Recaps

After waiting hundreds of years in the Abyssal Secret Realm, Gao Erqiang answered a summons to the Jingshen Realm and discovered Su Qing had drawn him into the battle against the Samsara Demon. Su Qing revealed his plan to attack in fifty-five years, and Erqiang offered to summon more allies to help face the enemy forces.

• The residents of the Abyssal Secret Realm grew impatient during the centuries-long fight between Su Qing and the Samsara Demon, while Gao Erqiang explored other worlds and spread his faith.
• Gao Erqiang followed a mysterious summons into the Jingshen Realm, disguised himself as an evil demon to enter, and recognized Su Qing and the Samsara Demon’s battlefield.
• Su Qing explained that the Jingshen Realm’s abundant faith and grand temple were gifts for Erqiang, then asked him to help fight the Samsara Demon’s forces in fifty-five years.
• Erqiang protested that he could not face more than twenty Tier 6 evil demons, then volunteered to summon other allies from the Abyssal Secret Realm.

Gao Erqiang recruited True Monarchs from the Abyssal Secret Realm to help him fight the evil demons in the Jingshen Realm, offering them temporary subordinate-deity positions as a way to travel there. The True Monarchs agreed to join him, and Erqiang prepared to take them to the realm of fortune.

• Erqiang told Su Qing he planned to make Abyssal Secret Realm cultivators temporary subordinate deities so he could bring them through time and space.
• Su Qing agreed to help conceal Erqiang's abuse of divine authority, and Erqiang returned to the Abyssal Secret Realm.
• Erqiang described the Jingshen Realm, its Sacred Spirit Stones, and the threat posed by more than twenty Tier 6 evil demons, persuading the True Monarchs that the venture could bring great merit and fortune.
• The True Monarchs agreed to join the expedition after seeing a Sacred Spirit Stone, and Erqiang offered subordinate-deity positions as their means of travel.
• He Lian Xian eagerly accepted, while Erqiang offered the most capable recruits a chance to become permanent subordinates and prepared to transport the group.

Su Qing welcomed the gods and cultivators Erqiang had brought to the Jingshen Realm, then explained that they would help the realm’s forces fight the Tier 6 Evil Demons while he faced the Samsara Demon. He displayed the Tier 6 Puppets he had forged from their treasures, leaving the visitors interested in commissioning more.

• The people of the Jingshen Realm eagerly awaited Strong God and his divine friends, hoping their arrival would strengthen preparations for the final battle against the Evil Demons.
• Strong God and his companions descended, and the realm’s people admired the newcomers while the visitors marvelled at the realm’s spirit qi, factories, and vast Puppet armies.
• Su Qing revealed that the visitors had been brought to face the Samsara Demon and its forces, and the cultivators protested that Erqiang had misled them about the danger.
• Su Qing explained that he would fight the Samsara Demon while the visitors confronted twenty or thirty Tier 6 Evil Demons alongside the realm’s twelve Divine Soldier Army Groups.
• The Dragon Subduing and Tiger Subduing brothers rejoiced that Su Qing had forged their Reincarnation Mirror into a Tier 6 Puppet, and Su Qing displayed it and his other Tier 6 Puppets to the assembled cultivators.
• The cultivators discussed the value and risks of the Puppets, and Zhenpeng offered to ask Su Qing about the price of having other treasures forged into them.

Su Qing offered to refine Tier 6 Puppets for the Fifth-tier True Monarchs who contributed their treasures to the fight against the Samsara Demon. Five years later, Liu Gandang secretly brought Penglai’s Seven Star Nails to Su Qing, but learned that advancing in the queue required costly gifts and political favors.

• Su Qing explained that he would provide materials and refine Tier 6 Puppets for free if the True Monarchs supplied treasures containing Tier 7 Runes, and invited them to consider his offer.
• Five years later, Liu Gandang visited Su Qing and offered Penglai’s Seven Star Nails to be refined into a Tier 6 Puppet for the decisive battle.
• Su Qing told Liu Gandang that his existing orders meant he would have to join the queue, and Liu saw that several major sects had already registered ahead of him.
• Liu Gandang learned from Zhong Ze that other sects had paid additional gifts to cut the line, and that Su Qing had already started their Puppets.
• Zhong Ze offered to help Liu Gandang secure priority by having the Eastern King Sect provide a Tier 6 Mysterious Spirit Divine Light Fruit in exchange for Liu signing a contract granting the sect development rights beyond Penglai Immortal Island’s third ring.

Su Qing unveiled the Qinse Fairy, a Tier 6 Puppet refined from the Primordial Beginning Sect’s Hulei Qin. Its abilities promised to strengthen allied forces and turn the Jingshen Realm’s desperate final battle against the Samsara Demon to their advantage.

• Su Qing refused to refine Liu Gandang’s Seven Star Nails until Liu offered a wisp of Innate Calamity Qi, then accepted both items and took the Mysterious Spirit Divine Light Fruit as well.
• Su Qing presented the first Tier 6 Puppet he had refined for the True Monarchs, drawing a crowd of deities to the divine soldier base.
• Erqiang envied True Lord Guangxian because the Primordial Beginning Sect had supplied the Hulei Qin and gained the first puppet made from a Numinous Treasure.
• Su Qing named the puppet Qinse Fairy and explained that he had combined its Seven Emotions Rune with Creation, Passion, Charm, and Illusion Runes.
• The True Monarchs learned that Qinse Fairy could bolster allied troops, disrupt enemies, influence heaven and earth, and summon the undead, and they praised its value against the Samsara Demon.

After Qinse Fairy’s successful creation, the True Monarchs weighed the risks of Su Qing’s remaining refinements and hoped their own treasures would become powerful allies for the final battle. As Su Qing’s growing number of Tier 6 Puppets worried the Samsara Demon, it tried to call on the Demonic Buddha for help but could not reach him.

• Su Qing successfully refined Qinse Fairy, reassuring the waiting True Monarchs and making True Lord Guangxian regret not entrusting him with more treasures.
• True Lord Guangxian reflected on his disappointing record in Celestial Origin Realm and hoped that Qinse Fairy would help him win merit and secure his future in the Primordial Beginning Sect.
• Shi Li Jing defended his decision to risk the Desiring Demon Immortal Kingdom’s precious Yin Yang White Bone Tablet, while True Monarch Jiang Long warned that not every refinement could succeed.
• True Lord Gu Le remained unconcerned about the Supreme Sect losing treasures as the True Monarchs returned to Erqiang’s shrine to await news and prepare for battle.
• The Samsara Demon panicked at Su Qing’s growing force of Tier 6 Puppets and decided to seek more Evil Demons from the Demonic Buddha.
• The Samsara Demon found that the Demonic Buddha was unreachable and wondered whether he was dead or merely refusing contact.

Su Qing discovered that Tong Chang had vanished from everyone’s memories and suspected that the Current World Demonic Buddha had erased him to conceal a major plot. He alerted the great powers of the heavens, who gathered to investigate and began combining their Dao Patterns and treasures to counter the Demonic Buddha’s concealment.

• Su Qing asked the True Monarchs about Tong Chang, and they realized they had all forgotten the Current World Heavenly Master since entering the Devouring Death Demonic Cloud.
• Su Qing suspected the Current World Demonic Buddha had erased Tong Chang’s traces and used the Mirror King God to search for both of them, but found neither.
• True Lord Guangxian urged Su Qing to seek help from the Great Evolution Dao Master, and Su Qing contacted the Primordial Beginning Sect through the Mirror King God.
• Su Qing told the Primordial Beginning Sect’s high-level cultivators about Tong Chang’s disappearance and the suspected Demonic Buddha plot, then left the investigation to them.
• The Primordial Beginning Sect alerted the other major sects, and Tier 6 and Tier 7 powers gathered and confirmed they had all overlooked Tong Chang.
• The gathered cultivators proposed using the Karma, Sword, Wuwei, and Yin-Yang Dao Patterns, along with the Rakshasa Sect’s Demonic Embryo, to investigate and resist the Demonic Buddha.

The Great Evolution Dao Master traced Tong Chang’s disappearance to Lingxiao Palace and discovered that the Demonic Buddha planned to unseal it and corrupt the ancient gods’ bodies into an army of evil gods. The Heavenly Powers learned the palace’s location in the Land of Dao Fall, where Tong Chang and four Heavenly Masters were holding off the Demonic Buddha, and prepared to march there despite fearing they would arrive too late.

• The Great Evolution Dao Master traced Tong Chang’s disappearance while the other four Heavenly Demon Generals fought the Three Daoist Sects, the Eastern King Sect, and the Rakshasa Sect, sparking a massive war across the Myriad Worlds.
• The Great Evolution Dao Master used the Five Directions Immortal Banners to overcome the Demonic Buddha’s interference and discovered that the demon planned to unseal Lingxiao Palace and possess the bodies of the ancient gods.
• The Great Evolution Dao Master warned the Heavenly Powers that the Demonic Buddha could use the ancient gods and the Heavenly Emperor’s Dharma Body to build an evil Heavenly Court and contest the Current World Heavenly Emperor.
• The Great Evolution Dao Master located Lingxiao Palace in the Land of Dao Fall and found Tong Chang guarded by the heroic spirits of the four Heavenly Masters as they held the Demonic Buddha at bay.
• The Demonic Buddha declared that the four Heavenly Masters were nearing exhaustion, and the Great Evolution Dao Master urged the Heavenly Powers to march on Lingxiao Palace before the demons seized it.

Su Qing organized the Western Sea Cultivation World to send resources to Tong Chang, whose Ancient Four Heavenly Masters were defending Lingxiao Palace against the Demonic Buddha. The Immortal Kingdoms agreed after recognizing that supporting Tong Chang could strengthen Su Qing’s future claim to the Heavenly Emperor and Human Emperor positions, while Tong Chang’s fate remained uncertain.

• Su Qing explained that Tong Chang was running out of resources to power the Ancient Four Heavenly Masters and proposed sending supplies from the Celestial Origin Realm.
• The Western Sea decision-makers initially refused to help, citing depleted resources and the poor prospects for gaining rewards from the conflict over Lingxiao Palace.
• Gao Erqiang pledged to send his resources to Tong Chang, prompting the others to suspect that Su Qing saw a benefit they had overlooked.
• Su Qing said he was backing Tong Chang because the Current World Heavenly Master could gain the Ancient Four Heavenly Masters’ legacy and support Su Qing in future struggles.
• The Western Sea Immortal Kingdoms changed their position, promised substantial supplies, and pledged to support Su Qing’s future bid for the Heavenly Emperor or Human Emperor position.
• Su Qing arranged for Mirror King God to contact the Tianyuan homeland and prepare the supplies, hoping they would help Tong Chang hold out until reinforcements arrived.

The Ancient Four Heavenly Masters held Lingxiao Palace against Demonic Buddha and its evil gods, but their power was running low as Tong Chang’s supplies dwindled. Tong Chang’s fellow cultivators from the Western Sea sent a treasure mirror full of Numinous Treasures and spiritual objects, giving the defenders fresh support.

• The Four Heavenly Masters used beasts, paintings, Gu insects, and talismans to repel the demonic hordes while Demonic Buddha and its elite forces pressured Ancestor Heavenly Master.
• Demonic Buddha recalled how its plans at Tianyuan local, Tongtian Tower, and the Abyssal Secret Realm had faltered, including the Other-Transforming Free-Heaven Demon’s clash with Black Wukong and the Samsara Demon’s defeat by Su Qing.
• The Four Heavenly Masters scolded Tong Chang when his reserves proved insufficient to sustain their abilities, and Ancestor Heavenly Master expressed disappointment in him.
• Tong Chang defended himself, explaining that he had emptied his fortune for the fight but had accumulated far less than the ancient Heavenly Masters because he had lived through the Dharma-Ending Age.
• A treasure mirror arrived behind Tong Chang and poured out Numinous Treasures and spiritual objects from his fellow cultivators in the Western Sea, prompting him to promise to repay their kindness.

Su Qing continued refining Tier 6 Puppets while the Demonic Buddha's assault on Lingxiao Palace kept the wider heavens occupied. After making four successful puppets from six attempts, he completed two more and reached Tier 6 Puppet Master, but warned the True Monarchs that the final battle with the Samsara Demon was only fifteen years away.

• The Samsara Demon learned that the Demonic Buddha had drawn the heavens' forces toward Lingxiao Palace and grew frustrated that Su Qing kept refining puppets instead of pursuing the Heavenly Emperor's position.
• Over thirty years, Su Qing refined six Tier 6 Puppets, succeeding four times; Liu Gandang celebrated his high-grade Seven Kill Heavenly Disaster Star, while Gao Erqiang and Liang Hai Shun argued over a failed refinement that lost their treasures.
• Su Qing refined Shi Li Jing's Yin Yang White Bone Tablet into two Tier 6 Puppets, Tengshe and Black Tortoise, leaving Shi Li Jing overjoyed.
• Su Qing announced that he would stop refining puppets for fifteen years to prepare for the final battle and warned that the Samsara Demon might have devised unexpected methods.
• Su Qing returned to the Divine Weapon Research Chamber and secretly completed his advancement to Tier 6 Puppet Master.

Su Qing advanced to Tier 6 Puppet Master by learning from the Jingshen Realm’s Puppet Masters, developing new runes, and studying the True Lords’ Numinous Treasures. With the realm’s Puppet Army preparing to face the still-living Samsara Demon, Su Qing planned to attempt two Tier 7 Puppets: the True Martial Emperor Lord and the Human Dao Imperial Court.

• The Jingshen Realm’s Puppet Masters developed Profound Yin and Pure Yang rune systems and created the Giant God Soldier series, whose enormous Puppets could transform into humanoid, beast, and mechanical forms.
• Qi Tianyang created the Mechanical Rune, earned immense Merit and Creation, and was recognized by Su Qing as a potential future leader of the Jingshen Realm.
• Su Qing studied and advanced the Mechanical Rune, helped equip the Giant God Soldiers, and joined their series with other new Puppet forces to form an army against the Samsara Demon.
• Su Qing clarified that he would let the Jingshen Realm choose its own future after the battle, rather than claim it for the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom.
• Su Qing mastered twelve Tier 7 Runes through years of refinement and access to the True Lords’ Numinous Treasures.
• Su Qing decided to try refining the Tier 7 True Martial Emperor Lord and Human Dao Imperial Court with the Jingshen Realm’s resources and the faith of its people.

Su Qing led the forces of the Jingshen Realm and the present-day heavens in an assault on Red Moon, where the Samsara Demon had assembled a formidable army and prepared defenses targeting puppet soldiers. The attackers broke through the outer hazards and began fighting the Tier 6 Demonic Evils, but the decisive battle between Su Qing and the Samsara Demon had yet to begin.

• The Samsara Demon inspected its vast army on Red Moon, activated layers of black clouds, and vowed to trap and devour the invading forces.
• Su Qing assigned Gao Erqiang, Bear Two, Tiger Egg, Qi Tianyang, A-San, and the legions their roles, then rallied the Jingshen Realm to fight the Evil Demons.
• Gao Erqiang and the Bear-Tiger Assault Team entered Red Moon's clouds, where Bewitching God Demonic Light disrupted puppet links and Reincarnation Vortexes removed fighters from battle.
• Bear Two's Buddhist light opened a path through the mist, and Qinse Fairy's music helped the cultivators cross the Sea of Desire onto Red Moon.
• Gao Erqiang, Tiger Egg, and Bear Two engaged the Thirty-Six Heavenly Fiend Demon Head Grand Formation while Shi Li Jing, True Monarch Zhong Ze, and Liu Gandang fought the Tier 6 Demonic Evils.

Su Qing led the Jingshen Realm’s puppet masters and armies in an assault on the Red Moon while the Great Might Thunder Dragon confronted the Samsara Demon. Su Qing summoned the Samsara Five Puppets to decide their battle, but the demon countered their abilities and neutralized them, leaving the fight in a precarious state.

• Su Qing led the puppet masters, Divine Soldiers, and Puppets through the breach in the Red Moon, where their forces overwhelmed the Evil Demons.
• The Great Might Thunder Dragon faced the Samsara Demon, and Su Qing summoned the Samsara Five Puppets to lock both sides within the same spacetime.
• Cyber Martial Emperor attacked with the Xing Tian Blood Axe, while Su Qing used the Great Might Thunder Dragon to support him against the Samsara Demon’s stolen techniques.
• Spring Autumn Cicada stopped time briefly, and Spring Autumn Cicada and the Samsara Demon exchanged projections summoned from Samsara’s past.
• Divine Soldier Bai Ze and the Merit Wheel attacked the demon with knowledge and Buddhist light, but the demon countered both attacks and used the Ancestor Token of Five Villages Monastery to take over Cyber Martial Emperor.
• The Samsara Demon neutralized the Samsara Five Puppets and cackled as it appeared to have gained the upper hand.

Su Qing revealed twelve Sacred Heavenly Dragons forged from Jingshen Realm’s Sacred Demon-Quelling Qi and used them with his other puppets to force the Samsara Demon out of the Six Paths of Samsara Disk. The demon summoned more than a hundred powerful projections, then began devouring Jingshen Realm itself as Su Qing and the True Monarchs fought to hold it back.

• The Samsara Demon overwhelmed the Samsara Five Puppets, but Su Qing unveiled twelve Sacred Heavenly Dragons that he had secretly crafted from Sacred Spirit Stone and Sacred Demon-Quelling Qi.
• The Sacred Heavenly Dragons bound the Six Paths of Samsara Disk with their Demon-Quelling Heavenly Dragon Chain and blocked the demon’s attacks with the Heaven and Earth Dragon Scale Sword.
• The dragons forced the Samsara Demon’s true body out of the disk, and the enraged demon summoned projections of more than a hundred powerful figures.
• Gao Erqiang, True Lord Guangxian, Liu Gandang, and other True Monarchs joined Su Qing’s puppets to fight the projections and ease the pressure on the dragons.
• The Samsara Demon spread its tentacles across Jingshen Realm to devour its power, causing the world’s order to collapse and threatening to overturn heaven and earth.

As the Samsara Demon tried to destroy the Jingshen Realm, Su Qing gathered the realm’s people and divine weapon Puppets to create the Human Dao Imperial Court and stabilize the world. He then summoned the will of the True Martial Emperor Lord, and Gao Erqiang and the All Heavens True Monarchs began forming a divine body to receive it.

• The Samsara Demon unleashed its world-destroying power, forcing Su Qing and the All Heavens True Monarchs to confront the threat.
• Su Qing drew on the Jingshen Realm’s people and connected divine weapon Puppets to manifest the Human Dao Imperial Court, which stabilized the realm and dissolved the demon’s tentacles.
• The Samsara Demon abandoned the Six Paths of Samsara Disk and tried to flee, but Su Qing refused to let it escape and summoned the will of the True Martial Emperor Lord.
• Su Qing commanded Gao Erqiang and his Guardian Deities to gather Divine Power and form the True Martial Dharma Body.
• Gao Erqiang formed the head, while the All Heavens True Monarchs transformed into divine light to assemble the rest of the body, including one Guardian Deity who claimed the tail.

Su Qing and the True Martial Emperor Lord joined forces with the Human Dao Imperial Court and Emperor Lord Dongyue to destroy the Samsara Demon and reclaim the Samsara Dao Pattern. Jingshen Realm joined the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom, and Su Qing received major rewards for his merits.

• The True Martial Emperor Lord, empowered by the Heavenly Emperor's Great Void Sun and Moon Dao Pattern, attacked the Samsara Demon while Su Qing summoned Emperor Lord Dongyue and used the Three Paths of Heaven, Earth, and Man to restrain it.
• The Samsara Demon was destroyed, its evil qi and resentful qi were consumed, and its Samsara Evil Pattern became a Samsara Dao Pattern that Su Qing declined to accept.
• Su Qing consulted the Six Paths of Samsara Disk and let Jingshen Realm's inhabitants choose their future; they chose to join the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom.
• Su Qing used the Samsara Divine Chains to bring Jingshen Realm into Celestial Origin Realm and place it in the far north of the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom.
• Heaven and earth rewarded Su Qing with the Six Paths of Samsara Disk, boundless merit qi, and authority over two additional Grotto-Heavens, while Gao Erqiang, Li Hai Lang, Wei De Bao, and the other contributors received benefits.

After returning with the Jingshen Realm, Su Qing found that his three decisive Tier 7 Puppets had collapsed, though he realized the Human Dao Imperial Court could be assembled again in a future crisis. He returned the borrowed Samsara Five Puppets, secured new puppet business, and discovered that his body and primordial spirit had grown stronger while his Punching Dolls and Meditating Dolls kept working in his absence.

• The sects and people of the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom celebrated Su Qing’s victory and the arrival of the Jingshen Realm, now part of the kingdom.
• Su Qing saw the Emperor Lord Dongyue, True Martial Emperor Lord, and Human Dao Imperial Court collapse, then concluded the Imperial Court could be rebuilt when people’s conviction united in a crisis.
• The Celestial Origin Realm began forming the rudiments of an underworld using the Samsara Dao Pattern and places that had sheltered dead spirits.
• Su Qing removed his permissions from the Samsara Five Puppets and returned them to the True Monarchs, who praised him and brought him further business.
• True Monarch Qing Feng commissioned a Samsara Puppet from Su Qing, and Su Qing delegated other inquiries to Qing He and Hongshang.
• Back in his cultivation chamber, Su Qing sensed that his fleshly body and primordial spirit had advanced through merit and the unseen work of his Punching Dolls and Meditating Dolls.

After returning from the Abyssal Secret Realm, Su Qing discovered that his Punching Dolls had cultivated for four hundred years, advancing his body and Grotto-Heaven toward Tier 6. As he prepared to be certified as a Tier 6 Body Cultivator and establish Jingshen District, his breakthrough summoned an Ancestral Dragon Phantom, leading the Azure Dragon King to mistake him for the dragon race’s new hope.

• Su Qing released his Punching Dolls and found that more than six hundred Tier 4 dolls had cultivated for him during his four-hundred-year absence.
• Su Qing discovered that his Grotto-Heaven had developed into a living Lesser Thousand Worlds, but its inhabitants were idle little people whose creation drained away more than half his gains.
• Su Qing decided to complete his Tier 6 Body Cultivator certification before bringing Jingshen Realm under the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom as Jingshen District.
• Su Qing unleashed his breakthrough aura, and an Ancestral Dragon Phantom appeared above the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom, shaking Dragonkin across the realms.
• The Azure Dragon King flew from Dragon Fall Sea, saw Su Qing beneath the phantom, and wondered whether he carried dragon blood and could restore the dragon race’s glory.

Su Qing advanced to Tier 6 Body Cultivator, revealing Ancestral Dragon Tendon and Ancestral Witch Bone and stirring the Myriad Worlds. After completing his breakthrough, he turned his attention to his waiting dharma cultivation and the Void Refining realm.

• Su Qing's Tier 6 breakthrough manifested Ancestral Dragon Tendon and an Ancestral Witch phantom, prompting Dragons, Witch Persons, and Cultivators across the Myriad Worlds to react.
• Yao Fei and Witch Persons across Heavenly Origin paid respects to Su Qing as their Sacred Master, while the Azure Dragon King speculated about Su Qing's mixed heritage.
• Shao Delong worried Su Qing's Dragon and Witch traits could complicate his bid for Human Emperor, but Liang Hai Shun argued that both groups could join the Human race.
• Su Qing manifested his Internal Grotto-Heaven and spread his Fearless Dao Fruit's will, but kept its inhabitants hidden as he completed his advancement.
• Su Qing kept the vitality gained from creation within his Inner World and prepared to advance his primordial spirit to Void Refining, supported by thousands of years of Dao Cultivation accumulated by his Meditating Dolls.

After advancing to Tier 6 Body Cultivator, Su Qing broke through to Void Refinement and manifested an Azure Dragon Dharma Image and a Golden Crow Great Sun Dharma Image. His twin images strengthened his claim to the Human Emperor’s and Heavenly Emperor’s thrones, prompting rival factions and ambitious beings across the Myriad Worlds to emerge.

• Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom and the Jingshen Clansmen celebrated Su Qing’s return and his advancement to Tier 6 Body Cultivator.
• Su Qing manifested an enormous Azure Dragon Dharma Image, and cultivators realized he had broken through to Void Refinement.
• Shao Delong celebrated Su Qing’s Azure Dragon Dharma Image as proof that he could compete for the Human Emperor’s throne, while demons in the Ten Thousand Monster Country grew uneasy about supporting a human for Heavenly Emperor.
• Su Qing’s Golden Crow Great Sun Dharma Image delighted the demons of the Ten Thousand Monster Country and drew the attention of Heavenly Emperor candidates across the Myriad Worlds.
• The Xian Qin Wu Guo and Xuanyuan factions manifested rival Human Emperor symbols, while the ancient Kunpeng, the Three-legged Golden Crow, the Void Empress, and others pursued the Heavenly Emperor’s throne.

After six months of calm, Su Qing emerged with Tong Chang and Gao Erqiang to judge the powers responsible for the defeat at Lingxiao Palace. Su Qing announced punishments for the leading figures and sects, leaving the Myriad Worlds facing the consequences of his judgment.

• Su Qing, Tong Chang, and Gao Erqiang gathered above the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom as the Three Heroes of Yunshan and declared themselves the Judgment Triumvirate.
• Su Qing invoked his authority as Heavenly Emperor's Emissary and announced that he and Tong Chang would reward merit and punish wrongdoing in the Lingxiao Palace affair.
• Su Qing explained that the expedition had failed after the Demonic Buddha seized the Heavenly Emperor's Dharma Body, the Ancient Great Gods' divine bodies, and Lingxiao Palace.
• Su Qing barred Heavenly Venerable Bai Shang and Dragon Elephant Heavenly Venerable from entering Tianyuan or receiving fortune from World's Revival for their roles in the defeat.
• Su Qing ordered the confiscation of Merit and Creation from cultivators of several sects and permanently barred them from entering the Heavenly Court system.

Su Qing’s proclamation over Lingxiao Palace’s defeat turned cultivators across the Myriad Worlds against the Major Sects of the Heavens, while the sects’ leaders dismissed his promised judgment. Tong Chang invoked the awakened Will of Celestial Origin Realm to punish Heavenly Venerable Bai Shang, leaving the other sects alarmed by the judgment’s force.

• Su Qing’s account of the battle at Lingxiao Palace fueled anger among lower- and middle-tier cultivators toward the Major Sects of the Heavens.
• Disciples of the Major Sects defended their leaders, but Shao Delong, Dragon Subduing, Tiger Subduing, and Shi Li Jing argued that the sects should surrender their privileges if they could not bear their responsibilities.
• The great powers dismissed Su Qing’s authority to judge them and resolved to defy him, so Heavenly Venerable Bai Shang sent his Dao phantom toward Celestial Origin Realm.
• Tong Chang invoked the Current World Heavenly Master’s authority and called on the Will of Celestial Origin Realm to strip Bai Shang of one million years of cultivation and impose heavenly punishment.
• The awakened Will imposed a Heavenly Punishment Ring on Bai Shang, who relinquished his positions, severed ties with the Primordial Beginning Sect, and fled to the Land of Dao Fall.

Su Qing and Tong Chang used Celestial Origin Realm’s World Consciousness to punish the major sects, then sent Gao Erqiang to carry out judgments and collect fines. Su Qing attended Xian Qin Wu Guo’s Second Anti-Demon Alliance Assembly, where the gathered powers included the controversial Void Empress and Sky-Splitting Void Kun.

• Su Qing and Tong Chang invoked Celestial Origin Realm’s World Consciousness to punish Heavenly Venerable Bai Shang and two Tier 7 Dao Masters of the Spirit Treasure Sect, frightening the major sects into accepting their judgment.
• Su Qing assigned Gao Erqiang to carry out the judgments and build his judicial authority, while warning him not to misuse the office or keep confiscated goods.
• Gao Erqiang began collecting benefits and fines from the major sects and Tianyuan powers, a process expected to take decades.
• True Lord Guangxian invited Su Qing to the Second Anti-Demon Alliance Assembly in Xian Qin Wu Guo, which showcased its army, Confucians, and allied sects before opening the gathering.
• Representatives from across the Myriad Worlds attended, including the Void Empress for the Void Race and Sky-Splitting Void Kun for Kunpeng Realm, drawing hostility over their bids to share in Celestial Origin Realm’s fortune.

Sky-Splitting Void Kun tried to secure support for the Kunpeng clan at the Anti-Demon Conference, but the Three-legged Golden Crow publicly denounced his people. When Su Qing arrived, he rebuffed Sky-Splitting Void Kun at first, then reconsidered after learning of the Kunpeng clan’s wealth and turned his attention to recruiting the Void Empress and her race.

• Sky-Splitting Void Kun bowed to the arriving representatives of the Three Daoist Sects and offered gifts in hopes of gaining their favor for the Kunpeng clan.
• The Three-legged Golden Crow accused Sky-Splitting Void Kun and his clan of betraying their allies, and the assembled cultivators joined in condemning them.
• Su Qing arrived to a crowd of admirers, and Sky-Splitting Void Kun pushed forward to pledge his service to him.
• After learning Sky-Splitting Void Kun belonged to the Kunpeng clan, Su Qing ordered Bear Two and Li Hai Lang to shove him and warned that the clan would face a reckoning.
• Bear Two signaled that 300 million spirit stones had been credited, prompting Su Qing to conceal his interest in the Kunpeng clan’s resources and acknowledge Sky-Splitting Void Kun.
• Su Qing studied the Void Empress and considered how to bring the Void Race into the Anti-Demon Cause.