Recaps

Ouyang challenged Dongxu Zi’s willingness to sacrifice lives for all living beings, then left Azure Cloud Peak to seek Tutu’s perfect bloodline awakening and his own Dao. Dongxu Zi summoned Zhao Qiansun and bestowed a golden lotus upon him as a treasure.

• Ouyang questioned Dongxu Zi’s ideals, but admitted he had not seen enough of the world to know whether his own path was right.
• Ouyang vowed to find what was wrong and fix it, then told Leng Qingsong and Chen Changsheng that he was leaving to help Tutu and seek his Dao.
• Dongxu Zi warned Ouyang that even ninth-level Tribulation Transcendence cultivators were not all equal.
• Ouyang passed the little fox to Chen Changsheng and led him and Leng Qingsong toward Little Mountain Peak, leaving Zhao Qiansun behind.
• Dongxu Zi pulled Zhao Qiansun up into the clouds, recognized him as half a disciple because he had received both Dongxu Zi’s and Hu Yun’s inheritance, and gave him a golden lotus filled with Merit Aura and profound laws.
• Zhao Qiansun inspected the lotus in his Dantian, realized it was a valuable treasure, and thanked Dongxu Zi.

Dongxu Zi gave Zhao Qiansun a Golden Lotus and a supreme secret art without requiring him to join the Azure Cloud Sect, leaving Zhao suspicious about the sect’s generosity. Ouyang and Zhao Qiansun set out to deal with Zhao’s snake venom, while Chen Changsheng and Leng Qingsong secretly followed them.

• Dongxu Zi let Zhao Qiansun refuse to join the Azure Cloud Sect and urged him to leave with Ouyang, despite Zhao offering to return the Golden Lotus.
• Ouyang told Zhao that the sect could easily afford the gift, and Zhao decided to repay the favor later while focusing on his snake venom.
• Ouyang and Zhao departed on Zhao’s enlarged copper coin, with Ouyang bringing Liang Zai along.
• Chen Changsheng and Leng Qingsong used Yellow Talismans to conceal themselves, then flew after Ouyang with Little Bie San and the Azure Bird.

Ouyang and Zhao Qiansun followed a tracking spell to a Mortal World city where Chang Xiaoyue was worshipped as the White Lady. Ouyang confronted the temple’s worshippers, while Zhao Qiansun warned that their cultivation would be suppressed there.

• Ouyang gave Zhao Qiansun Leng Qingsong’s old white dress, and Zhao Qiansun used it to track its original owner southward.
• Ouyang and Zhao Qiansun reached a small city under a heavy demonic aura, while Chen Changsheng and Leng Qingsong followed behind them.
• Zhao Qiansun explained that their cultivation would be limited in the Mortal World and prepared himself with magic artifacts.
• Ouyang recognized Chang Xiaoyue’s statue in the White Lady Temple and learned that worshippers believed she granted rain, healing, children, and blessings.
• Ouyang rejected Zhao Qiansun’s suggestion to plan carefully and shouted at the worshippers that they were fools for believing in feudal superstition.

Ouyang found Chang Xiaoyue at the White Lady Temple, where she had been posing as a deity, and reunited with her after exposing her to the worshippers. He told her that Chang Suzhen had sent him to bring her back, even if he had to return with her head.

• Ouyang entered the White Lady Temple carrying a white dress and challenged the worshippers' devotion to Chang Xiaoyue's statue.
• When Ouyang grabbed the statue's arm, it transformed into Chang Xiaoyue, and the worshippers believed the White Lady had manifested.
• Chang Xiaoyue broke down over being hunted by her master and the Human Race, and the frightened worshippers fled the temple.
• Chang Xiaoyue asked where Qingsong was, and Ouyang explained that he had come without him because Chang Suzhen had sent him.
• Ouyang told Chang Xiaoyue that Chang Suzhen had ordered him to slaughter her and bring back her head if necessary.

Ouyang confronted Chang Xiaoyue in the temple, but she escaped before he could carry out Master's Wife's wishes. After Leng Qingsong chased her and returned, Ouyang realized his brothers had misunderstood the situation and revealed a golden proclamation asking whether this Mortal World was called Great Zhou.

• Chang Xiaoyue erupted with blood energy and fled Ouyang's grasp after he tried to seize her.
• Chang Xiaoyue sent Zhao Qiansun and his magic artifacts flying as she escaped the temple.
• Chen Changsheng prepared to trap Chang Xiaoyue, but Leng Qingsong stopped him and chased after her instead.
• Ouyang discovered Chen Changsheng and Leng Qingsong had followed him, then explained that he had not intended to kill Chang Xiaoyue.
• Leng Qingsong returned without Chang Xiaoyue, and Ouyang teased him before asking whether the Mortal World was called Great Zhou.

Ouyang and his companions pursued Chang Xiaoyue after he explained why she had to die, while Leng Qingsong struggled with his feelings about his fiancée. Ouyang and Chen Changsheng made a wager about whether Leng Qingsong would confess his love to her.

• Ouyang read a proclamation praising Chang Xiaoyue and wondered whether the Mortal World had become part of the hidden forces’ plans.
• Ouyang recounted Chang Xiaoyue and Leng Qingsong’s history to Chen Changsheng as the group pursued her aboard the Copper Coins.
• Chen Changsheng questioned why they could not wait, but Ouyang insisted Chang Xiaoyue had to die.
• Leng Qingsong was unable to imagine drawing his sword against Chang Xiaoyue and hurried ahead, troubled by his feelings.
• Ouyang bet that Leng Qingsong would tell Chang Xiaoyue “I love you,” and Chen Changsheng wagered that he would, trusting Ouyang’s confidence.

As Leng Qingsong pursued the Snake Demon, Ouyang and the others lost their trail and learned that their next lead lay in Great Zhou, formerly Great Tang. Chen Changsheng revealed his detailed record of the dynasty’s fall and hinted at his own role in shaping those events, leaving Ouyang to wonder what he had done.

• Leng Qingsong resolved to carry out his master’s intent and vanished through space to chase the Snake Demon.
• Zhao Qiansun failed to locate the Snake Demon with the Heavenly Evolution Method, so Ouyang asked whether Great Zhou was a Mortal World.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Great Tang, where he had gone with Ling Feng, had become Great Zhou.
• Chen Changsheng gave Ouyang a detailed history describing Xie Xinzhi’s death, Wang Xiaoming’s rise as Wang Mang, and the founding of Great Zhou.
• Chen Changsheng hinted that he had helped change the world, then picked up the proclamation and recited its imperial seal inscription.

Ouyang realized the factions were using the Mortal World as a chessboard, with Chang Xiaoyue and Ling Feng tied to a plan involving the Devil Race Seal. He concealed the full truth from Chen Changsheng and tested how he would react to Ouyang’s death, leaving Chen Changsheng resolute that no one could kill his senior brother.

• Chen Changsheng told Ouyang he was only watching the schemes unfold and suspected they involved their sister-in-law, Chang Xiaoyue.
• Ouyang deduced that Hu Yun, Dongxu Zi, and the mastermind were playing separate parts in a plan centered on Chang Xiaoyue’s Devil Race Seal, while Ling Feng had become the first card played.
• Ouyang realized Chen Changsheng would be devastated to learn that powerful cultivators, including Ouyang himself, had helped bring about the Great Calamity in Chen Changsheng’s previous life.
• Ouyang told Chen Changsheng that things were neither as simple nor as complicated as he thought, but Chen Changsheng said he understood.
• Ouyang asked what Chen Changsheng would do if he willingly chose to die, and Chen Changsheng insisted that nobody, not even himself, could make Ouyang die.
• Ouyang said he had only been joking, apologized, and promised not to make that joke again.

Chang Xiaoyue, exhausted and heartbroken, faced Leng Qingsong and asked him to kill her. He struck once but deliberately spared her, leaving her alive as he disappeared.

• After fleeing through space until her demon core cracked, Chang Xiaoyue stopped before Leng Qingsong and asked him to make her death quick.
• Chang Xiaoyue recalled how her marriage to Leng Qingsong began as a bargain to survive, then became a one-sided romance she had built up in her imagination.
• Leng Qingsong asked Chang Xiaoyue to come see Ouyang, but she refused to die in front of him and tore through space to leave.
• As folded paper stars filled the sky, Leng Qingsong bound his eyes and warned Chang Xiaoyue that he would make one sword strike.
• Leng Qingsong's sword light cut off a lock of Chang Xiaoyue's hair without injuring her, and he disappeared while she complained that his sword had failed to kill her.

Ouyang and his companions watched a recording of Leng Qingsong failing to kill Chang Xiaoyue, then Ouyang sent him to save her from another threat. With Hu Yun’s elaborate plan reaching its final act, Ouyang led the group toward the Great Zhou Capital.

• Ouyang, Chen Changsheng, and Zhao Qiansun watched a Recording Stone showing Leng Qingsong’s clumsy romantic pursuit of Chang Xiaoyue and mocked him.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Ouyang had never expected Leng Qingsong to kill Chang Xiaoyue, since Leng Qingsong valued his bonds with his fellow disciples too deeply.
• Leng Qingsong appeared before the group and admitted he had not killed Chang Xiaoyue; Ouyang checked him for a fishhook and then told him to save her instead.
• Ouyang revealed that others also wanted Chang Xiaoyue dead, prompting Leng Qingsong to rush off with his sword.
• Ouyang, Chen Changsheng, and Zhao Qiansun reflected on Hu Yun’s plan and set out for the Great Zhou Capital.

Xie Xinzhi reflected on how an Immortal’s possession of his body had changed his ambitions and led him to conspire with Ling Feng to escape a fate controlled by others. As he watched the moon, he vowed that he could not afford to lose after sacrificing everything for freedom and a fair world.

• Xie Xinzhi woke from a dream of Lin Feng’s voice and recognized it as another attempt to bewitch him.
• Xie Xinzhi recalled how he had fought off the Immortal who seized his body, devoured the Immortal’s soul, and inherited his memories and ability to cultivate.
• Xie Xinzhi remembered how the bottle of elixirs and Ouyang had opened his path to power while making him feel that others had controlled his fate.
• Xie Xinzhi recalled agreeing to conspire with Ling Feng, whose dream of a world where everyone stood equal reminded him of his former ideals.
• Xie Xinzhi watched the moon, clenched his bleeding fists, and vowed not to lose after giving everything to live freely and see a fair world.

Ling Feng advanced to the peak of Out-of-Body and prepared to use Chang Xiaoyue to open the Devil Race Seal and start a Dao-Demon War. He recognized Ouyang and the others as obstacles but remained determined to reshape the Cultivation World and become its protagonist.

• Ling Feng reached Out-of-Body Great Perfection and reflected on how he had deduced powerful cultivation methods during his time in the Endless Void.
• Ling Feng reviewed his plan to use Chang Xiaoyue and Mortal World Fortune to open the Devil Race Seal and ignite a Dao-Demon War.
• Ling Feng recalled that Zu Yuan had infiltrated the Azure Cloud Sect to free the Devil Race, and decided to fulfill his junior brother's failed mission.
• Ling Feng considered the danger of challenging the world's hidden powers, but embraced the fear and pressure as proof that he was alive.
• Ling Feng saw Chen Changsheng, Leng Qingsong, Bai Feiyu, and Ouyang as obstacles, then vowed to become the protagonist of heaven and earth.

The Nine Great Sacred Lands’ sect masters watched Ouyang and his companions in the Mortal World, while Dongxu Zi rejected their doubts and defended the Azure Cloud Sect’s role. The chapter revealed that Hu Yun had trapped the Great Calamity’s beginning in the Mortal World, where Great Cultivators could not intervene without being assimilated.

• Su Xiaoqi and Tai'a mocked the Sage Manor’s old man for questioning whether Azure Cloud Sect’s young disciples could handle the task.
• Zhang Zixiang praised Chen Changsheng, and Tai'a praised Leng Qingsong, prompting Dongxu Zi to resent their attempts to claim his disciples.
• The Ethereal Pavilion’s Pavilion Master questioned leaving the Devil Race Seal to the young cultivators, but Dongxu Zi challenged him to intervene or leave.
• The assembled sect masters watched Ouyang and his companions as the Great Calamity began unfolding in the Mortal World.
• The chapter explained that the Thirty-Six Mortal Worlds arose from fallen Immortals and that their laws would assimilate any Great Cultivator who entered.
• Dongxu Zi’s earlier interruption of Leng Qingsong’s breakthrough was revealed as an effort to keep him from becoming vulnerable to the Mortal World’s laws.

Chang Xiaoyue traveled to the Great Zhou capital, where the Mortal World's suppressive pressure weakened her cultivation and the Dragon Boat Festival customs unsettled her. After approaching the Imperial City without the appointment scroll she had misplaced, she was recognized by Yang Dong, the Vice Minister of Rites.

• Chang Xiaoyue hurried toward the Mortal World's capital because she hoped its fortune would protect her and offer refuge from her pursuers.
• As the pressure of the Mortal World suppressed her cultivation, Chang Xiaoyue descended to the road and continued toward the capital on foot.
• Chang Xiaoyue reached the Great Zhou capital and learned from an inn attendant that the people were celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival.
• Irritated by the festival's realgar, mugwort, and noisy celebrations, Chang Xiaoyue left the inn and headed for the Imperial City.
• The soldiers challenged Chang Xiaoyue at the Imperial City gates, but Yang Dong came out and greeted her as Her Highness the White Lady.

Chang Xiaoyue accepted Great Zhou’s appointment as State Preceptor, but Yang Dong and the court poisoned her and launched an attack. Driven into her white-snake form, she escaped into the sky above the Imperial City as dark clouds gathered.

• Yang Dong guided Chang Xiaoyue through the Imperial City and declared that she had come to assume the office of State Preceptor.
• Chang Xiaoyue accepted the imperial wine and Mianfu, then discovered the wine had poisoned her.
• Chang Xiaoyue killed Yang Dong and charged into the Main Hall, where the disguised young eunuch challenged her to reveal her true form.
• The boy attacked Chang Xiaoyue with a flexible sword while she struggled against the poison and her suppressed cultivation.
• Chang Xiaoyue transformed into a giant white snake, crushed the palace, and rose into the clouds above the Imperial City.

Chang Xiaoyue’s white serpent form flooded the Capital, allowing Xie Xinzhi and Ling Feng to activate the Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation and attack her divine soul with wronged spirits. A Green Lotus Long Sword rescued her from the formation, and Ling Feng called on the Destiny Golden Dragon and Haoran Righteous Qi to strike at the demon.

• Chang Xiaoyue revealed her enormous white serpent form above the Capital, and the storm and rumors caused panic as the city flooded.
• Ling Feng and Xie Xinzhi watched the Capital’s destiny weaken, while Xie Xinzhi decided the suffering had become sufficient to activate the Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation.
• Xie Xinzhi raised the formation, and Ling Feng sent the wronged souls of the flood’s victims along its blood chains to gnaw at Chang Xiaoyue’s divine soul.
• A cold voice cried “Cleave,” and a Green Lotus Long Sword shattered the chains and shielded the fallen Chang Xiaoyue from the wronged souls.
• Ling Feng urged the next attack, and a Destiny Golden Dragon and a giant brush of Haoran Righteous Qi emerged to answer his call.

Wang Mang and Xie Xinzhi unleashed the Human Emperor’s Fortune and Haoran Righteous Qi against the white snake, while Chang Suzhen sensed Chang Xiaoyue was in mortal danger and prayed for her survival. Leng Qingsong arrived in time to shield the snake from the attack, then recognized Ling Feng as the likely force behind it.

• Wang Mang held the Jade Seal and accepted Xie Xinzhi’s task, determined to keep the throne and claim Great Zhou for his family.
• Xie Xinzhi wrote “All under heaven” and sent Haoran Righteous Qi toward the white snake as the Human Emperor’s Fortune struck alongside it.
• Chang Suzhen sensed Chang Xiaoyue’s danger, tore open space to reach a secret chamber, and prayed before a Buddha statue for her survival.
• Leng Qingsong’s Azure-Light Sword Qi intercepted the two forces, and he concluded that he was a contingency of the Mortal World.
• Leng Qingsong used the Green Duckweed Sword to shield the unconscious white snake from the blast, then looked toward Ling Feng in a distant pavilion.

Leng Qingsong unleashed his green lotus Sword Intent against Ling Feng, disrupting the Mortal World's Laws, but Ling Feng established the Ghost Dao and turned the world against him. Ling Feng swallowed the dragons of Human Emperor's Fortune and Haoran Righteous Qi, awakening a golden eye as the Mortal World began to breathe again.

• Leng Qingsong drew the Green Duckweed Sword and unleashed his thirteenth-grade green lotus Sword Intent, throwing the Mortal World's Laws into chaos as he attacked Ling Feng.
• Ling Feng called upon ghosts and established the Ghost Dao, dispersing the sword light and causing Leng Qingsong's cultivation to collapse as the Mortal World rejected him.
• Ling Feng revealed that Leng Qingsong's disruption of the Laws had helped him complete his plan to alter the Mortal World's rules ahead of schedule.
• Ling Feng transformed into a blood-filled maw and swallowed the two dragons of Human Emperor's Fortune and Haoran Righteous Qi, severing Xie Xinzhi's connection to his power and causing Wang Xiaoming to faint.
• A golden eye appeared above the Mortal World as a breathing sound reached every living being, and a graceful figure stepped before the unconscious Leng Qingsong.

Ouyang and the others waited as Leng Qingsong faced the tribulation Hu Yun had arranged, while Ling Feng attempted to become the Mortal World's Heavenly Dao. The Tribulation Transcendence experts saw Ling Feng's plan as a possible path to Immortality, but Dongxu Zi doubted the Mortal World would accept him.

• Chen Changsheng asked Ouyang whether he had delayed going because he wanted Leng Qingsong to face the tribulation alone, and Ouyang confirmed it was Hu Yun's arrangement.
• Ouyang, Chen Changsheng, and Zhao Qiansun waited rather than interfere, while Ouyang worried he might have to rescue Leng Qingsong if the tribulation destroyed his Dao foundation.
• The Tribulation Transcendence experts realized Ling Feng was combining the Human Emperor's Fortune and Haoran Righteous Qi to merge with the Mortal World's reincarnation and become its Heavenly Dao.
• The experts began to see Ling Feng's attempt as a possible route to Immortality and turned to Dongxu Zi for guidance.
• Dongxu Zi dismissed their hopes and wondered whether the Mortal World would agree to Ling Feng's Dao Integration.

After merging with the golden Vertical Pupil, Ling Feng gained control of the Mortal World and began pursuing his plan to command the Devil Race. He killed Chang Xiaoyue and Leng Qingsong, but the Wooden Plaque and Peace Talisman activated after he entered the white snake’s mouth, and Leng Qingsong began to revive.

• Ling Feng tested his new power over the Mortal World by erasing a mountain and decided to use the Devil Race to conquer the other Mortal Worlds.
• Ling Feng tortured Chang Xiaoyue in front of Leng Qingsong, then tore off her head and killed Leng Qingsong with a streak of golden light.
• Ling Feng entered the white snake’s mouth to reach the Devil Race Seal, intending to control the Devil Race and use them to devour the thirty-six Mortal Worlds.
• After Ling Feng vanished, the Wooden Plaque Hu Yun had left Leng Qingsong cracked, while Ouyang’s Peace Talisman and lights from the plaque and snake revived signs of life in Leng Qingsong and the white snake.
• A lively voice called for Leng Qingsong to wake up.

Leng Qingsong awoke in his consciousness sea, where Hu Yun explained why he had arranged Chang Xiaoyue’s death and revealed that Leng Qingsong was meant to reopen the Immortal Gate. After Hu Yun disappeared, Chang Xiaoyue appeared and told Leng Qingsong she had to go.

• Leng Qingsong woke in his consciousness sea and confronted Hu Yun over the betrayal and his humiliating death.
• Hu Yun explained that Chang Xiaoyue’s Devil Race Seal meant she would eventually die, while Leng Qingsong had to die once to break his ties to the mortal world.
• Hu Yun told Leng Qingsong that the mortal world was an Immortal contingency and that Leng Qingsong was meant to reopen the Immortal Gate.
• Hu Yun challenged Leng Qingsong to learn from Changsheng and stop blaming his defeat on being unable to use the Green Lotus Laws.
• Hu Yun vanished, and Chang Xiaoyue appeared and told Leng Qingsong, “It’s time for me to go, Little Husband!”

Leng Qingsong returned from death and confronted Ling Feng, who had fused with the Mortal World’s Heavenly Dao. After Leng Qingsong destroyed Ling Feng and struck at the Heavenly Dao’s golden eye, a mysterious seal appeared and sent two golden lights into Zhao Qiansun’s forehead.

• Chang Xiaoyue told Leng Qingsong she wanted to try a relationship with him in another life and urged him not to lose the Star before he sank into darkness.
• Ouyang revived Leng Qingsong and restored his ability to use the laws while restraining the Mortal World’s golden vertical pupil.
• Leng Qingsong entered the Heaven-Swallowing Python’s inner space and beheaded Ling Feng, then destroyed his fleeing divine soul with the green lotuses in his eyes.
• Ling Feng escaped as a streak of red light and claimed he was one with the Mortal World, but Leng Qingsong unleashed a torrent of sword qi against the golden vertical pupil.
• A golden swastika seal swept away Leng Qingsong’s sword qi, shattered, and sent two golden lights into Zhao Qiansun’s forehead.

A golden vertical pupil released demonic qi, revealing that the Devil Race’s great calamity had arrived a hundred years early. Ouyang confronted the face formed from the demonic qi, but Dongxu Zi intervened before Ouyang could attack.

• Two beams of golden light sent Zhao Qiansun into dao enlightenment inside a golden flower bud.
• The shattered seal revealed a golden vertical pupil emitting demonic qi, and Chen Changsheng recognized it as a sign that the Devil Race had arrived early.
• Chen Changsheng panicked and blamed himself for the early calamity, but Ouyang calmed him with his true essence and two slaps.
• Ouyang left Chen Changsheng and Leng Qingsong to guard Zhao Qiansun, then rode Liang Zai toward the golden vertical pupil.
• The demonic qi formed a human face that asked where Dongxu Zi was and dismissed Ouyang as an imitation.
• Dongxu Zi’s whisk swept away the demonic qi face before Ouyang could strike, and Dongxu Zi told Ouyang to wait.

Ouyang battled the golden Vertical Pupil while Dongxu Zi used a Paper Substitute to bring the fight into a space that suppressed both sides’ power. Dongxu Zi entered the space and found Ouyang and Liang Zai still attacking the pupil, then sat down to wait for them to tire.

• Ouyang ignored Dongxu Zi’s warning and traded blows with the golden Vertical Pupil, whose demonic qi blocked his punches.
• Dongxu Zi left the watchers outside the Mortal World, causing the workings of fate within it to become chaotic as powerful figures returned to prepare for the Great Calamity.
• Ouyang and the golden Vertical Pupil’s escalating clash quieted Ling Feng and Chen Changsheng, while Dongxu Zi searched for a way to intervene without breaking the rule against Tribulation Transcendence Stage Great Cultivators entering the Mortal World.
• Dongxu Zi sent a Paper Substitute into the Mortal World, where it used his whisk to create a pure-white space that drew in Ouyang and the golden Vertical Pupil.
• After the Paper Substitute expired, Dongxu Zi entered the space and saw Ouyang striking the golden Vertical Pupil with Liang Zai and biting it while Liang Zai barked and snapped at it.
• Dongxu Zi sat down cross-legged and waited for Ouyang and the golden Vertical Pupil to tire themselves out.

Ouyang fought the Demon Venerable before Dongxu Zi revealed that Ling Feng had replaced Leng Qingsong as the one destined to attain Dao Integration and that the Dao and Devil sides were negotiating a war ten years away. The chapter ended with both sides disputing Ling Feng’s fate as Ouyang declared that Ling Feng had to die that day.

• Ouyang and Liang Zai battered the Demon Venerable, then sat with Dongxu Zi as the two powerful figures confronted each other.
• Ouyang used a Recording Stone to expose Dongxu Zi’s remarks and asked whether killing the Demon Venerable would end the Great Calamity; Dongxu Zi said the war was separate from it.
• Dongxu Zi told the Demon Venerable that the War Between Dao and Demons would take place in ten years because the one who attained Dao Integration was not Li Taibai’s reincarnation.
• The Demon Venerable asked about Zu Yuan, and Dongxu Zi said the Azure Cloud Sect’s Holy Son had killed him.
• Dongxu Zi and the Demon Venerable negotiated the war’s location and disputed whether Ling Feng would remain in the Mortal World or return through reincarnation.
• Ouyang interrupted their negotiations by declaring that Ling Feng had to die that day.