Recaps

A masked subordinate learned that his mist-shrouded master planned to unleash ancient ferocious beasts after they consumed enough blood offerings. Meanwhile, Gu Ruoyi recruited disciples from holy lands for an expedition to the Ten Thousand Fiends Abyss, then met Shangguan Jiantian, who was assigned to protect her.

• The mist-shrouded woman opened a tunnel to ancient ferocious beasts and ordered the masked man to gather blood offerings from his 361 Sons of the Heavenly Demon within a month.
• The woman told the masked man to watch the Human Race's holy lands and their people across the nine great Dao Provinces, then departed.
• Gu Ruoyi visited Shui Wuqing at the Heavenly Water Holy Land and persuaded him to lend strong Purple Mansion Realm disciples for the Ten Thousand Fiends Abyss expedition.
• Gu Ruoyi secured agreement from four Earth-Rank Holy Lands and thirteen Profound-Rank Holy Lands in Primordial Dao Province to send disciples.
• Gu Ruoyi returned to the Gu Family Holy Land, where her father introduced Shangguan Jiantian as the Gu Family's heir who would accompany her and protect her.

Bai Jie and Ouyang Quede persuaded Zi Mo to send them to the Cloud Azure Territory, where they intended to target Xu Xuan under the guise of investigating demons. Zi Yu confronted Zi Mo about his motives, but the two old rivals soon set aside their dispute to drink together.

• Bai Jie and Ouyang Quede told Zi Mo that Mo Tianji had taken Xu Xuan and another disciple, including one with a Chaos Body, and urged him to help eliminate them.
• Zi Mo ordered Bai Jie and Ouyang Quede to lead disciples to the Cloud Azure Territory to investigate the demon encroachment, and suggested that Bai Jie prepare false charges against Xu Xuan.
• Bai Jie invented a story that Xu Xuan had colluded with the Demon Race and later committed suicide, while Ouyang Quede praised her ruthlessness.
• Zi Mo revealed that he wanted to test whether Xu Xuan could withstand hardship as Zi Yu's chosen friend, then Zi Yu arrived and challenged his assumptions about Mo Tianji and the past.
• Zi Yu and Zi Mo drank together, sending their powerful auras into the sky and puzzling the palace master.

Xu Xuan learned that a million demons had gathered across the Cloud Azure Territory and vowed to destroy them, though he would need the Mystic Universe Heavenly Palace’s help. He left the Evolutionary Spirit Sect’s preparations and the fate of the territory in his hands.

• Xu Xuan urged Xu Xiao to expand the Evolutionary Spirit Sect’s grounds to house new recruits, and Xu Xiao agreed to accommodate hundreds of thousands.
• Xu Xiao told Xu Xuan that hundreds had reached the Spirit Palace Realm and more than a dozen the Sea Transformation Realm; Xu Xuan said he would wipe out the demon race alone, then refused his father’s offer to make him sect master.
• An old man asked Xu Xiao and Xu Xuan to liberate the Cloud Azure Territory, but Xu Xuan argued that they should avoid confronting the demons until they understood the enemy better.
• Zhao Wuji reported that nearly a hundred demons had reached the Purple Mansion Realm and that their army numbered about a million, making the Mystic Universe Heavenly Palace’s help essential.
• Xu Xuan swore to kill the invaders and told Zhao Wuji and the others to leave the demons to him.

Xu Xuan offered spirit herbs to Zhao Wuji and the other disciples to strengthen their cultivation before confronting the demons. Meanwhile, Zhao Xiaolong entered demon territory, struck an ape, and warned the demons to leave the Cloud Cang Mirror, leaving the ape intimidated by the Mystic Universe Heavenly Palace's power.

• Xu Xuan told Zhao Wuji and the other disciples that humans at their cultivation level were no match for the demons.
• Xu Xuan gave the disciples spirit herbs, explaining that they could help them advance their cultivation and aid his efforts.
• Zhao Xiaolong entered demon territory and slapped an ape away when it attacked him from behind.
• Zhao Xiaolong demanded that the demons gather and leave the Cloud Cang Mirror, warning them that the Human Race stood united.
• The ape recognized Zhao Xiaolong's connection to the Mystic Universe Heavenly Palace and backed down as Zhao Xiaolong departed.

Bai Jie and Ouyang Quede rallied the Mystic Universe Heavenly Palace’s Inner Disciples to fight the Demon Race, while Mo Tianji dismissed Zi Yu’s concern about the danger to his disciple and revealed his anger toward those involved in a past incident. After Mo Tianji left the palace, its Palace Master wondered about his identity and purpose.

• Bai Jie told the Inner Disciples that a million members of the Demon Race had invaded the Cloud Azure Territory, and Ouyang Quede led them aboard a Flying Ship bound for the Cloud Cang Mirror.
• Mo Tianji told Zi Yu he was not worried about his disciple facing danger, then defeated Zi Yu at chess and learned that Xu Xuan had also beaten him.
• When Zi Yu brought up the incident from the past, Mo Tianji stopped him and said Zi Mo had been forgiven, but the others involved would not escape.
• Zi Yu left Moji Pavilion, and Mo Tianji vanished after warning that those who sought death could not blame him.
• The Palace Master learned that Zi Yu had visited Mo Tianji and that Mo Tianji had left the Mystic Universe Heavenly Palace, then questioned Mo Tianji’s identity and purpose.

Xu Xuan and Xu Xiao renamed their expanded sect the Immortal Palace as Yun Qingxue broke through to the Heavenly Mansion Realm. Meanwhile, Bai Jie and Ouyang Quede arrived in the Cloud Azure Territory with disciples to investigate the Demon Race's occupation and search for human traitors.

• Xu Xuan proposed renaming the Evolutionary Spirit Sect the Immortal Palace, and Xu Xiao approved the change.
• Yun Qingxue broke through to the Heavenly Mansion Realm, and Xu Xuan agreed to accompany her to hunt demon beasts while warning her to stay behind him if danger arose.
• Bai Jie and Ouyang Quede arrived in the Cloud Azure Territory and found a silent city with the smell of blood in the air.
• Bai Jie told Ouyang Quede to search surviving sects for signs that they had colluded with the Demon Race.
• Ouyang Quede praised the disciples who volunteered to help investigate the suspected traitors.

The Son of the Heavenly Demon took the Purple Moon Empress as his woman, then devoured tens of thousands of humans as blood food to strengthen his cultivation. After absorbing the resulting red energy, he prepared to break through to Void Spirit, while the Purple Moon Empress also grew stronger.

• The Son of the Heavenly Demon blamed the Purple Moon Empress for the Snake Emperor's fate and summoned her to a cave.
• The Son of the Heavenly Demon asked whether the Purple Moon Empress wanted revenge, then claimed her as his woman, and she agreed.
• The next morning, the Son of the Heavenly Demon dismissed the Purple Moon Empress and revealed he had no intention of sharing his blood food with her.
• The Son of the Heavenly Demon shattered the cage holding tens of thousands of humans and consumed them as blood food.
• A ball of red energy formed around the Son of the Heavenly Demon, and he swallowed it, believing it would let him break through to Void Spirit.
• The Purple Moon Empress was bathed in red light, and her strength increased as the light faded.

Bai Jie learned that Xu Xuan was at the Immortal Palace and set out with Ouyang Quede and the disciples to accuse and kill him. At the palace, Xu Xuan discovered that ten thousand Inner Disciples had arrived to fight the Demon Race, and he eagerly asked to meet the elders.

• Bai Jie learned that the Immortal Palace had once been called the Evolutionary Spirit Sect and decided to pin a criminal charge on Xu Xuan.
• Bai Jie ordered Ouyang Quede to gather the disciples and lead them to the Immortal Palace.
• Xu Xuan and Xu Xiao inspected the new palace hall and discussed their remaining spirit herbs and plans for revenge.
• Zhou Zheng arrived with the Mystic Universe Heavenly Palace’s disciples, recognized Xu Xuan, and explained that they had come to slay demons.
• Zhou Zheng told Xu Xuan that ten thousand Inner Disciples and two elders had come, and Xu Xuan asked to meet the elders.

Xu Xuan faced Bai Jie as she accused him and the Immortal Palace of colluding with demons, while his father Xu Xiao tried to shield him. Xu Xuan defended his home and urged caution against fighting the demons before the Immortal Palace had rebuilt, leaving Bai Jie scoffing at his claim that nearly a million disciples had gathered.

• Bai Jie confronted Xu Xuan at his home and accused his family of colluding with demons and betraying the Human Race.
• Xu Xuan rejected Bai Jie's accusations, while Xu Xiao stepped forward to defend his son.
• Xu Xuan told Xu Xiao that he had grown up and moved to protect his father, then accused Bai Jie of targeting him because she resented his master.
• Bai Jie changed the subject and asked what Xu Xuan intended to do about the demons overrunning the Cloud Azure Territory.
• Xu Xuan said the Immortal Palace was too weak to fight the demons yet and claimed it had nearly a million disciples, prompting Bai Jie to laugh in disbelief.

Bai Jie arrived at the Immortal Palace with Mystic Universe Heavenly Palace disciples, accused Xu Xuan and Xu Xiao of colluding with demons, and insisted on staying despite their hostility. Xu Xuan later spoke with Yun Qingxue about Bai Jie's motives, while the visiting disciples questioned Zhou Zheng about Xu Xuan's strength.

• Bai Jie accused Xu Xuan and Xu Xiao of conspiring with the Demon Race, and Xu Xiao ordered her group to leave the Immortal Palace.
• Xu Xuan allowed Bai Jie and her disciples to stay and arranged lodgings for them before going to see Yun Qingxue.
• Xu Xuan told Yun Qingxue that Bai Jie had accused him of betraying the Human Race, and Yun Qingxue suggested using the Mystic Universe Heavenly Palace's strength to reclaim cities.
• Mystic Universe Heavenly Palace disciples questioned Zhou Zheng about Xu Xuan defeating a core disciple, and Zhou Zheng recalled the third eye and heavenly fire Xu Xuan had used.

Bai Jie concluded that Xu Xuan had become half human and half demon, and ordered disciples to keep their distance and kill him if necessary. Xu Xuan borrowed five hundred disciples from Ouyang Quede to reclaim the eleven occupied cities, then learned the Cloudsky Eagle Clan would be his greatest obstacle.

• Zhou Zheng told an Inner Disciple that Xu Xuan had a third eye that released heavenly fire, and the Inner Disciple reported the information to Bai Jie and Ouyang Quede.
• Bai Jie suspected Xu Xuan was half demon and ordered the Inner Disciple to use the Demon Race to weaken him before striking, while instructing Ouyang Quede to lend Xu Xuan no more than a thousand disciples and claim she was in seclusion.
• Xu Xuan visited Ouyang Quede and offered to clear all eleven occupied cities, and Ouyang Quede lent him five hundred disciples.
• After leaving, Xu Xuan asked the system to identify the greatest obstacle to reclaiming the cities, and it named the Cloudsky Eagle Clan.

The Son of the Heavenly Demon survived his tribulation and broke through to the Void Spirit Realm. Confident in his new strength, he rallied the demon clans to prepare for war against the Mystic Universe Heavenly Palace and the Immortal Palace.

• The Son of the Heavenly Demon endured the final bolt of Tribulation Lightning and broke through to the Void Spirit Realm, raising his phoenix bloodline purity to thirty percent.
• A Cloudsky Eagle Clan member warned him that two elders and ten thousand Heavenly Mansion Inner Disciples from the Mystic Universe Heavenly Palace were coming, but he ordered the demons to put every city on alert.
• The Son of the Heavenly Demon gathered the demon clans and declared that he would lead their armies, with the Cloudsky Eagle Emperor as his deputy.
• The demon emperors submitted to the Son of the Heavenly Demon's command, and he ordered the Purple Mansion cultivators to serve as generals and attack the Immortal Palace.

Xu Xuan organized the Mystic Universe Heavenly Palace’s forces to fight the demons and ordered five hundred inner disciples to retake Giant Stone City. The chapter ended with Zhou Zheng leading the disciples toward the city.

• Xu Xuan rallied five hundred inner disciples to slaughter demons and defend humanity, then asked Xu Xiao to gather the Immortal Palace’s thousand Sea Transformation Realm cultivators.
• Zhao Wuji briefed the disciples on the million demons, warning them about the Son of the Heavenly Demon and explaining that demons grew stronger by consuming human essence called blood food.
• Xu Xuan ordered the forces to retake cities and rescue surviving humans, beginning with nearby Giant Stone City.
• Zhou Zheng divided the five hundred inner disciples into five squads and led them toward Giant Stone City.

The Son of the Heavenly Demon left Giant Stone City after receiving an urgent summons, leaving the Giant Stone Demons to trap Zhou Zheng and his companions inside their formation. As the Giant Stone Emperor attacked them, Zhou Zheng summoned a purple-armored puppet, and the two prepared to fight.

• The Son of the Heavenly Demon ordered Stone Emperor to keep the arriving humans in Giant Stone City, then flew away after hearing a summons in his mind.
• The Giant Stone Demons formed an enormous boulder barrier around Zhou Zheng and the fifteen hundred humans, trapping them inside.
• Zhou Zheng directed the Inner Disciples to attack the formation while he searched for its weakness, but their blows only shook the boulder.
• The Giant Stone Emperor entered the formation and threatened to kill the humans himself.
• Zhou Zheng used Xu Xuan's Life Token to summon a purple-armored puppet, which attacked the Giant Stone Emperor with its spear.
• The Giant Stone Emperor gathered demonic energy and vowed to destroy the puppet.

The Stone Emperor died when the purple-armored puppet broke free and pierced him, allowing Zhou Zheng’s forces to reclaim the Giant Stone Formation. As night fell, the Bat Emperor and seven Purple Mansion Realm bats arrived at Giant Stone City and attacked the outmatched disciples.

• In the Ten Thousand Fiends Abyss, the black-robed man urged the 361 Sons of the Heavenly Demon to reach the True Spirit Realm and enveloped them in spiritual energy, triggering breakthroughs.
• Inside the Rock Formation, the Stone Emperor drew on its power to restore his demonic energy and turned to attack Zhou Zheng and his companions.
• The purple-armored puppet broke free, pierced the Stone Emperor, and shattered the Rock Formation.
• Zhou Zheng ordered the captured Stone Demons detained and declared the Giant Stone Formation reclaimed for the Human Race of the Cloud Azure Territory.
• The Bat Emperor and seven other Purple Mansion Realm bats landed on Giant Stone City’s walls, and one vanished before appearing among the disciples.

Xu Xuan arrived as the Bat Emperor threatened Zhou Zheng and the surviving Mystic Universe Heavenly Palace disciples, who had lost twelve Inner Disciples. After learning what had happened, Xu Xuan took back the puppet’s Token and summoned the purple-armored puppet with his own spiritual energy.

• The Bat Emperor killed several Mystic Universe Heavenly Palace disciples and warned Zhou Zheng’s group to retreat, while Zhou Zheng’s puppet ran out of energy.
• Zhou Zheng prepared to burn his life essence and awaken the puppet again, but the Bat Emperor dismissed his efforts and boasted that the Son of the Heavenly Demon surpassed the Mystic Universe Heavenly Palace.
• Xu Xuan arrived, and Zhou Zheng urged him to flee before the bats attacked.
• After Zhou Zheng revealed that the Bat Emperor had killed twelve Inner Disciples, Xu Xuan abandoned the idea of retreating and took back the Token.
• Xu Xuan infused the Token with his spiritual energy and summoned the purple-armored puppet, whose abilities changed under his control.

Xu Xuan ordered his puppet to attack the barrier around Giant Stone City, but he suspected the bats guarding it were part of a trap. He sent the others away to recapture the remaining cities and approached the barrier alone, putting his arm through it.

• Xu Xuan commanded his purple-armored puppet to destroy the bats and attack the city’s barrier, which began to crack after repeated strikes.
• Xu Xuan questioned Zhao Wuji about the bats and, uneasy that the barrier might conceal a trap, ordered the puppet to stop.
• Xu Xuan decided the others should withdraw and report to the elders, while he stayed to avenge the fallen and investigate alone.
• Xu Xuan revealed that he had reached the third level of the Purple Mansion Realm and told Zhao Wuji to lead the others to recapture the remaining cities without forcing a fight.
• Xu Xuan approached the barrier at Giant Stone City and found that his arm could pass through it.

Xu Xuan confronted the eight bat spirits in Giant Stone City, but they fled rather than fight him. He searched for surviving humans and found no living beings, while the Black-Robed Man gathered captives for a sacrifice in the Ten Thousand Fiends Abyss.

• The bats transported the last humans from Giant Stone City to the Ten Thousand Fiends Abyss, where the Black-Robed Man planned to sacrifice them to awaken the Fiend Beasts within a month.
• A Monk dispersed some of the abyss's black fog, spoke to the Black-Robed Man, and departed after warning him to turn back.
• Xu Xuan arrived at the City Lord's Manor, dodged a bat spirit's attack, and caught him before letting him go.
• The Bat Emperor judged Xu Xuan's strength, then led the other seven bats away and declared that they were returning Giant Stone City to the Human Race.
• Xu Xuan searched the city with his divine soul but found no living beings.

Xu Xuan found Giant Stone City deserted and took a mysterious warm disk from the City Lord's Manor before heading toward another city. At the Immortal Palace, Ouyang Quede used Zhou Zheng's account of the bat demon attack to cast suspicion on Xu Xuan and ordered Zhou Zheng to watch him, promising to make him a disciple if he found evidence against him.

• Xu Xuan searched Giant Stone City's City Lord's Manor, found no living people, and discovered a warm disk on a table.
• Xu Xuan stored the disk in his small world, intending to ask Mo Tianji about it, then flew toward the next city.
• Zhou Zheng knelt outside Ouyang Quede's door beside the bodies of more than a dozen disciples and reported that Purple Mansion Realm bat demons had attacked them.
• Ouyang Quede learned that Xu Xuan had entered the bat demons' territory alone and became excited at the chance to accuse him.
• Ouyang Quede ordered Zhou Zheng to keep watch on Xu Xuan and promised to take him as a disciple if he found incriminating evidence.

The four demon clans governing Wood Forest City faced a human army led by five hundred Heavenly Mansion Realm cultivators, and the Purple Moon Empress chose to surrender the city rather than fight. The Cloud Sky Leopard Emperor offered an immortal tree as a peace pledge, leaving the human disciples to consider the deal.

• Brindled Tiger warned the four clan emperors that the human army outside Wood Forest City was too strong for their forces to oppose.
• The Purple Moon Empress said she could not contact the Son of the Heavenly Demon, and the emperors discussed the missing Demon Emperors and the humans' strength.
• The Purple Moon Empress ordered the city gates opened and privately lamented that she might not avenge Xiao Chuan and Brother Tian.
• The four emperors greeted the Mystic Universe Heavenly Palace disciples and offered to return Wood Forest City to them.
• The Cloud Sky Leopard Emperor offered an immortal tree as a pledge for peace.

Xu Xuan rescued survivors in the Cloud Azure Territory and sent them to seek refuge at the Immortal Palace, then pursued the demons responsible for the massacres. He confronted a Demon Emperor, who blamed the Snake Emperor and Cloudsky Eagle Clan for ordering the slaughter.

• The Cloud Sky Leopard Emperor showed an Inner Disciple a Vermilion Fruit from the Immortal Tree, and the disciples planned to report the tree to their senior brother.
• Xu Xuan promised the survivors that the cities of the Cloud Azure Territory would be reclaimed within a month and directed them to seek help from Xu Xiao at the Immortal Palace.
• The survivors agreed to follow Xu Xuan's instructions, and he vowed to kill every demon responsible for the devastation.
• Xu Xuan pursued a retreating herd of demons with his Black Shadow Sword and summoned a peak Purple Mansion Realm Purple Armor puppet.
• A Demon Emperor confronted Xu Xuan, then claimed the Snake Emperor and Cloudsky Eagle Clan had ordered the massacre to consume human essence.

Xu Xuan confronted an army of hundreds of thousands of demons and sent his purple-armored puppet to attack their leaders. When the demons knelt in terror before Little White, the Divine Beast declared that Xu Xuan was its master and that it would devour them on his command.

• Xu Xuan accused the demon army of devouring humans and refused to let them leave, while the Demon Emperors challenged him with their forces.
• Xu Xuan ordered his purple-armored puppet to attack, and the puppet’s spear nearly broke through a shield formed by thirty-two powerful demons.
• The leading Demon Emperor suspected Xu Xuan was a Holy Son of a Heaven-Rank Holy Land, but Xu Xuan did not answer and prepared to kill the demons.
• Xu Xuan summoned Little White and ordered it to devour the army.
• Little White’s divine pressure forced the hundreds of thousands of demons to their knees, and it told them Xu Xuan was its master.

Little White devoured the Demon army’s cores and fell asleep, while Xu Xuan questioned the surviving Demon Emperors about the Cloudsky Eagle Clan. He learned that the clan had gone to the Ten Thousand Demons Realm with two other powerful clans, and planned to spare the demons if they cooperated.

• Little White used his Divine Beast power to strip the Demon army of its Demon Cores, killing or incapacitating most of them.
• Little White grew sleepy from devouring the cores, asked Xu Xuan to put him away, and fell asleep in the Spatial Ring.
• Xu Xuan questioned the surviving Demon Emperors and learned that the Cloudsky Eagle Clan was in the Ten Thousand Demons Realm.
• Xu Xuan offered the demons a chance to live, intending to have the Purple Mansion demons guard the Immortal Palace.
• The leading Demon Emperor revealed that the Cloudsky Eagle Clan had left in the opposite direction with two other powerful clans.

Xu Xuan bound the defeated demons to a contract, then caught up with the Cloudsky Eagle Clan and challenged its emperor. The emperor’s subordinate attacked Xu Xuan, who was excited by the demon’s strength.

• Xu Xuan formed a contract requiring the defeated demons to protect him and the Immortal Palace, and they signed it.
• Xu Xuan ordered the demons to report the events to his father at the Immortal Palace.
• The Cloudsky Eagle Emperor, Blazing Fire Hound Emperor, and Frost Spirit Emperor discussed the Snake Clan’s destruction and expected the Snake Emperor Ancestor to retaliate against the humans.
• Xu Xuan confronted the three clans and challenged the Cloudsky Eagle Emperor to a fight, wagering that the loser would stay behind.
• A Cloudsky Eagle Purple Mansion great demon transformed into a gigantic goshawk and attacked Xu Xuan, who was thrilled by the challenge.

Xu Xuan challenged the Cloudsky Eagle Emperor and destroyed him and the Cloudsky Eagle Clan’s army with a summoned star. He then asked where the Son of the Heavenly Demon was.

• Xu Xuan challenged the Cloudsky Eagle Emperor to fight and deflected his tracking feather attacks.
• The Cloudsky Eagle Emperor summoned a Giant Eagle Phantom and swept Xu Xuan into the air with hurricane-force winds before attacking him.
• Xu Xuan unleashed Vast Ten-Thousand-Mile Break, summoning a gigantic star that the Cloudsky Eagle Emperor mistook for an illusion.
• The star crashed down and annihilated the Cloudsky Eagle Emperor and tens of thousands of demons, while the Blazing Fire Hound Emperor and Frost Spirit Emperor survived with serious injuries.
• Xu Xuan turned to leave, then stopped and asked where the Son of the Heavenly Demon was.