Recaps

Black Marsh True God punished the Heaven and Earth True God, then realized Qin Hao was exploiting their inability to leave the Fogbound Prison to collect their treasures safely. He ordered the prisoners to pile every valuable item at the Palace entrance, hoping greed would lure Qin Hao inside.

• Black Marsh True God burned the Heaven and Earth True God with Black Flame, then stopped short of killing him to preserve his strength and divine sense.
• Black Marsh True God demanded the prisoners hand over their Chaos Spirit Crystals and Chaos Spirit Liquid.
• Black Marsh True God recognized that Qin Hao had stayed outside the Plaza and was waiting for the prisoners to put their treasures within easy reach.
• The prisoners grew furious when they realized Qin Hao was taking advantage of their predicament.
• Black Marsh True God ordered everyone to place all their crystals, liquid, divine artifacts, and materials inside the Palace entrance to tempt Qin Hao into entering.

Qin Hao resisted the Palace prisoners’ attempt to lure him inside with a huge treasure pile and prepared to leave. Black Marsh True God then brought out three unusually durable long spears, hoping their apparent value would tempt Qin Hao to enter.

• The Palace prisoners piled at least two hundred thousand Chaos Spirit Crystals, ten bottles of Chaos Spirit Liquid, divine artifacts, materials, and jade slips near the entrance to attract Qin Hao.
• Qin Hao recognized the prisoners’ bait but judged the danger too great, despite the treasures’ potential to improve his chances of reaching Heavensea.
• Qin Hao decided to leave the Palace rather than risk entering for the offered treasures.
• The thirty-odd True Gods in the Fogbound Prison cursed and marveled that Qin Hao had resisted the temptation.
• Black Marsh True God revealed three gray long spears that had once withstood a high-grade divine artifact, hoping Qin Hao would recognize their value and enter the Palace.

Qin Hao sensed that three spear shafts among the treasures at the Palace entrance were connected to his Primordial Feathered Wings and recognized them as complete bone wings with feathers. As he approached the Palace, Black Marsh True God and the other prisoners anticipated luring him inside, while Qin Hao weighed the wings’ value against the danger.

• Black Marsh True God placed three concealed spear shafts atop the pile of treasures, hoping Qin Hao would recognize them and enter the Palace.
• Qin Hao planned to restore his strength and search for a map of the Fogbound Prison before setting out for Heavensea.
• The Primordial Feathered Wings stirred, and Qin Hao sensed an opportunity coming from the Palace entrance.
• Qin Hao recognized the three spear shafts as complete bone wings with feathers connected to his Primordial Feathered Wings.
• Black Marsh True God saw Qin Hao approach and expected to seize his body, while Qin Hao hesitated over whether to risk entering for the wings.

Qin Hao weighed the danger of entering the Palace against the chance to claim three intact bone wings, then tried to reach the treasures without crossing its entrance. After the Palace’s formation blocked his tribulation power and chaos origin, he began considering whether he could bypass it through the surrounding spaces.

• Qin Hao judged that entering the Palace would likely kill him but was reluctant to abandon the three Primordial Feathered Wings bone wings inside.
• Qin Hao tried to seize the treasures from outside using tribulation power, but an unseen barrier at the Palace entrance stopped it.
• Qin Hao added chaos origin and cautiously tested the formation, but its waterlike ripples blocked his power and warned him against forcing entry.
• Qin Hao looked at the boundary between the white-lit area and the surrounding darkness and suspected they belonged to different spatial layers.

Qin Hao used his Self-World to bypass the Fogbound Prison’s formation and reach the treasures inside without entering the Palace normally. Black Marsh True God realized the treasures were being taken and tried to drag Qin Hao out of hiding.

• Qin Hao concluded that he could use his Self-World to bypass the Palace’s formation and decided to take every treasure at once.
• Qin Hao compressed the tribulation power and Chaos Origin in his body while the True Gods inside the Palace waited for him to enter.
• Black Marsh True God believed Qin Hao’s desire for the treasures would eventually lead him into the Palace and prepared to seize his body.
• Qin Hao vanished from outside the Palace, and an unseen force began taking the mound of treasures.
• Black Marsh True God erupted with divine strength and grabbed at the void, demanding that Qin Hao reveal himself.

Qin Hao used his world power to steal every treasure at the palace entrance without entering, provoking Black Marsh True God and the other occupants. He escaped the palace’s backlash unharmed and surveyed his haul outside as the furious True Gods gathered against him.

• Qin Hao entered his self-world and used his world power to reach through the palace formation and envelop the treasures.
• Black Marsh True God sensed the theft and attacked Qin Hao, but the palace formation blocked his strike and unleashed a backlash that injured him.
• The treasures vanished, and the Eternity True Gods realized Qin Hao had taken them from another space.
• Black Marsh True God and the other True Gods gathered at the entrance and saw Qin Hao outside the palace holding the stolen treasures.
• Qin Hao counted more than two hundred thousand chaos origin crystals, ten bottles of spirit liquid, divine artifacts, and sealed jade slips.

Qin Hao took the imprisoned true gods’ treasures without entering their Palace and discovered that the haul included valuable Chaos Spirit Crystals, Chaos Spirit Liquid, and three complete bone wings for his Primordial Feathered Wings. The furious true gods demanded their energy supplies back, but Qin Hao taunted them by offering to hand the treasures over if they came out to claim them.

• Qin Hao recognized the three complete feathered bone wings as parts of his Primordial Feathered Wings and decided not to reveal their significance to the true gods.
• Qin Hao saw more than thirty powerful true gods inside the Palace, including a scarlet-eyed top-tier Eternity True God, and realized how dangerous it would have been to enter.
• The true gods blamed Qin Hao for taking all their treasures, while Black Marsh True God seethed after his attack had been turned back by the formation.
• Qin Hao learned that Chaos Spirit Crystals and Chaos Spirit Liquid replenished the imprisoned true gods’ strength and were essential to their survival.
• Qin Hao told the true gods he would gladly return their treasures if they came out to take them, provoking their furious response.

Qin Hao took the three bone wings from the Fogbound Prison, while Black Marsh True God tried to bargain for his freedom. Qin Hao refused and left with the treasures, leaving Black Marsh True God and the other True Gods trapped and furious.

• Qin Hao calmly examined the three bone wings while Black Marsh True God raged inside the Palace.
• Black Marsh True God recognized that Qin Hao had returned for his three spear shafts and offered treasures in exchange for help escaping the Fogbound Prison.
• Qin Hao realized the Palace was the Fogbound Prison and wondered about the Qiankun inscription on a nearby stone stele.
• Black Marsh True God offered to reveal the Ruins where he had found the spear shafts, but Qin Hao refused to help him escape.
• Qin Hao headed toward his six doppelgangers as Black Marsh True God and the other True Gods shouted after him.

Qin Hao refused Black Marsh True God’s dangerous offer and searched his Jade Slips for a way to navigate Chaos Space. He found an unsealed Jade Slip containing an evil peerless art and destroyed it, beginning to understand why the True Gods had been imprisoned.

• Qin Hao rejected Black Marsh True God’s offer to help him escape the Fogbound Prison, judging the risks and the god’s oath too dangerous to trust.
• Qin Hao realized he needed a map to find Heavensea in Chaos Space and began examining the thirty-six Jade Slips he had collected.
• Qin Hao failed to break the seals on the first thirty-one Jade Slips but entered the thirty-second without resistance.
• Qin Hao discovered that the thirty-second Jade Slip contained the Middle-Tier Peerless Art Mistveil Spirit Record, which required sacrificing hundreds of millions of living beings to master.
• Qin Hao crushed the Jade Slip and began to understand why the True Gods had been imprisoned in the Fogbound Prison.

Qin Hao discovered that a sealed Jade Slip contained a Star Chart that could detect nearby surroundings in the Murky Space. He set out from the Fogbound Prison, hoping to find Heavensea and reunite with Yun Chang and the others.

• Qin Hao decided not to release the imprisoned True Gods after learning that their crimes had earned them eternal suffering.
• Qin Hao broke the weak seal on one Jade Slip and used Chaos Origin to reveal a red dot in its darkness.
• Qin Hao realized the Jade Slip was a Star Chart centered on his location, with a limited range for detecting nearby surroundings.
• Qin Hao stored the Star Chart, sent his six doppelgangers into his Self-World, and left the Fogbound Prison.
• Qin Hao evaded spatial rifts as he flew through the Murky Space and wondered how Yun Chang and the others were doing.

After flying through Chaos Space for an unknown time, Qin Hao strengthened his divine sense and finally entered the no-sword realm while studying the Sword Dao Inheritance. Far away, Flowing Cloud met Phantom Shadow True God in Chaos Space.

• Qin Hao avoided a massive spatial rift by sensing danger with his improved Prejudgment, and realized his divine sense had grown to the level of a Heaven and Earth True God.
• To endure the endless flight through Chaos Space, Qin Hao studied the Sword Dao Inheritance and worked to understand the no-sword realm.
• Qin Hao entered a transcendent state and truly reached the no-sword realm, greatly improving the power and precision of his sword techniques.
• Qin Hao began studying the Middle-Tier Peerless Art, the Unerring Sword Scripture, but could only rehearse it mentally in the absence of a chance to practice.
• Flowing Cloud bowed before Phantom Shadow True God after the two arrived in Chaos Space from different directions.

Phantom Shadow True God investigated an unusual disturbance near the Fogbound Prison and discovered Qin Hao in a projection, recognizing his talent and considering him for the Qiankun Sect. By the time she searched for him, Qin Hao had already left the area, so she continued into Murky Space and told Flowing Cloud True God to focus on his duties and cultivation.

• Phantom Shadow True God arrived at the Fogbound Prison and asked Flowing Cloud True God whether he had noticed an unusual disturbance.
• Phantom Shadow True God replayed events in a Virtual Projection and revealed Qin Hao’s approach, surprising Flowing Cloud True God, who admitted he had failed to detect it.
• Phantom Shadow True God identified Qin Hao as a half-step True God with six doppelgangers and praised his talent and clever acquisition of treasures.
• Phantom Shadow True God decided Qin Hao could be recruited into the Qiankun Sect, but found that he had already left the area.
• Phantom Shadow True God dispersed the projection, continued into Murky Space, and advised Flowing Cloud True God to watch the Fogbound Prison and improve his cultivation.

Qin Hao continued through Murky Space, studying sword techniques while searching for a way out. When the Star Chart revealed a nearby world, he found the passage left by the Spirit Venerable still open.

• Flowing Cloud True God watched Phantom Shadow True God depart and reflected on her status as an elder of the Qiankun Sect.
• Flowing Cloud True God left to patrol another Fogbound Prison, which the Qiankun Sect had established throughout Murky Space.
• Qin Hao studied the Unerring Sword Scripture and other inherited sword techniques while flying through Chaos Space and avoiding its hazards.
• Qin Hao noticed a white patch appear on the Star Chart and followed it toward a world.
• Qin Hao reached the world’s enormous membrane and spotted the still-open spatial passage left by the Spirit Venerable.

Qin Hao entered Heavensea through the fading spatial passage left by the Spirit Venerable and discovered the realm’s powerful gravity and dense cultivation energy. Unable to locate Yun Chang and his companions, he spotted a nearby city on the Star Chart and flew toward it.

• Qin Hao found the Spirit Venerable’s nearly vanished spatial passage and used it to enter Heavensea.
• Qin Hao emerged in a verdant world, struggled against its powerful gravity, and sensed its abundant chaos origin and Heaven and Earth spiritual energy.
• Qin Hao spotted a passing half-step True God, who noticed him and flew away in another direction.
• Qin Hao checked the Star Chart, saw a nearby city to the northeast, and decided Yun Chang and his companions might go there.
• Qin Hao transformed into an azure streak and flew toward the city.

Qin Hao traveled through the dangerous Heavensea toward a city, avoiding monsters and frequent battles along the way. Near the city, he entered a misty Canyon where three bandits prepared to ambush him.

• Qin Hao avoided True God-level monsters and a battle between powerful cultivators as he flew toward the city.
• After six days of travel, Qin Hao had encountered thirteen battles and worried that Yun Chang and the other three were also in danger.
• During the journey, two Half-Step True Gods pursued Qin Hao, but he escaped by using his world power to increase his speed.
• After half a month, Qin Hao neared the city and chose to cross a Canyon despite sensing formidable auras in its mountains.
• In a cliffside Cave Abode, the True God Brother Yan sensed an approaching traveler and told the two Half-Step True Gods to get ready.

Qin Hao encountered three Heavensea bandits who intended to capture and sell him, so he attacked their leader, the Bearded Man, before they could strike. The Bearded Man’s defenses blunted Qin Hao’s powerful sword technique, revealing that the Heavensea’s true gods were stronger than the opponents Qin Hao had faced before.

• The Bearded Man and his two companions spotted Qin Hao approaching and planned to capture him alive and sell him in Dragon Marquis City.
• Qin Hao sensed the three bandits through the white mist and learned that they intended to rob and enslave him.
• Qin Hao rushed toward the Bearded Man and attacked him with the Coiling Dragon Diagram and the Heavenly Abyss Sword.
• The Bearded Man struck back with a palm of divine strength, but Qin Hao’s sword light gouged through his attack and weakened it.
• Qin Hao realized the Bearded Man’s defenses exceeded those of the true gods he had encountered before, while the Bearded Man recognized that Qin Hao was no ordinary half-step true god.

Qin Hao fought the bearded man, a True God who had planned to capture and sell him, and proved strong enough to suppress him. When the bearded man fled, Qin Hao pursued him and unleashed the Chaos Sword Art, leaving their battle to continue.

• The bearded man's two Half-Step True God companions watched from the Canyon exit, expecting him to defeat Qin Hao and capture him alive.
• Qin Hao blocked the bearded man's Demon-Subduing Palm and traded blows with him using sword techniques from the Sword Dao Inheritance.
• The bearded man realized Qin Hao's strength made capturing or killing him too costly, so he turned and fled.
• Qin Hao pursued the bearded man with his Primordial Feathered Wings Second Form Wing Art and attacked with the Chaos Sword Art.
• The bearded man angrily turned to strike Qin Hao with his ultimate move, Starfall Soul-Slaying.

Qin Hao unleashed the Chaos Mystic Sword and killed the Bearded Man, a True God powerhouse, with one strike. He collected the Bearded Man’s Storage Star Ring and headed toward two nearby Half-Step True Gods, who had not yet realized their companion was dead.

• Qin Hao accelerated the Chaos Sword Art through all thirteen forms, combining insights from the sword dao inheritances.
• Qin Hao’s Chaos Mystic Sword pierced the Bearded Man’s palm attack and chased him as he fled.
• The Heavenly Abyss Sword cleaved the Bearded Man’s palm of divine strength and then split his body and divine soul, killing him.
• Qin Hao collected the Bearded Man’s Storage Star Ring and went after the two Half-Step True Gods nearby.
• The two Half-Step True Gods remained excited and had not realized that the Bearded Man had been slain.

Qin Hao killed the two half-step True Gods who had served Yan Ming and learned that their victims were sold into slavery in Dragon Marquis City. He traveled there, where the enormous city and the throngs of powerful beings left him awestruck.

• Qin Hao questioned the two half-step True Gods and learned that they sold captives to slave merchants in Dragon Marquis City.
• Qin Hao worried about Yun Chang and the others, then decided to head to Dragon Marquis City in case they went there too.
• Qin Hao killed the two men when they tried to flee, collected their Storage Star Rings, and set off toward the city.
• Qin Hao crossed the canyon without incident and reached a vantage point where he saw Dragon Marquis City and the many figures flying around it.

Qin Hao arrived at Dragon Marquis City, paid the entry fee, and learned about the city’s markets and the Qiankun Sect’s disciple recruitment assembly. He left the streets intending to gather information about Heaven and Earth Mountain at the Everlasting Peace Inn.

• Qin Hao reached Dragon Marquis City and wondered whether the plaque above its gates had been inscribed by an Ancestral God.
• Qin Hao listened to travelers discuss the Qiankun Sect and its disciple recruitment assembly, which was held once every hundred eras.
• Qin Hao paid one Chaos Spirit Crystal to enter the city and estimated that its many gates collected a vast amount in entry fees.
• Qin Hao explored the streets, learned the prices of divine artifacts, and assessed his supply of Chaos Spirit Crystals and Chaos Spirit Liquid.
• Qin Hao headed to the Everlasting Peace Inn to seek information about Heaven and Earth Mountain.

Qin Hao visited the Everlasting Peace Inn in Dragon Marquis City to ask about the Heavensea, ordering an expensive meal while testing whether he could contact Yun Chang and the others. He still could not reach them, and he offered the waiter ten Chaos Spirit Crystals to answer his questions.

• Qin Hao entered the inn, booked a private room, and ordered several costly dishes, including Flame Dragon Delicacy and Heavenly Spirit Spring.
• Qin Hao tried to contact Yun Chang and the other three with a Message Jade Slip, but it failed to connect.
• Qin Hao ate Flame Dragon Delicacy and used the Great Dao Spirit-Seizing Art to refine its energy, increasing his physical strength.
• Qin Hao gave the young waiter ten Chaos Spirit Crystals and said he wanted to ask him something.

Qin Hao asked Liu Er about Heaven and Earth Mountain, but learned that it was unknown on the Qiankun Continent. Liu Er explained that Heavensea had once been shattered into three continents, leaving Qin Hao to realize how much the world had changed.

• Qin Hao paid Liu Er ten Chaos Spirit Crystals to ask about Heaven and Earth Mountain, but Liu Er said he had never heard of it.
• Liu Er suggested Heaven and Earth Mountain might be on another continent and identified the Qiankun Continent as their current location.
• Qin Hao explained that he had never ventured outside his lineage and learned from Liu Er that Heavensea was divided into continents.
• Liu Er told Qin Hao that experts who fled the shattered Origin World flooded into Heavensea and threw it into chaos.
• Liu Er said Divine Lord-level experts shattered Heavensea into the Qiankun Continent, the Immortal Thunder Continent, and the Golden Palace Continent.

Liu Er explained Heavensea’s three continents and their supreme factions to Qin Hao, who learned that reaching the other continents required costly teleportation or help from the Qiankun Sect. Liu Er revealed that the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm might contain Heaven and Earth Mountain, giving Qin Hao a possible route toward both its inheritance and his goal of becoming an Ancestral God.

• Liu Er told Qin Hao that Heavensea had stabilized into Qiankun Continent, Immortal Thunder Continent, and Golden Palace Continent after a devastating battle.
• Liu Er explained that crossing between the continents required a Teleportation Array and that the Qiankun Sect could make the journey more affordable.
• Liu Er described the Qiankun Sect, Nine Heavens Tower, and Jin Family as the supreme factions of their respective continents.
• Liu Er told Qin Hao that only Qiankun Sect disciples could enter the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm, where entrants had a strong chance of becoming Ancestral Gods.
• Qin Hao sensed that Heaven and Earth Mountain might be inside the secret realm and considered pursuing it to gain power and protect Star Sea Heaven and Earth.

Qin Hao learned that joining the Qiankun Sect could help him grow stronger and might eventually lead him to the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm. With the sect’s recruitment assembly coming to Dragon Marquis City in thirty thousand years, he planned to prepare for its trials.

• Qin Hao suspected Heaven and Earth Mountain might lie within the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm and decided that joining the Qiankun Sect was his best path forward.
• Liu Er explained that the Qiankun Sect held a recruitment assembly every hundred epochs, where only about one in a hundred Half-Step True Gods passed its trials.
• Liu Er told Qin Hao that the next assembly was thirty thousand years away and that the Qiankun Sect would send envoys to Dragon Marquis City to register candidates.
• Qin Hao resolved to strengthen his Chaos Origin and master more of the Unerring Sword Scripture before the trials.
• Qin Hao asked Liu Er to recommend suitable places for cultivation in Dragon Marquis City.

Qin Hao learned that Dragon Marquis City's Colosseum offered combat practice and an Insight Space filled with experts' experiences, making it an ideal place to improve before the Qiankun Sect Disciple Recruitment Assembly. After eating and rewarding Liu Er, he headed with him to the Colosseum.

• Liu Er explained that the Qiankun Sect's recruitment required Half-Step True God cultivation but imposed no age or cultivation-time limit, and that the tests included fighting strength.
• Liu Er described the Colosseum's gladiator and contestant battles, its Insight Space, and its dense chaos origin.
• Qin Hao decided to visit the Colosseum and promised Liu Er another ten Chaos Spirit Crystals if he was satisfied.
• Qin Hao finished a costly meal that strengthened his body, then left with Liu Er for the Colosseum.