Recaps

Lin Fan tested whether the Pre-emptive Dao Fruit could improve his skills by spending lifespan to raise Eye of Lost to Mastery. After numerous failed attempts and burning thousands of years of lifespan, he made one final attempt, whose result remained unknown.

• Ghost Mother Wuji and Han Yan began cultivating with the resources and foundations they had gained.
• Lin Fan examined his skills and wondered whether he could improve them by spending lifespan through the Pre-emptive Dao Fruit.
• The Pre-emptive Dao Fruit repeatedly failed to advance Eye of Lost, with each attempt demanding more lifespan.
• Lin Fan spent thousands of years of lifespan on failed attempts and, despite his dwindling reserves, ordered one final pre-emptive advance.

Lin Fan pledged to let the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan fight without restraint against the Cloud Swallowing Python Clan and anyone supporting it. At Phoenix Empress Mountain Range, Young Master Bai taunted the captive Ao Jianlie and stabbed him before an authoritative voice intervened.

• Bloodlight Demon Saint warned Lin Fan that the Cloud Swallowing Python Clan had powerful allies and that the conflict might draw dangerous old monsters.
• Lin Fan declared that he would protect the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan and ordered Bloodlight Demon Saint to act without restraint.
• At Phoenix Empress Mountain Range, Young Master Bai grew impatient while waiting for the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan and mocked the captive Ao Jianlie.
• Ao Jianlie defied Young Master Bai and vowed that the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan would wipe out the Cloud Swallowing Python Clan.
• Young Master Bai stabbed Ao Jianlie, and a deep, authoritative voice ordered him to stop.

The Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan and the Cloud Swallowing Python Clan faced off at Wind Empress Mountain Range, with both leaders refusing to back down. Young Master Bai used the captured Ao Jianlie to provoke the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan, leaving Ao Jianshen and his people constrained as the confrontation threatened to turn violent.

• Ao Jianshen arrived with the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan and warned Clan Leader Bai to turn back before his clan was destroyed.
• Clan Leader Bai demanded that the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan submit, and Ao Jianshen agreed to let the clans settle matters through force.
• Young Master Bai revealed that he had captured the bloodied Ao Jianlie, prompting Ao Mingyue and the elders to urge caution.
• Ao Jianlie told his family and clansmen not to hold back for his sake, and Young Master Bai smashed his head into the ground, knocking him unconscious.
• Young Master Bai offered Ao Jianshen a chance to save Ao Jianlie.

Young Master Bai killed Ao Wu with one punch and taunted the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan, then slew three more challengers. Elder Evilbreaker finally stepped forward to fight him, while Clan Leader Bai chose not to intervene.

• Young Master Bai caught Ao Wu's punch and killed him with a single counterblow that destroyed his body and divine soul.
• Young Master Bai mocked the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan, while Ao Jianshen refused to let Ao Mingyue enter the fight.
• Three Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan powerhouses challenged Young Master Bai and were quickly killed, causing their clan's morale to collapse.
• Elder Evilbreaker broke free from a clan elder's restraint and strode toward Young Master Bai to fight him.
• Clan Leader Bai told his elders not to intervene, and Young Master Bai traded threats with Elder Evilbreaker.

Young Master Bai mocked the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan and urged its members to become slaves of the Cloud Swallowing Python Clan. A tall, beautiful woman spoke up, and the chapter ended as she began to draw attention.

• Young Master Bai looked over the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan and grew more smug.
• Young Master Bai insulted an elder, called the clan worse than trash, and said it should have perished.
• Young Master Bai told the clan members to become slaves of the Cloud Swallowing Python Clan and laughed.
• A tall, black-haired woman coldly asked Young Master Bai if he had said enough.

Ao Mingyue cut through the Cloud Swallowing Python Clan’s ranks until four elders confronted her, while two Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan elders arrived to support her. She wounded one opponent, but another restrained her sword with blood-red Order Divine Chains and sent a gigantic python head lunging to devour her.

• Ao Mingyue used her jiaolong sword to slaughter Cloud Swallowing Python clansmen, killing over a hundred with a single strike.
• Four Cloud Swallowing Python Clan elders confronted Ao Mingyue and formed a battle formation to stop her.
• Two Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan elders arrived and engaged two of the Cloud Swallowing Python elders, leaving Ao Mingyue to face the other two.
• Ao Mingyue shattered a thunder wall and sent one Cloud Swallowing Python elder flying while coughing blood.
• The remaining elder activated his essence blood, bound Ao Mingyue’s sword with Order Divine Chains, and sent a gigantic python head to devour her.

The Water Spirit Snake Clan joined the battle at Wind Empress Mountain Range, turning the tide against the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan, while Cold Han confronted Ao Mingyue. As the Eight-Armed Demon Ape Clan approached, the fight between the clans and their ancestors remained unresolved.

• Clan Leader Bai summoned Cold Han and the Water Spirit Snake Clan, whose sudden attack rallied the Cloud Swallowing Python Clan.
• Cold Han confronted Ao Jianshen and said the Eight-Armed Demon Ape Clan would also join the battle.
• Cold Han challenged Ao Mingyue, explaining that the Cloud Swallowing Python Clan had promised to help transform the Water Spirit Snake Clan's bloodline.
• Ao Mingyue refused to surrender and fought Cold Han using the power of the True Dragon Bloodline.
• The Eight-Armed Demon Ape Clan arrived from over a hundred miles away, and its leading Demon Cultivator mocked the other clans for failing to quickly defeat the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan.

Bloodlight Demon Saint confronted the Cloud-Devouring Python Patriarch, who brought a Sky Swallowing Sparrow expert and the Water Spirit Snake Patriarch to threaten the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan. Facing their combined strength, Bloodlight Demon Saint called for his master, leaving the identity of his potential reinforcements unresolved.

• Bloodlight Demon Saint rejected the Cloud-Devouring Python Patriarch's demand for surrender and exchanged a powerful palm strike with him.
• The Cloud-Devouring Python Patriarch revealed a Sky Swallowing Sparrow Demon Saint and the Water Spirit Snake Patriarch as allies.
• The Water Spirit Snake Patriarch urged Bloodlight Demon Saint to yield, but he insulted her clan and she restrained herself from attacking.
• Bloodlight Demon Saint questioned why the Sky Swallowing Sparrow expert had joined the conflict, and the man said it was a transaction.
• Bloodlight Demon Saint assessed the odds and called on his master to appear, shocking the three Demon Saint Realm beings.

Lin Fan overwhelmed the Cloud-Devouring Python Patriarch, but the divine statue consumed him and awakened as a powerful monster. The statue trapped everyone in its crimson domain and destroyed Lin Fan’s Five Elements Divine Mountain as it advanced on him.

• The Cloud-Devouring Python Patriarch transformed with the divine statue’s power, but Lin Fan blasted him apart with a sword strike.
• The wounded Cloud-Devouring Python Patriarch begged his master for help, and the divine statue emerged from his brow.
• The divine statue devoured the Cloud-Devouring Python Patriarch’s flesh and blood and became a crimson monster.
• The awakened statue froze everyone in a crimson domain and told Lin Fan that he possessed something it needed.
• Lin Fan summoned a Five Elements Divine Mountain with his Primordial Spirit, but the statue’s crimson mist tore it apart.

Ao Jianshen fought Clan Leader Bai, whose Blood Python Power absorbed his attacks and steadily strengthened him. Just as Clan Leader Bai was about to kill Ao Jianshen, the power suddenly collapsed, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Clan Leader Bai revealed that his Blood Python Power armor absorbed Ao Jianshen's attacks and converted them into strength.
• Ao Jianshen transformed into his Human-Jiaolong Form and struck Clan Leader Bai, but the Blood Python Power shield endured.
• Clan Leader Bai overwhelmed Ao Jianshen with python shadows and a black-energy attack, leaving him near death.
• As Clan Leader Bai moved to finish Ao Jianshen, his Blood Python Power vanished and his aura rapidly weakened.

Ao Jianshen and Ao Mingyue defeated the Water Spirit Snake Clan after Cold Han fell, securing victory over the Cloud Swallowing Python Clan and its allies at great cost. As the surviving clansmen hailed their victory, the Patriarch appeared, and Ao Mingyue concluded that Senior Lin must also be safe.

• Cold Han tried to devour Ao Mingyue for her True Dragon Bloodline, but Ao Jianshen arrived and split the giant python's body.
• Ao Jianshen and Ao Mingyue killed Cold Han with their Jiaolong Swords, destroying his body and divine soul.
• Ao Jianshen and Ao Mingyue led the extermination of the remaining Cloud Swallowing Python and Water Spirit Snake experts, and the survivors surrendered.
• Ao Jianshen told Ao Mingyue that their Patriarchs' intervention had likely decided the battle, while the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan counted its heavy losses.
• The Patriarch appeared before the clansmen, and Ao Mingyue inferred that Senior Lin was safe.

After the Primal Divine Statue devoured the blood-red statue, Lin Fan advanced to the seventh rank of the Calamity Crossing Realm and his Inner Landscape became fulfilled. The Goddess Statue warned him that the Godslayers threatened them both, and Lin Fan agreed to help it devour more divine statues in exchange for greater aid.

• The Primal Divine Statue fed Lin Fan a vast amount of Dao Principle energy, raising him from the sixth grade to the seventh rank of the Calamity Crossing Realm.
• Lin Fan discovered that his Inner Landscape had expanded and evolved into a fulfilled Inner Landscape, with a trace of vitality that might someday allow it to nurture life.
• The Goddess Statue told Lin Fan it needed to devour more divine statues to awaken.
• The Goddess Statue warned Lin Fan that the Godslayers would kill them both if they discovered them.
• Lin Fan agreed to help the Goddess Statue devour more divine statues and asked it to provide him with more Dao Principle energy.

Lin Fan brought the Ghost Mother Wuji and Han Yan into his Inner Landscape to cultivate safely while he stayed in the Heavenly Demon Kingdom. After confirming that his small world could sustain them, he left them there and returned to the quiet cave mansion.

• The Ghost Mother Wuji congratulated Lin Fan on his cultivation progress and reported that Han Yan was still cultivating.
• Lin Fan asked the Ghost Mother Wuji and Han Yan to cultivate inside his Inner Landscape for safety, and both agreed.
• Han Yan and the Ghost Mother Wuji entered the Inner Landscape, admired its Bridge of Longevity and Enlightenment Tree, and listened as Lin Fan explained its precautions.
• Lin Fan confirmed that the Inner Landscape could sustain the two women and future spiritual roots, then left them there.

Lin Fan demanded a tangible reward from the Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix in exchange for gathering more divine essence. The Phoenix admitted it had little to offer and pleaded for Lin Fan to help restore its consciousness, leaving Lin Fan to decide what he wanted.

• Lin Fan asked the Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix for cultivation arts or hidden Blessed Lands in return for helping it gather divine essence, but it said its arts were unsuitable for humans and denied having accessible opportunities.
• Lin Fan threatened to stop gathering divine essence unless the Phoenix made their arrangement an equal transaction.
• The Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix realized Lin Fan could abandon it and pleaded to recover more divine essence before compensating him.
• Lin Fan insisted that the Phoenix was the one asking for help, and the Phoenix asked what he wanted, promising to do its best if it was within its power.

Lin Fan used the Pre-emptive Dao Fruit to advance the Phoenix Feather Immortal Art, greatly strengthening his Primordial Spirit but consuming much of his lifespan. After copying books to replenish it, he welcomed Ao Mingyue back from the campaign against the Cloud Swallowing Python Clan and the Water Spirit Snake Clan, and she brought him their collected books.

• Lin Fan spent five hundred years of lifespan to pre-emptively advance the Phoenix Feather Immortal Art to Beginner level, reaching the Ease stage and greatly increasing his Primordial Spirit power.
• Lin Fan saw that his lifespan had fallen to just over a hundred years and began copying books to restore it.
• Ao Mingyue returned after leading Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan members in eliminating the remaining resistance of the Cloud Python Clan and the Water Spirit Clan.
• Ao Mingyue gave Lin Fan ancient books she had taken from the Cloud Swallowing Python Clan and the Water Spirit Snake Clan's treasure vaults.

The Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan flourished after defeating the Cloud Swallowing Python Clan and taking over its rivals’ territories. A mysterious man infiltrated Jiaolong Ridge and approached the main hall, where Ao Jianshen received reports of the clan’s growing influence.

• A Dark Blood Jiaolong clansman boasted to younger dragons about the clan’s victory and urged them to cultivate.
• A mysterious man appeared behind the patrolling clansman, searched his soul for information, and erased him.
• The mysterious man walked unseen toward Jiaolong Ridge’s main hall despite the guards’ powerful cultivation.
• Elders told Clan Leader Ao Jianshen that the clan had taken control of two territories, gained subordinate clans, and attracted offers of peaceful coexistence from Northern Luzhou’s major clans.

Lin Fan revealed a Sky Swallowing Sparrow to the Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix as a gift, and she killed and devoured the Demon Saint. The chapter ended with her consuming the Sparrow’s essence blood, body, and Primordial Spirit.

• Lin Fan confronted a bronzed-skinned man and identified him as a member of the Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan.
• The man recognized Lin Fan as the human cultivator who had killed the Cloud Swallowing Python Clan Chief and questioned his role in the Demon Kingdom.
• Lin Fan presented a golden talisman bearing a powerful phoenix bloodline, and the Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix accepted it as a gift.
• The Sky Swallowing Sparrow attacked with a Jade Cauldron that summoned ferocious bird phantoms, but the Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix’s black flames tore them apart.
• The Sky Swallowing Sparrow transformed and attacked, but the Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix bound it with Order Divine Chains, shattered its blood pearl, and killed it.
• The Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix swallowed the Sky Swallowing Sparrow’s Primordial Spirit and continued devouring its essence blood and physical body.

Lin Fan sent a golden figure to the Eight-Armed Demon Ape Clan as he prepared for their continued conflict with the Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan. He spent 2,200 years of lifespan to raise the Eye of Lost and Starlight Shifting to minor mastery, then left the possibility of further advancement for later.

• Lin Fan sent a golden figure toward the Eight-Armed Demon Ape Clan after learning they had a divine statue and continued backing from the Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan.
• Lin Fan spent 1,100 years of lifespan to raise the Eye of Lost to minor mastery, improving his ability to see through matter and trace a target's recent origins and connections.
• Lin Fan decided not to spend more lifespan advancing the Eye of Lost toward perfection.
• Lin Fan spent another 1,100 years of lifespan to raise Starlight Shifting to minor mastery, enabling it to reverse physical power and Primordial Spirit techniques more completely.

Lin Fan advanced the Phoenix Feather Immortal Art to Mastery, bringing his Primordial Spirit to Major Accomplishment and allowing him to see through formations in the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan’s ancestral grounds. The chapter then shifted to a wounded golden demon ape shielding its offspring as figures surrounded them.

• Lin Fan spent 600 years of lifespan to advance the Phoenix Feather Immortal Art to Mastery, purifying his Primordial Spirit and raising it to Major Accomplishment.
• Lin Fan sensed the Bloodlight Demon Saint recovering in the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan’s inheritance blood pool and withdrew his perception after confirming the demon’s strength.
• Lin Fan checked his panel and saw his lifespan, realm, skills, and techniques listed.
• A wounded golden demon ape named Yuan Kun faced several approaching figures while protecting its young offspring, whose ancestral bloodline was coveted by the Eight-Armed Demon Ape Clan.

Black Jade Qilin devoured the young ape Yuan Ting and took over his body, preparing to infiltrate the Eight-Armed Demonic Ape clan as the returning ancestor Yuan Xiao. Meanwhile, Ao Jianlie visited Lin’s cave abode and was greeted by his sister Ao Mingyue.

• Yuan Ting begged Black Jade Qilin to kill the young master of the Eight-Armed Demonic Ape clan and avenge his family.
• Black Jade Qilin warned Yuan Ting that revenge could cost his life, then devoured him and awakened his ancestral power.
• Black Jade Qilin emerged in Yuan Ting’s body and decided to pose as the long-missing ancestor Yuan Xiao.
• Yuan Xiao headed toward the Eight-Armed Demonic Ape clan, intending to establish himself through strength.
• Ao Jianlie arrived at Lin’s cave abode and greeted Lin and Ao Mingyue.
• Ao Mingyue welcomed Ao Jianlie and remarked that his cultivation had improved greatly.

Lin Fan learned that Bloodlight Demon Saint was the surviving Clan Leader of the Black Blood Royal Clan, the original rulers of the Heavenly Net Demon Kingdom, and agreed to keep his identity secret. Bloodlight planned to rebuild his strength and wage war against the three royal clans, while Lin Fan offered his help.

• Ao Mingyue apologized to Lin Fan for her younger brother Jianlie's discourtesy, and Lin Fan embraced her inside the cave mansion.
• Lin Fan assessed Bloodlight Demon Saint's recovery and asked what he planned to do next.
• Bloodlight told Lin Fan he intended to seek revenge on the old enemies who had ambushed him.
• Bloodlight revealed that he was Clan Leader of the Black Blood Royal Clan, which had founded the Heavenly Net Demon Kingdom before the three current royal clans rose to power.
• Bloodlight explained the Black Blood Royal Clan's abilities and asked Lin Fan to keep its survival secret; Lin Fan agreed and offered his help.

A powerful young man appeared in the Demon Ape Clan’s territory and confronted young master Mo Huang for slaughtering his lineage’s clansmen and coveting their ancestral bloodline. He defeated Mo Huang and the Clan elders, then seized Mo Huang by the neck.

• The young man arrived before Mo Huang and killed several of his subordinates with a sweep of his sleeve.
• Mo Huang revealed that he was the young master of the Eight-Armed Demon Ape Clan and attacked the young man, who overwhelmed him with a golden mountain strike.
• Mo Huang summoned Elder Yuan Hong and three other elders to kill the intruder.
• The young man unleashed a golden figure whose bloodline pressure rendered the elders’ techniques useless and sent them crashing down.
• The young man grabbed Mo Huang by the neck and challenged his belief that his status would protect him.

Yuan Cheng recognized Yuan Xiao as an ancestor of the Demon Ape Clan and stopped the clan leader and elders from opposing his return. After Yuan Xiao passed the ancestral formation, Yuan Cheng questioned his disappearance, and Yuan Xiao claimed the Black Demon Jiaolong had ambushed him.

• The Demon Ape Clan Leader and elders urged Yuan Cheng to punish Yuan Xiao for killing the young clan leader and other clansmen.
• Yuan Cheng rebuked the clan leaders for bullying Yuan Xiao's branch and ordered them to accept Yuan Xiao as their ancestor.
• Yuan Cheng proposed ending the dispute, and Yuan Xiao agreed before entering the Demon Ape Ancestor Grand Array without trouble.
• Yuan Cheng confirmed Yuan Xiao's bloodline, then asked where he had been for several hundred years.
• Yuan Xiao said he had left to seek a breakthrough, been ambushed by the Black Demon Jiaolong, and spent years recovering.

Lin Fan planned to send Bloodlight Demon Saint to the Eight-Armed Demon Ape Clan, while Ao Mingyue broke through to the Demon Saint Realm. After advancing the Eye of Lost, Lin Fan saw a sinister red thread hanging above his head, almost touching him.

• Lin Fan questioned Bloodlight Demon Saint about the Eight-Armed Demon Ape Clan and told him to go to its ancestral grounds in three days.
• Ao Mingyue broke through to the Demon Saint Realm after drawing on the power of two traces of True Dragon Bloodline.
• An elder in the Eight-Armed Demon Ape Clan's ancestral grounds watched over a sinister idol and said the fish was about to take the bait.
• Lin Fan advanced the Eye of Lost to Major Mastery and discovered a thin red thread hanging above his head, nearly piercing his crown.

The Black Jade Qilin, posing as Yuan Xiao, gave resources to Yuan Xiao’s neglected descendants in the Demon Ape Clan, while the clan leader awaited Ancestor Ting Shan’s return to kill him. When Yuan Cheng brought the Black Jade Qilin to meet his eldest brother, the man exposed his disguise and revealed his Qilin form.

• An aged descendant of Yuan Xiao told the Black Jade Qilin that his branch had suffered persecution and dwindled to fewer than a hundred members.
• The Black Jade Qilin gave Yuan Xiao’s descendants cultivation resources from Yuan Cheng, and they thanked him before leaving.
• The Demon Ape Clan Leader told an elder that Yuan Xiao would die once Ancestor Ting Shan emerged from seclusion.
• Yuan Cheng brought the Black Jade Qilin to meet his eldest brother, who had just emerged from seclusion.
• The man used an incomplete divine statue to break the Black Jade Qilin’s disguise, revealing his Qilin form and shocking Yuan Cheng.