Recaps

Xu Taiping’s Demon-Slaying Army pressed the Nine Abysses Northern Emperor Army on every front until Yang Hong and the Red Blade Army broke through its formation. With the Mysterious Wasteland Army charging in behind them, the battle turned into a rout.

• Huo Xuan watched the Red Blade Army’s blade formation batter Zhenyue’s Sky-Splitting Xi while the Mysterious Wasteland and True Martial armies pinned down other parts of the Northern Emperor Army.
• Yang Hong called on Duan Xiaoyu and Gu Yu to strike him, then fused their blade force with his own and the Red Blade Army’s battle intent.
• Yang Hong’s enlarged blade shadow knocked Zhenyue’s defense aside and cleaved open the Northern Emperor Army’s formation.
• Yang Hong led the Red Blade Army through the breach, and Gongshu Bai charged the Mysterious Wasteland Army into the enemy formation.
• The Chenglong Demon-Slaying Army followed with orders to slaughter every demon it encountered.

Xu Taiping’s Demon-Slaying Army shattered Northern Emperor City’s defensive barriers and drove the Nine Abysses Northern Emperor Army into a renewed clash. When the Demon Mother’s voice tripled the demons’ Battle Intent, Xu Taiping rallied his troops until their Battle Intent matched it, leaving the armies poised to fight on.

• Chijia and Zhenyue retreated with the Nine Abysses Northern Emperor Army behind Northern Emperor City’s Profound Heaven barrier after suffering heavy losses.
• Xu Taiping ordered the eight generals to use the Thunder Sound Five-Direction Earth-Splitting Formation, which broke through all five defensive barriers.
• Xu Taiping called on the Northern Emperor to act, while Zhenyue attacked and Chijia prepared to release a seal.
• A Purple-Pupil Phantom Image appeared above Chijia, and the Demon Mother’s command tripled the Nine Abysses army’s Battle Intent.
• Xu Taiping rallied his troops to slay the Demon Mother, and the Demon-Slaying Army’s Battle Intent rose to match the demons’.

Xu Taiping’s armies countered Zhenyue’s empowered assault with coordinated formations and reinforcements, trapping the Northern Emperor Army and forcing Zhenyue to retreat. Chijia then entered the fight against Yang Hong, who attacked before the Red Blade Army could fully arrive.

• Zhenyue used the Moon-Carrying Battle Formation to amplify his strength and struck at Jiang Fu’s Ziyang Army, whose sword attack he shattered with three axe blows.
• Xu Taiping ordered the Ziyang Army to withdraw and the Mysterious Wasteland Demon-Suppressing Army to take its place, where it withstood Zhenyue’s repeated attacks.
• Zhang Tianze pierced Zhenyue’s axe shadow and Sky-Splitting Xi battle intent while Zhu Huai, Jiang Cuicui, and the Youyun Demon-Expelling Army attacked the Northern Emperor Army.
• The Peerless Nether Heaven Demon-Subduing Army trapped Zhenyue’s damaged force in a battle-intent seal, and Zhang Tianze ordered the Youyun Demon-Expelling Army and Jueming Demon-Suppressing Army to attack.
• Chijia charged toward the Demon-Slaying Army, and Yang Hong attacked him with his saber before the Red Blade Army had caught up; Chijia formed the Great River Battle Formation.

Xu Taiping’s Demon-Slaying Army steadily overwhelmed Chijia’s defenders through coordinated formations and repeated attacks. As the Northern Emperor appeared to intervene personally, he declared that Xu Taiping had forced him to act.

• Chijia used Nine Infants’ battle intent and several formations to repel Yang Hong, Lü Daoxuan, and the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army.
• Xu Taiping ordered the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army back into position, allowing Feng Tianxing’s Chenglong Demon-Slaying Army to launch a fresh assault.
• The Yuheng Army and the Zhenwu Demon-Slaying Army joined the attack, driving back Chijia’s forces despite his skill at controlling battle formations.
• Xu Taiping kept directing his armies from the central formation, and Huo Xuan watched them steadily rout the demonic defenders.
• The Northern Emperor’s voice rang out, declaring that Xu Taiping had made him act in person.

Xu Taiping formed the Demon-Slaying Army into the Everlasting Life battle formation, overcoming the Northern Emperor’s combined armies and pressing their advance despite the generals’ attacks. The Northern Emperor then absorbed the combat power of five hundred thousand troops and vanished, heading toward Xu Taiping.

• The Northern Emperor arrived with the Chikuo Army and combined its formation with Chijia’s Wangxiang Army and Zhenyue’s Yezhong Army, turning the battle against the Demon-Slaying Army.
• Xu Taiping ordered the Demon-Slaying Army to form Everlasting Life, merging its eight armies into a single formation that suppressed the demonic forces.
• Xu Taiping led the Demon-Slaying Army in a formation charge that broke through the Northern Emperor’s defenses.
• The Northern Emperor, Chijia, and Zhenyue attacked Feng Tianxing, Zhang Tianze, and Yang Hong, grievously injuring them, but Everlasting Life restored the commanders and kept the army advancing.
• The Northern Emperor absorbed the combat power of five hundred thousand demonic troops and vanished, declaring that he would seek out Xu Taiping.

Xu Taiping’s Demon-Slaying Army overwhelmed the Northern Emperor and shattered Northern Emperor City’s barriers, but the Northern Emperor sacrificed his Demon Seed to turn the city into a fiery prison. When the Northern Emperor challenged Xu Taiping to reach Eight-Inch Profound Insight to breach the city, Xu Taiping agreed despite Huo Xuan’s warning.

• The Northern Emperor attacked Xu Taiping, but Xu Taiping summoned a Divine Generals Phantom Image that severed the Northern Emperor’s arm and routed his forces.
• Huo Xuan watched the Demon-Slaying Army smash through Northern Emperor City’s barriers and believed the city would soon fall.
• The Northern Emperor ordered Chijia and Zhenyue to defend the city, then burned his Demon Seed to merge with its barriers and create an impenetrable fiery prison.
• Xu Taiping told Huo Xuan that Northern Emperor City had to fall that day for the Demon-Slaying Army’s Unvanquished Battle Intent to slay the Demon Mother.
• The Northern Emperor taunted Xu Taiping to reach Eight-Inch Profound Insight, and Xu Taiping agreed despite Huo Xuan’s urgent warning.

Xu Taiping broke through to Void Insight Eight Inches as he destroyed Northern Emperor City and led the Demon-Slaying Army into its ruins. The Northern Emperor’s remnant sent him into the Land of Myriad Tribulations, and Huo Xuan ordered the Vermilion Bird Army to eliminate the remaining enemy forces.

• Huo Xuan warned Xu Taiping that the Northern Emperor was trying to provoke him into breaking through, but Xu Taiping said entering the Land of Myriad Tribulations could also trap his pursuers.
• The Northern Emperor fused with Northern Emperor City and attacked Xu Taiping, who answered with a slash empowered by the Demon-Slaying Army and split the city in two.
• Xu Taiping broke through to Void Insight Eight Inches, and Northern Emperor City collapsed as the Demon-Slaying Army charged into the ruins.
• The Northern Emperor’s remnant seed revealed that it had sent Xu Taiping into the Land of Myriad Tribulations, and a pillar of chaotic light struck him.
• Huo Xuan concluded that Xu Taiping would enter the Land of Myriad Tribulations within seven days and ordered the Vermilion Bird Army to wipe out every remnant of the Northern Emperor Army.

Xu Taiping and Lin Buyan found the Demon Grotto hiding the sealed chamber that held the previous incarnation’s body. After clearing the grotto, Xu Taiping prepared to break the seal, while reaffirming his plan to enter the Land of Myriad Tribulations and hunt Nine Abysses’ powerful fighters.

• Xu Taiping and Lin Buyan reached the Demon Grotto where Lin Buyan believed their previous incarnation’s body was hidden.
• Xu Taiping sent his Southern Bright Li Fire Swords into the grotto and cleared out the remaining Demon Seeds and Demonic Beasts.
• Xu Taiping revealed that he intended to enter the Land of Myriad Tribulations and defeat Nine Abysses’ fighters to weaken them before confronting the Demon Mother.
• The returned swords revealed a sealed hidden chamber deep in the grotto, and Lin Buyan confirmed it held their previous incarnation’s true body.
• Xu Taiping took a Fist Stance and told Lin Buyan to step back as he prepared to smash open the chamber’s seal.

Xu Taiping and Lin Buyan found the Immortal Official’s sealed remains and prepared to transfer Buyu’s soul into them. After Xu Taiping removed the seal and supplied soulfire stones, they waited as a faint aura finally stirred from the remains.

• Xu Taiping broke through the cave entrance, and he and Lin Buyan found the Immortal Official’s remains sealed in ice.
• Lin Buyan confirmed that the remains carried the right aura for reviving Buyu, and they identified the seal as the Heaven-Replenishing Book.
• Xu Taiping had Xiaohei swallow the hidden chamber, then removed the seal from the remains while Lin Buyan stood guard.
• Xu Taiping placed the Listening Wind Bracelet on the remains’ wrist and channeled five Supreme-Grade Soulfire Stones into it before Lin Buyan told him to stop.
• Xu Taiping and Lin Buyan waited beside the remains, and a faint aura fluctuation finally rippled from them.

Xu Taiping and Lin Buyan believed Lin Buyu had taken control of the Immortal Official's remains, but Xu Taiping recognized that the figure was an evil presence and ordered Xiaohei to attack it. Lin Buyan turned against Xu Taiping to protect the apparent Buyu, leaving the two of them in conflict as Xiaohei fought the presence.

• Lin Buyan confirmed that Buyu's soul had taken control of the Immortal Official's remains, and the figure awakened and greeted Xu Taiping as Senior Brother.
• When the figure stumbled, Xu Taiping offered to share Dao Essence Power through the Listening Wind Bracelet, then ordered Xiaohei to engulf her.
• The apparent Lin Buyu cried out in pain and insisted that Xu Taiping was an impostor, while Xu Taiping declared that she was an evil presence.
• Xiaohei continued attacking despite Lin Buyan's demand to stop, and Lin Buyan struck at Xu Taiping.
• Xu Taiping stopped Lin Buyan's palm with True Dragon Forbidden Domain Power and insisted that the figure was not Buyu.

Xu Taiping and Xiaohei drove the evil presence from beyond the domain out of the Immortal Official's mortal shell and helped Lin Buyu take control of it. With Lin Buyan now certain of Buyu's identity, the three prepared to face the Nine Abysses and the Demon Mother together.

• Lin Buyan attacked Xu Taiping while trying to protect the soul she believed was Lin Buyu, giving the evil presence a chance to break free of Xiaohei's power.
• Xu Taiping used the Listening Wind Bracelets' Hearts in Harmony power with Lin Buyu and revealed that the awakened woman was an evil presence from beyond the domain.
• Xu Taiping and Xiaohei rejected the evil presence's offers and refined it with Xiaohei's Sun-Eater Power.
• Lin Buyan confirmed the soul was Lin Buyu, and Xu Taiping recognized her through their shared use of the Listening Wind Bracelets.
• Lin Buyu said the evil presence had opened the immortal shell's acupoints, making it easier for her to merge with the shell.
• Lin Buyan thanked Xu Taiping and vowed that they would face the Nine Abysses and the Demon Mother together.

Xu Taiping reunited with Lin Buyu and promised to return alive from the Land of Myriad Tribulations, while warning her to take over the campaign against the Demon Mother if he did not. Five days later, his allies worried over his unavoidable summons, but Zhao Qian emerged from the Dragon-Trapping Tower greatly strengthened and said Xu Taiping had asked him to bring Chu Yinan over.

• Xu Taiping discussed the Heaven-Demon Battlefield with Lin Buyu on Xiaohei's back, and Lin Buyu vowed to catch up with him and demanded that he return alive.
• Xu Taiping told Lin Buyu that she should lead the campaign against the Demon Mother if he failed to return from the Land of Myriad Tribulations.
• Five days later, Song Yan, Gu Huai, Yang Hong, Duan Xiaoyu, and Chu Yinan discussed Xu Taiping's summons and learned that he might face Primordial Lords with Half-Immortal-level combat power.
• Huo Xuan emerged from the Dragon-Trapping Tower and told the group to ask Xu Taiping about whether his summons could be resolved.
• Zhao Qian emerged with a greatly increased aura and told Chu Yinan that Xu Taiping had asked him to bring the Third Prince over.

Xu Taiping appointed Chu Yinan acting commander-in-chief of the Demon-Slaying Army before he was drawn to the Land of Myriad Tribulations. After handing over the Demon-Slaying Token and explaining his battle methods and formations, Xu Taiping asked Chu Yinan to explain his departure to the army.

• Xu Taiping told Chu Yinan that he would be drawn to the Land of Myriad Tribulations in two days and that he had chosen Chu Yinan to succeed him.
• Xu Taiping explained that his deductions showed Chu Yinan could rally the Demon-Slaying Army's battle intent better than any other general.
• Chu Yinan accepted the appointment, and Xu Taiping handed him the Demon-Slaying Token and entrusted him with the army of over six hundred thousand.
• Chu Yinan studied the battle methods and formations Xu Taiping had stored in the token and discussed them with him.
• Xu Taiping assured Chu Yinan that veteran generals and his own allies would support him, then asked him to explain Xu Taiping's journey to the Land of Myriad Tribulations to the army.

Xu Taiping visited Lin Buyu in the Crimson Heaven Spirit Garden, where she planned to use the Immortal Official Remnant to reach the Half-Immortal Realm before their eventual fight against the Demon Mother. Lady Jade Mother then sent him to the Glazed Glass secret realm to enter the Seven Lodges Treasury, where a familiar voice called out to him.

• Xu Taiping urged Chu Yinan not to lose to the Nine Abysses before Xu Taiping returned, then went to check on Lin Buyu.
• Lin Buyu told Xu Taiping that the Immortal Official Remnant had restored her peak combat power, and they discussed finding stronger opponents so she could advance further.
• Lin Buyu expected to reach the Half-Immortal Realm before Xu Taiping returned from the Land of Myriad Tribulations, while they anticipated a future clash with the Demon Mother.
• Lady Jade Mother summoned Xu Taiping to the Glazed Glass secret realm and told him to bring back Dragon Clan treasures to nourish the Earth Fruit's eighth transformation.
• Lady Jade Mother used one hundred thousand Nine Abysses Demon Seeds to open a passage to the Seven Lodges Treasury, where an aged voice asked Xu Taiping if it was him.

Xu Taiping reached the Seven Lodges Treasury and asked Dragon Emperor Cangzhou how to undo the Dragon-Slaying Stele’s seal. Cangzhou led him to retrieve the sacrificial offerings, but first revealed that the Gate-Sealing Stone was made from smelted true dragon bones.

• Xu Taiping entered the passage opened by sacrifice and followed Dragon Emperor Cangzhou’s voice through the Annihilation Land to the Seven Lodges Treasury.
• Xu Taiping explained that he had reached the treasury from the Glazed Glass Secret Realm and could stay for only one incense stick.
• Cangzhou agreed that half an incense stick would suffice and led Xu Taiping to retrieve the offerings needed to undo the Dragon-Slaying Stele’s seal.
• At the Dragon Clan Divine Weapons treasury, Xu Taiping recognized the doors as Gate-Sealing Stone, and Cangzhou explained that the Dragon Clan called the material true dragon stone, made from smelted dragon bones.

Xu Taiping received the two True Dragon Stones and four Sacrificial Offerings from Dragon Emperor Cangzhou in the Seven Lodges Treasury. Cangzhou revealed that he would be the fifth offering needed to open the Ancestral Dragon Ruins and gave Xu Taiping the Dragon Emperor Ring, which could call on Dragon Clan weapons in battle.

• Dragon Emperor Cangzhou agreed to give Xu Taiping the two True Dragon Stones once Xu Taiping had helped him find the Dragon Clan.
• Cangzhou led Xu Taiping into the empty Seven Lodges Treasury, where the remaining True Dragon Swords mistook Xu Taiping for an intruder before Cangzhou calmed them.
• Xu Taiping told Cangzhou that he could convert dao essence power into true dragon power, but Cangzhou said it could only delay the weapons' demise because the Dragon Clan's fortune was severed.
• Cangzhou gathered five treasures and gave Xu Taiping a jade box containing four Sacrificial Offerings, explaining that his own body would be the fifth needed to open the Ancestral Dragon Ruins.
• Cangzhou gave Xu Taiping the Dragon Emperor Ring, which could command Dragon Clan Treasuries and their weapons, and urged him to let the weapons join the battlefield rather than rot in storage.

Xu Taiping, Lady Jade Mother, and Dragon Emperor Cangzhou removed the seal on the Dragon-Slaying Stele using four offerings and Cangzhou’s broken true dragon body. The seal’s release illuminated seven rooms in Xu Taiping’s Dragon-Trapping Tower, and they headed for the top-floor room believed to hold the Ancestral Dragon’s secrets.

• Lady Jade Mother deciphered the stele’s inscription and explained that seven Dragon-Slaying Steles were connected to it and that five sealing artifacts were needed to break its seal.
• Dragon Emperor Cangzhou revealed that his soul and broken true dragon body would serve as the fifth offering.
• Lady Jade Mother activated the formation with the four offerings while Dragon Emperor Cangzhou placed his true dragon body at a formation node and sacrificed it.
• The five offerings destroyed the seal, and Xu Taiping sensed the doors of seven rooms in the Dragon-Trapping Tower light up.
• Xu Taiping took Lady Jade Mother and Dragon Emperor Cangzhou toward the top-floor room, which Lady Jade Mother believed contained the Ancestral Dragon’s secrets.

Xu Taiping endured the Ancestral Dragon’s breath and reached the top of the Dragon-Trapping Tower, where he encountered a living Ancestral Dragon. The dragon blasted him back through the doorway and told him to return after he broke nine inches.

• Jade Mother and Dragon Emperor Cangzhou explained that the tower held the Ancestral Dragon’s treasures and that its stairs were guarded by the dragon’s remaining breath.
• Xu Taiping revealed his Ultimate Realm True Dragon Divine Being Body and climbed the stairs despite the Ancestral Dragon’s pressure.
• Xu Taiping forced open the True Dragon Stone door at the top of the tower and entered a vast sea of clouds.
• The Ancestral Dragon’s aura battered Xu Taiping, and Jade Mother warned that the dragon was still alive.
• The Ancestral Dragon appeared and told Xu Taiping to return after he broke nine inches, then hurled him back through the doorway.

Xu Taiping, Lady Jade Mother, and Dragon Emperor Cangzhou discussed the mysterious dragon in the room and agreed to preserve Cangzhou’s remnant soul in the earth fruit during its eighth transformation. As the Land of Myriad Tribulations summoned Xu Taiping, Jade Mother used a banana leaf to conceal him long enough to return to the Glazed Glass Realm, where she helped smelt the Shoushan copper before preparing to fall asleep.

• Dragon Emperor Cangzhou explained that the Ancestral Dragon’s death had been confirmed by an unforgeable bloodline resonance, and Lady Jade Mother conjectured that the dragon in the room was the Ancestral Dragon’s lingering divine sense.
• Lady Jade Mother told Xu Taiping that he would likely need to reach nine inches of Void Insight before entering the room again, and Cangzhou said his remnant soul would last only three to five more days.
• Lady Jade Mother offered to preserve Cangzhou until the Ancestral Dragon’s Legacy Secret by having him planted alongside her during the earth fruit’s eighth transformation, and Xu Taiping agreed.
• As the Land of Myriad Tribulations summoned Xu Taiping, Lady Jade Mother gave him a jade-green banana leaf that concealed him from its force long enough for him to send them into the Glazed Glass Realm.
• Lady Jade Mother hammered Xu Taiping’s True Dragon divine being body to help smelt the Shoushan copper, then stopped when the banana leaf began to disappear; Xu Taiping said the copper was ninety-nine percent smelted.

Xu Taiping entered the Land of Myriad Tribulations with the Six-Nostril Mirror and prepared to use its vision to help the fight against the Nine Abysses. He encountered two Demon Cultivators who attacked him, but their strength disappointed him.

• Lady Jade Mother gave Xu Taiping the Six-Nostril Mirror and urged him to use the Land of Myriad Tribulations as a battlefield against the Nine Abysses.
• Xu Taiping sent Xiaohei a Divine Soul Mark for Lü Daoxuan before the summons pulled him into the Land of Myriad Tribulations.
• The Six-Nostril Mirror told Xu Taiping that four Demon Cultivators were in the realm and that two were approaching him.
• Xu Taiping positioned himself on the island's tallest mountain to draw the approaching Demon Cultivators toward him.
• A young man and young woman attacked Xu Taiping together, and he judged them to be only Demon Emperor level.

Xu Taiping defeated the two fourth-vein Demon Emperors sent by the Nine Abysses to test him, revealing the strength of his Form- and Shadow-Transposition edict. Linghuai fled, then confessed that Jiuquan Primordial Lord had sent them to ambush a supposedly new Heaven-Connecting Realm cultivator.

• Xu Taiping refused to project his fight into the Heaven-Demon Battlefield, saying the two Demon Emperors were too weak to qualify for a fist trial.
• Linghuai struck Xu Taiping with an island-sized fist, but Xu Taiping emerged unharmed from the shattered island.
• Nianwei trapped Xu Taiping in a bubble world and made him experience a lifetime of suffering, but Xu Taiping used Form- and Shadow-Transposition to send her into her own world.
• Nianwei died when her origin demon seed power destroyed her along with the minor world, and Xu Taiping took her demon seed.
• Linghuai fled, but Xu Taiping caught up with him, and Linghuai confessed that Jiuquan Primordial Lord had sent them to probe Xu Taiping.

Xu Taiping killed two Nine Abysses Demonic Beasts in the Land of Myriad Tribulations and broadcast the attack across the Heaven-Demon Battlefield, forcing the enemy to abandon its delay. Six Primordial Lords and thirty-six Demon Emperors appeared to hunt him, while Jiuquan and Huangyi considered invoking a more costly hidden power; Lü Daoxuan recognized the six newcomers as Primordial Lord-level experts.

• Xu Taiping burned Demon Emperor Linghuai to ashes and learned that the remaining Demonic Beast was still lingering at the edge of the Land of Myriad Tribulations.
• Xu Taiping used the Six-Nostril Mirror to broadcast his fully drawn Shentu Bow across the Heaven-Demon Battlefield, then killed two hidden Nine Abysses Demonic Beasts and collected their demon seeds.
• Xu Taiping taunted Nine Abysses and ate one demon seed, boosting Human Race morale and prompting its troops to drive the Demonic Army back.
• Primordial Lords Jiuquan and Huangyi agreed that Xu Taiping's growing prestige made killing him more important than delaying the battle, so Jiuquan summoned six Primordial Lords and their Demon Emperors.
• Six dazzling masses of light appeared in the projection, and Lü Daoxuan suspected they were six Primordial Lord-level experts.

Xu Taiping fled from six Primordial Lords and thirty-six Demon Emperors in the Land of Myriad Tribulations, but Primordial Lord Maiwang used Word-Follows-Law to find him. The chapter ended as an old woman sealed Xu Taiping inside a cage of waves and swallowed the surrounding sea with her Bronze Well.

• Song Yan explained that those trapped in the Land of Myriad Tribulations could escape by killing every opponent or, according to an unverified rumor, surviving for more than ten years, while enduring increasingly frequent heavenly tribulations.
• Song Yan confirmed that the Nine Abysses had used two of its three chances to send reinforcements as six Primordial Lords and thirty-six Demon Emperors appeared around Xu Taiping.
• Xu Taiping used the edict "Endless Horizon" to escape the encirclement.
• Chu Yinan identified the six Primordial Lords and warned that Maiwang could rewrite opponents' divine abilities and spells, while Qinggu possessed even greater killing power.
• Maiwang used Word-Follows-Law to locate Xu Taiping above a churning sea, where an old woman trapped him in waves and swallowed the sea beneath him with her Bronze Well.

Xu Taiping used his edict to escape Primordial Lord Well Fish’s attack, but the heavenly tribulation forced him toward the six Primordial Lords. After his clone drew their attack and his true body struck the Thousand Demons Painting Wall, Xu Taiping withdrew to a floating mountain and decided to prolong the fight to lure out three hidden Primordial Lords.

• Xu Taiping used Form- and Shadow-Transposition to switch places with a Demon Emperor and escape Primordial Lord Well Fish’s bronze well.
• Primordial Lord Qinggu and the other five Primordial Lords gathered as the heavenly tribulation spread across the Land of Myriad Tribulations.
• Primordial Lord Maiwang cast A Thread of Life on Xu Taiping, and the falling lightning drove him toward the six Primordial Lords.
• Xu Taiping’s clone charged the six Primordial Lords while his true body punched at them, but Primordial Lord Thousand Demons’s painting wall absorbed the blow by sacrificing hundreds of demons.
• Xu Taiping retreated to a floating mountain and decided to spar longer so he could draw out three hidden Primordial Lords.

Lü Daoxuan and Feng Tianxing learned that the Nine Abysses was gathering forces for war, while Xu Taiping continued evading six Primordial Lords and gathering intelligence on their abilities. Xu Taiping and the Six-Nostril Mirror planned to lure the three hidden Primordial Lords into a trap when three Heavenly Tribulations struck simultaneously.

• Lü Daoxuan and Feng Tianxing received word that the Nine Abysses had assembled millions of Demon Armors and Demonic Beasts and prepared to preserve the Demon-Slaying Army's undefeated record until Taiping returned.
• Xu Taiping revealed that he had spent ten days studying the Demon Seeds and powers of six Primordial Lords and the remaining Demon Emperors.
• Xu Taiping used his Great Dao Clone Edict and Endless Horizon to evade Qinggu's attacks and escape the six Primordial Lords.
• Xu Taiping scattered nearly a hundred clones across the Land of Myriad Tribulations while his true body hid and asked the Six-Nostril Mirror about the three unseen Primordial Lords.
• The Six-Nostril Mirror advised Xu Taiping to wait until three Heavenly Tribulations descended together before staging a crisis to draw out the hidden Primordial Lords.