Recaps

Fankong and the other invading groups discovered that the Divine Asura Domain had sealed its territory, disabling their teleportation tokens and trapping them. Fankong led his followers toward the Black Wind Sea while other Realm Lords scattered or fled toward dangerous border regions.

• Fankong's teleportation failed when a powerful force shattered the passage, and his token lost its connection to the Space Law.
• Fankong realized the Divine Asura Domain had deployed a Heavenly Net and ordered his group to suppress their auras and escape through the Black Wind Sea.
• Ancestor Xue Ku's group suffered the same interruption, and he threw away his broken token before ordering his followers to change direction and hide their auras.
• Across the Divine Asura Domain, other Realm Lords faced failed teleportations, with some followers lost in Spatial Turbulence and others injured by collapsing passages.
• The trapped Realm Lords began scattering or heading toward remote death zones in search of a way through the Heavenly Net.

Elder Xuan He sent the Divine Asura Domain’s forces to hunt down the fleeing cultivators after finding the ruined Cang Yun Realm. As the pursuit spread across the domain, You Xuan died buying time for his followers to escape, while Ancestor Xue Ku hid with his companions in the Blood Fiend Star Domain.

• Elder Xuan He found signs of spatial fluctuation in the destroyed Cang Yun Realm and ordered a sweeping pursuit using the Crossing-Domain Divine Shuttle.
• You Xuan gave Zhou Ming’s dark-gold jade talisman to his deputy, then stayed behind to hold off a Divine Asura Domain hunting squad.
• You Xuan’s deputy used the talisman to erase three enemy experts and escape with seven or eight cultivators, while You Xuan died under Xuan Feng’s attack.
• Xuan Feng reported You Xuan’s execution to Elder Xuan He after deciding not to pursue the escaping cultivators.
• Divine Asura Domain hunting squads continued slaughtering or scattering fleeing groups throughout the domain.
• Ancestor Xue Ku and his remaining followers hid in the Blood Fiend Star Domain, where their pursuers continued tracking them.

Ancestor Xue Ku ambushed a Divine Asura Domain pursuit squad with the Blood River Heaven-Surging Formation, but the commander’s Heaven-Burning Demon Mirror turned the battle into a devastating clash. Xue Ku survived with a few followers and escaped after destroying their shuttle, while the wounded commander collapsed.

• Ancestor Xue Ku laid the Blood River Heaven-Surging Formation and waited for the Divine Asura Domain pursuers.
• The commander’s Crossing-Domain Divine Shuttle entered the formation, and Xue Ku’s forces attacked it and overwhelmed the commander.
• The commander unleashed the Heaven-Burning Demon Mirror, forcing Xue Ku to retreat and activate Zhou Ming’s talisman.
• The mirror’s black beam collided with the talisman’s dark golden light, annihilating the formation and devastating both sides.
• Ancestor Xue Ku escaped into the Chaos with a few surviving followers, while the wounded commander passed out.

Fankong led his exhausted followers to the Black Wind Sea, where Xuan He and the Divine Asura Domain's forces cornered them. Fankong used a Jade Talisman to erase an enemy squad and escaped with the survivors into the sea, while Xuan He pursued.

• Fankong chose to lead his party into the Black Wind Sea rather than remain in the Divine Asura Domain and face certain capture.
• Xuan He arrived aboard a divine vessel with Divine Asura Guards and Hunyuan Wuji experts, demanding that Fankong surrender and reveal his backer.
• Fankong's party refused to surrender, but the Divine Asura Domain's forces shattered their defensive formation and killed dozens of cultivators.
• Fankong activated a Dark-Gold Jade Talisman, which erased a late Hunyuan Wuji expert and hundreds of nearby Divine Asura Guards.
• Fankong led the battered survivors into the Black Wind Sea, and Xuan He pursued them.

Fankong and his companions used a dark-gold token to escape Xuan He through a perilous spatial teleportation from the Black Wind Sea. They survived outside the sea, though many were gravely injured and several had died.

• The chaos astral wind overwhelmed Fankong's formation, killing one cultivator as Xuan He's divine vessel pursued them.
• Fankong used the token to open an unstable Light Gate, and his companions followed him through before it shattered.
• Xuan He chose not to pursue, judging that the teleportation would probably kill Fankong and fearing damage to his Crossing-Domain Divine Shuttle.
• Fankong and the survivors emerged from a collapsing spatial passage battered and diminished, after he risked his origin to stabilize it.
• Fankong confirmed they had escaped the Black Wind Sea and that Xuan He had not followed them.

Fankong and his surviving companions recovered after escaping a dangerous teleport, while Xuan He continued hunting the Flowing Light Domain rebels across the Divine Asura Domain. He eliminated several rebel groups but failed to uncover who was directing them, and the chapter ended with Ming Luo receiving his report.

• Fankong inspected the damaged teleportation token, ordered his injured companions to recover, and chose to fly back toward their secret outpost.
• Xuan He searched the Eastern Star Domain for centuries without finding the Flowing Light Domain rebels.
• Xuan He discovered True Man Yuan Dao and his group near the Divine Asura Domain's southern border, then had the group defeated and captured survivors interrogated.
• Two prisoners crumbled into ash when they tried to speak, revealing that restraining spells in their true spirits silenced them.
• Xuan He led a purge over the following centuries, exterminating two more Flowing Light Domain groups before ending the pursuit of those who had escaped.
• Xuan He reported the operation's casualties and failures to Ming Luo, who acknowledged the report.

After Divine Asura Domain failed to capture all the escaping cultivators, Ming Luo ordered the domain sealed under heightened security and vowed to destroy Flowing Light Domain after the Realm War. Liu Yuan received Fankong’s badly injured group, learned that many others had escaped but Realm Lords You Xuan and Yuan Chen were missing, and reconsidered his plans against Divine Asura Domain.

• Ming Luo ordered the Nine Heavens Lock-Domain Divine Forbidden Array deactivated, then placed Divine Asura Domain on the highest alert and increased patrols and inspections.
• Ming Luo vowed to lead an attack on Flowing Light Domain after the Realm Lord won the Realm War.
• Fankong returned to Liu Yuan’s concealed meteorite base with dozens of weakened survivors and described their escape from Xuan He through the Black Wind Sea.
• Liu Yuan told Fankong that Ancestor Xue Ku and several Realm Lords had escaped, but Realm Lords You Xuan and Yuan Chen had gone missing.
• Liu Yuan concluded that his forces had underestimated Divine Asura Domain and considered revising their plan, trusting that the True Lord of Flowing Light Domain remained their greatest advantage.

After the Divine Asura Domain’s ambush devastated the returning teams, Liu Yuan welcomed the survivors and waited for Qian Tian. Qian Tian returned to the Heavenly Origin Dao Realm with valuable divine materials, and Zhou Ming accepted the loss of fortune while promising that things would change after his seclusion.

• Ancestor Xue Ku and other battered teams returned to Liu Yuan’s base, reporting heavy losses and the deaths of You Xuan and Yuan Chen.
• Liu Yuan told the survivors their defeat was not their fault and ordered them to rest while he waited for Qian Tian.
• After several centuries of travel, Qian Tian and his companions reached the Heavenly Origin Dao Realm and reported to Zhou Ming.
• Qian Tian presented Zhou Ming with void divine iron and other materials, apologizing for bringing back little fortune.
• Zhou Ming said that returning alive was an achievement, praised the haul, and told Qian Tian’s group to rest until he emerged from seclusion.

Zhou Ming spent decades forging powerful teleportation discs and talismans from rare materials, then sent Qian Tian to deliver them to Liu Yuan. After Qian Tian tested the new teleportation equipment, Zhou Ming absorbed the returned fortune and resumed his secluded cultivation.

• Zhou Ming used rare materials to refine Portable Cross-Domain Teleportation Discs and stronger Jade Talismans during decades of seclusion.
• Zhou Ming gave Qian Tian the new equipment for Liu Yuan to distribute and a Cross-Domain Teleportation Array linked to the Heavenly Origin Dao Realm.
• Qian Tian activated a Portable Cross-Domain Teleportation Disc and transported himself and his companions nearly half a major domain away.
• Qian Tian used two more teleportations to reach the Blackstone Star Belt and marveled at the disc's power.
• Zhou Ming devoured the destiny golden dragons Qian Tian had brought back, found their fortune insufficient to break his rule shackles, and returned to secluded cultivation.

After receiving powerful teleportation arrays and talismans from Zhou Ming, Liu Yuan reorganized the surviving forces into forty raiding teams targeting nearly a hundred domains. As the teams departed to spread chaos and seize Destiny, Liu Yuan began turning the Blackstone Star Belt into a hidden transit hub, while danger stirred in the Azure Profound Realm.

• Qian Tian returned to the Blackstone Star Belt with new array discs, talismans, and a Cross-Domain Teleportation Array from Zhou Ming.
• Liu Yuan showed the Dao Realm lords the treasures and explained their capabilities, renewing their hope.
• Liu Yuan distributed star charts and ordered forty teams to raid domains around the Divine Asura Domain and other major domains, then flee without lingering.
• Fankong, Ancestor Xue Ku, and the other leaders assembled the teams, which departed into the Chaos Void with their assigned treasures.
• Liu Yuan began setting up the Cross-Domain Teleportation Array as a hidden transit hub.
• Daoist Qing Xuan sensed danger in the Azure Profound Realm, but his Divine Thought found no disturbance and its World-Protecting Grand Formation remained intact.

Ancestor Xue Ku and Fankong’s squads plundered worlds across more than a hundred domains, leaving ruins and spreading panic as the Seven Domains struggled to catch them. At the Chaotic Antiquity Ruins, Xuanji and the Nether Emperor blamed each other for the raids, escalating tensions between their domains.

• Ancestor Xue Ku erased Daoist Qing Xuan, extracted the Azure Profound Realm’s fortune, and escaped with a Cross-Domain Array Disk.
• Fankong’s squad defeated Fairy Wanshuang’s defenders, seized the Great World of Wanshuang’s fortune and treasury, and fled.
• Forty squads from the Flowing Light Domain raided weak worlds across the star domain, killing inhabitants, taking resources, and evading pursuers.
• The Seven Domains received growing numbers of pleas for help, but their Sky-Patrolling Guards repeatedly failed to catch the raiders.
• Grand Elder Ming Luo reported the plundering to Xuanji, who accused the Nether Emperor of orchestrating it.
• The Nether Emperor denied the accusation and accused Xuanji’s forces of raiding the Nether Demon Domain.

After learning that a mysterious force had plundered every one of the Seven Great Domains, Xuanji and the other rulers agreed to a temporary truce and a joint purge. Their armies stood down and began forming a net around the Flowing Light Domain’s teams, while Fankong and Ancestor Xue Ku remained unaware.

• An elder told Xuanji and the Nether Emperor that the Northern Cold Immortal Court and Heavenly Demon Domain had suffered the same plundering, and Ming Luo reported trouble in other great domains as well.
• Xuanji and the Nether Emperor realized a third party was attacking them both and stopped fighting to exchange intelligence.
• Half a month later, the seven Great Domain Lords met and discovered that the same mysterious force had plundered their domains for centuries.
• Xuanji proposed a temporary truce and joint purge, and the Nether Emperor, the Buddha Lord, and the other rulers agreed.
• The Seven Great Domains issued orders, halted their conflicts, and began forming a Heavenly Net against the Flowing Light Domain’s teams.
• Fankong and Ancestor Xue Ku continued plundering worlds, unaware of the joint purge being prepared.

The Seven Domains used elite forces and specialized treasures to trap Liu Yuan’s raiding teams, forcing them to retreat after heavy losses. Liu Yuan ordered all operations to stop and planned to wait until the alliance weakened and its members resumed fighting among themselves.

• Ancestor Xue Ku escaped a Golden-Armored Sky-Patrolling Guard ambush with his talisman, while the guard reported that the target had entered the net.
• The Seven Domains deployed tracking, space-sealing, and concealment-breaking treasures, trapping raiding teams including Fankong’s and forcing them to flee.
• Fankong, Ancestor Xue Ku, and the others reported their losses and failed operations to Liu Yuan at the Blackstone Star Belt base.
• Liu Yuan ordered all teams to cease operations and return to base, predicting that the Seven Domains’ alliance would eventually fracture.

The seven Great Domain Lords used the Lamp of the Past to trace the Flowing Light Domain raiders after their attacks stopped. The lamp led them to the Blackstone Star Belt, where they continued searching for the hidden group.

• The Great Domain Lords reported that the Flowing Light Domain raiders had vanished, and Xuanji warned they were waiting for the Seven Domains to lower their guard.
• The Lord of Ten Thousand Buddhas Realm revealed the Lamp of the Past, which could retrace events across the Star Domain, but required all seven Domain Lords to sacrifice vitality to activate it.
• Xuanji and the other Domain Lords agreed to bear the cost and poured their origin laws into the lamp.
• The Lamp of the Past showed the raiders fleeing through a Light Gate and traced them to the Blackstone Star Belt.
• Xuanji noted that the Sky-Patrolling Guard had searched the Blackstone Star Belt many times, while the Buddha Lord increased the lamp's power.

The Seven Great Domain Lords discovered Liu Yuan’s hidden base in the Blackstone Star Belt and surrounded it with their armies and Great Luo True Artifacts. Trapped inside, Liu Yuan identified the teleportation array modified by Senior as their only escape and asked someone to buy time for its activation.

• The Buddha Lord used the Lamp of the Past to uncover a concealed settlement inside a meteorite in the Blackstone Star Belt, then collapsed from the effort.
• Xuanji and the other Domain Lords ordered their forces to surround the Blackstone Star Belt from every direction and led their main forces there themselves.
• Xuanji boarded the Sky-Patrolling Divine Boat with thirty thousand Divine Asura Guards and set out for the Blackstone Star Belt.
• Liu Yuan sensed the meteorite shaking and saw the seven Domain Lords and their fleets seal off the region, preventing ordinary spatial travel and use of the Cross-Domain Teleportation Array discs.
• Liu Yuan told Fankong, Ancestor Xue Ku, and the others that Senior’s modified teleportation array was their only escape, but it would take time to activate, so someone had to hold off the enemy.

Liu Yuan organized a desperate retreat from the Seven Domains, while thirty-odd cultivators used Zhou Ming’s Dark-Gold Jade Talismans to hold off the invading forces. After the survivors escaped through the White Jade Altar, the Domain Lords discovered that a Da Luo True Realm being had placed lethal seals on their captives and decided to report the matter to their own True Lords.

• Liu Yuan offered protection and compensation to volunteers who stayed behind, and more than thirty cultivators took Dark-Gold Jade Talismans to cover the retreat.
• Xuanji and the other Domain Lords attacked the meteor, but the volunteers erased thousands of enemy troops with their talismans before most were killed or detonated their true spirits.
• The White Jade Altar activated, and Liu Yuan’s group escaped as Xuanji captured five exhausted rear guards.
• Xuanji tried to search a captive’s soul, but a dark-gold rune erased the captive; the same seal destroyed another captive and revealed a trace of complete Great Luo Dao Rhythm.
• Xuanji and the other Domain Lords agreed to report everything to the True Lords behind them and leave the decision about war or peace to those beings.

After Liu Yuan’s force returned to the Heavenly Origin Dao Realm defeated, Zhou Ming absolved them and revealed that one-third of his shackles had been unlocked, greatly increasing his power. Meanwhile, Xuanji reported the Flowing Light Domain upheaval to the Divine Asura Domain’s True Lord, who found the news interesting.

• Liu Yuan and the surviving Dao Realm masters returned to the Heavenly Origin Dao Realm after losing their base, troops, and commanders to the Seven Great Domains’ alliance.
• Liu Yuan and his companions knelt before Zhou Ming and reported their failed mission and the deaths of the cultivators who covered their retreat.
• Zhou Ming said their defeat was not their fault, told them to rest, and dismissed them without punishment.
• Zhou Ming reflected that one-third of his shackles had been unlocked, leaving him with more than ten times his former power, and spread his divine thought across the Flowing Light Domain and the Chaos Void.
• Xuanji reported the Flowing Light Domain crisis and the suspected involvement of a Da Luo True Realm cultivator to the Divine Asura Domain’s True Lord.
• The True Lord opened his eyes and called the news interesting.

Seven Da Luo True Realm cultivators went to the Flowing Light Domain to confront the unknown Zhou Ming, whose subordinates had been plundering fortune across their territories. Zhou Ming met them and said he would leave once he had gathered enough fortune.

• Xuanji told True Lord Shenluo that an unknown force was plundering fortune and seemed to be based in the Flowing Light Domain.
• The other Great Domain Lords reported the intelligence to their Da Luo True Realm allies, and seven cultivators agreed to investigate together.
• The seven Da Luo True Realm cultivators traveled to the Flowing Light Domain, alarming experts throughout the Star Domain.
• The seven waited outside the Flowing Light Domain, and Zhou Ming appeared before them without warning.
• True Lord Shenluo asked Zhou Ming who he was and why he was plundering their territories, and Zhou Ming said he only wanted to borrow fortune until he had enough.

Zhou Ming faced the seven True Lords, who challenged him over his actions in their territory. He defeated them in battle, and they withdrew, leaving his plans to gather fortune undisturbed for now.

• The seven True Lords demanded that Zhou Ming explain why he was taking fortune from worlds under their command, but he refused.
• True Lord Xuanluo and True Lord Shenluo threatened to join forces against Zhou Ming, and he agreed to fight them.
• True Lord Chaotic Ancient attacked first, but Zhou Ming struck back and cracked his fist in a single exchange.
• The seven True Lords attacked Zhou Ming together with their Great Luo True Artifacts, fighting him for dozens of kalpas.
• Zhou Ming remained nearly uninjured while the seven True Lords emerged battered and defeated.
• True Lord Shenluo and the other True Lords departed one by one, while Zhou Ming chose not to pursue them.

After defeating the seven True Lords, Zhou Ming vanished into the Chaos, having established his authority but still needing to gather Fortune and break the Rule Shackles within him. The shaken True Lords suspected that Zhou Ming’s immense power was restrained and began seeking information about him and Fortune.

• Zhou Ming reflected that he had achieved half his goal, established his authority, and cleared the way for Liu Yuan and the others before vanishing into the ravaged Chaos.
• The seven True Lords regrouped far from the Flowing Light Domain, and the Chaotic Ancient True Lord coughed up blood after their defeat.
• The True Lords questioned Zhou Ming’s unknown origins and why he was collecting Fortune, then considered whether Fortune had gained a new use.
• The Ten Thousand Buddhas True Lord and the Nether Demon True Lord sensed that Zhou Ming’s power was restrained, prompting the seven to investigate him and Fortune across other star domains.
• The True Lord Shenluo contacted the Heavenly Pivot True Lord, also called Fellow Daoist Tianxuan, to ask about the strange events.

The seven Da Luo True Lords searched the Hongmeng Universe for the mysterious cultivator in blue and learned that fortune was useless for Da Luo cultivation, but found no trace of him. In the Heavenly Origin Dao Realm, Zhou Ming ordered Liu Yuan to resume collecting fortune, and Liu Yuan warned that the seven great domains could attack again.

• True Lord Shenluo asked True Lord Tianxuan about the mysterious cultivator and the value of fortune, and Tianxuan confirmed that fortune was useless to Da Luo True Realm cultivators.
• True Lord Youmo, the Lord of Ten Thousand Buddhas, and others contacted allies across the great domains, but none recognized the cultivator in blue.
• The seven Da Luo True Lords reconvened, found every lead cold, and agreed to wait while keeping their subordinates from provoking the Flowing Light Domain.
• Zhou Ming summoned Liu Yuan, Qian Tian, Fankong, Ancestor Xue Ku, and the others, then ordered Liu Yuan to resume collecting fortune.
• Liu Yuan warned Zhou Ming that the seven great domains might bring their full forces against them again.

After revealing that he had driven off the seven Da Luo True Lords, Zhou Ming gave his followers new rules for gathering fortune and protection against deadly threats. Liu Yuan and the others departed with renewed confidence, ready to resume their campaign across the star region.

• Zhou Ming told the assembled leaders that he had driven off the men behind the Seven Great Domains, and they erupted in admiration.
• Zhou Ming ordered Liu Yuan’s forces to take fortune without killing, take only half from each world, and avoid the Seven Great Domains’ core territories.
• Zhou Ming placed a dormant wisp of divine sense in Liu Yuan, Qian Tian, Fankong, and Ancestor Xue Ku to protect them in life-or-death crises.
• Liu Yuan and the others thanked Zhou Ming, then left the Divine Hall with renewed morale.
• Outside the hall, Liu Yuan ordered every team reorganized and set the Heavenly Origin Dao Realm’s forces in motion immediately.

Xuanji learned that Liu Yuan and the others were draining half the fortune from worlds across the Seven Domains, but True Lord Shenluo and the other domain lords ordered their forces not to resist. As Liu Yuan’s group plundered freely, True Lord Shenluo received a message from Heavenly Pivot True Lord.

• Ming Luo reported that Liu Yuan’s group had drained half the fortune from thirty-seven domains without killing anyone or entering the Divine Asura Domain.
• Xuanji ordered the Divine Asura Domain to ignore the group, while similar orders spread across the Seven Domains.
• True Lord Shenluo told Xuanji the noninterference was an understanding with a fellow Daoist and decreed that his cultivators surrender half their fortune without resisting or pursuing the group.
• The seven Great Domain Lords issued orders to yield, allowing Liu Yuan and the others to plunder their territories without opposition.
• Heavenly Pivot True Lord sent a message to True Lord Shenluo and began their conversation by saying he had both received news and not received it.

Heavenly Pivot True Lord gathered more than thirty Da Luo True Lords at Shenluo Hall to discuss a major matter that might be connected to the mysterious cultivator in blue occupying the Flowing Light Domain. He began by revealing that a group of Da Luo True Realm cultivators had suddenly appeared in the Hongmeng Universe ten million years earlier.

• Heavenly Pivot True Lord told True Lord Shenluo that nobody could identify the cultivator in blue, but he had learned of a major related matter and proposed a meeting in the Divine Asura Domain a hundred years later.
• Nether Demon True Lord and the other Da Luo True Lords received similar messages and agreed to wait for the gathering at Shenluo Hall.
• A hundred years later, Xuanji and Grand Elder Ming Luo welcomed more than thirty Da Luo True Lords to the Divine Asura Domain.
• The True Lords assembled inside the Divine Hall while Xuanji, Ming Luo, and the other local leaders withdrew.
• At True Lord Shenluo's request, Heavenly Pivot True Lord began explaining the matter and said that a group of Da Luo True Realm cultivators had appeared in the Hongmeng Universe ten million years earlier.

Heavenly Pivot True Lord revealed that the Da Luo True Realm cultivators who appeared ten million years ago had returned from True Saint Yuan Chu’s inner world. He told the gathered True Lords that these cultivators were being hunted for the chance their knowledge might offer to reach beyond True Saint.

• Heavenly Pivot True Lord told the seven True Lords that the origins of the newly appeared Da Luo cultivators led back to True Saint Yuan Chu.
• Heavenly Pivot True Lord explained that his friend had entered Yuan Chu’s inner world on a mission and confirmed that a mysterious man in blue robes might have come from there.
• More than thirty True Lords gathered in the Divine Hall of the Main Realm to hear Heavenly Pivot True Lord’s account.
• Heavenly Pivot True Lord explained that Yuan Chu’s inner world survived his death and that the oldest True Saints had sent over a hundred Da Luo cultivators into it.
• Heavenly Pivot True Lord said powerful factions were searching for those who returned because studying them might reveal a path beyond True Saint.