Recaps

Qin Yan advanced through the Heavenly Tribulation Wasteland and used his Golden Body to withstand and absorb the heavenly winds, feeding their heavenly dao force to the Cangwu Small World. He learned how worlds were classified and continued deeper into the tribulation as his Golden Body slowly grew.

• Qin Yan pushed past the heavenly fire tribulation and entered the more dangerous heavenly wind region.
• Qin Yan activated his Yin-Yang Five Elements Chaos Golden Body and reinforced it with the Cangwu Small World's heavenly dao force and water dao essence.
• Qin Yan absorbed the dark-gold heavenly winds into the Cangwu Small World, slightly increasing its heavenly dao force.
• Qin Yan considered the ranks of small, middle, and greater worlds and the difficulty of advancing the Cangwu Small World.
• Qin Yan continued through the heavenly winds as his Golden Body grew little by little.

Qin Yan entered the Heavenly Ice Tribulation Zone and used his dark nether true water, strengthened by water dao essence, to resist and absorb its deadly cold. As Qin Yan, Jiang Fengming, and Di Xuance advanced toward the Core Zone from different directions, the cold began nourishing Qin Yan’s Golden Body and Cangwu Small World.

• Qin Yan left the Heavenly Wind Tribulation Zone with his Yin-Yang Five Elements Chaos Golden Body grown to seven hundred and fourteen zhang.
• Qin Yan tested the Heavenly Ice Tribulation Zone, felt its freezing power invade his body, and drove it back with the Southern bright flame.
• Di Xuance used his golden barrier and Heavenly Gang Prison-Suppressing Golden Body to advance through a separate Heavenly Ice Tribulation Zone toward the Core Zone.
• Jiang Fengming shielded herself with her Vermilion Bird Golden Body and vermilion bird true flame as she moved through another Heavenly Ice Tribulation Zone.
• Qin Yan entered the Heavenly Ice Tribulation Zone and summoned the Dark Nether River to block and absorb the heavenly ice.
• Qin Yan refined the absorbed cold into energy that slowly increased the growth of his Golden Body and Cangwu Small World.

Qin Yan reached the Heart-Demon Tribulation Zone and discovered that it combined five kinds of heavenly dao force in devastating black tribulation lightning. After one strike shattered his defenses and damaged his Golden Body, he suppressed the heart-demon attack and used Seven-Colored Divine Light to heal himself and tame the remaining forces.

• Qin Yan left the Heavenly Ice Tribulation Zone after a day, during which his Golden Body grew and the Cangwu Small World absorbed more heavenly dao force.
• Qin Yan saw the Heart-Demon Tribulation Zone, where heavenly thunder, heavenly fire, heavenly wind, heavenly ice, and heart-demon force churned together.
• Qin Yan entered the zone, but black tribulation lightning broke through his seven-colored barrier and dark nether river before hurling his Golden Body into the ground.
• Qin Yan used the Yin-Yang Fish Dao Diagram and his Solar and Lunar Spear Intents to dispel the invading heart-demon images.
• Qin Yan infused his Golden Body with Seven-Colored Divine Light, healing its wounds and calming the heavenly thunder, fire, wind, and ice forces.

Qin Yan discovered that carefully controlling the Seven-Colored Divine Light let black tribulation lightning temper and grow his Yin-Yang Five Elements Chaos Golden Body. Little Black offered to help temper his Eternal Blood Demon Golden Body as well, and faced the next bolt of lightning.

• Qin Yan used Mo Yuan to block a bolt of black tribulation lightning and absorbed the lingering Heavenly Dao force into the Cangwu Small World.
• Qin Yan summoned his Eternal Blood Demon Golden Body and adjusted the Seven-Colored Divine Light so enough lightning struck his Yin-Yang Five Elements Chaos Golden Body to make it grow one zhang.
• Qin Yan memorized the effective balance between blocking and enduring the lightning so he could repeat the tempering process.
• Little Black emerged from the Blood Demon Nest and offered to help temper Qin Yan's Eternal Blood Demon Golden Body.
• Little Black gathered darkness essence runes and wove darkness force into a vortex as a bolt carrying five kinds of Heavenly Dao force descended.

Qin Yan and Little Black endured the black tribulation lightning, using it to strengthen their Golden Bodies and the Cangwu Small World. Over ten days, other prodigies were expelled from the Heavenly Tribulation Wasteland, leaving Qin Yan alone in the Heart-Demon Tribulation Zone while Shen Xinglan became the only one to pass the Heavenly Ice Tribulation Zone.

• Little Black's Darkness Vortex shattered under the first black tribulation bolt, but Little Black healed and then used its Golden Body to block the lightning.
• Qin Yan moved away from Little Black, causing separate bolts to strike them; Little Black channeled lightning into the Eternal Blood Demon Golden Body, while Qin Yan's Golden Bodies and Cangwu Small World absorbed the remaining forces.
• Di Xuance's Heavenly Gang Prison-Suppressing Golden Body shattered, and the lightning expelled him from the Emperor Fall Land.
• Jiang Fengming's Vermilion Bird Golden Body broke under the tribulation, and she was also expelled from the Heavenly Tribulation Wasteland.
• Ten days passed as most arriving prodigies failed to reach the Heavenly Ice Tribulation Zone, leaving Qin Yan as the sole prodigy in the Heart-Demon Tribulation Zone.
• Shen Xinglan used her formation mastery to withstand the heavenly ice and became the only prodigy to pass the Heavenly Ice Tribulation Zone.

Qin Yan tempered his Golden Body in the Heart-Demon Tribulation Zone, reached the final palace, and was identified as a member of the Nine Nether Soul-Devouring Demon Tree race. The palace asked whether he wanted to begin the assessment.

• Shen Xinglan was struck by tribulation lightning, leaving Qin Yan as the last person in the Heart-Demon Tribulation Zone.
• Qin Yan grew his Yin-Yang Five Elements Chaos Golden Body to nine hundred and thirty-five zhang and easily shattered the lightning with Mo Yuan.
• Qin Yan found Little Black's Eternal Blood Demon Golden Body had reached nine hundred and thirty zhang, then let Little Black rest inside his body.
• Qin Yan crossed the Heart-Demon Tribulation Zone and reached the palace guarded by rows of Peak-Stage Grandmaster puppets.
• A light transported Qin Yan into the palace, where a nearly thousand-zhang puppet announced that his race qualified him for the assessment and asked if he wished to begin.

Qin Yan accepted the final inheritance trial and defeated its enormous puppet with ease. After he passed, a projection revealed itself as Gu Yuan, the Ancient Abyss Demon God, who congratulated Qin Yan on his victory.

• The puppet identified Qin Yan as a member of the supreme Demon Race and set the trial to low difficulty, raising its strength to that of an ordinary mid Venerable.
• Qin Yan met the puppet's attack with his Yin-Yang Five Elements Chaos Golden Body and Seven-Colored Divine Light.
• Qin Yan suppressed the puppet with his Great Annihilation Spear Intent and severed its head with a strike of Spear Light.
• The puppet reassembled itself, declared Qin Yan had passed the trial, and summoned a phantom from dark-red demon qi.
• The phantom identified himself as Gu Yuan, the Ancient Abyss Demon God, and congratulated Qin Yan on passing his trial.

Qin Yan learned how the Demon Race’s reserves and Emperor Fall Land came to be before receiving the reward for clearing the second layer. He began exploring the reward, whose contents had not yet been revealed.

• The Ancient Abyss Demon God told Qin Yan that the Ten Thousand Races attacked the weakened Demon Race with four Great Emperors, and Long Yuanming and the Demon Emperor sacrificed themselves to wound their Peak Great Emperor.
• The Ancient Abyss Demon God explained that he used the Heavenly Craftsman Great Emperor’s body to create a secret realm and conceal the Demon Race’s reserves, giving rise to Emperor Fall Land.
• Qin Yan asked whether the final trial’s opportunity was a Demon Race inheritance, and the Ancient Abyss Demon God clarified that most opportunities came from the Heavenly Craftsman Great Emperor’s body or other Demon Dao factions.
• The Ancient Abyss Demon God transported Qin Yan to Emperor Fall Land’s core region and presented him with the reward for passing the second layer.
• Qin Yan suppressed his excitement and immersed his spiritual power in the mass of light.

Qin Yan received a vast pool of emperor fluid for clearing the Emperor Fall Land’s second layer and learned that the Ancient Abyss Demon God had limited control over the realm. The chapter left Qin Yan reflecting on the Demon Race’s special access to easier trials as the Ancient Abyss Demon God claimed he could have cleared the high difficulty too.

• The Ancient Abyss Demon God revealed that Qin Yan’s second-layer reward was a pool of emperor fluid, and Qin Yan stored it in his Blood Demon Nest.
• Qin Yan thanked the Ancient Abyss Demon God, who said Qin Yan had earned the reward through his strength.
• The Ancient Abyss Demon God explained that the Emperor Fall Land’s growing intelligence limited his control over it.
• Qin Yan asked about the dimmed vortices, and Gu Yuan confirmed that a Demon Race prodigy had claimed the third-layer reward during the previous opening.
• Gu Yuan said that prodigy faced medium difficulty, while other prodigies faced high difficulty and Qin Yan faced low difficulty.
• The Ancient Abyss Demon God said the difference between low and high difficulty was not great and Qin Yan could have cleared the high difficulty.

Qin Yan learned that the Emperor Fall Land's remaining rewards were beyond his reach, then discovered that his auction-bought fragment had awakened inside the Blood Demon Nest. The Ancient Abyss Demon God identified it as a piece of the Heavenly Craftsman Great Emperor's puppet and offered to use its aura to help Qin Yan enter the first layer safely.

• Gu Yuan explained that the upper three layers were beyond his control, and the Ancient Abyss Demon God said Qin Yan could not survive their trials or the heavenly punishment for entering the first layer unnoticed.
• Little Black alerted Qin Yan that the fragment in the Blood Demon Nest was glowing and releasing demon qi.
• Qin Yan brought the fragment to the Ancient Abyss Demon God and concealed Little Black's role in its transformation.
• The Ancient Abyss Demon God explained that the fragment came from the Heavenly Craftsman Great Emperor's puppet and recounted the Great Emperor's death and the puppet's creation.
• The Ancient Abyss Demon God offered to use the fragment's aura to conceal Qin Yan and let him enter the first layer without provoking heavenly tribulation.

Qin Yan entered the first layer of Emperor Fall Land using the fragment’s protection and defeated its puppet trial in one move. He passed the trial, while the fragment’s protection remained limited to fifteen minutes.

• The Ancient Abyss Demon God warned Qin Yan that the fragment would shield him from heavenly punishment for only fifteen minutes and explained that the first layer’s trial involved a puppet.
• The Ancient Abyss Demon God activated the fragment, which carried Qin Yan into the first-layer vortex and concealed his aura while suppressing his cultivation to Peak Grandmaster.
• A puppet identified Qin Yan as a member of the Nine Nether Soul-Devouring Demon Tree race, set the trial difficulty to low, and charged at him.
• Qin Yan used his Great Annihilation Spear Shadows to destroy the hundred-zhang puppet in a single move.
• The puppet announced that Qin Yan had passed, and its scattered fragments began reassembling.

Qin Yan passed the First Layer's trial and received the Heavenly Craftsman Great Emperor's puppet, which the Ancient Abyss Demon God revealed had fallen from Great Emperor level to the third stage of Half-Emperor. The puppet could potentially be restored by Eleventh Grade puppet masters and dense demon qi, but for now it was useless scrap metal.

• The Ancient Abyss Demon God's laser sent Qin Yan back to the Emperor Fall Land after he completed the trial.
• The Ancient Abyss Demon God gave Qin Yan a miniature pitch-black puppet as the First Layer's reward.
• Qin Yan learned that the puppet was the Heavenly Craftsman Great Emperor's creation, but three Great Emperors had damaged it and reduced its strength to the third stage of Half-Emperor.
• The Ancient Abyss Demon God explained that Eleventh Grade puppet masters and dense demon qi could restore the puppet.
• Qin Yan's hopes fell when the Ancient Abyss Demon God told him the puppet currently had no aura and was useless scrap metal.

Qin Yan learned that the Great Emperor-level puppet needed eleventh-grade ore to operate and twelfth-grade ore to serve as a lasting energy core, then received it as a reward. He used the Heavenly Craft Contract to bind the puppet to himself, though its former master's contract remained inside it.

• Gu Yuan explained that the puppet lacked an energy source and required rare high-grade ore to function.
• Qin Yan accepted the puppet and stored it in the Blood Demon Nest.
• The Ancient Abyss Demon God gave Qin Yan the Heavenly Craft Contract, and Qin Yan studied its binding method.
• Qin Yan condensed his blood essence into a Heavenly Craft Contract and placed it on the puppet.
• Qin Yan sensed the puppet awaken briefly and found his new contract alongside a fading contract left by its previous master.

Qin Yan destroyed the dead contract inside the pitch-black puppet and bound it with his Heavenly Craft Contract, though the puppet still needed far more powerful ore to function. As the Ancient Abyss Demon God's projection prepared to send him out of the Emperor Fall Land, the fifth vortex suddenly flared to life.

• Qin Yan shattered the old contract and merged his Heavenly Craft Contract with the puppet's internal space, becoming its Controller.
• Qin Yan fed the puppet eighth-grade ore, but it absorbed the energy without gaining enough power to move.
• Qin Yan withdrew from the Blood Demon Nest, and the Ancient Abyss Demon God told him it was time to leave the Emperor Fall Land.
• The Ancient Abyss Demon God said he could not tell whether his true body had survived, though he suspected it had fallen.
• The fifth vortex counting upward from the bottom erupted in brilliant light as martial artists appeared throughout Emperor Fall Valley after being teleported out.

The factions waited for Emperor Fall Land to close while the Mystic Sanctuary elders worried over Holy Lord Xuantian’s absence, though Azure Dragon confirmed he was safe. Huang Jiuli and Jiang Li also waited for Qin Yan, whose astounding feats in the Second Layer had made him its uncrowned king, while Huang Jiuli prepared to attempt a breakthrough.

• Cultivators from the gathered factions speculated about whether anyone had obtained an inheritance from Emperor Fall Land as they waited for their members to return.
• Liu Changfeng and the Mystic Sanctuary elders grew anxious because Holy Lord Xuantian had not emerged, but Azure Dragon assured them that his master was unharmed.
• Huang Jiuli and Jiang Li waited for Qin Yan and recalled reports of his Domain Fusion Return to One Spear Intent and his victories over numerous Holy Sons and Holy Maidens.
• Huang Jiuli recognized that Qin Yan had grown stronger and considered how his achievements compared with her own progress.
• Huang Jiuli reflected that Emperor Fall Land had brought her to the limit of Peak Grandmaster, allowing her to attempt a breakthrough at any time.

Huang Jiuli and Jiang Li resolved to continue cultivating after comparing their Golden Bodies with Qin Yan’s. Meanwhile, the Origin Hall planned an attack on the Mystic Sanctuary, but Xuantian emerged from the Emperor Fall Land carrying the aura of Emperor Nectar and confronted the greedy cultivators around him.

• Huang Jiuli returned to her room, determined to pursue a ninety-nine-zhang Golden Body, and Jiang Li began cultivating toward a ninety-eight-zhang Golden Body.
• Origin Hall elders discussed Xuantian’s killing of three of their True Emperor elders and learned that he had reached the Half-Emperor level.
• Yuan Tian ordered the Sapling-Cutting Operation, directing the Origin Hall to slaughter the Mystic Sanctuary’s younger generation and kill Xuantian.
• A golden radiance and Emperor Nectar fragrance spread through Emperor Fall Valley as Xuantian emerged from the fifth-layer vortex.
• Xuantian released the power of countless Laws as nearby cultivators fixed greedy gazes on the Emperor Nectar emanating from him.

Holy Lord Xuantian revealed that he had reached the second stage of the Half-Emperor realm and displayed the emperor essence he gained from passing the fifth-floor trial. He held 1,132 drops, drawing the envy of nearby factions, before putting them away and turning solemn.

• Xuantian's Emperor Dao pressure revealed his second-stage Half-Emperor strength and extinguished the surrounding experts' hopes of taking his treasure.
• Liu Changfeng and Zhou Xuan congratulated Xuantian and asked about his trial; he confirmed that he had passed the fifth floor.
• Xuantian brought out a jade bottle of emperor essence, whose fragrance nourished the spiritual power of nearby Mystic Sanctuary disciples.
• Xuantian corrected Liu Changfeng's estimate and said the bottle contained 1,132 drops of emperor essence.
• Nearby factions, including the Origin Hall, coveted the emperor essence but dared not challenge Xuantian's strength.
• Xuantian put the bottle away and suddenly grew solemn.

As Emperor Fall Land prepared to close, Qin Yan learned that someone had passed its Fifth Layer trial and received the Key to Emperor Fall Land from Gu Yuan. He activated the rune and left the core space, while the identity of the new Emperor Seedling remained unknown.

• Xuantian warned the Holy Land elders and deans to watch for another hidden strike from Origin Hall.
• The Ancient Abyss Demon God told Qin Yan that someone had passed the Fifth Layer's trial, then explained the upper layers' difficulty and why trial phenomena were concealed for Demon Race juniors.
• Qin Yan worried that the new Emperor Seedling might belong to Origin Hall, which already had two Great Emperors.
• As Emperor Fall Land neared closing, Gu Yuan gave Qin Yan the Key to Emperor Fall Land and explained that entering with it required reaching deep within Emperor Fall Valley.
• Qin Yan learned more about Emperor Fall Land and the Demon Race from the projection, thanked him, and activated the rune to leave.

Qin Yan emerged from Emperor Fall Land’s second layer and was transported by the Mystic Mirror’s artifact spirit back to the Mystic Sanctuary’s Spirit Boat. There, he reunited with the other disciples and saw how his victories had earned him their respect.

• The Ancient Abyss Demon God's projection faded away after Qin Yan left the core space.
• Qin Yan exited the second-layer vortex in Emperor Fall Valley, where the Mystic Mirror’s artifact spirit recognized his Holy Son Token and transported him to the Mystic Sanctuary’s Spirit Boat.
• Qin Yan confirmed he had returned to Room 110 and went to the pavilion’s main hall.
• Long Aotian acknowledged Qin Yan with a respectful nod, having given up hope of catching up to him.
• The disciples hailed Qin Yan for his achievements, and he reflected on how their treatment of him had changed with his strength.

Qin Yan reflected on his gains as the Emperor Fall Land expedition ended, but the departing factions were attacked before they could leave. Xuantian confronted Yuan Tian over the Emperor Nectar, then revealed that Great Emperor Long River had arrived.

• Qin Yan practiced in his room while cultivators continued emerging from the Emperor Fall Land.
• On September fifteenth, the six vortices closed, and the factions prepared to leave the Emperor Fall Valley.
• Qin Yan reviewed his gains before Xuantian announced that the Spirit Boat was under attack.
• More than a hundred supreme experts surrounded the Spirit Boat, and Yuan Tian demanded that Xuantian hand over the Emperor Nectar.
• Xuantian dismissed Yuan Tian and called out Great Emperor Long River, who manifested as a vast river and appeared before the assembled experts.

Great Emperor Long River attacked the Mystic Sanctuary, overwhelming Xuantian and the gathered elders with a single Emperor Dao strike. Just before the attack hit, a mysterious voice intervened and formed a barrier in front of them.

• The surrounding superpowers fled as Great Emperor Long River arrived and declared that Xuantian had to die.
• Great Emperor Long River fired an azure beam at Xuantian, whose Cangxuan Emperor Finger failed to stop it.
• Liu Changfeng and more than a hundred elders and Academy Deans combined their attacks, but the azure beam annihilated them.
• A weathered voice rebuked Yuan Changhe for bullying the juniors, and Emperor Dao rules formed a thick barrier before the Mystic Sanctuary's experts.

Great Emperor Cangxuan stopped Great Emperor Long River’s attack on the Mystic Sanctuary, but Long River revealed that he intended to destroy the Sanctuary. Yu Tingxue, Ming Yuan, and Kong Xuanji then appeared, surrounding Cangxuan Ye as he ordered Xuantian to protect the disciples.

• Great Emperor Cangxuan appeared and annihilated the azure pillar of light that had struck the barrier.
• Great Emperor Long River, Yuan Changhe, declared that a Great Emperor would fall and the Mystic Sanctuary would be destroyed.
• Yu Tingxue, Ming Yuan, and Kong Xuanji emerged from the void, alarming the gathered superpowers.
• Cangxuan Ye asked whether the three had come to attack the Mystic Sanctuary, and they answered by pressing their Emperor Dao auras toward him.
• Cangxuan Ye told Xuantian to protect the disciples.

Cangxuan Ye flew into the Starry Sky to face Great Emperor Long River, Yu Tingxue, Kong Xuanji, and Ming Yuan, while Xuantian confronted Yuan Tian on the battlefield below. When Yuan Tian countered Xuantian’s Mystic Sword Rain, the Origin Hall revealed the Great River Dragon Serpent, leaving the Mystic Sanctuary in greater danger.

• Cangxuan Ye and Great Emperor Long River led Yu Tingxue, Kong Xuanji, and Ming Yuan into the Starry Sky to keep their battle away from the others.
• Qin Yan worried that his teacher would be unable to withstand four opponents with Great Emperor-level strength, including the wielder of the Light God Sword.
• Yuan Tian threatened to destroy the Mystic Sanctuary, and Xuantian attacked him with Mystic Sword Rain.
• Yuan Tian summoned a river of black and white laws that ground away Xuantian’s golden sword phantoms.
• Two colossal creatures emerged from shattered space, and the surrounding factions identified them as the Great River Dragon Serpent.

Tai Huang and Ao Yin joined the Origin Hall’s assault on the Mystic Sanctuary, forcing Xuantian to face both guardian beasts while Liu Changfeng led the sanctuary’s defense. Xuantian broke Tai Huang’s first binding attack, but Ao Yin struck as the three black spheres prepared another assault.

• Tai Huang and Ao Yin arrived to help the Origin Hall destroy the Mystic Sanctuary, and Ao Yin ordered Yuan Tian to attack its disciples while they dealt with Xuantian.
• Xuantian left Liu Changfeng to defend the sanctuary and flew with the azure dragon to confront the two divine beasts.
• Tai Huang trapped Xuantian in a cage formed by three black spheres and unleashed Fallen River Binding.
• Xuantian stored the azure dragon in his Spirit Beast Bag and destroyed Tai Huang’s binding runes with One Sword of the Ruins, but the black spheres remained ready to attack again.
• Ao Yin fired a powerful white pillar of light at Xuantian as emperor runes flashed around him.

Great Emperor Long River, Yu Tingxue, Kong Xuanji, and Ming Yuan surrounded Cangxuan Ye and tested his strength. Cangxuan Ye erased Long River’s attack with the Temporal Dao, and Long River called for everyone to attack together as he armed himself for battle.

• Great Emperor Long River, Yu Tingxue, Kong Xuanji, and Ming Yuan arrived and surrounded Cangxuan Ye with their Emperor Dao pressure.
• Great Emperor Long River unleashed Long River Setting Sun, sending a blazing golden sun toward Cangxuan Ye.
• Cangxuan Ye formed an Hourglass of Time and accelerated time around the sun until it withered into dust.
• Great Emperor Long River recognized Cangxuan Ye’s deep Temporal Dao attainments and called on everyone to attack together.
• Great Emperor Long River summoned azure armor and took up a golden trident.