Recaps

Su Zhan survived the Sect Master's curse and mocked the Blood-colored Vertical Eye after the attack failed to harm him. The curse had been purified by the Thunder Emperor Divine Seat in his sea of consciousness, leaving the Sect Master's will destroyed and its power converted into soul essence.

• The Blood-colored Vertical Eye sent a Curse Seal into Su Zhan, expecting to destroy his soul.
• The Curse Seal entered Su Zhan's sea of consciousness and found the Thunder Emperor Divine Seat and several other mysterious presences.
• The Divine Seat's lightning trapped and purified the curse, breaking down the Sect Master's will into refined soul essence.
• Su Zhan yawned, showed no signs of damage, and told the Blood-colored Vertical Eye to remove the impurities next time and send more.
• Elder Yuan Ji stared in shock as the Blood-colored Vertical Eye fell silent.

Su Zhan used the Thunder Emperor Divine Seat’s power to destroy the Black Demon Sect Master’s divine sense attack and declare the secret realm his territory. The Sect Master ordered the Demon Sea sealed, while the Yuan Household revered Su Zhan.

• The Thunder Emperor Divine Seat devoured the Blood-colored Vertical Eye’s attack, and Su Zhan taunted it to strike again.
• Su Zhan invoked the Thunder Emperor’s authority and shattered the demonic eye with a single word.
• The Black Demon Sect Master suffered a severe backlash, recognized the threat of Su Zhan’s Thunder Origin, and ordered the Demon Sea sealed and the sect’s protective formation activated.
• The pressure in the secret realm vanished, and the Yuan Household collapsed in relief before worshipping Su Zhan.
• Yuan Ji struggled to his feet to kowtow, but Su Zhan showed no joy at his victory.

The Black Demon Sect Master's final order brought the Blood Mist Forest to life, turning its trees and vines into demons and filling the air with deadly poison. As the Yuan household struggled to survive, Su Zhan prepared to test the Myriad Poisons Divine Farmer's Canon and the excited Ancient Life Tree.

• The Blood Mist Forest began shaking and its trees, vines, and thorn bushes transformed into demons under the Sect Master's final command.
• Elder Yuan Ji ordered a retreat, but a vine dragged away a Yuan household member, while Yuan Chou defended Yuan Yuan from another attack.
• The poisonous miasma intensified, making members of the Yuan household cough and develop green spots despite taking Su Zhan's Detoxification Pills.
• Su Zhan watched the forest demons approach and summoned the Myriad Poisons Divine Farmer's Canon.
• The Ancient Life Tree sensed the toxins and urged Su Zhan to let it out so it could consume them.

Su Zhan opened Shennong Domain and subdued the poisonous miasma and tree demons in the forest, turning the deadly danger into a source of nourishment. He bound the Bloodheart Demon Tree and continued absorbing the poison qi.

• Su Zhan opened Shennong Domain, causing the poison qi to stop attacking the Yuan Household and stream into him.
• The tree demons became docile, and a thorny vine stopped before Yuan Ji and nuzzled him.
• Su Zhan absorbed the forest's poisonous miasma as the Bloodheart Demon Tree tried to flee underground.
• Su Zhan bound the Bloodheart Demon Tree with purple-gold roots.
• Su Zhan summoned Divine Farmer's Miasma, and the poison qi gathered into the halo and entered his body.

Su Zhan led the Yuan Household through the Blood Mist Forest, where his Shennong Domain subdued the demonic plants and poisonous creatures. He reached the forest’s core and faced the Bloodheart Demon Tree, a thousand-year-old demon at the Martial King Second Level.

• Su Zhan’s purple halo transformed the attacking Tree Demon vines, which fawned over him instead of harming the group.
• Su Zhan continued deeper into the forest as its poisonous insects and demonic flowers submitted to his Shennong Domain.
• The Yuan Household followed Su Zhan through the now-peaceful forest, while Elder Yuan Ji marveled at his mastery of the Dao.
• Su Zhan reached a clearing and discovered the Bloodheart Demon Tree, a massive demon planted by the Black Demon Sect Master that had grown to the Martial King Second Level.

Su Zhan suppressed the Bloodheart Demon Tree with the Divine Farmer's Miasma, forcing the thousand-year-old demon plant to surrender and offer him its Blood Bodhi. The tree buried itself again and cleared a path for Su Zhan and the Yuan Household.

• The Bloodheart Demon Tree shrieked at Su Zhan, but he silenced it with the Divine Farmer's Miasma.
• Su Zhan threatened the still-hesitant tree, and it uprooted itself and kowtowed to him.
• The Bloodheart Demon Tree offered Su Zhan its Blood Bodhi, which Elder Yuan Ji recognized as a legendary treasure.
• Su Zhan accepted the fruit and dismissed the Shennong Domain.
• The Bloodheart Demon Tree scrambled back underground and moved aside to clear a path for Su Zhan.

Su Zhan fed the Blood Bodhi to the [Ancient Life Tree], causing it to evolve and awaken the Withering and Flourishing Principle. He demonstrated its power over life and death, then left the Blood Mist Forest having defeated the Black Demon Sect’s ambush and brought the Yuan Household into submission.

• Su Zhan gave the Blood Bodhi to the [Ancient Life Tree] after deciding it could benefit more from the fruit than he could.
• The [Ancient Life Tree] consumed the Blood Bodhi, grew into a towering tree, and unfurled a ninth leaf embodying the Withering and Flourishing Principle.
• Su Zhan revived a charred branch with a word, then made it wither and crumble with another.
• Su Zhan assessed the Blood Mist Forest trip as a sweeping victory after defeating the Black Demon Sect’s ambush, gaining the Yuan Household’s submission, and improving two cultivation methods.

Su Zhan led the Yuan Household through the Blood Mist Forest to a vast bone-covered wasteland, where they discovered the Black Demon Sect’s Bone Dragon legion. Hundreds of undead dragon knights launched an attack, leaving Su Zhan and his group facing their charge.

• Su Zhan guided the Yuan Household through the forest, and the party reached the White Bone Wasteland.
• Yuan Ji and the others saw hundreds of Bone Dragons carrying black-armored knights and realized they faced a disciplined Dragon Knight Legion.
• The commander on a dark-gold Bone Dragon pointed his spear at the party, revealing a slain Yuan Household scout’s head and declaring that trespassers would die.
• The commander swept his spear, and hundreds of Bone Dragons roared and dove toward Su Zhan and the others.
• Su Zhan identified the wasteland as a military camp as the dragons blotted out the sky and scattered Corpse-Poison Dust.

The Black Demon Sect’s Bone Dragon legion attacked the Yuan Household after its commander displayed Xiao Qi’s severed head. As the dragons dove to kill them, Su Zhan summoned the Blazing Dragon Venerate to burn the wasteland clean.

• The Bone Dragon commander dropped Xiao Qi’s head at Yuan Ji’s feet and mocked the Yuan Household.
• Yuan Ji condemned the Black Demon Sect, and the commander ordered his troops to form ranks.
• Hundreds of Bone Dragons charged the Yuan Household, whose members could barely circulate their Spirit Energy under the pressure.
• Su Zhan closed Xiao Qi’s eyes and vowed to turn the wasteland into a crematorium.
• Su Zhan granted the Blazing Dragon Venerate’s request to emerge, and a brilliant red light burst behind him.

Blazing Dragon Venerate emerged and overwhelmed the bone dragon legion with its true-fire aura and Glazed Dragon Breath. The commander fled into the wasteland after most of his forces were destroyed.

• Blazing Dragon Venerate appeared above the charging bone dragon legion, and the leading bone dragons and knights burned away in its true fire.
• Blazing Dragon Venerate mocked the commander and made the dark gold bone dragon cower through its bloodline pressure.
• Blazing Dragon Venerate unleashed Glazed Dragon Breath, wiping out more than half the legion and scattering the survivors.
• The Yuan Household watched in astonishment as the commander fled into the wasteland.

Su Zhan and the Blazing Dragon Venerate defeated the fleeing commander, who summoned three Black Demon Sect elders before he could be killed. The elders formed the Three Talents Absolute Killing Formation and began creating a massive White Bone Demon God, leaving Su Zhan facing their combined attack.

• The Blazing Dragon Venerate struck the fleeing commander with its tail and shattered his bones, leaving him alive.
• The commander crushed a jade pendant and summoned three Black Demon Sect elders through a rift in the sky.
• The three Martial King elders arrived and confronted Su Zhan and the Blazing Dragon Venerate.
• The elders joined forces to form the Three Talents Absolute Killing Formation and drew bones from the wasteland.
• The elders assembled the bones into a hundred-zhang White Bone Demon God armed with weapons of resentment.

Su Zhan fused the Blazing Dragon Venerate, Nine Heavens Divine Lightning, and Immovable Wisdom King Wall into a powerful Dharma manifestation to challenge the White Bone Demon God. The two giants faced off in the White Bone Wasteland, with Su Zhan daring the demon god to test whose strength was greater.

• The Old Man in Black Robe summoned the White Bone Demon God and boasted that its attack would kill Su Zhan.
• Su Zhan called on his three cultivation methods to combine their powers and advanced to meet the demon god.
• Su Zhan formed the hundred-zhang Immovable Thunderflame Wisdom King Body, combining dark-gold defense, violet-gold lightning, and crimson flames.
• The three Black Demon Sect elders were shaken by the manifestation's power, while Su Zhan beckoned the White Bone Demon God to attack.

Su Zhan fused the powers of three Cultivation Methods into the Immovable Thunderflame Wisdom King, overwhelming the White Bone Demon God and astonishing the Yuan Household. He savored his newfound command over lightning, fire, and earth as the three voices in his consciousness bickered.

• Su Zhan manifested the Immovable Thunderflame Wisdom King, combining Nine Heavens Divine Lightning, Blazing Dragon Venerate, and Immovable Wisdom King Wall.
• The Old Man in Black Robe, the red-robed woman, and the gaunt old man were horrified when their White Bone Demon God and death Qi were suppressed by Su Zhan’s fused Principles.
• Elder Yuan Ji and Yuan Chou watched in awe, recognizing Su Zhan’s power as the manifestation of the Dao.
• The three beings in Su Zhan’s consciousness argued over their roles in the fusion, while Su Zhan ignored them and delighted in his control over the surrounding world.

Su Zhan’s Immovable Thunderflame Wisdom King met the White Bone Demon God’s attack with one punch. The punch shattered its weapons and destroyed the demon, leaving the three Black Demon Sect elders horrified.

• The White Bone Demon God attacked Su Zhan’s Immovable Thunderflame Wisdom King with all six arms at once.
• Su Zhan raised his fist and struck the demon’s weapons with a single punch.
• The punch shattered all six bone weapons and continued through the demon’s chest.
• The White Bone Demon God cracked apart and fell from the sky in countless burning bone fragments.

Su Zhan shattered the Black Demon Sect elders’ White Bone Demon God with one punch, leaving the Yuan Household and the surviving elders stunned by his overwhelming power. The Old Man in Black Robe and the woman in red struggled to their feet and demanded to know who Su Zhan was.

• Su Zhan’s punch destroyed the White Bone Demon God and sent the three Black Demon Sect elders crashing into piles of bones.
• The Yuan Household realized Su Zhan had defeated a demon god summoned by three Martial Kings with a single blow.
• The Cultivation Method Chat Group celebrated and argued over whose power had contributed most to the attack.
• Su Zhan dismissed the Immovable Thunderflame Wisdom King manifestation and stood unharmed.
• The Old Man in Black Robe and the woman in red recovered enough to ask Su Zhan who he was.

Su Zhan overwhelmed the three Black Demon Sect elders and began searching their souls for the sect’s secrets. The Thunder Emperor Divine Seat processed their memories, but the search’s discoveries were still unfolding.

• Su Zhan approached the terrified Black Demon Sect elders, treating them as sources of intelligence rather than enemies.
• Su Zhan used the Immovable Thunderflame Wisdom King’s three lightning-and-fire hands to pin down the elders.
• The Old Man in Black Robe tried to detonate his divine soul, but purple-gold lightning stopped him.
• Su Zhan began searching all three Martial King elders’ souls simultaneously.
• The Thunder Emperor Divine Seat processed the flood of memories while the Blazing Dragon Venerate, Nine Heavens Divine Lightning, and Myriad Poisons Divine Farmer's Canon reacted.

Su Zhan used the [Thunder Emperor Divine Seat] to extract the Black Demon Sect’s secrets and discovered the Sect Master’s trap at the Central Altar. After learning how the Ten Thousand Demons Heart-Devouring Blood Pool threatened the Yuan Household, he left the gathered survivors awestruck by his power.

• The [Thunder Emperor Divine Seat] sorted the elders’ memories and revealed a precise diagram of the Central Altar.
• Su Zhan learned that the Sect Master had prepared the Ten Thousand Demons Heart-Devouring Blood Pool to corrupt the Yuan Household’s bloodlines and take their bodies.
• Su Zhan finished searching the elders’ souls, leaving no trace of them beneath his lightning and fire hands.
• Yuan Chou and the other survivors stared at Su Zhan in fear and awe.
• Elder Yuan Ji dropped his broken bone staff and gazed at Su Zhan like a pilgrim.

Su Zhan and the Yuan Household reached the Central Altar, where Yuan Ji explained that its God-Ascending Steps tested outsiders with the Principles of the [Mustard Seed Grotto-Heaven]. The Yuan Household disciples climbed easily, but the steps unleashed a tremendous repulsive force as soon as Su Zhan stepped onto them.

• Su Zhan left the cleared Skeleton Wasteland behind and led the group toward the Black Pyramid-Shaped Altar.
• Yuan Ji identified the altar's 9,999 God-Ascending Steps and explained that the Yuan Household bloodline could pass safely and gain nourishment from their Principles.
• Yuan Chou climbed first, delighted by the spiritual energy flowing into him, and the other Yuan Household disciples followed with ease.
• Su Zhan stepped onto the first stair, triggering a terrifying force from across the [Mustard Seed Grotto-Heaven] that crushed toward him.

Su Zhan faced the full force of the Mustard Seed Grotto-Heaven’s principles on the God-Ascending Steps, which treated him as an intruder and tried to destroy him. Ignoring Yuan Ji’s pleas, he stepped onto the second step and triggered an even stronger backlash.

• Su Zhan felt the grotto-heaven’s principles attack him, cracking the first step and twisting the space around him.
• Yuan Ji and the Yuan Household realized the altar was rejecting Su Zhan and feared he could not ascend it.
• The Cultivation Method Chat Group reacted to the pressure, while Su Zhan decided he could devour the principles instead of retreating.
• Su Zhan raised his foot and stepped onto the second step despite Yuan Ji’s warning.
• The stronger backlash struck, and the black altar shook violently.

Su Zhan discovered that the altar’s repulsive Principles became nourishment after the Thunder Emperor Divine Seat purified them, allowing his cultivation methods to absorb the power. He strolled through the devastating storm and continued ascending while the observers watched in disbelief.

• When Su Zhan stepped onto the second stair, the altar unleashed a force that shattered the step and made Elder Yuan Ji beg him to retreat.
• Su Zhan realized the purified, ownerless Power of Principle was nourishing his cultivation methods rather than harming him.
• The Immovable Wisdom King Wall absorbed the Earth Principle, while the Nine Heavens Divine Lightning and other methods drew in different Principles.
• Su Zhan began walking lightly through the storm, breaking the stairs beneath him as he steadily climbed.
• Elder Yuan Ji and Yuan Chou watched Su Zhan ascend in shock.

Su Zhan climbed the God-Ascending Steps with astonishing ease, absorbing the principles’ power as he raced past the Yuan Household members. When he reached the summit, the altar’s resistance vanished and an ancient hum rose from the Black Pyramid Altar.

• Su Zhan accelerated up the steps, leaving the struggling Yuan Household disciples far behind.
• Yuan Ji wondered whether Su Zhan was more compatible with the Mustard Seed Grotto-Heaven than the descendants who carried its Key bloodline.
• As he climbed, Su Zhan absorbed the principles’ energy, strengthening his cultivation methods and deepening his connection to the realm.
• Su Zhan reached the final step and stepped onto the summit ahead of the Yuan Household members.
• The principles’ repulsive force disappeared, and an ancient hum rose from the depths of the Black Pyramid Altar.

Su Zhan reached the Central Altar atop the Mustard Seed Grotto-Heaven and discovered three dangerous demonic statues guarding its core. When he stepped onto the platform, its golden runes lit up.

• Su Zhan arrived at the top of the Central Altar, where the world's power welcomed him instead of resisting him.
• Su Zhan saw three obsidian statues armed with an axe, a spiked club, and a bow, and sensed their deadly presence.
• The Cultivation Method Chat Group identified the statues as soulless, rune-reinforced constructs powered by unfamiliar energy crystals.
• Su Zhan recalled that the statues were connected to the altar's formation and had to be destroyed to reveal the Ten Thousand Demons Heart-Devouring Blood Pool.
• Su Zhan reassured the Yuan Household members below, then stepped onto the platform and caused golden runes to light up across it.

Three Obsidian Golems awakened on the Altar summit and began a purge protocol against Su Zhan. He assigned the Blazing Dragon Venerate and Nine Heavens Divine Lightning to fight two of them, then vanished to face the archer golem himself.

• The three Obsidian Golems awakened, identified an unauthorized intruder, and unleashed power comparable to peak Martial King Third Stage experts.
• The pressure from the summit injured and pinned down weaker Yuan Household disciples, while Elder Yuan Ji feared for Su Zhan.
• Su Zhan assigned the club-wielding golem to the Blazing Dragon Venerate and the axe-wielding golem to the Nine Heavens Divine Lightning.
• Su Zhan vanished and took on the bow-wielding golem as the three guardians activated their purge protocol.
• The archer golem swiftly drew a three-meter black arrow and nocked it on its bowstring.

Su Zhan faced three third-level Martial King guardian golems attacking at once, but summoned six Cultivation Methods as independent avatars to confront them. The avatars began countering the golems’ attacks and targeting their weaknesses.

• The three guardian golems attacked Su Zhan simultaneously with an arrow, a spiked club, and a giant axe.
• Su Zhan dismissed the attacks as a warm-up and called all his Cultivation Methods out to fight.
• Six divine lights emerged from Su Zhan and transformed into avatars, astonishing the Yuan Household below.
• Blazing Dragon Venerate met the club, Nine Heavens Divine Lightning confronted the axe, and Immovable Wisdom King Wall blocked the arrow.
• Ancient Life Tree reached to restrain the archer, Myriad Poisons Divine Farmer's Canon spread poisonous spores over the golems, and Shadow Thousand Silk Lock searched their bodies for weaknesses.

Su Zhan revealed six powerful clones and ordered them to attack the three golems, overwhelming Elder Yuan Ji with the scale of the fight. The battle raged across the Altar, where Blazing Dragon Venerate and Nine Heavens Divine Lightning began damaging their opponents.

• Elder Yuan Ji realized Su Zhan had turned the fight into a six-against-three battle with clones rivaling Martial Kings.
• Su Zhan ordered his six clones to finish the fight quickly, and they attacked the golems across the Altar.
• Blazing Dragon Venerate wrapped around the Mace Golem and blasted it with Dragon Breath, burning its protective membrane without cracking its obsidian body.
• Blazing Dragon Venerate rammed the Mace Golem, and their collision sheared a layer from the Altar's edge.
• Nine Heavens Divine Lightning dodged the Giant Axe Golem's attack and thrust its spear into a crack, breaking off a piece of obsidian.