Recaps

Lu Qing entered the Vermilion Bird World and used Divination to assess the dangers surrounding its opportunity. He discovered an ancient teleportation formation built on the Vermilion Bird’s True Form and began connecting its foundation to sacrifice.

• Lu Qing received three Divinations: entering at the wrong time would send him into an unknown imprint of time, while pursuing the opportunity risked injuries and future trouble; waiting calmly for seven days was safe.
• Lu Qing entered the Vermilion Bird World before noon and found an ancient teleportation formation in the valley.
• Lu Qing studied the formation’s simple patterns and recognized that they resembled markings on a strange stone he had obtained.
• The formation revealed an image of a spiritless Vermilion Bird, which Lu Qing understood to be the foundation of the teleportation array.
• Lu Qing considered the Vermilion Bird’s connection to totems and wondered how sacrifice related to the incense path and the Incense Divine Path.

Lu Qing arrived in the Vermilion Bird World and sensed a powerful ancient demon near Moonlight Lake. He observed a nearby tribe seeking a new totem after theirs had perished and recognized Jiang Heng as a Son of Providence.

• Lu Qing emerged from a teleportation array in the wilderness and sensed an ancient demon whose power matched a Dongzhen Realm Immortal Cultivator.
• Lu Qing reflected on the dangers of the Primordial Era and noticed the savage blood vitality of the world's inhabitants.
• Lu Qing observed a group from a nearby tribe approaching the mountains in search of a totem ancestor.
• Father Jiang told Jiang Heng that their tribe had to find a totem because their totem god had died and they risked becoming slaves.
• Lu Qing listened to the tribe's conversation, discerned a thread of Heavenly Secrets, and identified Jiang Heng as a Son of Providence.

Lu Qing waited in the mountains for an opportunity hidden in a lake while an Ancient Demon Phoenix Bird and the golden Ape King clashed across the sky. He remained concealed as the battle shook the region, expecting the disturbance to draw forces to the lake and aware that stronger cultivators might contest the opportunity.

• Lu Qing recognized the lake as the likely source of the foretold turmoil and chose to wait quietly in the mountains.
• The Phoenix Bird returned weakened, and the Spiritwood Tribe members entered the mountains after sensing its Ancient Demon aura.
• Lu Qing sent a thread of Spirit Light to aid those arriving with karmic affinity, then concealed himself beneath an ancient tree.
• The Ancient Demon Phoenix Bird battled the golden Ape King, forcing nearby tribes and two warring high-ranking tribes to retreat or relocate.
• Lu Qing sensed that the battle had not disturbed the Earth Veins and reasoned that the lake's opportunity might attract powerful forces from beyond the local tribes.

Jiang Heng and his father witnessed a Spiritwood Tribe sacrifice while Lu Qing studied how its offering awakened a dead totem’s faint spirituality and gained insight into Heaven’s Will, cultivation, and Tribulation Cycles. As Lu Qing prepared to take an opportunity and leave, a Supreme Treasure emerged in the mountain.

• Jiang Heng asked Father Jiang why two ancient demons had appeared, and Father Jiang feared they were fighting over something nearby.
• The Spiritwood Tribe offered three sacrifices to its totem while Lu Qing watched an ancient tree’s faint spirituality awaken and flow into the chieftain.
• Lu Qing connected the totem’s spirituality to the Incense Fire Great Dao and rejected Heaven’s Will’s offer of Merit, choosing to leave Merit in the Vermilion Bird World.
• Lu Qing reflected on how Tribulation Cycles balanced cultivators’ advancement with heaven and earth’s cultivation, and considered why his Daoist dojo had earned Merit.
• A silver moonlight Hong Guang appeared deep in the mountain, shaking heaven and earth as the energy flows boiled.
• Those present recognized that a Supreme Treasure had emerged.

Lu Qing concealed himself in the mountain and waited for the opportunity foretold by Divination, while protecting the Spiritwood Tribe from the battle raging outside. As great figures from the Central Region began arriving, the surrounding tribes prepared for the struggle over the emerging treasure.

• Lu Qing sensed that the companion beast had weakened, but stayed hidden and waited for the seven days named by Divination.
• As Ancient Demons fought beyond the mountain and Phoenix Bird fire threatened the Spiritwood Tribe, Lu Qing formed a barrier around the dozen tribe members he had escorted there.
• The Spiritwood Tribe thanked Lu Qing for saving them, while Jiang Heng and the old chieftain realized that a powerful formation master was protecting them.
• Lu Qing accepted the Merit that descended but resolved not to become the Heavenly Mandate bearers' guardian beyond his seven-day commitment.
• The Blackfish Tribe's leaders argued over whether to flee their ancestral land as the chieftain revealed a Spirit Talisman announcing the arrival of great figures from the Central Region.
• The Upper Wind Tribe, Blackfish Tribe, Yin-Yang Tribe, and Wanqi Tribe each received the Spirit Talisman from the Central Region.

Human cultivator tribes and powerful Ancient Demons arrived in the Southern Wastes to claim a mountain opportunity, and Lu Qing traced the growing conflict’s Cause and Effect. As killing intent ignited a major battle, the Phoenix Bird fled toward Lu Qing’s mountain and an unseen spatial ripple marked its feathers.

• The Cloud and Wind Tribes arrived from the central region, followed by the Rain and Thunder forces, while Lu Qing sensed an unclear causal link involving them and the two battling Ancient Demons.
• The Stone Tribe arrived on the sixth day, and powerful Ancient Demons appeared on the seventh as Lu Qing gathered the strands of Cause and Effect and discerned that a Tribulation would emerge.
• The Cloud Tribe’s young prince insulted the Ancient Demons, provoking them and triggering a violent battle while the Spiritwood Tribe watched from safety.
• The Phoenix Bird tried to escape the pursuing Ancient Demon Ape King, whose spirituality had been lost and whose body was covered in bloody karmic sin.
• The Phoenix Bird fled over Lu Qing’s mountain, where a concealed spatial ripple rose from the lake and marked its feathers, allowing Lu Qing to understand the Divination.

Lu Qing defeated the Ancient Demon Phoenix Bird and the pursuing Ancient Demon Ape King, then obtained a time imprint from the Ancient Era. He realized the imprint could be connected to the Dao-seal treasure he planned to refine and sensed the strange, faintly spiritual Heaven's Will of the Vermilion Bird World.

• Lu Qing used the Great Dao of Time to age the Ancient Demon Phoenix Bird to death and drew a streak of radiance from one of its feathers.
• The Ancient Demon Ape King and a puppet also perished as Lu Qing examined the radiance and the Ominous Hexagram disappeared.
• Lu Qing followed the Heavenly Secrets through the Long River of Time and identified the radiance as an imprint of time from the Ancient Era.
• Lu Qing understood that the imprint contained a vast secret realm shaped from a frozen shadow of the past and considered using it to refine his Dao-seal treasure.
• Lu Qing sensed the Vermilion Bird World's strange Heaven's Will and wondered whether the Heavenly Spirit Vermilion Bird had influenced it.

Lu Qing witnessed the Ancient Era’s destruction through the Heavenly Secrets imprinted in a stream of light, then claimed the opportunity and left the Vermilion Bird World. Back in the Heavenly Domain, he prepared to enter an Imprint of Time to finish refining his treasure.

• Lu Qing saw the Ancient Era collapse in tribulation, with Immortal figures and heavenly spirits annihilated as the stream of light formed.
• Heaven’s Will indicated that the opportunity belonged to the fated and that the capable would possess it, and Lu Qing stored the stream of light.
• After observing the Vermilion Bird World and deciding not to pursue anything else there, Lu Qing departed through the Vermilion Bird Array.
• Jiang Heng sensed Lu Qing’s departure, recognized that the man could not be fathomed, and later wondered when the foreign experts would leave.
• Lu Qing returned to the Heavenly Domain, considered the Vermilion Bird Heaven’s Will, and turned to his Dao Seal treasure.
• Lu Qing decided to enter an Imprint of Time to learn what had happened during that period and complete the refinement of his treasure.

Lu Qing returned to his Dao Abode and used Talisman Light to learn of the shifting powers and fate allotments across the Nine Heavens. He decided to refine the Dao Seal artifact as a seal and turned his attention to a fragment of Radiance of Time held by his incarnation on Sun-Moon Mountain.

• Lu Qing returned to Bixin Mountain Range and observed how its Earth Vein Qi had risen after receiving Creation from the heavens.
• Lu Qing read Talisman Light reports about rival sects choosing providence-bearers and the growing activity of the Demonic Path.
• Lu Qing observed that the northern Immortal City’s fate allotment was nearing manifestation and left its mundane affairs to his incarnation.
• Lu Qing chose a seal as the form of his Dao Seal artifact and connected his mind to his incarnation on Sun-Moon Mountain.
• Lu Qing’s spirit body on Sun-Moon Mountain opened its eyes as he focused on the fragment of Radiance of Time.

Lu Qing visited the Library Pavilion to research the Primordial Era and learned that it passed through four major periods before ending in catastrophe. He confirmed that the strand of Radiance of Time he planned to use lacked Tribulation Qi, then left to continue preparing for artifact refinement.

• Lu Qing inspected Sun-Moon Mountain's Spirit Plant Garden and saw that its Spiritual Resonance had gained traces of Dao Rhyme.
• Lu Qing entered the Library Pavilion's Ancient Records Sea and asked for an overview of the Primordial Era's major events.
• Lu Qing learned that the Primordial Era began under the rule of Innate Divine Spirits, followed by the rise of the Human Path and Immortal Path, the flourishing of the Six Paths, and a final period of catastrophe under the Ancient Demon Sect.
• Lu Qing concluded that his strand of Radiance of Time was not tainted by Tribulation Qi and considered his planned artifact refinement in Void Return likely safe.
• After Lu Qing left, the Library Pavilion's old Artifact Spirit remarked that the Immortal road of the present era was better for ordinary cultivators than the Primordial Era.

Lu Qing comprehended the Artifact Dao while refining a longsword, then entered the Primordial Era. The chapter leaves him arriving in a time of immortal mountains and carefree immortals.

• Lu Qing summoned White Rainbow Artifact Fire and used his understanding of the Great Dao to guide his artifact refinement.
• Lu Qing forged a longsword imbued with Cause and Effect, Heavenly Secrets, and the power of annihilation and tribulation.
• Lu Qing recognized the longsword as a Killing Sword and felt his confidence increase.
• Lu Qing entered the Primordial Era through the ancient tide of time.
• The Primordial Era was described as a world of immortal mountains and rivers where immortals roamed freely.

Chen Pansheng was dragged by Lü Bai to a fortune-teller at Immortal Mountain, while Lu Qing observed the encounter and suspected the old man was a Primordial Era Immortal testing Chen Pansheng’s Immortal Heart. The chapter ended with Lu Qing unable to identify the fortune-teller as Chen Pansheng politely declined a reading.

• Lü Bai insisted that Chen Pansheng visit the famed fortune-teller, and Chen Pansheng followed him to Immortal Mountain.
• Chen Pansheng saw the white-haired fortune-teller and his boastful stall, while the elder sensed his arrival and smiled.
• Lu Qing watched from a distance and recognized the scene as a likely Immortal Fate test, but he could not see through the old man.
• The fortune-teller asked Chen Pansheng what he wished to divine, and Chen Pansheng politely said he had nothing to ask.
• Lu Qing searched his memories for the fortune-teller’s identity but found no record of him.

Lu Qing avoided the old divine calculator’s trial and tried to leave for Encounter Immortal City, but the Immortal pursued him and offered to take him as a disciple. The old man mistook Lu Qing’s hidden fate for an extraordinary destiny, while Lu Qing remained wary of becoming entangled with him.

• Lu Qing considered the Primordial calamity that had erased many Immortals and decided not to enter Encounter Immortal City while the divine calculator’s origins remained unclear.
• Chen Pansheng declined the old man’s offer and left, prompting Lu Qing to reflect on the Primordial Immortals’ tests of the heart.
• Lu Qing encountered the old man disguised as a fisherman, recognized the trap, and walked toward the city instead of taking the bait.
• The old man pretended to have fallen and called for help, but Lu Qing calmly exposed his identity as the foremost divine calculator under heaven.
• The old man offered to take Lu Qing as his master, delighted after finding that he could not read Lu Qing’s fate, while Lu Qing questioned the old man’s assumptions.

Lu Qing refused Divine Calculator Immortal’s repeated offers to become his master, then continued toward an immortal mountain in Great Liang to refine a Dao Seal treasure. He reached Bifang, the Primordial mountain he had sought.

• Divine Calculator Immortal calculated Lu Qing’s heavenly secrets and was astonished that he had a master despite having no inherited Dao lineage.
• Lu Qing refused to become Divine Calculator Immortal’s disciple, and the old man vanished using profound spatial attainment.
• Lu Qing concluded that the Primordial Era was only a temporary returning-to-void age and continued toward Encounter Immortal City.
• Lu Qing identified his location as the Ancient Nine Heavens Great Realm’s Heavenly Origin Earth Continent and chose Great Liang as a place to refine his treasure.
• Lu Qing searched for a perilous immortal mountain whose slaughter and purity auras could aid his refinement, then found Bifang floating amid Chaos Qi.

Lu Qing chose Bifang Mountain, where pure spiritual essence and turbid Earth Qi coexisted, as a secluded place to refine a treasure. As he summoned his Dao Seal Long River, the River of Time stirred, drawing the attention of powerful beings across several worlds and eras.

• Lu Qing learned that Bifang Mountain was named for a jade bird-shaped stone and that its balance of spiritual splendor and foul Earth Qi made it suitable for treasure refinement.
• Lu Qing arrived at the mountain, observed its spiritual beasts cultivating, and established a grand formation to conceal his work and avoid disturbing them.
• Lu Qing addressed the jade bird stone, sat down, and summoned a Copper Furnace before sinking his mind into the Long River of Time.
• Lu Qing manifested his Dao Seal Long River and its Great Daos, causing a great disturbance in the River of Time.
• Beings across several worlds and eras sensed the river's movement and wondered what past event or hidden action had stirred it.

Lu Qing forged a Dao Seal treasure in the past, using the Great Dao as material, Heaven and Earth as furnace fire, and the Long River of Time to empower it before subjecting it to a Heavenly Tribulation. As the treasure took shape and faced its tribulation, an old diviner in Encounter Immortal City saw an omen that Lu Qing would meet certain death.

• The old diviner recalculated Lu Qing’s fate and found an ominous sign of absolute death, despite having previously seen auspicious signs around him.
• Lu Qing summoned the Copper Furnace and began forging a Dao treasure with the Great Dao and Heaven and Earth’s energies.
• Lu Qing decided to draw down the Long River of Time from the past to empower the treasure, despite knowing this would provoke an exceptionally terrifying Heavenly Tribulation.
• A Dharma Seal treasure formed in the Copper Furnace, and lightning from the tribulation struck it as observers across the river of time recognized the ambitious forging.
• Lu Qing waited calmly for the treasure to pass its tribulation, judging that the process had already completed more than half of its trials.

Lu Qing completed his journey through the past by refining a Dharma Seal Supreme Treasure that commanded Words Become Law and strengthened his Inner World and comprehension of the Time Way. The Divine Calculator confronted him about repeatedly divining a Void-and-Death Hexagram, while Lu Qing warned him not to probe further and revealed nothing about the future.

• Lu Qing received the Dharma Seal, a Supreme Treasure innately imbued with Words Become Law and the foundation for attaining the Dao.
• Lu Qing placed the Dharma Seal in his Inner World, where it nourished the world and accelerated his comprehension of the Time Way.
• Lu Qing concluded that his purpose in this stretch of time had been achieved and prepared to leave.
• The Divine Calculator appeared before Lu Qing and said he had cast a Void-and-Death Hexagram for him seven times.
• Lu Qing warned the Divine Calculator not to calculate his unusual circumstances any further.
• The Divine Calculator remarked that Lu Qing's cultivation method was strange, and Lu Qing replied that different heavens and worlds had different Dao methods as thunder suddenly sounded.

Lu Qing learned that altering the past would draw Heavenly Punishment and received a Heavenly Secrets Method from the ancient Divine Calculator. After returning to the present, he questioned the old man’s identity and concluded that the Imprint of Time carried a mysterious opportunity, while time passed far faster in the present.

• Lu Qing explained that changing the past meant contending against the Long River of Time, and the Divine Calculator realized his own efforts had been futile.
• The Divine Calculator thanked Lu Qing and gave him a Heavenly Secrets Method before Lu Qing departed the Temporal Light and Shadow.
• Lu Qing recalled that a trace of Lightning Tribulation aura had lingered over the Dao Seal Long River and wondered who the old man had been.
• Lu Qing considered whether the old man might have been Cloud Wanderer, but found that the surviving records were too sparse to identify him.
• Lu Qing noted that over a month had passed in the present while he had spent only several days in the Imprint of Time, and sensed an ancient, decayed aura in parts of the Nine Heavens.

Lu Qing continued preparing to cross the Void Realm tribulation by tempering his Great Dao on the River of Time. Divine Calculator investigated the ominous Void-Death Hexagram but found other Immortals saw only ordinary tribulations, and after three months he accepted that he could not know what lay ahead.

• Lu Qing refined his magic treasures, absorbed the Spirit Scripts into his Great Dao, and decided to keep comprehending the Dao on the River of Time.
• After Lu Qing left, Divine Calculator resolved to investigate the Void-Death Hexagram using the Luotian Spirit Disk and consulted several Immortal friends.
• The Immortals’ divinations showed only minor tribulations, while a star chart revealed no great harm in the Mortal Realm and a faint sign from Army Breaker.
• Immortal Cultivators later treated news of Divine Calculator’s strange hexagram as gossip, while he continued failing to reproduce it with his divination treasures.
• After three months of fruitless calculations, Divine Calculator regained his composure, chose to continue cultivating, and wondered whether he might meet more peerless geniuses like Lu Qing.

Lu Qing severed his brief connection to the Nine Heavens’ Will and anticipated turmoil among the Immortal Path’s true inheritors. At Profound Heaven Dao Sect, challengers from several lineages issued challenges, while an immortal island arrived above the Southern Heaven Continent.

• Lu Qing used his Dao Seal Dharma Seal to glimpse the Nine Heavens’ Will, judged its path incompatible with his Dao Heart, and severed the connection.
• Lu Qing considered the coming contests among true inheritors and the Heart Tribulation awaiting him at the Void Realm Third Gate.
• A follower told Lü Zhenyang, Fan Tianyi, and another true inheritor that Tang Yun had challenged all ten Profound Heaven true inheritors.
• The follower reported that challengers from the Divine Path Holy Spirit Lineage and several other lineages were also gathering to challenge the Immortal Path’s true inheritors.
• An immortal island crossed the ocean and arrived above an Earth Continent in the Southern Heaven Continent, as someone wondered whether it was heading for the Profound Heaven Immortal Sect.

Golden Feather Sect’s arrival in Southern Heaven Continent stirred speculation about Tang Yun, a sealed descendant of an Immortal from the Primordial Era, as factions prepared for an age of emerging variables. Lu Qing watched the developments through Mystic Light, considered the sleeping ancient cultivators and his possible Heart Tribulation, and shaped Divine Calculator’s Great Dao into a Jade Slip.

• Golden Feather Sect’s immortal island crossed Southern Heaven Continent, and cultivators debated the sect’s ties to the Demon Race and its arrogant display.
• Disciples of the Profound Heaven Dao Sect learned that Tang Yun, the Little Immortal, was a Primordial Era descendant sealed until the present age.
• Lu Qing surveyed Southern Heaven Continent with Mystic Light, sensed ancient cultivators sleeping in foul and barren lands, and chose not to disturb them.
• Lu Qing considered the Heavenly Secrets linked to himself and waited calmly for his Heart Tribulation.
• Lu Qing comprehended part of Divine Calculator’s Great Dao and imprinted the Dao transmission onto a Jade Slip.

Lu Qing accepted responsibility for passing on the Divine Firmament Thunder Dao and Heavenly Secrets Dao, and considered creating trials to find successors. Meanwhile, Tang Yun defeated Ning Feichen in the Heaven-Earth Arena without using his full strength, leaving the Profound Heaven side wary of further challenges.

• Lu Qing decided to seek successors for the two Dao Transmissions and considered opening a path through the Heavenly Secrets with a trial for multiple prodigies.
• Tang Yun of the Golden Feather Sect faced Ning Feichen of the Profound Heaven Dao Sect in the Heaven-Earth Arena as onlookers compared their reputations and foundations.
• The duel shattered the arena, but an icy hand stopped the upheaval and restored the surroundings.
• Tang Yun remained calm while Ning Feichen's Energy Flow grew listless, revealing Tang Yun's advantage.
• A watcher judged that Tang Yun had not used his full strength and feared the Profound Heaven side would stop challenging them one by one.

Tang Yun of the Golden Feather Sect defeated a Profound Heaven True Disciple and challenged the others, while Lu Qing watched and investigated a new wielder of the Broken Sword. Lu Qing recognized the sword’s aura in the hands of the unremarkable Qin Yang and decided the matter did not involve him, so he left it alone.

• Tang Yun praised the Profound Heaven Sect’s heritage, then challenged another of its True Disciples to fight him.
• A second Profound Heaven True Disciple entered the arena, and Lu Qing judged that only the sect’s top three could suppress Tang Yun.
• Lu Qing used Heavenly Secrets to trace the stir in his intuition to a Golden Feather Sect disciple carrying the Broken Sword.
• Lu Qing recognized the disciple as Qin Yang, a reincarnated streak of Flying Light from Beyond the Heavens, but found his talent and Fate Allotment unremarkable.
• Lu Qing suspected the Broken Sword’s escape from its seal had been known to the sect’s elders, but he stopped investigating after learning the matter did not involve him.

Lu Qing used the Star-Dipper to find people with Karmic Affinity for two Dao Transmissions and completed a Great Dao Divine Ability that condensed Heavenly Secrets into a real lake. The two sentient Jade Slips departed to seek their destined inheritors, while the lake remained in Lu Qing’s Daoist Dojo.

• Lu Qing chose to stay secluded in his Daoist Dojo and use the calm before the Heavenly Sun Realm appeared to pass down two Dao Transmissions.
• Lu Qing used the Celestial Star Divination Method to locate people with Karmic Affinity in Northern Heaven Continent and Eastern Heaven Continent.
• Lu Qing merged the two visions into a lake, completing his Divine Ability to condense the void into reality.
• The Divine Firmament Thunder Dao Jade Slip and Heavenly Secrets thanked Lu Qing and prepared to find their people of Karmic Affinity.
• The two Jade Slips entered the lake without making a splash, and Lu Qing let the lake remain in the southeastern corner of his Daoist Dojo.

Lu Qing sent two Jade Slips through the Heavenly Secret Lake to seek heirs for the Divine Firmament Thunder Dao and Heavenly Secrets Divine Calculation. As one Jade Slip reached each continent, their spiritualities began judging which candidates possessed the right qualities and Karmic Affinity.

• Lu Qing used the Heavenly Secret Lake and threads of Karmic Affinity to send Jade Slips toward Northern Heaven Continent and Eastern Heaven Continent.
• The Broken Sword and its new sword master, Su Sheng, discussed Su Sheng's poor prospects and decided to lie low amid the turbulent era.
• The Broken Sword recalled Qin Yang's rise and fall, and wondered whether its sword masters' repeated misfortunes were connected to the strange world of the Nine Heavens.
• Divine Firmament Thunder reflected on the qualities its Jade Slip would test in candidates seeking the Divine Firmament Lineage.
• The Heavenly Secrets Jade Slip reached Northern Heaven Continent and prepared to seek an heir with calm character and suitable Karmic Affinity.