Recaps

After learning that the Divine Asura Domain had summoned the Ten Great Dao Realms’ forces for a coming war, Zhou Ming ordered the Flowing Light Domain to gather for an invasion. Three months later, he appeared before the assembled army and told them to go.

• Mo Yun reported that the Divine Asura Domain had issued a Supreme Conscription Order, giving the Ten Great Dao Realms fewer than nine hundred years before deployment.
• Zhou Ming ordered Liu Yuan to summon all cultivators at the hunyuan taiji realm and above, declaring that they would crush the Ten Great Dao Realms in three months.
• Liu Yuan, Mo Yun, and the others left the hall and spread Zhou Ming’s order throughout the Flowing Light Domain.
• Cultivators from across the domain rushed to the Azure Spirit Realm, where nearly a hundred hunyuan wuji realm experts and over a thousand hunyuan taiji realm experts assembled.
• Zhou Ming emerged from the Realm Lord’s Hall and told the assembled forces, “Let’s go.”

Zhou Ming brought over a thousand experts to the Heavenly Origin Dao Realm, shattered its World-Protecting Grand Formation, and severed its connection to the Divine Asura Domain. Gantian surrendered the realm, and Zhou Ming left a hundred cultivators to take control as he departed with the rest.

• Zhou Ming transported Liu Yuan and the assembled experts from the Azure Spirit Realm to the Heavenly Origin Dao Realm without using a teleportation array.
• Zhou Ming broke the Heavenly Origin Dao Realm's World-Protecting Grand Formation with a single finger.
• Gantian and the realm's elders confronted Zhou Ming and realized they could not escape after Zhou Ming severed the Cross-Domain Teleportation Array's connection to the Divine Asura Domain.
• Gantian and the Hunyuan Wuji elders knelt before Zhou Ming, who declared that the Heavenly Origin Dao Realm belonged to him.
• Liu Yuan selected a hundred Hunyuan Taiji cultivators, led by ten Hunyuan Wuji experts, to take over the realm as Zhou Ming departed with the others.

Zhou Ming conquered the Ten Great Dao Realms, absorbed the Flowing Light Domain’s fortune, and altered its teleportation arrays to block entry from the Divine Asura Domain. He appointed Liu Yuan to govern the domain and ordered its forces to prepare for a march.

• The lords of the remaining nine Dao Realms surrendered after Zhou Ming shattered their defenses, bringing all Ten Great Dao Realms under his control.
• Zhou Ming drew the Flowing Light Domain’s fortune into himself, loosening his internal shackles and restoring more of his strength.
• Zhou Ming studied the Cross-Domain Teleportation Array, discovered that its void divine iron came from the Divine Asura Domain, and modified the arrays so they allowed passage out but prevented entry.
• Zhou Ming appointed Liu Yuan emissary of the Flowing Light Domain, put the Ten Great Dao Realm lords under his authority, and ordered them to consolidate their forces for a march.

Liu Yuan announced Zhou Ming’s orders to the former rulers of the Flowing Light Domain, demanding that they gather cultivators and materials in the Heavenly Origin Dao Realm within a century. The rulers agreed to obey, though transporting everyone across the vast domain remained a challenge.

• Liu Yuan reminded Gantian, Fankong, Xue Ku, and the other former rulers that he spoke on Zhou Ming’s behalf, and they pledged to follow his orders.
• Liu Yuan ordered the rulers to register cultivators at Sage Peak Realm and above, gather materials for Cross-Realm Tokens and high-grade talismans, and bring their elites to the Heavenly Origin Dao Realm within one hundred years.
• Xue Ku questioned how the Dao Realms would remain safe without their elites, but Liu Yuan insisted the domain belonged to Zhou Ming and promised that contributions would be rewarded according to merit.
• Gantian warned that gathering and transporting such vast forces and resources within a century would be difficult, and Liu Yuan explained that Zhou Ming had considered the problem but could provide only a few dozen Cross-Realm Tokens because their core materials were scarce.

Liu Yuan and the ten Realm Lords gathered the Flowing Light Domain’s people and supplies within a hundred years, then reported their success to Zhou Ming. Zhou Ming began seclusion to forge more Cross-Realm Tokens and weapons, leaving Liu Yuan to organize the assembled forces.

• Liu Yuan ordered the ten Realm Lords to transport personnel and supplies to the Heavenly Origin Dao Realm under the supervision of Cang Yu, Mo Yun, and other experts.
• Over the next hundred years, Gantian and the other Realm Lords gathered cultivators and supplies from across the Flowing Light Domain and sent them through the Cross-Realm Tokens.
• Gantian and the other Realm Lords presented their inventories to Liu Yuan, who checked them and brought the compiled information and materials to Zhou Ming.
• Zhou Ming inspected the gathered forging materials, judged them inferior but sufficient for more Cross-Realm Tokens and attack talismans, and withdrew to forge them.
• Zhou Ming instructed Liu Yuan to organize the gathered people into units, and Liu Yuan accepted the order before addressing the assembled cultivators.

Zhou Ming completed a year of forging Cross-Realm Tokens and Jade Talismans while Liu Yuan reorganized the cultivators of the Flowing Light Domain. With the forces ready to march, Zhou Ming sent them toward the Divine Asura Domain with orders to gather fortune and materials and scout neighboring domains.

• Liu Yuan announced that Zhou Ming was forging tokens and talismans, then ordered the cultivators to reorganize into new units under the realm lords and his allies.
• Zhou Ming sorted the plundered materials and spent a year forging treasures in seclusion.
• Zhou Ming emerged and gave Liu Yuan dark-gold Cross-Realm Tokens and nearly a hundred Jade Talismans.
• Liu Yuan reported that the reorganization was complete, and Zhou Ming ordered the forces to prepare to depart for the Divine Asura Domain.
• Zhou Ming explained that he had altered the ten Cross-Domain Teleportation Arrays to send the forces one way to separate regions on the domain's outskirts.
• Zhou Ming tasked Liu Yuan with gathering fortune, finding void divine iron and other high-grade materials, and recording the locations of neighboring great domains.

Zhou Ming ordered Liu Yuan to gather fortune in the Divine Asura Domain discreetly and avoid provoking its True Lord. Liu Yuan dispatched ten armies to the domain, where they would gather resources and seek other domain coordinates, while Zhou Ming remained behind to cultivate.

• Zhou Ming warned Liu Yuan not to drain the Divine Asura Domain's resources or draw the attention of its True Lord, and told him to find coordinates to other great domains.
• Liu Yuan distributed Cross-Realm Tokens and attack talismans and ordered nine Realm Lords to lead armies into different outskirts of the Divine Asura Domain.
• Liu Yuan designated the Blackstone Star Belt as a temporary base where the armies would deliver gathered fortune and divine materials.
• Liu Yuan and Gantian led the Heavenly Origin Dao Realm's forces through a Cross-Domain Teleportation Array into the Divine Asura Domain.
• Zhou Ming watched the ten armies converge on the Divine Asura Domain, then resumed cultivating while waiting for fortune to erode his rule shackles.

Liu Yuan led his army into the Divine Asura Domain and established a concealed headquarters inside the Blackstone Star Belt. He assigned Gantian to lead the expedition in gathering fortune and divine materials while keeping their actions quiet.

• Liu Yuan and Gantian arrived in the Western Desolate Frontier and traveled for several hundred years to the Blackstone Star Belt.
• Liu Yuan chose a hollow black meteoroid as their base and used formation flags to conceal and protect it from the surrounding chaos.
• Liu Yuan ordered Qin Jue to take ten thousand men and build the headquarters inside the meteoroid, prioritizing concealment.
• Liu Yuan put Gantian in charge of gathering fortune, finding divine materials, and determining coordinates, warning him not to provoke a major clash with the Divine Asura Domain.
• Liu Yuan emphasized the importance of finding void divine iron and other high-grade divine materials, and instructed Gantian to send resources back every thousand years.
• Gantian led his cultivators out of the base and into the Blackstone Star Belt to begin the expedition.

Gantian laid out a discreet plan for the force Liu Yuan had assembled to gather fortune across the Divine Asura Domain's Western Desolate Frontier. He left the former elders and Liu Yuan's subordinates to raid small and medium worlds while keeping the Great Worlds for his own team.

• Gantian warned the fifty Hunyuan Wuji experts to obey his command and work together during the operation.
• Gantian proposed dividing the force into ten teams, with himself leading the team containing most of the Hunyuan Wuji experts.
• When the former elders objected that the other teams would be too weak, Gantian explained that attacking Great Worlds openly could alert the Divine Asura Realm.
• Gantian assigned the other nine teams to swiftly raid small and medium worlds guarded only by Hunyuan Taiji experts or Sages, then move on without lingering.
• Gantian argued that simultaneous raids across thousands of insignificant worlds could yield substantial fortune while keeping the operation discreet.

Gantian led his elite force to attack the Tianshui Realm, intending to subdue Tianshui Daoist and question him. He shattered the realm’s defenses and froze Tianshui Daoist before he could contact the Divine Asura Domain’s Inspection Hall.

• Gantian divided his forces into ten teams, sending nine to gather fortune while he kept the elite team to find divine materials.
• Gantian chose the Tianshui Realm as his first target and led his forces to its world barrier.
• Gantian’s four late Hunyuan Wuji experts sealed off the realm’s communications while Gantian struck its World-Protecting Grand Formation.
• Tianshui Daoist recognized Gantian and accused him of betraying the Divine Asura Domain, but Gantian said he had changed masters.
• Gantian and four experts shattered the formation, then Gantian froze Tianshui Daoist as he tried to use a Communication Jade Talisman.

Gantian destroyed Tianshui Daoist’s Jade Talisman and pressured him to reveal which Great World held the richest mineral resources, but Tianshui refused. Gantian then suppressed him and turned to the terrified Tianshui Realm elders, asking them the same question.

• Gantian crushed Tianshui Daoist’s Jade Talisman and demanded information about mineral-rich Great Worlds and void divine iron.
• Tianshui Daoist refused to betray the Divine Asura Domain and warned that his Life-Soul Lamp would expose his death.
• Gantian argued that the coming Realm War would make Tianshui Daoist’s death go unnoticed, then threatened to torment him until the war began.
• When Tianshui Daoist stayed silent, Gantian pointed out that the elders had no Life-Soul Lamps to protect them and asked them for the information.
• Tianshui Daoist threatened the elders, but Gantian suppressed him and repeated his question to the trembling elders.

Gantian obtained information about a likely source of void divine iron and offered the Tianshui Daoist a choice between submission and death. Tianshui Daoist refused, arguing that Gantian was merely a pawn of another great domain, and Gantian challenged that assumption.

• An elder broke under Gantian’s threat and revealed that the Golden Watchtower Great World was the Western Desolate Frontier’s largest mining world and the likeliest place to find void divine iron.
• The elder described the world’s defenses and ruler, and Gantian rewarded him by making him the new master of the Tianshui Realm.
• Gantian told Tianshui Daoist that he had no further need for him, then offered him one final chance to submit or die.
• Tianshui Daoist refused, saying the Divine Asura Domain would punish him more terribly than death if he became a traitor.
• Tianshui Daoist accused Gantian of serving another great domain, and Gantian asked whether they were really risking their lives for one.

Gantian took control of the Tianshui Realm, appointed Zhang Yuan as its new realm lord, and led his forces toward the Golden Watchtower Great World. He told an accompanying expert they were not going there to attack, leaving their true purpose unclear.

• Gantian told Tianshui Daoist that the Ten Great Dao Realms had united under a new master, and summoned their elders as proof.
• Tianshui Daoist was left reeling as Gantian asked the kneeling elders to choose a new realm lord.
• Gantian appointed Zhang Yuan, bound his true spirit with a dark-gold rune, and ordered him to gather powerful cultivators and inventory the treasury.
• Gantian left two mid Hunyuan Wuji experts and a thousand elite troops to secure the Tianshui Realm, then led the rest of his forces toward the Golden Watchtower Great World.
• When an expert questioned the danger of attacking the Golden Watchtower Great World, Gantian said they were not going there to attack.

Gantian led his force to the Golden Watchtower Great World to verify its resources, not attack it immediately, and decided to wait for a realm war to weaken its defenses. After a century of watching the heavily fortified world without seeing any activity, his doubts and vigilance grew.

• Gantian explained that the expedition’s first goal was to confirm whether the Golden Watchtower Great World was the frontier’s largest mining world and contained void divine iron.
• Gantian warned that attacking openly would give the Golden Palace Daoist time to summon reinforcements from the Divine Asura Main Realm, so he planned to strike during a full-scale realm war.
• Gantian’s force approached the Golden Watchtower Great World and saw its golden barrier, war fortresses, and formidable cultivator patrols.
• Gantian ordered everyone to conceal their auras and wait at a distance rather than risk detection by the world’s defenses.
• After a century passed without any sign of activity from the Golden Watchtower Great World, Gantian became more doubtful and vigilant.

Gantian abandoned his surveillance of the silent Golden Watchtower Great World and returned to Tianshui Realm, where he questioned the imprisoned Tianshui Daoist. In the Divine Asura Main Realm, Xuanji prepared for an impending war with the Nether Demon Domain and learned that the Flowing Light Domain could not be contacted.

• After decades of watching the Golden Watchtower Great World without seeing any activity, Gantian decided to wait for the Realm War before attempting to seize it and withdrew with his companions.
• Gantian returned to Tianshui Realm, where Zhang Yuan reported that the realm had been secured and Tianshui Daoist had remained quiet in prison.
• Gantian visited Tianshui Daoist, who mocked him, but Gantian refused to explain his mission and left after warning that the prisoner would eventually understand his situation.
• Xuanji learned that the Nether Demon Domain was mobilizing for a likely offensive within a hundred years and ordered the Divine Asura Domain's armies to prepare for war.
• A white-haired elder reported that all but one of the Divine Asura Domain's subordinate domains had sent troops, and told Xuanji that they had been unable to contact the Flowing Light Domain.

The Divine Asura Domain’s leaders learned that the Flowing Light Domain had been cut off and its teleportation arrays erased, but Xuanji chose to prioritize the coming war against the Nether Demon Domain. He left the Flowing Light Domain’s investigation until afterward, planning to go there personally once the war was over.

• A white-haired elder reported that contact with the Ten Great Dao Realms in the Flowing Light Domain had been lost and that all ten Cross-Domain Teleportation Arrays had become impossible to locate.
• Grand Elder Ming Luo recalled that Luo Tian and two peak Hunyuan Wuji experts had died in the Flowing Light Domain, and the leaders questioned whether the Nether Demon Domain could have caused both incidents.
• An elder urged Xuanji to send an army to investigate, but Ming Luo argued that the Divine Asura Domain should keep its forces concentrated for the approaching Realm War.
• Xuanji agreed to set the Flowing Light Domain matter aside and ordered the Divine Asura Domain’s army to prepare to fight the Nether Demon Domain and win the first battle.
• Xuanji said he would personally visit the Flowing Light Domain after the war, while privately remaining uneasy about his decision.

As the Divine Asura Domain and Nether Demon Domain began their realm war, Gantian gave Tianshui Daoist a final choice to surrender. Tianshui Daoist refused and was killed, his true spirit annihilated.

• Xuanji and the Nether Emperor launched their armies against each other, officially beginning the realm war.
• Gantian learned of the war and visited Tianshui Daoist in the water prison.
• Tianshui Daoist agreed to surrender only if Gantian revealed the power behind him, then challenged whether that power would protect them after the war.
• Gantian said their master did not intend to leave and demanded Tianshui Daoist surrender once more.
• Tianshui Daoist refused, and Gantian killed him with a strand of dark-gold law power, annihilating his true spirit.

Gantian led an invasion of the Golden Watchtower Great World, using Zhou Ming’s jade talisman to break its protective formation and targeting its cross-realm teleportation altar. As a battle erupted, the realm’s hidden peak Hunyuan Wuji expert appeared to stop him.

• Gantian ordered the cultivators of the Tianshui Realm to assemble and had its cross-realm teleportation formation destroyed.
• A guard discovered that Tianshui Daoist’s Life-Soul Lamp had gone out, and Ming Luo ordered the Sky-Patrolling Guard to investigate his death.
• Gantian used Zhou Ming’s dark-gold Jade Talisman to break the Golden Watchtower Great World’s protective formation and led his troops inside.
• Gantian and four late Hunyuan Wuji experts attacked the teleportation altar while Golden Palace Daoist and the realm’s defenders fought back.
• A hidden peak Hunyuan Wuji expert appeared before Gantian to defend the altar.

Gantian destroyed the altar after Golden Palace Daoist sent a distress message, then ordered the Flowing Light Domain teams to gather ore and withdraw within an hour. In the Divine Asura Main Realm, Ming Luo learned that the Golden Watchtower Great World had been attacked and ordered Yinshuang to intercept Gantian while surrounding star domains were sealed.

• Gantian killed a peak Hunyuan Wuji elder with the Dark-Gold Jade Talisman, but Golden Palace Daoist used a black-flamed talisman to send a message to the Main Realm.
• Gantian destroyed the altar and ordered his teams to collect mined ore, especially void divine iron, and withdraw after one hour.
• Yinshuang and two elders traveled toward the Tianshui Realm aboard the Falsehood-Breaking Divine Shuttle, puzzled by the lack of clues about Tianshui Daoist's death.
• Ming Luo received a distress message reporting that the Flowing Light Domain and Gantian had attacked the Golden Watchtower Great World and killed its supreme elder.
• Ming Luo ordered Yinshuang to abandon the Tianshui Realm and stop Gantian, while directing the surrounding star domains to be sealed off.

After the Golden Watchtower Great World's Hunyuan Realm cultivators were confirmed dead, Ming Luo sent Xuan He with a powerful force to capture the Flowing Light Domain rebels. When the direct teleportation route failed, Xuan He redirected his force through the Flying Cloud Realm, while Yinshuang changed course to reinforce the Golden Watchtower Great World.

• Ming Luo learned that every registered Hunyuan Realm cultivator in the Golden Watchtower Great World had died and ordered Xuan He to lead three thousand Divine Asura Guards and fifty Hunyuan Wuji Realm cultivators against the Flowing Light Domain rebels.
• Ming Luo gave Xuan He the Profound Void Divine Shield and ordered him to bring the rebels back alive if possible and discover who supported them.
• Xuan He found that the Golden Watchtower Great World's teleportation array was unresponsive and redirected his force to the Flying Cloud Realm.
• Yinshuang learned that Gantian had attacked the Golden Watchtower Great World and realized the Tianshui Realm incident had been part of a larger operation.
• Yinshuang changed course for the Golden Watchtower Great World and ordered his black divine shuttle to travel at full speed.

Gantian’s force looted the Golden Watchtower Great World and escaped, but Yinshuang and Elder Xuan He pursued them. Gantian diverted toward the Void Barren Zone, only to be intercepted at its edge and surrounded.

• Gantian’s force collected the mined ore, including void divine iron, and withdrew from the Golden Watchtower Great World using Zhou Ming’s teleportation token.
• Yinshuang arrived too late, used the Soul-Chasing Disk to track Gantian’s force, and set off after them in the Falsehood-Breaking Divine Shuttle.
• Elder Xuan He reached the ruined world, confirmed Gantian’s escape route, and joined Yinshuang’s pursuit.
• Gantian spotted the pursuing shuttle and changed course to avoid leading it to the Blackstone Star Belt.
• Yinshuang and Xuan He caught up with Gantian’s force at the edge of the Void Barren Zone and blocked their way in.

Gantian and his forces escaped the Divine Asura Domain by using a dark-gold talisman and fleeing into the dangerous Void Barren Zone. After a perilous journey, they returned to their hidden base in the Blackstone Star Belt, where Liu Yuan was waiting.

• Gantian ordered his people to fight, then used a talisman to break through the Divine Asura Domain's ranks while Xuan He protected himself and nearby experts with the Profound Void Divine Shield.
• Gantian and the survivors escaped into the Void Barren Zone, and Xuan He refused to pursue them before ordering a return to the Divine Asura Realm to report that Gantian's backer had someone in the Da Luo True Realm.
• Gantian discovered that the chaotic region disrupted their teleportation tokens, so he led his exhausted people through it in formation using the Star Map.
• After nearly two hundred years, Gantian and his people emerged from the Void Barren Zone and traveled back to the Blackstone Star Belt without further trouble.
• Gantian and his people returned to their concealed base, where Liu Yuan greeted them.

Gantian returned with void divine iron and a star map, while Liu Yuan ordered him to send the supplies to the Flowing Light Domain and recall his forces. In the Divine Asura Domain, Ming Luo’s leaders concluded that a Da Luo-backed enemy was using Flowing Light as a base and vowed to strike back.

• Gantian delivered the ores and star map to Liu Yuan and reported that Yinshuang and Xuan He’s forces had pursued them until a talisman helped them escape.
• Liu Yuan told Gantian to keep his force out of the Divine Asura Domain’s western region, recall his teams, and escort the supplies to the senior in the Flowing Light Domain.
• Xuan He and Yinshuang reported to the Divine Asura Domain’s leaders that Gantian had used a powerful talisman and that his force could teleport past their restrictions.
• Ming Luo and the elders suspected several neighboring powers of backing the invasion but could not identify the enemy.
• Ming Luo declared that whoever had reached into the Divine Asura Domain would have their hand cut off.

After nine more Realm Lords were killed in coordinated strikes across the Divine Asura Domain, Ming Luo activated the Nine Heavens Lock-Domain Divine Forbidden Array to trap the Flowing Light Domain’s forces. He gave Xuan He the Crossing-Domain Divine Shuttle and ordered him to hunt down the invaders.

• A Life-Soul Lamps elder told Ming Luo that nine Realm Lords had died and that two had identified Fankong and You Xuan as their killers.
• Ming Luo learned that the fallen Realm Lords’ worlds lay in three distant directions, and Elder Xuan He identified a world-crossing treasure as the means behind the attacks.
• Ming Luo rejected calls to report to the Domain Lord and ordered the Nine Heavens Lock-Domain Divine Forbidden Array activated across the Divine Asura Domain.
• The array awakened, making space travel between worlds impossible for most teleportation treasures.
• Ming Luo gave Xuan He the Crossing-Domain Divine Shuttle and ordered him to mobilize the Inspection Hall, the Enforcement Hall, and the remaining Realm Lords to capture the invaders.

Xuan He mobilized Divine Asura forces to hunt the Flowing Light Domain rebels after learning they had destroyed ten Great Worlds. Meanwhile, Fankong’s group escaped after plundering the Cang Yun Realm, as a search net spread across the Divine Asura Domain.

• Xuan He assembled three thousand Divine Asura Guards and one hundred Enforcement Hall experts, then revealed that rebels had killed ten realm lords and other Hunyuan cultivators.
• Xuan He sent ten teams through reserve teleportation arrays to track the rebels and vowed to kill them, while he led the remaining forces to confront Fankong.
• Fankong and his companions celebrated plundering the Cang Yun Realm, killing its realm lord, draining much of its fortune, and taking its treasury.
• Fankong decided to leave before the Divine Asura Domain could respond and led the group through repeated teleports toward their secret base in the Blackstone Star Belt.
• Xuan He’s forces began pursuing the rebels as Fankong’s group reached a distant stretch of the Chaos Void.