Recaps

Li Dao and the Heaven Mending Pavilion disciples approached Fallen Phoenix Valley, where Li Dao sensed an ambush by the Rain Clan and Shadow Guards. Trapped between the two forces, they faced a demand to hand over Li Dao as two Inscription Pattern Realm experts pressured them, while Liu Yun resisted.

• Xia Youyu told Li Dao that Fallen Phoenix Valley lay ahead and recounted the legend of the Heaven Mending Pavilion's First Pavilion Master cleaving a phoenix-blooded beast in two.
• As the group entered the valley, Li Dao sensed killing intent along the cliffs and warned the Heaven Mending Pavilion disciples of an ambush.
• Shadow One and the Shadow Guards descended from the cliffs as Rain Clan cultivators led by Yu Mo blocked the rear exit.
• Yu Mo threatened the disciples and demanded Li Dao's head, while he and Shadow One unleashed their Inscription Pattern Realm auras.
• Liu Yun released her own Inscription Pattern Realm aura to resist them, and the forces' clashing pressure tore into the valley walls as disciples glanced fearfully toward Li Dao.

Li Dao and Xia Youyu fought to protect the Heaven Mending Pavilion disciples from Yu Mo’s depravity magic while Elder Liu Yun battled Shadow One. Li Dao suppressed Yu Mo’s spider web and charged him, leaving the fight poised to escalate.

• Yu Mo spread a dark red mist that drove the Heaven Mending Pavilion disciples toward attacking Li Dao, while Shadow One blocked Liu Yun from reaching him.
• Liu Yun fought Shadow One as Xia Youyu and Li Dao stood back-to-back against the bewitched disciples.
• Li Dao summoned the Law-Suppressing Stele, weakening Yu Mo’s spider web and helping the disciples’ eyes clear.
• Xia Youyu restrained the disciples and called them to unite, while Li Dao secretly scattered six rune-bound swords and charged Yu Mo.

Li Dao fought Yu Mo, using lightning and a divine lotus to destroy the soul-bound monsters Yu Mo had summoned. Liu Yun was wounded by Shadow One but counterattacked with her Other Shore Flowers, while Li Dao’s battle with Yu Mo proved less one-sided than expected.

• Yu Mo summoned the Gloomy Ghost Banner and sent grotesque monsters made from his dead friends and family after Li Dao.
• Li Dao called forth his Thunder Serpent and a divine lotus, whose lightning and holy light burned away the monsters’ black vapor.
• Yu Mo revealed that he blamed the people he had imprisoned for separating him from Wan'er and vowed to make Li Dao join them.
• Shadow One wounded Liu Yun when she looked toward Li Dao’s fight, and Liu Yun drew Shadow One into a sea of Other Shore Flowers.
• Li Dao’s lightning and lotus light destroyed the monsters one by one as his fight with Yu Mo continued.

Li Dao drew Yu Mo into the six-sword formation and trapped him beneath a relentless Sword Dragon assault. As the barrage drained his strength, Li Dao began gathering his vital essence to unleash a single decisive strike, while Xia Youyu and Little Flower were caught in the storm around him.

• Yu Mo struck Li Dao through the Black-and-Yellow Furnace and sent him crashing into a stone wall.
• Xia Youyu fought the Heaven Mending Pavilion disciples, while Little Flower rushed toward the injured Li Dao.
• Li Dao activated the six swords hidden in the ground, enclosing Yu Mo in a formation and sending a Sword Dragon to attack him.
• Yu Mo raised a banner to shield himself as the formation's swords battered his barrier and prevented him from counterattacking.
• Li Dao, exhausted but determined, struck his chest and gathered his vital essence into a glowing Dao Seed as the storm swept through Fallen Phoenix Valley.

Li Dao drew power from his five Cave Heavens through his Dao Seed and unleashed a colossal palm strike against Yu Mo. The strike devastated Fallen Phoenix Valley, while Xia Youyu and Little Flower survived behind a barrier and Shadow One and Liu Yun continued fighting inside the Other Shore Flower World.

• Li Dao’s Dao Seed grew stronger as he sent Dao patterns into it, while Yu Mo struggled against the six longswords and their Sword Dragon.
• Xiong Fei sensed terrifying power gathering in Fallen Phoenix Mountain Range and sped toward the storm on the Treasure Gourd.
• Li Dao’s Dao Seed rooted into his five Cave Heavens, draining their light as his strength rose to the Spirit Transformation Realm and beyond.
• Li Dao summoned a towering divine phantom and struck Yu Mo with Palm over mountains and rivers; Yu Mo burned his blood essence, enlarged the spider phantom, and shattered the Sword Dragon.
• Li Dao’s palm strike obliterated the valley walls and shook the surrounding land, while Xia Youyu protected herself and Little Flower with a barrier.
• Shadow One and Liu Yun felt the tremors inside the Other Shore Flower World and resumed fighting as Li Dao’s figure emerged through the fading light.

Li Dao and the badly wounded Yu Mo fought to the brink beneath the Law-Suppressing Stele, and Li Dao finally overwhelmed him. Li Dao collapsed on the bloodied battlefield as a white speck approached from the distance.

• Li Dao realized the golden Dao Seed had connected with his Cave Heavens, while Yu Mo emerged alive from the enormous palm print despite losing an arm.
• Yu Mo summoned the Black Spider and attacked, but Li Dao called down the Law-Suppressing Stele and charged him.
• Li Dao and Yu Mo traded relentless blows, while Xia Youyu stopped Little Flower from joining the fight.
• Li Dao knocked Yu Mo down and struck his chest until Yu Mo could no longer resist and his gaze grew unfocused.
• Li Dao toppled onto the ground and spotted a white speck hurtling toward them.

Yu Mo died after reliving his memories of Yu Wanwan, while Li Dao survived the battle and began recovering under a treasure medicine. Xiong Fei arrived at the ruined battlefield, then appeared in the Other Shore Flower World to confront Liu Yun and Shadow One.

• Yu Mo used his remaining vitality to embrace the girl from his memories, then died after his hair turned white and his face returned to its youthful appearance.
• Xia Youyu gave Li Dao a treasure medicine, and he sat within a white lotus to heal as Xia Youyu and Little Flower kept watch.
• Xiong Fei arrived at Fallen Phoenix Valley, found Yu Mo dead and Li Dao recovering inside the lotus, then sensed trouble and left on his gourd.
• Liu Yun and Shadow One exchanged attacks in the Other Shore Flower World, but neither gained the upper hand.
• Xiong Fei appeared above Liu Yun and Shadow One and declared that they would not leave after trampling on Heaven Mending Pavilion.

After a near-death battle with Yu Mo, Li Dao recovered through a breakthrough in his Dao Seed’s power and reflected on the dangers and limits of his strength. Xia Youyu identified Yu Mo as an exile from the Rain Clan and began explaining why he had been expelled.

• Xiong Fei arrived to help Liu Yun fight Shadow One, who burned his blood essence and prepared to resist them.
• Li Dao reached out to his Dao Seed in a vision of a starry river, gained new insights into Daoist arts, and connected its roots to five great suns.
• The lotus platform opened and vanished as Li Dao emerged from cultivation with his injuries largely healed.
• Li Dao considered the cost of drawing on the Dao Seed’s power and reflected on how narrowly he had defeated Yu Mo.
• Xia Youyu told Li Dao that Yu Mo had belonged to the Rain Clan before being expelled, then began explaining the reason.

Li Dao and the Heaven Mending Pavilion survivors escaped Fallen Phoenix Valley after the battle, while Liu Yun killed Shadow One in the Other Shore Flower World. A report of the failed mission spread through the Void God Realm, where Lord Bird and Lord Essence Wall began selling information about the Little Devil King’s whereabouts.

• Xia Youyu told Li Dao that Yu Mo had been expelled from the Rain Clan after returning alone from a secret-realm expedition where Yu Xiao and the other Rain Clan members died.
• Little Flower woke up, and Xia Youyu regrouped with the injured Heaven Mending Pavilion disciples, who reported that a Ferocious Beast had attacked and some of their companions had died.
• Liu Yun killed Shadow One after he learned that the attackers had failed to capture their target, and Xiong Fei urged her to leave the Other Shore Flower World.
• Xiong Fei emerged from the void and carried Li Dao, Xia Youyu, Little Flower, and the surviving disciples back toward the Heaven Mending Pavilion on his Treasure Gourd.
• A day later, figures found the ruined Fallen Phoenix Valley and confirmed the mission had failed; news of the battle spread through the Void God Realm.
• Lord Bird and Lord Essence Wall advertised information about where the Little Devil King was staying in exchange for two Essence Walls.

Lord Bird and Lord Essence Wall sold information about Bear Child and the Little Devil King as a powerful purple-robed woman arrived seeking news. Rumors about the children and the Little Devil King's older brother sparked a search across the Great Wilderness, especially in the Stone Kingdom, where factions began mobilizing to recruit or destroy them.

• Lord Bird and Lord Essence Wall drew a crowd by selling information about Bear Child and the Little Devil King, while Liu Qing spread rumors that the Little Devil King's older brother had joined Heaven Mending Pavilion and fought Shi Yi to a standstill.
• A purple-robed woman arrived on a fierce bird with a powerful entourage and paid Lord Essence Wall and Lord Bird for information about the children.
• Lord Essence Wall told the woman that the little milk-drinker might join Heaven Mending Pavilion or Deer-Chasing Academy, and that his connection to the Little Devil King might draw him to Heaven Mending Pavilion.
• Cultivators learned that Bear Child and the Little Devil King might soon appear in the real world, and rumors also linked Bear Child to the burning of the Second Ancestral Land.
• Factions across the Great Wilderness and Stone Kingdom focused their searches on the children, as War King, Wood King, and the Human Emperor's youngest daughter acted, while the Rain Clan sought to destroy them.

The Rain Clan and Martial King Manor decided to target Li Dao and Bear Child, while Shi Hao and Shi Qingfeng continued their journey to the Heaven Mending Pavilion. After recovering there, Li Dao opened a sixth Cave Heaven and was summoned to the Offering Hall, with Li Jiaojiao wondering whether they were related by clan.

• The Rain Clan elders ordered their juniors to watch Li Dao and kill him if an opportunity arose, while considering whether to recruit or eliminate Bear Child.
• The Martial King Manor decided Bear Child had to be removed for disgracing the manor.
• Shi Hao led Shi Qingfeng onward through the Great Wilderness toward the Heaven Mending Pavilion, unaware of the outside events.
• Li Dao recovered in the Heaven Mending Pavilion, opened a sixth Cave Heaven, and strengthened the mysterious markings around his Cave Heavens.
• Li Jiaojiao told Li Dao that Elder Xiong Fei had summoned him to the Offering Hall, then wondered whether they might be related by clan.

Li Dao met Wu Yuan, the Master of Heaven Mending Pavilion, who gave him compensation for the ambush and warned him to hide behind another identity. The chapter ended with Wu Yuan inviting Li Dao to study the pavilion’s Treasure Arts.

• Li Dao left Li Jiaojiao and headed to the Offering Hall, telling her to eat more Golden Silk Melons.
• Li Dao entered the Offering Hall and met Wu Yuan, who welcomed him as a disciple of Heaven Mending Pavilion.
• Wu Yuan explained that the pavilion had investigated the attempt on Li Dao’s life but could not punish those responsible, and gave Li Dao a ring of compensation.
• Wu Yuan warned Li Dao that his enemies might target him and advised him to use another identity, presenting Li Dao as gravely injured or dead.
• Wu Yuan told Li Dao that he could visit the Scripture Repository to study the pavilion’s Treasure Arts.

Li Dao gained permission to enter the Heaven Mending Pavilion’s Scripture Repository, while a chicken’s raid on the Medicine Gardens drew Elder Xiong Fei’s investigation. Patriarch Mu Yan noticed traces of Li Dao’s pure thunder power, and Li Dao returned to find a trail of stolen Treasure Medicines leading into his room.

• Li Jiaojiao found a ravaged Medicine Garden, where Elder Xiong Fei told her about the pavilion’s Medicine Thief and gave her a wanted notice.
• Li Jiaojiao suspected the chicken was responsible and hurried to warn Li Dao so they could avoid being implicated.
• Li Dao left the Offering Hall with cultivation resources and permission to enter the Scripture Repository, then used lightning to travel back to his courtyard.
• Patriarch Mu Yan sensed the pure thunder Li Dao had left behind and asked Wu Yuan about the more than ten thousand visitors gathered for the Trial.
• Li Dao found bitten medicinal plants and Treasure Medicines arranged in a trail into a room, where he saw a familiar figure.

Li Dao confronted Little Flower over the treasure medicine it had secretly gathered, then stopped the chicken and Li Jiaojiao from fighting. He gave them the medicine to cultivate for the Heaven Mending Pavilion’s new disciple test in a month, then prepared to improve his own cultivation.

• Li Dao cleaned Little Flower’s muddy disguise and forced it to confess that it had feasted on the Heaven Mending Pavilion’s aged medicinal herbs and collected treasure medicine.
• Little Flower handed over its gathered treasure medicine to avoid being stewed, and Li Jiaojiao rushed in and recognized the stolen goods.
• Little Flower and Li Jiaojiao fought until Li Dao summoned six cave heavens and pressed them to the floor.
• Li Dao told Little Flower and Li Jiaojiao to use the treasure medicine to improve their cultivation before the new disciple test in a month.
• Li Jiaojiao took half the medicine to cultivate, while Little Flower gathered the rest and did the same.
• Li Dao entered his cultivation chamber, summoned six star cave heavens, and began cultivating with his resources.

Li Dao used his six Star Cave Heavens to enter a starry state of Dao comprehension, transforming his physique and developing a Supreme Divine Ability. He emerged from cultivation with golden Dao patterns embedded in his bones and flesh, realizing his Cave Heavens could help him comprehend and create techniques.

• Li Dao drew vital essence and treasure medicines into his body as he cultivated within the starry universe of his six Cave Heavens.
• After swallowing an enchanted Dao flower, Li Dao understood that the golden Dao patterns were sinking into his bones and transforming his physique into a flawless Dao body.
• Li Dao formed a starry figure linked by golden patterns and developed a Supreme Divine Ability that combined suppression and All Laws Are Void.
• A stabbing pain ended Li Dao's vision, and he awoke in the cultivation chamber with more than half his treasure medicines consumed.
• Li Dao confirmed that the golden Dao patterns remained inside his body and realized his Star Cave Heavens could aid Dao comprehension and technique development.

Li Dao formed his seventh Cave Heaven and, newly strengthened, went to the Heaven Mending Pavilion’s Scripture Repository to find Treasure Arts. After the guards admitted him, an elder gave him unrestricted access and told him to search for abilities suited to him.

• Li Dao consumed his remaining resources and formed a seventh star Cave Heaven, linking it to the other six with Dao patterns.
• Li Dao tested his increased strength, then left Little Flower and Li Jiaojiao cultivating and flew to the Scripture Repository.
• Li Dao arrived at the Repository and passed the elders guarding its entrance, who opened the doors for him.
• An old man inside recognized Li Dao as the Little Devil King and, following the pavilion master’s order, granted him access to every area.
• The old man advised Li Dao to search the Repository’s vast collection for abilities that suited him and let his fortune decide what he could obtain.

Li Dao searched the Heaven Mending Pavilion's Scripture Repository for a divine ability and found a bloodstained Bone Scripture that revealed a white-haired man's spear techniques. The vision began demonstrating the first two moves, leaving Li Dao to witness the Scripture's power.

• Li Dao entered the Scripture Repository and discovered that its runic restrictions prevented him from searching the Bone Scriptures with divine sense.
• Li Dao examined more than a hundred Bone Scriptures over two days but found none of the divine abilities suited to him.
• Li Dao heard a faint dragon's cry from a dusty Bone Scripture on a shelf's lowest level and picked up the bloodstained bone.
• Li Dao's divine power activated the Bone Scripture, transporting him into a vision of a white-haired man demonstrating spear techniques.
• The white-haired man performed the first two spear moves, summoning a golden divine dragon that split the firmament and shattered the earth.

Li Dao inherited a powerful Divine Ability from an ancient Bone Scripture in the Scripture Repository and returned to cultivate it. After agreeing to attend the Heaven Mending Pavilion's opening, he began comprehending the runes, while Little Flower sensed a sudden, inexplicable terror.

• Li Dao received the ancient senior's three-move Divine Ability, and the Bone Scripture crumbled to dust after returning him to the Scripture Repository.
• The old man reappeared, recognized that Li Dao had inherited the long-forgotten Divine Ability, and hoped he would cultivate it well.
• Li Dao met Xia Youyu on his way back, reassured her that his injuries had healed, and agreed to attend the pavilion's opening.
• Li Dao checked on Little Flower and Li Jiaojiao, then entered his cultivation chamber and began comprehending the Divine Ability's runes.
• Little Flower felt sudden terror as lightning crackled around Li Dao and summoned all of Little Flower's cave heavens to suppress the unease.

Li Dao completed his cultivation of the Divine Ability Divine Spirit Weeps Blood, then learned that the disciple recruitment ceremony would begin the next day. The chapter ended with visitors gathering outside the Heaven Mending Pavilion for the occasion.

• Li Jiaojiao waited outside Li Dao's cultivation chamber while Little Flower teased her and then left.
• Over several days, Li Dao's lightning serpent transformed into a Thunder Dragon as he deepened his understanding of the Divine Ability.
• Li Dao wielded the Evil Dragon Spear and shouted, "Divine Spirit Weeps Blood!", sending the Thunder Dragon through the Star River Space before returning to his chamber.
• Li Jiaojiao hurried to Li Dao's room and told him the disciple recruitment ceremony began tomorrow, and he agreed to go early.
• Li Dao returned to consolidate his Dao Attainment while groups gathered outside the Heaven Mending Pavilion.

Shi Hao and Shi Qingfeng arrived at the Heaven Mending Pavilion’s crowded entrance while powerful factions searched for Shi Hao and the Little Devil King. Meanwhile, Li Dao awakened from cultivation, revealed his restored strength, and set out with Li Jiaojiao to meet the Great Wilderness’s prodigies.

• Shi Hao and Shi Qingfeng reached the Heaven Mending Pavilion, where tens of thousands of candidates had gathered for the trial.
• Shi Hao reassured Shi Qingfeng that he had a special admission slot and continued forward in disguise as factions searched for him.
• Shi Hao learned that the Rain Clan and Demon Spirit Lake believed Li Dao had been crippled and wanted to seize the secrets he carried.
• Li Dao awakened from cultivation with a powerful aura and stepped outside on a Thunder Lotus.
• Li Jiaojiao met Li Dao, and he set out with her to meet the Great Wilderness’s prodigies.

At the Heaven Mending Pavilion entrance, Shi Hao learned that Li Dao had fought an Inscription Pattern cultivator and worried about his condition. Shi Yi arrived in a dramatic display, while Li Dao watched from an Azure Sparrow with Xia Youyu and searched the crowd for Shi Hao.

• Shi Hao heard that children with tokens and distinguished guests could enter the Pure Land, and he let Shi Qingfeng keep his token.
• A cultivator told Shi Hao that Li Dao had killed an Inscription Pattern cultivator at Falling Phoenix Slope, leaving Shi Hao concerned about Li Dao's condition.
• Shi Qingfeng entered the Heaven Mending Pavilion with his token as onlookers remarked on the prodigies gathering there.
• Shi Yi arrived on the War King's enormous primordial remnant, and Shi Hao watched him with clenched fists.
• Li Dao watched Shi Yi arrive from an Azure Sparrow beside Xia Youyu, then used his divine sense to search the crowd for Shi Hao.

Li Zizai watched as the Heaven Mending Pavilion began its recruitment trial, while powerful visitors searched for the missing Shi Hao and the Little Devil King. The candidates entered an ancient battlefield, and Li Zizai waited for Shi Hao to make his move.

• Li Dao found no trace of Shi Hao, while Xia Youyu and Li Dao attracted attention at the Heaven Mending Pavilion’s gathering.
• The War Goddess arrived on behalf of the Deer-Chasing Academy and searched for the Little Devil King and Bear Child without finding them.
• Several powerful visitors appeared, and elders from Demon Spirit Lake and the Rain Clan were stopped after openly scanning the crowd.
• The Heaven Mending Pavilion divided the eighty or ninety thousand candidates into eight groups and sent them into an ancient battlefield to face a runic formation.
• Li Zizai introduced himself to the War Goddess and watched from Azure Sparrow as the candidates entered the trial, waiting for Shi Hao to stir up trouble.

Li Dao entered the Heaven Mending Pavilion trial grounds to investigate why so many disciples had escaped the trials. He flew through the formation field with his Golden Wings and headed toward the second area, impressing the elders and the disciples below.

• Hundreds of disciples emerged from the trial areas, prompting the Heaven Mending Pavilion elders to suspect that Bear Child and the Little Devil King had disrupted the trials.
• Li Dao offered to investigate, and the elders let him enter with Elder Zhuo Yun and the others.
• Elder Zhuo Yun shielded the group from the formation field, but Li Dao chose to investigate alone.
• Li Dao unfurled his purple-gold Golden Wings and flew through the formation field, astonishing Zhuo Yun and the other elders.
• Disciples fighting over treasure medicines and spirit plants watched Li Dao fly as he made for the second area.

Li Dao entered the Second Region and crushed an Ancient Crocodile with the power of his golden “Suppress” character. He reached the Black Fiend Lotus’s baleful-energy domain, where a Black Tiger stood guard, and recognized that the medicine was nearing Half-Saint rank.

• Li Dao entered the Second Region and learned that collecting two Heaven Mending Stones was required to pass, while ten or more would earn special training.
• An Ancient Crocodile pursued Li Dao, but he froze it in midair and shattered it with his bare hand, frightening the other Ferocious Beasts into fleeing.
• Li Dao spotted a Treasure Medicine surrounded by black mist and saw a Black Tiger standing rigid with fear beside it.
• Li Dao drove aside the baleful energy and found the bones of many Ferocious Beasts, concluding that the Black Fiend Lotus was close to becoming a Half-Saint Medicine and that its guardian had deliberately bred the energy.

Li Dao found a Black Fiend Lotus in a cavern guarded by Black Tiger and forced it to ripen with a formation. The lotus bloomed into a ninth-grade treasure, but began to wither, so Li Dao prepared to refine it immediately.

• Li Dao entered the cavern, found the Black Fiend Lotus, and confronted Black Tiger.
• Li Dao claimed the lotus and offered Black Tiger a chance to follow him, then sent the tiger out of the cavern.
• Li Dao used a six-rune formation to draw baleful energy into the Black Fiend Lotus.
• The Black Fiend Lotus rapidly bloomed into a ninth-grade lotus, but the forced ripening damaged its essence and made it wither.
• Li Dao decided to refine the lotus at once.