Recaps

True Saint Han Yuan arrived at the Withered Star Sea too late to save Chu Yuehan's body, but found traces of her surviving true spirit and pursued it. At the Nine Suns Sacred Gate, Red Sun reported to the grand elder that Chu Yuehan had been wounded by Great Sun True Fire in the lower realm, leaving the grand elder shocked.

• True Saint Han Yuan found the wreckage of the battle and recognized that the Nine Suns Sacred Gate had destroyed Chu Yuehan's physical body.
• True Saint Han Yuan detected Chu Yuehan's faint true spirit and followed its traces.
• Red Sun returned to the Nine Suns Sacred Gate and requested an audience with the grand elder.
• Red Sun told the grand elder that he had destroyed Chu Yuehan's body after she lost more than forty percent of her strength in the lower realm.
• Red Sun revealed that Chu Yuehan had been injured by Great Sun True Fire, and the grand elder reacted with shock.

After confirming that Chu Yuehan's lingering aura came from a Great Sun Golden Crow sacred body, the Grand Elder ordered the Red Sun Saint to find its bearer. The Grand Elder saw the sacred body as the Nine Suns Sacred Gate's chance to rise beyond the Great Thousand World and vowed to eliminate anyone who stood in its way.

• The Grand Elder followed the Red Sun Saint to the Withered Star Sea and confirmed that Chu Yuehan's lingering aura contained Great Sun True Fire and a Great Sun Golden Crow's pure aura.
• The Grand Elder concluded that a Great Sun Golden Crow sacred body had appeared in a lower realm and celebrated the Nine Suns Sacred Gate's good fortune.
• The Grand Elder praised the Red Sun Saint and gave him his personal jade talisman, authorizing him to command the Sacred Gate's power and find the sacred body's bearer.
• The Red Sun Saint reasoned that the Nine Cold Heavenly Palace knew which lower realm held the sacred body and decided to start his search there.
• The Grand Elder reflected that the sacred body could help the Nine Suns Sacred Gate ascend beyond the Great Thousand World and vowed to kill anyone who opposed them.

More than a hundred Li Family Disciples launched a trial assault on Green Cliff Fort, the Zhou Clan stronghold, while Zhou Shuang blocked the Zhou patriarch. The battle raged inside the fort, and the Zhou Family's Second Elder realized the young attackers were pawns in a larger power's game.

• Zhou Shuang warned the Li Family Disciples about the strength of Green Cliff Fort and announced that their hunt had begun.
• Li Zaiyuan led the assault, broke through the fort's wall, and fought through the Zhou Family guards as the other Li Family Disciples joined him.
• Zhou Chongshan appeared and moved to attack Li Zaiyuan, but Zhou Shuang confronted him and drew him into a clash above the fort.
• Four Zhou Family elders surrounded Li Zaiyuan, and the Second Elder struck him before Li Zaiyuan dodged his next attack with a movement technique.
• The Zhou Family's Second Elder saw the young Li Family attackers and concluded that his clan had been made a pawn by a powerful force.

Li Zaiyuan turned the fight against four Zhou Family elders around with his saber and killed one of them, while Li Hanfeng rescued a frightened Li Family Main Branch youth elsewhere in the compound. The battle continued, with Li Zaiyuan pressing his attack and Li Hanfeng confronting the Main Branch disciple’s fear.

• The Zhou Family's Second Elder ordered the four elders to use their strongest attacks against Li Zaiyuan, who dodged them and chose to fight rather than flee.
• Li Zaiyuan drew an ordinary saber and overpowered the four elders, cutting through the Second Elder's attack and severing another elder's spear.
• Li Zaiyuan seized an opening and split the spear-wielding Zhou Family elder in two, then attacked the three survivors.
• Zhou Shuang watched Li Zaiyuan's progress while fighting Zhou Chongshan and recalled that the lineage's seniors had ordered them to protect Li Zaiyuan.
• A Li Family Main Branch youth faltered in combat and was wounded, but Li Hanfeng drove off two Zhou Family cultivators and pulled him to his feet.
• Li Hanfeng rebuked the terrified youth and reflected that the Main Branch disciples had grown up comfortably and struggled to fight for their lives.

The Li Family defeated the Zhou Family at Green Cliff Fort, while Li Qingshan prepared to attack Pinewind Abbey as part of the competition. The chapter left Li Qingshan deploying a swarm of gray shadows near the abbey entrance.

• Li Hanfeng protected a frightened clansman as the Li Family’s inexperienced disciples struggled in their first battle, then grew fiercer after tasting blood.
• Zhou Shuang killed Zhou Chongshan and ordered the Zhou Family exterminated, breaking their fighters’ will and turning the battle in the Li Family’s favor.
• Li Zaiyuan pursued the fleeing Zhou Family Second Elder for battle merit, and an hour later the Zhou Clan of Green Cliff Fort had been destroyed.
• Zhou Shuang recorded the Li Family disciples’ performance while Li Qingshan arrived at Pinewind Abbey, encouraged by Master Gu to remember his father’s sacrifices and pursue his goal.
• Li Qingshan hid near the abbey guards and released countless tiny gray shadows from his sleeve into the night.

Li Qingshan used Man-Eating Gu to attack Pinewind Abbey, then sent Qi-Blood Gu inside after the abbey’s abbot recognized the infestation. He strode toward the mountain gate, intending to wipe out the sect himself.

• Li Qingshan confirmed that the four guards at Pinewind Abbey’s gate had inhaled Man-Eating Gu, while Master Gu explained how it would devour them from within.
• Li Qingshan questioned whether the guards deserved to die, then waited as the Man-Eating Gu took effect.
• The Man-Eating Gu killed the four guards and spread through Pinewind Abbey, causing its disciples to collapse in agony as an elder recognized the attack as gu.
• Pinewind Abbey’s abbot ordered the disciples to seal their orifices and protect their heart meridians, while Master Gu advised Li Qingshan to use Qi-Blood Gu against stronger cultivators.
• Li Qingshan released Qi-Blood Gu into Pinewind Abbey and walked toward its mountain gate, declaring that he would wipe out the sect.

Li Qingshan confronted Pinewind Abbey’s two Innate True Persons and used the Force-Leaning Gu to absorb the Gu insects and power gathered from the abbey’s victims. He broke through to the Innate Realm and asked Master Gu what tier it was.

• Li Qingshan entered Pinewind Abbey, killed an elder suppressing the Gu insects, and found Pinecloud True Person and Pinejade True Person in the main hall.
• Li Qingshan admitted he attacked because Pinewind Abbey stood in the Li Family’s way, prompting the two True Persons to attack him.
• Pinecloud True Person’s flying sword grazed Li Qingshan, and Master Gu urged him to use the Force-Leaning Gu.
• Li Qingshan released the Force-Leaning Gu and used Phantom Body Gu to evade the two True Persons while it swallowed the abbey’s Gu insects.
• Li Qingshan swallowed the Force-Leaning Gu, absorbed its power, and broke through from the Qi and Blood Realm into the Innate Realm.
• Li Qingshan hovered in the air and asked Master Gu what tier it was.

Li Qingshan fought Pinecloud True Person and Pinejade True Person with Master Gu’s borrowed power, forcing the two elders to retreat behind a barrier fueled by Pinewind Abbey’s spirit vein. He secretly sent Gu insects into the vein and waited as the elders tried to outlast him.

• Master Gu warned Li Qingshan about the power of the Ancestral Land Clan Chief while Pinecloud True Person renewed his attack.
• Li Qingshan used Gu insects to foul Pinecloud True Person’s flying sword, then tricked Pinejade True Person into striking a decoy that infected him.
• Pinecloud True Person and Pinejade True Person withdrew behind an azure barrier and drew spiritual energy from Pinewind Abbey’s spirit vein.
• Master Gu recognized that the elders’ reliance on the spirit vein gave Li Qingshan an opening, and Li Qingshan sent over a hundred insects into the cracks beneath the barrier.
• Pinecloud True Person urged Pinejade True Person to wait until Li Qingshan’s borrowed power ran out, while Li Qingshan stood still outside the barrier.

Li Qingshan killed Pinecloud True Person and Pinejade True Person after poisonous gu weakened them, then followed Master Gu to Pinewind Abbey’s treasury. In Shenjing City, Jiang Wuji and the emperor turned to their final plan for the Progenitor Emperor after Jiang Qinghuang was taken to the Upper Realm.

• Poisonous gu hidden in the spiritual energy infected Pinecloud True Person and Pinejade True Person, leaving them in agony inside the barrier.
• Pinecloud True Person begged Li Qingshan for mercy and offered Pinewind Abbey’s accumulated wealth, but Li Qingshan refused.
• Pinecloud True Person tried to trigger his Innate Golden Core, so Li Qingshan killed him and then stomped Pinejade True Person to death.
• The gu devoured both bodies, and Li Qingshan’s borrowed power faded; Master Gu then led him toward Pinewind Abbey’s treasury.
• Jiang Wuji told the emperor that Jiang Qinghuang had been taken to the Upper Realm, blocking their sacrifice plan.
• The emperor agreed to send in everyone from the Crown Prince’s line, and Jiang Wuji hinted that the Second Progenitor was their backup.

Jiang Wuji and the emperor decided to send the injured Jiang Wuyang into the Imperial Mausoleum as part of the Jiang Clan’s desperate plan. The emperor ordered the arrest of every registered imperial clansman, including the Crown Prince, while Wen Zhong prepared for the King of Chu’s arrival.

• Jiang Wuji told the emperor that even Jiang Wuyang could be sacrificed, and the emperor agreed to proceed with the plan.
• Jiang Wuyang understood why Jiang Wuji had come and chose to walk the road to the Imperial Mausoleum himself.
• Jiang Yuandu received the decree to send all registered imperial clansmen into the Imperial Mausoleum, while the Dragon Tiger Imperial Guard warned him to comply within three days.
• The Dragon Tiger Imperial Guard began arresting Jiang Clan households across Shenjing, shackling their members for transport.
• The guards seized the Crown Prince and his faction at the Eastern Palace, and the Crown Prince cursed Jiang Chonglou.
• Wen Zhong learned that the Crown Prince had been arrested and told his subordinate to prepare for the King of Chu’s arrival.

The Jiang Clan began sacrificing hundreds of thousands of its descendants in the Imperial Mausoleum’s Blood Pool as part of a plan set in motion more than six thousand years earlier. As Imperial Mausoleum Guards threw the chained captives into the pool, the mass slaughter began.

• The Dragon Tiger Imperial Guard herded hundreds of thousands of Jiang Clan descendants, including the Crown Prince's line, onto spirit ships bound for the Imperial Mausoleum.
• On the Stargazing Platform, the emperor worried that Li Xinge would give the Jiang Clan no more time, while Jiang Wuji assured him that his imperial father was making rapid progress.
• At the Imperial Mausoleum, black-robed guards drove the chained descendants through the bones and into an underground palace containing a vast Blood Pool.
• The leader of the Imperial Mausoleum Guards ordered the sacrifice to begin, and guards threw a respected elder into the Blood Pool, where his flesh dissolved.
• The Jiang Clan descendants screamed and struggled as the Imperial Mausoleum Guards seized them and began tossing them into the Blood Pool.

Jiang Wuyang sacrificed himself to strengthen the Progenitor Emperor inside the Ice Coffin, but one Half-Saint was not enough, so Jiang Wuji promised more descendants within three days. The Progenitor Emperor then revealed that his method for reaching the Heavenly Human Sacred Realm came from two treasures he stole from powerful people who had made him their servant.

• Jiang Wuyang offered his body to the Progenitor Emperor and was consumed by blood-red light, leaving only his ruined armor and saber.
• The Progenitor Emperor said one Half-Saint was insufficient, and Jiang Wuji promised to bring the remaining descendants within three days.
• Jiang Wuji asked where the method for reaching the Heavenly Human Sacred Realm came from, and the Progenitor Emperor said it was not from the Jiang Family.
• The Progenitor Emperor recounted how powerful people had trained him as a rogue cultivator and ordered him to bite their enemies.
• The Progenitor Emperor revealed that he had obtained the Method for Attaining Celestial Personhood and a Heavenly Human Sacred Artifact, which he used to develop his path toward the sacred realm.

Jiang Wuji learned that the Progenitor Emperor would help him become a Celestial Person, but the Progenitor Emperor betrayed and consumed him instead. After absorbing Jiang Wuji and countless others, the Progenitor Emperor prepared to merge with a blood-red orb and attain sainthood.

• The Progenitor Emperor promised to take Jiang Wuji with him when he ascended, and Jiang Wuji thanked him for the chance to escape the world's restrictions.
• As Jiang Wuji turned to leave, the Progenitor Emperor bound him with blood threads, while the Dragon-Slaying Sword returned to the Ice Coffin rather than helping him.
• The Progenitor Emperor told Jiang Wuji to become part of him to attain sainthood, then dragged him into the Ice Coffin and consumed him.
• The Progenitor Emperor emerged from the Ice Coffin and revealed that he had absorbed countless people, including Jiang Wuji, before presenting a blood-red orb.
• The Progenitor Emperor declared that he had slaughtered his clan and fed their blood to the orb for over six thousand years, and announced that he would merge with it to become a Heavenly Human Saint.

The Progenitor Emperor fused with the bloody light and became a Celestial Person, but he suffered a sudden bout of agony before regaining his composure. Meanwhile, the King of Chu and his vast army arrived outside Shenjing, leaving the Great Zhou capital under siege.

• The Progenitor Emperor fused with the bloody light, restored his body, and expanded his heavenly human world.
• The Progenitor Emperor proclaimed himself a Celestial Person and celebrated his freedom, then doubled over in agony before becoming calm again.
• The King of Chu's forces, including Demon Kings and Great Chu troops, assembled outside Shenjing and frightened the city's defenders and civilians.
• Shenjing's ancient defensive formation activated, and the city's Divine Mansion Realm experts gathered to face the attackers.
• Li Xinge, King of Chu, appeared before his forces, who bowed to him as the city's protective formation began to flicker.

Li Xinge led his army to Shenjing City and began bombarding its ancient defensive formation, declaring that Great Chu would replace Great Zhou. The formation held, and the emperor appeared within the city to confront Li Xinge, who dismissed it as a mere turtle shell.

• Li Xinge reflected on his rise from head of the struggling Li Family to King of Chu as he stood before Shenjing City.
• Li Xuantong admitted he had never imagined they would reach this moment, and the Sky-Eating Demon Venerable urged Li Xinge to bring down Great Zhou.
• Li Xinge rallied his forces to attack Shenjing City's defensive formation, but the barrier endured their combined assault.
• Cui Chongshan marveled at the formation's strength, while Cui Yuan explained that it had drawn on six thousand years of accumulated power.
• The emperor appeared above Shenjing City and warned Li Xinge that the earth-vein-linked formation could not be broken; Li Xinge mocked it as a turtle shell and challenged its ability to protect the emperor.

Li Xinge shattered Shenjing City’s City-Protecting Formation with a single overwhelming strike, allowing the Chu forces to overwhelm the city. As the Pavilion Master explained the gulf between Li Xinge’s strength and a true Celestial Person, Li Xinge turned his attention toward the Imperial Mausoleum and wondered whether something there had succeeded.

• Li Xinge summoned the Three-legged Golden Crow and fused it with the Three Sha Demon God, raising his aura far beyond the Half-Saint Realm.
• Li Xinge struck Shenjing City’s City-Protecting Formation with Golden Crow Incinerates Heaven and Three Sha Destroy the World, breaking it and devastating the city walls.
• Cui Yuan led the Chu forces into Shenjing City, while the Northern Aristocratic Clan’s experts fled and the city descended into chaos.
• Li Xinge ignored the rout and looked toward the Imperial Mausoleum, murmuring, “Did it succeed?”
• Shi Qianqiu and the Chief Pavilion Master watched from afar as the Chief Pavilion Master described Li Xinge’s strike as near the level of a Celestial Person and explained that a vast gulf still separated them.

The Myriad Treasures Pavilion’s Pavilion Master judged Li Xinge to be an unmatched prodigy and advised Shi Qianqiu not to make an enemy of him. As the Chu Army conquered Shenjing, Li Xinge approached the Golden Throne Hall and declared his intent to claim the realm, leaving the old dynasty fallen and a new sovereign poised to take the throne.

• The Pavilion Master told Shi Qianqiu that Li Xinge could rival the finest holy sons of supreme sects, and Shi agreed the Myriad Treasures Pavilion should avoid antagonizing him.
• The Chu Army slaughtered its way through Shenjing’s aristocratic clans and powerful houses while Li Xinge watched without reacting.
• The Chu Army broke through the palace defenses, and Wei Zhongxian knelt before Li Xinge and told him that the Jiang rebel was inside the Golden Throne Hall.
• Cui Yuan and Ming Tianchen reflected on the fall of Great Zhou, while the Sky-Eating Demon Venerable and Blood Abyss Demon Venerable urged Li Xinge to establish a new dynasty.
• Chu soldiers knelt in rows and hailed Li Xinge as he walked toward the Golden Throne Hall.
• Li Xinge recited a poem claiming the realm and its history for himself, then began ascending the thirty-six imperial steps.

Li Xinge confronted Jiang Chonglou in the Golden Throne Hall and began claiming the throne for his Li Family. As his followers urged him to ascend, Li Xinge sensed someone arriving and looked toward the sky.

• Jiang Chonglou warned Li Xinge that he could not win while the Progenitor Emperor lived.
• Li Xinge asked Jiang Chonglou why he had rebelled, and Jiang Chonglou denounced him as a traitor.
• Sky Eater attacked Song Wuya as the eunuch defended Jiang Chonglou, then killed him with a stomp.
• Li Xinge declared he was reclaiming what belonged to his Li Family, and Sky Eater dragged Jiang Chonglou from the Dragon Throne.
• Sky Eater and Li Xinge's followers knelt and urged Li Xinge to ascend the throne, but Li Xinge looked toward the sky and asked whether someone had finally arrived.

The Great Zhou Progenitor Emperor emerged as an unsuppressed Heavenly Human Saint and confronted Li Xinge above Shenjing City. He struck Li Xinge with an enormous golden palm, and after their clash the Progenitor Emperor remained confident that Li Xinge could not survive.

• A terrifying pressure engulfed Shenjing City as the Progenitor Emperor appeared in the sky, and the Turtle Chancellor recognized him as a Heavenly Human Saint.
• The emperor celebrated the Progenitor Emperor’s return, while Li Xinge alone resisted the celestial pressure and faced him outside the Golden Throne Hall.
• The Progenitor Emperor questioned why Li Xinge would not kneel, and Li Xinge insulted him as a watchdog raised by the Li Family.
• Enraged, the Progenitor Emperor summoned a massive golden hand that threatened to destroy Shenjing City.
• Li Xinge unleashed his Golden Crow Mark and Divine Mansion World, but the Progenitor Emperor’s palm overwhelmed his attacks and continued downward.

After the Progenitor Emperor appeared to kill Li Xinge, Zhao Wujiu, Guhongzi, and Li Wuyou prepared to fight him. In the Endless Demon Domain, the Three Sha Demon Saint sensed Li Wuyou’s awakened Heavenly Demon Sacred Body and ordered the search for her Lower Realm.

• Dongfang Jiming celebrated the Progenitor Emperor’s apparent victory, but Prime Minister Wen suspected that Li Xinge had died too easily.
• Zhao Wujiu burned his lifespan and charged the Progenitor Emperor, and Guhongzi followed after recalling the King of Chu’s kindness.
• Li Wuyou unleashed her Heavenly Demon Sacred Body and gathered demonic qi as she confronted the Progenitor Emperor.
• The Three Sha Demon Saint awakened in the Endless Demon Domain and recognized that the Heavenly Demon Sacred Body had appeared and been activated in the Lower Realm.
• The Three Sha Demon Saint ordered the Three Sha Demon Gate to locate the inheritor and departed to ask the Protective Holy Emperor to divine her location.

Li Xinge survived the Progenitor Emperor’s attack and summoned the Li Family’s Sacred Weapon, Sacred Spirit, to face the Heavenly Human Saint. He challenged the Progenitor Emperor to his death, leaving their fight poised to begin.

• Shi Qianqiu asked when the Pavilion Master would intervene, and the Pavilion Master said he would wait until Li Xinge was desperate enough to owe them the greatest favor.
• The Progenitor Emperor sensed danger from Li Wuyou but raised his hand to strike Zhao Wujiu and the others.
• Li Xinge rose from the dust alive, relieving Zhao Wujiu, Guhongzi, and Li Wuyou.
• The Progenitor Emperor attacked Li Xinge again, and Li Xinge summoned the black sword Sacred Spirit from beneath the Duke of Zhenguo Residence.
• The Progenitor Emperor recognized Sacred Spirit and questioned whether Li Xinge could bear its backlash, but Li Xinge challenged the founding emperor of Great Zhou to his death.

The Chief Pavilion Master recognized Li Xinge's Ancestor Sacred Weapon as a Middle-Rank Sacred Weapon and warned Shi Qianqiu not to provoke him or investigate his powerful backing. Li Xinge and the Progenitor Emperor unleashed their gathered attacks, leaving their clash unresolved.

• The Chief Pavilion Master explained that Li Xinge's sword was a Middle-Rank Sacred Weapon and that its former owner had nearly reached the Great Sage Realm.
• The Chief Pavilion Master warned Shi Qianqiu never to probe the former owner's backing and rebuked him for suggesting they seize Li Xinge's weapon.
• The Chief Pavilion Master noted Li Xinge's sacred body, Demonic Path Dharma manifestation, and formidable fortune, and decided against interfering.
• The Progenitor Emperor summoned the phantom of a heavenly human world as Li Xinge poured his spiritual power into the Ancestor Sacred Weapon.
• Li Xinge slashed with the Ancestor Sacred Weapon while the Progenitor Emperor unleashed Nine Dragons Suppress the Heavenly Gate.

Li Xinge used the Ancestor Sacred Weapon to overwhelm the Progenitor Emperor, destroying his imperial dragon qi and cleaving apart his heavenly human world. After the Progenitor Emperor failed to stop Li Xinge’s third strike, the chapter ended as its sword light fell.

• Li Xinge destroyed the Progenitor Emperor’s Nine Dragons Suppress the World technique with a single sword strike.
• The Chief Pavilion Master explained to Shi Qianqiu that the Progenitor Emperor’s small heavenly human world marked him as a false saint, while Li Xinge’s saint body promised extraordinary potential.
• Li Xinge’s second strike cleaved the Progenitor Emperor’s heavenly human world and left him badly wounded.
• Li Xinge unleashed a third, far stronger strike, and the Progenitor Emperor burned his lifespan and exhausted his strength trying to block it.
• The Progenitor Emperor could not delay the sword light, which descended as the world fell silent.

Li Xinge appeared to defeat the Progenitor Emperor, and Great Chu’s supporters celebrated while Great Zhou’s allies feared their downfall. But the Progenitor Emperor survived the Sacred Weapon’s third strike and revealed that his body was still too weak.

• Zhao Wujiu, Guhongzi, Li Wuyou, and the Chu forces celebrated after the sword light swallowed the Progenitor Emperor.
• Dongfang Jiming panicked and proposed surrendering or fleeing, while Wen Zhong explained that the King of Chu no longer needed the Northern clans and chose to die so his clan’s seeds might survive.
• The Chief Pavilion Master of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion sensed something was wrong as Shi Qianqiu lamented that they had come too late to help Li Xinge.
• Li Xinge watched the sword light fade without celebrating, and the Progenitor Emperor appeared unharmed as his wound healed completely.
• The Progenitor Emperor stood with renewed sovereign bearing and said that his body was still too weak.

The Progenitor Emperor revealed that he had manipulated the Jiang Family into sacrificing its bloodline for six thousand years, then demanded the other half of the Celestial Person’s heart from Li Xinge. Li Xinge refused and challenged the Emperor’s account of the Li Family’s past, leaving their confrontation poised to escalate.

• The Progenitor Emperor sensed the Pavilion Master and Shi Qianqiu spying, crushed the space around them, and injured them as they tried to escape.
• The Progenitor Emperor denied possessing Jiang Xiao'er, explaining that he had deceived him into offering his clan’s blood for six thousand years.
• Li Xinge recognized the Progenitor Emperor’s identity and heard him vow revenge against the Rootless People.
• The Progenitor Emperor demanded the other half of the Celestial Person’s heart, claiming it would help him recover and protect Li Xinge, but Li Xinge denied having it.
• The Progenitor Emperor accused Li Xinge of betraying him, and Li Xinge challenged him to explain what had caused the Li Family’s threatened annihilation and the Rootless People’s betrayal.