Recaps

Zhang Yuan was bound by the Immortal-Binding Rope and taken to the Imperial City Heavenly Prison to await a joint hearing. In his cell, he met an early Ascension Realm demonic cultivator who questioned him about his arrest.

• Wei Heng identified himself as Heaven-Reaching City's general and ordered Zhang Yuan arrested for breaking the Great Heng Laws and killing Lu Chaosheng.
• Zhang Yuan chose to go peacefully, while Tan Chengcheng warned Tong Ke that he might still have a way to escape.
• Wei Heng escorted Zhang Yuan to a private cell in the Imperial City Heavenly Prison and said a joint hearing would be held the next day.
• Zhang Yuan assessed the prison's suppressive formation and guards, then ignored a scruffy-bearded old man in the neighboring cell.
• Zhang Yuan told the old man he had killed a Spirit Transformation Realm cultivator from the Grand Hua Jade Heaven Sect, puzzling him about why Zhang Yuan had been sent to the Heavenly Prison.

Zhang Yuan was pulled from the Heavenly Prison into the [Myriad Weapons Divine Kingdom Grotto-Heaven] while trying to contact Xiao Yuanjun, where the [Mirror-Holding Armored Lord, Divine Master] questioned him about his destroyed incarnation. Zhang Yuan negotiated for a reward and identified [True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts] as the one who destroyed it.

• Zhang Yuan guessed that Wei Heng had treated his killing of Lu Chaosheng as an attempt on nearby Imperial Relatives, then tried to contact Xiao Yuanjun through [Myriad Coexistence].
• Karma abruptly dragged Zhang Yuan's divine sense into the [Myriad Weapons Divine Kingdom Grotto-Heaven], where he met the [Mirror-Holding Armored Lord, Divine Master].
• The [Mirror-Holding Armored Lord, Divine Master] said he had summoned Zhang Yuan to ask who destroyed his incarnation on Bixi Island and how its Long Halberd ended up with Zhang Yuan.
• Zhang Yuan asked whether a True Lord could hear their conversation and, after the Divine Master said no, named [True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts] as the culprit.

Zhang Yuan allied with [Mirror-Holding Armored Lord, Divine Master] to thwart [True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts], a primordial Great Luo, and received a secret art for wielding the Divine Master's Long Halberd. The Divine Master also warned him of an emerging opportunity in the Central Land and told him to conceal his identity if he competed for it.

• [Mirror-Holding Armored Lord, Divine Master] learned that [True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts] was a primordial Great Luo who had destroyed his incarnation and decided to stop his scheme.
• Zhang Yuan agreed to help, seeing a chance to sabotage [True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts] and locate his true body.
• [Mirror-Holding Armored Lord, Divine Master] offered Zhang Yuan two objectives: uncover and destroy the scheme in the realm, or find the True Lord's true body so the Divine Master could attack him.
• [Mirror-Holding Armored Lord, Divine Master] taught Zhang Yuan “Manifest Divine Power Through the Weapon” and promised another reward after the task was accomplished.
• [Mirror-Holding Armored Lord, Divine Master] told Zhang Yuan that a great opportunity would soon emerge in the Central Land and warned him not to compete under his Dust-Dyed Realm identity.

Zhang Yuan considered the Central Land’s coming upheaval and chose to enter the struggle so he could target True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts. In prison, Miaole appeared and urged him to become a Bodhisattva by taking charge of Sky Mountain and defeating the ghosts of the Nine Serenities.

• Zhang Yuan decided not to use his divine Long Halberd to escape yet, despite having a way to break the Immortal-Binding Rope.
• Zhang Yuan deduced that prodigies and powerful factions across the Five Realms would compete for the Central Land conceptual image, and chose to join the upheaval to strike at True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts.
• Miaole appeared outside Zhang Yuan’s cell, and Zhang Yuan blocked his Mind-Reading with his immaculate primordial spirit.
• Miaole called Zhang Yuan a Bodhisattva and said he should preside over Sky Mountain and sweep away the ghosts of the Nine Serenities before attaining Buddhahood.

While imprisoned, Zhang Yuan received a visit from Great Heng’s Eldest Princess, Tan Chengcheng, who offered to pardon him in exchange for serving as her assassin. He agreed to help her kill her intended target, then learned that she wanted him to kill the emperor, a Divine Master.

• Miaole left after sensing a visitor, urging Zhang Yuan to consider his proposal to guard Sky Mountain and oppose the Nether Bureau.
• Tan Chengcheng visited Zhang Yuan in prison, and he immediately rejected the idea of becoming her Imperial Son-in-Law.
• Tan Chengcheng explained that she wanted to hire Zhang Yuan as a personal guard who would kill people for her, offering to pardon his crimes in return.
• Zhang Yuan agreed to the deal without knowing the target, reasoning that he could decide what to do after escaping prison.
• Tan Chengcheng revealed that her target was her Imperial Father, the Great Heng emperor, who had reached the Divine Master realm.

Tan Chengcheng told Zhang Yuan that the Great Heng founder had split himself into male and female halves, and that her imperial father now sought to reunite with and devour her mother. Zhang Yuan agreed to help her investigate a way to stop him, gained his freedom, and was reunited with Xiao Yuanjun.

• Tan Chengcheng explained that the Great Heng founder had divided his body into male and female halves, becoming both the Founder Emperor and the empress.
• Tan Chengcheng revealed that her imperial father wanted to reunite with her mother to become a whole Divine Master, but her mother had subdued and sealed him; she asked Zhang Yuan to help find a way to kill him.
• Zhang Yuan agreed to help Tan Chengcheng investigate and received an Imperial House Token that freed him from the [Immortal-Binding Rope] and cleared his crimes.
• Zhang Yuan left his cell, but Xiao Yuanjun broke into the Heavenly Prison and shielded him from Tan Chengcheng before learning he had already been released and had agreed to work with her.

Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun agreed to help Tan Chengcheng in exchange for payment and lodging at the Eldest Princess's Residence. After telling Xiao Yuanjun about the Great Heng Imperial House's secrets, Zhang Yuan revealed that he planned to seize an opportunity amid an impending upheaval in the Central Land, without disclosing his secret plot.

• Zhang Yuan refused the prospect of becoming an imperial son-in-law, and Tan Chengcheng bristled at what she took as his insult.
• After Zhang Yuan approved, Xiao Yuanjun agreed to help Tan Chengcheng for a steep price, and Tan Chengcheng offered them rooms at her residence.
• Tan Chengcheng brought Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun from the Heavenly Prison to the Eldest Princess's Residence, then left to handle urgent affairs.
• Xiao Yuanjun asked what Zhang Yuan had agreed to do, and he told her the Great Heng Imperial House's secrets.
• Zhang Yuan told Xiao Yuanjun about the coming upheaval and opportunity in the Central Land but kept his plot against True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts secret.
• Xiao Yuanjun promised to help Zhang Yuan seize the opportunity.

Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun discussed the Azure Vault Vast Sea Art and its connection to the Sha Ingestion Gang Devoration Path, while Chi Guanguan devised a way to appear outside Zhang Yuan’s Dao Domain. The chapter ended with Chi Guanguan explaining that her miniature incarnation was made from Zhang Yuan’s conceptual images and could evade the Sun-Moon Mystic Light.

• Xiao Yuanjun read the Azure Vault Vast Sea Art and said it could not be cultivated alongside the Sha Ingestion Gang Devoration Path until a cultivator reached Spirit Transformation.
• Zhang Yuan asked Chi Guanguan whether she knew the reason, but she ignored him after discovering Ao Xiu had eaten the remaining pastries.
• Chi Guanguan gathered Wu Earth conceptual images and created a miniature incarnation that she sent out of Zhang Yuan’s Dao Domain.
• Zhang Yuan saw the miniature Chi Guanguan on his shoulder and asked how she had escaped the Dao Domain.
• Chi Guanguan explained that her true divine sense remained inside the Dao Domain and that her incarnation had no karmic connection for the Sun-Moon Mystic Light to detect.

Chi Guanguan explained her Wu Earth incarnation and revealed what she knew about the Spirit Transformation realm, while Xiao Yuanjun obtained the Form and Spirit Cultivation Method and several upper-tier cultivation techniques. The discussion ended when Tan Chengcheng arrived with news of a royal rebellion and asked Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun to save the Fourth Prince.

• Chi Guanguan explained that her incarnation was a small part of Zhang Yuan’s Dao Domain and could not move more than half a foot from him.
• Chi Guanguan said the Qi Sea Uniting Spirit Dao and Sha Ingestion Gang Devoration Path had once been entirely incompatible, and that the Spirit Transformation realm had likely been moved to the Boundless Southern Heaven Realm.
• Xiao Yuanjun asked Chi Guanguan for a method to acquire a spirit root, and Zhang Yuan gave her the Form and Spirit Cultivation Method.
• Chi Guanguan gave Zhang Yuan several upper-tier methods from the Qi Refining to Immortality Path, which Xiao Yuanjun began studying.
• Tan Chengcheng arrived and reported that the Crown Prince had killed Tan Xingzhou and was heading for the Fourth Prince’s residence.
• Tan Chengcheng asked Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun to come with her and save the Fourth Prince.

After an impostor posing as Tan Chengcheng lured Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun outside, Zhang Yuan subdued the real Tan Chengcheng by mistake. The chapter ended with her angrily pointing out that she had already killed the impostor.

• Tan Chengcheng told Zhang Yuan that the Crown Prince had killed Tan Xingzhou and planned to attack the Fourth Prince, then asked for help.
• Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun prepared to leave, but Chi Guanguan warned that their visitor was likely an impostor and Zhang Yuan anticipated an ambush.
• Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun charged into the courtyard and Zhang Yuan broke the visitor’s arms before pinning her down.
• Zhang Yuan questioned the person he believed was an impostor about who had sent her.
• Tan Chengcheng told Zhang Yuan that she was real and that the impostor’s head was lying on the ground.

Zhang Yuan discovered that Tan Chengcheng had killed an impostor disguised as her, then learned that Crown Prince Tan Yuming had orchestrated the attack with help from the First God Cult. The chapter ended as Shangguan Ying and the cult’s forces surrounded Zhang Yuan, Tan Chengcheng, and Xiao Yuanjun.

• Tan Chengcheng killed the impostor who had taken her appearance, and Zhang Yuan realized the woman he had subdued was the real princess.
• Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun learned that the severed head belonged to Third Prince Tan Xingzhou, and Tan Chengcheng identified Crown Prince Tan Yuming as the mastermind.
• Zhang Yuan sensed that attackers were approaching, and black-robed cultivators appeared to surround the courtyard.
• Tan Chengcheng identified Shangguan Ying as a guest of Tan Yuming’s Eastern Palace and recognized the attackers as members of the First God Cult.
• Shangguan Ying declared that Tan Yuming planned to make the First God Cult the state religion after taking the throne, while Tan Chengcheng prepared to rely on Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun.

Tan Chengcheng confronted Shangguan Ying, who arrived with Qin Tianyi, a Demonic Celestial Person hired by the Crown Prince. Zhang Yuan recognized Qin Tianyi, who fled rather than fight, and Zhang Yuan's attack killed Shangguan Ying, leaving the Crown Prince's conflict with Tan Chengcheng unresolved.

• Tan Chengcheng taunted Shangguan Ying and warned her that she had failed to learn who Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun were.
• Shangguan Ying revealed that the Crown Prince had recruited Qin Tianyi, a Demonic Celestial Person, and urged him to kill Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun.
• Qin Tianyi recognized Zhang Yuan, concealed his alarm, and pretended to accept the challenge as Zhang Yuan prepared his sword.
• Zhang Yuan attacked with Three-Colored Qi Light, and Qin Tianyi transformed into lightning and fled without fighting.
• Zhang Yuan's attack struck Shangguan Ying, annihilating her body and soul.

After Zhang Yuan effortlessly defeated the First God Cult’s attackers, Deputy Cult Master Tan tried to persuade him to support Crown Prince Tan Yuming. Zhang Yuan studied Tan and asked whether they had met before.

• Deputy Cult Master Tan ordered the First God Cult cultivators to attack Zhang Yuan and his companions.
• Zhang Yuan used the [Eastern Mystic-Yang Fusang Banner] to devastate the attackers, leaving Deputy Cult Master Tan and two Suspended Sky Realm Elders standing.
• The two Elders tried to flank Zhang Yuan, but he swiftly severed both their arms, forcing them to retreat behind Deputy Cult Master Tan.
• Deputy Cult Master Tan stepped forward and advised Zhang Yuan to back Crown Prince Tan Yuming instead of the Eldest Princess.
• Zhang Yuan asked Deputy Cult Master Tan whether they had met before.

Zhang Yuan fought Deputy Cult Master Tan, whose spell threatened Heaven-Reaching City, and threatened to destroy the entire city to stop him. Even after Tan withdrew the spell, Zhang Yuan still unleashed his sword strike.

• Deputy Cult Master Tan offered to reveal his face if Zhang Yuan bet on the Crown Prince, but Zhang Yuan refused and attacked him before he could finish speaking.
• Deputy Cult Master Tan used the Demon-Summoning Life-Devouring Mist to shield himself and shroud Heaven-Reaching City, using its inhabitants' vitality to defend against attacks.
• Tan Chengcheng urged Zhang Yuan to retreat, but he declared that he would annihilate the city to break Tan's spell.
• Deputy Cult Master Tan withdrew the mist and asked Zhang Yuan to stand down, but Zhang Yuan ignored Tan Chengcheng's plea and swung the Primordial Form-Converging Sword.

Zhang Yuan drove Deputy Cult Master Tan from the city, then learned that Tan Duanchang was his former cellmate and a senior figure in the First God Cult. Before dawn, Tan Duanchang devised a way to modify his life-devouring mist so Zhang Yuan could no longer use the city’s civilians as leverage.

• Deputy Cult Master Tan fled after Zhang Yuan’s attack wounded him, and Zhang Yuan admitted he could not kill an Ascension Realm opponent.
• Tan Chengcheng told Zhang Yuan and his companion to rest before accompanying her to the Crown Prince’s Eastern Palace banquet the next evening.
• Deputy Cult Master Tan returned to the Heavenly Prison, where he revealed himself as Tan Duanchang, an old acquaintance of the Emperor and Empress.
• Tan Duanchang realized Zhang Yuan had restrained him because his spell killed its victims, so he planned to make the mist leave them barely alive.
• Tan Duanchang celebrated his solution while Elders Fang and Liu wondered whether he had gone mad.

Tan Chengcheng invited Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun to accompany her to the Crown Prince’s Eastern Palace banquet to see what Tan Yuming was planning. As Xiao Yuanjun went to change, Zhang Yuan stayed in the Main Hall and teased Chi Guanguan, leaving her indignant but appeased by his flattery.

• Tan Chengcheng invited Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun to the Eastern Palace banquet after sunset, saying she wanted to observe Tan Yuming.
• Tan Chengcheng brought Xiao Yuanjun five Dharma robes and asked her to change before the banquet.
• Xiao Yuanjun teased Zhang Yuan for following her toward the bedroom, and he stayed in the Main Hall instead.
• Chi Guanguan asked Zhang Yuan why he had not gone inside, and he joked about her age.
• Zhang Yuan called Chi Guanguan beautiful and ageless to calm her after she bristled at his teasing.

Xiao Yuanjun tried on new clothes with Zhang Yuan’s help and chose a Cloud-Water Robe before joining Tan Chengcheng and two disciples from powerful cultivation factions. Zhang Yuan learned about their backing, while Tong Ke and Huang Yingquan sensed an unsettling danger from him.

• Xiao Yuanjun tried on five outfits for Zhang Yuan and chose the Cloud-Water Robe because it matched his white Daoist robe.
• Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun met Tan Chengcheng, Tong Ke, and Huang Yingquan at the Eldest Princess's Residence.
• Zhang Yuan learned that Tong Ke and Huang Yingquan were True Disciples of the Azure Talisman Grotto-Heaven and the Spirit Emperor Grotto-Heaven, factions allied with the Empress Dowager.
• Zhang Yuan silently wondered whether the two disciples would be easy to kill, then blamed those thoughts on [True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts].
• Tong Ke and Huang Yingquan both felt a chill of alarm when Zhang Yuan frowned.

Tan Chengcheng brought Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun to the Crown Prince's banquet, where the gate eunuch tried to bar them. Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun made a forceful entrance, and Zhang Yuan revealed his identity as the [Return to True Celestial Person], leaving Crown Prince Tan Yuming to reconsider his threat.

• Tan Chengcheng took Zhang Yuan, Xiao Yuanjun, Tong Ke, and Huang Yingquan by carriage to the Eastern Palace, where Wei Heng saw that the [Immortal-Binding Rope] remained on Zhang Yuan's wrist.
• The gate eunuch challenged Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun's right to attend the banquet, and Tong Ke identified Zhang Yuan as the renowned [Return to True Celestial Person].
• Xiao Yuanjun decided to stir up the banquet to strengthen her Bright Yang conceptual images, and Zhang Yuan agreed to make a conspicuous entrance.
• Zhang Yuan unleashed [Spring Harmony Scenery] and the pressure of his titles, sending the gate eunuch crashing through the Eastern Palace doors and pinning most banquet guests in place.
• Tan Yuming ordered Qin Tianyi to subdue Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun, but Zhang Yuan identified himself as the rogue cultivator [Return to True] and warned that his master might bury everyone in the palace.

Zhang Yuan used his overwhelming power to force Tan Yuming to welcome him and Xiao Yuanjun at the Eastern Palace banquet, where they took the seat of honor. As Tan Chengcheng arrived, Xiao Yuanjun sat in Zhang Yuan’s lap to make room for her, leaving Chi Guanguan regretting her suggestion.

• Tan Yuming asked Qin Tianyi about his chances against Zhang Yuan, and Qin Tianyi admitted he could save only five people before escaping.
• Tan Yuming apologized to Zhang Yuan and, under pressure, struggled over to welcome him and Xiao Yuanjun into the banquet.
• Zhang Yuan withdrew his divine ability after Xiao Yuanjun confirmed they had achieved their objective, and Tan Yuming seated them at the place of honor.
• Tan Chengcheng arrived with Tong Ke and Huang Yingquan and signaled for Zhang Yuan to make room at her seat.
• Xiao Yuanjun sat in Zhang Yuan’s lap to free a place for Tan Chengcheng, and Chi Guanguan realized her suggestion had helped Xiao Yuanjun.

At Tan Yuming’s banquet, Tan Linchuan proposed that the court choose between Tan Chengcheng and Tan Yuming to lead Great Heng. Just as the banquet seemed to be ending, Zhang Yuan set down his chopsticks and drew everyone’s attention.

• Tan Yaozheng asked Tan Chengcheng whether Zhang Yuan was her imperial son-in-law, and Tan Chengcheng coldly denied it.
• Xiao Yuanjun fed Zhang Yuan spiritual fruit, while Chi Guanguan asked him to send food into the Dao Domain for her and Ao Xiu.
• Tan Yuming gauged the banquet and signaled Tan Linchuan, who proposed that the court decide between Tan Chengcheng and Tan Yuming at the next morning’s session.
• Tan Chengcheng agreed to meet Tan Yuming in the Golden Throne Hall the next day as their ministers argued over who should lead Great Heng.
• Zhang Yuan set down his chopsticks, and the banquet guests turned toward him in alarm.

At the Eastern Palace banquet, Zhang Yuan ignored the political dispute and collected pastries before leaving with Tan Chengcheng. Back at the residence, he and Xiao Yuanjun suspected that the Great Heng princes and princesses looked unnaturally alike, but Zhang Yuan chose not to investigate with [Person Viewing] because he sensed danger.

• Zhang Yuan asked Tan Yuming for pastries, and the guests redirected every serving to Tan Chengcheng’s table.
• Zhang Yuan swept the pastries into his Dao Domain, where they fell on Chi Guanguan, then asked her to save portions for Xiao Shi and Li Huixi.
• Zhang Yuan and Tan Chengcheng left the banquet, and she asked him to accompany her to the Golden Throne Hall for the next morning’s court session.
• Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun reviewed the banquet and noted that Tan Chengcheng and her siblings looked almost identical.
• Zhang Yuan decided against using [Person Viewing] to uncover the reason, wary of attracting the attention of eyes in the heavens.

Zhang Yuan accompanied Tan Chengcheng to the Golden Throne Hall, where she and Tan Yuming planned to settle their contest for control of Great Heng. Wei Heng brought out the [Evil-Warding Law-Suppressing Stone] to suppress everyone's cultivation, leaving the rivals to decide the matter through physical strength.

• Zhang Yuan entered the Golden Throne Hall with Tan Chengcheng and assessed the powerful cultivators gathered there.
• A Grand Hua Jade Heaven Sect Elder accused Zhang Yuan of killing the sect's disciples, but backed down from challenging him.
• Tan Chengcheng and Tan Yuming faced each other in the hall as their supporters gathered behind them.
• Wei Heng carried in the [Evil-Warding Law-Suppressing Stone], which suppressed everyone's cultivation and abilities.
• Wei Heng explained that the stone would let the two sides settle Great Heng's disputes through physical strength.

Tan Chengcheng fought Tan Yuming for the Great Heng succession while the [Evil-Warding Law-Suppressing Stone] suppressed their cultivation. Tan Yuming prepared to use Qin Tianyi’s [Thunder Rumbles], but Qin Tianyi instead reported his completed mission to Zhang Yuan as Tan Chengcheng’s punch closed in.

• Wei Heng explained the fifteen-minute limit, and Tan Linchuan and Tan Yaozheng forfeited the fight.
• Tan Chengcheng caught Tan Yuming off guard with a punch that revealed she had reached the peak of the World-Raising Realm.
• Tan Chengcheng relentlessly battered Tan Yuming, who retreated to the edge of the stone’s suppressive range and signaled Qin Tianyi to use [Thunder Rumbles].
• Zhang Yuan asked Xiao Yuanjun to boost Tan Chengcheng, and Qin Tianyi nodded to Zhang Yuan while Tan Yuming mistook the gesture as agreement to help him.
• As Tan Chengcheng attacked again, Tan Yuming realized [Thunder Rumbles] was affecting her instead, and Qin Tianyi told Zhang Yuan that his mission was complete.

Tan Chengcheng won the court contest and was granted authority over state affairs, but Tan Duanchang disrupted the result and attacked Zhang Yuan. Zhang Yuan lost access to his powers when the Imperial House Token crumbled, and Qin Tianyi shielded him from Tan Duanchang’s strike.

• Tan Chengcheng defeated Tan Yuming with a punch secretly empowered by Zhang Yuan, and Wei Heng declared her the winner with authority to govern.
• Tan Duanchang emerged and sealed the Evil-Warding Law-Suppressing Stone, then showed evidence that Zhang Yuan and others had aided Tan Chengcheng.
• Xiao Yuanjun admitted to intervening, while Zhang Yuan stood beside her and Tan Duanchang prepared to attack them.
• Tan Duanchang unleashed a lethal palm strike at Zhang Yuan, and the Imperial House Token crumbled, restoring the Immortal-Binding Rope’s suppression of Zhang Yuan’s powers.
• Qin Tianyi stepped in front of Zhang Yuan to take the strike and was sent flying.

Qin Tianyi played dead while Tan Yuming revealed his alliance with the First God Cult and its plans to sacrifice Great Heng’s people. Tan Chengcheng freed Zhang Yuan from the [Immortal-Binding Rope], leaving him able to face the Ascension Realm cultivators threatening the Golden Throne Hall.

• Qin Tianyi pretended that a killing blow had left him unconscious, and Tan Duanchang chose not to deal with him.
• Tan Yuming revealed that First God Cult members, including Deputy Cult Master Gao and powerful cultivators, were waiting outside the Golden Throne Hall as his backup plan.
• Tan Yuming promised to make the First God Cult Great Heng’s State Religion, and Deputy Cult Master Gao made clear that the cult wanted the people’s vitality and qi-blood for a Dharma Body.
• Zhang Yuan recognized the First God Cult’s planned blood sacrifices as the Demon Realm Devil Lord’s handiwork, and Tan Chengcheng confirmed that the cult had no history of such massacres.
• Tan Chengcheng released the [Immortal-Binding Rope] from Zhang Yuan, who stored the treasure in his Dao Domain.