Recaps

Di Jun explained the Demon Race’s shared name and invited Fuxi and Nuwa to help establish its laws, presenting it as a rival to the Eastern King’s emerging Immortal Court. Nuwa declined to join, while Fuxi agreed to visit the clans before deciding, and Di Jun told Bai Ze to begin preparations.

• Di Jun said thirty-seven clans had agreed to share the name Monster, then showed Fuxi how the Eastern King was gathering immortals on the Three Immortal Islands to establish the Immortal Court.
• Di Jun explained that he and Taiyi intended to establish the Demon Race, accepting responsibility for the clans’ enemies and karmic entanglements in exchange for their allegiance and shared Fate Aura.
• Di Jun invited Fuxi to create laws for the clans and offered him the River Chart and Luo Script to study, while inviting Nuwa to join as an equal.
• Nuwa declined to join any faction, and Fuxi chose to meet Bai Ze and the clans before deciding whether to take part.
• After leaving Phoenix Perch Mountain, Di Jun told Bai Ze that the clans could begin preparing and formally adopt the name Monster.

Bai Ze led three aquatic clans south from the Northern Dark Sea, but Kunpeng blocked their passage and challenged Di Jun’s claim to them. Taiyi defeated Kunpeng with the Chaos Bell, opening the route south and leaving Fuxi and Kong Xuan to reflect on the gulf between their cultivation and that of top-tier Great Luo cultivators.

• Bai Ze led three aquatic clans toward the south while Fuxi, Qing Xuan, and Qing Yi watched from an icy cliff.
• Kunpeng emerged from the Northern Dark Sea and demanded to know why Di Jun was taking people who lived under his guidance.
• When one clan leader chose to leave, Kunpeng trapped the clans in shifting tides and layered sea worlds, preventing them from moving south.
• Di Jun declared that he would take the clans, and Taiyi confronted Kunpeng with the Chaos Bell.
• Taiyi shattered Kunpeng’s manifestations of the Northern Dark Sea, defeated him, and opened the sea route south.
• Fuxi recognized how much Taiyi’s mastery had advanced, while Kong Xuan watched the clash and felt the distance between her cultivation and theirs.

Di Jun and Taiyi founded the Demon Race by uniting the fate auras of thirty-seven tribes, including the Cangze Lineage. The Eastern King responded by moving ahead with the Immortal Court’s plans and ordered the Dragon Race to pressure Cangze’s members who remained in the Four Seas.

• Qing Xuan, Qing Yi, and Kong Xuan arrived at the Northern Mountain Plain, where Bai Ze had gathered thirty-seven tribes for Di Jun and Taiyi.
• A Cangze elder told Fuxi that he had refused a Dragon Envoy’s demand to take Cangze people and had brought the Dragon Race’s conscription token north.
• Di Jun declared that he and Taiyi sought to unite the tribes and contend for the Primordial World’s fate aura, then named their gathering the Demon Race.
• Taiyi rang the Chaos Bell as the tribes’ fate auras joined, and Di Jun and Taiyi declared themselves demons alongside them.
• The Eastern King learned that Cangze had joined the Demon Race and sent a Dragon Great Luo to persuade Cangze members still in the Four Seas to remain tied to the Dragon Race.
• The Eastern King decided to announce the Immortal Court’s presence without waiting for the remaining immortals to arrive.

A Dragon Race Great Luo descended on Cangze to punish its clans for rejecting the Dragon Race’s authority and tried to seize their people and Water Veins. Taiyi arrived and stopped him, leaving the two Great Luo confronting each other over the Four Seas.

• The Dragon Race’s decree selected Cangze clansmen for another attempt to suppress the East Sea Tide Eye, and a Great Luo arrived to accuse the clans of destroying dragon markings and submitting to another clan.
• The white-haired elder argued that Cangze had already repaid its debt after sacrificing thousands of clansmen to suppress seven Tide Eyes.
• The Dragon Race’s Great Luo declared that the absent clan leader’s punishment would fall on the elder and began uprooting Cangze’s Water Veins, fate aura, and living beings with his dragon claw.
• A bell chime shattered the dragon markings and chains, and Taiyi arrived from the north carrying the Chaos Bell and declared that he had given the Cangze clans their support.
• The Dragon Race’s Great Luo raised a domain of countless dragons and challenged Taiyi, questioning whether the Chaos Bell let him disregard the Four Seas.

Taiyi defeated a Dragon Race Great Luo at Cangze and declared its clans part of the Demon Race, but the Eastern King arrived with seven other Great Luo and founded the Immortal Court. Taiyi withdrew with Cangze under the Demon Race’s protection, leaving the Immortal Court and Demon Race as rival powers.

• Taiyi used the Chaos Bell to break the Dragon Race Great Luo’s domain, wound him, and declare that Cangze’s clans were no longer subject to the Dragon Race.
• The Eastern King arrived with seven Great Luo, while the white-haired elder revealed a dragon decree listing thousands of Cangze people sent into the Tide Eye.
• Taiyi destroyed the decree and claimed Cangze for the Demon Race, prompting the Eastern King to establish the Immortal Court on the Three Immortal Islands.
• The Immortal Court gained merit and unified the Fate Aura of the Eastern King’s seven Great Luo, allowing him to stand against Taiyi and the Chaos Bell.
• Taiyi recalled the Chaos Bell, marked Cangze’s ancestral stele with a Golden Crow sigil, and left with Cangze’s people under the Demon Race’s protection.
• The Eastern King let Taiyi depart and recognized the threat that Taiyi and Di Jun posed to his new Immortal Court.

Di Jun and Taiyi visited Qing Xuan and Qing Yi on the Purple Star, where Di Jun sought permission to connect the Cosmic Star Sea’s routes through the stars. After Qing Xuan agreed, Taiyi challenged him to a rematch, and they went into the star sea to fight.

• Kong Xuan told Qing Xuan and Qing Yi that Di Jun and Taiyi had arrived, and they welcomed the visitors onto the Purple Star.
• Di Jun used the River Chart and Luo Script to show how he planned to link Demon Race territories through starlight, and Qing Xuan agreed to let the routes pass through the Purple Star.
• Taiyi asked Qing Xuan to face him in battle again, and Qing Xuan accepted.
• Qing Xuan and Taiyi entered the Cosmic Star Sea while Di Jun, Qing Yi, and Kong Xuan stayed near the Purple Emperor Star.
• Taiyi unleashed the Great Dao of the Sun, whose manifestation appeared across past and future, revealing his Great Luo attainment.

Qing Xuan defeated Taiyi in a clash of their Great Luo Dao Fruits, forcing Taiyi to acknowledge his loss. Several thousand years later, as the Demon Race sought a homeland, the stars shifted toward the sky above Buzhou Mountain.

• Taiyi attacked Qing Xuan with the Chaos Bell, trying to replace Qing Xuan's World Dao with his Solar Dao.
• Qing Xuan's complete world absorbed Taiyi's Solar Dao and struck the Chaos Bell with a sea of starlight, making Taiyi retreat.
• Taiyi admitted defeat, and Di Jun recognized that Qing Xuan's path to Great Luo differed from the Demon Race's path.
• Over the following several thousand years, the Demon Race grew, but its scattered peoples and lack of a suitable homeland remained problems for Di Jun.
• The stars shifted faintly toward the sky above Buzhou Mountain, and Qing Xuan and Qing Yi noticed the change.

Di Jun and Taiyi uncovered the Thirty-Three Heavens above Buzhou Mountain and made them the foundation of the Demon Race. After the tribes gathered in the new realm, Di Jun was acclaimed Heavenly Emperor and Taiyi Eastern Emperor.

• Di Jun used the River Chart and Luo Script with Taiyi’s Chaos Bell to reveal the Thirty-Three Heavens above Buzhou Mountain.
• Di Jun and Taiyi entered the Heavenly Realm and reached the central palace in the thirty-third heaven, where the Demon Race Fortune found a foundation.
• Taiyi rang the Chaos Bell and opened the Heavenly Gates, while Di Jun invited Bai Ze and the Demon Race Tribes to settle in the heavens.
• Over several hundred years, Bai Ze organized the arriving tribes and their ancestral lands as the Demon Race Fortune merged with the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• Bai Ze proposed Di Jun as Heavenly Emperor and Taiyi as Eastern Emperor, and the assembled Demon Race beings acclaimed them.

Di Jun and Taiyi established the Demon Heavenly Court in the Thirty-Three Heavens, shifting the balance of power against the Immortal Court. The Eastern King arrived at the Lingxiao Treasure Hall to congratulate them, leaving the two courts face-to-face as rivals.

• Di Jun and Taiyi founded the Heavenly Court, took the titles of Heavenly Emperor and Eastern Emperor, and gathered merit and fortune in the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• Qing Xuan told Qing Yi that Di Jun had grown much stronger within the Thirty-Three Heavens, while Qing Yi noted that the Eastern King must have witnessed the event.
• The Eastern King recognized that the Heavenly Court had tipped the balance toward the Demon Race and ordered the Immortal Court Ceremony moved forward, with invitations sent to the Heavenly Court and other major figures.
• The Eastern King traveled with seven followers and Yinglong to the Thirty-Three Heavens, where the Heavenly Court's fortune stirred as they entered.
• The Eastern King greeted Di Jun and Taiyi in the Lingxiao Treasure Hall and congratulated them on taking command of the Thirty-Three Heavens.

Eastern King and Di Jun agreed to respect the boundaries between the Immortal Court and the Heavenly Court, then exchanged invitations to their future ceremonies. As Eastern King returned to the Three Immortal Islands, Candle Dragon emerged from the East Sea, bringing day and night in cycles beneath his steps.

• Eastern King warned Di Jun and Taiyi that the Immortal Court would defend its members from being taken by the Demon Race, and Di Jun agreed not to seize those who sincerely wished to remain.
• Eastern King invited Di Jun and Taiyi to the Immortal Court Ceremony on the Three Immortal Islands a hundred years later, and Di Jun accepted both invitations.
• After Eastern King left the Heavenly Court, Taiyi questioned whether they should attend, and Di Jun said they would go to avoid appearing afraid.
• As Eastern King and his party neared the East Sea, the sky cycled through day and night, and Yinglong recognized that the Second Ancestor had emerged.
• Candle Dragon crossed the sea toward the Three Immortal Islands, stirring the Great Luos there and revealing his ancient influence over the aquatic races.

Eastern King negotiated the Dragon Race’s support for the Immortal Court while insisting it remain independent of Dragon Race command. The Immortal Court gained access to Four Seas resources and prepared to host the ceremony a hundred years later with Candle Dragon and eight Dragon Race Great Luos attending.

• Candle Dragon visited the Three Immortal Islands, and Eastern King told him that Di Jun and Taiyi had strengthened the Heavenly Court’s position.
• Candle Dragon revealed a Sea Map marking Dragon Race spirit veins and Daoist Temples, and offered their resources, treasury access, and eight Great Luos to the Immortal Court.
• Eastern King required the Dragon Race Great Luos to obey Immortal Court orders while under its protection, and Candle Dragon agreed and promised to attend the ceremony.
• The Sea Map linked its spiritual sites to the Immortal Court’s Fate Aura, expanding its reach toward the Four Seas.
• After Candle Dragon returned to the East Sea, Eastern King declared that the Immortal Court would take precedence at its ceremony, where Di Jun, Taiyi, and Candle Dragon were expected.

Qing Xuan and Qing Yi attended Eastern King’s Immortal Court ceremony, where he used the Dragon Race’s ancient reserves to attract more immortals and strengthen the court. The gathering left the Immortal Court with a rising Fate Aura and a foundation to contend with the Heavenly Court.

• Qing Xuan and Qing Yi arrived at the Three Immortal Islands and were greeted by Eastern King.
• Candle Dragon attended the ceremony, and Di Jun and Taiyi arrived with a congratulatory gift, their presence setting them against Candle Dragon.
• Eastern King revealed ancient Dragon Race sanctuaries and distributed innate spirit treasures to Immortal Court divine beings.
• Eastern King opened a hundred spirit-vein cultivation sanctuaries to immortals and promised rewards to those who served the Immortal Court.
• Many gathered immortals pledged themselves to the Immortal Court as its Fate Aura swelled, while Qing Xuan judged that Eastern King now had the foundation to contend with the Heavenly Court.

At the Third Sermon in Zixiao Palace, Hongjun explained the Saintly Dao and distributed six strands of primordial violet qi as foundations for Sagehood. After Eastern King pleaded for the last strand, it flew to Hong Yun, leaving the other claimants empty-handed.

• Hongjun taught the assembled divine beings about harmonizing their Daos with the Heavenly Dao, while Qing Xuan and Qing Yi gained insights into their own cultivation.
• Hongjun named Taiqing, Yuanshi, and Tongtong as direct disciples and gave each a strand of primordial violet qi.
• Hongjun accepted Nuwa as a disciple and bestowed another strand of primordial violet qi upon her.
• Hongjun named Jieyin and Zhunti nominal disciples and gave each a strand of primordial violet qi.
• Eastern King asked Hongjun to grant him the final strand, citing his establishment of the Immortal Court and spread of the Immortal Dao.
• Hongjun said the qi had its own destined affinity, and the final strand flew past Kunpeng and entered Hong Yun's brow.

Hong Yun received the final strand of Primordial Violet Qi, while Hongjun bestowed supreme treasures on his disciples before sending the assembled divinities to the Treasure Distribution Cliff. Qing Xuan and Qing Yi spotted the Wuji Apricot-Yellow Banner there, the last missing flag of the Five Directional Primordial Flags.

• Hong Yun received the final strand of Primordial Violet Qi, leaving Eastern King disappointed and stirring Kunpeng's resentment.
• Qing Xuan invited Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun to leave with him, easing Zhen Yuanzi's concern for Hong Yun's safety.
• Hongjun bestowed the Taiji Diagram on Taiqing, the Pangu Banner on Yuanshi, the Four Swords of Execution on Tongtian, and treasures on Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti.
• Hongjun sent the divinities to the Treasure Distribution Cliff to claim the remaining treasures according to their fortune.
• Qing Xuan and Qing Yi found the Wuji Apricot-Yellow Banner among the treasures, completing the set of Five Directional Primordial Flags.

After Hongjun distributed all seven strands of primordial violet qi without giving one to Qing Xuan, Su Qingxue heard Tang Yao argue that Qing Xuan’s future had ended while his own path to becoming a God-King remained open. Su Qingxue still intended to visit the Purple Star, but she was left wondering whether she would meet a divine being with no path ahead.

• Students at Linjiang Advanced Transcendent Academy discussed how Hong Yun received the final strand of primordial violet qi instead of Qing Xuan or Qing Yi, and Su Qingxue listened as she left class.
• Zhou Ruolan took Su Qingxue to the reception hall, where Tang Yao arrived after completing his divine inheritance and forming his divine body.
• Tang Yao asked whether Su Qingxue still planned to visit the Purple Star, and she confirmed that she did.
• Tang Yao claimed Qing Xuan could never attain sagehood without primordial violet qi and said his own path to the God-King summit had only begun.
• Tang Yao left the hall with the academy officials, while Su Qingxue looked toward Qing Xuan and wondered whether his path had truly ended.

Qing Yi claimed the Wuji Apricot-Yellow Banner after defeating Jieyin, Zhunti, and other divine beings who tried to seize it. As Qing Xuan, Qing Yi, Zhen Yuanzi, and Hong Yun left the Treasure Distribution Cliff, Kunpeng appeared and blocked their way to the Primordial World, fixing his gaze on Hong Yun.

• Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun asked Qing Xuan and Qing Yi to travel with them to the Treasure Distribution Cliff.
• Qing Yi reached for the Wuji Apricot-Yellow Banner, but Jieyin and Zhunti blocked her and attacked while other divine beings tried to take the treasure.
• Qing Yi created a world that absorbed the attackers' Dao arts and repelled them, then claimed the Wuji Apricot-Yellow Banner and completed the Five Directional Primordial Flags.
• Qing Xuan, Qing Yi, Zhen Yuanzi, and Hong Yun left the cliff after the other divine beings departed with their treasures.
• Kunpeng spread mysterious water and fierce winds across the path to the Primordial World and confronted the group while watching Hong Yun.

Kunpeng, the Eastern King, and more than a hundred Innate Divine Beings ambushed Hong Yun to seize the purple qi that could grant sagehood. As the assault threatened Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi, Qing Xuan stepped forward and overwhelmed the attackers’ combined Dao realms, leaving the Eastern King calling for everyone to unleash their full power.

• Kunpeng blocked Hong Yun’s route home and demanded that he surrender the purple qi, while the Eastern King and more than a hundred Innate Divine Beings surrounded him.
• Zhen Yuanzi raised the Earth Book to protect Hong Yun, who refused to give up the purple qi without a fight.
• The Eastern King asked Qing Xuan and Qing Yi not to intervene, but Qing Xuan refused to stand aside.
• Kunpeng and the Eastern King launched their attacks, and the other divine beings joined them, directing their combined Dao might at Hong Yun and his companions.
• Qing Xuan stepped forward and released his chaos Dao Fruit, stabilizing the Earth Book’s mountains and rivers and breaking apart the attackers’ Dao realms.
• The Eastern King urged the gathered divine beings to unleash their full power as their treasures and Dao light were pinned down by Qing Xuan’s chaos.

Qing Xuan defeated the gods who pursued Hong Yun for the primordial violet qi, then traveled with Qing Yi to Buzhou Mountain to learn about the Ancestral Witches' cultivation. They arrived as Zhurong and Gonggong were fighting, and the two Ancestral Witches noticed them.

• Qing Xuan swept aside the united gods, forcing Kunpeng and Eastern King to retreat and clearing the way back to the Primordial World.
• Qing Xuan warned Hong Yun that the primordial violet qi brought responsibilities and consequences, then accompanied him and Zhen Yuanzi to Longevity Mountain.
• After visiting Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun at Wuzhuang Temple, Qing Xuan and Qing Yi left for Buzhou Mountain to study how the Ancestral Witches used their Dao bodies to bear the Great Dao.
• Zhurong and Gonggong fought with fire and water until Di Jiang stopped them and warned them not to damage more of the mountain.
• Qing Xuan and Qing Yi approached, and Zhurong and Gonggong stopped arguing when they sensed the visitors.

Qing Xuan accepted Gonggong’s challenge and effortlessly countered his water-based attacks without revealing his full strength. After Gonggong conceded, Qing Xuan explained that he and Qing Yi had come to study the Witch Clan’s inheritance of Pangu’s legacy, and Di Jiang offered to show them a place outsiders could visit.

• Di Jiang welcomed Qing Xuan and Qing Yi to Buzhou Mountain while Gonggong challenged Qing Xuan to exchange moves.
• Qing Xuan agreed, and Di Jiang opened a wasteland where the Ancestral Witches sparred.
• Gonggong unleashed a vast flood and then concentrated the power of water into a stronger punch, but Qing Xuan stopped him and dispersed his attacks with two fingers.
• Gonggong ended the exchange, and Houtu stopped Zhurong from challenging Qing Xuan next.
• Qing Xuan said he and Qing Yi had come to see the Pangu legacy inherited by the Witch Clan, and Di Jiang offered to take them somewhere open to outsiders.

Qing Yi and Houtu entered the Witch Clan’s ancient road to test themselves against the axe force left by Pangu. Qing Yi reached the exit ahead of Houtu and neutralized the final axe shadow, then accepted Houtu’s challenge to fight without Spiritual Treasures.

• Di Jiang led Qing Xuan and Qing Yi to a mountain fissure containing a mark left by Pangu’s axe, and Houtu invited Qing Yi inside.
• Houtu and Qing Yi fought through the ancient road’s waves of axe force, with Qing Yi gradually pulling half a step ahead.
• At the road’s end, Qing Yi pinned and dispersed the colossal axe shadow with her creation Dao light.
• Houtu realized Qing Yi had waited for her, then challenged her to a rematch without Spiritual Treasures in the wilderness west of Buzhou Mountain, and Qing Yi agreed.

Houtu challenged Qing Yi to a battle and conceded after Qing Yi trapped her with the power of a manifested world. After Qing Xuan and Qing Yi left Buzhou Mountain, they saw the Immortal Court and Demon Court gathering for war.

• Di Jiang isolated the wilderness west of Buzhou Mountain so Houtu and Qing Yi could fight.
• Houtu attacked Qing Yi with her Ancestral Witch dharma form, but Qing Yi restrained it with a green lotus and a manifested world.
• Houtu conceded defeat, and she and Qing Yi exchanged friendly words about fighting again.
• The Ancestral Witches hosted Qing Xuan and Qing Yi at a bonfire, where Houtu drank until she collapsed.
• Qing Xuan and Qing Yi left Buzhou Mountain and saw the Immortal Court and Demon Race assemble beneath opposing banners as a bell tolled across the Primordial World.

The Immortal Court lost its first formal clash with the Demon Court, while Luohou watched from the Outer-Domain Demon Realm and investigated a time-related Dao pattern in a Jade Disc of Creation Fragment. Yang Mei entered the Demon Realm to confront him, and their opposing Great Daos clashed.

• The Eastern King retreated after Taiyi rang the Chaos Bell, leaving the Immortal Court defeated.
• Luohou stopped a powerful demon god from invading a cultivator through a flaw in their Dao heart, warning that Hongjun would punish overreach.
• Luohou touched a time-related Dao pattern on the Jade Disc of Creation Fragment and briefly reversed the demon god's destruction.
• Yang Mei opened a Space Channel into the Outer-Domain Demon Realm, where Luohou attacked him with a colossal demonic palm.
• Yang Mei divided the attack across hundreds of millions of spatial layers, but Luohou's Great Dao of destruction erased them all.

Yang Mei confronted Luohou in the Demon Realm and proposed an alliance after revealing that Shichen had trapped his Spatial Dao Marker in a time loop. They located Shichen at the end of time, where he demonstrated power over both of them, and agreed to join forces to reach him.

• Yang Mei and Luohou exchanged attacks in the Demon Realm, then traded barbed remarks about their past conflict during the Dao-Demon War.
• Yang Mei showed Luohou a cracked willow Dao marker that repeatedly returned to the moment Pangu's axe struck it, and identified Shichen as the only being capable of trapping it in time.
• Luohou brought out the Jade Disc of Creation Fragment, and together they used it and the marker to trace a river of time to Shichen's mist-shrouded domain.
• Shichen snapped the River of Time and struck across time, nearly splitting Yang Mei's marker and causing the Black Lotus to wither before its petal reopened.
• Yang Mei and Luohou agreed to find Shichen together, dividing the spatial source, destruction, and Devil Dao between them.

Kong Xuan attained Great Luo on the Purple Star and received the Five Directional Primordial Flags from Qing Yi. Meanwhile, Shichen concealed a stretch of time and a broken body in gray mist, and Yang Mei and Luohou arrived at the mist’s edge.

• Kong Xuan mastered the five-element essences by placing her Great Dao at their center, attained Great Luo, and reunited her past and future manifestations with her present self.
• Qing Yi gave Kong Xuan the Five Directional Primordial Flags, and Kong Xuan planned to anchor them across the Purple Star to form a domain of primordial five elements.
• Qing Xuan and Qing Yi noticed that a stretch of time beyond the Primordial World had been hidden, and Qing Yi identified the gray mist as the cause.
• Shichen reversed the stretch of time illuminated by the Jade Disc of Creation, concealing the ruined worlds, a damaged Dao beacon, and a broken body within the gray mist.
• Yang Mei reached the gray mist through a passage formed by overlapping layers of space, and Luohou followed on the Twelfth-Rank World-Destroying Black Lotus.

Yang Mei and Luohou visited Shichen in the river of time and used the Spatial Dao Marker and Jade Disc of Creation Fragment to uncover survivors of the battle that opened the heavens. They left after a mysterious figure noticed their present, and Qing Xuan identified Shichen as the likely one who had cut away the stretch of time.

• Yang Mei and Luohou followed the Spatial Dao Marker through the gray mist to Shichen, who halted the river of time and greeted them.
• Yang Mei and Luohou asked Shichen to reveal which Daos and old acquaintances had survived the Pangu Axe, and Shichen anchored the marker and illuminated the past with the Jade Disc of Creation Fragment.
• Shichen showed them the battle that opened the heavens, revealing demon gods and true spirits that had escaped into Chaos or entered the Primordial World.
• A figure in the vision turned to look toward the present, so Shichen severed the revealed era and the Jade Disc of Creation Fragment gained a new crack.
• Yang Mei and Luohou departed the river of time, and the starlight outside the Purple Star resumed flowing after only an instant.
• Qing Xuan told Kong Xuan that a Chaos Demon God had cut away a stretch of time, and he agreed with Qing Yi that Shichen was likely responsible.