Recaps

Zhao Hao realized he could speed up fusion with his Other Selves by carrying Void Origin Liquid into other worlds and exploiting differences in time flow. After securing his original body and enhancing his Rule Powers, he entered a powerful new spacetime vortex to begin a riskier round of fusions.

• Zhao Hao recalled that time flowed differently in Heart Demon Worlds and other spacetime worlds, and concluded he could fuse with an Other Self inside a faster-flowing world.
• Zhao Hao assessed the dangers of facing a powerful Other Self, then ordered Hu Yang to seal and defend Heavenly Cauldron Palace and Xiao Gu to protect his original body.
• Zhao Hao's Primordial Spirit left his body, swallowed two portions of Void Origin Liquid, and used his system to enhance his Rule Powers.
• Zhao Hao arranged for his Yaksha Race avatar to buy treasures for the remaining rare Rule Powers.
• Zhao Hao entered the chaotic Inner Landscape World and charged into a powerful Nascent Soul Realm spacetime vortex.

After completing his fusion with a Perfected Spirit Transformation Other Self, Zhao Hao discovered that another Zhao Hao had been scrutinizing him from across spacetime. The other Zhao Hao had already reached the Early Body Integration Realm, and after he vanished, Zhao Hao resolved to break through as well.

• Zhao Hao finished fusing with a Perfected Spirit Transformation Other Self and noticed that another hunter had been harvesting Other Selves in different cultivation realms.
• A powerful scrutiny targeted Zhao Hao, who used his Golden Eyes and perfected Causality Rule to trace it back to another Zhao Hao holding a bronze mirror.
• Zhao Hao sensed that the other Zhao Hao had reached the Early Body Integration Realm and exchanged a silent, battle-ready stare with him.
• The other Zhao Hao put away the mirror and vanished, severing every causal thread before Zhao Hao could follow.
• Zhao Hao completed his fusion, returned his Primordial Spirit to his main body, and decided to break through into the Body Integration Realm.

Zhao Hao began the first Body Integration trial beneath the eyes of ten Mahayana ancestors waiting outside a ninth-rank formation. He overcame the mismatch between his powerful Primordial Spirit and human body, reached the Body Integration Realm, and immediately faced the Heart Demon Trial.

• Zhao Hao discovered that he had reached Perfected Void Refinement and possessed hundreds of systems and perfected rules.
• Zhao Hao saw that a ninth-rank formation had trapped Heavenly Cauldron Palace while ten Mahayana ancestors waited outside to kill Blood Spirit Ancestor's clone.
• Zhao Hao began merging his Essence, Qi, and Spirit on a spiritual peak inside the formation.
• Zhao Hao's Primordial Spirit nearly tore apart his human body, so he activated Heavenly Demon Transformation and expanded into his Heavenly Demon True Form.
• Zhao Hao used Unity of Ten Thousand Paths to merge his powers into Chaos Dharma Power and successfully broke through to the Body Integration Realm.
• Zhao Hao's vision plunged into darkness as the Heart Demon Trial began.

Zhao Hao survived the Heart Demon Trial by merging the ambitions of hundreds of alternate selves into a unified will to ascend to immortality, while preserving his core identity. His breakthrough triggered a terrifying tribulation that shocked the Mahayana ancestors gathered outside Heavenly Cauldron Palace.

• Zhao Hao's consciousness was overwhelmed by memories and obsessions from hundreds of alternate selves, which fought to take control of him.
• A battle-mad alternate Zhao Hao devoured the other consciousness fragments and threatened to seize Zhao Hao's primary consciousness.
• The alternate selves united around the goal of ascending to immortality, and Zhao Hao chose to merge his cultivation memories and ambitions with their unified will while keeping his Earth-born self-awareness.
• Zhao Hao's Heavenly Demon True Form opened its Eye of Chaos, and he cleared the Heart Demon Trial through the unprecedented fusion.
• A destructive tribulation descended over Heavenly Cauldron Palace, and the Mahayana ancestors outside the Myriad Moon Mountains were stunned by its power.

Zhao Hao reached the Body Integration Realm by swallowing his tribulation lightning and devouring the clouds above Heavenly Cauldron Palace. His breakthrough left the watching Mahayana ancestors terrified of Blood Spirit Ancestor’s avatar.

• Zhao Hao tested his new Chaos Dharma Power and melted a hole in space with a casual punch.
• The crimson tribulation bolt passed through Heavenly Cauldron Palace’s formation, exposing Zhao Hao’s Heavenly Demon True Form to ten Mahayana ancestors.
• Zhao Hao fused his mastered rules and used Heavenly Hound Devours the Moon to swallow the bolt, then absorbed its power and Heaven-and-Earth Acknowledgment Power.
• Zhao Hao turned his suction toward the entire sky, drawing the tribulation clouds and their lightning into his body as the ancestors watched in alarm.
• Zhao Hao absorbed enough Heaven-and-Earth Acknowledgment Power to advance to Integrated Body Early Stage.

After reaching the early Body Integration Realm, Zhao Hao discovered that his five-element foundation was incomplete and began seeking ways to repair it. He then used his Heavenly Demon Blood to transform a Nascent Soul clone into a Mid Void Refinement Heavenly Demon Clone, realizing he might be able to mass-produce Void Refinement clones.

• Zhao Hao withdrew his Heavenly Demon True Form into dimensional space, while ten Mahayana ancestors watched from outside the Ninth-Rank Supreme Grand Formation and chose not to attack.
• Zhao Hao examined his cultivation and realized that his foundation relied almost entirely on fire because his essence and qi came from a single Fire Spiritual Root.
• Zhao Hao ordered his Yaksha Avatar in Spirit Evolution Immortal City to gather methods and treasures that could repair deficiencies in the five elements.
• Zhao Hao covered a Nascent Soul Middle Stage Demon Race clone with his Heavenly Demon Blood, transforming it into a Mid Void Refinement Heavenly Demon Clone.
• Zhao Hao concluded that he might be able to mass-produce Void Refinement clones.

Zhao Hao transformed the Heavenly Wolf Clone and Heavenly Fox Clone with Heavenly Demon Blood, and both clones broke through to the Body Integration Realm by swallowing their tribulations. As the ten Mahayana patriarchs sought reinforcements, Xiao Gu met Dragon Race cultivator Ao Run, who offered information about completing the human body's five-element foundation as a gesture of goodwill.

• Zhao Hao used Heavenly Demon Blood to transform the Heavenly Wolf Clone and Heavenly Fox Clone, raising both to Perfected Void Refinement.
• Xiao Gu broke through to the Body Integration Realm and swallowed his tribulation, shocking the ten Mahayana patriarchs watching from beyond the Myriad Moon Mountains.
• Hu Yang immediately underwent tribulation and likewise swallowed the tribulation cloud, leaving the patriarchs fearful of Zhao Hao's ability to create powerful clones.
• The ten Mahayana patriarchs sent messages to their races to request reinforcements against Zhao Hao.
• Xiao Gu met Ao Run at Dinglong Merchant House and asked for a method or information about completing the human body's five-element foundation.
• Ao Run gave Xiao Gu a jade slip of information without asking for payment, calling it a gesture of goodwill from the Dragon Race.

Xiao Gu learned that the Five-Element Spirit Root Nurturing Method could not restore Zhao Hao’s spirit roots because they had been destroyed rather than left dormant. Ao Run pointed him toward the Spirit Race as the only possible source of a remedy, and Xiao Gu traveled to Myriad Spirits City.

• Xiao Gu examined Ao Run’s Five-Element Spirit Root Nurturing Method and discovered that all its approaches required an existing spirit root seed.
• Ao Run explained that the method was intended for cultivators born with five elements whose roots had failed to develop, leaving Xiao Gu’s needs unmet.
• Xiao Gu asked Ao Run how someone born missing several spirit-root attributes could restore them.
• Ao Run identified the Spirit Race as the only likely source of such a method and mentioned the ancient Spirit King.
• Xiao Gu thanked Ao Run, left the merchant house, and took a teleportation array to Myriad Spirits City.

Xiao Gu entered Myriad Spirits City undetected and confronted Mu Sheng, the steward of Myriad Spirits Treasure Pavilion, to ask how a wood spirit body could complete its other four elements. The City Lord’s Mansion noticed his presence and summoned him for a talk.

• Xiao Gu concealed his presence and swept his divine sense across Myriad Spirits City, alarming powerful cultivators and prompting the city’s Ninth-Rank protection array to activate.
• Xiao Gu bypassed the pavilion’s restrictions and appeared inside Mu Sheng’s chamber, where he calmly poured himself tea.
• Mu Sheng recognized that Xiao Gu’s strength far surpassed his own and cautiously introduced himself as the pavilion’s steward.
• Xiao Gu used Golden Eyes to inspect Mu Sheng’s wood spirit body and directly asked how he could complete his other four elements.
• Mu Sheng received a message ordering him to invite Xiao Gu to the City Lord’s Mansion.

Xiao Gu met Jin Ling, an ancestor of the Spirit Race's Five-Element Lineage, to obtain its method for completing spiritual roots. Jin Ling offered the method in exchange for a Body Integration Realm Five-Element Desolate Beast Core, and Xiao Gu swore to fulfill the bargain before receiving the jade slip.

• Mu Sheng led Xiao Gu from the Myriad Spirits Treasure Pavilion to the City Lord's Mansion to meet the city lord.
• Xiao Gu used his Golden Eyes and discovered that the city lord, Jin Ling, wielded the Metal Law and was a Mahayana ancestor.
• Jin Ling asked why Xiao Gu sought the method for those born with incomplete spiritual roots, and Xiao Gu claimed his constitution lacked some of the five elements.
• Jin Ling offered the secret method in exchange for a Body Integration Realm Five-Element Desolate Beast Core from the Dark Continent, with an alternative payment if the task proved impossible.
• Xiao Gu swore a Heart Demon Oath to fulfill the bargain, and Jin Ling gave him the jade slip containing the method.

Zhao Hao learned that the Five-Element Heaven-Replenishing Art could restore attributes by absorbing Desolate Beast cores, which held pure elemental power and Law insights. Through Xiao Gu, he deliberately provoked the hidden beasts of the Dark Continent, awakening a terrifying ancient creature and leaving the pursuing cultivators in fear.

• Zhao Hao studied the Five-Element Heaven-Replenishing Art and discovered that its original form let Spirit Race members devour their own kin to gain attributes and Law comprehension.
• Zhao Hao learned that the Spirit Race king ended the slaughter by adapting the art to use Desolate Beast cores as substitutes.
• Zhao Hao switched his perspective to Xiao Gu, who released a Body Integration Realm aura and swept a divine-sense storm across the Dark Continent.
• More than a dozen cultivators followed Xiao Gu as he pushed deep into the continent to provoke its hidden Desolate Beasts.
• A colossal Desolate Beast roared from a mist-shrouded mountain, and its Law-filled sound waves injured a Void Refinement cultivator and terrified the pursuers.

Xiao Gu used the Purple Firmament Thunder Gourd to test his strength against a Mahayana giant bear Desolate Beast and badly wounded it with one strike. He pursued the fleeing bear into the Dark Continent and cornered it in a valley, where it demanded to know what he wanted.

• Xiao Gu transformed into a Five-Clawed True Dragon and confronted the Mahayana giant bear Desolate Beast.
• Xiao Gu infused the Purple Firmament Thunder Gourd with fused Rule Power and blasted through the bear’s mountain armor, piercing its chest.
• Xiao Gu sent two more thunder dragons after the wounded bear when it fled through a spatial rift.
• Xiao Gu pursued the bear and trapped it between the thunder dragons in a valley.
• The bear asked Xiao Gu what he wanted and complained that he had nearly beaten it to death.

Heavenly Wolf Clone Xiao Gu avoided a fight with a Desolate Beast by accepting a trove of crystal cores, then returned them to Zhao Hao. Zhao Hao identified the cores’ uses and began completing his Five-Element foundation.

• Xiao Gu questioned the giant bear Desolate Beast about the non-aggression pact, and the bear claimed the Dragon Race had helped sign it after luring Desolate Beasts away to transform into dragons.
• The giant bear offered Xiao Gu more than a hundred crystal cores to avert a battle, including a Mahayana core rich in Earth Law.
• Sensing two Mahayana cultivators approaching, Xiao Gu took the cores and escaped, leaving the injured bear behind as the two newcomers arrived and asked Xiong Pi what had happened.
• Zhao Hao examined the cores and recognized their potential for strengthening his space-time attributes, completing the Five Elements, and collecting rare rule powers.
• Zhao Hao used the strongest metal, wood, water, and earth cores with the Five-Element Heaven-Replenishing Art to begin completing his Five-Element foundation.

Zhao Hao implanted four elemental cores, raised his elemental spiritual roots and physiques, then changed cultivation arts to fuse the five-element power with his Chaos Dharma Power. After half a day, he restored his lost elemental foundations and perfected his Dao foundation, then prepared to advance his laws to the Law level.

• Zhao Hao implanted the earth, metal, water, and wood cores into his organs, then raised the four spiritual roots to Immortal Grade.
• Zhao Hao gained four elemental physiques and affinity Divine Abilities, while a spiritual-energy tornado erupted around the Heavenly Cauldron Palace and alarmed more than twenty Mahayana patriarchs.
• Zhao Hao transformed twelve Yaksha Race Golden Core cultivators into Heavenly Demons and used them to raise his four elemental physiques to Supreme Grade.
• Zhao Hao sensed the elemental powers clashing with his Chaos Dharma Power, so he began cultivating the Five-Element Illusory World Art and activated all five elemental affinities.
• Zhao Hao fused his new Five-Element Dharma Power with his Chaos Dharma Power, restored his lost elemental foundations, and resolved to raise his laws to the Law level.

Zhao Hao turned perfected rules into five First Stage Laws, using his Heavenly Demon True Form to withstand the enhancement pressure. Convinced he had gained the advantage over his Other Self, he entered the Inner Landscape World to continue the hunt.

• Zhao Hao enhanced Time Rule into Time Law after activating Heavenly Demon Transformation to endure the world's trial.
• Zhao Hao successively enhanced Spatial, Causality, Heart Demon, and Blood rules into laws.
• Zhao Hao concluded that his Other Self had not yet reached law power in Causality and resolved to end the hunt.
• Zhao Hao opened a gateway to the Inner Landscape World and charged into one of the remaining radiant balls of light.

Zhao Hao confronted the final Body Integration Realm version of himself and overcame his doubts by challenging him to fight. After unleashing his five-law Red Lotus Karmic Fire, Zhao Hao completed the fusion of every other self across timelines and dimensions.

• Zhao Hao found the last Other Self, who asked him how to resolve a deadly game of Go.
• Zhao Hao overturned the board and asked why he cultivated, prompting the other Zhao Hao to explain his fear and hesitation about the system and the other timelines.
• The other Zhao Hao rose to challenge Zhao Hao to a final battle, and they faced each other in the sky.
• Zhao Hao combined the laws of Time, Space, Causality, Heart Demon, and Blood to unleash his Red Lotus Karmic Fire, while the other Zhao Hao charged him with a flying sword.
• Zhao Hao fused every timeline and dimensional version of himself, achieving Unity of Ten Thousand Selves.

After eliminating every other Zhao Hao from his future timelines, Zhao Hao studied the requirements for reaching the Mahayana Realm and rejected cultivation methods that would take too long. He chose to investigate the Netherworld Blood Pool as a shortcut and sent an avatar to the Demon Realm to seek its secrets.

• Zhao Hao used the Time Law to converge his future timelines into one, securing his path to becoming immortal through Myriad Selves as One.
• Zhao Hao read a Body Integration Cultivation Guide and learned that advancing to the Mahayana Realm required law power, destiny power, and perfected dharma power.
• Zhao Hao considered several rare resources that could speed up his cultivation but found each difficult to obtain or too slow to use.
• Zhao Hao identified the Netherworld Blood Pool as a promising shortcut because he had mastered the Blood Law and Divine Soul Law needed to activate it.
• Zhao Hao sent a Nascent Soul avatar through a vortex gate using Other-Transformation Calamity Thought to investigate the Netherworld Palace in the Demon Realm.

Zhao Hao used his Nascent Soul clone to enter a Devil Race cultivator’s Heart Demon tribulation, seize his identity, and devour the resulting heavenly tribulation. His new clone vanished from the Nether Crow Clan, while Xiao Gu arrived in Nether Capital City.

• Zhao Hao’s Nascent Soul clone entered Ya Jiu’s sea of consciousness and overcame the Nether Crow cultivator’s Soul-Calming Bell with Heavenly Demon Illusion Realm.
• Zhao Hao destroyed the bell and used Plant Demon in the Dao Heart to erase Ya Jiu’s consciousness and remake him as a clone.
• The new Ya Jiu swallowed the Yin Lightning Heavenly Tribulation and its cloud, reaching the Nascent Soul Early Stage as the Nether Crow Clan watched in shock.
• Ya Jiu vanished from the Nether Crow Clan after examining his new demonic body.
• Xiao Gu reached Nether Capital City through Ya Jiu’s Other-Transformation Calamity Thought and headed toward a blood-and-fire structure at the city center.

Xiao Gu subdued Nether Capital City’s guards and City Lord Huang Shang, then searched Huang Shang’s memories for information about the Netherworld Blood Pool. After learning that its keeper was stationed at the Black Wind Abyss, Xiao Gu erased witnesses’ memories and headed there.

• Xiao Gu reached the City Lord’s Mansion, where a ripple left the bull-headed guards frozen and mindless.
• Huang Shang attacked Xiao Gu with the city formation’s blood-red claw, but Xiao Gu dissolved it and entered Huang Shang’s sealed cave residence.
• Xiao Gu subdued Huang Shang with the Heart Demon Principle and searched his memories, learning about the Netherworld Palace and its Netherworld Blood Pool.
• Xiao Gu discovered that a Netherworld Palace grand elder controlled the Blood Pool and was stationed at the Black Wind Abyss battlefield.
• Xiao Gu erased the witnesses’ memories across Nether Capital City and traveled to the Black Wind Abyss.

Xiao Gu confronted Blood Abyss in Black Wind Abyss, overwhelming the Netherworld Palace Supreme Elder with his laws and the Purple Firmament Thunder Gourd. When Xiao Gu revealed his Heavenly Demon True Form, Blood Abyss recognized him as the Heavenly Demon Sage Ancestor.

• Xiao Gu arrived openly at Black Wind Abyss and provoked its master, Blood Abyss.
• Blood Abyss attacked Xiao Gu with blood-red ropes infused with Blood Law, but Xiao Gu dissolved them effortlessly.
• Blood Abyss mistook Xiao Gu for a Mahayana patriarch and secretly connected his laws to the Ninth-Rank Grand Formation.
• Xiao Gu struck Blood Abyss with the Purple Firmament Thunder Gourd, breaking his shield and badly wounding him.
• Blood Abyss summoned a Profound Heaven Spirit Treasure and prepared to fight, but Xiao Gu transformed into a hundred-zhang Heavenly Demon True Form.
• Blood Abyss recognized Xiao Gu's aura and cried out, “Heavenly... Heavenly Demon Sage Ancestor?!”

Xiao Gu impersonated the Heavenly Demon Sage Ancestor to intimidate Blood Abyss into surrendering the Netherworld Blood Pool. After demonstrating his overwhelming power, he also took Blood Abyss's Profound Heaven Spirit Treasure saber, while Blood Abyss fled Black Wind Abyss.

• Xiao Gu pretended to be the Heavenly Demon Sage Ancestor, and Blood Abyss apologized and asked why he had come.
• Xiao Gu demanded Blood Abyss's Netherworld Blood Pool, but Blood Abyss attacked him with a saber beam from his Profound Heaven Spirit Treasure.
• Xiao Gu used Unity of Ten Thousand Paths to crush the saber beam with his demonic claw.
• Xiao Gu opened the Eye of Chaos and struck a spying Wind Demon Race Mahayana Patriarch, who escaped using a substitute death doll.
• Blood Abyss gave Xiao Gu the Netherworld Blood Pool and Profound Heaven Spirit Treasure saber, then burned his origin to flee Black Wind Abyss.

Xiao Gu defeated Blood Abyss, drove off a hidden Wind Demon Race ancestor, and seized the [Netherworld Blood Pool] and a Profound Heaven Spirit Treasure saber. Zhao Hao absorbed the pool’s remaining energy, advancing to Integrated Body Early Stage (69/100), and decided to find a way to refill it.

• Xiao Gu used [Eye of Chaos] to drive back the hidden Wind Demon Race ancestor and force Blood Abyss to surrender the [Netherworld Blood Pool] and blood-colored saber.
• Xiao Gu returned to the Heavenly Cauldron Palace and handed the treasures to Zhao Hao, who identified the saber as the [Profound Heaven Blood Demon Blade (Low Grade)].
• Xiao Gu expanded the [Netherworld Blood Pool] and infused it with the powers of [Blood Law] and [Heart Demon Principle].
• Zhao Hao entered the pool and used the Five-Element Illusory World Art to absorb its energy, raising his cultivation progress to Integrated Body Early Stage (69/100).
• After the pool’s energy ran out, Zhao Hao considered finding a place to refill it and looked toward the ongoing battlefield.

Zhao Hao sent his clones to harvest corpses from Spirit World battlefields, disrupting wars and forcing the races to consider ceasefires. He then went to the Yaksha–Shadow battlefield himself to seize Fortune Power, and the Shadow Race sent forces to capture him alive.

• Zhao Hao ordered his clones to gather corpses and souls from battlefields, and their scavenging caused fighting across many fronts to subside.
• Zhao Hao realized clones could not transfer Fortune Power to his original body, so he chose the Yaksha–Shadow battlefield and disguised himself as a Yaksha cultivator.
• Zhao Hao used the Heavenly Demon Illusion Realm to incapacitate two fleeing Shadow Race cultivators and absorb their Fortune Power.
• A Shadow Race elder learned that seven Late Spirit Transformation cultivators had vanished after reporting encounters with a Void Refinement Yaksha.
• The elder ordered three squads of Void Refinement cultivators to seal off the area with the Soul-Locking Mirror and bring Zhao Hao back alive.

Zhao Hao manipulated the Shadow Race and Yaksha Race into bloody clashes, harvesting their dead to replenish the [Netherworld Blood Pool]. After days of escalating violence, he discovered that one supposed victim was a Mahayana Ancestor's clone, which had awakened and caught him in the act.

• Zhao Hao used the [Causality Law], the [Heart Demon Principle], and the [Heavenly Demon Illusion Realm] to steer Shadow Race and Yaksha search parties into a canyon and provoke them into fighting.
• Zhao Hao let the battle leave both sides nearly wiped out, manipulated the two survivors into carrying false reports home, and collected the fallen cultivators with the [Netherworld Blood Pool].
• For seven days, Zhao Hao repeated the scheme, escalating the conflict and restoring some of the blood pool's depleted energy.
• After another clash, Zhao Hao began collecting the bodies, but a dead Shadow Race cultivator suddenly revealed power beyond the Void Refinement Realm and rose to the Integrated Body Middle Stage.
• Zhao Hao recognized the awakened cultivator's [Darkness Law] as the mark of a Mahayana cultivator and realized he had drawn a Mahayana Ancestor's clone into the conflict.

Zhao Hao defeated a Shadow Race Mahayana clone with his hidden Heart Demon and Blood Laws, then watched the Shadow Race retaliate against the Yaksha Race. After disguising himself as a Shadow Race Mahayana cultivator, he intercepted the wounded Yaksha cultivator who had escaped the attack.

• Zhao Hao revealed his Blood Law and fused it with the Heart Demon Law to defeat and suppress the Shadow Race Mahayana clone, absorbing its Fortune Power.
• The Shadow Race Mahayana cultivator who controlled the clone summoned another ancestor and attacked a Yaksha Race border Immortal City with him.
• The two Shadow Race Mahayana cultivators wounded a Yaksha Race Mahayana cultivator and forced him to flee toward the Yaksha heartland.
• Zhao Hao followed the wounded Yaksha cultivator, disguised himself as a Shadow Race Mahayana cultivator, and blocked his path.