Recaps

Li Dao escaped the Hundred Broken Mountains and returned to the Heaven Mending Pavilion, where he delivered Immortal Spring water to the Sacrificial Spirit. After receiving healing from the Sacrificial Spirit, he returned to his courtyard and found Li Jiaojiao and Little Flower arguing over who was in charge.

• Li Dao evaded the Divine Monkey King and escaped through the passage while the enraged king attacked nearby cultivators.
• Xiong Fei escorted Li Dao to the Heaven Mending Pavilion's array, and the elders sent him back to the pavilion.
• After hearing Xiong Fei's account, the Fire Emperor's spirit manifestation took action.
• Li Dao gave Wu Yuan the Immortal Spring water, and the Sacrificial Spirit healed his injuries with a drop of its essence.
• Li Dao returned to his courtyard and found Li Jiaojiao and Little Flower preparing to fight, but they stopped when they saw him.

After returning from the Hundred Broken Mountains, Li Dao rewarded Li Jiaojiao and prepared to break through to the Spirit Transformation Realm. In Broken Void City, Xiling Beast Mountain accused the Heaven Mending Pavilion of killing Little White Tiger, but Xiong Fei rejected their demand and led the disciples away.

• Li Dao returned to his courtyard, scolded Little Flower for sneaking into the Medicine Garden, and gave Li Jiaojiao a golden whip and other resources.
• Black Fiend fixated on Little Flower, who feared the tiger would become even more dangerous after breaking through.
• In Broken Void City, the passage closed and Little White Tiger's guardian accused the Heaven Mending Pavilion of killing the clan's prodigy.
• Xiong Fei said everyone entering the Hundred Broken Mountains accepted the risk of death, then led the Heaven Mending Pavilion disciples away to leave quickly.
• Li Dao replanted the Silver Peach Tree in medicinal soil, picked its two ripe fruits, and began preparing to break through to the Spirit Transformation Realm.

Li Dao broke through into the Spirit Transformation Realm and reached Fleshly Sainthood, astonishing Wu Yuan with his extraordinary physique and ten Cave Heavens surrounding his Flesh Cave Heaven. He emerged from his cultivation with a body powerful enough to withstand Treasure Artifact attacks.

• Li Dao used a Silver Peach and abundant cultivation resources to assault the barrier to the Spirit Transformation Realm, unearthing more of his body's potential as he fought through it.
• Li Jiaojiao worried that Li Dao remained in seclusion, while Shi Hao visited and briefly argued with Little Flower before returning to water medicinal herbs for Patriarch Mu Yan.
• Li Dao's breakthrough caused treasure medicine roots to sprout and golden sacred radiance to fill the courtyard, nearly forcing Li Jiaojiao and Little Flower to the ground.
• Wu Yuan protected Li Jiaojiao and Little Flower, recognized the manifestation of Fleshly Sainthood, and was stunned by Li Dao's ten Cave Heavens surrounding his Flesh Cave Heaven.
• Li Dao completed his breakthrough, strengthened his Heavenly Venerable Dharma Form, and opened his eyes with a physique capable of enduring Treasure Artifact attacks.

Li Dao emerged from seclusion after reaching the Spirit Transformation Realm and learned that the Deer-Chasing Academy had brought its prodigies to the Heaven Mending Pavilion for an exchange. As the disciples began their contests, the War Goddess and her elder discussed rumors about the Pavilion’s Sacrificial Spirit and the danger facing Li Zizai and Shi Hao.

• Li Dao realized the Sacred Medicine Fruit had helped him enter the Spirit Transformation Realm and considered tempering his greatly increased mental power.
• Li Dao left seclusion, thanked Wu Yuan for guarding his cultivation, and heard that the Deer-Chasing Academy had come for an exchange.
• Wu Yuan praised Li Dao’s progress and invited him to watch the exchange, while Li Dao suspected the visitors had come to investigate the Sacrificial Spirit.
• The War Goddess and an elder discussed the Sacrificial Spirit’s rumored decline and the threats facing Li Zizai and Shi Hao.
• The War Goddess reunited with Xia Youyu at the Dao Demonstration Platform as the disciples began their contests.

Tuoba Chuan humiliated Heaven Mending Pavilion disciples during a sparring match until Li Dao intervened and destroyed his spear. Li Dao intimidated Tuoba Chuan, then invited someone else to take his place, leaving the challenge unresolved.

• Tuoba Chuan defeated several Heaven Mending Pavilion disciples and tried to tear a female disciple's sash with his spear.
• Li Dao appeared, stopped Tuoba Chuan's spear with two fingers, and shattered it.
• Li Dao identified himself as Li Zizai, the Black Tiger Daoist, and Tuoba Chuan recalled his family's order to cripple him.
• Xia Youyu, the War Goddess, and a Deer-Chasing Academy elder recognized Li Dao's formidable strength.
• Li Dao teased Tuoba Chuan, then beckoned someone over to spar in his stead.

Li Dao reunited with Shi Hao and their friends, then learned that the Heaven Mending Pavilion faced danger because its Divine Vine was in trouble. The War Goddess offered to help them seek refuge at Deer-Chasing Academy, but Li Dao and Shi Hao chose to stand by the pavilion, ending the gathering with a toast to tomorrow and freedom.

• Li Dao arrived and urged Shi Hao to spar with Tuoba Chuan, whom Shi Hao defeated with the Golden Spiral Pattern Art.
• Li Dao, Shi Hao, Xia Youyu, the War Goddess, and their companions gathered in Li Dao's courtyard to eat, drink Monkey Wine, and discuss the Dao.
• The War Goddess told the group that rival powers were eyeing the Heaven Mending Pavilion after something happened to its Divine Vine, and Huo Ling'er said her father had noticed the danger.
• The War Goddess offered to bring Li Dao and Shi Hao to Deer-Chasing Academy for protection if the pavilion fell.
• Li Dao refused to abandon the Heaven Mending Pavilion, and Shi Hao agreed that he had nothing to fear; everyone raised their cups to tomorrow, freedom, and fearlessness.

Li Dao tempered his primordial spirit by cultivating the Heart Sword and emerged with stronger insight and combat power as hostile forces gathered against the Heaven Mending Pavilion. He and Shi Hao witnessed black fissures tear through the pavilion and threaten the Sacrificial Spirit’s forbidden grounds.

• Li Dao began forging his primordial spirit with the Heart Sword while Shi Hao hurried to visit Patriarch Mu Yan.
• The Heaven Mending Pavilion sent young prodigies home, while the Rain King Mansion, Xiling Beast Mountain, and Tuoba Family prepared to move against it.
• After more than half a month of cultivation, Li Dao emerged with a purer primordial spirit and improved comprehension and strength.
• Shi Hao told Li Dao that several forces were approaching and that a great battle was coming.
• Black fissures opened beneath the Heaven Mending Pavilion, collapsing spirit mountains and spreading toward the Sacrificial Spirit’s forbidden grounds.

Li Dao and Shi Hao rushed to the Sacrificial Spirit’s forbidden grounds as an unseen attack devastated much of the Heaven Mending Pavilion. They watched the Sacrificial Spirit kill and refine a powerful humanoid Ferocious Beast, then learned that the ancient guardian would soon die despite his victory.

• Li Dao sensed that the destruction had begun near the Sacrificial Spirit’s abode and flew there with Shi Hao while Black Fiend carried Li Jiaojiao toward the pavilion’s center.
• Li Dao and Shi Hao found the Sacrificial Spirit restored to his immense true form, with a humanoid Ferocious Beast impaled on one of his vines.
• The Sacrificial Spirit used the Green-Skinned Gourd and his vine to defeat the Ferocious Beast, then refined its body and essence.
• The Sacrificial Spirit’s power restored the cracked earth, fallen spiritual mountains, and ruined palaces before he shrank back into an old vine.
• The Sacrificial Spirit told Shi Hao, Li Dao, and the Heaven Mending Pavilion’s ancestors that he would soon die because his inner self had already rotted.
• The Sacrificial Spirit asked how the plan was progressing.

The Heaven Mending Pavilion prepared for the Sacrificial Spirit’s impending death as Li Dao warned that spies might expose the departing disciples to danger. Li Dao then began tempering his body with solar essence and his soul with moonlight while hostile forces gathered around the increasingly deserted pavilion.

• Wu Yuan reported that the visiting disciples had been sent home and that the pavilion’s prodigies were being prepared for secret evacuation, but Li Dao warned that spies might turn their escape into a trap.
• An elder asked the Sacrificial Spirit to leave behind a Divine Seed, and the old vine agreed despite knowing the future vine would not be itself.
• A huge Ferocious Bird flew toward the Heaven Mending Pavilion seeking the Divine Seed, while other mysterious figures departed or headed toward the pavilion.
• Li Dao and Shi Hao left the forbidden grounds, and Li Dao returned to his courtyard with cultivation resources for Li Jiaojiao, Black Fiend, and Little Flower.
• Li Dao secluded himself and began using solar essence to temper his body, while the others cultivated amid the intense changes his practice caused.
• Hostile forces gathered around the increasingly deserted Heaven Mending Pavilion, whose disciples stayed united under the elders’ leadership.

As the Four Great Clans attacked the weakened Heaven Mending Pavilion, Shi Hao and the disciples countered, and Li Dao emerged from seclusion to kill the clans’ remaining forces. After the battle, Li Dao returned to his courtyard and examined the Heart Sword and the strength he had gained over three months.

• The Four Great Clans entered the Heaven Mending Pavilion’s Medicine Garden, intending to kill Shi Hao and seize the pavilion’s treasures.
• Shi Hao ordered the disciples to kill the intruders, and the pavilion’s disciples, Senior Brother Lin, and several elders attacked the clans’ forces.
• Shi Hao killed more than a dozen cultivators, while the pavilion’s fighters killed dozens more and drove the survivors into flight.
• Li Dao blocked the clans’ strongest cultivators and used Heart Sword, cleave to shatter their primordial spirits, killing dozens at once.
• The battle ended with hundreds of Four Great Clans cultivators dead, and Li Dao’s appearance strengthened the Heaven Mending Pavilion’s disciples’ confidence.
• Li Dao returned to his courtyard, surveyed the area with his divine sense, and examined his Heart Sword after his strength had grown during three months of seclusion.

Li Dao and the Heaven Mending Pavilion faced mounting losses as enemies massacred their outposts and allied tribes. When the Pavilion’s Sacrificial Spirit declared the battle had begun, Li Dao prepared to fight alongside Black Fiend, Little Flower, and Li Jiaojiao.

• Li Jiaojiao refused the Pavilion Master’s order to evacuate, and Li Dao promised to protect her.
• Shi Yi entered the Sacred Academy, while Li Dao told Patriarch Mu Yan that Shi Yi’s path was not his own.
• Wu Yuan learned that three Heaven Mending Pavilion outposts had been destroyed, and the Pavilion’s leaders feared for Old Vine’s failing condition.
• Li Dao and Shi Hao received news that dozens of large tribes and hundreds of small tribes connected to the Pavilion had been exterminated.
• Old Vine awakened, promised to leave a Divine Seed, and urged the Pavilion’s survivors to fight their way out and preserve its name.
• As enemy forces surrounded the Heaven Mending Pavilion, Li Dao planted his Thunder Spear and ordered Black Fiend, Little Flower, and Li Jiaojiao to kill.

As the Heaven Mending Pavilion fought to break through the surrounding forces, Li Dao used his Heart Sword and Time Divine Ring to devastate the Tuoba Family and hold open an escape route. Xiong Fei and the disciples escaped, while Li Dao remained behind and Wu Yuan's group struggled to create a passage.

• Wu Yuan ordered the elders and patriarchs to lead groups of disciples in a breakout, and Li Dao and Xiong Fei prepared to fight together.
• The Tuoba Family joined the siege, and Thunder Ancestor engaged its elder while Li Dao led his group toward the enemy position.
• Li Dao unleashed the Ink-Wash World and Heart Sword, killing Tuoba Muhai and many Tuoba Family disciples as Xiong Fei led the others out.
• Li Dao crushed Tuoba Muhai's head, drawing the Tuoba elder's fury while Thunder Ancestor continued fighting him.
• Wu Yuan and the old men found that supreme experts had destroyed every passage created by the Sacrificial Spirit, leaving them unable to open a new escape route.

Li Dao fought three Inscription Pattern cultivators while Heaven Mending Pavilion disciples battled to escape the besieging forces. After killing all three with his Heavenly Venerable Dharma Form, Li Dao was nearly cut in half by a surprise saber strike.

• The Divine Vine confronted the supreme experts as Li Dao saw disciples escaping and was surrounded by treasure hunters, Tuoba Muchuan, and two other Inscription Pattern cultivators.
• Li Dao fought the three cultivators with the Divine Refining Furnace and Thunder Spear, drawing them into his Thunder Sea technique while a black-robed man crept closer with a saber.
• Elder Liu detonated himself to clear a path for Heaven Mending Pavilion disciples, and other disciples followed with further sacrificial explosions.
• The old man struck Li Dao from behind with his cauldron, but Li Dao recovered and summoned his Heavenly Venerable Dharma Form to kill all three opponents.
• A hidden attacker slashed Li Dao from his right shoulder blade to his waist and abdomen, nearly cleaving him in two.

Li Dao was ambushed by Tiger Guard, whose attack exposed Li Dao’s identity as the Little Devil King. Li Dao killed Tiger Guard despite his grave wounds, then jade-green rain began falling as news spread that Lord Sacrificial Spirit had perished.

• Tiger Guard emerged from hiding and wounded Li Dao, revealing himself as Little White Tiger’s guardian from Xiling Beast Mountain.
• Li Dao’s Black-and-Yellow Furnace exposed his identity, and he declared himself Damn You, Daoist as rival factions converged on him.
• Li Dao fought Tiger Guard with his physical strength and Evil Dragon Spear, eventually piercing and killing him.
• As Li Dao weakened and other cultivators moved in, Heaven’s Cry sounded and jade-green rain began healing his wounds and restoring his divine power.
• Li Dao wept as the cultivators announced that Lord Sacrificial Spirit had died.

After the Heaven Mending Pavilion fell, Li Dao led a group of surviving disciples out of the battlefield and reunited with Elder Xiong Fei and the others. The survivors split up to seek refuge or return home, leaving Li Dao alone as he set out for Golden Feather Village.

• Cultivators fought over the Sacrificial Spirit’s final gift as the Heaven Mending Pavilion descended into chaos, and Li Dao fought his way out with disciples gathered behind him.
• Li Dao sensed the Fire Emperor’s reinforcements, escaped to a mountain range, and called out to Elder Xiong Fei.
• Li Dao reunited with Xiong Fei, Little Flower, Black Fiend, and other survivors, then told them the Sacrificial Spirit had fallen and the Pure Land had been destroyed.
• Xiong Fei urged the survivors to move on to the Heaven Mending Pavilion’s remaining strongholds, while Li Dao decided to return to Golden Feather Village.
• Li Jiaojiao said goodbye to Li Dao, and the disciples divided into groups and departed, leaving Li Dao alone.

After the Heaven Mending Pavilion fell, the Great Wilderness feared a wider calamity while hostile powers hunted its survivors, including Li Dao. As Li Dao neared Golden Feather Village, its people faced a bandit siege and debated whether to fight despite their wounded Sacrificial Spirit.

• Li Dao left with Black Fiend and Little Flower, and Little Flower hurried after them as they headed toward Golden Feather Village.
• The ruins of the Heaven Mending Pavilion confirmed its destruction, spreading fear and rumors of a coming calamity across the Great Wilderness.
• Surviving Heaven Mending Pavilion disciples faced pursuit, while the Rain Clan and other enemies ordered searches for Li Dao and Shi Hao.
• Li Dao traveled through the Great Wilderness toward Golden Feather Village, where beasts fled from his aura and he told Little Flower they were nearly there.
• Li Kai's villagers gathered beneath the locust tree as Li Kaixin urged them to fight the bandits and Li Erniu warned that their injured Sacrificial Spirit was not ready.
• Li Kai recalled that the bandits had surrounded the village after their Bandit Beast fought the Sacrificial Spirit, and wondered whether Golden Feather Village would perish.

Li Dao returned to Golden Feather Village as Chen Xiong and his bandits attacked, overwhelming the Golden Feather Eagle and threatening the villagers. He killed Chen Xiong and the bandits with his Order Divine Chains, then descended to meet Li Kai.

• Chen Xiong led his bandits toward Golden Feather Village, where Li Kai and the villagers prepared to fight alongside the wounded Golden Feather Eagle.
• Li Dao sensed the battle and hurried toward the village with Black Fiend.
• Chen Xiong wounded the Golden Feather Eagle and raised his saber to kill it, but Li Dao arrived and blocked the strike with his spear.
• Li Dao killed a bandit who insulted him, then pierced Chen Xiong with his Order Divine Chains.
• Li Dao's chains formed a Heavenly Net and killed the fleeing bandits, leaving the ground soaked with blood.
• Li Kai approached Li Dao after he descended and asked whether he was all right.

Li Dao returned to Golden Feather Village, reunited with its people, and helped them celebrate their survival. He began transforming the village into a cultivation treasure land with a spiritual array, leaving its environment newly enriched with spiritual energy.

• Li Dao reunited with Li Kai and the villagers, who told him that his timely arrival had saved Golden Feather Village from the bandits.
• Li Dao calmed Little Flower's panic after Third Aunt tried to cook it, then produced three Ferocious Beast carcasses for a village feast.
• Li Dao shared Monkey Wine and meat with the villagers, then told Li Kai he planned to enrich the village before settling scores with certain people.
• At dawn, Li Dao explained that he would build a spiritual array around the Sacrificial Spirit's dwelling, and Li Kai gathered the villagers to help.
• Li Dao formed an array beneath the spirit tree and infused it with medicinal soil, drawing spiritual energy into the village and revitalizing its treasure medicines.

Li Dao strengthened Golden Feather Village with formations that enriched its spiritual energy and protected it, then returned to the Void God Realm. There, he heard Bear Child had challenged the Rain Clan and Xiling Beast Mountain and spotted Lord Bird and Grandpa Jingbi selling news of him before slipping away.

• Li Dao advised the Village Chief to plant treasure medicine in the medicinal soil and established four linked medicine gardens, whose spiritual energy helped the villagers advance their cultivation.
• Li Dao used his new insights to bury four treasure artifact swords and complete a formation capable of withstanding a late-stage Inscription Pattern cultivator.
• After seeing the villagers cultivate beneath the ancient tree, Li Dao went to the mountain behind the village and used the Sacrificial Altar to enter the Void God Realm.
• In the Starting Ground, Li Dao heard cultivators say Bear Child had demanded ten jars of precious blood each from the Rain Clan and Xiling Beast Mountain.
• Li Dao found Lord Bird and Grandpa Jingbi selling information about him, sent them a voice transmission, and left; they packed up and followed him.

Li Dao entered the Spirit Transformation-level cave heavens and attacked the Tuoba Family’s stronghold in Spirit Transformation City, seeking revenge for the Heaven Mending Pavilion. He shattered the family’s formation and began fighting its members as reinforcements rushed to the scene.

• Li Dao asked Lord Bird and Grandpa Jingbi about the Spirit Transformation-level cave heavens and learned that Spirit Transformation City hosted many powerful factions.
• Li Dao arrived at Spirit Transformation City, located the Tuoba Family’s base, and smashed its protective formation with a stomp.
• Tuoba Liu and other Tuoba Family members confronted Li Dao, who revealed that he was Li Zizai of the Heaven Mending Pavilion and attacked them with the Evil Dragon Spear.
• Tuoba Liu activated a jade pendant to summon Tuoba reinforcements from across the surrounding hundred miles.
• Li Dao held the Tuoba Family members in place with his pressure and vowed to kill every member who came and drive the family from the Spirit Transformation-level cave heavens.

Li Dao destroyed the Tuoba Family’s training grounds, killing Tuoba Liu and thousands of cultivators before plundering its Treasure Pavilion. As he gathered the clan’s treasures, returning disciples surrounded the pavilion under Tuoba Yunhai’s leadership, setting the stage for a new confrontation.

• Li Dao unleashed Divine Spirit Weeps Blood, annihilating the Tuoba Family formation and killing most of the cultivators in its grounds.
• Li Dao shattered the elders’ formation with his Heart Sword, killed Tuoba Liu, and cut down the remaining kneeling Tuoba Family elders.
• Li Dao broke into the Treasure Pavilion, collected jars of precious beast blood, fed treasure medicines to the Divine Refining Furnace, and took bone texts for Golden Feather Village.
• Returning Tuoba Family disciples learned of the destruction and surrounded the Treasure Pavilion, with Tuoba Yunhai leading them and demanding Li Zizai’s death.

Li Dao defeated Tuoba Yunhai and slaughtered the Tuoba Family disciples after breaking their Myriad Spirits Formation. As the Heart Sword returned to his hand, a terrifying might began gathering in the void.

• Tuoba Yunhai summoned the Tuoba Family disciples to form the Myriad Spirits Formation and attacked the Treasure Pavilion with its star-powered Dharma Form.
• Li Dao emerged unharmed and countered Tuoba Yunhai with yin and yang flood dragons and the Divine Refining Furnace.
• The Divine Refining Furnace shattered the Dharma Form, killing many of the cultivators linked to it and leaving Tuoba Yunhai gravely wounded.
• Li Dao killed Tuoba Yunhai with the Heart Sword and declared that he would visit the Tuoba Family.
• The Heart Sword cut down the remaining Tuoba Family disciples before Li Dao sensed a terrifying might gathering in the void.

Li Dao destroyed the Tuoba Family’s Cave Heaven stronghold in the Void God Realm, but a Domain Envoy expelled him rather than severely punishing him. News of the attack spread through the Great Wilderness, prompting Shi Hao to act against the Rain Clan and drawing the Demoness’s interest in Li Dao.

• A Domain Envoy confronted Li Dao, sensed two familiar auras around him, and expelled him from the Void God Realm.
• Tuoba Sangyan found the Tuoba Family’s ancestral grounds devastated and ordered his disciples to search for Li Dao in the Great Wilderness.
• Shi Hao heard that Li Dao had destroyed the Tuoba stronghold and headed for the Rain Clan’s base.
• News of Li Dao’s attack spread through the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital, where the Demoness approached a cultivator selling an account of the events.

After returning from the Void God Realm, Li Dao helped Little Flower break through and gave Golden Feather Village cultivation manuals taken from the Tuoba clan. He then began cultivating, concluding that transforming Yin-Yang would be necessary to reshape his true self.

• The Demoness heard about Li Dao’s recent exploits and vanished, while Xia Youyu told Li Jiaojiao that Li Dao had killed many villains and promised they would visit him when it was safer.
• Li Dao returned to Golden Feather Village and found that its rune formation had established a stable supply of vital essence.
• Little Flower began breaking through with six cave heavens, and Li Dao supplied medicinal liquid and Bi Fang blood to help him cleanse his bloodline.
• Li Dao gave Li Kai the jade slips he had taken from the Tuoba clan, and Li Kai hurried off to put their teachings to use.
• Li Dao meditated in the village’s northern formation core and decided that transforming Yin-Yang was necessary to reshape his true self.

Li Dao cultivated the Heart Sword and gained greater control over the power of time while news spread that a Kunpeng Nest had appeared in the Northern Sea. After months in seclusion, he prepared to enter the Void God Realm and find out what had happened outside.

• Grandpa Jingbi told cultivators that Shi Hao had attacked the Rain Clan, exaggerating how he fought his way through their outpost.
• An old man persuaded Shi Hao to join an expedition to the Kunpeng Nest and gave him a Binding Spirit Rope to pass to Li Dao.
• News of the Kunpeng Nest spread throughout the Great Wilderness, drawing cultivators and powerful factions toward the Northern Sea.
• Li Dao spent several months cultivating, strengthening his Heart Sword and control over time while his power scarred the sky above Golden Feather Village.
• Li Dao emerged from seclusion and took out the nine-tiered Sacrificial Altar to enter the Void God Realm.