Recaps

Zhang Yunlu tracked the Fifth Horned Clan king to his hidden chamber and killed him, but the Bio-Weapon Hub escaped toward the horizon. Red-haired Cang realized the artifact was returning to him and prepared to face Zhang Yunlu, calling their coming encounter a tribulation.

• Zhang Yunlu searched the Royal Palace after the Bio-Weapon Hub failed to appear, then broke through the roof and found a passage beneath the throne.
• Zhang Yunlu entered the hidden chamber, fought past the Bio-Weapon serpents, and confronted the king of the Fifth Horned Clan.
• The king poured his strength into the Bio-Weapon Hub as Zhang Yunlu pierced his skull, and the artifact shot away before she could stop it.
• Red-haired Cang sensed the Bio-Weapon Hub returning to him and anticipated Zhang Yunlu's arrival, refusing to enlist the local clans against her.

Huang Qi, a Cang Race Heavenly General, revealed himself to Zhang Yunlu and attacked her while explaining how he had turned the planet’s races against the Human Race. He intended to draw down the Demon Immortal Confusion so Ancestor Xuan could seize some of his essence.

• Huang Qi used the Bio-Weapon Hub to drain the life from the surrounding land and creatures.
• Zhang Yunlu arrived and confronted Huang Qi, who identified himself as the seventh Heavenly General under Ancestor Xuan.
• Huang Qi’s fire dragon struck Zhang Yunlu and sent her crashing into the withered ground.
• Huang Qi overwhelmed Zhang Yunlu with heavenly flames as she struggled to defend herself.
• Huang Qi explained that the Bio-Weapon Hub had used Confusion’s ability to turn the planet’s fear and greed into hatred for the Human Race.
• Huang Qi continued invoking Confusion’s name, hoping to lure him down so Ancestor Xuan could seize his essence.

Chi Jiuyu destroyed the Seventh Armored Horn Race’s Royal City and killed its king, while Xu Xing activated the Cyan Jade and summoned a fragment of Yuan’s soul. Yuan was startled to see Yuanjun when he appeared.

• Huang Qi slowed her attacks on Zhang Yunlu, planning to wait until Zhang Yunlu exhausted her true essence before striking.
• Chi Jiuyu cleaved apart the Seventh Armored Horn Race’s Royal City and destroyed most of the city and its people.
• Chi Jiuyu confronted the Seventh Armored Horn Race’s king, sentenced his race to extermination, and killed him.
• Xu Xing and Yuanjun recited lines from poems left behind by Yuan until the Cyan Jade revealed Yuan’s soul fragment.
• Yuan opened his eyes, saw Yuanjun behind Xu Xing, and exclaimed in shock.

Xu Xing met Yuan, a fellow countryman whose lingering soul had been left behind to share his method for returning home and ask about the Great Profound Realm. Yuan learned that Xu Xing had helped refine the cultivation system, explained the origins of its highest realms, and had recently struck the Gu Ancestor with his sword.

• Yuan's soul began dissipating after triggering a defensive mechanism, but Xu Xing stopped the process and restored it.
• Yuan realized Xu Xing was a fellow countryman and was stunned when Yuanjun treated Xu Xing as a Dao Brother before leaving.
• Yuan explained that he had left behind the soul wisp to meet a fellow countryman, share his return-home method, and ask about ancient history.
• Xu Xing said he had helped refine the Human Race's cultivation system and explained that the realms after Dao Integration corresponded to the Cang Race's Three Near-Ancestor Realms.
• Yuan recognized the Gu Ancestor as the being who had pursued him, and Xu Xing said he had recently cut the Gu Ancestor with his sword.

Xu Xing told Yuan how the Human Race’s first cultivators emerged from the Cang Race’s hunting grounds and confessed that he had once wanted to return home. Before his wisp of divine soul could dissipate, Xu Xing implied that Yuan might be able to tell Wanzhu his apology in person.

• Yuan said he did not know whether he had truly returned home after leaving the Great Profound Realm, and asked whether Xu Xing wanted to go home.
• Xu Xing recounted how the Cang Race treated humans as prey and how escaped humans became the Great Profound Realm’s first cultivators, including the master who later saved him.
• Xu Xing admitted he had once wanted to abandon the struggle and return home, while Yuan argued that Xu Xing’s choice to stay mattered more than his earlier thoughts.
• Yuan told Xu Xing about belongings and world coordinates he had left in Qingxu, and asked him to tell Wanzhu that he was sorry.
• Xu Xing said Yuan should tell Wanzhu himself, and Yuan realized something as his explanation that his soul was about to dissipate trailed off.

Yuan agreed to return in a restored soul body after Xu Xing urged him to face Wanzhu and deal with trouble in the Righteous Alliance. He appeared at the amusement park beneath the First Speaker’s statue, where Liu Yu recognized him just after the Alliance had voted to stop searching for him.

• Xu Xing persuaded Yuan to visit Wanzhu, warning that the Spirit Ancestor could find him even outside the Great Profound Realm.
• Xu Xing used the Cyan Jade to restore Yuan’s soul, and Yuan learned he could wield Dao Integration power for a year or two.
• Xu Xing told Yuan that the Righteous Alliance was in trouble and that Yuan should return to resolve the Heart-Severing Qi calamity.
• Xu Xing and Yuanjun visited the amusement park, where Xu Xing made cotton candy gifts for the Sword Venerable and Yuanjun.
• Yuan appeared beneath the First Speaker’s statue, admitted he was the Saint Emperor, and drew a crowd of astonished onlookers.
• Liu Yu arrived and recognized Yuan as the First Speaker, questioning whether the man before him was truly Yuan.

Yuan appeared before the Righteous Alliance’s leaders and claimed to be the long-missing First Speaker, then used overwhelming power to summon them to the Supreme Council chamber. With power lent by Xu Xing, he pierced the barrier around the Secret Realm and made contact with the slender figure inside, who recognized him as Yuan.

• Yuan told Liu Yu that he would convene the Supreme Council and transported him to a hall where Alliance leaders recognized his resemblance to the First Speaker.
• Chen Yuanlin challenged Yuan to prove his identity, but Yuan said he was Yuan and had nothing to prove.
• The current Speaker asked Yuan what he intended to do, and Yuan summoned everyone present who had reached Dao Integration or higher to the Speaker’s High Tower.
• Yuan said he would invite the Alliance’s current councilors and senior members, then pierced the barrier around the Secret Realm using power lent by Xu Xing.
• Yuan perceived the slender figure inside the Secret Realm, and she opened her eyes and called out his name in surprise.

Yuan glimpsed Gu's true form and was exposed to Gu's attempt to inspect his past, but a sword wound interrupted the attack. He then gathered powerful cultivators at the Speaker's High Tower and began a meeting, where Gu Mo questioned his return.

• Yuan saw Gu's seven-colored divine form, and Gu used a halo to reveal scenes from Yuan's past until a sword wound interrupted the attack.
• Yuan invited the slender figure in the Secret Realm to a conference, and she agreed after strange visions of the Saber Ancestor and a sword-wielding figure passed through her mind.
• Yuan assembled 121 people at the Speaker's High Tower, including 120 cultivators at or above the Dao Integration Realm.
• Gu Mo asked Yuan why he had returned, and the founder of the Myriad Dharma Dao Sect rebuked Gu Mo for having stopped the search.
• Yuan explained that he had told Gu Mo not to look for him, and the two men fell silent.

Yuan returned to the Righteous Alliance, whose members wondered what his return would mean, while Xu Xing and Yuanjun watched events unfold and shared a Ferris wheel ride. Meanwhile, Zhang Yunlu used the river and her Ice Crystal Longsword to launch a desperate attack on Huang Qi.

• Yuan greeted the Righteous Alliance, whose members worried about his judgment and the changes his return might bring.
• Chen Yuanlin watched Yuan with envy and vowed to surpass him one day.
• Xu Xing and Yuanjun discussed restoring the Alliance's fighting spirit and investigating the anomaly, then took a photo together on the Ferris wheel.
• Yuanjun posted a sunset photo to the group, prompting teasing exchanges among Tyrant Sovereign, Sword Venerable, and Charm Ancestor.
• Huang Qi pursued Zhang Yunlu and wore down her true essence as she fled through the forest.
• Zhang Yunlu reached a river, froze its rising water into a massive ice sword, and charged at Huang Qi behind it.

Zhang Yunlu fought Huang Qi while he waited for a particular moment, and Chi Jiuyu completed the alien purge on the Seventh Planet and headed for the Starship. In the Supreme Council Undersea City, the Abyss’s return drew a huge crowd, while Jiang Yujiu watched without being allowed to seek attention.

• Zhang Yunlu attacked Huang Qi with ice and swordlight, but he transformed his weapon into a giant axe and repeatedly knocked her back as she recovered and charged again.
• Chi Jiuyu photographed the ruined Royal City, reported the Seventh Planet’s alien purge complete, and left for the Starship to check on Xiao Yunlu.
• News of the Abyss’s return drew a vast crowd to his former residence in the Supreme Council Undersea City.
• Jiang Yuqi told Jiang Yujiu not to exploit the gathering for attention, and Jiang Yujiu switched off her phone as alerts began pouring in.

Yuan toured the Righteous Alliance and showed himself to the crowds, giving the Alliance a chance to rekindle its spirit. Xu Xing noted that Gu had not interfered, so they remained wary of what might happen next.

• Yuan toured the Alliance’s exhibits and declined to have them cleared, then refused to contact Ming Yu after seeing his old mask on display.
• Yuan visited his underground chamber and found most of its contents missing, then left without making an issue of it.
• Yuan appeared before the gathered crowd, while Jiang Yujiu livestreamed him until Jiang Yuqi spotted her and told her not to do anything reckless.
• Xu Xing and Yuanjun left the nearly deserted amusement park and noted that the crowds had flocked to see Yuan.
• Xu Xing said Yuan’s return had completed the first step toward rekindling the Righteous Alliance’s spirit, but warned that Gu’s lack of interference called for caution.

Xu Xing explained to Yuan the difference between gods and immortals and revealed the history of the four Cang Race Ancestors. The chapter ended with Yuan trying to absorb the revelation that Tai had perished and become the Four Star Regions.

• Yuanjun and Xu Xing discussed the likely purpose behind the Cang Race's actions and parted when they reached their lodgings.
• Yuan asked Xu Xing about his closeness with Yuanjun and whether he had disclosed his origins to anyone; Xu Xing said he had told his senior sister.
• Xu Xing explained that gods were detached from worldly desires, while immortals remained true to their original hearts and retained their emotions.
• Xu Xing told Yuan that the Cang Race had four Ancestors: Heaven, Xuan, Tai, and Gu.
• Xu Xing explained that Gu remained on the Central Continent, Xuan had led Cang survivors to the Far Side of the Starry Sky, Heaven had fallen dormant, and Tai had perished and become the Four Star Regions.
• Yuan repeated the revelations back to Xu Xing, trying to make sense of them.

Xu Xing explained to Yuan how the Human Race drew Heaven's Will out of the Heavenly Dao, divided it among the Seven Great Immortal Sects and himself, and suppressed it. He revealed that the Cang Race could still return while Heaven's Will favored them, leaving the Human Race with a long struggle ahead.

• Yuan questioned how Xu Xing and the immortals had drawn out and suppressed the Great Profound Realm's Heaven's Will.
• Xu Xing explained that the Heavenly Dao was impartial, while Heaven's Will had selfishly favored the Cang Race despite the Human Race holding greater weight.
• Xu Xing said the immortals used the Cang Race Ancestor Heaven's body to draw Heaven's Will out, split it into seven parts, and suppress and refine them.
• Xu Xing told Yuan that he had refined his own part during seclusion and warned Yuan to keep the secret.
• Xu Xing explained that the Cang Race could achieve Dao Integration beyond the Central Continent because of Heaven's favor, and that the Human Race needed vastly more strength to eradicate them completely.
• Yuan understood the danger, and he and Xu Xing exchanged praise for what each had accomplished.

Ming Yu confronted Yuan after learning that he had returned only as a wisp of his soul, while Xu Xing and Yuanjun arrived and revealed that Yuan had left the soul for Xu Xing. Far away, Huang Qi unleashed his full power against Zhang Yunlu as their battle escalated.

• Xu Xing recalled seeing a strange purple mist and a massive mound of flesh inside the Speaker's High Tower's secret realm, with a woman meditating nearby.
• The Righteous Alliance turned down Joyous Union Sect cultivators' requests to visit Yuan after his return.
• Ming Yu forced her way into the main hall and demanded to know why Yuan had hidden his return from her.
• Yuan revealed that he was only a wisp of his soul, but Ming Yu assumed he had left it for another woman.
• Xu Xing and Yuanjun appeared, and Xu Xing said Yuan had left the soul for him.
• Huang Qi's power surged as he stopped holding back against Zhang Yunlu, whose instincts warned her of the danger.

Huang Qi’s devastating attack left Zhang Yunlu barely alive, and Huang Qi prepared to face her final strike. Meanwhile, Li Ke arrived at Chi Jiuyu’s starship gravely injured, and Chi Jiuyu discovered Zhang Yunlu’s ruined state through a projection.

• Huang Qi’s blast evaporated the river and scorched the surrounding land, but Zhang Yunlu rose from the riverbed with a thread of life remaining.
• Huang Qi recognized Zhang Yunlu’s murderous intent and rekindled her divine halo to meet her last strike.
• Chi Jiuyu trained her Life-Bound Sword by having it shell nuts, cut fruit, and pour juice while praising its control.
• Li Ke arrived aboard Chi Jiuyu’s starship, collapsed from her injuries, and asked to be taken to a Healing Pod.
• Chi Jiuyu placed Li Ke in the Healing Pod, then used the Virtual Projection Observation System to search for Zhang Yunlu and saw her skeletal form.

Zhang Yunlu exhausted herself in a final attack on Huang Qi, destroying the Bio-Weapon Hub but falling near death. Chi Jiuyu arrived with Li Ke’s Life-Bound Sword and subdued Huang Qi, but a brief gap appeared in the force suppressing his power.

• Li Ke woke in the Healing Pod, identified Huang Qi, and sent Chi Jiuyu to stop him with her Life-Bound Sword.
• Zhang Yunlu launched her final sword strike at Huang Qi, then redirected it to shatter the Bio-Weapon Hub and pierce his palm.
• Huang Qi struck Zhang Yunlu and prepared to kill her as she fell toward the ground.
• An unknown attacker kicked Huang Qi in the back of the head, knocking him from the sky and revealing the strength of a Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Chi Jiuyu landed on Huang Qi’s skull and prepared to kill him, but the power suppressing him briefly opened a gap.

Huang Qi burned through his essence to flee toward the Central Holy Land, but Bie Xuening’s power erased and returned him to Red Blade Star System 47. She sent Chi Jiuyu and the others away in their starship, which was displaced to an unknown domain where Li Ke discovered a vast Artificial Soul Cultivation Base beneath the barren planets.

• Huang Qi reached the edge of the Western Star Domain and glimpsed the Central Holy Land before an immense hand erased his existence.
• Huang Qi reappeared in Red Blade Star System 47, where Bie Xuening praised Zhang Yunlu and ordered Chi Jiuyu to take her senior and junior sisters away.
• Bie Xuening sent Chi Jiuyu into the starship’s Healing Pod, and Little Snow reported that the vessel had been displaced to an unknown domain.
• Li Ke left her Healing Pod after her cultivation recovered and examined the desolate star systems surrounding the starship.
• Li Ke discovered hundreds of millions of cultivation pods containing clones beneath one planet, revealing an Old Devil’s Artificial Soul Cultivation Base.

Bie Xuening faced Huang Qi as Xuan appeared at the Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield and challenged her to a sword. Meanwhile, Xu Xing entered a golden crystal and confronted Meng Xuan and Gu, learning that Gu had used Confusion’s essence to welcome Heaven back.

• Bie Xuening realized she could not kill Huang Qi without forcing him to use Xuan’s essence, but she looked toward the Starry Sky instead of striking.
• Xuan appeared over the Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield and challenged Bie Xuening to test her sword.
• Ming Yu decided to accompany Yuan and Xu Xing to the Spirit Sound Workshop after Yuan explained that he lacked detailed memories of his past visit.
• Xu Xing entered the golden crystal containing Meng Xuan and found her in a diminished immortal paradise.
• Xu Xing asked Gu to appear and questioned Gu about using a Human Race cultivator’s failed Immortal-Knocking Pass to welcome Heaven back.
• Gu admitted that he had used Confusion’s essence to plant and magnify doubt in Meng Xuan, turning it into hatred, but Sword Ancestor had disrupted the scheme.

Xu Xing learned that Xuan’s essence was about to restore Heaven through Meng Xuan, while Heaven offered him the title of Son of Heaven and rule over the Great Profound Realm. At the Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield, Xuan faced the powers summoned by several sects, and the Sword Sect finally called upon the Ancestral Sword.

• Xu Xing cut Gu off from Meng Xuan and the essence transmitted from the three crystal Secret Realms, but Heaven’s return was already underway.
• Heaven briefly overpowered Meng Xuan, recalled Gu Feng, and offered Xu Xing forgiveness and dominion over the Great Profound Realm if he served Heaven.
• At the Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield, Han Li and disciples from several sects summoned ancestral treasures and powers against Xuan.
• Jiang Handi summoned the Tyrant Sovereign’s fist intent, which struck Xuan and devastated hundreds of nearby star systems, but barely injured him.
• Jing Hai of the Sword Sect summoned the power of the Ancestral Sword, drawing a serious reaction from Xuan.

Xuan fought the Sword Ancestor's attack and two Human Immortals, but Bie Xuening killed Huang Qi before Xuan's essence could save him. In the crystalline Secret Realm, Heaven failed to persuade Xu Xing and Yuanjun to ally with it against the Cang Race.

• Xuan repelled the White-Haired Human Immortal and the Black-Shadow Human Immortal while sending a streak of purple light toward Red Blade Star System 47.
• Bie Xuening's sword light erased Huang Qi, and the remnant of Xuan's essence vanished toward the Central Continent after shattering the attack.
• Heaven offered Xu Xing and Yuanjun an alliance to destroy the Cang Race, promising to make Xu Xing the Heavenly Emperor and arrange a grand wedding.
• Xu Xing and Yuanjun rejected Heaven's proposal and called it an idiot, leaving Heaven to fall silent.

Xu Xing and Yuanjun freed Meng Xuan from Heaven's control and learned how Gu had used her failed attempt at the Immortal-Knocking Pass to make her a vessel. On the Starry Sky battlefield, Xuan prepared to retreat from two Human Immortals when a sword cry rang out.

• Xu Xing used his Life-Bound Sword, Moon Shadow, to suppress Heaven and restore Meng Xuan's True Self.
• Meng Xuan transformed into a monstrous form and told Xu Xing and Yuanjun how Gu had manipulated her after her failed attempt at the Immortal-Knocking Pass.
• Xu Xing told Meng Xuan she was not to blame, since Gu would have found another person who hated the Cang Race.
• On the frontline, Xuan held off the White-Haired and Black-Shadow Human Immortals while Cang forces retreated toward the Far Side of the Starry Sky.
• Xuan decided to withdraw, but a clear sword cry sounded as the red light and purple qi drew together.

Xuan withdrew from the Starry Sky Battlefield after Jing Hai’s borrowed sword wounded Him, leaving Heaven’s return dependent on Xu Xing and the Central Continent’s immortals. In the Secret Realm, Xu Xing and Yuanjun confronted Heaven as she regained her original form, and Yuanjun bound a seven-colored radiance and questioned whether her sliver of essence could sustain her return.

• Jing Hai released Sword Ancestor’s sword, and its strike wounded Xuan before He retreated from the battlefield.
• The White-Haired Human Immortal and Black-Shadow Human Immortal watched Xuan leave, and the Black-Shadow Human Immortal praised Xu Xing’s sword.
• Xuan’s essence reached the Secret Realm beneath Speaker’s High Tower as Meng Xuan’s monstrous form contracted back into her original appearance.
• Heaven offered Xu Xing and Yuanjun another chance to release the sealed Heavenly Will, but Xu Xing dismissed her and raised his sword, dispelling the realm’s strange phenomena.
• Yuanjun bound a mass of seven-colored radiance with illusory threads of karma and asked whether Heaven’s sliver of essence could sustain her return.

Heaven’s attempt to return failed when Yuanjun restrained Gu and Xu Xing severed the roots of the scheme, saving Meng Xuan at the cost of her cultivation. Xu Xing and Yuanjun sent the explosive shell containing the gathered essences back to Gu, and Meng Xuan awoke as a mortal.

• Heaven realized his essence was insufficient and began severing his bond with Meng Xuan while she tried to drag him into death.
• Yuanjun restrained Gu with threads of karma, preventing him from using his remaining means.
• At the instant Heaven and Meng Xuan’s bond was severed, Xu Xing struck through the past and cut away the roots of Gu’s scheme and Heaven’s parasitism.
• Yuanjun pulled Meng Xuan from Heaven’s shell, saving her but leaving her without cultivation or comprehension of the Great Dao.
• Xu Xing and Yuanjun sent the shell and its dangerous contents along a thread of karma to Gu, who answered with an angry roar.
• Meng Xuan woke and asked Xu Xing and Yuanjun what had happened.

Yuanjun helped Meng Xuan recover after Xu Xing cut away the backlash that had stripped her of her cultivation, leaving her mortal but alive. Meanwhile, Li Ke identified herself as the Western Star Domain Guardian Envoy, throwing the Artificial Soul Cultivation Base into chaos as her Starship approached.

• Meng Xuan discovered she had lost her cultivation, spiritual energy, and memories of cultivation techniques, and Yuanjun explained that Xu Xing had cut away the impure backlash caused by Gu's scheme.
• Yuanjun dressed Meng Xuan warmly and brought her out of the Secret Realm, where Meng Xuan apologized to the three Truth Insight cultivators whose essences she had absorbed.
• At the Artificial Soul Cultivation Base, Chi Jiuyu's Starship was detected, and the woman in purple ordered it expelled after learning it carried only a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator.
• Li Ke agreed to visit the base and told Little Snow to grant her Star Domain Guardian Envoy authority and broadcast her identity throughout the region.
• The base's operators learned Li Ke was the Hidden Blade Sword Master, and an orbital cannon killed the Spirit Transformation Bio-Weapon that had just been released.

Li Ke and Chi Jiuyu visited Li Wan’s Artificial Soul cultivation base, where Li Ke asked for Starship fuel and arranged for Chi Jiuyu to tour the facilities. On the Central Continent, Meng Xuan began preparing to cultivate again from the beginning, while Yuanjun shared the full story of the Righteous Alliance dispute in the group chat, including Heaven’s proposed wedding arrangements.

• Li Wan welcomed Li Ke and Chi Jiuyu to the Star Domain base and led them to its underground lounge.
• Li Ke asked Li Wan to send Starship fuel and arrange a tour of the Artificial Soul facilities for Chi Jiuyu.
• Yuanjun brought Meng Xuan back to the residence, where Meng Xuan said she would restart her cultivation and borrowed Yuanjun’s meditation room.
• Yuanjun gave Meng Xuan a basic Qi Refining method, her former cultivation method, and pills before leading her to the meditation room.
• Yuanjun told the Big Boss Group that Gu had intended to use Meng Xuan as a vessel to welcome Heaven and revealed Heaven’s offer to arrange a wedding between Xu Xing, Yuanjun, the Sword Venerable, and the Spirit Ancestor.
• Xu Xing objected when Yuanjun included the proposed wedding in her account.