Recaps

Li Yang obtained the Great Sun Vast Heaven Holy Land inheritance, refined Can Yao, and revealed the Primordial dawnfire. After killing the fire-haired young man, Li Yang drew the Elder's Phantom's attention and received an offer from the Holy Land.

• Hao Tianyang and the Fire Qilin retreated from the Dao-Seeking Stairway, acknowledging Li Yang's overwhelming strength.
• The Platinum Giant Dragon stopped the fire-haired young man's teleportation and revealed that Li Yang was the master it had chosen.
• The Elder's Phantom attacked Li Yang, but Li Yang's Scarlet Sword Qi cut the phantom apart after the restrictive seals lost their effect.
• Li Yang emerged with the inheritance, sensed Can Yao's true body beneath the continent, and crushed the imprisoned fire-haired young man's head before burning him away with Primordial dawnfire.
• The Elder's Phantom recognized the Primordial dawnfire and invited Li Yang to join the Great Sun Vast Heaven Holy Land, promising lavish support and companions.

Li Yang claimed the Vast Heaven World and returned most of the Great Sun Vast Heaven Holy Land’s inheritance to Hao Tianyang, while warning him to reform the sect. After the gathered cultivators were expelled from the world, Li Yang began pursuing revenge against his remaining enemies.

• Li Yang rejected the Elder's Phantom's attempt to persuade him to join the Great Sun Vast Heaven Holy Land, then gave Hao Tianyang two inheritance jade slips while keeping the Vast Heaven Pure Yang Finger for himself.
• Li Yang brought Hao Tianyang and the Fire Qilin out of the abyss and warned the Fire Qilin not to kill innocent humans.
• Li Yang refined the Vast Heaven World into a bead, expelling the gathered cultivators and leaving himself and Hao Tianyang atop the sacred mountain.
• Li Yang urged Hao Tianyang to become the next Holy Master and improve the Great Sun Vast Heaven Holy Land, threatening to crack down on the sect if its conduct remained corrupt.
• Li Yang showed Su Hen over a hundred tokens pointing to his enemies' inheritance grounds and declared that they would hunt them down one by one.

Li Yang explored the Vast Heaven World, let Xuanyou and the Black Serpent feast on its treasures, and established a master-servant contract with Brilliant Dawn, the enormous pure-yang dragon vein. He then left the world and heard that the Jade Light Holy Land's inheritance grounds were nearby, where people still expected its slain holy son to claim the final inheritance.

• Li Yang entered the Vast Heaven World and told Xuanyou and the Black Serpent to enjoy its heavenly treasures as compensation for their injuries.
• Xuanyou and the Black Serpent gorged themselves on spirit herbs while Li Yang traveled to the lake and spoke with Brilliant Dawn.
• Brilliant Dawn explained that the lake held valuable immortal vein nectar and agreed to acknowledge Li Yang as its master.
• Brilliant Dawn took Li Yang underground to its enormous true body, where Li Yang placed a slave seal and formed a master-servant contract with it.
• Li Yang returned to Xuanyou and the Black Serpent, saw that Xuanyou's injuries had nearly healed, and urged him to reach Nascent Soul Formation.
• After leaving the Vast Heaven World, Li Yang heard people discuss the Jade Light Holy Land's inheritance and the punishment facing lineages that joined the Sun-Slaying Alliance.

Xuanyuan Li Yang led the Sword Alliance to the Soaring Holy Land’s inheritance grounds, where he forced the sect to surrender its Sun-Slaying Alliance members. After letting the others leave, he prepared to damage the holy land in retaliation for its leaders’ complicity.

• Xuanyuan Li Yang and a force of Sword Cultivators, allies, and demonic beasts surrounded the Soaring Holy Land’s inheritance grounds with the Pseudo-Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.
• Li Yang struck Senior Yu, the chief elder, and warned him that the Soaring Holy Land’s Holy Son had been killed and that Sun-Slaying Alliance members remained among them.
• Senior Yu killed three Sun-Slaying Alliance members, and Li Yang confirmed that none remained nearby before opening an escape route for the others.
• Li Yang revealed the Soaring Holy Land’s Holy Lord’s Token and announced he would make the sect pay for supporting the Sun-Slaying Alliance.
• Senior Yu blocked Li Yang’s way and declared that Li Yang would have to step over his corpse to proceed.

Li Yang seized the Soaring Holy Land’s inheritance, continued confiscating inheritances and hunting Evil Immortals, and searched for Chu Mu while growing uneasy about their disappearance. After Tu Jiuzhou reported that Chu Mu, Li Xiao, and at least five Evil Immortals had gathered at a newly formed World Spirit’s Inheritance Grounds, Li Yang was summoned there.

• Li Yang killed Elder Yu, forced the Soaring Holy Land’s disciples to retreat, and took its inheritance, including a Kunpeng eggshell and a wind-attribute Immortal Vein.
• Xuanyao revealed that Li Yang’s pure yang power had changed her sex, and Li Yang gave the parasol tree to Ning Xiwู and the Immortal Vein to Brilliant Dawn.
• Li Yang led thousands of Sword Cultivators through more Inheritance Grounds, killed ten Evil Immortals, and caused many members of the Sun-Slaying Alliance to discard their Broken Sword Tokens.
• Li Yang kept searching for Chu Mu and saved fire-element inheritances to compensate Ning Qingfeng for damaging her cultivation for him.
• Tu Jiuzhou told Li Yang that a World Spirit had formed its own Inheritance Grounds and that Chu Mu, Li Xiao, and at least five Evil Immortals were there.

The Great World of Ten Thousand Immortals began transforming into a domain after its accumulated legacies awakened a spark of sentience, alarming the powerful figures watching from outside. As factions anticipated the upheaval and the remaining month inside the world, Devil Ancestor Mountain revealed its ambition to devour the Heavenly Daos of the Nine Provinces and the Demon Savage Continent.

• The Great World of Ten Thousand Immortals formed a domain membrane, and an old Daoist explained that its merged legacies had given birth to a Heavenly Dao.
• The powerful figures worried that the Upper Realm's Heavenly Dao might erase the new domain spirit, while Ning Qingfeng feared for Li Yang, whose Soul Lamp remained strong.
• The Heavenly Retribution Dao Sect's sect master and ancestor discussed killing Li Yang during the month remaining, anticipating that chaos inside the new domain would create an opening.
• The Devil Ancestor Mountain elders reassured Sha Nuo that they would protect Li Xiao from the Outer-Domain Celestial Demon while explaining why Sha Nuo was not suited to rule.
• The black-robed elder declared that Devil Ancestor Mountain planned to devour the Heavenly Daos of the Nine Provinces and the Demon Savage Continent.

Chu Mu and his allies followed the black-robed female devil venerable to the former Primordial Immortal Palace inheritance site, where she began gathering Dao Rhythms to hasten the birth of the Heavenly Dao Will. She planned to refine it, control the world, and use that advantage to kill Li Yang, while Chu Mu and Li Xiao were ordered to guard the site and delay him.

• The black-robed female devil venerable dismissed Li Yang as an obstacle and revealed that she was a peak immortal king and the Dao Companion of Devil Ancestor Rahu.
• She saw through Chu Mu’s system-bearing transmigrator identity, warned him against lusting after her, and offered to nurture him if he served her goals.
• The group reached the former Primordial Immortal Palace inheritance site, and the black-robed female devil venerable shielded Chu Mu after his question about whether its rumored immortal emperor founder had fallen drew a terrifying gaze.
• The black-robed female devil venerable began gathering the world’s Dao Rhythms to hasten the birth of the Heavenly Dao Will and announced that she would try to refine it completely.
• Chu Mu and Li Xiao warned that they could not withstand Li Yang and his sword cultivators, but the black-robed female devil venerable told them to muddy the waters and laid tiers of Dao Rhythm steps around the mountain.

Li Yang and the Demon Race arrived at the Primordial Immortal Palace’s Inheritance Grounds, where candidates were gathering to compete for the newly born Heavenly Dao. Shen Yaoyin struggled to keep order in her damaged Market Ruins as former Sun-Slaying Alliance members engineered a confrontation, leaving her to warn them that Li Yang would soon arrive.

• Cultivators discussed the birth of a heavenly dao will and the steps leading to the summit, where anyone who reached it could qualify to compete for Heavenly Dao Master.
• Ye Xiao brought Li Yang and the Demon Race to the Primordial Immortal Palace’s Inheritance Grounds, where Mu Ningxue spotted Shen Yaoyin’s damaged Market Ruins.
• Li Yang noticed that Shen Yaoyin’s Market Ruins had few visitors, heavy killing intent, and signs of fighting, so he decided to investigate.
• Two Crown Champions fought over an immortal fruit in Shen Yaoyin’s Market Ruins while a crowd of cultivators waited for the conflict to spark a riot.
• Shen Yaoyin suspected the dispute was a deliberate plot by former Sun-Slaying Alliance members and warned them that Li Yang and his sword cultivators would soon arrive.

Shen Yaoyin faced a riot at the Sound Palace Market Ruins and refused Jiang Xingzhou’s offer to help, rejecting their marriage agreement. Just as Jiang threatened her, Li Yang arrived in a terrifying blaze of crimson sword light and challenged him to repeat his threat.

• A disguised cultivator and a youth fought over an immortal fruit, and their battle sparked an attack that plunged the Market Ruins into chaos and looting.
• Shen Yaoyin considered putting away the damaged Market Ruins Magic Treasure to limit her losses, despite the damage to her business.
• Jiang Xingzhou warned Shen Yaoyin that Li Yang was doomed and offered to help her in exchange for honoring their engagement.
• Shen Yaoyin rejected Jiang’s offer and marriage proposal, condemning his opportunism and secret pursuit of other women.
• As Jiang threatened Shen Yaoyin over the deaths at the Xuanyuan Sword Sect's Inheritance Grounds, Li Yang appeared in crimson sword light and asked who would not let whom off.

Li Yang arrived at the Market Ruins and crushed Jiang Xingzhou, then let Shen Yaoyin identify those responsible for inciting chaos. He killed the instigators and forced the looters to surrender their Soul Blood and serve as slaves.

• Li Yang slapped Jiang Xingzhou underground, and Jiang Xingzhou's hired cultivators fled.
• Shen Yaoyin sealed the Market Ruins and identified two Crown Champions as the ones who had deliberately caused the conflict.
• After the Taiyin Demon Rabbit exposed their lies, Li Yang killed the two Crown Champions and several more rioters Shen Yaoyin identified.
• Shen Yaoyin pointed out nearly two hundred cultivators who had attacked shops during the chaos, and Li Yang spared them in exchange for their Soul Blood and service as slaves.
• The accused cultivators rushed to surrender their Soul Blood before Li Yang could strike them.

Li Yang gathered the sword cultivators in the Market Ruins after learning that Chu Mu and Li Xiao were plotting near the Heavenly Stairway. Acting on Tu Nine Provinces’ warning, he launched an attack on the unformed Heavenly Dao with the Pseudo-Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.

• Ning Xiwู, Mu Yao, and other women helped Shen Yaoyin repair the Market Ruins, which soon filled with cultivators and more than three thousand sword cultivators.
• Li Yang asked Shen Yaoyin about the Devil Ancestor Mountain inheritance and learned that Chu Mu, Li Xiao, and suspected evil immortals had been gathering nearby.
• Tu Nine Provinces warned Li Yang that Chu Mu and the others had pretended to fail at ascending the Heavenly Stairway and urged him to destroy the unformed Heavenly Dao first.
• Li Yang summoned the Pseudo-Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation and called on all sword cultivators to join him in slaying Heaven.
• More than three thousand sword cultivators formed the array, and its phantom Immortal-Slaying Sword struck toward the converging Dao Rhythm.

Li Yang attacked the false Heavenly Dao and warned cultivators that the Heaven-Climbing Heavenly Stairway was helping an Evil Fiend. His warning halted many, but Chu Mu and Li Xiao brought reinforcements to aid the Demon Consort, who revealed her identity and threatened anyone who opposed her.

• Li Yang and the Sword Cultivators attacked the Dao rhythm, weakening the power of heaven and earth protecting it.
• As treasures appeared and the Heaven-Climbing Heavenly Stairway became easier to climb, cultivators rushed toward it, restoring the Heavenly Dao's strength.
• Li Yang declared that an Evil Fiend was behind the false Heavenly Dao and threatened anyone who continued climbing; many cultivators retreated.
• Li Yang promised the cultivators they could claim the remaining treasures after he killed the fiend, and their departure further weakened the Dao rhythm's protection.
• Chu Mu arrived with several thousand allies, and Li Xiao arrived with evil immortals and Demonic Path cultivators; they climbed the stairway to support the Demon Consort.
• Chu Mu identified the being within the Dao rhythm as the Demon Consort, who revealed herself as an Immortal King and threatened those who opposed her.

Demon Consort tried to seize the newly forming Heavenly Dao while Li Yang’s Sword Cultivators attacked the Heaven-Climbing Heavenly Stairway. Just as she moved to assimilate the Dao rhythm, a Black-Robed Youth from the Primordial Immortal Palace intervened, and Demon Consort confronted the newcomer.

• Demon Consort revealed herself as Devil Ancestor Rahu’s Dao Companion, causing many onlookers and Sword Cultivators to hesitate.
• Li Yang reaffirmed his resolve, then led the Pseudo-Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation in repeated attacks on the Heaven-Climbing Heavenly Stairway.
• Chu Mu urged the defenders to hold out, and Demon Consort promised rewards and protection while giving them an hour to endure.
• The battle exhausted both sides, and more than half the defenders inside the stairway died before the Heavenly Dao began to form.
• Demon Consort used the Myriad Transformations Heavenly Demon Seal to claim the forming Heavenly Dao, but a Black-Robed Youth countered with the Primordial Dao-Transforming Seal and claimed the site for the Primordial Immortal Palace.
• Demon Consort recognized the Primordial Immortal Palace’s technique and angrily challenged the youth.

Li Yang and his allies destroyed the Heaven-Climbing Heavenly Stairway while Demon Consort struggled to refine the Heavenly Dao. Chu Mu gained access to Demon Consort and revealed a replica of the Heavenly Origin Chessboard, leaving her startled.

• Li Yang led the sword cultivators, Langya Ice Palace cultivators, and demons in a fierce assault that crippled the Heaven-Climbing Heavenly Stairway and weakened Demon Consort’s control of heaven and earth.
• Demon Consort gained the upper hand against the black-robed figure but realized Li Yang’s attacks and her allies’ wavering loyalty could prevent her from refining the Heavenly Dao.
• Chu Mu asked Demon Consort to trust him, then charged at the black-robed figure, who exploded into Primordial Immortal Seals and joined the Nine-Colored Dao Rhythm.
• Li Yang urged the watching crowd to kill the fleeing beings, and a phantom Immortal-Slaying Sword struck down the Heaven-Climbing Heavenly Stairway.
• Chu Mu produced a replica of the Heavenly Origin Chessboard, and Demon Consort recognized it and asked where he had obtained it.

Li Yang escaped the Heavenly Origin Chessboard’s spatial swap and charged at the Demon Consort with Yan Zhaoxi and Lin He. The Demon Consort’s forces intercepted them, and Li Yang began attacking her while his companions held off the others.

• The Demon Consort used the Heavenly Origin Chessboard to swap the space containing the Pseudo-Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, while Li Yang took Ye Xiao’s Void-Piercing Sword and tore open a path through the transport force.
• Li Yang, Yan Zhaoxi, and Lin He entered the opening before the other Sword Cultivators were displaced, and Chu Mu declared victory after the chessboard sealed them away.
• Li Yang appeared before Chu Mu and the Demon Consort, then attacked the Demon Consort after realizing she had no power of heaven and earth left to protect herself.
• Chu Mu and his allies met Li Yang, but Li Yang sent Chu Mu flying and broke his Demonic Halberd with one strike.
• Yan Zhaoxi and Lin He intercepted Li Xiao and the Evil Immortals while Li Yang attacked the Demon Consort again.

Li Yang failed to stop Chu Mu from taking the nine-colored Dao rhythm, and Chu Mu revealed his plan to become the Heavenly Dao Master. As Chu Mu remained protected by the Black Floating Raft, Li Yang joined Yan Zhaoxi and Lin He to face the enemies surrounding them in the Heavenly Origin Realm.

• The Demon Consort turned into Ten Thousand Transformations Demon Seals, and Li Yang struck at the nine-colored Dao rhythm, but Chu Mu used the Heavenly Origin Chessboard to take it.
• Li Yang attacked Chu Mu, but Chu Mu used the Black Floating Raft to become intangible and began forming a demon seed from his demonic source.
• Chu Mu revealed that he had deceived the Demon Consort to seize the chance to become the Heavenly Dao Master, while she threatened him with her husband's vengeance.
• Li Yang noticed Yan Zhaoxi and Lin He were besieged, entered the Pseudo-Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation with them, and charged at Li Xiao and the surrounding cultivators.
• The cultivators rallied to attack Li Yang, while Yan Zhaoxi and Lin He vowed to fight beside him; Li Yang raised the Xuanyuan Sword and declared they would slaughter their enemies.

Li Yang, Yan Zhaoxi, and Lin He cut through a force of more than a thousand cultivators as Li Yang used Void Traversal to make his Vertical Sword attacks unpredictable. The enemy forces regrouped into defensive formations and a War Fortress, while an Evil Immortal proposed binding them together with the Symbiotic Heavenly Net Immortal Vine to seal Li Yang inside a coordinated trap.

• Li Yang used his Pseudo-Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation to keep Yan Zhaoxi and Lin He fighting safely beside him while they killed dozens of enemies.
• Li Yang refined his Vertical Sword by combining it with Void Traversal, striking isolated enemies and vanishing into the void before their allies could retaliate.
• The enemy cultivators realized that powerful Crown Champions were waiting for Li Yang to tire and began forming defensive groups.
• An Evil Immortal transformed himself into a formation that more than three hundred cultivators used to create a giant Demonic Path giant.
• A disciple of the Hundred-Refinement Divine Mechanism Gate brought another three hundred cultivators into a mobile War Fortress armed with Spirit-Storage Cannons.
• An Evil Immortal proposed using the Symbiotic Heavenly Net Immortal Vine to link the remaining cultivators, seal the void, and trap Li Yang alongside the Demonic Path giant and War Fortress.

Li Yang entered the demonic giant and unleashed his Slaughter Sword Domain, killing more than half of the cultivators inside as the other enemies struggled to contain him. The Hundred-Refinement Divine Mechanism Gate disciple fired the war fortress’s cannons at the trapped demonic giant, leaving Li Yang and the remaining enemies in the path of a devastating blast.

• Li Yang took Yan Zhaoxi and Lin He into the Vast Heaven World, then used Stunning Sword Strike to enter the demonic giant through its severed neck.
• Li Yang expanded his Slaughter Sword Domain and killed over a hundred and fifty cultivators inside the demonic giant, while shrugging off a poisoned dagger wound.
• The Hundred-Refinement Divine Mechanism Gate disciple prepared to fire the war fortress’s Spirit-Storage Cannons at the demonic giant, despite his junior brother being inside.
• The Demon Venerable of Life-Slaying used the Symbiotic Heavenly Net Vine to bind the demonic giant and seal the surrounding space.
• The war fortress fired over a hundred Spirit-Storage Cannons at the bound demonic giant, unleashing a beam ten thousand feet across.

Li Yang survived the War Fortress’s Destruction Beam and fought his way through its defenders, while the Demon Venerable of Life-Slaying’s vines lured nearly five hundred cultivators into a parasitic trap. The chapter ended with the Demon Venerable absorbing the controlled cultivators and confronting Li Yang with a newly heightened threat.

• The War Fortress fired a Destruction Beam that destroyed the Demonic Path giant, but Li Yang and Xuanyou survived by taking turns bearing the attack alongside the Immortal Formation’s survivors.
• Li Yang, Yan Zhaoxi, and Lin He killed the weakened cultivators, broke through the Symbiotic Heavenly Net, and charged back toward the War Castle.
• Li Yang fought through the fleeing defenders, killed the Hundred-Refinement Divine Mechanism Gate disciple after he detonated the War Fortress, and drove the remaining cultivators toward the Demon Venerable of Life-Slaying’s vines.
• Nearly five hundred cultivators discovered that the vines were spreading into their life origins and nascent souls, while a few suspicious cultivators escaped by severing their bonds.
• The Demon Venerable of Life-Slaying pulled the parasitized cultivators into his body and challenged Li Yang to kill them all.

Chu Mu attempted to plant his Dao seed in the Heavenly Dao, but Tu Nine Provinces and Li Xiao interrupted him, forcing him to flee. Li Yang then faced the Demon Venerable of Symbiosis and his colossal fireball, answering with the Primordial Dawnfire.

• Chu Mu used the Dao Heart Demon Planting art to try to make himself master of the Heavenly Dao while its three wills battled.
• Tu Nine Provinces ambushed Chu Mu as the Black Floating Raft shifted, but Chu Mu blocked the attack with a shield.
• Li Xiao struck Chu Mu from behind with an Immortal-Grade Blood Saber, disrupting the demon seed and forcing Chu Mu to retreat.
• Tu Nine Provinces and Li Xiao pursued Chu Mu, while Li Yang noticed that stopping him had seemed too easy.
• The Demon Venerable of Symbiosis attacked Li Yang with a Fireball Technique amplified by the power and flames of five hundred cultivators; Li Yang sent Yan Zhaoxi and Lin He into the Vast Heaven World.
• Li Yang let his life origin flare and enveloped himself in Primordial Dawnfire as the enormous fireball bore down on him.

Li Yang endured the Symbiotic Demon Venerable’s combined fireball with primordial dawnfire, then cut him down with the Xuanyuan Sword. When the immortal revived, Li Yang revealed how much he relished fighting him and vowed to keep pursuing him through every revival.

• Li Yang stood unharmed inside the five-hundred-cultivator fireball as primordial dawnfire devoured its flames, and the Symbiotic Demon Venerable recognized the primordial flame.
• Li Yang poured primordial dawnfire into the Xuanyuan Sword and cleaved the Symbiotic Demon Venerable in two, burning his remains to ash.
• The Symbiotic Demon Venerable revived and claimed he had five hundred and two lives, but Li Yang welcomed the chance to kill him repeatedly.
• Li Yang released Yan Zhaoxi and Lin He and sent them to hunt down Chu Mu, keeping the Symbiotic Demon Venerable for himself.
• Li Yang declared his intense affection for the demon and promised to find him even if he fled to the ends of the earth.

Li Yang fought the Demon Venerable of Symbiosis, repeatedly killing him and weakening him by eliminating the cultivators sustaining his power. After killing all five hundred and earning Immortal-Slayer: +12, Li Yang turned toward Chu Mu and the Nine-Colored Light Orb, determined to finish his mission.

• Li Yang used his speed and Stunning Sword Strike to pierce the Demon Venerable of Symbiosis's shield and kill him, costing one of the cultivators inside him a life.
• Li Yang realized each revival consumed another cultivator and that the Demon Venerable of Symbiosis's killing intent and strength were declining, so he kept attacking while avoiding his spells.
• Over several hours, Li Yang killed the Demon Venerable of Symbiosis two hundred times, while his own body cracked and bled from the strain.
• The Demon Venerable of Symbiosis begged for mercy and offered information about Chu Mu, but Li Yang refused to trust him and continued killing him.
• Li Yang killed the Demon Venerable of Symbiosis for good after all five hundred cultivators inside him were gone, then declared that Chu Mu and the Nine-Colored Light Orb were his next targets.

Li Yang recovered through Nirvana and resumed his pursuit of Chu Mu, while Chu Mu’s many escape methods kept him out of reach. As the battle continued, a purple-robed figure warned Shen Yaoyin that Chu Mu planned to devour the Heavenly Dao and rule all Three Great Domains.

• Li Yang used the Nirvana Thousand-Forging Art to heal and replenish himself, then joined the pursuit of Chu Mu.
• Lin He and Yan Zhaoxi reported that Chu Mu’s many trump cards made him difficult to catch and that the Demon Consort was gaining the upper hand in the struggle of wills.
• Li Yang observed that the spectators outside the Heavenly Origin Realm did not intervene, while they discussed his strength and the Sound Palace Market Ruins remained protected by his reputation.
• Shen Yaoyin received a purple-robed visitor who claimed to come from the Upper Realm and revealed that Chu Mu had cultivated the Great Annihilation Heaven-Swallowing Forbidden Canon.
• The purple-robed figure told Shen Yaoyin that Chu Mu intended to devour the Nine Provinces and Demon Savage Continent Heavenly Daos and become ruler of all Three Great Domains.

Shen Yaoyin warned the forces outside the Heavenly Origin Realm that Chu Mu planned to consume the Heavenly Dao of all Three Great Domains, prompting them to join the assault. Li Yang killed Chu Mu, but Chu Mu used his final moments to send the Nine-Colored Light Orb away, leaving Li Yang determined to cut down the Heavenly Dao and thwart any remaining scheme.

• Shen Yaoyin conveyed Chu Mu’s plan to become sovereign of the Three Great Domains, and Xuanyao and the other women protected her as the warning spread.
• Hao Tianyang, the righteous cultivators, and the returning Three Thousand Sword Cultivators joined the assault on the Heavenly Origin Realm, cracking its barrier.
• Li Yang recognized that Chu Mu was channeling demon essence into the Nine-Colored Light Orb and suspected Shen Yaoyin’s warning was true.
• Chu Mu threatened Shen Yaoyin and insulted Mu Yao, but Li Yang struck him down and destroyed his body and divine soul with sword qi and primordial dawnfire.
• Chu Mu used a talisman to carry away the Nine-Colored Light Orb as he died, and Li Yang resolved to cut down the Heavenly Dao to prevent Chu Mu’s remaining plans.

Li Yang raced to destroy the Nine-Colored Light Orb before Chu Mu’s next host or another cultivator could claim it, while the Taiyin Demon Rabbit warned that Chu Mu might use the weakened Heavenly Daos to seize power over multiple worlds. The group sped toward the converging Dao rhythm, but Li Xiao’s whereabouts remained unknown.

• Li Yang abandoned his search for Chu Mu’s next host and pursued the Nine-Colored Light Orb, while hundreds of thousands of cultivators rushed to claim the chance to become Heavenly Dao Master.
• Li Yang formed a pursuit party with Ye Xiao, Yan Zhaoxi, Senior Brother Lin, and the Taiyin Demon Rabbit, sending the other sword cultivators into the Vast Heaven World.
• Ye Xiao carried the group on the Void-Piercing Sword toward the converging Dao rhythm as swift cultivators raced ahead of them.
• Tu Nine Provinces told Li Yang that Li Xiao had vanished using a concealment art and might have a way to resist Chu Mu’s possession.
• The Taiyin Demon Rabbit explained that Chu Mu might devour the weakened Heavenly Dao and use its authority to attack the Heavenly Daos of the Nine Provinces and the Demon Savage Continent.