Recaps

Dongxu Zi united the Three Pure Ones and gathered the Laws and Dao Resonance of the Cultivation World's Great Cultivators to confront the Immortals' Eye of Heavenly Punishment. As time stopped, the Immortals transformed the Eye into a seven-colored whale, and the crane and whale began their battle.

• The Immortals' Eye of Heavenly Punishment blocked the Great Cultivators and wounded those who tried to force their way through.
• Dongxu Zi united the Three Pure Ones, manifested his True Self, and gathered the Great Cultivators' Laws and Dao Resonance into a seven-colored crane.
• The crane charged the Eye of Heavenly Punishment, absorbing its lightning as it was repeatedly blasted apart and reformed.
• The crane and the Eye of Heavenly Punishment stopped the River of Time as both sides unleashed their greatest powers.
• The Immortals transformed the Eye into a seven-colored Great Whale, and the crane and whale fought in the frozen moment.

Bai Feiyu watched the Great Crane and Great Whale battle as the Immortals and all beings fought over Heaven and Earth’s Ultimate Principles. Dongxu Zi used a Fishing Rod made from Pure White Space to hook the Great Whale, leaving its fate uncertain.

• Bai Feiyu returned to Little Mountain Peak and met Little Bie San, who feigned ignorance when asked where Eldest Senior Brother had gone.
• Bai Feiyu watched the Great Crane, formed by all beings, battle the Great Whale, formed by the Immortals, and realized neither could win quickly.
• Bai Feiyu prepared to intervene but stopped when he saw Dongxu Zi on the Great Crane’s head.
• Dongxu Zi cast a pure white Fishing Line around the Great Whale, which struggled as the line tightened and bent the Fishing Rod.
• Dongxu Zi laughed as he held fast to the hooked Great Whale.

Dongxu Zi held the Great Whale with the fishing rod while Great Cultivators sacrificed themselves to raise the collapsing Demon Realm and mend Heaven and Earth. As the whale's pieces possessed hesitant cultivators and thirty-four half-step Immortals confronted Dongxu Zi, he called for Eldest Senior Brother to emerge.

• Dongxu Zi used the fishing rod to bind the Great Whale and urged the Great Cultivators to hurry to the Extreme Eastern Land.
• Great Cultivators burned themselves to mend Heaven and Earth, lifting the collapsing Demon Realm as Su Xiaoqi and Mu Yunge joined them.
• Su Xiaoqi reassured Mu Yunge that she was eager to meet her senior brothers, while Dongxu Zi watched her go and tightened his grip on the rod.
• The Great Whale's body split apart, and its pieces possessed hesitant Great Cultivators, allowing the Immortals to seize their bodies and kill others nearby.
• Thirty-four half-step Immortals confronted Dongxu Zi, who sent a beam of white light into the Demon Realm and called, “Su He humbly invites Eldest Senior Brother to emerge!”

Dongxu Zi and Chongming faced the thirty-four False Immortals, who had become ordinary living beings after possessing mortal bodies. Dongxu Zi trapped them with Heaven and Earth Prison while Chongming prepared to fight, leaving the former Immortals surrounded and unable to escape.

• Chongming appeared in response to Dongxu Zi’s call, and the thirty-four False Immortals recognized him as the hunter who had pursued them for decades.
• The False Immortals scattered to flee, but Dongxu Zi’s Heaven and Earth Prison blocked their escape.
• Dongxu Zi explained that the prison could only be broken by killing him or by the power of two Immortals, then pointed out that they had to get past Chongming first.
• Chongming threw his black robe to Dongxu Zi, put on his knuckle dusters, and prepared to face the trapped False Immortals.
• Dongxu Zi remembered how Chongming had protected and disciplined the Azure Cloud Disciples, and felt comforted by seeing his Eldest Senior Brother stand before him again.

Chongming slaughtered the False Immortals who attacked him and Dongxu Zi, then reunited with his junior brother and prepared to confront the Demon Realm. He took up the Fishing Rod and Brocade Box, and warned Dongxu Zi not to hold him back as they faced what remained.

• Thirty-four False Immortals attacked Chongming and Dongxu Zi with their powers of law, and Chongming told Dongxu Zi to close his eyes.
• While Dongxu Zi recalled his memories of Chongming as Eldest Senior Brother, Chongming slaughtered the False Immortals.
• Chongming put on his Black Robe again, and Dongxu Zi burned the scattered remains to ash with sun true fire.
• Chongming reminded Dongxu Zi that the Demon Realm still remained and took up the Fishing Rod and Brocade Box.
• Chongming told Dongxu Zi not to drag him down, and Dongxu Zi eagerly agreed.

Chongming sacrificed himself to wrench the Demon Realm upright and unite it with the Cultivation World, while passing his accumulated merit to the Brocade Box. Dongxu Zi then transformed into a Seven-Colored Great Crane and flew across the united realms to mend the broken sky.

• Chongming left the Fishing Rod and a Storage Bag containing a Demon Beast Egg with Bai Feiyu, who received the seal character and learned of the plan to eradicate the Immortals and resolve the Immortal Great Calamity.
• Chongming gathered the power of the Twelve Demon Gods and wrenched the Demon Realm upright, freeing both worlds from their constraints.
• Chongming placed the boundless merit he received into the Brocade Box, then vanished as Heavenly Retribution overcame him.
• Dongxu Zi saw that Chaos Qi threatened the opened sky and resolved to mend it with the Great Cultivators who had developed their own Daos.
• Dongxu Zi transformed into a Seven-Colored Great Crane and flew from the Cultivation World to the Demon Realm, turning the sky bluer and joining Heaven and Earth into one whole.

After Heaven and Earth opened and the Great Cultivators’ sacrifices ushered in a new age, the surviving realms faced the threat of chaos and rising ambition. Tai'a entrusted Song Mu with becoming Number One Under Heaven, then charged into Chaos to guard the Heavenly Gate.

• Heaven and Earth opened, their skies turned yellow-green, and the River of Time began flowing again after millions upon millions of years.
• As the Great Cultivators became scarce, ambitious Cultivators prepared to seize power in the coming upheaval.
• Tai'a appeared above the Sword Sect and declared that he would guard Heaven and Earth by heaven's mandate.
• Tai'a told Song Mu to become the true Number One Under Heaven and said he would teach him one final sword strike.
• Tai'a charged into Chaos, leaving a white lotus imprint in the sky and declaring that his sword would guard the Heavenly Gate.

After witnessing the living beings restore Heaven and Earth, Bai Feiyu discovered that Hu Yan had died and Jiang Xiaotong was being reborn in the Three-Colored Lotus. He traced his timeline to find that it began only at his first God-Sealing, then desperately searched the River of Time for Ouyang, whose strand of hair was all that remained.

• Song Mu received the complete White Lotus Sword Intent after his master departed, while Bai Feiyu watched the living beings’ sacrifices restore the barrier between Heaven and Earth.
• Bai Feiyu found a Demon Beast Egg containing Hu Yan’s familiar aura and realized the Tibetan Fox had died without his knowledge.
• A streak of light entered the water vat on Little Mountain Peak, where the Lotus Pod began nurturing Jiang Xiaotong’s new life, and Little Bie San said the others would return when the flower bloomed.
• Bai Feiyu entered the River of Time and discovered that his timeline began at his first God-Sealing, supported by a strand of dark hair bearing only the surname Ouyang.
• Bai Feiyu realized the strand belonged to Eldest Senior Brother and broke down, pleading and searching the River of Time for Ouyang.

Ouyang listened as Zu Yuan recounted the Great Cultivators’ battle to save Heaven and Earth, while Zu Yuan wondered how the spectacle differed from his previous life. In Zhuyin’s territory, Zu Yuan found the last Demon God’s statue beside an unfinished statue that looked like his Second Senior Brother.

• Ouyang listened as Zu Yuan described the Great Cultivators ascending the Heavenly Gate, slaying an immortal, and overturning the heavens.
• Zu Yuan wondered whether the Great Cultivators’ sacrifices in his previous life had weakened the Cultivation World before the Devil Race invasion, but remained convinced that the great calamity would still come.
• Zu Yuan noted that he had obtained eleven of the Twelve Demon Gods’ powers and entered the Zhuj iu Tribe’s territory to find the last one.
• Zu Yuan saw Zhuyin’s statue beneath the ruined Sky-Piercing Giant Pillar and noticed an unfinished Sword Cultivator statue beside it.
• Zu Yuan recognized the unfinished statue as possibly depicting his Second Senior Brother.

Zu Yuan and Ouyang entered the Zhuyin Tribe’s territory to claim the last strand of Demon God power. After the devils failed to recognize Zu Yuan and attacked, he charged into their ranks, while Ouyang received a mission prompt showing that four of five Heavenly Fate archvillains had been killed.

• Zu Yuan explained that the Zhuyin Tribe held the final Demon God power he needed to gather all twelve powers.
• Devils in the tribe failed to recognize Zu Yuan or his father, Great Demon Venerable Chongming, and mocked him by mistaking them for relatives.
• Zu Yuan released the power of eleven Demon Gods, sending the devils flying and throwing the Zhuyin Tribe into chaos.
• The Zhuyin Tribe’s devils armed themselves and rushed toward Zu Yuan and Ouyang, believing the other tribes had come to seize their Father God.
• Zu Yuan turned into a gust of black wind and charged into the devils as Ouyang received a mission prompt reading 4/5.

After Hui Zhi’s death, Ouyang realized that Chen Changsheng was the fifth and final villain ordained by heavenly fate, destined to become the next great calamity. He resolved to kill his beloved Third Junior Brother to complete the system mission and draw out the hidden mastermind.

• Ouyang received the system notification confirming Hui Zhi’s death and counted Zu Yuan, himself, Ling Feng, and Hui Zhi among the four fallen villains.
• Ouyang watched Zu Yuan revel in battle and recognized that Chen Changsheng was the sole remaining villain ordained by heavenly fate.
• Ouyang reasoned that Chen Changsheng’s rebirth and efforts to prevent past tragedies had instead made him the coming great calamity.
• Ouyang recalled that Dongxu Zi and Chongming had ended the Immortal Great Calamity by expending the Cultivation World’s strength, leaving all living beings unprepared for another calamity.
• Ouyang resolved to kill Chen Changsheng, complete the system mission, and force the true mastermind to reveal themselves.

Zu Yuan and Ouyang entered the Zhuj iu Tribe to take its Demon God’s power, where they met Chongyang, the tribe’s Witch and Chongming’s biological daughter. Zu Yuan drained Zhuyin’s power from her sealed body, and Ouyang’s familiar address made Zu Yuan realize he had called him Changsheng.

• Zu Yuan pushed Ouyang into Zhuj iu territory after defeating the tribe’s devils, who accepted him despite their defiance.
• Chongyang revealed that the statue held no Zhuyin power and identified herself as the Zhuj iu Witch.
• Ouyang recognized Chongyang as Chongming’s daughter and told Zu Yuan she was his biological older sister.
• Zu Yuan seized Chongyang and absorbed Zhuyin’s power from the seal inside her, causing her to pass out.
• Ouyang called Zu Yuan Changsheng, and Zu Yuan reacted in surprise.

Ouyang revealed that he had recognized Zu Yuan as Chen Changsheng, and his understanding brought Chen Changsheng’s fear and grief to an end. Chen Changsheng admitted his true identity to his Eldest Senior Brother.

• Ouyang called Zu Yuan by the name Chen Changsheng, leaving Zu Yuan overwhelmed and afraid to face him.
• Zu Yuan weakly denied being Chen Changsheng, but Ouyang beckoned him closer and flicked his forehead.
• Ouyang told Zu Yuan that he had recognized him and knew everything, then thanked him for all his hard work.
• Zu Yuan broke down in tears as he realized Ouyang had understood and trusted him all along.
• Chen Changsheng wiped his face and told Ouyang, “It's me, Eldest Senior Brother!”

Chen Changsheng reunited with Ouyang in the Demon Realm and learned that their Master had died after sacrificing himself to help Ouyang reach Foundation Establishment. The chapter left Chen Changsheng kneeling by a fire to mourn while Ouyang folded paper gold ingots for their Master.

• Chen Changsheng told Ouyang about his time away and asked whether Ouyang blamed him for coming to the Demon Realm.
• Ouyang told Chen Changsheng to build a fire and began burning spirit money in remembrance of the dead.
• Ouyang revealed that their Master had died dispersing his Dao to help Ouyang break through to Foundation Establishment.
• Chen Changsheng wept and kowtowed before the fire, accepting that Ouyang was not to blame for their Master's sacrifice.
• Ouyang folded paper gold ingots to burn for their Master while Chen Changsheng remained kneeling.

Chen Changsheng mourned his master and confronted Ouyang over his failing health, then resolved to unite the Twelve Demon Gods’ powers and become the Demon Realm’s heavenly Dao to end the Dao-Demon War. He planned to leave Ouyang the Demon Realm’s rule and a powerful array, unaware that the Nascent Soul within his Black Lotus was stirring.

• Ouyang offered wine in remembrance of the dead master, and Chen Changsheng grieved beside him.
• Chen Changsheng seized Ouyang and demanded that he promise to stay alive; Ouyang reminded him of the wish he owed and promised to live.
• Chen Changsheng told Ouyang that he had gathered the power of the Twelve Demon Gods and believed it could revive his master and heal Ouyang.
• Chen Changsheng planned to merge with the Demon Realm’s Dao, use a grand array to prevent the Devil Race from causing a catastrophe, and end the Dao-Demon War, even though doing so would erase him.
• Chen Changsheng promised to give Ouyang the position of Lord of the Demon Realm and the array core, while the Nascent Soul on the Black Lotus frowned.

Chen Changsheng began merging the Twelve Demon Gods with the Demon Realm, triggering the true Great Calamity and falling unconscious. Ouyang revealed his power over the sun and moon and rushed to confront him.

• Ouyang encouraged Chen Changsheng to hurry with his plan, while secretly knowing about and having prepared for it.
• Chen Changsheng unleashed the Twelve Powers and began integrating the Demon Realm with the Twelfth Grade Black Lotus.
• Chongyang warned that the unification would awaken the Demon Realm and unleash the Great Calamity, but Ouyang dismissed her fears.
• The Twelve Demon Gods' power poured into the Black Lotus, ghostly figures appeared, and Chen Changsheng lost consciousness as the Great Calamity began.
• Ouyang removed his White Veil, summoned the sun and moon into his hands, and leaped toward Chen Changsheng.

Ouyang was swallowed by the Twelfth Grade Black Lotus and fought his way through its endless evil ghosts and wronged souls with the world-creation merit in his hands. He charged toward the mastermind behind the calamity, demanding that it return his junior brother.

• Ouyang leaped toward the Twelfth Grade Black Lotus, which swallowed him and appeared as a closed bud while devils from the Twelve Tribes gathered around it.
• Chongyang watched Ouyang disappear and knelt to pray for a miracle.
• Inside the Black Lotus, Ouyang recovered his sight and used the sun and moon, empowered by Chongming's world-creation merit, to purify the attacking ghosts and souls.
• Ouyang endured the corrosive death qi as he battled the seemingly endless horde, wielding the sun and moon as weapons.
• Ouyang charged at the ghosts with two Tang Daos and demanded that the mastermind return his junior brother.

Ouyang fought through the evil ghosts and wronged souls, reached the bronze gate, and entered a cave where Chen Changsheng was imprisoned. After freeing him, Ouyang realized the person before him was an impostor and stabbed him, explaining that the real Chen Changsheng would have urged him to flee.

• Ouyang killed his way through the evil ghosts and wronged souls, reached the bronze gate, and opened it after driving off the remaining spirits.
• Ouyang entered a bright cave and found Chen Changsheng suspended unconscious in the air by White Chains.
• Ouyang severed the chains, caught Chen Changsheng, and gave him spirit liquid to restore his strength.
• Chen Changsheng urged Ouyang to leave the cave, but Ouyang stayed seated and watched him closely.
• Ouyang lunged at Chen Changsheng and pierced his chest with the sun-and-moon blade, saying the real Chen Changsheng would have told him to leave.

Ouyang discovered that Chen Changsheng had become the Devil Ancestor, the force behind the coming final calamity. As they confronted each other, Ouyang explained why he had let Chen Changsheng transform and argued that every cycle of reincarnation could begin anew.

• Ouyang realized Chen Changsheng was pretending to be dead and confronted the Devil Ancestor who had awakened within him.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that he was still himself but was also more than Chen Changsheng, and he pulled the Sun and Moon Tang Dao from his chest.
• Ouyang rejected the Devil Ancestor's claim that they were alike, revealing that he was an Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon and explaining the origins of his unusual power.
• The Devil Ancestor asked why Ouyang had not stopped Chen Changsheng from pursuing Dao Integration with the Three Realms.
• Ouyang explained that learning about rebirth and changing history had convinced him the world had undergone many cycles of reincarnation, then argued that each cycle represented a new beginning.

The Devil Ancestor explained to Ouyang that the Human Progenitor had drawn him into a plan that would let the Devil Race rise while forcing him to integrate with Heaven and Earth. The chapter ended with Ouyang realizing the Human Progenitor’s stratagem would make the Devil Ancestor a guardian bound by the Heavenly Dao.

• Ouyang questioned the Devil Ancestor about why he had supposedly destroyed the world to achieve Dao Integration.
• The Devil Ancestor blamed Chen Changsheng for taking over Zu Yuan’s role and explained that he had made a deal with the Human Progenitor and Demon Ancestor.
• The Devil Ancestor revealed that the Human Progenitor had accepted the Cultivation World’s destruction so long as living beings survived and escaped the Immortals’ control.
• The Devil Ancestor explained that the Devil Race’s rise would make him the sole supreme existence, compelling him to integrate with the Heavenly Dao and preserve all races.
• Ouyang understood that the Human Progenitor’s plan would make the Devil Ancestor a guardian of Heaven and Earth, unable to interfere in the races’ future conflicts.

Ouyang realized that the Human Progenitor’s plan had left an opposing player unaccounted for, and confronted the Devil Ancestor about the death qi within him. The Devil Ancestor’s body dissolved, revealing the Immortal Lord’s death qi as the final player on the chessboard.

• Ouyang questioned whether the Human Progenitor’s plan had truly succeeded, since it had gone too smoothly and Li Taibai had reincarnated as Bai Feiyu rather than Leng Qingsong.
• Worried that the Rebellious Sons on Little Mountain Peak would be sacrificed, Ouyang seized the Devil Ancestor and asked who could possess an Immortal so easily.
• Ouyang accused the Devil Ancestor of concealing death qi and demanded that the Immortal Lord reveal himself.
• The Devil Ancestor stopped resisting and admitted that he had not willingly allowed the Human Progenitor to manipulate him.
• The Devil Ancestor’s body became death qi, which Ouyang recognized as the power of the Immortal Lord and the final opponent in the Human Progenitor’s game.

Ouyang confronted Chen Changsheng, who explained that the world was destined to die and that Ouyang was the one seeking to make it last forever. The revelation left Ouyang confused, while Chen Changsheng remarked that he seemed different from his previous self.

• Ouyang met a black-robed version of himself in a gray, misty space and argued with him about life and death.
• Ouyang forced the figure to change into a woman’s clothes, then beat him when he recognized the face as his own.
• The figure transformed into Chen Changsheng, and Ouyang recorded him posing in women’s clothes before asking what he wanted.
• Chen Changsheng showed Ouyang the River of Time and explained that the world was approaching death through repeated Great Calamities and Reincarnations.
• Chen Changsheng said Ouyang, not himself, was the one trying to make the world last forever, then noted that Ouyang seemed different from his previous self.

Ouyang learned that this was the world's third and final timeline, then revealed he had prepared to confront the Immortal Lord "Death." He used the power of Life to drive Death back by turning himself into all living beings and slowing the River of Time, leaving himself nearly transparent.

• Chen Changsheng told Ouyang that in a previous life Ouyang had tried to change the world, failed, and fallen to him, and Ouyang realized he had been the Human Progenitor.
• Ouyang asked whether the world could restart again, and Chen Changsheng said this third timeline was the final one, opened by the dead masses through Chen Changsheng.
• Ouyang decided to fight because his children were in the world and challenged the Immortal Lord "Death" as Death prepared to descend through Chen Changsheng.
• Ouyang revealed he had anticipated Death's plan and said he had turned himself into all living beings to accelerate the River of Time.
• Ouyang poured out his power of Life, shattered the gray space, and blasted Death's manifested body into fragments, though the effort left him nearly transparent.

Ouyang returned to Chen Changsheng inside the Black Lotus, then used his remaining strength to enter the system space. There, as his body began to break apart, he reunited with Hu Yun.

• Ouyang found Chen Changsheng unconscious inside the Black Lotus and reflected on how the boy had been made a key to the Third World Restart.
• Ouyang tried to touch Chen Changsheng but passed through him, then told him he would give him a proper status as his junior brother.
• Ouyang told the system voice to stop pretending, and his figure disappeared as the Black Lotus fell silent.
• The Devil Race's eleven tribes worshipped the Black Lotus, while Chongyang and the Zhuj iu Tribe watched from afar, prepared to fight.
• Ouyang arrived in the system space, found that his body had stopped dissipating, and called for someone to appear.
• Hu Yun appeared, angrily cursing at Ouyang, and Ouyang turned toward his familiar voice with tears in his eyes.

Ouyang reunited with Hu Yun and explained why he had refused to replace Hu Yun’s name on the Sky-Piercing Giant Pillar. After they acknowledged that the world’s destruction had only been delayed, Ouyang pushed Hu Yun into the River of Time so he could reincarnate, declaring he would handle what came next alone.

• Ouyang and Hu Yun reunited with a bout of roughhousing, then Hu Yun scolded Ouyang for not carving his name onto the Sky-Piercing Giant Pillar.
• Ouyang explained that replacing Hu Yun’s name would have made Hu Yun disappear and would not have saved a world still destined to face another Great Calamity.
• Hu Yun recognized Ouyang as his master, the Human Progenitor, and lamented that their efforts had only postponed the world’s destruction.
• Hu Yun thanked Ouyang for bringing him to this world, and the two realized they could not return through the River of Time.
• Ouyang tricked Hu Yun into falling into the River of Time, sending him to reincarnate while Ouyang stayed behind alone.