Recaps

After the battle, Shi Lan treated her wounds and prepared to advance her cultivation while Bai Weiyang’s forces planned to seek protection from the Demon Suppression Army. In the Central Heaven Domain, the Bai Clan worried over Bai Weiyang’s disappearance, and a figure in the Imperial Palace revealed that an object had been sent from another age through the River of Time.

• Shi Lan distributed healing pills, assessed the heavy losses among her troops, and noticed that the battle had united the warship’s factions against the Demon Race.
• Shi Lan cut away the poison-corroded skin, healed her wounds with a Spirit Transformation Pill, and prepared to advance the Jade Forging Art.
• Bai Weiyang, Lei Wuji, and Lin Yusheng discussed the escaped Demon Kings and decided to move closer to other Demon Suppression Army divisions for protection.
• Senior members of the Bai Clan worried about Bai Weiyang’s disappearance, while their ancestor reassured them that Yan Jun and six Primordial Spirit experts were heading to the border.
• A figure in the Imperial Palace said that someone had opened the River of Time with boundless might and sent an object from another age.

A remnant of Wang Gu told a refined man that a treasure fragment would appear in Chengtian Domain in three years and ordered him to obey Taishi’s decision to abandon the domain while the Imperial Lord pursued a distant starfield. Meanwhile, Shi Lan advanced her Jade Forging Art and cultivation, then left her room seeking to make faster progress on her quests.

• The remnant of Wang Gu told the refined man that an uninvited guest would arrive in Lingyang Realm in three years, relying on a supreme treasure fragment that would appear in Chengtian Domain.
• The refined man protested Taishi’s order to hold Chengtian Domain with few forces for two years, but Wang Gu sealed the Imperial Palace and restrained him from acting.
• The refined man tried to contact the Imperial Lord through the crystal tome, but failed and lamented the fate of ordinary lives.
• Shi Lan completed another transformation, advancing the Jade Forging Art to its seventh layer and opening the Hegu acupoint, which raised her cultivation to Early Earth Fiend Realm.
• Shi Lan checked her system panel and quests, saw that she had killed twenty-two Earth Fiend Realm demonic beasts, and left her room to seek faster progress.

Shi Lan recovered and cultivated aboard the warship while Bai Weiyang sought a safe route using Chisongzi’s divination. Three days later, a woman in green and the black-armored demon king trapped the warship and demanded that Bai Weiyang hand over the person who had killed Changqing.

• Shi Lan asked Wu Lingkong why the warship had not used demon-breaking crossbows, and learned that using them would put the ship at risk.
• Shi Lan spoke briefly with the injured Shen Tianlan, then returned to her quiet room to cultivate as the warship headed southeast.
• Chisongzi told Bai Weiyang that their route was blocked, then spotted a possible solution while examining the green shoot Bai Weiyang held.
• After three peaceful days, bamboo vines bound the warship, and the woman in green and the black-armored demon king confronted Bai Weiyang.
• Bai Weiyang defended the warship with his sword, but the woman in green stopped her attack just short of the ship and demanded he hand over Lin Yusheng, threatening to kill a hundred people with every passing breath.

Bai Weiyang used the green sprout and her Human Emperor lineage to stop the woman in green from attacking the battleship, then tested whether the sprout could protect the group from nearby great demons. Shi Lan was inspired by Bai Weiyang’s power and set herself the goal of reaching the peak of the world.

• Bai Weiyang gave the woman in green the green sprout, then threatened to kill herself with a jade sword to keep everyone aboard the battleship alive.
• Bai Weiyang summoned the phantom of the Human Emperor, forcing the woman in green to withdraw rather than risk Changqing’s life essence.
• Bai Weiyang struck at the woman in black armor, and the woman in green returned to shield her before Bai Weiyang asked her to tell nearby great demons not to target the group.
• The woman in green asked Bai Weiyang’s name and left with the woman in black armor; Bai Weiyang later revealed that her sword strike had tested the green sprout’s value.
• Shi Lan reflected on the Human Emperor phantom and resolved to one day stand at the peak of the world.

Shi Lan’s warship arrived at a heavily guarded fortress, where Bai Weiyang led nearly one hundred thousand people inside. After being told to rest for two days before joining the fighting, the troops set up camp and celebrated with meat and liquor.

• Shi Lan reflected on her cultivation and steadied her resolve as the warship set course southwest.
• Yan Jun and six others arrived where Weiyang had activated her bloodline, sensed a Heavenly Demon, and split up to search for her.
• The warship reached the fortress, and Shi Lan encountered Lu Anqing and the women of Miao Sound Valley as they disembarked.
• Bai Weiyang met a ten-thousand-man commander at the fortress gates and led the troops to camp in a former training ground.
• The commander delivered tents, beast meat, and liquor, and told Bai Weiyang the troops could rest for two days before joining the fighting.
• The troops lit bonfires and feasted, while drunken men who approached the women's battalion were beaten back.

After a drunken night in the women soldiers’ camp, Shi Lan awoke and went for a walk outside the fortress. There, she encountered a powerful old man whom Samsara said had come to find her, possibly to take her as his disciple.

• Shi Lan met Lü Anqing at the entrance to the women’s camp, and Lü Anqing urged her to stay there rather than risk the drunken men across the way.
• Wu Lingkong pulled Shi Lan into a drinking gathering, and Shi Lan later carried the passed-out Wu Lingkong and other women soldiers to their tents.
• Shi Lan slept in a tent crowded with drunken women, then woke at dawn and thanked Lü Anqing, who had guarded the entrance all night.
• Shi Lan left the camp and spotted an old man fishing beside a river.
• Samsara told Shi Lan that the old man was above the third level of the Heavenly Human Realm and had likely come to take her as his disciple.

Shi Lan met a powerful old man who taught her his understanding of martial Dao, though she remained wary of his intentions. When he announced he would leave for good, she offered him a Demon Suppression Army banner as a parting memento, surprising him.

• Reincarnation warned Shi Lan that the old man might be trying to recruit her, so she tried to leave, but he used his power to stop her.
• The old man asked Shi Lan what she believed martial Dao was and explained the difference between martial power and Dao.
• The old man invited Shi Lan to return the next day, and she listened to his teachings by the river throughout the following day.
• The old man told Shi Lan he would never return, and she ran back to camp before presenting him with a military banner as a memento.
• The old man was astonished because he had expected Shi Lan to bring a gift for a disciple-acceptance ceremony.

Shi Lan evaded Extreme Cloud High Person’s attempts to recruit her as a disciple, then prepared for the Demon-Suppression Army’s coming battle. After a night of cultivation and spring rain, she joined her soldiers and marched with the assembled army under Bai Weiyang.

• Extreme Cloud High Person revealed his identity and hinted that Shi Lan needed a teacher, but she repeatedly agreed without accepting his offer.
• After Extreme Cloud High Person left, Shi Lan returned to camp, where soldiers prepared their weapons for the coming clash with the Demon Race.
• Shi Lan cultivated in her tent and absorbed phoenix blood while avoiding the divine senses sweeping the camp.
• After the rain passed, Shi Lan mounted her dragon horse and led the fewer than three hundred Demon-Suppression soldiers to the assembly ground.
• The assembled Demon-Suppression Army set out toward its designated position with Bai Weiyang leading.

At a massive military assembly, Shi Lan heard the Demon-Suppression Marshal rally the troops before they marched toward the ships. Afterward, she unexpectedly reunited with her father, Shi Tianlu, and struggled to respond to his care as their unit prepared to leave.

• The Demon-Suppression Marshal addressed the gathered troops, recalling the devastation of the war and urging them to fight for humanity’s future.
• The soldiers drew their weapons and answered the marshal’s call before marching out of the parade ground.
• Shi Tianlu spotted Shi Lan among the formations and wondered if he had seen his daughter.
• Bai Weiyang ordered the camp to pack quickly and prepare to board the ships.
• Shi Lan recognized Shi Tianlu, and the two exchanged hesitant greetings as he marveled at her strength and she wrestled with her feelings toward him.
• The camp finished packing and began moving toward the fortress gates.

Shi Lan volunteered to act as bait to draw out a shapeshifting demon king, after Bai Weiyang explained the dangerous plan for the battlefield. A system quest revealed that Shi Lan needed to draw out the demon king to earn a lottery draw and reputation points, leaving her preparing to carry out the assignment alone.

• Shi Tianlu reassured Shi Lan that her mother was safe in Immortal Martial City and told her to seek his help if she ran into trouble.
• Shi Lan boarded the battleship, and Bai Weiyang briefed her officers on a plan to lure out and attack three beast packs.
• When no one accepted the bait assignment, Shi Lan volunteered, and Bai Weiyang gave her a jade bead that could withstand three attacks from a shapeshifting demon king.
• Shi Lan told Bai Weiyang she would go alone, then returned to her room and checked the system quest that required her to draw out the demon king.

Bai Weiyang prepared Shi Lan and a hundred Xiantian Realm warriors as bait while planning a surprise attack on the beast horde and its Demon King. Shi Lan displayed a Spirit Transformation Pill to lure the Demon King, who left the horde to pursue it.

• Bai Weiyang had soldiers coat Shi Lan and her warriors with Soul-Attracting Grass mixture, then ordered his commanders to prepare for a surprise attack.
• Bai Weiyang asked Lei Wuji and Lin Yusheng to help him capture and kill the Demon King while Shi Lan’s unit served as bait.
• Shi Lan led her warriors toward the beast horde, and Samsara told her that Jiyun was following nearby.
• The blond Demon King dismissed the bait’s Soul-Attracting Grass scent, then noticed the Spirit Transformation Pill in Shi Lan’s hand.
• The Demon King hesitated to call on two fellow Demon Kings, then spread his golden wings and vanished from the beast horde to chase Shi Lan and the pill.

Shi Lan completed her mission and protected her group from the golden-haired Demon King while High Person Jiyun intervened to save the warship and battled a green-clad Venerable. Bai Weiyang, Lei Wuji, and Lin Yusheng confronted the Demon King, and the fight continued as Bai Weiyang prepared to unleash his full strength.

• Lei Wuji, Bai Weiyang, and Lin Yusheng arrived to find the Demon King gone, and they followed after him.
• Shi Lan received her mission rewards, used Bai Weiyang’s jade bead to shield her group, and drew the golden-haired man’s attention when he sensed Divine Phoenix blood.
• High Person Jiyun pierced the green Venerable’s claw before it could seize the warship, then faced him in battle.
• Bai Weiyang, Lei Wuji, and Lin Yusheng surrounded the golden-haired Demon King while Shi Lan led her group away.
• The golden-haired Demon King blocked their attacks with his wings and bone whip, while Bai Weiyang withdrew to awaken his bloodline and gather his strength.

Shi Lan and the human fighters were caught amid a battle between Heavenly Humans and demons, while Ji Yun burned the power of his small world to protect them. The black-clad Heavenly Demon threatened the warship again, but an unknown Azure Sword Qi struck from the void, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Shi Lan ignored Lunhui's warning and rode toward the warship as Ji Yun fought a Demon Race expert above the battlefield.
• Bai Weiyang joined Lei Wuji and Lin Yusheng against the blond demon, while Cangzun's newly arrived black-clad ally attacked them and the warship.
• Ji Yun sacrificed power from his small world to break the black palm that had pinned Bai Weiyang and the others, then fought to keep the man in black away from them.
• Cangzun's goshawk forced Ji Yun to abandon his attack, and the Heavenly Humans' battle tore up the grassland as Shi Lan watched from the warship.
• The man in black reached the warship and sent down a palm strike, but an Azure Sword Qi suddenly slashed out of the void.

Yan Jun arrived to aid Ji Yun and Bai Weiyang, but more than ten powerful experts soon converged, leaving the human side outnumbered by eleven Heavenly Demons. The uneasy standoff erupted into battle when a Heavenly Demon attacked Yan Jun and the Demon-Suppression Marshal.

• Yan Jun emerged from a spatial rift, dismissed the azure-robed man, and thanked Ji Yun on behalf of the Bai House.
• More than ten experts arrived, with four joining Yan Jun and Ji Yun while eleven Heavenly Demons gathered opposite them.
• A Heavenly Human healed Ji Yun's avatar and gave him a pitch-black staff, which Ji Yun immediately claimed.
• The red-dressed demon noticed the warship's unusual bloodlines as the opposing forces prepared to fight.
• A Heavenly Demon launched a blood-red spear at Yan Jun and the Demon-Suppression Marshal, and Yan Jun answered with a golden sea of swords that shattered the void and damaged the warship.

Yan Jun and the human experts fought to hold back the demon forces, but fresh reinforcements kept turning the battle against them. Yan Jun left the battlefield to face a powerful bewitching demon above the Nine Heavens, where the demon began testing his resolve.

• Bai Weiyang ordered the warship away as Yan Jun killed the black-robed Heavenly Demon and then faced the united attack of the remaining demons.
• A golden-haired Demon King blocked the warship, forcing Bai Weiyang and her companions to turn back and fight while the main battlefield expanded.
• The demon reinforcements overwhelmed the human forces, and a human Heavenly Human Realm expert died as the humans began burning their minor-world power.
• A beautiful demon carrying a white fox summoned Yan Jun to the astral winds, and Yan Jun left the battlefield to meet him.
• An old monk and the gray-robed Benefactor Feng joined the battle and attacked the demons, though the human side remained outnumbered.
• The bewitching demon confronted Yan Jun over his Azure Feather sword and created an illusory city of seductive women, but Yan Jun said he had severed his desires six hundred years earlier.

Yan Mobei broke free of a seductive illusion and attacked the man who had created it, while the damaged warship carrying Bai Weiyang’s forces crashed amid a demon-beast horde. The Shengwu Immortal Sect arrived on the battlefield, where a tearful woman challenged Luo Xiuhan to avenge her sister.

• Yan Mobei destroyed the illusion of the woman in the courtyard and unleashed a powerful sword strike at the man on the throne.
• The man vanished into the void, and Yan Mobei’s sword Qi pursued him as his aura grew volatile.
• Demon apes attacked the damaged warship, forcing Ren Kaiyang to order the troops to land and fight their way toward other units.
• Shi Lan led her soldiers toward a weaker stretch of the beast horde as the army charged off the crashed warship.
• Several Heavenly Human Realm experts bearing the Shengwu Immortal Sect’s emblem emerged from a space fissure.
• A tearful red-dressed woman attacked Luo Xiuhan and offered to grant any condition to whoever captured him and took his life.

Luo Xiuhan ordered the humans to retreat while he and the Shengwu Immortal Sect stayed behind to face the Heavenly Demons. Yan Mobei chose to remain and restore the emotions he had severed, while Shi Lan broke through the beast horde only to be trapped by a powerful red-haired man.

• Luo Xiuhan and the Demon-Suppressing Marshal ordered the human experts to retreat, leaving Luo Xiuhan and the Shengwu Immortal Sect surrounded by more than a dozen Heavenly Demons.
• Yan Mobei sent his companions to protect Bai Weiyang and return him to the Central Heaven Domain, then confronted the seductive man alone.
• Yan Mobei restored the part of his Primordial Spirit he had severed and challenged the man, declaring that he would use him to temper his sword dao.
• Shi Lan and the others fought through the chaotic beast horde and escaped its edge, but an invisible spatial force pinned them in place.
• A red-haired man descended before Shi Lan and the others, his powerful aura nearly leaving Shi Lan unable to breathe.

Shi Lan was targeted by a group of Heavenly Demons, but Master Jing Kong and Ji Yun intervened to protect her. After Luo Xiuhan escaped with a Void-Shattering Jade and left the battlefield in chaos, Samsara took control of Shi Lan’s body as she faced the spatial storm.

• A red-haired Heavenly Demon identified Shi Lan’s bloodline as an extraordinary tonic, and Samsara warned her that they needed to escape.
• Master Jing Kong arrived and drove the red-haired demon back, while Ji Yun joined the fight and Master Jing Kong recognized Wu Ya’s prayer beads on Shi Lan’s wrist.
• More than ten Heavenly Demons converged on the battlefield, and Ji Yun urged Shi Lan to leave as several demons charged toward her.
• Luo Xiuhan struck Ji Yun and Master Jing Kong with blade auras, then escaped with Shengwu Immortal Sect experts using an Emperor Grade Void-Shattering Jade.
• Samsara took control of Shi Lan’s body, and she used spatial power to ignite the chaotic spatial storm around the battlefield.

Shi Lan survived the spatial storm that swept her millions of li from the battlefield, though she and Shenluo were badly hurt. As Jiyun and Shi Tianlu gave up searching for her, a giant demon beast found Shi Lan and called her its king.

• Shi Lan triggered a spatial storm that swallowed the Heavenly Demons and demon beasts, while Jiyun and Jingkong concluded she had likely died and returned to the fortress.
• Shi Tianlu searched for Shi Lan but could not locate her with the Demon-Suppression Token, and Wu Lingkong told him that her fate remained unknown.
• Shenluo explained that it had used the spatial explosion to carry Shi Lan away, though its miscalculation left her seriously injured.
• Shi Lan learned that she had spent six hours in spatial currents and was now several million li from the battlefield.
• A colossal leopard-bodied demon beast entered Shi Lan's cave, knelt before her, and greeted her as its king.

Shi Lan recovered from the spatial rift in the boundless Demon Domain, where Tian Bai mistook her for a demon king and offered its help. After learning about her surroundings and disguising her human aura with her innate spirit blood, Shi Lan chose to remain and continue her quest to kill a thousand Earth Fiend Realm demon beasts.

• Tian Bai knelt before Shi Lan, mistook her for a wounded demon king, and told her they were in the West Mou Mountain Range within the Feather Emperor Hall’s territory.
• Shi Lan learned she was far from Chengtian Domain, then ordered Tian Bai to bring her blood food and used the carcasses and a Spirit Transformation Pill to stabilize her injuries.
• Shi Lan discovered her clothes and spiritual marrow had been lost, covered herself with treated beast hide, and explored the surrounding mountains while Tian Bai stayed behind.
• Samsara taught Shi Lan to draw out her innate spirit blood, changing her hair and eyes and making Tian Bai feel the familiar pressure of a powerful demon.
• Shi Lan determined that Samsara could send her back but chose to stay in the Demon Domain and pursue her quest; her panel showed 176 of 1,000 kills, a count she could not explain.

Shi Lan drew the Golden Rainbow Star-Chasing Sword and kept its conscious sword spirit despite the risks, then learned its former master was Chu Yang of the Sword-Worshipping Sect. Samsara revealed Chu Yang had originally been the host of its system and urgently asked Shi Lan to find out his age, suspecting something was wrong.

• Shi Lan used her intermediate lottery chance and drew the Golden Rainbow Star-Chasing Sword, choosing to retain its sword spirit despite the system's warnings.
• The sword spirit emerged from the sword and told Shi Lan it came from the Sword-Worshipping Sect and had belonged to Chu Yang.
• Samsara examined the sword but found no trace of the Xuanyang Continent's aura, then revealed Chu Yang had originally been the Heavens Reincarnation System's host.
• Samsara asked Shi Lan to find out Chu Yang's age because his reputation as the most talented person in nearly a thousand years contradicted what Samsara knew of him.

Samsara discovered that time flowed twenty-six times faster on the Xuanyang Continent than in the Lingyang Realm, leaving it afraid headquarters might abandon it. Shi Lan questioned the Golden Rainbow sword spirit, made it choose to stay, and learned she needed to make the sword acknowledge her as its master.

• Samsara confirmed that the Chu Yang Shi Lan knew was over forty because time flowed twenty-six times faster on the Xuanyang Continent, and it feared being cut off from headquarters.
• Shi Lan asked the sword spirit why it wanted to return to Chu Yang, and it explained that it wanted fame and feared being left in the weapon vault.
• The sword spirit said it had helped Chu Yang kill 376 people and believed anyone Chu Yang killed deserved death.
• Shi Lan demanded that the sword spirit stay with her or have its consciousness erased, and it chose to stay.
• Shi Lan tried channeling true qi into the Golden Rainbow sword, but Samsara told her the sword had not acknowledged her as its master.

Shi Lan completed the Golden Rainbow sword’s blood mark, recovered by feeding on demon beasts, and advanced to the middle Earth Fiend Realm. She summoned Tian Bai and Golden Rainbow back from a hunt, but a giant black bear pursuing them rushed toward her cave.

• Shi Lan soaked the Golden Rainbow sword in her blood and later completed its blood mark, allowing her to control the five-star spiritual weapon.
• Shi Lan sent Tian Bai and Golden Rainbow to hunt Earth Fiend Realm demon beasts, using their prey to heal her injuries and advance her cultivation.
• Shi Lan opened the Heavenly Ancestor Acupoint and broke through to the middle Earth Fiend Realm after months of cultivation.
• Shi Lan ordered Tian Bai and Golden Rainbow to return, while a giant black bear pursued them through the forest.
• Tian Bai led the bear toward Shi Lan, and the bear hurled giant logs at her just after she greeted them with a smile.

Shi Lan spared Bashan, a Heavenly Astral Realm bear serving Demon King Cang Yue, after learning it had pursued Tian Bai over the slaughter of Earth Fiend Realm beasts. She ordered Tian Bai to hunt less conspicuously, but a few days later a terrifying presence descended over the Ximu Mountain Range.

• Tian Bai explained that Bashan had chased him after noticing his unusual pattern of killing Earth Fiend Realm beasts and hiding their bodies.
• Bashan asked Shi Lan whether she had ordered the hunts, then apologized and backed away when she remained silent.
• Shi Lan let Bashan go, conserving her power and avoiding a conflict that might draw Cang Yue or other great demons.
• Shi Lan questioned Tian Bai about Cang Yue, learned little beyond the demon's immense age and strength, and told Tian Bai to keep a lower profile.
• After Tian Bai reduced his hunts, a sonic boom and overwhelming pressure jolted Shi Lan from cultivation and silenced the Ximu Mountain Range.

Shi Lan intimidated the Azure Moon Demon King by revealing her overwhelming aura and demanded compensation for the demon beasts killed in his territory. The Azure Moon Demon King agreed, then asked whether she belonged to the demigod race.

• Shi Lan emerged from the cave to meet the Azure Moon Demon King, while Tian Bai trembled under his pressure.
• Shi Lan unleashed a vast aura that made the Azure Moon Demon King realize she was far stronger than him, and he bowed to ask forgiveness.
• Shi Lan entered the cave, and the Azure Moon Demon King followed her inside after Tian Bai settled near the entrance.
• Shi Lan demanded five hundred demon beasts at or above the Earthly Fiend Realm, and the Azure Moon Demon King agreed to do everything in his power.
• The Azure Moon Demon King asked Shi Lan whether she was of the demigod race because her demonic aura was so faint.