Recaps

Qin Guan told the Little Black Tower to take Nan Rou, Bai You, Zi Qing, and the others away if he broke the restriction, warning that he had sensed a dangerous power in the Forbidden Land. He then gave Zi Qing the Nine Revolutions Soul Returning Pill, which revived Zi Ran, before leading Nan Rou and Bai You off to see a grand spectacle.

• Qin Guan told the Little Black Tower that he did not blame it for wanting to flee and asked it to take Rou'er and the others to the Xuantian Sect if he broke the restriction.
• Qin Guan warned the Little Black Tower that he had sensed a dangerous power in the Forbidden Land that felt different from Yang.
• Qin Guan gave Zi Qing the Nine Revolutions Soul Returning Pill, and Zi Qing placed it in Zi Ran's mouth.
• Zi Ran's life force returned, and she woke up and recognized Zi Qing as her sister.
• Qin Guan left the third floor with Nan Rou and Bai You, then promised to show them a grand spectacle.

Qin Guan prepared to face the coming danger while cultivating inside the Little Black Tower, where he underwent the fifth tempering of the Undying Asura Divine War Art. The chapter left him enduring the transformation as its murderous power intensified.

• Zhan Chi sensed Qin Guan's unsettled Dao Heart, and the Little Black Tower revealed that Qin Guan planned to stay behind while it took the others away.
• Zhan Chi urged the Little Black Tower to carry Nan Rou and the others to safety, then argued with it over its doubts about their survival.
• Qin Guan began cultivating with the treasure vault's resources, while Nan Rou and Bai You continued gathering resources and the factions outside waited for him to emerge.
• After nine days, Qin Guan's agonized cries filled the Little Black Tower as dark red killing intent spread through it.
• Qin Guan underwent the fifth Asura tempering, and slaughter markings spread across his body as an Asura phantom flickered in his dark-gold eyes.

Qin Guan recovered in the Little Black Tower and discussed forging a Great Dao of his own by fusing his existing powers. He emerged, confirmed that his physical body had reached the Void-Breaking Realm, and began devouring Danxia Qi from the golden vortex to break the restriction.

• Qin Guan told Little Black Tower that he had remained clear-headed in the Asura state and wanted to fuse his Great Dao Powers into a Dao of his own.
• Qin Guan left the Little Black Tower, where Nan Rou Bai You, Mother of All Spirits, Wonderful Sound Celestial Venerable, and Lei Zhen learned he had reached the Void-Breaking Realm.
• Qin Guan emerged before the waiting factions and thanked them for supporting his recovery, prompting them to realize he had feigned his earlier distress to get their resources.
• Qin Guan ordered everyone to move back and began devouring energy from the golden vortex with Chaos Power.
• Qin Guan pushed Devouring Power to its limit as Danxia Qi flooded into his Chaos Origin, which began to boil.

Qin Guan’s Chaos Dao-Fusion Body underwent its fifth awakening, granting him the Chaos Yin Yang Fire. After the factions congratulated and pressured him to open the Forbidden Land entrance, Qin Guan drew in the golden vortex.

• Qin Guan’s awakening caused a black-and-white vortex to disrupt the laws of heaven and earth, forcing the onlookers to retreat.
• The vortex poured black-and-white energy into Qin Guan, and the Little Black Tower explained that his Chaos Body was undergoing its fifth awakening.
• Qin Guan emerged with Chaos Yin Yang Fire, which the Little Black Tower said could fuse Great Dao powers and refine their impurities.
• Qin Guan gave the Little Black Tower some Chaos Yin Yang Fire to use on Sister Great Dao’s flaws.
• Pill Emperor Qing Xuan and the factions urged Qin Guan to break the restriction on the Forbidden Land entrance, and Qin Guan drew in the golden vortex.

Qin Guan prepared his companions for the coming battle, said farewell to Nan Rou and Bai You, and entered the Secret Realm alone. Inside, he found the River of Fate and felt that he had known it before becoming Qin Guan, just as an irresistible force pulled him onward.

• Qin Guan told everyone the Secret Realm’s restriction would take more time to break and urged them to cultivate for the coming battle.
• Qin Guan welcomed Zi Ran and sent her with Zi Qing to the treasure vault, then encouraged Nan Rou and Bai You to cultivate and promised to return.
• Qin Guan left the Little Black Tower behind and stepped through the Secret Realm gates as they closed behind him.
• Qin Guan sped through an empty passage and emerged before the River of Fate, whose lights represented the fates of living beings.
• Qin Guan felt he had known the river before becoming Qin Guan, then an irresistible force yanked him forward.

The White Robe Woman learned that Yang Tianni was going to the Asura Divine Hall to reclaim his godhead and save Qin Guan, knowing it would bind him to the Asura Realm forever. She urged Bukui Daoist to stop him, but they ended up arguing over whose life mattered more, leaving Bukui Daoist chastened by her comparison to Yang Tianni.

• The White Robe Woman asked Bukui Daoist what Yang Tianni meant by retrieving his true self, and he explained that Yang was going to the Asura Divine Hall.
• Bukui Daoist revealed that Yang had trained in the Asura Realm for a thousand years, received its godhead, and then left it sealed there rather than accept a divine role that would confine him.
• Bukui Daoist explained that reclaiming the godhead would make Yang the Realm Lord and prevent him from ever leaving the Asura Realm.
• The White Robe Woman grew emotional when Bukui Daoist recalled Yang saying he was willing to risk his life for his successor, Qin Guan.
• The White Robe Woman urged Bukui Daoist to stop Yang and suggested he sacrifice himself instead, prompting Bukui Daoist to protest that Yang would survive but lose his freedom.
• The White Robe Woman said either man could die for her son and criticized Bukui Daoist for not following Yang's example of facing danger alone.

Pill Emperor Qing Xuan discovered that the Secret Realm held no energy origin, while Tu and several other Dao Masters broke through to the Golden Immortal Realm. After the group noticed a black-clad figure identical to Qin Guan, they questioned what it was and whether Qin Guan knew about it.

• Pill Emperor Qing Xuan wondered how to leave the Secret Realm and grew wary of the substitute in the River of Fate.
• Tu broke through to the Golden Immortal Realm, transforming his Dao Tablet and gaining a million years of lifespan.
• The Free Heaven Demon Lord, Thunder Emperor, Curse Resentment Ancestor, Heaven's Mandate Divine Calculator, and other Dao Masters broke through in succession.
• Pill Emperor Qing Xuan congratulated the newly strengthened Dao Masters, who no longer treated him with the deference they once had.
• Tu noticed the black-clad Qin Guan and asked who he was; Pill Emperor Qing Xuan said the figure had appeared after Qin Guan entered and confirmed Qin Guan had seen him.

Yang searched the Chaos Realm for Yang Tianni and noticed Xiao Man cultivating amid a chaotic rift, then turned his attention back to the Primordial Realm. In the Secret Realm, many cultivators reached the Golden Immortal Realm, only to discover images of themselves and Qin Guan in the River of Fate.

• Yang failed to find Yang Tianni and wondered whether the thousand-year gap in his life was connected to his disappearance.
• Yang observed Xiao Man using Formless Seed Divine Power in a rift of chaos and order, recognized her as another variable, and left to focus on the Primordial Realm.
• Over fifty Peak Mystic Immortal cultivators broke through to the Golden Immortal Realm in the Secret Realm while others studied the Immortal Methods.
• The cultivators noticed the Black Clothed Man and images of themselves in the River of Fate behind the Light Screen.
• Heaven's Mandate Divine Calculator said Golden Immortals appeared in the River of Fate and recalled a blood-soaked vision that had caused a powerful backlash, silencing the celebrants.

Qin Guan’s enemies learned that they had to kill him to escape the Secret Realm, where only one hundred people could survive. After Qin Guan completed his Golden Immortal breakthrough, Pill Emperor Qing Xuan and the other cultivators attacked him.

• The Black Clothed Man told the cultivators to kill Qin Guan to leave the Secret Realm and warned that only one hundred people could survive.
• He seized the Divine Souls of one hundred Golden Immortal cultivators and threatened to execute anyone who disobeyed the rules.
• Qin Guan’s three Supreme Great Daos fused into a new Golden Immortal Dao Tablet, completing his breakthrough.
• Qin Guan insulted Yang and the Black Clothed Man, who ordered the cultivators to attack.
• Pill Emperor Qing Xuan struck first, and Tu, the other cultivators, and several thousand more charged at Qin Guan.

Qin Guan continued slaughtering the Secret Realm’s cultivators until only five hundred remained, forcing them to unite and launch their strongest attacks. He answered their assault by transforming into his Imperishable Asura Battle Body and activating all three Supreme Great Daos.

• Qin Guan killed a Golden Immortal Realm expert, leaving five hundred cultivators alive in the Secret Realm.
• Pill Emperor Qing Xuan urged everyone to attack Qin Guan together, and Tu warned them that they could not survive by waiting for the numbers to fall further.
• Tu, Xizhou Thunder Emperor, Free Heaven Demon Lord, Curse Resentment Ancestor, Pill Emperor Qing Xuan, and the other cultivators unleashed their strongest killing moves against Qin Guan.
• Qin Guan invoked Imperishable Asura, transformed into his Imperishable Asura Battle Body, and activated all three Supreme Great Daos to face the attack.

Qin Guan defeated the forces in the Secret Realm and absorbed their Dao Origins while Yang refused to save Pill Emperor Qing Xuan. After Tu questioned Yang about realms, Qin Guan rejected Yang’s view and continued on his own path of cultivation.

• Qin Guan swept through the battlefield, incapacitating five hundred people without killing them.
• Qin Guan pierced Pill Emperor Qing Xuan and used Chaos Yin Yang Fire to refine his Pill Cauldron Great Dao’s Dao Origin after Yang refused to save him.
• Thunder Emperor, Free Heaven Demon Lord, and the others begged Qin Guan for mercy, but Qin Guan began drawing their Dao Origins out.
• Tu asked Yang whether he had ever intended to spare them, and Yang said they had brought their fate upon themselves.
• Tu asked about realms beyond the Golden Immortal Realm, and Yang said realms were only measures of power, not true boundaries.
• Qin Guan dismissed Yang’s view of cultivation and continued devouring the experts’ Dao Origins, following his own path.

Yang explained that he had split the plane and erased cultivation methods to make a Chaos Host’s birth possible, prompting Heaven’s Mandate Divine Calculator to condemn the injustice to cultivators. Yang then revealed a vision of his past as a Chaos Host confronting Natural Elder, the former master of the Chaos Realm’s Heavenly Dao, over its indifference to injustice.

• Yang explained that Golden Immortals depleted the Dao Origin and fortune needed for a Chaos Host to be born, so he had split the plane and erased Immortal Methods and Secret Techniques to make room for Qin Guan.
• Heaven’s Mandate Divine Calculator accused Yang of sacrificing countless cultivators’ paths for his own desire to nurture a Chaos Host, and Yang replied that the choice was unfair to them but fair to the Chaos Realm.
• Yang revealed an image of Natural Elder by a river with a younger, white-robed Yang standing behind him, and identified the old man as the former master of the Chaos Realm’s Heavenly Dao.
• Young Yang challenged Natural Elder over a Heavenly Dao that allowed good people to suffer and evil people to prosper.
• Natural Elder said the Heavenly Dao maintained impartial order and warned that imposing laws of moral reward and punishment would drain the realm’s origin and destroy the Chaos Realm within ten thousand years.

Yang revealed that he had killed Natural Elder and taken the Heavenly Dao Authority to create a new Heavenly Dao that rewarded good and punished evil. He explained that Qin Guan’s complete Chaos Origin was the final piece he needed, and the chapter ended with the Black Clothed Man defending Yang’s plan to take it.

• Yang severed his own affectionate thoughts, killed Natural Elder, and claimed the Heavenly Dao Authority.
• The secret history ended, and Qin Guan and the others learned that Yang had slain the former Lord of the Heavenly Dao.
• Yang explained that his new rules for rewarding good and punishing evil would consume the Chaos Realm’s origin and that he had waited until Qin Guan possessed the complete Chaos Origin.
• Yang revealed that Qin Guan had been born as the key to his plan to replace the emotionless Heavenly Dao.
• The Black Clothed Man insisted that Qin Guan owed Yang everything and had no right to object to Yang taking it back.

Qin Guan fought the Black Clothed Man, who wielded his abilities and Dao powers at even greater strength, while Yang ordered the man to seize Qin Guan's body. As the Chaos barrier loosened, Bukui Daoist confronted Yang so the White Robe Woman and Daoist Koumen could carry out their plan.

• The Black Clothed Man matched Qin Guan's God Evasion and Sword Realm, overpowering him and revealing that his sword was of the same origin as Zhan Chi's.
• The Black Clothed Man also wielded Chaos Yin Yang Fire, leaving Qin Guan and the onlookers questioning how he possessed Qin Guan's powers and why Yang had targeted Qin Guan.
• Yang ignored Qin Guan's questions as he watched cracks spread across the Chaos barrier, then ordered the Black Clothed Man to seize Qin Guan's body.
• At the Immortal Sword Sect, Bukui Daoist told the White Robe Woman and Daoist Koumen to follow their plan, and the two set off toward a star domain.
• Yang blocked the White Robe Woman and Daoist Koumen, but Bukui Daoist appeared and prepared to hold him off, while the pair continued on their way.

Yang's avatar and Bukui Daoist fought across the starry sky while Bukui attacked the Immeasurable Pill Sect's Secret Realm. When the realm broke, Qin Guan emerged to battle the Black Clothed Man and realized his opponent was drawing power from the River of Fate, but he was repeatedly knocked back before he could reach it.

• Yang's avatar and Bukui Daoist clashed in a battle that shattered stars, while Ma Yi Shangren and the White-Haired Old Man debated whether Yang or Qin Guan would prevail.
• Bukui Daoist struck the Immeasurable Pill Sect's black-and-white gate, and his repeated attacks cracked it as Yang's avatar tried to stop him.
• The Secret Realm erupted, sending Tu, the Thunder Emperor, Heaven's Mandate Divine Calculator, and other Golden Immortal ancestors fleeing as Qin Guan and the Black Clothed Man emerged and fought.
• Qin Guan noticed the blood-red River of Fate was connected to his image and suspected the Black Clothed Man was drawing power from it.
• The Black Clothed Man repeatedly punched Qin Guan away from the River of Fate, and Bukui Daoist angrily called Qin Guan a brainless idiot.

Qin Guan consumed a Chaos Dao Fruit and advanced to the Primal Origin Realm, then helped Zhan Chi advance as the Black Clothed Man gained the same power. Qin Guan and his counterfeit began fighting, destroying the Immeasurable Pill Sect as Bukui Daoist left to deliver three Dao Fruits to Qin Guan’s allies.

• Bukui Daoist told Qin Guan to consume a Chaos Dao Fruit, and Qin Guan advanced his Great Dao to the Primal Origin Realm.
• The Black Clothed Man absorbed power from Qin Guan’s image in the River of Fate, while Bukui Daoist revealed Yang was present and took three Chaos Dao Fruits for Qin Guan’s Mother and Brother Yang.
• Qin Guan gave Zhan Chi a Chaos Dao Fruit, and her sword spirit advanced to a Chaos True Spirit.
• The Black Clothed Man broke through to the Primal Origin Realm and fought Qin Guan, while their battle reduced the Immeasurable Pill Sect to ruins.

Qin Guan continued to be overwhelmed by the Black Clothed Man, while his loved ones watched helplessly from the Xuantian Sect. Bai Fuzi identified Qin Guan’s opponent as a vessel Yang had prepared to devour his Chaos Origin, but Qin Guan remained trapped in the battle.

• The surviving Golden Immortal Realm Old Ancestors fled after the Secret Realm’s barrier broke, shaken by the battle between Qin Guan and the Black Clothed Man.
• Nan Rou, Bai You, and the others worried over Qin Guan and learned that he had stayed behind because he sensed a danger in the Secret Realm.
• Yan Zhaoxue and the Xuantian Sect’s people gathered as Nan Rou explained Qin Guan’s predicament, and Bei Ming called for Bai Fuzi.
• Bai Fuzi appeared and used a Light Screen to show Qin Guan fighting the Black Clothed Man, who looked exactly like him.
• Bai Fuzi revealed that the Black Clothed Man was a Body Seizure vessel Yang had refined to devour Qin Guan’s Chaos Origin.

Qin Guan fought the Black Clothed Man, a vessel designed to match and surpass him, but was defeated after both unleashed the life-burning Heart Fire Gate. As the Black Clothed Man approached the helpless Qin Guan, Xiao Man arrived with the White Robe Woman and an old man and began using her Formless Seed Divine Power, prompting Yang to intervene.

• Bai Fuzi explained that the Black Clothed Man mirrored Qin Guan's abilities and could only be overcome by finding something it could not replicate.
• Qin Guan opened the Heart Fire Gate, and the Black Clothed Man opened his own before they fought a desperate battle that left Qin Guan defeated and unable to move.
• Xiao Man appeared with the White Robe Woman and an old man, then prepared to use her Formless Seed Divine Power to help Qin Guan.
• Yang tried to attack Xiao Man, but two Black Robe Elders blocked his sword qi.
• Yang summoned the avatar restraining Bukui Daoist, while Bukui Daoist cursed at him and welcomed the Primordial Realm reinforcements.

The White Robe Woman and Xiao Man used the Karma Great Dao and Formless Divine Power to protect the dying Qin Guan and broadcast his image across the planes he had visited. Xiao Man asked everyone who cared for Qin Guan to pray and lend him their Affectionate Thoughts, and people and factions throughout the planes began answering her call.

• Bukui Daoist joined the White Robe Woman and Xiao Man, who combined their powers to shield Qin Guan from the Black Clothed Man.
• The White Robe Woman sent Qin Guan’s image through the Plane Barrier to every plane he had traveled through.
• Xiao Man urged the people of every plane to pray for Qin Guan and help defeat the villain with their thoughts.
• Nan Yunqi mobilized the Nan Family and local people, who prayed for Qin Guan in gratitude for his aid to the poor.
• Emperor Wei Yuntian led the imperial court and the people of the Wei Kingdom in praying for their guardian god, Qin Guan.
• Jiu Tuzhi and the Dao Sect, the Xuantian Sect, and Qian Hun with the Blood Sword Alliance began lending Qin Guan their mental power.

Qin Guan revived and overwhelmed the Black Clothed Man with the power of countless beings’ thoughts, but Yang arrived, severed their connection, and left Qin Guan helpless. As the Black Clothed Man prepared to cripple Qin Guan’s Dao foundation, an imposing middle-aged man appeared and stopped the others from sacrificing themselves.

• Across countless planes, Qin Guan’s allies and those he had helped offered their thought power, healing his broken body and restoring his strength.
• Qin Guan used the gathered power to defeat the Black Clothed Man in battle and drive him back.
• Just as Qin Guan moved to finish the Black Clothed Man, Yang arrived, restrained Qin Guan, and severed the thought-power connections across the planes.
• Yang struck Bukui Daoist and Daoist Koumen, then ordered the Black Clothed Man to cripple Qin Guan’s Dao foundation.
• The White Robe Woman and Bukui Daoist began burning their Life Origins to save Qin Guan, but an imposing middle-aged man appeared and stopped them.

Yang Tianni arrived in time to free Qin Guan and urged him to face the Black Clothed Man with his own strength, while challenging Yang himself. Qin Guan renewed his attack as Yang and Yang Tianni began a fierce battle that left their next move unseen.

• Yang Tianni appeared on the battlefield, dispelled Yang's suppression, and freed Qin Guan.
• Yang Tianni told Qin Guan that he could overcome the Black Clothed Man by outgrowing the fate-bound copy, and Qin Guan vowed to fight without outside help.
• The Black Clothed Man struck Qin Guan and sent him flying, but Qin Guan rose and charged again.
• Yang Tianni faced Yang, matched his palm strike, and split Yang's Great Sword of destiny with his Sword Qi.
• Yang and Yang Tianni exchanged a punch that shattered space-time and plunged the spectators' vision into darkness.

Yang Tianni taught Qin Guan to unleash the Gang Qi within his Battle Gates while they fought their opponents. Qin Guan began to surpass the Black Clothed Man’s ability to copy him, while Yang Tianni’s battle intent surged and he turned the tide against Yang.

• Yang Tianni traded blows with Yang while teaching Qin Guan how to fight with conviction and use the Gang Qi in his Battle Gates.
• Qin Guan withdrew his Chaos Power and was badly beaten by the Black Clothed Man as he struggled to apply Yang Tianni’s teachings.
• Gang Qi from Qin Guan’s Strength Gate, Speed Gate, Frenzy Gate, and Qi Gate urged him on, helping him counterattack and wound the Black Clothed Man.
• Yang slashed Yang Tianni after noticing him teach Qin Guan, but Yang Tianni’s blood fueled his Asura battle intent, which Qin Guan echoed below.
• The Black Clothed Man realized Qin Guan was growing faster than he could copy him, while Yang Tianni grew stronger under Yang’s intensified attack and suppressed him in return.

Yang Tianni captured the Heaven-Imprisoning Divine Dynasty’s invaders and demanded ransom while Qin Guan continued fighting the Black Clothed Man. As the battle went on, Yang Tianni guided Qin Guan toward fusing his Sword Dao with the Huan Yuan Sword Art, and Qin Guan struggled to apply the lesson.

• Yang Tianni seized the invaders’ transmission talisman, told their Sect Master that all twelve were alive, and demanded ten million Primordial Origin Spirit Crystals per person.
• Yang Tianni sent the Twelve Elders of the Heaven-Imprisoning Divine Dynasty home to gather the ransom.
• Yang watched Qin Guan fight the Black Clothed Man and accepted that Yang Tianni had defeated him and shattered his belief in his own invincibility.
• Yang Tianni told Qin Guan to draw his sword and explained how to merge Great Dao Power, Gang Qi, and the Huan Yuan Sword Art.
• Qin Guan tried to follow Yang Tianni’s guidance as the Black Clothed Man attacked him, eventually stabbing him through with a sword.

Qin Guan defeated Yang’s black-clothed fighter but refused to inherit Yang’s decree or take up his path of ruling the realms. Yang gave Qin Guan his lifelong insights and vanished into the River of Fate, while Qin Guan prepared to reunite with Nan Rou and the others.

• Zhan Chi defeated the Black Clothed Man, who apologized to Yang before Yang made him vanish; the River of Fate churned and swallowed its returning lights.
• Yang asked Qin Guan to add his decree, but Qin Guan refused and said he would focus on himself and protect the people he cared about.
• Yang accepted Qin Guan’s choice, passed his lifelong insights into Qin Guan, and disappeared into the River of Fate, which then vanished.
• The White Robe Woman checked Qin Guan for tampering, while Yang Tianni left with Bukui Daoist to make money and later help seal a loosened barrier.
• Qin Guan told Xiao Man he had secretly sent Nan Rou and the others away; Nan Rou and the others grew angry, and the White Robe Woman took Qin Guan and Xiao Man to the Xuantian Sect.

Daoist Koumen reflected on the end of the old era as the Myriad Worlds struggled to comprehend the battle they had witnessed. Qin Guan returned safely to the Xuantian Sect, reunited with Nan Rou and the others, and promised to reward those who had helped him.

• Daoist Koumen lamented that the younger generation had risen and flew toward Wuji Realm Heaven.
• Cultivators across the Myriad Worlds remained stunned by the battle and by the power of Yang Tianni, Qin Guan, and Yang.
• Yang Hongmei urged Nan Yunqi to prepare Nan Mansion to welcome Qin Guan and the young ladies, and Nan Yunqi ordered the preparations.
• The White Robe Woman arrived at the Xuantian Sect with Qin Guan and Xiao Man, and Nan Rou, Bai You, and Zi Qing greeted Qin Guan and scolded him for his dangerous fight.
• Qin Guan thanked the gathered elders and disciples, promised them treasures, and greeted the Little Black Tower, which demanded two Dao Fruits.