Recaps

Lu Ming and Zhu Ningyun fought through Crimson Shadow creatures before joining Fairy Zilan and Tie Bishan against a powerful bald monster. Lu Ming’s Heavenly Demise technique wounded it, but a distant explosion drew the monster and countless dark shadows away.

• Lu Ming and Zhu Ningyun cut through waves of Crimson Shadow creatures as they advanced along the long street.
• They found Fairy Zilan and Tie Bishan struggling against a bald creature whose speed and durability overwhelmed their attacks.
• Lu Ming and Zhu Ningyun joined the fight, and Lu Ming struck the bald creature with Heavenly Demise, sending it flying and leaving a deep groove in its chest.
• Lu Ming urged Fairy Zilan and Tie Bishan to attack, but a distant explosion shook the area and caused the bald creature and countless dark shadows to rush toward its source.

Lu Ming and the others learned that the monsters were an Undead Race created by someone seeking immortality, and Fairy Zilan identified the bald monster as a high-level corpse puppet connected to the Han Ba clan. They suspected the Black Robe Figure was pursuing the disturbance’s cause and set out together to investigate it.

• Lu Ming told Fairy Zilan and Tie Bishan that information he and Zhu Ningyun found described monsters created by someone seeking eternal life and immortality.
• Fairy Zilan connected the bald monster’s tough body to high-level corpse puppets and said flame-controlling corpse puppets belonged to the Han Ba clan.
• The group discussed whether the person pursuing immortality had caused the tremors, and Lu Ming pointed out that the Black Robe Figure had seemed to know what he was looking for.
• Lu Ming, Zhu Ningyun, Fairy Zilan, and Tie Bishan agreed to investigate the source of the sounds and traveled toward it together.

Lu Ming and his companions entered the former City Lord's Mansion of Golden City, where they found Yellow Soil Old Monster and Zhao Hai fighting the strange fire shadows. After learning about the powerful black-robed figure and corpse puppet, the six joined forces and advanced toward the main hall.

• Lu Ming led Zhu Ningyun, Tie Bishan, and Fairy Zilan through the opening into the pitch-black hall and encountered Yellow Soil Old Monster and Zhao Hai under attack.
• The group joined the battle, and Fairy Zilan told Zhao Hai and Yellow Soil Old Monster about the bald monster and the black-robed figure who possessed a corpse puppet.
• Yellow Soil Old Monster agreed to advance with Lu Ming's group because escaping would require going deeper into the area.
• The six formed a battle formation and pushed through the fire shadows as Lu Ming practiced coordinating his saber and sword while watching over Zhu Ningyun.

Lu Ming and the others explored the main hall, fought a strange monster that vanished into a wall, and climbed to the second level. There they found hundreds of ruined Divine Weapons and evidence that someone had been there before, then prepared to continue upward.

• Lu Ming and the others recovered their strength before Yellow Soil Old Monster led them into the main hall.
• The group found the entrance to the second level and began crossing the hall, where Tie Bishan exposed an invisible black monster with his axe.
• Lu Ming and the others attacked the monster, and Zhao Hai struck it with his Dragon Snake Strike, but it escaped by seeping into the wall.
• Yellow Soil Old Monster led the group up the stairs to the second level, where Zhao Hai discovered rows of weapons that had once been Divine Weapons.
• Tie Bishan and Lu Ming tested the weapons and found that they crumbled to powder; Lu Ming also noticed fragments showing someone had entered before them.
• Yellow Soil Old Monster turned toward the doorway to the third level and urged the others onward.

Lu Ming and the others reached the fourth floor, where Daoist Yinshi was trapped behind a golden barrier with five monsters and a black coffin. The coffin opened to reveal Han Ba, who absorbed the monsters, killed Daoist Yinshi, and turned her gaze on the group as the exit sealed.

• The group found billions of Origin Stones on the third floor, but they had decayed and crumbled to dust.
• On the fourth floor, they discovered four monsters attacking Daoist Yinshi’s golden barrier while a fifth guarded a black coffin.
• Daoist Yinshi urged the group to join him against the monsters, but they stayed silent as the coffin opened and Han Ba rose from it.
• The monsters merged into Han Ba, awakening her and revealing an aura at least comparable to a Half-step Celestial Being.
• Lu Ming told Zhu Ningyun that the exit had been sealed as Yellow Soil Old Monster tried to flee.
• Han Ba seized Daoist Yinshi, drained him into dust, and turned her scarlet gaze toward Lu Ming and the others.

Lu Ming used the Qingqiu Token to unleash a devastating beast-claw attack against the red-clad woman after the others’ life-saving techniques failed to break her defenses. The attack blasted her into the void, and the group turned to searching for a way out while unsure whether she could return.

• The red-clad woman nearly killed Zhao Hai, but Lu Ming’s attack disrupted her long enough for Zhao Hai to retreat.
• Zhao Hai summoned Old Man You She's Azure Dragon Strike, but the woman’s red radiance began to melt the serpent.
• Tie Bishan used his luminous axe to crack the woman’s defenses, but the blow still failed to penetrate her body.
• Lu Ming activated the Qingqiu Token, and its beast claw shattered the red radiance and blasted the woman into space.
• Fairy Zilan, Zhao Hai, Tie Bishan, Zhu Ningyun, and Yellow Soil Old Monster were astonished by Lu Ming’s powerful trump card.
• Lu Ming put away the Qingqiu Token and suggested that everyone search the area for information on how to leave.

Lu Ming and the others found a Five Elements Seal Restriction in the fourth level and broke it through a coordinated assault. They uncovered a colorful stone chamber that appeared to contain treasures, and prepared to enter.

• After confirming that the woman in red was unlikely to return, Lu Ming and the others searched the fourth level but found nothing in the black coffin.
• Lu Ming and Zhu Ningyun discovered a five-colored restriction on the wall and sensed that a space lay behind it.
• Tie Bishan identified the barrier as possibly being a Five Elements Seal Restriction and explained that they would need to break it by force.
• Old Monster Yellow Soil struck the restriction, and Lu Ming and the others joined in as its rebound force began to weaken.
• The restriction shattered and revealed a colorful stone chamber that appeared to hold treasures.
• Old Monster Yellow Soil moved to enter the chamber first.

Lu Ming led the group into a stone chamber containing nine top-tier high-grade divine weapons and distributed them according to their contributions. After each person chose weapons, they turned their attention to three objects protected by barriers at the chamber’s depths.

• The Yellow Soil Old Monster led Lu Ming and the others through a safe passage into a stone chamber.
• The group discovered nine top-tier high-grade divine weapons and agreed to divide them according to their contributions.
• Lu Ming proposed taking two weapons himself, giving Zhao Hai and Tie Bishan two each, and dividing the remaining three among the others.
• Lu Ming chose an earthen-yellow shield and a blood-red saber, while Zhao Hai, Tie Bishan, the Yellow Soil Old Monster, Fairy Zilan, and Zhu Ningyun selected their weapons.
• The group approached three barrier-protected objects at the back of the chamber.

Lu Ming took the black stone from the collapsing chamber and helped the group escape through the teleportation array. Tie Bishan survived after Lu Ming pulled him inside at the last moment.

• Zhu Ningyun identified the first treasure as an Iron Certificate of Exemption from Death, while the black stone stirred the dark substance on Lu Ming’s Sword of Annihilation.
• Lu Ming suggested that everyone memorize the jade slip if it contained a martial art, but Zhao Hai’s attempt to break its light barrier triggered the chamber’s collapse.
• Lu Ming tore open the barrier around the black stone with his bare hands, took it, and brought Zhu Ningyun to the teleportation array.
• Fairy Zilan urged the others to escape as the chamber cracked apart, and Tie Bishan was nearly trapped by a spatial rift.
• Lu Ming pulled Tie Bishan into the teleportation array just before it activated, and Tie Bishan thanked him for saving his life.

After the teleportation from Death City ended, Lu Ming and the others found themselves in a cave where an Elemental Sealing Array suppressed their Gang Origin. They discovered that Primordial Spirit Power and physical strength still worked, then heard people approaching and followed Lu Ming outside to face them.

• Lu Ming confirmed that he cultivated External Skill, surprising Zhao Hai, Tie Bishan, and Yellow Soil Old Monster.
• Zhao Hai thanked Lu Ming for saving him, and Lu Ming redirected the group’s attention to figuring out where the teleportation had taken them.
• The teleportation ended at a crimson-walled cave, where an Elemental Sealing Array prevented the group from using their Gang Origin.
• Lu Ming, Zhao Hai, and the others found they could still use Primordial Spirit Power, while Lu Ming and Tie Bishan could also rely on their physical strength.
• Hearing strange voices say that outsiders had broken in, Lu Ming led Zhu Ningyun and the others out of the cave to confront them.

The Red Desert’s collapsed void scattered the remains of the city, while Huang Liji escaped the disaster and encountered a seemingly dead woman. The woman absorbed him, healed part of her wound, and vanished when a Half Beast King-level Flame Dragon Beast approached, thinking of Lu Ming as she left.

• The void in the Red Desert collapsed, scattering building fragments and drawing onlookers who fled when a Half Beast King-level Flame Dragon Beast appeared.
• Elder Huaiwen worried about Ning Yun and Lu Ming and decided to alert the Zhu Family head.
• Huang Liji emerged from a building fragment and celebrated his escape from the Ghost City.
• Huang Liji found an injured woman, mistook her for dead, and leaned in to kiss her.
• The woman awoke, seized Huang Liji, drained him until he vanished, and began restoring her wound.
• The woman recalled Lu Ming and vanished when the Flame Dragon Beast approached.

Lu Ming and the others emerged from the cave into a strange land where they could not use Gang Yuan, then fought a group of Beast-skin people who mistook them for prey. They subdued several attackers and killed the rest, leaving the group to face the strange people and their unfamiliar world.

• Lu Ming and the others left the cave and found a barren landscape where Gang Yuan could not be used.
• A group of Beast-skin people arrived, bowed excitedly at the sight of the newcomers, and attacked after Zhao Hai killed one of them.
• Tie Bishan met the burly leader in a clash of punches, while Lu Ming knocked down several attackers and captured them alive.
• Zhu Ningyun, Fairy Zilan, Zhao Hai, and Yellow Soil Old Monster defeated or killed their opponents with their weapons and abilities.
• The group regrouped, and Lu Ming's companions remarked that the Beast-skin people fought like beasts despite their limited strength.

Lu Ming defeated the burly warrior after recognizing his qi-and-blood tiger technique, then led the group to a secluded canyon to learn about their strange surroundings. Zhu Ningyun’s script drew a reaction from the captive, but he remained defiant as Zhao Hai prepared to use force.

• The burly man condensed his qi and blood into a tiger and badly injured Tie Bishan, but Lu Ming struck him down and captured him.
• Fairy Zilan and the others helped Tie Bishan recover while Lu Ming decided they should question the captive and move away from the disturbance.
• Lu Ming led the group several hundred miles to a secluded canyon, where Zhao Hai asked how they could communicate with the captive.
• Zhu Ningyun wrote characters in the script she recognized, and the burly man reacted with surprise, confirming that he could read them.
• The captive refused to cooperate, so Zhao Hai stepped forward, intending to torture him.

Lu Ming and his companions questioned captured warriors from the Na Gu Tribe, learning about their ranks, customs, and Half-King leader. With no clear way out of the sealed world, Lu Ming planned to confront the leader and began asking Ana to teach them his qi-and-blood cultivation technique.

• Lu Ming stopped Zhao Hai from killing the captives and had Ana write down what he knew, while Zhao Hai and Fairy Zilan dealt with the other warriors.
• Zhu Ningyun identified Ana and translated that he was early fourth rank, while the captured Libachi was early fifth rank.
• Ana explained that the warriors belonged to the Na Gu Tribe, whose people treated arrivals from spatial phenomena as Divine Sons and Daughters to marry.
• Lu Ming learned that the Na Gu Tribe's strongest person was a Half-King and proposed going to him to learn how they might leave the sealed world.
• Lu Ming promised not to kill Ana if he answered their questions, then asked him to write down his qi-and-blood cultivation technique.

Lu Ming mastered Running Wolf Transformation and led the group toward the Na Gu Tribe, using qi and blood to travel and studying how to adapt Dragon God Heavenly Merit. Along the way, they discovered a Savage Woman cultivating with astral energy, and her sword technique shocked Lu Ming and Zhu Ningyun.

• Lu Ming completed Running Wolf Transformation, impressing the others with his control of qi and blood.
• Lu Ming brought Ana along to guide the group toward the Na Gu Tribe, and Zhu Ningyun translated when Zhao Hai doubted Ana's directions.
• After several days of travel, Lu Ming spotted a woman absorbing Heaven and Earth Origin Energy and recognized that she was converting it into astral energy.
• The group suspected the Savage Woman had encountered outsiders before, while Ana grew increasingly worried at their interest in her.
• The Savage Woman performed a sword technique, and Lu Ming and Zhu Ningyun recognized it as Flowing Cloud Sword Technique.

Lu Ming and Zhu Ningyun recognized the Savage Woman’s sword technique as the Wuji Sect’s Flowing Cloud Sword Technique and discovered that her great-grandfather was Li Baiyun, the White Cloud Swordsman. The Savage Woman recognized Lu Ming as a fellow Wuji Sect member, and the chapter left her asking how he had arrived in the hidden realm.

• Lu Ming recognized the Savage Woman’s sword technique, while Ana tried to warn her as Zhao Hai moved to attack.
• Lu Ming stopped Zhao Hai, subdued the Savage Woman, and brought her to the group, where she demanded Ana’s release in exchange for information.
• The Savage Woman revealed that her grandmother had taught her the Flowing Cloud Sword Technique, which came from her great-grandfather, an outsider.
• Zhu Ningyun demonstrated the technique’s true power, and Lu Ming identified the great-grandfather as Li Baiyun, the White Cloud Swordsman.
• Lu Ming showed the Savage Woman his Wuji Sect Grand Elder token, and she produced an identical one of her own.
• Zhu Ningyun explained that Lu Ming was the current Grand Elder of the Wuji Sect, and the Savage Woman excitedly asked how he had reached the realm.

Lu Ming and his companions learned that Li Siyuan, a descendant of a former Saintess, might know how to leave the Exile Land. She agreed to lead them toward a dangerous, uncertain site that might offer a way out, and the group set off.

• Li Siyuan told Lu Ming that her great-grandparents had been connected to Savage King's Temple and that she wanted to leave the Exile Land.
• Li Siyuan explained that Savage King's Temple was an alliance of more than a dozen King Tier Tribes, and that an ancient tome identified their world as the Exile Land.
• Li Siyuan said Heaven and Earth Origin Energy had entered the land from outside and believed Savage Saint Mountain might be one opening, though it was heavily guarded.
• After Lu Ming asked about other unusual places, Li Siyuan offered to take the group to a dangerous location that might be similar.
• Li Siyuan told Ana to conceal their encounter and give a false account of the hunting party's fate, then Lu Ming led everyone away.

Lu Ming and his companions entered Fierce God Mountain to seek the source of its unusually dense Heaven and Earth Origin Energy. After fighting through a Corpse Bone Vine ambush, they escaped and stopped to recover before continuing deeper into the mountain.

• Li Siyuan explained that Fierce God Mountain had become a gathering place for powerful savage beasts, and the group sensed that its Heaven and Earth Origin Energy was unusually dense.
• Lu Ming led the group into the mountain and warned Li Siyuan to stay protected in the middle.
• Corpse Bone Vines surrounded the group, and Lu Ming punched open a path through them.
• Fairy Zilan, Zhu Ningyun, Yellow Soil Old Monster, Tie Bishan, and the others used their abilities to fend off the vines as the group fled.
• After running dozens of miles, the group stopped to recover, and Fairy Zilan offered Spirit Replenishing Pills.

Lu Ming and his companions ventured deeper into Fierce God Mountain, where they encountered a powerful Black Tooth Beast. After testing his newly created Sacred Dragon Fist against it, Lu Ming rejoined the group, and they continued north toward the Heaven and Earth Origin Energy.

• Fairy Zilan distributed Spirit Replenishing Pills, but everyone saved theirs as they continued through Fierce God Mountain.
• Lu Ming led the group away from a high-level vicious beast, but a Black Tooth Beast attacked and fired a devastating black beam.
• Lu Ming held off the beast while the others fled, countering its black beam with his newly created Sacred Dragon Fist.
• The collision sent Lu Ming and the Black Tooth Beast flying, and Lu Ming left after deciding his new technique still needed improvement.
• Lu Ming caught up with the group, and Yellow Soil Old Monster and Li Siyuan identified the north as the likely direction of the Origin Energy.
• The group headed north toward the Origin Energy, expecting stronger vicious beasts to guard the area.

Lu Ming led the group deep into the fissure and found the Space Rift that was releasing pure Heaven and Earth Origin Energy. After testing its relatively weak Space Turbulence, they prepared to enter, with Lu Ming giving Li Siyuan his Lightning Armor and the others arranging protection.

• Yellow Soil Old Monster identified the fissure as the source of the dense Origin Energy, and Lu Ming led everyone down after they rested and replenished their strength.
• Lu Ming guided the group through the dark winds and bat-like fierce beasts as they descended more than three thousand li, while their strength and Secret Artifacts dwindled.
• The group found a void in a massive rift and confirmed it was a Space Rift; Lu Ming tested its Space Turbulence with a High-grade Divine Weapon, which survived the impact.
• Lu Ming gave his Lightning Armor to Li Siyuan, while Zhu Ningyun offered her Flowing Cloud Armor and Fairy Zilan promised to protect Zhao Hai and Tie Bishan with her life-saving trump card.
• Yellow Soil Old Monster gave Zhu Ningyun a sword manual, and Lu Ming led everyone into the void.

Lu Ming and the others reached the boundary of the Nine Provinces World, where their powers returned, but Li Siyuan was pulled back because she was an outsider. Lu Ming turned back with Zhu Ningyun to rescue her while the others were swept toward the world, believing they could return if needed.

• Lu Ming led the group through the stable passage in the void and reassured them that it would lead them out of the Exile Land.
• Fairy Zilan recognized the Nine Provinces World's Interface Power, and the group's astral energy and strength returned.
• Li Siyuan felt the boundary pulling her back and drawing at her blood, while Lu Ming and the others were dragged toward the Nine Provinces World.
• Lu Ming told Zhu Ningyun to go ahead and turned back for Li Siyuan, and Zhu Ningyun followed him, vowing to stay by his side.
• Zhao Hai and Yellow Soil Old Monster let the force carry them away, while Tie Bishan and Fairy Zilan also chose to leave, reasoning that the passage would remain open.

Lu Ming, Zhu Ningyun, and Li Siyuan entered a newly appeared rift and found a hidden pocket of land filled with beast bones and inscriptions. Zhu Ningyun discovered that a giant stone tablet left by King Kui might explain how Li Siyuan could escape the Exile Land.

• Lu Ming and Zhu Ningyun turned back to rescue Li Siyuan, believing they could find another reason for the restriction keeping her in the Exile Land.
• A strange beam of light split open into a rift, and Lu Ming entered first before returning to tell the women it was safe.
• The three entered an isolated space in the void, where Lu Ming found beast bones and a giant stone tablet covered in writing.
• Li Siyuan recognized the tablet's author as King Kui, a former Shengqi Tribe chief who had vanished after losing a contest to become alliance chief.
• Zhu Ningyun said the tablet's writing could answer Li Siyuan's questions and might help her leave the Exile Land.

Lu Ming learned that the Exile Land was a prison that marked its inhabitants’ bloodlines and found King Kui’s cultivation and blood-concealment techniques. As Li Siyuan tried to hide her bloodline so she could escape, the barrier around them began to collapse, and Lu Ming decided to take her away by force.

• Lu Ming learned from Zhu Ningyun and Li Siyuan that the Exile Land marked its inhabitants’ bloodlines and that King Kui had left behind a cultivation technique capable of reaching the Middle Heavenly Human Realm.
• Lu Ming taught Li Siyuan King Kui’s technique for concealing qi and blood, while he began comprehending the King Kui Technique.
• After a day of cultivation, Zhu Ningyun spotted cracks forming in the barrier, and Lu Ming saw Void Turbulence pressing through them.
• Lu Ming judged that Li Siyuan was at a critical point in her cultivation and chose to wait while the barrier continued cracking.
• When the barrier shattered and Void Turbulence began destroying the beast bones, Lu Ming decided to take Li Siyuan away by force.

Lu Ming, Zhu Ningyun, and Li Siyuan escaped the Exile Land after Li Siyuan used the Hidden Blood Technique to conceal her blood and qi, and she found she could live normally in the Nine Provinces World. They reunited with Tie Bishan and Fairy Zilan, while Lu Ming kept the method of escape secret and claimed he had called upon an elder for help.

• As the void began to shatter, Lu Ming took Li Siyuan and Zhu Ningyun away from danger and prepared to test the Hidden Blood Technique.
• Li Siyuan concealed her blood and qi with the technique, and the Exile Land's pulling force did not affect her as they approached the exit.
• Lu Ming, Zhu Ningyun, and Li Siyuan passed through the exit and emerged above a stretch of mountains in the Nine Provinces World.
• Li Siyuan withdrew the technique without suffering discomfort, and she agreed to travel with Lu Ming and Zhu Ningyun toward the Wuji Sect to fulfill her great-grandfather's wish.
• Tie Bishan and Fairy Zilan met the group, explaining that they had waited for Lu Ming and Zhu Ningyun to return.
• Lu Ming concealed how Li Siyuan had escaped, saying he had called upon an elder and mentioning his Primordial Spirit Jade Slip from Great Wheel Bright Venerable.

Lu Ming and his companions crossed into Shazhou and prepared to return to the Central Continent, but Old Man You She appeared and tried to seize Li Siyuan. Lu Ming stood against him until Purple Light Star Lord arrived, allowing the group to leave safely.

• Lu Ming, Zhu Ningyun, and Li Siyuan crossed Dragon Ridge Mountain into Shazhou and declined Tie Bishan’s invitation to visit the Shen Hai Sect.
• Old Man You She arrived with Zhao Hai and used suction force to pull Li Siyuan toward him.
• Lu Ming severed the force, rescued Li Siyuan, and challenged Old Man You She when he demanded to know who he was.
• Lu Ming invoked Great Wheel Bright Venerable, and Tie Bishan confirmed that the Venerable had helped Li Siyuan escape the Exile Land.
• Purple Light Star Lord appeared, prompting Old Man You She to leave with Zhao Hai, and Lu Ming departed with Zhu Ningyun and Li Siyuan.