• Ren Yuanzi and Tian Yuanzi discussed the Reincarnation expert's apparent failure and decided Yuan Sect should keep a low profile.
• Yao Yan gave Ying Xuanzi and the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace Master Reincarnation Seeds, then disappeared from the Chaos Ocean.
• Ying Xuanzi and the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace Master secretly agreed to form an alliance against Yuan Sect and the Different Demons.
• Yao Yan watched their conversation, then traveled toward the Da Yan Dynasty to meet Lin Dong.
• Lin Dong trained with weighted iron blocks in the forest while striving to improve enough to win the Blood Coagulation Vermilion Fruit for his injured father.
• Yao Yan demonstrated Baji Beng and offered to teach it in exchange for staying at Lin Dong's home, and Lin Dong accepted.

Yao Yan stayed with Lin Xiao’s family, revealed Lin Qingtan’s special Fiend Devil Body, and used his flame to stabilize her Yin Cold Qi. After secretly retrieving the Ancestor Stone, he began teaching Lin Dong Baji Beng in the back mountain.

• Lin Dong introduced Yao Yan to Lin Xiao and explained their arrangement, and Lin Xiao agreed to let Yao Yan stay in Lin Qingtan’s room.
• Yao Yan identified Lin Qingtan’s Fiend Devil Body and placed a flame in her body to absorb excess cold Qi and let her cultivate safely.
• Lin Xiao and Lin Dong thanked Yao Yan, and the family hosted him for dinner before he searched for and took the Ancestor Stone.
• Over the following days, Lin Dong did not ask for Baji Beng, while Lin Qingtan grew curious about the purple mouse Yao Yan carried.
• Yao Yan found Lin Dong exhausting himself with Tongbei Fist practice, cleared his hidden injuries with hidden force, and instructed him to merge it into his punches.

Yao Yan trained Lin Dong and prepared a powerful medicinal bath from ordinary herbs, strengthening Lin Dong’s body and Spiritual Power. Yao Yan refused to take Lin Dong as his disciple for now, setting the Hundred Empires War as the test for a future apprenticeship.

• Yao Yan decided to cultivate Lin Dong because he found him pleasing and wanted to see whether he could reach the heights he had in the original work.
• Yao Yan refined Lin Xiao’s gathered herbs into a medicinal bath, and Lin Dong endured the pain as it tempered and nourished him.
• After Lin Dong absorbed the medicinal liquid, Yao Yan said it could help him reach the Body Tempering Sixth Level and told him to keep training.
• Lin Dong tried to kneel and become Yao Yan’s disciple, but Yao Yan stopped him and made a decent ranking in the Hundred Empires War the condition for reconsidering.
• Lin Dong readily accepted the challenge, while Lin Xiao put aside his doubts and chose to believe in his son.

Lin Qingtan broke through to the seventh level of Body Tempering, prompting Yao Yan to train her and Lin Dong in Spiritual Power while Lin Dong advanced through a Medicinal Bath. Yao Yan arranged for Little Marten to watch over the siblings after he left, and promised to help him obtain a physical body in exchange for his support.

• Lin Qingtan defeated Lin Dong with her newly awakened Source Power, and Yao Yan explained that her constitution let her progress unusually quickly.
• Yao Yan prepared a stronger Medicinal Bath that helped Lin Dong reach the seventh level of Body Tempering, then taught both siblings a Spiritual Power technique that formed their Life Symbol Imprints.
• Yao Yan told Little Marten he would leave after the Clan Competition and offered to fulfill one condition if Little Marten protected Lin Dong and Lin Qingtan.
• Little Marten agreed to watch over the siblings in exchange for help condensing a physical body, and Yao Yan told him about a Life and Death Reincarnation Pill in the Ancient Battlefield.
• Little Marten asked Yao Yan to leave the Ancestor Stone behind, and Yao Yan said he would leave an imitation while keeping the original for his own use.

Yao Yan prepared to leave after Lin Dong’s Clan Competition, crafted an imitation Ancestor Stone, and revealed his origins and strength to Yan and Little Marten. He promised to help Tianxuan Continent if needed, then claimed he could kill the Different Demon Emperor eight times in the time it took an incense stick to burn.

• Yao Yan gave Lin Xiao a healing pill and explained that he would leave after Lin Dong’s Clan Competition, leaving Little Marten to teach and protect Lin Dong and Lin Qingtan.
• Yao Yan began crafting an imitation Ancestor Stone, prompting Yan to emerge and ask who he was.
• Yao Yan revealed that he came from another Lower Plane and was a Soul Imprint at the Reincarnation Realm Second Layer, while promising to help fight the Different Demon Emperor if necessary.
• Yao Yan discussed the Plane Womb with Yan and offered Little Marten an opportunity to become an overlord of the Demon Region if he performed well.
• Yao Yan said he had encountered the Different Demon Emperor and could cut him down eight times in the time it took an incense stick to burn, leaving Yan and Little Marten stunned.

Yao Yan forged the Creation Spirit Token and gave it to Lin Dong, while giving Lin Qingtan a seed of the Bone Spirit Cold Fire. After the siblings became Symbol Masters, they set off to cultivate with their new gifts.

• Yao Yan used his understanding of formations to forge the Creation Spirit Token, a growing spiritual treasure inspired by the Ancestor Stone.
• Yao Yan explained that he would not destroy the Tianxuan Continent for power and intended to pursue the Plane Womb through the people’s Wish Power.
• Lin Dong and Lin Qingtan woke after a night of cultivation having condensed Life Symbol Imprints and become Symbol Masters.
• Yao Yan gave Lin Dong the Creation Spirit Token and Lin Qingtan a strand of the Bone Spirit Cold Fire’s origin to transform her physique.
• Yao Yan reminded Lin Dong of their agreement and warned that he would reclaim his gifts if Lin Dong failed to become a powerhouse; Lin Dong and Lin Qingtan then went to cultivate.

After leaving Lin Dong and Lin Qingtan in Little Marten’s care, Yao Yan traveled to Mist Forest and spent nearly two years comprehending its terrain and advancing his spirit-array skills. He left for a nearby town, intending to settle matters in the Tianxuan Continent, while Lin Dong resolved to win the Hundred Empires War and earn another chance to become Yao Yan’s disciple.

• Yao Yan departed after telling Little Marten to guide Lin Dong and Lin Qingtan, and set first place in the Hundred Empires War as the condition for meeting again.
• Lin Dong and Lin Qingtan returned from the Lin Family Clan Competition and learned that Yao Yan had left; Little Marten took over their training.
• Lin Dong vowed to defeat his rivals and win the Hundred Empires War, then brought Little Marten into the Good Fortune Spirit Talisman.
• Yao Yan entered Mist Forest, where he studied its terrain and used his Spiritual Power to comprehend and shape the region’s World Power.
• Nearly two years later, Yao Yan ended his cultivation in Mist Forest and headed toward a nearby town after sensing something interesting there.

Yao Yan met Jiang Yinyin, the reincarnated Lord of Life and Death, at Eagle Martial Hall and offered to teach her while asking the hall to search for an artifact. Jiang Lei agreed, leaving Yao Yan in a position to help the struggling martial hall and study Jiang Yinyin’s Reincarnation Seal.

• Jiang Xue told Jiang Lei that Uncle Wu and the other trapped disciples had returned from Mist Forest, while Jiang Lei worried about Blood Vulture Martial Hall’s threat.
• Jiang Xue found Yao Yan creating lifelike beings for Jiang Yinyin and demanded to know why he had entered Eagle Martial Hall.
• Yao Yan said he wanted to teach Jiang Yinyin and asked Eagle Martial Hall to help him find the Spirit Nourishing Cushion; Jiang Xue went to get her father’s consent.
• Yao Yan and Yan discussed Jiang Yinyin’s identity as the Lord of Life and Death and the possibility that her Reincarnation Seal could help her recover.
• Jiang Lei returned with Jiang Xue and agreed to Yao Yan’s request after seeing him with Jiang Yinyin.

Yao Yan asked Jiang Lei to search for the Spirit Nourishing Cushion and studied the Reincarnation Mark in Jiang Yinyin, while growing closer to the sisters. After brushing aside a confrontation with Luo Shan, he offered to take Jiang Xue into the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet through a back door, leaving her stunned by his apparent power.

• Yao Yan asked Jiang Lei to search Great Desolate County for the Spirit Nourishing Cushion, and Jiang Lei agreed to try.
• Yao Yan studied the Reincarnation Mark in Jiang Yinyin and speculated that Reincarnation Rebirth might let him return to his original world.
• Jiang Yinyin teased Jiang Xue about a matter she had asked her to consider, and Jiang Xue tried to stop her from saying more in front of Yao Yan.
• Luo Shan of the Blood Vulture Martial Hall confronted the Eagle Martial Hall carriage, but he backed down after seeing Yao Yan and ordered a subordinate to investigate him.
• Yao Yan told Jiang Xue to cultivate harder and offered to take her into the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet through a back door, stunning her.

Yao Yan brought Jiang Xue and Jiang Yinyin into the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet to retrieve the Devouring Ancestral Symbol, defeat the sealed Otherworldly Demon King, and find a successor for Black Eyes Old Man's sect. He unleashed a vast purification fire across the tablet space, leaving Black Eyes Old Man and Jiang Xue stunned by his power.

• Yao Yan entered the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet with Jiang Xue and Jiang Yinyin, while Yan sensed the Devouring Ancestral Symbol and Demonic Qi within.
• Yao Yan found the Symbol Puppet Nest's altar and learned from Jiang Xue that the Yin Puppet Sect had occupied the region and likely taken the Devouring Ancestral Symbol.
• Yao Yan entered the hidden world and met Black Eyes Old Man, who confirmed that the Devouring Ancestral Symbol had been taken and agreed to consider Jiang Xue as a successor.
• Yao Yan revealed his power, shattered Black Eyes Old Man's world, and left him to watch over Jiang Xue and Jiang Yinyin.
• Yao Yan cast a gigantic fire lotus across the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet, purifying its Demonic Qi without harming the land and astonishing Black Eyes Old Man, Yan, and Jiang Xue.

Yao Yan annihilated the Nine Kings Hall in the Ancient Tablet Space and arranged for Jiang Xue to inherit the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet. In the darkness beyond, a Blood Lamp went out, and shadowy figures learned that Old Nine had been killed.

• Yao Yan purified the Ancient Tablet Space and forced the Nine Kings Hall to emerge, then defeated him despite his Demon Emperor Armor.
• Yao Yan devoured the Nine Kings Hall's remains, restoring the land and earning the gratitude of Black Eyes Old Man, the guardian, and the spirits.
• Yao Yan named Jiang Xue as the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet's inheritor, and she vowed to rebuild the sect.
• A Blood Lamp went out in a dark world, and an unseen voice announced that Old Nine had been killed.

Yao Yan retrieved and refined the Devouring Ancestral Symbol, then left an imitation for Lin Dong to find while the world’s dark forces warned of the coming Heaven and Earth War. As Jiang Yinyin’s past-life memories began awakening, a young woman in the Huangfu Family agreed to visit the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet.

• Dark figures discussed the erasure of Old Nine, suspected the Ancient Eight Masters might have awakened, and ordered their allies to avoid them before the next Heaven and Earth War.
• Yao Yan brought Jiang Yinyin to Great Eagle City, where Jiang Lei thanked him for helping Jiang Xue inherit the Great Desolate Sect’s legacy.
• Jiang Yinyin’s memories from her previous life began to awaken, and Yan explained that she would gradually recover her memories and strength.
• Yao Yan traveled to Yin Puppet City, broke the seal around the Devouring Ancestral Symbol, and refined it into his Soul Imprint.
• Yao Yan created an imitation Devouring Ancestral Symbol for Lin Dong, returned it to the formation, and sealed it for him to discover.
• A young woman in the Huangfu Family agreed to visit the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet after hearing about its unusual opening and inheritance.

Yao Yan left the revived Great Desolate Ancient Tablet after asking Black Eyes Old Man to train Lin Dong and tell him about the Devouring Ancestral Symbol. He took Jiang Yinyin toward the Dao Sect and planned to search Great Puppet City for a meditation cushion, while Jiang Xue was left with unspoken feelings for him.

• Yao Yan failed to persuade Black Eyes Old Man to keep living, but asked him to train Lin Dong and reveal the location of the Devouring Ancestral Symbol when Lin Dong arrived.
• Yao Yan left the Ancient Tablet Space with Jiang Xue and Jiang Yinyin after telling Jiang Xue to return once she reached the Creation Realm and rebuild the Great Desolate Sect.
• Jiang Lei welcomed his daughters back and told Yao Yan that a similar meditation cushion had been seen in Great Puppet City.
• Yao Yan decided to take Jiang Yinyin to the Dao Sect for guidance and travel to Great Puppet City, while Jiang Xue asked whether she could visit them in the future.
• Yao Yan departed with Jiang Yinyin, and Yan remarked that Jiang Xue seemed to have feelings for him; Yao Yan dismissed them as youthful admiration.

Yao Yan arrived in Great Puppet City with Jiang Yinyin and enlisted Mu Qianqian to search for the Spirit Nourishing Cushion, which contained the Cosmos Ancient Array’s inscriptions. On his way back to the inn, he encountered Ling Qingzhu, who asked to follow him for a period of time.

• Yao Yan told Yan that the Spirit Nourishing Cushion contained the Cosmos Ancient Array’s inscriptions, then took Jiang Yinyin to an inn and sealed her room with Spiritual Power.
• Yao Yan visited Mu Qianqian and used his power to subdue her before asking the Great Demon Gate to find the cushion within seven days in exchange for a Creation Martial Art.
• Mu Qianqian accepted the task, set aside her plans to pursue the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet, and ordered her people to search Great Puppet City.
• Yao Yan walked back toward the inn while considering his plans for the Cosmos Ancient Array, the Underworld, and his Heavenly Emperor weapon.
• Ling Qingzhu descended on a Green Lotus and asked to speak with Yao Yan, but his words sealed her power and caused her to fall face-first onto the path.
• Ling Qingzhu apologized to Yao Yan, addressed him as Senior, and asked to follow him for a period of time.

Yao Yan agreed to let Ling Qingzhu stay near him so she could investigate the power sensed by her Supreme Induction Art, while revealing his many harmonized powers and learning that the art came from the Symbol Ancestor’s former lover. After returning to the inn with Ling Qingzhu, he introduced her to Jiang Yinyin, who revealed that her sister was inheriting the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet.

• Ling Qingzhu explained that her Supreme Induction Art had sensed a special power from Yao Yan, and he agreed to let her stay with him while she cultivated.
• Yao Yan displayed the many powers within his body, but Ling Qingzhu found that the Art’s unusual sensation came from Yao Yan himself rather than any power in his palm.
• Yao Yan learned from the Ancestor Stone Spirit, Yan, that the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace’s ancestor had been considered the Symbol Ancestor’s woman.
• Yao Yan teleported himself and Ling Qingzhu back to the inn, where Jiang Yinyin greeted him and met Ling Qingzhu.
• Jiang Yinyin told Ling Qingzhu that her sister was busy inheriting the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet, prompting Ling Qingzhu to reconsider visiting it.

Yao Yan retrieved the Cosmos Ancient Array, then left for the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace with Ling Qingzhu and Jiang Yinyin. In the Dou Qi Continent, he used the Nether Tower to restore Xiao Xuan and Hun Tiandi as powerful Energy Bodies and bound them to his will.

• Yao Yan accepted the Spirit Nourishing Cushion from Mu Qianqian and rewarded her with the Soul Seizer Shattering Spirit Art.
• Yao Yan uncovered the Cosmos Ancient Array inside the cushion, stored it, and set out with Ling Qingzhu and Jiang Yinyin for the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace.
• Yao Yan used the Nether Tower to revive Xiao Xuan at peak Nine Star Dou Sheng strength, and Xiao Xuan learned that Nihility Devouring Flame had blood-sacrificed Xiao Ning and Xiao Chen.
• Yao Yan revived Hun Tiandi at peak Nine Star Dou Sheng strength, and Hun Tiandi acknowledged Yao Yan's victory.
• Yao Yan strengthened the Nether Tower's brand on Xiao Xuan and Hun Tiandi until they bowed to him as the Nether Lord.

Yao Yan transformed Hun Tiandi, Xiao Xuan, and the Soul Hall members into servants of the Underworld before traveling to the Tianxuan Continent. He arrived at the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace with Ling Qingzhu and Jiang Yinyin, where he planned to study its Supreme Induction Art and asked Ling Qingzhu to find ancient books for him.

• Yao Yan explained the Tianxuan Continent to Hun Tiandi and Xiao Xuan while reviving Heavenly Tomb experts as ghost soldiers.
• Yao Yan marked the Soul Hall members with the Nether Tower, and Hun Tiandi and Xiao Xuan agreed to serve the Underworld for a thousand years in exchange for revival.
• Yao Yan declared the gathered dead members of the Underworld, transformed their clothing and masks, and took them through a passage to the Tianxuan Continent.
• Yao Yan sent a streak of black light toward the Demon Region to begin gathering Myriad Spirits Essence Blood, then traveled to the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace with Ling Qingzhu and Jiang Yinyin.
• Ling Qingzhu guided Yao Yan and Jiang Yinyin to her lakeside courtyard, and Yao Yan asked her to find ancient texts about formations and look after Jiang Yinyin.

Yao Yan entered the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace Master’s Reincarnation Tribulation and learned that Ling Qingzhu’s Supreme Induction Art could sense the Plane Womb. After Yao Yan asked Ling Qingzhu to consult her elders about the art, the elder realized the significance of his possession of the Ancestor Stone.

• Yao Yan noticed that Ling Qingzhu’s new cultivation art could endanger her and learned that she had chosen to practice the Nine Heavens Immortal Art herself.
• Yao Yan entered the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace Master’s reincarnation, urged her to face her Heart Demons, and learned that the Supreme Induction Art sensed the Plane Womb.
• Yao Yan questioned Yan, the Ancestor Stone Spirit, who confirmed that the Symbol Ancestor had created the Supreme Induction Art to sense the Plane Womb and had failed in his attempt.
• Yao Yan asked Ling Qingzhu to learn more about the Supreme Induction Art from her palace elders before deciding whether to teach it to him.
• Ling Qingzhu told a senior elder about Yao Yan, the Ancestor Stone, and the Plane Womb, leaving the elder astonished and solemn.

The old woman explained to Ling Qingzhu that Yao Yan came from the Outer Realm and that the Supreme Induction Art could help locate the Plane Womb, which was tied to saving their world from the Different Demons. Ling Qingzhu learned that teaching the art required dual cultivation, and after Yao Yan framed their potential relationship as that of Dao companions, she began considering him as a partner on her Cultivation Path.

• The old woman told Ling Qingzhu about Symbol Ancestor, the Heaven and Earth Calamity, and the danger posed by the sealed Different Demon Emperor.
• Ling Qingzhu accepted that she might need to help Yao Yan and asked how to teach him the Supreme Induction Art.
• The old woman revealed that the art could only be passed on through dual cultivation, leaving Ling Qingzhu stunned.
• Yan told Yao Yan that he would need to dual cultivate with a woman from the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace to learn the art.
• That night, Ling Qingzhu visited Yao Yan, and he reassured her that she could refuse before describing them as potential Dao companions.
• Ling Qingzhu asked whether Yao Yan meant himself when he advised her to fall in love, and he left the choice to her.

Ling Qingzhu admitted that Yao Yan was the only man she would choose, then struggled with her unfamiliar feelings after leaving him. Meanwhile, Lin Dong defeated Teng Sha and discovered that the hidden treasure at the Yin Puppet Sect carried his teacher's aura, prompting him to leave in search of its source.

• Ling Qingzhu told Yao Yan she would try his suggested path and that he was her only choice, then left to reflect on her growing feelings.
• Yao Yan revealed that he had three wives and several confidantes after Ling Qingzhu asked about his cultivation partners.
• Lin Dong confronted Teng Sha at the Yin Puppet Sect and demanded the treasure taken from the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet.
• Lin Dong overwhelmed Teng Sha with the Great Desolate Heaven Imprisoning Finger, defeating his Yin Puppet Demon Skull technique.
• Lin Dong found a black orb beneath the sect's plaza, recognized his teacher's aura in it, and departed with Little Marten and Little Flame.