Recaps

Leng Qi and Ji Chen watched Xu Changxing's cyclone persist for more than forty days as he completed his breakthrough into the Void Refinement Realm. He then began a simulation, which showed him strengthening himself and the three martial artists before leading them away.

• Leng Qi and Ji Chen argued over whether Xu Changxing could match the strongest Demon Kings as his cyclone continued overhead.
• After more than forty days, the cyclone dispersed, and Xu Changxing emerged having fully entered the Void Refinement Realm.
• Xu Changxing began a simulation and learned that he had lost contact with the system, so he prepared to seek a human settlement.
• Xu Changxing refined the Star-Swallowing Toad's blood essence into Qi-Blood Pills, advanced his Body Tempering cultivation to the Divine Connection Realm, and awakened a powerful innate divine ability.
• Xu Changxing taught Leng Qi and the other two martial artists to conceal their qi and blood, then led them away.

After years of cultivation and spreading Qi-Blood Pills through Leng Qi and his companions, the protagonist learned that human settlements had grown strong enough to resist demons, and that the resulting merit had accelerated his rise to mid-stage void refinement. His secluded cultivation ended when a heavenly demon hunted him down; after escaping once, he burned his primordial spirit in a final attack and perished.

• The protagonist traveled through the mountains, slew demon kings, refined their blood into Qi-Blood Pills, and taught Leng Qi and his two companions how to make them.
• After Leng Qi entered the Heavenly Gang Realm and the other two became meridian birth martial artists, the protagonist left them books on primordial spirit cultivation and continued cultivating in seclusion.
• Merit qi accompanied the protagonist's cultivation and helped him break through to mid-stage void refinement, while Leng Qi and his companions spread Qi-Blood Pills across human settlements and strengthened their defenses against demons.
• The protagonist traveled through human settlements, learned that Leng Qi and his companions were revered for spreading alchemy, and then returned to seclusion to pursue late-stage void refinement.
• A heavenly demon attacked the protagonist soon after he began cultivating, and he escaped with severe injuries before it caught up with him three days later.
• The protagonist burned his primordial spirit and struck the heavenly demon with brilliant sword light, but failed to destroy all its vitality and died as his primordial spirit scattered.

After gaining mid-stage Void Refinement, Xu Changxing realized that his merit had attracted powerful demons and chose not to protect himself by endangering Leng Qi and his companions. He then advanced his Body Tempering and awakened Qi-Blood Transformation into Thunder, a formidable but costly ability that left him with limited range and endurance.

• Xu Changxing chose the mid-stage Void Refinement reward and stabilized his cultivation after receiving spiritual energy and insights from the simulation.
• He concluded that his merit had drawn the Heavenly Demon’s attention, but rejected a plan that could leave Leng Qi and his companions exposed to danger.
• Xu Changxing found that another simulation required twenty million points and decided to use the Star-Swallowing Toad’s blood essence to advance his Body Tempering first.
• Five months later, Xu Changxing broke through in Body Tempering and awakened the innate Divine Ability Qi-Blood Transformation into Thunder.
• He tested the ability by forming a thundercloud spanning a hundred li and moving through it as lightning, then discovered that it consumed energy rapidly and limited his movement to the cloud’s range.

After awakening a thundercloud escape ability, Xu Changxing taught Leng Qi and two others to conceal their qi and blood, then stabilized his strength before beginning another simulation. In the simulation, he avoided intervening in Human Race affairs, and by its fifty-ninth year he had reached late-stage void refinement while still seeking to improve his realm.

• Xu Changxing realized his thundercloud escape ability consumed enormous amounts of qi and blood, but was pleased with its potential.
• Xu Changxing taught Leng Qi and the other two the method of concealing qi and blood and forbade them from passing it on without permission.
• After stabilizing his increased qi and blood, Xu Changxing spent his remaining twenty million points to start another simulation.
• Xu Changxing traveled and cultivated while avoiding involvement in Human Race affairs, and later parted from Leng Qi and the other two after warning them to keep the method secret.
• Xu Changxing learned that Leng Qi had died defending his city and chose not to destroy the legacy Leng Qi had left behind.
• The aura-concealing method spread in the thirty-eighth year, but Xu Changxing gained little merit; by the fifty-ninth year, he had reached late-stage void refinement.

Xu Changxing's simulation ended with him avenging Li Changge by killing a Heavenly Demon before dying to another, and he chose late-stage Void Refinement cultivation as his reward. After more than half a year of seclusion, he mastered his gains and appeared before Leng Qi.

• In the simulation, Xu Changxing reached Li Changge too late to save him, then fought for three days and three nights and killed the Heavenly Demon who had slain him.
• A second Heavenly Demon arrived, and the exhausted Xu Changxing ignited his Primordial Spirit and died after one final sword strike.
• Xu Changxing chose the late-stage Void Refinement cultivation reward and absorbed the spiritual energy and insights from the simulation.
• Xu Changxing spent more than half a year in seclusion, mastering his new cultivation and concluding that he could challenge a weaker Heavenly Demon if he raised his body tempering to Spirit Connection Peak.
• Xu Changxing appeared before Leng Qi, praised his stable qi and blood and solid foundation, and said it was time to leave.

Xu Changxing traveled with Leng Qi, Ji Chen, and Wu Cai, refining his strength while effortlessly killing Great Demons. When they encountered another Demon King, Xu Changxing killed it with a single streak of Sword Light, leaving his companions stunned.

• Xu Changxing asked Leng Qi whether he and his companions wanted to continue traveling with him, and Leng Qi eagerly agreed.
• Over the next month, Xu Changxing refined his cultivation by killing Great Demons, while Leng Qi, Ji Chen, and Wu Cai ate the beasts’ meat and grew larger.
• The group sensed a Demon King nearby, and Leng Qi, Ji Chen, and Wu Cai debated whether to follow Xu Changxing as he approached it.
• Leng Qi and Wu Cai went after Xu Changxing, and Ji Chen followed after feeling the Demon King’s oppressive aura suddenly fade.
• The three companions found the dead Demon King, and Leng Qi said Xu Changxing had killed it with a single streak of Sword Light.

After learning that Xu Changxing killed the Demon King with one strike, Leng Qi, Ji Chen, and Wu Cai debated whether to ask him to save the Human Race. Xu Changxing considered Leng Qi’s resolve and reflected on the Human Race’s possible resurgence, then resolved to keep strengthening himself before challenging a Heavenly Demon.

• Ji Chen was shaken by Leng Qi’s account of Xu Changxing killing the Demon King and asked how powerful his lord was.
• Leng Qi said Xu Changxing could change the Human Race’s fate, but stopped Ji Chen from asking him to intervene, insisting the humans should rely on themselves.
• Wu Cai agreed with Leng Qi that Xu Changxing had already shown them great kindness, while Ji Chen argued that their people should not remain prey to Demon Beasts.
• Xu Changxing overheard their debate and admired Leng Qi’s insight, recalling that Leng Qi had once passed down the aura-concealment method despite an oath.
• Xu Changxing wondered whether the Human Race was beginning to rise and whether the world could support Primordial Spirit cultivation, then decided to focus on raising his realm and gathering simulation points.
• Xu Changxing vowed that he would eventually taste Heavenly Demon blood, and the Greenwood Sword’s Sword Pellet hummed in response before he told it the time had not yet come.

Xu Changxing began a special simulation in a lifetime set centuries after his simulated death, when the Setting Sun Sect was preparing for the Demon Star’s arrival. He reunited with his disciple Shen Zongyi and, while observing the simulation, entered a state resembling sudden enlightenment.

• Xu Changxing traveled with Leng Qi and his companions, killed four Demon Kings over more than a year, and raised his Body Tempering cultivation to mid-stage divine connection.
• After collecting enough Demon King Crystals for another simulation, Xu Changxing chose a special simulation to seek a breakthrough opportunity.
• Xu Changxing’s divine sense appeared in the Setting Sun Sect’s ancestral hall and reunited with Shen Zongyi, who had advanced to late spirit transformation.
• Xu Changxing told Shen Zongyi that his memories were incomplete and asked him to find treasures that could restore his Primordial Spirit cultivation.
• Xu Changxing immersed himself in his connection with his divine sense and entered a state akin to sudden enlightenment as the simulation continued.

Xu Changxing’s divine sense grew powerful in the lower realm, building the Setting Sun Sect’s prestige and developing ways to communicate with his original body across planes. As a Demon Star approached, he set out to reach it and discovered a depleted cultivation world where cultivators had once lived.

• Shen Zongyi brought Xu Changxing treasures, and Xu Changxing taught him about the Upper Realm, higher cultivation realms, and Body Tempering.
• Xu Changxing refined a Sword Pellet around the Divine Sword Phantom and repeatedly shattered the endless tribulation lightning hanging over the Setting Sun Sect.
• Xu Changxing revealed his return from the Upper Realm, lectured hundreds of cultivators, and became renowned as an immortal at the pinnacle of cultivation.
• Xu Changxing built grand formations that let his divine sense communicate with his original body, then channeled some of his original body’s power and drew the Thundercloud’s fury.
• As the Demon Star neared, Xu Changxing ignored the calamity’s threat, flew beyond the heavens, and reached the star after nearly three years.
• Xu Changxing discovered that the Demon Star was a cultivation world drained of spiritual energy where cultivators had once lived.

After his divine sense returned from a century of wandering, Xu Changxing used a Divine Sense Anchor and the Divine Sword Phantom to cross into the Legendary Plane. He confirmed he could return to his original plane and ascended to the Demon Realm, where he found the Star-Swallowing Toad alive.

• Xu Changxing absorbed his divine sense’s century of loneliness and chose to leave a Divine Sense Anchor in the simulated plane.
• Xu Changxing sent a wisp of divine sense through the vortex and used the Divine Sword Phantom’s legendary Dao pattern to open a path between the planes.
• Xu Changxing crossed the passage and arrived in the Legendary Plane, where legendary power strengthened his primordial spirit.
• Xu Changxing sensed the coordinates of his original plane and confirmed he could open a passage back to it.
• Xu Changxing broke through the sky and ascended to the Demon Realm.
• The Star-Swallowing Toad appeared before Xu Changxing alive, despite having been slain in another plane.

Xu Changxing slaughtered Demon Kings in a parallel plane, escaped a Heavenly Demon, and returned home to refine Qi-Blood Pills and strengthen himself. After more than two years, he began another special simulation and found himself in the Demon Realm after a past life in which he and Li Changge had fallen.

• Xu Changxing killed the Star-Swallowing Toad, gave Leng Qi and the others Demon King meat and cultivation methods, then left the plane.
• Xu Changxing slew six more Demon Kings before a Heavenly Demon appeared, and he escaped through the passage between worlds.
• Xu Changxing returned to his own plane with sixty million system points and spent more than two years refining Qi-Blood Pills and training.
• Leng Qi broke through to the Heavenly Gang Realm while Xu Changxing advanced toward late-stage Divine Connection.
• Xu Changxing began a special simulation and found statues of himself and Li Changge in the Demon Realm, where humans said the two had fallen fighting a Heavenly Demon.

Xu Changxing tried to strengthen the Human Race by guiding Chi Hu and spreading the Primordial Spirit cultivation method. By Year 3, Qi-Blood Pills and Xu Changxing’s reputation had spread across the settlements, and the Wu Race began to regard him as a god.

• Xu Changxing learned that Chi Hu was the only youth in his settlement to cultivate a sense of qi, then appeared to guide him and established a Spirit Gathering Formation.
• Xu Changxing taught Chi Hu to refine Qi-Blood Pills, which helped him gain standing despite his weaker combat strength.
• Chi Hu announced that Xu Changxing had taught him the pill-refining method, and warriors soon came to obtain the pills.
• Tribal elders assigned warriors to protect Chi Hu after people began calling him a future sage of the Human Race.
• Xu Changxing sensed a resonance with divine statues and used it to travel between settlements, guiding dozens of young people over the next two years.
• Qi-Blood Pills and stories about Xu Changxing spread among the Human Race, while many members of the Wu Race came to regard him as the world’s one true god.

Xu Changxing helped the Human Race recover by spreading cultivation and improving Qi-Blood Pills, while Chi Hu advanced to Spirit Transformation and the humans began fighting back against the Demon Race. A Heavenly Demon found Xu Changxing’s wisp of Primordial Spirit, but Xu Changxing sent an illusory Divine Sword carrying an unknown message before destroying the wisp, ending the simulation.

• Xu Changxing used a Divine Sense Amplification Formation to send purified Wood Attribute spiritual energy to three promising Qi Refiners, and Chi Hu later became the first Core Formation cultivator.
• Chi Hu formed a Nascent Soul, traveled to human settlements to spread the Primordial Spirit cultivation method, and eventually advanced to Spirit Transformation.
• The Human Race defeated two of three Demon Kings, prompting dozens of Demon Kings to prepare an all-out campaign against the humans.
• Xu Changxing released an improved Qi-Blood Pill that warriors could refine, helping human forces recover during the war.
• A Heavenly Demon found Xu Changxing, who burned his Primordial Spirit wisp and sent an illusory Divine Sword through the void before the simulation ended.

Xu Changxing returned to the parallel plane and found his statue destroyed, but many others still standing. He realized little time had passed since his divine sense was destroyed and heard a bloodied martial artist cry that Heaven might wipe out the Human Race.

• Xu Changxing chose to leave a Divine Sense Anchor in the parallel plane and sent a wisp of divine sense through the vortex.
• He arrived above the ruins of a settlement and saw that his statue had been crushed and blood stained the ground.
• Xu Changxing absorbed the dense legendary power his guidance had earned and formed a legendary Dao pattern on his Primordial Spirit.
• Resonance with his statues revealed dozens still standing, and Xu Changxing realized time in the plane had passed far more slowly than he had assumed.
• A bloodied middle-aged martial artist cried out that Heaven might intend to wipe out the Human Race.

Xu Changxing discovered a Human Race city fighting the Demon Race and flew there to aid its defenders. He killed two Demon Kings with the Greenwood Sword, driving the remaining three to flee, and the Human Race warriors recognized him as Changxing Sword Saint.

• Xu Changxing sensed a statue lit by Human Race warriors and flew to the battlefield where they fought the Demon Race.
• Xu Changxing saw Human Race warriors fighting desperately despite being outnumbered and sent the Greenwood Sword to attack.
• The Greenwood Sword instantly killed one Demon King, then pursued the red-haired Demon King through his time-slowing divine ability and killed him as well.
• The remaining three Demon Kings fled, and the Human Race Divine Connection Realm warriors recognized Xu Changxing as Changxing Sword Saint.

Xu Changxing defeated the demons attacking the city, but a Heavenly Demon threatened to destroy it if he fled. Unable to abandon the hundreds of thousands of people below, Xu Changxing unleashed his Legendary Dao Pattern and Divine Sword Phantom to face the Heavenly Demon.

• Xu Changxing slew four Demon Kings, and the Human Race warriors drove off the remaining Great Demons and scattered the lesser demons.
• The Human Race warriors hailed Xu Changxing as the Changxing Sword Saint, but he began leaving the plane after accomplishing his goals.
• A Heavenly Demon trapped the city within a thousand li and threatened to kill its hundreds of thousands of people if Xu Changxing escaped.
• Xu Changxing chose to stay and used the Legendary Dao Pattern and Divine Sword Phantom to empower the Greenwood Sword for a strike against the Heavenly Demon.
• The Heavenly Demon revealed his Nine-Tailed Sky Fox form, formed a vast net with his tails to block the Sword Light, and sent Demon Qi toward Xu Changxing.

Xu Changxing drove off the Nine-Tailed Sky Fox and returned from the Plane Passage with a severed tail and a drop of heavenly demon blood essence. The human martial artists declared a Day of the Saint's Advent, while a distant young man sensed a mysterious stir and wondered whether a potential Heavenly Demon had appeared in the Demon Fox Clan.

• Xu Changxing pierced the Nine-Tailed Sky Fox's paw, severed one of his tails, and retrieved the Greenwood Sword and the tail before vanishing.
• The human martial artists celebrated their survival, and the Divine Connection Realm fighters debated whether Xu Changxing had truly returned from the dead.
• The elder forbade anyone from disturbing the Sword Saints' burial place and proposed a yearly Day of the Saint's Advent to honor Xu Changxing.
• A rosy radiance appeared in the sky, which the elder hailed as a heavenly omen of the Human Race's prosperity.
• Xu Changxing emerged into the Main Plane and inspected the severed fox tail and heavenly demon blood essence he had brought back.
• A young man in a distant mountain hollow sensed a fleeting stir and wondered whether a potential Heavenly Demon had appeared in the Demon Fox Clan.

After recovering from his battle with the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox, Xu Changxing restored his legendary Dao pattern and refined the Heavenly Demon Blood Essence into a Qi-Blood Pill, greatly advancing his cultivation. He then ran another simulation in the Demon Realm, where his divine sense was eventually destroyed, leaving him to choose between a Divine Sense Anchor and a legendary Dao pattern.

• Xu Changxing recovered from his injuries and restored the legendary Dao pattern on his Primordial Spirit through months of contemplation.
• Xu Changxing refined the Heavenly Demon Blood Essence into a supreme-grade Qi-Blood Pill and consumed it.
• The Qi-Blood Pill raised Xu Changxing's qi and blood cultivation to late-stage divine connection and his flesh realm to spirit connection peak.
• Xu Changxing began another special simulation and secretly nurtured Human Race descendants in the Demon Realm.
• After two hundred years in the simulation, Xu Changxing's divine sense was extinguished in a clash with a Heavenly Demon, leaving two reward options.

Xu Changxing repeatedly harvested Demon King Crystals and Legendary Dao Patterns from the Parallel Plane, then realized his nine-pattern Primordial Spirit had reached its limit and decided to act in the Main Plane. In a normal simulation, he founded Demon-Suppressing Mountain, trained disciples, and sent them out to aid the Human Race and spread Qi-Blood Pill refining.

• Xu Changxing left Divine Sense Anchors in the Parallel Plane through repeated simulations and slew Demon Kings to gather crystals and Legendary Dao Patterns.
• Xu Changxing escaped Du Liao's trap after sensing danger, and the Heavenly Demon destroyed his abandoned divine sense.
• Xu Changxing found that his Primordial Spirit could bear only nine Legendary Dao Patterns and concluded that testing himself against a Heavenly Demon was the next step.
• Xu Changxing began a normal simulation, accepted Leng Qi, Ji Chen, and Wu Cai as disciples, taught them to refine Qi-Blood Pills, and established Demon-Suppressing Mountain.
• Xu Changxing traveled among human settlements, gathered talented martial artists, and trained nearly a hundred disciples with Qi-Blood Pills.
• Xu Changxing sent his disciples out to aid the Human Race and spread the Qi-Blood Pill refining method.

Xu Changxing watched his simulated self help the Human Race rise, culminating in a sword strike that gravely wounded Tian Yan. Decades later, after recovering from his injuries, he considered using Tian Yan’s Heavenly Demon Blood Essence to strengthen his body further.

• The simulated self spread Qi-Blood Pills, built up Demon-Suppressing Mountain, and trained disciples as the Human Race grew stronger.
• Leng Qi gravely wounded a Demon King, and Demon-Suppressing Mountain’s reputation rose.
• After years of war, the simulated self struck Tian Yan and forced the Heavenly Demon to flee grievously injured, though the counterattack scorched his Primordial Spirit.
• Xu Changxing recognized the simulated plan as one he had envisioned and considered how to protect the Human Race’s new position.
• By Year 56, the simulated self had recovered, watched humans expand and demons submit or flee, and planned to temper his body with Heavenly Demon Blood Essence.

The protagonist strengthened the Human Race, negotiated access to a dangerous Secret Realm, and entered it in disguise to find a pill that helped him break through to the Divine Connection Realm. After the Secret Realm expelled him, three Heavenly Demons surrounded him and attacked, turning his breakthrough into a fight for survival.

• The protagonist refined Heavenly Demon Blood Essence into Qi-Blood Pills but remained just short of breaking through to the Divine Connection Realm, then later condensed a merit Magic Treasure and recruited Li Changge after his ascension.
• The protagonist and Li Changge joined forces to severely wound Tian Yan, raising the Human Race's prestige, while the protagonist later negotiated two Secret Realm places from Jiu Yao in exchange for the Qi-Blood Pill refining method.
• Human Race martial artists entered the Secret Realm on later openings, and their reports prompted the protagonist to prepare his own expedition.
• The protagonist entered the Secret Realm disguised as Li Ping, found a sealed pill in the ruins of a cultivation sect, and swallowed it to break through his flesh realm to the Divine Connection Realm.
• A terrifying aura expelled the protagonist from the Secret Realm, where Tian Yan, Du Liao, and Jiu Yao attacked him while his new realm remained unstable.

Xu Changxing’s simulation ended with him killing Tian Yan and gravely wounding Du Liao and Jiu Yao, earning him the title of the Human Race’s First Sage. He chose to experience the simulated life, explored the Secret Realm’s deadly Sword Intent and Killing Intent, and heard a mysterious voice question why his shell contained another Divine Sense.

• Xu Changxing’s simulated self ignited his Primordial Spirit and used the Greenwood Sword’s Sword Pellet to kill Tian Yan and wound Du Liao and Jiu Yao before dying.
• The system praised Xu Changxing’s role in leading the Human Race and offered him a Void-Breaking Flesh Realm cultivation or a first-person experience of the simulation.
• Xu Changxing chose to experience the simulation and examined the Secret Realm, where its Sword Intent far surpassed his own and Killing Intent formed roaming monsters.
• Xu Changxing found the spirit pill in the Secret Realm and broke through to the Void-Breaking Realm.
• A mysterious voice from the Secret Realm asked why another Divine Sense was inside Xu Changxing’s shell and who he was.

After the simulation revealed that a mysterious sword-wielding being could perceive Xu Changxing across time and space, Xu Changxing reflected on the encounter and spent over half a year assimilating its sword insights. He began another simulation, where events largely repeated, but he prepared for the Secret Realm a century earlier than before.

• A mysterious voice inside the Secret Realm detected Xu Changxing’s second Divine Sense, realized it was observing a point in the past, and expelled his simulated self.
• After the simulated Xu Changxing died fighting the Heavenly Demons, Xu Changxing considered the speaker’s identity and the purpose of the Secret Realm.
• Xu Changxing spent over half a year refining his sword insights and found his sword strike had grown powerful enough to challenge Tian Yan without relying on the Human Race’s will.
• Xu Changxing began a new simulation, nurtured Demon-Suppressing Mountain’s disciples, and helped the Human Race rise again.
• Jiu Yao visited Xu Changxing nearly a century earlier than before, and they made a thousand-year deal for a place to explore the Secret Realm.
• By the two hundred and ninety-fifth year of the simulation, Xu Changxing had completed his preparations a hundred years earlier than in the previous run.

Li Ping explored the Secret Realm, gained a primordial spirit cultivation technique, and helped the Human Race grow stronger. As the Second Human-Demon War began, the Human Race pushed deep into Demon territory and revealed three Void-Breaking Realm martial artists, turning the battle against the Heavenly Demons.

• Li Ping escaped a Trapping Formation in the Secret Realm, where Tian Zhu recognized him and gave him a Jade Slip containing a primordial spirit cultivation technique.
• Li Ping shared the technique with Li Changge and gave Leng Qi a Void-Breaking Pill, which helped Leng Qi break through to the Void-Breaking Realm.
• Li Ping returned to the Secret Realm as Wu Mang, met Tian Zhu again, and later gave two more Void-Breaking Pills to human martial artists after Demon Kings tried to seize his gains.
• A Demon King’s slaughter of human martial artists sparked the Second Human-Demon War, and humans killed more than a dozen Demon Kings while advancing into Demon territory.
• Three Heavenly Demons attacked the Human Race’s exposed Void-Breaking Realm martial artist, but three human Void-Breaking Realm fighters emerged, followed by Li Ping and Li Changge, reversing the balance of power.

Xu Changxing’s simulation showed the Human Race defeating the Demon Race and growing stronger before he and Li Changge uncovered a secret in the Secret Realm. Xu Changxing interrupted the simulation, and the system offered to terminate it at the cost of forty million points, with no rewards.

• The five Human Race martial artists killed Du Liao, forcing Jiu Yao and Tian Yan to negotiate peace and cede over half their territory.
• Xu Changxing entered the Secret Realm alone and found only ordinary materials, then later joined Li Changge on a deeper expedition.
• Xu Changxing and Li Changge found ancient battle ruins and fragments of powerful Magic Treasures in the Secret Realm.
• Xu Changxing read a damaged Jade Slip, destroyed it, and asked Tian Zhu to keep its secret; Tian Zhu agreed, though he said Xu Changxing was not the one he awaited.
• When the simulation stalled, Xu Changxing interrupted it, and the system offered to terminate it for forty million points without rewards.