Recaps

Li Dalong traveled through the Abyssal Devil Lands to assess the Devil Race and seek a breakthrough, then ambushed a gathering of its leaders. Surrounded while fighting Green Shadow, he began cutting down the Mahayana Realm leaders with his fists and Azure Cloud Sword.

• Li Dalong destroyed a Devil Race camp, then continued his journey while observing the land and cultivating his state of mind.
• He secretly watched a larger camp and found that the Devil Race forces were stronger than expected, with many Mahayana Realm devils gathered under powerful leaders.
• Li Dalong decided to ambush the gathering’s strongest leader, but a Shadow Devil guard detected him and raised the alarm.
• Li Dalong attacked Green Shadow, the Forest Shadow Clan chief, while other Devil Race leaders joined the fight and tried to surround him.
• Li Dalong used the Dragon Scale Armor and killed a Mahayana Realm leader with a single punch, then drew the Azure Cloud Sword and charged at another leader.

Li Dalong killed several Devil Race leaders but was ambushed by Chris and struck by Green Shadow, leaving him seriously wounded. After escaping their combined attack and taking a healing pill, he renewed his assault on Green Shadow while preparing to face both enemies.

• Li Dalong killed two Devil Race leaders with his fist and Azure Cloud Sword, frightening the survivors and enraging Green Shadow.
• Green Shadow raised his strength with a secret technique, but Chris ambushed Li Dalong from behind; Li Dalong countered Chris and was blasted away.
• Green Shadow struck Li Dalong with his spiked club, and Chris tried to trap him with Darkness Entanglement.
• Li Dalong transformed into a divine dragon to escape the entanglement, then flew away from Chris and Green Shadow and took a supreme-grade healing pill.
• Li Dalong summoned Heaven-Dharma Appearance and sent an energy attack at Green Shadow, who met it head-on with his spiked club.

Li Dalong killed Green Shadow while fighting Chris and Green Shadow, then escaped back to the Righteous Qi Sect despite worsening injuries. He warned Zhou Yong that the Devil Race was far stronger than expected.

• Li Dalong redirected the Azure Cloud Sword through Chris's wall of darkness and pierced Green Shadow, killing him.
• With his injuries worsening, Li Dalong used Dragon Shadow Escape to flee, and Chris pursued him for two hours before losing his trail.
• Li Dalong took a healing pill, returned to the Righteous Qi Sect, and summoned Zhou Yong to the Forbidden Grounds.
• Li Dalong told Zhou Yong that the Devil Race had more than the two hundred thousand enemies previously discovered and that even outermost small-tribe leaders had Mahayana Realm cultivation.

Li Dalong returned from battle badly injured after killing Green Shadow, the Forest Shadow Clan chieftain, and entered the Creation Cultivation Tower to heal. After receiving the Nine-Turn Golden Body Art from the system, he began repairing his internal organs and meridians, drifting into a hazy state as he cultivated.

• Li Dalong warned Zhou Yong that the Devil Race was powerful and told him to avoid provoking them until he recovered.
• Zhou Yong returned to the Alliance Council hall to summon the Vice Alliance Leaders and revise their plans against the Devil Race.
• Li Dalong entered the Creation Cultivation Tower, where the system granted him the Nine-Turn Golden Body Art.
• Li Dalong memorized the body-refining art and decided to cultivate it after healing, alongside his Dragon Scale Armor.
• Li Dalong used the medicinal potency of his Supreme-Grade Healing Pills to repair his injured organs and meridians, gradually growing hazy.

Li Dalong mastered the Nine-Turn Golden Body Art while recovering from his injuries, increasing his physical strength and cultivation. Meanwhile, Zhou Yong convened the Alliance Council to plan defenses and prepare for the Devil Race invasion until Li Dalong recovered.

• Li Dalong awoke from an enlightening trance with his injuries healed and the Nine-Turn Golden Body Art mastered.
• Zhou Yong summoned the Vice Alliance Leaders and reported that the Devil Race force exceeded two hundred thousand and that Li Dalong had killed Green Shadow before being injured.
• Yun Miao urged the Alliance to train more cultivators, and Zhou Yong proposed opening Misty Canyon's safe areas, supporting small sects, and establishing a training institution.
• Qian Jin called for stronger intelligence gathering on the Devil Race, while Zhao Wuji and Gong Tiandao proposed a defensive line, organized forces, and more resources for the Allied Army.
• Zhou Yong ordered the Alliance to strengthen defenses, evacuate people from the invasion route, and settle evacuees in the Demon Beast Forest until Li Dalong recovered.

Li Dalong and Zhou Yong agreed on a comprehensive plan to defend against the Devil Race and strengthen the Alliance. After arranging for the sect and Alliance to be managed in his absence, Zhou Yong entered the Creation Cultivation Tower to prepare for his breakthrough to the Tribulation Transcendence Realm.

• Zhou Yong met Li Dalong, who told him that he had fully recovered, gained strength, and mastered a cultivation art.
• Li Dalong advised Zhou Yong to study the Devil Race’s tactics, organize cultivators into a hierarchical defense with an elite mobile force, recruit more allies, and reinforce territory defenses.
• Li Dalong encouraged Zhou Yong to enter seclusion and break through, and they worked out a comprehensive plan against the Devil Race.
• Zhou Yong assigned the Alliance and sect elders to manage affairs during his seclusion and instructed them not to disturb him unless something major happened.
• Zhou Yong told Li Dalong he was ready and entered the Creation Cultivation Tower to cultivate, planning to undergo tribulation at a remote place Li Dalong had chosen.

Zhou Yong overcame the Heavenly Tribulation and entered the early Tribulation Transcendence Realm, with Li Dalong guarding him through the breakthrough. After Zhou Yong consolidated his cultivation, the Allied Army began its offensive against the Devil Race, while Zhou Yong remained hidden in the rear camp.

• Li Dalong moved Zhou Yong from the Creation Cultivation Tower to Sea Island and set up a Spirit-Gathering Array as Tribulation Clouds gathered.
• Zhou Yong endured repeated Tribulation Lightning strikes, used the healing pills Li Dalong had given him, and survived the Heavenly Tribulation.
• Li Dalong congratulated Zhou Yong, and the two returned to the Righteous Qi Sect as sea beasts gathered and fought near the tribulation site.
• Zhou Yong spent several days consolidating his cultivation and established himself in the early Tribulation Transcendence Realm.
• Zhou Yong ordered the Allied Army to attack the Devil Race, while Li Dalong guarded the front lines openly and Zhou Yong stayed hidden in the rear camp.

The Allied Army attacked the Devil Race on two fronts, and Zheng Tianxiang’s elite force routed a much larger devil contingent. When the devil leaders moved to crush the right flank, Li Dalong and Zhou Yong confronted them, but Chris prepared to ambush Zhou Yong.

• Zhou Yong divided the Allied Army, sending Gong Tiandao’s force against the main devil army while Zheng Tianxiang led an elite strike force along the right flank, guarded by Li Dalong and Zhou Yong.
• Chris sent twenty thousand Flame Devil Race and Wind Demon Clan troops to stop Zheng Tianxiang, but the strike force routed them in less than four hours.
• Chris summoned Yan Shuo and Feng Wuying to attack the right flank, while Li Dalong warned Zheng Tianxiang to halt and prepare defensive arrays before confronting the three devil leaders.
• Li Dalong met Chris, Feng Wuying, and Yan Shuo ahead of the Allied Army, then defended against their attacks with his armor, golden body, and Azure Cloud Sword.
• Zhou Yong joined the fight and forced Yan Shuo onto the defensive with the Heaven and Earth Righteous Qi Sword Art.
• Chris abandoned his attempts to catch Li Dalong off guard and prepared to ambush Zhou Yong while Yan Shuo was occupied.

Li Dalong stopped Chris from ambushing Zhou Yong, while Zhou Yong killed Yan Shuo by enduring a direct attack and countering with his flying sword. Zhou Yong began healing as Li Dalong prepared to face Chris and Feng Wuying, who feared the fight would turn against them.

• Li Dalong detected Chris's attack on Zhou Yong, intercepted him, and shattered his Darkness Devour with a sword strike.
• Li Dalong attacked Chris and Feng Wuying while Zhou Yong engaged Yan Shuo with his Wind Blade Art.
• Yan Shuo struck Zhou Yong with a World-Destroying Strike, but Zhou Yong survived and killed him with a flying sword that pierced his dantian.
• Li Dalong stood guard while Zhou Yong used a Supreme Healing Pill to stabilize his injuries.
• Chris grew anxious as Zhou Yong healed and considered taking the chance to kill him before he recovered.

Zhou Yong wounded Chris with a secret art, allowing Li Dalong to defeat the Devil Race leaders and turn the battle in the Allied Army’s favor. Li Dalong then killed the Devil Race’s Mahayana tribal chiefs, leaving their forces in chaos as they fled toward the Abyssal Devil Lands.

• Zhou Yong used the Righteous Qi Sect’s secret art to repel Chris’s spear and strike his dantian, suffering severe injuries in the process.
• Li Dalong unleashed repeated Heaven-Slaying Sword Strikes, cutting Chris in two and killing Feng Wuying as he tried to escape.
• With the Devil Race leaders dead, Zheng Tianxiang and the Allied Army pressed their attack, driving the Devil Race into retreat.
• Zhou Yong warned Li Dalong that the Allied Army’s casualties could harm their coming operation against the Extraterritorial Demons, and Li Dalong agreed to intervene.
• Li Dalong used the Azure Cloud Sword to behead the Devil Race’s Mahayana tribal chiefs, causing their forces to lose command and flee in disarray.
• The Allied Army pursued the retreating Devil Race, and only a small portion escaped back into the Abyssal Devil Lands.

After the war against the Devil Race, Zhou Yong and the Allied Army recovered and reorganized at the Forward Base, then launched a campaign against the Extraterritorial Demons. The chapter leaves the Allied Army fighting at the enemy’s border as Zhou Yong’s plan to repair the Spatial Rift begins.

• Zhou Yong arranged generous merit-based rewards and postwar preparations before returning to the Righteous Qi Sect to heal his severe injuries.
• After two months, Zhou Yong recovered, though his lost lifespan and damage to his cultivation foundation remained; Yan Yi and the other cultivators also recovered and trained at the base.
• Over several months, the Allied Army replenished its forces and coordinated its veteran and newly recruited units while the defenders at Misty Canyon faced pressure from the Extraterritorial Demons.
• Zhou Yong and the Vice Alliance Leaders ordered the Allied Army to march to Misty Canyon and outlined a three-group plan to fight the demons, confront the Demon Lord, and repair the Spatial Rift.
• Zhou Yong led the Allied Army to the border of the Extraterritorial Demons’ territory, where the army prepared for battle and began fighting the advancing demonic forces.

Li Dalong and Zhou Yong led the second wave of cultivators toward the Spatial Rift, drawing Demon Lord Wuming and Demon Lord Xingtu into battle. Zhou Yong fought Xingtu but was injured when Xingtu chose to clash head-on, leaving him in danger as Wuming prepared to strike.

• Li Dalong and Zhou Yong led the cultivators through the demons' encampment toward the Spatial Rift, prompting Demon Lord Wuming to intervene.
• Demon Lord Xingtu attacked Zhou Yong with Netherflash, but Zhou Yong dodged and countered with the Azure Shadow Sword.
• Zhou Yong pressed Xingtu with repeated sword attacks, and Xingtu used Nether Shield to block a strike aimed at his heart.
• Xingtu told Wuming to look for an opening to attack Zhou Yong, while Li Dalong prepared to counter their ambush.
• Xingtu and Zhou Yong clashed head-on, and Zhou Yong was injured as Wuming seized the chance to attack.

Li Dalong and Zhou Yong fought Demon Lord Wuming and Demon Lord Xingtú, then Li Dalong wounded Xingtú in a surprise attack. Wuming and Xingtú tried to escape through the Spatial Rift so they could seek reinforcements, and Li Dalong realized he had to stop them.

• Li Dalong attacked Demon Lord Xingtú while using the Five Elements Demon-Sealing Hand to strike Demon Lord Wuming, and Zhou Yong coordinated with him.
• Demon Lord Xingtú wounded Zhou Yong, lowering his guard and giving Li Dalong the chance to sever one of his arms.
• Zhou Yong struck the wounded Demon Lord Xingtú, while Demon Lord Wuming rushed to shield him from further attacks.
• Demon Lord Wuming told Demon Lord Xingtú to flee through the Spatial Rift and request reinforcements from His Lordship.
• Demon Lord Wuming attacked Li Dalong with the Netherworld Prison Halberd as Xingtú launched a blade at Zhou Yong and fled toward the Spatial Rift.
• Li Dalong recognized that the demons intended to escape and resolved to stop them from returning to the Nether Demon Domain.

Li Dalong pursued Demon Lord Xingtú while the Human Race's Allied Army fought its way toward the Spatial Rift. Xingtú was killed just before he could escape, but Demon Lord Wuming's attack shattered Li Dalong's Dragon Scale Armor.

• Li Dalong bypassed Demon Lord Wuming to pursue Xingtú while Zhou Yong held Wuming back, and the Allied Army advanced against the Extraterritorial Demons.
• The demons reorganized their defense, killed a Formation Great Grandmaster, and then suffered heavy losses when Vice Alliance Leader Qian Jin led a counterattack.
• A Great Demon General detonated himself, killing more than ten Mahayana Realm cultivators and injuring many others, and Qian Jin ordered the injured protected and treated.
• Wuming abandoned his fight with Zhou Yong and chased Li Dalong, who used the Heaven-Slaying Art to strike at Xingtú as Xingtú raced toward the Spatial Rift.
• Xingtú hurled a spiked club behind him and kept charging, but Li Dalong's Azure Cloud Sword sliced him in half before he reached the Spatial Rift.
• Wuming's Netherworld Hook struck Li Dalong after Xingtú's death, shattering Li Dalong's Dragon Scale Armor.

Demon Lord Wuming detonated himself in a final attack on Zhou Yong, leaving Zhou Yong gravely wounded and unconscious. Li Dalong kept him alive with spiritual power and a Supreme Healing Pill, but could do nothing more to treat him.

• After Demon Lord Xingtu was killed, Demon Lord Wuming tried to flee through the Spatial Rift, but Zhou Yong's attack slowed him and Li Dalong blocked his escape.
• Demon Lord Wuming focused his attacks on Zhou Yong while Li Dalong struck him, and a nearby Great Demon General's self-detonation inspired Wuming to prepare his own explosion.
• Demon Lord Wuming charged Zhou Yong and detonated himself, blasting Li Dalong away and devastating the area around them.
• Zhou Yong's sword, Defensive Artifact, Protective Barrier, and Protective Robe weakened the blast, but he suffered shattered organs, a damaged dantian, and ruptured meridians.
• Li Dalong caught the unconscious Zhou Yong, protected the meridians around his heart, and used a Supreme Healing Pill to sustain his life.

After the Allied Army cleared Misty Canyon, the Formation Great Grandmasters began repairing the Spatial Rift while Li Dalong rushed the gravely injured Zhou Yong back to the Righteous Qi Sect. As Li Dalong watched over Zhou Yong and summoned the elders and family, his check-in system awarded him ten-thousand-year profound ice, whose preservation abilities it explained.

• Vice Alliance Leader Qian Jin led the Allied Army to secure the Spatial Rift, and Li Dalong slew the remaining Great Demon Generals.
• The Allied Army wiped out the Extraterritorial Demons in Misty Canyon within two days while the Formation Great Grandmasters began repairing the Spatial Rift.
• Li Dalong told Qian Jin that Zhou Yong was gravely injured, then took him back to the Righteous Qi Sect for treatment.
• Li Dalong summoned the sect elders and asked Yun Yao, Zhou Xue, and Zhou Tianlong to come, without revealing Zhou Yong’s condition.
• Li Dalong checked in and received ten-thousand-year profound ice, and the system explained its powerful preservation properties.

Li Dalong used ten-thousand-year profound ice to refine a coffin that could preserve Zhou Yong in suspended animation until a cure was found. He summoned the Righteous Qi Sect’s elders and Zhou Yong’s family, who saw Zhou Yong’s unconscious, bloodied body and demanded to know what had happened.

• Li Dalong took ten-thousand-year profound ice from the System Space and ordered the disciple on duty to keep others away while he refined an ice coffin.
• Li Dalong carefully inscribed defensive, spirit-gathering, and sealing formations into the coffin so it could preserve Zhou Yong’s vitality and contain its cold.
• After more than four hours, Li Dalong activated and tested the formations, then invited the waiting elders into the Righteous Qi Hall.
• Yun Yao, Zhou Xue, and Zhou Tianlong entered the formation and saw Zhou Yong’s unconscious body beside the ice coffin.
• Li Dalong stopped Yun Yao from embracing Zhou Yong and told her and the children that Zhou Yong was not dead, as they urgently asked what had happened.

After Zhou Yong was gravely wounded fighting the Extraterritorial Demons, Li Dalong woke him so he could speak to his family and the elders before being sealed in a ten-thousand-year profound ice coffin. Zhou Yong entrusted the sect to the elders and urged them to choose a new sect master, and they turned their attention to Zhou Tianlong.

• Li Dalong told Yun Yao and the elders that Zhou Yong had defeated Demon Lord Wuming but had been gravely wounded by the demon lord's self-destruction.
• Li Dalong used spiritual power to wake Zhou Yong, who said goodbye to Yun Yao and urged Zhou Xue and Zhou Tianlong to care for their family and keep cultivating.
• Li Dalong told Zhou Yong he would seal him in a ten-thousand-year profound ice coffin until he could find an immortal pill.
• Zhou Yong instructed the elders to unite, manage the sect, and choose a new sect master before losing consciousness again.
• Li Dalong sealed Zhou Yong in the coffin and stored it in the System Space, then told the elders the sect needed a new leader.
• The elders looked to Zhou Tianlong as a possible new sect master, leaving him unsure how to respond.

The elders chose Zhou Tianlong to succeed his gravely injured father as sect master of the Righteous Qi Sect, and Li Dalong persuaded him to accept. The elders began preparing for the formal inauguration while Zhou Tianlong went home to be with his mother.

• Tang Mingxuan proposed Zhou Tianlong as the new sect master, and the elders unanimously urged him to accept.
• Zhou Tianlong declined at first, but Li Dalong encouraged him to take the position with the elders' support, and Zhou Tianlong agreed.
• The elders formally greeted Zhou Tianlong as sect master and planned to hold an inauguration ceremony on an auspicious day.
• Li Dalong instructed the elders to finish clearing the Extraterritorial Demons from Misty Canyon and notify the Cultivation World and the Alliance that Zhou Yong had entered long-term seclusion.
• Li Dalong advised Zhou Tianlong to learn sect affairs and ceremonial etiquette while maintaining his cultivation, then sent him to spend two days with Yun Yao.
• Zhou Xue took Yun Yao home to rest, and Zhou Tianlong left the Righteous Qi Hall to join them.

Li Dalong advised Zhou Tianlong to dissolve the Cultivation Alliance, which was ultimately disbanded after the war. While cultivating afterward, Li Dalong obtained and mastered the Indestructible Golden Body Art, greatly strengthening his defenses and ability to survive.

• Li Dalong focused on cultivation while the Allied Army repaired the Spatial Rift, hunted down the scattered Extraterritorial Demons, and completed the postwar distribution of territory and rewards.
• Zhou Tianlong succeeded as sect master of the Righteous Qi Sect, which gained disciples, resources, and territory through the postwar settlement.
• As cultivators debated the Alliance’s future, Zhou Tianlong asked Li Dalong for his opinion, and Li Dalong advised him to dissolve the Alliance and Allied Army.
• Zhou Tianlong proposed withdrawing the Righteous Qi Sect from the Alliance and dissolving both organizations, and the assembly eventually agreed.
• Li Dalong checked in through the system and received the Indestructible Golden Body Art, then mastered both of its levels within five days.

Li Dalong opened a Spatial Rift and crossed the spatial barrier, enduring raging storms and gaining a sudden insight that improved his state of mind. After escaping a powerful spatial vortex, he reached a vast, irregularly shaped world.

• Li Dalong tested his new Divine Ability by cutting open a Spatial Rift with the Azure Cloud Sword on an isolated island.
• He concealed the island with an array, left behind blood essence, cultivation resources, and spatial coordinates as safeguards, then opened another rift and entered it.
• Li Dalong endured spatial storms and strange visions as he traveled through the spatial passage, eventually reaching a vast expanse of stars.
• He gained a profound insight that broadened his cultivation path, but a massive spatial vortex seized him.
• Li Dalong resisted the vortex with the Indestructible Golden Body Art and escaped using Dragon Shadow Escape.
• He saw a vast, irregularly shaped world before him.

Li Dalong entered a strange, desolate continent and crossed its deadly winds before resting and recovering his strength. He resumed exploring, gathered unusual spirit plants, and found a pack of wolf-like Demon Beasts hunting several enormous pig-like beasts.

• Li Dalong opened the continent’s spatial barrier with the Azure Cloud Sword, entered, and found that the rift had closed behind him.
• Li Dalong flew through the baleful winds until he reached greener ground, then set up a concealed cave refuge and restored his spiritual power.
• Li Dalong found that his divine sense was severely suppressed and that the surrounding woods held no living creatures, so he slept for a day before setting out again.
• Li Dalong searched the continent, collecting unfamiliar plants rich in spiritual energy as he traveled.
• Li Dalong sensed wolf-like Demon Beasts encircling and wounding several enormous pig-like Demon Beasts with coordinated attacks.

Li Dalong explored a dangerous continent where even remote Demon Beasts were powerful, then found a human pair fleeing a Demon Race pursuit. He secretly arranged to help them and launched an attack, hoping to gain a foothold and learn about the continent.

• Li Dalong avoided wolf-shaped Demon Beasts and continued exploring while concealing his presence.
• Li Dalong entered a vast valley filled with powerful Demon Beasts and cautiously replenished his Spiritual Power along the way.
• Li Dalong detected a fight and saw a wounded senior brother and junior sister fleeing seven or eight Demon Race pursuers.
• Li Dalong realized the pair had sent for help and decided to rescue them so he could learn about the continent.
• Li Dalong assessed the pursuers, secretly explained his plan to the pair, and received their agreement.
• Li Dalong charged at two pursuers and activated the Divine Dragon Transformation of the Divine Dragon Combat Art.

Li Dalong rescued Zhao Dong and Lin Ying from eight demons in the Netherworld Secret Realm, then learned that the realm was an interworld battlefield where outsiders earned points by hunting other races. He remained stranded there, with the two disciples explaining its rules and showing him an Identity Jade Tablet.

• Li Dalong killed the eight demons pursuing Zhao Dong and Lin Ying, while the pair helped slay a late Mahayana Pig Demon.
• Zhao Dong and Lin Ying introduced themselves as Flying Swallow Sect disciples and thanked Li Dalong for saving them.
• Zhao Dong explained that a baleful wind had separated them from their sect group as they traveled toward the Immortal Realm base.
• Li Dalong said a spatial rift had stranded him in the realm, and Zhao Dong explained that the Netherworld Secret Realm was also called the Extraterrestrial Battlefield.
• Zhao Dong described its rules, races, and point system, then showed Li Dalong an Identity Jade Tablet that recorded kills, points, and location.

Li Dalong helped Zhao Dong and Lin Ying recover from their injuries, then traveled with them to meet Zhao Dong’s father, Zhao Feihu. After the reunion, Zhao Dong introduced Li Dalong as their rescuer, and Zhao Feihu thanked him and offered the Flying Swallow Sect’s help.

• Li Dalong accepted the Demon Race storage treasures, returned one to Zhao Dong, and told Zhao Dong and Lin Ying to heal while they waited for Zhao Feihu.
• After recovering, Zhao Dong suggested they head toward the Alliance base, and Li Dalong and the others flew out of the valley with him leading the way.
• Li Dalong sensed approaching cultivators and told Zhao Dong that Zhao Feihu was likely among them, so Zhao Dong and Lin Ying hurried forward.
• Zhao Dong and Lin Ying reunited with Zhao Feihu, who had brought Flying Swallow Sect disciples in response to Zhao Dong’s distress signal.
• Zhao Dong introduced Li Dalong as the man who had saved him and Lin Ying, and Zhao Feihu thanked Li Dalong and offered the Flying Swallow Sect’s assistance.