Recaps

Li Xiaoyu and the others entered the Epoch Sand Table, where the Heavenly Emperor Chess Soul tasked them with commanding the Divine Land against the Outer Realm Demons. Li Xiaoyu chose to divide their forces and call on all the land's inhabitants to resist, and golden lights of resistance appeared across the sand table.

• The Heavenly Emperor Chess Soul revealed the Epoch Sand Table and explained that Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, Zhang Xiaofan, and Bi Yao had to find a way to save their world from the Outer Realm Demons.
• The Heavenly Emperor Chess Soul set the demons' three-pronged assault in motion, showing their forces devastate the Central Plains Continent.
• Li Xiaoyu identified the eastern, western, and central armies and outlined the different threats they posed.
• Lu Xueqi asked whether they should concentrate their forces on one front or divide them across all three, and Zhang Xiaofan warned that splitting their already limited troops could doom them.
• Li Xiaoyu chose to divide their forces and trust the people of the Divine Land to defend their homeland; Bi Yao understood and supported his plan.
• Li Xiaoyu activated the sand table, revealing golden points of light as sects, reclusive groups, and mortal kingdoms gathered to resist the Outer Realm Demons.

Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, Zhang Xiaofan, and Bi Yao repeatedly failed to stop the Outer Realm Demons in the Epoch Sand Table, even after the Heavenly Emperor Chess Soul reset the world. Zhang Xiaofan realized they had been wrong to seek victory at the smallest cost and said they had to be prepared to sacrifice everything, even themselves, to protect the world.

• The first people's war against the Outer Realm Demons ended in devastation, and Li Xiaoyu chose to continue despite the group's despair.
• The Heavenly Emperor Chess Soul restored the Epoch Sand Table, and the group tried a second strategy by building a defensive line around Green Cloud Mountain, Heavenly Sound Temple, and the Holy Mother Sect.
• The defensive line failed, and the Heavenly Emperor Chess Soul reset the world again after Li Xiaoyu vowed not to give up.
• Li Xiaoyu and the others tried again and again, but each strategy failed as the Divine Land neared destruction.
• Zhang Xiaofan said they had been wrong from the beginning because they sought victory at the smallest cost, and that protecting the world required being ready to sacrifice everything, even themselves.

Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, Zhang Xiaofan, and Bi Yao passed the Heavenly Emperor Chess Soul’s final trial by sacrificing much of the Divine Land to preserve its last hope. The Chess Soul began giving them his inheritance and mission, revealing the world’s ancient history as the vision reached the age of myriad races.

• Li Xiaoyu and the others restarted the game and united their strength at the Divine Land’s center, sacrificing doomed lands and kingdoms to preserve the world’s final spark.
• The Heavenly Emperor Chess Soul declared that they had passed his trial, and the Epoch Sand Table shattered as they returned to the grand hall.
• The Heavenly Emperor Chess Soul praised the four and summoned a vast pillar of light to deliver his final inheritance and mission.
• Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, Zhang Xiaofan, and Bi Yao received a torrent of information showing the Age of Gods and Demons, the invasion of the Outer Realm Demons, and the Heavenly Emperor’s stand against them.
• The vision continued into the age of myriad races, when intelligent peoples built a civilization across the land.

The Heavenly Emperor granted Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, Zhang Xiaofan, and Bi Yao power and hope after showing them the world's doomed future. Li Xiaoyu formed a world within his body through his Dao of protection and emerged with overwhelming power.

• The four witnessed the Outer Realm Demons' return, the world's destruction, and the sacrifices of those who protected them.
• The Heavenly Emperor comforted them and sent four torrents of inheritance energy into their bodies.
• Li Xiaoyu absorbed the energy, transformed his body and primordial spirit, and formed a chaotic vortex in his dantian.
• Li Xiaoyu declared that his Dao was to protect everyone and merged his Dao heart into the vortex.
• A star-filled world with an azure planet formed inside Li Xiaoyu, releasing a vast aura that astonished Lu Xueqi, Zhang Xiaofan, and Bi Yao.

Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi reached the Half-Step Saint Realm through the Heavenly Emperor’s inheritance, while Zhang Xiaofan began transforming through its power. The chapter ended with Zhang Xiaofan’s Fire Poker and Ancient Immortal-Slaying Sword merging into an ancient bluestone longsword.

• Li Xiaoyu succeeded in reaching the Half-Step Saint Realm, and the Heavenly Emperor’s inheritance sent torrents of power to Lu Xueqi, Zhang Xiaofan, and Bi Yao.
• Lu Xueqi fused the Judgment Divine Spark with her Dao Heart and transformed Tianya into the divine sword Tianya: Judgment.
• Lu Xueqi reached the Half-Step Saint Realm and told Li Xiaoyu she had caught up to him.
• Zhang Xiaofan resonated with the world’s primordial laws as the inheritance restored and elevated his Cultivation.
• Zhang Xiaofan fused his Dao Heart with the transforming Fire Poker and Ancient Immortal-Slaying Sword, which merged into an ancient bluestone longsword.

Zhang Xiaofan and Bi Yao inherited the Heavenly Emperor’s powers, reached the Half-step Saint Realm, and prepared to protect the world. The inheritance ended, leaving them and Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi back in the golden ocean before the floating immortal realm.

• Zhang Xiaofan fused the Heavenly Emperor’s Primordial laws with his Dao heart, transformed the Stone Sword into the Primordial Immortal-Slaying Sword, and reached the Half-step Saint Realm.
• Bi Yao awakened the Joyous Union Bell’s power and fused it with her Dao heart, creating the Joyous Union: Reincarnation mark and reaching the Half-step Saint Realm.
• Bi Yao told Zhang Xiaofan that she could now fight alongside him.
• The Heavenly Emperor praised Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, Zhang Xiaofan, and Bi Yao, then declared that the world’s future was in their hands.
• The pillar of light shattered, ending the illusory world, and the four found themselves again in the golden ocean before the floating immortal realm.

As Kunlun collapsed, Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, Zhang Xiaofan, and Bi Yao escaped and returned to the Divine Land just as the Demon Lord descended. The Demon Lord's attack was stopped by the four Children of Destiny, who arrived with power capable of changing the world's fate.

• Li Xiaoyu warned that Kunlun was collapsing, and he, Lu Xueqi, Zhang Xiaofan, and Bi Yao fled toward the Divine Land.
• The Demon Lord sensed an aura connected to the Heavenly Emperor and decided to descend personally into the newborn world.
• The Demon Lord opened a black vortex above the Divine Land, whose protection shattered under its pressure.
• The Demon Lord attacked Wan Jianyi, Daoist Daoxuan, Xiao Bai, Zhou Yixian, and the surviving Green Cloud Sect disciples with a beam of destruction.
• Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, Zhang Xiaofan, and Bi Yao returned in four sacred rays and dissolved the Demon Lord's attack.

Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, Zhang Xiaofan, and Bi Yao returned as the Divine Land’s final guardians and confronted the Demon Lord. As the survivors formed a protective barrier around the land, the four companions unleashed their power against the Demon Lord.

• Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, Zhang Xiaofan, and Bi Yao descended from the shattered sky, and Li Xiaoyu swallowed the Demon Lord’s tentacles with his Wine Gourd.
• The survivors cheered for the four guardians and renewed their hope of protecting the Divine Land.
• Wan Jianyi called on the survivors to fight and unleashed his dormant sword intent.
• Abbot Puhong, Faxiang, Jin Ping'er, Xiao Bai, and the Sea Emperor joined forces to form a protective formation that pushed back the fiendish energy.
• Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, Zhang Xiaofan, and Bi Yao combined their powers and sent a storm of destruction toward the Demon Lord.

As the Demon Lord overwhelmed Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, Zhang Xiaofan, and Bi Yao, Wan Jianyi rallied the surviving people of the Divine Land to lend the guardians their collective will. Restored by that power, the four charged the Demon Lord’s chaos origin, and the battle continued.

• The Demon Lord unleashed a devastating strike against the exhausted four guardians, but a pillar of light formed from the will of all living beings blocked it.
• Wan Jianyi urged the survivors inside the Divine Land’s protective grand formation to offer their will and hope to help the guardians.
• The survivors prayed together, empowering the formation, which Wan Jianyi sent as a pillar of light to the battlefield.
• The light restored the guardians’ strength, and Li Xiaoyu thanked the people of the Divine Land for standing with them.
• The Demon Lord dismissed the power of the people and released its chaos origin, while the four guardians charged forward with Li Xiaoyu invoking “World: Protection!”

Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, Zhang Xiaofan, and Bi Yao used their Daos to resist the chaos origin, but their combined power could not stop it. Zhang Xiaofan proposed spreading the five volumes of the Heavenly Tome throughout the world, a plan that required his sacrifice, and Bi Yao let him go after he promised to return.

• Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, Zhang Xiaofan, and Bi Yao combined their laws to form the world's final barrier against the chaos origin.
• The chaos origin overwhelmed their attacks, leaving the barrier near collapse and the four guardians exhausted.
• Zhang Xiaofan told the others that they could oppose the chaos by spreading the ultimate profundities of the five volumes of the Heavenly Tome throughout the world.
• Li Xiaoyu realized the plan required someone to bear the world's will, and the others understood that Zhang Xiaofan would have to sacrifice himself.
• Bi Yao pleaded with Zhang Xiaofan not to leave her again, but he insisted he had to protect the world and its people.
• Bi Yao let Zhang Xiaofan go and asked him to promise he would return, and he reassured her despite doubting he could keep that promise.

Zhang Xiaofan sacrificed himself to merge with the world and awaken its power against the chaos origin. His will formed the Immortal-Slaying sword, while the colossal Demon Lord laughed at the weapon’s arrival.

• Zhang Xiaofan promised Bi Yao he would return, then thanked Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi before confronting the chaos origin.
• Zhang Xiaofan merged his body with the Dao, awakening the world and spreading golden Heavenly Tome runes across the Divine Land.
• A brilliant star formed from Zhang Xiaofan’s power, and Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, and Bi Yao sensed its balanced primordial Dao.
• The star shattered and became a colossal sword of the world’s laws and the will of all living beings, bearing the name Immortal-Slaying.
• The colossal Demon Lord burst into laughter and called the sword interesting.

As the Immortal-Slaying greatsword clashed with the chaos origin, Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, and Bi Yao joined forces to isolate and imprison the Demon Lord. The world’s will then transformed the greatsword into a five-colored streak of light and sent it slashing toward their captive foe.

• The Immortal-Slaying greatsword and the chaos origin collided above the shattered battlefield.
• Li Xiaoyu urged Lu Xueqi and Bi Yao to use their powers alongside his World to create a chance to defeat the Demon Lord.
• Lu Xueqi struck the chaos origin with Heavenly Punishment to sever its connection to its mother universe.
• Bi Yao unleashed reincarnation power to weaken the Demon Lord’s near-immortal nature.
• Li Xiaoyu used his World to imprison the Demon Lord, while the Immortal-Slaying greatsword locked onto the captive figure.
• The greatsword transformed into a five-colored streak of light and slashed toward the imprisoned Demon Lord.

Zhang Xiaofan sacrificed himself to mend the Heavenly Dao, but Bi Yao used reincarnation to preserve his final trace of true spirit before vanishing herself. Three hundred years later, Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi lived quietly by the East Sea Coast, while Zhang Xiaofan and Bi Yao remained lost.

• Zhang Xiaofan's five-colored primordial power destroyed the being and darkness, then dispersed into the land and sky.
• Bi Yao fell from the heavens, but Zhang Xiaofan's remaining radiance protected her and gave her hope that he was still present.
• Bi Yao used Reincarnation: Rebirth to restore Zhang Xiaofan's body and preserve his soul as a wisp of true spirit, then vanished with it as she paid the price of her power.
• Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi helped end the catastrophe and spent the following centuries restoring the Divine Land, while Bi Yao's whereabouts remained unknown.
• Three hundred years later, Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi lived together in a small fishing village on the East Sea Coast.

Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi lived quietly by the sea while waiting for Zhang Xiaofan and Bi Yao’s spirits to return to reincarnation. After decades passed without the couple aging, Li Xiaoyu suddenly sensed something while carving wooden swords.

• Li Xiaoyu told Lu Xueqi that the new demon kings could handle a crisis in the Southern Border, and they continued to leave the world’s troubles to its own order.
• Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi discussed their long search for Zhang Xiaofan and Bi Yao, sharing memories and hoping their old friends would remember them after reincarnation.
• Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi settled in a fishing village, where they quietly helped the villagers while waiting for their friends to return.
• Several decades passed, and the villagers grew old while Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi remained unchanged.
• As Li Xiaoyu carved wooden swords for the village children, his movements suddenly stopped.

After sensing two familiar auras, Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi returned to Green Cloud Mountain and found Grass Temple Village rebuilt. They spotted a boy and girl who might be the people they had waited three hundred years to find.

• Li Xiaoyu sensed the two auras had taken root, and he and Lu Xueqi left their seaside cottage to return to Green Cloud Mountain.
• Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi bypassed the crowds gathered for the Green Cloud Sect's recruitment and made their way to Grass Temple Village.
• They hid in a tree and searched the village children, waiting for the two people whose auras they had sensed.
• A candied-hawthorn peddler drew the children into a crowd, and Li Xiaoyu noticed a sturdy, stubborn-looking boy holding a young girl's hand.

Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi found Zhang Xiaofan and Bi Yao reincarnated as an ordinary farm boy and a foolish girl, living peacefully together. After watching them leave, Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi shared wine, embraced, and decided to go home together.

• Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi recognized Zhang Xiaofan and Bi Yao in a village, where Zhang Xiaofan was protecting Bi Yao and trying to buy her candied hawthorn.
• A teacher drove off the children bullying Zhang Xiaofan and paid for Bi Yao's treat, which Zhang Xiaofan gave to her.
• Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi watched Zhang Xiaofan and Bi Yao walk away together, then agreed they would live well without their former burdens.
• Li Xiaoyu drank from the Immortal-Slaying Gourd and shared the wine with Lu Xueqi.
• Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi embraced, watched the sunset, and set off for home together.