Recaps

The Ghost Immortal Emperor unleashed his Eighth-Revolution Immortal Emperor power and charged out of the Ghost Realm to face thirty-six Heavenly Slaves. Fang Chen and the Human Race powerhouses followed, where the Ghost Realm’s cultivators recognized Fang Chen and learned that he had succeeded in Stealing the Heavens.

• The Ghost Immortal Emperor formed a silver-white blade, released his full power, and drew the World Will’s pressure through a vortex above the Ghost Realm.
• The Ghost Immortal Emperor emerged into the sky, and the Ghost Realm’s cultivators mistook him for their Realm Spirit before he flew into the ranks of the Heavenly Slaves.
• Fang Chen, Great Emperor Huo Li, and the Immortal Kings followed the Ghost Immortal Emperor out of the Ghost Realm, prompting its Human Race cultivators to debate whether Fang Chen had returned.
• The Human Race cultivators entered the Land of Ending and struggled under the World Will’s pressure as they approached the Glazed Immortal King and the others.
• Fang Chen confirmed his identity to the Extreme Cauldron Immortal King, and the Glazed Immortal King verified it to the gathered Human Race powerhouses.
• Fang Chen told the Extreme Cauldron Immortal King that they had succeeded in Stealing the Heavens, and the Human Race powerhouses cheered.

Fang Chen explained that the Ghost Immortal Emperor created the Ghost Realm as the Emperor battled the Heavenly Slaves. In the Ancient Region, the Human Emperor sensed a powerful, familiar energy fluctuation from the Fringe World.

• Fang Chen told the Extreme Cauldron Immortal King and the others that the Ghost Immortal Emperor had created the Ghost Realm and that its former Realm Spirit came from half of his Divine Soul Origin.
• The Ghost Immortal Emperor decapitated a Seven-Turn Heavenly Slave, and the Ghost Realm sealed its body in stone.
• The Ghost Immortal Emperor cut apart five more Seven-Turn Heavenly Slaves, and the Ghost Realm swallowed and sealed their fragments while Fang Chen studied his Saber Arts.
• In the Hall of Eternity, the Human Emperor opened his eyes and told the Nether Emperor that he had sensed a powerful, familiar energy fluctuation from the Fringe World.

The Ghost Immortal Emperor fought the Heavenly Slaves in the Fringe Region while the Human Emperor and the others watched through the Hall of Eternity. After sealing thirty-four foes, he faced two peak Eighth-Revolution Heavenly Slaves and countered their coordinated opening attack.

• The Human Emperor, Kong Xian, and the others sensed a powerful presence in the Fringe World and activated the Hall of Eternity to view it.
• They recognized the figure in the Light Mirror as the Ghost Immortal Emperor, alive and fighting in the Fringe Region.
• The Ghost Immortal Emperor had sealed thirty-four of the thirty-six Heavenly Slaves, leaving two peak Eighth-Revolution opponents to face him.
• The two Heavenly Slaves attacked together, one striking at the Ghost Immortal Emperor's neck while the other swept low at his legs.
• The Ghost Immortal Emperor clashed with the frontal Blade Ray, stepped forward to evade the low attack, and struck the second Heavenly Slave in the back with his left hand.

The Ghost Immortal Emperor fought two Heavenly Slaves, using their attacks against each other before cutting through their fused strike. He split one Heavenly Slave open, and the Ghost Realm devoured it.

• The Ghost Immortal Emperor dodged and countered the two Heavenly Slaves’ coordinated attacks, redirecting their strength against each other.
• Fang Chen studied the Ghost Immortal Emperor’s techniques as Great Emperor Huo Li explained how he borrowed the Heavenly Slaves’ power.
• The two Heavenly Slaves combined their Order Force into a compressed attack that could threaten a Ninth-Turn Immortal Emperor.
• The Ghost Immortal Emperor split the fused attack with one blade stroke and slashed open the Heavenly Slave on the right.
• The Ghost Realm devoured the wounded Heavenly Slave as its Law Fragments poured from the gash.

The Ghost Immortal Emperor defeated and sealed every Heavenly Slave, ending the Heavenly Punishment. He warned Fang Chen that the World Will had awakened and might soon fully awaken, then took him back to the Ghost Realm to discuss how much time remained.

• The Ghost Immortal Emperor sealed the final Heavenly Slave, and the rift in the sky closed as the Heavenly Punishment ended.
• Fang Chen, Great Emperor Huo Li, Myna bird, Little Crane, and the ancient beings in the Hall of Eternity witnessed the Ghost Immortal Emperor's victory.
• The Ghost Immortal Emperor told Fang Chen that the sealed Heavenly Slaves could help restore the Ghost Realm's Law Foundation.
• The Ghost Immortal Emperor warned Fang Chen that the World Will's Clone had awakened and that the World Will might soon fully awaken.
• Fang Chen followed the Ghost Immortal Emperor back into the Ghost Realm, and the Human Cultivators followed as the Vortex disappeared.

Fang Chen asked the Ghost Immortal Emperor whether he could return to the Barbaric Ancient Region and recruit its trapped cultivators for the Heaven-Extermination War. The Ghost Immortal Emperor said the journey was possible but extremely difficult, and revealed that he had come from the Barbaric Ancient Region himself.

• The group found the restored Thatched Cottage, and the Ghost Immortal Emperor explained that the Ghost Realm’s laws rebuilt it.
• The Ghost Immortal Emperor thanked Fang Chen for saving him and the Ghost Realm, then recounted the events he had learned from the Realm Spirit’s memories.
• Fang Chen asked to return to the Barbaric Ancient Region so he could bring its powerful cultivators to the Outer Heavens and strengthen their forces.
• The Ghost Immortal Emperor confirmed that returning was possible but far harder than crossing the Abyss of Annihilation.
• The Ghost Immortal Emperor revealed that he had come from the Barbaric Ancient Region over seventy million years earlier, and Fang Chen asked how they could find their way back.

The Ghost Immortal Emperor revealed that a broken Black Stone Tablet could guide them toward the Barbaric Ancient Region, but they would need to find the Reincarnation Ferry to use it. The Glazed Immortal King and the Star Immortal King confirmed that the Ferry still existed and began recounting how they had discovered it.

• The Ghost Immortal Emperor retrieved a broken Black Stone Tablet from a rift and explained that it carried the Barbaric Ancient Region's Earth Vein mark.
• Fang Chen sensed a distant direction through the tablet, and the Ghost Immortal Emperor said they needed to find the Reincarnation Ferry to anchor the Barbaric Ancient Region.
• The Ghost Immortal Emperor described the Reincarnation Ferry as a hidden Spatial Node opened by Barbaric Ancient Region ascenders near the Path to Heaven.
• The Glazed Immortal King and the Star Immortal King told the Ghost Immortal Emperor that the Reincarnation Ferry still existed.
• The Glazed Immortal King began explaining how he and the Star Immortal King discovered it while exploring the Land of Ending more than forty thousand years earlier.

The Glazed Immortal King and the Star Immortal King explained how they found an intact Reincarnation Coffin in the Land of Ending and sent it back toward the Barbaric Ancient Region. The Glazed Immortal King revealed that his Remnant Soul had slept inside it until Fang Chen awakened him.

• The Star Immortal King and the Glazed Immortal King recounted finding a hidden Spatial Node and an intact Reincarnation Coffin while fleeing the Devil Race.
• The Ghost Immortal Emperor explained that Reincarnation Coffins could carry objects, Remnant Souls, and Law Imprints backward along the Path to Heaven.
• The Glazed Immortal King sensed the Glazed Bell inside the coffin and realized it had been sent from the Land of Ending toward the Barbaric Ancient Region.
• The Glazed Immortal King placed the coffin inside the first level of his Glazed Pagoda, and the Star Immortal King guided it with the Glazed Sword.
• The Glazed Pagoda level landed in the Glazed Sword Sect's territory and formed the Sky Lake Forbidden Zone, where the Glazed Immortal King's Remnant Soul slept for over ten thousand years.
• The Glazed Immortal King revealed that Fang Chen had awakened his Remnant Soul.

Fang Chen learned that the Reincarnation Ferry remained intact and received the Stone Tablet to help locate the Barbaric Ancient Region. The group then discovered that True Immortals could not travel upstream through the Path to Heaven, leaving their return uncertain.

• Fang Chen explained how he found the Reincarnation Coffin and learned that the seniors had gone to the Land of Ending.
• The Ghost Immortal Emperor, the Glazed Immortal King, and the Star Immortal King concluded that the Reincarnation Ferry still existed and could lead them toward the Barbaric Ancient Region.
• The Glazed Immortal King agreed to send a Clone with Fang Chen because his True Immortal body could not enter the passage and the Star Immortal King did not know the route.
• The Ghost Immortal Emperor gave Fang Chen the Stone Tablet and warned that True Immortals could not travel upstream through the Path to Heaven.
• Ye Qingci showed her determination to accompany Fang Chen, and the Myna asked whether the True Immortals could no longer return to the Barbaric Ancient Region.

Fang Chen learned that only Great Emperor Realm cultivators could safely travel upstream to the Barbaric Ancient Region, leaving the True Immortals behind. He asked whether the Heaven-Deceiving Earth-Changing Pill could disguise their cultivation, but Ghost Immortal Emperor explained that the passage’s laws measured their true cultivation and would collapse if they tried.

• Ghost Immortal Emperor explained that True Immortals could not travel upstream because the passage would crush them and collapse, while Great Emperor Realm cultivators could pass.
• Fang Chen assessed the cultivation of his companions and concluded that only those in the Great Emperor Realm could return with him to the Barbaric Ancient Region.
• Glazed Immortal King, Chaos Immortal King, Dark Yellow Immortal King, and Jade Pool Immortal King accepted that they would have to stay behind while Fang Chen brought the others back.
• Fang Chen asked whether the Heaven-Deceiving Earth-Changing Pill could let the True Immortals disguise themselves as Great Emperors and cross upstream.
• Ghost Immortal Emperor said the pill could fool the World Will’s senses but not the passage’s laws, which would detect their true cultivation and risk collapsing the entire route.

Fang Chen explained that he could restore cultivation severed to cross back into the Barbaric Ancient Region, using Phoenix Essence Blood and the Nirvana Secret Art. His claim gave the Immortal Kings a possible way forward, though the Ghost Immortal Emperor had warned that severing cultivation was normally permanent and perilous.

• The Ghost Immortal Emperor explained that a True Immortal could sever their Dao foundation and fall to the Great Emperor Realm to cross against the current, but would permanently lose the chance to regain True Immortal cultivation and endure terrible pain.
• The Jade Pool Immortal King asked whether severed cultivation could be restored, and the Ghost Immortal Emperor insisted that it could not.
• Fang Chen told the Ghost Immortal Emperor that he knew severed cultivation could be restored, and Great Emperor Huo Li silently affirmed him.
• Fang Chen recounted how he had helped Lin Xiao recover from severing his cultivation with ten drops of Phoenix Heart Essence Blood and the Nirvana Secret Art, leaving Lin Xiao's foundation stronger than before.
• Fang Chen revealed that he had sealed ten Evilfire Phoenixes in his Swallowing Heaven Tower and still had their Essence Blood available, prompting the Immortal Kings to reconsider their choices.

Fang Chen and the Ghost Immortal Emperor found a way to preserve the Glazed Immortal King and the other Immortal Kings’ severed Dao Foundations with Dao-Rhyme Spirit Spring until they could be repaired using Phoenix Heart Essence Blood and the Nirvana Secret Art. The Immortal Kings agreed to sever their Cultivation and travel with Fang Chen to the Barbaric Ancient Region.

• The Ghost Immortal Emperor warned Fang Chen that severed Dao Foundations would lose their vitality over time, making delayed Nirvana repair impossible.
• The Ghost Immortal Emperor retrieved Dao-Rhyme Spirit Spring and explained that it could preserve the vitality of severed Dao Foundations for thousands of years.
• The Glazed Immortal King confirmed that they could immerse their severed foundations in the spring until Fang Chen’s group returned from the Barbaric Ancient Region.
• Fang Chen agreed to use Phoenix Essence Blood and the Nirvana Secret Art to rebuild the Immortal Kings’ Dao Foundations after the journey.
• The Glazed Immortal King, Chaos Immortal King, Dark Yellow Immortal King, and Jade Pool Immortal King all said they wanted to return to the Barbaric Ancient Region with Fang Chen.

Star Immortal King and the others chose to sever their Dao so they could attempt to return to the Barbaric Ancient Region, and Ghost Immortal Emperor prepared to help them. After the four Immortal Kings cut their Cultivation down to early-stage Great Emperor and used Dao-Rhyme Spirit Spring to soothe their damaged foundations, Glazed Immortal King recovered first and said the spring had stabilized his Dao Foundation.

• Star Immortal King said he wanted to leave with Fang Chen and return to the Barbaric Ancient Region, and the others agreed to begin severing their Dao.
• Ghost Immortal Emperor prepared to assist Glazed Immortal King, Chaos Immortal King, Dark Yellow Immortal King, and Jade Pool Immortal King.
• Ghost Immortal Emperor used a Silver-White dagger to sever Glazed Immortal King's Dao, lowering his Cultivation to early-stage Great Emperor, and Fang Chen helped him use Dao-Rhyme Spirit Spring.
• Chaos Immortal King, Dark Yellow Immortal King, and Jade Pool Immortal King also severed their Cultivation and used the Spirit Spring to ease the pain.
• Three days later, Glazed Immortal King awoke, said the Spirit Spring had sealed the severed end of his Dao Foundation, and stood up steadily.

Fang Chen and the others left the Ghost Realm and traveled through the Land of Ending toward the Reincarnation Ferry. The Glazed Immortal King guided them to the edge of a Chaotic Star Domain, where the journey grew more dangerous.

• The Ghost Immortal Emperor declined to form a Clone and stayed behind to guard the Outer Heavens while preparing to break through to the Ninth-Turn Immortal Emperor Realm.
• Fang Chen and the others left the Ghost Realm through a Space Vortex and watched it drift away through the Land of Ending.
• The Glazed Immortal King sensed the route to the Reincarnation Ferry, and Little Crane opened the Spirit Crane Space to carry the group northeast.
• Little Crane steered around Spatial Folds as the group crossed the increasingly desolate Land of Ending.
• Little Crane slowed when the Spatial Structure ahead grew tangled, and the Glazed Immortal King announced they had reached the edge of the Chaotic Star Domain.

Fang Chen and his companions crossed the warped battlefield left by the Second Heaven-Extermination War, where Glazed Immortal King explained the frozen echoes of its past. Fang Chen defeated a patrol of Heavenly Slaves as Little Crane guided Spirit Crane Space onward, and they entered a region filled with boundless Gray-White Mist.

• Glazed Immortal King explained that the frozen scenes and wreckage marked a secondary battlefield from the Second Heaven-Extermination War, and Fang Chen and the others bowed to the Immortal Emperor who had fallen there.
• Little Crane carefully guided Spirit Crane Space through the Spatial Folds while Fang Chen urged her to tell him if the journey became too difficult.
• A one-turn Immortal Emperor Level Heavenly Slave emerged and attacked, but Fang Chen killed it with the Floating Immortal Sword and absorbed it into the Swallowing Heaven Tower.
• More Heavenly Slaves appeared, and Fang Chen cut through the patrol, using the battle to hone his skills and strengthen his aura.
• Little Crane brought Fang Chen back into Spirit Crane Space and continued onward, taking them from the Spatial Folds into a directionless region of Gray-White Mist.

Fang Chen and the others crossed the dangerous Law Desert, where they found the remains of a fallen Immortal Emperor and fought off several Heavenly Slaves. The Glazed Immortal King recognized an immense shadow ahead as the place containing the Reincarnation Ferry, and the group finally arrived.

• Little Crane carried the Spirit Crane Space into the Law Desert, where the Glazed Immortal King warned that the sparse Laws would drain their power.
• Fang Chen examined a drifting fragment of a Small World and sensed that it had formed from the remains of an Earth Law Immortal Emperor who fell in the Second Heaven-Extermination War.
• The Glazed Immortal King estimated that the Reincarnation Ferry was about five days away, and the group continued through the mist past many fragments.
• Several groups of weak Heavenly Slaves attacked, and Fang Chen destroyed them with his palms and gathered them into the Swallowing Heaven Tower.
• Little Crane stopped before an immense shadow in the mist, and the Glazed Immortal King identified it as the place where the Reincarnation Ferry lay.

Fang Chen and the Glazed Immortal King reached the ruined city containing the Reincarnation Ferry and activated it with the Black Stone Tablet. The ferry established a connection pointing toward the Barbaric Ancient Region, and Fang Chen told Little Crane to take them there along the Path to Heaven.

• Little Crane brought Spirit Crane Space to the ruins of a vast city, where the Glazed Immortal King identified the circular structure at its center as the Reincarnation Ferry.
• The Glazed Immortal King explained that the city had been built by predecessors from various regions and fell during the Second Heaven-Extermination War.
• Fang Chen pressed the Black Stone Tablet against the ferry, causing it to glow and awaken with ancient runes.
• The ferry resonated with the tablet and formed a connection pointing toward the Barbaric Ancient Region.
• The Glazed Immortal King could not sense his Life-Bound Saint Weapon without the Reincarnation Coffin's law imprint, and Fang Chen told Little Crane to follow the Path to Heaven upstream against the Counterflow.

Fang Chen carried Little Crane through the Counterflow on the Path to Heaven, using the Floating Immortal Sword to replenish his strength. After defeating and absorbing five Heavenly Slaves, he flew deeper into the increasingly distorted passage and reached a region where everything was frozen motionless.

• Little Crane brought Fang Chen and the Glazed Immortal King into Spirit Crane Space and flew into the Silver-White light, but the Counterflow drained her strength.
• Fang Chen took Little Crane into his arms and used the Floating Immortal Sword's power to fight upstream through the Path to Heaven.
• Fang Chen and Myna bird observed the enormous wrecks and discussed how some came from the Heaven-Extermination War and others from failed travelers.
• Fang Chen fought five Heavenly Slaves, weakened them with the Floating Immortal Sword, and absorbed them into the Swallowing Heaven Tower.
• Fang Chen flew through denser wreckage and a distorted void before reaching a region where the wrecks, dust, and light were completely still.

Fang Chen crossed a vast Time Amber with the Time Bell and followed the Black Stone Tablet’s guidance toward the Barbaric Ancient Region. He reached an immense law barrier blocking the path and found the remains of countless beings and broken treasures piled at its base.

• Fang Chen used the Time Bell to shield himself as he crossed the Time Amber, passing frozen wreckage and a headless humanoid skeleton.
• Fang Chen left the Time Amber, put away the Time Bell, and flew onward along the Path to Heaven as power from the Floating Immortal Sword continued to flow back to him.
• Fang Chen followed the Black Stone Tablet’s increasingly clear guidance toward the Barbaric Ancient Region and sensed a barrier ahead.
• Fang Chen reached the dark-gray Heaven-Earth Barrier, whose Silver Markings formed an immense law-light screen across the void.
• Fang Chen saw broken Magic Treasures, rusted armor, and decayed human and beast skeletons piled at the barrier’s base.

Fang Chen and his companions discovered a barrier blocking the route back to the Barbaric Ancient Region, with the remains of cultivators who had died trying to cross it. Confident he could break through, Fang Chen sent everyone into Spirit Crane Space and prepared to attack the barrier.

• Fang Chen examined the remains and concluded that cultivators, including Great Emperors, had died trying to cross the barrier back to the Barbaric Ancient Region.
• Great Emperor Huo Li and the Glazed Immortal King explained that the World Will had sealed the route to prevent anyone from returning with secrets from the Land of Ending.
• Yue Canglan, Li Qingyao, and Palace Mistress Lingxin inspected the bones and reflected on the cultivators who had died there.
• The Star Immortal King said the barrier might be broken by finding its Energy Node, while Great Emperor Huo Li warned that its layered Order Runes made it dangerous to attack carelessly.
• Fang Chen touched the barrier, declared that breaking it would be no problem, and asked Little Crane to bring everyone back into Spirit Crane Space.
• Fang Chen activated the Floating Immortal Battle Body and prepared to break the barrier.

Fang Chen shattered the dark-gray barrier with One Sword Returns to Ruin, opening a path into a pale-blue space beyond. The breakthrough awakened powerful summons from the Barbaric Ancient Region, including signals from his nine Clones and the Immortal Kings’ Life-Bound Treasures.

• Fang Chen grew into a Ten-Thousand Zhang Chaos Giant and gathered his strength into the Floating Immortal Sword.
• Fang Chen completed eleven turns of Sword Momentum and struck the barrier’s weakened area with One Sword Returns to Ruin.
• Fang Chen’s sword shattered the dark-gray Light Screen, revealing a calm, pale-blue space beyond it.
• The Black Stone Tablet in Fang Chen’s Left Hand glowed, and he sensed summons from his nine Clones and other sources.
• The Heaven Refining Furnace and Fang Chen’s other Natal Spirit Treasures vibrated, while the Glazed Immortal King and the other Immortal Kings sensed powerful summons.
• Fang Chen told the Glazed Immortal King that the summons came from the Life-Bound Treasures they had left in the Barbaric Ancient Region.

Fang Chen’s return to the Barbaric Ancient Region stirred the natal Emperor Weapons he had left behind and awakened the nine Clones he had stationed in the Qingyang Realm. The Clones recognized his vastly increased power and flew out to welcome him.

• Fang Chen cut through a peculiar barrier, causing the Immortal Kings’ abandoned natal Emperor Weapons to sense his presence.
• The nine Clones in the Qingyang Realm felt Fang Chen’s aura and confirmed that he was approaching the Barbaric Ancient Region.
• Eldest Brother Fang sensed that Fang Chen’s power far surpassed their own, and the nine Clones flew toward him to welcome him.
• The chapter recalled the Glazed Sword Sect’s four Saint Weapons and Fang Chen’s earlier trial in the Glazed Pagoda, where he won first place by finding a Glazed Mushroom Emperor.

The Glazed Bell, Glazed Sword, and Glazed Mirror suddenly awakened and broke free from their keepers, converging in the sky above the Glazed Sword Sect. At the chapter’s end, the Glazed Pagoda stirred at the bottom of Heavenly Lake, sending ripples across the sect.

• The Glazed Bell awakened within the Glazed Realm’s Origin Space, broke through its seals, and flew into the sky.
• Yun Su’s Glazed Sword erupted with Sword Intent, ignored his summons, and shattered the Glazed Hall’s dome as it flew away.
• The Red River Great Emperor’s Glazed Mirror broke through the underground Cave’s seals and restrictions, prompting him to pursue it.
• The Glazed Pagoda, lying at the bottom of Heavenly Lake, began to hum and tremble.
• Ripples from the Glazed Pagoda’s awakening spread across the entire Glazed Sword Sect.

The Glazed Sword Sect’s three Supreme Treasures awakened and hovered over the sect as a pillar of Seven-Colored light erupted from Heavenly Lake, revealing that the Glazed Pagoda was awakening too. The sect’s Great Emperors gathered and turned to Black Flame for an explanation.

• Chen Xiaofei emerged from his cave abode as the Glazed Bell, Glazed Mirror, and Glazed Sword appeared in the sky.
• The Red River Great Emperor stood beneath the Glazed Mirror, Yun Su stood beneath the Glazed Sword, and no one appeared beneath the Glazed Bell.
• The three treasures turned toward Heavenly Lake, where Chen Xiaofei recognized the Glazed Pagoda’s awakening in a towering pillar of Seven-Colored light.
• Yan Ziyi, Great Emperor Black Flame, Yun Qianxue, and Great Emperor Ancient Rock saw the light and gathered their attention on Heavenly Lake.
• Great Emperor Gu Yu and Great Emperor Azure Origin arrived beside Great Emperor Black Flame and asked what had happened.

The Glazed Mirror, Glazed Sword, and Glazed Bell flew into the sky as a Seven-Colored pillar rose from the Sky Lake Forbidden Zone. The Glazed Pagoda emerged from beneath Heavenly Lake, and Great Emperor Black Flame told the gathered cultivators to watch and wait; the chapter then shifted to the Chaos Holy Land’s Chaos Origin Realm, where the Chaos Bell hovered above an ancient Dao Platform.

• The Red River Great Emperor and Yun Su told Great Emperor Black Flame that the Glazed Mirror and Glazed Sword had broken free and flown into the sky.
• Great Emperor Black Flame, Yun Qianxue, the Red River Great Emperor, and others flew to the Sky Lake Forbidden Zone as the waters of Heavenly Lake parted.
• A colossal, Seven-Colored Glazed Pagoda rose from the exposed lakebed, astonishing Great Emperor Black Flame and the gathered cultivators.
• The Red River Great Emperor asked what to do, and Great Emperor Black Flame ordered everyone to watch and wait.
• In the Chaos Holy Land’s Chaos Origin Realm, the Chaos Bell hovered above the eastern Dao Platform.