Chapter Summaries

Ye Fan and Old Madman entered Saint Cliff, where Old Madman captured a million Fire Crows to bring back as guardians for Merak. Their attack awakened a powerful being deep within the caves, which turned its killing intent on them.

• Ye Fan used an ancient Emperor jade to pass through Great Emperor Wushi’s aerial restriction formation, and he and Old Madman entered Saint Cliff.
• Old Madman discovered Solar True Fire and provoked a swarm of at least a million Fire Crows, forcing Ye Fan to retreat from the valley.
• Old Madman used his roars to knock out the Fire Crows, then sealed them in his sleeves with Universe in the Sleeve.
• Old Madman showed off Merak’s foundations to Ye Fan, who remained dazed from the indiscriminate Lion’s Roar.
• A golden-eyed being awoke in the largest cave, unleashed Solar True Fire, and sent a powerful killing intent toward Ye Fan and Old Madman.

Old Madman defeated the Three-Legged Golden Crow and tried to take him as a guardian beast for the Celestial Pivot Ancestral Court. Ye Fan stopped Old Madman from carving up the captive, leaving the matter unresolved.

• Old Madman slaughtered the Fire Crows that attacked him and Ye Fan.
• The Three-Legged Golden Crow emerged from his cave and demanded to know why they had killed his dependents.
• Old Madman revealed that the Golden Crow was a Saint and declared him the Celestial Pivot Ancestral Court’s future guardian beast.
• The Golden Crow attacked with his spirit staff, but Old Madman overwhelmed him and sealed his divine power.
• The Golden Crow refused to serve, and Old Madman pretended to prepare to carve him up.
• Ye Fan stepped in and stopped Old Madman’s blade, then asked his Martial Uncle to hear him out.

Ye Fan and Old Madman bound Golden Crow Daoist to Merak Holy Land as its Sect-Protecting True Person in exchange for the Solar True Formula. Golden Crow Daoist led them to the Reincarnation Lake, where Old Madman recognized the ancient relic and its extraordinary origins.

• Ye Fan offered Golden Crow Daoist the later teachings of the Solar True Formula if he served Merak Holy Land, and Old Madman insisted that he become a sect guardian.
• Ye Fan persuaded Golden Crow Daoist to accept the title of Sect-Protecting True Person, while Old Madman planted a restriction in him and gave him the Saint King chapter of the technique.
• Golden Crow Daoist accepted Merak's token, gathered his million Fire Crow kin, and swallowed the cliff mountain along with its Solar True Fire.
• Golden Crow Daoist told Old Madman and Ye Fan about a lake that could reveal past lives and the future, then led them there.
• Old Madman recognized the lake as the Reincarnation Lake and recalled its history as an ancient relic connected to reincarnation.

Ye Fan and Old Madman traveled to Saint Cliff to seek the remaining Ancient Heavenly Court inheritance, despite Golden Crow Daoist’s warnings about the danger there. They reached the summit and found the green-haired ancient coffin, while Old Madman suspected the eerie hair revealed how the Heavenly Court’s final sect master died.

• Old Madman described a vision of attaining enlightenment by an alternative path, and Ye Fan decided not to approach Reincarnation Lake after Old Madman warned him of its effects.
• Golden Crow Daoist warned that Saint Cliff was dangerous because a terrifying being was sealed there and an ancient sage had never returned; Ye Fan secretly told Old Madman about Undying Daoist.
• Old Madman agreed to seek the Ancient Heavenly Court inheritance at Saint Cliff, where he explained that Great Emperor Wushi’s Investiture of the Gods suppressed the mountain.
• Ye Fan led Old Madman up Saint Cliff past blood pits left by a Great Accomplishment Sacred Body, then warned him not to open the ancient coffin at the summit.
• Old Madman studied the coffin’s eerie green hair and said he could guess how the Ancient Heavenly Court’s final sect master had died.

Ye Fan and Old Madman drew the complete Movement Secret from the Ancient Heavenly Court’s coffin, then opened it and recovered the final sect master’s remains and golden scepter. They uncovered a cursed Great Accomplishment Sacred Body, and Old Madman began reciting the Duren Scripture to suppress its strange calamity.

• Old Madman explained the Underworld’s history of cursing Great Accomplishment Sacred Bodies and asked Ye Fan to use the Book of Time to reveal the Nine Secrets on the coffin lid.
• Ye Fan and Old Madman comprehended the complete Movement Secret before its Dao diagram vanished.
• Old Madman opened the coffin, and Ye Fan recovered the final sect master’s corpse and golden scepter.
• They discovered the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body beneath the sect master and discussed the curse and its miserable death.
• Ye Fan suggested using the Duren Scripture to cleanse the Sacred Body, so Old Madman began reciting it.

Ye Fan and Old Madman took the Dacheng Sacred Body from Saint Cliff, where Undying Daoist appeared and offered two of the Nine Secrets in exchange for his release. Ye Fan exposed Undying Daoist’s identity and provoked him into attacking, leaving Old Madman to awaken the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar and confront him.

• Old Madman and Ye Fan used the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar to take the Dacheng Sacred Body, its coffin, and sacred blood from Saint Cliff.
• Undying Daoist appeared behind them and asked them to remove the golden ancient scroll sealing him, offering two of the Nine Secrets in return.
• Ye Fan pretended to be Duan De and demanded that Undying Daoist serve the Yin-Yang Sect after his escape; Undying Daoist reluctantly agreed.
• Ye Fan revealed that he knew Undying Daoist’s Primordial Spirit and divine consciousness had been separately sealed at Saint Cliff.
• Undying Daoist erupted in rage and unleashed an attack with imperial might, while Ye Fan fled behind Old Madman.
• Old Madman poured his divine power into the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar and awakened the ultimate imperial weapon to fight Undying Daoist.

Old Madman and Ye Fan survived the Undying Daoist’s attempt to break free from Saint Cliff, as the Investiture of the Gods and the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar suppressed him. Old Madman then persuaded Ye Fan to help gather ultimate weapons and attack the imprisoned Daoist for his Dao Fruit.

• The Devouring Heaven Demon Jar’s imperial figure struck down the Undying Daoist’s vast world and erased his plea for aid.
• The Investiture of the Gods awakened and forced the raging Undying Daoist back into the supreme immortal source, calming Saint Cliff.
• Old Madman proposed joining forces with holy lands that wielded ultimate imperial weapons to kill the trapped Undying Daoist and divide his Dao Fruit.
• Ye Fan considered the plan and agreed that it was worth trying.
• Old Madman grabbed Ye Fan and fled from Saint Cliff, where Golden Crow Daoist and his million Fire Crows waited outside.

Ye Fan approached Old Knife Handle to recruit Heaven’s Village, the last stronghold of the Ancient Heavenly Court, into Merak Holy Land. Old Knife Handle summoned his grandfather Qi Luo, and Ye Fan met the half-saint outside Source City.

• Ye Fan revealed his identity to Old Knife Handle and asked him to lead the way to Heaven’s Village.
• Old Knife Handle admitted his connection to Heaven’s Village after Ye Fan identified him as Qi Luo’s grandson.
• Ye Fan asked Old Knife Handle to summon Qi Luo so they could discuss recruiting Heaven’s Village into Merak Holy Land.
• Ye Fan displayed the Movement Secret as he left, prompting Old Knife Handle to recognize the lost Heavenly Court inheritance and contact the village.
• Two days later, Ye Fan met Qi Luo at a mountain outside Source City.

Ye Fan offered Heaven’s Village the chance to join the Merak Holy Land in exchange for the Ancient Heavenly Court’s relics, remains, and lost inheritances. Qi Luo weighed the powerful benefits against surrendering the village’s independence and identity, leaving the decision unresolved.

• Qi Luo challenged Ye Fan for coming alone, but his confidence faltered when he remembered the power of the Merak Three Saints.
• Qi Luo asked whether Ye Fan had found the Ancient Heavenly Court’s final legacy, and Ye Fan revealed that Merak held its inheritance relics and the remains of its last sect master and an Assassin King.
• Qi Luo became eager to reclaim the relics and remains, imagining that they would secure his authority and let him restore the Ancient Heavenly Court.
• Ye Fan said that Heaven’s Village had to join the Merak Holy Land, and explained that Merak wanted talented disciples rather than a revived rival lineage.
• Ye Fan offered to return the remains and core inheritances, while keeping the two inheritance tokens enshrined at the Central Sacred Land for Heaven’s Village to borrow or visit.
• Qi Luo considered the benefits of joining Merak against the loss of autonomy and the eventual extinction of the Ancient Heavenly Court’s identity.

Ye Fan and the Golden Crow Daoist forced Heaven’s Village to join Merak Holy Land after a Great Sage seized its hidden realm. The surviving Ancient Heavenly Court branch became Merak’s Myriad Forms Division and reunited with its ancestral remains and sacred artifacts.

• Qi Luo and Old Knife Handle rejected Ye Fan’s offer to join Merak, but a million Fire Crows gathered and formed the Golden Crow Daoist, who protected Ye Fan.
• The Golden Crow Daoist injured Qi Luo’s Netherworld Eye, and Ye Fan revealed that Heaven’s Village had lost contact after a Merak Great Sage secretly traced and seized its hidden realm.
• With Heaven’s Village taken and no way to resist, Qi Luo agreed to join Merak, and Ye Fan presented the agreement as a voluntary union.
• Wei Yi brought Heaven’s Village to the Celestial Pivot Ancestral Court, where its roughly two hundred residents joined Merak as the Myriad Forms Division.
• The villagers knelt before their ancestors’ remains, the Book of Time, and a golden scepter, overwhelmed to have found their roots after more than a hundred thousand years.

Qi Luo returned the Book of Time and golden scepter to Merak’s Three Saints and received rare enlightenment tea in return. The Holy Son then offered to help secure numerous Ultimate Weapons for the plan involving the being deep within Saint Cliff.

• Qi Luo delivered the Book of Time and golden scepter to the Three Saints and sensed a terrifying presence inside the green-furred coffin.
• Elder Wei Yi gave Qi Luo tea made from Undying Divine Spring water and Enlightenment Tea leaves, which helped him comprehend the Heavenly Court inheritances.
• The Three Saints discussed Qi Luo’s usefulness and explained why they had kept the golden scepter instead of giving it to Heaven’s Village.
• Old Madman worried that their old connections could not help them borrow Ultimate Weapons from other factions.
• The Holy Son offered to arrange loans of numerous Ultimate Weapons, leaving the Three Saints speechless.

Ye Fan secured the Merak Three Saints’ approval to recruit Eastern Wasteland allies for an assault on the Undying One, then carried their proposal to the Ji Family. His visit awakened an ancient Ji Family divine king, and the Ji Family began considering the matter at the level of its hidden foundations.

• The Merak Three Saints agreed to let Ye Fan plan an alliance of friendly Eastern Wasteland factions and attempt to enlist the Wushi Bell against the Undying One.
• Ye Fan left Merak, sent five divine power incarnations to contact allies, and traveled to the Southern Region Ji Family.
• The Ji Family Holy Lord received Ye Fan’s secret message about the proposed assault and said he needed to report the matter to the clan’s hidden foundations.
• A long-sealed Ji Family divine king at the Immortal Three Dao Severing realm appeared, startling the clan elders and revealing that he had once served as Holy Lord five thousand years earlier.

Ye Fan negotiated with the Ji Family to trade Enlightenment Tea Leaves for the Void Immortal Gold left over from forging the Void Mirror. After learning how scarce the leaves had become, the Ji Family’s Old God King demanded a full year’s supply, leaving Ye Fan to gather thirty-eight leaves for the trade.

• The Ji Family’s living fossil confirmed that Void Immortal Gold remained in the ancestral temple and invited Ye Fan to name an equivalent treasure for it.
• Ye Fan offered ten Enlightenment Tea leaves, but the Ji Family’s Old God King demanded one hundred, and the Patriarch then lowered the price to ninety-eight.
• Ye Fan said Merak’s treasury was nearly exhausted and claimed that no Enlightenment Tea Leaves had circulated this year because someone had stripped the tree bare.
• A Ji Family elder confirmed that the tree had been found bare, while Ye Fan and the Old Madman were secretly responsible for taking its leaves.
• The Old God King demanded thirty-eight Enlightenment Tea Leaves, one year’s supply, and said the Ji Family would wait until Merak could obtain them.

Ye Fan received a fragment of Eternal Blue Gold bearing the Void Great Emperor’s blood, which revealed the Emperor’s lingering aura to the Ji Family. Ji Zi appeared, was recognized as the Void Great Emperor’s son, and reunited with the Void Mirror.

• A fragment of Eternal Blue Gold struck Ye Fan’s hand, carrying scarlet beads of the Void Great Emperor’s blood.
• The Ji Family elders felt the bloodline pressure, and the old Divine King’s attempt to probe a blood bead triggered a backlash.
• Ye Fan warned the Ji Family experts not to act rashly and suggested the fragment might come from a shattered Emperor weapon.
• Ji Zi appeared in Void Hall, sensed his father’s aura, and was recognized by the Ji Family elders as the Void Great Emperor’s son.
• The Void Mirror arrived and floated above Ji Zi, who greeted the imperial weapon as an old friend.

Ji Zi emerged early to reclaim the Void Emperor Blood and asked Ye Fan about an immortal-gold fragment. When the fragment released the Wind Thunder Ancient Emperor’s remnant soul, Ye Fan burned and swallowed it, leaving the ancient soul destroyed.

• Ji Zi told the Ji Family’s old Divine King that he had emerged early to help his nearly dying protector pursue the Quasi-Emperor realm.
• Ye Fan greeted Ji Zi, and Ji Zi reclaimed the Void Emperor Blood from the immortal-gold fragment.
• Ye Fan activated the fragment, releasing the Wind Thunder Ancient Emperor’s remnant soul, which alarmed Ji Zi and awakened the Void Mirror.
• Ye Fan revealed that the remnant soul had once merged with Northern Emperor Wang Teng and used Golden Crow Daoist’s Sun True Fire to burn it.
• Ye Fan withdrew the fire and swallowed the weakened remnant soul with the Swallowing Heaven Demonic Art.

Ye Fan learned that Void Great Emperor’s final battlefield and coffin lay beyond the Big Dipper, and agreed to guide Ji Zi there in exchange for Void Immortal Gold. The gold entered Ye Fan’s cauldron, while Ji Zi arranged to delay the Saint Cliff operation until after the journey.

• Ye Fan obtained the Wind and Lightning Scripture from the Wind Thunder Ancient Emperor’s memories and told Ji Zi how Void Great Emperor had died fighting two powerful figures from Undying Mountain.
• Ji Zi decided to retrieve his father’s coffin beyond the heavens, and Ye Fan agreed to accompany and guide him.
• Ji Zi gave Ye Fan a palm-sized Void Immortal Gold tablet and asked him to postpone the Saint Cliff operation until they returned.
• The Void Immortal Gold fell into Ye Fan’s Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi, where the sleeping Emperor Shadow Divine Child’s power fused it into the cauldron.

Ye Fan visited Yan Ruyu at the demon imperial line’s ancestral land and confessed that he was not Yan Xi. Yan Ruyu revealed she had learned the truth from the Green Emperor’s Weapon, and Ye Fan left after she tried to draw him into her boudoir, leaving their discussion of the gathering at Saint Cliff unfinished.

• Yan Ruyu welcomed Ye Fan into the Sage Small World and brought him to the demon imperial line’s ancestral temple.
• Ye Fan confessed to Yan Ruyu that he was not Yan Xi, but the Human Sacred Body, Ye Fan.
• Yan Ruyu told Ye Fan she had known the truth because the Green Emperor’s Weapon’s divine spirit had informed her during her inheritance.
• Yan Ruyu reassured Ye Fan that she loved him and had kept his identity secret from everyone else.
• Ye Fan raised the gathering at Saint Cliff to hunt the Undying Daoist, but self-destructed his divine power incarnation when Yan Ruyu invited him to her boudoir.

Ye Fan visited Jade Lake Sacred Land, where the Western Queen Mother received him and explained that the Jade Lake Holy Maiden was in seclusion. She escorted him to the Immortal Pool, where a white-robed human saint appeared to greet him.

• Jiang Taixu accepted the Human Sacred Body's invitation after reaching sainthood, and Jiang Yinyin gifted Ye Fan the Hengyu Scripture in gratitude.
• The Western Queen Mother welcomed Ye Fan to Jade Lake and told him her disciple, the Jade Lake Holy Maiden, was in seclusion.
• The Western Queen Mother guided Ye Fan through Jade Lake's guarded depths and explained the origins and power of its Undying Flat Peach Tree and Nine-Orifice Stone Man.
• The Western Queen Mother left Ye Fan at the Immortal Pool, where a peerlessly graceful white-robed human saint descended and greeted him.

Ye Fan visited Jade Lake, where Zhang Lin discussed his progress in source arts and revealed that the second-generation Source Master had incorporated the Formation Secret into Six Seals Banning Immortals. Yang Yi agreed to join the battle at Saint Cliff with Jade Lake’s ultimate weapon, while Zhang Lin’s revelation piqued Ye Fan’s interest in the Nine Secrets.

• Yang Yi brought Ye Fan to meet Zhang Lin, the reincarnated fifth-generation Source Heavenly Master, beneath the Divine Peach Tree.
• Ye Fan told Zhang Lin about his source arts inheritance and recent experiences, while Zhang Lin described his plans to use the stone embryo Holy Spirit body to pursue the Great Saint realm.
• Yang Yi accepted Ye Fan’s request to bring Jade Lake’s ultimate weapon to the battle at Saint Cliff, and the Western Emperor Pagoda agreed to join.
• Ye Fan discussed Six Seals Banning Immortals with Zhang Lin, who explained that the second-generation Source Master had refined the art using the Formation Secret.
• Zhang Lin’s account of the Nine Secrets drew Ye Fan’s attention, since he already possessed Dou, Xing, and Jie.

Ye Fan received half of the Formation Secret from Zhang Lin and searched Ancient Emperor Mountain for Black Emperor, who was enduring a dangerous rebirth. In the Great Emperor Mausoleum, Ye Fan awakened the Wushi Bell, whose spirit dismissed him as merely a Desolate Ancient Sacred Body before agreeing to hear his urgent matter.

• Zhang Lin passed half of the Formation Secret and the first five Source Masters’ cultivation insights to Ye Fan, urging him to advance the Six Seals Banning Immortals.
• Ye Fan searched Ancient Emperor Mountain for Black Emperor but found no trace of him.
• The Undying Divine Phoenix Medicine gave drops of divine fluid to Black Emperor as he writhed in the Creation Source Eye, helping him stop roaring and fall asleep.
• Ye Fan entered the Great Emperor Mausoleum and used the Wushi Technique and complete Wu Shi Imperial Jade to awaken the Wushi Bell.
• The Wushi Bell’s divine spirit recognized Ye Fan’s technique, dismissed him for lacking the Great Emperor’s constitution, then paused to hear his important matter.