Recaps

The restored laws opened the domains and strengthened the Violet Thorn Domain, while Qin Huaian was trapped in the Limitless Secret Realm as its fire array activated. He rescued the Yellow Mountain Sword Sect disciples and prepared to endure the flames, with no escape passage appearing.

• Changfeng was separated from the others in an unfamiliar forest, crossed an endless ocean, and reunited with Zeng You and Lu Beiwang on an enormous arm-shaped island before it rose from the sea in golden chains.
• The laws of heaven and earth became complete across the Luo River World, the sealed passages opened, and Lingxiao Ke and Su Yu advanced through tribulations as spiritual energy rose.
• The Limitless Secret Realm’s fire seas intensified and its teleportation platforms failed, trapping Qin Huaian and the other cultivators as the Li Fire Heaven-Burning Grand Array prepared to activate.
• Qin Huaian rescued Han Yunting, Mu Qinghan, and another Yellow Mountain Sword Sect disciple from the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land, then killed Elder Wu and the other pursuers.
• Wei Hong told Qin Huaian about the opened passages, the Violet Thorn Sacred Land’s siege, and Su Yu’s advance, but Qin Huaian chose to face the secret realm’s danger alone.
• Qin Huaian released the rescued disciples, learned that five Yellow Mountain Sword Sect disciples had been captured, and promised to make the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land pay after revealing he had already killed its experts at the outpost.
• The Li Fire Heaven-Burning Grand Array began raining fireballs across the secret realm, and Qin Huaian put Han Yunting and the others into his Small World before strengthening his defensive array and cultivating the Fire-Attribute Law.
• A cultivator reported that no spatial rift had appeared for a month, and Elder Hu ordered the sect informed that no one had escaped.

Qin Huaian survived the Central Fire Sea’s collapse and the Taiji Yin-Yang Fish’s assault while cultivators waited for a way out of the secret realm. Meanwhile, Lingxiao Ke, Duan Linchuan, and Su Yu opened Cloud Viewing Residence and learned that the Violet Thorn Great World had been sealed against advancement to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.

• Zhao Gang learned that the secret realm’s entrance had vanished, then received reports of an expanding gray mist whose heartbeat strengthened Leng Xuanye’s body-refining technique and drew him inside.
• Changfeng reached a vast purple-black heart surrounded by crimson water and began refining his body with the sea’s blood and vitality as Leng Xuanye arrived.
• Qin Huaian left his defensive array and killed Senior Brother Feng and a blue-robed Azure Water Sword Pavilion cultivator who tried to seize his suspected opportunity.
• Qin Huaian refused Chen Nian’s invitation to join the Heavenly Dao Sect and learned from Qin Lu that Li Li had joined the Joyous Union Sect and was preparing for her great ascension thunder tribulation.
• As the Central Fire Sea shrank, Qin Huaian fought off Zhu Yue’s group, collected Fire Crystal Stones, and watched the Taiji Yin-Yang Fish destroy the crater and extinguish the sea’s flames.
• Qin Huaian and the other cultivators learned that the Taiji Yin-Yang Fish and surviving palace formations were fighting the Li Fire Heaven-Burning Grand Array, while the palace teleportation platforms and other escape routes failed.
• Lingxiao Ke, Duan Linchuan, and Su Yu broke Cloud Viewing Residence’s protective formation and found a stone stele and jade slips.
• An old Daoist’s phantom appeared and revealed that the Violet Thorn Great World had been sealed, preventing cultivators from reaching the Daluo Golden Immortal realm, and offered to explain its past.

Qin Huaian claimed the Fire Origin Pearl, reached Perfection in the Fire-Attribute Law, and killed most of the cultivators who tried to seize his Small World. The Secret Realm World emerged over the Boundless Sea, and the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele arrived as changes spread through the laws and spiritual energy of the Violet Thorn Great World.

• Lingxiao Ke and the others heard Daoist Cloudwatcher's account of the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower, the decline of the Violet Thorn Great World, and the Devil Race invasion before his phantom vanished.
• Qin Huaian took the Fire Crystal Stone containing the Fire Origin, lured Zhu Yue away from the Central Fire Sea, and killed him with invisible sword radiance.
• Qin Huaian cultivated in his Small World as the other factions fought over treasures, then let the Fire Origin Pearl merge with the World Tree in Seed Space.
• The Secret Realm World emerged over the Boundless Sea, and Qin Huaian reached Perfection in the Fire-Attribute Law and the Immortal Venerable Late Stage before confronting the cultivators who had trapped his Small World.
• Qin Huaian killed most of the attacking cultivators with Nine Heavens Thunder Prison and collected their treasures, while the survivors fled.
• Lingxiao Ke, Su Yu, and Duan Linchuan learned that the Secret Realm World had become the Parasol Tree Continent, then watched the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele arrive and awaken the earth dragon vein.
• The stele's influence made laws easier to comprehend, strengthened space, and increased spiritual energy as Qin Huaian traveled toward the Central Fire Sea.
• Old Turtle met Qin Huaian, confirmed his Fire-Attribute Law had reached Perfection, and warned him to survive the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Tribulation before seeking more Origin Pearls.

Qin Huaian learned the ancient history behind the secret realm and faced Duan Linchuan, escaping after wounding him. As the world’s teleportation arrays failed and Star Pavilion expanded, Qin Huaian traveled toward its formation to return to Dragon Creek Continent and aid his allies.

• Senior Turtle told Qin Huaian that the secret realm had broken from the Grand Void Heaven Domain and described the ancient wars, the Earth Ancestral Dragon Vein, and the danger of Qin Huaian’s future tribulation.
• Senior Turtle left the great world, and Qin Huaian learned that the merged lands had become the Parasol Tree Continent as he traveled toward the Central Fire Sea.
• Qin Huaian told Xing Wanjun that the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele held the Mysterious Yellow Thick Earth Body, then learned that Duan Linchuan had advanced to Daluo Golden Immortal.
• Duan Linchuan pursued Qin Huaian and demanded that he become a soul slave, but Qin Huaian wounded him with Grand Void Birth and Extinction and escaped.
• Su Yu planned to expand Star Pavilion across the Parasol Tree Continent as spatial changes disabled many teleportation arrays, while Qin Huaian struggled to find a working route.
• Qin Huaian continued traveling and cultivating, learned that Star Pavilion maintained a public teleportation formation, and decided to use it to return to Dragon Creek Continent and help his allies.
• At Star Pavilion’s teleportation palace, Qin Huaian declined the guard’s invitation to join the sect and learned that using the formation cost ten million Immortal Crystals.