Recaps

Yang Jian used the Three Lights Divine Water and Buzhou Mountain’s pressure to cleanse his acquired impurities, become an innate Human Race member, and advance to the mid-stage Mid Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm. As Yang Jian and Fire Spirit continued climbing toward Peach Mountain, Qin Mu found Xing Tian’s preserved head and began proposing a deal.

• Fire Spirit guarded Yang Jian as he absorbed the Three Lights Divine Water and used Buzhou Mountain’s oppressive might to refine his body.
• Yang Jian broke through to the mid-stage Mid Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm and became an innate Human Race member.
• Yang Jian collected the remaining Three Lights Divine Water, then continued climbing Buzhou Mountain with Fire Spirit toward Peach Mountain.
• Qin Mu entered an ancient Witch Clan restriction and found Xing Tian’s head, whose True Spirit and battle intent remained intact.
• Qin Mu told Xing Tian he wanted to make a deal and said he wanted something from him.

Qin Mu made a deal with Xing Tian, promising to restore his body and revive him in exchange for lending Shield-Axe to Yang Jian. As Yang Jian and Fire Spirit climbed Buzhou Mountain, Fire Spirit broke through to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm, and they uncovered Xing Tian’s sealed head.

• Qin Mu offered to revive Xing Tian if he lent Shield-Axe to Yang Jian, who planned to split Peach Mountain and defy the Heavenly Court’s laws.
• Xing Tian accepted the bargain, and Qin Mu sealed the Witch Clan remnants until Yang Jian came for the weapon.
• Fire Spirit cultivated under Buzhou Mountain’s pressure and broke through to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm while Yang Jian guarded her.
• Yang Jian and Fire Spirit found an ancient Witch Clan restriction in the mountain wall and broke it open.
• Yang Jian and Fire Spirit discovered Xing Tian’s sealed head, and Xing Tian opened his eyes and attacked them with beams of divine light.

Yang Jian and Fire Spirit reached Xing Tian in Buzhou Mountain, where Xing Tian revealed that Qin Mu had arranged for Yang Jian to receive his battle weapon. Yang Jian took up Shield-Axe and suppressed the weapon’s fierce battle intent, leaving him ready to use it to split Peach Mountain.

• Fire Spirit identified herself and Yang Jian as disciples of the Sect of Interception, causing Xing Tian to halt his killing intent.
• Xing Tian revealed that Qin Mu had made a deal with him and told him that Yang Jian would come to split Peach Mountain.
• Xing Tian manifested his spiritual consciousness and summoned Shield-Axe for Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian seized Shield-Axe and used the Nine Revolutions Divine Art to suppress its battle intent.
• Yang Jian swung Shield-Axe downward.

Xing Tian gave Yang Jian the Shield-Axe and bestowed Great Witch Quintessential Blood on Yang Jian and Fire Spirit to help them prepare for the battle at Peach Mountain. The two began refining the blood in Xing Tian’s protected formation, and Yang Jian’s body and aura started to grow stronger.

• Yang Jian thanked Xing Tian for the Shield-Axe and vowed to cleave open Peach Mountain despite Xing Tian warning him about the Heavenly Court, Haotian, and the Saints.
• Xing Tian released two drops of his origin Great Witch Quintessential Blood and gave one to Yang Jian and one to Fire Spirit.
• Yang Jian and Fire Spirit accepted the blood and began refining it inside Xing Tian’s formation.
• Yang Jian endured the blood’s violent power, guided it through his body with the Nine Revolutions Divine Art, and began merging it with his innate Human Race physique.

Yang Jian and Fire Spirit refined Xing Tian’s Great Witch Quintessential Blood in Buzhou Mountain and both advanced in cultivation. As they left with the Shield-Axe, tens of thousands of Heavenly Court soldiers trapped them in a formation and demanded Yang Jian’s capture.

• Yang Jian endured the Great Witch Quintessential Blood’s violent power and broke through to the Late Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm.
• Fire Spirit refined the blood with her divine flames and advanced to the Mid Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm.
• Yang Jian and Fire Spirit thanked Xing Tian, who urged Yang Jian to go to Peach Mountain and use the Shield-Axe.
• Yang Jian and Fire Spirit left Buzhou Mountain carrying the Shield-Axe.
• A golden-armored Heavenly Court general led tens of thousands of soldiers in surrounding them with a formation and ordered Yang Jian to surrender or die.

Yang Jian and Fire Spirit defeated the Heavenly Court force sent to intercept them, with Yang Jian's Shield-Axe cutting through the heavenly soldiers. Yang Jian pinned the golden-armored divine general in a crater, leaving him at his mercy.

• Fire Spirit summoned three thousand Fire Dragon Soldiers and burned away the heavenly soldiers' attack.
• Yang Jian revealed his late-stage Daluo Golden Immortal strength and used Shield-Axe to tear through the formation, killing hundreds of soldiers.
• Yang Jian charged into the troops and slaughtered them while Fire Spirit's soldiers blocked their escape.
• The golden-armored divine general ordered a retreat, but Yang Jian froze him with his Heavenly Eye and stomped him into a crater.

Yang Jian defeated the Heavenly Court’s forces at Buzhou Mountain and sent Haotian a challenge: in three months, he would split Peach Mountain to save his mother. Afterward, he and Fire Spirit set off for Plum Mountain, while the surviving divine general returned to report the defeat to Haotian.

• Yang Jian spared the wounded divine general and ordered him to tell Haotian that he would go to Peach Mountain in three months to rescue his mother, daring the Heavenly Court to stop him.
• Fire Spirit refused Yang Jian’s request to return to Jin'ao Island and agreed to accompany him to Peach Mountain.
• Yang Jian and Fire Spirit decided to travel to Plum Mountain so Yang Jian could stabilize his cultivation and temper his axe.
• The divine general reached the Lingxiao Treasure Hall and reported that Yang Jian had slain the heavenly troops and defeated him with a single blow.
• The divine general relayed Yang Jian’s three-month challenge, and Haotian erupted in fury, destroying the jade table before him.

Qin Mu visited the ruins of Buzhou Mountain to fulfill his promise to resurrect Xing Tian, summoning a powerful headless body from a top-tier Red Packet. The chapter ended as the body descended before Xing Tian, whose resurrection was about to begin.

• Haotian ordered one hundred thousand Heavenly soldiers and generals and the Ten Immortal Lords to surround Peach Mountain in response to Yang Jian’s challenge.
• Qin Mu entered the ruins of Buzhou Mountain and met Xing Tian’s remnant soul.
• Qin Mu told Xing Tian that Yang Jian had taken Shield-Axe and refined Xing Tian’s Great Witch Quintessential Blood.
• Qin Mu promised to resurrect Xing Tian and used the Red Packet System to extract a mysterious item.
• A void rift opened, and a headless body covered in dark-golden Demon Patterns descended as Xing Tian knelt beneath its overwhelming aura.

Qin Mu gave Xing Tian a complete Ancestral Witch body, and Xing Tian fused with it despite agonizing pain. He emerged reborn as a Quasi-Saint with a new head, while a tremendous Witch Clan aura from Buzhou Mountain awakened powerful beings across the Great Desolation.

• Qin Mu revealed an Ancestral Witch body and offered it to Xing Tian for his revival.
• Xing Tian fused with the body, enduring the strain on his remnant soul as Killing Intent gathered into a vortex above Buzhou Mountain.
• Xing Tian regrew his severed head and rose to Quasi-Saint power.
• Xing Tian descended, realizing he was alive again and sensing the strength of his new body.
• A dark-golden surge of blood and vitality erupted from Buzhou Mountain, shaking the Great Desolation and awakening countless reclusive experts.

Xing Tian completed his rebirth as a new Ancestral Witch, drawing the attention of the Primordial Land and the Heavenly Dao. As the Eye of Heavenly Punishment prepared to destroy him, Qin Mu stepped forward to protect him.

• Venerable Yuanshi, Taishang Laozi, Sect Master Tongtian, and Empress Pingxin sensed the Ancestral Witch aura rising from Buzhou Mountain.
• Empress Pingxin recognized that the aura belonged to a new Ancestral Witch with the Law of Battle, not one of her former brothers.
• The Heavenly Dao descended upon Buzhou Mountain with annihilating thunder to prevent Xing Tian from changing the Witch Clan's fate.
• Xing Tian challenged the Heavenly Dao and refused to retreat, even as the Eye of Heavenly Punishment opened above him.
• Qin Mu told Xing Tian to stand down and declared that he would not let the Heavenly Dao kill him.

Qin Mu’s overwhelming Saintly Might held back the Eye of Heavenly Punishment as Xing Tian revealed his Ancestral Witch True Body to the Primordial World. After Xing Tian shattered the first bolt of divine lightning with a punch, the Heavenly Dao unleashed nine dragons of Purple Sky World-Extinguishing Divine Thunder, and Xing Tian faced them head-on.

• Qin Mu’s Saintly Might forced back the Eye of Heavenly Punishment and assured Xing Tian that the Heavenly Dao could not suppress him.
• Xing Tian transformed into his tens-of-thousands-of-zhang Ancestral Witch True Body and challenged the Eye of Heavenly Punishment.
• Zhenyuanzi, Ancestor Minghe, and Empress Pingxin witnessed Xing Tian’s transformation and reacted with shock, wariness, and joy.
• Xing Tian punched apart a bolt of Purple Heaven Divine Thunder with his bare fist.
• The Eye of Heavenly Punishment summoned nine dragons of Purple Sky World-Extinguishing Divine Thunder, and Xing Tian prepared to face them.

Qin Mu secretly disrupted the Heavenly Dao’s punishment, allowing Xing Tian to shatter the Eye of Heavenly Punishment and survive. After Xing Tian pledged himself to Qin Mu, Qin Mu sent him to the Nether Underworld to meet Empress Pingxin and turned his attention toward Haotian.

• Xing Tian tore apart one thunder dragon but was overwhelmed as the remaining dragons coiled around him and the Eye of Heavenly Punishment gathered a fatal strike.
• Qin Mu sent Primordial Creation Qi into the Eye of Heavenly Punishment, disrupting its power and weakening the thunder dragons.
• Xing Tian smashed the weakened dragons, charged the Eye of Heavenly Punishment, and shattered it with a punch.
• Xing Tian knelt before Qin Mu, thanked him for reviving and protecting him, and pledged his life to him.
• Qin Mu ordered Xing Tian to go to the Nether Underworld and meet Empress Pingxin, then looked toward Peach Mountain and challenged Haotian to respond to his move.

After consolidating his late-stage Daluo Golden Immortal cultivation, Yang Jian traveled through the Eastern Heavenly Court to reach Nuwa's Dao Field. Golden Phoenix Fairy greeted him outside Wa Huang Palace, saying Nuwa already knew why he had come.

• Yang Jian finished fusing the Great Witch Quintessential Blood and consolidated his late-stage Daluo Golden Immortal cultivation.
• Yang Jian told Fire Spirit he needed to visit Yang Chan before the battle at Peach Mountain, where he planned to rescue their mother.
• Yang Jian reached the East Heavenly Gate, where Emperor Venerate ordered the guards to let him pass.
• Yang Jian crossed the Chaos boundary and arrived at Wa Huang Palace, where Golden Phoenix Fairy welcomed him on Nuwa's behalf.

Yang Jian reunited with Yang Chan at Wa Huang Palace and told her he was going to Peach Mountain to rescue their mother. Nuwa agreed to let Yang Chan join him and bestowed the Lotus Lantern on her for protection.

• Yang Jian reunited with Yang Chan, and they embraced after years apart.
• Yang Jian told Yang Chan about his training under Qin Mu and declared that he would descend to split Peach Mountain and rescue their mother.
• Yang Chan resolved to accompany Yang Jian, and the siblings sought Nuwa's permission to leave Wa Huang Palace.
• Nuwa warned them that Haotian had assembled ten great Immortal Lords and hidden Quasi-Saints at Peach Mountain, but she agreed to let them face their karma.
• Nuwa gave Yang Chan the Lotus Lantern, a powerful spirit treasure that could protect her from Quasi-Saint experts.

Yang Jian and Yang Chan left Wa Huang Palace for Peach Mountain, but Chi You blocked their way in the Eastern Heavenly Realm. Chi You challenged Yang Jian to a duel, and their weapons collided in a devastating first strike.

• Yang Chan accepted Nuwa's Lotus Lantern, whose power strengthened her cultivation, and she and Yang Jian left Wa Huang Palace.
• As Yang Jian and Yang Chan descended from the Thirty-Three Heavens, Chi You and his elite army emerged from the void and blocked their path.
• Chi You revealed that Qin Mu had spared him after the Battle of Zhuolu and brought him into the Eastern Heavenly Court.
• Chi You challenged Yang Jian, who raised Xing Tian's Shield-Axe to protect Yang Chan and meet the Tiger Soul Saber head-on.
• The collision of the two weapons collapsed the surrounding void, while Yang Chan's Lotus Lantern shielded her from the shockwaves.

After Chi You tested Yang Jian in battle, he escorted him and Yang Chan to the Eastern Heavenly Court at Emperor Venerate’s summons. Yang Jian met the ruler in the Lingxiao Treasure Hall and froze when Emperor Venerate’s face and aura reminded him almost exactly of Qin Mu.

• Yang Jian withstood Chi You’s powerful strike, earning the war god’s respect.
• Chi You told Yang Jian that Emperor Venerate had ordered him brought to the Heavenly Court, and Yang Jian agreed to go with Yang Chan.
• Chi You led Yang Jian and Yang Chan to the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, where Emperor Venerate awaited them.
• Emperor Venerate revealed his face, and Yang Jian recognized a striking resemblance to his master, Qin Mu.

Yang Jian learned that the Eastern Heavenly Court's Emperor Venerate was one of Master Qin Mu's Clones and accepted his support for rescuing his mother from Peach Mountain. The Emperor Venerate warned that Yang Jian was outmatched by Haotian's forces, then promised to help and said he would strengthen Yang Jian before he left.

• Yang Jian mistook the Emperor Venerate's resemblance to Master Qin Mu for a coincidence and apologized for staring.
• The Emperor Venerate revealed that he was one of Master Qin Mu's Clones, and Yang Jian respectfully addressed him as Martial Uncle.
• Yang Jian confirmed that he intended to rescue his mother from Peach Mountain and avenge her suffering under Haotian.
• The Emperor Venerate warned Yang Jian that Haotian had assembled one hundred thousand aquatic troops, ten Golden Immortal lords, and Quasi-Saint experts to guard Peach Mountain.
• Yang Jian refused to back down, and the Emperor Venerate promised to support him and hold up the sky if it fell.
• The Emperor Venerate told Yang Jian that his current strength was insufficient and that he would train him before he left.

Emperor Venerate warned Yang Jian that he could not survive the Quasi-Saints guarding Peach Mountain with his current strength, then gave him the Purple Wei Emperor Star’s source power. As the power entered Yang Jian, it began destroying and rebuilding his body, leaving him enduring tremendous pain.

• Emperor Venerate told Yang Jian that the Heavenly Court’s hidden Quasi-Saints were far more dangerous than its troops and Immortal Lords.
• Emperor Venerate revealed the Purple Wei Emperor Star and explained that its power could transform a Daluo Golden Immortal.
• Emperor Venerate condensed the star’s source power into a pearl and offered it to Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian accepted the Violet Star Origin and vowed to cleave Peach Mountain apart.
• The Violet Star Origin entered Yang Jian and began violently destroying and repairing his meridians.

Yang Jian endured the Purple Wei Emperor Star’s power as it remade his body and transformed his fate, then advanced to the half-step Quasi-Saint realm. He reached the gate of Quasi-Saint but could not open it, and realized he lacked both the method and an Innate Spiritual Treasure to sever his Three Corpses.

• Yang Chan anxiously asked Emperor Venerate whether Yang Jian would survive the painful transformation, and Emperor Venerate reassured her.
• Yang Jian endured as Purple Wei’s power merged with his Great Witch Quintessential Blood and remade his body.
• Yang Jian emerged from the shattered purple cocoon with the Emperor Star’s mark and broke through to the half-step Quasi-Saint realm.
• Yang Jian’s roar sent purple starlight through the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, alarming the heavenly soldiers and generals.
• Yang Jian tried to break through the Quasi-Saint gate, but it remained shut, and he recognized that he lacked the method and Innate Spiritual Treasure needed to sever the Three Corpses.
• Emperor Venerate’s voice sounded beside Yang Jian’s ear as he struggled to advance.

Yang Jian used the Purple Wei Emperor Star’s origin as a vessel to sever his Evil Corpse, overcoming the malice rooted in his family’s suffering. After the corpse returned to him, he broke through to the early-stage Quasi-Saint realm, drawing the attention of powerful beings across the Eastern Heavenly Realm.

• Emperor Venerate told Yang Jian that the Purple Wei Emperor Star’s origin could serve as the vessel for his Three Corpses.
• Yang Jian confronted memories of his family’s destruction and forced his malice into the Purple Wei origin while Yang Chan watched in distress.
• Yang Jian used his heavenly eye and willpower to make the Purple Wei origin accept his malice, then severed his Evil Corpse.
• Yang Jian’s Evil Corpse appeared as a purple-black armored figure, saluted him, and returned to his body.
• Yang Jian broke through to the early-stage Quasi-Saint realm, and experts across the Eastern Heavenly Realm sensed his aura.

Yang Jian reached the Quasi-Saint realm with Emperor Venerate’s help and set off with Yang Chan to rescue their mother from Peach Mountain. As they traveled toward the lower realm, Yang Jian explained that Emperor Venerate had helped him because he was his master’s disciple, and that they should not overstay their welcome.

• Emperor Venerate bestowed the Purple Wei origin on Yang Jian, helping him break through to the Quasi-Saint realm, and ordered him to bring his mother back from Peach Mountain.
• Yang Jian thanked Emperor Venerate, then left the Lingxiao Treasure Hall with Yang Chan to rescue their mother.
• Chi You sensed Yang Jian’s new strength, realized he had become a Quasi-Saint, and returned to the hall hoping to watch the coming confrontation with Haotian.
• Yang Jian and Yang Chan left the Eastern Heavenly Court and headed toward the lower realm.
• Yang Chan asked whether they had left too abruptly, and Yang Jian explained that Emperor Venerate had helped him as his master’s disciple and that they should know when to leave.

Yang Jian returned from the Thirty-Three Heavens as a Quasi-Saint, while Emperor Venerate gave Chi You permission to assist him at Peach Mountain in a personal capacity. Back at Plum Mountain, Fire Spirit was stunned by Yang Jian’s transformation and noticed the beautiful young girl accompanying him.

• Yang Jian told Yang Chan they would discover his strength when he fought.
• Chi You asked Emperor Venerate whether the Eastern Heavenly Court could send people to watch Yang Jian split Peach Mountain, and Emperor Venerate warned him against involving the court in a war with Haotian.
• Emperor Venerate told Chi You he could aid Yang Jian privately, and Chi You eagerly set off for Peach Mountain with the Tiger Soul Saber.
• Yang Jian and Yang Chan returned to Plum Mountain, where Fire Spirit arrived and was shocked to sense Yang Jian’s Quasi-Saint aura.
• Yang Jian reassured Fire Spirit that he was genuine and had encountered opportunities, then Fire Spirit noticed the beautiful young girl behind him.

Yang Chan teased Yang Jian and Fire Spirit by calling her his sister-in-law, making both of them blush before Yang Jian fled to check on his army. At Plum Mountain, he found the thirty-six-thousand-strong force assembled and ready to march against Peach Mountain to save his mother.

• Yang Chan asked Yang Jian whether Fire Spirit was her sister-in-law, flustering both Yang Jian and Fire Spirit.
• Yang Jian introduced Yang Chan to Fire Spirit and tried to deny the implication, but Yang Chan pointed out that they were both blushing.
• Yang Jian escaped to the Plum Mountain parade ground, leaving Fire Spirit and Yang Chan laughing together.
• Yuan Hong reported that the thirty-six-thousand-strong Plum Mountain army had assembled and was ready to follow Yang Jian to Peach Mountain.

Yang Jian led his demon army toward Peach Mountain to save his mother, prompting Haotian to send one hundred thousand heavenly soldiers to stop him. Sect Master Tongtian ordered the Sect of Interception to support Yang Jian, and Daoist Duobao led thousands of immortals toward the battle.

• Yang Jian announced that the three-month deadline had arrived, then led thirty-six thousand demon soldiers from Plum Mountain toward Peach Mountain.
• Experts across the Three Realms sensed Yang Jian's Quasi-Saint cultivation and were shocked that he planned to split the mountain and save his mother.
• Haotian ordered one hundred thousand heavenly soldiers and generals to descend on Peach Mountain and suppress Yang Jian and his army.
• Sect Master Tongtian ordered Daoist Duobao to summon the Sect of Interception's disciples and aid Yang Jian.
• Daoist Duobao gathered several thousand immortals on Jin'ao Island, announced Tongtian's decree, and led them toward Peach Mountain.

Daoist Duobao led the Sect of Interception toward Peach Mountain, and Ancestor Minghe sent an Asura army to support Yang Jian as the Three Realms watched the conflict escalate. Yang Jian arrived before Haotian’s Heavenly Net Formation and focused on the mountain where he sensed his mother.

• Daoist Duobao commanded thousands of Sect of Interception immortals to march toward Peach Mountain.
• Ancestor Minghe ordered Tian Bojun, Great Brahma, Desire Heaven, and Shiva to gather the Asura Clan and support Yang Jian without killing.
• Tian Bojun led hundreds of thousands of Asura warriors out of the Nether Blood Sea toward Peach Mountain.
• Yang Jian and his demon army reached the Heavenly Net Formation, where a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers stood guard.
• A golden-armored divine general demanded that Yang Jian surrender, but Yang Jian ignored him and fixed his gaze on Peach Mountain.