Recaps

Zhang Lingshan defeated the Ancient Sects’ challengers, claimed powerful inheritances, and brought new disciples and sects under Spirit Mountain. After restoring many Ghost Gate disciples to life, he reached the Resentful Ghost Pool, where its hidden dangers remained unexplored.

• Zhang Lingshan defeated the Sword Sect and Ancient Sects’ challengers at Spirit Mountain, then killed Zhang Weigang after learning that powerful figures remained in the Lower Realm.
• Zhang Lingshan killed the Sword Saint Ancestor, Zhang Tianshi, Ji Mengxuan, and Zhang Yanshi, then survived being swallowed by the Fire Spirit Beast and brought it along.
• Zhang Lingshan entered the Saint Tower, freed and rebuilt the bodies of its Saint Spirits, and comprehended the beginnings of the Method of Becoming a Saint.
• Zhang Lingshan defeated Dao Wannian, claimed the Nirvana Blade, and left the Blade Sect an inheritance before learning that the Great Outbreak was imminent.
• Zhang Lingshan inherited Qian Yuan Dao’s records, destroyed the Array Gate, and subdued the Hundred Worlds Blade while investigating the legacy of an Upper Realm expert.
• Zhang Lingshan brought most of the Sword Sect into Spirit Mountain, claimed its Rainfall Sword, and established Sword Dao Peak.
• Zhang Lingshan restored Yin Hua'er and many Ghost Gate disciples to life, then followed Yin Hong to the Resentful Ghost Pool, where she warned him no living person had entered.

Zhang Lingshan gathered power and allies while confronting the Talisman Sect, the Heavenly Chasm, and the Mist Demon invasion. He merged the Nine Provinces and Mystic Heaven Continents, then discovered that the Saint Tower was suppressing the intent of a blade from the Upper Realm.

• Zhang Lingshan entered the Yin Yang Talisman, gained its runes, and defeated Xi Bufan before appointing Wu Chengxian Sect Master of the Talisman Sect.
• Zhang Lingshan acquired Heavenly Foot Grass, defeated the Heavenly Chasm People who attacked the Heavenly Foot Sect, and expanded his Root Mansion with Qi Tan’s help.
• Zhang Lingshan crossed the Heavenly Chasm, challenged Heavenly Eye Great Sage, and resolved to merge the continents rather than pursue an Upper Realm passage.
• Zhang Lingshan confronted the Mist Demon King and the Flower Sea Butterfly Queen, devoured their attacks, and killed Saint Elder after Yuwen Wuji awakened the Great Yu Dynasty’s Dragon Vein.
• Zhang Lingshan refined the Heavenly Chasm Blade Marks, killed Heavenly Eye Great Sage, perfected the elemental rules, and merged the Mystic Heaven and Nine Provinces Continents.
• Zhang Lingshan explored the Saint Tower’s thirty-third floor and found that an Upper Realm blade’s intent was being suppressed inside it.

Zhang Lingshan explored the Mist Realm, ascended with his allies, and prepared the Nine Provinces Continent for his departure. In the Upper Realm, he rescued Sea Province, crossed the waterfall with Zhang Zixin and others, and reached a scorched land where Zhang Jinxuan revealed his parents’ fate.

• Zhang Lingshan subdued the Heavenly Chasm Small Blade, repaired the Saint Tower, and explored the Mist Realm, where he met Wanren Mountain and learned about Four Gentlemen Manor.
• Zhang Lingshan confronted the Four Lords, found Guangjie Mountain with Withered Wood Zen Master and Jingxuan, and learned the Immortal Methods that enabled their ascent.
• Zhang Lingshan returned to the Nine Provinces Continent with his companions, built an Ascension Platform, and sent Withered Wood Zen Master, Jingxuan, and Gongye Chang Geng to the Upper Realm.
• Zhang Lingshan refined the Heaven and Earth Pill, prepared his family and followers for his departure, and repaired the Xuantian Mirror to gather the continent’s fortune.
• Zhang Lingshan answered Nan Yu’s plea for Sea Province, defeated the invading sea demons and monsters, and took Zhang Zixin and the sea kings toward the Great Waterfall.
• Zhang Lingshan powered Nan Yu’s Tao Zeng up the waterfall, then reached a scorched continent with Zhang Zixin and the Golden Armor Mysterious Turtle after Nan Yu escaped.
• Zhang Lingshan strengthened his Immortal Spiritual Body and Immortal Divine Sense, recorded and absorbed the Avici Hellfire, and cleared a path across the scorched land.
• Zhang Jinxuan took human form and told Zhang Lingshan that his parents had thrown him into a waterfall to save him from a White-haired, Gold-crowned Man.

Zhang Lingshan entered the Upper Realm, seized cultivation methods and resources while clashing with the Yu Family and Rogue Cultivator Alliance, and gathered allies along the way. The arc ended with Miao Shan and the Black Scaled Nether Snake absorbing mist from a mysterious seed as Zhang Lingshan forced its roots from his finger.

• Zhang Lingshan reached the Upper Realm with his companions, subdued Yellow Crane Sect disciples and elders, and obtained the sect’s Transformation Realm Cultivation Method.
• Zhang Lingshan killed Immortal Master Yu Chen, then trapped Yu Yang and forced him to reveal the True Essence Realm and his family’s secrets.
• Zhang Lingshan survived the Thunder Tribulation, rescued Xiao Chuxiao, and traveled with his companions to Qingxuan City, where he found Nan Yu imprisoned at the city gate.
• Zhang Lingshan killed an attacker in a Rogue Cultivator Alliance cultivation room, advanced to the late stage of the True Essence Realm, and escaped three Spirit Essence Realm elders who pursued him.
• Xiao Min and Xiao Chuxiao took Zhang Zixin and the others toward the Xiao Family, while Zhang Lingshan cultivated Avici Hellfire and discovered that his soul had become a growing Soul Tree.
• Zhang Lingshan recruited Miao Shan by restoring his fortune, then traveled with him across Yellow Vine Mountain and captured Brother Chu to lure a Rogue Cultivator Alliance steward.
• Zhang Lingshan killed Song Wan’s father and two stewards, helped the Black Scaled Nether Snake ripen the Top-grade Yellow Heart Vine, and extracted its medicinal liquid.
• A mysterious seed rooted into Zhang Lingshan’s finger and spread mist through the well, while Miao Shan and the Black Scaled Nether Snake absorbed the mist and Zhang Lingshan drove the seed’s roots out.