Recaps

Yuan Tingshan and the Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan ambushed Bloodlight Demon Saint and Black Jade Qilin with a divine statue that weakened them. As Bloodlight Demon Saint neared defeat, he called on his master to intervene.

• Yuan Tingshan revealed that his clan had prepared for the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan’s scheme and activated the divine statue, marking Bloodlight Demon Saint and Black Jade Qilin with crimson threads.
• Bloodlight Demon Saint accused Yuan Tingshan of becoming the Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan’s puppet, but Yuan Tingshan and the clan’s representative defended their alliance and condemned the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan.
• The Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan’s expert attacked with a net of fire as Yuan Tingshan and Yuan Cheng joined the assault.
• Black Jade Qilin fought Yuan Tingshan, but the divine statue’s power weakened him and let Yuan Tingshan gain the upper hand.
• Yuan Cheng and the Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan experts overwhelmed Bloodlight Demon Saint, and Yuan Cheng’s sword nearly cut away half his body.
• Bloodlight Demon Saint roared for his master to act before he fell.

Lin Fan and the Bloodlight Demon Saint destroyed the Eight-Armed Demon Ape Clan after its ancestors and allies fell in battle. They looted the clan’s treasury and returned to the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan, where news of the annihilation spread across Northern Luzhou.

• Yuan Cheng lost focus after his eldest brother died, and the Bloodlight Demon Saint killed him and shattered his Primordial Spirit.
• The Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix defeated and devoured the three Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan members, while the Bloodlight Demon Saint’s lightning wiped out the Eight-Armed Demon Ape Clan.
• Lin Fan watched the Primal Divine Statue consume the damaged divine statue, which warned him before breaking apart and returning to his body.
• The Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix refined its prey and returned to Lin Fan as a golden talisman, while Lin Fan and the Bloodlight Demon Saint looted the Eight-Armed Demon Ape Clan’s treasury.
• Lin Fan and the Bloodlight Demon Saint returned to the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan, and news of the Eight-Armed Demon Ape Clan’s destruction reached Ao Jianshen.

After devouring the Fate Pseudo-Divine Statue, Lin Fan reached the ninth rank of the Calamity Crossing Realm and used the Pre-emptive Dao Fruit to improve his Nascent Soul. He remained short of Nascent Soul perfection and resolved not to underestimate the dangers in the Heavenly Net Demon Kingdom.

• The Primal Divine Statue’s energy raised Lin Fan two minor realms to the ninth rank of the Calamity Crossing Realm.
• Lin Fan recognized that perfecting his Nascent Soul was the final requirement before he could attempt to enter the Void Shattering Realm.
• Lin Fan spent seven hundred years of lifespan to advance the Phoenix Feather Immortal Art to minor accomplishment and began purifying his Nascent Soul.
• After tempering, Lin Fan’s Nascent Soul power grew stronger, and he sensed that perfection was within reach.
• Lin Fan considered leaving the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan after reaching the next realm, but reminded himself to beware of the royal clans’ old monsters and the bizarre power infiltrating the demon kingdom.

Lin Fan received tens of thousands of books from the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan and explained to Ao Mingyue that copying helped clarify his dao heart before the two became intimate. Meanwhile, an uninvited figure arrived over the Black Demon Flood Dragon Clan’s territory and attacked an emerald flood dragon.

• Ao Mingyue delivered the books her father had gathered for Lin Fan, who thanked the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan for its help.
• Ao Mingyue asked why Lin Fan copied books, and he told her it helped clear his dao heart; she tried copying one herself but felt no cultivation effect.
• Lin Fan drew Ao Mingyue close and said he would guide her cultivation, and they became entangled in the secret chamber.
• A colossal black shadow appeared over the Black Demon Flood Dragon Clan’s territory, and its terrifying aura forced weaker clan members to their knees.
• An emerald flood dragon rose to confront the intruder, but a gigantic claw emerged from the clouds and struck at it.

Flame-Devouring Dragon Lord visited the Black Demon Flood Dragon Clan and confronted Heavenly Flood Dragon over the clans’ bitter shared history. He then warned that strange divine statues and a spreading source were destabilizing Northern Luzhou and threatening the demon kingdom.

• Flame-Devouring Dragon Lord’s immense dragon bloodline suppressed the Black Demon Flood Dragon Clan until Heavenly Flood Dragon invited him inside.
• Flame-Devouring Dragon Lord accused Heavenly Flood Dragon of causing an upheaval that weakened the Dark Dragon Clan, while Heavenly Flood Dragon defended the Black Demon Flood Dragon Clan’s suffering and lasting resentment.
• Heavenly Flood Dragon asked why Flame-Devouring Dragon Lord had come, and Flame-Devouring Dragon Lord said he was concerned about Northern Luzhou.
• Flame-Devouring Dragon Lord explained that strange divine statues were helping demon clans overcome bloodline deficiencies and gain power that threatened the royal clans.
• Flame-Devouring Dragon Lord warned that a strange source had silently spread into the demon kingdom.

Lin Fan continued copying books to build up lifespan when the Primal Divine Statue stirred inside his Inner Landscape. After declaring that his Inner Landscape was not good enough, it transmitted him a method for cultivating the Inner Landscape, leaving Lin Fan shocked.

• Lin Fan copied books and accumulated his lifespan to 21,200 while preparing to grow stronger in the Heavenly Net Demon Kingdom.
• Han Yan and Ghost Mother Wuji noticed the Primal Divine Statue’s power spreading through Lin Fan’s Inner Landscape and discussed its transformation.
• Lin Fan entered his Inner Landscape after Han Yan worried about the effects and Ghost Mother Wuji urged him to discard the statue.
• The Primal Divine Statue told Lin Fan that his Inner Landscape was not good enough, then sent him obscure information containing a method for cultivating it.

Lin Fan sacrificed the Tianji Buddhist Beads to complete his Flawless Inner Landscape, but the achievement triggered a powerful heavenly tribulation while his Spiritual Energy was depleted. The tribulation clouds gathered over True Bone Peak, leaving Ao Mingyue fearing that the Heavenly Dao had targeted her.

• Lin Fan refined the Tianji Buddhist Beads' origin essence into his Inner Landscape Space as Han Yan and Ghost Mother Wuji watched it expand.
• After a day, the beads crumbled to dust and Lin Fan completed his Flawless Inner Landscape.
• The goddess statue warned Lin Fan of a heavenly tribulation, and he sent Han Yan and Ghost Mother Wuji into the Wuji Sail for safety.
• The Bloodlight Demon Saint and Ao Jianshen sensed the vast tribulation clouds and realized they were gathering over Lin Fan's cave mansion.
• Ao Mingyue felt the heavenly pressure while cultivating and feared the Heavenly Dao had marked her for destruction.

Lin Fan faced the Nine Heavens Demon-Slaying Tribulation, enduring its escalating lightning with his body and sword dao before battling a humanoid lightning bolt. After defeating it, he charged into the tribulation clouds, where the final strike gathered more than a hundred golden humanoid bolts against him.

• Lin Fan chose to withstand the first lightning tribulation with his body, which emerged glowing gold and seemingly stronger.
• Lin Fan used a sword formed from his sword dao to block the second lightning tribulation, then endured five more increasingly powerful strikes.
• Lin Fan fought the humanoid lightning of the eighth tribulation with his techniques and Five Elements Mountain, ultimately pinning it with a divine sword.
• Lin Fan charged into the tribulation clouds, provoking them to spread nearly a thousand miles as more than a hundred golden humanoid bolts gathered for the final tribulation.

Lin Fan advanced the Phoenix Feather Immortal Art and realized he could cultivate a flawless Nascent Soul. He sensed the Black Demon Jiaolong Ancestor approaching Jiaolong Ridge and considered how Dragon Clan bloodline could help Ao Mingyue.

• Lin Fan checked his lifespan and wondered whether a Nascent Soul could advance beyond perfection to become flawless.
• Lin Fan spent eight hundred years of lifespan to pre-empt the Phoenix Feather Immortal Art to major accomplishment, reaching Minor Nirvana and strengthening his Nascent Soul.
• Lin Fan sensed that his Nascent Soul had reached perfection and concluded that advancing the art further could make it flawless.
• Lin Fan detected the Black Demon Jiaolong Ancestor, a late-stage Demon Saint, approaching Jiaolong Ridge alone and chose not to alert him.
• Lin Fan considered obtaining Dragon Clan bloodline for Ao Mingyue so she could transform further.

Ao Mingyue explained the Dark Dragon Clan’s strength and its connection to the Black Demon Jiaolong Clan while Lin Fan wondered why the Black Demon Jiaolong Ancestor had come. The ancestor revealed to the Bloodlight Demon Saint that the Dark Dragon Clan had sent him and described the royal clan’s declining influence.

• Ao Mingyue told Lin Fan that the Black Demon Jiaolong Clan was a branch of the Dark Dragon Clan, one of the Demon Kingdom’s three powerful royal clans.
• Heavenly Flood Dragon met the Bloodlight Demon Saint and said he had come at another’s request.
• Heavenly Flood Dragon revealed that the Dark Dragon Clan had requested his visit.
• Heavenly Flood Dragon explained that the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan had grown into an overlord clan after the Cloud Swallowing Python Clan and Eight-Armed Demon Ape Clan fell.
• Heavenly Flood Dragon said the Dark Dragon Clan had weakened after an internal conflict and faced pressure from the Bloodthirsty Heavenly Fox and Violent Ghost Tiger clans.

The Bloodlight Demon Saint told Lin Fan that the Dark Dragon Clan wanted to win over the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan with ancient dragon essence blood, in exchange for its allegiance and help attacking Dust Spirit Province. Lin Fan recognized the hidden costs, and the Bloodlight Demon Saint argued that the offer was inadequate because the clan possessed true dragon blood.

• After the Black Demon Jiaolong Ancestor departed, the Bloodlight Demon Saint went to True Bone Peak, where Ao Mingyue welcomed him and led him to Lin Fan.
• The Bloodlight Demon Saint told Lin Fan that the Dark Dragon Clan had sent the Black Demon Jiaolong Ancestor to recruit them, despite his old blood feud with the clan.
• The Bloodlight Demon Saint presented a vial of ancient dragon essence blood and explained that the Dark Dragon Clan would give it to them even if they refused its proposal.
• The Bloodlight Demon Saint described the clan's conditions: the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan had to declare itself part of the Dark Dragon Clan and join an attack on Dust Spirit Province.
• Lin Fan judged that the conditions could cost the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan territory, resources, and strength, leaving the Dark Dragon Clan to profit.
• The Bloodlight Demon Saint said the Dark Dragon Clan was not sincere and claimed it possessed true dragon blood, which could transform even a Demon Saint.

A beautiful woman lured young flood dragons from Jiaolong Ridge, killed them, and used the Little Red Flood Dragon’s body to attack the clan. She demanded to see Ao Jianshen, who arrived and ordered his clansmen to withdraw.

• The woman appeared by a lake, entranced several young flood dragons, and persuaded them to guide her to Jiaolong Ridge.
• The woman seized a flood dragon, then sent the Little Red Flood Dragon back to the ridge, where blood-colored chains killed several clansmen.
• The woman, speaking through the Little Red Flood Dragon, mocked the clan and demanded that Ao Jianshen come out.
• A clansman attacked the possessed Little Red Flood Dragon and was killed instantly by blood-colored Order Divine Chains.
• Ao Jianshen arrived with several elders, asked the woman’s identity, and ordered the gathered clansmen to withdraw.

A woman from the Bloodthirsty Heavenly Fox Clan demanded that Bloodlight Demon Saint submit the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan and pay tribute, threatening to destroy them if they refused. Bloodlight fought back and gained the upper hand, but she trapped him in a terrifying illusion.

• The woman in white demanded the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan submit to the Bloodthirsty Heavenly Fox Clan and offer one hundred dragon children and one million demon crystals each month.
• Bloodlight Demon Saint rejected her demand, and she gave him three days to agree or face the clan's destruction.
• Bloodlight Demon Saint attacked the woman in white, and their first exchange revealed that his cultivation surpassed hers.
• Bloodlight Demon Saint unleashed the Jiaolong Fist and constrained the woman in white with ripples of golden power.
• The woman in white split into several incarnations and used demonic sounds to pull Bloodlight Demon Saint into an illusion.

Bai Yan escaped the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan and told her Third Brother that a powerful hidden expert had forced her to flee. They discussed the Bloodthirsty Heavenly Fox Clan’s plan to unite the Demon Kingdom, while Third Brother warned her about the ancestors’ changed behavior and gave her three powerful puppets for protection.

• Bai Yan escaped the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan after her Heavenly Fox Demon Sound failed against the Jiaolong Ancestor.
• Bai Yan told her Third Brother that an even more terrifying expert was hiding within the clan.
• Third Brother concluded that the Dark Dragon Clan had won over the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan and acknowledged the threat of the hidden Human cultivator.
• Bai Yan explained that her clan meant to seize the Dark Dragon Clan’s weakened position and unite the Demon Kingdom before the coming calamity.
• Third Brother warned Bai Yan that the ancestors had changed since the Eerie Divine Statues appeared and that clan members had mysteriously disappeared.
• Third Brother gave Bai Yan three Purple-Gold Jade Puppets to protect her.

Flame-Devouring Dragon Lord told the Black Demon Jiaolong Ancestor that the old Dragon Emperor was nearing death, explaining the growing threat to the Dark Dragon Clan. At True Ancient Peak, Lin Fan received the clan’s promised treasures, shared most of them with Ao Mingyue and Bloodlight Demon Saint, and prepared to advance his Phoenix Feather Immortal Art.

• Flame-Devouring Dragon Lord revealed that the old Dragon Emperor’s injuries and failed tribulation had left him close to death.
• The Black Demon Jiaolong Ancestor chose to remain allied with the Dark Dragon Clan despite the coming upheaval.
• Ao Mingyue brought Lin Fan the Ancient Dragon Blood Essence and dragon crystals provided by the Dark Dragon Clan.
• Lin Fan gave Ao Mingyue two bottles of Ancient Dragon Blood Essence and sent two more bottles and some dragon crystals to Bloodlight Demon Saint.
• Lin Fan connected with the Pre-emptive Dao Fruit and received an offer to spend nine hundred years of lifespan to perfect the Phoenix Feather Immortal Art.

Lin Fan advanced his Spirit Control Paper Figure Talisman and created a Primordial Ancient Dragon paper figure. After feeding it several dozen drops of Ancient Dragon Blood Essence, he awakened its consciousness, and it recognized him as the one who had awakened it.

• Lin Fan considered how to obtain enough Dao Principle energy and decided to keep targeting the Sky Swallowing Sparrow clan by helping the Primal Divine Statue devour Eerie Divine Statues.
• Lin Fan spent eight hundred years of lifespan to pre-emptively advance Spirit Control Paper Figure Talisman to mastery.
• Lin Fan learned the fourth divine beast rune was a Primordial Ancient Dragon and drew its paper figure talisman.
• Lin Fan found the Primordial Ancient Dragon paper figure lacked consciousness and infused it with Ancient Dragon Blood Essence.
• The Primordial Ancient Dragon awakened, released its dragon might, and told Lin Fan that he had awakened it.

After the Primordial Ancient Dragon admitted it had no ancient memories or treasures to offer, Lin Fan turned to the Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix for help advancing his cultivation. He learned that killing over a thousand Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan members might restore its memories of the Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix Clan’s hidden opportunities.

• Lin Fan demanded the Primordial Ancient Dragon reveal Dragon Clan ruins and techniques, but it said it had no memories and could only fight for him.
• Lin Fan returned the Primordial Ancient Dragon to its talisman and summoned the Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix.
• The Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix asked whether the Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan had invaded and was surprised to learn Lin Fan had reached the ninth rank of the Demon Saint Realm.
• Lin Fan asked the Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix to help him obtain the Dao Principles energy needed to break through.
• The Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix said its clan had left behind foundations, but it needed the essence blood of hundreds or a thousand Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan members to recover important memories.
• Lin Fan asked whether helping it obtain over a thousand members’ essence blood would reveal the clan’s opportunities, and the Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix said it was strongly possible.

Lin Fan questioned the Primal Divine Statue about its origins and saw a vision linking divine statues to the Eerie Altar, then turned to confirming the Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan’s divine statue power. Meanwhile, Ao Jianshen broke through to the Demon Saint Realm and was congratulated by the Jiaolong Clan elders.

• Lin Fan asked the Primal Divine Statue what it was, and it answered that believers would live while those who offended it would die.
• The Primal Divine Statue sent Lin Fan a vision of the Eerie Altar amid a blood-soaked world and eerie divine statues.
• Lin Fan suspected the vision connected divine statues to the Eerie Altar, but the Primal Divine Statue did not respond to his question.
• Lin Fan set aside the mystery and planned to use the Primal Divine Statue to confirm the divine statue power controlled by the Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan.
• Ao Jianshen broke through to the Demon Saint Realm, and the Jiaolong Clan elders congratulated their clan chief.

Lin Fan reassured Ao Mingyue that they could defeat the Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan’s enemies, while a Bloodthirsty Heavenly Fox Clan woman pressured the clan to choose sides. In the Ashen Mountains, members of the One-Horned White Sheep Clan remained trapped as prisoners of the Two-Headed Peacock Clan.

• Ao Mingyue worried that the Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan was too powerful, but Lin Fan said they could win and continued copying books while waiting to see the enemy clans’ strength.
• A white-robed woman from the Bloodthirsty Heavenly Fox Clan confronted the Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan, demanded to know whether they would fight or submit, and threatened to destroy them if they wavered.
• The Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan Leader blamed the Dark Dragon Clan’s support for the attack and asked the woman to restrain them.
• In the Ashen Mountains, a horned boy told his grandfather he was scared as they sat among captives held by the Two-Headed Peacock Clan.
• The old man comforted the boy and grieved that fewer than a hundred of their captured One-Horned White Sheep Clan members remained alive.

Ao Jianlie and the Spirit Sword Immortal Sect recognized that the Two-Headed Peacock Clan was about to make its move, and Ao Jianlie launched a breakout before the prisoners could be taken as offerings. He destroyed the cage and called on the captives to fight their way out.

• A Spirit Sword Immortal Sect disciple noticed Ao Jianlie and his companion’s unusual calm and concealed cultivation, raising his hopes of rescuing the One-Horned White Sheep clansmen.
• The Two-Headed Peacock Clan began selecting young prisoners as offerings for a banquet, prompting the Spirit Sword Immortal Sect disciples to prepare to act.
• Ao Jianlie ordered the weak-looking Demon Cultivators around him to attack, and they killed a Two-Headed Peacock clansman.
• Ao Jianlie crushed another clansman, transformed into a half-man, half-jiaolong form, and urged the prisoners to fight back.
• Ao Jianlie unleashed his power and shattered the cage.

Lin Fan continued copying books to gain lifespan while Ao Mingyue asked to join the campaign against Dust Spirit Province, and he sent her off with a flying sword. That night, Lin Fan sensed Han Yan undergoing another transformation in the Inner Landscape Space, possibly on the verge of reaching the Ghost Saint realm.

• Lin Fan copied several books, gaining decades of lifespan as Ao Mingyue quietly organized his manuscripts.
• Ao Mingyue asked Lin Fan to let her join the forces fighting in Dust Spirit Province, and he agreed despite warning her about the Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan.
• Lin Fan gave Ao Mingyue a powerful flying sword to strengthen her for battle, and she departed for the front lines.
• After Ao Mingyue left, Lin Fan copied books until night, when he sensed a surge of energy in the Inner Landscape Space.
• Lin Fan and Ghost Mother Wuji saw Han Yan enclosed in a huge black cocoon of ghostly energy as she underwent another transformation.

Lin Fan entered Han Yan’s inner demon tribulation and helped her break free from the Blood River Venerable’s influence. Han Yan emerged from her black cocoon as a Ghost Saint and challenged Lin Fan to test her new strength.

• Ghost Mother Wuji warned Lin Fan that Han Yan was losing control of her inner demon, and Lin Fan entered the black cocoon despite her protest.
• Lin Fan shattered the inner demon’s attack and reminded Han Yan that she was free from the blood-colored statue’s control.
• Han Yan rejected the Blood River Venerable and split its statue apart with her ghost-path aura.
• Lin Fan used the Indestructible Dao Fruit to offset the backlash from helping Han Yan, spending a thousand years of lifespan.
• Han Yan emerged from the cocoon as a Ghost Saint, and she and Lin Fan agreed to exchange blows.

Lin Fan learned from Han Yan that the Eerie Altar had overcome a powerful Mutated Divine Statue and gained the submission of about a hundred statues. Meanwhile, in Dust Spirit Province, Ao Jianlie challenged the Two-Headed Peacock Clan to surrender or be destroyed, and its leader ordered the clan’s elites to attack.

• Han Yan told Lin Fan that her recovered memories revealed the Eerie Altar had ground down the Mutated Divine Statue and begun a sacrificial ritual in the secret realm.
• Han Yan explained that roughly a hundred divine statues had submitted to the Eerie Altar, while only fifteen could obtain the power of faith and the others needed the altar to recover.
• Lin Fan warned Han Yan not to discuss the Eerie Altar with anyone else, and she stayed by his side instead of returning to his Inner Landscape Space.
• Ao Jianlie revealed to the Two-Headed Peacock Clan that he and his companions belonged to the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan and demanded that the clan surrender or be destroyed.
• The Two-Headed Peacock Clan’s golden-robed leader dismissed Ao Jianlie’s threat and sent the clan’s elite fighters to attack.

Lin Fan perfected the Eye of Lost and discovered a strange karmic force woven into the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan’s fortune. Following it brought him face to face with the Black Buddha, whose attack was stopped by the Primal Divine Statue; afterward, the statue identified the Black Buddha as a complete Eerie Divine Statue.

• Ao Jianlie and the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan elders destroyed the Two-Headed Peacock Clan, prompting Ao Jianshen to send Ao Mingyue and reinforcements to Dust Spirit Province.
• Lin Fan spent 1,500 years of lifespan to raise the Eye of Lost to perfection and gained the ability to perceive the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan’s fortune.
• Lin Fan traced a thread of black karmic force within the clan’s fortune to the Black Buddha in the chaotic mist.
• The Black Buddha attacked Lin Fan, but the Primal Divine Statue intervened, clashed with its hand, and drove it away.
• The Primal Divine Statue told Lin Fan that the Black Buddha was a complete Eerie Divine Statue and an existence terrifying to him.

Lin Fan perfected Starlight Shifting and considered how to gather the Dao Principle crystals needed to advance beyond the Calamity Crossing Realm without provoking the Heavenly Net Demon Kingdom’s most powerful clans. He decided to help the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan defeat the Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan so the Primal Divine Statue could devour their divine statues.

• Lin Fan wondered whether the Primal Divine Statue’s growing activity was connected to the successive appearances of divine statues in the demon kingdom.
• Lin Fan spent 1,500 years of lifespan to raise Starlight Shifting to perfection, increasing its reflected attacks to tenfold amplification.
• Lin Fan reviewed his cultivation and concluded that killing many Demon Saints for Dao Principle crystals would risk drawing the attention of the Heavenly Net Demon Kingdom’s dormant old monsters.
• Lin Fan chose to help the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan defeat the Sky Swallowing Sparrow Clan and let the Primal Divine Statue devour the enemy clan’s divine statues.