Recaps

Lin Mo battled the Heaven-Connecting Church Master, who revealed the Great Black Heaven Sword Formation and trapped him under its attacks. Just as Lin Mo faced the swords with nowhere to escape, Shi Lan intervened with Frost Sacred Ward and saved him.

• Lin Mo summoned the Heavenly Pivot Sword Puppet and fought the Heaven-Connecting Church Master in the sky above Shadow Ink State.
• After both fighters were wounded, the Heaven-Connecting Church Master revealed the Great Black Heaven Sword Formation and called down its Eastern Heaven Formation.
• Lin Mo blocked the eastern swords with Yin-Yang Sacred Ward, then used Immortal Venerable White Tiger's speed to evade the tracking western swords.
• The Heaven-Connecting Church Master sent down the Southern Heaven Formation, trapping Lin Mo between two waves of black swords.
• Shi Lan used Frost Sacred Ward to shield Lin Mo from the swords, absorbing their power before the ice shields shattered.

Lin Mo and Xue Qingcheng worked together to defeat the Heaven-Connecting Church Master, destroy his Great Black Heaven Sword Formation, and strip him of his cultivation. The Church Master warned Lin Mo that an unknown master from an upper plane planned to unite the lower planes, but Lin Mo prepared to kill him anyway.

• Xue Qingcheng froze the Heaven-Connecting Church Master while Lin Mo gathered power for a decisive strike.
• Xue Qingcheng blocked the Church Master's black swords with ice mountains as Lin Mo unleashed Peerless and cut through him.
• Lin Mo's strike shattered the Great Black Heaven Sword Formation, destroyed the Church Master's dantian, and left him barely alive in a crater.
• The Heaven-Connecting Church Master claimed his unseen master came from an upper plane and planned to unify the lower planes.
• Lin Mo said he would fight the master to protect the Divine Land and raised the Azure Spirit Branch to kill the Church Master.

After defeating the Heaven-Connecting Church Master, Lin Mo destroyed the final corpse and broke through to the nascent soul and spirit transformation realms. His cultivation surged to the third level of spirit transformation as heaven and earth changed, and he emerged transformed, surrounded by six azure lotuses.

• Lin Mo killed the Heaven-Connecting Church Master, then recognized and destroyed the old man formed from black mist from the corpse.
• With the three masses of chaos gone, Lin Mo broke through to the nascent soul realm and used Hundred Closures to control the surging power within him.
• Lin Mo's cultivation soared through nascent soul great perfection and into the spirit transformation realm as Xue Qingcheng and the others watched a golden beam pierce the sky.
• As Lin Mo advanced to the third level of spirit transformation, stars arranged above him and moonlight revived plants across the Divine Land and nearby Other Planes.
• Lin Mo emerged from the pit in an azure robe, with six azure lotuses behind him and dark green eyes radiating vitality.

Lin Mo reached the pinnacle of the Spirit Transformation Realm, gained the Divine Tree’s inheritance, and helped cure the Black-Plumed Peacock Blood poison across the Shadow Ink State and the Southern Cities. The freed cultivators thanked him as their savior.

• Lin Mo met the Divine Tree in its space, learned that the World Tree Divine Tree had matured, and received the Withered Leaf Spirit.
• The Divine Tree withheld Lin Mo’s secret and vanished, leaving him to return to Xue Qingcheng, Gongsun Fu, and Shi Lan.
• Lin Mo gave Xue Qingcheng Spirit Feather Evil-Repelling Pills and explained that the Heaven-Connecting Church Master had controlled the followers with Black-Plumed Peacock Blood.
• Xue Qingcheng spread the pills as snow across the Shadow Ink State and the southern cities, drawing the poison from more than a million cultivators.
• Lin Mo purified the poisonous black mist and dispelled the Grass and Wood Demon-Sealing Formation after the cultivators regained their senses.
• More than twenty thousand freed cultivators knelt before Lin Mo and thanked him for saving them.

After saving the Divine Land’s cultivators from the Heaven-Connecting Church, Lin Mo faced a blood-red claw emerging through a rift in the sky. He severed the claw, but a strange beam struck him and sent him falling as a vast scarlet eye filled the rift.

• Lin Mo reassured the rescued cultivators and promised to protect the Divine Land.
• A blood moon and a rift appeared overhead, and a colossal blood-red claw began emerging as the cultivators fell unconscious or trembled in fear.
• Lin Mo rode the Nine-Colored Auspicious Clouds into the sky and used the Wood God Seal to knock the claw back and begin closing the rift.
• A blood-red eye controlled Lin Mo’s mind, stopping him from sealing the rift as the claw pushed its way out again.
• Lin Mo regained his clarity and severed the claw with Spirit-Slaying Sword Intent, but a scarlet beam struck his chest and sent him plummeting while the eye filled the rift.

Lin Yang and Venerable Buyi revealed that the blood moon and eye signaled the return of the Heavenly Calamity Devil Ancestor, who had endured millions of years of reincarnation to escape his pursuers. They explained his plan to conquer the lower and middle planes and use their combined power to challenge the upper plane.

• Lin Mo woke after three days unconscious and noticed that the blood-red eye had moved closer to the blood moon.
• Lin Yang and Venerable Buyi confirmed Lin Mo's fears and warned that a catastrophe threatened all worlds.
• Lin Yang explained that the Heavenly Calamity Devil Ancestor had founded the Netherworld and concealed himself through 3,650 cycles of a thousand-year reincarnation tribulation.
• Xue Qingcheng asked why the Heavenly Calamity Devil Ancestor had targeted the Divine Land, and Venerable Buyi explained that he meant to conquer every lower and middle plane.
• Venerable Buyi outlined the three paths to slay heaven: rule the lower planes, rule the middle planes, and unite them against the upper plane.

Lin Mo rejected the idea that the lower planes should leave their fate to the Immortal Realm and the Netherworld, and called on cultivators to join him in the war. A day later, thousands upon thousands had gathered in the Divine Land, but the blood eye and blood moon were nearing their alignment and Lin Mo could wait no longer.

• Venerable Buyi and Lin Yang explained that the blood moon and blood eye would complete the Nether Prison Calamity in three days, while the Immortal-Nether War would decide whether the lower planes survived.
• Lin Mo declared that the lower planes would fight for their own fate and announced he would enter the middle planes to help the Immortal Realm, calling others to follow him prepared to die.
• Cultivators across tens of thousands of lower planes answered Lin Mo's call and vowed to join him.
• Over the next day, Xuanyuan Hong, Hai Dafu, Zhu Feng, and cultivators from across the planes gathered in the Divine Land to follow Lin Mo.
• As the blood eye and blood moon drew closer, Lin Mo could no longer wait for the remaining cultivators to arrive.

Lin Mo led hundreds of thousands of cultivators from the lower plane into the middle plane to fight the Netherworld, but sensed an important anomaly along the way and diverted the Coalition Army to investigate. As they traveled, Lin Yang explained that the Heavenly Calamity Devil Ancestor came from the Demon Realm and had been banished for his extreme cruelty.

• Lin Mo gave the gathered cultivators a chance to withdraw, but they unanimously chose to follow him into the middle plane.
• Lin Mo tore open a rift in the sky and led the Coalition Army through it into the chaotic space between planes.
• Lin Mo sensed something unusual between their position and the distant Netherworld, then broke through the boundary barrier and led everyone toward it.
• Lin Mo asked Lin Yang about the upper plane, and Lin Yang explained that it consisted of the Divine Realm and the Demon Realm.
• Lin Yang told Lin Mo that the Heavenly Calamity Devil Ancestor had been exiled from the Demon Realm and created the Netherworld to gather power for revenge on both upper realms.

Lin Mo and the Coalition Army reached the Giant Dragon Mountain Range, where Lin Mo discovered a purple birdcage imprisoning a group of powerful Tribulation Transcendence True Persons. Inside, he recognized the barely living Saint King, who was equally astonished to see him.

• Lin Mo argued that the middle and lower planes had to unite against the Heavenly Calamity Devil Ancestor, then led the Coalition Army to the Giant Dragon Mountain Range.
• Lin Mo used the Divine Wood Eye and found the remains of a giant dragon, whose cultivation had surpassed Senior Azure Dragon's.
• Xue Qingcheng spotted a purple birdcage above the dragon's head, and Lin Mo ordered her and the Coalition Army to stay behind while he investigated with Lin Yang and Venerable Buyi.
• Lin Mo saw thirteen or fourteen wounded Tribulation Transcendence True Persons bound to crosses inside the birdcage as ink-black flying swords repeatedly pierced them.
• Lin Mo recognized the nearly dying woman on one cross as the Saint King, and she asked him in shock what he was doing there.

Lin Mo learned that the Heavenly Calamity Devil Ancestor had imprisoned ascended cultivators from the lower planes on the Dragon-Slaying Platform and crippled the lower planes’ cultivation paths. An old man said the prisoners could be rescued, though Lin Mo might not be strong enough to do it alone.

• Lin Mo told the Saint King he had brought the Coalition Army to fight the Heavenly Calamity Devil Ancestor, and the Saint King explained that a mysterious voice had lured him to the middle planes before he was imprisoned.
• White-Spirit Immortal Crane identified the prison as the Dragon-Slaying Platform and revealed that he had been trapped there since ascending more than ten thousand years earlier.
• White-Spirit Immortal Crane explained that the Heavenly Calamity Devil Ancestor had slain Supreme Sovereign Yinglong, severed the lower planes’ path to the middle planes, and imprisoned those who managed to ascend.
• Lin Mo, Lin Yang, and Venerable Buyi realized the Devil Ancestor had prevented lower-plane cultivators from reaching Tribulation Transcendence and asked whether the prisoners could be saved.
• A white-haired old man said the prisoners could be rescued, but warned that Lin Mo’s strength alone might not be enough.

Lin Mo learned from Yuan Su that destroying the curse along the Winged Dragon’s spine could free the imprisoned cultivators and lift the lower planes’ restriction. After Lin Yang and Venerable Buyi’s attacks were perfectly copied and neutralized, Lin Mo said he had figured out how to break the seal and summoned the Divine Wood Scepter.

• Yuan Su explained that the Heavenly Calamity Devil Ancestor’s curse was tied to the Winged Dragon’s spine and that destroying it could free the prisoners and remove the restriction on the lower planes.
• Lin Mo, Lin Yang, and Venerable Buyi flew to the Winged Dragon’s spine, where they found a black saber and a purple humanoid manifestation of the curse.
• Lin Yang attacked the purple figure with Qilin Tremor, but it copied his form and attack exactly, causing both attacks to cancel out.
• Venerable Buyi tried to seal the curse with Spirit Void Demon Suppression, but the curse copied his technique and the two seals dissolved.
• Lin Mo told Lin Yang and Venerable Buyi to step back, saying he had figured out how to break the seal, and formed the Divine Wood Scepter with sword power coiling around it.

Lin Mo destroyed the Heavenly Calamity Devil Ancestor’s curse by using the Nirvana Chain to revive after the curse copied his self-inflicted death, freeing the imprisoned experts. As they joined his forces, the Netherworld battle left the Immortal Realm on the brink of defeat.

• Lin Mo stabbed himself to make the purple mist copy him and weaken, then Venerable Buyi shattered the exposed cursed black blade.
• Lin Mo revived through the Nirvana Chain and explained that he had sacrificed its resurrection power to destroy the curse and free the prisoners.
• Lin Mo returned to the mountaintop and released the Saint King, Yuan Su, the White-Spirit Immortal Crane, and the other imprisoned Tribulation Transcendence True Persons.
• The freed experts pledged to follow Lin Mo into the Netherworld, and he agreed to lead them against the Heavenly Calamity Devil Ancestor.
• In the Netherworld, the Immortal Realm’s forces suffered devastating losses, with nearly all their Immortal Soldiers dead and the surviving Immortal Kings surrounded.

Lin Mo arrived with the Coalition Army as the Four Sages Immortal Venerables faced defeat at the hands of the Heavenly Calamity Devil Ancestor. The armies clashed while Lin Mo’s allies intercepted the Netherworld’s leaders, leaving Lin Mo to face the Devil Ancestor.

• The Heavenly Calamity Devil Ancestor offered the wounded Four Sages Immortal Venerables power in exchange for their submission, but White Tiger refused and attacked him.
• The Devil Ancestor repelled White Tiger and prepared Great Black Heaven Annihilation to kill the Four Sages.
• Lin Mo descended and split the Devil Ancestor’s black clouds with Spirit-Slaying Sword Intent, then revealed that the Coalition Army had come to help.
• Hundreds of thousands of Coalition Army fighters joined the battle, and their surprise attack brought the fighting to a stalemate.
• The White-Spirit Immortal Crane, the Saint King, and Yuan Su each intercepted the Nine Bone Nether Venerable, Hundred-Flower Nether Venerable, and Seven Baleful Nether Venerable.

Lin Mo faced the fully awakened Heavenly Calamity Devil Ancestor, but could not withstand his power. The Four Sages Immortal Venerables sacrificed themselves to give Lin Mo the means to form the Four Symbols Immortal Wheel and seal the devil.

• The Heavenly Calamity Devil Ancestor attacked Lin Mo with demonic qi and quickly overwhelmed him.
• Black Tortoise shielded Lin Mo from a deadly blow while Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, and White Tiger joined them.
• Azure Dragon explained that Lin Mo had to use the Lotus Rebirth Technique to combine the Four Sages' essence souls and power into the Four Symbols Immortal Wheel.
• Lin Mo objected to their sacrifice, but Azure Dragon urged him to protect the middle and lower planes.
• Azure Dragon, White Tiger, and Vermilion Bird sacrificed themselves, and Black Tortoise gave his life while holding back the Heavenly Calamity Devil Ancestor's attack.
• Lin Mo accepted the Four Sages' sacrifice and resolved to fulfill their trust.

Lin Mo defeated the Heavenly Calamity Devil Ancestor with the Azure Spirit Tree God's power and the Four Symbols Immortal Wheel, ending the war and the millennium reincarnation tribulation. The Divine Lord and Demon Emperor revealed that Lin Mo was the Azure Emperor, and he departed toward the firmament as a new reincarnation cycle awaited.

• Lin Mo forged the Four Symbols Immortal Wheel from the Four Sages Immortal Venerables' soul essences and clashed with the Heavenly Calamity Devil Ancestor.
• The Azure Spirit Tree God appeared behind Lin Mo and pierced the Heavenly Calamity Devil Ancestor with azure light.
• Lin Mo trapped the weakened Heavenly Calamity Devil Ancestor in the Four Symbols Immortal Wheel, reducing him to a lifeless black core.
• The Heavenly Calamity Devil Ancestor's defeat stripped the Netherworld cultivators of their power, and the Coalition Army won the war.
• The Divine Lord and Demon Emperor told Lin Mo that he was the Azure Emperor, who had surrendered his memories and cultivation to establish the millennium reincarnation tribulation.
• Lin Mo walked toward the firmament and told the people below that he looked forward to meeting them in the next reincarnation cycle.