Recaps

After sending Hu Yun back into the River of Time, Ouyang met his previous-life self, who had become the Useless System, and learned how the system and the world's restart worked. Ouyang understood that Lin Feng was a bug in the restart and accepted that he had ultimately schemed against himself.

• Ouyang sent Hu Yun into the River of Time and watched him disappear without saying goodbye.
• Blue-Green Robe and Gray Robe discussed the system, Hu Yun's discovery of Gray Robe, and how the Devil Ancestor had resisted Death.
• Gray-Robed Ouyang revealed that Changsheng's information about the dead had supplied the data behind the system's Attribute Panel.
• Gray-Robed Ouyang explained that Lin Feng's garbled information came from his being a bug in the world's restart, and Blue-Green-Robed Ouyang worked out what had caused it.
• Blue-Green-Robed Ouyang realized that Gray-Robed Ouyang was his previous-life self and concluded that only he could scheme against himself.

Ouyang learned that he was the force of Life, who had entered another world’s River of Time to save his own dying world, while Death repeatedly disrupted his attempts. After gray-robed Ouyang merged into his third-life self, Ouyang received the final reward and a new mission to save the world.

• Ouyang saw how Life created living beings, entered another River of Time, and reincarnated to find a way to save his dying world.
• Life created Li Taibai, established the first generation of the Seven Azure Cloud Disciples, and helped Hu Yun become a native of the world, but Death interrupted the River of Time’s second flow.
• Life used the obsessions of all living beings to begin a third and final cycle of reincarnation, while Death prepared to intervene again.
• Ouyang and gray-robed Ouyang discussed Life and Death’s struggle before gray-robed Ouyang merged into his blue-green-robed self.
• Ouyang received the system reward to step outside the River of Time and unlocked a mission to save the world.

Ouyang sent Little Bie San into the past to become the new Human Progenitor, then transformed himself into a breeze to hold up the River of Time and protect it until the next Great Calamity. Bai Feiyu remained behind, unable to find him, while Ouyang accepted that the world would forget him.

• Ouyang chose Little Bie San as the replacement Human Progenitor and gave him the name Ao San.
• Ouyang sent Little Bie San back into the past, and Diao Mao immediately forgot that Little Bie San had ever existed.
• Ouyang told the possessed Array Ancestor to go with Ao San so Chen Changsheng could seize the Immortal's True Spirit.
• Bai Feiyu left the River of Time and sat in despair in the courtyard, unable to find Ouyang.
• Ouyang vowed to preserve the River of Time, scattered himself into it, and became the breeze that would hold it aloft until the next Great Calamity.

Ouyang lifted the River of Time so that its people could choose and replace their own guides, then bound the timelines of Leng Qingsong, Bai Feiyu, and Chen Changsheng together as the three began to reject their Daos. As Ouyang’s three thousand breezes faded from the world, he reflected that despite all his efforts, he still considered himself a failure.

• Ouyang changed the River of Time, raising its brightest lights so that the people could choose guides and cast them aside when they no longer served all living beings.
• The three thousand breezes found Leng Qingsong, Bai Feiyu, and Chen Changsheng wavering and denying themselves, so a hand tied their timelines together.
• Leng Qingsong stopped resisting when he heard, “After I'm gone, you'll be the eldest!”
• Ouyang’s protective talismans brought the Great Cultivators’ spirits up from the riverbed and gave their severed timelines new branches, allowing them to reincarnate.
• A light belonging to an Eldest Senior Brother intercepted one breeze and vanished, refusing to accept Ouyang’s kindness.
• The three thousand breezes refused the River of Time’s offer to leave a trace, and Ouyang called himself a failure as he slowly disappeared.

After Ouyang disappeared into the River of Time, newborn death qi pulled him into a tiny cube in the Endless Void. There, "Death" explained that Ouyang’s changes to history had made him an anomaly, and Ouyang asked for his Projection Stones so he could remember the people he had left behind.

• After Ouyang vanished, death qi emerged in the River of Time and pulled a speck of azure light into the Endless Void.
• Ouyang awoke inside a cramped cube, powerless and unable to escape, and discovered that the face of "Death" appeared on its wall.
• "Death" explained that Ouyang had made Little Monkey the Human Progenitor to give Chen Changsheng a legitimate place in history, leaving Ouyang himself as an anomaly.
• Ouyang realized that the death qi had removed him from the world because his existence disrupted the timeline.
• "Death" told Ouyang he would remain trapped forever, and Ouyang asked for the Projection Stones from his Storage Space so he could remember everyone.

Trapped in a cramped cell, Ouyang realized the Little Monkey had completed his task and that the altered timeline had erased Ouyang from history. As the River of Time severed its connection to him, Ouyang took comfort in his success but grieved that he had not said goodbye to his disciples.

• Ouyang passed the time in his cramped cell by watching Recording Stones of his disciples and worrying that isolation would drive him mad.
• Ouyang sensed that the Little Monkey had completed his work as the Human Progenitor, aligning the timelines and severing Ouyang's connection to the River of Time.
• Ouyang reasoned that the altered timeline had erased him from history, leaving no one to remember his arrival or departure.
• Ouyang imagined Leng Qingsong becoming the Eldest Senior Brother and the remaining disciples moving up a place in the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Ouyang regretted that he could not say goodbye or watch his disciples reach the summit, then quietly sobbed alone in the Endless Void.

Death reflected on Ouyang’s attempt to awaken all living beings rather than save them himself, then realized their collective will had given the River of Time life. As the River drew Death into itself, he accepted the change and wondered whether it could keep flowing forever.

• Death watched Ouyang imprisoned in a tiny cube and concluded that love had led Life and Ouyang to struggle against fate for those they cared about.
• Death believed Life’s demise would bring the world’s final cycle and waited for everything to return to nothingness.
• Death heard the River of Time roar with the awakened cries of all living beings and realized Ouyang had entrusted them with saving themselves.
• Death understood that Ouyang had used love to give the River of Time life, with the lights at its forefront serving as guides chosen by all living beings.
• The River of Time dragged Death into itself, and he let it pull him in while wondering whether it could flow forever.

The Three Progenitors' rule weakened as resentment and schemes against their clans gathered, while cultivators flocked to a mysterious formation expecting a supreme treasure. The formation vanished after they sought enlightenment, revealing an extraordinary Xiantian being who looked like a monkey.

• Chaos opened into Heaven and Earth, and the Three Progenitors emerged from the Chaos Green Lotus to shape the world before dying on their paths to Attaining the Dao.
• The three clans ruled the races, but their authority waned as tensions grew and a Great Calamity targeting them quietly took shape.
• A Xiantian Grand Formation appeared in a mountain forest, drawing cultivators who sat around it to contemplate its complete Dao.
• The formation vanished after the cultivators' enlightenment, and Heaven and Earth celebrated the birth of a Xiantian being with radiant light and auspicious signs.
• The cultivators saw the newborn figure hanging upside down from a branch by his tail and wondered whether he was a monkey.

Little Bie San received Ouyang’s detailed plan to alter the timeline and sought Heaven and Earth’s acknowledgment in the ancient era. He named himself Ao Can, gained recognition and revealed a Merit Wheel, then became convinced he was Chen Changsheng, the Human Progenitor.

• Ouyang’s memories gave Little Bie San a meticulous plan for changing the future without attracting notice.
• Little Bie San escaped the gathered cultivators’ attention long enough to address Heaven and Earth and declare his name Ao Can.
• Heaven and Earth acknowledged Ao Can after three peals of thunder, and a Merit Wheel appeared behind him.
• Ao Can concluded that he was Chen Changsheng, the Human Progenitor, and resolved to rewrite the future’s tragedies.

Ao Can embraced the identity Heaven and Earth recognized, then cultivated for the first time and rapidly reached the early Golden Immortal stage. Armed with a life-giving staff and golden armor, he challenged the cultivators around him.

• Ao Can replaced his former name with the name Ouyang had given him and resolved to steer history away from tragedy.
• Ao Can began cultivating despite having no prior cultivation, absorbing Heaven and Earth essence as the surrounding cultivators watched.
• Ao Can broke through successive realms and reached the early Golden Immortal stage, shocking the cultivators and prompting some to flee while others sought his favor.
• Ao Can transformed the rope on his head into a staff that poured life force into him and formed golden armor and a red cape.
• Ao Can raised his golden-lit eyes and challenged the cultivators, declaring, "I am Ao Can! Who dares fight me!"

Ao Can turned the cultivators who had gathered around him into eager followers by recognizing their need for cultivation methods and offering to teach them. His first discourse on the Dao earned merit from Heaven and Earth, and the gathered cultivators began to attain enlightenment.

• The cultivators surrounded Ao Can, begging him to take them as followers or even claiming him as their father.
• Ao Can realized the cultivators wanted access to his cultivation methods, changed into a Daoist robe, and decided to learn about the era through them.
• Ao Can rebuked the cultivators for their behavior, then sat down and announced that he would give them a discourse on the Dao.
• Ao Can taught them a basic Qi Refining Method, prompting Heaven and Earth to send him merit.
• Ao Can shared the remaining merit among the cultivators, and hundreds of them attained enlightenment as an auspicious scene unfolded around the gathering.

Ao Can finished teaching a refined qi-drawing method to hundreds of cultivators and learned that the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin races jointly ruled Heaven and Earth. As he set out to explore the primeval world, Bo Huang met him and invited him to High Heaven to discuss the Dao.

• Ao Can urged the cultivators to spread the method throughout Heaven and Earth, then rejected their pleas to become his disciples.
• The cultivators told Ao Can about the era of the three races, and he realized their rule was declining ahead of the coming Immortal Era.
• Ao Can vanished from the gathering and appeared atop a cloud to explore the primeval world.
• Bo Huang, a Three-Legged Golden Crow at the peak of the Golden Immortal realm, approached Ao Can after witnessing his emergence and preaching.
• Bo Huang invited Ao Can to High Heaven to discuss the Dao, and Ao Can accepted.

Bo Huang eagerly befriended Ao Can and learned later-age Demon cultivation methods from him, revealing himself to be a guileless and vulnerable future Demon Ancestor. To keep Ao Can interested, Bo Huang disclosed that a treasure tied to the Three Progenitors’ Origin Power would emerge in the Kunlun Mountain Range.

• Bo Huang welcomed Ao Can to his Sun sanctuary and taught him how to control Sun True Fire.
• Ao Can taught Bo Huang future Demon cultivation methods, and Bo Huang absorbed the lessons through his Celebratory Clouds.
• Ao Can warned Bo Huang that releasing his Celebratory Clouds around a new acquaintance left him vulnerable, but Bo Huang admitted he would simply die if attacked.
• Bo Huang worried Ao Can would stop teaching him and revealed that the Phoenix Race had told him of a treasure emerging in the Western Lands’ Kunlun Mountain Range.
• Bo Huang said the three races were concealing the treasure because it was linked to the Thirty-Six-Petal Chaos Green Lotus.

As the three clans searched Kunlun Mountain for the Thirty-Six-Petal Chaos Green Lotus, Ao Can recognized the chance to claim it and consulted his future-written guide. He found the strategy he had prepared for this moment: “Two Peaches Kill Three Warriors.”

• After the Three Progenitors sacrificed themselves, resentment toward the three clans grew and rivalries among them intensified.
• The three clans gathered experts to search Kunlun Mountain for the Thirty-Six-Petal Chaos Green Lotus and secrets of the Three Progenitors' Origin Power.
• Ao Can realized he knew where the lotus was and what it held, but saw that his current strength could not contend with the clans directly.
• Ao Can asked Bo Huang for a quiet meditation room and studied the Complete Guide to Altering the Timeline.
• Ao Can found the historical anecdote “Two Peaches Kill Three Warriors” in his guide.

Ao Can enlisted Bo Huang to help spread a rumor about the Thirty-Six-Petal Chaos Green Lotus as part of a plan to unite the demons. Bo Huang feared the plan would get them killed, and Ao Can left him wondering whether he could become the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Demons.

• Ao Can found Bo Huang and asked whether he wanted to unite all demons and end divisions between races.
• Bo Huang panicked at the dangerous talk, so Ao Can cast a Heavenly Blindness Grand Formation to conceal their conversation.
• Ao Can told Bo Huang his plan to spread the rumor that whoever obtained the Thirty-Six-Petal Chaos Green Lotus would obtain Heaven and Earth.
• Bo Huang pleaded to abandon the plan, saying he wanted to survive more than pursue his ambition to unite the demons.
• Ao Can suggested Bo Huang could become the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Demons, and Bo Huang responded, "Huh? Me?"

Ancestral Dragon, Phoenix Ancestor, and Primordial Qilin argued over uniting the Three Clans while seeking the Thirty-Six-Petal Chaos Green Lotus and the Three Progenitors’ Origin Power. Their secret was broadcast across the Sun, directing all of heaven and earth toward the Kunlun Mountain Range and leaving Phoenix Ancestor blamed for the leak.

• Ancestral Dragon and Phoenix Ancestor tried to set aside clan disputes, but Primordial Qilin insisted he would be the Three Clans’ leader.
• The guards reported that the secret of the Thirty-Six-Petal Chaos Green Lotus had spread throughout heaven and earth.
• The Three Clan Leaders learned that Bo Huang’s Daoist Arena had been emptied and that two lines of red text were displayed on the Sun.
• The Three Progenitors saw the Sun turned dark green and read that whoever obtained the lotus would obtain all under heaven, with the Kunlun Mountain Range named as its location.
• Primordial Qilin and Ancestral Dragon accused Phoenix Ancestor of responsibility because the Three-Legged Golden Crow fell under his authority, while Bo Huang sneezed beside Ao Can.

Ao Can drew Bo Huang into a scheme against the three clans, then used their attack on the Sun to inflame the search for the Thirty-Six-Petal Chaos Green Lotus. As cultivators gathered at Kunlun and fought the clans’ forces, Ao Can declared that everyone outside the three clans was their ally.

• Bo Huang recalled how Phoenix Race disciples had mocked him and claimed his Sun for their cultivation, prompting him to ask Ao Can to explain his plan.
• Ao Can denied responsibility for events on the Sun and pointed out that Ancestral Dragon, the Phoenix Ancestor, and Primordial Qilin had extinguished it with a joint attack.
• Cultivators rushed toward Kunlun Mountain Range after the clans’ attack confirmed rumors about the Thirty-Six-Petal Chaos Green Lotus.
• The three clans barred outsiders from Kunlun, provoking notable races and even their former allies to clash with their forces.
• Ao Can told Bo Huang that everyone outside the three clans was now their ally.

Bo Huang confronted Ao Can after learning that his plan at Kunlun would destroy the Xiantian Three Clans and plunge Heaven and Earth into calamity. Bo Huang chose to oppose Ao Can to protect all living beings, earning Ao Can’s respect.

• Bo Huang worried that Ao Can would abandon him after using him to spread the three clans’ secrets, but Ao Can urged him to travel east while he went to Kunlun.
• Ao Can revealed that the Kunlun affair would end the Xiantian Three Clans’ place as the protagonists of Heaven and Earth and might make them vanish altogether.
• Bo Huang warned Ao Can that destroying the three clans would bring slaughter and suffering to countless beings.
• Bo Huang released his Sun True Fire and declared that he would oppose Ao Can rather than let him scheme against Heaven and Earth.
• Ao Can resisted Bo Huang’s flames and began to take him seriously for putting all living beings before his own safety.

Ao Can subdued Bo Huang and argued that the killing tribulation against the Xiantian Three Clans arose from their lost support and the beings of Heaven and Earth choosing to resist their rule. He left Bo Huang to decide whether to stand with the three clans or with him and the other beings.

• Bo Huang attacked Ao Can with a Golden Crow made of Sun True Fire, but Ao Can absorbed it with Heaven and Earth in the Sleeve.
• Bo Huang tried to detonate his Demon Core, but Ao Can touched his Dantian and left him unable to move.
• Bo Huang accused Ao Can of engineering the killing tribulation, while Ao Can argued that he had merely exposed the three clans' loss of popular support.
• Ao Can explained that the beings of Heaven and Earth had willingly gathered against the three clans, making the Great Calamity unavoidable.
• Bo Huang asked what should be done, and Ao Can asked him to choose between the Xiantian Three Clans and the beings of Heaven and Earth.

Ao Can’s Puppets provoked the cultivators gathered outside Kunlun Mountain into breaking the Xiantian Three Clans’ blockade, igniting a vast killing tribulation. As the slaughter spread through the mountain range, Ao Can realized its karma would fall on him and learned that Kunlun Mountain itself was the Thirty-Six-Petal Chaos Green Lotus.

• Hundreds of Ao Can’s Puppets incited the gathered cultivators to defy the Xiantian Three Clans’ blockade of Kunlun Mountain.
• The cultivators charged into the restricted area, scattered the guards, and clashed with the Three Clans’ forces.
• The fighting turned Kunlun Mountain Range into a bloody battlefield as the killing tribulation drove cultivators to slaughter one another.
• Ao Can watched from outside the mountain range and recognized himself as the mastermind who would bear the tribulation’s karma.
• Ao Can realized that Kunlun Mountain was the Thirty-Six-Petal Chaos Green Lotus, which needed the deaths of living beings to reveal itself.

The Thirty-Six-Petal Chaos Green Lotus appeared during the battle at Mount Kunlun, then absorbed Ancestral Dragon, Phoenix Ancestor, and Primordial Qilin to bloom. Ao Can realized the Heavenly Dao had used the conflict to bring about the Three Clans’ downfall, as the battle resumed with the Three Clans in retreat.

• The Thirty-Six-Petal Chaos Green Lotus emerged from Mount Kunlun and absorbed the slaughter’s tribulation, renewing the Three Clans’ strength and sending the creatures of Heaven and Earth fleeing.
• Ancestral Dragon, Phoenix Ancestor, and Primordial Qilin rushed to the lotus, believing it held the Three Progenitors’ Origin Power.
• The lotus trapped the three Clan Leaders, drained their Bloodline Power, and absorbed their bodies as bloody liquid.
• Ao Can watched from outside the Kunlun Mountain Range and realized the Three Clan Leaders were the Three Progenitors’ Origin Power and that the Heavenly Dao had orchestrated the scheme.
• The lotus bloomed, the Three Clans’ cultivators lost heart and fled, and the creatures of Heaven and Earth turned to pursue them as the battle grew more brutal.

Ao Can watched the Thirty-Six-Petal Chaos Green Lotus give birth to a middle-aged man who immediately reached the Sage Realm and brought the killing tribulation to an end. After resisting the man’s pressure and refusing to kneel, Ao Can was left wondering why the stranger’s empty, mocking eyes seemed familiar and could see through him.

• Ao Can watched the Thirty-Six-Petal Chaos Green Lotus bloom and reveal a purple, nine-sectioned earthworm within it.
• The earthworm transformed into a middle-aged man and rapidly advanced to the Sage Realm, becoming the first cultivator besides the Three Progenitors to do so.
• As Heaven and Earth celebrated the man’s birth, his pressure forced countless creatures, including Great Luo cultivators, to kneel, but Ao Can stood firm with his staff.
• The middle-aged man declared that the killing tribulation would recede, the three races would withdraw, the eight directions would gain guardians, and he would preach the Dao in three hundred years.
• The middle-aged man vanished after meeting Ao Can’s gaze, and Ao Can collapsed, shaken by the familiar eyes that seemed to see through his secrets.

Ao Can watched the Thirty-Six-Petal Chaos Green Lotus scatter its seeds, claimed its stalk as the White Jade Ruler, and wondered what the Immortal Lord’s arrival meant for his plans. After Ao Can left to strengthen himself for the era ahead, the Array Ancestor and Artifact Ancestor discussed why Zhen had helped him.

• After the middle-aged Cultivator vanished, the Thirty-Six-Petal Chaos Green Lotus broke apart and sent seven lotus seeds flying across Heaven and Earth.
• Ao Can watched the seeds depart, then transformed the lotus stalk into the White Jade Ruler and sensed that something about it was missing from his memory.
• A White Jade Light flew away, and Ao Can realized it held the Chaos Green Lotus’s fundamental power and would become the next era’s greatest Heavenly Prodigy.
• Ao Can resolved to cultivate for three hundred years so he could compete to become one of the forty-nine Immortals, then nodded to the concealed watchers and vanished.
• The Artifact Ancestor questioned why Zhen had helped Ao Can, and Zhen promised to refine him a Dao Artifact decorated with Flying Crane Patterns.

Ao Can and Bo Huang traveled through Heaven and Earth as Ao Can pursued his plans, and Ao Can visited Tu Mountain to confirm that Tu Yun would help him prepare for the next great calamity. As they left, the Immortal Lord announced that the appointed three hundred years had passed and summoned those seeking the Dao beyond chaos.

• Ao Can and Bo Huang reached the Great Luo Realm while traveling through the chaotic world left by the Xiantian Three Clans' killing calamity.
• Ao Can searched the Extreme Western Land for traces of the Twelve Demon Gods and entered Tu Mountain, while Bo Huang followed reluctantly to keep watch over him.
• Tu Mountain's fox demons surrounded Ao Can and Bo Huang, but Tu Yun appeared after Ao Can declared that she should know he would come.
• Ao Can told Tu Yun that she would eventually meet Hu Yun and help him face the next great calamity, and Tu Yun accepted that she had to aid him.
• As Ao Can and Bo Huang turned to leave Tu Mountain, the Immortal Lord summoned those wishing to hear the Dao beyond chaos.

Ao Can and Bo Huang traveled into Chaos to attend the Sage’s sermon and reached a palace where forty-eight meditation cushions represented coveted seats. As Great Luo cultivators fought over them, Ao Can protected Bo Huang’s place and gave him a cushion of his own.

• Ao Can left Tu Mountain with Bo Huang and entered Chaos, where they searched among the Great Luo cultivators for the Sage’s Daoist Abode.
• Ao Can and Bo Huang found the palace, took meditation cushions, and Ao Can warned Bo Huang not to surrender his seat.
• The Artifact Ancestor and Array Ancestor recognized Ao Can and proposed an alliance to protect their cushions.
• A black-robed cultivator seized Bo Huang and his cushion, but Ao Can bound the attacker and stopped him by mentioning Zhuyin’s eyes.
• Ao Can drove the black-robed cultivator away and handed Bo Huang a meditation cushion, telling him to sit on it.