Recaps

Chen Fan ascended Shu Mountain First Peak to rescue Mu Yunshui despite struggling with an inner demon. In the Peach Garden Mystic Realm, his companions learned that the Shu Mountain Sect Leader was waiting at the banquet and feared Chen Fan had walked into a trap.

• Chen Fan suppressed his inner demon with the Taiji Diagram and headed for Shu Mountain to save Mu Yunshui.
• Old Yellow Tooth told Dugu Han and the others that Mu Yunshui was to become Dao companions with Zhao Wuji as part of a plan to create an innately Supreme Dao Embryo.
• Dugu Han and the others learned that the Shu Mountain Sect Leader was presiding over the banquet and worried Chen Fan could not survive the encounter.
• Qin Xian'er awoke, warned that Chen Fan had developed an inner demon, and asked where he had gone.
• Chen Fan reached Shu Mountain First Peak and ascended through the clouds with demonic energy surging around him.

Chen Fan arrived at Shu Mountain to take Mu Yunshui away, despite the heart demon surrounding him, and fought through the Soul Division Stage powerhouses guarding the gate. He released the seal on a jade bottle, unleashing a terrifying ancient aura across Shu Mountain’s gate.

• Several mid-Soul Division Stage powerhouses gathered at Shu Mountain’s gate to ambush Chen Fan as he came for Mu Yunshui.
• Chen Fan arrived surrounded by heart-demon energy and ignored the guards’ warnings, insisting they move aside.
• A Shu Mountain elder compressed the void into spikes and then tried to force Chen Fan to kneel, but Chen Fan shattered both attacks with the White Bone Sword.
• Chen Fan took a jade bottle from his Storage Ring, recited curse runes, and erased its seal, releasing an ancient aura across the gate.

Chen Fan was imprisoned by Shu Mountain and Immortal Palace powerhouses, but the jade bottle he carried sealed a Shu Mountain elder’s cultivation when the elder seized it. As Chen Fan secretly worked to break free, Zhao Wuji appeared before the gathered guests.

• Several mid-Soul Division Stage powerhouses used spatial power to imprison Chen Fan, and a Shu Mountain elder took the jade bottle from him.
• The jade bottle’s runes suppressed the Shu Mountain elder to the early Spirit Refining Stage, and he warned the others not to touch it.
• Guests gathered at Shu Mountain’s gate, where they discussed Chen Fan’s cultivation, his capture, and rumors that he had come for Mu Yunshui.
• Holy Son Cai Teng sensed a heart demon within Chen Fan, while Jian Tianmo watched him from the crowd.
• The Shu Mountain elder and other powerhouses demanded Chen Fan explain how to remove the runes, but Chen Fan refused as he circulated the Eight-Nine Arcane Art to break the spatial restraint.
• Zhao Wuji stepped forward in crimson battle armor and applauded behind the silent crowd.

Chen Fan escaped the five Soul Division powerhouses by transforming into space, then returned to Shu Mountain’s First Peak and summoned the Black Tortoise descendant. He left Zhao Wuji facing the creature’s crushing attack.

• Zhao Wuji used Supreme runes to restore Elder Xu’s cultivation and then struck Chen Fan while boasting that he could crush him.
• Zhao Wuji prepared to search Chen Fan’s soul, but Qin Xian’er, Dugu Han, Bald Bird, and Old Yellow Tooth arrived as he attacked.
• Chen Fan vanished from the five powerhouses’ spatial restraint by transforming into the power of space, and Bald Bird understood what he had done.
• Chen Fan reappeared, retrieved the jade bottle, and used curse runes to unleash the Black Tortoise descendant.
• Chen Fan commanded the enormous creature to stomp toward Zhao Wuji.

Chen Fan’s arrival at Shu Mountain ended in a confrontation with Sect Leader Fang Changqing, who imprisoned the Black Tortoise descendant and demanded that Mu Yunshui complete a ceremony. Chen Fan stopped Mu Yunshui and unleashed his inner demon, declaring that he intended to kill someone.

• The Black Tortoise descendant crushed Zhao Wuji’s leg before Fang Changqing arrived and trapped the beast in a Five Elements Sword Array.
• Fang Changqing healed Zhao Wuji, then sealed the Black Tortoise descendant inside a barrier made from torn space.
• Fang Changqing ordered everyone to enter the main hall for the ceremony and ignored Chen Fan.
• Mu Yunshui escaped her confinement and joined Chen Fan and Qin Xian’er, while Immortal Palace elders ordered her back.
• Fang Changqing demanded that Mu Yunshui complete the ceremony, but Chen Fan stopped her and unleashed his inner demon.

Chen Fan released his heart demon on Shu Mountain’s First Peak, and the onlookers struggled to understand his intentions as his emotions faded. After his allies and several potential supporters left, he unleashed an ancient sword technique against the people remaining on the peak.

• Chen Fan released his heart demon, summoned a Taiji Diagram, and ordered Bald Bird and Bi Fang to take Qin Xian'er, Mu Yunshui, and the others away.
• Bald Bird teleported the group away while Dugu Clan members blocked the Immortal Palace experts from pursuing them.
• The Dugu Clan head withdrew after revealing he had wagered on Chen Fan, and Cai Teng recognized that Chen Fan's emotions were fading before leaving with Jian Tianmo and the others.
• With his companions gone, Chen Fan let his heart demon consume his remaining clarity and prepared to risk his life against Shu Mountain's First Peak.
• Chen Fan unleashed Sword Sweeps Eight Wastelands, a sword technique whose use threatened to destroy both sides.

Chen Fan unleashed Sword Sweeps Eight Wastelands against Fang Changqing, who imprisoned him in a void barrier. Chen Fan shattered the prison with an annihilating sword strike that destroyed the surrounding area and began tearing Fang Changqing apart.

• As his inner demon consumed his memories and Divine Sense, Chen Fan unleashed Sword Sweeps Eight Wastelands atop Shu Mountain First Peak.
• Fang Changqing trapped Chen Fan and the surrounding demonic qi inside a barrier of void power, isolating him from the world.
• Fang Changqing ordered the Shu Mountain Elders to retrieve Mu Yunshui within three hours and dismissed Zhao Wuji when he questioned the decision.
• Chen Fan's Sword Intent shook the barrier, and he declared that he would trample Shu Mountain to pieces.
• Chen Fan detonated the void around him with an annihilating sword strike, killing guests caught in its wake and shattering Fang Changqing's arm and body.

Chen Fan unleashed the Sword Demon’s final strike, destroying Shu Mountain First Peak and seemingly dying with it, but the Ink Dragon carried him away alive. His victory became known throughout the Eastern Wasteland, until news arrived that the Western Desert had fallen to an invading force.

• Chen Fan’s final sword strike annihilated Fang Changqing, Zhao Wuji, Shu Mountain’s disciples, and First Peak, while Chen Fan and the White Bone Sword appeared to be destroyed as well.
• The fleeing cultivators discovered that Shu Mountain First Peak had vanished, and the Dugu Clan patriarch admitted that Chen Fan’s apparent death meant he had lost his gamble and ordered his clan to leave the Eastern Wasteland.
• An Ink Dragon emerged from the dust carrying Chen Fan, and the Dugu Clan patriarch celebrated after realizing Chen Fan had survived.
• News of Chen Fan’s battle spread across the Eastern Wasteland, where people feared to challenge him or harm those close to him.
• Two months later, a messenger from the Western Desert reported that it had fallen to more than a dozen late-stage Spirit Severing cultivators and over a thousand Spirit Refining Stage cultivators, who planned to attack the other three divine continents.

Monk Wuming confirmed the Western Desert’s fall, prompting the forces of the three divine continents to plan a defense and consider seeking Chen Fan’s help. Chen Fan awoke alive in a valley, learned Ink Dragon had saved him at the cost of a thousand years of cultivation, and asked why Ink Dragon had gone silent in the Peach Blossom Spring Mystic Realm.

• Monk Wuming confirmed Chen Fan’s account of the Western Desert and verified that Chen Fan had destroyed Shu Mountain First Peak and slain its sect master.
• Leaders of the three divine continents gathered to prepare for the overseas enemy, but worried their forces could not prevail without an Integration Stage cultivator.
• The Dugu Clan head argued that Chen Fan should decide whether to forgive the powers that had once hunted him, but the leaders sent their invitation without changing its wording.
• Chen Fan awoke in a distant Eastern Wasteland valley and realized his heart demon had vanished and his cultivation had nearly reached the Soul Division Stage.
• Ink Dragon told Chen Fan that it had torn open the void to save him, spending a thousand years of cultivation, and demanded compensation.
• Chen Fan asked Ink Dragon why it had gone silent after they entered the Peach Blossom Spring Mystic Realm.

Chen Fan learned more about the Heavenly Dao and Ink Dragon’s plans before Ink Dragon left to find the Fat Daoist. On his way back to the Peach Blossom Spring Mystic Realm, Chen Fan was approached by a Divine Silkworm Clan elder offering an apology and a gift.

• Ink Dragon explained that the Immortal Realm lacked the Dao essence needed to attain immortality, while this realm possessed it, and Chen Fan chose not to ask further about dangerous secrets.
• Ink Dragon warned Chen Fan that he had little time before the Fat Daoist gathered his soul fragments, then departed to meet him in the Eastern Wasteland.
• Chen Fan realized he needed to reach the Body Integration Stage within roughly a hundred years to follow the Fat Daoist to the Immortal Realm.
• Chen Fan flew toward the Peach Blossom Spring Mystic Realm, and cultivators who spotted him reacted with excitement.
• A middle Soul Division Stage elder of the Divine Silkworm Clan caught up with Chen Fan, asked to end their feud, and offered him Divine Silkworm Bracers as an apology.

Chen Fan accepted the Divine Silkworm Bracers from the Divine Silkworm Clan without promising Yang Xiao’s protection, then returned to the Peach Blossom Spring Mystic Realm and discovered that Bald Bird and the others had gone missing. He suspected they had been intercepted while traveling and considered the Immortal Palace or Hell Sect as possible culprits.

• The Divine Silkworm Clan elder gave Chen Fan its precious Divine Silkworm Bracers and asked him to have Yang Xiao protect the clan from overseas forces.
• Chen Fan accepted the bracers and agreed only to put their past conflict behind them, leaving the elder to realize he had not secured Yang Xiao’s help.
• Chen Fan headed to the Peach Blossom Spring Mystic Realm, where he found Chen Jingjing and the others but not Bald Bird, Dugu Han, or the rest of the group.
• Chen Jingjing told Chen Fan that Xian'er and Bai Jing had left with the others to search for him more than two months earlier.
• Chen Fan concluded that the group had likely been intercepted while escaping through a Teleportation Array and wondered whether the Immortal Palace was responsible.
• Chen Jingjing asked whether the people behind the disappearance could be from the Hell Sect.

Chen Fan suspected the Hell Sect had abducted Bald Bird and the others, so he left the secret realm to search for them. He learned that Dugu Ghost Sword was rumored to have entered the Hell Sect’s ancestral grounds, then hurried to the Dugu Clan, where he emerged from a Teleportation Array into the stench of blood.

• Chen Fan reassured Chen Jingjing and the others, reinforced the secret realm’s formation, and left to find the abducted group.
• Chen Fan saw that Nine Palaces Elder remained locked in a stalemate with the humanoid lightning after eight years.
• After failing to find information while disguised, Chen Fan revealed himself in an Ancient City and asked its City Lord about the Hell Sect.
• The City Lord and an old man said Dugu Ghost Sword was rumored to have entered the Hell Sect’s ancestral grounds and retreated unharmed.
• Chen Fan took a Teleportation Array to the city where the Dugu Clan was located and encountered a strong stench of blood upon arrival.

Chen Fan found the Dugu Clan under attack by the Hell Sect, whose curse runes had badly wounded the Dugu Clan Head. After Chen Fan helped him dispel the curse and subdue the attackers, Chen Fan prepared to question them about Mu Yunshui and her group.

• Chen Fan discovered that Hell Sect cultivators had surrounded the Dugu Clan and that their curse runes had gravely injured the Dugu Clan Head.
• Chen Fan blocked the curse runes with the Clear Heart Art and killed the Spirit Refining Stage attackers who came to intercept him.
• Chen Fan entered the Dugu Clan estate through its Magic Array and taught the Dugu Clan Head the Clear Heart Art.
• The Dugu Clan Head used his restored strength to capture the Hell Sect experts, and Chen Fan demanded that they answer his questions or face a soul search.

Chen Fan searched the Hell Sect experts’ memories and learned that Qin Xian’er, Mu Yunshui, and Dugu Han were imprisoned in the Hell Sect Ancestral Grounds, while Bald Bird and Old Yellow Tooth had been swallowed by the void. After killing the experts, he joined forces with the Dugu Clan and asked Dugu Ghost Sword why the Hell Sect had attacked the city.

• Chen Fan reached into the void with an arm transformed by the Eight-Nine Arcane Art and searched the Hell Sect experts’ memories.
• Chen Fan discovered that Qin Xian’er, Mu Yunshui, and Dugu Han were imprisoned on the third and fourth levels of the Hell Sect Ancestral Grounds, while Bald Bird and Old Yellow Tooth had fallen into the dark void.
• Enraged by what he learned, Chen Fan killed the Hell Sect experts by crushing their heads.
• The Dugu Clan Head pledged the clan’s support for an attack on the Hell Sect and offered to accompany Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan asked Dugu Ghost Sword why the Hell Sect had massacred the city, and she revealed that she had found an item after entering a void passage beneath a volcano.

Chen Fan learned that the Heavenly Water Pearl came from the Hell Sect’s ancestral grounds and that the sect had at least two late Soul Division Stage experts. He gathered the Dugu Clan and Divine Silkworm Clan to prepare for an assault, then left to seek more allies.

• Dugu Ghost Sword revealed that she had found the Heavenly Water Pearl beneath a volcano and sensed multiple late Soul Division Stage experts in the Hell Sect’s ancestral grounds.
• The Dugu Clan Head agreed to help Chen Fan, but Chen Fan said he would find reinforcements and ordered the clan to prepare its Soul Division Stage members.
• Chen Fan traveled to the Divine Silkworm Clan’s ancestral grounds and asked its leader to join the expedition against the Hell Sect.
• The Divine Silkworm Clan agreed to send everyone at the Soul Division Stage and above, including its leader, to the Dugu Clan in three days.
• Chen Fan departed to find additional allies, leaving the Divine Silkworm Clan elder astonished that even two late Soul Division Stage experts were not enough.

Chen Fan asked Xiao Tianfang to seek the Xiao Family Head's help in destroying the Hell Sect and rescuing Qin Xian'er and Mu Yunshui. After Xiao Tianfang contacted the Family Head, he received a reply, leaving Chen Fan waiting to hear the Xiao Family's decision.

• Chen Fan met Xiao Tianfang in the Xiao Family's Ancient City and asked him to request the Family Head's aid against the Hell Sect.
• Chen Fan explained the abductions and the forces involved, and said Yang Xiao had gone to the Immortal Realm while the Nine Palaces Elder was undergoing tribulation.
• Xiao Tianfang used the Xiao Family's Bronze Gate to send a message to the Family Head and waited for a response.
• Xiao Si Qing arrived with several young Xiao Family members, and Xiao Tian mocked Chen Fan and boasted about his strength.
• Xiao Tianfang reprimanded Xiao Tian, then told Chen Fan that the Family Head had replied.

Chen Fan secured the Xiao Family’s help and prepared to attack the Hell Sect, whose location he had discovered by searching its members’ Divine Souls. After setting out with Xiao Wuhui and other Xiao Family powerhouses, he arrived at the Dugu Clan, where the gathered allies welcomed his arrival.

• Chen Fan bought high-grade talisman paper and inscribed talismans while Xiao Tianfang warned Xiao Tian and the others not to disrespect him.
• Xiao Wuhui arrived with four Soul Division Stage Early Stage powerhouses, praised Chen Fan, and agreed to help settle the Xiao Family’s blood debt with the Hell Sect.
• Chen Fan and Xiao Wuhui agreed to depart immediately, while Xiao Tianfang stayed behind as City Lord.
• Chen Fan and the Xiao Family powerhouses traveled by Teleportation Array toward the Dugu Clan.
• Two days later, the Dugu Clan and Divine Silkworm Clan gathered at the manor, sensed Chen Fan’s arrival, and went to meet him.

Chen Fan led the three great powers to a spatial passage near the northern edge of the Eastern Wasteland, intending to rescue Qin Xian'er and the other captives before destroying Hell Sect. After Dugu Ghost Sword gave him the Heavenly Water Pearl, Chen Fan entered the passage with the others.

• Dugu Ghost Sword joined Chen Fan's expedition, and the group set out through a Teleportation Array for the Ancient City at the northernmost edge of the Eastern Wasteland.
• The three late Soul Division Stage experts warned Chen Fan that Bald Bird and Old Yellow Tooth might never escape the Dark Void Realm.
• Chen Fan's group arrived in the Ancient City, ordered it sealed for three days, and left without revealing their arrival to the outside world.
• At the lake near the Hell Sect Ancestral Grounds, Dugu Ghost Sword gave Chen Fan the Heavenly Water Pearl and warned that the location was near the entrance she had once found beneath a volcano.
• Chen Fan found the spatial passage beneath the lake, entered it, and was followed by the others.

Chen Fan realized the void passage was a fake created by the Hell Sect and warned that continuing would lead them into a trap. After the three clans agreed to follow his judgment, he attacked the passage to break it.

• Chen Fan found a crack in the passage and used the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk to detect Bald Bird and Old Yellow Tooth nearby, though neither was visible.
• Chen Fan concluded that the passage was an imitation and that the group had never left the Great Immortal Cultivation World.
• Chen Fan explained that breaking the false passage might free them, but could instead cast them into the dark void realm if he was mistaken.
• The Dugu Clan Chief, the Xiao Family Chief, and the Divine Silkworm Clan Chief agreed to take the risk and trust Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan drew his sword from the Immortal Sword Sheath and struck the crack in the passage.

Chen Fan discovered that the lake concealed a real spatial entrance beneath ten false ones and led the cultivators through it. After finding Bald Bird and Old Yellow Tooth trapped in the void, he learned Hell Sect planned to take the killing formation in Qin Xian’er’s body and hurried toward the ancestral grounds to save her and the others.

• Chen Fan exposed the false spatial passages and shattered the lake to reveal the hidden entrance.
• Chen Fan led the group through the true passage and used the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk to locate Bald Bird and Old Yellow Tooth drifting in the void.
• Old Yellow Tooth warned Chen Fan that Hell Sect and a Qin Clan expert planned to transplant Qin Xian’er’s heart and seize her killing formation.
• Bald Bird told Chen Fan that ancient spiritual herbs could help them escape, so Chen Fan threw herbs to them.
• Chen Fan and the cultivators rushed toward Hell Sect’s Ancestral Grounds, vowing to save the captives and kill everyone from Hell Sect.

Chen Fan led the Dugu Clan, Xiao Family, and Divine Silkworm Clan into Hell Sect’s volcanic ancestral grounds to find Qin Xian’er and the others. The Divine Silkworm Clan broke through the restrictions on the second level, and Chen Fan located Hell Sect’s forces waiting below on the third level.

• Chen Fan used the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk to locate Qin Xian’er and the others beneath the volcano.
• Chen Fan asked the Divine Silkworm Clan Chief to lead his clan in breaking through Hell Sect’s restrictions.
• The Divine Silkworm Clan Chief and his clansmen formed Divine Silkworm Cocoons and descended into the lava to clear the restrictions.
• After the restrictions on the second level were removed without injuries, Chen Fan and the others joined the Divine Silkworm Clan there.
• Chen Fan used the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk again and found people waiting on the third level.

Chen Fan and his allies forced their way through Hell’s levels after discovering the Hell Sect Master was heading for Qin Xian’er. They reached the ninth level and found her aura fading behind a collapsed passage, while two powerful enemies had already gone deeper.

• Chen Fan used the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk to determine that the Hell Sect disciples were hiding on the third level and that the Hell Sect Master was moving toward Qin Xian’er.
• Chen Fan and the Divine Silkworm Clan plunged into the magma, exposed the hidden Hell Sect disciples, and defeated them with the arriving Dugu and Xiao clan leaders.
• Chen Fan learned the Hell Sect members were on the ninth level, and the group chose to break through the restrictions and descend without delay.
• Dugu Clan Head sent Dugu Ghost Sword back to wait outside while the others forced their way through the lower levels.
• On the ninth level, Chen Fan sensed Qin Xian’er’s weakening aura behind a rock wall and detected two powerful enemies moving toward the eighteenth level.
• Chen Fan smashed through the wall, revealing a dark passage leading toward Qin Xian’er.

Chen Fan broke through the restriction to rescue Qin Xian'er from Qin Changsheng and defeated him, then emerged from the cave with her. The Dugu Clan Head discovered something alarming while searching Qin Changsheng's soul, after Chen Fan and the others realized a mysterious late-stage Soul Formation expert had gone unseen by Qin Xian'er.

• Chen Fan forced his way through the passage's restrictions as Qin Changsheng demanded that Qin Xian'er surrender the Killing Formation core and attacked her.
• Qin Changsheng trapped Qin Xian'er against the barrier and threatened her, but Chen Fan arrived and passed through the restriction.
• Chen Fan repeatedly stomped Qin Changsheng into the ground, then offered Qin Xian'er spiritual medicine, which she accepted despite saying her undying body had healed her.
• With help from three late-stage Soul Formation cultivators, Chen Fan and Qin Xian'er left the cave, and Chen Fan ordered the Dugu Clan Head to search Qin Changsheng's soul and kill him.
• Chen Fan and Qin Xian'er learned that she had only seen the Hell Sect Master, despite reports of another late-stage Soul Formation expert heading toward the eighteenth level.
• The Dugu Clan Head abruptly stopped searching Qin Changsheng's soul and announced that something terrible had happened.

Chen Fan learned that the Hell Sect's Sect Master used the Kunlun Mirror to create a copy of himself and split up with the others to search the Eighteen Levels of Hell. After Qin Xian'er confessed her feelings and kissed him, Chen Fan found signs of Mu Yunshui's blood in a passage on the twelfth level and rushed in, fearing she was in danger.

• The Dugu Clan Head revealed that the Hell Sect's Sect Master had used the Kunlun Mirror to replicate himself, prompting the group to divide their search and guard the mirror.
• Chen Fan and Qin Xian'er headed for the twelfth level to find Mu Yunshui, while the others went to the Eighteen Levels of Hell.
• Qin Xian'er apologized for hurting Chen Fan before, assured him she would not leave him, and kissed him.
• Chen Fan used the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk to locate Mu Yunshui and broke through a rock wall into a passage on the twelfth level.
• Chen Fan and Qin Xian'er sensed Mu Yunshui's blood in a foul wind, and Chen Fan charged into the passage alone.
• Chen Fan saw a huge Monster Beast blocking the passage, with scraps of Mu Yunshui's red robes caught in its claws.

Chen Fan and Qin Xian'er fought through a mirrored passage while searching for Mu Yunshui, eventually finding her at the end of the route. Chen Fan sensed that the powerful Supreme Restriction surrounding her came from heaven itself, not her inheritance.

• Chen Fan killed the early Soul Splitting Monster Beast trapped in the passage and found no sign that it had swallowed Mu Yunshui.
• Chen Fan and Qin Xian'er followed Mu Yunshui's trail and discovered that part of the passage was a false path that had kept them walking in place.
• Chen Fan shattered the mirrored passage with two sword strikes, revealing the Monster Beast's corpse and Mu Yunshui's blood trail nearby.
• Chen Fan and Qin Xian'er followed the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk to Mu Yunshui, who was meditating at the end of the passage.
• Chen Fan noticed that the Supreme Restriction swirling around Mu Yunshui was far stronger than before and appeared to have formed naturally.