Recaps

Xu Taiping’s Lotus Eye drained Tie Hancang’s divine marrow, while the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage protected the group and dealt with witnesses who had seen Xu Taiping’s powers. The phantom image burst apart with Xu Taiping’s great deductive power apparently unharmed.

• The Lotus Eye explained that it was extracting Tie Hancang’s limited divine marrow and that its second-stage divine power protected Xu Taiping from backlash.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage taunted Tie Hancang as the extraction left him unable to speak.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage told Qu Chao Ci that Xu Taiping’s phantom image appeared to be an unusually powerful Dao Integration divine power, but warned her not to pry into his secrets.
• At Xiahou You’s urging, the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage struck Luo Hong and Xu San, erasing most of the divine soul marks in their primordial spirits rather than killing them.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage explained to Qu Chao Ci that killing Luo Hong and Xu San could entangle her in dangerous karma.
• The azure flame phantom image burst apart, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage concluded that Xu Taiping’s great deductive power was unharmed.

After using Tie Hancang’s divine essence to fuel the Lotus Eye’s deduction, Xu Taiping discovered three sequential divine soul marks and opened the first. It led him to Lin Buyu’s message, which warned that powerful Upper Realm beings planned to sacrifice Ping'an and advised Xu Taiping to enter the fifth layer with the Ten Thousand Armies Battle Formation.

• The Lotus Eye drew divine essence from Tie Hancang and said its Dao Integration divine power was nearing a breakthrough to the third stage.
• Xu Taiping’s great deduction formed three golden-lotus divine soul marks, which he had to open in sequence.
• The first mark showed Lin Buyu telling Xu Taiping to open the message she had left in his Listening Wind Bracelet before entering the fifth layer.
• Lin Buyu revealed that four powerful Upper Realm beings planned to sacrifice Ping'an’s Mountain-Lifting Ape bloodline to summon the Heavenly Calamity Blightbone.
• Lin Buyu warned Xu Taiping not to enter the Purple Tenuity Star Enclosure alone and urged him to use the Ten Thousand Armies Battle Formation to withstand attempts to intercept and kill him.

Xu Taiping received Lin Buyu’s warning about a powerful red-robed cultivator on the Sacred Land’s Fifth Layer and shared the information with the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and the others. They could not identify her, but concluded that her strength rivaled the Great Sage’s peak combat power.

• Lin Buyu warned Xu Taiping to secure the Wuqu Token and watch for a red-robed cultivator who had killed two Dao Integration Natal Origin Realm experts with a strand of Divine Sense.
• Lin Buyu said she and her master would leave the Sacred Land before Xu Taiping reached the Fifth Layer, then her Divine Soul Mark faded.
• Xu Taiping woke and relayed Lin Buyu’s information as findings from Lotus Eye Divination, keeping her involvement secret.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage explained that he had learned similar information from a Blightbone’s Divine Sense in Kaiyang Heaven because the creature had been summoned through a sacrifice.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage said the red-robed cultivator’s strength was at least equal to his peak, and he, Xiahou You, Qu Chao Ci, and Xu Taiping discussed what they could infer about her and Supreme Venerable Xuanwei’s group.

Xu Taiping opened the second Divine Soul Mark and saw a way to cross the Purple Tenuity Star Enclosure’s star-sand restrictions by completing its Star Map with Cloud Talismans. The vision also revealed Ping'an bound and tortured on the Stargazing Platform, and Xu Taiping told the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage that the mark contained a method for breaking the formation.

• Xu Taiping opened the second Divine Soul Mark and saw Xiahou You and Bai Yue use a Cloud Talisman to illuminate a safe path across the Purple Tenuity Star Enclosure’s star sand.
• Xu Taiping watched Mo Qingzhu add another Cloud Talisman, then deduced that completing the Star Map would create a safe route to the Stargazing Platform.
• Xu Taiping saw Ping'an chained to a pillar and tortured by four black-robed cultivators, including Supreme Venerable Xuanwei.
• Ping'an urged Xu Taiping to leave and save Second Brother, and Xu Taiping resolved to rescue him and Bai Yue.
• Xu Taiping withdrew his Divine Sense and told the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage that the second mark revealed how to break the formation.

Xu Taiping and his allies prepared to cross the Star-Sand Sea and reach the Stargazing Platform, where they hoped to rescue Ping'an. With the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and Heavenly Lord Shihu serving as deputy generals, Xu Taiping assembled fifty thousand immortal soldiers and led them toward the Purple Tenuity Star Enclosure.

• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and Xiahou You concluded that Xu Taiping's formation-breaking method could let them cross the Star-Sand Sea safely, and Mo Qingzhu agreed to draw the needed Cloud Talisman.
• Heavenly Lord Shihu and the Xiahou Clan disciples arrived after Shihu recovered from his injuries with medicine from the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage.
• As Blightbone Demonic Beasts surged toward them, Xu Taiping asked his allies to serve as deputy generals and help gather immortal remains into his military formation.
• Xu Taiping's battle intent, strengthened by his deputy generals, summoned fifty thousand immortal soldiers and formed them into the Arrowhead Battle Formation.
• Xu Taiping led the assembled formation toward the Purple Tenuity Star Enclosure.

Lady Chixue and Supreme Venerable Xuanwei sacrificed Bai Yue to summon the Heavenly Calamity Ancient Gods while preparing to stop Ding Mou’s group. Xu Taiping broke through their blightbone ambush and led his army of immortal remains into the Purple Tenuity Star Enclosure.

• Supreme Venerable Xuanwei identified Ding Mou as the mastermind and said Xu Taiping could command at most ten thousand immortal remains.
• Lady Chixue waited by the Bronze Gate as Supreme Venerable Xuanwei and three black-robed cultivators wounded Bai Yue and began a sacrifice to the Chaos Blight Lord.
• Crimson radiance engulfed Bai Yue and the stone pillar as the Bronze Gate shook under the force of Ding Mou’s approaching group.
• More than five thousand Calamity Baleful Intent Realm blightbones attacked Xu Taiping’s formation, but his army drove them back through the gate.
• Xu Taiping led the army of immortal remains into the enclosure, ordering his generals to kill all who barred their advance.

Xu Taiping led the Immortal Remains against Supreme Venerable Xuanwei’s Blightbones and fought Lady Chixue as reinforcements swelled his formation to fifty thousand. The chapter ended as the combined army unleashed its full might against Lady Chixue’s red mist.

• Xu Taiping led the Immortal Remains in destroying Blightbones, while Supreme Venerable Xuanwei suspected Ding Mou had enabled Xu Taiping to command more than ten thousand troops.
• Lady Chixue emerged from the shadows and stopped Xu Taiping’s charging formation with one hand.
• Ding Mou joined Xu Taiping with another formation, bringing their force to thirty thousand Immortal Remains; Xu Taiping attacked Lady Chixue with a Vajra Dharma Aspect and a battle-intent arrow.
• Lady Chixue caught and shattered the arrow, but Heavenly Lord Shihu then led another twenty thousand Immortal Remains into the formation.
• With fifty thousand troops behind him, Xu Taiping commanded the army to unleash its killing intent and attack Lady Chixue’s red mist.

Xu Taiping and the fifty-thousand-strong Immortal Remains formation battled Lady Chixue while Supreme Venerable Xuanwei continued the sacrifice. As Lady Chixue’s blood domain weakened the formation, Xu Taiping called on the soldiers to lend him their strength, alarming Supreme Venerable Xuanwei with his mastery of ancient military formation arts.

• Xu Taiping, Heaven-Hunting Great Sage, and Heavenly Lord Shihu attacked Lady Chixue with the formation’s battle intent, wounding her despite her golden-light defense.
• Heaven-Hunting Great Sage recognized Lady Chixue as Fairy Chixue of the Zhuling Blood Manor, while talisman blindfolds thwarted her eye technique.
• Lady Chixue summoned her Zhuling Blood Domain, weakening the formation’s battle intent and trapping Heavenly Lord Shihu in a blood prison that he broke through with his sword.
• Supreme Venerable Xuanwei believed Lady Chixue could hold off the attackers until the sacrifice was complete.
• Xu Taiping unleashed the second stage of Heaven-Shaking Fist, then commanded the fifty thousand soldiers to lend him their strength.
• Supreme Venerable Xuanwei realized Xu Taiping had learned the battle arts of ancient military formations.

Xu Taiping wounded Lady Chixue with a formation-powered punch and drove her into the Three Enclosures and Four Symbols Formation, but she used Heaven-Sealing Divine Intent to evade the falling meteors. With Lady Chixue temporarily weakened, Xu Taiping and his allies focused on reaching the Stargazing Platform to interrupt the sacrifice and save Ping'an.

• Xu Taiping combined the strength of the army formation and struck Lady Chixue, shattering her Blood Emperor Lamp and piercing her body.
• Lady Chixue used Heaven-Sealing Divine Intent to freeze the star map and evade the meteors meant to trap her in the Star-Sand Sea.
• Xu Taiping told his allies to prioritize interrupting the sacrifice, and Heaven-Hunting Great Sage agreed that Xiahou You and Mo Qingzhu should unravel the formation.
• Xiahou You filled a gap in the star map with a Cloud Talisman, causing a beam of starlight to freeze part of the Star-Sand Sea.
• Lady Chixue realized they could unravel the Three Enclosures and Four Symbols Formation and shouted to Supreme Venerable Xuanwei to speed up the sacrifice.

Xu Taiping and his allies raced across the shifting star sand toward the Stargazing Platform while Supreme Venerable Xuanwei’s group intensified the sacrifice of Ping'an. As Lady Chixue and Heaven-Hunting Great Sage battled, a Heavenly Calamity Blightbone began to emerge, and Xu Taiping tried to reach Ping'an so he could use Form- and Shadow-Transposition to switch places with him.

• Mo Qingzhu completed another Star Map talisman, fixing more sand in place, and Supreme Venerable Xuanwei ordered his group to pour their Dao Essence into the sacrifice.
• Xu Taiping and his companions crossed the newly lit stretches of sand, while Heaven-Hunting Great Sage gave Xu Taiping a God-Sealing Divine Talisman and Ping'an's aura rapidly weakened.
• Lady Chixue struck Mo Qingzhu and Xiahou You with blood spikes, but Xiahou You completed another Cloud Talisman as Heaven-Hunting Great Sage moved to defend the group.
• Heaven-Hunting Great Sage fought Lady Chixue, broke through her attacks with his ninth-turn golden body, and grievously wounded her before falling stars forced him to keep battling.
• A black vortex opened above the altar and a giant hand covered in black spears began reaching toward Ping'an's chained body.
• Xu Taiping called out to Ping'an, and Heaven-Hunting Great Sage realized Xu Taiping intended to use Form- and Shadow-Transposition to switch places with him.

Xu Taiping saved Ping'an from the sacrificial altar by using Tai Bai Eclipse Power to exchange places with him, then faced the Heavenly Calamity Blightbone alone. Trapped in its black fog, he ignited Innate Threefold True Fire with his own body as kindling, leaving Lady Chixue stunned as the blaze erupted over the Star-Sand Sea.

• Xu Taiping called to Ping'an, who briefly answered and urged his eldest brother to escape and save Second Brother.
• Xu Taiping used Tai Bai Eclipse Power to exchange places with Ping'an, taking his place on the sacrificial altar as the Heavenly Calamity Blightbone's aura enveloped him.
• Xu Taiping broke free of his chains and challenged Supreme Venerable Xuanwei's belief that people with Mortal Bones were destined to live as ordinary ants.
• Xu Taiping summoned an Innate Threefold True Fire Seed in an ancient pill cauldron, then crushed the cauldron and let the fire catch on his body.
• Xu Taiping declared that he was wagering his life against the Heavenly Calamity Blightbone and the Heavenly Dao's rules, while Lady Chixue watched the blaze erupt in shock.

Xu Taiping used innate true fire and a Fire-Avoidance Pearl to resist the Heavenly Calamity Ancient God's aura, while the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage fought Lady Chixue to buy him time. Supreme Venerable Xuanwei turned on his fellow black-robed cultivators, immobilizing them as the Ancient God's aura continued to grow.

• Xu Taiping's innate true fire drove back the Heavenly Calamity Ancient God's black fog, and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage worried that Xu Taiping was sacrificing himself.
• Xu Taiping's true flames destroyed his Dragon Vault Armor's protective halo, but a Fire-Avoidance Pearl formed a sphere of water around him.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage struck Lady Chixue and kept her pinned down, forcing her to delay her escape while she demanded that Supreme Venerable Xuanwei summon the Ancient God.
• The Heavenly Calamity Ancient God's aura swallowed a black-robed cultivator and grew stronger, prompting Supreme Venerable Xuanwei to suspect that Xu Taiping carried something the Ancient God wanted.
• Supreme Venerable Xuanwei claimed the descent had failed and tried to leave with the two remaining black-robed cultivators, then used mirror light to immobilize them.

As the Heavenly Calamity Ancient God’s flesh embryo threatened to consume Xu Taiping, Heaven-Hunting Great Sage fought Lady Chixue while Supreme Venerable Xuanwei sacrificed his clones to strengthen the creature. Xu Taiping then raised a Willow Branch and invoked the Jade Mother, calling for her to destroy the Heavenly Calamity.

• Supreme Venerable Xuanwei told two allies to abandon their Dao Bodies, which the black fog devoured as it grew into a flesh-and-blood maw.
• Heaven-Hunting Great Sage tried to reach the Cloud Talismans’ safe ground, but Lady Chixue repeatedly attacked and forced him away from it.
• Heaven-Hunting Great Sage unleashed his full strength and battered Lady Chixue, while she urged Supreme Venerable Xuanwei to sacrifice his Corpse-Slaying Clones.
• Supreme Venerable Xuanwei sent his two clones into the maw, which consumed them and bit away part of Xu Taiping’s true-fire barrier.
• Xu Taiping raised a Willow Branch and invoked the Jade Mother to purge the Heavenly Calamity and shield the common people.

Xu Taiping summoned Jade Mother's incomplete divine intent through the Willow Branch, but its arrival unleashed devastating power at the Stargazing Platform. Lady Chixue realized more falling stars carried the divine intent, and another mass of purple qi reached Xu Taiping despite the Heavenly Calamity Ancient God's fleshly maw trying to stop it.

• Xu Taiping's invocation drew a falling star toward the Stargazing Platform, and Supreme Venerable Xuanwei split it open but was struck by the golden-purple qi inside.
• The Heavenly Calamity Ancient God's fleshly maw swallowed Xu Taiping and the purple qi, but Xu Taiping's Threefold True Fire forced it open.
• The purple qi entered Xu Taiping's Willow Branch, spreading Jade Mother's divine radiance across the Stargazing Platform.
• Lady Chixue realized Jade Mother's divine intent was incomplete as another falling star descended, and Supreme Venerable Xuanwei tried to push it toward the Star Sea.
• Heavenly Lord Shihu's sword shattered the falling star, releasing another mass of purple qi that passed through the fleshly maw and gathered above Xu Taiping.

Supreme Venerable Xuanwei sacrificed himself, merging with the Heavenly Calamity aura to form a growing monster that began draining the Star Map and Star-Sand Sea. As Xu Taiping drew Jade Mother's divine intent into the willow branch, a Blood Demon Eye descended toward the monster, heralding Heavenly Calamity Blightbone's arrival.

• Supreme Venerable Xuanwei offered his body to the Ancient Gods, and the resulting monster took his human form with an octopus's lower body.
• Heavenly Lord Shihu severed the monster's tentacle as Xu Taiping continued channeling purple qi into the willow branch, while Xiahou You and the others formed a defensive barrier around the Stargazing Platform.
• The monster destroyed one of Heavenly Lord Shihu's Life-Bound Flying Swords, then grew larger after absorbing black fog, power from the Star Map, and accumulated starlight from the Star-Sand Sea.
• Xiahou You warned the others that Heavenly Calamity Blightbone was about to descend through the monster, while two more meteors delivered purple qi to Xu Taiping's willow branch.
• A Blood Demon Eye emerged from the black whirlpool, and Heavenly Lord Shihu identified the coming threat as Heavenly Calamity Blightbone.

Heavenly Calamity Blightbone transformed and attacked the group while Heavenly Lord Shihu used his Fire Phoenix divine intent to hold it back. As Xu Taiping endured the true fire to receive Jade Mother's divine intent, Blightbone shattered Shihu's fiery-cloud defense and threatened to engulf him.

• Heavenly Calamity Blightbone transformed into a horned, many-mouthed form and absorbed the Blood Demon Eye as its own eye.
• Heavenly Lord Shihu told Xiahou You and the others to maintain their formation, then attacked with his Fire Phoenix divine intent.
• Heavenly Calamity Blightbone swallowed much of Shihu's fiery-cloud attack and battered the fiery gate he raised in defense.
• Xu Taiping's protective watery vapor and Jade Token broke, leaving him to endure the true fire while insisting that the others not interrupt his reception of Jade Mother's divine intent.
• Heavenly Calamity Blightbone shattered Shihu's fiery gate with a punch, and Xiahou You cried out a warning as Shihu was caught in its force.

Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and Heavenly Lord Shihu struggled to suppress Heavenly Calamity Blightbone while Xu Taiping endured the true fire on the Sacrificial Platform. Lady Chixue sacrificed her Dao Body to restore Blightbone, but just as he prepared to attack Xu Taiping, the Jade Mother descended and held him.

• Heaven-Hunting Great Sage used a God-Sealing Divine Talisman to fight Heavenly Calamity Blightbone, but Lady Chixue destroyed the talisman and disrupted his restored strength.
• Qu Chao Ci used the Three Powers Lamp's Sumeru into a Mustard Seed divine intent to shrink Heavenly Calamity Blightbone, allowing Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and Heavenly Lord Shihu to seal him temporarily.
• Heavenly Calamity Blightbone unleashed myriad defilements Guizang power, and Qu Chao Ci used Withered Wood Meets Spring to replenish everyone's strength and help Xu Taiping endure the true fire.
• Lady Chixue detonated her Dao Body, and Heavenly Calamity Blightbone swallowed it, regained his full size and strength, and shattered the seal and the formation protecting the Stargazing Platform.
• As Heavenly Calamity Blightbone prepared to strike Xu Taiping, the Jade Mother descended in a phantom image, held him, and spoke to him.

Jade Mother appeared at the Stargazing Platform, rescued Xu Taiping, and fought Heavenly Calamity Blightbone with the power of the Jade Pool and Star Map. As the Hidden Luminary Star Lord joined the battle, Jade Mother promised the others rewards if they helped hold off the creature.

• Jade Mother descended with Xu Taiping in her arms, blocked Heavenly Calamity Blightbone's attacks, and used threefold true fire to burn him.
• Xiahou You recognized the phantom as Jade Mother, while Heavenly Calamity Blightbone declared that he had come for her and attacked with a Blood Blade.
• Jade Mother used the Star Map to restrain the Blood Blade and bombard Heavenly Calamity Blightbone with falling stars.
• Jade Mother summoned the Hidden Luminary Star Lord, who clashed with Heavenly Calamity Blightbone as starlight restored the others' combat strength.
• Jade Mother granted the group access to the Purple Rose Enclosure's star power and promised them further rewards if they helped hold back Heavenly Calamity Blightbone.

The Jade Mother took Xu Taiping to Kunlun Jade Terrace while empowering the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and the others to fight the Heavenly Calamity Blightbone. There, Xu Taiping learned he must climb the twelve-tiered Jade Terrace and pay homage at each tier to gather the Jade Mother’s remaining divine intent and claim a gift to help end the calamity.

• The Jade Mother summoned Star Lords through the Spirit Mirror and ordered them to follow the group’s commands against the Heavenly Calamity Blightbone.
• The Jade Mother carried Xu Taiping to the sacrificial platform, promising Ping'an she would return him and help bring the blightbone calamity to an end.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage led the Star Lords and the others in attacking the Heavenly Calamity Blightbone, while Xiahou You joined the battle.
• Xu Taiping awoke on Kunlun Jade Terrace and learned from the Mirror Spirit that the Jade Mother’s divine intent had brought him there.
• The Mirror Spirit told Xu Taiping to climb the twelve-tiered Jade Terrace with the willow branch and pay homage at each tier to gather divine intent and receive the Jade Mother’s gift.

Xu Taiping offered his Divine Sense as incense before the Jade Mother’s statue and faced a trial in which he reunited with an illusion of his grandfather, Xu Zhian. After choosing to continue his path while remembering what he cherished, Xu Taiping opened the Jade Mother’s hidden caskets and set out for the Twelfth Layer to find the treasures left for him.

• Xu Taiping offered three strands of Divine Sense as incense before the Jade Mother’s statue, triggering a trial.
• Xu Taiping encountered an illusion of his grandfather, Xu Zhian, and embraced him despite knowing the scene was false.
• Xu Taiping told Xu Zhian he would keep moving forward without regret, and his grandfather urged him to remember that cherished people—not the sights along the way—gave him reason to continue.
• Xu Taiping returned to the Jade Platform and used the Earth Fruit Willow Branch to open a Bronze Casket containing nine-colored Golden Lotuses.
• The Mirror Spirit explained that the treasures on the Jade Terrace’s first eleven layers were nutrients for the Earth Treasury Fruit and warned Xu Taiping not to take them.
• Xu Taiping closed the casket on the Eleventh Layer and headed for the Twelfth Layer, where the Jade Mother had left treasures for him.

Xu Taiping reached the twelfth layer of the Jade Terrace and melted the Jade Mother's protective ice with his earthly fire. The Jade Mother’s gifts included a Southern Bright Li Fire Seed and its Fire-Controlling Method, while more treasures and the earth fruit’s planting method remained in the statue’s hand.

• Xu Taiping found the Flat Peach Mother Tree and the Jade Mother's statue sealed behind ice, and learned that only innate true fire or earthly fire could melt it.
• Xu Taiping fused his 𩙥 Flame, Golden Flame, and thunderflame into earthly fire and used it to melt the ice wall and destroy the spirit pearl controlling the ice.
• The Mirror Spirit explained that the Jade Mother's restrictions had screened cultivators throughout the sacred land, while the Lotus Eye said the Jade Mother had restored its divine power and might know of its existence.
• A True Fire Rock descended to Xu Taiping, and the Mirror Spirit identified its extinguished seed as Southern Bright Li Fire, the third most destructive innate true fire, and revealed that the rock also contained the Jade Mother's Fire-Controlling Method.
• The Mirror Spirit said the Jade Mother's statue held a third gift, the earth fruit's final nutrient, and its planting method, and Xu Taiping went to retrieve them.

Xu Taiping opened Jade Mother’s Bronze Casket and found precious Chaos Metal Essence, a powerful fire-controlling art, instructions for planting the Earth Treasury Fruit, and a flat peach that could send him straight to the Immortal Realm. He refused to ascend without his companions, passed Jade Mother’s final test, and was promised an additional gift.

• Xu Taiping opened the Bronze Casket and found fine Primordial Chaos Gold Essence Stones, a Jade Slip, a Jade Thumb Ring, and a Jade Box containing a flat peach.
• The Mirror Spirit explained that the Southern Bright Li Fire Sword was a powerful Divine Ability Spell and that the Jade Thumb Ring held instructions for planting the Earth Treasury Fruit.
• The Mirror Spirit revealed that the flat peach was the last from the Flat Peach Mother Tree and could let a cultivator at or above the Heaven Shocking Realm ascend immediately.
• Xu Taiping returned the flat peach to its box, refusing to ascend alone because his friends and fellow disciples were waiting for him.
• The Mirror Spirit congratulated Xu Taiping for passing Jade Mother’s final test and announced an additional gift.

Xu Taiping passed Jade Mother’s test, became the temporary master of Yaochi Sacred Land, and learned that he could command its forces and certain Heavenly Court palaces. He witnessed the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and the others battle the Heavenly Calamity Blightbone, then saw them resurrect after being killed.

• The Mirror Spirit revealed that the immortal peach had been an illusion and awarded Xu Taiping three pieces of supreme-grade primordial chaos metal essence and ingredients for a Soul-Merging Pill.
• The Mirror Spirit explained that making the Jade Thumb Ring acknowledge him would make Xu Taiping the temporary master of Yaochi Sacred Land, with orders to protect it but not take its treasures.
• Xu Taiping used his essence blood to claim the Jade Thumb Ring, learned that the earth fruit should be planted at Mount Buzhou, and gained access to Yaochi Sacred Land’s edicts.
• The Jade Thumb Ring connected Xu Taiping to Yaochi Sacred Land and let him perceive its layers; the Mirror Spirit also said it could control certain immortal palaces once governed by Jade Mother.
• Xu Taiping saw the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and the cultivators fight the Heavenly Calamity Blightbone, then watched them die and reappear on the Stargazing Platform.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage told Xiahou You to take Ping'an and the others away, while Heavenly Lord Shihu and he stayed to face the Blightbone.

Xu Taiping took control of the Yaochi Sacred Land and used its Star Map to subject Heavenly Calamity Blightbone to the Star Annihilation Punishment, tearing apart both his body and Great Dao. After the Star Lords accepted the Jade Mother's orders to restore the sacred land, her divine intent told Heaven-Hunting Great Sage that a further task would determine both her return and Xu Taiping's survival.

• Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and Heavenly Lord Shihu fought Heavenly Calamity Blightbone while Xiahou You prepared to lead Ping'an and the others away.
• Xu Taiping arrived and stopped time, then redirected Heavenly Calamity Blightbone's punches into the Yaochi Sacred Land as its master.
• Xu Taiping invoked the Jade Mother's edict, and the Star Map's Star Annihilation Punishment repeatedly tore apart Heavenly Calamity Blightbone's body and Great Dao.
• The immortal remains of the Star Lords bowed to Xu Taiping, who ordered them to restore the sacred land's edicts and expel the blightbones.
• The Jade Mother's divine intent told Heaven-Hunting Great Sage that she still needed him to do something that concerned her return and Xu Taiping's life.

The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage told Xu Taiping that a Half-Immortal was pursuing him and gave him techniques for forging divine weapons and tempering his body before their ties were severed. He then began teaching Xu Taiping how to break through from the Ultimate Realm to the Dao Integration Realm.

• Across the Chaos Death Domain, cultivators began hunting Blightbones in Kaiyang Heaven for rewards from the Jade Mother's Edict, while Xiao Huang waited for Nameless to reopen his Black Prison arena.
• Liu Qingning told Xiao Huang that Nameless would reopen the bronze arena in half a month, and Xiao Huang entered seclusion until then.
• Xu Taiping explained how the revived Jade Mother's Edict let Yaochi Sacred Land continually replenish its treasures and rewards.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage revealed that a Half-Immortal had been searching for him and that he had to confront the pursuer, so he planned to sever his karmic ties with Xu Taiping.
• The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage gave Xu Taiping methods for forging divine weapons and tempering his body with Star Soul Power, then began teaching him how to reach the Dao Integration Realm from the Ultimate Realm.