Recaps

Ye Han challenged Nie Li at the Holy Orchid Institute, and their fight revealed Nie Li’s extraordinary strength and Ye Han’s growing obsession with becoming City Lord. After Ye Han mutated his demon spirit, Nie Li knocked him down with the Knuckle Spikes, leaving the conflict unresolved.

• Ye Han confronted Nie Li and challenged him to a fight, while Nie Li’s companions followed them to the training grounds.
• Ye Han merged with his Golden Armored Earth Dragon, and Nie Li merged with his Fangtooth Panda before they exchanged attacks.
• Ye Han’s Earth Dragon Blaze collided with Nie Li’s Light-Dark Primordial Qi Blast, and the explosion knocked Ye Han down while leaving Nie Li’s arm burned.
• Ye Han remembered being treated as an outsider in the Wind Snow Family and resolved not to let anyone take what he believed was his.
• Ye Han’s fury triggered a mutation in his demon spirit, but Nie Li recognized the strain and struck through its defenses with his Knuckle Spikes, knocking Ye Han down again.

Nie Li defeated Ye Han and warned him to abandon his ambitions, but Shen Xiu persuaded Ye Han to join the Sacred Family's plans against the Wind Snow Family. As the Sky Screen revealed this path, Nie Li focused on preparing Glory City’s defenses against the coming threat.

• Nie Li used Gravity Field and a well-timed Thunderous Heavy Strike to defeat Ye Han, then warned him not to pursue Ye Ziyun or challenge him.
• Shen Xiu found the injured Ye Han and offered to help him become City Lord and marry Ye Ziyun, persuading him to become the Sacred Family’s mole.
• The Sky Screen showed Ye Han choosing Shen Xiu’s offer, and Ye Zong and Ye Ming grieved as their hatred for the Sacred Family grew.
• Nie Li organized Glory City to build and inscribe stone pillars for two improved Lesser Killing Arrays that could be combined into one.

Nie Li opened the ancient barrier and led his companions into a strange space, where they found a ruined teleportation array that required twenty-three Radiant Stones to activate. As dozens of unknown beasts approached, the Sky Screen abruptly ended.

• Lu Piao fled from Xiao Xue, but Nie Li held him back until she caught up with him.
• After Nie Li recounted their previous-life fate, Lu Piao embraced Xiao Xue and vowed not to repeat his past mistakes.
• Nie Li identified the barrier as an Origin Barrier and activated inscriptions across all sixteen towers to open it.
• Nie Li, Lu Piao, Xiao Xue, and their companions entered a gloomy space containing a ruined teleportation array.
• Nie Li explained they needed twenty-three Radiant Stones to leave, then the group prepared to face dozens of approaching beasts.

Nie Li led Glory City’s experts into the Black Prison World to explore and claim new territory. After defeating a group of Red Ghosts without casualties, he took a small team into the mountains and found Silverwing Family men seizing supplies from a village.

• Nie Li and Ye Zong prepared an expedition, and Glory City assembled more than five hundred experts to enter the Black Prison World.
• Nie Li led the group through the Myriad Forms Space Array, where Ye Ming froze the approaching Red Ghosts.
• Nie Li sent scouts ahead and then took nine others toward the mountain range while the main force waited.
• Nie Li and Wei Nan entered a deserted village and followed the villagers’ presence to the other side.
• Nie Li and Wei Nan saw silver-armored Silverwing Family men taking bags from villagers who pleaded with them to stop.

Nie Li intervened when Sikong Hu and the Silverwing Family squad seized a village’s grain and threatened its people. He and his companions killed the squad, and the grateful villagers knelt before them.

• Sikong Hu’s squad took the villagers’ grain, and Sikong Xi attacked an old man when his son tried to protect him.
• Nie Li appeared in time to block Sikong Xi’s spear and killed him with his black arm blade.
• Sikong Hu ordered his six remaining men to surround Nie Li and threatened to kill everyone in the village.
• Nie Li told the villagers to seek safety as Chen Linjian, Lu Piao, Xiao Ning'er, Du Ze, Zhu Xiangjun, Xiao Xue, and Ye Ziyun joined the fight.
• Nie Li and his companions wiped out the Silverwing Family squad in less than three minutes.
• The villagers knelt and kowtowed to Nie Li and his companions, calling them benefactors.

Nie Li won the villagers’ agreement to make their village a base for Glory City in the Black Prison World, and the group built it into Bright Village. After Nie Li warned off Silverwing Family scouts, Sikong Yi ordered Sikong Red Moon to capture the intruders, while Duan Jian took satisfaction in hearing that Silverwing’s men had been killed.

• Nie Li spoke to the villagers in the Wulan language, offered grain and protection, and persuaded them to accept Glory City’s help.
• Nie Li sent a signal flare, and Ye Ming led more than five hundred people to the village to build defenses, houses, and a Killing Array.
• Nie Li named the transformed settlement Bright Village, and the villagers gratefully welcomed their new homes and food.
• When Silverwing Family scouts searched near the village, Nie Li showed them a severed head and ordered them to warn the family to stay away.
• Sikong Yi learned of the warning and told Sikong Red Moon to lead a team to capture the intruders, while Duan Jian felt pleased at the news of Silverwing’s losses.

The Sky Screen revealed Nie Li’s memories to the Black Prison World, prompting the Silverwing Family to move against the outsiders. On the screen, Nie Li led his group through a Red Ghost swarm and toward a Nether Lantern Behemoth, which began devouring their pursuers.

• A golden Sky Screen appeared over the Black Prison World and Glory City, showing memories of Nie Li, his rebirth, and the way to the outside world.
• The thirteen families reacted to the revelations, while Sikong Yi ordered the Silverwing Family to find and destroy the Myriad Forms Space Array.
• On the Sky Screen, Nie Li recognized approaching Red Ghosts and led his group into a desperate escape, fighting off the beasts before using the Vanish Combat Technique to catch up.
• Lu Piao spotted a distant light, and Nie Li recognized it as the antenna of a Nether Lantern Behemoth and led the group toward it.
• Nie Li told everyone to hold their breath and move slowly, while the Nether Lantern Behemoth’s tongues seized the Red Ghosts and dragged them into the darkness.

Nie Li rescued Xiao Ning'er and Xiao Xue from the Nether Lantern Behemoth, using an inscription from the remnant page of the Book of Time and Space Spirit to kill it. The seven survivors resumed their journey while people watching the Sky Screen reacted to their escape.

• Lu Piao severed the tongues holding Xiao Xue and caught her, while Nie Li and Xiao Ning'er stayed behind to cover the group's retreat.
• The Nether Lantern Behemoth's tongues overwhelmed Xiao Ning'er, but Nie Li blasted the beast and freed her.
• Nie Li activated an inscription from the remnant page of the Book of Time and Space Spirit, killing the Nether Lantern Behemoth before its body collapsed onto him and Xiao Ning'er.
• Du Ze and the others searched the fallen tongues until Nie Li emerged carrying Xiao Ning'er, and Lu Piao returned carrying Xiao Xue.
• Nie Li said the rain would conceal the group from the Red Ghosts, and the seven set off again.

Nie Li and his companions fought off the Red Ghosts, gathered crimson blood crystals, and discovered a stele bearing Emperor Kongming’s life account. The chapter left Nie Li facing the stele’s erased Ten-Character Formula while the group continued searching the space.

• Xiao Xue and Xiao Ning'er woke and climbed down from Lu Piao and Nie Li, while Nie Li wondered what secret the space concealed.
• Nie Li recognized that the distant Nether Lantern Behemoths might be a village and prepared for the Red Ghosts to attack once the rain stopped.
• Nie Li made Bloodburst Demon Bottles from Red Ghost blood, and the group used them to kill the pursuing Red Ghosts and collect ten crimson blood crystals.
• In the Black Prison World, Nie Li welcomed Ye Ming after he retrieved the Myriad Forms Space Array, and the group returned with hundreds of crimson blood crystals.
• Du Ze spotted a huge stone stele, and Nie Li approached it alone after the Red Ghosts fled from its vicinity.
• Nie Li read Emperor Kongming’s life account on the stele and found that the Ten-Character Formula had been scraped away.

Nie Li learned that Emperor Kongming’s Ten-Character Mantra had drawn five inheritors into a deadly struggle, then was confronted in the Black Prison World by a powerful inheritor who recognized his comprehension. A mysterious black orb saved Nie Li from the old man’s first attack, but the old man still demanded that Nie Li die and revealed his hatred for Emperor Kongming.

• Nie Li comprehended Emperor Kongming’s Ten-Character Mantra and learned that five inheritors would fight until one absorbed the others’ understandings.
• Nie Li witnessed the Demon Lord erase the mantra from the Stone Stele, then realized he was seeing the past and decided to keep his comprehension secret.
• A crazed old man appeared in Bright Village, seized Nie Li by the throat, and hurled Du Ze, the others, and Ye Ming away with his oppressive aura.
• The old man said that only one of the five inheritors could survive, while a black orb from Nie Li’s Space Ring struck him and sent him flying.
• The old man demanded that Nie Li die but promised not to harm his companions, and Nie Li guessed that the old man hated Emperor Kongming.

Nie Li persuaded the crazed old man to spare him by offering possible ways to resurrect his younger brother, and the old man left the Black Prison World under an agreement. The Sky Screen showed Nie Li meeting Sikong Red Moon at a crimson blood crystal mine, and Nie Li began searching for its location in the Black Prison World.

• The crazed old man explained how his younger brother had sacrificed himself, and Nie Li offered several possible ways to resurrect him.
• Nie Li reached an agreement with the old man, who gave him control of the Black Prison World and left after placing a Thousand-Mile Soultracking Mark on him.
• Nie Li’s companions asked how he had changed the old man’s mind, but Nie Li said he would explain when the time was right.
• The Sky Screen showed Nie Li discovering a settlement and crimson blood crystal mine, where Sikong Red Moon confronted him.
• Nie Li claimed to be Lei Duo, a descendant of the Silver Radiance Family, and Sikong Red Moon lowered her sword.
• Nie Li asked the crowd in the Black Prison World whether anyone knew the mine’s location and decided to pursue it.

Nie Li entered the Silverwing Family’s palace, where he learned of Duan Jian’s torture and the feud between the Silverwing and Black Dragon Families. Sikong Yi ordered Nie Li killed until Nie Li merged with his Demon Spirit, convincing Sikong Yi that he might truly come from outside.

• Sikong Red Moon brought Nie Li to the Silverwing Family’s palace and warned him that five of the thirteen families were their enemies.
• Nie Li saw Duan Jian being whipped, learned that his parents had died for their forbidden relationship, and recognized the strength of his black dragon bloodline.
• Duan Longfei realized Duan Jian was his son, while Duan Jian silently endured Sikong Red Moon’s lashes and waited for a chance to take revenge.
• Nie Li decided he might rescue Duan Jian when he attacked the Silverwing Family.
• Sikong Yi ordered his guards to behead Nie Li after dismissing his claim to be a Silver Radiance Family descendant, but stopped them when Nie Li merged with his Demon Spirit.

Nie Li manipulated Sikong Yi with the promise of a cure for silverwing rejection and used the patriarch’s hospitality to enter the Silverwing Family’s territory with his companions. After the Sky Screen ended, Nie Li led more than a hundred experts toward the Silverwing Family Mine.

• Nie Li told Sikong Yi that he knew how to cure silverwing rejection, eased his pain with heavenly remedy grass, and withheld the full prescription while seeking suitable substitute herbs.
• Sikong Yi agreed to let Nie Li bring his companions into the Silverwing Family’s territory and sent Sikong Red Moon to escort them.
• Nie Li’s group joined him, and Du Ze introduced them as Lei Duo’s friends when Sikong Red Moon asked who they were.
• At the banquet, Nie Li requested that Sikong Yi hand over Duan Jian so he could use him to test the medicine, and Sikong Yi eyed him suspiciously.
• The Sky Screen ended, and Sikong Yi returned to the hall while Duan Jian continued to endure the whipping.
• Nie Li led more than a hundred experts toward the Silverwing Family Mine with a local guide.

Nie Li and his allies seized a Silverwing Family mine, freed its enslaved miners, and prepared to defend it from reinforcements. As Ye Ming faced Patriarch Sikong Yi’s troops, Nie Li vanished to carry out a secret plan.

• Ye Ming used Blizzard to freeze the Silverwing Family guards without harming the miners, while Nie Li’s forces secured the mine.
• Nie Li promised the miners their freedom, and Du Ze, Lu Piao, and Chen Linjian revealed the corpses of the inscription masters who had made their slave marks.
• Nie Li crippled Sikong Shou and let the miners beat him, then offered them wages to stay or travel funds to leave.
• Silverwing Family reinforcements approached, so Nie Li whispered a plan to Ye Ming, merged with the Shadow Demon Spirit, and disappeared while Ye Ming formed a defensive line.
• Patriarch Sikong Yi arrived with his troops, saw Ye Ming’s much stronger force, and received Ye Ming’s silent challenge to attack.

Nie Li infiltrated the Silverwing Family's treetop palace and freed Duan Jian, then helped him fight off the guards. With Nie Li's Gravity Field pinning Sikong Red Moon down, Duan Jian killed her, beginning his revenge against the family.

• Nie Li used his shadow demon spirit to enter the palace, killed the two Gold Rank warriors whipping Duan Jian, and freed him.
• Nie Li gave Duan Jian the Black Dragon Heaven-Burning Sword as the Silverwing Family's guards discovered them.
• Sikong Red Moon confronted Nie Li and Duan Jian, and Nie Li blasted a crater into the palace with his Light-Dark Primordial Qi Blast.
• Duan Jian attacked Sikong Red Moon while Nie Li used Gravity Field to pin her down and block the other guards from entering.
• Duan Jian forced his way through the crushing gravity and killed Sikong Red Moon with the Black Dragon Heaven-Burning Sword.

Duan Jian avenged his parents by killing Sikong Red Moon, then joined Nie Li in fighting through the Silverwing Family’s guards and escaping by Golden Feather Eagle. They destroyed the Treetop Palace before returning to Bright Village, where Duan Jian was welcomed at the victory feast and broke down in tears.

• Duan Jian killed Sikong Red Moon and knelt before Nie Li, declaring him his master.
• Nie Li and Duan Jian fought through the Silver-Armored Guards and escaped on the Golden Feather Eagle.
• Nie Li hurled Bloodburst Demon Bottles at the Silverwing Family’s territory, wrecking the Treetop Palace as they flew toward Bright Village.
• Sikong Yi learned of the destruction and Sikong Red Moon’s death, then swore vengeance on Nie Li and Duan Jian.
• At the victory feast in Bright Village, Duan Jian felt the others’ warmth and wept.

Nie Li began awakening Duan Jian’s Black Dragon bloodline, then traveled with Ye Ming to claim the Eight-Armed Demon Monster as his third demon spirit. After refining its Demon Spirit Stone, Nie Li transformed into a towering demon whose aura alarmed Ye Ming.

• Nie Li warned Duan Jian that awakening his Black Dragon bloodline would bring ten days of agony and could kill him, but Duan Jian accepted the risk.
• Nie Li gave Duan Jian a life-saving pill and inserted thirty-six needles, beginning the painful bloodline awakening.
• Nie Li and Ye Ming journeyed into the Black Prison World’s mountains to find the Eight-Armed Demon Monster’s Demon Spirit Stone.
• The two entered a sinister cave, where Nie Li found and picked up the purplish-black Demon Spirit Stone.
• Nie Li refined the stone and transformed into a massive Eight-Armed Demon Monster, startling Ye Ming with his powerful aura.

Nie Li returned to Bright Village with a God Tier Eight-Armed Demon Monster Demon Spirit and prepared to expand his settlement and bring in more people from Glory City. As the Divine Flame Family's envoy Li Heng arrived to meet him, Lu Piao and Chen Linjian speculated about the family's motives outside the soundproof reception room.

• Nie Li was satisfied with his third Demon Spirit, and he and Ye Ming returned after finding the Radiant Stones.
• News of the Silverwing Family's defeat spread, and families and refugees began approaching Bright Village to seek refuge or pledge allegiance.
• Nie Li accepted treasures brought as pledges, gave the Wind Snow Spirit Pearl to Ye Ziyun, and agreed with Du Ze to bring more people from Glory City.
• Wei Nan told Nie Li that the Divine Flame Family had sent Li Heng, who arrived at Bright Village and was impressed by its reception hall and furnishings.
• Li Heng greeted Nie Li and asked to establish contact, while Lu Piao failed to overhear their conversation and Chen Linjian guessed that the Divine Flame Family wanted a good relationship with them.

The Divine Flame Family joined Glory City after Li Heng saw Bright Village’s prosperity, and other families began following its lead. Meanwhile, Nie Li secured Duan Jian’s loyalty and began a brutal process to awaken his bloodline, while Sikong Yi remained wary and sought the antidote’s full prescription.

• Li Heng visited Bright Village, saw its abundant food and arriving experts, and returned to the Divine Flame Family.
• The Divine Flame Family decided to join Glory City, and several smaller families followed.
• Sikong Yi agreed to Nie Li’s request but remained suspicious of him and had Duan Jian brought to Nie Li in chains.
• Nie Li offered Duan Jian a chance to awaken his Dragon Race bloodline and reach Legendary Rank, and Duan Jian pledged lifelong loyalty.
• Nie Li pierced Duan Jian with thirty-six silver needles, causing him to scream in agony as Sikong Yi questioned a guard about the torture.
• Sikong Red Moon said she still could not trust Nie Li completely, while Sikong Yi planned to obtain the antidote prescription before killing him.

Duan Jian awakened his Black Dragon bloodline while Nie Li visited a crimson blood crystal mine and witnessed the Silverwing Family abusing its slave workers. After Nie Li secretly gave a boy a cultivation art and condemned the Silverwing Family, rebellions spread through its mines, leaving Sikong Yi enraged and threatening to bring everyone down with him.

• Duan Jian awakened his Black Dragon bloodline, and Nie Li said his progress depended on his own fortune.
• Nie Li found a supervisor whipping an old man and his grandson at the mine and stopped him.
• Sikong Red Moon warned Nie Li that the miners were branded slaves who could not escape, while Nie Li secretly taught the boy a cultivation art.
• Nie Li decided the Silverwing Family no longer needed to exist, inspiring abused slaves and other victims to cheer for him.
• Sikong Yi learned that slave miners at several mines had rebelled and threatened to deny everyone peace.

Nie Li prepared to escape the Silverwing Family by securing Radiant Stones and plotting a route, while Sikong Yi sent guards to watch him and kept his friends as hostages. As Nie Li set out with Duan Jian, Sikong Jue’s abuse stirred Duan Jian’s hatred and threatened to ruin their plans.

• Nie Li explained the hidden acupoints to Xiao Ning'er, and Lu Piao interrupted them to report that Sikong Yi had found more than sixty Radiant Stones.
• Nie Li agreed to travel outside the Black Prison World for medicinal herbs and an antidote, while Sikong Yi kept Nie Li’s friends behind and allowed Duan Jian to accompany him.
• Sikong Yi told Sikong Red Moon that Nie Li would return for his friends, and he revealed his ambition to unite the thirteen families and expand into the outside world.
• Nie Li secretly mapped an escape route for his companions, while Duan Jian’s quiet hatred of the Silverwing Family grew.
• Sikong Jue led five guards to accompany Nie Li, withheld the Radiant Stones from him, and repeatedly kicked and insulted Duan Jian.
• Duan Jian’s eyes flashed crimson as Sikong Jue continued abusing him, and Nie Li feared that Duan Jian would attack and destroy their preparations.

Duan Jian broke free of his chains and began taking revenge on Sikong Jue and the others. Nie Li stopped Sikong Jue from escaping, but Sikong Jue swallowed six unrefined crimson blood crystals and transformed into a giant.

• Sikong Yi ordered his men to kill Nie Li and Duan Jian after they returned with the antidote.
• Nie Li led the group through packs of Red Ghosts until Duan Jian unleashed his power, snapped his chains, and revealed his dragon wings.
• Duan Jian resisted the warriors’ attacks and struck several of them down as he remembered his parents’ deaths and attacked Sikong Jue’s men.
• Sikong Jue tried to flee, but Nie Li’s Fangtooth Panda hit him with a Light-Dark Primordial Qi Blast and revealed Nie Li’s Gold Rank strength.
• Sikong Jue swallowed six unrefined crimson blood crystals and grew to four or five meters tall.

Duan Jian defeated Sikong Jue and pledged himself to Nie Li, who then planned their next move against the Silverwing Family. The pair traveled in disguise to the trading town, where Nie Li bought dragon soul stone and sent Duan Jian to gather more resources.

• Duan Jian overwhelmed Sikong Jue, then blasted him into a crater with Black Dragon's Wrathful Flame and avenged his parents.
• Duan Jian pledged loyalty to Nie Li, while the slaves watching the Sky Screen approved of Nie Li giving him hope.
• Nie Li and Duan Jian disposed of the bodies and took Sikong Jue's Space Ring, which held fifty Radiant Stones and other supplies.
• Duan Jian described the mountain families and warned Nie Li that the trading town was watched by the Silverwing Family's informants.
• Nie Li disguised himself and Duan Jian with cloud mud, then bought all the dragon soul stone at a marketplace stall.
• Nie Li gave Duan Jian a Space Ring full of grain and sent him to acquire crimson blood crystal and dragon soul stone.

Nie Li traded grain and meat for the Wind Snow Spirit Pearl, then gave Duan Jian dragon soul stone and bought him the Black Flame Sword with pills. They reached the Seventh Floor of the Divine Flame pavilion, where Duan Jian spotted a pile of Inscription Scrolls that puzzled Nie Li.

• Nie Li bought the Wind Snow Spirit Pearl from an impoverished old man, who had been struggling to pay tribute to the Silverwing Family.
• The old man's family later received a home, supplies, education for their children, and cultivation resources from Glory City, leaving him grateful to Nie Li.
• Nie Li gave Duan Jian dragon soul stone to temper his soul force and then took him to the Divine Flame pavilion.
• Nie Li traded pills with Li Fu for the Black Flame Sword and gave it to Duan Jian, while declining Li Fu's offer to join the Divine Flame Family but allowing for possible cooperation.
• Li Fu let Nie Li and Duan Jian enter the Seventh Floor, where Duan Jian pointed out Inscription Scrolls that Nie Li found strangely valuable.

Nie Li traded pills with Li Heng for ancient inscription scrolls and three invisible attributeless throwing knives, then gave Duan Jian a ring full of pills. Beneath the Sky Screen, Nie Li prepared to destroy the Silverwing Family, while the experts saw the completed array around Bright Village and feared its power.

• Nie Li recognized the faded Legendary Rank scrolls as repairable, then traded Soul-Tempering Pills with Li Heng for them and established an ongoing pill-for-treasure arrangement.
• Nie Li bargained with Li Heng for three throwing knives made from Heavenly One Divine Crystal, refusing to join the Divine Flame Family and paying with pills instead.
• Nie Li told Li Heng his real name, then left the pavilion with Duan Jian after nightfall.
• Nie Li gave Duan Jian a Space Ring filled with thousands of pills and told him to use them freely.
• Beneath the Sky Screen, Nie Li directed the Golden Feather Eagle to descend and said they would destroy the Silverwing Family after watching the Sky Screen.
• The experts saw the completed array surrounding Bright Village and feared its power, which surpassed the Taiyi Killing Array.