Recaps

Li Yun settled the Phoenix Clan’s affairs, uncovered Yuan Feng and Divine Phoenix’s history, and took Zhu Xuan’er as his disciple. After helping Vermilion Bird transform her fire, he entered the chaos gate, encountered a Chaos Beast, and returned badly injured after nearly a thousand years away.

• Li Yun and Da Peng brought their companions to the Extreme South Land, where Zhurong challenged Vermilion Bird and was scorched by her flames as his power rose.
• Li Yun discovered that Yuan Feng and Divine Phoenix shared a deeply entwined life link, and Divine Phoenix revealed how Yuan Feng had taken his origin power.
• Yuan Feng admitted that she had spared Vermilion Bird to preserve her talent, so Vermilion Bird ended their bond and banished her from the Extreme South Land.
• Li Yun arranged for Phoenix bloodlines to support Human Race tribes, then helped Vermilion Bird awaken the Chaos-born egg that became Zhu Xuan’er.
• Zhu Xuan’er accepted Li Yun as her master, received the Taiqing inheritance, and began cultivating before Vermilion Bird halted her advancement.
• Li Yun absorbed the four great laws in the chaos and reached near the Quasi-Saint Middle Stage, then helped Vermilion Bird transform her Nirvana Fire and gained the Devouring Demon Fire.
• Li Yun entered the chaos gate, absorbed the Law of Life, and was struck by a Chaos Beast that shattered his defenses.
• Li Yun escaped through the gate and recovered with his techniques, where Kong Xuan found him and said he had been missing for nearly a thousand years.

Li Yun claimed the Wordless Heavenly Book after defeating Fuxi, then gathered sworn guards and carried it toward the Human Race. The arc left him fighting Eastern Duke and the Dragon Clan, who sought to take the book by force.

• Li Yun strengthened the Phoenix Clan’s barriers, cultivated in its forbidden grounds, and learned that Li Mo had received recognition from the Devilish Dao while Yuan Ming had not.
• Li Mo gained the Devilish Dao Saint Seat and began Dual Cultivation with Yuan Ming, while Li Yun perfected his Law of Fire and set out to find the Wordless Heavenly Book.
• Li Yun calmed the battle around the book and claimed it by using Humanity Dao’s Fortune Power, but Fuxi challenged him over its ownership.
• Li Yun defeated Fuxi after Nuwa’s Red Embroidered Ball failed to protect him, and Luomo later recruited the wounded Fuxi to pursue the God-Slaying Spear.
• Hongjun offered Hongmeng Purple Qi for the Wordless Heavenly Book, but Li Yun killed an attacker and gathered cultivators who swore Dao Heart oaths to serve as his guards.
• Di Jun and Xuanming kept their clans from intervening, while the Saints watched as Li Yun’s party encountered Eastern Duke and the Dragon Clan.
• Li Yun’s guards broke the Ten Thousand Dragons Grand Formation, and Li Yun challenged Eastern Duke after refusing to surrender the Wordless Heavenly Book.
• Li Yun summoned the Profound Yellow Axe and clashed with Eastern Duke, shattering space and driving the guards away from the fight.

Li Yun defeated Eastern Duke and used the Sea Calming Divine Pearls to complete the Thirty-Six Heavens, then helped the Human Dao appoint Li Xuan as its spokesperson and returned the Human Book. Laozi merged with the Human Dao, while the Earthly Dao began preparing its own rulers and Hongjun set the Heavenly Dao against those plans.

• Li Yun opened the Twenty-Four Heavens and matched Eastern Duke, then fought him through a spatial black hole as Dijiang and Zhurong arrived to help.
• Li Yun severed Eastern Duke’s arm and demanded the Sea Calming Divine Pearls, and Eastern Duke agreed to summon the pearls held by the Four Seas Dragon Kings.
• Eastern Duke handed the gathered pearls to Li Yun, who absorbed them and evolved the Twenty-Four Heavens into the Thirty-Six Heavens.
• Li Yun agreed to let Asuras and Witch Clan members enter the Thirty-Six Heavens, then returned to the Human Race and sent Li Shen there to study the Human Book.
• Li Yun chose his avatar Li Xuan as the Human Dao spokesperson and gave Xuandu the promised Saint Seat, while Laozi signed the Human Book and merged with Dao.
• The Earthly Dao revealed the Netherworld List and began selecting Witch Clan, Asura Race, and Earth Immortal rulers, while Hongjun named Di Jun Heavenly Dao Demon Emperor and ordered him to disrupt the rival plans.
• After attaining Dao Ancestor-level power, Laozi asked Li Xuan to take over as spokesperson, and Li Xuan accepted.

Li Xuan and Xuandu became Saints as Li Yun prepared the Human Race for the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. Li Yun also accepted Ye Qingcheng as his successor, while the selection of Emperor candidates left Xuandu facing a succession problem.

• Humanity Dao appointed Li Xuan as its Spokesperson, and Li Yun merged his new sword with the Great Emperor Sword after he attained Sainthood.
• Xuandu became a middle Saint stage Human Dao Saint after Laozi transferred his Human Race Destiny and entrusted him with the Human Teachings.
• Li Yun rejected Nuwa’s demand for an explanation and ruled out a Saint seat for Fuxi, while Li Xuan injured her with his pressure.
• Li Yun advised Dijiang on the Witch Clan’s three kings and proposed mixed territory for the Witch Clan and Human Race.
• Li Yun sent Guyue, Luoyang, and Luochuan to earn recognition as the Three Sovereigns after dragons flooded Human Race settlements.
• Li Yun named Nannan Ye Qingcheng, guided her through breakthroughs and the Three Disasters, and accepted her as his inheritor.
• Laozi, Yuanshi Tianzun, and Sect Master Tongtian gave Ye Qingcheng protective treasures and combat inheritances, and the Demon God Mask purified her aptitude.
• Xuandu sent the competing disciples to earn Emperor positions through contributions to the Human Race, but Li Yun warned him that he should have reserved positions for his Direct Disciples.