Recaps

Liu Bai and his companions arrived at the Space Trade Fair and entered its hidden trading town. Using his Emperor Realm Soul, he located a Seven-Colored Primordial Stone that he intended to bring back as a gift for Medusa.

• The North Dragon King carried Liu Bai, Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, Qing Lin, and their companions across the desert to the Space Trade Fair’s entrance.
• Liu Bai sensed the powerful experts in the desert, and the hidden observers waited for the Blood Fire Hall group to enter before acting.
• The group entered the independent space and suppressed their auras as Liu Bai searched the town with his Soul Power.
• Liu Bai found a Seven-Colored Primordial Stone at an old man’s stall and recognized it as a rare tonic for the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python.

Liu Bai traded two Tier 8 Pills with Three-Colored Pill Lightning for a Seven-Colored Primordial Stone and entered the Space Trade Fair with Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin. The fair began with the auction of Demon Phoenix Wings, while Liu Bai waited for the Fragmented Map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

• Liu Bai bought the Seven-Colored Primordial Stone from a gaunt old man and kept its hidden secret to himself.
• Liu Bai led the three women to the ancient pavilion, where they wore identity-concealing cloaks and entered the trade fair hall.
• Liu Bai used his Emperor Realm Soul to quietly sense the people in the hall as more than a hundred cloaked attendees gathered.
• Elder Baoshan appeared and announced the start of the Space Trade Fair.
• Elder Baoshan presented Demon Phoenix Wings for auction, seeking a Tier 8 Pill that had endured Four-Colored Pill Lightning, while Liu Bai showed no interest in bidding.

Liu Bai waited through the trading fair for the Fragmented Map linked to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, then watched its price soar as powerful bidders competed. When a Half-Saint directed pressure at him, Liu Bai shattered it and warned the bidder that he was courting death.

• Elder Baoshan traded the Demon Phoenix Wings for a Tier 8 Pill with Four-Colored Pill Lightning, then exchanged the Vajra Glazed Body for a low-tier Heaven Tier water-element cultivation technique.
• Liu Bai ignored the fair’s increasingly valuable items while waiting for the Fragmented Map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Elder Baoshan began the map’s auction, and bidders drove the price from Tier 8 Pills with Six-Colored Pill Lightning to pills with Seven-Colored and Eight-Colored Pill Lightning.
• A thin black-robed man outbid the others with two Tier 8 Pills with Eight-Colored Pill Lightning, while Liu Bai sensed a familiar chill from him.
• Another bidder offered five Tier 8 Pills, then turned a sinister gaze and pressure toward Liu Bai; Liu Bai shattered the pressure and threatened him.

Liu Bai let the gaunt black-robed man win the Fragmented Map with a pill that had Nine-Colored Pill Lightning, then learned that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had appeared in the Wild Wilderness. After the trade fair, Liu Bai and his companions confronted the map’s new owner, and Liu Bai opened the fight with his Great Heaven Creation Palm.

• The gaunt black-robed man traded a beast-shaped pill with Nine-Colored Pill Lightning for the Fragmented Map, while Liu Bai decided to take the map from him by force.
• Elder Baoshan announced that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had appeared in the Wild Wilderness, a perilous region along the northeastern border of the Central Plains.
• Liu Bai agreed to go after the Bodhi Ancient Tree with Zi Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and North Dragon King.
• After leaving the trade fair, Liu Bai and his companions released their auras and stopped the gaunt black-robed man in the desert.
• Liu Bai attacked the gaunt black-robed man without warning with his Great Heaven Creation Palm, and the man tried to defend himself with a black barrier.

Liu Bai obtained the final Fragmented Map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and led his companions toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree in the Wild Wilderness. After entering the forest behind a huge crowd, they detected poisonous miasma and heard panicked screams from the people ahead.

• Liu Bai killed the gaunt man in black robes and took the final Fragmented Map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame from his Storage Ring.
• Liu Bai and his companions traveled to Wilderness Town, gathered there overnight, and set out for the Wild Wilderness the next day.
• Liu Bai waited until much of the crowd had entered the forest before leading Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin inside.
• Liu Bai’s group followed the crowd through the forest, and Xiao Yi Xian noticed poisonous miasma rising around them.
• Xiao Yi Xian gave the group Anti-Poison Pills, then miserable screams from the crowd ahead revealed that people were being poisoned.

Liu Bai and his companions crossed the poisonous-insect miasma and flew into the depths of the Wild Wilderness on the North Dragon King's back. There, they found Yun Yun and the Flower Sect under attack, and Liu Bai intervened as Yun Yun recognized him.

• Xiao Yi Xian discovered that the poisonous mist was made of tiny poisonous insects, so Liu Bai used his Nether Prison Black Emperor Flame to protect the group.
• The North Dragon King transformed into a dragon and carried Liu Bai and the others over the Heavenly Ravine into the depths of the Wild Wilderness.
• Liu Bai sensed a familiar presence and directed the North Dragon King toward a fight between the Flower Sect and the Heavenly Underworld Sect.
• Yun Yun struggled against four Dou Venerate experts while Nalan Yanran was struck and sent flying.
• Two Heavenly Underworld Sect attackers struck Yun Yun from behind, and an elder moved to attack her as she lay wounded.
• The North Dragon King descended and blasted the Heavenly Underworld Sect experts away with dragon breath, while Yun Yun looked up and recognized Liu Bai.

Liu Bai rescued Yun Yun and the Flower Sect from the Heavenly Underworld Sect, then invited them to travel with his group toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree. After nearly two days, they reached the Ancient Domain Platform, where many factions had gathered.

• Liu Bai struck Liu Cang with one blow and drove the Heavenly Underworld Sect away, saving Yun Yun and the Flower Sect.
• Yun Yun thanked Liu Bai, and he invited her and the Flower Sect members to join his group on the way to the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Yun Yun explained how she had become Flower Sect master and how the Heavenly Underworld Sect ambushed her group, killing Elder Qinghua and injuring the others.
• Liu Bai traveled through the Wild Wilderness with Yun Yun, Nalan Yanran, and his companions aboard the North Dragon King, avoiding other factions along the way.
• Liu Bai's group reached the Ancient Domain Platform after nearly two days of travel and descended into the crowded square.

Liu Bai and the Blood Fire Hall arrived at the Ancient Domain Platform, where powerful factions had gathered to seek the Bodhi Ancient Tree. After spotting the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, Zi Yan unleashed her dragon might against them, leaving Feng Qing'er and her companions unable to resist.

• Liu Bai led his group into the square and identified the stone platform reserved for experts with at least Eight-Star Dou Venerate strength.
• Liu Bai recognized members of the Ancient Clan, Flame Clan, Lei Clan, and Soul Clan, including Gu Xun Er and Hun Yu.
• Zi Yan spotted the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and released her overwhelming pressure across the platform.
• Zi Yan insulted Feng Qing'er and her clan as impure-blooded feathered mongrels while Liu Bai let her continue.
• Gu Qingyang and Gu Zhen remarked on Zi Yan's power, and Gu Xun Er opened her eyes to watch her.

Zi Yan intimidated the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, and Liu Bai led the Blood Fire Hall through the Wild Wilderness beast tide toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree. The group reached the tree, where five Half-Saint puppets emerged to block their way.

• Zi Yan overwhelmed the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan with her dragon might, and Liu Bai promised to settle matters with them after the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Liu Bai set out with Zi Yan, Xiao Xi Xian, Qing Lin, Yun Yun, and the Flower Sect members on the North Dragon King's back.
• Gu Qingyang and Gu Zhen discussed the Blood Fire Hall's strength and the Ancient Clans' restrictions, then led their faction and others after Liu Bai's group.
• The North Dragon King tore a passage through the beast tide with his dragon might, allowing the Blood Fire Hall to cross safely as other factions followed.
• Liu Bai's group approached the Bodhi Ancient Tree, where five Half-Saint puppets appeared and blocked their path.

Liu Bai and his companions reached the Bodhi Ancient Tree, where he defeated its Half-Saint Puppets and approached the Bodhi Heart. The tree's strange power transported him into an apparently familiar God Realm, where Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Ning Rongrong welcomed him.

• The North Dragon King's dragon breath weakened five Half-Saint Puppets, and Zi Yan shattered them.
• Liu Bai saw the Bodhi Ancient Tree's Bodhi Heart and sensed a sinister gray aura within its energy.
• The tree summoned five more Half-Saint Puppets, which Liu Bai burned to ash with his Burning Heaven Blazing Sun Spear.
• Liu Bai went toward the Bodhi Heart but was caught by a strange power and transported to the God Realm.
• Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Ning Rongrong greeted Liu Bai, who wondered how he had returned there.

Liu Bai broke free of the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s illusion and learned that a dead Dou Emperor’s negative emotions had corrupted part of the tree’s intelligence. He accepted the Bodhi Heart as payment for purging the evil influence, then saw the tree reveal thirty-four Bodhi Seeds and a vision of one being refined to remove the corruption.

• Liu Bai recognized the God Realm as an illusion and shattered it with his Emperor Realm Soul, returning to the Wild Wilderness.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree shrank into a small tree and showed Liu Bai a vision of its ancient battle with a black-robed Dou Emperor and the corruption that followed.
• Liu Bai learned that the tree’s intelligence had split between its original benevolent nature and an evil portion formed from the Dou Emperor’s negative emotions.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree asked Liu Bai to dispel the evil intelligence, and he agreed in exchange for its Bodhi Heart and a future condition.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree gave Liu Bai the Bodhi Heart and thirty-four Bodhi Seeds, then showed him a flame refining a seed as pure qi entered the tree and weakened its sinister coldness.

Liu Bai used all thirty-four Bodhi Seeds to cleanse the Bodhi Ancient Tree of its negative emotions, while the tree’s meditation cushion replenished his energy. After he collapsed from soul exhaustion, the tree drew him inside for Enlightenment Under the Bodhi Tree, leaving the onlookers envious and Hun Yu intent on competing for the remaining Bodhi Seeds.

• Liu Bai refined the Bodhi Seeds with the Nether Prison Black Emperor Flame and sent their pure energy into the Bodhi Ancient Tree, which gradually expelled its black aura.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree placed Liu Bai on an Emerald Ancient Meditation Cushion, restoring his Dou Qi and nourishing his soul as he continued refining the seeds.
• After Liu Bai refined the final Bodhi Seed and fully cleared the tree’s negative emotions, the Bodhi Ancient Tree glowed with renewed life and gently touched his shoulder.
• Liu Bai succumbed to soul exhaustion, and the Bodhi Ancient Tree drew him into its trunk as a strange ripple pushed nearby experts away.
• The gathered experts recognized Liu Bai’s state as Enlightenment Under the Bodhi Tree, while Hun Yu suppressed his anger and told the Soul Clan experts to seek the Bodhi Seeds instead.

After completing the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Hundred-Lifetime Reincarnation, Liu Bai reached the peak of the Half-Saint realm and received all twenty-seven Bodhi Seeds. He gave five to the Ancient Clan, faced down the other factions’ demands, and left with his companions through a spatial rift.

• Liu Bai awakened after seven days beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree, his state of mind transformed and his cultivation at the peak of the Half-Saint realm.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree gave Liu Bai twenty-seven Bodhi Seeds, and Liu Bai gave five of them to Xun Er and the Ancient Clan.
• Hun Yu accused Liu Bai of favoring the Ancient Clan and demanded that he share the Bodhi Seeds, drawing support from other greedy experts.
• Xun Er defended Liu Bai, and Liu Bai and his four Dou Saint companions released their auras until the crowd fell silent.
• Liu Bai said farewell to the Bodhi Ancient Tree, then left with Zi Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and the North Dragon King through a spatial rift.

After returning from the Wild Wilderness with the Bodhi treasures, Liu Bai prepared to break through to Dou Sheng at Blood Fire Hall. He and the three women entered seclusion, while news of his gains drew many experts to join the hall in hopes of obtaining Bodhi Pills.

• Hun Yu left the Wild Wilderness bitter over Liu Bai’s gains, and the other factions dispersed.
• Liu Bai gave Yun Yun two Bodhi Seeds and agreed to refine them into pills for her and Nalan Yanran.
• Back at Blood Fire Hall, Liu Bai announced he would enter seclusion to break through to Dou Sheng, then spent two days with Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin.
• Liu Bai and the three women entered seclusion, which lasted a full year as their auras grew stronger.
• News of Liu Bai’s Bodhi treasures spread across the Central Plains, prompting many experts to join Blood Fire Hall and wait for Bodhi Pills.

The Ling Clan vanished from its space, triggering widespread suspicion among the Ancient Races and leaving the Ancient Clan isolated despite Gu Yuan’s insistence that it was uninvolved. As the Central Plains watched the clans’ reactions, Liu Bai remained in seclusion, on the verge of becoming a Dou Saint and unaware of the upheaval.

• Investigators found the Ling Clan Space empty, and news of the clan’s disappearance spread across the Central Plains.
• Gu Yuan ordered the Ancient Realm’s defenses strengthened and other Ancient Races monitored while he weighed possible culprits.
• The Flame, Lei, Yao, Stone, and other clans questioned the Ancient Clan, and rumors pushed it into isolation.
• Gu Yuan refused the Flame Clan’s demand to search the Ancient Realm and chose not to make further moves.
• The Soul Clan denied involvement while Soul Hall continued capturing souls and expanding across the Central Plains.
• Venerable Skyfire worried about Liu Bai’s secluded cultivation as Liu Bai drew on the Bodhi Heart, nearing the final step to Dou Saint.

Liu Bai emerged from seclusion as a One-Star Peak Dou Saint, learned of the Ling Clan’s disappearance and the Soul Hall’s growing conflict with the Starfall Pavilion, and refined ten Bodhi Pills. He learned that Xiao Yan’s allies were under heavy attack and prepared to act as the Central Plains’ situation worsened.

• Liu Bai broke through to One-Star Peak Dou Saint and reunited with Zi Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin.
• Venerable Skyfire told Liu Bai that the Ling Clan had vanished and that the Soul Hall and Starfall Pavilion had repeatedly clashed.
• Venerable Skyfire reported that the Blood Fire Hall had grown as powerful figures joined, hoping to obtain Bodhi Pills.
• Liu Bai spent two months refining ten eighth-tier nine-colored pills and entrusted their distribution to Venerable Skyfire.
• Venerable Skyfire told Liu Bai that the Soul Hall’s attacks had put the Starfall Pavilion in danger despite the Pill Tower’s help and Yao Lao’s support.

Liu Bai tasked Qing Lin with watching Starfall Pavilion to keep the Ancient Emperor Jade from falling into the Soul Clan’s hands, then joined Zi Yan and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan in their campaign to unify the Beast Domain. The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan was defeated and captured, while the Ancient Void Dragons brought the region’s other factions under their control.

• Liu Bai told Qing Lin to watch Starfall Pavilion and send Yao Ming and the others to help if Soul Hall threatened to breach its defenses.
• Liu Bai traveled with Zi Yan, Zhu Ying, and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan elders to the Beast Domain to conquer the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and unite the region.
• Zhu Ying destroyed the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s protective formation, and Zi Yan ordered the clan’s Half-Saint-level and stronger members captured alive.
• The Ancient Void Dragon experts overwhelmed the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, captured its five-star Dou Saint clan leader, and subdued its other powerful members.
• Ancient Void Dragon Dou Saints spread across the Beast Domain, compelling many Magical Beast families to submit and crushing those that resisted.

Liu Bai and Zi Yan brought the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan under the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s control and discovered the clan’s Heaven Phoenix Blood Pool. Liu Bai began absorbing its bloodline power, hoping to advance his cultivation.

• Liu Bai sealed Huang Tian and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s three Dou Saints and twelve Half-Saints, making them submit to him as their master.
• Zi Yan celebrated that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan now commanded the Beast Domain, and Liu Bai said they would prepare for the coming storm.
• Liu Bai, Zi Yan, and Zhu Ying searched the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s territory for valuable resources.
• Liu Bai found the Heaven Phoenix Blood Pool and learned from Zhu Ying that it preserved and purified the clan’s bloodlines.
• Liu Bai protected himself with Nether Prison Black Emperor Flame, sat beside the Blood Pool, and prepared to absorb its bloodline power.

Liu Bai absorbed most of the Heaven Phoenix Blood Pool’s power and advanced to Three-Star Dou Saint. He then traveled with Qing Lin and Yao Ming to the Nine Serene Deep Earth Python Tribe to seek the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s techniques and essence blood.

• Liu Bai entered the Heaven Phoenix Blood Pool and used his blood-affinity Martial Soul to absorb its power while Zi Yan and Zhu Ying watched.
• After a year, Liu Bai emerged at Three-Star Dou Saint, having absorbed nearly seventy percent of the pool’s bloodline power, and reunited with Zi Yan and Zhu Ying.
• Half a month later, Liu Bai, Qing Lin, and Yao Ming arrived at the Nine Serene Deep Earth Python Tribe, where Qing Lin had become its master and reached Two-Star Dou Saint.
• Yao Ming led the group to the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet and explained that it held the Yellow Springs Heaven Wrath and the Demon Saint Essence Blood.
• Liu Bai recognized the Yellow Springs Finger and Yellow Springs Palm carved into the tablet and sensed the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s remaining soul pressure.

Liu Bai entered the stele and defeated the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s remnant soul, obtaining Yellow Springs Heaven Wrath and the Demon Saint Essence Blood. He returned to Yao Ming with the Half-Emperor Essence Blood, whose power could help Liu Bai advance or raise Yao Ming’s cultivation.

• Liu Bai entered the stele’s inner world with his Emperor Realm Soul and easily overcame the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s lightning and techniques.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint appeared and challenged Liu Bai, but Liu Bai shattered his remnant body with his soul power.
• The weakened Yellow Springs Demon Saint gave Liu Bai Yellow Springs Heaven Wrath and his essence blood before fading away completely.
• Liu Bai left the stele and told Yao Ming that he had obtained both treasures.
• Liu Bai examined the Half-Emperor Essence Blood and sensed that it could help him advance one or two stars or bring Yao Ming to Three-Star Dou Saint.

Liu Bai refined the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s essence blood and broke through to Four-Star Dou Saint after a year in seclusion. He reunited with Zi Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin, then prepared to return to the Blood Fire Hall before the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame descended.

• Liu Bai swallowed the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s essence blood and spent a year refining its energy and bloodline power.
• Zi Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin sensed Liu Bai’s rising aura and hurried to see him emerge from seclusion.
• Liu Bai revealed that he had reached Four-Star Dou Saint and strengthened his physical body.
• Liu Bai told the women that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame would descend soon and that he had gathered all its fragmented maps.
• Liu Bai and the women set out for the Blood Fire Hall so he could prepare to obtain the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

Liu Bai returned to Blood Fire Hall, prepared to counter Soul Hall, and mastered the Yellow Springs Three Lives Arts while waiting for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to descend. When the Heaven and Earth Tide began, he set out with Zi Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin to investigate the flame.

• Venerable Skyfire reported that Soul Hall had grown bolder and Blood Fire Hall had more than doubled in size, so Liu Bai ordered his followers to monitor Soul Hall and prepare for action.
• Liu Bai decided to cultivate the Yellow Springs Three Lives Arts and warned Zi Yan and Xiao Yi Xian to prepare for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's arrival.
• Liu Bai mastered Yellow Springs Heaven Wrath, Yellow Springs Finger, and Yellow Springs Palm, then spent time at Blood Fire Hall while his scouts investigated the flame's region.
• Twin moons appeared and nine stars aligned, signaling the arrival of the Heaven and Earth Tide and the descent of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Liu Bai, Zi Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin left Blood Fire Hall to assess the situation, with Liu Bai warning them to retreat from enemies they could not defeat.

Liu Bai and his companions reached the desert scorched by the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and found the major factions gathered around the ruptured space. Hun Miesheng arrived and exchanged a tense challenge with Liu Bai, while the flame remained sealed inside.

• Liu Bai led Zi Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin toward the site of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, encountering many other factions on the way.
• Liu Bai and his companions reached the milky-white desert and saw that the flame's residual heat had burned the mountain range away.
• Liu Bai judged the ruptured space too dangerous to enter first as experts from the Ancient Clans, Soul Clan, Flame Clan, and Lei Clan gathered nearby.
• Hun Miesheng emerged from black fog with the Soul Hall Vice Hall Master and a strange black-eyed man, drawing the gathered factions' attention.
• Liu Bai and Hun Miesheng exchanged pointed remarks, with Liu Bai declaring that the Blood Fire Hall would keep the Soul Hall in check before Hun Miesheng withdrew his gaze.

Liu Bai met Xiao Yan and Yao Lao at the gathering for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and Xiao Yan agreed not to compete with him for it. The Ancient Clan arrived with Xun Er, who reunited with Xiao Yan and said she would stay by his side.

• Liu Bai saw Soul Clan leader Hun Feng and remained wary of the Soul Clan despite his own strength and allies.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao greeted Liu Bai, learned he had reached the Four-Star Dou Saint realm, and heard that he intended to claim the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Xiao Yan withdrew from competing for the flame and asked Liu Bai to let him witness it if Liu Bai obtained it.
• Liu Bai introduced Zi Yan as the Dragon Emperor of the Ancient Void Dragon, and Yao Lao recognized her and Xiao Yi Xian as formidable experts.
• Xun Er arrived with Gu Qingyang and Gu Nanhai, and Xiao Yan embraced her after they reunited.
• Xun Er told Xiao Yan she was free and would stay by his side.

Liu Bai joined Xiao Yan and the others as the gathered factions waited for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to emerge, while suspicion over the Ling Clan’s disappearance strained relations among the Ancient Clans. The Yao Clan arrived, and Yao Lao identified its powerful elder, Yao Wangui, just as the chapter ended.

• Xun Er greeted Yao Lao and apologized for having once suspected his intentions toward Xiao Yan.
• Liu Bai exchanged greetings with Gu Nanhai, then urged everyone to prepare for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s emergence.
• Gu Nanhai questioned Elder Huo Yao about the suspicion that the Ancient Clan had caused the Ling Clan’s disappearance, but Huo Yao said the Ancient and Soul Clans were the main suspects.
• The Lei Clan and Stone Clan arrived and kept their distance from the Ancient and Soul Clans as the fractured space’s heat intensified.
• The Yao Clan arrived, and Xun Er described Yao Tian and Yao Ling before Yao Lao identified the elder as Yao Wangui, the clan’s powerful overseer of punishments.