Chapter Summaries

Ye Fan and Grandmother Yao explored the Undying Emperor’s palace, taking its trove of Enlightenment tea leaves and an offshoot of the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree. They then found a Five-Colored Heavenly Blade, but as Ye Fan reached for it, a black shadow flashed out.

• Ye Fan and Grandmother Yao discovered more than a thousand Enlightenment tea leaves and valuable jade tea ware in the first hall, which Grandmother Yao packed away.
• Ye Fan and Grandmother Yao entered the second hall and found an Enlightenment Ancient Tree growing from a Divine Spring Eye.
• Ye Fan calculated how many leaves the tree must have shed over millions of years and lamented the lost treasures before he and Grandmother Yao took the tree and spring.
• Ye Fan entered the third hall and recognized the Five-Colored Heavenly Blade as a rudimentary ultimate weapon rather than the Undying Emperor’s true blade.
• Ye Fan reached to take the blade for the sect’s Divine Treasury, but a black shadow suddenly flashed out.

Ye Fan let the Emperor Shadow Divine Child take the Five-Colored Heavenly Blade to reforge, while Grandmother Yao plundered the Undying Emperor Palace and brought its treasures back to Merak. The chapter ended with Jin Xiao being allowed into the Immortal Medicine Garden after proving his loyalty to the sect.

• The Emperor Shadow Divine Child asked Ye Fan for the Five-Colored Heavenly Blade so he could reforge it into a divine cauldron, and Grandmother Yao approved the exchange.
• Grandmother Yao and Ye Fan swept through the Undying Emperor Palace, seized its treasures and foundations, and shattered the ancient Daoist ground into drifting debris.
• Ye Fan and the others spent three days sorting the seized immortal treasures into Merak's Divine Treasury, leaving the Enlightenment Tea Tree and Divine Spring Eye for the Immortal Medicine Garden.
• Grandmother Yao summoned Jin Xiao and took him with her and Ye Fan into the Immortal Medicine Garden, recognizing his faithful service to Merak.
• Jin Xiao realized that Merak's leaders trusted him enough to reveal an ultimate foundation, and he wept with relief.

Ye Fan and the others discovered that Yinyin had brought the Undying Flat Peach Medicine back from the Divine Ruins, where she had gone looking for real flat peaches. Grandmother Yao then transplanted a Divine Spring Eye into Merak’s Primordial Sacred Spring and gave Yinyin an ancient Enlightenment Tree, which could not transform to play with her.

• Golden Crow Daoist and Grandmother Yao discovered that the Fighting Battle Sacred Ape among Merak’s sacred medicines was the Undying Flat Peach Medicine.
• Ye Fan asked Yinyin how the medicine had reached Merak, and she proudly explained that she had gone to the Divine Ruins to find it after Gu Fei told her where it grew.
• Ye Fan and the others realized Yinyin had ventured into the dangerous forbidden zone alone, and Ye Fan warned her not to go somewhere so dangerous again.
• Grandmother Yao merged the Divine Spring Eye from the Undying Emperor Palace with Merak’s Primordial Sacred Spring.
• Grandmother Yao gave Yinyin an ancient Enlightenment Tree, but it could not transform into a creature for her to play with.

Ye Fan traded the Nine-Wonder Immortality Medicine’s fruit to the Divine Silkworm Princess and acquired Dao Tribulation Gold through the Merak trade fair, but Yan Ruyu refused to keep it for the demon race. The chapter ended with Merak Holy Land’s leaders drinking Enlightenment tea together.

• Yinyin guarded the Undying Flat Peach Medicine from Grandmother Yao, who had wanted to use its branches for medicine.
• Ye Fan gave the Divine Silkworm Princess the Nine-Wonder Immortality Medicine’s fruit, which had taken the form of a Thirty-Three Heavens Mysterious Yellow Pagoda.
• Old Knife Handle’s auction ended with an Eastern Region sect master trading a piece of Dao Tribulation Gold for a Jade Lake flat peach.
• Ye Fan offered the Dao Tribulation Gold to Yan Ruyu, but she refused it because the demon race’s descendants forged their own Life-Bound Dao Weapons from their cast-off remains.
• Grandmother Yao invited Merak Holy Land’s high-ranking members to drink Enlightenment tea brewed with Primordial Sacred Spring and Enlightenment tea leaves.

Ye Fan repeatedly entered the Undying Emperor’s ancient battlefield through the stone chessboard and fought the emperor’s youthful incarnation before leaving to join a sermon. The Mad Elder had attained the Quasi-Emperor Dao and began expounding it to Heavenly Jade’s cultivators.

• Ye Fan used the stone chessboard to enter a blood-soaked battlefield, where the Undying Emperor’s youthful incarnation repeatedly killed him.
• After seventy-eight attempts, Ye Fan caught sight of the white-robed emperor and continued challenging him for three months, finally seeing his face clearly before being expelled.
• Grandmother Yao stopped Ye Fan’s next attempt and took him to meet the awakened Mad Elder, who had attained the Quasi-Emperor Dao.
• Mad Elder summoned Heavenly Jade’s Immortal Platform cultivators and began expounding the Dao, drawing in saints including Grandmother Yao and Ye Fan.
• As he listened to Mad Elder’s sermon, Ye Fan wondered when Elder Wei Yi and Senior Dongfang Taiyi would emerge from seclusion.

Ye Fan told the Mad Old Man about an Immortal Gold Sacred Spirit growing in Undying Mountain and persuaded him to explore the forbidden zone. They entered with Yinyin under the protection of the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar and followed a safe route through the mountain.

• Ye Fan explained that Jade Lake was nurturing a Sacred Spirit and proposed that Heavenly Jade obtain the Immortal Gold Sacred Spirit in Undying Mountain.
• The Mad Old Man agreed to accompany Ye Fan and bring the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar.
• Ye Fan decided to bring Yinyin as additional protection against the dangers in Undying Mountain.
• Ye Fan, the Mad Old Man, and Yinyin entered the forbidden zone, following a path marked by the footprints of ancient Great Emperors.
• Ye Fan used the Number Secret to guide the group to a lush meadow where tiny golden creatures played.

Ye Fan, Old Madman, and Yinyin discovered and subdued an Immortal Tear Green Gold Holy Spirit and gathered its companion ore creatures in Undying Mountain. They then encountered a terrifying Headless Knight, whom Old Madman prepared to face.

• Yinyin played with sentient creatures born from divine ore veins, and Ye Fan and Old Madman realized an Immortal Tear Green Gold Holy Spirit was nearby.
• The Xuanwu Immortality Medicine appeared and fled deeper into Undying Mountain, but Ye Fan stopped Old Madman from pursuing it because of the dormant dangers there.
• Yinyin led Ye Fan and Old Madman to the Immortal Tear Green Gold Holy Spirit, which attacked them from its cave.
• Old Madman subdued the Holy Spirit with the Six Paths Reincarnation Fist, and Ye Fan sealed it with the Seven Seals Banning Immortals.
• Old Madman collected the Holy Spirit and its companion ores and creatures with the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar.
• A Headless Knight charged from an ancient hall on a stone horse, and Old Madman shielded Ye Fan and Yinyin as he prepared to confront it.

Old Madman took Ye Fan and another companion into Undying Mountain, where they encountered the Headless Knight and left after learning its immortal tea would not mature for thirty days. Ye Fan then nourished Merak's Immortal Gold Holy Spirit with his sacred blood, while the Divine Silkworm Princess's dangerous visit to the Ancient Mine of Absolute Beginning drew the Fighting Saint King out of seclusion.

• Old Madman stopped the Headless Knight's attack with the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar, claimed they had come for Enlightenment Tea leaves, and led Ye Fan and their companion away from Undying Mountain.
• The Headless Knight watched the visitors leave and wondered why a quasi-emperor had appeared on Burial Emperor Star earlier than expected.
• Ye Fan used source arts and his golden sacred blood to nourish the Immortal Gold Holy Spirit, strengthening its growth and planting a life imprint within it.
• The Divine Silkworm Princess visited the Ancient Mine of Absolute Beginning with two imperial tokens to seek Primordial Fate Stone for the Fighting Battle Sacred Ape, surviving several near-disasters.
• The Fighting Saint King left Mount Sumeru to protect the Divine Silkworm Princess, appearing with the Purple-Gold Demon-Subduing Pestle and the Immortal Iron Staff.

Ye Fan traveled to the Central Plains for the Extraordinary Scholars Academy selection after receiving the Immortal Feather Battle Armor from Wei Yi. The academy admitted eight hundred prodigies, including the celebrated representatives of the Five Regions, and the chapter ended as the academy filled with its new students.

• Wei Yi gave Ye Fan the Immortal Feather Battle Armor, and Ye Fan bound it to himself and tested its formidable defense.
• Ye Fan and Killing God Child traveled from Merak Holy Land to the Central Plains, where Ye Fan joined the academy selection despite having been invited to enter directly.
• Ye Fan's fame as the Eastern Wasteland Peach Festival champion led challengers to withdraw, while Killing God Child fought challengers and built a fearsome reputation.
• The selection concluded with eight hundred young prodigies admitted, among them Central Emperor Xiang Yufei, Northern Emperor Wang Teng, Southern Demon Qi Lin, Eastern Saint Ye Fan, and Western Bodhisattva Jue Youqing.
• Seven of the Central Plains' ten greatest beauties also enrolled, and the academy became lively as its prodigies gathered.

Ye Fan learned that the title Eastern Saint referred to him, then welcomed Southern Demon Qi Lin and exchanged Demon Emperor scriptures with him. After seven days of discussing the Dao, Qi Lin departed, leaving Ye Fan wondering whether Demon Emperor Xue Yueqing was descended from the Lunar Jade Rabbit.

• Ye Fan misunderstood the title Eastern Saint as a rival's claim before Killing God Child explained it was another name for him.
• The Southern Demon appeared at the Extraordinary Scholars Academy, and Ye Fan considered how his cultivation compared with the other four peerless prodigies.
• Ye Fan invited Qi Lin to tea, and Qi Lin proposed exchanging his Demon Emperor Scripture for the Demon Emperor Ancient Sutra.
• Ye Fan and Qi Lin exchanged scriptures and discussed the Dao for seven days and seven nights.
• After Qi Lin left, Ye Fan wondered whether Xue Yueqing had descended from the Lunar Jade Rabbit Duan De had once loved.

Killing God Child fought Wang Chong, the Northern Emperor Wang Teng’s younger brother, at the Extraordinary Scholars Academy’s Immortal Severing Platform. Killing God Child’s killing art destroyed Wang Chong’s body and Primordial Spirit, but the Nine Revolutions Divine Talisman revived him.

• Ye Fan warned Killing God Child not to lose his primal yang before reaching the second level of the Immortal Platform.
• After half a year of secluded cultivation, Killing God Child and Wang Chong drew a crowd to the Immortal Severing Platform with their duel.
• Wang Chong unleashed the True Dragon Seal and Nine Dragons Devour Emperor, while Killing God Child countered with the Ancient Heavenly Court’s killing art.
• Killing God Child attacked from the void and fatally struck Wang Chong, destroying his body and Primordial Spirit.
• The Nine Revolutions Divine Talisman appeared at Wang Chong’s glabella and reconstructed him, astonishing the watching old monsters.

Wang Teng arrived after Killing God Child robbed and humiliated Wang Chong, then sealed his younger brother for cultivation and demanded that Killing God Child return the stolen treasures and slap himself. The chapter left Killing God Child facing Wang Teng’s challenge.

• The academy’s old monsters recognized Wang Chong’s damaged Chaotic Ancient Emperor Talisman, while Killing God Child decided to take his other treasures.
• Killing God Child sealed Wang Chong’s divine power, looted his treasures, and mocked him as Wang Chong cursed him and threatened revenge.
• Wang Teng arrived in his golden war chariot, and Wang Chong climbed aboard to beg his brother to avenge him.
• Wang Teng rebuked Wang Chong, sealed him, and sent him into the chariot to cultivate until he reached the Immortal Platform secret realm.
• Wang Teng confronted Killing God Child and demanded the stolen treasures and two slaps as compensation.

Wang Teng pursued Killing God Child after seeing through his use of the Movement Secret and nearly killed him. Ye Fan’s divine sense incarnation emerged to save his junior, killed a sect successor with a glance, and confronted Wang Teng over their Martial Dao Heavenly Eyes.

• Killing God Child refused Wang Teng’s offer and fled using the Movement Secret, but Wang Teng tracked him with his Martial Dao Heavenly Eye.
• Wang Teng caught Killing God Child and attacked, demanding that he surrender the Movement Secret.
• Ye Fan’s divine sense incarnation emerged from Killing God Child’s glabella and deflected Wang Teng’s attack.
• Ye Fan killed a Northern Plains sect successor with a glance and ordered Killing God Child to stand behind him.
• Ye Fan told Wang Teng that he had awakened the Martial Dao Heavenly Eye ten years earlier, while Wang Teng had opened his Mind’s Eye only a little over four years ago.

Ye Fan’s divine-sense avatar fought Ancient Emperor Wang Teng on the Immortal Severing Platform, matching his secret arts despite running low on power. Ye Fan then drew on the earth veins beneath the Extraordinary Scholars Academy, manifesting a divine dragon to guard him and revealing his standing as a Source Earth Master.

• Wang Teng and Ye Fan’s divine-sense avatar clashed, shaking the heavens and astonishing the gathered experts.
• Wang Teng used the Future Word Secret to break Ye Fan’s Formation Secret, then trapped him with nine imperial characters.
• Ye Fan opened the Martial Dao Heavenly Eye and shattered Wang Teng’s void prison.
• Wang Teng taunted Ye Fan about his dwindling divine-sense power, and the crowd realized Ye Fan’s true body had not arrived.
• Ye Fan laughed and summoned the earth veins’ True Dragon essence, which formed a crimson-gold dragon that supported and guarded him.
• The gathered cultivators recognized Ye Fan as a Source Earth Master and learned that he had studied the Extraordinary Scholars Academy’s ancestral earth vein.

Ancient Emperor Wang Teng attacked the young Daoist with the Heavenly Emperor Sacred Sword and Chaotic Ancient Chariot, while the young Daoist countered with source arts and earth-vein dragons. The young Daoist then formed a Four Symbols Source Heaven Array that pinned the chariot and began erasing its imprint.

• Ancient Emperor Wang Teng struck at the young Daoist with the Heavenly Emperor Sacred Sword, but the young Daoist summoned earth-vein dragons that drew Wang Teng into a fierce fight.
• Wang Teng brought out the Chaotic Ancient Chariot and used its saint-weapon-level pressure to attack the young Daoist.
• The young Daoist awakened the divine sources in the academy’s Strange Stones, drawing a vast sea of source essence into the air.
• The young Daoist formed the Four Symbols Source Heaven Array, whose immortal spirits immobilized the Chaotic Ancient Chariot.
• The array began erasing the Chaotic Ancient Chariot’s personal imprint.

Ye Fan fought Ancient Emperor Wang Teng to a standstill before the Kui Ox Drum interrupted their battle and summoned the academy’s experts. Ye Fan returned to his cave abode, where Killing God Child found him revealed as a half-step great cultivator.

• Wang Teng awakened Great Emperor Luangu’s phantom through the Chaotic Ancient war chariot, but the young Daoist used the Seven Seals Banning Immortals to make the phantom collapse.
• Wang Teng broke free of the source array and took the war chariot into his body as the Kui Ox Drum sounded across the Extraordinary Scholars Academy.
• The watching experts and saint-child-level figures departed to answer the drum, and the young Daoist and Killing God Child returned to their cave abode.
• The battle established Ye Fan’s fame across the Central Plains, though neither he nor Wang Teng had used his full strength, and Ye Fan was judged to have gained a slight advantage.
• Killing God Child entered Ye Fan’s cave abode and greeted him as his senior brother; Ye Fan’s cultivation had reached the ninth small step of the first Immortal Platform, making him a half-step great cultivator.

The Central Plains Immortal Mansion opened, and forces from across the Central Plains and Southern Ridge entered its dangerous small world to seek immortal fortune. Ye Fan and Killing God Child split up to collect treasures, while Ye Fan headed for the hidden mansion where the Undying Emperor’s Divine Thought resided.

• The four Central Plains dynasties, the Extraordinary Scholars Academy, and other powers joined forces to open the Immortal Mansion and send their disciples inside.
• Eastern Saint Ye Fan entered with the Extraordinary Scholars Academy, accompanied by Killing God Child of the Merak Holy Land.
• Ye Fan killed an ancient azure-scaled serpent with one punch, then he and Killing God Child used the Movement Secret to evade the elder assigned to watch them.
• Ye Fan used the Number Secret to locate rare treasures and sent Killing God Child to retrieve them, including Golden Crow eggs, dragon loaches, and materials for a Life-Bound Dao Weapon.
• Ye Fan set out to reach the inner mansion where the Undying Emperor’s Divine Thought resided before the other superpowers found it.

After reaching the Immortal Burial Ground, Ye Fan captured a rare dragon loach clan and climbed to the platform holding the Undying Emperor’s coffin. There he discovered the supreme deity’s skin and learned that Great Emperor Taihuang had once moved it aside to bury himself in the coffin.

• Ye Fan followed the Number Secret to a sealed cavern and used the Formation Secret to enter the world within a world.
• He found four adult dragon loaches and an ancient one in a marsh, then collected the entire marsh and its inhabitants with his Heaven-Covering Hand Seal.
• Ye Fan climbed the jade steps, wary of the Undying Emperor’s lingering divine thought, and reached the platform safely.
• The divine pressure around the Spirit Deity Coffin nearly stopped Ye Fan, but he forced his way forward with his physical strength.
• Ye Fan saw the Undying Enlightenment Tree growing from the coffin and a supreme deity’s skin preserved in five-colored divine ice beside it.
• An inscription and Great Xia’s dragon emblem revealed that Great Emperor Taihuang had moved the skin aside and borrowed the coffin to bury himself after severing the Dao.

Ye Fan took the Undying Emperor’s human skin and discovered the Taihuang Scripture engraved inside the Spirit Deity Coffin. After a month of enlightenment, he emerged as his Immortal II tribulation began, just as the Undying Emperor’s Divine Thought appeared.

• Ye Fan decided to remove the Undying Emperor’s human skin before planning a future siege of the Emperor’s Divine Thought.
• He used the Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi to collect the human skin and opened the Spirit Deity Coffin, finding Taihuang’s final version of the Taihuang Scripture engraved inside.
• Ye Fan entered the coffin and studied the scripture, gaining deeper insight from Taihuang’s Dao marks and the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree.
• After a month, Ye Fan awoke and realized his heavenly tribulation for breaking into Immortal II had begun.
• The Undying Emperor’s Divine Thought appeared on the jade platform and fixed its gaze on Ye Fan.

Ye Fan used his Immortal Two tribulation to drive the Undying Emperor’s Spirit Deity Thought into the lightning, then escaped the Immortal Burial Ground after it attacked him. He settled in a remote mountain range to stabilize his realm, where Killing God Child arrived to congratulate him.

• Ye Fan realized the Spirit Deity Thought feared his heavenly tribulation and used the advancing lightning clouds to force it toward the edge of the jade steps.
• Ye Fan chased the fleeing Spirit Deity Thought with the Movement Secret, drawing it fully into the tribulation, which rapidly consumed its body.
• The Spirit Deity Thought attacked Ye Fan with a spatial rift, but Elder Wei Yi’s Guardian Divine Talisman deflected most of the blow and let Ye Fan escape through the Immortal Burial Ground’s exit.
• Ye Fan fled tens of thousands of kilometers, killed a savage beast king, and settled in its lair to stabilize his Immortal Platform Second Realm.
• Six or seven days later, Killing God Child arrived, congratulated Ye Fan, and heard him joke about sending him to serve the Great Xia Emperor.