Recaps

Ouyang raised Hu Tutu’s paper crane to the level of a Spirit Treasure, and the two flew home to Little Mountain Peak. On the way, Hu Tutu remembered Dongxu Zi’s warning that Ouyang’s weak vitality meant he might not live long, and vowed not to let him die.

• Ouyang explained that he had drawn out the paper crane’s potential because Dongxu Zi had already reforged it with excellent materials.
• Hu Tutu commanded the paper crane to grow into a large flying mount and invited Ouyang to ride home with her.
• Ouyang contacted Su Ling’er, who said she had to stay at Azure Cloud Peak to help coordinate next month’s Sect Grand Competition.
• Su Ling’er mistook Ouyang’s suggestive remark about his flute for a shared musical interest and imagined becoming his Dao partner.
• Hu Tutu and Ouyang rode the paper crane toward Little Mountain Peak while Hu Tutu recalled Dongxu Zi’s warning about Ouyang’s dim Everlasting Lamp.
• Hu Tutu nestled against Ouyang and silently vowed that she would not let him die.

Ouyang returned to Little Mountain Peak and found Leng Qingsong and Bai Feiyu fighting over their opposing Sword Daos after they abandoned their attempt to teach Chen Changsheng. He asked Chen Changsheng about the Sect Grand Competition, learning that Chen Changsheng’s estimate of victory included the possibility of killing Zu Yuan despite interference and repeated power-ups.

• Hu Tutu returned with a spirit treasure from the Sect Master, but Leng Qingsong and Bai Feiyu ignored her as their sword intents clashed.
• Chen Changsheng told Ouyang that Bai Feiyu had offered to teach him the Sword Dao, but Leng Qingsong had interrupted and argued with him until they drew swords.
• Ouyang swept Leng Qingsong and Bai Feiyu from Little Mountain Peak, and they immediately resumed fighting at its foot.
• Ouyang asked Chen Changsheng whether he was confident about the Sect Grand Competition, and Chen Changsheng estimated his chances at about forty percent.
• Chen Changsheng clarified that his estimate accounted for elders and the Sect Master intervening and Zu Yuan powering up, while Ouyang recalled the three dangers to remember about Little Mountain Peak’s disciples.

As the Azure Cloud Sect prepared for its grand competition, Xiao Feng entered the outer sect contest despite his crippled dantian and stolen Root Bone, determined to reclaim everything he had lost. Ouyang spotted Xiao Feng’s unusual potential and recognized him as a Child of the Plane.

• The Azure Cloud Sect’s outer disciples began competing for a place in the Sect Grand Competition, with only the top ten advancing.
• Xiao Feng carried a hundred-thousand-jin iron-gold wood log up and down a mountain, continuing his five-year training despite Senior Brother Zhao urging him to focus on drawing qi into his body.
• Xiao Feng declared that his Root Bone had been stolen, his dantian crippled, his parents murdered, and his family and fiancée had betrayed or humiliated him, and he vowed to reclaim what was his.
• Ouyang attended the outer sect competition as Little Mountain Peak’s representative and noticed Xiao Feng approaching the registration desk with the enormous log.
• Ouyang’s system panel revealed Xiao Feng’s potential as a Great Emperor, Root Bone of zero, and exceptional body-tempering aptitude, and Xiao Feng’s defiant declaration convinced Ouyang he was a Child of the Plane.

Ouyang intervened when Xiao Feng was denied entry to the Azure Cloud Sect’s Outer Disciple tournament and secured his registration. Later, Ouyang bet Steward Sun that Xiao Feng would say a familiar defiant line, but Xiao Feng had not said it by the chapter’s end.

• Ouyang and Steward Sun approached a commotion and learned that Xiao Feng had been mocked and barred from registering because he had not reached Qi Refining.
• Xiao Feng smashed iron-gold wood with one punch, then prepared to leave after the senior brother upheld the tournament’s cultivation requirement.
• Ouyang asked that Xiao Feng be given a chance, and Steward Sun ordered the senior brother to register him.
• Xiao Feng thanked Ouyang and left carrying the broken wood, while Ouyang gave Steward Sun a high-grade spirit stone to smooth over his interference.
• At the dining hall, Ouyang wagered two high-grade spirit stones that Xiao Feng would say a certain line, then predicted, “My fate is mine to command, not Heaven's!”

Ouyang watched the outer disciple tournament as Xiao Feng went from struggling against a qi refining opponent to winning match after match with a single punch. Xiao Feng reached the final against Ma Xingye, whose spells trapped him, but he broke free and left the fight unresolved.

• Ouyang watched Xiao Feng struggle against a qi refining fifth-layer opponent before Xiao Feng crushed a water dragon and defeated him with one punch.
• Xiao Feng swiftly defeated his later opponents, rising from outside the top thousand to the top twenty.
• Xiao Feng faced Ma Xingye, the strongest outer disciple, whose True Essence Shield and foundation-establishment spells overpowered him.
• Ma Xingye trapped Xiao Feng in a Stone Hand and declared body tempering inferior to foundation establishment.
• Xiao Feng roared that his fate was his to command and shattered the Stone Hand with his strength as Ouyang applauded.

Xiao Feng nearly defeated Ma Xingye by destroying his stone puppet and exhausting his opponent, but Steward Sun secretly struck him from the drum tower just before his final punch. Ma Xingye was declared the winner, while Ouyang confronted Steward Sun over his interference.

• Ma Xingye summoned a towering stone puppet, but Xiao Feng shattered it with one punch and continued toward him despite his injuries.
• Xiao Feng reached the exhausted Ma Xingye and raised his fist, but a hidden strike from the drum tower knocked him unconscious.
• Steward Sun announced Ma Xingye as the winner, and the spectators regretted Xiao Feng’s narrow defeat while admiring his strength.
• Steward Sun revealed that he had struck Xiao Feng with wind spell arts and offered Ouyang four top-grade spirit stones.
• Ouyang slapped Steward Sun, then mocked him for remaining in the outer sect for over three hundred years.

Ouyang rescued the badly injured Xiao Feng, healed him with a powerful pill, and offered to help him overcome his inability to cultivate. The chapter left Xiao Feng considering Ouyang’s offer to become his nominal disciple at Little Mountain Peak.

• Xiao Feng awoke in agony, and Ouyang demanded ten top-grade spirit stones for the treatment that saved his life.
• Ouyang questioned Xiao Feng about his stolen root bone, murdered parents, betrayal, and broken engagement, prompting Xiao Feng to lash out at him.
• Ouyang gave Xiao Feng a pill that restored most of his shattered body, then overwhelmed him with his powerful true qi.
• Ouyang revealed that he had noticed Xiao Feng could still absorb spiritual energy despite lacking a dantian and offered to fix his condition for a price.
• Ouyang asked Xiao Feng to become his nominal disciple and introduced himself as the eldest senior brother of Little Mountain Peak in the Azure Cloud Sect.

Ouyang accepted Xiao Feng as a nominal disciple of Little Mountain Peak until his master could decide whether to take Xiao Feng as a disciple. Xiao Feng prepared to leave the outer sect after giving farewell gifts to Senior Brother Zhao.

• Xiao Feng agreed to join Ouyang at Little Mountain Peak after learning Ouyang was an Azure Cloud Sect Inner Disciple.
• The Idle System notified Ouyang that his quest to form karmic bonds with Children of Destiny had reached 4/5, with Xiao Feng contributing to the progress.
• Ouyang explained Little Mountain Peak's rules and warned Xiao Feng to stay away from his three rebellious senior brothers.
• Xiao Feng asked Ouyang for spirit stones to repay his friends, and Ouyang gave him a chest containing a hundred high-grade spirit stones.
• Xiao Feng gave Senior Brother Zhao the chest as a farewell gift, promised to help him in the future, and left; Zhao watched him go with tears in his eyes.

Ouyang brought Xiao Feng to Little Mountain Peak, where Chen Changsheng recognized him as the Great Emperor of the Human Race from his previous life. Ouyang later asked Chen Changsheng to help him find a way to let Xiao Feng cultivate, and the chapter ended with Ouyang asking about Chen Changsheng’s painting skills.

• Ouyang introduced Xiao Feng to Hu Tutu, who welcomed her new junior brother with a flower after learning he did not like sweets.
• Hu Tutu brought Ouyang and Xiao Feng to the courtyard, where Chen Changsheng recognized Xiao Feng as the Great Emperor who had defended the Human Race in his previous life.
• Chen Changsheng rushed back to save his burning fish, then joined the others for lunch as Ouyang introduced Xiao Feng to the disciples of Little Mountain Peak.
• Ouyang noticed Chen Changsheng’s intense attention to Xiao Feng and worried that his reborn junior brother knew Xiao Feng’s background.
• Ouyang told Chen Changsheng that Xiao Feng’s root bone had been stolen and his dantian destroyed, and said he had a way to help him cultivate if Chen Changsheng would assist.
• After Chen Changsheng agreed, Ouyang asked whether he was good at painting.

Ouyang proposed tattooing divine beasts onto Xiao Feng to replace his destroyed dantian, and Bai Feiyu revealed an ancient body cultivation method that supported the idea. Chen Changsheng agreed to consider drawing the beasts, then realized that he would create the Five Directional Divine Beasts who would later aid Xiao Feng as Humanity's Great Emperor.

• Ouyang proposed that Chen Changsheng tattoo divine beasts onto Xiao Feng so they could absorb primordial energy and nourish his body.
• Chen Changsheng opposed the dangerous plan, but Xiao Feng knelt and begged him to agree.
• Bai Feiyu said an ancient body cultivation method used Fierce Beast essence souls to temper the body, supporting Ouyang's proposal.
• Ouyang named the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise, and Qilin as the beasts Chen Changsheng should draw.
• Chen Changsheng agreed to consider the plan and realized that Xiao Feng's future Five Directional Divine Beasts would be his own creations.

Ouyang, Bai Feiyu, Chen Changsheng, and Leng Qingsong devised a way to make Xiao Feng the Five Directional Divine Beasts so he could cultivate without being destroyed by the lightning tribulation. The plan depended on Chen Changsheng splitting Xiao Feng’s divine soul and placing the fragments into the beasts’ spirit platforms before their consciousness emerged.

• Ouyang agreed to have Chen Changsheng tattoo the Five Directional Divine Beasts onto Xiao Feng, while Bai Feiyu agreed to teach him ancient body-cultivation methods.
• Bai Feiyu joined the boys after hearing Xiao Feng’s resolve, and they decided to activate the wood-aligned dragon and fire-aligned Vermilion Bird first.
• The group struggled to find a way for Xiao Feng to survive the lightning tribulation alone, since outside help would make it worse.
• Leng Qingsong suggested they unify their intent, prompting Ouyang to propose that Xiao Feng become the divine beasts rather than merely house them.
• Ouyang explained that Chen Changsheng could control when the beasts’ intelligence awakened, allowing Xiao Feng’s divine-soul fragments to seize their spirit platforms first.
• Chen Changsheng offered to draw out Xiao Feng’s divine soul and tear it into fragments, alarming the others with the possibility that he had made his puppets from pieces of his own soul.

Ouyang stole top-grade spirit stone essence from the Azure Cloud Sect’s protective formation, then returned to Little Mountain Peak, where Chen Changsheng used it to create a Five-Direction Divine Beast Painting on Xiao Feng’s body. The five beasts remained unfinished until Ouyang could dot their eyes and awaken them.

• Ouyang pried top-grade spirit stone essence from the sect’s protective formation and gave a piece to a youth while the enforcement squad passed by without stopping him.
• Li Yi confronted Ouyang over damaging the formation and stealing spirit stones, but left with a book of paintings after Ouyang offered it to him.
• Ouyang returned to Little Mountain Peak and found Chen Changsheng painting five divine beasts on Xiao Feng’s back while Hu Tutu watched.
• Ouyang spread the stolen spirit stone essence across the courtyard, and Chen Changsheng embedded thousands of its fragments in Xiao Feng’s body despite the intense pain.
• Chen Changsheng finished the Five-Direction Divine Beast Painting without dotting the beasts’ eyes, leaving that difficult final step to Ouyang.

Chen Changsheng and the others began transforming Xiao Feng by awakening the Azure Dragon and Vermilion Bird on his back and placing parts of Xiao Feng’s soul into them. Just as the process neared success, the Heavenly Dao discovered them and unleashed its eye of heavenly punishment on Little Mountain Peak.

• Chen Changsheng concealed Little Mountain Peak with a formation and forced Xiao Feng’s soul out of his body.
• Ouyang used the Eye-Painting Brushes to awaken the Azure Dragon and Vermilion Bird, while heavenly lightning battered the area around the formation.
• Chen Changsheng tore apart and reconstructed Xiao Feng’s soul, shaping two portions into miniature versions of him.
• Chen Changsheng sent the two reconstructed souls into the divine beast phantoms and helped Xiao Feng suppress their resistance as his remaining soul returned to his body.
• The Heavenly Dao shattered Chen Changsheng’s formation, opened the eye of heavenly punishment, and sent tribulation lightning pouring down toward Xiao Feng.

Bai Feiyu, Chen Changsheng, and Leng Qingsong attacked the Eye of Heavenly Punishment after it struck Xiao Feng, but Ouyang seized the eye and used it to stop the Purple Firmament Divine Thunder. Xiao Feng survived as the Azure Dragon and Vermilion Bird emerged, while Ouyang challenged the Heavenly Dao and called for the Great Dao.

• The Eye of Heavenly Punishment appeared and fixed its gaze on Hu Yan, while Bai Feiyu and Leng Qingsong drew their swords against it.
• Bai Feiyu frightened the Eye of Heavenly Punishment with a threat, but it attacked Xiao Feng with Purple Firmament World-Destroying Divine Thunder.
• Bai Feiyu, Chen Changsheng, and Leng Qingsong attacked the Eye of Heavenly Punishment, and Ouyang seized it with a giant hand of heaven and earth essence.
• The Heavenly Dao voice confronted Ouyang, who blasted apart its forming cloud-face and declared that he would let the Great Dao come.
• Ouyang pressed the Eye of Heavenly Punishment into Xiao Feng's brow, causing the lightning to retreat and the Azure Dragon and Vermilion Bird to become solid.
• Auspicious signs briefly appeared as heavenly punishment passed, but the sky quickly returned to calm, and Ouyang called it petty.

Xiao Feng survived the Purple Firmament Divine Thunder and fused with the Azure Dragon and Vermilion Bird, gaining immense power and the Eye of Heavenly Punishment. After the group freed the others and dealt with the lightning’s damage, Hu Yan worried that so many extraordinary geniuses heralded a great calamity.

• Xiao Feng's body was restored with the Purple Firmament Divine Thunder and the divine essence of the Azure Dragon and Vermilion Bird, and his status panel changed.
• Xiao Feng tested his newfound strength by blasting apart the courtyard floor, and Ouyang scolded him.
• Ouyang used Spring Renewal to restore the lightning-scarred mountain forest, then ordered Xiao Feng to repair the walkways and bury the dead animals.
• Xiao Feng used the Eye of Heavenly Punishment to free Leng Qingsong, Bai Feiyu, Chen Changsheng, and Hu Tutu, but the released sword intent destroyed Ouyang's roof.
• Hu Yan watched the gathered geniuses and feared their arrival signaled the start of a great calamity.

As the Azure Cloud Sect hosted visitors for its approaching Sect Grand Competition, the Holy Son of Buddhism, Hui Zhi, debated Ling Feng and damaged his Dao heart. Ouyang spotted a strange label identifying Hui Zhi as a false Holy Son of Buddhism.

• Xiao Feng repaired the cliffside walkway while Ouyang lounged on Little Mountain Peak.
• Hui Zhi's debate on Azure Cloud Peak drew Buddhist light into the sky, and the sect's Summoning Bell called every available disciple to gather.
• Leng Qingsong drove Questioning Sword Peak's disciples from their prime viewing spot so Little Mountain Peak could watch the arena.
• Hui Zhi suppressed Ling Feng with his Buddhist debate, but Ling Feng upheld his belief that Buddhism and the Dao were separate.
• Ouyang checked Hui Zhi's status panel and saw that it called him the false Holy Son of Buddhism.

At the Azure Cloud Sect Grand Competition, Ouyang provoked Hui Zhi while Leng Qingsong challenged the Nascent Soul Realm monk. Leng Qingsong wounded Hui Zhi with sword intent carrying Dao Resonance, and Ouyang mocked him after Hui Zhi admitted defeat.

• Ling Feng praised Hui Zhi after their match, while Hui Zhi privately questioned Ling Feng about his damaged Dao heart.
• Ouyang threw a fruit pit at Hui Zhi and traded insults with him until Hui Zhi challenged him to a fight.
• Hui Zhi summoned his Eighteen-Foot Golden Body, revealing his ninth-level Nascent Soul Realm cultivation, and Leng Qingsong attacked him.
• Hui Zhi trapped Leng Qingsong with Buddha palms, but Leng Qingsong broke free with sword intent and shredded Hui Zhi's sleeve with a hidden strike.
• Hui Zhi admitted that Leng Qingsong had won the exchange, and Ouyang mocked him for losing to a Core Formation cultivator.

After Leng Qingsong defeated Hui Zhi, Ling Feng watched Su Ling'er embrace Ouyang and listened to the voice of his future self tempt him toward darkness. He hid the ancient ring and went to the summit with Zu Yuan, concealing his growing resentment behind a friendly smile.

• Leng Qingsong defeated Hui Zhi, while Ouyang comforted the disappointed Ling Feng.
• Su Ling'er ran to Ouyang and hugged him, causing Ling Feng to leave alone.
• Ling Feng's reflection urged him to accept its help and promised that he could kill Ouyang and gain everything he wanted.
• Ling Feng recalled losing his status as a genius and raised the ancient ring that had appeared on his hand.
• Zu Yuan found Ling Feng, who noticed his junior brother's venomous look, hid the ring, and accompanied him toward the summit.

The Azure Cloud Sect prepared to host its grand competition, and Dongxu Zi announced its prizes to the gathered sect representatives. The competition was set to begin in ten days, while Hui Zhi resolved to obtain the Azure Cloud Secret Treasure.

• Xiao Feng declared that he would one day bring Little Mountain Peak to the front of Azure Cloud Peak's steps, and Ouyang teased him about his senior brothers' ambitions.
• Dongxu Zi reflected on Ling Feng's shaken state of mind after the incident at the mountain gate and believed he needed to find his own way through hardship.
• Dongxu Zi announced that the Sect Grand Competition would begin in ten days and would be open to Inner Disciples and visiting disciples.
• Dongxu Zi offered the victor a Dao Artifact, a supreme mental cultivation method, and a viewing of the Azure Cloud Secret Treasure.
• Hui Zhi decided that he wanted to obtain the Azure Cloud Secret Treasure.

As representatives of the Nine Great Sacred Lands arrived for the Azure Cloud Sect's Inner Sect competition, Ouyang watched Chen Changsheng prepare to confront Zu Yuan. The competition opened with an extravagant display of an Azure Dragon and Vermilion Bird, and the first contests had yet to begin.

• For ten days, the sacred lands arrived one after another, while their grand welcomes repeatedly disturbed Ouyang's sleep.
• Bai Feiyu told Ouyang that Chen Changsheng had prepared thoroughly, and Chen Changsheng emerged at the ninth level of Core Formation, intent on killing Zu Yuan.
• Ouyang and the Little Mountain Peak disciples went to Azure Cloud Peak, where the sect members and visiting elders watched their arrival.
• Dongxu Zi announced the start of the Sect Grand Competition, and an Azure Dragon and Vermilion Bird created a spectacle in the sky.

Ma Xingye was selected as an Inner Disciple while Xiao Feng stayed with Little Mountain Peak and cultivated under the Sect Master's care. The inner sect competition began inside the Mustard Seed Space, where Chen Changsheng summoned hundreds of powerful puppets and faced the other contestants alone.

• Ma Xingye was chosen by Five Elements Peak as an Inner Disciple and celebrated his success.
• Xiao Feng refused the Sect Master's offer to become his personal disciple and continued cultivating above the Main Hall.
• Dongxu Zi announced that the inner sect competition required Core Formation cultivation and would take place in the Mustard Seed Space.
• Chen Changsheng flew into the Mustard Seed Space after Ouyang encouraged him to fight without holding back.
• After the entrance closed at four hundred contestants, the Peak Master of Punishment Peak declared that the last person standing would win.
• Chen Changsheng summoned hundreds of Nascent Soul Realm puppets, shocking the contestants and the Peak Master of Punishment Peak.

Chen Changsheng used hundreds of nascent soul realm puppets to control the contestants in the Mustard Seed Space and began eliminating them by name while searching for the disguised Zu Yuan. Zu Yuan hid among the competitors, and the chapter ended with Chen Changsheng continuing to call names as contestants were thrown out.

• Zu Yuan used Myriad Transformations Demon Image to disguise himself, lower his cultivation to the Golden Core realm, and hide among the contestants.
• Chen Changsheng searched the Mustard Seed Space for Zu Yuan, found no trace of him, and began checking contestants against a list of names and appearances.
• Three contestants attacked Chen Changsheng but were subdued by his puppets and thrown out after he identified them.
• The spectators, elders, and Little Mountain Peak disciples watched in amazement as Chen Changsheng controlled hundreds of nascent soul realm puppets.
• The contestants charged Chen Changsheng together, but the puppets formed a killing array that trapped them.
• Chen Changsheng called names from his papers, and the puppets eliminated contestants one by one.

Chen Changsheng eliminated the gathered cultivators with regenerating puppets, then confronted Zu Yuan and Hui Zhi inside the Mustard Seed Space. After the Great Sage puppet pierced Hui Zhi’s Great Compassion Palm and Hui Zhi withdrew, Zu Yuan revealed his Devil Race identity as Chen Changsheng prepared to kill him.

• Chen Changsheng used hundreds of divine-soul puppets to eliminate the surrounding cultivators, leaving only disguised Zu Yuan and Hui Zhi in the Mustard Seed Space.
• Chen Changsheng confronted Zu Yuan, told Hui Zhi to leave, and summoned the Great Sage puppet to resist Hui Zhi’s Great Compassion Palm.
• Chen Changsheng used two Yellow Talismans to turn the Great Sage into a stone pillar that pierced Hui Zhi’s palm, and Hui Zhi left the space after admitting defeat.
• Chen Changsheng aimed a radiant bow and arrow at Zu Yuan, who unleashed his devilish energy and exposed himself as a member of the Devil Race.
• Dongxu Zi realized he had accepted Zu Yuan as a personal disciple without recognizing his identity, while Ouyang mocked Zu Yuan for revealing his devilish colors.

Chen Changsheng killed Zu Yuan with an arrow that struck his Divine Soul, exposing Zu Yuan as a devil and earning Chen Changsheng the title of Azure Cloud Sect Holy Son. As Chen Changsheng wondered whether the worldline had changed, Ling Feng carried Zu Yuan away to bury him while a voice in his mind urged him to hurry.

• Chen Changsheng shot Zu Yuan with an arrow infused with his Divine Soul, killing Zu Yuan’s Nascent Soul and revealing his devil-race identity.
• Dongxu Zi declared Chen Changsheng the winner of the Sect Grand Competition and named him the Azure Cloud Sect’s Holy Son to distance the sect from Zu Yuan.
• Hu Tutu, Ouyang, Bai Feiyu, and Leng Qingsong reacted to Chen Changsheng’s sudden promotion.
• Chen Changsheng wondered whether the worldline had diverged and said he did not want to be Holy Son.
• Ling Feng took Zu Yuan’s body away to bury him while a crazed voice in his mind urged him to hurry.

After Chen Changsheng became the Azure Cloud Holy Son, Ling Feng helped the soul in his ring take over his body and return to life, while Zu Yuan’s body revived as Lin Feng. The chapter ended with Hui Zhi receiving a Black Lotus Seed beneath Azure Cloud Peak.

• Chen Changsheng became the Azure Cloud Holy Son as the tournament ended without a ceremony.
• Ling Feng buried Zu Yuan’s body and used a golden needle to let the wronged soul in his ring take control of his body.
• The revived Ling Feng reached soul departure, buried the grave, and carved “The site of Lin Feng's rebirth” on a marker.
• Zu Yuan’s body crawled out of the grave as Lin Feng, a remnant of the Devil Race, and claimed its potential for himself.
• Hui Zhi received the Black Lotus Seed while meditating beneath a tree at the foot of Azure Cloud Peak.