Recaps

Tang Yan learned that the Otherworld Ruins had killed members of the Heavenly Punishment Clan and suspected they had prepared a countermeasure against his spatial formations. He persuaded the Pill Alliance to rally the Eight Great Houses for an assault, scheduled to begin after they gathered on March 25.

• Qin Shan proposed capturing Zhong Tianyin, and the Gu King offered the Space-Locking Domain-Suppressing Cage to trap him; Ji Yinzhou ordered forces from the Divine Clan and Gu Race to help capture him.
• Fang Xuan reunited with Tang Yan at his Immortal Feather shop, where Tang Yan shared what he had learned and left cultivation resources and a Void Child Pearl before departing two days later.
• The Otherworld Ruins killed twenty-three Heavenly Punishment Clan members at the Divine Mountain and sent one survivor back to deliver the news.
• Tang Yan appeared before Zhong Haobai in Zhong Tianyin's guise, told him to keep clansmen away from the Divine Mountain, and promised to try to resolve the curse within a month.
• Tang Yan met Lin Jiuyuan at the Pill Alliance and urged the Eight Great Houses to attack the Otherworld Ruins; Lin Jiuyuan agreed to gather them at the Sword Alliance on March 25.

The Otherworld Ruins sent a force to destroy Heaven's Punishment and draw Zhong Tianyin out, while the Eight Great Houses marched toward the ruins. Tang Yan hid his mother, detected the attackers, and waited in ambush as the battle began.

• The Eight Great Houses mobilized their forces and headed for the Otherworld Ruins, prompting Ji Yinzhou to plan to release the other races and attack Heaven's Punishment first.
• Ji Yinzhou sent the Grand Elder and allied experts to slaughter Heaven's Punishment, expecting Zhong Tianyin to appear to protect his clan.
• Tang Yan hid his mother Zhong Jinxiu in the Earth Hall after his formation detected powerful enemies approaching.
• Twenty-three Heaven and Earth Realm experts attacked Heaven's Punishment Island and killed many guards, while Tang Yan confirmed Pureblood Heavenly Venerable was lurking beneath the sea.
• Zhong Haobai rallied the clan's defenders against the invaders, and an unseen heavy sword killed Qin Shan before he could finish speaking.

Tang Yan disrupted the Otherworld Ruins' assault on Heaven's Punishment Island by using disguises, poison, and controlled fighters to narrow the gap between the forces. The battle remained deadlocked as the Pureblood Heavenly Venerable called for reinforcements.

• A poison sect master learned the Eight Great Houses were heading to the Otherworld Ruins and ordered his people to go there with the Eight-Wing Shuttle.
• Tang Yan killed Qin Shan, stole his Storage Ring, and fled as the Otherworld Ruins attacked Heaven's Punishment's forces.
• The Demonic Spirit Heavenly Venerable revealed his power while the Gu Race's Second Elder trapped the battlefield inside a Space-Locking Domain-Suppressing Cage.
• A green speck entered Qi Chuan's mind, and he and the controlled Divine Clan's Third Elder attacked the Otherworld Ruins from behind.
• Tang Yan transformed into Ji Yinzhou, used Blue Mystery Breathless Dew and his disguise to control or wound more enemies, and held off three opponents.
• The Pureblood Heavenly Venerable ordered reinforcements, and the Otherworld Ruins' Fifth Elder crushed a Magic Treasure to summon them as the battle intensified.

Tang Yan turned the battle against the Otherworld Ruins by converting Zao Yu and a Gu Race Guardian, then trapped Pureblood Heavenly Venerable in God's Domain to buy time. After enduring Pureblood Heavenly Venerable's assault, Tang Yan brought Demonic Spirit Heavenly Venerable into the domain to join the fight.

• Tang Yan overwhelmed Zao Yu with Magic Treasures and Blue Mystery Breathless Dew, causing Zao Yu to switch sides and help defeat a Gu Race Guardian.
• Heaven's Punishment gained the upper hand, but Pureblood Heavenly Venerable ordered a retreat when reinforcements arrived and Giant Strength Heavenly Venerable was absent.
• Tang Yan trapped Pureblood Heavenly Venerable in God's Domain and tried to persuade him to join the Human Clan while buying time.
• Pureblood Heavenly Venerable rejected Tang Yan's proposal and attacked, forcing Tang Yan to defend himself while taunting him and using his stolen purple-gold gourd.
• After Tang Yan's Shield broke seven times and his strength began to falter, Demonic Spirit Heavenly Venerable defeated the two remaining enemies, and Tang Yan brought him into God's Domain.

Tang Yan defeated Pureblood Heavenly Venerable, took control of the Otherworld Ruins forces, and reunited Zhong Jinxiu with her parents. He then led Heaven's Punishment elites to join the Eight Great Houses as they sealed the Otherworld Ruins before their assault.

• Tang Yan survived Pureblood Heavenly Venerable's essence-blood attack, defeated him, and used the Soul-Thought Gu to bring the Otherworld Ruins forces under control.
• Tang Yan comforted Zhong Jinxiu, then restored Zhong Haobai and Mi Rong's memories so they could reunite with their daughter.
• Tang Yan told Zhong Haobai that the Heavenly Punishment Clan must join the Eight Great Houses in eradicating the Otherworld Ruins, and the clan prepared to march.
• Tang Yan led Heaven's Punishment elites across the seabed and waited near the Otherworld Ruins.
• The Eight Great Houses formed a battle domain that sealed the Otherworld Ruins, and Lu Lingjun rallied the assembled experts for the fight.

The Eight Great Houses attacked the Otherworld Ruins, but Tang Yan drove off the allied races with the Burning-Heaven Calamity Banner. As the battle dragged on, Pureblood Heavenly Venerable returned with supposedly captured allies, who turned on Ji Yinzhou’s forces from within.

• Ji Yinzhou and Lu Lingjun traded accusations as the Eight Great Houses deployed the Immortal Tribulation Pearl to deter the Otherworld Ruins’ Heavenly Venerable.
• Ji Yinzhou summoned forces from several Other Races, but Tang Yan threatened them with the Burning-Heaven Calamity Banner, and they withdrew.
• Lu Lingjun ordered the Eight Great Houses to attack, and they fought the Otherworld Ruins for four hours while the Immortal Tribulation kept Giant Strength Heavenly Venerable hidden.
• Tang Yan signaled Pureblood Heavenly Venerable, who returned with members of the Otherworld Ruins, Divine Clan, and Gu Race, then entered the ruins’ ranks.
• The returning forces revealed their betrayal by attacking Ji Yinzhou’s troops, while Pureblood Heavenly Venerable killed the Sixth Elder and opened a breach in the defenses.

Giant Strength Heavenly Venerable sacrificed himself to summon the Nether Domain, a deadly vortex that threatened everyone at the Otherworld Ruins. After several fighters failed to withstand it, Tang Yan entered the vortex, accepting the risk of not returning.

• Giant Strength Heavenly Venerable emerged from the Divine Mountain, took the Immortal Tribulation Pearl’s lightning, and dissolved into a vortex that Tang Yan identified as the Nether Domain summoned through the Netherworld Disk.
• Tang Yan sent the Fifth Elder of the Otherworld Ruins and then four more members into the vortex to find Giant Strength Heavenly Venerable’s divine soul, but the Nether Domain crushed them.
• Pureblood Heavenly Venerable reached the vortex’s center and struck Giant Strength Heavenly Venerable’s divine soul twice, but the vortex swallowed him.
• Xiang Tong used his Immortal Golden Body to attack the divine soul seven times before the Nether Domain overwhelmed him; he urged the Buddhist Sect to escort everyone away.
• Tang Yan stopped Qinglan and Elder Chanji from entering the vortex, then activated the Five Elements Tyrant Body Art and charged into the Nether Domain despite the sect leaders’ warnings.

Tang Yan sacrificed his life to destroy the Nether Domain’s vortex and save the Human Clan, leaving the Eight Great Houses to believe he was dead. As the other races moved to attack, a group outside the Otherworld Ruins sent Thousand-Faced Peach Blossom pollen through the barrier.

• Tang Yan attacked Giant Strength Heavenly Venerable’s divine soul with Heaven-Earth Creation Flame, but the Nether Domain fully formed and overwhelmed his flames.
• The Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron freed Tang Yan from the vortex’s restraint, but Tang Yan chose to stay and sacrifice his life rather than abandon the people below.
• Tang Yan poured his vital essence into the cauldron and unleashed a blue flaming sword strike that shattered the Nether Domain’s vortex.
• Ji Yinzhou declared Tang Yan dead and urged the other races to seize the Human Clan’s resources, prompting Rao Baoyue and the Eight Great Houses to burn their lifespans and fight back.
• Twenty li from the Otherworld Ruins, a group riding an Eight-Wing Shuttle used a wind-generating magic treasure to send Thousand-Faced Peach Blossom pollen through the barrier.

Tang Wutian helped the Human Clan defeat the Otherworld Ruins, but learned that his son Tang Yan had sacrificed himself to seal the Nether Domain. After reuniting with Zhong Jinxiu, he told her their son was gone, and she tried to take her own life.

• Thousand-Faced Peach Blossom pollen poisoned the people of the Otherworld Ruins, and Tang Wutian appeared, urging the Eight Great Houses to attack them.
• Tang Wutian reunited with Zhong Haobai and said his research had been meant to free the Heavenly Punishment Clan and reunite his family.
• The Human Clan defeated the Other Races, but Lin Jiuyuan revealed that Tang Yan had disappeared after sealing the Nether Domain at the cost of his life.
• Tang Wutian learned of Tang Yan's sacrifice and collapsed in grief, while the Eight Great Houses promised to hold a memorial for him.
• Tang Wutian reunited with Zhong Jinxiu and told her their son was gone; after hearing what happened, she tried to stab herself with a dagger.

After learning that Tang Yan died saving the Human Clan, Du Shu mourned his friend and urged the Demon Sect to abandon its bid for dominion. He proposed that Lu Fengzong earn the Eight Great Houses’ support by uniting humanity against the coming Great Age, paving the way for Lu Fengzong to become Human Emperor.

• Tang Wutian comforted Zhong Jinxiu after Tang Yan’s death, and Mi Rong joined them in mourning.
• Lu Fengzong convened the Demon Sect’s leaders to discuss taking control of the Spirit Wasteland while the Eight Great Houses were weakened.
• Lu Fengzong revealed that Tang Yan had been the Human Emperor’s successor and showed the assembled leaders images of his final battle; Du Shu was devastated by his friend’s death.
• Du Shu argued that an attempt to seize power would provoke the Eight Great Houses and leave humanity vulnerable to the Other Races.
• Du Shu proposed that the Demon Sect negotiate with the great houses, prepare jointly for the Great Age, and establish Lu Fengzong’s reputation so humanity would willingly raise him to the Human Emperor’s throne.

Du Shu persuaded Lu Fengzong to lead the Demon Sect into the struggle against the Other Races, while Lu Fengzong considered making Du Shu his successor. After learning that Tang Yan had died, Fang Xuan and Lin Dongxue grieved, and Lin Dongxue’s Sentimental Dao shattered.

• Du Shu convinced Lu Fengzong and the Demon Sect’s leaders to cooperate with the Great Houses and fight the Other Races.
• Zheng Qingshi reported that Du Shu was using his earnings to win the members’ favor, but Lu Fengzong refused to search Du Shu’s soul and considered entrusting him with the Demon Sect.
• Du Shu told Fang Xuan that Tang Yan had died, and Fang Xuan agreed to help the Demon Sect fulfill Tang Yan’s wish before returning to Fang City.
• Lu Ruiqing told Lin Dongxue that Tang Yan had died in battle and gave her an Engraving Realm Pearl showing his final moments.
• Lin Dongxue walked away from Lu Ruiqing as her hair turned white and her Sentimental Dao shattered.

After Tang Yan’s death, his family, Lin Dongxue, and Reach the Summit mourned him while the Human Clan faced growing threats from the Other Races. The Demon Sect proposed uniting with the great houses under its command to weather the Great Age, leaving the leaders to consider its terms.

• Lin Dongxue told Lu Ruiqing she would forge a new path of the sword without Tang Yan, and Lu Ruiqing promised the Sword Alliance would support her.
• Tang Wutian and Zhong Jinxiu returned to Tang Ling and told him that Tang Yan had sacrificed his life; Tang Ling collapsed in grief, and Reach the Summit mourned Tang Yan.
• The Eight Great Houses announced victory over the Otherworld Ruins, and leaders and allies gathered at the Pill Alliance to hold a memorial ceremony for Tang Yan.
• At a meeting of the Eight Great Houses, Lin Jiuyuan warned that Earth Abyss Passages were appearing more frequently and asked for strategies against the Other Races.
• Ma Tengyun and Du Shu proposed that the Demon Sect and the great houses unite against the Great Age, with the Demon Sect leading under six safeguards, including blood oaths and a three-month trial period.

The orthodox sects agreed to cooperate with the Demon Sect against the Other Races and the coming Great Age, setting plans for an alliance and preemptive warfare. After the meeting, Lin Dongxue chose to stay at the Pill Alliance and resolved to fight the threats emerging from Earth Abyss Passages.

• Lin Jiuyuan and the orthodox sect leaders agreed to cooperate with Ma Tengyun and Du Shu, then accepted the Demon Sect’s plans for joint teams, rewards, and an invasion of races that rejected a non-aggression treaty.
• The sects scheduled an alliance oath at Emerald Star Peak for the tenth day of the fifth month.
• Lin Dongxue asked Lu Ruiqing to let her stay at the Pill Alliance and return the Red Dust Sword, but Lu Ruiqing told her to keep it; she explained that Du Shu was Tang Yan’s brother-in-arms.
• Zi Yun told Lin Dongxue she planned to go to the Dragon Clan, rule it, and form an alliance with the Human Clan in fulfillment of Tang Yan’s wish.
• Lin Dongxue decided to hunt the beings emerging from Earth Abyss Passages and vowed to kill every Yaoguai, God, and Gu she encountered.

Zi Yun traveled to the Dragon Clan's Royal City and revealed herself as the reincarnation of Sage Jin Qi, while the Human Clan organized against the invading Other Races. The chapter ended with Lin Dongxue confronting four Black Generals emerging from an Abyss Passage.

• Zi Yun left the Pill Alliance, crossed an Earth Abyss Passage, and learned from a Black Dragon where to find the Dragon Clan's Royal City.
• Zi Yun declared herself the reincarnation of a Sacred Dragon and demonstrated Sage Jin Qi's Thunder Domain, prompting the Dragon King to welcome her to the Dragon Palace.
• The righteous sects and the Demon Sect formed an alliance, arranged a non-aggression treaty with the Other Races, and offered rewards for hunting invaders.
• Feng Chenye released his novel modeled on Tang Yan, inspiring more people to join the fight against the invaders.
• Lin Dongxue faced four Black Generals in the Ancient Wilderness Marsh and demanded that they swear not to oppose the Human Clan and return to the Demon Race.

Lin Dongxue resisted severing her love for Tang Yan, absorbed the Emotion Sword Venerable's Inheritance, and reached the peak of the Dao-entry realm. Months later, the Spirit Wilderness Realm remained stable against the invaders, while Xiang Xiaoyu prepared a test of her new long-distance communication artifact.

• Lin Dongxue fought four Black Generals and, while recalling Tang Yan, entered an epiphany that sharpened her swordplay.
• Lin Dongxue rejected the Dao of supreme forgetfulness, declared she would never forget Tang Yan, and began reshaping her Sentimental Dao.
• Lin Dongxue absorbed the Emotion Sword Venerable's Inheritance, rose to the peak of the Dao-entry realm, and killed the three Black Generals who returned to attack her.
• Over the next two and a half months, Du Shu and Fang Xuan coordinated resistance to the invading races, and the Human Clan remained stable as suspicion of the Demon Sect faded.
• Xiang Xiaoyu gave her disciples Heavenly Communicators and sent them to distant locations to test their long-distance calls.

Xiang Xiaoyu proved that the Heavenly Communicator could connect disciples across vast distances, and the Artifact Forest began commercializing it. Meanwhile, Tang Yan’s Divine Soul awakened in the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron, which searched for a body after Tang Yan refused to take over the body of the unconscious Lin Dong.

• Xiang Xiaoyu received successful calls from disciples as far away as the Wind God River, confirming that the Heavenly Communicator worked across the Signal Stations.
• Qi Yiyang tested the device, approved Xiang Xiaoyu’s plan to sell Heavenly Communicators and charge for service, and called the Artifact Forest’s senior members to discuss promotion.
• The Artifact Forest built Signal Stations and began trial sales, drawing queues of buyers as news of the Heavenly Communicator spread across the Spirit Wilderness Realm.
• After five months of care inside the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron, Tang Yan’s Divine Soul awakened and realized that his physical body had been swallowed by the Nether Domain.
• The Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron tried to strangle the unconscious Lin Dong so Tang Yan could use his body, but Tang Yan refused and ordered it to let him go.
• The cauldron revived Lin Dong with Spiritual Qi, then left Qingyang Town in search of another vessel after sensing an intent in the distance.

Tang Yan fused with a powerful skeleton in the Heavenly Wailing Ruins and began hunting wicked people to strengthen its bones. After killing two partners who had poisoned and extorted families in Xilin Town, he confronted a powerful man in Heaven Lake Village.

• Tang Yan merged his Divine Soul with a skeleton formed from more than five million bones and learned that absorbing skeletal remains and the wicked's bloody baleful energy could eventually help him reconstruct his flesh.
• Tang Yan followed a beam of bloody baleful energy to a residence in Xilin Town and killed a servant who was about to poison the well with Soul-Eroding Poison.
• Tang Yan killed the old Daoist who had worked with the servant to poison victims and extort their families, absorbing both men's baleful energy.
• The Liu Family discovered the poison on the servant's body and realized that someone had prevented him from poisoning their household.
• Tang Yan appeared before a mid-stage Dominion Realm man in Heaven Lake Village, startling him with his skeletal face.

Tang Yan killed the evil cultivators at Ten Directions Temple after uncovering their crimes against women. At the Artifact Forest, Xiang Xiaoyu’s insight into how the Heavenly Communicator benefited the public led to her breakthrough into the Heavenly Venerable realm, where she was named the Unifying Heavenly Venerable.

• Tang Yan killed Xu Chunqiang, an evil cultivator who used unborn fetuses in his cultivation, and burned his corpse to ashes.
• Tang Yan killed the abbot and seven monks at Ten Directions Temple after learning they had exploited women who came to pray for children.
• The Heavenly Communicator became popular across the Eastern Region, while Xiang Xiaoyu reviewed customer feedback and considered its impact.
• Xiang Xiaoyu realized that artifact crafting should benefit all living beings, and a heavenly phenomenon helped her break through into the Heavenly Venerable realm.
• Qi Yiyang and the Artifact Forest elders celebrated Xiang Xiaoyu’s breakthrough and named her the Unifying Heavenly Venerable.

After the Human Clan’s victory over the Soul-Devouring Clan provoked renewed invasions, Du Shu proposed that Artifact Forest secretly arm the Other Races with explosive Heavenly Communicators. Meanwhile, Tang Yan rescued a human group from demons and then found a skeleton among the rocks.

• Xiang Xiaoyu attained the rank of Heavenly Venerable, and the Human Clan celebrated her new title, Unifying Heavenly Venerable.
• The Human Clan annihilated the Soul-Devouring Clan, prompting some races to sign Contracts while others intensified their invasions.
• Lu Fengzong and Du Shu asked Qi Yiyang and Artifact Forest to sell the Other Races Heavenly Communicators rigged with detonatable Formations, and Xiang Xiaoyu confirmed the plan was possible.
• Tang Yan killed twenty-six demons that were attacking twelve humans, then left before they could thank him.
• Tan Hui told the survivors that the mysterious rescuer’s face had looked like a skull.
• Tang Yan spotted a skeleton among some rocks and walked toward it.

Tang Yan discovered that absorbing the bones of powerful Martial Dao cultivators could greatly strengthen him, and secretly raided the Blade Origin Sect’s and Mystic Maiden Sect’s mausoleums. At the Mystic Maiden Sect, Ye Yuxuan saw him emerge from Elder Qingyun’s tomb and mistook him for the long-dead elder as he fled.

• Tang Yan tested absorbing power from an exposed Martial Artist’s skeleton, then found little strength in the ordinary people buried in a nearby graveyard.
• After killing four more evildoers, Tang Yan entered the Blade Origin Sect’s mausoleum and absorbed substantial bone power from its powerful predecessors.
• Tang Yan visited the Mystic Maiden Sect’s mausoleum and gained even more strength by absorbing power from its many distinguished dead.
• The next morning, Ye Yuxuan found a disturbed tomb and watched Tang Yan leap out of Elder Qingyun’s coffin.
• Ye Yuxuan greeted Tang Yan as Elder Qingyun, and Tang Yan nodded before sprinting away.

Ye Yuxuan failed to catch Tang Yan after he escaped through the river, and the Mystic Maiden Sect mistook his grave-digging for depraved desecration. The sect issued a widespread Pursuit Warrant for “Evil Bone,” and Tang Yan realized that the villain everyone was discussing was him.

• Ye Yuxuan discovered the real Elder Qingyun's skeleton in the coffin and pursued Tang Yan, who hid in the Xuantian River until she gave up.
• Qinglan and the elders investigated the opened graves and found that none of the remains had been damaged.
• Cheng Xiqiu linked the skeleton to reports of a bloodthirsty killer, and the Internal Affairs Hall Master suggested he had desecrated the sect's predecessors.
• Qinglan ordered a Pursuit Warrant, and the Mystic Maiden Sect circulated it throughout the Spirit Wasteland under the name “Evil Bone.”
• In Fuliang City, Tang Yan heard people condemn the skeleton and realized they were talking about him.

Tang Yan continued eliminating evil and helping others while evading the pursuit of the so-called Evil Bone Silver Demon. Meanwhile, Ling Jiangliu negotiated with the Blood Clan to sell Heavenly Communicators, and the Blood King used a Soul-Searching Pearl to uncover the Human Clan's authorized offer before agreeing to a sixty-percent profit share.

• Tang Yan dismissed the accusations against him and continued traveling, secretly visiting sect Mausoleums and helping reputable sects fight the Other Races.
• Ling Jiangliu arrived at the Blood Clan to propose selling Heavenly Communicators and explained that Signal Stations would make them work there.
• The Blood Clan's Second Elder challenged the proposal, and Ling Jiangliu offered the Blood Clan thirty percent of the profits in exchange for covering Signal Station construction costs.
• The Blood King rejected Ling Jiangliu's offer and used a Soul-Searching Pearl to probe his Divine Soul.
• The Blood King learned that Lu Fengzong had authorized Ling Jiangliu to offer up to sixty percent of the profits, then agreed to cooperate on that basis.

Du Shu rejected Lu Fengzong’s offer to become Human Emperor, while Tang Yan continued raiding sect mausoleums to strengthen his bones. After discovering that thirty-one sects’ tombs had been disturbed, Lu Fengzong predicted Tang Yan’s next target was the Dao Sect and organized a hunt there.

• Lu Fengzong praised Du Shu’s plan and offered him the position of Human Emperor, but Du Shu refused because he cared only about business.
• Tang Yan secretly visited the Academy, Pill Alliance, Buddhist Sect, Sword Alliance, and Demon Sect mausoleums, absorbing power from the bones there.
• Tang Yan found Lin Dongxue and Zi Yun absent from their courtyards and left the Sword Alliance as rumors about the Evil Bone Silver Demon spread.
• Lu Fengzong discovered that Shao Qingfeng’s tomb and dozens of others had been disturbed, then identified Evil Bone Silver Demon as the culprit.
• Reports revealed that at least thirty-one sects’ mausoleums had been raided, and Lu Fengzong mapped the route and predicted the Dao Sect was Tang Yan’s next target.
• Lu Fengzong sent Zheng Qingshi to alert the prestigious sects and ordered the Grand Elder and Ye Xingye to join the hunt at the Dao Sect.

The Demon King united nine races to attack the Dao Sect and eliminate the Human Clan’s future Venerables and Sages. Meanwhile, Lin Dongxue reunited with Fang Xuan, advanced into Heaven and Earth through her Sentimental Dao, and set out for the Dao Sect to hunt Evil Bone Silver Demon.

• Elder Turtle divined that the Great Age was less than three months away, and the Demon King ordered the Fourth Elder to enlist other races for an assault on the Human Clan.
• On the ninth day of the first lunar month, nine races agreed to attack the Dao Sect, though the Dragon Clan did not join them.
• Lin Dongxue met Fang Xuan, who told her that Reach the Summit would carry on Yan’s wishes and keep its road lively and full of blossoms.
• Lin Dongxue’s Sentimental Dao broke through its shackles, advancing her from Dao Entry Peak into Heaven and Earth.
• Lu Ruiqing told Lin Dongxue that Evil Bone Silver Demon was likely heading to the Dao Sect, so she set off to join him in hunting the demon.

Tang Yan, disguised as Evil Bone, was trapped at the Dao Sect after its allies intercepted him while he tried to reach the Mausoleum. As he fought sixteen weapon experts, Lin Dongxue began improving her swordsmanship by studying his; meanwhile, the leaders of the nine great Other Races decided to attack and use the battle to weaken the Human Clan’s sects.

• Tang Yan entered the Dao Sect and approached the Mausoleum, but three elders confronted him before he could act.
• Nearly eighty experts from several sects surrounded Tang Yan, and Li Yangqiu identified that ordinary Spirit Power and forceful winds could not harm or track him.
• Tang Yan escaped the Academy’s defenses, but Li Yangqiu’s arrows slowed him and the assembled experts launched a weapon assault.
• Tang Yan used his sword to hold off sixteen attackers, including Lin Dongxue, whose swordsmanship improved as she analyzed his techniques.
• The leaders of the nine great Other Races watched from a concealed sphere and agreed to attack while Tang Yan kept the sect experts occupied.