Recaps

Shiheng effortlessly defeated thirty Hell bandits who had ambushed him, Yuan Xiao, and Yuan Su, then collected their resources and gave them to his companions. As the group prepared to continue toward the Withered Wood Human Race Tribe, a Seven-Star Fiend who blamed Shiheng for his child’s death appeared, bringing a deadly confrontation to the brink.

• Thirty Hell bandits surrounded Shiheng, Yuan Xiao, and Yuan Su and demanded their Storage Rings and Yuan Su.
• Shiheng shattered the peak Midgod Fiend’s attack with one finger, broke the bandits’ God Domains, and killed all thirty with his Annihilation Law Net.
• Shiheng checked the bandits’ Storage Rings, found resources and regional intelligence, and gave everything to Yuan Xiao and Yuan Su while warning them not to refine divine sparks.
• As Shiheng prepared to leave for the Withered Wood Human Race Tribe, an unseen pursuer identified him as the Human Race junior who had killed his child.
• Shiheng united his four divine clones as a Seven-Star Fiend emerged from the demonic mist, and their battle loomed.

Shiheng faced Yuanjin Jincang, a Seven-Star Fiend seeking revenge for his son and clan, in a desolate wasteland. After Shiheng survived Jincang’s opening strike, both revealed their names and prepared to fight in earnest.

• Yuanjin Jincang arrived and declared that Shiheng would die for killing his son's strongest clone and slaughtering the Yuanjin Clan.
• Shiheng ordered Yuan Xiao and Yuan Su to take the remaining Saints to the Withered Wood human tribe, and they fled by Metal Lifeform.
• Jincang unleashed a crushing Earth Law palm, but Shiheng met it with his four Divine Artifacts and four Supreme Laws and stood his ground.
• Impressed by Shiheng's strength, Jincang asked his identity; Shiheng named himself, and Jincang revealed he was a Seven-Star Fiend and the Demon City of Reception City Lord.
• Shiheng welcomed the chance to test his peak strength against Jincang in the empty wasteland and ignited his fighting spirit.

Shiheng unveiled the Four Extremes Absolute-Kill Formation and battled Yuanjin Jincang, a Seven-Star Fiend, in a prolonged fight that neither could win. After three days and nights of combat, Shiheng had grown stronger, while Yuanjin Jincang abandoned his contempt and vowed revenge.

• Shiheng summoned four Supreme Divine Battle Blades and activated his Four Extremes Absolute-Kill Formation, sealing Yuanjin Jincang inside.
• Yuanjin Jincang unleashed his fused laws of earth and fought back as Shiheng's blades and laws pressed him with relentless attacks.
• Shiheng and Yuanjin Jincang battled for three days and nights, with neither able to defeat the other.
• The intense battle strengthened Shiheng's body, divine soul, and command of his four variant laws, while Yuanjin Jincang grew increasingly shocked and fearful.
• After their final clash, Shiheng and Yuanjin Jincang faced each other with victory undecided, and Yuanjin Jincang declared that Shiheng had enraged him.

After Yuanjin Jincang unleashed the ultimate form of his Earth Demon God True Body and nearly broke Shiheng’s formation, Shiheng revealed the Human Race’s Heavenly Manifestation and merged his four battle blades into one. His single slash shattered Jincang’s Yuanhuang Earth Halberd and broke the Fiend’s defenses, leaving Jincang terrified and the battle decisively turned in Shiheng’s favor.

• After three days and nights of stalemate, Yuanjin Jincang activated the ultimate form of his Earth Demon God True Body, drawing on the wilderness’s earth energy and increasing his combat strength fivefold.
• Jincang summoned the Yuanhuang Earth Halberd and struck Shiheng’s Four Extremes Absolute-Kill Formation, driving it to the brink of collapse.
• Shiheng unleashed the Human Race’s Heavenly Manifestation, growing into a towering golden figure wreathed in the four supreme laws.
• Shiheng called the four Supreme Divine Battle Blades together and fused them into a single blade whose power surpassed the limits of ordinary Divine Artifacts.
• Shiheng’s unified blade shattered Jincang’s Yuanhuang Earth Halberd and cracked his demonic body, overturning the battle’s stalemate.
• Jincang stared in disbelief and fear as Shiheng’s attack broke his ancient racial trump card and left victory in Shiheng’s hands.

Shiheng killed Yuanjin Jincang after a three-day battle, then discovered evidence of a hidden force beyond Hell’s seven-star powers. As the True Demon Lord ordered a Peak Asura to avenge Jincang, Shiheng planned to protect the surviving humans and help them establish a foothold in Hell.

• Shiheng used his fused Four Laws saber to break Jincang’s final defenses and cleave the Seven-Star Fiend in two.
• Shiheng collected Jincang’s treasures and detected a trace of ancient laws from beyond Hell, which made him wary of a hidden power.
• The True Demon Lord learned that Jincang had died and ordered a Peak Asura to deal with the human who killed him.
• Shiheng reflected on Hell’s dangers and planned to rest before going to the Withered Wood Tribe to protect the surviving humans.
• Shiheng recognized that Jincang’s death had left a power vacuum that could give humanity a chance to recover and establish itself.

After defeating the demons, Shiheng reunited with Yuan Xiao and Yuan Su and brought their group safely across Hell’s wilderness to the Withered Wood Human Race Tribe. The tribe’s chief welcomed them as fellow humans but warned them about the dangers of traveling openly through the frontier.

• Shiheng gathered the battlefield spoils, checked for surviving demons and traps, and headed to the agreed meeting point.
• Shiheng found Yuan Xiao’s group unharmed and used his Divine Power to speed their metal shuttle across the wilderness.
• After three days, the shuttle reached the Withered Wood Tribe, where the chief and its three thousand remaining people prepared for an attack.
• The chief recognized the arrivals as humans and relaxed when he saw that they were three Lowgods and more than a hundred Saint cultivators.
• Shiheng confirmed that they had come from other Planes and asked whether they had reached the Withered Wood Tribe.
• The chief welcomed the group, then warned them that traveling openly through Hell’s frontier was reckless and urged them to conceal their movements in the future.

Shiheng and his companions arrived at the Withered Wood Tribe, where the chief explained how Hell’s human tribes had been devastated by a million years of oppression. Shiheng vowed to settle in Hell, protect humanity, and reclaim territory, awakening a faint hope in the exhausted chief.

• Shiheng, Yuan Xiao, and Yuan Su accepted the Withered Wood chief’s cautious advice and landed with the other human cultivators in the tribe’s square.
• The newcomers saw the tribe’s poverty and the fear and wariness of its three thousand surviving members.
• The Withered Wood chief described how the seven human tribes had fallen and warned that humans in Hell could survive only by keeping their heads down.
• Shiheng and his companions declared that they understood the difficulty of returning home and intended to put down roots in Hell.
• Shiheng swore to protect humanity, repay its suffering, and open territory for humans, stirring the chief’s long-dormant hope.

After ten peaceful years of growth and cultivation, the Withered Wood Human Race had transformed under Shiheng’s protection. Their Golden Decade ended when the Dwarf Cherry Blossom Tribe sent an army to conquer them, leaving the humans facing an imminent invasion.

• After Seven-Star Fiend Jincang’s death plunged the ancient frontier into war, the Withered Wood Human Race remained untouched for ten years and named the peaceful period the Human Race Golden Decade.
• Shiheng supplied the tribe with cultivation treasures, including Soul Gold Beads, and protected it with four transcendent battle sabers.
• Twenty human experts broke through from the Saint Limit to Lowgod, while Yuan Xiao and Yuan Su advanced to Midgod and became the tribe’s second- and third-strongest fighters.
• Shiheng advanced his Four Supreme Laws and approached a breakthrough to Midgod while continuing to meditate above the settlement.
• A foreign army’s approach alerted the tribe, and the Withered Wood Clan Leader identified it as the Dwarf Cherry Blossom Tribe’s force, which had pacified the surrounding lands and turned toward the humans.
• Thirty thousand elite dwarven soldiers advanced on the Withered Wood Tribe, bringing the Human Race’s ten years of peace to an end.

The Sakura Dwarf Race invaded the Withered Wood Human Race Tribe with thirty thousand troops and two Highgods, intending to destroy the humans and enslave the survivors. Shiheng and the tribe’s strengthened fighters took to the sky to resist, and Shiheng declared that the Human Race would answer invasion with war.

• Thirty thousand Sakura Dwarf soldiers, led by two Highgods, approached the Withered Wood Tribe to seize its resources and exterminate or enslave its people.
• The terrified humans watched as their clan leader stood alone before the invaders and demanded to know why they were being attacked.
• The dwarf Highgods declared that the humans would be wiped out, stripped of their wealth, and made into hereditary slaves.
• Shiheng appeared from the rear mountain and announced that the Human Race would no longer endure slaughter in silence.
• Yuan Xiao and Yuan Su joined Shiheng, and eighteen more Human Midgods assembled into a battle formation.
• Shiheng confronted the startled dwarf Highgods and vowed that anyone who threatened the Human Race would pay with their life and the destruction of their own race.

The Sakura Dwarf Race attacked the Withered Wood Human Race with an overwhelming army, and the humans prepared to die rather than surrender. Shiheng stepped forward and used four divine blades and his fused Edicts to stop the entire extermination strike, leaving the dwarves’ assault neutralized.

• A human Midgod recorded the Human Race’s history on a jade slip and sent it into Spatial Turbulence before the battle began.
• The Sakura Dwarf Race’s two Highgods mocked the humans and ordered their thirty thousand troops to launch a combined physical and soul attack.
• The Withered Wood Human Race prepared to burn through their Divine Power and fight to the death as the attack descended.
• Shiheng stepped out alone and summoned four Human Dao Transcendent Divine Artifact battle blades to form a Heaven-Sealing Blade Formation.
• Shiheng fused his Four Laws Clones and blocked both the soul-devouring assault and the dwarves’ physical attack, leaving the thirty thousand troops’ strike completely neutralized.

Shiheng stopped the Dwarf Race Iron Army’s Race-Annihilating Strike and revealed himself as a Highgod, saving the Withered Wood Human Race from destruction. Inspired by his power, the Withered Wood Clan Leader broke through to the highgod realm, leaving the humans with renewed hope.

• Shiheng single-handedly halted the combined assault of the Dwarf Race’s thirty thousand troops, leaving the dwarves in shock.
• The human cultivators realized Shiheng had protected them from the attack, and the Withered Wood Clan Leader recognized him as a Highgod.
• The Withered Wood Clan Leader recalled the persecution of human Highgods and resolved to protect Shiheng, then felt his long-held burdens lift.
• The Withered Wood Clan Leader broke through the Midgod barrier and ascended to the highgod realm.
• The surviving human cultivators regained hope, while the Midgod who recorded human history laughed in relief.

Shiheng’s four Life-bound Divine Blades autonomously protected him and annihilated the two Dwarf Race Highgods with a single strike. The Withered Wood Human Race witnessed the victory as the Dwarf army stood frozen in terror and the humans’ million-year shadow of humiliation finally broke.

• The Withered Wood Clan Leader broke through to the Highgod realm, drawing cheers from the human cultivators and disbelief from the Dwarf army.
• The two Dwarf Race Highgods attacked Shiheng with their full strength, while the newly ascended Withered Wood Clan Leader prepared to help him.
• Shiheng remained motionless as his four Life-bound Divine Blades appeared and unleashed their power to protect him.
• The Four Blades instantly annihilated both Dwarf Highgods, leaving the battlefield silent.
• The Dwarf soldiers froze in terror, while the human cultivators wept as they realized their people could finally hold their heads high.

Shiheng annihilated the Dwarf Race’s thirty thousand soldiers after killing their two Highgod commanders, ending the threat to the Withered Wood humans. The humans celebrated their liberation as Shiheng’s destruction laws reached the Lowgod limit.

• After the two dwarf Highgods died, the thirty thousand dwarf soldiers broke formation and fled in terror.
• Shiheng ordered the Withered Wood Clan Leader, Yuan Xiao, and Yuan Su to defend the human positions while he pursued the dwarves.
• Shiheng’s four life-bound divine blades slaughtered the fleeing soldiers, annihilating the entire expeditionary army without survivors.
• As the battle ended, Shiheng’s destruction laws rose to the peak of nineteen point nine layers, matching the Lowgod limit of his fate laws.
• The Withered Wood humans cheered and wept as the million-year threat of foreign armies ended.

The six great human tribes learned that the long-neglected Withered Wood Tribe had annihilated a 30,000-strong Dwarf army and killed two Highgod lords. Recognizing Withered Wood’s new strength as a chance to survive the coming frontier wars, the six tribes agreed to send envoys and seek an alliance.

• Reports reached the six great tribes that the Dwarf army and two Highgod lords had been annihilated in Withered Wood territory.
• The leaders were stunned that the weakest human tribe had defeated the Dwarves and revealed a newly ascended Highgod and an expert capable of killing stronger Highgods.
• The leaders considered the growing chaos after Demon City’s collapse and the Dwarf Race’s expansion across the eastern territory.
• The six great tribes agreed to send envoys to Withered Wood, build an alliance, and plan how the human tribes could face the coming wars.

Shiheng attended a council of the Human Race’s six tribes and discovered how much hidden strength the humans had accumulated, though their lack of racial abilities left them vulnerable. As the chiefs prepared for renewed attacks, he resolved that his methods could help the Human Race break through its limitations.

• Shiheng arrived at the Ten Thousand Races Deliberation Platform as the Withered Wood Tribe’s representative for a council about the threats facing the Human Race.
• The Human Race revealed twelve Highgod experts, including three veteran Five-Star Fiend-level fighters and the Bedrock Tribe’s chief, whose strength approached the Six-Star Fiend level.
• Shiheng recognized that the Bedrock Tribe’s chief and the Human Race as a whole lacked the innate abilities needed to compete with powerful races on equal terms.
• The Bedrock Tribe’s chief warned that the surrounding Different Races would invade again and called on the tribes to find a way for the Human Race to survive.
• Shiheng concluded that his Four Laws, Divine Core fusion, Divine Artifact nirvana, and Faith Weapon Forging could help the Human Race transform and rise.

The seven Human Race tribes gathered to decide how to face the war among the hundred races, and Shiheng revealed that his strength was only peak Four-Star Fiend level. Chief Blackstone chose to unite the tribes in battle while sending their young prodigies beyond Demon City's domain to preserve the race’s future.

• A Five-Star Fiend Highgod warned the seven tribes that the war had reached the Withered Wood Tribe and would soon threaten all their lands.
• The tribes argued over whether to flee or fight, while Shiheng and Chief Blackstone remained silent.
• Asked about his strength, Shiheng said the two Dwarf Highgods he had killed had become Highgods by refining divine sparks, leading the gathering to judge him peak Four-Star Fiend level.
• The tribes shifted their hopes to Chief Blackstone, who declared that the Human Race could only fight.
• Chief Blackstone ordered the tribes to unite against their enemies and assigned one Five-Star Fiend and one Four-Star Fiend to escort the young generation out of the war zone.

The seven human tribes began migrating to the Blackstone Tribe for protection, but the Moon Creek Tribe was ambushed by a powerful band of Dark Wolf remnants. Shiheng saved them by killing the Five-Star Fiend bandit chief with one slash, and Anna explained that defeated races had turned to banditry across the frontier.

• The tribal leaders agreed that the six other human tribes would abandon their homelands and unite with the Blackstone Tribe.
• Shiheng told the Withered Wood Clan Leader about the migration, and the tribe packed its supplies and joined the procession toward Blackstone.
• Shiheng spotted the Moon Creek Tribe under attack by several hundred Demonflame Bandits led by a Five-Star Fiend.
• Shiheng killed the bandit chief with a single slash, then slew most of the remaining bandits; the Moon Creek tribespeople finished off those who fled.
• Anna thanked Shiheng and revealed that the bandits were remnants of the destroyed Dark Wolf Race, whose survivors had become raiders.

Shiheng rescued the Moon Creek Tribe by killing the Dark Wolf bandit chief, a Five-Star Fiend, with one slash, shocking the human tribes and strengthening their unity. The seven tribes reached the Blackstone Tribe, where they gathered under one banner as humanity prepared to face the hundred races.

• Shiheng killed the Dark Wolf bandit chief and annihilated the Dark Wolf Bandit Group, saving the Moon Creek Tribe from destruction.
• Anna thanked Shiheng, and he warned that the hundred races’ gathering forces would pose a grave danger to humanity.
• The chiefs and experts of the Blue Rock, Falling Maple, Yellow Sand, and Riven Wind tribes learned of Shiheng’s victory and recognized him as a hidden top power.
• The seven tribes resumed their migration, and Anna pledged the Moon Creek Tribe’s loyalty to Shiheng, who urged the tribes to unite without ranking leaders and followers.
• The six migrating tribes arrived at the Blackstone Tribe, bringing humanity’s seven great tribes together after a million years of division.

An early Asura expert of the Demon Race took control of Demon City after the prefect of Heaven-Breaking Prefecture compensated him for his brother’s death. He ended the frontier’s ten-year conflict by forcing the four regional leaders to submit, while the Human Race tribes remained unaware of the danger approaching them.

• A Demon Race Asura confronted the prefect of Heaven-Breaking Prefecture over his tenth brother’s death, accepted compensation, and declared that he would govern Demon City.
• The prefect tacitly approved the Demon Race Asura’s appointment as Demon City’s lord.
• The new city lord summoned the four regional leaders and ordered them to submit and guard their regions under his rule.
• The four leaders accepted his command, ending the fragmented rule and ten-year conflict in Demon City.
• The seven great tribes of the Human Race remained unaware that the new Asura’s authority and the looming crisis threatened their territory.

The Sakura Tribe’s five hundred thousand Dwarf troops reached Blackstone, threatening to annihilate the newly united Human Race. As the Dwarfs prepared to attack, Shiheng stepped forward and vowed to defend Blackstone, leaving the battle about to begin.

• The Sakura Tribe leader learned that an Asura expert had unified the frontier and ordered his army recalled, then set out for the Blackstone Tribe himself.
• The Human Race completed its union at Blackstone, counting only five hundred thirty thousand survivors and twenty Highgods among its remaining strength.
• The Dwarf expeditionary force arrived outside Blackstone with five hundred thousand soldiers, a Six-Star Fiend commander, ten Five-Star Fiends, and a hundred Highgods.
• The Dwarf commander ordered his troops to attack and declared that the seven human tribes would be executed and erased.
• Shiheng stepped forward, invoked his Destruction and death laws, and vowed that the Dwarfs would not enter Blackstone.

Shiheng unleashed his full power and slaughtered the Sakura Tribe’s five-hundred-thousand-strong Dwarf army, protecting the Human Race of the frontier. After absorbing the battlefield’s energy, his Laws of Destruction broke through to the Midgod level.

• Shiheng summoned his hundred-thousand-foot Heavenly Manifestation and four Seven-Star battle blades, sealing off the Dwarf army’s escape routes.
• Shiheng killed the Six-Star Fiend commander before he could activate his divine ability, causing the army’s morale to collapse.
• Dwarf generals used a Soul-Eroding Secret Art against Shiheng, but his soul resisted it and struck them with a debilitating backlash.
• Shiheng endured the army’s attacks and fought through its ranks, killing the Dwarves until all five hundred thousand were dead.
• Shiheng absorbed the battlefield’s scattered energy, and his Laws of Destruction broke through to the Midgod level.

After Shiheng annihilated the Sakura Tribe’s 500,000-strong army, the Sakura Tribe chief arrived and unleashed a devastating attack while Shiheng was weakened by his breakthrough. The chief overwhelmed the human defenders and powered up to near Seven-Star strength, leaving the Blackstone Territory facing annihilation.

• Shiheng’s Laws of Destruction broke through to the Midgod level after he wiped out the Sakura Tribe’s expeditionary army.
• The Sakura Tribe chief arrived, saw his army’s destruction, and raged that the fighting had continued despite Demon City changing hands.
• The Sakura Tribe chief struck Shiheng with a supreme palm attack, smashing him into a deep crater and leaving his fate unknown.
• The Human Race’s ancestor and three Five-Star Fiend-level experts tried to protect their people but were quickly defeated and grievously wounded.
• The Sakura Tribe chief activated the Dwarf Race’s Innate Divine Ability and raised his power to a level nearing that of a Seven-Star Fiend.

Shiheng’s four Life-Bound Battle Blades trapped the Sakura chief while Shiheng ordered the Human Race to flee Demon City’s territory. After the humans evacuated, Shiheng remained alone to face the imprisoned chief, and their battle was still unresolved.

• Shiheng’s four Life-Bound Battle Blades broke free and sealed the Sakura chief in a Four-Sided Blade Domain.
• Shiheng rose from the crater, assessed his weakened cultivation and the threats facing the Human Race, and ordered everyone to gather resources and evacuate.
• The humans obeyed, boarded their Metal Lifeforms, and fled Blackstone Territory along separate routes.
• After the Human Race’s main force withdrew, Shiheng stayed behind with the Sakura chief, preparing to continue their fight.

After the Human Race escaped Demon City's territory, Shiheng fought the freed Sakura Tribe chief despite his collapsed cultivation and ruined blades. Shiheng killed the chief with a final mutual-destruction strike, then fell unconscious with catastrophic injuries, leaving his fate unknown.

• All 530,000 humans fled the wasteland safely while Shiheng and the Sakura Tribe chief remained behind.
• Shiheng's weakened cultivation caused the Four-Star Blade Formation to collapse, freeing the chief and badly damaging Shiheng's four Life-Bound Battle Blades.
• Shiheng fought the chief for six hours, enduring his superior strength as his body, Heavenly Manifestation, and blades steadily failed.
• As the exhausted Shiheng faced the chief's Seven-Star-level killing punch, he sacrificed his remaining strength to unite his four broken blades and pierce the chief fatally.
• The Sakura Tribe chief died, and Shiheng collapsed into a deep crater, unconscious and gravely injured, while his damaged blades returned to his body.

The Asura City Lord searched the Demon City of Reception frontier for evidence concerning his younger brother’s death and found its human settlements deserted. At the Blackstone Tribe’s wasteland, he captured the unconscious Shiheng and declared that he had exterminated the frontier Human Race, turning a fabricated victory into an official record.

• The Asura City Lord and his maid searched the frontier and found the human tribes abandoned, with their people gone.
• At the Blackstone Tribe’s wasteland, the maid found no survivors, while the City Lord detected a buried Highgod Divine Core and Shiheng’s faint life force.
• The City Lord ordered the maid to seal Shiheng and take him alive as evidence for his claim that he had destroyed the frontier Human Race.
• The maid bound the unconscious Shiheng and placed him in a void demonic casket, while the City Lord collected the Highgod Divine Core.
• The City Lord proclaimed that he had avenged his family and exterminated humanity, then left with the maid and Shiheng as the false account was entered into official records.