Recaps

Shi Lan learned that the system could send her three years into the past, though her current strength could not withstand the dangers of time travel. As Immortal Martial City prepared for a demon siege, the Saint Venerable ordered the attack to begin the next day, driven by a personal grudge and his race’s promise to protect the Spirit-Pole Cat Race.

• Shi Lan asked the system and Samsara about reversing time and learned that space-time travel could kill her at her current cultivation level.
• Shi Lan emerged from the secret chamber and spoke with Shi Tianlu and Su Lanyue as the Immortal Martial Yin-Yang Grand Formation lit up Immortal Martial City.
• Hu Nianchu reported that the city held at least twenty Heavenly Human Realm experts, more than a hundred Primordial Spirit Realm experts, and four to five million Demon-Suppressing Army troops.
• Blue Butterfly told the Saint Venerable that forty-eight million demon warriors were ready, with another fifty-four million in reserve, and he ordered the siege to begin the next day.
• The Saint Venerable revealed that he had at most three months to live, explained his personal grudge and promise to protect the Spirit-Pole Cat Race, then watched Blue Butterfly leave and wondered whether fighting and scheming had any point.

The Demon-Suppressing Marshals prepared Immortal Martial City for a massive Demon Race assault while Yan Mobei made clear he would flee if the city fell. General Yun Chen finally answered their summons with news of the Outer Starry Sky war, then sensed a Demon Emperor among the beasts outside the city.

• Yue Xiuwen and the other experts discussed the approaching Demon Race attack and the need to organize the city's forces.
• Yan Mobei told Yue Xiuwen he would leave if Immortal Martial City became hopeless, and Yue Xiuwen accepted his decision.
• The eight Demon-Suppressing Marshals opened a passage with their command tokens and waited nearly three hours for a response.
• General Yun Chen appeared and said the Outer Starry Sky battle would end within half a year to a year, reporting heavy losses among the human, Demon, and Devil races.
• Yun Chen sensed a Demon Emperor in the beast tide outside Immortal Martial City.

As war approached Immortal Martial City, Shi Lan equipped herself and joined the mobilized troops, while the Demon-Suppressing Command prepared to hold out until reinforcements arrived. Bai Weiyang assigned Shi Lan command of thirteen thousand soldiers and sent her toward the city wall as the demons began roaring outside.

• Yun Chen told the Demon-Suppressing Commanders that the Demon Emperor outside the city was near death and urged them to hold the line until the Imperial Lord returned.
• Shi Lan put on her protective gear and left Shi Mansion with Shi Tianlu and the young Shi Qinghu, who had been ordered to join the city's defense.
• Shi Lan reported to Bai Weiyang's camp, where the reorganized army gathered and Bai Weiyang assigned her thirteen thousand troops.
• Bai Weiyang ordered Shi Lan to take her troops to the city wall, and she heard demon roars as the Demon-Suppressing Command issued a severe warning.

Shi Lan and the commanders witnessed the Immortal Martial Yin-Yang Grand Formation annihilate a massive beast attack, but learned that its enormous cost meant it could not remain active for long. Outside the city, Lan Die'er’s group discussed finding their target and waiting for the formation to fail.

• Shi Lan and her commanders reached Immortal Martial City’s western wall and saw the beast tide surrounding the city beyond the formation’s ten-li perimeter.
• The formation crushed nearly ten thousand demonic birds and almost a hundred thousand beasts, including a Demon King, then drew cheers from the city walls.
• The demon-slaying commanders warned that the formation’s killing array consumed spirit crystals too quickly and that even the city’s combined reserves would last only about a month.
• Shi Lan settled her troops and received weapons and supplies, realizing that they would soon have to fight the beasts at close range.
• Lan Die'er asked the old man whether he had found his target and could break the formation; he said he could not break it directly, but it would not remain active forever.

Shi Lan led the defense of Immortal Martial City as its array shut down and a beast horde advanced. Her arrows nearly wiped out the attackers, but after hidden experts killed the transformed demon kings who reached the wall, Shi Lan sensed an unseen threat.

• Lan Die'er followed the old man's order to send transformed demon kings and more than seven hundred thousand beasts to harass Immortal Martial City.
• Shi Lan took position on the city wall with Qu Linghuan and prepared her troops to meet the approaching beast tide.
• When the beasts came within three li, Shi Lan and the defenders fired two volleys, and Shi Lan's Shattering Void Arrows killed thousands of beasts.
• The surviving beasts retreated, but several transformed demon kings crossed space onto the wall and were killed by Sword Qi from a hidden Heavenly Man powerhouse.
• Shi Lan suppressed her unease, used her Black Domain to absorb nearby blood qi, and remained unable to locate the watching presence.

Shi Lan absorbed a Demon King's blood essence, broke through two death acupoints, and gained the Moon-Howling Silver Wolf clan's Moon Howl divine ability. As a vast beast horde approached again, a Heavenly Demon attacked the city wall with law-infused flames.

• Shi Lan secretly drained a slain Demon King's blood essence, causing her blood and qi to surge and draw attention from nearby warriors.
• Qu Linghuan praised Shi Lan's prospects and discussed Ling Yang's talent and short-lived fate with the other young men.
• Shi Lan opened two death acupoints and acquired the Moon Howl divine ability from the Demon King's bloodline.
• Shi Lan checked her system panel, confirmed Moon Howl had been added, and stopped absorbing as the beast horde approached.
• A Heavenly Demon struck the city wall with law-infused flames, killing or injuring thousands and vaporizing even Heavenly Dipper Realm warriors.

Yan Mobei drove the woman in red from Immortal Martial City, while the defenders feared the hidden Demon Emperor and watched the beast tide get destroyed. After Shi Lan snapped the gray sword she had been carrying, the Saint Venerable appeared before her and drew the city’s formation down on himself.

• The woman in red attacked Immortal Martial City with flames of law, and Yan Mobei struck her with the Divine Martial Heavenly Dipper Sword Qi, forcing her to retreat into the beast tide.
• Yan Mobei and the Demon-Slaying Commanders decided not to pursue her because they feared alerting the hidden Demon Emperor, whose threat left them searching for a way to defend the city.
• The million-strong beast tide charged the walls but was wiped out before reaching them, while Shi Lan saw the devastation and mourned the thousands killed by the flames of law.
• Shi Lan sat beside the damaged wall, took a gray long sword from her Universe Bracelet, and calmly snapped it in two.
• The Saint Venerable spotted Shi Lan and the broken sword, appeared on the city wall, and was attacked by the Immortal Martial Yin-Yang Formation as Shi Lan stared at him in confusion.

Immortal Martial City’s powerhouses trapped the old demon emperor in the Immortal Martial Yin-Yang Formation, but his imperial domain kept them at bay as he reached for Shi Lan. After Wu Xu’s avatar and Samsara’s desperate counterattack failed to stop him, the old man noticed Shi Lan’s shattered Azure Lotus Totem.

• More than thirty powerhouses activated the Immortal Martial Yin-Yang Formation to trap the old man, while Ji Yun spotted Shi Lan among the defenders.
• The old man burned his imperial Dao to restore his strength, and Wu Xu’s avatar wounded him before being swallowed by the old man’s starry-sky demon art.
• Samsara took control of Shi Lan, activated her treasures and Azure Lotus Totem, and raised her strength to the eighth level of the Heavenly Human Realm.
• The old man shattered the Heaven-Wasting Halberd and tore through Shi Lan’s defenses as the other powerhouses attacked him.
• The old man saw the shattered Azure Lotus Totem and reacted with shock.

Samsara exhausted its energy protecting Shi Lan and relived the life of its first host, the youth who named it and later gave it half his origin. As Samsara shut down, the Demon Emperor’s Primordial Spirit attacked Shi Lan’s mind.

• The old man used his Dao power to trap Shi Lan and Samsara, while Shi Lan burned her lifespan and Golden Rainbow was damaged trying to protect her.
• Samsara recalled its first host’s rise, betrayal, revenge, and decision to give Samsara half his origin when he sought to remake Heaven and Earth.
• Samsara depleted its energy, disabled its functions, and fell into slumber as Shi Lan regained control of her body.
• The old man’s body collapsed, revealing Wu Xu’s avatar, but the old man’s Primordial Spirit turned into a blade and plunged into Shi Lan’s mind.

Shi Lan remained unconscious for six months after the Demon Emperor’s Primordial Spirit attacked her, while the Demon Race continued its assault on Immortal Martial City. Wu Ya visited Shi Mansion and began chanting a Buddhist scripture to soothe her spirit and nourish her soul.

• The Demon Emperor’s Primordial Spirit invaded Shi Lan’s sea of consciousness, but an unseen figure struck through time and space and erased it.
• A blood rain fell over Immortal Martial City, revealing that an emperor had died, while the Demon Race continued attacking despite its loss.
• Wu Xu’s avatar guarded the unconscious Shi Lan for seven days before Yan Mobei transported her back to Shi Mansion.
• Shi Lan remained asleep for half a year as Shi Tianlu and others sought ways to heal her, and visitors came hoping to learn her secrets.
• Wu Ya arrived at Shi Mansion, offered a Buddhist scripture to help Shi Lan, and began chanting in the reception hall.

Shi Lan awakened after half a year unconscious, learned that her soul was injured and most of her lifespan was gone, and discovered that Samsara had fallen silent because the Heavens Reincarnation System lacked energy. After Wu Ya’s Buddhist chanting helped revive her, she faced a worsening war and a renewed crowd of visitors at Shi Mansion.

• Shi Lan woke with Golden Rainbow beside her, found that Samsara did not answer, and saw that the Heavens Reincarnation System had shut down ninety percent of its functions for lack of energy.
• Shi Lan used the essence of a Spirit Transformation Pill to ease her soul pain, then discovered that half her hair had turned white and she had lost nearly nine-tenths of her lifespan.
• Shi Lan reunited with Su Lanyue and thanked Wu Ya, who explained that he intended to wander in search of a Buddhist teaching that could save all living beings.
• Shi Tianlu checked that Shi Lan was safe before returning to the front line, where the Immortal Martial Yin-Yang Grand Formation remained badly damaged after six months of war.
• Visitors crowded Shi Mansion after news of Shi Lan’s awakening spread, but she turned most of them away while recovering from her injuries.

After recovering from her injuries, Shi Lan used a disguise and soul-cutting daggers to conceal her identity before returning to the war-torn Immortal Martial City. As her lifespan dwindled, she planned to obtain materials for the True Martial Indestructible Body through battle merits, while the Demon Suppression Commanders faced the prospect of their defenses failing.

• Shi Lan used two lottery draws to obtain God-Slaying Flying Daggers and the Myriad Transformations Sacred Garment (Imitation), then disguised herself as Wuxu and deterred those probing Shi Mansion with divine sense.
• A middle-aged man in black robes examined the disguised Shi Lan from the clouds above Shi Mansion and appeared satisfied with what he discovered.
• After recovering further, Shi Lan returned to the military camp and accepted Bai Weiyang's assignment of several thousand troops.
• Shi Lan told Qu Linghuan and other Aristocratic Clan scions what she knew about the battle, while their healing gifts did little to restore the lifespan she had lost.
• Shi Lan watched her battle merits rise and decided to use them to obtain materials for the first stage of the True Martial Indestructible Body.
• The six Demon Suppression Commanders discussed their mounting losses and wondered how much longer they could hold out as the Immortal Martial Yin-Yang Formation weakened.

Shi Lan received 130 million battle merit and a seven-colored essence from the Demon Suppression Marshals, who hoped she could summon the imperial weapon again, but she could not. In the Demon Domain, Cang Yue and the others worried over Shi Lan’s fading lotus totem, while Shi Lan used her battle merit to gather the materials for the first stage of the True Martial Indestructible Body.

• The Demon Suppression Marshals awarded Shi Lan 130 million battle merit for her role in the Demon Emperor’s death, and Yue Xiuwen gave her a seven-colored essence.
• A Demon Suppression Marshal asked Shi Lan whether she could summon the imperial weapon or its incarnation, but she said she could not, leaving the marshals disappointed.
• In the Demon Domain, Cang Yue told the others that Shi Lan had cut off their connection and that her lotus totem showed she was near death.
• Cang Yue worried that the Lan Clan would collapse without Shi Lan, while Tian Bai mourned as he watched the dim green lotus on the stele.
• Shi Lan spent her battle merit in Immortal Martial City to gather more than five thousand kinds of materials for the first stage of the True Martial Indestructible Body.

Shi Lan prepared for the coming battle and learned that Wu Lingkong had left Immortal Martial City with the Wu Household. As the beast tide launched a desperate assault, a Cloud-Winged Tiger appeared, and Yue Xiuwen vowed to wipe out its clan and bloodline.

• Shi Lan spent over 120 million battle merit points on spiritual items, then bought protective armor, halberds, and resources for her family.
• Shi Lan searched the women's camp for Wu Lingkong and learned from Lü Anqing that the Wu Household had taken her away with its other disciples.
• Blue Butterfly warned the Heavenly Demons that they had seven days to take Chengtian Domain and said she would personally try to break the Immortal Martial Yin-Yang Formation.
• Shi Lan returned to the city wall as the beast tide attacked recklessly, and she and Bai Weiyang's soldiers fought amid mounting casualties.
• A snow-white winged tiger appeared on the battlefield, and Yue Xiuwen vowed to exterminate its clan and bloodline.

Lan Die'er and the Heavenly Humans fought the Heavenly Demons and the beast horde as Immortal Martial City’s defenses faltered. The Winged Flying Tiger was slain, weakening the Cloudwing Tiger clan, while Shi Lan faced a wounded Demon King.

• Lan Die'er used a secret art to suppress her Dao wounds and joined the fight as the Heavenly Demons attacked the Immortal Martial Yin-Yang Formation.
• Yue Xiuwen killed a Heavenly Demon who shielded Lan Die'er, then joined the Demon-Suppression Commanders in attacking the Winged Flying Tiger.
• The beast horde overwhelmed the city’s defenses, and Shi Lan and Bai Weiyang fought the beasts and demons pouring onto the walls.
• A white-robed Demon King used spatial law to pin Shi Lan and clawed her cheek, but Shi Lan broke free of the restraint.
• The Winged Flying Tiger was slain, causing the white-robed Cloudwing Tiger Demon King to lose his bloodline power as Shi Lan raised her halberd against him.

Shi Lan defeated the white-robed demon king after he wounded her and drank her spiritual blood, but the battle devastated Immortal Martial City and killed many civilians. She returned to the city wall to find Bai Weiyang surrounded by powerful demons and struggling to survive.

• Shi Lan struck the wounded white-robed demon king with her halberd and sent him tumbling, but he recovered his strength and transformed into a tiger-like demon.
• The demon king broke through Shi Lan's halberd and bit into her waist, then dragged her down into Immortal Martial City, where their fall destroyed hundreds of buildings and killed civilians.
• Shi Lan stopped her bleeding, freed herself, and struck the demon king's head with Heavenly Extremity Seals before using her Black Domain to drain his essence and blood.
• Shi Lan killed the demon king, received the system's quest rewards, and returned to the city wall after seeing the civilian casualties.
• Shi Lan found Bai Weiyang surrounded by several great demons, including two Primordial Spirit great demons, with his jade sword badly cracked.

The Immortal Martial Yin-Yang Array broke, and demon beasts overwhelmed Immortal Martial City as the Demon-Suppressing Army retreated under orders. Bai Weiyang was stranded in the beast tide after his sword shattered, and Shi Lan left the formation to save him just as a powerful Celestial Demon appeared.

• The array collapsed, letting flying demon beasts pour into Immortal Martial City and kill countless civilians.
• Demon-Suppressing Generals threatened to execute deserters and punish their families, so Shi Lan returned to the formation as nearly a hundred people were beheaded.
• The army withdrew into the city while Bai Weiyang remained trapped in the beast tide; his sentient jade sword shattered, and he ignited his imperial blood to destroy several Demon Kings and a Primordial Spirit great demon.
• Shi Lan left the retreating formation to help Bai Weiyang, accepting that the danger could cost her decades of life.
• A half-demon Celestial Demon landed near Bai Weiyang and ordered him to get lost.

The Heavenly Demons withdrew from the battle for Immortal Martial City as Zhu Xiyang rescued Bai Weiyang and Lan Die'er collapsed from exhaustion. Far away, a colossal battleship arrived at Hanhai Star and fired its main cannon at an enormous golden life-form.

• The Heavenly Demon tried to seize Bai Weiyang, but Zhu Xiyang surrounded her with bamboo and vanished through a passage in space with her.
• Yan Mobei held back from pursuing Zhu Xiyang, while the Demon Suppression Army and its commanders retreated toward the city.
• Lan Die'er collapsed after suppressing her Dao wounds and fighting the Demon Suppression Commanders, and a Heavenly Demon carried her to a hall.
• A colossal battleship completed its space-time transition to Hanhai Star, where its captain learned the ship lacked enough energy to return to the main route.
• The ship's artificial intelligence detected a gigantic golden life-form, and the captain ordered the battleship to evade, but its main cannon fired.

Demon Emperor Chenxin returned to the Lingyang Realm with the Monster Race, where the gray membrane reacted violently to a consciousness emerging from a starfield carried by a black-robed figure. Shi Lan sensed the disturbance as her system modules began to unseal, but its mission module remained inaccessible.

• A golden dragon carrying Chenxin passed a warship, which was destroyed by an invisible wave after its captain fled in the command cabin.
• Chenxin arrived at the Lingyang Realm with the Monster Race and learned that victory in the Chengtian Domain was nearly certain.
• Chenxin waited at the gray membrane until a black-robed figure brought a starfield toward the realm.
• A powerful, mindless consciousness surged from the starfield, provoking the gray membrane, which crushed it in an instant.
• Shi Lan looked up at the disturbance as her system unsealed several modules but failed to open the mission module.

Shi Lan witnessed Emperor Taishi and dozens of human Emperors face Demon Emperor Chenxin, who used the Ten Thousand Demons Ruler to claim Chengtian Domain for the demons. Taishi released the stars held aloft by the human Emperors, devastating the Boundless Demon Domain and nearby lands.

• A cosmic rift opened above the Lingyang Realm, and a black-robed figure arrived beneath a vast field of stars.
• Shi Lan recognized the figure as Emperor Taishi and saw that the golden fortune of all humanity did not include her.
• Dozens of human Emperors emerged as Demon Emperor Chenxin arrived and declared that Chengtian Domain would join the Boundless Demon Domain.
• Chenxin summoned the Ten Thousand Demons Ruler and began severing the bonds between the nine great domains to claim Chengtian Domain.
• Taishi and the human Emperors withdrew their laws from the starfield, sending its power crashing down across the Boundless Demon Domain and neighboring domains.

Taishi used the Human Race's Historical Record to repel Demon Emperor Chenxin and claim the vast star field for humanity as the Illusory Star Domain. As Shi Lan reflected on the countless dead, Chenxin accused Taishi of breaking his oath, but Taishi remained unafraid of calamity.

• The Human Race's Historical Record appeared in its true form as Chenxin's Myriad Demons Ruler tore through Chengtian Domain.
• Taishi invoked the Heavenly Emperor Slaying Demons Image and forced Chenxin to retreat.
• Taishi and the Human Race's Historical Record bound the star field to the nine great domains and named it Illusory Star Domain.
• The Demon-Suppressing Army celebrated humanity's expansion while Shi Lan looked at the corpses and questioned the cost.
• Chenxin accused Taishi of breaking his oath, and Taishi replied that he had a clear conscience and did not fear calamity.

The Demon Emperor attacked the starfield with the Ten Thousand Demon Ruler, but Taishi burned his Imperial Blood essence and struck him down. After the Demon Emperor and a mysterious newcomer vanished, Taishi ordered the foreign races exterminated as the beast tide scattered across the Chengtian Domain.

• The Demon Emperor gathered the demon clouds into the Ten Thousand Demon Ruler and cleaved the starfield despite Lingyang Realm's laws suppressing most of his power.
• A spatial passage brought Ziyun into the battle, and the newcomer pierced the annals of human history's barrier, destroying dozens of living stars and killing hundreds of millions.
• Taishi burned his Imperial Blood essence and overwhelmed the distracted Demon Emperor, sending him crashing away and scattering his Imperial Blood over the land.
• Shi Lan used her Black Domain to gather some of the falling Imperial Blood while other human experts failed to contain it and were crushed by its power.
• The Demon Emperor, the Ten Thousand Demon Ruler, and the mysterious newcomer disappeared, leaving Taishi to face the scattered beast tide.
• Taishi drew a Heaven-Piercing Treasure Record and ordered the foreign races exterminated.

The Imperial Lord used the Heaven-Piercing Treasure Record to suppress the demon calamity in Chengtian Domain, and Shi Lan returned safely to Shi Mansion. In the Imperial Palace, Liu Yunzheng recorded the battle as a great victory despite humanity’s heavy losses.

• The Heaven-Piercing Treasure Record swept across Chengtian Domain, killing most of its demon beasts and clearing the skies.
• Shi Lan sensed that the spiritual energy had increased and hurried back to Shi Mansion, carrying a drop of Demon Emperor's blood within her.
• Shi Lan reached Shi Mansion and endured an attack from its defenders before reuniting with Su Lanyue and thanking the allies who had protected the mansion.
• The Lu Clan members and Shen Tianlan left Shi Mansion, and Shi Feng disappeared before Shi Lan could speak with him.
• Liu Yunzheng recorded that the Emperor and forty-three Human Emperors had slain nine Demon Emperors and five Devil Lords, while seven Human Emperors had died, and described the outcome as a great victory.

Taishi rewarded the Human Emperors for their victories and revealed that he had only a thousand years left to live, resolving to retrieve Lingchu from the Yellow Springs. In the Chengtian Domain, Shi Lan learned that she had been promoted to Demon-Suppression General.

• Taishi offered the Human Emperors fiefs in the Illusory Star Domain for territories they brought under human control and promised to retrieve the fallen heroes’ spirits from the Yellow Springs.
• After the Human Emperors left, Taishi told Liu Yunzheng that he had failed to advance and had at most a thousand years to live.
• Taishi said he would bring Lingchu back from the Nine Hells as a safeguard for the human race, and noted an unpolished pearl in the Chengtian Domain who did not belong to the Lingyang clan.
• Shi Tianlu told Shi Lan that distinguished officers would receive rewards at the Hall of Merits and gave her a set of new armor.
• Shi Lan recognized the dark armor and white cloak as the equipment of a Demon-Suppression General and realized she had been promoted.

Shi Lan attended the War Merit Hall, where Supreme General Yun Chen honored the fallen and announced military appointments, including her promotion to higher third-rank Demon Suppression General without command authority. After the others left, Yun Chen revealed that the Imperial Court had another substantial reward for her and asked if she wanted a star.

• Shi Lan followed Shi Tianlu to the War Merit Hall, still worried about Bai Weiyang, who had been taken by a Demon Race woman.
• Supreme General Yun Chen led a ceremony honoring fallen officers and announced appointments for surviving commanders, including Xia Yixiu.
• Yun Chen appointed Shi Lan a higher third-rank Demon Suppression General but withheld military authority because she lacked seniority.
• Yun Chen privately told Shi Lan to stay behind, and she remained after the hall emptied.
• Yun Chen told Shi Lan the Imperial Court had another substantial reward for her and asked whether she wanted a star.