Recaps

The Star-Slayer envoy failed to persuade Chu Kuangren to join the Star-Slayer Tribe and returned to report on the Flame Martial Tribe. The Vajra Main God ordered Star-Slayer to campaign against Chu Kuangren and his tribe, and news of the Gods' decree spread across the Firmament.

• The Star-Slayer envoy questioned Chu Kuangren's achievements, invited him to join the Star-Slayer Tribe, and left after Chu Kuangren refused.
• The Star-Slayer envoy urged Star-Slayer to attack the Flame Martial Tribe, warning that Chu Kuangren's pill refining and weaponsmithing could make it a threat.
• The Vajra Main God appeared before Star-Slayer and announced that the Gods had decreed death for Chu Kuangren and his tribe.
• Star-Slayer accepted the order to campaign against the Flame Martial Tribe, and the news spread throughout the Firmament.

As the Star-Slayer Tribe prepared to attack the Flame Martial Tribe, Chu Kuangren calmed the tribe and used the Phantom Nether Seven Emotions Melody to replace fear with resolve. Fenggu arrived to offer help, but Chu Kuangren told the God-Defying Pavilion to hold its position while he kept the Human Race's hidden strength concealed.

• The Flame Martial Tribe's elders argued over whether to fight or surrender as news spread that Star-Slayer was coming with the Gods' backing.
• Chu Kuangren reassured Yanwu and the tribe, using the Phantom Nether Seven Emotions Melody to ease their fear and strengthen their determination.
• The God-Defying Pavilion sent Fenggu to check on Sage Cang and offer assistance against Star-Slayer.
• Fenggu found the Flame Martial Tribe calm and orderly, and a cultivator told him that Sage Cang had taught them to face their fear together.
• Chu Kuangren received Fenggu and instructed the God-Defying Pavilion to hold its positions so the Human Race would not reveal too much of its hidden strength.

The Star-Slayer Tribe's massive army arrived to subjugate the Flame Martial Tribe and demanded that it surrender Chu Kuangren. The Flame Martial Tribe refused, and A Tu faced the Star-Slayer Tribe's champion, Tiger Baleful Spirit, leaving the fight unresolved after he survived a powerful blow.

• Fenggu warned Chu Kuangren that Star-Slayer was immensely powerful, but Chu Kuangren remained confident and used the Omniscient Spirit to learn that Star-Slayer combined divine power with qi cultivation.
• The Star-Slayer Tribe's army reached the Flame Martial Tribe, and Chu Kuangren reassured the worried defenders that the confrontation was only a minor affair.
• A Star-Slayer Tribe messenger demanded the Flame Martial Tribe surrender and hand over Cang the godslayer, but Yanwu refused and the tribe called for battle.
• Tiger Baleful Spirit challenged the Flame Martial Tribe, and A Tu stepped forward with Chu Kuangren's approval.
• A Tu fought Tiger Baleful Spirit evenly at first, then was struck and sent flying, but he stood up unharmed and taunted his opponent.

A Tu defeated Tiger Baleful Spirit with his superior armor and spear, but Star-Slayer nearly overwhelmed him until Chu Kuangren intervened. Chu Kuangren then unleashed his killing intent against the Star-Slayer Tribe’s million-strong army, leaving most of its soldiers collapsed and the battle seemingly decided.

• A Tu used his armor and spear to wound Tiger Baleful Spirit, forcing Star-Slayer to order his warrior to withdraw.
• A Tu challenged Star-Slayer, who unleashed a force that left him unable to move until Chu Kuangren dissipated it and sent him back to the Flame Martial Tribe.
• Star-Slayer praised Chu Kuangren’s weaponsmithing and alchemy, then declared that Chu Kuangren could not be allowed to live and that he would use those techniques.
• Chu Kuangren stepped forward and released his killing intent, terrifying the Star-Slayer Tribe’s army and causing soldiers to collapse in succession.
• The Flame Martial Tribe watched in awe as only resilient cultivators at the Saint Realm or above remained standing, while Fenggu, Yanwu, and the others concluded that victory was assured.

Chu Kuangren defeated Star-Slayer with overwhelming Psychic Power after Star-Slayer unleashed his Divine Power and strongest sword technique. As the Flame Martial Tribe celebrated, Chu Kuangren swept the clouds apart and revealed divine light in the sky.

• Star-Slayer challenged Chu Kuangren to a battle over who was fit to become lord of the Human Race and attacked with his golden greatsword.
• Chu Kuangren dispersed Star-Slayer’s sword strike with Psychic Power and urged him to use his Divine Power.
• Star-Slayer combined his Divine Power and Emperor Qi, then unleashed Vajra Storm Slash, but Chu Kuangren’s Minor World turned the golden storm into a gentle breeze.
• Star-Slayer charged Chu Kuangren, but an invisible barrier stopped his sword, and Chu Kuangren shattered the Wind-Slaying Greatsword and Star-Slayer’s armor, sending him crashing into a mountain.
• The Flame Martial Tribe cheered for Chu Kuangren as he swept the clouds apart with his Psychic Power, revealing divine light.

Chu Kuangren faced the Vajra Main God and used his Psychic Power and newly created techniques to overwhelm him. The Vajra Main God was left defeated in a crater, and the Flame Martial Tribe celebrated Cang’s victory.

• The Vajra Main God arrived at the Flame Martial Tribe and challenged Cang, while the other Main Gods watched and expected him to lose.
• Chu Kuangren shattered the Vajra Main God’s first attack, bound his spear with World Lock, and blasted him through several mountain ranges.
• Chu Kuangren used Myriad Gods Calamity Fire Lotus, burning away the Vajra Main God’s Divine Power.
• Chu Kuangren unleashed Myriad Blades Forge Weapon Calamity, breaking the Vajra Main God’s barrier and shattering his golden armor.
• The Vajra Main God fell bloodied in a crater, and the Flame Martial Tribe declared that Sage Cang had won.

After Chu Kuangren defeated the Vajra Main God, the other Main Gods gathered to kill him. He faced eight Main Gods while shielding the Flame Martial Tribe from their devastating powers.

• Chu Kuangren defeated the Vajra Main God, inspiring humans and alarming the Main Gods who watched from the Divine Mountain.
• The wounded Vajra Main God warned Chu Kuangren that he could be reborn, then revealed that other Main Gods were coming for him.
• Chu Kuangren killed the Vajra Main God and took his Godhead, then protected the Flame Martial Tribe from a wave of deadly natural disasters with his Minor World.
• The Ice and Snow Main God, Thunderclap Main God, Storm Main God, Flame Main God, Light Main God, Darkness Main God, Earth Main God, and Underworld God arrived together.
• Chu Kuangren recognized the eight Main Gods, while the cultivators watching feared that he could not survive their combined attack.

Chu Kuangren fought eight Main Gods at once, countering their divine powers with his psychic techniques and overpowering them. His victory left the watching Human Race with hope for its rise.

• Chu Kuangren froze the Ice and Snow Main God with Myriad Rivers Smoke Snow Chill, until the Thunderclap Main God intervened and called the others to attack.
• Chu Kuangren used All Laws Return to the Void to dismantle the Main Gods' combined attacks without being hit.
• The Underworld God's Words failed to harm Chu Kuangren's soul, and Chu Kuangren destroyed the Gate of the Underworld with a storm of weapons.
• Chu Kuangren countered the Flame Main God's fire dragon with a fire lotus, burning and driving the Flame Main God back.
• Chu Kuangren repelled and injured the Earth Main God and Storm Main God, while Fenggu, Yanwu, and the other observers saw hope for the Human Race's rise.

Chu Kuangren used the Heavenly Dao's power to kill several Main Gods and drive the others into retreat. The Space-Time Main God intervened, and Chu Kuangren faced him as the story left their confrontation unresolved.

• Twelve more Main Gods arrived to join the eight battling Chu Kuangren, bringing the total to twenty.
• Chu Kuangren invoked the Heavenly Dao's power, which made the Main Gods' Godheads tremble.
• Chu Kuangren killed the Underworld God with Myriad Gods Calamity Fire Lotus.
• Chu Kuangren killed the Flame Main God, Ice and Snow Main God, Storm Main God, and Earth Main God with Myriad Blades Forge Weapon Calamity.
• The Space-Time Main God halted Chu Kuangren's minor world and ordered the surviving Main Gods to retreat.
• Chu Kuangren recognized the Space-Time Main God on a nearby mountain peak.

Chu Kuangren defeated the Main Gods, inspired the Flame Martial Tribe to unite against the deities, and refined the Underworld God's Godhead to strengthen his soul. The chapter ended with Yanwu reporting that ferocious beasts and other tribes had come seeking an alliance with the Flame Martial Tribe.

• Chu Kuangren learned from Xiao Ai that the Space-Time Main God's Godhead could open the River of Time without a Great Dao Lord's energy, while the Space-Time Main God fled.
• Chu Kuangren returned to the Flame Martial Tribe, where Yanwu and the others praised him, and he urged humanity to overcome its weakness and unite.
• Chu Kuangren collected six Godheads, refined the Underworld God's Godhead for nearly a month, and formed his Earth Soul.
• Chu Kuangren drew a legendary-grade formation master's inheritance but decided to save it for later.
• Chu Kuangren learned from Yanwu that ferocious beasts and other tribes had come to seek an alliance, and he left the matter in Yanwu's hands.

After strengthening his Earth Soul, Chu Kuangren visited the Immortal Wall and met the Ancient Immortal, who explained that he had come to Firmament Star after being gravely wounded. Chu Kuangren returned to find the Human Race tribes asking him to lead their alliance against the Deities.

• Chu Kuangren refined the Seven-Star Soul Grass and raised his Earth Soul to major accomplishment, allowing his Psychic Power to encompass Firmament Star.
• Chu Kuangren found the Immortal Wall and, while studying its finger mark, entered a vision where he met the Ancient Immortal.
• The Ancient Immortal told Chu Kuangren that he had come from the Azure Emperor Star System after an enemy gravely wounded him, then shared what he knew about Immortals and left him to study the Immortal Art.
• Chu Kuangren returned to the Flame Martial Tribe, where Yanwu and Fenggu asked him to lead the Human Race alliance against the Deities.

Chu Kuangren accepted the tribes’ nomination and was crowned Human King at a ceremony on Emperor Mountain, where the Heavenly Dao named his seal the Human King Seal. After declaring he would soon visit the Divine Mountain, he left the humans celebrating their new king and the Gods resolved to kill him.

• Chu Kuangren accepted Yanwu’s nomination to lead the Human Race, and the tribal leaders agreed to hold a ceremony on Emperor Mountain.
• At the ceremony, Chu Kuangren declared himself the Human Race’s common ruler and shattered a lightning strike sent by the Thunderclap Main God.
• Chu Kuangren told the Gods he would visit the Divine Mountain soon, enraging the Main Gods who vowed to kill him if he came.
• The Heavenly Dao infused the golden seal with auspicious clouds and named it the Human King Seal, prompting humans across the lands to kneel to Chu Kuangren.
• The Gods recognized Chu Kuangren as a threat and decided that killing him would leave the Human Race powerless.

After several years of governing as Human King, Chu Kuangren improved the Human Race’s living standards and population growth. When a prolonged snow disaster threatened the harvest, he recognized it as an invitation from the deities and set out to confront them alone.

• Chu Kuangren received the Human King Seal, a Heavenly Fortune Treasure usable only by the Human King.
• Chu Kuangren guided Yanwu and Fenggu through gradual reforms, including plans to transform the tribes before uniting them.
• Over several years, Chu Kuangren raised living standards, and Yanwu reported that the population had grown thirty percent while food reserves remained secure.
• Heavy snow continued for seven days, and Yanwu warned that the disaster threatened crops across the Human Race’s lands.
• Chu Kuangren identified the snow disaster as the deities’ signal and left alone to meet them, declining Yanwu’s offer to summon the God-Defying Pavilion.

Chu Kuangren arrived at Divine Mountain to demand justice for the Human Race and began fighting the Main Gods. After crushing the lesser deities, he faced the Main Gods on the summit and countered their attacks as the battle escalated.

• The Main Gods discussed Chu Kuangren's arrival and prepared to kill him using Divine Mountain's power and traps.
• Chu Kuangren reached Divine Mountain and identified himself as Cang, saying he had come to demand justice for the Human Race.
• Chu Kuangren swept aside the deities guarding the mountain with psychic power and continued to the summit.
• Chu Kuangren attacked the Darkness Main God's temple with calamity fire, then declared he had come to slay gods rather than negotiate.
• The Main Gods emerged and attacked Chu Kuangren, who entered the Union with the Dao State and used All Laws Return to the Void to dismantle their divine powers.
• Chu Kuangren summoned countless spiritual weapons with Myriad Blades Forge Weapon Calamity as the battle continued.

Chu Kuangren was trapped in the Space-Time Prison Cage and attacked by the Main Gods, but he emerged unharmed and mocked the Space-Time Main God’s weak Space-Time Dao. He prepared to fight back against the gods, who still believed their cage gave them the advantage.

• Chu Kuangren summoned countless spiritual weapons over the Divine Mountain, but the Space-Time Main God activated the Space-Time Prison Cage and used Time Prohibition to freeze him.
• The Main Gods launched their attacks at Chu Kuangren and celebrated what they believed was his death, discussing plans to subjugate the Human Race.
• Chu Kuangren’s voice rang out from the cage, and he emerged unharmed after blasting apart the divine power, lamenting that the attack had ruined the cloak Qingyi made for him.
• Chu Kuangren threatened to make the gods pay with their lives, filling the Divine Mountain with killing intent.
• The Space-Time Main God insisted that Chu Kuangren remained trapped inside the cage, but Chu Kuangren laughed and said the cage could not hold him.

Chu Kuangren broke the Space-Time Prison Cage and killed the Space-Time Main God, surviving his resurrection and attempted ambush. He then rejected the Main Gods’ offer of a truce and began slaughtering the deities on Divine Mountain.

• Chu Kuangren activated the Time-Space Treasure Mirror and shattered the Space-Time Prison Cage, causing the Space-Time Main God to suffer a backlash.
• Chu Kuangren’s Time Stop overcame the Space-Time Main God’s Time Prohibition, and his psychic sword cut off the god’s head.
• The Space-Time Main God used Time Reversal to revive himself, then tried to stab Chu Kuangren, but Chu Kuangren’s Spatial Transfer Gate redirected the spear through the attacker’s chest.
• Chu Kuangren confirmed the Space-Time Main God was dead, burned his body, and claimed the Space-Time Godhead.
• A Main God offered a truce and promised to end the snow disaster, but Chu Kuangren rejected the offer and attacked the deities across Divine Mountain with spirit weapons.

Chu Kuangren slaughtered the Deities on Divine Mountain until the God Lord, Huang, awakened and challenged him. After a day and night of fighting with the Human King Seal, both combatants faced questions about how long they could keep going.

• Chu Kuangren killed the Light Main God and Darkness Main God while continuing to slaughter the Deities.
• The God Lord, Huang, awakened and emerged from the temple at the center of Divine Mountain.
• Huang attacked Chu Kuangren, who answered with psychic power and the Human King Seal, sending Huang flying and injuring his fist.
• Chu Kuangren and Huang fought for a day and a night, while the other Main Gods could not intervene.
• Chu Kuangren questioned how long Huang could suppress his injuries, and Huang asked how much psychic power Chu Kuangren had left.

Chu Kuangren negotiated a hundred-thousand-year truce with the God Lord to protect the Human Race, then returned to the Flame Martial Tribe and recounted what happened. He left the tribe’s leaders with a warning not to grow complacent and examined the Godheads he had taken from the Divine Mountain.

• The God Lord offered Chu Kuangren a place among the deities, but Chu Kuangren demanded that they leave the Human Race alone for a hundred thousand years and warned he could destroy the lesser deities.
• The God Lord accepted the condition, ordered the God Race to suspend all activity while he recovered, and vowed to kill Cang after his seclusion.
• Chu Kuangren returned to the Flame Martial Tribe, reassured the gathered Heavenly Venerables, and told them the God Lord had awakened and agreed to the truce.
• Chu Kuangren warned the Human Race not to trust the God Race’s promise or become complacent, then left the aftermath to Yanwu.
• Qingyi asked about Chu Kuangren’s cloak, and Chu Kuangren apologized for damaging it in battle before returning to his room.
• Chu Kuangren examined the Godheads he had taken from the Divine Mountain, including those of the Main Gods of Light, Darkness, and Spacetime.

Chu Kuangren left his Earth Soul and Human Soul in the past to lead the Human Race as Cang, while his Heaven Soul traveled through the River of Time toward the future. He witnessed the Human Race defeat the Deities before continuing to search for the moment he had left.

• Chu Kuangren prepared to leave the past, keeping the Godheads and arranging for the Human Race to flourish after his departure.
• Chu Kuangren’s Heaven Soul entered the River of Time, while his Earth Soul and Human Soul joined to become Cang and stayed behind.
• Cang returned to the city under construction and went to meet Qingyi, Yanwu, and the others.
• Traveling through the River of Time, Chu Kuangren witnessed Cang lead the Human Race’s growth and later fall with the God Lord at the Immemorial Antiquity Kunlun Abyss.
• The God-Defying Pavilion emerged after Cang’s death and led the Human Race to defeat the Deities in the War Against the Gods.
• Chu Kuangren saw the Blood Tribe’s invasion and Firmament Star’s decline into the Dharma-Ending Age as he continued searching for his return point.

Chu Kuangren used the power of faith to find the time node of his era and traveled to Shell Star, where he located his long-lost physical body. He discovered that the Mysterious Water Sect had kept his body in a crystal coffin and was preparing to show it to rival factions.

• Chu Kuangren followed the prayers of his believers through the River of Time and entered the time node of his era.
• He arrived on Shell Star and used Firmament Star's Heavenly Dao power to repel Shell Star's suppression.
• Chu Kuangren searched the planet with his Emperor Thought and found his physical body.
• The Mysterious Water Sect prepared to present the extraterrestrial object it had held for three years to the other two Emperor-grade Daoist Traditions.
• The Mysterious Water Sect's master honored the agreement as disciples carried in a crystal coffin containing Chu Kuangren's body.

The Mysterious Water Sect Leader revealed that the seemingly lifeless man in the crystal coffin had fallen from the sky three years earlier and contained immense Emperor Qi. When the ruler of the Fire-Worshipping Kingdom tried to refine his unbreakable body, it stirred and destroyed the furnace, killing him.

• The Mysterious Water Sect Leader presented the man in the crystal coffin as the object from beyond the heavens and described his immense energy.
• The ruler of the Fire-Worshipping Kingdom and the Heavenly Dragon Pavilion Master failed to damage the body with flames and an Emperor Weapon.
• The ruler of the Fire-Worshipping Kingdom placed the body in the Eight Desolate Divine Flame Furnace, where profound Dao Patterns appeared across it.
• The body trembled and released a wisp of energy, causing the furnace to explode and killing the ruler of the Fire-Worshipping Kingdom.

Chu Kuangren emerged in soul form as the Mysterious Water Sect and Heavenly Dragon Pavilion tried to refine his body, and he effortlessly overwhelmed their strongest attacks. He killed the Heavenly Dragon Pavilion Master despite an arriving patriarch’s command to stop, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Chu Kuangren appeared on a Lotus Throne and revealed that the cultivators had been attacking his body, prompting the Mysterious Water Sect Master to apologize.
• The Heavenly Dragon Pavilion Master attacked Chu Kuangren with the Heavenly Dragon Blade, but Chu Kuangren dissolved his dragon-shaped saber qi with Psychic Power.
• The Heavenly Dragon Pavilion Master released the Dragon Beast sealed in the Heavenly Dragon Blade, and Chu Kuangren seized it and shattered both the beast and the weapon.
• Chu Kuangren killed the Heavenly Dragon Pavilion Master just as the Heavenly Dragon Pavilion’s founding patriarch arrived and ordered him to stop.
• Chu Kuangren told the patriarch that hearing his command did not mean he had to obey it.

Chu Kuangren defeated the Heavenly Dragon Patriarch despite his access to Shell Star’s Heavenly Dao power, then seized a portion of the Heavenly Dao’s origin. He returned to his body and united his soul and flesh, unleashing a pressure that shook all of Shell Star.

• Chu Kuangren learned from Xiao Ai that the Heavenly Dragon Patriarch was Shell Star’s Star Lord and wielded its Heavenly Dao power.
• The Heavenly Dragon Patriarch attacked Chu Kuangren with the Heavenly Dragon Claw, but Chu Kuangren shattered the attack and nearly destroyed his body in one strike.
• The Heavenly Dragon Patriarch borrowed strength from Shell Star’s Heavenly Dao and used the Heavenly Dragon Finger, but Chu Kuangren’s fire lotus knocked him out of his union with the Dao state.
• The Heavenly Dragon Patriarch fled, but Chu Kuangren killed him and seized the Heavenly Dao origin despite Shell Star’s attempt to stop him.
• Chu Kuangren returned to his body and united his soul and flesh, causing his pressure to make Shell Star tremble and its living beings prostrate themselves.

After returning from the distant past, Chu Kuangren discovered that his Divine Phoenix Body had triggered nirvana rebirth and raised his cultivation to the Dao Lord Realm. He subdued Shell Star for Firmament Star, then appointed the Mysterious Water Sect Leader to govern it before he left.

• Chu Kuangren realized his body had undergone nirvana rebirth, which had advanced his cultivation to the Dao Lord Realm.
• Chu Kuangren spared the Mysterious Water Sect Leader and the people of Shell Star in exchange for ruling the planet.
• Chu Kuangren subdued Shell Star’s major forces, overturning its existing order within a few days.
• Chu Kuangren met Ping'er, the Mysterious Water Sect Leader’s daughter, and reassured her mother when she feared he would punish the girl.
• Chu Kuangren declined to meet the submitting leaders and entrusted the Mysterious Water Sect Leader with managing Shell Star before his departure.

Chu Kuangren stole a warship from Blood Origin Star and began the months-long journey back to Firmament Star. There, Xuanhuang Dao Lord admitted to breaking the Gods' Seals and proposed joining forces with the deities to wage wars against other civilizations, drawing fierce opposition from Luo Shui and the other Dao Lords.

• Chu Kuangren discovered Blood Origin Star had been devastated by the battle at Blood God Mountain, though he sensed a sleeping aura far stronger than the Blood Kings.
• Chu Kuangren stole a Blood Tribe warship, found Firmament Star on its map, shot down pursuing warships, and set course for home.
• The Myriad Laws Dao Lord proposed dismantling the Hate Separation Heaven Formation and freeing the Sword Dao Master and the others, but Xuanhuang Dao Lord refused.
• The First Heavenly Punisher confronted Xuanhuang Dao Lord over the deities breaking their seals, and Xuanhuang admitted he had helped release them.
• Xuanhuang Dao Lord proposed using the deities to help Firmament Star invade other civilizations for resources, but Luo Shui condemned the plan and rejected cooperation with the deities.