Recaps

Sect Leader Du executed the Taiqing traitors and joined Sect Leader Hong in Donghua Immortal Sect, while Xu Yi explored a region of chaotic temporal force and encountered powerful Chaos Demons. After overhearing six cultivators discuss selling a nearby opportunity, Xu Yi stopped them and offered to buy the information.

• Sect Leader Du and his enforcement elders refined Du Kui, Qi Hong, and the other Taiqing traitors, then thanked Sect Leader Hong and asked about the four powerful allies.
• Sect Leader Hong invited Sect Leader Du and the others into Donghua Immortal Sect, while Yan Zi escorted the Three Dragon Guests inside.
• Xu Yi traveled south into a region of chaotic temporal force and killed two Chaos Demons with his Hun Tian Sword.
• Xu Yi encountered six cultivators beset by two stronger Chaos Demons, which abandoned them and pursued him instead.
• The six cultivators agreed to sell their knowledge of a nearby opportunity to the Holy Clan, but Xu Yi overheard them and blocked their way, offering to buy it.

Xu Yi captured six cultivators who tried to flee and forced them to reveal a golden-lit cave in the Purple Domain. As they prepared to lead him there, Wang Lun offered to teach Xu Yi a technique for sensing Chaos Demons, prompting one of the cultivators to accuse him of hiding the truth about his family’s heirloom.

• Xu Yi showed the six cultivators the cores of two Chaos Demons and captured them after Wang Lun tricked the group into fleeing.
• Xu Yi ordered the red-robed elder to explain the opportunity, and the elder showed him footage of a golden-lit cave filled with demonic howls.
• Xu Yi told the six cultivators to guide him to the cave and promised to let them go afterward.
• Wang Lun offered to teach Xu Yi a technique for sensing Chaos Demons in exchange for his freedom.
• The green-robed middle-aged man accused Wang Lun of claiming his Huihui Pearl was spent, and Wang Lun defended his actions.

Xu Yi forced Wang Lun to reveal the Opportunity Seeking Formation, then tested it and used it to detect an approaching Chaos Demon. Wang Lun declined Xu Yi’s offer to join him and left, while Xu Yi continued deeper into the Purple Domain with four unwilling companions toward a golden-lit cave.

• Xu Yi killed the green-robed middle-aged man and demanded that Wang Lun explain his secret art.
• Wang Lun revealed that he had created an Opportunity Seeking Formation that used Spirit Cores to detect nearby Chaos Demons and identify their tiers.
• Xu Yi learned the formation, detected a first-tier Chaos Demon with a white Spirit Core, and killed it with Sword Qi.
• Wang Lun explained why he had previously fought two third-tier Chaos Demons, then declined Xu Yi’s offer to continue exploring and departed.
• Xu Yi rejected the four companions’ secrets and led them onward; they avoided further demons and approached a cave radiating golden light.

Xu Yi investigated the roars coming from a cave and discovered that a Feng Su, a powerful primordial strange beast, guarded it. The beast devoured the red-robed elder and the others, while Xu Yi wondered what lay inside the cave and how the Feng Su could be there.

• Xu Yi sensed a fourth-tier heavenly demon southeast of the group and cautiously advanced toward the cave, realizing the demon was inside it.
• Xu Yi told the red-robed elder and the others to retreat, but they stayed because they feared crossing the forest without him.
• A colossal black shadow burst from the cave and unleashed a gale that dragged the group toward it.
• Xu Yi attacked the shadow with Seven Thousand Swords, but it dodged and devoured the red-robed elder and the others.
• Xu Yi recognized the beast as a Feng Su and wondered whether it shared the cave with a Chaos Demon and whether both had the same master.

Xu Yi forced his way through the Chaos Demons by persuading Feng Su to carry him into the fog, where he discovered the Yuan Shu Stele. He saw Chaos Demons vanish in its light and realized that human cultivators’ souls were gathering toward it.

• Xu Yi failed to find a safe route through the fog and decided to enlist Feng Su’s help.
• Xu Yi provoked Feng Su into attacking, then used his Sword Robe to injure the beast’s mouth and threatened to damage the cave.
• Xu Yi offered Feng Su spirit liquid, climbed onto his back, and persuaded him to carry him into the fog.
• Feng Su cleared a path through the Chaos Demons, and Xu Yi reached the enormous Yuan Shu Stele.
• Xu Yi watched Chaos Demons disappear in the stele’s light and recognized the faint shadows drawn toward it as human cultivators’ souls.

Xu Yi studied the Ancient Stele and discovered that the Purple Shadow was guarding it. When their fight began, the Purple Shadow surrounded Xu Yi with a technique called Eight Directions Prison Lock.

• Xu Yi examined the Ancient Stele’s moving specks of light and realized they came from the souls carried by the Chaos Demons.
• Xu Yi struck at the stele with Sword Qi, but the Purple Shadow intercepted him and revealed that the Green Demon King had told him about Xu Yi.
• The Purple Shadow tried to draw the Chaos Demons into the fight, but Xu Yi recognized that the stele’s pull kept them from attacking him.
• Xu Yi sent his Hun Tian Sword Formation toward the Ancient Stele, forcing the Purple Shadow to divide his purple qi to stop each attack.
• The Purple Shadow praised Xu Yi’s Core Essence, then burst into purple qi and trapped him with Eight Directions Prison Lock.

Xu Yi fought Purple Shadow, survived a near-fatal attack, and forced him to answer questions by threatening the Yuan Shu Stele. Purple Shadow revealed that he had caused the stele to exist, while Xu Yi’s final question about its mysteries remained unanswered.

• Purple Shadow pierced Xu Yi with a spear of purple qi, but Xu Yi used Magnetic Origin Beads to blast him back and healed his wounds with spiritual water.
• Purple Shadow offered to let Xu Yi leave, but Xu Yi refused and demanded answers, threatening to send Sword Qi into the Yuan Shu Stele.
• Xu Yi revealed that he had glimpsed Purple Shadow’s true form and insisted the stele might be his hope of escaping this world.
• Purple Shadow agreed to answer three questions, warning Xu Yi that he would have to judge their truth himself.
• Purple Shadow said the Yuan Shu Stele existed because of him, and Xu Yi asked why its light spots stopped evolving at the seventh number of the Mysteries.

Xu Yi discovered Purple Shadow's plan and fought his way through Purple Shadow and the fourth-tier Heavenly Demons to reach the Yuan Shu Stele. He redirected the streams of light on the stele, restarting its giant dragon pattern, while Purple Shadow desperately tried to stop him.

• Purple Shadow revealed that he had summoned two fourth-tier Heavenly Demons and intended to kill Xu Yi to keep his secret safe.
• Xu Yi struggled against the two Heavenly Demons, whose strength and defenses overwhelmed him, as Feng Su joined their attack.
• Xu Yi used the Soul-Summoning Banner to expose and repel Purple Shadow's true spirit-core form, then transformed into a demonic body and tore Feng Su in half.
• Xu Yi used Feng Su's body as a weapon to knock the two Heavenly Demons aside and charged toward the Yuan Shu Stele.
• Xu Yi's Sword Qi redirected the stele's streams of light and set its giant dragon pattern moving again, prompting Purple Shadow to order another attack.

Xu Yi’s demonstration of the Great Evolution Numerology activated the Yuan Shu Stele, unleashing a cataclysm that awakened powerful beings throughout the Northern Sacred Court. He returned to Donghua amid the upheaval and set out to face the opportunity the cataclysm offered, while Qiu Wa and A Li remained sealed away.

• Xu Yi pushed the Great Evolution Numerology to its limit, and the Yuan Shu Stele drew in Chaos Demons before erupting with four beams of spacetime power.
• Purple Shadow discovered that more than forty fourth-tier Chaos Demons he had raised had vanished and declared that he was finally going home.
• The stele’s power swept through the Purple Domain and Northern Sacred Court, drawing in demons and awakening a swarm in the Black Sky Mountain Range and an ancient corpse at Qi Mang Mountain.
• Xu Yi returned to the passage to Donghua, where Yan Zi and the four Old Devils were waiting for him.
• Xu Yi told Yan Zi he would return to Donghua and warned that the cataclysm was an opportunity the whole world could not ignore.
• Yan Zi explained that the cataclysm had thrown Donghua into chaos and that Headmaster Hong had sealed the island where Qiu Wa and A Li were staying until Xu Yi returned.

Xu Yi returned to Donghua during a world-shaking upheaval and organized the entire sect to pursue the opportunity at its source. After binding the sect members with Heart Oaths, he went to Green Island, where Qiu Wa and A Li hurried to meet him.

• Xu Yi punished the four Desolate Ancestors with a spell, warned them against disobedience, and returned through the passageway with Yan Zi.
• Xu Yi arrived at Training Ground One, silenced the gathered Donghua members, and announced that everyone under the sect banner could go investigate the heavenly opportunity if they obeyed his orders.
• Xu Yi required the sect members to take Heart Oaths, and Elder Bai urged the elders to swear as well so Donghua would remain united.
• Xu Yi swore to help as many fellow sect members as he could obtain an immortal opportunity, and Master Hong and the others took their oaths.
• Xu Yi sent the elders to oversee their groups and went to Green Island, where Qiu Wa and A Li rushed to him.

Xu Yi returned to Donghua as a huge force attacked the sect, and he led its people toward the Purple Domain. After the Small World was breached, Xu Yi guarded the retreat and entered the hall last as the pursuing force closed in.

• Qiu Wa and A Li reunited with Xu Yi, and Qiu Wa warmly met Yan Zi for the first time.
• Hong Jiantong reported that more than ten thousand cultivators were bombarding Donghua’s spatial node with Spirit Cannons.
• Xu Yi ordered Donghua’s people to withdraw with their supplies, and the Three Dragon Guests warned that Gate No. 7 could no longer hold.
• Xu Yi led more than two thousand people toward the star-map hall and instructed them to form the Seven Stars Bright Duel Formation in the Purple Domain.
• After the Small World was breached, Xu Yi steadied the retreating crowd and guarded the rear until everyone entered the hall.
• Xu Yi spotted the attacking force approaching from the west, suspected Donghua had an informant, and entered the hall last.

Xu Yi led Donghua Immortal Sect through the crowded Purple Domain toward the Yuan Shu Stele, where overwhelming numbers of cultivators and demons blocked the way. After a swarm of supposedly extinct Absolute Ridge Desolate Worms swept past, Xu Yi agreed to head toward a Northern Sacred Court gathering point six thousand li away.

• Xu Yi emerged from the Purple Domain and led Donghua Immortal Sect in the Seven Stars Bright Duel Formation toward the Yuan Shu Stele.
• Xu Yi and his companions saw a frail old cultivator riding a Mechanical Bird, but Xu Yi refused Qiu Wa’s request to help him.
• A swarm of Absolute Ridge Desolate Worms swept through the cultivators; Xu Yi, the Four Demonic Heads, and the Three Dragon Guests protected their companions, while the old cultivator disappeared.
• Xu Yi’s group traveled within three thousand li of the Yuan Shu Stele, but found the route blocked by an enormous crowd of cultivators and demons.
• Hong Jiantong deciphered a Northern Sacred Court signal announcing a location six thousand li away, and Xu Yi agreed to go there.

Xu Yi and the Donghua Immortal Sect reached a gathering of the surviving factions on a Floating Island, where they prepared to discuss their response to the calamity. Kong Ming welcomed Xu Yi and remarked on his past ties to the Holy Race, leaving Xu Yi to answer that fate had brought him to a seat among the leaders.

• Xu Yi led the Four Old Demons and the Three Dragon Guests through the fighting to reach a Floating Island where the Eight Great Immortal Sects and other survivors had gathered.
• Ninth Elder arranged floating bridges for Donghua's exhausted disciples and guided Xu Yi and his party into the meeting hall.
• Xu Yi spotted Yinqiu and Qin Qing among the Taiqing Upper Sect, as well as Xiong Bei Ming and the Third Holy Son.
• Kong Ming welcomed Xu Yi to the raised platform and spoke of his origins and the Holy Race's regret at not recruiting him.
• Xu Yi replied that had the Holy Race recruited him, he might have remained a strongman outside the hall instead of sitting with the Holy Lord to discuss the Dao.

Xu Yi attended the Holy Lord’s gathering, where the factions agreed to unite and advance toward the Yuan Shu Stele for the immortal opportunity. After the meeting adjourned and preparations began, Yin Qiu called out to Sect Leader Du.

• Xu Yi took a seat in the hall while Qiu Wa, A Li, and Yan Zi joined him or the gathering in their respective ways.
• Kong Ming urged the factions to unite before the spots of light on the Yuan Shu Stele lit again and the immortal opportunity arrived.
• Yuan Xingdu proposed a temporary alliance led by the Holy Lord and overseen by an eleven-member Elder Council with a four-vote veto.
• The leaders accepted Yuan Xingdu’s plan, adjourned the meeting, and agreed to depart in three hundred breaths.
• Yin Qiu, who had avoided Xu Yi’s gaze, called out to Sect Leader Du beneath the viewing platform.

Xu Yi joined the expedition aboard the Holy Clan’s Mysterious Jade Wheel after failing to bring Yinqiu back from the Taiqing Upper Sect. As the wheel sped through the Purple Domain toward the Ancient Stele, a smaller flying boat followed in its wake to take advantage of the path it cleared.

• Yinqiu resolved to use Xu Yi’s presence to temper her Supreme Forgetfulness, while Sect Leader Du refused Xu Yi’s request to take her back and promised to protect her.
• Xu Yi left the hall with the Donghua Immortal Sect’s group and learned that the Holy Clan had brought out the Mysterious Jade Wheel, a powerful transport vessel from its old records.
• Xu Yi led the Donghua contingent aboard the wheel, and Desolate Ancestor and Qi Jingfeng praised the sect’s discipline under Xu Yi’s leadership.
• Xu Yi joined the sect leaders on the observation deck as spirit stones powered the wheel, which surged through the Purple Domain and crushed cultivators who failed to move aside.
• A smaller flying boat appeared behind the Mysterious Jade Wheel and followed it to benefit from the path it cleared, leaving Yuan Xingdu and the others frustrated.

Xu Yi and the other sect leaders spent their Spirit Stones to drive the Mysterious Jade Wheel through the crowds and the Absolute Ridge Desolate Worms toward the Yuan Shu Stele. The wheel stopped a thousand zhang from the stele, where a gigantic golden worm blocked their way.

• Xu Yi recognized the Auspicious Duck's arrival and concluded that the Ancient Stele held an immortal opportunity.
• As the Mysterious Jade Wheel plowed through the crowd, the sects pooled Spirit Stones to keep it moving.
• The Mysterious Jade Wheel encountered an insect tide, and the Holy Lord ordered the Clear Light Formation activated despite the risk to the ancestral treasure.
• The Clear Light Formation blasted a path through the Absolute Ridge Desolate Worms, bringing the wheel within a thousand li of the Yuan Shu Stele.
• The Mysterious Jade Wheel stopped before a pure-gold Absolute Ridge Desolate Worm standing atop a mountain-sized pile of its kind.

The Golden Insect King’s swarm overwhelmed the Mysterious Jade Wheel, forcing the Holy Lord to spend the Holy Clan’s resources to buy time for a strategy meeting. The Spirit Cannons fell silent as a vast army of Holy Clan death warriors assembled to face the insects.

• The Absolute Ridge Desolate Worms coated the Mysterious Jade Wheel with mucus, and the Golden Armored General warned that the wheel was losing control.
• The Spirit Cannons blasted away the mucus, but the Golden Armored General reported that the remaining spirit stones could sustain only one more barrage.
• The Holy Lord guaranteed the wheel would remain safe for a quarter of an hour and ordered everyone to find a way through the crisis, despite Elder Kong warning him against using the Holy Clan’s last treasure.
• Yuan Xingdu concluded that they had to kill the Golden Insect King to stop the endless insect tide, and Sect Leader Qin said they would need to attack it at close range.
• The Spirit Cannons fell silent, and Xu Yi saw at least thirty thousand Holy Clan death warriors gather in the space cleared around the wheel.

As the Golden Insect King remained out of reach, the Third Holy Son proposed using a Spirit Cannon to launch Xu Yi into close range. Xu Yi agreed to risk the flight but redirected the final attack to the Third Holy Son, leaving the Holy Lord and the gathered factions unable to reject his plan.

• Thirty thousand Saint Clan soldiers formed a spiritual-energy wall around the Mysterious Jade Wheel, holding back the insect swarm.
• The Holy Lord called for a way to reach the Golden Insect King, and the Third Holy Son proposed using a Spirit Cannon to launch Xu Yi toward it.
• The Third Holy Son urged Xu Yi to make the final strike, citing Xu Yi's body-tempering art and Hun Tian Sword Formation.
• Xu Yi agreed to be launched but proposed that the Third Holy Son join him and use the Saint Clan's Supreme Treasure Golden Gourd for the final attack.
• The Third Holy Son regretted his proposal, but the factions could not reject Xu Yi's plan without admitting the Golden Gourd was more powerful.

Xu Yi volunteered to use the Divine Martial Cannon to break through the insect tide, while the factions swore not to turn their Supreme Treasure Gourds against anyone within the Mysterious Xuan Wheel. He launched himself from the cannon as the puppet soldiers collapsed and the insect tide surged in.

• Elder Kong argued that the Sacred Clan had sacrificed enough and refused to spend its Supreme Treasure Golden Gourd, leaving the other factions under pressure to use their own gourds.
• Xu Yi offered to attack the insect tide and demanded spiritual power from every True Core Late Stage expert and Heart Oaths restricting the gourds' use inside the Mysterious Xuan Wheel.
• The Holy Lord and the leaders of the Imperial Martial Hall, Gui Xu Sect, and Taiqing Upper Sect swore their gourds would not be used against anyone inside the realm.
• Xu Yi returned Qiu Wa to the mustard seed, reassured Yan Zi, and told the Four Old Demons to protect her instead of joining the attack.
• The Holy Lord loaded a Heaven Grade Spirit Stone into the Divine Martial Cannon, and Xu Yi curled into a sphere and entered its barrel as the thirty thousand puppet soldiers fell.
• The Holy Lord moved the cannon through the Celestial Pivot Window, and its blast tore a gap through the approaching insect tide and spun the Mysterious Xuan Wheel around.

Xu Yi survived being fired from the Mysterious Jade Wheel’s cannon and completed the Hun Tian Sword Formation amid the insect swarm. The formation swept the insects aside, leaving the Mysterious Jade Wheel’s occupants stunned by Xu Yi’s power.

• The Holy Lord ordered more than thirty True Core Late Stage experts to combine their spirit shoots and hold the insect swarm back while Xu Yi’s cannon-launched body hung motionless near the Golden Insect King.
• Xu Yi began to move, and the Holy Lord broke his position in the formation so the experts could withdraw their spirit shoots and return to the Mysterious Jade Wheel.
• The Golden Insect King sent the collapsing mountain of insects toward Xu Yi as Sword Qi emerged from his body and formed a vast web of swords.
• The Holy Lord warned the Third Holy Son not to make an enemy of Xu Yi if he survived.
• Xu Yi completed the Hun Tian Sword Formation, which erupted in blazing light and swept aside the ocean of insects.
• Sect Leader Du praised the Hun Tian Sword Formation as the strongest strike in the world.

Xu Yi defeated the Golden Insect King and entered the Yuan Shu Stele’s golden-lit opening, where he collapsed. Yan Zi rushed to treat him, but the Third Holy Son objected and attacked her as the Four Old Demons intervened.

• Xu Yi trapped the Golden Insect King with his sword formation and killed him with a massive strike.
• The insect tide lost its commander, allowing the Myriad Races to push through while Xu Yi headed for the opening in the Yuan Shu Stele.
• A mysterious flying boat entered the golden-lit opening before the Mysterious Jade Wheel arrived, followed by the Holy Lord, Yan Zi, and the other cultivators.
• Yan Zi found Xu Yi lying motionless and rushed to give him a pill, while the Four Old Demons surrounded her in protection.
• The Third Holy Son told Yan Zi to mind her manners and fired a streak of dark light at her; the Four Old Demons struck to intercept it.

The Third Holy Son tried to stop Yan Zi from waking Xu Yi, but Xiong Bei Ming and a mysterious group of black-cloaked figures intervened. Xu Yi regained consciousness and rapidly replenished his strength, though he remained far from fully recovered.

• The Third Holy Son blocked Yan Zi from treating Xu Yi, and Hong Jiantong rallied the Donghua Immortal Sect to defend her.
• Xiong Bei Ming challenged the Third Holy Son’s actions and vowed to protect Xu Yi, while Yuan Tiansi condemned those seeking to exploit him.
• A hooded black-cloaked figure mocked the factions, and three of his followers attacked Elder Kong with a three-colored Qi Dragon.
• The black-cloaked leader ordered Yan Zi to wake Xu Yi, and the other factions held back rather than risk fighting them.
• Yan Zi gave Xu Yi two pills, and he woke up, drank three gourds of spiritual liquid, and learned what had happened from her.

Xu Yi defused the Third Holy Son’s attempt to turn the cultivators against him by admitting he had obtained a Primordial Sword Tooth and offering to let everyone decide who should keep it. The Holy Lord backed Xu Yi, and the crowd turned against the Third Holy Son, leaving Xu Yi in an unassailable position.

• The Third Holy Son challenged Xu Yi to reveal what treasure he had found, hoping to stir the crowd’s greed.
• Xu Yi acknowledged obtaining a Primordial Sword Tooth and argued that reaching the Immortal Realm mattered more than keeping a treasure.
• Xu Yi offered to let everyone decide who should receive the sword tooth.
• The Holy Lord silenced the Third Holy Son and ordered him to stand down, saying Xu Yi had saved them all.
• The cultivators supported Xu Yi and criticized the Third Holy Son for trying to turn them against him.

After the gathered cultivators focused on the treasures they might obtain, Elder Kong confronted the black-cloaked group, who revealed themselves as members of the Great Might Great Virtue Divine Hall led by Auspicious Duck Shaoguang. Shaoguang openly challenged anyone who tried to stop his group from escaping this world, leaving the alliance wary of their strength.

• The sect leaders refused Xu Yi's wish to display the Primordial Sword Tooth, deciding that everyone would keep their treasures hidden.
• Elder Kong called out the black-cloaked figures to settle their earlier accounts, and their leader claimed the Great Might Great Virtue Divine Hall acted as it pleased.
• Shaoguang threw back his hood and ordered the others to remove their cloaks, revealing Sword Maniac Hu Xinguang, Liu Fanghe, Ancestor Miao, Huang Xuanji, old ghost, and powerful demons among the group.
• Xu Yi recognized Huang Xuanji, who had joined Auspicious Duck and reached the True Core Late Stage, and wondered how the Divine Hall had gathered so many powerful followers.
• The Holy Lord greeted Shaoguang cautiously, and Shaoguang said he would show no mercy to anyone who stood in his way.
• Sect Leader Du and the others realized the Divine Hall's united experts could overpower the scattered Mysterious Jade Wheel alliance.

Yan Zi urged the gathered cultivators to retreat and form a shared defense as armies flooded into the hall. Xu Yi and the Donghua Immortal Sect secured control of the Immovable Array of the Heavens, while the Four Seas Demon Race and Green Demon Race established their own formations amid the slaughter.

• The Holy Lord asked Great Virtue Mighty Young Master for insights as the insect swarm and armies battled around the Yuan Shu Stele.
• Yan Zi argued that the cultivators should retreat rather than try to hold the entrance, and Xu Yi called on everyone to form a defense.
• Xu Yi led the Donghua Immortal Sect in forming the Immovable Array of the Heavens, which the Great Might Great Virtue Divine Hall and other cultivators joined before the Holy Race entered.
• The Demon Race charged into the hall, where its forces suffered heavy losses before the Four Seas Demon Race established a protective formation.
• The Green Demon Race entered in disciplined ranks and raised a second formation, leaving the Immovable Array of the Heavens, the Four Seas Demon Race, and the Green Demon Race holding most of the hall.