Recaps

Qin Yan and Huang Jiuli fought through the Beast Spirit Sect’s defenders and slaughtered thousands of spirit beasts in a valley ambush. As Qin Yan absorbed the blood energy from the battlefield, he realized that far less blood energy remained than he expected.

• Qin Yan killed three Beast Spirit Sect elders and their spirit beasts with his Demon Word Heavenly Constitution, then advanced with Huang Jiuli through the sect’s defenders.
• An elder lured Qin Yan and Huang Jiuli into a valley where a formation revealed more than ten thousand spirit beasts and ordered them to attack.
• Huang Jiuli transformed into a scarlet phoenix and burned or tore through the spirit beasts, while Qin Yan and two hundred Blood Puppets slaughtered the rest.
• A small figure slipped into the Blood River to devour blood as the Beast Spirit Sect elder hoped Little Ancestor would reach the Great Grandmaster realm.
• Qin Yan absorbed blood energy from the Blood River with the Blood Demon Nest, then noticed that its reserves were much lower than expected and searched for the cause.

Qin Yan discovered that the creature devouring blood qi beneath the Blood River was a Blood-Devouring Mosquito, one of All Heavens’ most dangerous vicious insects. After it emerged and began feeding on the Beast Spirit Sect, Huang Jiuli asked whether it had reached the Grandmaster realm.

• Qin Yan used Blood Chains to battle the blood needles rising from the Blood River and spotted a Blood-Devouring Mosquito feeding at its bottom.
• Qin Yan recalled that the mosquito could grow to rival a Ninth-Rank Venerable, reach the Eleventh-Rank True Emperor realm, and carry a complete Blood Dao Essence.
• The Blood-Devouring Mosquito absorbed enough blood qi to grow to a hundred zhang and began draining nearby spirit beasts.
• A Beast Spirit Sect elder tried to placate the mosquito, but it pierced him with a blood needle and drained him to a corpse.
• Qin Yan realized the mosquito instinctively saw the Beast Spirit Sect members as food, while Huang Jiuli asked if it had reached the Grandmaster realm.

Qin Yan and Huang Jiuli encountered a Grandmaster-level Blood-Devouring Mosquito, which trapped Huang Jiuli in a mental illusion and attacked them with a devastating blood storm. Qin Yan countered with Darkness Force and drove the mosquito back, but it then vanished and reappeared directly in front of him.

• Huang Jiuli recognized the Blood-Devouring Mosquito as a notorious vicious insect, and Qin Yan confirmed it had reached the Grandmaster level.
• The mosquito trapped Huang Jiuli in a blood-filled mental illusion, but Qin Yan broke through it and freed her.
• The mosquito sensed Qin Yan’s powerful blood-path aura and unleashed a blood-red storm at him and Huang Jiuli.
• Qin Yan shielded Huang Jiuli and used a dark storm to devour the blood storm and force the mosquito to defend itself.
• The mosquito tore through space, vanished, and reappeared before Qin Yan.

Qin Yan overwhelmed the Blood-Devouring Mosquito, shattered its enormous phantom with the Dark Vault Scepter, and pursued it as it fled. He trapped it within his Darkness Domain and bound its legs, wings, and proboscis with strands of darkness.

• The Blood-Devouring Mosquito attacked Qin Yan with its six legs, but his darkness barrier stopped the blows, and he knocked it into a cliff with a giant handprint.
• The Blood-Devouring Mosquito summoned a thousand-zhang phantom that unleashed corrosive bloody rain, then fled when it realized Qin Yan was stronger.
• Qin Yan fired a Dark Mass from the Dark Vault Scepter, piercing and destroying the Blood-Devouring Mosquito phantom.
• Qin Yan pursued the fleeing Blood-Devouring Mosquito and suppressed its speed with his Darkness Domain.
• Qin Yan bound the Blood-Devouring Mosquito's legs, wings, and proboscis with strands of darkness.

Qin Yan and Huang Jiuli destroyed the Beast Spirit Sect and looted its treasury. As they left to attack the Spiritual Treasure Sect, Qin Yan used the Dark Enslavement Rune to subdue the Blood-Devouring Mosquito and stored it in his Blood Demon Nest.

• Qin Yan captured the Blood-Devouring Mosquito in a dark cocoon and returned to the Beast Spirit Sect's deep valley.
• Qin Yan and Huang Jiuli killed the Beast Spirit Sect's powerful elders, disciples, and spirit beasts, destroying the sect.
• Qin Yan and Huang Jiuli divided the spoils and looted the treasury, with Huang Jiuli taking the spirit-beast resources.
• Qin Yan and Huang Jiuli left the ruined mountain gate, intending to attack the Spiritual Treasure Sect before news of the destruction spread.
• Qin Yan branded the unconscious Blood-Devouring Mosquito with the Dark Enslavement Rune and stored it in his Blood Demon Nest.

After destroying the Beast Spirit Sect, Qin Yan and Huang Jiuli annihilated the Spiritual Treasure Sect and took its trove of spiritual treasures. With the Heavenly Dao Alliance preparing to fight him, Qin Yan entered the Five Elements Yin-Yang Chaos Tower to challenge its Sixty-First Floor and strengthen himself before the final battle.

• News that Qin Yan had destroyed the Beast Spirit Sect spread across the Central Domain, filling its factions with dread.
• The Heavenly Dao Alliance dispatched more than a hundred envoys to contact surviving major factions across the Cangwu Small World.
• Qin Yan and Huang Jiuli attacked the Spiritual Treasure Sect, killed its upper echelon, and seized its spiritual treasures for Mo Yuan.
• Qin Yan recognized that the Heavenly Dao Alliance was preparing to fight him and decided to improve his martial foundations before facing it.
• Qin Yan entered the Five Elements Yin-Yang Chaos Tower, had his mental power sealed, and prepared to challenge the Sixty-First Floor on his way toward the Seventieth.

Qin Yan advanced from the sixty-first floor to the seventieth with ease, where a far stronger Yin-Yang figure challenged him for the position of Holy Son. He shattered its powerful Cross Yin-Yang Blade and fixed his gaze on the opponent as Solar Yang power filled his left eye.

• Qin Yan defeated the gatekeepers from the sixty-first through the sixty-ninth floors with a single spear strike each.
• Qin Yan encountered a Yin-Yang figure on the seventieth floor whose Blood Qi exceeded his own and took the challenge seriously.
• Qin Yan and the Yin-Yang figure exchanged hundreds of blows with the Mo Yuan Spear and its Yin-Yang saber.
• The Yin-Yang figure blocked Qin Yan's spear aura and attacked with its space-rending Cross Yin-Yang Blade.
• Qin Yan weakened the Cross Yin-Yang Blade with Yin-Yang Five Elements Block and shattered it with a precise spear thrust.
• Qin Yan's left eye turned pure white as he stared at the Yin-Yang figure.

Qin Yan cleared the Seventieth Floor of the Five Elements Yin-Yang Chaos Tower and received a large amount of Five Elements Essence along with a Holy Son Token. He learned about the Token’s privileges and asked the Artifact Spirit whether its life-saving teleportation function still worked.

• Qin Yan destroyed the Yin-Yang Sprite with a Supreme Yang beam and cleared the Seventieth Floor.
• The Artifact Spirit praised Qin Yan’s talent and told him that a highly gifted Demon Race challenger had lived more than a hundred thousand years earlier.
• Qin Yan received one percent Five Elements Essence and a Holy Son Token bearing his name.
• Qin Yan discovered that the Token granted Holy Son privileges in the long-perished Chaos Origin Sect.
• Qin Yan asked the Artifact Spirit whether the Token’s protective teleportation function remained operational.

After returning from the Five Elements Yin-Yang Chaos Tower with a life-saving Holy Son Token, Qin Yan tortured the Blood-Devouring Mosquito until it agreed to answer his questions. The mosquito revealed how the Beast Spirit Sect had found it and made it their Little Ancestor.

• Qin Yan withdrew from the tower, returned to his body, and refined his Five Elements Essence with the Yin-Yang Fish Dao Diagram.
• Qin Yan considered becoming a Divine Son of the Chaos Origin Sect to gain a Token with a shorter cooldown, but set the idea aside because he could not yet clear the ninetieth floor.
• Qin Yan used Dark Enslavement to torture the Blood-Devouring Mosquito, repeatedly healing it until it begged for mercy.
• Qin Yan questioned the mosquito, and it explained that the Beast Spirit Sect had found it in the Cangwu Small World about three years earlier.
• The Blood-Devouring Mosquito said the Dark Gold Terror Bear had named it the sect's Little Ancestor and given it the treatment of an actual ancestor.

Qin Yan allowed the captured Blood-Devouring Mosquito to feed in his Blood Nest while continuing his training and refining Five Elements Essence. As reinforcements gathered around the Heavenly Dao Alliance, the Cangwu Small World braced for a final battle in the Central Domain.

• Qin Yan sent the Blood-Devouring Mosquito into his Blood Nest to devour blood qi, unaware that it secretly intended to kill him once it grew stronger.
• Qin Yan relied on the Dark Enslavement Rune to gradually reshape the Blood-Devouring Mosquito's soul and resumed training with the Mo Yuan Spirit Weapon.
• Qin Yan invested his daily Skill Points into the Five Elements Chaos Genesis as the Yin-Yang Fish Dao Diagram refined Five Elements Essence into Yin-Yang Essence.
• The Mystic Ice Sect and Pure World Lotus Sect sent leaders, elders, and disciples to support the Heavenly Dao Alliance against the coming conflict.
• The Central Domain became the focus of the Cangwu Small World as the Heavenly Dao Alliance's golden protective formation stood beneath the December 22 night sky.

Long Aotian, Xiao Yichen, Chu Jinghong, and ten other Heavenly Stairway challengers launched a surprise attack on the Heavenly Dao Alliance and shattered its sect-protecting formation. As they pushed toward the Core Zone, a powerful golden palm appeared from within the Alliance and clashed with their combined attacks.

• Long Aotian, Xiao Yichen, and Chu Jinghong led thirteen Heavenly Stairway challengers to the skies above the Heavenly Dao Alliance.
• The challengers attacked together, and Long Aotian’s fist struck the sect-protecting formation first.
• The thirteen challengers shattered the formation and stormed into the Alliance, slaughtering disciples and destroying its buildings.
• An aged voice from the depths of the Alliance condemned the invaders as an enormous golden palm appeared.
• The golden palm collided with the thirteen challengers’ combined attacks, flattening nearby peaks and blasting a vast hole through the clouds.

The Heavenly Dao Alliance announced that it had captured Long Aotian and challenged the Outer Realm Demons to a decisive battle on December 31, drawing Cangwu’s surviving factions toward the alliance. As the twelve escaped attackers prepared to gather allies and Qin Yan continued cultivating, his Lunar and Solar Spear Domains advanced to Domain Myriad Changes.

• The Heavenly Dao Alliance publicized its victory over the Outer Realm Demons and announced that Long Aotian was imprisoned.
• The Heavenly Dao Alliance called on the Outer Realm Demons to come for Long Aotian on December 31 and fight a decisive battle, prompting local factions to rush to reinforce it.
• The twelve Heavenly Stairway challengers discussed Long Aotian’s capture, then decided to join with other prodigies and attack the Heavenly Dao Alliance.
• Qin Yan heard that Long Aotian had been captured but chose to focus on cultivation and regarded the Heavenly Dao Alliance as a future target.
• Qin Yan’s Lunar and Solar Spear Domains broke through to Domain Myriad Changes.

Qin Yan reflected on his newly advanced Spear Domains and the slow progress of his Mental Strength before continuing his spear training. Yin Li arrived at the Spiritual Treasure Sect with Lu Qingshan and Yun Qingge, reunited with Huang Jiuli, and realized her friend had reached peak Grandmaster.

• Qin Yan reviewed the transformations of his two Domain Myriad Changes Spear Domains and considered their usefulness against weaker enemies.
• Qin Yan found his Mental Strength had risen only to 602 Hz in ten days and judged the climb toward 700 Hz too slow.
• Qin Yan resumed training with the Mo Yuan Spirit Weapon.
• Yin Li, Lu Qingshan, and Yun Qingge arrived at the Spiritual Treasure Sect after fighting in the Western Region.
• Yin Li reunited with Huang Jiuli and learned that she had reached peak Grandmaster.

Huang Jiuli welcomed Yin Li, Lu Qingshan, and Yun Qingge to the Spiritual Treasure Sect, where they reunited with Qin Yan and discussed joining the Heavenly Dao Alliance’s final battle. Qin Yan agreed to cooperate in exchange for ninety percent of the spoils, and Yin Li accepted after Huang Jiuli revealed something that shocked her; soon afterward, Yin Li argued with the disciples outside the sect gate.

• Huang Jiuli led Yin Li, Lu Qingshan, and Yun Qingge through the Thousand Thunder Spirit Array to meet Qin Yan.
• Qin Yan and his old friends exchanged news about the war in the Western Region and his experiences in the Eastern Region.
• Yin Li asked Qin Yan to join the Heavenly Dao Alliance’s final battle, and he agreed to travel with them.
• Qin Yan demanded ninety percent of the spoils, and Yin Li accepted after Huang Jiuli sent her a startling message.
• Qin Yan returned to spear training while Yin Li left to inform the Holy Land disciples, then argued with several of them outside the mountain gate.

Yin Li’s team and several other Heavenly Stairway passers rejected Qin Yan’s terms for joining the assault on the Heavenly Dao Alliance, while Su Qingwan chose to join him. As Holy Land disciples gathered into a force of more than forty, Qin Yan’s own team remained at six, and he stayed confident he needed no more help.

• Chu Yun challenged Yin Li’s proposed nine-to-one division of spoils, and her team sided with him and rejected her plan.
• Lin Ruoxi, Su Qingwan, and Luo Qingli rejected Qin Yan’s offer of five percent each, but Su Qingwan left their group to join Qin Yan.
• Lin Ruoxi and Luo Qingli departed, while Yin Li continued to trust Qin Yan and Huang Jiuli.
• Twelve Southern Region Heavenly Stairway passers rejected Qin Yan’s five-percent offer and left without forming an alliance.
• More than forty Holy Land disciples gathered into one team, while Qin Yan’s six-person team remained isolated as he trained and dismissed the need for more allies.

The Cangwu Small World’s factions gathered over a thousand Grandmasters at the Heavenly Dao Alliance to defend their world, while a Holy Land group secretly planned to use Qin Yan as a shield against the Alliance’s Great Grandmaster. Qin Yan’s six-person squad arrived first, and the chapter left them facing the overwhelming enemy force.

• The native factions united at the Heavenly Dao Alliance, assembling more than five hundred Late-Stage Grandmasters or stronger and preparing for a war to defend their world.
• More than forty Holy Land disciples plotted to let Qin Yan’s squad bear the brunt of the battle, keeping the Heavenly Dao Alliance’s Great Grandmaster secret from him.
• Qin Yan raised his Yin-Yang Essence above one percent, then departed with Huang Jiuli, Yin Li, Su Qingwan, Lu Qingshan, and Yun Qingge.
• Lin Ruoxi, Chu Jinghong, Xiao Yichen, Luo Qingli, and the other Holy Land disciples also set out for the Heavenly Dao Alliance.
• Qin Yan’s squad arrived first and saw over a thousand Grandmasters gathered across the Alliance’s territory, including the Alliance’s Grand Elder atop the golden war chariots.

The Heavenly Dao Alliance rallied more than a thousand Grandmasters against Qin Yan and his companions, displaying the tortured Long Aotian as a warning. Qin Yan sent his companions away to face the oncoming army alone, while Holy Land disciples mistook their retreat for abandonment.

• The Heavenly Dao Alliance's First Elder displayed Long Aotian, pinned in the sky by golden spears, and struck him with golden lightning to rally Cangwu's warriors.
• More than a thousand Grandmasters charged toward Qin Yan and his five companions.
• Qin Yan told Huang Jiuli to retreat, and she transformed into a phoenix and flew away.
• Qin Yan ordered Yin Li, Su Qingwan, Lu Qingshan, and Yun Qingge to leave, and they fled together.
• Holy Land disciples watching from afar mocked Qin Yan, believing his companions had abandoned him because of his greed.

Lin Ruoxi silenced the Holy Land geniuses as Qin Yan faced more than a thousand Grandmasters alone. The Cangwu army formed the Ice Phoenix, World-Purifying White Lotus, and Heavenly Cycle Star Formation, empowering the two phantoms as the battle began.

• Lin Ruoxi used her Imperial Sword Intent to quiet the crowd and considered why Su Qingwan had left Qin Yan.
• A golden eye projected the battlefield into the Mystic Sanctuary for its elders and Peak Masters to watch.
• Qin Yan stood alone against the Cangwu army after Huang Jiuli and the other four departed.
• The Mystic Ice Sect formed the Ice Phoenix Formation while the Pure World Lotus Sect summoned the World-Purifying White Lotus.
• An elder of the Heavenly Dao Alliance activated the Heavenly Cycle Star Formation, strengthening both phantoms with starlight.
• The Ice Phoenix grew to nearly fifteen hundred zhang as its frost aura became more powerful.

Qin Yan faced two Mid-Stage Grandmaster formation phantoms empowered by the Heavenly Cycle Star Formation and summoned his 120-zhang Dark Emperor Golden Body. After merging with it, he increased his mental strength further and drew the Dark Vault Scepter, preparing to fight.

• The Ice Phoenix and World-Purifying White Lotus absorbed the starlight and rose to Mid-Stage Grandmaster power, leaving the watching Holy Land disciples worried about Qin Yan’s chances.
• Yin Li asked Huang Jiuli whether Qin Yan could win, and Huang Jiuli admitted she was uncertain but insisted they had to believe in him.
• Qin Yan acknowledged the formation’s strength and summoned his 120-zhang Dark Emperor Golden Body, stunning the Holy Land experts.
• Qin Yan merged with the Golden Body, boosted his mental strength, and drew the Dark Vault Scepter from its Dark Light Wheel.

Qin Yan broke through to the Mid-Stage Eighth Rank and repelled the Ice Phoenix with a single strike. The Heavenly Dao Alliance ordered the Pure World Lotus Sect to support the Phoenix, and Qin Yan activated the power of his imperial crown as their combined attack approached.

• The Dark Vault Scepter helped Qin Yan break through to the Mid-Stage Eighth Rank, and his Dark Emperor Golden Body grew stronger.
• The Ice Phoenix attacked Qin Yan, but he swept the Dark Vault Scepter and sent it flying backward.
• The Heavenly Dao Alliance's Grand Elder ordered the Pure World Lotus Sect to join the attack.
• The World-Purifying White Lotus landed on the Ice Phoenix and boosted it with lotus power, raising its strength to the peak of the Mid-Stage Grandmaster realm.
• The Ice Phoenix combined Mystic Ice, starlight, and lotus power into a spiraling ice current and launched it at Qin Yan.
• Qin Yan placed a sphere of Darkness Force into the Nine-Tassel Profound Black Imperial Crown, causing its beads to blaze with black light.

Qin Yan used the Nine-Tassel Profound Black Imperial Crown to strengthen his Darkness Force and nearly destroyed the Ice Phoenix phantom and World-Purifying White Lotus. The Heavenly Cycle Star Formation raised a powerful starlight defense, leaving the battle evenly matched as night fell.

• The Nine-Tassel Profound Black Imperial Crown raised Qin Yan's mental power to 639 hertz, and his dark vortex crushed the Ice Phoenix phantom's tricolored icy stream.
• Qin Yan's Dark Masses broke through the World-Purifying White Lotus's barrier and blasted holes through the Ice Phoenix phantom.
• The Heavenly Dao Alliance summoned a wall of starlight from the Heavenly Cycle Star Formation, blocking Qin Yan's Dark Masses.
• Qin Yan and the Ice Phoenix phantom continued exchanging attacks as the starlight wall protected the Ice Phoenix and World-Purifying White Lotus from lethal blows.
• The battle continued into night without either side gaining the advantage.

The Heavenly Dao Alliance empowered the Ice Phoenix and World-Purifying White Lotus with stellar power, while Tian Xuanzi absorbed the disciples’ energy and rose to the pinnacle of Late-Stage Great Grandmaster. The three surrounded Qin Yan, and Tian Xuanzi began gathering golden lightning for an attack.

• The Heavenly Cycle Star Formation gathered starlight, healing the Ice Phoenix and raising it to Late-Stage Great Grandmaster while strengthening the World-Purifying White Lotus.
• Tian Xuanzi emerged from the Heavenly Dao Alliance’s Core Zone and led the disciples in transferring their cultivated energy into him.
• Tian Xuanzi’s cultivation surged to the pinnacle of Late-Stage Great Grandmaster after he absorbed the disciples’ energy, stellar power, and the white lotus’s power.
• The Ice Phoenix, World-Purifying White Lotus, and Tian Xuanzi surrounded Qin Yan, who challenged them to attack together.
• Tian Xuanzi summoned a golden thundercloud above Qin Yan and began concentrating its lightning.

As Tian Xuanzi unleashed a devastating golden lightning strike against Qin Yan, Huang Jiuli, Yin Li, and Su Qingwan rushed to fight beside him. Qin Yan stopped Huang Jiuli from sacrificing herself and placed her behind him as the lightning descended.

• The Holy Land disciples prepared to flee, believing Qin Yan could not survive Tian Xuanzi's attack.
• Huang Jiuli flew toward Qin Yan, and Yin Li and Su Qingwan followed her while Lu Qingshan and Yun Qingge retreated.
• Huang Jiuli told Qin Yan she had come to fight beside him, while Yin Li and Su Qingwan prepared to battle at his sides.
• Tian Xuanzi sent a hundred-zhang golden lightning bolt crashing down toward Qin Yan and the three women.
• Huang Jiuli prepared to block the lightning and risk nirvana rebirth, but Qin Yan used a dark hand to move her behind him.

Qin Yan blocked a peak Late-Stage Grandmaster’s attack, protected Huang Jiuli, Yin Li, and Su Qingwan, and summoned his Darkness Altar to battle Tian Xuanzi. As that fight continued, Qin Yan turned his attention to the Ice Phoenix and World-Purifying White Lotus, which began gathering their powers for an attack.

• Qin Yan used the Hand of the Dark Abyss to weaken and block the golden lightning, then shielded Huang Jiuli, Yin Li, and Su Qingwan with a darkness barrier.
• Qin Yan manifested the Darkness Altar at late-stage Rank Eight and sent it to intercept Tian Xuanzi.
• Tian Xuanzi charged the Darkness Altar with golden Heavenly Dao power, and the two fought to a standstill.
• Qin Yan aimed five increasingly powerful Darkness Lasers at the Ice Phoenix and World-Purifying White Lotus.
• The Ice Phoenix formed a colossal ice-crystal pillar as the World-Purifying White Lotus sent lotus phantoms toward it.

Qin Yan used five Dark Lasers to destroy the ice crystal lotus pillar, then decided to target the Heavenly Cycle Star Formation. He drew one percent of the Darkness Dao Essence from Little Black, causing his power to surge and the surrounding forces to tremble.

• The Heavenly Dao Alliance disciple sent the ice crystal lotus pillar at Qin Yan, but his five Dark Lasers shattered it and broke apart its white lotus capital.
• The fifth Dark Laser pierced through the ice pillar, but the Heavenly Cycle Star Formation blocked its remaining power from reaching the Ice Phoenix.
• Qin Yan identified the star formation as the allied army’s greatest threat and decided to destroy it first.
• Qin Yan asked Little Black for one percent of the Darkness Dao Essence and sealed away some of his existing Dao Essence before absorbing it.
• Darkness ripples erupted from Qin Yan, tearing through space and making the Ice Phoenix, World-Purifying White Lotus, phantom stars, Huang Jiuli, Yin Li, and Su Qingwan tremble.