Recaps

As the Abyss and otherworldly forces drove Great Yan toward collapse, factions fled the Imperial City and Su Xinghai left to risk a dangerous breakthrough. Human Race powers dispatched reinforcements to defend Great Yan and Northern Liang Pass.

• Li Xuancang returned to his residence and searched ancient texts for a way back to the Wild Continent as reports arrived that three of Abundant Peace Commandery's seven county cities had fallen.
• Zhu Xuanye ordered a retreat from Cloud Prefecture as Great Yan's armies suffered defeats, while the Grassland iron cavalry invaded Cool Prefecture and massacred civilians.
• Factions evacuated the Imperial City, including Wenxin Academy's party with Pei Hongwen and Pei Qingyuan, and the Du Family, which relocated to Yu Prefecture.
• Su Xinghai announced that he would seek a breakthrough to the Divine Repository Realm, entrusted his family to Bai Meng and the others, and warned them to keep the Du Family in check.
• The Prison Tiger Bureau and Profound Heart Sect sent Divine Repository Realm experts to Great Yan, while the Great Yin Dynasty, Great Li, and Great Yan Dynasty dispatched armies to Northern Liang Pass.

Li Xuancang searched the Abyss for a passage back to the Wild Continent, then returned to Fengning Commandery City as a massive battle began. He charged into the fighting and emerged unharmed after taking several attacks head-on.

• Li Xuancang studied an ancient tome, entered the Abyss, and searched for passages that might lead to the Wild Continent.
• After months of searching, Li Xuancang decided to question Abyss Demonic Beasts and returned to Fengning Commandery City to prepare for battle.
• Three days later, an Abyssal Rift opened above the city, and Human fighters met the invading Demonic Beasts in a bloody battle.
• Li Xuancang charged into the fighting and destroyed an Early-Stage Divine Repository Realm great demon with one punch.
• Li Xuancang took three attacks without defending himself and emerged from the dust without a single injury.

Li Xuancang demonstrated overwhelming physical and soul strength while battling the Demonic Beasts, defeating their attacks and badly injuring a powerful swordsman. The swordsman tried to recover as Li Xuancang charged in to finish it off.

• Li Xuancang endured three powerful attacks unharmed, then charged into battle and killed Demonic Beasts with ease.
• After hours of fighting, Li Xuancang faced two Late-Stage Divine Repository Realm Demonic Beasts while the other combatants fought evenly matched opponents.
• The Three-Legged Golden Toad attacked Li Xuancang's Soul Sea, but his powerful soul force shattered its soul storm and sent it staggering from backlash.
• A Demonic Beast swordsman attacked Li Xuancang with Sword Qi and a massive sword radiance, but Li Xuancang's Dharma Idol overwhelmed it and left it gravely injured.
• The wounded swordsman swallowed heavenly treasures to recover, and Li Xuancang charged toward it while it was unable to resist.

Li Xuancang held off the Abyss's forces while civilians evacuated, but the next assault brought three disguised Fallen Ones close to the Torch. As the defenders rushed to protect it, the Torch's fate remained uncertain.

• Li Xuancang fought three Abyss experts through the night until they withdrew, and the Human Race discussed the worsening battle.
• The Imperial Court ordered Phoenix Cry County and the other surviving county to evacuate toward the provincial capital.
• Li Xuancang fought the same three Demonic Beasts again as three civilians approached the Torch and revealed themselves as Fallen Ones.
• Xiao Lingyun attacked the Fallen Ones and rallied nearby people to defend the Torch, while the Human Race's fighters rushed back to reinforce it.

Li Xuancang saved the Torch from the Demonic Beasts, then returned to a battlefield where the Human Race had suffered devastating losses. After the exhausted defenders gathered, Guo Tianwei declared Fengning Commandery City could no longer be held, but Xiao Lingyun warned that abandoning it would send them to the Judgment Court.

• Li Xuancang used his enormous Dharma Manifestation to drive back the Three-Legged Golden Toad and two other experts, then rushed to defend the Torch.
• Li Xuancang pursued the retreating Demonic Beasts, killed a Mid-Stage Divine Repository Realm expert, confirmed the Torch was safe, and returned to the battlefield.
• The Demonic Beasts withdrew after a grueling night, leaving the Human Race with more than a hundred Divine Repository Realm cultivators dead in two days.
• Li Xuancang and the other defenders concluded that Fengning Commandery City would fall within ten days and requested reinforcements from the provincial capital.
• Guo Tianwei said the commandery city could no longer be defended, but Xiao Lingyun warned that abandoning it would bring the Judgment Court's punishment.

With Fengning Commandery City doomed, Li Xuancang escaped into the Abyss as the Human Race destroyed the city’s Torch, then searched fruitlessly for a passage to the Wild Continent. Meanwhile, Su Xinghai’s failed breakthrough turned him into a murderous Divine Repository Realm monster whose attacks disrupted the Barbarian campaign, and a powerful aura suddenly entered Yu Prefecture City.

• Li Xuancang escaped into an Abyssal rift, and the Human Race destroyed the Torch, leveling Fengning Commandery City and allowing some experts to flee.
• Disguised among the Demonic Beasts, Li Xuancang searched the Abyss for a passage to the Wild Continent but found no information after more than a month.
• Su Xinghai suffered cultivation deviation while attempting to reach the Divine Repository Realm and rampaged through Peace Prefecture and Cloud Prefecture, slaughtering Barbarians.
• The Barbarians repeatedly sent experts to kill Su Xinghai, but he recovered from grave injuries and continued attacking their forces, disrupting their campaign against the Great Yan Imperial City.
• Bai Meng suspected the rampaging Evil Cultivator was Su Xinghai, then sensed a Divine Repository Realm aura charging toward the Guard Commander's Estate in Yu Prefecture City and recognized it as the Northern Liang King.

The Northern Liang King attacked the Guard Commander's Estate to slaughter Li Xuancang’s family, but the estate’s evolving formation withstood his assaults. Unable to break through and wary of other Human Race experts, he withdrew, blaming Li Xuancang for preparing a safeguard.

• The Northern Liang King rushed to the Guard Commander's Estate, while Du Tianfeng and Du Tianhao hurried there to protect the family.
• Zhang Tianlong, his brothers, Ouyang De, and his brother defended the estate as Du Ruomei led Father Li, Mother Li, and the eldest sister to the rear courtyard.
• Bai Meng joined the defenders, and the estate’s formation blocked the Northern Liang King’s giant-hand attack and saber strike.
• Bai Meng and the others strengthened the formation with lower-grade heaven-tier divine weapons and spirit stones as it continued to evolve.
• The Northern Liang King repeatedly attacked but could not break the formation, so he withdrew before Human Race experts could arrive.

Li Xuancang bought information about the passage to the Wild Continent from Xiang Ranyi at Drizzle Pavilion and raced there. He entered the storm surrounding the sealed passage, where its blades tore through his protective light and wounded him.

• The Northern Liang King withdrew after failing to break the formation, and news of his attack on the Li Family spread through Human Race territory.
• Li Xuancang reached Drizzle Pavilion and asked its Pavilion Master for information about the Myriad Realms Passage to the Wild Continent.
• Xiang Ranyi accepted Li Xuancang's treasures in exchange for a written record of the passage's location and defenses.
• Li Xuancang traveled for more than three months to reach the passage, learning that the Wild Continent had sealed it and that its laws would destroy outsiders who crossed.
• Li Xuancang charged into the Abyss storm, but the wind blades fractured his protective light and tore into his body.

Li Xuancang endured the passage’s storm and returned to the Wild Continent, where he discovered two continents and chose the lower one. After emerging onto a remote island, he flew across the ocean and found a sect fleet battling a giant octopus.

• Li Xuancang forced his way through the storm, entered the passage, and confirmed it carried the aura of the Wild Continent.
• Li Xuancang passed through a barrier and felt a terrifying, fleeting gaze that he suspected belonged to the Heavenly Dao.
• Li Xuancang saw two Wild Continents connected by divine chains and continued through the passage to the lower continent.
• Li Xuancang left the passage, found himself on a lonely island, and flew across the ocean for five days until he spotted ships.
• Li Xuancang disguised himself and struck the giant octopus attacking a sect fleet with a powerful punch, while the beast released blackish-purple mist and dove toward the seabed.

Li Xuancang traveled with the Endless Sea Pavilion fleet from the East Sea toward the Human Race, defeating sea monsters and pirates along the way. After reaching the Bohai Sea, he set off alone toward Yang Prefecture, increasingly worried about his family as he learned the Human Race was at war.

• Li Xuancang rescued two Divine Repository Realm cultivators, learned he was more than a hundred thousand li from Human Race territory, and agreed to travel with Zhao Yanlin's fleet to the Bohai Sea.
• After more than ten days at sea, Li Xuancang killed a Mid-Stage Divine Repository Realm Black Tortoise, then let Zhao Yanlin and the others claim its corpse.
• Li Xuancang learned that the Human Race was fighting the Otherworldly Races and grew frantic with concern for his family's safety.
• Li Xuancang eliminated two bands of pirates as the fleet traveled at full speed for more than a month to the Bohai Sea.
• Li Xuancang declined Zhao Yanlin's offer of an escort and headed alone upstream along the Canglan River toward Yang Prefecture.

Li Xuancang returned to Yu Prefecture as Great Yan faced invasion and his family prepared to flee. He reunited with his loyal subordinates and, after years away, embraced his parents.

• Li Xuancang arrived in Yang Prefecture and saw that the Giant Whale Gang was looting amid the chaos of war.
• Bai Meng, Ouyang De, Zhang Tianlong, and the others decided to evacuate Yu Prefecture to the Profound Heart Sect if the Grassland cavalry approached.
• Bai Meng reported that Xinghai had failed, been wounded by the Barbarians, and been captured by the Prison Tiger Bureau.
• Li Xuancang reached the Guard Commander's Estate, where his soldiers recognized him and announced his return.
• Bai Meng and the others welcomed Li Xuancang with a grand salute, and he thanked them for protecting his parents.
• Li Xuancang reunited with Father Li and Mother Li, who wept and embraced him.

Li Xuancang returned to the Guard Commander's Estate, reunited with his family, and learned from Ouyang De about the hardships and losses suffered while he was away. After announcing his return to the world, he left Yu Prefecture’s factions wondering what his survival from the Void would mean.

• Li Xuancang reunited with his family and Du Ruomei, then spent the night catching up with them.
• The next morning, Li Xuancang met with his trusted subordinates and learned that Su Xinghai had died after failing to break through to the Divine Repository Realm, and that the Northern Liang King had invaded.
• Li Xuancang vowed to repay the blood debts and ordered Ouyang De to announce his return publicly.
• News of Li Xuancang’s return spread through Yu Prefecture, and the Du Family hurried to visit him.
• Li Xuancang received the Du Family and stayed with his relatives as factions across the city confirmed he had survived falling into the Void.

Li Xuancang reached the Northern Liang battlefield, where the Human Race Coalition was struggling against the allied Otherworldly Races, and learned that Su Xinghai was alive but held by the Prison Tiger Bureau. Supreme Elder Qin refused to hand Su Xinghai over, leaving Li Xuancang facing a tense standoff.

• Li Xuancang's return spread across the lands, prompting the Emperor to send treasures in an attempt to repair their relationship and unsettling the Otherworldly Races.
• Li Xuancang left his family and traveled to Northern Liang to find Su Xinghai and settle old scores.
• At the battlefield, Li Xuancang watched the Human Race Coalition struggle against the Blood Race, Demon Race, Evil Cultivators, and Demons, and spotted Pei Qingyuan fighting among the cultivators.
• After both sides withdrew, Li Xuancang revealed himself to the Human Race's Divine Repository Realm experts and asked Supreme Elder Qin whether the Prison Tiger Bureau held Su Xinghai.
• Supreme Elder Qin confirmed that Su Xinghai was in custody but refused to hand him over, making the atmosphere tense.

Li Xuancang demanded that the Prison Tiger Bureau hand over Su Xinghai, but the bureau refused because Su Xinghai had fallen into demonic corruption and posed a danger to the world. After a confrontation nearly erupted, Wei Dongling persuaded both sides to withdraw and urged the Prison Tiger Bureau to let Li Xuancang handle Su Xinghai.

• Li Xuancang demanded Su Xinghai from Supreme Elder Qin, who refused to release him.
• Li Xuancang revealed his Mid-Stage Divine Repository Realm cultivation and pressured Supreme Elder Qin until Lu Tianchen intervened to defend the Prison Tiger Bureau's position.
• Wei Dongling and the others stopped Li Xuancang and the Prison Tiger Bureau from fighting, and both sides withdrew their auras.
• In the main tent, Wei Dongling argued that Su Xinghai's death would be a release, but Li Xuancang insisted he would try to save him.
• Wei Dongling asked Lu Tianchen and Supreme Elder Qin to hand Su Xinghai over to Li Xuancang, believing he would prevent Su Xinghai from harming anyone.

Li Xuancang secured the Prison Tiger Bureau’s agreement to take Su Xinghai, then suppressed him after freeing him from the Bureau’s seal. With Su Xinghai contained, Li Xuancang ordered a surprise counterattack against the Otherworldly Races, and the Human army charged onto the battlefield.

• Lu Tianchen and Supreme Elder Qin agreed to hand Su Xinghai over to Li Xuancang, on the condition that the Prison Tiger Bureau could execute him if he again threatened the world.
• Li Xuancang shattered Su Xinghai’s seal, then effortlessly suppressed his body and murderous soul until he fell unconscious.
• Li Xuancang sealed Su Xinghai’s soul and meridians, ensuring he could not threaten anyone while Li Xuancang sought a way to save him.
• Li Xuancang ordered an immediate surprise counterattack because the Otherworldly Races did not know he had arrived.
• Pei Qingyuan heard the attack drums, suspected Li Xuancang had prompted the offensive, and joined the assembled army as it charged.

The Human Race launched a counterattack, and Li Xuancang appeared on the battlefield, shocking both sides after everyone believed he had died in the Void. As the Otherworldly experts prepared to face him, Li Xuancang vanished without a trace, leaving his location and next move unknown.

• The Human Race charged out to attack, and Xue Wujiu and the other Otherworldly leaders sent their Divine Repository Realm experts to meet them.
• Li Xuancang's voice halted both armies, and he stepped onto the battlefield, revealing that he had survived his fall into the Void.
• Xue Wujiu, the Six-Eyed Great Demon, and others reacted with terror, but Heaven-Hating Old Man urged them to fight and the Human experts rallied around Li Xuancang.
• Li Xuancang vanished before the gathered fighters could attack, and the Otherworldly Races and watching factions searched for him in alarm.

Li Xuancang overwhelmed the Otherworldly Races on the battlefield, proving immune to the combined attacks of more than a dozen Divine Repository Realm experts. He crushed their forces beneath his Dharma manifestation as Lu Tianchen realized Li Xuancang might have reached the Late-Stage Divine Repository Realm.

• Li Xuancang appeared among the Otherworldly Races, seized the Northern Liang King, and emerged unharmed from the experts’ combined attack.
• Li Xuancang tossed the unconscious Northern Liang King back toward the Human Race and vanished again.
• Li Xuancang killed a Divine Repository Realm Demon with one punch, prompting Xue Wujiu and the others to flee.
• Li Xuancang summoned a towering crimson Dharma manifestation whose pressure crushed tens of thousands of low-cultivation Otherworldly soldiers.
• Lu Tianchen suspected Li Xuancang had reached the Late-Stage Divine Repository Realm as the Dharma manifestation pinned Xue Wujiu and the other fleeing enemies beneath its pressure.

Li Xuancang killed the Six-Eyed Great Demon, Heaven-Hating Old Man, and other Divine Repository experts, then destroyed the Otherworldly Races' army with a single punch. After confirming he had reached the Late-Stage Divine Repository Realm, he left to pursue his other goals, while the Human Race announced that he would execute the Northern Liang King in Yu Prefecture City three months later.

• Li Xuancang's Dharma manifestation crushed Xue Wujiu, Heaven-Hating Old Man, and more than a dozen other Divine Repository Realm experts, alarming the surviving Otherworldly Races.
• Li Xuancang struck the Otherworldly Races' army with a vast golden fist, killing hundreds of thousands of soldiers as Lu Tianchen and the others shielded the Human Race army from the shockwave.
• Li Xuancang seized the Northern Liang King and confirmed to Lu Tianchen and the gathered forces that he had reached the Late-Stage Divine Repository Realm.
• Li Xuancang departed to seek treatment for Su Xinghai, draw out Xu Zinian, and settle old feuds with other forces.
• The Human Race spread word that Li Xuancang would execute the Northern Liang King in Yu Prefecture City three months later.

News of Li Xuancang’s overwhelming strength spread across the factions, forcing enemies to reconsider their plans. The Barbarians withdrew from Great Yan’s Imperial City, while Zhu Xuanye worried about how Li Xuancang would respond to the Emperor’s treatment of his family.

• Li Xuancang ordered Wang Xiaoniu to reject the Emperor’s gifts, and Wang Xiaoniu and Zhang Tianlong drove the imperial envoys from Yu Prefecture City with their resources discarded.
• After learning that Li Xuancang had defeated more than a dozen Divine Repository Realm experts and over a million soldiers, Evil Cultivators, demonic cultivators, Demons, and other factions hid or held back from acting.
• Barbarian leaders discussed Li Xuancang’s return and ordered their army to retreat from Great Yan’s Imperial City rather than risk facing him.
• Shen Tianyi and Zhu Xuanye watched the Barbarians withdraw as Great Yan celebrated, while Zhu Xuanye worried that Li Xuancang would not forgive the Imperial Clan.

Zhu Xuanye persuaded the emperor to grant Li Xuancang sweeping authority over Yu Prefecture to secure the Great Yan realm. The emperor’s edict reached Li Xuancang, appointing him Military Governor and granting Yu Prefecture as his hereditary fief.

• Zhu Xuanye told the emperor that the Barbarians had withdrawn temporarily and urged him to win over Li Xuancang.
• Zhu Xuanye demanded that the emperor appoint Li Xuancang Military Governor of Yu Prefecture and grant him authority over its military and civil affairs.
• Zhu Xuanye resolved to risk a breakthrough into the Divine Repository Realm to protect the Imperial Clan’s realm.
• Xu Zinian learned that Li Xuancang had captured the Northern Liang King and planned to execute him in two months, then decided to go to Li Xuancang.
• The emperor’s envoy read an edict appointing Li Xuancang Military Governor of Yu Prefecture, granting him the prefecture as a hereditary fief and broad governing powers.

After receiving the appointment as Military Commissioner of Yu Prefecture, Li Xuancang arranged for a powerful formation to protect the city and faced the worsening condition of Su Xinghai. He left the formation’s costly materials to be procured while planning to seek treatment for Su Xinghai after resolving the Northern Liang King’s execution.

• The emperor appointed Li Xuancang Military Commissioner of Yu Prefecture, and Li ordered the Blacksteel Camp to recruit until it had fifty thousand men.
• Zheng Feng and the Array Origin Sect formation masters inspected the residence’s formation and proposed linking it with a mid-grade heaven-grade formation around Yu Prefecture City.
• Li Xuancang agreed to gather the enormous resources needed for the formation and sent Ouyang De and Ouyang Meng to Ten-Thousand Forges Mountain with two divine weapons as a deposit.
• Su Xinghai’s bloodthirsty resistance intensified, so Li Xuancang subdued him, healed his injuries, and realized that his condition could not be delayed much longer.
• Li Xuancang resolved to seek a treatment for Su Xinghai after dealing with the Northern Liang King’s impending execution.

Xu Zinian arrived at the execution of the Northern Liang King and tried to trade Shen Qingshan for him. Li Xuancang honored Shen Qingshan’s unspoken wish and killed the Northern Liang King, leaving Xu Zinian stunned and the exchange deal broken.

• Crowds gathered as Li Xuancang presided over the execution of the battered Northern Liang King.
• Xu Zinian appeared at the execution ground with Shen Qingshan as his hostage and demanded an exchange.
• Shen Qingshan silently urged Li Xuancang not to trade the Northern Liang King’s life for his own.
• Xu Zinian mocked Li Xuancang and pressured him to decide, while the Northern Liang King accused him of abandoning allies.
• Li Xuancang understood Shen Qingshan’s wishes and killed the Northern Liang King, shocking Xu Zinian and the crowd.

Xu Zinian killed the Northern Liang King, poisoned Shen Qingshan, and tried to escape after discovering that Li Xuancang was far stronger than expected. Li Xuancang chose to return to his family and found a Divine Repository Realm Demon attacking his residence, raising the threat of a catastrophe across the Wild Continent.

• Xu Zinian killed the Northern Liang King and infected Shen Qingshan with Heart-Attacking Corpse Poison, which Li Xuancang temporarily suppressed.
• Li Xuancang struck Xu Zinian with overwhelming force, but Xu Zinian used a jade plaque to block him long enough to flee.
• Xu Zinian warned Li Xuancang that his family and Shen Qingshan were in danger, and Li Xuancang abandoned the pursuit to return.
• Shen Qingshan briefly suppressed the poison and begged Zhang Tianlong to kill him, but Zhang Tianlong restrained him instead.
• Li Xuancang returned to the residence and found a Divine Repository Realm Demon attacking its grand formation.

Li Xuancang subdued Xu Zinian’s puppet and summoned the Human Race’s major powers, who identified it as a creation of the revived Corpse Demon Sect. Supreme Elder Qin then examined Shen Qingshan and declared that the Corpse Demon Poison had made him impossible to save.

• Li Xuancang bound the puppet with a crimson divine chain and called the Prison Tiger Bureau, the Profound Heart Sect, Star Palace, and the Divine Firmament Sect to investigate.
• Ouyang De and Ouyang Meng left Ten-Thousand Forges Mountain after its leaders refused to meet them, while the sect’s elders voiced their hostility toward Li Xuancang.
• Rumors spread across the Human Race accusing Li Xuancang of abandoning his friend, enraging Wang Xiaoniu and the others, though Li Xuancang ignored them.
• Supreme Elder Qin identified the puppet as a Divine Repository Realm creation of the Corpse Demon Sect and decided to warn the Black Heaven Domain.
• Li Xuancang allowed Supreme Elder Qin to take the puppet away, then brought him to see Shen Qingshan, whom Qin declared beyond saving because of the Corpse Demon Poison.

Li Xuancang refused to let Supreme Elder Qin kill Shen Qingshan and sought outside help to forge formation foundations so he could secure Yu Prefecture City and find cures for Shen Qingshan and Su Xinghai. Meanwhile, the Corpse Demon Sect and the Blood Race conspired to attack the Human Race, while Li Xuancang learned that Fire Dragon Mouth might be able to forge the foundations he needed.

• Li Xuancang stopped Supreme Elder Qin from killing Shen Qingshan, insisting he would not abandon him despite the Corpse Demon Poison in his heart.
• After Ouyang De and the other man returned, Li Xuancang sent them to the Bohai Sea to invite the Endless Sea Pavilion to Yu Prefecture City.
• Elder Wang promised the Blood Race that the Corpse Demon Sect would provide seven Divine Repository Realm cultivators and tens of thousands of puppets, while also releasing the Demonic Plague and seeking allies among other races.
• Ouyang De and the other man returned with Zhao Yanlin, whom Li Xuancang asked about overseas powers capable of forging low-grade Heaven-rank formation foundations.
• Zhao Yanlin recommended Fire Dragon Mouth, warning Li Xuancang that its artifact-forging schedule was booked years in advance.