Recaps

Ren Ye freed Jiang Yu, secured Gutan City, and accepted Prince Qi’s challenge while building Qingliang Prefecture’s resources through a dangerous raid on Chijin City. He then traveled to the Nine Li Continent to seek Great Emperor Jiuli’s treasures, where Xing Wu’s past connection to Xingshan and Little One’s awakening hinted at what lay ahead.

• Ren Ye and Wang Changfeng freed Jiang Yu from the Ancestral Land, and Liu Tang used the golden key to make Gutan City an Order Territory.
• Ren Ye accepted Prince Qi’s challenge to fight at the Heavenly Capital in two years, and Xu Qingyan directed him to seek Great Emperor Jiuli’s treasures in Xingshan.
• Ren Ye and his companions raided Chijin City for red gold, escaped after a battle with its defenders, and returned to Qingliang Prefecture with their loot.
• Ren Ye secured Yuan Dalang as leverage over the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, then left with his team for the Nine Li Continent and Xingshan.
• Ming Quan guided Ren Ye’s group into Tide Dragon City and brought them to his home, where his wife learned that Brother Hong had died.
• Xing Wu left home to hunt alone, revealed that he had once entered Xingshan, and later invited Ren Ye’s group to dine with his family.
• Little One remained conscious after drinking Drunken Immortal Brew, and Daoist Chu suspected that he had attained enlightenment.

Ren Ye was drawn into the struggle over Great Emperor Jiuli’s inheritance after the Red Tide marked him, while the Vengeful Ghost Sect and Immortal Wave Sect fought to claim him. He reached Western Liang, rescued Xu Bangzi, and killed Situ Ye before challenging the gathered prodigies.

• Ren Ye and his companions were caught in the Red Tide at Xingshan, where the Great Emperor’s Dao resonance marked Ren Ye and Old Liu emerged headless from the sea of flowers.
• Ren Ye carried Old Liu’s body away and learned that the Emperor’s Tomb would open in 100 days, with only the 99 bearers who won the most Blood Marks allowed inside.
• The Immortal Wave Sect sought Ren Ye’s blood guide, but Ren Ye used it to secure his companions’ escape before fighting off the sect’s disciples with the Human Emperor Seal and Purple Fortune.
• The Demoness took Ren Ye to the Vengeful Ghost Sect and asked him to kill Chu Jin at the Western Liang gathering, while Ren Ye received a mission to find the Realmspace Stone.
• As 240,000 troops surrounded Tide Dragon City, the Demoness left Ren Ye to enter Western Liang alone, where his Blood Mark led him toward the Ye Residence and the Boundary-Space Stone.
• Ren Ye learned that Xu Bangzi was being used as bait, infiltrated the You family residence, and sent an ancient Jiang token into the household while searching for secret realms.
• Ren Ye challenged the Western Liang gate guards, killed one with a single strike, and rescued Xu Bangzi from the city wall.
• Situ Ye fought Ren Ye alone, but Ren Ye exposed and bound him with the Azure Cloud Bamboo and Human Emperor Seal, then beheaded him and challenged the gathered prodigies.

Ren Ye fought the clans and sects pursuing him while trying to protect his companions, and Xing Wu’s inheritance brought a battle to Lin County. The arc ended with Xing Wu ascending through a Heavenly Gate, Ren Ye preparing for the Emperor’s Tomb, and questions lingering about Old Liu and the Demoness.

• Ren Ye killed Situ Ye, escaped the siege at Western Liang, and began refining the Boundary-Space Stone before King Qin Guang drove off the attackers.
• Ren Ye captured the Three Golden Flowers and other prodigies, while Xing Wu entered Xingshan, inherited the Peachwood Blade, and killed the Immortal Wave Sect’s nine Fifth Grades.
• Ren Ye lured Chu Jin to Western Liang, but Chu Jin warned him that their enemies were using them and revealed that Xing Wu and Little One had been taken into Xingshan.
• Ren Ye brought the gravely afflicted Xing Wu home to Chunniang, then King Qin Guang raised a formation around Lin County as Western Liang’s forces attacked.
• Ren Qingning and Li Yan arrived to help Ren Ye, and Li Yan killed Western Liang cultivators as the King of Hell’s formation came under pressure from fifteen Sixth Grade rulers.
• Ren Ye used the Human Emperor Seal and his Destiny to help Xing Wu open a Heavenly Gate, which blocked the rulers’ advance and carried Xing Wu away with a strand of immortal light for Xing Qian.
• Ren Ye and his allies defeated Western Liang’s remaining Fifth Grades, while the sect masters arrived too late and found twelve corpses outside the city.
• Ren Ye connected Old Liu’s headless condition to the Great Emperor’s legend, considered the Demoness’s ties to the Yang Family, and demanded to know why she wanted Chu Jin dead.

Ren Ye entered the Emperor’s Tomb with Little One, defeated the Five Ghosts, and gathered Blood Marks for the Human World Arena. After Little One completed the first trial, Ren Ye faced sixteenfold pressure in the second and collapsed after five days.

• Ren Ye agreed to retrieve Chu Jin’s Infinite Pearl for the Demoness, then carried Little One into the Emperor’s Tomb with the Human Emperor Sword.
• Ren Ye learned that Little One was the Fate bearer and that their linked lives required them to face double-difficulty trials.
• Ren Ye obtained bronze coffins for shelter from the crimson tides and traveled with Feng Rende toward West Pole Mountain to recover the Emperor’s Blessing Stele.
• Ren Ye crossed the Red River in a coffin, crippled Summer Ghost, and found the Emperor’s Blessing Stele, which Little One began refining.
• Ren Ye and Lingyun killed the last surviving Ghosts, and Ren Ye killed the Purple Mansion successor before burying Lingyun and Yue'e together.
• Ren Ye parted ways with Feng Rende in Human World Town, received his twelve Blood Marks as tribute, and extracted more Blood Marks from Zhang Long and his companions.
• Ren Ye entered the Human World Arena and assigned Little One to endure the first trial at double pressure, where Little One formed his Star Core and completed the trial.
• Ren Ye attacked eight routes in the second trial and refused to spend Blood Marks on defense, then collapsed after climbing 302 steps under sixteenfold pressure.