Recaps

Martial Ancestor completed Mu Chen’s Demon-Subduing Battle Staff as a growing Sacred Artifact, and the Flame Emperor offered Mu Chen a Great Bodhi Restoration Pill. Mu Chen chose to give the Emperor Grade Spirit Pill to his father, Mu Feng, who was nearing the barrier to Heavenly Sovereign.

• Martial Ancestor upgraded Mu Chen’s Demon-Subduing Battle Staff into a high-grade growing Sacred Artifact with a true Spirit of the Artifact.
• Xiao’er nudged Xiao Yan to give Mu Chen a gift, and Xiao Yan produced an Emperor Grade Spirit Pill.
• Xiao Yan explained that the Great Bodhi Restoration Pill could improve someone’s chances of reaching Heavenly Sovereign and had originally been meant for Mu Feng.
• Xiao Yan revealed that Mu Feng had advanced to Grand Perfection Earth Sovereign but had stalled before the Heavenly Sovereign Domain.
• Mu Chen accepted the pill for his father, deciding that Mu Feng needed it more than he did.

The Heavenly Palace restored its ancient stronghold and reconquered the Tianluo Continent, while Mu Chen made plans to expand its alliances and reach. The chapter left the Supreme Heavenly Court thriving as its new overlord consolidated power.

• The Heavenly Emperor sent the Five Halls, Nine Prefectures, and heroic spirit army to repair the Heavenly Palace, and Flame Emperor hinted to Mu Chen that they would meet again soon.
• The Heavenly Palace's armies advanced across the Tianluo Continent, whose leaderless forces were swiftly brought back under its rule.
• Mu Chen asked the Heavenly Array Emperor to deliver an Emperor Pill to his father, King of Hundred Spirits, and establish teleportation arrays linking the Hundred Spirits and Northern Heavens Continents.
• Mu Chen planned to recruit former classmates and allies, while the Heavenly Emperor prepared to personally invite the Three Beast Sovereigns to join the Daoist Sect.
• The Heavenly Palace rose above the Central Region as the Supreme Heavenly Court, its restored grounds bustling with activity.

Mu Chen entered the Futu Clan’s ancestral land through his bloodline and drew the attention of its ancestral pagoda. As the pagoda accepted him, Qing Yanjing appeared and assured him that she would protect him.

• Mu Chen cultivated in the Heavenly Palace and used the Great Pagoda Art to reach the Futu Clan’s ancestral land.
• The ancestral pagoda examined Mu Chen’s bloodline and confirmed his identity.
• Mu Chen worried that the pagoda’s excitement would alert the guards and expose his unauthorized entry.
• Qing Yanjing appeared before Mu Chen and told him that no one would dare harm him while she was there.

Mu Chen reunited with Qing Yanjing in person and learned how she had turned the tables on Futu Xuan, the Great Elder who had forced them apart. Qing Yanjing was quietly gathering support to take control of the Buddha Ancient Clan, and she offered to bring Mu Chen to the Qing Branch.

• Mu Chen kowtowed to Qing Yanjing, and she tearfully welcomed her son as they shared their first face-to-face reunion.
• Qing Yanjing revealed Futu Xuan imprisoned beneath the Ancestral Pagoda and explained that she had suppressed him after he returned and demanded to know where Mu Chen was.
• Qing Yanjing recounted how she had returned to the Buddha Ancient Clan, reached Saint Grade, and been imprisoned in the Ancestral Pagoda amid the clan's political struggle.
• Qing Yanjing explained that she was secretly gathering the Qing Branch's supporters while keeping Futu Xuan subdued rather than killing him.
• Qing Yanjing invited Mu Chen to visit the Qing Branch, where its members could meet their future young lord.

Qing Yanjing explained the Qing Branch’s precarious position and its alliance with her as Mu Chen absorbed Ancestral Qi to advance his Futu Pagoda. As the Ancestral Pagoda suppressed Great Elder Futu Xuan, Qing Yanjing confronted him and declared that its choice of her had shown whose path was right.

• Qing Yanjing described how the Xuan and Mo Branches planned to strip the Qing Branch of another seat at the next Inter-Branch Martial Tournament, while the Qing Branch secretly allied with her.
• Mu Chen postponed visiting the Qing Branch, and Qing Yanjing introduced its elders before guiding him to absorb Ancestral Qi.
• Mu Chen circulated the Great Pagoda Art, and Ancestral Qi transformed his Futu Pagoda into a crystal-clear form with a sacred aura.
• Qing Yanjing drew more Ancestral Qi from the Ancestral Pagoda for Mu Chen, prompting the imprisoned Great Elder Futu Xuan to unleash his power before the artifact suppressed it.
• Qing Yanjing faced Futu Xuan and said that the Ancestral Pagoda’s choice of her should have made clear whose path was right.

Mu Chen’s Ancestral Qi baptism transformed his Futu Pagoda into a Saint Futu, astonishing Great Elder Futu Xuan and revealing his exceptional bloodline. After reuniting with Qing Yanjing and recounting his journey, Mu Chen returned to Tianluo Continent as his mother arranged for a trusted Earth Sovereign attendant to join him.

• Great Elder Futu Xuan recognized the Saint Futu Pagoda above Mu Chen and questioned whether Qing Yanjing had borne him with an outsider.
• Qing Yanjing introduced Mu Chen as her son, and Futu Xuan broke free of his restraints before she sealed him beneath the Ancestral Pagoda again.
• Mu Chen’s baptism ended with his Futu Pagoda becoming a mid-grade Sacred Artifact and transforming into a Saint Futu, while Ancestral Qi tempered his distant physical body.
• Mu Chen told Qing Yanjing about his journey, the return of the Heavenly Palace, and the awakening of the Daoist Sect’s Sovereigns, and he comforted her when she blamed herself for his hardships.
• Qing Yanjing promised to send a trusted Earth Sovereign attendant to Mu Chen, then opened a passage that returned him to his body on the banks of the Heavenly River.

Protector Long Xiang attacked Gu Shihuang on Green Spirit Island and revealed that he had reached Grand Perfection Earth Sovereign. After killing Gu Shihuang, Long Xiang set out to join the young master.

• Gu Shihuang meditated at the Futu Clan's Green Spirit Island estate while watching over Long Xiang, who had been exiled there after Qing Yanjing fled.
• Long Xiang arrived and told Gu Shihuang he had come to punch him to death, then attacked with his Dragon-Elephant Subduing God Art.
• Gu Shihuang realized Long Xiang had reached Grand Perfection Earth Sovereign and summoned his Heavenly Lion Dharma Body to fight back.
• The two fought for half an hour, and Long Xiang killed Gu Shihuang, leaving his headless corpse beneath the ruined pavilion.
• Long Xiang said he would soon join the young master and vanished into the sea of clouds.

Mu Chen reunited with Xiao Qingyun before meeting the Heavenly Emperor, who welcomed returning ancient forces to the Heavenly Palace and taught Mu Chen his signature art, One Qi Transforms into Three Purities. The chapter ended with Mu Chen asking how many Peerless Divine Abilities the Hall of Divine Abilities contained.

• Xiao Qingyun arrived at the Heavenly Pool, reunited with Mu Chen, and escorted him to meet the Heavenly Emperor.
• The Heavenly Emperor told Mu Chen that the Three Beast Sovereigns and their powerful followers had returned to the Tianluo Continent and joined the Heavenly Palace.
• Mu Chen described what he had witnessed in the Ancestral Land, and the Heavenly Emperor praised Mu Chen's mother and her Spirit Array talent.
• The Heavenly Emperor brought Mu Chen beneath an ancient starry sky and taught him One Qi Transforms into Three Purities, including his cultivation insights.
• Mu Chen asked how many of the Great Thousand's Thirty-Six Peerless Divine Abilities were stored in the Hall of Divine Abilities.

Mu Chen mastered the Three-Part Realm of One Qi Transforms into Three Purities, creating two powerful incarnations. After receiving news of trouble in the Western Heaven Continent, he set out for the Luo God Clan, while the Heavenly Emperor recalled the ancient Luo God and suspected her river held a mystery.

• The Heavenly Emperor taught Mu Chen the stages of One Qi Transforms into Three Purities, and Mu Chen studied the ability for a month with the Daoist Sect Supreme’s guidance.
• Mu Chen used the Blade of Self-Severing to create white- and black-clad incarnations, reaching the Three-Part Realm alongside his original blue-robed self.
• The Heavenly Emperor advised Mu Chen to strengthen the incarnations in the Heavenly Pool and received news that Lesser Western Heaven Realm was unsettled.
• Mu Chen asked to go to the Luo God Clan, and the Heavenly Emperor sent him to the Western Heaven Continent with his protection and blessing.
• After Mu Chen departed, the Heavenly Emperor recalled the Luo God’s legacy and wondered whether the Luo River connected to her survival.

The Luo God Clan prepared for Luo Li’s Luo God Festival as signs of renewed danger gathered around the declining clan. Luo Tianshen promised to protect the ceremony, which would formally pass the clan’s power to his granddaughter.

• The chapter recounted the Luo God Clan’s decline, its losses in a Blood God Clan attack, and its gradual recovery under Luo Li’s leadership.
• The Three Great God Clans showed signs of joining forces again, threatening to plunge the Lesser Western Heaven Realm into war.
• Luo Li stood above Luo God City and told Luo Tianshen she was thinking about the next day’s Luo God Festival.
• Luo Tianshen promised that the ceremony would proceed safely and said he had recalled the Four Great Legions and placed Luo Xiu, Luo Qingya, and other elites on standby.

Luo Li prepared for the Luo God Festival as her grandfather, Luo Tianshen, welcomed word that Mu Chen would attend. The ceremony opened with Luo Li acclaimed as Empress, and she began the sacred rite by shedding a drop of heart blood into the Luo River.

• Luo Li recalled how the Flame Emperor owed Luo Tianshen a debt and how his family had visited the Luo God Clan, then told her grandfather that Mu Chen would attend the festival.
• Luo Tianshen eagerly welcomed Mu Chen, while Luo Li withheld her concern about the dangerous situation on the Tianluo Continent.
• The Luo God Clan gathered its Four Great Legions and assembled millions of people for the festival as clan leaders and elders emerged from the palace.
• Luo Li stood on the White Jade Platform and was hailed as Empress by the gathered clanspeople, while rival branch elders watched with dark expressions.
• Luo Li began the festival rite by cutting her skin and dropping her heart blood into the Luo River, where dark-red flames spread around her.

Luo Li awakened the Luo God Flowers, received the Luo God Inheritance, and manifested the Luo God Dharma Body as the Luo God Clan hailed her as its future ruler. The Blood God Clan’s patriarch Xue Lingzi then invaded with five Earth Sovereigns, and Luo Tianlong activated the Luo River Great Array to defend Luo God City.

• Luo Li awakened the Luo God Flowers across the Luo River, causing her cultivation to rise to the Upper Earth Sovereign realm and summoning the phantom of Luo God.
• Luo God bestowed her inheritance on Luo Li, who manifested the Luo God Dharma Body, while the Luo God Clan bowed to their ancestor and recognized Luo Li as the next Emperor Luo.
• Xue Lingzi arrived with five Lower Earth Sovereigns and mocked Luo Tianshen, renewing the Blood God Clan’s old conflict with the Luo God Clan.
• Luo Tianlong ordered the clan’s troops to activate the Luo River Great Array, raising a vast barrier over Luo God City.

The Blood God Clan’s attempt to break the Luo River Great Array was thwarted when the Luo God Clan’s Branch Clan Elders refused to betray their clan. Blood Lingzi then called on the Strength God Clan and Bone God Clan, revealing a larger assault as the chapter ended.

• Blood Lingzi called for Luo Feng and the other Branch Clan Elders to sabotage the Luo River Great Array, but they stood motionless.
• Luo Feng denounced Blood Lingzi’s accusation and revealed Blood Youlong’s severed head, prompting Blood Lingzi to vow revenge for his son.
• Luo Tianshen’s precautions were revealed: he had forced Luo Feng and the other elders to take Luo Water Poison Pills and swear obedience a month earlier.
• Blood Lingzi summoned the concealed Strength God Clan and Bone God Clan forces, and their Earth Sovereigns emerged from hiding.

Luo Tianshen revealed that he had recovered from Blood Demon Poison and reached Grand Perfection, turning back the allied God Clans as the Luo God Clan prepared to fight. The chapter explained that Xiao Xiao and Xiao Lin had secretly helped him, while he had allowed the crisis to test his clan and secure Luo Li’s succession.

• Gu Tianyou and Li Lingshen joined Xue Lingzi in demanding that the Luo God Clan stop the Luo God Festival and maintain the status quo.
• Luo Tianshen emerged from the Luo River Great Array and repelled the three clan chiefs with a single strike, revealing his Grand Perfection strength.
• Luo Tianlong and three Branch Clan Elders joined Luo Tianshen, while Luo Xiu and Luo Qingya led elite armies and fused their Battle Will toward a million-pattern formation.
• The chapter revealed that Xiao Xiao and Xiao Lin had used Emperor Flame to purge Luo Tianshen’s Blood Demon Poison and pills to restore his life force, allowing him to break through to Grand Perfection.
• Luo Tianshen had refused the siblings’ offer to destroy the Blood God Clan because he wanted to defeat his enemy himself and use the crisis to unite the clan behind Luo Li’s succession.

Luo Tianshen fought the allied clans while the Luo God Clan relied on its Great Array and Luo Li’s nearing completion of the inheritance. Elder Winter of the Western Heaven War Hall then appeared, raising the threat of outside intervention in the Luo God Clan’s heartland.

• Luo Tianshen fought three Upper Earth Sovereigns as Luo Tianlong, Luo Xiu, Luo Qingya, and the royal clan branches battled the Blood God Clan’s forces.
• The Bone God Clan and Strength God Clan’s Earth Sovereigns joined the fight against Luo Tianshen, turning the battle against him while Luo Li neared completion of her inheritance.
• Xue Lingzi summoned Elder Winter, whose arrival brought bitter cold and alarmed spectators who feared the Western Heaven War Hall was breaking its noninterference rules.
• Elder Winter congratulated Luo Tianshen with a veiled taunt, and Luo Tianshen coolly asked why he had come to the Luo God Clan’s capital.

After completing her inheritance and becoming an Upper Earth Sovereign, Luo Li rejected the War Emperor’s decree summoning her to the Greater Western Heaven Realm. A mysterious powerhouse named Long Xiang attacked Elder Winter, leaving the Luo God Clan’s confrontation with the War Emperor unresolved.

• Elder Winter delivered the War Emperor’s decree appointing Luo Li Saintess and ordering her to depart for the Greater Western Heaven Realm at once.
• The three great clans welcomed the decree, while the Luo God Clan’s leaders feared losing Luo Li and facing the War Emperor’s wrath.
• Luo Li emerged from beneath the Luo River Great Array after completing her inheritance, with the Luo God Dharma Body appearing behind her.
• Luo Li refused to accept the decree, and Elder Winter threatened her with the consequences of defying the War Emperor.
• An unseen speaker ordered Long Xiang to seize Elder Winter, and Long Xiang struck him with both fists.

Mu Chen arrived at the Luo God Clan’s battle, reclaimed and destroyed the War Emperor Decree, and reunited with Luo Li. As the fleeing allied clans tried to escape, Mu Chen and the Luo God Clan moved to defeat their Earth Sovereigns, with Mu Chen confronting five Blood God Clan elders.

• Long Xiang ambushed Elder Winter and took the War Emperor Decree, which he handed to Mu Chen.
• Mu Chen identified himself as a disciple of the Heavenly Palace and crumpled the decree into dust, enraging Elder Winter.
• Mu Chen ordered Long Xiang to fight Elder Winter, while Mu Chen and Luo Li reunited before the watching clans.
• Luo Tianlong spotted Xue Lingzi and the other allied clan leaders trying to flee, and Mu Chen joined the battle against them.
• Luo Tianshen, Luo Tianlong, and Luo Li engaged the three clans’ Earth Sovereigns, while Mu Chen confronted five Lower Earth Sovereigns of the Blood God Clan.

Mu Chen fought five Blood God Clan Earth Sovereigns, killing Blood Tong and overcoming the Yellow Springs Blood Sea with the Lesser Wind-Calling Art. As Blood Yi launched the Blood Demon Great Kasaya, Mu Chen faced the final elder standing.

• Mu Chen summoned his black and white incarnations to fight two Blood God Clan elders while he confronted Blood Yi, Blood Tong, and Blood Shou.
• Mu Chen used the Life-Extinguishing Divine Light to kill Blood Tong, destroying the Blood Demon Banner in the process.
• Blood Shou trapped Mu Chen in the Yellow Springs Blood Sea, but Mu Chen escaped by turning into a breeze with the Lesser Wind-Calling Art.
• Mu Chen killed Blood Yi with an iron fist while his incarnations killed one elder and sealed another in the Futu Pagoda.
• Blood Yi summoned his Blood Kasaya Dharma Body and began the Blood Demon Great Kasaya technique.

Mu Chen and the Luo God Clan defeated the Blood God Clan attackers, while a mysterious woman intervened to stop the Western Heaven War Hall’s Daoist Wang from targeting him. The woman revealed power equal to a Heavenly Sovereign, and her arrival stunned the empress and Luo Tianshen.

• Mu Chen killed Xue Yi, Xue Shou, and Xue Tong with the Undying Sacred Flame, while his black-and-white forms killed the other two Blood God Clan elders.
• Daoist Wang, the Western Heaven War Hall’s Deputy Hall Master, moved to capture Mu Chen after Elder Winter summoned him.
• A mysterious woman in white appeared and blocked Daoist Wang, activating a powerful Spirit Array against him.
• Daoist Wang and the woman clashed, and onlookers recognized him as a Late-Stage Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign and wondered whether the War Emperor was watching.
• Long Xiang mocked Elder Winter as the empress and Luo Tianshen recognized the mysterious woman as Ling Xi, who had once helped Mu Chen.

The War Emperor arrived on the battlefield after Mu Chen destroyed his imperial decree and threatened to punish him. Just as he attacked Mu Chen, a mysterious voice identified Mu Chen as his disciple and challenged him.

• The golden scroll reformed into a portal, and the War Emperor appeared as the Luo God Clan's forces gained the upper hand.
• Mu Chen and Long Xiang captured Elder Winter while Daoist Wang returned to the War Emperor and reported what had happened.
• The War Emperor noticed Luo Li and Mu Chen, then demanded to know why Mu Chen had destroyed his imperial decree.
• Mu Chen answered without fear and mocked the War Emperor, who decided to take him back to the War Hall by force.
• The War Emperor summoned a massive golden palm to strike Mu Chen, but a mysterious voice warned him not to touch its disciple.

The Heavenly Emperor’s projection appeared to protect Mu Chen and confronted the War Emperor for attacking him. After the Heavenly Emperor revealed that Spirit Mountain had withdrawn its support, the War Emperor pleaded to be spared by offering to defend the Great Thousand against the Evil Clan from Beyond.

• The Heavenly Emperor’s projection destroyed the War Emperor’s Immortal Grade strike and rebuked him for attacking Mu Chen.
• The War Emperor tried to rely on his ties to the Buddhist Sect, but the Heavenly Emperor revealed that Spirit Mountain had closed its gates for thirty days.
• The War Emperor’s message to Spirit Mountain went unanswered, while the gathered powers realized Mu Chen had a Saint Grade giant backing him.
• Luo Tianshen seized Xue Lingzi and prepared to hand him over to the empress of the Luo God Clan.
• The War Emperor pleaded for his life, promising to reach Saint Grade and guard the border against the Evil Clan from Beyond.

The Heavenly Emperor gave the Western Heaven War Emperor a chance to withstand one attack, then killed him with a single strike. As the Heavenly Emperor vanished, the Flame Emperor arrived to take charge.

• The Heavenly Emperor offered to spare the War Emperor if he survived one move, and recalled meeting the Battle Emperor in ancient times.
• The War Emperor unleashed the Invincible War Spirit Cauldron, combining countless sacred suns and their armies' Battle Will into a devastating attack.
• The Heavenly Emperor's jade-like palm overwhelmed the cauldron, leaving the War Emperor apparently unharmed.
• The War Emperor recognized the attack's karmic power, then cracked apart and disintegrated into dust.
• The Heavenly Emperor told the others to handle what remained and vanished, and the Flame Emperor arrived in a blaze of mysterious flames.

Flame Emperor arrived at the Luo God Clan after Mu Chen helped defeat its enemies, then revealed that he had come to resurrect the ancient Luo God. He summoned her form from the Luo River, and her consciousness began to awaken.

• The Luo God Clan wiped out the Blood God Clan and forced the Strength God Clan and Bone God Clan to submit as vassals.
• Flame Emperor Xiao Yan reunited with Luo Tianshen and explained that Xiao Xiao and Xiao Lin had visited in his place, healing and helping the old patriarch advance.
• Flame Emperor told Mu Chen that he had come to resurrect the ancient Luo God, shocking the Luo God Clan's leaders.
• Flame Emperor revealed that the Luo River had formed from Luo God's body after she fought two Heavenly Demon Emperors, and that her true spirit had survived within the river and fused with generations of the clan.
• Flame Emperor gathered the river water into Luo God's ancient silhouette and called her back, causing her eyes to awaken.

Luo God awakened early through the Spirit of the Luo Water, and the Flame Emperor prepared to restore her to full strength. She reclaimed her ancient Saint Grade Luo God Sword and, a month later, announced that she had successfully returned as the Flame Emperor headed north.

• Luo God awakened through the Spirit of the Luo Water and recognized the Flame Emperor, who explained that the Great Thousand World needed her before the final operation of the Great Thousand Demon-Subduing Array.
• Luo God called Luo Li forward and asked her to draw the inherited Luo God Sword.
• Luo God shattered the clan's Peerless Divine Artifact and revealed the real Saint Grade Peerless Sacred Artifact, the Luo God Holy Sword, which the clan had secretly hidden for generations.
• The Luo God Sword gave Luo God the strand of her consciousness it had preserved, but its origin was damaged and its Spirit of the Artifact fell into a deep slumber.
• The Flame Emperor agreed to restore Luo God, and a month later she announced her successful return as he secretly headed north.

The First Hall Master revealed to Mu Chen that he had taken over the Western Heaven War Hall as the Western Heaven War King, following the Heavenly Emperor’s plan to stabilize the continent and preserve a baptism opportunity for Mu Chen. He refused to guarantee Mu Chen a tournament place, leaving Mu Chen eager to prove himself in the upcoming competition.

• After the Western Heaven War Emperor died, the First Hall Master arrived as the Western Heaven War King, defeated Daoist Wang, and announced that the Son of the Continent Tournament would proceed.
• Mu Chen heard that the Western Heaven War Hall had been taken over and complained that the Western Heaven War King seemed like a fake.
• The First Hall Master appeared before Mu Chen and revealed that he was the Western Heaven War King, having come to stabilize the continent on the Heavenly Emperor’s orders.
• The First Hall Master explained that the Heavenly Emperor wanted Mu Chen to compete for a baptism slot and planned to hand the Western Heaven Continent back to Luo God when she returned.
• The First Hall Master told Mu Chen he would not bend the tournament rules for him, and Mu Chen said he was confident enough to challenge the Complete Earth Sovereign battlefield.