Recaps

Chen Hao faced a Nascent Soul Realm opponent from the Dao Heaven Sect, who crushed him with overwhelming pressure and taunted him to surrender. Inspired by Su Bai’s expectant gaze, Chen Hao broke through to Golden Core Third Layer and stood up, invoking his opponent’s promise that doing so would win the match.

• Zhuge Feng suggested that the Heavenly Dao Sect take in Chen Hao, and Su Bai agreed after seeing his Golden Core Second Layer cultivation and favorable attitude toward the sect.
• A black-robed Dao Heaven Sect participant revealed his Nascent Soul Realm strength and pinned Chen Hao to the ground with his aura.
• The black-robed man taunted Chen Hao and increased the pressure, while the Blackbird Sect urged Chen Hao to surrender.
• Chen Hao drew strength from Su Bai’s gaze, declared that even ants had dreams and persistence, and broke through to Golden Core Third Layer.
• Despite coughing blood under the renewed pressure, Chen Hao stood upright and reminded the black-robed man that he had promised to count the match as Chen Hao’s victory if he stood up.

Chen Hao defied the black-robed Dao Heaven Sect disciple, but the man attacked him anyway until Su Bai intervened and invited Chen Hao to join the Heavenly Dao Sect. Chen Hao accepted, while the Blackbird Sect conceded the match and he vowed to grow strong enough to settle the score.

• Chen Hao stood despite his injuries, earning the arena's cheers and angering the black-robed disciple, who punched at his chest.
• Su Bai appeared before the lethal blow could hit Chen Hao and asked him to join the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Chen Hao accepted Su Bai's offer after the Blackbird Sect's Sect Master urged him to do so.
• Red Moon Venerable challenged Su Bai for intervening, but withdrew after Su Bai defended Chen Hao and Nameless watched.
• The black-robed disciple threatened Chen Hao, who vowed to become strong enough to make him answer for calling him an ant.
• The Blackbird Sect's Sect Master conceded the match and congratulated Chen Hao on joining the Heavenly Dao Sect.

The Heavenly Dao Sect won its first second-round elimination match, then drew Southern Heaven Gate, a powerful former provincial champion. Southern Heaven Gate demanded a team battle, and Xiao Yan volunteered to face all ten disciples alone; Su Bai accepted the challenge, leaving Xiao Yan to begin the fight against the ten.

• The Heavenly Dao Sect celebrated its victory over the Sacred Tiger Sect and praised Chen Hao’s performance.
• The draw matched the Heavenly Dao Sect against Southern Heaven Gate, prompting spectators to debate whether the young sect could win.
• Zhuge Feng and Xiao Lingxi assessed Southern Heaven Gate’s strong lineup as Xiao Yan eagerly prepared to fight.
• A Southern Heaven Gate elder requested a team battle, and Xiao Yan leaped onto the stage and challenged all ten disciples at once.
• The elder invoked Su Bai’s words about honoring arena promises, and Su Bai agreed to Xiao Yan’s one-against-ten challenge.
• Southern Heaven Gate’s ten disciples confronted Xiao Yan, who taunted them about their age before the battle began.

Xiao Yan faced ten disciples from the Southern Heaven Gate, who expected his Golden Core Sixth Layer cultivation to leave him outmatched. He revealed that he had reached Golden Core Great Perfection at twenty, alarming his opponents and drawing Red Moon Venerable’s killing intent.

• The Southern Heaven Gate disciples introduced their party of ten, including four Nascent Soul cultivators, and prepared to fight Xiao Yan.
• Zhang Kuang challenged Xiao Yan, dismissing his strength and asking how he wanted to be defeated.
• Xiao Yan announced that he was twenty years old and had reached Golden Core Great Perfection after advancing three layers in three months.
• Zhang Kuang and the other disciples were stunned by Xiao Yan’s cultivation speed, while Xiao Yan said he had simply kept cultivating.
• Red Moon Venerable watched Xiao Yan and decided that he must not be allowed to live.

Xiao Yan fought Zhang Kuang and Southern Heaven Gate’s disciples, overcoming their coordinated attacks until his Golden Core broke through into the Nascent Soul Realm. He ended the chapter newly advanced to the Martial Transcendence Realm, apologizing to the stunned crowd for breaking through by accident.

• Zhang Kuang abandoned his plan to fight Xiao Yan alone and rallied ten Southern Heaven Gate disciples to attack together.
• Xiao Yan used his movement techniques to evade the group and swiftly defeat Southern Heaven Gate’s six Golden Core disciples.
• Zhang Kuang formed a joint attack formation with the remaining disciples, summoning a phantom whose power neared the Nascent Soul Peak.
• Xiao Yan clashed with the phantom’s fist using Heaven-Overturning Ruler, but the force of the attack sent him flying without injuring him.
• As Zhang Kuang and the disciples closed in, Xiao Yan’s martial Golden Core shattered, and he broke through into the Nascent Soul Realm.

Xiao Yan broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm during his duel and defeated Zhang Kuang with one strike from the Mystic Iron Ruler. After Zhang Kuang admitted defeat, Xiao Yan declared that next time he would fight a hundred opponents.

• Xiao Yan advanced to the Nascent Soul Realm during the duel, shocking Zhang Kuang and the spectators.
• Zhang Kuang attacked Xiao Yan with a giant spiritual-energy palm, but Xiao Yan enlarged the Mystic Iron Ruler and pierced through it.
• Xiao Yan swung the ruler and sent Zhang Kuang and his companions crashing into the edge of the arena, destroying the phantom and leaving Zhang Kuang unable to rise.
• Xiao Yan demanded that Zhang Kuang admit defeat; Zhang Kuang refused until Xiao Yan raised the ruler, then quickly conceded.
• Xiao Yan called Zhang Kuang a coward and announced that next time he would fight a hundred opponents.

After Xiao Yan defeated Southern Heaven Gate in the Disciple Battle, the Core Battle began with Southern Heaven Gate choosing the Nascent Soul Great Perfection elder Jian Feng for the first match. Zhuge Feng volunteered to face him, pointing out that the rules did not restrict the Core Battle by age or rank.

• The Heavenly Palace referee declared Xiao Yan the winner, while black-robed men from Dao Heaven Sect discussed their order to kill Heavenly Dao Sect disciples and assigned Xiao Yan to Third Brother.
• Southern Heaven Gate requested one Nascent Soul Realm battle and two Spirit Transformation Realm battles, revealing that Jian Feng would fight in the Nascent Soul match.
• The crowd recognized Jian Feng as Southern Mystic Province's former top genius, now a Nascent Soul Great Perfection elder, and expected Heavenly Dao Sect to lose.
• Heavenly Dao Sect approved the matchup, and Jian Feng entered the arena amid cheers as his Sword Intent shook it.
• Xiao Yan wanted to fight Jian Feng, but Xiao Lingxi stopped him; after the others hesitated, Zhuge Feng volunteered and explained that the Core Battle had no age restriction.

Zhuge Feng fought Jian Feng in the arena and defeated him with a single staff strike. The crowd reeled at the Heavenly Dao Sect cultivator’s unexpected strength as Jian Feng lay defeated.

• Zhuge Feng entered the arena to face Jian Feng, and the spectators doubted he could withstand the Southern Heaven Gate elder.
• Jian Feng warned Zhuge Feng to surrender, then unleashed his Life-Taking Chain Sword.
• Zhuge Feng stood firm against Jian Feng’s sword attacks and shattered them with one sweep of his golden staff.
• Zhuge Feng struck Jian Feng in the chest and knocked him off the stage, defeating him in a single blow.
• The crowd and Southern Heaven Gate disciples reacted in disbelief, while spectators searched for a freeloader who had fled.

After Zhuge Feng defeated Jian Feng in one move, Southern Heaven Gate sent Elder Nan to the arena for the second match. Fire Qilin took the fight in Yun Kong’s place, revealed his divine beast form, and tore through Elder Nan’s defense.

• Zhuge Feng defeated Jian Feng in one move and left him injured but alive.
• Southern Heaven Gate’s Elder Nan entered the arena and challenged the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Fire Qilin volunteered after Yun Kong balked at fighting Elder Nan, who was at Spirit Transformation Peak.
• Elder Nan attacked Fire Qilin with a massive palm strike, and the arena shook until the referee reinforced its formation.
• Fire Qilin transformed into a giant Fire Qilin, surprised Elder Nan, and tore through his protective astral energy with a claw.

The Fire Qilin defeated and humiliated Elder Nan, forcing Southern Heaven Gate to surrender and letting the Heavenly Dao Sect advance. Su Bai sent the sect back to cultivate for two months, then went to the Blackbird Sect’s resting area to find an outstanding disciple.

• The Fire Qilin overwhelmed Elder Nan despite his secret technique, pinned him down, and slapped him until he begged for mercy.
• A Southern Heaven Gate elder helped the badly injured Elder Nan away and announced the sect’s surrender.
• The Heavenly Palace referee declared the Heavenly Dao Sect the winner, and its disciples celebrated their advance to the third round.
• Su Bai sent the Heavenly Dao Sect disciples back through the Teleportation Array to cultivate before the next round in two months.
• Su Bai appeared at the Blackbird Sect’s resting area to meet an outstanding disciple.

Su Bai brought Chen Hao and the Blackbird Sect to the Heavenly Dao Sect, where they joined after crossing the Heavenly Ladder. Su Bai used a reward to replace Chen Hao’s Immortal Arts without sacrificing his cultivation, and two months later the third round of the Southern Mystic Province Immortal Alliance Assembly began.

• Su Bai took Chen Hao and the Blackbird Sect to the Heavenly Dao Sect, declaring the sect under his protection from the Dao Heaven Sect.
• The Blackbird Sect members were amazed by the Heavenly Dao Sect’s abundant spiritual energy, and Chen Hao and several disciples passed the Heavenly Ladder’s sixtieth level.
• Su Bai let the new disciples choose whether to keep their existing Immortal Arts or start over with techniques from the Immortal Arts Pavilion.
• Su Bai received a Power Transfer reward and used it to replace Chen Hao’s Immortal Arts without reducing his cultivation, greatly strengthening his spiritual energy, Spirit Sea, and divine sense.
• Chen Hao thanked Su Bai as his master and vowed to surpass the Dao Heaven Sect disciple who had defeated him.
• Two months later, the third round of the Southern Mystic Province Immortal Alliance Assembly began.

The Heavenly Palace announced that the 500 remaining factions would compete in groups of ten, with only two factions per group advancing. In the first match, the Dao Heaven Sect sent one masked black-robed cultivator to face ninety opponents, and the melee began.

• The Heavenly Palace referee announced that each group of ten factions would send ten disciples into a hundred-person melee, with the final two factions advancing.
• Xiao Yan and Zhuge Feng suspected the rules were designed to gang up on the Heavenly Dao Sect, while Han Feiyu believed the Heavenly Palace wanted to test its strength before a final confrontation.
• The first group was drawn, including the Dao Heaven Sect but not the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• The Dao Heaven Sect sent only one masked black-robed cultivator, who dismounted from his Black Qilin and asked the referee to begin.
• The referee started the match, and the ninety opposing disciples launched their attacks.

A masked Dao Heaven Sect disciple revealed himself as a Prodigious Nascent Soul who had mastered Spatial Power and slaughtered ninety rival disciples. The crowd feared his power and began reconsidering whether to side with Heavenly Dao Sect or the Heavenly Palace when war came.

• The Dao Heaven Sect disciple froze all ninety contestants in midair with Spatial Power, shocking the spectators and revealing that he was a Prodigious Nascent Soul.
• A Spirit Transformation expert confirmed that the masked disciple had mastered Spatial Power before reaching Spirit Transformation.
• The Dao Heaven Sect disciple crushed the trapped contestants, killing all ninety in an instant despite the pleas of their elders and sect masters.
• The bereaved factions dared not challenge the killer, whose contemptuous demeanor intensified the crowd's fear.
• Spectators contrasted his brutality with the mercy shown by Heavenly Dao Sect disciples and began reconsidering which side to support in a future war with the Heavenly Palace.

Heavenly Dao Sect found itself targeted in the second group's elimination match as nine powerful factions gathered against it. Zhang Kuang returned as a Sacred Lion Sect disciple alongside eight other eliminated Nascent Soul cultivators, and the chapter ended with him vowing to crush Xiao Yan.

• After Dao Heaven Sect advanced from the first group, Heavenly Dao Sect's disciples bristled at its monstrous Nascent Soul cultivator's taunts.
• The second group's draw placed Heavenly Dao Sect against nine factions, including nearly every remaining top-ten force.
• Zhang Kuang and seven other Nascent Soul cultivators from eliminated factions appeared in Sacred Lion Sect robes, claiming they had joined Sacred Lion Sect to keep competing.
• The Heavenly Palace referee defended their participation by declaring that the assembly's rules allowed factions to add disciples and that Heavenly Palace decided the rules.
• Zhang Kuang led the assembled disciples onto the arena and vowed to repay Xiao Yan for his past humiliation.

Su Bai sent Xiao Yan to face Zhang Kuang and the assembled ninety-person team from the Southern Mystic Province, telling his disciples that strength was the only way to break through unfair rules. Xiao Yan revealed that he had reached the Nascent Soul Second Layer and hinted that he might have mastered Spatial Power, leaving the battle poised to begin.

• Su Bai told the Heavenly Dao Sect disciples that power, not reasoning, was the way to win respect and overcome suppression.
• Zhuge Feng and Xiao Yan volunteered to fight, and Su Bai chose Xiao Yan to represent the sect alone.
• Zhang Kuang mocked Xiao Yan for facing ninety opponents by himself, and Xiao Yan answered by raising his middle finger.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he had advanced from the Nascent Soul Realm to the Nascent Soul Second Layer, stunning the spectators.
• Zhang Kuang remained confident in the ninety-person formation, and Xiao Yan asked how he knew Xiao Yan had not mastered Spatial Power.

Xiao Yan revealed that he had mastered Spatial Power and used it to immobilize Zhang Kuang and the other eighty-nine peak geniuses. After defeating them and wrecking their sects’ resting pavilions, he left Zhang Kuang pleading for mercy.

• Zhang Kuang panicked and ordered the geniuses to form a formation after Xiao Yan hinted that he had mastered Spatial Power.
• Xiao Yan twisted space and froze Zhang Kuang and all eighty-nine other geniuses in midair.
• Spectators and Red Moon Venerable were stunned that the twenty-year-old Xiao Yan had mastered Spatial Power.
• Xiao Yan struck the other eighty-nine geniuses with his Mystic Iron Ruler, sending them crashing into their sects’ resting pavilions.
• Xiao Yan released Zhang Kuang’s mouth, and Zhang Kuang abandoned his curses to beg him not to hit his face.

Xiao Yan crushed his opponents and secured the Heavenly Dao Sect’s advance, stunning the spectators with his strength as a twenty-year-old Nascent Soul. He provoked the Dao Heaven Sect on his way down, and its prodigious Nascent Soul declared that he would face Xiao Yan in the decisive battle.

• Xiao Yan sent Zhang Kuang flying and stood alone on the arena, winning the second group match for the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• The referee announced the result, and the spectators cheered Xiao Yan and the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• An Immortal Alliance News writer replaced his planned headlines with sensational stories about Xiao Yan’s talent and strength.
• Xiao Yan stopped on the arena stairs and raised his middle finger toward the Dao Heaven Sect’s pavilion.
• The Dao Heaven Sect’s prodigious Nascent Soul met Xiao Yan’s gaze, then said he would fight him in the decisive battle.
• The Dao Heaven Sect disciples boasted that they would defeat the Heavenly Dao Sect, and their prodigious Nascent Soul warned that anyone who lost would have to leave the Heavenly Palace.

Over three months, the Heavenly Dao Sect trained and advanced through Southern Mystic Province’s Immortal Alliance tournament, while the Dao Heaven Sect also reached the final. With cultivators flooding Sacred Ruins City to watch, the long-awaited final began.

• The Third-Round Elimination Tournament ended, and the Heavenly Dao Sect qualified for the top hundred and the Southern Mystic Province ranking tournament.
• The group-stage draw placed the Heavenly Dao Sect and the Dao Heaven Sect in separate groups, giving the Heavenly Dao Sect more time to train.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect won all nine group-stage matches, often as opponents conceded or were defeated by a single disciple.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect and the Dao Heaven Sect both entered the top thirty-two with perfect scores, then advanced through the tournament’s later rounds as other factions were eliminated.
• Cultivators from across the Four Mystic Provinces and Central Province gathered in Sacred Ruins City, whose population grew tenfold.
• Three months after Xiao Yan first used Spatial Power, the final of Southern Mystic Province’s Immortal Alliance Assembly began.

After months of cultivation, Su Bai’s disciples reached the Nascent Soul Realm, and he discovered that Han Feiyu had earned him the Cautious Deity Pill. At the Immortal Alliance Assembly finals, the Dao Heaven Sect challenged the Heavenly Dao Sect to fights where only one disciple could survive each match.

• Su Bai found that Han Feiyu had secretly advanced to the Sixth-Level Nascent Soul and received Cautious Deity Possession, earning Su Bai the Cautious Deity Pill.
• Chen Hao and the Heavenly Dao Sect’s disciples made major cultivation breakthroughs, while Su Bai reached the Void Refining Ninth Layer.
• Su Bai led the Heavenly Dao Sect to Sacred Ruins City, where its disciples and the Dao Heaven Sect’s disciples arrived before a massive crowd.
• The Heavenly Palace referee opened the finals and asked whether either sect had special requests for the Disciple Battle.
• A Dao Heaven Sect elder challenged the Heavenly Dao Sect to life-and-death matches in which only one disciple could survive each fight, until one side’s ten participants were dead.

Heavenly Dao Sect accepted Dao Heaven Sect’s challenge to a battle of Life and Death, and the two Invincible Heavenly Venerables established a barrier as the match began. The chapter ended with the arena sealed off and ready for the disciples to fight.

• Dao Heaven Sect’s disciples challenged Heavenly Dao Sect to a battle of Life and Death, and Zhuge Feng confirmed that all of Su Bai’s disciples accepted.
• Nameless appeared opposite Red Moon Venerable as the two Invincible Heavenly Venerables prepared to oversee the battle.
• Cultivators gathered to watch and record the clash, while spectators dismissed the idea of opening a betting pool.
• The Heavenly Palace referee announced the rules, received both sects’ agreement, and declared the battle underway.
• Nameless and Red Moon Venerable raised a protective barrier around the arena that blocked divine senses and outside interference.

The Dao Heaven Sect sent a Nascent Soul Fifth Layer disciple to challenge the Heavenly Dao Sect in the first match, while a new rule limited each contestant to one battle in the round. The challenger revealed himself as Lin Haitian, an eighth-ranked Heavenly Palace true disciple, just as the Heavenly Dao Sect still had not chosen a fighter.

• A Dao Heaven Sect elder announced that each contestant could fight only once during the first ten matches, apparently hoping to keep Xiao Yan from fighting repeatedly.
• Xiao Yan and the Heavenly Dao Sect disciples joked about the other side mistaking him for their strongest disciple, though he agreed the rule was no problem.
• A black-robed Dao Heaven Sect disciple took the arena and taunted the Heavenly Dao Sect, displaying Nascent Soul Fifth Layer cultivation.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect disciples stayed calm, and spectators speculated that Xiao Yan was being saved for stronger opponents.
• The challenger removed his robe and mask and revealed himself as Lin Haitian, an eighth-ranked Heavenly Palace true disciple known as the Sea King.

A mysterious Heavenly Dao Sect fighter revealed himself as Di Buyu, the Heavenly Palace’s fallen first True Inheritor, now a puppet. He overwhelmed Lin Haitian in the life-and-death arena and left the Heavenly Palace’s eighth True Inheritor dead.

• A hat-wearing fighter appeared for the Heavenly Dao Sect, and Lin Haitian attacked him with a surge of water-attributed spiritual energy.
• The fighter dispelled Lin Haitian’s attack with a finger and revealed his face, shocking Lin Haitian and the crowd as Di Buyu.
• An elder of the Dao Heaven Sect explained that Di Buyu had been refined into a puppet after his fall three years earlier.
• Lin Haitian unleashed his ocean technique against Di Buyu, who pierced through it with a crimson spear.
• Di Buyu drove his spear into Lin Haitian’s chest and killed him instantly.

After Heavenly Dao Sect's Di Buyu killed Lin Haitian, Chen Hao volunteered for the second match to take revenge on the Dao Heaven Sect disciple who had once humiliated him. The crowd and Lin Yan dismissed Chen Hao as weak, until Chen Hao revealed he had reached Golden Core Great Perfection.

• Di Buyu killed Lin Haitian, prompting excitement among the onlookers and anger among the Dao Heaven Sect disciples.
• When Dao Heaven Sect required Heavenly Dao Sect to choose the next contestant, Chen Hao volunteered to face the disciple who had once tried to make him kneel.
• Xiao Lingxi worried that Chen Hao was not yet in the Nascent Soul realm, but Chen Hao insisted his opponent would come out if he challenged him.
• The crowd assumed Chen Hao was being sent as cannon fodder, while the disciple he had chosen revealed himself as Heavenly Palace's seventh true disciple, Lin Yan.
• Lin Yan mocked Chen Hao and declared he would make him kneel, but Chen Hao challenged his strength and revealed his cultivation had reached Golden Core Great Perfection.

Chen Hao revealed that he had reached Golden Core Great Perfection and faced Lin Yan, a Sixth-Level Nascent Soul true disciple of the Heavenly Palace. After Chen Hao’s water dragon overcame Lin Yan’s Red Lotus Flame, the two clashed again with hammer and blade, and the fight remained unresolved.

• The crowd was stunned when Chen Hao revealed his Golden Core Great Perfection cultivation, and Lin Yan tested him with his pressure without forcing him to yield.
• Lin Yan unleashed his Sixth-Level Nascent Soul aura and attacked Chen Hao with the Red Lotus Flame, forming a fire dragon.
• Chen Hao summoned a massive blue hammer and sent out a water dragon that defeated Lin Yan’s fire dragon, shocking the spectators.
• Lin Yan realized Chen Hao cultivated water and dismissed him as trash, while Chen Hao challenged him and charged forward.
• Lin Yan summoned a crimson blade and used Red Lotus Blazing Slash, while Chen Hao swung his hammer upward to meet the attack in midair.

Chen Hao fought Lin Yan with twin hammers, steadily overcoming the Nascent Soul cultivator’s confidence and breaking his saber. As Chen Hao shattered his Golden Core to unleash a final strike, he declared that even those dismissed as ants could turn things around.

• Lin Yan unleashed his Sunburning saber art, while Chen Hao summoned a second hammer and met the attack head-on.
• Chen Hao’s hammer proved tougher than Lin Yan’s saber, and Lin Yan grew fearful as Chen Hao’s successive strikes drove him back.
• Lin Yan predicted Chen Hao’s Golden Core body would fail before it could defeat him, but Chen Hao’s aura suddenly grew stronger.
• Chen Hao struck Lin Yan twice more, splitting his saber in half and forcing his hands to bleed.
• Chen Hao began gathering power for a third hammer strike as his Golden Core shattered into energy, and he declared that even ants could have their day to turn things around.