Recaps

Ding Ling entered the Demon Realm, purified its corrupted warriors, and grew strong enough to confront its greatest threats before Nüba sent him back to the Human Realm. He slew Shenlong and confronted a split soul of Chi You, then absorbed its memories and mastered tens of thousands of arts.

• Ding Ling pursued Xiong Ba into the alternate dimensions beneath the Loulan ruins, mastered Wuqiu Yi Jue, and met Nüba, who revealed that her blood had created the Fire Zombies and that she guarded the Demon Realm Portal.
• Ding Ling traveled through the God Realm and Heaven Realm, learned the Devil Subduing Method and Xuanyuan Heart Sutra, then entered the Demon Realm to purify and absorb demonic qi from its corrupted soldiers and beasts.
• Ding Ling defeated Feng Bo and many demons, raised his strength to the Martial Golden Core realm, and faced the corrupted Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman and Li Mu’s demon guards.
• Nüba opened a portal for Ding Ling to escape the Devil Emperor, explained Chi You’s divided body, and taught him the Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon and Fire Dao arts before he returned to the Human Realm.
• Ding Ling returned to Luoyang, then traveled with Xiao Zhao to Divine Dragon Island, where he killed the Water God Ancestor and defeated the Water Folk clan leader, learning that Xiao Sanxiao and Wu Wudi had aided the opposition.
• Ding Ling found Shenlong beneath the lake, killed it while it suppressed Chi You’s demonic nature, and absorbed its divine blood and Dragon Core to complete his God of War Spirit Body and gain twelve thousand years of lifespan.
• Ding Ling descended beneath the island and found Chi You’s coffin and two demonic Shenlong eggs, where a split soul of Chi You entered his chest and confronted the Sword Spirit.
• Ding Ling strengthened the Sword Spirit to dissolve Chi You’s split soul and extract its memories, then mastered tens of thousands of Chi You’s arts as the surviving spirits in the Sword World feared his aura.

Ding Ling gathered Chi You’s and the ancient warriors’ powers, reforged his Golden Core, and entered the Demon Realm to defeat Pojun. After Pojun’s death freed Mahavairocana from Yanda, Ding Ling spared Yu Shi and turned to decide the Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman’s fate.

• Ding Ling destroyed Chi You’s remaining body, absorbed the Qilin Eggs’ divinity, and fed the eggs to his transformed Ferghana Horses.
• Ding Ling took the Dragon Vein and forged it with the Great Evil King and Heaven’s Mandate Blade into the Human Emperor Saber, then learned the martial arts of Wu Wudi, Xiao Sanxiao, Xiao Jing Tian, and Di Shitian.
• Ding Ling mastered Martial Dao True Understanding and shattered his First Grade Golden Core, reforging it into a Sacred Golden Core with 251 drops of True Water.
• Ding Ling fought Half God in the Sea of Space-Time, reached the God Realm, learned Buddhist arts from Mahavairocana, and entered the Demon Realm to hunt demons.
• Ding Ling killed billions of demons, raised his True Water to 351 drops, and defeated Pojun by reducing his four aspects to a flower.
• Nüba confirmed Pojun’s death and left to tell Mahavairocana, who then freed himself from Yanda and joined Ding Ling and Nüba in sweeping the Demon Realm.
• Ding Ling found Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman and Yu Shi hiding in the clouds, defeated them, and agreed to spare Yu Shi after Nüba urged him to do so.

Ding Ling returned to the Three Kingdoms World, reunited with his companions, and passed on cultivation arts while taking Cao Ang and Cao Chong as disciples. After discovering Zuo Ci’s Crow avatar and opening a way into the Underworld, he fought through its armies and reached the Northern Region, where He Yi confronted him.

• Ding Ling appointed Xiao Zhao Empress, entrusted her with ruling the Human Realm, and returned through the portal to Luoyang in the Three Kingdoms World.
• Ding Ling traveled to Chang'an, reunited with Diao Chan and his allies, and taught them the Martial Dao True Understanding before accepting Cao Ang and Cao Chong as disciples.
• Ding Ling helped Cao Chong begin cultivating the Solar True Skill and raised Diao Chan, Zhen Jiang, Xiao Qiao, and the others to Martial Dao Great Grandmaster.
• Ding Ling intercepted Zuo Ci’s Crow avatar at the Sky Ladder, destroyed it, and used its recovered memories to open a portal to the Underworld.
• Ding Ling entered the Underworld and killed the dead generals serving Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, learning that the former rulers controlled the Eastern Region.
• Ding Ling crossed the Underworld, defeated Dong Zhuo’s forces, and learned from Dong Zhuo that Liu Hong and his people had disappeared five years earlier.
• Ding Ling killed Dong Zhuo, sensed the Underworld across more than a thousand li, and traveled to the Northern Region.
• He Yi recognized Ding Ling and led the Yellow Turban Army in surrounding him, then charged while vowing to torture and kill him.

Ding Ling defeated the Yellow Turban leaders and uncovered Old Immortal Nanhua’s schemes, then used the World Furnace and his growing power to restore the Underworld and establish the Immortal Realm’s Heavenly Court. The arc left the Immortal Path open to qualified cultivators as Ding Ling returned to the Wang Residence.

• Ding Ling killed Zhang Mancheng, Zhang Liang, Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao, and their forces, learning fragments of the Essential Arts of Peace as he advanced his Ghost Sword into a perfected divine weapon.
• Ding Ling explored the Doomsday Serpent’s Grotto-heaven worlds, consumed pills from their Alchemy Furnaces, and strengthened his Sword Spirit and Sword Domain.
• Ding Ling escaped the collapsing serpent, defeated Kun, and drove Old Immortal Nanhua from the Three Kingdoms World before breaking out of Nanhua’s Inner World and destroying one of his puppet clones.
• Ding Ling learned from the Furnace Spirit that Nanhua had siphoned vital energy from the realms and manipulated wars, then claimed the World Furnace as his magic treasure.
• Ding Ling restored the Underworld’s Six Paths of Reincarnation, appointed the Kings Yama and other officials, and established rules that guided the dead toward judgment.
• Ding Ling found Zuo Ci refining Dragon Source, killed him, and learned that an unseen force had made him a pawn in Nanhua’s schemes.
• Ding Ling established the Heavenly Court in the Immortal Realm and created the Immortal Path, allowing qualified cultivators to enter the realm and report to the court.
• Ding Ling created a Dragon Boat for travel to the South Heaven Gate, considered how to hasten the Immortal Realm’s revival, and returned to the Wang Residence.