Recaps

Yang Huai heard conflicting accounts of the Nine Heavens Spirit Maiden and wondered whether she was Yuan Xiuxiu, but decided to remain in Heavenly Gold Cave and focus on cultivating rather than risk going to the Southern Borderlands. In the Heavenly Realm, he saw his water soldiers accepted into the Heavenly Marshal Camp and invited Tai Sui Star Lord to dinner.

• Fang Ge said the Nine Heavens Spirit Maiden had destroyed the Savage Demon Cult, while Lin Muzhong accused her of working with the cult and cited the Brightfire Island Lord as his source.
• Yang Huai questioned the rumors, suspected the Nine Heavens Orthodox Alliance was smearing the Azure Heaven Orthodox Path, and considered whether Dao Ningzi knew Yuan Xiuxiu's identity.
• Yang Huai decided to stay in Heavenly Gold Cave, cultivate his Origin Dao Fruit, and wait until he was strong enough to defend Yuan Xiuxiu's name.
• Tai Sui Star Lord watched Yang Huai's heavenly river water soldiers demonstrate control of the Milky River Weak Water, and the observers approved Yang Huai's entry into the Heavenly Marshal Camp.
• Yang Huai joined Tai Sui Star Lord and invited him to drink wine and eat food he would cook himself.

Yang Huai explored the Primordial River-Luo Treasure Mirror, where he challenged powerful Star Lords and discovered that combat there could deepen his understanding of their star arts. After lasting nearly a quarter of an hour against the Earth Evil Star Lord, he assessed the cultivation gap he needed to overcome.

• Yang Huai listened to the Demon Star Lord lecture on Soul-Pinning Photography before entering the Primordial River-Luo Treasure Mirror.
• Yang Huai challenged the Demon Star Lord and was defeated in two breaths by her Upper God power.
• Yang Huai fought Tai Bai Star Lord, was swiftly expelled, and gained greater insight into the Tai Bai True Form.
• Yang Huai challenged the Earth Evil Star Lord and lasted nearly a quarter of an hour before being blasted out.
• Yang Huai concluded that he remained far weaker than Upper Gods and considered how perfecting the sixth level of the Nine Luminaries Star Palace could help him contend with them.

Yang Huai continued strengthening his control over the Milky River and witnessed the Water Manor Star Lord defeat the Fire Manor Star Lord in a duel. After meeting several powerful Star Lords and gaining insights into the Dao, he sensed another strange fluctuation in the Milky River’s origin and set out to investigate it.

• Yang Huai trained the Milky River water soldiers, cultivated with the river’s authority, and reflected on his progress toward completing the Nine Luminaries Star Wheel.
• Yang Huai followed a faint disturbance through the Milky River but found only its currents flowing toward a lower Heavenly Realm, then went to the Zhou Tian Starry Sky.
• Yang Huai watched the Water Manor Star Lord overpower the Fire Manor Star Lord and learned from the battle’s display of the Attaining the Dao realm.
• Tai Sui Star Lord introduced Yang Huai to the Water Manor and Fire Manor Star Lords, then hosted the group on Tai Sui Star, where Yang Huai gained divine medicines, spirit fruits, and useful insights.
• Yang Huai sensed a second fluctuation in the Milky River’s origin and followed it, suspecting something lay behind the disturbance.

Yang Huai searched the depths of the Heavenly River for a year and a half before uncovering the Milky River Weak-Water Spirit Banner, a supreme treasure that could command half the Milky River weak-water origin. He then completed his cultivation of the Zhen Star Lord in the Primordial River-Luo Treasure Mirror and returned to study the banner’s mysteries, hoping to develop powers that could protect himself and Yuan Xiuxiu.

• Yang Huai repeatedly stirred the Heavenly River’s origin and searched the surrounding waters until he exposed a hidden riverbed formation concealing an icy-blue banner.
• Yang Huai communed with the banner, learned it was the Milky River Weak-Water Spirit Banner, and discovered that it could command half the Milky River weak-water origin.
• Yang Huai studied the banner’s two core Great Dao runes and learned that fully refining it would require him to imprint it with his own mark.
• Yang Huai fought the Zhen Star Lord in the Primordial River-Luo Treasure Mirror and, after enduring the battle, harmonized yin-yang and the five elements within the Nine Luminaries Star Wheel.
• Yang Huai collected rewards at the Heavenly Marshal Camp, then returned to the Heavenly River to study the banner and consider developing Milky River weak-water divine abilities.

With only a few years left before his appointment ended and a crisis threatening Yuan Xiuxiu, Yang Huai sought immortal elixirs to advance his Golden Core cultivation. Daoist Heavenly Crane helped him negotiate loans from sect elders, and Yang Huai secured pills from True Person Ziyu and Daoist Nun Guangzhen before weighing a third offer.

• Yang Huai sensed the Tenth Prince of the Golden Crow Clan overhead and saw how much the prince's strength had grown, then tested his own newly cultivated Heavenly River Divine Radiance.
• After refining thirty Firecloud Pills, Yang Huai advanced to a seven-revolution Golden Core and decided to borrow immortal elixirs rather than leave the sect while danger threatened Yuan Xiuxiu.
• Yang Huai sent Gaga with a letter asking Daoist Heavenly Crane to help find lenders, and Daoist Heavenly Crane hurried to Spirit-Fusion Peak after worrying that his nephew was risking his Dao heart.
• Daoist Heavenly Crane consulted sect elders and brought Yang Huai to meet six True Persons at Nine-Dragon Abbey, where Yang Huai accepted True Person Ziyu's six Violet Gold Pure Yang Pills in exchange for a future favor.
• Yang Huai also accepted Daoist Nun Guangzhen's four Phoenix Firecloud Pills in exchange for helping Cheng Muxian through a future tribulation, then considered whether to accept Martial Aunt Jiufang's offer to help open an immortal abode.

Yang Huai accepted Master Jiufang's terms for the immortal elixirs and refined them until his Ninth-Revolution Golden Core reached perfection. He broke through to the Primordial Spirit realm and endured the Wind Calamity, leaving his newly born Primordial Spirit devouring the tribulation wind.

• Yang Huai accepted Master Jiufang's terms, and the other Daoists departed after discussing his choice to borrow elixirs.
• News of Yang Huai's arrangement spread through the sect, drawing curiosity from younger disciples and disapproval from some older Daoists; Zhao Zhenwu called it too hasty.
• Yang Huai refined the Form-Fixing Immortal Elixirs and Phoenix Firecloud Pills for half a year, bringing his golden core to the limit of the Ninth Revolution.
• Yang Huai sent his golden core into his Ancestral Aperture and gave birth to an infant Primordial Spirit, triggering the Wind Calamity.
• Yang Huai's grown Primordial Spirit withstood the yin wind and devoured it, transforming the tribulation into cultivation as nine-colored radiance filled Heavenly Gold Cave.

Yang Huai cultivated his Yin Spirit toward a Yang Primordial Spirit while advancing the nine-star divine powers of his Origin Dao Fruit. After years of training in the Heavenly Marshal Camp, he finally mastered the Luohou Star God, completing the Nine Luminaries Star Wheel.

• Yang Huai fused innate origin ancestral qi with his Yin Spirit and transformed into the Origin Star Lord Divine Body, resolving to advance further toward a Yang Spirit and Golden Immortal power.
• Yang Huai began tempering his Yin Spirit with pure Yang true fire by consuming violet-gold immortal pills, burning away its hidden Yin dregs.
• Over the following year, Yang Huai focused on comprehending Jidu and Luohou and repeatedly challenged star gods in the Primordial River-Luo space.
• Peach Blossom Star Lord emerged from the Primordial River-Luo space after enduring more than two quarters of an hour, then followed Yang Huai back inside to continue training.
• Seven months later, Yang Huai finally cultivated the Luohou Star God, completing the nine ancient stars and strengthening the Nine Luminaries Star Wheel and Origin Dao Fruit.

Yang Huai attained the realm of a Higher God, then learned that Yuan Xiuxiu had gone to the Savage Borderlands and might be in danger. After Dao Ningzi sent him toward Lesser Cold Mountain to retrieve a sealed treasure before continuing to the Savage Border Divine Land, Yang Huai set out with information about the enemies watching the estate.

• Yang Huai harmonized the nine ancient stellar authorities, broke through his limits, and attained the realm of a Higher God.
• Back at Spirit-Fusion Peak, Yang Huai realized he had only half a year before the ten-year deadline and decided to investigate the Savage Borderlands.
• Dao Ningzi recognized that Yang Huai had become a target of factions inside and outside the Nine Heavens Orthodox Alliance, then left early for the Savage Borderlands with several sect elders.
• Yang Huai seized Black Prison and learned that Yuan Xiuxiu was in the Savage Borderlands and had gone to the Spirit Platform Sword Sect, but Black Prison could not reach her through its Heart-Link Pearl.
• Yang Huai went to Longmen Mountain seeking Dao Ningzi, where Yue Hanxian gave him a brocade pouch and directions to retrieve a treasure from Lesser Cold Mountain before proceeding to the Savage Border Divine Land.

Yang Huai found true dragons causing floods around Bell Mountain Commandery and used the Junting Ancient Sword to slay them. The Dragon-Taming Venerable appeared to stop him, but Yang Huai and a hidden expert defeated and killed him.

• Yang Huai and the Winged Tiger saw the floods and recognized that true dragons were summoning the rain.
• Yang Huai sent the Junting Ancient Sword through the clouds, stopping the rain and killing several true dragons.
• The Dragon-Taming Venerable revealed himself and attacked the sword with demonic arts and the Wangdi Token.
• The Dragon-Taming Venerable used the Bloodcloud Divine Banner, but Yang Huai's sword split the blood clouds.
• A hidden figure used Nine-Colored Divine Radiance to pin the Dragon-Taming Venerable, and the Junting Ancient Sword killed him and destroyed his soul.

Yang Huai defeated Dragon-Taming Venerable, used the Wangdi Token’s dragons to end the flood, and recovered two treasures from Azure Cloud Fairy’s immortal estate. The Stone Demon Lord confronted him for the treasures, but Yang Huai struck her down with the Sea-Calming Pearl.

• Yang Huai claimed the Wangdi Token and Bloodcloud Divine Banner after killing Dragon-Taming Venerable, then sent the four true dragons to quell the flood.
• The Winged Tiger warned Yang Huai that Dragon-Taming Venerable had served the Stone Demon Palace, whose master would seek revenge.
• Yang Huai ordered Prefect Shan Tao to open the granaries and provide relief to the flood victims.
• Yang Huai entered Azure Cloud Fairy’s immortal estate at Little Cold Mountain and took the Ten-Thousand-Year Divine Lamp and Heart-Illuminating Mirror.
• The Stone Demon Lord demanded the treasures and threatened to make Yang Huai her demonic puppet, but Yang Huai struck her and her throne with the Sea-Calming Pearl, causing them to explode.

Yang Huai destroyed Stone Demon Lord and took her Violet Palace Immortal Lotus before heading to the Savage Border Divine Land to find the Nine Heavens Spirit Maiden. There, he exposed a trap set by Grand Void Divine Lord and drew another hidden opponent into the confrontation.

• Yang Huai overwhelmed Stone Demon Lord's demonic radiance, erased her Primordial Spirit, and claimed the Violet Palace Immortal Lotus.
• Yang Huai sent Winged Tiger toward the Savage Borderlands and traveled to Upper Border Commandery, where he spotted an apparent ritual altar and villagers in danger.
• Yang Huai recognized the scene as an illusion and trap, then swept the area with his Heavenly River Weak Water Divine Radiance.
• Grand Void Divine Lord and his eighteen Earthly Fiend divine puppets were revealed within the heavenly river, and Yang Huai confronted him.
• A second hidden figure decided to intervene and warned Yang Huai that he would not get the chance to defeat Grand Void Divine Lord.

Yang Huai defeated Grand Void Divine Lord and Divine Lord Yuechen after they attacked him, killing Grand Void Divine Lord and sealing Yuechen in the Celestial River Diagram. He warned the conspirators before continuing toward the Skyfire Mountain Range, where he paused to strengthen himself for the battle ahead.

• Divine Lord Yuechen joined Grand Void Divine Lord against Yang Huai, but Yang Huai countered her sword radiance and trapped her with his divine abilities.
• Yang Huai anticipated Yuechen's Cosmic Light Star Disk, overwhelmed her Lunar Ice-Soul Divine Light, and sealed her in the Celestial River Diagram.
• Yang Huai destroyed Grand Void Divine Lord and his Void Mirage Dragon in the Milky River Weak Water, then warned everyone who had plotted against him.
• Wei Liuyi and the other Daoists watched from Upper Border Commandery as the Five-Lotus Heavenly Heart Sect elders reacted to Yang Huai's warning.
• Yang Huai continued toward the Skyfire Mountain Range and stopped to fuse the All-Heaven Immortal Flame into his Primordial Spirit's three flowers.

Yang Huai refined the Dutian Immortal Flame with the Ten-Thousand-Year Divine Oil, greatly increasing his cultivation before the Six Paths Divine Lord confronted him. Their battle began as a clash erupted elsewhere between the Pure Origin Sect’s elders and demonic cultivators.

• Yang Huai endured the Dutian Immortal Flame’s burning and used the nine-colored immortal light in his Origin Dao Fruit to subdue it, transforming his Three Flowers into flames and gaining roughly a thousand years of cultivation.
• Yang Huai strengthened his five viscera and Yin Spirit, then examined the Cosmic Light Star Disk and Wangdi Token before sensing an approaching threat.
• The Six Paths Divine Lord arrived and explained that he sought to establish a sect and claim the Nine Heavens Spirit Maiden’s treasures, making his conflict with Yang Huai a struggle of Dao.
• Yang Huai sensed Pure Origin Sect elders fighting demonic cultivators in the Skyfire Mountain Range and accused the Six Paths Divine Lord of exploiting the clash.
• The Six Paths Divine Lord attacked with Death’s Finger, but Yang Huai shattered the skeletal hand with the Junting Ancient Sword and sent nine sword lights at him.
• The Six Paths Divine Lord used the Six Paths Divine Wheel to swallow the sword lights and suppress the Junting Ancient Sword, while Yang Huai remained confident that he could fight without it.

Yang Huai broke Six Paths Divine Lord’s Underworld attacks with his Dao mastery and Dutian Immortal Flame, but Six Paths escaped using the Six Harmonies Immortal Garment. Unable to contact Yuan Xiuxiu, Yang Huai headed with Winged Tiger to the Skyfire Mountain Range to aid the Pure Origin Sect elders, where the Junting Ancient Sword began reacting to something in another direction.

• Six Paths Divine Lord summoned the Underworld Life-Emperor Cauldron and Six Paths River to seize Yang Huai, but Yang Huai shattered the cauldron and resisted his attacks.
• Yang Huai unleashed Dutian Immortal Flame against Six Paths Divine Lord, whose Taiyi Immortal Shield and Six Harmonies Immortal Garment helped him withstand the assault and escape.
• Yang Huai asked Black Prison about contacting Xiuxiu, learned they still could not reach her, and decided to go to the Skyfire Mountain Range.
• Yang Huai brought Winged Tiger toward the Skyfire Mountain Range, where the Pure Origin Sect elders were fighting demonic cultivators and Zhao Zhenwu was battling a burly monk.
• As Yang Huai neared the battlefield, the Junting Ancient Sword trembled in his hand in response to something in another direction.

Yang Huai killed Evil Blade Dhuta and subdued the Extreme-Evil Asuras before the Azure Heaven Demon Venerable intervened to seize them. Yang Huai repelled the Demon Venerable’s attack, who withdrew after sensing the power of Yang Huai’s nine-colored immortal light.

• A woman atop a mountain peak sensed that someone had arrived as Liehong hummed in her hand.
• Yang Huai killed Evil Blade Dhuta with the Sea-Calming Pearl after Zhao Zhenwu asked him to stop the fleeing monk.
• The Extreme-Evil Asuras devoured Evil Blade Dhuta’s remains, but Yang Huai trapped and refined them with his nine-colored immortal light.
• The Azure Heaven Demon Venerable attacked Yang Huai to reclaim the Five-Element Extreme-Evil Asuras, and Yang Huai told Zhao Zhenwu and the other cultivators to keep fighting the demons.
• Yang Huai gave the Asuras’ remaining true spirits to Zhao Zhenwu, then countered the Demon Venerable’s blood hand and claws with a nine-colored vortex.
• The Demon Venerable broke free of Yang Huai’s immortal light and withdrew, while Yang Huai’s radiance swept across the clouds.

After driving off the Demon Venerable, Yang Huai learned that the Nine Heavens Orthodox Alliance was considering a campaign against the Azure Heaven Orthodox Path. He declared that he would save Yuan Xiuxiu and bring her back to the Orthodox Path, even if he had to face all resistance alone.

• Yang Huai watched the Pure Origin Sect elders contain the remaining Demon Path experts after the Demon Venerable retreated.
• Mu Yunhua saw Yang Huai repel the Demon Venerable and considered how the Spirit Platform Sword Sect should respond to the shifting alliances.
• Zhao Zhenwu told Yang Huai that Dao Ningzi and Li had gone to meet Nine Heavens Orthodox Alliance cultivators, including the Spirit Platform Sword Venerable and other powerful figures.
• Yang Huai asked whether saving the Nine Heavens Spirit Maiden could change the conflict, and Zhao Zhenwu warned that many in the alliance would oppose it.
• Yang Huai announced that he intended to save Yuan Xiuxiu, admit her into the Pure Origin Sect, and end the conflict, promising to face the opposition alone.
• Black Prison clenched his fists, convinced that his lord had not misjudged Yang Huai.

Yang Huai received Wangdi’s missing golden talisman and learned he had only days before the formation around the Earthcore Immortal Abode would fall. He returned to the Heavenly Realm, gained enough Essence Points to fuse Heart of Utmost Sincerity, and used the ensuing eight days to comprehend the Wangdi Ten Talismans before the new fate manifested.

• Guangzhen Immortal Maiden gave Yang Huai a Wangdi True Talisman, completing the set of nine special talismans in his Wangdi Token.
• Guangzhen Immortal Maiden explained that the Grand Unity Blazing Sun Demon-Subduing Formation would hold for only ten days to half a month, while Zhao Zhenwu told Yang Huai how external merit could support Dao attainments.
• Yang Huai decided to prioritize surviving the coming calamity with Yuan Xiuxiu, then returned to the Heavenly Realm and left a divine stele by the Milky River before visiting the old Star Lord on Tai Sui Star.
• Yang Huai gained 3,700 Essence Points and fused the Heart of Utmost Sincerity fate, spending 5,000 points to fix it and starting a ninety-six double-hour countdown.
• Yang Huai spent eight days studying the Wangdi Ten Talismans and learned they contained mysteries of the human path and the Great Dao’s origin.
• The Heart of Utmost Sincerity finished fusing and appeared as an auxiliary fate, revealing ten golden talismans in Yang Huai’s sea of consciousness.

Yang Huai completed his study of the Wangdi Ten Talismans and integrated his Dao arts as the Nine Heavens Orthodox Alliance attacked the Earthcore Immortal Abode. After Yuan Xiuxiu sent a warning through Black Prison, Yang Huai remained at the battlefield, where the sect leaders clashed and he learned more about the Azure Talisman Realm’s Dao Fruit rankings.

• Yang Huai formed the Wangdi Golden Talisman, judged the ancient method incomplete for his path, and spent a day integrating the Dao arts he had learned.
• As the Nine Heavens Orthodox Alliance broke through the Skyfire Mountain Range’s defenses, Daoist Zhoutian fought Taichuzi and the Spirit Platform Sword Venerable confronted Violet Sun Venerable.
• Yang Huai tried to contact Yuan Xiuxiu, but she rejected his attempt; through Black Prison and the Heart-Link Pearl, she sent the message, “Leave!”
• Yang Huai joined Dao Ningzi and Li Yingmei at the reed canopies and discussed the Spirit Platform Perfect Mind Sword Scripture and the Dao Fruit Canon Ranking.
• An unidentified voice asked Yang Huai why he had not left.

Yang Huai intervened to protect Yuan Xiuxiu and challenged the Nine Heavens Orthodox Alliance’s accusations against her. After Brightfire Island Lord’s hidden talisman revealed a plot to frame Yang Huai, Yang Huai used the Wangdi Golden Talismans to stop the trap and restrain its apparent instigator.

• Yang Huai secretly assured Yuan Xiuxiu that he would help her escape, while Spirit Platform Sword Venerable and Violet Sun Venerable continued fighting and Taichuzi trapped Daoist Zhoutian with the Heaven-Earth Chessboard.
• Yang Huai called on the Earthcore Immortal Abode to join the Pure Origin Sect, prompting Brightfire Island Lord to denounce Yuan Xiuxiu and accuse her of colluding with the Savage Demon Cult.
• Yang Huai challenged Brightfire Island Lord to prove his claims with the Heart-Illuminating Mirror, then attacked him when he refused to comply.
• More than ten Five-Lotus Heavenly Heart Sect elders attacked Yang Huai, but he used ten Wangdi Lord Talismans to suppress their weapons and divine powers.
• The Heart-Illuminating Mirror exposed a hidden true talisman protecting Brightfire Island Lord, which began to detonate his Yin Spirit and revealed a plot to frame Yang Huai.
• Yang Huai used Human Path ancestral qi to suppress the detonation and immobilize Brightfire Island Lord, while an old Daoist in the Five-Lotus Heavenly Heart Sect was also frozen by a golden talisman.

Yang Huai exposed Brightfire Island Lord’s lies about the Nine Heavens Spirit Maiden and admitted that he and Yuan Xiuxiu had been husband and wife as mortals. After Daoist Tianluo challenged him, Yang Huai defeated him with a single strike, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Yang Huai used the Heart-Illuminating Mirror to reveal Brightfire Island Lord’s resentment toward the Spirit Maiden and his secret deal to spread rumors about her, then sealed Brightfire Island Lord’s Yin Spirit.
• A Five-Lotus Heavenly Heart Sect Daoist exposed Yang Huai and Yuan Xiuxiu’s past marriage, and Yang Huai admitted it while declaring that he hoped to guide her back to the Orthodox Path.
• Dao Ningzi defended Yang Huai’s efforts to settle the conflict, while Golden Butterfly Fairy warned him that the plan might cost the Pure Origin Sect an immortal cultivator.
• Yang Huai identified Daoist Tianluo and challenged him, then used nine-colored immortal light and innate yin-yang divine radiance to overwhelm Tianluo’s attacks.
• Daoist Tianluo was badly wounded by Yang Huai’s single strike, and Sword Immortal Bixiao rushed to support him as Yuan Xiuxiu sensed the defeat from the Earthcore Immortal Abode.

Yang Huai confronted the Dao Lord Emperor after defeating Daoist Tianluo, then overwhelmed him in battle with his swordsmanship and the Sea-Calming Pearls. The Dao Lord Emperor’s ancient-god transformation failed to save him, and Yang Huai destroyed his body and golden spirit.

• Yang Huai challenged the Daoists gathered above the clouds after defeating Daoist Tianluo, while Yuan Xiu Xiu worried about his safety.
• The Dao Lord Emperor arrived and threatened Yang Huai, who warned him to leave before his Dao attainment was destroyed.
• The Dao Lord Emperor attacked with his dragon-headed spear and time-space abilities, but Yang Huai’s swordsmanship wounded and suppressed him.
• The Dao Lord Emperor transformed into a towering ancient-god-like divine body, but two Sea-Calming Pearls grievously injured him.
• Yang Huai cut the divine body into pieces and reduced the Dao Lord Emperor’s escaping golden light to ashes.

Yang Huai killed the Dao Lord Emperor, reunited with Yuan Xiuxiu, and broke through to the Yang Spirit realm after she agreed to return to the orthodox path. As Divine Lord Brocade Robe departed with the Moon-Sunken Divine Lord in exchange for helping Jiang Rongyue and Jiang Yuexin, the Demon Venerable arrived and demanded Yuan Xiuxiu surrender the Qianyuan Imperial Manor Golden Lamp.

• Yang Huai killed the Dao Lord Emperor by refining his body and void Dao Fruit within a nine-colored void.
• Yang Huai called Yuan Xiuxiu out of the Earthcore Immortal Abode and asked her to return to the orthodox path; she agreed to join the Pure Origin Sect and help end the strife.
• Yuan Xiuxiu's answer completed Yang Huai's Dao heart, allowing him to refine the yin dross from his Yin Spirit and cultivate a Yang Spirit.
• Yuan Xiuxiu offered Yang Huai a Flowing-Light Immortal Shield, but he insisted that she should not have to give up her treasures.
• Yang Huai traded the sealed Moon-Sunken Divine Lord to Divine Lord Brocade Robe in exchange for his help with Jiang Rongyue and Jiang Yuexin, and Brocade Robe accepted.
• The Demon Venerable appeared and demanded that Yuan Xiuxiu hand over the Qianyuan Imperial Manor Golden Lamp, threatening that no one would leave if she refused.

Yang Huai refused to lend the Qianyuan Imperial Manor Golden Lamp to the Azure Heaven Demon Venerable, who attacked him with the Heaven-Mending Demon Saber. Yang Huai revealed his Innate Origin Star Lord Divine Body and overwhelmed the Demon Venerable, leaving him badly wounded and cutting off his connection to the Azure Heaven Demon Star.

• Yang Huai and Yuan Xiuxiu refused the Azure Heaven Demon Venerable’s demand for the Qianyuan Imperial Manor Golden Lamp.
• The Azure Heaven Demon Venerable attacked Yang Huai with the Heaven-Mending Demon Saber, but Yang Huai used the Wangdi Golden Talismans in his swordsmanship to repel him.
• The Demon Venerable transformed into an Ancient Demon Body and launched another attack, and Yang Huai answered by revealing his Innate Origin Star Lord Divine Body.
• Yang Huai unleashed his Origin Dao Fruit’s power, summoned the surrounding starlight, and blasted the Demon Venerable hundreds of miles away.
• Yang Huai struck the Demon Venerable with the Sea-Calming Pearl, forcing him to regenerate with his Heavenly Demon Undying Body.
• Yang Huai declared that the Demon Venerable would not leave alive, then split his body apart and swallowed the Azure Heaven Demon Star.

Yang Huai drove off the Demon Venerable by using a Wangdi Golden Talisman to disrupt his Primordial Spirit, then watched Taichuzi lose to Daoist Zhoutian. With the Pure Origin Sect supporting Yang Huai, Daoist Zhoutian demanded that he take three strikes from the White Emperor’s Spirit-Slaying Jade Axe to erase Yuan Xiuxiu’s alleged sins.

• Yang Huai struck the Demon Venerable with a Wangdi Golden Talisman, reviving buried consciousnesses in his Primordial Spirit and forcing him to retreat.
• Taichuzi lost to Daoist Zhoutian in their clash, while Yang Huai recognized the terrifying power of the White Emperor’s Spirit-Slaying Jade Axe.
• Yuan Xiuxiu warned Yang Huai about the axe, and Taichuzi told Daoist Zhoutian that he could not safely join forces against Yang Huai.
• Daoist Tianluo and other alliance cultivators accused Yang Huai and Yuan Xiuxiu, while Dao Ningzi and the Pure Origin Sect defended them.
• Daoist Zhoutian said the alliance would not interfere with Yang Huai transforming Yuan Xiuxiu, but demanded Yang Huai endure three axe strikes to clear her sins.

Yang Huai avoided a duel on Daoist Zhoutian’s terms, suspecting the White Emperor's Spirit-Slaying Jade Axe concealed a dangerous power. After the confrontation ended, Dao Ningzi revealed that the final step toward securing a million merits remained.

• Yang Huai challenged the Nine Heavens Orthodox Alliance to identify anyone entangled with Yuan Xiuxiu, and no one dared step forward.
• Daoist Zhoutian demanded justice for his injured elder, but Yang Huai stopped Dao Ningzi from intervening and accepted a three-move contest.
• Yuan Xiuxiu warned Yang Huai that Daoist Zhoutian wielded the Primordial Grand-Derivation True Talisman and a jade axe that could pierce Dao Fruits.
• Yang Huai used the Six Harmonies Escape Art to flee from Daoist Zhoutian's formations and refused to approach while the axe and Heavenly Capital Golden Cauldron remained ready.
• Daoist Zhoutian put away his weapons and called the fight a draw, after Yang Huai mocked his attempts to lure him back.
• Yang Huai returned to the reed pavilion, where Dao Ningzi said the final step toward earning a million merits depended on their next move.