Recaps

Xu Taiping led the Human Race Army against the Demon Mother, but her endlessly replenished Different People Army drove them toward destruction. Ordinary mortals arrived across the realms to rescue him, and Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu extended their battle intent over the newcomers to bring them into the formation.

• Xu Taiping used the Great Thunder Sound Formation to destroy the Demon Mother's clones, while Yang Hong sacrificed himself trying to stop her from breaking the Subdue Demons Formation.
• The Demon Mother broke the seal, revived her clones, and created a ten-million-strong Different People Army that replaced its fallen soldiers.
• Xu Taiping and Lin Buyu led the Human Race Army against the Different People, but Xu Taiping's divination showed that their resistance would end in their deaths.
• Xu Taiping broadcast the battle across Shangqing through the Six-Nostril Mirror and rallied his soldiers to keep fighting so others could learn how to face the enemy.
• Dipankara Buddha and Venerable Jiaye opened paths to the battlefield, while Emperor Yang and other leaders gathered ordinary mortals who volunteered to reinforce Xu Taiping.
• Xu Taiping summoned eight hundred thousand Demon-Slaying Army Heroic Spirits and repeatedly attacked enemy generals, but mounting losses left fewer than a million human soldiers for his final charge.
• Xu Taiping fell beneath the Different People Army's attacks, but the combined battle intent of ordinary mortals broke through the enemy formation and lifted him to safety.
• Xu Taiping restored his body with Life Without End, then joined Lin Buyu in spreading their battle intent over twenty million newcomers and called them forward to fight.

Xu Taiping defeated the Nine Abysses Demon Mother and chose to challenge Taiqing Paradise rather than ascend alone. As Shangqing’s Heaven-Treading team gathered, he learned the truth behind the Great Void Calamity and began preparing for the contest, which was set to begin in ten years.

• Xu Taiping drew on the battle intent of millions of commoners to defeat the Demon Mother, then swallowed her surviving seed and sealed it with Reverse Furnace.
• Xu Taiping chose the Heaven-Treading Contest over ascending, challenged Taiqing Paradise on behalf of Shangqing, and faced threats from its cultivators.
• The Heavenly Dao Edict selected Lü Daoxuan, Kang Cangzi, Zhao Linglong, Duan Tianya’s jade gourd, the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage’s imprisoned Daoist, and Lin Buyan as Heaven’s Chosen.
• The Old Daoist revealed that Xu Taiping was not Xu Zhian’s biological grandson, while Fairy Lingyue learned that her master and eldest senior brother had died in battle.
• Fairy Lingyue explained that Taiqing Paradise had abandoned Shangqing and Sumeru to the Great Void Calamity, and Lady Jade Mother revealed the Jade Emperor’s role in the Heavenly Court’s fall.
• The Ancestral Dragon explained that the Great Void Calamity punished those who monopolized a realm’s fortune, and Xu Taiping proposed returning the heavens to all living beings.
• The Ancestral Dragon gave Xu Taiping, Lin Buyu, and Fairy Lingyue Golden Pearls, then offered to freeze time so Xu Taiping could cultivate for three hundred years toward the Ultimate Realm.
• After the Azure Profound Sect returned to Cloud Cottage Mountain, Liang Zhu gained permission to enter the Golden Scale Assembly, and the group prepared to travel to Youyun Heaven.

Xu Taiping prepared for the Heaven-Treading Contest, then led Shangqing’s fighters into a perilous battle against Taiqing Paradise in the Sanxuan Realm. Nangong Yu trapped the enemies in layered dreams, and the arc ended as Chu Lingyue confronted Chu Tianque.

• Xu Taiping completed his seclusion, fused the Blade of Guicang with the Heaven-Flipping Seal, and gained the Karma-Reversal Edict.
• Xu Taiping rescued Liang Zhu and Xu Chengling from a chaos whale at the Golden Scale Assembly, then defeated Crow Heavenly Venerable and learned about Taiqing Paradise’s three Heaven-Treaders.
• Xu Taiping used golden lotus visions to locate the three Taiqing opponents at Tiandang City in the Sanxuan Realm, where Shangqing’s group prepared to use Nangong Yu’s Yellow Millet Edict.
• Xu Taiping deliberately sought defeat against the three enemies because he deduced that Yuqiu Heavenly Venerable could reverse victory and defeat, then used heavenly sorrow to weaken them.
• As the Sanxuan Realm’s restrictions lifted, Nangong Yu drew the combatants into layered dreams and temporarily sealed the Taiqing trio away from their opponents.
• Xu Taiping chose Kang Cangzi, Chu Lingyue, Heaven-Hunting Great Sage, Dragon Emperor Cangzhou, Duan Tianya, Blade Ghost, and Heavenly Lord Cangzhu for the first battle group.
• Chu Tianque appeared as the opponent in the second dream layer, and Chu Lingyue joined the fighters before asking him whether he remembered her.

Xu Taiping and his allies defeated Heaven-Gate Rogue Person at great cost, then entered the Fourth Layer to face Su Chan. Lü Daoxuan’s final duel with his former disciple left his survival tied to the Heaven-Treading Contest, while the group prepared to confront Yuqiu Heavenly Venerable.

• Fairy Lingyue and the others battled Heaven-Gate Rogue Person, and Xu Taiping’s plan split him into nine bodies before Kang Cangzi destroyed himself to contain five of them.
• Chu Lingyue burned her origin to wield the Sword Ancestor’s inheritance and cut Heaven-Gate Rogue Person down, while Dragon Emperor Cangzhou sealed his blood bead.
• Xu Taiping, Lü Daoxuan, Dugu Qingxiao, the Old Daoist, and Lady Jade Mother entered the Fourth Layer and fought Su Chan using the Heavenly Shadow Grand Formation.
• Xu Taiping and his allies weakened Su Chan, then the Old Daoist used Equally Matched to seal the battlefield and set Lü Daoxuan against his former disciple.
• Lü Daoxuan and Su Chan fought through sword domains, moonlight strikes, and heavenly fire until both were gravely wounded.
• Lü Daoxuan revealed that the sword hidden within Su Chan contained the attacks Su Chan had made throughout his years of training, and Su Chan’s younger self ultimately pierced him.
• Lü Daoxuan collapsed, and Lady Jade Mother sealed his last trace of vitality while warning that his survival depended on the Heaven-Treading Contest.
• Yuqiu Heavenly Venerable appeared in the Fourth Layer, and Fairy Lingyue asked Xu Taiping to lend her his Origin Beginning Clone and Kunwu for a hidden plan.