Recaps

Jiang Changkong established the Holy Land, defeated Kun Yu, and struck a bargain with the Divine Court to enter the Ancient Heavenly Realm. After exploring a ruin and surviving a trap in a pill furnace, he and Sun Li reached a formation-filled world connected to Doushuai Palace.

• Jiang Changkong spared White Elephant, took control of his Divine Kingdom, and established the Holy Land, where faith and the awakened Heavenly Dao fragment helped empower the people and appoint three new divine Guides.
• Jiang Changkong expanded his influence by seizing neighboring kingdoms, killed Wan Lei God King, and defeated Kun Yu at the Myriad Thunder banquet before gathering resources from the other God Kings.
• Jiang Changkong negotiated with the Divine Court and Sun Yuan, then used a staged Demon Race ruin to lure Kun Yu and his followers into a trap.
• Jiang Changkong and his allies captured Kun Yu’s forces and took the Phoenix Divine Spear, but a Divine Emperor later rescued Kun Yu and armed him with the Witch-Slaying Sword.
• Jiang Changkong accepted Ji Chang'an’s offer of passage to the Ancient Heavenly Realm in exchange for eventually killing one of three Immortal Kings, then traveled there and defeated a rogue Immortal King.
• Jiang Changkong entered Doushuai Palace through a divine tree, was trapped in a pill furnace, and found Sun Li inside while two Immortal Kings tried to refine them into a Golden Pill.
• Jiang Changkong and Sun Li followed an azure wolf through a spatial passage into a world connected to the real Doushuai Palace, where explorers sought clues to Samadhi Divine Fire.

Jiang Changkong defeated Heavenly Court forces, helped the Demon Emperor recover the Chaos Bell fragment, and continued exploring ancient ruins. He arrived at Wuzhuang Temple with the Sun brothers and the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King, where the group began searching Breeze Hall for treasures.

• Sun Qing, Sun Li, and Jiang Changkong entered the rift through the Samadhi Divine Fire and uncovered ancient experiments and a method for summoning a trove of relics.
• Jiang Changkong defeated Aoyin Laihe and other Heavenly Court leaders, escaped an alchemy trap, and left for the depths of the void.
• Jiang Changkong defeated Kun Yu and Lu Wuchuan, escorted Wang Shanhe's group, and learned that the Heavenly Realm's stars were gathering again.
• The Demon Emperor entered the Demon Race region, while Jiang Changkong visited the Redwood Divine King and began refining a Golden Crow body in the Chaos Divine Fire.
• Jiang Changkong defeated Purple Star Heavenly King’s forces, perfected his Acquired Chaos Dao Body, and gave the Demon Emperor the immortal post and fragment needed to complete the Golden Crow body.
• The Demon Emperor used the Chaos Bell’s power to drive off Kun Yu, killed Redwood Divine King, and recruited Wang Shanhe and other Divine Kings.
• Jiang Changkong reached Breeze Hall at Wuzhuang Temple, where Ginseng Fruits had killed earlier intruders and a hidden passage led the group into a realm of blood-controlling beasts.
• Jiang Changkong destroyed the beasts, found a way out with his companions, and entered Breeze Hall, where they identified statues of Zhenyuan Immortal and Daoist Acolyte Breeze.

Jiang Changkong navigated the chaos ruins, bargained with the Immortal Spirit, and joined the Demon Emperor and Sun Wuxuan in the Underworld. After gaining the Immortal Venerable’s support, he reached a hidden ghost city and entered a pit where the Heavenly Dao fragment lay.

• Jiang Changkong uncovered the Blood River beneath Qingfeng’s ginseng fruit tree, destroyed its revived beasts, and escaped the ruins with the tree and the remaining fruit.
• Feng Jiu told the Demon Emperor that the great powers were competing for a method to open the Underworld, while Jiang Changkong bargained with the Immortal Spirit and entered the chaos ruins.
• Jiang Changkong took Kun Yu’s Phoenix Spear, killed True Martial Heavenly King, and fought the Demon Emperor over the Underworld-opening method before they left the ruins with captives and the method.
• The Demon Sovereign sent Sun Wuxuan to open the Underworld, and Jiang Changkong joined them in exploring it, where they encountered the Asura and Ghost Mother clans and learned the Heavenly Ghost Emperor guarded a possible Heavenly Dao fragment.
• The Demon Sovereign led the Demon Race against the Heavenly Ghost Emperor, but the Immortal Venerable’s arrival secured permission for the group to search the Underworld.
• Jiang Changkong sensed the Heavenly Dao fragment beneath a blood-yellow river and led the group across it by following Little Croak’s instructions.
• Jiang Changkong, the Demon Emperor, and Sun Wuxuan entered the ghost city, where Little Croak warned Jiang Changkong before a street collapsed and swallowed several of their companions.
• Jiang Changkong activated an ancient pattern that merged a divine-power figure into his back and revealed a pit containing the Heavenly Dao fragment, then entered the pit with Little Croak.

Jiang Changkong and his allies uncovered ancient experiments and battled over powerful relics as the major factions competed for ruins. The arc ended with Mount Buzhou still unexplored, Gu Hanshan missing, and the factions preparing to divide hundreds of ruins through Immortal Emperor battles.

• Jiang Changkong and his companions defeated the Heavenly Ghost Emperor, and Eastern Emperor Changyue revived the Heavenly Dao and took charge of the Underworld’s ghost races.
• Jiang Changkong ascended to the Heavenly Realm, cultivated to the peak of the Immortal Emperor realm, and became Deputy Alliance Leader of the Rogue Cultivator Alliance.
• Jiang Changkong explored a ruin with the Moon Goddess and Sun Li, defeated mutated Immortal Emperor Guangxuan, and received Heaven’s Power for completing the mission.
• Jiang Changkong joined the Demon Emperor in battle against the Heavenly Court, while Kun Yu broke through to the Immortal Emperor realm before Divine Court forces captured him and Feng Jiu.
• Jiang Changkong searched the chaos caverns, killed eight experimental creatures, and advanced the Seven Revolutions Profound Art to the late stage.
• The Demon Emperor and other peak Immortal Emperors explored an ancient research site, where Jiang Changkong helped defeat a Heavenly Court Immortal Emperor and recovered the Yin-Yang Energy Bottle.
• Jiang Changkong went to Mount Buzhou to search for Gu Hanshan and the others, but its golden barrier repelled him and the group found no trace of them.
• Sun Wuxuan told the Demon Emperor that 436 ruins would be divided through Immortal Emperor battles, while Feng Jiu revealed that a Chaos Fierce Phoenix Fruit could help a phoenix reach the Immortal Emperor limit.