Recaps

Zhao Zheng realized the young emperor feared the power he held and considered sacrificing himself to resolve their conflict, but Chen Du warned that his death would leave his family vulnerable. The next day, Zhao Zheng met privately with the emperor, then sent his wife and children away.

• Zhao Zheng lamented his loyalty to the dynasty, and Chen Du explained that the emperor feared him because he had the power to rebel.
• Zhao Zheng decided his death could restore stability, but Chen Du warned that the emperor and Zhao Zheng's enemies might endanger his family afterward.
• Zhao Zheng listened without revealing whether Chen Du had changed his mind, and Chen Du left him to consider the warning.
• The next day, Zhao Zheng entered the palace alone and spoke privately with the young emperor throughout the afternoon.
• Zhao Zheng returned to his residence and sent his wife and children away.

After Zhao Zheng’s death, the young emperor’s purge left Lin-shi and Zhao Heng in danger, and masked assassins attacked them during Zhao Zheng’s funeral vigil. An old man in white revealed overwhelming power, rescued them, and warned the young emperor to leave the regent prince’s family alone.

• The young emperor honored Zhao Zheng’s funeral publicly while purging more than a hundred officials linked to him.
• Lin-shi and Zhao Heng suffered as servants and guards disappeared and members of the household died; Lin-shi fell gravely ill.
• Masked assassins invaded the funeral hall, and Zhao Heng carried his mother away from them.
• An old man in white appeared by Zhao Zheng’s coffin and destroyed the assassins with a gesture.
• The old man led Zhao Heng and Lin-shi out of the residence and defeated Commander Zhou when he tried to stop them.
• The old man declared that Zhao Zheng’s wife and son were under his protection and warned the young emperor against pursuing them.

Chen Du continued working in the Divine Prison as former followers of Zhao Zheng were imprisoned and executed, while Zhao Heng joined him as the jailer Lin Heng. Uneasy about the prison’s mysterious protector, the young emperor brought Imperial Preceptor Cang Xuan and three hundred guards to confront the Divine Prison, where they were met by the bureau chief.

• Chen Du ignored Adviser Sun and Commander Zhou’s pleas for help as Zhao Zheng’s former allies were locked in the Divine Prison.
• Chen Du executed Commander Zhou and gained white qi from the crimes he had committed.
• Zhao Heng left his secluded life after Lin-shi urged him to find his own path, joined Chen Du in the Divine Prison, and took the name Lin Heng.
• After hearing Commander Zhou’s account of his son’s rescue, the young emperor suspected a powerful backer in the Divine Prison and summoned Cang Xuan, appointing him imperial preceptor.
• The young emperor traveled to the Divine Prison with Cang Xuan and three hundred elite guards, where the bureau chief greeted them at the gate.

The young emperor found Zhao Heng in the Divine Prison, where Chen Du revealed his overwhelming power and subdued Cang Xuan. Cang Xuan awoke imprisoned on the thirteenth of eighteen levels, while the young emperor remained behind in shock.

• The young emperor searched the Divine Prison with Cang Xuan but found neither Zhao Heng nor the legendary backer.
• A hidden corridor opened in the secret chamber, and Chen Du emerged with Zhao Heng disguised as a jailer.
• Chen Du challenged the young emperor to provide evidence that Zhao Zheng had rebelled, leaving the emperor unable to answer.
• Cang Xuan unleashed his full Tenth Realm power, but Chen Du remained unmoved and transformed from an old jailer into a young man.
• Cang Xuan recognized Chen Du's Eleventh Realm cultivation, and Chen Du trapped him in a vision before sending him to the Divine Prison's thirteenth level.

Cang Xuan discovered that the Divine Prison held legendary cultivators and at least three Eleventh Realm prisoners, all terrified of Chen Du, who sentenced him to a hundred years. Meanwhile, Chen Du warned the young emperor never to return to the prison, and the emperor fled after promising to obey.

• Cang Xuan recognized Qiong Lao and sensed powerful legendary prisoners throughout the Divine Prison, including three Eleventh Realm auras on the sixteenth level.
• Qiong Lao learned that an old jailer had thrown Cang Xuan into the prison and reacted with terror, as fear spread among the prisoners across the lower levels.
• Chen Du told Cang Xuan to behave for a hundred years, and Cang Xuan gratefully accepted the sentence.
• The young emperor begged Chen Du for his life and promised to restore the regent's reputation and family.
• Chen Du forbade the young emperor from ever entering the Divine Prison again, and the emperor swore to obey before fleeing.

After thirty years of cultivation in the Divine Prison, Chen Du mastered new domains and forged an eighth layer of Soul Devouring's Wrath. He used the severed arm of a Demon Realm powerhouse to gain the Divine Prison Law, leaving him with a hundred thousand years of insight into it.

• Lin Heng served beside Chen Du as a jailer for thirty years while Chen Du continued cultivating in secret.
• Chen Du mastered the first-level domain of Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth and advanced Wrath of Heaven and Wrath Devouring to their ninth-level domains.
• Chen Du fused the three laws to create the eighth layer of Soul Devouring's Wrath, Rage-Burial of the Firmament, which could destroy those at or below the Eleventh Realm Middle Stage.
• Chen Du drew the Mara Law and Demon Realm aura from the severed arm of an Eleventh Realm Demon Realm powerhouse, gaining several million years' worth of White Qi.
• Chen Du spent more than twenty million years of White Qi through [Heaven's Way's Gift] and obtained the complete Divine Prison Law along with a hundred thousand years of insight.

After absorbing a hundred thousand years of insight, Chen Du advanced the Divine Prison Law to its Second Domain and synchronized with the Divine Prison itself. He raised the entire prison into the sky, judged its prisoners by his will, and shocked the Heavenly Dragon Divine Dynasty as the young emperor realized Chen Du had finally acted.

• Chen Du used Divine Revelation Reading to absorb a hundred thousand years of insight and reached the Second Domain of the Divine Prison Law.
• Three years later, Chen Du synchronized his law with the Divine Prison and sensed its pulse throughout the structure.
• The Divine Prison Bureau chief and everyone inside the prison were transported to a wilderness as the entire Divine Prison rose from underground and hovered above them.
• Chen Du walked through the prison, executing some prisoners, stripping others of cultivation and expelling them, and confining another to the eighteenth level.
• People across the Heavenly Dragon Divine Dynasty saw the prison in the sky, while the young emperor remembered Chen Du and realized he had made his move.

Chen Du sealed the Demon Realm passage, declared the Divine Prison independent of the Heavenly Dragon Divine Dynasty, and then departed with the prison and the Heavenly Dao. Five hundred years later, histories recorded the dynasty’s decline and the old jailer’s mysterious legacy.

• Chen Du combined the Divine Prison Law and Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth to seal the passage between the Demon Realm and the mortal world.
• Chen Du emerged from the Divine Prison and declared that it would become a world of its own, outside the Heavenly Dragon Divine Dynasty’s jurisdiction.
• Chen Du appeared above the capital in his youthful form, revealed his Eleventh Realm power, and announced that he would take the Divine Prison and the Heavenly Dao with him.
• Chen Du made the Divine Prison vanish with him, leaving the people free from its authority and the Heavenly Dao’s judgment.
• Five hundred years later, histories recorded the Divine Prison’s disappearance, the Heavenly Dragon Divine Dynasty’s decline, and rumors that the old jailer still appeared above the capital.

Chen Du returned to Blue Star after spending hundreds of years in the Divine Prison Realm, finding the planet vastly expanded and humanity under pressure from new alien incursions. After surveying the planet, he discovered widespread extraterrestrial infiltrators, while a powerful fleet approached with plans to seize Blue Star and uncover his secrets.

• Chen Du emerged from Mount Tai with eleventh-realm power and discovered Blue Star had expanded roughly ten thousandfold during his absence.
• Chen Du browsed the news and saw that humanity viewed him as its savior while alien races continued to arrive on Blue Star.
• Chen Du scanned the entire planet and found extraterrestrial groups infiltrating cities, mountains, oceans, ice fields, and underground spirit veins.
• A fleet of thirteen starships gathered near Blue Star, led by a Tenth Tier being and accompanied by more than a dozen Ninth Tier warriors.
• The fleet leader concluded that Chen Du had obtained a powerful inheritance and ordered the aliens to control and enslave Blue Star’s humans to search for its resources and secrets.

Chen Du returned to Blue Star and used his immense power to kill every Extraterrestrial Race member on the planet. Zhou Weiyong confirmed Chen Du was back as humanity’s immediate threat disappeared.

• An Extraterrestrial Race leader planned to control Blue Star’s officials with Soul-Eroding Crystals while fleets waited across the Solar System.
• At the Spiritual Qi Revival Administration, Zhou Weiyong and other officials reviewed the alien fleets and feared humanity could not stop them without Chen Du.
• A mysterious power swept across Blue Star, and a voice commanded all beings not of its race to die.
• Chen Du appeared across the sky and crushed every Extraterrestrial Race member on Blue Star into points of light.
• Zhou Weiyong told his colleagues that Chen Du had returned.

Chen Du used the Divine Prison to seize the extraterrestrial fleets threatening Blue Star and imprison their leaders and warriors. Over the following week, the prison’s suppressive force killed every captive, while the veteran fiends deeper inside recognized that another group had provoked Chen Du.

• The dark-gold-scaled leader discovered that the spies and allied fleets across the solar system had vanished from the communication array.
• A curtain of dark-gold light swept through the solar system, immobilized thirteen starships, and dragged them into the Divine Prison above Blue Star.
• The Divine Prison separated the extraterrestrial warriors into cells, confining the Tenth Tier leaders on different levels and the Ninth Tier warriors elsewhere.
• The captives tried to resist, bargain, and beg for mercy as the prison ground away at their laws, souls, and bodies.
• By the seventh day, the Ninth Tier warriors and Tenth Tier leaders had all died, their remains consumed by the Divine Prison.
• The veteran fiends deep in the prison heard the screams fade and recognized that the newcomers had angered Chen Du.

After Chen Du’s destruction of the Tenth Tier fleet made the surrounding Extraterrestrial Race factions fear Blue Star, he entered the Thirteenth Tier Ancestral God Realm. He awoke in the body of Li Xuan, a young Taoist who was secretly the Ling Dynasty’s true crown prince, and began assessing his new world.

• Extraterrestrial Race strongholds learned that the Tenth Tier fleet had vanished and suspended operations near Blue Star.
• Factions across neighboring star domains designated Blue Star dangerous and withdrew their probes.
• Chen Du discovered the Ancestral God Realm beneath Mount Tai and entered despite the warning about its higher tier.
• Chen Du awoke as Li Xuan, a young Taoist at Qingfeng Taoist Temple, and received the body’s memories.
• Chen Du learned that Li Xuan was the real crown prince of the Ling Dynasty, secretly raised at a temple whose Taoists were unfathomably powerful.
• Chen Du left his room and stepped into the temple courtyard to begin learning about the world.

Chen Du entered the Ancestral God Realm as Li Xuan and awakened three talents that turned calamities into rewards, warned him of danger, and let his blood relatives’ growth feed back to him. After learning about the realm’s Star Domain Master and Cosmic Life thresholds, he considered how his Eleventh Realm cultivation could change his fate.

• Chen Du entered the Ancestral God Realm and awakened Turn Danger into Safety, Calamity Warning, and I Am the Ancestral God.
• Chen Du realized that calamities could generate tribulation qi and that his blood relatives’ cultivation, fortune, and insights would feed back to him at twice their value.
• Chen Du reviewed Li Xuan’s memories and learned that the Ancestral God Realm was surrounded by inhabited and barren planets, with experts of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Realms.
• Chen Du learned that the Twelfth Realm required opening a Self Planet, while the Thirteenth Realm required transforming it into a Cosmic Black Hole.
• Chen Du compared Li Xuan’s Third Realm cultivation with his own Eleventh Realm power and concluded that he needed only time.

After returning to Qingfeng Temple, Chen Du used a Calamity Warning to prepare for an unknown assassin and killed the Tenth Realm Peak Stage intruder. The hundred years of Calamity Qi he gained earned him an Eleventh Tier cultivation art, and he began studying its Tribulation-Transcending Law as he awaited the next threat.

• Chen Du returned to Qingfeng Temple and stayed in his cottage, cultivating while Master Xuanwei warned him not to wander.
• Chen Du received a warning that an unknown Tenth Realm Peak Stage assassin would enter his room at midnight three days later, so he concealed his aura and waited.
• The assassin entered Chen Du's room and attacked, but Chen Du used Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth to destroy him completely.
• Chen Du erased the traces of the attack and gained a hundred years' worth of Calamity Qi from the assassin's death.
• Chen Du exchanged the Calamity Qi through Heaven's Way's Gift and received the Eleventh Tier Heaven-Sealing Tribulation-Transcending Book, then began studying its law.

Chen Du secretly uncovered two Eleventh Tier pill formulas and a battle-armor diagram at Qingfeng Temple, then refined and consumed both pills to advance Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth to its second-layer Domain. He continued preparing for the next tribulation while keeping his strengthened abilities and activities hidden from the temple’s other residents.

• Chen Du explored Qingfeng Temple and used his talents to discover the Nine-Turn Calamity-Crossing Pill Formula, the Hundred-Tribulation Essence-Tempering Pill Formula, and the Tiangang Battle Armor Forging Diagram.
• Chen Du formed an Eleventh Realm law avatar and sent it to gather the rare materials needed for pills and armor.
• Chen Du refined both pills, then swallowed them and used his laws and Divine Revelation Reading to absorb their power and insights.
• Chen Du broke through to the second-layer Domain of Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth, increasing its power to bury enemies’ laws, souls, and bodies in Eternal Night.
• Chen Du continued living quietly at Qingfeng Temple, where the other residents rarely interacted with him.

Chen Du avoided an Eleventh Realm ambush at the town’s lantern festival by refusing Zhao Yuanshan’s invitation and staying at Qingfeng Temple. His choice earned him five hundred years of Calamity Qi, which granted him the Tribulation Armor technique and vast insights that he used to advance two laws to their first Domains.

• Chen Du received a Calamity Warning that an Eleventh Realm ambusher planned to trap him and his fellow disciples at the town’s stone bridge during the lantern festival.
• Chen Du declined Zhao Yuanshan’s invitation and concealed his aura at Qingfeng Temple, avoiding the ambush while his fellow disciples attended the festival.
• After the festival, Chen Du received five hundred years of Calamity Qi and gained the Tribulation Armor technique along with thirty thousand years of insights into the Tribulation-Transcending Law and Tribulation Armor Law.
• Chen Du studied the two laws for several months and brought both to their first Domains.

Chen Du avoided the King of Nanli and three later threats by following Calamity Warning’s advice, then used the Calamity Qi and insights he gained to advance his laws and master the second sword of Heavenly Tribulation Nine Swords. He remained hidden in Qingfeng Temple, growing stronger while unseen enemies continued to search for him.

• Chen Du learned that the King of Nanli’s resemblance to the emperor, and to Li Xuan, could expose his identity, so he concealed himself in his hut while the king visited Qingfeng Temple.
• After the King of Nanli left, Chen Du spent a thousand years of Calamity Qi on Heaven’s Way’s Gift and received an eleventh-tier divine sword and the Heavenly Tribulation Nine Swords scripture.
• Over the next year, Chen Du avoided three threats: suspicious strangers near the temple, watching auras outside it, and an itinerant Taoist lodging there.
• Chen Du used the two thousand years of Calamity Qi from those calamities to obtain a hundred thousand years of insights into each of his two laws.
• Chen Du advanced Tribulation-Transcending Law and Tribulation Armor Law to the fourth-level Domain and mastered the second sword of Heavenly Tribulation Nine Swords.

Chen Du avoided an ambush by refusing to open a suspicious letter, then used the calamity qi he gained to strengthen his laws and create a devastating sword technique. He stayed inside Qingfeng Temple to keep growing, but a warning revealed that a disciple from Xuandi Temple would try to kill him during an upcoming martial arts exchange.

• Chen Du used Calamity Warning to learn that a letter addressed to him was bait, then had Zhao Yuanshan return it unopened and gained a thousand years of calamity qi.
• Chen Du advanced the Tribulation-Transcending Law and Tribulation Armor Law to the fifth level of Domain and tested their powers in the back mountain.
• Chen Du raised Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth and the Divine Prison Law to the third level of Domain, then combined his laws into the ninth-layer sword move Myriad Tribulations Return to the Void.
• Chen Du resolved to remain inside Qingfeng Temple and continued improving through its manuals, pills, and law fragments.
• Calamity Warning revealed that the master of Xuandi Temple would visit in seven days and that an opposing disciple would attempt to kill Chen Du during their martial arts exchange.

Chen Du accepted a spar with a disguised Xuandi Temple assassin and killed him with a single sword strike when he revealed his Eleventh Realm cultivation and attacked to kill. His strength and mastery of Myriad Tribulations Return to the Void stunned both temples, leaving their masters facing each other in silence.

• Chen Du learned from the tribulation warning that an Eleventh Realm assassin would challenge him during Xuandi Temple's visit and resolved to kill him without revealing his full cultivation.
• Master Xuanwei welcomed Xuandi Temple, and Chen Du recognized the disguised killer among its disciples.
• When the killer challenged Li Xuan, Chen Du accepted and began an apparently even match on the martial arts platform.
• The Xuandi Temple disciple revealed his middle-stage Eleventh Realm cultivation and attacked Chen Du's heart with a deadly palm strike.
• Chen Du summoned an eleventh-tier divine sword and used Myriad Tribulations Return to the Void to erase the assassin completely.
• The gathered disciples and both temple masters stared in shock as the Xuandi Temple master recognized the law within Chen Du's sword strike.

Chen Du killed an assassin who had infiltrated Xuandi Temple during a spar, revealing his strength to Qingfeng Temple. Master Xuanwei advised him that his name would spread and urged him to trust his fellow disciples, while the threat of further attacks remained.

• Chen Du's sword strike killed the disguised Xuandi Temple disciple, and the two temple masters realized the man was an unknown assassin rather than a true member of Xuandi Temple.
• The master of Xuandi Temple apologized to Master Xuanwei and left to investigate, acknowledging Chen Du's unusual ability.
• Zhao Yuanshan and the other Qingfeng Temple disciples crowded around Chen Du, praising his strike and asking about his cultivation.
• Master Xuanwei took Chen Du to the pill room, explained that he had expected the Zhao Clan bloodline to bring great power, and said Chen Du had acted rightly by killing the attacker.
• Master Xuanwei warned that Chen Du's name would spread and urged him to spend more time with his fellow disciples; Chen Du agreed as his master left him to continue practicing.

After twenty years at Qingfeng Temple, Chen Du used the insights he gained from accumulated Calamity Qi to perfect his Tribulation-Transcending and Tribulation Armor laws and strengthen his other laws. He then completed the Star Domain Master breakthrough, forming a Self Star and entering the Twelfth Realm.

• For twenty years, Chen Du avoided or killed the calamities that came for him, accumulating four hundred thousand years of Calamity Qi.
• Chen Du used Heaven's Way's Gift and Divine Revelation Reading to raise the Tribulation-Transcending Law and Tribulation Armor Law to the Ninth-Level Domain, while his other laws resonated with them.
• Chen Du developed the Heavenly Tribulation Nine Swords to the sixth sword and decided to attempt the Star Domain Master breakthrough.
• Chen Du flew above Qingfeng Temple and used the advancement method to combine his six laws in his sea of consciousness.
• Over three days, Chen Du condensed the six laws into a dark-golden Self Star, which integrated the laws as its core, shell, and regions.
• Chen Du summoned the miniature Self Star above his palm, then withdrew it into his sea of consciousness after reaching the Twelfth Realm.

Chen Du formed the Self Star and broke through to the Twelfth Realm, gaining a Self Domain and vastly increased power and perception. He used the Self Star and his eleventh-tier divine sword to create the tenth level of Soul Devouring's Wrath, Eternal Heaven Burial, and tested its void-swallowing strike.

• Chen Du formed the Self Star, which strengthened his body, united his six laws, and gave him a Self Domain.
• Chen Du tested the domain and found that he could control its rules, perceive hundreds of thousands of li, and draw power from the Self Star.
• Chen Du destroyed an uninhabited mountain with a sphere of dark-gold energy and recognized that he had reached the Star Domain Master Realm.
• Chen Du connected his Self Star to the eleventh-tier divine sword and reorganized the nine levels of Soul Devouring's Wrath around the star and his laws.
• Chen Du completed the tenth level, Soul Devouring's Wrath Eternal Heaven Burial, and slashed out a spreading void that silently swallowed space.

Chen Du broke through to the Twelfth Realm at Qingfeng Temple and forged a new divine ability, Heavenly Tribulation Kill, First Form, Nine Tribulations Descend. His breakthrough shook the Ancestral God Realm and drew the attention of distant experts, but he concealed his aura before they could identify him.

• Chen Du infused his divine sword with his Self Star's power, formed nine linked little swords, and named the killing move Heavenly Tribulation Kill, First Form, Nine Tribulations Descend.
• A white-haired old man in the Eastern Wasteland sensed a Twelfth Realm breakthrough but could not trace its source.
• A burly man in the Southern Wasteland, an old monk in the Western Desert, and a woman in the Northern Border each sensed the breakthrough and reacted to it.
• People and cultivators across the Southern Border were overwhelmed by Chen Du's power as a vast divine statue appeared briefly, forcing many to kneel and leaving animals frozen or hiding.
• Chen Du restrained his aura at Qingfeng Temple after sensing powerful Divine Thoughts sweep past, and his Self Star concealed his presence.

The Red Flame King surrounded Qingfeng Temple, demanding its treasures and Daoist texts, but Xuanwei refused to surrender and warned him to withdraw. As the temple’s disciples fought to hold the mountain gate against the rebels, a violent pillar of crimson flame broke through the rear defenses, leaving the temple under a new Twelfth Realm threat.

• The Red Flame King surrounded Qingfeng Mountain with his army, hoping to seize Qingfeng Temple’s supposed treasures and secrets.
• Xuanwei told the Red Flame King that the temple held no material riches and urged him to retreat, but refused to surrender.
• The Red Flame King ordered his troops to storm the mountain and kill anyone who resisted.
• Xuanwei and Zhao Yuanshan led the temple’s cultivators in defending the mountain gate against the rebel attack.
• A crimson pillar of flame tore through the mountain-protecting formation at the rear of the temple, and Twelfth Realm pressure swept across the rear mountain.

Chen Du revealed his true twelfth-realm power when the Red Flame King attacked his courtyard, then killed the invading warlord with one sword strike. The battle at Qingfeng Temple’s mountain gate remained frozen in shock as everyone witnessed the Red Flame King’s death.

• The Red Flame King stormed through Qingfeng Temple’s back mountain while Daoist Xuanwei and Zhao Yuanshan were unable to leave the battle at the gate to protect Chen Du.
• The Red Flame King dismissed Chen Du as an ordinary disciple and attacked him with a scorching palm strike.
• Chen Du revealed an aura surpassing the Red Flame King’s and drew an eleventh-tier divine sword.
• Chen Du struck once, piercing the Red Flame King and destroying his cultivation and life force.
• The Red Flame King died, leaving Chen Du and everyone at Qingfeng Temple stunned into silence.