Recaps

The Sword Spirit Clan faced defeat as Heavenly Fiend overwhelmed its defenders, while Dragon Clan fighters attacked Long Shuijing. Chu Kuangren arrived on the Sword Spirit Ancient Star and confronted Heavenly Fiend, halting his advance.

• Heavenly Fiend defeated the Sword Spirit Clan Leader, leaving the Sword God King and Star River God King occupied against their opponents.
• Dragon Clan cultivators surrounded Long Shuijing and demanded her Seven-Colored Heavenly Dragon Bloodline and King's Mark, but she fought back.
• The Sword Spirit Clan Leader activated the Myriad Spirits Sword Formation, which Heavenly Fiend shattered after only a few strikes.
• Chu Kuangren's sword qi blasted Heavenly Fiend away, and the swords throughout the starry sky rang as he arrived.
• Chu Kuangren confronted Heavenly Fiend and shattered the ghostly figures formed from sword resentment.

Chu Kuangren faced Heavenly Fiend on Sword Spirit Ancient Star and overwhelmed him with his sword techniques. After revealing that he was one of the Nine Kings, Heavenly Fiend was left gravely wounded by Chu Kuangren’s Heaven's Witness, Emperor Conquers Eternity.

• Chu Kuangren blasted Heavenly Fiend away with a single sword clash.
• Heavenly Fiend struck Chu Kuangren with Heavenly Demon Great Resentment, Slay the Sword Immortal, but Chu Kuangren emerged unscathed.
• Heavenly Fiend unleashed Myriad Sword Resentments Sealing Heaven Slash, and Chu Kuangren endured it without injury while keeping Wu Dao sheathed.
• Chu Kuangren drew Wu Dao and unleashed Heaven's Witness, Emperor Conquers Eternity.
• Heavenly Fiend revealed his king's mark and empowered his attack, but Chu Kuangren's sword shattered his demonic silhouette and gravely wounded him.

Chu Kuangren defeated Heavenly Fiend and the Weapon Calamity Clan’s assault on the Sword Spirit Clan, collecting another King's Mark. After learning that the Weapon Calamity Clan lived in a roaming war fortress, he considered taking it for the war between the two universes.

• Chu Kuangren trapped the wounded Heavenly Fiend with Heaven’s Prison and shattered an intervening attack from the Weapon King with the Eight-Faced Imperial King Hammer.
• Heavenly Fiend sacrificed his Dao and unleashed his ultimate sword strike, but Chu Kuangren destroyed him and collected his King's Mark.
• Weapon Calamity Wind escaped, while the Sword God King and Star River God King killed the Cold and Stern Man; afterward, the Sword God King mourned the Sword Spirit Clan’s losses.
• The Sword God King told Chu Kuangren that the Weapon Calamity Clan’s moving home was an enormous war fortress whose location was unknown.
• Chu Kuangren considered acquiring the fortress, then stored the Heaven-Slaying Sword Calamity and recovered from wielding the Imperial King Hammer.

Chu Kuangren strengthened Ling Fei by giving him Demon Heart Crossing, the Heaven-Slaying Sword Calamity, and a King's Mark, then set out with Long Shuijing to help her claim the Dragon Clan throne. During the journey, he drew the Super God-Level Torch Dragon Power, whose emergence stirred the distant Dragon Clan Ancient Star and drew a surprised reaction from the depths of the universe.

• Chu Kuangren taught Ling Fei Demon Heart Crossing and gave him the Heaven-Slaying Sword Calamity and a King's Mark, making him one of the Nine Kings.
• Long Shuijing told Chu Kuangren that the Dragon Clan had tried to kill her, and declared that she intended to become its king.
• Chu Kuangren and Long Shuijing departed for the Dragon Clan while Ling Fei stayed behind to refine his new gifts.
• Aboard their warship, Chu Kuangren drew and extracted the Super God-Level Torch Dragon Power.
• The Torch Dragon Power stirred the distant Dragon Clan Ancient Star, and a voice from the universe's depths marveled at the dragon qi.

Long Shuijing and Chu Kuangren arrived near the Dragon Clan Ancient Star as the Dragon King's birthday banquet approached, intending to make it the start of Long Shuijing's rise to the throne. When Dao King Clan cultivators hunted dragons, Long Shuijing rescued her younger sister Water Spirit Dragon and killed the attackers, leaving her puzzled by their brazenness on Dragon Clan territory.

• The dragons sensed Chu Kuangren's Torch Dragon Power, while the Dragon King ordered them to focus on his birthday banquet and the Dragon Clan's cooperation with the Dao King Clan.
• Chu Kuangren and Long Shuijing approached the Dragon Clan Ancient Star, and Long Shuijing resolved to claim the throne as a better ruler.
• Long Shuijing and Chu Kuangren found Dao King Clan cultivators capturing and abusing dragons while the Dragon King was occupied with his banquet.
• Water Spirit Dragon revealed that she was the Dragon King's daughter, and the cultivators celebrated having gained a bargaining chip against the Dragon Clan.
• Long Shuijing shattered the captors' chain and killed the Dao King Clan cultivators, then reunited with the injured Water Spirit Dragon.
• Long Shuijing comforted Water Spirit Dragon and wondered how the Dao King Clan dared hunt dragons within Dragon Clan territory.

Long Shuijing learned from a captured Dao King Clan cultivator that her father had tacitly permitted the clan’s attack, and Chu Kuangren confirmed the claim through soul-searching. At the Dragon King’s birthday banquet, the Dao King Clan presented a lavish gift, and Long Shuijing arrived as a seven-colored dragon, leaving the guests wondering why she had returned.

• Long Shuijing confronted a surviving Dao King Clan cultivator, who claimed the Dragon King had allowed the attack.
• Chu Kuangren searched the cultivator’s soul and confirmed the accusation was largely true, prompting Long Shuijing to resolve to question her father.
• The Dao King Clan presented the Dragon King with a Blood Coral Ancient Tree at his birthday banquet, while Motian Heng spoke with Heavenly Maiden You.
• Guests discussed the Imperial Clan’s absence and praised the Heavenly Sword’s recent deeds.
• Long Shuijing arrived at the banquet in seven-colored dragon form, startling the guests and thrilling many dragons.

Long Shuijing confronted the Dragon King at his birthday banquet, accusing him and the Dao King Clan of hunting dragons and conspiring to steal her Seven-Colored Heavenly Dragon Bloodline. When she demanded he yield the throne, Chu Kuangren arrived with rescued dragons to support her, leaving the Dragon King facing their testimony.

• Long Shuijing presented the severed heads of Dao King Clan hunters as a birthday gift and revealed that they had been hunting dragons.
• She accused the Dragon King of approving the hunts and helping Dragon Shadow steal her bloodline, then denounced him for sending people to kill her.
• Dragon Clan Monsters attacked Long Shuijing, but her Seven-Colored Heavenly Dragon power blasted them away.
• The Dragon King called Long Shuijing a traitor and ordered her to submit; she demanded that he yield the throne so she could set the Dragon Clan right.
• Chu Kuangren arrived and drove back the Dragon King’s guards, while Water Spirit Dragon and other rescued dragons testified against the Dao King Clan.
• The Dragon King challenged Chu Kuangren for interfering, and Chu Kuangren replied that he did it because he felt like it.

Long Shuijing challenged the Dragon King for the throne through the Saint Dragon Art and defeated him, but Long Tianfeng refused to recognize her victory. Chu Kuangren backed Long Shuijing and confronted Long Tianfeng.

• Long Tianfeng arrived and challenged Long Shuijing’s accusations, while Chu Kuangren recognized that the Dragon Clan’s ancestor had enabled the Dao King Clan’s attacks.
• Long Shuijing invoked the Saint Dragon Art to challenge the Dragon King for his throne, and he accepted.
• Long Shuijing and the Dragon King fought in the sacred arena, trading powerful attacks until Long Shuijing defeated him with her Seven-Colored Heavenly Dragon technique.
• Long Shuijing demanded that the Dragon Clan honor the duel’s rules, but Long Tianfeng declared that she could not become king without his approval.
• Chu Kuangren proclaimed Long Shuijing the Dragon King and challenged Long Tianfeng to defy him.

Long Tianfeng rejected Long Shuijing’s claim to the Dragon King position and challenged Chu Kuangren, using the Dragon Clan’s barrier to suppress him. Chu Kuangren revealed his overwhelming Torch Dragon power and fought Long Tianfeng, ending with their strongest attacks colliding and Long Tianfeng sent flying backward.

• After Long Shuijing defeated the Dragon King, Long Tianfeng denied her claim, and Chu Kuangren sided with her.
• Long Tianfeng activated a barrier that suppressed outsiders’ Immortal Essence and Dao Laws, then attacked Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren shattered Long Tianfeng’s golden fist with Torch Dragon power, which also suppressed the Dragon Clan’s bloodlines.
• Chu Kuangren and Long Tianfeng exchanged blows, and Long Tianfeng grew alarmed as Chu Kuangren’s power increased during the fight.
• Long Tianfeng unleashed Divine Dragon Sky-Splitting Claw, while Chu Kuangren countered with Torch Dragon, Illuminate the Sky, and Long Tianfeng was sent flying by the collision.

Chu Kuangren fought the Dragon Clan’s three God Kings, who combined their powers to strengthen Long Tianfeng. He broke Long Tianfeng’s sealing technique with his unique origin power and drove him into retreat with Heaven’s Witness, Heaven Beyond Heaven Sword.

• The Torch Dragon’s flames overwhelmed Long Tianfeng, prompting him to summon Long Lang and Long Fen for help.
• Long Fen attacked with fire and Long Lang tried to suppress the Torch Dragon’s flames with water, but neither could defeat Chu Kuangren.
• Long Lang and Long Fen transferred their power to Long Tianfeng, raising him to the pinnacle of Supreme God Kings.
• Long Tianfeng struck Chu Kuangren with Dragon King Golden Edge, Dragon Talisman Lock, and Dragon Emperor Shakes the Eight Desolations, forcing Chu Kuangren to counter with Wu Dao.
• Chu Kuangren unleashed his unique origin power to destroy the rune chains, then used Heaven’s Witness, Heaven Beyond Heaven Sword to shatter Long Tianfeng’s golden dragon shadow and grievously wound him.
• Long Tianfeng activated a rune and fled into the void, leaving the onlookers stunned.

After Chu Kuangren defeated Long Tianfeng and helped Long Shuijing become Dragon King, Long Lang and Long Fen revealed that the Dragon Clan had aided the Dao King Clan in seeking the Primordial Chaos Gate. Chu Kuangren anticipated the Dao King Clan's next move and left to investigate, while Long Tianfeng reached the hidden gate.

• Chu Kuangren drove Long Tianfeng away, subdued Long Fen and Long Lang, and let Long Shuijing take the Dragon King's throne.
• Long Lang and Long Fen submitted to Chu Kuangren and explained that the Dao King Clan had sought dragon essence blood to open the Primordial Chaos Gate.
• Long Shuijing learned that the old Dragon King had suppressed reports of dragons being hunted and vowed to protect her people from the Dao King Clan.
• Chu Kuangren suspected the Dao King Clan had another plan, gave Long Shuijing instructions, and left the Dragon Clan to follow a guiding sensation.
• Long Tianfeng entered a region of spatial storms and restrictions, seeking the Primordial Chaos Gate.

Long Tianfeng discovered that the Dao King Clan planned to sacrifice him to open the Primordial Chaos Gate, and God King Molin and Wuxuelong attacked him. As Long Tianfeng fought to escape, Chu Kuangren sensed the hidden location and rushed toward it.

• Long Tianfeng arrived at the Primordial Chaos Gate and saw Dragon Clan corpses being used to fuel it.
• God King Molin told Long Tianfeng that one final dragon was needed, then attacked him to use his blood as the last sacrifice.
• Wuxuelong joined the attack, revealing that the Dao King Clan had allied with the Netherworld King Clan to kill Long Tianfeng.
• Long Tianfeng fought back against the God Kings, but their combined attacks left him badly wounded.
• God King Molin and Wuxuelong recognized the lingering Torch Dragon Fire injuries as evidence of the Heavenly Sword's strength and discussed eliminating him.
• Chu Kuangren sensed the hidden location and sped toward it.

Chu Kuangren followed the Torch Dragon Fire on Long Tianfeng’s wounds to the hidden Gate of Primordial Chaos and shattered its restrictions with one sword strike. The gate opened, drawing powerful beings from across the Tianyuan Universe as Chu Kuangren and the God Kings entered to explore it.

• Chu Kuangren used Xiao Ai to find the restrictions’ weak points, then broke through them with a sword strike combining Imperial King Qi and Overlord Qi.
• God King Molin and the Netherworld King Clan’s God Kings cut Long Tianfeng in half and used his blood to open the Gate of Primordial Chaos, but Long Tianfeng’s remaining Dao let him flee toward it.
• Chu Kuangren arrived at the gate, recognized that Long Tianfeng’s wounds had led him there, and asked Xiao Ai to analyze the gate.
• The gate released an ancient aura across the Tianyuan Universe, alerting powerful beings, while God King Molin blamed Chu Kuangren for exposing their plans.
• Chu Kuangren entered the Gate of Primordial Chaos, and God Kings from various factions, including the Tianyuan Divine Hall, arrived and followed.

Chu Kuangren entered the Tianyuan Heart Realm and searched for the Mystery of Primordial Chaos, but found Tian Xingcai under attack by several clans. The Netherworld King Clan, the Dao King Clan, the Imperial Clan, and the Weapon Calamity Clan then faced off over her.

• Thunder God Heaven, Xuanyuan Feng, and Heavenly Maiden You arrived at the gate of Primordial Chaos and discussed the Divine Hall's Sequences and Tian Xingcai.
• Heavenly Maiden You recognized Tian Xingcai as a Nine King with Imperial King Double Pupils and wondered how the Heavenly Sword had changed her.
• Chu Kuangren explored the Tianyuan Heart Realm for several days, found some Origin Creation fortunes, and sensed a familiar aura nearby.
• Chu Kuangren found Tian Xingcai besieged by Imperial Clan and Netherworld King Clan cultivators, led by the Underworld God Envoy.
• Shen Xiong and Human Fiend intervened on Tian Xingcai's behalf, and Motian Heng arrived with the Dao King Clan, creating a four-way standoff.

Four factions fought over Tian Xingcai, but Chu Kuangren arrived before the Dao King Clan could capture her and declared that Heaven protected her. The crowd then wondered whether Chu Kuangren had given her the powers and treasures that made her a target.

• A cultivator said the factions wanted Tian Xingcai because they believed she knew how Tianxing Ying had advanced to Dao Integration in days.
• Motian Heng taunted the Imperial Clan, Weapon Calamity Clan, and Netherworld King Clan, relying on a Dao Integration God King from the Dao King Clan to back him.
• Motian Heng tried to seize Tian Xingcai, but she resisted with her Imperial King Double Pupils and Stars Sword before Elder Li moved to capture her.
• Chu Kuangren struck Elder Li with a sword and said no one could touch Tian Xingcai without Heaven's permission.
• The crowd recalled that Chu Kuangren had taken Tian Xingcai and Tianxing Ying from the Imperial King Star, then speculated that he had given her the Imperial King Double Pupils and King's Mark.

Chu Kuangren killed a God King of the Dao King Clan, searched Shen Xiong’s and Human Fiend’s souls for the Weapon Calamity Clan’s location, and set out with Tian Xingcai. Elsewhere in the Tianyuan Heart Realm, Motian Heng approached Heavenly Maiden You, while Xuanyuan Feng discovered a treasure that could help him become a Dao Integration God King.

• Chu Kuangren arrived to protect Tian Xingcai and killed Elder Li, a God King of the Dao King Clan, after trapping him with Sword Qi.
• Chu Kuangren imprisoned Shen Xiong and Human Fiend, searched their memories, and learned the movement pattern of the Weapon Calamity Clan’s War Fortress.
• Chu Kuangren invited Tian Xingcai to travel with him, and she accepted.
• Motian Heng escaped Chu Kuangren, then persuaded the wary Heavenly Maiden You to explore the Tianyuan Heart Realm with him for the time being.
• Xuanyuan Feng found a Five-Colored Dao Integration Tree and believed it could help him break through to become a Dao Integration God King.

Chu Kuangren investigated a mysterious force guiding prodigies to opportunities while Tian Xingcai refined a treasure suited to her Imperial King Double Pupils. When Heavenly Maiden You fled into his path, he drove off her pursuers and began considering whether the Divine Machine Clan could help him build a team in the Tianyuan Universe.

• The Underworld God Envoy found the Netherworld Demon Pool and began refining its energy in hopes of advancing to Dao Integration.
• Tian Xingcai led Chu Kuangren to a golden gemstone filled with pure imperial Power of Dao Laws, and he had her refine it while Xiao Ai analyzed the mysterious guidance.
• Wounded and pursued by the Dao King Clan after Motian Heng stole her King's Mark, Heavenly Maiden You followed a divination toward Chu Kuangren.
• A Dao King Clan member's saber light was shattered by Chu Kuangren's Sword Intent, and the pursuers fled when they recognized the Heavenly Sword.
• Heavenly Maiden You thanked Chu Kuangren for saving her, then healed beside him as he considered using the Divine Machine Clan to build support in the Tianyuan Universe.

Several taboo prodigies became Dao Integration God Kings and were drawn to a crystal heart in the Tianyuan Heart Realm, believed to contain the mystery of Primordial Chaos. After the heart rejected Long Tianfeng and other God Kings, Motian Heng stepped forward to try his luck.

• Xuanyuan Feng, the Underworld God Envoy, and Motian Heng each broke through to become Dao Integration God Kings, while Chu Kuangren sensed their auras and dismissed them as threats.
• Tian Xingcai reached Great Encompassment Great Perfection, and she accompanied Chu Kuangren toward the source of a mysterious pull.
• Monstrous prodigies gathered at a mountain and found a crystal heart hanging from a treasure tree, which they believed held the mystery of Primordial Chaos.
• Long Tianfeng tried to seize the heart, but its barrier rejected him; God King Molin, Wuxuelong, and others then defeated and killed him.
• The God Kings who tried to approach the heart were also rejected, until Motian Heng arrived and declared that he would try.

Motian Heng and three other members of the Nine Kings entered the barrier around the crystal heart but discovered they could not reach it because it was sealed in another space within the Immortal Tree. After they failed to break the tree, an unknown swordsman’s strike shattered it, leaving the heart’s fate unresolved.

• Motian Heng entered the barrier and tried unsuccessfully to seize the crystal heart, then the Underworld God Envoy, Xuanyuan Feng, and Thunder God Heaven also passed through and failed to grasp it.
• Xuanyuan Feng used his knowledge of the Dao of Space to determine that the heart was sealed in another space inside the Immortal Tree.
• Xuanyuan Feng and the others attacked the tree, and God King Molin concluded that the Universe Great Dao had sealed the heart and allowed only the Nine Kings through the barrier.
• The four Dao Integration God Kings unleashed their Ultimate Moves but could not destroy the Immortal Tree.
• An unknown swordsman called them useless fools, then sent a sword strike through the barrier that shattered the Immortal Tree and blew the four God Kings away.

Chu Kuangren took the Heart of Tianyuan and revealed that the Nine Kings’ God King power came from the Tianyuan Creator God rather than their own breakthroughs. The Tianyuan Creator God admitted he had used them to try to break the Great Dao’s seal, leaving Motian Heng and the others devastated by the revelation that their power would fade outside the Heart Realm.

• Chu Kuangren cleaved apart the Immortal Tree, and the Heart of Tianyuan flew to him as the gathered cultivators rushed to seize it.
• Motian Heng attacked Chu Kuangren but was sent flying with one sword strike, and Chu Kuangren drove back the other cultivators who charged him.
• Chu Kuangren easily repelled Thunder God Heaven, Xuanyuan Feng, and the Underworld God Envoy, then explained that the Nine Kings had not broken through to God King on their own.
• The Heart of Tianyuan projected the Tianyuan Creator God, who appeared before the gathered God Kings and spoke to Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren deduced that the Tianyuan Creator God had used the Primordial Chaos Gate and Heart Realm to arrange his resurrection and temporarily raise the Nine Kings to God Kings.
• The Tianyuan Creator God confirmed their power would fade once they left the Heart Realm and admitted he had used the Nine Kings to help break the Great Dao’s seal, plunging them into despair.

Chu Kuangren uncovered the Tianyuan Creator God’s plan to use his body for resurrection and rejected the apparent escape of becoming one of the Nine Kings. After giving Motian Heng’s King’s Mark to Heavenly Maiden You, he openly challenged the Creator God, who entered Chu Kuangren’s body to begin their battle.

• Chu Kuangren revealed that the Nine Kings’ God King power had been temporary, and Motian Heng charged him for the Heart of Tianyuan before Chu Kuangren killed him with one sword strike.
• The Tianyuan Creator God admitted Chu Kuangren’s body was his favored vessel for resurrection and explained that the Nine Kings were tools for his breakthrough.
• God King Molin reasoned that Chu Kuangren could avoid possession by refining Motian Heng’s King’s Mark, but Chu Kuangren gave the mark to Heavenly Maiden You instead.
• Chu Kuangren challenged the Tianyuan Creator God, who praised his defiance and demanded to know his name.
• The Heart of Tianyuan dissolved into starlight and entered Chu Kuangren, followed by the Tianyuan Creator God, beginning their battle.

Chu Kuangren fought the Tianyuan Creator God within his Spiritual World while allies and enemies clashed over his body. The Creator God broke Chu Kuangren’s strongest sword strike, but Chu Kuangren summoned cosmic Rule Chains and left him alarmed.

• God King Molin, Wuxuelong, and the Underworld God Envoy attacked Chu Kuangren’s body, but its Sword Qi barrier blocked them as Chu Kuangren and the Tianyuan Creator God defended it from within.
• Chu Kuangren’s Heaven Soul and Earth Soul confronted the Tianyuan Creator God in his Spiritual World and attacked with Wu Dao and Kunwu.
• Chu Kuangren’s Heaven’s Witness and Zhu Xian Sword Qi could not overcome the Creator God’s divine power of creation.
• The two Chu Kuangrens unleashed Heaven’s Witness, Heaven Beyond Heaven Sword, but the Tianyuan Creator God shattered the attack with Tianyuan Creation, God’s Radiance.
• The Tianyuan Creator God prepared to kill Chu Kuangren and take his body, but Chu Kuangren summoned a multicolored vortex that sent cosmic Rule Chains toward him.

Chu Kuangren defeated the Tianyuan Creator God within his inner universe and emerged as the supreme power in the Tianyuan Universe. As the Tianyuan Heart Realm collapsed, he killed the Underworld God Envoy and drew the attention of the Underworld God.

• Chu Kuangren revealed his inner universe and used its Great Dao to defeat and destroy the Tianyuan Creator God.
• Chu Kuangren opened his eyes, shattered the attacks around him, and declared that only Supreme Heaven would rule the world.
• As the Tianyuan Heart Realm collapsed, Chu Kuangren ordered the others to leave and killed the Underworld God Envoy, leaving behind a King's Mark.
• The Underworld God manifested as a dark figure, warned Chu Kuangren after his envoy's death, and then disappeared.
• Heavenly Maiden You spoke of the Underworld God, and Chu Kuangren dismissed gods, devils, ghosts, and monsters as insignificant before Heaven.

After defeating the Tianyuan Creator God, Chu Kuangren returned to the Sword Spirit Clan to refine the Heart of Tianyuan. Meanwhile, Feng Mo and Feng Huang discussed plans against the Pangu Universe, and the Divine Machine Clan failed to divine Chu Kuangren’s fate, leaving them to seek his help as he sensed his counterpart in the Pangu Universe emerging from seclusion.

• Chu Kuangren watched the Tianyuan Heart Realm collapse, put away a King's Mark, and left with Heavenly Maiden You and Tian Xingcai for the Sword Spirit Clan.
• Feng Mo and Feng Huang discussed the failed resurrection of the Tianyuan Creator God, the threat posed by Chu Kuangren, and their plans to attack the Pangu Universe.
• Divine Machine Clan elites used their supreme divination technique to trace the Heavenly Sword’s fate, but a mysterious darkness shattered their runes and severely wounded them.
• The Divine Machine Clan’s God King declared Chu Kuangren impossible to divine and ordered Heavenly Maiden You to befriend him or bring him to the clan, hoping he could free them from their shackles.
• While refining the Heart of Tianyuan in seclusion, Chu Kuangren sensed that his counterpart in the Pangu Universe was about to emerge from seclusion.

Chu Kuangren emerged from seclusion stronger than before and reunited with Gu Linglong, only to learn months later that Elder Ruyan had been captured as bait for an attack on him. As a black-robed youth struck at Elder Ruyan, a terrifying power suddenly erupted from her.

• Chu Kuangren emerged from seclusion, and his creation power revived plants and helped people across the Academy.
• Chu Kuangren reunited with Lan Yu and the others, then found Gu Linglong managing affairs at the Immortal King Palace.
• Chu Kuangren and Gu Linglong discussed the strain of governing the Immortal Realm and the Empire, and Chu Kuangren considered forming an elite force.
• Gu Linglong told Chu Kuangren that Elder Ruyan had been attacked and trapped while organizing the Empire's relocation, so he left to help her.
• Elder Ruyan realized the attackers were using her and the Empire's cultivators as bait to lure Chu Kuangren, then tried and failed to break through their black mist.
• The Black-Robed Youth attacked Elder Ruyan, but a terrifying power erupted from her as the blow approached.