Recaps

Zhou Qing advanced to the Nascent Soul late stage, conquered the Secluded Realm Trial Grounds, and gathered resources and allies while preparing to pursue Spirit Transformation. After joining the Heavenly Talisman Gate, he raced to the opening of Heavenly Pillar Grotto-Heaven, where a contest with other Grand Cultivators began.

• Zhou Qing refined the Five Sages Transcendence Pill, broke through to the Nascent Soul late stage, and revealed to the Heavenly Talisman Gate that he was True Lord Azure Origin.
• Zhou Qing learned of the Demon Abyss Realm’s expanding rift, then quietly prepared for Spirit Transformation while developing his crafts and helping Li Yan advance her musical arts.
• Zhou Qing gained the golden talent “Half a move above oneself” and used his overwhelming power to clear demons from a fourth-tier spirit vein.
• Zhou Qing entered the Secluded Realm Trial Grounds, claimed True Dragon Blood and other rewards, and defeated the third-stage mountain guardians in twenty breaths.
• Zhou Qing strengthened his family and Dachun, brought Purple Void True Lord under his control, enslaved the Blood Roc and Eagle King, and prepared his cave abode before leaving for the Central Province.
• Zhou Qing joined the Heavenly Talisman Gate as an elder and waited for Heavenly Pillar Grotto-Heaven to open as a chance to obtain breakthrough resources.
• Zhou Qing reached the grotto-heaven entrance as True Lord Gray Robe and other Grand Cultivators broke the Void Unity Sect’s formation, then surged ahead of them into the contest.

Yuan Qing became the Human Realm’s most feared cultivator as Golden-Mask True Lord, gathering rare treasures and mastering five fourth-tier upper-grade arts. After Heavenly Sword Peak recognized him as its Fated One and secured his path toward Spirit Transformation, he prepared to begin the attempt.

• Yuan Qing harvested the Heavenly Pillar Grotto-Heaven and later seized the Void Spirit Blessed Land’s body-refinement treasures, defeating the cultivators who tried to stop him.
• Yuan Qing advanced his cultivation, developed an indestructible golden body, and used his second Nascent Soul in a powerful puppet to fight the Grand Cultivators at the Profound Virtue Grotto-Heaven.
• Yuan Qing killed True Lord Purple-Eyes, entered the grotto-heaven, and took the Sky-End Fruit, which let him sense Heavenly Monarchs and improve his divination.
• Yuan Qing revealed his Golden-Mask True Lord identity to Three-Talisman Grand Cultivator and sought Heavenly Monarch Skycang’s protection for Spirit Transformation, but refused Skycang’s demands.
• The Heavenly Sword Peak master recognized Yuan Qing as the Fated One, and Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword confirmed his authority over the peak and offered him access to its Spirit Transformation records.
• Extreme Sword punished Skycang and destroyed Great Snow Mountain after confirming its collusion with the Demon Abyss Realm, then invited Yuan Qing to study at Book Mountain.
• Yuan Qing studied the breakthrough records, brought Li Yan to Heavenly Sword Peak, and decided to attempt Spirit Transformation ninety years after Heavenly Monarch Water Moon’s death.
• After continuing his studies, Yuan Qing left to begin his Spirit Transformation attempt.

Zhou Qing reached Spirit Transformation, helped repel the Demon Abyss Realm’s first invasion, and inherited the gains of his sixth simulation. He then entered the Secluded Realm Trial Grounds, claimed powerful rewards, and left to investigate the Primordial Yin Treasure Bodies.

• Zhou Qing broke through to Spirit Transformation despite the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon’s interference, then coordinated with Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword and Maitreya Heavenly Monarch to kill the Void Whale Lord and seal the spatial rift.
• Zhou Qing strengthened his body and talisman arts, built the deep-sea defenses, and helped the Human Realm’s Heavenly Monarchs repel the Demon Abyss Realm’s first invasion.
• Zhou Qing refused the Purgatory Demon Venerable’s offer to defect, but a later assault overwhelmed the Human Realm’s defenses, and the Sword Lord killed the Purgatory Demon Venerable after Zhou Qing died in the simulation.
• Zhou Qing inherited his sixth simulation’s Spirit Transformation cultivation and fifth-tier body refinement inside the Grotto-Heaven Fragment, then moved his cave abode there and reduced the simulation cooldown.
• Zhou Qing entered the Secluded Realm Trial Grounds, passed the aptitude assessments, and chose the Sword Lord’s Notes, heavenly phoenix blood, and a myriad-calamity soul stone.
• Zhou Qing passed the spell-cultivation trials, defeated the other participants in the ultimate trial, and earned the fifth and sixth levels of the Divine Origin Transcending Void Great Art along with three treasures.
• Zhou Qing left the trial grounds with a Supreme-Grade Primordial Spirit Pill for Li Yan and turned his attention to the Southern Sea, where he sought the second owner of a Primordial Yin Treasure Body.