Recaps

As the merged universe faced invasions and the spread of the Ominous Substance, Yang Dong ventured through the Sea of Realms seeking the Land of the Upper Heavens. He entered the world beyond the dam, where a black-robed Quasi-Immortal Emperor exposed his plans for Yang Dong’s Ghost Hand and the Gray Grand Sacrifice.

• Yang Dong and the Empress drove the gray-robed old man back into the heavenly pit, where they discovered colliding worlds and guarded their region as Yang Dong studied the Path of Darkness.
• Ye Fan, the Empress, and Emperor Wushi traced the River of Time, encountered An Lan and the Desolate Heaven Emperor in the Chaotic Ancient Era, then returned without finding the history they sought.
• The Ancient Underworld appeared in the merged universe, and its eighteen dried Immortal Kings attacked the Empress and Ye Fan before a Quasi-Immortal Emperor’s banner forced them to retreat.
• After centuries of invasions, Yang Dong and his allies investigated the Sea of Realms, where a ruined ship carried a mysterious old man and black rain revealed the spread of the Ominous Substance.
• Yang Dong stayed behind to fight Dark Creatures, resisted the Ominous Substance, and followed a little skeleton to the dam, where he obtained an Invitation Letter to the world beyond it.
• Yang Dong crossed into the Land of Darkness and met Heaven, who offered him a path to Quasi-Immortal Emperor and a Yellow Talisman Paper, but Yang Dong rejected his offer.
• The black-robed man revealed that the Yellow Talisman Paper was the Great Sacrifice Rune and that he had gathered other Ghost Hands after sacrificing Yang Dong’s world.
• As Yang Dong’s temporary Quasi-Immortal Emperor power faded, the black-robed man split his soul and drove him back to the Immortal King realm, but Yang Dong wounded him and deduced that Desolate Heaven Emperor had left him gravely injured.