Recaps

Zhao Fu joined Ximen Zimeng and Ximen Ziqing on their journey to the Western Alliance after winning Ximen Ziqing’s affection through a calculated confession. When You Jun tried to seize Niu Chun, Ximen Zimeng and her subordinates defeated him, forcing him to flee.

• Ximen Zimeng revealed that Niu Hu was with You Jun, and Niu Chun rushed into the city to confront them.
• After Zhao Fu’s cloak was removed, he claimed he had followed Ximen Zimeng because he loved her, then accepted Ximen Ziqing’s offer to be with him.
• Niu Chun returned from the brothel, announced that she had divorced Niu Hu, and agreed to travel with Ximen Zimeng’s group toward the Western Alliance.
• You Jun caught up with the group and demanded that Niu Chun go with him, claiming Niu Hu had promised her for a night.
• Ximen Zimeng fought You Jun with help from her subordinates and sent him flying, after which he fled.

Niu Chun grieved over Niu Hu’s betrayal, but Zhao Fu comforted her and began pursuing her. Meanwhile, Niu Hu realized he had agreed to let You Jun take Niu Chun and went looking for her, while You Jun vowed revenge against Ximen Zimeng.

• Ximen Ziqing worried that You Jun would remain a threat, and Zhao Fu promised to protect her, making her happy and Ximen Zimeng jealous.
• Niu Chun cried alone over Niu Hu’s betrayal and remembered how their childhood bond and her attempts to help him had shaped their relationship.
• Zhao Fu comforted Niu Chun, listened to her story, then took her hand and pinned her down as he declared that he liked her; Niu Chun blushed and softly agreed to his coaxing.
• Niu Hu woke in the brothel and learned from You Jun that he had agreed while drunk to let Niu Chun accompany him, then rushed off to apologize to her.
• You Jun recalled Ximen Zimeng ruining his plans twice and vowed not to let her go.

Zhao Fu and Niu Chun returned to the group after becoming closer, then reached Western Alliance headquarters with the Ximen sisters. Ximen Luoli tested Zhao Fu and demanded he love only one daughter, but he admitted he loved both sisters; Ximen Zimeng offered to marry the Son of Origin so Ximen Ziqing could be with him.

• Niu Chun asked Zhao Fu about his relationship with the Ximen sisters, and he assured her that he truly liked her; she asked him not to hurt them.
• Zhao Fu and Niu Chun rejoined the group, and they continued to Western Alliance headquarters with Ximen Ziqing and Ximen Zimeng.
• Ximen Luoli tested Zhao Fu's aptitude, approved it, then demanded he accept a deadly restriction against loving anyone but one daughter.
• Zhao Fu refused the restriction and told Ximen Luoli that he loved both Ximen Zimeng and Ximen Ziqing.
• Ximen Luoli rejected Zhao Fu, but Ximen Zimeng admitted she liked him and offered to marry the Son of Origin if her mother would let Ximen Ziqing be with him.

Zhao Fu learned that the Western Alliance guarded an Origin skeleton and discovered that entering its treasure vault required the tokens of all twelve alliance leaders. After Niu Chun rejected Niu Hu's plea to return, Zhao Fu's striking appearance drew public attention, while he focused on finding a way into the vault.

• Ximen Zimeng reassured Ximen Ziqing that her promised marriage to the Son of Origin remained uncertain, then apologized to Zhao Fu for her jealousy and embraced him with her sister.
• Zhao Fu asked Ximen Zimeng about the Western Alliance's Origin skeleton, and she said it was kept in the alliance's most important treasure vault because they feared the Origin Clan.
• The Ximen sisters took Zhao Fu and Niu Chun sightseeing, where Niu Hu apologized and begged Niu Chun to return, but she refused and left with Zhao Fu and the sisters.
• People gathered to stare at Zhao Fu's unveiled face, and Ximen Luoli worried that his beauty might attract trouble.
• Zhao Fu learned that the treasure vault at the Western Alliance headquarters could be opened only with tokens from all twelve alliance leaders.

Zhao Fu secretly obtained Alliance Leader tokens from Ximen Luoli and Ximen Mei while pursuing affairs with both women. With two tokens in hand, he returned to his residence and began planning how to collect the remaining ten.

• Zhao Fu secretly met Ximen Luoli at night, and over the next few days he took one of her Alliance Leader tokens.
• Ximen Mei visited Ximen Luoli, became captivated by Zhao Fu, and welcomed him as her nephew.
• After Ximen Luoli left, a powerful figure seized Zhao Fu and brought him to Ximen Mei, who became intimate with him.
• Zhao Fu asked Ximen Mei for a command token, and she gave him one without hesitation.
• Zhao Fu returned home with his second token, made up an excuse when Ximen Zimeng asked where he had been, and planned how to obtain the remaining tokens.

Zhao Fu took Niu Chun out while secretly seeking the Third Alliance Leader’s token, but Ximen Qing and Ximen Lian drugged them and revealed their plans to claim them. Zhao Fu and Niu Chun were left helpless as Ximen Qing ordered Zhao Fu’s cultivation crippled.

• Niu Hu begged Niu Chun to forgive him, but she rejected him and left with Zhao Fu.
• Zhao Fu and Niu Chun encountered Ximen Qing, who offered to trade the Third Alliance Leader’s token for Niu Chun.
• Ximen Qing brought Zhao Fu and Niu Chun to his residence, where Ximen Lian became infatuated with Zhao Fu.
• Ximen Lian drugged the tea and pastries, leaving Zhao Fu and Niu Chun weak and unable to resist.
• Ximen Qing announced he wanted to possess Niu Chun forever, while Ximen Lian claimed Zhao Fu and agreed to cripple his cultivation.

Zhao Fu turned the tables on Ximen Qing after the Immortal Domain Bewildering Spirit Water failed to affect him, then left with Niu Chun. Ximen Yan discovered that the tree monster inside her unconscious son had fused with his Life origin, leaving her unable to remove it without killing him.

• Zhao Fu bound Ximen Qing and Ximen Lian with pale roots, embraced Ximen Lian, and infused Ximen Qing with evil gray and blood-colored power until he went still.
• Zhao Fu released the women held by Ximen Qing, and Niu Chun later woke beside him and left with him for Ximen Luoli's residence.
• Ximen Lian told Ximen Yan that Ximen Qing had returned unconscious, and Ximen Yan sensed a terrifying blood-colored tree monster inside him.
• Ximen Yan destroyed the tree monster with her power, but it regrew as pale roots and fused with Ximen Qing's Life origin.
• Ximen Yan realized she could not remove the tree monster without killing Ximen Qing and wondered what kind of power it was.

Ximen Yan went to Zhao Fu to secure a remedy for Ximen Qing, but Zhao Fu exploited her son's pain to force her to obey him and reveal information about the Alliance Leaders. The chapter ended with Zhao Fu ordering her to poison three Alliance Lords, leaving her to choose between compliance and the consequences he threatened.

• Ximen Yan received a message directing her to meet Zhao Fu, who demanded that she seal her cultivation and submit to his conditions in exchange for medicine to ease Ximen Qing's pain.
• Ximen Yan took the pill back to Ximen Qing, who calmed down and fell asleep, while Zhao Fu kept her storage ring and its treasures.
• Ximen Yan returned the next day, and Zhao Fu forced information about the other Alliance Leaders from her before giving her another pill for her son.
• On the third day, Zhao Fu ordered Ximen Yan to put Immortal Domain Bewildering Spirit Water in the tea of the seventh, eighth, and ninth Alliance Lords, threatening her son and her reputation if she refused.

Zhao Fu and Ximen Yan used poisoned vapor to incapacitate three alliance leaders and their companions, after which Zhao Fu assaulted the unconscious women and took their storage rings. The three women awoke the next day, furious and distressed, but did not know who was responsible.

• Zhao Fu gave Ximen Yan the remaining Immortal Domain Bewildering Spirit Water so they could target the seventh, eighth, and ninth alliance leaders.
• Ximen Tian inhaled vapor from a flower, and Ximen Mei was poisoned when she tried to examine her; a field-wide vapor attack then trapped the group.
• Ximen Shi flew away to summon help, but Ximen Yan's vapor overcame her, and Ximen Yan shattered the men's defensive barrier, leaving them unconscious.
• Zhao Fu carried the unconscious Ximen Shi to the others, and the three women woke a day later to find themselves violated and their storage rings missing.
• Ximen Mei vowed to find and punish the culprit, while Ximen Tian grieved over how she would face Dongfang Qin.

Zhao Fu blackmailed Ximen Mei, Ximen Shi, and Ximen Tian into meeting him at the flower field and tormented them through the night. The three women chose to divorce their husbands to protect them and avoid continuing to hurt them, leaving the husbands devastated.

• Ximen Mei, Ximen Shi, and Ximen Tian received Zhao Fu's threats and went to the flower field, where he demanded that they seal their cultivations and blindfold themselves.
• Zhao Fu threatened to kill the women's husbands, forcing all three women to comply, and tormented them through the night.
• Ximen Shi said she could no longer remain with Shu Luo, Ximen Tian decided to leave Dongfang Qin, and Ximen Mei vowed to find Zhao Fu.
• Ximen Tian confirmed her decision to divorce Dongfang Qin, who left while she wept.
• Ximen Mei rejected Ku Luo despite his pleas, and he left in pain.

Zhao Fu targeted Fifth Alliance Leader Ximen Nuo by using her younger brother, Ximen Ming, to draw her into a trap. After Ximen Nuo surrendered to protect him, Zhao Fu left her with her brother and the two returned home.

• Ximen Shi watched Shu Luo leave, while Zhao Fu asked the captive Ximen Yan which Alliance Leader would be easiest to target next.
• Ximen Yan named Ximen Nuo and explained that her younger brother, Ximen Ming, was what she cared about most.
• Zhao Fu lured Ximen Nuo to Clear Lake as Ximen Yan abducted Ximen Ming and brought him to Zhao Fu.
• Ximen Nuo rushed to her brother and killed Zhao Fu's apparent body, but a power inside Ximen Ming caused him agony, and Zhao Fu's corpse spoke.
• Ximen Nuo sealed her cultivation and blindfolded herself to stop her brother's suffering, and Zhao Fu's true body appeared and bound her.
• Ximen Ming woke to find Ximen Nuo unharmed and returned home with her.

Zhao Fu continued seeking the remaining Alliance Leaders' tokens by coercing women close to them, learning that Ximen Shi's friend Ximen Qingzhu could be lured through her treasured books. He trapped Ximen Qingzhu in her library pavilion and forced her to seal her cultivation and blindfold herself, leaving her under his control.

• Zhao Fu told Ximen Yan that only the First, Second, Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Alliance Leaders remained, and Ximen Yan said the First and Second would be hardest to deal with.
• Zhao Fu confronted Ximen Mei, Ximen Shi, and Ximen Tian, who had divorced their husbands, and demanded their help identifying useful targets.
• Ximen Shi revealed that Ximen Qingzhu, the Tenth Alliance Leader, was obsessed with books and could be persuaded through her collection, provided Zhao Fu did not hurt her.
• Zhao Fu entered Ximen Qingzhu's protected library pavilion by gnawing through its formation with the Evil Immortal's abilities.
• Zhao Fu threatened to burn the books, forcing Ximen Qingzhu to blindfold herself and seal her cultivation.

Zhao Fu learned from an ancient text that the Origin Bone Remains were the corpse of a Yao and that the bronze artifact was the Chaos Origin Mirror, which could grant Chaos Origin Power and preserve souls. After spending time with Ximen Qingzhu and the others, he learned where to find Ximen Chuixue’s life-bound orb and prepared to target her next.

• Zhao Fu read Ximen Qingzhu’s ancient text and learned the Chaos Origin Mirror’s identity, origins, and powers.
• Zhao Fu left Ximen Qingzhu with hundreds of ancient books, then returned to Ximen Luoli’s home and reunited with her and the others.
• Ximen Ziqing told Zhao Fu that their mother had ended plans to marry her to the Son of Origin and would allow the sisters to be with him.
• Ximen Mei revealed that Ximen Chuixue’s life-bound orb was hidden in the Western Pole Ice-Cold Land and that controlling it would let Zhao Fu control her life and death.

Zhao Fu broke through the restrictions around Ximen Chuixue’s Natal Origin Pearl and used it to control her. After revealing that he had already controlled eight Alliance Leaders, he returned to Flower Land and then met Ximen Yan, the Third Alliance Leader.

• Zhao Fu reached Ximen Chuixue’s ice cave, broke its restrictions, and waited beside her Natal Origin Pearl for her arrival.
• Ximen Chuixue tried to seize the pearl, but Zhao Fu used it to inflict pain and force her to submit to his demands.
• Zhao Fu spent time with Ximen Chuixue, told her she was the fourth-to-last Alliance Leader he had controlled, and promised he would leave once he had dealt with everything.
• Zhao Fu returned to Flower Land, where Ximen Mei, Ximen Shi, and Ximen Tian discussed the remaining Alliance Leaders with him.
• Zhao Fu went to Ximen Luoli’s home, where Ximen Luoli introduced him to Ximen Yan, the Third Alliance Leader.

Zhao Fu learned Ximen Shanxi’s secret and coerced her into submitting, then revealed that he had controlled nine Alliance Leaders and made her the tenth. Ximen Shanxi rejected his offer to protect her and her child, but was left shaken by the power he placed in the child.

• Ximen Yan told Zhao Fu that Ximen Nuo knew about the Eleventh Alliance Leader, and Ximen Nuo revealed that Ximen Shanxi had secretly borne a child with an enemy of the Western Alliance.
• Zhao Fu confronted Ximen Shanxi and threatened to expose her secret, forcing her to seal her cultivation.
• Zhao Fu restrained Ximen Shanxi and used her child to keep her from resisting.
• Zhao Fu said he had controlled nine Alliance Leaders and offered to protect Ximen Shanxi and her child, but she refused.
• Zhao Fu left a strand of power in Ximen Shanxi’s child, and she discovered that she could not remove it.

Zhao Fu learned that Second Alliance Leader Ximen Nightingale secretly seduced and deceived women, then gathered some of her victims and promised to help them get revenge. He began a plan to approach Ximen Nightingale in disguise, while First Alliance Leader Ximen Fenghua remained a later target.

• Zhao Fu asked Ximen Yan and other Alliance Leaders about the First and Second Alliance Leaders but learned nothing useful until Ximen Mei revealed their secrets.
• Ximen Mei told Zhao Fu that Ximen Nightingale seduced women in disguise, while Ximen Fenghua hated men without having suffered any trauma.
• Zhao Fu investigated Ximen Nightingale and gathered more than twenty women she had deceived, binding them when they tried to leave.
• After three days, Zhao Fu promised the women he would take responsibility for them and help them get revenge on Ximen Nightingale.
• A handsome young master followed the sound of a zither and became captivated by a beautiful white-clad woman playing beneath a pavilion.

Zhao Fu used a disguised puppet and poisoned pastries to capture Ximen Nightingale, then revealed that only one Alliance Leader remained for him to subdue. Ximen Nightingale was left captive and shocked by Zhao Fu’s claim.

• Zhao Fu’s puppet, disguised as the woman in white, spent nine days courting Ximen Nightingale until they both confessed their secrets.
• The puppet revealed Ximen Nightingale’s identity, then dispersed as Zhao Fu and the women appeared.
• Ximen Nightingale tried to attack, but the poison in the pastries weakened her, and Zhao Fu forced her true appearance to show.
• Zhao Fu and the women took revenge on Ximen Nightingale, and Zhao Fu declared that she was now his woman.
• Zhao Fu told Ximen Nightingale that only one Alliance Leader remained, leaving her stunned.

Zhao Fu questioned Ximen Nightingale about Ximen Fenghua, then enlisted several controlled Alliance Leaders to capture Fenghua’s subordinates. The chapter ended with Ximen Qingzhu asking whether Zhao Fu had come for the Origin Corpse Remains.

• Zhao Fu threatened Ximen Nightingale and persuaded her to cooperate against Ximen Fenghua, though she admitted she knew no secrets or method to defeat her.
• After leaving Nightingale, Zhao Fu returned to the Western Alliance headquarters and told Ximen Shanxi that only the First Alliance Leader remained uncontrolled.
• Zhao Fu summoned Ximen Yan and asked her to help capture Ximen Fenghua’s subordinates; she insisted that other Alliance Leaders join them.
• Ximen Nuo, Ximen Chuixue, and Ximen Qingzhu arrived, and Zhao Fu asked them to capture four of Fenghua’s subordinates and seal their cultivations.
• Ximen Qingzhu asked Zhao Fu whether he had come for the Origin Corpse Remains.

Zhao Fu had Ximen Yan and the other alliance leaders capture Ximen Fenghua’s four subordinates, then forced them to reveal her weakness. Learning that her physique made her vulnerable to men without regular medicine, he planned to exploit the next delivery, while Ximen Fenghua continued cultivating among men’s bones.

• Ximen Qingzhu deduced that Zhao Fu sought the Origin Corpse, and Zhao Fu told the alliance leaders to capture Ximen Fenghua’s four subordinates.
• Ximen Yan and the others seized Ximen Ying, Ximen Qiu, Ximen Min, and Ximen Wu and brought them to Zhao Fu.
• Zhao Fu bound the four women and demanded information about Ximen Fenghua’s weaknesses, promising to preserve their identities and status.
• Ximen Min explained that Ximen Fenghua’s physique repelled men and required medicine refined with men’s blood to suppress its effects.
• The women revealed that they would deliver Ximen Fenghua’s medicine the next day, giving Zhao Fu a plan to exploit her weakness.
• Ximen Fenghua sat in a hall surrounded by men’s skeletons, cultivating as eerie white aura drifted toward her.

Zhao Fu used blood pills to weaken Ximen Fenghua, then subdued her and revealed that he was the Son of Origin seeking the Origin Skeleton. After learning that the Western Alliance’s twelve alliance leaders were under Zhao Fu’s control, Ximen Fenghua agreed to go with him, leaving Ximen Qiu and the other women to beg forgiveness.

• Ximen Fenghua received Zhao Fu’s blood pills, cultivated with them, and was astonished by their effects.
• When Zhao Fu appeared at the great hall, Ximen Fenghua recognized that the pills had been made from his blood, but she collapsed after trying to attack him.
• Zhao Fu bound Ximen Fenghua and later told her that the Western Alliance’s twelve alliance leaders were under his control and that he wanted the Origin Skeleton.
• Ximen Fenghua realized Zhao Fu was the Son of Origin, removed her blindfold, and agreed to accompany him to see the Origin Skeleton.
• Ximen Fenghua and Zhao Fu left the hall as Ximen Qiu and the other four women knelt and asked their alliance leader for forgiveness.

Ximen Fenghua brought the women to the treasure vault, where Zhao Fu’s identity and his past methods of controlling them were revealed. The women learned that he was the Son of Origin seeking the Origin Skeleton, and the chapter ended with their shock at the Chaos Origin Mirror’s significance.

• Ximen Fenghua forgave Ximen Qiu and the other three women, then led everyone to the treasure vault.
• The women confronted Zhao Fu and revealed how he had forced or deceived them into submitting to him.
• Ximen Luoli learned Zhao Fu’s actions were true, scolded him, and softened when he said he liked her and the other women.
• Ximen Fenghua revealed that Zhao Fu was the Son of Origin and had come to obtain the Origin Skeleton.
• Zhao Fu said he wanted to revive someone and obtain the final shattered bronze piece, while Ximen Qingzhu identified his Origin artifact as the ancient Heaven’s Treasure, the Chaos Origin Mirror.

Zhao Fu and the women entered the treasure vault, where the Origin Artifact fragments revived the Origin Skeleton into a woman named Yao. Yao awoke without remembering who she was, leaving Zhao Fu without the answer he wanted about the final bronze fragment.

• Zhao Fu used the twelve command tokens to open the treasure vault and led the women inside.
• When Zhao Fu touched the Origin Skeleton, the bronze fragments of the Origin Artifact escaped his control and surrounded it.
• The fragments gathered chaos energy and infused the skeleton with power, causing it to grow flesh and become a woman.
• The woman opened her eyes and identified herself as Yao, but said she could not remember who she was.
• Ximen Fenghua introduced the women as Western Alliance leaders and explained that Yao's former secret realm had collapsed.

Zhao Fu learned that Yao could sense the final bronze fragment once she recovered her strength, while the women confronted him about hiding his identity as the Son of Origin. As Yao’s recovery progressed and her sense of the fragment grew stronger, Zhao Fu neared the awakening of the supreme Imperial Star of the Chaos World.

• Yao told Zhao Fu she could faintly sense the final bronze fragment but needed to recover her strength first, and Ximen Fenghua led everyone out of the closing treasure vault.
• Ximen Zimeng, Ximen Ziqing, and Niu Chun confronted Zhao Fu over his deception, but Ximen Ziqing defended him and Ximen Zimeng agreed to trust him once more.
• Yao asked Zhao Fu about his Chaos Origin power and bloodlines, and he avoided answering before offering to help restore her strength and memories.
• Zhao Fu spent the following days with the women, agreed to remove the power affecting Ximen Nuo’s little brother and Ximen Yan’s son, and accepted Ximen Chuixue’s Natal Origin Pearl for safekeeping.
• Zhao Fu told Ximen Fenghua that Yao was recovering well and could increasingly sense the final Origin Fragment, while he himself stood close to awakening the supreme Imperial Star of the Chaos World.

Zhao Fu found the final bronze fragment and assembled the Chaos Origin Mirror, but his attempts to repair it with his own power and blood failed. He asked Yao to use her Chaos Blood for one last attempt.

• Yao recovered enough strength to sense the final bronze fragment beneath a lake, and Zhao Fu pulled it from the mud.
• Zhao Fu refined the fragment and assembled it with the others into a cracked Chaos Origin Mirror.
• Zhao Fu tried to fuse the mirror with Chaos Origin power, but the fragments absorbed the power without repairing.
• Zhao Fu used his own bloodline power to refine the mirror, but it expelled his blood and left him pale.
• Yao realized Zhao Fu's origin blood was purer than hers, while Zhao Fu decided to try using her Chaos Blood to repair the mirror.
• Yao cut her wrist and sent a clump of pale-gray Chaos Blood to Zhao Fu.

Zhao Fu and Yao repaired the Chaos Origin Mirror, unleashing a cataclysmic disturbance across the Chaos World and beyond. With the mirror restored, Zhao Fu prepared to awaken the Supreme Imperial Star of the Chaos World as the Western Alliance arrived to witness what he would do.

• Zhao Fu and Yao joined their powers of chaos to fuse the bronze fragments and repair the Chaos Origin Mirror.
• The restored mirror rose into the sky, absorbing the power of heaven and earth and causing upheaval throughout the Chaos World and neighboring worlds.
• Ximen Fenghua and the Western Alliance recognized that Zhao Fu had repaired the mirror and traveled to his location.
• Zhao Fu told Yao to move away because he was preparing for a final awakening unlike anything the Chaos World had seen.
• Yao and the Western Alliance watched Zhao Fu as he prepared to awaken the Supreme Imperial Star of the Chaos World.