Recaps

Pei Lie sent Primal Chaos Martial Saint to Night Owl Hall after discovering he had condensed a blood elixir from vital energy. Under torture in the Chu Province branch, Primal Chaos Martial Saint finally revealed that he had ascended from the Heavenly Martial Continent through the Ascension Passage.

• Primal Chaos Martial Saint claimed he was a Southern Wasteland rogue cultivator, but Pei Lie rejected his story and ordered two deputy generals to escort him to Night Owl Hall.
• Primal Chaos Martial Saint tried to break the seal of the Spirit-Locking Nails, but the deputy generals struck him down and took him away.
• Pei Lie told Jin Muzhen and the other two to serve as guides for the Fourth Vanguard Army while he reported the matter to his superiors.
• At Night Owl Hall's Chu Province headquarters, Scarface ordered a torture officer to use a Soul-Devouring Needle on Primal Chaos Martial Saint, but he endured the pain.
• When Scarface brought in several burly men to threaten him, Primal Chaos Martial Saint gave in and revealed he had ascended from the Heavenly Martial Continent through the Ascension Passage.

After the Primal Chaos Martial Saint revealed he had ascended from the Lower Realm, the Night Owl Hall and Li Family rushed to secure the information. Li Xuantong arrived at the King of Chu’s palace and found Li Xinge amid his women, while Elder Jiang feared the King’s reaction to his presence.

• Scar interrogated the Primal Chaos Martial Saint, learned he was an ascender from the Lower Realm, and ordered the dungeon sealed while reporting the discovery to headquarters.
• Li Yanjing read the urgent message, mobilized the Owl Guards to take over the Chu Province branch, and went to inform Li Xuantong.
• Li Xuantong confirmed the report and decided to tell the Li Family head in person, then rushed to the King of Chu’s temporary palace.
• Elder Jiang stopped the palace guards from confronting Li Xuantong and escorted him to the main hall after the First Elder asked for the family head.
• Li Xuantong entered the hall and found Li Xinge seated on the throne among a dozen beautiful women, while Elder Jiang grew fearful under Li Xinge’s gaze.

The Grand Elder reported that the Night Owl Hall had captured Tie Zhu, an ascender from the Heavenly Martial Continent whose blood core came from Qi and Blood rather than spiritual energy. Li Xinge went to the dungeon, scanned Tie Zhu, and confronted the fallen Son of Destiny while Tie Zhu realized how insignificant his former Martial Saint realm was in the Upper Realm.

• The Grand Elder told Li Xinge that the Night Owl Hall had captured an unusual Innate Realm ascender in the Southern Wasteland and handed him a jade slip about the Heavenly Martial Continent.
• Li Xinge and the Grand Elder traveled to the Night Owl Hall dungeon, where Tie Zhu saw the formidable Owl Guards and mistook Li Xinge for a being beyond the Martial Emperor realm.
• Li Xinge scanned Tie Zhu and learned that he was a middle-tier Martial Saint, an ascender, and a Son of Destiny whose fortune was rapidly declining.
• The Grand Elder dismissed Tie Zhu as an Innate Realm ant, and Li Xinge addressed him by his name, leaving Tie Zhu overwhelmed with fear.

Li Xinge freed the Primal Chaos Martial Saint and searched the Southern Wasteland for the Upper Realm’s ascension passage, but found no trace of it. After learning that the Martial Saint had ascended from the Lower Realm, Li Xinge summoned Sage Xuanji for answers.

• Li Xinge freed the Primal Chaos Martial Saint and asked where the ascension passage was; the Martial Saint said he had landed in a poisonous mountain range in the Southern Wasteland.
• Li Xinge and the grand elder traveled through a rift in the void to the Fourth Vanguard Army camp, where Pei Lie and the troops paid homage to the King of Chu.
• Li Xinge ordered Pei Lie to bring Jin Muzhen, A Mu, and Fool to him, then had them lead him to the place where they had found the Martial Saint.
• Li Xinge cleared the valley’s poisonous miasma and searched it with his spiritual sense, but found nothing; the Martial Saint confirmed that he had landed there after ascending from the Lower Realm.
• Li Xinge recalled that Sage Xuanji had also ascended and ordered the grand elder to summon him; Sage Xuanji arrived and greeted Li Xinge.

Li Xinge learned that the Primal Chaos Martial Saint had reached this world through a damaged Two-Realm Teleportation Grand Array and asked Xuanji Zi how to locate his lower realm. Xuanji Zi explained the hierarchy of worlds and revealed that sacrificing the Martial Saint could help him calculate the realm’s coordinates.

• Xuanji Zi identified the Primal Chaos Martial Saint as an ascender whose teleportation array had likely malfunctioned and sent him to the poisonous wilderness.
• Li Xinge realized the damaged array might make the Martial Saint’s lower realm difficult to find and admitted that he wanted to reach it.
• Li Xinge dismissed Cui Yuan and the others, and Xuanji Zi explained the five types of worlds, identifying Li Xinge’s current world as a middle thousand world.
• Xuanji Zi said he needed a guide to locate the lower realm before he could build a Two-Realm Teleportation Grand Array.
• Li Xinge recognized the Primal Chaos Martial Saint as the guide, and Xuanji Zi said sacrificing him gave them a seventy-percent chance of calculating the realm’s coordinates.

Li Xinge learned that the Otherworldly Sacred Relic had produced the blood-red lake that restored cultivation to the Heavenly Martial Continent, and he resolved to claim it. At the Southern Wasteland front, Pei Lie’s army was halted by the Witch God Hall’s poisonous miasma, and he ordered a retreat while sending the central army a report on how the formation might be broken.

• The Primal Chaos Martial Saint told Scarface that the Otherworldly Sacred Relic had caused a blood-red lake to form, whose water gave mortals Qi and Blood power and revived cultivation on the Heavenly Martial Continent.
• Li Xinge overheard the account and decided he wanted the Otherworldly Sacred Relic at any cost.
• Pei Lie learned that the poisonous miasma had killed his scouts and corroded Deputy General Sun’s protective spiritual energy.
• Jin Muzhen explained that the Witch God Hall had unleashed an ancient formation sustained by nine formation eyes, each guarded by an expert, and that the miasma weakened intruders while empowering its defenders.
• Pei Lie ordered the army to retreat three hundred li and sent the central army a report containing Jin Muzhen’s explanation of how to break the miasma.

The Chu Army discovered that destroying nine formation cores could dispel the Southern Wasteland’s toxic miasma, but attacking them with living cultivators would be perilous. Li Xingzong proposed sending Human Weapons instead, and Li Xuantong went to the Soul Sect to seek help from Master Gongsun.

• Zhao Wujiu learned from Pei Lie’s report that nine formation cores sustained the toxic miasma, but each was guarded by a powerful Witch God Hall expert.
• At a Li Family council meeting, Li Xingzong proposed using Human Weapons, which would not be weakened by the miasma, to destroy the formation cores.
• Li Xingzong reported that the Artifact Forging Hall had only twenty-one Human Weapons with Innate Realm strength, too few for the task.
• Li Xuantong set out to find Master Gongsun and arrived at the Soul Sect, where its elders mistook him for a Divine Mansion Venerable who had come over the Lü Family’s stolen remains.

Li Xingzhou learned that his grandfather had secretly supported his pursuit of Human Weapons, and he resolved to prove the path was worthwhile by forging the Divine Mansion corpse. When a Divine Abode attacked, Gongsun Ban prepared to defend his disciple with the Soul Sect’s hidden forces.

• Li Xingzhou presented Gongsun Ban with a Divine Mansion corpse taken from the Lü Clan’s ancestral mausoleum, hoping they could refine it into a Human Weapon.
• Gongsun Ban reprimanded Li Xingzhou for risking his life, then revealed that Li Xingzhou’s grandfather had secretly supplied his resources and praised his achievement with the word “Good.”
• Li Xingzhou wept as he understood his grandfather’s hidden care, then vowed to forge the corpse and prove his chosen path was not wrong.
• Gongsun Ban sensed a Divine Abode approaching, and Li Xingzhou offered to lure the attacker away, believing the Lü Family had come for its ancestor’s corpse.
• Gongsun Ban stopped Li Xingzhou and awakened the Soul Sect’s assembled Human Weapons, declaring that the attacker would have to kill him to reach his disciple.

Gongsun Ban stopped his human weapons from attacking Li Xuantong and learned that the First Elder had come to borrow them for the Southern Wasteland campaign. Gongsun Ban lent all eighty weapons and recommended Li Xingzhou to command them, and Li Xuantong approved.

• Gongsun Ban recognized Li Xuantong and ordered the Soul Sect elders and human weapons to stand down.
• Li Xuantong recognized Li Xingzhou, praised his fourth-tier Human Weapon Master skills, and learned about Gongsun Ban's feud with the Lü Clan.
• Li Xuantong explained that the Southern Wasteland's Baleful Intent poisonous miasma could only be breached by destroying nine guarded formation cores, and asked Gongsun Ban to lend human weapons.
• Gongsun Ban gave Li Xuantong all eighty human weapons he and Li Xingzhou had accumulated, and Li Xuantong stored them in his Void Ring.
• Gongsun Ban recommended Li Xingzhou to control the weapons, and Li Xuantong approved sending him.

Li Xuantong brought Li Xingzhou and more than a hundred poison-immune deathsworn to the Southern Wasteland front so they could breach the baleful toxic miasma. As the deathsworn entered the miasma and approached a formation node, barbarian cultivators heard footsteps in the Poison Dragon Abyss.

• Li Xingzhou left Gongsun Ban with Li Xuantong and traveled to the Chu Army’s central camp.
• Li Xuantong introduced the deathsworn and named Li Xingzhou a Li Family elder, fulfilling Li Xingzhou’s ambition to match his sister’s standing.
• Li Xingzhou controlled the deathsworn into the miasma and divided them into three groups to attack three of its nine formation nodes.
• At the Poison Dragon Abyss, Meng Yu and four barbarian cultivators mocked the Chu Kingdom’s King of Chu while drinking blood wine.
• The barbarian cultivators heard heavy footsteps coming from the churning toxic miasma.

Li Xingzhou’s Human Weapons stormed Poison Dragon Abyss and overwhelmed Meng Yu and the barbarian cultivators guarding the formation eye. After the Human Weapons surrounded Meng Yu, Li Xingzhou ordered them to explode, and a massive mushroom cloud rose from the ground.

• Meng Yu and four Middle Stage Innate Realm barbarian cultivators confronted approaching figures and unleashed Marrow-Eating Gu, but the black-robed Human Weapons emerged unharmed by the insects and poisonous miasma.
• The Human Weapons charged the altar, and one killed a Middle Stage Innate Realm barbarian cultivator by tearing out his heart.
• Meng Yu unleashed Blood-Devouring Gu, but the Human Weapons had no blood, and they killed another barbarian cultivator despite his attack.
• Li Xingzhou sent several Human Weapons after the two fleeing barbarian cultivators while the others surrounded Meng Yu.
• Meng Yu struck and knocked down Human Weapons, but they rose again, and one seized him from behind as the others retreated.
• Li Xingzhou ordered the Human Weapons to explode, and a huge mushroom cloud erupted in Poison Dragon Abyss.

The Li Family destroyed three main formation nexuses, weakening the baleful toxic miasma and killing Meng Yu. As Li Xingzhou pressed toward the next nexus, a Divine Mansion Realm expert appeared over the Chu Army.

• The destruction of the Poison Dragon Abyss nexus obliterated Meng Yu and opened the miasma to sunlight, while Li Xuantong and Zhao Wujiu watched from outside.
• Three black-robed figures cornered two fleeing barbarian cultivators, killing one and vowing to make the survivor suffer for insulting the King of Chu.
• A Witch God Hall guardian reported that the nexuses at the Poison Dragon Abyss, Lustful Serpent Valley, and Sky Scorpion Ridge had been destroyed, and Meng She erupted in fury over Meng Yu's death.
• The Second Priest let Meng She leave to vent his anger, while Li Xingzhou led the Human Weapons toward another nexus despite losing eleven of them.
• More than ten million Chu troops assembled outside the miasma, then a Divine Mansion Realm expert appeared above them in the form of an enormous ghostly face.

Zhao Wujiu fought the Southern Wasteland’s Third Priest, Meng She, and revealed the strength of his seven-hundred-li Divine Mansion and Earth Rank saber technique. After Zhao Wujiu destroyed Meng She’s natal Gu King with Eight Desolations Annihilation, Meng She called for the Second Priest to save him.

• Zhao Wujiu broke Meng She’s attack of Flying Poison Gu and confronted him in the sky.
• Meng She summoned a poison python and a swarm of Gu worms, but Zhao Wujiu’s seven-hundred-li Divine Mansion let him withstand the assault.
• Meng She unleashed his Six-Winged Gu King, which battled Zhao Wujiu for more than a hundred rounds without either gaining the upper hand.
• Meng She fed his natal heart blood to the Gu King, boosting its strength, and Zhao Wujiu answered with his Earth Rank technique, Eight Desolations Annihilation.
• Zhao Wujiu shattered the Six-Winged Gu King and wounded Meng She, who cried out for the Second Priest to save him.

Zhao Wujiu nearly killed Meng She before Wu Gu intervened, but Li Xuantong arrived and used three extraordinary flames of heaven and earth to match Wu Gu’s mid-stage Divine Mansion power. The chapter ended as Li Xuantong fused the flames into a three-colored divine fire while Wu Gu’s skeletal claw descended.

• A skeletal hand stopped Zhao Wujiu’s blade, allowing Meng She to escape, and Wu Gu appeared to prevent Zhao Wujiu from killing him.
• Wu Gu prepared to attack Zhao Wujiu, but Li Xuantong arrived and challenged him.
• Li Xuantong fused the seven-colored sky burning flame, the extreme cold ice flame, and the crimson flame sacred flame to raise his power to the mid-stage Divine Mansion Realm.
• Wu Gu summoned a towering skeletal manifestation and sent its claw toward Li Xuantong.
• Li Xuantong combined all three flames into a three-colored divine fire as Wu Gu’s attack approached.

Li Xuantong defeated the Southern Wasteland's Fourth Priest, Wu Gu, with his three-colored divine fire and pursued him as he fled. Li Xuantong killed Wu Gu with a flaming arrow, leaving the Witch God Hall without its Fourth Priest.

• Li Xuantong's three-colored divine fire destroyed Wu Gu's giant white-bone claw and left him gravely injured.
• Li Xuantong recovered some spiritual energy while Zhao Wujiu praised his victory, then spotted Wu Gu staggering out of the void.
• Wu Gu fled toward the Witch God Hall, and Li Xuantong pursued him with a bow made from extraordinary flames of heaven and earth.
• Li Xuantong shot Wu Gu through the chest with a flaming arrow, and the Divine Fire consumed his body and Divine Soul.
• Blood rain fell over the Hundred Thousand Mountains as heaven and earth mourned Wu Gu's death.

After Wu Gu's soul lamp went out, Hua Yu summoned the Witch God Hall's ancient reserves to face Lin Chiyan. Seven ancestral priests emerged from their ice coffins and rushed to join the battle, while a beggar in South Capital realized the Hall had left its defenses exposed.

• Yan Kui told Hua Yu that Wu Gu's soul lamp had gone out, and Hua Yu accused Lin Chiyan of killing a priest.
• Lin Chiyan declared that the Witch God Hall would be destroyed if it refused to submit, and Hua Yu summoned its forebears.
• Seven ancient priests awakened from ice coffins beneath the Witch God Hall and burned their remaining blood and vitality to fight one last battle.
• The seven priests emerged into the sky and vanished toward Hua Yu's location.
• A disguised old beggar in South Capital watched the priests depart and realized the Witch God Hall might be left vulnerable.

Guhongzi, an Innately Great Perfection cultivator hiding as a beggar, broke into the nearly empty Witch God Hall and found the Saintess. He tried to capture her for the King of Chu, but the Saintess’s statue destroyed his first attack before Guhongzi held a weapon to her throat.

• Guhongzi recalled fleeing the Witch God Guards after killing several Innate cultivators and disguising himself as a beggar in South Capital.
• Guhongzi hesitated to raid the Witch God Hall, then decided the risk was worth taking and crept past its warning formations.
• Guhongzi found the Saintess praying beneath the ancient Witch God Statue and discovered that she was only at the Middle Stage Innate Realm.
• Guhongzi considered killing the Saintess, then decided to capture her and offer her to Your Highness the King of Chu.
• Guhongzi attacked with his Whisk, but the Witch God Statue destroyed his silver net before he held a weapon to the Saintess’s throat and warned her not to move.

Guhongzi abducted the Saintess from the Witch God Hall and fled as its experts sounded the Witch God Bell. As he burned his lifespan to escape, he explained that he risked everything for the King of Chu because he believed the king rewarded loyalty without regard for a follower’s origins.

• Guhongzi sealed the Saintess’s cultivation, bound her with his horsetail whisk, and prepared to take her to the King of Chu.
• More than a dozen Witch God Hall experts confronted Guhongzi, but he killed one and frightened the rest into letting him escape with the Saintess.
• The Witch God Hall guards rang the Witch God Bell, alerting its experts across the Southern Wasteland to the Saintess’s abduction.
• Guhongzi burned his lifespan to increase his speed and evade pursuit, while the Saintess questioned why he risked his life for the King of Chu.
• Guhongzi told the Saintess that a divine mansion immortal clan had denied him advancement because he was an outsider, while the King of Chu rewarded followers regardless of their origins.

The Second Priestess, Hua Yu, summoned the Witch God Hall’s awakened elders against Lin Chiyan, but fourteen Divine Mansion Realm experts of the Chu Kingdom arrived under Blood Abyss Demon Venerable and attacked. As Hua Yu fled to seek the Great Priest, Guhongzi brought the Witch God Hall’s Saintess to Li Xinge, who confronted her.

• The Witch God Bell distracted Hua Yu during her battle with Lin Chiyan, letting him strike and wound her.
• Seven senior priests of the Witch God Hall emerged, and Hua Yu blamed Li Xinge for invading the Southern Wasteland and killing the Fourth Priest.
• Blood Abyss Demon Venerable led fourteen Divine Mansion Realm experts of the Chu Kingdom against the seven elders, who charged forward to hold them back while Hua Yu fled to summon the Great Priest.
• Guhongzi reached the Chu Army’s central command camp with the Saintess and was escorted to Li Xinge.
• Li Xinge recognized the Witch God Saintess and told her she had some nerve.

After the seven ancestral priests fell, the Chu Kingdom’s fourteen Divine Mansion Realm cultivators attacked the Witch God Hall in South Capital. Hua Yu discovered that the Great Priest had died in seclusion and, hoping the Gu Sovereign could still save the hall, burned the Great Priest’s remains before leaving the cave.

• The Second Priest returned to the Witch God Hall and learned from the blood rain that all seven ancestral priests had perished.
• Fourteen Divine Mansion Realm cultivators descended on South Capital, shattered the Witch God Hall’s mountain-protecting formation, and crushed its remaining cultivators.
• Hua Yu pleaded with the Great Priest to intervene, but found him dead on his white jade platform.
• Hua Yu realized the Witch God Hall might still be saved by the Gu Sovereign and burned the Great Priest’s corpse to protect it from desecration.
• Hua Yu kowtowed to the Great Priest and vanished from the cave.

Second Priest Hua Yu and the other priests sought the Gu Sovereign’s help as Blood Abyss Demon Venerable’s forces pursued them to the Myriad Gu Abyss. The Gu Sovereign awakened for its final promised intervention, and Hua Yu faced the fourteen attackers with renewed defiance.

• Second Priest Hua Yu found Meng She and Yan Kui hiding at the altar, and they argued over whether they should risk fighting the fourteen Divine Mansion cultivators pursuing them.
• Hua Yu and the others begged the Gu Sovereign to save the Witch God Hall, but it remained silent until the attackers drew near.
• Hua Yu invoked the First Priest’s legacy and raised an ancient bone flute, awakening the Man-Faced Eight-Winged Golden Cicada from the poisonous lake.
• The Gu Sovereign declared that this would be its last time acting for the Witch God Hall, after which its ties to the hall would end.
• Blood Abyss Demon Venerable and thirteen others arrived above the abyss and taunted the priests, while Hua Yu vowed to make the forbidden land their burial ground.

The Gu Sovereign emerged from the Myriad Gu Abyss and overwhelmed the fourteen Divine Mansion Realm experts, then fought Cui Yuan beyond the heavens. As Cui Yuan began to lose, a radiant newcomer appeared, and the Gu Sovereign recognized him in terror as the Holy Emperor.

• The Man-Faced Eight-Winged Golden Cicada appeared and swallowed the fourteen experts’ attacks before sending them back, hurling the attackers away.
• The Second Priestess, Meng She, and Yan Kui celebrated as the Gu Sovereign defended the Witch God Hall.
• Cui Yuan arrived, sent the other experts away, and challenged the Gu Sovereign to fight beyond the heavens.
• The Gu Sovereign swallowed the Second Priestess, Meng She, and Yan Kui, then battled Cui Yuan among the stars and gradually gained the advantage.
• A radiant figure emerged from a vast sun, and the Gu Sovereign cried out in terror, recognizing the Holy Emperor.

Li Xinge fought the Gu Sovereign in the starry void, and his Great Sun Golden Crow Sacred Body overwhelmed the ancient mutant. When the Gu Sovereign tried to flee, Li Xinge trapped it with the Heavenly Net and Earthly Net and prepared a final attack.

• The Gu Sovereign mistook Li Xinge for the Holy Emperor, then realized that Li Xinge's aura and cultivation were different.
• Li Xinge burned away the Gu Sovereign's void storm with his Great Sun True Fire and shattered its purple-gold barrier with a Golden Crow attack.
• Cui Yuan watched Li Xinge overpower the Gu Sovereign and marveled at how formidable the King of Chu had become.
• The Gu Sovereign declared its grudge and fled, but Li Xinge used the Heavenly Net and Earthly Net to seal the surrounding void and bounce it back.
• Li Xinge summoned the Golden Crow to unleash Great Sun True Fire as the trapped Gu Sovereign faced a dead end.

Gu Sovereign escaped Li Xinge by sacrificing its shell and most of its cultivation, then abandoned the Witch God Hall and went into a deep slumber. Left with few allies, the Second Priest killed Meng She and declared that their remaining hope lay in sacrificing the Saintess to summon the Witch God’s will.

• Gu Sovereign used Golden Cicada Shedding Its Shell to escape Li Xinge, leaving behind its cultivated shell.
• Gu Sovereign spat out Hua Yu, Meng She, and Yan Kui, severed its ties to them, and sank into the earth to slumber.
• Hua Yu rebuked Meng She and Yan Kui when they urged her to flee and abandon the Witch God Hall.
• When Meng She tried to leave, Hua Yu killed him by tearing out his heart and draining his life with deathly aura.
• Hua Yu spared Yan Kui but ordered him to stand with the Witch God Hall, then proposed sacrificing the Saintess to summon the Witch God’s will.

Li Yin revealed that the Great Priest had passed his cultivation to her before dying, leaving her unable to use it while it settled. Fearing the Second Priest would sacrifice her to summon the Witch God's will, she sought protection from Li Xinge as the Witch God Hall faced destruction.

• The Second Priest told Yan Kui that Li Yin had likely escaped through a secret Teleportation Array beneath the Witch God temple, and they set off to find her.
• In Li Xinge's command tent, Li Yin broke free of Guhongzi's bindings and greeted the King of Chu as the Saintess of the Witch God Hall.
• Li Yin asked Li Xinge to let her stay alive, explaining that she believed the Witch God Hall could not defeat him and that she did not want to die.
• Li Yin revealed that the Great Priest had transferred his cultivation to her and died, leaving her unable to use spiritual energy while she assimilated it.
• Li Yin warned Li Xinge that the Second Priest might sacrifice her to communicate with the Upper Realm and summon the Witch God's will, using her as its vessel.