Recaps

The Demon Empress destroyed Buddhism, while the young monk’s death sparked a struggle for the Slaughter Saint Aura and ended the war. Ren claimed the Jade Butterfly Fragment, strengthened his cultivation and weapons, then returned to the Shrouding the Heavens World and began caring for Xiao Nannan.

• The Demon Empress erased Buddhism from the Primordial World, while Kong Xuan rejected her invitation to join the Demon Cult and Phoenix Ancestor pleaded for his children.
• The young monk fought the Demon Empress, but Minghe and the Lord of Zhuxian Alliance seized the Slaughter Saint Aura after the young monk died, then both advanced toward Primordial Unity.
• Ren claimed the cracked Jade Butterfly Fragment as the armies withdrew, and the surviving forces returned from Northern Jambudvipa with heavy losses and spoils from Spirit Mountain.
• Ruthless explained her plan to reincarnate, while Ren used the Jade Butterfly Fragment and the Origin of All Evil to form Wendao, his Evil Corpse, who set out to establish the Zombie Race.
• Ruthless reincarnated into a little girl and entered seclusion, while Ren refined the Zhu Xian Sword Formation and prepared to visit the Shrouding the Heavens World.
• Ren returned through the Five-Colored Altar and met Xiao Nannan, whom he recognized as Ruthless Emperor’s younger self, waiting for her brother.
• Ren built a home and Scripture Pavilion for Xiao Nannan, encouraged her to cultivate, and comforted her while hiding that her brother had died.

Ren helped Xiao Nannan turn grief over Ye Qing’s death into a cultivation path, and she left their home as Ruthless to face the world. While she fought her way toward the Four Extremes realm, Ren explored Purple Mountain and God City, released future challengers, and expanded his efforts to create Heaven’s Prides.

• Ren learned that Ye Qing had died, but when visitors brought his corpse to Xiao Nannan, he killed their attackers and explained that Ye Qing could not be revived.
• Ren restored Ye Qing’s body to extract the Sacred Body Origin, scattered his ashes, and let Xiao Nannan’s grief drive her to create her own cultivation method.
• Prince Zi Shou came seeking Ye Qing’s Sacred Body, but Ren transformed him into a Great Sun Body and sent him away to become Xiao Nannan’s opponent.
• Xiao Nannan repeatedly rebuilt her cultivation, perfected her Sea of Reincarnation, and left Ren’s home as Ruthless to test herself in the outside world.
• Ren explored Purple Mountain, fought the Immortal Heavenly Emperor, released the Heavenly Emperor’s Son and sealed Primordial King Race children, and gathered the mountain’s resources.
• Ren traveled through God City, restored a Nine-Leaf Sword Grass leaf, studied the Grass-Character Sword Art, and gave a future Great Xia ancestor opportunities to cultivate.
• Ren learned that Ruthless had defeated Worship Fire Sect pursuers, reached the Four Extremes realm, and gravely wounded Netherflame before fleeing into a Forbidden Zone.
• Ren ordered his agents to continue dangerous blood-fusion experiments and spread their efforts across the Starry Sky Ancient Road to cultivate Heaven’s Prides.

Ren restored Wang Bo’s Chaos Body and arranged for Ruthless to face the Heaven’s Prides at Zi Shou’s banquet. The gathering revealed Emperor Zun’s return and his plan to sacrifice all living beings to forge the World Cauldron.

• Ren captured Wang Bo’s Immortal Source on the sealed Big Dipper, restored his Chaos Body, and persuaded him to follow.
• Ren brought Wang Bo and Duan De to Purple Mountain, where starlight awakened cultivators, Primordial races, and the Immortal Heavenly Emperor’s son.
• Ren confirmed that the Heaven’s Pride Banquet would serve as Ruthless’s trial, while she traveled to God City after devouring her opponents’ constitutions.
• Duan De and Wang Bo joined the banquet, where Ruthless exposed the Heaven’s Prides’ plan to attack her and challenged them to face her openly.
• Wang Bo revealed his Innate Chaos Body, and Ren entered the palace with Zi Xuan as the guests debated the ancient Heavenly Court and Emperor Zun.
• The Immortal Heavenly Emperor appeared, recognized Ren, and confirmed that Emperor Zun had sent him to find the one who commanded the All-Heaven Stars.
• Ren took Duan De to meet Emperor Zun, who proposed sacrificing all living beings to forge the World Cauldron and enter the Immortal Domain.

Ren subdued Emperor Zun and the Forbidden Zone Supremes, then watched Ruthless overcome the trials he had arranged and defeat the Feathered Emperor. After sharing an ordinary life with Ruthless, Ren returned to the Primordial World, where ten years had passed and its factions had continued to grow stronger.

• Ren defeated Emperor Zun, sealed him inside the Sky Ranking, and used it to subdue the gathered Supremes, while Duan De kept his freedom and the Immortal Heavenly Emperor entered a Strange World.
• Ren arranged for the Feathered Emperor to test Ruthless, and Emperor Zun agreed to follow Ren willingly if Ruthless accepted the truth about her trials calmly.
• Ruthless reached the Ultimate Imperial Pass and fought the Young Supremes, defeating and killing many of them as Dragon Lord and Fighting Saint Ape gave up their claims to the Great Emperor position.
• Ruthless defeated Zi Shou, and the Feathered Emperor appeared to protect his son before fighting Ruthless in Chaos.
• After nearly two years of battle, the Feathered Emperor sacrificed his life and Dao Fruit, but Ruthless broke free of his final technique and the Sky Ranking released him.
• Ruthless returned to Ren, refined her former Chaos Body into the Devouring Heaven Demonic Jar, and lived with him as an ordinary person for several hundred years before he returned to the Primordial World.
• Ren found that ten years had passed and learned from Yan Ruyu that the major factions had strengthened, the Demon Cult and Shura Sect were at war, and the Wu Clan was building its Human-Witch armies.