Recaps

Zhang Yuan arrived at the Ye Residence in the middle of the night to see Ye Xiangning, whose fearsome reputation made the Ye Family disciples expect him to be badly beaten. He reached her secluded house and entered while she was asleep, leaving their meeting to come.

• Zhang Yuan asked a Ye Family disciple at the gates to call Ye Xiangning out.
• The Ye Family disciple recognized Zhang Yuan as a True Disciple and warned him that Ye Xiangning might severely injure anyone who disturbed her.
• Zhang Yuan refused to wait for a better time and went to Ye Xiangning's residence himself.
• Ye Xu sent Ye Yuan to fetch Healing Pills while he and the other disciples followed Zhang Yuan to keep him alive.
• Zhang Yuan heard Old Ghost Ji Guang snoring inside Ye Xiangning's house, pushed the door open, and walked in.

Zhang Yuan visited Ye Xiangning’s residence and found her incarnation asleep, then teased her face before she woke and turned the prank back on him. After their banter about marriage, he revealed that he had come to return the Profound Mountain Venerable Great Luo Dao Chapter.

• Zhang Yuan entered Ye Xiangning’s bedroom and found her incarnation sleeping and snoring.
• Zhang Yuan poked Ye Xiangning’s cheek and reached to slap it, but she woke and caught him in the act.
• Ye Xiangning made Zhang Yuan rub her cheek, then teased him about marrying Ye Xiangning.
• Zhang Yuan countered by saying Ye Xiangning would need to persuade his understanding fiancée, making Ye Xiangning retreat from the marriage joke.
• Zhang Yuan took out the Profound Mountain Venerable Great Luo Dao Chapter to return it, but Ye Xiangning slid away and let it fall onto the bed.

Zhang Yuan forced Ye Xiangning to accept the Profound Mountain Venerable Great Luo Dao Chapter and gave her the Sea-Covering Heaven-Bearing Art, then asked her to heal Chu Qingyuan’s eyes. Ye Xiangning agreed, but Ye Xu and the other Ye Family Disciples burst into the bedroom before she could finish speaking.

• Ye Xu and Ye Yuan worried that Ye Xiangning had beaten Zhang Yuan unconscious and rushed into the wooden house to rescue him.
• Zhang Yuan repeatedly tried to make Ye Xiangning hold the Profound Mountain Venerable Great Luo Dao Chapter, and she finally accepted it after he cornered her.
• Zhang Yuan gave Ye Xiangning the Sea-Covering Heaven-Bearing Art, and she recognized the Wen River Deng Clan as the party behind the arrangement.
• Zhang Yuan asked Ye Xiangning to heal Chu Qingyuan’s eyes, and she agreed.
• Ye Xu, Ye Yuan, and the other Ye Family Disciples opened the bedroom door and found Zhang Yuan standing by the bed.

Zhang Yuan dealt with Ye Xiangning’s staged bedroom scene, learned more about the threat from True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns, and prepared to return home. Ye Xiangning told him to stay in the Mysterious Court and join her when a treasure land appeared.

• Ye Xu and the others entered the bedroom, mistook Zhang Yuan’s position over Ye Xiangning for coercion, and then left after Ye Xiangning signaled that they should go.
• Zhang Yuan asked Ye Xiangning what she had meant to say about him being a True Lord, but she told him to work it out himself.
• Zhang Yuan decided to leave after learning that True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns was scheming against him and that Chu Qingyuan’s eyes could be treated.
• Ye Xiangning asked Zhang Yuan to remain in the Mysterious Court and accompany her to a treasure land expected to attract cultivators from several nations.
• Ye Xiangning said the treasure land would contain heavenly gang, earthly sha, five skandhas, and six qi, though it might not have what Zhang Yuan needed, and Zhang Yuan agreed to go.

Zhang Yuan returned to the courtyard after killing a middle-antiquity Heavenly Immortal and reassured Cui Yuanxi that he was unharmed. The women then questioned him about Immortal Lord Liujing’s beauty and title, leaving him puzzled about what they already knew.

• Zhang Yuan returned to the courtyard and found Cui Yuanxi, Xiao Shi, Tong Ke, Deng Yici, and Deng Huansha waiting there.
• Deng Yici offered Zhang Yuan healing pills, but he declined them; Cui Yuanxi gave him one of her own pills, which he accepted.
• Zhang Yuan explained that he had fought and killed a middle-antiquity Heavenly Immortal with help from an old friend, and said he had not been injured.
• Deng Yici and Deng Huansha left after Deng Yici invited Zhang Yuan to visit the Wen River Deng Clan.
• Tong Ke asked Zhang Yuan whether Immortal Lord Liujing was beautiful and deserved to be called the First Immortal Maiden of the Mysterious Court; he agreed she could be.
• Xiao Shi asked whether Zhang Yuan knew what was going on, then smiled and said she understood when he admitted he did not.

Immortal Lord Liujing overheard Zhang Yuan praise her beauty and became wary of him, but the ancestors ordered her to take him to a newly emerging treasure land to confront the Profound Ancestor Evil Spirit. Zhang Yuan gathered Xu Lingyin and Ye Xiangning for the journey, leaving Liujing suspicious that he had taken a special interest in Xu Lingyin.

• Immortal Lord Liujing overheard Zhang Yuan call her the First Immortal Maiden of the Mysterious Court and decided to avoid him, but the ancestors summoned her about the treasure land.
• Liujing returned to Ten Thousand Bamboo Mountain and told Zhang Yuan the ancestors wanted them to reach the treasure land and suppress or kill the Profound Ancestor Evil Spirit.
• Zhang Yuan agreed to leave at once but said he needed to bring two people with him.
• Zhang Yuan summoned Xu Lingyin and Ye Xiangning, then told Liujing he wanted them to gain experience and opportunities under their protection.
• Liujing accepted the explanation but suspected Zhang Yuan had taken a fancy to Xu Lingyin and condemned him in her thoughts.

Zhang Yuan and his companions reached the cleared plain where a treasure land was expected to emerge, and he learned that Lu Jianqing and Lu Danyan had removed the mountains and waters themselves. A True Lord’s power struck from the East Sea, and as everyone recovered, a golden object appeared in the western sky.

• Zhang Yuan arrived with Immortal Lord Liujing, Cui Yuanxi, Xu Lingyin, and Ye Xiangning at a vast, empty plain crowded with cultivators.
• Lu Jianqing and Lu Danyan greeted Zhang Yuan and revealed that they had cleared away the surrounding mountains and waters.
• A powerful boom from the East Sea overwhelmed the gathered cultivators, but Zhang Yuan recovered with help from Chi Guanguan and protected Xu Lingyin.
• Ye Xiangning pretended to be hurt and tried to stumble into Zhang Yuan, but Immortal Lord Liujing caught and healed her.
• Lu Jianqing pointed out a glittering golden object flying toward them from the west.

True Lord Rainbow-Haloed Rosy Clouds and Immortal Lord Duo Ning the Usurper wagered on a contest to settle which Lu Clan would be recognized as the Mystic Gate's Demonic Dao orthodox lineage. They seized an emptied Buddha Kingdom and sent it toward the land Lu Jianqing and Lu Danyan had cleared in the Ao Kingdom.

• True Lord Rainbow-Haloed Rosy Clouds tried to persuade Immortal Lord Duo Ning the Usurper to stop claiming his Nine Serenities Lu Clan was the Mystic Gate's orthodox lineage, but he refused.
• Immortal Lord Duo Ning proposed a wager: the winner would determine which Lu Clan held the orthodox title, and True Lord Rainbow-Haloed Rosy Clouds agreed.
• True Lord Rainbow-Haloed Rosy Clouds proposed that each side place an opportunity in a seized Buddha Kingdom and send one competitor to claim it.
• True Lord Rainbow-Haloed Rosy Clouds cut a fourteen-thousand-li Buddha Kingdom from the Shared-Sorrow Lotus Realm, and Immortal Lord Duo Ning's blood-red hand wiped out its inhabitants.
• Immortal Lord Duo Ning carried the emptied Buddha Kingdom toward the cleared land in the Ao Kingdom.

A Buddha Kingdom from the Shared-Sorrow Lotus Realm descended into the Ao Kingdom, and Zhang Yuan assessed its dangers before entering with his companions. The cultivators rushed inside, while powerful watchers turned their attention to Zhang Yuan.

• A blood-red hand carried the Guangren Kingdom, a vast Buddha Kingdom, from the west and set it on the ground before Zhang Yuan and the others.
• Zhang Yuan divined that the kingdom held dangers capable of harming Celestial Persons at Perfection and Immortal Lords, then explained that entrants would face dangers suited to their own levels and be scattered.
• Zhang Yuan warned Immortal Lord Liujing, Cui Yuanxi, Ye Xiangning, and Xu Lingyin to avoid needless fights and regroup, while keeping Xuan Chen's presence in mind as part of his plan.
• Zhang Yuan concealed himself and Ye Xiangning and Xu Lingyin, then flew with Immortal Lord Liujing and Cui Yuanxi into the Guangren Kingdom.
• More than a hundred cultivators surged through the gate, and unseen watchers shifted their attention to the kingdom's interior, with several watching Zhang Yuan.

Zhang Yuan entered the Guangren Kingdom, where a restriction stopped Celestials from flying or using divine travel, and began searching for the emerging five skandhas and six qi on foot. After he left, Qin Tianyi and the other Foundation Establishment Celestials stripped nearby streets of their gold bricks before sensing an emerging opportunity and setting off to investigate.

• Zhang Yuan entered the Guangren Kingdom and pried gold paving bricks from the ground to store in his Dao Domain.
• Zhang Yuan sensed the five skandhas and six qi emerging nearby, but discovered that Celestials could not fly or use divine travel within the Buddha Kingdom.
• Zhang Yuan set off on foot toward the emerging opportunity.
• Qin Tianyi and several Foundation Establishment Celestials entered and found the street beneath them stripped bare.
• Qin Tianyi began collecting gold bricks, and the others followed until they had cleared the streets nearby.
• Qin Tianyi sensed an emerging opportunity and left to investigate it.

Zhang Yuan found the Eighty-One-Turn Pure-Name Pagoda, which contained a strand of five skandhas and six qi, but its doors would not open. He demanded a thousand gold bricks from each of the gathered Celestial Persons in exchange for the method, and they unexpectedly paid him.

• Qin Tianyi failed to use Skyflight to shake off the Celestial Persons following him and led them to a gilded, eighty-one-story pagoda.
• Zhang Yuan told the group that the pagoda was a Pre-Heaven Supreme Treasure containing a strand of five skandhas and six qi, but its doors had not opened.
• Xie Changye attacked the pagoda doors with a top-tier slaughter divine ability, but the doors remained undamaged.
• Zhang Yuan offered to reveal how to open the doors in exchange for a thousand gold bricks from each Celestial Person's Dao Domain.
• Xie Changye, Qin Tianyi, and the others each produced exactly a thousand gold bricks, leaving Zhang Yuan stunned.

Zhang Yuan and the others entered the Eighty-One-Turn Pure-Name Pagoda after Wu Liang recited a Buddhist scripture, then discovered three portions of five skandhas and six qi inside. Zhang Yuan seized the Jia Wood on the thirty-sixth floor, but a divine statue came alive and knocked him back down, leaving him to call for the others to fight it.

• Zhang Yuan explained that outsiders could enter the pagoda by reciting a complete Buddhist scripture, and Wu Liang volunteered to try.
• Wu Liang recited a scripture he had memorized as a child, opening the pagoda doors; Zhang Yuan, Qin Tianyi, and Xie Changye rushed inside, followed by Wu Liang and the others.
• Zhang Yuan sensed three portions of five skandhas and six qi on the thirty-sixth, seventy-second, and eighty-first floors, and headed for the first one.
• Zhang Yuan seized the Jia Wood from a bird-headed divine statue on the thirty-sixth floor, but a beam of light brought the statue to life.
• The statue attacked Zhang Yuan and knocked him to the bottom of the pagoda, where he called on Qin Tianyi, Xie Changye, Wu Liang, and the others to join forces against it.

Zhang Yuan and the other cultivators subdued the bird-headed divine general and began dividing its body, only for it to turn to ash and awaken the pagoda’s statues. As the others were caught off guard, Zhang Yuan and Qin Tianyi moved to higher floors.

• Qin Tianyi urged the group to attack the bird-headed divine general, and Wu Liang pinned it down with a golden Slaughter Divine Ability.
• Xie Changye proposed dividing the bird-headed divine general, and the cultivators claimed its parts while Zhang Yuan declined, saying he was compassionate.
• When Xie Changye tried to cut off the bird-headed divine general’s feet, it crumbled into ash and re-formed as the pagoda’s statues awakened.
• Zhang Yuan leaped to the thirty-eighth floor, and Qin Tianyi appeared on the thirty-seventh floor.

Zhang Yuan seized the bing fire on the seventy-second floor and reached the pagoda’s top floor, where he found geng metal he had already refined. He let Qin Tianyi take it while preparing to continue his search for the Six Yin-Yang Essences.

• Zhang Yuan and Qin Tianyi reached the thirty-eighth floor while Xie Changye and the others were delayed by sculpted divine generals below.
• Zhang Yuan raced to the seventy-second floor and took the bing fire from a dragon-headed divine general, who did not awaken.
• Zhang Yuan deduced that the jia wood had been sent by True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns as a trap, while True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts had sent the bing fire without an ambush.
• Qin Tianyi followed Zhang Yuan upward and used thunderbolts to hinder Xie Changye and the others.
• Zhang Yuan found geng metal on the eighty-first floor but realized he had already refined it, then told Qin Tianyi to take it.

Qin Tianyi took the geng metal from the statue on the eighty-first floor, but it transformed and attacked him with Zhang Yuan’s divine ability. Zhang Yuan identified and destroyed the Sin-Absolving Bodhisattva Statue, though Chi Guanguan explained that the victory had removed only a tenth of his enormous karmic burden, leaving him unconvinced.

• Qin Tianyi took the geng metal and prepared to leave before Xie Changye and the others caught up.
• The golden statue transformed and attacked Qin Tianyi with three-colored divine radiance, while Qin Tianyi realized Zhang Yuan had not made the attack.
• Zhang Yuan divined that the statue copied cultivators and could absolve their sins, then attacked it with the Primordial Form-Converging Sword.
• The Sin-Absolving Bodhisattva Statue copied only one of Zhang Yuan’s divine abilities, and Zhang Yuan cleaved it in two.
• Chi Guanguan explained that defeating the statue removed at most a tenth of Zhang Yuan’s karma because it could not fully reproduce him.
• Zhang Yuan doubted Chi Guanguan’s claim that his karma was so immense that losing a tenth made no noticeable difference.

Zhang Yuan tried to collect the [Sin-Absolving Bodhisattva Statue], but it transformed into a living bodhisattva inside the [Eighty-One-Turn Pure-Name Pagoda]. He escaped the pagoda after warning Xie Changye and the others to face it, while Brother Qin remained trapped inside.

• Chi Guanguan told Zhang Yuan she could refine the [Sin-Absolving Bodhisattva Statue] or teach him puppetry, and Zhang Yuan gathered the statue into his sleeve.
• The statue burst from Zhang Yuan’s sleeve, grew immensely heavy, and crashed into the pagoda, injuring someone as it transformed into a golden bodhisattva.
• Zhang Yuan pretended to attack the statue, then threatened the [Eighty-One-Turn Pure-Name Pagoda] until its doors opened.
• Zhang Yuan left the pagoda and told Xie Changye, Wu Liang, and the others that defeating the statue could reduce their karmic burden.
• The pagoda doors shut before Brother Qin could escape, and Zhang Yuan assumed he would survive by using the others as shields.

Zhang Yuan tried to leave the Eighty-One-Turn Pure-Name Pagoda, but the Sin-Absolving Bodhisattva Statue awakened and targeted him as the greatest Demon Fiend. Surrounded by the statue and the pagoda’s divine generals, he prepared to fight until Xie Changye, Qin Tianyi, Wu Liang, and the others came to his aid.

• Zhang Yuan decided to leave after obtaining Jia Wood and Bing Fire, but the Eighty-One-Turn Pure-Name Pagoda rose into the air behind him.
• Qin Tianyi called for help as the Sin-Absolving Bodhisattva Statue transformed, took the pagoda in one hand, and overwhelmed the Foundation Establishment Celestials’ attacks.
• The Sin-Absolving Bodhisattva Statue identified Zhang Yuan as a super Demon Fiend because of his heavy karmic burden and attacked him with its ringed staff.
• Zhang Yuan dodged the statue’s strikes and tried to flee, but the pagoda blocked his path and released golden-bodied divine generals that surrounded him.
• Xie Changye, Qin Tianyi, Wu Liang, and the others destroyed the surrounding divine generals with their Slaughter Divine Abilities and came to help Zhang Yuan.

Zhang Yuan escaped Xie Changye and the others when they tried to attack him, then evaded the [Sin-Absolving Bodhisattva Statue]. Xie Changye tracked him down and offered to trade gold bricks for Zhang Yuan’s three strands of five skandhas and six qi.

• Zhang Yuan, Xie Changye, Qin Tianyi, Wu Liang, and the others attacked the [Sin-Absolving Bodhisattva Statue] while secretly holding back their strength.
• Xie Changye and the others turned their attacks on Zhang Yuan, but his past-life body vanished, allowing him to escape.
• The group scattered and abandoned the [Sin-Absolving Bodhisattva Statue], while Zhang Yuan fled nearly three thousand li and decided to refine his remaining five aggregates and ten natures.
• Xie Changye caught up with Zhang Yuan using a tracking divine ability and a mystic wonder that had locked onto his karma before it was concealed.
• Xie Changye offered Zhang Yuan thirty thousand gold bricks in exchange for his three strands of five skandhas and six qi.

Xie Changye mistook Zhang Yuan for the Artifact Spirit of the [Eighty-One-Turn Pure-Name Pagoda] and demanded three strands of five skandhas and six qi. When Xie Changye attacked, Zhang Yuan stopped and seized his soul-targeting Supreme Treasure, then revealed his Late Celestial Person cultivation and struck back.

• Xie Changye offered thirty thousand gold bricks for three strands of five skandhas and six qi, believing Zhang Yuan was an Artifact Spirit.
• Zhang Yuan rejected the trade, and Xie Changye threatened to take the strands by force.
• Xie Changye attacked Zhang Yuan with the [Nine-Bend Soul-Swaying Halberd], a Pre-Heaven Supreme Treasure designed to target souls.
• Zhang Yuan stopped the halberd with his palm, using [Immaculate Primordial Spirit] to resist its effects and imprison it.
• Zhang Yuan revealed his Late Celestial Person Conceptual Image and swung the captured halberd at Xie Changye, who called for a halt.

Zhang Yuan killed Xie Changye and moved toward the boundary between the Buddha Kingdom’s inner and outer zones, where he discovered he could pass through the barrier. He planned to cultivate near it until Ye Xiangning appeared on the other side and demanded that he bring her across.

• Zhang Yuan killed Xie Changye with his Thunder Spear, then erased his escaping Three Hun and Seven Po before taking the [Nine-Bend Soul-Swaying Halberd] and leaving unseen.
• Zhang Yuan checked for pursuers and tracking methods as he made his way to the edge of the Six-Thousand-Li Zone.
• Zhang Yuan recognized the barrier as a defensive formation from Nine Serenities Island and used [Myriad Forms Transformation] to make his arm pass through it.
• Zhang Yuan decided to cultivate in seclusion near the boundary, keeping the ability to cross into the Eighty-Thousand-Li Zone as a contingency.
• Ye Xiangning called out to Zhang Yuan from beyond the barrier and demanded that he find a way to bring her across, promising him one of the Six Qi in return.

Zhang Yuan brought Ye Xiangning to the cottage where he planned to enter seclusion, and they debated increasingly reckless ways to exploit the Buddha Kingdom’s cultivators. Ye Xiangning agreed to guard him, but Zhang Yuan reminded her that she still owed him a strand of the six yin-yang essences.

• Zhang Yuan let Ye Xiangning through the barrier, and she persuaded him to let her accompany him by offering one of the six qi.
• As they headed to Zhang Yuan’s chosen cottage, he explained his plans for dealing with danger during seclusion, including a last resort involving capturing Lower Cultivators as hostages.
• Ye Xiangning urged Zhang Yuan to carry out that plan immediately, but he refused because it would bring too much hatred upon him.
• Zhang Yuan suggested that Ye Xiangning capture Celestial Persons and use them to extort their backers, but she rejected the idea and joked that she would blame him if it went wrong.
• Ye Xiangning settled in the cottage and offered to guard Zhang Yuan while he entered seclusion, and he asked her for the strand of essence she had promised.

Ye Xiangning gave Zhang Yuan a strand of mysterious yin death qi and stayed to guard him while he prepared to cultivate. Zhang Yuan stored the qi for later, arranged for Chi Guanguan to watch Ye Xiangning, and entered seclusion planning to refine his remaining aggregates first.

• Ye Xiangning handed Zhang Yuan an ice cone of mysterious yin death qi and asked him to repay her effort after cultivating.
• Zhang Yuan accepted Ye Xiangning's offer to guard him but asked Chi Guanguan to watch her for suspicious moves.
• Zhang Yuan found Ao Xiu still unconscious but breathing, then tucked her back inside his robes.
• Zhang Yuan stored the mysterious yin death qi in a Pre-Heaven Spirit Treasure box inside his Dao Domain.
• Zhang Yuan decided to refine his remaining jia wood, yi wood, and bing fire before attempting the mysterious yin death qi, and Chi Guanguan approved.

Zhang Yuan finished refining three strands of the Five Skandhas and Six Qi, then asked Chi Guanguan how to arrange them in his Dao Domain. Following her advice, he shaped Bing Fire into a nascent sun and prepared to arrange Jia Wood and Yi Wood together.

• Zhang Yuan entered his Dao Domain with Chi Guanguan after completing the refinement of the Mysterious Yin Death Qi.
• Chi Guanguan advised Zhang Yuan to place Bing Fire in the sky as a nascent sun, leaving room for the Solar True Qi he would refine later.
• Zhang Yuan summoned Bing Fire and formed a nascent sun that shone alongside the bloodlight over the [Great Grotto Yin-Scenery Immortal Domain].
• Chi Guanguan suggested that Zhang Yuan arrange Jia Wood and Yi Wood together.

Zhang Yuan completed the five elements and five aggregates in his [Great Grotto Yin-Scenery Immortal Domain] by placing yi wood and jia wood in the seas, then integrated mysterious yin death qi. He reached celestial person perfection.

• Chi Guanguan told Zhang Yuan to put yi wood and jia wood in the seas rather than on the mountain or land, where poisonous metal grasses would counter them.
• Chi Guanguan showed Zhang Yuan a Jianmu sapling as a model for his jia wood and told him to leave the Northern Sea empty for mysterious yin death qi.
• Zhang Yuan scattered yi wood into the East Sea, South Sea, and West Sea, where seagrass sprouted and brought the seas to life.
• Zhang Yuan placed jia wood in the East Sea, where it grew into a Jianmu facing the Central Immortal Mountain, though its leaves and fruit adapted to his Dao Domain.
• Zhang Yuan placed mysterious yin death qi at the North Pole, where it became a cold-burning lamp and froze the Northern Sea; his Dao Domain reached completion and he attained celestial person perfection.

After reaching Celestial Person Perfection, Zhang Yuan weighed his new talent options and chose [Left Path Overturning Heaven]. He left the chapter with his Dao Domain still incomplete, intending to continue refining the Six Yin-Yang Essences rather than trade that progress for greater immediate combat strength.

• Zhang Yuan recognized that his Celestial Person Perfection and Dao Domain remained incomplete because he still lacked four of the Six Yin-Yang Essences.
• Zhang Yuan reviewed three new talents and ruled out [White Jade Spiritflight Jade Armor Talisman] to avoid drawing a True Lord into his affairs.
• Zhang Yuan rejected [Imperial Lineage Immortal Palace] because it would prevent him from refining the remaining Six Yin-Yang Essences and perfecting his Dao Domain.
• Zhang Yuan selected [Left Path Overturning Heaven] as his remaining talent option.