Recaps

As the eight contenders faced the final four Dragon-Phoenix Platforms, the Netherworld Prince proposed that the strongest contenders unite against Lin Ming, Zi Yan, and Long Qingyue to secure a share of the inheritance. Ling Mei joined the alliance, but the Monster Emperor and Qingyue hesitated, leaving the battle lines uncertain.

• Lin Ming surveyed the seven other contenders as they gathered above the four remaining Dragon-Phoenix Platforms.
• Zi Yan challenged Xuan Yuan, whose earlier injury made him wary of fighting her alone.
• The Netherworld Prince moved behind Zi Yan and proposed that he and Xuan Yuan fight her together.
• The Netherworld Prince urged the Monster Emperor, Long Qingyue, and Ling Mei to join forces against Lin Ming, Zi Yan, and Long Qingyue, warning that the pair’s immense Essence Blood could claim the inheritance.
• Ling Mei immediately sided with the Netherworld Prince, while the Monster Emperor and Long Qingyue hesitated because they feared provoking Lin Ming and Zi Yan.

Zi Yan fought Xuan Yuan and the Netherworld Prince after they joined forces to challenge her. She effortlessly blocked their combined attacks and sent both men flying with a single palm strike.

• Zi Yan charged between Xuan Yuan and the Netherworld Prince and attacked them both.
• The Netherworld Prince summoned the Netherworld God Halberd, while Xuan Yuan formed a sword formation of more than a hundred giant silver swords.
• Xuan Yuan and the Netherworld Prince launched a combined attack that Zi Yan swallowed with a Spatial Rift.
• Zi Yan vanished, and the three fighters reappeared in a clash of palms that sent Xuan Yuan and the Netherworld Prince flying backward.

Zi Yan overwhelmed Xuan Yuan and the Netherworld Prince, forcing them to stake everything on a final attack. As Long Qingyue battled Ling Mei and Lin Ming watched with Qingyue and the Monster Emperor, the Netherworld Prince unleashed the Netherworld Palace’s supreme divine art.

• Xuan Yuan and the Netherworld Prince shifted to a fast, evasive battle against Zi Yan, while Long Qingyue confronted Ling Mei over her pursuit outside Dragon-Phoenix Haven.
• Long Qingyue drove Ling Mei back as Lin Ming, Qingyue, and the Monster Emperor chose not to fight each other.
• Zi Yan exploited a brief gap in Xuan Yuan and the Netherworld Prince’s coordination and struck both men in the chest, sending them flying and coughing up blood.
• Xuan Yuan and the Netherworld Prince resolved to risk everything after realizing they could not defeat Zi Yan with their ordinary methods.
• The Netherworld Prince unleashed the Netherworld God World-Ending Flame, a wave of freezing black flames that consumed frozen spiritual energy as it swept forward.

Zi Yan unleashed her newly created Great Annihilation Dragon-Phoenix Technique against Xuan Yuan and the Netherworld Prince’s strongest divine arts. Her beam annihilated both attacks and forced the two men to escape with their life-saving Jade Tablets.

• The Netherworld Prince summoned the Netherworld God World-Ending Flame while Xuan Yuan formed his Heaven-Piercing Divine Lotus, and both attacks bore down on Zi Yan.
• Zi Yan created and unleashed the Great Annihilation Dragon-Phoenix Technique, manifesting a vast Dragon-Phoenix True Soul that fired a beam of annihilation.
• Zi Yan’s beam pierced through the Netherworld Prince’s flames and Xuan Yuan’s lotus, erasing both divine arts.
• Xuan Yuan and the Netherworld Prince crushed their life-saving Jade Tablets and were transported out of the realm before the beam struck them.
• The beam continued past where the two men had stood and annihilated several distant mountains.

After Zi Yan drove off the last challengers, the survivors climbed the Dragon-Phoenix Stairway toward the inheritance left by the true dragon and true phoenix. Lin Ming and Zi Yan reached the final ten steps before the altar, where overwhelming pressure threatened to bar their way.

• Zi Yan defeated Xuan Yuan and the Netherworld Prince, while Long Qingyue struck Ling Mei and forced her to flee.
• The Monster Emperor and Qingyue conceded the inheritance to Zi Yan and Lin Ming without further objection.
• A golden stairway formed from the Dragon-Phoenix Platform, and Lin Ming, Zi Yan, Long Qingyue, the Monster Emperor, and Qingyue began climbing it.
• Lin Ming and Zi Yan reached an enormous altar made from the true dragon and true phoenix's bones and essence blood.
• Lin Ming and Zi Yan stopped before the altar's final ten steps, which radiated pressure far greater than that of the Super Dragon Phoenix Pool.

Lin Ming and Zi Yan climbed the Dragon-Phoenix Stairway despite its escalating trials of will and crushing dragon and phoenix pressure. They reached the tenth step, the first people ever to set foot on it.

• Qingyue explained that the ten-step stairway held the final Dragon-Phoenix Inheritance trial and that no one had ever reached its tenth step.
• Lin Ming stepped onto the first stair, and Zi Yan followed as the dragon and phoenix pressure assailed them.
• Lin Ming and Zi Yan climbed to the eighth step while Long Qingyue, the Monster Emperor, and Qingyue struggled behind them.
• Long Qingyue reached the seventh step but was wounded by the pressure, while the Monster Emperor and Qingyue stopped at the sixth.
• Lin Ming and Zi Yan reached the ninth step, then continued upward as spectators watched in disbelief.
• Lin Ming and Zi Yan stepped onto the tenth stair together.

Lin Ming and Zi Yan reached the tenth stair and received the legendary Dragon-Phoenix Blood Bath, transforming their bodies with the True Dragon and True Phoenix’s Origin Blood Essence. As the bath ended, golden dragon scales and phoenix feathers emerged from the ancient altar.

• Lin Ming and Zi Yan found the tenth stair’s pressure unexpectedly weak after preparing to endure its full force.
• A Dragon Roar Phoenix Cry shook the Dragon-Phoenix Platform, and a pillar of pure Dragon-Phoenix Blood Essence enveloped Lin Ming and Zi Yan.
• Long Qingyue, the Monster Emperor, and Qingyue absorbed the Blood Essence that overflowed down the stairs.
• The Blood Bath ended, leaving Lin Ming and Zi Yan surrounded by manifestations of dragons and phoenixes and transformed by the Origin Blood Essence.
• Golden dragon scales and phoenix feathers inscribed with ancient script erupted from the altar at the summit.

Lin Ming and Zi Yan reached the summit of the Dragon-Phoenix Platform and selected a dark golden bone fragment that resonated with their Dragon-Phoenix Bodies. It drew them into a golden sea, where they witnessed a mysterious Dragon-Phoenix cultivator merge a True Dragon and True Phoenix into a single creature.

• Dragon scales and Phoenix Feathers descended across the Dragon-Phoenix Stairway, with higher levels receiving rarer inheritances.
• Lin Ming and Zi Yan saw ten precious inheritance orbs above the altar, and one orb chose to approach them.
• Lin Ming and Zi Yan touched the orb together and discovered a dark golden bone fragment that resonated with their Dragon-Phoenix Bodies.
• The bone's light transported Lin Ming and Zi Yan into a golden sea, where a colossal wave carried a mysterious meditating figure.
• The mysterious figure revealed a True Dragon and True Phoenix behind him, then caused them to collide and merge into an enormous creature.

Lin Ming and Zi Yan received the Ancient Dragon-Phoenix’s inheritance and learned that the Dragon-Phoenix Stairway had been waiting for a descendant with Zi Yan’s bloodline. The illusion collapsed after the Dragon-Phoenix True Scripture entered their minds, leaving them with a supreme cultivation method and a transformed Zi Yan.

• Lin Ming realized the figure behind the inheritance was an Ancient Dragon-Phoenix, and that Zi Yan’s Dragon Phoenix Bloodline had let them pass the final stair without a trial.
• The Ancient Dragon-Phoenix revealed the Dragon-Phoenix True Scripture and sent its knowledge into Lin Ming and Zi Yan’s minds.
• The golden ocean illusion collapsed, and the mysterious figure gave Zi Yan a satisfied smile before disappearing.
• Lin Ming and Zi Yan awoke on the Dragon-Phoenix Platform as the golden bone crumbled to powder and Zi Yan’s aura transformed.
• Lin Ming and Zi Yan recognized the scripture’s benefits for their cultivation and celebrated the inheritance they had gained.

Lin Ming and Zi Yan left Dragon-Phoenix Haven and accepted Long Qingyue’s invitation to visit the Dragon Battle Palace. They arrived at its headquarters with the Southern Heavenly King, who thanked them for saving and supporting Long Qingyue.

• Lin Ming and Zi Yan entered the Spatial Vortex and emerged from Dragon-Phoenix Haven into the crowded Dragon-Phoenix Mountain Range.
• Long Qingyue arrived and invited Lin Ming and Zi Yan to the Dragon Battle Palace to repay their help.
• Lin Ming and Zi Yan accepted Long Qingyue’s invitation and traveled with her through several spatial teleportation arrays to the Dragon Battle Palace’s territory.
• Long Qingyue introduced the Southern Heavenly King to Lin Ming and Zi Yan and recounted how they had helped her in Dragon-Phoenix Haven.
• The Southern Heavenly King thanked Lin Ming and Zi Yan, then led the group through the Dragon Battle Palace’s defenses to its headquarters.

Long Qingyue returned to the Dragon Battle Palace as a celebrated hero, though the palace’s deeper crisis remained unresolved. After the banquet, the Southern Heavenly King thanked Lin Ming and Zi Yan, then asked Lin Ming about Spirit God Liquid.

• Long Qingyue arrived at the Dragon Battle Palace with Lin Ming and Zi Yan and was welcomed with a grand victory banquet for her achievements in Dragon-Phoenix Haven.
• The palace celebrated Long Qingyue’s rise among the Northern Domain’s greatest talents, which restored morale despite the Palace Master’s injury and the palace’s political dangers.
• Lin Ming sensed the leaders’ worries but chose not to involve himself in the Dragon Battle Palace’s conflict with the Snake God Hall.
• After the banquet, the Southern Heavenly King visited Lin Ming and conveyed the Palace Master’s gratitude for saving Long Qingyue and helping her gain the True Dragon’s inheritance.
• The Southern Heavenly King asked Lin Ming whether he had heard of Spirit God Liquid, and Lin Ming said he had not.

The Southern Heavenly King explained the Great Hunting War and why the weakened Dragon Battle Palace had to enter the deadly contest for Spirit God Liquid. He left Lin Ming with the knowledge that the palace’s survival depended on the treasure, and that the war would begin in one month.

• The Southern Heavenly King told Lin Ming that Spirit God Liquid could help Tier 9 supremes break through and raise Earth Sovereigns’ cultivation.
• The Southern Heavenly King explained that the Great Hunting War took place in the Fallen Battlefield, where ancient inheritances and Spirit God Liquid lay amid deadly spiritual energy storms.
• The Southern Heavenly King said the storms weakened only at a special time, allowing elite teams from every Northern Domain faction to enter and fight without rules.
• The Southern Heavenly King revealed that the Great Hunting War would begin in one month and that the Dragon Battle Palace had no choice but to participate.
• The Southern Heavenly King explained that Spirit God Liquid might cure the poisoned Palace Master or help him break through to Earth Sovereign, giving the Dragon Battle Palace a chance to survive.

Lin Ming pressed the Southern Heavenly King to reveal Dragon Battle Palace’s real strength and learned the faction’s desperate circumstances and its remaining trump card. Five days before the Great Hunting War, Dragon Battle Palace’s leaders gathered to plan their entry into the shifting Fallen Battlefield and search for Fallen Origin Pills and the Earth Sovereign Secret Treasury.

• Lin Ming confronted the Southern Heavenly King about Dragon Battle Palace’s resources, allies, and ability to fight, insisting on honesty before he would cooperate.
• The Southern Heavenly King admitted Dragon Battle Palace’s dire situation and disclosed its true circumstances to Lin Ming.
• More than half a month later, the Southern Heavenly King gathered Lin Ming, Zi Yan, Long Qingyue, and the subordinate faction leaders to prepare for the Great Hunting War.
• The Southern Heavenly King announced that the war would begin in five days, explained that the Fallen Battlefield’s terrain changed with its storms, and ordered the forces to enter from the north and split into units to find Fallen Origin Pills.
• The Southern Heavenly King said he would search for the Earth Sovereign Secret Treasury with Lin Ming and Zi Yan, leaving the subordinate leaders responsible for gathering Fallen Origin Pills.

The Southern Heavenly King urged the Dragon Battle Palace and its allies to cooperate in the Great Hunting War, while Long Qingyue gave their leaders Dragon Battle Tokens and rallied everyone to fight. As the war began, the Northern Domain braced for slaughter, but its top powers entered the Fallen Battlefield for the chance to claim Spirit God Liquid and advance their cultivation.

• The Southern Heavenly King told the factions to set aside their rivalries and gather enough Fallen Origin Pills to break the formation guarding the Earth Sovereign Secret Treasury.
• Long Qingyue distributed Dragon Battle Tokens that let their holders sense one another's locations and offer aid in the Fallen Battlefield.
• Long Qingyue rallied the Dragon Battle Palace experts, and they answered her call to fight.
• The Great Hunting War arrived beneath dark clouds and a killing aura that spread across the Northern Domain.
• The narration explained that top powers risked their lives for Spirit God Liquid, which contained the insights and essence of fallen Earth Sovereigns.

As the Great Hunting War began, the Dragon Battle Palace and the other top factions of the Northern Domain mobilized their armies for the Fallen Battlefield. The vast forces converged from every direction, leaving the Northern Domain poised for a brutal war.

• The chapter explained that factions sought the Spirit God Liquid in the Fallen Battlefield, and that the Great Hunting War gave their leaders a chance to fight for it.
• At the Dragon Battle Palace, the Southern Heavenly King, Long Qingyue, Lin Ming, and Zi Yan stood before the assembled Dragon Battle Army.
• The Southern Heavenly King rang the war bell and ordered all forces of the Dragon Battle Palace Domain to set out.
• The Dragon Battle Palace's army crossed its domain, gathering troops from affiliated factions as citizens watched and offered their blessings.
• Armies from the Divine Pavilion, Netherworld Palace, Monster Gate, and other Northern Domain factions also marched toward the Fallen Battlefield.

The Northern Domain’s forces gathered at the Fallen Battlefield as its black-storm barrier collapsed, beginning the Great Hunting War. The Dragon Battle Palace army entered the battlefield and faced its eerie, penetrating chill.

• The weakened black storm guarding the Fallen Battlefield collapsed, releasing an ancient aura of desolation and murderous intent.
• The Southern Heavenly King ordered the Dragon Battle Palace army to begin the war, and its golden legion crossed the fissure into the Fallen Battlefield.
• The Dragon Battle Palace soldiers found that the battlefield’s sinister chill penetrated their spiritual energy barriers and unsettled them.
• Xiang Tian and Zi Yan stood at the army’s front as the Southern Heavenly King warned them to be careful.

The Southern Heavenly King explained that death intent permeated the Fallen Battlefield and that the Extraterritorial Evil Race could contaminate spiritual energy with corpse qi. He revealed that the ancient war had cost the Great Thousand World half its territory, leaving Long Qingyue shaken but reassured that powerful figures still stood ready to defend it.

• The Southern Heavenly King warned that only utmost yang power could dispel the battlefield’s death intent, while Lin Ming and Zi Yan’s powers kept it at bay.
• The army landed on a crimson plain, where Long Qingyue noticed that the scattered remains all belonged to humans and spiritual beasts, not the Extraterritorial Evil Race.
• The Southern Heavenly King explained that dead members of the Extraterritorial Evil Race dissolved into corpse qi that contaminated spiritual energy and had once turned the battlefield into a wasteland.
• The Southern Heavenly King told Long Qingyue that the ancient war had left the Great Thousand World half its former size, with the other half occupied by the Extraterritorial Evil Race.
• The Southern Heavenly King reassured Long Qingyue that legendary figures such as the tomb keeper of the Land of Ten Thousand Tombs and the Green Shirt Sword Saint would act if the Extraterritorial Evil Race threatened them again.

The Southern Heavenly King divided the Dragon Battle Palace forces across the Fallen Battlefield to search for Fallen Origin Pills while he, Lin Ming, and Zi Yan ventured deeper to locate the Earth Sovereign Secret Treasury. The trio entered the battlefield’s lethal depths, where their arrival broke the region’s long silence.

• The Southern Heavenly King warned that every faction in the Fallen Battlefield could be an enemy and ordered his commanders to search ruins for Fallen Origin Pills.
• The Southern Heavenly King distributed Jade Slip maps and told the commanders to avoid unnecessary battles, retreat from stronger opponents, and regroup at the agreed location.
• Long Qingyue took command of an elite force and rode east with nearly a hundred cavalrymen.
• The Southern Heavenly King, Lin Ming, and Zi Yan set off to investigate possible locations of the Earth Sovereign Secret Treasury.
• The trio entered the storm-ravaged depths of the Fallen Battlefield, where ghosts and deadly spiritual energy storms haunted the land.

Lin Ming, Zi Yan, and the Southern Heavenly King traveled into the depths of the Fallen Battlefield and confronted intelligent, powerful Ghosts. As Lin Ming’s Emperor Flame destroyed most of them, the strongest Ghost triggered an ancient Restriction and brought the abyss down on the trio.

• Lin Ming used his soul perception and Emperor Flame to navigate the deadly depths while the Southern Heavenly King warned of the Ghosts and the dangers near Earth Sovereign Secret Treasuries.
• Lin Ming sensed several intelligent Ghosts following the group, so he and Zi Yan pursued them into a black abyss.
• Two Ghosts attacked Lin Ming and Zi Yan, and Zi Yan cut them apart before the Southern Heavenly King destroyed them with his spear’s masculine power.
• Lin Ming exposed three stronger Ghosts with his Emperor Flame and burned away the two weaker ones.
• The peak Tier 9 Ghost fled, then triggered an ancient Restriction that caused the abyss’s black rock ceiling to collapse toward Lin Ming, Zi Yan, and the Southern Heavenly King.

Lin Ming destroyed the specter and discovered Earth Spirit Qi hidden within it. He absorbed the wisp, awakening his Inner World's Earth-Element Power and beginning a transformation.

• Lin Ming pursued the fleeing specter through the falling rubble and trapped it with Emperor Flame.
• Lin Ming combined Emperor Flame with Nine Profound Golden Lightning and burned away the specter's body, revealing a wisp of Earth Spirit Qi.
• The Southern Heavenly King identified the wisp as rare Earth-Element origin, while Lin Ming sensed his Inner World responding to it.
• Lin Ming told Zi Yan to guard him, and the Southern Heavenly King joined her in keeping watch as Lin Ming absorbed the Earth Spirit Qi.
• Lin Ming's body grew denser as his Inner World expanded, raising mountain ranges and strengthening its Earth-Element Power.

After refining the Earth Spirit Qi, Lin Ming sensed a far greater source of Earth-Element Power deep in the Fallen Battlefield and led Zi Yan and the Southern Heavenly King toward it. They survived a vast ghost horde and a region filled with Spatial Rifts, and the source drew close as they pressed deeper.

• Lin Ming refined the Earth Spirit Qi and sensed an immense source of matching Earth-Element Power in the depths of the Fallen Battlefield.
• Lin Ming took the lead, and he, Zi Yan, and the Southern Heavenly King traveled deeper through increasingly dangerous terrain.
• The trio fought through a huge swarm of ghosts, and Lin Ming summoned five fire beasts to clear a path so they could escape the encirclement.
• Lin Ming and Zi Yan guided the Southern Heavenly King through a region crowded with invisible Spatial Rifts.
• After nearly three days, the Spatial Rifts began to thin, and Lin Ming sensed that the distant Earth-Element source was much closer.

Lin Ming, Zi Yan, and the Southern Heavenly King encountered Tian She and three Snake God Hall elders after they escaped the Spatial Turbulence. The group split into battles, and Tian She transformed into a colossal serpent as his fight with the Southern Heavenly King continued.

• After three days of travel through the Spatial Rifts, Lin Ming's group saw four battered figures emerge from the Spatial Turbulence.
• The Southern Heavenly King recognized Tian She as a traitor, and Tian She declared that killing him would earn a great reward from the Snake God Hall.
• Lin Ming assigned the Southern Heavenly King to fight Tian She while Zi Yan and Lin Ming faced the other three Snake God Hall elders.
• The Southern Heavenly King and Tian She clashed, while Zi Yan threatened one elder and Lin Ming attacked the other two with Emperor Flame.
• After the Southern Heavenly King wounded him, Tian She stabbed the Snake Blades into his shoulders and transformed into a gigantic dark-green serpent.

Lin Ming and Zi Yan helped the Southern Heavenly King defeat a Snake God Hall ambush in the Fallen Battlefield. Two Tier 9 Supremes died to Lin Ming’s Five-Colored Wheel, while Tian She and another attacker escaped gravely wounded.

• Tian She fought the Southern Heavenly King as Zi Yan battled a Snake God Hall expert, while Lin Ming faced two more attackers.
• Lin Ming unleashed the Five-Colored Wheel and annihilated both of his Tier 9 opponents.
• Tian She fled after Lin Ming’s attack, and the Southern Heavenly King struck his tail as Zi Yan wounded the Snake God Hall expert pursuing her.
• Tian She and the other expert escaped into the gray fog using secret techniques that burned their origins.
• The Southern Heavenly King and Zi Yan called off pursuit, and the Southern Heavenly King thanked Lin Ming and Zi Yan for saving him.

Lin Ming, Zi Yan, and the Southern Heavenly King crossed the dangerous gravity field surrounding the Earth Sovereign Secret Treasury and fought its Earth Spirit Guardian. Lin Ming destroyed the guardian, leaving the way into the basin open.

• Lin Ming saw through and destroyed a Mist Wraith illusion of Yun Yun, while Zi Yan and the Southern Heavenly King overcame their own illusions.
• The three avoided spatial turbulence and fought off a swarm of Void Worms as they continued through the Fallen Battlefield.
• Lin Ming recognized the growing gravity and earthy yellow glow as signs that they had reached the outer perimeter of the Earth Sovereign Secret Treasury.
• The three entered a vast basin, where an Earth Spirit Guardian rose from the yellow mist and attacked them with a stone spear and countless hands of Earth Spirit Qi.
• Lin Ming unleashed Five Elements Power against the guardian, disrupting its Earth-Element Power and shattering its body into motes of light.

Lin Ming dismantled the formation protecting the Earth Sovereign Secret Treasury, but the residual will guarding its Stone Door proved too powerful to overcome directly. He sent the Southern Heavenly King to retrieve Fallen Origin Pills while he and Zi Yan waited at the entrance.

• After the guardian spirit shattered, Lin Ming identified the secret treasury beneath the basin’s luminous mist and discovered its transparent protective formation.
• Lin Ming studied the formation for a day and night, then dismantled its nine nodes in sequence to avoid triggering the earth veins.
• The formation collapsed, and Lin Ming, Zi Yan, and the Southern Heavenly King reached the treasury’s Stone Door beneath the Earth Sovereign’s immense pressure.
• The Southern Heavenly King’s spear rebounded from the residual will protecting the door and left him badly injured; Lin Ming found that his Five Elements Power weakened it too slowly.
• Lin Ming decided they needed Fallen Origin Pills, and the Southern Heavenly King left to find Qing Yue and the others and bring some back.