Recaps

Gui Ying warned Li Tianba that the Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion had colluded with extraterritorial forces, including Yang Mei, a Demon God from the Great Dao Forbidden Land, and urged the Li Family to join Heavenly Domain City’s alliance. Li Tianba agreed to investigate first, but Gui Ying objected and faced his anger.

• Gui Ying told Li Tianba that the Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion had secretly allied with extraterritorial forces and housed powerful outsiders.
• Li Tianba threatened Gui Ying when he doubted his accusation, but Gui Ying insisted it was true and named Yang Mei as one of the hidden experts.
• Gui Ying said the Yu Family and the Myriad Worlds Chamber of Commerce had already formed a secret pact with Heavenly Domain City against the invasion.
• Gui Ying warned that the invading leader had once devastated Heavenly Domain City and commanded the highest Great Dao.
• Li Tianba said he would investigate the pavilion and consider an alliance if Gui Ying’s claims were confirmed.
• Gui Ying objected to waiting for an investigation, and Li Tianba’s pressure forced him to stagger back and beg forgiveness.

Gui Ying persuaded Li Tianba to arrange a gathering of Sin Domain’s major powers to discuss an alliance, but Li Tianba privately dismissed the proposal as a pretext. He told Zhang Feng that Dao Venerable Xuan Qing’s command of two Supreme Great Daos could reshape the order of chaos, leaving his own intentions unstated.

• Gui Ying proposed setting a date to gather representatives of Sin Domain’s major powers at the Li Family and discuss an alliance against threats beyond the domain, and Li Tianba agreed.
• After Gui Ying left, Li Tianba asked Zhang Feng whether the envoy’s claims were true, and Zhang Feng judged them likely genuine but cautioned that Gui Ying might have concealed motives.
• Li Tianba dismissed the alliance proposal as a pretext and argued that the foreign powers had established themselves in Sin Domain with the native powers’ consent.
• Li Tianba asked Zhang Feng whether he had ever seen a controller of a Supreme Great Dao, then described Dao Venerable Xuan Qing as a talent from the Great Dao Forbidden Land destined to stir up a new order in chaos.

Li Tianba planned to secretly ally the Li Family with Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion while pretending to cooperate with Heavenly Prison City, intending to exploit the coming conflict and dominate Sin Domain City. Jin Shui learned that Dao Venerable Xuan Qing was leading an army toward the city and prepared for Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion’s open confrontation with the old powers.

• Li Tianba showed Zhang Feng a Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion golden card and declared his intention to join forces with Dao Venerable Xuan Qing and destroy Heavenless City.
• Zhang Feng warned Li Tianba that openly siding with Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion could unite the other four powers against the Li Family.
• Li Tianba revealed that his alliance with Heavenly Prison City was a deception meant to uncover its plans before the Li Family secretly backed Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion and struck at the other powers.
• Zhang Feng praised Li Tianba’s scheme and became confident that the Li Family would rise above the other powers.
• Jin Shui received word that Dao Venerable Xuan Qing was leading an army toward Sin Domain City and resolved to make Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion’s first true battle a decisive challenge to the old order.

Jin Shui received a visit from Dao Lord Shou Gu of the Myriad Worlds Chamber of Commerce, who revealed Heavenly Prison City’s plot against the Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion. Dao Venerable Xuan Qing then appeared undetected, leaving Dao Lord Shou Gu stunned.

• A servant delivered the Myriad Worlds Chamber of Commerce’s invitation, and Jin Shui ordered the guest shown in.
• Dao Lord Shou Gu arrived, and Jin Shui greeted the elder who had secretly protected the Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion.
• Jin Shui asked why Shou Gu had come, and Shou Gu disclosed that Heavenly Prison City had sought outside allies to destroy the pavilion.
• Dao Venerable Xuan Qing appeared silently at the tea table, and Shou Gu recognized him in shock.

Qin revealed that his purpose in Sin Domain went beyond destroying Heavenly Prison City, while the Myriad Worlds Chamber of Commerce proposed an alliance with the Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion. Dao Lord Shou Gu disclosed that the chamber’s deeper aim was to ask Qin how its president, Shang Zhen, could break the Dao Prison’s Shackles and ascend to Wuji.

• Qin said Heavenly Prison City could be erased easily and hinted that his goal in Sin Domain was much broader.
• Jin Shui asked Dao Lord Shou Gu to explain the Myriad Worlds Chamber of Commerce’s purpose, and Shou Gu revealed its plans.
• Shou Gu proposed an alliance to monopolize Sin Domain’s trade with the Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion and said the chamber would destroy Treasure Pavilion.
• Qin agreed to the alliance, then pressed Shou Gu to reveal the chamber’s deeper objective.
• Shou Gu said Shang Zhen sought Qin’s guidance on breaking the Dao Prison’s blockade and reaching Wuji, but remained trapped beneath its pressure in Sin Domain City.

Qin Ye asked whether Chaos Origin Stones could free the Myriad Worlds Chamber of Commerce's Chamber Master from the Sin Domain Dao Prison. Jin Shui revealed a stone's power and refused to disclose the secret behind it, leaving Dao Lord Shou Gu with a possible way to break the Chamber Master's suppression.

• Qin Ye told Dao Lord Shou Gu that Jin Shui and Yue Ying had used Chaos Origin Stones to advance their cultivation despite the Dao Prison.
• Jin Shui brought out a Chaos Origin Stone and explained that its power could disperse the Dao Prison Chains and release the Chamber Master's cultivation if enough stones were gathered.
• Dao Lord Shou Gu received the stone in shock and wondered why the Sin Domain's major powers had not seized it.
• Jin Shui said the stone's origins involved a secret tied to his mistress and declined to explain further, and Dao Lord Shou Gu stopped probing.
• Qin Ye set aside his curiosity about Jin Shui's wife and focused on the Primordial World's future.

Qin formed a binding alliance between the Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion and the Myriad Worlds Chamber of Commerce using the Annihilation Supreme Dao. After the contract revealed his power, he told Dao Lord Shou Gu that he was Qin, an Origin avatar of Dao Venerable Xuan Qing.

• Jin Shui explained that the Chaos Origin Stones came from Dao Venerable Xuan Qing's residence, so Qin's approval was needed to provide them.
• Qin agreed to Dao Lord Shou Gu's request and forged a Great Dao contract binding the Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion and the Myriad Worlds Chamber of Commerce in an alliance against the Sin Domain's established powers.
• Jin Shui and Dao Lord Shou Gu offered their Origin blood essence, activating the contract and imprinting its terms on the leaders of both organizations.
• Shang Zhen and the two vice presidents sensed the Annihilation Supreme Dao and realized the Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion had another supreme expert.
• Dao Lord Shou Gu questioned whether Qin was Dao Venerable Xuan Qing, and Qin identified himself as Qin and said he shared Xuan Qing's Origin.
• Jin Shui clarified that Qin was an Origin avatar of Dao Venerable Xuan Qing who commanded the Annihilation Supreme Dao.

Dao Lord Shou Gu learned that Qin was an independent Origin avatar of Dao Venerable Xuan Qing who wielded the Supreme Great Dao of World Destruction, and he carried Xuan Qing’s secret orders to the Myriad Worlds Chamber of Commerce. When he revealed Xuan Qing’s third Supreme Great Dao to the chamber’s leaders, Shang Zhen’s power surged, triggering the Dao Prison’s restraints, and Shou Gu offered Chaos Origin Stones to help free him.

• Qin ordered Dao Lord Shou Gu to secretly bring the Prehistoric armies into the Myriad Worlds Chamber of Commerce’s territory without alerting the Sin Domain’s major forces.
• Dao Lord Shou Gu returned to the secret realm and met President Shang Zhen and Vice Presidents Chen Mo and Qu Yao, who already knew the alliance’s binding terms.
• Shang Zhen asked what the World Destruction power was, and Dao Lord Shou Gu revealed that it was Dao Venerable Xuan Qing’s third Supreme Great Dao.
• Shang Zhen’s shaken state of mind caused his power to surge, and the Sin Domain’s Dao Prison Law Chains bound and suppressed him.
• Dao Lord Shou Gu produced Chaos Origin Stones and urged Shang Zhen to break their shackles and absorb their Origin.

Shang Zhen used a Chaos Origin Stone to break the Sin Domain's restraints, revealing that the stones could open a path to Hunyuan Wuji. He gave Dao Lord Shou Gu control of the Myriad Worlds Chamber of Commerce, but Shou Gu warned them not to celebrate too soon.

• Following Dao Lord Shou Gu's instructions, Shang Zhen channeled the Chaos Origin Stone's power and dissolved the restraints on his cultivation.
• Qu Yao and Chen Mo witnessed the breakthrough and realized the stones could overcome the Sin Domain's Dao Prison.
• Dao Lord Shou Gu explained that the stones were a gift from Dao Venerable Xuan Qing, secured through the alliance between the Myriad Worlds Chamber of Commerce and the Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion.
• Shang Zhen celebrated the chance to pursue Hunyuan Wuji and praised Dao Lord Shou Gu for forging the alliance.
• Shang Zhen transferred all authority over the Myriad Worlds Chamber of Commerce to Dao Lord Shou Gu, and Qu Yao and Chen Mo accepted without objection.
• Dao Lord Shou Gu cautioned them not to celebrate too soon.

Dao Lord Shou Gu persuaded the Myriad Worlds Chamber of Commerce leaders to remain independent while cooperating with Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion. In Sin Domain City, Gui Ying secured Drunken Fragrance Pavilion as an ally, and Xiang Ling entered its secret chamber after receiving permission from the Pavilion Master.

• Dao Lord Shou Gu rejected Shang Zhen’s offer to merge the Myriad Worlds Chamber of Commerce into Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion, arguing that independent cooperation and competition would preserve both powers’ growth.
• Shang Zhen, Qu Yao, and Chen Mo entrusted the chamber’s decisions and development to Dao Lord Shou Gu and focused on awaiting their chance to break through.
• Gui Ying left Drunken Fragrance Pavilion pleased that its members had readily agreed to a secret alliance against the coming invasion of the Sin Domain.
• Gui Ying set out to persuade the Dao Alchemy Alliance, the Ancient Formation Masters Association, and the Great Dao Unification Sect to join the alliance.
• After Gui Ying departed, Xiang Ling went to Drunken Fragrance Pavilion’s forbidden secret chamber and requested an audience with the Pavilion Master, who invited her inside.

Tian Feixue weighed Gui Ying’s proposed alliance against the threat posed by Dao Venerable Xuan Qing and decided the Drunken Fragrance Pavilion should seek a place under Xuan Qing’s power. She sent Xiang Ling to secretly test Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion’s willingness to accept them as a subordinate force.

• Xiang Ling reported Gui Ying’s invitation to unite the Sin Domain’s local powers against an invasion from beyond the domain.
• Tian Feixue argued that the old powers’ alliance would be insincere and that the conflict was a struggle for territory between the greatest powers.
• Xiang Ling warned that the Drunken Fragrance Pavilion could not escape the conflict even if it stayed neutral.
• Tian Feixue concluded that Heavenly Prison City and the old local powers could not withstand Dao Venerable Xuan Qing.
• Tian Feixue ordered Xiang Ling to secretly visit Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion and determine whether Xuan Qing’s side would accept the Drunken Fragrance Pavilion as a subordinate power.

Xiang Ling accepted Tian Feixue’s order to investigate Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion, troubled by the sacrifice her Pavilion Master was prepared to make to protect Drunken Fragrance Pavilion. When Xiang Ling entered the pavilion under concealment, the man inside immediately saw through her and her hidden purpose.

• Xiang Ling heard Tian Feixue’s plan to submit to the Dao Venerable to protect Drunken Fragrance Pavilion and felt anguish at the cost to her Pavilion Master.
• Xiang Ling reflected on Tian Feixue’s Great Dao Injury and the painful histories of the women who had found refuge in Drunken Fragrance Pavilion.
• Xiang Ling promised Tian Feixue she would investigate Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion and set out using a Chaos Spiritual Treasure to conceal herself.
• Xiang Ling entered Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion and saw a formidable man accompanied by a chubby, smiling figure in the main hall.
• The man and his companion detected Xiang Ling, and the man’s Dao gaze broke through her concealment and exposed her secrets and purpose.

Qin revealed that he had seen through Xiang Ling’s concealment and received her at the Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion. Xiang Ling then presented the Sin Fragrance Pavilion master’s token and formally offered the pavilion’s submission to him.

• Qin saw through Xiang Ling’s Chaos Spiritual Treasure concealment and sent Jin Shui to invite her upstairs.
• Jin Shui escorted Xiang Ling to Qin, and she realized that Qin was Dao Venerable Xuan Qing.
• Xiang Ling revealed her Primordial Taiji Perfection cultivation, stunning Jin Shui.
• Jin Shui hinted that another force had already chosen to join Qin, and Xiang Ling inferred that Qin’s plans for the Sin Domain had begun earlier than outsiders knew.
• Xiang Ling presented the Sin Fragrance Pavilion master’s life-bound token and asked Qin to accept the submission of every member of the Drunken Fragrance Pavilion.

Sin Fragrance Pavilion offered submission to Qin, and Xiang Ling secretly proposed that its Pavilion Master, Tian Feixue, become Qin’s Dao Companion. Qin saw that the proposal was Xiang Ling’s own desperate attempt to find her wounded, lonely master someone she could trust.

• Qin considered why Sin Fragrance Pavilion had chosen submission over alliance, and admired the faction’s decisiveness.
• Xiang Ling presented the pavilion’s rose-token handkerchief to Qin and proposed that Tian Feixue become his Dao Companion so the faction could submit completely.
• Qin questioned whether the proposal came from Tian Feixue or from Xiang Ling, and Xiang Ling’s composure broke when he exposed her secret choice.
• Xiang Ling explained that Tian Feixue had endured a Great Dao Injury and loneliness for countless ages, and said she believed Qin alone could protect and heal her master.
• Qin quietly listened as Xiang Ling risked her future to seek a peaceful refuge for Tian Feixue.

Xiang Ling revealed that Sin Fragrance Pavilion wanted to offer Qin a marriage alliance, but Qin firmly rejected the romantic proposal while agreeing to protect the pavilion if it submitted. After Xiang Ling left, Jin Shui laughed at Qin until Qin kicked him into a wall and threatened to hand him over to Yue Ying.

• Xiang Ling explained that Sin Fragrance Pavilion admired Qin and hoped to arrange a marriage, prompting Jin Shui to struggle to contain his laughter.
• Qin rejected the proposal, saying he was devoted to the Great Dao, but promised to protect Sin Fragrance Pavilion if it sincerely submitted.
• Xiang Ling accepted Qin's response and left with Ziyi, though she suggested the Pavilion Master might also come to admire him.
• Jin Shui burst out laughing after Xiang Ling departed, and Qin kicked him into the jade wall.
• Qin threatened to hand Jin Shui over to Yue Ying if he kept laughing, and Jin Shui quickly apologized while privately plotting to tell Jian Chen and the others.

Xiang Ling returned to the Drunken Fragrance Pavilion with news that Qin had agreed to protect the Sin Fragrance Pavilion, but her effusive praise of him unsettled Tian Feixue. The chapter left Tian Feixue alone, wondering whether Qin might be the dependable partner she had long desired.

• Qin angrily forced Jin Shui out of the private room.
• Xiang Ling returned to the Drunken Fragrance Pavilion and told Tian Feixue that Qin had agreed to protect the Sin Fragrance Pavilion and accept its allegiance.
• Xiang Ling praised Qin’s appearance and bearing, calling him Tian Feixue’s dream husband.
• Tian Feixue grew cold, dismissed Xiang Ling, and privately found her Dao Heart disturbed as she wondered about Qin.

Tian Feixue overcame the Obsession that had kept her distrustful of love and began to hope the Dao Venerable could be a worthy partner. Meanwhile, Gui Ying persuaded the Dao Alchemy Alliance to join forces against the invading outsiders with surprising ease.

• Tian Feixue's scarlet Obsession urged her to reject love, while a snow-white will argued that the Dao Venerable might be trustworthy and help her resolve her inner knot.
• The snow-white will defeated the scarlet phantom, and Tian Feixue's Dao Heart opened to warmth and hope as a sealed spiritual plant bloomed in her chamber.
• Gui Ying revealed to the Dao Alchemy Alliance that powerful outsiders were invading the Chaos heavens.
• The Dao Alchemy Alliance's leaders quickly agreed to form an alliance and help restrain the invading outsiders.

Gui Ying easily secured the Dao Alchemy Alliance’s support against the outer-realm invasion, then traveled to the Formation Masters Association expecting another simple agreement. President Huo Rong had already prepared the alliance contract and accepted the proposal before Gui Ying could explain.

• The Dao Alchemy Alliance readily believed Gui Ying’s warning and agreed to join forces against the invaders, confident its influence could rally Chaos’s major powers.
• Gui Ying left the alliance baffled by how easily he had persuaded its elders, then became delighted and headed for the Formation Masters Association.
• Gui Ying entered the association’s Great Hall, where Huo Rong immediately handed him a prepared alliance agreement.
• Huo Rong explained that the Dao Alchemy Alliance had already informed him about the invasion, and the Formation Masters Association agreed to the alliance.

Gui Ying secured the Formation Masters Association’s alliance against the invaders and then set out to recruit the mysterious Great Dao Unification Sect. At the foot of Wuji Divine Mountain, he ordered his attendants to wait while he began the dangerous climb alone.

• Huo Rong agreed that the Formation Masters Association would join the war against the invaders and raise an ancient killing array.
• Gui Ying left the association, reflecting that both it and the Alchemy Alliance had joined with little effort.
• Gui Ying headed for Wuji Divine Mountain, the hidden headquarters of Great Dao Unification Sect, uncertain whether the sect would join the fight.
• Gui Ying and his attendants reached the mountain’s foot and felt the deadly force of Chaos storms and Space Rifts.
• Gui Ying ordered his attendants to stay behind and announced that he would climb the mountain alone.

Gui Ying reached the Great Dao Unification Sect to seek an alliance on the City Lord’s orders, and the City Lord’s token suppressed the chaos guarding the mountain. A mysterious sect figure accepted his request and led him inside.

• Gui Ying dismissed his attendants and approached the Great Dao Unification Sect’s divine mountain alone.
• The mountain’s chaos storms attacked Gui Ying, but the City Lord’s token released golden light that quelled them and revealed a bluestone path.
• A mysterious figure appeared and demanded to know why Gui Ying had entered the sect’s forbidden grounds.
• Gui Ying presented the token and explained that Heavenly Prison City sought an alliance against invaders from beyond their domain.
• The figure returned the token, agreed to receive Gui Ying, and led him into the immortal mist.

Gui Ying entered the Great Dao Unification Sect and learned that its supreme elder was Yu Cangxuan’s father. The elder agreed to commit the sect’s full strength against the Dao Venerable, leaving Gui Ying relieved and newly confident.

• Gui Ying followed his guide to the Great Dao Unification Sect’s main peak and felt its Dao Resonance suppress his cultivation.
• The guide brought Gui Ying into the Great Hall, where its confinement sealed away all his cultivation and abilities.
• Gui Ying met the white-haired elder and explained the invasion, Yu Cangxuan’s request for an alliance, and the state of the Sin Domain.
• The elder revealed that Yu Cangxuan was his son, explaining the hidden support behind Heavenly Prison City.
• The elder declined to discuss an alliance but promised that the Great Dao Unification Sect would commit its full strength to dealing with the Dao Venerable.

Gui Ying received a sacred decree from the Great Dao Unification Sect to bind the allied factions and returned to arrange their final negotiations. Hellwind and Myriad Forms then reported to Dao One that the Supreme Great Dao had appeared in the Sin Domain and its Primordial Spirit planned to act.

• The elder approved Gui Ying's alliance-building efforts and forged a sacred decree of Unification to command the allied factions.
• Gui Ying accepted the decree, returned to the sect's sacred mountain, and summoned the participating factions to settle their alliance leadership and rules.
• Hellwind met Myriad Forms atop the sect's highest peak, and they went together to see Dao One.
• Hellwind told Dao One that the Supreme Great Dao had appeared in the Sin Domain and its Primordial Spirit intended to make its move.

Dao One learned that a Primordial Taiji cultivator possessed the Supreme Great Daos of Infinite and Destiny and was moving against Heavenly Prison City. Hellwind urged the Unification Sect to capture him for study, while Myriad Forms warned of catastrophic risks, so Dao One deferred the decision to the sect's ancestors.

• Hellwind told Dao One that one person wielded the Supreme Great Daos of Infinite and Destiny and intended to overthrow Heavenly Prison City.
• Hellwind proposed capturing the cultivator to study his two Supreme Great Daos, but Myriad Forms warned that the act could bring disaster upon the Unification Sect.
• Myriad Forms recalled how the sect had lost two Wuji-realm ancestors in the Chaos Origin Secret Realm and cautioned against repeating that tragedy.
• Hellwind argued that an ancestor could easily suppress the still-immature cultivator and suggested letting the allied forces fight first while the Unification Sect waited to claim the gains.
• Dao One stopped their argument and said he would seek the ancestors' instructions before making a final decision.

Dao Sheng forced a message about the upheaval in the Sin Domain and the two Supreme Great Daos into the Dao Prison, suffering a grievous injury from its backlash. After the seven imprisoned cultivators learned that one person wielded both Daos, Dao Sheng urged them to seize the chance to escape their confinement, while their leader remained wary.

• Dao One sent a report about the Sin Domain upheaval and the young man wielding the Supreme Great Daos of Destiny and Infinite toward the Dao Prison.
• Dao Sheng unleashed his Wuji power against the Dao Prison's sealing barrier, creating a crack that let the message rune pass through.
• The Dao Prison's backlash struck Dao Sheng, grievously injuring his body and Dao Heart.
• Dao Sheng revealed the message to the six other awakened cultivators, and all seven reacted with shock to the news of the two Supreme Great Daos.
• The leader questioned whether the Daos were a trap, but Dao Sheng declared he would risk his life and Dao to break free of the prison.

Sky Shadow persuaded the six Hunyuan Wuji mighty beings to help him escape the Dao Prison so he could pursue the two Supreme Great Daos in the Sin Domain. He escaped through a narrow opening, leaving the exhausted six behind as they entrusted the outside world's opportunities to him.

• Sky Shadow argued that his lighter restraints made him the best choice to leave the Dao Prison and capture the Primordial Taiji realm cultivator.
• The six Hunyuan Wuji mighty beings agreed to help Sky Shadow and formed a Supreme Dao-Breaking Formation.
• The six poured out their power and forced open a fleeting crack in the Dao Prison's chains.
• Sky Shadow passed through the crack and escaped the Dao Prison's restraints.
• Sky Shadow bowed three times in gratitude as the six, weakened by their effort, told him to go and entrusted the outside world's opportunities to him.