Recaps

Qi Yuan and Ning Tao confronted three men plotting to kill Qi Yuan, and Qi Yuan killed them before turning toward the Fighting God Sect. Meanwhile, Shen Yang refused to pay for a place as a Sword Slave, then saw Qi Yuan’s Send Grandpa Website launch and considered it a chance to pursue immortality.

• Ning Tao revealed that she had heard the men plotting against Qi Yuan, and the double-pupiled man recognized her as a Yin Spirit.
• Jiang Qingjiao and Carefree Wanderer attacked Qi Yuan, but he killed them with a punch; he then killed the double-pupiled man and took his eyes.
• At Fighting God Tower, a young man falsely claimed Shen Yang had failed the entrance examination and demanded one million Qin Yuan Currency to make him a Sword Slave.
• Shen Yang refused to pay, and the young man secretly marked him before letting him leave the tower.
• Shen Yang saw the launch of Send Grandpa Website and recognized Qi Yuan’s voice from a video he had followed nearly a year earlier.
• After learning that the website was being discussed nationwide, Shen Yang considered trying it as an alternative path to immortality.

Qi Yuan confronted the Fighting God Sect after killing a disciple who threatened Shen Yang, then demanded that the sect change its name because it offended him. As Saint Fighting True Lord attacked with his strongest divine ability, Qi Yuan unleashed the Ten Kill Overlord Fist, which targeted anyone who had brutally killed more than ten people.

• Shen Yang prepared to mail his blood to the Send Grandpa Website, but a Fighting God Sect disciple tried to make him return with him.
• Qi Yuan appeared, offered Shen Yang a grandpa, and killed the disciple with a single punch when he threatened them both.
• Qi Yuan arrived above Fighting God Tower under a blood-red sky and ordered the Fighting God Sect to change its name.
• Qi Yuan presented his Mental Illness Certificate as proof that he was a god, enraging Saint Fighting True Lord and the sect.
• Saint Fighting True Lord attacked with the Million Saint Lotus, and Qi Yuan answered with the Ten Kill Overlord Fist, targeting those who had brutally killed more than ten people.

Qi Yuan annihilated the Fighting God Sect, alarming the cultivators of the Three Realms, who secretly advanced their Heaven Flipping Plan. Years later, Arch Star’s cultivation world had changed and Qi Yuan remained champion of the declining Martial Arts Tournament; the chapter leaves him in a mission world, waiting at a cemetery for someone to make an offering.

• Qi Yuan killed Saint Fighting True Lord and wiped out nearly the entire Fighting God Sect, then warned other sects not to provoke him.
• Divine Infant cultivators from the Three Realms identified Qi Yuan as a powerful native and agreed to delay confronting him while pursuing the Heaven Flipping Plan.
• The cultivators learned that the Heavenly Origin Sect’s ancestor might descend within one or two hundred years, so they resolved to complete their plan sooner.
• Qi Yuan’s Send Grandpa Website spread blood donations and voice messages before fading from public attention, while immortal cultivation grew popular on Arch Star.
• Qi Yuan kept winning the Martial Arts Tournament as its elderly competitors dwindled, earning the title Elderly Killer.
• In the World of Death Qi, a young man in a green robe guarded a cemetery and wondered why no one had come to offer sacrifices so he could wipe out their family.

Qi Yuan slaughtered the demons while guarding Wang Yuanyu and waited for the missing Ma Longhun, unaware that she and Tu Kongming were the only real people in the Mountains and Seas Scroll. As Wang Yuanyu’s memories awakened and she questioned her past love, Qi Yuan insisted he had no past life and urged her to become stronger.

• Qi Yuan captured Wang Yuanyu, killed the demons throughout the world, and destroyed Ma Longhun’s family, then waited three years for Ma Longhun to visit their graves.
• Wang Nian told Wang Yuanyu that she and Tu Kongming carried direct Martial Lord bloodlines, while Qi Yuan could not enter the Land of Origin; Wang Yuanyu defended Qi Yuan as her benefactor.
• Wang Yuanyu asked Qi Yuan what he would do if the world were false, and he replied that only he and those he believed real mattered.
• Wang Yuanyu revealed that her awakened memories connected her to Tu Kongming, but she felt no love for him, and Qi Yuan said those memories were false because he had no past life.
• Qi Yuan encouraged Wang Yuanyu to become stronger and offered to give her a grandma to help her cultivate.

Qi Yuan and Wang Yuanyu discussed the meaning of truth and falsehood, while Qi Yuan continued guarding the cemetery and advancing his cultivation. In the Land of Origin, Fat Egg Martial Lord underwent a mysterious Bloodline Leap, and Wang Nian was ordered to force Wang Yuanyu into the romance needed to restore the Mountains and Seas Scroll’s worldline.

• Qi Yuan helped Wang Yuanyu accept that her own feelings mattered more than whether her world was real, then asked how to reach other worlds and learned Ma Longhun might appear within a year.
• Qi Yuan killed a demon at the cemetery, failed to use its essence blood to open a divine aperture, and advanced to the Sky Trampling Second Step through his divine infants’ feedback.
• The Eastern Alliance found the Thunder Martial Lord alive and stronger than before, but he refused to join them.
• Fat Egg Martial Lord unexpectedly underwent a Bloodline Leap, prompting the other Martial Lords to speculate that he might have a father or ancestor.
• Wang Nian told a man that Wang Yuanyu had not fallen for Tu Kongming and was growing closer to a bloodline bearer, and he ordered her to use force to make the romance happen.

Qi Yuan dismissed Wang Nian’s warning that Wang Yuanyu needed to fall in love with Tu Kongming to save the world, then resumed cultivating in the cemetery. Divine Thunder Great Venerable awakened, and Qi Yuan set him to rally the other primordial gods and grow stronger for a campaign to seize the worlds, while learning that the Land of Origin was ruled by the Eastern Alliance and guarded by the mysterious East Monarch.

• Wang Nian paid Qi Yuan ten drops of Demon Race essence blood and told him that Tu Kongming had sacrificed himself to save Wang Yuanyu before Ma Longhun killed them both on their wedding day.
• Wang Nian warned Qi Yuan that the worldline had to repeat and asked him to stay away from Wang Yuanyu so she could fall in love with Tu Kongming, but Qi Yuan refused to interfere.
• Qi Yuan consumed Demon Race essence blood, advanced his Exploding Kill Flying Bird Fist, and heard Divine Thunder Great Venerable awaken inside him.
• Qi Yuan urged Divine Thunder Great Venerable to find and awaken the other primordial gods, then proposed that they grow powerful enough to conquer the Land of Origin and Arch Star.
• Divine Thunder Great Venerable told Qi Yuan that the Eastern Alliance held power in the Land of Origin and that the mysterious East Monarch might surpass an ordinary Yang Spirit, but Qi Yuan said his Exploding Kill Flying Bird Fist could handle him.

Qi Yuan overheard Mending Heaven Pavilion plotting to force Wang Yuanyu and Tu Kongming together, then killed the black-robed man who attacked him with Martial Lord blood. After completing the mission and leaving Wang Yuanyu behind, Qi Yuan returned to his own world, still missing his wife.

• Wang Nian urged Tu Kongming to make Wang Yuanyu fall for him by any means, but Tu Kongming refused to violate her wishes.
• The black-robed man and Wang Nian planned to drug Tu Kongming and Wang Yuanyu and kill Qi Yuan, but Qi Yuan appeared and confronted them.
• The black-robed man attacked Qi Yuan with Martial Lord blood, and Qi Yuan shattered the blood-stained stone and killed him.
• Wang Nian killed herself after pleading with Qi Yuan to help Mending Heaven Pavilion correct the worldline.
• Over the next three months, Qi Yuan killed other Mending Heaven Pavilion attackers, while Tu Kongming died protecting Wang Yuanyu and Qi Yuan killed Ma Longhun.
• Qi Yuan completed the mission, spoke with Wang Yuanyu about leaving, and vanished to return to his wife.

After returning from a mission in which he reached the Martial Lord realm, Qi Yuan agreed to join Mu Yan and other peak Martial Kings on a future journey across the Black Sea to the Land of Origin. He reunited with Canary, who told him that war over an extraterrestrial relic connected to the Sky Eye threatened to spread, while Qi Yuan remained focused on protecting his Martial Arts Tournament.

• Qi Yuan returned to the expanded stronghold, swallowed his mission reward, and sent more grandpas and grandmas to the Land of Origin, though No Food Saint Mother's Divine Infant remained dormant.
• A Genius Alliance member brought Qi Yuan to meet Mu Yan and two other peak Martial Kings, who invited him to cross the dangerous Black Sea with them and enter the Land of Origin; Qi Yuan agreed and exchanged contact details with Mu Yan.
• Qi Yuan left the meeting and reunited with Canary, who told him that the Three Realms Alliance's involvement in Qin Yuan's war against Gu Wu Country stemmed from the discovery of an extraterrestrial relic connected to the Sky Eye.
• Canary warned that Gu Wu Country had requested Can Xing's help and that a wider planetary war might break out, but Qi Yuan said he would crush a nearby planet if Can Xing canceled his Martial Arts Tournament.

After winning another Martial Arts Tournament, Qi Yuan went with Canary to a masked gathering where Divine Infant cultivators discussed breaking through to the Purple Mansion. He challenged the gathering’s teachings and claimed that others could help cultivators comprehend Origin Divine Powers, alarming a purple-robed man.

• Qi Yuan defeated the ninety-year-old grandpa in the Martial Arts Tournament for the nearly sixtieth time, then accepted Canary’s invitation to a Purple Mansion exchange gathering.
• Qi Yuan and Canary arrived at the gathering and agreed to travel aboard with Xie Tang and Wang Zhiqi, who concealed their identities and cultivation.
• Qi Yuan argued with Wang Zhiqi about sparring, insisting that he and a Foundation Establishment cultivator were equals.
• A masked Divine Infant Perfection cultivator explained that reaching the Purple Mansion required refining the divine soul and comprehending the origin.
• Qi Yuan dismissed the speaker’s advice and claimed that other cultivators could help someone comprehend an Origin Divine Power.
• A purple-robed man reacted to Qi Yuan’s claim with fear and suspicion.

At a gathering of Divine Infant cultivators, Qi Yuan heard a fat cultivator explain that a Purple Mansion should suit its owner, inspiring Qi Yuan to imagine one built from purple qi and the Netherworld. He left the gathering convinced that this Purple Mansion could let him revive people lost to past regrets and trap powerful enemies.

• Qi Yuan argued that another person might help a cultivator comprehend their origin, and a purple-robed Purple Mansion cultivator confirmed that such an exception had once occurred.
• The purple-robed cultivator described a Purple Mansion Daoist whose lecture had led one hundred thousand Divine Infants to advance, then asked Qi Yuan for his thoughts on the Purple Mansion.
• Qi Yuan joked that a Purple Mansion was a purple cave dwelling, and a fat Divine Infant advised him to shape one according to his own path and consider its character of “mansion.”
• Qi Yuan took the fat cultivator’s advice as a revelation and imagined using purple qi and the Netherworld to create a Purple Mansion where he could revive people he had lost.
• Qi Yuan also imagined using the Netherworld, Heart Demon Induction, and the Great Forgetfulness Sutra to lure in and control enemies, then promised to revive the fat cultivator if he died.

Qi Yuan joined a group of Divine Infant cultivators to explore an Extraterrestrial Relic, where he recognized the Star Explorer’s gate as resembling buildings from the Ancient Clan’s ancestral land. After Qi Yuan shattered the gate with Yang Spirit power, he and Ning Tao discovered that six members of the group were plotting to ambush the others, and Qi Yuan decided to wait until their allies arrived before killing them.

• At a Dao discussion, Qi Yuan asked for advice on building the underworld and agreed to join the masked elder’s dangerous expedition after his left eyebrow twitched.
• Qi Yuan, Ning Tao, Xie Tang, and other cultivators followed the elder into a hidden mountain passage and reached the glass-like main gate of the Extraterrestrial Relic.
• Qi Yuan recognized the gate as belonging to the Star Explorer, produced by the Divine Han Race, and noticed that its architecture resembled buildings in the Ancient Clan’s ancestral land.
• Six cultivators secretly prepared to use a Patriarch’s artifact to kill their companions and capture Qi Yuan, but Qi Yuan broke the gate with Yang Spirit power.
• The conspirators postponed their plan and arranged to ambush the group at the relic’s exit, while Qi Yuan told Ning Tao they could kill them after their allies arrived.

Qi Yuan and the other cultivators entered the spacecraft ruins, where he interpreted murals as a romance about a man seeking to revive his dead beloved and warned that the world might be restarted. After looting the spacecraft, Qi Yuan led the group to the sealed Main Control Room, where the other cultivators had failed to open the door.

• Qi Yuan led the cultivators through the opened entrance into a vast starry-sky projection that he identified as a map of the spacecraft.
• Qi Yuan inspected the ruins and said they contained thousands of Sky Eyes but little else of value besides the spacecraft itself.
• Qi Yuan explained the murals as a tragic romance, prompting Xie Tang and the fat cultivator to worry that the world might be destroyed or restarted.
• Qi Yuan speculated that the world might have restarted repeatedly and wondered whether it contained abundant purple qi.
• Qi Yuan led Xie Tang, Ning Tao, and the fat cultivator to the Main Control Room after the group looted the ruins.
• Qi Yuan appeared before the other cultivators, who had failed to open the Main Control Room door, and claimed they could not open it because he had not arrived yet.

Qi Yuan claimed the coffin in the ruins and effortlessly destroyed the Nascent Soul cultivators who opposed him, revealing himself as the legendary Blood Master. He discovered a woman inside the coffin, placed the No Food Saint Mother's Divine Infant in her, and had Ling Yi retrieve an unknown bank account and encrypted key before she began asking about love.

• Qi Yuan broke open the ruins' sealed door, then told the Purple Mansion Great Cultivator that he was the Blood Master of the Flowing Wind World.
• The cultivators found a coffin that Qi Yuan claimed as his own, while the Heaven Flipping Plan alliance and newly arrived allies challenged him.
• Qi Yuan's breath destroyed the opposing Nascent Soul cultivators, and the lone cultivator agreed to let him take the coffin.
• Qi Yuan saw a woman inside the coffin and placed the No Food Saint Mother's Divine Infant within her, awakening Wu Shi.
• Qi Yuan ordered Ling Yi to investigate the Main Control Room, and she found a bank account and encrypted key before asking him what love was.

Qi Yuan found a bank account among the spaceship’s belongings while Xie Xin Su escaped her room. On Can Xing, the Ten Thousand Demons World announced war against Arch Star in one hundred days, while Qi Yuan traveled across the Black Sea toward the Land of Origin and wondered about the mysteries of time.

• Qi Yuan claimed the spaceship’s bank account as his reward, and the cultivators handed over their Sky Eyes and divided the remaining ones among themselves.
• Xie Xin Su seized the chance to escape her room, planning to seek revenge with help from the Profound Heaven Sect.
• A Ten Thousand Demons World expert declared that war against Arch Star would begin in one hundred days, and Can Xing’s princess feared her people would become cannon fodder.
• The king and the Seven Martial Stars family heads learned of the coming war and prepared Qin Yuan Country for battle, deciding to inform Qi Yuan.
• Aboard a ship crossing the Black Sea, Qi Yuan declined Mu Yan’s offer of help entering the Martial Lord realm and reflected on his search for a Spirit Realm Martial Lord.
• Qi Yuan sensed that the Black Sea carried the ship against time and considered bringing Canary there to strengthen her time-based divine domain.

Qi Yuan reached the Land of Origin, killed a Martial Lord’s descendant after she insulted him, and reunited with his former subjects from Mortal Heart World. He received the purple qi they had gathered, but the Spirit Realm Martial Lord’s whereabouts remained unknown.

• Canary entered the Black Sea to absorb its temporal power and pursue the Yang Spirit Realm while Qi Yuan continued toward the Land of Origin.
• Qi Yuan left the ship, returned after overhearing the monkey-faced woman insult him, and killed her despite Mu Yan’s plea to spare her.
• Qi Yuan dismissed Mu Yan’s warning that a Martial Lord would target him, then vanished from the ship.
• Qi Yuan reunited with Divine Thunder Old Geezer, Qi Qi, Zhu Zhuangshi, and his other former subjects, who had become Yang Spirits.
• Qi Qi gave Qi Yuan the purple qi the group had gathered, but she reported that they had found no trace of the Spirit Realm Martial Lord.

Qi Yuan joined the Eastern Alliance after learning that the East Monarch Wall might answer his question about becoming a Spirit Realm Martial Lord, and accepted a post as an Ancestor Blood Competition chief examiner. Meanwhile, Mu Yan asked his ancestor to help Qi Yuan, unaware that Qi Yuan was already on his way to the Eastern Alliance.

• Qi Yuan decided to seek East Monarch, then traveled to the Ten Thousand Souls Sea to study purple qi.
• Fat Egg Martial Lord sensed Qi Yuan and brought Divine Old Man Martial Lord to meet him, hoping to recruit him for the Eastern Alliance.
• Qi Yuan agreed to join the Eastern Alliance as a chief examiner so he could question the East Monarch Wall about Spirit Realm Martial Lords, but denied being Fat Egg Martial Lord’s father.
• Mu Yan asked his ancestor to settle Qi Yuan’s conflict with Die Mao Martial Lord and to help Qi Yuan participate in the Ancestor Blood Competition.
• Mu Yan’s ancestor said Qi Yuan would need a chief examiner’s approval to enter the competition, and Mu Yan accepted that he could not decide the matter himself.

Qi Yuan learned how East Monarch planned to revive his Dao companion and replace the doomed world's history, then prepared to watch the Ancestor Blood Competition. The chapter ended with Qi Yuan curious to meet East Monarch after hearing the Martial Lords describe their profound faith in him.

• Black Deer Martial Lord welcomed Qi Yuan to the Eastern Alliance and explained that East Monarch had remained to resist calamity and revive his Dao companion through the Mountains and Seas Scroll.
• Qi Yuan considered using East Monarch's method to build an underworld, but concluded that his attempts would only create false copies.
• Spirit Bell Great Venerable reported that Emperors Shu and Hu could form a bridge between the Land of Origin and the Land of Termination for Qi Yuan.
• Qi Yuan joined Black Deer Martial Lord and the other Martial Lords atop a tower to observe the Ancestor Blood Competition.
• The Martial Lords said they owed East Monarch everything and insisted Qi Yuan would understand his greatness once they met; Qi Yuan grew curious about him.

The Ancestor Blood Competition began as Qi Yuan watched the contestants and learned that the Ancestor Demons were the source of their bloodlines. Meanwhile, Xie Xin Su returned to the Heavenly Mystery Sect seeking revenge, only to discover that Ling Yi was a servant of a god; the chapter ended with Ling Yi announcing that the Sky Eye had been destroyed.

• The examiners opened the Ancestor Blood Competition, and Mu Yan rejected a black-clothed man's challenge to surpass him.
• Qi Yuan praised Mu Yan, dismissed the black-robed contestant as afraid of heights, and learned from the Black Deer Martial Lord that the Ancestor Demons were the source of their bloodlines.
• Wu Qi left an expedition to post online asking how to build an underworld.
• Xie Xin Su returned to the Heavenly Mystery Sect and persuaded Xie Tang and Wang Zhiqi to help her punish Qi Yuan and Ling Yi.
• Xie Tang confronted Ling Yi at Qi Yuan's home, then recognized it as a possible servant of a god as Ling Yi took Xie Xin Su away to film videos.
• Ling Yi announced that the Sky Eye had been destroyed after Xie Tang saw fireworks exploding across the sky.

Can Xing and Gu Wu Country declared war on Qin Yuan Country after destroying its Sky Eyes, and Qin Yuan’s leaders debated whether to resist the coming invasion. Meanwhile, Tianqian Daoren warned the Rebooters of a greater looming crisis, while Qi Yuan sought land in the Land of Origin for his underworld project.

• Can Xing and Gu Wu Country declared war on Qin Yuan Country, and Gu Wu Country announced that Can Xing had destroyed every Sky Eye.
• The king and the Seven Martial Stars Family’s patriarchs argued over surrendering or resisting, while the king and Gongyi Qing concluded that Qin Yuan Country would have to rely on itself because they could not contact Mr. Qi.
• Tianqian Daoren warned the surviving Rebooters that the Heavenly Origin Strange Stone predicted a terror greater than Can Xing’s invasion, but they focused on resisting the coming demons.
• Qi Yuan asked Black Deer Martial Lord about buying land with heavy yin energy and learned that the Land of Origin was dangerous to claim because of a powerful, mysterious force.

Qi Yuan summoned Emperors Shu and Hu, who transformed themselves into a bridge across the Black Sea so he could return from the Land of Origin to Arch Star. As he crossed time, observers realized his power exceeded that of a Titled Martial Lord, while people on Arch Star prepared for Can Xing’s invasion.

• Qi Yuan learned that Mu Yan had reached the fifteenth floor while the black-robed boy struggled on the sixth, then complained that war might cancel the Martial Arts Tournament.
• After hearing that Can Xing was about to invade Arch Star, Qi Yuan declared that he would return home and defeat the attackers, and he took an Image Recording Stone with him.
• Qi Yuan called for Emperors Shu and Hu, who appeared and announced that they would become a bridge and beam across the Black Sea.
• Emperors Shu and Hu formed a vast bridge spanning the river of time, and Qi Yuan stepped onto it as the Land of Origin fell into darkness beneath a colossal palm-like presence.
• Martial Lords across the Land of Origin watched Qi Yuan cross millennia in a single stride, while Black Deer Martial Lord suspected he belonged to the mysterious force and Fat Egg Martial Lord thought he resembled his ancestor.
• On Arch Star, a young man dismissed Qi Yuan’s Martial Arts Tournament claims and prepared to stock up on food and shelter from the coming invasion.

Xiao Mei arrived to take Qi Yuan to the Heavenly Origin Sect before war reached Qin Yuan Country, but he left to confront Can Xing's invading fleet. After effortlessly destroying the fleet and looming over Can Xing as a colossal giant, Qi Yuan devoured a nearby star and demanded that Can Xing surrender or resist.

• Xiao Mei warned Qi Yuan that war was imminent and urged him to flee to the Heavenly Origin Sect, but he asked her to wait while he handled an urgent matter.
• Qi Yuan encountered Pang Qie's fleet in space, and his single breath destroyed its warships, weapons, soldiers, and demons.
• After the fleet vanished, Can Xing's marshal activated the Star River Defense Line and Thousand Eyes Demon Lord ordered its weapons to attack Qi Yuan.
• Qi Yuan endured the bombardment, expanded into a colossal blood-red figure visible across Can Xing and Arch Star, and seized the nearby star.
• Qi Yuan ate the star, declared that he was only about one-third full, and demanded that Can Xing surrender or resist.

Qi Yuan punished Can Xing for trying to cancel the Arch Star Martial Arts Tournament, then traveled to the Ten Thousand Demons World to confront the Demon King over Thousand Eyes Demon Lord’s death. The Demon King blamed Thousand Eyes’ Upper Realm master and summoned him, leaving Qi Yuan waiting for the confrontation.

• Qi Yuan appeared over Can Xing in a colossal blood-red form and killed all three thousand demons from the Ten Thousand Demons World.
• The old king confessed to ordering the war and shot himself, while the eldest princess promised Can Xing would support the Martial Arts Tournament and keep it in its constitution.
• Qi Yuan asked the people of Can Xing to prepare a funeral banquet, then left to investigate the Ten Thousand Demons World.
• The Demon King learned that Thousand Eyes Demon Lord had died and swore to avenge his son, only to discover Qi Yuan looming over the Demon Court.
• The Demon King denied ordering the cancellation plot, blamed Thousand Eyes’ Upper Realm master, and summoned him with incense while Qi Yuan gave him a hundred breaths.

Qi Yuan confronted Qian Li, an Upper Realm elder, while searching the Demon Court for clues about the Ancestor Demon Lord, then returned home and headed to the Land of Origin. Meanwhile, Lu Zhu and Wang Yuanyu continued searching the Mountains and Seas Scroll for the truth, hoping to reunite Lu Zhu with her Master.

• Qian Li descended into the Ten Thousand Demons World to avenge his disciple, but discovered Qi Yuan towering above the Demon Court.
• Qi Yuan questioned Qian Li about the Ancestor Demon Lord, East Monarch, and the Upper Realm, then destroyed Qian Li and the demons of the Demon Court.
• Qi Yuan returned to the Tight-fitting Suit Woman, declined to repay his debt yet, and left for the Land of Origin.
• In the Mountains and Seas Scroll, Wang Yuanyu told Lu Zhu that finding the truth might take ten or a hundred years.
• Lu Zhu said she wanted to survive until the worlds converged so she could thank her Master and show she had not brought him shame.

Qi Yuan returned to the Land of Origin, where nearly ten thousand Martial Lords gathered to greet him, and the Ancestor Blood Competition ended with Mu Yan taking first place. The East Monarch Wall then revealed East Monarch fighting the root demons alone, and Qi Yuan recognized a possible connection between their power and his own Origin Divine Power.

• Qi Yuan traveled upstream through the Black Sea with Emperors Shu and Hu, returned to the Land of Origin, and told the gathered Martial Lords that he was still a Martial Lord rather than a Martial God.
• Qi Yuan let the Martial Lords return to the Ancestor Blood Competition while he waited for its conclusion and discussed plans for the underworld with his online friend.
• Mu Yan fought three hundred monsters at once and defeated them with a single slash, after which a Martial Lord phantom declared him the champion and his Greater Martial Lord ancestor urged him to receive the ancestor blood baptism.
• After the competition ended, Black Deer Martial Lord announced that Mu Yan had taken first place, and Qi Yuan asked the Eastern Alliance to reveal the East Monarch Wall.
• The East Monarch Wall showed East Monarch of the Holy Light Race holding back the root demons, and Qi Yuan observed that their negative emotions seemed related to his Origin Divine Power.

Qi Yuan learned that becoming the Spirit Realm Martial Lord required defeating every Martial Lord, then challenged all of them at once and used their attacks to study the myriad paths. Years later, he told the old man at the Martial Arts Tournament that he would compete no more, sensing that the game was nearly over.

• Qi Yuan questioned the East Monarch Wall about the Spirit Realm Martial Lord and Myriad Paths Martial God, then noticed his nose signaled that the Wall's explanation of the obstacle to ascension was false.
• Qi Yuan agreed to help East Monarch save the world after Black Deer Martial Lord warned him that the calamity would prevent him from becoming the Myriad Paths Martial God.
• Mu Yan became a Martial Lord and was brought to meet Qi Yuan, who gathered the world's Martial Lords to challenge them all at once.
• Nearly ten thousand Martial Lords attacked Qi Yuan, who let their strikes hit him so he could comprehend the myriad Daos.
• Years later on Arch Star, Qi Yuan told the old man that he would no longer enter the Martial Arts Tournament and reflected that the game was almost over.