Recaps

Li Qingyuan faced a Four-Colored Soul Transformation Lightning Tribulation while foreign cultivators attacked him and Dugu Lei. As Li Qingyuan endured the tribulation, Dugu Lei and the other half-step Soul Transformation cultivators also drew the Heavenly Dao’s attention, leaving their allies at risk if the enemies broke through.

• The Heavenly Dao Vortex killed thousands of cultivators, while three Early Soul Transformation cultivators attacked Li Qingyuan and he defended himself with the Five Yuan Mountain.
• A Four-Colored Soul Transformation Lightning Tribulation formed, and Li Qingyuan pursued one attacker before the first bolt struck him.
• Li Qingyuan endured the successive lightning bolts, healing and tempering his body as his cultivation and Primordial Spirit advanced.
• Dugu Lei borrowed Li Qingyuan’s lightning tribulation to wield a Three-Colored Lightning Tribulation against five Early Soul Transformation cultivators, but warned Li Qingyuan that he could not hold out much longer.
• The Heavenly Dao began forming tribulations for Dugu Lei and the other half-step Soul Transformation cultivators, while Miao Le urged Li Qingyuan to complete his breakthrough and kill the foreign enemies.

Li Qingyuan entered the Soul Transformation Stage and led his allies through tribulations as they became powerful Soul Transformation fighters and overwhelmed the invading cultivators. After helping the Human Emperor begin his own tribulation, Li Qingyuan watched as the newly advanced Human Emperor’s cultivation surged and a fourth-tier lightning tribulation gathered above him.

• Li Qingyuan entered the Early Soul Transformation Stage, and the Five-colored Lotus Lamp, Soul-Refining Restriction Banner, and Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword began transforming into Treasure Artifacts.
• Yang Xiaohe, Zhao Guangzheng, Ji Kun, and the Flame Dragon Flood Dragon fought the invading cultivators while undergoing their own tribulations.
• Li Qingyuan used the Light of Fortune to evolve the Second Yuan Clone and Blood Shadow Clone, whose corpse puppets then triggered tribulations to advance to the fifth tier.
• Li Qingyuan killed an Early Soul Transformation Stage cultivator and gave the captured Nascent Soul remnant to Zhao Guangzheng, while his allies defeated more opponents.
• Li Qingyuan brought Yang Xiaohe, Zhao Guangzheng, and Ji Kun to the Human Emperor and urged him to focus on his tribulation.
• The Human Emperor entered the Early Soul Transformation Stage, advanced the Thunder God Halberd into a Low-grade Treasure Artifact, and then drew down a fourth-tier lightning tribulation as his cultivation surged.

Human Emperor Dugu Lei broke through to the Middle Soul Transformation Stage as Nine Provinces forces crushed the retreating Outer Realm cultivators. As eighteen more powerhouses underwent tribulations, Li Qingyuan captured an enemy Soul Transformation cultivator, but the Fist Dao Heavenly Monarch emerged from the Heavenly Dao Vortex and attacked him.

• Dugu Lei absorbed his lightning tribulation, completed his Thunder God Treasure Body, and advanced to the Middle Soul Transformation Stage.
• Outer Realm cultivators tried to escape upstream toward the Heavenly Dao Vortex, but Nine Provinces fighters led by Wang Fugui and others slaughtered their Nascent Souls.
• Little Flame passed his tribulation, became a Fifth-tier Sub-dragon, and joined Li Qingyuan in pursuing the fleeing Soul Transformation cultivators.
• Li Qingyuan used the Three-Colored Lightning Tribulation to cripple the nine remaining Early Soul Transformation cultivators while his allies surrounded them.
• The Four Great Divine Beasts, the Four Envoys, and eight other humans and demons began their tribulations, bringing the number of new Soul Transformations behind Li Qingyuan to eighteen.
• Li Qingyuan captured an enemy Soul Transformation Nascent Soul, but the Fist Dao Heavenly Monarch emerged from the Heavenly Dao Vortex and sent a powerful barrage of flaming punches at him.

Li Qingyuan fought Fist Dao Heavenly Monarch, a powerful Late Soul Transformation Stage cultivator, and proved he could match him with his Wind Thunder techniques. When Red Moon Heavenly Monarch arrived and targeted Li Qingyuan, the Human Emperor intervened and told his disciple to leave the newcomer to him.

• Li Qingyuan exchanged powerful blows with Fist Dao Heavenly Monarch and withstood his Heavenly Dragon Descends attack.
• Fist Dao Heavenly Monarch transformed into a hundred-zhang giant, but Li Qingyuan used the Wind Thunder Drum and Manifestation of Heaven and Earth to fight him evenly.
• Li Qingyuan and Fist Dao Heavenly Monarch shattered each other's Dharma Aspects, and Fist Dao Heavenly Monarch prepared his Fist Dao Killing Move.
• Red Moon Heavenly Monarch arrived, recognized Li Qingyuan as a Wood Attribute cultivator, and tried to claim him for his Five Elements Cauldrons.
• The Human Emperor appeared wielding the treasure-grade Thunder God's Halberd and told Li Qingyuan to leave Red Moon Heavenly Monarch to his master.

The Human Emperor overwhelmed Red Moon Heavenly Monarch with lightning and killed him using the Five Thunders Bombardment. As Li Qingyuan faced the Fist Dao Heavenly Monarch, he found a flaw in his killing move and prepared to strike.

• The Human Emperor fought Red Moon Heavenly Monarch, suppressing him with his combat strength and lightning arts as Red Moon tried to flee toward the Heavenly Dao Vortex.
• The Eight Humans Eight Demons, the Nine Provinces Celestial Domain, and the Eighteen Soul Transformations passed their tribulations, while Miao Le and the others killed cultivators from beyond the domain and claimed their Soul Transformation Nascent Souls.
• Li Qingyuan turned down Yang Xiaohe's offer of help and challenged the Fist Dao Heavenly Monarch, using the Divine General Heavenly Eye to find a flaw in his Dragon Tiger Descends to the Mortal Realm killing move.
• The Human Emperor killed Red Moon Heavenly Monarch with the Five Thunders Bombardment, prompting the Nine Provinces cultivators to cheer for him.
• Li Qingyuan told the Fist Dao Heavenly Monarch it was his turn and unleashed Limitless Fortune—Myriad Phenomena Return to Origin.

Li Qingyuan killed the Fist Dao Heavenly Monarch and the Nine Provinces cultivators gained thousands of Top-grade Spirit Stones and other resources. Zhao Guangzheng learned that the Heavenly Dao Vortex could soon draw even mightier outsiders, and a second wave of enemies began descending as the Nine Provinces prepared to fight.

• Li Qingyuan broke through the Fist Dao Heavenly Monarch’s defenses, killed his body, and captured his Soul Transformation Nascent Soul for Zhao Guangzheng.
• Li Qingyuan and the Human Emperor assessed the captured cultivators’ riches, finding more than three thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones among the spoils.
• Zhao Guangzheng refined the Fist Dao Heavenly Monarch into the Soul Refining Banner and learned that the vortex lay in the Myriad Severance Mountain Range, where three regions met.
• Zhao Guangzheng warned that the expanding Heavenly Dao Vortex could soon attract Void Refining Dao Lords, Body Integration Old Monsters, and Mahayana Dao Venerables.
• Li Qingyuan spotted another wave of Soul Transformation cultivators descending, and the Nine Provinces forces vowed to fight to the death to protect their homeland.

Cultivators gathered at the revived Ancient Grotto-heaven, and Lingjian Dao Lord arrived to claim it for the Divine Sword Sect. When he entered the vortex, its Heavenly Dao began devouring and assimilating him, so he retreated and sent Quijian and the sect’s disciples in his place.

• Cultivators surrounded the Heavenly Dao Vortex, while Quijian Heavenly Monarch declared the grotto-heaven belonged to the Divine Sword Sect and threatened intruders.
• Lingjian Dao Lord arrived, forced the other cultivators to retreat, and summoned Divine Sword Sect Soul Transformation cultivators from his sleeve.
• Lingjian Dao Lord entered the vortex but found its incomplete Heavenly Dao trying to devour and assimilate him as he descended.
• Lingjian Dao Lord escaped the vortex and told Quijian to lead the sect’s disciples inside while he remained behind to protect them.

The Human Emperor, Li Qingyuan, and the Nine Provinces’ Spirit Transformation fighters ambushed the Divine Sword Sect’s arrivals, overwhelming them with coordinated attacks. As the battle spread across Red Flag Mountain, the defenders held off the Sect’s strongest fighters and began suppressing its Middle Soul Transformation cultivators.

• Kuijian Heavenly Monarch ordered the Divine Sword Sect’s twenty-four cultivators to kill the locals and capture some alive for intelligence.
• The Human Emperor and Li Qingyuan joined forces against Kuijian Heavenly Monarch and suppressed him with their profound techniques and coordinated attacks.
• Kuijian Heavenly Monarch failed to send a transmission, then called on Ling Xu and Mu Xu for help and ordered his disciples to capture the defenders’ relatives and friends.
• Zhao Guangzheng used the Soul Refining Banner to hold back Ling Xu, while Yang Xiaohe trapped Mu Xu with the Five-colored Lotus Lamp.
• Ji Kun, Ao Run, Miao Le, Wang Decai, Bai Hezhui, and Qing Qiu each held off a Middle Soul Transformation cultivator, while Jin Po and Zhu Yu teamed up against another.

The Nine Provinces cultivators fought the Divine Sword Sect, and Li Qingyuan and the Human Emperor killed Quijian Heavenly Monarch after pretending to consider his offer. They wiped out the invading sect, shared out its resources, and prepared for a possible third wave of Soul Transformation Cultivators.

• Li Qingyuan and the Human Emperor pretended to negotiate with Quijian Heavenly Monarch, then blinded him with the Heavenly Eye and killed him with a surprise attack.
• The Human Emperor gave Li Qingyuan the resources taken from Quijian Heavenly Monarch and Red Moon Heavenly Monarch before joining the battle.
• Li Qingyuan and the Nine Provinces cultivators killed or captured several Soul Transformation Cultivators and wiped out the Divine Sword Sect in less than a quarter hour.
• Li Qingyuan copied and distributed the invaders' resources, including Top-grade Spirit Stones and elixirs, to strengthen the Nine Provinces fighters.
• Li Qingyuan took elixirs to restore his magic power and worried that a large third wave of Soul Transformation Cultivators could endanger the Nine Provinces.

Lingjian Dao Lord conscripted twenty-three Spirit Transformation Cultivators to enter the Ancient Grotto-heaven, but Li Qingyuan and Human Emperor Phoenix Tail ambushed and killed them. Lingjian Dao Lord then discovered that all their soul blood had scattered, leaving him to realize the entire group was dead.

• Lingjian Dao Lord, unable to contact Kui Jian, seized twenty-three weakly backed Spirit Transformation Cultivators and ordered them to explore the Ancient Grotto-heaven under Kui Jian’s command.
• Li Qingyuan and Human Emperor Phoenix Tail led their Nine Provinces forces in an ambush as the twenty-three cultivators emerged from the Devouring Vortex.
• Li Qingyuan killed one Late Soul Transformation cultivator with a Fortune Sword strike, while Human Emperor Phoenix Tail captured and gravely wounded the other.
• The Nine Provinces forces slaughtered all twenty-three intruders, and Li Qingyuan copied and doubled their loot before distributing part of it to his allies.
• Lingjian Dao Lord sensed that the twenty-three cultivators’ soul blood had scattered and realized they had all been killed.

Lingjian Dao Lord failed to send more cultivators into the deadly Ancient Grotto-heaven, drawing Dao Lord Qingfeng and the Second Ice King into a dispute over its ownership. After the three sects agreed to join forces, Heavenly Sword Dao Lord discovered Heavenly Dao Backlash inside the vortex and ordered the slaughter of everyone in the Myriad Severance Mountain Range who was not a disciple of their sects.

• Twenty-three Soul Transformation Cultivators died within half a quarter-hour, and Lingjian Dao Lord urged the gathered cultivators to enter the Ancient Grotto-heaven.
• Qingxuan Heavenly Monarch questioned why Lingjian Dao Lord would not explore the grotto-heaven himself, and Dao Lord Qingfeng arrived to challenge the Divine Sword Sect's claim to it.
• The Second Ice King arrived and asserted the Sacred Heart Sect's share, prompting the three sects to agree to join forces and seal off the surrounding hundred thousand li.
• Heavenly Sword Dao Lord arrived and asked Lingjian Dao Lord about the vortex's danger, then the three Dao Lords attempted to enter and were forced back by its repulsive power.
• Heavenly Sword Dao Lord identified the force as Heavenly Dao Backlash and ordered all non-disciples of the Three Sects in the Myriad Severance Mountain Range killed.

The Three Sects slaughtered cultivators around the Myriad Severance Mountain Range and sealed off the area to monopolize an Ancient Grotto-heaven. After one survivor escaped to spread the news, six Void Refining Dao Lords sent twelve hundred Spirit Transformation Cultivators, including one hundred Heavenly Monarchs, into the Devouring Vortex to investigate.

• Heavenly Sword Dao Lord, Dao Lord Qingfeng, Second Ice King, and Lingjian Dao Lord massacred fleeing cultivators and sealed the region against escape and communication.
• The Three Sects sent reinforcements, including two more Void Refining Dao Lords, and extended their secret blockade across a hundred thousand miles.
• Li Mouren escaped the outskirts of the Myriad Severance Mountain Range and planned to spread word of the Three Sects' attempt to seize the opportunity.
• The Three Sects assembled twelve hundred Spirit Transformation Cultivators, including one hundred Heavenly Monarchs and three Void Refining Seeds, and had them offer their soul blood to monitor their fates.
• The six Dao Lords ordered the assembled cultivators into the Devouring Vortex to investigate the Ancient Grotto-heaven.

The Heavenly Dao poured back into the Nine Provinces, transforming cultivation across the continent and giving thousands a chance to advance. The influx left the Nine Provinces with more than five thousand Nascent Soul cultivators as its people prepared to defend their home.

• Heaven's Scar widened, and the Nine Provinces Heavenly Dao absorbed vast energy and laws from beyond the domain.
• Li Xianhuang and more than a thousand Nascent Soul combatants and Fourth-Tier Great Demons broke through as the returning laws created an unprecedented cultivation opportunity.
• The Human Emperor's decree gathered Late-Stage and Peak Core Formation cultivators beneath Red Flag Mountain to receive the Heavenly Dao's cleansing.
• More than six hundred False Nascent Soul cultivators, including Li Yunmei, formed nascent souls, and over three thousand five hundred Core Formation cultivators advanced to Nascent Soul Early Stage.
• The Nine Provinces reached a total of more than five thousand Nascent Soul cultivators.

As the Nine Provinces Heavenly Dao revived, Li Qingyuan and the Human Emperor prepared for a new invasion and learned that the approaching leaders had undergone Five Elements Nirvana. The enemy force descended at Red Flag Mountain, where the Black Clad Swordsman ordered his Divine Sword Sect disciples to kill every native cultivator.

• The Nine Provinces Heavenly Dao revived, strengthening spiritual energy and spirit veins across the continent as cultivators celebrated and prepared to break through.
• Li Qingyuan told the Human Emperor and the others that Lingjian Dao Lord had sent Soul Transformation Cultivators to scout the way, and they reasoned that the revived Heavenly Dao might assimilate stronger outsiders.
• The Human Emperor and Li Qingyuan sensed the arrival of twelve hundred Soul Transformation Cultivators, including three leaders who had undergone Five Elements Nirvana.
• Li Qingyuan explained that Five Elements Nirvana strengthened Peak Soul Transformation Cultivators and improved their chances of reaching Void Refinement.
• The Black Clad Swordsman ordered the Divine Sword Sect disciples to leave none of the native cultivators alive.

Li Qingyuan and Miao Le activated the Heaven Imprisoning Great Array, trapping twelve hundred invading Soul Transformation cultivators around Red Flag Mountain. The formation repelled Sword Lord Lin Yuan and split the invaders into isolated groups as Li Qingyuan began the hunt.

• The Daoist Robe Youth, Fairy Bingxuan, and Sword Lord Lin Yuan ordered their sects’ Soul Transformation cultivators to attack the Nine Provinces.
• Li Qingyuan and Miao Le awakened the Jianmu Divine Tree and activated the Heaven Imprisoning Great Array with the help of the Nine Provinces’ cultivators.
• The array sealed heaven and earth, trapping all twelve hundred Soul Transformation cultivators and preventing the three leaders from escaping.
• Fairy Bingxuan urged the invaders to target Li Qingyuan and Miao Le, but Sword Lord Lin Yuan’s attack was shattered by the Jianmu Divine Tree’s power.
• Li Qingyuan’s formation blasted Sword Lord Lin Yuan backward and divided the invading cultivators into scattered groups.
• Li Qingyuan declared that the hunt had begun.

Li Qingyuan and Miao Le used the Heaven Imprisoning Great Array to divide, exhaust, and ambush the extraterritorial Soul Transformation cultivators, while the Human Emperor’s forces killed hundreds of them. As the three enemy leaders realized they faced imminent defeat, Fairy Bingxuan burned her Essence Blood and struck the barrier hard enough to crack it.

• Li Qingyuan and Miao Le unleashed successive Five Elements attacks through the formation, injuring hundreds of extraterritorial cultivators and killing more than ten.
• The Human Emperor and the other twenty-one Nine Provinces combat units appeared behind enemy squads and repeatedly ambushed, killed, and looted them, while Old Zhao harvested their souls.
• The Human Emperor’s forces continued their attacks as the formation shifted them between locations, and the Soul Refining Banner grew stronger from the souls Old Zhao collected.
• The Sword Lord Lin Yuan, the Daoist Robe Youth, and Fairy Bingxuan tried to reach Li Qingyuan, but the formation redirected them and Li Qingyuan and Miao Le repelled their attacks.
• After learning that over seven hundred of their cultivators, including thirteen Late Soul Transformation Heavenly Lords, had died, Fairy Bingxuan burned her Essence Blood to reach the fourth Five Elements Nirvana and attack the barrier.
• Fairy Bingxuan’s Myriad Blades Pierce the Sky shook the Heaven Imprisoning Great Array and opened several tiny cracks, alarming Li Qingyuan.

Li Qingyuan and Miao Le struggled to keep the Heaven Imprisoning Great Array intact as Fairy Bingxuan, Azure Cloud Heavenly Monarch, and Sword Lord Lin Yuan led the extraterritorial cultivators in a coordinated assault. The Human Emperor rallied the Nine Provinces’ cultivators to defend the array and buy time for the Heavenly Dao Revival.

• Li Qingyuan and Miao Le consumed pills and Spirit Stones to restore their magic power, repaired the barrier, and fought back against Fairy Bingxuan and Azure Cloud Heavenly Monarch.
• Sword Lord Lin Yuan rallied the surviving extraterritorial cultivators, while the Human Emperor, Yang Xiaohe, and Zhao Guangzheng killed more than thirty of them during the battle.
• After most of the survivors escaped the spatial cage and gathered, Sword Lord Lin Yuan ordered one group to attack the array core and the others to help break the barrier.
• Sword Lord Lin Yuan used his three sword pellets to unleash a powerful strike, but Miao Le drew power from thousands of Nascent Soul cultivators and the array to meet it.
• The Human Emperor led the Nine Provinces’ Soul Transformation cultivators to protect Miao Le and the array, urging them to hold off the invaders and preserve time for the Heavenly Dao Revival.

The cultivators of Nine Provinces fought desperately against Sword Lord Lin Yuan and his Soul Transformation forces, holding back the invasion through sacrifice and self-detonation. As Li Qingyuan watched his son die in battle, grief and fury drove him to charge into the fight.

• The Human Emperor, Yang Xiaohe, Zhao Guangzheng, and other Nine Provinces fighters held back waves of Soul Transformation cultivators, while Wang Decai burned his God of Wealth Bloodline to fight three Middle Soul Transformation enemies.
• Ning Wu, Wen Ji, Yu Xiao'er, Tan Yueyi, the Stone Family brothers, Zhao Liuyun, and Nangong Xue sacrificed themselves or exhausted their cultivation to kill or injure foreign Soul Transformation cultivators.
• Hong Yuan lent Li Xianhuang power, allowing her to reach Peak Soul Transformation and hold back three Peak Soul Transformation cultivators.
• Zhang Zhenwu self-detonated to kill an Early Soul Transformation opponent, while Zhenxing and Thousand Jun True Monarch also sacrificed themselves; Li Qingyuan vowed to repay Nine Provinces' blood debt.
• Li Feng charged into an Early Soul Transformation cultivator and died, prompting Li Qingyuan to roar and charge into battle against the enemy.

After Li Xianfeng and many Nine Provinces cultivators sacrificed themselves, Li Qingyuan unleashed his full strength, slaughtered the invading Soul Transformation cultivators, and formed the Earth Marsh Sword Array. He trapped Sword Lord Lin Yuan in its sword world as his power neared that of an Extreme Dao Soul Transformation cultivator.

• Li Xianfeng and other Nine Provinces cultivators self-destructed, driving Li Qingyuan into a fury, while Li Xianhuang, Li Yunfan, Li Yunzhou, and Li Baishi charged at their enemies in grief.
• Li Qingyuan calmed Li Xianhuang, Li Yunfan, Li Yunzhou, and Li Baishi, then killed the Early Soul Transformation cultivator who had slain Li Xianfeng.
• Li Qingyuan used his Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword and Fortune Artistic Conception to kill twelve of the thirteen Soul Transformation cultivators, while Zhao Guangzheng absorbed their souls through the Soul Refining Banner.
• Li Qingyuan combined the sword and banner’s Yin-Yang power with hundreds of Flying Swords to form the Earth Marsh Sword Array, creating a vast world of sun, moon, seasons, and Sword Qi.
• Li Qingyuan’s sword world destroyed Soul Transformation cultivators across Red Flag Mountain and enveloped Sword Lord Lin Yuan, who recognized its terrifying power.

Li Qingyuan fought Sword Lord Lin Yuan and Fairy Bingxuan with the Earth Marsh Sword Array while Miao Le and the Human Emperor struggled to hold back the attackers. As the battle remained deadlocked, the Three Great Sects assembled 7,100 Spirit Transformation cultivators and sent them into the Ancient Grotto-heaven to seize its inheritance.

• Li Qingyuan shattered Sword Lord Lin Yuan’s sword defense and cracked the Mysterious Turtle Spirit Shield, forcing Lin Yuan to call for Fairy Bingxuan’s help.
• Fairy Bingxuan attacked Li Qingyuan while Azure Cloud Heavenly Monarch moved to kill Miao Le, but the Human Emperor intercepted him and Miao Le strengthened the formation barrier.
• Fairy Bingxuan used the Ice Emperor Art to help Lin Yuan withstand Li Qingyuan’s assault, leaving the two-on-one battle deadlocked as the formation defenders and attackers suffered heavy casualties.
• The Heavenly Dao Vortex intensified, and the six Void Refining Dao Lords gathered 7,100 Spirit Transformation cultivators from the Three Great Sects and their territories.
• The three sects’ forces entered the Ancient Grotto-heaven, seeking the Mahayana Immortal Venerable inheritance.

As the Nine Provinces forces faced defeat before 7,100 invading Spirit Transformations, Li Qingyuan began planning to flee and preserve the survivors. Human Emperor Dugu Lei sacrificed himself to summon Thunder Ancestor’s power, then manifested a Void Refining Major Heavenly Tribulation against the invaders.

• The Azure Cloud Heavenly Monarch battered the bloodied Human Emperor, while Li Qingyuan and Zhao Guangzheng held off Fairy Bingxuan and Sword Lord Lin Yuan with the Earth Marsh Sword Array.
• Seven thousand one hundred Spirit Transformations descended through the Heaven Imprisoning Great Array, and their combined aura overwhelmed the Nine Provinces forces.
• Miao Le and the other defenders despaired, while Li Qingyuan considered escaping with his family to preserve Nine Provinces’ future.
• Dugu Lei told Li Qingyuan to protect the surviving cultivators, then burned his body, mana, and Primordial Spirit to invoke Thunder Ancestor’s Dao Mark.
• Dugu Lei invited Thunder Ancestor to possess him, and the resulting power summoned a Five-Colored Thundercloud that the invaders recognized as a Void Refining Major Heavenly Tribulation.

The Human Emperor unleashed the Six-Colored Great Heavenly Tribulation and destroyed the seven thousand-odd extraterrestrial Spirit Transformation cultivators, breaking the Heaven Imprisoning Great Array and bringing down Red Flag Mountain. After entrusting Nine Provinces to Li Qingyuan, Dugu Lei vanished, leaving behind a promise to return to Cangxuan Heaven.

• Dugu Lei drew on the Thunder Ancestor's Will and the Heavenly Dao Vortex to summon a Six-Colored Great Heavenly Tribulation that blocked the cultivators' escape.
• The Five Thunders struck the seven thousand-odd Spirit Transformation cultivators, shattered the Heaven Imprisoning Great Array, and brought down Red Flag Mountain.
• Dugu Lei personally charged into the enemy ranks, and the tribulation reduced the extraterrestrial cultivators to blood mist within three breaths.
• As the lightning faded, Dugu Lei's Thunder God Halberd, Ascending Heaven Tower, and Thunder Ancestor's power vanished, and he told Li Qingyuan to become the next Human Emperor.
• Dugu Lei disappeared after telling the people of Nine Provinces not to mourn him and declaring that he would return to Cangxuan Heaven.

After the Human Emperor vanished while destroying the invading Soul Transformation Cultivators, Li Qingyuan took charge of the wounded Nine Provinces forces and urged them to prepare for future attacks. The foreign Void Refining Dao Lords, shaken by the slaughter, considered asking an Integrated Body Great Talent to intervene.

• The cultivators and people of the Nine Provinces mourned the Human Emperor, while Li Qingyuan remembered the losses suffered by his clan, including his son and grandson Li Yunfan.
• Li Qingyuan distributed surviving resources to the wounded and told them to restore their strength to protect the Nine Provinces; he rejected being called the Human Emperor and warned that the enemy could attack again.
• Li Qingyuan collapsed from his injuries after using the complete Earth Marsh Sword Array, then took Fifth-Tier Treasure Pills and began recovering with the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique and Longevity Seed.
• The six Void Refining Dao Lords at the Myriad Severance Mountain Range discussed how the Human Emperor had killed over seven thousand Soul Transformation Cultivators in three breaths and recalled sensing the power of the Six-Colored Great Heavenly Tribulation.
• The Dao Lords lamented the destruction of their Soul Transformation forces and decided to report the disaster to their Sect Masters and seek help from an Integrated Body Great Talent.

Three Spirit Lords descended to investigate the Grotto-heaven World after thousands of Soul Transformation Cultivators died inside it. Sacred Heart Spirit Lord attacked its Devouring Vortex, but the vortex shattered his Dharma Form and wounded him, leaving the Spirit Lords stunned by its power.

• Heavenly Sword Dao Lord, First Ice Emperor, and Dao Lord Ziyue summoned three Spirit Lords to the Myriad Severance Mountain Range.
• Heavenly Sword Dao Lord reported that more than seven thousand Soul Transformation Cultivators had died within three breaths of entering the Grotto-heaven World.
• Dao Lord Ziyue reported signs of Heavenly Dao Disorder and a Great Heavenly Tribulation within the grotto-heaven, while First Ice Emperor explained that Void Refining cultivators could not enter.
• Sacred Heart Spirit Lord tried to freeze the Devouring Vortex with Ice Law, but it swallowed the attack and struck back with overwhelming Great Dao Power.
• The Devouring Vortex broke Sacred Heart Spirit Lord's Dharma Form and made him spit blood, shocking all three Spirit Lords.

Divine Sword Spirit Lord and two other Body Integration Spirit Lords discovered that a Devouring Vortex concealed an Ancient Grotto-heaven, but their attempt to break through it triggered a devastating backlash. As more Spirit Lords and the three domain rulers arrived, the Mahayana Dao Venerables joined forces to open the grotto-heaven.

• Divine Sword Spirit Lord attacked the Devouring Vortex, but its stronger Heavenly Dao Power shattered his sword qi and injured him.
• Divine Sword Spirit Lord, Sacred Heart Spirit Lord, and Purple Green Spirit Lord tried to conceal the grotto-heaven, but five other Body Integration Spirit Lords arrived and disrupted their seal.
• Golden Kui Spirit Lord and Purple Clad Spirit Lord assessed the expanding vortex as the Three Domains' cultivators gathered at Myriad Severance Mountain Range.
• Divine Fire Dao Venerable, Heavenly Frost Dao Venerable, and Seven Profound Dao Venerable arrived and suppressed the gathered cultivators' powers.
• Divine Fire Dao Venerable, Heavenly Frost Dao Venerable, and Seven Profound Dao Venerable combined their perfected Laws to attack the vortex and open a gate of teleportation.