Recaps

Li Zhōujūn and his companions searched for the Blood Crow Demon Lord in the Misty Mountain Range, where they encountered the wounded Misty Dragon Lord and the Hundred Cry Heavenly Emperor. After Li Zhōujūn easily dispelled the Heavenly Emperor’s sound attack, the Hundred Cry Heavenly Emperor suspected Li Zhōujūn was also a Heavenly Emperor.

• Li Zhōujūn, Luo Baiyu, Lu Wei, and Yue Qiu traveled to the Misty Mountain Range to search for the Blood Crow Demon Lord.
• The wounded Misty Dragon Lord flew out of the forest, and Li Zhōujūn stopped its enormous body before it struck the group.
• The Hundred Cry Heavenly Emperor appeared and accused Li Zhōujūn and the others of helping the Misty Dragon Lord, then declared that none of them would be allowed to leave.
• The Hundred Cry Heavenly Emperor attacked with his Hundred Cry Soundwave, but Li Zhōujūn effortlessly dispelled it.
• The Hundred Cry Heavenly Emperor wondered whether Li Zhōujūn was also at the Heavenly Emperor Realm, leaving Luo Baiyu, Lu Wei, Yue Qiu, and the Misty Dragon Lord stunned.

Li Zhōujūn stopped Hundred-Ming Heavenly Emperor from attacking and, with Qin Tianyi’s help, crippled him before Luo Baiyu killed him. The Misty Dragon Lord located the Blood Crow Demon Lord in the Misty Mountain Range, where the demon lord had just advanced to the Third Turn of Dao Accomplishment Realm and planned revenge against the Azure Emperor.

• Hundred-Ming Heavenly Emperor attacked Li Zhōujūn over the Misty Dragon Lord’s dragon pearl, but Li Zhōujūn caught his punch.
• Qin Tianyi crippled Hundred-Ming Heavenly Emperor’s cultivation and Heavenly Emperor body, and Luo Baiyu killed him.
• The Misty Dragon Lord thanked Li Zhōujūn and searched the mountain range for the Blood Crow Demon Lord.
• Li Zhōujūn learned that the Blood Crow Demon Lord was in the Misty Mountain Range.
• The Blood Crow Demon Lord finished refining Feiquan Sect’s treasure, reached the Third Turn of Dao Accomplishment Realm, and promised Ma Chengshu revenge against the Azure Emperor.

Li Zhōujūn and his companions confronted Blood Crow Demon Lord and Ma Chengshu, and Misty Dragon Lord easily subdued them. After Ma Chengshu rejected Li Zhōujūn’s offer to live for twenty-five thousand years if they escaped Misty Dragon Lord, Li Zhōujūn ordered the pair killed.

• Li Zhōujūn arrived with Misty Dragon Lord, Luo Baiyu, Lu Wei, Yue Qiu, and the others to confront Ma Chengshu and Blood Crow Demon Lord.
• Misty Dragon Lord revealed his overwhelming Ninth Turn strength by slamming Blood Crow Demon Lord into the ground, and Lu Wei and Yue Qiu left after thanking Li Zhōujūn.
• Luo Baiyu prepared to kill the pair, but Li Zhōujūn stopped her and offered them a chance to live if they escaped Misty Dragon Lord within twenty-five thousand years.
• Ma Chengshu angrily rejected the offer, prompting the system to change Li Zhōujūn’s mission to make the pair die immediately.
• Ma Chengshu begged for mercy and Blood Crow Demon Lord blamed him, but Li Zhōujūn ordered Misty Dragon Lord to kill them.

Li Zhōujūn and Luo Baiyu left Misty Mountain Range for Ancient Lamp City after Misty Dragon Lord swallowed Blood Crow Demon Lord and Ma Chengshu. While Li Zhōujūn went to a tavern, a freckled vendor drugged Luo Baiyu, and the city transformed into a gigantic skeleton.

• Misty Dragon Lord swallowed Ma Chengshu and Blood Crow Demon Lord, completing Li Zhōujūn's task and raising his cultivation to the third-grade Dao Saint Realm.
• Misty Dragon Lord pledged loyalty to Li Zhōujūn, who left the mountain range with Luo Baiyu and admitted that his ancestor had crippled Hundred-Sound Heavenly Emperor.
• Li Zhōujūn and Luo Baiyu traveled to Ancient Lamp City, where he gave her Hundred-Sound Heavenly Emperor's storage ring and a protective clone.
• Luo Baiyu went to buy roasted chestnuts while Li Zhōujūn headed to a tavern.
• The freckled vendor drugged Luo Baiyu, and Ancient Lamp City transformed into a gigantic skeleton whose gate was its open mouth.

Li Zhōujūn discovered that the tavern in Ancient Lamp City was a demon trap and confronted Ba Niang and Jian Shan Jun, who had drugged Luo Baiyu. After their attacks failed, the demons tried to fake a quarrel, but Li Zhōujūn saw through them and calmly ate roast chicken.

• Li Zhōujūn received a mission to rescue Luo Baiyu and destroy the demon cave after she fainted, but kept his clone on her ready to protect her.
• Li Zhōujūn saw through the tavern illusion and learned from Ba Niang that the False Buddha Demon Cave lured cultivators to their deaths with false rumors about the Lamp-Holding Buddha Ancestor.
• Ba Niang attacked Li Zhōujūn with her spider legs, and Jian Shan Jun struck him from behind, but neither could pierce his body.
• Jian Shan Jun admitted he had drugged Luo Baiyu with sleeping incense and had not touched her; Li Zhōujūn warned that his clone would have stopped him.
• Ba Niang and Jian Shan Jun pretended to quarrel, but Li Zhōujūn recognized their ploy and began eating roast chicken as they grew angry.

Zhang Tiansong killed Ba Niang and Jian Shan Jun, then warned Li Zhōujūn that the Misty Dragon Lord would seek revenge. After the Misty Dragon Lord broke through to the Lower Heavenly Emperor Realm and targeted Misty Cloud Mountain, he arrived to challenge the Old Daoist of Misty Cloud.

• Ba Niang and Jian Shan Jun attacked Li Zhōujūn, but Zhang Tiansong appeared and killed them with his sword.
• Zhang Tiansong told Li Zhōujūn that he had avenged his disciple and urged him to flee from the Misty Dragon Lord; Li Zhōujūn explained the demon cave to Luo Baiyu and left with her.
• The Misty Dragon Lord broke through to the Lower Heavenly Emperor Realm, identified the killer as a descendant of the Old Daoist of Misty Cloud, and set out to attack Misty Cloud Mountain.
• Zhang Tiansong returned to Misty Cloud Mountain and learned that the Old Daoist of Misty Cloud had failed his breakthrough and was nearing the end of his lifespan.
• The Misty Dragon Lord arrived at Misty Cloud Mountain and called for the Old Daoist of Misty Cloud to face him; the Old Daoist went out to confront him.

The Misty Dragon Lord attacked Misty Cloud Mountain after breaking through to the Lower Heavenly Emperor Realm, and Old Daoist of Misty Cloud and Zhang Tiansong prepared to sacrifice themselves. Li Zhōujūn and Luo Baiyu arrived, and the Misty Dragon Lord immediately abandoned his threat and promised to make amends.

• The Misty Dragon Lord killed four sixth-turn Dao Accomplishment Realm elders and declared that he would wipe out Misty Cloud Mountain.
• Old Daoist of Misty Cloud offered his life in exchange for a chance for the sect to survive, but the Misty Dragon Lord refused and summoned a gigantic dragon head over the mountain.
• Li Zhōujūn and Luo Baiyu appeared, and the Misty Dragon Lord recognized Li Zhōujūn as the Azure Emperor and bowed to him.
• After Li Zhōujūn said he had ties to Zhang Tiansong, the Misty Dragon Lord withdrew his attack and offered to turn the siblings from the False Buddha Demon Cave into puppets for Misty Cloud Mountain.
• Li Zhōujūn advised the Misty Dragon Lord to temper his conduct, and the Misty Dragon Lord left to carry out his offer while Zhang Tiansong stared at Li Zhōujūn and Luo Baiyu in disbelief.

After leaving Misty Cloud Mountain, Li Zhōujūn and Luo Baiyu resumed their travels, but Luo Baiyu left him a letter and departed to train. Li Zhōujūn continued alone and encountered Snow Mountain Sect disciples investigating a demon after one of their companions and her horse were poisoned.

• Misty Dragon Lord gave Zhang Tiansong the two siblings he had refined into puppets, and Li Zhōujūn departed Misty Cloud Mountain with Luo Baiyu.
• Old Daoist of Misty Cloud told Zhang Tiansong to build cenotaphs for the four fallen elders and care for their families.
• Luo Baiyu left Li Zhōujūn a letter saying she would master peerless martial arts and return to protect him.
• Li Zhōujūn encountered a dead Snow Mountain Sect disciple and her horse, then learned from Guan Chenyang that a demon had poisoned them.
• Yan Huai placed the two corpses into separate bags, while Lü Buku and Tang Yuqing introduced themselves to Li Zhōujūn.

Li Zhōujūn joined Guan Chenyang’s group and used the system’s rewards to gain cultivation by drinking their poisoned wine. After the group revealed themselves as members of the Thirteen Kill Sect and tried to exploit him, Tang Yuqing realized the poison had not made him faint.

• Li Zhōujūn accepted Guan Chenyang’s invitation to travel with the group, completing a system task that raised him to the Fourth Grade Dao Saint Realm.
• The group decided to wait for the fiend they had been pursuing, while Guan Chenyang privately warned Tang Yuqing that Li Zhōujūn was not simple.
• Yan Huai gave Li Zhōujūn poisoned wine, and the system raised Li Zhōujūn’s cultivation with each cup until he reached the Ninth Grade Dao Saint Realm.
• Li Zhōujūn drank more wine without being harmed, then pretended to feel dizzy so he could learn the group’s intentions.
• Guan Chenyang and the others surrounded Li Zhōujūn, admitted they belonged to the Thirteen Kill Sect, and discussed taking his treasures and making him a puppet.
• Tang Yuqing questioned why Li Zhōujūn had not fainted from the poison.

Li Zhōujūn used a Go board to trap Guan Chenyang, Tang Yuqing, and Yan Huai, allowing Jiang Yixian to kill them and completing his cultivation breakthrough. He continued his journey and stopped to watch two old men playing Go by a lake.

• Lü Buku died from a poisoned silver needle, and Guan Chenyang cut off his poisoned arm after catching another needle.
• Guan Chenyang, Tang Yuqing, and Yan Huai attacked the darkness, but Li Zhōujūn trapped them inside a huge Go board.
• Jiang Yixian's silver needles killed Guan Chenyang, Tang Yuqing, and Yan Huai while the Go board restricted their movements.
• Li Zhōujūn's cultivation advanced to the First Turn of the Dao Accomplishment Realm, and Jiang Yixian thanked him before he continued on his way.
• Li Zhōujūn reached a lakeside pavilion and watched two old men play Go.

Li Zhōujūn began a chess match with Wu Shengtian, and the system tasked him with avoiding defeat in exchange for a cultivation breakthrough. As their game unfolded, Mu Si pursued Misty Dragon Lord over wine, while Misty Dragon Lord claimed the Azure Emperor was his backer.

• After Leng Zhijian conceded his chess game to Wu Shengtian, Li Zhōujūn accepted Wu Shengtian's invitation to play.
• The system ordered Li Zhōujūn not to lose to Wu Shengtian, promising a breakthrough to the Third Turn of Dao Accomplishment Realm if he completed the mission.
• Li Zhōujūn used Fifty-Fifty's ability and made instinctive moves that impressed Wu Shengtian and drew Leng Zhijian's attention.
• Mu Si pursued Misty Dragon Lord for stealing wine that belonged to Leng Zhijian, while Misty Dragon Lord accused Mu Si of using the wine to lure him.
• Misty Dragon Lord escaped Mu Si's grasp and claimed that the Azure Emperor, a Middle Heavenly Emperor, was his backer; Mu Si doubted the claim.

Li Zhōujūn abandoned his chess match with Wu Shengtian to rescue Misty Dragon Lord from Mu Si the Immortal Child. After Li Zhōujūn and Leng Zhijian arrived together, Misty Dragon Lord learned that his supposed backer was known to Leng Zhijian and gained the courage to accuse Mu Si of stealing the wine himself.

• Misty Dragon Lord and Mu Si the Immortal Child each called on a supposed backer, then held their ground without fighting.
• Li Zhōujūn sensed Misty Dragon Lord's danger and received a system mission to save him for a Fourth Turn of Dao Accomplishment Realm reward.
• Li Zhōujūn ended his chess match with Wu Shengtian as a draw, gained the Third Turn of Dao Accomplishment Realm, and teleported to Misty Dragon Lord.
• Leng Zhijian arrived beside Mu Si, and he and Li Zhōujūn greeted each other as familiar fellow cultivators.
• Leng Zhijian praised Li Zhōujūn's speed, leading Misty Dragon Lord and Mu Si to suspect Li Zhōujūn's strength surpassed Leng Zhijian's.
• Misty Dragon Lord hid behind Li Zhōujūn and accused Mu Si of drinking the wine and trying to make him pay for it.

Li Zhōujūn settled his dispute with Leng Zhijian and allowed Misty Dragon Lord to accompany him before sending the Dragon Lord to protect Luo Baiyu. Later, Misty Dragon Lord reported that Luo Baiyu had advanced through the Snow Mountain Sect trial and asked Li Zhōujūn to watch her compete for first place.

• Leng Zhijian made Mu Si the Immortal Child apologize to Misty Dragon Lord, and Li Zhōujūn completed his task and advanced to the fourth turn of the Dao Accomplishment Realm.
• Leng Zhijian invited Li Zhōujūn to play chess another time, revealed that he was known as the Cold Heavenly Emperor, and left with Mu Si the Immortal Child.
• Misty Dragon Lord offered to follow Li Zhōujūn, and Li Zhōujūn eventually agreed to travel with him for a while.
• Misty Dragon Lord learned that Luo Baiyu had gone adventuring, and Li Zhōujūn gave him her location so he could protect her.
• After several days, Misty Dragon Lord told Li Zhōujūn that Luo Baiyu had won a place among the ten Snow Mountain Sect trial finalists and asked him to watch her compete for first place.

Li Zhōujūn and Misty Dragon Lord watched Luo Baiyu compete for Snow Mountain Sect’s hot spring cultivation opportunity. As the mountain-path trial began, a battle between Chess Heavenly Emperor Wu Shengtian and a blood-robed figure shook the sect.

• Li Zhōujūn agreed to visit Snow Mountain Sect and learned that contestants had to pass a heart-demon formation before racing up a ninety-nine-tier mountain path.
• Li Zhōujūn and Misty Dragon Lord watched from a space above the sect as Luo Baiyu and nine other contestants prepared for the mountain-path trial.
• Daoist Chengxue shattered a jade stone to start the trial, and Luo Baiyu began climbing toward the summit.
• A tremendous roar shook Snow Mountain Sect as Wu Shengtian pursued and repeatedly struck back a blood-robed figure.
• Spectators recognized Wu Shengtian as Chess Heavenly Emperor and guessed that his fleeing opponent was a Middle Heavenly Emperor.

Li Zhōujūn intervened as Blood Prison Heavenly Emperor threatened Snow Mountain Sect, trapping him in an indestructible phantom chessboard. Wu Shengtian struck at the trapped emperor, but the mysterious power behind the chessboard left him wary of its wielder.

• Blood Prison Heavenly Emperor threatened to take Snow Mountain Sect hostage to keep Wu Shengtian from killing him, causing panic and disrupting the mountain-path trial.
• As Blood Prison Heavenly Emperor neared the sect, Li Zhōujūn trapped him with a phantom chessboard, and Luo Baiyu recognized the aura of the Bandit Chief's Wife.
• Blood Prison Heavenly Emperor unleashed a powerful punch, but the chessboard remained unmoved.
• Wu Shengtian sent black and white Chess Pieces into the chessboard, where their collision unleashed tremendous power without damaging it.
• Wu Shengtian realized the chessboard's hidden wielder was formidable and worried that the mysterious person might be an enemy.

Li Zhōujūn’s phantom chessboard trapped Blood Prison Heavenly Emperor even after he unleashed his devastating Demonic God True Body. Li Zhōujūn revealed himself as the Azure Emperor, while Luo Baiyu continued to pull ahead in Snow Mountain Sect’s mountain-path trial.

• Blood Prison Heavenly Emperor transformed into his Demonic God True Body and repeatedly attacked the phantom chessboard, but could not break free.
• Blood Prison Heavenly Emperor’s power ran out, and he asked to see the person who had trapped him before he died.
• Li Zhōujūn revealed himself alongside Misty Dragon Lord, and Wu Shengtian recognized him as the Azure Emperor.
• Luo Baiyu continued climbing while the other trial participants argued that the interruption should excuse their loss of focus; Daoist Chengxue ruled that their failures still counted.
• Jiang Yixian recognized Li Zhōujūn as the cultivator who had helped her kill members of the Thirteen Kill Sect and wondered whether he had come for her.
• Misty Dragon Lord taunted Blood Prison Heavenly Emperor for failing to break Li Zhōujūn’s chessboard, provoking his angry threat.

Wu Shengtian captured the Blood Prison Heavenly Emperor and learned that Leng Zhijian was trapped in the Forbidden Land, where its terrifying master used him as flower nourishment. After receiving a new mission to investigate the Forbidden Land, Li Zhōujūn said he wanted to visit after the mountain-climbing trial, despite Wu Shengtian’s warning that no one who entered had returned alive.

• Li Zhōujūn released the Blood Prison Heavenly Emperor from his chessboard, and Wu Shengtian sealed the prisoner’s cultivation before he could attack the Misty Dragon Lord.
• Wu Shengtian deduced that the Blood Prison Heavenly Emperor had lured Leng Zhijian into the Forbidden Land, and the prisoner confirmed that Leng Zhijian was still struggling to survive there.
• Wu Shengtian announced he would trade the Blood Prison Heavenly Emperor for Leng Zhijian, while the terrified prisoner failed to self-detonate because his cultivation was sealed.
• Li Zhōujūn received a system mission to investigate the Forbidden Land and agreed to visit after the mountain-climbing trial ended.
• Wu Shengtian warned Li Zhōujūn that nobody who had entered the Forbidden Land had returned alive and urged him not to go inside.

Luo Baiyu won Snow Mountain Sect’s mountain-climbing trial and accepted the Warm Jade Crystal Fruit, while Li Zhōujūn left for the Forbidden Land to help rescue Leng Zhijian. He arrived ahead of Wu Shengtian and the Blood Prison Heavenly Emperor, who refused to summon the woman within.

• Luo Baiyu endured the pressure and stepped onto the ninety-ninth level, winning the mountain-climbing trial.
• Daoist Chengxue offered Luo Baiyu the hot spring or the Warm Jade Crystal Fruit, and she chose the fruit.
• The Misty Dragon Lord told Luo Baiyu that Li Zhōujūn had appointed him to protect her, then explained that Li Zhōujūn was heading to the Forbidden Land to rescue Leng Zhijian.
• Li Zhōujūn teleported to the Forbidden Land, an island that seemed to have formed from a Lower Heavenly Emperor’s corpse.
• Wu Shengtian arrived with the Blood Prison Heavenly Emperor, who warned Li Zhōujūn about the woman in the Forbidden Land and refused to call her out.

Li Zhōujūn confronted Xiong Sanniang to rescue Leng Zhijian, whom she held captive on her island. He freed Leng Zhijian by tricking Xiong Sanniang, but she still demanded that he honor his promise and enter the island.

• Wu Shengtian demanded that Xiong Sanniang exchange Leng Zhijian for Blood Prison Heavenly Emperor, but she refused and offered to release Leng Zhijian if Li Zhōujūn entered her island.
• Xiong Sanniang revealed Leng Zhijian bound in vines and covered in Corpse Honey Flowers, then removed the flowers as a show of sincerity.
• Li Zhōujūn approached the island and required Xiong Sanniang to release Leng Zhijian from the vines first.
• When Xiong Sanniang loosened the vines, Li Zhōujūn swiftly rescued Leng Zhijian and brought him to Wu Shengtian.
• Wu Shengtian urged Li Zhōujūn to leave, but Xiong Sanniang insisted that he still had to enter the island.

Li Zhōujūn insisted on entering the Forbidden Land despite Wu Shengtian and Leng Zhijian's warnings and Xiong Sanniang's suspicious invitation. He resolved to go inside to obtain the cultivation reward from the system.

• Xiong Sanniang tried to coax Li Zhōujūn into the Forbidden Land, while Wu Shengtian and Leng Zhijian warned him to stay away.
• Blood Prison Heavenly Emperor abandoned Xiong Sanniang and asked to join Li Zhōujūn, Wu Shengtian, and Leng Zhijian, but Wu Shengtian and Leng Zhijian discussed killing him for his past betrayals.
• Wu Shengtian secretly told Leng Zhijian that he had planted two Chess Pieces in Blood Prison Heavenly Emperor, which could injure Xiong Sanniang if they returned him to her.
• Wu Shengtian suspected Xiong Sanniang had let Li Zhōujūn rescue Leng Zhijian to lower his guard, and Xiong Sanniang denied the accusation.
• Li Zhōujūn told Wu Shengtian that he had decided to enter the Forbidden Land, knowing the system would reward him with Seventh Turn of Dao Accomplishment Realm cultivation.

Li Zhōujūn entered Xiong Sanniang’s Forbidden Land and fought off her attacks with ease, then vanished deeper inside as she pursued him. Wu Shengtian and Leng Zhijian considered Blood Prison Heavenly Emperor’s offer to lead them to her pill-refining treasures, while he secretly planned revenge.

• Wu Shengtian and Leng Zhijian stayed behind as Li Zhōujūn stepped onto the island, where Xiong Sanniang sent regenerating vines after him.
• Li Zhōujūn froze and destroyed the vines with a snap, then evaded Xiong Sanniang’s giant mud hand and countered her earthen spikes with Chess Pieces.
• Wu Shengtian, Leng Zhijian, and Blood Prison Heavenly Emperor watched the fight, while Wu refused to release Blood Prison Heavenly Emperor or undo his cultivation seal.
• Li Zhōujūn told Xiong Sanniang he only wanted to look around, then vanished; Xiong Sanniang disappeared after him.
• Blood Prison Heavenly Emperor offered to guide Wu Shengtian and Leng Zhijian to Xiong Sanniang’s pill-refining treasures in exchange for his freedom and restored cultivation.
• Wu Shengtian and Leng Zhijian agreed to enter with him but postponed releasing him, while Blood Prison Heavenly Emperor secretly resolved to take revenge if he escaped.

Li Zhōujūn completed his exploration of Xiong Sanniang’s island, then accepted a new mission to hunt her down. After matching her strength, he turned the tables and chased her around the island for three months, leaving Wu Shengtian, Leng Zhijian, and Blood Prison Heavenly Emperor stunned.

• Leng Zhijian warned that Xiong Sanniang’s treasure vault might contain hidden mechanisms, and he and Wu Shengtian decided not to enter it with Blood Prison Heavenly Emperor.
• Blood Prison Heavenly Emperor concealed his confidence, knowing he had hidden a strand of his divine soul and many heavenly treasures as contingencies.
• Li Zhōujūn used his Fifty-Fifty skill to evade Xiong Sanniang while exploring the island, completing his mission and advancing to the Seventh Turn of Dao Accomplishment Realm.
• After the system assigned him a mission to hunt Xiong Sanniang, Li Zhōujūn attacked her with an ice lotus and its sword-like petals.
• Over the next three months, Li Zhōujūn pursued Xiong Sanniang across the island and struck at her with thunderbolts, while Wu Shengtian and Leng Zhijian watched in disbelief.
• Blood Prison Heavenly Emperor resolved to stay far away from Li Zhōujūn after witnessing his strength.

After completing the mission of pursuing Xiong Sanniang, Li Zhōujūn received the Imperial Palace Three Thousand Divine Demon Token and learned about the war against the Alien Demon Race. Qin Tianyi summoned him and asked whether he would join the Imperial Palace’s Three Thousand Divine Demons.

• Li Zhōujūn chased Xiong Sanniang around her island for two and a half years, completing his mission and advancing to the eighth revolution of the Dao Accomplishment Realm.
• Xiong Sanniang stopped resisting and let Li Zhōujūn leave; he rejoined Wu Shengtian, Leng Zhijian, and Blood Prison Heavenly Emperor.
• A jade token identifying Li Zhōujūn as a candidate for the Imperial Palace’s Three Thousand Divine Demons arrived, and Wu Shengtian explained the group’s role guarding the Main World’s city passes.
• Leng Zhijian described the Alien Demon Race, the merging of its alternate world with the Main World, and the dangers faced by the city-pass defenders.
• Li Zhōujūn was transported to a strange space, where Qin Tianyi revealed that he had founded the Imperial Palace and asked Li Zhōujūn to join its Three Thousand Divine Demons.

Li Zhōujūn became the Imperial Palace’s Young Master and received a distress call from Tianshan Pass, where the Alien Demon Race was attacking. He chose to teleport there as Zhāng Xuánhǎi prepared to face the invasion.

• Li Zhōujūn agreed to join the Imperial Palace Three Thousand Divine Demons, and Qin Tianyi gave him authority to command Imperial Palace forces as the Young Master.
• Li Zhōujūn left Blood Prison Heavenly Emperor to Wu Shengtian and Leng Zhijian, who destroyed his true body; Blood Prison Heavenly Emperor’s hidden soul survived and vowed revenge.
• Xiong Sanniang planted a sign barring Li Zhōujūn from entering her island.
• Li Zhōujūn received a distress signal from Tianshan Pass and used the system’s teleport option to reinforce it.
• At Tianshan Pass, the rift stirred, terrifying auras emerged, and Zhāng Xuánhǎi heard the warning bell as the Alien Demon Race’s attack began.

Tianshan Pass’s defenders fought an overwhelming Alien Demon Race force, and Zhāng Xuánhǎi neared defeat as the battle turned against them. Just as the invaders celebrated their expected victory, a blue-robed figure appeared above the battlefield and praised the defenders.

• Zhāng Xuánhǎi and Tianshan Pass’s Heavenly Emperors battled five Middle and twelve Lower Heavenly Emperors of the Alien Demon Race while the armies clashed below.
• Poison Tail Heavenly Emperor and Xīshǒu Heavenly Emperor pressed Zhāng Xuánhǎi, while Roaring Heavenly Emperor joined Yellow Ox Heavenly Emperor against Song Huáixī.
• A wounded Lower Heavenly Emperor from Tianshan Pass self-destructed, killing the two Alien Demon Race Lower Heavenly Emperors fighting him.
• The defenders drove the Alien Demon Race’s army back toward the spatial rift, but Zhāng Xuánhǎi’s worsening injuries left Tianshan Pass facing defeat.
• As the Alien Demon Race celebrated its anticipated capture of Tianshan Pass, a blue-robed figure appeared above the battlefield and said Li Mou admired the defenders.