Recaps

The Human Race and Demon Race destroyed Sea Race cities while the Sea Race was distracted by unrest and the Dragon King's attempted assassination. The Dragon King put Crown Prince Yuanli in charge during his recovery and accepted the destruction of cities where traitors were concentrated as a way to weaken the rebellion.

• The Demon Race bombarded a Sea Race city until its shield failed, then destroyed it and withdrew before damaging the seabed further.
• The Human Race destroyed two cities in the western Tianpiao Ocean, killing Sea Race residents to secure its future supply lines.
• The Sea Race Dragon Palace announced that the Dragon King was recovering and that Crown Prince Yuanli would manage Sea Race affairs.
• Shisui monitored Yuanli through dormant Rc cells and prepared to keep him alive until the planetary will fell silent.
• The Dragon King told Yuan Shun that suppressing the rebellion would only make it worse later, and he let enemy forces destroy cities where traitors were concentrated.

Shisui used the Sea Race Crown Prince’s authority to uncover how Sea Race agents were quietly steering human opinion toward attacks on selected cities, then spread [Bone-Deep Rot] through Radiant Feathers in Chou City. A Yinling Sect member noticed the suspiciously frequent references to Sea Race cities and sent a Radiant Feather away.

• Shisui explained how the Sea Race used layers of intermediaries and unwitting informants to influence human military decisions.
• Shisui and the Banshee Sea Demon discussed the propaganda, and Shisui let the scheme continue while the Banshee Sea Demon wrestled with his feelings about civilian casualties.
• Shisui traveled to Chou City and spread [Bone-Deep Rot] with Radiant Feathers so the Human Race would discover the Sea Race’s manipulation.
• A Yinling Sect member noticed that conversations and pro-war leaflets repeatedly mentioned Sea Race cities, then sent a Radiant Feather away.

Suo Qiaoyun traced unusual publicity for selected Sea Race cities to a hidden influence and ordered the intermediaries investigated, while Yuanli prepared a Dragon King scale as a secret communication link with her. The scale was sent toward a Sea Race city targeted for attack, where Demon Race soldiers discovered a similar box after conquering another city.

• Bound Captives in Chou City noticed that publicity repeatedly highlighted certain Sea Race cities and reported the anomaly to their superiors.
• The former Yinling Sect head stopped the elders from acting rashly and told them to seek instructions from their superiors.
• Suo Qiaoyun recognized the cities as the military’s planned targets, ordered an investigation into the intermediaries, and kept the attack plans unchanged.
• Bound Captives across Human Race settlements tracked down Sea Race intermediaries, while Yuanli ordered surviving agents to withdraw and gave his adjutant a box containing an old Dragon King scale for delivery to a target city.
• Demon Race soldiers searching a merchant’s warehouse in a conquered Sea Race city opened an engraved box and found a scale about two palms in size.

A Demon Race patrol found and transferred one of Yuanli’s shed scales, while Shisui arranged a secret alliance against the Heaven-Controlling Realm experts. Shisui began searching the Tree Spirit forest for Long-Life Elder and drew the attention of a local tree spirit.

• Demon Race soldiers found a Dragon King's Shed Scale in a Sea Race merchant’s warehouse and passed it up their chain of command.
• A guard questioned the Crown Prince’s decision to send out two scales, and Yuan Shun told him to leave the matter alone and stop judging the Crown Prince.
• Shisui returned to central Lantiao Continent and planned to coordinate with the other Heaven-Controlling Realm experts, intending to awaken the Beast King when the time came.
• Shisui went to the Tree Spirit forest to find Long-Life Elder and used Radiant Feathers to search for tree spirits.
• A tree spirit confronted Shisui for sweeping his perception across its home.

Shisui defeated a Tree Spirit and discovered that its Tree Spirit Heart was linked to the Planetary Consciousness. When the Long-Life Elder demanded the heart back, Shisui refused and left him unable to move.

• A Tree Spirit attacked Shisui with metallic roots, but Shisui cut them apart and trapped the tree in compressed Feather Powder.
• Shisui pulled the tree from the ground and crushed its body into a wooden ball, revealing the Tree Spirit Heart inside.
• Shisui traced the heart’s energy links to the Planetary Consciousness, which repelled his probing, and then encountered the Long-Life Elder’s barrier.
• The Long-Life Elder told Shisui to leave the Tree Spirit’s soul behind and go, but Shisui ignored him and kept the Tree Spirit Heart.
• The Long-Life Elder tried to stop Shisui, but Shisui’s rapidly circulating energy immobilized his body and soul.

Arakawa Jiushu poisoned Long-Life Elder’s forest with mercury, then stole a Tree Spirit Heart while Long-Life Elder was occupied protecting the trees. Long-Life Elder’s fury erupted across Lantiao Continent, leaving Arakawa Jiushu impaled and Shisui sensing the disturbance.

• Shisui took a Tree Spirit Heart, and Long-Life Elder froze as Arakawa Jiushu’s mercury poisoning disrupted his connection to the forest.
• Arakawa Jiushu spread mercury-laced cinnabar through the forest, poisoning Long-Life Elder and killing or weakening nearby trees.
• Arakawa Jiushu flew to a weakened Tree Spirit and cut out its Tree Spirit Heart before fleeing the forest.
• Long-Life Elder unleashed a violent Psychic Energy wave and roots that struck Arakawa Jiushu down and pierced his abdomen.
• Shisui sensed a gaze and blocked an incoming wave, while the Beast King protected the Beastfolk territory and asked someone whether they would intervene.

The Planetary Will suppressed the Long-Life Elder after his sudden rampage, but Shisui realized its divided attention had left it vulnerable. Hours later, Jiqu received a Dragon King scale that carried a message from the Dragon King.

• The Beast King secretly shielded the Beastfolk territory, taunted the Planetary Will, and was put back to sleep as an Eye of Madness slipped into the territory’s barrier core.
• The Planetary Will halted the Long-Life Elder’s rampage, leaving Arakawa Jiushu in ruins as he absorbed the Tree Spirit Heart and advanced to Heaven Realm Awakened.
• Shisui concluded that the Planetary Will’s delayed response showed how vulnerable it was and decided to accelerate his plan.
• After the fighting paused across Ruolan Star, Jiqu opened a delivered dragon scale and heard the Dragon King greet him.

Jiqu refused the Dragon King's request to cooperate in breaking free of the Planetary Will's restraints, so Yuanli volunteered to seek the Demon Race's support. Unaware that the Yuanli speaking through the scale was a puppet being used as a spark, the Dragon King approved the journey, and Yuanli secretly received a dark green sphere before setting out.

• The Dragon King invited Jiqu to join a temporary effort to break free of the Planetary Will, but Jiqu refused.
• Yuanli argued that the Demon Race's Heaven-Controlling Realm expert was needed and volunteered to persuade him in Demon Race territory.
• The Dragon King allowed Yuanli to go and arranged for Yuan Shun to return to his side the next day.
• As the Human Race and Sea Race fighting paused, the Demon Race's offensive stalled against the Sea Race's counterattack.
• The Banshee Sea Demon delivered Shisui's dark green sphere to Yuanli's tent, and Yuanli concealed it for the journey ahead.

The Banshee Sea Demon followed Shisui’s plan to exploit the Planetary Will’s limits, while Shisui waited on Lantiao’s western coast for Arakawa Jiushu. Shisui captured the newly ascended Arakawa Jiushu and planned to use him to awaken the Long-Life Elder.

• The Banshee Sea Demon recalled Shisui’s instructions, concealed the sphere’s aura with black mist, and agreed to throw it into the Sea Race garrison’s main tent.
• After recovering and ascending to the Heaven Realm, Arakawa Jiushu left the ruined forest and flew west toward the coast.
• Shisui hid in dense fog on the western coast as Arakawa Jiushu entered the area and triggered the Feather Powder trap.
• Arakawa Jiushu transformed into a giant White Owl, but inhaled the Feather Powder and lost consciousness.
• Shisui sealed Arakawa Jiushu inside Koukaku, intending to bring him to the Long-Life Elder, and recognized the scent of ice wine in his blood.

Shisui uncovered an Insect Hive in Arakawa Jiushu’s Spatial Ring and prepared to involve the Beast King in his plan. Meanwhile, Yuanli reached Moonfall Continent to visit a Demon Race figure, the Banshee Sea Demon gathered resentment to strengthen their coming fight, and a familiar presence stirred the forest around Long-Life Elder.

• Shisui secretly entered Arakawa Jiushu’s Spatial Ring, found an Insect Hive, and considered using it to draw in the Beast King.
• Yuanli and his Heaven Realm guards landed on Moonfall Continent, where a Demon Race patrol member received orders to let them pass safely.
• Yuanli’s party followed the Demon Race member deeper into the continent toward the location Shisui had chosen for their plan.
• At Shen City’s ruins, the Banshee Sea Demon absorbed resentment to prepare for the coming clash, unaware that Shisui’s Rc Cells were absorbing energy within his soul body.
• In Lantiao Continent, a familiar presence spread through the forest around the sleeping Long-Life Elder, and the wind strengthened as if a storm were approaching.

Suo Qiaoyun questioned the Dragon King about their plan to negotiate with the Planetary Will, while Long-Life Elder was provoked into attacking the Beastfolk settlement. The Beast King intercepted his strike, and their clash began as Shisui left to set the next part of his plan in motion.

• Suo Qiaoyun asked the Dragon King about the plan’s preparations, and he said they could begin in earnest once they brought Jiqu on board.
• Arakawa Jiushu awoke and ran toward Beastfolk territory, carrying the aura of a Tree Spirit Heart he had devoured.
• Long-Life Elder sensed the Tree Spirit Heart’s aura on Arakawa Jiushu, mistook the Beastfolk for those behind the deed, and sent a Psychic Energy storm toward their settlement.
• Shisui removed the Eye of Madness from the Beastfolk barrier, allowing Long-Life Elder’s attack to shatter it.
• The Beast King stopped Long-Life Elder’s strike, and the two began a battle over the Beastfolk territory.
• Shisui left to set the next act in motion.

Shisui orchestrated Yuanli’s death to provoke the Dragon King into breaking free, drawing three Heaven-Controlling Realm experts to the Ten-Thousand-Blade Mountain Range. As the Dragon King and Jiqu faced off, Shisui activated the Tree Spirit Heart and Insect Hive, sending signals to Long-Life Elder and the Insect Mother.

• Shisui brought the controlled Arakawa Jiushu to the Ten-Thousand-Blade Mountain Range and used White Owl’s ambush and [Survival in Desperate Situations] to kill Yuanli, the Sea Race Crown Prince.
• The Dragon King broke free of his restraints, appeared above the mountain range, and killed a Sea Race witness with lightning.
• Suo Qiaoyun and Jiqu also appeared, and the Dragon King ended the cooperation and directed attacks at Demon Race territories.
• Shisui activated the Tree Spirit Heart inside Yuanli and the Insect Hive inside Arakawa Jiushu, sending their energy fluctuations to Long-Life Elder and the Insect Mother.

Long-Life Elder’s attack awakened Dragon Whisker, who raced to the Moonfall Continent but arrived just after the Tree Spirit Heart was destroyed. As Dragon Whisker attacked the Heaven-Controlling Realm experts, the Planetary Will intervened, leaving the battle on the Lantiao Continent temporarily unchecked.

• Jiqu recognized the energy from the Tree Spirit Heart and Insect Hive as matching the Insect Mother and Long-Life Elder, but the energy signals spread before he and the others could stop them.
• Long-Life Elder’s concern for the Tree Spirit Heart distracted him, and he sent a Psychic Energy shockwave that awakened Dragon Whisker.
• Dragon Whisker flew to the Moonfall Continent while the Banshee Sea Demon hid on his body, and his departure devastated the Jade Swallow Continent.
• Dragon Whisker arrived after Suo Qiaoyun, the Dragon King, and Jiqu had shattered the Tree Spirit Heart, and he attacked them in a rage.
• The Planetary Will immobilized the Heaven-Controlling Realm experts and enclosed the area in chains, shifting its attention away from the battle on the Lantiao Continent.

The Planetary Will crushed the Insect Hives and unleashed catastrophic energy across Ruolan Star, forcing the Beast King and Long-Life Elder to prepare to fight together. As disasters spread worldwide, Shisui absorbed energy from the deaths they caused and broke through the bottleneck of the Seventh Realm of the Heaven Realm.

• The Beastfolk carried Insect Hives toward the azure-gold chains, and Insect Mother used the hives to breed an expanding Insect Race that began devouring the chains.
• The Planetary Will drew on energy sustaining the planet, crushed the Insect Hives, and stabbed the Heaven-Controlling Realm experts with its chains to drain them.
• Ruolan Star stalled, triggering volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and massive waves that submerged one-sixth of Jade Swallow Continent.
• The Planetary Will targeted the Beast King and Long-Life Elder, who set aside their grudge and prepared to fight together on Lantiao Continent.
• Shisui activated his scattered Radiant Feathers and absorbed energy from disaster deaths, breaking through the bottleneck of the Seventh Realm of the Heaven Realm.

Ruolan Star’s mad Planetary Will unleashed disasters and fought the Beast King and Long-Life Elder while Shisui advanced amid the deaths. As the Planetary Will tried to draw more energy, Shisui brought the Banshee Sea Demon to its true body and interrupted the ritual, triggering a backlash.

• Ruolan Star’s volcanic eruptions killed millions, and the released Psychic Energy helped Shisui break through the Eighth and Ninth Realms of the Heaven Realm.
• The Banshee Sea Demon drew in energy but suppressed his cultivation because the Planetary Will’s pressure made advancing dangerous.
• The Beast King and Long-Life Elder fought the Planetary Will on Lantiao Continent, and its chains severed many of the Long-Life Elder’s roots.
• The Planetary Will formed a consciousness body to draw more energy, so the Beast King and Long-Life Elder prepared to stop it.
• Shisui appeared before the Planetary Will and used himself as an anchor to bring the Banshee Sea Demon beside it.
• The Banshee Sea Demon’s soul-shrieking interrupted the energy-drawing ritual, causing the Planetary Will’s chains to shatter and its energy to flow back.

Shisui and the Banshee Sea Demon disrupted the Planetary Will’s energy channel, causing Ruolan Star to reclaim its energy and the Planetary Will to fall dormant. With its restraints weakened, Shisui faced Long-Life Elder and the Beast King, ending the chapter by threatening them.

• Shisui judged that the Planetary Will’s energy was running low and prepared to interrupt its next extraction from the planet.
• The Wraith Species’ attack struck the Planetary Will’s consciousness and scattered its energy channel.
• Ruolan Star reclaimed the Planetary Will’s energy, shattering its chains and forcing it into dormancy.
• Long-Life Elder realized the Planetary Will’s shackles had only become dormant, while the Beast King remained silent.
• Shisui met Long-Life Elder and the Beast King, covered himself with Kagune, and declared that they would never meet again.

Shisui fought the Beast King while the Banshee Sea Demon attacked the weakened Long-Life Elder. After killing the Beast King despite the Insect Mother's intervention, Shisui turned toward the nearly ten thousand Insect Race members.

• Shisui transformed into his Kakuja state and attacked the Beast King as the Banshee Sea Demon began devouring the weakened Long-Life Elder.
• The Beast King's Eyes of Madness failed to affect Shisui, who injured him with Feather Bullets and pierced one of his eyes with a scorpion stinger.
• Parasites in the Beast King's brain stopped the stinger, and Shisui discovered that the Insect Mother had replaced the Beastfolk settlement with a vast Insect Race force.
• Shisui used dust embedded beneath the Beast King's hide to destroy his insides and bring him down.
• With the Beast King dead, Shisui turned toward the Insect Race and declared that they were next.

After the planetary will fell asleep, the weakened Heaven-Controlling Realm cultivators agreed to retreat and recover, leaving a larger war to come. On Lantiao Continent, Shisui killed the Beast King, drove the Insect Mother into hiding, and prepared the Banshee Sea Demon to face two powerful enemies alone so he could grow stronger.

• Suo Qiaoyun proposed that she, Jiqu, and the Dragon King retreat and recover, and they agreed before leaving Moonfall Continent.
• The Insect Mother witnessed the Beast King's death, abandoned her energy-storing flesh, and fled underground after ordering the Insect Hives to produce insects.
• Shisui used his Kakugan to make the insects attack one another, then let Feather Powder contain the swarm while he carried away the Beast King's corpse.
• Shisui sensed that Long-Life Elder had joined the battle against the Banshee Sea Demon and decided to leave the Insect Mother behind.
• Shisui hid near the battle and roused the Banshee Sea Demon's dormant Rc Cells, intending for him to defeat the two Heaven-Controlling Realm cultivators himself.

The Banshee Sea Demon broke through the Heaven-Controlling Realm barrier while fighting Dragon Whisker and Long-Life Elder, becoming the seventh expert of that realm. His emergence alarmed powerful figures across the continents, while Shisui appeared nearby and the Dragon King sent guards to investigate.

• Dragon Whisker arrived to help Long-Life Elder, but the Banshee Sea Demon ensnared him and began devouring his body.
• The Banshee Sea Demon sensed that the Heaven-Controlling Realm barrier had become a trial rather than a sealed boundary and shattered it with three strikes.
• Long-Life Elder cut Dragon Whisker's vines and pulled him away as the Banshee Sea Demon advanced into the Heaven-Controlling Realm.
• Shisui appeared near the newly advanced Banshee Sea Demon and recognized the familiar aroma of coffee.
• Suo Qiaoyun sensed the new expert and decided she needed to recover faster, while Jiqu remained unconcerned and focused on the Demon Race.
• The Dragon King ordered his guards to investigate Lantiao Continent without venturing deep inland.

Shisui watched as the Banshee Sea Demon used planetary power to kill Dragon Whisker and Long-Life Elder, then moved to claim his reward. When the planet tried to control the Banshee Sea Demon, the Rc Cells severed their connection, and Shisui captured his partner to eat him.

• The Banshee Sea Demon used the planetary power within him to suppress and kill Dragon Whisker and Long-Life Elder while Shisui watched.
• The planet offered the Banshee Sea Demon the job of managing the biosphere and tried to remove impurities from his soul body.
• The Rc Cells resisted the planet's power, multiplied, and devoured the remaining sliver of planetary will energy in the Banshee Sea Demon.
• Shisui's power helped the Banshee Sea Demon break free, and Shisui seized him with a Bikaku, saying he would eat him as payment for saving him.

Shisui devoured the Banshee Sea Demon and harvested the energy from the black fog and two Heaven-Controlling Realm corpses. After swallowing the vengeful spirit’s final fragment, Shisui felt his accumulated energy reach its limit and knew he had to advance.

• Shisui used his Bikaku and Rc Cells to invade the Banshee Sea Demon’s spirit body while defending himself from the spirit’s black fog.
• Shisui’s Radiant Feathers filtered the black fog and raced to consume the two Heaven-Controlling Realm corpses before the Banshee Sea Demon could reach them.
• The Banshee Sea Demon regained his senses but could neither break free of the Rc Cells nor control the black fog, leaving him unable to protect his spoils.
• Shisui taunted the helpless Banshee Sea Demon, then strangled him and ate his spirit body piece by piece.
• After Shisui swallowed the final fragment, his energy surged and his Rc Cells grew active, signaling that he had reached the limit and needed to advance.

Shisui began forcing his way through the Heaven-Controlling Realm bottleneck while hidden behind a wall of fog. As he advanced, his black fog killed a Sea Race scouting team, and it began spreading across the continent in search of energy.

• Shisui checked the desolate battlefield, raised a fog barrier, and prepared his reserves of corpses, Awakened, and Flesh Crystals for his advancement.
• Shisui activated [Predator], entered a cocoon of Metamorphosis, and poured energy into the Heaven-Controlling Realm bottleneck until he lost awareness of his surroundings.
• A Sea Race team landed on the western coast of the central Lantiao Continent and cautiously advanced to investigate the battlefield.
• The captain spotted a vast wall of fog and ordered the team to retreat, but the fog turned black and red and engulfed them.
• Shisui's fog crushed the Sea Race members and absorbed their energy as it spread across the continent.

Shisui fed on the flesh and blood he had saved after reaching the Heaven-Controlling Realm, spreading deadly black mist across Lantiao Continent as he waited for his wounded rivals to recover. Six months later, the other races expected war to resume, while Suo Qiaoyun prepared the Human Race for battle by rapidly expanding her puppet forces.

• Shisui's hunger returned, and he used his Feather Powder to seek prey while savoring the flesh, organs, and blood he had saved from his previous battles.
• Shisui's feeding devastated the northern and southern parts of Lantiao Continent, and he planned to wait until the other Heaven-Controlling Realm experts recovered before hunting them.
• Six months passed, and black mist kept living creatures away from Lantiao Continent as rumors spread that a new Heaven-Controlling Realm expert lived there.
• The races expected the unfinished war to resume once their Heaven-Controlling Realm experts recovered from the battle with the Planetary Will.
• Suo Qiaoyun sensed that her puppet forces had been replenished and continued rushing their growth to strengthen the Human Race for the coming war.

Suo Qiaoyun read a report on the Jade Swallow Continent’s sinking and considered using Bound Captives to increase the birth rate, while Jin Yuxi left his ruined family home, expecting to die soon. Deep in the Lantiao Continent, Shisui completed his breakthrough to the Heaven-Controlling Realm and drew in the black fog, prompting a Human Race fleet to prepare for his next move.

• Suo Qiaoyun read an urgent report describing the Jade Swallow Continent’s sinking, the resulting natural disasters, and their effects on the races’ declining populations.
• Suo Qiaoyun considered pairing off the Bound Captives to raise the birth rate, while one of her Bound Captives suppressed his resentment under the influence of her Motherly Silk chains.
• Jin Yuxi visited the abandoned Jin residence, reflected on his brother Jin Yuze’s death and his own drained life force, then left without entering.
• Shisui awakened in the black fog and fully stabilized his cultivation at the Heaven-Controlling Realm.
• Shisui drew the Feather Powder fog inward, changing the skies over the Lantiao Continent and attracting the attention of nearby observers.
• Yan Fei calmed the Human Race fleet monitoring the continent and ordered six-hour shifts so personnel would remain ready.

Yan Fei led a Human Race team toward Lantiao Continent while the Insect Mother sent scouts to investigate Shisui, but both found the land empty because Shisui had already left. At the sunken Jade Swallow Continent, Shisui discovered Ruolan Star’s severe planetary wound and offered to help the planet repair itself.

• Yan Fei accepted that the Human Race would keep him shackled and directed his team to approach Lantiao Continent.
• The Insect Mother, recovered and fearful of Shisui, sent scouts into Lantiao Continent to learn his condition.
• The Human Race and Insect Race scouts found only an empty desert because Shisui had departed.
• Shisui examined the sea where Jade Swallow Continent had sunk and judged that the damage threatened Ruolan Star’s ecosystem.
• Ruolan Star manifested a blue-and-gold figure and warned Shisui not to approach.
• Shisui reassured Ruolan Star that he meant no harm and wished to help his new home.