Recaps

After a ten-year purge erased the Other Race from the Immortal Realm, Si Chen suspected their lack of resistance meant they had used the campaign to accomplish something elsewhere. He led the exhausted army toward Jade Qiong Heaven to rest, where Murong Li could visit her father.

• Si Chen stripped Immortal Kings who had stood aside of their cultivation and left them to live among the ruined domains they had ruled.
• Red Bean, Feng Qing, and Si Chen questioned whether the Other Race had stalled the purge to achieve a greater purpose, possibly in the Demon Realm.
• Si Chen ended the campaign and agreed to rest the army in Jade Qiong Heaven so Murong Li could see her father.
• Zhou Yan tried to dissuade the group from entering Jade Qiong Heaven, and Xie Changsheng, Song Chi, and Black Mountain teased him about his embarrassing past with the Murong family.
• Luo Hongyi stopped the others from joking further, and Si Chen ordered Feng Qing to restrain the army's demonic auras so they would not disturb local cultivators.

Si Chen arrived at Jade Qiong Heaven with Murong Li and the Undying Mountain group, where Murong Yuan welcomed them and Zhou Yan was unnerved by Nanny Wang. Later, Heartguard warned Si Chen that black mist was spreading through the Lower Realm and raising the dead, prompting him to turn cold at the news.

• Murong Yuan and Jade Qiong Heaven's cultivators welcomed Si Chen's fleet, and Si Chen stopped Murong Yuan from bowing to him.
• Murong Li reunited with her father, and Murong Yuan thanked Si Chen for looking after her before inviting the group to stay at the Murong Residence.
• Murong Yuan enthusiastically greeted Zhou Yan, while Nanny Wang's remarks about examining him in the past left him terrified and embarrassed.
• Si Chen left the welcoming banquet and contemplated his next plans in a secluded pavilion.
• Heartguard contacted Si Chen to report that black mist was appearing across the Lower Realm, corrupting cultivators and reviving corpses as the Eastern Region descended into chaos.

Si Chen learned that the invaders had reached the lower realms and left the pavilion with killing intent. He told the assembled group at the Murong residence, whose laughter stopped as they realized their loved ones and home realms might be in danger.

• Si Chen realized the invaders could reach the lower realms and vanished from the pavilion, thinking of his family and old acquaintances.
• At the Murong residence, Feng Qing and the others teased Zhou Yan and Song Chi about their embarrassing pasts while the gathering celebrated.
• Si Chen entered the hall, silencing everyone with his cold demeanor, and asked Murong Yuan to clear out the Jade Qiong Heaven guests.
• Si Chen told Xie Changsheng, Luo Hongyi, Zhou Yan, Song Chi, and the others that the invaders had gone to the lower realms.
• The group paled and thought of the people and places they cared about across the lower realms.

Si Chen and the Eastern Region’s allies returned to the Lower Realm to fight the creatures attacking it, while Red Bean and Feng Qing stayed behind to guard the Immortal Realm. As two cultivators were cornered by the monsters, Li Tiezhu arrived with a dramatic declaration.

• Si Chen learned that creatures had infiltrated the Lower Realm and attacked it, then prepared to return with the Eastern Region’s cultivators.
• Si Chen left Red Bean and Feng Qing to guard the Immortal Realm and told Murong Li to stay with her father.
• Si Chen opened a spatial rift, and Xie Changsheng, Song Chi, Zhou Yan, Luo Hongyi, Black Mountain, Red Wind, and the others went through to the Lower Realm.
• Two besieged Nascent Soul Realm cultivators tried to flee and sabotaged each other, but the creatures surrounded them.
• A pillar of light struck the battlefield, and Li Tiezhu of the Joyous Union Sect announced his arrival as the leader of the righteous path.

Li Tiezhu battled a horde of regenerating Other Race monsters, but his first attack failed to stop them. After borrowing 88,888 points from his system for a special countermeasure, he transformed his staff and destroyed the monsters, leaving Brother Zhang and Young Brother Wang in awe.

• Li Tiezhu arrived dramatically and crushed hundreds of Other Race monsters with his staff, saving Brother Zhang and Young Brother Wang.
• The monsters and black mist reassembled, stronger than before, while Li Tiezhu’s system failed to identify them.
• The system revealed that its shop held an item to counter the monsters and loaned Li Tiezhu 88,888 points to obtain it.
• Li Tiezhu’s staff transformed into a gold-capped weapon with dragon patterns and a powerful aura.
• Li Tiezhu struck the monsters with the transformed staff, burning them away so they could not regenerate.
• Brother Zhang and Young Brother Wang praised Li Tiezhu as he stood with his staff on his shoulder.

After defeating the fiends, Li Tiezhu learned that Ancient Gaze City was overrun and Si Qing was trapped there. The system gave him emergency travel gear for free, and he raced toward the city to rescue her.

• Old Brother Zhang and Little Brother Wang praised Li Tiezhu, then handed over their spirit stones as compensation for his cloak.
• The two survivors told Li Tiezhu that fiends had overwhelmed Ancient Gaze City and that the black mist revived the dead as attackers.
• Li Tiezhu recalled Si Ming's urgent message that Si Qing had gone to Ancient Gaze City and needed rescue.
• Old Brother Zhang and Little Brother Wang revealed that City Lord Yellow Crane had fled with the treasury's spirit stones and his wife's younger sister.
• The system issued Li Tiezhu a Somersault Cloud, Shrinking the Land to an Inch, armor, boots, and a crown at no cost.
• Li Tiezhu flew toward Ancient Gaze City at tremendous speed, leaving Old Brother Zhang and Little Brother Wang behind.

Si Qing was cornered by evil entities in the ruins of Ancient Gaze City, where her terrified flailing fists destroyed every monster that attacked her. Li Tiezhu arrived to rescue her but was accidentally punched into the rubble, leaving Si Qing unaware of what had happened.

• Si Qing hid among the ruins as evil entities approached, then unknowingly obliterated them with her panicked punches.
• Thousands of evil entities surrounded Si Qing, and the star necklace at her neck began to glow.
• Li Tiezhu descended on his Somersault Cloud and charged toward Si Qing, planning to rescue his Little Martial Aunt.
• Si Qing launched another blind flurry of punches, wiping out the horde and striking Li Tiezhu in the face.
• Li Tiezhu flew into a distant pile of rubble, while Si Qing opened her eyes and wondered where the monsters had gone.

Si Qing accidentally revealed immense strength while fighting evil spirits in Western City, and Wang Yan arrived with a huge rescue force after learning she was trapped. Wang Yan recognized Si Qing as his Junior Granduncle and vowed to protect her, just as Li Tiezhu emerged from the rubble and angrily confronted him.

• Si Qing realized her wild punches had sent the monsters flying, then found herself surrounded by thousands of hesitant evil spirits.
• Wang Yan arrived in Ancient Gaze City with cultivators he had rallied by calling in favors and promising free pill refining.
• Wang Yan offered the rescuers thirty years of free pill refining in exchange for protecting Si Qing, and they attacked the evil spirits.
• Wang Yan knelt before Si Qing and explained that she was his master's younger sister and his Junior Granduncle.
• Li Tiezhu emerged from the rubble with a swollen face, saw Wang Yan beside Si Qing, and shouted Wang Dacong's name in fury.

Li Tiezhu reunited with Wang Yan and Si Qing amid the battle against the Evil Entities, while Wang Yan mistook Li Tiezhu’s old coded phrases for signs of a brain disorder. The cultivators then discovered that the monsters could not be killed and were merging.

• Li Tiezhu recalled how Wang Yan had misunderstood his coded phrases years earlier and concluded that he had a brain disorder.
• Wang Yan greeted the injured Li Tiezhu and explained that he had brought an army of cultivators to protect Si Qing.
• Li Tiezhu bowed to Si Qing and introduced himself as Brother Chen’s eldest disciple.
• Si Qing called Li Tiezhu an uncle, and Wang Yan told her that Li Tiezhu believed chickens could turn into lotus roots.
• A Nascent Soul Realm Rogue Cultivator warned Master Wang that the monsters could not be killed and were merging.

Li Tiezhu and Wang Yan faced a fused void refinement-level monster after the cultivator army fled, while Wang Yan refused to abandon his senior brother. The system activated Li Tiezhu’s Heavenly Dharma Form and BGM domain, and Li Tiezhu struck the monster with his Sky-Supporting Pillar.

• The evil spirits fused into a thousand-foot monster whose aura reached the void refinement stage, frightening the cultivators into fleeing.
• Li Tiezhu ordered Wang Yan to escape with Si Qing, but Wang Yan misread his intentions and set up defensive formations and gave Li Tiezhu pills.
• The monster charged, shattered Wang Yan’s formations, and forced Li Tiezhu to call on the system for help.
• The system granted Li Tiezhu the Heavenly Dharma Form and activated his Exclusive BGM Domain, causing him to grow to the monster’s size in golden armor.
• Li Tiezhu raised the Sky-Supporting Pillar and struck the monster.

Li Tiezhu launched the stitched monster out of Ancient Gaze City to protect the survivors, then chased it into the wilderness to beat it. Back in the ruins, Wang Yan convinced Si Qing that Li Tiezhu cultivated the legendary Path of Madness, while Li Tiezhu sneezed and wondered who was cursing him.

• Li Tiezhu redirected his staff strike upward, then kicked the stitched monster out of Ancient Gaze City and into the distant wilderness.
• Wang Yan and Si Qing watched Li Tiezhu depart, and Wang Yan silently vowed to cure his supposed brain disorder.
• Si Qing asked Wang Yan about Li Tiezhu's powers, and Wang Yan claimed he cultivated the Path of Madness by turning fantasy into reality.
• Li Tiezhu pinned the stitched monster down and pummeled it in the wilderness before sneezing and cursing whoever was badmouthing him.

Li Tiezhu destroyed the Stitched Monster with his staff and hurried back to Ancient Gaze City to evacuate Si Qing and Wang Yan. After they left, Si Chen and his companions arrived at the devastated Mountain of Ten Thousand Silences, where Black Mountain realized his home had been obliterated and demanded to know who was responsible.

• Li Tiezhu used his super armor and Mighty Heavenly Dragon Enchantment to annihilate the Stitched Monster, but the system reclaimed his gear and charged him for its lost reserves.
• Li Tiezhu saw the destruction caused by his staff, realized Si Qing was still in Ancient Gaze City, and flew there on the Somersault Cloud.
• Li Tiezhu and Wang Yan escorted Si Qing onto a Flying Boat and left Ancient Gaze City for the Joyous Union Sect.
• Si Chen, Xie Changsheng, Song Chi, Zhou Yan, Luo Hongyi, Black Mountain, and Red Wind arrived at the ruined Mountain of Ten Thousand Silences after the Flying Boat departed.
• Black Mountain recognized the devastated land as his home and roared, demanding to know who had destroyed it.

Si Chen and the others discovered that the demons of the Mountain of Ten Thousand Silences had survived by retreating into Dragonfall Land, where they described an unknown force driving away the monsters. Si Chen sensed that something about the Lower Realm had changed, though he could not identify what.

• Black Mountain and Red Wind feared the Other Race had wiped out their kin, but Zhou Yan pointed out the lack of bodies or blood, and Si Chen suspected the demons had fled to Dragonfall Land.
• Si Chen led the group to Dragonfall Land, where Black Mountain called out and reunited with the surviving demons sheltering beneath the mountain.
• The old Wolf Demon explained that the demons had retreated underground after black monsters attacked and reanimated their dead, then endured a siege until strange celestial music drove the creatures away.
• After hearing the old Wolf Demon's account, Si Chen sensed that the wind in the Lower Realm had become unfamiliar, though he could not tell what had changed.

Si Chen and his companions split up to suppress the Filth Calamity, while Si Chen headed to Central Province to find Si Ming. At Zhongyang Pass, Si Ming prepared to defend Great Yin’s last barrier against the oncoming black tide.

• Si Chen sent his companions to return to their sects and purge nearby areas, assigning Black Mountain and Red Wind to the Southern Region.
• Si Chen chose to travel to Central Province because Si Ming was there, then vanished using Great Void Shift.
• Ye Tang learned that the southern defensive line had fallen and Zhongyang Pass was Great Yin’s final barrier before the capital.
• Si Ming recalled protecting refugees and soldiers as he fought his way to Zhongyang Pass, then refused the old general’s plea to retreat.
• Si Ming rallied Great Yin’s soldiers as the black tide surged toward the pass.

Si Ming arrived at Zhongyang Pass as its defenses collapsed and fought the advancing Filth Demons. Though Heartguard urged him to escape, he chose to protect the people behind the walls and charged back into the horde with her power bolstering him.

• The Filth Demons broke through Zhongyang Pass's formation, and Si Ming appeared to hold the breach with his sword.
• Si Ming fought off wave after wave of Filth Demons until his spiritual power dwindled and the breach was overrun.
• Heartguard manifested from the markings on Si Ming's wrist and crushed the demons around him with a burst of power.
• Heartguard urged Si Ming to retreat with her, but he refused to abandon the civilians and asked her to save some women and children instead.
• Heartguard joined with Si Ming and replenished his strength, and he charged back into the Filth Demons.

Si Ming and Zhongyang Pass’s defenders faced certain defeat when the city’s formation collapsed, until Si Chen appeared and froze the Filth Demons. Revealing himself as the Peerless King, Si Chen unleashed lightning against the monsters.

• Si Ming fought alongside Great Yin’s defenders while civilians supplied the wounded and the city’s formation.
• The formation over Zhongyang Pass shattered, allowing tens of thousands of Filth Demons to fly over the walls.
• Heartguard prepared to take Si Ming away, but a figure emerged from a golden fissure and froze the Filth Demons while leaving the defenders untouched.
• Si Ming and Heartguard recognized the newcomer as Si Chen, who summoned lightning and revealed himself to the defenders as the Peerless King.
• Si Chen swept his hand and commanded the lightning to destroy the frozen Filth Demons.

Si Chen destroyed the Filth Demons attacking Zhongyang Pass and reunited with Si Ming. After learning that most of Great Yin and two neighboring nations had fallen, he vowed to reclaim the lost lands.

• Si Chen summoned heavenly lightning that annihilated the Filth Demons without harming the people at Zhongyang Pass.
• Wang Mian and the defenders recognized Si Chen as the Peerless King and welcomed him back.
• Si Chen thanked Heartguard, then praised and healed Si Ming.
• Wang Mian told Si Chen that eighty percent of Great Yin and two neighboring nations had fallen to the monsters.
• Si Chen declared that they would take the lost territory back, and the generals swore to follow him.

After Zhongyang Pass survived the monster attack, Si Chen told Si Ming the calamity was tied to the Immortal Realm and sensed something wrong with Great Yin’s national fortune and the plane’s Heavenly Dao. He restored the pass’s defenses and healed its wounded before leaving with Si Ming for the Imperial Capital.

• Si Ming asked what the monsters were, and Si Chen said the calamity came from ancient troubles entangling the Immortal Realm and the Demon Realms.
• Si Ming told Si Chen that Qing'er was safe and traveling toward the Joyous Union Sect with Li Tiezhu and Wang Yan.
• Si Chen sensed something unfamiliar about Great Yin’s national fortune and wondered whether the plane’s Heavenly Dao had gone wrong.
• Si Chen reinforced Zhongyang Pass’s defensive formation by linking it to the Central Province Leyline.
• Si Chen healed the wounded and regrew Wang Mian’s missing arm, then promised supplies for the refugees.
• Si Chen and Si Ming left Zhongyang Pass for the Imperial Capital.

Ye Tang learned that the Peerless King had saved Zhongyang Pass, and Si Chen and Si Ming arrived in the Imperial Capital. Ye Tang greeted Si Chen as his imperial uncle, while Si Chen prepared to ask about Great Yin’s crisis.

• Ye Tang received a report that the Peerless King had resolved the crisis at Zhongyang Pass and laughed with relief.
• Si Chen and Si Ming opened a golden spatial rift and appeared above the refugee-filled Imperial Capital.
• Imperial commanders Chen Xiao and Lin Qing He recognized Si Chen and welcomed him back.
• Si Chen asked Chen Xiao and Lin Qing He to take him to Great Yin’s current ruler.
• Ye Tang hurried out to greet Si Chen and bowed, calling him his imperial uncle.

Si Chen reunited with Ye Tang and the officials of Great Yin, promising to end the calamity after saving Zhongyang Pass. He examined Great Yin’s Nation-Protecting Seal and discovered that the dynasty’s fortune and the people’s wishes had been consumed by filth.

• Ye Tang told Si Chen how he had been hidden away as Ye Jing’s son before Grand Princess Ye Fu placed him on Great Yin’s throne.
• Great Yin’s officials welcomed Si Chen, and he announced that Zhongyang Pass was safe and that he had returned to put an end to the disaster.
• Ye Tang reported that Ye Cang was gravely wounded while Ye Qing and Ye Xuan had gone to reinforce other prefectures and were missing.
• Si Chen asked Ye Tang to bring out Great Yin’s Nation-Protecting Seal so he could investigate an abnormality he had sensed.
• Si Chen activated the seal and revealed that black filth had devoured Central Province’s fortune and the people’s wishes.

Si Chen purified the Nation-Protecting Seal and erased the filth calamity across the Central Province with the Thunderbolt Spear. He then asked Little Lei to take him to meet the Heavenly Dao, whose condition still seemed strange.

• Si Chen burned away the filth pouring from the Nation-Protecting Seal and restored it to pure white jade.
• Si Chen went outside and saw the Imperial Capital overwhelmed by filth, then summoned the Thunderbolt Spear and declared he would wield the Heavenly Dao's authority.
• Si Chen unleashed lightning across the Central Province, destroying the Filth Demons and cleansing the calamity without harming people or buildings.
• Si Chen called Little Lei and asked it to guide him to the world's Heavenly Dao.

Si Chen entered the Origin Realm with Little Lei and found it already corrupted by Filth. He destroyed a manifestation that imitated the dead Hui Ming, Lü Ci, and Ye Jing, but it warned him that the invasion extended beyond this realm.

• Little Lei explained that the Origin Realm lay behind the world and guided Si Chen there.
• Si Chen told Si Ming, Ye Tang, and the others to handle Central Province's aftermath while he left in secret.
• Si Chen and Little Lei entered a pure white space where a Black Sphere appeared and transformed into Hui Ming.
• The Filth manifestation claimed it could take the forms of anyone who had died, then changed into Lü Ci and Ye Jing.
• Si Chen seized the manifestation and burned it with Sun True Flame, but it warned that the curtain had already risen and that its kind awaited him somewhere higher.

Si Chen saved the weakened Heavenly Dao from an invading entity and learned that his own nature existed beyond all laws. Before returning to the Immortal Realm, he proposed creating Boundary Guardians to protect the Origin Realm from future threats.

• After the invading entity vanished, Little Lei recognized the cracked sphere in Si Chen’s hand as his former boss, the Heavenly Dao.
• The Heavenly Dao took the shape of a transparent child and thanked Si Chen for saving him from being consumed by an outsider from the upper realm.
• The Heavenly Dao explained that Si Chen inspired reverence because he existed outside all laws, prompting Si Chen to wonder about a blank stretch in his memories.
• Si Chen gave the fading Heavenly Dao a wisp of refined essence, restoring his form.
• Si Chen proposed that the Heavenly Dao allow powerful beings to remain in the Lower Realm as Boundary Guardians, defending it from destruction and outside invasion.

Si Chen arranged for a Boundary Guardian to serve the Lower Realm in rotating thousand-year terms and considered Zhao Wumian for the role. After returning to Great Yin, he left its recovery to Ye Tang, Chen Xiao, and Lin Qing He, then set out with Si Ming to meet old acquaintances.

• Si Chen proposed that Boundary Guardians serve the Lower Realm for a thousand years before ascending, and the Heavenly Dao agreed that the arrangement was feasible.
• Si Chen decided to choose a guardian later, while Little Lei mocked the Heavenly Dao before Si Chen pulled him back into his body.
• Si Chen opened his own spatial rift and left the Origin Realm, returning to Great Yin's imperial capital.
• Ye Tang reported that the Filth Demons across Great Yin had vanished, and Si Chen entrusted him, Chen Xiao, and Lin Qing He with the realm's recovery.
• Si Chen told Ye Tang and the others that he had loose ends to settle, then departed with Si Ming to meet old acquaintances.

Si Chen left Great Yin after entrusting the Central Province to Ye Tang, then discovered that his Great Void Shift had taken him far from the Mountain of Ten Thousand Silences. He headed for the Joyous Union Sect to retrieve Si Qing, while Xie Changsheng and the others set out to meet him there.

• Si Chen bade farewell to Ye Tang and the officials, leaving Si Ming to follow him through a Spatial Passage.
• Ye Tang realized Si Chen had recognized him as Great Yin’s sovereign and ordered relief for refugees, threatening execution for embezzlement or negligence.
• Si Chen and Si Ming arrived in the Eastern Region far from their intended destination, and Si Chen told Si Ming not to ask questions.
• Si Chen followed Si Qing’s Starlight Pendant toward the Joyous Union Sect as the brothers passed through regions struck by thunder punishment.
• Xie Changsheng asked Si Chen about the thunder and proposed meeting at the Mountain of Ten Thousand Silences, but Si Chen said he was going to the Joyous Union Sect.
• Xie Changsheng told Si Chen to stay put and said he would notify the others, then abruptly ended the connection.