Recaps

Chen Changqing and Zhong Cheng reached the cross-realm teleportation array, but the awakened primordial devil body devoured the Underworld Judge and became an Eight-Tribulation Half-God Devil Emperor. Trapped in Senluo Deathland and crippled by the backlash of his forced power, Chen Changqing struggled to suppress the devil mark threatening Xiaoqian as the Devil Emperor confronted him.

• Chen Changqing brought the badly injured Zhong Cheng to the cross-realm teleportation array, but the Underworld Judge's screams and the destruction of Ghost Gate Pass revealed that the primordial devil body had awakened.
• The headless devil body tore apart and devoured the Underworld Judge, then grew a head and reached the Eight-Tribulation Half-God Devil Emperor realm.
• The Devil Emperor destroyed the teleportation array and sealed Senluo Deathland behind a barrier, trapping Chen Changqing and Zhong Cheng inside.
• Chen Changqing's Violence Formula expired, and its backlash shattered his meridians and weakened him to the Late Heavenly Monarch Stage.
• The Devil Emperor recognized Chen Changqing's weakened state and mocked him as a paper tiger.
• The Devil Emperor's presence awakened Xiaoqian's dormant devil mark, and Chen Changqing used his remaining Divine Sense to restrain her as the Devil Emperor challenged him.

Chen Changqing opened the Heaven-Stepping Immortal Emperor’s treasure trove and used its inheritance and his AFK Points to heal, advance to the immortal path, and become a First-Tribulation Pure Yang True Immortal. He trapped the Eight-Tribulation Devil Emperor with his resurrected Avatars and prepared to take the Devil Emperor’s tribulation halos.

• Zhong Cheng shielded Chen Changqing from the Eight-Tribulation Devil Emperor’s attack, but the strike shattered his Ghost-Slaying Divine Seal and Heavy Sword and left him unconscious.
• With the Devil Emperor’s palm closing in, Chen Changqing detonated the Fragment of the Creation Jade Disk to gain three breaths and united the nine tokens to open the Heaven-Stepping Immortal Emperor’s treasure trove.
• The treasure trove’s Primordial Annihilation Immortal Source healed Chen Changqing, erased Xiaoqian’s devil seal, and granted Chen Changqing the eighth turn of the Primordial Nine-Turn Body Refining Art.
• Chen Changqing spent 1.71 billion AFK Points to rebuild his body, transform his nine Purple Mansions into Immortal Worlds, and reach the immortal path.
• Chen Changqing chose to remain in the lower realm and advance to a First-Tribulation Pure Yang True Immortal instead of ascending.
• Chen Changqing caught the Devil Emperor’s descending palm, summoned five First-Tribulation Avatars to surround him, and demanded his eight tribulation halos.

Chen Changqing planned to help Xiaoqian take control of the primeval demon body by suppressing its demon core and using her ghost body and Merit Golden Lotus. After Xiaoqian agreed to risk her life, Chen Changqing and Zhong Cheng prepared a formation, and Xiaoqian faced the demon body to begin the attempt.

• Xiaoqian asked Chen Changqing to let her go, believing her death was the best way to save him and the Nine Provinces.
• Chen Changqing proposed that Xiaoqian devour the demon core and become the demon body's new master, with his treasures and the Twelve Primordial Spirits supporting her.
• Xiaoqian agreed despite the low odds, and Chen Changqing promised to bring her back alive to guard Evergreen Peak.
• Chen Changqing ordered Zhong Cheng to arrange the Ghost-Slaying Divine Seal, Human Emperor Heaven-Suppressing Seal, and Jade Plate of Creation around the demon body.
• Chen Changqing brought Xiaoqian out of the Heaven-Stepping Ring, and she told the demon body that she was taking its body.

Chen Changqing helped Xiaoqian seize the ancient demon body, then shielded her from the Nine-Ring Life-and-Death Tribulation until she became a One-Tribulation Ghost Immortal. After he destroyed the demon’s remaining body, a fissure opened in the Nine Netherworlds sky, and a voice from the upper realm recognized him.

• Chen Changqing used the Immortal Execution Sword to sever the demonic threads attacking Xiaoqian and helped her overcome the demon’s illusion, allowing her to merge with its body.
• A Nine-Ring Life-and-Death Tribulation descended, and Chen Changqing blocked the first seven bolts while Zhong Cheng helped stop the eighth.
• Chen Changqing cleaved the ninth bolt with the Immortal Execution Sword, and Xiaoqian emerged as a One-Tribulation Ghost Immortal.
• Chen Changqing used the fifth form of the Immortal Execution Sword Technique to destroy the demon body and its remaining demonic thought.
• A thousand-zhang fissure opened in the false sky, and an upper-realm voice called out, “Heaven-Stepping... You're still alive?”

Chen Changqing freed the blood slaves, destroyed the Dark Moon Imperial Mausoleum, and entrusted Zhong Cheng with restoring order in the Nine Netherworlds before returning to the Nine Provinces. He found the sky torn open and Mount Shu under attack, and Chen Yuan's broken message warned that the sect could not hold out.

• Chen Changqing ordered the Yinyue Holy Dynasty to release more than thirty-four thousand blood slaves, return half the mausoleum's looted goods, and end its blood sacrifices.
• Xiaoqian comforted a rescued boy whose mother had been taken into the Blood Pool, and Chen Changqing destroyed the Dark Moon Imperial Mausoleum.
• Chen Changqing gave Zhong Cheng the Life-and-Death Judge's Brush and charged him with rebuilding the Zhong Family and reorganizing the Evil-Punishing Bureau.
• Chen Changqing left Zhong Cheng to guard the Nine Netherworlds and returned to the Nine Provinces with Xiaoqian.
• Chen Changqing found the Nine Provinces' sky split by rifts, saw a blood-red pillar above Mount Shu, and discovered that Jian Zhenzi's, Luo Futian's, Ran Hua's, and Chen Yuan's Communication Jade Talismans had shattered.
• Chen Yuan's broken message reached Chen Changqing with the warning that Mount Shu could not hold out.

Chen Changqing and Xiaoqian crossed the ruined Eastern Region, learned that Mount Shu was under attack, and directed refugees toward safety while fighting Ruin Beasts. They reached Mount Shu to find its defenses broken and its disciples dead, and Chen Changqing prepared to fight his way inside.

• Chen Changqing saw Ruin Qi draining the Eastern Region’s Spirit Veins and learned from Zhao Wuji that the Upper Realm’s invasion had struck all the great powers, with Mount Shu besieged by three Tribulation Immortals and a hundred thousand Ruin Soldiers.
• Chen Changqing sent Zhao Wuji to ask Empress Liu Ruyan to evacuate refugees east, then continued toward Mount Shu with Xiaoqian.
• Xiaoqian destroyed three Ruin Beasts threatening a village, and Chen Changqing directed the villagers to seek shelter at Mount Shu.
• Chen Changqing and Xiaoqian fought Ruin Beasts and Ruin Soldiers along the route as the rifts grew denser near Central Province.
• Chen Changqing reached Mount Shu, found its Mountain Protection Array partly destroyed and bodies covering the approach, and picked up the bloodied, broken mountain-gate plaque.
• Chen Changqing drew the Immortal Execution Sword, told Xiaoqian not to hold back, and announced his arrival to the Ruin Soldiers at the gate.

Mount Shu’s disciples fought desperately as the Mountain Protection Array weakened and shattered under the Ruin Clan’s assault. Chen Yuan stood between his disciples and a killing blow, just as a brilliant Sword Light arrived and a voice threatened anyone who harmed his master.

• Chen Yuan exhausted his strength trying to maintain Mount Shu’s array while Bai Wuya, Luo Futian, Ji Changkong, Liu Mu, and Ran Hua defended the mountain and its disciples.
• The First Ancestor, True Lord Qingxiao, and the Heavenly Origin Patriarch struggled against three Ruin Clan Tribulation Immortals while the other six elders held sky rifts across Central Province.
• After the eastern foundation broke, Jian Zhenzi rallied the frightened disciples, and Chen Yuan ordered them to form the Sword Formation and stand their ground.
• The Mountain Protection Array shattered, and the Ruin Soldiers flooded into Mount Shu as Chen Yuan shielded the disciples from the three-faced Ruin Clan attacker.
• As the attacker’s bone blades fell toward Chen Yuan, a Sword Light split the blood clouds, and an arriving voice warned that no one would touch a hair on his master’s head.

Chen Changqing returned to Mount Shu, killed a Ruin Clan Tribulation Immortal, and helped the survivors recover as Xiaoqian purified the battlefield. After learning that the Ruin Clan was seeking something in Mount Shu’s Ancestral Land, he rallied the disciples to fight and faced Lie Shan, a five-tribulation commander of the Seventh Royal Court.

• Chen Changqing killed the three-tribulation Ruin Clan Tribulation Immortal with one sword and stabilized his wounded master, Chen Yuan.
• Xiaoqian used her Merit Golden Light to destroy the Ruin Soldiers at the mountain gate and heal Mount Shu’s injured disciples.
• Chen Yuan told Chen Changqing that the Nine Provinces were under attack and that Ruin Clan forces were trying to reach Mount Shu’s Ancestral Land.
• Chen Changqing said the invasion began after he destroyed the Primordial Demon Body, but Chen Yuan rejected his guilt and reminded him he had acted to save the Nine Provinces.
• Chen Changqing rallied Mount Shu’s disciples and vowed to kill their enemy and follow the rift into the Upper Realm.
• Lie Shan, a five-tribulation Ruin Clan commander, challenged Chen Changqing, who answered that dead men did not need names.

Chen Changqing fought Lie Shan while realizing the Ruin clansman was using their clashes to damage Mount Shu’s Earth Vein and open the Sword Graveyard from within. With Ruin clansmen rushing toward the breach and Lie Shan blocking him, Chen Changqing reconstructed six equally powerful avatars to answer the threat.

• Chen Changqing used his fist and Invincible Sword World to hold off Lie Shan’s Tribulation Rings and attack him with the Immortal Execution Sword.
• Chen Changqing realized Lie Shan was redirecting the force of their clashes into the Earth Vein beneath the rear mountain.
• A blast from inside the Sword Graveyard broke open the Sealing Sword Great Formation, and two peak Third-Tribulation Ruin clansmen rushed through the breach.
• The First Ancestor urged Chen Changqing to stop the intruders, but Lie Shan sealed off his path and taunted him.
• Chen Changqing spent 500 million AFK Points to reconstruct six First-Tribulation Pure Yang Tribulation Immortal Avatars with combat power equal to his own.

Chen Changqing and his Avatars crushed the Ruin Clan army attacking Mount Shu and killed its Five Tribulations commander, Lie Shan. Lie Shan’s token exposed Xuanming as a Ruin Clan infiltrator, and Xuanming broke the Sword Graveyard’s seal, allowing the Ruin Clan Mother Empress’s severed limb to swallow the eighth Heaven-Stepping Token.

• Chen Changqing summoned six Avatars armed with Immortal Artifacts, and they intercepted and killed Lie Shan’s two Three Tribulations deputy commanders near the Sword Graveyard.
• Chen Changqing played the Immortal-Burying Zither while Xiaoqian’s golden light supported its attack, destroying more than half the Ruin Soldiers surrounding Mount Shu.
• Chen Changqing strengthened his cultivation and hammer technique, smashed Lie Shan’s five Tribulation Rings and defenses, and killed him with the Immortal Execution Sword.
• Chen Changqing found Xuanming’s identity token among Lie Shan’s remains and realized Xuanming had likely colluded with the Ruin Clan.
• Xuanming, revealed as a Ruin Clan-parasitized infiltrator, wounded the Heavenly Origin Patriarch and shattered the seal at the Sword Graveyard’s lowest level.
• The Ruin Clan Mother Empress’s severed limb swallowed the eighth Heaven-Stepping Token as Chen Changqing and his Avatars rushed to stop Xuanming.

Chen Changqing used the Grand Void Illuminating Spirit Mirror to find the Mother Empress's core inside the fake Xuanming Patriarch, then froze time and space to rescue Heavenly Origin Patriarch. His six Avatars pierced the core with spears, pinning the enemy before Mount Shu's ancestral tablets, and Chen Changqing reached into the wound to retrieve the eighth Heaven-Stepping Token.

• The fake Xuanming Patriarch swallowed the Mother Empress's severed limb, reached the peak of Six Tribulations, and began turning Mount Shu's hundred thousand ancestral swords into Ruin Soldiers.
• Heavenly Origin Patriarch tried to stop him, but the fake Xuanming Patriarch pierced his shoulder and held him hostage as Chen Changqing arrived with his six Avatars.
• Chen Changqing shattered the Heavenly Origin Token to summon a starlight Faxiang, which blocked the fake Xuanming Patriarch's bone blade long enough for Chen Changqing and his Avatars to surround the altar.
• Chen Changqing used the Grand Void Illuminating Spirit Mirror to locate the Mother Empress's core beneath the fake Xuanming Patriarch's left ribs, then froze time and space with the Fragment of the Creation Jade Disk.
• Chen Changqing rescued Heavenly Origin Patriarch and had his six Avatars spear the core, pinning the fake Xuanming Patriarch before the ancestral tablets.
• Chen Changqing thrust his hand into the fake Xuanming Patriarch's wound to retrieve the eighth Heaven-Stepping Token.

Chen Changqing killed the fake Xuanming Patriarch and recovered the eighth Heaven-Stepping Token, then cleansed and subdued Mount Shu’s hundred thousand Ancient Swords to seal the sky over Central Province. He accepted the position of Sect Master and ordered Mount Shu to prepare to attack the Ruin Clan, while the final token remained undiscovered.

• Chen Changqing tore the eighth Heaven-Stepping Token and the Mother Empress’s severed limb from the fake Xuanming Patriarch, killed him, and devoured the limb’s Ruin Clan essence.
• The Void-Transformation Great Formation continued to run wild, so Chen Changqing used Pure Yang blood to cleanse the hundred thousand Ancient Swords of Ruin Qi and brought them under his control.
• Chen Changqing sent the Ancient Swords skyward to seal the cracks over Central Province and destroy Ruin Beasts reaching through them.
• Daoist Chen Yuan passed the Sect Master’s Sword Seal to Chen Changqing, who accepted the position before Mount Shu’s disciples and ancestors.
• Chen Changqing announced that Mount Shu would remove its mountain-sealing formation and attack the Ruin Clan once the disciples had recovered.