Recaps

Chu Kuangren invoked Firmament Star's Heavenly Dao to suppress the White King and gain the upper hand in their battle. After Chu Kuangren used an Immortal Art, the White King was left shocked that Firmament Star possessed one.

• Outside the golden barrier, the Ming King mocked Firmament Star's Dao Lords, while the Bull-Demon Dao Lord insisted Chu Kuangren could defeat the White King.
• A strange fluctuation from the barrier made the Blood Kings sense the Heavenly Dao and gave the Myriad Laws Dao Lord and the others hope.
• Inside the barrier, Chu Kuangren entered the Union with the Dao State and used Heavenly Dao power to suppress the White King's Dao.
• Chu Kuangren shattered the White King's Blood-Devouring Slash and sent him flying with Heaven and Earth Reversed.
• Chu Kuangren used Phantom Nether Seven Emotions Melody to weaken the White King's battle intent, but the White King broke free and recognized it as an Immortal Art.

Chu Kuangren defeated and killed the White King inside the golden barrier, then emerged carrying his head and drove the Blood Kings to retreat. Though he had exhausted much of his strength, his uninjured appearance made the survivors believe he could slay Dao Lords with ease.

• The White King tried to escape the golden barrier, but Chu Kuangren used purple World Locks to bind him and drag him back.
• The Ming King and other Blood Kings failed to rescue the White King as the Myriad Laws Dao Lord and his allies blocked them.
• Chu Kuangren battered the bound White King with his Myriad Daoist Law Manifestation and killed him with the White King's axe.
• Chu Kuangren emerged from the shattered barrier carrying the White King's head and challenged the Blood Kings to send someone stronger.
• The Ming King ordered the Blood Kings to retreat, while Chu Kuangren admitted that his imposing display had been a bluff.

Chu Kuangren returned after killing White King, while the Blood Kings voted to activate Blood Abyss to destroy Firmament Star’s defenses and eliminate him. At the Thirty-First Fortress, he mourned the crack in Kunwu, and Luo Shui offered to find Red Sun Dao Lord, a weapon-refining expert who might repair it.

• The Blood Kings unanimously voted to activate Blood Abyss despite its enormous cost, deciding Chu Kuangren had to be eliminated.
• Ghost Blade Heavenly Venerable learned that the Heavenly Venerable who killed Yin Honghua’s parents was dead, and Yin Honghua resolved to keep fighting until the Blood Tribe was eradicated.
• Chu Kuangren returned to the Thirty-First Fortress, recovered from his battle, and examined White King’s Dao Weapon and his damaged Kunwu Sword.
• Chu Kuangren lost his temper over Kunwu’s crack, and Luo Shui suggested asking Red Sun Dao Lord to repair the sword.
• Luo Shui contacted Myriad Laws Dao Lord to find out where Red Sun Dao Lord was.

Chu Kuangren asked Crimson Sun Dao Lord to repair Kunwu and forge a powerful weapon using his Secret Realm and Qianyuan Purple Gold. While the weapon was being made, Chu Kuangren learned about the Purple-Gold Star System and Firmament Star’s lost immortal art, then discussed the Dao with Myriad Laws Dao Lord for three days and nights.

• Chu Kuangren arrived at Crimson Sun Small Planet, where Crimson Sun Dao Lord examined Kunwu and agreed to repair it.
• Crimson Sun Dao Lord recognized Qianyuan Purple Gold in White King's axe and offered to use it with Chu Kuangren's Secret Realm to forge a divine weapon.
• Myriad Laws Dao Lord visited and asked how Chu Kuangren had slain White King, and Chu Kuangren gave him a brief account.
• Chu Kuangren asked Myriad Laws Dao Lord about Immortal Art Civilizations and learned that Firmament Star's ancient immortal art had been divided into nine Emperor Techniques, while its original stone wall was lost.
• Myriad Laws Dao Lord and Chu Kuangren discussed the Dao for three days and nights as profound Dao Patterns enveloped Crimson Sun Small Planet.

The Myriad Laws Dao Lord urged Chu Kuangren to become an Immortal and lead Firmament Star’s civilization, while the Blood Tribe opened the Blood Abyss and unleashed its mist against the Eighty-One Fortresses. As the Dao Lords gathered to respond, the Blood Tribe’s frontline forces launched a major attack.

• The Myriad Laws Dao Lord praised Chu Kuangren’s Dao comprehension and said that becoming an Immortal could secure Firmament Star’s future.
• The Ming King and the other eleven Blood Kings used blood source crystals to open the Blood Abyss at Blood God Mountain.
• The Blood Kings found that Firmament Star’s formation blocked the Blood Abyss, so they deployed it outside the formation and targeted the Eighty-One Fortresses.
• Chu Kuangren, the Myriad Laws Dao Lord, and the other Dao Lords detected a vast blood-red rift whose mist overwhelmed soldiers and began eating away at the fortresses’ defenses.
• The twenty-four Dao Lords assembled to discuss countermeasures, but the Blood Tribe’s frontline forces launched a massive offensive while remaining unaffected by the mist.

The Blood Tribe opened the Blood Abyss, spreading blood mist that suppressed Firmament Star’s cultivators and threatened its fortresses. Twenty-four Dao Lords confronted twelve Blood Kings at the abyss, but the mist weakened the Dao Lords, and they began to lose ground while Chu Kuangren remained absent.

• The Blood Tribe’s expanding blood mist engulfed the Eighty-One Fortresses and stained Firmament Star’s sky red, terrifying its inhabitants.
• Myriad Laws Dao Lord tried to contain the Blood Abyss with his Minor World, but the blood mist corroded it and forced him to call for the other Dao Lords’ help.
• Twelve Blood Kings arrived and explained that the Blood Abyss empowered them while suppressing the twenty-four Dao Lords; Myriad Laws Dao Lord said Chu Kuangren had gone to prepare.
• Myriad Laws Dao Lord attacked Ming King, but Ming King’s strength under the Blood Abyss’s influence drove him back, and the Dao Lords and Blood Kings began a deadly battle.
• Ming King wounded Bull Demon Dao Lord, while the suppressed Dao Lords suffered further injuries and feared Firmament Star would lose after resisting for twelve Epochs.

The eight Heavenly Punishers joined Firmament Star’s Dao Lords against the twelve Blood Kings, but the Blood Tribe gained strength by absorbing the blood mist and breached one of the Eighty-First Fortresses. Chu Kuangren arrived commanding billions of swords and repelled the Blood Kings’ combined attack, then sent most of his swords toward the Blood Abyss.

• Eight Heavenly Punishers arrived to help the Dao Lords, and San Xing attacked a Blood King as they fought to hold off the twelve Blood Kings.
• The Blood Tribe breached a fortress formation and slaughtered Firmament cultivators while the Blood Kings absorbed blood mist to strengthen themselves.
• Chu Kuangren appeared with billions of swords from the Eighty-First Fortresses and used them to withstand the twelve Blood Kings’ combined attack.
• The Ming King identified that most of Chu Kuangren’s swords were aimed at the Blood Abyss.

Chu Kuangren resisted the Blood Abyss’s suppression, absorbed Blood Darkness Power, and gained the Heavenly Severing Sword so he could destroy the abyss’s source. He entered the Blood Abyss as the others faced the grim news that nearly twenty Blood Tribe Dao Lords guarded its source on Blood Origin Star.

• Chu Kuangren’s Sealing Sword Formation shrank the Blood Abyss to a hundred kilometers before its resistance made the formation falter.
• Chu Kuangren decided to destroy the Blood Abyss’s source and fought off Blood Tribe Heavenly Venerables who tried to stop him.
• Chu Kuangren absorbed the blood mist with Blood Darkness Power, then used Nine Dragons Divine Transformation to raise his cultivation to the Dao Lord Realm.
• The Sword Dao Master sent the Heavenly Severing Sword to aid Chu Kuangren, who grasped it and flew into the Blood Abyss.
• Ming King revealed that nearly twenty Blood Tribe Dao Lords guarded the Blood Abyss’s source on Blood Origin Star, leaving the Myriad Laws Dao Lord and the others to rely on Chu Kuangren.

Chu Kuangren reached Blood Origin Star through the Blood Abyss and discovered that a gigantic orb on Blood God Mountain powered the rift. He tried to destroy it, but seventeen Blood Tribe Dao Lords confronted him, and he fought his way toward the orb before cutting at his own shoulder to escape a chain's restraint.

• Chu Kuangren absorbed Blood Source Power as he crossed the Blood Abyss and arrived on Blood Origin Star.
• Chu Kuangren learned that the orb atop Blood God Mountain created the Blood Abyss and that destroying it could unleash catastrophic energy.
• Chu Kuangren attacked the orb, but seventeen Blood Tribe Dao Lords emerged and blocked his strike.
• Chu Kuangren charged through the Dao Lords' attacks and wounded one while pressing toward the orb.
• A Blood Tribe Dao Lord bound Chu Kuangren's left hand with a chain, and Chu Kuangren swung his sword down at his own left shoulder.

Chu Kuangren fought through the Blood Tribe Dao Lords on Blood God Mountain and used Time Stop to destroy the sphere of light. The sphere’s released energy destroyed Blood God Mountain and began fracturing Blood Origin Star, while the Blood Kings on Firmament Star sensed the mountain’s destruction.

• Chu Kuangren cut off his chained arm, regenerated it with his Undying Body, and used Sword Qi Clones to confuse the Blood Tribe Dao Lords as he rushed toward the sphere of light.
• Chu Kuangren endured a Dao Lord’s punch to propel himself closer, then used Phantom Nether Seven Emotions Melody to slip past two more Dao Lords.
• Two Dao Lords attacked and shielded the sphere, but Chu Kuangren stopped time within a hundred zhang, freezing them and their attacks.
• Chu Kuangren combined the Heavenly Severing Sword, Ultimate Mystery, Ultimate Emperor Essence, and Firmament Star’s Heavenly Dao to shatter the sphere of light.
• The sphere’s energy engulfed Blood God Mountain, vaporized the seventeen Dao Lords, destroyed Chu Kuangren’s body, and spread across Blood Origin Star.
• The Blood Abyss vanished from the battlefield at Firmament Star, and the Blood Kings sensed that Blood God Mountain had been destroyed.

After Chu Kuangren destroyed Blood God Mountain, the Blood Tribe retreated from the Firmament Battlefield, ending the war at immense cost to both sides. Intelligence later confirmed that Chu Kuangren had died in the battle, leaving the Myriad Laws Dao Lord grieving over the loss of Firmament Star’s potential future Immortal.

• The Twelve Blood Kings sensed Blood God Mountain’s destruction, and the Ming King ordered the Blood Tribe to retreat as Firmament Star’s forces counterattacked.
• The war lasted ten days; the Blood Tribe escaped the battlefield after losing four Dao Lords, while Firmament Star lost five Dao Lords and countless other fighters.
• More than a month later, the Youyun Dao Lord showed the gathered Dao Lords images of Blood Origin Star’s devastation and reports of the Blood Tribe’s turmoil.
• A jade slip delivered by a feathered crow revealed that Chu Kuangren had destroyed the source of the Blood Abyss, killed seventeen Blood Tribe Dao Lords, and died in the battle.
• The Myriad Laws Dao Lord angrily rebuked the Xuanhuang Dao Lord for dismissing Chu Kuangren’s death, lamenting that Firmament Star had lost someone who might have become an Immortal.

After Chu Kuangren was presumed dead, the reforged Kunwu Sword flew back to Firmament Star to await him. His soul survived in Firmament Star’s River of Time, where he began witnessing the planet’s past and the Human Race’s development.

• Myriad Laws Dao Lord and the other cultivators saw the damaged Heavenly Severing Sword return without Chu Kuangren and took it as proof that he had fallen.
• Red Sun Dao Lord completed the reforged Kunwu Sword, but the sword flew toward Firmament Star when its missing master did not summon it.
• News of Chu Kuangren’s fall spread across the Extraterrestrial Battlefield, and Firmament Star’s soldiers mourned their victory.
• Chu Kuangren awoke in soul form inside Firmament Star’s River of Time and learned from Xiao Ai that the Time-Space Treasure Mirror had brought him there to protect him.
• Chu Kuangren used his Emperor Thought to witness Firmament Star’s origins, the rise of the first living beings, and the Human Race’s gradual development.
• Chu Kuangren saw the Human Race’s first act of worship, as people knelt before a statue and offered slaughtered cattle and sheep.

While tracing humanity’s rise in the river of time, Chu Kuangren attained the Ultimate Dao by understanding invincibility as continually surpassing oneself. A temporal wave then carried him into the ancient era, where he awoke in the body of Cang, the future Human King, and began considering how to return to his own time.

• Chu Kuangren watched a white-robed Immortal teach humans to cultivate, meet his gaze across time, and leave a finger mark on a stone wall before departing Firmament Star.
• Human cultivators grew in number, the first Emperor attained his Dao on Emperor Mountain, and the Deities began suppressing humanity before the War Against the Gods broke out.
• Chu Kuangren entered enlightenment and sublimated his Way of Invincibility into an Ultimate Dao based on continually strengthening oneself.
• A wave in the river of time swallowed Chu Kuangren and carried him to the ancient era, where he awakened in the body of Cang, a former young master of the Divine Mind Tribe.
• Chu Kuangren absorbed Cang’s memories, discovered he could still wield Psychic Power and several of his other abilities, and decided to study the Time-Space Treasure Mirror before hunger prompted him to seek food.

Chu Kuangren removed Cang’s Cold Pattern Mark, studied the Time-Space Treasure Mirror, and discovered that Psychic Power could substitute for Emperor Qi in his techniques. After sensing a fight in the woods, he turned his attention to a youth in blue robes being attacked by three people.

• Chu Kuangren used Psychic Power to catch and roast Long-Eared Rabbits, then removed the Cold Pattern Mark that had been suppressing Cang’s Psychic Power.
• The Ice and Snow Main God sensed that his mark had been removed and sent a Subordinate God to the Divine Mind Tribe.
• Chu Kuangren studied the Time-Space Treasure Mirror and learned that entering the River of Time required comprehending its third ring and gathering energy comparable to a Great Dao Lord.
• Chu Kuangren resolved to target the Main Gods and their Godheads as a source of energy for opening the River of Time.
• Chu Kuangren used Psychic Power and Dao Patterns to form a Minor World, then sensed three people attacking a youth in blue robes nearby.

Chu Kuangren rescued Qingyi from Fu Jin and two attackers, then learned Qingyi had risked his life to bring him a warm cloak. After Chu Kuangren revealed that he had removed the Cold Pattern Mark, the two prepared to leave the Divine Mind Tribe, but a group of tribespeople confronted them outside the cave.

• Qingyi fought Fu Jin and two others for practicing the Qi Refinement Technique, and Fu Jin claimed Chu Kuangren had died after fighting Fu Yuan.
• Chu Kuangren appeared and froze Fu Jin and his companions with Thought-Freeze, astonishing Qingyi.
• Qingyi gave Chu Kuangren a cloak made from a Whitefire Spirit Fox’s fur, and Chu Kuangren told him the Cold Pattern Mark had been removed.
• Qingyi warned that Fu Yuan and his powerful father would seek revenge, and Chu Kuangren said they would leave after he dealt with two matters in the tribe.
• More than a dozen tribespeople gathered outside the cave and confronted Chu Kuangren and Qingyi.

Chu Kuangren confronted the Divine Mind Tribe’s god and revealed overwhelming Psychic Power while avenging Cang by killing Fu Yuan and defeating his father. The Low-God prepared to attack him after declaring that he had disrespected the gods.

• A tribesman summoned Chu Kuangren to meet the god, and Chu Kuangren went with Qingyi to the tribe’s palace.
• Chu Kuangren called the white-robed visitor a Low-God, provoking Fu Yuan to attack him with Psychic Power.
• Chu Kuangren shattered Fu Yuan’s Soul-Shattering Awl and froze Fu Yuan into an ice sculpture with Thought-Freeze.
• Fu Yuan’s father attacked Chu Kuangren with the Fire Spirit Giant, but Chu Kuangren froze both the giant and its wielder.
• Cang’s father realized that Chu Kuangren was not Cang, while the Low-God began unleashing Divine Power against him.

Chu Kuangren killed the Low-God, took the Divine Mind Tribe’s Psychic Power techniques and Soul Fruits, and left with Qingyi. The Ice and Snow Main God learned of the killing and had Cang placed on the deities’ blacklist.

• Chu Kuangren suppressed and shattered the Low-God, then gave the god’s Godhead to Qingyi.
• Chu Kuangren took the Divine Mind Tribe’s advanced Psychic Power cultivation techniques and harvested every Soul Fruit.
• Chu Kuangren and Qingyi left the tribe while Chu Kuangren brushed off the believers’ curses and defeated those who tried to stop them.
• Qingyi told Chu Kuangren he did not regret leaving because he had no one else and had long hated the tribe’s deities.
• The Ice and Snow Main God heard that Cang had killed a deity, and the deities placed Cang on their blacklist.

Chu Kuangren crafted a Heaven and Earth Ring and considered becoming king of the Human Race as he and Qingyi sought a place to settle. Near the Flame Martial Tribe, he uncovered a deity-led plot to stage an attack and then pose as the tribe’s saviors.

• News of Chu Kuangren slaying a god spread across Firmament Star, drawing the attention of deities and Human Race factions.
• Chu Kuangren used his artifact refining inheritance to craft a Heaven and Earth Ring from space-storing stones, and Qingyi stored their luggage inside it.
• Chu Kuangren told Qingyi he might become king of the Human Race, and Qingyi pledged to serve as his guard.
• Chu Kuangren and Qingyi headed toward the Flame Martial Tribe, one of the Human Race’s ten great tribes, hoping to find a place to settle.
• Chu Kuangren sensed two Subordinate Gods conspiring with Qiongqi, Zheng, Thunder Beast, and others to attack the Flame Martial Tribe before the deities drove them off and claimed to rescue the tribe.

Chu Kuangren and Qingyi witnessed how the Deities manufactured disasters to make humans depend on them, then went to the Flame Martial Tribe when ferocious beasts attacked. Chu Kuangren subdued the beasts and called out the Deity watching from hiding, leaving its response unknown.

• Chu Kuangren explained to Qingyi that the Deities created disasters to secure human faith while cultivators secretly gathered strength for a counterattack.
• Qiongqi, Zheng, and Thunder Beast attacked the Flame Martial Tribe, and chief Yanwu was defeated by their combined assault.
• A Tu tried to protect the tribe, but his spear broke against Qiongqi; Chu Kuangren stopped Qiongqi's paw before it could kill him.
• Chu Kuangren arrived with Qingyi and used his power to flatten the ferocious beasts against the ground.
• Chu Kuangren looked toward the hidden Deity and demanded that it come out.

Chu Kuangren exposed two Storm Subordinate Gods for bringing ferocious beasts to the Flame Martial Tribe, then overwhelmed them with his Psychic Power and Ultimate Dao. He left one Deity dead beneath his foot as the tribe’s believers watched their faith collapse.

• Chu Kuangren called out the two Deities hiding nearby, and the Flame Martial Tribe’s believers condemned him for accusing their gods.
• Chu Kuangren used Psychic Power to drag the two Storm Subordinate Gods from hiding and showed a recording of them conspiring with Qiongqi to bring the ferocious beasts.
• The Deities recognized Chu Kuangren as Cang the godslayer, and one attacked him with a storm that Chu Kuangren’s Minor World suppressed.
• Chu Kuangren forced both High-Gods to the ground, stepped on one Deity’s head, and crushed it after the Deity threatened him.
• The Flame Martial Tribe’s believers watched in disbelief as their faith in the Deities collapsed.

After killing two High-Gods, Chu Kuangren stayed with the Flame Martial Tribe and agreed to help it develop qi refinement. His Dao sermon drew Heavenly Dao phenomena and attracted humans and Deities alike, leaving many wondering if another Immortal had appeared.

• Chu Kuangren killed two High-Gods, collected their Godheads, and ordered the defeated ferocious beasts to guard the Flame Martial Tribe's entrance.
• Yanwu welcomed Chu Kuangren and Qingyi as honored guests, and A Tu asked Chu Kuangren to guide his cultivation.
• Chu Kuangren explained qi refinement to Yanwu, who invited him to stay and help strengthen the human race; Chu Kuangren accepted.
• Chu Kuangren preached the Dao to the Flame Martial Tribe's cultivators, prompting spectacular Heavenly Dao phenomena.
• Nearby humans flocked to the tribe to hear the sermon, and the Deities were alerted to the event.

The Main Gods debated whether Cang was an Immortal and decided to leave him alone while investigating his background. After his preaching and new cultivation arts transformed the Flame Martial Tribe, Cang was honored as a Sage, and Fenggu arrived to discuss the potential impact of his inventions on human cultivators.

• The Main Gods discussed Cang’s preaching phenomena, and the Space-Time Main God ordered them to observe him without provoking him until the God Lord awakened.
• Chu Kuangren ended his three-day preaching to the Flame Martial Tribe, whose cultivators thanked him and gained new insights into cultivation.
• Over several months, Chu Kuangren taught auxiliary arts such as alchemy and artifact refining, starting a cultivation revolution and earning the name Sage.
• Chu Kuangren took a pill that strengthened his body and then met Fenggu, an Upper Heavenly Venerable who had come to see him.
• Fenggu showed Chu Kuangren a Qi Refining Pill and a magic artifact sword and said mass-producing them could greatly aid human cultivators.

Chu Kuangren explained that he would teach the Flame Martial Tribe to refine pills and forge enchanted artifacts so the Human Race could learn the skills. After Fenggu reported his visit to the God-Defying Pavilion, its experts agreed to befriend Chu Kuangren and support him.

• Fenggu asked Chu Kuangren whether pills and enchanted artifacts could be produced on a large scale, and Chu Kuangren said he was teaching the Flame Martial Tribe to make them.
• Fenggu and Yanwu praised Chu Kuangren for sharing his methods with the Human Race, while Chu Kuangren tried to stop their flattery.
• Fenggu learned that pills and enchanted artifacts came in different grades and resolved to bring people to the Flame Martial Tribe to study.
• Fenggu went to the God-Defying Pavilion and told its experts about Chu Kuangren and his inventions.
• The God-Defying Pavilion experts agreed that Chu Kuangren was important to the Human Race and resolved to befriend him and help if needed.

Chu Kuangren cultivated the Nine-Turn Three-Origin Soul Refining Art and completed its first three turns, strengthening his soul and comprehension. After meeting the cultivators Feng Gu had brought to the Flame Martial Tribe to study alchemy and weaponsmithing, Chu Kuangren warned them not to divide their efforts, and one young man chose to learn weaponsmithing.

• Chu Kuangren learned that the Nine-Turn Three-Origin Soul Refining Art could split his soul into heaven, earth, and human souls before merging them through nine turns.
• Chu Kuangren completed the first three turns, increasing his soul power, comprehension, and understanding of the Dao, but could not complete the fourth turn.
• After a month in seclusion, Chu Kuangren discovered that Feng Gu had returned with cultivators seeking to learn alchemy and weaponsmithing.
• Chu Kuangren welcomed Feng Gu and told him the cultivators could stay in the Flame Martial Tribe to study.
• Chu Kuangren warned the cultivators that studying alchemy or weaponsmithing alongside qi cultivation could delay their progress unless they had exceptional talent.
• A young, burly cultivator with an iron sword declared that he wanted to learn weaponsmithing.

Chu Kuangren’s arrival transformed the Flame Martial Tribe through cultivation, alchemy, and weaponsmithing, drawing the attention of the powerful Star-Slayer Tribe. The Star-Slayer envoy arrived intending to recruit Chu Kuangren, but seeing the tribe’s weapons made him fear that the Sage could become their greatest enemy.

• Chi Yang asked Chu Kuangren to teach him weaponsmithing, and Chu Kuangren agreed to let him stay.
• Over the following months, the Flame Martial Tribe grew stronger and attracted Human Race cultivators, beginning to catch up with the Star-Slayer Tribe.
• Star-Slayer learned of the Flame Martial Tribe’s Sage and chose to send an envoy with lavish gifts to recruit him.
• The Star-Slayer envoy disparaged the Flame Martial Tribe and doubted that a Sage lived there.
• The envoy saw Chi Yang forging weapons and discovered that the weapons amplified spiritual power.
• After learning that Chi Yang had only recently begun weaponsmithing, the envoy became wary of Chu Kuangren and feared the Sage could threaten the Star-Slayer Tribe.