Recaps

Xuantian entered the Reincarnation Space, completed dangerous missions, and rose from a martial artist to an Ancient One of the Other Shore. After helping his companions and severing his own connection to the Lord of Six Paths, he traveled to another universe and met Wang Lin.

• Xuantian joined Zhang Yuanshan and the others in the Reincarnation World, helped deliver Shaolin's traitor list, and killed Duercha during the siege of Mount Shaohua.
• Xuantian rose to first place on the Human Ranking, completed a solo mission for clues to the Imperial Spirit Strategy, and later led the Power Gang against the Demonic Cult.
• At Sacred Fire Mountain, Xuantian killed the Nine Heavens Thunder God while Qi Zhengyan received the Demon Lord's inheritance as the Demon Mound collapsed.
• Xuantian and his companions survived a mission in the world of Journey to the West, where Xuantian touched the Bodhi Branch and comprehended Shakyamuni's Five Seals.
• Xuantian broke through to the Legendary realm, closed a Jiuyou fissure, and later told his companions he had severed his karmic connection to the Lord of Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Xuantian gave Meng Qi a Dharma Body token, and Meng Qi attained the Dharmakaya while confronting Ananda beneath Five-Finger Mountain.
• Xuantian formed an illusory Dao Fruit, became an Ancient One of the Other Shore, and sent opportunities to Meng Qi, Gu Xiaosang, Jiang Zhiwei, and their companions.
• Xuantian traveled to an evolving Lower Plane universe, entered a woodcarving shop, and recognized its shopkeeper as Wang Lin.

Xuantian's travels carried him from the founding of his sect to Dragon Island's Dead City and the Death World, while Xiao Chen and Chang Feng advanced along their own paths. In the Heaven Realm, the sudden appearance of Little Stone Emperor's tomb drew Stone Kings together as Chang Feng watched from hiding.

• Xuantian befriended Wang Lin, helped restore Li Muwan's Nascent Soul to the Heaven-Defying Bead, and later founded the Xuantian Sect as Zhou Ru and Xuanyuan Wan'er rose to become Third Step cultivators.
• Xuantian entered the Primordial World, met Meng Qi and Gu Xiaosang, and later reunited with Yun Xi, Ling'er, and Yue Chan before taking Xiao Chen as his nominal disciple on Dragon Island.
• Xuantian encountered the Dragon Race's Ancestral Dragon, whose life he extended with a blood crystal, as the Dead City appeared and its dangerous gates drew cultivators inside.
• Xuantian led Xiao Chen and their companions through the Dead City, where they witnessed its horrors and studied the ancient stele before the Sky Tablet sealed the Demon Well.
• Xuantian entered the Death World, defeated and refined a half-step Stone Person, studied the Stone Man path, and recognized Chang Feng as his grandson Shi Changfeng.
• Xiao Chen became an Ancestral God and fought with Xuantian and Chang Feng in Jiuzhou's war against the Otherworld, while Chang Feng spent nearly fifty thousand years transforming between stone and flesh before entering the Heaven Realm.
• Xuantian and Chang Feng followed the mystery of Little Stone Emperor's tomb as it repeatedly appeared and vanished, drawing Stone Kings and other giants into the search.
• Chang Feng identified himself as Little Stone Emperor to an old Daoist, then watched with Xuantian and Xiao Chen as Stone Kings sealed the tomb and seven black stars shot toward them.

Little Stone Emperor and Chang Feng helped Jiuzhou overcome the ancient Emperors and open a path to Hong Huang. The story then followed Shi Yongheng through the Yuantian Secret Realm, where he defeated First Generations as the contestants reached the inheritance ground.

• Little Stone Emperor completed his Dao, returned to life, and later joined Chang Feng against the Innate Holy Emperors and the Four Emperors.
• Chang Feng defeated the Emperors, entered the Initial Holy Land, became an Emperor, and refined the Dao origins of seventy-seven Emperors as the Three Sovereigns, Five Emperors, Pangu, and Nuwa refined the Unique True Realm.
• Xuantian appeared and urged Xiao Chen to ascend to Hong Huang, while Shi Yongheng completed his breakthrough and entered the competition for the Three Thousand Prefectures Genius Battle.
• Shi Yongheng entered the Yuantian Secret Realm, gathered sacred medicines, and used the chaos caused by vicious beasts to pursue his own plans.
• Shi Yongheng took pills and insects from an ancient palace, then defeated Jin Lie at the Immortal Pool and sent the First Generation out of the secret realm.
• Shi Yongheng defeated Chen Qing and fought Di Chong, piercing him with Thunder Finger before Di Chong's secondary body withdrew.
• Shi Yongheng found Di Chong and Fairy Yue Chan beside a blood-filled pool as Shi Hao drew lightning from cursed Heavenly River water and struck the Immortal Pool.
• The inheritance gate appeared, and Shi Tianyu, the man with the golden lamp, Xuan Shi, Qin Li, Ye Zhen, and Lin Tong seized blood crystals and divine materials.

Xuantian survived the Spirit Realm selection, defeated Di Chong on the ancient road, and entered Immortal Ancient. There, he gathered Demigod Fruits and began igniting his divine fire with the Thunder Emperor Precious Technique.

• Shi Yongheng and the Great Demon God studied the Thunder Emperor Precious Technique before leaving the inheritance grounds, while Xuantian pursued his own cultivation in Sophora City.
• Xuantian endured the tenfold lightning tribulation with Xuan Shi, then entered the Genius Battle and defeated the prodigies and Heavenly Gods who attacked him.
• Xuantian climbed the Supreme Ancient Altar, claimed its Supreme Liquid, and fought off the clans that tried to kill him.
• The selection sent ten thousand cultivators toward Immortal Ancient, where Xuantian gathered followers and absorbed the Changsheng matter from the blooming Immortal Dao Flower Buds.
• Xuantian climbed the ancient road and killed Di Chong, then took his treasures and crossed into the new world.
• Xuantian explored the Nest Realm and gathered forty-nine Demigod Fruits from the Divine Fruit Forest after Zhe Xian allowed him to take them.
• Xuantian used the Thunder Emperor Precious Technique and Five Elements Nirvana to ignite his divine fire, enduring Nine-Colored Divine Thunder as chaotic-colored flames surrounded him.