Recaps

Ye Kong defeated the Futuo and Maha Ancient Clans, claimed the Eternal Undying Body, and became Lord of the Great Thousand Palace. After learning that the Nether River Old Ancestor and Heavenly Origin Ghost Lord survived, he set his sights on eradicating their lineages and invited Shi Zhen to join him on the coming campaigns.

• Ye Kong killed Maha Bai after learning he had concealed Feng Yusheng’s death, then traveled with Mu Chen and his allies to the Futuo Ancient Clan and forced Futuo Xuan to surrender the Endless Light Body.
• Ye Kong defeated the Maha Ancient Clan’s defenders and, with help from his allies, overcame the forces that intervened, including Maha Tian, Huang Jin, and Old Monk Xuanjie.
• Ye Kong entered the Eternal Pagoda, awakened the Eternal Undying Body, and tempered his flesh until he completed the new body.
• Ye Kong’s allies defeated the remaining enemy factions, then reported that King Feng had become a phoenix egg and that Kong Xuan had found Buddha Emperor in the Demon Domain.
• Ye Kong accepted the Great Thousand Palace Lord position and proclaimed himself the Merit Heavenly Venerate.
• Ye Kong visited Great Spiritual Mountain, where Shi Zhen explained his secret plans and revealed that the Nether River Old Ancestor and Heavenly Origin Ghost Lord were still alive.
• Ye Kong vowed to eradicate the Blood Cultivator and Ghost Cultivator lineages, invited Shi Zhen to the Evil Tribe battlefield, and set out with him and his companions for the Demon Domain.

Ye Kong purged the Nether River lineage, led the Great Thousand World’s counteroffensive against the Outer Domain Evil Tribe, and helped drive back its armies. After the Buddha Emperor began Nirvana, Ye Kong gained a major cultivation breakthrough and entered seclusion to pursue Saint Grade, while Mu Chen learned of his achievements.

• Ye Kong and Kong Xuan established the Merit War Army, completed Shi Zhen’s coronation, and set out to purge their enemies.
• Ye Kong defeated the Nether River Old Ancestor, then led attacks on Blood Cultivator strongholds and other hostile factions across the Lower Planes.
• Ye Kong and his allies launched a counteroffensive in the Demon Domain, where they fought the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor and drove back the Evil Tribe’s forces.
• The Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor escaped after Ye Kong and Kong Xuan wounded him, and Ye Kong withdrew his injured allies while Xiao Yan and Lin Dong continued campaigns against the Evil Tribe.
• Ye Kong and Xiao Yan attacked Jiang Ya’s forces at the Heavenly Evil God’s seal, but the strongest demons escaped through a barrier and spatial jump.
• The Buddha Emperor asked Ye Kong to use the Eternal Undying Body to help him enter Nirvana, and Ye Kong carried out the process inside the Eternal Pagoda.
• Two years later, Ye Kong’s cultivation reached Peak Early Saint Grade, and he bowed before the Immortal Great Emperor’s remains.
• Mu Chen became an early Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign, learned that Ye Kong had entered seclusion to pursue Saint Grade, and doubted he could catch up.

Ye Kong presided over the All-Vein Martial Meet, helped Yan Ni confront the danger caused by her broken seal, and prepared for the Divine Transformation Pool trial. The Flame Emperor ascended the Heavenly Ranking as the Heavenly Evil God plotted against the Great Thousand Alliance, while rival groups hunted powerful Blood Essence Divine Beasts.

• Ye Kong completed the Three Spirits Realm, protected Feng Yusheng’s egg, borrowed the Archaic Ancestral Body, and gave the Primal Dharma Bodies to his Dragon-Phoenix clones.
• Ye Kong joined the Futuo Ancient Clan’s All-Vein Martial Meet, where Lin Jing, Wen Qingxuan, Kong Ling, and Mu Chen competed before Ye Kong as chief judge.
• Yan Ni defeated Mu Chen, Xu Lingyun dominated the later battles, and the Martial Meet concluded with Monk Dingxin and the Unknown Pavilion Master asking Ye Kong to help Yan Ni overcome her inherited seal.
• Ye Kong and Feng Yusheng returned to the Phoenix Tribe, where they confessed their feelings, and Ye Kong later helped Yan Ni after her mother’s seal broke prematurely.
• Ye Kong gathered the Beast Tribes for the Divine Transformation Pool trial and recognized Xiao Yan as his father-in-law when Xiao Yan ascended the Heavenly Ranking.
• Ye Kong prepared the Great Thousand Palace for the forty-eighth Great Thousand Alliance while the Heavenly Evil God ordered the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor to send Evil Tribe blood essence into the Great Thousand World.
• Mu Chen joined Kong Ling’er, Lin Cang, and Xiao Tian in killing a Peak Immortal Grade Blood Essence Divine Beast, while Peng Chaoyang killed a Saint Grade beast and revealed he had provoked a contest over another one.