Recaps

The Heavenly Dao Sect advanced through the Southern Mystic Province tournament as Xiao Yan revealed his mastery of Spatial Power and the Dao Heaven Sect’s cruelty escalated. In the finals’ life-and-death battle, Chen Hao faced Lin Yan and began breaking through as he fought back.

• Chen Hao endured the black-robed Dao Heaven Sect disciple’s pressure, broke through to Golden Core Third Layer, and joined the Heavenly Dao Sect after Su Bai saved him.
• Xiao Yan defeated Southern Heaven Gate’s ten disciples after breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm, while Zhuge Feng and Fire Qilin secured the sect’s other victories.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect took in Chen Hao and strengthened his Immortal Arts, then advanced through the tournament as Xiao Yan used Spatial Power to defeat a field of ninety opponents.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect and Dao Heaven Sect reached the finals, where the Dao Heaven Sect demanded life-and-death matches and Nameless and Red Moon Venerable sealed the arena.
• Di Buyu killed Lin Haitian, and Chen Hao volunteered to face Lin Yan, the disciple who had once tried to make him kneel.
• Chen Hao revealed his Golden Core Great Perfection cultivation and battled Lin Yan, whose saber broke under Chen Hao’s hammer strikes.
• As Chen Hao prepared another strike, his Golden Core shattered into energy, and he declared that even ants could turn things around.

The Heavenly Dao Sect defeated the Heavenly Palace’s challengers in the Disciple Battle while Su Bai secretly stole the unfinished cauldrons. After Venerable Wutian entered the contest and threatened the sect, Su Bai killed him and secured ten wins, then turned his attention to the Heavenly Palace’s sacred beasts.

• Chen Hao and Ye Qingyao won their arena matches, while Su Bai secretly replaced four unfinished giant cauldrons at the Heavenly Palace.
• Xiao Yan defeated and killed Lin Tian'ao, and Xiao Lingxi killed Haifeng to give the Heavenly Dao Sect five victories.
• Han Feiyu survived Lu Fanyun’s disastrous dice wagers, then Zhuge Feng defeated the Twin Heavenly Kings and Mu Lingxian won the ninth match.
• Venerable Wutian possessed Wu Di and entered the Disciple Battle, claiming Wu Di’s bone age of ninety-nine made him eligible.
• Su Bai proved the testing stele recorded his bone age as twenty-two, sealed the arena with Nameless, and accepted Wutian’s challenge.
• Su Bai crushed Venerable Wutian and his fleeing divine soul, completing the Heavenly Dao Sect’s ten victories.
• Su Bai challenged Red Moon Venerable to continue the competition, Red Moon fled, and Nameless pursued him as Su Bai looked toward Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, Qilin, and Bai Ze.

Su Bai led the Heavenly Dao Sect in protecting the Four Mystic Provinces from the Heavenly Palace, then began bringing powerful factions under the sect’s allegiance. The Pill Sect submitted, and Su Bai learned its patriarch was trapped in a Heart Demon Tribulation.

• The Heavenly Dao Sect upgraded to five stars, and Su Bai learned its next upgrade required control of five provincial territories and the allegiance of three Heavenly Venerable-level factions.
• Su Bai rallied the Human Race against the Heavenly Palace’s continent-refining Immortal Cauldrons and deployed his disciples to defend all Four Mystic Provinces.
• Zhuge Feng and the other commanders ambushed wave after wave of Heavenly Palace invaders, killing more than 1.3 million enemies without losing a disciple.
• Su Bai, Nameless, Drunken Sword Immortal, and a hidden Supreme Venerable repelled the Heavenly Palace’s attacks, while the sect severed its teleportation links to the Four Mystic Provinces.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect liberated the Four Mystic Provinces, whose people joined the sect as its disciples grew to 7.2 million.
• Su Bai’s Second True Self, 003, intervened when the Heavenly Palace threatened the Pill Sect, and the sect later agreed to submit to the Heavenly Dao Sect on Dan Xuanzi’s terms.
• Su Bai examined Dan Yangzi’s failed Soul-Recovery Pill and learned that the Pill Sect had been trying to save its patriarch, who was trapped in a Heart Demon Tribulation.

Su Bai expanded the Heavenly Dao Sect by defeating the Artifact Sect’s ambush, spreading free cultivation, and bringing the Ancient and Lei Clans into the fold. After reaching the Heavenly Venerable Realm, he prepared to claim the fifth province while the Spirit and Shadow Clans rejected his terms.

• Su Bai refined a Sacred Soul Pill for the Pill Sect’s ancestor, gained the sect’s allegiance, and set out to approach the Artifact Sect.
• Great Hammer Venerable revealed the Artifact Sect’s allegiance to the Heavenly Palace and trapped Su Bai and Yan Xiao in Giant Hammer City, but Su Bai killed him and the other Invincible Heavenly Venerables.
• The Pill Sect joined the Heavenly Dao Sect, and Su Bai ordered free Immortal Arts distributed throughout the Four Mystic Provinces while enforcing rules against corruption and exploitation.
• Su Bai used daily appearances by his Second True Self to convince the Heavenly Palace that the Heavenly Dao Sect had hundreds of Heavenly Venerables.
• Xiao Yan defeated Lu Tong in the Pill Assembly, then asked Su Bai to accompany him to the Ancient Clan, where Gu Xuan accepted the marriage and pledged the clan’s allegiance.
• After the Ancient Clan relocated beside the Heavenly Dao Sect, free cultivation strengthened the sect, and Su Bai broke through to the Heavenly Venerable Realm.
• Gu Xuan brought Lei Ming and the Lei Clan to pledge allegiance after the Heavenly Palace seized their resources, and Su Bai promised them land.
• Su Bai rejected the Spirit and Shadow Clans’ demands, while both clans remained confident that the Heavenly Dao Sect would eventually accept their terms.