Recaps

Chi Yu seized control of the Supreme Dao Palace and eased the threat to the Spirit Medicine Palace, while Hu Yang cultivated for ten years and reached Medicine God Peak. The chapter ended with the Spirit Medicine Palace disciples congratulating Hu Yang on his breakthrough.

• Chi Yu turned two Supreme Dao Palace Elders into puppets and sent them back to the Upper Realm with his orders.
• Chi Yu raised the Palace Lord of the Spirit Medicine Palace to Medicine Ancestor Peak and reassured her that the Supreme Dao Palace posed no threat.
• The two puppeted Elders trapped Ling Wen, erased his system and spirit soul, and installed one Elder in his body as the Supreme Venerable.
• Hu Yang used Old Man's insight to cultivate in seclusion for ten years, then broke through to Medicine God Peak.
• The Spirit Medicine Palace disciples gathered to congratulate Hu Yang on his increased cultivation.

The Spirit Medicine Palace and other sects raced to explore a newly emerged Secret Realm in Azure Lotus Splash, while Hu Yang entered its desert trial and struggled toward a strange black tower. After Hu Yang collapsed at the tower’s center, a golden light enveloped him and made him vanish.

• The Spirit Medicine Palace learned of the new Secret Realm, and its Palace Lord decided to lead an expedition to Azure Lotus Splash.
• The Old Man sent Hu Yang through an Antique Gate Tower into a storm-wracked desert and ordered him to endure the trial at its center.
• Hu Yang advanced through the storm’s punishing pressure, while the sects searched Azure Lotus Splash for the gate tower.
• The gate tower appeared, and the Palace Lord and other sects entered the desert as storms swept toward them.
• Hu Yang reached the black tower at the trial’s center, collapsed from exhaustion, and disappeared when golden light shot from the tower.

Hu Yang woke in the Zhang Family of Qinyu City after Zhang Yu rescued him from Nine Roots Forest, only to discover his cultivation was gone and his meridians had been severed. When Zhang Yu told him where she had found him, he thanked her and left to investigate.

• Hu Yang woke from three days of unconsciousness in the Zhang Family and learned he was in Qinyu City.
• Zhang Yu returned from Purple Lotus Palace and reunited with her grandfather, who praised her cultivation and talent.
• Hu Yang discovered he could no longer cultivate, could not reach the old man, and spent half a month in a daze.
• Zhang Yu visited Hu Yang and explained that she had found him badly injured in Nine Roots Forest with all his meridians severed.
• Hu Yang thanked Zhang Yu for saving him and left to investigate Nine Roots Forest.

After dying in Nine Roots Forest, Hu Yang possessed a Spotted Tiger and discovered that killing and eating creatures raised his level. He reached level 20 and flew into a lake, where he attacked a member of the Golden Flood Dragon Clan.

• Hu Yang lost his cultivation, entered Nine Roots Forest, and was killed by a Spotted Tiger.
• A Golden Light carried Hu Yang's soul into the tiger, and a voice told him that consuming human flesh raised his level.
• Hu Yang killed wolves and beasts in Nine Roots Forest until he reached level ten and transformed into a Golden Fur Giant Tiger.
• A woman found Hu Yang's bones and burned them, while Hu Yang left the forest and entered a swamp to hunt leveled crocodiles.
• Hu Yang wiped out a crocodile tribe, reached level 20, transformed again, and gained the ability to fly.
• Hu Yang plunged into a lake, where a flood dragon challenged him on behalf of the Golden Flood Dragon Clan, and Hu Yang charged at it.

Hu Yang retreated from the Golden Flood Dragon and leveled up by hunting in the swamp before returning to the lake at level 29. He defeated the transformed Golden Flood Dragon and swallowed its head, while its body sank beneath the lake.

• The Golden Flood Dragon used a pearl to transform into a four-clawed dragon, forcing Hu Yang to flee the lake.
• Hu Yang hunted giant pythons in the swamp, gained levels, and reached level 24 after devouring them.
• Hu Yang continued hunting for days, eventually reached level 29, and returned to challenge the Golden Flood Dragon.
• The Golden Flood Dragon transformed again with a pearl, but Hu Yang overpowered it and bit through its body.
• Hu Yang severed the Golden Flood Dragon's head, swallowed it, and watched its body sink to the bottom of the lake.

After reaching level 30, Hu Yang gained a humanlike Dao Body Form and entered the lake’s Dragon Palace, where he became entangled with the Dragon King’s consorts. The Old Man reappeared and explained the World Tower and World Orb, just as the Dragon King discovered his consorts were missing.

• Hu Yang reached level 30, awakened Water, Ice, Lightning, and Dao Body Form, and learned to switch between his tiger and human forms.
• At the lakebed, Hu Yang heard the Old Man order a search for his son Jin Ao’s killer and learned that the Five-Colored Dragon Pearl had vanished from the Dragon Pearl Hall.
• Hu Yang sneaked into the Dragon Palace, was discovered in the consorts’ bathing area, and followed them while disguised as a woman.
• The consorts lured Hu Yang into a hidden palace, where a strange fragrance poisoned him; after he lost consciousness, the Old Man made the women vanish and explained the nine-world World Tower and the World Orb.
• The Dragon Palace shook as the Dragon King roared, demanding to know who had abducted his Beloved Consorts.

Hu Yang slaughtered the Dragon Palace forces, escaped with its Dragon Pearls, and began absorbing them in a cave to break through his Level 39 bottleneck. As the Dragon and Tiger Clans moved toward war, a horned Loli searching for the Dragon Pearl aura entered the cave, and the Old Man revealed that she was the missing Five-Colored Pearl in transformed form.

• The Dragon King found Hu Yang in Xinglong Hall and ordered his soldiers to seize him, but Hu Yang slaughtered wave after wave of Dragon Soldiers and Crab Generals, leveling up to the peak of Level 39.
• When the Dragon King and Dragon Palace forces surrounded him, Hu Yang transformed into a colossal tiger and resumed the slaughter, while the Dragon King fled to warn the Dragon Emperor about a possible Tiger Clan attack.
• After killing every living creature in the Dragon Palace, Hu Yang collected the Dragon Pearls from Dragon Pearl Hall and escaped to a secluded cave, where the Old Man told him to absorb them to break his bottleneck.
• The Dragon King returned with powerful experts, and their discovery of the slaughter fueled conflict between the Dragon and Tiger Clans; the Tiger Emperor also sent experts to find Hu Yang.
• While Hu Yang absorbed the Dragon Pearls in the cave, a horned Loli arrived searching for their aura, and the Old Man told him that she was the missing Five-Colored Pearl transformed.

Hu Yang gave Dragon the Dragon Pearls she needed to survive and named her, choosing not to absorb them himself. After a Dragon Clan expert abducted Dragon and brought her to the Dragon Emperor, Hu Yang rushed to the Dragon Clan Ancestral Land to save her.

• Loli told Hu Yang she would Self-Disintegrate without the Dragon Pearls, so he gave her the remaining pearls and named her Dragon.
• Hu Yang and Dragon cultivated together for half a year, until Dragon wandered into the forest and a Dragon Clan supreme expert took her away.
• Old Man revealed that the expert had brought Dragon to the Dragon Clan, and Hu Yang insisted on going after her despite the danger.
• The supreme expert presented the bound Dragon to the Dragon Emperor, who identified her as the Five-Colored Pearl and said she existed to help him achieve Transcendence.
• Hu Yang arrived at the Dragon Clan Ancestral Land as the Dragon Emperor explained Dragon's purpose to her.

Hu Yang was crippled by the Dragon Emperor after attacking the Dragon Clan, then spent a year drinking at the Xuan Yang Sect. A mysterious daoist restored his cultivation and triggered his advancement to Level 40, though Hu Yang returned to pretending to be drunk.

• Hu Yang was captured after assaulting the Dragon Clan and was struck down by the Dragon Emperor, who then had him cast out of the clan.
• Yun Chenzi found the gravely injured Hu Yang and brought him to the Xuan Yang Sect, where Hu Yang learned that the Dragon Emperor had destroyed his cultivation.
• Hu Yang spent a year drowning his despair in wine, while Zhang Yu visited the sect and failed to recognize him.
• A green-robed daoist appeared in the rear mountain, restored Hu Yang’s cultivation, and spoke of his future responsibility to govern a realm.
• Hu Yang’s system announced that he had shattered his shackles, reached Level 40, and awakened several abilities; he then pretended to be drunk and returned to the side hall.

Hu Yang infiltrated the Dragon Clan with help from supreme Tiger Clan experts, killed the Dragon Emperor, and reached Saint Rank. He found Dragon alive in a Special Space and prepared to take her and the transformed women home, but the Tiger Clan experts caught up with them.

• Hu Yang left the Xuan Yang Sect, met Zhang Yu on the road, and continued north toward the Dragon Clan to rescue Dragon and avenge the Dragon Emperor’s attack.
• Several supreme Tiger Clan experts recognized the Tiger Clan aura Hu Yang had concealed and agreed to help him enter the Dragon Clan.
• Hu Yang and the Tiger Clan experts secretly killed Dragon Clan supreme experts until Hu Yang broke through to Level 50, after which he fought his way to Level 59 and challenged the Dragon Emperor.
• Hu Yang defeated and killed the Dragon Emperor, reached Level 60 and Saint Rank, then learned Dragon was not dead but could not locate her until the Back Mountain Old Daoist revealed the Special Space entrance.
• Hu Yang reunited with Dragon, agreed to bring along the women who had undergone Dragon Pearl Transformation, and was stopped by the Tiger Clan experts as they prepared to leave.

Hu Yang went to the Tiger Clan at the Tiger Emperor’s invitation, where the ancestor unexpectedly named him clan chief and gave him the Tiger Clan Inheritance. Old Man immediately destroyed the inheritance, and the chapter ended with Yun Yao arriving to serve Hu Yang breakfast.

• Hu Yang settled Dragon and the others at their cave before following the Tiger Clan experts to their clan.
• Hu Ba welcomed Hu Yang with a banquet, then brought him to the Ancestor Hall, where the Tiger ancestor gave him the Tiger Clan Inheritance and named him clan chief.
• Hu Ba knelt before Hu Yang and explained that the Tiger Seal made him the Tiger Clan’s supreme leader.
• Old Man dispersed the inheritance before Hu Yang could examine it and told him to climb the tower to obtain the World Orb.
• The next morning, Yun Yao introduced herself to Hu Yang and entered with maids carrying breakfast.

After years of indulgence with the Tiger Clan, Hu Yang returned to find Dragon gone and later rescued Zhang Yu from a suicide attempt. He learned that Netherworld Hall had destroyed her family and helped her take revenge by attacking the sect, leaving Xu You in her hands.

• Hu Yang spent years with the Tiger Clan, neglecting cultivation and forgetting Dragon, until the Old Man awakened him and he left without saying goodbye.
• Hu Yang reached the cave and found Dragon and the other women missing; Chi Yu had taken them, and the Old Man erased Hu Yang’s memories of Dragon.
• Hu Yang rescued Zhang Yu as she jumped from a cliff, learned that Netherworld Hall had destroyed her family, and promised to help her get revenge.
• Hu Yang revealed his Saint Rank power to Zhang Yu, and the two traveled to Netherworld Hall the next day.
• Hu Yang killed the Netherworld Hall Master, trapped the sect’s members, and captured Xu You for Zhang Yu.
• Zhang Yu attacked Xu You with a dagger while he begged for mercy.

Hu Yang completed his hundred-year rise to Level 100, left the first floor, and arrived at a new world where he gained levels by absorbing two spirit beasts. He entered a hidden cave to inspect a ring taken from the black-robed figure he had killed.

• Zhang Yu tortured Xu You to death, then died by suicide, and Hu Yang buried her before collecting the Zhang Family's bodies and destroying Netherworld Hall.
• After reaching Level 100, Hu Yang returned to the Tiger Clan, gave Hu Ba the Tiger Seal, and left his wife and children as a golden light carried him away.
• At the Desert Tower, the Old Daoist congratulated Hu Yang for leaving the first floor and sent him onward to the second.
• Hu Yang watched two exhausted beasts defeat a black-robed figure through Self-Disintegration, then absorbed their Spirit Beast Source Crystals and devoured their corpses, reaching Level 105.
• Hu Yang killed the unconscious black-robed figure, took his ring, and entered a hidden mountain cave to examine it.

Hu Yang explored the region after leaving the forest, learned that the ring he had taken belonged to the feared Fuling Division, and eventually discarded it. After settling in Small Stream City, he went to Azure Serpent Forest, where a ghost who had drained a young man approached him in a beautiful guise.

• Hu Yang hid from Fuling Division disciples searching the forest, then left and learned from villagers that the ring marked him as one of their feared members.
• Hu Yang stayed in Small Mountain Village for over half a year, discarded the ring, and briefly sheltered a badly injured woman who left him a letter before departing.
• Hu Yang moved to Small Stream City and flew to Azure Serpent Forest after overhearing that a faction battle had taken place there.
• Hu Yang watched an ugly ghost drain a young man’s yang energy, then searched the man’s corpse after the ghost fled.
• The ghost returned in the form of a beautiful woman and called Hu Yang over, but he recognized her and insulted her appearance.

Hu Yang and You Lan grew close after he taught her how to kiss and be intimate, but their night together was interrupted when You Lan's grandmother arrived and attacked her. Hu Yang defeated the aged ghost and carried the fading You Lan toward Small Stream City, determined to save her.

• Hu Yang discovered that the ghost was inexperienced, taught her intimacy, and learned her name was You Lan.
• You Lan warned Hu Yang that her grandmother was coming and urged him to leave, so he hid nearby.
• You Lan's grandmother arrived, struck her with a Bone Whip, and demanded to know where Hu Yang and the yang energy were.
• Hu Yang attacked the aged ghost when she whipped You Lan, but You Lan took another blow while protecting him and began to fade.
• Hu Yang unleashed his full cultivation, defeated the aged ghost, and carried You Lan toward Small Stream City as he vowed to save her.

Hu Yang saved You Lan’s Spirit Soul by placing it in a female tiger, and the two lived together in the forest until an Inheritance Secret Realm appeared. After entering its treasure hall, they received its inheritance, restoring You Lan’s Dao Body and raising Hu Yang to Level 249.

• Hu Yang found You Lan’s Spirit Soul in the Old Man’s grasp and placed it in a nearly defeated female tiger, allowing You Lan to take over the tiger’s body.
• Hu Yang and You Lan lived in the forest, where Hu Yang became its strongest resident and reached Level 150 while You Lan grew large enough to speak.
• A golden pillar and illusory gate appeared in the forest, and Hu Yang entered the Inheritance Secret Realm with You Lan after the gathered experts rushed inside.
• Hu Yang and You Lan entered a floating treasure hall and received its inheritance, transforming You Lan back into her Dao Body form.
• Hu Yang’s tiger body changed as his level rose from 150 to 249.

Hu Yang and You Lan were killed by sect forces seeking revenge, and You Lan’s Spirit Soul was captured while Hu Yang escaped. His Soul Fusion ability helped him grow stronger, but Netherworld Ghost Envoys imprisoned him in the Netherworld Ghost Prison, where he found four weak souls and gained 200 levels by fusing with a Bone Soul King.

• After Hu Yang and You Lan left the Secret Realm, the slain elders’ sects massacred the dense forest and found Hu Yang’s cave dwelling.
• Hu Yang and You Lan fought the sect forces, but powerful figures struck Hu Yang down and killed them both.
• You Lan shoved Hu Yang’s Spirit Soul away from a Soul Capturing Rune, but the rune captured her soul.
• Hu Yang fused with Wandering Souls, reached Level 149, and traveled beyond the forest to keep growing stronger.
• Netherworld Ghost Envoys captured Hu Yang, and the Netherworld Judge sentenced him to the Netherworld Ghost Prison’s Three Hells of Punishment.
• During his respite from Soul Eater Punishment, Hu Yang found four weak souls and fused with a Bone Soul King, gaining 200 levels.

Hu Yang absorbed the Soul Eater Punishment, devoured the Ghost Kings, and broke into the Imperial Rank before escaping the Netherworld Ghost Emperor. He found You Lan alive but being tortured.

• Hu Yang fused green souls, awakened the Bone Soul King True Body, and devoured Ghost Soldiers, gaining a Bone Whip.
• Hu Yang absorbed successive waves of Soul Eater Punishment until its source collapsed, then wandered the prison devouring Wandering Souls.
• Hu Yang fought and swallowed six Ghost Kings, reaching the Imperial Rank and awakening the Death Ghost Emperor True Body.
• Hu Yang fled the Netherworld as the Netherworld Ghost Emperor arrived, and the Ghost Emperor failed to find him because a formation concealed his aura.
• Hu Yang sensed You Lan nearby, found her alive but being tortured, and threatened her tormentors.

Hu Yang found You Lan after a hundred years of torture, rescued her, and punished the elders and factions responsible. After restoring You Lan and taking revenge across the connected factions, he returned with her to their cave dwelling, where they lived for twenty thousand years until an unknown figure arrived.

• You Lan endured another round of punishment as she remembered her past with Hu Yang.
• Hu Yang arrived in the Kong Chen Universe, destroyed the pillar, rescued You Lan, and began tormenting the elders with their own methods.
• Hu Yang blinded the watching disciples and killed the sect masters and leaders who came to confront him.
• After recovering, You Lan tried to leave because she felt tainted, but Hu Yang brought her back and gave her a new body.
• Hu Yang tortured the elders for a hundred years, then slaughtered the factions involved and returned with You Lan to their cave dwelling.
• Twenty thousand years later, a figure arrived.

Hu Yang was captured by the Netherworld Ghost Emperor, stripped of his cultivation, and imprisoned in the Calamity Prison, where its foul gases unexpectedly restored and transformed his origin. He awakened as the Supreme Calamity Saint Ruler, and the Netherworld Ghost Emperor trembled before his overwhelming power.

• The Netherworld Ghost Emperor defeated Hu Yang, reduced his cultivation to zero, and took him back to the Netherworld, while You Lan vowed to find him.
• Hu Yang remembered that he was undergoing a trial in the Desert Tower and was escorted to the Calamity Prison.
• The Calamity Prison's punishments failed to affect Hu Yang, and the Ghost Emperor could not discover why.
• After Hu Yang absorbed the prison's foul gas, Calamity Qi restored his origin and awakened his Calamity Sacred Body and Calamity Saint Ruler True Body.
• Hu Yang became the Supreme Calamity Saint Ruler, and the Netherworld Ghost Emperor arrived and fell trembling to the ground.

Hu Yang reunited with You Lan, conquered the Void God Realm, and completed the second floor of the Desert Tower after passing its authorities to his son. He entered the third floor and woke in a woman's bedroom, weak and confused about who she was and where he was.

• Hu Yang spared the Netherworld Ghost Emperor and found You Lan at the entrance to the Netherworld, bringing her back to the dense forest.
• Hu Yang and You Lan reunited, and his Dark Green Nether Armor Generals hailed them as the Saint Lord and Saint Empress.
• Hu Yang led his army into the Void God Realm, defeated the Void Saint Ruler, and transformed the realm into the Calamity God Realm.
• Hu Yang refined the World Central Hub, lived with You Lan, and transferred the realm's authorities to their son before he and You Lan vanished.
• Hu Yang returned to the Desert Tower entrance and entered the third floor, where he woke in a woman's bedroom and asked her who she was and where he was.

Hu Yang discovered that his new identity in the third-floor world was a Star King Residence guard, and his awakened Yuanyang Sacred Body gave him strength and renewed vigor. After learning more about the Mang Dynasty from Shangguan Yanyan, he began considering how to gain power and take over the world.

• Hu Yang returned to the Star King Residence, where the Royal Consort revealed their secret relationship and his Yuanyang Sacred Body awakened during their encounter.
• The Royal Consort’s maid hid Hu Yang from the returning Star King, but Hu Yang also became intimate with her before leaving her chamber.
• Hu Yang returned to the Royal Consort, and they continued their affair for many days after the Star King departed.
• Hu Yang left the residence and returned to Shangguan Yanyan, who explained that the Mang Dynasty was a small realm of twenty cities in a world ruled by strength.
• Hu Yang dismissed the Mang Dynasty with a sneer and considered learning more about the world before pursuing his ambition to take it over.

Hu Yang joined the Imperial Guard with Tuoba Yue’s help and used dangerous night patrols to raise his level by killing spies. After becoming a squad leader, he encountered the Mang King and noticed a richly dressed woman approaching him.

• Hu Yang asked Tuoba Yue to help him enter the Imperial Guard so he could change the Mang Dynasty’s ruler and name, and she persuaded her Father to arrange an introduction to the Imperial Guard Commander.
• Hu Sanhai tested Hu Yang with an attack, accepted him into the Imperial Guard, and took him to the barracks while Tuoba Yue stayed in Mang City.
• Hu Yang was assigned to patrol Cloud Splendor Hall on the dangerous third shift, killed several groups of spies, and reached Level 10, then Level 12 after another encounter.
• Hu Yang’s commander took credit for his first victory, but the commander later died while drinking with courtesans; a more honorable commander replaced him.
• Hu Yang was promoted to Imperial Guard Squad Leader and, while patrolling Cloud Splendor Hall, saw the Mang King enter with military ministers before a richly dressed woman approached.

Hu Yang won Ling Yao over, seized the Mang Dynasty after the Mang King unexpectedly abdicated, and founded the Xing Dynasty. The chapter ended with Hu Yang granting the captured Star King a title while Tuoba Yue and Dongfang Yanyan entered his new court.

• Ling Yao summoned Hu Yang, tested his cultivation, and revealed that she was the Saintess of Soaring Palace, sent to help Dian Dynasty conquer the Mang Dynasty.
• Hu Yang persuaded Ling Yao to join his plans, and she helped him become Imperial Guard Commander and take control of the palace defenses.
• Hu Yang surrounded the Mang King and his ministers while they were hunting, but the Mang King willingly handed over the Royal Seal and abdicated.
• Hu Yang became king of the new Xing Dynasty, named Ling Yao empress, and later welcomed Tuoba Yue and Dongfang Yanyan into the palace.
• Hu Yang captured the Star King and granted him the title of Green Hat King.

Hu Yang expanded the Xing Dynasty by conquering the Dian Dynasty, while Mang Xing reunited with his destitute brother Mang Tang at the Green Hat King Residence. After returning to Xing City, Hu Yang paused his campaigns to strengthen the realm and await an opportunity to counterattack neighboring dynasties.

• Hu Yang established an Inner Cabinet and Twenty Battalions, then led an army with Ling Yao to defeat Dian Dynasty forces and seize its border garrisons.
• Mang Tang arrived at Mang Xing’s residence as a beggar and, after taking a servant’s job, revealed himself to his younger brother.
• Mang Xing and Mang Tang discussed how Hu Yang had taken the throne and granted Mang Xing a princely title, then reunited and began living together.
• Hu Yang’s army captured Dian City after the new Dian King fled, bringing the Dian Dynasty’s twenty-six cities into the Xing Dynasty.
• Hu Yang returned to Xing City, where the court began governing the new lands, and decided to build up strength before fighting neighboring dynasties.