Recaps

Hong Batian and Liu Yue were left alone in Liu Yue Wilderness, where Cang Yun appeared and declared his love for her. Hong Batian identified himself as Liu Yue’s formally betrothed fiancé, setting himself against Cang Yun.

• Liu Yue and Hong Batian were transported to Liu Yue Wilderness, while an elder vanished into the shadows to protect Hong Batian.
• Liu Yue told Hong Batian that she had been born in the quiet, desolate wilderness.
• Cang Yun arrived amid a rain of flower petals and presented Liu Yue with a flower he had gathered from across ninety-nine great stars.
• Liu Yue told Cang Yun she saw him only as her best friend and reminded him that she was engaged.
• Cang Yun noticed Hong Batian and asked who he was, and Hong Batian declared that he was Liu Yue’s fiancé in a marriage arranged by their parents.

Hong Batian and Cang Yun argued over Liu Yue, each claiming a closer bond with her, before Cang Yun challenged Hong Batian to a fight. Cang Yun boasted of his cultivation and prodigious rise, while Hong Batian reflected that his own Phoenix bloodline had never awakened and that he had been denied the cultivation and resources of his clan.

• Cang Yun demanded to know whether Liu Yue was truly Hong Batian's fiancée, and Liu Yue eventually confirmed it with a nod.
• Cang Yun called Hong Batian an outsider and urged him to leave Liu Yue, while Hong Batian defended their marriage contract and warned Cang Yun to keep his distance.
• Cang Yun summoned a blue-green spear and challenged Hong Batian, believing his childhood bond with Liu Yue could outlast Hong Batian's claim.
• Cang Yun described his rapid cultivation and standing as the Ancient Royal Clan's second greatest prodigy, then asked what Hong Batian had to match him.
• Hong Batian acknowledged Cang Yun's talent but thought he could have reached Celestial Immortal cultivation before one hundred if his Phoenix bloodline had awakened and he had grown up with the clan's support.

Hong Batian and Cang Yun fought while holding back to protect the important star where Liu Yue came each year. The battle escalated when Cang Yun unleashed the first transformation of the Mystic Dragon Seven Transformations against Hong Batian.

• The narration described how ancient inheritances and concentrated resources let the Star River Cosmos's top factions maintain their overwhelming advantage.
• Cang Yun taunted Hong Batian and thrust his spear toward Hong Batian's brow, but Hong Batian deflected it and struck Cang Yun's chest with the Mysterious Underworld Hand.
• Cang Yun charged again, and Hong Batian countered with the Phantom Seven Hands as both men restrained their strength to avoid damaging the star.
• Hong Batian briefly thought of Taiyuan during the fight, angering Cang Yun, who attacked with the Mystic Dragon Seven Transformations, First Transformation—Earth Dragon Upheaval.

Hong Batian accepted Cang Yun’s challenge to compete in the Ancient Royal Clan’s Cloud Mist Secret Realm trial. Three days later, he joined the gathered young talents as the trial began, with points awarded for killing ancient demon species.

• Hong Batian easily knocked Cang Yun aside, then accepted his challenge to see who would take first place in the trial three days later.
• Liu Yue suspected Hong Batian was using his visit to investigate the Ancient Royal Clan’s younger generation, then left him to prepare.
• Hong Batian spent the next three days finding his way to the Cloud Mist Secret Realm.
• An organizer began the trial, explaining that contestants would earn points by killing ancient demon species, with higher-ranking demons worth more points.

Hong Batian entered the Cloud Mist Secret Realm competition, where participants would hunt ancient demonic spawn and compete for points and a chance at special training. His guardian Tiger Force stayed behind after the organizer assured him that Hong Batian would be safe, while an unknown figure approached a palace in the starry sky.

• The chubby little fellow announced that the competition would feature ancient demonic spawn as strong as peak Heavenly Immortals and that the first-place winner would receive special training in the Ancient Royal Clan’s sacred land.
• Hong Batian listened as the younger generation discussed the dangers of the secret realm and its treasures.
• The chubby little fellow opened the Cloud Mist Secret Realm and sent the young talents inside.
• Hong Batian told the empty space beside him to stay, then entered the realm.
• The chubby little fellow invited Tiger Force to wait with him and assured him that Hong Batian would be safe because he had arranged everything.
• A furtive figure knelt reverently before the entrance of a pitch-black palace drifting through space.

Hong Batian and Cang Yun hunted demon seeds inside the Cloud Mist Secret Realm while a mysterious figure plotted against the Phoenix Clan and the Ancient Royal Clan. Cang Yun found a brutally mutilated corpse, leaving the killer’s identity unknown.

• A mysterious figure confirmed that their plans were in place and spoke of killing Huang Tian’s beloved son and making the Ancient Royal Clan suffer.
• Hong Batian sensed an ambush in the desert and used his power to erase five peak Earth Immortal demon seeds, collecting their flames.
• Hong Batian wondered whether his rival had entered the secret realm and declared that the era belonged to him.
• Cang Yun boasted that he had slain thirteen peak Earth Immortal spirits in half an hour.
• Cang Yun followed a smell of blood through the forest and discovered a corpse missing its arms and legs, with a large claw mark on its chest.

Cang Yun investigated signs that someone was killing cultivators in the Cloud Mist Secret Realm, while Hong Batian found a gorge full of corpses and was confronted by two cultivators demanding his spirits. The woman prepared to attack when Hong Batian did not agree to surrender them.

• Cang Yun saw a corpse and decided to investigate suspected killings in the secret realm.
• Hong Batian complained that he had encountered only Earth Immortal Realm demon spawn before discovering many corpses in a gorge.
• A fiery red arrow narrowly missed Hong Batian and blasted a hole in the mountain wall.
• A woman with a longbow and a man carrying a heavy sword demanded Hong Batian hand over his spirits, claiming they wanted no lives.
• When Hong Batian questioned them about the corpses and asked what would happen if he refused, the woman nocked an arrow and gave him one last chance to surrender.

Hong Batian fought off a woman and her greatsword-wielding companion after they attacked him, revealing power that made them mistake him for a Heavenly Immortal. They fled, but Hong Batian called them back.

• The woman challenged Hong Batian and shot a blazing crimson arrow at him.
• Hong Batian caught the arrow with Phantom Seven Hands and broke it, so the woman sent Woodenhead to attack with his greatsword.
• The woman fired three arrows as Woodenhead struck from behind, but Hong Batian caught the arrows and stopped the greatsword with his hand.
• Woodenhead realized Hong Batian had absorbed his powerful strike without damaging the ground and fled, believing Hong Batian was a Heavenly Immortal.
• The woman also tried to flee, but Hong Batian told them to come back.

Hong Batian spared Hong Yue and made her travel with him through the Cloud Mist Secret Realm. After she showed him a map and suggested the safer Sumeru Peak, he ignored her advice and headed toward the dangerous Dark Moon Lake.

• Hong Batian asked the captured woman her name, and Hong Yue begged for her life.
• Hong Batian spared Hong Yue but ordered her to come with him, and she explained that she had tricked a swordsman into following her.
• Hong Yue showed Hong Batian a map of the Cloud Mist Secret Realm and suggested they head to Sumeru Peak, where demonic spawn were scarce.
• Hong Batian grabbed Hong Yue and carried her toward Dark Moon Lake, despite her warning that it was dangerous.

Hong Batian dragged the terrified Hong Yue to Dark Moon Lake, where Cang Yun confronted them and warned of strange threats in the area. When Cang Yun disturbed the lake, a gigantic demonic dragon emerged, and Hong Yue recognized it as a spirit of strangeness.

• Hong Yue pleaded with Hong Batian not to go to Dark Moon Lake, but he dragged her there anyway.
• Hong Batian and Hong Yue arrived at the silent, purple lake, where Hong Yue feared the powerful demonic creatures said to dwell there.
• Cang Yun appeared recording them with an Image Recording Stone and accused Hong Batian of letting Liu Yue down by finding a new lover.
• Cang Yun warned that strange things beyond demonic creatures had killed living beings on the way to the lake.
• Cang Yun struck the lake, and a massive blackish-purple demonic dragon rose from the water; Hong Yue identified it as a spirit of strangeness.

Hong Batian recognized the demonic dragon’s eerie spirit as a remnant of the ancient creatures that had once nearly destroyed the Star River Cosmos. He accused the Ancient Royal Clan of colluding with them, but Cang Yun denied it and charged the dragon, leaving the group facing a powerful threat.

• Hong Batian recalled how eerie creatures had spread across the cosmos and nearly overturned it in a war lasting over a hundred million years.
• Hong Batian warned Cang Yun that the Ancient Royal Clan would be exterminated if it was found colluding with eerie creatures.
• Cang Yun denied the accusation and said they should defeat the demonic dragon and extract its divine soul to uncover the truth.
• Cang Yun charged the peak Heavenly Immortal demonic dragon while Hong Batian told Hong Yue to shoot it in the eyes.
• The demonic dragon sent Cang Yun flying before Hong Batian could reach it, and Cang Yun spat out blood as his spear fell onto the lake.

Hong Batian, Hong Yue, and Cang Yun fought a demonic dragon at the lake until three bizarre ones appeared. Cang Yun recognized them as genuine bizarre ones, despite believing their kind had been purged.

• Hong Yue attacked the demonic dragon with seven arrows, but its roar shattered her attack.
• Hong Batian struck the demonic dragon with his Mystic Jade Hand and sent it flying.
• Cang Yun drove the demonic dragon into the lake with Meteor Fall.
• Cang Yun dodged a sword attack and faced a masked swordsman with six floating swords.
• A strange child and a clown-masked figure appeared, and Cang Yun realized all three newcomers were genuine bizarre ones.

Cang Yun confronted three peak Heavenly Immortal aberrations and a demonic dragon inside the Ancient Royal Clan’s territory. Hong Batian accused the clan of colluding with aberrations, leaving Cang Yun unable to deny the evidence.

• Cang Yun demanded to know how Zayik, Helen, and Bal Rakshasa had entered the Ancient Royal Clan’s territory and questioned the clan’s apparent ties to aberrations.
• Zayik approached Cang Yun and said he would explain the human heart before threatening to kill him.
• Helen claimed Cang Yun as her opponent, while Bal Rakshasa dismissed Hong Yue as too weak to fight.
• Hong Yue collapsed in relief after Bal Rakshasa looked away from her.
• Hong Batian mocked Cang Yun for the evidence that the Ancient Royal Clan had colluded with aberrations, and Cang Yun could not refute him.

Hong Batian fled with Hong Yue after drawing Bal Rakshasa and Zayik into a fight, while Cang Yun escaped Helen and Bal Rakshasa separately. Zayik caught up with the fugitives, and Hong Yue attacked him with three arrows.

• Hong Batian challenged Bal Rakshasa and Zayik, then used Phantom Seven Hands, Phantom Lake to vanish and escape with Hong Yue.
• Hong Batian told Hong Yue that Cang Yun could fend for himself as they raced away.
• Helen taunted Cang Yun while Bal Rakshasa wounded him, but Cang Yun escaped with Celestial Shift, Instant.
• Zayik pursued Hong Batian and Hong Yue, and Hong Yue fired three arrows at his clown mask.

Hong Batian and Hong Yue tried to escape Zayik’s pursuit in the Cloud Mist Secret Realm, where they would be trapped for ten days. Hong Batian used Phantom Seven Hands to fight off Zayik’s spiders, but the chapter ended as he conjured ten white spiders and a copy of Zayik.

• Hong Batian learned that no one could enter or leave the Cloud Mist Secret Realm for ten days and worried about surviving Zayik’s pursuit.
• Hong Batian tossed Hong Yue to safety and turned to face Zayik, evading his transparent threads with Phantom Seven Hands, Phantom Water.
• Zayik summoned ten enormous spiders, and Hong Batian defended himself with Phantom Bell before the spiders’ screeches shattered the golden bell.
• Hong Batian escaped the spiders’ encirclement, but Zayik sent them after him.
• Hong Batian used Phantom You to conjure ten white spiders and a second Zayik beside him.

Hong Batian escaped Zayik with Hong Yue and hid in a cave, while Cang Yun fled from two beings urging him to join the strange. Cang Yun eventually stopped running and turned to face his pursuers.

• Zayik attacked Hong Batian with transparent threads, forcing him to leave a duplicate behind and flee with Hong Yue.
• Hong Batian hid with Hong Yue in a cave, set up treasures around it, and settled down to wait out the trial.
• Hong Yue worried that the other participants might be dead, and Hong Batian reassured her before cultivating as she fell asleep.
• Cang Yun ran from two pursuers who tried to persuade him to join the strange, but realized one could track him.
• Cang Yun stopped, turned to face the two pursuers, and prepared to fight.

Cang Yun fought Helen and was badly injured before activating Heaven-Earth Killing Intent and turning his attack toward Bal Rakshasa. The chapter ended as Cang Yun summoned a golden lightning dragon to dive at Bal Rakshasa.

• Cang Yun and Helen exchanged thousands of blows until Helen struck him from behind with Hand of the Abyss, sending him crashing into a crater.
• Cang Yun rose bloodied and challenged Helen, but Bal Rakshasa intervened, and Helen withdrew.
• Cang Yun activated Heaven-Earth Killing Intent, surrounded himself with golden lightning, and charged at Bal Rakshasa.
• Bal Rakshasa sent six Long Swords to encircle Cang Yun, but Cang Yun's lightning sphere blasted them away.
• Cang Yun used Spear Emerges Like a Dragon to summon a golden lightning dragon that plunged toward Bal Rakshasa.

Cang Yun overwhelmed Bal Rakshasa with his power and unleashed a devastating spear attack, forcing Helen to intervene with a black-purple Heavenly Gate. The Ancient Royal Clan members saw the strange phenomenon and rushed to protect Cang Yun as Helen vowed to kill him.

• Cang Yun’s Cloud-Piercing Awl clashed with Bal Rakshasa’s attack, and Bal Rakshasa was shocked that an early Heavenly Immortal could overpower him.
• Cang Yun summoned a golden sacred dragon around his spear and launched Divine Might Descends at Bal Rakshasa.
• Bal Rakshasa ordered Helen to block the attack, and Helen opened a black-purple Heavenly Gate to stop the spear.
• Helen praised Cang Yun’s talent but declared that he had to die, while the Ancient Royal Clan members spotted the phenomenon and hurried toward him.

Cang Yun fought Bal Rakshasa and Helen with golden lightning, but the two survived and forced him into a desperate struggle. Hong Batian secretly watched from a cave, judging the battle while keeping his distance.

• Cang Yun struck Helen and Bal Rakshasa with powerful punches, then hurled his Golden Spear into a storm of golden lightning.
• Bal Rakshasa and Helen dispelled the lightning and rose unharmed, revealing their immense presence.
• Cang Yun realized his immortal power was nearly exhausted and thought that Hong Batian's help might give them a chance.
• Hong Batian watched the battle from a cave and concluded that Cang Yun had not forced the strange beings to reveal their true methods.

Cang Yun endured Helen's assault until Wang San intervened and was killed by a sword through the heart. Cang Yun then unleashed his powers against Helen and Bal Rakshasa, freezing Bal Rakshasa and piercing through him with lightning.

• Helen overwhelmed Cang Yun, beating him and pinning him to the ground with two Flying Swords.
• Wang San rescued Cang Yun, but a Long Sword pierced his heart, and he sacrificed himself to escape the sinister qi.
• Cang Yun summoned his spear and used Phoenix Fire to burn Helen.
• Cang Yun opened the Sacred Dragon Eye and stopped Bal Rakshasa in place.
• Cang Yun transformed into lightning and pierced through Bal Rakshasa to avenge Wang San.

Hong Batian destroyed Bal Rakshasa and Helen as the strange entities ravaged the Cloud Mist Secret Realm. Cang Yun gathered the survivors and asked Hong Batian to keep the disaster quiet while the Ancient Royal Clan investigated, but Hong Batian refused to conceal a threat to the Star River Cosmos.

• Hong Batian killed Bal Rakshasa and Helen with ease.
• Cang Yun told the gathered survivors that the trial was over and ordered them to assemble, then mourned Wang San, who had died saving him.
• Hong Batian found Hong Yue asleep in a cave, woke her, and brought her to the gathered survivors.
• Cang Yun assembled most of the people in the secret realm, where thirty percent of living beings had died in a single day, mostly to the strange entities.
• Cang Yun asked Hong Batian to keep news of the strange entities secret while the Ancient Royal Clan investigated, but Hong Batian refused because the threat concerned the entire Star River Cosmos.

Cang Yun accepted that he could no longer protect Liu Yue and entrusted her safety to Hong Batian and the Phoenix Clan. After Liu Yue ended her relationship with Hong Batian, he left with Hong Yue, while Liu Yue went to speak with her father.

• Cang Yun told Hong Batian to take good care of Liu Yue because he could no longer protect her.
• When the secret realm opened, Ancient Royal Clan figures prevented its entrants from leaving, but Hong Batian departed with Hong Yue and Liu Yue.
• Hong Yue told Hong Batian she had to leave, and he asked whether she was going home.
• Liu Yue apologized to Hong Batian, said there was no fate between them, and asked him not to implicate those behind her.
• Hong Batian accepted her decision, wished her happiness, and left with Hong Yue.
• Liu Yue thanked Hong Batian and headed toward her father's Void Palace.

Ye Lin brought Ye Lingxi to a remote cave, where he found a beautiful woman whose heart had stopped and whose meridians were shattered. He began pouring his immortal power into her to revive her, while Ye Lingxi realized the woman seemed important to him.

• Ye Lin brought Ye Lingxi to a cave in the mountains, and she feared he planned to kill her for her treasures.
• Ye Lin told Ye Lingxi to stay quiet, then led her through a dark passage into an enormous cave.
• Ye Lin found a woman in a red dress lying on a stone table and explained that reviving her would require an enormous price.
• Ye Lin poured his immortal power into the woman's body to repair her heart and protect her fading divine soul.
• Ye Lingxi saw Ye Lin working to revive the woman and moved closer, thinking the woman was important to him.

Ye Lin and Ye Lingxi treated an unconscious woman whose fire poison had attacked her heart. After Ye Lingxi gave her a precious Fire-Expelling Pill and Ye Lin helped purge the poison, Ye Lin said the woman would awaken within three days and save Ye Lingxi.

• Ye Lingxi recognized that the unconscious woman had fire poison and gave her a rare Fire-Expelling Pill.
• Ye Lin channeled immortal power into the woman as the pill forced her body to expel the fire poison as vapor.
• The woman's organs absorbed all of Ye Lin's immortal power before he could withdraw his hands.
• Ye Lingxi explained that the pill would expel the poison and remove the woman's immediate danger.
• Ye Lin told Ye Lingxi that the woman would save her and awaken within three days, though Ye Lingxi doubted him.

Ye Lin told Ye Lingxi to trust him and wait three days for a cure, despite her having only one month left before Annihilation Powder overwhelmed her. The next morning, Ye Lin found a foul-smelling black lump outside the cave and identified it as Chu Yunxiao, a powerful Human Race heir who was awakening nearby.

• Ye Lingxi said her meridians and heart were ruined and that she had only one month left to resist Annihilation Powder.
• Ye Lin told Ye Lingxi to rest in the cave for three days and trust that she would be cured.
• Ye Lin sat outside the cave through the night.
• The next morning, Ye Lin woke to a terrible stench and found a huge black lump nearly as tall as himself.
• Ye Lin's status display identified Chu Yunxiao as the Human Race Divine Emperor's son, sealed away and recently awakening.