Chapter Summaries

After learning that Yaoguang Holy Land had attacked the Luo Family and taken Luo Yixian, Luo Yan set out to confront them. The Luo Family mobilized to support him, and rumors spread that his return could bring about a Saint War.

• Luo Yan returned from the Time Realm and learned from Luo Zongqi that Yaoguang Holy Land had abducted Luo Yixian and threatened to destroy the Luo Family.
• Luo Yan found the donkey being waited on by Luo Youyou, Luo Qing, Luo Huaimu, and Luo Tianyuan, then ordered it to take him to Yaoguang Holy Land.
• The Luo Family Head decided to send the clan after Luo Yan with great fanfare, and Luo Family Disciples marched toward Yaoguang Holy Land.
• Cultivators debated the Luo Family's chances, and one man revealed that the clan's ancient Saint ancestor had returned, prompting speculation about a Saint War.

Yaoguang Holy Land elders learned that Luo Family's Saint ancestor might still be alive, while the Yaoguang Holy Son was reassured that hidden Saints from the Ruthless One Lineage would support him. Luo Yan then arrived at the holy land, destroyed its mountain gate, and killed an Immortal Platform cultivator with a single punch.

• Yaoguang Holy Land elders debated the threat of the approaching Luo Family Saint and worried whether their own Saints would intervene.
• A high-ranking elder revealed that at least two Saints sealed in Yaoguang Holy Land belonged to the Ruthless One Lineage and cultivated the Heaven Swallowing Demon Art.
• Luo Yan arrived at Yaoguang Holy Land with his talking donkey and told a disciple he had come to make trouble.
• Luo Yan punched apart the holy land's stone plaque and mountain gate, drawing an enraged cultivator out to confront him.
• Luo Yan struck again and blasted the Immortal Platform cultivator to pieces.

Luo Yan stormed into the Yaoguang Holy Land and effortlessly killed its defenders, revealing overwhelming strength as a peak Quasi-Emperor. After demanding that Fang Jin appear to settle an old score, he left the Holy Lord fearing the confrontation would turn disastrous.

• Luo Yan killed Elder Qin with one punch, crushed the Yaoguang Holy Land's stone plaque, and gravely wounded a Great Power cultivator with a glance.
• Luo Yan entered the holy land and demanded that Fang Jin come, recalling that Fang Jin had survived his attempt to kill him six thousand years earlier and become a Saint sealed in Divine Source.
• A fully accomplished King emerged and attacked Luo Yan with the God-Slaying Art, but Luo Yan remained unharmed and killed him with a casual palm strike.
• Onlookers identified Luo Yan as the Luo Family's Saint ancestor who had supposedly returned from the dead.
• Luo Yan again demanded Fang Jin's presence to settle their old score, and the Yaoguang Holy Lord realized the conflict would not end peacefully.

Luo Yan confronted the Yaoguang Holy Land over its attack on the Luo Family and demanded death for those responsible, the return of the abducted divine physique, and compensation. Fang Jin recognized him as the man whose existence had been erased from history, linking him to the destruction of the Tianxuan Holy Land six thousand years earlier.

• The Luo Family arrived at the Yaoguang Holy Land, and Luo Yan demanded to know where Cui Jinhua was before killing more of the holy land’s people.
• Luo Yan rejected the Yaoguang Holy Lord’s warning and refused Fang Jin’s offer of apologies and compensation, demanding the deaths of those involved and ten thousand jin of high-quality divine source.
• Fang Jin broke out of his divine source and confronted Luo Yan, but struggled to place his familiar face.
• Luo Yan reminded Fang Jin of their meeting at the Tianxuan Holy Land six thousand years earlier, and Fang Jin recognized him as the man on Brilliant Peak whose existence had been erased.
• Fang Jin recalled the Tianxuan Holy Land’s doomed attack on the Life Forbidden Zone and the account that an erased expert had changed the sect’s fate.

Luo Yan used the damaged Time Mirror to contend with Fang Jin and the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron at the Yaoguang Holy Land. He revealed himself as a Quasi-Emperor nearing the end of his life and forced the Emperor Weapon’s awakening deity back into dormancy.

• Fang Jin took the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron from the Yaoguang Holy Lord and prepared to attack Luo Yan, while Luo Yan raised the damaged Time Mirror.
• Fang Jin awakened the Emperor Weapon, and Luo Yan used the Time Mirror’s incomplete ultimate dao laws to withstand its pressure.
• Onlookers recognized the mirror as a ruined Quasi-Emperor Artifact, and a Ji Family expert denied any connection to the Ji Family’s Void Mirror.
• Luo Yan’s skill with the mirror pushed the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron back until its deity began awakening independently.
• Luo Yan released his unstable Quasi-Emperor aura, drawing the attention of Supremes and experts across the universe.
• Luo Yan’s aura forced the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron’s near-awakened deity back into dormancy, shocking the Yaoguang Holy Land’s hidden experts.

Luo Yan forced the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron into slumber, punished Yaoguang Holy Land members who had attacked the Luo Family, and recovered Luo Yixian. Fang Jin went mad from the backlash and cultivation deviation, then wandered away with little time left to live.

• Fang Jin suffered the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron’s backlash, while a Saint King retrieved the sleeping Emperor Weapon and Luo Yan split Yaoguang Holy Land with a sword strike.
• Luo Feng gave Luo Yan a list of those who had attacked the Luo Family, and Luo Yan demanded that Cui Jinhua reveal Luo Yixian’s whereabouts.
• Cui Jinhua handed over the gourd containing Luo Yixian, failed to kill himself, and was crippled before Luo Yan left him in Luo Feng’s hands.
• Luo Yan stripped the lifespans of the listed attackers, and Yaoguang Holy Land’s experts did not dare intervene.
• Fang Jin’s cultivation deviation worsened after the backlash, and he left Yaoguang Holy Land in a deranged state.

Luo Yan forced the Yaoguang Holy Land to compensate the Luo Family and reflected on the Tianxuan Saintess, Ye Fan, and a dangerous escaped creature. With the dispute settled, he and the Luo Family prepared to return.

• Elders discussed rumors that Luo Yan had come from another age and might draw the attention of the Tianxuan Saintess, who had once searched for him.
• Luo Yan considered Ye Fan's future and the rare Dao Integration Flower, then wondered whether he could travel back far enough to encounter the Azure Emperor.
• Elders revealed that a demonic creature beneath the former Tianxuan Holy Land had escaped two hundred years earlier, and Luo Yan resolved to find or defeat it before it became a threat.
• The Yaoguang Holy Lord gave Luo Yan ten thousand jin of variant source as compensation, while Luo Feng released Luo Yixian and explained what had happened.
• Luo Yan declared the matter settled and led the Luo Family disciples back, leaving the Yaoguang Holy Land humbled.

After learning the Time Mirror was an incomplete Immortal Artifact that had shaped its original owner's life, Luo Yan prepared to leave the Luo Family and seek the Five-Colored Altar in the starry sky. The family concealed his departure by claiming he was in seclusion.

• Luo Feng gave Luo Yan a star map imprinted by the Void Emperor, and Luo Yan found Earth's coordinates in it.
• Luo Yan agreed to let the Ji Family study the Time Mirror if he could study their Void Mirror in return.
• Over the next three years, Luo Yan studied the Void Mirror, strengthened the Luo Family, and guided its young cultivators.
• Luo Yan used the Time Mirror to review its original owner's life and discovered that it was an incomplete Immortal Artifact he had found rather than forged.
• Luo Yan left for the starry sky with Donkey, while Luo Feng told the Luo Family's elders to say their ancestor was in seclusion.

Luo Yan welcomed new neighbors Ye Hai and Ye Fan, giving the boy a valuable jade charm while hiding the true significance of his arrival. After warning Donkey about the dangers of Kunlun, Luo Yan continued planning a journey into the past and his pursuit of the Green Cauldron fragments.

• Ye Hai introduced himself and Ye Fan to Luo Yan, who gave the boy a jade charm as a first-meeting gift.
• After Ye Hai and Ye Fan left, Donkey revealed that it had been disguised as Luo Yan’s black dog, and Luo Yan warned it not to provoke the Dragon Horse or roam Kunlun carelessly.
• Luo Yan explained that Kunlun had been Emperor Zun’s cultivation grounds and contained a Peerless Killing Array, prompting Donkey to realize how dangerous the area was.
• Luo Yan reflected that his search for the revived ancient emperors had found no leads and suspected they were avoiding him or remained asleep.
• Luo Yan planned to travel roughly twelve thousand years into the past after Ye Fan reached the Starry Sky Ancient Road, intending to obtain a Green Cauldron fragment while avoiding a direct expedition into Kunlun.

Luo Yan rescued Ye Fan from three cultivators who had kidnapped him for his Jade Stone, then promised to train him while insisting that he was only teaching martial arts. Ye Fan left with a body-tempering manual and hidden treasures, unaware that the fruit he had declined was a rare Five-Element Vine fruit.

• Luo Yan found Ye Fan through his divine sense after Ye Hai and Ye Fan's mother reported him missing, then vanished to rescue him.
• Luo Yan killed the three demons who had kidnapped Ye Fan to learn about his Jade Stone, and Ye Fan asked whether Luo Yan was an immortal.
• When Ye Fan began middle school, Luo Yan gave him a body-tempering manual, placed three drops of blood essence between his brows, and hid three drops of Divine Liquid in his body.
• Ye Fan left eager to practice martial arts, while Donkey ate the fruit he had abandoned and explained that it came from the rare Five-Element Vine.

Luo Yan used the Time Mirror at Kunlun and briefly awakened the Ruthless Great Emperor’s long-dead elder brother, who asked him to care for his little sister. After accepting the request and fleeing with Donkey and Dragon Horse, Luo Yan returned to Danan City, where Ye Fan announced he had entered university and Dragon Horse fainted at the sight of him.

• Luo Yan used the Time Mirror to reveal the youth preserved in the broken Ghost Face Mask, and the youth begged him to care for his little sister.
• Luo Yan accepted the youth’s final wish, sensed the female emperor’s gaze, and escaped Kunlun with Donkey and Dragon Horse.
• Luo Yan returned to Danan City, where Dragon Horse transformed into a white dog and fought Donkey over its Fire Element Fruit.
• Ye Fan visited Luo Yan to announce that he had entered university and would leave in a few days.
• Dragon Horse recognized Ye Fan, cried out that he was a ghost, and fainted for real.

Ye Fan left Luo Yan to attend a class reunion, still puzzled by Luo Yan’s ageless appearance and the talking dogs. At Mount Tai, nine dragon corpses hauling a bronze coffin descended onto the mountain, while Luo Yan recognized their arrival and stepped into the Long River with the Broken Mirror.

• Luo Yan and Dragon Horse convinced Ye Fan that he had imagined Little White speaking, but Ye Fan later noticed Luo Yan’s unchanged face as he watched him leave.
• Years later, Ye Fan attended a class reunion and planned to visit his parents and ask them about Luo Yan.
• Ye Fan arrived at Mount Tai and saw his former girlfriend, Li Xiaoman, among his classmates, though neither greeted the other.
• Nine dragon corpses dragging a bronze coffin plunged onto Mount Tai and exposed the buried Five-Colored Altar.
• Luo Yan watched from Danan City, declared that the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin had arrived, and stepped into the Long River while holding the Broken Mirror.

After reaching the Big Dipper, Ye Fan and Pang Bo discussed the mysterious Cultivator Uncle Luo and encountered the Tianxuan Saintess in the Desolate Forbidden Zone. She offered to point them toward a way out while continuing her search for a man she could barely remember.

• Ye Fan told Pang Bo about Uncle Luo’s extraordinary powers and gave him a half-drop of Divine Liquid for protection.
• Ye Fan and Pang Bo found a dying old man in a grave, who identified the beautiful woman as the Tianxuan Saintess, a peerless beauty sealed away for six thousand years.
• The old man died, and the Tianxuan Saintess buried him before vanishing from Ye Fan and Pang Bo’s sight.
• The Tianxuan Saintess returned after hearing Pang Bo mention television and asked where Ye Fan and Pang Bo came from.
• The Tianxuan Saintess said she had searched for hundreds of years for someone she could not remember and offered to point Ye Fan and Pang Bo toward a path out.

Luo Yan watched the Azure Emperor awaken from the immortal Green Lotus, claimed the medicine’s shed remains, and became the young emperor’s Dao guardian. He took the Azure Emperor to Demon Star to cultivate and preserved the Green Lotus medicine’s parts for his own future use.

• The Azure Emperor emerged from the immortal Green Lotus, severed his connection to the Immortal Medicine, and declared that he would attain the Dao as a Great Emperor.
• Luo Yan took the Green Lotus’s shed remains and offered to serve as the Azure Emperor’s Dao guardian, promising to protect him and guide his cultivation.
• Luo Yan erased the traces of the Azure Emperor’s birth and took him away from Earth, leaving the Green Cauldron untouched because of its connection to Emperor Zun.
• Luo Yan brought the Azure Emperor to Demon Star, advised him to begin cultivating among the demon tribes, and built a villa on a secluded mountain.
• Luo Yan sealed the Green Lotus Immortal Medicine, replanted its rhizome in the Green Cauldron within his body, and kept its body for his own future use.

The Azure Emperor, known as Wan Qing, survived years of pursuit by the Pan Niu Demon and grew into a feared prodigy. When the Pan Niu clan sent a Great Power to capture him, Wan Qing revealed that Uncle Luo was his Dao Protector.

• The Pan Niu Demon tried to devour the Azure Emperor, but the Azure Emperor escaped despite grievous wounds and became his sworn enemy.
• The Azure Emperor grew rapidly through battle, drawing attention in White Tiger Holy City while repeatedly eluding the Pan Niu Demon.
• The Pan Niu Demon sought help from his Great Power uncle, who vowed to capture the Azure Emperor alive after learning about his identity and Green Lotus.
• A Roc-blooded friend offered to escort Wan Qing to safety, but Wan Qing declined and said someone would stop the Great Power from acting against him.
• Wan Qing revealed that Uncle Luo had taken him in and become his Dao Protector, then wondered whether Uncle Luo was doing well.

The Pan Niu Great Power pursued the Azure Emperor but was intercepted by a mysterious Saint-like figure hidden behind a curtain of light. The demon was transformed into an ox and sentenced to till fields for ten years, while Niu Mang fled to seek help from the clan leader.

• Niu Mang's uncle explained why he feared that a powerful Guardian protected the Azure Emperor, while Niu Mang doubted him.
• Over the next year, the Azure Emperor defeated Pan Niu prodigies, survived an ambush by ten Dragon Transformation demons, and killed another of their younger generation.
• The Pan Niu Great Power set out to kill the Azure Emperor but encountered a curtain of light that blocked his path.
• A voice from behind the curtain ordered the Great Power to till fields for ten years as punishment for threatening its junior.
• The Great Power was turned into an ox and sent to a field, while the Pan Niu demons realized he had vanished.
• Niu Mang trembled at the revelation of the hidden expert and ran to the Holy City to ask the clan leader to save his uncle.

Azure Emperor’s rise on the Demon Star ended with the three Demon Saints and countless demon cultivators planning to divide him as an Immortal Medicine at a Myriad Demon Banquet. His friends, led by Brother Peng, set out to find the hidden elder they believed could save him.

• Azure Emperor reached the peak of the Dao Palace Secret Realm, won the White Tiger Holy City tournament, and refused White Tiger Demon Saint’s offer to become his master.
• News spread that Azure Emperor’s blood could extend life by five hundred years, leading the three Demon Saints and other powerful demons to plan a Myriad Demon Banquet to claim him.
• Brother Peng and Azure Emperor’s other defeated rivals revealed that they had leaked the Immortal Medicine rumor to buy time for him.
• Brother Peng told the group that Azure Emperor had an elder in seclusion who had secretly eliminated past attackers, and proposed finding the elder before the banquet.
• Brother Peng led the demon prodigies toward the elder’s suspected dwelling place.

Luo Yan realized the Azure Emperor had deliberately let his enemies capture him as part of a plan to transform his Green Lotus body into a weapon. At Luo Yan’s secluded residence, demon prodigies seeking help discovered that their ancestors and other former enemies of the Azure Emperor had been suppressed there, and learned that meeting Luo Yan would require his permission.

• Luo Yan watched the Azure Emperor and reasoned that he planned to make his enemies help him refine his original Green Lotus body into an Emperor Weapon.
• Demon prodigies recognized a Flood Dragon ancestor serving as a clothesline and a Peacock Half-Saint reduced to a bald barnyard chicken.
• A Pan Niu Great Power explained that he had been free to leave for six months but stayed at Luo Yan’s Daoist Temple to temper himself.
• The prodigies told the Pan Niu that the Three Demon Sages had captured Wan Qing and asked for help from the senior in the villa.
• The old Flood Dragon praised his junior for seeking help, while an ape in a straw hat explained that the villa was only a phantom unless Luo Yan allowed them inside.

Luo Yan welcomed Wan Qing’s demon friends and the suppressed demon powerhouses, then revealed his plan to send them to the Big Dipper to spread news of Wan Qing’s origins. He promised their freedom in exchange, leaving the demons with ambitions of their own as he prepared them to become the Azure Emperor’s future opponents.

• Luo Yan invited Peng Demon, Little Flood Dragon, Fenghua Rabbit, Fire Fox Horse, and the suppressed demon powerhouses into his courtyard, reassuring the four young demons that Wan Qing’s situation was under control.
• Luo Yan offered the visitors medicinal treasures and served them a meal made with extraordinary ingredients, which the demons eagerly ate.
• After the meal, Luo Yan asked the demon powerhouses to travel to the Big Dipper and tell the great clans that Wan Qing was an immortal Green Lotus medicine who had taken human form.
• Luo Yan promised the demons their freedom if they completed the task, while they secretly considered the value of Wan Qing and he intended them to become the Azure Emperor’s future enemies.

Luo Yan forced the demon Great Powers to agree to protect Young Master Wan Qing, killing one who refused. Meanwhile, the demon sages completed their refinement of the Azure Emperor, but he sacrificed his life essence to the Green Lotus and tried to escape as the demons activated their binding formation.

• Luo Yan praised Wan Qing and asked the demon Great Powers to protect him, then killed a Cricket Qilin Demon who refused.
• The Azure Luan Demon Saint warned the White Tiger Demon Saint and Flowing Flame Demon Saint that the Azure Emperor had a powerful elder, but the White Tiger Demon Saint dismissed the danger.
• The Three Demon Sages and the other demons used a secret formation to refine the Azure Emperor, draining the Green Lotus of its life essence.
• The Azure Emperor burned his life essence to empower the Green Lotus with the Great Dao's laws, then fled the formation.
• The demons awakened their prepared binding formation to stop the Azure Emperor from escaping.