Recaps

Li Fan became the Heavenly Dao Envoy to protect Mo Shang, Jiang Shuyu, Jinlin, and Shi Hao from Demon Venerable Nether Spring and Demon Venerable Blood Skeleton. He drove the two demons off but learned that using Heavenly Dao Power came with strict restrictions.

• Demon Venerable Nether Spring badly wounded Jinlin and Shi Hao, and Mo Shang healed them as the group realized they could neither flee nor call for help.
• Jiang Shuyu assessed Demon Venerable Nether Spring as still near the peak of the Heavenly Connection Realm, and Li Fan volunteered to hold him off with a trump card.
• Li Fan summoned Heaven and Earth's Will and became the Heavenly Dao Envoy, with his cultivation surging to the Heavenly Connection Realm.
• Demon Venerable Nether Spring and Demon Venerable Blood Skeleton fled when Li Fan transformed, and Li Fan pursued them and struck them hard enough to delay their recovery for hundreds or perhaps a thousand years.
• Li Fan told Mo Shang that using Heavenly Dao Power required him to maintain the workings of heaven and earth and forbade him from killing innocents recklessly or interfering in others' cause and effect.

Li Fan explained the powers and restrictions of being a Heavenly Dao Envoy while Mo Shang and Jinlin joked with him. The Fire Spirit Venerable and Ice Spirit Venerable gave their legacies to Xiao Yan, Liu Ruyan, and an insistent Mo Shang, who immediately tried to fuse the opposing arts.

• Li Fan told Mo Shang that a Heavenly Dao Envoy could draw on heaven and earth, surpass his cultivation realm, avoid bottlenecks, and revive while the domain survived.
• Jinlin joked about turning Li Fan’s life into a novel before the Fire Spirit Venerable and Ice Spirit Venerable appeared.
• The two Venerables chose Xiao Yan and Liu Ruyan to inherit the Fire Spirit Art and Ice Spirit Art, which worked best when cultivated together by fire- and ice-attribute partners.
• Mo Shang insisted that his Ten Thousand Dao Star Art would let him cultivate both legacies, and the Venerables reluctantly gave him copies.
• Mo Shang mastered the arts and pressed their opposing ice and fire powers together, forming a terrifying pulse of energy.

Mo Shang repeatedly blew himself apart while practicing the Ice-Fire World-Ending Wheel, regenerating each time until he mastered it by using his own Dao to control the two arts. He then offered to restore the Fire Spirit Venerable and Ice Spirit Venerable and recruit them as supreme elders of the Falling Cloud Sect.

• The Fire Spirit Venerable sensed Mo Shang's cultivation had failed and moved everyone a thousand miles away before Mo Shang exploded.
• Jinlin suggested that Li Changsheng use incarnations to practice dangerous arts and attack enemies by exploding them.
• Mo Shang regenerated after each explosion and continued attempting the Ice-Fire World-Ending Wheel more than ten thousand times.
• Mo Shang finally mastered the wheel by improving the Ten Thousand Dao Star Art to control both Daos with his own Dao.
• The Fire Spirit Venerable praised Mo Shang, and Mo Shang invited him and the Ice Spirit Venerable to join the Falling Cloud Sect as supreme elders.
• The two venerables began to refuse because they were remnant souls, but Mo Shang offered to restore their bodies and cultivation.

Mo Shang recruited the Fire Spirit Venerable and Ice Spirit Venerable to join the Falling Cloud Sect, promising they could be resurrected. The group recovered the venerables’ skeletons and headed toward the Secret Realm entrance to ambush departing treasure hunters.

• Mo Shang offered the Fire Spirit Venerable and Ice Spirit Venerable positions as supreme elders, and they eagerly agreed in hopes of being restored.
• The Fire Spirit Venerable asked about Mo Shang’s grandfather, Mo Tianxing, and Mo Shang revealed that he had gone missing before Mo Shang was born.
• Xiao Yan advised the venerables to bring their remains, and they summoned their skeletons after learning the remains had only been blasted away.
• Mo Shang decided to head for the Secret Realm entrance and target people leaving with valuables, while Jinlin suggested carrying the skeletons as bait.
• The Fire Spirit Venerable and Ice Spirit Venerable questioned whether the Falling Cloud Sect was respectable as Jinlin and Mo Shang explained its members’ mischievous ways.

After Lu Sheng sent a desperate call for help, his allies rushed to the battlefield and found him badly wounded beside a woman who had died protecting him. Jinlin and Shi Hao intervened as Lu Sheng’s enemies prepared to attack again.

• Mo Shang received Lu Sheng’s urgent message, but learned that Jinlin, Shi Hao, Zhou Yichen, Li Fan, and others had already rushed to help; he and Jiang Shuyu followed afterward.
• Lu Sheng fled while shielding a dying woman and fought off his pursuers, but a wind arrow shattered his bonded spirit sword.
• The woman pushed Lu Sheng out of the arrow’s path and died in his arms after telling him to go.
• A young man in blue-green robes aimed another arrow at Lu Sheng, whose grief gave way to a violent aura.
• Jinlin appeared and seized the arrow with a dragon claw, then Shi Hao and the others arrived and attacked the young man.

Shi Hao and Jinlin fought a young man, and Jinlin stole the Azure Jade Cauldron with a card. Mo Shang healed Lu Sheng’s dying companion and Lu Sheng, then introduced the Falling Cloud Sect’s unusual members to the stunned Fire Spirit Venerable and Ice Spirit Venerable.

• Shi Hao and Jinlin attacked the young man, but his Azure Jade Cauldron blocked their blows and repelled them.
• Jinlin used a card to sever the young man’s control of the Azure Jade Cauldron and take the artifact for himself.
• Lu Sheng begged Mo Shang to save the woman in his arms, and Mo Shang healed her fatal wound before treating Lu Sheng as well.
• Fire Spirit Venerable questioned how Mo Shang could use a life-for-life secret art without harm, and Mo Shang explained his traits made him immune to its cost.
• Mo Shang introduced Jinlin, Gu Qingzhou, Xiao Yan, and Brother Li to Fire Spirit Venerable and Ice Spirit Venerable as examples of the Falling Cloud Sect’s unusual members.

The woman Lu Sheng rescued woke and blushed at the others’ teasing, while Lu Sheng remained oblivious. As the Falling Cloud Sect’s group routed the young man’s companions, Lu Sheng faced the young man himself and struck back with a blood-red sword slash.

• The woman awoke in Lu Sheng’s arms and clarified that she and Lu were only friends, prompting Mo Shang and the others to tease them.
• Xiao Yan hurled his Four-Colored Fire Lotus at the young man, blasting him after the Azure Jade Cauldron’s protection was gone.
• Lu Sheng stepped forward to face the young man, and the Fire Spirit Venerable and Ice Spirit Venerable praised his mastery of the Dao of Slaughter.
• Jinlin and Shi Hao attacked the young man’s fellow disciples while Zhou Yichen, Xiao Yan, Liu Ruyan, and the others joined the rout.
• The young man attacked Lu Sheng with an arrow, but Lu Sheng split it with a blood-red sword slash and sent the strike onward toward him.

Mo Shang overwhelmed the Black-Clad Youth with his Ice-Fire World-Ending Wheels, but an illusory Divine Sense intervened to protect him. Mo Shang challenged the figure and boasted about his father, only for the young man and his companions to flee before the confrontation could continue.

• The Black-Clad Youth fired an arrow powerful enough to rival a True Dharma Realm strike, and Mo Shang countered it with an Ice-Fire World-Ending Wheel that destroyed the arrow and devastated the surrounding area.
• Mo Shang created nine Ice-Fire World-Ending Wheels and sent them toward the Black-Clad Youth, who was too terrified to resist.
• An illusory azure figure emerged from the Black-Clad Youth and neutralized all nine wheels.
• Mo Shang traded defiant taunts with the figure, claiming he feared neither a Divine Sense nor its true body and daring it to attack him.
• Jinlin pointed out that the Black-Clad Youth and his companions had fled, leaving Mo Shang frustrated that he had not finished showing off.

After the group escaped, Mo Shang led his companions toward the Secret Realm exit to set a trap and recruited the talented Jiang Zhiwei into the Falling Cloud Sect. The chapter ended with Jiang Zhiwei offering up her valuables because she assumed new disciples had to surrender their possessions, leaving Mo Shang shocked by the Azure Mist Sect’s practices.

• Mo Shang led the group toward the Secret Realm exit, where they prepared their spirit artifacts for a sting operation.
• Mo Shang learned Jiang Zhiwei’s name, inspected her exceptional traits, and invited her to join the Falling Cloud Sect despite her warning that the Azure Mist Sect had a Dao Lord Realm expert.
• Mo Shang assured Jiang Zhiwei that the Falling Cloud Sect’s sect master could handle the Azure Mist Sect, while Liu Zhengyang felt an unexplained chill back at the sect.
• Mo Shang claimed the Falling Cloud Sect had no room and would house Jiang Zhiwei with Lu Sheng, then persuaded her to join.
• Jiang Zhiwei accepted the invitation and brought out her valuables after assuming the sect required new disciples to hand them over, and Mo Shang was appalled by the idea.

Mo Shang explained that Falling Cloud Sect disciples were not required to surrender their resources, then organized them to pose as treasure-laden targets and lure robbers. After battles broke out across the area near the Secret Realm’s exit, Mo Shang arrived to help Jinlin, who had accidentally delivered the robbers’ lines first.

• Mo Shang told Jiang Zhiwei that the sect did not forcibly collect resources and explained his plan to use the disciples’ valuables as bait for robbers.
• Jiang Zhiwei agreed to join Mo Shang and Lu Sheng, and Mo Shang led the group toward the Secret Realm’s exit.
• At the exit, Mo Shang sent the treasure-laden disciples out in separate directions while he and Jiang Shuyu stayed with the Ice Spirit Venerable and Fire Spirit Venerable to provide backup.
• Several battles erupted in different directions within minutes, prompting Mo Shang, Jiang Shuyu, and both venerables to rush out and assist the disciples.
• Jinlin mistakenly told three Question Dao Realm cultivators to hand over their valuables before Mo Shang appeared and swiftly incapacitated them.

Mo Shang and Jinlin robbed unconscious cultivators near the Secret Realm exit, while Mo Shang helped Xiao Yan defeat a wealthy group led by a red-robed cultivator. After the red-robed man threatened them with the Heavenflame Sect, Mo Shang and Xiao Yan decided to target the sect as well.

• Mo Shang found Jinlin after Jinlin had knocked out three cultivators, then left without taking their belongings, so Jinlin stripped them himself.
• Xiao Yan attacked a red-robed cultivator and his companions with Destruction Fire Lotuses, but their defensive artifact held against his assault.
• Mo Shang appeared beside Xiao Yan and launched more fire lotuses, shattering the barrier and defeating the red-robed group.
• Mo Shang and Xiao Yan looted the group’s spirit artifacts, pills, and treasures, and Xiao Yan praised their bait-and-catch operation near the exit.
• The red-robed cultivator woke and threatened them with the Heavenflame Sect, prompting Mo Shang and Xiao Yan to decide to go after the sect.

Mo Shang and Xiao Yan bound the Heavenflame Sect disciples for ransom and reunited with their companions after exploring most of the Secret Realm. At the exit, elders from more than a dozen factions surrounded them and demanded an explanation, and Mo Shang told them to take their grievance up with his father.

• Mo Shang and Xiao Yan ignored the young man in red's threats, sealed the cultivation of him and his companions, and tied them up for ransom.
• Mo Shang and his group reached the meeting spot, where Jinlin, Gu Qingzhou, Guo Jingjing, and Chen Tian had gathered, and Mo Shang said they would leave the Secret Realm.
• Mo Shang and the others emerged into a valley surrounded by elders and senior figures from more than a dozen factions, including Immortal Realm and Dao Lord Realm experts.
• An elder accused the Falling Cloud Sect of attacking the factions' disciples, and Mo Shang argued that his group had acted in self-defense after being attacked first.
• The factions threatened to keep the group from leaving unless Mo Shang explained himself, and he taunted them and told them to take it up with his father.

Mo Shang summoned his father, Mo Yuntian, to confront the experts who had challenged him in Icefire Town. After the Heavenflame Sect master offered compensation and left, Mo Shang drank half a bottle of Heavenflame Divine Marrow and burst into flames.

• Mo Shang called on his father, and Mo Yuntian emerged from a shattered rift, terrifying the gathered experts.
• The experts recognized Mo Yuntian and fell silent, while Mo Shang began demanding answers from the various forces.
• Mo Shang confronted the Heavenflame Sect master over his disciples targeting Mo Shang and his friend, then demanded compensation.
• The Heavenflame Sect master offered a spirit flame and Heavenflame Divine Marrow, which Mo Shang accepted before letting the sect leave.
• Mo Shang drank half the bottle of Heavenflame Divine Marrow, and flames erupted around his body, forcing those nearby to retreat.

Mo Shang shared the Heavenflame Divine Marrow and a Spirit Flame with Xiao Yan before confronting the factions demanding an explanation. The factions instead offered him heaps of treasures, and Mo Shang’s conversation with Jinlin revealed Mo Yuntian’s fearsome reputation for violence.

• Mo Shang drank the Heavenflame Divine Marrow, which strengthened his Falling Star Flame, and gave the remaining marrow and a Spirit Flame to Xiao Yan.
• Mo Shang challenged the gathered factions to explain themselves and singled out the red-robed elder who had complained the loudest.
• The red-robed elder offered Mo Shang heavenly treasures, and Mo Shang accepted them and let him leave.
• The other factions scrambled to offer their own treasures, which Mo Shang collected.
• Jinlin asked Mo Yuntian about his strength, and Mo Shang explained that his father had been a ruthless killer when young.

Mo Shang returned to the Falling Cloud Sect with Fire Spirit Venerable and Ice Spirit Venerable, remnant souls of former Immortal Realm experts, and promised Liu Zhengyang that he had also brought back two geniuses. He left Chen Tian with the golden Secret Realm gate, and Liu Zhengyang hurried to welcome the newcomers despite losing another door.

• Mo Shang persuaded Mo Yuntian to remove the Secret Realm's golden gate and gave it to Chen Tian for his Dual-Gate Style.
• Chen Tian enlarged the gate and tested it, then Mo Shang led everyone back to the Falling Cloud Sect.
• Mo Shang's arrival at the sect gates prompted the gatekeeping disciple to remark that he was now taking mighty experts' remnant souls as well as geniuses.
• Mo Shang kicked a door panel into Liu Zhengyang's main hall, and Liu Zhengyang eagerly offered to restore Fire Spirit Venerable and Ice Spirit Venerable's physical bodies.
• Mo Shang announced that he had brought back two geniuses, and Liu Zhengyang asked whether he had snatched them up by the roadside.

Liu Zhengyang welcomed Ye Qingrou and Jiang Zhiwei to the Falling Cloud Sect, where the Peak Masters competed to recruit them. Jiang Zhiwei chose Sword Peak and Ye Qingrou chose Water Spirit Peak, while Jiang was assigned to stay with Lu Sheng because Sword Peak had no vacant cave abodes.

• Mo Shang introduced Ye Qingrou and Jiang Zhiwei to Liu Zhengyang, who eagerly noted how Mo Shang had met them.
• The Peak Masters rushed into the hall and argued over who would recruit the newcomers.
• Jiang Zhiwei chose Sword Peak after learning Lu Sheng belonged to it, and Sword Thirteen welcomed her.
• Ye Qingrou chose Water Spirit Peak, and Qingyi took her there with Jinlin following behind.
• Liu Zhengyang teased Li Fan about finding romance, then told Jiang Zhiwei to stay with Lu Sheng because Sword Peak's cave abodes were rented out.

Lu Sheng showed Jiang Zhiwei around the sect while Mo Shang introduced Gu Ling to the remnant souls Yang Yan and Han Shuang, who would become his colleagues as supreme elders. Gu Ling agreed to rebuild their bodies, and Mo Shang sent his guards on paid leave, prompting Jinlin to ask for a guard job before learning he lacked the required cultivation.

• Lu Sheng left the main hall with Jiang Zhiwei to show her around the sect.
• Mo Shang introduced Gu Ling to the remnant souls Yang Yan and Han Shuang, who recognized one another and agreed they would serve together as supreme elders.
• Gu Ling agreed to rebuild Yang Yan and Han Shuang's bodies by refining two Super Myriad Dao Heaven-Mending Pills No. 2.
• Mo Shang collected the prepared supplies and gave his guards a month of paid leave, explaining that he did not need them to protect him.
• Jinlin asked to become Mo Shang's guard, but withdrew the idea when Mo Shang said guards needed to be in the Heavenly Connection Realm.

Gu Ling refined two ninth-grade pills, summoning a massive lightning tribulation that Mo Shang and Jinlin turned into a dance party. Li Fugui then sliced pieces from the tribulation clouds and began cooking them for the astonished crowd.

• Gu Ling refined more than ten thousand medicinal ingredients into two pills, and their emergence summoned tribulation clouds across a thousand-mile radius.
• Mo Shang and Jinlin danced in the square while tribulation lightning struck them, and Falling Cloud Sect disciples joined in.
• Li Fan said lightning tribulations could not harm him and joined the dance, promising to intensify the lightning.
• Li Fugui asked to use the tribulation clouds for cooking, then sliced chunks from them with his golden cleaver.
• Li Fugui set up a cooking stall and prepared red lightning tribulation as food after Mo Shang and Jinlin placed orders.

After the tribulation ended, Mo Shang and the others arranged for Yang Yan and Han Shuang to take their pills, then spent a quiet month at the Falling Cloud Sect. Bored and remembering his unused system draws, Mo Shang began considering traits for battle as Jiang Shuyu went to cook for him.

• Jinlin, Mo Shang, and Li Fan returned to the main hall after the lightning tribulation, and Gu Ling handed over the two finished pills.
• Mo Shang sent the pills to Yang Yan and Han Shuang and told Liu Zhengyang to guard them while they took the pills.
• Jinlin discovered that the main hall door was missing, and Liu Zhengyang replaced it with one of the spare doors he had prepared for Mo Shang.
• A month later, Mo Shang complained of boredom while relaxing with Jiang Shuyu and Yellow Immortal in the courtyard.
• Jiang Shuyu offered to cook for Mo Shang, and he remembered his thousand unused trait draws and considered which traits to equip.

Mo Shang borrowed Jiang Shuyu’s luck to draw two powerful golden traits, then used one alongside his immortality traits to reach peak True Dharma Realm. Jiang Shuyu immediately revealed that she could also break through to peak True Dharma Realm, leaving Mo Shang stunned by the scale of her power.

• After a thousand disappointing draws, Mo Shang embraced and kissed Jiang Shuyu, then drew twice and received the purple-gold traits Fatal Strike and Dao Sacrifice.
• The next morning, Mo Shang saw that Fatal Strike boosted his attack power at the cost of death, while Dao Sacrifice raised his cultivation by one major realm at the cost of his body and Dao.
• Mo Shang equipped both traits and activated Dao Sacrifice, reaching peak True Dharma Realm while his other traits protected him from the costs.
• Jiang Shuyu emerged from the bedroom and rapidly advanced from peak Question Dao Realm to peak True Dharma Realm, shocking Mo Shang.

Mo Shang learned that his temporary breakthrough to the True Dharma Realm could secure a path to the Dao Lord Realm, especially with his [Undying] trait. When a powerful stranger attacked the Falling Cloud Sect, gatekeeper disciple Wang Yao shattered the man’s seal with one punch, and Mo Shang recognized him as another cheater.

• Jiang Shuyu explained that forced breakthroughs beyond the Question Dao Realm raised Dao comprehension, potentially letting Mo Shang reach the Dao Lord Realm if he survived.
• Mo Shang realized his [Undying] trait made that future seem assured and wondered whether Li Fan could benefit from forced breakthroughs too.
• A peak Heavenly Connection Realm middle-aged man attacked the Falling Cloud Sect’s gatekeeper, Wang Yao, who destroyed the man’s enormous seal with one punch.
• Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu arrived, and Mo Shang scolded Wang Yao for claiming that Mo Shang killed people as soon as he woke up.
• Mo Shang recognized that Wang Yao, despite having Spirit Condensation Realm cultivation, had to be cheating.

Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu fought an Azure Mist Sect elder who threatened the Falling Cloud Sect, while Wang Yao left at noon rather than work overtime. Mo Shang struck the elder with the Star Tower, revealing a ninth-grade spirit artifact and leaving the elder wary of his identity.

• The Azure Mist Sect elder demanded that the Falling Cloud Sect hand over Jiang Zhiwei, and Mo Shang offered Wang Yao a hundred million to attack him.
• Wang Yao checked the time, clocked out at noon, and left for the dining hall despite Mo Shang's offer of overtime pay.
• Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu revealed their peak True Dharma Realm cultivation and attacked the peak Heavenly Connection Realm elder with their killing moves.
• Liu Zhengyang and Gu Ling arrived at the mountain gate, witnessed the clash, and praised Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu's strength.
• The elder unleashed Wind's Ultimate Dao, Hundred Annihilating Slashes, but Mo Shang used the Star Tower to knock him back and make him spit blood.
• The elder recognized the Star Tower as a ninth-grade spirit artifact and asked who Mo Shang was.

Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu manifested powerful Dharma bodies to face the Azure Mist Sect elder, but his Sever the Years saber strike overwhelmed them and damaged the Star Tower. Yang Yan and Han Shuang arrived to catch them and took over the fight.

• Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu summoned towering Dharma bodies, impressing Gu Ling and Liu Zhengyang and alarming the Azure Mist Sect elder.
• The elder decided Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu were too dangerous to let live and unleashed his peak Heavenly Connection Realm power with Sever the Years.
• The saber strike split both Dharma bodies and slammed into the Star Tower, sending Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu flying toward the Falling Cloud Sect.
• Yang Yan and Han Shuang emerged from the Falling Cloud Sect, caught Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu, and offered to fight the elder themselves.
• Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu were unharmed, but the Star Tower's radiance had dimmed; Han Shuang told them to leave the rest to her and Yang Yan.