Recaps

A coalition of powerful factions formed the Baby-Killing Alliance and planned to lure Da Wa into a prepared trap, with Hong Yuan agreeing to influence his escape route. As Su Ye fought off attackers in the Great Wilderness, the alliance observed his Kunpeng Method and renewed its plan to capture him alive.

• The middle-aged assassin reported that Su Ye could not see through his Phantom True Body, and the alliance discussed using Hong Yuan's Thousand Mechanism Inducement to guide Da Wa into their trap.
• The old man and the assembled factions agreed that Hong Yuan could take one of Da Wa's eyes if he helped lure him into the killing trap, and Hong Yuan agreed to plant a suggestion in his mind.
• An arrow and a lightning attack targeted Su Ye in the Great Wilderness, but he evaded them and countered with the Kunpeng Method.
• A woman in white stabbed Su Ye with a dagger that dissolved into Light Rain and bound him, but Su Ye appeared behind her and pinned her Spirit Body until she abandoned it.
• The group concealed within the Void Beast Hide watched the encounter, identified Su Ye's technique as the Kunpeng Method, and decided that capturing Da Wa alive remained their priority.

Su Ye realized the Venerables were manipulating his Destiny to lure him into a death trap, and decided to use their plan to awaken the Dao of Life and Death through a planned death. He told Huo Ling'er what he intended to do, while the Venerables agreed to let others test him first.

• Three Venerables discussed Su Ye's strange power and chose to delay attacking until others tested him.
• Su Ye recognized that a sudden idea to flee toward a perilous place had been planted to draw him into a death trap.
• Su Ye masked his traces with the Samsara Jade Disk and entered the small world inside the Chariot.
• Su Ye told Huo Ling'er he planned to let his enemies spring the trap, die once, and use Nie to comprehend the Dao of Life and Death.
• Huo Ling'er worried about the danger but promised to stay by Su Ye's side.

Su Ye encountered the Witch’s sentient magic-treasure Guardian, who warned him that a God might be involved in the assassination and that calamity would descend within three months. After learning the threat was a Pseudo-God, Su Ye refused to retreat and decided he would change his plans.

• Hunters found the Shadow King’s corpse and followed Su Ye’s trail toward a trap they had prepared.
• Su Ye killed a Marquis and realized that multiple factions were hunting him, disrupting his planned route.
• A hidden trap transported Su Ye to a world of Phoenix Blood Roses, where a red-clad woman bound him and then released him.
• Su Ye used his Heavenly Eye to discover that the woman was the sentient magic treasure that formed the entire world.
• The Guardian revealed that Bai Wei had sent her because a God might be involved, and warned that calamity would arrive within three months.
• Su Ye told the Guardian that a Pseudo-God could not threaten him, then decided he would alter his plans.

Su Ye deciphered the Blood Sea Array’s connection to the enormous sword and secretly altered it while his pursuers entered. He turned the array against them, trapping the hunters and revealing that he had seen through the middle-aged man’s Phantom True Body.

• The old man in the blood-red robe and the other hunters watched Su Ye withstand the Blood Sea Array and decided to send half their group inside to capture him.
• Su Ye studied the enormous sword, recognized its core as a summoning and fusion array, and merged mysterious runes into it before attacking the Magic Array.
• Hong Yuan, the beautiful woman, and the other experts entered the array and secretly tampered with the sword, believing they could control it.
• Su Ye sensed the group’s arrival, tore open the void, and made the old man in the blood-red robe explode before the array swallowed the others.
• Su Ye told the trapped hunters he had seen through the middle-aged man’s Phantom True Body and left him fearing that Su Ye planned to kill them all.

Su Ye fought the gathered kings over the Sea of Blood until Poison Widow arrived and revealed that her Bronze Ancient Lamp was a God's Magic Treasure. After the group agreed to capture Da Wa, Hong Yuan attacked Su Ye, who countered the Buddha phantom with sword qi.

• Su Ye used the power of his Chaos Heavenly Passage to overwhelm the kings, but he spat blood when Poison Widow approached.
• Poison Widow revealed a monster disguised as Hong Yuan's junior brother, exposing how she had learned about the Ancient Sarira.
• Poison Widow and Hong Yuan clashed, using the Bronze Ancient Lamp and the Ancient Sarira to manifest a God and a Buddha.
• A Mount Eternal figure urged them to capture Da Wa first, and Poison Widow and Hong Yuan agreed to postpone their fight.
• Hong Yuan turned on Su Ye, who struck with a mountain-like palm and then formed sword qi with his fingertip.

Su Ye fought Hong Yuan’s Buddhist phantom and was trapped in the Ultimate Bliss Buddha Land, where Hong Yuan tried to convert him. Su Ye’s true self refused the conversion, leaving Hong Yuan shaken and wondering how Su Ye had understood the secret art.

• Su Ye repeatedly attacked the phantom Buddha until his sword rays cracked it, prompting Hong Yuan to empower it with the Sarira and form a Buddhist kingdom.
• Hong Yuan explained that the Buddhist kingdom suppressed outsiders’ power, then summoned golden chains to forcibly convert Su Ye.
• Su Ye could not use his mystic power, but Hong Yuan’s Conversion Secret Talisman repeatedly failed to enter his spiritual world despite his slaps.
• Su Ye said his true self refused the runes, and Hong Yuan realized the secret art required the target’s true self to consent.
• Hong Yuan feared Su Ye had seen through the secret art with his Heavenly Eye, despite its reputedly inferior perception to Double Pupil’s.

Su Ye defeated Hong Yuan in the World of Ultimate Bliss, then overcame the kings and the Heavenly Demon Empress. The Empress’s attempt to sacrifice the world failed, leaving her pinned beneath Su Ye’s sword as he unleashed the Kunpeng Method.

• Su Ye used power from his Wheel Sea Divine Treasury and Chaos Heavenly Passage to kill Hong Yuan and escape the dissolving Buddhist kingdom with the Sarira.
• Poison Widow revealed that she was the Heavenly Demon Empress, and Su Ye challenged her and the assembled kings.
• The kings joined forces against Su Ye, but his Kunpeng Method overwhelmed them and killed more than ten kings.
• The Heavenly Demon Empress explained that she was an ancient Black Demon Race empress whose Divine Soul had been sealed in the Soul Lamp, then used the Sea of Blood to absorb the fallen kings.
• The Empress began Blood Burial of Heaven and Earth, but Su Ye tore open the world; after she fixed space with the Bronze Ancient Lamp, a sword pierced and pinned her.
• Su Ye formed a Yin-Yang Grinding Disc with the Kunpeng Method and ground everything below to dust.

Su Ye destroyed the blood-colored projection in the Broken Sword, then faced three Venerables who ambushed him in the valley. He fought back against their combined attacks, but the battle continued as he evaded their techniques.

• Su Ye ground the Broken Sword and its blood-colored Phenomenon into Chaos Radiance, destroying the powerful projection within it.
• Three Venerables from the Heaven Mending Pavilion, the Western Sect, and Mount Eternal bound Su Ye with rune chains, but he tore them apart using a secret power in his body.
• The Elegant Middle-aged Man, the White-robed Taoist Nun, and the Black-robed Elder attacked Su Ye together, and their battle leveled the valley.
• Su Ye used the Kunpeng Method to shatter falling stars with the Ten Thousand Divine Feathers Sword Furnace.
• The White-robed Taoist Nun reversed Space-Time and attacked Su Ye with her Whisk Sword, but he crossed Space-Time to escape her strikes.
• The Elegant Middle-aged Man suppressed the River of Time and Space and planted a false warning of danger in Su Ye's mind, but Su Ye retreated anyway.

Su Ye comprehended the Ten Thousand Divine Feathers Sword Furnace and killed the Elegant Middle-aged Man, though the Venerable’s final attack left him badly injured. He then fought the Black-robed Elder, who demanded the Kunpeng Method, and the chapter ended with the Elder asserting control over the Five Elements Boundary Realm.

• Su Ye realized that the Ten Thousand Divine Feathers Sword Furnace could forge countless swords into a single sword that was himself.
• Su Ye killed the Elegant Middle-aged Man with one strike, severing Karma, Space-Time, and Destiny, but suffered severe internal injuries.
• The White-robed Taoist Nun remained defiant, and Su Ye warned that he might still be able to kill another Venerable.
• The Black-robed Elder offered to overlook their conflict if Su Ye handed over the Kunpeng Method, and Su Ye attacked him with the Ten Thousand Divine Feather Swords.
• The Black-robed Elder used Five Elements Reversal to dissolve Su Ye’s sword attack, then summoned a Five-Colored Luan Bird that Su Ye immediately destroyed.
• The Black-robed Elder dismissed the setback and declared himself sovereign within the Five Elements Boundary Realm.

Su Ye fought a Black-robed Elder of Mount Eternal, countering his Five-Colored Peacock Treasure Art with the Willow Deity Method before facing his Five Elements Dao Domain. Su Ye used the pressure of the battle to study the Way of the Five Elements, leaving the outcome undecided as he carefully traced its changing runes.

• The Black-robed Elder used the Five-Colored Peacock Treasure Art to distort space and strike Su Ye, who recognized how the technique disrupted his perception.
• Su Ye summoned groves of Willow Trees that absorbed the essence of heaven and earth and swept away the elder's projections.
• The Black-robed Elder conjured a colossal Five-Colored Peacock, but the Willow Deity pierced it and devoured its energy and matter.
• Su Ye formed a Five Elements Domain, but the Black-robed Elder suppressed it and tried to seize Su Ye's condensed Way of the Five Elements.
• The Black-robed Elder summoned five figures and pillars to form a Five Elements Array while the White-robed Taoist Nun watched from outside the Domain.
• Su Ye concentrated on analyzing the changing Five Elements runes as he resisted the dangerous pressure of the elder's Domain.

Su Ye studied the Black-robed Elder’s Five Elements Domain while fighting him, then linked his own order runes to the domain and began absorbing its power. He left the elder furious after dismissing his comprehension of the Five Elements as trash.

• The Black-robed Elder trapped Su Ye in his Five Elements Array and threatened him with a great saber, but Su Ye escaped the blade light using the River of Time and attacked with Kun fish.
• Su Ye tried to combine the Kunpeng Method with the Way of the Five Elements, forming a flawed Five-Colored Divine Sword, while the Black-robed Elder mocked his attempt.
• The Black-robed Elder’s completed domain attacked Su Ye with beasts, vines, and fire, trapping him as his strikes failed to break free.
• The Black-robed Elder formed a Five-Colored Divine Hand to seize Su Ye, but Su Ye countered with one of his own and connected his order runes to the domain.
• Su Ye used the connection to study and draw on the domain’s power, then insulted the Black-robed Elder’s Five Elements comprehension.

Su Ye defeated the Black-robed Elder after comprehending the true principle of Five Elements Derivation, but he suffered severe wounds from the Elder’s final attack. He then fought the White-robed Taoist Nun, whose attacks and Spirit Body forced him to unleash several powerful techniques.

• The Black-robed Elder expanded his flawed Five Elements Domain, while Su Ye waited for him to reveal his full strength.
• Su Ye used an Earth Element Sword to devour the Elder’s Five Elements Power and explained that true Five Elements Derivation came from generating all five elements from one.
• Su Ye formed a complete Five Elements Sword and killed the Black-robed Elder, who burned his Dao body and Divine Soul in a final attack that gravely wounded Su Ye.
• The White-robed Taoist Nun attacked Su Ye with a patterned mirror, her Whisk Sword, an Ice Dragon, and her Spirit Body.
• Su Ye countered with the Three-Heads Six-Arms Divine Ability, the Suanni Precious Technique, and the Nine-Headed Lion Precious Technique.

Su Ye defeated the White-robed Taoist Nun but was attacked by the Blood-Nether Sword God, a true god from the Upper Realm who sought to devour him. The Blood-Nether Sword God revealed his plan to evolve through darkness and steal the talents of Su Ye and other prodigies.

• Su Ye grievously wounded the White-robed Taoist Nun with a rain of sword beams, though his own body was near collapse from his successive battles.
• The Blood-Nether Sword God launched a surprise assault with a Sword Domain, falling stars, and corrosive black sword energy, forcing Su Ye to defend himself with the Kunpeng Method.
• The Blood-Nether Sword God appeared before Su Ye, identified himself as the founder of the God-Slaying Sword Dao, and admitted that he intended to devour him.
• Su Ye questioned how the Blood-Nether Sword God could overcome the flaws of possession, and the god explained his method of evolving through darkness, which he traced to the Black Demon Race and an ancient Dark Race.
• Su Ye mocked the Blood-Nether Sword God's mediocre talent, and the god declared that he would devour Su Ye, the Double Pupil, Little Shi, and other Primogenitors to pursue Supreme Being status and the Immortal Realm.

Su Ye fought Blood-Nether Sword God and used his Samsara Grinding Disc to injure him, but discovered too late that his opponent had secretly infected him with Dark Matter to take over his body. Blood-Nether Sword God began corrupting Su Ye and declared that he would become the new Blood-Nether.

• Su Ye provoked Blood-Nether Sword God, then attacked him with the Kunpeng Method and a sea of flames, but the Sword God transformed the battlefield into a Sea of Blood.
• Su Ye used his Samsara Eye to look into the future and saw that the Witch's Guardian would save him, realizing Blood-Nether Sword God had held back because he feared the Guardian.
• Su Ye unleashed the Samsara Grinding Disc, and after Blood-Nether Sword God destroyed it, Su Ye struck him with a grinding-disc-infused punch that pierced his chest.
• Blood-Nether Sword God recovered and turned into demonic energy, revealing that he had infected Su Ye with Dark Matter during his initial attack.
• Dark Matter spread across Su Ye's body as Blood-Nether Sword God declared that Su Ye would become Blood-Nether.

Su Ye resisted Blood-Nether Sword God's Dark Matter and fought back after the god severed his connection to heaven and earth. He revealed his Unique Heavenly Passage, but Blood-Nether Sword God trapped him in a Sword Domain and unleashed the Nether Killing God Sword.

• Su Ye used his Chaos Grinding Disc to withstand Blood-Nether Sword God's Dark Matter and prepared to fight despite foreseeing a future in which he was badly beaten.
• Blood-Nether Sword God sealed heaven and earth with his divine Mental Power, cutting Su Ye off from the Great Dao and urging him to merge with him.
• Su Ye punched Blood-Nether Sword God, then used his Kunpeng rune to strike him apart.
• Su Ye opened his Unique Heavenly Passage, but Blood-Nether Sword God sealed it off from the world's power with Order Divine Chains.
• Blood-Nether Sword God created a Sword Domain and attacked Su Ye with a rain of blades, while Su Ye swung his sword to break through them.
• Blood-Nether Sword God summoned a blood-red Nether world and unleashed his Nether Killing God Sword.

Su Ye used the Judge's Pen to call down Heavenly Punishment on Blood-Nether Sword God, then developed a plan to evolve by nurturing his own runes with Innate Primordial Essence from his Chaos Heavenly Passage. He resumed the fight, but Blood-Nether Sword God remained powerful and kept attacking.

• Su Ye wrote the character for guilt with the Judge's Pen and summoned Thunder Punishment, engulfing Blood-Nether Sword God in lightning.
• The attack worsened Su Ye's injuries, and he realized the punishment could not kill a god who had kindled Divine Fire.
• Su Ye decided to cultivate by nourishing his body with Innate Primordial Essence from his Chaos Heavenly Passage and nurturing his own Primal Runes.
• Su Ye charged into the Thunder Sea with the Kunpeng Method, and Blood-Nether Sword God emerged and attacked him.
• Su Ye used vanishing figures and a Magic Array against Blood-Nether Sword God, who cut through the illusions and continued fighting with formidable power.

Su Ye defeated the Blood-Nether Sword God with the Samsara Jade Disk and rejected the red-clad Guardian’s attempt to recruit him into the Heaven Severing Sect. He then transformed his body through cultivation and reunited with the worried Huo Ling’er.

• Su Ye used the Samsara Jade Disk to destroy the Chaos Grinding Disc and send the Blood-Nether Sword God back to the Void.
• Su Ye reassured Wei’er’s red-clad Guardian that she was safe as one of his people, but refused to join the Heaven Severing Sect.
• Su Ye warned that he would kill any gods who came to the Eight Lower Realms and left the Guardian behind.
• Su Ye emerged from a Light Cocoon after tempering and transforming his body, gaining power beyond the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• Huo Ling’er arrived by Chariot, embraced Su Ye in tears, and scolded him for making her worry; Su Ye promised not to do it again.

Su Ye and Huo Ling'er arrived in the Medicine Capital, where Su Ye received a rare flower from an ancient medicinal tree after teaching it runes. When news spread of a possible True Phoenix relic in the Divine Valley, they set off to investigate.

• Su Ye and Huo Ling'er reached the Medicine Capital and learned about its connection to the Medicine God and its abundance of rare herbs.
• Su Ye taught runes to an ancient medicinal tree, which thanked him by giving him one of its precious flowers.
• Su Ye and Huo Ling'er passed the Fire Gold Vine, where a sentient flame watched Su Ye leave.
• A rumor spread that an undying divine object and possible True Phoenix bones had been found in the Divine Valley.
• Su Ye and Huo Ling'er headed toward the Divine Valley to investigate.

Su Ye and Huo Ling'er discovered the Desolate Region's First Spirit Root, and Su Ye recognized that it contained a clone of the Fake Medicine Seller, an Immortal King. After considering the danger surrounding it, Su Ye began thinking about using a living plant to nurture himself and extend his lifespan.

• Su Ye and Huo Ling'er reached a rune-covered valley, and Su Ye used the Samsara Eye's power of Karma and Destiny to trace the man-made Magic Arrays.
• Su Ye saw countless Treasure Medicines and Saint Herbs, then discovered a small tree bearing three Great Dao Immortal Flowers in the valley's depths.
• Su Ye recognized the tree as the Desolate Region's First Spirit Root and recalled that Jiang Qinghuang and other ancient gods would lose a battle there against Cult Masters from the Upper Realm.
• Su Ye realized that the First Spirit Root contained one of the Fake Medicine Seller's six parts and decided not to destroy it, since the Immortal King might emerge and kill him.
• Su Ye watched a little person emerge from one flower and connected it to the being inside the Fire Gold Vine, then considered binding himself to a living plant to gain Longevity and more time to cultivate.

Su Ye and Shi Hao encountered the Fake Medicine Seller, who gave Shi Hao a leaf from the Longevity Medicine. Su Ye bargained with the Fake Medicine Seller over three leaves and revealed that the Ghost Ship’s master stood beyond Emperors, leaving the Fake Medicine Seller asking about the Sea of Worlds.

• Shi Hao joined Su Ye and wanted to catch and eat the little tree, but Su Ye explained that it was a Longevity Medicine and warned him about the Fake Medicine Seller.
• A crystalline leaf appeared in Shi Hao’s palm, and Su Ye realized the Fake Medicine Seller had sent it to Shi Hao.
• Su Ye demanded three leaves and argued with the Fake Medicine Seller, who accused him of disrupting the River of Time and warned him about touching the Ghost Ship.
• Su Ye threatened to use the Ghost Ship to pull up the Fake Medicine Seller unless he gave him three leaves.
• The Fake Medicine Seller asked whether the Ghost Ship was connected to an Emperor, and Su Ye said its master stood beyond Emperors.
• After recovering from his shock at the existence of a realm beyond Emperor, the Fake Medicine Seller asked Su Ye whether the Sea of Worlds was connected to Emperor.

Su Ye told the Fake Medicine Seller that an Emperor’s polluted corpse lay sealed in the depths of the Sea of Worlds and accepted Innate Primordial Essence and Primal Runes in exchange for the truth. After meeting Shi Hao and his companions, Su Ye warned them of the coming catastrophe and foretold Shi Hao’s future marriage to Yun Xi and danger from her clan.

• Su Ye demanded a million cubic units of Innate Primordial Essence from the Fake Medicine Seller, who instead offered a hundred thousand units and some Primal Runes.
• Su Ye explained that a slain Emperor had sealed his polluted corpse in the Sea of Worlds, and that Immortal Kings had broken the seal, causing the catastrophe now approaching.
• Su Ye received three leaves and a crystal ball, then offered Shi Hao fifty thousand cubic units of Innate Primordial Essence to borrow Stone Ancestor’s medicinal formulas.
• Su Ye warned Shi Hao that a catastrophe would arrive within a month or two and that people would later try to capture him.
• Su Ye teased Shi Hao about his future marriage to Yun Xi and warned that her clan would try to kill him after he saved her in the Upper Realm.
• Shi Hao joked about carrying Yun Xi back to his village, while Yun Xi angrily denied that she would ever marry him.

Su Ye revealed that the Eight Regions were treated as a prison and a source of prey by the Upper Realm, while the Lower Realm’s people were branded descendants of traitors. He told Shi Hao that the Shi Clan’s ancestors had been heroes, then disclosed that they had killed innocent comrades, leaving Shi Hao baffled about how they could be heroes.

• Big Red Bird asked Su Ye why he had called him handsome, and Su Ye clarified that he had called him delicious as future prey.
• Su Ye confirmed that the Upper Realm treated the Lower Realm as a place to raise and harvest creatures, and explained that it was also called a land of exile and imprisonment.
• Shi Hao asked who had been imprisoned and what crime they had committed, and Su Ye said the Upper Realm accused the Eight Regions’ people of betraying the Three Thousand Provinces and the heavens.
• Shi Hao said he wanted to know whether his ancestors had truly been sinners, and Su Ye told him the Shi Clan’s ancestors had been heroes who protected both realms.
• Big Red Bird asked about his own ancestors, and Su Ye said he did not know whether they had taken part in the battle a million years earlier.
• Huo Ling'er asked whether her Fire Clan belonged to the Sinful Blood lineage, and Su Ye explained that their ancestors had killed comrades who had fought bravely and committed no crime.

Su Ye explained how Shi Hao’s ancestors were branded the Sinful Race after killing heroes corrupted by The Weird, leaving Shi Hao determined to settle the score. He then found Jiang Qinghuang at the Medicine Capital and offered her a leaf from the Longevity Medicine in exchange for help with a potentially dangerous task.

• Su Ye told Shi Hao and the others that corrupted heroes had begged Shi Hao’s ancestors to kill them, after which their enemies accused the clan of betrayal and branded them the Sinful Race.
• Su Ye explained that the Eight Lower Realms imprisoned Dark Creatures and that powerful factions had stayed silent about the accusations for profit.
• Shi Hao vowed to settle the score, and Su Ye warned him to cultivate carefully because his enemies were powerful enough to cripple the Willow Deity.
• Su Ye left with Huo Ling'er and traveled to the Medicine Capital, where he found Jiang Qinghuang beside an ancient well.
• Su Ye offered Jiang Qinghuang a leaf from the Longevity Medicine for her help with a dangerous task, and she asked who he really was.

Su Ye warned Jiang Qinghuang that the Desolate Region's First Spirit Root housed an Immortal King, then left the Medicine Capital with Huo Ling'er. At Heaven Mending Pavilion, he used rare medicines and Spirit Insects to refine Huo Ling'er, Xia Youyu, the War Goddess, and Qing Yi in cauldrons, leaving Qing Yi angry and determined to repay his humiliation.

• Su Ye told Jiang Qinghuang that an Immortal King was sealed inside the Desolate Region's First Spirit Root and urged her not to provoke him.
• Jiang Qinghuang studied the Immortal Leaf's runes while Su Ye left the Medicine Capital with Huo Ling'er.
• Su Ye traveled the Desolate Region gathering rare herbs and Spirit Insects, visited the Fire Kingdom Imperial Palace with Huo Ling'er, and then went to Heaven Mending Pavilion.
• Su Ye prepared medicinal cauldrons for Huo Ling'er, Xia Youyu, and the War Goddess to strengthen their foundations for future breakthroughs.
• Su Ye prepared a milder medicinal cauldron for Qing Yi, teased her, and sent her inside to cultivate faster.
• Qing Yi accused Su Ye of peeking at her and silently vowed to settle the score with him one day.

Su Ye studied the Immortal Leaf’s Dao Patterns, expanded his Chaos Heavenly Passage, and began nurturing a sky of Primal Rune stars. In Stone Village, Shi Hao learned the leaf’s value and heard Willow Deity confirm that the Seven Kings of the Borderlands would never have betrayed the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.

• Su Ye studied the Immortal Leaf’s Primal Runes and considered whether uniting the myriad Daos could lead to the Emperor realm.
• Su Ye infused fifty thousand cubic meters of Innate Primordial Essence into his Chaos Heavenly Passage, then tempered his body and formed Primal Rune stars within it.
• Shi Hao told Willow Deity that the First Spirit Root had given him an Immortal Leaf and offered it to her.
• Willow Deity explained that the leaf and its Dao Patterns were extraordinarily valuable, while Little Pagoda and Willow Deity warned Shi Hao that he would someday have to repay the Karma.
• Shi Hao asked whether his ancestor had been a hero, and Willow Deity said the Seven Kings of the Borderlands would never betray the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.