Recaps

Xu Yunfan entered the Sword Burial Abyss, gained divine weapons, mastered the Marrow Cleansing Realm, and was drawn into a struggle among Jade Capital’s factions. After uncovering a plot tied to the Profound Heaven Treasure Record, he advanced his Ten Extremes Martial Dao and arrived at the Martial Arts Grand Ceremony preliminaries.

• Xu Yunfan accepted Dugu Jiu’s Ten Extremes Martial Dao and took the Rift Sky Piercing Cloud Bow and Mountain Shaking Sea Suppressing Twin Hammers from the Sword Burial Abyss.
• Xu Yunfan completed the Marrow Cleansing Realm, achieved a Flawless True Body, and learned that the Dao Sect planned to pursue secret tasks while he competed for Martial Champion in Jade Capital.
• Xu Yunfan reached Jade Capital with Li Haomiao and Fang Mushan, then confronted and defeated Jiang Jingguo and Jiang Tianyang after they provoked him at Long Wind Tavern.
• Bi Sheng intervened when Su Wanqing attacked Xu Yunfan, exposed the Waterside Pavilion conspiracy, and arranged to meet her at the Gui Water Position.
• Xu Yunfan captured Zhao Yu, learned he had plotted out of resentment, and discovered that an incense burner had helped drive Jiang Jingguo into a frenzy.
• Bi Sheng and Xu Yunfan confronted Su Wanqing at the Gui Water altar, obtained the Profound Heaven Treasure Record, and learned that it contained a Heavenly Demon Qi Condensation Art.
• Xu Yunfan formed the Ten Extremes Martial Dao’s Primal Chaos True Seed and refined its circulation before Chen Hong led him to the Martial Arts Grand Ceremony preliminaries.

Xu Yunfan absorbed the Dao Sect’s ritual power, broke through the Ninth Realm, and fought the court and sects that tried to stop him. After defeating the Suffering Calamity Doom Three Monks and claiming the title of martial champion, he began absorbing the Five Great Sects’ power.

• Xu Yunfan entered the Seventy-Two Wards arena and won seven matches as his opponents surrendered or retreated, while Bi Yuan ordered the Dao Sect’s Grand Celestial Ritual to support him.
• Bi Yuan and the Dao Sect elders used the Myriad Stars Array and Profound Heaven Treasure Record to send Mystic Yellow Qi from the dragon vein to Xu Yunfan, who absorbed it and broke through to the Ninth Realm.
• The Empress ordered a purge of Dao Sect disciples, but Xu Yunfan continued the examination, learned the next match would be delayed, and discovered the Silent Extinction Dust Heart Sutra.
• Xu Yunfan killed Chen Wei, a white-haired eunuch, Guo Lang, Mountain Gazing Taoist, Chu Sheng, and Yun Lan Fairy as he fought the Empress’s allies and the sects guarding Jade Capital’s earth veins.
• Dugu Jiu warned Xu Yunfan that the Grand Celestial Ritual had disrupted the world’s qi and could bring back the Heavenly Demons, and said Xu Yunfan might be able to oppose them.
• Xu Yunfan absorbed the Suffering Calamity Doom Three Monks’ chains and poison, then killed Ci Ku, Ci Nan, and Ci E despite their weapons and traps.
• Xu Yunfan declared himself the martial champion after the Five Great Sects fell silent, then absorbed Mystic Yellow Qi and began drawing the sect experts’ martial power into himself.

Xu Yunfan defeated the Empress, reached the Land Immortal Realm, and uncovered the Primal Beginning Sect’s plan to harvest the Divine Martial Realm. As its arrival neared, he aided Li Haomiao’s rise and destroyed the sects that had opposed him, then headed for Penglai Pavilion.

• Xu Yunfan slaughtered the Ninth Realm grandmasters at the Black Tortoise Martial Arts Stage, then told Li Haomiao he would kill the Empress and clear the way for a new dynasty.
• Xu Yunfan killed the Empress and absorbed the Mystic Yellow Qi from the Grand Celestial Ritual, reaching the Land Immortal Realm as the Dao Sect’s Spirit Meridian was restored.
• You Quan emerged from the ruins and revealed the Primal Beginning Sect’s plan to harvest the Divine Martial Realm, but Xu Yunfan defeated him and extracted details about the sect’s arrival in three days.
• Xu Yunfan explored the Martial Arts Tower, learned more about the vacant Divine Martial Dao Foundation, and drained an old eunuch who attacked him.
• Xu Yunfan helped Li Haomiao take Jade Capital City, killed hidden Ninth Realm experts, and destroyed Guo Lang’s Heavenly Demon Heart.
• Xu Yunfan defeated the Sword Pavilion elders, drained their sword essence, and smashed the mountain gate before claiming the mountain for the Dao Sect.
• Xu Yunfan destroyed Amitabha Temple and Mystic Truth Mountain, then shattered Nine Luminaries Mountain and refined the sects’ remaining true qi.
• Xu Yunfan flew toward Penglai Pavilion and reached the Eastern Sea, where Penglai Island stood amid Weak Water and poisonous mist.

Xu Yunfan reached the Land Immortal Realm, survived the arrival of the Outer Realm cultivators, and used the Martial Dao Mystic Crystal to establish a foundation. He entered the Taihua Spiritual Void Realm disguised as a Primal Beginning Sect disciple and began cultivating in secret on Hundred Desires Peak.

• Xu Yunfan destroyed Penglai Pavilion, absorbed the Pavilion Master's true qi, and returned to Qingwei Mountain, where he revealed that he had wiped out the Ninth Realm cultivators and their sects.
• As the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons arrived, Xu Yunfan killed the Primal Beginning Sect disciples who attacked him and forced Chen Jiuchuan to reveal the Martial Dao Mystic Crystal's location.
• Xu Yunfan refined the wounded Jiaolong into the Martial Dao Mystic Crystal, then defeated the Divine Martial True Person and absorbed his soul and Foundation Establishment origin.
• Xu Yunfan swallowed the Mystic Crystal and the Ten Thousand Year Ginseng King, formed a rudimentary Divine Martial Dao Foundation, and captured Xu Tian after killing his companions.
• Xu Yunfan gave Bi Yuan and his allies scriptures, weapons, and blood essence before entering the Realm Gate with Xu Tian and other controlled disciples.
• Xu Yunfan killed Xu Tian and six Primal Beginning Sect disciples, then used Xu Tian's complete Hundred Bones Connecting to the Nether Technique to pass himself off as a new disciple of Hundred Desires Peak.
• Xu Yunfan obtained a Meridian Opening Pill and reshaped his meridians, forming a Dantian Sea of Qi and converting his true qi into True Martial Devouring Demon True Essence.
• Xu Yunfan killed Hua Xiangrong when her attempt to drain him failed, refined her essence, and continued cultivating in secret as her disappearance went largely unnoticed.