Recaps

Xu Taiping entered seclusion in the Ancestral Dragon's Scripture Repository to prepare for the Heaven-Treading Contest. The Ancestral Dragon revealed the Golden Pearl’s contents and entrusted Xu Taiping with treasures and weapons, then used his power to halt time and left the rest to him.

• Blade Ghost brought Heavenly Lord Xuanbei and Daoist Fengzhu to the Moon Perching Pavilion, where they asked to join the Azure Profound Sect and celebrated with Hidden Immortal Wine.
• Several days later, Xu Taiping told Fairy Lingyue and Lin Buyu he would enter a ten-year seclusion, and they promised to protect the tower and await him.
• Xu Taiping entered the Ancestral Dragon's Scripture Repository and opened the Golden Pearl, releasing a golden mist containing the auras of edicts, true dragon power, and martial dao origin laws he had cultivated.
• Xu Taiping realized the Golden Pearl’s contents could help unite his powers and laws into a single stream, the path toward the ultimate realm of ascension.
• The Ancestral Dragon revealed treasures for the Heaven-Treading Contest, including a fragment of the Heaven-Flipping Seal, and told Xu Taiping to use them to amplify his powers.
• The Ancestral Dragon said he would expend all his power to halt time within the world, leaving Xu Taiping to proceed alone.

After a century of seclusion in the Scripture Repository, Xu Taiping completed his cultivation with the Ancestral Dragon’s True Dragon power and prepared to carry Shangqing’s legacy forward. He reviewed the fused edicts, powers, and combat techniques he had gained before leaving the Repository.

• Xu Taiping’s aura surged as the River of Time began flowing again, and the Ancestral Dragon praised his strength before entrusting Shangqing’s legacy and the lives of several generations to him.
• The Ancestral Dragon’s aura dissipated after promising to welcome Xu Taiping in person if he preserved Shangqing’s legacy and eventually ascended.
• Xu Taiping summoned two Origin Beginning Clones, which reported four fused Great Dao edicts and the treasures suited to wielding them.
• The second Origin Beginning Clone reported three fused True Dragon powers and the treasures that could wield them.
• Xu Taiping reviewed his divine being blood oath power, which let his combat strength rise until his origin blood ran out, and his martial Dao techniques, whose sword, blade, and punch forces could grow without end.

Xu Taiping completed the reforging and cultivation of his treasures, then spoke with the awakened Ancient Heavenly Venerable about the Great Void Calamity and the coming Heaven-Treading Contest. The Ancient Heavenly Venerable offered to help him in the contest and proposed using the Heaven-Flipping Seal to merge the Lotus Eye with the Blade of Guicang.

• Xu Taiping examined the reforged Blade of Guicang and Heaven-Flipping Seal, whose power had grown to a level that could threaten ascension's ultimate realm.
• The Heaven-Flipping Seal flew from Xu Taiping's hand, and the Ancient Heavenly Venerable awakened from his long slumber.
• Xu Taiping told the Ancient Heavenly Venerable about the Taixuan Ghost Domain, the Nine Abysses Demon Mother, and the approaching Heaven-Treading Contest.
• The Ancient Heavenly Venerable revealed that he and the Heaven-Flipping Seal had survived a Great Void Calamity after slumbering for a million years, and offered to help Xu Taiping win the contest.
• The Ancient Heavenly Venerable suggested using the Heaven-Flipping Seal to mediate a merger between the Lotus Eye and the Blade of Guicang, and the Lotus Eye deduced that the method might work.

Xu Taiping fused the Blade of Guicang with the Heaven-Flipping Seal in his Lotus Eye, gaining an edict that could reverse cause and effect to strike an enemy before they realized it. He agreed to dissolve his lifebound contract after the Heaven-Treading Contest and asked the Ancient Heavenly Venerable to protect the Azure Profound Sect for one jiazi; after leaving seclusion, he revealed his formidable aura to Lin Buyu, Lady Jade Mother, and Dragon Emperor Cangzhou.

• Xu Taiping and the Ancient Heavenly Venerable fused the Blade of Guicang and the Heaven-Flipping Seal within Xu Taiping's Lotus Eye, granting him the Karma-Reversal Edict.
• The Ancient Heavenly Venerable warned Xu Taiping that the edict consumed immense edict and divine power, and asked him to dissolve their lifebound contract if he won the Heaven-Treading Contest.
• Xu Taiping agreed to release the Ancient Heavenly Venerable from the contract after ascending and asked him to protect the Azure Profound Sect for one jiazi; the Ancient Heavenly Venerable accepted.
• Xu Taiping left seclusion and reunited with Lin Buyu, Lady Jade Mother, and Dragon Emperor Cangzhou, whose physiques had reached the Great Sage Realm.
• When Lady Jade Mother asked about his cultivation, Xu Taiping revealed an aura like a full-power strike from a Void Insight Realm powerhouse, delighting the three observers.

Xu Taiping left for the Golden Scale Assembly after promising to watch Liang Zhu compete for the chief's title, while preparing to hear how non-Heaven's Chosen could join the Heaven-Treading Contest. Liang Zhu and Xu Chengling reached a sword-intent stalemate before a chaos demonic beast burst through the blood-red sky and attacked them.

• Xu Taiping refused to skip the Golden Scale Assembly and left with Lin Buyu on Xiaohei after learning that Nangong Yu had found a way for others to enter the Heaven-Treading Contest.
• At the Golden Scale Assembly, Liang Zhu fought Xu Chengling, whose Three Emperors Sword broke through her defenses and drove her back.
• Liang Zhu unleashed her still-unformed Great Dao Life-Bound Flying Sword, shattering Xu Chengling's sword intent and forcing their sword wills into a deadlock.
• A chaos demonic beast shaped like a whale and covered in eyes burst through the blood-red sky and lunged at Liang Zhu and Xu Chengling.

Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu arrived at the Golden Scale Platform just as the chaos whale demon was about to swallow it, and Xu Taiping froze and destroyed the beast. With the danger over, Xu Chengling and Liang Zhu resumed their business, while Xu Taiping joined Lü Daoxuan and the others.

• The chaos whale demon imprisoned the gathered cultivators, knocked back four golden scale flood dragons, and swallowed the Golden Scale Platform with Xu Chengling and Liang Zhu on it.
• Lü Daoxuan and the others tried to break the demon’s imprisoning power, while Dugu Qingxiao prepared to guide Xu Chengling and Liang Zhu’s divine souls to Yellow Springs.
• Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu arrived on Xiaohei, piercing the chaos whale demon’s head and breaking cracks in its imprisoning power.
• Xu Taiping used a string of bells to freeze the Golden Scale Pool, the demon, and its power of chaos, then Xiaohei swallowed the demon’s shattered fragments.
• Xu Taiping told Xu Chengling and Liang Zhu to continue, then joined Lü Daoxuan and the others as Xu Ziyan brought Lin Buyu over.

Xu Taiping used the Lotus Eye to identify who was behind the Chaos Demon Mother while Liang Zhu and Xu Chengling resumed their fierce contest. Liang Zhu defeated Xu Chengling and declared her support for the Heaven-Treading Contest, but a black shadow appeared beneath her, and Xu Taiping recognized Crow Heavenly Venerable.

• Xu Taiping activated the Lotus Eye and discovered familiar figures connected to the Chaos Demon Mother's appearance.
• Liang Zhu and Xu Chengling fought with increasing force, and their final clash left both bloodied before Liang Zhu rose again.
• Fairy Lingyue and Lü Daoxuan told Xu Taiping that Nangong Yu's A Dream of Yellow Millet could draw allies and enemies into a dream realm to fight Taiqing Paradise's powerful cultivators.
• Lü Daoxuan revealed that he had forged Heavenly Craft to the Ultimate Dao Realm.
• Liang Zhu used her body as a sword to break Xu Chengling's Three Emperors Sword Formation, knock him off the platform, and proclaim her support for Xu Taiping and the others.
• A black shadow appeared beneath Liang Zhu, and Xu Taiping recognized Crow Heavenly Venerable and condemned him.

Xu Taiping confronted Crow Heavenly Venerable, who tried to stop the Heaven-Treading Contest by threatening to unleash thousands of Chaos Demonic Beasts. Crow carried out the threat, and Xu Taiping stood atop Xiaohei with a Stringless Bow as the beasts descended.

• Xu Taiping used Heaven-Prisoning to imprison and compress an octopus-shaped Chaos Demonic Beast into a black bead.
• Lü Daoxuan, Fairy Lingyue, Yun Shiliu, and Youyun Prefecture’s forces gathered around the Golden Scale Platform as rifts opened overhead.
• Crow Heavenly Venerable revealed he wanted Xu Taiping to withdraw from the Heaven-Treading Contest, warning that defeat would ruin Shangqing Cultivation World’s inheritance.
• Xu Taiping accused Crow Heavenly Venerable of sacrificing his Dao Heart by agreeing to a bargain with the Taiqing Heavenly Court.
• Crow Heavenly Venerable opened the rifts and released thousands of Chaos Demonic Beasts, while Xu Taiping drew a Stringless Bow atop Xiaohei.

Xu Taiping used powerful Edict abilities to destroy thousands of Chaos Demonic Beasts and defeat Crow Heavenly Venerable, then learned information about Taiqing Paradise’s plans. At a celebration for Liang Zhu, Xu Taiping met with Lü Daoxuan, Kang Cangzi, and the Old Daoist and asked whether they knew Chu Tianque.

• Xu Taiping fired a five-colored arrow that multiplied and destroyed thousands of Chaos Demonic Beasts, while Xiaohei swallowed their remains.
• Xu Taiping combined two Edict powers to slash through the void and cleave Crow Heavenly Venerable in half, then had Xiaohei swallow him and demanded to discuss Taiqing Paradise’s three Heaven-Treaders.
• At a banquet celebrating Liang Zhu as Golden Scale Champion, Kang Cangzi and the Old Daoist privately asked Lü Daoxuan what Xu Taiping had learned from Crow Heavenly Venerable.
• Lü Daoxuan said Xu Taiping planned to treat the information as true for now and perform another divination before the Heaven-Treading Contest.
• Xu Taiping met Lü Daoxuan, Kang Cangzi, and the Old Daoist in a sealed side room and asked whether they knew the Taiqing figure Chu Tianque.

Xu Taiping learned that Heaven-Gate Rogue Person was a powerful Taiqing Heaven-Treader and gathered his allies’ cultivation and combat details to prepare for the contest. That night, he began using the chaos demonic beast remains in the Dragon-Trapping Tower’s Scripture Repository.

• The Old Daoist identified Heaven-Gate Rogue Person as Chu Lingyue’s Senior Brother and the traitor who helped Taiqing Heavenly Court kill Zuoxing, and estimated his combat power had reached the Ascension Ultimate Realm.
• Xu Taiping asked Kang Cangzi, the Old Daoist, and Lü Daoxuan to share their cultivation and methods so he could use heavenly secrets to deduce the contest’s dangers, and they gave him divine soul marks.
• Xu Taiping examined their marks, was astonished by their strength, and praised Lü Daoxuan’s sword strike and the elders’ preparations.
• Xu Taiping summoned Lin Buyan, Nangong Yu, and Zhao Linglong to help with his deduction.
• That night, Xu Taiping decided to use the chaos demonic beast remains, and Xiaohei opened its maw.

Xu Taiping activated Lotus Eye’s great deductive power, but it could not predict a definite outcome for the heaven-treading contest. As the group prepared to use Nangong Yu’s Yellow Millet Edict against the three cultivators from Taiqing Paradise, Xu Taiping realized that finding them might be the predicament Lotus Eye had meant.

• Xu Taiping absorbed the Chaos Demonic Beasts’ chaos power into his Dao body furnace, and Lotus Eye formed a vast pond of possible deductions that would change with his choices.
• Xu Taiping sent an Origin Beginning Clone and Xiaohei to hunt Chaos Demonic Beasts, ordering Xiaohei to follow the Heavenly Dao Edict to the contest if summoned.
• Duan Tianya gathered Xu Taiping and the other cultivators to prepare for the contest, explaining that Nangong Yu could bring at least nineteen people into a dream using her Yellow Millet Edict.
• Duan Tianya and Nangong Yu warned that dream combat carried at least an eighty percent chance of death and that Nangong Yu needed to see the three Taiqing Paradise cultivators within the same realm to draw them in.
• Xu Taiping recognized that locating all three cultivators at once would be difficult and wondered if this was the predicament Lotus Eye had spoken of.

Xu Taiping used a blooming golden lotus to glimpse the Heaven-Treading Contest battlefield and the Taiqing Paradise trio waiting in Tiandang City. He returned from the vision with a possible lead and asked the others whether they knew the city.

• Xu Taiping saw a golden lotus bloom, received its divine soul mark, and learned that two more golden lotuses remained to foretell possible calamities.
• Xu Taiping opened the mark and saw an endless sea give way to ancient ruins and a battle in which three figures slaughtered a horde of sea yao.
• Xu Taiping recognized Su Chan among the three figures sent by Taiqing Paradise, while one of the others sensed someone spying on them.
• One of the unfamiliar figures said the trio would wait in Tiandang City before splitting up to hunt their unseen opponent.
• Xu Taiping spotted a towering stone pillar near the trio, then returned from the vision and asked whether anyone knew of Tiandang City.

Xu Taiping and the other Heaven’s Chosen agreed to risk going to Tiandang City in the Sanxuan Realm to confront the three Taiqing Paradise cultivators and use Nangong Yu’s edict power. They prepared to remain together in the Dragon-Trapping Tower, then discussed their strengths before the contest, with the Old Daoist confirming he could find Tiandang City immediately.

• The Old Daoist explained that Tiandang City lay among the ruins of the Sanxuan Realm, which had been destroyed by the Great Void Calamity, and warned that its inhabitants might live in the floodwaters.
• Xu Taiping revealed that the three Taiqing Paradise cultivators were waiting for the Shangqing group at Tiandang City, and the cultivators agreed to risk confronting them there to make use of Nangong Yu’s edict power.
• The Old Daoist gave the group intelligence about the Sanxuan Realm, while Duan Tianya explained that Nangong Yu’s Yellow Millet Edict would manifest its dream battlefield there.
• Xu Taiping asked the dream entrants to remain in the Dragon-Trapping Tower until the Heavenly Dao’s reception descended, then led the seven Heaven’s Chosen into the Scripture Repository to prepare.
• The Heaven’s Chosen discussed their abilities, and the Old Daoist confirmed that he would be able to locate Tiandang City immediately after they descended into the Sanxuan Realm.

Xu Taiping and his companions were summoned to the Land of Chaos in Outer Heaven, but Zhao Linglong was missing from their arrival point. Xiaohei left a message saying he, Linglong, and Xu Taiping’s Origin Beginning Clone had entered the Sanxuan Realm ahead of them, while Xu Taiping’s group prepared to follow.

• The Heavenly Dao Edict summoned Zhao Linglong first, then Xu Taiping, Lü Daoxuan, Kang Cangzi, Lin Buyan, and Nangong Yu to a Ruin Star in the Land of Chaos in Outer Heaven.
• Xu Taiping and the others realized Zhao Linglong was missing and searched the Ruin Star and its surrounding Star Domain without finding her aura.
• A stone pillar relayed Xiaohei’s message that he, Zhao Linglong, and Xu Taiping’s Origin Beginning Clone were heading to the Heaven-Treading Contest battlefield ahead of the group.
• Xu Taiping explained that Xiaohei and his clone had been in the Land of Chaos hunting Chaos Demonic Beasts, and Lü Daoxuan said they could help protect Linglong.
• Xu Taiping told the group to follow the plan and travel together to Tiandang City in the Sanxuan Realm, then opened one of his remaining Golden Lotuses as the Grand Teleportation Array activated.

Su Chan, Heaven-Gate Rogue Person, and Yuqiu Heavenly Venerable entered the Sanxuan Realm and prepared for resistance from its inhabitants. After they detected Xu Taiping’s group and unleashed Edict powers, the realm’s living beings attacked them with enormous waves, and Yuqiu warned Heaven-Gate Rogue Person not to provoke them recklessly.

• Heaven-Gate Rogue Person predicted the Sanxuan Realm’s inhabitants would come, and Yuqiu Heavenly Venerable insisted they remained opponents until slain.
• Su Chan spread a Heavenly Secrets Net across the realm and discovered a young woman with a black hound, while Yuqiu and Su Chan each used an Edict power.
• The Sanxuan Realm’s inhabitants sent towering waves against the three, but the waves left them unharmed.
• Heaven-Gate Rogue Person crushed the waves and killed living beings beneath the water, turning a vast area purple with their blood.
• The waves surged back, and Yuqiu Heavenly Venerable warned Heaven-Gate Rogue Person not to endanger them by striking again.

Su Chan, Yuqiu Heavenly Venerable, and Heaven-Gate Rogue Person fought through the sea yao at the ruins of Tiandang City while the mountain spirit power prevented them from using edict power. Su Chan then spotted six figures approaching in the Heavenly Net Phantom Image and recognized his Junior Brother.

• The Sanxuan Realm's water receded, revealing an abandoned city as the villagers and sea yao emerged from the ruins.
• Terrifying mountain spirit power forced Su Chan, Yuqiu Heavenly Venerable, and Heaven-Gate Rogue Person down to the ground, where they fought off waves of sea yao.
• Su Chan explained that the sea yao were Great Void Calamity puppets that revived and grew stronger as they were killed.
• Heaven-Gate Rogue Person and Yuqiu Heavenly Venerable continued battling the sea yao until they had cleared nearly all of them near Tiandang City.
• Su Chan summoned the Heavenly Net Phantom Image and saw six figures approaching above the water, recognizing one as his Junior Brother.

Xu Taiping led the group toward Tiandang City for the Heaven-Treading Contest, but the Seventh Great Dao Golden Lotus showed their planned assault ending in near-total annihilation. Suspecting Taiqing edict power was responsible, he nevertheless told the Old Daoist that the plan remained unchanged as they neared the city.

• Xu Taiping shared his plan with the group as they descended through the thunderclouds toward the waters of the Sanxuan Realm.
• Kang Cangzi reminded the Heaven's Chosen that the Heaven-Treading Contest was a fight to the death, and the Old Daoist led everyone toward Tiandang City before the water level fell.
• Xu Taiping kept close to Nangong Yu, whom he considered crucial to their first battle, as the group hurried across the water.
• The Seventh Great Dao Golden Lotus bloomed and showed Xu Taiping a vision of the group being devastated while attacking the Three Heaven-Treaders of Taiping Paradise.
• Xu Taiping concluded that Taiqing edict power might have altered Lotus Eye's deduction, but he told the Old Daoist their plan remained unchanged as Tiandang City came into view.

Xu Taiping concealed his suspicions about Taiqing Paradise’s Edict Power and led the others into an attack on the three Heaven-Treaders at Tiandang City. When Lin Buyan’s Edict Power began shrinking their defense, Xu Taiping suddenly used forbidden domain power against Lin Buyan.

• Xu Taiping told the Lotus Eye he suspected one of the three enemies could reverse their victory, so he planned to seek defeat instead.
• The Old Daoist used his Heaven-Supporting Edict to resist the descending Sanxuan Edict as the three Heaven-Treaders landed in Tiandang City.
• Lü Daoxuan’s Heavenly Craft Sword met an identical sword from a void, and Kang Cangzi’s purple-gold gourd swallowed the false sword and its Edict Power.
• Lü Daoxuan attacked the three enemies, while Xu Taiping and Lin Buyan struck their cyan protective halo.
• Lin Buyan used Tracing Sound to shrink the halo, but Xu Taiping then froze the domain with forbidden domain power, shocking Lin Buyan.

Xu Taiping maintained the true dragon forbidden domain during the battle in Tiandang City, leaving the Shangqing cultivators to fight the Taiqing attackers without their usual powers. He revealed that his plan was to seek death, then took Heaven-Gate Rogue Person’s attack to protect Lü Daoxuan and Kang Cangzi, as a cyan edict halo engulfed the city and the platform lit up.

• Xu Taiping used the Heavenly Sound Bell to strengthen his forbidden domain, forcing Lin Buyan, Kang Cangzi, Lü Daoxuan, and the Old Daoist to question his actions.
• Heaven-Gate Rogue Person, Su Chan, and Yuqiu Heavenly Venerable attacked the group, while Lü Daoxuan and Kang Cangzi fought back using their martial skills.
• After Kang Cangzi was wounded, Lü Daoxuan demanded that Xu Taiping withdraw the forbidden domain, but Xu Taiping said his plan was to seek death rather than victory.
• Xu Taiping stepped in front of Lü Daoxuan and Kang Cangzi and was torn apart by Heaven-Gate Rogue Person’s attack.
• Yuqiu Heavenly Venerable’s cyan edict halo spread across Tiandang City, dazing everyone as the platform blazed with light.

Xu Taiping revealed that he had triggered Sanxuan Realm’s heavenly sorrow to restrain the Three from Taiqing Paradise and counter Yuqiuzi’s Heaven and Earth Inversion Edict. With the heavenly phenomenon potentially ending soon, Nangong Yu prepared to act while Xu Taiping and the others stood ready to buy time.

• Xu Taiping’s Heavenly Sound Bell triggered heavenly sorrow across Tiandang City, and heavenly fire began attacking the Three from Taiqing Paradise.
• The Old Daoist explained that heavenly sorrow targeted powerful killing intent, while Xu Taiping’s true dragon forbidden domain protected their group.
• Xu Taiping revealed that his deduction had exposed Yuqiuzi’s edict as a power that could reverse victory and defeat, so he had deliberately sought defeat.
• Lin Buyan apologized to Xu Taiping for misunderstanding him as the Three from Taiqing Paradise were besieged by towering Flame Giants.
• The Old Daoist warned that heavenly sorrow and the realm’s suppression could end at any moment, and Xu Taiping asked Nangong Yu to take over while the others held the Three back.

Xu Taiping and his allies fought the Taiqing Paradise trio using only their physiques and Martial Dao Origin Laws. Su Chan initially overwhelmed Xu Taiping, but he unleashed his Blood Oath power and turned the battle around, leaving Su Chan wounded by his blade and Lü Daoxuan’s sword.

• Xu Taiping, Lü Daoxuan, Kang Cangzi, and Lin Buyan charged the Taiqing Paradise trio as they approached the sacrificial platform.
• Su Chan tore through Xu Taiping’s Heaven-Shaking Fist and battered him into a fissure in the platform, while Heaven-Gate Rogue Person and Yuqiu Heavenly Lord engaged his allies.
• Lü Daoxuan blocked Su Chan’s attacks to protect Xu Taiping, who then drew on his Blood Oath power and severed Su Chan’s finger strike.
• Xu Taiping’s enhanced blade assault cut Su Chan’s shoulder and severed her wrist.
• Lü Daoxuan thrust with the Heavenly Craft Sword and pierced Su Chan’s shoulder despite her defense.

Xu Taiping and his allies battled Su Chan, Heaven-Gate Rogue Person, and Yuqiu Heavenly Venerable as heavenly sorrow power descended and the Sanxuan Realm’s Heavenly Dao restrictions lifted. With the Taiqing Paradise trio’s full strength unleashed, Xiaoyu swept them with a Divine Soul Attack and declared that all she beheld would enter her dreams.

• Xu Taiping wounded Heaven-Gate Rogue Person’s leg, but Heaven-Gate Rogue Person retaliated and forced Xu Taiping to shield the sacrificial platform with layers of blood-colored blade flame.
• Lü Daoxuan and Lin Buyan injured and knocked back Heaven-Gate Rogue Person, but Su Chan intervened while Yuqiu Heavenly Venerable struck Xu Taiping with his fly-whisk.
• As Yuqiu Heavenly Venerable gathered power for another attack, Kang Cangzi tried to stop him, and Xu Taiping prepared to release the second stage of his blood oath power.
• Heavenly sorrow power sent Flame Giants against the three Taiqing Paradise fighters, and Kang Cangzi realized the Sanxuan Realm’s Heavenly Dao restrictions were about to be lifted.
• The restrictions lifted and the Taiqing Paradise trio unleashed their full strength, so Xu Taiping and his allies prepared for a desperate fight.
• Xiaoyu sent a ferocious Divine Soul Attack toward the group and said, “All whom I behold, enter my dreams!”

Su Chan, Heaven-Gate Rogue Person, and Yuqiu Heavenly Venerable realized Shangqing was gathering powerful cultivators in Nangong Yu’s dream to hunt them, so Yuqiu used his Endless Horizon edict to let the three reunite instantly. As the hunt began and they vanished from the sacrificial platform, Xu Taiping asked Nangong Yu whether the edict truly allowed them to reunite at once.

• Su Chan’s sword qi struck the sacrificial platform, but the three Yujitian experts found it empty and realized the Yellow Millet Edict had moved them.
• Su Chan explained that the Dream Master could shift their positions and might be able to restart the dream, while Yuqiu Heavenly Venerable sensed eight powerful auras beyond the seven already present.
• Heaven-Gate Rogue Person suspected Shangqing planned to gather its cultivators and attack the three, and Yuqiu Heavenly Venerable used his Endless Horizon edict to let them reunite instantly.
• Su Chan and Heaven-Gate Rogue Person agreed they could face five opponents each, and Su Chan urged the others to show the Shangqing cultivators Yujitian’s ultimate realm experts’ strength.
• The dream realm shook, and the three experts vanished as Yuqiu Heavenly Venerable told them to fight without restraint.
• In the Old Heavenly Court’s main hall, Xu Taiping watched the scene and asked Nangong Yu whether the Endless Horizon edict could truly reunite the three instantly.

Xu Taiping and his allies prepared for the Heaven-Treading Contest inside Nangong Yu’s dream realm, where the three opponents from Taiqing Paradise were temporarily sealed. They planned to exploit the dream realm’s time differences and left Xu Taiping ready to use the Lotus Eye to guide their battle.

• Nangong Yu revealed that she could control four dream layers and had sealed the three Taiqing Paradise opponents in the second layer for a short time.
• Eight allies entered the dream, and Xu Taiping learned that Buyu was absent because Lady Jade Mother had arranged another task for him.
• Xu Taiping briefed the group on the opponents’ powers, and Lady Jade Mother gave him a jujube pit from the Earth Fruit’s ninth Seed Burning to fuel his Lotus Eye.
• Xu Taiping refined the jujube pit, releasing a powerful flow of chaos power that let him fully open the Lotus Eye.
• Nangong Yu explained that each successive dream layer ran one incense stick slower, allowing the group to delay the opponents’ awareness by one or two incense sticks.

Xu Taiping and the others used the Lotus Eye to choose seven fighters for the first battle against a Taiqing Paradise expert. The fighters were teleported into the second dream layer to face Chu Tianque, Fairy Lingyue’s missing senior brother.

• Nangong Yu explained the limits on her teleports and warned that battle could reduce how many people she could transport.
• Xu Taiping asked the Lotus Eye to select the first battle group, and it chose Kang Cangzi, Chu Lingyue, Heaven-Hunting Great Sage, Dragon Emperor Cangzhou, Duan Tianya, Blade Ghost, and Heavenly Lord Cangzhu.
• Nangong Yu said the others could watch the fight and send messages twice, then began teleporting the Taiqing Paradise experts as the dream realm shook.
• A projected image revealed that Chu Tianque was the opponent in the second layer, and Chu Lingyue hurried to join the chosen fighters.
• Chu Tianque challenged the Shangqing Realm cultivators, and a pillar of light teleported Chu Lingyue and the other six fighters away.
• Chu Lingyue called out to Chu Tianque and asked whether he remembered her.