Recaps

Duan De used Heavenly Venerable blood to erase the imprints on the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid, awakening the half Emperor Weapon. Qin Tian ambushed Duan De to steal it and left him dazed with a wooden plaque stamped onto his head.

• Duan De sacrificed his Heavenly Venerable blood to awaken the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid and burn away the imprints protecting it.
• Qin Tian watched as Duan De overcame the nine-colored imprints and caught the lid after the blood was exhausted.
• Qin Tian decided to steal the lid and approached Duan De while concealed in the void.
• Qin Tian struck Duan De twice with the Phoenix-Winged Gilt Trident, then hit his head with Shi Hao's wooden plaque.

Qin Tian knocked Duan De unconscious and stole the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid, leaving Duan De devastated when he woke. Qin Tian escaped with the Emperor Weapon and reflected on the danger of making an enemy of Duan De.

• Qin Tian repeatedly struck Duan De with a wooden plaque and stacked formation diagrams until he knocked him unconscious.
• Qin Tian took the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid and fled, leaving behind a stone bearing the concept of his past to watch Duan De.
• Duan De woke, discovered his Emperor Weapon was missing, and raged over losing it before he could mark it.
• Duan De’s fury erupted as smoke and divine power, and he ran hundreds of laps around the Fire Domain before collapsing and spitting blood.
• Qin Tian watched from afar, recognized Duan De’s immense strength, and decided the Emperor Weapon was worth the risk.

Qin Tian used a blood sacrifice to imprint the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid, briefly sensing the terrifying presence of the Ruthless Great Emperor before establishing a faint connection with the artifact. He decided to hide in the Fire Domain until Duan De left and began studying Ji Haiyue’s memories of the Void Ancient Scripture.

• Qin Tian isolated himself, examined the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid, and decided to leave his imprint on it before Duan De could reclaim it.
• Qin Tian used his essence blood, divine sense, and divine power in a blood sacrifice to refine the lid.
• The lid released immense pressure and a hazy female figure, frightening Qin Tian with an aura he mistook for the Ruthless Great Emperor’s.
• Qin Tian established a faint connection with the lid, then decided to stay in the Fire Domain until Duan De left.
• Qin Tian reviewed Ji Haiyue’s memories by constructing an illusion and entering an ancient hall to hear a Great Power explain the Void Ancient Scripture.

As Qin Tian listened to the Ji Family Great Power explain the Sea of Bitterness cultivation stages, he considered opening many gates of potential during the Other Shore’s nine transformations to awaken part of the strongest physique. To rebuild his flawed cultivation foundations, he dismantled his secret realms and returned himself to an ordinary person.

• The Ji Family Great Power taught the children how cultivators progressed through the Sea of Bitterness and Other Shore realms.
• Qin Tian reasoned that opening most of the gates of potential during the Other Shore’s nine transformations might release some of the strongest physique’s power.
• Qin Tian recognized that his Divine Bridge and Other Shore were weaker than his first two secret realms because he had cultivated them with different scriptures.
• Qin Tian destroyed his Other Shore, Divine Bridge, Life Spring, and Wheel of Life, letting their energy nourish his body until he became an ordinary person.

Qin Tian rebuilt his Sea of Bitterness Secret Realm with the Void Ancient Scripture, transforming his foundation and reaching the Other Shore. He then pushed past his mortal body's limits to seek a deeper transformation, suppressing the approaching Nine Transformations of the Other Shore.

• Qin Tian used divine source and the Void Ancient Scripture to reopen his Sea of Bitterness, where a Kunpeng embodied the interplay of yin and yang, life and death.
• Qin Tian's body and Life Spring were tempered by the new energies, and his Void Divine Bridge drew in primal power from the universe.
• Qin Tian crossed the Void Divine Bridge to the Other Shore and felt his essence, qi, spirit, and divine power undergo a qualitative transformation.
• Qin Tian began absorbing more divine substance to pursue the Nine Transformations of the Other Shore, but reached the limit of a mortal body.
• Qin Tian forced himself to keep absorbing despite his body's cracks and the warning that the nine transformations were near, seeking a deeper transformation instead.

Qin Tian perfected his human body domain and Open Gate Method, gaining the strength to contend with Divine Bodies and Sacred Bodies in the Sea of Bitterness realm despite the risk of hidden injuries. After healing and completing the Nine Transformations of the Other Shore, he was confronted by two Daoists and moved to stop their escape.

• Qin Tian inscribed a mountain-and-river domain in his body and used it to open hidden gates, releasing pure radiance that strengthened his origin and transformed his Bitter Sea.
• Qin Tian completed nine internal dao patterns and recognized that forcibly opening gates could cause hidden injuries, so he considered studying the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art to overcome the method's flaws.
• Qin Tian concluded that he could match Divine Bodies and Sacred Bodies in the Sea of Bitterness realm, though he remained uncertain about later realms.
• Over the next two months, Qin Tian completed the Nine Transformations of the Other Shore and healed the injuries caused by opening his gates.
• Two Daoists intercepted Qin Tian after he left the Fire Domain, then tried to flee when they realized his cultivation was at the Other Shore.
• Qin Tian caught up with the fleeing Daoists in an instant and raised his hand to stop them.

Qin Tian learned that Duan De had helped hunters locate him through heavenly divination, then changed course and encountered Ji Haoyue, who had been waiting for him on behalf of the Ji Family. The chapter ended with Qin Tian recognizing the danger of Ji Haoyue’s challenge and the Demon Emperor’s Saint Weapon poised to strike.

• Qin Tian captured two pursuers and learned that a fat Daoist resembling Duan De had sold them his location for ten thousand jin of source.
• Qin Tian realized Duan De had likely used heavenly divination to track him and sent out a paper-effigy puppet before taking another route.
• Qin Tian traveled far from the Fire Domain until Ji Haoyue announced that the Ji Family had been waiting for him.
• Ji Haoyue identified himself and said a Heavenly Diviner had predicted Qin Tian’s arrival.
• Qin Tian recalled Ji Haoyue’s history and considered the danger of confronting the Demon Emperor’s Saint Weapon, whose lid trembled with threatening black energy.

Qin Tian fought Ji Haoyue, matching the Ji Family’s Divine King Body with the power of his Human Body Dao Field and Five-Element Killing Array. Ji Haoyue then unveiled his Bright Moon Rising Over the Sea Manifestation and shattered Qin Tian’s sword, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Ji Haoyue attacked Qin Tian with Void Art techniques, but Qin Tian countered them and matched him in a clash of palms.
• Qin Tian drew power from the earth veins and his Human Body Dao Field, then used a Five-Element Killing Array against Ji Haoyue’s imitation Void Mirror.
• After their techniques collided, Ji Haoyue acknowledged Qin Tian’s strength and offered to recruit him as a War General, but Qin Tian refused.
• Ji Haoyue manifested the Bright Moon Rising Over the Sea and invited Qin Tian to surrender, while Qin Tian mocked his divine body and challenged him.
• Ji Haoyue sent the Manifestation’s moonlight against Qin Tian; Qin Tian’s sword broke apart, and Ji Haoyue’s next move remained pending.

Qin Tian shattered Ji Haoyue’s moon manifestation, learned Bright Moon Rising Over the Sea through his temporal-spatial eyes, and unveiled his Kunpeng King Fist to overwhelm the Divine King. As Ji Haoyue neared defeat, his Ji Family Dao protectors decided to intervene.

• Qin Tian broke Ji Haoyue’s first moon revolution and used Future Sight to study the second revolution while defending himself with a golden formation shield.
• Qin Tian used his temporal-spatial eyes to learn Bright Moon Rising Over the Sea, then revealed the Kunpeng King Fist he had created from the Kunpeng Method’s principles.
• Qin Tian combined Kunpeng speed and strength with his eyes’ powers to anticipate Ji Haoyue’s movements and batter him, leaving the Divine King bloodied and struggling.
• Ji Haoyue summoned three moons and fought back with all his strength, but Qin Tian continued to suppress him and carve wounds into him.
• Ji Haoyue’s Dao protectors watched him nearing defeat and decided to intervene on behalf of the Ji Family.

Qin Tian escaped after Ji Haoyue’s Protectors intervened to give him an unfair advantage, while Ji Haoyue broke through into the Dao Palace Secret Realm and vowed to fight Qin Tian again. Qin Tian fled far away, wary that the Protectors might try to kill him.

• Qin Tian foresaw Ji Haoyue’s Protectors altering the void to strengthen his Void Art, then used the Profound Jade Platform to escape.
• Ji Haoyue confronted his two grand uncles about their intervention, and they said they had sealed off the space to prevent Qin Tian from fleeing.
• Ji Haoyue absorbed a heterogeneous source, broke through into the Dao Palace Secret Realm, and manifested Five Qi Converging Towards the Origin.
• Ji Haoyue vowed to find Qin Tian and fight him again, then left with the two Protectors using Void Art.
• Qin Tian shifted repeatedly across great distances and continued fleeing because he feared the Protectors would attack him.

Qin Tian tracked down the hidden former site of the Jade Pool Holy Land, hoping to find the Western Emperor Scripture. After entering its ruins, he discovered a stark contrast between thriving grounds and an ominous, lifeless region, while another Qin Tian emerged through the Void Gate.

• Qin Tian traveled through more than thirty cities and mocked the inaccurate wanted portrait issued by the Yaoguang Holy Land.
• Qin Tian followed reports of the Jade Pool Flying Immortal phenomenon to the Northern Region and used a paper effigy clone to draw his pursuers toward the cursed old site.
• Qin Tian uncovered a jade well beneath the crimson wasteland and descended through it into the sealed Jade Pool grounds.
• Qin Tian crossed vibrant lakes and vegetation, then entered a region of dead trees, eerie spiritual energy, and ruined halls.
• A new disturbance arose on the wasteland as the Void Gate opened and another, bedraggled Qin Tian stepped out.

Qin Tian used the Immortal Pool’s curse to kill a Half-Step Great Power who pursued his paper effigy. Afterward, he returned to cultivating beside a lake in the Jade Pool Ruins, where his cultivation advanced further.

• Qin Tian saw that the Immortal Pool’s bodies had become vessels for the great accomplishment sacred body’s curse and sealed the curse mist from its deeper layers.
• A Half-Step Great Power caught up with Qin Tian’s paper effigy and demanded everything he had obtained from the Yaoguang Holy Land.
• Qin Tian unleashed the curse mist on his pursuers, turning the attendants into Golden-Haired Monsters and infecting the Half-Step Great Power.
• The Half-Step Great Power tried to strike Qin Tian, but the paper effigy revealed itself as a clone, and the curse killed him.
• Qin Tian finished drawing out the curse and cultivated beside a lake, strengthening his cultivation further.

Qin Tian recovered at the Immortal Pool, then left it to search Jade Pool’s ruins for imprints of the Western Emperor Scripture. He found ancient stone carvings of combat techniques and began studying them, recognizing how ordinary moves could combine into formidable power.

• Qin Tian thanked the lingering female corpses, then resolved to cultivate at the Immortal Pool after finding the Western Emperor Scripture.
• Qin Tian saw eerie figures reappear in the pool and, despite his fear, decided to stay before quietly moving away.
• Qin Tian searched Jade Pool’s empty palaces and barren mountains for imprints left by the Western Emperor.
• Qin Tian used his Temporal Eye to restore the worn stone carvings and studied their ancient techniques, including the Mountain-Embracing Seal.
• Qin Tian realized that combining more than a hundred ordinary moves could create a powerful art.

Qin Tian used the stone carvings in the Jade Pool Ruins to refine his Kunpeng King Fist and obtain the complete Dao Palace Scroll of the Western Emperor Scripture. After his Temporal Eye was damaged, he resolved to remain in the ruins, but a terrifying black mist erupted from the Immortal Pool.

• Qin Tian used the incomplete Battle Saint Method to deduce a second move for his Kunpeng Loose Hands.
• Qin Tian projected the Dao Palace guiding passage with his Temporal Eye and comprehended the heart divine treasury's Dao pattern.
• Qin Tian found the lung, liver, spleen, and kidney divine treasury chapters and completed the Western Emperor Scripture's Dao Palace Scroll.
• Qin Tian's Temporal Eye bled and nearly exhausted its origin power, so he stopped using it and decided to stay in the Jade Pool Ruins.
• A surge of black mist poured from the Immortal Pool, and Qin Tian hid behind a wooden plaque while shouting that he was the founding patriarch.

Qin Tian studied the Western Emperor Scripture before using divine source to break into the Dao Palace and open his Heart Divine Treasury. His deity transformed into three strands of Dao qi above his head, and he called upon his past, present, and future selves to enter the Dao Palace.

• Qin Tian studied the Western Emperor Scripture until he understood its principles for cultivating the Dao Palace.
• Qin Tian drew divine substance from a piece of divine source and crossed from the Sea of Bitterness into the Dao Palace Secret Realm.
• Qin Tian chose the Heart Divine Treasury and used the divine substance to nourish its lotus-shaped deity until it opened.
• Qin Tian developed the Heart Divine Treasury into a blazing heavenly sun and felt his strength increase.
• Qin Tian's deity reversed its origin and transformed into three strands of Dao qi, forming three Dao flowers above his head.
• Qin Tian called for his past, present, and future selves to enter the Dao Palace.

Qin Tian gained deep insights into the Dao Palace after hearing the Desolate Heaven Emperor’s words, then cultivated in the Jade Pool Ruins and explored the Immortal Pool. At the final site bearing the Immortal Platform Scripture’s imprint, his Temporal-Spatial Eyes showed him a youth from ages past: Great Emperor Wushi.

• Qin Tian heard the Desolate Heaven Emperor’s three cries of the Dao and entered a profound state of enlightenment.
• Qin Tian’s Heart Palace opened, transforming his body and surging with Dao power as the Fire Deity recited scriptures within the Dao Palace.
• Qin Tian cultivated in the Jade Pool Ruins, used his Temporal-Spatial Eyes to obtain parts of the Western Emperor Scripture, and offered beast milk to Shi Hao’s wooden tablet.
• Qin Tian attempted to reach the Tenth-Layer Immortal Pool but retreated when his divine power ran low against the Extreme Dao imperial might.
• Qin Tian used his divine eyes at the final Immortal Platform Scripture site and saw a young man from the past demonstrating his arts.

Qin Tian used the Temporal-Spatial Eyes to witness the young Wushi creating the Wushi Technique across countless ages. The exchange ended when forbidden thunder interrupted them, leaving Qin Tian with exhausted eyes but a full view of Wushi’s art.

• Qin Tian recognized the young Wushi’s innate sacred body dao embryo and watched his blood qi awaken the ten thousand Daos.
• The young Wushi developed and refined many arts, including the Western Emperor Scripture, Mountain-Embracing Seal, Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist, and Passing Years, while forging his own technique.
• Qin Tian identified the art as the Wushi Technique, and the young Wushi heard him and accepted the name.
• Forbidden thunder struck, so the young Wushi unleashed the Wushi Technique against the tribulation and bid Qin Tian farewell before the vision faded.
• Qin Tian’s Temporal-Spatial Eyes nearly exhausted their essence, but he rejoiced that he had witnessed the Wushi Technique’s creation in detail.

After learning the Wushi Technique, Qin Tian repaired his Temporal-Spatial Eyes and spent the next year cultivating in the Jade Pool Ruins. He opened the fourth and fifth Dao Palace secret realms, reaching great perfection before preparing to leave.

• Qin Tian studied the Wushi Technique and its displayed divine arts, then hoped to glimpse the Wushi Scripture and gain treasures at Purple Mountain.
• Qin Tian absorbed divine substance from divine source to repair his Temporal-Spatial Eyes and decided to perfect the Dao Palace Secret Realm before leaving the Jade Pool Ruins.
• Qin Tian cultivated for another half year and opened the fourth secret realm, strengthening his qi, blood, and physical body as life returned to the surrounding plants.
• After consolidating the fourth secret realm for three months, Qin Tian used divine source to open the final Dao Palace secret realm.
• Qin Tian felt united with the Dao as all five directional deities emerged, completing the Dao Palace Secret Realm.

After completing all five Dao Palaces, Qin Tian used a Profound Jade Platform to leave the Jade Pool Ruins and arrive near Purple Mountain in the Northern Region. When Horse Bandits surrounded him and demanded his Source, Qin Tian calmly warned them that they had picked a fight with a Daoist priest and a child.

• Qin Tian finished cultivating all five Dao Palaces and carefully inscribed a Profound Jade Platform to avoid teleporting into the nearby Primordial Ancient Mine.
• Qin Tian activated the platform and arrived near Purple Mountain in the desolate Northern Region.
• Qin Tian traveled across the chaotic region and witnessed battles over oases and Source Mines.
• More than a hundred Horse Bandits on Dragon Scale Horses surrounded Qin Tian after smelling Source on him.
• Qin Tian refused to be intimidated and told the Horse Bandits they should not provoke a Daoist priest and a child.

Qin Tian traveled to the Northern Region to claim the Lihuo Divine Furnace, first killing a group of Horse Bandits and finding Divine Source. He reached the Lihuo Sect and clashed with its Grand Elder, leaving the outcome of their battle unresolved.

• Qin Tian explained to himself that ambushing Duan De and taking the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid had been an act of filial devotion.
• Qin Tian used the Void Great Hand Seal to kill every Horse Bandit and found a piece of Divine Source in the ground.
• Qin Tian learned where the Lihuo Sect was and hurried there to obtain its guardian treasure, the Lihuo Divine Furnace.
• Qin Tian attacked the Lihuo Sect with a mountain-embracing seal, and the Grand Elder countered by summoning the bronze furnace.
• The Grand Elder unleashed the furnace's Lihuo flames, but Qin Tian struck it with the Heaven-Flipping Seal, sending shock waves across the battlefield.

Qin Tian seized the Lihuo Divine Furnace and destroyed the Lihuo Sect before heading to the Azure Cloud Sect in search of Emperor Jade. There, he fought a dying Four Extremes cultivator and revealed the embryonic form of his Yin-Yang Life-and-Death Diagram Manifestation.

• Qin Tian cut off the Lihuo Sect's connection to the Lihuo Divine Furnace, discovered its deity had been transferred to the Solar Divine Furnace, and used it to destroy the sect.
• Qin Tian flew to the Azure Cloud Sect, where a dying Four Extremes cultivator confronted him.
• Qin Tian battled the elder and reflected on how special constitutions shaped the path to greater strength.
• The elder summoned a spirit-attuned treasure that merged four peaks into a mountain and pressed it down on Qin Tian.
• Qin Tian formed his embryonic Yin-Yang Life-and-Death Diagram Manifestation by combining the powers of life and death.

Qin Tian defeated a Four Extremes cultivator at the Azure Cloud Sect, took an ancient jade map, and killed the sect members who had committed sins. At the Mysterious Moon Cave, he awakened the emperor-level art Passing Years and then set his sights on the Yaoguang Holy Land to obtain the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art.

• Qin Tian killed the Four Extremes cultivator with Innate Grand Void Astral Energy and demanded the ancient jade from Chen Big Beard.
• Qin Tian used his Temporal-Spatial Eyes to identify and kill the Azure Cloud Sect members who had committed sins, collected treasures, and left.
• At the Mysterious Moon Cave, Qin Tian used the Wushi Technique and Emperor Jade to resonate with the ancient inscription.
• Qin Tian glimpsed a majestic man and comprehended Passing Years, an emperor-level killing art that wielded the Years Heavenly Blade.
• Qin Tian decided to target the Yaoguang Holy Land and obtain the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art to strengthen his physique and primordial spirit.

Qin Tian decided to seek the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art and the Ruthless Inheritance, hoping to gain a special physique and strengthen his cultivation. Disguised as a fat Daoist, he arrived at a Yaoguang Holy Land mine, where a force of armored riders launched an attack.

• Qin Tian decided that his mortal body was limiting his strength and resolved to pursue the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art and Ruthless Inheritance.
• Qin Tian reasoned that devouring only two special physiques might let him create a powerful physique without forming the demonic embryo that came from absorbing many origin essences.
• Qin Tian changed his appearance into an unremarkable fat Daoist and headed toward a Yaoguang Holy Land mine.
• Qin Tian saw the miners laboring in the mine and felt reminded of his own past.
• A young armored man led seventy or eighty riders on savage beasts as they charged into the mine.

Qin Tian used the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid to ambush and kill the Yaoguang Holy Land cultivators and Horse Bandits fighting over a Source Mine, then disguised himself as Duan De and stole the mine’s source. He hoped the attack’s surviving trace would draw out the Ruthless Lineage, leaving him a way to identify them and obtain their supreme scripture.

• A young bandit used three blood-red array flags to break the Yaoguang Forbidden Land’s defenses, while Qin Tian watched and resolved to eliminate the rival robbers.
• Qin Tian sent a paper effigy into the Source Mine and activated the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid as the Yaoguang cultivators and Horse Bandits fought.
• The Demon Lid’s extreme dao might killed hundreds of Yaoguang cultivators and Horse Bandits and shattered the Protective Array.
• Qin Tian arrived disguised as Duan De and explained that he had concealed most of the weapon’s aura so only the Ruthless Lineage would recognize it.
• Qin Tian took one million five hundred thousand jin of source from the mine and spent another hundred thousand jin to fuel the Demon Lid’s strike.

After discovering traces of the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid, the Yaoguang Holy Land mobilized the Ruthless Lineage to hunt Duan De, believing he had stolen the founding ancestor’s weapon from a tomb. Qin Tian was relieved that the danger had shifted to his alias and remained convinced Duan De would survive.

• A Yaoguang Great Power identified the lingering aura at the mine as belonging to the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid and sent word to awaken the ancestor.
• A Dao-Severing King emerged from divine source, reconstructed the scene, and confirmed that the Demon Lid had appeared before Duan De took the mine’s source.
• The Dao-Severing King ordered the Yaoguang Holy Land to mobilize and recover its supreme Emperor Weapon.
• The Yaoguang Holy Land searched across the Eastern Wasteland for Duan De and offered the position of Yaoguang Holy Son to anyone who captured him alive.
• After learning Duan De was a grave robber who had visited their holy land, the Ruthless Lineage concluded he had dug up an ancestor’s grave and grew furious.
• Qin Tian relaxed because the hunt targeted Duan De, whom he regarded as his master, and trusted that Duan De could withstand the Yaoguang Holy Land.