Recaps

After discovering that their immortal domains had been massacred, Chen Xu and the other Immortal Lords followed Shen Ming to confront Feng Hai and eight other ailing Immortal Emperors. Feng Hai admitted that they sought new vessels to contain the black entities consuming them, and both sides prepared to fight for the fate of the Immortal Realm.

• Gu Hong and the other Immortal Lords found their principal planets devastated, while Shen Ming revealed that he had no loved ones or domain to lose.
• Lu Yu identified the seals as Feng Hai's work, and Chen Xu, Gu Hong, and Shen Ming agreed to confront him.
• Shen Ming led the group to a vast, empty palace, where they found Feng Hai and eight other Immortal Emperors weakened by black energy.
• Feng Hai stopped Gu Hong's sword strike and revealed that he had long observed Shen Ming, who had secretly attained the Emperor Realm.
• Shen Ming deduced that the black entities were consuming the Emperors and that they intended to take the Immortal Lords' bodies as vessels.
• Feng Hai confirmed their bodies were failing and challenged the Immortal Lords to fight, as both sides prepared for battle.

After the battle, Feng Hai gave Shen Ming a Jade Slip containing his lifetime of knowledge about sealing the Other Race and challenged him to consider whether he would make the same choices as the Immortal Emperors. Once Feng Hai died, Lu Yu discovered a section of the Jade Slip titled “Mortal Forbidden Zone Plan” bearing Jiang Taibai’s name, leaving the survivors stunned.

• The battle ended with Shen Ming standing, while Chen Xu, Gu Hong, and the other surviving Immortal Lords lay grievously wounded among the dead.
• Feng Hai told Shen Ming that the Other Race beings trapped inside the dead Immortal Emperors could not escape for now, then gave him a Jade Slip containing his research on the Sealing Technique.
• Shen Ming told Feng Hai that his original name was Sun Ming, and Feng Hai asked whether he would act differently from those he condemned when he took the Immortal Emperor’s seat.
• Feng Hai died after warning the survivors that his words would haunt them, and Shen Ming collapsed from exhaustion.
• Lu Yu examined the Jade Slip and found a section titled “Mortal Forbidden Zone Plan” bearing Jiang Taibai’s name, shocking him and Gu Hong.

Lu Yu’s Jade Slip revealed that Jiang Taibai discovered the taint behind the Other Race, while Feng Hai and the Immortal Emperors repurposed the Mortal Forbidden Zone plan to seal it using Immortal Lords as vessels. Years after the Other Race was sealed and the Immortal Realm recovered, Shen Ming learned that Si Chen had appeared at the Forgotten River and set his sights on the Mortal Forbidden Zones, so he decided to meet him.

• Lu Yu projected Jiang Taibai’s records, which described his Mortal Forbidden Zone plan, his discovery of taint, and his vow to atone with his death if the plan failed.
• Lu Yu read Feng Hai’s annotations identifying the Other Race as taint and explaining the plan to seal it within drained stars using powerful cultivators’ corpses and mortal inhabitants.
• Chen Xu realized the Immortal Emperors had intended to use the Demon Sovereigns’ corpses, then chose Immortal Lords as substitute vessels after Zhu Yao sealed the Demon Realm.
• Gu Hong cursed the Immortal Emperors’ decision, while Lu Yu confirmed that Feng Hai’s sealing method was real and Shen Ming watched Feng Hai’s corpse in silence.
• Many years later, Shen Ming and Chen Xu mourned the Immortal Lords whose names were engraved in the hall, and Shen Ming said he no longer knew whether his real name was Shen Ming or Sun Ming.
• Shen Ming learned that Si Chen had appeared at the Forgotten River and wanted to act on the Mortal Forbidden Zones, then volunteered to go and see what sort of person Si Chen was.

Chen Xu confessed that he and his allies had repeated the First-Generation Immortal Emperors’ killings to sustain the Mortal Forbidden Zone plan, then challenged Si Chen to do the same. Si Chen rejected Chen Xu’s logic, vowed to end the Mortal Forbidden Zone, and left with Chen Xu and Jiang Ling while Purple Firmament Heaven prepared to evacuate the mortals.

• Jiang Ling demanded to know whether Chen Xu had killed the Immortal Lords of her father’s generation, and Si Chen accused him of repeating the First-Generation Immortal Emperors’ methods.
• Chen Xu admitted that his group had killed cultivators who later became Immortal Lords and continued the Mortal Forbidden Zone plan, then insisted Si Chen would make the same choices.
• Si Chen declared that Chen Xu’s rules and predicament did not apply to him, and revealed that he knew Chen Xu had not killed Jiang Yuan.
• Si Chen announced that the Mortal Forbidden Zone would cease to exist, ordered Bai He, Chen Yong, Mo Xuan, and Yue Hua to monitor the zones, and told them to evacuate the mortals.
• Si Chen took Chen Xu through a spatial rift, and Jiang Ling followed him toward the Forgotten River.

Si Chen returned to the battlefield above the Forgotten River with Jiang Ling and Chen Xu, interrupting the Immortal Emperors’ fight against Zhu Yao, Feng Qing, and the Undying Mountain group. After manifesting a spear of black lightning, he declared that the Immortal Realm belonged to him from that day forward.

• Si Chen used the Great Void Shift to bring Jiang Ling and Chen Xu to the void above the Forgotten River, where solar true flame parted around them.
• Jiang Ling and Chen Xu saw Zhu Yao and Feng Qing fighting alongside the Undying Mountain group against ten Immortal Emperors.
• Zhu Yao stopped her attack when she sensed Si Chen, and the Immortal Emperors recognized Chen Xu in his grasp.
• Song Chi and the others from Undying Mountain relaxed at Si Chen’s return, while Xie Changsheng sensed something troubling about him.
• Si Chen tossed Chen Xu aside, formed a spear from black lightning, and declared that the Immortal Realm was his.

Si Chen gave the ten Immortal Emperors one chance to attack him together, then destroyed Lu Yu’s sealing tower and plunged them into a darkness that suppressed their senses. Shen Ming urged the group to retreat, but the chapter left them flying through the endless darkness with no sign of escape.

• Si Chen appeared among the ten Immortal Emperors and told them they had one chance to attack him together.
• Lu Yu summoned the Ninefold Heaven-Sealing Seal, and the other Immortal Emperors joined him in powering the golden tower.
• Si Chen remained still as the tower descended, then broke it apart with black lightning, injuring Lu Yu and the others through backlash.
• Darkness swallowed the battlefield, and the Immortal Emperors’ divine senses were severely suppressed; they found that Si Chen, Zhu Yao, Feng Qing, the Undying Mountain cultivators, and Chen Xu were gone.
• Shen Ming advised the Immortal Emperors to retreat and rescue Chen Xu later, so Lu Yu led them flying in one direction.
• The ten Immortal Emperors flew for an extended time, but the darkness around them remained unchanged and endless.

Si Chen overwhelmed the Immortal Emperors, then reunited with his white-robed counterpart and returned to his complete form. After directing everyone to handle the aftermath, he asked Shen Ming to remove his mask and recognized the face as belonging to an ancestor of the Si clan.

• Lu Yu and the other Immortal Emperors found themselves trapped in darkness before a pair of enormous eyes appeared and crushed their dharma forms.
• Si Chen warned the Immortal Emperors that they would die if they moved again, and they stayed still.
• Golden light streamed from Xie Changsheng and the others, forming a white-robed Si Chen beside the black-robed Si Chen.
• The two versions of Si Chen merged, and Si Chen directed his allies to deal with the Immortal Emperors and move the Demon Realm army near Undying Mountain.
• Si Chen ordered Shen Ming to remove his mask, and Si Kai and Si Shuo recognized his face from the portrait in their clan's Ancestral Hall.
• Si Chen asked whether he should call the masked man Shen Ming, Sun Ming, or Ancestor Si Ming.

Shen Ming revealed that he was Si Ming, an ancestor of Si Chen’s family, and explained that other Si Household descendants had hidden their identities in the Immortal Realm. Si Chen prepared to return to the Undying Mountain with his family and the defeated Immortal Emperors, planning to summon Zhao Wumian for answers.

• Si Shuo accused Shen Ming of impersonating the Si Household ancestor, while Si Kai and the others realized they had fought their own forebear.
• Si Ming told Si Chen that the later Si Household descendants had concealed their names and identities in the Immortal Realm.
• Si Ming named Zhao Wumian as an Immortal Emperor who had Si Household descendants serving under him, and Si Chen recalled meeting him on the Mining Star.
• Zhu Yao and Feng Qing joined Si Chen as the Demon Realm army headed for the Undying Mountain.
• Si Chen ordered the ten Immortal Emperors brought back with them, and Si Ming flew toward the Undying Mountain ahead of the others.

Zhao Wumian sensed trouble and considered moving again, while Si Chen returned to the Undying Mountain with the Demon Sovereign and the Demon Realm army. After revealing the truth behind the ancient plans and the Demon Race’s role as intended vessels, Si Chen followed the furious Zhu Yao out of the hall.

• Zhao Wumian felt a sudden shiver and decided he might need to move again rather than risk approaching trouble.
• The Demon Realm’s army emerged at the Forgotten River, and Si Chen reassured the panicked cultivators that the Demon Sovereign and Immortal Emperors had come as guests.
• Gray Gray rushed to greet Si Chen, while Zhu Yao and Feng Qing exchanged jealous and teasing looks over his affection.
• At the Undying Mountain, Si Chen explained the origins of the Other Race, the First-Generation Immortal Emperor’s plan, and the truth behind the Mortal Forbidden Zone and the slaughter of the Immortal Lords.
• Zhu Yao learned that Feng Hai and others had planned to use the Demon Race as vessels, then left the hall in anger, followed by Feng Qing and Si Chen.

After the Immortal Emperors’ schemes were suppressed, Zhu Yao left the hall and admitted to Si Chen that she wanted to kill those responsible. Si Chen supported her choice, and she returned to her child form and embraced him, while Feng Qing tried and failed to get the same comfort.

• Gray Gray was knocked into the air by Zhu Yao and Feng Qing as they rushed out, and Si Chen comforted it before chasing after them.
• The Undying Mountain’s formation suppressed the Immortal Emperors’ attempts to scheme, and Lu Yu gave up and closed his eyes.
• Zhu Yao stood at a cliff with Feng Qing and told Si Chen she wanted to kill people; he said he would support her and help.
• Zhu Yao returned to her original child form and embraced Si Chen.
• Feng Qing claimed she had twisted her ankle and transformed into a little girl, but Red Bean objected when she sought Si Chen’s embrace.

Si Chen returned to the Main Hall and said he knew how to deal with the Other Race, while declaring that the Mortal Forbidden Zone would cease to exist. He proposed keeping the Immortal Emperors in the Forgotten River, leaving Jiang Ling’s grievance against Jiang Yuan unresolved.

• Feng Qing asked Si Chen what he planned to do, and he said they would first clear out the remaining Other Race and send them on their final journey.
• Red Bean and Feng Qing recounted how they had met Jiang Yuan and Shen Wei, leading Red Bean to suspect the pair knew the truth about the Other Race and might not have been among those slaughtered.
• Si Chen returned to the Main Hall with Red Bean, Feng Qing, and Zhu Yao, where Jiang Ling and the Immortal Emperors were waiting.
• Si Chen told everyone that the Mortal Forbidden Zone would never exist again and suggested the Forgotten River could hold the Immortal Emperors.
• Black Mountain asked whether they should tie up the Immortal Emperors, while Zhou Yan avoided his signal for a binding rope.

After the Immortal Emperors left, Si Chen’s companions worried they were falling behind him, and he reassured them that their achievements were their own. Feng Qing and Zhu Yao carried Gray Gray away for a stroll, leaving the donkey braying miserably as the others wondered what was happening to it.

• Si Ming led the Immortal Emperors out of the hall, while Jiang Ling kicked over their chairs and left in anger.
• Si Shuo slipped away, and Feng Qing and Zhu Yao decided to explore and check on the army.
• Feng Qing scooped up Gray Gray and carried it off despite its protests, while Si Chen made no move to rescue it.
• Xie Changsheng and Song Chi told Si Chen they felt they were falling behind and becoming people he had to protect.
• Si Chen said his progress came from being born different and praised his companions for reaching their heights through their own efforts.
• Black Mountain lightened the mood by boasting about becoming an ancestor, but Gray Gray’s distant brays left everyone wondering if it was being stewed.

Song Chi connected the black, regenerating beings he encountered during ascension to the Other Race, while the group linked them to Cang Xuan and Jiang Taibai’s investigation of a lingering “filth.” After Zhu Yao and Feng Qing brought ten Demon Emperors to meet Si Chen, Si Chen considered visiting the Demon Realm once the Immortal Realm’s affairs were settled.

• Song Chi told Si Chen and the others that black, regenerating beings he had fought during ascension resembled the Other Race and that Cang Xuan had called them demon puppets.
• Luo Hongyi read Jiang Taibai’s note about dangerous “filth” left behind when cultivators died and his plan to consult Cang Xuan in the Demon Realm.
• Murong Li said she could not see the future clearly, but that it had been all light since she began following Si Chen, except when he prepared to break the Demon Realm’s seal.
• Zhu Yao and Feng Qing returned with ten Demon Emperors, while Gray Gray collapsed after their flight and discovered that his signature bangs had turned into an afro and fallen out.
• Feng Qing introduced the ten Demon Emperors to Si Chen, who welcomed them and considered visiting the Demon Realm to investigate its possible connection to the Other Race, Cang Xuan, and Jiang Taibai.

Si Chen hosted the Demon Emperors while Red Bean and Feng Qing competed for his attention, and he arranged for Black Mountain and Red Wind to strengthen their bloodlines. Meanwhile, Bai He evacuated the mortals from Floating Net Heaven, but the Mortal Forbidden Zones began erupting as he and Chen Yong were coordinating their work.

• Red Bean and Feng Qing sat on either side of Si Chen and sparred over his attention as he welcomed the Demon Emperors and introduced the people from Undying Mountain.
• Red Bean offered to strengthen Black Mountain and Red Wind's bloodlines with ancient demons' origin blood from the Fusang Divine Tree, and Feng Qing agreed to take them there.
• Si Chen left the gathering, and Feng Qing and Red Bean argued over whether she wanted to share his burdens or his affection.
• Bai He ordered the final evacuation of Floating Net Heaven's mortals and contacted Chen Yong, who reported that most Immortal Kings had followed Si Chen's orders but some were delaying.
• Black mist erupted from the Mortal Forbidden Zone as the ground shook, and Bai He recognized the crisis, ordered Chen Yong to notify Si Chen, and commanded his army to retreat.

Si Chen learned more about Jiang Taibai, Cang Xuan, and the sealed Demon Realm from Si Ming. The black mist then broke through the seals across the Mortal Forbidden Zone, and Bai He reported that mortals on several planets had been wiped out.

• Si Kai told Si Chen that his grandfather was alive with Zhao Wumian, whose original name was Si Mian.
• Si Chen asked Si Ming about Jiang Taibai and Cang Xuan, and Si Ming described Jiang Taibai as a decent Immortal Emperor and Cang Xuan as a genius who sought to understand the world's essence.
• Si Ming warned that the sealed Demon Realm could not be entered and that something inside had watched them with curiosity when they approached.
• Bai He contacted Si Chen to report that black mist had broken through the seals in the Mortal Forbidden Zone and that all the seals were collapsing.
• Bai He said some Immortal Kings had disobeyed Si Chen's orders and that the mortals on those planets had been wiped out, then asked him for a decision.

After learning that the Mortal Forbidden Zones were collapsing and the Other Race was emerging, Si Chen gathered allies and led the Demon Race army toward the crisis. The army marched to war under Red Bean’s command.

• Bai He reported that the Mortal Forbidden Zones were failing, the Other Race was breaking through, and mortals remained on some stars; Si Chen decided to go there.
• Si Ming explained that Earthbound Spirits had appeared as the seals weakened and suggested the danger had long been expected.
• Si Chen told the assembled Demon Sovereigns and allies about the crisis, and Red Bean, Feng Qing, the ten Demon Emperors, and his companions agreed to accompany him.
• Si Chen left Gray Gray behind to watch the Immortal Emperors while the Demon Race army assembled near Undying Mountain.
• Red Bean ordered the Demon Race army to follow her to war.

Si Chen led the Demon Realm fleet toward Floating Net Heaven but opened a Great Void Shift passage to the wrong destination, forcing Red Bean to correct it. At Floating Net Heaven, Bai He struggled to hold back the Other Race as a mass of black mist erupted.

• Si Chen chose Floating Net Heaven as the fleet's first destination and had Red Bean guide the army using Luo Hongyi's star chart.
• Si Chen opened a Great Void Shift passage, but it led to the Demon Realm instead of Floating Net Heaven.
• Red Bean joined her spatial power with Si Chen's and redirected the passage to Floating Net Heaven.
• Bai He fought the Other Race while his forces retreated from the spreading black mist.
• The black mist churned and exploded as Bai He sensed disaster.

A withered Immortal Emperor emerged from the black mist and overwhelmed the Floating Net Heaven army, forcing Bai He to stay behind and buy time for a retreat. Si Chen arrived with Red Bean, Feng Qing, and a million demon soldiers, then charged the Emperor with Little Lei transformed into a spear.

• A dead Immortal Emperor emerged from the black mist and raised slain Floating Net Heaven cultivators as black-mist puppets.
• Bai He ordered his soldiers to retreat, then charged the Emperor to buy them time.
• The Emperor surrounded Bai He with black mist, but Si Chen appeared through a spatial rift and dispersed it with golden light.
• Red Bean and Feng Qing arrived with Si Chen, followed by a million demon soldiers, and joked that he had gotten lost.
• Si Chen summoned Little Lei as a spear, called the Emperor a filthy thing, and charged at it.

Si Chen overwhelmed the awakened skeletal creature while the Demon Race army joined Floating Net Heaven’s forces to fight the remaining enemies. The creature re-formed after Si Chen shattered its head and warned that this was only one battlefield and that Si Chen could not save everyone.

• Si Chen battered the skeletal creature against meteor fragments until its body and head were repeatedly shattered.
• Black Mountain remarked that Si Chen was venting, while Luo Hongyi recorded his rampage and Feng Qing teased Red Bean before the Demon Sovereigns ordered the Demon Race to clear the battlefield.
• The Demon Race army divided into ten units and charged, while Bai He rallied Floating Net Heaven’s soldiers to support the reinforcements.
• Song Chi recognized that the enemy’s aura resembled Cang Xuan’s Demon Puppet and suspected Cang Xuan had been studying such beings.
• Si Chen stamped the skeletal creature’s head into fragments, but it re-formed and warned that this was only one battlefield and that Si Chen could not save everyone.

Si Chen confronted Shuijing, the former Immortal Emperor of the Mystic Ice Dao, after Shuijing froze the battlefield. Si Chen overpowered him with the Law of Time and solar true flame, then destroyed him completely.

• Shuijing re-formed his body and froze the starry sky, immobilizing most of the fighters.
• Si Chen remained unaffected, seized Shuijing by the throat, and used his power to thaw the battlefield.
• Si Chen burned Shuijing with solar true flame and warned him to flee beyond his sight if he wanted to survive.
• Si Chen pinned Shuijing down, reduced his body to a head, and crushed it, preventing the black mist from gathering again.

After Shuijing vanished, Si Chen rescued the allied forces from the Other Race and annihilated the remaining enemies with a vast bombardment of fireballs. He asked whether everyone was all right, and Black Mountain replied that he was fine, though a little hard of hearing.

• Shuijing disappeared, and the cultivators of Floating Net Heaven and the Demon Realm surged against the remaining members of the Other Race.
• Si Chen judged the battle too slow and prepared a storm of orange-red fireballs, prompting Black Mountain and the others to recognize his destructive technique and flee.
• Si Chen used Great Void Shift to move the crowded allied armies behind him in a single instant.
• Si Chen unleashed the fireballs, wiping out the Other Race and clearing the surrounding void of debris.
• Si Chen asked whether everyone was all right, and Black Mountain said he was fine but had trouble hearing.

Si Chen saved Floating Net Heaven from the black mist and learned that the same threats had vanished from other Mortal Forbidden Zones. He set out for Purple Firmament Heaven, but Feng Qing and Red Bean insisted that Red Bean handle the spatial travel as the Immortal Realm’s situation remained uncertain.

• Bai He and the survivors of Floating Net Heaven hailed Si Chen as their Imperial Lord, and Si Chen lifted them to their feet.
• Bai He learned that the black mist and Other Race beings at other Mortal Forbidden Zones had collapsed into mist and disappeared.
• Si Chen told Bai He to tend to the evacuated mortals and alert him if the threats returned, then decided to inspect the other Immortal Domains.
• Feng Qing and Red Bean stopped Si Chen from using Great Void Shift, and Red Bean opened a golden spatial rift toward Purple Firmament Heaven.
• Feng Qing led the Demon Realm army through the rift with Si Chen, while Bai He ordered Floating Net Heaven’s forces to clear the battlefield, count casualties, and contact other outposts.

Si Chen led the Demon Realm army through a spatial rift to Purple Firmament Heaven, where its arrival rescued the cultivators from the Other Race. He entrusted Feng Qing and the Demon Emperors with the battle while he watched over the battlefield.

• Song Chi told Si Chen that the black enemies resembled Cang Xuan's Demon Puppets and admitted he had absorbed their energy crystals; Zhou Yan and Xie Changsheng joked about giving him a dignified death if he transformed.
• Si Chen and the demon army emerged onto Purple Firmament Heaven's battlefield, where the Other Race had pushed the cultivators into a desperate fight.
• Si Chen's Firefly technique struck down Other Race warriors, and the Immortal Kings Chen Yong, Mo Xuan, and Yue Hua recognized him as their Imperial Lord.
• Si Chen ordered Feng Qing and the ten Demon Emperors to lead the attack, and Feng Qing commanded the million-strong demon army to crush the enemy.
• Song Chi, Xie Changsheng, Zhou Yan, Murong Li, Luo Hongyi, Black Mountain, and Red Wind joined the fighting while Si Chen calmly monitored the battlefield.

Si Chen and the Demon Realm army helped Purple Firmament Heaven defeat the Other Race beings, and Si Chen healed the wounded with an ancestral craft. After learning where the remaining Mortal Forbidden Zones lay, he led the assembled forces to cleanse the Immortal Realm.

• Si Chen let the Eastern Region group temper themselves in battle while Zhu Yao and Feng Qing fought alongside the Demon Realm army to defeat the Other Race beings.
• Chen Yong, Mo Xuan, and Yue Hua thanked Si Chen for saving Purple Firmament Heaven and explained that they had prepared for the attack after witnessing him break the first Mortal Forbidden Zone.
• Si Chen used an ancestral craft to restore the cultivators’ wounds and vitality, and their cries of gratitude made him sense a faint force flowing into his body.
• Si Chen asked about the other Mortal Forbidden Zones, and Chen Yong gave him a jade slip marking their locations.
• Red Bean memorized the coordinates, and Si Chen told the Eastern Region group and the Demon Realm army to follow him in cleansing the Immortal Realm.

Over ten years, Si Chen and his allies purged the collapsed Mortal Forbidden Zones across the Immortal Realm while the Eastern Region group grew stronger and Jiang Ling joined the campaign. After Canglan Heaven’s Immortal King’s hesitation led to the deaths of tens of billions of mortals, Si Chen destroyed his Dao Foundation and left him stranded among his ruined starfield.

• Si Chen, Red Bean, Feng Qing, and the demon army spent ten years cleansing starfields of Other Race creatures, while Gray Gray guarded the detained Immortal Emperors at Undying Mountain.
• Jiang Ling joined the cleansing army in the second year, and the Eastern Region group advanced to the Mystic Immortal realm through repeated battles.
• Canglan Heaven’s Immortal King had failed to evacuate its mortals after secretly delaying his decision, and tens of billions died when the black mist was released.
• Si Chen’s army slaughtered the Other Race creatures in Canglan Heaven, then Si Chen rejected the Immortal King’s excuses and shattered his Dao Foundation.
• Si Chen left the powerless Immortal King in the ruins and led the demon army toward the next starfield.