Recaps

Dongguan arrived in Hunyuan City, confirmed that God Emperor Ying'an was there but could not attack him under the city's rules, and exchanged battle merits for a private cultivation cave abode. Inside its independent space-time, he began considering whether he could use it to discover why controlling the Source World had failed.

• Dongguan reached Hunyuan City by official Flying Boat and found God Emperor Ying'an in the city, but decided to postpone his revenge because the city's protections prevented him from attacking.
• Dongguan had his battle merits counted from his stored corpses, totaling 1,509,580 merits.
• Dongguan exchanged one million battle merits for Bing Seven Cave Abode and gained command over its independent space-time.
• Dongguan experienced the cave abode's origin power and wondered whether he could simulate controlling a Source World there to understand where he had gone wrong.

Dongguan used his cave abode authority to simulate the evolution of a Source World while studying the Supreme Rule. After his experiments triggered a Space-Time Annihilation Tribulation, he watched the collapse and reset the cave abode, gaining a hint of understanding about time.

• Dongguan studied the Supreme Rule by evolving secret patterns into a miniature world inside his cave abode.
• Dongguan created an avatar and experimented with modifying the origin using ideas from texts he had studied.
• Dongguan's changes triggered a Space-Time Annihilation Tribulation that tore apart the simulated world and its inhabitants.
• The large Hunyuan Hall offered to reset the cave abode for 10,000 battle merits, and Dongguan waited until the annihilation nearly ended before accepting.
• Dongguan watched the cave abode reset and noticed a hint of understanding about time.

Dongguan continued experimenting with the Large Hunyuan Hall’s cave-abode resets and finally identified why he could not take control of the Origin Continent’s Source World. After advancing two Origin Great Daos to God King Two, he resolved to seek more power and go hunting for battle merits.

• Guardians of the Dark Sacred Realm discussed Dongguan’s simulated Space-Time Annihilation Tribulation and agreed to charge ten thousand battle merits for each cave-abode reset.
• Dongguan reset the cave abode again, recognized clues in the traces left in time, and began his 8,920th attempt after many failures.
• On the Origin Continent, Dongguan advanced his time and world Origin Great Daos to God King Two, bringing his total to seven without gaining control of the Source World.
• Dongguan realized that the power of cycle and his bloodline’s obstruction blocked the final step, and that breaking law with force could let him become a Hunyuan Lord.
• Dongguan decided to pursue more breakthroughs and go hunting because his battle merits were running low.

Dongguan hunted Black Sky Descendants near Hunyuan City and headed for Xinjiu Camp to gather information and sell spoils. At the camp, the Thunder Ancestor reluctantly sold a Cangyan Remains for a low price, while the Yanfeng Ancestor said the camp still offered a vital foothold.

• Dongguan killed a group of Black Sky Descendants and gathered their materials, estimating they would yield around seven thousand battle merits.
• Dongguan considered Luo Feng’s progress and the war’s likely end, then set out to clear Hunyuan lifeforms around Hunyuan City and visit seventy-six camps.
• Dongguan examined cause-and-effect paths and tracked the movement of innate primal chaos lifeforms as he approached Xinjiu Camp.
• The Thunder Ancestor argued with a camp attendant over the low price offered for his near-late-God-Emperor Cangyan Remains, then accepted five battle merits.
• The Yanfeng Ancestor told the Thunder Ancestor that Xinjiu Camp’s market was extortionate but provided a safer foothold far from Hunyuan City.

Yanfeng Ancestor and Thunder Ancestor were caught in a siege on Xinjiu Camp as Hunyuan Lifeforms flooded the city. Xinjiu and Wangmeng watched the battle and discovered that a powerful Void-Heart Derivation Demon had joined the attack.

• Yanfeng Ancestor and Thunder Ancestor hurried toward their lodging when a Lightless One and several Overlimit Level Hunyuan Lifeforms attacked Xinjiu Camp.
• After the camp opened its gates, Hunyuan Lifeforms entered the streets, forcing Yanfeng Ancestor, Thunder Ancestor, and other cultivators to fight them before reaching safety.
• Xinjiu and a deep-teal-robed figure observed the siege from the central palace and noted that six Overlimit Level Hunyuan Lifeforms had surrounded the camp.
• The deep-teal-robed figure detected a seventh Overlimit Level Hunyuan Lifeform and identified it as the Void-Heart Derivation Demon.
• Xinjiu realized that without Wangmeng's presence, he might not have been able to defend the camp against the demon.

Xinjiu and Death Dream Hall Master weighed the danger of a Void-Heart Derivation Demon as six Overlimit Level Hunyuan Lifeforms attacked Xinjiu Camp. The attackers entered the formation, God Emperor Xinjiu mobilized the city's cultivators, and Yanfeng Ancestor and Thunder Ancestor prepared to escape as the camp's defenses crumbled.

• Death Dream Hall Master warned Xinjiu that the Void-Heart Derivation Demon could coordinate the six Overlimit Level lifeforms and said he wanted the Demon Cloud Beast.
• Six groups of Hunyuan Lifeforms advanced on Xinjiu Camp, while Yanfeng Ancestor and Thunder Ancestor found fighting raging through the city.
• God Emperor Xinjiu ordered the cultivators to channel their divine power, then destroyed a formation of God Emperor Perfection Hunyuan Lifeforms at the North City Gate.
• The six Overlimit Level lifeforms attacked the camp's formation, and cultivators began planning escapes as the city's defenses suffered heavy damage.
• Yanfeng Ancestor and Thunder Ancestor searched for the mysterious cultivator who had observed the battle, but he had vanished and his appearance was becoming hazy in their memories.

Dongguan confronted the Void-Heart Derivation Demon as the battle for Xinjiu Camp began at its city gates. God Emperor Xinjiu and the Death Dream Hall Master attacked the Demon Cloud Beasts while the other Hunyuan Lifeforms tried to break out, and the Void-Heart Derivation Demon struggled to escape the approaching Purger.

• Dongguan recognized that the Void-Heart Derivation Demon had helped the Lightless One slip in and decided to mark the remaining targets for later.
• The Death Dream Hall Master attacked the Demon Cloud Beasts at the southern gate, using a Death Energy Scythe to wound their Overlimit Level leader and weaken the others.
• God Emperor Xinjiu launched an attack at the northern gate as four Overlimit Level Innate Primal Chaos Lifeforms tried to break out through the other gates.
• The Void-Heart Derivation Demon told the other Hunyuan Lifeforms that the plan had changed and warned that the Purger was arriving sooner than expected.
• The Lightless One urged Yun and Mysterious Roar to hold on while the others fought through the city and destroyed its array formations.
• The Void-Heart Derivation Demon tried to unravel the causal lines binding it and escape into the void, but it remained locked in place as the Purger drew closer.

Dongguan tracked the Void-Heart Derivation Demon to Xinjiu Camp while Xinjiu and Wangmeng fought the invading Hunyuan Lifeforms. Wangmeng shattered the Demon Cloud Beast, and Dongguan suddenly appeared before the waiting Void-Heart Derivation Demon.

• Dongguan used an avatar's karmic link to locate the Void-Heart Derivation Demon and decided to confront it before hunting the remaining Innate Primal Chaos Lifeforms.
• At Xinjiu Camp, Xinjiu and Wangmeng held the city gates while the cultivators protected themselves and the enemy forces advanced.
• Xinjiu and Wangmeng agreed to strike before reinforcements arrived, with Xinjiu prepared to detonate the city if the battle turned against them.
• Wangmeng shattered the Demon Cloud Beast at the South City Gate and began destroying its fragments to reach its Life Core.
• The Void-Heart Derivation Demon weighed supporting its allies, fleeing, or waiting, and chose to wait and assess Dongguan's strength.
• Dongguan appeared before the Void-Heart Derivation Demon in a Gray-Robed Figure.

Dongguan overwhelmed the Void-Heart Derivation Demon in a contest of space-time mastery and killed it with a crushing will attack. Inside the city, the six remaining Overlimit Level beings realized they were trapped and feared Dongguan would kill them next.

• The Void-Heart Derivation Demon attacked Dongguan by shattering space into countless slicing fragments, but Dongguan’s domain settled space-time and tracked its divided forms.
• Dongguan thwarted the Void-Heart Derivation Demon’s escape by collapsing the space around it and sweeping it back into the distorted battlefield.
• Dongguan reflected on the difference between bloodline power and the Great Dao as he exhausted the demon’s limited combat variations.
• Dongguan crushed the Void-Heart Derivation Demon’s exposed Life Core with his will, and the dying demon recognized him as an Invincible Being.
• Inside the city, the six remaining Overlimit Level beings saw the demon’s avatars disappear and feared they would be doomed unless they escaped immediately.

Wangmeng killed the Demon Cloud Beast and collected its remains while Xinjiu sacrificed the city’s power to defeat Mysterious Roar. Xinjiu then triggered the city’s destruction as the other overlimit lifeforms approached, and Dongguan prepared to act after watching the collapse.

• Wangmeng destroyed the Demon Cloud Beast’s Life Core, gathered its materials, and told Xinjiu that his battle was over.
• At the North City Gate, Xinjiu kept fighting Mysterious Roar despite the approaching overlimit lifeforms and asked Wangmeng to collect its corpse if he had to return anew.
• Xinjiu burned the city’s energy, prompting cultivators to flee as the weakened array formations overloaded.
• The Death Dream Hall Master agreed to hold off the two approaching overlimit lifeforms at the South City Gate while Xinjiu fought on.
• Xinjiu killed Mysterious Roar and commanded the city to collapse, unleashing a destructive wave that devastated the city and severely injured overlimit lifeforms.
• Dongguan watched the city’s destruction after putting away the Void-Heart Derivation Demon’s body, then prepared to finish things up.

After Xinjiu Camp was destroyed, Xinjiu and Wangmeng discovered that the two surviving Overlimit Hunyuan Lifeforms had fled, apparently because the missing Void-Heart Derivation Demon had been dealt with. Dongguan finished hunting escaped enemies and arrived at the ruined camp to meet Xinjiu and Wangmeng.

• Xinjiu called on the two surviving Overlimit Hunyuan Lifeforms to kill him, but they fled through the city gate instead.
• Wangmeng returned to Xinjiu, and they wondered whether the Purger had stopped the missing Void-Heart Derivation Demon.
• Dongguan collected the bodies of escaped Innate Primal Chaos Lifeforms, including his fifth Overlimit-level victim, the Lightless One.
• Xinjiu and Wangmeng decided to meet the Purger and thank him, then waited atop the gate tower as Dongguan approached.

Dongguan met Wangmeng and Xinjiu God Emperor at Xinjiu Camp, where they discussed their origins, strength, and life in the Dark Sacred Realm. He then summoned Yanfeng Ancestor and Thunder Ancestor, revealing himself to them as the chapter ended.

• Dongguan met Wangmeng and Xinjiu God Emperor, and Wangmeng recognized him as Brother Guantian, the Purger.
• Dongguan allowed Xinjiu God Emperor to know his origins but asked them to keep the matter among themselves so Ying'an would not learn of his presence.
• Dongguan and Wangmeng caught up while Xinjiu described running Xinjiu Camp and the returns on his investment.
• Dongguan noticed Yanfeng Ancestor and Thunder Ancestor registering to return to Hunyuan City, then asked Xinjiu to invite them up.
• Yanfeng Ancestor and Thunder Ancestor joined Dongguan, Wangmeng, and Xinjiu, and Dongguan revealed his identity to the startled pair.

Dongguan met Yanfeng Ancestor and Thunder Ancestor, then left Xinjiu God Emperor and Death Dream Hall Master to suspect he had become an Invincible Being. As Dongguan studied Xinjiu’s inheritance in the wilderness, he wondered whether he could safely learn from other cultivators’ daos despite the risk of pollution.

• Yanfeng Ancestor and Thunder Ancestor realized Dongguan was their permanent backer, while outsiders would believe Xinjiu God Emperor protected them.
• Dongguan declined Xinjiu God Emperor’s offer to return to Hunyuan City and vanished, leaving Xinjiu and Death Dream Hall Master to discuss his concealed strength.
• Xinjiu God Emperor and Death Dream Hall Master concluded Dongguan was likely an Invincible Being and investigated his connection to Ying’an.
• Xinjiu God Emperor explained the ranks of Overlimit beings and assessed Ying’an as a quasi-Overlimit cultivator with a limited shadow path.
• Dongguan read Xinjiu God Emperor’s inheritance and considered whether he could study other daos without being polluted by them.

Hong Ge and Yifeiya reported Dongguan’s demonstrated strength to the Lords, but the Star Glow Lord told them to be patient. In the wilderness, Dongguan examined how Xinjiu’s legacy had advanced his Daos and reflected on the curiosity and choices needed to follow his own path.

• Hong Ge and Yifeiya judged that Dongguan had shown the strength of an invincible being and reported him to the Lords.
• The Star Glow Lord replied that they should be patient, and Hong Ge and Yifeiya decided to meet Dongguan when he returned to Hunyuan City.
• Dongguan found that studying Xinjiu’s legacy had deepened his Space Dao Road and Fluctuation Dao, while his Destruction Dao had also reached God King Two.
• Dongguan considered how crossing a threshold had made comprehending time and world easier, and he thought the Extreme Point Dao might be nearing its breakthrough.
• Dongguan reflected that his Dongguan Dao depended on witnessing wonders and recognized that curiosity and self-preserving choices could conflict.

Dongguan examined his more than twenty million merit points but found no treasure worth exchanging for, and instead decided to trade his stockpiled Hunyuan lifeform bodies for inheritances. He asked the Death Dream Hall Master to help arrange a large-scale exchange, leaving the Hall Master alarmed by the potential cost to Dongguan’s future.

• Dongguan checked his merit total of 21,092,038 and browsed the exchange catalog, but chose not to spend his points on a super treasure or Hunyuan Prisoner.
• Dongguan reviewed the Hunyuan lifeform bodies he had collected and decided their trade value could help him study his unusual avatar and Tamos’s resurrection vessel.
• Dongguan resolved to meet Wangmeng’s friends and exchange Hunyuan lifeform bodies for inheritances in bulk.
• The Death Dream Hall Master questioned Dongguan’s request to trade bodies for inheritances at the corresponding level and warned that collecting them indiscriminately could hinder his future path.

Dongguan used the Death Dream Hall Master’s network to buy a large collection of God Emperor inheritances, paying Hunyuan Lifeform bodies as compensation. As he began studying the inheritances, two powerful figures appeared before him, and he sensed they were High-Level Hunyuan Lifeforms.

• Dongguan agreed to pay one tenth of a same-level Hunyuan Lifeform body for each inheritance, provided it was unique and at least God Emperor level.
• The Death Dream Hall Master contacted his network, and cultivators began trading inheritances to Dongguan for Hunyuan Lifeform bodies.
• Dongguan narrowed his purchases to Dao Comprehender inheritances and offered less for bloodline cultivator inheritances.
• God Emperor Ying'an heard about the exchange and submitted his inheritance to obtain a God Emperor Perfection Hunyuan body.
• Dongguan studied Ying'an’s inheritance, then saw two figures whose auras seemed to come from beyond the prison cage and identified them as High-Level Hunyuan Lifeforms.

Guardians Qiu Ge and Yifeiya explained why Dongguan had not yet been received by a Lord and offered to let him inspect the Hunyuan prisoners kept for trials. Dongguan learned he could choose prisoners or exchange battle merit for them, strengthening his ties with the Guardians.

• Qiu Ge and Yifeiya introduced themselves as Guardians of the Dark Sacred Realm and stopped questioning Dongguan after he said the Star Glow Lord and Yuan Lord knew his circumstances.
• Qiu Ge explained that Dongguan’s transcendent will should have earned him guidance, but the Guardians had reported his case to a Lord and were awaiting instructions.
• Yifeiya proposed releasing sealed Hunyuan prisoners as trials, explaining that their strength would be restricted and their influence could temper Dongguan’s will.
• Qiu Ge and Yifeiya offered to let Dongguan inspect more than thirty thousand prisoners and exchange battle merit for any that interested him.
• Dongguan realized he had little to fear within the Dark Sacred Realm as the Guardians’ offer established goodwill between them.

Dongguan endured the mind pollution of the imprisoned Hunyuan lifeforms and used the experience to understand how to complete his Dongguan Dao. He left the Space-Time Prison Cage with renewed resolve to integrate all his different views into one.

• Ge and Yifeiya brought Dongguan into the Space-Time Prison Cage, where the imprisoned Hunyuan lifeforms’ gazes subjected him to mind pollution.
• Dongguan resisted the pollution, drawing on the will he had forged through the Eternity Dream and the pressure of a World-Level Hunyuan.
• Dongguan studied the Hunyuan lifeforms’ attention as another kind of view, comparing it to his own way of observing and understanding others.
• Dongguan realized that his Dongguan Dao would reach perfection when he integrated all his views into one, and decided that gathering more views would help him build toward that goal.
• Dongguan emerged from the Space-Time Prison Cage before a day had passed, surprising Ge and Yifeiya with his speed.

Dongguan chose the information-focused Hunyuan Prisoner Exotic Crystal for his needs and decided to postpone releasing another prisoner while he built up his foundation. He settled into secluded cultivation, refining his avatar and studying inheritances, and a thousand eras passed.

• Dongguan selected Exotic Crystal, a cunning Hunyuan Prisoner whose abilities suited his plans to integrate his system and strengthen his Extreme Point Great Dao.
• Yifeiya warned Dongguan that Exotic Crystal was dangerous, but Dongguan declined to release another prisoner for training because it could disrupt the Dark Sacred Realm.
• Dongguan returned to his cave abode and planned to study his collected inheritances, integrate his knowledge, and examine Exotic Crystal and his avatar.
• Dongguan considered refining his avatar into a secret treasure and weighed other ways to acquire Innate Secret Treasures.
• A thousand eras passed as Dongguan continued his secluded cultivation.

Dongguan met Luo Feng on the Origin Continent and learned that Luo Feng planned to reach a higher level before entering the Dark Sacred Realm. Meanwhile, Ying'an grew restless and ventured out again, prompting Dongguan to prepare to settle their lingering grudge.

• Dongguan and Luo Feng met in a restaurant, where Dongguan discerned that Luo Feng's life great dao had reached God Emperor perfection.
• Luo Feng said he would advance his creation and destruction dao before entering the Dark Sacred Realm, and the two considered hunting or sparring together in the future.
• After hearing of a newly descended Hunyuan ruin, Ying'an used a second avatar to explore while keeping another in Hunyuan City.
• Dongguan detected Ying'an's movement through their causal connection and decided to act, intending to leave Ying'an in a fate-driven predicament rather than merely kill his avatar.

Dongguan learned that a newly fallen ruin could contain dangerous passages and unusual treasures, then grew interested in exploring it. At the ruin, a gray-robed cultivator found and restrained Ying'an.

• A huge object fell into the Dark Sacred Realm, and its protective formations diverted it into the wilderness, where it formed a ruin.
• Dongguan read about ruins and learned from the two Guardians that they would postpone releasing the Hunyuan Prisoners until the new ruin had been explored.
• A purple-robed cultivator spotted what appeared to be buildings inside the ruin and gathered a group to search for them, while others chose to enter alone.
• A gray-robed cultivator arrived and identified the black-robed cultivator as Ying'an.
• The gray-robed cultivator appeared beside Ying'an and sealed him before he could react.

Dongguan confronted Ying'an over the past plot and demanded to know about the Dao Derivation Poison. After Ying'an revealed where he had found it, Dongguan overwhelmed him with mind pollution and destroyed his avatar.

• The Gray-Robed Figure vanished with Ying'an, and the cultivators of Hunyuan City prepared to enter the ruins after Wu Huang said he had found the entrance.
• Dongguan brought Ying'an to a valley and revealed that he was Guantian, seeking revenge for Ying'an's past scheme.
• Ying'an argued that the Dao Derivation Poison had helped Dongguan, then offered information about it in exchange for leniency.
• Ying'an admitted he had no poison or recipe left but told Dongguan about the ruin where he had obtained it.
• Dongguan poured mind pollution into Ying'an with a Space-Time Crystal, then annihilated his avatar.

Dongguan investigated the newly discovered ruin and studied Exotic Crystal, while Ying'an survived the mind pollution in Hunyuan City. Lu Yin Walker decided to visit the ruin after learning what had happened to Ying'an.

• Ying'an regained a trace of reason after enduring continuous mind pollution and wondered whether he would recover or sink into oblivion.
• Dongguan examined the sealed Exotic Crystal from multiple angles and considered the geometric lifeform's connection to the ruin.
• Dongguan entered the ruin and discovered that its shifting terrain acted like intersecting flat surfaces and shortcuts through different layers.
• Dongguan entered the ruin through a side passage to investigate the ruin itself, which he suspected might share traits with Abandoned Ruins.
• Lu Yin Walker learned that Ying'an had been polluted after visiting the newly discovered ruin and decided to investigate it himself.

Wu Huang’s group fought the owl wolves while Lu Yin Walker searched for the ruin’s center, and Dongguan used the ruin to make a breakthrough in his Dao. The chapter left Dongguan with a clear framework for completing his Great Dao and Lu Yin Walker still seeking the ruin’s greatest opportunity.

• Wu Huang arranged for the surviving cultivators to receive shares of the gains according to their contributions and to share their exploration experiences.
• A gold-robed cultivator revealed himself as a calamity-type cultivator and attacked the owl wolves, drawing out the hidden alpha wolf so the others could wound it.
• The alpha wolf escaped into its pack, while the gold-robed cultivator survived and said he needed time to recover before attacking again.
• Lu Yin Walker watched the battle from concealment, then continued toward the ruin’s center, unable to sense the Infinite Great Serpent Statue or contact God Emperor Ying'an.
• Dongguan compared the ruin with his research into Exotic Crystal, understood that different views were differences in angles, and began building a framework for his Great Dao.

After organizing his accumulated insights, Dongguan continued searching the Ruin for what he needed to perfect the Dongguan Dao. Lu Yin Walker’s search for Ying'an led him to the Infinite Great Serpent Statue and the disappearing Bronze Gate, and the chapter ended with him recognizing Dongguan in another layer of the Ruin.

• Dongguan completed organizing his thirteen Origin Great Dao views and decided to explore more ruins and other sources of insight.
• Lu Yin Walker questioned Wu Huang’s group and learned that a senior had taken Ying'an away about five eras earlier.
• Lu Yin Walker used the Infinite Great Serpent Statue to search the gathered beings, found a snake-shaped lifeform with a trace of the bloodline, and killed it.
• The Bronze Gate turned illusory as the statue’s eyes lit up; Lu Yin Walker sealed the Hunyuan lifeforms in place and slaughtered them when they tried to resist.
• After the Bronze Gate vanished, Lu Yin Walker recovered the statue and decided to take it to a Large Hunyuan Hall for appraisal.
• Dongguan used the Space-Time Crystal to reach another layer, where he and Lu Yin Walker saw one another; Lu Yin Walker froze when he recognized Dongguan.