Recaps

Mandala appointed Mu Chen and Jiu You as King Mu and Empress Jiu You, then granted their requests to delay taking their posts until they reached the required grades. After Mu Chen received a Supreme Heaven Pill and emerged from seclusion, Jiu You Palace's loyal guards awaited Jiu You's return as its main hall doors opened.

• Mandala appointed Mu Chen the Ninth King and Jiu You the Fourth Empress of Daluo Heaven.
• Jiu You asked for a month to reach Seventh Grade before taking her post, and Mu Chen asked to wait until he reached Fifth Grade; Mandala approved both requests.
• Mandala gave Mu Chen a Supreme Heaven Pill for his copy of Liu Tiandao's ancient scripture, then left with the Heavenly Vulture Emperor to attack Xuantian Hall.
• Jiu You and Mu Chen entered seclusion, and Mu Chen emerged two days later after refining the pill.
• At Jiu You Palace, Tang Bing and Tang Rou discussed how Jiu You's return had steadied the guards, as the main hall doors opened.

Mu Chen used Jiu You Palace’s resources to strengthen its loyal guards and promised to rebuild the force while Jiu You remained in seclusion. After Daluo Heaven conquered Xuantian Hall, Tang Bing asked Mu Chen to help recover the cities and benefits seized by the Blood Eagle King.

• Mu Chen met the Tang sisters and learned that Cao Feng had betrayed Jiu You Palace to the Blood Eagle King, leaving the Jiu You Guard without a commander.
• Mu Chen gave Jiu You Palace a hundred thousand drops of Supreme Spiritual Liquid and ten Supreme Pills, then ordered the four captains to prepare a rebuilt force within a month.
• The thousand Jiu You Guards cheered Mu Chen’s promise of abundant resources, and he left them determined to surprise Jiu You when she emerged from seclusion.
• Daluo Heaven returned after conquering most of Xuantian Hall’s territory in five days, while Liu Tiandao remained missing and the other major powers arrived too late to intervene.
• Mu Chen attended the Nine Kings’ meeting in Jiu You’s place, and Tang Bing asked him to help reclaim the cities and Daluo Golden Pool quota taken by the Blood Eagle King.

Mu Chen attended the Kings' Meeting as Jiu You's representative and challenged Blood Eagle King over his seizure of Jiu You Palace's Golden Pool slot. The meeting turned to the upcoming baptism, leaving Blood Eagle King under pressure to return what he had taken.

• Mu Chen heard that Blood Eagle King had bought Jiu You Palace's Golden Pool slot and agreed to address the cities and slot taken from the palace.
• Blood Eagle King questioned Jiu You's return and criticized her for sending Mu Chen to the Kings' Meeting, but Heavenly Vulture Emperor reminded him that the Domain Lord had approved her return.
• Mu Chen told Blood Eagle King that their dispute with Jiu You Palace remained unsettled, and the kings then discussed rewards for the war against Xuantian Hall.
• Heavenly Vulture Emperor raised the Golden Pool Baptism scheduled for two months later, and Mu Chen demanded that Blood Eagle King return Jiu You Palace's seized slot.

At the kings’ meeting, Mu Chen stripped Cao Feng of his cultivation for betraying Jiu You Palace, then agreed to settle his conflict with the Blood Eagle King through a duel. On Daluo Peak, the Blood Eagle King revealed that he had reached Sixth Grade and summoned the Blood Eagle Spear as the fight began.

• Mu Chen ordered Cao Feng to kneel and used Tai Cang Divine Sound to destroy his Supreme Sea and cultivation.
• The Blood Eagle King tried to attack Mu Chen, but the Heavenly Vulture Emperor stopped him, and the Spirit Eye Emperor proposed a king’s duel with terms for the winner.
• Mu Chen accepted the duel, and the kings followed him and the Blood Eagle King to the platform atop Daluo Peak.
• The Blood Eagle King revealed he had advanced to Sixth Grade Supreme and formed the Blood Eagle Spear, a Middle-Rank Divine Artifact.

Mu Chen overwhelmed the Blood Eagle King with a series of powerful attacks, ending with a strike from the Heavenly Dao Sword that threatened to kill him. The Three Emperors rushed to intervene as the smoke cleared, leaving the Blood Eagle King's fate uncertain.

• The Blood Eagle King's spear was knocked away, and Mu Chen's Nine Nether Underworld Sparrow drove back the ancient blood eagle formed by the divine artifacts.
• Mu Chen resisted the Blood Eagle King's Blood Explosion Art and wounded him with the Samsara Death Seal.
• The Blood Eagle King formed a massive Blood Shadow Sword, but Mu Chen's Nine Dragons Nine Elephants Art shattered it.
• Mu Chen summoned the Heavenly Dao Sword, shocking the Three Emperors and Seven Kings with his use of the Heavenly Dao Ancient Scripture.
• The Heavenly Dao Sword destroyed the Blood Eagle King's attempted defense, and he called for the Spirit Eye Emperor to save him.
• The Three Emperors rushed to intervene as the sword's radiance and smoke engulfed the battlefield.

Mu Chen and Jiu You were named King Mu and Empress Jiu You after their intelligence helped Daluo Heaven destroy Xuantian Hall. With Jiu You Palace strengthened and the Jiu You Guard restored, Mu Chen began studying the lost art of Battle Array Masters.

• The Sleeping Emperor saved the Blood Eagle King after Mu Chen defeated him, and the Heavenly Vulture Emperor announced Mandala's decree naming Jiu You Empress Jiu You and Mu Chen King Mu.
• Mu Chen demanded that the Blood Eagle King return Jiu You Palace's seized cities and baptism quota and pay three hundred thousand Supreme Spiritual Liquid in compensation.
• The Blood Eagle Hall handed over the resources, while Jiu You Palace's influence grew and its guard returned to three thousand members.
• Mu Chen studied the Heart of the Battle Array and received knowledge of Battle Will, Battle Seals, Battle Patterns, and the Spirit of Battle Will.
• Mu Chen decided to become a Battle Array Master and use the Jiu You Guard to develop his command of Battle Will.

Mu Chen mastered the Jiu You Guard’s Battle Will, condensed a Spirit of Battle Will, and raised his Battle Patterns to eight thousand while strengthening Jiu You Palace. The chapter ended with Jiu You emerging from seclusion and embracing Mu Chen after seeing the flourishing state of her forces.

• Mu Chen summoned the three thousand Jiu You Guard and refined their Battle Will into a Battle Seal, steadily increasing its Battle Patterns.
• Mu Chen unexpectedly condensed a Spirit of Battle Will in the form of an Ancient Demonic Bird, astonishing the Tang Sisters and alarming Daluo Heaven’s spies and kings.
• Mu Chen trained for a month and reached eight thousand Battle Patterns, but could not cross the ten-thousand-pattern threshold.
• Jiu You emerged from seclusion as a Seventh Grade Sovereign and was stunned by the strength and prosperity of her palace and army.
• The Jiu You Guard greeted Jiu You, and she declared that she loved Mu Chen’s surprise before throwing herself into his arms.

Jiu You Palace prepared for the Daluo Golden Pool Baptism as Mu Chen strengthened the Jiu You Guard and led it to Golden Pool Peak. Qiu Shan and Lan Hai won two of the four places in the baptism, while Blood Eagle King’s forces lost their expected slot.

• Jiu You assigned Qiu Shan and Bei Mo to compete for Jiu You Palace and went to visit Blood Eagle King.
• Mu Chen expanded the Jiu You Guard beyond five thousand troops and formed ten thousand Battle Patterns, becoming a Battle Array Master capable of confronting a Seventh Grade Supreme.
• Mu Chen led the Jiu You Guard to Golden Pool Peak, where the Four Emperors opened the Daluo Golden Pool gathering and announced that four commanders would receive the baptism.
• Xu Qing, Zhou Yue, Qiu Shan, and Lan Hai reached the halfway platform and won the four Golden Reception Talismans.
• Jiu You Palace claimed two baptism places, while Blood Eagle King's Wu Tian was eliminated and Blood Eagle King hid his anger.

Mu Chen entered the Daluo Golden Pool, formed Immeasurable Golden Light with his Great Solar Undying Body, and discovered Mandala hidden at the pool’s bottom. He revealed that his inheritance came from the Ancient Heavenly Emperor and showed her the Immortal Page, which briefly suppressed her curse, but Mandala tried to keep it.

• Mu Chen and the other three entered the Daluo Golden Pool, and Mu Chen descended to its bottom to cultivate his Supreme Dharma Body.
• Mu Chen formed nine Dragon Marks and manifested Immeasurable Golden Light, awakening a girl seated on an ancient stone platform.
• Mu Chen recognized the girl as Mandala and explained that his Great Solar Undying Body came from an Immortal Record fragment passed down by the Ancient Heavenly Emperor.
• Mandala examined the Immortal Page and recognized the Origin Divine Pattern of an Ancient Mandala Flower, which temporarily suppressed her curse.
• Mandala began tucking the Immortal Page into her robe, and Mu Chen protested as she tried to keep it.

Mu Chen gave Mandala the Immortal Page so she could break the curse on her true body, and she agreed to recognize him as the Heavenly Emperor’s heir if he fulfilled her demands. A month later, restored to full strength, Mandala mobilized Daluo Heaven to attack the Hundred Battles Territory.

• Mu Chen offered Mandala the Immortal Page and the Mandala Heaven-Extinguishing Light to help her remove the curse.
• Mandala revealed that she had heard the Heavenly Emperor lecture but had never been his disciple, and she named Garuda and Lu Heng as the other heirs tied to his inheritance.
• Mandala agreed to recognize Mu Chen as the Heavenly Emperor’s heir if he helped retrieve her true body, kill the other two heirs, and advance to the Immortal Golden Body.
• Mandala said the Ancient Heavenly Palace would reappear in five or six years at the earliest, then told Mu Chen to prepare for an imminent battle.
• A month later, Mandala returned the Immortal Page after breaking the curse and ordered Daluo Heaven to mobilize against the Hundred Battles Territory.

Mu Chen led the Nine Nether Division against the Thunder Demon Sect and used the Jiu You Guards’ Spirit of Battle Will to break its powerful defensive array. After conquering the sect, he entered the Thunder Demon Abyss and discovered a connection between the abyss and the Heart Demon Thunder Emperor’s inheritance.

• Mu Chen led the Nine Nether Division across the Hundred Battles Territory and ordered an assault on the Thunder Demon Sect.
• Qin Tiangang brought the Three Thousand Thunder Demon Troops to defend the city and activated the sect’s low-grade Heaven-rank Spirit Array.
• Mu Chen summoned the Jiu You Guards’ Spirit of Battle Will, which tore through the array and killed Qin Tiangang and his elite troops.
• The Nine Nether Division occupied the Thunder Demon Sect, seized its stores and techniques, and Mu Chen went alone to explore the Thunder Demon Abyss.
• Mu Chen wondered how the Heart Demon Thunder Emperor’s inheritance had come to rest in the abyss.

Mu Chen defeated the Nether Heart Demon Lightning python, obtained the Supreme Heart Demon Scripture, and cultivated its entry level. Meanwhile, the Daluo Territory’s army surrounded Hundred Battles City, setting the stage for a decisive battle.

• Mu Chen transformed into a Nine Nether Underworld Sparrow, defeated the Nether Heart Demon Lightning python, and refined it into an ancient thunder bead.
• Mu Chen discovered the damaged stele recording the Supreme Heart Demon Scripture and learned that its Perfect Heart Demon State was missing.
• Mu Chen swallowed the ancient demonic bead and cultivated the Supreme Heart Demon Scripture, forming a Heart Demon Seed and reaching its entry level after five days.
• At King Mu’s command, the Nine Nether Division resumed its advance into the heartland of the Hundred Battles Territory.
• Ten Thousand Sword Valley, Demon Corpse Sect, and Great Sorrow Heaven gathered their forces at Hundred Battles City as the Daluo Territory surrounded the city and prepared for a decisive battle.

The Daluo Territory rejected the Three Sects’ challenge and prepared to assault Hundred Battles City, but the Luo Territory Lord arrived and shattered the city’s Grandmaster Spiritual Array. Just as he moved to destroy the defenders, the Netherworld Heavenly Sovereign intervened, bringing the two Earth Sovereigns face to face.

• Heavenly Vulture Emperor asked Mu Chen’s opinion, and Mu Chen urged the Daluo Territory to reject the contest and conquer Hundred Battles Territory outright.
• Heavenly Vulture Emperor ordered an all-out assault on Hundred Battles City for the next morning.
• Hidden Sword Elder, Corpse Mountain Old Ghost, and Demonic Sorrow Sovereign appeared atop the city walls as the Daluo army advanced, and the Four Emperors confronted them.
• The Luo Territory Lord appeared above the battlefield, struck the Grandmaster Spiritual Array until it collapsed, and prepared another attack on the city.
• The Netherworld Heavenly Sovereign appeared, diverted the Luo Territory Lord’s palm strike, and faced him across the battlefield.

The Daluo Territory launched its assault on Hundred Battles City while the Luo Territory Lord and Netherworld Heavenly Sovereign fought above the battlefield. As Daluo forces broke into the city, the Demon Corpse Sect's long-hidden Corpse Spirit King appeared to confront Mu Chen.

• The Netherworld Heavenly Sovereign challenged the Luo Territory Lord, and the two Earth Sovereigns rose into the sky to fight.
• The Heavenly Vulture Emperor ordered the Daluo Territory's million-strong army to attack through the breach in the city wall.
• The Spirit Eye Emperor fought the Hidden Sword Elder, while the Heavenly Vulture Emperor and Empress Jiu You engaged Corpse Mountain Old Ghost.
• Demonic Sorrow Sovereign summoned his Great Vajra Dharma Body to face the Sleeping Emperor, who revealed a Ninth Grade Heavenly Dragon Dharma Body.
• King Mu led the Nine Nether Division and Jiu You Guards into the city, where Mu Chen broke away to hunt Demon Corpse Sect fighters.
• The Corpse Spirit King emerged from a roadside building and challenged Mu Chen after revealing his Seventh Grade Sovereign strength.

Mu Chen fought Corpse Spirit King, a Seventh Grade Sovereign who ambushed him after he left his army, and used the Lesser Heart Demon state to overpower him. After Corpse Spirit King detonated his lifebound demon corpse and fled, he found Mu Chen still alive and blocking the secret passage out of the city.

• Corpse Spirit King ambushed Mu Chen and attacked, but Mu Chen caught his wrist and revealed himself as King Mu.
• Mu Chen entered the Lesser Heart Demon state and used the Great Perfection Divine Art to crush Corpse Spirit King's attacks.
• Corpse Spirit King tried to flee after Mu Chen destroyed his Corpse Skull Great Art.
• Corpse Spirit King detonated his lifebound demon corpse and escaped through the blast while Mu Chen was thrown back.
• Mu Chen survived behind his Dark Futu Tower and blocked Corpse Spirit King's path, shocking him.

Mu Chen killed Corpse Spirit King, and Daluo Heaven crushed the Three Sects and took Hundred Battles Territory. Back in Jiu You Palace, Mandala sent Mu Chen to represent Daluo Territory in Dragon Phoenix Heaven and warned him to watch the Netherworld Palace’s heir.

• Mu Chen used the Mandala Heaven-Extinguishing Light to kill Corpse Spirit King, then ordered the Jiu You Guards to advance into Corpse Demon Sect’s territory.
• The Sleeping Emperor killed Demonic Sorrow Sovereign, while the Heavenly Vulture Emperor and Empress Jiu You defeated Corpse Mountain Old Ghost; Hidden Sword Elder took his own life when the Four Emperors arrived.
• Daluo Heaven wiped out the Three Sects’ upper ranks, captured Hundred Battles Territory, and returned home after dividing the spoils.
• Mu Chen returned to Jiu You Palace and announced that he would enter seclusion to reach the Sixth Grade Sovereign level.
• Mandala told Mu Chen to represent Daluo Territory in Dragon Phoenix Heaven in a month and to give the Netherworld Palace’s heir special attention.

Mandala showed Mu Chen his place on the Dragon Phoenix Record, then brought him to the Daluo Flame Pool to strengthen him. She ordered the Daluo Heaven Army to gather so she could activate the Nine-Nine Flame Dragon Array, leaving its commanders wondering whether Mu Chen would become their sixth commander.

• Mandala gave Mu Chen the Dragon Phoenix Record, which ranked him fourth among the Northern Realm's young talents.
• Mandala took Mu Chen to the Daluo Flame Pool, where the Sovereign members of the Daluo Heaven Army trained.
• The army's five commanders, led by Huo Mei'er, arrived to greet Mandala and Mu Chen.
• Mandala ordered Huo Mei'er to summon the army and announced she would activate the Nine-Nine Flame Dragon Array.
• The commanders brought several hundred Sovereigns out of the Flame Pool, uncertain whether Mu Chen was being tested for command.

Mu Chen accepted Mandala’s challenge to break the Nine-Nine Flame Dragon Array and defeated its escalating attacks with his techniques. He ultimately shut the array down by exploiting its flaws as a Heaven Grade Spirit Array Master.

• Mandala offered Mu Chen a drop of Flame Dragon blood essence if he broke through the array, and he accepted.
• Mu Chen fought off the nine Sixth Grade Flame Dragons with his divine techniques and seemingly inexhaustible spiritual energy.
• The array unleashed the Nine Dragon Burning Heaven Talismans, but Mu Chen shattered their furnace with the True Martial Demon-Sweeping technique.
• Mandala began raising the array’s strength to summon Seventh Grade Ancient Flame Dragons, but Mu Chen used Spirit Seals to sever the array’s connection to the Earth Veins and stop it.
• Mu Chen revealed that his Spirit Array Master abilities had let him spot the array’s flaws, leaving Mandala indignant at his showboating.

Mu Chen collected himself after nearly taking all the Ancient Flame Dragon blood essence and traveled toward Dragon Phoenix Heaven. At a lakeside, he interrupted a young woman bathing and recognized her and her brother as people best avoided.

• Mu Chen tried to take the nine Ancient Flame Dragon blood essence orbs, but Mandala pulled him out and warned him to leave enough for the Nine-Nine Flame Dragon Array.
• Mandala and King Mu left the Daluo Flame Pool, and Mu Chen departed for Dragon Phoenix Heaven half a month ahead of time.
• Mu Chen stopped at a lake to drink and saw a young woman bathing upstream.
• Mu Chen called out to warn the woman, who hurried ashore as her brother arrived and glared at Mu Chen.
• Mu Chen explained that he had been drinking downstream, then decided to leave after identifying the siblings.

Mu Chen tried to escape Cai Xiao and Gu Lin, but their powerful bonded beast caught him and brought him back. After introducing themselves, he deduced that the siblings were Xiao Yan’s children and named Lin Dong as his idol.

• Gu Lin chased Mu Chen until a protective Spirit Artifact forced him back, then recognized his Nine Nether Underworld Sparrow form as the result of a Bloodline Link.
• Cai Xiao sent her Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python after Mu Chen, and the Earth Sovereign-level beast caught him and carried him back.
• Gu Lin introduced himself and Cai Xiao, then suggested they become friends; Mu Chen resisted Cai Xiao’s innate charm and introduced himself as the King of Hundred Spirits and King Mu.
• Mu Chen inferred that Gu Lin and Cai Xiao were Xiao Yan’s children from their bloodlines, the snake, and their mothers’ surnames.
• When Gu Lin asked who could compare with Xiao Yan, Mu Chen named Lin Dong, and the siblings accepted the Martial Ancestor as their father’s equal.

Mu Chen agreed to accompany Cai Xiao to Dragon Phoenix Heaven in search of the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit. After they departed, the chapter revealed Cai Xiao’s immense inherited power and her choice to give up her cultivation and start again.

• Gu Lin told Mu Chen and Cai Xiao that Dragon Phoenix Heaven might contain the rare Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, which could help Cai Xiao cultivate the Dragon-Phoenix Body.
• Cai Xiao decided to join Mu Chen on his trip, and Mu Chen agreed after she playfully persuaded him.
• Gu Lin declined Elder Ling’s offer to send someone after Cai Xiao, confident that nobody could bully his sister.
• The chapter explained that Cai Xiao had once possessed power equivalent to a Grand Perfection Earth Sovereign, but had transferred it to her companion divine beast, the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, and begun cultivating again from the Sensing Realm.

Xiao Lin traveled toward the Western Heaven Continent on a mission from the Flame Emperor while Xiao Xiao and Mu Chen watched the powerful young cultivators gathering for Dragon Phoenix Heaven. Xiao Xiao’s charm drew another admirer, and she began questioning him under her bewitching influence.

• Xiao Lin departed with Elder Ling for the Western Heaven Continent after Xiao Xiao left their mission midway.
• Hong Yu and Su Biyue arrived at Dragon Phoenix Ancient City, where cultivators gathered before Dragon Phoenix Heaven opened.
• Xiao Xiao teased Mu Chen about her beauty, then watched Ding Xuan and the Netherworld Prince arrive in the city.
• Lv Yang approached Xiao Xiao and proposed traveling together, ignoring Mu Chen.
• Xiao Xiao asked Lv Yang whether he liked her, and her bewitching influence left him dazed as he confessed his admiration.

Mu Chen and Xiao Xiao entered the Dragon Phoenix Heaven and battled their way through its dangers toward a Dragon Phoenix Pool. They flew past the Yin Beasts on White Bone Giant Mountain, while a massive creature slept deep inside the mountain.

• Xiao Xiao used her bewitching power on Lv Yang, who nearly stabbed himself before his spirit talisman broke the spell and let him escape.
• Mu Chen and Xiao Xiao entered the Dragon Phoenix Heaven as the gathered prodigies rushed through its newly opened passage.
• A swarm of dark-red insects attacked Mu Chen and Xiao Xiao, and Mu Chen burned them with Nine Nether Underworld Fire infused with Undying Flame.
• Mu Chen and Xiao Xiao reached White Bone Giant Mountain and found Yin Beasts attacking the arriving geniuses.
• Mu Chen sensed a dangerous creature sleeping inside the mountain, transformed into a Nine Nether Underworld Sparrow, and carried Xiao Xiao toward the summit as his divine-beast pressure scattered the Yin Beasts.

Mu Chen and Xiao Xiao reached the Dragon Phoenix Pool, where the Netherworld Prince and Chi Xue challenged them. Xiao Xiao fought Chi Xue while Mu Chen battled the Netherworld Prince, who raised his power to the peak of the Sixth Grade Sovereign realm.

• Mu Chen and Xiao Xiao arrived at the Dragon Phoenix Pool and encountered the Netherworld Prince and Chi Xue.
• The Netherworld Prince proposed that Chi Xue help him attack Mu Chen and Xiao Xiao, while Chi Xue targeted Xiao Xiao.
• Xiao Xiao wounded Chi Xue with a surprise strike, then continued fighting him with her seven-colored longsword.
• Mu Chen entered the Lesser Heart Demon state, trapped the Netherworld Prince's opening strike, and disoriented him with Nether Heart Demon Lightning.
• Mu Chen's Dragon Elephant Disk clashed with the Netherworld Prince's Nether God Halberd, and their exchange forced the prince backward.
• The Netherworld Prince used Nether Body Possession to absorb dark energy and raise his aura to the peak of the Sixth Grade Sovereign realm.

Mu Chen defeated the Netherworld Prince with the Great Solar Undying Body and its One Sun Vajra Bell, while Xiao Xiao’s spirit array killed the fleeing prince. Xiao Xiao fed the slain Chi Xue Divine Python to Xiao Cai as the surviving geniuses fled.

• The Netherworld Prince attacked Mu Chen with his Great Nether Dharma Body and Nether God-Extinguishing Halberd, but Mu Chen summoned the Great Solar Undying Body.
• Mu Chen used the One Sun Vajra Bell to shatter the Nether God-Extinguishing Halberd and overpower the Netherworld Prince.
• The weakened Netherworld Prince fled, but Xiao Xiao’s low-grade Heaven-tier Spirit Array killed him.
• The surviving human geniuses saw the Netherworld Prince and Chi Xue dead and scattered in fear.
• Xiao Xiao summoned Xiao Cai, which devoured the Chi Xue Divine Python and returned to sleep on her wrist.