Recaps

Chu Kuangren used the Sea of Blood and its countless Blood God Sons to defeat the Four Great Demon Generals and take command of the Netherworld Sea of Blood. After the Asura Kings submitted as well, he moved into Sin Tathagata’s Tathagata Hall and received visitors.

• Rudra struck Chu Kuangren with his Trident, but Chu Kuangren revived from the Sea of Blood and revealed that it kept him from dying.
• Vishnu tried to seal Chu Kuangren, but Chu Kuangren’s Blood God Sons shattered the seal and surrounded the gathered forces.
• Indra agreed that the Four Great Demon Generals would submit if Chu Kuangren defeated them, and Chu Kuangren overwhelmed them with the Blood God Sons.
• Indra and the Four Great Demon Generals conceded defeat, and the four Asura Kings also agreed to submit to Chu Kuangren.
• Vayasi directed Chu Kuangren to Sin Tathagata’s Tathagata Hall, where Chu Kuangren destroyed the old plaque and sent the visiting powers away through the Asura Kings.
• When one particular visitor arrived, Chu Kuangren took an interest.

Chu Kuangren questioned the Shiva Goddess about the restrictions keeping the Sea of Blood apart from the Immortal Realm. He used Xiao Ai to examine the restrictions and discovered a hole in their invisible barrier.

• Chu Kuangren made the Shiva Goddess kneel and rebuked her for using her divine eye to peer at him.
• The Shiva Goddess explained that Minghe Patriarch had separated the Netherworld Sea of Blood from the Immortal Realm and left restrictions that Sin Tathagata could not break.
• Chu Kuangren wondered how Sin Tathagata had nearly merged the Sea of Blood with the Immortal Realm and left the palace to investigate.
• Chu Kuangren scanned the Sea of Blood with his Immortal Consciousness and had Xiao Ai analyze the restrictions.
• Xiao Ai's analysis revealed a hole in the barrier surrounding the Sea of Blood.

Chu Kuangren found a loophole in the Minghe Patriarch's restrictions on the Sea of Blood at Blood Mosquito Island, home to the Blood-Winged Black Mosquitoes. He arrived there and was swarmed by mosquitoes drawn to his blood, then unleashed his sword qi against them.

• Chu Kuangren traced the Sea of Blood's spiritual energy and found a loophole on an island filled with foul energy.
• The Shiva Goddess told Chu Kuangren that Blood Mosquito Island was controlled by the offspring of the Mosquito Daoist, who preyed on the Asura Clan.
• Vayasi reported that the Blood-Winged Black Mosquitoes had captured Asura clanspeople, including his daughter, and Chu Kuangren set out for the island.
• Blood-Winged Black Mosquitoes on the island discussed Chu Kuangren and resolved to devour him when they heard he was the new Lord of the Sea of Blood.
• The mosquitoes attacked Chu Kuangren, who killed one with a punch and then unleashed Azure Leaf Sword Sea against the swarming horde.

Chu Kuangren learned that the captured Asura Clan members were being held as blood food in the Black Prison and went to rescue them. Princess Posuoluo led a prison uprising, but the escapees found the exit surrounded by Blood-Winged Black Mosquitoes.

• Chu Kuangren killed the Blood-Winged Black Mosquitoes who tried to stop him, interrogated a survivor, and learned the Asura Clan captives were in the Black Prison.
• Chu Kuangren left with a mosquito as his guide, then used Black Hole Great Annihilation to devour the remaining mosquitoes.
• Posuoluo, daughter of Asura King Vayasi, broke the Black Prison's Restriction and freed the prisoners.
• General Tu led the Asura Clan members toward the exit as Posuoluo opened more cells, turning the escape into a mass uprising.
• Posuoluo and the escapees reached the exit and found themselves surrounded by Blood-Winged Black Mosquitoes, leaving them in despair.

The Asura clanspeople escaped the Black Prison but were surrounded by Blood-Winged Black Mosquitoes, and Posuoluo faced capture. Chu Kuangren arrived in time to protect her, then challenged the mosquitoes and drew several Great Golden Immortals into battle.

• The exhausted Asura clanspeople resolved to fight the Blood-Winged Black Mosquitoes while General Tu urged Posuoluo to escape and avenge them.
• A black mosquito Great Golden Immortal intercepted Posuoluo, overwhelmed General Tu, and reached to capture her.
• Chu Kuangren arrived with a powerful sword strike that blasted the Great Golden Immortal away, then reassured Posuoluo that she was safe.
• The black mosquito Great Golden Immortal sensed Chu Kuangren's enticing blood and tried to claim it, but Chu Kuangren struck back with Zhou's Sword, tyranny.
• Several Great Golden Immortals attacked Chu Kuangren together, and he said he would use them to test his new power.

Chu Kuangren killed the Black Mosquito Great Golden Immortals with his Karma Fire and Chaos Green Lotus, then faced the arrival of the Four Great Mosquito Kings. The Four Great Asura Kings arrived as well, bringing both sides to the brink of an all-out war.

• Chu Kuangren used Red Lotus Karma Fire to burn the Black Mosquitoes, then unleashed the Chaos Green Lotus’s destructive power to kill several Black Mosquito Great Golden Immortals.
• Posuoluo thanked Chu Kuangren and urged him to leave the Black Prison, but he sensed the Mosquito Kings approaching.
• Chu Kuangren cut down the jeering Blood-Winged Black Mosquitoes as the Four Great Mosquito Kings arrived and demanded his blood.
• The Four Great Asura Kings, including Vayasi, arrived together on Blood Mosquito Island, prompting the Mosquito Kings to question whether the Asura Clan wanted an all-out war.

Chu Kuangren revealed that he truly controlled the Sea of Blood and led the destruction of Blood Mosquito Island. With the Blood-Winged Black Mosquitoes exterminated, he secured the Asura Kings’ allegiance and strengthened his authority over the Sea of Blood.

• The Four Great Asura Kings bowed to Chu Kuangren and addressed him as the Lord of the Sea of Blood, shocking the Asura Clan and Posuoluo.
• A Mosquito King attacked Chu Kuangren, seemingly blasting him into blood, but Chu Kuangren reappeared unharmed as the Sea of Blood rose around Blood Mosquito Island.
• Chu Kuangren unleashed four hundred and eighty million Blood God Sons against the Four Great Mosquito Kings and the trapped Blood-Winged Black Mosquitoes.
• Three Mosquito Kings died, and Chu Kuangren refused the last king’s plea for mercy before killing him.
• The Asura army and Blood God Sons completed the destruction of Blood Mosquito Island, securing the Asura Kings’ allegiance to Chu Kuangren.

Chu Kuangren wiped out Blood Mosquito Island and discovered Dao-corruption Qi trapped in a blood pool, which revealed a flaw in the Minghe Patriarch’s restriction. He showed the Sea of Blood’s leaders that he could withstand the qi, announced his departure, and entrusted the Sea of Blood to the Shiva Goddess while he was away.

• Chu Kuangren used his Blood God Sons to slaughter the Blood-Winged Black Mosquitoes and kill all Four Mosquito Kings, then left the remaining cleanup to the Four Great Asura Kings.
• Chu Kuangren found Dao-corruption Qi beneath Blood Mosquito Island and absorbed some of it, but stopped when he realized doing so repaired the flaw in Minghe’s restriction.
• Chu Kuangren killed the Great Encompassment Immortal guarding the blood pool and returned to the Ghost Emperor Palace after his Blood God Sons had nearly finished the fighting.
• Chu Kuangren told the Four Great Asura Kings and Posuoluo that he would leave the Sea of Blood and later return to lead its forces back to the Immortal Realm.
• Chu Kuangren showed the Asura Kings the Dao-corruption Qi and demonstrated that it could not harm him, astonishing them.
• Chu Kuangren placed the Netherworld Sea of Blood in the Shiva Goddess’s care while he was away.

Chu Kuangren entrusted the Netherworld Sea of Blood to the Shiva Goddess before traveling through the Minghe Patriarch’s restriction. After hundreds of days, he returned to the Immortal Realm and went to the Elysium Pure Land, where a monk recognized him and screamed in terror.

• Chu Kuangren appointed the Shiva Goddess to manage the Netherworld Sea of Blood, while Posuoluo vowed to cultivate so she could repay him.
• Chu Kuangren entered the blood-colored passage through the breach in Minghe Patriarch’s restriction, protected by his Green Lotus Mark.
• During his journey, Chu Kuangren drew the Great Encompassment Divine Fist and began comprehending more Great Encompassment Intents.
• Chu Kuangren emerged from the passage, returned to the Immortal Realm, and found himself in the Far Western Land.
• Chu Kuangren went to the Elysium Pure Land to learn what had happened after Sin Tathagata’s failed plan, but a monk spotted him and cried out in terror.

Chu Kuangren visited the Elysium Pure Land, where the monks recoiled from memories of his slaughter during the Buddha-Slaying Bell Chime. He learned that Shi Ying was near death after sacrificing her Lifespan Origin and discovered that the Great Thunderclap Temple had emerged as a rival Buddhist force.

• The monks of the Elysium Pure Land mistook Chu Kuangren for a devil because they still remembered the slaughter they had witnessed, and Yunlan Buddha calmed them before welcoming him.
• Yunlan Buddha told Chu Kuangren that Sin Tathagata had left the Far Western Land and founded the Blood Temple Sect in the Demon Nation.
• Chu Kuangren asked about Shi Ying, and Yunlan Buddha revealed that she had sacrificed her Lifespan Origin to suppress Dao-corruption Qi at Vulture Peak so Jianxing Buddha could fight Sin Tathagata.
• Chu Kuangren used his Ghost Emperor Authority and Deathless Medicine to preserve Shi Ying's body and soul, but her soul remained too damaged for him to awaken her.
• Chu Kuangren stayed for several days to discuss ways to save Shi Ying with Yunlan Buddha, then learned that the Great Thunderclap Temple had appeared in the Far Western Land and was drawing followers away from the Five Directions Pure Lands.

Chu Kuangren rejected an attempt by Fa Zang to recruit him into the Great Thunderclap Temple, then sought soul-cultivation techniques from the Purple Pupil Family to find a way to save Shi Ying. As he studied their library, he asked whether the Soul Forbidden Zone had contacted the family since it submitted to him.

• Chu Kuangren left the Elysium Pure Land after deciding he would find another way to save Shi Ying, whose soul was the main obstacle.
• Fa Zang tried to recruit Chu Kuangren into the Great Thunderclap Temple, but Chu Kuangren revealed a vision of Buddhist carnage that terrified Fa Zang and the crowd.
• Chu Kuangren contacted Lan Yu and the others, learned they were doing reasonably well, and traveled to Purple Tenuity Star.
• The head of the Purple Pupil Family welcomed Chu Kuangren and led him to the family library, where Chu Kuangren absorbed information about their soul-cultivation techniques.
• While reading, Chu Kuangren asked the head whether the Soul Forbidden Zone had contacted the Purple Pupil Family or tried to make them double agents.

Chu Kuangren searched for a way to restore Shi Ying’s soul and learned that the Soul Forbidden Zone might hold stronger Soul-Congealing Flowers. When the Earth Book appeared, he decided to pursue it, hoping it could help him locate the forbidden zone.

• Chu Kuangren took the Purple Pupil Family’s three-petaled Soul-Congealing Flowers and learned that the family did not know the Soul Forbidden Zone’s location.
• Chu Kuangren used the flowers to help Shi Ying, but her soul showed only slight improvement, so he concluded that nine-petaled flowers might be needed.
• News spread that the Earth Book had appeared, and Gouchen Young Imperial Guard set out to contend for it.
• The Great Thunderclap Temple sent Fahai to compete for the Earth Book, fearing that it might fall into the hands of evil forces.
• Chu Kuangren reasoned that the Earth Book might help him find the Soul Forbidden Zone and invited Lan Yu to go claim it.

The Earth Book appeared and created a vast world of primeval mountains and seas, drawing powerful Monsters and Heavenly Prides, including Yin-Yang Tribulation and a Hàn Bá zombie. Chu Kuangren arrived, declared that the Earth Book would be his, and entered its world with Lan Yu.

• Yin-Yang Tribulation entered the Earth Book's world, hoping its opportunities would help him contend with Chu Kuangren.
• Fahai, Gouchen, the Eastern Emperor Divine Son, and other powerful figures entered the world of mountains and rivers.
• A woman from the Zombie Forbidden Zone arrived, and the onlookers recognized her as a Peerless Monster of the Hàn Bá lineage.
• Chu Kuangren arrived with Lan Yu and told the gathered figures to refrain from competing with him for the Earth Book.
• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu passed through the barrier and entered the vast world of primeval mountains and seas.

Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu explored the Earth Book Mountain and Sea World, where Chu Kuangren strengthened his soul and obtained Spirit-Driving Curse Seals. They encountered the Great Fate Goddess, who fled from Chu Kuangren before accepting his challenge to try to make him retreat.

• Chu Kuangren met up with Lan Yu and explored the Mountain and Sea World, collecting treasures while searching for its core.
• Chu Kuangren ate immortal fruits that raised his soul flower from the sixth grade to the eighth grade, and he saved the remaining fruits for Lan Yu.
• Chu Kuangren drew three Spirit-Driving Curse Seals, which could control people below Dao Integration, and considered possible targets for them.
• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu found the Great Fate Goddess fighting over an immortal medicine; she had developed life-and-death Great Encompassment Intent.
• The Great Fate Goddess tried to flee when Chu Kuangren arrived, but Lan Yu's Spacetime Sealing Art trapped her.
• Chu Kuangren promised to spare the Great Fate Goddess if she could make him retreat half a step, and she attacked with the Fate Command Art, Wusheng Finger.

Chu Kuangren fought the Great Fate Goddess and used her attacks to comprehend life-and-death Great Encompassment intent. After she admitted defeat and offered to serve him, he placed a Spirit-Driving Curse Seal inside her.

• Chu Kuangren matched the Great Fate Goddess's attacks without using Great Encompassment intent, leaving her unable to harm him.
• The Great Fate Goddess burned her lifespan origin and unleashed her strongest life-and-death technique, but Chu Kuangren stopped her with his newly comprehended Great Encompassment intent.
• The Great Fate Goddess realized Chu Kuangren had used their fight to comprehend life-and-death Great Encompassment intent.
• Chu Kuangren prepared to kill the defeated Great Fate Goddess, but she knelt and offered to serve him in exchange for her life.
• Chu Kuangren sent a Spirit-Driving Curse Seal into the Great Fate Goddess's body.

Chu Kuangren enslaved the Great Fate Goddess with a Spirit-Driving Curse Seal and took her Reincarnation-to-Death Method. Later, the Earth Book’s core drew many Heavenly Prides to Five Villages Temple, where an attempt to seize a Ginseng Fruit was stopped by a sudden Sword Qi.

• Chu Kuangren tested the Spirit-Driving Curse Seal by inflicting intense soul pain on the Great Fate Goddess, then ordered her to return to the Immortal Court.
• The Great Fate Goddess gave Chu Kuangren her Reincarnation-to-Death Method, and he left while wondering whom to give his remaining seals to.
• A powerful pillar of light appeared in the Mountain and Sea World, drawing Heavenly Prides including the blue-haired woman, Gouchen Young Imperial Guard, Yin-Yang Tribulation, and Fahai toward it.
• The Heavenly Prides reached Five Villages Temple and recognized it as Zhenyuanzi’s residence, where the Ginseng Fruit tree stood.
• A Heavenly Pride rushed to seize a Ginseng Fruit, but a streak of Sword Qi struck him back through the air.

Gouchen Young Imperial Guard, Nüba, Fahai, and Yin-Yang Tribulation converged on the Ginseng Fruit tree, where Gouchen Young Imperial Guard fought Yin-Yang Tribulation. Little Fox bypassed the temple’s restrictions and began picking the fruit before the others could reach it.

• Gouchen Young Imperial Guard, Nüba, and Fahai arrived at the Ginseng Fruit tree as Yin-Yang Tribulation emerged and threatened to seize its fruit.
• Gouchen Young Imperial Guard blocked Yin-Yang Tribulation, and the two fought evenly despite Yin-Yang Tribulation’s great tribulation aura suppressing Gouchen Young Imperial Guard’s strength.
• Yin-Yang Tribulation proposed dividing the forty-nine Ginseng Fruits, then urged everyone to race for them as Gouchen Young Imperial Guard, Nüba, Yuzhi, Ye Zhu, and others charged ahead.
• Little Fox passed through the restrictions faster than the others because she was a Moonlight Fox, but initially could not pull a Ginseng Fruit from the tree.
• Ye Zhu told Little Fox to use a metal-aligned object, and she struck a fruit with her Little Golden Hammer, caught it, and began gathering the rest.

Chu Kuangren arrived at the Five Villages Temple and saved Little Fox from a joint attack, then faced four Peerless Monsters who refused to yield the Ginseng Fruit. As he fought Nüba, Gouchen Young Imperial Guard, Fahai, and Yin-Yang Tribulation attacked him together.

• Yin-Yang Tribulation, Gouchen Young Imperial Guard, and Fahai broke through the restrictions with a combined attack aimed at Little Fox, but Chu Kuangren's Nine-Layer Sword Barrier stopped it.
• Chu Kuangren appeared, reassured Little Fox, and asked everyone to let him have the Ginseng Fruit; most of the gathered cultivators retreated.
• Gouchen Young Imperial Guard, Nüba, Fahai, and Yin-Yang Tribulation remained to challenge Chu Kuangren, and Nüba declared that she wanted him as her man.
• Nüba attacked Chu Kuangren with Hàn Bá True Fire, and the two exchanged punches after Chu Kuangren sent Little Fox into Heaven and Earth in the Sleeve.
• Gouchen Young Imperial Guard, Fahai, and Yin-Yang Tribulation launched a coordinated attack on Chu Kuangren while he was fighting Nüba.

Chu Kuangren fought off Nüba and the other three monsters, revealing that his power countered Yin-Yang Tribulation and overwhelming their attacks. As all four prepared their ultimate moves against him, Chu Kuangren calmly gathered power for a punch.

• Chu Kuangren struck Nüba with an immortal-essence punch, then repelled attacks from Yin-Yang Tribulation, Fahai, and Gouchen Young Imperial Guard with his Life-and-Death Diagram.
• Chu Kuangren recognized Yin-Yang Tribulation as a being hatched from a Void Egg and beat back its Yin-Yang annihilation attack with the Myriad Heavens Life and Death Wheel.
• Chu Kuangren used the Great Wilderness Halberd Technique to defeat Gouchen Young Imperial Guard's sword attack and damaged Fahai's Purple Gold Alms Bowl.
• Fahai summoned eight golden dragons, Yin-Yang Tribulation unleashed black-and-white divine light, and Gouchen Young Imperial Guard gathered a myriad armies into a god-slaying arrow.
• Nüba returned with a bleeding, crooked nose and summoned Hàn Bá true fire as the four monsters prepared their ultimate moves against Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren calmly raised his fist and gathered hundreds of millions of rays of immortal radiance.

Chu Kuangren used the Great Encompassment Divine Fist to defeat the combined ultimate attacks of four Monsters without suffering a scratch. As Gouchen Young Imperial Guard and Yin-Yang Tribulation tried to escape and Fahai’s followers shielded him, Chu Kuangren pursued the remaining opponents, especially Yin-Yang Tribulation.

• Chu Kuangren revealed several kinds of Great Encompassment Intent and struck the four Monsters’ combined attacks with his Great Encompassment Divine Fist.
• The blast wounded Gouchen Young Imperial Guard, Nüba, Fahai, and Yin-Yang Tribulation, while Chu Kuangren emerged unscathed.
• Chu Kuangren assessed the fist technique’s power and prepared to continue fighting the four Monsters.
• Gouchen Young Imperial Guard crushed an escape rune and vanished, while Fahai prepared to leave under his followers’ protection.
• Chu Kuangren blasted away the Heavenly Prides shielding Fahai as Yin-Yang Tribulation fled into the distance.

Chu Kuangren tortured Yin-Yang Tribulation into revealing that Many Tribulations came from the Tianyuan Universe and sought to bring disaster upon this world, but a restriction killed him when Chu tried to control him. Nüba then offered to help Chu Kuangren cultivate the Hàn Bá True Body, which originated in her Zombie Forbidden Zone.

• Yin-Yang Tribulation tried to flee, but Chu Kuangren trapped him with Spacetime Sealing and beat him into submission.
• Chu Kuangren used soul-targeting techniques to torture Yin-Yang Tribulation until he agreed to answer questions.
• Yin-Yang Tribulation revealed that Many Tribulations came from the Tianyuan Universe, stole this world's great tribulation aura, and aimed to bring disaster upon it.
• Yin-Yang Tribulation said an ancient, powerful being had placed a restriction on the group, and the restriction destroyed his soul when Chu Kuangren tried to use a Spirit-Driving Talisman on him.
• Nüba told Chu Kuangren that the Hàn Bá True Body came from her Zombie Forbidden Zone and that he would need her help to cultivate it to major accomplishment.

Chu Kuangren obtained the Earth Book Core from Zhenyuanzi and began refining it inside the Five Villages Temple. His control over the core caused the Mountain-Sea World to collapse into it, leaving the true Earth Book about to emerge in the Immortal Realm.

• Nüba offered to help Chu Kuangren advance the Hàn Bá True Body through dual cultivation, but he refused and left with Lan Yu.
• Chu Kuangren released Little Fox, then let Ye Zhu, Yuzhi, and the other cultivators divide the Ginseng Fruits, keeping only one for himself.
• Chu Kuangren entered the Five Villages Temple and met Zhenyuanzi, who gave him the Earth Book Core because of their destined benevolent connection.
• Chu Kuangren began refining the Earth Book Core while Lan Yu, Ye Zhu, and the others guarded him.
• The Earth Book Core appeared above the Five Villages Temple, and the Mountain-Sea World contracted into it before everyone returned to the Immortal Realm.

Chu Kuangren claimed the Earth Book and returned to the Hundred Schools Academy to refine a Ginseng Fruit and condense his Lifespan Flower. As Lan Yu’s flower formed, Chu Kuangren’s cultivation triggered a vast spiritual rain, and his Lifespan Flower grew to the Great Encompassment Realm’s twelve-petal limit.

• Chu Kuangren emerged from the Earth Book, killed an illusionary black-robed attacker, claimed the treasure, and left for the Hundred Schools Academy with Lan Yu.
• Chu Kuangren entered seclusion to refine a Ginseng Fruit and condense his Lifespan Flower.
• Lan Yu condensed her four-petal Lifespan Flower and planned to cultivate her Soul Flower next.
• Spiritual Energy gathered over the academy and fell as golden Spirit Liquid, helping cultivators break through and reviving plants and beasts.
• Lü Zi traced the auspicious phenomenon to Chu Kuangren as golden clouds poured into him and nourished his three flowers.
• Chu Kuangren’s Lifespan Flower solidified with twelve petals, reaching the understood limit of the Great Encompassment Realm.

Chu Kuangren formed a twenty-fourth-grade Lifespan Flower, breaking the Great Dao’s Twelfth-Grade Rule and earning recognition as a Taboo. After the Immortal Realm’s Great Powers and the Academy’s students witnessed the feat, Chu Kuangren considered whether his other Three Flowers could also surpass the twelfth grade.

• As spiritual energy poured into Chu Kuangren, his Lifespan Flower grew beyond twelve petals and continued forming.
• The Immortal Realm’s Great Powers sensed the commotion, saw the flower’s unprecedented growth, and identified Chu Kuangren as a Taboo.
• Chu Kuangren’s Lifespan Flower stopped at twenty-four petals, and the Great Dao roared as heaven and earth shook.
• Chu Kuangren sensed that his Lifespan Flower’s undying quality would sustain him and help him cultivate his other two flowers.
• Lü Zi praised Chu Kuangren as a blessing to the Hundred Schools Academy, while Chu Kuangren reflected on the many forces already under his command.

Chu Kuangren used the Earth Book to locate the Soul Forbidden Zone and traveled to nearby Heavenly Cloud City, where he investigated reports that ghosts were haunting the City Lord's Manor. At night, a Ghost Immortal appeared and demanded the manor surrender its Nine-Colored Divine Soul Body.

• Chu Kuangren consulted the Earth Book, found the Soul Forbidden Zone, and set out to visit it alone.
• Chu Kuangren located the moving mountain range containing the Forbidden Zone and settled in nearby Heavenly Cloud City to gather information.
• Chu Kuangren heard that the City Lord's Manor was haunted by powerful ghosts and learned that the city lord's daughter had lost her cultivation.
• Chu Kuangren discovered that the haunting began around the same time the Soul Forbidden Zone arrived near the city and decided to intervene.
• A black-robed Ghost Immortal appeared at the City Lord's Manor and threatened Luo Tianyun unless the manor handed over the Nine-Colored Divine Soul Body.