Recaps

Yun Mo broke through to the Heaven-reaching Realm, and Wen Qingxuan gave him Soul-Consolidating Pills to strengthen his divine soul against the Evil Clan's mark. After Lin Jing returned with news that Heaven and Earth Spiritual Veins had gone wild, the three prepared to pursue the valuable resources.

• Yun Mo broke through to the Heaven-reaching Realm while Wen Qingxuan stayed in the Cultivation Courtyard to guard him.
• Wen Qingxuan gave Yun Mo Soul-Consolidating Pills she had refined, and Yun Mo took one and felt his divine soul grow stronger.
• Wen Qingxuan confronted Yun Mo about illustrated books she found in his Ring of Holding, but Lin Jing returned and interrupted their chase.
• Lin Jing told Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan that the city's Heaven and Earth Spiritual Veins had gone wild and that outsiders were seizing them.
• Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan became interested in claiming the Spirit Veins and possible supreme spirit liquid, and Yun Mo proposed examining their unused treasures and Divine Artifact Little Sword first.

Yun Mo, Wen Qingxuan, and Lin Jing broke into the natives’ inner defenses to reach the hidden cache of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Veins. After Yun Mo defeated Sikong Fa, they rushed toward the cache as outside attackers and native reinforcements converged on the depths.

• Yun Mo used spatial arts to carry Wen Qingxuan and Lin Jing past the outer battles and defensive arrays into the mountain range’s depths.
• Sikong Fa discovered the intruders and called for help, so Yun Mo, Wen Qingxuan, and Lin Jing fought their way through the guards.
• Yun Mo weakened Sikong Fa with spacetime arts and Emperor’s Might, then struck him down.
• Wen Qingxuan and Lin Jing broke through the remaining guards, and the three headed toward the hidden cache indicated by Lin Jing’s Treasure Hunting Bug.
• Other attackers reached the depths, while Hua Gao and several Spiritual Power Tribulation cultivators hurried toward the breached defenses.

Yun Mo, Lin Jing, and Wen Qingxuan raided a guarded storehouse, seized its Supreme Spirit Liquid, treasures, and bundled spiritual veins, then escaped aboard a Void Shuttle as Hua Gao pursued them. Hua Gao discovered the storehouse had been looted and continued chasing the group in a rage.

• Wen Qingxuan led Yun Mo and Lin Jing in defeating the storehouse guards and smashing through its restrictions and doors.
• Lin Jing collected the Supreme Spirit Liquid while Wen Qingxuan gathered quasi-divine artifacts and pills.
• Yun Mo used the Heavenly Evolution Divine Stone, with help from Lin Jing and Wen Qingxuan, to store the bundled heaven and earth spiritual veins.
• The group sensed Hua Gao and other powerful pursuers approaching, so Yun Mo fled with the women aboard the Void Shuttle while they concealed their auras.
• Hua Gao arrived to find the storehouse ransacked and chased the group aboard his own Void Shuttle.

Yun Mo, Lin Jing, and Wen Qingxuan fled Hua Gao toward the Fourth City, using talismans to slow him down. Near the city, they disguised themselves and split up to evade the people waiting at the gates, while Lin Jing reflected on how much she valued her new friends.

• Yun Mo drove the Void Shuttle toward the next city while Lin Jing and Wen Qingxuan threw talismans at the pursuing Hua Gao.
• Hua Gao resisted the blasts, sent a message asking people at the Fourth City to intercept the shuttle, and continued chasing the trio.
• Lin Jing and Wen Qingxuan used stronger ice talismans to damage Hua Gao's defenses and slow him down.
• As the Fourth City came into view, Yun Mo told Lin Jing to disguise herself as a man and ordered them to enter separately.
• Lin Jing changed her appearance with a Profound Spirit Stone, then teased Yun Mo about his first impression of her before the group split up.
• Lin Jing watched Yun Mo leave and felt grateful that her journey with Uncle Diao had brought her close friends.

Yun Mo, Lin Jing, and Wen Qingxuan reached the Fourth City and settled into a secluded courtyard to sort through their stolen treasures. As Hua Gao waited for Qu Liang to bring information about them, the trio divided some of their spoils and decided to let the mysterious Divine Stone continue absorbing spiritual energy.

• Hua Gao questioned Yan Man at the Fourth City gate, but Yan Man had no information about the three fugitives and said Qu Liang was coming with news.
• Yun Mo, Lin Jing, and Wen Qingxuan regrouped in the Fourth City and found a courtyard where they could safely tally their gains.
• Lin Jing brought out supreme spirit liquid, Wen Qingxuan displayed divine arts, Quasi-Divine Artifacts, pills, and herbs, and Yun Mo revealed his larger haul, including the Heavenly Evolution Divine Stone.
• Wen Qingxuan and Yun Mo agreed to leave the Divine Stone intact and let it keep absorbing the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Veins until whatever it nurtured was ready.
• Yun Mo gave the little sword to Lin Jing, and Wen Qingxuan and Lin Jing affirmed their friendship.

Qu Liang and Jian Yuan identified the three people in the Soul-Returning Mirror as the thieves who had robbed the cities, and Hua Gao ordered a covert search of Fourth City. Meanwhile, Yun Mo, Wen Qingxuan, and Lin Jing stayed in a City Lord's Manor courtyard to cultivate and avoid the arriving pursuers, until a knock interrupted them.

• Qu Liang and Jian Yuan showed Hua Gao and Yan Man the Soul-Returning Mirror and explained why they suspected the three figures were behind the thefts.
• Hua Gao ordered a discreet search of Fourth City and arranged to alert Fifth City if the suspects had already left.
• Lin Jing, Wen Qingxuan, and Yun Mo decided to cultivate in a City Lord's Manor courtyard and remain wary of the divine soul tribulation pursuer.
• Yun Mo failed to learn talisman-making from Lin Jing, who teased him about becoming a Beast Tamer instead.
• Someone knocked at the courtyard door while Lin Jing and Yun Mo were talking.

Hua Gao’s group searched Fourth City for Yun Mo, Wen Qingxuan, and Lin Jing, then discovered a talisman trace near their courtyard. After the three decided to leave for Fifth City, Qu Liang recognized them and prepared to trap them at the city gate.

• Yan Man, Qu Liang, and Xie Chunyi searched Fourth City after paying a City Lord’s Manor official for information about long-term courtyard residents.
• Lin Jing turned away Qu Liang and Yan Man when they claimed the City Lord’s Manor could mediate disputes with natives.
• Xie Chunyi detected a faint talisman aura near Lin Jing’s courtyard, and Yan Man told Qu Liang to summon reinforcements while he searched elsewhere.
• Lin Jing told Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan about the visitors, and the group decided to pack up and head for Fifth City.
• Qu Liang spotted the disguised Lin Jing with Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan, then ordered his allies and Hua Gao’s group to prepare an ambush at the city gate.

Yun Mo, Wen Qingxuan, and Lin Jing discovered that the Fourth City’s forces had trapped them at a gate and prepared to fight their pursuers. Yun Mo challenged the Divine Soul Tribulation expert Hua Gao, weakening him with a Quasi-Divine Artifact before launching another attack.

• Yun Mo and the two women sensed concealed watchers and found a sixth-grade Spirit Array blocking the city gate, which Lin Jing linked to the City Lord's Manor.
• Hua Gao, Qu Liang, Jian Yuan, Yan Man, and other cultivators surrounded the trio, and Hua Gao declared that they would kill them.
• Yun Mo, Wen Qingxuan, and Lin Jing readied their weapons and powers to fight the attackers without the protection of the city’s rules.
• Yun Mo punched Hua Gao and was injured by Hua Gao’s counterattack, but the Rain of Time gradually healed him.
• Yun Mo used a Quasi-Divine Artifact and the Ziwei Emperor Fist to wound Hua Gao and reduce his cultivation to the Spiritual Power Tribulation level.
• Yun Mo prepared another strike as Hua Gao summoned a Battle Halberd and charged at him.

Wen Qingxuan and Lin Jing fought off the men surrounding them, turning the battle in their favor with nirvana fire and powerful talismans. Yan Man and Qu Liang were badly wounded, while the City Lord’s Manor guards feared their involvement would be exposed.

• Wen Qingxuan overwhelmed the Heaven-reaching Realm fighters with her Golden Phoenix Divine Spear, forcing Yan Man to join the battle.
• Wen Qingxuan used her speed and nirvana fire to burn Yan Man’s right arm, then pressed her attack as his men moved to protect him.
• Lin Jing’s talismans crushed Xie Yichun’s attacks and injured Jian Yuan, while her sword and talismans kept the others at bay.
• Lin Jing’s ice-blue talisman became an ice sword wreathed in lightning and pinned Qu Liang’s right shoulder to the city wall, damaging its sixth-grade Spirit Array.
• The City Lord’s Manor guards worried that the battle would expose their role in the Supreme Road struggle and implicate Young Master Xiang Xuan.

Yun Mo and his companions fought Hua Gao and the natives while guards from the City Lord's Manor joined the battle. Xiang Xuan emerged and demanded their surrender, and Yun Mo prepared to face him as Lin Jing and Wen Qingxuan lent him their weapons and support.

• Yun Mo struck Hua Gao's Battle Halberd and kicked him back, while their clash sent nearby attackers flying and left Hua Gao unable to gain the upper hand.
• Guards from the City Lord's Manor joined the fight, and Hua Gao accused Yun Mo and his companions of breaking the Supreme Road's rules as spectators argued over what had happened.
• Lin Jing and Wen Qingxuan regrouped with Yun Mo and said they would keep fighting, while Yun Mo sensed the Supreme of the City Lord's Manor approaching.
• Xiang Xuan appeared, accused the three of attacking natives and provoking the City Lord's Manor, and demanded that they surrender.
• Lin Jing handed Yun Mo her sword and talismans, and Wen Qingxuan cloaked him in nirvana fire as he faced Xiang Xuan.

Yun Mo defeated Xiang Xuan with his spacetime-based Yin-Yang Dusting technique, but the city lord intervened and struck him down. As Lin Jing and Wen Qingxuan came to Yun Mo’s aid, a powerful voice challenged the city lord from the heavens.

• Xiang Xuan attacked Yun Mo with his Battle Halberd, but their clash weakened Xiang Xuan’s cultivation.
• Xiang Xuan unleashed the Azure Flood Dragon God-Transforming Halberd, Wind of the Enlightened God, and Yun Mo erased its flood-dragon hurricanes with Yin-Yang Dusting.
• Yun Mo’s xuan guang shattered Xiang Xuan’s Quasi-Divine Artifact robe and began turning his arm to dust.
• Yun Mo moved to finish Xiang Xuan, but the city lord struck him with a giant hand and sent him flying.
• Lin Jing and Wen Qingxuan caught the wounded Yun Mo as the city lord accused them of breaking the Supreme Road’s rules.
• A voice from the heavens warned the city lord that he would not leave either, alarming the strongest beings on the Martial Dao Continent.

A mysterious powerhouse intervened when Xiang Ji attacked Yun Mo and his companions, then Lin Diao healed Yun Mo and examined the dangerous mark fused with his soul. Yun Mo woke with the mark still intact and thanked Lin Diao for saving him.

• Xiang Ji watched the colossal hand descend and realized too late that Yun Mo had a terrifying backer.
• The hand swept past the Fourth City gates, leaving the space there obliterated, while the Lord of the Ninth City warned that the Supreme Road would face a cleansing.
• Lin Diao arrived with Lin Jing and examined Yun Mo, discovering that the mark on his forehead carried the aura of the Outer Realm Evil Clan and was fused with his divine soul.
• Lin Diao sealed the mark and healed Yun Mo's injuries but could not erase it without damaging his soul.
• Lin Diao awakened Yun Mo, who thanked him for intervening.

Yun Mo received a temporary seal to suppress the Evil Emperor's Mark, while Lin Diao accelerated the Heavenly Evolution Divine Stone's growth and revealed the Stone Book within. After Lin Jing and Lin Diao departed, Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan chose to return to the Spirit Academy with Elder Wu Zhang.

• Lin Diao told Yun Mo that removing the Evil Clan's mark required an Earthly Sovereign-level divine soul and placed a seal on it that he claimed would last only two years.
• Lin Diao used immense spiritual energy to evolve the Heavenly Evolution Divine Stone, revealing the law-born Stone Book for Yun Mo.
• Lin Jing said goodbye to Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan, then left with Lin Diao, who privately admitted the seal's two-year limit was a bluff to motivate Yun Mo.
• Yun Mo and Wen Qingxuan decided to return to the Spirit Academy and waited for Elder Wu Zhang, while discussing their next meeting and Wen Qingxuan's return to her own academy.
• Wen Qingxuan caught Yun Mo with his arm around her waist, but Elder Wu Zhang arrived and told them to return to the Martial Spirit Academy and digest the insights they had gained.

A year after returning from the Supreme Road, Yun Mo developed a powerful spacetime technique and sparred with Elder Wu Zhang in the Martial Dao Tower. He then learned that the Martial Spirit Academy would hold a solo selection to choose ten students for the Spirit Academy Competition.

• After reports of corruption on the Supreme Road spread, the continent's foremost powers investigated and purged the compromised City Lord's Manors and natives.
• Yun Mo named his new spacetime technique A Step Away, Worlds Apart, and demonstrated that it could reach Elder Wu Zhang despite his attempts to block it.
• Elder Wu Zhang praised Yun Mo's technique, called him the academy's strongest current disciple, and sent him out of the Martial Dao Tower owing thirty thousand Battle Spirit Points.
• Wu Ling told Yun Mo that Tan Feng and Tan Yin had joined the Martial Spirit Academy and complained that Yun Mo had neglected the Heavenly Terrace.
• Wu Ling explained that nearly a thousand students would compete individually in a selection, with the top ten representing the academy, and rejected Yun Mo's offer to team up.

Yun Mo reunited with Qing He, Weak Water, and Wu Yingying as they prepared for the Spirit Academy Competition selection trials. The group discussed their opponents and planned to avoid the strongest contender while collecting points from weaker teams.

• Yun Mo and Wu Ling talked about Yun Mo's standing among the Heavenly Terrace students before Qing He brought Weak Water and Wu Yingying back to the courtyard.
• Wu Yingying gave Yun Mo pills refined with Wen Qingxuan, and Weak Water explained that pill-making had helped her and Wu Yingying cultivate.
• Wu Ling supplied ingredients for Wu Yingying's daily cooking task, and Yun Mo and the others worried about having to eat what she made.
• That night, Wu Ling said the selection trials would likely begin within days, and the group reviewed the Martial Dao Tower ranking and discussed how to avoid the Divine Soul Tribulation contender while taking points from weaker opponents.

The Martial Spirit Academy began its selection for the Spirit Academy Competition, sending students into the Martial Dao Tower to fight for points and a place among the final ten. Yun Mo entered a battle zone where several students challenged him, while the academy’s leaders watched and worried about the Sacred Spirit Academy’s ambitions.

• Dean Tianwang announced that students would fight through the Martial Dao Tower, earn points, and compete for ten places in the Spirit Academy Competition.
• Yun Mo, Wu Ling, Qing He, Weak Water, and Wu Yingying entered the tower, while the academy elders discussed Yun Mo’s prospects and the Sacred Spirit Academy’s ambitions.
• Yun Mo appeared on the tower’s fifth floor, where students could be removed after fatal injuries and qualifying points could grant access to a hidden secret realm.
• Students in Yun Mo’s battle zone recognized him and, despite knowing his reputation, several stepped forward to challenge him.

Yun Mo overwhelmed his opponents in the Martial Dao Tower, clearing his battle zone with ease. The tower then sent him to an ancient secluded chamber where the Tower Spirit revealed that a supreme powerhouse had left insights there.

• Yun Mo defeated the Body Tribulation senior student and rapidly eliminated the attackers who had surrounded him.
• A Spirit Array Master used his Galaxy Collapse Array against Yun Mo, but Yun Mo warped space to keep it from reaching him and then eliminated him.
• Yun Mo collected the remaining opponents' points and was transported to another battle zone after clearing the others.
• The Martial Dao Tower sent Yun Mo to an unopened secluded chamber, where the Tower Spirit explained that a supreme powerhouse's insights had settled there over time.

Yun Mo used the Heavenly Evolution Stone Book to gather a supreme expert’s lingering insights and reproduce a desolation martial art, then returned to the selection battle and defeated his second group. The battle continued, and Wu Ji and the others reacted with concern when Yun Mo and Bian Yu were grouped together.

• Yun Mo collected the meditation chamber’s lingering insights with the Heavenly Evolution Stone Book, which formed a hazy figure that demonstrated a desolation finger technique.
• Yun Mo returned to the selection battle as a supreme expert in the Great Thousand World remarked that Yun Mo’s discovery was his own fortuitous opportunity, not discipleship.
• Yun Mo entered a second Battle Zone and overwhelmed its stronger contestants, leaving the two Body Tribulation students to face him together.
• Kong Tianlei and the other Body Tribulation student attacked Yun Mo once more, and Yun Mo eliminated them in a clash of power.
• Wu Ji, Zongfang, and the others saw that Yun Mo and Bian Yu had been grouped together and worried about the academy’s losses.

Yun Mo overwhelmed Yue Bianyu and three other veteran students during the Martial Spirit Academy selection, exposing the danger of Yue Bianyu’s unstable cultivation. The encounter left Yue Bianyu’s cultivation diminished and his foundation cracked, while Yun Mo turned his attention to the remaining challengers and considered refining a signature Finger Technique.

• Yue Bianyu and three veteran students joined forces to challenge Yun Mo and Yue Bianyu, but Yun Mo’s spatial domain blocked their attacks and sent the three students flying.
• Elder Wu Ji and Elder Zongfang explained that Yun Mo had reshaped the space around himself into a domain that could reject attacks.
• Yun Mo pointed out that Yue Bianyu’s spiritual power had not kept pace with his first-level Divine Soul Tribulation cultivation, but Yue Bianyu insisted on fighting for a place in the Spirit Academy Competition.
• Yun Mo imprisoned Yue Bianyu in space and struck him with the essence of desolation, causing Yue Bianyu’s cultivation to fall to the Spiritual Power Tribulation stage and cracking his foundation.
• After Yue Bianyu’s figure dissipated, Yun Mo turned toward the three remaining students and thought about using the Heavenly Evolution Stone Book to develop his own version of the Finger Technique.