Recaps

Fang Qianyuan strengthened his laws while the Heavenly Dao Alliance and Demon Alliance clashed over the awakening of the Two Venerables. The battlefield’s blood sacrifice finally opened two Void Rifts, and the Venerables’ overwhelming presences emerged as Fang Yue sought to leave Golden Wind Ward.

• Fang Qianyuan absorbed the Lin Mountain Grotto-Heaven’s origin power, strengthened his laws, and concluded that refining other worlds might help him overcome the dharma-ending age.
• Yu Zhen, Li Dan, and their allies defeated the Shadow King’s forces, captured An Jisheng, and began searching for the Two Venerables while the Secret Cult rallied the Demon Alliance.
• Lu Tianyao and Elder Tang persuaded the Demon Alliance’s great sects to join the war after warning that Fang Qianyuan might refine the Heavenly Dao and control the path to immortality.
• Yan Zhou and Fang Yicheng unleashed corpse armies and plague across Yingshan Kingdom, prompting Fang Yue to pledge herself to fighting them and join the defense of Golden Wind Ward.
• Tian Heng arrived to pursue the Star Map, clashed with Lu Tianyao and Elder Tang, and then took charge of the defense while the Heavenly Dao Alliance expanded its search for the Two Venerables.
• Lu Tianyao led the Demon Alliance against the search parties, but Tian Heng devastated its forces as the Two Venerables’ coffins absorbed the essence of the dead.
• The Phantom King’s illusions and the continuing battles killed thousands, while investigators suspected the enemy was using a blood sacrifice to awaken the buried Ancient Cultivators.
• Fang Yue told Fei Ren she wanted to leave Golden Wind Ward, as the two coffins consumed more vital energy and two Void Rifts opened above the battlefield, releasing origin energy and the Venerables’ presences.

Fang Qianyuan captured the Azure and White Venerables, then gathered the factions to unite the nine Star Maps and establish new rules for their use. He used the map to reach a distant world, where a scouting party found rare spirit materials and a Red Demon Tree.

• Venerable Azure and Venerable White fought Tian Heng until Fang Qianyuan arrived, defeated them, and took them captive while the Heavenly Dao Alliance routed the Demon Alliance forces.
• Fang Qianyuan questioned the Venerables about the Two Sects and the Star Map, while Tian Heng recovered the map from Wen Yi in Spellbreak City.
• At the Cloud Summit Gathering, Fang Qianyuan proposed new rules for the Star Maps, united all nine records, and revealed a projection of the Spirit-Taming World and the surrounding universe.
• The factions agreed to jointly guard the fused Star Map, but Fang Qianyuan discovered a distant world with spirit essence and opened a temporary passage to it.
• Fang Qianyuan gained custody of the Star Map and sent Lin Lai, Lin Mu, Xiao Shijin, and Li Yong to scout the distant world.
• Tree spirits attacked the four scouts, but Fang Qianyuan froze their captors and pulled them back through the world barriers.
• Tian Heng identified the captured Red Demon Tree as a likely Wood Dao spirit monster with the origin of jianmu, and the gathered experts examined the rare materials the scouts had collected.

Fang Qianyuan expanded his influence in the Jianmu World while the Cloud Summit Alliance explored and fortified its foothold there. After Fang Yue captured Yan Zhou and the Alliance executed him despite an attempted rescue, the factions began maneuvering against Fang Qianyuan’s growing power.

• Fang Qianyuan sent marked elites into the Nameless World, where Li Yong’s expedition found the ancient Jianmu tree and suffered losses to its forest guardians.
• The Alliance began building an outpost, while Fang Qianyuan discovered that his Wood Dao laws could take root in Jianmu World and gradually replace its Heavenly Dao.
• Lin Qi killed Demon Alliance elders, while Lianshan and Guizang opened the Reincarnation World to awaken the Sacred Sect’s sleepers.
• Whitebrow Ancestor sought to defect to the Cloud Summit Alliance, but Fang Qianyuan rejected his faction’s admission, prompting debate among the Alliance leaders.
• Fang Yue and Li Yan confronted Yan Zhou and Fang Yicheng, killed Fang Yicheng, and captured Yan Zhou alive.
• The Heavenly Dao Alliance sentenced Yan Zhou to execution, and Wu Longjie’s forces defeated Ji Longxiao and the other rescuers before carrying out the Five Thunders Strike the Crown punishment.
• Li Yan accused Fang Qianyuan of using Fang Yue’s actions to intimidate powerful figures, but he refused to explain his intentions as the Unorthodox Five Sects challenged the Alliance.
• King Mu proposed an alliance with the Night King against the righteous path, while Whitebrow Ancestor prepared to meet the Night King after Zhu Hong secured the Mian Mountain Sacred Palace’s support.

Fang Qianyuan steered the Cloud Summit Alliance into an invasion of the Jianmu World, where the expedition seized Life Essence Fruits and provoked the native Heavenly Dao. Meanwhile, the Sacred Sect’s awakened elders prepared to counter Fang Qianyuan, and Peng Jun offered King Mu the secret teachings of the Demon God Nine Transformations.

• Fang Qianyuan subtly influenced Whitebrow Ancestor to found the independent Jianshan Sect, while the Night King and King Mu recognized Fang’s growing influence.
• Lianshan and Guizang awakened the Black and Yellow Venerables and other ancient cultivators, who learned of Fang Qianyuan’s strength and the Demon Alliance’s crisis.
• Fang Qianyuan rallied the Cloud Summit Alliance and sent the Expeditionary Corps into the Jianmu World, where the army burned its way through forests and defeated powerful demons.
• Fang Qianyuan expanded his domain, unleashed winter across the Jianmu World, and brought Wang Ran down as an Earth Rank cultivator, provoking the world’s Heavenly Dao.
• The Expeditionary Corps reached Jianmu and fought its spirit defenders as Fang Qianyuan’s manifestations seized three Life Essence Fruits.
• The alliance agreed to refine the fruits into Millennium Longevity Pills, but the Heavenly Dao traced the foreign laws and spirit essence back to their source, prompting the army to withdraw and plan a return through a teleportation formation.
• Lin Qi’s group learned that the Cloud Summit Alliance had obtained longevity medicine, and Lianshan and Guizang reported the news to the awakened venerables.
• The Yellow Venerable decided to give the Alliance the Demon God Nine Transformations, and Peng Jun offered its teachings to King Mu, who questioned the sect’s motives.