Recaps

Zhou Ming entered seclusion at Azure Moon Pavilion while Qing Yang and Purple Moon summoned the Luofu Realm's Sages to demand most of their Fortune for him. Purple Moon demanded an even larger share from Ming Xue and accused him of helping Cang Yun leak her and Qing Yang's whereabouts to Black Mystery, turning the other Sages against him.

• Zhou Ming accepted Azure Moon Pavilion's forbidden ground for seclusion, and Qing Yang and Purple Moon sealed off the back mountain.
• Qing Yang and Purple Moon decided to summon the Luofu Realm's Sages and demand Fortune to support Zhou Ming's cultivation.
• The six remaining Sages came to Azure Moon Pavilion after receiving Purple Moon and Qing Yang's summons.
• Purple Moon demanded that five Sages surrender seventy percent of their Fortune and that Ming Xue surrender eighty percent.
• Ming Xue protested the higher demand, and Purple Moon accused him and Cang Yun of revealing her and Qing Yang's whereabouts to Black Mystery.
• The other Sages grew wary of Ming Xue and stepped away from him.

Purple Moon forced Ming Xue and five other powerful cultivators to surrender most of their Fortune to Azure Moon Pavilion, then sent the collected Fortune to Zhou Ming. Absorbing it, Zhou Ming felt the restrictions on his Dao of Strength laws loosen and sensed the Hongmeng universe beginning to acknowledge him.

• Ming Xue denied responsibility for Cang Yun's death, but Qing Yang and Purple Moon held him accountable and demanded his Fortune.
• Ling Xu, Feng Gu, Iron Mountain, Flying Feather, and Mystic Light tried to bargain, but Purple Moon threatened to summon Zhou Ming, and they agreed to surrender seventy percent of their Fortune.
• Ming Xue agreed to give up eighty percent, and all six stripped Fortune Origin from their bodies for Purple Moon to collect.
• Purple Moon promised to let past grudges go if the six behaved themselves, and they left Azure Moon Pavilion after agreeing not to cause trouble.
• Purple Moon and Qing Yang carried the collected Fortune to Zhou Ming's cave abode, where an array transported it inside.
• Zhou Ming absorbed the Fortune and felt his suppressed Dao of Strength laws move more smoothly, the shackles loosen, and the Hongmeng universe acknowledge him.

Zhou Ming used Luofu Realm Destiny to weaken the world’s rejection of his laws, though he needed far more to regain his full strength. Meanwhile, Ming Xue recruited Ling Xu to gather other cultivators and discuss a way to overcome their cultivation stagnation without confronting Zhou Ming directly.

• Zhou Ming found that Destiny helped his laws merge with the Hongmeng Universe, but the Luofu Realm held too little Destiny for him to recover quickly.
• Ming Xue lamented that surrendering most of his Destiny had stalled his cultivation and decided to seek allies against the situation.
• Ming Xue traveled to Ling Xu Dojo and persuaded the wary Ling Xu that they should discuss a solution together.
• Ling Xu sent message talismans to summon Feng Gu, Iron Mountain, and others while warning Ming Xue that he would not join a plan that sent them to their deaths.

Ming Xue gathered Ling Xu and the other Sages and proposed luring a stronger Hunyuan Taiji Realm cultivator to Luofu Realm to kill Zhou Ming. The group agreed to gamble on the plan, and Ming Xue said he would contact the great figure.

• Feng Gu, Iron Mountain, Flying Feather, and Mystic Light arrived at Ling Xu's cave abode and reacted warily when they saw Ming Xue.
• Ming Xue asked the Sages whether they would accept losing most of their Destiny, while they argued that they could not defeat Zhou Ming themselves.
• Ming Xue proposed using his contacts to alert a stronger Hunyuan Taiji Realm figure to Zhou Ming's presence, offering Zhou Ming's Origin as a resource in exchange for the figure killing him.
• Ming Xue argued that the plan could let them reclaim their Destiny and take the Azure Moon Pavilion's Fortune after Zhou Ming's backer was gone.
• Iron Mountain, Flying Feather, Mystic Light, Feng Gu, and Ling Xu all agreed to join the gamble.
• Ming Xue told the group to return and wait while he contacted the powerful figure.

Qin Jue reported to Liu Yuan that a powerful stranger had appeared in the Luofu Realm and seized the Sages’ Fortune. Liu Yuan saw an opportunity to advance his cultivation, but withheld judgment because the stranger’s true strength was unknown.

• Qin Jue asked to see Liu Yuan and reported that Ming Xue had sent word of a Hunyuan Taiji expert in the Luofu Realm.
• Qin Jue explained that Ming Xue had described the stranger killing a peak Sage, suppressing the other Sages, and taking most of their Fortune.
• Liu Yuan considered the stranger’s Origin a chance to break through from Hunyuan Taiji late stage.
• Qin Jue urged Liu Yuan to seize the opportunity, but Liu Yuan warned that the stranger might be stronger than early stage and began considering the risk.

Zhou Ming realized the Luofu Realm’s Fortune was too meager to restore his strength, so he considered seeking other worlds. When he sensed Liu Yuan and Qin Jue arriving to help Ming Xue, he chose to wait and learn about the Flowing Light Domain from Liu Yuan.

• Liu Yuan decided to travel with Qin Jue to the Luofu Realm after concluding that caution would let him assess the enemy’s strength.
• Zhou Ming absorbed the Fortune given by Qing Yang and Purple Moon but found it insufficient to restore his Da Luo True Realm strength.
• Zhou Ming considered asking Qing Yang and Purple Moon about nearby worlds, and possibly traveling to the heart of the Flowing Light Domain for more Fortune.
• Zhou Ming detected Liu Yuan, a late-stage Hunyuan Taiji cultivator, and Qin Jue, a peak Sage, entering the Luofu Realm and heading toward Ming Xue’s territory.
• Zhou Ming inferred that Ming Xue had summoned the outsiders to kill him, then returned to his seat to wait for Liu Yuan and question him about the Flowing Light Domain.

Liu Yuan arrived at Baleful Intent Hall with Qin Jue and ordered Ming Xue to provoke Zhou at Azure Moon Pavilion so he could test Zhou’s strength. Ming Xue gathered five other Saints, and Liu Yuan forced them all to go along; their confrontation with Zhou had yet to begin.

• Liu Yuan and Qin Jue appeared before Ming Xue, who explained that Zhou had killed Cang Yun with one punch and taken most of their fortune.
• Liu Yuan ordered Ming Xue to provoke Azure Moon Pavilion while he watched from hiding, threatening to kill him if he refused.
• Ming Xue summoned Ling Xu, Feng Gu, Iron Mountain, Flying Feather, and Mystic Light, then told them they would challenge Zhou together.
• The five Saints objected to being sent against Zhou, but Liu Yuan injured them with a snort and ordered them to go or die.
• Ling Xu accepted Liu Yuan’s order on behalf of the group.

Zhou Ming effortlessly stopped Liu Yuan’s attack, revealed power beyond the Hunyuan Taiji realm, and captured him when he tried to flee. After killing Ming Xue and the other six Sages, Zhou Ming gave their bodies to Purple Moon and Qing Yang to strengthen their cultivation, leaving them to prepare for a future task.

• Liu Yuan unleashed his full power against Zhou Ming, but Zhou Ming’s dark-golden laws erased the attack without harming him.
• Liu Yuan recognized Zhou Ming’s strength and fled into the Chaos Void, but Zhou Ming seized him with a giant hand of laws and dragged him back to Azure Moon Pavilion.
• Liu Yuan and Qin Jue knelt and begged for mercy, while Ming Xue, Ling Xu, and the other Sages blamed one another for the attack.
• Zhou Ming killed Ming Xue, Ling Xu, and the other six Sages by destroying their True Spirits.
• Zhou Ming gave the six Sage bodies to Purple Moon and Qing Yang and told them to improve their cultivation because he would need them later.
• Purple Moon and Qing Yang took the bodies into a cultivation chamber and began refining their Origins alongside the Luofu Realm’s remaining Fortune.

Zhou Ming questioned Liu Yuan about the Flowing Light Domain and learned that its Ten Great Dao Realms were ruled by peak Hunyuan Wuji cultivators. When Zhou Ming considered unifying the domain, Liu Yuan warned that doing so would provoke the vastly more powerful Divine Asura Domain.

• Zhou Ming took Liu Yuan and Qin Jue to the mountain’s stone chamber and released Liu Yuan’s restraints.
• Liu Yuan explained that the Flowing Light Domain contained the Ten Great Dao Realms, three thousand greater realms, and countless lesser realms, including the Luofu Realm.
• Liu Yuan named the ten realm lords, and Zhou Ming said he could suppress them even if they joined forces.
• Zhou Ming asked whether conquering the Ten Great Dao Realms would let him gather the Flowing Light Domain’s fortune for his cultivation.
• Liu Yuan warned that the Divine Asura Domain backed the Flowing Light Domain and would see its unification as an attack on its foundations.

Zhou Ming questioned Liu Yuan about whether Divine Asura Domain’s Da Luo True Realm expert would intervene if he challenged its Hunyuan Wuji experts. After Liu Yuan warned that conquering all of Flowing Light Domain could cross a forbidden boundary, Zhou Ming decided he needed a subtler way to gather fortune without provoking Divine Asura Domain.

• Zhou Ming asked Liu Yuan whether Divine Asura Domain’s Da Luo True Realm expert would personally intervene if Zhou Ming feared no Hunyuan Wuji experts.
• Liu Yuan explained that Da Luo True Realm experts traditionally stayed out of conflicts between great domains, which were fought below their realm.
• Liu Yuan warned that completely conquering Flowing Light Domain and taking its fortune could threaten Divine Asura Domain’s interests and prompt its Da Luo expert to act.
• Zhou Ming weighed the danger of confronting a Da Luo expert before his laws had fully fused and abandoned his plan to unify Flowing Light Domain openly.
• Zhou Ming resolved to seek a gentler approach that could secure fortune without provoking Divine Asura Domain.

Zhou Ming found that Liu Yuan’s proposed collection of fortune from lower-ranked worlds would not restore his strength quickly enough, so he sought a way to seize the Flowing Light Domain’s greatest reserves. Liu Yuan proposed exploiting the coming realm war and framing the Divine Asura Domain’s enemy, the Thunderclap Domain.

• Zhou Ming calculated that even draining Liu Yuan’s fortune and thousands of worlds would only slightly shorten the time needed to merge the laws in his da luo true realm.
• Zhou Ming demanded to know how he could obtain most of the Flowing Light Domain’s fortune, including the wealth held by the Ten Great Dao Realms.
• Liu Yuan said the coming realm war would draw the Flowing Light Domain into battle and give Zhou Ming an opening to plunder powerful worlds.
• Liu Yuan suggested planting clues to make the Divine Asura Domain blame the Thunderclap Domain for the raids.
• Liu Yuan asked whether Zhou Ming came from the Thunderclap Domain or another domain already at war with the Divine Asura Domain.

Zhou Ming ordered Liu Yuan to gather fortune from small worlds and report Great Worlds he could not handle, then bound Liu Yuan and Qin Jue with restraining spells. Liu Yuan and Qin Jue set out to collect fortune, beginning with the Windflame Realm, while Liu Yuan warned Qin Jue against resisting Zhou Ming.

• Zhou Ming told Liu Yuan to collect fortune from fringe small worlds and lower-ranked Great Worlds, and to report any guarded by cultivators he could not defeat.
• Zhou Ming planted restraining spells in Liu Yuan and Qin Jue, placing their lives under his control.
• Liu Yuan and Qin Jue left the Azure Moon Pavilion and agreed to begin collecting fortune from nearby small worlds.
• Qin Jue suggested escaping to another domain, so Liu Yuan slapped him and warned that Zhou Ming could hear their words through the restraining spell.
• Liu Yuan warned Qin Jue to obey Zhou Ming and led him toward the Windflame Realm to collect its fortune.

Liu Yuan took Qin Jue to the Windflame Realm and seized its fortune by killing its four Sages. He then continued through the Flowing Light Domain, plundering five more small worlds and sealing away the fortune he collected.

• Zhou Ming approved of Liu Yuan's obedience and resumed integrating with the Hongmeng Universe.
• Liu Yuan and Qin Jue reached the Windflame Realm, where Liu Yuan broke through its barrier with his power.
• Liu Yuan demanded the realm's fortune and the Sages' origins, then killed Scarlet Flame and the other three Sages when they resisted.
• Liu Yuan extracted the Windflame Realm's fortune and the four Sages' origins, then left with Qin Jue to find another world.
• Liu Yuan swept through five more small worlds, slaughtering their Sages and draining their origins and fortune before sealing away his spoils.

Liu Yuan and Qin Jue returned to the Luofu Realm with Destiny from six small worlds and asked Zhou Ming for permission to recruit submitting Sages to gather more. Zhou Ming approved their plan and assigned Purple Moon and Qing Yang to join them, while he continued cultivating with the Destiny.

• Liu Yuan and Qin Jue decided to seek Zhou Ming’s approval before recruiting Sages to collect Destiny more efficiently.
• Liu Yuan presented Zhou Ming with the Destiny they had taken from six small worlds and explained his plan to build a network of submitting Sages.
• Zhou Ming told Liu Yuan he cared only about Destiny and authorized him to use whatever methods he thought fastest.
• Zhou Ming ordered Liu Yuan to have Purple Moon and Qing Yang join the effort after they emerged from seclusion.
• Liu Yuan and Qin Jue left, and Zhou Ming absorbed the Destiny and resumed his long cultivation.

After emerging from seclusion, Purple Moon and Qing Yang joined Liu Yuan and Qin Jue in gathering fortune for Zhou Ming. Liu Yuan led their growing force to the Azure Spirit Realm, where he defeated its lord, Cang Yu, and forced him to surrender.

• Purple Moon and Qing Yang emerged from seclusion as late-stage Sages, and Liu Yuan explained that he and Qin Jue now served Zhou Ming.
• Liu Yuan led Purple Moon, Qing Yang, and Qin Jue through nearby small worlds, taking their fortune and recruiting or killing their Sages.
• Liu Yuan's group grew to more than twenty Sages before reaching the Azure Spirit Realm, whose lord, Cang Yu, was an early-stage hunyuan taiji cultivator.
• Liu Yuan broke through the realm's barrier and demanded most of its fortune and the allegiance of its people.
• Liu Yuan overpowered Cang Yu while Purple Moon, Qing Yang, and Qin Jue led the others against the Azure Spirit Realm's Sages.
• As Liu Yuan eroded Cang Yu's Origin, Cang Yu surrendered and agreed to hand over the fortune and swear allegiance.

Liu Yuan brought Cang Yu and the captured Sages to Zhou Ming, who bound them with restrictions and took the Fortune they had gathered. After learning that interworld teleportation arrays required great worlds, Zhou Ming led the group from the Luofu Realm toward the Azure Spirit Realm to establish a new base.

• Liu Yuan forced Cang Yu to hand over the Azure Spirit Realm’s Fortune and brought him and the surviving Sages back to the Luofu Realm.
• Liu Yuan knelt before Zhou Ming and presented the Fortune gathered from the Azure Spirit Realm and more than a dozen small worlds.
• Zhou Ming absorbed the Fortune and planted restrictions in Cang Yu and the Sages, ordering them to serve under Liu Yuan.
• Liu Yuan explained that an interworld teleportation array required a great world, and proposed using the Azure Spirit Realm as a base.
• Zhou Ming ordered everyone to leave the Luofu Realm and travel to the Azure Spirit Realm.

Zhou Ming established the Azure Spirit Realm as his base and ordered its Sages to gather Destiny from surrounding worlds. When he asked to inspect the realm’s interworld formation, Cang Yu revealed that it had none because the costly array base was beyond the realm’s means.

• Zhou Ming entered the Azure Spirit Realm and declared it his base for gathering Destiny.
• Zhou Ming promised rewards and cultivation breakthroughs to those who served him, though most of the Sages doubted his promises.
• Zhou Ming asked Cang Yu where the interworld formation was, and Cang Yu said the Azure Spirit Realm had not built one.
• Zhou Ming pressured Cang Yu and Liu Yuan to explain, and Cang Yu described the immense cost of buying an array base from the Divine Asura Domain.
• Liu Yuan admitted he had failed to explain the expense, and Zhou Ming warned him to report matters clearly in the future.

Zhou Ming ordered Liu Yuan to retrieve the Celestial Mystery Realm’s inter-realm array foundation while Cang Yu gathered Destiny/Fortune from nearby worlds. To overcome Cang Yu’s concerns about rival realm lords, Zhou Ming gave him a talisman powerful enough to suppress anyone below Hunyuan Wuji, and Cang Yu set out confidently with his team.

• Zhou Ming rejected Liu Yuan’s suggestion to relocate to the Celestial Mystery Realm and ordered him to dismantle its array foundation and bring it back for inspection.
• Liu Yuan left the Azure Spirit Realm to retrieve the array foundation, while Zhou Ming assigned Cang Yu to gather Destiny/Fortune during his absence.
• Cang Yu warned Zhou Ming that nearby realm lords matched his strength and that avoiding them would make the gathering slow and yield less Destiny/Fortune.
• Zhou Ming forged a dark-golden talisman from the Dao of Strength and told Cang Yu it could suppress anyone below Hunyuan Wuji.
• Cang Yu took the talisman and led Purple Moon, Qing Yang, and the others toward nearby great worlds to seize their Destiny/Fortune.
• Zhou Ming remained in the great hall and resumed assaulting the invisible shackle of rules.

Cang Yu used Zhou Ming’s dark-golden talisman to collect Destiny and plunder resources from several worlds across the Flowing Light Domain, killing Lei Qiong when he resisted. After returning to the Azure Spirit Realm, he found Liu Yuan back with the dismantled core of the cross-realm formation, which Zhou Ming began examining.

• Cang Yu forced Mystic Light to surrender eighty percent of the Profound Bright Realm’s Destiny, then had his followers loot its treasury and planted a restriction on him.
• Cang Yu killed Lei Qiong with the talisman after Lei Qiong attacked, then ordered his subordinates to drain the Nether Lightning Realm’s Destiny and resources.
• Cang Yu’s group subdued four more great worlds and more than a dozen small worlds, gathering Destiny and plunder until the talisman’s power was half spent.
• Cang Yu returned to the Azure Spirit Realm with more than fifty Sages and four Realm Lords, carrying five containers of Destiny.
• Cang Yu found Liu Yuan in the Realm Lord’s Hall, where Zhou Ming examined the formation core Liu Yuan had taken from the cross-realm formation.

Zhou Ming turned a spatial divine material into a portable teleportation token and had Liu Yuan test it across distant worlds. After Liu Yuan confirmed its power, Zhou Ming ordered Cang Yu and the others to surrender their collected fortune and spatial materials so he could make tokens in batches.

• Zhou Ming identified the formation anchor’s core as a sliver of Da Luo True Realm law and said he could make one.
• Zhou Ming forged a dark-gold teleportation token from Liu Yuan’s void crystal and explained how to use it.
• Liu Yuan activated the token, teleported to a nearby small world, and then reached the distant Celestial Mystery Realm through five successive jumps.
• Liu Yuan asked whether Zhou Ming was a hidden Da Luo True Realm expert, and Zhou Ming warned him not to ask what he shouldn’t.
• Zhou Ming ordered Cang Yu to hand over the collected fortune and Liu Yuan to gather everyone’s spatial divine materials for batch production of tokens.

Zhou Ming forged fifteen spatial tokens for Liu Yuan and absorbed the fortune Cang Yu had gathered. He bound four world lords and more than thirty Sages with restraining spells, then alarmed the group by bringing up the resources they had taken from the worlds they visited.

• Liu Yuan and the others gathered their spatial materials, and Zhou Ming selected fifteen pieces to forge into tokens that could teleport up to five people each.
• Zhou Ming gave the tokens to Liu Yuan and instructed the group to plan their routes according to how many people they carried.
• Cang Yu presented the collected fortune, which Zhou Ming absorbed, then introduced four world lords and more than thirty Sages.
• Mystic Light and the others swore loyalty to Zhou Ming, who placed restraining spells in their true spirits and warned them against betrayal.
• Zhou Ming remarked that the group had brought back many resources, prompting Cang Yu and Liu Yuan to anxiously offer to hand them over.

Zhou Ming gave his followers time to cultivate and appointed Liu Yuan to manage their personnel and campaigns. After tens of thousands of years, the strengthened force prepared to sweep through the Flowing Light Domain in four groups, equipped with talismans containing Zhou Ming’s power.

• Zhou Ming let his followers keep their resources and ordered them to cultivate in seclusion before resuming the collection of fortune.
• Zhou Ming gave Liu Yuan full authority over personnel assignments, troop movements, and route planning.
• After tens of thousands of years, Purple Moon and Qing Yang reached the peak Sage realm, while Qin Jue and Baleful Intent broke through to the early Hunyuan Taiji Realm.
• Liu Yuan reported that the force had eight Hunyuan Taiji Realm experts and proposed dividing them into four groups to sweep through the Flowing Light Domain.
• Zhou Ming approved Liu Yuan’s plan and gave him four talismans containing portions of his power.
• Liu Yuan ordered everyone to form their assigned groups and depart.

Liu Yuan organized four teams to sweep the worlds on the outskirts of the Flowing Light Domain, then led his own group to demand tribute and allegiance from the Heavenly Radiance Realm. The chapter ended as Yao Jiuyuan and a peak Sage confronted Liu Yuan’s demands.

• Liu Yuan assigned Cang Yu, Mystic Light, and other Hunyuan Taiji experts and Sages separate regions to sweep, warning them to avoid the top five hundred Great Worlds and the Ten Great Dao Realms’ subordinate worlds.
• Liu Yuan led Qin Jue, Purple Moon, Qing Yang, and the remaining Sages toward the Heavenly Radiance Realm using Zhou Ming’s Cross-Realm Tokens.
• Liu Yuan smashed a breach in the Heavenly Radiance Realm’s barrier, drawing Yao Jiuyuan and fourteen Sages into the void to confront him.
• Liu Yuan demanded eighty percent of the Heavenly Radiance Realm’s fortune and the allegiance of its people.
• Yao Jiuyuan rejected Liu Yuan’s demand, and a peak Sage behind him cursed Liu Yuan and threatened his group.

Liu Yuan and the other teams used Zhou Ming’s talismans to overpower realms across the outskirts of the Flowing Light Domain and seize their Fortune and treasures. After taking the Heavenly Radiance Realm, Liu Yuan set his sights on the Nine Netherworlds Realm as the four teams continued their sweep.

• Qin Jue killed a peak Sage who insulted Liu Yuan, then Liu Yuan used Zhou Ming’s talisman to defeat Yao Jiuyuan and force him to hand over the Heavenly Radiance Realm’s Fortune.
• Liu Yuan ordered Qin Jue, Purple Moon, Qing Yang, and the other Sages to loot the Heavenly Radiance Realm’s treasury, then marked the realm’s Sages’ True Spirits and prepared to leave for the Nine Netherworlds Realm.
• Cang Yu used his talisman to crush Purple Sha’s resistance in the Purple Thunder Realm, and Feng Xuan led his subordinates in looting its treasures.
• The four teams seized the Fortune of dozens of small worlds and seven or eight great worlds across the outskirts of the Flowing Light Domain without attracting the central region’s major factions.

Liu Yuan's forces conquered the Hunyuan Realm using Zhou Ming's talisman, killing Ancestor Xuantian and claiming the realm's destiny and treasures. Daoist Azure Nether escaped through a teleportation formation, exposing their campaign, and Liu Yuan returned to the Azure Spirit Realm to report to Zhou Ming.

• Liu Yuan and his team arrived at the Hunyuan Realm and demanded that Ancestor Xuantian surrender its destiny and submit.
• Ancestor Xuantian attacked Liu Yuan with the Hunyuan Realm's World Origin, but Liu Yuan used Zhou Ming's talisman to kill him and destroy his True Spirit.
• Daoist Azure Nether fled through an interrealm teleportation formation, and Liu Yuan realized their actions would be exposed.
• Liu Yuan ordered his team to loot the Hunyuan Realm, then drained its destiny and gathered the scattered Origin power.
• Liu Yuan and his team activated their tokens to return to the Azure Spirit Realm so he could inform Zhou Ming.