Recaps

Zhou Yi refined Subject Zero Elixir and mentored students at Martial Path University while preparing to help Xiao Hong overcome his bloodline backlash. Xiao Hong fused with the Subject Two Elixir, survived a Lightning Tribulation, and became the first Golden Core True Lord of the new era, drawing an envious reaction from Zhou Yi.

• Zhou Yi used a modified laboratory in Kunlun Grotto-Heaven to produce Subject Zero Elixir and began researching Subject One Elixir.
• Zhou Yi treated Shen Cheng to aged Scarlet Rainbow and advised him to befriend Gu Chen and Han Chao at Martial Path University.
• Xiao Hong transformed into a winged tiger and swallowed the Subject Two Elixir as the school evacuated and fighter jets prepared to attack.
• Zhou Yi secretly gave Xiao Hong a thread of the Tiger Emperor’s Nascent Soul origin, helping his Spirit Soul regain control and complete the bloodline fusion.
• Xiao Hong passed a Lesser Heavenly Tribulation and received heaven’s blessing as the first Golden Core True Lord of the new era.
• Xiao Hong’s wings vanished as his bloodline evolved, and Zhou Yi regretted not forming his core sooner.

After Xiao Hong became humanity’s first Martial Saint, his breakthrough lifted human morale and drove the beast tide at Qing City to retreat. Meanwhile, the awakened Ao Qin planned to dominate the Nine Provinces, while Zhou Yi prepared to stage a tribulation and uncover an ancient underground palace.

• Ao Qin emerged from the palace after eighteen hundred years, learned from the Black Bear Demon that the Demon Race ruled the Nine Provinces, and planned to subdue the demons and exterminate humanity.
• Xiao Hong dismissed his doubts about Zhou Yi, announced that humanity would learn of his breakthrough, and chose the title Martial Saint for the new path’s second elixir realm.
• Zhou Yi helped spread the news of Xiao Hong’s achievement, and people across the country celebrated as Ancient Cultivation practitioners reconsidered their path.
• Zhou Yi planned to arrange a convincing Lightning Tribulation at White Cloud Peak and use it to open an underground palace.
• A beast tide attacked Qing City, but the soldiers learned that Xiao Hong had become a Martial Saint, and the Ferocious Beasts began retreating.
• Golden Old Nine thanked the Golden God for protecting Xiao Hong, while Li Hai argued that the Martial Saint had no connection to the destroyed Divine Kingdom.

After Xiao Hong became a Martial Saint, the Demon Race recalled its beast tide and deferred war until it could produce a Golden Core. Zhou Yi prepared for his own tribulation, and after a year in seclusion, staged a lightning tribulation and emerged as a Golden Core True Lord.

• The Nine-Tailed Fox King ordered the demons to avoid conflict with humanity for now, but secretly doubled Ferocious Beast production and monitored its rivals.
• Xiao Hong welcomed Zhou Yi’s request to undergo tribulation and warned him to seek help from the immortals if his Golden Core formation went wrong.
• Zhou Yi returned to Earthfire Palace, mourned the sect’s dead, and spent a year cultivating while humanity and the Demon Race maintained a fragile peace.
• Zhou Yi left a Mana incarnation on White Cloud Peak and used formations and his hidden true body to imitate a heavenly tribulation.
• Xiao Hong arrived as the lightning dispersed and found Zhou Yi displaying the aura of a Golden Core, having successfully attained it.

After attaining the Golden Core, Zhou Yi explored an ancient ruin, accepted the Human Alliance’s appointment as an Attendant, and took Jin Jiuxiao as his registered disciple. Meanwhile, Ao Qin seized control of the Six Ears Demon Race and resolved to create a dragon clan from his own bloodline.

• Zhou Yi announced that he had attained the Golden Core and would expound the Dao at Martial Path University, then explored Earthfire Palace with Xiao Hong and recovered ancient methods and dozens of thousand-year spirit ginseng roots.
• Zhou Yi proposed exchanging Foundation Establishment Pills for ten years of frontline service, and he and Xiao Hong returned to Immortal Capital as the city celebrated humanity’s new True Lord.
• Zhou Yi accepted the Human Alliance’s appointment as an Attendant and agreed to guide six cultivators with Heavenly Spirit Roots, choosing Jin Jiuxiao as his registered disciple.
• At Demon Emperor Mountain, Ao Qin defeated two fleshly Ferocious Beasts and learned from Six Ears how the Demon Race passed down bloodlines through drugs and inherited memories.
• Ao Qin searched Six Ears’s soul, confirmed the Six Ears clan’s bloodline inheritance, and declared that he would become the source of the dragon clan.

Ao Qin’s mass production of dragon-blooded descendants sparked a Demon Race civil war, while Zhou Yi lectured at Immortal Capital University and offered pills and discipleship in exchange for service against beasts and demons. As Xiao Hong prepared to lead humanity’s expansion toward the front lines, Zhou Yi lent him a protective treasure and promised to safeguard the Xiao family.

• Ao Qin fused his bloodline into beasts, devoured the resulting dragon descendants to repair his own bloodline, and declared the dragon race superior to other demons.
• Zhou Yi lectured Ancient Cultivation practitioners for ten days, offered Foundation Establishment Pills in exchange for ten years of frontline service, and set beast- and demon-slaying requirements for his remaining disciple places.
• Xiao Hong told Zhou Yi that the three Demon Emperors had joined forces against Ao Qin and were gathering Ferocious Beasts to besiege Dragon Emperor Mountain.
• Zhou Yi and Xiao Hong agreed that humanity should expand outward while the Demon Race fought, and Xiao Hong volunteered to lead the army’s advance.
• Zhou Yi gave Xiao Hong the Bodhi Treasure Wheel for protection and promised to help future members of the Xiao family cultivate if Xiao Hong did not return.

As humanity expanded eastward against the Ferocious Beasts, Zhou Yi investigated Han Chao’s mysterious cultivation and accepted him as his second disciple after Han Chao broke through to Foundation Establishment. The Alliance army captured Blackwind Mountain, bringing its campaign closer to the East Sea.

• The Alliance publicized the Demon Race’s infighting and appointed Martial Saint Xiao Hong to command its outward expansion, while Zhou Yi approved students’ departures and gave Foundation Establishment Pills to eligible Ancient Cultivation practitioners.
• After Shen Cheng reported that Han Chao traded pills for Ferocious Beast corpses that later vanished, Zhou Yi approved Han Chao’s Foundation Establishment Pill application.
• Han Chao used the pill to reach Foundation Establishment, and Zhou Yi accepted him as his second disciple and gave him the Demon Suppression Pagoda.
• The Alliance army bombarded Blackwind Mountain and captured it before sunrise, with Golden Old Nine’s company planting the military flag first.
• Golden Old Nine marked Blackwind Mountain on his map and reflected that fewer than three thousand li remained before the Alliance reached the East Sea.

Han Chao escaped the Violet Lion’s laboratory after Jin Jiuxiao destroyed it with a nuclear bomb, and the Alliance later reclaimed eastern Yun Province. In Qiong Province, the awakened Golden Corpse Daoist took over a Pig Demon’s corpse and began refining the dead at Dragon Emperor Mountain, planning to conquer the Nine Provinces with corpse puppets.

• The Violet Lion, White Elephant, and Black Hawk discussed delaying the human advance at Cloud Mountain while the Dragon Emperor’s war in Qiong Province remained unresolved.
• Han Chao infiltrated the Lion King Laboratory, killed a Rabbit Demon, and was trapped by the Violet Lion’s formation as Ferocious Beasts swarmed him.
• Jin Jiuxiao and other Foundation Establishment cultivators broke the formation, and Jin Jiuxiao destroyed the laboratory with a nuclear bomb, allowing Han Chao to escape.
• After a month of fierce fighting in the Coastal Campaign, the Alliance planted its flag in the Coastal Ruins in 203 and reclaimed eastern Yun Province.
• The Golden Corpse Daoist awoke from a transparent stone coffin, learned about the modern world through a Pig Demon’s memories and the internet, and used a Heavenly Corpse secret art to animate its corpse.
• At Dragon Emperor Mountain, the Golden Corpse Daoist began refining a fallen Dragon Ox and vowed to turn the Nine Provinces’ people into corpse puppets.

After omens pointed to a calamity rising in the west, Zhou Yi asked Han Chao to investigate its source and lent him the Bodhi Golden Wheel for protection. Zhou Yi also began preparing to evacuate people from the Nine Provinces, while Han Chao set out westward.

• Zhou Yi read the repeated celestial anomalies as signs of a calamity in the west and summoned Han Chao to Martial Path University.
• Han Chao returned to Immortal Capital, used his jade disc to enter enlightenment, and resolved to trust Zhou Yi and seek his guidance.
• Zhou Yi told Han Chao that the calamity threatened the Nine Provinces, proposed moving part of humanity out to sea, and asked him to investigate the west.
• Han Chao agreed to investigate in exchange for spiritual medicines and requested the Bodhi Treasure Wheel; Zhou Yi lent it to him, saying it could attack or protect him three times.
• Zhou Yi explained that he had divined the calamity because he could not watch ordinary people die, then went to the Inner Cabinet to begin preparing for the worst.

Zhou Yi warned the Alliance that a calamity would engulf the Nine Provinces and led the construction of the Fire Seed Ark to preserve humanity. Three years later, Han Chao reached the battlefield near Dragon Emperor Mountain to gather Ferocious Beast corpses, where a rotting dragon-headed creature confronted him.

• Zhou Yi told the Alliance's leaders that a great calamity was coming and promised to build an ark within three years, with technical personnel and a lottery for selecting other passengers.
• The Alliance launched the Fire Seed Plan, and Zhou Yi led Ancient Cultivators in building the Fire Seed Ark, which was outfitted to carry one million people and withstand beast tides.
• After people over forty protested the boarding rules, the Alliance arrested the organizers and sent them to the front lines, while Zhou Yi told Jin Jiuxiao to suppress similar unrest without hesitation.
• Han Chao traveled through Demon Race territory, learned that many demons were preoccupied with their own affairs, and perfected his Shape-Shifting Art while heading toward Dragon Emperor Mountain.
• Han Chao began collecting Ferocious Beast corpses from the vast battlefield, but a rotting dragon-headed creature with violet ghostfire eyes spotted him.

Han Chao fled as Golden Corpse unleashed an army of corpse demons that overwhelmed the dragon race and spread across Qiong Province. Meanwhile, Zhou Yi accompanied the newly completed Fireseed as it departed with its first passengers to establish a human refuge in the East Sea.

• Han Chao escaped the battlefield as Golden Corpse commanded corpse dragons and corpse demons to attack Dragon Emperor Mountain.
• Ao Qin transferred its Azure Dragon essence blood to a descendant and fled toward Cloud Province as a dragon soul, while Golden Corpse captured the dragonfish left behind.
• Golden Corpse used the laboratory to produce more corpse demons, and within a year Qiong Province's living creatures had been transformed as the horde began invading other provinces.
• Zhou Yi prepared to sail aboard the Fireseed with a million passengers, entrusted his seven disciples to Xiao Hong, and urged him to protect himself.
• The Fireseed departed the harbor, carrying its passengers and soil from the Nine Provinces into the East Sea.

Zhou Yi destroyed a Sea Demon-orchestrated beast tide with his treasures, allowing the Fireseed to reach the deep East Sea unmolested. As the ship neared its destination, Zhang Yu rejected factional ambitions and continued pursuing a life as an electrician and student.

• Zhou Yi detected a massive beast tide ahead of the Fireseed, warned the passengers to return to their cabins, and prepared to fight.
• Zhou Yi used his treasures to slaughter wave after wave of sea beasts, while the Sea Demons called for reinforcements and then watched the survivors flee.
• Zhou Yi sent out the Myriad Souls Banner to consume the beasts' souls and corpses, and the Fireseed continued its voyage without further attacks.
• Six months later, Jiang Yong told Zhang Yu that President Niu had invited him to join the Cloud Province Society, and Zhang Yu advised him to be cautious as violence aboard the Fireseed increased.
• Jiang Yong urged Zhang Yu to establish his own faction, but Zhang Yu declined and left to study genetics with Professor Lu after pursuing electrical science.

Zhou Yi imposed brutal order aboard the Tinder, then settled its million passengers on a new island and departed. Han Chao returned to the Immortal Capital with evidence of the Bone Dragon Corpse Demon calamity, and Martial Saint Xiao recognized that its leader surpassed him.

• Zhou Yi ordered Luo Qiu to execute killers and expel bullies and other offenders from the Tinder, warning him not to use the purge to target rivals.
• After months of investigations and punishments, the Tinder reached a large island, where Zhou Yi disembarked its million passengers and had machines distributed to them.
• Zhou Yi confirmed that people had begun settling the island, then sailed west aboard the Tinder as the settlers watched it leave.
• Han Chao returned to the Immortal Capital and showed Martial Saint Xiao and the alliance's upper echelon recordings of the Bone Dragon Corpse Demon and its horde.
• Xiao Hong judged the ordinary corpse demons to be as strong as Foundation Establishment cultivators and said the Bone Mountain was stronger than him.

The Human Alliance learned that the Golden Corpse Demon Lord’s corpse demons threatened the Nine Provinces and ordered a retreat and preparations for invasion. Zhou Yi identified the Golden Corpse’s Immortal Corpse Pearl as the key to commanding the horde, while the Golden Corpse prepared to expand the Heavenly Corpse Sect across the provinces.

• Xiao Hong and the Alliance leaders reviewed Han Chao’s recording, identified the threat of the corpse demons, and activated their final plan.
• Golden Old Nine received orders to withdraw from Sky Fox Abyss, burn corpses, and defend Binhai, then obeyed after Marshal Yan warned that the dead must not be left for desecration.
• In Alliance Year 207, the Human Alliance fortified the Immortal Capital-Binhai line, while the Three Emperors died in Qiong Province and the Dragon Emperor fled.
• Ao Qin found the Dragon Race’s vaults empty, possessed a black fish with a natural Dao body, and began rebuilding his strength while vowing revenge on the Golden Corpse.
• Qingfeng and Mingyue brought Zhou Yi their recording, and he identified the Heavenly Corpse Sect’s Immortal Corpse Pearl as the source of the Golden Corpse’s power over the corpse demons.
• The Golden Corpse renamed Dragon Emperor Mountain the Heavenly Corpse Sect and ordered his Spirit Corpses to lead armies that would kill or recruit the living across the Nine Provinces.

A horde of corpse fiends overwhelmed Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple and spread across the Nine Provinces, forcing the Sky Wolf King and its Ferocious Beasts to seek refuge from the human army. At Dragon Coil Mountain, General Xu’s forces joined the demons to resist the advancing dead, then learned that millions more corpse fiends threatened the western front as the defenders vowed to hold the line.

• Bone Fiends and risen Ferocious Beasts overwhelmed Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple, and the Lion Demon burned itself to death rather than become a corpse fiend.
• A Spirit Corpse arrived on a bone dragon, commanded the corpse fiends west, and unleashed a spreading war between the dead and the living.
• General Xu and Gu Chen learned that the Sky Wolf King and twenty-three demons were fleeing a corpse fiend army, and the Cabinet permitted them to take refuge outside the Northern Frontier Great Wall.
• The Sky Wolf King showed footage of corpse fiends consuming Ferocious Beasts and offered command of one hundred thousand beasts in exchange for shelter; General Xu agreed to let it enter human territory after the beasts died.
• The Northern Frontier Army joined the Ferocious Beasts in battle against the corpse fiends, then learned that more than ten million corpse fiends had appeared in the western section of Dragon Coil Mountain.
• General Xu and the officers pledged to hold the line to the death as reinforcements could not reach the western front soon.

The Alliance prepared to confront the spreading corpse fiends, and Zhou Yi returned from the East Sea to find the calamity already approaching Yun Province. After destroying a million corpse fiends, he tracked their mark to Zhengyang Abyss and confronted the Spirit Corpse Heavenly Baleful Intent.

• The Alliance’s leaders decided to contact the Dragon Emperor and prepare to strike at the Golden Corpse Demon Lord after corpse fiends attacked the Northern Frontier.
• Zhou Yi returned to Binhai aboard the Tinder vessel and learned that corpse fiends had appeared near the East Sea defense line.
• The Chief Minister asked Zhou Yi to hold the line against corpse fiends south of Binhai, and Zhou Yi flew there to investigate.
• Zhou Yi destroyed a million corpse fiends, discovered an ancient inscription marking Heavenly Baleful Intent, and divined its direction.
• Zhou Yi followed the trail to Zhengyang Abyss, entered the bone palace, and faced Heavenly Baleful Intent, who sensed his presence.

Zhou Yi confronted the Golden Corpse, who had lured him out to investigate his identity, and defeated the spirit corpse carrying the Devil Lord’s thought. After Zhou Yi tried to curse him, the Golden Corpse remained uncertain whether Zhou Yi was an ancient cultivator reincarnated or a genuine prodigy.

• Zhou Yi recognized the spirit corpse as the Golden Corpse and traded insults with him while the Devil Lord explained that he had arranged their meeting to investigate Zhou Yi’s origins.
• The Golden Corpse questioned how Zhou Yi had formed a Golden Core under the current world’s limits and suspected he had secretly aided Xiao Hong’s tribulation.
• Zhou Yi attacked with the Dividing Light Sword and sword formations, then used a tortoise-shell treasure and soul-binding divine light to destroy the spirit corpse and disperse the Golden Corpse’s thought.
• Zhou Yi gathered the thought’s remaining aura and cast the Black Witchcraft Curse, hoping to shorten the Golden Corpse’s life despite the slim odds.
• The Golden Corpse received the spirit corpse’s memories, rejected the idea that Zhou Yi was Jian Xuan, and analyzed his techniques and conduct for clues to his past identity.
• The Golden Corpse cleansed Zhou Yi’s curse and wondered whether Zhou Yi was truly a reincarnated cultivator or whether reincarnation existed.

Zhou Yi briefed his seven disciples on the difficulty of forming Golden Cores and pointed them toward Kunlun Grotto-Heaven, then helped Han Chao prepare to attempt tribulation. He joined Ao Qin and the Alliance leadership to discuss creating Azure Dragon Warriors, with Zhou Yi asked to assess the effects of dragon-blood serums.

• Zhou Yi told his disciples that thin spiritual energy made Golden Core formation difficult and identified Kunlun Grotto-Heaven and its Golden Scroll as a possible path to great opportunities.
• Zhou Yi instructed his disciples in cultivation and the Pseudo-Core realm, then gave Han Chao five core-forming spiritual objects and divined that he could attempt tribulation during the Double Ninth Festival.
• Han Chao revealed that his jade disc enabled enlightenment through sacrifices of demon beast and Ferocious Beast corpses, and Zhou Yi urged him to prepare carefully for tribulation.
• Zhou Yi met Ao Qin and the Chief Minister in the Inner Cabinet to discuss cooperation against corpse demons and the creation of Azure Dragon Warriors.
• Ao Qin proposed supplying dragon blood in exchange for monthly offerings of bloodline essence, and the Chief Minister asked Zhou Yi to evaluate the serums' effects on warriors' bodies and Spirit Souls.

Zhou Yi oversaw the dragon blood potion’s successful trial, while Han Chao passed his tribulation and became a Golden Core cultivator. As Dragon Blood Warriors multiplied, the Northern Frontier faced escalating corpse demon attacks amid growing signs that the alliance would need to unite with the demons.

• Zhou Yi agreed to inspect Ao Qin’s dragon blood potion and accepted a thousand jin of Azure Dragon Blood to begin cooperation.
• Han Chao used the jade disc and Ferocious Beast corpses to complete his tribulation, became a Golden Core cultivator, and received the Thunderfire Sword from Zhou Yi.
• Zhou Yi supervised the first dragon blood potion trial, in which thirty-nine of fifty soldiers succeeded, and the powerful subject Lin Lei impressed him in combat tests.
• The alliance developed the dragon blood potion, agreed that Dragon Blood Warriors would provide Azure Dragon blood essence, and recorded more than one hundred thousand warriors by the twelfth month of Alliance Year 209.
• At the Northern Frontier, General Xu and Gu Chen discussed the corpse demons’ advance and the need for cooperation as a horde attacked the Great Wall and was met with rockets and spiritual fire.

The human Alliance and Demon Race struggled to hold their defensive lines against the corpse demon onslaught while preparing for a longer war. Zhou Yi gave his students a final lesson before leaving with Xiao Hong, Han Chao, and Dragon Emperor Ao Qin to ambush the Golden Corpse Demon Lord in Qiong Province.

• General Xu and the Wolf King defended the Northern Frontier Great Wall against Blood Nether and his corpse demon army with annihilation weapons and mechanically modified Ferocious Beasts; Han Chao defeated Blood Nether, who fled after the Devil Lord took control.
• Corpse General attacks spread to the other defensive lines, and the human Alliance and Demon Race formally united as their resources dwindled.
• The Chief Minister announced that frontline supplies and laboratory resources would be cut by thirty percent to buy two years for a classified plan.
• Zhou Yi warned his students that they would soon face the battlefield, then gave them a final lesson on confronting what came and bade them farewell.
• Zhou Yi, Xiao Hong, Han Chao, and Dragon Emperor Ao Qin left for Qiong Province to ambush the Golden Corpse Demon Lord when a celestial anomaly weakened demons and monsters.

Zhou Yi and his allies trapped the Golden Corpse in a formation and fought him during a heavenly solar phenomenon, but the Devil Lord escaped after revealing his Bone Mountain form. Zhou Yi pursued him to the edge of Qiong Province, where the Golden Corpse brought out the Immortal Corpse Pearl.

• Zhou Yi distributed formation disks so Ao Qin, Han Chao, and Xiao Hong could seal off the area around Heavenly Corpse Mountain while he completed the formation.
• During the summer solstice, the enlarged sun burned away the demonic clouds as Zhou Yi activated the formation and his allies attacked the Golden Corpse.
• The Golden Corpse replaced himself with a Spirit Corpse, transformed into a massive Bone Mountain, and broke through the formation by detonating it.
• Zhou Yi pursued the fleeing Golden Corpse with the Blood Ignition Escape Technique, spending his lifespan as the devil deliberately slowed his escape.
• At the edge of Qiong Province, the Golden Corpse confronted the nearly spent Zhou Yi and produced the Immortal Corpse Pearl.

Zhou Yi defeated the Golden Corpse in battle by burning his lifespan, but learned that the Devil Lord had split his soul and possessed Han Chao through a companion treasure. With his life fading and the corpse demon calamity unresolved, Zhou Yi warned Xiao Hong and Ao Qin to prepare for the human race’s survival and explained the ancient events that had caused the disaster.

• Zhou Yi and the Golden Corpse fought for weeks, trading demonic arts, thunder, Buddhist power, and treasures until both unleashed secret arts to raise their strength.
• Zhou Yi broke the Immortal Corpse Core, but the Golden Corpse revealed that he had split his soul and that half had found a possession target before Zhou Yi killed him.
• Zhou Yi returned to Heavenly Corpse Mountain near death and learned that Han Chao had left to pursue him after handing the formation disk to the Dragon Emperor.
• Zhou Yi suspected the Golden Corpse had possessed Han Chao through his companion supreme treasure and warned Xiao Hong that the corpse demon calamity might grow worse.
• Zhou Yi explained that heaven and earth’s past interference in the Righteous-Demonic Sword Duel had helped cause the current calamity, then told Xiao Hong, "I am your ancestor!"

Zhou Yi left after revealing his connection to Dao Lord Xuanxiao, while Han Chao’s body remained possessed by the golden corpse, who sought the Corpse Immortal’s legacy. As the corpse demon army broke through the northern defenses and people fled the Nine Provinces, Zhou Yi secretly began destroying the region’s spirit veins.

• Zhou Yi told Xiao Hong that the Divine Fire Fan came from his tomb and entrusted him with Golden Core spiritual treasures, then asked Ao Qin to keep the Sea Demons from obstructing the human migration east.
• The golden corpse revealed that Han Chao’s jade disc had been formed from a Corpse Immortal’s skull and planned to conquer the Nine Provinces and reach the Void Return Realm.
• The corpse demon war exhausted the Alliance’s supplies, forced General Xu to order successive retreats, and ended with the Dragon Coil Mountain defenses collapsing.
• After news of the northern frontier’s fall spread, crowds packed ships at the harbor, including the Tinder, to flee the Nine Provinces.
• Zhou Yi emerged at the former Ghost King Sect site in Qiong Province and destroyed its newly formed spirit vein, marking it as the seventy-second vein he had severed.

Zhou Yi continued destroying spirit veins across the Nine Provinces, prompting the Golden Corpse to seek a way to stop him. After Zhou Yi divined a looming blood calamity and hid overseas, he returned to the Nine Provinces when no attack appeared.

• Zhou Yi destroyed spirit veins across Qiong Province, while the Golden Corpse learned that spiritual qi was dwindling and ordered an investigation.
• Zhou Yi escaped a massive corpse-demon formation and continued severing spirit veins across the Nine Provinces, evading the Golden Corpse's attempts to trap him.
• The Golden Corpse and Han Chao discussed releasing the seal on the Immortal Corpse Pearl to blanket the Nine Provinces in corpse qi and overcome Zhou Yi's defenses.
• After destroying a spirit vein in Yun Province, Zhou Yi divined a blood calamity within sixty-three days and fled across the East Sea.
• Zhou Yi hid inside Kunlun Grotto-Heaven behind layers of defenses, waited for several months without incident, and returned toward the Nine Provinces.

Zhou Yi surveyed the Nine Provinces’ corpse-qi barrier, learned from Ao Qin that the Ancient Demon Saint had reached another continent by flying west from Hong Mountain, and accepted Xiao Hong’s Divine Fire Fan in exchange for protecting humanity. After Xiao Hong and Ao Qin died, Zhou Yi left the East Sea and reached Hong Mountain, preparing to cross the Western Sea.

• Zhou Yi found that corpse qi engulfed the Nine Provinces and concluded that the Immortal Corpse Pearl had been unsealed.
• Ao Qin told Zhou Yi that the Ancient Demon Saint had traveled west from Hong Mountain in Buddha Province to find another continent.
• Xiao Hong gave Zhou Yi the Divine Fire Fan and asked him to protect humanity after his death.
• A hundred years later, Xiao Hong died, and Zhou Yi took the Divine Fire Fan; a month later, Ao Qin also died.
• Zhou Yi saw that Kindling Island’s people had fallen into war, then traveled west to Hong Mountain and set out toward the other continent.

After more than three thousand years crossing the sea, Zhou Yi found Divine Continent, investigated its ancient divine settlers, and continued northwest toward the overseas continent. He finally reached the Eastern Divine Continent, where he sensed abundant spiritual qi and met a late-stage Qi Refinement cultivator.

• Zhou Yi spent centuries sailing, recording the endless sea, and reflecting on the distant journey while Qingfeng, Mingyue, and the Spirit Ginseng Child accompanied him.
• After a thousand years, Zhou Yi found Divine Continent, studied its histories, and traced its people’s origins to seventy-two divine beings who had descended from beyond the heavens.
• Zhou Yi searched the descendants’ tombs for ancient records, became a legendary tomb-raiding commander, and left Divine Continent sailing northwest toward the overseas continent.
• More than four hundred years after leaving Divine Continent, Zhou Yi mourned Qingfeng and Mingyue, whose trees had withered, and promised the Spirit Ginseng Child that he would remember its wish not to be revived through Nirvana Art.
• Zhou Yi reached mountains beyond the sea, sensed spiritual qi and a late-stage Qi Refinement cultivator, and learned that the land was Mount Qiwu of the Eastern Divine Continent.