Recaps

Lin Ming and his companions traveled through the Vast Desolate Ancient Region aboard the Heavenly Demon Python, avoiding powerful beasts and other factions as they hurried toward the Ancient Domain Platform. At night, the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s party approached them directly, leaving Lin Ming ready for a confrontation.

• Qing Lin used her connection to the Heavenly Demon Python to detect an Earth Abyss Demon Flood Dragon, and Lin Ming ordered the group to avoid its territory.
• Lin Ming’s group passed other factions without stopping, wary that they would become rivals over the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• After nightfall, Lin Ming and his companions sensed a powerful group racing toward them through the purple mist.
• Lin Ming recognized Feng Qing'er of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and noticed her rise from Five-Star to Nine-Star Dou Venerate in just over a year.
• The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan flew straight toward Lin Ming’s group, and Lin Ming circulated his Dou Qi and prepared to fight.

Lin Ming confronted Jiu Feng and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, who accused him of killing their clansmen in the Ancient Ruins. After Lin Ming broke Jiu Feng’s Heavenly Phoenix Seal with a punch, Jiu Feng postponed their conflict and left for the Ancient Domain Platform, where Lin Ming’s party continued onward.

• Golden Phoenix recognized Lin Ming and accused him of wiping out the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s party in the Ancient Ruins.
• Jiu Feng stopped his party and confronted Lin Ming, who insulted the clan and refused to back down.
• Jiu Feng attacked Lin Ming with the Heavenly Phoenix Seal, but Lin Ming blocked it with his Creation Fist and shattered the golden claw.
• Jiu Feng abandoned the fight to preserve his strength for the Bodhi Ancient Tree and warned Lin Ming that he would settle their grievance later.
• A Flower Sect elder warned Lin Ming that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan would not forget the insult, and Lin Ming led his party toward the Ancient Domain Platform.

Lin Ming’s group reached the Ancient Domain Platform after rescuing Xiao Yan’s group from three Fierce Beasts and joining forces with them. They arrived at the platform, where many powerful cultivators had already gathered.

• Lin Ming’s group traveled through the Vast Desolate Ancient Region toward the Ancient Domain Platform as its ancient aura grew stronger.
• Lin Ming found Xiao Yan and Starfall Pavilion surrounded by a Flame Giant Ape, a Winged Tiger, and a Netherworld Earth Scorpion, and the beasts retreated when they sensed the Heavenly Demon Python.
• Lin Ming and Xiao Yan reunited, and Lin Ming invited Xiao Yan’s group to travel with them.
• The combined group rode the Heavenly Demon Python to the Ancient Domain Platform and found numerous cultivators gathered there.

Lin Ming and his companions reached the Ancient Domain Platform, where Xiao Yi Xian killed ten members of the Blood Skull Sect who threatened them. At the platform’s center, Xiao Yan reunited with Xun Er.

• Lin Ming’s group arrived at the Ancient Domain Platform and found over a thousand experts gathered there.
• Xiao Yi Xian poisoned ten Blood Skull Sect members after their leader tried to surround and recruit the women.
• The crowd recoiled from Xiao Yi Xian after recognizing her woeful poison body, and Lin Ming led his companions toward the platform’s center.
• Lin Ming’s group examined the ancient restriction and the powerful experts occupying the raised stone platform.
• Xiao Yan spotted Xun Er, and she rose to meet him as Lin Ming stepped aside to give them space.

Lin Ming and Xiao Yan arrived at the Ancient Domain Platform, where Xun Er explained that a Beast Tide blocked the route to the Bodhi Ancient Tree and that the gathered factions planned another joint assault. She warned them about Hun Yu, a powerful and secretly vicious Hun Clan heir whose proposed alliance might conceal another motive.

• Jiu Feng and Golden Phoenix vowed to take revenge on Lin Ming once the Restriction weakened, while Lin Ming ignored their hostility.
• Xun Er greeted Xiao Yan and Lin Ming's companions, then explained that tens of thousands of Fierce Beasts guarded the depths of the Vast Desolate Ancient Region.
• Xun Er identified Hun Yu as a leading Hun Clan heir with a Divine Bloodline, and Gu Qingyang warned Xiao Yan and Lin Ming that Hun Yu was more vicious than he appeared.
• Xiao Yan learned that previous attempts to cross the Beast Tide had failed and that the gathered factions were preparing another assault together.
• Xun Er proposed that her group, Starfall Pavilion, and Lin Ming's companions stay together during the next push.

Hun Yu rallied the factions on the Ancient Domain Platform into an alliance to cross the Beast Tide, and more than a thousand fighters set out together. They reached a vast sea of Fierce Beasts, with the Bodhi Ancient Tree visible beyond it.

• Hun Yu proposed an alliance without ranks or orders, promising mutual support against the Beast Tide.
• Jiu Feng declared that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan would join, prompting nearly all the factions to agree.
• Gu Qingyang warned Xiao Yan that Jiu Feng was the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan's chosen next Clan Leader and a formidable opponent.
• Xun Er warned Xiao Yan that fewer than one in ten would survive crossing the Beast Tide, while Lin Ming resolved to make it through.
• Hun Yu led the alliance toward the northern horizon, and Lin Ming's group traveled near the middle of the formation.
• The alliance halted before hundreds of thousands of Fierce Beasts, and Lin Ming spotted the Bodhi Ancient Tree beyond them.

Hun Yu led the temporary alliance into the beast tide, while Lin Ming and his companions stayed alert and kept their own formation. After a Dou Venerate died and the beasts surrounded the force, they continued toward the increasingly visible Bodhi Ancient Tree.

• Hun Yu volunteered the Hun Clan to lead the charge, and Lin Ming warned his group not to trust the Hun Clan's arrangements.
• Hun Yu charged first as thousands of experts formed an arrowhead, with Lin Ming's group advancing near the middle in a tight formation.
• The alliance blasted an opening through the weaker beasts, while Lin Ming and his companions fought off attackers and conserved their strength.
• After the formation penetrated roughly three thousand yards, stronger beasts attacked and Gu Qingyang warned everyone to be careful.
• A Four-Star Dou Venerate was killed by eighth-order beasts, and Hun Yu urged the surrounded alliance to keep moving toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree.

Hun Yu and the Hun Clan pretended to lead the charge while secretly conserving their strength and letting other factions bear the danger. As the beast tide overwhelmed the group, Lin Ming’s companions held a steady position in the middle, where he reflected on the law of the strong preying on the weak.

• Hun Yu led the Hun Clan through the beasts, winning the crowd’s trust while Lin Ming noticed they avoided dangerous opponents and kept their strength in reserve.
• Xiao Yan, Xun'er, and Gu Qingyang recognized that Hun Yu’s maneuvers were scattering the other factions, and Lin Ming told his companions to hold their own formation.
• An Ironclad Rhino and other powerful beasts slowed the advance, killed several Dou Venerates, and forced the group into brutal close combat.
• Hun Yu and the Soul Hall experts vanished from the front, leaving weaker fighters to become cannon fodder as the panicked crowd shoved forward.
• Lin Ming’s combined force maintained a tight Battle Formation in the middle, fighting together and advancing at a steady pace.
• After an Eight-Star Dou Venerate died fighting three beasts, Lin Ming said that the strong preyed on the weak.

Lin Ming’s group broke away from the collapsing force and followed Hun Yu through the beast tide, leaving the remaining fighters to be devoured. As they neared a more open stretch, the roars and pressure of stronger beasts signaled that the most dangerous part of the crossing still lay ahead.

• An Ancient Demonic Ape appeared and shattered the front line, giving Hun Yu and the Hun Clan experts the chance to flee around its flank.
• Lin Ming ordered his group to follow Hun Yu, and several other powerful factions broke away as well, abandoning the remaining fighters to the beast tide.
• Lin Ming’s party pursued Hun Yu through the beasts while Xiao Yan noted how the Hun Clan had conserved its strength and navigated the tide efficiently.
• Jiu Feng led the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan through the beasts, while other factions and the allied Yan, Lei, Yao, and Shi Clans followed behind.
• After roughly a quarter of an hour, deeper roars and an oppressive aura warned Lin Ming’s group that stronger fierce beasts lay ahead.

Lin Ming, Xiao Yan, and their allies fought through the beast tide in formation, but the endless horde steadily drained their strength. Lin Ming ordered everyone to unleash their full power to break through before the beasts could surround them.

• Lin Ming and Xiao Yan took the lead as the group formed a protective triangle and advanced into the beast tide.
• Lin Ming’s Dark Purple Fire Dragon and Xiao Yan’s Three-Colored Fire Lotus cleared the path while their allies attacked the beasts along the flanks and rear.
• Lin Ming noticed that the group’s strength was fading as they fought deeper into the densely packed horde.
• Xiao Yan spotted Hun Yu’s group advancing inside a black Dou Qi formation that crushed and devoured nearby Fierce Beasts.
• Xun'er estimated that the group could break through within an incense stick’s time, but Lin Ming decided they had to move faster before they were surrounded.
• Lin Ming enlarged his fire dragon and burned a passage through the horde as Xiao Yan and the others unleashed their full power, doubling the group’s speed.

Lin Ming, Xiao Yan, Xun'er, and their companions fought through an exhausting beast tide until they discovered its boundary was near and forced their way out. They reached a peaceful plain where the beasts could not cross the invisible barrier, leaving the group alive but drained.

• Lin Ming, Xiao Yan, Xun'er, and their companions battled the fierce beasts for an hour as the tide grew stronger and their stamina ran low.
• Xun'er noticed Hun Yu and his group had disappeared, and Xiao Yan realized the beast tide was thinning ahead rather than the group having broken through.
• Xun'er sensed that the beast tide ended a short distance ahead, prompting Gu Qingyang and the others to rally for a final push.
• Lin Ming defeated a lightning-wielding giant tiger while Xiao Yan and the others unleashed their strongest attacks to clear a path.
• Lin Ming and the group broke through the final ranks of beasts and reached a grassy plain beyond an invisible boundary that the beasts could not cross.

After escaping the Beast Tide, Xiao Yan and the others discovered the legendary Bodhi Ancient Tree and raced toward it. Lin Ming warned his companions to proceed cautiously, while rival groups emerged behind them and rushed ahead, leaving a growing scramble for the tree.

• Xiao Yan, Xun'er, Gu Qingyang, and the others recognized the enormous tree as the Bodhi Ancient Tree and reacted with shock and longing.
• Xiao Yan hurried toward the tree, and Xun'er led the Ancient Clan members after him.
• Lin Ming stayed behind briefly, telling Qing Lin and the others that the tree might be dangerous and that they should advance cautiously.
• Jiu Feng and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan escaped the Beast Tide, saw the tree, and set off after Xiao Yan's group.
• The allied Ancient Races and surviving sect and family groups emerged, saw the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and rushed toward it ahead of Lin Ming and his companions.

Xiao Yan and the other factions reached the Bodhi Ancient Tree and were awed by its power, but Xiao Yan sensed a hidden danger beneath its tranquil appearance. Hun Yu waited near the tree and warned the gathered forces that the tree itself might be their greatest threat.

• Xiao Yan reached the Bodhi Ancient Tree first, and Xun'er, Gu Qingyang, and the others arrived beside him, awestruck by its vastness and mysterious aura.
• Xiao Yan spotted Hun Yu and the Hun Clan party waiting near the trunk and warned the Ancient Clan party to stay cautious.
• Xiao Yan sensed that the unease came not only from the Hun Clan but also from the Bodhi Ancient Tree itself.
• Jiu Feng and other factions arrived, noticed the opposing parties had stopped, and questioned why they had not approached the tree.
• Hun Yu claimed he had waited so the factions could proceed together, then warned that the Bodhi Ancient Tree itself might be the hardest danger to face.

Hun Yu warned the gathered groups that a Half Sage ancestor had vanished after approaching the Bodhi Ancient Tree, but they continued toward it despite the danger. As they reached its shadow, they discovered the Bodhi Heart and became consumed by its promise of reaching Sainthood.

• Hun Yu recounted how a Half Sage ancestor and the Bodhi Ancient Tree had disappeared without a trace, warning that the tree might be dangerous.
• Gu Qingyang accused Hun Yu of waiting for the other groups to arrive so they could investigate together, and Hun Yu admitted it was safer in numbers.
• Xiao Yan cautioned Xun'er, Gu Qingyang, and the others before leading his group toward the tree, while the other groups followed.
• Qing Lin sensed a powerful, sinister gray aura within the Bodhi Ancient Tree's pure aura, and Lin Ming confirmed that something was wrong.
• Hun Yu, Xiao Yan, and the others stopped beneath the tree's shade as a chilling sensation spread through them.
• The groups spotted the pulsing Bodhi Heart high on the trunk, and their caution gave way to greed.

Lin Ming and the other factions discovered that five Half-Sage puppets guarded the Bodhi Heart, including a missing ancestor of the Hun Clan. Xiao Yan proposed that the seven groups cooperate to fight them, and the leaders began dividing up the puppets.

• The Bodhi Ancient Tree opened its branches and revealed five figures whose auras reached the Half-Sage level.
• Lin Ming recognized that the figures were lifeless puppets, and Hun Yu identified one as a Hun Clan ancestor who had disappeared three thousand years earlier.
• Lin Ming said his group could hold off one puppet, while Xiao Yan asked the gathered factions whether anyone planned to retreat; no one chose to leave.
• Xiao Yan proposed that the seven groups work together, with his group taking one puppet and the others dividing up the remaining four.
• Hun Yu agreed that the Hun Clan would take one puppet, Jiu Feng volunteered the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, and Huo Xuan committed his alliance to another.

With all five Half-Saint Puppets assigned to opposing factions, Lin Ming’s group launched the battle beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree. The fighting began across the plain, with Lin Ming narrowly escaping the gray-robed puppet’s first strike as the other teams engaged their own opponents.

• The leaders of the final three teams agreed to face the last Half-Saint Puppet together, driven by their desire for the Bodhi Heart.
• Lin Ming called for the battle to begin and advanced, awakening all five puppets with his third step.
• The gray-robed puppet attacked Lin Ming, whose wind blade barely affected it; Xiao Yan, Xun’er, Gu Qingyang, and the others combined their attacks to deflect its palm strike and let Lin Ming escape.
• Hun Yu led the Hun Clan experts against their black-robed ancestor puppet and charged at it, vowing to release it from its bondage.
• Jiu Feng led the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan against the animal-skin puppet, while Huo Xuan, Lei Dong, and the Ancient Races fought the stone-spear puppet.
• The final three teams surrounded the old-farmer puppet with coordinated ranged attacks, and all five battles raged across the plain.

Lin Ming’s team battled a gray-robed Half-Saint Puppet and discovered that its head was its weak point. After Lin Ming cracked its skull and the fighters combined their strongest attacks, they destroyed the puppet and became the first group to defeat one.

• Gu Hua and Gu Xing struck the gray-robed puppet from behind, but its counterforce badly injured them and sent them flying.
• Lin Ming’s group coordinated their attacks to hold the puppet back while Lin Ming noticed that it reacted more strongly when its head was struck.
• Lin Ming transformed with the Vajra Glazed Body and punched the puppet’s head, cracking its skull but suffering a heavy counterblow to his shoulder.
• Xun'er, Gu Qingyang, Xiao Yan, Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, Yun Yun, Elder Qingcheng, and the other fighters concentrated their strongest attacks on the puppet’s damaged head.
• The combined assault shattered the puppet’s head and stopped its movements, making Lin Ming’s team the first group to defeat a Half-Saint Puppet.

After defeating their Half-Saint Puppet, Lin Ming’s group treated its many wounded members while the other teams continued fighting their own puppets. Lin Ming watched the battles without offering aid, leaving the rivals to wear each other down as they approached the Bodhi Ancient Tree.

• Lin Ming recovered his normal form and saw that nearly everyone in his group had been injured, though Xun'er was unscathed.
• Lin Ming distributed healing pills to Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, Yun Yun, and the Flower Sect members while the others used their own supplies to recover.
• Lin Ming surveyed the other battles and saw the Hun Clan, Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, and Four-Clan Alliance holding their puppets at significant cost.
• Lin Ming observed that the three allied Middle Continent teams were suffering the heaviest casualties because they lacked coordination.
• Lin Ming chose to guard his recovering companions rather than help the struggling teams, reasoning that their members were competitors and that their losses could benefit him.

The remaining teams destroyed the Half-Saint Puppets, though the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan lost four elders and the final battle left many experts badly injured. With all five puppets defeated, the groups recovered and eyed the Bodhi Ancient Tree while treating one another as rivals rather than allies.

• Huo Xuan and Lei Dong struck the stone-spear puppet together and destroyed its head, then their alliance began recovering.
• Hun Yu destroyed the black-robed puppet with a vortex of soul energy and exchanged a guarded smile with Lin Ming before ordering his clan to recover.
• Jiu Feng used Sky Phoenix Splitting Void Light to destroy the beast-hide-clad puppet after four Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan elders died in the fight.
• The teams that had defeated their puppets refused to help the three groups still fighting and watched them warily.
• A Grey-robed Old Man was torn in half by the hunched puppet, prompting the remaining experts to unleash a desperate attack that destroyed it and left many of them severely wounded.

After the Half-Saint Puppets were defeated, Lin Ming warned the survivors that approaching the Bodhi Ancient Tree would be far more dangerous, but he and the others pressed on. A beam from the Bodhi Heart sealed the cultivators’ Dou Qi and pulled more than thirty people, including Lin Ming, Xiao Yan, and Yun Yun, into the tree, leaving Nalan Yanran and the others behind.

• After the final Half-Saint Puppet crumbled, Lin Ming and his companions recovered enough to continue toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Lin Ming warned the weaker survivors to consider turning back, and several wounded fighters and Flower Sect elders stayed behind while Yun Yun joined his group.
• Lin Ming, Xiao Yan, Xun'er, and the others advanced toward the tree, followed by the four Ancient Races alliance and the battered survivors from three teams.
• As more than thirty people gathered beneath the tree, a dazzling beam descended from the Bodhi Heart and enveloped them.
• The beam sealed everyone’s Dou Qi, then withdrew into the trunk with Lin Ming, Yun Yun, and the others, leaving Nalan Yanran and the remaining survivors stunned.

Lin Ming resisted an illusion that gave him overwhelming power and destroyed it with his soul strength. He awoke in an emerald space before a small, ancient tree radiating immense vitality.

• Lin Ming entered a ring of light and endured the memories and emotions flooding through it without losing control of his mind.
• Lin Ming found himself facing an enormous beast tide in a recreation of the Vast Desolate Ancient Region.
• Lin Ming erased every beast within a thousand feet, then recognized that the world and its power were an illusion.
• Lin Ming unleashed his Heavenly Realm Grand Perfection soul power and shattered the illusion.
• Lin Ming awoke in an emerald space before an ancient jade-green tree with concentrated vitality.

Lin Ming used the Bodhi Seed to resonate with the Bodhi Ancient Tree, slow the corruption afflicting it, and reveal the illusions trapping the others. The tree showed him a vision of its uncorrupted past and a mysterious black-robed man whose presence dwarfed even the ancient tree.

• Lin Ming recognized that a fallen Dou Di’s negative emotions had corrupted the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s primordial spirit.
• Lin Ming activated the Bodhi Seed, whose purifying light resonated with the tree and slowed the black veins spreading across it.
• The tree released orbs showing Xiao Yan, Xun'er, Hun Yu, Jiu Feng, Huo Xuan, Lei Dong, and the others trapped in illusions shaped by their deepest desires.
• Lin Ming sensed the tree’s pain through the Bodhi Seed and communicated with it, prompting it to form a new orb.
• The new orb showed the Bodhi Ancient Tree in its former, uncorrupted state and a black-robed man whose presence made the vast tree seem insignificant.

Lin Ming witnessed the Bodhi Ancient Tree's memory of a wounded Black-Robed Dou Di attacking it and being killed by another mysterious Dou Di. After the battle, the fallen Dou Di's hateful will corrupted the tree, and a Spiritual Imprint from the memory entered Lin Ming's brow.

• Lin Ming watched the Bodhi Ancient Tree's memory reveal the Black-Robed Dou Di attacking the tree to seize its fundamental tree spirit.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree fought back, but the Black-Robed Dou Di steadily broke through its defenses and reached for its trunk.
• A mysterious second Dou Di struck the Black-Robed Dou Di from behind and destroyed him and the surrounding world.
• The dead Dou Di's negative emotions survived as black wisps that entered the wounded Bodhi Ancient Tree and corrupted its tree spirit.
• The memory condensed into a Spiritual Imprint, which shot into Lin Ming's brow.

Lin Ming learned how the Black-Robed Dou Di’s lingering hatred had corrupted the Bodhi Ancient Tree and agreed to help expel it. Instead of purifying the negative emotions, he planned to use the Turbid Lotus Spirit Quenching Art to temper his soul and gamble on reaching the emperor realm.

• Lin Ming absorbed the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s memories and learned that the Black-Robed Dou Di’s negative emotions had corrupted its origin over countless years.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree pleaded with Lin Ming for help, and he promised to try to remove the corruption with his soul power.
• Lin Ming rejected the original method of using refined Bodhi nectar because he wanted to pursue a breakthrough beyond Heavenly Realm Grand Perfection.
• Lin Ming decided to draw in the Dou Di’s dangerous negative emotions and refine them with the Turbid Lotus Spirit Quenching Art, accepting the risk of losing himself.

Lin Ming convinced the Bodhi Ancient Tree to let him attempt to cleanse the Dou Di’s negative emotions with his soul power, then used his world-origin aura to earn its trust. Before beginning the dangerous purification, he altered the illusions of the trapped cultivators to plant information about the Hun Clan, and prepared to sit before the tree.

• The Bodhi Ancient Tree doubted Lin Ming could cleanse the Dou Di’s negative emotions, so it produced more than twenty perfect Bodhi Seeds and urged him to refine them into Bodhi nectar.
• Lin Ming refused to use the seeds first and promised to switch methods if his soul-power approach failed.
• Lin Ming revealed an aura of world origin, causing the Bodhi Ancient Tree to trust him and accept his proposed method.
• Lin Ming asked the Bodhi Ancient Tree to loosen its control over the illusions trapping the others, and it created projections of their illusion cores.
• Lin Ming used his soul power to implant information about the Hun Clan’s deeds into the illusions of Xiao Yan, Xun'er, Hun Yu, Jiu Feng, Huo Xuan, Lei Dong, and the other trapped cultivators.
• Lin Ming sat cross-legged before the Bodhi Ancient Tree, ready to begin purifying its negative emotions.