Recaps

Lin Ming returned to the Five Elements Sect after defeating and capturing the Three Demons of Cloud Rain Sect, then entered secluded cultivation to assemble the four remnant maps. The maps formed a complete guide to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, leaving Lin Ming poised to pursue the legendary Heavenly Flame.

• Lin Ming captured the Three Demons of Cloud Rain Sect, secured their remnant map, and left the devastated desert with Elder Yao, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Ya Fei.
• Experts arrived at the battle site and found the terrain destroyed, but they could not identify who had fought there.
• Lin Ming and his group returned to the Five Elements Sect, and Lin Ming entered his secret room to examine the prisoners and maps in his Inner World.
• Lin Ming brought out the three maps he already possessed and retrieved the fourth from Tian Xie Zi, startling the imprisoned demons.
• Lin Ming carefully joined the four maps, which merged into a complete map pointing to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

Lin Ming activated the completed Gu Tu with his blood and Dark Purple Flame, revealing a prophecy that the Demonic Fire would descend in three years. A pale-pink lotus imprint entered his soul, and Lin Ming remained confident that he would use the time to reach Dou Sheng and prepare to claim the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

• Lin Ming dripped his blood onto the assembled Gu Tu, then burned it with his Dark Purple Flame until its lines glowed and formed four ancient prophetic phrases.
• Lin Ming calculated that the next Heaven and Earth Tide and the descent of the Demonic Fire would occur in three years.
• Lin Ming resolved to break through to the Dou Sheng realm before the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame appeared.
• When Lin Ming touched the Gu Tu, its lotus pattern shot into his brow and became an ancient stream of information within his soul.
• Lin Ming confirmed the imprint carried no immediate threat and let its power settle, while a faint-pink lotus mark briefly appeared on his brow.

News of the Bodhi Ancient Tree drew powerful factions and experts toward the Vast Desolate Ancient Region as Lin Ming prepared to compete for its Bodhi Heart. In the Five Elements Sect, he began cultivating the Heaven Tier Vajra Glazed Body to strengthen himself before the dangerous journey.

• The Bodhi Ancient Tree's appearance spread across the Middle Continent, rousing powerful factions and secluded experts who sought a chance to reach Dou Sheng.
• Lin Ming resolved to obtain the Bodhi Heart and use it to break through to Dou Sheng before the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame descended in three years.
• Lin Ming began studying the Heaven Tier Vajra Glazed Body, a technique that tempered the entire body by forcing Dou Qi into its tissues.
• Lin Ming judged that his body, strengthened by Heavenly Flames and other cultivation, could withstand the technique's harsh demands.

Lin Ming endured the painful first stages of cultivating the Vajra Glazed Body while factions across the Middle Continent prepared for the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s appearance. When its phenomenon finally spread across the continent, powerful cultivators rushed toward the Vast Desolate Ancient Region.

• Lin Ming cultivated the Vajra Glazed Body, repeatedly expanding and shrinking as golden light tempered his flesh and bones through intense pain.
• Over half a month, factions dispatched advance teams toward the Vast Desolate Ancient Region while their strongest experts waited for proof that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had appeared.
• Five days later, a clear qi phenomenon spread across the northeastern Middle Continent and showed cultivators an image of the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree’s appearance ignited the continent, and powerful cultivators tore through space toward the Vast Desolate Ancient Region.

After half a month of secluded cultivation, Lin Ming emerged with his Vajra Glazed Body stabilized in its nine-zhang form, though he had not reached its nine-zhang-and-nine-feet peak. With the Bodhi Ancient Tree confirmed in the Vast Desolate Ancient Region, he prepared to leave immediately with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin.

• Lin Ming's newly transformed nine-zhang golden body erupted from his destroyed cultivation room, alarming the Five Elements Sect's elders.
• Elder Yao reassured the elders that the giant was Lin Ming, who then returned to his normal form and described his progress in cultivating the Vajra Glazed Body.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Lin Ming that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had appeared in the Middle Continent and that its manifestation had been confirmed.
• Lin Ming assigned Elder Yao and Ya Fei to protect and manage the Five Elements Sect while he traveled to the Vast Desolate Ancient Region with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin.
• Lin Ming declared that they would leave at once.

Lin Ming and his companions reached Vast Desolate Town, where the rush of people seeking the Bodhi Ancient Tree had turned the frontier outpost into a crowded hub. After learning that an earlier expedition had been wiped out, Lin Ming decided to enter the Vast Desolate Ancient Region with a large allied force in two days.

• Lin Ming, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and a Peak Dou Ancestor elder traveled for five days toward the Vast Desolate Ancient Region as crowds of treasure seekers streamed northeast.
• The four arrived at Vast Desolate Town and settled at a quiet stone inn while the elder went to gather information.
• The elder reported that the first group of explorers, including Dou Venerate experts, had apparently been completely wiped out after entering the region.
• The elder said major forces were organizing an allied expedition of Peak Dou Ancestors and stronger experts to enter through a known entrance in two days.
• Lin Ming decided that he, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin would join the expedition, while the elder stayed in town to monitor events and await them.

Lin Ming, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin waited while thousands of cultivators charged into the Vast Desolate Ancient Region, then entered the forest after the vanguard had drawn out some dangers. They advanced cautiously and reached nearly a dozen li into the forest without encountering a major threat.

• Lin Ming and Qing Lin surveyed the thousands gathered outside the Vast Desolate Ancient Region and noted the many powerful Dou Zong and Dou Venerate experts among them.
• The crowd surged into the forest in search of the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and screams and fighting soon came from within.
• Lin Ming told Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin to wait until most of the crowd had entered, using them to reveal dangers along the forest’s outer edge.
• After waiting two incense sticks, Lin Ming led Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin into the forest in a concealed formation.
• Lin Ming avoided the trampled routes and guided the group through denser vegetation; they traveled nearly a dozen li without encountering a serious danger.

Lin Ming, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin entered the Vast Desolate Ancient Region and encountered a deadly mist that poisoned and drove the advancing crowd into chaos. Lin Ming discovered that the supposed poison mist was actually a swarm of countless microscopic poisonous insects.

• Lin Ming grew wary of how smoothly the group advanced and kept his companions at a careful distance from the main force.
• Xiao Yi Xian sensed poison mist forming and gave Lin Ming and Qing Lin Blood Toad Toxin-Repelling Pills.
• The mist thickened and poisoned people ahead, triggering panic, attacks, and widespread deaths as Lin Ming led his companions onward.
• Lin Ming examined the corpse of a peak Dou Ancestor and questioned how the poison had overcome his defenses so quickly.
• Xiao Yi Xian inhaled a sample and reacted with alarm, while Lin Ming sensed countless living particles hunting for life; he identified the mist as microscopic poisonous insects.

Lin Ming used Heavenly Flames to purge the poisonous insects inside Qing Lin and protect the group as they crossed the miasma. The three escaped the poisonous-insect fog zone and hurried onward toward the Vast Desolate Ancient Region’s interior.

• Xiao Yi Xian warned that invisible poisonous insects had entered the group, and Lin Ming burned those inside himself and Qing Lin with Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yi Xian cleared the insects from her body with her Calamity Poison Power, while Lin Ming opened a Fire Domain that kept the poison mist and insects away.
• Lin Ming, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin advanced through the fog under the protection of the flame shield as they saw signs of the exploration party’s heavy losses.
• Xiao Yi Xian sensed the miasma thinning, and Lin Ming urged the group to hurry because rival factions might already be farther ahead.
• The three passed beyond the poisonous-insect fog zone and continued toward the ancient region’s interior.

Lin Ming, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin reached the Vast Desolate Ancient Region’s central mountains, and Lin Ming used the Bodhi Seed to sense a rough direction toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree. After crossing a poisonous chasm, they came under attack from Shadow Blood-Eyed Leopards, which Lin Ming swiftly killed.

• Lin Ming, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin surveyed the dangerous chasm and the ancient mountains beyond it, where powerful beasts lurked.
• Qing Lin described the ancient beasts’ violent instincts and formidable physical strength.
• Lin Ming used the Bodhi Seed to sense a vague pull toward the northwest and identified it as their direction of travel.
• Lin Ming led Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin across the chasm toward the ancient region’s core.
• Several Shadow Blood-Eyed Leopards ambushed the three from the forest below.
• Lin Ming struck the leopards with a powerful gust from his sleeve, killing them before they could reach the group.

Lin Ming, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin cautiously entered the Vast Desolate Ancient Region on foot and avoided joining a group of exhausted Dou Venerates. As they continued through the forest, Xiao Yi Xian killed a Rock Armor Violent Bear with poison, and the three stopped to recover.

• Lin Ming agreed with Qing Lin that flying would attract powerful Fierce Beasts, so the three concealed their auras and continued on foot.
• Lin Ming ignored four weary Dou Venerates who had crossed the Poisonous Miasma, and his group pressed deeper into the forest without them.
• The four Dou Venerates decided to take another route after Lin Ming's group left.
• Xiao Yi Xian struck a Rock Armor Violent Bear with poisoned Dou Qi and killed it before it could fight back.
• Lin Ming checked the surroundings for threats, then told the group to rest while Qing Lin kept watch.

Lin Ming, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin heard that the Heaven Nether Sect was attacking the Flower Sect and rushed toward the battle. There, Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran were trapped with their wounded allies, facing overwhelming odds after the ambush killed Elder Qing Hua.

• Xiao Yi Xian reasoned that the major factions might have traveled ahead, while Lin Ming urged the group to conserve their strength rather than rush.
• A battle erupted nearby, and Lin Ming recognized the Heaven Nether Sect and Flower Sect; he led Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin toward the fighting.
• Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran tried to rally the Flower Sect survivors, who had been ambushed by the Heaven Nether Sect after fighting an Earth Rock Dragon Lizard.
• Yun Yun focused her wounded elders on escaping instead of seeking revenge, as Liu Cang and the Heaven Nether Sect surrounded them with far greater forces.

Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran faced Liu Cang and the Heaven Nether Sect, whose forces surrounded the injured Flower Sect group and launched an attack. Yun Yun and the other Flower Sect members were left fighting at a severe disadvantage.

• Yun Yun urged Nalan Yanran to flee if fighting resumed, but a sudden attack forced Yun Yun to pull her out of its path.
• A bamboo-pole elder and Liu Cang threatened Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran, while Liu Cang revealed his plan to kill the other Flower Sect members and abduct the two women.
• Liu Cang ordered the Heaven Nether Sect experts to capture Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran alive and kill everyone else.
• The Heaven Nether Sect experts surrounded the Flower Sect group and charged, and Yun Yun, Nalan Yanran, the elders, and the disciples fought back.
• The Heaven Nether Sect’s greater numbers, strength, and the Flower Sect members’ injuries left the Flower Sect group overwhelmed and losing fighters.

Yun Yun and the Flower Sect fought against the Heaven Nether Sect, but she was badly injured after saving Nalan Yanran. Just as Demonic Flower Evil Lord moved to cripple her, a golden giant arrived and killed him with one punch, leaving Liu Cang wary.

• Yun Yun fought off several Heaven Nether Sect experts while Demonic Flower Evil Lord taunted her.
• A Heaven Nether Sect expert badly injured Nalan Yanran, and Yun Yun broke her defense to catch and rescue her.
• Two Four-Star Dou Venerates ambushed Yun Yun, injuring her and driving her into a rock wall.
• Demonic Flower Evil Lord approached the weakened Yun Yun and attacked her dantian with his iron fan.
• A lightning-wreathed golden giant descended, killed Demonic Flower Evil Lord with one punch, and announced his contempt for the Heaven Nether Sect.
• Liu Cang's confident expression darkened as he regarded the golden giant with solemnity and fear.

A mysterious golden giant humiliated Liu Cang and crushed his strongest attack with a single punch, leaving the Heaven Nether Sect forces terrified. Liu Cang was badly injured, while the golden giant’s identity remained unknown.

• The golden giant kicked the Demonic Flower Evil Lord’s remains at Liu Cang, who destroyed them and threatened to kill him.
• Liu Cang attacked from above with the Great Nether Dragon Fist, summoning a massive black energy dragon.
• The golden giant punched the dragon apart and sent the remaining force into Liu Cang.
• Liu Cang crashed into a giant stone, spat blood, and was buried in its collapse as the Heaven Nether Sect experts recoiled in fear.

A golden giant overwhelmed the Heaven Nether Sect forces after gravely wounding Liu Cang, then advanced on the Vice Sect Master with clear intent to kill. Liu Cang abandoned negotiation and fled into the forest, vowing revenge if he survived.

• Liu Cang ordered Elder Qiu and the Heaven Nether Sect experts to attack the golden giant together.
• The golden giant destroyed their combined Dou Techniques with a pair of punches and gravely wounded more than a dozen attackers.
• Liu Cang tried to bargain with the golden giant, but the giant ignored him and continued to approach.
• Realizing the golden giant intended to kill him, Liu Cang used the shattered stones to launch himself toward the forest and escape.

Lin Ming killed Liu Cang and helped Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin defeat the fleeing Elder Qiu, ending the Heaven Nether Sect’s attack on Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran. After revealing his human form, he greeted Yun Yun following their long separation.

• Lin Ming caught Liu Cang on his escape route and killed him with a single punch.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin returned with the badly injured Elder Qiu, whom they had pursued and captured.
• Yun Yun recognized Xiao Yi Xian and realized the golden giant might be Lin Ming.
• Nalan Yanran and the surviving Flower Sect members watched as the giant transformed back into Lin Ming.
• Lin Ming greeted Yun Yun and remarked that it had been a long time.

Lin Ming reunited with Yun Yun after rescuing the Flower Sect from the Heaven Nether Sect and offered to travel with them toward the Ancient Domain Platform. After learning that an Ancient Heavenly Demon Python occupied the route through Black Nether Peak, he decided to confront it for the treasure it guarded, and Yun Yun agreed to guide the group there.

• Lin Ming gave healing pills to Yun Yun and the injured Flower Sect members, then learned that the Heaven Nether Sect had ambushed them and Elder Qing Hua had died.
• Yun Yun explained that the factions were heading for the Ancient Domain Platform, a relatively safe gathering place, and Lin Ming proposed that their groups travel together.
• Yun Yun described two routes to the platform and warned that an Ancient Heavenly Demon Python occupied Black Nether Peak.
• Lin Ming recognized that the python's Heavenly Demon Blood Pool could help perfect his Vajra Glazed Body and announced that he would challenge the beast.
• Yun Yun agreed to lead Lin Ming and the Flower Sect group to Black Nether Peak, while Lin Ming promised to protect them.

Lin Ming led Yun Yun and the others to Black Nether Peak to confront the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python and claim its powerful Life Energy. When the monster attacked, Lin Ming met its enormous tail head-on, injuring it and forcing it to burst from the mountain.

• After an hour of recovery, Lin Ming led the Flower Sect members west toward Black Nether Peak.
• Yun Yun identified the cavern at the mist-covered peak as the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python’s lair, and Lin Ming sensed the ancient Life Energy within.
• Lin Ming, Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, and the Flower Sect members entered the Black Mist, alerting the python.
• The Ancient Heavenly Demon Python swept its hundred-zhang tail at the intruders, and Lin Ming transformed into his golden Adamantine Glazed Body to block it with both fists.
• Lin Ming stopped the tail and shattered several of its scales, while Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin shielded the others from the collision’s aftermath.
• The wounded python roared, shattered the upper mountain, and surged into the sky.

Lin Ming fought the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python with overwhelming physical strength, injuring it and hurling it into a mountain. As he restrained the dazed beast, Qing Lin used her three Demonic Flower Phantoms to subdue its berserk rage.

• The Ancient Heavenly Demon Python attacked Lin Ming, but he charged it and punched a bloody wound into its chest.
• The python struck Lin Ming with its tail, and he seized it and swung the beast into a mountain, leaving it dazed and badly injured.
• Lin Ming called Qing Lin and kept the python’s tail restrained while he swung its body to expose its wounded chest.
• Qing Lin’s emerald eye phantom appeared in the python’s pupils, and the beast began to relax as the fury faded from its eyes.

Qing Lin used the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to subdue the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python, while Lin Ming kept the beast from breaking free. The python became docile under Qing Lin’s Origin Demon Eye, leaving the group with a powerful new ally.

• The Heavenly Demon Python resisted Qing Lin’s pupils, its ancient instincts restoring its savagery and threatening to break free.
• Lin Ming struck the python’s head with a golden, lightning-wreathed fist, disrupting its resistance and giving Qing Lin time.
• Qing Lin summoned the Nine-Headed Ancient Heavenly Snake Soul, whose ancestral pressure terrified and weakened the python.
• Qing Lin opened the Origin Demon Eye and branded the python with a jade-green flower, suppressing its body and soul.
• The python’s cruelty and defiance faded, and it hung docilely in the air as Qing Lin’s group celebrated her apparent success.

After Qing Lin subdued the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python, Lin Ming’s group reached its lair and found the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool. Lin Ming entered the pool to temper his nearly complete Vajra Glazed Body, leaving Qing Lin to guard the cavern with the python.

• Qing Lin controlled the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python with her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils while Lin Ming restrained it.
• Lin Ming and the others rode the python into its lair inside the Black Mist-shrouded Giant Peak.
• The group discovered a scarlet pool made from the blood and energy of Fierce Beasts, and Lin Ming sensed its potent, chaotic energy.
• Lin Ming asked Qing Lin to have the python guard the lair while he cultivated in the pool for about a day.
• Despite Yun Yun’s concern, Lin Ming jumped into the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool to temper his Vajra Glazed Body.

Lin Ming entered the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool and endured its corrosive, chaotic energy as his strange fire purified it into a source of nourishment. He steadily tempered his Vajra Glazed Body and began advancing toward his first Dou Qi revolution, remaining immersed in cultivation as both transformations continued.

• Lin Ming's entry caused the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool to boil violently, while Yun Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and the Flower Sect watched from its edge.
• The pool's scorching, poisonous energy corroded Lin Ming's body and forced its way into his meridians, causing him intense pain.
• Lin Ming's Dark Purple Strange Fire burned away the toxins, baleful energy, and impurities while preserving the useful essence.
• Lin Ming absorbed the refined energy, gradually strengthening his skin, muscles, and bones as the Vajra Glazed Body advanced beyond its nine-zhang level.
• The purified energy flowed into Lin Ming's Qi Sea, increasing the density and rotation of his Dou Qi as he neared the First Revolution.
• Lin Ming settled into cultivation at the center of the pool, awaiting the completion of his body's tempering and his Dou Qi breakthrough.

Lin Ming absorbed the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool’s remaining energy and broke through to the true limit of the Vajra Glazed Body. He emerged from the mountain as a golden giant, his breakthrough roar shaking the surrounding peaks.

• Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, and Yun Yun guarded Lin Ming while the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python drove away two groups of approaching Dou Zun experts.
• Lin Ming absorbed the blood pool until it dried up, then unleashed surging energy that made the cave and mountain tremble.
• Lin Ming broke through to a new realm and forced his Vajra Glazed Body to grow to nine zhang and nine chi.
• Lin Ming stomped through the blood pool, smashed a passage through the mountain, and burst out onto the summit.
• Lin Ming roared after emerging, sending sound waves across the sky that scattered clouds and shook distant peaks.

Lin Ming completed the First Revolution of his Dou Qi and fully mastered the Vajra Glazed Body before setting out for the Bodhi Ancient Tree. He and the others rode Qing Lin’s controlled Heavenly Demon Python into the depths of the Vast Desolate Ancient Region.

• Lin Ming’s Vajra Glazed Body reached ninety-nine feet as his cultivation advanced to the First Revolution.
• Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, Yun Yun, and the Flower Sect elders congratulated Lin Ming and prepared to leave for the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Qing Lin suggested riding the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python to travel faster and avoid battles with other fierce beasts.
• Lin Ming and the others climbed onto the python, and Qing Lin used her control to summon a cloud of poison fog beneath it.
• The Heavenly Demon Python carried the group at high speed toward the depths of the Vast Desolate Ancient Region.