Recaps

Wang Jixuan used his Strange Soul and time-based tricks to lure the Dark Cult immortals into an antimatter-bomb ambush inside the Small World. The Small World then shattered and merged with the Immortal Realm, exposing the battle and its casualties to the outside.

• Wang Jixuan’s Strange Soul confronted the Dark Cult immortals, taunted Black Obsidian, and suggested that the entity directing them might be Brahma rather than the true Heavenly Dao.
• Elder Hou attacked Wang Jixuan’s Strange Soul, which retreated through the Small World’s formations and entered a Bionic Mech in a pavilion.
• Black Obsidian directed the Dark Cult immortals to attack from a distance, and Elder Hou destroyed the pavilion with a shot from his Long Bow.
• Wang Jixuan used the Great Dao of Time to slow the immortals and detonated antimatter bombs, killing several Dark Cult Heavenly Immortals and draining many others.
• Black Obsidian recognized the time-based ambush too late, and more than a dozen immortals rushed into the pavilion’s former location as Wang Jixuan’s Main Body triggered five Black Holes.
• The Small World shattered and merged with the Immortal Realm, revealing the battlefield and the vaporized immortals as radiation and shockwaves spread into the surrounding sea.

Wang Jixuan survived the Small World’s destruction by possessing a wounded Dark Cult Heavenly Immortal, while Peony stirred up hostility between the Dark Cult and the Feather God Palace. As the factions gathered near the divine tree, Wang Jixuan prepared to use his disguised puppet to attack the Dark Cult from within.

• Wang Jixuan turned the Dragon Python Strange Soul around, possessed a wounded Dark Cult Heavenly Immortal, and refined the body into a new puppet.
• Peony refused Wang Jixuan’s order to attack the approaching immortals and instead spread warnings that the Dark Cult had set a trap near the divine tree.
• Peony used directional sound fields to make the Dark Cult and the Feather God Palace insult each other, bringing the two groups to the brink of battle.
• Two Dark Cult immortals found Wang Jixuan’s supposedly unconscious puppet and carried him into the air toward the confrontation.
• Wang Jixuan concealed his demonic energy and prepared to use the Heart-Devouring Soul-Snatching Art on the Dark Cult immortals.

Wang Jixuan used his Strange Soul to provoke a battle between the Dark Cult and Feather God Palace while searching for a chance to deploy his Annihilation Bombs. The fighting stopped when reinforcements arrived, and Wang Jixuan recognized the Dark Cult’s Venerable Zhihui as a True Immortal he had killed six hundred thousand years earlier.

• Wang Jixuan’s demonic voice stirred a Dark Cult Heavenly Immortal’s resentment, prompting him to attack Feather God Palace and ignite a battle between the factions.
• Wang Jixuan secretly worsened the fighting while Peony used sound-field devices to agitate the combatants, and other factions rushed toward the divine wood.
• Feather God Palace sent tens of thousands of immortal soldiers and overwhelmed the Dark Cult, while Han Xiao searched for Wang Jixuan and led the Thousand Worlds Alliance toward the divine wood.
• Wang Jixuan hid his true body aboard a Thousand Worlds Alliance Treasure Ship as the Dark Cult’s forces began to falter and Feather God Palace summoned another wave of reinforcements.
• Wang Jixuan recognized Venerable Zhihui, a Dark Cult Golden Immortal, as a True Immortal he had killed six hundred thousand years earlier.
• Venerable Zhihui ordered the Dark Cult to stop fighting, and both sides withdrew as she and Feather God Palace’s leader reprimanded their commanders.

Wang Jixuan watched the Dark Cult and Feather God Palace end their battle and make a temporary deal over the Fusang Divine Wood. After he decided against provoking the divine wood and planned to infiltrate the Dark Cult Headquarters, a formidable sword-wielding immortal appeared, threatening to reignite the conflict.

• Venerable Zhihui and Feather God Palace's Vice Palace Master halted the fighting, then agreed that Feather God Palace would help locate the Mechanical Fiend while the Dark Cult guarded the divine wood's western side.
• As the two forces advanced toward the Fusang Divine Wood, hidden cultivators mocked them, and Feather God Palace's Vice Palace Master threatened anyone who tried to harm the tree.
• Peony proposed making the Fusang Divine Wood reject Feather God Palace's claim, but Wang Jixuan declined to provoke her and chose to pursue an infiltration of the Dark Cult Headquarters instead.
• Wang Jixuan planned to announce secluded cultivation before separating his Main Body from his foreign soul, while Feather God Palace prepared to secure the divine wood.
• A powerful middle-aged immortal appeared wielding a blackened, spiritually potent sword, drawing the attention of the factions and Wang Jixuan.

Wang Jixuan watched as the Sword, Fire, and Spear God Palaces arrived to contest the Feather God Palace and Dark Cult over the Fusang Divine Wood’s spirit. Just as the factions seemed to settle on an arena to decide who would claim it, the Spirit of the Divine Wood rejected their authority.

• Wang Jixuan and Peony discussed the powerful newcomers, the Strange Soul Puppet, and why Black Obsidian should remain intact.
• Nine Spirits Sword Venerable challenged Huang Langyu and offered to take the Fusang Divine Wood’s core to forge a spirit sword.
• The Fire God Palace arrived, followed by the Spear God Palace, and Luo Tianjin backed Nine Spirits Sword Venerable against the Feather God Palace.
• Venerable Zhihui proposed an arena where young talents could compete for the Spirit of the Divine Wood, and Huang Langyu agreed.
• The Spirit of the Divine Wood shouted at the gathered factions to leave and declared that they had no right to decide where it belonged.

Wang Jixuan watched Nine Spirits Sword Venerable defeat Huang Langyu and claim Xiao Sang, then kept his Strange Soul Puppet hidden among the Dark Cult as the factions arranged an arena. When Venerable Zhihui used the Heavenly Dao to select challengers, Wang Jixuan’s puppet was chosen and ordered to go last despite his injuries.

• Xiao Sang rejected being captured, but Huang Langyu insisted the Feather God Palace could reincarnate her and the factions argued over her fate.
• Nine Spirits Sword Venerable struck Huang Langyu down, then announced that Xiao Sang belonged to him and challenged others to climb a thirty-three-step Cloud Ladder to receive his sword strike.
• A crimson sun and a bloodstained broken sword confronted one another before vanishing, while the other powers backed away from challenging Sword Nine.
• Wang Jixuan stayed disguised as an injured Dark Cult Heavenly Immortal and listened as Venerable Zhihui warned that the Heavenly Dao Tablet had detected the Mechanical Fiend nearby.
• Venerable Zhihui selected ten Dark Cult challengers with jade slips guided by Heavenly Dao Power, and Wang Jixuan’s puppet was chosen and told to go last.

Wang Jixuan used his disguised Dark Cult identity to climb the Cloud Ladder and secretly study the Nine Spirits Sword Venerable’s sword intent. When Zhihui sent two Celestial Immortals to retrieve him, he resisted and climbed higher, but a fellow Dark Cult Immortal recognized his changed cultivation and drew hostile attention to him.

• Wang Jixuan realized Zhihui had assigned him to bring up the rear because she mistook his disguise for a badly injured low-ranking Celestial Immortal, and he began comprehending the Cloud Ladder’s sword intent instead of obeying her order to climb higher.
• The Fire God Palace and Feather God Palace talents, followed by the Dark Cult Immortals and independent cultivators, climbed the Cloud Ladder and began meditating on its sword intent.
• Wang Jixuan’s Main Body made rapid progress in transforming his Azure Reed Sword Intent while Zhihui grew angry that his puppet ignored her repeated commands.
• Zhihui sent Elder Hou’s subordinates to bring Wang Jixuan back, but he evaded them by climbing to the eleventh and then fourteenth levels, claiming his injuries had healed and his cultivation had improved.
• A female Dark Cult Immortal recognized Zheng Yunxi and questioned when he had switched from Water Cloud Dao to demonic cultivation, drawing dozens of oppressive auras onto Wang Jixuan’s puppet.

Wang Jixuan was exposed as the Mechanical Fiend and climbed the Cloud Ladder to the twenty-sixth level while the Dark Cult tried to capture him. With Nine Spirits Sword Venerable protecting the arena and Elder Hou coming after him, Wang Jixuan prepared to confront the Golden Immortal rather than flee.

• Venerable Zhihui identified Wang Jixuan as suspicious, but he leaped from the fifth level to the twenty-fourth and then climbed to the twenty-sixth while two Dark Cult Heavenly Immortals were trapped below.
• A young girl from Fire God Palace ignored a Dark Cult elder's plea to stop Wang Jixuan, and Wang Jixuan abandoned his attempt to climb higher when the sword intent above threatened his puppet.
• Wang Jixuan contacted Luo Tianjin for help, and Luo Tianjin ordered his people to prepare to save him; Han Xiao also mobilized the Thousand Worlds Alliance to intervene.
• Nine Spirits Sword Venerable wounded Dark Cult Immortals who approached the Cloud Ladder and barred them from disturbing his arena, but allowed Elder Hou to climb and challenge Wang Jixuan.
• Wang Jixuan used Peony's simulation comprehension system to study the sword intent, then descended toward Elder Hou and drew a treasured sword to face him.

Wang Jixuan fought Elder Hou on the Cloud Ladder, using his sword intents and burning his puppet body to wound the Golden Immortal. After unleashing Starry Sky Sword Intent, he left Elder Hou injured and pinned by Nine Spirits Sword Venerable, but the divine tree intervened as the Dark Cult sought to take him.

• Wang Jixuan challenged Elder Hou, but the Golden Immortal broke through his sword attacks and overwhelmed him with superior immortal power.
• Wang Jixuan burned his puppet body's Immortal Body and used Azure Reed Sword Intent to wound Elder Hou, drawing cheers from the Spear God Palace and Thousand Worlds Alliance.
• Elder Hou struck Wang Jixuan with golden light, but Wang Jixuan escaped to the twenty-sixth level of the Cloud Ladder.
• Wang Jixuan used Starry Sky Sword Intent in a final attack, leaving Elder Hou wounded and his puppet body near collapse.
• Nine Spirits Sword Venerable pinned Elder Hou's primordial spirit, and the divine tree enveloped Wang Jixuan's puppet as a timid voice challenged the Sword Person.

The Fusang Divine Wood gave Wang Jixuan a Divine Wood Blessing, restoring and strengthening his puppet incarnation and Dragon Python Strange Soul. After consulting Peony, Wang Jixuan defeated Elder Hou with his sword intent, prompting the Nine Spirits Sword Venerable to intervene and leave Wang Jixuan free to ascend the Cloud Ladder.

• The Fusang Divine Wood poured its Power of Origin into Wang Jixuan's puppet incarnation, and the Nine Spirits Sword Venerable protected him from Elder Hou's attack.
• Wang Jixuan received the Divine Wood Blessing as his Dragon Python Strange Soul and Immortal Body grew stronger, while Peony advised him to challenge the Nine Spirits Sword Venerable and helped him prepare to face Elder Hou.
• Elder Hou rose with a bloodstained greatsword and a bronze cauldron, intending to kill Wang Jixuan with a powerful attack.
• Wang Jixuan used Peony's predictions and his Close to the Dao sword intent to evade Elder Hou's strikes and place the Moonlight Sword at Elder Hou's chest.
• The Nine Spirits Sword Venerable blasted Elder Hou off the Cloud Ladder and destroyed his cauldron, then Wang Jixuan saluted him and headed for the thirty-second level.

Wang Jixuan revealed his identity and climbed the Cloud Ladder to challenge Nine Spirits Sword Venerable, hoping to become his disciple. After their swords clashed and the Moonlight Sword shattered, Nine Spirits accepted Wang Jixuan as his disciple and confronted Venerable Zhihui about hunting him.

• Black Obsidian concluded that the Dark Cult had to begin its mechanical plan ahead of schedule after Elder Hou’s defeat.
• Wang Jixuan revealed himself to Han Xiao, declined the Thousand Worlds Alliance’s protection, and climbed the Cloud Ladder toward the final tier.
• Wang Jixuan reached Nine Spirits Sword Venerable and asked both to become his disciple and to challenge him.
• Wang Jixuan and Nine Spirits Sword Venerable exchanged a strike that shattered the Moonlight Sword, and Nine Spirits stopped his blade before Wang Jixuan’s chest.
• Nine Spirits Sword Venerable accepted Wang Jixuan as his disciple, gave him a Greatsword, and placed Xiao Sang inside it as its potential spirit.
• Nine Spirits Sword Venerable turned to Venerable Zhihui and asked whether she had hunted his disciple.

Wang Jixuan became Nine Spirits Sword Venerable’s disciple after his Way of the Sword was destroyed, while Luo Tianjin warned that Wang’s tangled history made him central to a greater calamity. The chapter ended with the Dark Cult discussing the Mechanical Army and Feather God Palace discovering two Annihilation Bombs near the Fusang Divine Wood.

• Wang Jixuan accepted the destruction of his old sword path and prepared to travel with Nine Spirits Sword Venerable to the Sword God Palace dojo.
• Luo Tianjin warned Nine Spirits Sword Venerable about Wang Jixuan’s connections to the Dark Cult, Heavenly Net, Moon God Palace, and a looming calamity, then gave Wang a jade talisman that could summon Spear God Palace troops.
• Nine Spirits Sword Venerable asked Wang Jixuan about his former teachers and decided to take him to meet the Sword God Palace elders.
• Venerable Zhihui killed a Dark Cult Immortal in anger, then told the Fourth Vice Cult Master that the Mechanical Fiend had become Nine Spirits Sword Venerable’s disciple.
• The Fourth Vice Cult Master summoned Special Envoy Hei Yao to explain the Mechanical Army being developed under Heavenly Dao Tablet orders.
• Feather God Palace elders received two Annihilation Bombs that had been dug up near the Fusang Divine Wood.

Wang Jixuan joined Sword God Palace as Nine Spirits Sword Venerable’s disciple and learned about the ancient war between humanity and the demon race. After Feather God Palace’s Annihilation Bombs exploded, its master led experts toward Sword God Palace to confront the “Mechanical Fiend.”

• Peony told Wang Jixuan that Feather God Palace had seized two Annihilation Bombs, and he asked Nine Spirits Sword Venerable whether Feather God Palace was an enemy.
• The Annihilation Bombs detonated inside Feather God Palace’s main hall after its people tried to open them, and Wang Jixuan reported the explosion to Nine Spirits Sword Venerable.
• Nine Spirits Sword Venerable explained the ancient enmity between humanity and the demon race, described the Eight Great Immortal Palaces, and brought Wang Jixuan to Sword God Palace’s cultivation ground.
• Wang Jixuan told Nine Spirits Sword Venerable that he wanted to overthrow the Heavenly Dao, and Nine Spirits Sword Venerable led him to meet Sword God Palace’s elders.
• At the Thousand Worlds Alliance, Murong Zhengyi decided to take the alliance to Sword God Palace to support Wang Jixuan, but a messenger reported that the Feather God Palace Master was leading experts there to settle accounts with the Mechanical Fiend.

Wang Jixuan introduced Nine Spirits Sword Venerable to the Mechanical Civilization and warned him about Brahma, then began learning the Way of the Sword under his new master. When the Feather God Palace arrived to demand Wang Jixuan over the deaths of its Ancient King bloodline, Sword God Palace refused and called on him to face them.

• Wang Jixuan showed Nine Spirits Sword Venerable the Second Base and explained Peony’s role in the Mechanical Civilization and the threat posed by Brahma.
• Nine Spirits Sword Venerable agreed to report Brahma to the elders but warned Wang Jixuan to stay close and cultivate the Way of the Sword.
• Nine Spirits Sword Venerable taught Wang Jixuan foundational sword techniques and promised to create a Wood Attribute sword intent for them to study.
• The Feather God Palace arrived at Sword God Palace, and Huang Langyu accused Wang Jixuan of killing members of the Feather Clan’s Ancient King bloodline with dharma artifacts.
• Jian Wu and Jian San defended Wang Jixuan, rejected Huang Langyu’s demand to hand him over, and Jian Wu invited him to appear and reason with the Feather God Palace.

Wang Jixuan defended himself against Huang Langyu’s accusations, then joined the Sword God Palace in an Immortal Palace Death Match against the Feather God Palace. After the Sword God Palace took seven of the first eight rounds, Wang Jixuan faced Yu Ling and prepared to fight with his ingenious devices rather than a sword.

• Wang Jixuan accused the Feather God Palace of stealing and destroying his treasure, and Huang Langyu challenged the Sword God Palace to an Immortal Palace Death Match.
• Jian Wu accepted a nine-round match with equal-realm fighters, and Bai Ning won the first round by defeating Yu Qifeng.
• The Sword God Palace won five of the next seven rounds and drew one, putting it ahead by seven matches.
• Jian Wu offered to concede the ninth round, but Wang Jixuan insisted on fighting Yu Ling, the Feather God Palace’s leading young genius.
• Wang Jixuan announced that he would not use a sword, then released Ingenious Puppets and mushroom bombs before hiding among the clouds.

Wang Jixuan used time-based control, Mechs, lasers, and nuclear bombs to defeat Yu Ling in the life-and-death duel, forcing Feather God Palace to concede. As Feather God Palace put a bounty on him, the Thousand Worlds Alliance unexpectedly offered a reward for protecting him, and an arriving elder called him “Senior.”

• Wang Jixuan restrained Yu Ling with the laws of time while eating barbecue and having his Mechs prepare weapons around him.
• Wang Jixuan ordered lasers to drain Yu Ling’s divine power, then detonated 360 nuclear bombs around him.
• The blast destroyed Yu Ling’s body, leaving his primordial spirit and a bloodstained golden arrow; Wang Jixuan took the arrow and gave it to Jian Wu.
• Huang Langyu conceded the duel, and Wang Jixuan released Yu Ling’s primordial spirit to him.
• Huang Langyu announced a bounty on Wang Jixuan, then the Thousand Worlds Alliance offered a reward to anyone who protected him.
• An excited elder from the arriving Thousand Worlds Alliance forces reached Wang Jixuan and called him “Senior.”

Wang Jixuan reunited with Murong Zhengyi and the elders of the Thousand Worlds Alliance, then learned that the Dark Cult had begun massacring entire cities across the Lower Realm. The gathering ended with Sword Nine promising to help the Alliance, while the threat below remained unresolved.

• Murong Zhengyi recognized Wang Jixuan, wept over the six hundred thousand years he had spent protecting their people, and reunited with the elders of the Thousand Worlds Alliance.
• Sword Nine explained to Jian Wu that Wang Jixuan had rescued the Alliance’s ancestors from the Xu Realm and brought them into the Immortal Realm.
• Jian Wu hosted the Alliance at Sword God Palace, where Little Hua Ting sang and the factions reaffirmed their friendly ties.
• Murong Zhengyi reported that the Dark Cult had slaughtered more than seven hundred Xu Realms and one hundred and five True Realms, including civilians, while Heavenly Net obstructed resistance.
• Jian Wu and Sword Nine agreed that Sword God Palace would discuss responding to the massacres, and Sword Nine promised to help the Thousand Worlds Alliance if it faced trouble.
• After the banquet lasted through the day and night, Wang Jixuan woke with a hangover to find three hundred beautiful women kneeling before him.

Wang Jixuan learned that Amina had mutated and was sealed in a cocoon, then approved Peony’s plan to use Earth and its technology to help the Thousand Worlds Alliance fight the Dark Cult. At the Dark Cult headquarters, Venerable Zhihui learned of the alliance between the Sword God Palace and Thousand Worlds Alliance and recognized Wang Jixuan as the man she had once tried to kill.

• Peony told Wang Jixuan that the Thousand Worlds Alliance had sent him three hundred concubines and six thousand immortal soldiers, and she delivered Bai Gu’s warning that Brahma had made him a primary target and that Amina was sealed in a cocoon.
• Wang Jixuan ordered the concubines trained as operators and maidservants, then agreed to Peony’s proposal to coordinate Earth’s forces and develop ships able to travel through the Immortal Spirit Path.
• Peony began sending the plan to Earth, while Wang Jixuan studied Sword Nine’s basic sword techniques and Sword Nine planned a suitable cultivation path for him.
• At the Dark Cult headquarters, a maidservant told Venerable Zhihui that the Sword God Palace had defeated the Feather God Palace and that the Thousand Worlds Alliance had called Wang Jixuan their benefactor.
• Venerable Zhihui recalled how she had been reborn, followed the Heavenly Dao’s instructions, and once believed she had killed the man who had taken her life.
• After receiving the Fourth Cult Master’s summons, Venerable Zhihui recognized Wang Jixuan in her memories, smashed her bronze mirror, and prepared to leave for the Feather God Palace.

Wang Jixuan officially joined the Sword God Palace, began intensive sword training, and arranged for the palace and the Thousand Worlds Alliance to receive Small Annihilation Bombs. As half of Bai Gu’s six-month deadline passed, Peony reported that Ye Zi had been captured, and Jian Wu summoned Wang Jixuan to the main hall over an urgent matter related to him.

• Jian Wu confirmed that the Sword God Palace would support Sword Nine in teaching Wang Jixuan and agreed to arm the palace after seeing an Annihilation Bomb demonstrated.
• Wang Jixuan completed his apprenticeship ceremony, became a Third Generation Disciple, and received an ancient Sword Embryo.
• Over the next three months, Wang Jixuan studied the Way of the Sword while Peony supplied Small Annihilation Bombs and Little Hua Ting made friends among the disciples.
• Peony reported that her fleet had resolved the Blade Beast Problem, secured Earth Civilization’s support, reorganized over three hundred Spiritual Practitioners with San Jie Lang Lang Zi, and captured Ye Zi.
• Wang Jixuan ordered Ye Zi’s execution, then Jian Wu urgently summoned him to the main hall about a matter related to him.

Wang Jixuan learned that Red Snake had left clues pointing to an Ancient Battlefield in the desert and joined Sword God Palace’s expedition to find her. As the team set out for the Earth Realm, he prepared to support the sword cultivators with his mechanical forces.

• Wang Jixuan arrived at the hall with Peony, where Jian Wu showed them a jade talisman whose sketches suggested Red Snake was alive in an Ancient Battlefield.
• Peony used her Patrolling Satellites to identify a desert site where hostile forces were clearing sand, revealing the likely location of the emerging ruin.
• Jian Wu explained that Spear God Palace had invited Sword God Palace to investigate the Ancient Battlefield, and Wang Jixuan asked to join because his companion might be buried there.
• Jian Wu approved Wang Jixuan’s participation and ordered the sword cultivators to aid Spear God Palace; Sword Nine equipped him with the Greatsword and placed restrictions on Xiao Sang for his protection.
• Lu Xuande led the expedition southwest on a cloud platform while Wang Jixuan monitored his Mechanical Army and showed the other disciples his high-performance mechs.

Wang Jixuan prepared to investigate the Ancient Battlefield in Duan Yun Desert while Peony tracked Red Snake and planned for the possibility that she was trapped inside. On Earth, San Jie Lang Lang Zi wrestled with an order to kill Ye Zi, and the chapter ended when Lu Xuande delivered Wang Jixuan a message from Venerable Zhihui.

• Wang Jixuan watched the Sword God Palace disciples test their mechs while Peony reported that hundreds of thousands of cultivators had gathered around Duan Yun Desert and Red Snake might be inside its Ancient Battlefield.
• San Jie Lang Lang Zi considered Wang Zheng's order to kill Ye Zi and admitted to Shen Qionglin that guilt was his real reason for hesitating; Shen Qionglin agreed to accompany him to the City in the Clouds.
• Cultivators flocked to Duan Yun Desert after discovering treasures on strange skeletons, while reports of lethal blood fiend energy and an ancient battlefield's return drew the Spear God Palace and Sword God Palace there.
• Wang Jixuan urged the Sword God Palace disciples to proceed cautiously and support the Spear God Palace, explaining that he would search for and rescue his companion himself.
• Lu Xuande caught a jade talisman sent from beyond the heavens and told Wang Jixuan it bore Venerable Zhihui's signature.

Wang Jixuan refused Zhihui’s invitation to negotiate and confronted her publicly, accusing the Dark Cult of persecuting him and serving a parasitic Heavenly Dao. Zhihui left without attacking, while new discoveries on Earth delayed Ye Zi’s execution and prompted Professor Shen to investigate.

• Wang Jixuan and Feng Zheng discussed Brahma and decided to answer the Dark Cult’s invitation without leaving the Sword God Palace’s protection.
• Lu Xuande sent Wang Jixuan’s reply to the Dark Cult and received two Small Annihilation Bombs from him.
• Zhihui arrived to seek peace with Wang Jixuan, but he questioned her about a meeting six hundred thousand years earlier and accused her of being revived by the Heavenly Dao.
• Zhihui raised her hand against Wang Jixuan, then stopped when the Sword God Palace’s experts threatened her; she left after he refused to accept her offer of peace.
• Peony told Wang Jixuan that Earth’s team had found new evidence, postponing Ye Zi’s execution for a few days while Professor Shen intervened.
• Feng Zheng invited Wang Jixuan to play chess as the group waited for the Spear God Palace and news of Red Snake.

Shen Qionglin and Lang Lang Zi investigated Ye Zi’s fragmented memories and tried to reopen them by recreating her first meeting with Lang Lang Zi. The attempt revealed that an entity called Brahma had contaminated her twice, leaving Lang Lang Zi and Shen Qionglin shaken.

• Shen Qionglin learned from Lang Lang Zi’s memories that Ye Zi had passed through three distinct stages, beginning as Jiruo Posa, a loyal follower of Black Obsidian.
• Lang Lang Zi admitted that he had manipulated Posa Number One, later used Posa Number Two in his schemes, and helped create his Third Life through reincarnation.
• Shen Qionglin proposed using psychological suggestion to return Ye Zi to the state she had been in when she first met Lang Lang Zi.
• Lang Lang Zi recreated their first meeting, and Ye Zi’s memories opened as she recognized him and cried out about Ye Zi.
• Black Wings and a pair of eyes surrounded by wormlike creatures appeared as Ye Zi’s soul collapsed, and Shen Qionglin identified the contaminating entity as Brahma.

Wang Jixuan learned that Brahma may have used Ye Zi to watch or interfere with him, while Luo Tianjin sought his help exposing the threat posed by the Dark Cult and Heavenly Net. At the Spear God Palace camp near the Ancient Battlefield, Blood Mist appeared, and Wang Jixuan and Peony began searching for Red Snake’s trail.

• While playing Go with Peony’s assistance, Wang Jixuan learned that Ye Zi had a Brahma mark and that her remnant soul was in a vessel for storing souls.
• Wang Jixuan considered Brahma’s possible plans and told Peony to remind their allies to stay safe when the messaging machine cooled down.
• Luo Tianjin arrived with the Spear God Palace group, then told Wang Jixuan that the Dark Cult and Heavenly Net were linked and asked how to expose their threat to the Heavenly Dao.
• Wang Jixuan agreed to discuss the matter with Peony, and Luo Tianjin took the Sword God Palace disciples to the Spear God Palace’s fortified camp.
• Blood Mist rose over the dunes, so Wang Jixuan returned Peony to the Second Base and searched for Red Snake’s trail with his Immortal Sense.

Wang Jixuan arranged for Spear God Palace soldiers and Mechs to map Duan Yun Desert for the entrance to the unstable Ancient Battlefield Small World. Peony found possible weak points in the Cosmic Barrier and suspected the skeletons held the key, leaving Wang Jixuan to ask Feng Zheng for the bones he had collected.

• Peony concluded that the Blood Mist came from an unstable Mustard Seed Universe containing an Ancient Battlefield, while investigators found only moving skeletons and no visible entrance.
• Wang Jixuan asked Luo Tianjin for three thousand immortal soldiers to help deploy detectors, and Luo Tianjin lent them to him.
• Wang Jixuan sent Mechs and spherical detectors across Duan Yun Desert, then traded Spear God Palace three hundred Mechs and armor for mining materials.
• The soldiers installed the detectors and returned with stories of their conversations with the Mechs, prompting Wang Jixuan to consider whether the machines counted as life forms.
• Peony mapped the Small World, warned that forcibly opening its weak points could make it collapse, and asked Wang Jixuan to retrieve the skeletons Feng Zheng had pocketed.