Recaps

Zhou Ming and his companions decided to avoid the standoff at Jiemie’s Daoist Grounds until they were stronger, then learned that True Lord Duobao had found Pangu and Taiyi. After Pangu and Taiyi arrived at the cave abode, Pangu began explaining another way to break the rule shackles.

• Hongchu suggested raiding Jiemie’s Daoist Grounds for True Saint insights, but Zhou Ming and the others agreed they were too weak to risk confronting dozens of Unity Realm cultivators.
• Zhou Ming relayed True Lord Duobao’s news that Ancestor Xuanhuang and True Lord Tianxing had given Jiemie ten thousand years to hand over the True Saint insights, and that Duobao had found Pangu and Taiyi.
• Zhou Ming’s companions scattered across the Hongmeng Universe to gather fortune while Zhou Ming stayed behind to guard the cave abode and await Pangu and Taiyi.
• A thousand years later, Pangu and Taiyi arrived at the Desolate Star Sea cave abode and reunited with Zhou Ming.
• Pangu told Zhou Ming that he had discovered a way to break rule shackles besides washing them away with fortune, then began to explain it.

Zhou Ming reunited with Pangu and Taiyi, learned how they had dealt with the Hongmeng Universe’s rule shackles, and led the group to keep gathering fortune and searching for missing Eternal Dao Realm cultivators. Taiyi fully recovered his cultivation, but Zhou Ming concluded they still needed more allies and strength before they could contend for the True Saint’s insights.

• Pangu explained that he had assimilated his laws into the rule shackles to break them, while Taiyi had gradually worn his shackles down over time.
• Hongchu, Cang Xuan, Houtu, and the others returned to the cave abode and reunited with Pangu and Taiyi; Zhou Ming said that more than eighty of their fellow Daoists were still missing.
• The group agreed to keep gathering fortune and searching for their missing companions, while Zhou Ming reviewed True Lord Duobao’s intelligence about rising tensions among Hongmeng Universe powers.
• Hongchu and Cang Xuan brought back fortune from three star domains, and Taiyi used the group’s accumulated fortune to break the remaining shackles and recover his cultivation completely.
• Zhou Ming urged everyone to find at least twenty more fellow Daoists and strengthen their forces before challenging their enemies or competing for the True Saint’s insights.

Zhou Ming and his companions continued gathering fortune while helping Chi Yan and Mo Yuan recover from their injuries. As the deadline in the Southern Wasteland Star Domain approached, Jiemie proposed surrendering Shi Gu’s insights to appease the Unity Realm cultivators.

• Houtu and Taichu returned with a large haul of fortune and reported finding Chi Yan and Mo Yuan in a remote eastern star domain.
• Chi Yan and Mo Yuan explained that local cultivators had hunted them, then entered the fortune golden sea to heal and break their rule shackles.
• After several thousand years, Chi Yan had broken seventy percent of his shackles and Mo Yuan had broken sixty-five percent.
• Zhou Ming received news that the ten-thousand-year deadline for Jiemie was nearly due, and he and his companions decided to keep gathering fortune and searching for allies.
• Kongxuan, Blood Butcher, Wuwang, and Xu Yuan debated how to respond to the Unity Realm cultivators demanding the True Saint insights.
• Jiemie proposed handing over Shi Gu’s insights to send the pursuing cultivators away.

Jiemie and the other four Unity Realm experts decided to offer ten shares of True Saint insights to placate the Unity Realm experts besieging their grounds. Jiemie forced the over one hundred Fusion Dao Realm cultivators under their protection to provide the shares, leaving them to choose between surrendering their insights and losing the five experts’ protection.

• Kongxuan warned that one share would not satisfy the Unity Realm experts outside, while Blood Butcher argued against surrendering too much.
• Jiemie set ten shares as their limit, assigning one share to Shi Gu and requiring the other cultivators to provide the remaining nine.
• The five Unity Realm experts agreed to summon the Fusion Dao Realm cultivators and demand the insights.
• Jiemie told the gathered cultivators that ten shares could buy temporary peace, and Kongxuan warned that refusal would leave them exposed to their enemies.
• Jiemie threatened to leave with the other four, and one cultivator finally agreed to hand over their insights.

Jiemie forced the Fusion Dao Realm cultivators in his grounds to surrender ten sets of True Saint insights, then faced Ancestor Xuanhuang and the other Unity Realm experts demanding the inheritance. He offered ten sets and warned that a forced attack could destroy them, leaving both sides at an impasse.

• Jiemie ordered True Lord Shi Gu and nine others to surrender their insights, and approved a rule allowing them to take turns studying the remaining cultivators' insights.
• The cultivators drew lots to select the other nine who would surrender their insights, and the ten sets were gathered as the ten-thousand-year deadline arrived.
• Jiemie emerged with Kongxuan, Wuwang, Xu Yuan, and Blood Butcher, then offered Ancestor Xuanhuang only three sets of True Saint insights.
• Chaotic Ancient True Lord urged the Unity Realm experts to bypass Jiemie and seize the insights from the Fusion Dao Realm cultivators, but Jiemie refused to abandon his people.
• Jiemie offered ten sets and warned that a battle could destroy the insights, while the cultivators behind him threatened to destroy them rather than let them be taken by force.
• Ancestor Xuanhuang and the other Unity Realm experts hesitated, torn between risking a fight and accepting the ten sets.

Jiemie exchanged three True Saint insights for a temporary reprieve as dozens of Unity Realm experts studied them and discovered they could neither copy nor share them. Meanwhile, Wu received Yuan Chu’s Origin Dao Seed and reunited with Zhou Ming and Houtu; after a million years of gathering Returnees, Zhou Ming prepared to watch the growing tensions in the Southern Wasteland and possibly claim a share of the insights.

• Jiemie refused to hand over all ten insights at once and gave Ancestor Xuanhuang three portions to inspect, which the Unity Realm experts confirmed were genuine.
• Heavenly River True Lord, Chaotic Ancient True Lord, and the Nine Netherworlds Manor Lord decided to wait for conflict to erupt among the Unity Realm experts rather than invite more rivals.
• Yuan Chu refined his former inner world into an Origin Dao Seed, gave it to Wu, and sent him through a spatial rift into the Hongmeng Universe.
• Wu emerged in the Northern Territory Star Domain and reunited with Zhou Ming and Houtu, who brought him to their cave abode in the Desolate Star Sea.
• After a million years studying the insights, True Lord Baleful Intent and the other Unity Realm experts realized they could not copy them and that three portions were insufficient for everyone.
• Zhou Ming learned of the Unity Realm experts’ discovery and told Pangu they would keep watch on the Southern Wasteland while continuing to search for missing Returnees.

Ancestor Xuanhuang and the forty-seven Unity Realm cultivators demanded one set of True Saint insights each from Jiemie, offering to protect his group from future claimants. Jiemie withdrew with his companions to discuss the offer, weighing the cost of giving away forty-seven sets.

• After studying the three sets for a million years, the Unity Realm cultivators concluded that sharing them in turns would take several epochs and agreed they each needed a set.
• Ancestor Xuanhuang proposed promising Jiemie protection from future Unity Realm cultivators in exchange for one set of insights per person.
• Ancestor Xuanhuang led the forty-seven cultivators to Jiemie's Daoist Grounds and presented their demand and offer.
• Jiemie and his four companions withdrew to discuss the proposal, while Blood Butcher objected to giving away forty-seven sets.
• Jiemie calculated that they would retain over sixty sets after the deal, but recognized that the quantity was not the real problem.

Zhou Ming arrived with sixteen Unity Realm allies and demanded ten copies of Jiemie's true saint insights as compensation for the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub's past actions against them. Jiemie faced pressure from both Zhou Ming's growing force and Ancestor Xuanhuang's group, which offered to fight alongside him in exchange for copies.

• Jiemie and the others debated whether to accept Ancestor Xuanhuang's demands or risk fighting when seventeen Unity Realm cultivators appeared outside their grounds.
• Zhou Ming introduced his companions, including Pangu and Taichu, and called Jiemie out to talk.
• Zhou Ming demanded ten copies of the insights as compensation, blaming Jiemie's group for revealing their presence and bringing enemies down on them.
• Zhou Ming revealed that more than sixty of the people scattered from Yuan Chu's world had been found, with others still on their way.
• Jiemie blamed Shi Gu for provoking the conflict and agreed to give Zhou Ming exactly ten copies.
• Ancestor Xuanhuang offered Jiemie the support of his forty-seven Unity Realm cultivators in exchange for one copy of the insights for each of them.

Heavenly River True Lord led over a thousand cultivators to demand ten portions of the true saint insights, deepening the standoff among Jiemie, Ancestor Xuanhuang, Zhou Ming, and the newcomers. Jiemie and his companions faced pressure from all sides as everyone awaited their decision.

• Ancestor Xuanhuang considered joining forces with Jiemie against Zhou Ming, while Jiemie hesitated to trust him.
• Heavenly River True Lord, Chaotic Ancient True Lord, the Lord of Ten Thousand Buddhas, and over a thousand cultivators arrived at the battlefield.
• Heavenly River True Lord demanded ten portions of the true saint insights and threatened to harass the Unity Realm experts if refused.
• Zhou Ming, Pangu, and Taiyi recognized that the growing conflict was creating opportunities for them.
• The four factions formed a deadlock, and all eyes turned to Jiemie as he weighed whether to surrender most of his gains or fight them all.

Jiemie and his four companions debated how to respond to three factions demanding true saint insights, then presented the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub’s cultivators with two choices: destroy the insights and flee, or surrender them under an alliance with Ancestor Xuanhuang’s side. The cultivators had not yet chosen when the chapter ended.

• Ancestor Xuanhuang, Zhou Ming, and Heavenly River True Lord gave Jiemie a hundred years to decide whether to hand over true saint insights.
• Jiemie and his companions agreed to give Zhou Ming ten portions and offer Ancestor Xuanhuang’s side one portion each in exchange for an alliance and other conditions.
• Jiemie summoned the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub’s Fusion Dao Realm cultivators and explained that his group could no longer protect them.
• Jiemie asked the cultivators to choose between destroying the insights and fleeing or surrendering them while seeking protection from Ancestor Xuanhuang’s side.

Jiemie and the cultivators chose to surrender fifty-four sets of True Saint insights in exchange for protection and other concessions. After Zhou Ming received his ten sets and departed, Jiemie handed the remaining forty-four to Ancestor Xuanhuang.

• The cultivators agreed to hand over fifty-four sets of True Saint insights if Ancestor Xuanhuang's faction would protect them from future demands.
• Jiemie led the other four out of the cultivation grounds and proposed three conditions to Ancestor Xuanhuang: an alliance, shared insights from future True Saint breakthroughs, and help eliminating Heavenly River True Lord and his Fusion Dao Realm allies.
• Ancestor Xuanhuang consulted the Unity Realm cultivators with him, then agreed to all three conditions.
• Kongxuan released the fifty-four sets of insights, and Jiemie sent ten to Zhou Ming, who confirmed their karmic debt was settled and left with Pangu and the others.
• Jiemie offered the remaining forty-four sets to Ancestor Xuanhuang.

Ancestor Xuanhuang and the Unity Realm experts received the true saint insights and drove Heavenly River True Lord and the other Fusion Dao Realm cultivators into a prolonged hunt. The Unity Realm experts eventually abandoned the pursuit to study the insights, and the Hongmeng Universe returned to surface-level peace.

• Jiemie gave forty-four true saint insights to Ancestor Xuanhuang, who distributed them among the Unity Realm experts and agreed to help eliminate Heavenly River True Lord and the others.
• Ancestor Xuanhuang demanded that Heavenly River True Lord and the Fusion Dao Realm cultivators leave, and Heavenly River True Lord ordered his followers to scatter and escape.
• Blood Butcher, True Lord Tianxing, Ancestor Xuanhuang, and the other Unity Realm experts pursued the fleeing cultivators.
• Heavenly River True Lord and his team escaped after two Unity Realm pursuers gave up, and the wider hunt continued for hundreds of thousands of years.
• The Unity Realm experts ended the hunt to study the true saint insights, and the Hongmeng Universe returned to apparent peace.

After abandoning their pursuit of Heavenly River True Lord’s group, the Unity Realm experts relocated to a hidden space in the Far Eastern Land to study the True Saint Insights. Zhou Ming’s group distributed their insights for cultivation, while Heavenly River True Lord’s survivors formed a harassment strategy to disrupt their enemies’ seclusion.

• The Unity Realm experts ended their pursuit and agreed to gather in a concealed location, then traveled with Jiemie and over a hundred Fusion Dao Realm cultivators toward the Far Eastern Land.
• Zhou Ming’s group learned that the Unity Realm experts had disappeared, then assigned insights to Zhou Ming, Pangu, and Taichu while Wu chose to cultivate his own Martial Dao.
• Heavenly River True Lord’s group rejected seeking new Unity Realm allies and adopted a plan to repeatedly harass their enemies’ sanctuaries, calling themselves the Maggots on the Bone.
• The Unity Realm experts entered the hidden independent space, agreed to keep its location secret, and began their seclusion to study the True Saint Insights.

Shi Gu was denied access to the True Saint Insights and discovered that the other Fusion Dao Realm cultivators still blamed him for exposing information about Zhou Ming and the others. The chapter ended with the insights holder telling Shi Gu he would never lend them to him.

• Jiemie struggled to comprehend the True Saint Insights while the Unity Realm experts remained in seclusion.
• The Fusion Dao Realm cultivators who had handed over their insights argued with those who held them, who refused to follow the rotation schedule.
• Shi Gu brooded over being blamed and excluded, and resented Jiemie, Kongxuan, and Blood Butcher for forcing him to hand over his insights.
• A million years later, Shi Gu went to claim his turn, but the insights holder refused and blamed him for the situation.
• The insights holder mocked Shi Gu and vowed never to let him study the True Saint Insights.

Shi Gu joined Heavenly River True Lord and revealed where Jiemie and the other Unity Realm cultivators were hiding, hoping to gain a share of the True Saint Insights. Heavenly River True Lord’s forces launched a raid that disrupted their cultivation, but Jiemie stopped the Unity Realm cultivators from pursuing the attackers.

• Shi Gu left the independent space after being denied access to the True Saint Insights and sought out Heavenly River True Lord.
• Heavenly River True Lord learned from Shi Gu that Jiemie and more than fifty Unity Realm cultivators were secluded in an independent space in the Far Eastern Land.
• Heavenly River True Lord promised Shi Gu a set of True Saint Insights in exchange for the information.
• Heavenly River True Lord sent a dozen peak Fusion Dao Realm cultivators into the independent space to detonate dead stars and disrupt the Chaos airflow.
• Jiemie and the other Unity Realm cultivators awoke as the attackers fled, and Blood Butcher failed to catch one of them.
• Jiemie ordered Blood Butcher to stop pursuing because the intruders had come prepared and could not be caught.

After Shi Gu exposed their location, Jiemie and the other Unity Realm experts faced repeated hit-and-run attacks that disrupted their secluded cultivation. They debated whether to relocate, send out fighters, or search for their harassers’ lair, but had not settled on a solution.

• The Unity Realm experts discovered Shi Gu had fled and leaked their location to the attackers.
• Ancestor Xuanhuang proposed restraining spells, and more than fifty Unity Realm experts set them up around their space.
• Heavenly River True Lord ordered recurring raids every million years, and Shi Gu watched with satisfaction.
• The raiders repeatedly broke through the restraining spells with Dead Stars and escaped, waking the Unity Realm experts from contemplation.
• Ancestor Xuanhuang urged the group to find the raiders’ lair, while True Lord Cang Lan warned that searching would disrupt their cultivation.

Jiemie sent ten Unity Realm cultivators to find the harassers while the others continued cultivating, but Heavenly River True Lord’s group evaded their search. After repeated traps failed, True Lord Tianxing suspected someone in their ranks was leaking information.

• Jiemie proposed sending a search party while the rest stayed behind to cultivate, and ten Unity Realm cultivators, including Blood Butcher and True Lord Tianxing, volunteered to go.
• Heavenly River True Lord learned that the ten had left to search for his group and ordered his followers to hide their auras, stop their activity, and use changing teams and locations for future harassment.
• Blood Butcher and the other nine searched the Hongmeng Universe for ten million years without finding Heavenly River True Lord’s group.
• Blood Butcher’s party set traps to capture the harassers, but the groups escaped before they could be caught.
• True Lord Tianxing concluded that someone might be leaking the party’s movements, and Blood Butcher agreed that something was wrong.

Blood Butcher and the other Unity Realm cultivators asked True Lord Duobao for information about Heavenly River True Lord’s group, but he demanded a set of True Saint Insights in exchange. Blood Butcher refused, and the ten experts resumed their fruitless search.

• True Lord Tianxing proposed asking information broker True Lord Duobao about Heavenly River True Lord’s group.
• Blood Butcher contacted True Lord Duobao, who offered to reveal the group’s whereabouts and intelligence network for one set of True Saint Insights.
• True Lord Duobao explained that the group’s widespread connections let them monitor the Unity Realm cultivators across the Hongmeng Universe.
• True Lord Tianxing tried to negotiate another price, but True Lord Duobao refused and Blood Butcher ended the deal.
• Blood Butcher rejected the idea of giving up True Saint Insights and led the ten Unity Realm experts back to searching aimlessly.

After failing to find Heavenly River True Lord's group for ten million years, Blood Butcher and the other Unity Realm experts faced growing unrest as repeated Dead Star explosions disrupted their cultivation. Ancestor Xuanhuang pushed the alliance to trade a True Saint Insight with True Lord Duobao, and Jiemie agreed to take one from the Fusion Dao Realm cultivators.

• Blood Butcher and nine Unity Realm experts spent millions of years searching for Heavenly River True Lord's group but repeatedly lost track of them.
• Another Dead Star explosion interrupted the experts' meditation, prompting Ancestor Xuanhuang to confront Blood Butcher, who admitted the search had failed for ten million years.
• Ancestor Xuanhuang proposed contacting True Lord Duobao, and, after Blood Butcher objected to surrendering a True Saint Insight, Jiemie agreed to the deal to preserve the alliance.
• Jiemie summoned the Fusion Dao Realm cultivators and demanded another True Saint Insight, threatening to leave them to face Heavenly River True Lord's group if they refused.

Ancestor Xuanhuang traded a portion of true saint insights to True Lord Duobao for detailed intelligence on Heavenly River True Lord’s network. The Unity Realm experts studied the information and prepared to attack the secret strongholds.

• Ancestor Xuanhuang collected true saint insights from the Fusion Dao Realm cultivators and set out to trade with True Lord Duobao.
• Heavenly River True Lord and Chaotic Ancient True Lord decided to continue harassing the Unity Realm cultivators with their group of fifteen hundred.
• Ancestor Xuanhuang exchanged the insights for True Lord Duobao’s Jade Slip, which contained detailed information about Heavenly River True Lord’s organization and bases.
• Ancestor Xuanhuang returned to the Far Eastern Land and revealed the intelligence to the gathered Unity Realm experts.
• True Lord Xuanming identified the group’s principal strongholds, and the Unity Realm experts vowed to kill Heavenly River True Lord and his followers.

Ancestor Xuanhuang led fifty-two Unity Realm experts and over a hundred Fusion Dao Realm cultivators to attack Heavenly River True Lord’s hidden base. Surrounded and unable to escape, Heavenly River ordered the perimeter fighters to self-detonate to open a gap while he prepared the Myriad Worlds Void-Escaping Formation.

• Ancestor Xuanhuang and the others used True Lord Duobao’s intelligence and concealed route to find Heavenly River True Lord’s base.
• Heavenly River True Lord and his companions realized they had been discovered when the void shook and fifty-two Unity Realm experts appeared.
• Ancestor Xuanhuang and Blood Butcher attacked, sealing the area and trapping Heavenly River True Lord’s group.
• Heavenly River ordered the perimeter cultivators to reverse their laws and self-detonate so the core members could break through the blockade.
• More than a hundred cultivators volunteered, and Heavenly River activated the Myriad Worlds Void-Escaping Formation as they prepared to detonate.

Heavenly River True Lord and his allies escaped the Unity Realm experts by detonating over a hundred cultivators’ Law Origins and using a network of one-way teleportation formations. After a thirty-million-year pursuit, their enemies gave up, while both sides regrouped and prepared for what might come next.

• Over a hundred Fusion Dao Realm cultivators detonated their Law Origins, breaking the blockade and allowing Heavenly River True Lord and the others to escape through the Myriad Worlds Void-Escaping Formation.
• Jiemie led the Unity Realm experts in a thirty-million-year pursuit, but the fugitives’ interconnected teleportation formations repeatedly sent them far away.
• True Lord Tianxing convinced the pursuers to stop, and Blood Butcher and the others admitted defeat and returned.
• Heavenly River True Lord’s group reached the border of the Southern Wilderness, where they mourned their losses and worried that nowhere was safe from Ancestor Xuanhuang’s forces.
• Ancestor Xuanhuang and Jiemie decided to relocate and required every cultivator to swear a Dao Oath not to reveal their new location.

Ancestor Xuanhuang led the cultivators to hide and cultivate in the Nether Spring Ancient Abyss, where a rotating guard was assigned to watch for Heavenly River and his allies. Meanwhile, Heavenly River True Lord and his wounded companions planned to recover before continuing their attacks.

• True Lord Cang Lan proposed the Nether Spring Ancient Abyss as a secluded refuge, and Ancestor Xuanhuang decided the group would go there and rotate guards every fifty million years.
• Blood Butcher, True Lord Tianxing, and other cultivators volunteered for the first guard shift before Ancestor Xuanhuang led everyone into the abyss.
• Ancestor Xuanhuang set protective restrictions and ordered everyone to remain in seclusion, while Fusion Dao Realm cultivators worried that the turbid qi would damage their Dao foundations.
• Blood Butcher and True Lord Tianxing stood guard and expected Heavenly River and his allies to attack again.
• Heavenly River True Lord and his injured companions discussed their recovery, then Heavenly River insisted they would resume harassing the others to avenge their fallen allies.

Heavenly River True Lord rallied his wounded allies to honor their oath to restore fallen companions and keep harassing Jiemie’s Unity Realm group. After locating the group near the Nether Spring Ancient Abyss, he led more than seven hundred cultivators there in secret.

• Heavenly River True Lord persuaded the others to gather resources and restore their fallen companions to the Da Luo True Realm, despite their losses.
• Chaotic Ancient True Lord reported that Jiemie and the others had abandoned their Far Eastern base, and Heavenly River True Lord ordered the group to find their new hiding place.
• Heavenly River True Lord told nearly a thousand cultivators to resume the fight once their injuries healed and ordered Chaotic Ancient True Lord to watch True Lord Duobao.
• After tens of thousands of years of searching, an informant found signs of Jiemie’s group near the Nether Spring Ancient Abyss.
• Heavenly River True Lord led more than seven hundred cultivators toward the Nether Spring Ancient Abyss, concealing their auras to avoid alerting Jiemie’s group.

Heavenly River True Lord planned to draw the three Unity Realm guards away from Nether Spring Ancient Abyss so his main force could attack. Chaotic Ancient True Lord and the Lord of Ten Thousand Buddhas lured Blood Butcher and True Lord Tianxing into pursuit, while the third team had yet to act.

• Heavenly River True Lord explained that three teams would lure away the Unity Realm guards using prepared escape routes, then the main force would strike the exposed defenses.
• Chaotic Ancient True Lord, the Lord of Ten Thousand Buddhas, and the Nine Netherworlds Manor Lord agreed to lead the three teams.
• Chaotic Ancient True Lord taunted Blood Butcher, who attacked and chased him and his team into the void.
• The Lord of Ten Thousand Buddhas used a giant golden Buddha formed by his subordinates to provoke True Lord Tianxing, then fled with his team.
• True Lord Tianxing pursued the Lord of Ten Thousand Buddhas and his team, leaving the entrance to Nether Spring Ancient Abyss.