Recaps

At the Joyous Union Sect, Si Qing was welcomed by its disciples while Li Tiezhu realized that Si Chen had caused the plane-wide lightning punishment. Si Chen and Si Ming arrived, reuniting with Si Qing and their disciples.

• Joyous Union Sect’s female disciples surrounded Si Qing with food and affection after learning she was Si Chen’s cousin.
• Li Tiezhu’s system identified the lightning punishment as the work of “that existence,” and Li Tiezhu rejoiced that his master had returned.
• Wang Yan mistook Li Tiezhu’s excitement for worsening mental illness and urged him to drink medicinal soup.
• Si Chen and Si Ming appeared above the sect, and Si Qing reunited with her brother before recognizing Si Chen.
• Li Tiezhu rushed to Si Chen and clung to his leg, while Wang Yan dropped his bowl and knelt to greet his master.

Si Chen reunited with his disciples and younger sister at the Joyous Union Sect, praising Wang Yan and affectionately greeting Si Qing. Sect Master Su Miaoyin welcomed him as an honorary elder, privately stunned that he had returned from the Immortal Realm.

• Si Chen lifted Li Tiezhu and Wang Yan to their feet, praised Wang Yan's alchemy, and teased Li Tiezhu about causing trouble and owing people money.
• The system flattered Si Chen until he ordered it to be quiet.
• Si Chen greeted Si Qing, comforted her, and learned that Li Tiezhu and Wang Yan had protected her from monsters.
• Su Miaoyin and the sect elders arrived, and Si Chen apologized for visiting without notice.
• Su Miaoyin welcomed Si Chen as family while wondering how he could travel between the Lower Realm and the Immortal Realm.

Si Chen welcomed the Eastern Region’s powerful sect leaders, who came to honor him after the Evil Spirits were purged and learned he could travel between realms. At the Joyous Union Sect, Black Mountain described the destruction of the Mountain of Ten Thousand Silences, and Li Tiezhu realized he might have caused it.

• Su Miaoyin told Si Chen that the leaders of several major sects had arrived, and he went out with her to greet them.
• Xie Changsheng and the others introduced their elders, who bowed to Si Chen, but he asked them to treat him as a fellow Daoist.
• Black Mountain and Red Wind reunited with Wang Yan, who praised their appearance and celebrated his Nascent Soul Realm cultivation.
• Black Mountain lamented that the Mountain of Ten Thousand Silences had been destroyed, and Wang Yan vowed to find and punish the culprit.
• Li Tiezhu recalled smashing a barren mountain with his staff and wondered if he was the one who destroyed Black Mountain’s home.

Li Tiezhu panicked when he realized Black Mountain and Red Wind had come from the Mountain of Ten Thousand Silences, while Wang Yan urged him to help hunt down the culprit who had destroyed Black Mountain’s cave. After the elders and sect patriarchs gathered in the Joyous Union Sect’s Main Hall, Si Chen promised to explain the Filth Calamity and discuss arrangements for the Lower Realm.

• Li Tiezhu cursed his silent system and nervously greeted Black Mountain and Red Wind, offering to pay to rebuild the Mountain of Ten Thousand Silences.
• Black Mountain and Red Wind recognized Si Qing, and Black Mountain nearly revealed an embarrassing childhood story before Red Wind stopped him and Si Ming warned him to mind his words.
• Wang Yan vowed to poison the culprit who had destroyed Black Mountain’s cave, leaving Li Tiezhu worried that his junior brother would expose him.
• Su Miaoyin invited Si Chen and the Eastern Region sect patriarchs into the Main Hall, where Si Chen said he would explain the Filth Calamity and the Lower Realm’s future arrangements.
• Li Tiezhu sat near the hall entrance and scolded Wang Yan for wanting to sit closer to their master, while Wang Yan admired his senior brother’s observance of etiquette.

Si Chen explained the Immortal Realm’s lingering dangers and invited the Eastern Region’s leaders and his companions to ascend with him. After arranging for his disciples and cousins, he left the hall and decided to visit the Demon Realm.

• Si Chen told the Eastern Region patriarchs about the Filth, the ancient war, and the threats still sealed in the Immortal Realm, then reassured them that most dangers had been suppressed and invited them to bring fresh blood to the upper realm.
• The patriarchs eagerly considered ascending, while Zhao Wuji resolved to settle the score with his disciple Song Chi once they met as equals.
• Si Chen invited Wang Yan to ascend with him and told him to bring his mother to Undying Mountain.
• Si Chen told Li Tiezhu to ascend as well and spend less time on his Payment Term, while Su Miaoyin offered to settle Li Tiezhu’s outstanding payments.
• Si Chen invited Si Ming and Si Qing to broaden their horizons but said their decision to ascend would depend on their father, Second Uncle.
• After leaving the excited gathering, Si Chen recalled the warning that the Grand Curtain had risen and decided to visit the Demon Realm.

After the Eastern Region’s leaders departed, Si Chen reunited with his companions and explained the threat facing the lower realms. He planned a cross-realm purge and said he would visit the Demon Realm when the War of the Myriad Heavens began, seeking the truth.

• The sect leaders left the Joyous Union Sect after reaching an understanding with Si Chen, and Su Miaoyin departed after asking Li Tiezhu to look after him.
• Luo Hongyi and the others welcomed Si Qing, showering her with attention and gifts while Si Ming tried to protect her.
• Si Chen told his companions about the Origin Realm, the Heavenly Dao, and the will that had usurped another’s place.
• Xie Changsheng worried that the same corruption might have infiltrated other lower realms, and Si Chen agreed they could not leave it unchecked.
• Si Chen planned to borrow the Fusang Divine Tree from Red Bean and lead a joint sweep of the lower realms with the immortal and demon-beast realms.
• Si Chen said he would personally visit the Demon Realm when the War of the Myriad Heavens began to glimpse the truth.

Li Tiezhu and Wang Yan reflected on how Si Chen had changed their paths as they learned of the myriad heavens and worlds. Si Chen prepared his companions to leave for the Immortal Realm and planned to visit the Si Household Ancestral Residence with Si Ming and Si Qing before returning to the Upper Realm.

• Li Tiezhu realized the myriad heavens might include his blue-planet home and resolved to grow stronger under Si Chen so he could find it.
• Wang Yan vowed to study the plants and medicines of all the worlds and develop a pill to combat the filth threatening them.
• Si Chen told Xie Changsheng, Zhou Yan, and the others to spend another day arranging their Lower Realm sects before departing for the Immortal Realm.
• Si Chen told Si Ming and Si Qing they would visit the Si Household Ancestral Residence the next morning, settle the family's affairs, and then return to the Upper Realm.

Si Chen and his companions left the Joyous Union Sect through a passage to the Si Household Ancestral Grounds, promising Su Miaoyin that the sect could ascend once it had made arrangements. They reunited with the Si Household, where Black Mountain's poem about his exploits overwhelmed Third Uncle Granduncle, who collapsed.

• Si Chen told Su Miaoyin she could bring elite disciples to the Immortal Realm through a passage he would leave at the Si Household Ancestral Grounds.
• Black Mountain begged the Joyous Union Sect's master chef to join him in the Immortal Realm, but Red Wind rebuked him for imposing on the elderly cook.
• Si Chen opened a gateway with Heartguard, and he, Si Ming, Si Qing, and their companions returned to the Si Household Ancestral Grounds.
• Su Miaoyin ordered the Joyous Union Sect to close its doors, settle its affairs, select elite disciples, and prepare to move.
• Si Che welcomed Si Qing and Si Chen home, while Qing Li greeted Si Chen and said she had kept his courtyard ready.
• Black Mountain recited a poem about his exploits to Third Uncle Granduncle, who declared him the winner and promptly collapsed.

Si Chen told the Si Household elders he could take them and the Eastern Region’s elites to the Immortal Realm, and revealed that his grandfather and the First-Generation Ancestor were alive there. Third Uncle Granduncle eagerly agreed to ascend so he could confront his long-lost elder brother, while Si Chen considered how to move the vast clan and its holdings.

• Si Chen explained his plan to take the Si Household and the Eastern Region’s elites to the Immortal Realm through the Ascension Passage.
• Third Uncle Granduncle initially refused to ascend, saying he preferred to spend his remaining years in the Small World.
• Si Chen revealed that his grandfather and the First-Generation Ancestor were alive in the Immortal Realm, prompting Third Uncle Granduncle to abandon his refusal and insist on ascending first.
• Si Chen reflected on the Si Household’s sprawling businesses, branches, and holdings throughout the Lower Realm and realized that relocating the entire clan would be difficult.
• Si Chen decided that Second Uncle could handle the clan’s arrangements while he focused on building an Ascension Platform.

Si Chen built an Ascension Platform on the Si Household’s clan grounds to let beings of the Lower Realm reach the Upper Realm without passing through lightning tribulation. The platform was completed using the Fusang Divine Tree’s branch, leaving the clan elders and onlookers astonished.

• Si Chen asked Si Che to choose a site for the Ascension Platform, and Si Che returned with a clearing and piles of valuable materials.
• Si Chen contacted the Heavenly Dao and informed it that he planned to create a route to the Upper Realm that bypassed lightning tribulation; the Heavenly Dao promised to cooperate.
• Si Chen formed the platform from the gathered treasures, melting them into liquid and shaping them into a vast jade-like structure.
• Si Chen summoned the Fusang Divine Tree’s phantom and drew down a silver-lit branch from across the realms.
• The branch connected to the platform, which filled with Great Dao aura as the Ascension Platform was completed.

Si Chen brought the Si Household through the Ascension Platform to the Immortal Realm, where its members reunited with Si Che’s brothers. The chapter ended with Si Kai bewildered by the sudden arrival of the entire group.

• Si Chen told the Si Household they could travel to the Immortal Realm and return home through the Ascension Platform.
• Si Chen led Si Qing, Qing Li, the Clan Elders, and the others onto the platform and opened the Two-World Passage.
• The group arrived on Undying Mountain and accidentally launched the sleeping Gray Gray into the air.
• Si Shuo and Si Kai recognized Si Che, and the three brothers embraced.
• Third Uncle Granduncle and the other Si Household members joined the reunion, leaving Si Kai asking what had happened.

Si Chen reunited with his family on Undying Mountain and learned that the Si Household’s First-Generation Ancestor was nearby, prompting Third Uncle Granduncle to rush off to confront him. After Si Chen summoned Red Bean and Feng Qing back, a sudden loss of spiritual energy revealed that several lower-realm planes had been destroyed.

• Ye Fu welcomed Qing Li and reunited with Si Che, Si Ming, Si Qing, and the other members of the Si family on Undying Mountain.
• Si Chen told Third Uncle Granduncle that the Si Household’s First-Generation Ancestor was visiting, and Si Shuo revealed that the ancestor had recently tried to tear down Undying Mountain.
• Third Uncle Granduncle, Ye Fu, and the clan elders hurried to confront the supposed impostor, while Si Chen remained behind and contacted Red Bean.
• Si Chen ordered Red Bean and Feng Qing to return to Undying Mountain with Jiang Ling and Murong Li, and Red Bean agreed to come back soon.
• Cultivators across the Immortal Realm sensed spiritual energy suddenly diminish, and Si Chen discovered that several branches of the Fusang Divine Tree were fading, signaling the destruction of several lower-realm planes and their inhabitants.

After several Lower Realm planes were annihilated by the Filth, Si Chen prepared an expedition to all worlds to stop the spreading calamity. Si Ming and the other Immortal Emperors offered to help, and Si Chen agreed on the condition that they accompany him to the Demon Realm to catch the source of the threat.

• Si Chen told the gathered Immortal Emperors and others that several Lower Realm planes had been annihilated by the Filth, shaking the foundations of the Immortal Realm.
• Si Chen contacted Bai He and ordered him to gather Immortal Kings and their elite forces at Undying Mountain for an expedition to all worlds.
• As more planes were destroyed, Si Ming bowed to Si Chen and asked to let the imprisoned Immortal Emperors help defend the Myriad Heavens and Worlds.
• Si Chen agreed to accept their help and said they would accompany him to the Demon Realm to catch the bandits' king.

Si Chen prepared his friends for the Myriad Realms Cleanup by empowering their weapons and abilities, then announced plans to explore the Demon Realm with the Immortal Emperors. Li Tiezhu and Gray Gray demanded to join the expeditionary army.

• Si Chen said he would investigate the anomalous Demon Realm and arranged to explore it with the eleven Immortal Emperors in a few days.
• Si Chen told his friends that they would ultimately have to establish order themselves, then enhanced their weapons, bodies, and abilities to help them fight the Other Race’s undying filth.
• Si Chen infused Luo Hongyi’s notebook with his origin essence, transforming it into a mysterious object whose future depended on her.
• Li Tiezhu rushed forward to ask to join the Expeditionary Army, and Gray Gray emerged from beneath a tea table to insist on joining too.

Si Chen stayed behind Gray Gray while preparing to depart across the Myriad Heavens, then gave Wang Yan and Li Tiezhu powerful gifts to aid their cultivation. Li Tiezhu accepted his newly empowered staff and vowed to follow Si Chen’s teachings.

• Si Chen told Gray Gray to guard Undying Mountain and the Immortal Realm while he traveled, and Gray Gray eagerly accepted the duty.
• Si Chen gave Wang Yan the Sun True Flame as his natal spirit flame, and Wang Yan knelt in gratitude.
• Si Chen engraved the characters “Ruyi” on Li Tiezhu’s Black Staff, empowering it and warning him not to lose himself by relying on external power.
• Li Tiezhu’s system announced the staff’s new traits, while Wang Yan mistakenly decided the characters would cure Li Tiezhu’s brain disease.
• Li Tiezhu knelt and promised to faithfully abide by Si Chen’s teachings.

After his friends left, Si Chen reflected on whether he belonged in the world, then helped Li Tiezhu make peace with the fate surrounding his Black Staff. Their talk about the hero of Li Tiezhu’s homeland left Si Chen contemplating a name: Bodhi.

• Si Chen’s friends departed, leaving him alone with Gray Gray as he questioned whether he was an anomaly who belonged in the world.
• Li Tiezhu sneaked into the hall at midnight and told Si Chen about a stone-born monkey hero from his homeland who wielded a wish-fulfilling staff and defied fate.
• Si Chen explained that the crescent moon and three stars, and the spiritual terrace, both pointed to the heart, and praised the hero’s search for his true heart.
• Si Chen told Li Tiezhu that the Black Staff belonged to him regardless of its past or future, and Li Tiezhu regained his resolve to temper it.
• After Li Tiezhu left, Si Chen compared himself to the stone-born being and murmured, “Bodhi?”

Si Chen told his family that the calamity had spread throughout the Myriad Heavens and Worlds, then prepared to lead an expedition through the Fusang Divine Tree. As his allies gathered on Undying Mountain, Li Tiezhu claimed Wang Yan’s mysterious head lump was a mosquito bite.

• Si Chen explained the spreading calamity to his family, and a vast Demon Race fleet arrived above Undying Mountain.
• Si Chen ordered Red Bean to encamp the army and prepare to travel through the Fusang Divine Tree for an expedition across the Myriad Heavens.
• Murong Li reported that Jade Qiong Heaven was safe and conveyed the Murong patriarch’s offer of support.
• Xie Changsheng, Zhou Yan, Song Chi, and Luo Hongyi arrived, while Wang Yan complained about a painful lump on his head and missing memories.
• Li Tiezhu told Wang Yan that an Immortal Realm mosquito had bitten him, and Wang Yan reluctantly accepted the explanation.

Si Chen stabilized the Lower Realm planes by fusing his origin source with the Fusang Divine Tree, preventing them from collapsing under the coming war. As the Immortal and Demon Realm armies gathered at Undying Mountain, he prepared to lead the Myriad Heavens Expedition with the Lower Realms secured.

• Si Chen told Third Uncle Granduncle and Second Uncle Si Che that the Lower Realm was temporarily safe from the Great Calamity but that the family should remain on Undying Mountain.
• Si Chen sent Si Che to tell Changsheng, Song Chi, and Zhou Yan's sects to move to the Immortal Realm, and asked him to bring up Wang Yan's mother and Third Uncle's women.
• Bai He arrived with the Immortal Realm's assembled forces and more than a hundred Immortal Kings, while the Demon Realm army answered with roars.
• Red Bean asked whether Si Chen had succeeded, and he confirmed that he had fused his origin source with the Fusang Divine Tree to stabilize the Lower Realm planes.

Si Chen assembled the Immortal Realm and Demon Realm forces and explained that filth was consuming the Lower Realms, threatening the foundation of all Three Realms. He assigned commanders for the coming campaign and ordered them to kill every trace of filth as they descended into the worlds.

• Bai He arrived with the Immortal Realm army, and Si Chen recognized that Bai He had secretly advanced to Immortal Lord.
• Si Chen told the assembled Immortal Kings that a Lower Realm plane had been assimilated and annihilated, causing the Immortal Realm's foundations to weaken.
• Si Chen warned that filth had taken root in the Lower Realm and could corrupt its Heavenly Dao and warp the laws of heaven and earth.
• Si Chen placed the Demon Realm army under Zhu Yao and Feng Qing, the Immortal Realm forces under Bai He, and the Eastern Region group under Xie Changsheng as a mobile reinforcement force.
• Si Chen ordered the armies to descend into the worlds and purge all filth, leaving none alive.

Si Chen led the Immortal-Demon Army through the Fusang Divine Tree to prepare for war against the filth threatening the worlds. He blessed a million soldiers with the sun’s origin power and sent them marching to battle.

• In the Undying Mountain Side Hall, Si Ming and Chen Xu reflected on Si Chen sparing them and mourned Gu Hong’s fate before agreeing to prepare for the coming conflict.
• Three days later, Si Chen opened a Great Void Shift above the Forgotten River Starfield and led the Immortal-Demon Army through it to the Fusang Divine Tree.
• Si Chen urged the assembled soldiers to unite as the living and cleanse the worlds of filth, rousing them to roar their battle cry.
• Si Chen infused the Fusang Divine Tree with the sun’s origin power, causing golden rain to bless the million-strong army with power against evil.
• The Immortal-Demon Army thanked Si Chen, and he ordered them to march to war.

Si Chen sent the Demon Realm, Immortal Realm, and his companions on separate campaigns while creating a second self to sustain the Fusang Divine Tree and keep the passages from collapsing. He then set out with the captives and Ancestor Si Ming to see the “dead land,” as a distant, emotionless figure declared that humanity was an error that must be corrected.

• Zhu Yao led the Demon Realm army through the Fusang Divine Tree’s passages, and Bai He led the Immortal Realm’s forces toward another front.
• Xie Changsheng and the others departed as a guerrilla force, with Si Shuo, Luo Hongyi, Murong Li, and Jiang Ling among them.
• Si Chen formed a golden double that sat within the divine tree and poured the Sun’s power into its branches to keep the passages stable.
• Si Chen joined Chen Xu, Lu Yu, Yu Han, the other Immortal Emperor captives, and Ancestor Si Ming, and told them they would go to the “dead land.”
• In a distant dimension, an emotionless figure called humanity an error that must be corrected.

Si Ming revealed that Jiang Yuan had offered to become the Immortal Emperors’ blade and orchestrated the slaughter of the Immortal Lords to preserve peace, asking only that Jiang Ling be spared. After learning that Jiang Yuan and Shen Wei died inside the final Mortal Forbidden Zone, Si Chen and the Immortal Emperors reached the boundary of the Primordial Demon Realm.

• Si Chen asked Si Ming how Jiang Yuan had died, and Si Ming explained that Jiang Yuan had been the first person after ancient times to reach the Immortal Lord realm.
• Si Ming said Jiang Yuan had proposed a bargain: he would take on the Immortal Emperors’ hidden, bloody work in exchange for ten thousand years of peace and a promise to spare Jiang Ling.
• Si Ming revealed that Jiang Yuan and Shen Wei had entered the final Mortal Forbidden Zone and died there, and that Jiang Ling had learned the truth and received Jiang Yuan’s letter.
• Yu Han announced that the group had reached the boundary of the Primordial Demon Realm.
• Si Chen flew into the darkness ahead, and Lu Yu and Chen Xu followed him toward the Demon Realm.

Si Chen and the eleven Immortal Emperors entered the long-sealed Demon Realm and learned about its Twenty-Four Hells and Cang Xuan’s secluded Ninefold Netherworld Prison. Meanwhile, a mysterious figure stopped time to warn Xie Changsheng to reach the Immortal King Realm within a thousand years, then vanished after saying “Shi Yin.”

• The Demon Realm’s barrier opened on its own, and Si Chen led the Immortal Emperors through the vortex into a desolate realm of shattered continents and bones.
• Ancestor Si Ming, Chen Xu, and Lu Yu explained that the ancient Demon Realm was divided into twenty-four warring territories called Hells.
• Si Ming revealed that Cang Xuan had established his cultivation grounds in the Ninefold Netherworld Prison, and Si Chen led the group deeper into the Demon Realm to explore it.
• Time stopped as Xie Changsheng traveled with Zhou Yan, Song Chi, and the Demon Realm army, and a translucent figure appeared before him.
• The figure ordered Xie Changsheng to break through to the Immortal King Realm within a thousand years and whispered “Shi Yin” before disappearing.
• Time resumed, and Xie Changsheng concealed what had happened from Song Chi and continued onward.

Si Chen led the Immortal Emperors through the Demon Realm, where its laws suppressed their power until he lifted the pressure. After they crossed several ruined hells, they reached the Ninefold Netherworld Tower, the Daoist Grounds of Cang Xuan.

• The Demon Realm’s oppressive laws nearly stopped Chen Xu and the other Immortal Emperors from circulating their immortal essence, but Si Chen dispelled the force with golden light.
• Ancestor Si Ming warned that the empty Demon Realm concealed a trap and urged the group to withdraw, but Si Chen chose to press on cautiously.
• Si Chen led the army through the ruined Heaven-Monitoring Hell, Eight Calamities Hell, Four Luminaries Hell, and other shattered regions of the Demon Realm.
• The group felt something watching them as they crossed turbulent fragments of laws and entered a dark void containing a solitary tower and black sphere.
• Ancestor Si Ming identified the structure as the Ninefold Netherworld Tower, the Daoist Grounds of Cang Xuan, supreme ruler of the Demon Realm.

Si Chen and the others entered Cang Xuan’s Ninefold Netherworld Tower and discovered that he had dissected beings from across the Three Realms as research specimens. Si Chen found a jade slip at the heart of the tower, which opened with the words, “This world is sick.”

• Yu Han recited the verse associated with the tower, and Si Chen led the group inside.
• Ancestor Si Ming warned that the untouched Bronze Gate and the Other Race’s avoidance of the tower suggested danger, but Si Chen pushed it open.
• Si Chen and the others found corridors of amber specimens, including a Ying clan dragon and the missing Immortal King Qin, dissected for Cang Xuan’s experiments.
• Si Chen observed that Cang Xuan had regarded all living beings as material, then opened a stone door into a ruined circular hall.
• Si Chen took a purple jade slip from the Blackstone Long Table, and its first projected words read, “This world is sick.”