Recaps

Li Dao finished a grueling training session and used a precious herb to recover, bringing his strength to one hundred thousand jin. He returned to Golden Feather Village as the children’s baptism baths were prepared.

• Li Dao carried a hundred-thousand-jin boulder through the forest until he had completed his training for the day.
• Li Dao reflected on his six years of relentless cultivation and resolved to keep growing stronger.
• Li Dao swallowed a blood-colored precious herb and used his rune furnace to refine it into vital essence, healing and tempering his body.
• Li Dao returned to Golden Feather Village, where Li Kai and the villagers had prepared medicinal cauldrons for the children’s baptism.

Li Kai added a drop of Vermilion Bird blood to the children’s medicinal baths, creating a powerful baptismal cauldron specially prepared for Li Dao. Li Dao entered it in silence while the other children cried out, leaving Li Kai hopeful that Golden Feather Village might soon gain a Cave Heaven Realm expert.

• The children challenged one another to see who could endure the medicinal baths longest, while Li Dao listened and the adults cheered them on.
• Li Kai added a drop of Vermilion Bird blood to the medicinal cauldron, and a blazing Vermilion Bird phantom burst out of the liquid.
• The village chief subdued the phantom, and Li Kai ordered the children to enter their cauldrons in turn.
• Li Dao entered the exceptionally potent cauldron prepared for him, and Li Kai quickly covered it with a lid.
• The other children began wailing in their baths, while Li Kai heard nothing from Li Dao’s cauldron and hoped Li Dao would reach the Cave Heaven Realm.

Li Dao completed his transformation in the medicinal cauldron, forging his own path through the Blood Moving Realm and raising his strength to 110,000 jin. After emerging, he joined the children as Li Kai prepared to test how much strength they had gained.

• Li Dao absorbed the cauldron's divine essence, refined his body, and surpassed the hundred-thousand-jin limit, reaching 110,000 jin.
• The cocoon around Li Dao cracked, and he emerged from the cauldron with a powerful aura and a transformed appearance.
• Li Kai and the villagers praised Li Dao while the children watched him with admiration and awe.
• Li Kai gathered the children and led them to the Qilin Stones to test their strength, while Li Dao eagerly awaited his own measurement.

Li Dao demonstrated overwhelming strength after the baptism, lifting the hundred-thousand-jin Qilin Stone and measuring a force of 113,000 jin. Golden Feather Village’s Sacrificial Spirit rewarded him with the Golden Feather Eagle Precious Technique, and he told Li Kai he planned to enter the Great Wilderness to seek what was missing from his cultivation.

• Mucus lifted a five-thousand-jin Qilin Stone, and Er Ya easily lifted stones weighing five and seven thousand jin.
• Li Dao moved the hundred-thousand-jin Qilin Stone with one hand, revealing that his strength reached 113,000 jin after the baptism.
• The Village Chief took Li Dao to the Golden Feather Eagle’s tree and gave him the Precious Technique entrusted by the Sacrificial Spirit.
• Li Dao told Li Kai he intended to explore the Great Wilderness and seek perfection in his physical cultivation.
• Li Kai accepted Li Dao’s decision and told him he could return home whenever he grew weary.

After leaving Golden Feather Village, Li Dao traveled thirty thousand miles into the Great Wilderness and fought through its dangers. He was still locked in a fierce battle with a Wind-Howling Beast he had angered by eating one of its eggs.

• Li Dao promised the Village Chief he would return with good things, then attended a farewell celebration with the villagers.
• The next morning, Li Dao said goodbye to Golden Feather Village and set off into the Great Wilderness.
• A month later, Li Dao had survived countless beast attacks and learned Golden Feather Wings while improving his Divine Furnace technique.
• The Wind-Howling Beast pursued Li Dao for eating its egg and attacked him with invisible wind blades.
• Li Dao used his Divine Furnace to endure the attack, then broke through its explosion and punched the beast.
• Li Dao mounted the Wind-Howling Beast and began pounding it with both fists.

Li Dao killed a Wind-Howling Beast with his bare fists, then recovered and roasted its meat in an abandoned cave. Watching the rain brought him through a crisis of doubt and revealed the Dao he would pursue: planting a Flesh-and-Blood Seed to ferry himself beyond the cycle of destruction.

• Li Dao beat the Wind-Howling Beast to death in midair and used Treasure Medicine to replenish his vitality.
• Li Dao carried the beast's corpse to an abandoned cave, roasted its wings, and ate the meat as thunder and rain swept over the wilderness.
• As he watched the rain, Li Dao questioned how he should live between heaven and earth and was nearly drawn into a dark vision of the world's destruction.
• Li Dao saw a shoot sheltered by a fallen leaf and resolved to plant a seed, build a precious raft, and ferry himself across the world.
• Li Dao overcame his barrier of the heart, named his path the Flesh-and-Blood Seed Dao, and looked forward to seeing what changes it would bring.

Li Dao continued through the Great Wilderness in search of resources for the Flesh-and-Blood Seed Dao and tested the transformed Black-and-Yellow Smelting Furnace against a Stone-Armored Tiger. After defeating the beast, he turned to the captured Five-Colored Pheasant, which tried to appease him by drawing in the dirt.

• Li Dao checked the map to the Stone Kingdom and continued his journey through the forest.
• Li Dao caught a Five-Colored Pheasant pursued by a four-Cave-Heaven Stone-Armored Tiger.
• Li Dao blocked the tiger’s attack with his transformed Black-and-Yellow Smelting Furnace, which cracked under the beast’s treasured technique.
• Li Dao shattered the tiger’s stone armor with his punches and killed it.
• Li Dao approached the fleeing Five-Colored Pheasant, which stopped and began tracing something in the dirt.

Li Dao agreed to follow the Five-Colored Pheasant to the place where a treasure was expected to emerge, and he began forming the golden seed of his Flesh-and-Blood Seed Dao after eating the Stone-Armored Tiger. After five days of fighting and feasting, they neared their destination, where they heard a thunderous river.

• The Five-Colored Pheasant told Li Dao that vicious beasts had gathered near a place where a treasure might emerge, and he agreed to follow it in exchange for letting it go.
• Li Dao roasted and ate the Stone-Armored Tiger with the Five-Colored Pheasant, then used the beast's energy to begin forming a golden seed within his chest.
• Li Dao's attempt to complete the seed exhausted his stored energy, but its appearance let him draw essence from heaven and earth more easily.
• Li Dao and the Five-Colored Pheasant traveled toward the treasure, defeating and eating vicious beasts along the way as the journey stretched to five days.
• Li Dao noticed that the golden seed had grown more solid as he and the Five-Colored Pheasant heard a thunderous sound of flowing water ahead.

Li Dao discovered a secret realm behind a waterfall on the Taiyin River, where ferocious beasts had gathered around its entrance. After the Ice-Sealed Deer exposed him, he sparked a battle among the beasts and hid inside the river within the Xuanhuang Divine Furnace, waiting for the realm to open.

• Li Dao found the Taiyin River and recognized the scarlet glow behind its waterfall as a secret realm entrance.
• Li Dao let the Five-Colored Pheasant go, then watched the gathered beasts and the three Spirit Transformation Beast Kings from hiding.
• The Ice-Sealed Deer sensed Li Dao and attacked, exposing him to the gathered beasts.
• Li Dao struck the Ice-Sealed Deer with his divine power, provoking the beasts into a chaotic battle.
• Li Dao leapt into the Taiyin River inside the Xuanhuang Divine Furnace, while the Purple Snake was drawn into the fighting.

Li Dao escaped the battle above the Taiyin River and discovered that Spirit Transformation Realm beasts could not enter the gate’s vortex. He slaughtered the weaker beasts that charged him, then turned to enter the vortex and claim the treasures inside.

• Li Dao emerged from the water, blocked Purple Snake’s lightning strike, and flew toward the gate as it opened.
• A Purple Pole Fox was pulverized by a barrier near the vortex, and crystal chains destroyed the Lihuo Demon Bull when it tried to approach.
• Li Dao realized powerful beasts were barred from entering and stood on the steps to draw the Cave Heaven Realm beasts toward him.
• Li Dao killed the charging beasts, driving the survivors and the two Beast Kings back.
• With the steps clear, Li Dao headed into the vortex, expecting the beasts to leave him undisturbed while he collected the treasures.

Li Dao entered the second trial and discovered a Medicine Garden in a yin-yang Pocket World, where he began refining treasure medicine for Flesh-and-Blood Seed Dao. After pulling a half-saint five-colored divine lotus from the Yin-Yang Pool, he found crimson-white bones tangled among its roots.

• Li Dao endured the spatial pressure of the vortex and emerged in a Pocket World with snow-covered and magma-filled mountains.
• Li Dao found a golden formation concealing a Medicine Garden nourished by a Yin-Yang Pool.
• Li Dao gathered the garden’s treasure medicine and pool water to refine a supreme treasure elixir in the Xuanhuang Divine Furnace.
• The two Beast Kings stopped sending ferocious beasts into the secret realm and waited outside for Li Dao.
• Li Dao used his strength to pull the five-colored divine lotus from the pool, then noticed crimson-white bones among its roots.

Li Dao cultivated the flesh-and-blood seed Dao in the divine furnace, drawing energy from the Yin-Yang Pool until a lightning tribulation struck. With the Five-Colored Divine Lotus’s help, he completed the seed’s Dao patterns and endured the lightning as his flesh transformed, leaving him to declare his path of suppressing all arts with the body.

• Li Dao entered the divine furnace and absorbed its medicinal energy to cultivate the golden seed within him.
• The seed emerged above Li Dao and drained the furnace and Yin-Yang Pool while its Dao patterns neared completion.
• Purple divine lightning broke through the formation and struck Li Dao and the Yin-Yang Pool, alarming the beasts outside the secret realm.
• Li Dao swallowed the Five-Colored Divine Lotus and drew the seed into his body, allowing its Dao patterns to link together.
• As lightning battered him, Li Dao’s flesh regenerated and blossomed with a five-colored lotus and golden Dao patterns.
• Li Dao declared that his flesh would suppress the myriad Daos and arts, and a six-sided stele appeared in his inner universe bearing the characters “Suppress” and “Arts.”

Li Dao completed his transformation in the Blood Moving Realm, comprehended the Law-Suppressing Stele, and broke through to the Cave Heaven Realm. He reconstructed one Cave Heaven into a far greater form and prepared to use the Yin-Yang Pool to rebuild the other two.

• Li Dao emerged from the Five-Colored Divine Lotus after surviving the lightning tribulation and reached the Blood Moving Realm’s limit of 129,600 jin.
• Li Dao left the Medicine Garden and broke through the membrane separating him from the Cave Heaven Realm above the Yin-Yang Pool.
• Li Dao manifested three Cave Heavens, then repeatedly shattered and reconstructed the one on the right to enlarge and transform it.
• Li Dao harvested the remaining treasure medicines and decided the Yin-Yang Pool could provide enough energy to reconstruct his other two Cave Heavens.

Li Dao completed his breakthrough to three Cave Heavens and explored the Yin-Yang Pool, learning that it had formed from the remains of a Yin-Yang Flood Dragon slain after an encounter with someone from the Upper Realm. He left shaken by the enemy’s phantom, which had appeared alongside an ancient Bronze Immortal Palace.

• Li Dao finished reconstructing his three Cave Heavens after a month of cultivation, consuming the nearby vital essence and the Yin-Yang Pool’s energy.
• Li Dao tested his new strength with a punch that nearly cracked space, then moved the Medicine Field’s soil into his Cave Heaven.
• Li Dao descended into the Yin-Yang Pool and read the wall carvings describing the Yin-Yang Flood Dragon’s creation of the Pocket World and its death while trying to ignite its divine flame.
• Li Dao touched an engraving of the dragon’s enemy and saw a phantom in Golden Battle Armor wielding a Three-Pointed Double-Edged Halberd, with a Bronze Immortal Palace behind him.
• Li Dao returned to the pool and concluded that the figure who killed the Yin-Yang Flood Dragon had belonged to the Immortal Palace.

Li Dao entered the space beneath the lake barrier and found the Yin-Yang Flood Dragon’s corpse and precious bone, but Xuan Sha appeared to guard them. Their battle escalated until Li Dao summoned the Law-Suppressing Stele, leaving Xuan Sha pinned beneath its pressure.

• Li Dao passed through the barrier into an underground cavern and found the Yin-Yang Flood Dragon’s corpse and the precious bone at its chest.
• Xuan Sha appeared before the bone, trapped Li Dao inside the crimson-lit barrier, and challenged him to surrender his head.
• Li Dao manifested three Cave Heavens and clashed with Xuan Sha, whose Evil Dragon Spear could injure primordial spirits.
• Li Dao’s golden-patterned body withstood the spear, and he struck Xuan Sha while the latter was distracted.
• Li Dao summoned the Law-Suppressing Stele, which immobilized the space beneath it and caused Xuan Sha to turn faintly illusory.

Li Dao defeated Xuan Sha, claimed the dragon skeleton’s Evil Dragon Spear and treasure art, and activated a three-tiered altar. The altar transported him to the Void God Realm, where he met Chu Yang and entered the Initial Passage with him.

• Li Dao used the Law-Suppressing Stele’s “All Laws Are Void” ability to destroy Xuan Sha, who had formed from the dragon skeleton’s baleful energy.
• Li Dao took the Yin-Yang Flood Dragon’s treasure bone, and the dragon skeleton transformed into a heavy black spear that he named the Evil Dragon Spear.
• Li Dao stored the spear in his Cave Heaven, examined the treasure bone’s yin-yang dragon art, and climbed onto the altar.
• Li Dao poured divine power into the altar and was transported to the Void God Realm, where he met Chu Yang.
• Li Dao and Chu Yang introduced themselves, passed through the Initial Passage, and entered a crowded world of cultivators from many races.

Li Dao entered the Void God Realm and smashed the formation protecting the precious bones in the Starting Ground passage. Four bones flew out and the cultivators chased them, while Li Dao let them go as part of a plan to draw the factions’ attention.

• Chu Yang asked Li Dao about breaking records, but Li Dao focused on the precious bones embedded in the passage and considered using them to provoke the factions.
• Li Dao ignored Chu Yang’s warning that the bones could not be removed and prepared to break the formation as onlookers gathered.
• Li Dao struck the barrier with enough force to shatter it, stunning Chu Yang and the watching cultivators.
• Four precious bones shot out of the passage, and the cultivators rushed after them.
• Chu Yang urged Li Dao to pursue the bones, but Li Dao said no one could steal what was his and let the crowd take them for now.

Li Dao set a record by shattering the Starting Ground's passage and received a Primordial Bone, then arranged for two elders to find his other scattered bones. He and Chu Yang pursued one of them, where Yu Xiao of the Rain Clan seized it and fled.

• A Record Stele appeared and announced that Li Dao had shattered the Starting Ground's passage, rewarding him with a Primordial Bone.
• Li Dao kept the bone despite cultivators' offers, then inscribed his name as "Screw your Lord Dao!" on the stele.
• Two elders approached Li Dao, and he offered them his other three precious bones in exchange for information about where they were.
• Li Dao set off to find the remaining bones, and Chu Yang followed him.
• Yu Xiao used the Rain Clan's reputation to drive off competitors, grabbed a precious bone, and headed toward the Rain Clan's territory.

Li Dao followed Yu Xiao to the Rain Clan Residence and demanded the return of what belonged to him, then fought his way inside when the guards refused. He suppressed the Rain Clan disciples and defeated Yu Li, but several elders arrived and eyed the Law-Suppressing Stele.

• Chu Yang followed Li Dao to the Rain Clan Residence and warned him not to provoke the clan.
• Li Dao knocked the two gatekeepers through the gates and demanded that Yu Xiao come out.
• Li Dao used the Law-Suppressing Stele to shatter the disciples’ treasure arts and pin them to the ground.
• Yu Li attacked Li Dao with a longsword, but Li Dao caught the blade between two fingers and struck him unconscious.
• Several Rain Clan elders arrived, saw their disciples subdued, and eyed the Law-Suppressing Stele with greed.

Li Dao demanded the return of his treasure bone from the Rain Clan, but Yu Hong rejected his claim and ordered the clan-protecting formation activated. Li Dao crushed Rain Clan disciples with the Law-Suppressing Stele and was trapped in a sword domain, where he prepared to fight the five elders.

• Li Dao confronted the Rain Clan elders and demanded that they return what belonged to him.
• Yu Hong realized Yu Li had taken Li Dao's treasure bone but ordered the clan-protecting formation activated to defend the clan's dignity.
• Li Dao slammed the Law-Suppressing Stele down, turning weaker Rain Clan disciples into bloody mist.
• The five elders formed a sword domain around Li Dao and demanded that he surrender his treasure technique and beg for mercy.
• Li Dao mocked the elders and summoned a divine furnace that enveloped his body.

Li Dao defeated Yu Hong and four Rain Clan elders, then broke into the Rain Clan compound’s treasure vault and took its cultivation resources. He left the compound with the Star Bag after clearing out the vault.

• Li Dao broke the Surging Waves Sword Formation with a punch and killed Yu Hong and the four elders.
• Li Dao collected the five swords as spoils and flew toward the Rain Clan compound’s treasure vault.
• Li Dao brushed aside the Rain Clan disciples and guards and smashed the vault’s protective formation.
• Li Dao found the Star Bag and used it to gather all the treasures from the vault shelves.
• Li Dao fastened the Star Bag to his waist and left the Rain Clan compound.

After robbing the Rain Clan, Li Dao became the target of searches by major factions, while Shi Yi dismissed him as an insignificant brat. Li Dao then arrived at Demon Spirit Lake to pursue another precious bone, determined to take on whoever possessed it.

• Li Dao left the Rain Clan compound after sending Chu Yang a voice transmission, and the gathered cultivators praised him and speculated about his rivalry with Shi Yi.
• Yu Zimo arrived at the Rain Clan compound, discovered Li Dao had escaped, and ordered the clan to search for him.
• The War Goddess ordered Deer-Chasing Academy disciples to find Li Dao, while Xiong Fei asked Xia Youyu to watch for him on behalf of the Heaven-Mending Pavilion.
• Shi Yi heard a report about Li Dao, dismissed him as a foolish child, and returned to contemplating the precious bone in his hand.
• Li Dao reached Demon Spirit Lake with Grandpa Jingbi to retrieve another precious bone and resolved to confront whoever had taken it.

Li Dao raided Demon Spirit Lake and the Wang Family, earning a record for wiping out three clans before retreating to the Second Layer to cultivate. Meanwhile, Yu Zimo and Jin Ming organized a search for him, planning to alert their elders if they found him.

• Li Dao stormed Demon Spirit Lake with the Law-Suppressing Stele suppressing his opponents’ arts, defeated its defenders, and retrieved a white bone for Grandpa Jingbi.
• Li Dao raided the Wang Family and emptied its treasury, prompting the record stele to reward him with a Primordial Bronze Fragment for wiping out three clans.
• Li Dao added the words “Great Evil! Screw you, Master Dao!” to the record stele, drawing attention across the blessed lands and Cave Heavens.
• Li Dao gave spirit jades to Grandpa Jingbi and Lord Bird, asked them to keep his secret, and entered the Second Layer to cultivate with his spoils.
• Yu Zimo and Jin Ming joined forces to search for Li Dao and agreed to alert their clan elders if they found him.

Li Dao cultivated in seclusion at Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain while powerful clans gathered to confront him. When Yu Zimo used her mysterious vision against him, she saw a golden seed before an unseen hand seized it, shattering her vision and leaving her injured.

• Over the month after Li Dao's plundering, his name spread through the Great Wilderness as clans searched for him and others offered him positions and marriage alliances.
• Li Dao opened his fourth cave heaven, mastered the Yin-Yang Flood Dragon's Treasure Art, and strengthened his body while cultivating at Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain.
• Cultivators from several powers arrived at the mountain to keep Li Dao from escaping until their backers arrived.
• Yu Zimo and Jin Ming led the Rain Clan and Demon Spirit Lake contingents toward Li Dao, while other powers and spectators gathered around the mountain.
• Yu Zimo's deep-blue vision pierced Li Dao's defenses and revealed a golden seed, but an unseen hand seized it, shattering her vision and causing her to bleed from the eyes.

Li Dao rejected the War Goddess’s offer of protection and faced the forces of the Rain Clan and Demon Spirit Lake alone. Jin Ming trapped him in a formation and attacked with a Golden Spider, but Li Dao fought back without using any Treasure Arts.

• Yu Zimo suffered a backlash after glimpsing a mysterious hand and seed, leaving her too weak to fight.
• The War Goddess offered Li Dao a place in the Deer-Chasing Academy and protection, but he declined until the battle was over.
• Jin Ming challenged the Deer-Chasing Academy’s right to intervene, and the War Goddess left after Li Dao refused her offer.
• Yu Zimo withdrew to recuperate, while Jin Ming ordered the assembled cultivators to form a golden array around Li Dao.
• Jin Ming summoned six Cave Heavens and a Golden Spider, then sent it to attack Li Dao.
• Li Dao met the spider’s attacks with his fists, dodged its strikes, and drove it back with powerful blows.