Recaps

Li Wuyang rescued a Witch Clan patrol squad from demon cultivators, including the young warrior he had met before. After the battle, a powerful demon under Golden Suan King arrived and confronted him.

• Li Wuyang spotted a Witch Clan squad being overwhelmed by demon cultivators and recognized the wounded youth among them.
• Li Wuyang ordered Little Fire to attack, and he and his companions defeated the demon squad and aided the survivors.
• The Witch Clan youth recognized Li Wuyang and thanked him for saving the patrol.
• Li Wuyang sensed a powerful demonic aura approaching, but a golden-robed demon appeared before they could flee.
• The demon accused Li Wuyang of killing generals under Golden Suan King and threatened him.

Li Wuyang and Little Fire defeated Golden Suan King after he attacked them, then Li Wuyang demanded his valuables in exchange for letting him go. Golden Suan King was left injured and stunned as Li Wuyang invoked his connection to the Sea-Covering Great Sage.

• Golden Suan King attacked Little Fire, but Li Wuyang’s axe strike interrupted him and Little Fire countered with his natal flames.
• Li Wuyang joined Little Fire, and their companions helped hinder Golden Suan King as the fight became a stalemate.
• Golden Suan King tried to flee, but Li Wuyang trapped him with “Draw the Ground as a Prison,” letting him and Little Fire land a combined attack.
• Golden Suan King warned that he served the Sea-Covering Great Sage, and Li Wuyang pretended the fight had been a misunderstanding.
• Li Wuyang demanded that Golden Suan King leave behind his valuables and broken spear, leaving the injured demon king furious and bewildered.

Li Wuyang forced the Golden Suan King to surrender his storage ring and spear and swear not to retaliate, then continued toward Zixiao Palace. At Buzhou Mountain, he arrived among tens of thousands of beings and discovered that his bronze compass was pointing to a spot on the mountain.

• Li Wuyang demanded the Golden Suan King's storage ring and spear and made him swear not to trouble him or the Witch Clan youths again.
• The Golden Suan King surrendered his possessions, swore the oath, and fled, while Li Wuyang told the Witch Clan youths to return to their tribe.
• Li Wuyang urged Huaihuai toward Buzhou Mountain and traveled discreetly among the cultivators heading to hear the Dao Ancestor's teachings.
• Li Wuyang reached Buzhou Mountain and saw Zixiao Palace above a vast crowd gathered at its foot.
• Li Wuyang noticed his bronze compass trembling and pointing toward a spot on Buzhou Mountain.

Li Wuyang followed the bronze compass through a hidden passage in Buzhou Mountain and reached the summit ahead of the crowd. Zixiao Palace opened, and he entered with the other cultivators to claim a seat.

• Li Wuyang discovered that the bronze compass pointed toward a vine-covered fissure at the base of Buzhou Mountain.
• Li Wuyang entered the fissure with Yingying and Treasure-Seeking Mouse Jinbao and climbed a hidden stairway that bypassed the mountain’s pressure.
• Li Wuyang emerged at the summit and found many powerful figures, including the Three Pure Ones, Empress Nuwa, and Di Jun and Taiyi, gathered before Zixiao Palace.
• A young attendant announced that the palace gates were open and that three thousand prayer mats awaited the visitors.
• Li Wuyang followed the other cultivators into Zixiao Palace.

Li Wuyang struggled to understand Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s lecture from the last row of Zixiao Palace. As he neared sleep, his gray cushion and bronze compass began to resonate with each other.

• Li Wuyang took a weakly resonant gray cushion in the last row and appreciated its calming support.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun appeared and began expounding the Dao to the three thousand cultivators.
• The front-row cultivators gained insights, but Li Wuyang could not comprehend the profound teachings even with help from his Great Dao Imprint.
• As Li Wuyang was about to give up, his cushion warmed and his bronze compass began to feel warm as well.

During Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s three-thousand-year sermon, Li Wuyang used the cushion and bronze compass to sense the Great Dao’s primordial rhythm and strengthen his cultivation foundation. After the sermon ended, Taishang Laozu called him to stay, leaving Li Wuyang facing an unexpected encounter.

• The cushion resonated with Li Wuyang’s bronze compass, whose needle pointed to a symbol representing “one.”
• Li Wuyang felt the Dao’s rhythms of movement, stillness, birth, and extinction, and his cultivation gradually became purer and more solid.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun ended his three-thousand-year sermon and dismissed the gathered guests.
• Li Wuyang left Zixiao Palace and reflected on the foundation he had gained from the sermon.
• Taishang Laozu called Li Wuyang to stay.

Taishang Laozu praised Li Wuyang’s unusual insight, warned him that turmoil would soon rise, and gave him a Nine-Revolutions Purple-Gold Pill. After Laozi departed, Eastern Emperor Taiyi confronted Li Wuyang and demanded to know his origins and whether he was connected to Demon Ancestor Luohu.

• Taishang Laozu told Li Wuyang that his gifts and fortune were extraordinary and that his way of understanding the Dao aligned with nature.
• Laozi warned Li Wuyang to take care of himself amid the coming turmoil and gave him a Nine-Revolutions Purple-Gold Pill.
• Li Wuyang stored the pill and wondered whether Laozi had discovered his origins or was offering a warning.
• Other powerful figures noticed Laozi’s gift and began viewing Li Wuyang as someone important.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi questioned Li Wuyang about his connection to Laozi and accused him of possibly being linked to Demon Ancestor Luohu.

Eastern Emperor Taiyi threatened to take Li Wuyang into custody and interrogate him, but Xuan intervened and made him withdraw. After the others left, Xuan said she might travel with Li Wuyang, and the two set off down the mountain together.

• Taiyi pressured Li Wuyang to explain how he had entered Zixiao Palace and threatened to detain him.
• Xuan appeared and challenged Taiyi for threatening a junior at Zixiao Palace.
• Taiyi withdrew his pressure and left Buzhou Mountain with Di Jun, while the watching great powers departed.
• Li Wuyang thanked Xuan, who said she had not rescued him but disliked bullies and noisy scenes.
• Li Wuyang said he planned to leave the mountain and continue traveling, and Xuan said she might follow him.
• Li Wuyang and Xuan walked together toward the path down the mountain.

After descending Buzhou Mountain, Li Wuyang and Xuan found the Witch-Demon War raging and encountered Hou Yuan leading the last survivors of his tribe toward Houtu’s ancestral land. As demon pursuers closed in, Li Wuyang chose to intervene, and Xuan stepped forward to face their leader.

• Li Wuyang asked Xuan about her understanding of Hongjun’s lecture, and she said his Dao of life and order conflicted with her origin.
• Li Wuyang and Xuan reached the foot of Buzhou Mountain and saw signs that the Witch-Demon War had intensified during their three thousand years away.
• Li Wuyang recognized Hou Yuan among a group of Witch Clan warriors escorting women and children toward Houtu’s ancestral land.
• Hou Yuan told Li Wuyang that the Demon Heavenly Court had destroyed his tribe and that demon pursuers were about to catch them.
• When an early True Immortal demon general threatened the survivors, Li Wuyang decided to help, and Xuan stepped forward to confront him.

Xuan used her Power of Annihilation to destroy the pursuing demon soldiers and save Hou Yuan and his clansmen. After they left, Li Wuyang and Xuan discussed the great calamity, then set off to learn what had happened during the past three thousand years.

• The demon general ordered his soldiers to attack Li Wuyang, Xuan, and the Witch Clan survivors.
• Xuan erased the attacking Celestial Immortal demons, terrifying the remaining demons into fleeing.
• Hou Yuan thanked Li Wuyang and Xuan, then led his clansmen away.
• Li Wuyang thanked Xuan, who remarked that his fated connections always brought trouble.
• Xuan asked what role Li Wuyang intended to play in the great calamity, and he decided to focus on surviving and finding out what had happened over the past three thousand years.
• Xuan followed Li Wuyang as they set off to seek information.

Li Wuyang and Xuan entered the Ruins, a secret realm containing the remains of fallen Chaos Demon Gods, and discovered a fragment of the Devouring Demon God's origin. Xuan rushed toward it and was attacked by three demonic cultivators and the great witches Hou Yi and Kuafu, prompting him to unleash a powerful Domain of Annihilation.

• Li Wuyang and Xuan explored the Guixu Sea Eye, and Xuan used his Power of Annihilation to open a safe passage through its vortex.
• The group emerged into a ruined realm where Xuan identified the remains of fallen Chaos Demon Gods.
• A dark-purple pillar revealed a fragment of the Devouring Demon God's origin, and Xuan hurried toward it with Li Wuyang and their companions following.
• Li Wuyang found Hou Yi and Kuafu battling three demonic cultivators over the origin crystal.
• Xuan reached for the crystal, drawing attacks from all five fighters, and unleashed Annihilation—Return to Nothing.

Xuan Qing subdued the Devour Origin Core and revealed to Li Wuyang that she was the incomplete Myriad Manifestations Annihilation Demon God, seeking to recover her lost origin and memories. After they left the Chaos Secret Realm, powerful auras converged on them outside the Guixu Sea Eye.

• Xuan Qing’s Domain of Annihilation repelled Hou Yi, Kuafu, and three Demonic cultivators as she suppressed the Devouring Demon God’s will and claimed the crystal.
• Hou Yi warned Xuan Qing that the crystal was a Chaos Demon God legacy, but she declared that it belonged to her and revealed that her origin was annihilation.
• After Xuan Qing displayed her power, the three Demonic cultivators fled, and Hou Yi and Kuafu left with them.
• Xuan Qing told Li Wuyang that the crystal held a remnant of Uncle Devouring’s origin, who had protected her during the Heaven-Opening Tribulation.
• Xuan Qing revealed that she was the incomplete Myriad Manifestations Annihilation Demon God, and Li Wuyang promised to help her recover what she had lost.
• Xuan Qing and Li Wuyang left the Chaos Secret Realm, but several powerful auras approached as they emerged near the Guixu Sea Eye.

After the Devouring Demon God's origin drew powerful pursuers from the Demon Heavenly Court, the demonic path, the Dragon Clan, and a sword immortal, Xuan fought them while Li Wuyang and their companions created an opening. Xuan escaped with the group, but their enemies immediately gave chase across the primordial world.

• Li Wuyang and Xuan were surrounded by powerful forces demanding the Demon God's origin.
• Xuan attacked the demon lord and used his Domain of Annihilation to withstand attacks from the Demon Saint, the Azure Dragon, and the sword immortal.
• Li Wuyang rallied Huaihuai, Little Fire, Yingying, and Treasure-Seeking Mouse Jinbao to distract the pursuers and help create an opening.
• Li Wuyang struck toward the Dragon Clan with the Sky-Opening Axe (replica), while his companions harassed the surrounding forces.
• Xuan seized the opening, grabbed Li Wuyang and their companions, and used the Power of Annihilation to escape through space.
• The four factions' forces pursued them across the primordial world.

Xuan and Li Wuyang fled their pursuers into spacetime turbulence, where their companions were swept away and Xuan’s origin was badly damaged. They escaped through a glowing exit into an unfamiliar world that felt strangely false.

• Xuan carried Li Wuyang and their companions through the primordial void while four factions pursued them.
• Li Wuyang used the bronze compass to guide Xuan into spacetime turbulence, and their pursuers stopped at its edge.
• A rift swallowed Huaihuai, and chaotic currents scattered Little Fire, Yingying, and Jinbao through different fragments of time and space.
• Xuan burned more of her Origin Power to protect Li Wuyang and followed the compass toward an exit.
• Xuan and Li Wuyang escaped the turbulence and found themselves in an unfamiliar world with abundant spiritual qi and an unsettling false feeling.

Separated from Huaihuai, Little Fire, Yingying, and Jinbao by spatial-temporal turbulence, Li Wuyang resolved to grow strong enough to find them while Xuan recovered. They discovered they had landed in the Spiritual Stream Realm, where Daoists confronted them and demanded their names.

• Li Wuyang grieved over losing Huaihuai, Little Fire, Yingying, and Jinbao, but Xuan reassured him that they might have survived and that karma could guide them back together.
• Li Wuyang vowed to become stronger and bring his companions home, then urged the injured Xuan to recover.
• While Xuan meditated in a concealed cave, Li Wuyang found that the unfamiliar world's dense spiritual energy was difficult to refine and his bronze compass could not find a direction.
• After several days, Xuan judged that the world had incomplete laws and might be an artificial testing ground or prison.
• A group of Daoist cultivators arrived, identified the place as the Spiritual Stream Realm, and demanded that Li Wuyang and Xuan state their names.

Li Wuyang arrived in the Spiritual Stream Realm, a low-tier minor world attached to the Primordial World, and defeated Qingyun Sword Sect disciples who attacked him. After learning about the realm and finding no news of his missing companions, he agreed to visit the sect while seeking a place to recover and continue his search.

• Zhao Gan ordered his disciples to seize Li Wuyang and Xuan, suspecting them of being demonic-path spies.
• Li Wuyang defeated the Earth Immortal disciples with Huang Ting Sword Qi and forced Zhao Gan to apologize and introduce himself.
• Zhao Gan explained that the Spiritual Stream Realm was a lower minor world with a low cultivation ceiling, controlled chiefly by the Qingyun Sword Sect, Hundred Herbs Valley, and Tiangong Workshop.
• Li Wuyang asked whether anything unusual had happened, but Zhao Gan had no news of his missing companions or any powerful arrivals.
• Li Wuyang accepted Zhao Gan's invitation to the Qingyun Sword Sect and followed him with Xuan to settle in and search for news.

Li Wuyang brought the injured Xuan to the Qingyun Sword Sect, where he studied the Spiritual Stream Realm and learned of the Sea of Falling Stars. He decided to spend three years strengthening himself before exploring the ancient battlefield for a way back to the Primordial World and clues to his missing companions.

• Li Wuyang and Zhao Gan escorted Xuan to the Qingyun Sword Sect, where Qingyunzi welcomed them after sensing their unusual power.
• Li Wuyang claimed that he and Xuan came from outside the Spiritual Stream Realm and requested lodging and access to the sect’s texts.
• Li Wuyang studied the sect’s cultivation manuals and resources, judging the realm’s cultivation foundations weak compared with those of the Primordial World.
• Xuan stabilized his injuries and began cautiously refining a wisp of the Devour Origin Core while Li Wuyang searched for news of his missing companions and routes beyond the realm.
• Li Wuyang learned that the three major powers would open a passage to the Sea of Falling Stars in three years and resolved to explore it for a way home and clues about his companions.
• Li Wuyang took Xuan to a secluded cave dwelling and began cultivating to consolidate his strength and learn practical spells from the Huang Ting Jing.

Li Wuyang tried two techniques from the Huang Ting Jing in the Qingyun Sect cave abode, but his Palm Thunder attempts produced only smoke, sparks, and mishaps, while his spirit-food cooking turned poisonous. The chapter left him accepting that his life skills were badly lacking.

• Li Wuyang studied the Huang Ting Jing and attempted Huang Ting Palm Thunder, but his efforts caused pain, smoke, and a shock that made his hair stand on end.
• Xuan teased Li Wuyang about his failed cultivation, and Li Wuyang abandoned the technique.
• Li Wuyang tried the Spirit Transformation Art by cooking spirit grass and a Spirit Fragrance Pig in a stone pot.
• Jinbao refused to taste the dark-green concoction, so Li Wuyang tried it himself and vomited outside the cave.
• Li Wuyang dumped the failed dish off the cliff, where it withered plants and poisoned a passing Foundation Establishment stage demon rabbit.

Li Wuyang visited Qingyun Market and found a black stone that resonated with his Great Dao Imprint, but Liu Neng tried to seize it. After Zhao Gan intervened and Liu Neng returned the stone, Li Wuyang left the market with his find and looked forward to life in the Spiritual Stream Realm.

• Li Wuyang disguised himself and went to Qingyun Market, where he dismissed the vendors’ wares as fakes before finding a black stone that resonated with his Great Dao Imprint.
• Liu Neng snatched the stone and claimed it for his family, then ordered his lackeys to attack Li Wuyang.
• Little Fire set the lackeys’ crotches alight with a puff of sparks, and Li Wuyang denied that his dog had used magic.
• Zhao Gan recognized Li Wuyang, ordered Liu Neng to return the stone and apologize, and received Li Wuyang’s praise for his handling of the dispute.
• Li Wuyang paid the old stall owner ten low-grade spirit stones for the black stone and left the market pleased with his discovery.

Li Wuyang used a wisp of Primordial Purple Qi to open the black stone and uncovered a clump of imitation Breathing Soil that came to life as a clay doll. He named it Earth Doll and accepted it into his increasingly unusual group.

• Li Wuyang used Primordial Purple Qi to peel away the black stone’s layers and reveal a glowing clump of soil.
• The soil absorbed nearby earth and spiritual energy, formed into a clay doll, and called Li Wuyang “Daddy.”
• Li Wuyang realized his aura had brought the Breathing Soil essence to life, while Xuan congratulated him on acquiring “precious soil.”
• The clay doll called Xuan “Mother,” then hid behind Li Wuyang after Xuan gave it a cold look.
• Li Wuyang named the clay doll Earth Doll and promised to feed it dirt.

Li Wuyang struggled to care for the energetic, dirt-eating Earth Doll, whose earth-sensing ability brought chaos to their cave. After Earth Doll found High-grade Earth Spirit Stones on Qingyun Sect's back mountain, Li Wuyang celebrated—until the child ruined his new clothes in a puddle.

• Earth Doll disrupted Li Wuyang's meditation, spell study, and sleep, while his strange appetite and abilities caused trouble in the cave.
• Earth Doll's ability attracted Golden Sacred Beetles and led to colorful mushrooms growing beneath his bed.
• Li Wuyang took Earth Doll for a walk through Qingyun Sect's back mountain to burn off his energy.
• Earth Doll sensed something tasty beneath a hillside, and Li Wuyang uncovered several High-grade Earth Spirit Stones.
• Li Wuyang praised and kissed Earth Doll, but Earth Doll jumped into a puddle and covered his new clothes in mud.

Li Wuyang agreed to judge the Qingyun Sect's outer sect tournament, where his scathing criticism unsettled the disciples and impressed the visiting observers. When the winner Han Li challenged him, Li stopped the youth's flying sword with two fingers, and his reputation spread across the sect and the Spiritual Stream Realm.

• Qingyunzi invited Li Wuyang to judge the Qingyun Sect's triennial outer sect tournament, and Li accepted.
• Li Wuyang harshly criticized the competitors' techniques, leaving the disciples rattled and the visiting observers silent.
• After Han Li won the final match, he challenged Li Wuyang to give him guidance.
• Li Wuyang caught Han Li's flying sword between two fingers and flicked it back, demonstrating the gap between their strength.
• Li Wuyang's reputation as Senior Li, a sharp-tongued expert who taught people lessons with two fingers, spread through the Qingyun Sect and the Spiritual Stream Realm.

Li Wuyang attended the Centennial Auction in Tiangong City and spent lavishly to acquire a damaged bronze fragment that carried an ancient aura of chaos. After returning to the Qingyun Sect, he uncovered strange runes beneath its rust and resolved to visit the Sea of Falling Stars in three years.

• Qingyunzi invited Li Wuyang to the Centennial Auction, and Li Wuyang traveled to Tiangong City with Little Fire and Yingying.
• Li Wuyang sensed an aura of chaos from a damaged bronze fragment and outbid the Hundred Herbs Valley elder and the Wang Family Patriarch to buy it for five thousand high-grade spirit stones.
• Li Wuyang bought several rare spiritual herbs by raising bids steeply, turning the auction into a display of his wealth.
• Li Wuyang returned to the Qingyun Sect and used Primordial Purple Qi to remove the fragment's rust, revealing strange runes and a stronger aura of chaos.
• Li Wuyang suspected the fragment was connected to the Sea of Falling Stars and the Chaos Demon Gods, and decided to go there in three years.

Li Wuyang confronted the Wang Family after they used a fabricated grievance to challenge the Qingyun Sect. He crushed their fighting stage with one stomp, revealed his Earth Immortal pressure, and left after Wang Bantian conceded, turning the dispute into a humiliating defeat for the Wang Family.

• The Wang Family summoned Qingyunzi and Li Wuyang over an alleged injury, but Li Wuyang rejected Qingyunzi's offer to settle the dispute with gifts.
• At the Wang Family estate, Li Wuyang exposed Wang Bantian's resentment over the auction and accepted his bet that a match would decide the matter.
• Wang Bantian sent Wang Meng to fight Li Wuyang on the reinforced granite stage.
• Li Wuyang lightly stomped and collapsed the stage, burying Wang Meng in the rubble.
• Li Wuyang released his Earth Immortal pressure, forcing Wang Bantian to end the dispute and apologize.
• Li Wuyang left with Qingyunzi, and his fearsome reputation spread throughout the Spiritual Stream Realm.

As the three-year deadline approached, Li Wuyang learned that the Sea of Falling Stars would open in half a month and agreed to join the Qingyun Sect expedition with Xuan. He prepared to leave for the dangerous region, hoping to uncover a path back to the Primordial World and find his scattered companions.

• Li Wuyang studied the bronze fragment and discovered that Breathing Soil (Fake) could gradually repair damaged magical artifacts.
• Qingyunzi told Li Wuyang that the Sea of Falling Stars would open at Three Realms Mountain in half a month and invited him to join the Qingyun Sect team.
• Li Wuyang agreed to go, and Xuan confirmed that she would accompany him.
• Xuan put Earth Doll into a hibernation-like sleep and stored him away so he could travel with them safely.
• Li Wuyang prepared his belongings and spent the night before departure looking forward to the Sea of Falling Stars and wondering where his companions were.