Recaps

Hu Yang devoured the Jade Marrow, evolved into a Six-Winged Golden Fly, and accidentally destroyed the mountain cave. After learning about Lingxu City and Fu Long Academy from a human expedition, he secretly followed the group to their camp to gather information about the world and Origin Essence.

• Hu Yang consumed all the Jade Marrow, exploded from his growth, and revived as a Six-Winged Golden Fly with new abilities and immense strength.
• Hu Yang’s aura frightened the Lingyou Great Forest, prompting Zhang Sanjia, Nangong Hongyao, and their students to enter only its outskirts for training.
• Hu Yang restored the little fly with help from Chi Yu, returned to his cave abode, and made a side cave for the female fly to lay eggs.
• Hu Yang searched the forest for clues about Origin Essence and overheard three humans explain that they came from Lingxu City and Fu Long Academy.
• Hu Yang followed the humans back to their tents and secretly slipped into Nangong Hongyao’s skirt.

Hu Yang followed Nangong Hongyao back to Lingxu City, where his pressure was mistaken for a breakthrough by the Two-Headed Flood Dragon. The city fortified itself and the Zhentian General went to the imperial palace to request help, while Hu Yang planned to seek out the hidden dragon.

• Hu Yang followed Nangong Hongyao and the students back to Fu Long Academy after five students broke through their bottlenecks.
• Nangong Hongyao told her father, Nangong Qingtian, that a demonic beast’s pressure had frightened most of the students away from the forest.
• Nangong Qingtian warned the City Lord that the Two-Headed Flood Dragon had likely broken through, and the city began preparing its defenses.
• Hu Yang realized the pressure had come from him, not the Two-Headed Flood Dragon, and decided to find the hidden beast when he returned to the forest.
• After half a month without an attack, the City Lord kept the defenses in place, and the Zhentian General arrived at the imperial palace to report the threat to the Empress.

Empress Zi Wan learned that the Two-Headed Flood Dragon had supposedly broken through and sought help from the Phoenix Feather Empire’s ancestors. When the ancestors attacked the flood dragon in Lingyou Great Forest, a black-robed figure appeared and destroyed them.

• Zhu Zhixiong told Zi Wan that the Two-Headed Flood Dragon had broken through and threatened the citizens of Lingxu City.
• Zi Wan ordered defenses across the empire and sent General Yuchi Zhen with five hundred thousand Phoenix Feather Army soldiers to Lingxu City.
• Zi Wan summoned the ancestors in the Phoenix Ancestor Hall, and they agreed to accompany her to investigate the flood dragon.
• The ancestors attacked the depths of Lingyou Great Forest, where the Two-Headed Flood Dragon emerged and began retreating after seeing Zi Wan.
• An ancestor revealed that the flood dragon had not transformed into a dragon or reached the Supreme Realm, but the ancestors still prepared to kill it.
• A black-robed figure scattered the ancestors’ attacks, forced them to the ground with his pressure, and reduced them to ashes.

Hu Yang reached the depths of the Lingyou Great Forest, saved the Two-Headed Flood Dragon, and revived his fly swarm after discovering they had survived. He helped the flood dragon complete his transformation into a dragon, settled the swarm in an Underground Palace, and returned to Fu Long Academy intending to join it.

• Hu Yang arrived in the devastated forest, killed the figures attacking the Two-Headed Flood Dragon, and awakened his Innate Dao Body as he transformed into human form.
• Zi Wan attacked Hu Yang with Phoenix Feathers, but his Adamantine Body and pressure stopped her assault, and a red light pulled her through the Vortex Portal.
• Hu Yang revived the fly corpses with his healing talent and found the mother fly and her little flies emerging from a hidden stone cave.
• Hu Yang gave the Two-Headed Flood Dragon a drop of essence blood, and the flood dragon endured the Nine-Nine Thunder Tribulation and transformed into a dragon.
• Hu Yang accepted the Two-Headed Flood Dragon's Underground Palace for the fly swarm, then returned to Fu Long Academy in Lingxu City to seek a chance to join.

Hu Yang intervened when Lin Ao and his servants beat a little beggar, then forced Lin Shan to let the child retaliate. Hu Yang left with the beggar after Lin Ao was humiliated, while Lin Shan accepted the settlement.

• Hu Yang arrived at a tavern and saw Lin Ao's servants attack a little beggar over a torn garment.
• Hu Yang killed one servant and injured Lin Ao when they tried to stop him.
• Lin Shan arrived and questioned Hu Yang, who healed the beggar and explained what had happened.
• Hu Yang offered Lin Shan valuable treasure material as compensation and insisted the beggar receive justice for his beating.
• With Hu Yang's encouragement, the little beggar punched and kicked Lin Ao while Lin Shan and the servants stood by.
• Hu Yang led the little beggar away, leaving Lin Ao humiliated.

Hu Yang used Lin Ao’s conflict with the little beggar to gain Lin Shan’s help and joined Fu Long Academy after revealing his Emperor Realm cultivation. He met Nangong Hongyao and followed her to the teachers’ dormitory, where he shut the door and startled her.

• Lin Shan sent Lin Ao back to Fan City, and Lin Ao vowed to regain his dignity after leaving Lingxu City.
• Hu Yang left two precious materials beside the sleeping little beggar and went to Fu Long Academy to seek Lin Shan’s help.
• Lin Shan introduced Hu Yang to Headmaster Nangong Qingtian, who hired him after learning he was an Emperor Realm expert.
• Nangong Hongyao entered the office, mistook Hu Yang for a student, and then took him to the teachers’ dormitory.
• Hu Yang shut the dormitory door, startling Nangong Hongyao as she asked what he was doing.

Hu Yang pursued Nangong Hongyao at Fu Long Academy, making their relationship public as he led her through the day by the hand. Nangong Qingtian took them to the City Lord's Mansion, where Shi Hao bowed to Hu Yang and addressed him as a cultivator of the Emperor Venerable Realm.

• Hu Yang kissed Nangong Hongyao in his dormitory, leaving her flustered and unable to sleep through the night.
• The next morning, Hu Yang took Nangong Hongyao's hand and accompanied her to Class A, where he kissed her again before she went to teach.
• After classes, Hu Yang publicly introduced himself to the students as Nangong Hongyao's beloved partner and led her away by the hand.
• Nangong Qingtian appeared and took Hu Yang and Nangong Hongyao to the City Lord's Mansion at the city lord's request.
• Shi Hao, the City Lord of Lingxu City, bowed to Hu Yang and paid respects to the Emperor Venerable Realm.

Hu Yang revealed to Nangong Hongyao that he was a fly transformed into human form, driving her away in disgust. After Chi Yu remade her through good fortune, she returned to Hu Yang, and a new mission to clear the sixth floor began.

• Shi Hao told Hu Yang about the Two-Headed Flood Dragon, and Hu Yang assured him it would not attack the city before taking Nangong Hongyao to Lingyou.
• Hu Yang revealed his identity as a fly transformed into human form, and Nangong Hongyao fled back to Fu Long Academy in horror.
• Nangong Hongyao told Nangong Qingtian what Hu Yang was, prompting him to rush off to warn the city lord and the Emperor.
• Chi Yu remade Nangong Hongyao through good fortune, and she flew to Lingyou to find Hu Yang.
• Hu Yang reunited with Nangong Hongyao, and a system mission instructed him to collect the Eighteen Grievances and clear the sixth floor.

Hu Yang and Nangong Hongyao disappeared into the Underground Palace while Lingxu City’s officials learned an Emperor Realm demonic beast had appeared. Zi Wan received the Phoenix Ancestor’s inheritance as the Phoenix Feather Empire deployed defenses, and two figures headed toward the Yu Ling Empire’s Imperial Palace.

• Hu Yang ignored the voice in his head and carried Nangong Hongyao into a bedchamber in the Underground Palace.
• Nangong Qingtian urged Lingxu City’s City Lord to report the Emperor Realm demonic beast to the Empress, and the Zhentian General set out for the capital.
• Zi Wan met the Phoenix Ancestor, who brought her to a hall and passed down the Phoenix Dance Nine Heavens art.
• The Grand Secretaries found the Ancestral Hall in ruins, learned the Empress was missing, and ordered cities across the Phoenix Feather Empire to prepare their defenses.
• Two figures flew from the Lingyou Great Forest toward the Yu Ling Empire’s Imperial Palace, where Hu Yang was directed to obtain Extravagant Grievance.

Hu Yang obtained the Origin Essence of Extravagant Grievance in the Lingtai Imperial Palace and traveled to Ming Palace Prefecture for Life Grievance. After slaughtering the guards who blocked him, he reached an unprecedented level and was confronted by the prefecture’s ruler.

• Zi Wan absorbed the Phoenix Ancestor’s inheritance, reached the middle stage of the Saint Realm, and was abducted by Chi Yu, who took her to his Creation Space.
• Hu Yang received a prompt to obtain Extravagant Grievance, entered the Ancestral Hall, destroyed its guardian, and claimed the essence from a golden phoenix.
• Hu Yang returned to Nangong Hongyao and left with her for Chengtai Domain, settling her in Ta City while he completed the trials to enter the domain.
• Hu Yang reached Ming Palace Prefecture, where he massacred the guards who blocked him and raised his level into the hundred-million range.
• Hu Yang received directions to Three Platforms Treasure Hall, but a mysterious voice asked why he had slaughtered Ming Palace Prefecture’s people.

Hu Yang obtained the Origin Essence of Life Grievance from Ming Palace Prefecture, then returned to find the Yu Ling Empire under attack by Black Scale Dragons. After saving Lingxu City and reaching level two hundred million, he prepared to leave with Nangong Hongyao, but Nangong Qingtian and the city lord begged him to save the empire.

• Hu Yang took the Origin Essence of Life Grievance from the Heavenly Dipper Seal despite Yu Yazi’s attempts to stop him, and learned to seek Soul Grievance in Azure Soul Prefecture.
• Hu Yang returned to Ta City and discovered that Nangong Hongyao had gone to Lingxu City to fight the Black Scale Dragons attacking the Yu Ling Empire.
• Hu Yang rescued Nangong Hongyao and killed the two Black Scale Dragons threatening Lingxu City, resolving the city’s crisis and reaching level two hundred million.
• Hu Yang tried to leave with Nangong Hongyao, but Nangong Qingtian and the city lord begged him to save the Yu Ling Empire’s billions of inhabitants.

Hu Yang took Nangong Hongyao to the Nether Soul Domain and seized the Soul Grievance Origin Essence, while the Yu Ling Empire fell and Nangong Hongyao broke through to the Supreme Realm. After escaping the Nether Soul Emperor’s notice, Hu Yang brought her to the Thoroughfare Sea to pursue the next Origin Essence.

• Hu Yang refused the city lord’s plea to save the Yu Ling Empire, and Nangong Qingtian led Lingxu City’s experts to support other cities, where the Black Scale Dragons killed them.
• When the Yu Ling Empire was destroyed, Chi Yu stopped Empress Zi Wan from returning and persuaded her to sever her ties to her fallen nation.
• Nangong Hongyao felt Nangong Qingtian’s death, but Hu Yang comforted her, and she broke through from the peak of the Sect Realm into the Supreme Realm.
• Hu Yang entered the Nether Soul Domain with Nangong Hongyao, overcame its restrictions, and took the Azure Soul Prefecture’s Soul Grievance Origin Essence.
• The Nether Soul Emperor failed to identify Hu Yang and ordered the investigation abandoned, while Hu Yang and Nangong Hongyao reached the Thoroughfare Sea and descended beneath its surface.

Hu Yang and Nangong Hongyao descended through the Thoroughfare Sea, where sea beast pills helped Nangong Hongyao reach the Saint Realm and begin comprehending Water Law. They reached the Dragon Palace, defeated its defenders, and Hu Yang went to the Sea Eye to condense the Origin Essence of Drowned Grievance.

• Hu Yang discovered that sea beast pills granted him levels and talents, while Nangong Hongyao consumed them and advanced to the Saint Realm Early Stage.
• Nangong Hongyao killed a Saint Realm sea beast from inside its mouth, then began comprehending Law Power after Hu Yang explained that pills could no longer advance her cultivation.
• Hu Yang and Nangong Hongyao reached the Dragon Palace, where Hu Yang defeated White Dragon and killed the patrol guards who attacked him.
• Ao Ding, the Dragon King of the Thoroughfare Sea, asked Hu Yang to spare White Dragon, and Hu Yang said he had come for Drowned Grievance.
• Hu Yang arrived at the Sea Eye of the Thoroughfare Sea and began condensing the Origin Essence of Drowned Grievance as Ao Ding followed.

After obtaining the Drowned Grievance Origin Essence and Sea Grievance Source, Hu Yang refused a mission to kill Nangong Hongyao and left her behind. In the White Mist Depths, Feng Wu revealed his identity as an Intent Embryo and explained that the universe was on the verge of collapse.

• Hu Yang condensed the Drowned Grievance Origin Essence, then killed Ao Ding and refined his body into the Sea Grievance Source as the Thoroughfare Sea began to collapse.
• Three days later, Hu Yang received a mission to kill Nangong Hongyao for the Love Grievance Source, but he could not bring himself to do it.
• Hu Yang abandoned Nangong Hongyao and fled to the White Mist Depths, where he decided he would rather remain in the tower than sacrifice her.
• Feng Wu, the Five-Colored Holy Ancestor and creator of the Desert Tower, revealed Hu Yang's restored memories and identified him as the Intent Embryo.
• Feng Wu told Hu Yang that the universe was nearing collapse because a supreme being had seized the Origin Essences of every realm.

Hu Yang learned that Chi Yu had issued the tower tasks and revealed his plan to restore the Cosmic Origin. As Hu Yang was told to continue the stages and seek the World Source, Nangong Hongyao prepared to end her life but was whisked away by a streak of Golden Light.

• Chi Yu and Zi Wan appeared before Hu Yang and Feng Wu, identified himself as the Lord of the Myriad Realms, and said Hu Yang was the universe’s Cosmic Origin incarnation.
• Chi Yu summoned Xing Tu and the Azure Lotus Old Man, and Xing Tu revealed that he had secretly protected and guided Hu Yang for years.
• Chi Yu brought Yuan Feng to Feng Wu, revealed that Feng Wu had originated from Yuan Feng’s shed feather, and then took the women away with Zi Wan.
• Chi Yu ordered Xing Tu to guide Hu Yang through the stages, obtain the World Orb, and help restore the Cosmic Origin, while saying he would handle the hidden supreme being.
• Chi Yu told Hu Yang that the Eighteen Grievances were optional, and the task changed to obtaining the sixth level’s World Source at Gong Xu.
• Nangong Hongyao prepared to undergo Self-Disintegration, but a streak of Golden Light wrapped around her and carried her away.

Nangong Hongyao was abducted by a masked figure, gave birth to a Black-Veined Infant, and later reunited with Hu Yang. She told the child that Hu Yang was his father, while Chi Yu observed the reunion during his battle in the Void.

• A black-robed figure abducted Nangong Hongyao into a Dark Space, where she fainted after he attacked her.
• Nangong Hongyao woke in a place filled with Rule Wheels and gave birth to a Black-Veined Infant.
• The infant drained Nangong Hongyao's cultivation and Origin Essence, then restored her Origin Essence and called her Mother.
• The child touched a Rule Wheel, transporting himself and Nangong Hongyao back to the Dark Space, where a stream of light sent them to her former world.
• Hu Yang found Nangong Hongyao and embraced her, and she told the child that Hu Yang was his father.
• Chi Yu watched from the Void and sneered that Nangong Hongyao's plan amounted to patricide.

Hu Yang obtained the World Sources of the Nine Realms Journeying Pagoda and survived Hu Yuan’s betrayal before reaching the Cosmic Supreme Realm. After Nangong Hongyao confessed how the Future Self had deceived her, Hu Yang killed her for lying to him.

• Hu Yang reunited with Nangong Hongyao and obtained the World Sources of the first eight realms with Xing Tu and the Azure Lotus Old Man.
• Hu Yuan attacked Hu Yang with Annihilation Rule Origin Essence in the pagoda’s core and revealed he was not Hu Yang’s son.
• An entity within Hu Yang’s mind restored him, and Hu Yang killed Hu Yuan before claiming the pagoda’s final World Source.
• Hu Yang reached the Cosmic Supreme Realm, became master of the Nine Realms Journeying Pagoda, and set off toward the Cosmic Origin Space with Xing Tu and the Azure Lotus Old Man.
• Nangong Hongyao explained how the Future Self had deceived her, but Hu Yang killed her for concealing the truth.

Hu Yang revived the fifteen Controllers, then dissipated into the rebuilt Heng Yuan Universe, which vanished from the Future Self’s reach. Chi Yu countered the Future Self’s attempt to devour the Beginning of Myriad Sources and moved to the Vast Universe, where an Azure Palace True Disciple assessment began.

• Hu Yang condensed Origin Essence to revive the fifteen Controllers, but the effort reduced his level to zero and left him unconscious.
• The Controllers reclaimed their Authority and began rebuilding Heng Yuan, while Xing Tu turned Hu Yang into Star Points that merged with the universe.
• The rebuilt Heng Yuan Universe vanished behind an Origin Realm Wall, and the Future Self gave up searching for it.
• Chi Yu reversed the dark vortices at the Beginning of Myriad Sources so they devoured the Future Self’s Origin Essence, then hid the true location and created a false one.
• The Future Self sent his Mandates of Heaven into the Vast Universe’s major worlds to seize their Origin Essence, while Chi Yu entered a Great World.
• An eight-tentacled beast in the Azure Sea transformed into a white-bearded Old Man as palaces appeared overhead and the Azure Palace True Disciple assessment was announced.

Sou Shou failed to reach the summit of Azure Palace’s Illusory Ladder before the assessment ended, then returned to the Catfish Clan and continued training. After a mysterious voice awakened his devouring talent and powerful abilities, he tested his new Water Element Power and suspected it was divine power.

• Sou Shou endured countless falls and climbed to the two-hundredth level, but the Illusory Ladder vanished before he could become a True Disciple.
• Sou Shou turned into a catfish and returned to his home beneath the northern Azure Sea, where the Catfish Clan mocked his ambition to change their fate.
• Sou Shou trained with heavy stones, then ate small fish in his cave as a mysterious voice announced that his devouring talent had awakened.
• The voice credited Sou Shou with increased attributes and awakened his Adamantine Body and Water Element Power, transforming his skin gold.
• Sou Shou tested his improved abilities in the water and discovered that his Water Element Power seemed like divine power.

Sou Shou returned to find the Catfish Clan slaughtered by sea eels, killed the attackers, and rescued the wounded fish-tailed woman hiding in his cave. After the clan leader returned and learned what happened, he prepared the clan to flee, unaware that the Black Eel Clan’s army was already approaching.

• A wounded fish-tailed woman fled into the Catfish Clan’s territory, where pursuing sea eels devoured the old and infirm catfish left behind.
• Sou Shou returned, found the clan grounds soaked in blood, and killed the Long-Whiskered Sea Eel General and his thirty guards, gaining attributes and new skills.
• Sou Shou found the unconscious woman in his cave and cared for her until she woke, then continued Devouring outside.
• The clan leader returned with the young catfish, heard Sou Shou’s account, and ordered the survivors to pack and flee after learning Sou Shou had killed the eels.
• The Black Eel Clan Leader sensed the general’s death and sent an army that was already nearing the Catfish Clan’s territory.

Sou Shou rescued the Catfish Clan from the Black Eel Clan, transformed after defeating its army, and learned that Yu Yao had been captured and tortured over her Inner Pearl. Yu Yao revealed how she had fled to the Catfish Clan’s territory, leaving Sou Shou wondering why the black eels wanted her Inner Pearl.

• The Black Eel Clan Leader led his army against the Catfish Clan, whose members fought back but were quickly overwhelmed.
• Sou Shou appeared, defeated the black eels, transformed after eliminating their soldiers, and devoured the Black Eel Clan Leader.
• Sou Shou changed into his Dao Body Form, and the Catfish Clan recognized him as the powerhouse they had once looked down upon.
• Yu Yao healed the Catfish Clan Leader and introduced herself to Sou Shou as a member of the Five-Colored Feathered Fish Mansion.
• Yu Yao told Sou Shou that the Black Eel Clan Leader had imprisoned and tortured her to obtain her Inner Pearl, and that she had escaped into Catfish Clan territory.

Yu Yao left the Catfish Clan to report her grandfather’s disappearance, and Sou Shou departed for the Great Trench to seek resources. Below ten thousand meters, he devoured a horde of sea beasts and defeated the Black Emperor Sea Whale, awakening new abilities.

• Yu Yao thanked Sou Shou, gave him a Feather Pearl, and left for the Five-Colored Feathered Fish Mansion to report her grandfather’s disappearance.
• The Catfish Clan chief offered Sou Shou the clan chief position, but Sou Shou refused and later decided to leave for the Great Trench.
• Sou Shou reached the Great Trench, rejected Chi Lie’s offer to guide him for forty percent of his resources, and sped away.
• Sou Shou ventured below ten thousand meters, devoured dozens of Deep Sea Giant Toothed Sea Salamanders, and grew more than three times larger.
• The Black Emperor Sea Whale attacked Sou Shou to avenge his subordinates, but Sou Shou defeated and devoured him.
• Sou Shou awakened the Dark Element, Roar, and Stormy Waves after digesting the Black Emperor Sea Whale.

After devouring the Black Emperor Sea Whale, Sou Shou followed a red light into an abandoned palace and passed through a portal into Azure Palace, where its disciples mistook him for a High God. As Qing Chi showed him around, Sou Shou’s aptitude test showed no reaction, and an unseen observer identified him as a Heaven-Abandoned who had been born without roots or aptitude.

• Sou Shou followed the red light into a ruined palace, took the pearl from its throne, and entered the portal it formed.
• Sou Shou appeared in Azure Palace, where two white robe disciples attacked him and then bowed after their swords failed to harm him.
• Qing Chi welcomed Sou Shou as a High God, hosted him in Qing Chi Hall, and accompanied him on a tour of Azure Palace.
• At the Aptitude Testing Hall, Sou Shou insisted on testing himself, but the platforms showed no reaction.
• Qing Chi explained that the result indicated no roots or aptitude, while an unseen figure called Sou Shou a promising Heaven-Abandoned who could Change Fate.

Chu Yunxu revealed himself to Sou Shou, explained how he had escaped his Heaven-Abandoned fate, and offered to guide him. Sou Shou declined to become his disciple but received a token that could open a path to the Upper Realm; days later, Chu Yunxu appeared before Azure Palace’s disciples to appoint a new Palace Master.

• Chu Yunxu visited Sou Shou and revealed that he was the Azure Palace Master who had been secretly observing him since the Illusory Ladder.
• Chu Yunxu explained that he was Heaven-Abandoned too and had changed his fate by cultivating the Reverse Divinity Art.
• Chu Yunxu offered to guide Sou Shou and asked him to lend a hand when he roamed the universe, but Sou Shou declined because their cultivation methods were incompatible.
• Chu Yunxu gave Sou Shou a Jade Token that could open a path to the Upper Realm and told him to find him at Liaoyuan Palace if he reached it.
• Several days later, the Hall Masters and disciples gathered at the plaza, where Chu Yunxu descended and announced that he had come to appoint a new Palace Master.

Chu Yunxu appointed Ling Chenzi as Azure Palace's new Palace Master before returning to the Upper Realm, and Sou Shou went back to the Great Trench to slaughter and grow stronger. After Chi Lie led him into a hidden Treasure Land, Sou Shou killed a tiger and rescued a woman from a giant python, then told her she was safe.

• Chu Yunxu appointed Ling Chenzi to control Azure Palace and departed for the Upper Realm as a Five-Colored Koi Carp.
• Sou Shou returned to the Great Trench to slaughter sea creatures and increase his attributes.
• Chi Lie offered to lead Sou Shou to a hidden Treasure Land that a Five-Colored Feather Fish had entered.
• Sou Shou and Chi Lie entered the land, where Sou Shou killed a Giant-Toothed Mottled Tiger and gained an attribute point.
• Sou Shou followed a woman's cries for help and killed the python that had coiled around her.
• Sou Shou approached the frightened woman and told her the beast had been killed.