Chapter Summaries

The Divine Silkworm Princess and Divine Silkworm Taoist told Ye Fan that Little Darling was their uncle, the Divine Silkworm Emperor’s lost quasi-emperor brother, and asked him for a fruit from the Nine-Wonder Immortality Medicine to restore him. Ye Fan learned how they had traced the medicine to him and left the decision about sharing it unresolved.

• The Divine Silkworm Princess revealed that Little Darling was her father’s brother, who had vanished after failing to attain the Dao and later transformed as a divine silkworm.
• The Divine Silkworm Princess and Divine Silkworm Taoist explained that their clan needed Little Darling restored to power to oversee Divine Silkworm Ridge as the myriad races emerged.
• The Divine Silkworm Princess asked Ye Fan for the Nine-Wonder Immortality Medicine, and Ye Fan cautiously wondered how they had discovered he possessed it.
• The Divine Silkworm Taoist assured Ye Fan that they did not expect him to surrender the whole medicine and said a single fruit could restore their uncle to the ranks of peak experts.
• The Divine Silkworm Princess and Divine Silkworm Taoist explained that she had sensed traces of immortal substance and the medicine on Ye Fan, then confirmed her suspicion by visiting the Ancient Forbidden Zone.

Ye Fan negotiated with Divine Silkworm Ridge, receiving its Nine-Wonder Immortality Scripture in exchange for arranging for its members to nourish Jade Lake’s Sacred Spirit and promising them an Undying Divine Fruit. After the deal, he encountered Tuoba Chang and learned that the source arts world was heading toward conflict over the weakened Source King Lineage.

• The Divine Silkworm Taoist offered Ye Fan the Nine-Wonder Immortality Scripture, and Divine Silkworm Ridge agreed to send the Divine Silkworm Taoist and a Great Sage to nourish Jade Lake’s Sacred Spirit for a month.
• Ye Fan promised the Divine Silkworm Princess she could collect an Undying Divine Fruit from Celestial Pivot after the gathering, and the parties agreed Divine Silkworm Ridge would visit a month later.
• Ye Fan wandered through Jade Lake and was stopped by Tuoba Chang, who introduced himself as a member of the Tuoba Clan.
• Ye Fan recalled that the Tuoba Clan was one of the four great source arts sects competing with the Source King Lineage.
• The Source King Lineage had weakened after its reigning Source King vanished during a failed breakthrough, and the four source arts sects were preparing to challenge its standing.

Ye Fan confronted Ouyang Ye and the other Source Arts sect leaders after they tried to persuade him to share the Source Book, claiming it would revive Eastern Wasteland Source Arts. The chapter ended with Patriarch Zhang Lin angrily denying that he had ever said the Source Book belonged to everyone and urging Ye Fan to slap Ouyang Ye.

• Nangong Qi introduced the Source Arts sect leaders to Ye Fan, including the Ouyang Clan's ancestor, Ouyang Ye.
• Ouyang Ye asked Ye Fan to share the Source Book so Source Masters could study it together and advance their field.
• Ye Fan recognized that the sects were using concern for Source Arts as a pretext to obtain the Source Book.
• Ouyang Ye falsely attributed to Patriarch Zhang Lin the claim that the Source Book belonged to all Source Masters.
• Saint Yang Yi realized Ouyang Ye was exploiting Zhang Lin's name, and Zhang Lin angrily told Ye Fan to slap him.

The Source King Lineage arrived at the gathering, where its patriarch Wu Tian reunited with his longtime rival Ouyang Ye and met Ye Fan, the claimed successor to the Source Heavenly Master lineage. Ouyang Ye urged Wu Tian to help persuade Ye Fan to hand over the Source Book, leaving the Source King patriarch eager to assess the young man.

• Tuoba Chang identified the arriving cultivators as members of the reclusive Source King Lineage.
• Wu Tian embraced Ouyang Ye roughly, and the two old rivals traded teasing jabs over their long feud.
• Ouyang Ye introduced Ye Fan as Merak Holy Land's strongest successor and the next heir to the Eastern Wasteland's Source Heavenly Master lineage.
• Wu Tian showed keen interest in Ye Fan because he possessed the Source Book, which the Source King Lineage needed to raise a new Source King.
• Ouyang Ye claimed he had asked Ye Fan to contribute the Source Book for all five lineages to study, then asked Wu Tian to persuade him.

The Source King Lineage patriarch rejected Ouyang Ye’s attempt to recruit him into tricking Ye Fan for the Source Book, and Zhang Lin arranged to help the patriarch pursue a breakthrough. As the four source arts sects tried to leave Jade Lake, Ye Fan attacked Ouyang Ye and trapped the group in a deadly Four Symbols Source Heaven Array.

• Ouyang Ye secretly urged the Source King Lineage patriarch to help seize the Source Book, but the patriarch denounced him and left with the Eight Freaks.
• Zhang Lin asked Yang Yi to bring the Source King Lineage patriarch to the immortal pool and aid his comprehension of the Dao.
• The four source arts sects prepared to depart after their schemes were exposed, but Ye Fan blocked their way and challenged Ouyang Ye under the guise of seeking guidance.
• Ye Fan unleashed Jade Lake’s earth-vein dragons against Ouyang Ye, who fought back with his concealed Life-Bound Dao Weapon.
• Ye Fan released four divine source blocks that formed the Four Symbols Source Heaven Array and began refining everyone trapped inside.

Ye Fan trapped Ouyang Ye in the Four Symbols Source Heaven Array and repelled the four source arts sects when they tried to rescue him. The Queen Mother of the West eventually asked Ye Fan to release Ouyang Ye for Jade Lake’s sake, and afterward no one in the Eastern Wasteland dared question Ye Fan’s source arts.

• Ye Fan activated the Four Symbols Source Heaven Array and began refining Ouyang Ye while spectators gathered by the lake.
• The four source arts sects assembled a coalition and attacked the array to rescue Ouyang Ye.
• Ye Fan animated Jade Lake’s unusual stones into weapons, overwhelming the coalition and throwing its members into disarray.
• Ouyang Ye offered to call Ye Fan the strongest and then urged him to use the Six Seals Banning Immortals, but Ye Fan mocked him and refused.
• Ouyang Ye exhausted his magic power and nearly slept through the Flat Peach Grand Assembly until the Queen Mother of the West asked Ye Fan to withdraw the array.

Ye Fan attended the Flat Peach Grand Assembly with Merak Holy Land and discussed the Golden Family’s ancient royal ancestry with Holy Prince and the Divine Silkworm Taoist. Jin Chixiao noticed Holy Prince’s Fiery Golden Eyes fixed on him and nervously hoped his identity would not be exposed.

• Ye Fan explored the Jade Lake trade fair after reuniting with his sect, despite being unwelcome at the great powers’ Strange Stone gatherings.
• Twelve days later, Ye Fan and Merak Holy Land attended the Flat Peach Grand Assembly alongside the ancient imperial clans of Flower-Fruit Mountain and Divine Silkworm Ridge.
• Holy Prince asked Ye Fan about Jin Chixiao, and Ye Fan identified him as the foremost heir of the Golden Family of the Northern Plains.
• Holy Prince and the Divine Silkworm Taoist recognized Jin Chixiao as a descendant of the ancient Golden Royal Clan, while the Divine Silkworm Taoist criticized the family for claiming human ancestry.
• Jin Chixiao noticed Holy Prince watching him with his Fiery Golden Eyes and stiffened as he silently tried to avoid notice.

Ye Fan attended Jade Lake’s Flat Peach Grand Assembly, where the arrival of the Extraordinary Scholars Academy’s elders drew attention and Queen Mother of the West announced a Flat Peach as the young talents’ tournament prize. The gathering was poised to begin amid excitement from aging cultivators hoping for a chance at the life-extending fruit.

• Ye Fan noticed the Central Plains Twin Kings watching the Jiang Family’s prodigies and understood their inherited hatred for the clan.
• Jiang Yifei remained calm as the Twin Kings focused their hostility on him.
• Queen Mother of the West welcomed the Extraordinary Scholars Academy’s three great elders to Jade Lake.
• The assembly’s guests discussed the Academy’s ten-thousand-year opening and its role in training the Five Regions’ greatest young talents.
• Queen Mother of the West announced that Jade Lake would award an extra Flat Peach Divine Fruit to the winner of the young talents’ tournament.
• Aging cultivators grew excited at the prospect of winning a fruit that could extend their lives.

At the Queen Mother's birthday and Flat Peach Grand Assembly, the Jade Lake Life-and-Death Arena opened for the martial contest over a life-extending Flat Peach. As champions from the five regions fought, the chapter ended with one of the Twin Kings of the Central Plains challenging the Jiang Family Divine Body.

• Queen Mother of the West asked Ye Fan to release Ouyang Ye, and the embarrassed source arts sects departed from Jade Lake.
• The Queen Mother welcomed the guests at the joint birthday celebration and Flat Peach Grand Assembly, where young heroes prepared to compete for the divine fruit.
• A Jade Lake Supreme Elder opened the Life-and-Death Arena, and the inheritors of Five Elements Palace and Illusion Destruction Palace began fighting.
• Geniuses from across the five regions entered the contest, while Ye Fan sent the Eight Spirit Generals to display the strength of Merak Holy Land.
• A figure of dazzling golden radiance challenged the Jiang Family Divine Body, revealing that the Twin Kings of the Central Plains had entered the contest.

At the Jade Lake martial contest, Jiang Yifei fought the Solar King and Dark Night King together and defeated the Central Plains Twin Kings by summoning the Hengyu Imperial Weapon’s phantom. The chapter ended with the defeated brothers leaving the platform and the crowd learning that Fairy Caiyun had returned to youth, joined the Jiang Family, and become Jiang Taixu’s wife.

• Wang Chongxiao, Ye Huiling, the Feathered King, and other Central Plains prodigies cheered for Gao Nantian as he accepted Jiang Yifei’s challenge.
• Jiang Yifei taunted Gao Nantian by telling him to bring his younger brother, and the Dark Night King joined the fight beside the Solar King.
• The Solar King and Dark Night King combined their sun-and-moon attacks against Jiang Yifei, who fought them for half a day and gradually gained the upper hand.
• Jiang Yifei summoned the phantom of the Hengyu Imperial Weapon from his bloodline and suppressed the Twin Kings, forcing them to leave the platform in defeat.
• Fairy Caiyun applauded Jiang Yifei and the spectators learned that Jiang Taixu had restored her youth and helped her sever the Dao, after which she became a wife of the Jiang Family.

Jiang Yifei defeated Xu Zixuan, then fought Ji Haoyue to a draw in a clash of their ancient Wheel Sea phenomena. Later, Merak’s Killing God Child won three bouts before the Purple Mansion Holy Son challenged him and prepared a gourd artifact.

• Jiang Yifei defeated Xu Zixuan after 173 exchanges, and Xu Zixuan graciously conceded.
• Jiang Yifei and Ji Haoyue battled with their Wheel Sea phenomena, imperial bloodlines, and Emperor projections before ending in a draw from exhaustion.
• The Human Sacred Body ordered Killing God Child to defend Merak’s prestige, and Killing God Child entered the stage.
• Killing God Child defeated three Central Plains opponents with overwhelming force.
• The Purple Mansion Holy Son challenged Killing God Child, criticized his Celestial Pivot Ancient Scripture, and summoned a gourd filled with foul water.

Killing God Child defeated Purple Mansion Holy Son with the Movement Secret and took his Heavenly Yin Absolute Water gourd, then forfeited his arena position. Ye Fan entered the next match and overwhelmed Jin Chixiao with lightning formations, leaving Jin Chixiao to concede.

• Killing God Child dodged Purple Mansion Holy Son’s Heavenly Yin Absolute Water and struck him with the Killing Sword, forcing him to abandon his gourd.
• Killing God Child took the gourd and withdrew from the arena after Purple Mansion Holy Son identified his Killing Life Sacred Art.
• Jin Chixiao won several arena matches before Ye Fan stepped forward to face him.
• Ye Fan destroyed Jin Chixiao’s Dao Palace deity with purple lightning, then countered his Five Elements attack with a sea of lightning.
• Jin Chixiao conceded after Ye Fan’s lightning ravaged his golden armor and left him smoking.

Ye Fan defeated the Myriad Beginnings Holy Son in the Jade Lake Life-and-Death Arena, revealing his precise prediction of attacks and overpowering the opponent’s demon treasure. After two Sacred Land heirs fell to him, Xiang Yifei and Li Donglai challenged Ye Fan at once, and he invited them to fight him together.

• Ye Fan ended his match with Jin Chixiao by withdrawing his formations and dissipating the lightning storm, and Jin Chixiao conceded defeat.
• The Myriad Beginnings Holy Son challenged Ye Fan and unleashed powerful sword attacks, but Ye Fan repeatedly predicted and countered his moves.
• The Myriad Beginnings Holy Son opened the Heavenly Demon Blood Box, but Ye Fan shut it and struck him down, forcing him to escape with a substitute divine talisman and concede.
• A Jade Lake elder announced Ye Fan as the winner, while other young geniuses remained eager to challenge him.
• Xiang Yifei and Li Donglai challenged Ye Fan at the same time, and Ye Fan invited both to fight him together.

Xiang Yifei and the Dao One Holy Son joined forces to challenge Ye Fan, but Ye Fan quickly crushed the Dao One Holy Son and withstood Xiang Yifei’s Golden Holy Sword. Xiang Yifei then unleashed the Great Evolution Sacred Land’s Three Kings Sword, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Xiang Yifei and the Dao One Holy Son accepted Ye Fan’s invitation and attacked him together.
• Ye Fan smashed the Dao One Holy Son’s warship with a punch, then suppressed him beneath the Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi.
• Xiang Yifei struck Ye Fan with the Golden Holy Sword, but Ye Fan blocked it with the Presence Word Secret.
• Xiang Yifei invoked the Heavenly King Sword, Earth King Sword, and Human King Sword, sending three streaks of divine light toward Ye Fan.

Ye Fan defeated thirteen more challengers and won sixteen matches in succession, leaving the Jade Lake crowd reluctant to accept that he would claim the divine peach fruit. Yaoguang Holy Son then stepped forward to face him, and the chapter ended as he entered the arena.

• Ye Fan shattered the Great Evolution Holy Son Xiang Yifei’s Three Kings Dharma Sword with a tenfold-powered punch, while the Dao One Holy Son freed himself from the Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi and helped Xiang Yifei up.
• Ye Fan defeated Zhao Fa, the Four Symbols Holy Son, the Nine Heavens Holy Son, and other challengers, winning sixteen matches in a row and intimidating the assembled cultivators.
• The cultivators feared Ye Fan would claim the divine peach fruit, but none dared challenge him until Yaoguang Holy Son rose from his seat.
• Ye Fan suspected Yaoguang Holy Son was an inheritor of the Ruthless Empress who sought to devour constitutions and become a Chaos Body, and he invited him to fight.
• Yaoguang Holy Son received encouragement from the Shaking Light disciples and a warning from the Shaking Light Holy Maiden before ascending the arena and greeting Ye Fan.

Ye Fan and the Yaoguang Holy Son fought in the Jade Lake Life-and-Death Arena, revealing the Holy Son’s powerful Infinite Light Body and supreme techniques. The battle continued as the Yaoguang Holy Son summoned his strongest protective divine ability to defend against Ye Fan’s attack.

• Ye Fan teased the Yaoguang Holy Son about rumors that the Ruthless Empress Lineage had returned, while the Holy Son hid the truth about his Infinite Light Body.
• The Yaoguang Holy Son attacked Ye Fan with the Yellow Mud Hand, but Ye Fan sealed the technique with Six Seals Banning Immortals.
• Ye Fan countered with all eight styles of the Heavenly Demon, forcing the Yaoguang Holy Son to unleash the Primordial Sacred Light Technique and break the seal.
• Ye Fan’s roar disrupted the Holy Son’s sacred light, and he struck toward the Holy Son’s exposed kidney.
• The Yaoguang Holy Son steadied himself and summoned one hundred and eight protective divine halos around his body.

Ye Fan defeated the Yaoguang Holy Son and was declared the Flat Peach Tournament’s sole victor, earning the title One-Crown King and the prized flat peach. He collected the reward amid the assembled factions’ attention and the chapter ended with Queen Mother of the West closing the Grand Assembly.

• Ye Fan used the Primordial Kunpeng and the Fighting Word Secret to wound and overwhelm the Yaoguang Holy Son.
• The Yaoguang Holy Son brought out an imitation Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Tripod, but Ye Fan shattered it with the Six Paths Reincarnation Fist.
• The Yaoguang Holy Son admitted defeat and withdrew, while the referee announced Ye Fan as the winner.
• With no one else answering the challenge, Ye Fan was declared the Flat Peach Tournament’s sole victor and hailed as the One-Crown King, unrivaled among the Eastern Wasteland’s younger generation.
• Queen Mother of the West presented Ye Fan with the divine flat peach, which he put away before she announced the Grand Assembly’s conclusion.

Ye Fan met Wu Hong, the newly advanced Source Earth Master and head of the Source King Lineage, and tasked him with keeping the four source arts sects in check. At the Flat Peach Grand Assembly, the Extraordinary Scholars Academy announced it would reopen in six months and invited Ye Fan, while a heckler who criticized him was dragged away.

• Wu Hong revealed that the Fifth Patriarch had accepted him as a nominal disciple, making him Ye Fan’s junior brother, and that he had become a Source Earth Master.
• Ye Fan asked Wu Hong to suppress the four source arts sects, especially the Ouyang Clan, and said he would offer the Flat Peach divine fruit at his sect’s auction.
• A purple-robed elder announced that the Extraordinary Scholars Academy would resume accepting qualified students in half a year and personally invited Ye Fan to attend.
• Ye Fan calmly said he would visit the academy if he had the chance, prompting some attendees to accuse him of arrogance.
• A Four Extremities cultivator criticized Ye Fan, then stammered and begged for mercy when the crowd exposed him; Queen Mother of the West ordered warriors to drag him away.

After the Flat Peach Grand Assembly, Ye Fan returned to Merak and arranged for Elder Wei Yi to forge an Immortal Feather Battle Armor. Ye Fan and Grandmother Yao then entered the Undying Emperor Palace, where they found an ancient dojo guarded by the descendants of the Eight Divine Generals.

• The Divine Silkworm Princess reminded Ye Fan of their agreement, and members of the ancient imperial clans stayed at Jade Lake to nourish its Sacred Spirit before visiting Merak for a Nine-Wonder Immortality Medicine fruit.
• Ye Fan gave the Feather Transformation Azure Gold to Elder Wei Yi, who set out for the Fire Domain to find immortal fire and forge an ultimate weapon blank.
• Ye Fan put the Flat Peach divine fruits up for trade, drawing bids from aged sect masters and old holy lords seeking life-extending medicine.
• Ye Fan and Grandmother Yao traveled deep into the Northern Region and used the Formation Secret to slip through the ancient imperial runes concealing the Undying Emperor Palace.
• Inside the palace, Grandmother Yao sensed ancient creatures sealed in the eight main peaks and concluded they were likely descendants of the Eight Divine Generals.

Grandmother Yao and Ye Fan raided the Undying Emperor Palace, capturing its sleeping ancient beings and discovering an Ancestral Artifact that held an imprint of the youthful Undying Emperor. Ye Fan could not activate the artifact because he lacked the Emperor’s bloodline.

• Grandmother Yao swept the sleeping ancestral kings and divine-general descendants into her Azure-Gold Pyramid to use as alchemy ingredients.
• Grandmother Yao found an ancient Ancestral Artifact in the palace, then accompanied Ye Fan to its central peak.
• A hidden Dao-Slayer attacked Ye Fan, and Grandmother Yao killed it; Ye Fan devoured its essence and advanced to the sixth minor stage of the first Immortal Platform level.
• Ye Fan found a stone chessboard that contained an ancient battlefield imprint of the youthful Undying Emperor.
• Ye Fan learned that only the Undying Emperor’s descendants could activate the chessboard and challenge the Emperor’s incarnation.