Recaps

Chen Sanshi led Tianyong City in a surprise assault on the demonic army’s lightly guarded Main Camp while the main forces fought at the Great Wall. He activated the Spirit Extinguishing Great Formation and sealed the giant black serpent beneath the mountain, while Meng Guangxin confronted Suili Wu.

• Emperor Tianxi ordered the demonic army to attack the breached Great Wall, and the armies of Great Han and the demons clashed in a brutal battle.
• Xiao Boxu and the other righteous Nascent Soul cultivators fought Elder Suili, Zhao, and their allies, then fell back against the Great Wall as Chen Lei’s whereabouts remained unknown.
• Chen Sanshi arrived at Bone-Eroding Ridge with three thousand Tianyong City cultivators and launched a surprise attack on the demonic Main Camp.
• Wang Zhi and Meng Guangxin fought through the camp, and Meng Guangxin intervened when Suili Wu attacked Chen Sanshi.
• Chen Sanshi activated the Spirit Extinguishing Great Formation, which dragged the giant black serpent from beneath the mountain and sealed it inside the spirit pearl.

Chen Sanshi sealed the demonic army’s malevolent qi veins and killed Young Master Suili, then fought Elder Suili as Xiao Boxu and the others tried to hold back the retreating demons. Elder Suili transformed into a colossal form and overwhelmed Chen Sanshi and Monk Jianzhen, but a Three Tribulations Yuan-Slaying Formation appeared as he closed in on Tianwu.

• Chen Sanshi destroyed the malevolent qi veins at Bone-Eroding Ridge, cutting off the demonic army’s formation power, while Xiao Boxu and the others stopped Zhao’s group from returning to the rear.
• Xiao Boxu fought Suili Yan with his Nascent Soul outside his body, and he saved Feng Qingyan from Emperor Tianxi’s attack while Suili Yan escaped toward Bone-Eroding Ridge.
• Monk Jianzhen drove Young Master Suili into retreat, but Chen Sanshi intercepted him and killed him with his spear and Chaos True Fire as Suili Yan arrived too late to save his nephew.
• Chen Sanshi fought Suili Yan with his armor, movement techniques, and sword phantoms, but his attacks only wounded the Ancient Demon Elder slightly.
• Suili Yan used Heavenly Manifestation of Earth to crush Chen Sanshi’s defenses and blast Monk Jianzhen into a ravine, then advanced toward Tianwu as the Three Tribulations Yuan-Slaying Formation appeared.

Chen Sanshi used the Three Tribulations Yuan-Slaying Formation to battle Suili Yan, but the Ancient Demon Elder broke through its barrier and nearly killed him. Chen Sanshi ultimately killed Suili Yan with a final formation technique and began turning the corpse into a Spirit Puppet.

• Chen Sanshi activated the Three Tribulations Yuan-Slaying Formation, using its Heaven, Earth, and Human tribulations to attack Suili Yan.
• Chen Sanshi joined the formation’s assault and struck Suili Yan with the Luofeng Soul-Locking, leaving the Ancient Demon Elder severely wounded.
• Suili Yan pulled out his own spine to make a spear and sacrificed his blood essence to tear open the formation barrier.
• Chen Sanshi absorbed the damaged formation’s power and released the Return to Ruin Divine Ability, clashing with Suili Yan’s final spear attack.
• Chen Sanshi stabbed Suili Yan through the heart and then cast a spell on the corpse to make a Spirit Puppet.

Chen Sanshi returned from Bone-Eroding Ridge with Suili Yan dead and his body turned into a puppet, helping the defenders defeat the demonic army and hold the Great Wall of Demon Suppression. After resuming cultivation, he developed Arrow Way’s Condense Law into Arrows ability and went to find Mu Chutai for his next cultivation technique.

• Suili Yan arrived at the battlefield, but Chen Sanshi controlled his dead body and attacked Qu Sanyuan, turning the battle in the defenders’ favor.
• Chen Sanshi and the allied cultivators drove Zhao and Qu Sanyuan to flee, then routed the demonic army by revealing Suili Yan’s death and Young Master Suili’s severed head.
• The defenders held the Great Wall of Demon Suppression after a costly battle, and Chen Sanshi learned that reinforcements might come from Kunxu while the Evil God Path Cultivators remained a future threat.
• After half a year of cultivation, Chen Sanshi developed the Arrow Way ability Condense Law into Arrows, allowing him to fire up to five thousand Flowing Light Arrows using his spiritual power.
• Chen Sanshi flew to Five Zhang Plain to find Mu Chutai and request the cultivation technique needed to continue after reaching the Late Golden Body Stage.

Chen Sanshi learned the Heavenly Manifestation of Earth cultivation chant from Mu Chutai while weighing whether to leave the Eastern Continent with Jiang Xiyue. As Chen prepared for reinforcements and continued cultivating, the Heavenly Sword Sect conspired with the demonic path to kill Zhang Huaiqing, and Chen advanced his alchemy to Tier 4.

• Chen Sanshi traded wine, medicinal materials, spirit stones, and other valuables for Mu Chutai's instruction in opening the Seven Orifices and deduced the Fourth Realm cultivation chant through repeated attempts and lashes.
• Mu Chutai urged Chen Sanshi to take Jiang Xiyue to the Myriad Monster Kingdom for safety, but Chen refused to leave before Kunxu Sect reinforcements arrived.
• Chen Sanshi learned that Zhang Huaiqing had reached the Late Nascent Soul Stage and ordered the City Protection Array activated while the Sacred Sect arranged for reinforcements to arrive within two months.
• Rong Roujun and Daoist Master Dongwei secured Zhao's cooperation in a plan to kill Zhang Huaiqing, and Zhao ordered attacks on the Great Wall to distract the defenders.
• Chen Sanshi refined a Tier 4 Spirit Replenishing Pill despite his damaged furnace and advanced his Alchemy skill to Tier 4, gaining the ability to practice Fire Method Alchemy without tools.

Chen Sanshi helped repel Emperor Tianxi’s attack on the Great Wall, but the arrival of a Buddhist Evil God Path cultivator turned the battle against Guangren Dao. The fat monk captured Xiao Boxu’s Golden Firmament Sword with the Sinful Color Reincarnation Pearl.

• Chen Sanshi warned Xiao Boxu to guard Guangren Dao’s formation tokens and remained on the Great Wall as the demonic army waited for Buddhist reinforcements.
• Zhu Tong told Chen Sanshi about his daughter, and Chen Sanshi revealed that Su Can had asked to marry her; Zhu Tong approved.
• The demonic army attacked the C formation node, and Chen Sanshi used his bow to destroy advancing demons while Xiao Boxu fought Zhao, also called Emperor Tianxi.
• Chen Sanshi and Xiao Boxu wounded Zhao, but Buddhist chants from the arriving Evil God Path bewitched the battlefield until Meng Guangxin broke Chen Sanshi’s restraint.
• A fat monk from the Buddhist Evil God Path defeated Xiao Boxu’s Golden Firmament Sword and seized it with the Sinful Color Reincarnation Pearl.

Chen Sanshi and Xiao Boxu were trapped by two Evil God Path cultivators until Mu Qing Ming arrived and drove the attackers away. After the battle, Mu Qing Ming asked Chen Sanshi to reveal Jiang Xiyue’s location, warning that her demon seed could cause the Heavenly Dao to collapse, but Chen Sanshi refused.

• Zen Master Cihang seized Xiao Boxu’s flying sword, and the Mysterious Fiend Spirit Official trapped Chen Sanshi and Xiao Boxu beneath the Sinful Sea Hell Prison Umbrella.
• Chen Sanshi raised the Black Tortoise Mountain Suppressing Formation while Xiao Boxu protected him, and the two prepared to risk their lives to destroy the umbrella.
• Mu Qing Ming arrived and fought Cihang and the Mysterious Fiend Spirit Official, giving Chen Sanshi and Xiao Boxu time to retreat; the Evil God Path forces later withdrew.
• Mu Qing Ming explained that the war was worsening and that even Deity Transformation Cultivators had entered the conflict.
• Mu Qing Ming asked Chen Sanshi where Jiang Xiyue was, warning that her demon seed could cause the Heavenly Dao to collapse, but Chen Sanshi refused to reveal her location.

Chen Sanshi prepared to break through by seeking the spiritual items and destination he needed, while learning more about Jiang Xiyue’s demonic seed and promising to rescue his master’s wife. After advancing his puppet and talisman techniques, he departed for the Myriad Beast Mountain Range and reached Leiming Lin Continent, where he sensed someone following him.

• Mu Qing Ming and another mid-stage Heavenly Azure Tower cultivator arrived at Guangren Dao, easing the defenders’ pressure and giving Chen Sanshi time to prepare for his breakthrough.
• True Person Yuling told Chen Sanshi that Heavenly Gang Primordial Spirit came from a rare Heavenly Gang Tiger in the distant Myriad Beast Mountain Range, and urged him to bring Jiang Xiyue along.
• Mu Chutai revealed that Nangong Qingyao had sealed the demonic seed inside Jiang Xiyue before her birth, and that removing it would kill her; he also said the seed’s fate was unknown and Aunt Qing might still be alive in Kunxu Immortal Prison.
• Chen Sanshi promised Mu Chutai that he would one day rescue his master’s wife, then improved his puppet and talisman techniques and created three powerful puppets.
• Chen Sanshi left Guangren Dao openly, leaving Jiang Xiyue behind temporarily while he traveled to gather what she needed for her tribulation.
• After more than two months of travel, Chen Sanshi reached Leiming Lin Continent and sensed that someone was following him.

Chen Sanshi evaded the Mysterious Fiend Spirit Official, reached Blood Slaughter City, and traced a Heavenly Gang Tiger Kui to Cold Spring Mountain. While scouting the mountain in disguise, he discovered Huang Liulang was conspiring with a Buddhist cultivator to unleash a Beast Tide against the city and kill its returning ruler, True Lord Blood Butcher.

• Chen Sanshi hid in a Tier 4 formation while the Mysterious Fiend Spirit Official and Multi-Eyed Daoist Lord searched for him, then learned they were rushing to aid Leiming Lin Continent against Buddhist forces.
• Chen Sanshi reached Blood Refining City and posted a bounty for Heavenly Gang Primordial Spirit Marrow, but the Lin Clan shopkeeper instead directed him toward a Heavenly Gang Tiger Kui on Cold Spring Mountain.
• Chen Sanshi learned that the Tiger Kui, Huang Liulang, had repeatedly attacked the city and that Blood Slaughter City was under martial law amid growing threats.
• Chen Sanshi disguised himself in a wolf demon's hide and infiltrated Huang Liulang's palace, where he discovered a Buddhist Lay Disciple was urging Huang Liulang to unleash a Beast Tide in seven days.
• Huang Liulang agreed to help the Buddhist sects attack the city, and the two planned to intercept and kill True Lord Blood Butcher before he returned.

Chen Sanshi uncovered Huang Liulang’s plot against Lü Ji and reunited with Nie Yuan before they hurried to Great Crow Mountain. There, Lü Ji fought Huang Liulang and Li Youwei’s ambush, and the chapter ended as Lü Ji tried to flee after hearing Nie Yuan was trapped.

• Chen Sanshi overheard Huang Liulang planning to ambush True Lord Blood Butcher and attack the city, then recognized Lü Ji and Nie Yuan’s statues in the temple.
• Chen Sanshi forced his way past the city guards, revealed himself to Nie Yuan, and warned him that Lü Ji was in danger.
• Chen Sanshi and Nie Yuan learned Lü Ji was nearing Great Crow Mountain, and they set out to reach him.
• Huang Liulang ambushed Lü Ji’s army at Great Crow Mountain, where Lü Ji crushed thousands of attackers and began fighting Huang Liulang.
• Li Youwei joined the battle with Golden Cymbals, and their sound attacks put Lü Ji at a disadvantage while killing soldiers on both sides.
• Huang Liulang claimed Nie Yuan was imprisoned in his cave, and Lü Ji tried to flee before realizing he had missed his best chance.

Lu Ji was trapped and badly wounded by Huang Liulang and Li Youwei, but Chen Sanshi and Nie Yuan arrived to help. Chen Sanshi activated the Three Tribulations Yuan-Slaying Formation and defeated Huang Liulang, who transformed into a Heavenly Gang Tiger Beast before falling under the combined assault.

• Li Youwei trapped Lu Ji between the Golden Cymbals while Huang Liulang attacked, leaving Lu Ji gravely wounded.
• Lu Ji began burning his divine rank, but Chen Sanshi and Nie Yuan arrived and helped him recover enough to keep fighting.
• Chen Sanshi revealed a Tier 4 formation set and activated the Three Tribulations Yuan-Slaying Formation around the group.
• Chen Sanshi used the formation and his spear to overwhelm Huang Liulang and leave him badly wounded.
• Huang Liulang transformed into a Heavenly Gang Tiger Beast, but Chen Sanshi pierced his skull and the formation’s three tribulations delivered the fatal blow.

Chen Sanshi helped Lu Ji and Nie Yuan defeat Li Youwei and Huang Liulang, then joined his senior brothers in abandoning Blood Slaughter City to avoid a Buddhist siege. They reached a secluded mortal land where Chen Sanshi prepared to undergo the Mortal Tribulation before attempting to form his Nascent Soul.

• Chen Sanshi used a Body-Fixing Talisman to immobilize Li Youwei, and Blood Butcher struck him down before Chen Sanshi finished him with a spear.
• Lu Ji explained how he had become the Wutong God’s High Priest, attained the Killing God Fruit Position, and built his own following.
• Lu Ji decided to abandon Blood Slaughter City rather than face the Buddhist army, and he agreed to take his group north to aid Tianshui in its war against the Demon Saber.
• The group left the city, and Monk Xuan Du’s army arrived later and occupied the deserted settlement instead of pursuing them.
• Lu Ji and Nie Yuan brought Chen Sanshi to a secluded valley in Great Qi Kingdom with a fourth-rank spirit vein, where he began considering how to undergo the Mortal Tribulation.

Chen Sanshi spent five years living as a hunter in Guniu Town during his Mortal Tribulation, then secretly guided the Zhang brothers to raise a rebellion against the corrupt Great Qi court. As their army grew powerful, Buddhist Saintess Miaotan revealed that she had recognized him by the unusual karma surrounding him.

• Chen Sanshi settled with the Zhang family in Guniu Town and kept watch on Mu Qing Ming while undergoing his Mortal Tribulation.
• Over several years, famine, plague, corruption, and war devastated the region, while the Zhang family fell apart and Zhang An regretted deceiving the poor with fake Talisman Water.
• Chen Sanshi urged Zhang Ping and Zhang An to fight the court and gave them a plan to seize Qing'an County's granary and gather support.
• The Zhang brothers raised an army that grew to hundreds of thousands and dominated two provinces, with Chen Sanshi serving as their strategist without using spells or martial arts.
• Miaotan entered Chen Sanshi's tent with a young bald man and explained that she had recognized him through the rare sight of karmic slaughter and evil entwined with great compassion.

Chen Sanshi confronted Miaotan over his role in the civil war, then rode alone to rescue the Zhang brothers from Venerable Tian Xuan and Prince Duan. As Tian Xuan’s flying sword threatened him, Chen Sanshi hesitated over whether saving them would ruin his Mortal Tribulation and his path to the Nascent Soul realm.

• Miaotan warned Chen Sanshi to stop interfering in the war, arguing that his actions had caused mass deaths and endangered his Mortal Tribulation.
• A soldier reported that Venerable Tian Xuan had trapped the Zhang brothers at Fenglong Gorge, and Chen Sanshi learned that fighting him with cultivation would violate his Mortal Tribulation precept.
• Tian Xuan overwhelmed the Yongle Army and prepared to kill Zhang Ping and Zhang An, but Prince Duan ordered him to draw out their strategist, Mister Shi.
• Chen Sanshi rode alone through the imperial army and reached the mountaintop, where Prince Duan demanded that he submit and Tian Xuan threatened him with a flying sword.
• Hui Kong warned Chen Sanshi that failing the Mortal Tribulation could cost him his chance to reach the Nascent Soul realm, while Chen Sanshi wondered whether saving the Zhang brothers was worth that risk.

Chen Sanshi realized that his Dao lay in protecting Great Han and the common people, and he passed the Mortal Tribulation without abandoning his mortal ties. After returning to Mount Daiyun, he prepared for and began his Nascent Soul breakthrough, but the final lightning strike descended as he lay gravely wounded.

• Chen Sanshi rejected the idea that he had to sever his mortal ties, then killed Venerable Tian Xuan with a glance as the golden flying sword stopped before him.
• Zhang An killed Prince Duan, and the Yongle army regrouped, captured the nearby city, and won a major victory by daybreak.
• Chen Sanshi warned Zhang An to rule for the people and avoid massacres, then left Great Qi as Master Miaotan and Hui Kong wondered how he had passed the Mortal Tribulation.
• At Mount Daiyun, Chen Sanshi refined a Nascent Soul Pill, completed the Mysterious Star Array, and began his breakthrough after preparing in seclusion.
• Chen Sanshi endured the first forty-six lightning strikes with his physique and formation, but the Mysterious Star Array broke and the lightning shattered his body.
• As Chen Sanshi fell, the final lightning strike gathered into a vast waterfall of lightning dragons and descended upon him.

Chen Sanshi survived an unusually powerful lightning tribulation and broke through to the Nascent Soul Stage before returning to Five Zhang Plain. There, he reunited with his martial brothers and learned that an Evil God Path Cultivator had infiltrated Guangren Dao, while the Buddhist sect’s actions appeared aimed at gaining entry to Tianshui Continent.

• Chen Sanshi used the remnants of the lightning tribulation to form a Nascent Soul, and his Fire Swallowing Art gained the ability to scorch an opponent’s Nascent Soul.
• After hearing that Elder Xu Taisu wanted the Tier 5 formation restored at Five Zhang Plain, Chen Sanshi changed his plans and traveled there with Lu Ji and Nie Yuan.
• Chen Sanshi visited Zhang An to say farewell, rejected the new emperor’s request to learn an Immortal Method, and left Great Tang.
• At Five Zhang Plain, Chen Sanshi reunited with Wang Zhi and the other martial brothers, who learned that Lu Ji had become a Fourth Realm cultivator.
• Chen Sanshi reviewed reports that people were dying mysteriously in Guangren Dao and that investigators had found signs of Cihang from the Evil God Path.
• Chen Sanshi suspected the Buddhist sect had used its campaign against the Evil God Nations to pressure Tianshui into allowing Buddhist teachings, temples, and incense offerings on the continent.

Chen Sanshi searched for Cihang and discovered that a hidden conspiracy involved a blood-fueled formation and a traitor with access to the City Protection Array tokens. While he and Lu Ji secretly watched Cihang meet Rong Roujun and Daoist Master Dongwei, Cihang sensed their presence and called Chen Sanshi out.

• Chen Sanshi warned Mu Qing Ming that Cihang might have had help entering Guangren Dao, and Mu Qing Ming secretly investigated the elders.
• An elder reported that Shangguan Yunzhi had exchanged letters with the Demonic Sect, so Mu Qing Ming ordered the City Protection Array tokens retrieved and Shangguan watched.
• Chen Sanshi and Lu Ji found a village shrine dedicated to Cihang, then used Lu Ji's killing intent to locate a remote temple built around a blood-soaked altar.
• Chen Sanshi realized Cihang was preparing a formation and suspected that the plot depended on obtaining the tokens that controlled the Great Wall of Demon Suppression.
• Hidden inside the temple, Chen Sanshi and Lu Ji watched Rong Roujun and Daoist Master Dongwei deliver Gu Worms and urge Cihang to finish the formation.
• Cihang sensed Chen Sanshi nearby, activated the temple's barrier, and called him out.

Chen Sanshi and Lu Ji fought their way out of a temple ambush, but Chen Sanshi was chased by two powerful enemies while Lu Ji escaped. At Five Zhang Plain, Mu Qing Ming prepared to lead Shangguan Yunzhi on a sortie to disrupt the demonic army’s mysterious formation.

• Chen Sanshi’s arrows overwhelmed Daoist Master Dongwei, while Lu Ji ambushed Rong Roujun and fought her as Zen Master Cihang attacked Chen Sanshi.
• Cihang summoned reinforcements, and Chen Sanshi and Lu Ji escaped the temple only to be intercepted by Multi-Eyed Daoist Lord; Chen Sanshi broke free of his illusion and survived the attack.
• Chen Sanshi sent Lu Ji away to seek help, then fled from Cihang and Multi-Eyed Daoist Lord while Rong Roujun and Dongwei pursued Lu Ji but failed to stop him.
• Rong Roujun revealed that she had warned Zhao Rui to begin the plan early, while she and Dongwei hoped the formation would soon be complete.
• At Five Zhang Plain, Mu Qing Ming saw the demonic army assembling a powerful, unfamiliar formation and chose to lead Shangguan Yunzhi out to destroy it.
• Mu Qing Ming distributed command tokens to Xiao Boxu, Feng Qingyan, and an Outer Sect Elder before preparing for the sortie.

Mu Qing Ming and Shangguan Yunzhi fell into a Demonic Path trap while the army attacked the Great Wall, where Feng Qingyan revealed himself as the traitor. Feng Qingyan poisoned and killed Xiao Boxu, then gathered the city-defense tokens, leaving the city’s defenses compromised.

• Mu Qing Ming led Shangguan Yunzhi and several disciples toward the Demonic Path formation, where Zhao and Qu Sanyuan trapped him and revealed that Shangguan Yunzhi’s disciple Lan’er had died after refusing to cooperate.
• Shangguan Yunzhi explained that she had contacted the Demonic Path to try to rescue Lan’er, and she and Mu Qing Ming tried to return to the Great Wall as Emperor Tianxi ordered the army to attack.
• Xiao Boxu and Feng Qingyan defended the Great Wall while Mu Qing Ming was held back, but Feng Qingyan betrayed Xiao Boxu and admitted he was the informant.
• Feng Qingyan’s poisoned pills weakened Xiao Boxu, and he and a Ghost Cultivator killed him despite his refusal to surrender the city-defense token.
• Li Feng witnessed Xiao Boxu’s death and tried to flee, but Feng Qingyan killed him and took the tokens from both bodies, completing the set of three.

Feng Qingyan shut down the City Protection Array, allowing the Blood Demon Army to seize the Great Wall and forcing Mu Qing Ming and the defenders to retreat to Juqiao City. Chen Sanshi escaped two Evil God Path Cultivators and joined the besieged defenders, while the Demonic Sect prepared an array and waited for Tianxi’s martial uncle.

• Feng Qingyan used the three tokens to deactivate the City Protection Array, and the Blood Demon Army stormed the Great Wall.
• Shangguan Yunzhi identified Feng Qingyan as the traitor, and Mu Qing Ming ordered the defenders to retreat to Juqiao City.
• Chen Sanshi fought Multi-Eyed Daoist Lord and Cihang, used a Calming Talisman and a nurtured Sun-Burning Talisman to escape, and learned that the Great Wall had fallen.
• Chen Sanshi entered Juqiao City, where he and Mu Qing Ming discussed the need to contact Kunxu and hold out against the siege.
• Multi-Eyed Daoist Lord told Tianxi that the array was complete, and Tianxi said his martial uncle was on the way.

Chen Sanshi and Mu Qing Ming failed to break out of Juqiao City after Xian Kui Sect’s Grand Elder Feilian stopped them, and Mu Qing Ming used a talisman treasure to teleport them back. Chen Sanshi realized the demonic army was using the siege to lure Zhang Huaiqing to Guangren Dao, but Xuancheng then announced that Huaiqing was already approaching with a Sacred Sect Elder.

• Chen Sanshi and Mu Qing Ming tried to escape through the Nine Heavens Demon Purging Thundercloud Great Formation, but Mysterious Fiend Spirit Official and Feng Qingyan intercepted them.
• Feilian arrived and overwhelmed Chen Sanshi, then struck Mu Qing Ming down with his flying sword; Mu Qing Ming teleported them both back to Juqiao City with a talisman treasure.
• Mu Qing Ming estimated that Kunxu reinforcements would take more than forty days to arrive, while the defenders feared Feilian could help breach Juqiao City within five days.
• Little Sixteen told Chen Sanshi that Xu Taisu had said Zhang Huaiqing was on his way and urged Chen Sanshi to repair the Primordial Great Formation.
• After five days without an attack, Chen Sanshi deduced that the demonic army was using Juqiao City as bait to lure Zhang Huaiqing, but he could not send a warning.
• Xuancheng announced that Zhang Huaiqing had already fought his way outside Guangren Dao with a Sacred Sect Elder and would soon arrive to lift the siege.

Zhang Huaiqing arrived at Guangren Dao and battled Feilian and the demonic cultivators, but the enemy completed the Inverted Seven Sufferings Reincarnation Great Formation. He retreated with the trapped cultivators into Juqiao City as the formation began consuming the city’s people, while the demonic forces hurried its refinement.

• Chen Sanshi warned Zhang Huaiqing to observe from outside Guangren Dao, but Zhang Huaiqing descended and confronted Zhao and the demonic forces.
• Zhang Huaiqing defeated Qu Sanyuan’s attack, bound Feng Qingyan, and fought Feilian with the Cloud Chi Zhu Lan Sword and the Mirage Skull Sword.
• Xu Taisu and other Nascent Soul Cultivators entered Guangren Dao to support the trapped defenders, but Chen Sanshi warned them that the area was a trap as the formation sealed the region.
• The Inverted Seven Sufferings Reincarnation Great Formation transformed Juqiao City into a living, devouring cage and began driving its inhabitants mad.
• Zhang Huaiqing recognized the Tier 5 formation and withdrew with the cultivators into Juqiao City, while Zen Master Cihang estimated that its refinement would take twenty to fifty days.
• Zhao ordered the demonic forces to accelerate the formation, even if doing so destroyed Guangren Dao’s spirit vein.

Trapped in Juqiao City and Guangren Dao, cultivators and soldiers struggled against the Inverted Samsara Great Formation while searching for a way to survive. Qi Cheng used divination to identify a mysterious visitor as their turning point, as Master Miaotan sent Hui Kong into Guangren Dao to contact Tianwu.

• Zhang Huaiqing asked Gongsun Baorui, Chen Sanshi, and other formation experts to seek a way to break the formation, while cultivators argued over whether the Heavenly Sword Sect was responsible.
• A false Origin Lightning Tribulation drew Chen Sanshi and the other cultivators toward its apparent location, but the thunderclouds vanished without a trace.
• Xiong Qiuan weakened under the formation’s influence, and Zhao Kang urged the old generals to endure while Qi Cheng warned Dongfang Jingxing that ordinary soldiers and weaker cultivators were dying in large numbers.
• Qi Cheng performed divination using candles, a tortoise shell, and Copper Coins, then told Dongfang Jingxing to have the Emperor meet someone at Jufeng Mountain before midnight.
• Master Miaotan and Hui Kong arrived outside Guangren Dao, and Miaotan sent Hui Kong through the barrier to contact Tianwu.

Chen Sanshi brought Monk Hui Kong to Juqiao City, where the Buddhist disciple and the city’s Formation Masters began weakening the Inverted Great Formation. As the trapped cultivators welcomed the promised arrival of Shentu Hai, the Heavenly Sword Sect’s Supreme Elder revealed his betrayal and watched demonic cultivators slaughter the messengers.

• Chen Sanshi rescued Monk Hui Kong from demonic cultivators outside Jufeng Mountain and brought him to Juqiao City to help break the Inverted Great Formation.
• Monk Hui Kong led the city’s Formation Masters in using Buddhist light to damage the barrier, while Zhang Huaiqing urged Chen Sanshi to repair the Primordial Formation.
• Miaotan burned her source blood essence to weaken the formation’s core, and the demonic forces learned that the barrier could now be broken from within.
• Lin Xuzhou returned with news that Shentu Hai would come to Juqiao City, raising the trapped cultivators’ hopes of rescue.
• Shentu Hai arrived with Wang Shouzhi and the Heavenly Sword Sect’s Twelve Elders, then ordered the demonic cultivators to attack Lin Xuzhou’s returning messengers.
• Shentu Hai stood by as the messengers were killed, revealing to the people in Juqiao City that he had come to slaughter them rather than save them.

Shentu Hai betrayed the demonic cultivators and trapped them with the Heaven-and-Earth Inverted Great Formation, while Chen Sanshi prepared to leave Juqiao City to strengthen his divine sense and find a way to break the formation. He entered the teleportation array with Mu Qing Ming and Mu Chutai, as Gongsun Baorui offered to join them.

• The cultivators in Juqiao City tried to break the formation, but Wang Shouzhi and the Heavenly Sword Sect repaired it and sealed them in.
• Shentu Hai refused Zhang Huaiqing's demand to spare the city and revealed that he intended to eliminate both the city’s cultivators and the demonic cultivators to conceal his scheme.
• Rong Roujun and Daoist Master Dongwei used Nine Profound Formation Core Gu Worms to seize control of the Inverted Great Formation and trap Zhao, Cihang, and the demonic army.
• Hui Kong explained that the formation could no longer be broken by the original method, so Zhang Huaiqing asked Chen Sanshi to go to a distant valley to strengthen his divine sense.
• Chen Sanshi accepted Zhang Huaiqing's storage talisman, chose Mu Qing Ming as a companion, and watched Mu Chutai rush into the teleportation array; Gongsun Baorui offered to go as well.