Recaps

Ji Yue revealed that Mu Ziqing’s phoenix Martial Soul ranked twenty-eighth among the Martial Souls of the Myriad Worlds, and explained its great potential and the difficulty of awakening it. Qin Hao refused to leave the Southern Reach before rescuing his mother, while Mu Ziqing chose to stay with him, though he urged her to pursue her chance in the Primordial Domain.

• Ji Yue identified Mu Ziqing’s Martial Soul as a phoenix ranked twenty-eighth on the Supreme Martial Soul Rankings.
• Huangfu Yi explained that Martial Souls had limits to how many grades they could improve, while ranked Martial Souls started higher and had greater potential.
• Ji Yue said Mu Ziqing needed the Primordial Domain’s spiritual energy to awaken her phoenix Martial Soul and invited her and Qin Hao to go there.
• Qin Hao refused to leave the Southern Reach until he rescued his mother, and Mu Ziqing said she would stay wherever he was.
• Qin Hao told Mu Ziqing that her opportunity to awaken her Martial Soul mattered too much for her to give it up.

Qin Hao decided to remain in the Southern Reach to protect his family and settle its dangers while Mu Ziqing went to the Primordial Domain to join the Hundred Immortals Palace. As he examined her treasures in the Nether Demon Palace, he found the Origin World Crystal hidden inside a gray sphere.

• Qin Hao declined to leave for the Primordial Domain until he had dealt with the threats facing his mother and the Qin family, and promised Mu Ziqing he would join her within a year.
• Mu Ziqing accepted the invitation to go to the Primordial Domain and grow stronger at the Hundred Immortals Palace.
• Huangfu Yi warned Qin Hao that Shi Xiu might remain in the Nether Demon Palace, and Qin Hao said he would stay there for now.
• Qin Hao and Mu Ziqing spoke privately before parting, and Qin Hao advised her to stay safe and keep a low profile.
• Qin Hao searched Mu Ziqing's treasures for the Origin World Crystal, and Lingxiaozi prompted him to ask about other items.
• Mu Ziqing produced a gray sphere with a crystalline glow, and Qin Hao recognized it as the Origin World Crystal.

Qin Hao gave Mu Ziqing the Origin World Crystal and a divine ability, then promised to join her in the Primordial Domain. After they reunited with their companions, Mu Ziqing and the other women used the Guidance Talisman to leave the Nether Demon World.

• Qin Hao recognized the sphere as an Origin World Crystal and gave it to Mu Ziqing rather than claim it for himself.
• Qin Hao gave Mu Ziqing the Remnant Gold True Art, and she kissed him before he promised to come to the Primordial Domain.
• Qin Hao, Mu Ziqing, and their companions met Lin Zhong and the Cloudwing Beast in the Nether Demon Palace.
• Ji Yue activated the Guidance Talisman, and Mu Ziqing, Ji Yue, Yu Jingyi, and Tang Huan vanished from the Nether Demon World.

Qin Hao watched Mu Ziqing, Ji Yue, Yu Jingyi, and Tang Huan try to escape the Nether Demon World through a spatial rift opened by Elder Shuixian. Shi Xiu’s attack scattered the four women into the Sea of Nothingness, leaving Qin Hao horrified.

• Elder Shuixian opened a spatial rift, and Ji Yue, Yu Jingyi, Tang Huan, and Mu Ziqing rose toward it with the Guidance Talismans.
• Shi Xiu sensed the women’s escape and, consumed by rage and growing madness, attacked them with earth-law and Undying Phoenix flame palms.
• Elder Shuixian’s hand blocked Shi Xiu’s attack, but his flame palm shattered her power as the four women entered the spatial rift.
• Shi Xiu’s flame palm followed the women into the rift and was annihilated by the Sea of Nothingness, but its impact scattered all four women into the void.
• Qin Hao cried out for Mu Ziqing as he realized that she and the others had fallen into the Sea of Nothingness.

After Mu Ziqing and the others fell into the Sea of Nothingness, Qin Hao learned that reversing time might save them and rushed to challenge the Myriad Treasures Hall for a Time Crystal Core. He entered the assessment with less than four hours to reach its forty-fourth wave, while Huangfu Yi and the others remained trapped in the Nether Demon Palace.

• Qin Hao despaired after Mu Ziqing, Ji Yue, Yu Jingyi, and Tang Huan fell into the Sea of Nothingness.
• Lingxiaozi told Qin Hao he was too weak to reverse space-time, but revealed that a Time Crystal Core could reverse the past fifteen minutes.
• Lingxiaozi explained that Qin Hao had to pass the Myriad Treasures Hall's forty-fourth wave to obtain the Time Crystal Core.
• Qin Hao hurried to the second floor of the Nether Demon Palace to begin the assessment, with less than four hours available inside its time space.
• Huangfu Yi told Lin Zhong and Zhuang Han not to disturb Qin Hao and worried that they could not safely leave the palace.

Qin Hao entered the Myriad Treasures Hall to face the Time Sword Lord’s assessment, which he must pass to obtain the Time Crystal Core and help rescue Mu Ziqing. As Qin Hao’s challenge began, Mu Ziqing drifted alone in the Sea of Nothingness, her body being consumed by void power as she remembered their time together.

• Lingxiaozi warned Qin Hao that he could not withdraw from the assessment and could attempt it only once that month, and Qin Hao entered the Myriad Treasures Hall with the Setting Sun Sword.
• Lingxiaozi worried that Qin Hao would gain an inner demon if he failed to save Mu Ziqing, and he doubted Qin Hao could pass the later waves without understanding the Way of Time.
• The Azure Li Lord sensed temporal fluctuations and realized Qin Hao had disappeared, then hoped he could rescue Mu Ziqing.
• Venerable Shui Xian lamented that she could not save Ji Yue, Yu Jingyi, Tang Huan, and Mu Ziqing after Shi Xiu’s attack sent them into the Sea of Nothingness.
• Separated from the others, Mu Ziqing drifted helplessly as void power eroded her body, and she remembered how she and Qin Hao had grown close.

Qin Hao fought through escalating waves of White Tigers in the Myriad Treasures Hall’s assessment and discovered they used the past within the time laws to make his attacks fall behind. After surviving the fourth wave, he faced sixty-four White Tigers in the seventh trial and realized the coming waves would be far more dangerous.

• Qin Hao entered the grassland assessment and killed the first White Tiger, then defeated two more in the second wave.
• Qin Hao noticed that the White Tigers made his attacks miss by manipulating time, but he continued fighting as their numbers doubled.
• Qin Hao battled through successive waves, sustaining claw wounds as he fought up to thirty-two White Tigers.
• Qin Hao realized the White Tigers controlled the past through the time laws, which caused his attacks to fall a beat behind.
• Qin Hao faced sixty-four White Tigers in the seventh trial and calculated that the tenth wave would contain 512.

Qin Hao comprehended the time-law ability called Past Form while fighting White Tigers and used it to clear the ninth, tenth, and eleventh trials. The twelfth trial began with a single White Tiger whose time distortion differed from Past Form, leaving Qin Hao startled by an unknown challenge.

• Qin Hao fought sixty-four White Tigers, then faced 128 more while trying to understand their manipulation of past time.
• After a quarter of an hour of fighting and reflection, Qin Hao realized he could counter the White Tigers’ time effect and named his technique Past Form.
• Qin Hao used Past Form to kill the 128 White Tigers and then cleared the ninth and tenth trials against 256 and 512 White Tigers.
• Qin Hao defeated 1,024 White Tigers in the eleventh trial, but emerged exhausted and worried about the escalating numbers in later trials.
• The twelfth trial began with one White Tiger, and Qin Hao noticed its time distortion was unlike the effect of Past Form.

Qin Hao fought through the Time Laws assessment in the Myriad Treasures Hall, forcing his way past the twelfth through twenty-second stages despite lacking understanding of the present form. By the twenty-third stage, his madness had consumed his memories, and he faced a White Tiger Monster that had mastered the future form.

• Qin Hao realized the twelfth-stage White Tiger Monster combined past- and present-form Time Laws, then defeated it through sheer fighting strength.
• Qin Hao passed the thirteenth stage and continued fighting through the following stages with increasingly reckless determination.
• Lingxiaozi worried Qin Hao would fail to obtain the Time Crystal Core and planned to tell him that a Nine Tribulations Lord might resurrect Mu Ziqing.
• Qin Hao passed the twenty-second stage after killing more than a thousand Monsters, but he had forgotten his purpose and nearly everything about himself.
• Qin Hao reached the twenty-third stage and found that the future-form White Tiger Monster anticipated his sword strikes and attacked his chest.

Qin Hao fought through increasingly numerous White Tiger monsters that mastered the future form of the time laws, trading wounds for kills until he broke through into the early stage of the first layer of the true martial realm. He cleared the thirty-third trial and, despite severe injuries and a severed arm, looked ahead to the eleven trials between him and the Time Crystal Core.

• Qin Hao killed the White Tiger monsters in the twenty-third and twenty-fourth trials by trading wounds with them.
• As the trials escalated, Qin Hao fought through hundreds of White Tiger monsters and entered the thirty-third trial facing 1,024 opponents.
• While surrounded and badly wounded, Qin Hao broke through from the peak of the ninth layer of meridian opening to the early stage of the first layer of the true martial realm.
• Qin Hao used his newfound strength to kill all the monsters and clear the thirty-third trial.
• Qin Hao noted that he needed to pass eleven more trials to obtain the Time Crystal Core, while the Great Dao Spirit-Seizing Art healed him but could not restore his severed left arm.

Qin Hao fought through the Time Laws trials in the Myriad Treasures Hall, gradually deepening his grasp of the past form. He emerged just before Mu Ziqing’s time limit expired, having comprehended the past form and astonishing Lingxiaozi.

• Qin Hao faced the thirty-fourth trial’s White Tiger monster, whose mastery of the past form let it move far faster through time than he could.
• Qin Hao accelerated his own flow of time under pressure and used the Wind-Rain Sword Domain to wound the White Tiger monster, defeating it at the cost of serious injuries.
• Qin Hao continued into trials with increasing numbers of White Tiger monsters, using battle to improve his understanding of the past form.
• As Mu Ziqing’s fifteen-minute time limit approached, Lingxiaozi feared Qin Hao had failed and prepared to explain the situation to him.
• Qin Hao emerged from the Myriad Treasures Hall with his injuries and severed arm restored, surrounded by ripples of warped time.
• Lingxiaozi recognized the past form of the Time Laws around Qin Hao and exclaimed in shock that he had comprehended it.

Qin Hao used the Time Crystal Core to reverse time by fifteen minutes, hoping to save Mu Ziqing from the Sea of Nothingness. As time rewound, he realized he would have to stop Shi Xiu himself, while the Azure Li Lord recognized the crystal’s power.

• Qin Hao obtained the Time Crystal Core from Lingxiaozi after passing the assessment and hurried back to the Nether Demon Palace’s first-floor hall.
• The Azure Li Lord sensed the crystal’s immense time fluctuations but could not identify it.
• Lingxiaozi explained that the core could reverse fifteen minutes of time and warned Qin Hao that Shi Xiu would still attack unless Qin Hao intervened.
• Qin Hao activated the core with the Time Laws’ past form, reversing time and resolving to fight Shi Xiu to prevent Mu Ziqing’s fall.
• The Azure Li Lord recovered from the reversal and realized Qin Hao possessed a treasure capable of reversing space-time.

Qin Hao rushed out of the Nether Demon Palace and stopped Shi Xiu from sending Mu Ziqing, Ji Yue, Yu Jingyi, and Tang Huan into the Sea of Nothingness. After the four women escaped through the spatial rift, Qin Hao faced Shi Xiu, whose attacks were closing in as he dismissed Qin Hao’s attempt to provoke him.

• Qin Hao left the Nether Demon Palace and confronted Shi Xiu as Venerable Shui Xian destroyed Shi Xiu’s attacks, allowing Mu Ziqing and the others to escape through the spatial rift.
• Shi Ye watched Qin Hao and Shi Xiu while the Cloudwing Beast guarded against him, and Huangfu Yi, Lin Zhong, and Zhuang Han emerged from the Nether Demon Palace.
• Shi Xiu attacked Qin Hao with Earth Laws and flame power, threatening to torture him and kill his family and friends.
• Qin Hao taunted Shi Xiu about relying on the Supreme-Grade Earth Spirit Pill and the undying phoenix remnant soul, hoping to disrupt the balance between his powers.
• Shi Xiu recognized Qin Hao’s tactic, laughed, and insisted Qin Hao could not break the balance as his attacks reached him.

Qin Hao used his mastery of the Past Form of the time laws to slow Shi Xiu’s attacks and counter them, revealing the gains he made in the Time Sword Lord’s assessment. Shi Xiu’s assault failed, while Qin Hao’s allies watched from afar and wondered whether he would survive.

• Shi Xiu attacked Qin Hao with two enormous palms, but Qin Hao distorted the flow of time around them and made the attacks five beats slower.
• Lingxiaozi recognized Qin Hao’s mastery of the Past Form and realized he had advanced it to a five-beat delay during the assessment.
• Qin Hao used the Setting Sun Sword and his Wind-Rain Sword Domain to shatter Shi Xiu’s earth-law palm, then evaded the palm empowered by the undying phoenix remnant soul.
• Shi Xiu raged at Qin Hao for blocking and evading his attacks, while Huangfu Yi, Lin Zhong, Zhuang Han, and the Cloudwing Beast reacted with astonishment.
• Chen Jianqing, Zhuge Hong, Situ Nan, and the others fled from the Nether Demon Palace, with some worrying about Qin Hao and others hoping he would die.

Qin Hao fought Shi Xiu and used a tiny wound to disrupt the balance between the earth laws and the undying phoenix remnant soul’s power. Shi Xiu was consumed by the backlash and died, while he threatened Qin Hao with the Shi Family as his final words.

• Shi Xiu unleashed a barrage of attacks, and Qin Hao dodged with the Past Form while searching for a way to break Shi Xiu’s balance.
• Qin Hao charged Shi Xiu and used the Wind-Rain Sword Domain and Heavenly Dragon Armor to withstand his attacks.
• Qin Hao pierced a tiny wound into the left side of Shi Xiu’s chest with the Setting Sun Sword.
• The earth laws began dissipating through the wound, allowing the undying phoenix remnant soul’s power to overwhelm Shi Xiu.
• Shi Xiu threatened Qin Hao with the Shi Family before flames consumed him and reduced him to scorched earth.

Qin Hao killed Shi Xiu by turning the conflicting powers within him against each other, then watched Shi Ye escape with the Undying Phoenix Remnant Soul. The survivors warned Qin Hao that Primordial City would seek revenge, while he said he would go to the Primordial Domain after settling matters in the Southern Reach.

• Huangfu Yi, Lin Zhong, and Zhuang Han were stunned that Qin Hao had killed Shi Xiu, while Lingxiaozi considered using the Time Crystal Core to help Qin Hao cultivate the Time Sword Dao.
• Qin Hao reflected that Shi Xiu’s Earth Laws and Undying Phoenix Remnant Soul had been a fatal weakness, and that he might have lost in a direct fight.
• Shi Ye rushed to Shi Xiu’s remains, seized the Undying Phoenix Remnant Soul, and escaped through a spatial rift with a Guidance Talisman.
• Shi Ye warned Qin Hao that Primordial City would hunt him for killing its Young City Lord, and Qin Hao could not stop his escape.
• Huangfu Yi, Lin Zhong, and Zhuang Han thanked Qin Hao and warned him to beware Primordial City; Qin Hao said he would visit the Primordial Domain after resolving matters in the Southern Reach.

After Huangfu Yi and his companions departed, Qin Hao recovered the Storage Rings of Shi Xiu and the others and returned to the Nether Demon Palace to inspect the weakened Time Crystal Core. Lingxiaozi explained the Timefolk’s extraordinary command of time and how the Time Sword Lord had killed one to obtain the core, leaving Qin Hao to grasp how fortunate he was to possess it.

• Huangfu Yi activated a Guidance Talisman and left the Nether Demon World with his two companions through a spatial rift after saying goodbye to Qin Hao.
• Lingxiaozi reminded Qin Hao about the Time Crystal Core, so Qin Hao collected Shi Xiu’s Storage Ring and the rings of Shi Jun, Mo Heyue, Qi Lei, and the others.
• Qin Hao returned to the Nether Demon Palace with the Cloudwing Beast and found that the Time Crystal Core’s temporal power had weakened after he used it to reverse space and time.
• Lingxiaozi told Qin Hao that Timefolk master time laws in the Saint Martial Realm and command the Time Dao in the Creation Realm, though they are extremely rare.
• Lingxiaozi revealed that the Time Sword Lord had tracked and killed a Creation Realm Timefolk to acquire the Time Crystal Core, despite being a Nine Tribulations Lord.
• Lingxiaozi warned Qin Hao that the Timefolk and their crystal cores were exceptionally powerful, and that he was fortunate this Timefolk had been only in the Creation Realm.

Lingxiaozi explained that Qin Hao could use the Time Crystal Core to forge a clone suited to cultivating the Time Sword Dao. Qin Hao split off part of his soul and merged it into the core, which erupted with dazzling light.

• Lingxiaozi told Qin Hao that the Time Crystal Core could form a clone with an affinity for the Way of Time.
• Lingxiaozi explained that Qin Hao could merge part of his soul into the core, which would naturally form a clone without other materials.
• Qin Hao said he could use the Soul-Splitting Art from the Great Dao Spirit-Seizing Art and asked the Cloudwing Beast to stand guard.
• Qin Hao used the Soul-Splitting Art, enduring severe pain as his soul and ninth-rank martial soul weakened.
• Qin Hao guided the separated soul into the Time Crystal Core, which erupted with dazzling light.

Qin Hao split off a fragment of his soul to begin refining a time clone from the Time Crystal Core, then prepared to leave the Nether Demon World before the Voidrealm-Breaking Formation disappeared. As he headed toward the formation with the Cloudwing Beast, Chen Jianqing and the others reached it ahead of him.

• Qin Hao placed the Time Crystal Core in the time space, where it would form his time clone, and rested after using the Soul-Splitting Art.
• Qin Hao thanked the Azure Li Lord, renewed his resolve to rescue his mother from the Northern Yan Dynasty, and left the Nether Demon Palace with the Cloudwing Beast.
• Qin Hao and the Cloudwing Beast carefully traveled past the spatial rifts, and the Cloudwing Beast showed off its improved speed after inheriting the undying phoenix inheritance.
• Chen Jianqing, Zhuge Hong, Ji Fenglan, Chu Xu, and the others reached the Voidrealm-Breaking Formation after surviving attacks from the Nether Demon World's berserk Ancient Ferocious Beasts.

Chen Jianqing and the others left the Nether Demon World without Qin Hao and Mu Ziqing, believing they had missed the chance to escape. Four hours later, Qin Hao and the Cloudwing Beast reached the lake, where Qin Hao prepared to hold off the Purple Profound Crab Monsters while the beast used its spatial ability to leave.

• Chen Jianqing, Zhuge Hong, Ji Fenglan, and the other disciples left through the Voidrealm-Breaking Formation as the Purple Profound Crab Monsters approached.
• Qin Hao and the Cloudwing Beast emerged from the woods four hours later, having raced each other on the way.
• Qin Hao learned that the Cloudwing Beast's undying phoenix inheritance could still make it stronger and contained cultivation insights and abilities.
• Qin Hao realized the Cloudwing Beast could use its spatial divine ability to leave without being captured by the Venerables stationed near the formation.
• The Cloudwing Beast began using its ability to distort space while Qin Hao turned to face an attacking Purple Profound Crab Monster.

Qin Hao killed the Purple Profound Crab Monster leader after it challenged him, then prepared to leave the Nether Demon World. He departed through the Voidrealm-Breaking Formation, intending to reach the Primordial Domain and reunite with Mu Ziqing.

• Qin Hao killed a Purple Profound Crab Monster with one strike and drove the others back.
• The Purple Profound Crab Monster leader attacked Qin Hao to establish authority, but Qin Hao severed its pincer with the Setting Sun Sword.
• Qin Hao killed the leader, causing the remaining Purple Profound Crab Monsters to flee into the Great Lake.
• Qin Hao collected the leader's valuable parts and watched the Cloudwing Beast escape through a spatial rift.
• Qin Hao left through the unstable Voidrealm-Breaking Formation, reflecting on his breakthrough and his plans to reach the Primordial Domain.

The survivors of the Nether Demon World emerged before the waiting factions, revealing that most of the two hundred entrants had died. Myriad Phenomena Hall feared for Qin Hao and Mu Ziqing, while Lei Yunkui and Ancestor Yan Yun learned that their protégés had fallen.

• The Voidrealm-Breaking Formation brought out battered disciples in waves, and the assembled experts counted only eighty-three survivors from the two hundred who had entered.
• The factions gathered their disciples, and Bai Ze and Mu Changfeng realized that Qin Hao and Mu Ziqing had not returned with Myriad Phenomena Hall’s nineteen survivors.
• Lei Yunkui confronted Zhuge Hong and the others, demanding to know why Lei Zhen had not come out of the Nether Demon World.
• A sudden explosion shook the sky, and Ancestor Yan Yun raged after learning that Qi Lei and Mo Heyue were dead and only two members of the Northern Yan Dynasty had survived.

The survivors of the Nether Demon World recounted how ancient beasts, treasure fights, and the Golden Roc Great Demon had decimated their factions, while Qin Hao was blamed for killing Qi Lei and Mo Heyue. Elder Cheng killed the sole surviving Crimson Blood Sect disciple and threatened that his sect’s army would take revenge for Mo Heyue.

• Ancestor Yan Yun learned that only two of the Northern Yan Dynasty’s twenty-five entrants survived, while Black Crow Ancestor discovered that only three of Imperial Extremity Valley’s entrants remained.
• A Northern Yan Dynasty soldier explained that beasts and fights for treasure had killed most of his faction, then reported seeing Qin Hao kill Qi Lei and Mo Heyue.
• The Imperial Extremity Valley survivors described how Di Yuannan and Lei Zhen had joined forces against Qin Hao before the Golden Roc Great Demon appeared and killed them.
• Chen Jianqing, Ji Fenglan, Chu Xu, and the others recounted the arrival of nine Primordial Domain geniuses and revealed that Shi Xiu had obtained the undying phoenix remnant soul.
• Elder Cheng seized and killed the surviving Crimson Blood Sect disciple, then threatened that the Crimson Blood Sect’s army would avenge Mo Heyue.

The survivors reported that Qin Hao had killed Qi Lei and Mo Heyue but remained trapped in the Nether Demon Palace with Mu Ziqing, prompting the Myriad Phenomena Hall and its enemies to clash over the aftermath. Just as the others feared Qin Hao was dead, he emerged from the Voidrealm-Breaking Formation alive.

• Zhuge Hong told the Myriad Phenomena Hall that Qin Hao had rescued Mu Ziqing, killed Mo Heyue and Qi Lei, and stayed behind to face Shi Xiu.
• Cheng Feng threatened Zhuge Hong, and Mu Changfeng attacked him before warning the Crimson Blood Sect elder to stop provoking the Myriad Phenomena Hall.
• Black Crow Ancestor and Ancestor Yan Yun demanded the Myriad Phenomena Hall hand over its treasures, but Sea Ancestor and Stone Ancestor intervened to defend it.
• The Voidrealm-Breaking Formation fluctuated, and the survivors realized Qin Hao and Mu Ziqing might still be inside the Nether Demon World.
• Qin Hao emerged from the formation with a crimson longsword, and Jian Changfeng cried out in astonishment and delight that he was alive.

Qin Hao returned from the Nether Demon World alive, stunning everyone and confirming that Shi Xiu had died. Black Crow Ancestor tried to kill him over the Imperial Extremity Valley's losses, but Sea Ancestor intervened, and Qin Hao openly challenged Black Crow Ancestor's accusations.

• The Cloudwing Beast emerged more than ten kilometers from the Voidrealm-Breaking Formation and flew into the forest while keeping watch on the formation.
• Qin Hao returned from the Nether Demon World, and Chen Jianqing, Zhuge Hong, Ji Fenglan, Sea Ancestor, and Stone Ancestor welcomed him with relief.
• Black Crow Ancestor attacked Qin Hao, but Sea Ancestor blocked his strike in a clash that sent shockwaves across the area.
• Qin Hao called Black Crow Ancestor an old crow and argued that he had fought back after Di Yuannan and Lei Zhen tried to kill him.
• Black Crow Ancestor insisted Qin Hao would die for killing Imperial Extremity Valley disciples, and Qin Hao declared that Mo Heyue and Qi Lei would remain dead in the Nether Demon World.