Recaps

Li Shun survived the Hundred Schools Gathering’s Primordial Illusion Realm, where he encountered a native god and learned of the Outer Gods’ threat. After reaching the ruins of the Heavenly Court, he gained insight from the Ancient Web’s remnant and returned to Mount Buzhou as enormous shadows appeared through rifts in the sky.

• Li Shun entered the Primordial Illusion Realm, survived the Unbeginning Wilds, and was corrupted by Formless Suspended Skull before driving its influence from his true self.
• Zhao Cheng explained that Outer Gods could corrupt participants and might have shattered the Primordial Continent, while Li Shun used Threefold Self-Reflection to return to the illusion and seek Mount Buzhou.
• Li Shun reached the Buzhou Heavenly Gate, challenged Roushou to a duel of equal strength, and passed through the gate into the ruined Heavenly Court.
• Li Shun found a strange honeycomb pattern in the ruins and, during his long confinement, used its intermittent influence to develop [Mutual Return] and improve his understanding of cultivation.
• The Ancient Web pattern offered to help Li Shun leave the ruins, and he agreed to make an empty vessel into a Square Inch Puppet for it.
• Li Shun learned that the ruins were a manifestation of the destroyed Ancient Heavenly Court and that gods could persist as imprints even after death.
• Li Shun named the remnant Ancient Web, turned its vessel into a puppet, and returned to Mount Buzhou, where massive shadows peered through rifts in the sky.

Li Shun survived the Primordial Illusion Realm’s aftermath, advanced in cultivation, and learned that Sun Lang was connected to an Outer God. In Bing Province, Hunkun Chixiang emerged and was sealed with Taiyi Xuanpin, while Li Shun passed an examination for corruption and Zhao Cheng was revealed to be infected.

• Li Shun returned from the shattered Primordial Illusion Realm as officials investigated the survivors, and Zhao Cheng explained the Outer Gods, Great Qian’s incomplete Great Dao, and the danger of corruption.
• The Grand Arbiter destroyed five Outer God emissaries, and Kong Changqing gave Li Shun the Confucian Sage’s Staff, which restored itself in Li Shun’s hands.
• Li Shun broke through to the Profound Insight Realm and studied the Dao Resonance Stone, while Kong Changqing revealed that Sun Lang was a sleeper linked to an Outer God.
• Li Shun and Zhao Cheng investigated the destruction of Fang Xun’s shrine, then joined Sun Lang in tracking Shentu Xin through Former Tomb Commandery and into Bing Province.
• Sun Lang and Shentu Xin fought with Great Jun arts until Shentu Xin used Sever Reality, Enter Unity to draw Sun Lang into a paper world, where Hunkun Chixiang appeared and corrupted Li Shun and Zhao Cheng.
• Taiyi Xuanpin confronted Hunkun Chixiang as a colossal hand and the Grand Arbiter sealed their battle inside a created world.
• The Heaven Oversight Bureau isolated Li Shun and Zhao Cheng, and Li Shun resisted a truth-inducing examination by retreating into Square Inch.
• An old Daoist determined that Li Shun was not corrupted, then showed him Zhao Cheng’s interrogation as Zhao Cheng’s eyes turned bloodred with madness and worship.

Li Shun entered the Imperial Academy, studied the Sole Righteousness lineage, and learned more about the Outer Gods and the Ancient Heavenly Court ruins. As he investigated Fang Han’s stolen cultivation, Fang Han returned to Great Qian for revenge and survived a devastating heavenly tribulation, while Li Shun prepared to seek the Witch God’s inheritance and faced the Academy’s Outworld Trial.

• Ying Wuxiu escorted Li Shun toward the Imperial Academy after the Hundred Schools leaders chose to close the Celestial Array and retreat to defense, and Li Shun recognized the Academy’s gate as part of the Ancient Heavenly Court.
• At the Academy, Li Shun studied with Han Qi, whose Sole Righteousness lineage taught him the Jade-Attacking Method and helped him understand why the Academy restricted the lineage.
• Li Shun used the Ancient Web to investigate the Academy’s ruins, discovered the Thunder Pool and learned how Divine Power could open a Primordial Illusion Realm.
• After an Outer God’s passing trace shook the Academy, the Ancient Web explained why Outer Gods invaded Great Qian, and Han Qi helped Li Shun overcome his despair about death.
• Li Shun learned that the Fan Clan had stolen Fang Han’s Creation Realm cultivation for Shao Lingxu, and decided to target the Fan Clan while investigating Shao Lingxu’s role.
• Fang Han returned to Great Qian and traveled toward Qingyuan County, drawing in vitality and provoking the Heavenly Dao’s lightning tribulation.
• Fang Han endured successive lightning strikes, but Annihilation Mystic Thunder destroyed him and left a vast void, and the Ancient Web explained the Ten Blessings and offered Li Shun a secret art to trace other inheritances through Fang Han.
• Li Shun agreed to seek the Witch God’s power and asked Han Qi about the Outworld Trial, learning about its dangers, its different methods of entry, and its low completion rate.

Li Shun studied the Hundred Schools Essentials, gained insight into the Outer Heavenly Dao Marks, and expanded his control over Square Inch. The Imperial Academy’s test sent him into Great Yu’s past, where he offered Bai Xianding a way to strengthen the army and began to suspect he was meant to alter history.

• Fang Han returned to the Great Qian World, escaped five Creation Stage masters, then reached the Fan Clan and Shao Lingxu without taking revenge on either.
• Li Shun submitted a revised plan for capturing the Outer-Heaven Fiend and won the chance to study the Hundred Schools Essentials and a Turtle Treasure.
• Li Shun absorbed the Hundred Schools Essentials, fought for control of the two Sage statues’ territories, and refined the Turtle Treasure’s protective membrane.
• Li Shun observed the Outer Heavenly Dao Marks and realized that their radiance felt like Square Inch, then comprehended the Spatial Dao after thirty-three days.
• Li Shun used his new understanding to reshape Square Inch and discovered that it could restore damaged objects while his puppets cultivated within it.
• The Grand Sacrificer transported Li Shun to a world where Great Yu was still at war, and Li Shun accused Bai Xianding of staging Sui City’s massacre.
• Li Shun warned Bai Xianding that Great Yu risked exhaustion and demonstrated a blood-and-vitality technique that more than doubled a person’s strength at the cost of lifespan.
• Li Shun taught the Blood-Qi Circulation Method to Bai Yunlie’s elite soldiers, learned that this world had never known Primordial Qi or the Hundred Schools, and suspected the trial required him to alter history.