Recaps

After the Shura Path District was eliminated, Zhao State’s players celebrated the tournament’s winner-takes-all rewards while Zhang Shendao explained the challenges of advancing through the martial ranks. Yang Ling described his immense health and how Fifth Rank cultivation changed a person, before the finals began against the Abyssal Beast Cavern District.

• Zhao State’s players celebrated the prospect of winning rewards for their district, and Zhang Shendao discussed how the bonuses could strengthen its players.
• Zhang Shendao explained that reaching Fifth Rank and breaking through to Fourth Rank required surviving deadly trials and overcoming difficult obstacles.
• Yang Ling told the players that he had over fifteen thousand health-bar segments and explained that advanced players were no longer entirely ordinary humans.
• Zhang Wei considered his chances of reaching the tournament’s top ten and earning a large attribute reward.
• The tournament announced the final match: Zhao State District versus Abyssal Beast Cavern District.

Yang Ling and the Zhao State players learned that the Abyssal Beast Cavern was likely a hidden starting district as arenas for the eliminated districts appeared to watch the final. The Northern Yuan Demon Cavern’s few, frightened survivors asked the other players for help, but no one knew where their district was.

• Yang Ling suggested that the Abyssal Beast Cavern was a hidden starting location with very few players.
• The Rong Tribe and Great Dream Dynasty arenas descended, and Yang Ling spotted Zhang Shuzhou, Ji Nian, and a powerful group of possible mercenaries among the Rong Tribe players.
• Arenas for the eliminated districts appeared one after another, bringing the total number of districts to twenty-seven.
• The Zhao State players noticed that the Northern Yuan Demon Cavern had only a few hundred spectators and that its strongest player was just level 38.
• A Star Sea Fishing Alliance player explained that Demon Sects preyed on the Northern Yuan Demon Cavern’s people, and its Rank One pleaded for powerful players to save them.

Yang Ling learned that Pan Yuan and the players of the Northern Yuan Demon Cavern were trapped in a brutal district where demonic sects captured and refined players into pills. Wu Duo of the well-equipped Abyssal Beast Cavern then demanded control of Yang Ling’s Grandmaster Project, insisting he deserved to lead it.

• Players from the various districts admitted they had never heard of the Northern Yuan Demon Cavern, and Pan Yuan accepted Yang Ling’s friend request so he could explain its situation.
• Pan Yuan told Yang Ling that the Mystic Extreme Demon Sect had captured him and that nearly a thousand players had been taken away for pill refining; he begged the others to rescue the Northern Yuan Demon Cavern’s players.
• A platform carrying the Abyssal Beast Cavern’s players arrived, and Bi Xuan noticed that many of their top fighters were fifth-rank martial artists while even their spectators were strong.
• Wu Duo introduced himself as the Abyssal Beast Cavern’s Rank One, acknowledged Yang Ling’s reputation, and proposed that Yang Ling hand him control of the Grandmaster Project.
• Wu Duo declared that he deserved to lead the Grandmaster Project because he was half a step from the fourth rank, while Bi Xuan wondered how he would react after seeing Yang Ling’s health bar.

Wu Duo tried to take over the Grandmaster Project and persuaded Yang Ling to choose the Rank One showdown for Zhao State. The match began with both players’ health bars revealing a startling discrepancy, and Yang Ling accused Wu Duo of cheating.

• Wu Duo explained the Grandmaster Project and promised to share information from the Grandmaster Network with players who joined him.
• Rank one players from several districts challenged Wu Duo to explain the project, and he described his plan to unite players and coordinate their future advancement.
• Yang Ling sent Wu Duo a friend request as the district championship offered Zhao State the choice of a Rank One showdown with rewards for every player in the district.
• Yang Ling selected the Rank One showdown, leaving only himself and Wu Duo in the arena.
• Wu Duo’s displayed health bar suggested he had at least 100,000 health points despite his attribute panel showing just over 6,000, and Yang Ling asked whether he was cheating.

Wu Duo accused Yang Ling of cheating because of his enormous health bar, but Yang Ling quickly reduced Wu Duo to one health point twice and revealed himself to be a fourth-rank grandmaster. Wu Duo then explained that an Exclusive Instance had given him access to rare spiritual materials, shocking players across the districts.

• Wu Duo accused Yang Ling of cheating, and players from the other districts scrutinized Yang Ling’s health bar.
• A door-slab man from the Rong Tribe District concluded that Yang Ling and Wu Duo were exploiting loopholes and planned to ask Yang Ling about Luo Yu after the match.
• Wu Duo admitted that a skill let him conceal his health points and tried to bargain with Yang Ling for information.
• Yang Ling tapped Wu Duo twice, reducing his health to one point each time, and Wu Duo realized he was outmatched.
• Wu Duo asked if Yang Ling was fourth rank, and Yang Ling confirmed he was; Wu Duo then revealed that a Golden Treasure Chest had granted him an Exclusive Instance full of rare spiritual materials.

Yang Ling won the Rank One blood battle, and Zhao State became the Martial Way Tournament champion arena holder. The tournament revealed Yang Ling’s Attribute Panel to every district, leaving the players stunned and Wu Duo pledging the Abyssal Beast Cavern to the Grandmaster Project.

• Wu Duo explained his hundred thousand health points and surrendered, giving Yang Ling the Rank One blood battle victory and making Zhao State the champion arena holder.
• The tournament announced that Zhao State’s top thousand would be ranked by numerical values, and Wu Duo congratulated Yang Ling on his expected first place.
• A door-shaped man from the Rong Tribe asked Yang Ling about Luo Yu, drawing startled reactions from Chen Xu and Zhang Wei.
• The tournament publicly displayed Yang Ling’s Attribute Panel despite his refusal, revealing his enormous attributes, health points, qi and blood, and many high-level martial arts.
• Players from every district counted Yang Ling’s statistics in disbelief, while Wu Duo saluted him and offered every Abyssal Beast Cavern player to the Grandmaster Project.

Yang Ling explained the Grandmaster Project and warned players about the dangers awaiting them in the Grandmaster Network. He set the Project’s overarching direction as limited cooperation with other games while preventing the Divine Domain’s resources from being stripped away.

• Yang Ling disrupted the players’ efforts to memorize his attributes, then told the door-plank man that Luo Yu was dead.
• Bi Xuan asked whether the Shura Path players could join the Grandmaster Project, and Yang Ling said players from every Divine Domain region could join voluntarily to share information and trade.
• Yang Ling explained that joining meant following the Project’s overarching direction, though members could handle smaller matters themselves.
• Yang Ling revealed that fourth-rank grandmasters could enter the Grandmaster Network, which contained hundreds of games competing against one another and risked losing its players’ rewards and attribute panels if shut down.
• Yang Ling warned that powerful factions would pressure Divine Domain players to trade away its nonrenewable resources and declared that the Grandmaster Project would allow cooperation but forbid selling those resources on a massive scale.

Yang Ling explained the dangers, costs, and opportunities of entering the Grandmaster Network, and promised support and retaliation to protect Divine Domain players. After the regional Top 100 added him as a friend, nine shadowy figures appeared in the sky, and Zhang Wei wondered whether he was among them.

• Bi Xuan asked how Divine Domain players could stay safe in the Grandmaster Network, and Yang Ling explained that they needed reliable teams and would face a dangerous monthly Forced Mission.
• Yang Ling described how he had resisted corporate pressure, identified the Summit Conference and Pangu Gene as threats, and demanded that Divine Domain remain neutral.
• Yang Ling promised to kill ten Second Rank Human Immortals for every Divine Domain Grandmaster lost and offered newly advanced Fourth-Rank players funds and help entering the network.
• Yang Ling explained the Grandmaster Network's Trade Points, entry fees, and trading opportunities, then told the Top 100 players from each region to add him as a friend.
• Nine indistinct figures appeared in the sky, and Zhang Wei wondered whether he was among them.

The Zhao State Combat Power Rankings revealed Zhang Shendao in second place and Lin Caiyi in third, with Zhang Wei’s unexpectedly high mental power earning him eighth. The chapter left other players eyeing the eunuch class as Yang Ling realized Zhang Wei had concealed how he became a Duke Eunuch.

• The Zhao State players learned the rankings included players in the stands, and Zhang Shendao received second place and 900 free attribute points.
• Lin Caiyi placed third, Jiang Tian'ai fourth, Qin Mo fifth, and the remaining Zhao State players filled out the top ten.
• Fang Yun noticed Zhang Wei’s exceptional 300 mental power and numerous martial arts, while Chen Xu questioned how he had developed them.
• Zhang Wei said his promotion in the Directorate of Ceremonial and the Taiyin Heart Method had raised his mental power, and that his godfather gave him his martial arts.
• Yang Ling saw that Zhang Wei’s class was Duke Eunuch and realized Zhang Wei had not told the others the full truth about his advancement.

After the Combat Power Rankings were finalized, Zhao State’s players received their Free Attribute Point rewards, and Yang Ling warned them about the dangers of advancing through the Two Life-and-Death Tribulations. The highest-ranked players received enormous rewards, and Yang Ling offered to request materials to help them face the Death Tribulation.

• Yang Ling told Zhang Wei that the Lampbearer token had raised his class and advised him to obtain Snow Spirit Marrow before attempting the Two Life-and-Death Tribulations.
• The tournament revealed the top 1,000 rankings, and Zhao State players celebrated as they received their rewards.
• Fang Yun and Qi Kai assessed their gains, while Yang Ling warned Qi Kai that reaching 150 in either strength or agility would trigger the Life Tribulation and that the Death Tribulation required outside help.
• Chen Xu raised his strength and agility to 149 after receiving 200 Free Attribute Points, and Zhang Wei, Li Shou, Wu Xiaochen, and Qin Mo received increasingly large rewards.
• Jiang Tian'ai, Lin Caiyi, and Zhang Shendao received 700, 800, and 900 Free Attribute Points respectively, and Yang Ling offered to request materials from the higher-ups for players preparing to face the Death Tribulation.

After winning the Martial Way Tournament, Yang Ling received the Divine Domain’s unique Ancient God Qualification reward, which began increasing his health points and qi and blood. The Diamond White Bone Buddha’s genes then resisted the golden reward, but the golden light overwhelmed Yang Ling again and continued pouring into him.

• Yang Ling promised Jiang Tian'ai, Lin Caiyi, and the others that he would request Death Tribulation materials from Zhao State’s higher-ups.
• The players waited anxiously for Yang Ling’s mysterious first-place reward, while Chen Xu speculated that the Divine Domain needed time to prepare something extraordinary.
• The Divine Domain announced that Yang Ling had received the Ancient God Qualification, a reward that would never be issued again.
• A golden pillar engulfed Yang Ling, and he felt his health points and qi and blood rise rapidly.
• The Diamond White Bone Buddha’s genes emitted white light and pushed back the golden reward, causing Yang Ling’s gains to stall.
• The golden pillar turned violent, overwhelmed the white light, and engulfed Yang Ling again.

Yang Ling obtained the Diamond White Bone Buddha's Ancient God Qualification, which dramatically increased his Health Points and qi and blood, but the qualification consumed the Divine Domain's unique reward. After the Divine Domain promised compensation, a Diamond Treasure Chest descended above the arena.

• Yang Ling's Diamond White Bone Buddha genes devoured the Ancient God Qualification, leaving him with the qualification and a major increase in Health Points and qi and blood.
• Yang Ling's Health Points and qi and blood increased again, while players from every region noticed his growing aura.
• Lightning struck Yang Ling ten times and dealt 1,000,000 damage, revealing that his Health Points had risen to 3,016,000.
• The Divine Domain announced that it would compensate Yang Ling because the Ancient God Qualification had failed to be issued, and it announced that Divine Domain 4.0 was coming soon.
• Yang Ling reassured the Jinx player and told him to send blessings to Luo Kai as a glittering Diamond Treasure Chest descended above the arena.

Yang Ling opened a Diamond Treasure Chest and received an Ancient God Glove that greatly increased his attributes and marked his skills with permanent damage against Blasphemers. After equipping it, he considered finding the rest of the Ancient God set and asked Pan Yuan about his monthly instance after the Divine Domain 3.0 update.

• Yang Ling opened the Diamond Treasure Chest while players from the twenty-eight regions watched.
• Yang Ling discovered that the Ancient God Glove increased three attributes by 10,000 points and gave his skills an ancient god mark that reduced Blasphemers' maximum Health Points.
• Yang Ling unequipped the Thunder God Battle Armor and equipped the Ancient God Glove, suppressing the Diamond White Bone Buddha's gene slightly.
• Yang Ling suspected the glove was part of an Ancient God set and considered seeking other pieces from top corporations.
• After the Martial Way Tournament concluded, Yang Ling asked Pan Yuan what instance he would enter after the Divine Domain 3.0 update.

After the Martial Way Tournament, Yang Ling learned that players from every district would enter the same advanced Tun Tian Dao Palace instance, though each would appear in their own district’s map and timeline. As the instance opened, he used God Descent to contact Pan Yuan and prepared to act on the quests facing Zhao State players.

• Players from different districts discovered that their monthly instance had become the advanced Tun Tian Dao Palace, and Yang Ling explained that they would enter separate district maps with an earlier timeline.
• Yang Ling told Pan Yuan to search the Northern Yuan Demon Cavern for a way out, giving its players hope that they could use the recurring instance to escape.
• The Martial Way Tournament ended, and Yang Ling returned to the Iron Clothes Department without time having passed outside the tournament.
• Yang Ling found that Li Fengxian’s account was unavailable, then messaged Luo Kai and sent him a friend request, but received no response.
• The advanced Tun Tian Dao Palace instance announced its level 30 entry requirement and long-term quests for Zhao State players to become a Tun Tian Dao Palace disciple and a Ninth-Rank Iron Clothes.
• Yang Ling opened the Divine Realm Chat Channel, found Pan Yuan, and activated God Descent before the instance opened.

Yang Ling used his spirit form to free Pan Yuan and the other captured players from the Mystic Extreme Demon Sect, where people were being used as pill ingredients. After the players slaughtered the sect’s martial artists and gained enough levels to enter the advanced Tun Tian Dao Palace instance, they resolved to grow strong enough to survive the Northern Yuan Demon Cavern.

• Yang Ling discovered Pan Yuan and thirteen other players trapped in a cage inside the Mystic Extreme Demon Sect’s alchemy room.
• Yang Ling restrained Alchemist Xu, freed the captives, and gave the players weapons while warning that he had not found the Northern Yuan Demon Cavern.
• Yang Ling used an invisible force to drag the sect’s martial artists, including its Seventh Rank sect master, into the alchemy room.
• Pan Yuan and the other players killed the Mystic Extreme Demon Sect’s martial artists and gained enough levels to meet the instance requirement.
• Pan Yuan urged the players to become stronger in the advanced Tun Tian Dao Palace instance, and the eligible players vanished when the five minutes passed.

Yang Ling gathered Zhao State players in the advanced Tun Tian Dao Palace instance by offering to register them in the Iron Clothes Department for 50 free attributes, while preparing to receive envoys from the Great Dream Dynasty. He recruited Lu Xiangdi and the other players into the department, and Lu Xiangdi received the promised reward as the group watched.

• Yang Ling told Zhao State players across the instance to head to Rong State’s capital and promised 50 free attributes to those who enrolled in the Iron Clothes Department.
• Yang Ling explained that Zhao State and Rong Tribe players shared the same map because Zhao State had not yet emerged, then advised Zhang Shuzhou and Ji Nian to travel to the capital and bring any mercenaries they found.
• Yang Ling instructed Chu Pinglan to register Lu Xiangdi and the other arriving players as new Iron Clothes, claiming their background checks were already complete.
• Chu Pinglan registered Lu Xiangdi as a ninth-rank Iron Clothes, and Lu Xiangdi announced that he had received 50 free attributes and expected to reach sixth rank.

After registering hundreds of players as Ninth-Rank Iron Clothes, Yang Ling planned to recruit tens of thousands and take the Zhao State players to Tun Tian Dao Palace for more rewards. He then brought Chu Pinglan to the docks to receive the approaching Great Dream Dynasty envoy, where he demanded to know why the Minister of Rites was absent.

• Lu Xiangdi, Yang Yi, and the other players received 50 free attribute points upon joining the Iron Clothes Department and rapidly raised their cultivation.
• Yang Ling told Chu Pinglan to register the hundreds of players, saying he intended to recruit tens of thousands of Iron Clothes for Rong State.
• The Capital players gathered in the department courtyard, where Yang Ling assessed their boosted attributes and noted that most had reached Seventh-Rank strength or higher.
• Yang Ling told Lu Xiangdi and the others to wait while he received the Great Dream Dynasty envoy, then promised to take them to Tun Tian Dao Palace for more rewards.
• Yang Ling swiftly took Chu Pinglan to the sealed docks, where officials awaited the approaching fleet and the Grand Ancestor appeared aboard its leading ship.
• Yang Ling questioned a Ministry of Rites bureau director about the missing minister and ordered him to go get the minister.

Yang Ling received the Great Dream Dynasty’s Eighth Prince and was ordered to safeguard five hundred chests of treasures for a treasure contest. Suspecting that he was being set up as a scapegoat, Yang Ling demanded to inspect and register the contents, then challenged the prince’s arrogance.

• Yang Ling learned that the arriving envoy was supposedly only a Fifth-Rank Official, then saw the Grand Ancestor of the Cicada-Holding Directorate arrive with a young man and his entourage.
• The young man revealed himself as the Eighth Prince and complained that Rong State had sent low-ranking officials to receive him.
• The Eighth Prince announced a treasure contest between the dynasties and had five hundred chests of rare herbs and pills unloaded at the dock.
• The Grand Ancestor persuaded the Eighth Prince to store the chests at the Iron Clothes Department, and Yang Ling suspected the officials were trying to frame him if the treasures disappeared.
• Yang Ling demanded to inspect and register every item before accepting the chests, then told the Eighth Prince to drop his airs and remember that he was in Rong State.

Yang Ling discovered the value of the Great Dream Dynasty’s pills after the eighth prince displayed them at the dock. He apologized and followed the prince to inspect the remaining treasures, finding pills that could boost Players’ attributes without a consumption limit.

• Yang Ling insulted the eighth prince and told the Great Dream Dynasty delegation to leave, but the Grand Ancestor stayed and proposed showing off the dynasty’s treasures.
• The eighth prince revealed that the delegation had brought nine hundred thousand Snake Gall Peiyuan Pills, and Yang Ling discovered that Players were exempt from their immobilizing side effect.
• Yang Ling calculated how the pills could help him advance his cultivation methods and max out his agility, then apologized and agreed to inspect the rest of the treasures.
• The eighth prince showed Yang Ling Black Tortoise Longevity Blood Pills, Black Tiger Spirit Nurturing Pills, and Azure Dragon Bone Structure Pills.
• Yang Ling learned that Azure Dragon Bone Structure Pills granted strength and agility points and had no consumption limit for Players.

Yang Ling examined the Great Dream Dynasty’s shipment of rare medicines and escorted all five hundred chests to the Iron Clothes Department’s warehouse. After the Eighth Prince left to tour the capital, Chu Pinglan told Yang Ling that Zhao Heavenly King had been waiting for him for hours.

• The Eighth Prince showed Yang Ling and the officials the shipment’s pills, rare herbs, and one hundred Flesh-and-Blood Ginseng Fruits, which Yang Ling recognized.
• Chu Pinglan gave Yang Ling the inventory, and Yang Ling handed it to the Eighth Prince, who refused to inspect it and warned that the Rong State must not tamper with the goods.
• Yang Ling secretly considered storing the shipment in his Heaven-Imprisoning Ring, then led his men in escorting it to the Iron Clothes Department.
• The Iron Clothes Department inspected and registered all five hundred chests before sealing them in the warehouse, and the Eighth Prince declared the department responsible for any later problems.
• Yang Ling assigned Wei Shenwu and Han Xiaoyao to accompany the Eighth Prince, then learned from Chu Pinglan that Zhao Heavenly King had been waiting for him for several hours.

Zhao De explained that the Great Dream Dynasty planned to use a treasure contest as a pretext to seize its shipment, and he tasked Yang Ling with protecting the crates. Yang Ling sealed the warehouse with the Qilin Water-Trapping Banner, moved all 500 crates into his Heaven-Imprisoning Ring, and entered the Xuanhuang Cave Abode to cultivate.

• Zhao De told Yang Ling that the Heavenly Will Sect and the Nine Immortal Talisman Sect planned to help steal the Great Dream Dynasty’s treasures before the contest ended.
• Zhao De gave Yang Ling the Qilin Water-Trapping Banner and ordered him to guard the warehouse, warning him not to take any treasures.
• Yang Ling activated the banner, which encased the warehouse in ice and was set to last 100 days without interference.
• Yang Ling used the Heaven-Imprisoning Ring to store all 500 crates, then opened the Xuanhuang Gate.
• Yang Ling entered the Xuanhuang Cave Abode to spend 14 days cultivating and consuming pills.

Yang Ling used Black Tortoise Longevity Blood Pills to advance the Divine Ape Visualization and discovered its new Divine Ape Qi ability. After testing its spirit-body transformation and size limits, he prepared to improve the Purple Mansion Divine Dao Scripture.

• Yang Ling found he could not conceal the Xuanhuang Gate and decided to rely on the Qilin Water-Trapping Flag and the cave abode for protection.
• Yang Ling learned from Qin Mo that the Martial Way Tournament winning-streak rewards had not yet been distributed.
• Yang Ling consumed Black Tortoise Longevity Blood Pills and advanced the Divine Ape Visualization to Return to Simplicity.
• Yang Ling activated Divine Ape Qi, transforming into a spirit body that retained his physical strength and agility while consuming qi and blood.
• Yang Ling tested Divine Ape Qi’s size limits, then prepared to consume Snake Gall Peiyuan Pills to improve the Purple Mansion Divine Dao Scripture.

Yang Ling perfected the Purple Mansion Divine Dao Scripture, raised his attributes, and advanced Lingxu Step to return to simplicity, gaining the movement skill Shrinking the Land to an Inch. As he prepared to continue cultivating, someone appeared outside the Xuanhuang Gate, suggesting the Qilin Water-Trapping Banner had been breached.

• Yang Ling perfected the Purple Mansion Divine Dao Scripture, gaining 4,000 mental power and 500 free attribute points.
• Yang Ling activated his internal energy techniques and the Ancient God Glove, boosting his attributes to near 40,000 strength and nearly 30,000 mental power.
• Yang Ling chose Lingxu Step for improvement and refined 2,000 Black Tiger Spirit Nurturing Pills.
• Lingxu Step reached return to simplicity, permanently increasing Yang Ling's agility and evolving Near at Hand, Yet Worlds Apart into Shrinking the Land to an Inch.
• Yang Ling tested the new movement skill, traveling more than ten li with a light step.
• A stranger appeared outside the Xuanhuang Gate and questioned Yang Ling about moving five hundred chests of treasure into the place.

Yang Ling was trapped inside the Xuanhuang Cave Abode with a Land Immortal from the Heavenly Will Sect, who demanded the treasures in the Iron Clothes Department’s warehouse. He maxed out his agility by eating Azure Dragon Bone Structure Pills, but when the woman camped outside the gate, he activated White Bone Origin Spirit.

• Yang Ling discovered that an ordinary-looking woman had appeared inside the protected warehouse, and she revealed that she was Yun Tianqing’s former teacher and a Land Immortal from the Heavenly Will Sect.
• The woman demanded that Yang Ling open the Xuanhuang Gate, but he refused and swallowed an Azure Dragon Bone Structure Pill to strengthen himself.
• Yang Ling ate 1,745 Azure Dragon Bone Structure Pills, maxing out his agility at 23,999 while the woman repeatedly failed to break through the gate.
• The woman offered to split the pills with Yang Ling, then realized he had emptied most of the stored treasures and decided to wait outside until he emerged.
• Yang Ling considered using Rebirth but worried that he might lose access to the Xuanhuang Cave Abode, so he activated White Bone Origin Spirit.

Yang Ling tried to bluff a woman who had trapped him in the Xuanhuang Cave Abode, but his attempts to summon help failed. He swallowed the Xuanhuang Jade Token and sent Lu Xiangdi a message, prompting Lu to seek help from Chu Pinglan and the Imperial College Libationer.

• Yang Ling summoned the White Bone Loose Immortal, but she remained silent and dissipated, while the woman saw through his bluff and waited for him to emerge.
• Yang Ling considered his escape skills and defenses, then tried God Descent through Lu Xiangdi, but the attempt failed and cost him qi and blood.
• Yang Ling swallowed the Xuanhuang Jade Token to keep it from the woman, who asked whether he had been eating again.
• Yang Ling messaged Lu Xiangdi, who told Chu Pinglan that a Heavenly Will Sect immortal had seized the Great Dream Dynasty's stored spiritual materials and the Department Master needed help.
• Chu Pinglan took Lu Xiangdi to report the matter to the Imperial College Libationer, while Lu sent Yang Ling an update.