Chapter Summaries

The Demon Emperor's tomb opened, and a disguised Ye Fan stole the Green Emperor's saint weapon before teleporting away, leaving Duan De to take the blame. Duan De fled under attack, protected by his battered bowl, while the chapter recounted the era's history and his search for his friend, the Desolate Heaven Emperor.

• The Demon Emperor's tomb burst open, releasing the Green Emperor's saint weapon, and the Demon Emperor's descendant tried to catch it with the Treasure Basin.
• A man impersonating Duan De seized the weapon, taunted the crowd, and vanished through a prepared teleportation platform.
• Duan De, elsewhere admiring a jade thumb ring, realized someone had framed him as the thief and tried to escape the ensuing lockdown.
• Cultivators recognized Duan De and attacked him as he fled, while his battered bowl shielded him from fatal blows.
• The chapter recounted the eras and rulers of ancient history, then explained that Cao Yusheng searched graves in every life for his friend, the Desolate Heaven Emperor.

Ye Fan escaped with the Green Emperor's Weapon and discovered the Green Emperor's contingency growing in his Wheel Sea. He encountered the Old Madman, a surviving member of the fallen Merak Holy Land, and cautiously tried to learn whether he remembered his past.

• Yan Ruyu led the Eastern Wasteland demons toward the Demon Emperor Tomb, hoping to find the emperor's corpse after the Green Emperor's Weapon was taken.
• Ye Fan transformed from a plump Daoist into a White-Clad Youth and examined the Green Emperor's Weapon in his Wheel Sea.
• A piece of green copper emerged from the weapon, and its Emperor Blood formed a third green lotus in Ye Fan's Wheel Sea.
• Ye Fan reasoned that the Green Emperor's contingency was drawing on his divine power and declared that he deserved compensation for lending it his treasures.
• The Old Madman appeared, and Ye Fan recalled his history as one of the Heavenly Jade Three Elites before asking whether he remembered Merak Holy Land.

Ye Fan revived the crazed Old Madman with an Undying Divine Fruit, restoring him as the Merak Great Sage. Old Madman repaid him with the Merak Steps and departed to rebuild Merak Holy Land, while a White-Haired Old Woman appeared after Ye Fan left.

• Ye Fan gave Old Madman an Undying Divine Fruit, and a white cocoon formed around him.
• Old Madman emerged young and sane, recognized Ye Fan as a Desolate Ancient Sacred Body, and spoke of the Sacred Body’s difficult cultivation.
• Old Madman taught Ye Fan the Merak Steps in exchange for the divine fruit and offered him help if he encountered trouble.
• Old Madman left for the Central Region to rebuild Merak Holy Land, and Ye Fan practiced the Merak Steps until he vanished into the distance.
• A White-Haired Old Woman appeared and recognized Old Madman as the eldest of Merak’s Three Heroes.

Ye Fan found Jiang Tingting and her grandfather in Qingfeng Town, revealed their connection to the Ancient Jiang Family, and helped them through their hardship. He broke through to the second level of the Dao Palace, while the Li Family’s attention threatened to bring trouble to the Jiang household.

• Ye Fan arrived in Qingfeng Town to build ties with Jiang Zhe’s descendants before the Ancient Jiang Family could reclaim them.
• Ye Fan told the old man that he and Jiang Tingting belonged to the Ancient Jiang Family and gave him gold to buy food.
• Jiang Tingting met Ye Fan, and he shared pastries and dinner with her and her grandfather.
• Ye Fan used the Dao Scripture’s Wheel Sea volume and the Great Emperor’s heart to open his lungs’ Divine Treasury and reach the second level of the Dao Palace.
• Old Master Jiang returned from buying clothes for Tingting and warned that a Li Family servant had spotted him.

Ye Fan destroyed the Li Family in Qingfeng Town and traced the murder of Jiang Tingting’s parents to the family’s seventh son, confronting Misty Sunset Grotto-Heaven to demand the culprit. The seventh son confessed, while Ye Fan’s reaction left his next move unresolved.

• Ye Fan learned about the Li Family’s abuses and decided to act despite the old man’s warning about its ties to Misty Sunset Grotto-Heaven.
• Ye Fan annihilated the Li Family residence with a golden palm and absorbed the life essence from the family’s impure source stone.
• The old man and Jiang Tingting found the Li Family ruins and suspected Ye Fan had destroyed the family, but he had already left to deal with a hidden danger.
• Ye Fan attacked Misty Sunset Grotto-Heaven with the Green Lotus Dao Weapon and demanded that it hand over the Li Family’s seventh son for the murder of Jiang Tingting’s parents.
• The seventh son confessed that he had used beast-luring powder to draw a lightning bird to the Jiang couple after they thwarted his attempt to seize spiritual herbs.

Ye Fan avenged Tingting’s parents by killing Li Family’s Seventh Son, then urged Tingting and her grandfather to return to the Jiang Family. The Jiang Family’s search party arrived in Qingfeng Town and began verifying their identities.

• Ye Fan killed Li Family’s Seventh Son at Misty Sunset Grotto-Heaven and warned others not to interfere.
• Ye Fan told Tingting’s grandfather that her parents’ deaths had been deliberately planned and urged him to take her back to the Jiang Family.
• Tingting’s grandfather agreed, and Ye Fan stayed in Qingfeng Town to cultivate until his Divine Treasury of the Lungs was complete.
• Jiang Yifei, Jiang Caixuan, and Jiang Yichen led the Jiang Family party to the old man’s tavern.
• Jiang Yifei asked the old man about his Jiang Family lineage and ordered a knight to test his and Tingting’s blood with the Ancestral Artifact.

Ye Fan left the Jiang Family after warning them of his strength and entered Mystic Gate under an assumed identity. After joining the declining Zhuo Peak, he met its longtime guardian, Li Ruoyu.

• Ye Fan frightened Jiang Yichen’s Azure Lion Beast with a trace of Great Emperor majesty, then introduced himself to Jiang Yifei and left the Jiang Family gathering.
• Jiang Yifei rebuked Jiang Yichen for considering an attack on Ye Fan and led the Jiang Family descendants back toward their clan.
• Ye Fan watched from a hillside, then vanished when Jiang Yichen did not pursue him.
• Ye Fan entered Mystic Gate’s annual recruitment assembly under an anonymous identity and barely secured a place among the three thousand disciples.
• After no elders recruited him, Ye Fan chose the barren Zhuo Peak, whose inheritance included the All-Word Secret.
• Li Ruoyu appeared and told Ye Fan that he was an ordinary disciple guarding Zhuo Peak, inviting him to call him Martial Uncle.

Ye Fan found Zhuo Peak’s Clumsy Bow and, with Li Ruoyu, used it to reopen the lineage’s inheritance, including the Natural Great Dao and the All-Word Secret. After half a month of enlightenment, Ye Fan began mastering nature’s Dao, while Li Ruoyu broke through to the Immortal Platform realm.

• Ye Fan found the damaged Clumsy Bow in a badger hole and persuaded Li Ruoyu to help restore Zhuo Peak’s inheritance.
• Li Ruoyu placed the Clumsy Bow on Zhuo Peak’s nine-tiered jade staircase, which transformed into nine sacred mountains and awakened the peak’s inheritance.
• Ye Fan and Li Ruoyu entered enlightenment as Zhuo Peak regained its greenery, and the lineage’s insights into the Natural Great Dao and All-Word Secret entered Ye Fan’s consciousness.
• After half a month, Ye Fan demonstrated his grasp of the Natural Great Dao by transforming azure light into forms of nature.
• Li Ruoyu broke through three major realms in succession and reached the first level of the Immortal Platform.

Ye Fan settled on Zhuo Peak to study the Natural Great Dao under Li Ruoyu, then confronted Hua Yunfei about the Ruthless Empress Lineage and offered to exchange Emperor Scriptures. Hua Yunfei agreed to Ye Fan’s proposal, though Ye Fan’s bargain also served his own desire to obtain the Swallowing Heaven Demonic Art.

• Li Ruoyu gave Ye Fan an ancient book on the Natural Great Dao, opened Zhuo Peak’s inheritance, and became the peak master after reaching the Immortal Platform realm.
• Ye Fan stayed on Zhuo Peak to learn from Li Ruoyu and advanced to the third level of the Dao Palace.
• Ye Fan met Hua Yunfei by a mountain spring, invited him to Zhuo Peak, and revealed that he knew the Ruthless Empress Lineage had approached him.
• Ye Fan told Hua Yunfei he could help him escape his fate as a pawn and offered to exchange the Demon Emperor Ancient Sutra for the Swallowing Heaven Demonic Art.
• Hua Yunfei questioned whether the offer would truly free him, but eventually agreed to the exchange.

Ye Fan traded the All-Word Secret for Hua Yunfei’s Swallowing Heaven Demonic Art, revealed his identity, and left Taiqing after converting to the new cultivation technique. He then went to meet Yan Ruyu, the Demon Emperor’s descendant, at the Profound Origin Sect.

• Ye Fan gave Hua Yunfei the All-Word Secret in exchange for the Swallowing Heaven Demonic Art and revealed that he was Ye Fan.
• Ye Fan spent a month cultivating the Swallowing Heaven Demonic Art, then bowed farewell to Li Ruoyu and left Taiqing.
• Ye Fan arrived at the Profound Origin Sect, where Qin Yao mistook his powerful bloodline aura for that of a Great Emperor’s prince.
• Yan Ruyu greeted Ye Fan as the fifty-third-generation descendant of the Great Emperor.

Ye Fan posed as the long-lost demon ancestor Yan Xi and convinced Yan Ruyu that his identity was genuine. He kept the Demon Emperor’s relics for now while offering Yan Ruyu the Demon Emperor’s blood essence, leaving their future ownership unresolved.

• The Demon Emperor Heart and Green Emperor's Weapon stirred when Ye Fan met Yan Ruyu, and Ye Fan decided to keep them until he reached the Four Extremities realm.
• Ye Fan claimed to be Yan Xi, a demon genius who had vanished five thousand years earlier, and explained that he would continue using Ye Fan’s human identity.
• Ye Fan and Yan Ruyu completed eight identity checks, after which Yan Ruyu knelt and acknowledged him as her ancestor.
• Ye Fan declined to return with Yan Ruyu to the demon race’s stronghold and said he would leave the demon race’s revival to her.
• When Yan Ruyu asked about the Demon Emperor’s relics, Ye Fan refused to hand them over and gave her several drops of the Great Emperor’s blood essence instead.

Ye Fan, posing as Prince Yan Xi, protected Yan Ruyu’s stronghold while she cultivated with the Demon Emperor Blood Essence. When Ji Haoyue arrived seeking a fight, Ye Fan stepped forward to face the Ji Family divine body, who opened with his Bright Moon Rising Over the Sea vision.

• Yan Ruyu entered seclusion with the Demon Emperor Blood Essence, leaving Ye Fan in charge of her stronghold.
• Ji Haoyue led Ji Family experts to the Profound Origin Sect and shattered its protective formation while demanding to see Yan Ruyu.
• Ye Fan refused to let the demons awaken Yan Ruyu and told Ji Haoyue that she could not receive visitors while in seclusion.
• Ye Fan emerged as the Demon Emperor descendant’s guardian, and Ji Haoyue chose to challenge him instead.
• Ji Haoyue unleashed the Bright Moon Rising Over the Sea vision as their fight began.

Ye Fan and Ji Haoyue tested their abilities in a fierce battle, pitting Ye Fan’s Natural Great Dao against the Ji Family’s Great Void Technique. Ye Fan ended the fight by conceding that Ji Haoyue would win if they continued, while Ji Haoyue had proposed a draw.

• Ji Haoyue used the Bright Moon Rising Over the Sea phenomenon, but Ye Fan countered with Azure Lotus Growing in Chaos.
• Ji Haoyue attacked through the void, and Ye Fan struck him from concealment before they traded techniques, including the Void Great Hand Seal and Innate Taixu Astral Qi.
• Ye Fan used the Natural Great Dao to anticipate Ji Haoyue’s hidden attacks and drive him back.
• Ye Fan animated the peach forest into Iron-Blood Tree Warriors, impressing the Ji Family elders.
• Ji Haoyue suggested they call the match a draw, but Ye Fan conceded because his cultivation was lower and the terrain favored him.

Ye Fan abducted Ji Ziyue, the Ji Family’s secretly protected Spirit Origin Body, and led her away while the Ji Family pursued him. After shaking off the pursuers and returning to the Wei Kingdom, he revealed that he knew her constitution, leaving Ji Ziyue terrified.

• Yan Ruyu emerged from seclusion with the Golden Lotus Growing in the Sea of Bitterness phenomenon and spoke with Ji Haoyue.
• Ye Fan used the Heavenly Pivot Steps to seize Ji Ziyue and escape, prompting Ji Haoyue and the Ji Family experts to pursue him.
• Ji Haoyue recognized that Ye Fan had taken his sister, whose Spirit Origin Body the Ji Family had kept secret, and vowed to rescue her.
• Yan Ruyu sent a faint message saying she would draw away the Ji Family pursuers, then led the Eastern Wasteland demons to withdraw.
• Ye Fan used the Merak Steps and the Azure Lotus to evade the pursuers, then secretly returned to the Wei Kingdom with Ji Ziyue bound beside him.
• Ye Fan told Ji Ziyue that he knew she was a Spirit Origin Body, and she turned pale and denied it.

Ye Fan brought his captive Ji Ziyue to the Bronze Immortal Palace and searched its deadly halls for the Root of All Things Mother Qi. He found the treasure, while Ji Ziyue tried to claim it for herself.

• Ye Fan frightened Ji Ziyue into silence and searched the western region of the Wei Kingdom for several days.
• Ye Fan took Ji Ziyue through an underground river, where they discovered the Bronze Immortal Palace.
• The palace gates opened for Ye Fan and Ji Ziyue, and they traveled through halls filled with the remains of ancient experts.
• Ye Fan led Ji Ziyue to a vast store of Mother Qi of All Things and revealed the Root of All Things Mother Qi.
• Ji Ziyue demanded that Ye Fan release her so she could take the treasure, but Ye Fan reminded her that she was his captive.

Ye Fan refined a golden cauldron with nine kinds of precious iron and sent it into the Mother Qi of All Things to absorb its essence. He then used the Duren Scripture to make Ji Ziyue copy the complete Void Scripture, leaving her crying when she woke.

• Ye Fan asked Ji Ziyue to write down the Void Scripture, but she refused and warned him against forcing her.
• Ye Fan smelted nine kinds of precious iron into a cauldron and inscribed it with nine Emperor characters from the Dao Scripture.
• Ye Fan struck the cauldron into the Mother Qi of All Things, where it repeatedly collapsed and reformed before reaching the lake's center to absorb its essence.
• Ye Fan chanted the Duren Scripture and made Ji Ziyue copy the complete Void Scripture, then burned the written copy.
• Ye Fan took a few drops of Ji Ziyue's heart's blood for research, and she woke up crying and accusing him of wrongdoing.

Ye Fan and Ji Ziyue escaped the Bronze Immortal Palace after surviving the blood-red inscription’s attack on their minds, and he parted with her after giving her the Demon Emperor Ancient Sutra. Meanwhile, the Ji Family’s conflict with the Eastern Wasteland demon race ended, while the demon kings publicly named Ye Fan Yan Ruyu’s protector and spread a false account of the Demon Emperor relics.

• Ye Fan used divine liquid to help Ji Ziyue complete her Dao Palace cultivation while studying the Yuanling Physique and cultivating with its power.
• After Ji Ziyue woke, she discovered Ye Fan had taken the Mother Qi of All Things and formed it into a small cauldron that returned to his Wheel Sea.
• Ye Fan and Ji Ziyue were nearly overwhelmed by the blood-red character for “Immortal” in the Bronze Immortal Palace, but sacred objects helped Ye Fan recover and he roused Ji Ziyue so they could leave.
• Ye Fan released Ji Ziyue by an underground river and gave her the Demon Emperor Ancient Sutra in exchange for the Void Scripture.
• The Ji Family and Eastern Wasteland demon race ended their standoff after Ji Ziyue returned, while the Peacock King’s faction declared Ye Fan Yan Ruyu’s protector and claimed Duan De had been a demon in disguise.

Ye Fan stabilized the Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi in the Fire Domain and stole discarded divine iron from Crow Daoist to improve it. As he traveled toward the Carefree Sect, the Peacock King’s Wheel Sea phenomenon trapped him and unleashed a crushing attack.

• Ye Fan spent a year tempering the cauldron in the Fire Domain, rebuilding his cultivation from the Sea of Bitterness to strengthen his foundation.
• Ye Fan followed Crow Daoist’s cries to the eighth level and collected the Sheepfat White Jade Divine Iron he had discarded.
• Crow Daoist discovered the divine iron was gone and roared furiously as Ye Fan escaped the Fire Domain.
• Ye Fan headed across Jin Kingdom toward the Carefree Sect, summoning the Holy Lord-grade artifact Azure Lotus for his journey.
• The Peacock King’s Stars Shine over Azure Heaven phenomenon engulfed Ye Fan in the Rosy Clouds Mountain Range, and countless star-born divine mountains descended upon him.

Ye Fan met the Peacock King and traveled with him and the Green Flood Dragon King to the Northern Region. After demonstrating the Demon Emperor’s Heart and weapon, he left for the Green Flood Dragon King’s territory in Cloud Marsh Province, seeking opportunities and considering a trip to Purple Mountain.

• Ye Fan survived the Peacock King’s meteor attack, and the Peacock King identified himself and conveyed Yan Ruyu’s invitation.
• Ye Fan met Yan Ruyu, who explained that the Peacock King and Green Flood Dragon King were among the few demon kings still loyal to her lineage.
• The Green Flood Dragon King asked to see the Demon Emperor’s inheritance, and Ye Fan revealed the Sacred Heart and Green Emperor’s Weapon, making the two kings bow under their imperial pressure.
• Ye Fan agreed to travel north with the Peacock King and Green Flood Dragon King, planning to seek opportunities and privately considering how to secure a supreme imperial weapon.
• The two demon kings opened a domain gate, and Ye Fan arrived with them in the Northern Region, where the Green Flood Dragon King’s residence lay in Cloud Marsh Province.

Ye Fan attended a gathering at the Green Flood Dragon King’s palace, where the Golden-Winged Young Roc King challenged him over Yan Ruyu. Ye Fan countered the Roc King’s attack with the Demon Emperor’s Nine Slashes, and the fight was about to escalate.

• Ye Fan advanced to the fourth level of the Dao Palace realm in Ageless Hall before the Roc King arrived with his descendants.
• The Golden-Winged Young Roc King offered to become Yan Ruyu’s guardian, and the Roc King admitted he hoped Ye Fan would humble his arrogant grandson.
• Ye Fan reached the palace with the Azure-Clad Young Flood Dragon King, and the Golden-Winged Young Roc King challenged him.
• Ye Fan provoked the Golden-Winged Young Roc King by addressing Yan Ruyu familiarly and mentioning her increased strength.
• The Golden-Winged Young Roc King attacked with a golden claw, and Ye Fan cut through it with the first slash of the Demon Emperor’s Nine Slashes.