Recaps

Chu Kuangren visited Piaomiao Heaven with Xue Zheng, concealing how precarious his conflict with the Unknowable Places remained. After arriving at the secret realm and drawing attention from its disciples, he met Sect Leader Yuntao Daoist.

• Chu Kuangren reflected that his threat against the Xuanhuang Divine Palace was a gamble backed by his connection to the Headless Woman, and resolved to press forward despite the danger.
• Xue Zheng used a jade token to open a passage into the hidden Piaomiao Heaven and brought Chu Kuangren inside.
• Caiyun and other Piaomiao Heaven disciples greeted Chu Kuangren and admired his looks, while Xue Zheng grew jealous of the attention.
• Xue Zheng escorted Chu Kuangren to the main palace, where Yuntao Daoist and other elders received him.

Chu Kuangren negotiated with Yuntao Daoist for Heavenly Crystal Jade Marrow, but Piaomiao Heaven had nearly run out of its refined stock. Yuntao Daoist offered him several thousand jin of raw stones from a jade marrow vein instead, and Chu Kuangren found the deal appealing.

• Chu Kuangren asserted that he and Yuntao Daoist were equals as leaders of Daoist Traditions, and Yuntao Daoist rebuked an elder who objected.
• Chu Kuangren offered two hundred million high-grade spirit stones for a thousand jin of high-grade Heavenly Crystal Jade Marrow, but Yuntao Daoist first demanded his Emperor Technique and then raised the price to one billion jin of spirit stones.
• Chu Kuangren accepted the billion-spirit-stone price because he needed the marrow for the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation.
• A Piaomiao Heaven disciple reported that less than a hundred jin of high-grade Heavenly Crystal Jade Marrow remained, and Chu Kuangren confronted Yuntao Daoist with a threatening Sword Dao Rhythm.
• Yuntao Daoist offered Chu Kuangren several thousand jin of raw stones from Piaomiao Heaven's jade marrow vein, letting him keep whatever Heavenly Crystal Jade Marrow he found inside.

Chu Kuangren went with Yuntao Daoist to collect rough stones from Piaomiao Heaven’s mineral vein as compensation for a shortage of Heavenly Crystal Jade Marrow. Using the Treasure-Seeking Art, he uncovered extraordinary quantities of peerless jade marrow and heavenly crystal source, leaving Yuntao Daoist regretting the deal.

• At Piaomiao Heaven’s mineral vein, Chu Kuangren recognized the Third Governor of First City, who had joined Piaomiao Heaven as its Twelfth Elder.
• Yuntao Daoist offered Chu Kuangren ten thousand catties of rough stones in place of a thousand catties of high-grade Heavenly Crystal Jade Marrow.
• Chu Kuangren used the Treasure-Seeking Art, chose stones from inside the vein and the stored pile, and agreed to have them cut on the spot.
• The first stones yielded peerless heavenly crystal jade marrow, and dozens more produced the same rare treasure.
• A multicolored beam revealed heavenly crystal source, and the remaining stones yielded more of it.
• After the cutting ended, Chu Kuangren had gained a thousand catties of heavenly crystal source and four thousand catties of peerless jade marrow, while Yuntao Daoist’s heart bled over the loss.

Chu Kuangren left Piaomiao Heaven with the Heavenly Crystal Source and supreme-grade jade marrow he had won, then learned the flowing cloud ore for his formation was on its way. A Yellow Springs Manor elder offered compensation to settle a dispute, but Chu Kuangren refused and vowed to kill Yuan Wu Dao for poisoning his sect.

• Piaomiao Heaven's elders tried to stop Chu Kuangren from leaving with the Heavenly Crystal Source, but Yuntao Daoist honored their agreement and let him go.
• Chu Kuangren departed Piaomiao Heaven after telling Caiyun he might visit again, alarming Xue Zheng.
• Back at the Mystic Heaven Sect, Chu Kuangren learned that Qian Fugui had prepared the flowing cloud ore needed for the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation.
• Saint Hei Liu of Yellow Springs Manor offered Chu Kuangren a billion catties of high-grade spirit stones to resolve the conflict involving Wu Dao.
• Chu Kuangren rejected the offer and declared that Yuan Wu Dao's life was his because the Netherworld had secretly poisoned the Mystic Heaven Sect.

Chu Kuangren refused Saint Hei Liu’s demand for Yuan Wu Dao’s Heaven and Earth Ring and learned that his flowing cloud ore shipment had been plundered overseas. He tracked the ore to Black Wind Island and gathered power above it, as its cultivators looked up in alarm.

• Chu Kuangren rejected Saint Hei Liu’s offer of a billion catties of spirit stones, kept the Heavenly Jade Jue, and warned Yellow Springs Manor not to challenge him.
• Elder Ruyan pledged that the Mystic Heaven Sect would stand with Chu Kuangren, and he reassured her before receiving Boss Qian’s report that the flowing cloud ore convoy had been plundered.
• On Black Wind Island, Lu Jia and his men divided the stolen ore and prepared more than ten thousand captives for a sacrifice to the Snake God.
• Chu Kuangren followed the ore’s treasure fluctuations to the island and unleashed a powerful aura above it, startling its cultivators.

Chu Kuangren attacked Black Wind Island and demanded the Flowing Cloud Ore stolen from his merchant fleet. After exposing Lu Jia's hidden stash and recovering the ore, he confronted the island's leaders over the debt.

• Chu Kuangren's golden palm shattered Black Wind Island, and the hook-nosed Saint failed to stop it.
• Chu Kuangren demanded the Flowing Cloud Ore, and an elder explained that Black Wind Island had seized it from a merchant fleet.
• The elder handed over a Heaven and Earth Ring, but Chu Kuangren discovered that several million catties of ore were missing.
• Chu Kuangren used the Treasure-Seeking Art to find the ore hidden in a cave behind an illusion formation.
• The elder killed Lu Jia after discovering he had secretly kept the missing ore, and Chu Kuangren collected the rest before asking how Black Wind Island would settle the debt.

Chu Kuangren forced Black Wind Island to promise one billion spirit stones, then learned that its captives were being taken as offerings to the Snake God and insisted on intervening. At the Snake God Sea, the Thirty-Six Islands gathered their captives for a sacrifice, including three thousand children brought by the Lord of White Smoke Island, as they awaited the Snake God.

• Chu Kuangren demanded one billion spirit stones from Black Wind Island and gave its lord three months to pay.
• Chu Kuangren learned the abducted ship crews had been sent to the Snake God Sea as sacrifices and decided to go there.
• The hook-nosed old man led Chu Kuangren toward the Snake God Sea, hoping the Snake God might help Black Wind Island avoid paying.
• The Thirty-Six Islands' lords gathered with their captive offerings and competed to present the best sacrifices.
• The Lord of White Smoke Island brought three thousand children, while the captives cursed the island lords and awaited the Snake God.

The Snake God began devouring the people offered by the thirty-six islands, including the passengers on Black Wind Island’s ship, while the island lords watched. Chu Kuangren arrived and struck the Snake God with a giant sword, then confronted the island lords as the hook-nosed old man urged them to use the Snake God against him.

• The Snake God praised White Smoke Island Lord, dismissed the island lords, and began devouring people from the ships.
• The Snake God destroyed more ships and consumed over a hundred thousand people while the island lords watched without intervening.
• Elder Liu burned his life force and attacked the Snake God, but his punch had no effect and he was swallowed.
• As the Snake God prepared to eat the remaining passengers and children, Chu Kuangren’s white jade longsword struck his head and drove him into the sea.
• Chu Kuangren appeared amid the wreckage, saw the suffering children, and glared at the thirty-six island lords.
• The hook-nosed old man told the island lords he had brought Chu Kuangren there and urged them to let the Snake God kill him.

Chu Kuangren rescued the youths and ships from the Snake God, then fought the ancient beast Hua Snake and survived after his body was shattered. Despite the Eye of Insight warning that his chance of victory was below ten percent, Chu Kuangren continued battling until Hua Snake trapped him in a Water Prison and entered it.

• Chu Kuangren loaded the ships and their passengers onto the Mirage Tower and used its Defensive Formation to escape Hua Snake's whirlpool.
• Chu Kuangren attacked Hua Snake, but the beast shattered his body with a powerful tail strike.
• Chu Kuangren regenerated from the scattered remains, learned from the Eye of Insight that Hua Snake was a Saint King and that his odds were below ten percent, and resumed the fight.
• Chu Kuangren used Sword Qi Clones, swords from the Azure Spirit Sword Box, and three pieces from the Gods and Devils Eight Tones to damage Hua Snake.
• Hua Snake shattered the Sword Qi Clones, trapped Chu Kuangren in a Water Prison, and entered it to fight him.

Chu Kuangren used the Water-Repelling Pearl to resist the Snake God’s underwater prison, but neither his Emperor Techniques nor his Undying Body could decisively defeat the Saint King. The Snake God dragged him to a deep-sea trench and sealed him in a powerful cage, leaving Chu Kuangren trapped among the god’s vast collection of treasures.

• Chu Kuangren broke free of the Snake God’s Water Flow Binding with the Water-Repelling Pearl and fought him underwater using his Emperor Techniques and Undying Body.
• The island lords watched the battle, while the hook-nosed elder declared that the Snake God would defeat Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren considered using the Soul-Hooking Cord and Four Seasons Sword Formation, but judged neither likely to overcome the Snake King in the water prison.
• The Snake God dragged Chu Kuangren tens of thousands of meters below the sea to a trench filled with treasures he had collected and revealed that the Thirty-Six Islands supplied him with sacrifices.
• The Snake God forced Chu Kuangren into a black-patterned cage that he claimed could seal even a Saint King.

Chu Kuangren broke free from the Snake God's sealing cage with the Sea God Trident and turned the fight against the Snake God. After badly injuring the Snake God, Chu Kuangren pursued him as he fled toward the surface.

• The Snake God trapped Chu Kuangren in a cage that suppressed his power and threatened to torment him as part of his collection.
• Chu Kuangren summoned the Sea God Trident, shattered the cage, and revealed its power to command the ocean.
• Chu Kuangren wounded the Snake God with a trident strike and dispersed the Snake God's attack with a command.
• Chu Kuangren unleashed whirlpools that tore at the Snake God, forcing him to break free and flee toward the surface.
• Chu Kuangren pursued the Snake God while the island lords watched from above, and the Snake God burst out of the sea with wings on his back.

Chu Kuangren used the Sea God Trident to overpower the Snake God, who tried to flee and then seize the people aboard the Mirage Tower as hostages. Chu Kuangren killed him, destroyed his soul, and absorbed its remnants with the Heaven and Earth Furnace Body.

• The Snake God emerged from the sea badly wounded, and the people of the Thirty-Six Islands realized Chu Kuangren had driven him to try to escape.
• Chu Kuangren used the Sea God Trident to summon torrents that trapped the Snake God, who then activated a secret technique and rushed toward the Mirage Tower to take its passengers hostage.
• The Mirage Tower's Defensive Formation repelled the Snake God's attack and protected the hundred-odd thousand people aboard.
• Chu Kuangren activated the Nine Deaths Blood-Burning Art and formed a hundred-thousand-foot water dragon that battered the Snake God until he was dying.
• Chu Kuangren used the Soul-Hooking Cord to shatter the Snake God's soul, then absorbed its scattered remnants with the Heaven and Earth Furnace Body.

After killing the Snake God, Chu Kuangren ordered the Thirty-Six Islands’ lords to end their own lives and destroyed White Smoke Island when its lord attacked him. The remaining lords faced a final demand, while the Saints of the Thirty-Six Islands also called for their deaths.

• Chu Kuangren stored the Snake God’s energy and corpse, then demanded that the Thirty-Six Islands’ lords end their own lives or see their islands destroyed.
• The White Smoke Island Lord attacked Chu Kuangren with a poisoned dagger, but Chu trapped him in water and made him die by his own blade.
• Chu Kuangren discovered White Smoke Island’s wicked practices and sent a tsunami from tens of thousands of kilometers away, destroying the island and killing countless people.
• When an island lord condemned him for the destruction, Chu Kuangren pointed out the many lives they had sacrificed to the Snake God and renewed his ultimatum.
• The Saints of the Thirty-Six Islands spoke from the void, also demanding that the island lords end their own lives.

The Saints of the Overseas Thirty-Six Islands forced their island lords to kill themselves to appease Chu Kuangren, who mocked the Saints before returning to the Mirage Tower. After recovering from the strain of using the Sea God Trident, Chu Kuangren was thanked by the rescued people and healed their injured.

• The Saints ordered the thirty-six island lords to take their own lives, and the lords detonated themselves one after another, with a Saint stopping an attempted escape.
• Chu Kuangren laughed at the Saints for sacrificing their own people, then left for the Mirage Tower while insulting them.
• The Overseas Thirty-Six Islands' Saints erupted in rage and helplessness, and some spat blood or suffered collapsing Dao Hearts.
• Back at the Mirage Tower, Chu Kuangren collapsed after using the Sea God Trident and spent three days recovering his Spiritual Power and mental strength.
• More than a hundred thousand people knelt to thank Chu Kuangren, who used the Spring Wind Transforming Rain Technique to heal the injured.

Chu Kuangren recovered the Snake God’s undersea treasures, arranged for Qian Fugui to shelter the rescued people, and completed the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation at the Mystic Heaven Sect. After drawing and studying the Mysterious Origin Emperor Scripture, he emerged from cultivation when the Qian Emperor Palace appeared and drew the Unknowable Places into a scramble for its opportunities.

• Chu Kuangren searched the Snake God’s ocean trench, collected its treasures, and discovered a Soul-Nourishing Grass.
• Chu Kuangren met Qian Fugui in a Dao Province, handed over the flowing cloud ore, and asked him to settle the rescued civilians and cultivators.
• Chu Kuangren returned to the Mystic Heaven Sect and spent a month learning formations as he built the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation.
• Chu Kuangren completed the Emperor-grade formation, drew the Mysterious Origin Emperor Scripture, and learned that it focused on Talisman Dao.
• The Qian Emperor Palace appeared on Firmament Star, prompting the Unknowable Places and World Walkers to rush toward it as Chu Kuangren emerged from cultivation.

Chu Kuangren secured the Mystic Heaven Sect with a powerful formation before heading for the Qian Emperor Palace, where an imperial inheritance awaited. The palace barred Saints and admitted only those below Saint, leaving the Heavenly Prides to compete as the Unknowable Places watched.

• Chu Kuangren taught Elder Ruyan to activate the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation and left her to protect the Mystic Heaven Sect.
• Chu Kuangren left for the Qian Emperor Palace as its Sealing Power vanished and Saints gathered outside.
• An invisible barrier repelled Saints, and golden words declared that only those below Saint could enter.
• Saints instructed Xue Zheng and Yuan Wu Dao to be cautious, and the Heavenly Prides entered the palace with World Walkers drawing attention.
• Saint Zixu boasted that Xiao Lintian would claim the greatest opportunity, then the crowd noticed a divine-looking man approaching the palace.

Chu Kuangren tried to enter the Qian Emperor Palace, but Saints from the Unknowable Place joined forces to bar his way. Despite fighting fiercely, he could not break through their blockade, leaving him outside the palace.

• Chu Kuangren arrived at the Qian Emperor Palace, and the Unknowable Place's Saints moved to stop him from claiming its opportunity.
• Chu Kuangren attacked the Saints with an Emperor Technique and challenged them to fight together.
• Saint Hei Liu of Yellow Springs Manor led the Saints in a coordinated assault, and Chu Kuangren countered with Kunwu and his Three Great Daoist Bodies.
• An old man summoned Immovable Manor's Mountains and Rivers Seal, but Chu Kuangren destroyed it with the Heavenly Baleful Manifestation before the Saints' attacks shattered the manifestation.
• Chu Kuangren repeatedly tried to find a gap in the Saints' defense, but their blockade held, and a Saint from Piaomiao Heaven told him to give up.

Chu Kuangren used his mastery of the Way of Runes to evade the Saints and enter Qian Emperor Palace, where he searched for treasures. Inside, World Walkers argued over how to divide a medicinal field’s rare spirit medicines.

• Chu Kuangren revealed runes he had secretly inscribed and used their attacks to distract the Saints before flying toward the Emperor Palace.
• The Saint from the Death Sacred Hall attacked Chu Kuangren, but a golden rune barrier blocked the strike and let him enter the palace.
• Chu Kuangren used the Treasure-Seeking Art, sensed a sealed area at the palace’s center, and began collecting the other treasures for the Mystic Heaven Sect.
• Xue Zheng asked how the Heavenly Prides should divide the spirit medicines in the medicinal field.
• Xiao Lintian claimed the strongest should take the largest share, while Ling Xiao and the other World Walkers united against him.

Chu Kuangren took all the spirit medicine from the medicinal field after the World Walkers refused to challenge him, then joined them at a stone stele containing a Quasi-Emperor Technique. The chapter ended with Ling Xiao realizing Chu Kuangren had appeared beside him again.

• Xiao Lintian demanded half the medicinal field, but Chu Kuangren arrived and declared he would take it all.
• Chu Kuangren used the Heaven and Earth Ring to collect the spirit medicine and sent a World Walker flying with a single palm strike.
• Xiao Lintian urged Ling Xiao and the others to attack together, but Ling Xiao backed down and Xiao Lintian refused to fight Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren finished collecting the spirit medicine, bid the World Walkers farewell, and left them to explore the Emperor Palace.
• The World Walkers discovered a stone stele depicting a fist technique and realized it contained a Quasi-Emperor Technique.
• Chu Kuangren appeared beside Ling Xiao as the World Walkers studied the stele, leaving Ling Xiao dismayed.

Chu Kuangren instantly comprehended the stele’s Quasi-Emperor fist technique and claimed the Emperor Blood it released. When the true Qian Emperor Palace appeared, seven World Walkers revealed Jade Tallies that could let them enter and pursue its hidden opportunity.

• Chu Kuangren joined the crowd studying the stele and immediately comprehended its Quasi-Emperor fist technique, stunning Xiao Lintian and the other Heavenly Prides.
• Chu Kuangren struck the stele, causing it to release a drop of Emperor Blood, which he regarded as a useful treasure.
• The imperial palace trembled, and a golden palace appeared that the Heavenly Prides could not enter; they recognized its plaque as Qian Emperor Palace.
• Ling Xiao and six other World Walkers produced Jade Tallies that resonated with the palace, and Xiao Lintian said only their holders could enter and claim the Qian Emperor’s true opportunity.

The Qian Emperor Palace appeared, and Chu Kuangren revealed that he had a Jade Tally, while Yuan Wu Dao stole Feng Yaorao’s tally and tried to enter. Chu Kuangren stopped him and attacked, but Yuan Wu Dao unleashed the Blood Dragon Claw and continued fighting.

• Xiao Lintian and the other World Walkers were stunned when Chu Kuangren showed that he had a Jade Tally for entering the Qian Emperor Palace.
• Yuan Wu Dao ambushed Feng Yaorao, injured her, and stole her Jade Tally before rushing toward the palace.
• Chu Kuangren caught Yuan Wu Dao, threw him into a crater, and declared that he would take his life.
• Yuan Wu Dao burned away the bandages on his left arm and revealed the Yellow Springs Manor’s Blood Dragon Claw, a powerful Quasi-Emperor Weapon.
• Yuan Wu Dao shattered Chu Kuangren’s giant golden hand with the Blood Dragon Claw, then clashed with Chu Kuangren’s Human Mountain Seal Art and kept attacking.

Chu Kuangren defeated and killed Yuan Wu Dao, then seized Feng Yaorao’s Jade Tally. He trapped the other World Walkers in a Sword Formation and demanded their tallies so he could enter the Emperor Palace alone.

• Yuan Wu Dao attacked Chu Kuangren with the Blood Dragon Claw, but Chu Kuangren severed the claw and left Yuan Wu Dao helpless.
• Chu Kuangren killed Yuan Wu Dao, refined his corpse with the Taotie Technique, and took the Jade Tally he had been carrying.
• Feng Yaorao thanked Chu Kuangren for recovering her Jade Tally, but Chu Kuangren refused to return it and revealed he had other plans.
• Chu Kuangren summoned a Sword Formation that trapped the World Walkers, including Xiao Lintian and Ling Xiao.
• Chu Kuangren demanded that the World Walkers hand over their Jade Tallies so they could not enter the Emperor Palace and compete for its opportunities.

Chu Kuangren forced the World Walkers to surrender their Jade Tallies and entered the true Qian Emperor Palace alone. There, he met an illusory figure of the Emperor, who was startled to find only Chu Kuangren present.

• Chu Kuangren threatened the World Walkers with his Sword Formation until Gui Wuchou, Xiao Lintian, and the others handed over their Jade Tallies.
• Chu Kuangren defied Heaven to punish him, but the thunder passed without striking; after he left, Xiao Lintian smashed a palace while Ling Xiao urged everyone to seek other opportunities.
• Outside the Emperor Palace, Saint Hei Liu learned that Yuan Wu Dao had died and blamed Chu Kuangren, while the Saints lamented that Chu had a Jade Tally.
• Chu Kuangren entered the true Qian Emperor Palace, where an illusory golden-robed man appeared before eight meditation cushions.
• The illusory man asked why Chu Kuangren was alone, and Chu laid out all eight Jade Tallies and answered that it was just him.

Chu Kuangren questioned Qian Emperor about his fate and the Outer Nine Heavens before entering a test of his Dao Heart. He shattered the Asura Illusion Realm with the Tathagata Rebirth Mantra, passed the test, and left Qian Emperor stunned by his strength.

• Chu Kuangren presented all eight Jade Tallies to Qian Emperor, who asked how he had obtained them and announced that he would still face a test.
• Chu Kuangren asked whether Qian Emperor had fallen and learned that he remained above the heavens in the Outer Nine Heavens, created by Emperors to protect the firmament.
• Qian Emperor transported Chu Kuangren into the Asura Illusion Realm and told him to cross its battlefield as a test of his Dao Heart.
• Chu Kuangren walked through the battlefield unaffected by its attacks and Emperor Dao Pressure, then summoned an Ancient Buddha to destroy the skeletons with the Tathagata Rebirth Mantra.
• Chu Kuangren's Dao Heart cracked the illusion realm, so Qian Emperor ended the test and declared that he had passed; Chu Kuangren was disappointed by how easy it had been.

Chu Kuangren received the Qian Emperor's legacy and learned that contenders from the Nine Heavens and the Hell Demon Realm might seek the Emperor opportunity on Firmament Star. After he left the palace with his rewards, the Saints began discussing how to stop him.

• The Qian Emperor gave Chu Kuangren an Emperor Weapon, an Emperor Scripture, and a scroll, and warned him about future rivals from the Nine Heavens and the Hell Demon Realm.
• The Qian Emperor's Spirit Thought vanished, and the Qian Emperor Palace landed as its auspicious phenomena and Emperor Dao Pressure disappeared.
• Chu Kuangren returned the Jade Tallies to Xiao Lintian and left, while Xiao Lintian and the others found the Emperor Palace empty of opportunities.
• Saint Hei Liu learned that Chu Kuangren had killed Yellow Springs Manor's World Walker and urged the Saints to act against him.
• Saint Zixu and the other Saints resolved to consult their leaders about eliminating Chu Kuangren, while Chu Kuangren headed back to the Mystic Heaven Sect.