Recaps

Chen Shi discovered that Ganyang Mountain was a holy land rich in ancestral qi and used its power to grow and refine the Purple Sky Vine into a magical treasure. After returning to the New Xiang Imperial Capital, he found another Witch Covenant growing from the other Purple Sky Vine and went to speak with Godmother.

• Empress Houtu recognized Ganyang Mountain as a large holy land whose ancestral qi could nurture a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal and produce Grand Pure Purple Qi.
• Chen Shi planted a Purple Sky Vine in the soil before his small temple, where it grew rapidly and attracted the Ginseng Grass Dolls and other spiritual herbs.
• Chen Shi traced Ganyang Mountain's strongest spiritual qi to a cliff, branded Dao scripts onto the Purple Sky Vine, and drew vital qi and blood from Skeleton Chen Shi to complete the refining.
• The Purple Sky Vine grew to a hundred zhang and produced a strand of Grand Pure Purple Qi, which Chen Shi left untouched because he had promised strands to the Empress and Daoist Liu.
• Chen Shi returned to the New Xiang Imperial Capital, where Can'er showed him another Witch Covenant growing from the other Purple Sky Vine, and he left to talk to Godmother.

Chen Shi learned that a Purple Sky Vine could grow many copies of the Witch Covenant, then accompanied the first awakened Witch Covenant to retrieve the Fusang Tree. Immortal Lord Qin killed the Witch Covenant, but Chen Shi returned to find another copy had awakened.

• Empress Houtu planted a Purple Sky Vine and used it to begin merging the Underworld’s realms under the Dao of Samsara.
• The Witch Covenant awakened, learned Great Shang had fallen, and argued with Chen Shi over his claim to rule before agreeing to help retrieve the Fusang Tree.
• Empress Houtu sent Chen Shi and the Witch Covenant across the Sea of Darkness with Daoist Liu to reach the Fusang Tree.
• The Witch Covenant tried to uproot the Fusang Tree, but Immortal Lord Qin killed him and destroyed his body.
• Chen Shi returned to the Imperial Garden and found another Witch Covenant growing on the Purple Sky Vine had awakened.

Chen Shi recruited the revived Witch Covenant to steal the Fusang Tree, and Witch Covenant used a decoy incense signal to delay Immortal Lord Qin while uprooting it. They returned to Houde Palace with the blazing tree, leaving Empress Houtu shocked that they had stolen the whole tree instead of mulberry leaves.

• Chen Shi told Witch Covenant about the fall of Great Shang and asked him to steal a precious tree in exchange for repaying his debt.
• Chen Shi introduced Witch Covenant to Empress Houtu, then took him with Daoist Liu toward the Fusang Tree.
• Witch Covenant used a willow branch and the Monstrosity Avatar Method to mislead the two female immortals and delay their call to Immortal Lord Qin.
• Witch Covenant uprooted the Fusang Tree and escaped with Chen Shi and Daoist Liu into the Dark Sea.
• Immortal Lord Qin stopped pursuing the thieves, and Ling Shu Zi placed his master's horsetail whisk into the sea to suppress the Golden Crow's corpse.
• Chen Shi and Witch Covenant brought the blazing Fusang Tree into Houde Palace, startling Empress Houtu.

Chen Shi planted the Fusang Tree at Ganyang Mountain, while Witch Covenant sought out his Great Shang clansmen and awakened the Grand Libationer's witch-sacrifice powers. The Heavenly Sovereign confronted Witch Covenant and shattered his body, but Witch Covenant later appeared beneath the Purple Sky Vine in the New Xiang Imperial Capital, where Chen Shi did not recognize him.

• Chen Shi and Witch Covenant brought the Fusang Tree to Ganyang Mountain, where Witch Covenant planted it and its Nine Yang Qi began benefiting the mountain's creatures and cultivators.
• Silkworm arrived and fed on the Fusang leaves, then Witch Covenant left to search for his clansmen after telling Chen Shi he would join him against the Heavenly Sovereign.
• In the Underworld, Witch Covenant found Yun Chang sealed inside a shattered small world and met Yin Wushuang and Chu Feng; he awakened Yin Wushuang's witch-sacrifice Dao patterns and bestowed them on Chu Feng.
• The Heavenly Sovereign appeared and attacked Witch Covenant, who sent Yin Wushuang and Chu Feng away; their battle destroyed Yun Chang's seal and ended with the Heavenly Sovereign shattering Witch Covenant's body.
• After returning to the New Xiang Imperial Capital, Chen Shi saw Witch Covenant beneath the Purple Sky Vine, but Witch Covenant asked who he was.

Chen Shi celebrated the fall of the noble families and rewarded those who helped establish his new order, while Yang Bi stayed away from court and Fairy Xiaoduan secretly discussed restoring Great Shang with the witch covenant. The chapter ended with Feng Ruotong and the Heavenly Dao Immortals leaving Despair Slope, only for the Heavenly Venerate to confront them.

• Chen Shi learned that the witch covenant had died, then explained the fall of Great Shang and asked the resurrected witch covenant to help him.
• Chen Shi celebrated the destruction of the noble families before his assembled army, while Li Tianqing reported their victory and Chen Shi declared a new era without noble families.
• Yang Bi returned home instead of attending court, explaining to Fang'er that he felt ashamed to accept rewards after betraying the Yang family.
• Chen Shi rewarded his officials and soldiers, appointed Chen Tang Minister of Rites, and named Fairy Xiaoduan the True King's Consort, but could not find her afterward.
• The witch covenant urged Fairy Xiaoduan to help restore Great Shang, but she proposed that her future son could inherit the realm and revive its prosperity under a new name.
• Feng Ruotong and the Heavenly Dao Immortals examined the buried remains of Shang ministers at Despair Slope, then hurried away before the Heavenly Venerate noticed them; he called out to them in Heavenly Dao City.

The Heavenly Lord revealed that he had killed the Demon Emperor, then confronted Daoist Qingyuan and the immortals over his role in the world’s calamities. Feng Ruotong appeared to side with the Heavenly Lord but attacked him with the Yin Yang Qi Bottle; after the Heavenly Lord killed the other immortals and crushed Feng Ruotong, the bottle flew away, leaving the Heavenly Lord badly injured.

• The Heavenly Lord told Feng Ruotong and the other immortals that he had killed the Demon Emperor, then agreed that Chen Shi and Houtu should be dealt with.
• The Heavenly Lord recognized Daoist Qingyuan, who explained that he had brought the immortals to uncover the bones of the King of Shang’s ministers and expose the Heavenly Lord’s crimes.
• The Heavenly Lord admitted the accusations and offered Feng Ruotong a chance to preserve his position by killing the other immortals; Feng Ruotong attacked them with Peach and Plum Blossoms in Full Bloom instead.
• Feng Ruotong trapped the Heavenly Lord in the Yin Yang Qi Bottle’s water-and-fire refining power, but the Heavenly Lord fought his way out while killing Immortal Ping, Immortal Xi, Daoist Wen, and the others.
• The Heavenly Lord shattered Feng Ruotong’s Heavenly Dao Primordial Spirit and broke his neck, but Feng Ruotong’s Primordial Spirit sent the Yin Yang Qi Bottle flying away.
• The badly burned Heavenly Lord tried to pursue the bottle, collapsed as his legs gave way, and called out Feng Ruotong’s name.

The Celestial Venerable survived Feng Ruotong’s attack and headed for Tianyuan Palace, planning to use the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace against his remaining enemies. In New Xiang Imperial Capital, Chen Shi received cultivation manuals from Chen Yindu and devised a way to locate the Celestial Venerable’s Dao integration realm by having an indebted expert force him to fight at full strength.

• The Celestial Venerable escaped the Yin Yang Qi Bottle, found Daoist Qingyuan gone, and continued toward Tianyuan Palace while planning to replace the Heavenly Dao Immortals after his heavenly soldiers matured.
• Chen Shi assigned officials and Witch Covenant to decipher Tianchi Kingdom cultivation classics before visiting Chen Yindu on Ganyang Mountain.
• Chen Yindu gave Chen Shi the completed Heavenly Heart Righteous Qi Art, explaining that its name referred to the people’s righteous will.
• The bloodstained Yin Yang Qi Bottle arrived, and Chen Shi offered incense to it and Feng Ruotong, mourning the fallen immortals.
• Chen Shi and Chen Yindu discussed how to kill the Celestial Venerable and concluded that an expert would need to make him use his full strength to reveal his hidden Dao integration realm.
• Chen Shi said he knew an expert who owed him an unrepayable favor and would prepare magical treasures for him to challenge the Celestial Venerable.

Chen Shi refined the Yin Yang Qi Bottle by adding the principles of his Void Realm, while Xiaoduan accidentally entered the bottle’s newly expanded world and found him at Liangtian Cliff. The bottle’s distant master, a demon king beneath Lingshan Mountain, then declared that his Dao was accomplished.

• Chen Yindu remembered how raising Chen Shi had given him a sense of home, then watched Chen Shi leave to seek a master strong enough to challenge the Heavenly Lord.
• Chen Shi cultivated at Liangtian Cliff and added Dao imprints from his Void Realm to the Yin Yang Qi Bottle, expanding its internal world.
• Xiaoduan searched for Chen Shi, followed a tree spirit’s directions to Liangtian Cliff, and became trapped inside the bottle’s vast world.
• Chen Shi drew the bottle’s world back inside, met Xiaoduan, and explained that he had completed the treasure’s missing principle through his own comprehension.
• Beneath Lingshan Mountain, a demon king revealed that the Yin Yang Qi Bottle’s trials had helped him complete his Dao and declared that the unfolding tribulation no longer worried him.

Chen Shi perfected the Yin Yang Qi Bottle’s ability to trap enemies, then hid with Fairy Xiaoduan after nearly lifting Ganyang Mountain and being searched for by their subjects. The chapter ended with the couple relaxing together on the Purple Sky Vine and talking about visiting the Huaxia Divine Continent after defeating the Heavenly Honored One.

• Chen Shi showed Fairy Xiaoduan how he had used the Yin Yang Qi Bottle to evolve a world and explained that he still needed to focus on defeating the Heavenly Honored One.
• Fairy Xiaoduan suspected the bottle’s owner had deliberately left flaws to benefit from others’ insights, but Chen Shi chose to improve it anyway so they could use it against the Heavenly Honored One.
• Chen Shi repaired the bottle’s ability to capture enemies, then nearly lifted Ganyang Mountain while testing it, alarming Ganyang Mountain Lord, Great Serpent Xuan Shan, Chen Yindu, Granny Zhuang, Wuwang City Lord, and Empress Shi Ji.
• Chen Shi and Fairy Xiaoduan hid beneath the Purple Sky Vine’s leaves as their subjects searched for the source of the disturbance; Can’er reported seeing them, but Empress Shi Ji did not discover them.
• On the vine, Fairy Xiaoduan spoke of longing for the Huaxia Divine Continent, and Chen Shi promised to take her there after the Heavenly Honored One was defeated.
• Chen Shi and Fairy Xiaoduan kissed and tumbled between the vine leaves, startling the sunbathing spiritual medicine dolls.

Chen Shi and Fairy Xiaoduan refined Grand Pure Purple Qi on Liangtian Cliff, greatly advancing their cultivation before Chen Shi returned to court and delivered three strands to Daoist Liu. Zhong Wuwang then arrived with news of an opening to Despair Slope, and Chen Shi prepared to depart with a group of no more than eight.

• After Empress Shi Ji and the others left Liangtian Cliff, Chen Shi and Fairy Xiaoduan emerged from the Purple Sky Vine and began refining Grand Pure Purple Qi together.
• Fairy Xiaoduan used the mysterious bird Emperor Patterns to refine a wisp of purple qi, improving her cultivation and reducing the threat of the world’s evil qi.
• Chen Shi refined Grand Pure Purple Qi with the Yin Yang Qi Bottle, and its power eventually drew his Void Realm into his body, bringing him into the Great Ascension stage.
• After more than ten days of cultivation, Chen Shi visited Empress Houtu and delivered three strands of Grand Pure Purple Qi to Daoist Liu.
• Zhong Wuwang met Chen Shi at Yonghe Palace, told him an opportunity to enter Despair Slope had opened, and said Chen Shi could bring no more than eight people.

Chen Shi assembled allies and prepared a plan to infiltrate Despair Slope, exploit the Witch Covenant’s coming battle with the Celestial Venerable, and investigate the enemy’s weaknesses. He then visited the demons’ hidden capital to find Chu Feng and help him advance.

• Zhong Wuwang told Chen Shi that the Celestial Venerable had killed Feng Ruotong and the other immortals, leaving Despair Slope in disarray, and offered to smuggle Chen Shi’s group inside.
• Chen Shi recruited the Witch Covenant, Li Tianqing, Chen Yindu, Created Being Xiao Wu, and Yang Bi for the mission, while Zhong Wuwang warned that Empress Houtu could not join them.
• Chen Shi gave the Witch Covenant the Yin Yang Qi Bottle and asked him to master it before fighting the Celestial Venerable in three days.
• Chen Shi traveled to the demons’ hidden capital, where its inhabitants celebrated his return as the Demon Emperor.
• Chen Shi asked the Grand Libationer to summon Chu Feng so he could give his disciple Grand Pure Purple Qi and help him break through to contaminate the true god.

Chen Shi forced Grand Libationer to help Chu Feng refine Grand Pure Purple Qi, while demonstrating that he could overpower him and disrupt the Divine Capital. He gathered followers among the calamities and disasters, then set out with his companions for Despair Slope.

• Chen Shi gave Grand Libationer three days to help Chu Feng refine Grand Pure Purple Qi and used his Void Realm and Purple Sky Vine to defeat Grand Libationer's attempt to threaten him.
• After Chen Shi left, Grand Libationer discovered that many calamities and disasters had left the Divine Capital after his Void Realm restored them to human beings.
• Grand Libationer summoned Chu Feng to begin refining the purple Qi, while Celestial Master Tianyou, Dao Chengzi, Monk Huikong, and Song Yi secretly aligned themselves with Chen Shi.
• Dan Chenzi and other calamities and disasters followed Chen Shi, who sent them to Houde Palace to await further news.
• Chen Shi returned to the Yang World, met Chen Yindu, Created Being Xiao Wu, Wu Qingyu, Yang Bi, Li Tianqing, and Fairy Xiaoduan, and announced they would depart for Despair Slope.

Zhong Wuwang smuggled Chen Shi and the others into Despair Slope by shielding them from the Heavenly Dao Divine Eye, and Chen Shi and Fairy Xiaoduan searched the Dao Inquiry Institute for clues to the Heavenly Venerate’s cultivation method. While Chen Shi began deducing that method, Fairy Xiaoduan encountered Wen Wuyu, who mistook her for Ding Niu Niu and asked if she had come to visit.

• Zhong Wuwang used his Lesser World and seven peak tokens to bring the disguised group past the Heavenly Dao Divine Eye and into Despair Slope.
• After Zhong Wuwang left, the group split up to explore, and Chen Shi and Fairy Xiaoduan discovered that Despair Slope repeated its scenery beyond the clouds and found the Dao Inquiry Institute.
• Chen Shi and Fairy Xiaoduan compared the institute’s cultivation texts and selected six methods they believed contained parts of the Heavenly Venerate’s cultivation method.
• Chen Shi began combining and deducing the six methods, while Fairy Xiaoduan pulled him into her Lesser World and went out alone.
• Fairy Xiaoduan encountered Wen Wuyu, who called her Ding Niu Niu, took her hand, and asked whether she had come to visit her.

Fairy Xiaoduan disguised herself as Little Tenth Brother and persuaded Wen Wuyu to take her into Despair Slope’s inner region. After seeing its treasures and the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace, she followed Wen Wuyu into Falling Flowers Palace and heard Fairy Gong speak of Chen Lang.

• Wen Wuyu mistook Fairy Xiaoduan for Little Tenth Brother and confessed that she had missed him, then grew suspicious when Xiaoduan spoke too gently.
• Fairy Xiaoduan revealed Chen Shi’s little temple, convinced Wen Wuyu of her identity, and persuaded her to guide her through the Azure Cloud Barrier.
• Wen Wuyu showed Fairy Xiaoduan the Li Dao Spring, the Eternal Immortal Pavilion, and the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace, where Fairy Gong Wanqing had been refining heavenly soldiers.
• Wen Wuyu led Fairy Xiaoduan to Falling Flowers Palace, where they found no attendants and heard Fairy Gong accuse Chen Lang of once abandoning her.

Fairy Xiaoduan and Wen Wuyu discovered Chen Yindu bound in Falling Flowers Palace, where Gong Wanqing confronted him over his past betrayal and revealed that she had helped Immortal Xue hunt him and A Tang. The chapter ended with Fairy Xiaoduan attacking Gong Wanqing and Chen Yindu breaking free to rip out her heart.

• Fairy Xiaoduan and Wen Wuyu overheard Chen Yindu and Gong Wanqing discussing their past while he lay bound to a jade couch.
• Gong Wanqing accused Chen Yindu of choosing her maidservant A Tang over her, and Chen Yindu explained that A Tang had died after giving birth to Chen Tang.
• Gong Wanqing revealed that she had betrayed Chen Yindu and A Tang to Immortal Xue, helped kill A Tang, and killed Immortal Xue to become Fairy Gong.
• Fairy Xiaoduan attacked Gong Wanqing with the Phoenix Strange Fire, and Chen Yindu tore himself free of the Dragon Locking Whips.
• Chen Yindu struck Gong Wanqing and ripped out her heart.

Fairy Xiaoduan and Chen Yindu captured Gong Wanqing and began burning her with Phoenix Strange Fire, then Xiaoduan disguised herself as Gong Wanqing and joined Wen Wuyu beside the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace. Xiaoduan decided to sabotage the furnace’s batch of heavenly soldiers, and its flames turned black as Zhong Wuwang watched in alarm.

• Gong Wanqing tried to escape as Chen Yindu and Fairy Xiaoduan attacked her, but they bound her and left the Phoenix Strange Fire burning inside her so she would not die before they could conceal her fate.
• Fairy Xiaoduan transformed into Gong Wanqing’s likeness, and Wen Wuyu chose to help her rather than expose her.
• Fairy Xiaoduan told Wen Wuyu about the Heavenly Venerate and said she would stay to wreck the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace or prevent its heavenly soldiers from being forged.
• Fairy Xiaoduan and Wen Wuyu reached the furnace, where Zhuang Wujiu appeared and named Chen Tang as his master’s killer.
• Zhong Wuwang spotted Zhuang Wujiu and worried that trouble would break out, just as the furnace flames turned pitch black at Fairy Xiaoduan’s hands.

Fairy Xiaoduan entered the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace with Created Being Xiao Wu and discovered that its inner world was refining Heavenly Soldiers by making countless Xiao Wu-like creations fight and evolve. Xiao Wu chose to remain there, while Fairy Xiaoduan was forced back outside and told the immortals that Wujiu had met with disaster.

• The black Phoenix Strange Fire spread through the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace, and the immortals found that it accelerated the Heavenly Soldiers’ formation.
• Fairy Xiaoduan entered the furnace with Zhuang Wujiu, who revealed himself as Created Being Xiao Wu, and they discovered a world where creations battled to become Heavenly Soldiers.
• Created Being Xiao Wu found countless copies of himself fighting across the furnace world and refused Fairy Xiaoduan’s warnings to leave.
• The furnace’s power of creation began transforming Fairy Xiaoduan, so Created Being Xiao Wu struck her out of the inner world to protect her.
• Fairy Xiaoduan emerged from the furnace and told the waiting immortals that Wujiu had met with disaster.

Fairy Xiaoduan and the immortals pressed on with refining the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace while Created Being Xiao Wu grew powerful inside its furnace world. After Xiao Wu refused the furnace’s ascension, Chen Shi announced that the Celestial Venerable’s cultivation method was complete.

• Fairy Xiaoduan urged the grieving immortals at Despair Slope to resume refining the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace, while secretly considering how to steal it.
• Created Being Xiao Wu hunted other Xiao Wus in the furnace world, absorbing their black fire brands and strengthening himself.
• Created Being Xiao Wu defeated an ascended Xiao Wu, seized its Dao patterns, and advanced toward an immortal body and Primordial Spirit.
• Created Being Xiao Wu resisted the guiding rosy light instead of ascending, prompting an immortal outside the furnace to report the anomaly to Fairy Xiaoduan.
• Fairy Xiaoduan asked a fellow Daoist to investigate, and Chen Shi announced that the Celestial Venerable’s cultivation method was complete.

Chen Shi revealed his Great Desolation Ming Dao Collection and gathered allies to identify weaknesses they could exploit in the Heavenly Lord. They found seven possible flaws in the Heavenly Lord’s incomplete mastery, then learned the True God from Beyond the Heavens had been demonized, prompting the Witch Covenant to act.

• Chen Shi showed Fairy Xiaoduan the Great Desolation Ming Dao Collection, which matched the Blood Lake True Scripture in power, though he could find no flaws in it.
• Fairy Xiaoduan knocked Wen Wuyu unconscious and hid her in Chen Shi’s small temple before gathering Li Tianqing, Yang Bi, the Witch Covenant, and Zhong Wuwang to study the technique.
• Chen Shi demonstrated the Great Desolation Ming Dao Collection’s Great Desolation immortal realm, leaving the gathered cultivators struggling to comprehend its depths.
• The Witch Covenant suggested the Heavenly Lord had learned the technique from someone else and had not mastered it completely, easing Zhong Wuwang’s despair.
• Chen Yindu proposed looking for flaws in the Heavenly Lord’s understanding rather than in the technique, and the group identified seven potential weaknesses.
• After Zhong Wuwang reported that the True God from Beyond the Heavens had been demonized, the Witch Covenant declared that seven potential flaws were enough and led the group to act.

Chu Feng used the Profound Yin Nine Heavens Art during his divine descent, demonizing the True God from Beyond the Heavens. As Chen Shi’s group moved against the Heavenly Honored, Gong Wanqing was killed by Chen Yindu’s Proliferation Dao Pattern, while Fairy Xiaoduan tried to steal the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace and was exposed; the Heavenly Honored then recognized Wu Qi, whom he believed dead.

• The Grand Libationer helped Chu Feng refine Chen Shi’s Grand Pure Purple Qi, raising his cultivation until his divine embryo returned to the True God from Beyond the Heavens.
• Chu Feng used the Profound Yin Nine Heavens Art, causing demonic domains to form behind the True God and the True God’s body and Heavenly Dao to become demonized.
• Wu Qi mourned the King of Shang and left to repay Chen Shi’s kindness, while Li Tianqing and Yang Bi headed toward the Heavenly Dao Academy and Zhong Wuwang followed them.
• Chen Yindu placed his Proliferation Dao Pattern inside Gong Wanqing, whose body expanded until the immortals mistook her for an evil Sui and burned her and the immortal mountain to ashes.
• Fairy Xiaoduan, disguised as Gong Wanqing, tried to take the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace and enlisted the immortals to move it.
• The Heavenly Honored exposed Fairy Xiaoduan’s disguise, then saw Wu Qi and demanded to know how he could be alive.

The Witch Covenant trapped the Heavenly Venerate in the Yin Yang Qi Bottle, but the Heavenly Venerate escaped after his wings were nearly melted. As the Witch Covenant and Heavenly Venerate began their decisive fight, Chen Shi used the Innate Dao Embryo to search for one of seven possible flaws, but the first proved ineffective.

• The Witch Covenant caught the Heavenly Venerate off guard and pulled him into the Yin Yang Qi Bottle’s inner world, where the Heavenly Venerate used wind and thunder wings to break free.
• The Heavenly Venerate tried to seize the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace, while Zhong Wuwang lent Chen Shi the Innate Dao Embryo and went to help Fairy Xiaoduan.
• Zhong Wuwang and Fairy Xiaoduan fought the seven Heavenly Dao Immortals around the furnace, then jumped inside as the immortals pursued them.
• Chen Shi used the Innate Dao Embryo to sharpen his mind and joined Yang Bi and Li Tianqing in watching the fight for the Heavenly Venerate’s flaws.
• The Witch Covenant attacked the Heavenly Venerate’s Taiji Mengyi Heaven with the Yin Yang Qi Bottle, but the Heavenly Venerate restored his dao light and blocked the Witch Covenant’s strike, leaving Chen Shi six flaws to investigate.

Wu Qi tested seven suspected flaws in the Heavenly Lord’s cultivation, and only the final one proved genuine before the Heavenly Lord concealed it by revealing his demonic aspect. As Despair Slope became overrun by evil flesh, Chen Yindu led Chen Shi, Yang Bi, and Li Tianqing out through the collapsing gateway, leaving Wu Qi behind fighting the Heavenly Lord.

• Wu Qi tested the first six suspected flaws in the Heavenly Lord’s Dao realm, but each proved too brief or ineffective to exploit.
• Wu Qi’s seventh strike exposed that the Heavenly Lord’s Great Desolation Ming Dao Collection had immortal and demonic aspects, and the Heavenly Lord used his demonic Primordial Spirit to conceal the flaw.
• The Heavenly Lord unleashed evil flesh across Despair Slope, contaminating its spiritual qi and causing the Heavenly Dao Walkers to mutate.
• Chen Yindu activated the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace and led Yang Bi and Li Tianqing toward the exit, while Chen Shi reluctantly followed.
• Chen Yindu fought through the flesh with the furnace’s black Phoenix Strange Fire and Created Being Xiao Wu, then escaped Despair Slope with the others and sealed its gateway behind them.

Chen Yindu, Chen Shi, Li Tianqing, and Yang Bi escaped Despair Slope as Witch Covenant fought the Heavenly Zun alone amid a spreading invasion of flesh and evil qi. Witch Covenant died in battle but immediately appeared reborn in the New Xiang Imperial Capital, while the Heavenly Zun reclaimed the Yin Yang Qi Bottle and prepared to conquer the realm.

• Chen Yindu led Li Tianqing and Yang Bi away from Despair Slope while Chen Shi reviewed the battle for a weakness in the Heavenly Zun.
• Evil qi invaded Despair Slope and the True God Dao Field, transforming Heavenly Dao Walkers and killing many cultivators; Fairy Qiu Ning also transformed and was struck down by the Heavenly Zun.
• The Heavenly Zun taunted Witch Covenant about sacrificing the ancestral gods of Great Shang, while Witch Covenant fought through the encroaching flesh and blood and tried to send the Yin Yang Qi Bottle away.
• Witch Covenant exhausted his life in a final attack, and the Heavenly Zun destroyed his body and Primordial Spirit before the Yin Yang Qi Bottle could escape.
• Witch Covenant detached from the Purple Sky Vine in the New Xiang Imperial Capital and left the palace after asking Little Chenzi about his whereabouts and the King of Shang.
• The Heavenly Zun drove the flesh and blood from Despair Slope, kept the Yin Yang Qi Bottle, and resolved to assimilate the world.

Chen Shi emerged from his study of the Heavenly Lord’s cultivation technique and claimed he had found its flaw, using that claim to control his allies and enemies. The chapter ended with him confessing to Black Pot that he had found no flaw and had no confidence in defeating the Heavenly Lord, then proposing they flee to the Earthly Immortal Realm.

• Chen Shi returned the Innate Dao Embryo to Zhong Wuwang, then announced that he had completed the Great Desolation Ming Dao Collection and discovered the Heavenly Lord’s flaw.
• Chen Shi kept the supposed flaw secret, ordered Li Tianqing to distribute copies of the technique, and warned Zhong Wuwang that the secret would keep him in check.
• Chen Shi revealed that he had tampered with the Profound Yin Nine Heavens Art so that only he could use its ninth layer and command the power of a True God from Beyond the Heavens, forcing the Grand Libationer and Chu Feng to submit.
• Black Pot returned from the Underworld, and Chen Shi drank with him before admitting he had found no flaw in the Heavenly Lord’s technique.
• Chen Shi told Black Pot he had no confidence in defeating the Heavenly Lord and asked him to escape with him to the Earthly Immortal Realm.

Chen Shi sent a golden boat carrying eight people across the Dark Sea, while he stayed behind in the Western Ox Continent. The travelers reached the Huaxia Divine Continent aboard the Great Ming Treasure Ship, only to learn that the Great Ming had fallen and the land was now ruled by the Great Shun Dynasty.

• Chen Shi struggled to choose who could leave on Empress Houtu’s eight-person boat, and Chen Yindu, Created Being Xiao Wu, Qiao Zhuo, Green Goat, and Black Pot made room for one another.
• The golden boat sped into the Dark Sea with Chen Tang, Wu Qingyu, Li Tianqing, Yang Bi, Fairy Xiaoduan, Huo Dou, and the others aboard, leaving Chen Shi behind.
• The travelers spotted Daoist Qingyuan’s wooden boat, then encountered the Great Ming Treasure Ship carrying the corpses of a true king and his officials.
• Wu Qingyu suggested the Huaxia Divine Continent might help defeat the Heavenly Venerate, so the group abandoned the golden boat and boarded the Great Ming Treasure Ship.
• After reaching the Huaxia Divine Continent, Chen Tang announced that they had come from the Western Ox Continent to pay respects to the Great Ming emperor and Longevity Emperor Monarch.
• A general told Chen Tang that the Great Ming and Longevity Emperor Monarch were long gone and that the land was now the Great Shun Dynasty.