Recaps

Li Dao reunited with Shi Hao in the Starting Ground and agreed to join him on a journey to the Kunpeng Nest in the Northern Sea. After the Willow Deity agreed to send both of them, Shi Hao prepared to travel with Li Dao.

• Li Dao returned to the Starting Ground, where Lord Bird and Grandpa Jingbi told him Shi Hao had been looking for him because of the Kunpeng Nest.
• Shi Hao met Li Dao, whose cultivation Little Pagoda praised, and invited him to join the journey to the Northern Sea using a golden rope from the Primordial Divine Mountain.
• Li Dao accepted the invitation, then spent three days tempering his Heart Sword in a mountain range where nearby ferocious beasts died and the area became a forbidden zone.
• Li Dao and Shi Hao met a Celestial Clan elder and agreed to travel to a meeting place rather than reveal their villages' locations.
• Shi Hao asked the Willow Deity to send him and Li Dao to the agreed destination, and the Willow Deity agreed.

Li Dao left Golden Feather Village with Black Fiend and reached Stone Village, where he reunited with Shi Hao and met the Willow Deity. The Willow Deity recognized Li Dao’s path as similar to one once deduced in ancient times, offered to guide him, and prepared to set out with them.

• Li Dao departed Golden Feather Village with Black Fiend after entrusting the village’s safety to Little Flower and the villagers.
• Li Dao and Black Fiend traveled to Stone Village, where Shi Lai challenged them before Shi Hao arrived and introduced Li Dao to the villagers.
• Shi Hao led Li Dao to the Willow Deity, whose overwhelming presence deeply impressed him.
• The Willow Deity praised Li Dao for forging his own path and offered to answer his questions about Daoist Arts.
• The Willow Deity told Li Dao and Shi Hao to set out, and both prepared to go.

Li Dao and Shi Hao entered the Primordial Divine Mountain and were led toward its grounds by a divine servant. After Shi Hao clashed with a blue-haired boy, Li Dao killed one of the boy’s servants, leaving the boy frightened and the confrontation unresolved.

• Li Dao and Shi Hao traveled through a passage opened by the willow branches and arrived near the Primordial Divine Mountain.
• A Golden Beast divine servant recognized Shi Hao and led him and Li Dao toward the mountain.
• Shi Hao spotted Eight Treasure Chickens and left the passage to chase them, with Li Dao following.
• Shi Hao confronted a blue-haired boy who mocked him, and both drew their weapons.
• When one of the boy’s servants raised a hand to attack, Li Dao severed his arm and killed him with a spear.
• The blue-haired boy froze in fear as Li Dao turned his attention toward him.

Li Dao and Shi Hao joined the gathered clans at Heavenly God Mountain for the planned journey to the Northern Sea and the search for the Kunpeng's Great Divine Ability. The leaders prepared to set sail, while the young cultivators continued to doubt whether Li Dao could fulfill his role.

• Shi Hao threatened the Green-Haired Youth after the youth challenged Li Dao, but the divine servant warned them against infighting.
• The White-Clad Man and Yun Xi arrived with other powerful descendants, and Yun Xi led the group up the mountain.
• Shi Hao and Li Dao mocked the mountain cultivators under their breath as they admired the mountain's rich scenery and treasure medicines.
• At the summit, Li Dao let Black Fiend eat the spirit fruits while the clan leaders discussed their plans for the Northern Sea expedition.
• The gathered youths whispered about Li Dao's strength, questioning whether he could help secure the Kunpeng's Great Divine Ability.

Li Dao killed a youth who challenged him at the banquet, then revealed his ten cave heavens and forced the gathered factions to take him and Shi Hao seriously. The group traveled through the Five-Color Passage and reached the Northern Sea, where the Kunpeng Nest awaited.

• A youth and the blue-haired youth provoked Li Dao, and Li Dao killed the challenger with his Heart Sword.
• Li Dao revealed his ten cave heavens, prompting an elder to calm him and the other factions to reconsider him and Shi Hao.
• The elders announced that the younger generation would contend for opportunities in the Kunpeng Nest while the powerful figures stayed out of the battle.
• Li Dao suspected the elders would wait outside the Kunpeng Nest and began planning for the danger.
• Li Dao and Shi Hao joined the procession through the Five-Color Passage and arrived at the Northern Sea.

Li Dao traveled with Yun Xi and Shi Hao across the dangerous northern sea, where a massive lightning-wielding fish attacked their treasure ship. As the battle erupted, the Green-Haired Man struck at Li Dao, who wounded him before being swept into the sea; Shi Hao then received Li Dao’s farewell message that he was heading to the Kunpeng Nest alone.

• Li Dao and Shi Hao reached the northern sea, and an old servant warned Shi Hao not to speak of its taboos.
• Yun Xi’s group boarded a treasure ship and set out across the dangerous waters toward the Kunpeng Nest.
• A colossal silver fish attacked the ship, killing many cultivators before the old servants and Spirit Transformation cultivators fought back.
• The Green-Haired Man secretly unleashed an attack that caught Li Dao in its path, and Li Dao wounded him with a returning spear.
• The Green-Haired Man’s attack sent Li Dao into the lightning-filled sea, and Shi Hao heard Li Dao say he was heading to the Kunpeng Nest first.

Li Dao crossed a deadly stretch of sea and reached Yinsha Island, where he rescued Qing Shu from two pursuers. After Qing Shu warned him that ancient Baleful Spirits slept beneath the island, Li Dao sensed them awakening around him.

• Li Dao endured the sea's immense pressure and silver lightning, then reached an island and recovered from his injuries.
• Li Dao spotted Qing Shu fleeing two cultivators and intercepted their attack before it could strike her.
• Li Dao asked about the pursuers' territory, then killed them with a Black Flood Dragon after they demanded Qing Shu.
• Qing Shu warned Li Dao that Yinsha Island held dormant Baleful Spirits that would hunt them if awakened.
• Li Dao sensed the Baleful Spirits stirring in the waters around Yinsha Island.

Li Dao and Qing Shu fled the Forbidden Sea as ancient killing intent awakened mounted warriors and drove them toward the Kunpeng Nest. They reached Qingyuan’s blockade, where Qingyuan ordered Qing Shu captured, just as the pursuing army bore down on them.

• Li Dao recognized the black mist as ancient killing intent and fled with Qing Shu as undead riders emerged from the sea.
• A halberd-wielding rider caught up, shattered Li Dao’s Black-and-Yellow Furnace, and was later crushed by the Divine Refining Furnace.
• Hundreds of awakened riders pursued Li Dao and Qing Shu, forcing them to race toward the Kunpeng Nest while Li Dao used his Time Divine Ring to hold back their pursuers.
• Venerable Qingyuan learned that his scouts had perished in the Forbidden Sea and ordered his men to capture Qing Shu.
• Liu Chi’s Array Formation trapped Li Dao and Qing Shu, but he froze when he saw the mounted army charging toward them.

Li Dao and Qing Shu fled into the Forbidden Sea while Venerable Qingyuan fought the Undying Beings, then were captured by a ghost ship. Li Dao used the Divine Refining Furnace to free himself and found Qing Shu unconscious, beside a message on the deck: “Only I remain.”

• Li Dao and Qing Shu escaped into the Forbidden Sea as Venerable Qingyuan battled the Undying Beings and threatened to settle the score with them.
• Li Dao and Qing Shu followed the stronger suppressive force toward the Kunpeng Nest, while Shi Hao entered the Forbidden Sea with the surviving members of his group.
• Li Dao and Qing Shu found a freshly wrecked flying vessel from Xiling Beast Mountain and continued onward.
• A ghost ship appeared ahead of Li Dao and Qing Shu, pursued them as they fled, and dragged them aboard with chains.
• Li Dao summoned the Divine Refining Furnace to suppress the chains and free himself, then found Qing Shu unconscious and read “Only I remain” on the deck.

Li Dao was pulled into a vision of the Ghost Ship’s mysterious creator, then recovered on an island with Qing Shu. After she offered to lead him to her sister, who might know where Yin and Yang converged, he agreed to take her along and revealed that he had subdued the Ghost Ship.

• Li Dao saw a woman fold a bloodstained paper boat that became the Ghost Ship, then sealed away some of the dangerous memories her vision stirred.
• Li Dao found Qing Shu washed ashore, brought her to a safe island, and recuperated while Black Fiend guarded the cave.
• After two days, Li Dao examined an enduring red thread of killing intent, while Qing Shu recovered beside him.
• Li Dao told Qing Shu their transaction was complete and prepared to leave, but she begged to join him and offered to find her older sister, who might know where Yin and Yang converged.
• Li Dao agreed to take Qing Shu to find her sister, praised Black Fiend, and transformed the paper boat into the Ghost Ship before they set out.

Li Dao and Qing Shu reached the blood-soaked waters near the Kunpeng Nest, where Fierce Tiger Mad Blade attacked Li Dao to seize his ghost ship. Li Dao held him at bay, but Mad Blade unleashed his renowned Fierce Tiger technique, leaving the fight poised to escalate.

• Li Dao and Qing Shu traveled through the Forbidden Sea aboard the ghost ship and found the water near Withered Cliff covered with corpses.
• Li Dao identified the ancient nest atop Withered Cliff as the Kunpeng Nest as cultivators gathered around the blood-soaked battlefield.
• Fierce Tiger Mad Blade spotted Li Dao aboard the ghost ship and charged him, intending to kill him and take the vessel.
• Li Dao countered Mad Blade's saber with the Evil Dragon Spear and remained in a stalemate with him despite Mad Blade increasing his strength.
• Mad Blade invoked Fierce Tiger, surrounding himself with scarlet armor and a giant blood-red tiger as Li Dao prepared to face the attack.

Li Dao defeated and killed Mad Blade with the Divine Refining Furnace, then used the Ink-Wash World to kill several other cultivators and frighten the gathered crowd. He continued toward Withered Cliff with Qing Shu and Black Fiend, while news of his victory reached Merfolk Princess Qing Wei and the Primordial Divine Mountain.

• Li Dao clashed with Mad Blade, shattered his tiger and subdued him inside the Divine Refining Furnace.
• Li Dao released the Ink-Wash World, killed several cultivators who moved against him, and sent the others fleeing in fear.
• Li Dao returned to the Ghost Ship, reassured Qing Shu, and examined Mad Blade’s scarlet saber before putting it away to recover.
• Merfolk Princess Qing Wei learned that Qing Shu had arrived and decided to retrieve her before the Sea God Race could capture her.
• Yun Xi heard that Li Dao was safe and had slain an Array Formation king, then led the Primordial Divine Mountain prodigies toward the Kunpeng Nest.
• Li Dao, Qing Shu, and Black Fiend reached the base of Withered Cliff and looked up at the Kunpeng Nest above them.

Li Dao and Qing Shu entered the hidden world of the True Kunpeng Nest and used Qing Shu’s Heart-Piercing Bell to locate her sister. After half a month at sea, they sensed Qing Wei nearby, while Li Dao briefly felt an unseen observer watching him.

• Li Dao identified an Ancient Formation on Withered Cliff as the passage to the True Nest, and he and Qing Shu entered it after other cultivators.
• The formation transported them to a golden island amid a vast sea, where cultivators rushed toward the Kunpeng Nest and fought over its treasures.
• Li Dao stayed away from the fighting and took Qing Shu out to sea, where she used a Heart-Piercing Bell to sense Qing Wei.
• Qing Wei also sensed Qing Shu from her Treasure Boat and felt relieved that her sister was alive.
• After half a month of travel and cultivation, Li Dao sensed an unseen presence watching him, then Qing Shu announced that she had detected her sister’s aura.

Li Dao reunited Qing Shu with her sister, Qing Wei, and learned the location of the yin-yang convergence near the Kunpeng Nest. After leaving the Merfolk treasure ship, he confronted a woman who had secretly followed him, and the Demoness revealed her interest in him.

• Li Dao brought Qing Shu aboard Qing Wei’s treasure ship, where the sisters reunited and Qing Wei thanked him.
• Qing Wei gave Li Dao a jade slip with a map marking the Mystic Ice Abyss and Yang Extreme Cave and explained the chaotic fighting around the Kunpeng Nest.
• Li Dao declined Qing Wei’s invitation to stay and departed; Qing Shu arrived too late to find him.
• Li Dao sensed someone following him near a rocky island and called them out.
• The Demoness emerged from the void, and Li Dao pointed his Evil Dragon Spear at her and demanded to know her intentions.
• The Demoness said Li Dao had caught her fancy and tried to entice him with a promise of comfort and rapid cultivation.

Demoness recruited Li Dao for a partnership and gave him a single-use jade token that could conceal his aura from the Kunpeng Nest's restrictions. After reaching the Extreme Yang Cave, Li Dao entered it and began absorbing its extreme yang power to temper his body.

• Demoness offered Li Dao the jade token and asked him to meet her outside the Kunpeng Nest in three months, and Li Dao accepted the deal.
• Li Dao traveled to the sea containing the Mystic Ice Abyss and Extreme Yang Cave after hearing that ordinary cultivators could not enter them.
• Li Dao approached the Extreme Yang Cave despite onlookers warning him, and the burly man called Old Liu watched with concern.
• Li Dao used the Black-and-Yellow Furnace to withstand the cave's scorching heat and walked inside as the gathered cultivators marveled at his strength.
• Li Dao removed the furnace and let extreme yang energy seep into his body to temper it.

Li Dao cultivated in the Extreme Yang Cave, strengthening his body and tempering his Heart Sword to purify and empower his primordial spirit. After half a month, Shi Hao explored the Ancient Nest but turned back to consolidate his strength before facing its increasingly powerful dangers.

• Li Dao entered the Extreme Yang Pool, where his sun god marks absorbed extreme yang power as his physique grew stronger.
• Li Dao formed a golden hammer from extreme yang energy and struck his Heart Sword, injuring his primordial spirit but purifying the sword and expanding his spiritual sense.
• Li Dao continued striking the Heart Sword, rapidly increasing his primordial spirit’s power while gaining insights into Daoist arts.
• Cultivators outside the Extreme Yang Cave heard thunderous sounds and debated whether Li Dao had awakened a terrifying creature.
• After Li Dao had cultivated for half a month, Shi Hao entered the depths of the Ancient Nest and found its battles growing more dangerous.
• Shi Hao abandoned his advance toward the True Nest and returned to consolidate his gains and improve his strength.

Li Dao tempered his Heart Sword and physique in the Extreme Yang Cave and Mystic Ice Abyss, then comprehended and created the divine ability Yin-Yang Disorder. Shi Hao arrived to retrace Kunpeng’s cultivation path, while cultivators outside either dispersed or waited to seize the two men’s good fortune.

• Li Dao left the Extreme Yang Pool after tempering his Heart Sword and entered the Mystic Ice Abyss to temper it with extreme yin power.
• As Li Dao struggled to balance the yin and yang within himself, Shi Hao arrived, entered the Extreme Yang Cave, and began retracing Kunpeng’s cultivation path.
• The cultivators outside heard both men cultivating; many left to search for Kunpeng Remnant Bones, while others stayed to watch for a chance to seize their good fortune.
• After two months, Li Dao balanced the yin and yang within his body and created the divine ability Yin-Yang Disorder, which disintegrated a boulder of mystic ice.

Li Dao shattered and reforged his Heart Sword with yin-yang qi, advancing to the late spirit transformation realm. After leaving the Mystic Ice Abyss, he killed the cultivators who attacked him and met Demoness at their agreed destination.

• Li Dao drew in extreme yin and yang power to reforge his shattered Heart Sword, strengthening his primordial spirit and physique.
• Li Dao advanced to the late spirit transformation realm, saw Shi Hao cultivating in the Extreme Yang Pool, and left without disturbing him.
• Cultivators mistook Li Dao emerging from the Mystic Ice Abyss for a treasure and attacked him, but his yin-yang runes killed them.
• Li Dao rode Black Fiend across the sea and learned that it had eaten stones infused with extreme yin and yang power.
• Li Dao arrived at the place agreed upon with Demoness, who teased him for keeping her waiting and asked how he would make it up to her.

Li Dao and the Demoness set out to rob Mo Shang, the Descendant of the Sea God, for his treasures. Li Dao overwhelmed Mo Shang, who summoned a divine manifestation with his Trident as the chapter ended.

• The Demoness told Li Dao that their invited partners had not answered, so she robbed them, and the two agreed to work together without additional allies.
• Li Dao and the Demoness chose Mo Shang as their first target and sailed into the Ancient Nest aboard the Ghost Ship with Black Fiend.
• Mo Shang recovered a Kunpeng Remnant Bone after killing a sea beast and prepared to seek more bones.
• Li Dao confronted Mo Shang, caught and shattered his attack, then struck him with a palm that blasted him into a boulder.
• Mo Shang activated the Trident with his blood and summoned a phantom that demanded to know who had disturbed its cultivation.

Li Dao refined the Sea God's phantom, claimed its divine liquid and trident, and forced Mo Shang to flee. He and Demoness then targeted Mu You, the Yin-Yang Church's divine son, hoping to seize the Kunpeng Method he was comprehending.

• The Sea God's phantom attacked Li Dao, but his Dao Scroll weakened it and his Divine Refining Furnace trapped and refined it into a drop of divine liquid.
• Li Dao seized the Sea God's Trident, while Mo Shang escaped with a Heaven-and-Earth Shifting Talisman and vowed revenge.
• Demoness proposed that she and Li Dao work together to lure and rob cultivators, and they soon found Mu You meditating on an altar.
• Demoness revealed that Mu You was comprehending the Kunpeng Method and proposed using her thought-reading technique after knocking him unconscious.
• Demoness whispered a plan to capture Mu You, and Li Dao agreed to carry it out.

Li Dao and the Demoness abducted Mu You and took the Kunpeng Method insights he had gathered, then joined forces to rob cultivators across the sea. After their robberies grew too risky, Li Dao used his spoils and new insights to reach the spirit transformation peak, with his cave heaven nurturing spirits.

• Li Dao and the Demoness distracted the Yin-Yang Church and abducted Mu You from the Sacrificial Altar.
• The Demoness extracted Mu You’s Kunpeng Method insights and shared them with Li Dao before they left him on an island.
• Li Dao and the Demoness robbed cultivators together, eventually defeating a Venerable’s spirit avatar after fighting for two days and two nights.
• As cultivators grew wary and worthwhile targets became scarce, Li Dao and the Demoness stopped their robberies.
• Li Dao used rare treasures, pure-blooded beast blood, and his accumulated insights to reach the spirit transformation peak, where his cave heaven began nurturing spirits.

After the Demoness left, Li Dao devoted himself to comprehending a deity’s insights while Shi Hao began robbing cultivators with the Little Pagoda’s help. Two years later, Li Dao completed his cultivation breakthrough, and the island where he had secluded himself sank into the sea.

• The Demoness left Li Dao, who resumed cultivation with a Dao aura crystal taken from the Sea God’s phantom.
• Shi Hao learned that a mysterious robber had been targeting cultivators and suspected his senior brother Li Dao was responsible.
• The Little Pagoda taught Shi Hao how to use the stone to find victims, and Shi Hao began robbing people.
• Two years later, Mo Shang heard reports of a ruthless robber who had even taken the Descendant of the Sea God’s Trident, and he suspected Shi Hao.
• Li Dao emerged from seclusion after comprehending the crystal, unleashed a Flood Dragon formed from a chain, and completed his sublimation as the island collapsed into the sea.

After two years of cultivating, Li Dao reached the legendary realm and reunited with Black Fiend before heading back toward the Kunpeng Nest. He learned that venerables had entered in their true bodies and slaughtered more than a dozen experts, suggesting the nest was about to open.

• Li Dao spent two years studying the divine law, advanced beyond the peak of the Spirit Transformation Realm, and strengthened the spirits in his Cave Heavens.
• Black Fiend reached mid-stage Spirit Transformation and grew wings that appeared to be forming a divine ability, then carried Li Dao toward the Ancient Nest.
• Li Dao learned that cultivators had failed to breach the Kunpeng Nest and that he and Demoness had become known as the Twin Demons for killing a venerable's spirit avatar.
• Li Dao assessed his cultivation and concluded that he was invincible among those in the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• After Li Dao reached the rocky island, he heard that more than a dozen supreme experts had died in a single day and learned that venerables had entered the Kunpeng Nest in their true bodies.
• Li Dao suspected that the Kunpeng Nest was about to open.

As the Kunpeng Nest neared opening, Mo Shang attacked the Merfolk Tribe and threatened Qing Shu to draw Li Dao out. Li Dao appeared with the Sea God's Trident and challenged Mo Shang, but the chapter ended as one of Mo Shang’s subordinates attacked him.

• Venerables entered the Kunpeng Nest in their true bodies, and a crack opened in the nest as cultivators gathered for its imminent opening.
• Mo Shang fought the Merfolk Tribe with a counterfeit Trident, slaughtering its experts and threatening Qing Shu to force Li Dao to appear.
• Han Tian fought nearby while forces from the Primordial Divine Mountain gathered and claimed territory.
• Li Dao arrived carrying the Sea God's Trident and called Mo Shang out, prompting Mo Shang to recognize him.
• A green-scaled subordinate charged at Li Dao to test his strength, and Li Dao called him an ant.

Li Dao overwhelmed Mo Shang’s warriors and drove Mo Shang to sacrifice himself to summon the Sea God. A terrifying figure began to emerge behind Mo Shang as the sea creatures nearby bowed in fear.

• Li Dao froze and killed the man who attacked him, then dismissed Mo Shang’s threat to bury him beneath his Death Guards.
• Mo Shang summoned dozens of defeated prodigies to attack Li Dao, but Li Dao’s Heart Sword cut them apart before they could strike.
• Li Dao pierced Mo Shang’s Black-Gold Shield and right shoulder with a Thunder Spear, then closed in to finish him.
• Mo Shang sacrificed his body and invoked Sea God Descends, summoning a sacred presence that forced Li Dao back.
• Mo Shang burned away as a terrifying figure formed behind him, and the nearby sea creatures recognized it as the Sea God and fell to their knees.