Recaps

Bai Yu obtained the Eastern Green Lotus Treasure Color Banner and continued searching the East Sea for treasures. After finally crashing into Penglai Immortal Island’s concealed formation, he used the karmic connection made by the Mysterious Bright Treasure Bead to track it.

• Bai Yu discovered a top-grade innate spiritual treasure in a Green Lotus Pond and refined twelve of the Green Lotus Treasure Banner’s restrictions.
• Bai Yu left the island with the Green Lotus Treasure Banner and three innate spiritual roots, ignoring the pond and its lotuses.
• Bai Yu spent more than a thousand years collecting seven high-grade innate spiritual treasures and over a dozen high-grade innate spiritual roots without finding Penglai Immortal Island.
• Bai Yu crashed into Penglai Immortal Island’s concealed formation, surviving its chaos currents with the protection of his body and the Mysterious Bright Treasure Bead.
• Bai Yu used the karmic connection formed by the Mysterious Bright Treasure Bead’s impact to ensure he could track the hidden formation.

Bai Yu used the Mysterious Bright Treasure Bead to locate and enter a hidden Xiantian Great Formation, discovering a vast island filled with Innate Spiritual Roots. At its center, he found the supreme-grade Huangzhong Plum and realized a Merit Supreme Treasure was there as well.

• Bai Yu traced the Mysterious Bright Treasure Bead’s karmic connection to the nearby Xiantian Great Formation and entered it using the Space Great Dao.
• Bai Yu explored the enormous island and found Innate Spiritual Roots growing throughout it, with their grades increasing toward the center.
• Bai Yu noticed dense Origin Wood Qi of Yi in the central region and inferred that a powerful wood-attribute Innate Spiritual Root was nearby.
• Bai Yu found the Huangzhong Plum, learned of its extraordinary benefits and drawbacks, and refrained from taking it immediately.
• Bai Yu realized that a Merit Supreme Treasure was also present at the island’s center.

Bai Yu claimed Penglai Immortal Island and discovered the Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler, a powerful merit treasure that surpassed his other magic treasures in potential. After spending hundreds of years preliminarily refining it, he recognized it as his strongest treasure, though the fully refined Mysterious Bright Treasure Bead remained easier for him to wield.

• Bai Yu refined the Penglai stele and gained control of Penglai Immortal Island and its Xiantian Great Formation.
• Bai Yu found a ruler-shaped treasure within golden merit clouds and recognized it as the Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler.
• Bai Yu refined the ruler for hundreds of years and discovered it contained seven nearly complete Great Daos: the Five Elements, space, and cause and effect.
• Bai Yu judged the Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler to be his most powerful treasure, but noted that the fully refined Mysterious Bright Treasure Bead could unleash more power in a fight.

Bai Yu explored Penglai Immortal Island and reflected on the Huangzhong Plum’s Origin Qi and the limits it would impose if he used it to rebuild his foundation. He decided not to refine it, while speculating that Transforming Dao might be the path beyond controlling the Great Dao.

• Bai Yu finished exploring Penglai Immortal Island, finding three High-grade, seven Middle-grade, and eighteen Low-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures, along with many Innate Spiritual Roots.
• Bai Yu concluded that the Huangzhong Plum’s Yi Wood Origin Qi had nurtured most of the island’s spiritual roots and explained why Supreme Grade Innate Spiritual Roots were rare foundations tied to a world’s Origin Qi.
• Bai Yu chose not to refine the Huangzhong Plum because doing so would bind him to the Primordial World and risk drawing the Heavenly Dao’s attention.
• Bai Yu reflected on the stages of comprehending and controlling the Great Dao, then speculated that the next stage might be Transforming Dao.
• Bai Yu questioned the silent Chat Group and concluded that his own Essence, Qi, and Spirit mattered most.

Bai Yu reflected on the difficulty of comprehending all Three Thousand Great Daos and traced how the Primordial World's calamities unfolded. He concluded that the Dragon-Han clans had a better chance at supremacy than the Witch and Demon Clans because no Saints stood above them, and the chapter left him contrasting the different eras' power structures.

• Bai Yu reasoned that the Three Flowers of Essence, Qi, and Spirit and the Great Dao remained distinct, and that using the Root of Five Qi could improve the Flower of Essence.
• Bai Yu calculated that comprehending all three thousand Origin Great Daos could take six Primordial World calamities, despite his rapid rise to the early stage of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Bai Yu traced the Fierce Beast Calamity to the Chaos Demon Gods' resentment and described the Dragon-Han Calamity as beginning when the dragon, phoenix, and qilin clans competed for supremacy.
• Bai Yu explained that Luohu's plot ended the Dragon-Han Calamity, while the Dao-Demon Conflict between Hongjun and Luohu continued it rather than forming a separate calamity.
• Bai Yu compared the Dragon-Han and Witch-Demon Calamities, concluding that the latter clans could not dominate the Primordial World because Heavenly Dao Saints stood above them.

Bai Yu reflected on how strength and the Heavenly Dao shaped the Primordial World's great tribulations, then settled into cultivation on Penglai Immortal Island after acquiring valuable treasures. Using the Mysterious Bright Treasure Bead, he discovered the locations of Mount Fangzhang Island and Yingzhou Island and prepared to seek their treasures.

• Bai Yu concluded that only absolute strength could overcome the Primordial World's predestined course and resolved to master an Origin Great Dao before the Fierce Beast Calamity ended.
• Bai Yu opened a cave abode on a mountain near the Huangzhong Plum and planted his other innate spiritual roots around Penglai Immortal Island.
• Bai Yu used the Mysterious Bright Treasure Bead to trace the karma and destiny linking Penglai Immortal Island to the other two immortal islands.
• Bai Yu sensed that Mount Fangzhang Island lay nine hundred million li northwest and Yingzhou Island lay eight hundred million li northeast, forming a triangle with Penglai.
• Bai Yu grew eager to visit the two islands and discover what treasures they held.

Bai Yu searched Mount Fangzhang Island for the Tongtian Jianmu and found no supreme-grade spiritual roots or top-grade spiritual treasures on its surface. After taking control of the island, he discovered a hidden underground space containing a vast pool of three lights divine water, a Heavenly Water Divine Bead, and a mysterious piece of wood.

• Bai Yu arrived on Mount Fangzhang Island and searched its tree-covered landscape for the Tongtian Jianmu, but found none.
• Bai Yu investigated the island, confirmed it lacked supreme-grade innate spiritual roots and top-grade innate spiritual treasures, and refined the central stone stele to take control.
• Bai Yu discovered a concealed underground space filled with three lights divine water and found an azure top-grade innate spiritual treasure above it.
• Bai Yu refined the Heavenly Water Divine Bead and learned that it produced the three lights divine water, then collected the bead and the entire pool.
• Bai Yu uncovered a short length of wood at the bottom of the emptied pool, its intertwined life and death forces held in balance.

Bai Yu discovered Primordial Origin Qi inside a piece of wood on Mount Fangzhang Island and transformed it into a Chaos Spiritual Root, the Chaos Life and Death Divine Tree. After learning that its Chaos Divine Water could resurrect beings below the Great Dao Realm, he left for Yingzhou Island.

• Bai Yu found Primordial Origin Qi in the wood and realized it was the source of Mount Fangzhang Island's dense Chaos Qi.
• Bai Yu refined the wood and used the Primordial Origin Qi within it to grow a Chaos Spiritual Root.
• Bai Yu named the tree the Chaos Life and Death Divine Tree and found that it produced Chaos Qi and Chaos Divine Water.
• Bai Yu learned that the Chaos Divine Water could reverse life and death and fully resurrect beings below the Great Dao Realm, with stronger beings requiring more water.
• Bai Yu put away the Chaos Life and Death Divine Tree and traveled to Yingzhou Island.

Bai Yu discovered that Yingzhou Island had become a barren wasteland because it contained a Chaos Demon God's half-corpse, still locked in conflict with Pangu's lingering axe light. He summoned Myriad Worlds City's Great Dao power to investigate, but the Primordial World's Great Dao suppressed and annihilated it, destroying Yingzhou Island and everything on it.

• Bai Yu crossed Yingzhou Island's deadly currents and advanced toward its center under the protection of the Mysterious Bright Treasure Bead.
• Bai Yu found a half-corpse of a Chaos Demon God and recognized that Pangu's lingering axe light was suppressing it and causing the island's desolation.
• Bai Yu summoned Myriad Worlds City's Great Dao power, while the Karma Great Dao disrupted Cause and Effect and obscured heaven's secrets.
• Hongjun sensed a brief disturbance in the Great Dao but could not discover its cause before the disturbance ended.
• The Primordial World's Great Dao suppressed and annihilated Myriad Worlds City's power, destroying Yingzhou Island, Pangu's axe light, and the Demon God's half-corpse.

Bai Yu’s attempt to obtain the Demon God's Half-Corpse brought Myriad Worlds City's Great Dao power into conflict with the Primordial Great Daos, destroying Yingzhou Island and the half-corpse. After returning to Penglai Immortal Island, he realized that it and Abbot Immortal Island might be able to merge now that the three islands’ origins had weakened.

• Bai Yu drew down a trace of Myriad Worlds City's Great Dao power, triggering the Primordial World's passive defense and destroying Yingzhou Island.
• The Primordial Great Daos annihilated the Demon God's Half-Corpse while Bai Yu stayed out of the clash.
• Bai Yu left the sea and returned to Penglai Immortal Island, where he sensed a problem with its island-protecting formation.
• Bai Yu realized the three immortal islands had once been one and that Abbot Immortal Island's piece of wood supplied Chaos Qi to their formations.
• Bai Yu considered that Penglai Immortal Island and Abbot Immortal Island might merge without violating the Primordial World's rules because their origins had been damaged.

Bai Yu merged Abbot Immortal Island into Penglai Immortal Island, strengthened its defenses, and began turning it into his home. With the East Sea search finished and the Chat Group quiet, the chapter also noted Lin Daiyu’s progress in cultivation and Myriad Worlds City.

• Bai Yu merged Abbot Immortal Island into Penglai Immortal Island and planted the Chaos Life and Death Divine Tree beside the Huangzhong Plum.
• Bai Yu created the Heavenly Water Pool to store Three Lights Divine Water, though it remained a Postnatal Supreme Treasure.
• Bai Yu reorganized Penglai Immortal Island’s formation, using the Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler as its core, and placed the Green Lotus Treasure Banner on the Huangzhong Plum.
• Bai Yu stopped searching the East Sea and began renovating Penglai Immortal Island as his long-term home.
• The Chat Group remained quiet, while Lin Daiyu reached the Eleventh Order Golden Immortal realm and continued developing her shop in Myriad Worlds City.

After becoming an Eleventh Order Golden Immortal, Lin Daiyu concluded that Honglou World’s Heavenly Court could not possibly belong to its supposed Twentieth Order Great Celestial Venerable. She returned to the Heavenly Court to confront the Great Celestial Venerable and investigate her doubts, while remaining uncertain whether the Jade Emperor was truly him.

• Lin Daiyu became an Eleventh Order Golden Immortal after years of cultivating as a wandering immortal in Honglou World’s Heavenly Court.
• Lin Daiyu learned that the Heavenly Court’s soldiers, officials, Four Heavenly Kings, and Four Imperial Lords were far weaker than she expected, deepening her suspicions.
• Through Shi Yaoyao and Myriad Worlds City, Lin Daiyu confirmed that Honglou World was a Small Thousand World that could not contain a Twentieth Order being.
• Lin Daiyu concluded that the Great Celestial Venerable was not truly part of Honglou World and wondered whether the Jade Emperor was really him.
• Lin Daiyu returned to the Heavenly Court carrying the Luotian Misty Cloud Umbrella, which made its immortals and gods unable to see her.

Lin Daiyu visited the Hall of Supreme Harmony after receiving the sixteenth-order Luotian Misty Cloud Umbrella and learned that the Jade Emperor was Bai Yu’s Law Dao Body. She confirmed that the Great Celestial Venerable was Myriad Worlds City’s City Lord, then left wondering about his connection to Shi Yaoyao and the city’s shopkeepers.

• Lin Daiyu reached the Hall of Supreme Harmony under the protection of the Luotian Misty Cloud Umbrella and asked whether the Great Celestial Venerable had left.
• Bai Yu’s Law Dao Body confirmed that the Great Celestial Venerable had left and said Lin Daiyu could see him again.
• Lin Daiyu asked whether the Great Celestial Venerable was Myriad Worlds City’s City Lord, and Bai Yu’s Law Dao Body said yes.
• Lin Daiyu left the hall and concluded that the figure in the Limitless Pavilion was probably another Law Dao Body.
• Lin Daiyu wondered what relationship Shi Yaoyao and the Core Area shopkeepers had with the Great Celestial Venerable.

Lin Daiyu concluded that the Great Celestial Venerable’s faction had conquered Myriad Worlds Trading City and that she had unknowingly guided the invaders. Shi Yaoyao took Lin Daiyu to explore a Small Thousand World, while Lin Daiyu tried to learn more about the City Lord.

• Lin Daiyu reasoned that the Great Celestial Venerable and the Core Area’s shopkeepers belonged to a powerful faction that had seized Myriad Worlds City.
• Lin Daiyu remembered Shi Yaoyao’s feelings for the City Lord and realized that the City Lord was the Great Celestial Venerable.
• Shi Yaoyao found Lin Daiyu and invited her to explore a Small Thousand World with a World Token.
• Lin Daiyu asked Shi Yaoyao how she had met the City Lord, and Shi Yaoyao explained that the City Lord in the Limitless Pavilion was only an avatar.

Shi Yaoyao told Lin Daiyu embellished stories about her supposed relationship with Bai Yu, unaware that Bai Yu could hear her. After Bai Yu sent a cold snort across worlds, Shi Yaoyao realized he had overheard and struggled to explain her sudden panic to Lin Daiyu.

• Shi Yaoyao spun stories about herself and Bai Yu, leading Lin Daiyu to believe they shared an ambiguous romantic relationship.
• Bai Yu sensed Shi Yaoyao spreading rumors about him and sent a cold snort through the power of the Great Dao.
• Shi Yaoyao froze when she recognized Bai Yu’s voice and realized he had heard her stories.
• Shi Yaoyao waited for Bai Yu to appear and reprimand her, but he never came, leaving her confused and gloomy.
• Lin Daiyu pressed Shi Yaoyao to explain what was wrong, but Shi Yaoyao could not bring herself to reveal what had happened.

Jiang Yuyan made Myriad Worlds City her home and advanced her cultivation with the Chat Group’s support. As Chonglou struggled to afford the Saint Spirit Stones needed to keep pace with Yang Jian, the group’s limited supply of World Tokens remained a valuable source of cultivation resources.

• Jiang Yuyan stayed in Myriad Worlds City, where she considered the Chat Group members her family and devoted herself to cultivation.
• Jiang Yuyan’s resources helped her advance rapidly, while Chat Group members could use World Tokens to plunder worlds and obtain resources for higher cultivation.
• Yang Jian neared the Sixteenth Order after comprehending ninety percent of Origin Law, while Chonglou had comprehended eighty percent and was running low on Saint Spirit Stones.
• Shi Yaoyao coordinated the scarce World Token distribution as group leader, with the Immortal Venerable’s support lending her authority.
• Chonglou worked to earn money because his cultivation required increasingly expensive Saint Spirit Stones, and he wanted to catch up with Yang Jian.

Jiang Yuyan and Li Yunrui reached the eighth-order Mahayana Stage and prepared to conquer worlds they despised, while Yue Qiluo became a ninth-order innate immortal. Li Yunrui built a faction and used it to torment Emperor Qing, intending to make him feel like a pawn rather than overturning the board herself.

• Jiang Yuyan reached the eighth-order Mahayana Stage, bought several Ninth Order Immortal Artifacts, and declared she was ready to conquer a Small Thousand World rather than return to her martial arts world.
• Yue Qiluo became a ninth-order innate immortal of the Lotus Lantern World, while the chapter explained that Primordial Lord of Heaven had changed cultivation methods but still needed to comprehend the Mysterious Realm on his own.
• Li Yunrui also reached the eighth-order Mahayana Stage, grew to loathe her Polluted Energy-filled world, and established a faction whose members she trained and organized through trusted confidantes such as Bai Lan and Yan Xiaoyi.
• Li Yunrui's faction disrupted Emperor Qing's control as her subordinates troubled the illegitimate son from Danzhou, the Prince, and the Second Prince, while concealing their strength beyond Ninth-Rank Upper.
• Li Yunrui chose to remain above the political game and make Emperor Qing experience what it was like to be a pawn.

Li Yunrui learned that the Prince and the Second Prince were conspiring to rebel and let their plans proceed, with their armies already under the Inspection Bureau’s control. She decided to mobilize one of the Border Armies, leaving the rebellion poised to become a much larger upheaval.

• Bai Lan told Li Yunrui that the Prince and the Second Prince were conspiring to rebel.
• Bai Lan revealed that the Inspection Bureau had uncovered the Second Prince’s army and secretly taken control of it.
• Li Yunrui ordered the Prince and the Second Prince to be allowed to proceed so Emperor Qing could witness their rebellion.
• Li Yunrui decided to mobilize a Border Army, and Bai Lan confirmed she meant one of the forces guarding against the Qi Kingdom.
• Li Yunrui said she did not care which Border Army moved, since all three, totaling three hundred thousand troops, were under her control.

Li Yunrui secretly put a hundred-thousand-strong Border Army at the Prince and Second Prince’s disposal, forcing Emperor Qing to intervene if it advanced on Kyoto. The Prince learned of the army, chose to keep its rebellion secret, and began considering abandoning his second brother as he weighed his new advantage.

• Li Yunrui arranged for a Border Army to support the Prince and Second Prince’s rebellion, aiming to force Emperor Qing to act while Ye Liuyun was away from Kyoto.
• The Prince received a secret letter revealing that Li Yunrui could mobilize a hundred thousand border troops and was horrified by the news.
• The Prince hesitated to report the Border Army’s disloyalty to Emperor Qing, deciding instead to use its strength to improve his chances of taking the throne.
• The Prince reconsidered joining forces with the Second Prince, whom he hated, now that Li Yunrui’s Border Army could support his rebellion.
• Emperor Qing remained outwardly confident but grew angry that the Prince’s rebellion and alliance with the Second Prince had escaped his control.

The Prince revealed that his rebellion had begun and summoned Border Army cavalry, shocking the Second Prince, who had not known about the troops. The chapter left the Second Prince realizing the Prince had far more military power than their plan accounted for.

• The Prince and the Second Prince rode to a secluded gorge outside Kyoto, where the Prince told his brother to contact his private troops because the rebellion had begun.
• The Second Prince angrily accused the Prince of madness, believing they had neither prepared nor planned to attack Kyoto openly.
• More than a hundred heavily armored cavalrymen appeared across the gorge, and the Second Prince recognized them as Border Army troops.
• The Second Prince realized the Prince had access to the hundred-thousand-strong Border Army and stared at the cavalry in disbelief.

The Prince revealed that he had secretly taken control of a hundred thousand Border Army troops and was preparing to move against Kyoto. Emperor Qing learned of the advancing army and realized the Inspection Bureau could not stop it, leaving the capital facing a major threat.

• The Prince asked the Second Prince when his ten thousand troops would reach Kyoto, then learned from the cavalry commander that the hundred thousand Border Army troops could arrive in two days with a day to rest.
• The Prince concluded that Emperor Qing had likely heard of the army’s march and prepared to leave with the Second Prince.
• Director Chen informed Emperor Qing that a hundred thousand Border Army troops were marching toward Kyoto, and Emperor Qing denied ordering them to move.
• Director Chen explained that the Inspection Bureau had been forbidden from interfering with the Border Army, while Emperor Qing demanded to know how the army had rebelled without warning.

Emperor Qing and Director Chen learned that a hundred thousand Border Army troops had rebelled and were marching on Kyoto, though they blamed Si Gujian and suspected Li Yunrui without knowing who was truly responsible. Emperor Qing mobilized the capital’s forces and sealed the city, while Kyoto panicked and pinned its hopes on the Grandmasters.

• Emperor Qing and Director Chen considered Li Yunrui’s possible involvement in the Border Army rebellion, then concluded that Si Gujian was the likeliest culprit.
• Director Chen reported that the hundred thousand Border Army troops could reach Kyoto’s territory in three days.
• Emperor Qing ordered troops near Kyoto, the Black Riders, the Red Riders, and the Tiger Guards to defend the capital, and sent a messenger to summon Ye Liuyun from Jiangnan.
• Emperor Qing accepted that the outnumbered capital forces might not withstand the battle-hardened Border Army and ordered the city to hold until Ye Liuyun returned.
• Li Yunrui had already sent people to Jiangnan to prevent Ye Liuyun from returning to the capital.
• The mobilized troops entered Kyoto and its gates were sealed, prompting widespread panic as residents and officials hoped the Grandmasters could save the kingdom.

With Kyoto under siege by the Prince’s hundred thousand Border Army troops, Emperor Qing decided to intervene personally after his forces began to falter. He left the palace dressed in black and headed toward the battlefield.

• Emperor Qing learned that Director Chen’s operatives had been intercepted and scolded him and the other officials as the rebel army approached Kyoto.
• The Prince ordered his troops to attack the city, while the Second Prince bowed in submission to him.
• The siege began, and the defenders suffered heavy losses despite Kyoto’s walls and their larger garrison.
• Emperor Qing concluded that he had to act personally and left the palace dressed entirely in black.

Emperor Qing revealed that he was a Grandmaster as he went to confront the siege of the capital, intending to display his power before the court and army. The Prince and Second Prince realized their rebellion had been doomed from the start when Emperor Qing stopped a volley of arrows with a raised hand.

• Emperor Qing decided to act personally, set out for the city gates with Director Chen, Minister Lin, and other ministers, and let his Grandmaster aura emerge.
• General Qin and Director Fan sensed Emperor Qing’s terrifying power and realized that he was the Grandmaster hidden in the palace.
• The Prince’s Border Army and the Second Prince’s private army continued their assault on the capital, while both princes watched the siege progress.
• Emperor Qing appeared atop the city wall just as ten thousand arrows flew toward him.
• Emperor Qing raised one hand and froze the arrows in midair, revealing his Grandmaster strength to the stunned army and court.
• The Prince and Second Prince recognized that Emperor Qing was a Grandmaster and feared the consequences of their rebellion.

Emperor Qing revealed the terrifying power of a Grandmaster, annihilating the Border Army outside the city. He left only the Prince and the Second Prince alive and stood silently before them.

• Emperor Qing turned the arrows fired at the city back against the besieging Border Army, inflicting heavy casualties.
• Emperor Qing formed a gigantic hand of True Qi and slammed it down, killing more than ten thousand soldiers.
• The surviving Border Army soldiers fled as Emperor Qing unleashed his True Qi across the army, crushing the remaining soldiers and warhorses.
• Emperor Qing stood before the Prince and the Second Prince; the Second Prince lowered his head, while the Prince stared at him viciously.