Recaps

After Futu Yun became a Demon-Slaying King by destroying the Blade Demon Clan and killing the Heaven-Slaying Demon Emperor, he returned to the Pagoda Ancient Clan to strengthen his body and prepare for the Sovereign Lesser Three Trials. He began absorbing Ancestral Qi in the Ancestral Pagoda, laying the foundation for his attempt to enter the Sovereign Stage.

• Futu Yun’s ascension and slaughter of the Blade Demon Clan shook the Great Thousand World and established his reputation as a Demon-Slaying King.
• Futu Yun stopped fighting when the Black Divine Lightning ceased descending, absorbed the remaining lightning, and broke through to the Peak Heavenly Reaching Realm.
• Futu Yun returned to Futuo Continent and entered the Pagoda Ancient Clan’s Ancestral Pagoda.
• Futu Yun absorbed Ancestral Qi into his flesh to purge impurities and establish a new Sovereign foundation.
• Futu Yun prepared to face the Sovereign Lesser Three Trials, the trials required to forge a Sovereign Body and enter the Sovereign Stage.

Futu Yun absorbed the Ancestral Qi, tempered his body, and gained control of the Ancestral Pagoda, giving him Saint-grade combat power and the authority to succeed as Clan Chief. Meanwhile, Mu Chen prepared to leave the Tai Ling Ancient Clan to search for his father.

• Futu Yun absorbed the Ancestral Qi and formed a powerful physical body as ancient inscriptions covered him.
• Futu Yun gained the Ancestral Pagoda's recognition and took control of the clan's most powerful treasure.
• Futu Yun became a third source of Saint-grade combat power for the Pagoda Ancient Clan but chose not to publicize his achievement or take the Clan Chief position yet.
• A prospective saintess asked Mu Chen whether he was sure he wanted to leave, warning that his current cultivation was not particularly strong outside the clan.
• Mu Chen said he had to leave and find his father.

Mu Chen reflected on his rise through the Tai Ling Ancient Clan and learned how the Pagoda Ancient Clan had suppressed his mother, Qing Yanjing, fueling his desire for revenge. As he worried about his father’s safety, Qing Yanjing discovered she was pregnant after an encounter with Futu Yun.

• Mu Chen recalled how Qing Yanjing had sent him into the Void, where he gained great power before Yun Ye'er brought him to the Tai Ling Ancient Clan.
• Mu Chen learned that Futu Yun may have been involved in Qing Yanjing’s suppression and resolved to take revenge while hoping Futu Yun would spare his mother.
• Qing Yanjing discovered a new life force within her body after Futu Yun left, while Futu Yun regretted not sealing her cultivation.
• Mu Chen worried that the Pagoda Ancient Clan might target his father and hoped Mu Feng had escaped from the Northern Spiritual Realm.

Futu Yun began the Physical Body Tribulation, using the Five Wheels Separation Flame Method to control its bloodfire and temper his body. He focused the flames on his five viscera and six bowels, awakening a unique Blood Demon Flame within his heart.

• Futu Yun’s Dragon-Phoenix Body manifested a fused Dragon-Phoenix as he prepared to face the Physical Body Tribulation.
• Futu Yun triggered the tribulation, and bloodfire spread through his flesh, burning his body with intense pain.
• Futu Yun used the Five Wheels Separation Flame Method to gather and control the bloodfire.
• Futu Yun directed the bloodfire into his five viscera and six bowels to strengthen them toward a Saint-grade Physical Body.
• Futu Yun awakened the Dragon-Phoenix Spirit with his bloodfire and condensed a Blood Demon Flame within his heart.

After the Dragon-Phoenix Blood Demon Flame transformed Futu Yun’s bloodline and raised his heart to Saint Grade, he used a clash with the Tai Ling Ancient Clan to purge troublesome factions from his own clan. He ended the chapter by publicly killing Bai Xin'er with a Minor Spirit Formation, astonishing the watching city and Qing Yanjing.

• Futu Yun became a Dragon-Phoenix Half-Blood, and his heart reached Saint Grade after the Physical Body Tribulation.
• Yun Ye'er challenged Futu Yun on behalf of Mu Chen, prompting conflict between the Pagoda Ancient Clan and the Tai Ling Ancient Clan.
• Futu Yun let the clans’ clashes weaken the Pagoda Ancient Clan’s entrenched guest elders and clear away those he wanted removed.
• Futu Yun bypassed Yun Ye'er and challenged Bai Xin'er, the Tai Ling Ancient Clan’s first-ranked prospective saintess.
• Futu Yun killed Bai Xin'er instantly with a Minor Spirit Formation formed from five Spirit Seals, leaving the city stunned.

After Futu Yun killed Bai Xin'er, the Pagoda Ancient Clan used its victory to force the Tai Ling Ancient Clan into harsh territorial and financial concessions. Futu Yun then reunited with Wen Qingxuan and her friend Xiao Xiao.

• Futu Yun killed Bai Xin'er, ending the battle and breaking the Tai Ling Ancient Clan's fighting spirit.
• The Pagoda Ancient Clan demanded reparations, disputed mines, territory, and control of several holdings from the defeated Tai Ling Ancient Clan.
• Futu Yun's earlier preparations, including backing puppet factions around Tai Ling territory, helped the Pagoda Ancient Clan expand its demands.
• Futu Yun left the final negotiations to the clan's leaders and welcomed his old friend Xiao Xiao after emerging from seclusion.
• Wen Qingxuan teased Futu Yun about Xiao Xiao, while the chapter noted that Futu Yun had helped restore Wen Qingxuan's talent and Xiao Xiao had helped refine her Golden Saint Phoenix into a pill.

Xiao Xiao explained how Zi Yan’s unruly upbringing shaped her, then revealed that she had come to the Wen Family to arrange a bloodline bond between Zi Yan and Futu Yun. Futu Yun doubted the plan could lead Zi Yan to Saint Grade and demonstrated the Spirit Seals behind his powerful formations as Qing Yanjing watched from hiding.

• Xiao Xiao’s memories showed that Zi Yan raised her alongside herself, teaching her to disregard rules and taking her on treasure hunts that made her capable and fiercely loyal.
• Xiao Xiao told Futu Yun that Zi Yan hoped to bond bloodlines with him, combining her Void Ancient Dragon heritage with a purer Dragon-Phoenix bloodline.
• Xiao Xiao suggested that Zi Yan’s breakthrough might also help Futu Yun overcome his Spiritual Energy Tribulation, but Futu Yun said relying on another’s bloodline would undermine Zi Yan’s resolve to reach Saint Grade.
• Futu Yun formed a powerful First-Level Spirit Formation by weaving Spirit Seals together, and Xiao Xiao sensed that its power exceeded what its level suggested.
• Qing Yanjing watched secretly and realized that Spirit Seals explained the extraordinary strength of Futu Yun’s formations despite his lack of formation talent.

Futu Yun explained how his Divine Seal Spiritual Formation combined his self-made Divine Abilities and described his plan to build a Spirit-Gathering Formation after tempering his organs. Meanwhile, Nalan Yanran reflected on her broken engagement to Xiao Yan and saw Zi Yan's rejection by Futu Yun as a fate like her own.

• Futu Yun used his Divine Ability Seals as Spirit Seals, combining them into formations without risking a backlash.
• Futu Yun planned to create a Spirit-Gathering Formation that filtered gathered energy, but he first needed rare treasures to temper his organs after Physical Body Tribulation.
• Xiao Xiao returned to the Boundless Fire Territory with Futu Yun's answer, and Zi Yan went into seclusion without responding.
• The Flame Emperor questioned Zi Yan's behavior, and Nalan Yanran said she understood because she had once loved a man she had looked down on.
• Nalan Yanran imagined that supporting Xiao Yan through his lowest point might have made her his wife, then concluded that Zi Yan had similarly misjudged Futu Yun.

At the Deity Transformation Pool, Futu Yun tempered his body with the blood essence of avian Divine Beasts and developed five-element attributes in his spiritual energy. As a five-colored cocoon formed around him, his spiritual energy began to boil, signaling that the Spiritual Energy Tribulation was approaching.

• The avian Divine Beast clans opened the Deity Transformation Pool early and allowed Futu Yun to enter because they feared the consequences of his Dragon-Phoenix Half-Blood aligning with the Dragon Clan.
• Futu Yun cycled the five elements through his organs, transforming his heart into the Wood God Heart and forming the other four elemental organs.
• A five-colored cocoon enveloped Futu Yun as his spiritual energy began to boil ahead of the Spiritual Energy Tribulation.
• Futu Yun used Seals to filter and strengthen the spiritual energy drawn into his Spirit Formation, replacing a shattered Seal with another.
• Futu Yun nourished his spiritual energy with balanced five-element attributes, preparing to absorb more power without triggering a backlash.

Futu Yun explained how he cultivated Myriad Things Spiritual Energy and transformed his Qi Sea into the rudimentary form of a Supreme Sea after passing the Spiritual Energy Tribulation. With Divine Soul Flame beginning to form, he chose to consolidate his strength before attempting all three stages of the Divine Soul Tribulation at once.

• Futu Yun compared his Myriad Things Spiritual Energy to the Western Heaven War Emperor’s War Spirit Energy and explained how he refined diverse forms of energy into his own.
• Futu Yun passed the Spiritual Energy Tribulation and used Five Elements Give Birth to All Things to transform his spiritual energy.
• Futu Yun’s Qi Sea became a world of its own before he reshaped it into a rudimentary Supreme Sea.
• Futu Yun’s Divine Soul began showing signs of condensing Divine Soul Flame, the first stage of the dangerous Divine Soul Tribulation.
• Futu Yun decided to consolidate his strength before attempting all three Divine Soul Tribulations in one go.

Futu Yun sensed Mandala’s true body within the still-hidden Ancient Heavenly Palace and learned that the Flame Emperor was trapped, though the Martial Ancestor could not intervene. Futu Yun traveled to the Boundless Fire Territory, where he found the severely injured Zi Yan and wondered why its medicines could not heal her.

• Futu Yun sensed the Ancient Heavenly Palace through his contract with Mandala and considered the Flame Emperor and Martial Ancestor’s progress toward wielding the Firmament Ranking.
• Futu Yun remained in the Martial Realm to study Reincarnation Insights after inheriting the Heavenly Profound Continent’s Plane Spirit and integrating the continent into the Great Thousand World.
• The Martial Ancestor sent word that the Flame Emperor had fallen into a trap and could not escape.
• Futu Yun and his group traveled from the Martial Realm to the Boundless Fire Territory by teleportation array.
• Futu Yun found a crowd gathered around the severely injured Zi Yan and questioned why the territory’s medicinal pills could not heal her.

Futu Yun stabilized Zi Yan’s Dragon-Phoenix bloodline and learned that the Flame Emperor was trapped in the Demon Realm after covering her escape. As the Great Thousand World prepared a counterattack to rescue him, Futu Yun joined the frontlines and unleashed powerful spiritual formations against the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan.

• Cai Lin and Xiao Xun'er asked Futu Yun to help stabilize Zi Yan’s mixed Dragon-Phoenix bloodline, and he restored her consciousness.
• Zi Yan revealed that the Flame Emperor had become trapped in the Demon Realm while helping her retreat.
• Xiao Xiao and Lin Jing volunteered to fight, but Gu Xun'er assigned them to the Patrol Guard to protect the rear.
• Futu Yun went to the frontlines as the Pagoda Expedition Group’s leader and a Demon-Slaying King.
• Futu Yun used his Divine Seal Spiritual Formation to unleash the Tiger Flame Devouring Spirit Formation and Nine Heavens Thunder Spirit Formation, wiping out Extraterrestrial Evil Clan forces across a region.

Futu Yun tested his Divine Seal Spiritual Formation in the Demon Realm, where he devastated enemy forces before a Heavenly Demon Emperor gravely wounded him and sent him tumbling into a Lower Plane. While recovering there, he ignored an urgent message from the Great Thousand World and chose to investigate the place rather than return.

• Futu Yun used increasingly powerful Spirit Formations to destroy Extraterrestrial Evil Clan forces and buildings in the Demon Realm.
• Futu Yun recalled that his enhanced formations let him kill several Demon Emperors, but battles with stronger enemies left him gravely wounded.
• A Heavenly Demon Emperor disrupted Futu Yun's spatial teleportation and sent him tumbling into a Lower Plane.
• Futu Yun began recovering by absorbing the Lower Plane's energy through his Myriad Things Spiritual Energy.
• Futu Yun received an urgent message from the Great Thousand World, replied that he was recovering, and cut off communication so he could investigate the Lower Plane.

Mu Chen learned that the Plane Spirit could help him break through to the Sovereign Stage, but the Lower Plane he needed had vanished. Futu Yun had moved it into the Great Thousand World, and the chapter ended as the Black Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor confronted two people there.

• Mu Chen questioned his ring-bound Senior about the Plane Spirit, and she explained how it had been born from her former Lower Plane and came to help him.
• Mu Chen and his Senior discovered that her former Lower Plane had disappeared, cutting off Mu Chen's chance to use it to become its Plane Master.
• Mu Chen blamed Futu Yun, who had made himself a temporary Plane Master with an Artificial Plane Spirit and merged the Lower Plane into the Great Thousand World.
• Futu Yun discovered that the Black Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor's corpse aura could track him, but he did not know the Emperor would encounter two people after the plane's arrival.
• Mu Chen's Senior realized that a Heavenly Demon Emperor of the Corpse Demon Clan had appeared and feared for their survival.

Qing Yanjing woke from nightmares as she struggled with her pregnancy and worries about Mu Chen, while the Black Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor pondered Mu Chen’s unusual status as a Plane Master. Lin Jing, Lin Diao, and Yao Chen met Futu Yun and asked him to go to the Demon Realm to rescue the Flame Emperor, who had likely encountered danger.

• Qing Yanjing woke from another nightmare, distressed by her pregnancy and uncertainty about Mu Chen.
• The Black Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor considered how Mu Chen had become the Plane Master of a Lower Plane already merged into the Great Thousand World.
• Lin Jing arrived to see Futu Yun with Lin Diao and introduced him as her uncle.
• Lin Diao praised Futu Yun’s cultivation, and Yao Chen welcomed him.
• Lin Diao and Yao Chen asked Futu Yun to go to the Demon Realm because the Flame Emperor had likely encountered danger.

Lin Diao and Yao Chen asked Futu Yun to enter the Demon Realm and rescue the trapped Flame Emperor, explaining that divinations pointed to Futu Yun as the only uncertain hope. Xiao Xiao pleaded with him to save her father, and Futu Yun agreed to consider the dangerous mission and learn more.

• Futu Yun learned that the Flame Emperor had been trapped in the Demon Realm after helping Zi Yan escape a group of Heavenly Demon Emperors.
• Yao Chen explained that divinations could not read Futu Yun's fate because he had mastered the Endless Light Body, a Primordial Dharma Body.
• Lin Diao and Yao Chen told Futu Yun that he was their only hope of rescuing the Flame Emperor, but Futu Yun initially refused because the Demon Realm was dangerous and its location was unknown.
• Xiao Xiao entered the pavilion, knelt before Futu Yun, and begged him to save her father, offering to serve him in return.
• Futu Yun pulled Xiao Xiao to her feet and, moved by her pleas and indebted to the Flame Emperor, asked for time to consider the mission and learn more.

Futu Yun agreed to enter the Demon Realm and rescue the Flame Emperor, then accepted Yao Chen’s Dragon-Phoenix Heavenly Sovereign Pill to attempt all Threefold Divine Soul Tribulations at once. As his tribulation began, his sword array swept across the Demon Realm, annihilating Extraterrestrial Evil Clan members before their corpse aura could spread.

• Futu Yun calculated the danger and learned that the Devouring Demon Clan was involved, then agreed to go to the Demon Realm for Xiao Xiao’s sake.
• Xiao Xiao asked Futu Yun to return safely, while Lin Jing left in a jealous huff.
• Futu Yun realized Yao Chen and Lin Diao had arranged Xiao Xiao’s plea to persuade him, and he declined to reveal his own plans.
• Yao Chen gave Futu Yun a Dragon-Phoenix Heavenly Sovereign Pill, which Futu Yun swallowed to begin the Divine Soul Tribulation and attempt all three stages at once.
• Futu Yun’s spiritual sword array filled the sky and struck the Demon Realm, killing Extraterrestrial Evil Clan members and erasing them before they could release corpse aura.

Futu Yun used the Small Thousand Sword Spirit Formation and the Green Shirt Sword Saint Seal to devastate the Demon Realm, killing or wounding scores of Demon Emperors and countless lesser members of the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan. He passed the Threefold Divine Soul Tribulation, gained three new Divine Soul attributes, and established a connection with the Ancient Heavenly Palace.

• Futu Yun made the Green Shirt Sword Saint Seal the core of his Small Thousand Sword Spirit Formation, empowering its giant swords with the Sword Saint's aura.
• Futu Yun unleashed a rain of giant swords followed by detonations that killed or wounded at least a hundred Demon Emperors and swept across the Demon Realm.
• Futu Yun's cultivation rose three levels as he passed the Threefold Divine Soul Tribulation and gained sword intent, killing intent, and battle intent in his Divine Soul.
• Futu Yun's slaughter of the Devouring Demon Clan established a connection with the Ancient Heavenly Palace.

Futu Yun and Mandala subdued the Devouring Heaven Demon Emperor’s remaining power and uncovered the Heavenly Emperor’s lingering spiritual projection. The Heavenly Emperor reunited with Mandala, while Futu Yun and Mandala kept the Great Thousand World’s continuing peril from him.

• Mandala used her Immortal-grade Peak strength to seize the Devouring Heaven Demon Emperor’s remaining demons and trapped the last one with her God-Binding Whip.
• Futu Yun revealed that a trace of the Heavenly Emperor’s residual spirit remained, and Mandala learned that he had indeed fallen.
• Futu Yun used Myriad Things Spiritual Energy to refine the black head and reveal the Heavenly Emperor’s spiritual projection.
• Futu Yun handed the sealed Devouring Heaven Demon Emperor to the Heavenly Emperor, who rejected the demon’s claim that he had lost their battle.
• Futu Yun and Mandala silently recognized that the Great Thousand World remained weakened and threatened by the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan.
• The Heavenly Emperor greeted Mandala, and she took his hand as he gently patted her head.

Futu Yun obtained the Heavenly Emperor’s inheritance, broke through to the Sovereign Stage, and cultivated One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones. As he received the Heavenly Emperor Sword and learned to stabilize his incarnations, refining the Heavenly Emperor’s Immortal Origin caused a mysterious tree trunk to emerge within his Supreme Sea.

• Futu Yun drew the Heavenly Emperor Sword, broke through to the Sovereign Stage, and created two incarnations with the same strength and abilities as his true body.
• The Heavenly Emperor warned Futu Yun that the incarnations’ foundations were unstable and told him to nurture them at the bottom of the Heavenly River.
• The Heavenly Emperor gave Futu Yun the Heavenly Emperor Sword, which let him enter the Ancient Heavenly Palace and control its space.
• Futu Yun inherited the Heavenly Emperor’s Dharmakaya origin and used his Myriad Things Spiritual Energy to store the Immortal Golden Body Origin.
• A mysterious energy formed in Futu Yun’s Supreme Sea, where a section of tree trunk appeared after he refined the Immortal Origin.

Futu Yun chose to abandon the Endless Light Body and cultivate the Great Solar Undying Body, prompting Futu Xuan to suspect he sought the Myriad Ancient Immortal Body guarded by the Maha Ancient Clan. After taking the Ancient Heavenly Palace, Futu Yun secured the Pagoda Ancient Clan’s claim over Tianluo Continent and forced its defeated powers to accept his terms.

• Futu Yun told Futu Xuan he intended to give up the Endless Light Body and cultivate the Great Solar Undying Body, and Futu Xuan eventually stopped trying to dissuade him.
• Futu Xuan suspected Futu Yun aimed to claim the Myriad Ancient Immortal Body, a guarded inheritance that could bring the Pagoda Ancient Clan into conflict with the Maha Ancient Clan.
• Futu Xuan concluded that the Pagoda Ancient Clan should prioritize taking complete control of Tianluo Continent, using its possession of the Ancient Heavenly Palace to justify its claim.
• Venerable Purple Thunder and the other defeated Heavenly Sovereigns agreed to stop claiming Tianluo Continent and leave with the forces they personally led.
• Futu Yun barred the departing leaders from relocating other local powers, which were placed under the Pagoda Ancient Clan and largely welcomed the change in allegiance.

Xiao Xiao waited anxiously for Futu Yun to rescue the missing Flame Emperor, but she grew convinced that he was using the Divine Beast Origin as an excuse to delay. The chapter ended with news that Futu Yun was leaving Heavenly Palace City for the Western Heavens Continent instead of meeting the Boundless Fire Territory’s representatives.

• Xiao Xiao reflected on how helpless she felt without the missing Flame Emperor and how Futu Yun remained composed and independent amid his rise to power.
• Xiao Xiao recalled that Futu Yun had promised to rescue the Flame Emperor after obtaining an opportunity in the Divine Beast Origin.
• Xiao Xiao considered the Divine Beast Origin’s history and the rare inherited essence blood that made it valuable to spirit beast and divine beast races.
• Xiao Xiao questioned Futu Yun’s claim that the Divine Beast Origin was about to open because no Super Divine Beast race had received signs of its appearance.
• Xiao Xiao learned that Futu Yun was preparing to leave Heavenly Palace City for the Western Heavens Continent, abandoning the chance to meet the Boundless Fire Territory’s representatives.

Futu Yun learned that the Luo God Ceremony was beginning earlier than expected and prepared to intervene on Luo Li’s behalf. He accepted that the conflict could draw in the Western Heaven War Temple and other major forces, and vowed to wage war even if it meant sinking the Western Heavens Continent.

• Futu Yun learned that the Luo God Clan had urgently arranged a ceremony to try to awaken Luo Li’s inheritance.
• Futu Yun realized that his actions and the Flame Emperor’s disappearance had changed the original timeline and left the Luo God Clan more vulnerable.
• An ancient bell rang to announce the ceremony, and Futu Yun confirmed that his troops were ready.
• Futu Yun anticipated that the Western Heaven War Emperor might target Luo Li and that his intervention could provoke a wider conflict.
• Futu Yun declared that he would fight the Western Heavens Continent’s forces, even if he had to sink the continent.

As the Luo God Clan prepared to hold the ceremony that would make Luo Li its empress, the Western Heaven War Emperor learned that someone had come to interfere in the looming conflict. In Luo God City, Luo Li quietly longed for Yun, and Luo Tianshen asked whether she would keep waiting for him.

• The Western Heaven War Emperor realized a black shadow had come to stop him as hostile forces prepared to make trouble during the Luo God Ceremony.
• Luo God Clan citizens gathered in Luo God City to witness the ceremony that would formally make Luo Li their empress.
• The chapter recounted how Luo Li had restored the clan’s strength, repelled the Blood God Clan, and won support from citizens and royal-family experts.
• Luo Li stood in the palace and wondered whether Yun was doing well.
• Luo Tianshen asked Luo Li whether she truly intended to keep waiting for Yun.

Luo Li prepared to undergo the Luo God Ceremony, determined to protect the Luo God Clan and become its empress despite the dangers ahead. She still waited for Futu Yun as the ceremony was about to begin.

• Luo Tianshen worried that Luo Li was still waiting for Futu Yun, but she angrily made clear that she would not forget him.
• Luo Tianshen recalled that Luo Li had rejected marriage alliances and that Futu Yun’s resources had helped the Luo God Clan recover, though he still resented Futu Yun for not directly confronting the Western Heaven War Emperor.
• Luo Tianshen warned Luo Li that enemies within and outside the clan would oppose her rise during the Luo God Ceremony.
• Luo Li clasped Luo Tianshen’s hand and vowed to live and die with the Luo God Clan.
• Luo Tianshen promised to defend Luo Li, and she left for the ceremony while reaffirming in her heart that she would wait for Yun.