Recaps

The God King explained the human race’s potential and the mixed-bloods’ fate, then used Shi Lan’s Chaos creature true blood to help her advance toward the Void Realm. The chapter ended as her Primordial Spirit merged with her body and her Dao Fruit began turning insubstantial.

• Shi Lan decided to seek the God King’s help and change the Primordial War’s course to improve the human race’s chances and earn reputation points.
• The God King warned Shi Lan that she lacked the strength to raise an entire race, but explained that humans had greater potential than the declining divine race.
• Shi Lan asked about the mixed-bloods, and the God King said they had no souls and were destined to disappear from history.
• The God King took Shi Lan to a small world where Yao lay suspended amid blood-red divine markings.
• The God King awakened the Chaos creature true blood in Shi Lan, causing intense pain as her cultivation surged toward the Void Realm.

Shi Lan absorbed part of the Primordial Spirit Fire and entered the Void Realm, then learned that the God King was wary of the Heavenly Dao Alliance and warned her against invoking the divine race’s name. Outside the hall, the God King killed a mixed-blood ancient god who had shown killing intent toward Shi Lan and ordered his clan destroyed, while Shi Lan recognized the ancient god who acknowledged the order from beneath Yellow Springs.

• Shi Lan gained control of the mutated Primordial Spirit Fire, and the God King explained that she could fully assimilate it after reaching the Emptiness Realm.
• The God King questioned Shi Lan about the incense-offering tradition and the immortal path, and she told him that the Heavenly Dao Alliance was the strongest faction in her era.
• The God King warned Shi Lan not to use the divine race’s name to raise humanity’s status and told her to focus on defeating the demon and monster races.
• Shi Lan and the God King emerged from the hall, where the gathered beings were astonished that she had reached the Void Realm in just over two hours.
• The God King sensed a mixed-blood ancient god’s killing intent toward Shi Lan, killed him, and ordered his clan exterminated and his associates watched.
• Shi Lan recognized the ancient god who accepted the God King’s order as someone she had seen beneath Yellow Springs.

At Yao’s coming-of-age ceremony, the God King exempted her from clan obligations and invited her to choose future husbands, while Shi Lan eyed the Demon and Devil prodigies as potential prey. Nearly a century later, Meng returned to Lingyang without the source crystal and told Lingyun that the thief looked like Shi Lan.

• The God King said Yang was outside the Lingyang Divine Race’s protection and exempt from its duties, then declared that Yao could choose one or more future husbands.
• Shi Lan rejected the God King’s offer to find her a partner, but eyed the Demon and Devil prodigies for their bloodlines.
• Di Beichen told his companion that Shi Lan was looking at prey.
• Nearly a century after Lingyang’s transformation, Meng returned to the Spirit Martial Hall and told Lingyun that someone had stolen the source crystal fragment during the campaign against the Samsara Hall.
• Lingyun said he had been unable to find Shi Lan, and Meng revealed that the thief had looked like her.

Meng and Lingyun traced the hidden force and Shi Lan’s suspicious actions to the Divine Martial Otherworld, then planned to seize Extreme Will and Heavenly Origin before investigating there. In the Lingyang Realm, Shi Lan welcomed hundreds of children into a secluded valley and chose Ye to cultivate with her and lead them.

• Meng told Lingyun that a figure’s Dao resembled Shi Lan’s and suspected she had allies who helped her cross time.
• Meng identified the Divine Martial Otherworld as the likely base of the hidden force and planned to investigate it when it opened again.
• Meng planned to seize Extreme Will and Heavenly Origin to secure source power and eliminate threats connected to the Palace of Samsara.
• Shi Lan received 763 people, mostly children, who had traveled to a secluded valley in the Lingyang Realm.
• Shi Lan selected Ye, took his hand, and told him he would cultivate with her and lead the others.

Shi Lan tested the young Ye’s character and decided to rebuild his weak foundation before guiding him on the Martial Scripture. Six years after Yao’s coming-of-age ceremony, Shi Lan was interrupted by Yao’s message and found her waiting with a group that included the Devil Race prodigy Di Beichen.

• Shi Lan led Ye through the fog and asked why he wanted to cultivate; Ye said he wanted his family and tribe to eat their fill, then admitted he would never dare kill an Ancient God.
• Shi Lan took Ye to the stone hall to feed him and considered starting his cultivation foundation over from scratch.
• Over the following six years, Shi Lan reached the Void Realm and continued deriving the Martial Scripture in the system’s virtual space.
• Yao sent Shi Lan a message inviting her to hunt ancient beasts, as she had done every two years.
• Shi Lan reached the valley entrance and found Yao, Xia, two pureblood Ancient Gods, three first-generation mixed-bloods, and the Devil Race man Di Beichen waiting.

Shi Lan accompanied Yao on a hunt, where a mixed-blood plot to capture the God King's daughter led Shi Lan to kill four Void Realm Supremes. After the Divine King brought her back, the story shifted beneath Yellow Springs, where Yan revealed that the old Divine King—not humanity—had severed Lingyang Realm's life force.

• Yao took Shi Lan and six companions to hunt ancient beasts, and Shi Lan killed a Void Realm Scale-Dragon Python with the Burial Realm bow.
• The three-eyed demigod led the group to a cavern where mixed-bloods had gathered women around a captive pure-blooded Ancient God, then trapped Shi Lan and Yao with several Void Realm Supremes.
• Two demigods ignited their blood qi to create an opening, and Shi Lan sent Yao and the others away before killing the three-eyed demigod and the remaining four Supremes.
• The Divine King arrived, explained that he had used the incident to draw out enemies, and took Shi Lan back; two months later, Yao shared golden pills with her.
• Beneath Yellow Springs, Yin questioned Yan about the ancient upheaval, and Yan revealed that the old Divine King had severed Lingyang Realm's life force.

Yin and Yan discussed the Old God King’s role in Lingyang’s history and the ancient gods’ uncertain future as the Yellow Springs barrier began to dissolve. In the living world, Qing Lan managed the Blood God Hall’s growing influence and learned that Samsara was searching for Shi Lan, whose whereabouts remained unknown.

• Yan explained that the Heavenly Dao had used Gu Ye to start the God War and later destroyed the demigod race after the Old God King drained Lingyang’s source power.
• Yin and Yan discussed Yang, Yu, Xia, and Ye, while Yan said he might leave Lingyang if he could not find Xia.
• The Heavenly Dao Alliance strengthened its influence, while the Blood God Hall expanded under Qing Lan’s leadership and the Spirit Martial Hall kept a low profile.
• Qing Lan ordered the Blood God Hall to tolerate those who left, support members seeking breakthroughs in the Divine Martial Great World, and execute those who fomented unrest.
• Samsara, Tian Bai, and Bian Qin visited Qing Lan to ask about Shi Lan, but Qing Lan said she had lost contact with her more than a hundred years earlier.
• Qing Lan warned Samsara that the Heavenly Dao Alliance was secretly investigating the Immortal Dao and advised her not to wander around Lingyang.

Samsara left the Blood God Hall after Qing Lan entrusted her with a powerful immortal sword and agreed to shelter Tian Bai and Bian Qin. Elsewhere, Bai Weiyang received tribulation-transcendence slots, while Di Luosha learned from Yu that Yang might still be alive in the Lingyang Realm.

• Qing Lan warned Samsara about the Heavenly Dao Alliance, gave her a repaired immortal flying sword, and agreed to look after Tian Bai and Bian Qin.
• Samsara concealed her immortal aura and departed the Blood God Hall, leaving Tian Bai and Bian Qin with Qing Lan.
• Bai Weiyang showed Zhu Xiyang two tribulation-transcendence slots sent by A-Qi through an intermediary.
• Di Luosha began draining Yu's vital essence to nourish her Dao Fruit, and Yu revealed that Yang might be alive in the Lingyang Realm.
• Fuguang identified Yang as the God Race prodigy who had named Di Luosha and trained Ye, then told Di Luosha to leave Yu alive in case Yang came for him.

Shi Lan developed two paths from the Martial Canon: an extreme method that absorbed a Dao Fruit into the body at the cost of lifespan, and a safer method for human cultivators to condense a Dao Fruit. After three years of teaching children in her valley, she waited for a new group to arrive, and Yao appeared, questioning whether the children could help the human race.

• Shi Lan used the Qiong Luo Realm's source power and a Dao Fruit to test an extreme cultivation path, gaining power while discovering that exceeding her body's limits would destroy it and shorten her lifespan.
• Shi Lan set aside the dangerous path and deduced a second method that let cultivators condense a Dao Fruit while preserving a more normal lifespan.
• Shi Lan cultivated beneath a spirit tree that Yao had brought from the divine race's ancestral land, and her aura nourished the valley's plants.
• Shi Lan's jade pendant signaled that another group of human cultivators was about to arrive in the valley.
• Shi Lan waited at the valley entrance with a boy as Yao emerged from a void passage and asked whether the children she taught could ever help the human race.

Shi Lan spoke with Yao about the human children and their cultivation before Yao tested Ye and recognized his talent. When a powerful old man arrived with several hundred children, Shi Lan went to ask him why he had come.

• Shi Lan explained that she intended to support humanity and could wait for the children to grow up, while Yao said Xia had gone hunting alone before his coming-of-age ceremony.
• Yao grabbed Ye and poured Divine King blood qi into him, recognizing his talent and promising to find him a divine-race wife if he survived ten thousand years.
• Several hundred children entered the valley with an old man whose concealed cultivation Shi Lan sensed had touched the domain of time and space.
• Yao climbed into the spirit tree's hammock for a nap, and Shi Lan approached the old man to ask what brought him there.

Shi Lan reassured Kuang Shaoqing that her support for humanity was not tied to the divine race, though she admitted she might need humanity for her own purposes. Yao then invited her to join a Heavenly Court trip beyond Lingyang to meet young talents from other realms, and Shi Lan grew curious about the powerful institution.

• Kuang Shaoqing introduced himself to Shi Lan and asked about her intentions in supporting humanity, fearing her plans could draw the race into a wider conflict.
• Shi Lan told Kuang Shaoqing that the Divine King had approved her support for humanity and promised she hated war and slaughter.
• Kuang Shaoqing stayed in the valley to watch Shi Lan, while she respected his devotion to humanity.
• Yao invited Shi Lan to leave Lingyang with the Divine King and meet young talents from other great realms on a trip organized by the Heavenly Court.
• Yao explained that the Heavenly Court had gained many corpses and treasures after the Origin Continent collapsed, and Shi Lan became curious about its power.

Shi Lan prepared to attend the Heavenly Court's grand gathering while hiding her immortal arts and avoiding ultimate draws. As Sovereigns debated the Heavenly Court's growing power, she cultivated in the Lingyang Realm until Yao arrived with word that the God King had returned and it was time to depart.

• Shi Lan decided to attend the gathering cautiously, remain under the God King's protection, and avoid ultimate draws that might expose her.
• Yao listed the powerful figures expected to attend and explained that few humans would go because their presence could give the Heavenly Court an excuse to interfere in Lingyang's affairs.
• The God King and four Sovereigns discussed the Heavenly Court's grand gathering, its source crystal fragments, and its negotiations with the Underworld to establish the Netherworld.
• The God King proposed approaching the incense gods and warned that the Heavenly Court was forging a treasure capable of rivaling the Origin Heavenly Dao.
• Over several months, Kuang Shaoqing managed the valley while Shi Lan cultivated and trained the children; she sensed incense prayer power arising from tribes honoring her.
• Yao arrived by war chariot and told Shi Lan that the God King had returned and they should prepare to leave.

Shi Lan and the Divine Race delegation left the Lingyang Realm for the Heavenly Court’s grand gathering, passing through the Southern Heavenly Gate and meeting Yuwan. The delegation settled into an immortal palace with twenty-three years remaining before the gathering, and Yao took Shi Lan to explore.

• Prodigies from across the Lingyang Realm gathered for Xia’s coming-of-age ceremony, where Shi Lan’s peak Void Realm cultivation alarmed the assembled experts.
• Mixed-blood prodigies won every match over two days, while Yu and Ya reunited with Shi Lan at different cultivation levels.
• The Divine King led the Lingyang Realm delegation through the Southern Heavenly Gate, where two immortal generals welcomed him and Suri criticized the gate as mere form.
• Yuwan greeted the delegation in the Heavenly Court and guided them to an immortal palace, telling them the grand gathering would begin in twenty-three years.
• After Yuwan left, Yao led Shi Lan out to explore, followed by Xia and Di Beichen, while the other prodigies set out with servants as guides.

Shi Lan and Yao were drawn into the Heavenly Court’s gathering for young geniuses, where they fought for spiritual treasures while powerful figures watched. Months later, they found a nine-budded crimson tree and heard Xue Hong boast nearby, setting up another encounter.

• Shi Lan and Yao were pulled from the Heavenly Court into a wilderness, while Emperor Beichen was summoned to receive methods for recreating the God-Devil Spirit Body through a child with Yao’s pure Origin True Blood.
• Yuwan told the clan elders that the Jade Emperor had arranged the gathering, and the elders watched the young geniuses’ movements on a vast screen.
• Shi Lan and Yao fought Xue Hong’s group over a spirit fruit; Shi Lan defeated Xue Hong, their opponents were carried away by immortal-light sigils, and she uprooted the divine peak for its spiritual tree.
• Over the following months, Shi Lan and Yao collected treasures and disguised themselves as humans while avoiding the gathering’s increasingly fierce battles.
• In snowy mountains, Yao spotted a crimson tree bearing nine flower buds, but Shi Lan heard Xue Hong nearby claiming he would defeat her in three moves.

Shi Lan overwhelmed the young Supremes gathered around the Crimson Dragon Flower, defeating Xue Hong and his companions. The God King and Jade Emperor discussed Xue Hong’s Heaven-Deceiving Art and the dangers of Shi Lan’s fate as the competition continued.

• Shi Lan warned Yao and manifested her Ancient God body before attacking the Supremes gathered near the Crimson Dragon Flower.
• The young Supremes joined forces against Shi Lan, but her halberd strike defeated them and eliminated most of the group.
• Xue Hong survived Shi Lan’s attack while protecting his two junior sisters, but Shi Lan struck him again and eliminated all three.
• The God King explained that Xue Hong’s Heaven-Deceiving Art had let him rewrite his memories of losing, while the Jade Emperor warned that the art could endanger him.
• The Jade Emperor compressed the competition’s world as its remaining contestants dwindled, then asked the God King whether he feared his daughter growing close to Shi Lan.
• The God King dismissed certainty about fate and reflected that the Heaven-Baleful Lone Star’s fate was especially harsh.

Shi Lan escaped the shrinking realm with Yao and Yu Qi, then learned the Ten Thousand Worlds Contest would publicize its rankings across the great worlds. Yu Qi revealed details about the Heavenly Court, but their conversation ended when Wang Zhen arrived at their mountain hideout.

• Shi Lan caught Yu Qi stealing the Crimson Dragon Flower and collected her herbs before agreeing to take her along in exchange for the Veil of Hidden Spirits.
• As the realm collapsed inward, Shi Lan grabbed Yao and Yu Qi and tore open space to escape.
• Yu Qi explained that the Ten Thousand Worlds Contest ended when one competitor remained, and that its results would be announced throughout the great worlds.
• Shi Lan learned about Yu Qi's father, the Jade Emperor Yuqing, and the Heavenly Court's powerful factions, including its War God Great Spirit Official.
• Wang Zhen appeared outside the mountain, and Yu Qi warned that the War God Great Spirit Official's son had beaten her before.

Shi Lan defeated Wang Zhen in a battle across cultivation realms and glimpsed the path to the Void Realm. She left with Yao and Yu Qi to enter seclusion, determined to win the contest among the myriad worlds.

• Wang Zhen broke the formation and demanded that Yu Qi leave the contest, then challenged Shi Lan while agreeing not to use his natal immortal treasure.
• Shi Lan released her connection to the Burial Realm, drew the Crimson Crow War Halberd, and fought Wang Zhen as Yao and Yu Qi withdrew.
• Shi Lan recognized that Wang Zhen's formation manipulated space, gained insight into the Void Realm, and burned her lifespan to break through his defenses.
• Shi Lan pierced Wang Zhen with her halberd and declared that he would never again have such an opportunity, but his life-protecting talisman carried him away.
• Shi Lan reunited with Yao and Yu Qi, said she needed to enter seclusion, and declared that she would claim the contest's championship.

After defeating Wang Zhen, Shi Lan and her companions found Xia fighting Sayun, a mixed-blood youth, and intervened. Shalie withdrew his group after declaring that they would be opponents, leaving Shi Lan wary of the demigod clan’s growing ambitions.

• Shi Lan wrapped herself, Yao, and Yuqi in an Invisibility Veil and left the area after their clash with Wang Zhen drew attention.
• While traveling, Shi Lan sensed Xia nearby and found him fighting Sayun, with Shalie and two other mixed-blood youths watching.
• Shi Lan dropped the veil and approached the battlefield, startling Shalie and his companions, who had failed to detect her.
• Shalie ordered Sayun to stop, then told Shi Lan he would welcome her to his clan in Lingyang but that they would be opponents next time.
• After Shalie led his group away, Xia insisted he might have won, while Shi Lan suspected the demigod clan’s new identity signaled a dangerous change.

Shi Lan reached the center of the shrinking realm and began cultivating in concealment while the Jade Emperor and God King discussed her extraordinary power and the danger they believed her future advancement could pose. The Jade Emperor asked the God King to dissuade her from advancing, but when he refused, the Jade Emperor declared he would act himself.

• Shi Lan promised Xia she would help him settle the score with Sha Lie and the others, then led her group toward the realm’s center.
• Shi Lan found a barren plain, hid within a spiritual vein under the Concealing Spirit Veil, and began her seclusion.
• The Jade Emperor praised Yang’s victory over Wang Zhen and questioned the God King about her age, origins, and concealed identity.
• The Jade Emperor warned that Shi Lan’s power could threaten the universe if she became a Sovereign and asked the God King to persuade her to stop advancing.
• The God King rejected the request and warned the Jade Emperor against claiming authority over the universe, but the Jade Emperor said he would act personally.

Shi Lan entered the Void Realm and was overcome by a hunger so immense that she consumed every resource nearby. After attacking Marquis Li to feed herself, she faced Sha Lie, who realized she had reached the Void Realm.

• Shi Lan broke through into the Void Realm, draining a spirit vein, immortal herbs, beast flesh, and the supplies Yao and the others offered.
• Shi Lan warned Yao and the others to flee as her hunger threatened to make her attack them.
• Marquis Li appeared as a blazing sun, and Shi Lan shot him down with the World-Burying Bow, absorbing his blood as he escaped with his immortal talisman.
• Shi Lan pursued Marquis Li and tore off his wings to consume them before he activated his talisman and vanished.
• Sha Lie arrived at the spiritual eye, and Shi Lan greeted him as an opponent while he recognized that she had entered the Void Realm.

Shi Lan overwhelmed Shalie, drained his strength, and left him after his faith kept him fighting, then attacked Wang Zhen with an arrow that nearly destroyed his treasure wheel. Outside the contest, the Jade Emperor failed to divine Shi Lan’s fate and sent immortal light into the light curtain behind Wang Zhen.

• Shi Lan tore off Shalie’s limbs, seized his immortal herbs, and defeated him in a clash that damaged the Crimson Crow War Halberd.
• Shi Lan repeatedly tore off Shalie’s regenerated limbs until his blood energy was nearly exhausted, then activated his life-saving talisman and left him behind.
• Shi Lan ambushed Wang Zhen with a golden arrow, but his seven-colored treasure wheel stopped it just short of his brow.
• Wang Zhen invoked the Immortal Invitation Art while gravely wounded and refused to leave the contest.
• The Jade Emperor failed to find Shi Lan’s fate in the river of space and time, then sent immortal light behind Wang Zhen.

Shi Lan defeated Wang Zhen after his borrowed immortal power began to fade, then went searching for Yao. At the edge of the world, she found Di Beichen, who was stunned by her advancement into the Void Realm, and demanded his immortal herbs and that he leave.

• Wang Zhen used the Immortal Invitation Art to reach the peak of the Mahayana Realm, then severed the immortal-power channel and urged Shi Lan to withdraw.
• The God King replenished Shi Lan's qi and blood, and told the Jade Emperor that she had crossed the river of spacetime and lost her memories.
• Shi Lan shattered Wang Zhen's thirty-three heavens and struck him after his immortal sword failed to find her Primordial Spirit.
• Wang Zhen's borrowed immortal power dissipated, ending his fight with Shi Lan, who retrieved her golden arrow and left to search for Yao.
• Shi Lan found Di Beichen at the edge of the world and demanded his immortal herbs and that he leave, which he mistook as a threat to kill himself.

Shi Lan pursued the competition after Emperor Beichen tricked her and withdrew with his immortal medicine. Meanwhile, the Jade Emperor and the God King discussed the growing Source Crystal Fragment and the danger that the Origin Heaven might still be alive, leaving the Jade Emperor to question whether the God King was plotting against the Heavenly Court.

• Emperor Beichen distracted Shi Lan by claiming to see Yao, then activated his protective immortal talisman and withdrew with the immortal medicine.
• Shi Lan condemned Emperor Beichen as sly and hypocritical, then continued hunting competitors with the Burial Realm to end the competition quickly.
• The Jade Emperor told the God King that the Source Crystal Fragment had resisted tempering but was growing by retaining some of the source power it consumed.
• The God King warned that the Origin Heaven might still be alive and urged the Jade Emperor to seal the fragment beneath the Yellow Springs with the Book of Three Lives.
• The Jade Emperor showed the God King a mysterious system that parasitized prodigies and suggested it was connected to the missing Source Crystal Fragment.
• As the God King prepared to leave, the Jade Emperor asked whether he was among those secretly plotting against the Heavenly Court.

The Jade Emperor learned that refining the source crystal fragments could take at least a billion years, while Shi Lan fought four Empty Realm Sovereigns in the Ten Thousand Worlds Contest. Shi Lan eliminated or drove off her opponents and then attacked Wang Zhen.

• The God King told the Jade Emperor that the Immortal Dao was doomed, denied betraying the Origin Heaven, and vanished; the Jade Emperor said the Heavenly Court needed to refine the source crystal and force the Origin Heaven out.
• The Jade Emperor asked how long it would take to fuse the source crystal fragments, and the old man estimated at least a billion years.
• Shi Lan, unable to find Yao, was surrounded by four Empty Realm Sovereigns from other worlds and chose not to use the Burial Realm.
• Shi Lan’s Annihilation Divine Light eliminated the golden-haired Sovereign, and her fists and finger bones gravely injured the other three.
• Shi Lan overwhelmed two Sovereigns until their immortal talismans removed them from the contest, while the immortal-metal Sovereign forfeited after she tore off his arm and took his giant sword.
• Wang Zhen refused to help the Sovereigns, and Shi Lan fired a tribulation-wreathed golden arrow at him after saying, “Until we meet again.”

Shi Lan continued eliminating contestants as new groups arrived, while the Heavenly Court delayed the contest’s conclusion until more realms had taken part. After sending out nearly a thousand beings, she was declared the champion for the Lingyang Realm as Yang.

• The Jade Emperor ordered the Star Lords on duty to welcome Venerables who had not yet reached the Heavenly Court.
• Shi Lan collected the realm’s spiritual materials and immortal medicines while she waited for the contest to end.
• When new contestants entered the realm, Shi Lan shot them down with the Burial Realm and triggered their life-preserving talismans.
• Shi Lan swept away successive waves of weaker contestants with her blood and qi, eliminating nearly a thousand beings.
• A True Immortal announced that the champion of the contest was the Lingyang Realm—Yang.