Recaps

Duobao challenged Great Witch Kuafu at the entrance to Buzhou Mountain but was defeated by Kuafu’s overwhelming physical strength. Qin Mu then stepped forward and chose to fight Kuafu with his own physical strength, leaving their fists locked in a powerful clash.

• Yu Ding urged Qin Mu to challenge the Great Witch, but Qin Mu encouraged Duobao to try first.
• Duobao attacked Kuafu with a rain of magical treasures, but Kuafu’s body shattered many of them without injury.
• Duobao transformed into a Treasure-Seeking Rat and charged Kuafu, who knocked him down with a stomp and a shockwave.
• Qin Mu helped Duobao up, then stepped forward to challenge Kuafu.
• Kuafu introduced himself, and Qin Mu recognized him as the legendary Witch who chased the sun.
• Qin Mu and Kuafu met each other’s fists using pure physical strength, unleashing a shockwave that split the earth and shattered rocks.

Qin Mu matched Great Witch Kuafu’s physical strength, then revealed his Innate Green Lotus Sword Grass true form and defeated Kuafu with a single sword strike. The chapter ended with Qin Mu returning to human form while Kuafu lay injured in a crater.

• Qin Mu and Kuafu traded punches, and Qin Mu held his own against the Great Witch.
• Kuafu enlarged his body and unleashed his full strength, prompting Qin Mu to reveal his true form as the Innate Green Lotus Sword Grass.
• Qin Mu’s Sword Qi formed a giant phantom sword, which struck Kuafu and sent him crashing into a crater.
• Qin Mu returned to human form and thanked the injured Kuafu for letting him win.

Qin Mu defeated Kuafu and entered Buzhou Mountain, where he spent a thousand years tempering his body under its immense pressure. Duobao and Yu Ding headed to Kunlun Mountain after Qin Mu hinted at an opportunity there, while the Three Pure Ones emerged from seclusion.

• Qin Mu defeated Kuafu in a contest of strength, earning the right to enter Buzhou Mountain.
• Qin Mu told Duobao that Kunlun Mountain might hold a great opportunity for him, and Duobao decided to go there with Yu Ding.
• Xing Tian arrived at Buzhou Mountain seeking the person who had defeated Kuafu, but learned Qin Mu had already gone inside.
• Qin Mu climbed Buzhou Mountain without using magic power and spent a thousand years tempering his body, advancing the Nine Revolutions Profound Skill to its third revolution.
• The Three Pure Ones emerged from seclusion at Kunlun Mountain, each having made progress in cultivation.

Tongtian and Yuanshi announced that they would recruit disciples at Kunlun Mountain in three thousand years, drawing beings from across the Primordial World. Duobao, Yu Ding, and representatives of several powers headed there, while Taishang chose not to recruit disciples yet.

• Tongtian and Yuanshi announced their plans to recruit disciples at Kunlun Mountain, while Taishang said he preferred to wait.
• Countless beings set out for Kunlun Mountain after hearing the Three Pure Ones' announcement.
• Duobao and Yu Ding arrived near Kunlun Mountain, believing it held the opportunity Qin Mu had predicted.
• Dijun ordered the Demon Race Heavenly Court to send its most talented young members to seek discipleship.
• East King Duke ordered talented members of the Immortal Court to go to Kunlun Mountain, and Jieyin and Zhunti also sent people from the Western Lands.

After five hundred years of tempering his body while climbing Buzhou Mountain, Qin Mu encountered an Innate Formation that three late-stage Taiyi Golden Immortals had studied for ten thousand years. He used Heaven-Defying Comprehension to study it for three hundred years and awakened the Eye of Shattering Delusion, then approached the formation again.

• Qin Mu reached the fourth revolution of the Nine Revolutions Profound Skill after five hundred years of climbing Buzhou Mountain under its pressure.
• Qin Mu met three Green Robed Daoists before an Innate Formation, and they told him they had studied it for ten thousand years without finding a way to open it.
• Qin Mu struck the formation with Sword Qi, but it absorbed his attack, and the Green Robe Daoist said it likely required Quasi-Saint cultivation to break by force.
• Qin Mu sat down and used Heaven-Defying Comprehension to study the formation's patterns.
• After three hundred years, Qin Mu awakened the Eye of Shattering Delusion, which revealed the formation's Dao-law threads and weaknesses.
• Qin Mu walked toward the Innate Formation as the three Daoists watched.

Qin Mu entered the Innate Formation, found the Innate Gourd Vine, and used Chaos Liquid to mature its seventh gourd into the Chaos Purple Gold Gourd. While he refined the treasure for more than two thousand years, disciples gathered at Kunlun Mountain to seek places in the Three Pure Ones' sects.

• Qin Mu passed through the Innate Formation, leaving the three Green Robe Daoists astonished that he had solved it after only three hundred years.
• Qin Mu discovered the Innate Gourd Vine and identified the six missing gourds as treasures held by Taishang, Yuanshi, Tongtian, Nuwa, Taiyi, and Hong Yun.
• Qin Mu poured Chaos Liquid onto the vine, restoring its source and maturing the seventh gourd into the Chaos Purple Gold Gourd.
• Qin Mu refined the Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure with his Innate Green Lotus Sword Grass form for more than two thousand years.
• Talented beings, Great Principle Golden Immortals, and two Quasi-Saints gathered at Kunlun Mountain to seek discipleship under the Three Pure Ones.

After three thousand years, Tongtian and Yuanshi opened their recruitment formations on Kunlun Mountain and selected disciples from among the beings who passed. Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao sisters, along with Duobao, joined Tongtian, while Yu Ding and others joined Yuanshi.

• Bixiao, Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Zhao Gongming arrived at Kunlun Mountain seeking a chance to become disciples of the Three Pure Ones.
• Tongtian and Yuanshi appeared after three thousand years and opened separate formations, inviting those who passed to join their respective sects.
• Zhao Gongming chose Tongtian’s sword formation with the Three Xiao sisters, while Duobao entered it and Yu Ding chose Yuanshi’s formation.
• After a hundred years, Zhao Gongming, the Three Xiao sisters, and Duobao emerged from Tongtian’s formation, while Yu Ding, Guangchengzi, and others passed Yuanshi’s trials.
• Tongtian and Yuanshi dismissed their formations, sent away those who had not passed, and led their chosen disciples toward their places of cultivation.

After years of refining the Purple Gold Chaos Gourd inside the formation on Buzhou Mountain, Qin Mu emerged and was ambushed by three late-stage Taiyi Golden Immortals. He survived their attacks and killed the Green Robe Daoist with one punch, while the Red Robe Daoist and Black Robe Daoist remained.

• Qin Mu refined sixteen restrictions on the Purple Gold Chaos Gourd and collected the Innate Gourd Vine before leaving the Small Heaven and Earth.
• The Green Robe Daoist, Red Robe Daoist, and Black Robe Daoist attacked Qin Mu as he emerged from the innate formation, but he was unharmed.
• The three Daoists demanded that Qin Mu hand over the Purple Gold Chaos Gourd, and he refused to back down.
• The Green Robe Daoist attacked Qin Mu with a sword, but Qin Mu shattered it with a punch and killed him.

Qin Mu killed the three Taiyi Golden Immortals who had ambushed him, then continued climbing Buzhou Mountain. On Mount Kunlun, a dispute between Bixiao and Juliusun over a Nine-Leaf Lingzhi escalated into a fight between their fellow disciples, and Guangchengzi arrived as Juliusun accused Bixiao of taking the medicine by force.

• Qin Mu killed the Green Robe Daoist with one punch, then used the Purple Gold Chaos Gourd to refine the Red Robe Daoist and Black Robe Daoist.
• Qin Mu resumed climbing Buzhou Mountain to temper his body.
• Bixiao found a Nine-Leaf Lingzhi, but Juliusun claimed he had marked it and ordered her to leave.
• Juliusun attacked Bixiao with the Immortal Binding Rope, and Bixiao countered with the Primal Chaos Golden Cauldron.
• Disciples of Yuanshi and Tongtian joined the fight until Guangchengzi arrived and Juliusun accused Bixiao of trying to seize the Spiritual Medicine.

Bixiao and Juliusun disputed the theft of spiritual medicine, but Guangchengzi backed Juliusun and used his Taiyi Golden Immortal pressure to suppress the Shangqing disciples. Duobao arrived to defend them and challenged Guangchengzi, whose Kunlun Seal failed to break Duobao’s array before he entered it to attack from within.

• Guangchengzi accused Bixiao of taking Juliusun’s spiritual medicine, and Zhao Gongming and the other Shangqing disciples challenged his bias.
• Bixiao prepared to fight, but Guangchengzi released his Taiyi Golden Immortal pressure and pressed her and the others to apologize.
• Duobao arrived, dispersed Guangchengzi’s pressure, and defended the Shangqing disciples.
• Duobao attacked Guangchengzi with a golden seal, then formed the Duobao Array when the Kunlun Seal sent his seal flying.
• Guangchengzi entered the Duobao Array and unleashed repeated attacks, causing its light to dim.

Duobao and Guangchengzi’s battle drew Yuanshi and Tongtian to Kunlun, where Tongtian exposed Juliusun’s lie about Bixiao and the Nine-Leaf Lingzhi. Tongtian punished Juliusun by reducing his cultivation, and Yuanshi challenged his right to discipline Yuanshi’s disciples.

• Duobao withdrew his Array and fought Guangchengzi with the Immortal-Trapping Sword until both were driven back.
• Yuanshi and Tongtian arrived and demanded an explanation for the fighting on Kunlun Mountain.
• Juliusun accused Bixiao of trying to take his Nine-Leaf Lingzhi, while Bixiao said Juliusun had claimed the Spiritual Medicine she found.
• Tongtian summoned a vision of the earlier events, proving Bixiao’s account and exposing Juliusun’s lie.
• Tongtian reduced Juliusun’s cultivation from Golden Immortal to Mystic Immortal, prompting Yuanshi to protest that only he should discipline his disciples.

Yuanshi and Tongtian nearly fought over their disciples before Taishang ended the confrontation and the Three Pure Ones chose separate Dao Fields. Meanwhile, Qin Mu reached the summit of Buzhou Mountain and opened a Large Red Packet, though its contents were not yet revealed.

• Yuanshi and Tongtian summoned their Quasi-Saint auras and drew their spiritual treasures, but Taishang intervened and made them put their weapons away.
• Taishang proposed that the Three Pure Ones find separate Dao Fields, and Yuanshi and Tongtian agreed.
• Taishang left for the Eight Sceneries Palace, Yuanshi remained at Kunlun Mountain, and Tongtian led his disciples to Jin'ao Island and established Biyou Palace.
• Qin Mu reached the summit of Buzhou Mountain, collected a Large Red Packet, and chose to open it.

Qin Mu opened a Large Red Packet and received a million years of mana and the Lin Secret, advancing to the early stage of the Great Principle Golden Immortal realm. He descended Buzhou Mountain and encountered Kuafu and another powerful Great Witch at its foot.

• Qin Mu claimed the Large Red Packet’s rewards and used the million years of mana to advance from the middle stage of the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm to the early stage of the Great Principle Golden Immortal realm.
• Qin Mu formed a ninth-grade Human Flower and received the Lin Secret, which enhanced his combat abilities.
• Qin Mu left Buzhou Mountain, resolved to seek Chaos Liquid to grow more gourds on the Innate Gourd Vine, and reached the mountain’s base.
• Qin Mu encountered Kuafu and an imposing Witch Clan figure whose aura was several times stronger than Kuafu’s.

Qin Mu met Xing Tian after leaving Buzhou Mountain and revealed that he was Tongtian’s disciple. Xing Tian challenged Qin Mu to a spar and offered a Creation Jade Disk Fragment and a drop of his Quintessential Blood, and Qin Mu agreed.

• Kuafu introduced Xing Tian to Qin Mu, who recognized the Great Witch as the Witch Clan’s God of War.
• Qin Mu said he was returning to Kunlun Mountain and revealed that Shangqing Tongtian was his master, delighting Kuafu and Xing Tian.
• Xing Tian asked Qin Mu to spar with him, explaining that Qin Mu’s victory over Kuafu had stirred his desire to fight.
• Xing Tian offered Qin Mu a purple fragment he had found in Buzhou Mountain and a drop of his Quintessential Blood as a reward.
• Qin Mu recognized the purple fragment as a likely Creation Jade Disk Fragment and accepted Xing Tian’s challenge.

Qin Mu and Xing Tian sparred in a Small World created by an Ancestral Witch, testing Qin Mu’s greatly improved strength. Xing Tian attacked with the Gan Qi Axe while Qin Mu countered with the Grass Sword, and their clash left the battlefield shaking.

• Xing Tian opened a scroll that carried Qin Mu and Kuafu into a Small World made for cultivation and sparring.
• Qin Mu and Xing Tian exchanged punches, and Xing Tian was surprised that Qin Mu could match his physical strength.
• Xing Tian summoned the Gan Qi Axe and Xing Tian Shield, then attacked Qin Mu with the axe.
• Qin Mu activated the Lin Zi Secret and countered Xing Tian’s strike with the Grass Sword and Grass Character Sword Art.
• The axe-light and sword-glow collided, shaking the Small World violently.

Qin Mu broke through Xing Tian’s Sky-Opening Axe Technique, prompting Xing Tian to unleash his full strength and his Three Axes of Heaven-Opening. As the attacks bore down on him, Qin Mu triggered Heaven-Defying Comprehension and created One Sword to Open Heaven, then prepared to meet Xing Tian’s assault.

• Qin Mu broke through Xing Tian’s axe strike with his sword, and Xing Tian praised him as the first outsider to overcome his Sky-Opening Axe Technique.
• Xing Tian grew into a thousand-zhang giant and unleashed his Three Axes of Heaven-Opening, while Kuafu wondered whether Qin Mu could survive them.
• Qin Mu triggered Heaven-Defying Comprehension and witnessed Pangu split Chaos to create Heaven and Earth.
• Qin Mu comprehended One Sword to Open Heaven, summoned the phantom of his Innate Green Lotus Sword Grass, and challenged Xing Tian with his new sword.

Qin Mu defeated Xing Tian with his newly comprehended Heaven-Opening Sword, though its power nearly exhausted him and destroyed the Witch Clan's Small World. After Xing Tian awarded him the promised treasures, Qin Mu set off for Kunlun Mountain to report to his master.

• Qin Mu's Heaven-Opening Sword annihilated Xing Tian's Three Axes of Heaven-Opening and sent the Small World into collapse.
• Kuafu and Xing Tian joined forces to withstand the remaining sword force, and they escaped the collapsing Small World with Qin Mu.
• Xing Tian admitted defeat, and Qin Mu apologized for the destruction while reflecting on the sword's immense power and cost.
• Xing Tian gave Qin Mu the Creation Jade Disk Fragment and a drop of his Quintessential Blood as the wager's prize.
• Kuafu and Xing Tian invited Qin Mu to visit the Houtu tribe, and Qin Mu accepted before leaving for Kunlun Mountain.

While traveling from Buzhou Mountain, Qin Mu triggered Heaven-Defying Comprehension and created the Gate of Space, then returned to Kunlun Mountain. He learned that Yuqing Yuanshi had taken on a new disciple named Daoxing and wondered whether Duobao and Yu Ding had also joined the Three Pure Ones.

• During his void leaps, Qin Mu triggered Heaven-Defying Comprehension and comprehended the Gate of Space, which let him create teleportation gates to places he had marked.
• Qin Mu used the Gate of Time and Space to return to Kunlun Mountain, though he noted that it consumed a great deal of mana.
• At Kunlun Mountain's gate, a young daoist confronted Qin Mu after he opened the Mountain-Protecting Array.
• Qin Mu introduced himself as Tongtian's eldest disciple, and the daoist revealed that he was Daoxing, a disciple of Yuqing Yuanshi.
• Daoxing apologized and bowed to Qin Mu, who realized the Three Pure Ones had begun recruiting disciples and wondered whether Duobao and Yu Ding had found their places there.

Qin Mu returned to Kunlun Mountain and learned that the Three Pure Ones had separated, with Yuanshi now holding Kunlun Mountain. At Yuxu Palace, he confronted Guangchengzi’s disrespect with his overwhelming cultivation before Yuanshi invited him inside.

• Daoxing told Qin Mu that Taishang and Tongtian had moved to their own Dao Fields and that Kunlun Mountain belonged to Yuanshi.
• Daoxing led Qin Mu toward Yuxu Palace, where Yu Ding greeted him and said Duobao had become Tongtian’s disciple.
• Qin Mu and Yu Ding arrived at Yuxu Palace with Daoxing, and Guangchengzi questioned who Qin Mu was.
• After Yu Ding introduced Qin Mu, Guangchengzi greeted him without respect, so Qin Mu released his Great Principle Golden Immortal aura and overwhelmed him.
• Yuanshi’s voice dispelled Qin Mu’s pressure and invited him into Yuxu Palace, and Qin Mu entered.

Qin Mu visited Yuanshi at Yuxu Palace, declined his invitation to stay on Kunlun Mountain, and set off to visit Taishang at Eight Sceneries Palace. After Qin Mu left, Daoist Randeng arrived at Kunlun and asked Yuanshi to accept him as a disciple.

• Yuanshi praised Qin Mu's Great Principle Golden Immortal cultivation and invited him to remain on Kunlun Mountain.
• Qin Mu declined the invitation, saying he would return to Jin'ao Island to pay respects to Tongtian.
• Qin Mu decided to visit Taishang at Eight Sceneries Palace before returning to Jin'ao Island, hoping to find a Red Packet.
• Daoist Randeng arrived at Kunlun Mountain, and Guangchengzi led him to Yuxu Palace.
• Daoist Randeng told Yuanshi that he wished to become his disciple.

Daoist Randeng failed to become Yuanshi’s disciple but agreed to stay on Kunlun Mountain and oversee his disciples. Qin Mu arrived at Shouyang Mountain and was stopped at the gate by Golden Horn and Silver Horn.

• Randeng asked Yuanshi to accept him as a disciple, hoping to secure a path to Sainthood.
• Yuanshi refused to take Randeng as a disciple but offered him a place on Kunlun Mountain managing affairs and overseeing the disciples.
• Randeng accepted Yuanshi’s offer, while Guangchengzi was relieved to remain Yuanshi’s chief disciple.
• Qin Mu reached Shouyang Mountain and admired the Dao Field of Taishang as he made his way toward Eight Sceneries Palace.
• Golden Horn and Silver Horn appeared at the mountain gate, challenged Qin Mu for trespassing, and blocked his way.

Qin Mu visited Taishang at Shouyang Mountain, where the system dropped a Large Red Packet and Taishang gifted him a Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir. After Qin Mu asked about his cultivation, Taishang answered his questions over a hundred years.

• Golden Horn Boy and Silver Horn Boy challenged Qin Mu at the entrance to Shouyang Mountain until Taishang called him up and confirmed his identity.
• Qin Mu discovered a Large Red Packet on Shouyang Mountain and collected it, but postponed opening it to pay his respects to Taishang.
• Taishang praised Qin Mu’s cultivation and gave him a Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir.
• Qin Mu asked Taishang several questions about cultivation, and Taishang answered them over the next hundred years.

After receiving the Great Law of Self-Transformation into Freedom from a Large Red Packet, Qin Mu began cultivating with Xing Tian’s Quintessential Blood and Taishang’s Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir. Meanwhile, conflict between the Demon Race and East King Duke’s Immortal Court intensified, and Dijun went to Wa Huang Palace to address the threat.

• Taishang warned Qin Mu that changes were coming to the Primordial Wilderness, and Qin Mu left Shouyang Mountain for East Sea Jin'ao Island.
• Qin Mu opened his Large Red Packet in a secluded valley and received the enhanced Great Law of Self-Transformation into Freedom.
• Qin Mu took out Xing Tian’s Quintessential Blood and the Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir and began cultivating the method.
• The Demon Race and East King Duke’s forces continued clashing, while the Witch Clan watched from Buzhou Mountain.
• Donghuang Taiyi demanded that Dijun let him attack Purple Mansion, but Dijun warned that Jieyin and Zhunti would intervene and then left for Wa Huang Palace.

Dijun visited Wa Huang Palace to discuss the Demon Race’s growing conflict with the Immortal Court, but Nuwa was away seeking an opportunity to Attain Sagehood. He lent Fuxi the River Diagram and Luo Book to help perfect a formation, while Qin Mu secluded himself and broke through to the Mid Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm, gaining new powers.

• Dijun arrived at Wa Huang Palace and learned from Ling Zhuzi that Nuwa had left to seek an opportunity to Attain Sagehood.
• Fuxi met Dijun and asked to borrow the River Diagram and Luo Book to study a formation he had begun deducing from the All Heavenly Stars.
• Dijun lent Fuxi the River Diagram and Luo Book, hoping to win over the Demon Race’s skilled deducer.
• Qin Mu used Taishang’s Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir and Xing Tian’s Quintessential Blood with the Great Law of Self-Transformation into Freedom, advancing from the early to the middle stage of the Great Principle Golden Immortal realm.
• Qin Mu condensed Xing Tian’s Transformed Body, solidified a second Innate Green Lotus Sword Leaf, and gained the ability to create past, future, and present Dao Bodies that could cultivate independently and revive him if his original body fell.

After his retreat, Qin Mu advanced his cultivation, manifested two Innate Green Lotus Sword Leaves, and gained the ability to create three independent Clones before heading toward Jin'ao Island. He intervened when he found the San Xiao Fairies fighting a Great Principle Golden Immortal who wanted their treasures, leaving them face-to-face with their unfamiliar new ally.

• Qin Mu completed his retreat with stronger cultivation, two manifested sword leaves, and a new Clone ability, then set out for Jin'ao Island.
• Qin Mu sensed Shangqing Tongtian's aura and followed it to a gorge where three women fought a Great Principle Golden Immortal.
• The Great Principle Golden Immortal demanded the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors and Primal Chaos Golden Cauldron, threatening the three women when they refused.
• The Great Principle Golden Immortal suppressed the sisters' treasures and broke their formation as they struggled to resist him.
• Qin Mu appeared and challenged the Great Principle Golden Immortal, and the San Xiao Fairies turned toward him with a sense of familiarity.