Recaps

Jiang Zhu comprehended the Azure Emperor’s Dao resonance in the chaos pool and clarified his path of refining True Spirit Bloodlines and myriad laws into his body. Meanwhile, an overwhelming fleet arrived at Evolving Immortal Star to find the offworlder, and Qi Yaoguang blocked its search of the Qi Family’s ancestral grounds as the hunters announced they had found their target.

• The Green Lotus Emperor Weapon stirred the Chaos Green Lotus, manifesting a young Azure Emperor who demonstrated his Dao by opening a world from a lotus seed before his phantom vanished.
• Jiang Zhu resolved to refine True Spirit Bloodlines and the laws of myriad Daos into a divine chaos physique, briefly manifesting the beginnings of a domain that shocked Ye Fan, Ji Zi, Pang Bo, and the Big Black Dog.
• A fleet from the five great families arrived at Evolving Immortal Star, and its leaders ordered a search for the offworlder and a blockade of Immortal Feather Star.
• The fleet’s three Saint King Weapons illuminated Evolving Immortal Star, but Qi Yaoguang raised the Qi Family’s ancestral defenses to block their search of its grounds.
• Qi Yaoguang refused to let the fleet investigate his ancestral grounds despite accusations from Cao Lie and pressure from the others, while Zhao You agreed to search elsewhere first.
• Someone in the fleet suddenly announced, “Found him!”

Jiang Zhu and his companions were tracked down by the five great clans and fought back against their fleet using Saint King Mechas. When two Saint Kings arrived, Jiang Zhu revealed the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar, whose power destroyed hundreds of ships and left Zi Xiao asking who Jiang Zhu was.

• The five great clans used a detection beam to locate Jiang Zhu and pursued him with more than twenty motherships and hundreds of escort ships.
• Black Emperor, Ye Fan, Pang Bo, Ji Zi, and Yan Ruyu resisted the fleet’s saturation bombardment, and their Saint King Mechas let them devastate the attackers’ formation.
• Cao Lie called for the Saint Kings after the five clans’ fleet suffered heavy losses, and Zi Xiao and Zhao Ming arrived to confront Jiang Zhu’s group.
• Jiang Zhu used his Great Sage Mecha to block Zi Xiao’s attack, then summoned the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Canopy as the two Saint Kings faced him.
• The Devouring Heaven Demon Jar’s aura overwhelmed the cultivators and disintegrated hundreds of escort ships, prompting Zi Xiao to ask Jiang Zhu who he was.

Jiang Zhu activated the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Canopy and annihilated the five great clans’ fleet, killing Saint Kings Ziyun Xiao and Zhao Ming. News of the massacre spread across the Eternal Star Domain, leaving its powers terrified and Jiang Zhu’s origins the subject of speculation.

• Jiang Zhu unleashed the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Canopy, erasing hundreds of warships and sending the five great clans’ forces fleeing.
• Jiang Zhu pursued Ziyun Xiao and vaporized him with the canopy after Ziyun Xiao tried to buy his life with resources.
• Jiang Zhu’s black light caught Zhao Ming and killed him, then destroyed the remaining fleet and left Immortal Feather Star’s wilderness silent.
• Cultivators across the Eternal Star Domain learned that two Saint Kings and the allied fleet had been wiped out, while Fan Yuntong realized his earlier plea for mercy had saved the Fan Family.
• The five great clans reeled from their losses, and factions across the domain spread stories of Jiang Zhu as a divine weapon wielder who might be a deity’s own son.

Dao Yi planned to trap Jiang Zhu’s group and seize the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar before beginning the Ancestral Path, while Jiang Zhu led his companions to an Azure Emperor refuge on Eternal Main Star. They found the Azure Emperor’s handwritten notes and peak seventh-stage Evolution Liquid, and news then spread of a map pointing to the Life Ancient Tree.

• Dao Yi decided to use an Ancient Emperor Formation to ambush the people from Big Dipper and take the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar before setting out on the Ancestral Path.
• Jiang Zhu brought Yan Ruyu, Ye Fan, Pang Bo, Ji Zi, and the Black Emperor to Eternal Main Star, where he led them to Tengxian Pool to find what the Azure Emperor had left behind.
• Yan Ruyu’s Azure Emperor bloodline revealed a hidden Void Minor World beneath Tengxian Pool, and the group followed its rune path through a divine gate.
• Inside the Minor World, Yan Ruyu found the Azure Emperor’s handwritten notes, while Jiang Zhu identified the contents of an azure gourd as peak seventh-stage Evolution Liquid.
• News spread across the Eternal Star Domain that the declining Sutu Clan possessed a Divine-Skin Ancient Scroll recording the location of the Life Ancient Tree, stirring the great powers to seek the Immortal Medicine.

The Divine-Skin Ancient Scroll sparked a rush to find the vanished Tan Mou Starfield and its Life Ancient Tree, while Jiang Zhu recognized the search as Dao Yi’s trap and chose to wait for others to uncover the hidden star. Jiang Zhu’s group reached the starfield, searched unsuccessfully, and then witnessed a mothership destroyed in a clash between hostile powers.

• The Sutu Clan revealed that the star domain described in the Divine-Skin Ancient Scroll had vanished, drawing the interest of powerful lineages seeking the Life Ancient Tree.
• The Sutu Clan repeatedly traded copies of the scroll, and leaked rubbings spread until major powers set out for the Tan Mou Starfield.
• Jiang Zhu and his companions traveled to the starfield, where their searches found no trace of the ancient star.
• Jiang Zhu told the group to wait for others to find the hidden star and secretly search for Dao Yi, whom he suspected of laying the trap.
• A powerful mothership bearing the emblem of the God Organization arrived, and the group continued searching for both the ancient star and Dao Yi.
• A mothership ahead was sunk in a sudden clash between two hostile powers, killing numerous experts.

The Past Mirror revealed that a colossal hand had carried away the Life Ancient Tree and its flourishing star, sending the Tan Mou Starfield’s powers in pursuit. They found a dying ancient planet where the Canghai Clan uncovered a sealed altar holding buds from the Tree of Life, while Jiang Zhu and his companions sensed that the planet was a trap.

• The God Organization used the Past Mirror to show a gigantic figure seizing an Ancient Life Star and carrying it into the depths of the universe.
• Jiang Zhu, Ye Fan, Ji Zi, Yan Ruyu, and the Black Emperor followed the other powers to a newly discovered life-bearing planet, where they sensed a sinister aura.
• The powers landed on the dying planet and found withered landscapes, abandoned cities, and few remaining signs of life.
• The Canghai Clan uncovered a black crystal altar holding a jade platter and a tender branch bearing translucent buds of the Life Ancient Tree.
• The gathered powers discovered that the altar’s restrictions protected the buds and began working together to unravel them.

Jiang Zhu and his allies prepared Black Emperor to use the Beginningless Killing Formation against the powers seeking the Life Ancient Tree on the Fifth Divine Star. After the Eternal Star Domain returned with reinforcements, the God Organization’s Great Sage arrived and overwhelmed its rivals, leaving the Tree of Life’s fate uncertain.

• Jiang Zhu persuaded Black Emperor to set up a planet-wide Slaughter Formation, promising him an extra share of the spoils.
• The Eternal Star Domain’s powers discovered that a Great Sage-level formation protected the Life Ancient Tree and withdrew to gather reinforcements.
• Dao Yi stayed behind and told an old mercenary that he sought the dangers and vitality of life among the stars.
• A tender shoot from the Life Ancient Tree fetched an astronomical price at auction, prompting major powers to assemble and return to the Fifth Divine Star.
• The God Organization’s Great Sage arrived on the Fifth Divine Star and drove back the rival powers, while the Tree of Life remained deep in the mountains.

Jiang Zhu revealed that Dao Yi had orchestrated the Life Ancient Tree trap and was the son of Dao Yan Great Emperor, then trapped him and the gathered factions in Great Emperor Wushi’s Slaughter Formation. Dao Yi countered with a Divine God Formation, but Jiang Zhu brought out the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar, which began cracking its barrier.

• Jiang Zhu appeared before the God Organization’s Great Sage and declared that he would take the Life Ancient Tree.
• Jiang Zhu ordered the Black Emperor to activate Great Emperor Wushi’s Slaughter Formation, sealing the planet and killing a Half-Saint who tried to escape.
• Jiang Zhu exposed Dao Yi as Dao Yan Great Emperor’s son and accused him of arranging the trap around the Divine-Skin Ancient Scroll and Life Ancient Tree.
• Dao Yi took a branch of the Life Ancient Tree, revealed its missing Immortal Sprout, and activated a Divine God Formation that clashed with the Slaughter Formation.
• Jiang Zhu manifested the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Canopy and Devouring Heaven Demon Jar, and the Divine God Formation’s barrier began to crack.

Jiang Zhu and Dao Yi’s Emperor Weapons clashed across the sealed Fifth Divine Star, killing countless people in the Eternal Star Domain. After the God Organization’s Great Sage donned the Daoyan Immortal Robe and attacked Jiang Zhu, the youthful Old Madman arrived with the Green Lotus Emperor Weapon and turned the battle against him.

• Dao Yi used the Daoyan Immortal Robe to meet Jiang Zhu’s Heaven-Swallowing Demon Canopy in an Extreme Dao clash, whose aftershocks devastated the Fifth Divine Star.
• The Great Sage of the God Organization rescued some of his followers as the sealed formation trapped the survivors, while Dao Yi was struck back by Jiang Zhu.
• Dao Yi lent the Daoyan Immortal Robe to the God Organization’s Great Sage, who gained immense power and attacked Jiang Zhu with golden Dao swords.
• The youthful Old Madman appeared with the Green Lotus Emperor Weapon and shattered the Great Sage’s attack, revealing that a third Emperor Weapon had entered the battle.
• The Great Sage attacked the Old Madman, but the Old Madman’s azure strikes injured him as their battle continued.

The Human Demon battled Dao Yi’s Protector Great Sage while Ji Zi defeated Dao Yi inside the Beginningless Killing Formation. Dao Yi escaped after his Protector sacrificed himself to break the formation, leaving him vowing revenge against Jiang Zhu and Ji Zi.

• The Human Demon fought Dao Yi’s Protector Great Sage among the stars, preventing him from interfering with the battle on the Fifth Divine Star.
• Ji Zi challenged Dao Yi, revealed himself as the Void Emperor’s son, and overwhelmed the already injured Dao Yi.
• Dao Yi revived the Daoyan Immortal Robe and tore open the Beginningless Killing Formation, but Jiang Zhu and his allies closed it around him again.
• Dao Yi’s Protector used a forbidden weapon and sacrificed the God Organization’s Great Sage to strengthen the Daoyan Immortal Robe.
• Dao Yi’s Protector burned his life to blast the Emperor Weapons away and open a path through the formation, dying as Dao Yi escaped into the universe.
• Dao Yi vowed to grow stronger and avenge his Protector against Jiang Zhu and Ji Zi.

Jiang Zhu and his allies defeated Dao Yi with three Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons, killing him and destroying the Daoyan Immortal Robe Replica. After refining sixth-stage Supreme Evolution Liquid on the Fifth Divine Star, the group prepared to return to the Big Dipper while Jiang Zhu set out on his own road with Yan Ruyu.

• Jiang Zhu used the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron to help suppress the Daoyan Immortal Robe, then captured it with the Demon-Refining Pot.
• The Human Demon and the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron joined the Green Lotus Emperor Weapon and Heaven-Swallowing Demon Canopy in killing Dao Yi and shattering his robe.
• The survivors from the Eternal Star Domain surrendered their possessions and fled, leaving their factions in shock and turmoil.
• Jiang Zhu and the others refined sixth-stage Supreme Evolution Liquid over several hundred days using rare materials and shoots from the Life Ancient Tree.
• Ji Zi said the group would return to the Big Dipper and take his father's coffin to the Ji Family, while Jiang Zhu chose to continue along his own road.
• Ye Fan, Pang Bo, the Black Emperor, and the others said their farewells to Jiang Zhu, leaving him with Yan Ruyu.

After two years of cultivation, Jiang Zhu set out alone on the ancient road, where he defeated a Demon Clan Saint King and survived years of dangerous battles. He eventually found a trail of ancient stone signposts pointing toward the road’s end.

• Yan Ruyu chose to return to Big Dipper and pursue the Saint realm, while Ye Fan, Ji Zi, the Human Demon, and Old Madman also departed.
• Jiang Zhu refined Stage Six Evolution Liquid, consolidated his cultivation for a year, and absorbed the Azure Emperor’s legacy into his body, forming a Chaos Microcosm.
• A Demon Clan Ant Saint King ambushed Jiang Zhu after he left a Star Gate, but Jiang Zhu defeated and killed him, then refined his corpse for blood essence.
• Jiang Zhu continued along the ancient road, passing God King Jiang Yue’s grave and fighting bone spirits, soul entities, and other dangerous foes.
• After several years of travel and battles, Jiang Zhu found ancient stone steles that all pointed toward the end of the road.

Jiang Zhu reached the First Pass of the Human Race with hundreds of cultivators and entered the ancient city after its gates opened. The receiving envoy announced that they would soon face their first trial and selection, then dismissed the crowd to find lodging and rest.

• Jiang Zhu witnessed Bai Zhan and Luo Xiao clash on the road, while a middle-aged woman explained that fierce competition was common on the Emperor Road.
• Jiang Zhu and the other cultivators arrived before the ancient city, where Bai Zhan and Luo Xiao's powerful mounts intimidated the gathered crowd.
• A total of 483 cultivators entered the First Pass after a divine voice ordered the gates opened, and soldiers warned them that fighting was forbidden inside the city.
• The cultivators learned that the city guards were former trial participants who had failed and remained at the checkpoints.
• Jiang Zhu entered the bustling city, where the receiving envoy announced an upcoming trial and selection, prohibited private fighting, and told everyone to find lodging and rest.

Jiang Zhu survived an assassination attempt by a Saint and uncovered a conspiracy involving the Yan Family, city soldiers, and trial participants. After the Reception Envoy refused to investigate, Jiang Zhu sent his True Phoenix Dao Body to spy on the conspirators.

• Jiang Zhu explored the First City of the Human Clan as secret manuals and information about trial participants circulated, heightening tensions before the trial.
• Luo Xiao was attacked and his Golden-Haired Hou was killed, then further assassinations left the city in panic and prompted accusations against Bai Zhan and the city's local powers.
• A Saint assassin attacked Jiang Zhu, but Jiang Zhu wounded and captured him after a fierce fight; that same night, several other attacks killed four cultivators.
• The Reception Envoy refused the chief commander’s request to investigate, saying that surviving assassination was part of the trial, and Jiang Zhu learned the assassin had ties to the Yan Family and a secret patron.
• Jiang Zhu sent his True Phoenix Dao Body to the Yan Family’s mansion and saw the patriarch, elders, soldiers, and trial participants celebrating together.

Jiang Zhu entered the Yan Family residence and attacked after the Yan Family failed to secure the soldiers’ protection. He killed several soldiers and Yan Family members, then severed the captain and his silver halberd, while the Yan Family called for reinforcements.

• The soldiers detected an unseen watcher, and Yan Yunhai admitted that the Yan Family had underestimated Jiang Zhu and pleaded for the soldiers’ protection.
• Jiang Zhu appeared at the banquet in a clone created with One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones and announced that the Yan Family would not survive the day.
• Jiang Zhu killed a soldier with his first saber stroke, then cut down another soldier and a Yan Family elder as the others charged him.
• Jiang Zhu shattered the magical attacks and artifacts, leaving the captain as the only surviving soldier from the group.
• Jiang Zhu fought the captain, exchanged several blows with him, and then split the captain and his silver halberd in two.
• The Yan Family members urged everyone to attack and hold Jiang Zhu back until more soldiers arrived.

Jiang Zhu’s Dao Body destroyed the Yan Family’s forces and killed a soldier captain in the First Sacred City before vanishing when its technique expired. The city’s guards began investigating his true identity, and the second commander confronted Jiang Zhu at a restaurant, where Jiang Zhu challenged him to attack without evidence.

• Jiang Zhu defeated the soldier captain and shattered his weapons, then killed him with the True Phoenix Wing despite a commander’s order to stop.
• Jiang Zhu argued that he had acted in self-defense, but the second commander accused him of breaking the city’s laws and demanded that he go to the Guide’s Residence.
• Jiang Zhu’s Dao Body dissolved and vanished, shocking witnesses and revealing that the battle had been fought by only a Dao Body.
• The second commander ordered an investigation into Jiang Zhu’s identity and the whereabouts of his true body, while news of the killing spread through the First Sacred City.
• The second commander confronted Jiang Zhu outside a restaurant, and Jiang Zhu demanded evidence and invited him to attack so he could claim self-defense.

Jiang Zhu entered Saintfall Island, where the trial participants were divided among its regions to seek the Great Dao. After months of comprehending the island’s ancient laws and refining his Seed of Chaos, he turned his attention to the forbidden ground.

• Second Commander Chi Ge left without attacking Jiang Zhu, and the following days passed without further assassination attempts.
• The Reception Envoy announced the trial, and the city commander led more than four hundred participants through a teleportation passage to Saintfall Island.
• The commander explained the island’s regions and warned that its central forbidden ground was deadly; Jiang Zhu entered the first region while the other participants chose routes to avoid him.
• Jiang Zhu crossed the island alone, encountered two Ancient Saint scarlet Flood Dragons, and found an ancient palm print beneath a green tree, where he began comprehending the laws.
• Over the following months, Jiang Zhu studied Dao Marks across the island and accumulated sealing chains weighing ninety million jin in the fiftieth secret realm; every cultivator who attacked him was killed.
• Jiang Zhu turned toward the forbidden ground, undeterred by the powerful beings said to dwell there.

Jiang Zhu reached the heart of Saintfall Island, fought five imperfect copies of himself in the Ten-Zhang Blood Pool, and used the Supreme Evolution Liquid to break through into the Saint Realm. His breakthrough triggered a world-shattering tribulation outside the island, where he endured Chaos Divine Thunder and began refining the Chaos Bell anew.

• Jiang Zhu entered Saintfall Island’s forbidden core, suppressed its lingering Saint Dao Marks, and destroyed a Pixiu-bloodline Variant Beast and twenty-seven layers of Dao Pattern traps.
• Jiang Zhu entered the Ten-Zhang Blood Pool and fought five powerful versions of himself for three days, emerging grievously injured.
• After healing, Jiang Zhu consumed the Supreme Evolution Liquid left by the Azure Emperor and broke through the final shackle of his cultivation.
• Jiang Zhu’s Saint Tribulation shook Saintfall Island, and he broke through its seal to face Heavenly Punishment in the starry universe.
• Jiang Zhu endured successive divine lightning strikes, including Chaos Divine Thunder, as his body repeatedly reconstructed and he refined the Chaos Bell.

Jiang Zhu endured the Saint tribulation, reforged the Chaos Bell by merging it with his body and Primordial Spirit, and ascended into the Saint Realm. The final tribulation summoned Ancient Great Emperor figures who wielded techniques Jiang Zhu recognized, and he realized they were manifestations of himself.

• Jiang Zhu endured the Chaos Divine Thunder as the Chaos Bell shattered, merging its fragments with his blood, flesh, and five-colored Primordial Spirit.
• Jiang Zhu used the World-Creation Tribulation to reassemble and forge the Chaos Bell, engraving it with images of divine beasts and all living things.
• Jiang Zhu crossed into the Saint Realm as the Chaos Bell became an Immortal Saint Weapon and entered his Immortal Platform.
• Jiang Zhu absorbed the remaining tribulation lightning, then faced an Ancient Great Emperor who attacked with the True Dragon Fist.
• A crimson figure struck Jiang Zhu with the True Phoenix Precious Technique, followed by figures wielding the Grass Character Sword Art and White Tiger Geng Metal Qi.
• Jiang Zhu recognized the imperial figures as manifestations of himself.

Jiang Zhu endured a Heavenly Tribulation of his own incarnations, nine Great Emperor imprints, and the Heavenly Court of the Chaotic Ancient Era, where he fought the Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s sword shadow for three days and nights. He emerged with the Chaos Bell refined and reached Saint Fourth Heaven, leaving the trial participants and Great Commander astonished.

• Jiang Zhu defeated the manifestations of himself, then fought successive groups of nine Great Emperor imprints until he survived the trial with his conviction strengthened.
• Jiang Zhu entered the lightning-formed Heavenly Court of the Chaotic Ancient Era and battled its armies before reaching the empty hall and seeing the Desolate Heavenly Emperor.
• The Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s sword shadow attacked Jiang Zhu, who fought it with the Chaos Bell for three days and nights before escaping the Heavenly Court.
• Jiang Zhu refined the Chaos Bell in the Chaos Sea as the tribulation ended, and he advanced four stages to Saint Fourth Heaven.
• The trial participants and the Great Commander watched the celestial phenomena and marveled at Jiang Zhu’s power and consecutive breakthroughs.

After reaching Saint Fourth Heaven, Jiang Zhu killed a spy among the First Pass soldiers and completed the Saintfall Island trial. He continued along the Human Race Ancient Road to the battlefield between the first and Second Passes, where he rejected the Demon Nation’s offer and killed a great demon who attacked him.

• Jiang Zhu reached Saint Fourth Heaven after three days of cultivation and used Nine Secrets: Qian to kill a soldier preparing to send information about him.
• The Saintfall Island trial ended, and the grand commander led the surviving 422 participants back to the First Pass of the Human Race.
• Seven days later, Jiang Zhu set out for the Second Pass while several participants chose to stay behind as city guards.
• Jiang Zhu arrived at the battlefield where cultivators sought sources of the Dao and was attacked as soon as he appeared.
• A great demon offered Jiang Zhu a thirty-seventy share to help the Demon Nation, but Jiang Zhu refused to accept the lesser portion.
• The great demon attacked Jiang Zhu, who seized his War Spear and killed him with it.

Jiang Zhu slaughtered more than ten Saints and drove the battlefield into silence. He then drew out the Source of the Dao, but its will declared that he would never attain the Dao or become an Emperor.

• Jiang Zhu killed the Demon Nation's warriors with the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass after they attacked him with giant war spears.
• Jiang Zhu destroyed the magical artifacts and killed more than ten Saints who joined forces against him.
• The surviving cultivators stopped fighting and feared provoking Jiang Zhu after witnessing his strength.
• Jiang Zhu extracted an ancient scripture from the Saints' lingering Divine Sense and used it to summon the Source of the Dao.
• The Source of the Dao rose from underground, and its will declared that Jiang Zhu would never attain the Dao or become an Emperor.

Jiang Zhu forcibly suppressed the Source of the Dao, endured the resulting Heavenly Punishment, and stored it in the Demon-Refining Pot. When Xuan Sha, Demon Lord and Xuan Guang, Divine Lord attacked to claim it, Jiang Zhu fought both Saint Kings and left them badly wounded, though their battle continued.

• Jiang Zhu imprisoned the Source of the Dao by force and endured the Heavenly Punishment, absorbing its lightning as he suppressed it.
• Jiang Zhu put the Source of the Dao into the Demon-Refining Pot, causing the tribulation to disappear.
• Xuan Sha, Demon Lord and Xuan Guang, Divine Lord demanded the Source of the Dao and attacked Jiang Zhu when he offered to trade it for Immortal Gold or Immortal Medicine.
• Jiang Zhu fought the two Saint Kings with the True Dragon Secret Art and True Phoenix Precious Technique, manifesting True Dragon and True Phoenix phantoms.
• Jiang Zhu battered Xuan Sha, Demon Lord and Xuan Guang, Divine Lord, but the Divine Lord's sword strike sent Jiang Zhu crashing into a mountain.
• Jiang Zhu emerged with only a shallow sword wound, shocking the Divine Lord with how quickly it nearly healed.

Jiang Zhu defeated Xuan Sha, Demon Lord and Xuan Guang, Divine Lord, then fed the Source of the Dao to the Seed of Chaos, causing it to fully solidify. After reaching the Second Sacred City, he became the focus of rumors, and Di Tian learned that the Source of the Dao had appeared again and ordered it brought to him.

• Jiang Zhu overpowered Xuan Sha, Demon Lord and Xuan Guang, Divine Lord, destroying their Saint King artifacts and killing them.
• Jiang Zhu refined the Source of the Dao into the Seed of Chaos, which transformed and unleashed manifestations across the surrounding region.
• The trial ended, and Jiang Zhu and the surviving trial-takers traveled by altar to the Second Sacred City.
• The Second Sacred City's residents heard that Jiang Zhu had slain two Saint Kings and obtained the Source of the Dao.
• Di Tian learned of the Source of the Dao's reappearance and ordered his elderly servant to ensure it came into his hands.

The Source of the Dao’s reappearance drew powerful factions and challengers toward the Second Sacred City, where Jiang Zhu had forcibly suppressed it. As exhausted trial participants chose whether to leave or persevere, Jiang Zhu and the survivors prepared to advance into the Primordial Era Daoist Arena.

• A flower-seated fairy ordered Yuan'er to watch Jiang Zhu, while the Great Demon God set out to seek him and an imperial-robed man ordered his followers to monitor the Second Sacred City.
• A woman waiting for a Twelve-Grade Lotus Platform decided to visit the Second Sacred City and persuade Jiang Zhu to give the Source of the Dao to Di Tian.
• News of Jiang Zhu and the Source of the Dao spread along the Human Race Ancient Road, drawing countless gazes and powerful beings toward the Second Sacred City.
• Wu Feng, Chen Mo, Lin Feng, and Sun Hai voiced their despair, and more than a dozen trial participants left for home, reducing their group to 120.
• Lei Zhen chose to keep training, while Ye Qingfeng and several wounded cultivators renewed their resolve to face the dangers ahead.
• At dawn, Jiang Zhu learned that the survivors would soon enter the Primordial Era Daoist Arena.