Recaps

Lin Ming countered Xia Xuan’s Heavenly Emperor God Palm with his Dragon-Phoenix Palm, and his true dragon and true phoenix overwhelmed Xia Xuan’s heavenly emperor dragon. Xia Xuan withdrew his badly wounded dragon and, coveting Lin Ming’s manifestation method, resolved to kill him and take it.

• Xia Xuan attacked Lin Ming with the Great Xia Imperial Dynasty’s Heavenly Emperor God Palm, drawing power from its dynastic fortune.
• Lin Ming dismissed Xia Xuan’s heavenly emperor qi as insufficient and summoned the majesty of a true dragon and true phoenix.
• Lin Ming unleashed his Dragon-Phoenix Palm, and the two palm seals collided above the stone platform.
• Lin Ming’s true dragon and true phoenix tore apart Xia Xuan’s heavenly emperor dragon, leaving it badly weakened.
• Xia Xuan coveted Lin Ming’s manifestation method, vowed to kill him, and recalled the injured heavenly emperor dragon into his sleeve.

Xia Xuan summoned the Great Heavenly King Dharma Body and attacked Lin Ming with its overwhelming power. Lin Ming stood his ground and formed a colossal multicolored flame giant, leaving the two titanic forces facing off above the stone platform.

• Xia Xuan summoned the Great Heavenly King Dharma Body, a powerful inheritance ranked forty-five on the Ninety-Nine Supreme Dharma Body Rankings.
• Mu Feng, Xu Ru, and the watching experts reacted with shock as Xia Xuan's aura surged.
• Xia Xuan's Dharma Body struck at Lin Ming with a massive palm that crushed the air and blocked his escape.
• Lin Ming advanced calmly and unleashed a multicolored flame giant as large as Xia Xuan's Dharma Body.

Lin Ming used a giant formed from twenty-two-colored flames to withstand Xia Xuan’s Great Heavenly King Dharma Body, shocking the watching cultivators. Xia Xuan then unleashed the Heavenly King Immortal Seal, sending a storm of dark golden divine seals toward Lin Ming.

• Lin Ming’s flame giant blocked the Great Heavenly King Dharma Body’s full-force palm strike without being damaged.
• Xu Ru and the other cultivators realized the giant was made of unusually powerful flames rather than a Supreme Dharma Body, while Mu Feng grew wary of Lin Ming.
• Xia Xuan acknowledged Lin Ming’s strength but insisted it was not enough to challenge him, and Lin Ming calmly invited him to try.
• Xia Xuan awakened ancient patterns across the Great Heavenly King Dharma Body and formed a sky-filling killing formation of dark golden divine seals.
• Xia Xuan unleashed the Heavenly King Immortal Seal, and the divine seals descended on Lin Ming from every direction like meteors.

Lin Ming used a rosy purifying fire curtain to erase Xia Xuan’s Heavenly King Immortal Seals, then Xia Xuan broke through it with the Heavenly King Roar. Xia Xuan was left injured and exhausted but prepared to attack Lin Ming again.

• Xia Xuan sent his regenerating Heavenly King Immortal Seals raining down on Lin Ming, confident they would wear him down.
• Lin Ming formed a vast rosy fire curtain that purified the seals and erased them one after another.
• Xia Xuan cursed as he realized the curtain would block his attacks, then ordered the Great Heavenly King Dharma Body to unleash the Heavenly King Roar.
• The roar battered the curtain until it burst into scattered motes of light.
• Xia Xuan gasped with exhaustion and blood at his mouth, but fixed his resolve on killing Lin Ming and preparing another attack.

Xia Xuan unleashed his full-strength Heavenly King Fist, convinced Lin Ming had exhausted his spiritual energy. Lin Ming revealed a new technique and caught the colossal fist with the flame giant’s abyss-black arms, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Xia Xuan drew power from the Great Heavenly King Dharma Body and charged Lin Ming with a devastating Heavenly King Fist.
• The spectators feared Lin Ming would die as the thousand-foot fist descended, while Lin Ming stood motionless and did not retreat.
• Lin Ming formed seals as the flame giant’s arms transformed from multicolored flames into abyss-black fire.
• Lin Ming’s flame giant seized Xia Xuan’s Heavenly King Fist, and their collision warped space as dark-gold light and black fire clashed.

Lin Ming crushed Xia Xuan’s Heavenly King Fist and overwhelmed him with Devouring Nothingness Qi. Ignoring Xia Xuan’s threat of retaliation from the Great Xia Imperial Dynasty, Lin Ming killed him, leaving the watching powerhouses stunned.

• Lin Ming crushed Xia Xuan’s all-out Heavenly King Fist with the black-flame giant’s hand, breaking his will and draining his spiritual energy.
• Lin Ming appeared before the weakened Xia Xuan and pointed a finger at his heart.
• Xia Xuan threatened Lin Ming with revenge from the Great Xia Imperial Dynasty, and Lin Ming paused briefly before dismissing the threat.
• Lin Ming pierced Xia Xuan’s chest with his black-wreathed finger, destroying his heart and body as space shattered around them.
• Xia Xuan died, his Great Heavenly King Dharma Body disintegrated, and the watching powerhouses stood in stunned disbelief.

Lin Ming killed Xia Xuan and accepted the risk of making an enemy of the Great Xia Imperial Dynasty. After the Xia Emperor learned of his brother’s death and set out for the Far Western Lands, Lin Ming followed Xia Xuan’s map toward the Ice Abyss Eye with Zi Yan and the others.

• Lin Ming killed Xia Xuan, destroying his body and Supreme Sea, then took his storage ring and recovered the route map to the Sunflower Ice Spirit Object.
• The Xia Emperor discovered Xia Xuan’s Life Tablet had shattered, saw his brother’s final afterimage, and ordered the Imperial Preceptor to make preparations.
• The Xia Emperor declared that he would go to the Far Western Lands himself and flew from the palace toward the horizon.
• Lin Ming memorized the map’s route to the Ice Abyss Eye and continued across the deep-blue ice field with Zi Yan and the other two.
• Lin Ming used the power of the Five-Elements World to probe for Spatial Rifts while Zi Yan used her Dragon-Phoenix Bloodline’s spatial perception to guide the group around hazards.

Lin Ming and Zi Yan found the Sunflower Ice Spirit Object, but three members of the Ice Spirit Clan arrived to claim it. After Lin Ming resisted their leader’s first attack with Emperor Flame, the clan members launched a combined assault.

• Lin Ming reached the fissure and spotted the Sunflower Ice Spirit Object, confirming he could refine it.
• Three Ice Spirit Clan members emerged from a rift in space and demanded that Lin Ming leave the object to them.
• North King identified the visitors, and Lin Ming judged that none had reached the Earth Sovereign realm.
• The Ice Spirit Clan leader attacked with a storm of icicles, but Lin Ming melted them with Emperor Flame.
• The leader mistook Lin Ming for someone from the Fire Spirit Clan and decided to kill him, then all three clan members attacked together with an ice giant, rising ice pillars, and an ice sword.

Lin Ming's Emperor Flame overwhelmed the three Ice Spirit Clan fighters and their summoned Ice Phoenix. The phoenix was destroyed, leaving all three fighters severely injured on the icefield.

• Lin Ming's Emperor Flame melted the three Ice Spirit Clan fighters' attacks and forced them back.
• The Ice Spirit Clan leader ordered the three fighters to summon the Ice Phoenix, and they combined their ice power to create it.
• Lin Ming formed a fire dragon from the Emperor Flame, and it fought the Ice Phoenix above the stone platform.
• The fire dragon absorbed the phoenix's attacks, shattered its armor, and tore it apart.
• The three Ice Spirit Clan fighters suffered the backlash: the leader collapsed, one was hurled into an ice wall, and the other crashed through blocks of ice and lay motionless.

Lin Ming defeated three Ice Spirit Clan experts, but their leader summoned the clan’s Ninth Elder, an Earth Sovereign. The elder overpowered Lin Ming’s emperor flame and wounded him, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Lin Ming’s emperor flame shattered the Ice Spirit Clan experts’ ice phoenix and left all three incapacitated.
• The leading Ice Spirit Clan expert broke an Ice Talisman, opening a Space Gate through which the Ninth Elder arrived.
• The North King recognized the Ninth Elder’s aura as that of an Earth Sovereign, and the elder confronted Lin Ming.
• The Ninth Elder unleashed a tide of extreme cold that shattered Lin Ming’s wall of emperor flame and injured him.
• Zi Yan, the North King, and Xia Jia tried to reach Lin Ming but were driven back by the lingering cold.

Lin Ming and Purifying Lotus combined the Heaven Refining Ancient Array with the Dragon-Elephant Shattering Heaven Array to defeat the Ninth Elder of the Ice Spirit Clan. After the Ninth Elder fled, Lin Ming reached into the fissure and took hold of the Sunflower Ice Spirit Object.

• Lin Ming summoned Purifying Lotus after the Ninth Elder demanded that he surrender.
• Purifying Lotus formed the Heaven Refining Ancient Array while Lin Ming prepared the Dragon-Elephant Shattering Heaven Array, and together they fused the arrays into a Composite Grand Formation.
• The fused formation summoned a flaming dragon-elephant that shattered the Ninth Elder's ice-crystal manifestation and wounded him.
• The Ninth Elder fled with the three fallen Ice Spirit Clan experts, but the dragon-elephant struck him in the back before he escaped.
• Lin Ming let the formation dissipate and reached into the fissure to grasp the Sunflower Ice Spirit Object.

Lin Ming began refining the Sunflower Ice Spirit Object while Zi Yan, the North King, and Xia Jia guarded him. Meanwhile, the Xia Emperor met the wounded Ninth Elder, learned Lin Ming had killed his youngest brother, and joined the Ice Spirit Clan in pursuing him.

• Lin Ming swallowed the Sunflower Ice Spirit Object and endured the violent clash between its icy power and his emperor flame until the Bodhi Ancient Tree and earth power helped him begin absorbing it.
• Zi Yan, the North King, and Xia Jia guarded Lin Ming as the Sunflower Ice Spirit Object's power settled into his meridians.
• The Ninth Elder and three wounded Ice Spirit Clan experts retreated toward the exit of the Shattered Realm Abyss.
• The Xia Emperor arrived, recognized the Ninth Elder's injuries, and learned that Lin Ming had wounded the Ice Spirit Clan and killed his youngest brother.
• The Xia Emperor offered the Ninth Elder a favor and Lin Ming's possessions in exchange for help finding Lin Ming, and the Ninth Elder agreed to lead him there.

Lin Ming’s inner world transformed as he refined the Sunflower Ice Spirit Object, but the Xia Emperor arrived before he could finish and attacked. Zi Yan transformed into her dragon-phoenix form to face him while Lin Ming remained vulnerable behind her.

• Lin Ming’s inner world filled with rivers, lakes, and glaciers as he absorbed most of the Sunflower Ice Spirit Object and his cultivation rose.
• Zi Yan sensed the Xia Emperor approaching and gathered with the North King and Xia Jia to protect Lin Ming.
• The Xia Emperor arrived with the Ninth Elder and three Ice Spirit Clan disciples, then declared he would avenge his brother and reclaim the spirit object.
• Zi Yan blocked the Xia Emperor’s Golden Sword Qi and counterattacked, but he overpowered her, the North King, and Xia Jia with ease.
• Zi Yan invoked an ancient transformation, growing dragon scales and phoenix wings as she became a giant divine beast.

After reaching the pinnacle of half-step Earth Sovereign, Lin Ming saved Zi Yan from the Xia Emperor’s crushing palm and brought her and the unconscious North King and Xia Jia into his inner world for healing. He then confronted the Xia Emperor, who launched a nine-dragon attack at him.

• Zi Yan fought the Xia Emperor’s Son of Heaven Palm Seal, suffering grievous injuries but refusing to yield while Lin Ming refined the Sunflower Ice Spirit Object.
• Lin Ming completed the refinement and reached the pinnacle of half-step Earth Sovereign, then placed himself between Zi Yan and the descending palm and blocked it with a shield formed from the four elemental origins.
• Lin Ming returned Zi Yan to human form and took her, the unconscious North King, and Xia Jia into his inner world so the Bodhi Ancient Tree could heal them.
• Lin Ming rejected the Xia Emperor’s warning and reminded him that his younger brother had met the same challenge before dying.
• The Xia Emperor gathered dark-gold spiritual energy and sent nine enormous dragons to attack Lin Ming with a combined beam.

Lin Ming fought the Xia Emperor with his four elemental spirit avatars and survived repeated strikes, but the Emperor prepared an overwhelming killing blow. As the dark-gold beam bore down on Lin Ming, Purifying Lotus appeared and unleashed the Heaven Refining Ancient Array, though he knew it could not stop the attack alone.

• Lin Ming summoned four elemental spirit avatars to battle the Xia Emperor’s nine dark-gold dragons, but the Emperor struck him with a palm and sent him crashing across the ice.
• Lin Ming withstood the Xia Emperor’s full-force dark-gold beam by countering it with a speck of chaotic light, though the collision left him severely wounded.
• The Xia Emperor began forming a powerful seal, drawing in spirit qi and glacier fragments before launching a slender beam that erased space in its path.
• Lin Ming realized the Xia Emperor’s attack could destroy him completely, but remained resolved as it rushed toward him.
• Purifying Lotus appeared beside Lin Ming and activated the Heaven Refining Ancient Array, knowing the array alone could not stop the beam.

Lin Ming combined the Heaven Refining Ancient Array and the Dragon-Elephant Shattering Heaven Array to resist the Xia Emperor, but their collision triggered a devastating spatial storm. The Xia Emperor escaped while Lin Ming was swallowed by the storm, and the Sunflower Ice Spirit Object vanished with him.

• Lin Ming fused the Heaven Refining Ancient Array with the Dragon-Elephant Shattering Heaven Array and met the Xia Emperor’s dark-gold strike head-on.
• The forces locked together, then shattered space and unleashed a spatial storm that tore across the Far Western Lands.
• The Xia Emperor fled the storm, suffering a deep wound to his arm, while Lin Ming was caught at its center.
• After the storm subsided, the Xia Emperor searched the ruins and concluded that Lin Ming could not have survived.
• The Ninth Elder of the Ice Spirit Clan told the Xia Emperor that the Sunflower Ice Spirit Object had vanished with Lin Ming.

After the Xia Emperor and the Ice Spirit Clan left the ruins, Lin Ming survived the spatial storm by shielding himself with world power and found a passage into an ancient, orderly realm. His entry released a primal fluctuation that the Xia Emperor recognized as the sign of the Elder Ruins emerging, and it drew attention across the Sky Luo Continent.

• The Ninth Elder led the three Ice Spirit Clan experts away after the Sunflower Ice Spirit Object was lost, and the Xia Emperor left the ruins soon after.
• Lin Ming endured the spatial storm’s violent fragments by maintaining a protective membrane of world power, though he lost his bearings in the darkness.
• Lin Ming spotted a narrow passage lit by a faint white glow and entered its ancient, stable space.
• Lin Ming’s arrival in the passage released an ancient fluctuation that spread across the Sky Luo Continent.
• The Xia Emperor recognized the fluctuation as the emergence of the Elder Ruins and turned back toward the Far Western Lands.
• A man in the Sacred Demon Palace Hall crushed his jade cup and rose as he sensed the fluctuation.

Lu Heng, Mandala, and other powerful figures sensed the Ancient Heavenly Palace emerging and headed toward the Far Western Lands. Lin Ming entered its ancient world and flew toward distant mountain palaces, discovering a desolate landscape scarred by traces of a cataclysmic battle.

• Lu Heng sensed the Ancient Heavenly Palace’s fluctuations and vanished from the Sacred Demon Palace.
• Mandala and powerful figures across the Sky Luo Continent sensed the fluctuations, and an ice-blue-gowned woman used a spatial treasure to travel toward them.
• Lin Ming followed a jade-like passage through a spatial ring and emerged in a vast, ruined ancient world.
• Lin Ming sensed the oppressive remnants of powerful auras and headed toward distant mountains lined with ruined palaces.
• While flying, Lin Ming discovered countless abysses and destroyed cities, recognizing that the landscape had been shattered by an immense ancient battle.

Lin Ming reached a ruined mountain hall in an ancient realm and found evidence that its defenders had been killed in a sudden attack ten thousand years earlier. After North King and Xia Jia discovered fragile wolf tokens among the skeletons, Lin Ming led the group toward more intact halls deeper in the mountains.

• Lin Ming reached the highest peak and examined skeletal remains whose poses suggested they had died in terror during an assault from the sky.
• Lin Ming released Zi Yan, North King, and Xia Jia after confirming the area was safe, then described how he had entered the ancient realm.
• North King found a Green Wolf Token in a skeleton's hand, but it crumbled to powder when he touched it.
• Xia Jia found White Wolf Tokens in other skeletons, and Zi Yan suggested that the tokens had marked their owners' ranks and identities.
• Lin Ming spotted more intact halls in the distance, sensed stronger spiritual energy there, and led the others toward them.

Lin Ming and his companions discovered a deadly spiritual array blocking their way into the heart of the ruins. After realizing they could not force their way through, they began searching along its edge for an entrance.

• Lin Ming sensed danger and stopped Zi Yan, North King, and Xia Jia before they reached nearly invisible strands of spiritual light.
• Lin Ming tested the strands with a mid-grade divine artifact longsword, which they shredded and erased almost instantly.
• Lin Ming recognized the strands as a vast grandmaster-level spiritual array that could threaten even an Earth Sovereign.
• Lin Ming concluded that the array must have an entrance for the guards and led the group along its edge to search for one.

Lin Ming, Zi Yan, and the North King reached the Dragon Ascension Gate and learned that the ruins were likely the remains of the Ancient Heavenly Palace. The North King described the palace’s destruction during an invasion by the Extraterritorial Evil Race, while Lin Ming looked toward the ruins deeper within.

• Lin Ming and the others arrived at an enormous ancient stone gate, and Xia Jia identified its inscription as “Dragon Ascension Gate.”
• The North King connected the gate and a Green Wolf Token to an ancient account of the Ancient Heavenly Palace’s disciple trials.
• The North King explained that the Ancient Heavenly Palace had once ruled the Sky Luo Continent under the Heavenly Emperor, with the Five Halls and Nine Mansions beneath it.
• The North King said the Extraterritorial Evil Race destroyed the palace in an ancient invasion, and Zi Yan recognized the abysses, ruined cities, and skeletons as traces of that battle.
• The North King suggested that powerful treasures might remain deeper inside, and Lin Ming considered the evidence while gazing toward the distant stone islands.

Lin Ming and the others learned about the Dragon Ascension Gate’s ranks and sent Zi Yan inside to take its assessment. After several hours of waiting, the gate opened and a golden dragon emerged in a pillar of light.

• The North King explained that the Dragon Ascension Gate assessed disciples and assigned one of four token ranks, each with white, green, and gold standing.
• Lin Ming concluded they needed high-ranking tokens for greater access to the Ancient Heavenly Palace, while the North King warned that the gate’s trial was unknown.
• Lin Ming stopped Zi Yan from rushing in, then let her enter after she promised to withdraw if she encountered danger.
• Lin Ming, the North King, and Xia Jia waited for several hours as Zi Yan remained inside the gate.
• The Dragon Ascension Gate shook open, releasing brilliant light and an enormous golden dragon that roared above the mountain.

Zi Yan emerged from the Dragon Ascension Gate with a Golden Dragon Token, and Lin Ming entered the gate to begin his own trial. The plaza recognized him as a half-step Earth Sovereign and authorized him as a Golden Flood Dragon Disciple.

• Zi Yan received a Golden Dragon Token, shocking North King and Xia Jia with her highest-ranking status.
• Zi Yan described her experience inside the Dragon Ascension Gate to Lin Ming, who then entered the gate himself.
• Lin Ming arrived in an ancient plaza and examined stone statues whose strength increased toward the left, with the strongest seeming to approach or reach Earth Sovereign.
• The plaza trembled and an aged voice announced Lin Ming's challenge authorization as a Golden Flood Dragon Disciple.

Lin Ming faced the Dragon Ascension Gate’s Golden Flood Dragon Disciple, a half-step Earth Sovereign, and defeated him with a single move. He waited for the gate to assign him another challenge.

• The Dragon Ascension Gate announced that Lin Ming was authorized to challenge the Golden Flood Dragon Disciple.
• The ninth stone pillar released the Golden Flood Dragon Disciple, who formed the Golden Flood Dragon Spirit Seal and launched a massive flood dragon at Lin Ming.
• Lin Ming summoned a golden lightning dragon with a casual point of his finger and sent it against the attack.
• The golden lightning dragon suppressed the flood dragon, which turned on its master and shattered the Golden Flood Dragon Disciple.
• Lin Ming remained unmoved and looked toward the three farther pillars, waiting for the next challenge.

After defeating the Golden Flood Dragon Disciple, Lin Ming was chosen to challenge the Golden Dragon Disciple, the Ancient Heavenly Palace’s highest rank. The two Half-Step Earth Sovereigns began their battle, and their attacks collided above the plaza.

• The ninth pillar dimmed after Lin Ming defeated the Golden Flood Dragon Disciple, and the Dragon Ascension Gate awakened the first pillar.
• The Golden Dragon Disciple emerged from his shattered stone shell, and Lin Ming sensed that he was at the peak of Half-Step Earth Sovereign strength.
• The Golden Dragon Disciple warned Lin Ming that losing would rank him as a White Dragon Disciple, then challenged him with his spear.
• The Golden Dragon Disciple launched a black-gold dragon spear strike, and Lin Ming countered with a flame Dragon Phoenix saber attack.
• The two dragons collided above the plaza, unleashing an explosion of spiritual energy and light.