Recaps

Lu Yuan devoured the Northern Land’s Sha Qi, defeated the beasts sent to recruit him, and grew into a hundred-thousand-li Grand Void Sky Whale. After he consumed the Myriad Sha Abyss’s Sha Sea and broke Shen Ni’s formation, Shen Ni offered him a place above all the kings.

• Lu Yuan awakened as a juvenile Grand Void Sky Whale, devoured Sha Qi and Fiendish Sha Crystals, and defeated the Heaven-Splitting Hou when it attacked him.
• Qiongqi invited Lu Yuan to join Shen Ni’s Imperial Court, but Lu Yuan refused and defeated Qiongqi in battle.
• After resting for centuries, Lu Yuan awoke with spirit beasts living on his back, shielded them with a light curtain, and traveled north toward the Myriad Sha Abyss.
• Lu Yuan entered the abyss and devoured its Sha Sea, growing to one hundred thousand li as his bloodline transformed and awakened new power.
• A remnant will in the abyss showed Lu Yuan visions of Pangu and attacked his consciousness, but Lu Yuan shattered it and absorbed its spiritual fragments.
• Shen Ni trapped Lu Yuan in the Heaven-Locking Sha Formation and offered him a high position, but Lu Yuan drained the formation’s Sha Qi and broke free.
• Shen Ni redirected the Imperial Court’s Sha Qi into the abyss, but Lu Yuan consumed it until the formation collapsed and then met Shen Ni face-to-face.
• Shen Ni praised Lu Yuan’s strength and offered him abundant resources and a position above the kings, while Lu Yuan asked how much Sha Qi remained.

Lu Yuan fought Shen Ni over a Chaos Demon God’s remnant, escaped with its flesh, and grew stronger as he digested it. He left the Northern Land, helped Ao Lan and Ao Xuan clear Fierce Sha from Dragon Clan waterways, and reached the Eastern Sea to meet the Ancestral Dragon.

• Shen Ni offered Lu Yuan a place in the Imperial Court, but Lu Yuan refused and fought him in the Myriad Sha Abyss.
• Their battle broke the abyss’s seals and revealed a Chaos Demon God’s severed finger, whose Chaos Origin Lu Yuan could refine.
• Lu Yuan tore flesh from the remnant finger and escaped the abyss as Shen Ni returned to repair its seal.
• Lu Yuan digested the Chaos Demon God flesh in the wasteland, growing larger and strengthening his scales while protecting the small beasts on his back.
• After Qiongqi relayed Shen Ni’s warning to avoid the Northern Land’s main Sha Veins, Lu Yuan agreed and traveled east.
• Ao Lan let Lu Yuan devour Turbid Sha and Sha Crystals from the Azure Mystic River, restoring its water vein.
• Ao Xuan offered Lu Yuan Primordial Profound Water Essence and proposed exchanging water resources for help clearing the Dragon Clan’s waterways.
• Lu Yuan reached the Eastern Sea with Ao Xuan, and the Dragon Court’s clan leader announced his arrival.

Lu Yuan traveled from the Eastern Sea to Southern Heaven and the central region, exchanging help with the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans for cultivation resources. In Xuanhuang Ridge, Wu Earth Essence Qi began forming a self-sustaining earth vein on his back, and Qi Yan proposed terms for future exchanges.

• The Ancestral Dragon sparred with Lu Yuan, recognized his strength, and welcomed him as a Dragon Court Guest before arranging access to Primordial Profound Water Essence.
• Lu Yuan absorbed the Eastern Sea’s water essence, grew larger, and nourished the woodland and creatures on his back with spirit rain.
• Feng Ling guided Lu Yuan to Southern Heaven, where he carefully absorbed Innate Lihuo and later helped the Phoenix Clan contain an early Fire Tide while protecting the life on his back.
• Lu Yuan declined Yuan Feng’s offer to stay in Southern Heaven but agreed to cooperate with the Phoenix Clan in exchange for suitable resources.
• Qi Yue offered Lu Yuan Wu Earth Essence Qi, which strengthened his bones and helped stabilize the terrain on his back, and Lu Yuan agreed to inspect the Qilin Clan’s earth veins.
• At Xuanhuang Ridge, Qi Yan and Qi Yue released a small amount of Wu Earth Essence Qi for Lu Yuan to absorb, and Lu Yuan stopped when the earth power made his body sluggish.
• Lu Yuan balanced the Wu Earth Essence Qi with Profound Water Essence Qi as his body grew and earth-spirit patterns spread across his back.
• Lu Yuan guided the forming earth Qi to a stable area, where it created a shallow earth vein that nourished plants and shifted a stream, and Qi Yan proposed terms for future resource exchanges.