Recaps

Li Zhōujūn and Zhang Ziqiang confronted the eighth-grade Dao Masters gathered outside a secret realm, only to discover that Jinmang Dao Master had lured them there as prey. Jinmang Dao Master attacked Zhang Ziqiang, but Li Zhōujūn protected him while Zhang Ziqiang continued mocking their enemy.

• The eighth-grade Dao Masters reconsidered entering the secret realm after Li Zhōujūn demonstrated his strength, but a flash of golden light renewed their desire to enter.
• Jinmang Dao Master emerged from the secret realm and the Dao Masters realized he had planned to refine them into pills to stabilize his unstable ninth-grade realm.
• Li Zhōujūn reassured Chu Gecqing and Chu Zhenjia that he had not known Jinmang Dao Master was hiding inside.
• Jinmang Dao Master demanded an explanation from Li Zhōujūn for ruining his scheme, and Zhang Ziqiang insulted him.
• Jinmang Dao Master tried to crush Zhang Ziqiang with a divine ability, but Li Zhōujūn blocked the attack.
• Zhang Ziqiang continued taunting Jinmang Dao Master, while the eighth-grade Dao Masters admired his audacity.

Jinmang Dao Master attacked Zhang Ziqiang, who deliberately took the blow and appeared to die. Li Zhōujūn revived him with a Shore of Rebirth Flower, and Zhang Ziqiang broke through to the Ninth-Rank Dao Master realm, leaving Jinmang Dao Master looking for a chance to escape.

• Jinmang Dao Master dismissed Zhang Ziqiang’s challenge and unleashed eighteen golden weapons at him.
• Zhang Ziqiang charged into the attack and was pulverized, while Li Zhōujūn let the others believe he had died.
• Li Zhōujūn used a Shore of Rebirth Flower to revive Zhang Ziqiang and help him condense a body at the Ninth-Rank Dao Master realm.
• Jinmang Dao Master tried to attack Zhang Ziqiang during his revival, but Li Zhōujūn blocked him.
• Zhang Ziqiang thanked Li Zhōujūn and said his master cared about him, while Jinmang Dao Master prepared to slip away.
• Palm Fire Divine Lord tearfully told Zhang Ziqiang he was glad he had survived.

Zhang Ziqiang helped drive off Jinmang Dao Master, then left Li Zhōujūn to confront Qingyan Jun and settle an old score. Qingyan Jun immediately smashed him into the ground but waited when they saw he was still alive.

• Palm Fire Divine Lord spoke emotionally to Zhang Ziqiang, who slapped him away just as Jinmang Dao Master launched a surprise attack.
• Zhang Ziqiang took Jinmang Dao Master's flying sword into his chest, absorbed its power, and healed while Jinmang Dao Master fled.
• Li Zhōujūn's missions were completed, advancing his cultivation to the Eighth-Rank Dao Master realm, and Zhang Ziqiang sent the Eighth-Rank Dao Masters away.
• Zhang Ziqiang left Li Zhōujūn and declared he would take revenge on Qingyan Jun, whom Chu Zhenjia identified as the third-ranked of the Main World's top ten Ninth-Rank Dao Masters.
• Qingyan Jun launched Zhang Ziqiang into the air and kicked him into a crater, then waited after seeing he had survived.

Zhang Ziqiang challenged Qingyan Jun and was repeatedly defeated, but Li Zhōujūn arrived and explained that Qingyan Jun had recognized his disciple’s unusual strength and potential. Just as Li Zhōujūn and Zhang Ziqiang prepared to leave, Qinghai King attacked Qingyan Jun and demanded an item, leaving Zhang Ziqiang ready to protect his master.

• Zhang Ziqiang repeatedly fought Qingyan Jun, who defeated him while pointing out his talent and unusual method of strengthening his body through injuries.
• Li Zhōujūn emerged from the void, thanked Qingyan Jun for holding back, and told Zhang Ziqiang to learn from her and stop acting recklessly.
• After Qingyan Jun left, Li Zhōujūn said he and Qingyan Jun were evenly matched, but Qinghai King suddenly sent her crashing back and demanded that she hand over an item.
• Qingyan Jun warned Li Zhōujūn and Zhang Ziqiang to leave, while Qinghai King implied he could use them to threaten her.
• Zhang Ziqiang realized Qinghai King was likely stronger than Li Zhōujūn and told his master to go ahead while he covered him.

Li Zhōujūn faced Qinghai King to protect Qingyan Jun and revealed power equal to his opponent's. Qinghai King trapped them in the Sea King's Dao Domain and attacked again as Li Zhōujūn opened the divine eye on his forehead.

• Li Zhōujūn dismissed Zhang Ziqiang's offer to cover him and challenged Qinghai King to leave or be beaten.
• Qinghai King struck with a giant hand of condensed water, but Li Zhōujūn caught it with a fist powered by jade-colored Dragon Scales and immense vital energy.
• Qinghai King recognized Li Zhōujūn's strength and explained that Qingyan Jun carried a treasure that could help someone escape the Desolate Land before its destruction.
• Zhang Ziqiang taunted Qinghai King, who transported everyone into the Sea King's Dao Domain and declared himself ruler there.
• Qinghai King attacked Li Zhōujūn with streams of water, and Li Zhōujūn opened the divine eye on his forehead as Golden Lightning crackled within it.

Li Zhōujūn fought the Qinghai King inside the Sea King's Dao Domain and forced him to flee. Afterward, Qingyan Jun thanked Li Zhōujūn but remained wary of him, while Zhang Ziqiang continued to provoke everyone.

• Li Zhōujūn used three thousand bolts of Golden Lightning to counter the Qinghai King's water attacks, while Zhang Ziqiang taunted the Qinghai King.
• The Qinghai King intensified his attack, but Li Zhōujūn blocked it effortlessly as the Qinghai King realized he could not win.
• The Qinghai King recalled that he needed the key-like object carried by Qingyan Jun to escape the contracting array and leave the Desolate Land.
• Unable to defeat Li Zhōujūn, the Qinghai King fled into the void, and his Sea King's Dao Domain dispersed.
• Qingyan Jun thanked Li Zhōujūn but stayed wary of him; Li Zhōujūn assured her he did not want her object.
• Zhang Ziqiang teased Qingyan Jun and then insisted to Li Zhōujūn that he would change, prompting Li Zhōujūn to lower his raised hand.

Li Zhōujūn sent Zhang Ziqiang and Qingyan Jun to protect True Man Jiaqian, who was being forced to surrender two divine books. After they drove off his attackers, Qingyan Jun knocked Zhang Ziqiang down and left, while True Man Jiaqian remained bewildered by the reunion.

• Li Zhōujūn tasked Zhang Ziqiang with protecting True Man Jiaqian, and Qingyan Jun joined them when Zhang hesitated.
• Palm Fire Divine Lord threatened to use his Soul-Searching Great Law on True Man Jiaqian to find two hidden divine books.
• Zhang Ziqiang and Qingyan Jun arrived, and Qingyan Jun told True Man Jiaqian that Li Zhōujūn had sent them to save him.
• Zhang Ziqiang ordered the surrounding Dao Masters to leave, then kicked Palm Fire Divine Lord away when he refused to go.
• True Man Jiaqian failed to recognize Zhang Ziqiang, and Qingyan Jun knocked Zhang Ziqiang into the ground before leaving.

Li Zhōujūn’s circle reunited at Tianhai Academy, where Qu Lian'ao was exposed for hiding inside Sun Zixiang and coveting her body and True Man Jiaqian’s divine book. True Man Jiaqian killed Qu Lian'ao after searching her soul, then pledged his life to Li Zhōujūn.

• Zhang Ziqiang brought True Man Jiaqian to Tianhai Academy to see Li Zhōujūn and Sun Zixiang.
• Qu Lian'ao emerged from Sun Zixiang and introduced herself to Li Zhōujūn, while Sun Zixiang realized someone had been hiding inside her.
• True Man Jiaqian reunited with Sun Zixiang and thanked Li Zhōujūn for sending Qingyan Jun and Zhang Ziqiang to save him.
• True Man Jiaqian learned Qu Lian'ao had possessed Sun Zixiang and used soul-searching to uncover her plan to seize Sun Zixiang’s body and steal his divine book.
• True Man Jiaqian scattered Qu Lian'ao’s soul, then pledged his life to Li Zhōujūn.

Li Zhōujūn accepted a system mission to resolve the formation crisis and teleported to the formation’s location, where Qingyan Jun explained that her sect planned to destroy the sealed world. Jun Nance arrived to take Qingyan Jun away and warned Li Zhōujūn that the world would be crushed, leaving Li Zhōujūn intent on protecting it.

• Li Zhōujūn sent True Man Jiaqian and Sun Zixiang off, then told Zhang Ziqiang to cultivate while concealing his plan to confront the formation.
• After Zhang Ziqiang left, Li Zhōujūn asked the system for the formation’s location and teleported to a misty swamp blocked by enormous black chains.
• Qingyan Jun explained that the formation world would soon be destroyed by her sect, which intended to remake it for outside cultivators.
• Jun Nance entered through the chains, insulted the people of the formation world, and declared that his sect would destroy it.
• Li Zhōujūn said he wanted to protect the world, and Jun Nance identified himself as a Hundred-Ranking Disciple of the Myriad Manifestations Supreme Sect before leaving with Qingyan Jun.

Li Zhōujūn escaped the grand array world and met Earth-Tunneling King in the desert, then hired him to lead the way to the Myriad Manifestations Supreme Sect. Myriad Manifestations Emperor noticed the array had been breached and set out, while Earth-Tunneling King remained unaware that the sect master might be coming.

• Qingyan Jun left the grand array world with Jun Nance, but Li Zhōujūn stayed behind, left a clone, and used Method of Array Breaking and Shuttle to escape.
• Li Zhōujūn encountered Earth-Tunneling King in the desert and told him he had come out from inside the grand array world.
• Earth-Tunneling King explained that escaping the array should require Dao Emperor Realm cultivation, then speculated Li Zhōujūn was searching for a treasure.
• Li Zhōujūn used Fifty-Fifty to take half of Earth-Tunneling King's wealth and paid him to lead the way to the Myriad Manifestations Supreme Sect.
• Myriad Manifestations Emperor sensed that someone had forced open his array and left the sect to investigate.
• As Li Zhōujūn followed Earth-Tunneling King toward the sect, Earth-Tunneling King kept doubting that Li Zhōujūn had truly escaped the array.

Li Zhōujūn crossed the desert with Earth-Tunneling King and traveled to the islands near Myriad Manifestations Supreme Sect. There, he recognized the sect master, the Myriad Manifestations Emperor, and boarded his boat to go cause trouble for the sect.

• Earth-Tunneling King burrowed through the desert with Li Zhōujūn and realized Li Zhōujūn could keep pace with him.
• Earth-Tunneling King guided Li Zhōujūn to a dock, where they boarded a ship and sailed to an island near Myriad Manifestations Supreme Sect.
• The Myriad Manifestations Emperor followed Li Zhōujūn, saw that he could not discern Li Zhōujūn's cultivation, and watched Earth-Tunneling King depart after giving Li Zhōujūn a Jade Talisman.
• Earth-Tunneling King worried that the Jade Talisman might implicate him if Li Zhōujūn caused trouble, but he could not find Li Zhōujūn in the crowd.
• Li Zhōujūn recognized the boatman as the Myriad Manifestations Emperor and told him he intended to cause the sect trouble.
• The Myriad Manifestations Emperor invited Li Zhōujūn aboard, then drove the boat rapidly across the sea.

Li Zhōujūn met the Myriad Manifestations Emperor and persuaded him to withdraw the formation restricting the world within it. Three days later, Li Zhōujūn arrived at the Myriad Manifestations Supreme Sect to keep his appointment, where Jun Nance confronted his boatman without recognizing him.

• The Myriad Manifestations Emperor welcomed Li Zhōujūn aboard his boat, and they discussed why Li Zhōujūn had sought him out.
• Li Zhōujūn asked the Myriad Manifestations Emperor to remove the great formation and stop restricting the world's inhabitants, and the Emperor agreed and gave him the land.
• The Myriad Manifestations Emperor withdrew the formation, raising Li Zhōujūn's cultivation to the Ninth-Rank Dao Lord Realm, and invited him to visit the sect in three days.
• Li Zhōujūn spent three days in the formation, then returned to the island and hired Crippled Zhang to row him to the Myriad Manifestations Supreme Sect.
• Jun Nance stopped Crippled Zhang's boat and threatened to drive him away, and Crippled Zhang replied that his passenger had come to keep an appointment.

Li Zhōujūn arrived at Myriad Manifestations Supreme Sect by boat and was welcomed by Myriad Manifestations Emperor as an invited Dao Emperor. At the gathering, the assembled Dao Emperors heard an intruder challenge Myriad Manifestations Emperor, who revealed the man was the suitor he had accused of trying to control the sect through his granddaughter.

• Jun Nance confronted Li Zhōujūn, mistook him for an intruder, and threatened to kill him.
• Myriad Manifestations Emperor appeared, greeted Li Zhōujūn as an honored guest, and took him to meet the other Dao Emperors.
• Li Zhōujūn met Medicine Emperor, Golden Lotus Granny, and Hegemon Emperor, who were all Fifth-Rank Dao Emperors.
• A young man challenged Myriad Manifestations Emperor, and Myriad Manifestations Emperor identified him as the man who had pursued his granddaughter and tried to control the sect through her.

Xiao Yechen attacked the Myriad Manifestations Supreme Sect and defeated Hegemon Emperor with one blow before revealing he was a Sixth-Rank Dao Emperor. As he threatened to slaughter the sect and Ying Ying'er appeared to confront him, Li Zhōujūn received a system task to make Xiao Yechen lose confidence.

• Xiao Yechen challenged the Myriad Manifestations Supreme Sect, introduced himself as Chen Emperor, and sent Hegemon Emperor crashing into the mountain gate with a single punch.
• Li Zhōujūn warned the Myriad Manifestations Emperor, Medicine Emperor, and Golden Lotus Granny that Xiao Yechen had reached the Sixth-Rank Dao Emperor Realm, and Xiao Yechen revealed that rank with his aura.
• Xiao Yechen vowed to destroy the sect, claiming the Myriad Manifestations Emperor had ruined his chance to control it and that Ying Ying'er had only been a tool to him.
• The Myriad Manifestations Emperor, Medicine Emperor, and Golden Lotus Granny stood against Xiao Yechen, while Li Zhōujūn stayed seated and drank tea.
• Ying Ying'er emerged from the void and told Xiao Yechen she had been wrong about him; Li Zhōujūn realized the System had brought her out and assigned him a task to make Xiao Yechen lose confidence.
• Xiao Yechen dismissed Ying Ying'er's objection and said he would slaughter her family before making her follow him and bear his children.

Li Zhōujūn protected Myriad Manifestations Emperor from Xiao Yechen and shattered Xiao Yechen’s confidence by effortlessly defeating his attacks. Xiao Yechen revealed that he still had other trump cards, leaving Li Zhōujūn curious to see them.

• Xiao Yechen insulted Ying Ying'er, then attacked Myriad Manifestations Emperor, but Li Zhōujūn blocked his fist and declared that Myriad Manifestations Emperor was his friend.
• Xiao Yechen attacked Li Zhōujūn with a crescent strike, but Li Zhōujūn caught it with one hand.
• Xiao Yechen unleashed his Myriad Manifestations Fist, and Li Zhōujūn destroyed its divine-beast phantoms with a willow branch.
• Xiao Yechen accused Li Zhōujūn of being a Seventh-Rank Dao Emperor, but Li Zhōujūn said he was below that realm, prompting Xiao Yechen to spit blood as his confidence broke.
• Li Zhōujūn asked Xiao Yechen to try again, and Xiao Yechen claimed he still had other trump cards.

Xiao Yechen used a Forbidden Technique to reach the Seventh-Rank Dao Emperor Realm and attacked the Myriad Manifestations Sect, but Li Zhōujūn easily stopped him. Xiao Yechen fled, Qingyan Jun became Myriad Manifestations Emperor’s True Disciple, and Li Zhōujūn prepared to leave a clone behind to guard the sect.

• Xiao Yechen unleashed a Forbidden Technique, grew ten thousand zhang tall, and hurled the sun and moon at Li Zhōujūn.
• Li Zhōujūn dissolved Xiao Yechen’s attack with a sword light from his willow branch, revealing that his strength surpassed Xiao Yechen’s Seventh-Rank Dao Emperor Realm.
• Xiao Yechen abandoned his plan to destroy the Myriad Manifestations Sect and vanished after threatening Li Zhōujūn.
• Myriad Manifestations Emperor thanked Li Zhōujūn and accepted Qingyan Jun as his True Disciple.
• Hegemon Emperor, Medicine Emperor, and Golden Lotus Granny departed, and Li Zhōujūn told Myriad Manifestations Emperor he would leave a clone to guard the sect.

After leaving the Myriad Manifestations Sect, Li Zhōujūn wandered the Southern Ming Continent and killed a Huang Family spirit beast that attacked him. He met Huang Shunrou and her maid Qian He, and learned that Huang Shunrou was ill, though Qian He dismissed him as incapable of helping.

• The Myriad Manifestations Emperor escorted Li Zhōujūn by ship to the Southern Ming Continent and explained the Main World's geography.
• Three months later, Li Zhōujūn killed a Dragon-headed Chicken-bodied Medicine-Seeking Spirit Beast after it attacked him, then began roasting one of its legs.
• Qian He confronted Li Zhōujūn and demanded that he pay with his life, but Huang Shunrou stopped her and apologized after confirming the beast had attacked first.
• Huang Shunrou explained that she had brought the beast out while seeking help for her illness, and Li Zhōujūn asked what was wrong with her.
• Qian He rebuked Li Zhōujūn and claimed only the Southern Ming Continent's famed Medicine Emperor could cure Huang Shunrou.

Li Zhōujūn summoned the Medicine Emperor to treat Huang Shunrou, proving his strength to Qian He and completing a mission that advanced his cultivation. After agreeing to help the Medicine Emperor gather a rare herb, Li Zhōujūn departed with him, leaving Huang Shunrou with medicine and Qian He in tears.

• After Qian He mocked Li Zhōujūn, he used the system to teleport the Medicine Emperor to them.
• The Medicine Emperor examined Huang Shunrou and gave her nine pills to cure her illness.
• Li Zhōujūn advanced to the Fourth-Rank Dao King realm when the mission was completed.
• The Medicine Emperor asked Li Zhōujūn to help gather a precious herb, and Li Zhōujūn agreed.
• Li Zhōujūn left with the Medicine Emperor while Huang Shunrou thanked him and Qian He collapsed, sobbing with relief and fear.

Li Zhōujūn and Medicine Emperor claimed the spirit herb Xiao Yechen needed, forcing him to flee and seek help from the Black-veiled Woman. She agreed to target Myriad Manifestations Emperor and the Myriad Manifestations Sect to draw Li Zhōujūn out, while Myriad Manifestations Emperor's peaceful reunion with Ying Ying'er ended with his sudden alarm.

• Xiao Yechen found Li Zhōujūn and Medicine Emperor at the cave, abandoned his claim to the spirit herb, and escaped after deciding he needed help killing Li Zhōujūn.
• Medicine Emperor collected the herb for refining a Seventh-Rank Dao Emperor Pill.
• Xiao Yechen returned to the Black-veiled Woman's palace and asked her to kill Li Zhōujūn.
• The Black-veiled Woman agreed to kill Myriad Manifestations Emperor and destroy the Myriad Manifestations Sect to provoke Li Zhōujūn into appearing.
• At the Myriad Manifestations Sect, Ying Ying'er asked Myriad Manifestations Emperor whether the Green-robed Dao Emperor had freed her, and Myriad Manifestations Emperor's expression suddenly changed.

Xiao Yechen attacked the Myriad Manifestations Sect to lure out Li Zhōujūn, but Li Zhōujūn’s clone overwhelmed him. A powerful Black-veiled Woman arrived to protect Xiao Yechen and threatened to destroy Li Zhōujūn’s clone and main body.

• Xiao Yechen appeared above the Myriad Manifestations Sect and announced he would use the Myriad Manifestations Emperor as bait to draw out Li Zhōujūn.
• Li Zhōujūn’s clone appeared and caught Xiao Yechen’s Seventh-Rank Dao Emperor punch with one hand.
• Xiao Yechen unleashed multiple techniques, but Li Zhōujūn’s clone destroyed them with a stone flicked from his hand.
• The Black-veiled Woman appeared beside Xiao Yechen and said she would destroy Li Zhōujūn’s clone and then his main body.

Li Zhōujūn used an avatar to repel the Black-veiled Woman, Lin Xun, who killed Xiao Yechen and then departed. After the avatar dispersed, Medicine Emperor described a mysterious woman in a swamp palace, leaving Li Zhōujūn to suspect she was Lin Xun.

• Li Zhōujūn used his avatar to withstand Lin Xun’s attacks, and she admitted that she had lost despite their powers appearing evenly matched.
• Lin Xun killed Xiao Yechen, introduced herself as Lin Xun, and left; Li Zhōujūn’s system then rewarded him with a breakthrough to the Fifth-Rank Dao King Realm.
• Li Zhōujūn dispersed his avatar after Myriad Manifestations Emperor thanked him for saving the sect.
• Medicine Emperor told Li Zhōujūn about a black-gauzed woman living in a swamp palace, and Li Zhōujūn suspected she was Lin Xun.

Li Zhōujūn traveled to the marshland seeking the Dao Emperor Secret Realm and met Lin Xun, who told him it would appear in about a month. While staying in her palace, he learned why she concealed half her face and shared a roasted chicken with her.

• Li Zhōujūn accepted the system quest, got a map from Medicine Emperor, and set off for the marshland without him.
• After half a month, Li Zhōujūn reached the marshland palace and reunited with Lin Xun, who explained that the Dao Emperor Secret Realm would appear in about a month.
• Li Zhōujūn settled in a side hall at Lin Xun's palace while waiting for the secret realm to appear.
• Lin Xun removed her mask and told Li Zhōujūn that an Emperor Realm Expert had scarred her face and that she had come to the Southern Ming Continent because of that enemy.
• Li Zhōujūn reassured Lin Xun, encouraged her to leave off the mask, and shared roasted chicken with her.

Li Zhōujūn reassured Lin Xun about her strength and scarred face, then promised to help her enter the Dao Emperor Secret Realm. When the realm appeared beneath a marsh, he bypassed its protective array and opened the bronze gate, leaving Lin Xun astonished.

• Lin Xun told Li Zhōujūn that a Dao Emperor had ruined her face, and he offered to confront the culprit with his fists.
• Lin Xun later woke Li Zhōujūn and took him to the marsh where the Dao Emperor Secret Realm had appeared.
• Li Zhōujūn and Lin Xun passed through the marsh and met the Bronze Lion Head, the array spirit guarding the realm's bronze gate.
• Li Zhōujūn used the Array Breaking Shuttle Method to open the gate, stunning the Bronze Lion Head and dazzling Lin Xun.

Li Zhōujūn opened the Bronze Gate and gave Lin Xun the inheritance of Empress Hai Xi, a female Dao Emperor who demanded that her successor destroy the Sui Clan Dragon Clan beneath the sea. Lin Xun accepted the inheritance and its dying wish, then began by performing the rites of discipleship as Li Zhōujūn agreed to protect her while she refined the bones.

• Li Zhōujūn opened the Bronze Gate without destroying it, and the Bronze Lion Head gave him control of its master's inheritance.
• Li Zhōujūn gave the inheritance to Lin Xun, and the two entered the cave dwelling filled with formation and alchemy books and Miraculous Elixirs.
• Lin Xun and Li Zhōujūn found Empress Hai Xi's remains and read her message explaining that refining her bones was dangerous and that her successor must destroy the Sui Clan Dragon Clan beneath the sea.
• Lin Xun accepted Empress Hai Xi's inheritance and dying wish, and Li Zhōujūn agreed to protect her while she refined the bones.
• Lin Xun bowed three times before Empress Hai Xi's bones, and the empress's phantom appeared, watched her, and vanished.

After three months of refining Empress Hai Xi’s remains, Lin Xun faced the Emperor Lightning Tribulation as she advanced to the Dao Emperor realm. Li Zhōujūn caught the enraged tribulation bare-handed, and Lin Xun emerged as a Dao Emperor, healed and resolved to offer herself to him.

• Three months after Lin Xun began refining Empress Hai Xi’s remains, an Emperor Lightning Tribulation gathered above the cave dwelling.
• Li Zhōujūn blocked the lightning bolts aimed at the cave dwelling, despite the danger of taking the tribulation for Lin Xun.
• The tribulation unleashed a devastating strike at Li Zhōujūn, but he caught it bare-handed and remained unharmed as the clouds vanished.
• Lin Xun broke through to the Dao Emperor realm, and the damaged side of her face healed.
• Lin Xun congratulated Li Zhōujūn by offering herself to him, saying his strength convinced her he was above the Dao Emperor realm.