Recaps

Lin Suisui bet the Primordial Tower Spirit that Qin Guan could escape Zhi Ming without help, but the spirit refused her proposed stakes. Qin Guan fought Zhi Ming and wounded him after his movements defied Zhi Ming’s space-time foresight, then continued attacking as Zhi Ming defended himself.

• Lin Suisui proposed a bet that Qin Guan could shake Zhi Ming without assistance, offering the Primordial Tower Spirit’s eternal submission as the stakes, but the spirit refused.
• Zhi Ming intercepted Qin Guan, and the two exchanged attacks that sent them both reeling without settling the fight.
• Zhi Ming used his space-time mark to foresee Qin Guan’s moves, but Qin Guan’s actions diverged from the prediction.
• Qin Guan seized Zhi Ming’s confusion and struck through his Destiny Dao shield, wounding him and damaging his Divine Soul.
• Qin Guan pressed his attack with a storm of sword strikes while Zhi Ming, badly injured, raised a shield to defend himself.

Qin Guan endured Zhi Ming’s relentless pursuit and the Mandate Temple Elders’ attempts to trap him before escaping with the Spacetime Token to the Primordial Tower. Severely injured, he warned Lin Suisui that the Divine Sword Sect was in danger.

• Qin Guan used a feint to evade Zhi Ming, then studied the golden destiny threads that guided Zhi Ming’s Divine Illumination tracking technique.
• The Mandate Temple Elders formed a barrier around Qin Guan, but he broke through it and killed an isolated Heaven Rank Elder.
• Qin Guan attacked the Elders to force Zhi Ming to protect them, then used the distraction to escape the encirclement.
• After three days and nights of pursuit, Qin Guan used the Spacetime Token to return to the Primordial Tower, leaving Zhi Ming unable to track him.
• The Primordial Tower Spirit began healing Qin Guan, and he urgently asked Lin Suisui to take him to the Divine Sword Sect because it was in danger.

Qin Guan recovered inside the Primordial Tower while the Mandate Temple’s three Divine Sons confronted the Divine Sword Sect and demanded that Spirit Marsh Peak’s members be handed over to draw him out. Mu Lingze, Liu Shang, and Zhao Jianfeng offered themselves, leaving the sect torn over whether to surrender them.

• Lin Suisui sent the badly wounded Qin Guan into the Primordial Tower, where he used spirit fruits and the Eight Desolations Battle Body Art to heal.
• Bei You, Azure Blade, and Su Lan arrived at the Divine Sword Sect and demanded Mu Lingze, Liu Shang, Zhao Jianfeng, and Spirit Marsh Peak’s registered disciples.
• Bei You severed Pei Qin’s right arm when he tried to defend the sect, then demanded that the named people be handed over.
• Mu Lingze identified herself as Qin Guan’s master and offered to go with the Divine Sons, while Liu Shang volunteered to be taken instead.
• Zhao Jianfeng condemned the Divine Sons’ tactics, and Su Lan stopped Bei You from striking him, insisting that they take their targets alive.
• Su Lan threatened to bury the Divine Sword Sect unless Spirit Marsh Peak’s members came with them, and the sect’s disciples looked to Mu Lingze and the others uneasily.

Qin Guan appeared at the Divine Sword Sect to rescue Zhao Jianfeng and defeated the Mandate Temple’s three divine sons. He left Pei Qin proposing that the sect demand thirty million Primordial Soul Stones for their lives.

• Zhao Jianfeng offered himself as leverage to protect the Divine Sword Sect, but Bei You threatened to take everyone from Spirit Marsh Peak by force.
• Pei Qin and Zhao Jianfeng called for Qin Guan to appear, and Bei You nearly killed Zhao Jianfeng before Qin Guan arrived.
• Qin Guan stopped Bei You with Blood Colored Sword Qi and dismissed the three divine sons’ strength.
• Qin Guan wounded Azure Blade and Su Lan, then knocked Azure Blade and Bei You into the ground, leaving all three divine sons near death.
• Qin Guan asked Pei Qin whether he wanted to get rich and proposed demanding thirty million Primordial Soul Stones from the Mandate Temple for the three captives’ lives.

After Qin Guan mocked the Mandate Temple and invited others to join him, Mu Lingze and several disciples left the Divine Sword Sect with him. He led them to the Heaven's Will Merchant Association to rob it and disrupt its support for the Mandate Temple, where he openly claimed every treasure.

• Qin Guan dismissed the Mandate Temple's threats, while Divine Sword Sect elders and disciples condemned him and pleaded for him to release the three captured Divine Sons.
• Mu Lingze, Liu Shang, Zhao Jianfeng, and more than ten Spirit Marsh Peak disciples chose to join Qin Guan, while Pei Qin stayed behind to protect the sect.
• Qin Guan stored the three Divine Sons in the Little Black Tower and flew away with his new companions; Mu Lingze declared she had nothing more to do with the Divine Sword Sect.
• Qin Guan brought the group to the Heaven's Will Merchant Association, explaining that it supported the Mandate Temple and should be taken down.
• Qin Guan entered the association and ordered uninvolved people to leave before announcing that every treasure inside belonged to him.

Qin Guan led Zhao Jianfeng and the others in raiding the Heaven's Will Merchant Association after revealing its secret cooperation with the Mandate Temple. He subdued the association’s leaders, and the group began looting as Mu Lingze and Liu Shang headed upstairs for more valuable treasures.

• Qin Guan and Zhao Jianfeng announced that they were raiding the Heaven's Will Merchant Association, drawing laughter from the customers and staff.
• Steward Wu confronted Zhao Jianfeng, then recognized Mu Lingze and Qin Guan and called for help.
• Ji Boxiong and four other senior members arrived, but Qin Guan crushed them to the ground with his power.
• Zhao Jianfeng overcame his hesitation and looted a spiritual-materials pharmacy and a weapon shop, prompting other Spirit Marsh Peak Disciples to join in.
• Mu Lingze said the first-floor goods were worthless and led Liu Shang upstairs.

Qin Guan and his companions looted the Heaven's Will Merchant Association, and he killed its president Ji Boxiong after explaining the association had conspired against him and refused to exchange his points. They went to the Zhao Family to make it their base, where Zhao Jianfeng donated half the stolen treasures to his family; the chapter ended with a guard announcing the robbery and Ji Boxiong's death.

• Qin Guan killed Ji Boxiong, stopped an attempted warning, and made the surviving association leaders lead his companions to its treasure vault.
• Mu Lingze, Liu Shang, Zhao Jianfeng, and the others stripped the Heaven's Will Merchant Association of its valuables before leaving with Qin Guan.
• Qin Guan chose the Zhao Family as the group's future base and traveled there with Zhao Jianfeng and the others.
• Zhao Tianzheng welcomed Qin Guan and learned that Mu Lingze and her disciples had left the Divine Sword Sect to seek refuge with the Zhao Family.
• Zhao Jianfeng revealed the treasures taken from the merchant association and offered half to strengthen his family's foundations, delighting Zhao Tianzheng and the elders.
• A guard reported that the Heaven's Will Merchant Association had been looted and Ji Boxiong had been beheaded.

Zhao Tianzheng learned that Zhao Jianfeng, Qin Guan, Mu Lingze, and their companions had looted Heaven's Will Merchant Association and killed Ji Boxiong, and feared the Zhao Family would be destroyed. After Mu Lingze insisted they had a way to handle the consequences, Zhao Tianzheng asked Qin Guan to explain it.

• A guard confirmed that Heaven's Will Merchant Association had been looted and Ji Boxiong killed, naming Qin Guan and Zhao Jianfeng's group as the culprits.
• Zhao Jianfeng admitted the group had robbed the association and told Zhao Tianzheng to rely on Qin Guan.
• Zhao Tianzheng and the Elders panicked, and he proposed handing Zhao Jianfeng over, paying compensation, and cutting ties with Qin Guan's group.
• Mu Lingze challenged Zhao Tianzheng's plan and said they had already considered how to deal with the consequences.
• Mu Lingze turned to Qin Guan, and everyone in the living room waited for him to explain their plan.

Qin Guan reassured the Zhao Family that he could face its powerful enemies, then revealed he had captured the Mandate Temple's three Divine Sons. Zhao Tianzheng ordered the clan to prepare for conflict, while the Mandate Temple's leaders gathered and discussed the mysterious Black Robe.

• Qin Guan told Zhao Tianzheng that he feared few people on the Southern Pole Continent and confirmed he had captured the Mandate Temple's three Divine Sons for a ransom of thirty million Primordial Soul Stones.
• Zhao Jianfeng urged his father and the elders to seize the opportunity to strengthen the Zhao Family, and Zhao Tianzheng ordered the clan to recall its members, secure its defenses, stock resources, and control information.
• Qin Guan offered to help improve the Zhao Family's Defense Formations and left with Zhao Jianfeng, while Mu Lingze and the others followed.
• Qin Guan admitted to Little Black Tower that he did not know how to set up formations and considered integrating divine power into them.
• At the Mandate Temple, Zhi Ming and the Confucian Sect's leaders gathered on the day the three Divine Sons were due back, and Qingran asked Zhi Ming about the Black Robe who had escaped after fighting him for three days.

Zhi Ming learned that Qin Guan had led Spirit Marsh Peak in plundering the Heaven's Will Merchant Association's Lower Realm headquarters, and prepared to pursue him in Dragon City. As Zhi Ming and Qingran questioned how Qin Guan could have reached the Lower Realm so quickly, an Elder suggested the Primordial Tower Spirit could have transported him there instantly.

• A Heaven's Will Merchant Association executive reported that Qin Guan and Spirit Marsh Peak had plundered the Lower Realm headquarters and killed its president, Ji Boxiong.
• The executive said Qin Guan had overwhelmed the defenders and then gone to Dragon City with Zhao Jianfeng and the others.
• Zhi Ming ordered Elder Zhang to gather the Mandate Temple's Elders so they could go to the Lower Realm and capture Qin Guan.
• Qingran wondered whether Qin Guan was also Black Robe, but Zhi Ming rejected the idea because the journey between realms took at least five days and the Temple was monitoring the passages.
• An Elder pointed out that the Primordial Tower Spirit could have sent Qin Guan to the Lower Realm instantly through one of its avatars there.

The Mandate Temple learned that Qin Guan had kidnapped three Divine Sons and demanded a ransom, so Zhi Ming ordered his forces to descend on Dragon City. As the Zhao Family prepared for the coming confrontation, its Elders argued over whether Qin Guan could protect them.

• Zhi Ming and Qingran concluded that the Primordial Tower Spirit might be helping Qin Guan and that confronting it risked freeing the Dao Demon.
• Elder Zhang reported that Qin Guan had kidnapped Bei You, Azure Blade, and Su Lan and demanded thirty million Primordial Soul Stones for their release.
• Zhi Ming ordered the Mandate Temple forces to travel to Dragon City and arranged for them to bring the ransom so they could rescue the Divine Sons before fighting Qin Guan.
• Zhao Tianzheng told the Zhao Family Elders that their survival depended on Qin Guan, while they urged him to consider other ways to protect the family.
• Zhao Tianzheng clarified that he had meant to curse his son Zhao Jianfeng, not call him a bastard.

The Zhao Family discovered that Qin Guan had strengthened their defensive array with mysterious red power and confirmed its lethal force by sacrificing a prisoner. Meanwhile, Mu Lingze and Liu Shang cultivated inside the Little Black Tower, where it and Crab Boss plotted to exploit them in exchange for crab companions.

• Zhao Tianzheng learned that Qin Guan was cultivating in the Zhao Family’s Back Mountain and heard how Qin Guan had infused the array with strange red power.
• Zhao Tianzheng and the elders went to inspect the Blood Energy barrier around Dragon City, and Third Elder warned them that touching it would be fatal.
• Zhao Tianzheng had Western Elder bring a prisoner to test the array, and the barrier killed the man with a streak of Blood Colored Sword Qi.
• The elders celebrated the array’s strength and felt more secure about the Zhao Family’s survival.
• Mu Lingze and Liu Shang cultivated in the Little Black Tower, where they found that time passed twenty times faster than outside.
• The Little Black Tower urged Crab Boss to strip Mu Lingze and Liu Shang and offer them to Qin Guan in exchange for two crab younger sisters.

Crab Boss easily defeated Mu Lingze and Liu Shang after Little Black Tower urged it to capture them for Qin Guan. It carried the two women toward the Spirit Garden, but doubted Qin Guan would reward it with crab companions and considered keeping them for itself.

• Liu Shang recognized Crab Boss as resembling the Red Crab Demon from the Divine Ash Mountain Secret Realm, and Crab Boss charged at her and Mu Lingze.
• Mu Lingze's sword attacks failed to harm Crab Boss, while Liu Shang's strike at its vulnerable underside was repelled.
• Crab Boss blasted Mu Lingze with a fireball, injured her, and captured both women in its pincers.
• Little Black Tower told Crab Boss to bring the women to Qin Guan, but Crab Boss said it did not trust Qin Guan and carried them toward the Spirit Garden.
• Little Black Tower warned that Qin Guan could contend with Divine Ruins Realm cultivators, but Crab Boss said it feared no one and might take Qin Guan by force too.

Qin Guan resumed cultivating after Crab Boss humiliated Mu Lingze and Liu Shang, while Little Black Tower revealed that its Sister Great Dao could project images of Qin Guan’s wives. The chapter ended with Bai You appearing on the projection as Qin Guan stared at her.

• Little Black Tower reminded Crab Boss that Lord Fruit King was connected to Qin Guan, so Crab Boss changed course and carried Mu Lingze and Liu Shang to Qin Guan’s cultivation site.
• Crab Boss demanded two crab sisters in exchange for releasing the women, then tossed them down with their robes shredded before fleeing.
• Mu Lingze and Liu Shang changed clothes and left after Mu Lingze asked Qin Guan whether he had seen everything; Qin Guan blamed Crab Boss and resumed cultivating.
• Little Black Tower denied responsibility, defended its Sister Great Dao, and showed Qin Guan a live image of Nan Rou bathing and thinking about him.
• Little Black Tower cut off the projection when Qin Guan tried to speak with Nan Rou, then Bai You’s image appeared as she lay awake on a Space Bed.

Qin Guan learned that the Little Black Tower could not contact Bai You across space until it grew stronger, so he began cultivating to stabilize his realm and master the Primordial Heaven and Earth Principles. In the Asura Divine Realm, Shouting and a divine guard discussed the Demon Source Tree, the demon cultivators gathering around it, and Sun Divine Lord’s mysterious power.

• The Little Black Tower shut off Bai You’s image and said it could not project across space until its Sister Great Dao had gained more strength.
• Qin Guan agreed to cultivate so he could improve the Little Black Tower and eventually speak with Gentle Girl and the others.
• More than a hundred thousand demon cultivators gathered around the Demon Source Tree in the Asura Divine Realm and cultivated under Wutian Devil Lord’s leadership.
• Shouting told a divine guard that the tree was the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Demons, which had survived by condensing its origin into a seed.
• Shouting said the old Divine Lord had ordered them to obey Sun Divine Lord, and the divine guard revealed that he wanted to learn Sun Divine Lord’s realm because Shen Xiu had promised to marry him.

A mysterious Saint Gate tried to seize Yang Tianni’s Dao Fruit, but he drove it back with one punch. After revealing Tie Sheng’s sealed inheritance, Yang Tianni learned that Zhi Ming and thirty Confucian scholars were heading to Dragon City, prompting the Zhao Family to seek Qin.

• A Saint Gate appeared over Yang Tianni’s cultivation cave, and its voice suppressed the Asura Divine Realm as it tried to take his Dao foundation.
• Yang Tianni struck the gate with one punch, disrupted the hidden attacker, and returned to cultivation.
• Shouting sent Tie Sheng to Shen Xiu’s home, where Tie Sheng found her with another divine guard and left heartbroken.
• Yang Tianni told Tie Sheng that he descended from the Ancient Asura War Clan and would become the next Divine Lord once his seal was opened.
• After West Heaven passed, Zhao Tianzheng learned that Zhi Ming and thirty Confucian scholars were heading to Dragon City and ordered the Second Elder to wake Qin.

Qin Guan prepared to face Zhi Ming, the Mandate Temple, and thirty Confucian Sect great scholars as they arrived to capture him. He asked Zhi Ming whether he had brought the money, leaving the confrontation poised to begin.

• Zhao Tianzheng warned Qin Guan that the Mandate Temple and thirty Confucian Sect great scholars were coming, and Qin Guan released Mu Lingze, Zhao Jianfeng, and Liu Shang from the Little Black Tower.
• Qin Guan told the Zhao Family to watch from inside the formation, while Mu Lingze accused him of manipulating women into falling for him.
• Zhi Ming announced that the Mandate Temple and Confucian Sect had joined forces against Qin Guan, and Qin Guan flew above Dragon City to face them.
• Zhi Ming arrived with twenty Mandate Temple Elders and thirty Confucian Sect great scholars, while hidden factions watched in shock.
• Qin Guan asked Zhi Ming, “Did you bring the money?”

Qin Guan killed all three Mandate Divine Sons despite taking payment, then faced Zhi Ming and the Confucian scholars. Crab Boss joined the fight and drove Zhi Ming back, while Qin Guan cheered it on.

• Qin Guan crushed Bei You after Elder Zhang threatened him, then demanded a higher ransom for Azure Blade and Su Lan.
• Qin Guan accepted the Mandate Temple's payment, released Azure Blade and Su Lan, and killed them with sword strikes as they flew away.
• Zhi Ming attacked Qin Guan, but Qin Guan shattered his palm strike and prompted Zhi Ming to recognize him as the mysterious Black Robe.
• Qingran and the Confucian scholars trapped Qin Guan in a Righteousness Heavenly Array, but Qin Guan summoned Crab Boss to help him.
• Crab Boss fought through the Confucian scholars' righteous qi, struck Zhi Ming with a fireball, and forced him back while Qin Guan cheered.

Qin Guan and Crab Boss fought the Confucian Sect’s prison formation and Divine Hall’s Zhi Ming, and Qin Guan found and attacked the formation’s core, Qingran. The formation began to collapse, but Zhi Ming intervened before Qin Guan could finish Qingran.

• Crab Boss charged Zhi Ming and battered the prison formation, but Qingran and the twenty-nine other great Confucian scholars restored it and struck Crab Boss with Vast Righteous Qi.
• Qingran and Zhi Ming threatened Qin Guan and Crab Boss while the Confucian scholars tightened the prison cage around them.
• Qin Guan studied the formation, identified Qingran as its core, and told Crab Boss to distract the formation’s supporters while he attacked.
• Crab Boss disrupted the formation, and Qin Guan pierced its barriers to stab Qingran between the brows with Zhan Chi.
• Qingran used his natal character to resist Qin Guan’s sword, while Crab Boss disrupted Zhi Ming’s attack and Zhi Ming countered with a sword strike, allowing Qingran to retreat wounded.

Qin Guan and Crab Boss fought off the Confucian Sect and Zhi Ming while the Mandate Temple elders attacked the Zhao Family formation. The battle left the temple’s elders dead, and Zhi Ming resumed his desperate clash with Crab Boss.

• Crab Boss smashed the cage formation, allowing Qin Guan to kill three wounded great Confucian scholars as the others retreated to Qingran.
• Crab Boss charged Zhi Ming while Qin Guan faced Qingran and the remaining twenty-six great Confucian scholars.
• Qingran and the scholars formed a river of vast righteousness and attacked Qin Guan with their natal characters, while Crab Boss and Zhi Ming fought fiercely.
• Elder Zhang and more than twenty Mandate Temple elders attacked the Zhao Family formation, but its blood-colored Sword Qi killed the attacking elders.
• Zhi Ming learned that the Mandate Temple elders had died and spat blood, then Crab Boss charged him again as he unleashed the Destiny Great Dao.

Crab Boss fought Zhi Ming to avenge its crab sister, but Qin Guan had to rescue it from the Mandate Heaven-Suppressing Seal. Qin Guan then broke through the Confucian Sect’s weakened formation and slaughtered its scholars, leaving the battle raging beneath a sky stained with blood.

• Zhi Ming summoned a giant divine idol and used the Mandate Heaven-Suppressing Seal to crush Crab Boss, which refused to retreat and fought back to avenge its crab sister.
• Crab Boss endured Zhi Ming’s strike until Qin Guan’s scarlet Sword Qi disrupted the attack and freed it.
• Zhi Ming and Qingran traded insults before Zhi Ming resumed attacking Crab Boss and Qingran ordered the Confucian scholars to hold their formation.
• After half an hour, Qin Guan broke through the Confucian Sect’s weakened offensive and killed five scholars with a sweeping sword strike.
• Qin Guan shattered the remaining scholars’ righteous-qi shield with God Evasion and killed twelve more as they failed to resist or flee.

Qin Guan drove off Zhi Ming and the surviving Confucian scholars after a devastating battle, though he was injured and Crab Boss’s origin was badly damaged. The Zhao Family celebrated his victory, while Zhi Ming urged Qingran to regroup and pursue Qin Guan for the Qi Yuan Civilization inheritance.

• Crab Boss escaped into Qin Guan’s brow, and Qin Guan wounded Zhi Ming with a storm of Sword Qi as Qingran fled.
• Zhi Ming escaped with Qingran and Elder Zhang; Qin Guan admitted he could not pursue them and offered Primordial Soul Stones for female crab demons to repay Crab Boss.
• Pei Qin regretted the Divine Sword Sect’s rejection of Qin Guan’s offer but refused to seek a second chance, saying their paths had diverged.
• Qin Guan went to the Zhao Family’s Back Mountain to recover, while the Second Elder warned that the Confucian Sect and Mandate Temple still retained powerful forces.
• Zhi Ming urged Qingran to notify the Confucian Sect’s upper ranks and regroup, but Qingran blamed the Mandate Temple for drawing his sect into the disastrous battle.

After the Confucian Sect’s defeat, Qingran and Zhi Ming summoned reinforcements while keeping the Qi Yuan Civilization Legacy secret from the Heaven's Will Merchant Association. In the Little Black Tower, Qin Guan stopped Xiao Guo and the others from eating the badly injured Crab Boss, only to learn they wanted to refine him into a stronger body.

• Qingran sent messages to the Confucian Sect’s core sacred lands, asking veteran scholars to help defeat Qin Guan.
• Qingran and Zhi Ming agreed to involve the Heaven's Will Merchant Association but conceal the Qi Yuan Civilization Legacy from it.
• Zhi Ming vowed that they would regroup and make Qin Guan pay for their defeat.
• In the Spirit Garden, Little Fire, Xiao Guo, and Xiao Li mistook Crab Boss’s severe injuries for a chance to boil and eat him.
• Qin Guan stopped the three Little Fellows, and they explained that Xiao Guo had refined Crab Boss before to give him a stronger body.
• Crab Boss pleaded with Xiao Guo to spare him another painful refinement.

Xiao Guo refined Crab Boss in its cauldron while Qin Guan and his friends ate the crab meat, believing Crab Boss had died. The chapter ended when a brand-new Crab Boss crawled out of Xiao Guo’s belly.

• Xiao Guo put Crab Boss into its cauldron and used Little Fire and Xiao Li’s flames to refine it, while Qin Guan watched from a safe distance.
• After three hours, Xiao Guo opened the cauldron, and the group ate the cooked Crab Boss’s nourishing meat while the reborn Crab Boss remained inside to be nurtured.
• Zhao Jianfeng, Mu Lingze, and Liu Shang arrived, mistook the crab corpse for Crab Boss’s death, and joined the feast.
• As everyone ate, a brand-new Crab Boss crawled out of Xiao Guo’s belly.

Xiao Guo revived Crab Boss, and Qin Guan and the others feasted on the old crab’s meat and essence. After absorbing the nourishment, Qin Guan broke through to the Limitless Realm, leaving Zhao Jianfeng stunned by his dual cultivation.

• Xiao Guo revived Crab Boss from his belly, astonishing Qin Guan, Mu Lingze, Liu Shang, and Zhao Jianfeng.
• Mu Lingze realized that Qin Guan had inherited the Qi Yuan Civilization, while Xiao Guo ate Crab Boss’s claw meat.
• Qin Guan opened Crab Boss’s shell, revealing precious crab roe essence, and he and the Little Fellows devoured it.
• Qin Guan absorbed the crab meat and roe, then began breaking through as his Ten Battle Gates opened.
• After three hours, Qin Guan reached the Limitless Realm, and Zhao Jianfeng marveled that he cultivated both sword and martial arts.