Recaps

After Lu Sisi died protecting Chen Ning, he fought the Qilin True God to avenge her. The Qilin True God revealed his invulnerable true form, and Chen Ning’s attacks failed to break through its defenses.

• Lu Sisi died in Chen Ning’s arms after expressing happiness that she had helped him, and Chen Ning placed her body in his storage Law Treasure.
• Chen Ning attacked the Qilin True God, and their clash showed that Chen Ning’s Perfect Divine Spark let him fight on equal terms.
• The Qilin True God summoned a golden pagoda to suppress Chen Ning, but Chen Ning’s Ruyi Jingu Bang struck it away.
• The Qilin True God revealed his thousand-zhang Qilin true form, which withstood Chen Ning’s staff and sent him flying with a burst of Divine Power.
• Chen Ning summoned the Savage Bull Dharma Body and attacked again, but the Qilin True God’s Divine Flame and defense stopped his assault.

Chen Ning transformed his Savage Bull Dharma Body into the Kui Ox Dharma Body and defeated Qilin True God, then learned that Qi Yu could revive Lu Sisi. Qi Yu used the Dew of Miracles to restore her, and Lu Sisi awoke beside Chen Ning.

• Chen Ning's Savage Bull Dharma Body transformed into the Kui Ox Dharma Body, allowing him to overpower Qilin True God's divine flame and break through his defenses with Purple Firmament Divine Lightning.
• Chen Ning destroyed Qilin True God, who died remembering the young man who had rescued him as a Qilin cub.
• Qi Yu arrived and explained that Willow God's followers had helped lift the blockade around Unknowing Island and that his master's research could revive Lu Sisi if her body was preserved.
• Qi Yu poured the Dew of Miracles onto Lu Sisi, restoring her body, origin, and soul.
• Lu Sisi opened her eyes, and Chen Ning reassured her that everything was all right.

After Chen Ning reunited with Lu Sisi, news that he had slain Qilin True God reached Yutian True God, who responded by preparing to crush Willow God's allies and capture Chen Ning. Yutian empowered Duan Tianya and ordered Crimson Refinement True God and Great God White Brows to attack Unknowing Island and the Azure Cloud Sect, officially escalating the conflict.

• Chen Ning teased Lu Sisi after she returned from the dead, and they shared a rare warm moment despite their unresolved problems.
• Duan Tianya reported that Chen Guan had gathered experts across the Dragon-Tiger Realm to oppose Yutian True God.
• Scorpion God informed Yutian True God that Chen Ning had slain Qilin True God, and Yutian ordered Crimson Refinement True God and Great God White Brows summoned.
• Yutian True God gave Duan Tianya a Divine Spark Fruit, strengthening him, and assigned him a separate task.
• Yutian True God ordered Crimson Refinement True God and Great God White Brows to destroy Unknowing Island and the Azure Cloud Sect, kill Willow God's associates, and capture Chen Ning alive.
• Crimson Refinement True God warned that the mission was too risky, but Yutian True God threatened to make them his enemies if they refused.

Yutian True God's forces attacked Willow God's allies on Unknowing Island, where Chen Ning arrived to protect the defenders. As Crimson Refinement True God joined the battle, Thunder God appeared to help Chen Ning and vowed that White Brows and Chilian would not leave alive.

• Yutian True God sent Great God White Brows and Crimson Refinement True God to attack Willow God's allies, while the two forces chose to remain in his camp.
• Crimson Refinement True God found Azure Cloud Mountain deserted and redirected his army toward Unknowing Island.
• Great God White Brows attacked Unknowing Island, where Chen Guan and the gathered defenders fought back, with Yuan Xifeng holding the front line.
• Great God White Brows targeted Yuan Xifeng with a deadly strike, but Chen Ning arrived and shattered it with the Ruyi Jingu Bang.
• Crimson Refinement True God arrived with more Lower Gods and prepared to attack, but Thunder God appeared and pledged to kill White Brows and Chilian.

Yutian True God used the Blood Devil Race and Chen Ning’s friends at White Bone Mountain to force Chen Ning to come alone. Qi Yu helped Chen Guan return to the Middle God realm so he could defend Unknowing Island, while Chen Ning rushed to White Bone Mountain, where Yutian True God prepared to punish Hua'er for his delay.

• Great God White Brows revealed that the Blood Devil Race’s hiding place was White Bone Mountain, and Yutian True God threatened Chen Ning through the Voice Transmission Spirit Stone.
• Chen Ning realized Duan Tianya had impersonated Yutian True God to mislead Chen Guan’s informants while Yutian True God went to White Bone Mountain to lure him away.
• Qi Yu gave Chen Guan an improved Divine Spark Fruit, and Chen Guan swallowed it and returned to the Middle God realm.
• Chen Ning left for White Bone Mountain after Chen Guan and Thunder God prepared to defend Unknowing Island.
• At White Bone Mountain, Yutian True God had defeated the Blood Devil King and gravely wounded Mao Chunqiu, while Zhao Xiuxiu was trapped by a restriction.
• Yutian True God turned his attention to Hua'er, and the Blood Devil King begged him to kill the Blood Devil King instead.

Chen Ning arrived at the mountaintop and confronted Yutian True God, who demanded that he submit to being refined. After the others escaped, Chen Ning used the Great Dao of Time to send Zhao Xiuxiu away, leaving himself in Yutian True God's power.

• Mao Chunqiu blocked Yutian True God's attack on Hua'er and offered to die in Chen Ning's place.
• Chen Ning arrived, healed Mao Chunqiu, and offered to let Yutian True God refine him if he spared the others.
• Zhao Xiuxiu threatened to kill himself unless Yutian True God released everyone, and Chen Ning ordered him to let the others leave first.
• Yutian True God released the Blood Devil King, Hua'er, and the others, who carried the injured Mao Chunqiu away.
• Chen Ning used the Great Dao of Time to send Zhao Xiuxiu away before Yutian True God could stop him.

Chen Ning and the Blood Devil King fought Yutian True God but were overwhelmed until Willow God intervened. Willow God revealed that he knew Yutian True God had killed the woman he held hostage, and the two prepared for an inevitable battle.

• Chen Ning attacked Yutian True God with Purple Firmament Divine Lightning, but Yutian True God effortlessly repelled it.
• The Blood Devil King returned to protect his people and unleashed the inherited resentment of his race, gaining power approaching that of a Middle God.
• The Blood Devil King and Chen Ning attacked together, but Yutian True God overcame them, and his finger strike nearly killed the Blood Devil King.
• Willow God broke free of the grand array and stopped Yutian True God's attack, then acknowledged that the Blood Devil King had known his identity.
• The Blood Devil King explained that he had kept Willow God's identity secret because Willow God had tried to change his people, though he still wanted revenge himself.
• Willow God confronted Yutian True God about the hostage, declared that the woman was already dead, and prepared to fight now that Chen Ning had sent Zhao Xiuxiu away.

Willow God and Yutian True God fought to settle their past, with Yutian True God gaining the advantage after wounding Willow God. Willow God revealed his Ancient Tree of Nature Dharma Body, and Yutian True God answered by summoning his Battle Saint Physique.

• Willow God and Yutian True God clashed with divine might and exchanged powerful attacks, and Willow God realized his opponent had grown stronger by stealing cultivators’ innate origins.
• Yutian True God summoned his dark-gold halberd and battled Willow God, while Willow God maintained a spatial barrier to protect the surrounding land.
• Yutian True God used the halberd’s dragon patterns to pierce Willow God’s left shoulder and gain the advantage.
• Willow God transformed into his Ancient Tree of Nature True God Dharma Body, ranked twelfth on the Dharma Body Heaven Ranking.
• Yutian True God summoned his Battle Saint Physique Dharma Body and prepared to fight at full strength.

Willow God and Yutian True God fought with their True God Dharma Bodies, and Willow chose a mutual-destruction attack despite knowing it might cost him his life. Yutian survived the exchange and prepared to kill the gravely wounded Willow, while vowing to spare neither Chen Ning nor the others.

• Chen Ning shielded himself and the Blood Devil King from the Divine Power shockwaves as Willow God and Yutian True God fought.
• Yutian True God broke through the Ancient Tree of Nature’s defenses, and Willow God answered by abandoning his own defense to launch a potentially fatal assault.
• Yutian pretended to beg his senior brother’s forgiveness, causing Willow God to hold back; Yutian then struck the Ancient Tree’s vital point.
• The Ancient Tree of Nature’s attack still shattered Yutian’s Battle Saint Physique, but Willow God suffered grievous injuries and could no longer fight.
• Yutian taunted Willow and revealed that Lingyu True God had killed herself, then rejected Willow’s pleas to spare Chen Ning, Willow’s child, the Blood Devil Race, and the experts from the four realms.

Yutian True God shattered Chen Ning’s Kui Ox Dharma Body and tried to refine him, but the Blood Devil King sacrificed himself to protect Chen Ning. The Blood Devil King’s power awakened a presence in Chen Ning that resembled the supposedly dead Lingyu True God, and Yutian True God’s punch was caught.

• Yutian True God dispersed Chen Ning’s Purple Firmament Divine Lightning and broke his Kui Ox Dharma Body, leaving Chen Ning pinned by divine might.
• Yutian True God began forming a formation to refine Chen Ning and use the power to advance his campaign against the Central Divine Domain.
• The Blood Devil King blocked the formation, died after entrusting his people to Chen Ning, and turned into green light that entered Chen Ning.
• Chen Ning broke free and spoke with the voice of Lingyu True God, shocking Yutian True God and Willow God.
• Yutian True God dismissed Chen Ning’s appearance as a deceptive technique and punched him, but Chen Ning caught the blow.

Chen Ning used the Blood Devil King's legacy and the Dao of Deception to become Lingyu True God in his own mind and defeat Yutian True God. As Chen Ning and Willow God collapsed from exhaustion, Yao Li captured and refined Yutian True God's Primordial Spirit.

• Chen Ning caught Yutian True God's attacks with Lingyu True God's power, and Willow God realized Chen Ning might have reached the realm of deceiving himself.
• Yutian True God spent his origin to launch his strongest punch, but Chen Ning answered with an azure dragon of Divine Power and shattered his body.
• Chen Ning asked Willow God if he was all right, then returned to his own consciousness and collapsed as Willow God wept and apologized.
• Yutian True God's Primordial Spirit tried to possess Chen Ning, but Yao Li caught and refined it, calling him the second-best fortune in the Dragon-Tiger Realm.
• Willow God reflected that he was the last survivor of the three heroes of the Dragon-Tiger Realm.

After Yutian True God's death, Willow God and Chen Ning restored peace to the Dragon-Tiger Realm and reorganized its territories, while continuing to search for the missing Zhao Xiuxiu. Their work was interrupted when a visitor from beyond the realm arrived demanding to meet its ruler.

• Willow God and Chen Ning arrived at the battle in Great Peace Prefecture and announced Yutian True God's death, prompting Great God White Brows, Crimson Refinement True God, and the attacking Lower Gods to surrender.
• Willow God accepted responsibility as the Dragon-Tiger Realm's guardian god, and a month later the realm's territories were reorganized under Chen Guan, Thunder God, and Madam Spider while White Brows and Crimson Refinement became prisoners.
• Chen Ning advanced to Middle God, Willow God recovered from his injuries, and the two continued searching for Zhao Xiuxiu, who had been sent to an unknown point in time.
• At Zhao Xiuxiu's mother's grave, Willow God admitted that he had found no trace of the child, while Chen Ning accepted responsibility for sending him away; Willow God told him he had made the right choice.
• After Chen Ning and Willow God returned to the Yutian Kingdom, Lang Xiaoshan reported that an outsider had arrived demanding to see the ruler of the Dragon-Tiger Realm.

Willow God rejected the Heavenly River Realm’s demand to absorb the Dragon-Tiger Realm and learned of a treasure that could help him find his child. After the Yin Dragon God reported the refusal, his lord planned to spread news of the Divine Spark Fruit to incite other worlds against the Dragon-Tiger Realm.

• The Yin Dragon God pinned the experts in Yutian’s hall with his divine might until Willow God subdued him and freed them.
• The Yin Dragon God said the Heavenly River Realm expected the Dragon-Tiger Realm to honor Yutian True God’s offer of the Divine Spark Fruit in exchange for absorption and a place in the coming contest.
• Willow God refused to make the Dragon-Tiger Realm a vassal, and the Yin Dragon God left after threatening him.
• Willow God told Chen Ning about a guardian god’s treasure that could locate his child through bloodline power, then invited him to visit other worlds.
• The Yin Dragon God reported Willow God’s refusal to his lord, who ordered him to spread news of the Divine Spark Fruit and draw other worlds against the Dragon-Tiger Realm.

The Willow God and Chen Ning traveled to the North Marsh Realm to borrow the Hexagram of Reincarnation so the Willow God could find his child. The Wind God and Ancient God of Dusk tried to help, but the Undying Battle Emperor refused because he had promised the treasure to the Desolate Wood Realm; the chapter left the request unresolved.

• The Willow God brought Chen Ning to the North Marsh Realm to ask the Wind God for the Hexagram of Reincarnation.
• The Wind God told the Willow God that the Undying Battle Emperor had borrowed the treasure, then took them to seek the Ancient God of Dusk's help.
• The Ancient God of Dusk summoned the Undying Battle Emperor and asked whether he still had the Hexagram of Reincarnation.
• The Willow God asked the Undying Battle Emperor to lend him the treasure, but the Undying Battle Emperor refused because he had promised it to the Desolate Wood Realm in exchange for an alliance.

Northern Marsh debated whether to give the Hexagram of Reincarnation to the Scholar Tree God to secure his help in the battle for seats. The Wind God proposed allying with the Dragon-Tiger Realm instead, and the Ancient God of Dusk offered the Willow God the treasure and a lasting alliance, leaving her to weigh the risk to her realm.

• The Undying Battle Emperor told the Ancient God of Dusk that he had promised the Scholar Tree God the Hexagram of Reincarnation forever in exchange for his support.
• The Wind God objected to giving away his treasure, and he and the Undying Battle Emperor argued over Northern Marsh’s need for the Scholar Tree God’s strength.
• The Willow God offered to seek another way to find her child rather than put Northern Marsh in a difficult position.
• The Wind God proposed rejecting the Scholar Tree God and allying with the Dragon-Tiger Realm, citing the Willow God’s top-ranked Dharma Body.
• The Ancient God of Dusk offered the Willow God the Hexagram of Reincarnation immediately and promised that Northern Marsh and the Dragon-Tiger Realm would remain allies regardless of the contest’s outcome.
• The Willow God hesitated because the Dragon-Tiger Realm needed time to recover and an alliance could bring it into conflict with other worlds.

Willow God agreed to join forces with the Northern Marsh after the Heavenly River Realm provoked an attack on the Dragon-Tiger Realm. As Willow God and Chen Ning returned to drive off the remaining intruders, Thousand-Faced God infiltrated Unknowing Pavilion to steal the Divine Spark Fruit and ran into Chen Ning.

• Qi Yu told Willow God that outsiders had attacked Unknowing Island and injured Thunder God and Chen Guan.
• The Ancient God of Dusk ordered the Northern Marsh's allies not to target the Dragon-Tiger Realm, and Willow God agreed to join the contest for a seat in the Central Divine Domain.
• The Ancient God of Dusk gave the Hexagram of Reincarnation to Willow God and ordered the Undying Battle Emperor to reject Scholar Tree God, leaving the Undying Battle Emperor resentful.
• Willow God and Chen Ning returned to the Dragon-Tiger Realm and began clearing out the remaining outsiders.
• Thousand-Faced God disguised himself as a defender, incapacitated guards, and entered Unknowing Pavilion to steal valuables and search for the Divine Spark Fruit.
• Chen Ning confronted Thousand-Faced God and claimed he was also there to steal, offering to show him the ropes.

Chen Ning lured the Thousand-Faced God to Qi Yu, where they revealed their plan to refine him as a sacrifice for a more perfect Divine Spark Fruit. Chen Ning suppressed the captive, while Qi Yu prepared to defy the Willow God and pursue their ambitions in the Central Divine Domain.

• Chen Ning claimed the Dragon-Tiger Realm had oppressed him and persuaded the Thousand-Faced God to help capture the Divine Spark Fruit’s creator instead of stealing the fruit.
• Chen Ning led the Thousand-Faced God to Qi Yu’s room in the Unknowing Pavilion, where Qi Yu was tending his crafting furnace.
• Qi Yu and Chen Ning revealed that they intended to refine the Thousand-Faced God, and Chen Ning confirmed that he had set a trap.
• The Thousand-Faced God attacked Chen Ning but was instantly immobilized by Chen Ning’s overwhelming Divine Power.
• Qi Yu prepared to sacrifice the Thousand-Faced God to create a more perfect Divine Spark Fruit and declared that he and Chen Ning would leave the Dragon-Tiger Realm for the Central Divine Domain.

Chen Ning and Willow God exposed Thousand-Faced God as a spy from the Giant Cauldron Realm and used his identity to deter the realm from targeting Dragon-Tiger Realm. After three years of recovery and intense cultivation, Dragon-Tiger Realm prepared for the battle for seats in the Central Divine Domain, with Willow God judging Chen Ning strong enough to protect himself.

• Chen Ning, Qi Yu, and Willow God tricked Thousand-Faced God into revealing that he was a spy from the Giant Cauldron Realm, then decided to send his token as a warning instead of exposing him outright.
• Dragon-Tiger Realm prospered over the next three years, aided by Master Geng and Qi Yu's cultivation resources, and Zhao Xiuxiu was found and reunited with his father.
• Chen Ning and Willow God devoted themselves to cultivation while Chen Ning trained against Thunder God, Chen Guan, and Willow God to prepare for the coming contest.
• At White Bone Mountain, Chen Ning's final sparring session with Willow God ended when both withdrew their Dharma Bodies, marking the end of their three years of training.
• Willow God told Chen Ning that he had forced him to use a True God Dharma Body and was strong enough to protect himself in the battle for seats.

Yao Li joined Chen Ning and the Willow God on their journey to Northern Marsh for the contest for seats in the Central Divine Domain. When the three arrived at Dusk Square, Northern Marsh’s Upper Gods questioned why the Willow God had brought two Middle Gods, and the Undying Battle Emperor refused to protect them.

• Yao Li insisted on joining Chen Ning and the Willow God, and the Willow God agreed to help protect her and Chen Ning.
• The Willow God, Chen Ning, and Yao Li traveled together to Northern Marsh to meet its experts before heading to the battlefield.
• At Dusk Square, the Undying Battle Emperor complained about the Dragon-Tiger Realm’s late arrival as the Northern Marsh Upper Gods waited.
• The Lake God questioned why the Willow God had brought two young Middle Gods to the dangerous contest, and the Willow God said they could fight Upper Gods.
• The Undying Battle Emperor warned that he would not spare strength to protect Chen Ning and Yao Li on the battlefield.

The Willow God, Chen Ning, and Yao Li joined Northern Marsh’s delegation at the Demon Battlefield, where worlds competed for a treasure and the right to enter the Central Divine Domain. After God King Qingxuan announced the rules, the contest began and the group entered the battlefield.

• The Ancient God of Dusk eased tensions and urged everyone to protect one another and fight for a seat before leading the group toward the battlefield.
• Northern Marsh and the Dragon-Tiger Realm arrived at the Demon Battlefield, where other worlds mocked Chen Ning and Yao Li and the Giant Cauldron Realm planned to target the Willow God’s group.
• The Willow God introduced Chen Ning and Yao Li to several powerful rivals, including the Snow God, the Boulder Divine General, and the Heavenly Dragon God.
• God King Qingxuan announced that the world that found the hidden treasure would win the contest, and revealed that another judge had entered the battlefield ahead of them.
• The Wind God, the Undying Battle Emperor, the Yang God, the Lake God, the Willow God, Chen Ning, and Yao Li entered the Demon Battlefield.

Chen Ning and the Northern Marsh group searched the Demon Battlefield for two days before learning that Flower World had found the treasure. They reached the site to find the Peach Blossom God and the Apricot Blossom God surrounded by experts from many realms, while the Eternal Demon Emperor secretly prepared a return.

• The Scholar Tree God allied with the Heavenly River Realm and planned to kill the Willow God, while the Wind God warned that attacking him meant opposing Northern Marsh.
• Yao Li proposed an unconventional plan to Chen Ning, but he chose to travel with the Willow God and the Wind God instead.
• The Eternal Demon Emperor watched the gods and ordered his followers to sacrifice the Upper Gods of the Outer Divine Domain to welcome his return.
• Chen Ning's group traveled through the Demon Battlefield with Northern Marsh's gods clearing attacks, but found no sign of the treasure during their first two days of searching.
• On the third day, news spread that the Peach Blossom God and the Apricot Blossom God of Flower World had found the treasure.
• Experts from many realms surrounded the two Flower World gods, but held back from attacking because the treasure could become a death warrant.

Chen Ning redirected the treasure from the Flower World gods to the Axe God, triggering a deadly scramble among the assembled realms. After the melee ended, Willow God questioned how the Flower World gods had obtained the treasure and realized the story behind it did not add up.

• Chen Ning suggested that the Peach Blossom God and Apricot Blossom God hand the treasure to the Axe God, and they tossed it to him.
• Yao Li moved the Axe God, prompting the gods to attack him and sparking a melee over the treasure.
• The Axe God threw the treasure away, but the four strongest realms prevented the Upper Gods who fought for it from escaping; two Upper Gods died, and Yao Li absorbed their fortune.
• Willow God asked how the Flower World gods had found the treasure, and the Peach Blossom God explained that a Demon God had given it to them.
• Wind God noticed that no other experts had witnessed the handoff, raising the question of how news of the treasure had spread to the assembled gods.

The gods discovered that the supposed treasure was a trap set by a Demon God, which had already cost the Tianya Realm’s guardian god his life. After uncovering the skull, the gods debated whether to pursue the Demon God before continuing their search.

• The Snow God suggested the Demon God had planted false news to lure the gods into fighting, while the Shabi Divine General accused the Northern Marsh of possibly staging the deception.
• The gods chose the Peach Blossom God and Apricot Blossom God to inspect the treasure, and the Undying Battle Emperor pushed them toward it.
• The Peach Blossom God and Apricot Blossom God removed the sacred radiance and revealed the bloody skull of the Tianya Realm’s guardian god.
• The Peach Blossom God and Apricot Blossom God covered the skull with falling peach blossoms, and the Boulder Divine General prepared to leave.
• The Snow God and Wind God urged the gods to join forces against the Demon God behind the trap, and the Undying Battle Emperor agreed.

The Wind God, Snow God, and several realms joined forces after the Heavenly River Realm and Giant Cauldron Realm departed, while the fox demon and the last troll revealed their plan to rally the demons and kill the isolated Upper Gods. Guided by the God of Leaping, the alliance reached a demon battle formation and attacked, but the formation held as a vast demon tide advanced.

• The Heavenly Dragon God led the Heavenly River Realm away, and the Giant Cauldron Realm and many other worlds followed.
• The Wind God agreed to travel with the Winter Realm, and the Peach Blossom God, Apricot Blossom God, and several other realms joined their alliance.
• The fox-eared youth and the last troll revealed that they planned to gather the demons, kill the Upper Gods, and bring chaos to the Outer Divine Domain.
• The God of Leaping escaped a demon tide and warned the alliance that demons had surrounded isolated Upper Gods in organized battle formations.
• The alliance followed the God of Leaping and found the isolated Upper Gods fighting within a demon formation; the Snow God attacked first, but the formation held as a vast demon tide surged toward them.

Chen Ning spotted the demon formation’s weak point, helping the gods rescue the surrounded Upper Gods. Three days later, the treasure appeared and a chaotic battle erupted, with the Undying Battle Emperor challenging the Boulder Divine General as the Northern Marsh gods moved to support him.

• Chen Ning urged the gods to attack the demon formation’s heavily defended left flank, and the Willow God and Wind God vouched for his plan.
• The gods broke through the left flank, collapsed the formation, and rescued the isolated Upper Gods while the demons withdrew.
• On the seventh day, the treasure appeared in the hands of the Boulder Divine General of the Giant Cauldron Realm, and the realms descended into a free-for-all.
• The Undying Battle Emperor struck down an Upper God and challenged the Boulder Divine General, catching his war hammer with both hands and sending it flying.
• Two Giant Cauldron Realm divine generals rushed to aid the Boulder Divine General, and the Wind God sent the Yang God and Lake God to intercept them.