Chapter Summaries

Ye Fan and Killing God Child returned from their Immortal Mansion expedition with numerous treasures, including a Fusang divine tree and three Golden Crow eggs. After the supreme immortal burial ground opened, Ye Fan declined to return, sent Killing God Child back to the Eastern Wasteland to prepare for a careful plan against the Undying Emperor, and the other explorers suffered devastating losses.

• Killing God Child reported that he had secured the Undying Wondrous Tree, the Immortal Tear Green Gold Book, three Golden Crow eggs, Saint remains, three ancient medicine kings, and two King-grade divine weapons, though the loach dragon he seized had died in battle.
• Killing God Child showed Ye Fan the towering Fusang divine tree he had uprooted along with the three Golden Crow eggs, and Ye Fan explained that it was a rare, million-year-old fire-element treasure rather than a true Fusang Ancient Tree.
• When the supreme immortal burial ground opened, Ye Fan told Killing God Child that they would return to the Extraordinary Scholars Academy because he had already taken its true immortal treasures and feared the murderous Great Saint within.
• Ye Fan and Killing God Child returned to the academy, where Ye Fan sent Killing God Child to the Eastern Wasteland to deliver treasures, forge a Life-Bound Dao Weapon, and present the Merak Three Saints with a cautious plan concerning the Undying Emperor.
• The major superpowers suffered grievous losses in the burial ground after encountering a terrifying divine thought, and an old sect master declared that only the Fighting Saint Buddha or the Merak Three Saints could subdue it before passing away in meditation.

Ye Fan traveled to the Qinling Mountains and uncovered the hidden history and formidable strength of the Cai Family, now disguised as the Qin Sect. After searching the mountains for three months, he found dragon marrow and ancient treasures but failed to locate the ancient dragon lair, before strange roars drew his attention at night.

• The chapter recounted how the third-generation Source Master Cai ancestor brought calamity to the Central Plains, and how the Green Emperor destroyed the Cai Family and struck at the Eternal Dragon Lair.
• The surviving Cai Family established the Vermilion Bird Sect as a decoy, took the name Qin, and concealed their direct line within the Qin Sect.
• Ye Fan reached the Qinling Mountains, assessed the Qin Sect’s powerful members and their hidden inheritances, and decided not to confront them directly.
• Ye Fan left to search the mountains for the ancient dragon and Immortal Transformation Pool, hoping to determine the Qinling great dragon’s true essence.
• After three months, Ye Fan glimpsed the ancient great dragon and was forced to leave, but collected dragon marrow and several King-grade divine weapons from the mountains.
• Half a month later, strange roars from deep in the mountains caught Ye Fan’s attention.

Ye Fan discovered five ancient variants contending for supreme-grade dragon marrow in the Qinling Mountains and realized its emergence might help him locate the mountain range’s ancestral root. The powerful rivals faced off over the treasure as Ye Fan watched from hiding, intent on tracing the earth veins.

• The Night Sky Wolf, silver giant ape, and Five-Colored Spider King argued over the dragon marrow, each needing it for a different reason.
• An ancient bronze chariot driven by a dead imperial lord arrived from the north with Jade in Stone inside, while a corpse-like Buddhist monk appeared from the south.
• The Five-Colored Spider King fled when the monk appeared, and the other variants recognized that Jade in Stone and the monk were stronger than they were.
• Ye Fan secretly observed the five variants and decided to use his Martial Dao Heavenly Eye to follow the earth veins and find the Qinling Mountains’ ancestral root.
• Jade in Stone and the monk each claimed the marrow, bringing the standoff to the brink of battle.

Ye Fan found and marked the Qinling ancestral dragon vein, then stole half the supreme-grade dragon marrow from a battlefield between five extraordinary beings. As they chased him, the Emperor Shadow Divine Child emerged from the Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi to confront the psychic purple jade creature.

• The dragon vein upheaval revealed a cavern of supreme-grade dragon marrow, and five extraordinary beings fought over it.
• Ye Fan used Source Heaven patterns to anchor a Purple Qilin to the Qinling ancestral dragon, but its counterattack wounded him and drained his essence.
• Ye Fan replenished himself with purple dragon marrow, kept the connection to the ancestral root, and traveled through the earth veins toward the battlefield.
• Ye Fan stole half the dragon marrow and its stone basin, prompting the five fighters to abandon their battle and attack him.
• The Emperor Shadow Divine Child told Ye Fan that the psychic purple jade creature was a rare soul-nourishing treasure, and Ye Fan stopped to pursue it.
• The purple jade creature attacked Ye Fan with innate essence energy, and the Divine Child stepped out of the cauldron to meet its strike.

Emperor Shadow Divine Child killed the newly advanced Purple Jade King and subdued three other ancient creatures, then gave the Purple Jade King’s jade body to Ye Fan. As Ye Fan headed toward the Qin Sect, his suppressed Dao wound erupted, forcing him to consume supreme-grade dragon marrow and seal himself inside the ancient god coffin.

• Emperor Shadow Divine Child erased the Purple Jade King just after it broke through to Immortal Three and took its jade body.
• The four remaining unusual species fled, but Emperor Shadow Divine Child killed the strange old monk and captured Night Sky Wolf, the silver Violent Ape, and the Five-Colored Spider King.
• Emperor Shadow Divine Child gave the Purple Jade King to Ye Fan and returned the three captured creatures to the Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi.
• Ye Fan left the Qinling Mountains with the purple jade at his waist and headed toward the Qin Sect.
• Five days later, Ye Fan’s Dao wound erupted and sent him crashing into a ravine.
• Ye Fan swallowed supreme-grade dragon marrow, entered the ancient god coffin, and sealed himself inside.

Ye Fan emerged from the ancient divine coffin and recognized the mysterious Sick Old Man as Gai Jiuyou, the human prodigy who had once stood on the verge of attaining the Dao. They agreed to join Qin Sect as they pursued the Dao Sect’s Weapon Secret, and Gai Jiuyou asked how Ye Fan had identified him.

• Gai Jiuyou watched Ye Fan awaken from the ancient divine coffin and offered to buy it with ten jin of pure source.
• Gai Jiuyou invited Ye Fan to join him at Qin Sect, whose gates were due to open the next day.
• Ye Fan decided to reveal himself and greeted the Sick Old Man as Senior Gai Jiuyou.
• Ye Fan explained that he had pieced together Gai Jiuyou’s identity from clues about his survival, Xia Jiuyou’s inheritance, and his own Martial Dao Heavenly Eye.
• Gai Jiuyou recognized the Merak Three Saints from Ye Fan’s account and recalled their history.

Ye Fan revealed the Qin Sect’s secrets and the immortal treasures hidden in the Qinling Mountains to Gai Jiuyou, proposing they work together to claim them. He explained that the Dreamlike Divine Marrow had become a powerful Holy Spirit, leaving the Eternal Dragon Cave’s Supreme Yang Divine Pill as Gai Jiuyou’s best hope.

• Ye Fan told Gai Jiuyou that the Qin Sect was secretly the Cai Clan and offered to help obtain the Weapon Secret, the Divine Crossing Formula, and the Cai Clan’s source arts notebooks.
• Gai Jiuyou agreed to Ye Fan’s proposed cooperation and asked whether he knew anything about the Immortal Transformation Pool and the Eternal Dragon Cave.
• Ye Fan said the Immortal Transformation Pool was unlikely to yield further miracles and identified the Eternal Dragon Cave’s treasures as the Dreamlike Divine Marrow and the Supreme Yang Divine Pill within the third-generation Source Heavenly Master.
• Gai Jiuyou asked Ye Fan to help locate the Eternal Dragon Cave, and Ye Fan said he had already established a vague connection to the Qinling Mountains’ ancestral dragon.
• Ye Fan revealed that the Dreamlike Divine Marrow had gained sentience and become a peak Great Saint Holy Spirit known as the Immortal Emperor of Central Plains.

Ye Fan and Gai Jiuyou infiltrated the Qin Sect, where Ye Fan comprehended the Weapon Word Secret from an ancient cliff carving. Gai Jiuyou began teaching Ye Fan in return for the Presence Word Secret, while the two waited for the Eternal Dragon to rise.

• Gai Jiuyou chose to seek the Supreme Yang Divine Pellet in the third-generation Source Heaven Master's body and learned the Eternal Dragon would appear in at least three months.
• Ye Fan and Gai Jiuyou secretly entered the Qin Sect and found weapon carvings on a cliff at its main peak.
• Ye Fan used the Nine Secrets to resonate with the carvings and comprehended the Weapon Word Secret, which his Presence Word Secret helped him suppress.
• Gai Jiuyou offered to lecture Ye Fan on the Dao for three months, and gave him the Source Arts notes and Divine Crossing Formula left by the third-generation Source Heavenly Master.
• Ye Fan and Gai Jiuyou began discussing the Dao on Qin Sect's main peak, and Gai Jiuyou explained how the Weapon Word Secret could seize an imperial weapon and why keeping it was difficult.

Ye Fan and Gai Jiuyou arrived at the Immortal Transformation Pool as cultivators from across the regions gathered to seek its treasures. When the thinning mist drew more people into the deadly lake, Ye Fan kept the Source King Lineage on shore and secretly used the Weapon Secret to sense the artifacts below.

• Ye Fan and Gai Jiuyou reached the Immortal Transformation Pool, where Wang Teng and other powerful cultivators had gathered.
• Wu Hong and the Source King Lineage arrived, and Ye Fan ordered them to follow his instructions; Ouyang Ye also arrived with the four Source Arts sects.
• Yan Ruyu joined Ye Fan with the Eastern Wasteland forces and the Green Emperor's Weapon, while Killing God Child delivered a ring containing the Undying Emperor's human skin.
• As the white mist dispersed, cultivators entered the lake and died, though some retrieved valuable weapons and materials, drawing more factions into the water.
• Ye Fan ordered the Source King Lineage to stay ashore and use source arts to connect with the dragon veins, while he secretly used the Weapon Secret to sense the artifacts at the lake's bottom.

Ye Fan used the Weapon Secret to obtain a damaged heirloom Saint weapon and gave it to the Violent Ape King, while his three beast kings intimidated the nearby cultivators. Seeing Night Sky Wolf and Five-Colored Spider King envy the reward, Ye Fan promised to find them Saint weapons too.

• Ye Fan drew a damaged heirloom Saint weapon from the pool, and nearby cultivators coveted it but feared his strength.
• Ye Fan summoned the Night Sky Wolf, Five-Colored Spider King, and Violent Ape King to scare off anyone plotting against him.
• Ye Fan identified the weapon as the Primordial Chaos Demon Dragon Staff and gave it to the Violent Ape King.
• Ye Fan promised the Violent Ape King that the Holy Prince would teach it staff techniques if it performed well.
• Night Sky Wolf and Five-Colored Spider King eagerly watched Ye Fan, who said he would find two more Saint weapons for them.

Ye Fan claimed the Nine Heavens Crimson Jade King as powerful cultivators attacked him, while his allies fought to hold them back. As Gai Jiuyou searched the Immortal Transformation Pool, he sensed a piece of green bronze and tried to summon it as his own weapon.

• Ye Fan drew the Nine Heavens Crimson Jade King from the lake with the Weapon Secret, prompting cultivators to turn their greed toward him and the Purple Jade King at his waist.
• An attacker hurled a Holy Lord artifact at Ye Fan, setting off a battle as the Night Sky Wolf and Five-Colored Spider King engaged sect masters and the Violent Ape King fought three Holy Lord-level figures.
• Killing God Child used his blood-colored Killing Sword to kill Immortal Platform cultivators, checking the assault, while Ye Fan remained calm and secured the crimson jade.
• Gai Jiuyou sensed a fist-sized piece of green bronze buried in the lakebed and recalled that it was a piece once taken by the Cai Clan, not the bronze in which the Green Emperor had taken root.
• Gai Jiuyou visualized the bronze as his ancestral weapon and called for it to come to him.

Gai Jiuyou retrieved a shard of the Lunar Ancient Emperor’s Human Emperor Seal from the Immortal Transformation Pool and considered its origins. As the lakeside battle ended, Wang Chengxiang attacked Ye Fan with the Azure Heaven Treasure Wheel, prompting the Eastern Wasteland demon race to react.

• Gai Jiuyou used the Weapon Secret to seize a black immortal-gold shard and identified its Lunar divine power as belonging to the Human Emperor Seal.
• Gai Jiuyou searched the lakebed for more fragments, found none, and put the shard away.
• Wang Chengxiang berated the failed battle and prepared to attack Ye Fan, while Ancient Emperor Wang Teng approved of his uncle’s plan.
• Wang Chengxiang charged Ye Fan and launched the Azure Heaven Treasure Wheel at him under the pretense of claiming a treasure.
• The Eastern Wasteland demon race reacted in alarm, and the head of the Source King Lineage rushed to warn Ye Fan.

Ye Fan used the Qinling ancestral roots to kill Wang Chengxiang and claim the Azure Heaven Treasure Wheel. When Wang Teng charged at him in vengeance, an ancient dragon cavern erupted and blasted the Chaotic Ancient Chariot aside, leaving Wang Teng disheveled.

• Ye Fan summoned countless Heavenly Dragons from the Qinling Mountains and overwhelmed Wang Chengxiang, whose Primordial Spirit was crushed as he died.
• An azure dragon delivered the Azure Heaven Treasure Wheel to Ye Fan, who gave it to the Night Sky Wolf and erased the Wang Family imprints within it.
• Wang Teng grieved for his uncle and charged Ye Fan in the Chaotic Ancient Chariot, wielding the Heavenly Emperor Sacred Sword.
• Dragon qi erupted from an ancient cavern beneath the ground and sent the Chaotic Ancient Chariot flying, knocking Wang Teng down and dislodging his Purple Gold Crown.

The Eternal Dragon Cave emerged in the Qinling Mountains, releasing a blood-red pearl that contained the transformed corpse of the third-generation Source Heaven Master, the Cai Clan ancestor. As the red-furred monster battled the cultivators outside, intruders who entered the cave were driven back by powerful sentient creatures guarding the dream-grade divine marrow.

• The Eternal Dragon Cave appeared alongside the Immortal Transformation Pool, and a scarlet divine pearl emerged from it.
• The pearl cracked open, releasing the red-furred Cai Clan ancestor, who slaughtered cultivators until the surviving forces joined together to fight him.
• Some cultivators abandoned the battle and entered the cave to seize the dream-grade divine marrow, weakening the siege outside.
• A miniature jade warrior in an ancient chariot led powerful cave creatures in driving the human intruders out, leaving fewer than one in ten alive.

The strange creatures guarding the Dream-grade Divine Marrow attacked the cultivators in the Qinling Mountains, prompting the Great Xia and Jiuli emperors to unleash their imperial weapons. As the battle escalated through the power of the Qinling dragon vein, Ye Fan proposed that Gai Jiuyou use the Weapon Secret to test the Holy Spirit said to be sleeping there.

• A jade figure leading the strange creatures accused the cultivators of disturbing its clan's immortal emperor and charged them with its forces.
• The Great Xia Emperor summoned the Taihuang Sword, and the Jiuli Emperor unleashed the Jiuli Diagram against the attacking creatures.
• The jade spirits formed a divine array and invoked the Qinling Mountains' dragon-vein power, summoning a colossal crimson dragon to confront the imperial weapons.
• An ancient fossil speculated that the Dream-grade Divine Marrow had become a Holy Spirit, while Gai Jiuyou judged that it had not surpassed him.
• Ye Fan suggested that Gai Jiuyou use the Weapon Secret to control the two imperial weapons and test the Holy Spirit.

The Taihuang Sword attacked the Eternal Dragon Cave, but the Saint Spirit’s imperial might blocked it and turned its next strike toward Eastern Saint. The Green Emperor then revived at the Immortal Transformation Pool, reclaimed his weapon, and approached Yan Ruyu, who wept at her ancestor’s return.

• The Taihuang Sword escaped the Great Xia Emperor’s control and unleashed an ultimate strike at the Eternal Dragon Cave.
• The cave’s Saint Spirit blocked the sword and sent imperial might toward Eastern Saint, while Gai Jiuyou recognized that it had only reached the Great Saint realm.
• A green bronze fragment and crystalline lotus appeared above the Immortal Transformation Pool, and the Green Emperor emerged.
• The Green Emperor’s weapon awakened in Yan Ruyu’s Wheel Sea and flew to him, where he greeted it as an old friend.
• Yan Ruyu and the Eastern Wasteland demon race prostrated themselves before the Green Emperor, who comforted Yan Ruyu for bearing the burden of their declining lineage.
• Yan Ruyu broke down in tears before her returned ancestor.

The Green Emperor purified the third-generation Origin Heavenly Master, releasing the Supreme Yang Divine Pill and allowing the Cai Clan ancestor to pass his lifelong learning to Ye Fan. Ye Fan then underwent a heavenly tribulation to break through to the Source Heavenly Master realm, but ghost soldiers suddenly erupted from a mountain passage as the lightning sea began to shrink.

• The Green Emperor purified the Cai Clan ancestor's red-haired monster form, causing the Supreme Yang Divine Pill to emerge and capturing it.
• The Cai Clan ancestor's Primordial Spirit briefly regained clarity, lamented his fate, and passed his lifelong learning to Ye Fan before disappearing.
• Ye Fan was engulfed by a fierce heavenly tribulation as he advanced beyond the pinnacle of the Source Earth Master realm.
• Ye Fan fought the ancient thunder beasts with his Sacred Body, while the assembled cultivators watched from beyond the lightning sea.
• As the tribulation weakened, a mountain exploded and ghost soldiers and generals poured from a passage, prompting a white-haired sect master to cry that ghost soldiers were borrowing the road.

As Ye Fan completed his tribulation to become a Source Heavenly Master, the Source King ancestor, transformed into a red-haired monster, led Yin soldiers to attack him. The Green Emperor intervened, wiped out the soldiers, and dragged the fleeing ancestor back.

• Elder Wu Hong recognized that the Yin soldiers might signal a calamity tied to Source Heavenly Masters, while Gai Jiuyou hinted the disaster could have been arranged by someone.
• The red-haired monster killed onlookers and was identified as the missing ancestor of the Source King Lineage, who had nearly entered the Source Heavenly Master realm.
• Ye Fan realized the attack might be aimed at him because of his Desolate Ancient Sacred Body and hurried to finish his tribulation before the Yin forces could strike.
• After Ye Fan completed his tribulation, the Source King ancestor charged at him, claiming the fourth-generation patriarch had ordered him to kill anyone approaching the supreme realm.
• The Green Emperor appeared to protect Ye Fan, destroyed the charging Yin soldiers, and seized the fleeing Source King ancestor.

Ye Fan became the sixth Source Celestial Master of the Eastern Wasteland after advancing his cultivation and tempering his body with Lightning Tribulation Liquid. Green Emperor purged the Source King ancestor’s Primordial Spirit of its evil thoughts and handed it to Ye Fan, leaving the ancestor’s clan able to preserve him and seek a path to his rebirth.

• Green Emperor purified the red-haired Source King ancestor while Wu Hong watched helplessly.
• Ye Fan absorbed the Lightning Tribulation Liquid, reached the sixth minor stage of Immortal Platform II, and strengthened his body enough to battle a Half-Saint.
• Ye Fan became the sixth Source Celestial Master of the Eastern Wasteland and received the respect of the gathered sect leaders and ancestors.
• Ye Fan asked Green Emperor to spare the Source King ancestor, explaining that the ancestor had not harmed innocents and could still strengthen humanity’s foundations.
• Green Emperor split the red-haired monster apart, removed the imperial curse and evil thoughts from the ancestor’s Primordial Spirit, and gave the purified spirit to Ye Fan.
• Wu Hong placed the ancestor’s Primordial Spirit in a secret treasure for nourishment and pledged the reclusive Source King Lineage’s obedience to Ye Fan.

The Green Emperor confronted an ancient Holy Spirit that intended to bring calamity to the world, offering to spare it if it abandoned its evil thoughts. The Holy Spirit refused, and as the Green Emperor prepared to fight without his weapon, it drew its ancient saint sword and attacked.

• The Green Emperor revealed himself outside the dragon lair, and the ancient Holy Spirit emerged in an ancient dragon chariot, proclaiming itself the immortal emperor of the Central Plains.
• The Green Emperor dismissed the Holy Spirit’s claim to imperial status and explained that its ambition to rule over all beings made it a future calamity.
• The Green Emperor demanded that the Holy Spirit cut away its evil thoughts, but it rejected his judgment and insisted those thoughts were good.
• The Green Emperor summoned the Chaos Green Lotus and locked onto the Holy Spirit, while Ye Fan took cover behind Elder Gai Jiuyou.
• The Green Emperor tossed the Chaos Green Lotus to the demon princess and declared he could slay the Holy Spirit without his Emperor weapon.
• The ancient Holy Spirit praised the Green Emperor’s confidence, then drew its innate ancient saint sword and swung it at him.