Recaps

Zhou Ming conquered the Ten Great Dao Realms and sent their forces into the Divine Luo Domain to gather Fortune and search for resources while avoiding open war. As Gan Tian quietly seized a small world and watched a potential mining target, Divine Luo leaders prepared for war and postponed investigating the vanished Flowing Light Domain.

• Zhou Ming sent Mo Yun, Fen Xin, and Mo Ying's teams beyond the Flowing Light Domain, and they returned with news that the Divine Luo Domain had begun mobilizing for war.
• Zhou Ming summoned the Flowing Light Domain's forces, conquered the Ten Great Dao Realms, and appointed Liu Yuan to rule the domain through the Qianyuan Dao Realm.
• Liu Yuan gathered cultivators and materials from the ten realms, and Zhou Ming refined Cross-Realm Tokens and attack talismans for an expedition into the Divine Luo Domain.
• Liu Yuan led the armies into the Divine Luo Domain, established a hidden base in the Blackstone Star Belt, and tasked Gan Tian with gathering Fortune and finding materials discreetly.
• Gan Tian's forces seized the Heavenwater Realm, replaced its ruler with Zhang Yuan, and learned that the Golden Palace Great World might contain Void Divine Iron.
• Gan Tian's force watched the heavily defended Golden Palace Great World, then withdrew to the Heavenwater Realm when it showed no sign of weakness.
• Xuanji ordered Divine Luo's legions to prepare for war after learning the Nether Demon Domain might attack, while elders reported the loss of contact with the Ten Great Dao Realms.
• Xuanji postponed investigating the missing Flowing Light Domain until after the war, though he remained uneasy about the decision.

Zhou Ming and Liu Yuan’s forces plundered the Divine Luo Domain and then the Seven Great Domains, gathering Fortune while using dark-gold talismans and teleportation treasures to escape pursuit. The allied domain lords found their hidden base and forced Liu Yuan’s group to flee, but the captives’ seals concealed their secrets as the conflict passed to the True Lords.

• Gan Tian killed Heavenwater Daoist, then raided the Golden Palace Great World with Liu Yuan’s forces and escaped with its treasures after destroying its teleportation array.
• Ming Luo ordered a domain-wide blockade, but Gan Tian’s group escaped through the Void Barren Zone and returned to Liu Yuan with ores and a star map.
• Fan Kong, You Xuan, and other Flowing Light Domain leaders raided worlds across the Divine Luo Domain, but the blockade scattered their groups and Xuan He’s pursuit killed many of them.
• Gan Tian delivered rare materials to Zhou Ming, who forged new teleportation array plates and dark-gold talismans and sent Gan Tian to establish a linked array at Liu Yuan’s base.
• Liu Yuan dispatched forty teams to raid worlds across the Star Domain, prompting the Seven Great Domains to set aside their wars and unite against the raiders.
• The Seven Great Domains trapped and pursued Liu Yuan’s squads, so Liu Yuan recalled them to the Blackstone Star Belt and waited for their patrols to weaken.
• The domain lords used the Past Lamp to trace the raids to Liu Yuan’s hidden base, then sealed off the Blackstone Star Belt with their fleets.
• Liu Yuan’s volunteers used dark-gold talismans to delay the attackers while the White Jade Altar carried Liu Yuan and the others to safety, leaving five exhausted cultivators captive whose seals erased their secrets.

Zhou Ming fought off the Great Luo True Lords who sought True Saint Yuan Chu’s inheritance, then reunited with Hongchu and Cangxuan and helped them weaken their shackles with Fortune. At a ruined Chaos Market, True Lord Duobao revealed that a cultivator carrying the Qi of Taichu was trapped in the Taichu Qi Sea.

• Zhou Ming defeated the seven Great Luo True Lords who confronted him, and they agreed to let Liu Yuan’s group collect half the Fortune from subordinate worlds.
• Celestial Pivot True Lord revealed that Zhou Ming likely came from True Saint Yuan Chu’s Inner World, and more than thirty True Lords attacked him to seize its inheritance.
• Zhou Ming escaped into a Chaos Storm Eye, while his pursuers spread word of his weakened state and need for Fortune to draw others after him.
• Zhou Ming raided worlds for Fortune, evaded repeated ambushes, and found Hongchu and Cangxuan trapped by Chixiao’s formation in the Eastern Extremity.
• Zhou Ming rescued Hongchu and Cangxuan, explained how Fortune could help undo their shackles, and led them in secretly taking half the Fortune from worlds in Biluo Starfield.
• Zhou Ming laid a stronger formation around an ambush by Chixiao, Xuanjia, and forty-three Great Luo True Lords, then broke their formation and forced the attackers to scatter.
• At a ruined Chaos Market, Zhou Ming stopped Hongchu from attacking True Lord Duobao, traded him a Great Luo True Artifact for information, and learned that a cultivator with the Qi of Taichu was trapped in the Taichu Qi Sea.

Zhou Ming freed Taichu and Houtu, united with more Returnees, and broke the Rebel-Slaying Alliance’s attack. He redirected the hunt toward the Abyssal Sea Divine Pivot, then organized a search for the scattered Returnees as Taiji and Taisu fought four native cultivators.

• Zhou Ming freed Taichu from True Lord Hanchuan’s formation, then helped him recover by collecting Fortune from the Hanchuan Domain.
• Zhou Ming rescued Houtu from the Rebel-Slaying Alliance and gathered a growing group of Returnees while they weakened their Rule Shackles and raided their pursuers’ domains.
• Zhou Ming reached the Unity Realm and defeated True Lord Tianhe’s alliance at the World-Breaking Abyss, leaving its surviving leaders to flee.
• Zhou Ming used True Lord Duobao to spread a false claim that the Abyssal Sea Divine Pivot had received True Saint Yuan Chu’s inheritance, drawing the Primordial Universe’s cultivators into hunting its members.
• Jiemie and the other Unity Realm experts struggled to protect the Abyssal Sea Divine Pivot’s followers, while Zhou Ming’s group continued searching for missing Returnees.
• Zhou Ming rescued Taishi from seven Great Luo True Realm cultivators, then arranged for his companions to search different regions while he remained ready to help.
• Zhou Ming chose the Desolate Star Sea as a rendezvous and had True Lord Duobao spread Pangu’s phrase as a code for the Returnees.
• Taiji and Taisu refused to surrender their treasures to four native Fusion Dao Realm cultivators and burned their origin essence as they fought to escape.