Recaps

After fusing one percent Darkness Essence, Qin Yan gained far greater control over Darkness Force without increasing his spiritual power realm. He used the Nine-Tassel Profound Black Imperial Crown’s Imperial Crown Verdict to seal the Heavenly Cycle Star Formation beneath a vast black screen, leaving the battle hidden from everyone outside.

• The elders watching through the Golden-Eyed Heavenly Mirror recognized that Qin Yan had fused one percent Darkness Essence and marveled at the rare resource he possessed.
• Qin Yan sensed that his spiritual power remained at 639 hertz, but his control over Darkness Force had transformed and his combat power had reached the Late-Stage Grandmaster threshold.
• Qin Yan activated the Nine-Tassel Profound Black Imperial Crown’s Spirit Weapon Skill, Imperial Crown Verdict, and sent an immense phantom crown above the Heavenly Cycle Star Formation.
• The Heavenly Dao Alliance elder summoned a giant star beast from the 365 phantom stars to resist the descending black light screen.
• The black screen enveloped and sealed the entire formation, hiding whatever was happening inside from the native Martial Artists outside.

Qin Yan used the Dark Emperor Golden Body to overwhelm the Ice Phoenix and World-Purifying White Lotus, while the Heavenly Cycle Star Formation summoned its Astral Phenomena to confront his Dark Judgment Swords. The two forces collided inside the barrier, leaving the battle unresolved.

• The Ice Phoenix and World-Purifying White Lotus attacked Qin Yan’s black light barrier, but Darkness Force swallowed both strikes without leaving a mark.
• Qin Yan charged the Ice Phoenix and White Lotus with the Dark Emperor Golden Body, shattering their attacks and overwhelming their defenses.
• The Dark Emperor Golden Body battered the two formation spirit phantoms, whose feathers and petals broke apart as their auras weakened.
• Inside the barrier, the dark imperial crown gathered Darkness Force into tens of thousands of Dark Judgment Swords.
• The Heavenly Cycle Star Formation manifested three hundred and sixty-five Astral Phenomena, which surged upward as the Dark Judgment Swords rained down.
• The Dark Judgment Swords and Astral Phenomena collided in a violent clash of darkness and starlight.

Qin Yan’s Darkness Force overwhelmed the Heavenly Cycle Star Formation, destroying its star phantoms and causing severe backlash among the Cangwu Small World’s Grandmasters. With the formation’s enhancement gone, Qin Yan seized the chance to attack the weakened Ice Phoenix and white lotus phantoms.

• Qin Yan’s Darkness Altar suppressed Tian Xuanzi with Darkness Chains as Tian Xuanzi struggled against it.
• The Heavenly Cycle Star Formation’s battle against the Judgment Swords ended, and its Grandmaster controllers suffered backlash, spitting blood and losing power.
• The pitch-black curtain faded, revealing the shattered Heavenly Cycle Star Map and the vanishing imperial crown phantom.
• The formation’s power dissipated, weakening Tian Xuanzi, the Ice Phoenix, and the white lotus phantoms.
• Qin Yan sent Darkness Chains toward the Ice Phoenix and white lotus, which formed an ice barrier and closed their petals to defend themselves.

Qin Yan annihilated the Cangwu Small World’s three peak formation spirits, but the battle left him mentally exhausted. After recovering with a pill, he turned his attention to Tian Xuanzi and the surviving allied army.

• Qin Yan used Darkness Chains to break through the Ice Phoenix and World-Purifying White Lotus’s defenses, then corrupted and destroyed both spirits.
• The three Cangwu peak Combat Powers—the Ice Phoenix formation spirit, the World-Purifying White Lotus, and the Heavenly Cycle Star Formation—were annihilated by Qin Yan.
• Huang Jiuli, Yin Li, Su Qingwan, and the distant Holy Land prodigies reacted to Qin Yan’s victory, while Su Qingwan was glad she had chosen his side.
• Qin Yan dismissed his Dark Emperor Golden Body and returned the one percent Darkness Essence to Little Black through the Blood Demon Nest.
• Qin Yan swallowed a mental-energy recovery pill and looked toward Tian Xuanzi, who remained suppressed by the Darkness Altar, and the surviving Cangwu allied army.

Qin Yan unleashed the Abyss Fire Lotus against Tian Xuanzi, who used a forbidden ritual to summon the Heavenly Dao’s power into his body. Tian Xuanzi’s eyes turned gold as his aura surged to a terrifying level.

• After the three great formations broke, their Grandmaster presiders were weakened, and Tian Xuanzi realized the Cangwu Alliance could not stop Qin Yan.
• Qin Yan appeared beside the Darkness Altar and sent its fully condensed Abyss Fire Lotus toward Tian Xuanzi.
• Facing the attack, Tian Xuanzi performed an ancient sacrifice and called for the Heavenly Dao to descend upon him.
• Golden eyes appeared in the sky and struck Tian Xuanzi with twin beams of light.
• Tian Xuanzi’s body cracked and filled with golden light as his pupils turned entirely gold and his aura surged.

The Heavenly Dao of the Cangwu Small World took over Tian Xuanzi’s body and effortlessly destroyed Qin Yan’s Abyss Fire Lotus, though the vessel was breaking apart under the strain. As the Heavenly Dao prepared a final attack against Qin Yan’s group, it summoned immense lightning from the earth and sky.

• The Heavenly Dao destroyed Qin Yan’s Abyss Fire Lotus by eroding it with golden Runes and crushing it, worsening the cracks spreading across Tian Xuanzi’s body.
• The Heavenly Dao revealed that Tian Xuanzi’s soul had been annihilated when he summoned the Heavenly Dao’s descent.
• Qin Yan realized he was facing the Cangwu Small World’s Heavenly Dao and judged that Tian Xuanzi’s body could not endure its power for much longer.
• The Heavenly Dao resolved to kill Qin Yan’s group before its vessel collapsed and summoned golden lightning from beneath the earth and from the sky.
• The Heavenly Dao caught the two bolts of lightning in its hands and brought its palms together before its chest.

Tian Xuanzi unleashed the Heaven-Earth Thunder Marsh before his body collapsed, and Qin Yan shielded Huang Jiuli, Yin Li, and Su Qingwan with the Five Elements Yin-Yang Mystic Yellow Bell. After the bell withstood the attack without damage, Qin Yan stood unharmed, leaving the Cangwu Small World’s Grandmasters terrified.

• Tian Xuanzi formed the thousand-zhang Heaven-Earth Thunder Marsh and sent it toward Qin Yan and the others as his body broke apart and the Heavenly Dao dissipated.
• Qin Yan appeared before Huang Jiuli, Yin Li, and Su Qingwan and summoned the Five Elements Yin-Yang Mystic Yellow Bell with the Mo Yuan Spirit Weapon.
• The Heaven-Earth Thunder Marsh struck the bell, but its seven-colored radiance remained unmoved as it absorbed the attack.
• Yin Li recognized that Qin Yan’s Spirit Weapon Skill had grown stronger, while Qin Yan judged that the bell could now withstand attacks at the Venerable level.
• Qin Yan dismissed the bell and appeared unharmed, terrifying the Cangwu Small World’s Grandmasters.

Qin Yan used his Demon Word Heavenly Constitution to kill more than a thousand wounded Cangwu Small World Grandmasters, then gathered their Dao Essence and blood aura. The Holy Land disciples watched in awe as the Blood-Devouring Mosquito fed on the battlefield, unaware that Qin Yan's Dark Enslavement Rune was steadily eroding its will.

• Qin Yan declared that the Cangwu Small World Grandmasters would die, and they all exploded from within because their earlier injuries had left them near exhaustion.
• Qin Yan drew the scattered Dao Essence fragments into his body and used the Undying Blood Demon Scripture to absorb the battlefield's blood aura into the Blood Demon Nest.
• Qin Yan sent the Blood-Devouring Mosquito into the Blood River to devour the blood aura, while the Dark Enslavement Rune continued to erode its will.
• The Holy Land disciples watched Qin Yan's feats in stunned silence, and a South Academy challenger said his strength surpassed their understanding.

After Qin Yan defeated the Heavenly Dao Alliance, he claimed the battlefield’s resources and spent the turn of the year refining the immense blood energy left by more than a thousand dead Grandmasters. By January 3rd, the battlefield had cleared, and the Blood-Devouring Mosquito had fallen into a deep slumber as its power grew.

• Qin Yan told Huang Jiuli, Yin Li, and Su Qingwan to collect resources, and they flew out to search the battlefield.
• A Holy Land prodigy tried to take resources without permission, but Qin Yan blasted him away and ordered him to get lost.
• The remaining Holy Land disciples withdrew while Qin Yan and the Blood-Devouring Mosquito absorbed the battlefield’s blood energy and Dao Essence.
• The other Holy Land prodigies conquered the surviving sects across the Cangwu Small World as the old year ended and the new year began.
• On January 3rd, Qin Yan and the Blood-Devouring Mosquito finished consuming the battlefield’s blood energy, and the mosquito returned to the Blood Demon Nest to sleep.

After the battle, Qin Yan assessed his Dao Essence gains and discovered the Heavenly Cycle Star Formation’s secrets among the spoils. He seized the Heavenly Dao Alliance’s resources and entered the Heavenly Dao Tower, climbing toward its upper levels.

• Qin Yan reviewed the Dao Essences he had gained and planned to refine his Five Elements Essence and Spear Dao Essence.
• Huang Jiuli gave Qin Yan the Storage Ring containing the fallen Grandmaster experts’ resources, including a complete record of the Heavenly Cycle Star Formation.
• Qin Yan learned the formation was a powerful eighth-grade Formation and decided to master it after advancing his Array Mage attainments.
• Qin Yan, Huang Jiuli, Yin Li, and Su Qingwan flew to the Heavenly Dao Alliance, where Qin Yan made a disciple lead them to its treasury.
• Qin Yan took the Alliance’s treasury and searched its scripture repository, Martial Arena, pill chamber, and spiritual material storehouse for valuables.
• Qin Yan’s group settled in the Heavenly Dao Tower, and Qin Yan passed the lower three levels as he climbed upward.

Qin Yan cultivated his two Golden Bodies and practiced his spear technique on the Heavenly Dao Tower’s fifth layer, while Huang Jiuli entered the fourth layer and began cultivating her Phoenix Golden Body. The chapter explained that cultivating multiple Golden Bodies could prepare a Martial Artist to condense a Supreme Golden Body, but the requirements were extraordinarily demanding.

• Qin Yan stopped on the fifth layer, where his two Golden Bodies absorbed Heaven-Earth Force as he practiced his spear technique.
• Yin Li, Su Qingwan, and the others stayed on the lower floors, unable to withstand the pressure of the fourth layer.
• Huang Jiuli transformed into a phoenix, endured the pressure, and successfully entered the fourth layer.
• Huang Jiuli summoned her Phoenix Golden Body and began absorbing the fourth layer’s Heaven-Earth Force.
• The chapter described the requirements for a Supreme Golden Body: three Golden Bodies had to reach 9,999 zhang, with strict cultivation milestones along the way.

The Cangwu Small World assessment ended, and the rankings confirmed Qin Yan in first place, earning him the World Origin. With the world set to close in one month, Qin Yan planned to use the remaining time to advance his Golden Body.

• Yin Li watched Huang Jiuli enter the fourth layer, then set aside her mixed feelings and began cultivating her Golden Body.
• The Mystic Sanctuary’s disciples continued purging sects across the Cangwu Small World, and the effort lasted until the end of the month.
• A giant golden eye announced the end of the assessment and revealed the rankings, with Qin Yan far above all the other disciples in first place.
• Qin Yan realized the World Origin was his and heard that everyone had one month to leave before the Small World closed.
• Qin Yan decided the remaining month should be enough to raise his Golden Body to a new height.

Qin Yan cultivated in the Heavenly Dao Tower until both of his Golden Bodies reached ninety zhang, letting him break through to Peak Grandmaster. After refining pills for seven days, his blood qi reached fifty million Cal, though his Golden Bodies had only grown to ninety-one zhang and the Grand Grandmaster bottleneck remained ahead.

• Yin Li and Su Qingwan left the Heavenly Dao Tower, while Huang Jiuli returned to the fourth layer to cultivate.
• On February 20th, Qin Yan's two Golden Bodies reached ninety zhang, breaking his bottleneck and advancing him to Peak Grandmaster.
• Qin Yan refined pills for seven days, raising his blood qi until his Golden Bodies reached ninety-one zhang.
• Qin Yan checked his Attribute Panel and found that his total blood qi had reached fifty million Cal and all three of his Spear Domains had entered the Domain Myriad Changes level.

Qin Yan left the Cangwu Small World but was transported to a strange space containing its World Origin, where a powerful old man revealed that he knew Qin Yan’s deepest secrets. The old man claimed he had no interest in them, and his golden-robed companion identified him as an emperor.

• Qin Yan reviewed his cultivation, noted that his Formation mastery had advanced more slowly, and decided to leave the Cangwu Small World before it closed.
• Qin Yan used his Holy Land Token to depart, but appeared in an unfamiliar void filled with golden lightning and the Cangwu Small World’s World Origin.
• A white-haired old man and a golden-robed young man appeared, and the old man said he had brought Qin Yan there.
• The old man revealed that he knew about Qin Yan’s Darkness Essence, demonic cultivation, Nine Nether Soul-Devouring Demon Tree, and concealed combat strength.
• Qin Yan grew wary when the old man said he had no interest in his secrets, but the golden-robed man assured him that an emperor’s word was no jest.

Great Emperor Cangxuan personally offered to take Qin Yan as his personal disciple, and Qin Yan accepted. During their oath before the Great Dao, a golden Dao Seal descended, leaving the ceremony poised at a mysterious sign.

• Qin Yan realized that the old man before him was Great Emperor Cangxuan and respectfully greeted him and Holy Lord Xuantian.
• Cangxuan Ye told Qin Yan he had come to take him as his disciple, and Qin Yan eagerly agreed while privately wondering whether Cangxuan Ye had another motive.
• Cangxuan Ye began the disciple-taking ceremony and swore before All Heavens and the Great Dao to guide and protect Qin Yan, while Qin Yan pledged to respect his master and inherit his legacy.
• A rift opened above them as the Great Daos manifested, overwhelming Qin Yan and causing the World Origin of the Cangwu Small World to tremble.
• One Great Dao trembled, and a golden Dao Seal drifted down before Qin Yan.

Qin Yan accepted Cangxuan Ye as his master under a Great Dao Contract and received a blessing that strengthened his Golden Bodies and helped him break through to the Great Grandmaster realm. Cangxuan Ye then introduced Xuantian, the Holy Master of Mystic Sanctuary, as Qin Yan’s senior brother.

• Qin Yan swore under the Great Dao Contract that he would never betray Cangxuan Ye, and the contract entered his body.
• The Great Dao blessing enlarged Qin Yan’s three Golden Bodies, and his Yin-Yang Five Elements Chaos Golden Body and Eternal Blood Demon Golden Body reached ninety-nine zhang and underwent Heaven and Earth Baptism.
• Qin Yan’s martial realm broke through from Grandmaster to Great Grandmaster as the blessing’s power ran out.
• Qin Yan thanked Cangxuan Ye and wholeheartedly acknowledged him as his master.
• Cangxuan Ye introduced Xuantian, the Holy Master of Mystic Sanctuary, to Qin Yan as his senior brother.

Xuantian welcomed Qin Yan as his junior brother and gave him an Azure Heaven Profound Thunder Talisman. Cangxuan Ye explained the Emperor Seal’s protections, then placed a Cangxuan Restriction on Qin Yan to conceal his secrets from Great Emperor experts.

• Xuantian gave Qin Yan a low-grade Earth-tier Azure Heaven Profound Thunder Talisman capable of killing an early-stage True Emperor.
• Cangxuan Ye explained that Qin Yan’s Emperor Seal could shield him from powerful auras, suppress certain origins, and help trace attacks back to their source.
• Cangxuan Ye gave Qin Yan another gift by forming an Emperor Rune mark on his body.
• Cangxuan Ye identified the mark as the Cangxuan Restriction, which sealed Qin Yan’s auras and concealed his secrets from Great Emperor experts.

Cangxuan Ye gave Qin Yan a Cangxuan Restriction and an Emperor Dao Token before leaving him to refine the Cangwu Small World’s Origin. As Qin Yan absorbed it, strange signs spread across the world, leaving its Martial Artists in panic.

• Cangxuan Ye reassured Qin Yan that the Cangxuan Restriction would conceal his secrets, then gave him a jade-green Emperor Dao Token and departed.
• Xuantian explained that the Emperor Dao Token granted access to special places in the Mystic Sanctuary and told Qin Yan to contact him after refining the Cangwu Small World’s Origin.
• Qin Yan calmed himself and began refining the weakened Heavenly Dao Origin with his qi and blood.
• The Heavenly Dao Origin struggled against Qin Yan but was gradually eroded, with its Rules and memories merging into his consciousness.
• Blood rain and blood-red lightning appeared across the Cangwu Small World, frightening its Martial Artists.

Qin Yan overcame the Cangwu Small World Heavenly Dao’s final resistance and refined its remaining origin, gaining control of the world. The blood rain and destructive storms ended, and the survivors bowed to Qin Yan as their new Heavenly Dao.

• Qin Yan’s Dao Seal suppressed the Heavenly Dao Origin’s final counterattack and helped him continue refining it.
• For half a month, Qin Yan eroded the Heavenly Dao Will as blood rain and bloody lightning battered the Cangwu Small World.
• Qin Yan refined the final remnant of origin power, formed a golden robe, and gained the appearance and power of the Heavenly Dao.
• The rain and bloody storms stopped as Qin Yan sensed the world through his newly acquired Heavenly Dao Force.
• Golden eyes appeared in the Cangwu Small World’s sky, and its surviving inhabitants knelt and greeted Qin Yan as the Heavenly Dao.

Qin Yan drew the Cangwu Small World out of the Mystic Sanctuary and began refining it into his body. The world’s immense weight devastated his flesh as he used the Blood Demon Nest’s blood energy to repair himself.

• Qin Yan sensed his new connection to the Cangwu Small World and prepared to draw it out of the Mystic Sanctuary’s Spatial Rift.
• Qin Yan pulled the Cangwu Small World, compressed into a blue-green sphere, through the rift as the mountain and surrounding space collapsed.
• Silver Array Patterns from the Mystic Sanctuary’s Defensive Stabilization Formation contained the spatial collapse.
• Qin Yan chose to bear the Small World with his physical body so it could temper all three of his Golden Bodies.
• Qin Yan pressed the World Pearl into his body, and its weight shattered his flesh as he drew on blood energy from the Blood Demon Nest to heal himself.

Qin Yan completed his fusion with the Cangwu Small World, gaining a vast increase in endurance and the ability to draw on its power in battle. He left the mountain peak to contact Holy Lord Cangxuan and reviewed his updated Attribute Panel.

• Qin Yan used Heavenly Dao Force to bind the Cangwu Small World to his body with golden chains.
• After enduring the dangerous transformation, Qin Yan achieved a complete fusion with the Cangwu Small World.
• Qin Yan realized the world’s vitality could sustain his blood qi and that its power could greatly increase his combat strength.
• Qin Yan left the mountain peak as the Array Patterns opened a path for him, intending to contact Holy Lord Cangxuan through the Emperor Dao Token.
• Qin Yan checked his Attribute Panel and saw his updated cultivation, abilities, and other statistics.

Qin Yan assessed his cultivation after the Dao Seal baptism and realized his Body Refining path had stalled because his Undying Blood Demon Scripture had not advanced. Xuantian explained that Qin Yan must keep his identity secret because the Origin Hall sought dominance over the Eastern Star Domain and resented the Mystic Sanctuary for standing in its way.

• Qin Yan saw that his Qi Refining path had reached the Early Eighth Grade while his Body Refining path remained at the Peak Seventh Grade, and he resolved to improve the Undying Blood Demon Scripture.
• Qin Yan reviewed his new Heavenly Tribulation Thunder Eyes and Cangwu Heavenly Garment, whose power would grow with the Cangwu Small World's World Force.
• Qin Yan met Xuantian at a mountain courtyard, where Xuantian recognized that Qin Yan had completely refined the Cangwu Small World.
• Xuantian told Qin Yan to keep his identity secret and asked whether he knew of the Origin Hall.
• Xuantian explained that the Origin Hall wanted to control the Eastern Star Domain, but Master Cangxuan and the Mystic Sanctuary blocked its ambitions.
• Qin Yan concluded that the Origin Hall bore a grudge against the Mystic Sanctuary for obstructing its plans.

Xuantian told Qin Yan that Origin Hall might have secretly produced a second Great Emperor and advised him to keep his identity concealed. He proposed that Qin Yan compete early for East Academy Holy Son, and the Holy Land announced that Qin Yan would initiate a Holy Son Battle on March twentieth.

• Xuantian explained that Origin Hall had grown more aggressive after possibly producing a second Great Emperor, and warned Qin Yan that revealing his identity could put him in danger.
• Qin Yan agreed to keep his identity secret after Xuantian explained that Origin Hall would not risk an all-out war while Great Emperor Cangxuan remained.
• Xuantian advised Qin Yan to seek the position of East Academy Holy Son and explained that special circumstances allowed the competition to begin early.
• Qin Yan spent the evening discussing cultivation and the Holy Land with Xuantian, then left to digest what he had learned.
• On March thirteenth, the Holy Land notified East Academy disciples that Qin Yan would initiate the Holy Son Battle on March twentieth.

Qin Yan’s decision to challenge the entire East Academy in the Holy Son Battle sparked outrage, though those who had witnessed his strength expected him to win. On March twentieth, Qin Yan arrived at the arena as the gathered disciples and elders prepared for the battle.

• The Mystic Sanctuary announced that Qin Yan would have to defeat every East Academy Inner Academy disciple who challenged him to become its Holy Son.
• East Academy disciples condemned Qin Yan’s challenge, while those who had seen him fight in the Cangwu Small World doubted anyone would dare face him.
• Qin Yan cultivated in his Cave Dwelling and invested his accumulated Skill Points into the Undying Blood Demon Scripture as the battle approached.
• On March twentieth, Qin Yan flew to the plaza and found Huang Jiuli, Yin Li, Su Qingwan, Lin Qingyue, and Shen Wanqian among the spectators.
• Dozens of black-robed elders appeared above the plaza, led by an imposing middle-aged man dressed in red.

Dean Liu Changfeng opened the ten-day Holy Son Battle, where Qin Yan had to defend the arena against challengers. After the disciples hesitated, Zhou Haichuan stepped forward and launched a hammer strike at Qin Yan, who remained motionless.

• Liu Changfeng announced the Holy Son Battle rules and declared that Qin Yan would become the East Academy's Holy Son if no one defeated him within ten days.
• Qin Yan entered the Golden Arena, but the assembled disciples hesitated to challenge him because of his reputation in the Cangwu Small World.
• Liu Changfeng warned that he would declare Qin Yan the Holy Son if no one entered the arena within ten minutes.
• Zhou Haichuan challenged Qin Yan, drawing cheers from many disciples who expected his body-refining strength to give him an advantage.
• Zhou Haichuan charged with his rune-engraved hammer and swung at Qin Yan, who stood still with his hands behind his back.