Recaps

Zhurong defeated Iron Hammer in the Arena, leaving the Origin Continent’s spectators stunned and mourning their fallen champion. As Zhurong departed, a Chaos Ancient Clan member celebrated his victory, but another insisted that Iron Hammer deserved respect.

• Zhurong left the Arena as the flaming dome collapsed and burned out behind him.
• The Origin Continent’s cultivators realized Iron Hammer had died and mourned him as a hero who had fought for them.
• A Chaos Ancient Clan member praised Zhurong and criticized Iron Hammer for failing to adapt.
• Another Chaos Ancient Clan member said Iron Hammer had been a strong opponent and should not be mocked.

After the Chaos Ancient Clan won, Zhurong defended their harsh treatment of the defeated, while the clan’s experts vowed to crush the Origin Continent in the battles ahead. Ye Lin waited impatiently for his turn as the Origin Continent cultivators, now impressed by his sword strike, encouraged him and stood united.

• Zhurong said the strong had the right to trample the weak, but his colleagues ridiculed him even more harshly.
• The Chaos Ancient Clan experts promised to use their full strength and win the coming battles without giving the Origin Continent hope.
• An enraged Origin Continent cultivator said he wanted to avenge Iron Hammer, whom he had watched die in battle.
• Ye Lin complained that the drawing had not yet selected him, and the cultivators beside him urged him to be patient.
• The Origin Continent cultivators waited for the next drawing, speaking quietly as allies with interests bound together.

Zhao Zhaoxue stepped forward as Number Twenty-Eight, declaring that she would slaughter the Chaos Ancient Clan and avenge the fallen. As she headed to the arena, Ye Lin learned that she was the direct disciple of a legendary figure from the Central Region.

• The drawing of lots ended, and Number Twenty-Eight was called.
• Zhao Zhaoxue revealed herself, promised to avenge the fallen, and walked toward the arena with her red-tasseled spear.
• Cultivators recognized Zhao Zhaoxue as the beloved disciple of a powerful ancestor and feared what that ancestor might do if she were harmed.
• A cultivator told Ye Lin that Zhao Zhaoxue was the direct disciple of a legendary figure who had lived since countless ages ago.

Ye Lin learned that Zhao Zhaoxue was the Old Ancestor’s sole disciple and realized how dangerous it would be if anything happened to her. As Zhao Zhaoxue’s next opponent emerged, the chapter left Walker heading toward the Arena.

• A young man explained to Ye Lin that the ancient Old Ancestor had no family, cherished Zhao Zhaoxue as a personal disciple, and commanded the respect of the Origin Continent’s strongest experts.
• Ye Lin understood Zhao Zhaoxue’s importance and turned his attention to the Arena to see how strong she was.
• Chaos Ancient Clan experts mocked their short, grotesque fighter for facing a little girl.
• The fighter introduced himself as Walker, threatened to kill anyone who called him ‘kid,’ and walked toward the Arena.

Walker used the Chaos Ancient Clan's Holy Breath Devouring Art against Zhao Zhaoxue, draining the arena's Saintly Breath and contaminating the battlefield. A Quasi-Saint explained that the technique gave Walker an increasing advantage, leaving Zhao Zhaoxue in danger.

• Walker leered at Zhao Zhaoxue and described his desire to chew on her like a work of art.
• Zhao Zhaoxue called Walker filth, and he responded with laughter.
• Walker inhaled the arena's Saintly Breath and turned it into murky gray-white mist that spread across the ground.
• The arena's golden restriction patterns dimmed as the mist slowed their operation.
• A Quasi-Saint identified Walker's technique as the Chaos Ancient Clan's Holy Breath Devouring Art and warned that Zhao Zhaoxue was already at a disadvantage.

Zhao Zhaoxue faced Walker after he flooded the Arena with Chaos energy, revealing a Spear Dao so pure that it dissolved the murky mist around her. Walker recognized her exceptional Dao and reacted with intense excitement.

• Walker absorbed most of the Saintly Breath and filled the Arena with corrosive Chaos energy.
• Walker offered Zhao Zhaoxue a quick death if she surrendered, but she ignored him and focused on adjusting her grip on her spear.
• Zhao Zhaoxue's Spear Dao formed a barrier that unraveled the Chaos mist around her.
• Walker recognized the purity of Zhao Zhaoxue's Spear Dao and marveled that he had never encountered anyone so clean.

Walker lunged at Zhao Zhaoxue and fired a beam from the third eye in his palm, but she deflected it with a precise spear movement and counterattacked. Her spear path broke apart the protrusions on Walker’s right shoulder, leaving his skin cracked.

• Walker threatened to torture Zhao Zhaoxue and rushed at her without warning.
• Walker fired a dark green beam from the eye in his palm at Zhao Zhaoxue’s brow.
• Zhao Zhaoxue turned her spear and cut into the beam’s side, diverting it into the mist.
• Zhao Zhaoxue followed with a straight thrust that carried a concentrated mark of spear law.
• Her spear tip shattered the protrusions on Walker’s right shoulder and cracked the skin beneath them.

Zhao Zhaoxue battled Walker, whose flesh shield drained vitality and whose legendary divine ability Eternal Decay trapped her in an area that rapidly aged and eroded her sacred breath. The chapter ended with the grayish-white decay spreading across Zhao Zhaoxue’s hand while Walker watched, having paid a considerable price to use the ability.

• Walker blocked Zhao Zhaoxue’s spear with a flesh shield formed from dark green slurry and sent life-draining threads toward her hand.
• Zhao Zhaoxue awakened the first mysterious rune on her spear and burned the threads away.
• Walker opened his right eye and used Eternal Decay to shroud Zhao Zhaoxue in murky fog.
• Quasi-Saints explained that Eternal Decay accelerated aging and eroded sacred breath, leaving Zhao Zhaoxue trapped unless she could remove it.
• The decay spread across Zhao Zhaoxue’s right hand as Walker smiled despite the energy the ability had cost him.

Zhao Zhaoxue brushed away Walker’s Eternal Decay mist and explained that his impure, accumulated decay could not rot her tempered spear intent. Walker laughed and welcomed the resistance, leaving their battle poised to intensify.

• Walker taunted Zhao Zhaoxue as his Endless Ages mist eroded her vitality and origin.
• Zhao Zhaoxue calmly identified how Walker’s time-based attack worked and wiped its mist from her arm with a golden-red radiance.
• Zhao Zhaoxue said Walker’s impure decay could not overcome the pure spear intent she had tempered for one hundred thousand years.
• Walker laughed, said he enjoyed things that could not be rotted, and straightened as his aura transformed.

Walker transformed into the Chaos Ancient Clan’s primordial form and trapped Zhao Zhaoxue in a chaotic void that suppressed her spear Dao and saintly aura. The chapter left Zhao Zhaoxue facing Walker’s overwhelming advantage inside his projected world.

• Walker shed his armored scales and awakened the Chaos origin power in his bloodline.
• A Quasi-Saint cultivator explained that Walker’s primordial form suppressed saintly aura, Dao laws, and divine abilities.
• Walker formed the Chaos Star Chart and used Myriad Worlds' Downfall to drag Zhao Zhaoxue into a projection of the chaos origin.
• Zhao Zhaoxue found her spear Dao slowed by nearly seventy percent and her saintly aura being devoured by the void.

Zhao Zhaoxue escaped Walker's Chaos Projection by breaking through the Chaos Void with her spear. She returned to the Holy Palace Arena wounded, while Walker knelt and weakened before her.

• Walker trapped Zhao Zhaoxue in his Chaos Void and taunted her about suppressing her strength.
• Zhao Zhaoxue awakened all nine runes on her spear and declared that no space could hold her before her Dao.
• Zhao Zhaoxue used Void Break to pierce the Chaos Void and shatter its boundary.
• Zhao Zhaoxue landed back on the Arena, injured but standing straight.
• Walker knelt on the stone bricks, panting as the patterns on his body and the powers in his eyes dimmed.

Walker activated the Chaos Ancient Clan’s Eternal Return to Dust technique after Zhao Zhaoxue shattered his Chaos Star Chart. As deadly mist engulfed the arena and began eroding Zhao Zhaoxue, she held fast to her spear and rejected his wish to perish together.

• Walker laughed and praised Zhao Zhaoxue for breaking his Chaos Star Chart with one spear strike.
• Walker declared that he wanted to perish together with Zhao Zhaoxue.
• Walker used the Chaos Ancient Clan’s Eternal Return to Dust technique, collapsing into decaying mist that spread across the arena.
• The mist eroded Zhao Zhaoxue’s clothes and skin and began stripping away her vitality, but she kept gripping her spear.
• Zhao Zhaoxue told Walker that her spear only killed its enemies and that he was not worthy of perishing with her.

Zhao Zhaoxue killed Walker with her Spear Dao Law, then endured her grievous injuries and challenged the Chaos Ancient Clan to send the next fighter. After forcing the decay within her body into a few drops of slime, she left the Arena, briefly meeting Ye Lin’s gaze.

• Zhao Zhaoxue pierced Walker through the brow with Spear Dao Law: Calamity Annihilation, and Walker died after calling her beautiful.
• Zhao Zhaoxue remained standing despite her wounds and the decay consuming her vitality, then planted her spear and said, “Next.”
• A Chaos Ancient Clan warrior called Zhao Zhaoxue a madwoman as the clan’s warriors watched her warily.
• Zhao Zhaoxue drove the decay in her body to her fingertips and squeezed out drops of slime that left patches of decay on the tiles.
• Zhao Zhaoxue glanced at Ye Lin, then walked out of the Arena with her spear trailing behind her.

After Zhao Zhaoxue won her battle despite being seriously injured, the Origin Continent cultivators celebrated and encouraged one another. The Chaos Ancient Clan remained confident, saying the remaining matches would bring slaughter and despair.

• The observing cultivators cheered Zhao Zhaoxue's victory and regained confidence in the Origin Continent's chances.
• Zhao Zhaoxue thanked the participating cultivators, glanced at Ye Lin, and left to treat her injuries.
• The Origin Continent prodigies encouraged one another, then grew serious as they waited to see who would fight next.
• The Chaos Ancient Clan experts mocked the cultivators' celebration and vowed to crush them in the remaining battles.

Zhao Guangyin stepped forward to fight Phantom Spirit, and the two identified each other’s Great Daos of Time and Space. They prepared to test their abilities in the arena, but the chapter ended before either attacked.

• Zhao Guangyin emerged from the crowd, surprising the cultivators who had not sensed his presence.
• Ye Lin watched Zhao Guangyin and found his presence difficult to perceive.
• Phantom Spirit stepped forward as the Chaos Ancient Clan’s fighter, and the crowd anticipated a clash between Time and Space.
• Zhao Guangyin and Phantom Spirit exchanged words about their respective Great Daos and agreed to fight.
• Phantom Spirit lowered his hood, revealing his appearance, while Zhao Guangyin stood opposite him in white.

Zhao Guangyin and Phantom Spirit tested their control over time and space, then Zhao Guangyin unleashed a domain that disrupted Phantom Spirit’s body and thoughts. The chapter ended with Phantom Spirit caught at the edge of Zhao Guangyin’s Temporal Misflow.

• Zhao Guangyin pointed at Phantom Spirit and spread a region that drained color and slowed time.
• Phantom Spirit blocked the region with a barrier of spatial cracks, which remained intact despite the time suppression.
• Zhao Guangyin and Phantom Spirit recognized each other’s understanding of their respective laws and ended their initial exchange.
• Zhao Guangyin exhaled and created overlapping zones with drastically different rates of time.
• Phantom Spirit felt his holy aura, heartbeat, and thoughts shift unpredictably as Zhao Guangyin named the technique Temporal Misflow.

Phantom Spirit and Zhao Guangyin clashed with spatial and temporal laws in the Arena. Their powers devoured one another, leaving the Arena’s law web and space itself trembling.

• Zhao Guangyin explained that his Temporal Misflow subjected anything within its domain to three different flows of time.
• Phantom Spirit praised Zhao Guangyin’s technique and thrust his arm through the Void.
• Phantom Spirit struck toward Zhao Guangyin with a cube of tightly folded space.
• Zhao Guangyin raised his palm and met Phantom Spirit’s attack with a vortex of temporal power.
• The two laws consumed one another, making the Arena’s golden law web shudder as spatial fragments struck the stone floor.

Zhao Guangyin and Phantom Spirit exchanged powerful attacks, recognized each other’s strength, and ended their warm-up. Zhao Guangyin then began preparing a technique he had developed during nearly sixty thousand years in a coffin.

• Phantom Spirit used Spatial Traversal: Void Palm Print to attack Zhao Guangyin through a spatial rift, while Zhao Guangyin countered with his Great Dao of Time.
• Phantom Spirit said Zhao Guangyin’s strike had stripped away forty percent of his spatial cube, and Zhao Guangyin noted that Phantom Spirit’s spatial folding had shattered three of his time patterns.
• Zhao Guangyin and Phantom Spirit acknowledged each other’s strength and agreed that their warm-up was over.
• Zhao Guangyin gathered gray-white light between his hands and revealed his Great Dao of Time technique, Years Like a Blade, which he had devised during nearly sixty thousand years in a coffin.

Phantom Spirit merged with space to make the Arena part of his body, but Zhao Guangyin attacked the space itself with countless time blades. Phantom Spirit began to flicker and bleed from spatial wounds.

• Phantom Spirit transformed into a transparent form and opened the mark on his forehead.
• Phantom Spirit used the Great Dao of Space · No Distance to merge with the Arena and claimed he could reassemble anywhere within it.
• Zhao Guangyin unleashed countless time blades that cut through the Arena’s spatial structure.
• Phantom Spirit’s outline flickered as silver-gray blood seeped from spatial cracks, and he realized Zhao Guangyin was tearing space apart.

Zhao Guangyin used temporal blades to fracture the space Phantom Spirit had merged into, but Phantom Spirit answered with Space Collapse, drawing the fragments toward Zhao Guangyin. Zhao Guangyin began spreading temporal light to freeze all the fragments at once.

• Zhao Guangyin explained that he had scrambled the temporal order of the space fragments, making them difficult for Phantom Spirit to reassemble.
• Phantom Spirit recognized Zhao Guangyin's reverse use of time and unleashed Space Collapse, pulling the fractured fragments toward him.
• Zhao Guangyin endured the fragments' conflicting time flows as they tore his robes and injured him.
• Zhao Guangyin spread a curtain of temporal light outward to freeze every approaching space fragment.

Phantom Spirit and Zhao Guangyin, both badly wounded and near their limits, agreed to fight one final round. Phantom Spirit vanished into the Void, and Zhao Guangyin sensed space gathering above the Arena.

• Phantom Spirit emerged from the frozen fragments, badly weakened, while Zhao Guangyin’s light curtain shrank and revealed his wounds.
• Phantom Spirit and Zhao Guangyin acknowledged they could each fight one more round and agreed to continue.
• Phantom Spirit merged his entire body into the Void and vanished from the Arena.
• Zhao Guangyin closed his eyes and sensed space warping and converging above his head.

Zhao Guangyin faced Phantom Spirit’s spatial attack in the Arena and used the most important moments of his life to ignite his time laws. As he became time itself and walked toward the giant palm, he accelerated and reversed time in his path.

• Phantom Spirit shattered the sky above the Arena and sent a giant spatial hand crashing down toward Zhao Guangyin.
• Phantom Spirit erased the distance around Zhao Guangyin, leaving him unable to escape the descending palm.
• Zhao Guangyin gathered nine drops of time, each holding a pivotal moment from his life, and invoked “Great Dao of Time—Return to the Void.”
• Zhao Guangyin ignited his time laws, turned his body into time, and walked toward the giant palm, accelerating time with his first step and reversing it with his second.

Zhao Guangyin exhausted the last of his time laws to lift Phantom Spirit’s giant palm and win their battle, but the effort killed him. Phantom Spirit survived with his space foundation damaged and left the Arena as the spectators reflected on the fight.

• Zhao Guangyin used his final lift to stop Phantom Spirit’s palm and erode his power of space, forcing Phantom Spirit to kneel and concede defeat.
• Zhao Guangyin said he had burned away his remaining time laws, then knelt and dissolved into grayish-white fragments of light.
• Phantom Spirit realized Zhao Guangyin’s final Light of Time was damaging his foundation, but believed he could survive and eventually recover.
• Phantom Spirit said Zhao Guangyin had made him remember him, then walked away from the Arena, leaving withered silver-gray footprints.
• Ye Lin praised the battle, and the spectators mourned Zhao Guangyin’s loss and recalled his former brilliance.

Zhao Guangyin lost his Arena match and died when the Time Great Dao took him. As the cultivators mourned him, powerful figures in the Central Region worried that the Arena matches would not save the endangered Origin Continent, and the next match began.

• The cultivators accepted Zhao Guangyin’s defeat and said farewell, acknowledging that he had died for them.
• Supreme powerhouses in the Void recalled Zhao Guangyin’s past defiance of the Time Great Dao and concluded that he may have foreseen his death.
• The old man and other powerhouses in the Central Region learned that Zhao Guangyin was gone and lamented his fate.
• The old man’s companions considered the Arena matches a way to buy time as the Origin Continent faced danger and he could not hold on much longer.
• The Arena voice announced that the next match would begin with the drawing of lots.

Ye Lin waited for his turn while a notorious Demonic Cultivator entered the Arena for the next match. A monstrous Chaos Ancient Clan fighter stepped forward to face him, leaving the battle about to begin.

• Ye Lin saw that the match was number thirty and resumed meditating while he waited.
• A black-robed Demonic Cultivator took his turn as the cultivators discussed his reputation and hoped he would win.
• A powerful figure from the Chaos Ancient Clan mocked the Demonic Cultivator and sent a monstrous horned fighter to the Arena.
• The monstrous fighter approached the Arena, revealing his scorched body, Bone Spikes, and smoke-like tail.