Recaps

Lu Qing considered the expanding seas and Heaven and Earth, concluding that the Nine Heavens were developing along a path unlike the ancient one. After he returned to the Long River, the story shifted to the weakened Demon Abyss, where the old devils remained hidden in a former Return Ruins.

• Lu Qing observed that the West Sea was expanding amid dangerous fluctuations and that the Nine Heavens were following a different path from the ancient world.
• Lu Qing judged that the great era's major variables would take centuries to fully develop, leaving time for cultivation.
• Lu Qing returned his true body to the Long River, though the effects of his actions persisted.
• The Demon Abyss was shown as a decaying refuge after several old devil lords had disappeared.
• The remaining Demon Sect old devils stayed in the abyss, where a possible connection to the Primordial Cataclysm appeared exceedingly unlikely.

The Old Devils trapped in the Demon Abyss divined that several People of Heavenly Mandate would emerge, including a possible reincarnation of the Devil Master. They decided to send their influence into the Nine Heavens to awaken him and seize Demonic Path Providence, while the purple-robed young man noticed their scheme and saw a chance to advance his Providence Transformation.

• The Old Devils explained that Heaven’s Will kept them confined to the Demon Abyss and that they hoped the Devil Master’s reincarnation could help them escape.
• The Old Devils divined signs of multiple People of Heavenly Mandate and suspected the Devil Master’s reincarnation might be among them.
• The Old Devils worried that a Human Emperor could trigger a future Killing Tribulation that would engulf the Demon Abyss.
• The Old Devils agreed to activate their old contingencies and have the Devil Master understand his former self and awaken his Heavenly Mandate.
• The purple-robed young man sensed the Old Devils’ distant activity, judged it did not threaten his Dao, and considered using it to advance his Providence Transformation.

A purple-robed young man considered how ancient immortals could influence the coming tribulation without openly violating the Dao pact. He sent the cloud-shaped Purple Cloud to undergo three destined reincarnations, leaving it at Reincarnation Pass in the East Sea.

• The purple-robed young man connected the Devil Master's revived Dao aura and the disturbance along the river to ancient arrangements and the Profound Heaven Dao Sect.
• He decided not to make an open move because the Dao pact barred powerful figures from entering the struggle too soon.
• The purple-robed young man realized reincarnation could let others enter the tribulation while strengthening Reincarnation and earning heaven and earth's merit.
• He summoned the cloud-shaped Purple Cloud and told it to undergo three destined reincarnations before returning.
• The Purple Cloud drifted toward Reincarnation Pass in the East Sea, where a vicious hound guarded the gateway.

The Netherworld processed another group of special true spirits as reincarnation grew more active. In the Nine Heavens, Li Beiyun told Humanity-Dao White Marsh that he would recover his incomplete destiny pattern, while newly arrived people with special providence began appearing across the world.

• The evil demon sent a cloud-shaped true spirit and the other special true spirits into the Underworld Hall to enter reincarnation.
• The evil demon reflected on the Netherworld’s growing role, its vacant immortal offices, and the rise of a Great Tribulation outside.
• Humanity-Dao White Marsh questioned Li Beiyun about his identity, and he named himself and said he would recover his destiny pattern and complete his Fate Allotment.
• Manifestations of Spirit Light appeared across the Nine Heavens as another group of people bearing special providence entered the mortal world.
• An old man observed the growing number of Wisdom Light flames and recognized that reincarnation had caused the spectacle.

An old man realized that powerful figures were sending gifted individuals into reincarnation to build a tide of variables against the Ancient Era and the Primordial Immortals. He sent his attendant to face a tribulation, while the Reincarnation Dao Body watched the growing signs of an approaching Great Tribulation.

• The old man concluded that reincarnation could erase old entanglements and help powerful figures use the present age's Providence against the Primordial Immortals.
• The old man asked his attendant to enter the mortal world and repay his debt of cause and effect through reincarnation, and the boy gladly agreed.
• The Reincarnation Dao Body observed unusual true spirits and recognized that the next Great Tribulation would arise from them.
• The Reincarnation Dao Body continued strengthening the Reincarnation Underworld as tribulation qi began to spread.

Bifang observed the growing calamities surrounding Hidden Dragon prodigies and recognized that Liu Yuzhen’s fate was connected to Liu Chen, the Grand Heaven Dao Sect disciple believed to have died in the Profound Heaven Domain. He left Liu Yuzhen as a possible future variable in the sect’s plans.

• Lu Qing wondered why he could not trace the origins of Ye Kong, the Hidden Dragon prodigy.
• Cultivators watched Ye Kong flee the Cao Family’s pursuit and debated whether his fortune would save him again.
• Bifang heard reports that Hidden Dragon prodigies had faced mounting calamities, with some losing their lives.
• Bifang saw Liu Yuzhen in a Grand Heaven Dao Sect city and connected him to Liu Chen, who had supposedly died in the Profound Heaven Domain.
• Bifang recognized that Liu Yuzhen’s fate carried the Grand Heaven Dao Sect’s fortune and considered him a potential future variable.

Bifang assessed the tribulation surrounding the contest for the heavenly mandate and sensed that the Grand Heaven Dao Sect was behind Liu Yuzhen’s transforming fate. When the sect’s providence stirred, Bifang felt guided toward an opportunity nearby, one that was neither fully destined nor freely drifting.

• Bifang recognized that the contest for the heavenly mandate had entered a new stage, while his abundant providence and merit kept tribulation aura from attaching to him.
• Liu Yuzhen left the city, briefly sensed someone watching him, and hurried back to his sect to submit his mission.
• The Grand Heaven Dao Sect’s elders observed that its providence had stirred with another transformation of Liu Yuzhen’s fate and vowed that their plans would succeed.
• Bifang saw the sect’s providence ripple across the surrounding territories and identified the Grand Heaven Dao Sect as the force behind the transformation.
• Bifang sensed a nearby opportunity through his providence and judged that it carried more affinity than a drifting chance, though someone with greater providence could claim it first.

Ye Kong followed the Seeking Dao Immortal Cauldron fragment toward a grotto-heaven, vowing to survive the Cao Family’s attempt to kill him. As cultivators and bearers of fortune gathered at the emerging medium grotto-heaven, Bifang studied Ye Kong’s unusual destiny while Wen Fang cautiously prepared to investigate the opportunity.

• Ye Kong accepted the cauldron fragment’s guidance toward a grotto-heaven and vowed to take revenge on the Cao Family if he survived.
• The cauldron fragment warned Ye Kong that the Cao Family’s eldest son carried the fortune of an ancient qilin and urged him to break through quickly.
• Cultivators spotted a medium grotto-heaven emerging and began gathering to enter it.
• Bifang recognized Ye Kong’s complex fortune and speculated that he might be a variable connected to several of the Six Paths.
• Bifang decided to wait for the grotto-heaven’s opportunity to come to him, while Wen Fang chose to calculate the risks before approaching.

A treasure boat carrying Human Path Heavenly Prodigies passed a newly emerged Grotto-Heaven without stopping, while its passengers discussed the danger ahead. The group was traveling to confront a mysterious Variable Fate who hunted Sons of the Human Emperor and other Human Path prodigies.

• Wen Fang divined the Grotto-Heaven’s fortune with a coin and decided that Heaven’s Will had decreed he should go.
• Cultivators near the Grotto-Heaven debated its risks and the possibility of an Old Devil attempting possession and rebirth.
• Several people aboard the treasure boat reported that a Grotto-Heaven had appeared, but the boat continued on without stopping.
• Yang Buwen and the other guests paid little attention to the Grotto-Heaven, then praised Chang Yuexian and Li Jiuyang’s strength.
• Chen Zhen warned Chang Yuexian, Li Jiuyang, and the others not to lower their guard against the person they had come to confront.
• The passengers prepared to face a Variable Fate who hunted Sons of the Human Emperor and Human Path Heavenly Prodigies to seize their Destiny Patterns and Humanity Providence.

Li Beiyun faced a force of Human Emperor geniuses who came to kill him, while Bifang discovered a jade tablet that could seek out opportunities and raise an incarnation’s fortune. The battle remained underway as Bifang put the tablet away.

• The assembled geniuses discussed Li Beiyun’s strength and Chang Yuexian’s fate, while Chen Zhen watched them in silence.
• A strategist explained that Li Beiyun had killed Rahu’s Year Star and taken his destiny, prompting the group to prepare for him.
• Li Beiyun sensed the enemies approaching by river and blocked the pressure from their treasure vessel before they attacked.
• Li Beiyun killed a speaker with a sudden palm, then fought the geniuses as they unleashed divine light and magic across the river and surrounding land.
• Chen Zhen urged the others to use every measure against Li Beiyun, but Li Jiuyang warned that hidden measures could strengthen his fortune.
• Bifang examined a jade tablet from a grotto-heaven, learned that it concealed era encounters and raised the upper limit of fortune, then put it away.

Bifang watched a fierce battle between Human Path cultivators as Providence spilled from the wounded, and he recognized that the struggle of the Human Path and the Tribulation had begun. He expected the single-horned beast of Providence to win, ushering in an all-out slaughter among the Sons of the Human Emperor.

• Bifang saw a single-horned beast of Providence wound an auspicious beast, causing Providence to spill across the world.
• Nearby cultivators intercepted scattered Providence and fled with what they had gathered.
• Bifang identified the battle as a clash between Human Path cultivators that included several Sons of the Human Emperor.
• Bifang considered whether the single-horned beast or Ling Congzi might be connected to an unusual Destiny Pattern, but could not determine its bearer.
• Bifang concluded that the single-horned beast would likely defeat the Sons of the Human Emperor and that the struggle on the Path of the Human Emperor had entered its slaughterous phase.

Cultivators watched the Variable Fate battle three Sons of the Human Emperor, while Mo Mingsheng adjusted to life in a future age after transmigrating from the Great Dream Immortal Sect. Lu Qing's Red Dust Avatar traced the lingering cause and effect to Mo Mingsheng's former world and determined it lay beyond the Nine Heavens.

• Cultivators debated why the Variable Fate was fighting the three Sons of the Human Emperor and how the Human Path's contest for providence had changed.
• Mo Mingsheng realized he had traveled through time into the future, settled in a city, and found work as an apothecary boy after losing his Dharma Power.
• Mo Mingsheng recalled the strange cycles at the Great Dream Immortal Sect and wondered whether Wang Chunrong and Xiao Yuan had also reached the future.
• Lu Qing's Red Dust Avatar examined Mo Mingsheng's Fate River and saw a fading thread of cause and effect leading to his former world.
• Lu Qing's Red Dust Avatar concluded that Mo Mingsheng's former world was outside the Nine Heavens and chose not to enter it.

Lu Qing’s Red Dust Avatar watched the upheaval of providence in the north as elders assessed Li Beiyun’s threat and the coming Human Path struggle. At Kunpeng Sea, the Nineteenth Young Master left after his eldest brother’s taunts, prompting Elder Yimu to notice that a Kunpeng Young Master had departed from the Alliance’s plan.

• Lu Qing’s Red Dust Avatar observed the northern tide of providence and considered how the Great Age had changed the world.
• Several old observers concluded that Li Beiyun could defeat the Sons of the Human Emperor and warned that the Human Path’s struggle could shift the fortunes of every path.
• At Kunpeng Sea, the Nineteenth Young Master’s eldest brother mocked him and suggested the person outside was not the Human Emperor’s reincarnation.
• The Nineteenth Young Master grew angry and decided to leave Kunpeng Sea despite the danger.
• Elder Yimu sensed that a Kunpeng Young Master had departed and realized the move differed from the All-Living Alliance’s original plan.

As the great tribulation spread, the All-Living Alliance and the blue-robed cultivators on Golden Turtle Island stayed out of the Human Path’s growing conflict. A month later, Li Beiyun’s providence had overwhelmed the three Sons of the Human Emperor, who were still fighting because retreat would mean losing everything.

• Elder Yimu judged that the spreading tribulation made action dangerous and kept the All-Living Alliance from openly intervening.
• The blue-robed cultivators on Golden Turtle Island watched the Human Emperor Contest and recognized Li Beiyun as a Human Path Variable Fate.
• The Golden Turtle Island cultivators chose to observe events rather than risk angering the present-day powerhouses of the Nine Heavens.
• A month passed without anyone intervening, while the stream of providence and its single-horned avatar grew increasingly powerful.
• The three Sons of the Human Emperor continued fighting Li Beiyun after their companions were slain, since retreat would let his providence devour their destiny and providence.

Huang Wuxuan learned that the powerful stranger was from another era and, warned that he could not defeat him, chose to seek a fortune-changing opportunity instead. Elsewhere, ancient powers discussed the approaching great tribulation and the role of variables, while the battle on Northern Heaven Continent ended with a final devastating strike.

• Huang Wuxuan questioned the Mysterious Stone Tablet about the stranger, and it said he was not of this era but could not identify his origins.
• The Mysterious Stone Tablet warned Huang Wuxuan that he would die if he tried to kill the stranger and urged him to seek a place that would strengthen his fortune when the tribulation came.
• Huang Wuxuan accepted the warning and decided to pursue that opportunity rather than confront the stranger.
• Ancient voices from two Human Path Dao lineages discussed the stranger, the Dao Pact, reincarnation, and the approaching great tribulation, agreeing not to interfere openly.
• The stranger's final strike tore open the azure heavens and shattered clouds stretching ten thousand miles.

After a battle of providence killed Li Jiuyang, Chang Yuexian, and another Son of the Human Emperor, the surviving cultivators discovered that the clash had brought a great tribulation upon the Nine Heavens. Fuyao Mountain recognized it could not escape the coming disaster because it had gathered powerful geniuses and their fate allotments.

• The single-horned beast of providence devoured the manifestations of Great Sun, Lunar, and Saturn after their cultivators died.
• The watching cultivators noticed dense tribulation qi spreading after the battle and hurried away to prepare for a great tribulation.
• Cultivators debated the tribulation's cause, noting that its arrival lacked the usual omens and might be connected to the Heavenly Prodigies.
• An elder at Fuyao Mountain discussed how providence had determined the battle's outcome and warned that the sect would face the tribulation alongside its talented disciples.

Elder Red Brow and figures from ancient sects discussed how the sudden great tribulation centered on the Providence of living beings and geniuses. As reports of the tribulation spread, the Profound Heaven Dao Sect received news that gaining the lead in Dao contention would be exceedingly difficult.

• Elder Red Brow advised the elders to keep their disciples’ hearts clear, exercise restraint, and avoid unnecessary conflict during the tribulation.
• Ancient sects within the Golden Jade Ruyi Tower concluded that contending for Providence could let them manifest in the present age and revive.
• The figures in the Golden Jade Ruyi Tower debated sending disciples into the tribulation, agreeing that many could enter so long as one succeeded.
• A figure outside the tower suspected that the Providence at stake was really an unseen prevailing tide.
• Messages about the new tribulation spread across distant places, and a black-robed figure at the Profound Heaven Dao Sect read a Spirit Script warning that gaining the lead in Dao contention would be difficult.

As a great tribulation gathered around the Human Emperor’s path to the Dao, Ling Congzi was drawn into Dreamland, a mysterious realm recruiting guides to undertake missions for rewards. He returned to his body with the memory obscured and realized Dreamland prevented its guides from speaking about it.

• Black Cat and Zhou Shenlong concluded that the new tribulation would center on the Human Emperor attaining the Dao and recalled the West Sea rogue cultivator Ling Congzi.
• Ling Congzi felt his cultivation advancing faster amid the great era but grew troubled by recurring dreams and a sense that his memory was failing.
• Ling Congzi was drawn into Dreamland, where an insolent newcomer was erased after challenging the host.
• Xiang Qingshan learned that Dreamland guides could earn Dao merit by completing missions and exchange it for treasures, and Dreamland said newcomers could refuse and return with their memories erased.
• Dreamland told the newcomers to complete a one-month mission before becoming official guides, then sent them back to their bodies.
• Xiang Qingshan discovered that the returned guides could not describe Dreamland because of a restriction.

Xiang Qingshan and other cultivators weighed the mysterious Dreamland opportunity, with Xiang deciding to become a guide to gain resources and extend his life. Twelve days later, Huang Wuxuan reached a mountain graveyard seeking a method to suppress fate and learned the price was three taels of lifespan.

• Xiang Qingshan decided to become a Dreamland guide so he could access cultivation resources and seek a Peach Dragon Fruit to extend his life.
• Ling Congzi and cultivators in distant regions awoke to Dreamland and considered its opportunities and origins.
• A young cultivator of the Cui Family told his ancestors about Dreamland without naming it, and they judged it to be an opportunity.
• Twelve days passed, and Huang Wuxuan arrived at a mountain graveyard after the Stone Tablet directed him there.
• A stone lion asked Huang Wuxuan what he sought, and the Stone Tablet told him to request a method to suppress fate in exchange for three taels of lifespan.

Huang Wuxuan traded away part of his lifespan to obtain the Heaven-Shrouding Sun-Obscuring divine ability, which could counter the suppression of the Human Emperor’s fortune. The Mysterious Stone Tablet then identified Li Beiyun as a possible Human Emperor’s Dao enemy, leaving Huang Wuxuan wondering why he could not become the Human Emperor himself.

• Huang Wuxuan signed the stone lion’s contract, surrendering part of his lifespan in exchange for the Heaven-Shrouding Sun-Obscuring divine ability.
• The stone lion warned Huang Wuxuan not to teach the divine ability to anyone else because of the karmic consequences.
• After leaving the mountain, Huang Wuxuan learned that Li Beiyun had taken the destiny fortune of at least four Sons of the Human Emperor.
• The Mysterious Stone Tablet explained that the mountain was a graveyard for past contenders who had died on the Path of the Human Emperor.
• Huang Wuxuan asked about the man who had triggered the great calamity, and the tablet said he was from another era and might become the Human Emperor’s Dao enemy.
• Huang Wuxuan asked why that man could not become the Human Emperor.

Huang Wuxuan learned that Li Beiyun was a fate thief whose prospects of attaining the Dao were bleak, while Li Beiyun sought a Heaven-Nurtured Nine Extremes Pill-Fruit in the Eight Wastelands to repair his Dao foundation. The chapter ended with sect disciples waiting by a lake for a hidden divine treasure to appear.

• The Mysterious Stone Tablet told Huang Wuxuan that Li Beiyun was a fate thief and compared him with a Primordial Era rival who had created Huang Wuxuan's Divine Ability.
• Li Beiyun asked the Humanity-Dao White Marsh what it had seen while he recovered from the grave injuries he suffered fighting Great Sun, Lunar, and Chen Zhen.
• The Humanity-Dao White Marsh identified the Heaven-Nurtured Nine Extremes Pill-Fruit as the Treasure Herb Li Beiyun needed and said it could be found in the Eight Wastelands.
• The chapter described how cultivators were reconsidering the Human Path Inheritance Grounds and turning toward the Eight Wastelands to seek opportunities.
• Several sect disciples gathered beside a lake, where Senior Brother Zhu assured them that Senior Brother Fu had sent them to find a divine object concealing its brilliance.

Li Beiyun and White Marsh arrived at a site in the Eight Wastelands, while powerful Human Path figures discussed Li Beiyun and Zhao An. Zhao An began his first Dreamland mission and found himself in a body identical to his real one.

• Li Beiyun and White Marsh arrived, and the nearby disciples recognized Li Beiyun as the Human Path’s monstrous genius.
• White Marsh told Li Beiyun it sensed people nearby, and Li Beiyun ordered it to keep watch and show no mercy if they approached.
• Bodhi and Cosmos’s figures discussed Li Beiyun’s killings, Qin Yu’s defeat, and Zhao An’s unexplained travels.
• The figures concluded that Zhao An had found an opportunity in a strange region.
• Zhao An entered Dreamland as a guide and began his preliminary mission.
• Zhao An examined his body after arriving and found its Dharma power and other qualities matched his real body.

Zhao An and the other Dreamland guides arrived in the Qianyuan Limitless Grotto-Heaven and learned that their mission was to enter the Qianyuan Treasury and eliminate six bearers of heavenly mandate. As Great Qi neared collapse, Lu Yun reported six descending demon stars to the emperor and secretly resolved to use the coming treasury opening to become immortal.

• Zhao An examined Dreamland's mission, recognized the danger of opposing heavenly mandate, and decided to follow the dynasty's dragon qi to gather information.
• Zhao An and Xiang Qingshan assessed Great Qi's decline and prioritized finding the Qianyuan Treasury over confronting the bearers of heavenly mandate.
• Xiang Qingshan chose to focus on earning dao merit points and wait for the six bearers to reveal themselves rather than compete for the throne.
• Ling Congzi learned that the mission pitted the guides against the local heavenly mandate and regarded the six as demon stars.
• Lu Yun told Great Qi's emperor that six demon stars had descended, received orders to use the Skystalking Guard, and resolved to seek immortality when the Qianyuan Treasury opened.

The Six Paths Demon Star appeared to signal the coming collapse of Great Qi, while factions across the realm prepared for upheaval. Xiang Qingshan suspected the Qianyuan Treasury held the key to the heavenly mandate, and Lu Yun discovered a clue to its location.

• The Chu Clan Grand Elder divined that the Six Paths Demon Star would bring calamity to Great Qi and urged Chu Da to remember that the clan would rise afterward before dying.
• Advisers across the realm predicted that Great Qi would fracture within one to three years as its emperor weakened and rebellions spread.
• After several months in the grotto-heaven, an outside figure reflected that the Qianyuan Treasury's opening would trigger the appearance of the heavenly mandate.
• Xiang Qingshan suspected that Dreamland was directing the entrants toward the Qianyuan Treasury and noticed that Lu Yun's fortune made him a likely key to finding it.
• Lu Yun studied a silk map by candlelight, identified the location of the Qianyuan Treasury, and resolved to act quickly.

Lu Yun led Xiang Qingshan and a group of disguised cultivators to the Qianyuan Treasury in the Dragon Awakening Mountain Range. The cultivators agreed not to kill the Heavenly Mandates before opening it, fearing an Immortal's contingency and the Grotto-Heaven's Heaven's Way, and reached the ordinary treasury.

• Xiang Qingshan silently appeared beside Lu Yun, recognized the map's marked Qianyuan Treasury, and confirmed that it pointed to a hidden treasure site.
• Xiang Qingshan and the others traveled to the Dragon Awakening Mountain Range with Lu Yun as their guide.
• A cultivator proposed killing the Heavenly Mandates before they escaped, but Zhao An warned that they might be part of an Immortal's contingency.
• The disguised cultivators agreed to open the treasury first and remain wary of the Heavenly Mandates and the Grotto-Heaven's Heaven's Way.
• The group entered the Qianyuan Treasury and found an ordinary storehouse filled with gold, silver, jewels, and other valuables.