Recaps

Zhao Hao absorbed and devoured the lightning beasts and arrays unleashed by his tribulation, using their power to purify the chaotic will within him. After swallowing the tribulation clouds and golden light, he opened the Eye of Chaos and gained the ninth-grade Divine Ability.

• Zhao Hao used the first lightning dragon's power to purify his chaotic will and feed the mark between his brows.
• The tribulation clouds formed a Four Symbols Annihilation Array, while a middle-aged fox clansman and the six-tailed white fox watched from afar.
• Zhao Hao countered the array's beasts with his lightning gourd, Red Lotus Karmic Fire, Wind Rule, and claws, then devoured all four beasts and broke the array.
• Zhao Hao shattered and devoured the increasingly powerful tribulation arrays until the clouds ran out of power and dispersed.
• Zhao Hao swallowed the Tribulation Golden Light, opened the Eye of Chaos, and received a notification confirming the ninth-grade Divine Ability and beginner Chaos Rule.

Zhao Hao ambushed and defeated a seven-tailed Sky Fox who had tried to capture his newly awakened Heavenly Demon form, using enhanced treasures and several rules to overcome the fox’s illusions and escape techniques. He trapped the fox’s primordial spirit and stored its body, while a message warning the Sky Fox Clan’s chief that the fox had been eaten reached Qingqiu Fox Continent.

• Zhao Hao detected a seven-tailed white fox approaching under an illusion and enhanced his Soul-Devouring Jade and formation disc.
• Zhao Hao feigned being ensnared, enhanced his Wind Rule, and tore apart half the fox’s body with a sudden attack.
• Zhao Hao trapped the fleeing six-tailed fox in a formation, caught it, and tore out its heart as it sacrificed tails to escape.
• Zhao Hao used the Chaos Rule to misdirect the fox’s jade ruyi, then enhanced the treasure while it was caught in his jaws.
• Zhao Hao burned the fox with red lotus karmic fire empowered by the Causality Rule and sealed its primordial spirit in the Soul-Devouring Jade.
• An eight-tailed Sky Fox Clan chief received a message warning that its uncle had been eaten by a Heavenly Demon.

Hu Qingshan learned that a Heavenly Demon had killed Hu Yang and rallied powerful demon factions and the Human Heavenly Dao Alliance against it. At the Dragon Transformation Pool, Duan Xiu received word that the Heavenly Demon was in the Heavenly Forge Sect's territory and hurried away with the supreme elder, leaving the other dragons behind.

• Hu Qingshan tried to divine Hu Yang's last location, but Zhao Hao used the Heaven-Earth Eight-Trigram Mirror and his perfected Causality Rule to block the probe and cause a backlash.
• Hu Qingshan viewed Hu Xiu's memories of Zhao Hao killing Hu Yang, then sent an image of the attack to powerful demon factions and the Human Heavenly Dao Alliance.
• Zhao Hao erased his traces in the Crimson Flame Mountain Range and headed for Fallen Dragon Valley.
• At the Dragon Transformation Pool, Ye Wuchen and the others drank so much water that the level fell by nearly half, while Ye Wuchen reached Nascent Soul Perfection.
• Azure Cloud told Duan Xiu that a Spirit Transformation Heavenly Demon had appeared in the Heavenly Forge Sect's territory, and Duan Xiu initially accused him of inventing an excuse to stop them drinking.
• After receiving confirmation from his sect, Duan Xiu and the supreme elder left the pool with Ye Wuchen, while seven flood dragons remained behind.

Duan Xiu and the Supreme Elder questioned whether the Sky Fox Clan had fabricated evidence of a Heavenly Demon, then demanded proof that the clan elder Hu Yang had died. Azure Cloud closed the depleted Dragon Transformation Pool to them, while Hu Qingshan discovered that Hu Yang’s soul flame was still burning.

• Duan Xiu and the Supreme Elder examined the tribulation ruins and suspected the Sky Fox Clan had used illusion arts to fabricate its recordings.
• Duan Xiu sent the Heavenly Dao Alliance a complaint accusing the Sky Fox Clan of a Demon Race conspiracy and demanded proof that Hu Yang’s soul lamp had gone out.
• Duan Xiu asked Azure Cloud whether the Dragon Transformation Pool was still open, and Azure Cloud said it had been closed before ordering the teleportation access shut off.
• Hu Qingshan tried to record Hu Yang’s extinguished soul flame as proof, but found that it was dim yet still burning.
• Hu Qingshan wondered aloud how Hu Yang’s Primordial Spirit could remain intact after being swallowed by a Heavenly Demon.

Zhao Hao searched the Void Refinement fox demon’s soul and learned that Void Refinement cultivators devoured other versions of themselves across multidimensional spacetime to refine falsehood into reality. He erased the fox demon’s consciousness, made its body into a Void Refinement clone, and sent the clone toward the fox clan while his original body began cultivating.

• Zhao Hao concealed himself with his perfected heart demon rule and traveled through Fallen Dragon Valley to a secluded valley, where he raised protective formations.
• Zhao Hao searched the Void Refinement fox demon’s primordial spirit and discovered its layered memories and the secrets of Void Refinement, Body Integration, and Mahayana.
• Zhao Hao wondered whether other versions of himself existed across multidimensional spacetime, then erased the fox demon’s consciousness and corrupted its primordial spirit into a clone.
• The clone entered the fox demon’s four-tailed body, tested an illusion powered by the perfected heart demon rule, and adapted to its new form.
• Zhao Hao’s original body transformed into a four-tailed white fox and began refining the seven-tailed white fox’s essence to purify his heavenly fox bloodline.
• The Void Refinement clone left the formation and headed toward the outskirts of Fallen Dragon Valley, intending to retaliate against the fox clan.

Ye Wuchen’s avatar reached Nascent Soul Perfection and secretly entered Fallen Dragon Valley to undergo tribulation, while Hu Yang’s avatar headed to the human-demon front line. After hearing the Sky Fox Clan blamed for a failed scheme, Hu Yang prepared to make his own move against them.

• Ye Wuchen refined the Dragon Transformation Pool water, reached Nascent Soul Perfection, and decided to seek tribulation in Fallen Dragon Valley for the chance to capture an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon.
• Ye Wuchen met Hu Yang’s Spirit Transformation avatar outside the valley and handed him a fourth-rank top-grade array disk.
• Hu Yang’s avatar traveled to Demon-Suppressing City and heard cultivators blame the Sky Fox Clan for fabricating a Spirit Transformation Heavenly Demon incident.
• Hu Yang’s avatar left the city for the ancient battlefield, intending to make a major move that would force the Fox Clan to bear the losses.

Hu Yang infiltrated the Space-Rending Marten Clan and captured its members, but a Void Refinement clan leader detected him and fought back with a mysterious stone bowl. Hu Yang realized the bowl could be a damaged Profound Heaven Spirit Treasure, leaving him to reassess the danger of the fight.

• Hu Yang used his illusion abilities to capture over a hundred Space-Rending Martens, including five at the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• A Mid Void Refinement Space-Rending Marten ambushed Hu Yang, but he dodged its attacks and confronted it from outside its protected valley.
• Hu Yang began to leave, prompting the Marten to emerge from the formation with a damaged stone bowl that repelled his illusion.
• The Marten recognized Hu Yang as a member of the Sky Fox Clan and questioned his attack, while Hu Yang struck the bowl's barrier with Red Lotus Karmic Fire.
• Hu Yang's fire failed to break through the barrier, and he suspected the stone bowl was a damaged Profound Heaven Spirit Treasure.

Hu Yang used his shifting forms and camouflage to escape the Space-Rending Marten patriarch, while leaving traces to frame the Sky Fox Clan. The accusation reached the Demon Race leaders, who confronted Hu Qingshan with evidence of fox clan aura.

• Hu Yang recognized the damaged bowl as a Profound Heaven Spirit Treasure, then mocked the Space-Rending Marten patriarch and refused to trade its captives for the bowl.
• Hu Yang escaped under his camouflage and deliberately scattered a faint trace of Sky Fox Clan aura to make the Space-Rending Marten patriarch blame them.
• Ye Wuchen's clone recovered the Purple Firmament Thunder Gourd, while Zhao Hao refined an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon and strengthened his Spirit Transformation Primordial Spirit.
• News spread that the Sky Fox Clan had attacked the Space-Rending Marten Clan, and demon leaders gathered before Hu Qingshan at the Sky Fox Clan's sacred ground.
• A Howling Moon Wolf revealed a vial containing pure fox clan aura and demanded that Hu Qingshan explain it.

Hu Yang’s clone secretly wiped out several demon clans and fueled suspicion that the Sky Fox Clan was responsible, forcing Hu Qingshan to prepare an evacuation. Meanwhile, Zhao Hao refined new pills and gained Sky Fox abilities, then transformed into a seven-tailed fox.

• The Howling Moon Heavenly Wolf patriarch killed the Space-Rending Marten patriarch, blamed Hu Qingshan for leaving trouble behind, and urged the demon clans to prepare for war against humans.
• Hu Yang’s clone secretly abducted every member of seven or eight void refinement clans, spreading panic across the demon-held South Continent.
• Hu Yang’s clone spread a rumor that the Sky Fox Clan planned to sacrifice other bloodlines to extend its ancestor’s life, and the disappearances made the rumor seem credible.
• Hu Qingshan, unable to disprove the accusations, ordered clan members below the void refinement realm to relocate to Qingqiu Mountain in the Spirit World.
• Zhao Hao refined six space-attribute Dao-Comprehension Pills, gained the Fleeting Life, Illusory Dream and Nine-Tailed Life Substitute abilities, and transformed into a seven-tailed fox.

Hu Yang's avatar infiltrated the Ghost-Faced Wolf Spider territory but was discovered and attacked by Youyue, an Integrated Body ancestor of the Umbral Shadow Cat Clan. He escaped using Spatial Traversal as Youyue joined the Demon Race's war council, where the gathered clans prepared to invade the human North Continent.

• Hu Yang used his illusion arts to capture Golden Core wolf spiders before Youyue attacked him with an overwhelming claw.
• Hu Yang countered Youyue's illusion attack with [Fleeting Life, Illusory Dream], but Youyue shattered the illusion with a bronze bell.
• Hu Yang fled from Youyue and used [Spatial Traversal] to escape a thousand miles away, causing Youyue to abandon the pursuit.
• Youyue reported Hu Yang's strength and escape to the Integrated Body Great Talents gathered at the Demon Race's war-preparation front line.
• Youyue urged the demon clans to seize three to five human provinces, while resolving to make use of Hu Qingshan in the coming war.

Hu Qingshan was forced by the Demon Race’s leaders to infiltrate Human territory in exchange for a full assault on Demon-Suppressing City, while Ye Wuchen received a wartime pill-refining summons that could earn him military merit and rare treasures.

• The chief of the Howling Moon Heavenly Wolf Clan and Youyue blamed Hu Qingshan’s Sky Fox Clan for causing turmoil and demanded that he infiltrate the Human Race’s heartland.
• The Demon Race Great Talents threatened to drive the Sky Fox Clan from the Mysterious Yellow Realm and seize Qingqiu Fox Continent unless Hu Qingshan accepted responsibility.
• Hu Qingshan agreed to infiltrate Human territory, provided the Demon Race attacked Demon-Suppressing City to create an opening.
• The Human Heavenly Dao Alliance conscripted Ye Wuchen to report to Demon-Suppressing City’s Alchemist Alliance and refine pills for military merit.
• Ye Wuchen looked forward to earning enough military merit to obtain a Profound Heaven Spirit Treasure and wondered whether a reincarnation-attributed treasure of laws would be available.

Ye Wuchen examined the Heavenly Dao Alliance’s military merit rewards and spotted a costly time-attribute treasure before war broke out at Demon-Suppressing City. As the city’s defenders held off the demon army and its Hundred Nascent Souls God-Forming Arrays, Body Integration combatants joined the battle, leaving Ye Wuchen puzzled by the escalation on the war’s first day.

• Ye Wuchen studied the military merit repository and found that one portion of time sand grain cost 500,000 merits.
• War drums sounded, and Ye Wuchen left his cave abode to see the demon army advancing on Demon-Suppressing City.
• Human defenders fired spirit cannons and ballistae while the city’s protective array held against the demon assault.
• Over a hundred Nascent Soul demons formed battle arrays that fused their mana, vital energy, and souls into powerful demon manifestations.
• The manifestations struck the city barrier, and the defenders destroyed some of them, but more continued charging.
• A Body Integration demon attacked the barrier, prompting a human combatant to counter it before both fighters clashed in the void.

The demon army lured the human Body Integration cultivators away from Demon-Suppressing City, then the Howling Moon Heavenly Wolf patriarch used a broken silver spear to pierce the city’s peak eighth-tier barrier. An invisible phantom slipped inside, pursued by a human ancestor.

• Demon Spirit Transformation and Void Refinement cultivators joined the assault, forcing the city to strengthen its defenses and activate its spiritual light cannons.
• Ye Wuchen realized the demons were drawing human Body Integration cultivators into duels, but more demons arrived and attacked the city together.
• The Howling Moon Heavenly Wolf patriarch revealed a broken silver spear, whose aura alarmed Ye Wuchen and made him vanish using Spatial Traversal.
• The patriarch hurled the spear and tore open the city’s peak eighth-tier barrier.
• An invisible phantom entered through the breach, and a human Integrated Body middle stage ancestor pursued it.

After the Demon Race’s attack on Demon-Suppressing City, the Human Race leaders assessed the threat of an Immortal Artifact and their numerical disadvantage. The Heavenly Dao Alliance leader revealed that he had secured reinforcements from the Spirit World in exchange for allowing them to establish branch sects in the South Continent.

• Ye Wuchen escaped Demon-Suppressing City, then watched Su Yi pursue and wound Hu Qingshan before both vanished into unstable space.
• Ye Wuchen confirmed that the city had held and that the Demon Race army had retreated, then quietly returned.
• The Heavenly Dao Alliance’s leaders learned that the broken silver spear was an Immortal Artifact fragment that required enormous mana to throw and could not track moving targets.
• An elder reported that the Demon Race had fielded at least fifty-three Body Integration Realm cultivators, compared with the Human Race’s forty-one, most of them at the early stage.
• The Heavenly Dao Alliance leader announced that he had arranged Spirit World reinforcements in exchange for allowing their sects to establish branch sects across the Demon Race territories in the South Continent.

Zhao Hao conceived a plan to raise Heavenly Demons and feed them powerful beasts so he could harvest their soul power to strengthen his Primordial Spirit. After testing it successfully with his Heavenly Demon clone, he left the clone eyeing Hu Yang’s collection of spirit beasts.

• After reviewing his clones’ memories, Zhao Hao realized his cultivation was advancing too slowly and decided that devouring Heavenly Demons was the best way to strengthen his Primordial Spirit.
• Zhao Hao summoned his Golden Core Heavenly Demon clone through the Inner Landscape World and used a supreme-grade Dust-Cleansing Pill to protect it from the Mysterious Yellow Realm’s rejection.
• Zhao Hao gave the clone a storage ring containing the pseudo-Heavenly Demon and sent it through the Inner Landscape World to Hu Yang on the South Continent.
• Hu Yang released a Nascent Soul Middle Stage Space-Rending Marten, and the Heavenly Demon clone devoured it completely, growing stronger and larger.
• After confirming that his plan worked, the Heavenly Demon clone turned its attention to the spirit beasts stored in Hu Yang’s Spirit Beast Bracelet.

Hu Yang force-fed his Heavenly Demon clone demonic beasts and captured demons, raising it from golden core middle stage to perfected spirit transformation. The clone concluded it needed purer Heavenly Demon blood and turned its attention to Zhao Hao’s [Heavenly Demon True Form].

• Hu Yang released over a hundred Golden Core demonic beasts, and the Heavenly Demon clone devoured them and reached golden core completion.
• Hu Yang fed the clone a hundred Nascent Soul demonic beasts, then concealed the cave abode as the clone’s aura surged to nascent soul perfection.
• Hu Yang gave the clone Zhao Hao’s pseudo-Heavenly Demon, and its cultivation broke through to Spirit Transformation as it consumed more Nascent Soul beasts.
• Hu Yang released his remaining Spirit Transformation and Void Refinement demons, and the clone devoured them until it reached perfected spirit transformation.
• The clone realized its flesh still lacked pure Heavenly Demon blood and decided to take some from Zhao Hao’s [Heavenly Demon True Form].

Zhao Hao fed his Heavenly Demon Blood to his mature Heavenly Demon clone, helping it break through to Void Refinement. After refining a newly split Spirit Transformation clone, he gained ten points of cultivation progress and sent the weakened Void Refinement clone to hunt demons and produce more clones.

• Zhao Hao transformed into his Heavenly Demon True Form and filled a jade bottle with his blood to strengthen his Heavenly Demon clone.
• Zhao Hao suppressed his supreme-grade Heavenly Demon Blood’s resistance as the clone refined it and broke through to early Void Refinement.
• Zhao Hao ordered the Void Refinement Heavenly Demon to split off an early Spirit Transformation clone, then refined that clone himself.
• Zhao Hao saw his cultivation progress rise to early Spirit Transformation (30/100) and decided to replenish the weakened Heavenly Demon before draining it again.
• Zhao Hao sent the Void Refinement Heavenly Demon to the South Continent to join Hu Yang and hunt high-level members of the Demon Race.

Hu Yang and the Void Refinement Heavenly Demon raided the Howling Moon Heavenly Wolf clan’s ancestral grounds while its elites were away, capturing nearly the entire clan and killing its late Void Refinement guardian. The clan leader learned of the attack at the demon front and returned to find his home empty.

• Hu Yang chose the Howling Moon Wolf Continent as a target and warned the Heavenly Demon avatar to wait while he scouted the clan grounds.
• Hu Yang slipped through the seventh-tier mountain-protecting formation with [Formless Demon Body] and trapped the clan members below the Void Refinement Realm in illusions.
• Hu Yang captured hundreds of thousands of Howling Moon Heavenly Wolves in the Spirit Beast Bracelet and overpowered the late Void Refinement old wolf, which managed to shatter an alarm talisman before Hu Yang seized its Primordial Spirit.
• The Howling Moon Heavenly Wolf clan leader received the broken talisman at the demons’ military front and abandoned the war council to return home.
• Hu Yang and the Heavenly Demon avatar escaped, and the clan leader arrived to find the ancestral grounds empty and howled in grief and rage.

The Howling Moon Heavenly Wolf Clan's destruction terrified the demon experts and halted the demon offensive, while the human alliance feared a larger threat and prepared to contact the Spirit World. Hu Qingshan reached the ruins where Hu Yang had broken through, but Su Yi caught up with him again.

• The Howling Moon Heavenly Wolf patriarch and another elder learned their clan grounds had been destroyed and rushed away from the demon war council.
• The other demon experts recalled the Four-Tailed Sky Fox's attacks, hurried to check on their clans, and began leaving the hall.
• The demons sounded a ceasefire, prompting human cultivators and the Heavenly Dao Alliance to suspect that the demons had summoned reinforcements from the Spirit World.
• The Heavenly Dao Alliance leader ordered the cross-realm communication array activated immediately to notify the Spirit World.
• Hu Qingshan found the lightning-scarred ruins where Hu Yang had recently reached Spirit Transformation, but Su Yi's sword intent locked onto him from a thousand li away.

Zhao Hao turned a Howling Moon Heavenly Wolf into a combat clone and gained a rare Rule Treasure before drinking the wolf’s blood essence. Meanwhile, Spirit World reinforcements joined the Human Race’s forces and launched a surprise attack on the Demon Race’s military headquarters.

• Zhao Hao branded the Howling Moon Heavenly Wolf’s Primordial Spirit with a demon seed, and the wolf took human form and departed through a vortex gate.
• Zhao Hao claimed the wolf’s devouring-attribute Rule Treasure and drank its blood essence to refine it with the [Heavenly Demon Sacred Art].
• Thirty Spirit World cultivators arrived at Demon-Suppressing City, where Cheng Du briefed them on the Demon Race’s suspicious withdrawal.
• Jiang Qing urged the gathered great talents to strike the Demon Race’s headquarters and distributed concealment talismans and a Mahayana strike talisman.
• Cheng Du approved the raid, and the great talents vanished under the talismans’ concealment.
• A massive sword light shattered the Demon Race’s defensive array and collapsed its military council hall, prompting an alarm of enemy attack.

Cheng Du and Jiang Qing led nearly seventy Human Race Great Talents in a surprise attack on the Demon Race headquarters, trapping the demons in a crushing assault. Youyue escaped by detonating her Heaven-reaching Spirit Treasure, while Hu Yang’s clone prepared to prey on the fleeing demons.

• Jiang Qing and Cheng Du led nearly seventy Human Race Great Talents in an attack that destroyed the demon palace and surrounded the Body Integration demons.
• The Human Race Great Talents overwhelmed the demons, and Youyue detonated her bronze bell to blast open the spatial seal and escape.
• Jiang Qing compressed the battlefield into a cage, stopping the Mountain-Suppressing Bear ancestor from detonating its warhammer.
• A Pangolin Beast ancestor self-destructed, and the confined blast badly wounded the demons trapped with it.
• Hu Yang’s clone watched the fleeing lower-level demons and opened a vortex gate to summon an enormous Howling Moon Heavenly Wolf clone.

Hu Yang and his Heavenly Wolf Clone tricked fleeing demons into gathering at fake teleportation arrays and stored nearly two hundred thousand of them in enhanced Spirit Beast Bracelets. When a human Body Integration Cultivator approached, the two clones vanished, leaving the demons behind.

• Hu Yang disguised his clone as the wounded Umbral Shadow Cat ancestor Youyue while the Heavenly Wolf Clone posed as a Howling Moon Heavenly Wolf elder, and they summoned fleeing demons to separate mountains.
• The two clones used illusions to make demons believe they were teleporting to safety while secretly storing them in their Spirit Beast Bracelets.
• When the bracelets filled up, they fed plundered treasures into the system to enhance the bracelets into Lesser Heaven-reaching Spirit Treasures, increasing their capacity and restoring their speed.
• Each clone gathered nearly a hundred thousand demons before a human Body Integration Cultivator detected Youyue and flew toward her.
• The Heavenly Wolf Clone warned Hu Yang, and both clones fled with their fake teleportation platforms, leaving hundreds of thousands of demons behind as the human cultivator discovered the deception.

Cheng Du doubted Feng Yang’s report that Youyue had used Illusion and Space Rules, while Demon Race ancestors learned that Xiao Gu and Youyue had returned many of their clansmen from the human ambush. The Howling Moon Heavenly Wolf clan chief realized someone had impersonated Xiao Gu, just as allied clan ancestors arrived to collect their people.

• Cheng Du rejected Feng Yang’s claim that Youyue had used Illusion and Space Rules, and Feng Yang conceded he might have mistaken an illusion for spatial power.
• Demon Race ancestors received news that humans had gathered seventy Integrated Body great talents and destroyed the front-line headquarters, and they feared for their remaining clansmen.
• Void Refinement demons reported that Xiao Gu and Youyue had teleported most Nascent Soul and Spirit Transformation elites back to their clan territories, easing the ancestors’ panic.
• The Howling Moon Heavenly Wolf clan chief heard that Xiao Gu had rescued allied clansmen, then realized Xiao Gu had been left at the ruins and that someone had impersonated him.
• The Heavenly Flying Tiger ancestor arrived with other Integrated Body demons and announced that he had come to take his clansmen home.

Zhao Hao gathered more than two hundred thousand sleeping demons and used his Heavenly Demon clones to break through to mid Spirit Transformation. Meanwhile, the Howling Moon Heavenly Wolf patriarch fought off five Demon Race ancestors after denying that his clan had taken their people, and he revealed an ancient stone bowl when their combined attack struck.

• Five Demon Race ancestors confronted the Howling Moon Heavenly Wolf patriarch, demanded their missing youngsters, and threatened to destroy his continent.
• Zhao Hao received two Spirit Beast Bracelets containing more than two hundred thousand demons and ordered his Heavenly Demon clone to devour them.
• When the clone reached a bottleneck, Zhao Hao split it into Spirit Transformation clones and devoured them himself, advancing to mid Spirit Transformation.
• The Howling Moon Heavenly Wolf patriarch attacked the five ancestors after they accused him of hiding their people.
• The five ancestors unleashed a combined attack, but the bloodied patriarch survived behind a gray barrier and raised a battered stone bowl.

The Howling Moon Heavenly Wolf Patriarch used the Broken Stone Bowl to fight off five Demon Race powerhouses, but the Heavenly Flying Tiger Ancestor shattered the bowl’s barrier with an exploding spirit treasure. After the demons fled, Xiao Gu appeared and returned the bowl to the wounded Patriarch.

• The Howling Moon Heavenly Wolf Patriarch crushed a Communication Jade Token to summon his Second Brother, then charged the Heavenly Flying Tiger Ancestor behind the Broken Stone Bowl’s barrier.
• The Heavenly Flying Tiger Ancestor wounded the Patriarch with a detonated Falling Star Spear, shattering the barrier, and fled with half his body badly injured.
• The other four demons fled after seeing the Patriarch survive the blast, while he struggled to retrieve the Broken Stone Bowl.
• Xiao Gu appeared, caught the Broken Stone Bowl, and told the Patriarch that he had returned.