Recaps

Beiming Xuanse agreed to seek a divine artifact in the Ruin of Heaven and Sea so he could free the gods sealed beneath the ocean and claim a Godhead. Meanwhile, Chu Kuangren tested Mystic Heaven Sect disciples’ Dao Hearts before a gods’ secret realm rose from the sea, drawing him and Su Heavenly Venerable to investigate.

• Beiming Xuanse failed to break the stele suppressing the gods, so a voice sent him to retrieve a divine artifact from the Ruin of Heaven and Sea and gave him divine power to enter it.
• Chu Kuangren used the Illusory Nether Secret Realm to test the disciples’ Dao Hearts, while Elder Ruyan recorded their grades and assigned more training to those who performed poorly.
• Chu Kuangren sensed a powerful burst of divine energy beneath the sea and left Murong Xuan and Lan Yu at the Mystic Heaven Sect while he investigated.
• A magnificent palace rose from the ocean, and Chu Kuangren suspected it was one of the gods’ secret realms Su Heavenly Venerable had mentioned.
• Su Heavenly Venerable arrived with several Emperors, who recognized valuable treasures in the palace and speculated that a High-God had once lived there.

Beiming Xuanse left the Ruin of Heaven and Sea with a divine weapon, intending to help the Deities obtain a divine core. As the Emperors looted the surfaced divine palace under Su Heavenly Venerable’s Minor World, waves of Divine Power erupted across Firmament Star.

• Beiming Xuanse left the Ruin of Heaven and Sea with a black axe and planned to help the Deities undo their seals and claim a divine core.
• A Myriad Gods Cult leader saw the Emperors gather at the divine palace and sent her followers to free the sealed Gods.
• Water-Flow Soldiers attacked an Emperor who took a gem, but Su Heavenly Venerable suppressed the palace’s restrictions with her Minor World.
• Chu Kuangren used his Treasure-Seeking Art and Heavenly Punishment Dao Patterns to break into a side palace and collect its treasures.
• The Emperors looted nearly all the divine palace’s treasures and left after Su Heavenly Venerable withdrew her Minor World.
• Waves of Divine Power erupted from several places across Firmament Star as the group prepared to leave.

After four Deities were unsealed on Firmament Star, Su Heavenly Venerable prepared to seek help while Chu Kuangren claimed a Divine Source. Meanwhile, Beiming Xuanse freed the Crocodile God and Sea Snake God, and a Heavenly Punisher named Seventh set out for Firmament Star.

• Su Heavenly Venerable and the Emperors discovered that three lesser gods and one intermediate god had escaped their seals, and she planned to report the breach to the Heavenly Venerable Association.
• Su Heavenly Venerable gathered the Divine Palace treasures to send resources to the front lines, while Chu Kuangren chose a Divine Source that Deities could absorb and received permission to take additional treasures.
• Beiming Xuanse shattered an underwater stele and freed the Crocodile God and Sea Snake God, who gave him a Godhead and planned to stay with the Qilin Tribe.
• The Heavenly Punishers discussed the awakened Gods and the dangers of the Extraterrestrial Battlefield, then sent the mostly recovered Seventh to oversee Firmament Star and investigate Chu Kuangren.

Chu Kuangren advanced to the ninth layer of the Emperor Initial Realm after refining a Divine Source, then met Qixing, a Heavenly Punisher who recognized the original power of Heavenly Punishment in Chu Kuangren’s Dao Patterns. Qixing and Tianjizi found that Chu Kuangren’s fate resembled the Human King’s, leaving Qixing wondering whether the King had returned.

• Chu Kuangren absorbed the Divine Source and advanced from the fourth to the ninth layer of the Emperor Initial Realm, then continued studying the Heavenly Punishment Dao Patterns.
• Qixing visited Chu Kuangren, revealed his own Heavenly Punishment Dao Patterns, and recognized Chu Kuangren’s as the original power of Heavenly Punishment.
• Qixing promised to help Chu Kuangren and learned that the other Heavenly Punishers were recovering from their injuries from the ancient War Against the Gods.
• Qixing asked Tianjizi about Chu Kuangren, and Tianjizi said Chu Kuangren’s fate could not be fathomed and transcended the river of destiny.
• Tianjizi compared Chu Kuangren’s fate with the Human King’s records and found their descriptions nearly identical, leaving Qixing wondering if the Human King had returned.

Chu Kuangren studied Heavenly Punishment Dao Patterns, upgraded the Eye of Insight, and investigated new Deity-worshipping churches in Cloud Wasteland Dao Province. He learned that the Myriad Gods Cult and several Deities were behind them, while Qi Xing was unable to intervene because two High-Gods had him pinned down.

• Chu Kuangren spent three months studying Heavenly Punishment Dao Patterns as Firmament Star changed and treasures appeared across the Mystic Heaven Sect's territory.
• Chu Kuangren drew a Super God-Level Supernatural Power Upgrade Card and chose to upgrade his Eye of Insight.
• Chu Kuangren inspected the Mystic Heaven Sect and learned that strange churches had gained tens of millions of followers in Cloud Wasteland Dao Province.
• Chu Kuangren confronted the local Emperor, who said the Myriad Gods Cult controlled the churches and several Deities were present.
• Chu Kuangren contacted Qi Xing and learned that two High-Gods were keeping him occupied, leaving him unable to act.

Chu Kuangren intervened when three God-worshipping sects attacked the White Lotus Sect, then asked the survivors about the new Churches in Cloud Wilderness Dao Province. The White Lotus Sect Leader began explaining the recent events to him in the sect’s inner hall.

• Qixing asked Chu Kuangren to handle the Church matter while the other Emperors guarded the Deities’ seals, and Chu Kuangren agreed.
• The Fire God Sect, Water God Sect, and Ice and Snow God Sect moved to destroy the White Lotus Sect and declared that the region would worship their gods.
• Chu Kuangren appeared before the sects’ attack could hit the White Lotus Sect and challenged their claims that their gods were true gods.
• The three sects’ Quasi-Emperors called on their gods for power, but their attacks could not harm Chu Kuangren, who killed the gathered attackers with his Emperor Thought.
• Chu Kuangren asked the White Lotus Sect Leader to tell him what had happened in Cloud Wilderness Dao Province, and she began recounting recent events in the inner hall.

Chu Kuangren learned how the Fire God Sect and other sects manufactured disasters to gain followers, then explained why the people resisted the White Lotus Sect’s revelations. He declared that all other deities were false gods and prepared to confront them, leaving the White Lotus Sect’s followers hopeful.

• The White Lotus Sect Leader explained that the Fire God Sect, Water God Sect, and Frost Snow God Sect had spread by causing disasters and posing as saviors.
• Chu Kuangren invited Saint Qianyue to visit Great Moon Country and saw that the people had lost faith and his statue had been toppled.
• Chu Kuangren explained that exposing the sects had stripped the people of their newly found faith, making them reluctant to believe the truth.
• Chu Kuangren said the people needed a new faith and declared, “all but me are false gods,” before destroying the other deities’ statues.
• Chu Kuangren walked back toward the White Lotus Sect as followers recognized him and regained hope, while Saint Qianyue anticipated his challenge to the Gods.

Chu Kuangren planned to undermine the Gods’ harvest of faith by becoming an object of worship, founding the Mystic Heaven Religion and taking the title Mystic Heaven True God. After unlocking the Omniscient Spirit and naming it Little Love Assistant, he saw a Fire God Sect elder preach about the Flame Main God and its promise of salvation.

• Chu Kuangren, Saint Qianyue, and the White Lotus Sect Leader agreed to act against the Gods, and Chu Kuangren chose the title Mystic Heaven True God.
• Saint Qianyue proposed renaming the White Lotus Sect as the Mystic Heaven Religion, and Chu Kuangren agreed.
• The Omniscient Spirit introduced itself to Chu Kuangren, who learned it could analyze a specified target but could not answer questions about the Fantasy Roulette, Immortals, or the Gods.
• Chu Kuangren asked the Omniscient Spirit to analyze the Heavenly Punishment Dao Patterns, gaining a flood of information that greatly advanced his understanding.
• Chu Kuangren chose a mature woman’s voice for the Omniscient Spirit and named it Little Love Assistant.
• A Fire God Sect elder told followers that worshipping the Flame Main God would let their souls escape reincarnation and dwell in the Flame Divine Kingdom, when Chu Kuangren derided the promise as laughable.

Chu Kuangren confronted the Fire, Water, and Ice and Snow God Cults, declaring himself the world’s only true god. He destroyed the three Main Gods’ phantoms and left their cult masters defeated.

• Chu Kuangren arrived in the city and struck the Fire God Sect Grand Elder into the ground with a single palm.
• The Fire God Cult Master, Water God Cult Master, and Ice and Snow God Cult Master summoned the phantoms of their Main Gods to attack him.
• Chu Kuangren shattered the three divine attacks and burned the Flame Main God’s phantom away with Phoenix Fire.
• Chu Kuangren used Emperor-Grade Thunder Talismans empowered by Heavenly Punishment Dao Patterns to destroy the Water God and Ice and Snow Main God phantoms and blast their cult masters backward.
• Chu Kuangren proclaimed himself the Mystic Heaven True God and declared that all false gods must die.

Chu Kuangren destroyed the three god sects in Cloud Wilderness Dao Province and founded the Mystic Heaven Religion, declaring himself its true god. After Qixing challenged his methods, Chu Kuangren defended faith as a source of strength for ordinary people.

• Chu Kuangren healed the people with the Spring Wind Transforming Rain Technique and convinced the crowd that he was the Mystic Heaven True God.
• Chu Kuangren killed the Fire God and Water God sect leaders, destroyed the Ice and Snow God sect leader, and exposed the sects’ crimes through Phantom Nether Seven Emotions Melody.
• Chu Kuangren founded the Mystic Heaven Religion, and Saint Qianyue and the others rapidly recruited followers as the three sects fell across Cloud Wilderness Dao Province.
• The Emperor reported Chu Kuangren’s actions to the Heavenly Venerable, while Chu Kuangren and his allies discussed targeting the Thunder God Religion in Black Tiger Dao Province.
• Qixing confronted Chu Kuangren about establishing a new faith, and Chu Kuangren argued that people needed faith to become fearless and strengthen their hearts.

Chu Kuangren discovered that the growing Mystic Heaven Religion had generated the power of faith, which he could not use without a special method. After the Myriad Gods Cult decided to activate its Divine Body Plan to deal with him, Chu Kuangren set his sights on the Thunder God Religion in Black Tiger Dao Province.

• Chu Kuangren told Qixing he would become the people's faith, and Qixing chose to trust him to keep the situation under control.
• Chu Kuangren contacted the Mystic Heaven Sect, then learned from Lil Ai that the Mystic Heaven Religion's believers had generated the power of faith, which required a special method to absorb.
• The Myriad Gods Cult's Divine Maiden ordered the Divine Body Plan activated because Chu Kuangren had thwarted their plans and was too powerful for the Emperors to defeat.
• Chu Kuangren turned his attention to the Thunder God Religion in Black Tiger Dao Province, where the Black Tiger Great Emperor warned him that it had three Emperors and could draw on the power of the formidable Thunder God.

Chu Kuangren destroyed the Thunder God Religion’s temple and defeated its Grand Elder and the Thunderclap Main God’s incarnation, then used a miracle to turn the believers toward the Mystic Heaven True God. As the Mystic Heaven Religion took over, he learned the Thunder God Religion’s leader and other missing experts were excavating a Gods Secret Realm.

• Chu Kuangren arrived at the Thunder God Religion, shattered its statues, and destroyed the Thunder God Palace.
• The Grand Elder called upon the Thunder God’s power, but Chu Kuangren neutralized his lightning and defeated him and the Thunderclap Main God’s incarnation.
• Chu Kuangren exposed the Thunder God Religion’s methods by making its cultivators confess, then won the believers’ worship with a miracle.
• Members of the Mystic Heaven Religion arrived and began absorbing and reorganizing the Thunder God Religion.
• Chu Kuangren questioned senior members and learned that the Thunder God Religion’s leader and other absent experts were excavating a Gods Secret Realm.

Chu Kuangren waited for the Thunder God Religion to return, then defeated its Leader and dismantled its hold over Black Tiger Dao Province. After discovering a Low-God Godhead among the Leader’s treasures, he learned he could refine it safely and considered using it to advance toward the Heavenly Venerable realm.

• The Thunder God Religion Leader returned to find the people worshipping the Mystic Heaven True God and the Thunder God’s statue toppled.
• Chu Kuangren destroyed the statue, defeated the Thunder God Religion Leader, and left Saint Qianyue and the others to handle the aftermath.
• Chu Kuangren searched the Leader’s Heaven and Earth Ring, set aside treasures for the Mystic Heaven Religion and the front lines, and found several Divine Sources.
• Chu Kuangren identified a deep-blue crystal as a Low-God Godhead, and the Omniscient Spirit explained that his Heaven and Earth Furnace Body could refine it without side effects.
• Chu Kuangren considered refining the Godhead, whose energy might help him break through to the Heavenly Venerable realm.

After absorbing a Low-God’s Godhead, Chu Kuangren strengthened his cultivation and obtained the Five Elements Divine Shadow Army. The Myriad Gods Cult prepared to confront him, and Chu Kuangren learned they had challenged the Mystic Heaven True God to a public judgment in Netherworld Valley.

• Chu Kuangren refined Divine Sources, then absorbed a Low-God’s Godhead while the Myriad Gods Cult plotted against him.
• An Underworld God follower proposed trapping Chu Kuangren in a formation by publicly challenging the Mystic Heaven True God to judgment.
• The Divine Maiden prepared a Divine Body and gathered ritual materials to let the Underworld God’s will descend into it.
• Chu Kuangren’s cultivation improved, and he drew the God-tier Five Elements Divine Shadow Army from the Fantasy Roulette.
• Chu Kuangren discovered that the Myriad Gods Cult had challenged the Mystic Heaven True God in Netherworld Valley and recognized that they had declared war on him.

Chu Kuangren accepted the Myriad Gods Cult’s challenge and arrived alone at Netherworld Valley, where his overwhelming aura devastated much of the valley. The gathered observers were left wondering whether he had reached the realm of a half-step Heavenly Venerable.

• Chu Kuangren told Saint Qianyue and the White Lotus Sect Leader that he would face the Myriad Gods Cult in Netherworld Valley himself.
• The Myriad Gods Cult’s Emperors prepared an ambush while Quasi-Emperors and other Emperors gathered to watch the battle.
• After Chu Kuangren failed to arrive for a day and a night, the cult’s Emperors mocked him, while veteran Quasi-Emperors insisted he would come.
• Chu Kuangren descended into Netherworld Valley and released his Emperor’s might, collapsing more than half the valley.
• The watching Emperors sensed that Chu Kuangren’s power exceeded the ninth level of the Emperor Realm and speculated that he was a half-step Heavenly Venerable.

Chu Kuangren faced the Myriad Gods Cult’s assembled forces inside the Netherworld Grand Formation and summoned the Five Elements Divine Shadow Army. The elite army overwhelmed the cult’s cultivators, turning their attempt to judge him into a massacre.

• Chu Kuangren descended on Netherworld Valley, and the Underworld God's follower activated the Netherworld Grand Formation to seal it.
• Followers of the Myriad Gods Cult’s many deities gathered and charged at Chu Kuangren, confident their numbers and divine power would kill him.
• Chu Kuangren released a multicolored crystal that summoned the Five Elements Divine Shadow Army, led by five Perfection Emperors.
• The five commanders knelt before Chu Kuangren, and he ordered the army to wipe out the Myriad Gods Cult cultivators.
• The Divine Shadow Army used its coordinated Five Elements powers to rout the cult’s larger force and massacre its cultivators.

The Divine Shadow Army used the Five Elements Divine Shadow Formation to slaughter the Myriad Gods Cult inside Netherworld Valley, while Chu Kuangren destroyed the Deities’ avatars that insulted him. The battle left the cult nearly annihilated, and Qixing watched Chu Kuangren with a complicated expression that surprised Su Heavenly Venerable.

• The Divine Shadow Army's five commanders trapped the Myriad Gods Cult's Emperors in the Five Elements Divine Shadow Formation and killed dozens of them.
• The Myriad Gods Cult's cultivators tried to flee, but the Underworld Grand Formation trapped them inside Netherworld Valley as the Divine Shadow Army continued its slaughter.
• Chu Kuangren blasted apart the Deities’ avatars after they threatened him and called them false gods.
• The Mid-God Thunder God wanted to attack Chu Kuangren, but a Heavenly Venerable's Emperor Thought stopped him, and the Low-God Water God urged him to wait.
• Qixing watched Chu Kuangren with doubt, admiration, hope, and wistful remembrance, prompting Su Heavenly Venerable to wonder what secret he held.

The Underworld God descended into Netherworld Valley in an artificially refined Divine Body powered by faith, intent on killing Chu Kuangren. Chu Kuangren recognized the Goddess as the one who had opened the Devil Race passage and ordered the Divine Shadow Army to pursue her while he faced the Underworld God.

• The Crocodile God blocked Qixing from going to Netherworld Valley, and the two fought as the battle between the Divine Shadow Army and the Myriad Gods Cult neared its end.
• The Underworld God arrived, and the Golden-Armored Commander and the other four commanders withdrew to protect Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren learned through Xiao Ai that the Underworld God’s Divine Body had been artificially refined using the power of faith.
• Chu Kuangren recognized the Goddess as the person who had broken his seal and opened the Devil Race passage, and she admitted that she had done it.
• The Underworld God attacked Chu Kuangren, but the five commanders’ joint strike only managed to delay him.
• Chu Kuangren ordered the Divine Shadow Army to keep fighting the Myriad Gods Cult and capture the Goddess while he confronted the Underworld God.

Chu Kuangren overwhelmed the Underworld God with his Emperor qi, heavenly punishment power, and phoenix fire, forcing the god to summon the Gate of the Underworld. The gate opened and unleashed countless demons, but Chu Kuangren vowed to destroy it again.

• Chu Kuangren challenged the Underworld God and used the Nine Dragons Divine Transformation to greatly increase his power.
• Chu Kuangren revealed his heavenly punishment power and blasted the Underworld God back with his invincible law and sword strikes.
• The Underworld God Believer watched in disbelief as Chu Kuangren suppressed the Underworld God, while the Divine Shadow Army trapped the divine maiden.
• The Underworld God opened the Gate of the Underworld and sent countless Demon Ghost Rakshasas toward Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren burned the demons to ashes with phoenix fire and declared that he would destroy the gate again.

Chu Kuangren destroyed the Underworld God's strongest powers, killed him, and defeated the Myriad Gods Cult at Netherworld Valley. He crippled the Goddess and declared that only one true god remained, while the Mystic Heaven True God’s name spread across the heavens.

• Chu Kuangren used his Myriad Daoist Law Manifestation to shatter the Gate of the Underworld, wounding the Underworld God.
• The Underworld God attacked Chu Kuangren’s soul with the Underworld God’s Candle and the Underworld God’s Words, but Chu Kuangren’s Lotus Sutra mastery left him unharmed.
• Chu Kuangren’s manifestation punched the Underworld God apart, breaking the Myriad Gods Cult believers’ resolve.
• Chu Kuangren ordered the Divine Shadow Army to kill the Myriad Gods Cult cultivators and caught the fleeing Goddess.
• Chu Kuangren shattered the Goddess’s Emperor Essence, then destroyed the underworld formation with a punch.
• Chu Kuangren declared that only one true god remained, and the Mystic Heaven True God’s name spread across the heavens.

Chu Kuangren analyzed and improved the Myriad Gods Cult’s Faith Body-Refining Pool, using the power of faith to raise his cultivation and master world power. After four months of seclusion, he emerged as a Lower Heavenly Venerable and found the Mystic Heaven Religion expanding rapidly across the nearby Dao Provinces.

• Chu Kuangren obtained the Faith Body-Refining Pool from the Goddess’s Heaven and Earth Ring and used Xiao Ai to analyze it.
• He found the technique’s faith-absorption speed extremely slow, so he spent a month correcting and improving it.
• Chu Kuangren used the improved technique to absorb vast amounts of faith, strengthening his cultivation and comprehension until he mastered world power.
• After four months in seclusion, Chu Kuangren emerged as a Lower Heavenly Venerable with his Invincible Law raised to the level of a top-grade Mystery.
• Chu Kuangren discovered that the Mystic Heaven Religion had spread across the nearby Dao Provinces, then went to the main hall, where Saint Qianyue and the elders greeted him as True God.

The Goddess of the Myriad Gods Cult sent the Flame Main God and Storm Main God to target the Mystic Heaven Sect, but Chu Kuangren brought her there first so Zhan Hongying could avenge her clan. The two Deities arrived at the sect, ready to confront Chu Kuangren.

• The Goddess contacted the Myriad Gods Cult and ordered its members to seize the Mystic Heaven Sect as leverage against Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren took the crippled Goddess to the Mystic Heaven Sect and handed her over to Zhan Hongying, who tortured her to death for killing her clansmen.
• Chu Kuangren spoke with Murong Xuan and the others before sensing powerful auras approaching the sect.
• An Emperor of the Myriad Gods Cult arrived with the Flame Main God and Storm Main God, who declared their intent to punish Chu Kuangren and the human race.

Chu Kuangren confronted the Storm Main God and Flame Main God as they attacked the Mystic Heaven Sect, first killing the Myriad Gods Cult's Emperor with a thought. After holding back to protect the sect, he revealed that he had advanced to Heavenly Venerable and began wielding World Power against the two Deities.

• The Flame Main God sent flaming meteors toward the Mystic Heaven Sect while Zhan Hongying continued torturing the captured Goddess.
• Chu Kuangren appeared above the sect and killed the Myriad Gods Cult's Emperor with an Emperor-Grade Thunder Talisman.
• The Flame Main God and Storm Main God combined their powers to engulf Chu Kuangren in fire, but his Myriad Daoist Law Manifestation dispersed their attack.
• Chu Kuangren dissipated his manifestation to avoid harming the Mystic Heaven Sect, and the two Main Gods prepared to exploit his restraint.
• Chu Kuangren revealed his World Power, showing that he had advanced to Heavenly Venerable, and began gathering it to test against the two Deities.

Chu Kuangren used his Minor World to crush the Flame Main God and the Storm Main God, then left Zhan Hongying to avenge her clan by killing the Goddess. After arranging for the Mystic Heaven Sect and Mystic Heaven Religion to develop without him, he accepted Qixing’s World Fruit and jade pendant and prepared to travel to the Extraterrestrial Battlefield.

• Chu Kuangren trapped the Flame Main God and the Storm Main God in his Minor World and killed them with a single attack.
• Zhan Hongying killed the Goddess, avenging the extermination of her clan.
• Chu Kuangren returned to the Mystic Heaven Sect and decided to head beyond the planet because the Extraterrestrial Battlefield was his next challenge.
• Chu Kuangren left the Five Elements Divine Shadow Army on the Firmament Star and told Elder Ruyan, Saint Qianyue, the White Lotus Sect Leader, and others to protect and develop their forces.
• Qixing gave Chu Kuangren a World Fruit to strengthen his Minor World and a jade pendant for the general at the Seventeenth Fortress on the Extraterrestrial Battlefield.
• Chu Kuangren departed for the Extraterrestrial Battlefield as Qixing watched, believing he would change the course of the wars ahead.

Chu Kuangren traveled through the Nine Heavens to the Central City and paid to teleport to the Extraterrestrial Battlefield. Golden Profound Great Emperor joined him, and they arrived at the Seventeenth Fortress.

• Chu Kuangren reached the Nine Heavens and learned that the Central City held a teleportation formation leading to the Extraterrestrial Battlefield.
• Chu Kuangren arrived in the Central City and paid ten thousand jin of spirit source to travel to the Seventeenth Fortress.
• Golden Profound Great Emperor arrived and announced that he wanted to fight the Blood Tribe and earn merit.
• Golden Profound Great Emperor learned that Chu Kuangren was an Emperor and sought to befriend him.
• Chu Kuangren and Golden Profound Great Emperor entered the teleportation formation and arrived at their destination.