Recaps

Bifang pursued the Clear Lake Cauldron as demonic forces and the Divine Path converged at the Mingshan Auction, while Lu Qing investigated a distorted past and wore away its hidden Tribulation Cycle. The story left Lu Qing’s incarnation observing new fortune-born variables and intensifying conflict in the Four Seas.

• Two martial brothers left Kunpeng Sea after observing Golden Turtle Island, while Bifang departed to attend the Mingshan Auction.
• Bifang obtained the Clear Lake Cauldron, then watched demonic cultivators attack the auction to seize an item hidden inside another cauldron.
• A white-robed God-Man destroyed the demonic shadow, and the supreme treasure collapsed into dust without revealing its cause.
• Lu Qing entered the past and investigated the distorted Nine Heavens, tracing its missing history to the Primordial Cataclysm and a hidden tribulation.
• Lu Qing extracted a time-bound thread of cause and effect from a spirit mine and used it to reverse the tribulation cycle through time and reincarnation.
• Lu Qing returned to the Dao Sect, learned how the unlikely Tribulation Cycle had formed, and received access to the sect treasury.
• Lu Qing’s mortal-world incarnation encountered Mo Mingsheng and identified other reincarnated variables, while another incarnation chose not to interfere with a variable bound by a Dao pact.
• Lu Qing observed newly born sea regions merging into the Four Seas as slaughter among deep-sea beings intensified.

As reincarnated figures and new providence stirred across the Nine Heavens, Li Beiyun fought the Sons of the Human Emperor and a great tribulation began to spread. Dreamland drew cultivators into a mission in declining Great Qi, where they followed Lu Yun to the Qianyuan Treasury and found only a storehouse of valuables.

• Lu Qing observed the changing Nine Heavens as the Old Devils in the Demon Abyss sought to awaken the Devil Master’s former self, while the purple-robed young man sent Purple Cloud into reincarnation.
• Special true spirits entered reincarnation, and the Reincarnation Dao Body strengthened the Underworld as tribulation qi spread.
• Bifang tracked changes in providence around Ye Kong, Liu Yuzhen, and the emerging Grotto-Heaven while Li Beiyun’s contest for the Human Emperor’s mandate escalated.
• Li Beiyun fought the Sons of the Human Emperor, killed their companions, and devoured their destiny and providence as observers refrained from intervening.
• After Li Beiyun defeated the Sons of the Human Emperor, dense tribulation qi spread, and sects across the Nine Heavens prepared for a great tribulation tied to the Human Emperor attaining the Dao.
• Dreamland began drawing cultivators such as Xiang Qingshan, Ling Congzi, and Zhao An into guide missions against Great Qi’s six bearers of heavenly mandate.
• As Great Qi weakened and the Qianyuan Treasury’s opening approached, Xiang Qingshan and Zhao An joined Lu Yun to locate it and entered the treasury, which held ordinary valuables.

The Great Tribulation reshaped the Nine Heavens as Bifang investigated Dreamland and a corrupted Buddhist world. Meanwhile, the Devil Master's deficient reincarnation was found, and powerful forces gathered near Ghost Mountain as his Great Dao stirred.

• The six Heavenly Mandates entered the underground treasury as storms and reports of rebellion threw Great Qi into turmoil, while a hidden observer judged that the dynasty might survive if the Heavenly Mandate took the throne.
• Chu Chengqing recognized that cultivators were manipulating the Heavenly Mandates, and Venerable Cloud Dragon fell to demonic corruption and killed a Divine Court envoy.
• Lu Qing rejected the cold detachment of his Great Dao, while the Crimson King and his commanders prepared to attack the Imperial Capital as Great Qi's providence weakened.
• Dreamland missions spread during the Great Tribulation, and Bifang entered a mission in the Small Void Realm, where he investigated Miluo Buddha's corruption and the stolen Destiny Patterns.
• Bifang traced the Buddhist sin to an extraterrestrial Dao Marker, killed it, and decided to use Dreamland as a way to investigate the connected world Beyond the Heavens.
• Demonic cultivators found the mentally impaired Devil Master's Reincarnation and chose Dao Protectors to guard him, while Ghost Vine stirred around a Profound Coffin in Ghost Mountain.
• Reincarnations and powerful cultivators traveled toward Ghost Mountain as rumors spread about the Devil Master's deficiencies and final contingency, drawing forces from across the Demon Domain.
• As powers gathered near Ghost Mountain, a cultivator claimed that ancient Immortals might still be alive, and distant gazes awakened while the blue-robed cultivators on Golden Turtle Island took notice.

As the Longevity Devil Master's Dao revived, ancient powers and present-day cultivators converged in the Great Tribulation to compete for Providence. The struggle spread through Ghost Mountain and Peace Mountain while Li Beiyun sought the Human Emperor's successor and Huang Wuxuan reached the Cause-Slaying Sword.

• The Great Dream Immortal Sect sent its disciples out to spread the Dream Immortal Path, while Jade Venerable learned from Chen Weisheng that the Longevity Devil Master's Dao had revived.
• Bifang recognized that ancient beings seeking Longevity were drawing the Nine Heavens into the Tribulation, as Dreamland Guides accepted a mission to claim Providence at Peace Mountain.
• Xiang Qingshan and other Guides reached Peace Mountain and kept their distance from one another, while Chen Huan divined when Providence would arrive.
• A Buddhist monk trapped blood cultivators in his dharma realm, while reports spread that the Devil Master's Reincarnation had divided into several people and rival factions faced off around Ghost Mountain.
• Bifang watched the Ghost Path's Boundless Senluo Hall manifest over Peace Mountain and chose not to absorb its Providence Rain, while Chen Huan used the Dragon-Seizing Method to claim Providence despite its burden of Cause and Effect.
• Li Beiyun asked Humanity-Dao White Marsh to find possible Human Emperor successors, and White Marsh identified both an ordinary Rogue Cultivator and Huang Wuxuan as candidates.
• Lu Qing's incarnation and the Dao Lords developed Floating Light into a proposed Second Cultivation World, while the Red Dust Avatar established the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Huang Wuxuan reached the Cause-Slaying Sword beneath the divine tree, while Stone Elder redirected White Marsh's path and forced White Marsh and Li Beiyun to withdraw.