Recaps

After the War Dynasty invaded the Xing Dynasty and killed Liu Changhe, Hu Yang set out with Ling Yao to avenge him and eradicate the enemy nation. He slaughtered city after city, reached Spirit Rank, and finally killed the War King in Battle City.

• The War Dynasty captured Ju City after Liu Changhe defended it for seven days, then killed him and hung his body from the city gates.
• After receiving the delayed request for reinforcements, Hu Yang flew to Ju City with Ling Yao, burned Liu Changhe’s corpse, and slaughtered the War Dynasty soldiers there.
• Hu Yang and Ling Yao massacred the enemy camp and continued across the border, with Hu Yang destroying Tuwa City and awakening War Slaughter Power.
• Hu Yang annihilated city after city, reached level 100 and Spirit Rank, and killed officials sent to investigate the devastation.
• A month later, Hu Yang and Ling Yao arrived in Battle City, where Hu Yang killed the War King and massacred the ministers who begged for mercy.

After divine punishment destroyed Hu Yang and the Xing Dynasty, his preserved soul awakened in a new world as an Azure Sky Green Wutong tree. He discovered that Ling Yao had survived and resolved to grow strong enough to reunite with her.

• Hu Yang’s slaughter of the War Dynasty triggered a plague that devastated the world, and divine lightning later killed him and his Beloved Consorts.
• A century after the poison mist vanished, Hu Yang awakened as a tree and gained immense power from Heaven and Earth.
• Hu Yang followed a little girl named Xiao Li to her home and recognized her sick mother as Ling Yao.
• Hu Yang secretly sent Life Force to Ling Yao, curing her illness, then tried to speak to her without revealing himself.
• Hu Yang decided to raise his level and attain a Dao Body so he could reunite with Ling Yao.

Hu Yang transformed into a Dao Body and returned to find Ling Yao and Xiao Li, rescuing Ling Yao from village thugs and revealing his identity. The family reunited, and Ling Yao told him how she had ended up in the village, while mysteries about the world remained.

• Hu Yang endured ninety-nine lightning strikes, became a God Punishment Emperor and Life Emperor, and returned to the Thatched Cottage.
• Hu Yang found Xiao Li hiding in the cellar and learned that thugs had taken Ling Yao.
• Hu Yang used Divine Punishment to kill the thugs and freed Ling Yao, who did not recognize him because his appearance had changed.
• Hu Yang revealed that he was the Great Prosperity Emperor, Hu Yang, and Ling Yao recognized him through his imperial seal before reuniting with him.
• Ling Yao told Hu Yang that a white light had brought her to the village, erased her cultivation, and left her pregnant, and that she had recovered from her illness two years earlier.

Hu Yang met Ji Ge, the village chief of Gathering Dragon Village, and discovered that a great tree nearby was Tuoba Yue, his former consort who had survived as a tree after the calamity. He gave her Origin Essence to speed her transformation and left, while Ji Ge believed the Xing Dynasty could be restored.

• Hu Yang heard Ji Ge tell village children that Heaven and Earth had consumed the plague, revived the dead with Ling, and filled the world with newborns.
• Ji Ge recognized Hu Yang's extraordinary fortune and led him beneath a familiar great tree, where a giant woman's face appeared.
• Hu Yang summoned the Xing Dynasty Imperial Seal, and Tuoba Yue recognized him and explained how she had become a tree.
• Ji Ge revealed that he had once been a palace eunuch and had searched for Hu Yang for ten years using his Qi Gazing Art.
• Hu Yang gave Tuoba Yue a strand of Origin Essence to accelerate her cultivation, then left as she began refining it.
• Ji Ge departed, hopeful that His Majesty could restore the Xing Dynasty.

Hu Yang accepted the villagers’ call to restore the Xing Dynasty, gathered intelligence, and led an army to seize Ling Province. After defeating the province’s first dispatched force, he revealed himself as the Xing King, leaving its captured general kneeling before him.

• Hu Yang told Ling Yao that Tuoba Yue had become the village’s great tree, and the three visited her together.
• Ji Ge and more than a hundred villagers asked Hu Yang to leave the village and restore the country, and Hu Yang later agreed to prepare for the campaign.
• A year later, Hu Yang learned that the world had been divided among ten empires and decided to take Ling Province as the first step toward restoring the Xing Dynasty.
• Hu Yang led more than a thousand armored men to Ling Province and ambushed the three hundred soldiers sent from the city, killing half and capturing the rest.
• Hu Yang identified himself to the captured city guard general as the Xing King and declared that he wanted Ling Province, prompting the general to kneel.

Hu Yang conquered Ling Province and expanded the Xing Dynasty across much of Yue Kingdom, defeating its strongest general and forcing the emperor to seek peace. After receiving Yue Kingdom's tribute, Hu Yang granted Minister Suo Rong an audience in Xing City.

• Hu Yang killed the middle-aged general who recognized him, then led his troops to Ling Province City and destroyed its gate.
• Hu Yang killed Governor Yang Sanheng and the officials and generals defending Duzhou Prefecture, and Ling Province surrendered.
• After stabilizing Ling Province, Hu Yang conquered Tian Zhou, Ding Zhou, and Ci Zhou, then destroyed Niu Jian and his hundred-thousand-strong army with Thunder Punishment.
• Hu Yang continued conquering provinces, brought Ling Yao and her mother to Ling Province City, and reestablished the Xing Dynasty when he captured the twentieth province.
• The Yue Country Emperor ordered Suo Rong to bring tribute and seek peace, and Hu Yang accepted the tribute before receiving him in court.
• Suo Rong bowed before Hu Yang and admitted he was afraid of him.

Hu Yang conquered the Yue Kingdom and unified the world, then abandoned the throne to live quietly in Gathering Dragon Village with his family. After Tuoba Yue returned in human form, an Imperial Rank bull-headed beast attacked Hu Yang, and its retreat into the forest left him wondering what lay in the depths.

• After Hu Yang defeated the Yue Kingdom army, the Yue Country Emperor fled, and Hu Yang took control of the kingdom.
• Hu Yang rejected the title of Imperial Dynasty, later founded the Xing Imperial Dynasty, unified the world, and entrusted government to the Inner Cabinet.
• Hu Yang secretly left the capital with Ling Yao and Xiao Li and settled in Gathering Dragon Village, where the ministers failed to find him.
• Tuoba Yue endured sixty-six lightning tribulations, regained human form, and reunited with Hu Yang, Ling Yao, and Xiao Li.
• An Azure Sky Giant Beast attacked Hu Yang, who transformed into an Azure Sky Green Wutong and fought it to a stalemate.
• The giant beast retreated into a dense forest, and Hu Yang wondered why it had appeared and what lay in the forest's depths.

Hu Yang entered a hidden World Origin Space, reached the Ancestor Level, and learned he needed to find the world's central hub to pass the trial. After years of searching, Chi Yu transported him and Niu Geng to a massive gear, leaving them before an unknown destination.

• Hu Yang touched a stone lotus in the forest and entered a Special Space, where he awakened the Source Ancestor True Body and rose to the millionth level.
• Hu Yang found the minotaur beast, transformed it into a man named Niu Geng, and learned that Niu Geng had entered the space to escape Calamity Qi.
• Old Man told Hu Yang that the space was the World Origin Space and instructed him to seize the world's central hub to pass the trial.
• Hu Yang searched for the central hub's entrance while the Xing Imperial Dynasty fell into turmoil and divided into multiple dynasties.
• After Hu Yang searched for years without success, Chi Yu transported him and Niu Geng to a massive gear surging with Origin Essence.

Hu Yang acquired the World Central Hub, reunited with his companions, and was forced to leave the fourth level behind after lingering for thousands of years. He began a new trial as a golden python and attacked a Calamity Beast that was mauling his mother.

• Hu Yang collected the World Central Hub, escaped the collapsing space with Niu Geng, and returned to Gathering Dragon Village with his companions.
• Ji Ge found Hu Yang and asked him to restore the Xing Imperial Dynasty, but Hu Yang refused and gave Ji Ge cultivation techniques instead.
• After Hu Yang delayed for several thousand years, the Old Man forcibly moved him to the Desert Tower entrance and brought Ling Yao, Xiao Li, Tuoba Yue, and Niu Geng along.
• Hu Yang began the fourth-level trial as a newly hatched golden python and saw a Calamity Beast attack his injured mother.
• Hu Yang bit the Calamity Beast, gained new powers by devouring its flesh and hide, and grew larger than his mother.
• Hu Yang attacked the Calamity Beast again and bit its neck as it was about to kill his mother.

Hu Yang killed the Calamity Beast and used his essence blood to turn the dying Mother Metal Serpent into a blood egg, then raised his newly hatched siblings while waiting for her to hatch. When an injured Azure Flower Green Python fled into Mang Shan Stream, Hu Yang confronted its pursuers and learned that the nearby Cliff Bottom held Spirit Spring water needed to enter the Spirit Rank.

• Hu Yang killed the Calamity Beast, fed his essence blood to the dying Mother Metal Serpent, and watched her transform into a blood egg.
• Hu Yang incubated the golden eggs until they hatched, then hunted Spirit Boars to feed his younger siblings while the blood egg remained still.
• Hu Yang saw White Wolves leap from a cliff and suspected that the Cliff Bottom might hold a key to passing the fourth level.
• An injured Azure Flower Green Python stumbled into Hu Yang's nest, and a group of winged bird beasts soon arrived in pursuit.
• Hu Yang confronted the Three-Feathered Bird Beast, who identified himself as a Phoenix King Guard and explained that Spirit Rank creatures had to consume Spirit Spring water at the Cliff Bottom.

Hu Yang sheltered the wounded Azure Flower Green Python, learned she had stolen the Phoenix King's Cold Pill to advance, and helped protect her while she refined it. After she reached Sect Rank, the Phoenix King arrived at Mang Shan Stream.

• The Three-Feathered Bird Beast told Hu Yang that the Azure Flower Green Python had stolen the Phoenix King's treasured Cold Pill and gave him a Passage Spirit Mark.
• Hu Yang treated the unconscious Azure Flower Green Python, and she awoke and recovered in his den.
• The Azure Flower Green Python revealed that she had stolen the Cold Pill to break through from peak Spirit Rank to Sect Rank, then asked Hu Yang to protect her while she refined it.
• Hu Yang learned about the fourth-layer world and raised his level by hunting demon beasts as the Azure Flower Green Python refined the Cold Pill.
• The Azure Flower Green Python shattered her bottleneck and advanced to Sect Rank, but the Phoenix King's terrifying aura descended upon Mang Shan Stream.

Hu Yang fled the Phoenix King into a cave beneath a great lake, where Nether Cold Breath and Primordial Unity Water propelled him past level 300,000. He discovered Nine Hells Spirit Fruits that greatly strengthened the pythons, and the chapter ended as the Blood Egg consumed the vines and began to hatch.

• The Phoenix King traced the Cold Pill’s aura to the python nest, so Hu Yang swallowed the Blood Egg and led the Azure Flower Green Python and his siblings south.
• Hu Yang plunged into a great lake and entered an underwater cave, where devouring Nether Cold Breath and Primordial Unity Water raised his level to 300,000.
• Hu Yang found Nine Hells Spirit Fruits and vines, and the fruits helped the little golden pythons break through to Spirit Rank and speak.
• The pythons ate the fruits, raising Hu Yang’s level above 500,000, the Azure Flower Green Python to peak Venerable Rank, and the little golden pythons to early Venerable Rank.
• The Blood Egg shook, consumed the remaining vines, and cracked open as a golden python streaked with blood-red emerged.

Hu Yang explored the Great Lake cave, devoured the Profound Nether Remnant Soul, and found the Nine Hells World Orb. After his mother awakened her memories, he led the pythons through a portal, which brought them to Tang Mountain.

• Hu Yang found a withered tree, where the Profound Nether Remnant Soul attacked him and he swallowed it along with its treasures.
• The Mother Metal Serpent swallowed the black coffin, grew to Spirit Rank, and regained her memories, recognizing Hu Yang as her child.
• Hu Yang found a hidden black pearl beneath the tree and obtained the Nine Hells World Orb, increasing his fourth-layer clearance progress.
• Hu Yang read the characters carved into a boulder, revealing an altar and a spatial gate that he and the other pythons entered.
• Azure Flower Green Python recognized their destination as Tang Mountain.

Hu Yang and the pythons arrived on Tang Mountain through a mysterious altar and found the Black Bull King’s territory. After devouring the Black Bull herd and the Black Bull King, Hu Yang killed the Kui Long King, whose corpse the others began eating as a strange light appeared nearby.

• Hu Yang concluded that the altar in Mang Shan Stream had transported them to Tang Mountain and led the pythons to explore.
• A four-horned black bull challenged Hu Yang, who swallowed him and devoured the surrounding herd.
• Hu Yang learned that the Black Bull King had gone to Kui Long Territory and caught up with his forces on the way there.
• The Black Bull King attacked Hu Yang, but Hu Yang was unharmed and swallowed him, awakening Black Armor, Strength, and Brute Body.
• The Kui Long King tried to devour Hu Yang, but Hu Yang crushed his head, and the pythons gathered to eat the corpse.
• Hu Yang noticed a flash of light near the Kui Long King’s body.

Hu Yang entered the Crystal Mountain Secret Realm and followed Old Man’s directions to the ruined Myriad-Mile Dragon Palace. There, he met Ling Ao, who revealed the Sea Dragon Pearl and explained that it had kept her in her phantom state.

• Hu Yang found a Spirit Crystal beside Kui Long King’s corpse and gave it to Mother Metal Serpent to consume.
• Hu Yang and his serpents traveled to the Kui Long Territory as the Crystal Mountain Secret Realm opened, and Hu Yang entered it alone.
• Old Man told Hu Yang to swim through the sea and pass eight colossal pillars to reach the Myriad-Mile Dragon Palace and obtain the Sea Dragon Pearl.
• Hu Yang reached the dark ruins and met Ling Ao, a dragon-shaped phantom who explained that the Dragon Palace had been destroyed by a powerful enemy.
• Ling Ao brought Hu Yang to the Water Race Space and showed him the Sea Dragon Pearl, the treasure sustaining her phantom form.

Hu Yang was drawn into a transformation by the Sea Dragon Pearl and Bai Di, awakening as a Dragon God with immense power. He restored Ling Ao to her body, then left with her to continue exploring the Secret Realm.

• The Sea Dragon Pearl and the Four Dragons Precious Platform reacted, pulling Hu Yang into a mist-shrouded Special Space.
• Bai Di identified Hu Yang as the World Controller and sent white light into him, triggering a painful transformation.
• Hu Yang fused with the Five-Color Dragon System, gained new powers, and reached a level in the ten-million range as a Dragon God.
• Hu Yang learned that the Sea Dragon Pearl held Ling Ao's body and summoned it so she could return to it.
• Hu Yang and Ling Ao reappeared among eight massive pillars, and Hu Yang decided they would continue exploring the Secret Realm.

Hu Yang rescued the Mother Metal Serpent from the Phoenix King and Dark King, then helped Ling Ao stop flooding the area with her tears. He continued exploring the Secret Realm with Ling Ao and his serpents, still searching for the World Orbs.

• Hu Yang learned from the Old Man that the group was inside the Tower World and set off with Ling Ao to explore.
• The Phoenix King and Dark King teamed up against the Mother Metal Serpent and badly wounded her over the Spirit Crystals.
• Hu Yang sensed his mother's injury, teleported to the cave, killed both kings, and healed the Mother Metal Serpent.
• Ling Ao's tears flooded the cave and surrounding area until the Sea Dragon Pearl stopped her crying and absorbed the water.
• Hu Yang gathered his serpents and explored the Secret Realm with Ling Ao, while the Old Man urged him to find the World Orbs soon.

After the Secret Realm ended, Hu Yang killed the newly ascended Kui Long King and returned home, where he learned the outside world was in danger and set out for Lin Shan. He reached the mountain’s depths after devouring a Heavenly Centipede, but the Wood Pearl remained to be found.

• The Kui Long King ambushed the beasts leaving the Secret Realm and forced the rulers to submit after revealing his Emperor Rank breakthrough.
• Hu Yang transformed into the Dragon God Body and swallowed the Kui Long King, then returned to Stone Forest with the snakes and Ling Ao.
• Over the following months, the Azure Flower Green Python and Ling Ao became mothers, while Hu Yang adapted to his snake and Dragon bodies.
• The Old Man warned Hu Yang that the outside world would shatter unless he passed the Desert Tower and obtained Origin Essence soon.
• Hu Yang followed a prompt to Lin Shan, where he defeated and devoured a Heavenly Centipede, awakening the Law of Poison and Ten Thousand Poisons Immunity.
• Hu Yang continued into Lin Shan’s depths, where the Wood Pearl was hidden.

Hu Yang obtained the Wood Pearl after awakening Dragon God Power and being recognized as a Supreme Venerable by the Wood Divine Hall. He then defeated the Snow Lord by destroying the White Pagoda and entered the pit beneath the Snowy Plains in search of the Snow Pearl.

• Hu Yang reached the peak of Lin Shan, where the Wood Great Emperor's guards captured him and brought him before Mu Xian.
• Hu Yang absorbed Wood Divine Power, awakened Dragon God Power, and transformed into Dao Body Form, prompting Mu Xian and the hall's gods to kneel to him.
• Hu Yang demanded the Wood Pearl, and Mu Xian transformed into his true form and surrendered it before Hu Yang departed for the Snowy Plains.
• Hu Yang destroyed waves of Snow Beasts, confronted the Snow Lord, and shattered the White Pagoda that sustained the Snow Lord's immortality.
• Hu Yang devoured the Snow Lord, awakened Frost Power, and broke open the ground to enter the pit where the Snow Pearl was located.
• An iceberg fell and sealed the pit's entrance after Hu Yang flew inside.

Hu Yang cleared the fourth level of the Desert Tower by obtaining the World Origin, then entered the fifth level and found himself a fetus in Yu Lan’s womb. After his sister Fengling was born amid a phoenix vision, Hu Yang was born with a Chaos Godfiend Body and rapidly transformed into a young man, just as Yun Xiazi requested an audience with the Lin Family.

• Hu Yang met Fire Warden and the Fire Ant Clan beneath the Snowy Plains Pit, but they knew nothing about the Snow Pearl.
• Hu Yang received a sudden message that he had obtained one hundred pearls and the World Origin, clearing the fourth level, and was sent to the fifth level.
• Hu Yang discovered he was an unborn child in Yu Lan’s womb and spoke with his sister, who was born amid a phoenix vision and named Fengling.
• Hu Yang’s Chaos Godfiend Body formed, producing a vision of a giant splitting Chaos into Heaven and Earth.
• Hu Yang was born, absorbed the breath of Heaven and Earth’s rules, and grew into a young man as the Lin Family Old Ancestor celebrated.
• Yun Xiazi of Cloud Province Domain requested an audience with the Lin Family.

Hu Yang left the Lin Family with Yun Xiazi and began cultivating at Lingxiao Palace under Yang Tian, who named him Yuan Chen. After mastering his methods, Yuan Chen was sent to Nine Heavens to obtain the Palm Law Ring, where he recognized someone familiar among the gathered competitors.

• Yun Xiazi took Hu Yang to Lingxiao Palace after the Lin Family Old Ancestor agreed to let him go, and Lin Xiao later told Long Yu Lan what had happened.
• At Lingxiao Palace, Yang Tian offered to take Hu Yang as his disciple and gave him the Daoist name Yuan Chen.
• Yuan Chen cultivated in Yuan Chen Hall for ten years and reached Great Accomplishment in his methods.
• Yang Tian ordered Yuan Chen to obtain the Palm Law Ring at Nine Heavens, explaining that it would unlock an inheritance and help him pass the fifth floor.
• Yang Tian sent Yuan Chen to Nine Heavens, where Yuan Chen saw an extremely familiar face among the gathered prodigies.

Hu Yang reunited with Lin Fengling before the Nine Heavens Competition and learned that the Palm Law Ring unlocked the Nine Heavens Secret Realm. As the competition selected its ten qualifiers, Hu Yang remained in the hall and was unexpectedly given the ring without fighting.

• Lin Fengling joined Hu Yang and explained that the Palm Law Ring was the key to the Nine Heavens Secret Realm, which only the top ten competitors could enter.
• Dongfang Xiao attacked Hu Yang after seeing him with Fengling, but Hu Yang repelled the attack and sent him flying.
• The competition began, and Fengling and Dongfang Xiao were pulled onto the platform while Hu Yang remained in the hall.
• Victors returned to the hall until nine others had gathered with Hu Yang, who had not competed.
• Sky Slave appeared and gave Hu Yang the Palm Law Ring, declaring that he controlled the Secret Realm.

Hu Yang followed the Palm Law Ring’s guidance toward the depths of the Nine Heavens Secret Realm while Fengling was afflicted by Evil Enchanting Red Fruit and encountered Chi Yu, who called himself Qing Chen. After returning Fengling to the Lin Family with the Phoenix Seal Treasure, Chi Yu turned his attention to Hu Yang, who reached a White Expanse Space.

• Hu Yang entered the Nine Heavens Secret Realm with Fengling and followed the prompt toward its depths, while Fengling set off alone.
• Fengling ate Evil Enchanting Red Fruit, became afflicted with Charm Poison, and Chi Yu intervened to dispel it.
• Chi Yu told Fengling he was Qing Chen, Lord of All Heavens, and gave her the Phoenix Seal Treasure.
• Fengling told Chi Yu about her past life and chose to return to the Upper Realm through her own strength.
• Chi Yu sent Fengling back to the Lin Family, then saw Hu Yang arrive at the center of the Secret Realm and enter a White Expanse Space.

Hu Yang inherited Ancestor Heng’s memories and Origin Essence, awakened Heng Yuan Power and Control, and cleared the fifth floor before ascending to the sixth. There, he arrived as a fly larva inside the corpse of a man slain by black-robed pursuers.

• Ancestor Heng fused his manifested intent with Hu Yang, passing on memories of the Intent Embryo and the crisis threatening Heng Yuan Universe.
• Hu Yang received Origin Essence, awakened Heng Yuan Power and Control, and rapidly gathered every Origin Essence on the fifth floor.
• Hu Yang returned to the Lin Family and spent several decades with his family before ascending to the sixth floor.
• Fengling returned to the Upper Realm, killed the traitor who had betrayed her, and stayed beside Chi Yu in the Creation Space.
• Black-robed figures killed a fleeing man, and after seven days of rain and a swarm of flies, Hu Yang awakened as a fly larva inside the corpse.

Hu Yang metamorphosed from a fly larva into a gigantic fly and grew powerful by devouring corpses and Spirit Jade Treasure Ganoderma. After reuniting with his mother and bringing the swarm to his forest home, he discovered Jade Marrow and began devouring it.

• Hu Yang devoured Corpse Fluid and a corpse, grew to level 30, and metamorphosed into a wolf-sized fly after consuming Spirit Jade Treasure Ganoderma.
• Hu Yang returned to the corpse, recognized his mother among the flies, and led the swarm to his forest home.
• Hu Yang reached level 2000, settled his family in a Treasure Land, and supported the swarm by bringing back carcasses and valuable materials.
• A fly led Hu Yang to a pool, where he tasted Jade Marrow and gained 1000 levels.
• Hu Yang battered apart the stone mountain concealing the Jade Marrow pool and began devouring the exposed Jade Marrow.