Recaps

Xu Xiaoshou reached Dao Severing, claimed Yujing City, and defeated Liu Fuyu before facing Gu Yu’s final sword and witnessing his death. Ai Cangsheng returned, killed Dao Xuanji, and set the stage for a confrontation with Xu Xiaoshou.

• Xu Xiaoshou formed Spatial Profundity, shattered his Space Dao Disk, and reached Dao Severing as Qiao Qianzhi left to enter seclusion.
• Xu Xiaoshou moved Yujing City into the Apricot Realm, appointed Li Fugui its Lord, and spared Zhong Yuanzi and the city’s residents.
• Xu Xiaoshou defeated Liu Fuyu in their sword duel, impressed the ancient sword cultivators with his Spirit Sword Technique, and began advancing his Sword Dao Disk.
• Xu Xiaoshou defeated Gu Yu’s first two swords, then confronted his Unified Extreme Sword with his own Second World and challenged Gu Yu’s pursuit of Half-Saint Godhood.
• Gu Yu opened the Mysterious Gate and struck Xu Xiaoshou with the Unparalleled Sword, then died in Mei Suren’s arms after admitting he had retained nothing of the technique.
• Ai Cangsheng returned to Holy Firmament Hall, demanded Dao Qiongchang’s whereabouts, and killed Dao Xuanji when she challenged his authority.
• Ai Cangsheng searched for Dao Qiongchang and announced he would take half the Cold Palace Imperial Realm, while Xu Xiaoshou looked toward Gui-Zhe Holy Mountain and grinned.

Xu Xiaoshou entered the Ran Ming Ruins, gathered Divine Life Stars, and uncovered the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant’s threat as it trapped entrants and consumed powerful beings. After reuniting with Elder Sang and the others, Xu Xiaoshou held eighteen stars, while Yue Gongli’s attempt to test the Reincarnation Heaven-Ascending Pillar ended with two deaths.

• Xu Xiaoshou broke Gui-Zhe Holy Mountain’s formation, confronted Ai Cangsheng, and escaped into the Ran Ming Ruins as the Holy Spirit Hall prepared to pursue him.
• Xu Xiaoshou found Zhou Tianshen in the Dark Life Forest, exposed the forest’s influence, fought Nian and Yue Gongli, and collected Divine Life Stars while the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant’s power emerged.
• Xu Xiaoshou and Yue Gongli encountered the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant, which pursued them and drained an intruding Half-Saint’s Godhood as the ruins became impossible to leave.
• Shen Yi arrived and split the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant and the Divine Court with Overlord.
• Xu Xiaoshou reunited with Elder Sang and the Saint Slave group, and their contributions brought his total to fifteen Divine Life Stars before Bai Zhou handed over three more.
• Xu Xiaoshou reached eighteen Divine Life Stars, but Water Ghost and Elder Sang advised him to wait and let Yue Gongli test the Reincarnation Heaven-Ascending Pillar first.
• Yue Gongli sent a Void cultivator and Half-Saint Cheng Guanglu to activate the pillar, and both died as Cheng Guanglu’s Half-Saint Godhood merged into it.

Xu Xiaoshou ascended into the Relics of the Gods, killed the Central Region Six-Point Saints and Taizai Ci’s allies, and confronted the Kui and Dao Qiongchang. He formed a wary bargain with Dao Qiongchang, who warned that the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant might be tied to the Evil God and that Ran Ming could be the Evil God himself.

• Shen Yi used Fourfold Renunciation to ascend, and the witnesses forgot his demonstration as Xu Xiaoshou prepared to follow him.
• Xu Xiaoshou raised his Dao Disks, summoned the Reincarnation Heaven-Ascending Pillar, and crossed into the upper realm, where he killed the Central Region Six-Point Saints.
• Xu Xiaoshou confronted Taizai Ci and Snake Madam, killed Snake Madam, survived Taizai Ci’s halberd, and trapped and killed the Twelve Saint Lords.
• A Gold-Corroding Kui emerged from Taizai Ci’s corpse, and Xu Xiaoshou defeated it and used Soul Reading to uncover memories involving Dao Qiongchang.
• Xu Xiaoshou disrupted Dao Qiongchang’s consciousness body, then destroyed Dao Qiongchang’s soul when he emerged from the Kui, though Dao Qiongchang revived in another body.
• Dao Qiongchang trapped Elder Sang, Water Ghost, Cen Qiaofu, and Bai Zhou with a soul-seizing technique, but returned their souls after Xu Xiaoshou threatened him and demanded a friendship fee.
• Xu Xiaoshou refused to join the Heavenly Mechanism Divine Sect and instead negotiated a limited alliance with Dao Qiongchang, exchanging information for calculations and other assistance.
• Dao Qiongchang warned that the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant might harbor the Evil God and that Ran Ming could be the Evil God, then invoked heavenly punishment as a sinister purple eye appeared in the sky.

Xu Xiaoshou and his allies battled the Sui Yin Evil God and the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant as Mo Mo, Feng Yujin, and others fell in the fighting. After Xu Xiaoshou destroyed Evil God Yi, the group returned to the Eighteenth Heaven to pursue a plan against Sui Yin, but a mysterious woman dragged Dao Qiongchang into the Life Command Divine Hall.

• Xu Xiaoshou swallowed the Sui Yin Evil God’s attack to save Dao Qiongchang, then struck the god’s manifestation with Illusion Annihilation Finger.
• Yue Gongli pledged himself to Sui Yin and received an eyeball and a branch from the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant, while Mo Mo completed her cultivation and released Bai Yu from the God-Sealing Coffin.
• Mo Mo sealed Hua Yuan inside the God-Sealing Coffin, but Xu Xiaoshou arrived with Water Ghost, Wuxiu, Bai Zhou, Cen Qiaofu, and Dao Qiongchang, who revealed his allegiance to Xu Xiaoshou.
• Dao Qiongchang stripped Sui Yin’s Eye and an Ancestor Tree branch from Yue Gongli, and Xu Xiaoshou crushed both while the Evil God’s shriek killed over a thousand spirit cultivators.
• The Saint-Infant Bearing Plant sacrificed the First Heaven’s inhabitants and gave birth to Dao Infant Shen Yi, whom Sui Yin possessed as Feng Yujin tried to raise Mo Mo to sainthood.
• Evil God Shen Yi killed Mo Mo and Elder Sang, destroyed Water Ghost, and attacked Xu Xiaoshou, while Feng Yujin fought him using the Heavenly Secrets Divine Envoy.
• Xu Xiaoshou destroyed Shen Yi with Passive Fist, devoured his soul fragments, and restored Elder Sang, Water Ghost, and Cen Qiaofu, then planned to rescue Shen Yi from the Thirty-Third Heaven and confront Sui Yin.
• After returning to the Eighteenth Heaven, Xu Xiaoshou took command as the group suspected one another of being compromised, then a woman in black emerged from the Life Command Divine Hall plaque and dragged Dao Qiongchang inside.