Recaps

Xu Xing rescued Xi Yun and Xi Li, fed them, and taught them the Body Nourishing Art, which could make them cultivators. He revealed that the Beast God Clan’s Dao Net marked Human Race cultivators and targeted those who grew too powerful, leaving the siblings’ path to cultivation fraught with danger.

• Xu Xing brought Xi Yun and Xi Li to a safe cave, gave them food, and taught them movements to practice.
• Xu Xing explored the Beast God Realm’s past, learning that the Beast God Clan had nearly wiped out the Human Race and that its remaining cultivators were called Inheritors.
• A purple claw disrupted Xu Xing’s attempt to probe the realm’s history and tried to locate him, so he stopped investigating.
• Xi Yun and Xi Li practiced the Body Nourishing Art, felt energy circulate through their bodies, and learned that the method could make them cultivators.
• Xu Xing explained that the Beast God’s Dao Net marked Human Race cultivators, triggered deadly tribulations beyond the Nascent Soul level, and alerted the Beast God Clan when they reached Golden Core.

Xu Xing saved Xi Yun and Xi Li, supplied them with food and clothes, and taught them how to begin becoming Inheritors. He then investigated the Beast God Realm’s ruler and its formidable Beast God Clan, leaving the city as a mech army vanished around him.

• Xu Xing reassured Xi Yun and Xi Li that he would not be punished for making them Inheritors, then gave them supplies, glowing objects for practice, and directions to a river.
• Xi Yun and Xi Li decided to follow Xu Xing’s instructions, ate some meat, hid the extra supplies, and went to wash up.
• Xu Xing reflected on the Beast God’s power and sensed the ruler’s vast malice briefly descend over the city.
• Dozens of Beast God Clan mechs charged into the city, led by a towering mech operated by a golden-scaled clan member.
• Xu Xing vanished as the mech army dissolved into specks of light, planning to investigate the Beast God before confronting it.

Xu Xing entered Fang Tribe in the Cangmang Federation and saw how the Beast God Race lived off human flesh. After he erased the city’s inhabitants, an ancient presence restored them, but Xu Xing repeatedly returned to kill them again.

• Xu Xing walked through the prosperous Fang Tribe, where Beast God Race members treated humans as inferior beings.
• Xu Xing found a food street where Beast God Race members ate human remains and killed everyone there with a flash of scarlet sword light.
• A torrent of malice destroyed the city, but an indifferent presence rebuilt it and restored the slain Beast God Race members through the River of Time and Space.
• Xu Xing returned as Red Radiance and erased the restored inhabitants, prompting the presence to rebuild the city and lay down a defense.
• Xu Xing erased the Beast God Race again and left, while the distant presence watched in silence.

Xu Xing uncovered how the Beast God Realm’s Heavenly Will had merged with the resisting Beast God to become a half-mad Heavenly Will Immortal, and he rescued the Human Race members held captive in the city. Back in the Great Profound Realm, he decided that other fellow Daoists could also pursue a path beyond True Immortal and prepared to tell Ning Ruo about the discovery.

• Xu Xing realized the Beast God Realm’s Heavenly Will had engineered the ancient conflict to force the victor into the True Immortal Realm and seize their essence.
• Xu Xing concluded that the Beast God resisted the Heavenly Will’s attempt to absorb him, leaving them merged in a half-mad being that protected the Beast God Clan while struggling against itself.
• Xu Xing rescued the Flesh Humans from the city and planned to visit the remaining Human Race members before involving his fellow Daoists.
• Back in Qingxu, Xu Xing studied Yuan’s Notes on Realm Exploration and recognized the half-mad Heavenly Will Immortal as evidence that others could take a path beyond True Immortal.
• Xu Xing reviewed his work in two other Void Return worlds and took out his phone to tell Ning Ruo about the Beast God Realm.

Xu Xing informed Ning Ruo, his senior sister, and Yuanjun about the Beast God Realm before summoning the fellow Daoists to Qingxu. His call drew their attention to the exposed Homecoming laboratory, where the immortals began gathering as Xu Xing prepared to explain.

• Xu Xing told Ning Ruo about the Beast God Realm, the Heavenly Will Immortal, and the Human Race's plight, and she told him to proceed as he thought best.
• Xu Xing informed his senior sister and Yuanjun about the Beast God Realm.
• Xu Xing summoned the fellow Daoists through the World-Deriving Instrument, and his voice reached beyond Qingxu.
• A Charm Cultivator livestreaming outside Qingxu watched as the sea of mist parted, exposing the Homecoming laboratory and causing strange beasts to burst apart.
• Confusion condemned the beasts and asked Xu Xing why he had summoned them, and Xu Xing said he would explain once everyone arrived.

Xu Xing gathered the Thirteen True Immortals of Great Profound to plan an expedition to the Beast God Realm and received world coordinates from several immortals. Gu secretly came to spy on Qingxu, where the thirteen True Immortals turned their gazes toward Him.

• The True Immortals’ gazes briefly revealed the Great Dao to the cultivators at Qingxu before withdrawing to protect them from being overwhelmed.
• Xu Xing explained Ning Ruo’s Ascension Plan and what he had witnessed in the Beast God Realm to the gathered True Immortals.
• The Black-Shadow Human Immortal and the White-Haired Human Immortal gave Xu Xing their captured world coordinates.
• Confusion agreed to visit the Beast God Realm, and Remorse volunteered to join the expedition against the Heavenly Will Immortal.
• Xu Xing offered to bear the Heaven’s Will burdening Charm Ancestor so she could join the expedition.
• Gu crossed into the Realm of Reality to spy on Qingxu, where thirteen True Immortals noticed Him and Xu Xing greeted Him.

The Human Race’s True Immortals joined forces to drive Gu out of the River of Time and Space, temporarily preventing it from interfering with reality. Xu Xing returned to the Beast God Realm, taught Xi Yun and Xi Li a stronger cultivation method, and prepared to help the Human Race rise again.

• The thirteen Human Race True Immortals attacked Gu through karmic strands, shattered its divine halo, and forced it to flee into the past.
• Xu Xing and the other immortals discussed how their group had delayed Gu and turned to planning who would go to the Beast God Realm.
• Xi Yun and Xi Li practiced the Body Nourishing Art while waiting for Xu Xing to return.
• Xu Xing praised the siblings’ progress, taught them the Nurture Self Body Forging Art, and allowed them to pass it on to others of decent character.
• Xu Xing considered how his new method and a planned sword strike might protect the Human Race from the Heavenly Will Immortal, then told Xi Yun that the Human Race would soon have a chance to rise again.

Xu Xing prepared to take Xi Yun and Xi Li to Bright Light while restoring the minds of humans rescued from captivity through the Way of Reality and Illusion. At Bright Light, the settlement’s brutal rulers began another coerced offer of food, just as Xu Xing and the siblings arrived.

• Xu Xing told Xi Yun and Xi Li to eat their fill before he took them to Bright Light, and he reassured them that he would handle its leader.
• Xi Yun and Xi Li trusted Xu Xing’s strength, and the siblings finished preparing to leave the cave with him.
• Xu Xing watched captive humans live new lives inside a vast illusion so their damaged minds could develop, while considering what he had learned about the Beast God Realm’s Heaven’s Will and the Beast God.
• Xu Xing took Xi Yun and Xi Li to Bright Light, one of the few remaining Human Race settlements, ruled by a brutal man rumored to cooperate with the Beast God Clan.
• At Bright Light, a young Qi Refining cultivator offered hungry residents a chance to eat if they agreed to offer themselves.

Xu Xing killed the Bright Light platform’s exploitative leaders and ensured that the starving people received food, then entered the settlement’s inner town to confront its leader, Min Feng. After Xu Xing removed the corruption controlling Min Feng, Min Feng repented and killed himself, but Xu Xing revived him and left him a new technique.

• Xu Xing appeared on the platform and killed the young man and the other exploitative figures who had been starving the outer settlement’s people.
• Xu Xing promised the starving crowd food, clothing, and a chance to live, then left Xi Yun and Xi Li to distribute food as the people calmly formed lines.
• Xu Xing killed a third of the people in Bright Light’s inner town and entered Min Feng’s manor.
• Xu Xing removed the foreign influence from Min Feng’s spirit, and Min Feng recovered his memories, confessed his betrayal, and pulled out his Golden Core before killing himself.
• Xu Xing restored Min Feng to life and departed, leaving Min Feng to awaken with the Law-Intercepting Heaven-Veiling Technique in his mind.

Xu Xing prepared the Human Race in the Beast God Realm to resist the Heavenly Will Immortal while the Great Profound Realm selected five True Immortals to travel there. The chapter ended with Remorse, Confusion, Charm Ancestor, Bie Xuening, and Yuanjun gathered in the Homecoming Laboratory.

• Xi Yun and Xi Li handed food and water to the starving people at Bright Light Settlement, and the Body Nourishing Art eased their fatigue as they worked.
• Xu Xing returned and watched the people practice a simplified Law-Intercepting Heaven-Veiling Technique to shield themselves from the Dao Net.
• Xu Xing thought the technique would buy the Human Race time until help arrived from the Great Profound Realm, and that he would need to strike with his sword.
• The immortals of the Great Profound Realm chose who would travel to the Beast God Realm, and Bie Xuening arrived at the Homecoming Laboratory.
• Yuanjun and Charm Ancestor joined Xu Xing, Remorse, Confusion, and Bie Xuening, forming the group of five True Immortals bound for the Beast God Realm.

Xu Xing took on the wills of three sects as the others prepared for the expedition to the Beast God Realm. After the Heavenly Will Immortal manipulated time there, Xu Xing realized he needed to speed up his plans to prepare the Human Race for an approaching attack.

• The assembled immortals agreed that they would oversee the Ascension Plan at first and let their disciples participate once it proved viable.
• Bie Xuening and Charm Ancestor prepared to travel to the Beast God Realm, while Tyrant Sovereign stayed behind to watch over the Central Continent.
• Xu Xing confirmed he could bear the wills of the Sword Sect, the Joyous Union Sect, and the Dragon-Elephant Heaven-Supporting Sect while remaining able to act.
• Xu Xing sensed that the Heavenly Will Immortal had accelerated time in the Beast God Realm, where Heaven's Will and the Beast God resumed fighting.
• At the Bright Light Settlement, Xu Xing decided to accelerate his preparations for the Human Race before Heaven's Will and the Beast God joined forces against them.

Xu Xing left Xi Yun and Xi Li in charge of Bright Light Settlement after giving them cultivation techniques, then traveled with Min Feng toward the Inheritor Holy Land. At Cangya Laboratory, Liao and Ming discovered the destruction of the Cangmang Federation and discussed the Dao Net’s response.

• Min Feng arrived at Bright Light Settlement, and Xu Xing calmed the settlement’s people before asking about the Law-Intercepting Heaven-Veiling Technique.
• Xu Xing ordered Min Feng to accompany him to the Inheritor Holy Land and explained to Xi Yun and Xi Li that Min Feng’s soul had been altered by the Beast God Clan.
• Xu Xing gave Xi Yun and Xi Li cultivation knowledge and techniques, left food and water in Bright Light Settlement, and warned two survivors that the Beast God Race would find the settlement in a month.
• Xu Xing and Min Feng vanished from the settlement, leaving Xi Yun and Xi Li in charge.
• Liao and Ming found Cangya Laboratory empty and learned that the Cangmang Federation’s more than two hundred million Beast God Race members had died.
• Ming told Liao that the Dao Net had not responded and that the remaining Human Race rebels were still within acceptable limits.

Liao and Ming discussed the outsider who had entered the Beast God Realm and considered seeking the Beast God’s intervention. Xu Xing accompanied Min Feng to the Human Race’s Inheritor Holy Land, where he reached the artifact’s innermost Secret Realm and found Xi’s Dao.

• Liao concluded that the outsider who had destroyed the Cangmang Federation was beyond Void Return and proposed asking the Council of Elders and the Beast God for help.
• Ming warned that the Beast God might be dangerous in his abnormal state, while Liao said the Beast God would act if the outsider belonged to the Human Race.
• Xu Xing and Min Feng traveled to the hidden Inheritor Holy Land, which Min Feng described as the Human Race’s refuge and repository of cultivation methods.
• Min Feng bowed before the Holy Land and asked Xu Xing to proceed alone, and Xu Xing entered without being noticed by its guards.
• Xu Xing crossed the Holy Land’s Secret Realm and reached the brilliant core, where he recognized Xi’s name and Dao.

Xu Xing entered Xi’s hidden Dao essence and subdued the four Human Race cultivators sheltered within it. He revealed that he came from the Immortal Realm, leaving the four stunned.

• Xu Xing recognized that Xi had used the Heavenly Will’s anchor to preserve a hidden wisp of her Dao essence for the Human Race.
• Xu Xing entered the fireball and found four peak Void Return cultivators sheltered within Xi’s Dao essence.
• Fumu attacked Xu Xing, but he stopped her strike and restrained her and the other three cultivators.
• Xu Xing explained that he was Human Race but came from another world, then told the four he came from the Immortal Realm.

Xu Xing showed the four Void Return cultivators the Sword Ancestor’s overwhelming power and revealed that the Human Race’s predicament might have been secretly caused by the Heavenly Will. The four left Xi’s protected fireball with him, unsettled by his accusation.

• Xu Xing revealed a vision of the Sword Ancestor wielding a sword formed from the river of all sword paths, leaving the four Void Return cultivators unable to resist.
• Xu Xing identified himself as the Sword Ancestor and showed the four Xi’s remaining Dao aura, then returned it to its place.
• Xu Xing led the four out of Xi’s fireball and reassured them that the Dao Net would not detect them.
• Xu Xing asked whether the four still believed in observing Heaven’s Dao and following its will, then claimed the Heavenly Will had secretly caused the Human Race’s plight.
• The woman of the Fumu lineage defended the Heavenly Will’s fairness, but her confidence faltered as she considered the Human Race’s near-extinction.

Xu Xing explained how the Beast God Realm’s Heavenly Will manipulated the war between the Human Race and the Beast God Clan, then gave four Human Race survivors a technique to evade the Dao Net and urged them to endure until his allies arrived. Back in the Great Profound Realm, his companions departed, while progress in the other worlds suggested an ascender would soon reach their realm.

• Xu Xing told the four survivors that the Beast God Realm’s Heavenly Will had engineered the war to seize the essence of the victorious side, then helped the Beast God attain immortality and tried to take his essence.
• Xu Xing taught the four the Law-Intercepting Heaven-Veiling Technique and said he would strike the Heavenly Will Immortal and the Dao Net before disappearing, leaving them to hold out until his fellow Daoists arrived.
• Xu Xing told the Fuguang heir that the altered flow of time meant the others would take a long time to arrive, leaving the four uncertain about the Human Race’s prospects.
• In the Homecoming Laboratory, Xu Xing recounted events in the Beast God Realm, and Confusion and Remorse departed to help there.
• Bie Xuening took Charm Ancestor away, and Yuanjun also left the Great Profound Realm.
• Xu Xing noted that cultivation was reviving in the technological world and that the first ascender from the extraordinary world would soon arrive in the Great Profound Realm.

Xu Xing sent out the second batch of Ascension Platforms and told the cultivators about it, while Bie Xuening, Yuanjun, Charm Ancestor, Remorse, and Confusion observed the platforms reaching four worlds. They judged that most eligible cultivators in the previously seized worlds failed the standards, though two cultivators from the first batch’s world might qualify.

• Xu Xing filtered the World-Deriving Instrument’s coordinates, let Moon Shadow choose four worlds, and sent Ascension Platforms to them.
• Xu Xing informed Ning Ruo and the Big Boss Group that the second batch had been sent out.
• Pill Ancestor teased Hong Sovereign about calling him “Brother Dao,” and reminded him that he was Yuanjun’s brother, prompting Xu Xing to stop chatting.
• Charm Ancestor teased Bie Xuening and Yuanjun about their time in the laboratory as the five beings traveled across the Chaos Sea.
• Confusion announced the new Ascension Platforms, and the five observed them enter four worlds.
• Bie Xuening and Yuanjun judged that the cultivators in the two previously seized worlds did not meet the Ascension Platform’s standards, but two cultivators in the first batch’s world might qualify.

Twenty days after Xu Xing left Bright Light Settlement, Xi Yun struggled to hold its divided districts together while Xi Li reached the fifth layer of Qi Refining and offered to take charge. At the Inheritor Holy Land, Xu Xing learned that the Human Race could now produce seventeen Spirit Transformation cultivators or one Void Return cultivator, and someone soon reached Spirit Transformation.

• Xi Yun tried to maintain the balance between Bright Light Settlement’s inner and outer districts as both sides grew dissatisfied and the Beast God Race’s pursuit squad approached.
• Xi Li returned after reaching the fifth layer of Qi Refining and told Xi Yun she would handle what came next.
• Fumu reported that the Law-Intercepting Heaven-Veiling Technique had given the Holy Land enough cultivators to secure seventeen Spirit Transformation positions or one Void Return position.
• Xu Xing assessed Xi Yun and Xi Li’s efforts to manage the settlement and recognized their progress despite their flaws.
• Streams of spiritual energy converged on the Pearl Palace and Shell Tower as someone reached Spirit Transformation.

After Xu Xing allowed Lingze’s inheritor to take Min Feng and approved Fuguang’s plan to spread the teachings, cultivators across the Beast God Realm began breaking through to Spirit Transformation. Meanwhile, Xi Yun and Xi Li consolidated control of Bright Light Settlement and evacuated its people before the Beast God Clan arrived, leaving a lone Human figure to face the pursuing mecha squad.

• A Lingze-lineage cultivator reached Spirit Transformation, thanked Xu Xing, and took the kneeling Min Feng away.
• Fuguang asked to spread the teachings, and Xu Xing told him to decide for himself; Fuguang then traveled across the Beast God Realm with Dao lineage inheritances.
• Over the following month, nine of seventeen Spirit Transformation slots were filled, and the number of slots later increased to nineteen as more cultivators advanced and spread the teachings.
• Xi Yun and Xi Li forced the Bright Light Settlement’s residents to surrender hidden supplies, redistributed resources, and arranged an evacuation after Xi Li defeated and killed challengers.
• By the thirty-first day after Xu Xing left, the Beast God Clan’s mecha squad found Bright Light Settlement deserted and pursued its people inland.
• After tracking the evacuees, the mecha squad spotted a lone Human man wearing gold and white, with a golden glimmer between his brows.

After Fuguang killed a Beast God Race Void Return cultivator, the Human Race faced an imminent assault, and Xu Xing prepared Chongming, Jingyao, and Fumu to join the fight. He watched the Human Race gather strength as the coming clash with the Beast God Race—and the awakening Heavenly Will Immortal—approached.

• The Beast God Race elders approved Liao's proposal to investigate the Dao Net, but Liao had already left with Ming to hunt the Human Race cultivator.
• Two Beast God Race Void Return cultivators contacted the Beast God, were corrupted by the Heavenly Will's frenzied will, and became monsters that the elders subdued at great cost.
• Xu Xing learned that Fuguang had killed a Beast God Race Void Return cultivator, exposing the Human Race and prompting three peak Void Return cultivators to lead mech battle corps against them.
• Chongming, Jingyao, and Fumu asked to leave the Inheritor Holy Land and join the Human Race's struggle, and Xu Xing gave each a crimson sword mark that could save them in mortal danger.
• Xu Xing watched Human Race cultivators and infiltrators prepare for the coming conflict, while the crimson sword on his back stirred at the immense shadow beyond the world.

Fumu infiltrated the Beast God Race by taking the identity of a commander and used her authority to disrupt Fuya Kingdom while delaying orders to hunt the Human Race. Her old acquaintance Ming arrived and confronted her about her inaction.

• Fumu and the others killed three Beast God Race Void Return pursuers, intercepted their Laws, and took command of three mecha legions.
• Fumu used the identity of a female Beast God Race commander to wreak havoc in Fuya Kingdom and stall the Beast God Elder Council’s orders.
• Fumu burned the Council’s summons and strangled a military officer who pressed her to leave Fuya Kingdom.
• Ming arrived and challenged Fumu, who dismissed the officer and told Ming to persuade the Council instead.

Fumu and other Human Race infiltrators weakened the Beast God Race from within while Xu Xing helped their people grow and spread the Law-Intercepting Heaven-Veiling Technique. After decades of conflict and devastating Sword Seal strikes, the Beast God Race was crippled, and the Heavenly Will Immortal awakened in New Calendar Year 483.

• Fumu pretended to waver when Ming urged her to act, then reflected on the vast strength of the Beast God Race and the Human Race’s dependence on Xu Xing.
• Xu Xing sent the first Human Race cultivators with complete minds and the Law-Intercepting Heaven-Veiling Technique into the world, and over the following years they infiltrated the Beast God Race’s upper ranks.
• Fuguang and the infiltrators ambushed Beast God Race Void Return cultivators, stole their techniques, and used their skins to expand the Human Race’s presence among its enemies.
• In New Calendar Year 25, Ming and Liao led a secret force of 225 Void Return cultivators against Fuguang, who unleashed Xu Xing’s Crimson Sword Seal and killed nearly a thousand cultivators across the Beast God Race.
• Fumu became Grand Elder and tried to keep the Beast God Race on the defensive, but Ming led another hunt; Jingyao used Xu Xing’s Sword Seal to kill another two thousand Void Return cultivators, leaving Ming defeated and stripped of her positions.
• In New Calendar Year 483, the Heavenly Will Immortal awakened.

After 483 years, Xu Xing left the Inheritor Holy Land and confronted the awakening Supreme Beast God. His sword chime protected Fumu and Ming from the entity’s influence, and his voice challenged the Beast God across the realm.

• Xu Xing emerged from the flames with his crimson sword and departed the Inheritor Holy Land as the Supreme Beast God lowered its gaze over the realm.
• A figure from the jade tower and scattered people in the plaza bowed farewell to Xu Xing after he vanished.
• Fumu visited the disgraced Ming, who blamed herself for the Beast God Clan’s losses and asked about efforts to reach the Supreme Beast God.
• The Supreme Beast God’s malice overwhelmed Fumu and Ming, nearly making Fumu’s Beast God skin consume her consciousness.
• Xu Xing’s sword chime dispelled the malice and freed Fumu, then his voice challenged the Beast God to face his sword.

Xu Xing confronted the Heavenly Will Immortal in the Beast God Realm and struck it with the Sword of Severing Dao, changing the realm’s Great Dao and laws before he vanished. The five True Immortals of Taixuan saw his crimson sword light from the Chaos Sea and realized the battle had begun.

• Ming watched the sky while Fumu and other humans hiding in borrowed Beast God skins nearly succumbed to the Heavenly Will Immortal’s gaze until a sword rang out.
• Xu Xing faced the Heavenly Will Immortal above the Beast God Realm, and it demanded that he leave.
• Xu Xing slashed with the Sword of Severing Dao, pierced the Heavenly Will Immortal’s brow, and split open the Beast God Realm.
• Xu Xing’s sword light spread through the realm and changed every Dao and law; the enraged Heavenly Will Immortal roared as Xu Xing vanished.
• Yuanjun, Bie Xuening, Confusion, Remorse, and Charm Ancestor witnessed Xu Xing’s crimson sword light from the Chaos Sea and recognized that he had entered the fight.

The Heavenly Will Immortal and the Beast God struggled against each other after Xu Xing’s sword disrupted their bond and left crimson sword lights across the Beast God Realm. Fumu learned that the Dao Net would remain unavailable for a thousand years, then recruited Ming to help her lead the Beast God Elder Council and protect the Human Race.

• The Beast God tried to break free from the Heavenly Will Immortal, but relented when warned that the Beast God Race would perish without it.
• The Heavenly Will Immortal repeatedly failed to reweave the Dao Net because Xu Xing’s crimson sword lights severed the principles throughout the Beast God Realm.
• Ming told Fumu that the Human Race outsider had been defeated by the supreme Beast God Sovereign, while Fumu recalled Senior’s warning that the Dao Net would not return for a thousand years.
• Fumu invited Ming to join her efforts in the Beast God Elder Council, and Ming accepted her offer.
• Fumu embraced Ming while privately resolving to build allies and preserve the Human Race’s remaining strength.