Recaps

Liu Yuan returned to the Azure Spirit Realm with fortune from the Hunyuan Realm and told Zhou Ming that their operations had been exposed, but Zhou Ming dismissed the danger and gave him an origin to help him break through. After Cang Yu, Mystic Light, and the others returned with vast fortune and new subordinates, Zhou Ming reforged their talismans with power capable of killing anyone below peak Hunyuan Wuji and ordered them to continue gathering fortune.

• Liu Yuan reported that he had killed Ancestor Xuantian and that another cultivator had escaped through the Hunyuan Realm's cross-realm formation.
• Zhou Ming told Liu Yuan not to worry about their exposure, then gave him the origin of a late-stage Hunyuan Taiji cultivator so he could attempt a breakthrough to the peak.
• Several hundred years later, Cang Yu, Mystic Light, and the others returned with fortune, resources, more than three hundred Sages, and over a dozen subjugated Realm Lords.
• Zhou Ming collected the expedition's fortune, reforged Cross-Realm Teleportation Tokens, and gave the leaders ten talismans capable of killing any existence below peak Hunyuan Wuji.
• Zhou Ming ordered the group to organize future fortune-gathering expeditions and rotate their people between missions and cultivation, and they swore to serve him.

After Daoist Azure Nether described Liu Yuan’s destruction of the Hunyuan Realm with a dark golden talisman, the Spirit Firmament Realm Lord summoned three fellow Hunyuan Wuji powerhouses to plan a response. They suspected Liu Yuan had a powerful backer, and the Spirit Firmament Realm Lord vowed to crush him for threatening their interests.

• Daoist Azure Nether told the Spirit Firmament Realm Lord that Liu Yuan had killed Xuantian with a single strike from a dark golden talisman.
• The Spirit Firmament Realm Lord summoned Daoist Jade Cauldron, Ancestor Heaven-Burning, and Fairy White Moon to discuss suppressing Liu Yuan.
• Daoist Azure Nether recounted how the talisman ignored the Hunyuan Realm’s Origin suppression and ground Xuantian’s True Spirit to dust.
• Daoist Jade Cauldron argued that Liu Yuan’s sudden boldness likely meant someone far stronger stood behind him.
• Ancestor Heaven-Burning asked the Spirit Firmament Realm Lord how he planned to respond to the destruction of the Hunyuan Realm.

Lingxiao Realm Lord and three other Hunyuan Wuji powerhouses traveled to the Celestial Mystery Realm to investigate Liu Yuan and the destruction of the Hunyuan Realm. When the silent realm gave them no answers, they forced Azure Nether to enter and scout it.

• Lingxiao Realm Lord convinced Jade Cauldron, Heaven-Burning Ancestor, and Fairy White Moon to join him in investigating the Celestial Mystery Realm, while Fairy White Moon warned that Liu Yuan might be aided by an Outsider.
• Lingxiao Realm Lord brought Azure Nether with them, and the five traveled through an interrealm formation to the Celestial Mystery Realm.
• The four powerhouses examined the realm, called for Liu Yuan, and received no response.
• Jade Cauldron found no sign of a trap, and Lingxiao Realm Lord ordered the frightened Azure Nether to enter the realm and investigate.

The four Hunyuan Wuji experts found the Celestial Mystery Realm abandoned and concluded that Liu Yuan had fled with a powerful treasure. They devised a trap in the outer worlds under their command, unaware that a far larger force was expanding there.

• Azure Nether reported that every cultivator above the Sage realm had disappeared from the Celestial Mystery Realm.
• The Spirit Firmament Realm Lord, Jade Cauldron, Ancestor Heaven-Burning, and White Moon discovered that the interrealm formation's energy core had been removed.
• Jade Cauldron argued that Liu Yuan had no powerful backer and had fled after using a limited supreme treasure to kill Xuantian.
• The four returned to the Spirit Firmament Realm through the Chaos Void and decided to lure Liu Yuan with their affiliated worlds.
• The Spirit Firmament Realm Lord ordered the outer worlds' Realm Lords to flee and report Liu Yuan's arrival, allowing the four experts to descend through their formations.
• Heaven-Burning, Jade Cauldron, and White Moon returned to their Daoist grounds as a net targeting Liu Yuan spread across the Flowing Light Domain's outskirts.

Cang Yu led a campaign to seize the Wind-Thunder Realm, but Realm Lord Feng Yan escaped and alerted four Hunyuan Wuji cultivators. Cang Yu used Zhou Ming’s talisman to kill three of them, while Jade Cauldron escaped severely injured.

• Cang Yu organized teams to raid other worlds and led one to demand the Wind-Thunder Realm’s Destiny and allegiance.
• Feng Yan fled through a cross-realm formation and reported the attack to Ancestor Heaven-Burning, who summoned Lingxiao, Jade Cauldron, and White Moon.
• Cang Yu’s group looted the Wind-Thunder Realm while the four Hunyuan Wuji cultivators arrived and confronted them.
• Cang Yu used a talisman to kill a late Hunyuan Taiji subordinate who attacked him.
• Lingxiao, Ancestor Heaven-Burning, and Fairy White Moon attacked Cang Yu, but his talisman killed all three.
• Jade Cauldron burned half his Origin and escaped through a spatial rift, leaving Cang Yu to note that one had gotten away.

After Cang Yu defeated the forces in the Wind-Thunder Realm, he collected three Hunyuan Wuji experts’ Origin, rewarded Qin Jue, and recruited the surviving cultivators. Daoist Jade Cauldron escaped to the Heavenly Origin Dao Realm and warned Gantian about the talisman that had killed the three experts.

• Cang Yu collected the Origin of Realm Lord Lingxiao, Ancestor Heaven-Burning, and Fairy White Moon, then gave Qin Jue part of White Moon’s Origin.
• Feng Yan and the other survivors surrendered to Cang Yu, who marked them with law-light and ordered the Wind-Thunder Realm looted.
• Cang Yu led his enlarged force toward another world, intent on expanding his control of the Flowing Light Domain.
• Daoist Jade Cauldron fled through the Chaos Void to his Jade Cauldron Realm, then used a cross-realm formation to reach the Heavenly Origin Dao Realm.
• Daoist Jade Cauldron told Gantian that a talisman had killed Lingxiao, Heaven-Burning, and White Moon in one strike, and that he had escaped only by damaging his own Origin.

Gantian ordered Mo Chen to hunt down Cang Yu and his companions after learning they had killed Lingxiao and others with a powerful talisman. Meanwhile, Cang Yu’s group seized the Crimson Gold Realm and welcomed the prospect of confronting the Ten Great Dao Realms.

• Gantian dismissed the possibility that the talisman came from a Da Luo True Realm cultivator and decided to punish whoever was disrupting his Flowing Light Domain.
• Gantian summoned Mo Chen and ordered him to capture Cang Yu alive, kill the rest of the group, and bring back their talismans.
• Mo Chen assembled two mid Hunyuan Wuji elders and twelve early Hunyuan Wuji fighters before teleporting toward Cang Yu’s last known location.
• The Heavenly Origin Dao Realm activated its intelligence network to search its subordinate worlds for Cang Yu and his companions.
• At the Crimson Gold Realm, Cang Yu’s group took the surrendered realm lord and Sages under restraint while Qin Jue’s men looted the treasury.
• When a Sage worried that the Ten Great Dao Realms would retaliate, Cang Yu welcomed their arrival and said his group needed more Hunyuan Wuji cultivators as cultivation resources.

Mo Chen and eleven Hunyuan Wuji experts confronted Cang Yu in the Chaos Void outside the Crimson Gold Realm. Mo Chen’s forces trapped Cang Yu and his followers in a powerful array and launched an attack, while Cang Yu remained confident in his talisman.

• Cang Yu and his followers celebrated their spoils from the Crimson Gold Realm and boasted about conquering the Flowing Light Domain.
• Mo Chen arrived with eleven Hunyuan Wuji experts and announced that he had come by Gantian’s command to kill Cang Yu.
• Cang Yu mocked Mo Chen’s forces and threatened to take their Origin for his cultivation.
• Mo Chen recognized the talisman in Cang Yu’s hand and ordered his eleven companions to form an array.
• The array sealed Cang Yu and his followers inside a separate world, and Mo Chen ordered his forces to attack and take Cang Yu alive.
• A devastating pillar of light struck toward Cang Yu and his followers, but Cang Yu dismissed the array as ineffective.

Cang Yu’s talisman failed to overcome Mo Chen’s formation, leaving Cang Yu and his followers facing death in the Flowing Light Domain. As Cang Yu called on Zhou Ming through the restraining spell in his true spirit, Zhou Ming sensed his plea from the Azure Spirit Realm.

• Cang Yu used the dark-gold talisman to shatter Mo Chen’s formation, killing two Hunyuan Wuji experts and gravely wounding the others, but the talisman’s power was exhausted.
• Mo Chen ordered his wounded companions to kill everyone except Cang Yu, and the remaining experts unleashed a deadly attack on Cang Yu’s followers.
• Cang Yu’s followers charged the attackers to buy him time, while Cang Yu prepared to escape with his Cross-Realm Teleportation Token.
• Cang Yu remembered the restraining spell Zhou Ming had planted in his true spirit and called for Senior to save him instead of activating the token.
• Zhou Ming sensed Cang Yu’s plea for help from the Azure Spirit Realm and realized that his people had encountered trouble even the talisman could not resolve.

Zhou Ming’s power descended through Cang Yu and erased Mo Chen and nine other Hunyuan Wuji experts, saving Cang Yu’s forces. After collecting the spoils, Cang Yu ended the expansion and ordered everyone to return to the Azure Spirit Realm.

• A dark golden finger descended through Cang Yu and erased Mo Chen and the nine other Hunyuan Wuji experts, along with their deadly grand formation.
• Cang Yu, Qin Jue, and the Sages realized that Senior had saved them with power far beyond anything they had encountered.
• Cang Yu ordered his subordinates to collect the ten Origin lights left behind by the fallen experts.
• Cang Yu recognized that their expedition had drawn dangerous attention and decided they could not rely on Senior to save them every time.
• Cang Yu ended the operation and ordered everyone to return to the Azure Spirit Realm.

After Mo Chen and eleven Hunyuan Wuji cultivators were killed, Gantian summoned the lords of the Ten Great Dao Realms to discuss the threat. They suspected that the attackers came from another great domain and were probing the Flowing Light Domain ahead of the approaching realm war.

• Gantian discovered that Mo Chen’s Life-Soul Lamp and the eleven lamps of his companions had gone out, confirming all twelve had died.
• Gantian sent a highest-level communication decree to the other lords of the Ten Great Dao Realms.
• The nine other world lords gathered at the Heavenly Origin Dao Realm’s Divine Hall, where Gantian showed them the extinguished Life-Soul Lamps.
• Gantian recounted how Cang Yu had defeated Lingxiao’s group and how Jade Cauldron had fled, then explained that Mo Chen’s force had also been annihilated.
• Chen Xiu and Gantian concluded that the killers were likely outsiders sent to sow chaos and test the Flowing Light Domain before the realm war.

Gantian persuaded the Ten Great Dao Realms to form patrol squads and use the Heavenly Patrol Token to hunt down the outsiders. After Senior Zhou destroyed ten Hunyuan Wuji experts and saved Cang Yu’s group, Cang Yu returned to the Azure Spirit Realm and requested an audience with him.

• Gantian proposed that the Ten Great Dao Realms combine their forces and use Heavenly Patrol Tokens to search the Flowing Light Domain’s outskirts.
• Fankong, Xue Ku, and the other Realm Lords agreed, and Gantian ordered ten patrol teams to be formed from elites across the realms.
• Cang Yu returned to the Azure Spirit Realm with nearly five hundred Sages and more than twenty Hunyuan Taiji Realm Lords after Senior Zhou eliminated ten Hunyuan Wuji experts.
• Qin Jue celebrated the harvest of Origin from fifteen Hunyuan Wuji experts, while Cang Yu reflected on the Ten Great Dao Realms’ strength and his own responsibility to Senior Zhou.
• Cang Yu brought the group into the realm, ordered them to wait in the plaza, and knelt outside Zhou’s hall to request an audience.

Cang Yu reported the expedition’s losses and warned Zhou Ming that the ten great Dao Realms might unite against them. Zhou Ming ordered his followers to remain in seclusion while he prepared upgraded equipment, and gave them the Origins of the slain Hunyuan Wuji cultivators to strengthen themselves.

• Cang Yu knelt before Zhou Ming and recounted how the expedition had conquered the Crimson Gold Realm before Mo Chen’s formation exhausted Zhou Ming’s talisman.
• Cang Yu warned that the ten great Dao Realms had noticed their expansion and asked Zhou Ming how they should proceed.
• Zhou Ming asked about the talisman and examined the spoils, including the Origins of fifteen slain Hunyuan Wuji cultivators.
• Zhou Ming told Cang Yu not to worry about the ten great Dao Realms and ordered the group to enter seclusion while he prepared their equipment.
• Zhou Ming allowed Cang Yu and the others to divide the collected Origins, leaving Cang Yu overwhelmed with gratitude.

Cang Yu distributed Zhou Ming’s vast rewards among the assembled cultivators and ordered everyone to enter seclusion and improve their cultivation. He then took the two largest Origins into a back-mountain cave and began refining Mo Chen’s Origin, aiming to reach peak Hunyuan Taiji.

• Zhou Ming gave Cang Yu fifteen Hunyuan Wuji Origins and a mountain of cultivation resources and heavenly treasures for the group.
• Cang Yu returned to Qin Jue and the others, revealed the rewards, and told them Zhou Ming expected them to enter seclusion and raise their cultivation.
• Cang Yu claimed Mo Chen’s late-stage Origin and another mid-stage Origin, then distributed the remaining Origins and fragments according to cultivation and contributions.
• Cang Yu ordered everyone to enter seclusion and improve by at least one level before he summoned them again.
• Cang Yu entered a back-mountain cave with his two largest Origins and began refining Mo Chen’s Origin.

Zhou Ming refined stronger teleportation tokens and talismans, then absorbed a great fortune that further weakened the restraints on his Da Luo True Realm power. Liu Yuan emerged from seclusion at the peak of Hunyuan Taiji and came to pay his respects to Zhou Ming.

• Zhou Ming used the Great Void Divine Crystal and other materials to refine fifteen teleportation tokens and ten talismans with improved range, capacity, and power.
• Zhou Ming absorbed the fortune from his containers, cracking the restraints suppressing his Da Luo True Realm origin and sharpening his perception of the Hongmeng Universe's laws.
• Zhou Ming sensed Liu Yuan's aura rise to the peak of Hunyuan Taiji as Liu Yuan emerged from seclusion.
• Liu Yuan flew to the Realm Lord's Hall, requested an audience, and thanked Zhou Ming for helping him break through.

Zhou Ming entrusted Liu Yuan with newly refined teleportation tokens and talismans to gather Destiny and counter the ten great Dao Realms. Liu Yuan began assembling a covert raiding force while Zhou Ming returned to seclusion to focus on the loosening shackle within his body.

• Zhou Ming told Liu Yuan about the Heavenly Origin Dao Realm's ambush on Cang Yu and the others, which he had defeated, and warned that the ten great Dao Realms would attack again.
• Zhou Ming gave Liu Yuan fifteen tokens that could teleport fifty people ten times farther than before and ten talismans that were more powerful and reusable.
• Zhou Ming assigned Liu Yuan the task of gathering Destiny while Cang Yu and the others remained in seclusion.
• Liu Yuan took the new equipment and resolved to use surprise raids and mobility rather than confront the ten great Dao Realms directly.
• Liu Yuan went to select newly subdued cultivators for the next operation as the ten great Dao Realms' inspection net continued closing in.

Liu Yuan organized newly surrendered cultivators into teams to steal Destiny from poorly defended worlds across the Flowing Light Domain, while he led an elite group to settle old grudges. Meanwhile, a powerful patrol team led by Xuan Cang continued searching the outskirts for them without success.

• Liu Yuan promised the surrendered cultivators future rewards, warned them that the ten great Dao Realms were closing in, and revealed Senior's teleportation tokens and power-boosting talismans.
• Liu Yuan assigned Gu Chen and two other Realm Lords to lead teams infiltrating rival territories and stealing Destiny before teleporting away.
• Liu Yuan sent the three teams off as bait and took ten elite peak-Sage cultivators to the Heavenly Wind Realm to pursue his own mission.
• Xuan Cang and the other leaders of a joint patrol team complained that they had searched the outskirts for years without finding the people they sought.
• Xuan Cang insisted that his team would continue searching until they found them, even if they had to turn the entire outskirts upside down.

Liu Yuan arrived at the Heavenly Wind Realm to settle his old grudge with Feng Xiao, while Feng Xiao summoned the ten great Dao Realms for help. Liu Yuan broke through the realm barrier and confronted Feng Xiao at his fortified Daoist grounds.

• Xuan Cang told Buddha Fan Hai and Youmu that Realm Lords carried Communication Jade Talismans that would alert the inspection teams and let them track the attackers.
• Liu Yuan arrived at the Heavenly Wind Realm with ten peak Sage cultivators, intent on testing his new strength and avenging Feng Xiao's past ambush.
• Feng Xiao recognized Liu Yuan's peak Hunyuan Taiji power, crushed his jade talisman to summon the inspection teams, and reinforced the realm barrier.
• Suspecting Feng Xiao had contacted the ten great Dao Realms, Liu Yuan struck twice and shattered the Heavenly Wind Realm's barrier.
• Liu Yuan and his ten followers entered the realm, and Liu Yuan confronted Feng Xiao above the fortified Daoist grounds, demanding that he come out and die.

Liu Yuan attacked Feng Xiao’s dojo, but Xuan Cang and dozens of experts from the Ten Great Dao Realms arrived and destroyed his strike. The two sides prepared to fight, while Liu Yuan remained confident and vowed that Feng Xiao would not escape.

• Liu Yuan unleashed Ten Directions Annihilation at Feng Xiao’s protective formation as Feng Xiao warned that reinforcements from the Ten Great Dao Realms were coming.
• Xuan Cang and several dozen Hunyuan Wuji experts arrived through twisted space and obliterated Liu Yuan’s attack.
• Liu Yuan and Xuan Cang exchanged accusations over the Ten Great Dao Realms’ exploitation of peripheral worlds and the deaths of their people.
• Xuan Cang questioned Liu Yuan about Mo Chen’s death and signaled his companions to encircle Liu Yuan and the ten Sages.
• Liu Yuan stayed calm as the opposing experts prepared a grand formation and told Feng Xiao that no one could save him.

Liu Yuan confronted Xuan Cang and the experts from the ten great Dao Realms, refusing to summon the powerful figure behind him. As Xuan Cang ordered a killing formation to capture him, Liu Yuan prepared to test Zhou Ming’s newly refined talisman.

• Feng Xiao cursed Liu Yuan, but Liu Yuan ignored him and faced Xuan Cang.
• Xuan Cang offered to spare Liu Yuan if he summoned the person behind him, but Liu Yuan claimed that figure could defeat even the realm masters of all ten great Dao Realms.
• Enraged by Liu Yuan’s insult, Xuan Cang ordered ten early-stage Hunyuan Wuji experts to surround him and form a killing formation.
• Liu Yuan brought out the dark golden talisman Zhou Ming had newly refined and prepared to test its power.

Liu Yuan used the dark-gold talisman to annihilate ten Hunyuan Wuji experts and their Death Array, stunning Xuan Cang’s forces. Xuan Cang then rallied more than sixty experts to form the Myriad Laws Return to Origin Formation, and Liu Yuan launched the talisman’s transformed strike against it.

• Liu Yuan activated the talisman and erased the Death Array and its ten early Hunyuan Wuji experts with one strike.
• Liu Yuan challenged the remaining experts, while Feng Xiao panicked and Xuan Cang realized the talisman could be used again.
• Xuan Cang ordered everyone to attack together and form the Myriad Laws Return to Origin Formation.
• More than sixty Hunyuan Wuji experts created a vast law-powered millstone that descended toward Liu Yuan.
• Liu Yuan poured his law power into the talisman and sent a colossal dark-gold finger thrusting toward the millstone.

Liu Yuan used a dark-gold talisman to destroy the Ten Great Dao Realms’ patrol, though Xuan Cang escaped with an ancient token and threatened retaliation. Left with the origins of the fallen experts, Liu Yuan prepared to report the escape to Senior Zhou and celebrated his enormous gains.

• Liu Yuan’s talisman shattered the formation maintained by more than sixty Hunyuan Wuji experts and killed nearly all of them, leaving Xuan Cang, Youmu, and Buddha Fan Hai alive.
• Liu Yuan produced a second talisman, and Xuan Cang asked who stood behind him before admitting defeat.
• Xuan Cang crushed an ancient token and escaped through a strange spatial fluctuation, warning Liu Yuan that the Ten Great Dao Realms would come after him.
• Liu Yuan activated the talisman again, killing Youmu and Buddha Fan Hai and leaving Xuan Cang as the sole survivor of the patrol.
• Liu Yuan surveyed the origins of the fallen experts, noted his depleted power and spent talisman, and rejoiced at his gains.

Liu Yuan collected the Origins left by more than sixty Hunyuan Wuji cultivators and hurried back to report Xuan Cang’s escape and mysterious black token to Senior Zhou. In the Heavenly Origin Dao Realm, the realm lords learned that Liu Yuan’s talismans had annihilated their forces and confronted the possibility that someone beyond their understanding had made them.

• Liu Yuan collected the Origin light from the dead cultivators and found that the ten peak Sage cultivators accompanying him had also died in the battle.
• Liu Yuan left the Heavenly Wind Realm and used his teleportation token to return, worried about Xuan Cang’s escape and the black token.
• Gantian and nine other realm lords discovered that more than sixty Hunyuan Wuji cultivators had died, while Xuan Cang survived and was brought into the Divine Hall.
• Xuan Cang recounted how Liu Yuan’s first talisman killed ten cultivators and crushed their formation, then how a second identical talisman wiped out the remaining fighters.
• Jun Wuhen observed that the talisman could kill a late Hunyuan Wuji cultivator and asked which realm lord could create one, leaving the others silent.

The Ten Great Dao Realm lords of the Flowing Light Domain concluded that a force from another major domain had attacked while probing the Divine Asura Domain’s strength ahead of an approaching realm war. They withdrew their patrols and reported the attack to the Divine Asura Domain, whose representative reacted with a barely perceptible shift after hearing how powerful the enemy’s talismans were.

• Gantian reasoned that Hunyuan Wuji cultivators serving a Da Luo-backed domain could have used powerful talismans to seize fortune and weaken the Divine Asura Domain’s forces before the realm war.
• Gantian ordered all patrol teams to return to their Dao Realms and decided to report the attack to the Divine Asura Domain.
• Gantian and the other nine realm lords entered the Divine Communication Hall and activated its cross-domain altar.
• Gantian recounted the fortune harvesting, the deaths of their investigators, and how two talismans had overwhelmed Xuan Cang’s elite patrol team.
• The figure receiving the report wavered almost imperceptibly after hearing that one talisman had slain ten early Hunyuan Wuji cultivators and shattered a formation of more than sixty.

The Divine Asura Domain ordered the Ten Great Dao Realms to avoid direct confrontations and prepare to support one another while it investigated the mysterious talismans. Liu Yuan returned to Zhou Ming with the spoils from his expedition and reported the ambush, and Zhou Ming judged that the talisman had been worth its cost.

• Gantian persuaded the Divine Asura Domain to investigate the incidents in the Flowing Light Domain, and its lord ordered the ten Realm Lords to defend their territories and avoid engaging the enemy directly.
• Gantian proposed that the ten realms open their cross-realm formations to one another so they could send reinforcements quickly.
• The Realm Lords left for their respective Dao Realms, while Gantian remained uneasy about the mysterious talismans and the hidden foreign faction.
• Liu Yuan returned to the Azure Spirit Realm and presented Zhou Ming with the fortune and origin he had gathered.
• Liu Yuan recounted how he used a talisman to kill more than sixty Hunyuan Wuji experts and break their formation, while Xuan Cang escaped with a black token.
• Zhou Ming told Liu Yuan that trading one talisman for the origin of more than sixty Hunyuan Wuji experts and the fortune of a Great World was worthwhile.