Recaps

Zhou Ming rescued several Returnees, helped them recover by gathering fortune, and gathered them into a growing group. After the group humiliated the Rebel-Suppression Alliance by raiding its leaders’ domains, Heavenly River True Lord prepared a universe-wide formation to force a decisive battle.

• Heavenly Pivot True Lord and Heavenly River True Lord led more than thirty True Lords to capture Zhou Ming, but Zhou Ming escaped through a chaos storm and recovered while the Hongmeng Universe began hunting him.
• Zhou Ming raided worlds for fortune, defeated successive groups of pursuers, and found Hongchu and Cang Xuan trapped by sixteen True Lords before rescuing them.
• Zhou Ming taught Hongchu and Cang Xuan to use world fortune to loosen their Rule Shackles, then helped them defeat Red Skies True Lord and his allies.
• Zhou Ming freed Taichu from Cold River True Lord’s array, and Taichu told the group that Houtu had disappeared after gathering fortune to remove her shackles.
• Zhou Ming found Houtu surrounded by twenty-five True Lords, rescued her, and shared fortune with her before the Returnees entered the Rebel-Suppression Alliance’s trap and defeated its forces.
• Zhou Ming’s group rescued six more Eternal Dao Realm experts and raided the domains of nine alliance leaders, prompting the leaders to blame Heavenly River True Lord.
• Heavenly River True Lord persuaded the alliance to summon cultivators across the Hongmeng Universe and build a Heaven-Locking Absolute-Land Slaying Formation, vowing to detonate his law origin against Zhou Ming.

After Zhou Ming defeated the Rebel-Suppression Alliance, he redirected the Hongmeng Universe’s hunters toward the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub and searched for his scattered companions. He reunited with several Returnees and helped them grow stronger, while Jiemie’s group faced escalating demands for the supposed True Saint insights.

• Zhou Ming restored his Unity Realm strength, survived Heavenly River True Lord’s formation and self-detonation, and let the Rebel-Suppression Alliance escape after crushing its attack.
• Zhou Ming paid True Lord Duobao to spread a false rumor that Jiemie and the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub possessed Yuan Chu True Saint’s inheritance, drawing greedy cultivators to hunt them.
• Jiemie learned that True Lord Shi Gu had spread the original false message to harm Zhou Ming, but he and his companions chose to keep rescuing the hunted Abyssal Sea Divine Hub cultivators.
• Zhou Ming rescued Taishi, then arranged a search for the scattered Returnees using Pangu’s phrase as a signal and gathered Cang Xuan, Hongchu, Taichu, Houtu, Taishi, Qian Ling, Taiji, and Taisu at the Desolate Star Sea.
• Jiemie’s group defeated the Slaughter Alliance and killed True Lord Red Fire, but Heavenly River True Lord responded by spreading news of six supposed True Saint legacies to lure secluded Unity Realm experts against them.
• Zhou Ming organized his companions to gather fortune, helping Taishi, Taiji, and Taisu break more rule shackles, then rescued Dijiang from seven pursuers.
• As Zhou Ming’s group prepared to refine their gathered fortune and continue searching for Pangu and the others, Ancestor Xuanhuang and True Lord Tianxing demanded that Jiemie surrender the insights or face destruction.

Zhou Ming and his companions reunited, gathered allies, and secured ten copies of the True Saint Insights as rival factions fought over them. Jiemie’s alliance later drove Heavenly River True Lord’s group into hiding, but Heavenly River found their refuge at Nether Spring Ancient Abyss and began drawing away its guards.

• Pangu explained how he had broken his rule shackles, and Taiyi used the group’s accumulated fortune to recover his cultivation as Zhou Ming’s companions searched for missing allies.
• Jiemie negotiated with Ancestor Xuanhuang and rival factions over the True Saint Insights, ultimately giving Zhou Ming ten sets and trading the rest for protection and an alliance.
• Heavenly River True Lord’s group harassed the Unity Realm cultivators, while Shi Gu revealed their hidden location and the raiders repeatedly disrupted their seclusion.
• After obtaining True Lord Duobao’s intelligence, Ancestor Xuanhuang and Jiemie attacked Heavenly River True Lord’s base, but over a hundred cultivators sacrificed their Law Origins to help their leaders escape.
• The Unity Realm cultivators failed to catch the fleeing group and relocated to Nether Spring Ancient Abyss, where Ancestor Xuanhuang imposed secrecy and set guards.
• Heavenly River True Lord led his followers to the abyss and sent Chaotic Ancient True Lord, the Lord of Ten Thousand Buddhas, and the Nine Netherworlds Manor Lord to lure away the guards.
• Blood Butcher chased Chaotic Ancient True Lord into the void, while True Lord Tianxing pursued the Lord of Ten Thousand Buddhas, leaving the entrance to Nether Spring Ancient Abyss exposed.

Heavenly River True Lord found a way to attack the Nether Spring Ancient Abyss, but Jiemie and Ancestor Xuanhuang lured his alliance into a trap that devastated both sides. Heavenly River exposed their possession of True Saint Insights, drawing ninety-six Unity Realm experts to the Godfall Sea and leaving Jiemie facing demands he could not satisfy.

• Heavenly River True Lord disrupted the chaos around the Nether Spring Ancient Abyss, but Jiemie established a defensive line and the two sides reached a stalemate.
• Heavenly River True Lord discovered a Chaos undercurrent into the Nether Spring Ancient Abyss and sent Dead Stars and Nine Netherworlds Yin Thunder through it, repeatedly interrupting the Unity Realm cultivators’ meditation.
• As the attacks wore down the defenders, True Lord Mingxuan proposed giving Heavenly River True Lord ten sets of True Saint Insights, but True Lord Kongxuan instead persuaded Ancestor Xuanhuang to prepare an ambush at the Godfall Sea.
• Heavenly River True Lord found a flaw in the defenders’ formation and launched an attack, but Ancestor Xuanhuang’s hidden Unity Realm experts trapped the Rebel-Suppression Alliance in the Hunyuan Heaven-Locking Absolute Formation.
• Heavenly River True Lord led successive teams in detonating their Law Origins to breach the formation, escaped with the alliance’s leaders, and left True Lord Shi Gu and other cultivators trapped behind.
• Jiemie and Ancestor Xuanhuang’s group crushed the captives’ Great Dao Origins, while Heavenly River True Lord escaped and revealed that they possessed True Saint Insights, drawing reclusive Unity Realm experts toward the Godfall Sea.
• After the captives, including True Lord Shi Gu, were annihilated over 3.6 million years, ninety-six Unity Realm experts arrived and demanded that Jiemie and Ancestor Xuanhuang hand over the insights.