Recaps

Chu Kuangren survived the seventh bolt of his enormous Nine-Colored Heavenly Tribulation, while its eighth bolt killed the remaining Saint Kings and gravely wounded two Quasi-Emperors. As the Quasi-Emperors attacked him, Chu Kuangren used the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation to repel them, but his Heavenly Baleful Manifestation shattered when it met the eighth bolt.

• Chu Kuangren absorbed the seventh tribulation lightning bolt after drawing on the surrounding corpses and using the Heaven and Earth Furnace Body.
• Seven multicolored Thunder Dragons killed Changguang Saint King, the Yellow Springs Manor Lord, and the other Saint Kings, while the two Quasi-Emperors survived but were badly wounded.
• A huge lightning sphere formed as Chu Kuangren's eighth tribulation bolt, and Quasi-Emperor Changguang and Quasi-Emperor Haiyue attacked him, hoping to prevent it from becoming their ninth bolt.
• Chu Kuangren summoned the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation's Cloud Dragon, which shattered Changguang's palm attack and blasted both Quasi-Emperors backward.
• Chu Kuangren used the Heavenly Baleful Manifestation to strike the lightning sphere, but the manifestation broke apart as the bolt crashed down.

Chu Kuangren endured the ninth tribulation bolt by refining the energy he had stored and forcing a breakthrough to Sainthood, forming a ninth-grade supreme saint foundation. His emergence shook Firmament Star, the Nine Heavens, and the Hell Demon Realm, while their powerful beings searched in vain for him.

• Chu Kuangren survived the eighth tribulation bolt as his Heaven and Earth Furnace Body absorbed lightning and his undying body repaired his injuries.
• The ninth tribulation bolts killed Quasi-Emperor Changguang and Quasi-Emperor Haiyue, leaving Chu Kuangren alone beneath the tribulation cloud.
• Chu Kuangren endured the prolonged ninth bolt, then converted his stored energy and absorbed the essence of corpses to force his cultivation toward Sainthood.
• A nine-petaled heart lotus formed in Chu Kuangren's Spirit Ruins, creating a ninth-grade supreme saint foundation as purple qi spread across Firmament Star.
• The purple-qi phenomenon also appeared in the Nine Heavens and the Hell Demon Realm, whose powerful beings searched for the newly emerged Supreme Saint.

Chu Kuangren survived the ninth bolt of Heavenly Tribulation and became a Supreme Saint, but the heavens answered with a Heavenly Punishment Seal that stripped him of his cultivation. As the world believed he could no longer compete, other Heavenly Prides began to rise.

• Chu Kuangren endured the ninth tribulation lightning bolt as his cultivation and undying body advanced, completing his breakthrough to Supreme Saint.
• The tribulation clouds remained after the nine bolts, and mighty beings recognized that Heavenly Punishment had descended upon Chu Kuangren.
• Multicolored chains bound Chu Kuangren and sealed his Spiritual Power and Spirit Thought, trapping his foundations and unfinished heart lotus.
• The tribulation clouds dispersed, and the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation kept others from attacking Chu Kuangren, whom they believed could never break the seal.
• News of Chu Kuangren’s battle and sealing spread across Firmament Star, and Heavenly Prides who had once been overshadowed began displaying their prowess.

After the battle, Chu Kuangren was left bound by the Heavenly Punishment Seal, unable to use his Spiritual Power, and ordered the Mystic Heaven Sect to withdraw behind its formation. He discovered that comprehending the seal could gradually speed its refinement, while the sect gathered enormous spoils to support its future.

• The Cloud Sea Wonder Formation hid the Mystic Heaven Sect, and people outside lamented that Chu Kuangren's era had ended.
• Chu Kuangren ordered Elder Ruyan to keep the formation running, withdraw the sect from the world, and collect the battlefield spoils.
• Chu Kuangren found that the Heavenly Punishment Seal had sealed his powers and body, but his Heaven and Earth Furnace Body could still refine it.
• Chu Kuangren spent a day comprehending the seal and found that understanding its Daoist Rhyme slightly accelerated its refinement.
• Elder Ruyan reported that the Mystic Heaven Sect had recovered vast stores of spirit stones, pills, artifacts, and damaged Immortal Boats.

Chu Kuangren ordered the Mystic Heaven Sect to spend its resources rapidly on cultivating disciples while he studied the Heavenly Punishment Seal in seclusion. As the Great Age of Strife unfolded without him, Xiao Jingchen and other Heavenly Prides from the Nine Heavens arrived to compete for Emperor opportunities.

• Chu Kuangren told the Mystic Heaven Sect elders to use its resources within ten years to strengthen its disciples and elders.
• The Mystic Heaven Sect stayed hidden behind the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation while new Emperor opportunities and Heavenly Prides appeared across the Firmament Star.
• A white-robed old man remarked that the era lacked a peerless talent like Chu Kuangren, just before a pillar of light appeared.
• Xiao Jingchen announced that he had returned from the Nine Heavens to compete for the chance to become an Emperor and asked the Xuanhuang Divine Palace for support.
• More pillars of light descended in the following months, bringing unfamiliar Heavenly Prides from the Nine Heavens to the Firmament Star.

Chu Kuangren drew an Enlightenment Tea Tree and used its leaves to accelerate his comprehension of the Heavenly Punishment Seal, recovering his Spirit Thought. After he gave the tree to Saint Qingshuang to cultivate, roasted tea made from its leaves helped Venerable Xuanqi become a Saint.

• Chu Kuangren drew the Enlightenment Tea Tree, consumed a top-grade leaf, and greatly advanced his understanding of the Heavenly Punishment Seal.
• Chu Kuangren comprehended two of the seal’s nine layers and temporarily recovered his Spirit Thought, though his fundamental cultivation remained sealed.
• Chu Kuangren entrusted the Enlightenment Tea Tree to Saint Qingshuang, who offered him Spirit-Nurturing Pills developed with Grandmaster Gu.
• Saint Qingshuang sent Chu Kuangren several boxes of roasted Enlightenment Tea leaves, and he shared some with the Mystic Heaven Sect’s ancestors.
• Venerable Xuanqi drank the tea and became a Saint, prompting Dao phenomena across the Mystic Heaven Sect.

Chu Kuangren reassured the Mystic Heaven Sect that he could overcome the Heavenly Punishment Seal, then entered seclusion after Gu Linglong's cooking proved disastrous. Three years later, while he remained secluded, the sect discussed the rising Heavenly Prides and a Hidden Dragon List whose first place was still blank.

• Chu Kuangren gave Venerable Xuanqi and the forefathers Enlightenment Tea and told them he had a way to deal with the Heavenly Punishment Seal.
• Gu Linglong tried cooking for Chu Kuangren, but her meals were so bad that he entered seclusion to undo the seal and avoid eating them.
• Three years passed as Gu Linglong, Lan Yu, and Xiao Bing discussed the Mystic Heaven Sect's withdrawal from the world and the Daoist Seeds' progress.
• Xiao Bing said Nangong Huang had defeated a World Walker, while Gu Linglong noted that Murong Xuan had reached forty-ninth place on the Hidden Dragon List.
• Xiao Bing said first place on the Hidden Dragon List remained blank because Tianjizi was waiting for someone worthy of ranking first in the world.

Liu Yiqing and Yin Li infiltrated the Mystic Heaven Sect by secretly following Junyi and Jin Feiyan through its Cloud Sea Wonder Formation. As the two women reached Ling Tian Dao Palace, a Divine Phoenix detected the intruders and challenged them.

• Liu Yiqing and Yin Li, both resentful of Chu Kuangren's fame, decided to enter the Mystic Heaven Sect and meet him.
• The pair concealed themselves and followed Junyi and Jin Feiyan through the dangerous Cloud Sea Wonder Formation.
• After reaching the sect, Liu Yiqing and Yin Li followed the women to Ling Tian Dao Palace and overheard them discuss Chu Kuangren's prolonged closed-door cultivation.
• A Divine Phoenix rose above Ling Tian Dao Palace and confronted the hidden intruders.

Lan Yu and the others confronted Liu Yiqing and Yin Li after the two infiltrated the Mystic Heaven Sect to find Chu Kuangren. When Yin Li tried to seize the Kunwu Sword outside Chu Kuangren’s sealed cultivation room, a vast Sword Dao attack burst from within and sent him flying.

• The Divine Phoenix detected Liu Yiqing and Yin Li, who revealed that they had entered the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation to meet Chu Kuangren.
• Lan Yu attacked Liu Yiqing while Yin Li vanished into the shadows and searched for Chu Kuangren’s secluded cultivation room.
• The Divine Phoenix spotted Yin Li and attacked him with golden flames, but he found the room’s restriction and tried to break through it.
• Kunwu Sword emerged to guard the room, and Yin Li used his Quasi-Emperor Weapon canopy to block the others and reach for the sword.
• Chu Kuangren’s voice sounded from inside the room, and a golden Runic sword split Yin Li’s canopy and sent him flying from the Dao Palace, drenched in blood.

After emerging from three years of seclusion, Chu Kuangren subdued Liu Yiqing and Yin Li and told the Mystic Heaven Sect that he had nearly broken the Heavenly Punishment Seal. He prepared to leave the sect, demonstrating that his mastery of runes could protect him despite the seal still being intact.

• Chu Kuangren emerged from the Dao Palace, reclaimed Kunwu, and asked Liu Yiqing and Yin Li why they had come.
• Liu Yiqing attacked Chu Kuangren, but Chu Kuangren’s Heavenly Dao-like pressure scattered his palm force and drove him to his knees.
• Chu Kuangren used runes to bind Liu Yiqing and Yin Li, then told Elder Ruyan that he had not broken the seal but had comprehended all nine layers and refined away eight.
• Elder Ruyan reported that the Mystic Heaven Sect’s disciples had advanced and several elders had become Quasi-Saints, while the sect still had abundant resources.
• Chu Kuangren announced that he would go out for a stroll and displayed a sky full of runes to reassure the elders that he could protect himself.

After Chu Kuangren demonstrated his Rune techniques despite the Heavenly Punishment Seal, he imprisoned Liu Yiqing and Yin Li and arranged to collect ransom from them. He then left the Mystic Heaven Sect, and two women and a man emerged from the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation behind Old Li.

• Chu Kuangren used Runes to defeat Liu Yiqing and Yin Li, impressing the Mystic Heaven Sect disciples and ending their resistance.
• Chu Kuangren explained that he used Spirit Thought to command heaven and earth’s spiritual qi, then demanded ransom and learned of Yin Li’s Emperor opportunity.
• Liu Yiqing wrote a ransom letter, and Yin Li described the opportunity; Chu Kuangren sealed their prison with the Nine Profound Heavenly Fire Cover.
• Cultivators continued searching the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation for treasures left behind after the great battle, though many had died in the attempt.
• Old Li and a middle-aged cultivator saw two women and a man emerge from the formation, and the middle-aged cultivator stared in shock.

After Chu Kuangren left the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation, his name appeared at the top of the Hidden Dragon List for the first time in three years. The mighty figures questioned Tianjizi and reacted with alarm when they learned Chu Kuangren had also left the Mystic Heaven Sect, leaving his return to unsettle the world.

• Cultivators outside the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation recognized Chu Kuangren as he departed with two women.
• The Hidden Dragon List began changing, and Chu Kuangren’s name appeared in first place.
• People and mighty figures across Firmament Star questioned how Chu Kuangren could rank first while bearing the Heavenly Punishment Seal.
• Tianjizi said he had placed Chu Kuangren first based on his divination of heaven’s secrets.
• News arrived that Chu Kuangren had left the Mystic Heaven Sect, and the mighty figures reacted with alarm.

Gu Linglong returned to the Qingyun Dynasty with Chu Kuangren and learned that Yun Changfeng had taken the throne and was exploiting the people to pay tribute to the Mountain-Sea Tower. She headed for the Royal Capital to investigate, where Yun Changfeng learned that she and Chu Kuangren had arrived.

• Chu Kuangren’s return from the great formation stirred forces across the land, and Xiao Lintian set out to settle old grievances with him.
• Gu Linglong traveled to the Qingyun Dynasty with Chu Kuangren and found its people displaced while bandits preyed on royal shipments.
• Bai Long, a former sect master, recognized Gu Linglong, explained that Yun Changfeng had taken the throne and plundered the people for the Mountain-Sea Tower, and asked her to return to power.
• Gu Linglong resolved to investigate the accusations and hurried to the Royal Capital with her companions.
• Yun Changfeng offered tribute to a Mountain-Sea Tower elder and received pills, then learned that Gu Linglong had returned with Chu Kuangren.

Chu Kuangren and Gu Linglong confronted Yun Changfeng and the Mountain-Sea Tower elder at the Qingyun Dynasty palace. Though the Heavenly Punishment Seal appeared to leave Chu Kuangren powerless, he revealed immense strength and killed the elder, leaving the palace forces terrified.

• Yun Changfeng learned Chu Kuangren had arrived and ordered Gu Qing and the other imprisoned members of Gu Linglong's family brought out.
• Chu Kuangren walked through the palace grounds as tens of thousands of Imperial Guards retreated, then blasted aside a commander who attacked him.
• Yun Changfeng sent his Mountain-Sea Origin Soul at Gu Linglong, but she cut it in two with a saber strike.
• The Mountain-Sea Tower elder dismissed Chu Kuangren's warning and attacked him with a golden eagle Origin Soul, but Chu Kuangren formed a Runes Greatsword and defeated it.
• The elder fled through the palace roof, but Chu Kuangren seized him with invisible thought power and crushed him into a cloud of blood.

Chu Kuangren helped Gu Linglong reclaim the Qingyun Dynasty, then stayed in the Royal Capital as Mountain-Sea Tower and Yellow Springs Manor came seeking him and the Mountain-River Scroll. The chapter ended with Zheng Miao confronting Chu Kuangren alongside Yuan Xian and two Mountain-Sea Tower Saints.

• Chu Kuangren crushed the white-haired old man with telekinesis, and Yun Changfeng threatened Gu Linglong with her imprisoned father and brothers.
• Chu Kuangren forced Yun Changfeng to kneel, and Gu Linglong ordered the Imperial Guards to surrender before taking back control of the dynasty.
• Gu Linglong chose to stay and restore the Qingyun Dynasty, while Chu Kuangren remained in the Royal Capital for several days.
• Yuan Xian of Mountain-Sea Tower demanded that Chu Kuangren return the Mountain-River Scroll, but Chu Kuangren rebuked him for the invasion of Mystic Heaven Sect.
• Zheng Miao of Yellow Springs Manor entered the tavern as Yuan Xian and two Mountain-Sea Tower Saints kept Chu Kuangren under watch.

Chu Kuangren used powerful runic sword techniques to defeat Yuan Xian, Zheng Miao, and their allies without showing any Spiritual Power. He challenged the forces that had besieged the Mystic Heaven Sect, declaring that he would settle accounts with them.

• Zheng Miao demanded that Chu Kuangren return Yellow Springs Manor’s Blood Dragon Claw and Nine Profound Heavenly Fire Cover, and Chu Kuangren invited him and Yuan Xian to attack together.
• Chu Kuangren blocked Zheng Miao’s skeletal claw with golden runes and struck down Yuan Xian’s Soul Spirit beasts with the Gengjin Sword.
• Yuan Xian summoned his Green-Eyed Striped Tiger and two Saints summoned their Mountain-Sea Origin Souls, while Zheng Miao unleashed the Yellow Springs Eye; Chu Kuangren shattered their attacks with the Five Elements Sword.
• Chu Kuangren used runic Sword Qi to kill Zheng Miao, Yuan Xian, and the two Saints despite warnings from two Saint Kings’ Spirit Thoughts.
• Chu Kuangren challenged the forces that had besieged the Mystic Heaven Sect and said he would visit them personally, while Mountain-Sea Tower and Yellow Springs Manor vowed they could not coexist with him.

After Chu Kuangren announced his revenge against the six great Daoist Traditions, their leaders arranged a bounty rather than confront him directly. He traveled to Seven-Terrace Mountain to claim an Emperor’s opportunity, where he found the Greenwater Sword Sect guarding a portal to a Secret Realm after its restriction had been removed.

• The leaders of the six great Daoist Traditions met and agreed to place a bounty on Chu Kuangren, while spreading word that he could not use his two Emperor Weapons.
• Chu Kuangren drew the god-tier Space Transport Technique and realized the Heavenly Punishment Seal would likely take another month to break.
• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu traveled to Seven-Terrace Mountain to claim the Emperor’s opportunity Yin Li had discovered.
• Chu Kuangren remembered that the Greenwater Sword Sect had once submitted to the Mystic Heaven Sect before severing ties during the siege of the Mystic Heaven Palace.
• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu slipped past the Greenwater Sword Sect’s blockade and found that the restriction protecting the Secret Realm had already been removed.

In the Emperor’s Secret Realm, Immortal Fairy Lü Yan and Xue Lingzi betrayed Gui Wuchou after using his Restriction-Breaking Talisman to reach an Emperor Scripture and other treasures. Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu arrived as Lü Yan turned on Xue Lingzi, and Lan Yu took Lü Yan outside to fight.

• Gui Wuchou claimed the Emperor Scripture and two Emperor-grade Spirit Medicines, but Immortal Fairy Lü Yan and Xue Lingzi weakened him with Sorrowful Softening Wind and attacked.
• Gui Wuchou and Xue Lingzi exchanged powerful techniques, leaving both severely injured.
• Lü Yan stabbed Xue Lingzi and revealed she had only feigned love to use him and planned to keep the treasures for herself.
• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu entered the palace, where Lü Yan recognized Chu Kuangren and threatened revenge for past humiliations.
• Lan Yu seized Lü Yan and carried her outside, where their fight began.

Chu Kuangren entered the Emperor’s palace, killed Gui Wuchou and Xue Lingzi, and joined Lan Yu outside as she defeated Fairy Lü Yan. Fairy Lü Yan tried to ambush Chu Kuangren with her secret technique, but Lan Yu struck her down and claimed the right to kill her.

• Gui Wuchou and Xue Lingzi attacked Chu Kuangren, but his runic barrier repelled them and his runic swords killed them.
• Chu Kuangren gathered the palace treasures and walked outside, where Lan Yu had beaten Fairy Lü Yan.
• Fairy Lü Yan begged Chu Kuangren for mercy, then tried to subdue him with her Sorrowful Weakening Wind.
• Chu Kuangren resisted the technique and sent Fairy Lü Yan flying with a runic sword.
• Fairy Lü Yan fled toward the Secret Realm’s exit, but Lan Yu’s spear pierced her and pinned her to a cliff.
• Lan Yu told Chu Kuangren she would kill Fairy Lü Yan herself, and he agreed.

After Lan Yu killed Lü Yan Fairy at Seven-Terrace Mountain, Chu Kuangren left the Greenwater Sword Sect unharmed and continued toward Mountain-Sea Tower despite a bounty on his life. In Tianji City, Tianjizi sensed Chu Kuangren’s arrival at the Heavenly Secret Pavilion and sent Haoyue to welcome him.

• Lan Yu killed Lü Yan Fairy, while the Greenwater Sword Sect elders and disciples knelt before Chu Kuangren and begged for mercy.
• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu left Seven-Terrace Mountain without punishing the Greenwater Sword Sect, as the six top Daoist Traditions placed a bounty on Chu Kuangren and word spread that he possessed two Emperor Weapons.
• Chu Kuangren continued openly toward Mountain-Sea Tower and entered Tianji City with Lan Yu, drawing the attention of powerful cultivators.
• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu arrived at the Heavenly Secret Pavilion, where Chu Kuangren mocked the Hidden Dragon List that ranked him first.
• Tianjizi sensed Chu Kuangren’s arrival and ordered Haoyue to welcome him, surprising the boy and onlookers who knew Tianjizi rarely received visitors.

Chu Kuangren visited Tianjizi at the Heavenly Secret Pavilion, where they discussed the Heavenly Punishment Seal and secrets about the world. After Chu Kuangren left, more than a dozen Saints ambushed him, and he killed one with a single runic sword strike before they attacked together.

• Haoyue welcomed Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu into the Heavenly Secret Pavilion to meet Tianjizi.
• Tianjizi recognized the Heavenly Punishment Seal as a blessing for Chu Kuangren and shared information about the Nine Heavens, Hell, and Taboo Heavenly Prides.
• Tianjizi told Haoyue he was leaving after three years at the pavilion, then vanished into the void.
• More than a dozen Saints confronted Chu Kuangren outside the pavilion and demanded his Emperor Weapons.
• Chu Kuangren killed a Saint with one runic sword strike, and a Great Saint urged the others to attack him together.

Chu Kuangren slaughtered the Saints who attacked him and announced that he would destroy the Mountain-Sea Tower in two days. After his rune gift exploded into a blood-red character for “war” inside the Tower, its Master ordered everyone to prepare for battle.

• Chu Kuangren blocked more than a dozen Saints’ attacks with Saint-grade runes, then killed them with a rain of Runes Swords while sparing one Mountain-Sea Tower Saint.
• Chu Kuangren sent the surviving Saint back with a rune and a warning that he would come to exterminate the Mountain-Sea Tower in two days.
• Xiao Lintian arrived in Tianji City and vowed to defeat Chu Kuangren publicly, while Chu Kuangren heard information about the Mountain-Sea Tower from Qian Fugui.
• The rune inside the surviving Saint caused him to explode in the Mountain-Sea Tower’s great hall, forming a blood-red character for “war.”
• The Mountain-Sea Tower Master ordered every disciple to prepare for battle and rebuked a newly ascended Saint who underestimated Chu Kuangren.

Xiao Lintian challenged Chu Kuangren in Tianji City, but Lan Yu went out to fight him in her master's place. Their clash began as Chu Kuangren continued eating hot pot inside the restaurant.

• Chu Kuangren arrived at the Four Seas Restaurant with Lan Yu and ordered hot pot despite the snow and his genuine lack of cultivation.
• Xiao Lintian challenged Chu Kuangren across Tianji City, and Lan Yu left the restaurant to answer him.
• Xiao Lintian declared his intent to defeat Chu Kuangren, while Lan Yu said she was enough to face him and taunted him for relying on the Heavenly Punishment Seal.
• Xiao Lintian attacked Lan Yu with a Quasi-Emperor Technique, but her own light-attributed technique and Rune-enhanced armor withstood the blow.
• Lan Yu launched another attack, and the two Heavenly Pride Quasi-Saints continued fighting amid the snow.

Lan Yu fought Xiao Lintian and used a Quasi-Emperor Weapon to withstand his attacks while she waited for Chu Kuangren. Chu Kuangren arrived through the snow, and Xiao Lintian mocked him for seeming like a powerless mortal.

• Lan Yu and Xiao Lintian clashed with their Dao Bodies as cultivators, including the World Walkers, gathered to watch.
• Xiao Lintian struck Lan Yu with his Heavenly Venerable Dharma Form, but her Quasi-Emperor Weapon protected her and she countered with a spear.
• Lan Yu rebuked Xiao Lintian for challenging Chu Kuangren while he was under the Heavenly Punishment Seal.
• Chu Kuangren arrived holding an umbrella, and Lan Yu took it from him to shield him from the snow.
• Xiao Lintian laughed at Chu Kuangren and mocked him as a worthless mortal.

Chu Kuangren used his mastery of runes to unleash a massive Wind and Snow Sword against Xiao Lintian, despite his sealed cultivation. After Xiao Lintian died frozen and shattered, Chu Kuangren left for Mountain-Sea Tower.

• Xiao Lintian attacked Chu Kuangren, but a barrier of runic light stopped his punch.
• Chu Kuangren intensified the blizzard and formed a gigantic Wind and Snow Sword from runes.
• Changqin Saint King's Spirit Thought avatar tried to block the sword but was destroyed, while Xiao Lintian's Heavenly Venerable Dharma Form froze and broke apart.
• Xiao Lintian escaped the sword's direct strike but froze in the runic blizzard and shattered into ice shards.
• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu departed for Mountain-Sea Tower, leaving the onlookers terrified.